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- How to politely decline a take-home test task https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/190473/how-to-politely-decline-a-take-home-test-task 221 comments
- How to politely decline a take-home test task? https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/190473/how-to-politely-decline-a-take-home-test-task 2 comments
- Frank Lampard is home but has taken on a tough task at Chelsea https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jul/04/frank-lampard-chelsea-home-manager-transfer-embargo-injuries-champions-league?cmp=share_iosapp_other 35 comments soccer
- FTC launches technology task force as feds home in on Big Tech and privacy https://www.geekwire.com/2019/ftc-launches-technology-task-force-feds-home-big-tech-privacy/ 4 comments technology
- Can a telecommuter (employer lets me work at home) write off a task chair purchase on their taxes? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8o2z5m/can_a_telecommuter_employer_lets_me_work_at_home/ 7 comments personalfinance
- Detroit's young gentrifiers face a daunting task in buying $500 homes: evicting poor residents http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/nov/27/detroits-young-gentrifiers-face-a-daunting-task-in-buying-500-homes-evicting-poor-residents 4 comments nottheonion
- Illegal drugs found at UK's Home Office, the department tasked with fighting illegal drugs https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/13/europe/drugs-found-uk-home-office-intl/index.html 5 comments nottheonion
- Illegal drugs found at UK's Home Office, the department tasked with fighting illegal drugs https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/13/europe/drugs-found-uk-home-office-intl/index.html 6 comments worldnews
- Illegal drugs found at UK's Home Office, the department tasked with fighting illegal drugs https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/13/europe/drugs-found-uk-home-office-intl/index.html 497 comments nottheonion
- Key Trump coronavirus task force must work at home after positive COVID-19 test https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/key-trump-coronavirus-task-force-must-work-home-after-positive-n1178331 4 comments politics
- Devin Nunes May Accomplish the Difficult Task of Making Himself Vulnerable Back Home http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/nunes-could-be-making-himself-vulnerable-back-home.html 5 comments politics
- Android software to show repeatable daily tasks as widget on home screen. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stuff.todo 3 comments software
- After the PL trophy parade, a Manchester City fan was tasked with bringing a drunk Pep Guardiola home. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-48333114 34 comments soccer
- Terrorism Task Force Agents Show Up At Journalist's Home Over Google Searches About 'Pressure Cookers' And 'Backpacks'. http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-shows-up-at-journalists-door-2013-8 4 comments politics
- Task failed successfully: The Reds demonstrate what not to do in a rundown as Farmer makes a diving tag on Gamel at home https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2022/2022-08/19/a15ab006-c1f9f7a4-c1c15d6a-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_16000K.mp4 2 comments baseball
- Smart Tasks app lets you easily organize your entire week, now with iOS 14 home screen widgets https://9to5mac.com/2020/09/28/smart-tasks-app-lets-you-easily-organize-your-entire-week-now-with-ios-14-home-screen-widgets/ 11 comments apple
- his home raided by the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Homeland Security. His belongings, his cat, even his wife’s body, were seized. http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/16/art_in_a_time_of_terror 4 comments politics
- Is the US military being hardened in Iraq today so they can be brought home to perform the same tasks against the US civilians under martial law? http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=118928;show_parent=1 17 comments politics
- Robots learn and do more than 20 household tasks by watching and recording humans do these tasks: “Instead of waiting for robots to be programmed to complete tasks before deploying them into people’s homes, this technology allows us to deploy the robots and have them learn how to complete tasks” https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2022/july/robots-learn-household-tasks-by-watching-humans.html 318 comments science
- The cathedral of Milan is home to a forest of more than 4000 statues. To maintain it, the fabbrica del duomo (cathedral workshop) has been in operation since the late 1300s to these days. "la fabrica del domm" in Milanese dialect is word for endless or inhumanely complex tasks. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/uzv4f7 15 comments europe
- Family Convicted of Conspiring to Force a Pakistani Woman to Labor in Their Virginia Home for 12 Years — The defendants forced the woman to perform increasingly laborious tasks, including mowing the one-acre lawn with a push mower, picking out debris from car carpets with a tweezer, and other tasks https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/family-convicted-conspiring-force-pakistani-woman-labor-their-virginia-home-12-years 6 comments pakistan
- Men and women actually prefer not to split household and childcare tasks equally, suggests a new study, which found that men enjoyed tasks to do with outdoor labor and home maintenance more than women did. Women preferred cleaning, food prep, family scheduling, and home decorating. https://www.psypost.org/2021/03/study-suggests-that-men-and-women-actually-prefer-not-to-split-household-and-childcare-tasks-equally-59866 5997 comments science
- I updated Sigma Planner with iOS 14 Enhancements and Widgets! Your school planner and tasks are now right on your home screen. Please download and share with other students and teachers! 🥳 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sigma-planner/id1106938042 16 comments apple
- Hi everyone! I'm an Android developer who also interested in Arduino. I've created bunch of projects with Arduino, mostly for automating home tasks. And recently made a tutorial app for Arduino focusing on simplicity to make it easier to learn the essentials, I'd be glad if you checked, thank you! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=site.ardumaniac.ardumaniac 3 comments arduino
- A Son’s Task to Make Sure His Mother Isn’t Forgotten, 3 Years After Police Killed Her Inside Her Home https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/public-safety/2020/06/27/andrew-ocasio-shares-his-mother-s-story 3 comments politics
- Trump is launching a task force to reopen the country 'as soon as possible.' One expert says that could end up keeping us in our homes even longer. https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-effort-to-reopen-the-country-could-backfire-2020-4 42 comments politics
- Jared Kushner's White House task force criticized for delays in combating COVID-19 get a stay-at-home order after numerous people test positive https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/key-trump-coronavirus-task-force-must-work-home-after-positive-n1178331 7 comments politics
- Trump's Task Force Still Won't Call For A National Stay-At-Home Order Even as health officials predict the U.S. death toll could climb to 240,000, Trump and Pence resisted a national order. https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/trump-coronavirus-stay-at-home-order_n_5e83d6cfc5b65dd0c5d5f394?ri18n=true 31 comments worldnews
- UK Government 'funding fossil fuel-burning plants abroad' - The government has been taken to task by its own MPs for sending billions of pounds overseas to help build power plants that burn fossil fuels while claiming a climate victory on home soil. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/10/government-funding-fossil-fuel-burning-plants-abroad 54 comments worldnews
- Canada marijuana legalization takes big step with federal report now complete. Analysts predict Canada could have $4.5 billion industry by 2021; marijuana task force wraps up report that is expected to include recommendations on everything from age limits to medical marijuana, safety and home grows. http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/11/30/canada-marijuana-legalization-task-force-report/68481/ 235 comments worldnews
- Controversial move: Bundeswehr wants to recruit EU citizens ~ There is mounting pressure on the Bundeswehr to engage in military action abroad. Operations on home soil are also discussed. To be able to carry out those tasks, the Bundeswehr considers recruitment of EU citizens. http://www.dw.com/en/controversial-move-bundeswehr-wants-to-recruit-eu-citizens/a-19469214 45 comments germany
- Reconstruction of thousands of homes and businesses destroyed in last summer's Israel-Hamas war in Gaza has barely begun and living conditions in the territory have only worsened six months after donor countries pledged $3.5 billion for the task, a coalition of international aid groups said Monday http://bigstory.ap.org/article/40cf3b63b1a04752b6953b968d495cb8/aid-groups-say-world-must-push-end-gaza-blockade 8 comments worldnews
- UK: Former Environment Agency head leads industry-funded fracking task force - Lord Chris Smith leads "independent" team funded by shale gas firms in face of fierce & growing opposition. Changes to trespass laws to allow fracking under peoples’ homes are particularly controversial. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/21/former-environment-agency-head-to-lead-industry-funded-fracking-task-force 4 comments worldnews
- Three US Secret Service agents tasked with protecting President Barack Obama in the Netherlands have been sent home for "disciplinary reasons". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26743893 3 comments worldnews
- "U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show." http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57572207-38/dhs-built-domestic-surveillance-tech-into-predator-drones/ 38 comments technology
- "Crucially, clubs are also ‘paired’ so that, say, Arsenal and Spurs don’t play at home on the same weekend. Pairing local rivals might seem a relatively straightforward task but never underestimate the potential for problems when it comes to football." http://www.fsf.org.uk/media/uploaded/file/fsf-annual-2012-fixtures.pdf 30 comments soccer
- Teach your robot well - Within a decade, personal robots could become as common in U.S. homes as any other major appliance, and many if not most of these machines will be able to perform innumerable tasks not explicitly imagined by their manufacturers. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308153535.htm 9 comments robotics
- Biggest U.S. Banks Receive Subpoenas Aimed at Packaging & Sale of Home Loans - The probe is part of a new inter-agency task force to investigate the sale of repackaged mortgages that helped fuel the housing bubble & spread around exposure to toxic loans http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/02/us-mortgage-enforcement-idustre82101u20120302 3 comments politics
- Expert: Invalid Warrant Used in Raid on iPhone Reporter’s Home .. Apple is on the steering committee for the REACT task force that raided Chen’s house. Formed in 1997, REACT is a partnership of 17 local, state and federal agencies tasked with investigating computer- and internet-related crimes. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/iphone-raid/ 197 comments politics
- robotics could be poised for a breakthrough, leading to a new generation of intelligent machines capable of taking on multiple tasks and moving out of the factory into the home and general workplace http://www.physorg.com/news136543135.html 9 comments robotics