Biothreat Detection Module Will Help Assess Capacity to Detect Agro-Terrorism
Although rare, reports exist throughout history of non-state actors using or threatening to use biological agents against animals or agriculture. The
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Although rare, reports exist throughout history of non-state actors using or threatening to use biological agents against animals or agriculture. The
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt Do you remember when you were a child and no dream seemed too big? Some of us thought we would walk on the moon; some dreamed of riding with Roy Rogers; others imagined stepping to the plate in a big-league game. Every one of us, when we were young, had a common trait—we were dreamers. The world hadn’t gotten to...
BACKGROUND PROSELL (Produce and Sell) is a 54 month EU funded project on Food Security and Resilience implemented in Taraba state. It is been jointly implemented by Oxfam and Development Exchange Centre (DEC) in at least 13-14 communities in each of the six (6) benefiting LGAs namely: Ardo-Kola, Donga, Kurmi, Takum, Wukari and Zing. PROSELL project is aimed at building resilience of 40,000 small-scale farmers, fishermen and livestock owners (women, youth, and vulnerable households), increase income of small scale farmers by enhancing their agricultural productivity, market access, and job cre...
Perennial issues that have plagued school districts to date in collective bargaining agree agreements. those are tenure, lockstep pay and seniority. this contract addresses all of those by ensuring that we do not have a system that has teaching as a job for life regardless of performance, that teachers are recognized and rewarded for the incredible work that they're doing, and that we look at the quality of the teachers and not just how long they've been in the system. >> but how are you going to judge the quality? what is a fair and accurate way of assessing who are the star teachers who shou...
Year to improve their practice and if they don't, then they will also be subject to termination. so i think one of the sort of flags along the wake the mile post people are looking at is what is going to happen to the 750 educators. >> now, another thing for parents and citizens here in d.c. to look at is the expanded use of standardized tests in evaluating teachers. initially you in the lower grades, you wanted to expand them to other fields and to all the grades eventually from k to 12. >> that's right. we have -- as part of our evaluation tool, we have a metric where we look at how much the...