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A Thanksgiving Post Mortem

Anyone who spends time in any aspect of project management knows about the post mortem, the analysis of the completed project.  Thanksgiving dinner in our family is a bona fide project. Here's how it turned out this year.

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How To Catch and Release a Spider

Winter is tapping at the door here in the northeast United States. First it taps gently, and you get the message that maybe you should close the windows you left open all summer and into the autumn. So you...

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The New City Safety Car

Flash Feature: USA Foreign Auto Industry News Weekly. Wolwo launched their US 2010 ad campaign today flooding television, print, and Internet media with high-end ads premiering the car that absolves you of all responsibility regarding harm to others.

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Three Quick Tips for Improving the Readability of Your Hubs

How often do you abandon reading a Hub that seems appealing at first glance, but once you begin to read you find yourself drifting away? Here are three quick tips for keeping your readers glued to your Hubs.

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Three Quick Tips for Fine-tuning the Writing in Your Hubs

By the time I pull a Hub together, all I want to do is click the publish now button, pour a Scotch in celebration of my hard work, and sit back to wait for the comments to stream in. Not. There's more work to do.

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When ladies learned that tuberculosis can live in sputum for an entire day after it’s been spat on the ground, the future of the shorter skirt length was assured. Fashion plate from La Gazette du Bon Ton, 1915.88

Do American Laws Against Spitting Do any Good?

Ever since the tuberculosis bacterium and its transmission modes were identified in the late 1800s, municipalities across the country have struggled with enacting and enforcing effective laws against spitting.

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Spitting - Why Do Guys Do It?

How disgusted are you when you see someone hocking a glob of gunk out of his throat and shooting that loogie out? Let's take a look at spit and spitting for some insight.

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Clean Your House with Sally’s Favorite Household Cleaning Products

Please don’t tell my mother about this article, because I didn’t learn anything about house cleaning from her, even though she thinks I did. Here you will find descriptions of great products that will leave your house fresh and clean.

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Remembering How To Bake Bread and Ride a Bicycle

It’s been a long time since I’ve baked bread using no implements but my hands, a wooden spoon, and an oven.  Join me while I step away from the world of bread making machines and back into the strength, joy, and balance of working bread by hand.

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Pepper Crusted Strip Steak with Chocolate Salt, Beet Risotto, Beet Foam from Rosendales79

Molecular Gastronomy – Where Science Meets Cuisine

Molecular gastronomy, the science, has brought us a keener understanding of why things work the way they do when we cook foods, but it has also promoted new and sensational styles in cuisine.

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