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Fiction has explored this issue quite a bit. Here is a list of ten novels where animals have been 'uplifted' for reference: 10 Stories About "Uplifted" Animals Who Gain Human Intelligence. |
Birds, octopuses and cetaceans have all recently been found to be smarter than we initially thought, so these are very important questions. |
Humanimal said... |
While I greatly enjoy a good "what if?" scenario, to speculate about the morality of boosting animal intelligence is a mere distraction when we consider how terribly most domesticated animals are currently treated. This issue will only be of potential relevance once we've stopped exploiting animals by the tens of billi... |
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Moip API - How To |
Moip is a multi-channel payment platform designed for eCommerce, direct sales, and marketplace integrations. Moip offers over 15 payment methods, fraud protection, subscriptions, and POS tools. The API follows a REST architecture, and employs OAuth 2.0 for authentication. JSON is the preferred media type. Moip is a Bra... |
Why NOT to Conduct an Employee Engagement Survey |
With all of the fervor that organizations have around employee engagement surveys, how many of them ever stop to take a deep, serious look at why they’re doing them? Even more to the point, why should organizations consider NOT doing them? |
Here’s one good reason. |
Don’t even think about conducting an engagement survey unless you plan to do something substantive and meaningful with the information your employees have given you. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize it’s usually counter-productive to ask someone their opinion if you don’t have a sincere interest in respond... |
Employees want to know you’re genuinely interested in their opinions and that you are not simply conducting a survey so the company can give the appearance that “they care.” If people feel you’ve falsely raised their hopes and wasted their time in asking for their opinion without a plan of action from what you learn, t... |
Organizations can take several steps throughout the survey process to develop confidence and trust with employees. These steps are especially important if people feel that previous surveys have done little to improve the work environment. |
Before the survey: |
Explain the survey’s purpose and expectations |
Describe how participation will benefit both the employee and the organization |
Identify the survey provider you are working with, and outline the methods and process they will follow to protect the employee’s identity |
Introduce the survey with timeframes for what will happen and when |
Develop a plan for how you will evaluate results and consider corrective actions |
After the survey: |
Communicate survey findings while the survey is still fresh in the employee’s mind |
Review results in structured [...] |
By |October 14th, 2015|Employee Engagement, Employee Surveys, Engagement Surveys, Surveys|Comments Off on Why NOT to Conduct an Employee Engagement Survey| |
Keys to Effective Employee Engagement Surveys |
Les Landes’s Webtalkradio show on Employee Engagement: The Heart of Business Success features this interview. Employee engagement surveys come in all shapes and sizes, and they are definitely not all created equal. Creating an effective survey that produces meaningful, actionable data is a true science. According to Bo... |
Click to listen |
By |October 7th, 2013|Employee Surveys, Engagement Surveys, Surveys|Comments Off on Keys to Effective Employee Engagement Surveys| |
Monday, February 16, 2009 |
An Engineer's Job Description According to Daniel... |
When working with Sworn Enemy, if I wanted to give the band dudes a hard time (bust their ballzz as New York dudes say)... I would make them Wikipedia, or as Lorenzo calls it "winky-pinky" AUDIO ENGINEER and have them read the definition aloud to point out how I go above and beyond the description of the job to ensure ... |
So, in a guitar tuning moment, I "winky-pinkied" Sworn Enemy to find a hilarious, awkward picture of them... although the definition had us cracking up because it labeled them as a thrash/metalcore band from New York that was managed by Tim Lambesis from As I Lay Dying (in case you don't know-Tim doesn't manage them, h... |
(And in case you don't want to try the link here's the picture from Wikipedia): |
1. Hi Tim, I just wanted to say congratulations on being a father soon! Must be so exciting :) |
2. update update UPDATE!! just wanted to say that. |
Do You Really Want To Be An Author? |
A few days ago, after returning from GalaxyFest, I posted on my private Facebook page on this topic. I have a lot of friends who talk about being an author. I meet a lot of people, who talk about being an author. I know a lot of people who are authors. They all eventually come back to this question, asking it or answer... |
Why this question? Because the world is changing. Peek back at my last post Helping Out Your Favorite Authors and you will start to get an idea why. Things aren’t the way they used to be. But then, they never really were. For the most of history, writers didn’t make very much money. It has only been in recent years tha... |
Most authors make a very modest wage. And with the new trends in publishing, that is dropping very quickly. But you can find this information anywhere, just dig a little past how much John Grisham made last year, and try your favorite, lesser known authors. You might be surprised and wonder why they bother. |
And that brings me back to my original post on Facebook. I will re-post it here, with names removed so they don’t have to admit they know me… (I replaced names with letters randomly, they don’t stand for anything) |
Over the last week, three separate times I have been pulled into conversations about why anyone would want to be an author. There’s no joy in the solitary work, there’s no money to be made for anyone but the most successful, the whole industry is falling apart because of e-books and self-publishing ‘hacks’, etc… |
Well. I guess that is all true. And honestly I don’t expect to make any money at it. In fact, by rough, very unscientific calculations, writing has cost me 1,000% more money than I have earned (I believe this to be a fairly accurate estimate, honestly). So why do I keep at it? |
This last week alone, and admittedly most weeks are not like this, I got to see X’s eyes light up, at seeing me, at her book release. That made me feel very special. I just got tagged by Y on Facebook, and she called me ‘awesome’. Seriously -me! *fanboy giggle*. Z went out of her way to tell me it was good to see me ag... |
I could go on for at least another paragraph. For just this week alone. So why am I an author? Well, its obviously not the money. On the surface, it looks kind of like I’m a name dropper, doesn’t it? Like I’m an attention hound? A publicity seeker? Two things I’d like to note here. |
1) This is my personal friends list here. If you are reading this, I really do know you, and like you already. And I hope the reverse is true. I’m not trying for brownie points and I seriously doubt that I could impress (or unimpress as the case may be) you any more than I already have. (Ok, that was true until I re-po... |
2)These people I have mentioned are but a small sampling of the group of people I have met who are genuinely friendly, strange, weird, unusual, and interesting. I am never bored around them, I never feel left out around them, and I rarely feel judged by them. Even then, that is mostly in my own head, or a response to s... |
So, why do I keep writing if there is no money in it? Well, I like to do it, but more importantly, it has led me to a place where I am accepted and surrounded by people I love and am in awe of. I get taught new ways of looking at things, and new things I had never even thought of, on a regular basis. And I make friends... |
You know, besides money, that is. |
• Blog posts |
by David Gate |
When working with 3rd parties, especially in the construction and infrastructure industries passing over an Inventor model is not particularly useful. |
You may well get requests for BIM information, or BIM compliant models. |
If you have determined that Navisworks is the file format, maybe it’s the tool that is being used at the receiving end or a high BIM level of detail is being requested. |
The below steps should help you create and send the Navisworks file format. |
First Open up Navisworks, depending on your suite you may have Navisworks Simulate or Navisworks Manage, for these purposes the difference between the products doesn’t matter. |
The differences can be seen here. |
Once you have Navisworks open you need to place in your Inventor model. To do this Append in your Inventor assembly. |
I would recommend maybe doing some simplification of your assembly first to help remove IP (such as internal components) |
Once the file has been appended you may notice that the assembly is in the wrong orientation or position. Navisworks will match your Inventor’s origins to its own origins so if you assembled upside down or with the origin plane not on the bottom of the model you will need to tweak it. You could either do that in yo... |
To do it in Navisworks first select your whole model. Then on the “Item Tools” ribbon you can transform it. You can do it by eye or even better expand the Transform panel to reveal explicit transformations. |
This would also be were you could move your model so that it was position in relation to the main Navisworks project. Eg a specific location on building site. You may have already come across the fact that Inventor only works with a local coordinate system and you cannot put in any OS or global coordinates, Naviswo... |
Once you have the model in the correct position then all we need to do is save this as a native Navisworks file to then send off. |
When doing the save make sure you save as a NWD file format and pick the correct release, in case your receiver is using an older version of Navisworks. |
If you need to push back on the file type choice then the following will help explain. |
The NWD format is the only all-encompassing single file format. If they ask for an NWF then that would also require you to send all your Inventor IAM and IPT files, not useful. |
06, 03 – 31,03 2009 |
Their work based on a course of events that occur in 1990 |
"Lieutenant Murat Şeref Father had taken into custody in Haydar paşa Hospital then discharged after his critical telegraph to term president Turgut Özal which says “ i couldn’t get use to see that you are the president” on february 17th 1990. The reason of discharce was “psychological disorder”. |
The course of events was like this: |
The term government was established by political party “ANAP”. Their vote rate was only %21 on 1989 local elections, so that’s why their government was controversial. Opposition parties declared that ANAP can’t choose the president even if they were majority in the parliament. So the opposition parties wanted an early ... |
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Dan Ohtan |
Program-Specific Research Center Associate Professor / PI |
Research Interest |
neuroscience, chemical biology |
What I like about my science |
Seeing actions in the brain with color. |
Researcher Q & A |
Where are you from? |
Why did you become a researcher? |
I was interested in how the human body and living organisms work. |
What is your favorite experiment, theory, device, reagent, lab equipment? Why do you like it? |
Imaging (Experiment), stochastic gene expression (theory), microscope (device), glass flask (equipment) |
I like to paint memories with my favorite colors. |
What is your hobby? |
Sci-fi novels by Yasushi Inoue, diving, Mission Impossible, my country |
With a boxing champion, Gushiken-san. |
Experience-driven activity-dependent changes in gene expression continuously modify the neural circuitry in our brain so we can grow, learn, and remember. |
To Carry and To Care: A Review of The Carrying By Ada Limón |
Milkweed Editions. 95 Pages. ISBN 978-1-57131-512-0 |
By Sarah LaFleur |
Ada Limón’s newest collection of poems, The Carrying, is at once a personal account and universal exploration of what it means to be human: to hurt, want, mourn, and discover life, hopeful and still bent toward the sun, in the moments in between. Limón tackles topics as heavy as death and infertility while describing m... |
Some days there is a violent sister inside of me, and a red ladder / that wants to go elsewhere. |
Limón’s poems possess a grounded quality through her descriptions of the daily, insignificant moments, but they also attain a higher wisdom in her rich contemplations of the mundane. The poems reflect snapshots of Limón’s life, such as a car drive, conversation with her partner, or observation of nature. Written with c... |
“… Passport and boots that slip on and off, |
a sleepy stream through the radiation |
machine. A passive pat-down of my outline |
and I’m heading somewhere else before |
the world has even woken up. I’ve got shit |
to do and I need to lose a little weight before |
I turn older. There’s the email scan of the bank |
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