LinuxCertified is a vendor that sells laptops (and computers, I think). I just bought one from them -- they sell Windows (you pay a little extra for it) or any major distro of Linux. (FC, Ubuntu, etc.)
They guarantee that their installations of Linux will work with the hardware they use.
The real attractive part, for me, was the price point. Since they have the laptops custom built, they aren't bound to the contracts that larger companies (Dell, Gateway, etc.) are. I spent $1485 (after shipping) for a T9300 (2.5 GHz with 6MB cache), 4GB RAM, 320GB 7200RPM hdd, 512MB NVidia card, and 15.4" WSXGA (1680x1050) display. Dell and even Lenovo/Thinkpad could not even get CLOSE to those specs at comparable prices. (If you're interested, the laptop I got was the LC2430S)
Customer Service at LC was way better than Dell, too. (the benefit of dealing with a small company)
I don't mean this to be an ad for LC or anything, I'm just really pleased with my experience with them so far.
Caffeine works to keep us awake by competitively inhibiting the binding of Adenosine to sites in the brain. The body attempts to return to homeostasis by producing more Adenosine receptors (this is when your tolerance is built up) which means when you stop drinking caffeine, all the Adenosine in your synapses gets binded much faster. (leading to the withdrawl symptoms).
Depending on how MUCH you drink, YMMV when giving it up, but most people can get over it in a week or two of total caffeine abstinence and a handful of aspirin / headache medications to help you bear through it. You CAN get over it though. Giving it up isn't NEARLY as challenging as quitting tobacco or other addictive substances.
Best way to prevent getting hooked is to not make your caffeine intake routine; in other words, like all things, exercise moderation.
For many parents of children with disabilities, the most valuable thing of all is information. Early identification of a cognitive or other disorder, especially autism, can make a life-changing difference.
She then ridiculed some of the projects — such as "fruit fly [Drosophila] research" — saying they have little or no value:
Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? [...] You've heard about some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
The kicker here is that past Drosophila research has actually resulted in advances in understanding conditions such as Autism, the very thing she believes should be funded more directly."
The jail was apparently constructed to house protesters during the Democratic National Convention but the city never publicly announced plans to construct this kind of facility. Members of the group Recreate '68 are calling the detention center "Denver's inhumane and dirty little secret," "Guantanamo Bay on the Platte" or "Gitmo on the Platte." The warehouse is just feet from the South Platte River. The jail is made up of large fenced-in cages with razor wire on top. The city said those cages are for the safety of law enforcement agents and those who are arrested. Activists call it a concentration camp unfit and inappropriate for human detainees.
Happiness is twin floppies.