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Motor Racing: Plato's silver lining chase
Byline: By ZOE BURN GEORDIE Touring Car ace Jason Plato says his title hopes are all but over after a tough weekend at Oulton Park. The Tyneside-educated former champ has moved up into second in the BTCC chase, but believes the 44-point advantage held by reigning champion ...
Tags: car, finish, Honda Motor Co., Plato
Research articles 2008-07-29
PLATO Learning Announces Date for Release of Second Quarter Financial Results and Conference Call
MINNEAPOLIS -- PLATO Learning, Inc. (NASDAQ: TUTR), announced today it will report its second quarter financial results on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at 3 p.m. Central Time. The Company will hold its regular quarterly conference call following the release to discuss reported results. The call will be held on...
Tags: Company, E-learning, job, Learning, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Plato, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-05-27
Motor Racing: Robbed of my glory chance says Harry
Byline: By ZOE BURN NEWCASTLE'S Harry Vaulkhard is upbeat about the rest of the BTCC season, despite being 'robbed' in Sunday's third race at Rockingham. The Northamptonshire circuit proved a tough track to crack for the North boys as they suffered a torrid weekend in the British Touring...
Tags: BMW AG, car, CAREER, Honda Motor Co., Plato
Research articles 2008-04-15
It is tough to be the second toughest guy in a tough town: ask the man who shot liberty valance.
Abstract: The eternal conflict between justice and violence is the theme of director John Ford's last great film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In the world of the American West where Ford's story is set, justice does not just happen; it is a work of manly...
Tags: courage, Ford Motor Co., Injustice, Plato
Research articles 2007-01-01
Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
Schock showed gall in those comments Elgin Mayor Ed Schock has quite the nerve to say, "The trouble with the Campton folks is, it's their way or no way." He should go back and review the tapes of his own council meetings ...
Tags: democracy, FINANCE, Government, Plato, SOFTWARE, Taxes, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2005-09-05
The very order of things: Rousseau's tutorial republicanism *.
Rousseau's political theory has seemed to many to contemplate the radical transformation of human character through invasive governmental practices. But a classical republican reading of his general concern with moeurs and his developed conception of statecraft shows why he called for regulating or redirecting psychic dispositions, not destroying and then...
Tags: Cambridge, conception, disposition, Geneva, legislator, liberty, Plato, Republic, Republican, theory, U.K., University of Cambridge
Research articles 2005-04-01
Understanding WorldCom's accounting fraud: did groupthink play a role?
WorldCom, Inc. perpetrated the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history. WorldCom, now called MCI, emerged from bankruptcy protection on April 20, 2004 after being fined $750 million. In total, WorldCom reported accounting irregularities of $11 billion. While employees and investors look for individual culpability, much of WorldCom's organizational structure and...
Tags: accounting, FINANCE, fraud, Litigation, MCI Inc., Morgan, Plato, SEC, WorldCom Inc.
Research articles 2005-03-22
German physicist disputes Atlantis discovery claim by American
BERLIN AFP — The remains of the lost city of Atlantis which a United States researcher claims to have found off the Mediterranean island of Cyprus are in fact submarine volcanoes, according to a German physicist. US researcher Robert Sarmast claimed Sunday to have found proof that the mythical...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Atlantis, physicist, Plato, researcher
Research articles 2004-11-16
US researcher claims to have found Atlantis buried between Cyprus, Syria
NICOSIA AFP — US researcher Robert Sarmast claimed to have found proof that the mythical lost city of Atlantis actually existed and is located under the Mediterranean seabed between Cyprus and Syria. His team claims to have found man-made structures located about one mile (some 1.5 kilometres) below sea...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Atlantis, Plato, researcher, Syria
Research articles 2004-11-14
Edulink, BB&T Corp. and PLATO Learning announce recent acquisitions.
M2 PRESSWIRE-5 December 2003-Financial Relations Inc: Edulink, BB&T Corp. and PLATO Learning announce recent acquisitionsC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12052003 City of Industry, CA -- Edulink, Inc. (OTCBB: MYIQ) announced recently the closing of the acquisition of 100 of the issued and...
Tags: acquisition, Banking, BB&T Corp., FINANCE, Florida, Investment, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Plato
Research articles 2003-12-05
Doing philosophy historically
QUINE IS SAID TO HAVE JOKED THAT "there are two sorts of people interested in philosophy, those interested in philosophy and those interested in the history of philosophy." (1) Though many of us would bristle at Quine's joke, it makes a straightforward point: that there is a distinction to be...
Tags: Campbell, Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger, History, John, Nature, Philosophy, Plato, Randall, Richard, Truth
Research articles 2003-06-01
Mahdi, Muhsin S. Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press 264 pp., $37.50, ISBN 0-226-50186-8 Publication Date: July 2001 A professor emeritus of Arabic studies at Harvard University, Muhsin S. Mahdi views Abu Nasr al-Farabi as the most important bridge between Western and Muslim philosophic traditions. A...
Tags: knowledge, Plato, Strategy, University of Chicago
Research articles 2002-09-22
nations will worship: Jonathan Edwards and the salvation of the heathen, The
Jonathan Edwards spent the last seven years of his life as a missionary to the Indians in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. When he arrived at the church in 1751, Edwards was not in an entirely unreached area of the world. A church had been founded there in the 1730s with support from...
Tags: church, disposition, knowledge, Plato, redemption, salvation, Strategy, Yale University
Research articles 2002-04-01
Global constitutionalism and the arguments over free trade
In one of the most dramatic public demonstrations since the end of the Vietnam War, more than 40,000 citizens filled the streets of Seattle, Washington in the closing weeks of the twentieth century to protest against the World Trade Organization and corporate globalization. Why? By analyzing arguments for and against...
Tags: democracy, economist, FINANCE, Globalization, government, IMF, Investment, M., Plato, Resistance, Seattle, Strategy, World Bank, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2002-04-01
Immersive projection technology for visual data mining.
The PlatoCAVE, the MiniCAVE, and the C2 are immersive stereoscopic projection-based virtual reality environments oriented toward group interactions. As such they are particularly suited to collaborative efforts in data analysis and visual data mining. In this article, we provide an overview of virtual reality in general, including immersive projection technology,...
Tags: Berlin, computer, Cook, environment, George Mason University, graphics, image, Iowa State University, Plato, projector, Silicon Graphics Inc., technology
Research articles 2002-03-01
Educational technology & telecommunications industry financial performance
HR/Educational Technology Markets Educational Technology & Telecommunications Industry Financial Performance (Sales and income are in $000) Stock Stock ...
Tags: Apollo Group, CAREER, Click2learn, Curriculum, E-learning, Education, financial, income, John Wiley & Sons Inc., K-12, Learning, McGraw-Hill Companies, Phoenix Technologies, Plato, Renaissance, SALES, Scholastic, SkillSoft, SmartForce, SOFTWARE, telecommunications
Research articles 2002-03-01
Books received.
American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology. By Hans Achterhuis, ed. Trans. Robert P. Crease. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 175. Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism. By Oona...
Tags: Books, Cambridge, essay, ethics, Leadership, Plato, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford
Research articles 2002-01-01
Fed names Boggs OKC branch manager
Dwayne Boggs has been promoted to branch manager of the Oklahoma City Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Boggs joined the Federal Reserve Bank in 1988 and transferred to the Oklahoma City branch in 1996. Mark E. Clem, formerly manager of the Check...
Tags: bank, Benefits, Federal Reserve Bank, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Insurance, officer, Plato
Research articles 2001-08-14
DARPA Selects SRI International to Lead Development of PLATO, a Machine Learning System that Could Launch a New Field of Research
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- SRI International, an independent, nonprofit research and development organization, today announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has awarded an SRI-led, multi-organization team an initial $10 million, 15-month (Phase 1) contract to develop a learning system called Phased Learning through Analyzing, Teaching and Observation...
Tags: DARPA, Plato
Research articles 2007-08-27
Books received.
Nietzsche's Middle Period. By Ruth Abbey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 208. Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith. By John L. Allen Jr. New York: Continuum, 2000. Pp. xii, 340. The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism. Cambridge...
Tags: Books, Cambridge, Leadership, Plato, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford
Research articles 2001-04-01
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