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The historic naming of retired General Colin Powell to the post of U.S. Secretary of State has been as remarkable as it was unprecedented, chiefly because of his African ancestry. Most major media coverage has been positive of the Bush Administration’s pick, and Secretary Powell’s recent trip to sub-Saharan Africa has ... | __label__pos | 0.675421 |
Here's an interesting question. Should alcoholics with liver failure be candidates for liver transplants, some of which will presumably paid for by health insurance or public funds? A recent article raised this controversial topic (see: Liver Transplant Can Give Some Alcoholics a Second Chance, Says French Study). Belo... | __label__pos | 0.980806 |
Color is an element that will definitely give life to your home. The best way to play around with color? Through artworks. Whether it may be abstract or still life, or whether it is made by a prominent artist or an up-and-coming artist, artworks add character to your home.
Here, artist and homemaker Michelle Gemperle s... | __label__pos | 0.95643 |
New York
In Washington Square there are an extraordinary number of people who look like their dogs. And then there are women wearing black pants and red lipstick passing by park benches, where old men in madras shorts sit reading the SoHo News, and roller skaters weave through pedestrians like a gang of O. J. Simpsons ... | __label__pos | 0.976054 |
And often we need to do things we're not that passionate about. You may, for example have chosen to be an accountant even though you'd rather be a singer. But to be even a reasonable successful person, in any field, requires drive.
Some people are fortunate to be intrinsically driven. They do everything with vigor. But... | __label__pos | 0.997057 |
Databases:
Gale Science in Context – This database includes information from reference texts, magazines, newspapers, experiments, images, videos, audio and links to websites. You can do a general or advanced search.
Grolier New Book of Popular Science – Do an advanced search for “biomes” or for your specific biome such... | __label__pos | 0.879466 |
Medical Education
Research and Development in Medical Education Small Group Teaching - St. Mary's
2012
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A few days ago I wrote a blog post in which I mentioned Ralph Winter, and the next day I learned that he had died.
News Headlines - Missions pioneer Ralph Winter dies : Townhall.com:
Ralph Winter a veteran missiologist who 35 years ago sparked an emphasis on unreached people groups worldwide died at his home in Pasaden... | __label__pos | 0.743142 |
As long as banks supply liquidity to speculators, speculators can dominate markets. In external trade, as long a central banks provide liquidity to speculators, speculators can dominate international markets. Why you can ignore most of what is written about floating rate currencies and why the commentariat always gets ... | __label__pos | 0.999999 |
As we begin 2013, there is much to think about in the days and months ahead. Of course, if you survived the Mayan apocalypse, then there is much to look forward to in this upcoming year. I do say the Mayan Apocalypse with some sarcasm in the air. To me, there is much more to do and much to focus on, then most of us inh... | __label__pos | 0.851923 |
School Essay, Research Paper
I believe that Elementary School physical education is an essential curriculum for the development of all children. Early physical education classes provide children with a medium for progression from the random play stage to the eventual organized game and eventual structured learning. Thr... | __label__pos | 0.944799 |
After long controversy over the use of toxic chemicals, Apple has finally decided to ban the use of two toxic chemicals benzene and n-hexane in its manufacturing process.
On Thursday, Apple’s vice president of environmental initiatives Lisa Jackson announced that the company will stop using the two toxic chemicals in i... | __label__pos | 0.972281 |
My copy of
The Mythology of Imperialism, the 1973 paperback that sold for $2.75, has lots of notes in the margins. They’re excited notes, not always comprehensible now, from the first course I ever taught, a small unofficial seminar on literature and imperialism. I’ve lost the syllabus, but I remember that we read Rask... | __label__pos | 0.977306 |
GOODMAN — Imagine a small town with no retail outlets to generate sales tax income to provide government services. A town with no grocery store. No gas station.
That would have described the Delta town of Goodman, population 1,285, located approximately 50 miles north of Jackson in Holmes County, until recently. For a ... | __label__pos | 0.970016 |
Iraq’s purchase of several thousand fake bomb detectors has been an infamous case of corruption within the country. The ADE 651 devices were used despite objections from the United States and British, and when they were proven to not work, and the manufacturer was imprisoned for selling the bogus detectors the Iraqi go... | __label__pos | 0.909613 |
Air traffic control is all about getting as many aircraft through your airspace as efficiently and safely as possible. If you can successfully do that day in day out, passengers, airports and airlines will all be happy – sounds simple!
But for years that formula has been dependent on the skill and ability of the person... | __label__pos | 0.953417 |
The Dangers of Ignoring Chronic Knee and Shoulder Pain and Why Pills Are Not Always the Answer , one of Manhattan’s top Dr. Steven Shoshany chiropractorsand head of chiropractic at , is pleased to offer a long-term solution to New Yorkers living with persistently troublesome Living Well Medical knee and shoulder pain. ... | __label__pos | 0.912335 |
The model for higher education that defined the last century is falling short today. According to university and technology leaders who gathered at USC this month, these institutions need to find new sources of revenue, reduce costs and prepare more students to compete in the global economy of the 21st century.
Such ch... | __label__pos | 0.931186 |
World leaders are assembled in Paris at the moment to pretend to do something (while actually doing nothing) about climate change. And in keeping with this, John Key has announced that rather than reducing emissions, he is once again attempting to delay action by funding research instead:
Prime Minister John Key has co... | __label__pos | 0.992802 |
“With this new certificate program, the NLC will partner with the Center for Green jobs as part of the AFL-CIO’s critical national initiative,” said NLC president William E. Scheuerman.
“This certificate program will provide education that empowers workers to become change agents, working to advance sustainability valu... | __label__pos | 0.979068 |
Let’s hold off on the celebration for a little while.
The Obama administration has been quick to seize on a report last week in The New York Times that the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as ObamaCare, will reduce premiums for individually purchased insurance in New York from $1,000 per month to just $300, a pheno... | __label__pos | 0.988228 |
Coleus is a familiar, old fashioned plant grown for colorful foliage splashed with reds, creams and greens. It wasn't introduced into the gardening world until the mid-19th century, brought to cooler Europe and the United States from its tropical native environments of Java, Asia, Africa and Australia.
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Pedersen, Anders; Zhang, Kefeng; Jensen, Lars Stoumann and Thorup-Kristensen, Kristian (2007) Simulating Root Density Dynamics and Nitrogen Uptake -Field Trials and Root Model Approach in Denmark. Poster at: 37th Biological Systems Simulation Conference, Holiday Inn, College Park, Maryland,, 17-19 April.
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The growth in mobile phone and tablet use is staggering. An estimated 60% of time spent on digital media is now through mobile devices, according to comScore, while the number of smartphones will reach an estimated 2.7 billion by 2018.
We now live in a mobile-first world, and marketers understand the need to change ope... | __label__pos | 0.948098 |
"Philosophy by Another Name"
by Colin McGinn March 4th, 2012 The Atlantic
by
Colin McGinn
March 4th, 2012
The Atlantic
Every professional philosopher, or student of philosophy, knows how linguistically confusing the name of our discipline can be when talking to people outside the field. They immediately assume you are ... | __label__pos | 0.974356 |
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Tiny houses are all the rage in British Columbia nowadays. Nelson Tiny Houses calls them a "political movement" and "as much a work of art as they are a place to live." It's the latest iteration of a "smaller living" trajectory that began ... | __label__pos | 0.997257 |
Following the introduction of student loans and tuition fees, the situation of students and new graduates has changed considerably. Set in this context, Graduate Citizens is a thought-provoking, and insightful look at the current generation of students' attitudes towards citizenship and matters of social and moral resp... | __label__pos | 0.999918 |
What in Sam Hill is the deal with this crazy stock market? Macro reads are telling a tale of nasty May surprises. Earnings releases smell like a bag of trash left outside to melt on a hot, sunny summer day. We all better join an Investing 101 class held by some obscure online education institution to learn the new skil... | __label__pos | 0.962168 |
It wasn’t that long ago managers would spend half their week trying to get everyone to a location for a weekly staff meeting, or a monthly sales meeting. Technology is changing how meetings happen. No longer do employees have to get on a plane and travel half way around the world for a meeting. The virtual meeting offe... | __label__pos | 0.963848 |
This week we welcome John White who writes for the blog, How to Hire a Marketing Writer . His post is a great reminder to all of us about why--and how--we need to brand consistently. The good news is that the Web gives you dozens of B2B points of contact with prospects and customers. The bad news is that you need to sy... | __label__pos | 0.916441 |
February 9, 2007
Introduction
It is well known that businesses spend billions of dollars on lobbyists to affect legislation. They also spend untold millions on public policy groups that spread doubt about the need for any type of reform. Chief among these groups are the American Enterprise Institute, the Competitive En... | __label__pos | 0.882886 |
No fluff - just the best news in paid search marketing every week.
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In search of a better constructed, more efficient, easily replicable portfolio that is properly risk-balanced for growth with lower downside risk. Also scanning the market for high-quality assets at a discounted price. Investment horizon is always medium- to long-term (12 months or more), and will often act as a contra... | __label__pos | 0.756457 |
Here’s a quick thought on a way to use EELVs for launching Orion that I was thinking about tonight. One of the reasons why the CEV is so big that it’s hard to launch on an existing EELV is because of the amount of service module propellant. Basically, the CEV is sized to provide nearly 1800m/s of delta-V. Now, you don’... | __label__pos | 0.747475 |
Roeland Park residents Monday night provided clearly differing views on whether discrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity should be added to city business regulation ordinances.
Those opposed to adding the protections often questioned why the additions are needed and asked if any discriminat... | __label__pos | 0.944738 |
For those who don't know.. Here's an article.
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To develop a marketing plan for accredited investors with a net worth of $1M or more, a hedge fund company's advisers and portfolio managers may work together with a marketing company. The federal agency, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Rule 502(c) prohibits non-registered private hedge funds from offering or ... | __label__pos | 0.99115 |
WHEN Siemens, Europe’s biggest engineering firm, adopted the slogan “be inspired” in the mid-1990s, bribery was not what it had in mind. But no one can accuse its managers of lacking inspiration when it came to devising novel ways to funnel huge sums in backhanders to corrupt officials and politicians across the globe.... | __label__pos | 0.941432 |
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Besides outspoken sex worker Ecstacy’s story on last week’s
Untold Stories, the most trending topic on Facebook centered on the mother who defied the rules of Saint Mary’s College and insisted her son be allowed to attend class with his plaited hair uncovered. The hairy story also dominated the talk-shows, a fact that ... | __label__pos | 0.963787 |
Rights for Rapists Rights for RapistsThe Massachusetts Legislature granted parental rights to convicted rapists
By Wendy Murphy
The Massachusetts legislature unanimously agreed to amended a domestic violence law to grant parental rights to convicted rapists who impregnate their victims. The unprecedented bill got NO me... | __label__pos | 0.830515 |
Increasingly, we employees are becoming knowledge workers. We are expected to use and evaluate data and information to perform our jobs faster and to make better decisions. Yet we – and the organisations we work for – are also victims of information overload. The toolsets we are given to work with don’t help. While ent... | __label__pos | 0.997654 |
According to numerous reports, Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday before killing himself, allegedly suffered from Asperger’s syndrome. Some have speculated that his disorder contributed to the factors leading Lanza to commit mass murder, but experts hav... | __label__pos | 0.887586 |
The trauma that comes with sexual abuse is not easily overcome. So to think that it is on the increase in Nigeria is truly worrisome, especially when school-aged children are involved. Stories abound of heart-rending cases of abuse of toddlers, nursery, primary and secondary school pupils by caregivers, teachers and ev... | __label__pos | 0.815301 |
It’s hard to believe that it’s already that time of the year already. However given that I waited until Veterans Day to winterize my boat should make it is obvious that I have been attempting to deny the holiday season is already here but to deny it at this stage would be cause for a thorough head examination!
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Look at Chart 2, what is normal, 33 months after the recession begins, is that all the stimulus and lags have worked their way through the system and generated new peaks in all the economic data. On average, employment is up 5.5%, GDP is up 12%, housing starts are up 27% and retail sales are up 25%. This time around, a... | __label__pos | 0.999812 |
Editors note: This piece ran last year on Eric Francis’s Planet Waves website and it remains an important touchstone concerning how the main stream media continues to act as the lapdog to Big Oil and Big Energy in general. After reading this piece, ask yourself, how much has changed in the major media relative to criti... | __label__pos | 0.996804 |
Berk on Burke
Thursday, 27 March 2003
Edmund Burke's
Address to the Electors of Bristolhas been on my mind a bit recently. Any idea, however silly, that isn't about the war is a welcome relief at the moment. I first started thinking about Burke's address after reading Trollope's Doctor Thornewhich includes a lengthy de... | __label__pos | 0.940412 |
New Center For Children Opens on Wallace Street
Story and Photo by Art Petrosemolo
RED BANK – Children’s health and fitness has been in the news recently with reports that preschool child obesity is down in the United States in the past decade.
That, combined with high visibility programs, including Michelle Obama’s Le... | __label__pos | 0.967461 |
Find Strong Candidates for Elective Office
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Note: Mr. Burningham speaks on his own behalf; the point of view expressed in this blog does not necessarily represent any organization of which he is a part.)
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The question was something like: “What happened before the big bang?” And the answer was something like: “There was no
before the big bang – the big bang was the beginning of time and space.”
Linear time is so much a part of our lives it’s hard to imagine time not existing. These thoughts swirl around my head as I flip... | __label__pos | 0.997591 |
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A committee of the Orange County Transportation Authority Board of Directors is recommending that Anaheim officials drop their plans for a 3.2-mile streetcar system.
The committee’s findings emerged this week in a staff report attached to the board’s Monday meeting agenda, ending weeks of speculation and political in... | __label__pos | 0.964278 |
The subject of Christian church music has sparked controversy for centuries. In thisdissertation I highlight the most recent discussion about the ‘worship war’ debate, namelythe infiltration of contemporary popular music into what once was considered a sacredarena. I explore some of the shortcomings of Contemporary Chu... | __label__pos | 0.99806 |
Janet Alm has written a book about her experience of becoming a psychic at the age of 50. For almost ten years now, the Mattawan resident has been a psychic medium and animal communicator.
The book is called
Woo-Woo: Becoming a Psychic at Fifty. Alm says the term woo-woo has a modern definition of “something that canno... | __label__pos | 0.516757 |
High school Spanish teacher said “You’re smart…for a girl.” And when he said that to me a zillion years ago in my high school days, as a student I dismissed it as his well-meaning ‘slip of the tongue.’ Then he said it again in front of the class. And that was the year my mom ripped him a special one at open house. “You... | __label__pos | 0.999995 |
Abstract
Dispersed water contaminants with diameters less than 50 μm usually carry the greatest burden of contaminants that are of potential concern to the environment and human health in sewage. Microorganisms and viruses can be counted to this group of contaminants for instance. Furthermore, colloidal water contamina... | __label__pos | 0.99684 |
WESTFIELD, Mass. (The Westfield News) – How can you sum up a year when so much has happened?
Westfield has been such a hub for news and events over the past year that it would be difficult to try and summarize it in a sentence or thought. There has been good news, like the Babe Ruth World Series and the planning board’... | __label__pos | 0.876216 |
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Sometimes you want a little something sweet and a bowl of grapes isn’t going to cut it. You want cake, but you know you can’t stop at just one slice. Hostess has joined the “100 Calorie Pack” club and now offer tiny little cupcakes, complete with frosting, for just 100 calories per pack of 3 cakes. We gave them a try t... | __label__pos | 0.868552 |
When New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio, tapped Mitchell Silver to become the city’s Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, he was offering an invitation home to one of the nation’s most respected urban planners (and past president of the American Planning Association).
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Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the celebration of Earth Day.
Did you know that about 80% of Hormel Foods' product packaging by weight is recyclable and/or made form recycled materials? Over the past few years, Hormel has found many ways to reduce, revanmp and change the size nad material of their packages. When yo... | __label__pos | 0.676201 |
AFRICANGLOBE – An NGO told the UN Committee on Torture in Geneva on Monday that while Israel has made certain improvements in recent years, that its apparatus still tortures and abuses Palestinian detainees, as well as shining a new focus on what it says is the same issue with Ethiopian and illegal African migrant deta... | __label__pos | 0.943197 |
Vermont First State to Require GMO Food Labeling, But Preemptive Weaker Federal Bill Looms
By Dave Gram, Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders joined other Vermont leaders Friday to celebrate the state's newly implemented law requiring labels on genetically modified fo... | __label__pos | 0.731673 |
California is losing the leading cause of weather-related casualties on its roads, but it’s nothing to be happy about it.
The famed Tule fog of the Central Valley gives a moist cover to fruit and nut trees when it rolls in after the first big rainfall in November, and wreaks havoc on motorists for the next four months.... | __label__pos | 0.84837 |
Sophia: Yesterday we spoke with a French political activist who talked about how the French classical political parties are not adapted to proposing political alternatives and no longer drive the political agenda. She expressed that hope for systemic social change must be vested in the emergence of new social movements... | __label__pos | 0.911253 |
Data Intelligence, Business Analytics
Since we started Compete, we have been continuously updating the quality and consistency of our data. With clickstream data available since 2002, and 10 terabytes of new data arriving monthly, we have amassed and organized hundreds of terabytes of daily consumer digital behavior fr... | __label__pos | 0.786578 |
The sharing of reinsurance underwriting risks with capital markets investors such as pension funds is seen as a “key development area” at the world’s largest reinsurer Munich Re, as it looks to embrace new business models.
Speaking yesterday at the Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-vous, member of the board Thomas Blunck ... | __label__pos | 0.988821 |
Traditions and reverence for our heritage are so important.
Traditions and reverence for our heritage are so important. Each year, I attend the annual 4th of July parades in Barnstable Village and Hyannis, as I have done since I was a young boy. I now enjoy the same experience with my family. In this “me, me” generatio... | __label__pos | 0.954258 |
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will cause access to medicine to become worse in developing countries, said international NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
“The big losers in the TPPA are patients and treatment providers in developing countries,” said MSF Access campaign US manager and legal policy advi... | __label__pos | 0.913876 |
If you’re (GT) gifted and talented, you’ve probably got lots of questions about why you think and learn that way you do. You probably think faster and more intensely than other kids.
The Gifted Kids’ Survival GuideFor ages 10 and under is by Judith Galbraith, M. A.
Gripes of being gifted: doing extra school work, and g... | __label__pos | 0.919082 |
It’s no secret that it’s difficult to eat well on the road. Aside from the distractions (McDonald’s and others like it), you’re limited for food options in the places you spend the most time: namely, convenience stores and
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Refuse collection bosses have been accused of allowing swept-up leaves and branches to pile up on Birmingham’s suburban streets.
Yardley Lib Dem MP John Hemming has also called on the ruling Labour group to rethink its plans to charge £35 a year for garden waste collection , saying it will lead to untidy streets.
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This study presents a broad picture of the vegetation history in the territory of Sagalassos during the Holocene based on pollen-analysis of cores taken from various Quaternary deposits in the area. The fossil pollen data are interpreted by using modern reference pollen data, obtained from the current vegetation types.... | __label__pos | 0.899888 |
Putting It Together
The most important part of teaching cooking to persons with intellectual disabilities is providing directions in a way that the student can understand. Like the shopping list, the way the recipe is written will be determined by the cognitive and physical abilities of the student. While some are able... | __label__pos | 0.917614 |
Many good employees are quitting traditional organizations because the older workforce does not know how to manage them properly.
I recently worked with the U.S. Army who is experiencing a severe retention problem. Highly skilled Generation X junior officers and enlisted soldiers are leaving in droves. The lure of high... | __label__pos | 0.919441 |
Generally speaking, I'm not aware of experiencing large magnetic fields in my daily life. The earth's magnetic field is probably the largest field I encounter on a regular basis. The next might be the little earbuds for my mp3 player/radio. I've had an MRI done on my brain too. I'm unaware of any mental/emotional/orien... | __label__pos | 0.995743 |
Wall Street may have discovered a way out from under the bad debt and risky mortgages that have clogged the financial markets. The would-be solution probably sounds familiar: It’s a lot like what got banks in trouble in the first place.
In recent months investment banks have been repackaging old mortgage securities and... | __label__pos | 0.963523 |
Thursday, May 28, 2015 E-Trikes Share Limelight at APEC 2015
As the issue of climate change gain momentum on the world stage, zero-emission electric trikes (e-trikes) shared the limelight at this year’s APEC 2015 summit hosted by the Philippines.
At the Ministerial Meeting held this May 23-24 in Boracay Island, electri... | __label__pos | 0.948233 |
In July 2000, the first international Logiciel Libre conference met in Bordeaux. Douglas Carnall went to interview the founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, and to find out more about the man, his history, and the ideas that made GNU/Linux possible.
Published in issue 3 of Linux User September 2000... | __label__pos | 0.904746 |
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The healing power of Jesus Christ’s self-sacrificing love can free even those in “the darkest and most hopeless situations,” wrote Pope Benedict in a Pastoral Letter to the Church in Ireland. The “intense” letter voiced sorrow to abuse victims while urging reparation for sins.
In a pastoral letter released on Saturd... | __label__pos | 0.555876 |
Western Rural Neighbourhood Policing Unit is responsible for a large geographical area comprising Malpas, Broxton, Tattenhall, Eccleston, Farndon, Frodsham, Helsby, Kingsley, Cuddington, Mickle Trafford, Waverton, Christleton and Tarvin.
Some 20 police officers, five sergeants, three police stations (Frodsham, Dragon H... | __label__pos | 0.971713 |
Going through my emails and came across one from co-blogger Steve to a client on how to handle exclusivity on a China distribution agreement for a retail product. Nothing earth shattering here, but since our clients for whom we do China distribution agreements frequently ask us about exclusivity, I figured putting this... | __label__pos | 0.628784 |
Overall wage growth in the retail sector outpaced the broader workforce in 2014, according to an analysis from payroll processing firm ADP. The trade sector, which includes retail, saw wages grow 4.4 percent during a year in which all groups rose by just 2.3 percent.
However, advocates for a higher minimum wage tempere... | __label__pos | 0.639066 |
"I'll tell you exactly what Warren Buffett said. He said, we went through a wrenching recession, and so we have not fully recovered. We're about 40, 50 percent back. But we've still got a long way to go. And the reason people haven't fully invested yet, and started creating as many jobs as we would like, is because it ... | __label__pos | 0.896158 |
Several new studies and reports show how
common sensegun laws work and why some gun laws are a bad idea because they actually lead to more deaths. That is obviously an inconvenient fact. David Hemenway, author and researcher, has written this about Stand Your Ground laws: A disaster. So, the effect of Stand Your Ground... | __label__pos | 0.704504 |
However, the usual economic forces have been flowing over this resistant organizational rock, and theres evidence that it too is beginning to wear down. However, this doesnt mean its a pain-free process.
To help control engineers, automation professionals and end-user manufacturers cooperate more effectively with their... | __label__pos | 0.967191 |
3B: It’s time for our generation to step up
Editor:
Thank you for the opportunity to advocate for the passage of 3B, the school bond issue that brings $22,700,000 into our community. Never in the history of Cortez have we had the chance to make such an important decision for the future of our community’s children.
Firs... | __label__pos | 0.943232 |
During the past several years, CRL’s Area Studies Microform Projects (AMPs) supported the preservation of more than 300 newspaper titles collected by the Library of Congress overseas offices, ensuring scholarly access to more than 450,000 pages of news from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
Since 2006, the AMPs ... | __label__pos | 0.834471 |
Algorithms for anomaly, intrusion and masquerade detection have been thus far developed and evaluated in an ad hoc manner. The performance of these algorithms cannot be predicted in datasets other than the ones on which they were tested; sometimes their performance cannot even be replicated. The field of information as... | __label__pos | 0.999703 |
As detente with the Soviet Union continues to fade, the question of how to proceed with the People's Republic of China (PRC) assumes greater immediacy. Doubting the value of cooperative methods of coping with the USSR, and left by his predecessor with a policy that has been reoriented toward Peking but not stabilized o... | __label__pos | 0.991713 |
US-based not-for-profit Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has unveiled a free initiative designed to encourage transparency of security practices within Cloud providers.
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The marketing game has changed but most companies are still trying to win playing by the old rules. Well it’s time to wake up and smell the pizza. Yes, I said it, pizza.
Domino’s Pizza has launched a new 75 million dollar ad campaign in hope of reviving its brand and overcoming negative product perceptions. Flash back ... | __label__pos | 0.995813 |
I think that getting a college degree is worth it considering the increasing wage gap between those who get a college degree and those who do not. I think that if somebody wants to get a good job, then they need to consider getting a degree that will make their chances better.
Obtaining a four year degree is still wort... | __label__pos | 0.923843 |
Humans are naturally willing for success, for recognition, for superiority. And it is what keeps us developing our reality. That nature gets blocked when a certain way of behaving is imposed towards economic freedom. You can become popular and get recognition but you will not see yourself in a different social position... | __label__pos | 0.957639 |
Since this bill had
nothing to do with abortion let’s just call it what it is: Republicans are okay with young girls being forced into marriage. Sorry, if that sounds harsh, but that’s what their vote says.
Via Steve Benen:
FAILING TO PROTECT GIRLS FROM CHILD MARRIAGE….As Jodi Jacobson explained the other day, “An esti... | __label__pos | 0.973143 |
A smart, young, up-and-coming entrepreneur approached a toothpaste company asking an enormous sum for an idea that would double its sales of toothpaste over the coming year. The company’s executives didn’t want to pay and so dismissed him and consulted with their design team instead. They tried to imagine what the idea... | __label__pos | 0.993401 |
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Hachette’s recent big price increase coupled with Random House’s large increase earlier this year got me thinking. Does the publishing community understand why librarians would balk at increases on the order of 100% or 200%?
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