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Moving Walls Transform Apartment: Four Minutes of WOW! (VIDEO) A year ago we wrote about Gary Chang's Domestic Transformer, an incredible 344 square foot apartment that could change into any of 24 different designs. We showed pictures and plans, but more than any house I have seen, this one needs a movie. Planet Green visited it for the World's Greenest Homes, and it is truly four minutes of wow. Get a bigger version on Planet Green.I repeat the plans below the fold for reference while watching.... How To Ergonomically Optimise Your Workspace. We spend a lot of time sitting at our desks every day, and while it may not look like it, it can wreak havoc with out bodies.

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (9781933633916): B.R. Myers. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty (9780312323226): Bradley K. Martin. FM 3-21.8 Table of Contents. Intelligence Literature. This brief bibliography of intelligence literature provides a wide spectrum of views on intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Intelligence Literature

The readings cover history, technology, opinion, and some of the key personalities associated with intelligence. The book lists offer the reader personal and academic views on intelligence, its role in national security, and the forces that have shaped it over the years. Small Wars Manual (9781616402792): U.S. Marine Corps. The Best Defense. Army Green Beret Training. By Stew Smith If you want to wear the green beret of the Army Special Forces, be warned, it takes more than the ability to do hundreds of push-ups.

Army Green Beret Training

To make it in the Special Forces of any branch of the U.S. military, you need intelligence, an outstanding record of prior military service (at least three years), and high motivation - very high. But now, a new program will enable you to go straight to the SFAS after Army Boot Camp - skipping the 3 year wait! Ask your local Army Recruiter for more details. My next few columns are for those of you who think you have what it takes to go Special Forces.

Getting Into SFAS The first step to wearing the Green Beret is to pass the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course (SFAS). Visit Military.com's New Special Operations Forces Center. The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (9780226841519): Sarah Sewall, John A. Nagl, David H. Petraeus, James F. Amos. War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province (9780520023611): Jeffrey Race. Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era) (9780275993030): David Galula. Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (9780226567709): John A. Nagl, Peter J. Schoomaker. Counterinsurgency (9780199737499): David Kilcullen. Get Selected! for Special Forces: How to Successfully Train for and Complete Special Forces Assessment & Selection (9780975355275): Major Joseph J. Martin, Colonel Ed Phillips USA Ret., Master Sergeant Rex Dodson.

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (9780385523912): Barbara Demick. Small Wars Journal. Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War (9780385527163): Megan Stack. Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck. Early life[edit] Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck was born into the Pomeranian minor nobility, while his father was stationed as an army officer at Saarlouis in the Prussian Rhine Province.

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck

He was educated in boarding schools in Berlin and joined the corps of cadets at Potsdam and Berlin-Lichterfelde. In 1890, he was commissioned a Leutnant into the Imperial German Army. Military career[edit] In 1900, Lettow-Vorbeck was posted to China as a member of the international alliance forces to quell the Boxer Rebellion. Beginning in 1904, he was assigned to German South-West Africa (now Namibia), during the Namaqua and Herero insurrection. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) (9780691145686): Thomas Barfield.

In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan (9780393338515): Seth G. Jones. Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) (9781570037351): Keith Yellin. Infantry Attacks (9780760337158): Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, Manfred Rommel. Combat Techniques: An Elite Forces Guide to Modern Infantry Tactics (9780312368241): Martin J. Dougherty, Chris McNab.

Light Infantry Tactics: For Small Teams (9781418472078): Christopher E. Larsen. Afghanistan The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower: Mark Adkin, Mohammed Yousaf, Mohammad Bear Trap Yousaf. Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq (Yale Library of Military History) (9780300158472): Col. Peter R. Mansoor. The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One (9780195368345): David Kilcullen. John Marshall: Definer of a Nation (9780805055108): Jean Edward Smith.

The Great War in Africa: 1914-1918 (9780393305647): Byron Farwell. Www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/Real_Role_of_Small_Arms_RDS_Summer_09.pdf. Email Marketing Blog for Small Business: 29 Ways to Collect... Looking for ways to grow your list of newsletter subscribers?

Email Marketing Blog for Small Business: 29 Ways to Collect...

There are a ton of ways to get people to sign up for your weekly or monthly email marketing campaigns. I’ve put together a list for you to read, so you have heaps of options for growing your list. Include a link to your newsletter sign up form in the main navigation bar of your website and/or blog. (Or better yet, include a sign up form in the main navigation bar).Create a “sign up” call to action on your Facebook business page.Create enticing visuals encouraging people to sign up for your list, and post them on social media channels (especially Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn).Attend or exhibit at a trade show or networking event and bring a newsletter email sign up clipboard or book.

If you’re tech savvy, bring an iPad or mobile device with you. Bonus: Optimize your site for appropriate SEO keywords, and ensure your business is on appropriate online listings. Have any additional ideas? Poe's law. Confusion of parody and sincere expression Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.[1][2][3] The original statement, by Nathan Poe, read:[1] Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.

Poe's law

Summary Best Practice Business Processes. Original Keynote Research Papers Available: Supply Chain / Manufacturing / Inventory Management / JIT Capacity Management & Scheduling Materials Management & Stock Control.

Summary Best Practice Business Processes

The Top 15 Marketing & Social Media Trends To Watch In 2011. January 2, 2011 | 20 Comments Now that we are in the new year of planning, marketing teams everywhere are crafting and executing their plans for the next 12 months.

The Top 15 Marketing & Social Media Trends To Watch In 2011

It’s going to be a busy and competitive year, and in looking back at 2010 there were plenty of big developments that point to a 2011 year filled with innovation, new business models, possibilities for new technologies like mobile and tablets and continued growth and attention on social media. I spent the last week reading many recaps from other blogs and media properties, as well as looking back on some of the most noteworthy developments over the course of 2010. I originally planned on creating a list of the top ten trends I’ll be watching for and sharing with clients, but as I compiled this list I found myself landing on 15 big trends instead. Below is an embedded presentation detailing the 15 trends, and they are highlighted in short form in this post as well.

Free help for employers and employees on how to resolve workplace problems... 7 Steps To Reach Executive Customer Service At Any Company. Untitled Page. Not all of these are necessarily very unusual.

Untitled Page

Sometimes I pick them because they have unusual origins, or a little used secondary definition. Sometimes it's just a word that people know, but would be hard-pressed to exactly define. But most of them are just cool, weird dictionary finds. So far these are simply arranged in the order they appeared, with the most recent one at the top of the list. Okay, so there's now some cool words cobbled together into sentences. Build an Adjustable Standing Desk with Pipe and Kee Klamp - Blog - Projects,... This project got stared the other day when I read and discussed a couple of posts on the Lifehacker web site about the health risks of working while sitting all the time.

Build an Adjustable Standing Desk with Pipe and Kee Klamp - Blog - Projects,...

I got inspired to do something about it and decided that I would build myself a desk that I could stand at. One of the goals that I had for the desk was to make it versatile enough to be used in a number of settings. Bad Human Factors Designs. From a Writer's Notebook: Van Wyck Brooks. Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle (9780814705629): Richard Altick.

Samuel Johnson (9781887178761): W. Jackson Bate. Email Marketing Blog for Small Business: 11 Email Marketing... Overlawyered — Chronicling the high cost of our legal system. BAYES THEOREM IN THE COURT OF APPEAL. Explaining Evidence Logically Bernard Robertson and Tony Vignaux In Dennis John Adams (No 2) (CA)(Crim Div) 16 October 1997, the Court of Appeal considered for the third time the admissibility of instruction on the use of Bayes Theorem to combine items of evidence.

BAYES THEOREM IN THE COURT OF APPEAL

This was the first time that matter had been properly argued but the Court, including on this occasion the Lord Chief Justice, preferred the uninstructed comments of their brethren to the argument put before them. Justice Technology Information Network Home. Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. Famous Trials - UMKC School of Law - Prof. Douglas Linder. Do-It-Yourself Counter Notification Letter. Legal Information, Products and Services - Searchlaw.com. Argumentation Home. Welcome to the Argumentation Home Page. This is a website designed to give you information and examples to supplement the instruction you receive in class. The material for the web site was chosen not only to be helpful in your comprehension of the information, but also to aid in your research. Library tips, web site information, and links to interesting and useful web pages are also included. Chart of Motions.

Logic in Argumentative Writing. Summary: This resource covers using logic within writing—logical vocabulary, logical fallacies, and other types of logos-based reasoning. Contributors:Ryan Weber, Allen BrizeeLast Edited: 2013-03-22 09:43:14 This handout is designed to help writers develop and use logical arguments in writing. Argument Identification.

Seech (2005) states that there can be many uses for language. Flaws of Argumentation. Fallacies. Dr. Michael C. Frequent Citations: What To Read Before Law School. Edit: it occurred to me, after I posted this, that I should have included a warning. Feature_zittrain_julaug03.html from legalaffairs.org. Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive & alex.moskalyuk. Greg Rutters Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already... - StumbleUpon. Author Albert Einstein Quote Fish Need To Swim. Bathroom Quotes. Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900.

Defense Mechanisms. Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? 40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist. Crying. Dancetv.com: Learn the Waltz, Fox Trot, and East Coast Swing online with the Ballroom Dance Group's free online dance tutorial. 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology. Foreign Policy - the global magazine of economics, politics, and ideas. Breaking News and Analysis. Fibonacci. John Law (economist) Bipolar coordinates. Minimum wage. A minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers.

Equivalently, it is the lowest wage at which workers may sell their labor. Although minimum wage laws are in effect in many jurisdictions, differences of opinion exist about the benefits and drawbacks of a minimum wage. Supporters of the minimum wage say it increases the standard of living of workers, reduces poverty, reduces inequality, boosts morale and forces businesses to be more efficient.[1] In contrast, opponents of the minimum wage say it increases poverty, increases unemployment (particularly among low productivity workers) and is damaging to businesses.[2][3][4] History[edit] The movement for a minimum wage was initially targeted at stopping sweatshop labor. Diseconomy of scale. Causes[edit] Real bills doctrine.

Www.pisp.ca/inservice_training/why.pdf. Insurance. Alabama Politics in Doc's Political Parlor. LegiStorm: Transparency's Sidekick - Congressional Staff Salaries and More. The Mercenary vs. Missionary Entrepreneur. People of Resource - Pocket NDA. Management. Free Management Library (SM) Free Powerpoint Presentations for Students and Teachers. The CEO Refresher Archives. The Entrepreneur's Handbook - 59 Resources For First Time Entrepreneurs. Asia-Pacific.