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What's an antidote to too much time spent online? Joe Sandor's answer was making something with your hands and spending face-to-face time with friends. It was the social aspect of making and eating crepes that originally inspired the Captain Crepe Pan. That success lead this sculptor to his second adventure in limited-edition artist cook-castings: the Pirate Pancake Skillet.
pharyngula_feedMoore, Oklahoma has been completely flattened by a tornado. Homes and businesses have been destroyed, but also a couple of schools and a hospital.
And here’s a time-lapse video of this monster ripping through the countryside.
What can we do? I mentioned it to Foundation Beyond Belief — go to the “Crisis Response” link and tell them you want to contribute to the relief efforts. If enough of us do that, they’ll set something up to take your godless donations and send them to where they’re most needed. And then send them money!
Zingularity also has a post on the catastrophe.
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Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statistics, Enhanced Edition, by David M. Levine and David F. Stephan, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher FT Press. Note that ONLY the Enhanced Edition is free in both stores; be careful if searching and not using the links here. You may find the text-only edition in your libraries, as it was free last November.Book DescriptionGet the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statistics is a practical, up-to-date introduction to statistics—for everyone! Thought you couldn’t learn statistics? You can—and you will! One easy step at a time, this fully updated book teaches you all the statistical techniques you’ll need for finance, quality, marketing, the social sciences, or anything else! Simple jargon-free explanations help you understand every technique. Practical examples and worked-out problems give you hands-on practice. Special sections present detailed instructions for developing statistical answers, using spreadsheet programs or any TI-83/TI-84 compatible calculator. This edition delivers new examples, more detailed problems and sample solutions, plus an all-new chapter on powerful multiple regression techniques. Hate math? No sweat. You’ll be amazed at how little you need. Like math? Optional “Equation Blackboard” sections reveal the mathematical foundations of statistics right before your eyes! You’ll learn how to:About the Web Site
- Construct and interpret statistical charts and tables with Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc 3
- Work with mean, median, mode, standard deviation, Z scores, skewness, and other descriptive statistics
- Use probability and probability distributions
- Work with sampling distributions and confidence intervals
- Test hypotheses with Z, t, chi-square, ANOVA, and other techniques
- Perform powerful regression analysis and modeling
- Use multiple regression to develop models that contain several independent variables
- Master specific statistical techniques for quality and Six Sigma programs
Download practice files, templates, data sets, and sample spreadsheet models—including ready-to-use solutions for your own work! www.ftpress.com/youcanlearnstatistics2e
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Ultimate Leadership: Winning Execution Strategies for Your Situation, by Russell E. Palmer, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble (repeat), courtesy of publisher Pearson Prentice Hall. The Audible companion audiobook is $4.99.Book DescriptionGet the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
To succeed, leaders must understand and apply the core principles of leadership--but that’s not enough. You need to shape your approach for any unique situation. Too many leaders don’t know how to do that--and that’s why they fail. Ultimate Leadership shows how to adapt the principles of leadership to different challenges, contexts, and organizations.
Russell E. Palmer--who has had three very different, highly successful careers as head of one of the world’s largest accounting firms, Dean of the Wharton School, and an entrepreneur--helps you identify the leadership model most appropriate for your environment, and how to lead accordingly. You’ll learn better ways to lead your equals, help an organization weather crises, transform its culture, lead entrepreneurial organizations, lead global organizations...even lead non-profit and academic institutions.
Then, drawing on interviews with an extraordinary spectrum of outstanding leaders, Palmer helps you master the attribute every leader must have: the ability to inspire your unique organization, even in the face of the most daunting challenges.
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The Truth About Personal Performance, a collection of titles by Robert E. Gunther, James O'Rourke and Leigh L. Thompson, is free in the Kindle store (repeat, 2010) and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher FT Press.Book DescriptionGet the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
150+ secrets of exceptional personal performance: how to present confidently, negotiate successfully, and make smarter decisions--anywhere, anytime!
Three full books of proven solutions for supercharging personal performance! Prepare for any audience, negotiation, or decision…compel attention and motivate action…manage anxiety or anger…use nonverbal communication…negotiate with people you love (or hate)…build (or repair) trust…make decisions with imperfect data…and much more!
From world-renowned leaders and experts, including James O'Rourke, Leigh L. Thompson, and Robert E. Gunther.
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Brain Dead, by Eileen Dreyer, is free in the Kindle store (repeat) and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher ePublishing Works!.Book DescriptionGet the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
When forensic nurse Timmie Leary-Parker moves from LA to Puckett, Missouri to care for her ailing father, she's prepared for the slow pace, the small-town politics and the feeling that everyone knows her business.
Then, patients in the hospital's Alzheimer's Unit start dying in unprecedented numbers.
Everyone refuses to investigate the town's most lucrative business, and no one will come against the hospital's Golden Boy director.
No one, except Timmie.
Convinced a serial killer walks the Alzheimer's Unit where her father lies ill, Timmie digs up a burned-out Pulitzer-winning reporter and dives into a quagmire of corruption and greed.
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Summit, the first novel in The Psychic Thriller series by Richard Bowker, is free in the Kindle store (repeat) and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher ePublishing Works!.Book DescriptionGet the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Valentina is the most dangerous woman in the world. A powerful psychic, she's used to turn loyal American operatives into KGB double agents.
But, Valentina has one weakness—her infatuation with Daniel Fulton, the brilliant, enigmatic American pianist.
Valentina hopes her love for Fulton will free her from the KGB. Instead, she's trapped into using her powers one final time.
Success will change history. Failure will doom the only person she loves... at the Summit
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Name and Number, by John Hoskison, is free in the Kindle store (repeat) and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher ePublishing Works!.Book DescriptionGet the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Art student Nick Wood risks selling a few Ecstasy tablets at a party to impress friends and ends up with a two year prison sentence.
Nick hopes to spend his sentence in an open prison, the type he's read about in the papers. The ones often referred to as 'holiday camps'. Instead, his worst nightmare comes true.
Locked up in HMP Blackthorpe, a prison known for its medieval-like squalor, Nick lives at the mercy of the drug barons and in fear of the lifers. Constantly stalked by danger he has to find a way to survive.
To earn protection money he turns to the one thing he's good at—art. But can selling pictures to visitors be enough to keep the mob at bay? Or will he be made an example of by the hard men and suffer the worst type of prison punishment?
Based on the experiences of the author.
giandujakissWomen read comics and are a driving force behind fandom. I think I could call them the driving force behind fandom and put up a convincing argument. Just think about it: what fandoms have driven America crazy in the last decade? Could anyone dissuade me from saying that they were Harry Potter, Twilight and the Hunger Games? "Avatar" may have put butts in theater seats, but you don't hear about it... ever. No one is immersed in the world of "Avatar" except James Cameron and people who enjoy wearing Na'vi Zentai suits. "The Avengers" was pretty darn huge and, if Tumblr is any indication, a whopping portion of the people driving that fandom online do not possess a Y chromosome. Women engage in fandom to levels that men do not. When women get behind something, their sheer numbers and passion force it into the mainstream. That's why you can name the actor who plays that werewolf kid in "Twilight" and probably sing at least the chorus to one Justin Bieber song. What do tween boys like? I have no clue. Sports? Probably sports.-- Brett White
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