Your Career: Guerrilla reference checks

Checking references seems more like guerrilla warfare lately. Hiring managers want to find out everything they can about you before they offer you a job, and conventional tactics don’t seem to be enough.

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Judge: Ky. can't legislate dependence on God

It is one thing to trust in God, but quite another to be ordered to rely on protection from above during national emergencies, a judge has ruled.

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Ask.com acquires Dictionary.com, other references

Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. and other much larger rivals.

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Constitutional Law for Dummies: A Must-Have Addition to Your Library

Prygoski's Sum and Substance Quick Review on Constitutional Law, 13th By Philip Prygoski.

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Do We Depend Too Much on Google (and Other Search Engines) for Research?

I love search engines! And among the ones I've tried I especially love Google's search engine! It is much faster and easier to research many topics, to quickly check trivial facts, etc., using Google than it is to go to the library and look something up (or to call a libraria …

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A librarian expresses concern over the absence of quiet places to read in libraries and over the decline in "browsing the stacks."

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Google is the most powerful search engine available, but when it comes to searching for something specific, Google may churn out general results for some.

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Are you trapped in your past and can't get out? (Poll)

Someone once said, "The past is for reference, not for residence", and it is framed over my bed where I see it first thing each morning and last thing at night.

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I wonder if Harper will publish my book, *Liber Pan-Priapus: Sexual Magick in Theory and Practice.*

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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker launched in 1966

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State of the World 2009 Climate Change Reference Guide and Glossary, compiled by Worldwatch researchers Alice McKeown and Gary Gardner. This guide is a resource for policymakers and others throughout this critical year moving toward the Copenhagen negotiations in December 2009.

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I tend to look at everything in terms of probabilities. So, you could ask the question, what's the probability that we would have a general collapse in the financial sector? If you asked me a year ago, I would have said that probability is as close to zero as you can get.

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The publications on this list are mostly reference materials. While they aren't something you might consider for an afternoon of light reading, though, they can be very useful in planning your finances, doing home projects and other tasks that may require reference materials.

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A Little Lesson in Logic, Pt. 1: Logical Consequence and Modus Ponens

Besides the wonderful alliteration of the title, this article (and hopefully subsequent articles) will be awesome because it may provide a useful reference for those who wish to have logic on their side when arguing here on the 'vine. An Explanation of Logical Consequence

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What we need is to catalog the 10 or 20 classic conservative "not sos"— the big lies or cons that have become central to the story they tell both to themselves and to the country—with the basic refutation.

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By Kelly Valen Tue Apr 8, 4:00 AM ET

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It is the biggest encyclopedia in history and the most successful example of "user-generated content" on the internet, with over 9m articles in 250 languages contributed by volunteers collaborating online.

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JK Rowling sues RDR Books for publishing a Harry Potter lexicon.

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Google recently announced Knol, a new experimental website that puts information online in a way that encourages authorial attribution.

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Does any bank give you 100% interest in 30 days(1 month)? I mean for example if you deposit 1000 in bank, will you get 2000 at the end of 30 days in bank? Your answer is no. Right? If you invest in shares/security/forex/mutual funds etc.

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A follow-up by Salon's Farhad Manjoo (The Machinist) to his column chastising JK Rowling for her recent "slap-down" of a publisher/author attempting to publish a print version of the popular, online Harry Potter Lexicon.

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Music Program Notes Has Moved

I am proud to announce that Music Program Notes has been accepted by Wikia, which brings our cost of operations down to zero and exposes our database to Wikia's large user community! Because of this, I have decided to re-title the database as simply Program Notes, to accommodate …

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Luca de Alfaro and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Cruz have created software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries based on the degree to which any given contributor's work survives subsequent edits by other people.

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Health08.org was established to inform the public on the presidential candidates' stances on health care.

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Uncyclopedia is an encyclopedia full of misinformation and lies. Absolutely no POVs are enforced at Uncyclopedia. You can make sense if you want to, be sarcastic if you want to, be dry, or even informative. Everything goes.

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From the website: 'Among the many topics explored by the philosophy of sexuality are procreation, contraception, celibacy, marriage, adultery, casual sex, flirting, prostitution, homosexuality, masturbation, seduction, rape, sexual harassment, sadomasochism, pornography, bestiali …

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This is a wealth of helpful everything and a place where you can really find tried and true or cutting edge and a great way to leverage open source contributions.

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Presenting: Music Program Notes!

I am proud to present Music Program Notes, an exciting new resource for ensemble directors, music educators, students, and anyone else with a general interest in music history!

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