How to go wrong with assurance
How to go wrong with assurance Posted in December 12th, 2008 by admin in Epistemology For the past couple of weeks, I have been involved in multiple conversations covering quite divergent subject [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-12 17:49:34
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10 Measures for Continuous Website Maintenance
Website maintenance and quality assurance mean the backbone of high quality offers of information, ... assurance as important process ingredients which have to be applied continuously. But let’s see [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-13 11:54:09
The great Fr. Richard John Neuhaus has inspired so many over the years. CMR requests prayers for him as he's been diagnosed with cancer. Fr. Neuhaus wrote this personal note on "First Things" today: I cannot begin to respond to the deluge of assurances of prayer and concern about my health. Please be assured that I am grateful and count [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-09 16:49:46
Payer jusqu’à 30% de moins sur votre contrat d’assurance auto
30% de moins sur votre tarif d’assurance automobile ? Intéressant non ? Et bien, c’est possible, avec Direct Assurance ! En prime, jusqu’au 15 avril 2009, Direct... Ce blog est édité par Marco [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-15 21:04:29
News 2008.12.11 Late Edition
Avnet Electronics Debuts Intel Desktop Board D945GCLF2 Convenience Kit Avnet Electronics Marketing has released the Intel® Desktop Board ... an Intel® embedded architecture platform. Quality Assurance Test Platform for 64-bit Windows The Corelis Quality Assurance Department has ramped up support for future product releases by creating [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-12 00:00:17
The Enigma of a Sec’y of State Hillary Clinton
While on vacation… not only physically, but mentally, ... this week before agreeing to take the job, she demanded and received assurances that she alone should appoint staff to the State Department. She also got assurances that she will have direct access [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-24 16:43:12
It’s the Policy
CAP’s Dan Weiss argues that bankruptcy for the auto companies would have too devastating an impact on employment ... assurances to colleagues that they won’t stand in the way of serious climate legislation, etc [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-03 18:43:57
Mutuelle santé : Nouvelle gamme BonAssur chez Bonne Assurance
Des garanties très élevèes à des tarifs abordables… tel est le défi du comparateur mutuelle toulousain. [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-15 10:10:55
The Economically Bipolar Generation
In accordance with over medicalized, over psychoanalyzed, overdiagnosed society, it's pretty clear that my generation (Gen Y, the millenials) ... us certain irrevocable, perhaps unrealistic, assurances about our financial well-being. Invest ... me that Jim Cramer barking financial assurances [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-02 15:12:56
Makers of Crap Sandwich Now Pitching It With 10-Percent More Corn
The big three automakers are back in Washington, trying to convince Congress to give them your hard-earned money so they can keep afloat businesses ... with plans Tuesday to restructure their ailing companies and provide assurances that the bailout ... changes, including the elimination of lavish executive pay packages and assurances that taxpayers would [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-02 12:57:12
CAFC Affirms PTO’s right to fire quality assurance specialist for 35%+ error rate.
Asokkumar Pal v. Department of Commerce (Fed. Cir. 2008)(nonprecedential) Pal was a quality assurance specialist at the USPTO. His job was to review patent examiner decisions and determine whether [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-16 21:49:41
Thick Skin Pays Off in Leadership
Women still dodge low balls in the public sphere. They are ready to brush off personal attacks to focus on what matters to them in politics or in ... -assurance as outward arrogance, creating distance between the leader and his or her employees. 2. Because [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-01 23:11:35
Bad times, good times
What do people do more often when in trouble than when things are going fine? They pray, for one. And they go to church ... , and have a greater felt need for divine assurance, if not assistance. Second, evangelical pastors [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-14 16:35:53
JAURON HAS NO ASSURANCES HE’LL BE BACK
Date: 2008-12-16 02:24:53
Gun sales soar following Obama election
Gun stores across the United States are reporting a massive surge in sales as buyers rush to stockpile firearms in case of a ban ... a socialist society policed by his own police force,” added Mr Pruett, a former radio personality ... . The president-elect repeated that assurance on the campaign trail yet it is not so much [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-07 17:20:23
Automaker Aid Plan Gathers Steam in Advance of Next Week’s Sessions
It has been reported that Rep Barney Frank (D) plans to introduce the new $25 billion auto loan package in a lame duck session of congress on ... noted that the bailout should lead to long term viability and must have assurances that the automakers ... and the current administration will determine whether to provide immediate support to the domestic aut [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-13 11:29:28
Date: 2008-12-11 05:20:53
Meet Lynda Odendaal, COPE's New Deputy President
Bloemfontein - Standing just 1.5 metres tall, the blonde Lynda Odendaal on Tuesday burst onto South Africa's political landscape with an explosion of ... of integrated service assurance management solutions."But I have resigned and my full time position [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-17 15:14:00
Attracting and Retaining High-Performance Gen Y Workers
Many employers are seeing a new generation of scholarship seekers who value no strings attached (with no bond period) arrangements. As such, scholarships can be heavy investments with no assurance of returns for employers. Nicholas Goh, Managing Director of Verztec Consulting Pte Ltd, an ISO 9001:2000 Certified Multilingual [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-17 15:11:58
Recurring Nightmare: Elm Street Remake Set to Go
Who can fill Robert Englund’s shoes…or hat…or nails? ShockTillYouDrop reports that Platinum Dunes, Warner Brothers and New Line (now a part of WB) are set to work together on the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. Although the remake has been long talked about, there wasn’t until now an assurance that Platinum Dunes [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-12 05:25:29
Prof. Michael Brenner on OBAMA
Michael Brenner, Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, in e mail, ... -assurance that stems from a stellar Ivy League record, a wife to match and early electoral successes [suite...]
Date: 2008-10-30 19:05:29
Earliest Exit Polls 2008: Obama Wins First Place to Vote
Board Keeps Nathan Bedford Forrest Name At High School Mortgage Loan Modification Efforts Continue Expansion New evidence for homeopathy Nader calls for ban on imports from China until assurances met Ralph Nader Polling at 3 Percent Free Coffee at Starbucks on Election Day Requests Regarding Tighter Regulations Of Short Selling Seattle Symphony [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-04 18:00:30
Bush WH Ignored Mortgage Meltdown Warnings
“In hindsight, it was spot on.” -Jeffrey Brown, former top official at the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, ... the housing implosion cost her a job. Bowing to aggressive lobbying — along with assurances [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-01 19:43:15
W3C Validators in Jeopardy
As many folks who follow the W3C are aware, financial and bureaucratic issues have challenged the organization for many years ... of quality assurance away from the process. For more information about the validator services concern [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-11 19:37:00
Owned by the unions
From today's Times: "Britain’s biggest union saved Labour from bankruptcy by guaranteeing its finances in a secret deal that the party is refusing to make public. Unite, which has given £13.4 million to Labour since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, gave formal assurances in June that it would support the debt-ridden party [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-27 08:17:59
Paulson Says The Banking System Is ‘Stabilized,’ Then Citigroup Loses Half Its Value In Four Days
As the Wonk Room has documented, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has repeatedly called the the banking system “safe and sound, ... to throw money at the banking system, provide assurances that everything is going as planned ... But he is not proactively addressing the housing crisis, instead choosing to offer false assurances [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-21 17:25:17
Rethinking how we pay for climate change mitigation
Asm. Huffman (D-Marin) has a pretty interesting legislative package ... goals or assurances that this revenue will actually result in meaningful greenhouse-gas reduction ... -know the venerable auto club, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, to be an unfailing source [suite...]
Date: 2008-08-21 18:31:38
Vote to renew contract with county and CCA regarding T. Don Hutto scheduled for December 23rd
Received via email: Judge Gattis announced this morning that the vote will take place on Dec 23rd; any hope of getting them to vote against the renewal rests on our activity before that meeting. But, we must have full force at the meeting to assure they don’t bail out simply because we don’t give them the cover to vote for us and justice [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-16 21:49:00
Mumbai Terror Group Trained American Jihadists
A growing chorus of intelligence officials in the U.S ... phone number and e-mail address, with the assurance that "requests for information about the jihad [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-10 12:00:08
Writing good alt text
I do quite a bit of quality assurance work, specifically looking at the accessibility and web standards use of websites. In many cases I make remarks about the use of alternative text for images [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-11 18:45:01
Hillary Will Shape The Foreign Policy Of An Obama Administration
At the expense of some of Obama’s longtime advisers: Before Hillary Clinton has been formally offered the job as Secretary of State, ... . In negotiations with Mr Obama this week before agreeing to take the job, she demanded and received assurances that she alone should appoint staff to the State Department. She also got assurances [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-24 15:31:26
Vocab: Aplomb
Vocab: Aplomb Vocab - Word of the Day: aplomb \uh-PLOM\, noun — Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession; confidence; coolness. es of others. This Issue Diahann [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-20 04:00:33
My Interests
I updated my Amazon profile's "interests" section to be more of a list than the former long-winded version ... , technical writing and quality assurance. Now dependent on small but regular doses of caffeine [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-12 11:00:01
Salman is misinterpreted, says Ghai
In the past media and public might have called all sorts of bad names on Salman Khan but there is still one man in the Indian Film industry who is ... was willing to work with him. Other stars only gave him unfulfilled promises and assurances whereas [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-25 11:04:03
17 November SWJ Roundup
Small Wars Journal readers are no doubt familiar with the debate between John Nagl and Gian Gentile about the kinds of threats the US will face in ... an assurance of safety for Mr. Omar they would have to remove Mr. Karzai as president or withdraw [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-17 09:17:50
Our Refuge and Afflictor
In light of everything going on in the economy and in our family’s life, ... to out of great need. It was a cave to hide in or a city to flee to in order to have assurance of protection [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-12 13:02:08
Roughan gets it
John Roughan in the Herald: A week ago, when the votes were in and National didn’t need the Maori Party, a deal didn’t seem to me to be worth doing ... with them. They are more likely to want an assurance of being treated as an equal partner [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-14 22:46:14
Sophie in ‘t Veld sues over US ‘risk assessment’
p2pnet news Politics:- | Freedom:- George W. Bush wants your personal information, p2pnet noted in 2006. “And yours. And yours ... a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. To test those assurances, In ‘t Veld filed FOIA [suite...]
Date: 2008-07-02 10:47:32
UK: Pension errors “go back decades”
“The pensions of tens of thousands of retired NHS, armed services and other public sector staff have been overpaid for decades, the government has said. About 5% of public sector pensioners are affected by overpayments worth ‘tens of millions’ of pounds. Earlier Lib Dem MP Vince Cable asked for assurances bailiffs would [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-16 02:10:32
ExxonMobil Fined $6.1 Million For Violating Clean Air Act
ExxonMobil has agreed to pay nearly $6.1 million in civil penalties for violating the terms of a 2005 court-approved Clean Air Act agreement, ... Y. Nakayama, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “EPA [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-17 08:00:00
10 things you should know about launching an IT consultancy
There’s no shortage of books on how to start your own business — and some of them are excellent resources ... consulting franchise. There are plenty of launch-your-own-business books out there. I know. I read ... and not as a side project you maintain when you feel like it. Clients appreciate the assurance [suite...]
Date: 2008-08-20 19:08:30
Exceptions
It has long been a truism that the Green Movement is basically an indulgence—something which one follows only in times of plenty ( ... September) gave specific assurances to Poland that 100% free CO2 permit allocation “should be possible” [suite...]
Date: 2008-09-29 17:07:40
Price Assurance with Orbitz
I really get ticked off when I book an airline ticket, only to find out that the price drops two weeks later. It is so disappointing! ... enjoy receiving cash. With Orbitz Price Assurance, travelers will get automatic cash refund [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-12 16:45:59
Autos v Environment
Looks like the U.S. auto bailout debate is going to come down to whether automakers will be held to state or federal fuel efficiency standards as a ... who are not inclined to help the auto manufacturers would feel they had assurances that these companies would [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-11 14:28:23
Paulson Says Auto Industry Aid Should Not Come From Wall Street Bailout, Congressional Democrats Disagree
It has been reported that Rep Barney Frank (D) plans to introduce the new $25 billion auto loan package in a lame duck session of congress on ... noted that the bailout should lead to long term viability and must have assurances that the automakers ... and the current administration will determine whether to provide immediate support to the domestic aut [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-12 19:44:34
White House voices concern over bailout plan
The Bush administration and congressional Democrats have made a tentative agreement for a $15 billion emergency loan for the Detroit 3, ... greater assurances that the carmakers will be able to restructure and become viable in the new year [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-09 12:25:35
The Next Justice? Push for the Nation’s First Hispanic Underway
Barack Obama hasn’t yet taken the oath of office, and as of now, none of the Supreme Court Justices has indicated a desire to step down ... . Ortiz met with then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to press the issue, but Gonzales’ assurances [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-01 18:49:12
The Next Justice? Push for the Nation’s First Hispanic Underway
Barack Obama hasn’t yet taken the oath of office, and as of now, none of the Supreme Court Justices has indicated a desire to step down ... . Ortiz met with then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to press the issue, but Gonzales’ assurances [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-01 20:15:00
Scot sceptics fail to accept FIFA assurances over 2012's GB United
FIFA's latest assurances over the independence of the four home nations have failed to soften Scottish FA opposition to a British Olympic team. [suite...]
Date: 2008-11-12 17:30:42
6 Simple Ways to Appreciate Your Child
photo by sam, ProblemChildbride A book in Kinokuniya caught my attention when I was shopping few days ago. It is about appreciating your child ... I LOVE You.. it is a form a assurance to the children that their parents will always love them. Many [suite...]
Date: 2008-12-17 06:29:53
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