Safeway's plan capitalizes on two key insights gained in 2005. The first is that 70% of all health-care costs are the direct result of behavior. The second insight, which is well understood by the providers of health care, is that 74% of all costs are confined to four chronic conditions (cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity). Furthermore, 80% of cardiovascular disease and diabetes is preventable, 60% of cancers are preventable, and more than 90% of obesity is preventable.
They probably know what they are talking about, seeing as how their premiums have remained stable over 4 years while the average increased 38%.
I don't think you're getting the point, you can't really hand most kids a 1000 page evolutionary textbook and expect them to get anything out of it. Even "Evolution for Dummies" is rated college material. I've read On the Origin of the Species, and I'd argue that is college material as well and way too dull for typical HS kids. You could argue high school textbooks should cover this, and they slightly do, but as the OP stated, they typically spend more time explaining the end process rather than examining the scientific processes behind it, and even then evolution is probably just a 15 minute lecture when you have to cram most of fundamental biology in a semester.
What would probably be immensely helpful is a 20-30 page supplemental packet in every HS biology textbook (other than TX I guess) that clearly and scientifically goes through the process of evolution and how it affects our daily lives. Make it "lowest common denominator" and engaging so the parents and imbeciles can understand it, but include supplemental hard science in the last several pages for teachers and intelligent students.
I would just like to say the US government really appreciates HAM radio operators. When I joined the local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), a local government-setup disaster response unit, they continuously praised HAM radio operators as vital to disaster response teams.
Depending on your definition, the "adventure genre" is more alive than ever. There are 23 Nancy Drew games for the PC. BigFish games has almost or as many. Go look at the PC selection at target, about a quarter of it is Nancy Drew/BigFish/other adventure games. These might not be as polished as Myst or King's Quest but there certainly is a lot of them.
I don't know much about hosting costs, but that website seems to be mostly static content, and not a whole lot of it. Surely the costs to maintain that website are minimal?
We still don't understand the causes of depression, which affects about 10%-25% of the US at any given time. There is the serotonin hypothesis, except about half the modern drugs for depression don't target serotonin. That doesn't stop people from doing research and creating drugs and treatments for it, even if they do not truly understand the mechanism.
And what exactly are you waiting for, a popular hard-science sci-fi melodrama? Good luck with that. In the "new age" of popular sci-fi (Caprica, SGU, Dollhouse), Fringe is the only one with identifiable characters that is at least consistently interesting. And if you think that after they cancel Fringe the next step is hard-science sci-fi, I'm going to gamble the next step is rather "sci-fi is too expensive and dead". While Fringe is pure pseudoscience, I have a hard time believing FTL travel (warp drives) or pretty much anything else in Star Trek is that much more believable.
No, in Arizona anyone can call and have ANYONE involuntarily committed for observation. If I despised you, I could call and say I overheard you talking about killing yourself, and they would lock you up for 24 hours without any proof.
Except you are wrong, kids with mommy's credit card don't rule supreme, they just level faster. You can buy stat buffs but they're relatively worthless and can be earned in game. You can buy XP boosts, but all they do is count as rested XP, and the cost isn't really worth it. You can buy traits, except those can also be earned in game.
I was VIP and now I'm free to play because money is tight. The only perceptible difference I can see is that now I don't earn rested XP. I have a bunch of points they gave me for subbing and just from playing, but I am saving them for quest packs. This model is actually greatly beneficial for me as I sparingly play MMOs. I subb when I'm heavily playing, then cancel and still have access to nearly the full game and have points to purchase quests I'm missing.
It's actually stacked pretty heavily in the player's favor. I can't see how Turbine will be able to keep this up without either a constant influx of new users or rapidly creating new content.
I also experience this, enough so that I no longer have it start where I last left off when opening the browser, otherwise it would hang for 2 minutes. Starts instantly with a simple homepage.
Thanks, I did download it and it seems like a win98 app. I figured it would feature some mormom "find all my ancestors" button but it looks like it is all manual. My grandma uses some proprietary software and my grandmother in-law uses something completely different, and I doubt there is any way of merging the data without starting from scratch. I'd like to do this before they die but it looks like I'm going to have to do more research into it.
The strawberry industry in California is probably in a bad situation, the strawberries haven't been what they used to for years. Pretty much the only time you can get good ones is at the Strawberry Festival.
I support the total freedom of religion, meaning the religious freedom of drugs and polygamy (these ideas themselves are not necessarily religious, but I support them regardless). However, I would limit it to "no more than a total of 3 partners in a single household", to prevent abuse, and with easy ways for people to leave the partnership. And no, I would not allow animals, animals are not people and cannot enter contracts.
If you're like most researchers you simply mass copy the research links sourced from a few studies without reading any of them anyways, don't kid yourself, you use wikipedia as a source to find other sources.
Support for the notion that PC gaming is dying: Civilization V, Spore, Supreme Commander 2, Dragon Age 2 (maybe). All dumbed-down versions of their predecessors. The current selection of PC games at retail stores. The trend of UI for PC games. Mandatory online DRM for single player games. Lack of innovation in the past decade/consolidation of genres. Games run like shit even on modern PCs. "Ship now, patch later". Shift towards netbooks/phones/tablets.
Support against the notion that PC gaming is dying: Steam holiday sales (AAA titles for poverty prices), wide-berth of indie games, probably more AAA titles released per year now more than ever, digital downloads, nearly the entire back catalog of PC games available to play (GOG) on modern hardware. Integrated graphics are good enough to play games from several years ago on minimal settings.
Regardless of where you stand on the issue, one thing is for certain: PC gaming is definitely not like it used to be.
Unlike the curmudgeons here I believe firefox has the worst UI of the popular browsers, and the mock-ups look like a nice improvement, even if it seems ripped from Opera. Surely you all have learned the keyboard commands for the common menu functions that are pretty much universal for every app? I say good riddance to the days of the menu bar, there is a reason nearly EVERYONE is abandoning it.
In the olden days doctors didn't know what you have so they just gave you antibiotics. That isn't too different from today, and it probably won't be much different in the future (identify and eliminate are separate problems), unless we figure out a way of eliminating common viruses, and even then we will probably have a new enemy, such as prions. Also, IMO, the majority of health concerns today in the western world are from lifestyle choices. It is hard to come up with a pill for fat and lazy, although we try.
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According to the safeway article linked above:
Safeway's plan capitalizes on two key insights gained in 2005. The first is that 70% of all health-care costs are the direct result of behavior. The second insight, which is well understood by the providers of health care, is that 74% of all costs are confined to four chronic conditions (cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity). Furthermore, 80% of cardiovascular disease and diabetes is preventable, 60% of cancers are preventable, and more than 90% of obesity is preventable.
They probably know what they are talking about, seeing as how their premiums have remained stable over 4 years while the average increased 38%.
I don't think you're getting the point, you can't really hand most kids a 1000 page evolutionary textbook and expect them to get anything out of it. Even "Evolution for Dummies" is rated college material. I've read On the Origin of the Species, and I'd argue that is college material as well and way too dull for typical HS kids. You could argue high school textbooks should cover this, and they slightly do, but as the OP stated, they typically spend more time explaining the end process rather than examining the scientific processes behind it, and even then evolution is probably just a 15 minute lecture when you have to cram most of fundamental biology in a semester.
What would probably be immensely helpful is a 20-30 page supplemental packet in every HS biology textbook (other than TX I guess) that clearly and scientifically goes through the process of evolution and how it affects our daily lives. Make it "lowest common denominator" and engaging so the parents and imbeciles can understand it, but include supplemental hard science in the last several pages for teachers and intelligent students.
Someone on reddit fixed it: http://i.imgur.com/58vph.png
I would just like to say the US government really appreciates HAM radio operators. When I joined the local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), a local government-setup disaster response unit, they continuously praised HAM radio operators as vital to disaster response teams.
Depending on your definition, the "adventure genre" is more alive than ever. There are 23 Nancy Drew games for the PC. BigFish games has almost or as many. Go look at the PC selection at target, about a quarter of it is Nancy Drew/BigFish/other adventure games. These might not be as polished as Myst or King's Quest but there certainly is a lot of them.
I don't know much about hosting costs, but that website seems to be mostly static content, and not a whole lot of it. Surely the costs to maintain that website are minimal?
We still don't understand the causes of depression, which affects about 10%-25% of the US at any given time. There is the serotonin hypothesis, except about half the modern drugs for depression don't target serotonin. That doesn't stop people from doing research and creating drugs and treatments for it, even if they do not truly understand the mechanism.
And what exactly are you waiting for, a popular hard-science sci-fi melodrama? Good luck with that. In the "new age" of popular sci-fi (Caprica, SGU, Dollhouse), Fringe is the only one with identifiable characters that is at least consistently interesting. And if you think that after they cancel Fringe the next step is hard-science sci-fi, I'm going to gamble the next step is rather "sci-fi is too expensive and dead". While Fringe is pure pseudoscience, I have a hard time believing FTL travel (warp drives) or pretty much anything else in Star Trek is that much more believable.
No, in Arizona anyone can call and have ANYONE involuntarily committed for observation. If I despised you, I could call and say I overheard you talking about killing yourself, and they would lock you up for 24 hours without any proof.
Except you are wrong, kids with mommy's credit card don't rule supreme, they just level faster. You can buy stat buffs but they're relatively worthless and can be earned in game. You can buy XP boosts, but all they do is count as rested XP, and the cost isn't really worth it. You can buy traits, except those can also be earned in game.
I was VIP and now I'm free to play because money is tight. The only perceptible difference I can see is that now I don't earn rested XP. I have a bunch of points they gave me for subbing and just from playing, but I am saving them for quest packs. This model is actually greatly beneficial for me as I sparingly play MMOs. I subb when I'm heavily playing, then cancel and still have access to nearly the full game and have points to purchase quests I'm missing.
It's actually stacked pretty heavily in the player's favor. I can't see how Turbine will be able to keep this up without either a constant influx of new users or rapidly creating new content.
I believe they are reworking the monster play and making it f2p as well.
I also experience this, enough so that I no longer have it start where I last left off when opening the browser, otherwise it would hang for 2 minutes. Starts instantly with a simple homepage.
Thanks, I did download it and it seems like a win98 app. I figured it would feature some mormom "find all my ancestors" button but it looks like it is all manual. My grandma uses some proprietary software and my grandmother in-law uses something completely different, and I doubt there is any way of merging the data without starting from scratch. I'd like to do this before they die but it looks like I'm going to have to do more research into it.
You just sold me on it, family tree software won't amount for shit if it isn't available in 5 years.
The strawberry industry in California is probably in a bad situation, the strawberries haven't been what they used to for years. Pretty much the only time you can get good ones is at the Strawberry Festival.
I support the total freedom of religion, meaning the religious freedom of drugs and polygamy (these ideas themselves are not necessarily religious, but I support them regardless). However, I would limit it to "no more than a total of 3 partners in a single household", to prevent abuse, and with easy ways for people to leave the partnership. And no, I would not allow animals, animals are not people and cannot enter contracts.
If you're like most researchers you simply mass copy the research links sourced from a few studies without reading any of them anyways, don't kid yourself, you use wikipedia as a source to find other sources.
They did if you believe the Q-source hypothesis.
Support for the notion that PC gaming is dying: Civilization V, Spore, Supreme Commander 2, Dragon Age 2 (maybe). All dumbed-down versions of their predecessors. The current selection of PC games at retail stores. The trend of UI for PC games. Mandatory online DRM for single player games. Lack of innovation in the past decade/consolidation of genres. Games run like shit even on modern PCs. "Ship now, patch later". Shift towards netbooks/phones/tablets.
Support against the notion that PC gaming is dying: Steam holiday sales (AAA titles for poverty prices), wide-berth of indie games, probably more AAA titles released per year now more than ever, digital downloads, nearly the entire back catalog of PC games available to play (GOG) on modern hardware. Integrated graphics are good enough to play games from several years ago on minimal settings.
Regardless of where you stand on the issue, one thing is for certain: PC gaming is definitely not like it used to be.
Coyotes are pretty harmless (cue anecdotal baby eating story...), you have a higher chance of being bitten by a feral cat or rabid squirrel.
It still makes it a hassle to get to the one useful feature: options. I use extensions to replace the menu bar with a button.
Unlike the curmudgeons here I believe firefox has the worst UI of the popular browsers, and the mock-ups look like a nice improvement, even if it seems ripped from Opera. Surely you all have learned the keyboard commands for the common menu functions that are pretty much universal for every app? I say good riddance to the days of the menu bar, there is a reason nearly EVERYONE is abandoning it.
http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html
They don't keep search logs. I am not connected in any way other than occasionally using it.
They used to have political engineers, I believe one earned the title Angel of Death. But I do get your point.
In the olden days doctors didn't know what you have so they just gave you antibiotics. That isn't too different from today, and it probably won't be much different in the future (identify and eliminate are separate problems), unless we figure out a way of eliminating common viruses, and even then we will probably have a new enemy, such as prions. Also, IMO, the majority of health concerns today in the western world are from lifestyle choices. It is hard to come up with a pill for fat and lazy, although we try.