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The title: “A Small World After All?” makes me think of “Six degree of
separation”. This theory not only reveals the hidden fate and mystery of the Internet, its further application will certainly be treated as a hidden power of social movement for the Internet.
For “six degree of separation” theory, it can be easier e... | __label__pos | 0.844312 |
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BY AMY KINGSLEY -- NV Energy wants to clean the coal out of its energy system. A new initiative proposed Wednesday would shutter the power company’s aging coal-fired power plants and replace them with natural gas and renewable sources, such as solar and geothermal... | __label__pos | 0.939084 |
Music surfaces frequently in the great Nature vs. Nurture debate: Why can someone be a virtuoso pianist yet their neighbour be a musical duffer? Does the answer lie in genes or upbringing?
In a study published on Tuesday that compared hundreds of individuals, scientists said the first step towards answering the questio... | __label__pos | 0.713307 |
To anesthesiologist and physician Joel Zivot, the use of lethal injection is a blatant insult to his profession. Practicing anesthesia is an art, one he studied for many, many years to master. And it's designed to save lives, not take them. In December, he wrote in
USA Today: "I am an anesthesiologist, and I possess th... | __label__pos | 0.93626 |
Today is also my mother’s birthday. Earth Day may not be viewed as our planet’s birthday, but let’s do so anyhow. My mother serves as a good stand in for the Earth through her
wisdom, strength and always the teacher.
Some quick thoughts reflecting on Earth Day and lessons for our organizations:
We need short-term goals... | __label__pos | 0.999984 |
The African country of Uganda may be regulating bitcoin and other virtual currencies shortly. According to a new report from the United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders ( UNAFRI ) the group is giving guidance on the regulation of virtual currencies within the region. ... | __label__pos | 0.910933 |
In part one of my interview with Pia Mancini, a political activist, I investigated the technologies and background of DemocracyOS, a project aiming to become the operating system of choice for government workers. In part two of my interview with Mancini, she discusses the challenges DemocracyOS faces and how her organi... | __label__pos | 0.914636 |
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One of the things I hate most about America is the tipping culture.
Actually, who am I kidding, it’s not a culture, it’s an expectation … and the worst place to be exposed to it is in restaurants.
Don’t get me wrong, I am happy to give additional money to someone who I believe has genuinely enhance... | __label__pos | 0.994829 |
Forget the election. Forget Ebola, Ferguson, #GamerGate and NaNoWriMo. Not that those things aren’t worth your attention, but the most important thing that happened in the world in the past few days was the release of the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) latest report on climate change. For those of y... | __label__pos | 0.624711 |
May 30, 2007, 4:08 am
Lior Dayan is a grandson of Moshe Dayan (1915-1981), the mythic Israeli soldier-kibbutznik who rose to the ranks of chief of staff, defense minister, and foreign minister. Lior is a far cry from his granddad: he got out of the army after a few months in a PR unit and is now a showbiz heartthrob, “... | __label__pos | 0.930628 |
The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado has demonstrated how to construct an Arctic ice scam. The key feature of the scam is a graph like the one below, which necessarily starts in the Arctic record cold year of 1979, and appears to show a linear loss of sea ice headed towards zero.
What you would no... | __label__pos | 0.995771 |
The individuals and groups tasked with helping people enroll for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act are facing a stiff head wind of restrictive laws, regulations and outright obstruction in some Republican-led states.
In Florida, health officials won’t allow these so-called “navigators” onto county... | __label__pos | 0.976666 |
Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), spoke to the Brookings Institution in Washington this week (
http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2014/html/sp141009.en.html).
He was very keen to emphasise that the ECB would ‘do what it takes’ to avoid the Eurozone economies sliding into deflation and anot... | __label__pos | 0.971161 |
Assessing the Performance of an Emergency Vehicle Preemption System : A Case Study on U.S. 1 in Fairfax County, Virginia Date2002-11-21 Author
Mittal, Manoj Sanwarmal
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Highway traffic control systems have been deployed to provide emergency vehicle preemption (EVP) at signalized int... | __label__pos | 0.998023 |
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As the global climate changes and presents risks to land-based assets, agricultural data needs to be more robust and harvests protected against threats.
By Ecometricabased in London,... | __label__pos | 1 |
Data and Models in Action
This book addresses methodological issues of production ecology, and contains scientific contributions written by nine specialists. A central issue is the combination of the agricultural model with reliable data in relation to scale. A model is developed with data from a single point, whereas ... | __label__pos | 0.993694 |
In 2014 I took part in a trial calling for healthy volunteers seeking new ways to tackle lifestyle related health conditions such as Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity. I found it fascinating and I learned things about my physiology that you normally wouldn’t have access to. For example my true resting metabo... | __label__pos | 0.992507 |
Like most IT organizations, your team may periodically face the “dreaded” task of being audited. Your process for delegating privileged access to desktops, servers, and infrastructure devices is a massive target for the auditor’s microscope. An audit’s findings can have significant implications on technology and busine... | __label__pos | 0.962762 |
Hey, Shoppers: Black Friday Savings Are a Hoaxby
Forget the door-busters, coupons, and “friends and family” deals. U.S. shoppers on the whole will be paying more over the next few weeks than they do the rest of the year. Turns out, retail profit margins tend to be higher during the holiday period, despite all the promo... | __label__pos | 0.998963 |
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism/The Eucharist
These two books have in common only the fact that they are concerned with the Eucharist; other than that they are written from very different perspectives and go in very different directions. These authors recognize that we are not yet finished with interpreti... | __label__pos | 0.978742 |
It was fascinating to watch the tango between President Bush and Presidente Felipe Calderon in the Yucatan a few days ago. Mr. Bush pledged to try to pass "comprehensive" immigration reform, while Senor Calderon put forth that America needs to "do more" for Mexico.
OK, so what are these guys really saying?
First of all... | __label__pos | 0.997306 |
What are the challenges for brands in terms of cross-border ecommerce?
In cross-border e-commerce, manufacturers of goods that sell their own product (range) – as opposed to retailers, which primarily sell other parties’ products – are often referred to as “brands”. Examples include Nike, H&M, Bugaboo and Adidas.
Brand... | __label__pos | 0.99745 |
During the 15 years prior to the global financial crisis the volume of securitized assets transacted in the US grew substantially, reflecting a change in the nature of the financial intermediation process. Together with increased securitization of assets, financial entities, who participate more heavily in the asset-ba... | __label__pos | 0.930244 |
Future of Iraq: The spoils of war How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches By Danny Fortson, Andrew Murray-Watson and Tim Webb Published: 07 January 2007 Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a con... | __label__pos | 0.706496 |
EMS and the burden of explanation to lawmakers 911 calls are so diverse that lawmakers struggle with how to categorize EMS issues when it comes to policy initiatives; it's up to us to educate them
Editor’s Note:
Expert analysis: Over the past 40 years we have fought among ourselves to create our identity, our raison d'... | __label__pos | 0.83718 |
Energy Therapy is dedicated to all those on a journey of self-discovery. We offer energy-based treatments, courses and workshops, together with articles and inspiring gifts to support those seeking to reconnect with their true self, that which embraces and yet transcends the day to day personality.
Jaime is the founder... | __label__pos | 0.806214 |
Why do models change over time?
Well I had an exam for science and I got the question "Suggest a reason why models change over time" wrong. On the sheet there is a diagram of John Dalton's model of an atom and JJ Thomson's model as an example of models and there is a quote that says " The diagrams represent models that... | __label__pos | 0.945873 |
Time Out
Get a life! I mean a life beyond the endless hours you devote to your growing business. Business owners, like the legendary Knights of the Round Table, are notorious for always seeking, but never finding, the entrepreneurial Holy Grail: balance. A common entrepreneurial myth is that the "all work, no play" phi... | __label__pos | 0.995954 |
Are You Distracted by Your Fundraising Efforts?
If you're like most entrepreneurs running a growing business, you spend a substantial percentage of your time attempting to raise money. But if you're focused on raising money, you're probably not focused on building your business. How badly is this affecting your company... | __label__pos | 0.825245 |
Ongoing uncertainty has clearly had an impact on the private equity market. In the US, the fundraising environment remains difficult with high net-worth individuals retreating from the asset class, and throughout Europe, PE activity has remained relatively subdued - though Germany has remained an exception. The dominan... | __label__pos | 0.932122 |
Masters in Management degrees are proving to be the most fashionable of post-graduate degrees, with applications to these programmes soaring. Why are graduates from these programmes proving so attractive to recruiters? Will a MiM become a prerequisite for many companies, banks and management consultancies? What will be... | __label__pos | 0.812038 |
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This policy briefing document is based on Working Paper No. 5.
As the economy of Vietnam changes from a centrally planned system to a market-orientated one, it is important that livestock producers are considered during policy formulation to address the needs of the poor. The livestock sector is a high potenti... | __label__pos | 0.994288 |
Top10Doctor insights on:Chlorocresol Side Effects 1Tinea cruris on penis, even in winter.I'm using this cream(miconazole nitrate, neomycin sulphate, clobetasol proplonate, zinc sulphate, chlorocresol cream)? Please clarify:Thank you for letting us know. Is it working for you? What is your question?...Read more Same as ... | __label__pos | 0.979713 |
AHA Roundtable
Historians' Perspectives on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin AHA Staff, July 2013
As a community of historians, the AHA believes that public discourse on any topic benefits from historical context and historical thinking. In that spirit, we have asked a group of historians to comment the significa... | __label__pos | 0.94737 |
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this product knowas eco lawn?http://www.wildflowerfarm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=1&Category_Code=EMy Scotts book tells me to ignore such "gimmicks", but they would,wouldn't they?Thanks in advance.Gary
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homerlex says...
> They took the test and said your alkalinity is 26 you > need to add 50lb of alkalinity up. Since I had just > tested my self I did not believe the results. Besides > this being low the wanted me to bring it up to 125 > minimum. This is strange to me too as I have always > been told 80-120 for my plas... | __label__pos | 0.911383 |
Janus
Intelligence analysts often rely on facial images to assist in establishing the identity of an individual, but too often, just examining the sheer volume of possibly relevant images and videos can be daunting. While biometric tools like automated face recognition could assist analysts in this task, current tools ... | __label__pos | 0.966557 |
The bane of databases is the false positive – the inclusion of an entry that shouldn’t be there. For anti-malware databases, false positives are inconvenient: good software is blocked because it is believed to be bad. For human databases it can be equally inconvenient: a false positive in the no-fly database means you ... | __label__pos | 0.999972 |
In a social and economic experiment as bold as it was challenging, Maggie and John Anderson pledged to spend a year buying only from black-owned businesses in their hometown of Chicago. In
Our Black Year, Maggie and co-author Ted Gregory chronicle the results of the couple’s experience, balancing the harsh realities of... | __label__pos | 0.985204 |
One thing people might not realize about gray hair is that it can develop a film from environmental resins. Whether they’re byproducts of conditioners that coat the hair reacting to ultraviolet rays, deposits from low quality air including cigarette smoke or simply a buildup of styling products, there are a few ways yo... | __label__pos | 0.866531 |
The Government is set to investigate ways to improve the house buying process.
In today’s Budget document the Treasury claimed consumers spend £270m each year on failed housing transactions.
When a transaction falls through buyers normally end up losing their legal, survey and mortgage fees.
It said: “The Government wi... | __label__pos | 0.956631 |
Abstract
Users of information in science and technology have been studied in great detail with respect to material read, amount of time spent in reading and searching the literature, categories of questions asked, and so on. Probing for this information has been undertaken by means of structured and unstructured interv... | __label__pos | 0.99998 |
This Huffington Post article tells the sad and unfortunate story of a gay Catholic who has been told to stop serving the Catholic community to which he belongs. The story occurs in the Rockville Centre diocese in New York.
A couple of items stand out. First of all, what he is no longer able to do is perform good works.... | __label__pos | 0.897529 |
Understanding capitalism's elastic production of money and moving on beyond Adam Smith and 'fractional reserve banking' - Ann Pettifor reviews Geoffrey Ingham's Capitalism
Introduction Modern finance is generally incomprehensible to ordinary men and women..... The level of comprehension of many bankers and regulators i... | __label__pos | 0.803521 |
If Australia has a food culture, then we’re pretty sure that The Australian Women’s Weekly has helped define it.
Within the
Almost Vegetarian
cookbook, the Weekly foodies steer away from their sickly sweet cakes and comfort food,
and serve up an extensive list of plant-rich recipes to increase your daily vegetable inta... | __label__pos | 0.995145 |
Would you say it's discovered or invented?
To say that Mathematics is discovered has the presumption that any form of intelligent life in our universe has the ability to understand Math also. To say that Math is invented is doubting the existence of the reality we are a part of, which can be a disruptive thought to man... | __label__pos | 0.973825 |
Russia's anti-terror cooperation may lead to easing of Western sanctions
In December, EU officials are due to decide on sanctions policy against Russia.
According to Wall Street Journal sources, Brussels is considering three options. The toughest one includes extending sanctions by a year; a milder ruling includes half... | __label__pos | 0.943246 |
October 18, 2010
Dear Chairman Schapiro,
I am writing to express concern that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable are pressuring the SEC to rewrite the U.S. proxy system. These groups want companies to have greater control over proxy voting by shareholders. For example:
-- The U.S. Chamber of Comme... | __label__pos | 0.886284 |
By Chief Martin Skibba
Special to the City Times
As newly hired police officers, we pledge to be stewards, seeking to earn our community’s trust while striving to make it a better, safer and secure place to live.
As we become part of this community, it is not the 25 or 30 pounds of equipment we are asked to wear that w... | __label__pos | 0.983561 |
Masha with Kalam after her invention
Chennai, Oct. 16: A schoolgirl who has solved a centuries-old problem vexing Indian train travellers will rub shoulders with global experts at the World Toilet Summit in Delhi.
Fourteen-year-old K. Masha Nazeem of Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, had two years ago designed a train toilet that... | __label__pos | 0.993504 |
For the diaspora Jew, what to do over Christmas can be a taxing question. It's almost impossible to ignore the festival completely and it's a wonderful opportunity for rest and relaxation with family and friends. But how to avoid being compromised by the Christian connotations?
For a truly Jewish alternative to Christm... | __label__pos | 0.996878 |
Some years ago, a television prank show dropped in on the home of a Muzak executive – bringing along a couple of speakers and an amplifier so he could enjoy his lovely products from his own lawn. The point of the gag, of course, was that even the man producing it would not want to hear anything so mind-numbingly bland.... | __label__pos | 0.997642 |
This essay has been submitted by a student. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers.
Scientific management theory was well known established by Frederick Winslow Taylor during the 1880s and hence the term 'Taylorism' being introduced. Taylorism theory explains the systematic approac... | __label__pos | 0.956134 |
Thanks to a strong dollar and sluggish demand, prices in the energy commodity world have been quite weak this year. In fact, crude oil in WTI terms has slumped by about 21% so far in 2012 while Brent crude—the European benchmark for the commodity—has lost about 12.2% in the same time frame.
These kinds of performances ... | __label__pos | 0.902904 |
A review of the health record of 250,000 Southern California kids reveals that not only can high blood pressure occur in very young children, it can also trigger early changes that lead to heart disease. The reason is obesity.
One local child is learning a tough lesson. A 9-year-old should be free of worries, but three... | __label__pos | 0.756956 |
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Here's a cause close to my heart since I look after all the kids with type 1 diabetes up here in Darwin
It saddens me when parents tell me that:
"no one asks my child over for a sleep over because they are afraid of the added responsibility and if they have to give my child an injection.."
".... | __label__pos | 0.792006 |
Beyond the University: Teaching Ethnographic Methods in the Corporation
Brigitte Jordan
Palo Alto Research Center
Yutaka Yamauchi
Palo Alto Research Center
Ethnography has grown popular in the business world. Corporate executives have become enamored with the idea that ethnographers actually go out into kitchens and fa... | __label__pos | 0.935042 |
This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com
A friend of mine, let’s call her Marie, called me about buying items for her stockpile while she was shopping at a big box store. We went over beans, rice, sugar, canned foods, toilet paper and others good bulk items. Marie told me she’d call me back after she got throu... | __label__pos | 0.735023 |
It can be difficult for store clerks to figure out someone's age just by looking, said Shirley Barnhart, owner of Barnhart's Supermarkets in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
"I've told 'em (employees) to card them unless they have gray hair," she said.
Some stores, including Terrace Liquors in Hagerstown, have p... | __label__pos | 0.855664 |
WILMINGTON, N.C. — A researcher says he made fish drunk in order to show what alcohol does to the temperaments of people who drink like fish.
Professor Mark Galizio of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington said Tuesday his research with male Siamese fighting fish developed new evidence that alcohol makes peopl... | __label__pos | 0.820696 |
The Aeromedical Perspective
Based on traditional medical models, this perspective is formulated on the idea that errors are the result of underlying mental or physiological conditions which are
‘triggered’ by environmental conditions or circumstances to influence performance and potentially create an error or accident ... | __label__pos | 0.973563 |
With thanks to Amma Resonance Healing Foundation
View these amazing videos http://www.arhf.nl/documentaries.php
The ARHF promotes the development of healing through resonance.
Healing by resonanceis based on the universal law that information similar to the nature of a disease and its totality of symptoms can induce a ... | __label__pos | 0.969018 |
That’s one of the responses from a man standing in line at the welfare office. If your stomach can take it, please watch this video. Our country is spending money faster than we can print it and there’s no doubt in my mind that we’re heading in the same direction as Greece – a big fat entitlement society.
Our national ... | __label__pos | 0.969811 |
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Posted by Bill of the Birds at 6:01 PM
As the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest magazine, I get a lot of nature and birding books sent to me for review. Most of them I send off to BWD's hand-picked reviewers, often folks with an interest or expertise in the subject matter... | __label__pos | 0.990851 |
In this season of taxation, it is refreshing to consider strategies for lowering taxes and making governments more efficient. London’s Institute of Economic Affairs recently published a fascinating monograph by Richard Teather,
The Benefits of Tax Competition. It’s available for download here.
Teather examines from var... | __label__pos | 0.938175 |
While vacationing in Bali, Professor Joan Melnick, Interior Design ’61, spent a day in a bamboo wonderland. She was inspired to visit after watching a Ted Talk.
Almost everything in the Green School and adjacent Green Village are made out of bamboo. Because bamboo takes just four years to mature, harvesting it doesn’t ... | __label__pos | 0.999653 |
Earlier today, the California Supreme Court denied review of the case
Vargas v. City of Salinas, which sought review of an outrageous, ruinous award of over $250,000 in attorneys’ fees against two individuals who brought a nonfrivolous public interest lawsuit against a city (they won a legal issue, but lost on the fact... | __label__pos | 0.928551 |
Private and Public Sphere in the Roman House: Semantics, Archaeology and Performative Theory
A collaborative study to be executed at the University of Helsinki, funded by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. Project director: Dr Kaius Tuori
The aim and objectives of the research
Studies on the domestic space in Roman context ... | __label__pos | 0.993098 |
There’s a new addition to the parade of studies investigating potential health problems connected to the ubiquitous plastics ingredient bisphenol A (BPA). But while the new data backs up the connection between BPA and heart disease that appeared in previous studies, the nature of the link still isn’t conclusive, and ot... | __label__pos | 0.970144 |
Today, Apple announced the new iPad 3, which has a bunch of new features and improvements over the iPad2. One of the new features is a much higher resolution display: 2048 x 1536 pixels, which they advertise as a "retina" display: ad-speak for pixels so small your eye can’t see them. The display looks smooth and unpixe... | __label__pos | 0.794207 |
Teachers everywhere face the challenge of detecting plagiarism by students. Sadly, both Tim and I have dealt with this problem in the recent past. One tool is services such as Turnitin, which compare students’ (uploaded) work to a database of existing papers and sources. The Washington Post reports that students at McL... | __label__pos | 0.982545 |
Listen
Nobody wants naked photos of themselves leaked across the internet so a global network of creeps can beat off to them. But celebs and plebs alike are increasingly confronted by this unsavoury reality. Whether it’s anonymous hackers or enraged ex-boyfriends who post the images, the story is the same: women are be... | __label__pos | 0.999439 |
Yesterday on 60 Minutes there was a report on Tel Aviv. It was interesting to watch this on Jerusalem Day.
While Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, there is no doubt that career-wise, Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel. It is the privileged who can both live and work in Jerusalem.
I’ve done the commute – going up and d... | __label__pos | 0.915673 |
Rosenblum is associate professor of political science at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of numerous articles for professional journals and The Transnational Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy (University of California, San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies). In 2006 he served as counsel... | __label__pos | 0.727258 |
2013 a turning point for building
Published: 11 February, 2013
This year is expected to be a "turning point" for the sector, says Graham Robinson at law firm Pinsent Masons. But he warns that although the start of "recovery from a deep recession" for the construction sector was likely in 2013, that return to pre-crisis... | __label__pos | 0.945347 |
… is from page 651 of Gavin Wright’s September 1990 article in the
American Economic Review, “The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940” (reprinted as chapter 13 in Robert Whaples and Dianne C. Betts, eds., Historical Perspectives on the American Economy [1995]):
Abundant resources were themselves in many w... | __label__pos | 0.999541 |
History - FAQ's What skills do I need to succeed?
Reading, writing, curiosity, and an appreciation for others and their story.
What I will learn?
History teaches not only critical thinking, oral, and written communications skills, but research skills and the ability to evaluate data and present evidence in a logical ma... | __label__pos | 0.969444 |
Posted by Lexington Green on December 11th, 2004 (All posts by Lexington Green)
Ken’s post about crime provoked an interesting comment from Yehudit. Ken suggested, seriously, that prisoners all be kept in solitary confinement. Yehudit correctly noted that this would essentially make them all into mental cases, if they ... | __label__pos | 0.991115 |
My teenage son made his first skydive out of an airplane this summer, but the adrenaline rush he got from that adventure cannot compare to the way I feel when I break open the new calendar for the year.
The organizer types out there are giving me a high five right now, and the rest of you think I have a screw loose.
Bu... | __label__pos | 0.894126 |
Rusty Reno tackles the question of where to begin when considering our life in God in his
First Things essay, "In The Beginning." Reno provokes me to ask a few questions. Where do we begin, when, why and for what purpose? What is our destiny, in other words? Where do our loyalties exist? Are we wedded too much to our i... | __label__pos | 0.55129 |
WHAT HAPPENS ONCE EVERYONE HAS A PET ROCK? Overview
Every day, a countless number of new ideas are shared with the world via the Internet. Considering the ease with which ideas spread online, the rate at which these ideas transform into viral trends has also significantly increased. And consequently, the amount of time... | __label__pos | 0.999415 |
Thursday, February 09, 2006 101 USES FOR A DEAD WHALE
Forget the Japanese and their "whale science". This man has it right. Craig Smith is a marine biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Since 1992, he has been putting scrap metal on dead whales and sending them to the bottom of the ocean. He's done this with ... | __label__pos | 0.915691 |
Rachel Carson was an American zoologist and marine biologist. In 1936 she became only the second woman to be hired by the, then, U.S. Bureau of Fisheries for a full time professional position, as a junior aquatic biologist.
She was 29 years old and caring for an aging mother, the next year her older sister died and she... | __label__pos | 0.851238 |
The majority of Americans think it best to keep civil marriage as the union of a man and a woman. But a handful of judges have overruled the reasonable judgments and will of the people and their elected representatives, claiming that animus and anti-gay bigotry underlie such conclusions.
For example, Judge Joseph Tauro... | __label__pos | 0.723415 |
Conventional Wisdom on the Environment
Ben Lieberman /
The Democratic National Convention in Denver endeavored to be “the most environmentally sustainable political convention in modern American history,” according to the convention’s Director of Greening (really) Andrea Robinson. But how much green will all that green... | __label__pos | 0.991466 |
The “flipped” classroom concept has been the leading innovative approach to redesigning the classroom for more effective teaching and learning. Since then, many people, including Pamela E. Barnett, associate vice provost and director of the Teaching & Learning Center at Temple University, have questioned the actual val... | __label__pos | 0.985398 |
Article Title Abstract
We often ask of law whether it succeeds at judging and organizing society. We ask: "Is this law good?" or "Does this law work as intended?" One way of thinking about whether law succeeds (is "good") is if instead of dominance and oppression from law, given its reasons for benefiting some and burd... | __label__pos | 0.768558 |
24/7/365 Water Removal in Willow Park The first choice for restoring your life ! Water Damage Restoration servingWillow Park, Texas
Water damage restoration entails entering a residence or building following a water leak, leaking roof, sink or tub overflow, flood, or violent storm damage and not just clearing the debri... | __label__pos | 0.980121 |
Water quality and fish populations of the Welland River, Ontario / Date1981-06-15 Author
Steele, Peter Owen.
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The water quality and fish populations of the Welland River were observed to decline with distance downstream. This coincided with increased agricultural , domestic and ind... | __label__pos | 0.951231 |
By Nicole Leinbach Reyhle, forbes.com
There’s a misconception in retail that you need to gain new customers all the time when in reality, repeat customers are what any business should aim for. Of course, gaining new customers along the way should remain on any business owner’s to-do-list – but if you treat all customer... | __label__pos | 0.980617 |
by Judge Stephen Halsey
As a judge I really enjoy public outreach: speaking to citizens’ groups and school children; hosting a cable television show; and recording commentary on a local AM radio station. Recently, I submitted article No. 100 (since November 2006) to newspapers in the 8 counties of the Tenth Judicial Di... | __label__pos | 0.84794 |
Personally, I’m not a fan of anonymous blogging because I’m a fan of transparency. But
The Australian newspaper recently outed “Grogs Gamut,” a regular blogger who has contributed to the public debate and expressed, at times, political preferences. It did so because this particular blogger had actually begun to have im... | __label__pos | 0.984468 |
In case you missed it... early last week The Reformed Broker detailed the incredible amount of gold that hedge funds (in this case Paulson & Co.) have accumulated in a very short period of time:
John Paulson of Paulson & Co, the legendary hedge fund manager who made tens of billions betting on the mortgage crisis betwe... | __label__pos | 0.997404 |
These work remediations guidelines should be followed stringently because smuggled mould hind end occasionally be emancipated into the air if you receive questions you tail take Maurice Manhattan at site to become free perceptivity. In Order to in effect vote out influence in carpet, you bequeath need to either adopt c... | __label__pos | 0.947999 |
A shift in direction: “Putting technology to work where it can do the most good for people and the planet”, that is our new corporate responsibility commitment.
As we have stated in our 2012 CR report, many of our goals have a target completion date at the end of this year.
If you attended our Financial Analyst Day, li... | __label__pos | 0.798896 |
by Peter K. Prybot
GLOUCESTER, MA – “In my 72 years along the Gloucester waterfront, I’ve never seen such a professional operation as his,” said George Ingersol, at the dock on a recent summer afternoon.
His compliment was directed at fixed-gear fisherman and fleet owner Jon Williams of Westport, ME, who bases his slim... | __label__pos | 0.937149 |
As a research scientist myself (albeit a different field entirely-neuroscience). Most scientific endeavors do go to "waste" they can be either money pits for awhile until some useful insight is discovered, or fail catastrophically.
That's just science.
And 99% of science is painfully dull and basic. You don't need basi... | __label__pos | 0.994144 |
How many architects does it take to change a light bulb? Well, we don’t have the silly response to that joke, but with one quick Google search you can find a lot of jokes about architecture and architects. It seems that architects get picked on for their quirky personalities and traits.
However, here at Freshome, we re... | __label__pos | 0.893636 |
Webinar: 15 Minutes 'til 50 Patients | Prepping for a Mass Casualty Event Date/Time: Tuesday, January 24th, 2 pm ET / 11 am PT Christopher Riccardi, Terry Stone, Brad Baldridge, MDSpeakers:
Failure is not an option. Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) must be managed swiftly and efficiently -- lives are at stake. "15 Minute... | __label__pos | 0.973412 |
With the latest splurge of sunshine and the odd couple of 16°C days that have been present through March; GardenToolbox have already seen an increase in sales and traffic to the website. Who knew weather could be so important to a business? http://www.GardenToolbox.co.uk
As the weather becomes more enticing for people ... | __label__pos | 0.959718 |
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