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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s bioRxiv preprint server hit a milestone these last few days with the posting of a preprint on the link between cell phone radiation and tumors in rats. CSHL and HighWire – who hosts the bioRxiv manuscript system and preprint server for CSHL – watched the traffic and commentary on the pap... | __label__pos | 0.971518 |
Exploiting Wastes in Concrete: Proceedings of the International Seminar Held at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK on 7 September 1999
Ravindra K. Dhir, Trevor G. Jappy
Thomas Telford, 1999 - Technology & Engineering - 351 pages
Concrete will be the key material for ankind to create the built environment of the nex... | __label__pos | 0.857703 |
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ! This term has gone way beyond Link Building and more.
The technique has seen pretty drastic changes in the recent past. Companies dealing with the services are aware that Google and other Search Engines are getting its algorithm crisper with every passing day. Some say they, especiall... | __label__pos | 0.994617 |
Paul’s concentrated vision of the Church in the eternal purpose of God: what every Christian should know about the Church.
I recently had an opportunity to present the E4Unity vision to a local assembly of Christians. It gave me a chance to do a personal review here in 2010 of where we have been with this blog and wher... | __label__pos | 0.856692 |
En redes la gente dice cosas.
Hay gente molesta por los que dicen cosas. Luego otros se molestan por los que se molestaron. Y todos caben.
— Luis Carlos Díaz (@LuisCarlos) November 10, 2016
On social media there are people saying things. Then there are people annoyed by those who are saying things. And still others who... | __label__pos | 0.890294 |
In a typical year more than 1 million cars are affected by a recall, with over 150 recalls issued. Since the start of 2014, this is how many recalls have been issued by the key car makers in the UK:
A vehicle recall is a campaign actioned by a manufacturer to recall a vehicle to be repaired for safety reasons, as part ... | __label__pos | 0.908839 |
The run up to the First Steps in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Mooc is well under way. The course officially starts on 21
st May (and will run for 5 weeks until 22 nd June), so next week is a good time for anyone who is interested in following the course to have a look round our WordPress and Moodle sites a... | __label__pos | 0.992383 |
Adaptive evolution of phenotypic plasticity requires that plastic genotypes have the highest global fitness. We studied selection by spatial heterogeneity of interspecific competition and flooding, and by temporal heterogeneity of flooding on morphological plasticity of 52 genotypes of the clonal shore plant Ranunculus... | __label__pos | 0.997417 |
5 Feelings that Signal Failure is Near
Excellence is war. Business as usual means mediocrity prevails.
It’s one thing to pursue excellence as an individual. But, how can leaders make the pursuit of excellence a matter of culture?
“Scaling Up Excellence,” by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao, takes readers deep into the battl... | __label__pos | 0.951898 |
Mathematicians, on the contrary, who may have the most perfect assurance, both of the truth and of the importance of their discoveries, are frequently very indifferent about the reception which they may meet with from the public. The two greatest mathematicians that I ever have had the honour to be known to, and, I bel... | __label__pos | 0.649261 |
People are becoming so attached to their mobile devices, they’re even taking them into the shower.
Spark New Zealand is trialling a shower dock that allows people to take their smartphones with them in the shower.
“More and more people are feeling the need to stay connected throughout the day,” says Nikora Walters, a m... | __label__pos | 0.990602 |
Over the weekend I read a post from Fiona at A work in progress that has got me thinking about my career mojo.
The blogosphere has been full of posts about what it means to be a librarian, what LIS students need to know, (here and here) and whether our university courses prepare librarians adequately or appropriately. ... | __label__pos | 0.996291 |
Every established system in the country always attracts severe criticism. The
Indian Education System especially has been the target of many allegations from students, parents and teachers. Students think they are overburdened, teachers think they are not paid enough and parents want their children to get 99.99 percent... | __label__pos | 0.940558 |
Critics Rip OSHA's Construction Confined Space Standard
OSHA's long-awaited construction confined spaces proposed standard is taking its lumps from stakeholders. Several petitioned for an extension in the original comment period after OSHA published the proposal Nov. 28, 2007, and the agency agreed. With comments now d... | __label__pos | 0.940523 |
Ideas are more precious than diamonds. The twelve most precious ideas I have ever discovered all concern the love of God.None of them is original. But every one is revolutionary. None of them came
from me. But all of them came to me with sudden force and fire: the “aha!” experience, the “eureka!” experience. They were ... | __label__pos | 0.611931 |
“An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the children that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run, they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats.
When he asked them w... | __label__pos | 0.99575 |
Lots of people are talking about race and the mortgage crisis as a result of a New York Times article over the weekend. Now I have no problem thinking of the mortgage crisis as being, in the words of David Harvey, ‘a financial Katrina.’ The devastation in inner-cities has been massive, and the results are still happeni... | __label__pos | 0.983632 |
A lot of federal agencies want to enhance the research environment at primarily undergraduate institutions and minority-serving institutions. Not all efforts hit the mark.
Consider the summer faculty research internships that a variety of agencies run. Continue reading
This one is for the ecologists.
There are a lot of... | __label__pos | 0.995336 |
An “impressive” letter from an educated person in The Napa Valley Register.
We know that without greenhouse gases (of which CO2 is the most prevalent) in the atmosphere, the earth would be covered in ice. We know CO2 levels have been increasing with the start of the Industrial Revolution, along with average global temp... | __label__pos | 0.996445 |
There are some foods that get no public respect. I am not saying that they should, only that they don’t. Meanwhile, many Goat-ropin, cedar-chopping Rednecks and other Human-American subspecies often referred to as White Trash secretly can’t get enough of them. Don’t be offended, people. I am referring also to myself as... | __label__pos | 0.634063 |
The Political Science of Food Safety Posted:October 31, 2013
It’s that magical time of year—after the big harvests and before the hard freezes—when apples at the farmers markets in my area burst with tangy goodness, when the last of the summer tomatoes and peppers mingle with luxurious piles of greens, roots, and winte... | __label__pos | 0.798535 |
Mental illness isn’t the bogeyman.
I’ve been quite quiet here. It’s not as though I haven’t been trying.
Those drafts were mostly interrupted by bouts of exhaustion and blankness. I’d tried to write something funny and light, but it felt quite forced.
What’s prompting me to write today is the heartbreaking death of Cha... | __label__pos | 0.88366 |
As the end of the year approaches, think outside the bin and reflect…have you taken steps this year to make a difference in your environment? Celebrate your accomplishments and think forward to the next upgrades you plan to make in energy efficient appliances, home improvements or other areas that will save you money a... | __label__pos | 0.992328 |
When a dear friend of mine became quite sick at my house last week and decided to go to the ER, I jumped in the car with her. Not because I love the ER (oh, my heavens, no), but because I thought that I might be able to keep her distracted on the long drive (her hubs was driving) and help her in some way when we got th... | __label__pos | 0.630109 |
June 9, 2007
vcmike
Fantastic post by Chris Michel of Affinity Labs, entitled “Outcomes vs. Activity.”
Here is a good excerpt from it:
“most people tend to confuse activity with outcomes — and it is a breathtakingly expensive mistake. In a world of infinite choices, choosing which activities will occupy your day is lik... | __label__pos | 0.996272 |
Even sleeping beneath tons of snow and ice for the past century-plus, Mount Baker in center Whatcom County poses a number of hazards for the considerable population living in its shadow. The number of glaciers that cover the 10,781-feet tall stratovolcano trails only Mount Rainier in the lower 48.
And though it has bee... | __label__pos | 0.979948 |
Contractors, customers both hurt by short-term budget extensions
Latest CR funds the government through April 8
By Alyah Khan Mar 18, 2011
For nearly six months, the federal government has operated under temporary funding measures, leaving many agencies and contractors in limbo, unable to plan or execute new initiative... | __label__pos | 0.953088 |
Reflections, slogans alone will not help Africa move forward: panel
The problem of corruption in Africa is a local one, but external factors sometimes factor into the complicated issue.
Some participants remarked that “we must take into account the obstacles that will be placed in our way by those who will be tempted t... | __label__pos | 0.999999 |
Each of the eight History and Government majors provides the balanced education prized by employers and graduate schools: a strong core of required courses, electives that allow you to specialize and explore further, and a capstone project that brings together all elements of your academic experience. Our department al... | __label__pos | 0.697717 |
The Lounge is rated PG. If you're about to post something you wouldn't want yourkid sister to read then don't post it. No flame wars, no abusive conduct, no programmingquestions and please don't post ads.
You must be one of those big government liberals I'm always hearing about on Fox News.
I guarantee you when the zom... | __label__pos | 0.993664 |
(Original reference of this article is http://blog.realolap.net/?p=20 , It's my original content)
Definition
Interactive analysis is a cycle analysis procedure of assumption, validation, and adjustment to achieve the fuzzy computation goal.
The interactive analysis is the real on-line analysis to solve the complex comp... | __label__pos | 0.952367 |
Last month we spent two weeks with our Awajún partnership. Narcisa Sebastian Suanco, her three daughters and her son in law took us on a tour of their gardens. We discovered that the Awajún work even more effectively with the forest than we had imagined. Their gardens consist of half yucca and cacao and the other half ... | __label__pos | 0.999485 |
Are You Creating Growth in a Down Economy? Mar 14, 2008
Recession – economic slowdown – inflation – tight credit and capital markets…from my perspective it doesn’t really matter what the economy is doing, as a senior executive you are still responsible for creating growth. Tough economic times are no excuse for a lack ... | __label__pos | 0.991917 |
You already know collaboration is essential to today's classroom -- especially in the age of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills Framework (P21). Students who truly collaborate construct knowledge together. When we ask students to collaborate, we’re asking them to take respons... | __label__pos | 0.804197 |
Church nursery security is a critical aspect of providing a safe and happy nursery experience for the babies in your church. Leaving their child with strangers can be difficult for parents, but Fellowship One can provide you with the tools to give them peace of mind!
Child check-in software makes it easy and quick to a... | __label__pos | 0.955255 |
Producing the right cow for a system and situation is the goal for Ian Collins. Chloe Palmer visits him ahead of his trip to the Dairy Show to find out how he has achieved his goal.
Four decades ago, while many dairy farms were turning to the Holstein for increased yield, Mary Collins and her husband chose to establish... | __label__pos | 0.946877 |
The Linde Group’s African Oxygen Limited (Afrox) has warned of gaseous hazards in confined spaces, offering detailed risk assessments and assessment reports to combat potentially dangerous, atmospheric situations.
Confined spaces, such as pipelines, columns, silos and cold boxes, are typically opened for maintenance, c... | __label__pos | 0.91195 |
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Requirements work is not finished as soon as requirements have been gathered. They must be organized, documented, analyzed, communicated, and managed throughout the project lifecycle. This ongoing requirements work impacts every project large or small. On very small projects these activities may be informal. A... | __label__pos | 0.993701 |
The Modern Language Association report on the Ph.D. in languages and literatures has already succeeded in sparking a lively debate. Some commentators have welcomed the report’s general findings, while others have taken issue with its specific recommendations. Beyond these differences, a broad consensus has emerged that... | __label__pos | 0.888365 |
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in his debut nonfiction work, shares insights gleaned from his years of
reflection on the nature of the soul.
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Earth as one ecosystem.
An individual living creature.
A group of the same living thing.
A group of different organisms that live and work together.
A place where living and non living things live and interact.
Many ecosystems; it's determined by climate and elevation.
Freswater
Marine
Grassland
Tundra
Rainforest
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The following was written by H.E Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and translated from Italian. This reflection was originally delivered by Monsignor Khaled Akasheh at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s seminar on faith and globalization in collaboration with Fo... | __label__pos | 0.96904 |
Applying Manufacturing Intelligence to OEE for Real-Time Decision Support
Best-in-class manufacturing requires complete real-time process performance monitoring and the analytical decision support for process management and improvement. The impact of such an approach is profound as indicated in two recent MESA studies ... | __label__pos | 0.976378 |
On March 21-22, 2014, scholars and artists from across the globe converged on the Ohio University campus to examine the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary arts. The conference explored the intersections and slippages between the arts and a variety of other disciplines.
Dr. Esther da Costa Meyer from Princet... | __label__pos | 0.938183 |
Leadership training for young employees can help nonprofits address two pressing problems: high turnover rates among junior staff members who want opportunities for career advancement, and inadequate planning for future leadership needs, which...
This content is available exclusively to Chronicle subscribers Already a ... | __label__pos | 0.999934 |
Researchers have detected a disease threatening cycling infrastructure investment. Although city administrators continue to invest in living streets, until cyclists becomes self-aware, the automobile will continue to dominate cities.
Following the lead of New York City and San Francisco, Houston is the latest large Ame... | __label__pos | 0.999078 |
A ‘Peter Peril’ in Promotions for Exceptional Performance?
Promoting an employee on the basis of exceptional performance seems to be a smart move, even a no-brainer. But, on one analysis of what has come to be known as the “Peter Principle”, it may not be such a smart move. Worse, if that analysis by a former president... | __label__pos | 0.68685 |
Secure File Sharing Services for Energy Providers
Today's energy and utility companies face many changing regulations, the addition of new energy providers and more volatility in price and stability than ever before. The ability to share information and collaborate with vendors and partners may be more important now th... | __label__pos | 0.981075 |
More about Steve’s Auto Clinic Born To Perform
Automotive passion is the driving force behind Stephen Fischer, a man who has been actively involved in this industry all his life, and he is the same driving force behind the SAC Group.
“Nothing beats a passion to succeed, in life, career and in business, and it is this p... | __label__pos | 0.942385 |
According to the author of the article we are in the biggest debt crisis in history and financial leaders want us believing that everything is OK. They continue to make claims that their are signs of recovery even though we continue to see currency devaluation all of the world.
Author: David Levenstein
Posted: Thursday... | __label__pos | 0.801544 |
Revolutionary Trends in Enterprise Mobile App Development
Mobiles have been in the limelight for many years for being the driving force in enterprise software. Enterprise mobile apps, in just a couple of years, have set some great trends for businesses and the future of mobility in general. You are already aware of the... | __label__pos | 0.99295 |
What’s the Wynne Brand all about? If you want a sneak preview you’ll have to sneak into a special seminar for Liberal delegates in Toronto this weekend.
“Communicating the Wynne Brand” is a closed-door session at the biggest Liberal convention since Kathleen Wynne persuaded the party to make her premier 14 months ago. ... | __label__pos | 0.998899 |
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- How should we value early stage start-up companies?
With some thinking that a new tech bubble is brewing, it's an important question these days.
And it's a tough one to answer. Valuing early stage companies is a combination of "going with your gut" and carefully examining both the current focus ... | __label__pos | 0.983989 |
Officials warn that counterfeit contact lenses can cause immediate and long-lasting damage to a user's eyes, including blindness.
Many vanity and novelty colored contact lenses can be found for purchase at costume and beauty supply stores, as well as online. It is illegal to purchase or sell contact lenses without a pr... | __label__pos | 0.993306 |
Changing stakeholder expectations are compelling CEOs to innovate, finds Frost & Sullivan’s Visionary Innovation Team
Digitisation of products, services and solutions is leading to disruption, collapse, and transformation of several industries and business ecosystems. The breakneck speed of technology change, in partic... | __label__pos | 0.942845 |
After the bill was defeated it was suggested that another bill will be brought before the legislature next year.
This is a significant victory.
Last year a similar bill was defeated by a vote of 11 to 9. Since then, South Australia had elections that resulted in 3 of the 11 members who opposed euthanasia being defeated... | __label__pos | 0.995017 |
Clinical depression is a misunderstood affliction, and one whose understanding is seldom aided by popular media. This is unfortunate in its own right, but especially because major depression is one of the most common mental illnesses in America. The National Institute for Mental Health reported that16 million people ov... | __label__pos | 0.814748 |
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #60 Security by Intent
Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkits #32 and #47 described the emergency plan preparations required by federal regulations for every operating nuclear power plant. Other federal regulations require design features backed by testing and inspection protocols intende... | __label__pos | 0.865617 |
Value.
There is value when benefit outweighs cost.
I was hoping to sell you on the value of belonging to the Greater Louisville Medical Society, the Kentucky Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. I thought about listing the savings from members-only programs. Or maybe the marketing, career developm... | __label__pos | 0.987691 |
How often have you said to someone, “You’ve got great hair,” and had him or her grin back, “Lucky genes!” But what if that person — or you — also got some unlucky genes? Most of us inherited grandma’s arthritis or dad’s bald spot or mom’s iffy ticker. But listen up: You have more control over your genes than you think.... | __label__pos | 0.991971 |
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has proposed new investment rules that may lessen restrictions for insurance companies investing in bonds and equities.
The proposed risk-based capital framework, which was being crafted for the past four years, is the insurance industry’s counterpart for the Basel III regime f... | __label__pos | 0.941159 |
Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 2: Facts empirical, logic ideal.This subject was fleshed out in an earlier post in my series of on Rand's metaphysics. I wrote: It is the real world, not logic, which makes a thing true. Facts, nature, reality constitute the standard of truth, not logic. I would also note that, while there ... | __label__pos | 0.961546 |
What is a move? In chess, a move is the action taken that constitutes a turn. It is a spontaneous decision made in relation to the action or move of your opponent. The more often a chess player plays or studies the games and moves of others, the more moves they can observe, learn from, and collect to then implement ... | __label__pos | 0.995973 |
Last week, I got myself a new Android Phone and I was pretty excited about what all i can do with it. I made a few plans for the upcoming week and kept my plans well sorted in Google Keep. Here’s what I planned, Since I am not a voracious reader but i intend to be one. So, I decided to read more and more. I planned to ... | __label__pos | 0.998908 |
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BloombergTechnology report, “some” customers of health insurer Aetna will get a discount on Apple's smartwatch. In the meantime, Aetna's employees will get the watch at “no cost” to “ beta test a new wellness reimbursement program.”
While media reports imply ... | __label__pos | 0.996287 |
When in-depth research was first performed at leading gemological labs (AGS/GIA) to study and predict light performance based on proportions, the results were revolutionary. It was found that diamonds which possess a certain range of cut proportions tend to exhibit better optical performance. On the contrary, diamonds ... | __label__pos | 0.702757 |
Question: How would a cultural revolution manifest itself? Andrew Cohen: Well, I think to put this in the most simple developmental model we can look at individual and cultural evolution as a leap from egocentric, which would be the perspective of a small baby, right, egocentric, which only I exist, egocentric to ethno... | __label__pos | 0.89333 |
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It’s the end of the year: last chance to take stock of your 2011 tax obligations. As an investor, you should make particular note of any realized capital gains. Maybe you sold out of a top-performing asset class to keep your portfolio in balance. Maybe you liquidated some of your holdings to finance a new project or a ... | __label__pos | 0.989431 |
"Email was not designed to be used the way we use it now. Email is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list, and email is the way things get onto it. But it is a disastrously bad todo list. I'm open to different types of solutions to this problem, but I suspect that tweaking the in... | __label__pos | 0.996077 |
At the SLD forums, Anima describes using several safe cheap treatments to improve his mood and sleep. First, he tried wearing blue blocker (amber) glasses in the evening. They made him fall asleep more easily and reduced or eliminated hypomania. However, he was still depressed. Second, he tried getting twenty minutes o... | __label__pos | 0.80214 |
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The state of California produces more than half of the nation’s fruits, vegetables and nuts. Still, U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics from the last few years show that more than 14 percent of Californians are food insecure. Food security is a term that describes a... | __label__pos | 0.85866 |
From today’s editorials: The donation of a chunk of the Helderberg escarpment is good news, especially at a time when budget pressures are prompting the state to consider closing parks and cutting back on land acquisitions.
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The cause of land preservation isn’t doomed after all, not even in New... | __label__pos | 0.992025 |
So the market shot up yesterday after a week or so of jagged decline. Why? The key word seems to be “confidence” — a very subjective thing upon which to pin ones hopes and dreams and pension fund. This only reaffirms my belief that The Economy is not a controllable machine like a well-designed steam engine, but a wild ... | __label__pos | 0.994227 |
Looking to bring in greater revenue share for your business? If your answer is a yes, you’ll want to keep reading.
I constantly come across companies that look for groundbreaking, out-of the box marketing strategies to win over customers. Mostly, large and established brands rely on television while some companies feel... | __label__pos | 0.879764 |
The Gift of Managed Private Cloud
How’s your holiday shopping going? Finding everything on your list?
Sorry—shouldn’t have asked.
I know the answer. Any other time of year, you can skip out the door on a whim, head to the mall, and see what treasures you happen to run across. No pressure. No obligations. No fear. You p... | __label__pos | 0.973316 |
The Other Side of Teacher Tenure
It's extremely rare when the opinion pages of
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal agree on anything. But that was the case on Aug. 19 when the subject was teacher tenure ("The Trouble With Tenure," and "The Public Turns Against Teacher Tenure"). Both columnists based their ca... | __label__pos | 0.983339 |
It is a question I hear several times a week: What is the value of a Facebook Fan? I’ve seen answers ranging from $136.38 to $3.60. I can’t blame vendors, agencies and consultants for trying to answer the question -- the hunger from clients is so great that anyone promising a simple answer is likely to get attention. T... | __label__pos | 0.999828 |
In Forrester’s EA Practice Playbook, we describe high-performance enterprise architecture programs as “business-focused, strategic, and pragmatic.” They are business-focused so that the direction and guidance EA provides has clear business relevance and value. They are strategic because the greatest value EA brings is ... | __label__pos | 0.99808 |
Social democrat Helle Thorning-Schmidt has become Denmark’s first woman prime minister, bringing the total number of female world leaders to 21.
The appointment of the leader of the left-of-centre party ends ten years of centre-right political leadership in the country.
Most of us have grown up with the idea of a perma... | __label__pos | 0.643503 |
If you’re anything like me, you’re probably always looking for how to add more hours to your day or keep hoping for at least one clone. Well, I’ve found that by working with a virtual assistant (VA) that I can achieve just that!
Virtual assistants provide professional administrative services with the projects that you ... | __label__pos | 0.759725 |
Geography Lessons LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The geography of your heart is evolving. In places, coastlines are disappearing. Elsewhere, new islands have risen out of the sea. Boundaries are shifting, as some nations dissolve and others are born. Even the climate is changing, with warm winds blowing where once there was ye... | __label__pos | 0.996417 |
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Polymer specialist Revolymer wanted an independent analysis of its technology and product applications in preparation for seeking admission to AIM. It needed to raise funds to expand the development and commercialisation of its products, which include removable chewing gum as well as high-performance household cl... | __label__pos | 0.999748 |
Clean & Jerk
The clean & jerk is the second of the two lifts (the
snatchand the clean & jerk) contested in the sport of weightlifting (AKA Olympic weightlifting). The athlete lifts the barbell first from the floor to the shoulders ( clean), and then from the shoulders to overhead ( jerk). Execution
With a clean-width g... | __label__pos | 0.633085 |
Thursday, March 26, 2009
8AM-2PM at the Dempster Fire School, Baker's Basin Rd, Lawrence Twp. Full details are here.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 he's still doing, and getting paid $129K a year to do.
That's insane. That's unconscionable. Especially when Mercer County may have to layoff up to 125 people this year*.
And, a... | __label__pos | 0.554258 |
Optimism is essential for people. If people don’t believe that their works today have relevance, meaning or purpose, this will destroy their desire to do anything. Why get out of bed? Research documents this fact. Paul pointed out that “…the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing t... | __label__pos | 0.973552 |
She wasn’t a likely candidate for friendship.
More like a cousin. And a cousin by marriage at that.
You know, the kind of relative that you normally only see at weddings, funerals, and the occasional family reunion.
But she turned out to be much more.
A cousin. A friend, And
a gift.
I can’t say exactly how it began but... | __label__pos | 0.959008 |
I'm being stalked by Stanley Milgram.
His experiments in the nature of obedience and resistance keep coming up in conversation these last few months. Each time, I'm not the one who introduces the idea. It comes after me. I'm often the one in any given group who ends up explaining the experiments and clarifying the resu... | __label__pos | 0.98219 |
For a software startup, having a good idea is important, but a good team is essential.
Good ideas are easy to find; I keep a list of interesting business and tech ideas that I constantly update and probably have a couple hundred at the ready.
What’s hard to find, and is much more important for success, is a good team. ... | __label__pos | 0.850416 |
The blank dialogue is a very “natural” teaching approach. Something intuitive about it. I used it in my early days of teaching – just pausing a dialogue on cassette tape and asking students to respond. You had to get skilled with using those big buttons! That is what being a teckkie used to entail!
Most blank dialogues... | __label__pos | 0.996602 |
We usually think of “the Big One” shattering California. But the middle part of the U.S. could have a massive earthquake, or series of them, such as the New Madrid quakes in late 1811 and early 1812. My guest on DestinySurvival Radio for April 14, 2011, discussed that possibility.
Steve Besemer, then the Earthquake Pro... | __label__pos | 0.883407 |
LONDON, England (CNN) -- When Americans go to the polls this November, there will be many factors that influence where they eventually decide to cast their vote:
Barack Obama's narrative of unity chimes well with his mixed race background.
The Iraq War, the economy, political allegiances, image, age and race -- these a... | __label__pos | 0.890663 |
A Study on Consumer Value Towards Service Brands in Malaysia
Das, Sanjeeta (2008)
Abstract
The past decade has remarkably proved that the world is approaching from an industrially driven economy to a people driven economy. There was an age when machines were used to be kept in the centre of decision making. But now it ... | __label__pos | 0.999987 |
Title:
A novel calibration strategy for laser ablation ICP-MS
Sample introduction by laser ablation has many desirable features: reduction of the time involved in sample pre-analysis processing, avoiding the use of hazardous reagents and reducing the risk of contamination by reagent impurities. It is also possible to p... | __label__pos | 0.588544 |
I’m ambivalent about Sen. Santiago’s RH sponsorship speech. As an RH advocate, I’m happy. Her speech was effective in terms of increasing the chances of the RH Bill passing.
But as an advocate of secularism, I’m disappointed. She replaced arguing from one religious perspective — CBCP’s version of Catholicism — with arg... | __label__pos | 0.985948 |
I've been surprised a number of times, for better and worse, by the state of technology in Guinea. In some areas, inexpensive technology has transformed Guinean society, but there remains much to be desired in other areas. I've been in Guinea for 10 months now, and here are some of my observations thus far.
The power g... | __label__pos | 0.996826 |
In many cases, field service technicians make a company’s first impression on a customer — and that first impression goes a long way toward whether they’ll be repeat customers or not.
If technicians put customers at ease with their professional appearance and ability to solve the problem, they’ll garner repeat business... | __label__pos | 0.938686 |
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