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Skip to comments.Study Finds Women Dont Belong in Combat
Posted on 06/11/2014 6:55:16 PM PDT by docbnj
A new book sums up 13 years of research on female participation in IDF combat units and declares the feminist experiment in the Israeli military a failure. Lochamot Betzahal by Col. (res.) Raza Sagi, a former infantry regiment commander, points to high rates of serious injury among women serving in combat units, and to involvement of radical political groups behind the scenes of the campaign for combat service by women.
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A 3 minute study.
That was the case in the U.S. as well, of course.
I think the confusion on women in combat comes from the fact that, under low stress conditions women are flat out better at multi tasking. However women are, without a doubt, much weaker physically and under pressure they tend to seize up. They cannot muster that berserker rage that screams "F**k it all - if I am going to die I am going to take as many SOBs as I can with me.
Interesting read.
I don't see that, around the house they just seem like it, but not in the big areas.
It's terribly sexist, but I think this is true. I've seen it many times. Just as one instance, my wife is a reasonably intelligent woman, but if she is under pressure, her IQ drops to about half it's normal level. "I don't know what to do!" is about all she can manage until the crisis is over.
The egghead dumbasses who make stupid decisions like women in ships and women in combat NEVER have to suffer any of the consequences of their decisions!
Women do not belong on Navy ships and women do not belong in combat units!
Every decision made with respect to the US Armed Forces should be made with one goal in mind: INCREASING THE COMBAT CAPABILITY OF THE ARMED FORCES!
All other considerations are simply BS!
This can only be properly assessed with pictures of IDF babes at the beach!
So I guess this means that Barry's "openly gay" and "evolved" military probably won't work either, huh? Hagel's Transgender Army sure is going to look weird on the battlefield wearing those high heels.
Hagels Transgender Army sure is going to look weird on the battlefield wearing those high heels.
How could anyone even come up with Trannys in the military. Obama and his thugs hate our military and are trying to destroy it.
I agree. Hagel is an ass.
In the eighties there was a destroyer tender with females on it. The USS Puget Sound AD-38. We called her the Pubic Mound.
Not all of us are like that though many are. If all goes to hell, everything drops. I don't like torture or seeing it done to anyone. I do understand what you mean though; many people would freeze up, whack out and or to panic. It's a tough job for all of them as it is now. I never wanted to see women in combat but now it's there and I see no one changing it for now.
"Margaret Cochran Corbin (1751-1800)
After taking over her husbands cannon in battle on Manhattan Island, now called Ft. Washington, New York, Margaret Corbin was badly wounded. She was the first woman to receive a military pension.
During the Battle at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776, Corbin went with her husband onto the battlefield. Her husband was a matross, which meant he loaded the cannon. Corbin helped him with this task. After her husbands partner was killed, he took over firing the cannon, and Corbin began loading the cannon. Her husband was also killed, but Corbin continued firing the cannon alone. Other soldiers took notice of her excellent aim. Unfortunately, so did the British who were soon targeting her with their own cannons. The British eventually won this battle but Corbins cannon was the last one to stop firing."
Multitasking was a word invented to cover up the inability to focus, something a lot of women suffer from.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVAN-69) deployed with 400+ females in 1994. "Ike" became known as "The Love Boat," because of the large number of pregnancies.
And just how, might one ask, is combat effectiveness to be improved with homosexuals and transgenders in the ranks?
So, because one woman heroically manned a cannon, we are to put women in combat units?
I'll grant that there are places where women can make a positive contribution to a military mission, but ground combat is not one of them.
You mean, like....a woman trapped in a faggot's body?
It's simply not. Increasing combat effectiveness is obviously not the goal.
Yes, I know that. The Military has been a social petri dish since WW II.
The mind fairly boggles!
Hmmmmmm....(stroking chin)
300,000 brave Yugo, Albanian, Iti`s and Greek ladies say someone is bloody dead wrong and it ain`t me!!!
And that someone does not know wtf he/she are talking about. PERIOD!!!
Please apologize to the ladies.
viz- Learn from history, who is a great teacher!!
"Women played a large role in the Italian Resistance.
After the war, about 35,000 Italian women were recognised as
female partigiane combattente (partisan combatants) "
" we were dumbfounded' when she said that one-quarter of the partisan [Yugoslavian]fighters were women.
News continued to reach Greece about
the achievements of the women fighters of both Yugoslavia and Albania"
There were thousands of female soldiers- women combatants
who fought in battle against the Germans. -"On the battlefield the women always
went forward and won."[Vervenioti, 1994, p319 ff]
"4.4 The Women's Platoons
30The partisan heartland had shifted from Roumeli to Macedonia when women's
involvement in ELAS was formalised in 1944. Women's platoons operated in the
Ninth Division (western Macedonia), Tenth Division (central Macedonia),
Thirteenth Division (Roumeli), Second Division (Atticoboetia), First Division
(Thessaly), and the Eighth Division (Ipiros) (see Vervenioti, 1994).
Most of these young women were members of EPON, fugitives from the cities,
or local women from the liberated areas. As the women's platoons were formed
towards the end of the Axis occupation, they were used in operations to cut
off German escape routes, as well as in the liberation of villages and towns.
Women's involvement occurred, therefore, within a climate of increasing optimism
as (partisan) victory beckoned.
The women in the villages and the towns where the partisan war is blooming must pour
all their might into that front. They must be organised into the local organisations
of ELAS, EAM and the Thessalian Ieros Lochos [a military formation literally translated
as 'Holy Company']. They must become actively involved in every department.
They must organise fighting units for the young women who can and want to carry a weapon.
Their role is important in a popular uprising, as they will inspire a delirium of
enthusiasm, striking the most sensitive chord of any Greek: his honour. (19 March 1943)"
I googled USS Puget Sound. Launched 1966, decommissioned 1996. In 1979 all her armaments were removed so that women could serve on board (no longer a combat ship).
Jimmah Carter was POTUS. Another component of his hollow military of the late 1970's. That ship must have been a disciplinary nightmare.
Active Duty ping.
Truly civilized countries recognize the purpose of the military is to protect the women and children , not put them in harms way.
"I never wanted to see women in combat but now it's there and I see no one changing it for now."
I know what you mean, Christie. The Left has a way of framing every position they take as being 'enlightened' or at least 'irreversible'. We shouldn't fall for that, but we do every time. The Left seizes a piece of ground, and the fight moves on to their next objective. They never seem to be on the defensive.
Partisan warfare is different. It's sniping, and melting away. Infantry work is a dirty, heavy, relentless grind. It breaks men down. Women even faster.
Seems that women have to be sent back to base for personal health reasons every few weeks. They don't mention this little tidbit.
I have no experience with living out in the field but I have picked up Army units who did. Those guys are always covered in dirt and provide a new aroma to the smell of burnt jet fuel and hydraulic fluid.
11 countries say somebody is wrong `n it ain`t me-
Somebody`s out there pickin` pussywillows and it ain`t me.
your exempla claudit
"IDF Study Finds Women Belong in Combat"
there fixed it-
"Israel: In 1985 the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) began putting women into combat positions and by 2009 women were serving in artillery units, rescue forces, and in anti-aircraft forces. While women must take part in compulsory military service, they are conscripted for only two years, versus three for men.
A study on the integration of female combatants in the IDF between 2002 and 2005 found that women often exhibit "superior skills" in discipline, motivation, and shooting abilities, yet still face prejudicial treatment stemming from "a perceived threat to the historical male combat identity."
At its height, Australia had more troops in Afghanistan than any non-NATO country, and women currently account for roughly 10 percent of all Australia's deployed troops.
Roughly 15 percent of Canadian military forces are now women, while 2 percent of combat troops (99 troops) are female. In 2006, Canada lost its first female soldiera forward artillery scoutin combat with Taliban forces.
Denmark: Since 1988, Denmark has had a policy of "total inclusion," which came on the heels of 1985 "combat trials" exploring the capabilities of women to fight on the front lines. "Danish research showed that women performed just as well as men in land combat roles," according to the British MOD study
France: Women make up nearly one-fifth of the French military and can serve in all posts except on submarines and in the riot-control gendarmerie. Though permitted to serve in the combat infantry, however, most chose not to. As a result, women make up only 1.7 percent of that force.
Germany: In 2001, the country opened German combat units to women, dramatically increasing the recruitment of female soldiers into the ranks. The number of women in the German Armed Forces is now three times as high as in 2001. As of 2009, roughly 800 female soldiers were serving in combat units.
New Zealand: Women have been able to serve in all defense units, including infantry, armor, and artillery units, since the country passed a law to that effect in 2001. A report four years later found that the move helped drive a societal shift that "values women as well as men,"
Norway: In 1985, Norway became the first country in NATO to allow women to serve in all combat capacities, including submarines. Norwegian women are also subject to the draft in the event of a national mobilization. "The few women that are attracted by the infantry and cavalry do a great job in the Norwegian Army," says Col. Ingrid Gjerde, an infantry officer in the Norwegian military for 25 years."
I fully agree with that statement.
Without the protection of the military, women and children would die, and eventually, the society that does not protect the women and children would die.
That is the way societies self organize - the men fight to ensure their society's future by protecting their women and children.
At the micro level, even though the feminazis have diminished the role of the male in our society, men protect their families. It is nature's way — genetic makeup, if you will.
Well, knock me over with a feather.. who wouldda thunk it?
What is your point? That women CAN fight?
Most anyone, including children, can be trained to fight.
That is not the subject of this debate.
What is up for debate is whether they SHOULD be in the combat arms.
If women in combat arms added to the combat capability of a nation's military, that would be one thing.
I maintain that women in the combat arms do not do so.
HST, when a society is threatened with total destruction, or a family unit is threatened, women must and should take up arms to prevent said destruction.
My wife, for example, thought not a skilled warrior, knows how to shoot, and if pressed, will defend herself and her family.
Saving a family or a society FRom destruction is not the same as routinely having women in the combat arms.
And your comments, having thought the matter over?
cf women soldiers in the Vietnam war in the NLF, NVA and Vietcong armies.
The pacifist's believe the military is a job source for women that want to make a difference.
Since there will be no combat for a military that is obsolete since war has been abolished, there will be no combat and no incapable women is actual combat situations
My humble ignoramusized opinion is that all citizens, male and female, should serve 2 years in the military combat units so they are familiar with guns so when they go back to civilian life they are not anti-American anti-2nd Amendment liberal moonbat wackos who do not understand the military and the U.S. Constitution. YUPYUPYUP
ALL ships are disciplinary nightmares.
The Navy has enough trouble with discipline in male only ships. Adding females to the mix just makes the discipline problem worse - MUCH WORSE!
Although you won't find anyone still serving willing to go on the record who will say that - they'd lose their job and promotion opportunity. Problems with females in the combat arms and ships are hush-hush.
Keep in mind that the people who made the decision to put women in ships DID NOT AND DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE WITH EITHER THE WOMEN OR THE DECISION!
And, it is worth noting that they do not have to suffer any consequences, either. They will be long dead before the real consequences of their stupidity are realized.
The cost to the US Military has been enormous, and probably never will be calculated.
Political Correctness at work!
I have no problem with service to the country, and still believe that abolishing the draft was a terrible mistake.
HST, one does not need to serve in a combat unit to gain a full appreciation for America's virtues.
I gather that the point of your post is that because other countries have women in combat arms, the USA should have women in combat arms?
What does it say about our society that we have to put women in harms way just to satisfy some feminzi demand?
11 to one -I WIN~~!!
"....the people who made the decision to put women in ships.."
Was that at CNO level or the higher civilian levels in DoD?
I suspect the latter. I was in Vietnam (Army) when Adm. Elmo Zumwalt was CNO; liberal as he was about some things, he would never have made nor implemented such a ruinous choice.
A few thoughts about the NLF, Viet Cong & NVA photos of female 'soldiers'. Notice the NVA 'soldiers' are AAA gunners? Those are troops that don't have to move about a lot and they are deployed near a base that they are defending. Not having to hump packs & ammo greatly reduces the combat stress on the body.
Second: (and I repeat myself here) the NLF/Viet Cong are partisan militia. These are units that basically are raised and fight within their own province and are not tasked with heavy offensive operations.
Third: The women in those photos do not look like they have been "living in the field". They look freshly scrubbed and that makes me suspect that these are propaganda photos.
Male soldiers get rotated off the line at specific time intervals because combat effectiveness for the units drop after about 30 days, depending on the intensity of operations. A major underlying cause is nagging injuries reducing individual effectiveness.
At the Naval Academy we had some very good female athletes. Almost every female plebe was in crutches within a couple weeks — and we weren't drilling with field packs. Shin splints, hamstring pulls and other muscular-skeletal injuries due to light-frames.
The IDF does have women in combat positions, but what you'll find is that they serve in training echelons as Instructor-Pilots, Tank Drivers & Gunners at the Armor School, etc. In essence they are a trained, ready-reserve that if needed will fight defending their home turf in a last ditch.
"light frames"?
"At the Naval Academy we had some very good female athletes. Almost every female plebe was in crutches within a couple weeks and we werent drilling with field packs. Shin splints, hamstring pulls and other muscular-skeletal injuries due to light-frames."
where you gittin these academy girls from anywho? Up here we dun got mountain girls can pull a heifer outa the mud with their bare hands and carry it 200 yards to the barn-
You ben recruitin them city slicker women there-
what you need is BIG BONED MOUNTAIN WOMEN who drink beer, swear, curse, can carry a 30-30 for 10 miles in wintertime huntin deer, pick up a snowplow and attach to the truck at 40 below, and can heave haybales into the horsebarn all afternoon. I thunk you dun recruitin them weak puny thin skinny boned city slicker women there.
LOL! Seemed like every female we had was five foot two, 130-lbs.
BTW, I read your other posts about mandatory 2-year service for both sexes. I'm not sure that I agree with it, but I see your larger point.
I enjoyed our discussion!
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Bob wrote on Jan 4, 2013 4:28 PM:
" When I used to live in the Burbs we all waved to the plow guy. He would plow our sidewalks in, our driveways too, why, because the roadway takes precedent. We actually grabbed our shovels, or snow-blowers and beat back the pile. People shoveling it into the road is dumb too. It is like saying my footing is more important than the ton of steel driving by you on the roadway. As for quality work, your lucky they have money to plow at all after paying all the teachers..lol "
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" Did you file a complaint with the Citizens Action Bureau?......when I have a issue I call there and someone does address the issue at some point. They log the call and pass it to the appropirate dept.....so there is a paper trail if nothing gets done......just a thought if you haven't tried this yet..... "
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Anyone get a negative test at Dr after positive HPT?
My doctor once told me that they don't use the early response tests for their "in house" pee sticks. Wait for the blook work. Fingers crossed for you! Please update!
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They don't use the "good" tests at the Drs, yours is probably more sensative than theirs. Do you have a pic? Was it an evap line possibly?
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It makes total sense if you're super early because your home test is likely more sensitive. I got a faint faint line on a wondfo last week and immediately had hcg drawn and it was 5..,.5..that's crazy low! So there's no way it would have shown up on the doc's less sensitive urine test.
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That happened in my 1st pg. I had a bfp at home and went to dr 2 days later and their test was neg. I told dr their test was lying so she sent me or blood test, which came back pos. GL, it is probably just that they're using cheapies with a high threshold.
Same thing happened to me. I got two positives with early response then went to the dr's to confirm and it came out negative. I think it was because it was pretty early to find out and I drank a lot of water before going in. Got a positive with the blood test two days later though ;-)
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Created for the sixth annual "Dark Knight on a Dark Night" Batman art show at Hub Comics in Somerville, Massachusetts, the sculpt was inspired by Barbara Gordon's first appearance, on the cover of 1967's Detective Comics #359. However, Farrell's version is decidedly modern, with the updated costume, smartphone and spilling cup of Gotham Coffee.
See a couple of photos below, and more on Farrell's website.
Beginning n February, writer Stuart Moore and artist Gus Storms embark on a new five-issue EGOs arc, called "Crunched." As noted in Image Comics' solicitations, "The narcissistic super-team of the future returns to battle an invisible threat to the galactic economy." To whet folks appetite for the upcoming arc, Moore, Storms and designer Brett Evans detailed for ROBOT 6 the steps leading up to the final cover design.
Artist Ken Lashley leaped into the spotlight this week with his collaboration with writer Gail Simone on DC Comics' latest incarnation of Secret Six. No stranger to the publisher, he's provided covers for such titles as Suicide Squad and Superboy, and drawn interiors for Superman: Doomed. A quick glance of CBR's previews archives reveals the variety of work he's done for other publishers in recent years, including a couple of AXIS Revolutions covers for Marvel.
To get an idea of the variety of characters Lashley draws, as well as some of his commissions, one needs only to look at his Instagram profile (where he posts under the username Ledkilla). In addition to the range of talent he shares with his fans, he clearly relishes shooting some of his samples at interesting angles, adding a layer of kineticism.


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Alcohol businesses slow to ferment in bayou region
Published: Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.
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Entrepreneurs interested in making and sell alcoholic beverages have businesses brewing in the bayou region, but a lack of appropriate space for small breweries and distilleries has slowed their progress.
Leith Adams, a professor at Nicholls State University who teaches a noncredit course in homebrewing, has been looking for a space for his company, Mudbug Brewery, for months. He and his business partner, Brance Lloyd, have found it challenging to scout for a facility with the proper zoning.
"Since there's no direct customer interaction, we're not considered commercial, so we're industrial. There are few industrial spaces in Thibodaux city limits," Adams said. "We'd like to stay in Thibodaux, but if we have to, we will look at Houma and surrounding areas."
Then there is sewage. Adams estimates that breweries accumulate at least five gallons of waste water for every gallon of beer they brew.
"We're going to have to fork out a nice chunk of change for something that can handle the volume," he said.
Tom Donner, a neurosurgeon from Thibodaux, and Henry Peltier, a local pediatrician, know the challenges of finding an ideal space. They have been planning to start a rum distillery for nearly four years.
"We had a lot of holdups with getting land, and we're just getting to construction right now. That'll take three months," Peltier said. "We have some licensure stuff in the making as well. There are a lot of rules and regulations and laws to abide by, and licensing does take some time."
Many of the licenses and approvals require the company to have a facility before it even submits an application, which can also slow down the process.
While he scouts for a location, Adams says he's been talking to two distributing companies, Southern Eagle Distributing and Crescent Crown Distributing, and has participated in local festivals, like the Broad Street Brewhaha in New Orleans and Novemberfest in Houma, to publicize its specialty craft beers. The unique flavors include a French toast amber beer, which is made with bready hops and flavored with cinnamon and vanilla extract, and a dill-infused American pale ale called Gross Tete Dill.
Adams said Mudbug will try to christen most of its beers with references to the brewery's Cajun origins.
Donner and Peltier are taking a more cautious approach to their marketing — they haven't even disclosed their company's name yet. But Peltier said that they, too, intend to use the area as inspiration for their rum, which will be made from local
"I think there's a market for Louisiana products," Peltier said. "Whether they're local or from somewhere else and fascinated by our culture and foods and different products that we make, I think that's a selling point for
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Garrus, Tali, Kaidan, Wrex, Jack, James, Ashley, Shepard, Miranda, Jacob, Mordin, Grunt, Samara, Liara, Thane, Legion and Edi. I know there are some other characters that deserve to be there but I was getting tired .
Hope you like it.
Hope you like it.
Do you have a version with Zaeed and Kasumi?
Amazing art !
Too Bad The incoming game will have a main character; and possible givr zero hints about which ending is Cannon
Too Bad The incoming game will have a main character; and possible givr zero hints about which ending is Cannon
Great work! Male Shepard is the best (unpopular opinion lol)
WOW. This is so damn awesome. It's a shame that the DLC chars are missing, but I can't imagine how much work the whole pic was for you. Great job.
Do you have a female Shepard-Commander version?
I do not. But I may come up with a female Shepard version in a few days if I have some time to spare.
This is so damn awesome, wow :0
My creator wonders if you have a female Shepard-Commander version?
That looks awesome!
Think you'll do the same one but with FemShep (ME3 default look) in MaleShep's place in the future?
Think you'll do the same one but with FemShep (ME3 default look) in MaleShep's place in the future?
Im sorry, but im not planning this for now. Im involved in another project and that are spending all my time.
James Vega looks like he should be played by Luis Guzman.
Love this ^_^ yeah there maybe other characters but tbh i think you got everyone who comes along without DLC so good job
It's is amazing You did a impressive work. favs!
Look at all those characters! You don't realise how diverse they are until you see them all standing there like that. And that's not even including people like Joker and Captain Anderson!
I'm commander Shepard, and this is my favorite team in the galaxy!
LOVE IT! Best squadmates in video game history!
How come Javik, Zaeed, Kasumi, and Anderson are in this. Cause it is really good, but with-out them it feels imcomplete.
Tali is fat, Jack is looking like a Man...A good picture
Now this is how the line up should have been damn EA
Love the whole thing, but especially Samara and Liara right there.
Full team nobody dies Damn Bioware
This is what I thought the last DLC would be. So Thank You for making and posting this! Great work!
Nice Work!!!
Very nice! Awesome work!
You spelled Shepard wrong.
Goes without saying but this looks great! love Grunt
The whole team in a wonderful way to show them. Wow. Damn great art
This is really awesome! I want to print this and make it a banner in my home lol.
But I think EDI's lonely XD
But I think EDI's lonely XD
On the inital sketch Joker and Edi was together, but I scratched joker because I had some tecnical problems.
This is brilliantly done! You took a lot of time on this and I appreciate it. Nice job!
I like it. But I did noted that Wrex's scars are on the wrong side.
And you didnt notice that the strip of sheppards armor is also on the wrong side? This kind of minor errors happened coz I always flip the image to get a fresh look, and sometimes I forget about this details.


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You spotted the queen, but did you see any eggs or larvae? How is she laying? It could be she took a hiatus during treatment and that set back the population even further.
I have the same extractor. I've been more than happy with no complaints. This is my second year using it and I need to keep all the drawn comb they'll make.
Why are you cleaning it after use...
Cane sugar has not been genetically modified. Most sugar beets are genetically modified. If you'd prefer to avoid GMO foods, stick with the cane.
Do you mean you're actually swapping out entire bottom boards, not just putting the cardboard mite count sheet in your screened bottom board?
At least you're okay! I heard a couple people died down in Caldwell County from the flooding... what a year, huh?
They must've moved south. There's tons around these parts!
I have a bush, no one's been able to identify it exactly, but the bees work it like CRAZY from January - April. The thing literally hummed with bees this past winter for three months. I think it's...
I have a number of winter honeysuckle bushes (called "sweet breath of spring" in these parts), and they can get quite large. Their smell is wonderful in the dead of winter, but it seems...
You should have alternated the foundationless frames with drawn comb instead of foundation. I'd say use a bee escape/fumigant and remove the bees from the box. Then go to town on fixing the comb.
Why is cornstarch in powdered sugar supposed to be bad for bees?
Are you guys using tongue-and-grooved Advantech flooring or is there a different product? All I found locally has tongue-and-grooves, but that's easily ripped off with the table saw.


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Another arson hit the new residential high-rise nearing completion at Temple University, a university spokesman reported Friday.
The small fire was discovered about 1:15 p.m. Wednesday at Morgan Hall, Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, said Ray Betzner, the spokesman. Construction crews extinguished the fire, and the scene was investigated by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Ariel Castro, accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hundreds of charges. (June 12)
Spock: The American people need the Russian hackers to cut through the establishment media party line that the Clinton's do no wrong, since they have proven to be bad leaders time and time again. As long as the media keeps pumping out the double standard propaganda about Hillary, then Hillary's chances of being elected (however corruptly) remain alive. The founding fathers would indeed be disappointed that Wall Street had found a way to completely influence politics and take these basic freedoms of choice away from the people.


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Dave Grohl says Foo Fighters are taking a break
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Grohl says his band Foo Fighters is officially taking a break.
Grohl sent an open letter Tuesday, calling the band "my life," but noting "it's a good thing for all of us to go away for a while."
Grohl told fans Saturday at the Global Citizen Festival he didn't know when the band would play together again, and affirmed that in the letter.
He created Foo Fighters in 1994 after his time as the drummer in Nirvana, recording the band's self-titled debut before inviting other members to join. The band has been one of rock 'n' roll's most enduring critical and commercial successes, winning 11 Grammys, including five earlier this year.
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Debian developers from around the world gathered in Finland to exchange ideas and have a good time at this year's Debian Developer's Conference.
The 5th annual Debian Developer's Conference (DebConf) was a great success. Almost 300 Debian developers, maintainers, and enthusiasts gathered in Epsoo, Finland, at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT)campus, to exchange ideas, share experiences, discuss important issues, and have a great time just being together. The core of the conference was the talks, both formal presentations and informal "Birds Of a Feather" chats on subjects of common interest. Topics included the future of Debian, cooperation with other Debian-based projects, tutorials for developers and maintainers, and presentations on Debian subpro-jects.
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I don't know is that only my problem or not but I have a little eyestrain when using Fedora (19) with Gnome 3(.8) compared to Ubuntu, Linux mint or Windows.
Maybe the problem is caused by font rendering or anti aliasing or even the fonts themselves. I think the fonts are sharp. I cannot explain that but I believe that it's different from Ubuntu.


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Salt Air Still Lingers In Hull
By L. J. DAVIS
Published: September 6, 1998
THE secret of the North British croissant is safe. I managed to obtain a choice specimen in the port city of Hull, but before I could begin my researches it was seized as a deadly weapon at Manchester airport. In Hull, I was also seriously served a plate of lasagne with a side of french fries. On the other hand, it was in Hull that I drank the finest glass of beer I have ever tasted in my life.
First things first: that marvelous glass of beer. I made its acquaintance at the old Minerva Pub on Nelson Street down by the marina. The Scots landlord placed three small containers of amber liquid before me and stood back with an expressionless face. The first was good. The second was excellent. The third was ambrosia. When I indicated my choice, the landlord's expression changed from inscrutable to unreadable. ''Interesting,'' he said. ''In America, I thought you lads drank nothing but . . .'' Actually, I'm not going to say what he thought we drank.
Although Hull, a major seaport for at least 700 years, is one of the friendliest of English cities, there is an underlying seriousness to the place, the sort of authenticity that travelers often seek but only occasionally find. Not far from the Minerva, for example, there is a street called Dagger Lane, and it was not named by the Chamber of Commerce. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe set out from Hull on his star-crossed voyage, and although Crusoe is a figure of romance and fiction, his subsequent career can hardly be described as rollicking good fun. In this, he is a true son of Hull. Hull men served prominently with the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in the Antarctic, whose ship was crushed by the ice during one of the most benighted of all British adventures.
If much of Hull looks new, it is. The city was arguably the most heavily bombed city in England during World War II; 92 percent of the buildings were destroyed or damaged in enemy action -- and Hull, with a population of around 265,000, is not a small place. Meanwhile, Hull seafarers, experienced in northern waters, were heavily represented on the hellish Murmansk Run, the Allied lifeline to Russia during World War II.
The seafaring life imposes a certain mateyness on its participants -- and Hull, like many an old seaport, is a very matey kind of town -- but like the certain knowledge of death in two weeks' time (something else the seafaring life resembles) it also focuses the mind wonderfully. This combination can produce interesting results.
Only 10 minutes' walk from the Minerva is a picturesque structure called Ye Olde White Harte Inn, a real groaner of a name until you discover that after Richard II first licensed hostelries, many of them were called the White Harte. At the White Harte, the publican, as though discussing the weather or a good catch of cod, talks of his resident ghost, describing the skeleton of the murdered woman he found in one of his walls, whose skull is behind the bar.
Upstairs, still available for small dinner parties, is the Plotting Parlour, where in April 1642, the Governor, Sir John Hotham, and the city fathers gathered to discuss probable and immediate events. Charles I and the Puritan Parliament were at loggerheads, and the arsenal in the walled city of Hull was the largest on the island outside London, an invaluable prize. The following day, while the burgesses entertained the King's son at an extremely long lunch, the King and his retinue appeared at the Beverley Gate and found the way barred. Sir John courteously lowered refreshments while undergoing the novel experience of denying his sovereign admittance to the sovereign's own city -- the city's official name is Kingston upon Hull. Although the royal banner was unfurled elsewhere some months later, it is often said the English Civil War began that day in Hull.
It was not until 1854 that another monarch, Queen Victoria, visited the royal city where the royal ancestor's plans had come to grief. She stayed at the Royal Hotel and so did I -- a 19th-century railway hotel with a ghost of its own, a departed chef who is said to leap out of a dark corner of the basement crying, ''I needs to sharpen me knives!''
Although Victoria and Hull seem to have struck it off, Hull may have preferred the prince-consort, Albert; it named one of its more splendid docks after him and recently converted it into a modern shopping mall named Princes Quay. The Queen got her own dock, a great engineering work that was later filled in for a municipal park. But while Hull erected the obligatory statue of the monarch nearby, and placed it atop a wide plinth, the territory underneath the statue was -- and still is -- devoted to public restrooms. This was not done without forethought, I am told.
Although Hull was for long -- and to a certain extent still is -- the third port of the realm, it was two confirmed landsmen who gave it, briefly, a plausible claim as the conscience of the nation. The first was Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), the son of a clergyman. Marvell became, in no particular order, the city's Member of Parliament during both the Protectorate and the Restoration, a friend of Milton, the tutor of Cromwell's ward, and a diplomat. In his own time, he was best known as the (officially) anonymous author of political satires; posterity remembers him as one of the finest poets in the English language.


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In news sure to thrill both me and Dan, non-stop octogenarian Betty White will guest star on the best thing on T.V., NBC's Community.
Ms. White will be playing "professor June Bauer, an esteemed, albeit slightly unhinged, anthropology professor" in the second season premier.
Golden Girl alumni do very well in guest roles. Bea Arthur earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on Malcolm in the Middle, and White herself earned three nominations and one win for the same category. Nominations for a role on Yes Dear! (one of my guilty pleasures), Suddenly Susan (another guilty pleasure) and My Name is Earl (NOT one of my guilty pleasures). She won back in '96 on The John Larroquette Show (who honestly remembers that?).
Speaking of the Emmys: PTU-EY! That's me spitting on them. No nominations for Community is a down right criminal offence. I can count at least two episodes that should have been nominated for both directing and writing (the Godfather tribute, and the action movie homage). Also, Dani Puddi deserved a nod for supporting actor. I mean, 30 Rock, and The Office both got multiple nods, and they're both coasting on earlier season success. I barely even remember to watch those shows anymore. Although, the Jim and Pam wedding did make me tear up a little.
Here's hoping that the bright star that is Betty White will bring some notoriety to the show. Previous guest stars have included Jack Black and Owen Wilson, but I don't think they were promoted very well.
No scheduled air date for the episode has been announced, but it's most likely to be in September.


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The Warehouse is massive
They have beautiful moleskin fabrics
I liked this print but wasnt sure I had the stature to pull off wearing it in an outfit
If you want to make a mock up of Burberry's $2900 rain coat, you can buy the fabric here for 7.95 a yard or by the bolt
Eddie Bauer fabrics Anyone?
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If you need to reupholster the seats in your Ford pickup, you can actually buy the fabric here
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Arial view of one trim section
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Apricot Mesh that I liked
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The first floor is arranged more like a showroom than the basement and third floors
Most fabrics are $3.95 to $9.95
More dress trims almost all 2.95 per yard
I loved these moleskins too....
If the fabric doesnt have a price, you have to find your way back to the first floor
On the first floor you can ask a swatch-cutter to come downstairs or upstairs to cut a swatch for you
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Articles published on December 7, 2003
All worn out after a busy Christmas
A holiday treat at Sandburg home
Art Kinderdance program offered
A principle whose time has passed
A lesson the nation should never forget
A unique Christmas in Muslim Morocco
A most blessed Christmas with a tiny baby boy
By Sheri Shamanski Eder of Asheville
A day to celebrate with family
Brisk but fun
By Harmony Johnson Times-News Staff Writer
Candy buy back Community Events New officer congratulated
Citizen's panel would prove troublesome
Cummings' home featured on tour
Creating some special traditions of our own
Christmas 1945 on Saipan Island
Carol sings, cookies and candy trains
Doubling up on name would save trouble
Entertainment `Monsters, Inc.' on ice in Asheville
Entries sought for juried show
Every year we go to the same Christmas tree farm
Film loses a lot in translation
ARTS SPECTRUM Ted McIrvine
Flat Rock tennis player ranks number one in South in 80-plus division
by Freeman Rogers Times-News staff writer
From now on, focus on the 74 HHS got
By Ron Wagner Times-News Staff Writer
Graduation may be bittersweet for some
Holiday Tour of Historic Inns
By Kitty Turner Times-News Staff Writer
Hotel fire guts room
By Harmony Johnson Times-News Staff Writer
It's more than just food, family and presents
Written by Blake Dublin, 13-year-old eighth-grader at Faith Christian School.
It's a sleepless Christmas Eve
It is my favorite time of the year
I won't be home for Christmas?
Joy Beth Leider, Douglas Jarman Smith
June Elisa Shigeno, James Matthew Matcuk
Kelly Colleen McGraw, Steven Derrick Watkins
Kuhn exibits at Charlotte museum
Lovin' it
By Ron Wagner Times-News Staff Writer
Let's kick Bush out in November
Museum offers candlelight tour
New Hollingsworth Building adorns Brevard skyline
By Nancy Meanix Special to the Times-News
N.C. Series Finals set for today
By Freeman Rogers Times-News staff writer
Pandolfi presents holiday concert
Roundabouts only temporary solution
Rejoicing in the birth of baby Jesus
Stolen signs shows Bush camp fears Dean
Storage is handy under the spare bed
ALONG THE RIDGES Louise Bailey
Supporting Players give playhouse $30,000
State deer either sex gun season set
Sale benefits firefighter in need
By Jennie Jones Giles Times-News Staff Writer
Sharing cultures on a Carolina Christmas morning
Transylvania County Holiday Home Tour to be held Dec. 13
Times-News 2003 All-Area Girls Tennis Team
By Jim Wooldridge Times-News Correspondent
Through the eyes of one small girl
The excitement starts on Christmas Eve
Uncle Lance would want us to go on
Wendy Christine Feaster, Peter Condon Sheehan
Winners named in Holiday Heirlooms essay writing contest
`The most fun holiday there is'
`Men Dancing 2 -- A Festival of Dance'
`I never loved any Christmas Eve better than this one'
`Caroling with Cantabile'
By Kitty Turner Times-News Staff Writer
Images of the DayThe Hollingsworth Building on Main Street in downtown Brevard features a copper turret in the Tudor style.
Alyssa Gaines, 8, left, and Becca Short, 3, ring bells Saturday during the annual Hendersonville Christmas parade on Main Street. They were riding the Harris Teeter float, which won the Merchants Award.
Brevard's Britney Cloer.
Ardi Gough directs Cantabile during a rehearsal held at the First United Methodist Church in Hendersonville on Monday. Cantabile will perform "Caroling With Cantabile," a free concert, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at the church.


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As of now I have the Twenty Eleven theme above the slideshow.
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Could someone tell me what the stand alone html editor is that WordPress uses for blogs without their own server..and also what image manager they use.
I'm having so much trouble gettting the latest image manager and the latest WYSIWYG plug-ins to work properly I just want to install the old reliables. Been working on both for 3 days with no end in sight..so at this point I give. Until I can dare look into them again I'll go with what's easiest. Better that then seeing double.
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Here is my entry for the contest. On many worlds droids take the place of the living in terms of tackling the most dangerous jobs. Luckily R2 has just had a coat of flame resistant paint ready for his new job as a firefighter!
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Red Hat Directory Server 8 with Improved Security
Linux distributor Red Hat has released version 8 of the Red Hat Directory Server.
The codebase for the authentication server was taken from the free Fedora Directory Server project; the product is being marketed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The main objective of Version 8.0 was to achieve compatibility with Red Hat's own installer, RPM, as the developers stated in their product release announcement. This means that users can rely on the standard update process available on the Red Hat Network. One of the customer references that Red Hat cites is the University of Basle, Switzerland, where the Red Hat Directory Server controls access to the university computers by some 15,000 students.
The other new features in version 8.0 include improved IPv6 support, and above all advanced security functions. For example, the password syntax rules have been revised, and the software now comes with an SE Linux profile out of the box. A module certified by the NSS (National Security Service) has also been added for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) compliance. The Red Hat Directory Server 8 now supports additional platforms, running on RHEL 4 and 5, on 32 or 64 bit platforms, the 64 bit Itanium platform HP-UX 11i, and 64 bit SPARC computers with the Solaris 9 operating system.
Red Hat bought the technology for Directory Server from AOL/Netscape, publishing the sources for Netscape Directory Server in the summer of 2005. In the meantime, Fedora Directory Server has become part of a newer, more generic project known as freeIPA, which deals with identitity management, policies and auditing for Unix and Linux operating systems.
Issue 26: Linux Shell Handbook 7th Ed./Special Editions
Buy this issue as a PDF
SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
CoreOS Announces Distributed Storage System
The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
Google Beats Oracle in the Android Lawsuit
Juries decides Google's use of Java APIs Was Fair Use
Linux is the Largest Software Development Project in History
But if you are not using the latest Linux kernel, your system is insecure.
Linksys Says Yes to Open Source Firmware
Home routers will give room for custom firmware but still comply with FCC rules


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Hello Otto, Love your SFC plugin. One question however is unclear to me. I have looked all over and couldn't find this information.
I enabled Integrate FB Comments & I can see the FB comments on my blog just fine. However, those FB originated comments are not displayed under my Admin Dashbord -> Comments. So I would like to know where are these FB originated comments stored? I am concered that once I delete the Original Post from my Blog, the FB originated comments will linger around as an Orphans in my WordPress Database.


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Do Buy
Look for these union-made-in-the-USA products and services while shopping. Buying union-made supports good jobs. America is at its best when we say and shop UNION YES!
AFL-CIO Official Boycott List
An important function of our Department is to help unions conduct national boycotts that have been endorsed by the AFL-CIO Executive Council. The Department maintains and publishes the "Don't Buy" list of companies being boycotted and the products and services involved. In addition, you can see information on boycott updates.
Label Letter
The Label Letter is the official newsletter of the Union Label and Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO. The bi-monthly publication is mailed to some 25,000 labor leaders, activists and union members six times a year.
UL&STD Latest News
Stop the Waiting Games: Fund the TSA
By J. David Cox, Sr., AFGE National President
You can have fast lines or good security, but you can't have both. At least not with the skeleton crew with which the Transportation Security Administration is currently operating.read more
Thousands rally as 22,000 miners are threatened with cut off of health benefits
UMWA Plans March on Washington
Lexington, Kentucky–Over 5,000 miners rallied here last Tuesday to protest health benefit cuts threatened to happen before the end of the year. Responding to the call of their union, United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), miners came from seven states to gather at the convention center. Some arrived with walkers, canes, wheel chairs, and oxygen tanks, giving tangible evidence of the toll on human health inflicted by the mining industry.read more
CWA Members on Strike at Verizon
After nearly 10 months of trying to reach a fair contract with "Verigreedy," 39,000 CWA and IBEW working families went on strike as of 6 a.m., Wednesday April 13. Elected officials across Verizon territory are rallying with striking Verizon workers, and CWA members were joined by AFL-CIO activists and other supporters as the strike continued.read more
Take the Buy Union Pledge
I pledge to buy union-made-in-the-USA whenever possible. I know that by purchasing union-made products and services I am supporting working families in my community and beyond. We all need to do our part. As union members how we spend our hard earned dollars makes a difference in the lives of our families, friends and neighbors. Our purchases also help keep good, middle class jobs here in the USA. I'll do my part to support working families by pledging to buy union.
AFL-CIO Latest News
This month has hit me hard with news that not once, but twice, black lives were lost at the hands of police officers. And then even more violence unfolded in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La. While the locations of these most recent events are far from Boston, where I live and work, they have hurt me so deeply I feel I must respond.
Last night AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka addressed the working people of the Democratic National Convention.
Here are his remarks:
Working people recognize the high stakes in the 2016 presidential election. On one side, you have Donald Trump, who supports "right to work," which takes away power from working people, and thinks your wages are too high. On the other side, you have Hillary Clinton, who has a long history of advocating for families and working people. She believes that paid family leave, earned sick days, fair schedules, equal pay for women and quality affordable child care are critical, as well as the right to come together in union and negotiate for a better life. Here are 10 ways Clinton stands with working people:
Social Security, Other Issues Face a Crucial 2016 Election
Social Security has a Union Label. The 1935 passage of the original Social Security act was preceded by long-term labor movement activism. Every subsequent improvement and extension of social security protection was moved forward by labor movement action. Protections for disabled workers, Medicare and Medicaid, all part of the Social Security program, were the result of pressure from the labor movement and its allies in government and beyond.read more
Pyrex: Strong Glass, Strong Union
Made by members of Local 53G Pyrex is made from sturdy soda-lime glass. Pyrex is safe to use in both the oven and the microwave and is heat-treated to increase its resistance to breakage if knocked or dropped.
Since 1936, Pyrex bakeware has been made in the Pennsylvania river town of Charleroi, where USW members today produce 50 million pieces of glassware each year. Some 300 USW Local 53G members produce some 45 million bowls, measuring cups, pie plates, casserole dishes and other pieces each year.
Corning Inc. began making Pyrex cookware in 1915, and as late as the 1970s, some pieces were made by hand. Owned by World Kitchen LL since 1998, Pyrex is made in Charleroi using a complex mechanized system, with a team of Steelworkers overseeing each step.
The Union Advantage: By the Numbers
More than 79% of Union Workers Have Jobs That Provide Health Insurance Benefits
Union Member's Wages are 27% Higher than Non-Union Workers
Unionized Workers are 60% More Likely to Have Employer-Provided Pensions
Number of U.S. Union Members (in Millions)
Union members earn better wages and benefits than workers who aren't union members. On average, union workers' wages are 27 percent higher than their nonunion counterparts.
Unionized workers are 60 percent more likely to have employer-provided pensions.
More than 79 percent of union workers have jobs that provide health insurance benefits, but less than half of nonunion workers do. Unions help employers create a more stable, productive workforce—where workers have a say in improving their jobs.
Unions help bring workers out of poverty and into the middle class. In fact, in states where workers don't have union rights, workers' incomes are lower.


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Village Council Section :: Page 19
Here come the solar panels
If all goes as planned, Yellow Springs will be on the road to producing solar energy by the end of this year, following a significant Village Council vote at its May 2 meeting.
Solar financing expected soon
If the Village finalizes a contract with SolarVision, LLC to develop a solar farm, millions of dollars in outside financing will be used to construct and maintain the project.
Glass farm to be solar farm
A 2.5 megawatt solar farm will be built on the Village-owned Glass Farm, Village Council decided at its April 19 meeting.
Skate park changes considered
At their April 4 meeting, Village Council members returned to an earlier discussion on the Village skate park, including needed repairs and possible upgrades.
Solar project moves forward
At their last meeting, Village Council members came close to backing away from a proposed solar farm in the village. But that changed at their April 4 meeting, after Council heard from an energy expert.
Solar project hangs on, but barely
At its March 21 meeting Village Council came close to backing away from a proposed solar farm project, but agreed to try to gather information in upcoming weeks.
Council changes sidewalk policy
At their March 21 meeting, members of Village Council gave the final approval to an ordinance that changes Village policy on sidewalk maintenance, shifting the responsibility for upkeep from property owners to the Village.
Many 2010 Village projects
At the March 7 Village Council meeting, Village Manager Mark Cundiff presented a report on some of the Village's 2010 significant accomplishments.
Loan fund restrictions eased
At their March 7 meeting, members of Village Council took an initial step toward removing the current restriction that prohibits nonprofits from applying for loans from the Village Revolving Loan Fund for Economic Development.
Village affordable housing project elicits community support, concerns
In a discussion of a proposed affordable housing development at Village Council's Feb. 22 meeting, some villagers spoke in support of the potential public/private partnership to build four permanently-affordable homes.


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Journal for General Philosophy of Science
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Semantic Challenges to Scientific Realism
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This paper is concerned with connections between scientific and metaphysical realism. It is not difficult to show that scientific realism, as expounded by Psillos (1999) clearly qualifies as a kind of metaphysical realism in the sense of Putnam (1980). The statement of scientific realism therefore must not only deal with underdetermination and the dynamics of scientific theories but also answer the semantic challenges to metaphysical realism. As will be argued, the common core of these challenges is the proposition that a (metaphysical) realist semantics leads to semantic agnosticism in the sense that we are unable to grasp the proper meanings and referents of our linguistic expressions. Having established this, I will focus more specifically on the question of whether scientific realism—in its state-of-the-art account—has the resources to make reference to scientific concepts intelligible such that the semantic challenges can be answered.
KeywordsCausal-descriptive theory of reference Internal realism Metaphysical realism Scientific and structural realism Ramsey account of scientific theories Theoretical concepts
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- Semantic Challenges to Scientific Realism
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Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Volume 42, Issue 1 , pp 17-31
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Muji Chronotebook: a non-linear way to plan.Via Leah Buley @ http://ugleah.tumblr.com/ Official Google Blog: A friend connected webGoogle Friend Connect allows non-technical site owners to sprinkle social features throughout their websites, so visitors will easily be able to join with their AOL, Google, OpenID, and Yahoo! credentials delicious blog » Firefox 3, del.icio.us, and youBeta [Keep Reading…]
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