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Bird Butts and Other Matters

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The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. The new rankings will be used in a major conservation initiative called the Edge of Existence program at the London Zoo. Also written up here. The original paper is here.

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Employers Engage Recovery Coaches to Achieve Workforce Sobriety

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And they do not include the pain and suffering to employees, colleagues, and the workplace as a whole, which can’t be accurately measured in numbers. Though statistics vary the most commonly cited are: 8% of individuals with a substance use disorder receive treatment in a given year.

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Misconceptions About Outsourcing In Emerging Markets

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According to reliable statistics, over 72 percent of businesses across the world and across industries outsource their IT solutions. It gives you access to sophisticated infrastructure, production resources, and experts that belong to a third party, and that you probably cannot afford to buy, maintain, or both.

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Is Your Company Failing Enough Times to Succeed?

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Unfortunately, because the customers didn’t know why this “new” entity was contacting them, the emails suffered open rates one-eighth of the normal benchmark, and many recipients actually unsubscribed from the list. Had the company conducted proper testing beforehand, all of this blowback could’ve been avoided.

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Combating Disengagement: What can be done about workers’ lack of interest in their jobs?

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Heinemeier Hansson says the Gallup numbers pair well with a statistic he took from anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book “Bull * Jobs”: 37 percent of people who responded to one survey said their job did not make a “meaningful contribution” to the world. Quality will most likely suffer?—?and and innovation certainly will?—?as

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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Statistics come to life in the suffering of one dove or one mockingbird, the one needlessly stricken and dying for the sake of a personal choice. It’s the same reason so many people now cut up their plastic six-pack holders — because the connection between their soda and the strangled sea lion becomes obvious, visual and intimate.

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Broome’s birds get a battering

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Fitzroy Crossing in particular has suffered the most in the last few days with the town flooded and the bridge severely damaged. Broome weather statistics are a mean average rainfall of 194.1mm for the whole of January, which is our wettest month normally. Our mean average is 627.6mm for the whole year.

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