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The Affordable Care Act does far more than extend essential health insurance coverage to tens of millions of Americans. It helps reduce the federal deficit – using measures that can slow growth in both Medicare and overall health spending. The Independent Payment Advisory Board is one such measure. It guarantees the AC... | __label__pos | 0.939382 |
The National Rifle Association spokesmen say that only “a good man with a gun” can beat “a bad man with a gun.”
I thought of that last week when the former American SEAL and sniper Chris Kyle was shot to death by a troubled veteran soldier.
Historically, the gun was the “equalizer” in action, the factor that meant that... | __label__pos | 0.990671 |
THE EXPERT’S VIEW
TO GET the best from a marker rod, it’s important we use a buoyant float that will quickly gather line when we are depth-finding.
However, the marker float can have as much as 1oz of buoyancy, meaning that if you are using a 3oz lead you are only effectively dragging 2oz of lead across the lakebed.
Th... | __label__pos | 0.926053 |
Lawrence Rosen
Rosen, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology, joined the Princeton faculty in 1977. He also is an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School. Rosen, who holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and a law degree from the University of Chicago, was among the first winners of the MacArt... | __label__pos | 0.902075 |
Cheese maker | Monforte Dairy’s unconventional business model wins prize for innovation
STRATFORD, Ont. — The altruistic aspects of her artisanal cheese business are Ruth Klahsen’s prime motivation, but the dollars and cents still matter.
“We need a different business model where you make a living, not get rich,” the o... | __label__pos | 0.869094 |
What consumers need to know is that breaches are the new normal, which means scam artists will never be out of business looking to steal your precious identity and hard earned cash.
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 27, 2014
As Hollywood prepares to announce the winners of the Academy Awards on March 2, scores of consumer ... | __label__pos | 0.926796 |
Washington – On Wednesday, the
Supreme Court will take up its first major abortion case in years as Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt will go before the Court. The case asks for abortion clinics to implement safety standards that match up with the regulations of other surgical clinics while pivotal Justice Anthony Ken... | __label__pos | 0.911851 |
November 16, 2009 Hawaii’s Beaches Face Grim Future
All across the islands of Hawaii, residents have stood by and watched helplessly for years as the majestic archipelago's sandy white beaches have steadily retreated "” a phenomenon that geologists warn will likely worsen in the coming decades as warming global tempera... | __label__pos | 0.742151 |
Today’s building codes recognize wood’s safety and structural performance capabilities and allow its use in a wide range of low- to mid-rise residential and non-residential building types. This includes multi-family, educational, commercial, industrial, retail, public, recreational and institutional buildings. These co... | __label__pos | 0.999647 |
Covers could have been a covert killer
Recently a Lake Macquarie man learnt of the real dangers posed by carbon monoxide poisoning from exhaust gases.
Narrative
On a cold and wet weekday a Lake Macquarie man had gone down to his 8 metre cabin cruiser that was on a swing mooring to get it ready for the Easter break. He ... | __label__pos | 0.954647 |
Massive Parallel Sequencing methods (MPS) can extend and improve the knowledge obtained by conventional microarray technology, both for mRNAs and short non-coding RNAs, e.g. miRNAs. The processing methods used to extract and interpret the information are an important aspect of dealing with the vast amounts of data gene... | __label__pos | 0.909969 |
Okay, lets slow down a little bit.
Your body in and of itself cannot want a particular form of sex. It just can't. Your mind can, your emotions can, and you can feel the need for sexual stimulation as a whole, but the body can't want intercourse on its own.
How intercourse feels varies not just from person to person, b... | __label__pos | 0.976012 |
Honey bees have it really bad right now. A recent report found that 44.1 percent of all honeybee colonies in the US died off last year, and there's been an annual loss of 30 to 90 percent of hives around the world over the past few years. While many factors contribute to this decline, one of the biggest causes is thoug... | __label__pos | 0.913239 |
Learn how to use mesh and frame management to streamline changeovers and ensure that screens are always ready when needed.
A much better way to select the desired mesh is to consider the percentage of open area at each mesh-count range. For instance, you can select an open area of 36% ±2% for any given mesh count betwe... | __label__pos | 0.88283 |
Though we deal with risk everyday, there is one risk that rarely makes it into our risk management plans – a change in organizational leadership. Whether the result of an internal structural shift, an external hiring decision or a merger/acquisition, a change in leadership and reporting can signal a challenging time fo... | __label__pos | 0.998918 |
Find out what American’s are doing with the 158 million avocados consumed during the game
Super Bowl Sunday may not be known as one of the healthier holidays, but it has been getting an upgrade over the last few years thanks to our good friend the avocado. Aside from heart-healthy monounsaturated fats, “avocados contai... | __label__pos | 0.953879 |
Let's do more to help the poor get a college education
© St. Petersburg Times
The rich keep getting richer, and poor keep getting poorer -- and left out.
One group that feels poorer and more left out is the nation's thousands of qualified high school graduates who will be prevented from enjoying the benefits of a full ... | __label__pos | 0.590037 |
Tour Preferred Golf Fitness Trainers
Golfer Plyometrics Training
Plyometrics for Developing Golf Specific Power
The evolution of athletic performance enhancement by today's world class athletes is truly remarkable. New and innovative training techniques have led these men and women to run faster, jump higher, hit baseb... | __label__pos | 0.99037 |
When describing the importance of having a purpose let us start with the definition: “Purpose is the object toward which one strives or for which something exists; an aim or a goal” (The Free Dictionary, 2012)
Before writing a text you should have a purpose and ask yourself the questions; why am I writing this text? Wh... | __label__pos | 0.965704 |
Technology -> About Artificial IntelligenceAbout Artificial Intelligence
A newborn baby is not what we would call intelligent. Not in the sense of being able to seek and acquire knowledge, make sense of, and make decisions based on it. A baby is conscious and sentient for sure and has a certain level of intelligence ha... | __label__pos | 0.855839 |
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important part of Tarion’s cultural identity. It has significant impact on our stakeholder relationships and the strategic decisions which guide Tarion’s operations and direction.
Integrating meaningful economic, social and environmental considerations into our business pract... | __label__pos | 0.990217 |
The Income Tax Department has conferred the Silver Award in the National Awards on e-Governance-2016-17 for the e-filing of Income Tax returns and other forms project in the category “Incremental Innovations” in existing projects.
The award is in recognition of the achievements of the Department in the area of e-Govern... | __label__pos | 0.971203 |
Use music in your classroom. Music stimulates the memory in a powerful way, evoking images and emotions. When you connect a lesson to music, you make it memorable over long term. You can play a song as background music, play an instrument, sing, rap, maybe all of the above! I've been known to bust out my guitar on occa... | __label__pos | 0.927088 |
How to play: Type your answer in the box and click 'check' to see if you were correct or not.
Close the pop up box and go to the next sum if you were correct, otherwise try again... back
An interesting way of looking at things:If you can maintain your students' eagerness to learn, half the battle of gaining respect is ... | __label__pos | 0.999823 |
Emergence of ethnic gangs
Ethnic gangs began to form in the 1960s as Māori became urbanised and lost touch with tribal communities. Various explanations exist for the formation of indigenous and ethnic-minority gangs, including: intergenerational impacts of colonisation; social exclusion; cultural alienation; economic ... | __label__pos | 0.956176 |
Sexual harassment, child abuse, incest, rape, murder, war--it's impossible today to hear a news report and not be informed of violent acts perpetrated by men. Acknowledging that there are no easy answers to the problem of male violence--particularly in a world that seems to thrive on aggression and physical force--Men'... | __label__pos | 0.990424 |
In case you missed it: Chicago’s city council recently tightened its fiscal belt by passing a budget with a huge property tax hike and other fees. These are stop-gap measures meant to keep its financial woes just this side of overwhelming. The AP:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed an incremental $543 million property tax inc... | __label__pos | 0.998896 |
CAMBODIAN children needing dental care will benefit from the expertise of five North-West health workers travelling to the country in October.
Devonport dental therapist Dianna Brotheridge is returning to Cambodia after visiting in September last year, when she improved orphans' and street children's dental health.
''C... | __label__pos | 0.971602 |
Some Israeli peaceniks, frustrated by their prime minister's tone toward Iran, have taken matters into their own hands. Harnessing the peer-to-peer potential of Facebook, they've assured Iranians that they're lovers, not fighters. They've posted the message you see above and encouraged fellow Israelis to take the same ... | __label__pos | 0.995996 |
Ever had a bra that irritated your skin? Or one that pinched you underneath your arms? Maybe you are more sensitive to seams, hardware, and fabrics. Now imagine how difficult it is for those who have been through breast cancer treatments. They not only have painful surgical sites (with or without reconstruction) but mu... | __label__pos | 0.995524 |
A colleague (Jerry Fishenden) has been working on one of the most complex challenges we face – ensuring a proper, balanced understanding of the potential for technology in a modern society.
This sounds simple, but let me tell you it isn’t. This is about trying to get policymakers to think beyond today’s headlines but m... | __label__pos | 0.911286 |
These days sure seem like a golden age of photography, don’t they? All these slim iPhones and stout digital SLRs sporting near-infinite memories and built-in photo processing, with first Flickr and Facebook and now Instagram and Snapchat giving more and more practised photographers a place to display more and more pict... | __label__pos | 0.982062 |
Dabbing can be hectic if you do not have the right torch to burn the butane hash oil. To enjoy the best smoke you need an excellent and reliable torch. Remember one of the greatest precautions is not to cause a fire accident. For best dabbing torch reviews, visit BestTorchForDabs.com. They are great to review some of t... | __label__pos | 0.945929 |
Loading Equipment
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Application:
A typical application for loading equipment is
heat tracing transfer lines for liquids and gasses
in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical
and food industries. In a large number of cases
this type of equipment needs to be heat traced,
either steam or electric, t... | __label__pos | 0.953144 |
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I work for a factory that packages medications. My specific line is Loratadine, which is the exact composition as Claritin. There really is no difference between the Claritin, Wal-Mart's Equate version, Ta... | __label__pos | 0.969041 |
Dubai’s first Community Health Festival is offering free activities
ByLaura Chubb
We’re all too aware of the toll Dubai life can take on our health. Bad diets, lack of exercise and stress are commonplace, with the Dubai Health Authority reporting that 17 per cent of UAE nationals aged between six and 16 are obese. It’s... | __label__pos | 0.936111 |
In a bid to cut down on the use of electricity and money, more rural parts of a country are usually not littered with street lights compared to metropolitan areas and busy highways. While that is one way to save costs, it could at the same time prove dangerous to drivers who only have their car lights to illuminate the... | __label__pos | 0.998131 |
Airbus is an Aircraft Models
Airbus is familiar that is the people who propose the models, manufactures, trades and supports the airplanes. At the heart of Airbus there lies a core of human idea, talent and the effort that always place the industry in the front position. Airbus makes sure of hiring minimum 20percent of... | __label__pos | 0.948673 |
At a recent Draughts of Faith gathering, we got into conversation on sermons and the strong preference that sermons be based on the Bible and the sacred teachings that Christians find there. We agreed that sermons that are based more on a general morality are valuable, but as persons of faith we find it important to co... | __label__pos | 0.916215 |
Erik Jerbéus, our Solution Specialist from Vaimo Stockholm, visited Retail Day at the Hilton Hotel Slussen in Stockholm, on 21 October. The presenters focused on profitability, because while the market has grown exponentially in the last decade, the profits have barely increased. Common opinion holds that eCommerce and... | __label__pos | 0.997341 |
What is going on with North Korea and nuclear weapons?
First question is always: Where are the carriers?
Well as of May 28th 2013….
There are two Atlantic carriers in port, two in the Indian Ocean, two in the yard (with CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt taking her own sweet time coming out from a 3½ year major overhaul); but i... | __label__pos | 0.985016 |
ALTOONA, Wisc. (WEAU) - Heating costs are on the rise, with Xcel Energy expecting a 15 to 20 percent spike compared to last year for natural gas customers.
Tammy Azahares of Altoona said her electric bill, which includes heat, costs her several hundred dollars a month.
But she said she worries what about rising costs, ... | __label__pos | 0.661983 |
Online brand protection and enforcement service CitizenHawk has introduced a tool that enables companies to detect unauthorized product sales, including counterfeit goods, on the Internet.
HawkAuctions™ allows its users to monitor their brands’ presence on online auction platforms, exchanges and classified advertising ... | __label__pos | 0.988277 |
Museums assume a variety of assignments, among them surveying the past in an effort to retrieve and preserve. With an eye to the rear, they strive also to speak to the present while raising questions about the future.
In the end, it is a matter of reminding, informing and educating — significant undertakings all.
The M... | __label__pos | 0.896442 |
How to Modify Your Landscaping to Protect Your House from Burglarsby: TC Thorn
Believe it or not, landscaping can be an important part of a good home security plan. A burglar who is "casing the joint" from the street will choose the house with tall shrubs and trees that provide hiding places. Homes with little or no ou... | __label__pos | 0.887198 |
Wide plank cherry wood floors add elegance to any space.
When you're considering cherry wood floors for your residential or commercial space, wide plank solid hardwood floors can dramatically transform your room. Wide plank cherry wood floors have fewer seams, giving a room a more spacious and open look and infusing th... | __label__pos | 0.948647 |
When you first learn to meditate, it’s appropriate and helpful to take on structured practices. There are plenty of such practices available – ones for cultivating absorption, such as mindfulness of breathing, or for ‘positive emotion’, such as metta bhavana, or general overall mindfulness, such as systematically culti... | __label__pos | 0.979636 |
In a post about Dick Hardt's Identity 20 talk, Jon Udell makes an important statement:
Even a tech-savvy person like me has a hard time envisioning, never mind comparing, the interaction scenarios proposed by various identity schemes including Sxip, Microsoft's InfoCard, Shibboleth, and federated PKI.From Jon Udell: En... | __label__pos | 0.994836 |
China and India: The race to growth
Diana Farrell, Tarun Khanna, Jayant Sinha, and Jonathan R. Woetzel
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2004 Special Edition :
China today
Both countries still have serious problems: India has poor roads and insufficient water and electricity supplies, all of which could thwart its development; C... | __label__pos | 0.862938 |
Essays Tagged: "math classes" This is the importance of math in education. thoughts and views on why one would choose to study this subject.
The best subject in school to take is
mathematics. It has so much to offer and so many different courses to take. As I take math through m ... eceived successes, but some frustrat... | __label__pos | 0.995045 |
Couples who are impulsive and spontaneous, even to the brink of craziness as perceived by some, are said to have a stronger relationship. Their love for the randomness and adventure can outweigh any negative effects, making them more committed to each other.
In a new study published in the Journal of Research in Person... | __label__pos | 0.883916 |
As the saying goes,
“by the time you read this I’ll be dead.” Caitlin has probably posted it by my request, or it’s been posted as part of a dead-man switch. I have known this was coming for years, at times even hoped for it, and most of that time I haven’t ever been afraid of it, although as it’s grown closer I’ve fel... | __label__pos | 0.968571 |
In the new bifurcated normal US economy, with the manufacturing sector unofficially in recession, it has been the growth of the services sector, and, as we detailed here, implicitly
the surge in "bartenders & waiters" jobs, has saved the government's "recovery" statistics in the last few years. Given the recent perform... | __label__pos | 0.996273 |
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Social Entrepreneur Daniel Fountenberry ’08 saw an opportunity to personalize learning through technology. Through his company, Borne Digital, he and his team developed an adaptive reading platform for tablet devices called
Books That Grow. The... | __label__pos | 0.9508 |
U.S. Congress is attempting to pass the “Deny Americans the Right to Know” (DARK) Act which would make it illegal for food manufacturers to list GMO ingredients on their labels.
GMO giant Monsanto are behind this push for secrecy in a last ditch effort to keep the public in the dark about the dangerous GMO ingredients ... | __label__pos | 0.996311 |
My 9 year old girl is going now to an HTML summer camp. This was her choice, rather than, say, horseback riding or “molecular cooking”, mostly due to the influence of a friend (a girl too, mind you). Needless to say I was shocked by this choice: of all things related to computers, HTML syntax seems the most useless for... | __label__pos | 0.999615 |
It's rare to see a sales/margin/balance triangulation set up as well as with Bed, Bath & Beyond. The graph tells all...
Yes, It's confusing, I know.
If you need interpretation, shoot me an email.
Greek Goddess of Duration
You might think I am nuts, but I'd call this an in-line quarter. Puts and takes ignore the real ca... | __label__pos | 0.962008 |
I’ve been sick today, so mostly resting or reading in bed and on the toilet etc. I’m rereading Let Me Hear Your Voice, masochistically enough.
I found an interesting point towards the end, that shows the context in which a lot of people could misinterpret the idea of accepting an autistic person as autistic (and not ju... | __label__pos | 0.998991 |
Develop your business
Hannah Sedgwick is the owner of Penryn Violins, a micro-business in Cornwall that designs, makes and restores instruments of the violin family and early woodwind instruments. Hannah successfully applied to the Creative Employment Programme for funding to create a paid internship as she needed a ne... | __label__pos | 0.88458 |
It’s a very fortunate thing that Vitamin Shoppe isn’t open at 3:20 in the morning, after someone driving a stolen school bus crashed through the front of a Pennsylvania location, ending up completely inside the store.
The deal aficionados on the FatWallet message boards have various discussion threads devoted to provid... | __label__pos | 0.999947 |
Lentis/Chapters: Active and Candidates< Lentis CHAPTERS: Active Chapters and Candidate Chapters
Authors should write about the sociotechnical aspects of the subjects, not about all aspects of them. For example, for the chapter on high-fructose corn syrup, a detailed explanation of the manufacturing process would not be... | __label__pos | 0.973798 |
Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
adjective
[predicative] Lacking care or attention to duty; negligent:
‘it would be very remiss of me not to pass on that information’ ‘Although our news media are very remiss in educating the public on the great ... | __label__pos | 0.99926 |
Instructional Technology/Learning Management Systems/Benefits Benefits to Students and Parents
A learning management system allows students to download and upload files, participate in chat and discussion boards, as well as take assessments. Students are also able to view grades as well as contact the teacher and class... | __label__pos | 0.900923 |
OMB pushes agencies to share funds
By Jason Miller Aug 16, 2002
'For e-government, joint business cases make perfect sense,' the Treasury Department's acting CIO, Mayi Canales, says.
Henrik G. DeGyor
The Office of Management and Budget is asking agency CIOs to give up control of their most valuable resource: money.
In ... | __label__pos | 0.793707 |
Privacy-protected video and geopositioning data from multiple drones can be live-streamed between field agents and command centers.
Powerful software is solving more crimes and raising new questions about due process.
For the University of Maryland University College, data center consolidation and cloud migration was m... | __label__pos | 0.999365 |
I first visited the Maritime Museum about 12 years ago. Aside from some updating some of the exhibits that you see when you first enter and a shiny new gift shop, very little has changed. It’s still housed in two stylistically clashing buildings, and many of the exhibits and showcases haven’t been touched over half a c... | __label__pos | 0.874604 |
Publication Abstract Authors: Hébert JR, Hurley TG, Steck SE, Miller DR, Tabung FK, Peterson KE, Kushi LH, Frongillo EA Title: Considering the value of dietary assessment data in informing nutrition-related health policy. Journal: Adv Nutr 5(4):447-55 Date: 2014 Jul Abstract: Dietary assessment has long been known to b... | __label__pos | 0.881947 |
English français Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots
Information transfer plays a central role in the biology of most organisms, particularly social species [1, 2]. Although the neurophysiological processes by which signals are produced, conducted, perceived, and interpreted are well un... | __label__pos | 0.98021 |
Nature operates complex systems with awe-inspiring success. We see such systems in Monarch butterfly migration, spotted hyena hunting behavior, the day-to-day life of a honeybee colony, everywhere in nature.
The science of complexity tells us these systems cannot be fully understood when examined in isolation because t... | __label__pos | 0.955546 |
The willingness of so many lawyers to do pro bono work is admirable, but there is no shame in asking for money in exchange for your time and skill. The tendency of so many people to take pro bono work for granted — to expect it — is what ought to be shameful.
If you’re dying of thirst, we may give you free milk. But we... | __label__pos | 0.991491 |
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL 102
If half of any school’s story is the faculty, and the other half is the students, then why is there a third half—the administration, dean and department chairs, and why is it a half, not a third of the whole school shared with the other two thirds? This is the conundrum, and the paradoxical situ... | __label__pos | 0.92564 |
It is better to get your facts straight than to reach your own conclusion. It may save you from a lot of disappointment in the long run. We all fall in the trap of assuming things and coming up with our own explanations in order to complete the whole picture in our minds. We need answers to our queries and when it is n... | __label__pos | 0.914438 |
Wikimedia chapters/Requirements/id requirements and expectations of Wikimedia chaptersas outlined by the Affiliations Committee. Chapters are independent non-profit organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects within a specified geographic area.
The requirements to set up an officially recognized... | __label__pos | 0.856589 |
On Wednesday, rising GOP star and potential VP nominee Senator Marco Rubio delivered a foreign policy speech and Q&A session at the Brookings Institute. Rubio set forth an overarching view of America’s role in the world, and while he is right that America remains highly relevant in world affairs, he also perpetuates th... | __label__pos | 0.833264 |
While attending the Platinum Mastermind in the Canary Islands, I had a chat with Diamond member Torsten Buder from Germany. Torsten is currently running his business from Chile and he is seeing a lot of new entrepreneurs entering our industry from unrelated jobs. He wanted to know, what are the key steps that need to h... | __label__pos | 0.556255 |
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin is a book about the modern history of ornithology. In it we document the major people and discoveries that put the study of birds front and centre in the development of Biology since Darwin’s day.
The idea of writing about ornithology since Darwin came to me as I completed
T... | __label__pos | 0.710131 |
Hello again.
I’ve mentioned before the book
The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck, published in 1939. I really wanted to include this book in discussion because it is just one, fine example in a world of many, that illustrates the social issues we are studying in this project. If you fancy reading in your free ... | __label__pos | 0.959996 |
Ok, you got your cuddly cat posting from me early. Now a more political/news posting. Today, across Europe, it’s M31: The European Day of Action Against Capitalism. Cities across Europe have seen protests, marches, and rallies decrying the current state of affairs. From their website:
Current policies in the EU and in ... | __label__pos | 0.97656 |
The Ideology of the Left: Gnostics of Our Time
Whether we are considering the Gnostic kernel-thought of cosmic revisionism; or the Marxist-Socialist doctrine of social rehabilitation; or the current global warming hysteria which aims for the restoration of a pre-industrial planet; or the mental sedatives known as the d... | __label__pos | 0.987104 |
This post has been updated.
There are at least one million tons of plastic in the ocean. Creative solutions abound, but few strike marine conservation experts as practical or praise-worthy. Too often, says ecologist Andrew David Thaler, projects like floating plastic-filter machines amount to little more than “concept ... | __label__pos | 0.922008 |
Longevity Insurance (Delayed Payout Annuities): Forget About Immediate Annuities- The Most Efficient Annuitization is 5-10% of Wealth Allocated to Longevity Insurance!
Scott, Watson and Hu in their Pension Research Council paper
“Efficient Annuitization: Optimal Strategies for Hedging Mortality Risk”prove what readers ... | __label__pos | 0.981803 |
Go back ten years and the internet was a very different place, navigated by mouse and keyboard from laptops and desktop computers. Today is very different. Consumers interact with the web from dozens of different devices. In the course of a single day, it is not at all unreasonable to expect a single user to access the... | __label__pos | 0.898321 |
The Wave Star Machine and the Future of Wave Energy Conversion
As the negative effects of fossil-based energy sources become more apparent, the search for renewable and sustainable energy sources intensifies. This search led one dedicated research team to develop a wave energy converter technology they later named the ... | __label__pos | 0.992876 |
Living Conditions in the Industrial Revolution in Europe 1800's
For skilled workers, quality of life took a sharp downturn: “A quarter [neighborhood] once remarkable for its neatness and order; I remembered their whitewashed houses, and their little flower gardens, and the decent appearance they made with their familie... | __label__pos | 0.995222 |
by Erin Weiss-Trainor, January 29th, 2009.
sense. He spends most of his day at a desk where he “burns fewer calories than
if he was in a coma”. He comes home to the family responsibilities of being a
husband and father to five kids. And his workouts often come in the form of
walking with his wife and/or his kids. He’s ... | __label__pos | 0.892259 |
OLX, one of the leading online classifieds website in India, has today announced a series of industry-first, tech-led changes with the launch of its new OLX App. The new app is aimed at increasing the penetration of online classifieds across regions, age-groups, and categories.
The new mobile application from the compa... | __label__pos | 0.972419 |
For more specific problems involving the installation or utilization of equipment, we offer the opportunity to consult our experts. We are highly experienced in soil and water research equipment, but also in broader topics such as environmental problems, irrigation design, soil degradation or monitoring design.
We have... | __label__pos | 0.98777 |
How China Is Sealing Holes in Its Internet Firewall
Two things struck me when I first flew into Beijing: lack of sunlight and lack of Internet.
The sun, on many days, hangs behind a haze of pollution, its light filtered down to a soupy dusk. The Internet is stuck behind a government firewall, its main offerings obstruc... | __label__pos | 0.986266 |
Spotify's Swedish Lament Deserves a Hearing
Read More.
Sweden is supposedly one of the most innovative countries in Europe, and one of the happiest. And yet the founders of one of Sweden's showcase companies -- Spotify, the world's biggest music streaming service -- are unhappy with the country's business climate and t... | __label__pos | 0.511635 |
If you have any plans to sell your older home, consider the fact that a new or updated kitchen tops most buyers' wish lists. Though you may not mind decades-old cabinetry and countertops, prospective owners might find them a real turnoff. Remodeling your kitchen could go a long way toward eventually earning you a bid t... | __label__pos | 0.999379 |
Building a marketing technology company takes more than just a great product and a ready market. What’s needed is a person who can inspire potential end-users about how the platform will positively impact their working lives.
Speaking to Steve McGowan, Brandworkz head of business development, his wisdom, knowledge and ... | __label__pos | 0.998315 |
Fascinating insights into the changing supply chain industry inChina, from leading international experts
A fascinating look at the enormous changes taking place in Chinatoday as it evolves from global manufacturer to global consumermarketplace, The Shipping Point: The Rise of China and theFuture of Retail Supply Chain ... | __label__pos | 0.973998 |
The overall purpose of this thesis is to carry out a critical analysis of the final exam in written English in the lower secondary school according to the syllabus which was implemented in. My main objectives are to focus on the introduction of booklet at the exam, and the use of the preparation day both with regard to... | __label__pos | 0.827463 |
53rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy", 27-31 August 2013, Palermo, Italy
Abstract:
We study neighbourhood externalities caused by large public investments in poor neighbourhoods. A stylised theory of a linear city is proposed ... | __label__pos | 0.960389 |
We model the motives for residents of a country to hold foreign assets, including the precautionary motive that has been omitted from much previous literature as intractable. Our model captures many of the principal insights from the existing specialized literature on the precautionary motive, deriving a convenient for... | __label__pos | 0.993184 |
Bardsley, Nicholas Mehta, Judith Starmer, Chris Sugden, Robert
Year of Publication:
2008
Series/Report no.:
CeDEx discussion paper series 2008-17
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This paper reports experimental tests of two alternative explanations of how players use focal points to select equilibria in one-shot coordination games. Cognitive... | __label__pos | 0.990507 |
Using data for 14 OECD countries and 13 sectors for the period 1985-2004, this paper analyzes the significance of the linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic and international intra- and inter-sectoral spillover sources. Patent applic... | __label__pos | 0.994756 |
Firstly, who can argue with staying in bed a little longer?
Morning routines constitute of getting up, showering, having breakfast, brushing your teeth and going to work – in a word, boring! There is a solution however; morning sex. Not only is this a great way to break out of your usual routine, but it will inject a l... | __label__pos | 0.79046 |
Vendorcom, the think tank for the financial services vendor community, held an update for members to the Interchange Fees debate.
Interchange is the charge levied by the card schemes on retailers to process card transactions. In some cases the charges may be waived by the card schemes, in others they may be lowered; th... | __label__pos | 0.867015 |
This work investigates the distributional impacts of a pollution tax by considering a society in which wealth is distributed heterogeneously among households. We consider that firms produce with dirty and/or clean technologies, and show novel results on the effect of a pollution tax on factor prices. In a general equil... | __label__pos | 0.996974 |
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