I learned about bouncing back from the diet industry. This is not surprising. All the best research about personal development comes from the diet industry because there’s so much money to be made if you can figure out how to help people lose weight. One study that I have never forgotten is that if you […]

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This article answers a question asked by a visitor on whether he can simply update all the URLs on his website to "https" without obtaining an SSL certificate, and, if not, why.

If you run a WordPress blog, and want to customize the message that is shown in the "Leave a Reply" section of your post (where you visitors enter their comments), this article shows you how, using a method that will allow your changes to persist even when your theme files auto-update.

Are you getting up The navigator woke early this morning . I never heard him getting up . He was standing at the bottom of the bed What about your walk Are you bothering this morning I had made plans yesterday for todays walk . On the way home

Koh chang has been all about the relax and what a beautiful island to have picked. Its very laid back with lots of cute little towns to explore we defo needed a motorbike to do this as the taxi service is very expensive and seen no sign of a local bus ser

If you are going to nurse a hangover nurse one in New York City...yesterday became very spontaneous and boarded the Staten Island Ferry and had an opportunity to look at Lower Manhattan and Miss Liberty herself from a respectable distance. I am so amazed

Tonight at BSF I had a wonderful experience that I thought I would share. One of the questions readWhy do you think being carried off to another land would be a good thing for the peopleI took this question at face value since we are studying Isa

Der groe Wetterbuddha ist mir am heutigen Tag wohlgesonnen und beschert mir zumindest keinen Regen. Ich kann also ab 8.30 Uhr im chinesischen Stil noch einmal Hangzhou erkunden. Mit meinem klapprigen Fahrrad starte ich also meine Erkundungstour rund um d

The all-new iPhones and Apple Watch can be easily avoided but there’s no escaping iOS 8

The past few weeks haven’t been great for Apple. First they were implicated in the stolen celebrity nude photo disaster, which reminded everybody how easily clouds leak. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the iPhone is generally marketed as a diabolical timewasting device with the potential to wreak a grotesque and devastating invasion of your personal privacy. They tend to focus more on all the cool colours it comes in.

Then they launched the horrible-looking Apple Watch, which does everything an iPhone can do, but more expensively and pointlessly, and on a slightly different part of your body. Only an unhealthily devoted Apple fanatic could bear to wear a Apple Watch, and even that poor notional idiot would have to keep putting their iPhone down in order to operate the damn thing. It’ll scarcely be used for telling the time, just as the iPhone is scarcely used for making calls. It’s not a watch. It’s a gaudy wristband aimed at raising awareness of Chinese factory conditions. Or a handy visual tag that helps con artists instantly identify gullible rich idiots in a crowd.

Exaggeration is the official language of the internet. Only the most strident statements have any impact. Oversteer and oversell, all the time

The other day I was talking to a music fan who’d recently gone to see one of Kate Bush’s widely praised live appearances. Naturally I was keen to hear a first-hand account of this era-defining event, so I asked what it was like.

“The first half was great,” she said. “But the second half got a bit boring.”

Ambient pollution is a byproduct of economic activity. It has been widely reported that COVID-19 and associated lockdowns have generated large improvements in air quality worldwide, including to China's notoriously-poor air quality. We analyze China's official pollution monitor data and account for the large, recurrent improvement in air quality following Lunar New Year (LNY), which essentially coincided with lockdowns in 2020. With the important exception of NO2, China's air quality improvements in 2020 are smaller than we should expect near the pandemic's epicenter: Hubei province. Compared with LNY improvements experienced in 2018 and 2019 in Hubei, we see smaller improvements in SO2 while ozone concentrations increased in both relative and absolute terms (roughly doubling). Similar patterns are found for the six provinces neighboring Hubei. We conclude that whether COVID-19 actually decreased pollution in China depends on the pollutant and reference period considered.

This paper investigates the effect of a large negative agricultural shock, the boll weevil, on black-white inequality in the first half of the twentieth century. To do this we use complete count census data to generate a linked sample of fathers and their sons. We find that the boll weevil induced enormous labor market and social disruption as more than half of black and white fathers moved to other counties following the arrival of the weevil. The shock impacted black and white sons differently. We compare sons whose fathers initially resided in the same county and find that white sons born after the boll weevil had similar wages and schooling outcomes to white sons born prior to its arrival. In contrast, black sons born after the boll weevil had significantly higher wages and years of schooling, narrowing the black-white wage and schooling gaps. This decrease appears to have been driven by relative improvements in early life conditions and access to schooling both for sons of black fathers that migrated out of the South and sons of black fathers that stayed in the South.

How should the design of incentives vary with agent time preferences? We develop two predictions. First, “bundling” the payment function over time – specifically by making the payment for future effort increase in current effort – is more effective if individuals are impatient over effort. Second, increasing the frequency of payment is more effective if individuals are impatient over payment. We test the efficacy of time-bundling and payment frequency, and their interactions with impatience, using a randomized evaluation of an incentive program for exercise among diabetics in India. Consistent with our theoretical predictions, bundling payments over time meaningfully increases effort among the impatient relative to the patient. In contrast, increasing payment frequency has limited efficacy, suggesting limited impatience over payments. On average, incentives increase daily steps by 1,266 (13 minutes of brisk walking) and improve health.

The authors want to transform the home where they raised their children in Bangor, Maine, into the location for Stephen King’s personal archives. A guest house they own next door would host writers in residence.

A Brooklyn woman was slashed in the face with a knife by an enraged passenger after her child threw up on a city bus.

Judge Jack Weinstein on Monday moved to inactive status, closing out a 53-year career. A highlight of his law career was working with Thurgood Marshall on the legal arguments that led the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in Brown v. Board of Education that school segregation was illegal. He was named a federal judge in 1967, and on his retirement was the last appointee of President Lyndon Johnson still on the bench.

New tools, new features, new plans! RSS Ground is evolving and developing. We have a whole bunch of exacting updates released in June.

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Our service is just like a living organism, with its own worries and joys. And hope you feel the pulse of our live. Find out what we were working on lately.

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Winter is outside, but it is pretty hot in our labs.  We have prepared several good updates for you this January. Please enjoy and get ready for more!
Content Recycle

As you know, the main idea of RSS Ground posting services is gradual updates with unique content. Our posting campaigns functionality is built to ensure your blogs and social network accounts are constantly updated with fresh content. But sometimes, re-posting already posted content may have a rationale.
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Time flies fast, especially when you are busy doing something you like and care about. This time we have added a improved image posting to Facebook pages and groups, additional options for feed editing and a bit more clear error notifications in feeds Preview.
Improved image posting to Facebook

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Before, when you made a post to your Facebook, only one image (photo) was attached to it. But now, if there are several images associated ...

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RSS Ground team now works from home. But we are still efficient and productive. Here is what we did for you in March plus some of our plans for the future.
YouTube Feeds Now require API key

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Because of the new limitations at Google developers platform, search requests for YouTube videos now have to be signed with a personal user key.
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Epidemic situation in the World has influenced all of us a lot. Many businesses started paying more attention to their online presence as many people started to look for more opportunities to make additional money online. Affiliate marketing is what comes to mind in such a situation. Following this trend we decided to enrich our arsenal of tools with new affiliate feeds generators. Here is what was done in April of 2020.
Best Buy Feeds generator

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A sobering analysis suggests that animal species aren’t adapting fast enough to maintain their numbers in the face of rising temperatures.

The threat of mercury in seafood was curbed with regulations, but climate change could drive levels back up.

Gut microbes react differently to raw and cooked versions of the same foods.

President Trump and Congress should keep climate change in mind as they prepare economic aid packages for businesses and industries.

Sanders leaves the presidential race with some major accomplishments.

President Trump made a grave mistake by heavily and repeatedly promoting COVID-19 products for which there was too little evidence.

Clippers coach Doc Rivers checks in daily with players and reminds them of their championship goal and not to use hiatus as a reason they can't win.

Lakers star LeBron James revises his stance on playing game without fans, saying he'd do so if it's in the best interest of the franchise and the NBA.

The Lakers and Clippers forfeited their draft futures for a chance to chase the NBA title this season. Have their hopes been derailed by the coronavirus?

Alyson Miura and Aliyah Jeune made late three-pointers, and the USC women were clutch at the foul line in holding on to beat Cal 75-67 in Berkeley.

In all, 46.89% of registered voters cast ballots in the March 3 primary, which was moved up from June with hopes that turnout would be high and presidential candidates would be forced to address issues mattering most to Californians.

Drag queen D.J. "Shangela" Pierce talks about RuPaul's Drag Race and the new HBO series, We're Here.

Before the pill was approved by the FDA on May 9, 1960, there were few contraceptive options available to young women. It revolutionized family planning and the sex lives of millions of Americans.

Times Editor Davan Maharaj and Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin made two staff announcements regarding The Times' Cairo bureau: As a foreign correspondent, Jeff Fleishman has proved himself a master of the character study.

Justin Chang, chief film critic for Variety, will be joining The Times as a film critic.

The artwork depicts a young boy sitting on the floor playing with a nurse doll while ubiquitous superhero action figures of Batman and Spiderman action figure toys lie in a trashcan nearby.

As residents in China’s biggest city and its neighboring provinces gradually return to normalcy following closures due to the coronavirus crisis, people can’t wait to return to the Magical World of Disney.

When we arrived in China to pick up our adopted daughter, we found out she had chickenpox. The days of waiting were the most anxious of our lives.

Just because you're staying home doesn't mean you have to be lonely. How to set up video chats for a dinner party, game night, karaoke session and more.

TV writer and producer Valerie C. Woods muses on benefits of being at home — and how you can be OK with it during coronavirus era.

Amazon is launching its first global series that combines unscripted programming with its retail store.

The coronavirus outbreak has closed malls and most stores. Disputes are brewing over rent. Retail may look quite different in the future, experts say.

New details about Advanced Placement tests released Friday by the College Board show how much the coronavirus pandemic is altering the format.

School won't be the same when it resumes after coronavirus closures. There could be staggered start times, reconfigured classes and no assemblies.