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• 11-28 ISTE conference keynote update - Jeffrey Piontek widens lead over Chris Lehmann

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 561
  Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . Jeffrey Piontek has widened his lead slightly over Chris Lehmann. Alan November also is moving quickly up the charts. FYI, if you count totals across ALL categories, Chris Lehmann would be in the lead with 462 votes. Also, ...
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• CAT computer glitch to be short-lived: IIM director

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) Notwithstanding the hiccups faced by thousands of students on day one of the Common Admission Test (CAT), an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) director said the online examination is a “democratising process” and “all the problems will be sorted out quickly”.“CAT on computer is a ...
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• TCS Announces Doctorate (PHD) Funding Program in India

  
  Tech Blog of Global and Indian Companies: Gajeebo — Authority: 481
  Global IT services major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced a new program to encourage quality academic research to increase the available faculty talent pool in India.TCS will fund 200 doctoral candidates over a period of five years to take up PhD programs in reputable academic institutions across the country. ...
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• Biomedical Search on BioMedSearch

  
  Dr Shock MD PhD — Authority: 499
  BioMedSearch.com wants to provide free access to documents relating to the biomedical field. They want to make these important works available to the community in a way that is fast and easy, while still offering the advanced features demanded by power users such as portfolios, collaboration features, bibliographical ...
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• Book Review: Market Indicators

  
  The Aleph Blog — Authority: 610
  Every one one us has limited bandwidth for analysis of data.  We pick and choose a few ideas that seem to work for us, and then stick with them.  That is often best, because good investors settle into investment methods that are consistent with their character.  But every now and then it is good to open things up ...
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• 2010 NACADA Technology Seminars

  
  Eric Stoller's Blog — Authority: 92
  Last year I participated in the NACADA Technology Seminar. This year, the NACADA Technology Seminar will be offered in conjunction with 3 NACADA Regional Conferences. I’ll be leading the... .
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• Bankruptcy of the America is now certain

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 451
  Its one of those numbers thats so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while... Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And thats not counting any additional deficit... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for ...
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• More Evidence for Suppression of Research: the Case of Lamictal ...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  We recently discussed the severe challenges to evidence-based medicine presented by manipulation and suppression of clinical research to serve vested interests.  I recently (and unfortunately belatedly) came upon yet another example of suppression of research that was unfavorable to a research sponsors vested ...
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• Zizek speaks against charity – Audio

  
  Nima Maleki: Politics and Critical Thought — Authority: 121
  Slavoj Zizek, a philosopher and psychoanalyst, speaks on the topic of charity as an integral part of contemporary capitalism, by bringing consumption and charity together within the same gesture of redemption as an ethics light. You can listen to the audio here, at RSA Events . From 24 November 2009.
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• The Omega Course

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 605
  Id like to update my readers on The Omega Course , a fictional blog narrative which takes the form of a first-person "diary" blog. It is testimony to the realism of the story told by its author, Helen Ingram , that I found myself extremely worried after the final entry , in which the main character expressed ...
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• Rainy Days and Fridays …

  
  The Evolution of Jeremiah — Authority: 129
  It’s raining, wet and cold today. Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle … I didn’t want to get out of bed today but alas, I had that appointment with Prof. Scott over my Origen paper. I have done some preliminary reading of a text that I picked up at the library – but even Prof. Scott told me that it would do me no good. So ...
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• On disappointment

  
  Hummingbird604.com — Authority: 537
  Sometimes, being a perfectionist is kind of annoying, and sometimes it’s disappointing. Despite the fact that I have been down with a cold this week, I’ve been finishing client work that I have needed to submit, dealing with my upcoming courses and the ones I co-teach this term, and trying to get a letter of ...
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• The Best President Goldman Sachs’ Bundled Contributions Could Buy

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 596
  The role of fat cat climate profiteers’ bundled contributions in so-called “climate legislation” by Bill Levinson We read in our morning paper that the Obama Administration promises that proposed carbon regulations will cost American families less than a dollar a day, and will reduce deaths from air pollution. ...
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• Blackwell Announces Its Favourite Books Of The Decade

  
  EPR Network Blog — Authority: 149
  Released on: November 27, 2009, 4:54 amAuthor: Blackwell Industry: RetailBlackwell, the leading academic bookseller has announced its favourite books of the decade. The list of ten books, chosen f r o m the many hundreds published over the last ten years, are a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. Blackwell ...
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• Afghan-Canadian governor survives assassination attempt

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan-Canadian academic who returned to Afghanistan to serve as governor of the volatile Kandahar province narrowly escaped an assassination attempt Friday.
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• Tamil Nadu finalises unifom school syallabus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Chennai, Nov 27 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government Friday announced a common syllabus for school students across the state, applicable from the next academic year.The final syllabus drafted after consultations with academicians was submitted to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi by Minister for School Education Thangam ...
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• Lore is important

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 160
  Lore matters. Its often considered to be low on the list of game features, it wont save a game that is otherwise lackluster or missing content, and it cant be the only reason you play a game. But it still matters, and it still has a lot of importance, and Kill Ten Rats has offered a long essay explaining exactly ...
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• Lore is important

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Filed under: Culture , Lore , Opinion , Academic Lore matters. Its often considered to be low on the list of game features, it wont save a game that is otherwise lackluster or missing content, and it cant be the only reason you play a game. But it still matters, and it still has a lot of importance, and ...
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• Sargents Repainting

  
  Gurney Journey — Authority: 514
  I remember reading that John Singer Sargent would often require many sittings to get his portraits right, and that he was rarely satisfied with his first efforts. But I always wondered: Did he scrape off each false start and then begin all over again? Or did he just work over the previous start after it had dried? ...
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• Investmentless recovery ahead?

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  Fatas-Mihov Blog  post rarely but whenever they do, it is full of insights. The duo have written some super papers and make a mark in the blogposts as well. In the recent post , they point that recoveries post-recessions in 1991 and 2001 were investmentless. What is interesting in this chart is that the last two ...
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