Roundup: Huge Unmet Need for Contraception in Uganda, Highest in Africa
Huge Unmet Need for Contraception in Uganda Uganda has the highest rate of unmet need for contraception in Africa, reports the Guardian UK , denying women the ability to avoid unintended pregnancy and to choose the number and timing of children they bear. “Limited access to family planning services, fears about side effects, opposition from partners and religious beliefs have led to Uganda having the highest unmet need for contraception in east Africa,” says the Guardian. Research in
Verizon has iPhone envy – NIMBRUNG.NET
CNET News Verizon has iPhone envy CNET News Rather than let the market decide the winner , the government picked a protocol and forced its adoption. by dylerl October 26, 2009 5:10 PM PDT No you are … and more Related posts: Droid Does: Verizon Launches Anti-iphone Ad for Motorola Droid [Video] – NIMBRUNG.NET DailyTech Droid Does : Verizon Launches Anti-iphone Ad for… Verizon Droid does ad belittles iPhone Motorola Droid phone Android Phone – NIMBRUNG.NET The Inquisitr Verizon
This Week in Congress
In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: First Vote of the Week… Monday 6:30 p.m. Last Vote Predicted… Friday p.m. MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009 On Monday, the House will meet at 12:30 p.m. for Morning Hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business with votes postponed until 6:30 p.m
Three Alarm Fire in Greenwood
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Photo & Text Copyright 2009 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing. A huge fire broke out in the wee hours of Friday morning in the heart of the Greenwood neighborhood on N 85th Street near Greenwood Ave. Four popular businesses were distroyed and Taproot Theater Com
Freedom’s Destruction through Constitutional Deconstruction
by Timothy Baldwin During the Constitutional Convention, from May to September 1787, delegates from the colonies were to gather together for the express purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation to form a “more perfect union” (NOT a completely different union!). The men that met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were under direct and limited orders from their states to attend the Federal Convention explicitly to preserve the federation and State rights and to correct the errors of the ex
This whole episode should count as community service and as another example of why I shouldn’t be allowed to mix with famous people.
The day before yesterday I got invited as a “member of the media” to go to a Planned Parenthood thingie. I think it was a fund-raiser or a plan to picket them or something. I don’t know. I wasn’t really paying attention to that part because all I really wanted to do was meet Joan Walsh , Editor-in-Chief of Salon.com , and they said if I showed up I could go to a special blogger/media chat afterward with her. I got there about five minutes before the Planned Parenthood presentation
Roundup: Oklahoma Attorney General Seeks Overturn of Restraining Order on Law to Publicize Women’s Medical Info
States attorneys in Oklahoma have filed a motion to dissolve the temporary restraining order issued earlier this week by an Oklahoma County judge which blocks enforcement of a new state abortion law. The controversial law would require that private, confidential medical information of women seeking abortions be put on a public website. And the Republicans are the party of individual rights and opposition to government intrusion? The Oklahoma Journal Record reports that a spokesp
BT Business reveals technology adoption fuels recovery tipping point for UK SMEs
According to research from BT Business, supported by the Design Council and Prince’s Trust, small businesses at the forefront of technology adoption have been the least impacted by the recession, with those most reluctant to bring in new technology suffering the most. Companies with a positive attitude to technology adoption had a 69% better than
Justifying the cloud
Paul Miller has an intriguing post citing a study (PDF) into cloud computing adoption: Also interesting was the relatively small impact of the economic situation upon Cloud adoption, with only 13% suggesting it had ‘helped’ adoption plans and 58% reporting ‘no effect.’ In my conversations with Nick Carr and others , there’s been an underlying presumption (on my part, as well as theirs) that cost-saving arguments with respect to Cloud Computing would prove persuasive and compelling. It w
Why refuseniks get mobile phones
I have always been interested in why people refuse convenient technologies that most of us take for granted. I recall visiting Amish country in Pennsylvania with a friend, Diane Zimmerman, who had written a book on their refusal to use the phone within their homes. Now the NYT has done an interesting piece on those whose refuse to use mobiles. Given our teleuse@BOP work, I found this piece about what is likely to tip a non-owner into ownership quite interesting. It is the “crisis.”
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