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Event: What Can Blended Learning Do for Virginia Students and Schools? The Lexington Institute and Thomas Jefferson Institute Invite You to Attend
Is Virginia Ready for Blended Learning?
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Noon to 1:45 pm
(just before the official start of the VSBA Convention)
Doubletree by Hilton, Williamsburg
50 Kingsmill [Read More...]
An Insecure ‘Smart’ Grid is Not So Smart Defense NewsThe electrical grid is vital not only to civil society but to the military as well. Defending it against the threats of the post-9/11 era requires strategic thinking to complement the grid’s focus on local interests and financial [Read More...]
International Postal Update October 2013
____________________________________________________________________Canada Post Faces Lawsuit and Losses
____________________________________________________________________Canada Post proposes lawsuit settlement while suffering substantial losses in Q2 2013.Canada Post offered $5.05 million (US$4.9 million) to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2006 by Lee Valley Tools [Read More...]
Blended Learning Comes To A Catholic Diocese: A How-To Guide Based On The San Jose Experience Click here to download a printer-friendly PDF of this study.In an historic first, a Catholic diocese is launching a “blended learning” program at seven elementary schools this fall. California’s Diocese of San Jose schools will introduce a blended learning [Read More...]
International Postal Update July 2013
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Boycott Threatens Royal Mail
____________________________________________________________________Royal Mail profits surge while union threatens to boycott private mail. Ahead of the government’s planned sell-off of Royal Mail, the U.K. postal service reported that its pre-tax profits in the year [Read More...]
International Postal Update April 2013
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Universal Postal Union Meetings In Berne
____________________________________________________________________The Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) two main deliberative bodies, the Postal Operations Council and the Council of Administration, met in Berne this month to begin action on policies approved at [Read More...]
A Quick Reference On The U.S. Postal Service Click here to download printer friendly PDF OverviewCreated in 1789 as the Department of the Post Office, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) commenced operations as an “independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United [Read More...]
Formalizing the National Guard Role in Restoring Electrical Power Homeland Security TodayDisaster response and recovery experts are just beginning to fully assess the impacts of last year’s Hurricane Sandy, in which over four million people on the east coast lost power and hundreds of thousands had to make [Read More...]
Ensuring The Resilience Of The U.S. Electrical Grid Executive SummaryThe North American power grid is a modern engineering marvel, and yet at the same time it is increasingly a system facing great risk of being disrupted by adverse events. Nearly all of the critical infrastructure elements upon [Read More...]
Smarter Grid is a Smart Investment Washington ExaminerFor thousands of years, nocturnal light was an expensive luxury. Today we can’t imagine life without cheap round-the-clock light. This is just one example of how the U.S. electrical grid is responsible for facilitating so much of the [Read More...]