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Another Commodity ETF: They Keeping Coming
Barclays Global Investors has finally launched a commodities exchange traded fund (ETF). This new offering began trading July 21, 2006 on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GSG. This ETF follows on the heels of Deutsche Bank's earlier-to-market commodities ETF, DBC and…
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Selling Consulting: It's Harder Than What You Expect
If you are responsible for selling “consulting”, it's important to recognize that you can be a vendor of consulting or you can consultatively sell consulting services. That's quite a mouthful. If you are in a service provider (consultant) role, you may or may not be […] Selling…
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Outdoor Spas of Pagosa Springs, Colorado
While on a recent trip to the West Coast, we traveled through Pagosa Springs, Colorado. We arrived in town about noon and discovered a natural hot spring in the center of town. We've been to other outdoor spas, but this one is very well developed […] Outdoor Spas of Pagosa…
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A New Way of Thinking About Organizational Projects
In my most recent series of columns, I have talked a great deal about the challenges projects face in most organizations. Many of these challenges stem from the fact that project management is not the primary purpose of organizations, and never will be. Companies are […] A New…
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How Managers Cope With Information Overload
Information is the business resource that tells managers how effectively their other resources (material, human, and financial) are being combined and used. On the surface, it's hard to argue that more information could be bad. And yet today's managers often find themselves…
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A Guide to Camera Lenses
We ask the question, “what lenses do I need?” This is hard to answer because there are many ways to treat a subject. Many choices depend on your personal taste and ability to carry the equipment. Lens selection is important, especially when you are traveling. […] A Guide to…
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Feeding Time: The Foraging Cycles of Freshwater Fish
Fish in the wild synchronize their activity with the availability of food each day, often visiting a particular location at a specific time. These foraging cycles exist when the availability of food is predictable in time and space and the fish can rapidly satisfy their […]…
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The Pony Express Station in Gothenburg, Nebraska
While we were returning from a summer camping trip out West, my husband and I found the charming prairie town of Gothenburg, which bills itself as the “Pony Express Capital of Nebraska”. Here, you'll find two of the few remaining Pony Express stations, including one […] The Pony…
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I'm PADI Open Water Diver Certified!
The title says it all 🙂 Yep, day 2 of the open water dive training went well despite the continued miserable weather. There was only one dive today, but the skills were the hardest of the 4 open water dives. We descended to a platform […] I'm PADI Open Water Diver Certified! was…
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Introduction to Chinchilla Genetics
How Genetics Work One of the things deciding what a chinchilla will appear like (what color it gets, how big it gets, the quality of the fur, etc) is the genes. The genes always appears in pairs. If the two genes in a pair are […] Introduction to Chinchilla Genetics was…
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Phishing: Don't Be Phooled By Phoney Emails
Phishing, the use of legitimate looking e-mails that attempt to trick people in to giving out personal information, is on the rise. It's not hard to see why. Rather than digging through mounds of data looking for credit card numbers, social security numbers, and bank […]…
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Scuba Diving Class – Day 1
So last night was the first day of scuba glass. We started off filling in some forms and then moved on to some discussion of key points from the instruction manual. Before getting into the pool, we did a quiz which asked very similar questions […] Scuba Diving Class – Day 1 was…
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Legal Issues in First Aid: The Law Is (Mostly) On Your Side
It's a valid concern to ask what you might be legally liable for if you give first aid. Generally, as long as you act reasonably and prudently when you give first aid, you don't need to worry about being sued. In fact, most regions explicitly […] Legal Issues in First Aid: The…
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Chinchilla Chew Toys
Chinchillas need to constantly chew on things to keep their teeth healthy. Might as well have fun doing it, wouldn't you say? Here are some of the chew toys we've tried over the years. Lava Bites Lava Bites are little triangular stones made out of […] Chinchilla Chew Toys was…
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Horne Creek Living Historical Farm, North Carolina: A Glimpse Into the South's Rural Past
My family and I enjoyed a unique glimpse of the South's rural past at Horne Creek Living Historical Farm near Pinnacle in northwestern North Carolina. A century ago, farmer Thomas Hauser, his wife and 12 children worked this prosperous 450-acre farm. Today, costumed interpreters…
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Don't Forget to Defrag Your Harddrive
The constant writing, deleting, and creating of files that occurs on a hard drive results in bits and pieces of files being scattered in different locations. This means that the CPU in a computer must wait until the hard drive finds and re-assembles all the […] Don't Forget to…
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Synchronized Swimming: An Impressive Display By Schooling Fish
One of the most arresting sights in the whole animal kingdom is that of a school of fish turning this way and that in perfect harmony with their schoolmates. It seems almost impossible to believe that an animal supposedly as simple as a fish could […] Synchronized Swimming: An…
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Spinach Festival in Crystal City, Texas
Remember Popeye's source of superhuman strength? So does Crystal City, Texas, which calls itself the “Spinach Capital of the World.” The town honors the feisty cartoon character with a statue outside City Hall, erected in 1937, and it also throws a rollicking Spinach Festival…
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Composition: An Introduction
One might think that when photographing nature, especially wildlife, you need to take what you get in terms of composition. But nature photography requires pleasing the eye of the beholder. You look for compositions that give your images balance, repetitive patterns, and details…
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Wheeler Geological Area of the Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado
The Wheeler Geological Area is a hidden natural wonder in Colorado's Rio Grande National Forest. It's filled with fantastical formations carved by wind and water out of thick ash deposited millions of years ago by a volcanic eruption. Named after Captain George Wheeler, an early…