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majors that we used to. Therefore, liberal arts have among the lowest pay in the university, in a culture that equates material compensation with worth.
The question becomes, imho: how do we make English Literature valuable to students who only take World Literatures because they “have to” in order to get their degree... | 2.066383 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
’t the first time I’ve asked a question like this, but it’s the first time I’ve asked it outright: Is this even a good idea?
We pretty much agree that wine is OK instead of blood. We concede that (some) sex can be symbolic. We recognize the impracticality of many traditional tools and find that a system of “corresponde... | 2.493366 | 986 | 985 |
The gray wolf was extirpated from the western United States during the 1900s, primarily due to loss of habitat and conflicts with people. In 1884, the first statewide bounty law was passed in Montana. That first year, 5,450 wolf hides were presented for payment. All but three Montana counties reported a bounty payment ... | 1.244927 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
-state area to resolve wolf-livestock conflicts and 166 wolves have been killed in Montana.
Many people were also concerned about big game populations and hunting opportunity as a result of wolf recovery. Wolves do have the potential to impact populations of deer, elk, and moose. How much of an impact varies in space a... | 1.793107 | 1,006 | 1,004 |
Editorial links are the most powerful type of links given that it signals Google that the brand being linked to is a trusted resource/reference (either it is targeting the homepage of the site or its inner pages/contents).
There are three primary elements that can intensify your chances of getting in-content links for ... | 2.347369 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to become their regular content contributors. Understand how your primary competitors (prospected from search results) and secondary competitors (other links in your target resource pages) acquired their current editorial links. They may have used any of these tactics: moving man method , press pitching or social link... | 2.354422 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Since the 1980s, economists and psychologists have been aware of a "parental happiness gap." Basically, the running theory has been that parents are a less happy bunch than their non-parenting peers. This makes some sense: After all, parents have a lot on their plates—changing diapers, getting their kids into the right... | 1.5521 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Climate Change Impacts Revealed: Disease in Peru
By Barbara J. Fraser
CARAZ, Peru -- Seventeen years ago, Liliana Salvador Ibáñez's year-old son came down with a high fever, then broke out with bleeding lesions on his legs. Four years later, his brother came down with the same illness, and a few years later a young nie... | 1.476254 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
track what is happening to them."
In urban shantytowns, people often lack running water or sewer service, and the stress of poverty and unemployment can lead to alcoholism, domestic violence and mental illness, Corvalán said. Those who try their luck in the United States may unwittingly introduce tropical diseases the... | 1.613423 | 967 | 965 |
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Title: Measuring the risk of sustaining injury in sport a novel approach to aid the re-design of personal protective equipment Authors: Velani, Nikunj Wilson, Ollie Halkon, Ben J. Harland, Andy R. Keywords: Risk Personal prot... | 1.131363 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Business Intelligence for Law Firms
ISBN13: 9781908640550
Published: January 2015
Publisher: Ark Group
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Despatched in 4 to 6 days.
Number of Pages: 99
Business intelligence (BI) was long ago adopted into mainstream business practices, but it has only recently begun to be inco... | 1.685955 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
If you’ve ever seen the wavering air above a hot road, or the heat shimmer over a hot kettle you’re already half-way to making a Schlieren image.
In physics you very rarely ever directly measure the thing you are interested in. To measure the spacing between atoms in a crystal structure we don’t use a ruler to determin... | 1.688595 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
ERIC Number:ED435120 Record Type:RIE Publication Date:1999 Pages:43 Abstractor:N/A Reference Count:N/A ISBN:ISBN-1-882197-49-6 ISSN:N/A
Internalizing Strengths: An Overlooked Way of Overcoming Weaknesses in Managers.
Kaplan, Robert E.
This report describes a process of development in which managers move beyond addressi... | 1.844054 | 950 | 948 |
At a CERN seminar today, CMS presented results for the search for new physics in the decay of B
s and B 0 mesons to two muons, taking into account all of the 4.9 fb −1 of data collected in 2011. The results — upper limits of 7.7 x 10 −9 (B s) and 1.8 x 10 −9 (B 0) at 95% confidence level [1] — are a significant improve... | 1.203756 | 1,000 | 997 |
By Ophira Edut
For years, I dreaded the arrival of spring magazines, knowing they’d be filled with pages of flirty, colorful and teeny bikinis fitted to fat-free model bodies. I was a girl with cellulite, Beyonce thighs (when she’s eating her favorite southern dishes, that is) and a tum that more than coquettishly peep... | 1.966973 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Being prepared with CPR could help save your dog’s life.
By Audrey Pavia
Scenario: Your dog is sick or injured. What do you do? The first thought for most dog owners is to rush him to a veterinarian. But steps you take before you get to the animal hospital can mean the difference between life and death.
April is Pet Fi... | 1.371439 | 975 | 973 |
. UPDATE:the campaign has been extended to June 20. See the press release below
The concept of using roads as solar cells seems like a great idea until you start considering all of the damage that streets regularly have to handle. From freezing water to overloaded vehicles, the nation's highways take a lot of punishmen... | 1.532606 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
Stock markets bounced back overnight after the US Federal Reserve released the minutes of its last monthly meeting which appeared to convince investors that interest rates would not be going up any time soon. Tech stocks, which have taken quite a hit recently, also rallied last night.
Mark Murnane, Head of Trading with... | 2.046201 | 1,002 | 1,000 |
The news: If you work at a company for a certain number of years, it's not uncommon for to be offered tuition reimbursement as an employment benefit. Deals like that often come with strings attached, but not at Starbucks.
On Monday, the company announced a partnership with Arizona State University that will provide the... | 1.878971 | 949 | 947 |
By David Spark
“Do more with less” has become the IT department’s least appreciated mantra. Demands on IT are exploding, but spending on IT don’t follow suit. All companies have budgets and often the IT department, which is seen as a cost center (not rightfully), is given the charge to cut back.
The stress to cut costs... | 2.132951 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
in this area will increase your risk, lower your speed to market with change, and cost you tens if not hundreds of thousands to repair, and remember it takes years to build that team up again.”
6: Save money on outsourcing, lose it to increased communications.
“Outsourcing projects to cut costs, especially to teams yo... | 2.177662 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
tools.”
“A company I worked with at one point made the decision to cancel a planned ERP system upgrade in order to save $100,000 in one-time costs,” said Pine Hill Group’s Podowitz. “In doing so, they lost new functionality that would have automated a number of manual processes that would have allowed the company to s... | 2.000333 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
Travel, in of itself, won’t change your life. You can’t simply pack your bags, fly away to an exotic location and expect to come back a changed person. It doesn’t work like that. Too often, have I come across backpackers and tourists, racing around from one landmark to another. Trying to squeeze as much as they possibl... | 1.439071 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
5 star hotels, yet I still continue to find myself checking into the odd guest house or hostel. I love the community atmosphere. I love hanging out in the common room. I’ve met so many incredible people that I still call friends.
Many hostels have private as well as shared rooms. This means, that even if you’re after a... | 1.763836 | 1,010 | 1,008 |
Goodbye, Kale! Hello…Cauliflower?
Kale’s reign as the “it” vegetable may finally be coming to an end, and its currently-trending replacement may surprise you. Foodies in the know predict that cauliflower will be the next “hot veggie”, so be prepared to see a whole lot of those white, fluffy crowns in the coming months.... | 1.489888 | 1,011 | 1,009 |
Wetlands cover about six percent of the Earth's land surface. They come in all shapes and sizes, from inconspicuous sinkholes to vast expanses covering hundreds of square kilometers. They're found on every continent, save for Antarctica, and in climates that range from tropical to arctic. Although wetlands are a widesp... | 1.329489 | 1,020 | 1,017 |
Admission Paper Editing
Admission paper editing as name suggest refers to editing in the documents of admission. Admission means an allowance or a certificate to enter a particular restricted area. Admission paper refers to the documents used in the process of verifying the complete details of the students. These paper... | 2.000298 | 1,004 | 1,002 |
Recycling Rain Using Rain Water Harvesting Techniques
There seem to be two schools of thought on rain water. One is that it is our enemy and needs to be removed from our property as quickly as possible.
The second is that water is our friend, and we need to capture it and let it sink back into the soil. Clearly, moving... | 1.439205 | 998 | 995 |
When something isn’t working in your business, you can’t tweak it indefinitely (even though you have lots of ways to troubleshoot those not-so-perfect outcomes). At some point, you may need to call it quits; some experiments just won’t work no matter how many changes you make.
The difficulty is knowing when you’re faci... | 1.494247 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Washington, Feb 12 (ANI): A new study has confirmed that dwarf dinosaurs existed on an island in Transylvania, as well as explained how dinosaurs shrank during the Late Cretaceous at the Neverland-like place where they never really grew up.
Earlier, Hungarian baron Franz Nopcsa claimed that his sister in 1895 found bon... | 1.496316 | 985 | 983 |
No one who has had even a passing exposure to brain injury can think of neurology as a field in which all questions are answerable. The "prognosis" is arrived at only clinically, after the fact, by observation of what happens. Vegetative patients whose brain injury was traumatic (a fall, an accident, an external mechan... | 1.890975 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Dubai Land Department (DLD) has told property brokers to ensure that any landlords who approach them with properties available for sale or rent actually own them.
The department's real estate licensing arm said in a circular that it now requires all of its registered brokers to "verify real estate ownership data" b... | 1.673115 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Language Learning & Technology Vol. 9, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 24-46
COMMUNICATION TOPICS AND STRATEGIES IN E-MAIL CONSULTATION: COMPARISON BETWEEN AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Paginated PDF version
Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas American University
ABSTRACT
On today's "wired" college campuses, students avail t... | 1.386944 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
002), it has been claimed that new technology also poses problems for
nativespeakers and leaves them uncertain about which language functions can appropriately be accomplished via e-mail, and how these functions should be encoded in an e-mail message (Baron, 2002, in press; Herring, 2002). Thus, crafting appropriate e-... | 1.441905 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
that of Martin, Myers, and Mottet (1999). The researchers identified 24 reasons for why students communicate with their professors, which they grouped into five main communication categories:
relationship-- to build a relationship with the professor; functional reasons-- to get information/advice about course material... | 1.72869 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Condon and Cech (1996a) indicates that users adapt to the e-mail medium and its interactional limitations, such as message lags, through "[discourse] management strategies that pack more information into fewer utterances" (para. 2). However, such research has not yet examined if and what type of differences exist betw... | 1.68155 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, asking for feedback before handing in a final draft; in contrast, international students tended to use e-mail largely as a means to submit the final draft, but not to solicit instructor input along the way. Also, American students were found to negotiate project topics in their e-mails more frequently and effectively... | 1.562884 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
communication strategies used to realize these. Communication topics were assigned to students' e-mail messages based on general communicative goals and reflected categories adapted from Payne (1997), Collins (1998), Martin, Myers, and Mottet (1999), and Bloch (2002). Each communication topic subcategory was examined ... | 1.779577 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
get your response on this.
I'll check my e-mail this week for your response.
Examples of other requests are,
If it is somehow possible, I would like to turn in a student writing sample to you this Friday.
I'd appreciate some feedback on my choices [of textbooks when I come to see you].
The
reportingstrategy was realiz... | 1.780149 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
-mail messages emphasizes the perceived importance by both groups of establishing and maintaining a good relationship with the professor in this physically as well as temporally removed interaction. This suggests that despite the absence of visual clues, and despite the physical and temporal remoteness, the students' u... | 1.708532 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the holiday break (or during the break -- if that is more convenient for you.
Substantive Communication
As Figure 4 demonstrates, substantive communication in the students' e-mails was broken down into addressing the following purposes: clarification of assignments, format/organization issues, content/development of v... | 1.696529 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of small talk. However, the fact that nearly every other message from both groups contained phatic communication points to the fact that students apparently strive to build a rapport dimension into a medium that is devoid of visual and paralinguistic clues. It is possible that in the absence of such clues, relational ... | 1.792689 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to a request for a meeting. In contrast, international students' messages show twice as many explicit requests for response to scheduling concerns than they reported on their work (Figure 7).
Figure 7. Communication strategies within scheduling topic
The difference between the two groups was also qualitative: When rep... | 1.818089 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
more response options, demonstrating in part their adaptation to the limitations of the medium, while international students provide more vague and general statements instead of more elaborate proposals with feedback points.
The same cultural assumptions that are at work in face-to-face advising sessions extend appare... | 1.772613 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
whether they are American or international, know explicitly for what purposes they consider e-mail from students appropriate; for example, while some professors invite students to submit drafts of work for in-progress feedback, other professors might not consider this acceptable.
One limitation of the present study is... | 1.78399 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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Bardovi-Harlig, K., & Hartford, B. (1993a). The language of co-membership.
Research on Language and Social I... | 1.018109 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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Danet, B. (2002, June).
The language of e-mail.Lecture given at the European Union Summer School, Univers... | 1.149874 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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The handbook of discourse analysis(pp. 612-634). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Kelly, L., Duran, R. L., & Zolten, J. J. (2001). The effect of reticence on college students' use of electronic mail to communicate wi... | 1.206265 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Wholly and exclusively: duality of, or non-trade, purpose: remuneration, etc: premium to secure directors’ pension
S34 Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005, S54 Corporation Tax Act 2009
Money laid out by directors for their own benefit not for the purposes of the company’s trade
The expenditure incurred by a ... | 1.570855 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Container Deposit Scheme
On 8 May 2016, the Premier
of NSW, the Hon Mike Baird MP, and the Minister for the Environment, the Hon
Mark Speakman MP, announced that NSW will have a 10 cent refund Container
Deposit Scheme to be launched across NSW from July 2017. This will be the State’s
largest ever litter-reduction initi... | 1.401219 | 1,009 | 1,006 |
Loughborough University
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Title: Sport mega-events and ‘terrorism’: a critical analysis Authors: Giulianotti, Richard Klauser, Francisco Keywords: Mega-events Security Terrorism Sp... | 1.20798 | 999 | 996 |
As you may or may not know my Internet Service Provider is Internode. This is an Adelaide run; slick internet provider that comes highly recommended for you Australian readers. I have always received great service with a no-fuss attitude. In addition to that they offer a reliable service at an affordable cost.
So witho... | 1.837258 | 949 | 947 |
When Erik Shaw looks over the pretty green of Babson’s baseball field, he thinks about his youth and the wonderful times he spent playing the game. He was a pitcher in high school. “It brings me back to my glory days,” says the grounds supervisor, who manages the maintenance of the Norman and Terry Govoni Field, named ... | 1.678138 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
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engineering investigations to import from more distant unappropriated water sources (Saskatchewan-Nelson Basin Board, 1972). These issues have become especially controversial in southern Alberta where water shortages are common and competition is increasing. Fortunately, reforms are beginning. Amendments to Alberta's
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and diversions normally go together: water is stored behind a dam, then withdrawn from its natural course for transfer elsewhere in the same or to another drainage basin. This chapter focusses on interbasin diversions, however, and leaves it to the following chapter to discuss impacts of dams and their reservoirs.
For... | 1.839048 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
imat, the diversion may have reduced the flood threat slightly in the lower Fraser basin, but at the expense of inundating a circular chain of lakes popular with canoeists in Tweedsmuir Park. The upper Nechako River suffered almost 100% loss of flow during the construction of Kenney Dam and filling of its reservoir. Af... | 1.795855 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
divert water from the Missouri into the north-flowing Red River (Kellow and Williamson, 2001). This issue is most threatening in cases of overcoming natural barriers that have existed for thousands of years, such as continental drainage divides (as in the Garrison example) or oceans separating continents. Eurasian sou... | 1.81601 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
2002), the federal and provincial governments now have laws, regulations or policy in place to prohibit bulk removal of freshwater, and they typically apply to watershed areas within their jurisdictions. Existing interbasin diversions, however, are considered to be "grandfathered" and not subject to reversal.
Some hav... | 1.942197 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Edmonton, Alberta.
Canadian Dam Association. 2003. Dams in Canada (CD). Edmonton.
Day, J.C. and F. Quinn. 1992. Water diversion and export: learning from Canadian experiences. Department of Geography Publication Series No. 36, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 1984. Toward a fish ... | 1.367389 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Enbridge and BC: Money Is Not The Issue
July 30, 2012. Latest Enbridge Oil Spill Proves Once Again the Risks of the Northern Gateway Pipeline Are Too Great for the Project to Be Approved
COAST SALISH TERRITORIES/VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - In the wake of a large new Enbridge Pipeline oil spill that spilled 190,000 li... | 1.519457 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Farm-land areas along streams and waterways can be enrolled
WORTHINGTON -- Over the past five weeks, I have been fortunate enough to have spent a fair amount of time wandering around in the pheasant country in southwest Minnesota and a few other locals. What I have seen is a subtle change from the scenery of 10 years a... | 1.79337 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
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It was the decision that seemed to snap voters' faith in Kevin Rudd. Perhaps a final straw. Straight after the government announced it was deferring an emissions trading scheme until 2013, graphs of the Prime Minister's satisfaction rating looked like a rock falling off a cliff. Labor's primary vote tumbled after it.
L... | 1.859884 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Role of Neck Dissection Following Definitive Chemoradiation The Role of Neck Dissection Following Definitive Chemoradiation ABSTRACT: The presence of regional nodal metastases represents a significant adverse prognostic factor for patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Early-stage head and neck... | 1.269593 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
for N2 (n = 103) and 45% for N3 (n = 699).[12] However, in the same series, the incidence of isolated neck failure was only 7%. One can conclude from these reports that planned neck dissection contributes to neck control in unselected N2 and N3 patients treated with radiation or chemoradiation, but its exact role rema... | 1.257669 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
induction chemotherapy, and 17 subsequently received radiation therapy alone. The neck remained controlled after irradiation in 16 (94%) of the 17 patients who did not undergo a neck dissection. Due to the high neck control rate in these patients, the authors recommended that patients with a complete response after ch... | 1.545196 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
April 9, 2012 ‘Nanobubbles’ Plus Chemotherapy Equals Single-Cell Cancer Targeting Rice teams with MD Anderson, Baylor College of Medicine to explore drug and gene delivery
Using light-harvesting nanoparticles to convert laser energy into “plasmonic nanobubbles,” researchers at Rice University, the University of Texas M... | 0.725875 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Fill’er Up!
Imagine plugging in your car overnight for a charge that would allow you to drive for about 300 miles before needing to be charged again and costing you the electrical equivalent to 60 cents a gallon of gasoline. Imagine no exhaust or emissions since the car would have no need for an internal combustion eng... | 1.85625 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the gas-electric hybrids, but he cannot hide his profound disappointment by demonstrating how the improvements of battery technology today would make the electric car run for over 300 miles on a single charge. As Ed Begley, Jr. says while giving the EV1 its eulogy, “cars that can go for 300 miles a charge are not for ... | 2.034564 | 1,020 | 1,017 |
A couple of recent news articles have me scratching my head. And if I don't get them, then I'm guessing that folks who aren't astronomers will be even more confused. By themselves the press releases aren't too bad, but taken together they contradict each other.
Sit tight. This'll take a minute.
The Universe is expandin... | 1.22532 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Slowing sales in Japan — which Aflac management expected would occur — did not stop the company from posting a slight increase in its operating profit in the second quarter of 2013.
The supplemental health and life insurer, headquartered in Columbus, reported operating earnings of $759 million in the April-June period,... | 1.454969 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Photograph by Felipe Buitrago SCREENING ROOM: The 'privacy screens' San Jose libraries currently use for dealing with adult material are designed to fit over monitors and block visibility to anyone but the user. An Unsexy Truth
Myths and misconceptions in the debate over library filters
By Marianne Messina
WHEN the San... | 2.0158 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
is adamant with 'I'm an adult and I have a right.'"
User, Not the Tool
According to software experts, libraries don't always take full advantage of the software's versatility. This was apparently the case with the NCRL library system, ironically users of a versatile software, Secure Computing's SmartFilter. Though Sma... | 2.380028 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
Posted 11 March 2016
By Michael Mezher
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday said that a proposed trial to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key Haven, FL poses no significant threat to the environment.
The mosquitoes, referred to as OX513A, are a modified strain of the
Aedes aegypti mosquito d... | 1.461718 | 1,016 | 1,013 |
With the frenetic back and forth of trade talks in abeyance, the gap is now being filled by a flurry of bad thinking on how to turn Paraguay into the next Korea, or Bamako into Bangalore.
Here are just some of the prescriptions on offer: keep subsidies because they are good for poor people; create a pan-Africa free tra... | 2.089063 | 1,011 | 1,009 |
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale
There are numerous duplications of effort in the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP): from multiple U.S.-funded climate-modeling groups, to multiple producers of the same climate-related data. Why are taxpayers supporting all of those duplications of effort?
THE ANNUAL COSTS OF CLIMATE ... | 1.350241 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Why do we keep pumping U.S. taxpayer dollars into science fiction?
CLIMATE DATA – GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURES – Duplication of Effort Example 2
Both NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) manufacture global surface temperature anomaly products.... | 1.338787 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Israel sees its Iron Dome anti-rocket system as a noted success of its Gaza assault. The only problem is keeping up with demand for the interceptor missiles, their makers said on Tuesday.
“We’ve been working in non-stop shifts,” said an official with Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd, which developed the system. He d... | 1.596869 | 1,008 | 1,006 |
People should never wear watches to a bar. If you hang around long enough you can usually tell what time it is by the way people act. For example, if lights are flashing and everyone around you is stumbling out of the bar like a cattle line-that means time to go. Or if your roommate is dancing on the bar it’s roughly 1... | 1.85703 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
I’m keeping my old laundry detergent bottles, to reuse when I make my own laundry soap.
Does anyone have a recipe that they use?
Same with toothpaste, I’m looking for a home made powder, any suggestions of tried and true recipe
Location:Chicago, Illinois, United States Name: Valerie Teruel Week: 1 Personal Info:
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Businesses for the Bay is the Chesapeake Bay Program's
voluntary pollution prevention program for businesses and government facilities
within the Bay watershed. Businesses for the Bay currently has more than 230
participants in the program and more than 70 individuals that have volunteered
as Business-to-Business Mento... | 1.462762 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Did Apple conspire with e-book publishers to raise e-book prices? That’s what DOJ argues in a lawsuit filed yesterday. But does that violate the antitrust laws? Not necessarily—and even if it does, perhaps it shouldn’t.
Antitrust’s sole goal is maximizing consumer welfare. While that generally means antitrust regulator... | 1.690845 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
July 1997. Prime minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz visits sites damaged by the flood of millennium and concludes:
this is yet another incidence which bears out one should be prudent and take out insurance, alas this truth is still not common. Nothing hurts like the truth. Mr Cimoszewicz’s utterance has become a nail to ... | 2.188664 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The relationship between grandmothers and granddaughters can be a special one. No matter what the age of the child, there are many enriching activities grandmothers and granddaughters can share, from quilting to story telling. In addition, the activities can give granddaughters an appreciation for the wisdom of older a... | 1.669166 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
A five-year-old boy will be removed from his parents’ care because he’s ‘not getting the cuddles he needs’.
The country’s top family judge, Sir James Munby, described it as ‘the most difficult and unusual care case I have ever had to try’.
The church-going parents both have learning disabilities – his much worse than h... | 1.482396 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
There's some primal instinct that kicks in as soon as mothers hear those words: "Mama, I'm not feeling so good..."
After placing my hand on my child's forehead to see if it's worthy of breaking out the ear thermometer, I always know what to do.
Sometimes, it's a matter of the Tylenol/Motrin routine with lots of juice a... | 1.685197 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
AUBURN, Ala. -- In the aftermath of the poisoning of the Toomer’s Corner oaks, Stephen Enloe, an assistant Auburn professor of Agronomy and Soils, tried to stay composed while giving his grim prognosis of the 130-year-old trees.
“It’s just an incredible travesty to see this kind of malicious act occur and it breaks my ... | 1.74173 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
When the Great Recession produced a new age of hopelessness, artists responded with attempts to process it. Anne Enright's
The Forgotten Waltz and Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart were just two of the many ruminative novels spawned by the downturn, much like John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath sorted through the depths... | 1.619895 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
On this day — Good economic news helps to buoy the markets; the New York Post reports that Chris Christie is “seriously considering a run”; a FOX News poll puts Rick Perry back into second place following a bad debate performance; Perry backs off his “heartless” comment; both Mitt Romney and Perry try to downplay expec... | 1.737726 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Fresh cab-rank rule row as LSB approves public access reforms
Deech: changes will greatly improve consumer choice
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has criticised the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) failure to apply the cab-rank rule to public access work and said this omission will reduce the impact of rule changes that wide... | 1.555329 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
Somehow or another in spite of my best efforts to escape computer-speak when I’m not actively at work 🙂 it seems that even my personal “life” is laced with computer and IT geeks. Of course, as I’ve blogged about previously, I don’t really try to separate my “life” into a “work-life” and “personal” life — but I find it... | 1.778238 | 1,005 | 1,003 |
We combine expert facilitators with a proven strategic planning methodology, the Drivers Model, to make sure your energy and time that goes into building a quality plan pays off.
We combine expert facilitators with a proven strategic planning methodology, the Drivers Model, to make sure your energy and time that goes i... | 1.707531 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
retention and involvement.
Membership Objectives
The objectives establish the bar for the rest of the planning effort.
All the strategies, action plans and investments should be focused on achieving one or more of the plan objectives. Therefore, it is critical that you select the right objectives for measuring our suc... | 1.842044 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
There’s nothing worse than looking at your guest room and feeling like it’s one of the most neglected areas of your home. However, this was exactly the case in my humble abode – my spare bedroom had become an eyesore to myself and the rest of my household. Undoubtedly, it was going to be downright nauseating to whoever... | 1.72186 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Overview
Barbiturates or barbituates are in the same classification as benzodiazepines (Valium, Librium and more) and act as depressants on the central nervous system, which basically means that barbiturates decrease excitability in the brain to produce a calming and sedative effect. They are not as widely prescribed t... | 1.661231 | 1,006 | 1,003 |
Gabrielle Taus di 31 jan 2017 Masterclass ‘Pedagogisch Contact, verbondenheid door aanraken’ door Simone Mark, Heerenveen wo 01 feb 2017 Aan tafel met… Harry Stokhof over vraaggestuurd onderwijs – Nijmegen za 11 feb 2017 Tweedaagse in Amsterdam: ‘Hoe houd je de deur naar de natuurlijke bron van creativiteit bij kindere... | 1.640735 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
that the teacher never said to my daughter that she did not believe in her, she managed to communicate that message loud and clear, and this was understood by my daughter even at the young age of five.
The school that my daughter attended in England put students into ability groups in second grade, but they stopped th... | 1.594765 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
If you come home to a destroyed couch, puddles on the floor or angry neighbors because your toy poodle barked all day, your pup may have anxiety. Toy poodles require a lot of human interaction, so they often get separation anxiety when their owners leave them home alone.
Separation Anxiety
Separation anxiety is the ner... | 1.537611 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you. If you’d like to add some timber and paper stocks to your portfolio, the
Guggenheim Timber ETF could save you a lot of trouble. Instead of trying to figure out which companies will perform best, you can use this ETF to invest... | 1.670546 | 1,010 | 1,008 |
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