Cap Cana, one of the world's most exclusive tourism and real estate destinations, reached a new sales record, selling US $350 million gross and more than 95% of inventory in the first four hours of the Trump Farallon Estates at Cap Cana sales launch.

Until Congress repeals the NLRB’s doctrine of unlimited joint employer liability, the doctrine will continue to be used against employers in litigationunder numerous statutes.

Education is neither a business nor is it a factory.

No Democrats are expected to support him.

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Don Quixote to Greene's own The End of the Affair

They “come for the cost savings and stay for the pedagogy,” if you will. In this light, rather than a static framing like “what kind of advocate should I be?,” I think a more useful framing would be dynamic, like “as I’m advocating for open with this specific faculty member, should I advocate for an evolutionary approach to open (knowing that it will be a longer road to revolution for this person), or should my advocacy go straight to revolution?”

“I did call her; I did send her a copy of the legislation. … She said she was interested in meeting with us and talking to us about it,” Maloney said during a press conference just outside the Capitol. “She has not gotten back to me — she is very busy, I'm sure — but I did reach out to her and [I hope] we have an opportunity to speak and explore it more.”

In the decision, the Board applies long-established principles to find that two or more entities are joint employers of a single workforce if (1) they are both employers within the meaning of the common law;  and (2) they share or codetermine those matters governing the essential terms and conditions of employment.

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"Given the events yesterday and the important issues facing the Department of Labor, we are pleased President Trump has quickly selected a new nominee for labor secretary. We look forward to learning more about Alexander Acosta and his position on the issues important to the restaurant industry," said Cicely Simpson, executive vice president of the National Restaurant Association.

Following additional difficulties including seepage from the new locks, the expansion was opened on 26 June 2016. The expansion doubled the Canal’s capacity, and has a direct impact on economies of scale and international maritime trade.[6]

The expanded canal began commercial operation on 26 June 2016.

On Jan. 16, 2016, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly shared photographs of a blooming zinnia flower in the Veggie plant growth system aboard the International Space Station. Kelly wrote, "Yes, there are other life forms in space! #SpaceFlower #YearInSpace"

“Here Is What Our Democratic Party Has Given Us” was the title

The report found the army is badly depleted and afflicted with the phenomenon known as “ghost soldiering,” wherein a person is officially on active service but not actually present in the military.

The leadership situation has led to a major dip in morale which has seen insurgents gain the upper-hand, leaving the ANA “unable to put together any serious efforts.”

The combined strength of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces stood at 319,595 as of April 2016.

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What if it's actually the web that needs saving? And what if it's higher education that is best suited to save it?

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As of 02/08/2017 text has not been received for H.R.861 - To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.

That moment when the facts slot into a narrative eventually comes for everyone. It has to; we’re human and what we want is meaning. But I’m  interested in delaying its arrival, if only for a little bit. And the question I have is how we can orient our pedagogy and digital interfaces to increase that delay, and in the process construct some narratives that are a bit less tidy and a bit more useful.

A URI can be further classified as a locator, a name, or both. The term "Uniform Resource Locator" (URL) refers to the subset of URIs that, in addition to identifying a resource, provide a means of locating the resource by describing its primary access mechanism (e.g., its network "location").

Many Annotations refer to part of a resource, rather than all of it, as the Target. We call that part of the resource a Segment (of Interest). A Selector is used to describe how to determine the Segment from within the Source resource.

The State Department disputes that number, and says fewer than 60,000 people had their visas revoked

in the 2012 election, 29 percent of early voters and 34 percent of same-day registrants were black

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I hadn’t really thought previously about Hypothes.is as an “infrastructure” that goes beyond just creating marginalia on a single digital text

My thinking is not primarily a matter of linking texts and documents as such, but of connecting ideas and concepts and discrete pieces of data.

With annotation, you have a resource that is more granular than the document as a whole, a resource that has its own URL (like a document or an entire webpage). Not only does this nugget have its own URL, but it can be tagged to become part of a larger path or group of related items.

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Democrat Roy Cooper, who narrowly beat the Republican governor, Pat McCrory, by 10,000 votes

when appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,

So we include a Hypothesis widget that displays annotations matching the wiki id of the page.

It turns out the above voters were students at Elizabeth City State University, the historically black college at which Gilbert had also challenged 18 students in 2007, and failed.

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It appears that one response to acerbic partisan discourse in a divided America is the emergence of web annotation at the vanguard of new media platforms and practices.

Macintyre, Ben.   "The Allure of the Tiny Red Plastic Hotel."     The [London] Times.   21 December 2007.

Certain travel awards may only be booked over the phone with your local United Customer Contact Center, such as flights operated by certain carriers. An award booking service fee will apply to all bookings made over the phone, regardless of whether it is possible to be booked at united.com. Please see the award fee chart for more details.

Saver Awards have limited availability and are subject to capacity controls.

United’s Award Travel Rules say that you can call to book a coach award at the business saver level,

One of the big problems I’ve had with United awards is a complete lack of saver space on domestic flights between hubs.

Fortunately, there is a way to at least secure a coach award seat,

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Many assume that because young people are fluent in social media they are equally savvy about what they find there. Our work shows the opposite.

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Twenty-seven million to 29 million viewers, on average, tuned in every night to hear Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.

87% of scientists say that humans and other living things have evolved over time

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks."

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” he says. “That sucks.” (…)

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the financial well-being of a family stands in for other more important variables such as race and family level of education.

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the results of state standardized tests are strongly influenced by non-school factors.

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e.g., Darnell, 2015 Darnell, B. (2015). The value of Iowa school district demographic data in explaining school district ITBS/ITED 3rd and 11th grade language arts and mathematics scores. Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs). Paper 2075.; Maylone, 2002 Maylone, N. (2002). The relationship of socioeconomic factors and district scores on the Michigan educational assessment program tests: An analysis. Unpublished, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.; Sackey, 2014 Sackey, A. N. L. (2014). The influence of community demographics on student achievement on the Connecticut mastery test in mathematics and English language arts in grade 3 through 8. Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs). Paper 2010.; Tienken, 2016 Tienken, C. H. (2016). Standardized test results can be predicted, so stop using them to drive education policymaking. In C. Tienken & C. Mullen (Eds.), Education policy perils: Tackling the tough issues (pp. 157–185). Philadelphia, PA: Taylor Francis Routledge.).

the percentage of students in a school or district who will score proficient or above on state standardized tests in language arts and mathematics at the district level can be predicted, with a good deal of accuracy, by using only community- and family-level demographic variables found in U.S. census data

the percentage of students in a school or district who will score proficient or above on state standardized tests in language arts and mathematics at the district level can be predicted, with a good deal of accuracy, by using only community- and family-level demographic variables found in U.S. census data (e.g., Darnell, 2015 Darnell, B. (2015). The value of Iowa school district demographic data in explaining school district ITBS/ITED 3rd and 11th grade language arts and mathematics scores. Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs). Paper 2075. ; Maylone, 2002 Maylone, N. (2002). The relationship of socioeconomic factors and district scores on the Michigan educational assessment program tests: An analysis. Unpublished, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. ; Sackey, 2014 Sackey, A. N. L. (2014). The influence of community demographics on student achievement on the Connecticut mastery test in mathematics and English language arts in grade 3 through 8. Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs). Paper 2010. ; Tienken, 2016 Tienken, C. H. (2016). Standardized test results can be predicted, so stop using them to drive education policymaking. In C. Tienken & C. Mullen (Eds.), Education policy perils: Tackling the tough issues (pp. 157–185). Philadelphia, PA: Taylor Francis Routledge. ).

Education officials and governors from more than 40 states essentially volunteered their public school students, parents, teachers, and school administrators to participate in various standardized testing programs that met the requirements set forth in the RTTT grant application and other state-developed accountability guidelines. The mandated tests must align to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices [NGA] & Council of Chief State School Officers [CCSSO], 2010) in mathematics and English language arts, or other state-adopted curriculum standards that conformed to the college and career readiness definitions and mandates set forth in RTTT.

the results of state standardized tests are strongly influenced by non-school factors

The app I’ve written is a thin layer of glue between two components: Canvas and Hypothes.is. LTI defines how they interact, and I’d be lying if I said it was easy to figure out to get our app to launch inside Canvas and respond back to it. But I didn’t need to be an HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or Python wizard to get the job done. And that’s fortunate because I’m not one. I just know enough about these technologies to be able to build basic web apps, much like ones I was able to build 20 years ago when the web first became a software platform. The magic for me was always about what simple web apps can do when connected to the networked flow of information among people and computers. My Canvas experience reminded me that we can still tap into that magic.

Harry spent nearly three years researching and writing Lost Tycoon. He interviewed Donald Trump and observed him in action in New York City and Atlantic City. He reviewed thousands of pages of court documents

Harry Hurt III is an award-winning print journalist, a video journalist, and the author of six nonfiction books.

The diet drugs, which [Trump] took in pill form, not only curbed his appetite but gave him a feeling of euphoria and unlimited energy. The medical literature warned that some potentially dangerous side effects could result from long-term usage; they included anxiety, insomnia, and delusions of grandeur. According to several Trump Organization insiders, Donald exhibited all these ominous symptoms of diet drug usage, and then some.

Rumors of Trump’s predilection for stimulants first started really popping up in 1992, when Spy magazine wrote, “Have you ever wondered why Donald Trump has acted so erratically at times, full of manic energy, paranoid, garrulous? Well, he was a patient of Dr. [Joseph] Greenberg’s from 1982 to 1985.” At the time, Dr. Greenberg was notorious for allegedly doling out prescription stimulants to anyone who could pay.

Wastewater injection is an entirely different process that’s used for disposing of waste fluids from a number of industrial activities, a number of which are unrelated to energy development.

Visit the site and you can read the “truth” about King — communist, wife-beater, plagiarist, sexual deviant and all-around fraud.

A powerful capability for ad hoc distributed computing arises naturally from the architecture of the Web.

This simple discipline, which is standard across all domains served by VBX controls, enables average programmers (like me) to build custom applications in hours or days.

To promote and reward collaboration we’re developing a “C-score” that measures the quality and quantity of collaborators’ contributions to group efforts.

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DeSmogBlog is a smear site founded by a scientifically unqualified public relations man, James Hoggan and funded by a convicted money launderer, John Lefebvre. The irony here is their favorite tactic is to attempt to smear those they disagree with as funded by "dirty money". Since its creation in 2006 the site has done nothing but post poorly researched propaganda with a clear intent to smear respected scientists, policy analysts or groups who dare oppose an alarmist position on global warming. Their articles frequently reference unreliable sources such as Wikipedia and Sourcewatch since they are unable to find any fact based criticisms of those they attack in respected news sources.

A corporate smoke screen surrounds much of the coverage of climate-change and energy issues. Fossil-fuel companies have spent millions funding anti-global-warming think tanks, purposely creating a climate of doubt around the science. DeSmogBlog is the antidote to that obfuscation. Started in 2006 by James Hoogan, a Canadian p.r. guru, DeSmogBlog dissects the half truths and outright lies around climate change, acting as an aggregator for smart research and opinion on green issues. If it sometimes goes too far — as with its jihad against gas fracking — DeSmogBlog is nevertheless a necessary corrective.

TIME Magazine named DeSmogBlog in its “25 Best Blogs of 2011” list.

The DeSmogBlog Project began in January 2006 and quickly became the world’s number one source for accurate, fact based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns.

Principia Scientific International is a self-sustaining community of impartial scientists from around the world deliberating, debating and publishing cutting-edge thinking on a range of issues without a preconceived idea of outcomes.

Principia Scientific International (PSI) is an organization based in the United Kingdom which promotes fringe views and material to claim that carbon dioxide is not a greenhouse gas.

I discovered that a number of ex-CIA analysts were also looking for a place to publish their work. They shared our concern that the United States was veering away from fact-based policies. They felt that this decoupling from reality was careening the country toward international catastrophes. And they were right.

Since 1999, we have operated as a 501-c-3 non-profit

In the Southern Hemisphere, sea-ice levels just smashed through the previous record highs across Antarctica, where there is now more ice than at any point since records began.