The document summarizes the key factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and outlines steps taken by the US government to address it. Specifically, it discusses how stagnant real wage growth, rising consumer debt, the housing bubble bursting, overuse of risky financial instruments like credit default swaps, and lack of oversight combined to undermine the economy. The government responded with a $700 billion bailout package aimed at stabilizing banks, boosting liquidity, and removing toxic assets from balance sheets.
Heather Johnson discusses her favorite things in 6 categories: restaurant, singer, animal, hobby, and place to shop. She lists personal details about herself without elaboration on each topic.
TWTRCON DC 09: Attensity, TwAitter, Tweet Feel Biz, PeopleBrowsrEdelman
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TWTRCON DC 09 Real-Time Business Tools panel featuring presentations from Eunice Zachry Hill, Director Civilian Agencies Sales, Attensity (@attensity), Ryan Bell, President, TwAitter (@Twaitting), Jean Davis, Co-founder, TweetFeel Biz (@JeanMarie50 | @conversition), and Jodee Rich, Marketing Team Leader, PeopleBrowsr (@wingdude | @PeopleBrowsr).
The document discusses information literacy and its importance for students. It provides several key points:
- According to studies, only 13% of students are considered information literate, and students rely more on the internet than libraries for research. Students also spend little time evaluating online information.
- The Association of College and Research Libraries has established five standards for information literacy in higher education, which many accrediting organizations have adopted. The standards address determining information needs, accessing information, evaluating sources, using information, and understanding legal and ethical issues.
- Studies found students struggle with finding relevant information online, evaluating sources, and using library resources effectively. While they value libraries, library orientations are often not helpful. Information literacy is
Presented at Gluecon 2014 by James Urquhart and Rob Dickinson of Dell.
"Mining" for application performance "gold" is harder than ever before. Applications are becoming parts of larger complex systems, and developers need to understand how the system behaves as much as how each application behaves.
Following transaction details is an excellent way of monitoring application performance in these systems, and triggering automation activities such as autoscaling and recovery.
McDonalds is a global fast food chain founded in 1940 in California. It now has over 390,000 employees and operates in 119 countries. The company mission is to provide outstanding quality, service, cleanliness and value to customers. McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner has worked there for 40 years and leads initiatives around environmental sustainability such as using biodiesel.
The Kapiti Primary Recycling Group was assigned a project by Mrs. Williams to help keep their school clean by organizing a recycling program. They had several meetings with the local waste management engineer, principal, and teachers to develop a plan and get supplies for recycling bins in each classroom. The group also reached out to the local newspaper to help spread awareness of their new recycling initiative at the school.
This document repeatedly discusses shutter speed, which is a key setting in photography that determines the duration that the shutter is open to allow light to enter the camera body and expose the image sensor or photographic film. The shutter speed setting controls the amount of light and action or motion that will be recorded in the captured photo.
The Use Of Computer Simulation And Gaming Tolotorres09
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Computer simulations represent real-world processes through computer programs and allow users to learn through doing. Educational games and simulations are designed specifically to teach subjects or skills while making learning engaging. They help students practice concepts through interactive decision-making and problem-solving. When guidance is provided, games and simulations can facilitate mastery of domain knowledge and transferable skills.
North America is the third largest continent, located in the Northern and Western Hemispheres and covering over 9 million square miles. It includes 23 countries as well as Caribbean islands, with Canada, the US, and Mexico as the largest nations. Central America connects North America to South America and includes 7 countries. Key geographic features include the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Mississippi and Missouri River systems, Great Lakes, and Gulf of Mexico.
The document proposes an automated approach for ranking tuples in the results of SQL queries over databases. It computes global and conditional scores for tuples based on attribute correlations learned from past query workloads and data statistics. At query time, it merges pre-computed ranked lists corresponding to the query attributes to efficiently retrieve the top-k results without a full table scan. Experiments on real datasets show the approach is efficient and provides high quality rankings preferred by users over alternative methods.
A cloudsafe365-pitch-280513-sydstart2013Craig Deveson
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Cloudsafe365 is a software company that aims to simplify, secure and provide accessible management of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for businesses. It has developed a tool called CloudManager that allows users to easily set up, manage performance, security and billing for AWS accounts and applications. Cloudsafe365 sees opportunities for growth in serving the estimated 3 million businesses worldwide in need of cloud services. It plans to generate revenue through a freemium software model with basic, pro and enterprise pricing tiers.
Fostering historical thinking with digitized primary sourcesOrna Farrell
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The document discusses an initiative called "The History Lab" which was created to support the development of research skills and historical thinking in history students through the use of digitized primary sources. The initiative provides students with an interactive guide to relevant online primary sources, an accompanying social bookmarking page to collaborate, and an online tutorial to practice finding, evaluating, and using digital sources. The goals are to provide access to and encourage the use of digital primary sources, develop advanced research skills for reading and thinking critically about sources, and teach students how to think like historians by employing reading strategies when investigating historical questions using digital evidence.
Presented at Gluecon 2014 by James Urquhart and Rob Dickinson of Dell.
"Mining" for application performance "gold" is harder than ever before. Applications are becoming parts of larger complex systems, and developers need to understand how the system behaves as much as how each application behaves.
Following transaction details is an excellent way of monitoring application performance in these systems, and triggering automation activities such as autoscaling and recovery.
McDonalds is a global fast food chain founded in 1940 in California. It now has over 390,000 employees and operates in 119 countries. The company mission is to provide outstanding quality, service, cleanliness and value to customers. McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner has worked there for 40 years and leads initiatives around environmental sustainability such as using biodiesel.
The Kapiti Primary Recycling Group was assigned a project by Mrs. Williams to help keep their school clean by organizing a recycling program. They had several meetings with the local waste management engineer, principal, and teachers to develop a plan and get supplies for recycling bins in each classroom. The group also reached out to the local newspaper to help spread awareness of their new recycling initiative at the school.
This document repeatedly discusses shutter speed, which is a key setting in photography that determines the duration that the shutter is open to allow light to enter the camera body and expose the image sensor or photographic film. The shutter speed setting controls the amount of light and action or motion that will be recorded in the captured photo.
The Use Of Computer Simulation And Gaming Tolotorres09
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Computer simulations represent real-world processes through computer programs and allow users to learn through doing. Educational games and simulations are designed specifically to teach subjects or skills while making learning engaging. They help students practice concepts through interactive decision-making and problem-solving. When guidance is provided, games and simulations can facilitate mastery of domain knowledge and transferable skills.
North America is the third largest continent, located in the Northern and Western Hemispheres and covering over 9 million square miles. It includes 23 countries as well as Caribbean islands, with Canada, the US, and Mexico as the largest nations. Central America connects North America to South America and includes 7 countries. Key geographic features include the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Mississippi and Missouri River systems, Great Lakes, and Gulf of Mexico.
The document proposes an automated approach for ranking tuples in the results of SQL queries over databases. It computes global and conditional scores for tuples based on attribute correlations learned from past query workloads and data statistics. At query time, it merges pre-computed ranked lists corresponding to the query attributes to efficiently retrieve the top-k results without a full table scan. Experiments on real datasets show the approach is efficient and provides high quality rankings preferred by users over alternative methods.
A cloudsafe365-pitch-280513-sydstart2013Craig Deveson
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Cloudsafe365 is a software company that aims to simplify, secure and provide accessible management of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for businesses. It has developed a tool called CloudManager that allows users to easily set up, manage performance, security and billing for AWS accounts and applications. Cloudsafe365 sees opportunities for growth in serving the estimated 3 million businesses worldwide in need of cloud services. It plans to generate revenue through a freemium software model with basic, pro and enterprise pricing tiers.
Fostering historical thinking with digitized primary sourcesOrna Farrell
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The document discusses an initiative called "The History Lab" which was created to support the development of research skills and historical thinking in history students through the use of digitized primary sources. The initiative provides students with an interactive guide to relevant online primary sources, an accompanying social bookmarking page to collaborate, and an online tutorial to practice finding, evaluating, and using digital sources. The goals are to provide access to and encourage the use of digital primary sources, develop advanced research skills for reading and thinking critically about sources, and teach students how to think like historians by employing reading strategies when investigating historical questions using digital evidence.
Fostering historical thinking with digitized primary sourcesOrna Farrell
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