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Cecile Andrews has been engaged with New Dream for many years through her work on consumerism. Her first book, The Circle of Simplicity, focused on the voluntary simplicity movement. A few years later she brought together essays by leaders of the movement in Less Is More.
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Sixteen-employee startup Scoop.it Inc. raised $2.6 million in venture funding. By Steven E.F. Brown, Web Editor-San Francisco Business Times
Like many parents around the world, some moms and dads in Brooklyn are choosing to raise their children without using any diapers. How does this work and does it make any sense? Commentator Barbara J.
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From Robin Good's insight: "Brickflow is a web app which allows you to easly collect content from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and YouTube and to package it up in a visual tile grid that can be viewed as a slideshow and which can be easily published, shared and embedded on the web. With Brickflow you can build a visual story either by collecting stories and resources using hashtags or by searching..." Read full Robin Good's insight below. Check out it: http://brickflow.com Some examples: http://blog.brickflow.com
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SummaryEstablishing links between phenotypes and molecular variants is of central importance to accelerate genetic improvement of economically important plant species. Our work represents the first genome-wide association study to the inherently complex and currently poorly understood genetic architecture of industrially relevant wood traits.Here, we employed an Illumina Infinium 34K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping array that generated 29 233 high-quality SNPs in c. 3500 broad-based candidate genes within a population of 334 unrelated Populus trichocarpa individuals to establish genome-wide associations.The analysis revealed 141 significant SNPs (α ≤ 0.05) associated with 16 wood chemistry/ultrastructure traits, individually explaining 3–7% of the phenotypic variance. A large set of associations (41% of all hits) occurred in candidate genes preselected for their suggested a priori involvement with secondary growth. For example, an allelic variant in the FRA8 ortholog explained 21% of the total genetic variance in fiber length, when the trait's heritability estimate was considered. The remaining associations identified SNPs in genes not previously implicated in wood or secondary wall formation.Our findings provide unique insights into wood trait architecture and support efforts for population improvement based on desirable allelic variants.
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When it comes to industrial design, few consumer electronics or computer makers have the legacy or influence of Apple. Here's a look back at the history of its aesthetic.
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Kudos to the Directory of Open Access Journals for an oustanding second quarter! In the past few months, DOAJ has added 912 titles for a total of 9,759 journals. That's a net growth rate of over 10 titles per day, up from the previous rate of over 3 titles per day. At this rate it won't be long before DOAJ exceeds the milestone of 10,000 journals. PubMedCentral growth continues to be very strong in spite of what looks like a bit of backsliding. The percentage of articles published with free fulltext available continues to grow at a steady pace and is now up to 25%. There are now 69 more journals are actively participating in PMC while there has been a drop of 102 journals providing immediate free access and of 16 journals making all articles open access. Highwire Free shows a similar pattern - overall strong growth - more than 60,000 free fulltext articles added this quarter for a total of 2.3 million and an increase of 2 completely free sites with a drop of 6 sites with free back issues. Overall the pattern for journals is very strong growth in full open access and cooperation with PMC, suggesting that the backsliders are a very small minority. Source: The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2013Heather MorrisonAssistant Professor, University of Ottawa École des sciences de l’information / School of Information Studieshttp://www.sis.uottawa.ca/ http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/07/june-30-2013-dramatic-growth-of-open_4.html http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/24279
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Now the world’s largest solar market. Policy change has since sparked a solar boom, setting up Japan to surpass Germany as the world’s largest photovoltaics market by revenue this year, with sales nearly doubling to $20 billion, according to an IHS report. Last year, Japan implemented a feed-in tariff, which promises solar producers a subsidized price, at twice the going rate in Germany and France. Canadian Solar Inc., based in Guelph, Ont., has already taken advantage of the trend, increasing its first-quarter shipments to Japan by 75% over the previous quarter
Ever seen a Google search meme where autocomplete gives some hilarious endings to your sentences? Let's look at some US cities in this light.
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SETI has long occupied a unique niche in modern intellectual life, combining serious and far-reaching science with a kind of gosh-wow zeal that seems (at times) to border on the mystical — perhaps as much religious as a product of science or science fiction. Indeed, to some, the notion of contact with advanced alien civilizations may carry much the same transcendental or hopeful significance as any more traditional notion of “salvation from above”. But, should small groups of opinionated people here on Earth decide for the rest of us - without even consulting us - whether to attract the attention of aliens out there? It's a more sober and serious topic that you might expect. And I take a position that might surprise you, for a sci fi author. But I also happen to be a scientist. And I believe important matters should be discussed and done right. See my "Lifeboat" article about "Messages to ET Intelligences... or METI
Improve Ecommerce Conversion and Sales : 5 most important factors
If you run an online store, you're always trying to boost your sales. Here's how to increase the conversion rate of your ecommerce site This second installment tackles how to increase your conversion rate by focusing on your site's look, feel and overall user experience.So you have an Ecommerce site, or are building one, and you're wondering “What can I do to increase my conversion rates?”. E-commerce has become a big part in today's Internet. Because the start-up cost is relatively lower, This is a guest post by Jenni Tolman. Jenni is the Content Marketing Manager & SEO Writer for Miva Merchant, an all-inclusive ecommerce ... 5 Strategies for Using Market Research to Improve E-commerce Sales. A great list of ... Explaining the “why” could go a long way to increasing conversion, www.searchengineland.blog.com
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Our society has one great knack above all others -- one that no other ever managed -- that of holding the mighty accountable. Although elites of all kinds still have many advantages over commonfolk, never before have citizens been so empowered. And history shows that this didn't happen byblinding the mighty -- a futile endeavor that has never worked. It happened by insisting that everybody get to see. By citizens demanding the power to know.
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With the launch of a promising new sharing movement organization called Peers today, it’s a good time to reflect on the character of the sharing movement.
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WIRE is Amnesty International's global magazine for people who are passionate about human rights. Read about our campaigns and fresh research, meet the people we work for and with, and - most importantly - take action.
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Excerpted from article on Content Marketing Institute: "in our era of limited time and budget resources, how do you measure the quality of your day-to-day and week-to-week content curation efforts? As Joe Pulizzi writes, “Your job, like that of a museum curator, is to unearth the best content on the planet in your niche, so that your museum doesn’t close down for a lack of visitors.”
To help you gauge the quality and consistency of your content curation efforts, I’ve created the simple worksheet below. Here, find out how you can use it to score your ability to discover, share, and improve your efforts to create “the best content marketing on the planet” on an ongoing basis.
1. Relevance 2. Uniqueness 3. Context 4. Adding value 5. Concise 6. Visual engagement 7. Organization 8. Efficiency 9. Tracking 10. Serendipity
Here are a few bonus tips for making the most of your use of the content curation scorecard: - Use three-hole paper - Scoring Binders and divider tabs - Commit to consistency - Make it a group effort - Comments..."
Each element and final tips are analyzed with more information and some external links to other posts. Read full original article here: http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2013/06/measure-content-curation-success-scorecard/
"Content Curation Scorecard for Content Marketing Success" from Roger Parker on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/RogerParker/rcp-content-curation-checklist
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The difference in size, shape, and chemical cues of leaves and flowers display the underlying genetic makeup and their interactions with the environment. The need to understand the molecular signatures of these fragile plant surfaces is illustrated with a model plant, Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don). Flat, thin layer chromatographic imprints of leaves/petals were imaged using desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI MS), and the results were compared with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI MS) of their extracts. Tandem mass spectrometry with DESI and ESI, in conjunction with database records, confirmed the molecular species. This protocol has been extended to other plants. Implications of this study in identifying varietal differences, toxic metabolite production, changes in metabolites during growth, pest/pathogen attack, and natural stresses are shown with illustrations. The possibility to image subtle features like eye color of petals, leaf vacuole, leaf margin, and veins is demonstrated.
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Teacher in the library, a homework hotline and helpful websites
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Association of rural women from Prebold (Slovenia) has recently organised the 10th Festival of potica cakes, which took place on 22 and 23 March 2013 in Prebold, where the giant cake baked in the form of Easter potica cake was launched. Its diameter was of 158 cm. It was baked in a bakery Fijavž in Šempeter in Savinja walley, the main master was Andrej Voh.
The giant cake was officially measured and reported for entry in the Guinness Book of Records: it was in the owen for 4 hours, and could be stretched to almost 5 metres long cake. What were the ingridients spent?
10 kg of fine flour and 3 kg crisp flour 10 kg of nuts 70 eggs 9 liters of milk 3 kg of butter 3 kg of sugar 4 kg of dried grape berries and 400 grams of yeast.
Official measurements for the Guinness Book of World Records was held at the evening event - Festival of cakes in Prebold, 22 March 2013. The event was visited by famous Slovenian ethnologist Dr. Janez Bogataj, who is preparing a monograph on potica cakes. On open call, who in Slovenia could make a large model for giant cake, responded Slovenian Society of Ceramicists and Potters and Pottery of Dobovšek Sebastian and Tatjana, who finaly made a giant model named St. Barbara's model.
The model manufacturing was not an easy task, either. Technological solutions have come up with an experienced potter Bostjan Dobovšek and Technologist Association Blaz Konc. Seven members of the Association on Saturday, 16 February 2013, gathered in Boštjan's workshop in Žalna, where they worked diligently throughout the day. They spend 230 hours of work for modelling and burning clay, which was then cared for drying. They have made 34 kg heavy model with the extent of over 490 cm. At the event on 15 March 2013 in Grosuplje the unique model was given to the President of Association of Rural Women from Prebold, Ms Danica Uplaznik.
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How a new augmented reality platform for the iPhone is helping educators explore the possibilities of mobile for learning, and the value of putting students in the driver’s seat.
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A young man from Aleppo channeled his country's pain in a performance on the Arab version of American Idol.
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A refugee from Sierra Leone has told his story of violence and hope in his new homeland.
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FREE White Papers/Guides : Social Media, SEO & Marketing This paper contains valuable insight into the marketing value of major cultural events and social media conversations. It examines the online ...
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After almost two-and-half years, it is with great pleasure that I officially unveil the fourth edition of The Conversation Prism.
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