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And finally, studies have shown that a single workout will improve your reaction times which basically means that you are going to be faster at catching that cup of Starbucks that falls off the counter, which is very, very important.
What is the potential for doing greatness on the kitchen counter, a secluded beach, the backseat of a car or even simply in between the sheets?
Now we have to counter that, though, against the evidence we've heard that we might have had some rather distasteful genetic dalliances with the Neanderthals and the Denisovans.
So I said, "I'm going to counter this with my own propaganda."
They also devised a campaign to raise awareness of hearing loss and to counter the stigma attached to wearing a hearing aid.
And this woman came up to it, and she squinted, and she took it to the register, and she said to the man behind the counter, "This one's ruined."
And the guy behind the counter said, "I know, lady.
No counter offer.
Now this was done to counter the annual celebration of rabbits and presumably make the public more comfortable with the killing of rabbits and promote an animal that's native to Australia, and actually an animal that is threatened by the European rabbit.
Trying to think about how a 404 felt, and it would be like if you went to Starbucks and there's the guy behind the counter and you're over there and there's no skim milk.
And they walk out from behind the counter and they've got no pants on.
When the Fukushima disaster happened, a bunch of people in Japan, they realized that the information that the government was giving wasn't really open and really reliable, so they built this Geiger counter, plus Arduino, plus network interface.
But it didn't change the Chinese political system, and also the Chinese central government utilized this centralized server structure to strengthen its power to counter the local government and the different factions.
If we perceive it in this way as a brand, or other ways of thinking at it like this, we will not resolve or counter terrorism.
Giving people less control might be a wonderful way to counter the abundance of choice and make them happier.
In fact, it is a step counter, and it counts the steps.
It's a binary step counter.
I'm holding on to the counter because I can't stand.
If we want to have a shot at building meaningful technology that's going to counter radicalization, we have to start with the human journey at its core.
Now, suppose at the end of the day, I've objected, I've questioned, I've raised all sorts of counter counter-considerations and in every case you've responded to my satisfaction.
My Geiger counter dosimeter, which measures radiation, was going berserk, and the closer I got, the more frenetic it became, and frantic.
What we don't need to be transparent about, because it's bad for the U.S., it's bad for all those other countries that we work with and that we help provide information that helps them secure themselves and their people, it's bad to expose operations and capabilities in a way that allows the people that we're all working against, the generally recognized bad guys, to counter those.
And they're actually using that to counter the very large technological edge that U.S. companies have in areas like the cloud and Internet-based technologies.
So in the case of the Safecast story, I didn't know anything when the earthquake happened, but I was able to find Sean who was the hackerspace community organizer, and Peter, the analog hardware hacker who made our first Geiger counter, and Dan, who built the Three Mile Island monitoring system after the Three Mile Island meltdown.
Okay, then we can make a mobile Geiger counter.
Far away in the American Midwest, I had the good fortune of meeting Somali-Americans who were working to counter the efforts of al Shabaab to recruit a small number of young people from their city of Minneapolis to take part in atrocities like Westgate.
To counter the efforts of al Shabaab to sway more disaffected youth, in the wake of the group's 2010 attack on World Cup viewers in Uganda, he organized a Ramadan basketball tournament in Minneapolis in response.
Look in Bolivia and Peru, where all sorts of products made from the coca leaf, the source of cocaine, are sold legally over the counter with no apparent harm to people's public health.
And crucially, the Civil Rights Movement innovated tactically from boycotts to lunch counter sit-ins to pickets to marches to freedom rides.
And so I walked to the counter, and she said, "How can I help you?"
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