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APRIL 29, 2009

And, you can comment on comments, and rate comments (similar to slashdot). The Office of Science and Technology Policy is trying something cool and new: they've set up new OSTP Blog for commenting on an important issue that President Obama wants feedback on: the question of maintaining scientific integrity.

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MAY 27, 2015

In North America, Canada was rated as “probable” and the USA as a “possible.” The score: Have ratified = 8 Will or Probably Will = 14 Possible = 17 The Treaty goes into effect three months after 20 ratifications have been formally deposited with WIPO, so it’s looking great!

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JUNE 24, 2008

He's best known with Moore's Law, the exponential growth projection that implies that computers get faster and cheaper at ever-amazing rates. And my personal favorite is that his foundation gave the initial funding that led to our extremely cool Miradi software for environmental project management.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2007

We're committed to increasing our rate of title growth by a factor of four or five while improving quality. The milestones are going to be coming ever faster, now that we have the Bookshare.org for Education project (funded by the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education). Mr. Jim and Ms.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2008

I had a vision of this being a DC-3 or some such, but it's a modern 737 that is rated as "ETOPS" which means it's able to fly for three hours on one engine. The way to get to the main islands from the U.S. is to fly to Hawaii and then take the "island-hopper."

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MAY 17, 2007

It's an incredibly effective ad for us on Google: a clickthrough rate on the order of 5%. Google advertising is highly tuned. If someone is searching on the terms "Books blind," they are looking for something like Bookshare.org. This means that one out of twenty people who see the ad displayed choose to go to Bookshare.org via the ad link.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The software’s diagram component, results chains, conceptual models and threat ratings allowed her to carefully analyze the impact of wildfires on sedimentation and water quality in these areas. Miradi helped Elaina determine that sedimentation due to wildfires is the main threat to reefs in Guam’s Sella Bay and Cetti Bay.

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JUNE 23, 2014

This represents a 10x growth over the past 6 years, and a 20% and 25% growth, respectively, over less than a year: growth rates associated more with successful commercial services, and unheard of in our field.

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DECEMBER 21, 2006

The data cited in the report concludes that the monthly rate of RAB killings climbed steeply in 2006 and identifies specific RAB battalions responsible for the majority of the deaths. "Thanks to RAB operations," reads the HRW report. Bangladeshis commonly use the word 'crossfire' as a verb meaning to murder or kill."

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AUGUST 17, 2006

Otherwise you may have to pay a tax on profits equal to the normal corporate tax rate. Within the nonprofit: If the business is "related," you won't have to pay unrelated business income tax (UBIT) on the profits from the business. Nonprofits with unrelated business income have to file Form 990-T instead of the "regular" 990.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

This is considered a very high rate of IRR – and ensures that the information entered into the database is more than the individual interpretations of each of the coders. IRR measures whether different coders, given the same source material, produce the same quantitative output (e.g.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

She suggested: In Uruguay: What is the poverty rate among individuals and households (using any of a number of poverty lines – absolute or relative, national or regional)? I asked her what kind of insights could be gleaned by an anti-poverty group, say in Uruguay (to pick one country out of 50), accessing the LIS.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Apparently, it’s the best-rated restaurant in Vientiane (maybe the country) on Trip Advisor. One of their programs is to have restaurants that provide employment opportunities and skills development for street kids on their way out of poverty. All of the staff have name badges identifying them either as students or teachers.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

ISIS manages to get a very high click-through rate for this important notification. This service is supported by public health agencies to encourage notification of sex partners when someone is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease (STD).

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JANUARY 29, 2011

We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! We're really proud of the rapid growth of our Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

The main thesis of the HRS authors, Andrew Mack et al, is that “nationwide mortality rates actually fall during most wars” and that “today’s wars rarely kill enough people to reverse the decline in peacetime mortality that has been underway in the developing world for more than 30 years.”

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MAY 7, 2013

Because at the rate we''re going, we''ll end up with a Treaty that doesn''t help the blind, but instead advances the intellectual property agenda of the MPAA. Why does this matter? It would be an absolute shame for this to happen.

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OCTOBER 30, 2011

El-Fatah said that rate limits on Twitter, real name policies on Facebook and the drive to monetize every online transaction, limits the usefulness of technology for activists. El-Fatah, who will face a military tribunal, noted that 12,000 Egyptian civilians are now being held in military prisons for participating in the revolution.

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DECEMBER 2, 2005

And then I note that the meter is clicking up at an alarming rate. I had taken a taxi cab down from my hotel, which has cost me about $8, but the cab driver had noted in French something along the lines of "I took the freeway: longer but much faster." So, I knew that was the cap. I hail a taxi, and get in. The meter starts at $4.50

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DECEMBER 31, 2007

Human industry is now fascinated with capture, flow, distribution, distortion of information coming at a firehose rate. Not encouraging to invent reading without having a book industry. But that is human-generated information.

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