The
Yellow Dog Project is a global movement for parents of dogs in need of space. If you see a dog with a yellow ribbon or something yellow on the leash,
this is a dog who needs some space. Please do not approach this dog with your dog. Please maintain distance or give this dog and his/her person time to move out of your way.
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posted by ancillary
on Oct 1, 2012 -
211 comments
Is your elementary school youngster struggling with math? Are they a visual person? Would math games and videos help them learn? Enter
Math Playground, to assist with problem solving and real world math. Try the enticing logic game
Sugar, Sugar or beef up your
math word problem skills. There are plenty of
games to help educate while entertaining.
posted by netbros
on Sep 4, 2012 -
14 comments
Last year,
Wired reported that 'The FBI is
teaching
its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.”' (
previously)
The FBI pledged reform, but the materials appeared to be
deeply embedded. After the President
ordered a review, the FBI
'purged' the documents from training materials.
Earlier this year
Wired reported that 'U.S. Military
Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam.'
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posted by the man of twists and turns
on Jun 25, 2012 -
42 comments
Metacognitive training is a useful
complementary treatment approach to schizophrenia. MCT aims at sharpening the awareness of patients for a variety of cognitive biases (e.g. jumping to conclusions, attributional biases, over-confidence in errors), which are implicated in the formation and maintenance of schizophrenia positive symptoms (especially delusions), and to ultimately replace these biases with functional cognitive strategies.
Researchers at the
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf have developed
an MCT program, comprised of eight modules targeting common cognitive errors and problem solving biases in schizophrenia.
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posted by aeschenkarnos
on Jul 2, 2011 -
16 comments
A Year at War: One
Battalion's Wrenching Deployment to Afghanistan: "Some 30,000 American soldiers are taking part in the Afghanistan surge. Here are the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division" out of Fort Drum, NY., based in
Kunduz Province, Afghanistan. Over the next year, The New York Times will follow their journey, chronicling the battalion’s part in the surge in northern Afghanistan and the impact of war on individual soldiers and their families back home.
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posted by zarq
on Oct 21, 2010 -
28 comments
Excercise a little abstract for you? Unable to see the point of going to the gym? Try
ZombieFit and get in shape for the end of the world.
posted by The Whelk
on Jun 29, 2010 -
53 comments
"It's big, like people were back in the 70s... Big when you get that way because you're just real damn strong." Brought to you from the
Wichita Falls Athletic Club, 70sbig.com will teach you how to eat, how to train, and how to style your moustache so that you can get 70s big. Not interested in becoming 70s big? Then stop by and observe the amazing feats of those who were, like
weightlifter Anatoly Pisarenko, who cleaned and jerked 583 pounds, or
powerlifter Doug Young, who deadlifted 711 pounds in competition despite three broken ribs. The site also feature a series of cheeky interviews with Mark Rippetoe, owner of WFAC and author of books like
Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training and
Practical Programming for Strength Training.
posted by ludwig_van
on Oct 8, 2009 -
48 comments
Great Training Montages throughout history And a few of my own choosing to inspire you all to keep to your New Year's resolution-mandated training regimens:
Rocky,
Rocky II,
Rocky III,
Rocky IV,
Footloose,
Team America: World Police,
Karate Kid,
the Breakfast Club,
Flashdance, and arguably the best of all time,
Turkish Star Wars
posted by psmealey
on Jan 2, 2008 -
41 comments
First Responder Training Sites. For police training purposes, in Southern California ten locations have been set up to look like "anytown, usa", where target practice & hostage situations are acted out. These areas are known in the industry as situation simulation villages, tactical training sites, or Hogan's Alleys (
?).
Emergency State is an online exhibit of over 200 photographs of these strange prop towns.
posted by jonson
on Apr 9, 2007 -
18 comments
Fans of the BBC version of The Office take note: in 2006, Microsoft hired Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant to make a pair of faux training videos for the UK Microsoft headquarters, with Gervais reprising his David Brent role.
Both videos are
now up on iFilm, and are pretty damn funny (if you're amused by the Brent schtick, which I am).
posted by lilbrudder
on Aug 12, 2006 -
15 comments
The Smell of War -- the Institute for Creative Technologies preps Quake-happy teens to become first-person shooters in the non-virtual war on terror. Now in Odorama.
posted by digaman
on Jul 25, 2006 -
22 comments
Want to learn to be a CSI? It's the U.S. government's multimedia website to train police and evidence recovery personnel. You can try the tests - the advanced one will tell you if you convicted the accused or not. Pretty slick for Uncle Sam.
posted by birdsquared
on Aug 8, 2005 -
22 comments
KOTO is a charity training restaurant for street children set up in 1996 in
Hanoi,
Viet
nam by Vietnamese-Australian
Jimmy Pham (pdf file).
Of the more than 100 or so former street kids who have learned cooking, waiting and bar skills, 100% of KOTO graduates have since become employed in hotels and restaurants in Hanoi.
KOTO stands for
Know One Teach One and they
provide uniforms, accomodation,
most meals and a small wage during the traineeship.
Even
Bill Clinton ate there.
Street children number something in the order of 20,000 or more in Vietnam
and most head to the city from poor villages in the countryside, seeking their own slice of the wealth that transition to a market economy is said to generate. Most
make little money shining shoes and selling postcards and many become involved in drugs, crime, prostitution or are harassed and arrested by the Police.
Hoa Sua restaurant is another exemplary training enterprise (French affiliation) run along similar lines to KOTO excepting that they also have bakery outlets and embroidery training.
These organizations are hopeful examples of education combatting the cycle of poverty.
(
Aside: but no
contribution to the Vietnamese economy will be
forthcoming from U.S. chemical companies who supplied
agent orange during the war)
posted by peacay
on Mar 11, 2005 -
11 comments
Al Gore claims the Bush administration is not helping America, but hurting it by focusing on all the wrong things. Gore:The administration is still not investing in local government training and infrastructures where they could make the biggest difference. The first responder community is still being shortchanged. In many cases, fire and police still don’t have the communications equipment to talk to each other. The CDC and local hospitals are still nowhere close to being ready for a biological weapons attack.
The administration has still failed to address the fundamental disorganization and rivalries of our law enforcement, intelligence and investigative agencies. In particular, the critical FBI-CIA coordination, while finally improved at the top, still remains dysfunctional in the trenches.
The constant violations of civil liberties promote the false impression that these violations are necessary in order to take every precaution against another terrorist attack. But the simple truth is that the vast majority of the violations have not benefited our security at all; to the contrary, they hurt our security.
posted by skallas
on Nov 10, 2003 -
29 comments
Mabel Stark was one of the greatest tiger trainers of the 1910's and 1920's. Her life is now the subject of a novel,
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark
by Robert Hough. The book has created a lot of controversy because it describes the sexual nature of Mabel's relationship with her big cats. Film rights have already been sold;
Kate Winslet will play the lead. Writer Rip Sense
recalls seeing Mabel as an old woman,
still handling big cats in Jungleland, California. Want to raise big cats in your home? See
this handy guide to matters such as litter-box training, feeding, and keeping the tigers from destroying the furniture.
posted by SealWyf
on Apr 8, 2003 -
6 comments
Along the same lines of sites designed to get kids to eat more
red meat comes the
Presidential Prayer Kids website, which instructs the young on how best to support our leader through prayer. This week's lesson instructs the Bush Youth to be faithful, compares them to dogs.
"They are showing their faithfulness by obeying the commands they are given and by doing exactly the job they were trained for."
posted by jonson
on Apr 4, 2003 -
42 comments
Army to develop video games. According to an Yahoo article, a venture funded by the US Army is developing videos games for the home market. "The U.S. Army will provide funding, but its Training & Doctrine Command bureau will also be involved in game development, ICT said.
The games will allow players to control entire groups of soldiers, ICT said, with CS-12 allowing the player to take the role of a company commander and C-Force putting the player in the role of squad leader."
I kinda get an "Ender's Game" sort of feel from this.
posted by Darke
on Oct 25, 2001 -
16 comments
