Month: November 2020

Event Data Recorder Market Share, Growth, Statistics, by Application, Production, Revenue & Forecast to 2025

Letitia Denham 4 days ago

The ‘ Event Data Recorder market’ research report now available at MarketStudyReport.com delivers a thorough analysis of the industry trends influencing the global business scenario. In addition, the report offers definitive information pertaining to the commercialization aspects, revenue estimation, and market size of the industry. The report overtly defines the status of key players in the competitive landscape while including their portfolio and geographical expansion endeavors.

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Washington loses thriller in Detroit, 30-27, as penalty helps foil Alex Smith’s career game

Letitia Denham 4 days ago

The loss was much like others for Washington this season: a train wreck of a first half, an impressive second half and as many positive plays as costly mistakes. The penalty by Young wasn’t the sole reason for Washington’s loss; it was merely last on a long list of self-inflicted wounds.

“I thought we played well enough to win,” Coach Ron Rivera said. “It’s just unfortunate it didn’t work out

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College football odds, picks, predictions for Week 10, 2020: Proven model backing Michigan, Arkansas

Letitia Denham 4 days ago

In what could wind up being a College Football Playoff elimination game, No. 1 Clemson will visit No. 4 Notre Dame on Saturday with the lead in the ACC standings hanging in the balance. The Tigers won’t have junior quarterback Trevor Lawrence available because of a positive COVID-19 test two weeks ago. Freshman D.J. Uiagalelei will have his work cut out against Notre Dame’s vaunted defense. However, the nation’s top-ranked

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What Biden’s new education transition team tells us about his agenda — and what it doesn’t

Letitia Denham 5 days ago

When it comes to policy, such concerns are probably misplaced. This transition team is not charged with writing big policy papers or selecting a new education secretary. The campaign set Biden’s education agenda, and there is a separate, smaller committee working on domestic policy.

The transition team’s charge is largely about reimagining the Education Department, which has been run for nearly four years by Betsy DeVos, whose top priority was

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University of Manitoba Faculty Association’s bargaining unit to hold strike vote – Winnipeg

Letitia Denham 5 days ago

The union representing faculty at the University of Manitoba is moving one step closer to a strike at the province’s largest post-secondary institution.

The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) says members of its bargaining unit will start voting this week on whether or not to take a job action after it says negotiations with the school over a wage re-opener clause in their latest contract have stalled.

Michael Shaw,

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Vaccine Maker AstraZeneca’s Computer Systems Targeted by Hackers

Letitia Denham 5 days ago

As the race to develop the COVID-19 vaccine continues, it appears that suspected North Korean hackers attempted to access AstraZeneca’s systems in the last weeks.

Reuters reports that the hackers pretended to be job recruiters and used LinkedIn and WhatsApp to contact AstraZeneca employees with false job offers. Sources told the news outlet that the hackers then sent documents that they claimed were job descriptions but instead were written with

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How Educators Can Help Smash Career Stereotypes

Letitia Denham 5 days ago

Nic Ponsford believes that anyone should be able to do a job that they like, and that for society to be happy and productive, we need to be able to encourage gender equality in all areas. She is a firm believer in the power of education to encourage a gender equal society, as well as in the concept of the portfolio career.

Having worked as a teacher, tech lead and

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College football odds, picks, predictions for Week 9, 2020: Proven model backing Iowa, Texas Tech

Letitia Denham 6 days ago

The Week 9 college football odds from have shifted throughout the week as Saturday’s kickoffs approach. The most drastic example comes in No. 1 Clemson vs. Boston College. The Tigers opened -32 at William Hill but are down to -25 after news broke that quarterback Trevor Lawrence will be held out following a positive COVID-19 test. Freshman D.J. Uiagalelei will get the start in his place.

In the Big Ten,

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Diversity of thought is vital in education | Education

Letitia Denham 6 days ago

As academics in the field of education and social sciences, we are writing to express our concern about the recent pattern of statements and policy guidance by politicians proscribing certain materials and bodies of work from the curriculum in schools and colleges. This includes materials that support calls to abolish or overthrow capitalism, that critique white privilege, or that promote “divisive or victim narratives”.

We are particularly concerned by

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Air University assistant professors win ILA award for research on positive student feedback > Maxwell Air Force Base > Display

Letitia Denham 6 days ago

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. —

Two Air University assistant professors received high honors for their research paper examining why students continually give remarkably positive feedback for one of the university’s courses.

Dr. John Hinck and Dr. Steven Davis won the International Leadership Association’s 2020 SAGE Most Publishable Leadership Education Paper award for their study on the impact the Leader Development Course for Squadron Command is having on students.

Hinck

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China’s co-op with BRI countries shows strong vitality amid COVID-19 pandemic

Letitia Denham 6 days ago

China’s cooperation with Belt and Road countries has shown strong vitality during the COVID-19 pandemic, and so far, China has signed 201 cooperation documents on joint Belt and Road construction with 138 countries and 31 international organizations, reported Shanghai Securities News Friday.

Proposed in 2013, the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (BRI) aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and

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Mick Schumacher using his father’s tips as he nears Formula One career

Letitia Denham 7 days ago



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Mick Schumacher has said he is using tips given to him by his father as he pursues a career in Formula One.

Seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher has not been seen in public since a skiing accident in 2013 left the German with severe brain injuries, but FIA president Jean Todt said last week that the 51-year-old is “following” his son’s racing career.

And, speaking

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Why do we have the Electoral College? Eventually, we’ll kill it.

Letitia Denham 7 days ago

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President Trump and President George W. Bush won the electoral vote during the election, but not the popular vote. How does the electoral college work?

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The National Popular Vote would finally eliminate the false premise that the construction of our Electoral College was meant to protect small states.

We’re going to get rid of the Electoral College, but it won’t be by way of Congress.

The states

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How the University of Maine set the stage for campuses during COVID-19

Letitia Denham 7 days ago

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com.

Quinn Galletta is a fourth-year political science and journalism student at the University of Maine in Orono. She currently serves as the editor in chief of the Her Campus chapter at the university.

In the small town of Orono, it is rare that something

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Photography Has Never Known How to Handle Climate Change

Letitia Denham 1 week ago

Many photographic chemicals produced by American manufacturers and sold in Europe referred to their country of origin in the brand name, such as “Wolcott’s American Mixture,” a chemical solution that increased the light sensitivity of the daguerreotype plate. Greater sensitivity to light meant that pictures could be taken more rapidly, thereby improving the sharpness and definition of the image. Electroplating, which increased the

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Chance the Rapper’s dad didn’t approve of his rap career | Celebrity news

Letitia Denham 1 week ago



Chance the Rapper's dad didn't approve of his rap career

Chance the Rapper’s dad disapproved of his career choice at first.

The 27-year-old hip-hop superstar was known as the rapper among his family from a very young age, but when he decided to pursue music as a career, there was some “friction” between Chance and his parent, Ken Williams-Bennett – who was an aide to former Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

Speaking on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’, he said:

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50 best college movies

Letitia Denham 1 week ago

50 best college movies

College movies are a cinema staple, delivering those who attended college doses of nostalgia and those who didn’t plenty of drama, comedy, and general mishaps to hold their interest. Films with college as the backdrop often focus on characters who are learning what it means to be an adult for the first time, and these stories rarely feature a smooth journey. 

Stacker gathered popular college movies

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Rally at Evansville’s North High School highlights education issues

Letitia Denham 1 week ago

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. — This time last year, thousands of teachers from across the state converged on the Indiana Statehouse to demand higher pay and education reform.

The pandemic has made gatherings like that impossible, but it didn’t stop a handful of North High School teachers from staging a small rally of their own.

Before the start of school Tuesday, more than

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University of Pittsburgh Hosts Its 50th Jazz Seminar and Concert

Letitia Denham 1 week ago

Over the past five decades, the University of Pittsburgh’s annual Jazz Seminar and Concert has become a staple of the Pittsburgh music scene. It began under the leadership of the late Nathan Davis, founding director of Pitt’s jazz studies program, and continued under the late Geri Allen, the program’s second director. Now the contributions of both directors are being honored this week as part of the 50th Pitt Jazz Seminar

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The power of visualization and how it helps in your career journey

Letitia Denham 1 week ago

The visualization and manifestation of goals can take on many forms. Oprah talked about using vision boards in several episodes of her show, which uses images and key words to map out your desired future state. Before Jim Carey became a famous actor, he would drive along Mulholland Drive, visualizing that he was already a famous actor. He wrote himself a $10 million dummy check for acting services rendered, which

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