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27th August 2000
Editorial/Opinion| Business| Sports|
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In search of a roof
By Dr. P.H.D.H. de SilvaVisiting the ancient city of Polonnaruwa a few months ago, my general impression was that there was a lack of caring by the authorities for the proper maintenance of both ancient sites and monu... | 260,331 |
Bank mergers: Finance Ministry examining various possible options to create robust financial institutions
June, 06th 2014
The finance ministry is examining various suggestions made by investment bankers to merge the country's biggest state-run banks to create much stronger financial institutions.
One proposal suggests ... | 263,692 |
Igor Avbelj (2012) Hybridisation of recommendation systems based on collaborative filtering. EngD thesis.
In this thesis, we present various techniques for recommender systems. We implement the k-Nearest Neighbours method and two matrix factorizations. Recommendations generated with these methods are then combined (hyb... | 45,034 |
7-Day Depression Challenge
Publisher: Authors Republic
Date: October 2018
Duration: 0 hours 51 minutes
Deal With Your Depression With Your '7-Day Depression Challenge'
Why are you reading this? Because:
- You are overwhelmed by frequent bouts of sadness.
- You have a general hopeless outlook through life.
- Your get li... | 242,317 |
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures adopted by many governments and cities resulted in slowing down urban life, closing businesses, and locking people into their homes. Social distancing works for public good and it increases the need for efficient grocery and food delivery services. These services help solving publ... | 141,785 |
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Any birth control that is safe for women, in general, is safe for women with epilepsy. However, having epilepsy -- and some treatments for the condition -- can make some forms of birth control less effective. Also, because anti-seizure medications for epilepsy can increase the risk of birth defects, it's important to p... | 90,271 |
Several local colleges and online institutes are offering short courses in computer science. The benefits of doing a degree in computer science are endless, and they introduce you to a number of career opportunities that would escalate your career to another level. However, a majority of the people is not very keen on ... | 41,950 |
A 20-year-old man walks into a church and massacres nine people, claiming that he was afraid that America was being taken over by Black Americans, citing American race relations as evidence. About a month later, a man wears a GoPro, tapes himself walking up to a local reporter and a cameraman, and shoots them both on c... | 57,875 |
Here comes Thanksgivukkah
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ellen Slotnick of Charleston pulled out all the stops for Hanukkah, which begins Wednesday evening. A basket of dreidels sat atop a kitchen shelf, while menorahs were placed throughout the home.
The centerpiece of the Slotnick family dinner table? A painted pumpkin was pai... | 13,502 |
Because a brewed cup of tea is mostly water, the quality of your water is as important as the tea leaves themselves. Beyond just using any spring water or filtered water, there are a number of factors that will affect the taste of your infusion.
For centuries, Chinese tea aficionados have designated water from specific... | 131,011 |
Freedom fever in the Middle East has roiled the oil market with uncertainty and created a guessing game of sorts: Just how high might gas prices go?
The painful $4-per-gallon peak of 2008 is a possibility as petroleum-rich Libya teeters in chaos, some gasoline industry watchers say. And while $5-per-gallon gasoline see... | 133,129 |
Design of the SHAPE-2 study: the effect of physical activity, in addition to weight loss, on biomarkers of postmenopausal breast cancer risk
© van Gemert et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
Received: 2 May 2013
Accepted: 21 August 2013
Published: 23 August 2013
Physical inactivity and overweight are two known ris... | 212,081 |
In honour of his daughter, Quebec man creates logo for immunocompromised people to wear on masks
Attachment with letter 'I' lets people know to keep their distance, not make people feel isolated
After Louis Sansfaçon lost his 31-year-old daughter Émilie to cancer last year, he decided to realize her vision of making li... | 99,289 |
The United States Space Force launched its first recruiting commercial on Twitter Wednesday, suggesting to potential recruits that, “maybe your purpose on this planet, isn’t on this planet.
— United States Space Force (@SpaceForceDoD) May 6, 2020
The United States Space Force, America’s newest military branch, posted a... | 59,530 |
A retired fighter bomber made its final journey by travelling more than 900 kilometers, by road, to arrive at Fighter World at Williamtown, New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday. The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark, a twin-engined jet built for U.S. and Australian military forces beginning in the late 1960s, was tran... | 91,129 |
Randy Blankinship, Lower Laguna Madre Ecosystem Leader
Coastal Fisheries Division, 95 Fish Hatchery Road, Brownsville, TX 78520
Have you ever caught a snook? Have you ever even seen a snook? If you saw one, did you know what you were looking at the first time you saw it?
The legendary snook maintains a certain mystique... | 101,877 |
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17 October, 2014 - 22 October, 2014Varies
This autumn festival takes place in the splendour of Glen Affric, one of Scotland’s National Nature Reserves. There are native pine forests, tranquil lochs and Corbetts and Munros, not to mention an abundance of wildlife.
This year sees the six-day f... | 299,924 |
Let’s make ourselves knowledgeable instead of accepting without critique news headlines.
I have been living and talking to people of Islam faith all my life, some of my colleagues at work are Muslims, I grew up with friends of Islam faith, one of my flatmates is Muslim and I’ve lost the number of the times we talk abou... | 263,556 |
6 MIN READ There is a bit of a confusion between Data Warehouse vs Data Lake or ETL vs ELT. I hear that Data Warehouses are not used anymore, that they are replaced by Data Lakes altogether, but is that true? And why do we need Data Warehouses anyway? I will go into that as well as the definitions of both pluses explai... | 64,730 |
When there are no More Hybrid Events
In the future, says Dannette Veale, global manager of the Cisco Live and Networkers Virtual event, there will be no more live vs. virtual discussions. The two experiences will overlap so completely, that what we now perceive as two separate environments glued together through some “... | 303,751 |
PART 2: Child focused safety features for the exterior of your vehicle
Most family friendly vehicles come with a long list of child focused safety features, but what do they actually mean?
We have put together a brief list of vehicle safety features that you might want to consider when purchasing a child friendly vehic... | 263,473 |
Vancouver Pride Week 2012: Trans role model Jenna Talackova wants to fight for the environment
It was an act of defiance that made Rosa Parks a civil-rights hero for refusing to give up her seat for a white bus passenger. She wasn't the first, but her actions galvanized political action in 1955.
This year, a Vancouveri... | 24,511 |
of Mole for what he had just done. It was exactly what he would have liked to have done himself, if only he had thought of it first, and hadn't gone and overslept himself.
"Some of the stoats turned quite pink," continued the Mole, "and the Sergeant in charge, he said to me, very short, he said, 'Now run away, my good ... | 222,132 |
Has Manmohanomics Failed Indian Society?
In 1980, when I visited U.S.A, on an official program, an American lady helping me in my meetings told that “tomorrow is Mother’s day, so I would have to take her from her old age home and treat her to a nice lunch.” Here, I asked her, why don’t you then host a home-made lunch f... | 61,507 |
THE METEORITICAL BULLETIN Announcement 86-1, April 5, 2002 Sara Russell, Editor (firstname.lastname@example.org) Jutta Zipfel, Assoc. Ed. for Saharan Meteorites (email@example.com) Jeffrey N. Grossman, Assoc. Ed. for Web (firstname.lastname@example.org) Monica M. Grady, Co-Editor Grove Mountains (GRV) 99027 73006'01" S... | 215,721 |
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Broad Foundation Awards Success Academy $5 Million Based on New York Common Core Scores
- By Dian Schaffhauser
Based on results shown by students during the recent Common Core state assessments in New York, a charter school organization has received a $5 million infusion to expand its programs. Success Ac... | 55,538 |
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.” 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue ... | 199,052 |
Yorkshire terrier can be quite stubborn and for those who owns one, it is important to look after these habits of the dog. Yorkshire terrier training should certainly be filled with enjoyment for both the dog and the owner with the satisfaction from the outcome. You need to remember some of the tips while training your... | 258,000 |
Are you wondering when your 9-year-old should start using skincare? 9-year-olds don't have to worry about acne scars and wrinkle prevention quite yet but developing a skincare routine at a young age is helpful. Starting a routine before the need arises can help prevent skincare issues down the line.
Younger kids who al... | 81,644 |
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Answer 1: it's in the books.
Answer 2: it's how these are specified in your policies and procedures.
Answwer 3: whatever was defined in the change plan.
Answer 4: whatever you think appropriate.
Responsible fo... | 278,524 |
A new study reveals that there may be a link between individuals predisposed to comedy, and those biologically predisposed to traits relating to psychosis, the Guardian reports. Researchers behind the study, in which 523 comedians from the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia were surveyed, reported that comedi... | 144,750 |
Congratulations, you are finally taking the next step and moving in together! But, before deciding where to put his dragon statues and her baby dolls (no, I don’t mean PJs), it is important to face one of the more mundane issues of life together: How do we pay the bills?
It makes sense to me that each partner keeps his... | 23,239 |
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Your tax-deductible gift to the Naval Institute Press underwrites worthy books that might not otherwise be published.
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The violent proceedings of the Prelatic party, and the dangerous nature of the principles avowed by them, began to arouse the kingdom to a sense of the danger to which all liberty was exposed; and the Parliament prepared to interpose, and to seek redress of grievances which were becoming intolerable. But the king met a... | 274,362 |
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In a formal Record of Decision (ROD) authorizing continuing operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory, federal managers have proposed only limited changes in the level of a few activities and a modest handful of new facilities projects.
The ROD, published in Friday’s Federal Regis... | 166,113 |
They say you can tell a lot about a man by looking at his shoes. It's a silly metaphor but one that's always stuck with me. When I meet someone, I look at their shoes. It's my way of sizing them up. And sometimes I wonder if they do the same to me.
The thing is, the metaphor works so well. As a child you're constantly ... | 91,835 |
A friend, Lori Riley Barry, emailed me a photo of her 13-year-old daughter, Kate, putting a horse named Tank through its paces during in a riding competition at Folly Farms in Simsbury.
I was pleased to receive it because not only am I fond of Lori and Kate, but since I was a tad, I’ve loved horses. A fan of Clarence E... | 178,503 |
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Join Jeremy Ford as he demonstrates how to capture a stunning sunset in pastel
I used Pastelmat white paper for this demonstration, but any Pastelmat coloured paper will do as long as it’s all thoroughly covered in pastel. I used Unison Colour Soft Pastels, and a bl... | 156,529 |
Southwell offers residents and visitors a range of parks and open spaces to appeal to all recreational activity preferences and needs.
War Memorial Recreation Ground
Formerly one of the Archbishop’s deer parks and in the shadow of the Minster, you will find the delightful War Memorial Recreation Ground. As well as bein... | 198,396 |
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With a return-to-prison rate of 30 percent and a cost of $20,000 per year per inmate, Florida prison officials believe anything that can be done to reduce recidivism will enhance public safety and save taxpayers a pile of money.
So there is a special sig... | 224,675 |
Agriculture for Impact presented the new Montpellier Panel report ‘No Ordinary Matter: Conserving, Restoring and Enhancing Africa’s Soils’ on Thursday 4th December 2014 at the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome- ahead of World Soil Day on the 5th of December.
In sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 65 pe... | 302,727 |
No one wants to get hurt while playing sports, but the reality is that injuries can and do happen. That’s why it’s important to wear the proper safety equipment when playing contact sports. Here are three important types of safety gear that you should consider wearing when playing football, rugby, hockey, or any other ... | 183,861 |
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|Abstract:||Business.Culture.Technology.People.History.These underlying concepts intricately form a pattern which distinguishes Tokyo, making it unlike any othe... | 49,458 |
"There is no quantum world,” said Danish physicist Neils Bohr. “It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.” [Emphases added] Despite this bothersome paradox, Bohr’s interpretation of quantum mechanics has been scientific orthodoxy for nearl... | 272,242 |
The old-car restoration hobby
is not only alive and doing very well, but it seems to be gaining in popularity. At least that's what our mail has illustrated of late.
As outlined in my column last month, we are seeking collector-car restoration stories and photographs from readers. So far, several dozen folks have respo... | 7,860 |
Bacuri butter is part of a growing family of Amazonian skin and hair butters. This vegetable butter will soften, nourish, and color your skin with a golden glow fast. You can change your beauty routine with Bacuri and thus, take a break from your usual products.
In this post, you’ll be reading about:
- The physical tra... | 147,677 |
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Please explain "Aaron," a poem by George Herbert.
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Despite a place in the Church and the responsibility that accompanies such a position within the Church where the speaker has "Holiness on the head", the speaker finds "profaneness in my head. " He is trusted with the souls of others yet has "darkne... | 162,551 |
Dracophyllum oceanicum E.A.Br. & N.Streiber APNI*
Synonyms: Dracophyllum sp. 'Jervis Bay' (Brown 97/80) APNI*
Description: Shrub 0.4–2(-2.5) m tall, glabrous, varying from low ± prostrate to robust and erect to spreading (in more sheltered positions), stem often branching extensively near base.
Leaves usually not persi... | 192,105 |
Colorectal diseases for physicians and surgeons
Oxford University Press, Feb 26, 1998 - Medical - 340 pages
This book is the first on colorectal diseases to be aimed at both surgeons and physicians. It presents an authoritative, up-to-date overview of these diseases, and the current management techniques. It is fully i... | 299,353 |
I was re-watching the PBS show “The Question of God” the other day and during the debate segment on the moral law one of the commentators brought up the example of the Nazis. He asked how a person who did not have an absolute divinely-inspired concept of morals could explain to Hitler or the Nazis that what they were d... | 261,461 |
OTTAWA — In the midst of a growing and sometimes angry debate over how the judicial system treats Canada’s Indigenous people, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday that his government would ask them in a series of formal meetings how to fundamentally change the laws to better protect their rights.
The ex... | 180,704 |
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
PS Engineering, Inc. Announces IntelliAudio True Dimensional Sound
Inventing, designing, and building innovative audio control systems has been PS Engineering, Inc's single purpose in its corporate life. As a result, the company is renowned as the originator of most of the advanced features now p... | 44,034 |
Decades after being shot down over Germany, WWII veteran brought home
Francis Wiemerslage, a native of suburban River Grove, was a 20-year-old ball turret gunner on a B-17G Flying Fortress bombing during a mission over Dresden on March 2, 1945, when the plane was shot down by enemy fighters.
Seventy-six years after bei... | 104,465 |
The dural venous sinuses are spaces between the endosteal and meningeal layers of the dura. They contain venous blood that originates for the most part from the brain or cranial cavity. The sinuses contain an endothelial lining that is continuous into the veins that are connected to them. They are no valves in the sinu... | 113,515 |
Have a dog or cat that likes to snooze with you? You're not alone. According to statistics, the majority of pet owners admit that their furry friend shares a bed with them. But is it healthy? New thinking on the matter ...
According to a recent survey, reported by WebMD, nearly half of all dogs and 62 percent of cats s... | 217,375 |
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Abodeely, M; DuBois, K N; Hehl, A B; Stefanic, S; Sajid, M; DeSouza, W; Attias, M; Engel, J C; Hsieh, I; Fetter, R D; McKerrow, J H (2009). A contiguous compartment functions as endoplasmic reticulum and endosome/lysosome in Giardia lamblia. Eukaryo... | 216,357 |
In the theory of management, organization has two principal aspects. One relates to the establishment of so-called lines of responsibility, drawn usually in the form of an organization chart that designates the executives of the business, from the president to the foreperson or department head, and specifies the functi... | 284,798 |
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling about 1 million spa
and pool drain covers due to worries that they may still pose entrapment
and drowning dangers to swimmers. The drain covers were supposed to meet
the new standards established by the federal government in 2008, which
are supposed to prevent a perso... | 270,180 |
| New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife|
Take notice that the NJ Department of Environmental Protection is proposing amendments to the existing Marine Fisheries Regulations at N.J.A.C. 7:25-18.16 which includes changes to the horseshoe crab harvest quota and season.
Amendments to the marine regulations are as fol... | 103,236 |
On May 29, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold an expert discussion on the outcome of the NATO summit in Brussels. The key issues of the discussion will be the prospects for the alliance development and Russia's role in NATO's vision of its future.
On May 25, the NATO summit will be held in Brussels. Its agenda includ... | 119,266 |
Little flowers on the earth are mostly considered commonplace by people, notwithstanding their overall perfection. What prevents people from grasping the creation miracles in these flowers is the familiarity brought about by seeing them everywhere and every day. Therefore, flowers that grow in a totally different place... | 10,788 |
I want to replace this, with an image:
<input type='file' name='image_file' />
dunno if this will work in anything other then IE, but
<input type=file id=upFile onchange=document.getElementById('fileTxt').value=this.value style=display:none>
<input type=text id=fileTxt size=25><img src=button.gif onclick=document.getEl... | 206,557 |
In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every chapter in the book. In the early chapters, there is more attention to the origins of foreign policy institutions and practices, including precedents for the executive agreement, and new discussions of U.S. relations with Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth c... | 152,367 |
The Aircoupe is the next to last implementation of Fred Weik's famous Ercoupe design of 1936, the first plane to use tricycle landing gear. The last model was built by Mooney from 1967 to 1970 and was called the M10 Cadet.
The Aircoupe is a 2+2 design, featuring a slide-back canopy and a distinctive twin-tail.
XVI is S... | 52,041 |
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the
National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. external link Learn more
Image pro... | 293,220 |
Rotein. The HSV-1 LAT locus incorporates several microRNAs, at the very least two of which have an effect on expression of a viral protein (54). Nonetheless, these microRNAs all map outdoors the initial 1.five kb of your key eight.3-kb LAT transcript, which can be the area of LAT that we previously demonstrated was bot... | 175,102 |
Car Lease Calculator
Calculate Lease Payments for Any Car Make/Model
Easy step-by-step calculator for monthly car lease payments, taxes, and total costs. Analyze and verify the numbers for any car lease deal. This calculator uses the industry-standard car lease payment formula.
To compare leasing versus buying, use our... | 214,368 |
701-D Mounted on 12 mm Steel Disk
For General Purpose and Metrology Microscopes
A precision pattern providing accurate calibration in the horizontal plane for very high resolution, nanometer-scale measurements.
Period: 70 nm pitch, one-dimensional array. Refer to calibration certificate for actual pitch.
Surface: Silic... | 57,358 |
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The Group are known for its work on certain species and these are subject to colour ring schemes. The species are Shelduck with black lettering on a yellow background, Black-tailed Godwits with site rings red-yellow-red and Wigeon with black letters on lime green.
Hopefully visitors to the Blog... | 68,769 |
|Creator:||Pedder, James, 1775-1859 Warner, Benjamin, 1786-1821, publisher Bowman, A., printer|
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"A. Bowman, printer"--p. 48.
"The following little books are just published and for sale by... | 68,184 |
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Pagan Deism: Three Views
by Margarian Bridger and Stephen Hergest
Most discussions of the variety of Wiccan beliefs start by assuming that there are two basic positions: either one believes literally in personal, named deities ('deist', in the common parlance), or one does not ('non-... | 127,214 |
Captained by experienced shutterbugs David and Karla Banks, Banks Photography imbues students with tricks of the sharpshooting trade. Hands-on classes taught by the photographers prep apprentices for real-life portrait sessions or encounters with natural wonders such as wildlife or flowers. The Banks also apply their e... | 263,796 |
On the Menu: Desperately craving a healthy diet
There is no magic bullet, but finding a way to enjoy the foods you like in reasonable amounts will help
Studies suggest that avoiding certain foods altogether often makes them irresistible. Photograph: Getty Images
Most of us know what it’s like to have a hankering or a l... | 166,075 |
- Mariel Hemingway explores her family's troubled history in "Running from Crazy"
- The documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
- Hemingway is the granddaughter of author Ernest Hemingway
- In the last four years she feels she's overcome depression
Every family, even famous ones, have secrets. The Hemingway... | 163,914 |
Within Academic Diversity Initiatives and Student Engagement, the Longhorn Center for School Partnerships (LCSP) is a portfolio of programs that provide college readiness services for underrepresented students that include both academic and college awareness initiatives.
The rigorous statewide Pre-College Academic Read... | 270,799 |
If there was any doubt that President Barack Obama was a southpaw, both on the mound and in his political philosophy, those doubts were laid to rest on Opening Day in the nation's capital.
The Washington Nationals hosted the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday, and President Obama was called on to throw out the first pitch... | 299,791 |
The harder single mums work, the better their health, according to new research out of the University of Wollongong.
Study co-author Laura Robinson said the study showed that single working mothers had poorer physical and mental health than partnered mums.
However, she said, while the physical health of partnered mothe... | 100,124 |
Aug. 9 in the USA... the 9th of Av is almost here.
The 9th of Av (Tisha B'Av) is a traditional Jewish Day of Mourning -- a day on which to pray that evil and destruction not come with the breaking of dawn. Why?
Look at the informative article we published last year by Dona Gracia Serrano Fenn of
Sephardim Hope Internat... | 187,242 |
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Academic probation: Probation is the status of a student who is not progressing satisfactorily toward his or her... | 84,062 |
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2014 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2014 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Omair Majid discovered that an unsigned Web Start application or
applet could determine the path to the cache directory used to store
do... | 159,661 |
Introduction to the ICONIX Process of Software Modeling
The ICONIX process sits somewhere in between the very large Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the very small eXtreme programming approach (XP). The ICONIX process is use case driven, like the RUP, but without a lot of the overhead that the RUP brings to the table... | 109,228 |
The development of safety leadership is both horizontal and vertical—horizontal, in the sense that it must be developed across senior teams and stakeholders in order to focus and drive safety execution; and vertical, because leaders need to be developed and deployed at all levels in order to execute the organization's ... | 294,955 |
Interior Designers and Architects have SketchUp, product designers and builders now can use AutoDesk's 123D. It is based on AutoDesk's famous Inventor application. However instead of serving the needs for engineers and designers alike, 123D is cut down tool-set wise to what builders and modelers only need. This means w... | 195,501 |
I’ve written before about the problems involved in legislating against cyberbullying. I focused on the impossible issue of reaching a definition. Rape, assault, harassment: these are crimes with established parameters. All of them could also be called “bullying.” They could also be described as “mean,” and I suppose we... | 128,818 |
The Collection on Philip K. Dick consists of press clippings, publications, short stories and manuscripts regarding Philip K. Dick, an American novelist who has published almost entirely in the science fiction genre. His works have been published in numerous literary magazines, such as Galaxy, Amazing Stories, and Fant... | 73,639 |
In an industry which traditionally relies heavily on apprenticeship jobsite instruction is critical. The article makes heavy use of the work done by David Kolb and Roger Fry who created the Experiential Learning Cycle. This model is applied to coaching an apprentice carpenter performing a new task without interfering w... | 189,491 |
The University of Northern Colorado is committed to implementing Quality Matters standards for the design of online courses and we are systematically building and evaluating our courses based on these rigorous, research-based standards. UNC recognizes that Quality Matters standards promote learner engagement and provid... | 16,092 |
QuickBooks is a multifaceted business and financial management suite offering tools for accounting, inventory, payroll, tax filing, invoicing, bank account tracking and reconciliation, expense management, budgeting, payment processing, and accounts receivable and accounts payable management. It is intuitively designed ... | 214,150 |
South Carolina Future Makers
As the only statewide organization committed exclusively to the interests of South Carolina’s manufacturing community, the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance is keenly aware that the key to future economic development and to the prosperity of our citizens will be developing a world-class... | 160,559 |
Will Pew Muslim birth rate study finally silence the “Eurabia” claim?
One of the most wrong-headed arguments in the debate about Muslims in Europe is the shrill “Eurabia” claim that high birth rates and immigration will make Muslims the majority on the continent within a few decades. Based on sleight-of-hand statistics... | 66,594 |
- Ethernet does not work on my board. But everything is fine when I use the ethernet interface in U-Boot (for example by performing a TFTP download). This is a bug in U-Boot, right?
- No. It's a bug in the Linux ethernet driver.
In some cases the Linux driver fails to set the MAC address. That's a buggy driver then - L... | 69,654 |
Writing in the March 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, scientists from the University of Sheffield in England describe impressive mathematical abilities in three middle-aged men who had suffered severe damage to the language centers of their brains. "There had been case studies of aphasics who coul... | 82,545 |
Boeing executives expressed what they consider a “reasonable expectation” that the 787 Dreamliner would return to service in a matter of a few weeks at a briefing last Friday in Tokyo during which they detailed the company’s plan for certifying a solution to the “issues” surrounding the airplane’s lithium-ion batteries... | 159,451 |
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Torture at US Supermax Prisons
In a letter pressing Russia not to grant asylum to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Attorney General Eric Holder made the highly disingenuous promise that Snowden will not be tortured if he is returned to the United States.
"Why Holder’s Pledge That Snowde... | 68,336 |
Independent creation -- defendant's creation of its work without copying plaintiff's -- hearkens back at least to the English case of Roworth v. Wilkes, 1 Campbell 94, 98 (1807) and is a cornerstone of copyright law, exonerating the independent creator from all liability. Without the defense, those who didn't copy woul... | 107,495 |
Las Vegas, New Mexico Council Votes to Pass the Community Bill of Rights Banning Corporations from Fracking for Shale Gas
“Along with the City of Pittsburgh, this is how we change federal law, folks. It starts at the bottom. We do this, and other cities do it. It starts a ball rolling that hopefully will not stop. We c... | 38,427 |
More than 65 million older Americans and those with disabilities rely on Medicare for health care, but as the population rapidly ages, the program faces increasingly urgent financial challenges. Indeed, expenditures in recent years have consistently outpaced dedicated revenue streams. With Medicare’s Hospital Insurance... | 143,555 |
Voters in California voted against Proposition 37, the initiative that would have mandated genetically engineered foods be labeled, on Tuesday. The final results on the ballot measure were 53.1 percent opposed to the measure and 46.9 percent in favor.
California was the first state to allow voters, instead of lawmakers... | 94,161 |
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