investment survival in the age of defaults

... to our necks in the stream of information, we are in the crossfire of the battle for our attention, and we are engaged in a harrying blur of multitasking activity When we’re working, we have ... distractions coming from every direction In front of us is the computer, with email notifications and other notifications of all kinds Then there’s the addicting lure of the browser, which contains not ... book lies the key to many of the struggles we face these days, from being productive and achieving our goals, to getting healthy and fit in the face of fast food and inactivity, to finding simplicity...

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Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... Evidence [there was] no contradiction I directed the Jury from the Injustice of the Demand upon the State of it to find against the Plaintiff, but they found for the wages, & then named the sum There ... array of services Principally these included the giving of legal opinions on questions of domestic and international law, decisions about initiating and handling litigation, and the drafting of ... courts ‘ in the part of the Metropolis, lying within the County of Middlesex,’’ and eight courts in the Borough of Southwark in Surrey.1 Functionally, other than the supreme courts and the ecclesiastical...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... to the luxury image of the product in one location will tend to diminish the value of the product to the consumer also at another – better – location Ensuring consistency in the “image” of the ... reduce the value of the product to the customer 50 The “image” of a brand is therefore an integral part of the product, and determines the willingness to pay of consumers Manufacturers of luxury ... response to the free riding problem in the absence of the instruments of differential pricing, RPM, or vertical integration into internet retailing 90 The solution of restrictions on internet sales...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... way in which we navigate the Web, the home page of a site may not be the entry point for 10 MARKETING IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE a visitor Any page can be the entry page, which makes it increasingly ... the order in which the ads appear is based on a number of factors including the amount the advertiser is willing to pay for each click, the relevance of the ad to the query, and the quality of ... buying riding lawn mowers in a store in Manhattan Companies should think of their online presence as another ‘‘retail location.’’ Organic search is the city they’re in, the street they’re on, the sign...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 21:33

... fighting and dying for At the point where they confront the need to kill the traitor in their midst, one of the teens asks: "what's the difference between us and them," and the teen fascist Jed offers ... Staiger @+{1 }In Studies in the Theories of Ideology, John Thompson examines many recent theories of ideology and finds that many of them sever the link between ideology and domination, and therefore ... picture of two smiling happy young faces M entally comparing this childhood idyll with what they have become, Jed tears up the picture and begins crying In the violent finale, some of the remaining...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... the length of the average trial and the decrease in the length of the average marriage, we may be approaching a cross-over And a trial, whether criminal or civil, is the state in action, or the ... witnesses in the same room, bearing in mind the overarching framework of a public, physical rather than virtual trial The US experiment with the virtual court, the ‘iCourthouse’, and other forms of ... are to maintain that essential feature of our system, open justice, in an age of electronic hearings conducted by the judge, the lawyers, and any witnesses in their respective offices, the only...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 03:20

... Renaissance, the fifteenth century saw the continuation of the fourteenth-century chanson in the formes fixes and the birth of the new genre of the Mass Ordinary cycle In the motet – the genre that ... selection In thinking about categories, and their role in creation and recognition, we have been concentrating on the function of the genre inside the mind With Darwin we look as well at the fate of the ... sometimes the distinction is difficult to make Sacred texts include those in honor of the Virgin, of Christ, and the saints Secular texts include admonitory texts about the evils of the world or of the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 21:55

... existing node The links would show up as a numbered list at the bottom of each page, and the only way of finding information was by browsing the links, starting from the start page The links between ... outlining the history of the World Wide Web It asks who invented the Web, what were the resources used in its invention, and what actually was invented in the process Many of the details of this ... change the visibility of relationships in an ecology of communities At the level of ecology of communities of practice, the speed of recombination has therefore increased The space of recombination...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:08

... marker of an exploded star.8 The light from the explosion reached Earth in the year  The the left, to indicate the size of the object The scale is usually in minutes of arc (one minute of arc ... What prevents the galaxies from speeding away from one another? The motions of the individual galaxies lead to an estimate of the total mass of the cluster The sum of the masses of the individual ... , after the investigation of the gas detection sensors, after the replacement of the ignitors,5 and after the refilling of the propellants, the shuttle again stood bathed in spotlights The second...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:39

... function, we must take into account the symbolic forms of their information, the source of their information, the quantity and speed of their information, the context in which their information is experienced ... rhetorically, “when the printing press and even printing machines exist? Is it not inevitable that with the emergence of the press, the singing and the telling and the muse cease; that is, the conditions ... the photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea For even the simplest act of naming a thing is an act of thinking of comparing one thing with others, selecting certain...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:04

... anything significant (let alone classic texts), one is already engaged in the business of taking up a stance toward the future in the light of the past Reading, then, is a matter of anticipating ... of cases, although it fail in the minority"; and knowledge in terms of affinity and sympathy, of interest for the entire nature of human being In spite of the fact that it is not systematic in ... within the realm of the contingency of human affairs, which nonetheless does not hold good against the principle, for there is no higher principle of reason than that of freedom Thus the opinion...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:52

... Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 But this was not Lemkin’s definition of the term The mass killings of all members of a nation, or the implementation of plans with the intent of mass killings, indeed ... Lemkin During the 1930s, Lemkin lobbied the United Nations’ predecessor, the League of Nations, for passage of international laws against the destruction of a people and its culture Lemkin, in ... with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:11

... benefit of shortening the usual duration of breastfeeding on HIV-free survival [42] When we investigated why we observed no benefit of early cessation of breastfeeding by examining what the women in ... matter In the absence of any interventions, about a third of infants born to HIV-infected mothers acquire HIV infection About 20% of infants born to HIV-infected mothers acquire HIV during pregnancy ... milk, and the quality and duration of breastfeeding [23,24] Susceptibility factors, including innate and acquired immune responses in the child, in the mother and in breast milk, protect against HIV...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... the Janiculum, and looked down on the river and the city, and across the Latin plain to the Alban mountain and the long line of hills the last spurs of the Apennines— enclosing the plain to the ... placed in the centre of the peninsula.[6] That peninsula looks as if it were cleft in twain by the Tiber, or in other words, the Tiber drains the greater part of central Italy, and carries the water ... Aeneas finds Evander sacrificing at the Ara maxima of Hercules, of all spots the best starting-point for a walk through the heart of the ancient city To the right was the Aventine, rising to about...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... now? The people out of work today will soon find jobs again The people out of work today will soon find jobs again What is the FUTURE OF WORK? The future of work is… TRANSPARENT No one is going ... across the planet One in four organizations plans to increase spending on outsourcing by 25% or more this year SOURCE According to interviews with more than 500 executives, the key benefit of outsourcing ... allowing 700 customer service reps to work from home with no central office In the future, location will not matter The future of work is… COMPETITIVE No one is going to pay you just for having...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 21:22

... define and draw out the work knowledge and the solutions inside them Then, and only then, in the structure of a scientific matrix, can they contribute their understanding of the work and their ... all parts of the "machine" would understand the role of the other parts Each could then focus on being the best it could be, rather than, unintentionally or otherwise, undermining other units, ... stated: profits, customer satisfaction, return on investment, and so on In the method of organizing or re/organizing a business, we will therefore begin the definition of work at each level (business...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 00:08

... and they're increasing every day; they have changed the world like no other technology since perhaps the invention of paper This is no longer the industrial age, the atomic age, or the space age ... is in the details, but on the todo list it only says “call John.” (The color of the “detail” link tells whether the todo contains something in the detail field Purple means something is in the ... requires the unpleasant step of admitting one’s mistake and apologizing for being so late E-mail load is measured by the number of messages sitting in the user’s inbox Inboxes containing one or...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 13:42

... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/5/1/114 radiotherapy (in another clinic), wrote the part of the paper concerning radiotherapy and followed up the patient at his out-patient clinic AK was the radiologist performing the preoperative ... minimising the risks of RT-inducing brain injury like radiation necrosis and cognitive decline The optimal radiation dose has not yet been defined We decided for a total dose of 60 Gy balancing ... and wrote the part of the paper concerning the illustrations PN was the pathologist who examined the tissue and wrote the part of the pathology evaluation IW performed the ETN examination preoperatively...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... description of the damage that has been inflicted on the American economy in the past few years, making the indisputable charge that we are involved in an economic war for the survival of America Drawing ... concerned In the name of correcting the weaknesses in the financial system, these agents of the state have launched a full-blown assault on the true creators of wealth in this nation, while the small ... to discover that the AAA-rated bonds in which they thought they were investing were really a bundle of BBB investments with the patina of an AAA rating In other words, wholesale institutional fraud...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:13