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So what is a New York City Democrat supposed to do?
For the first time in the history of Greater New York, two Republican Mayors have won back-to-back terms, meaning that this supposed bastion of liberal Democratic politics will have had a Republican Mayor for 16 consecutive years. The last time a Democrat won a Mayora... | __label__pos | 0.990855 |
Every year, our neighbors host a Chili Cook-Off. Now in its 10
th year, word of mouth has turned this event into a giant extravaganza. Sometimes random strangers show up – “I heard from so-and-so, who heard from your neighbors that you do an awesome chili event.” Our Cook-Off hosts have a “the-more-the-merrier” attitud... | __label__pos | 0.99347 |
This is the description of my presentation:
Understand business blogging, podcasting, videocasting, SMS and other new technologiesThis is very impressive, but I prefer the title "Clear Words, Obscure Benefits" to the official version ("Obscure Words, Clear Benefits"). I guess mine is the glass half-empty version. Keep ... | __label__pos | 0.980471 |
There’s a hot story today about some new research by the American Automobile Association on marijuana in fatal accidents.
As usual, media coverage is misleading.
The best example of this media abuse comes from Tom Costello and The Today Show with a headline asserting marijuana is causing a spike in fatal accidents.
How... | __label__pos | 0.947345 |
What do you do when you've got free time on the International Space Station and a bunch of legos? Build a Van de Graaff generator out of lego bricks, a rubber band, and a drill of course! In 2012 astronaut Don Pettit did exactly this when he was on board the ISS; he then searched around for objects to electrify, little... | __label__pos | 0.774804 |
Set-asides may be set aside City may alter its rules for PUDs
The city of Lake Oswego may ease open space set-aside requirements for planned developments.
The city currently requires that 20 percent or more of a planned development must have open space set aside. The requirement attempts to ensure that developments are... | __label__pos | 0.806741 |
The Competition Committee’s annual pre-league meeting get-together includes, for 2015, examination of roster size.
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the Competition Committee is considering expanding rosters from 53 to 55.
Opposition to larger rosters previously came from the fact that more than a few teams... | __label__pos | 0.967801 |
Herbert Silberer (February 28, 1882, Vienna – January 12, 1923) was a Viennese psychoanalyst involved with the professional circle surrounding Sigmund Freud which included other pioneers of psychological study as Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and others. He had a background in athletics and sports journalism.
He was very int... | __label__pos | 0.533038 |
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et al randomized 1,647 people with moderate to severe COPD for the two trials, to receive either aclidinium inhaled (a potential tiotropium competitor) once daily or placebo for 1 year. Aclidinium improved FEV1 by ~65 mL. An absolute ~8% more people taking ... | __label__pos | 0.999625 |
Amy Vogelsang
Record Staff Writer
Throughout 187 countries, 13 million volunteers respond to roughly 700,000 disasters a year, but the American Red Cross does more than show up when these diasters strike.
With a branch in Southeastern New Mexico, Red Cross is focused also on individual tragedies, said Development Coord... | __label__pos | 0.773363 |
This construction client's manual is written in the form of a list of activities. It supports owners in the role of client by helping them make choices during the project development process. This increases control over cost, quality and duration at each stage.Activities within each main stage of the project developmen... | __label__pos | 0.732425 |
How SM brings a team of 380,000 closer together
[IBM's George Faulkner]
In my interview earlier this year with
Firestoker's Jevon MacDonald, I speculated there was probably more happening in social media behind the firewall than in front of it. In this talk with IBM's George Faulkner, I would speculate that there is mo... | __label__pos | 0.971959 |
B y Tufail Ahmad, New Age Islam
11 November 2015
Secularism as practised in India is a threat to Indian Muslims for the reasons given in the paragraphs below. As per purely academic definitions, there are primarily two meanings of secularism. First, it is a movement of ideas that slowly removes the excessive influence ... | __label__pos | 0.885372 |
Recent gains in collaboration technology and, more importantly, their growing adoption within companies of all sizes, now make it possible for you to impact every stage of the customer life cycle. Deploying a combination of engagement platforms and pragmatic analytics for your installed base of customers allows you to ... | __label__pos | 0.983411 |
The first hedge fund linked index ETF launched a few weeks back in the United States, and now
Index IQ has created a plan greatly expand their hedge fund replication ETF family. Index IQ’s first hedge fund ETF is setting the bar for the 15 new funds that will track indexes created by IndexIQ. The IQ Hedge Multi Strateg... | __label__pos | 0.99368 |
Five years ago when Chairman Ben Bernanke started using quantitative easing (QE) to save the economy, the Federal Reserve was made into a one-way street with no return. With the unprecedented amount of new money being injected into the economy, there is no way to reverse course. All the talk now of tapering is merely p... | __label__pos | 0.661657 |
On this day in 1862, 4,000 troops in the Mexican Army led by General Ignacio Zaragoza beat a force of 8,000 of French Count Charles Latrille’s soldiers at Puebla in Mexico, winning their independence in the process. What the majority of folks think of today as a marketing gimmick sponsored by Corona is not due to a lac... | __label__pos | 0.938124 |
Presentation on theme: "Reading Comprehension Strategy: Making Mental Images Movies should take place in your mind every time you read. Catherine Wishart Literacy Coach Copyright."— Presentation transcript:
2Sensory Images “Sensory images are the cinema unfolding in your mind that make reading three- dimensional” (Zimm... | __label__pos | 0.684004 |
The reality is for many of us females breastfeeding a baby will take lots of work, endurance, remark along with prayer. Any time Griffin was born from a grueling 27 hours involving work, he or she arrived from the tummy crying… most likely mainly because he or she ended up being jammed within the canal intended for a f... | __label__pos | 0.993154 |
The weight loss industry is booming. As technology advances and much more processed vegetarian foods "sprout up", your belly fat is growing as big as a non-vegetarian. You only have simply to walk along the aisles at the local food store or pharmacy to observe that there's an entire aisle dedicated and then weight redu... | __label__pos | 0.994296 |
My world is rife with loss right now. From a broken foot and ankle to a family emergency to the memories of grief revisited, I am swimming in pain. In no particular order — because that is what grief does to me, it disrupts order and my capacity for it — here are some of the lessons that have emerged from the past mont... | __label__pos | 0.991956 |
Over the past decade, s elf-serve advertising platforms have been seen as a potential lynchpin for creating successful hyperlocal business models —potentially bringing down the cost of merchant acquisition and management to the point where serious profit can be made by aggregating smaller-sized SMB ad insertions. But s... | __label__pos | 0.987572 |
In “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles, it is evident that Finny and Leper undergo the most traumatic experiences from the Class of 1943. Through these experiences, both characters lose much of their innocence and naivety. Finny, upon learning of the existence of the war and Gene’s moment of hatred, learns to accept rea... | __label__pos | 0.990666 |
Out of all the mass shootings, if you were callously sit down and rank them (I wouldn’t necessarily recommend doing this, no), Sandy Hook might be the worst. A loss of life is a loss of life wherever it happens, yes. But when the life lost might not yet understand what death is? And when it all comes after one of the m... | __label__pos | 0.850888 |
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, the key outcome of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 2011, has been dubbed by many as the platform for inaction, with the decision to find agreement by 2015 being seen as the agreement to disagree at a la... | __label__pos | 0.623412 |
Content marketing is a hot topic in digital marketing circles, and the advent of social media has driven this. One of the main things that drives consumer engagement with social media is successful content marketing but, without content that’s strategically planned, solid and compelling, your social media is doing litt... | __label__pos | 0.84755 |
Penultimate Thursday, at the Unity Hall, Government House, Asaba, the crowd that gathered was very different from the one that usually filled the hall. This time, secondary school students drawn from different parts of the states were in attendance for the maiden edition of the Delta State International Literary Sessio... | __label__pos | 0.960888 |
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By Robert McClory Editor's Note: The following article was first published November 17, 2011 by the National Catholic Reporter. The recent, very thorough survey of American Catholics, whose results were featured in the Oct. 28-Nov. 10 NCR, revealed no overwhelming shifts in belief and practice since the first such su... | __label__pos | 0.9208 |
I'm a quote hoarder. Whether it's some profound saying from some brilliant historical figure or an awesome line from
The Simpsons, I adore quotes. I find some inspirational, some funny, some sad, and some just plain weird. Sometimes placing a very well-thought-out quote plainly visible to me helps serve as a constant r... | __label__pos | 0.872494 |
Men have been vainly searching for a way to cure baldness for at least 3,500 years, says Rob Dunn in
New Scientist, pointing to an ancient Egyptian papyrus outlining an anti-baldness recipe that blends iron oxide, lead, alabaster, onions, honey, and fat from a snake, crocodile, hippopotamus, and lion. But those hair-ch... | __label__pos | 0.769615 |
I talk to strangers.
Recently I talked to this lady who worked at a gas station. I was mixing up my special coffee for an all-night-er of college homework. There was the lady getting a new pot of coffee on and there was me wearing my black trench coat and beret with a half made cup of coffee. We stood there, both not t... | __label__pos | 0.922078 |
An electronic world creates new and varied social circles
People who once conversed over fences, in driveways and on porches now do so online.
Websites such as the newly debuted Nextdoor use neighborhood-created maps to form private groups for neighbors.• Even longtime civic associations are moving communications to Fa... | __label__pos | 0.89791 |
Duke study suggests Marcellus fluids can seep up into water supplies
Underground water supplies in some parts of Pennsylvania can be contaminated by fluid from the Marcellus shale, putting them at greater risk because of heavy gas drilling into that formation, according to a study released on Monday that critics challe... | __label__pos | 0.771024 |
“Just go with the flow.” If anyone has ever given you tips for travel in India, you have likely heard this phrase. It means that unexpected things are bound to happen and you should just roll with it.
I don’t know how this travel tip has become so unanimously supported as the single piece of advice given to first time ... | __label__pos | 0.939817 |
Save Space and Get Organized With These Pinterest Kitchen Hacks
At some point during your 20s, you’ll live in an apartment the size of a large shipping container – if you haven’t already. It’s a rite of passage.
During this time, you’ll pick up lots of neat tricks for making it seem as though you have more space than y... | __label__pos | 0.984366 |
No matter where I have traveled in the world, I have found that the many of the larger stretches of primeval forests can only be reached by logging roads. Consider the old growth stands of Sitka spruce and red cedar in the Carmanah Valley, on a remote part of southeast Vancouver Island. Canada’s tallest tree, 313 feet ... | __label__pos | 0.918273 |
Congressman Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) signed on to a letter to President Barack Obama this week which urged the President to finalize the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline.
The President has delayed the nearly-completed approval process citing potential environmental issues. The project's main opponent, Ne... | __label__pos | 0.597727 |
By Maggie Thurber | Special to Ohio Watchdog
Toledo Public Schools has a new 4.9 mill levy on the November ballot. This is on top of the 64.39 mills it already collects and in addition to its $11.22 million carryover from the 2011-12 school year.
While this would seem to be enough money — at least to get through to nex... | __label__pos | 0.839782 |
Now, this doesn't mean that, if you get a flat tire on your Chevy, you have to complain to the president at GM. After all, he might not even be there by the time your mail gets delivered.
When you complain to a big corporation, your complaint starts at the lowest level, even if you address it to the CEO. For example, w... | __label__pos | 0.731041 |
Sunday, February 03, 2013 The League of Authoritarian Gentlemen
Alexander Cooley in Foreign Policy:
For years now, the United States and its allies in Europe and Asia have been talking about the importance of common efforts to promote human rights and democratic values around the world. If the liberal democracies poole... | __label__pos | 0.980653 |
The Academy will continue to fight for family physicians and their patients in 2010 because patients need better access to health care and primary care physicians deserve fair payment for their services. That's according to AAFP President Lori Heim, M.D., who currently serves as a hospitalist at Scotland Memorial Hospi... | __label__pos | 0.739046 |
After one district nurse neglected to identify an infection, one Newcastle woman has recently been awarded £500,000 in a medical negligence compensation claim.
According to the woman’s personal injury claims, Heaton native Angela Banks, forty six years of age, ended up being a virtual prisoner for thirty months as she ... | __label__pos | 0.876164 |
A reminder to get your comments in on the Comp Plan map website before Dec 31, 2013 when the comment period ends.
What’s Inside? The Map App is a way for you to explore maps of the city and help determine what Portland could look like and how it should grow over the next 20 years. Use the Map App to learn more about an... | __label__pos | 0.973136 |
DevOps is a marriage between tools and culture. If you are just using the tools that you heard about at a recent DevOps Days and not also embracing the culture (or at least working towards it) then you're not really "doing DevOps".
Is using DevOps tools, but not really "doing DevOps" a problem? Is the cultural baggage ... | __label__pos | 0.996647 |
It wasn’t hard finding Palmer amaranth dotting fields in the Midwest and South last summer, and many of this pigweed species were herbicide resistant. Showing the degree of resistance, mainly to glyphosate herbicide, was easy for Bayer CropScience at their “Respect the Rotation” demonstration plots held across the two ... | __label__pos | 0.905902 |
Congressional Republicans are like a pathetic victim of bullying. When faced with a challenge, they draw up into a ball and beg not to be kicked.
The irony is they have the tools to defend themselves. They just don’t get it so they remain the helpless victim.
Think about their situation going into the recent debt ceili... | __label__pos | 0.989466 |
Legislature must protect Alaska's most valuable resource
On the door of a kindergarten classroom in Juneau, I saw a sign that read “Graduating Class of 2025.” What will 2025 be like? I don’t know. But as a school board member, I consider it a sacred public trust to prepare our kids for it.
Much has been written about t... | __label__pos | 0.900324 |
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Well there must be a few hundred on the roads in 159s & Breras, even more so in the Giulietta with this engine. However there are lots of things that conspire against the turbo on the 1750 lasting a long time:
1) Direct injection - these engines are known for petrol dilution of the engine oil. We have seen upwar... | __label__pos | 0.9986 |
As a seasoned veteran on the Ardmore City Commission, Mayor Martin Dyer is no stranger to addressing city residents. During the annual Community Forum, Dyer recalled some messages from the past.
“A few years back in the State of the City, I said I was cautiously optimistic,” Dyer said. “In the next one, I said I was op... | __label__pos | 0.85261 |
Sometimes apparently small things can change the world.
Why is it that world population started explosive growth around 7 to 8 centuries ago? Here's what it looks like to me. Johannes Gutenberg is known as the inventor of the movable type printing press. Printing with screw-driven presses already existed in the Chinese... | __label__pos | 0.957213 |
Technology: No down payment for owning electric vehicles in India, says minister
India is striving hard to be the pioneer of electric vehicles. By 2030, all of India will drive EVs.
At a recent event organized by CII Young India, Piyush Goyal, Union minister of state for power, stated that India has the potential to be... | __label__pos | 0.961392 |
Researchers Study Human Interaction With Automated Cars
Photo of UMTRI's driving simulator lab courtesy of University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
Progress toward fully automated vehicles is happening rapidly, but many questions remain unanswered – particularly those related to human behavior.
“Some o... | __label__pos | 0.644713 |
We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
Passionate and forcefully argu... | __label__pos | 0.99977 |
Enterprise BI shops and data quality departments regard spreadsheets largely as the work of the devil. Against all the rules of information quality, data in spreadsheets is manipulated by users at will and in private. Then the resulting data and function is distributed, shared and further played around with, until it's... | __label__pos | 0.997209 |
Rodale Press
January, 2004
The concept of
The Family CFO: The Couple's Business Plan for Love and Moneyis that couples can and should run the financial side of their homes like a business. Two good friends collaborated and wrote The Family CFO. One is a certified financial planner and a principal in a large financial p... | __label__pos | 0.989321 |
What to Expect at the Upcoming Meeting of World Central Bankers
By George Leong
It’s that time again; the world’s most important bankers are meeting this week at the annual Jackson Hole symposium of global central bankers. This is the same meeting where the Federal Reserve’s Ben Bernanke launched the bank’s third round... | __label__pos | 0.993363 |
(Fwd) Are plants making fish happy??? Keith C. Cheng kcheng at psu.edu Wed Mar 25 17:09:37 EST 1998 Dear Eva and Thomas,
We use no real plants, and only use bits of net or artifical plants for
spawning.
It is clear from experience in many laboratories that real plants from
pet
stores or the wild bring undesirable organ... | __label__pos | 0.98288 |
Cross Cultural Management
Module lead: Cristina Sambrook
Credits: 10
This module is delivered in Semester 1. Module aims and objectives
The aim of the module is to introduce students to culture as a major force in international business within the context of a global economy. In this module we define culture, review it... | __label__pos | 0.986289 |
Security is the base of any business and is an asset that must be worked from the inside out.
Therefore to be recognised as a company that is efficient in card data processing gives us special value. Especially when it becomes something of a habit.
This is the fifth consecutive year that
Idiso Hotel Distribution has be... | __label__pos | 0.907378 |
Dear Dan: I’m a 34-year-old straight female. I am morbidly obese and have been for most of my life. I have never dated. I’ve been on a couple of dates, and only when I asked the guy out. From reading your columns and books, I am aware that some men are attracted to fat women. But since I never received any real sexual ... | __label__pos | 0.945549 |
Kudler Fine Foods management team strategy is looking to innovation in their business. The management team will consider all the individual personality types. This can benefit the creativity process but can also bring in conflict. Carl, Brandi, and Rudy have an intuitive personality and are important to achieve goals. ... | __label__pos | 0.998412 |
Parlay Tips
Every once in a while, despite the best bookmaking and balancing of positions, sportsbook managers find a surprise in their daily summaries, like a player hitting a $1 million 8-team parlay. Though the occasional player hitting a home-run on a parlay should be expected, when a big one hits, it can catch spo... | __label__pos | 0.806777 |
A reader sent us the following chart and asked whether it was accurate.
The chart, which, notably, was produced by the Office Of The Democratic Leader, shows the amount the U.S. debt expanded under each President since Reagan. It shows that the debt increased far more on a percentage basis under Republican Presidents R... | __label__pos | 0.931725 |
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JUNEAU - In light of Juneau's power crises, most attention is focused on immediate issues like rate changes, repair timelines and ways to conserve energy.
Meanwhile, avalanche experts like Bill Glude do much of their work far from the public eye. Glude is with Alaska Avalanche... | __label__pos | 0.977925 |
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The secretariat of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community has welcomed a proposed EU law that would safeguard Sunday as a day of rest from work.
According to L’Osservatore Romano, the secretariat issued a statement praising the measure proposed by five EU parliamentarians to recognize t... | __label__pos | 0.983583 |
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Hi, Just wondering what the urine is being collected for? They need a sample around 5mls. I would of course get as much as you can. The problem with urinalysis being done from a catch sample, is that there is always bacteria in everything. So there can be bacteria on the fur and the sa... | __label__pos | 0.964884 |
Strawberry growers in the Quebec City area are benefiting from the unintended consequences of a combination of viruses attacking strawberry crops across the southern part of the province.
Normally early July is prime strawberry-picking time.
With 560 strawberry-producing businesses in the province, Quebec is the bigges... | __label__pos | 0.982985 |
Apparently one of the greatest mysteries in science is how to make a science out of drug discovery.
Let me refer you off the top to Aled Edwards and his blistering critique of today's drug development procedures: "What is crippling the development of new medicines is the fact that as we discover potential new medicines... | __label__pos | 0.871499 |
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US President Barack Obama's current policy, in line with the prevailing Washington consensus, favours escalation in Afghanistan. The idea is that as the United States' military presence in Iraq is drawn down, the use of force can be refocused on Afghanistan to forge a more viable state. The principal instruments ... | __label__pos | 0.993017 |
Christmas holly berries are the small red fruits that grow on the holly. The holly has become widely associated with Christmas for reasons that will be explained. The holly along with its berries provides an inexpensive and feasible method of decorating homes during Christmas. However, these seemingly mystical plants w... | __label__pos | 0.804647 |
CREDIT card rates have reached a twelve-year high as providers become wary of borrowers inability to repay debts during the recession.
The average credit card rate now stands at 18.8 per cent, a four per cent rise from 2006 when increased competition between providers drove rates down.
Banks and credit companies face h... | __label__pos | 0.950433 |
As designers, we rely on communicating detail to our teammates and collaborators. Sometimes a picture is a thousand words, but often, we need more words and explanation to make those diagrams effective.
UIE: You've mentioned that annotation is a powerful way to add value to a deliverable. What sort of things do you ann... | __label__pos | 0.932612 |
Don't think resolution, think reboot
Have you ever gotten to the point in life where you think, “I can’t keep going like this”?
Not to sound too dramatic, but that’s where I was at the end of 2016. I was worn out, wrung dry, fed up. It’s not that my life was bad – in fact, blessings overflowed. A fulfilling career, a b... | __label__pos | 0.96651 |
The rivers of life (the psyche needs attention)
Written by listed counsellor/psychotherapist:
Judith Schuepfer-Griffin Registered MBACP, BA Hons
22nd March, 20140 Comments
While I'm writing this, the Somerset Levels are under water for several weeks now; people and animals are being evacuated. It's assumed that it got ... | __label__pos | 0.995793 |
While it may be too late to plant a potager this summer, it's never too early to get a jump start on next year's vegetable patch. For Pamela Page, the secret to maintaining her 4,950-square-foot plot is advance planning — reviewing this season's results and getting organized for the future. Follow her gardening tips, a... | __label__pos | 0.966124 |
The week of January 19th, Farmington EXCL kicked off their first annual Community Reading Initiative. Coordinated by Union's Site Supervisor, Andrea Canzano, EXCL invited 16 community leaders into their programs to encourage students' growth and cognitive potential as scholars in celebration of Reading on a Cold Winter... | __label__pos | 0.999103 |
Although, personal loans are usually taken to overcome the business or essential needs but estimation of the loans is the most important task to do monthly, while giving payment to the bank
. Personal loan calculators are the best method to measure the paid amount of the debtor’s loan. It can provide you guidance about... | __label__pos | 0.953967 |
The Scale of Claytronics
Reaching across the present frontier for computing and micro-electro-mechanical systems, creators of claytronics technology seek pioneering advances on two distinctive scales of building engineered systems -
♦ The scale of the extremely small, which will be embedded in the physical hardware of ... | __label__pos | 0.998572 |
THE 1969 edition of the "American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language" listed the definition for "computer" as "a person who computes." These days, 10 years after the birth of the personal computer, it's hard to imagine any dictionary making a similar mistake. Just as computers have permeated our lives, the lan... | __label__pos | 0.985895 |
Europe makes room for Chinese investment, but not without concern
China has signed a number of trade deals throughout Europe that could boost struggling economies, but some Europeans have misgivings about the possibility of a financial lifeline from China.
Madrid — China's new foray in Europe was launched just days int... | __label__pos | 0.809928 |
Restless minds will want to know what Asian manufacture of furniture, clothes, electronics and other goods has to do with business intelligence.
A globe-trotting industrial engineer who’d rather not be named has been telling me about different perceptions of quality among nationalities. He works on contract to American... | __label__pos | 0.997138 |
To support his claim, Dewar penned a scathing broadside decrying todays college-level computer science training. (The article was co-authored by Edmond Schonberg, also a CS professor emeritus at NYU.) Entitled Computer Science Education: Where are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?, the widely read article has prompte... | __label__pos | 0.997864 |
If children are paid for better grades, they will want to do better in school. We don't have to pay children for D's and F's, this is rewards for GOOD GRADES, not just for being at school. When students are paid for good grades, they learn that working hard and making good choices does have its rewards. They will try t... | __label__pos | 0.95618 |
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Working Partners has posted Nine Tips for Employers planning an office celebration this holiday season. Here’s what it suggests:
Be honest with employees.Make sure your employees know your workplace substance abuse policy and that the policy addresses the use of alcoholic beverages ... | __label__pos | 0.922269 |
Snowmakers and groomers saved the extra-lean 2011-12 season, and this time around the formerly hidden heroes are taking a starring role.
As snowmaking guns begin blowing this month, the state’s snowmakers are employing the latest techniques, strategies and equipment to lay down the initial base that will anchor ski run... | __label__pos | 0.982673 |
Tipo di magia!
03 August 2016
By applying high performance engineering, KWSP has brought a rare Alfa Romeo Tipo back to life and ready to race again
One of only 12 prototype race ‘Tipos’ ever made, the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3 was the Italian manufacturer’s entry into the glamorous world of the late 1960s World Sportscar C... | __label__pos | 0.89853 |
Strategies Must Accept Net's Growth
The Internet's growth and viability will continue unabated to such a degree that soon it will be almost impossible to do effective marketing without it. And, in many ways, the Internet will continue to be a direct marketer's dream.
It is amazing to send a communication via the Intern... | __label__pos | 0.805371 |
MEDICAL schools are not generally regarded as progressive agents of social change. The truth is that they tend to be bastions of medical establishment and tradition the world over.
Students are mostly the sons and daughters of an urban elite and clinical education remains grounded in tertiary medicine and its tribal in... | __label__pos | 0.991338 |
By Russel D McLean
Last week I attended a great event in Ayr. It was the second “reader’s day” I’d attended, and as ever it was great fun to mix with writers in other genres and styles as well as meet the readers and discuss not only my own books but those of other authors too.
More than usual, however, something struc... | __label__pos | 0.997446 |
It’s not easy being a child of an alcoholic. To some, it’s an insurmountable obstacle that can be too difficult to manage. No matter how difficult the situation may be, it stands as a great challenge to overcome — although not everyone has the strength to do it.
So, why do parents become alcoholics? There is perhaps no... | __label__pos | 0.832784 |
August 13th, 2012
Surviving a Long-Haul Flight
Long-haul flights are arduous. Wedged into an economy seat in the back of an aluminum-skinned aircraft (in 'steerage' I call it), can make a 10, 14, or 18-hour flight seem interminable – more so when you’re on your way
back from your dream vacation, or on a business trip, ... | __label__pos | 0.818413 |
To make sure we have peaches and nectarines every week in the summer, we grow twelve varieties of each. All of these do not bloom at the same time in the spring, which can be a good thing. If the farm receives heavy rain this month, only the peach and nectarine trees in bloom would be damaged, as opposed to the entire ... | __label__pos | 0.999211 |
IT TOOK me nearly 900 kilometres to travel to the place my father was born. For me, the journey to Binga was personal and began as a child. It was a place I imagined. My father’s birth certificate which mentioned his place of birth as Binga had always been an identity map of a curious geography I longed to explore and ... | __label__pos | 0.939152 |
By Kat Anderson
March 9, 2012
A women’s rights activist visiting from Iceland urged a San Francisco audience to “come out of the closet” as Feminists during an International Women’s Day awards luncheon held Thursday at the Westbay Community Conference Center in the Fillmore District.
The theme of the luncheon was, “Con... | __label__pos | 0.974247 |
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3.) Think of some clever ways to capture your “value proposition.” Cleverness counts -- as in Linsanity -- but so does creating value for others, your organization, your team, your product, your c... | __label__pos | 0.973534 |
VILONIA, AR -- As storm survivors move from cleanup to rebuilding many are rushing to file insurance claims.
Some insurance agents are finding homeowners are not keeping adequate records to reimburse them during a crisis.
When an agent comes out to a home, they can help make sure you get paid for the actual structure, ... | __label__pos | 0.834848 |
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For many applications, a team of robots can be effectively used. A robot team can accomplish a given task more quickly than a single agent can by dividing the task into sub-tasks and executing them concurrently. A team can also make effective use of specialists designed for a single purpose (e.g., scouting an area, ... | __label__pos | 0.641333 |
Private Lives
Published in Metropolis
August 2005
The difficulties of saving New Canaan's modernist architecture
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By Fred A. Bernstein
Janet Lindstrom, the executive director of the New Canaan Historical Society, devotes much of her time to trying to save the town’s exem... | __label__pos | 0.962899 |
When Sen. Barack Obama made his decision to run for president, I predicted that he would win despite the belief of many that America is not ready to elect a black man.
My prediction was based on the fact that we, the human race, are evolving to a higher level of thinking by forces beyond our control. It was also based ... | __label__pos | 0.986224 |
The Commissionersand members of the
Glen RockEnvironmental Commission (GREC) would like to address the environmentalconcerns that have been raised due to the pending construction of theEnvironmental Education Center (EEC) at the Thielke Arboretum. We believe thatthe proposed site, set back from Doremus Avenue, is an id... | __label__pos | 0.838996 |
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