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Sat 19 Sep, 2009Comments Filed under: Evidences Geoff left a comment yesterday pointing us to what he called “a simple presentation explaining why all of these arguments are ultimately unconvincing to most atheists.” The video, “Putting faith in its place,” represents itself as a kind of ultimate answer to all theistic arguments. It’s an example of the kind of thing that both perplexes and grieves me.Overview of the VideoIt begins with a logical presentation of what we can or cannot know a

North Carolina Lemon Law Helps Consumers Even Playing Field With Manufacturers The North Carolina lemon law was passed by the legislature to place consumers who purchase problem cars on a level playing field with car manufacturers. Prior to the lemon law, car owners with car problems were left to do battle with the huge corporations. Seeing a problem with the disparity of the parties, the North Carolina Legislature introduced the lemon law, which created the right for a car owner to ffraction , in arithmetic, an expression representing a part, or several equal parts, of a unit. Notation for Fractions. In writing a fraction, e.g., 2-5 or 2/5, the ...

frac·tion n. 1. Mathematics An expression that indicates the quotient of two quantities, such as 1 / 3. 2. A disconnected piece; a fragment.fraction. In mathematics, a number that indicates one or more equal parts of a whole. Usually, the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided is written ...attributable. emanating from or pertaining to attribute. attributable ... attributable attributable fraction attributable fraction attributable fractionhttp://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090909/US.Courthouse.Kickbacks/ ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Federal prosecutors have ratcheted up their pursuit of two former Pennsylvania judges accused of taking $2.8 million in kickbacks to place youth offenders in private detention centers. The indictment accused Ciavarella and Conahan of extorting kickbacks from the former co-owner of PA Child Care LLC and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care. Conahan shut down Luzerne County’s The flu is on my mind after Mrs. Van Horn reminded me yesterday that immunization time is nigh and, so, of course, I wondered about the swine flu pandemic. Hadley Leggett of Wired Science reported about a month ago that history indicated that the flu would probably not turn out to be as bad as many had feared. wo infectious disease experts from the National Institutes of Health question the idea that severe pandemics are usually preceded by a milder wave of disease. After analyzing 15

Big ScreenBrief Interviews With Hideous Men Trailer Is HereBy Foster Kamer on September 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM The Office prettyboy John Krasinski was the first to get a movie based on a David Foster Wallace book off the ground, into production, and into release. The trailer’s finally arrived. It did pretty well at Sundance. How’s it look?Krasinski once noted Wallace’s reaction to his conception of the short stories into a film: “He said, ‘What’s it scripted around?’ ” remembers. “I said

Patients from UK, USA, and many other developed countries are moving to Asian countries like India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Philippines, and Thailand. In these countries, these people receive superior healthcare at a fraction of what it would cost in their homeland.Acronym Definition; AfSE: Association for Supported Employment AFSE: Association Française de Sciences Économiques: AFSE: Association Franco-Slave des Etudiantsfraction /frac·tion/ 1. a portion of something larger. 2. in chemistry, one of the separable constituents of a substance.frac´tional

Attributable Fraction - The reduction in disease when a risk factor is removed.Phil Bowermaster at The Speculist has an article on the similarities and differences between coupon clippers and food stamp users. It's well written, and I don't argue with his ultimate premise: there could be other, more scalable models similar to coupon-clipping that consumers could take advantage of. I'm a bit puzzled that he claims this resource-hoarding is necessary because we are moving from a scarcity-driven society to an abundance-driven society, because scarcity tends to drive resourcef

Oral and nasal smokeless tobacco products have been used in many countries for centuries. During most of the 20th century, use of these products declined in Europe and North America, but a reverse trend in prevalence of use has been reported in the past few decades, particularly among people younger than 40. These products have been proposed as an alternative to cigarettes and other smoking products under the claim of a smaller, or negligible, risk to health. Smokeless tobacco is a recognised I just saw local author James McWilliams give a well-attended talk at BookPeople on his book "Just Food", where "just" refers to justice as well as purity. I would definitely consider him a kindred spirit. He ended his research quite unconvinced of the importance of "food miles" but unexpectedly convinced that meat is unethical.  The talk was wide-ranging, and a number of interesting points came up. I

If there was a theme which unites two of the biggest issues bloggers have been reporting, discussing and debating this week, it would be the projections all too many liberals cast on their conservative counterparts.  First, they accused us of backing the “birthers.”  Then, they used various slurs to attack our opposition to the President’s proposed health care reform. They accused us of being tools of corporate interests, not being sincere in our opinions and of instigating violence (when therI was going to apologise for putting this article on the blog, but I’m not going to, as I really enjoyed this and maybe you will too…then again, maybe not Quadrant Online by Walter StarckAugust 11, 2009Global Warming, a Mass ManiaThroughout history episodic eruptions of mass manias have swept societies. These outbreaks embody the dissatisfactions, fears and hopes of their times while offering a shining path to a bright new future. They are characterised by a millenarian nature, wherein threat of

by Sydney J. Chapman The argument in the more technical parts of this address, concerned with the determination of the length of the working day, may be conveniently summarized with the aid of the following figure. In order to avoid the complexities arising from the redistribution of labour between the industries of a country, suppose that only one industry exists. Measure units of time in the working day along OX , and unit

Release Date : 15 January 2009 Genre : Drama, History Cast : : , Frank Langella as Richard Nixon , Michael Sheen as David Frost , Sam Rockwell as James Reston, Jr. , Kevin Bacon as Jack Brennan , Matthew Macfadyen as John Birt , Oliver Platt as Bob Zelnick , Rebecca Hall as Caroline Cushing , Toby Jones as Swifty Lazar , Andy Milder as Frank Gannon , Kate Jennings Grant as Diane Sawyer , Gabriel Jarret as Ken Khachigian , Jim Meskimen as Ray Price , PatBefore Adam Kennedy launched a typically unhittable Neftali Feliz fastball beyond Oakland Coliseum's right field fence and sealed the Texas Rangers' third consecutive road defeat at the hands of the division's worst team on Wednesday evening, the 21-year-old pitching prodigy had allowed seven home runs -- not this season or last season or between the two seasons combined, but in his entire 278-inning professional career. Just try to wrap your head around that. The point is that even

There are only so many moron quizzes, air-traffic control games and dubious flashlight apps to try out before it becomes apparent that the iPhone was destined for something more interesting and less banal. If you want to keep up with the latest news and posts from every blog, magazine and newspaper on the planet, you’ll need an RSS reader. On the desktop, web-apps such as Google Reader, Netvibes and Bloglines lead the way.  But on the iPhone it’s a different story. And so, Omio set out on a quDid you trade in your car yet for the new one? Really good incentives are there for you . But, never fear, those glorious elected officials came to the rescue with just a little more of YOUR TAX DOLLARS to the tune of $2Billion . The first thing I thought when I heard about this “program” was, “Can Americans be stupid enough to fall for it?” Can’t you see thKey Phrase page for attributable fraction: Books containing the phrase attributable fraction

Open Notebook Credit: hippie on Flickr What is it? Open Notebook means “no insider information” You lab notebook is on a wiki, out there for everyone to see. Negative results & all.  You share your research process with the world as you go along. There are many shades to this process: you may share some of your data, edit it, sanitize it… but he general idea holds, that you share a major part of your data, methods and thoughts prior to the official publication. Why doesn’t it

On July 27, 2009, NERA Economic Consulting became the latest to publish a mid-year analysis of the year to date securities litigation developments. The NERA report, written by Stephanie Plancich and Svetlana Starykh , is entitled "Recent Trends in Securities Class Actions Litigation: 2009 Mid-Year Update," and can be found here . The NERA Report joins the earlier mid-year report of Cornerstone Research . My own mid-year review can be found here .   The NERA report seemin

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to ...by lisa onJul 14, 2009 at 10:00 am Mark Thoma at Economist’s View posted the following graphical representation of changes in the age distribution of the population of the U.S. between 1950 and today, and projected to 2050:The bump, slowly moving off to the right, is the baby boom generation. The downward slope in the lines as you move to the right represents a population with a larger percentage of older people or, in other words, an older average age. If the forecast is correct, about 10 peICESat measurements of winter multi-year ice cover in the Arctic Ocean between 2004 and 2008, along with the corresponding downward trend in overall winter sea ice volume, and switch in dominant ice type from multi-year ice to first-year ice. Credit: Ron Kwok, NASA/JPL. Click to enlarge. Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, based on data

What a difference a day makes makes in this 24-hour world. One day after we published, in a criticism of PicScout: PicScout is supposed to be looking out for photographers, and previously, it seemed that they were putting their great technology to use for good. This blog post, full of misinformation about Orphan Works gives every indication that PicScout has re-charted their course into dangerous waters, and they are now intent upon lulling photographers into believing that the previous version2 Differential Toxicity of PM from Differential Toxicity of PM from Biomass and Fossil Fuels Biomass and Fossil Fuels Mudway et al. Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2005 Where should ...