In the field to resolving legal controversies, mediation is an informal method of dispute resolution, in which a neutral third party, the mediator, attempts to assist the parties in finding resolution to their problem through the mediation process. Although mediation has no legal standing per se, agreements between the parties can (usually with assistance from legal counsel) be committed to writing and signed, thus ren ...

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Mediation, Mediation - History of mediation, Mediation - Common aspects of mediation, Mediation - Mediation in business and in commerce, Mediation - Community Mediation, Mediation - Competence of the mediator, Mediation - Mediation as a method of dispute resolution, Mediation - Safety fairness closure, Mediation - Process and role of the mediator in US practice, Mediation - Mediation with arbitration, Mediation - Mediator liability, Mediation - Mediation in politics and in diplomacy, Mediation - One of many non-violent methods of dispute resolution, Mediation - Global relevance, Mediation - Fairness, Mediation - Additional Resources

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Anti-communism is the opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either an ideological or pragmatic basis. Anti-communism is a catch-all phrase which defines any opposition to communism as a philosophical basis for a political and social alliance. The term came to have a global meaning during the Cold War, when the powers of Western society sought to coordinate an opposition to the apparent militarist expansion of the Soviet Union. For much of the period between 1950 and 1991 anti-communism was one of the ...

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Anti-communism - Background Anti-communism - Types of Anti-Communists Anti-communism - Fascism and Anti-Communism Anti-communism - Anti-communism in the United States and Cold War Anti-communism - Repression and Anti-Communism Anti-communism - Criticisms of Anti-Communism Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists Anti-communism - Contemporary anticommunism
Anti-communism - Objections to Communist theory Anti-communism - Anticommunist histories Anti-communism - Economic performance of communist governments Anti-communism - Anarchist anti-Communism
Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists Anti-communism - Anti-Communists who are also Anti-Fascists Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communist Dissidents Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Statesmen and Military Leaders Anti-communism - Leaders of the Russian anti-Bolshevik White Movement
Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Terrorists

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In ecology, a biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities best adapted to the region's physical environment. The concept of a biome emphasizes the cohesion or correlation among species groups, soils, and climate, rather than any one of them singly. Biomes are discernible primarily at large (continental to global) spatial scales. Collectively they comprise the biosphere. Biomes are most strongly defined by global distributions of vegetation types, which are influenced by global climate, soils, dis ...

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Biome - Latitude classification
Biome - Arctic or subarctic area Biome - Subarctic and boreal area Biome - Temperate cold Biome - Temperate warm or sub-tropical Biome - Tropical Biome - Aquatic
Biome - Altitude and latitude classification Biome - Other biomes Biome - External link

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Derived from Greek cosmos (the world) and polis (city), cosmopolitan describes something influenced by many cultures from around the world. Applied to people, a cosmopolitan is someone who has adopted a taste for cultures besides the one he or she was born into; thus living both a local and global life as a "citizen of the world." It is mostly agreed upon that identification with a world community is the core of the cosmopolitanism. The first one to define himself as a "kosmou polites" was Diegones the Cyni

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BEHEMOTH (acronym for Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine ...Only Too Heavy) is one of three computerized recumbent bicycles which Steven K. Roberts of Nomadic Research Labs used to travel across the US. It is an autonomous mobile information and communication platform, powered and propelled by human and solar power, linked via satellite with global information networks. Roberts published while traveling on the bike. He used a chorded keyboard mounted on the handlebar to type while cycling. Behemoth's pr ...

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Behemoth bicycle - External link

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Alcatel SA (Euronext: CGE, NYSE: ALA) is a global company, headquartered in France that provides hardware, software and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises. Alcatel sells equipment for mobile and fixed voice communication networks, data networks and television and video delivery. It is most well known for its ADSL multiplexers, used for high-speed Internet access, and currently (2005) has over one-third of the world DSLAM market. It has a partnership with Microsoft [2004] to provide IP ...

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Alcatel - Links to Alcatel Products Services and Solutions Alcatel - History of Alcatel

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The Catholic Worker Movement was founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933. One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society. To this end there are over 185 local Catholic Worker communities providing social services. Each house has a different mission, going about the work of social justice in their own ways, suited to their region of the country. The group also campaigns for nonviolence and is active in protesting war, as well as the unequal distribution of wealth globally. Dorothy Day also founded The Catholic Worker n ...

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Catholic Worker Movement - Background and Mission Catholic Worker Movement - Catholic Worker House Listing
Catholic Worker Movement - In the United States Catholic Worker Movement - In Other Countries

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United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. With roots dating back to 1907, it was once one of the three biggest news agencies in the world, with the Associated Press and Reuters, but has dwindled in size and continues to redefine itself. Today, it is owned by News World Communications, which is owned by the Unification Church. United Press International - History. United Press International - U ...

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United Press International - History
United Press International - United Press Associations United Press International - Creating UPI United Press International - Decline and comeback
United Press International - People of UPI United Press International - Milestones

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More than one billion people use GSM phones as of 2005, making GSM the dominant mobile phone system worldwide with about 70% of the world's market. GSM's main competitor, cdmaOne, is used primarily in North America and [2] parts of Asia. cdmaOne also benefited from increased radio spectrum efficiencies as compared to the more common GSM networks. Roaming with GSM phones is a major advantage over the competing technology as roaming across CDMA networks from different operators i ...

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Global System for Mobile Communications, Global System for Mobile Communications - History, Global System for Mobile Communications - Market situation, Global System for Mobile Communications - Radio interface, Global System for Mobile Communications - Network structure, Global System for Mobile Communications - Subscriber Identity Module, Global System for Mobile Communications - GSM security, Global System for Mobile Communications - Patent issues, Global System for Mobile Communications - Satellite issues, Global System for Mobile Communications - Related topics

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One day, after two millennia of prophesy that calls for the world to come to an end (Christianity), the biblical Rapture occurs, effectively causing millions of people to disappear from the face of the Earth, sending the world into mass hysteria. These events happen a week later, after the newly elected UN General Assembly starts in session. On the same day of the Rapture, UN Secretary-General Mwangati Ngumo resigns and Nicolae Carpathia is virtually immediately elected ...

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Global Community, Global Community - Background, Global Community - Main events

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One of the leaders of the anti-globalization movement, the Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein, wrote in a 2002 article of her concern in finding antisemitic rhetoric on some activist websites that she had visted. [1]. She wrote: "I couldn’t help thinking about all the recent events I’ve been to where anti-Muslim violence was rightly condemned, but no mention was made of attacks on Jewish synagogues, cemeteries and community centers." Klein used the article to urge activists to confront anti-Semitism as part of their work for ...

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Anti-globalization and Anti-Semitism, Anti-globalization and Anti-Semitism - Concern within the political left, Anti-globalization and Anti-Semitism - Allegations from the right, Anti-globalization and Anti-Semitism - Reaction to allegations

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Thunderbird: Truly Global in every sense From the first graduate school of its kind in the world, to the number one ranked international business school in the world, Thunderbird has long been admired as a global business leader and a global citizen. Like no other school in the world, Thunderbird provides a "Truly Global" perspective through its unique, balanced curriculum of traditional MBA "hard skills" and specialized "soft skills" cross-cultural communication fundamentals that offer lifelong career value for global leaders. What's ...

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Thunderbird - The Garvin School of International Management, Thunderbird - The Garvin School of International Management - History, Thunderbird - The Garvin School of International Management - External link

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Democratic federal world government is simply an extension of the idea of democratic federation to the global level. One exception is that no military force would be needed to protect the global citizenship against external societies (barring the discovery of such societies); however it might be needed to put down insurrections. Support for democratic federal world government is rooted in globalism (also called cosmopolitanism or mundialism), the view that all humans are interdependent members of a single global community, and humanis ...

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World government, World government - History of the world government idea, World government - Voluntary unions of polities, World government - The current global governance system, World government - Commonly cited deficiencies, World government - Democratic federal world government, World government - Resources, World government - Published Works, World government - Organizations, World government - Websites, World government - More links

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Telephones - main lines in use: 10.0 million (2002) Telephones - mobile cellular subscribers: 12.1 million (2002) Telephone system: general assessment: highly developed and well maintained domestic: extensive fixed-line fiber-optic network; cellular telephone system is one of the largest in Europe with five major network operators utilizing the third generation of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). international: 9 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Eute ...

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Communications in the Netherlands, Communications in the Netherlands - Telephone, Communications in the Netherlands - Area codes, Communications in the Netherlands - Non-geographical codes, Communications in the Netherlands - Radio television and internet

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The first demonstration satellite was launched in March 1999, and the first commercial satellite in October 1999. In total, Sea Launch has launched 18 rockets, with 16 successes and 1 partial success as of January 2006. The one failure, of a Hughes-built communications satellite owned by ICO Global Communications, occurred on the second commercial launch in March 2000 and was blamed on a software error that failed to close a v ...

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Sea Launch, Sea Launch - Ownership and business, Sea Launch - Launches, Sea Launch - Concerns and investigations, Sea Launch - Advantages of equatorial ocean-platform based launches

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These national campaign groups work under the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) coalition. GCAP is a worldwide alliance committed to making world leaders live up to their promises, and to making a breakthrough on poverty in 2005. It is an alliance between a range of actors around the common cause of ending poverty: existing coalitions, community groups, trade unions, individuals, religious and faith groups, campaigners and more. ...

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Make Poverty History, Make Poverty History - The UK campaign, Make Poverty History - Events, Make Poverty History - Member organisations, Make Poverty History - The Canadian campaign, Make Poverty History - The US ONE Campaign, Make Poverty History - The Norwegian campaign, Make Poverty History - The Global Campaign, Make Poverty History - Criticism

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World conscience is the idea that with global communication we as a people will no longer be estranged from one another, whether it be culturally, racially, or geographically. Instead, we will approach the world as a place in which we all live, and with newly gained understanding of each other we will begin to make decisions based on what is beneficial for all people. Related to this idea is the idea of world consciousness. It too, looks at people in terms of the collective, but refers more to the universal ideas of the cosmos, instead of the interconnectedness of choice. See also:

Conscience, Conscience - What is conscience?, Conscience - Differing Views of Conscience, Conscience - Aquinas, Conscience - World Conscience, Conscience - Joseph Butler, Conscience - Medieval conceptions of conscience, Conscience - Conscience in Catholic theology, Conscience - Conscientious acts, Conscience - Law

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There are approximately 300 operational geosynchronous satellites. Geostationary satellites appear to be fixed over one spot above the equator. Receiving and transmitting antennae on the earth do not need to track such a satellite. These antennae can be fixed in place and are much less expensive than tracking antennae. These satellites have revolutionized global communications, television broadcasting and weather forecasting, and have a nu ...

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Geosynchronous satellite, Geosynchronous satellite - Definition, Geosynchronous satellite - Application, Geosynchronous satellite - History

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North Bay Ontario - TV. 2 - CFGC-2, Global 4 - CBLT-4, CBC (formerly CHNB) 6 - CICA-6, TVOntario 7 - CBLFT-1, SRC 10 - CKNY, CTV 32 - CHCH-6, CH North Bay Ontario - Radio. 600 AM - CKAT, country music 92.5 FM - CHIM-1, Christian music (rebroadcaster of CHIM Timmins) 93.5 FM - CFDN, franco-ontarian community 95.1 FM - CBON-17, La Première Chaîne 96.1 FM - CBCN, CBC Radio OneSee also:

North Bay Ontario, North Bay Ontario - History, North Bay Ontario - Geography and climate, North Bay Ontario - Economy, North Bay Ontario - Media, North Bay Ontario - TV, North Bay Ontario - Radio, North Bay Ontario - Newspapers, North Bay Ontario - Community profile, North Bay Ontario - Racial Demographics, North Bay Ontario - Prominent people, North Bay Ontario - Communities

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The architecture of Usenet is sometimes characterized as anarchic or as civic/democratic. Some see it as a global community or collection of online communities. While the views vary, one shared perspective among the users is of Usenet as an alternative medium to institutionalized mass communication, more open to participation from a wider variety of the general public. Usenet can be a tool boosting an individual's ability to communicate, free from governmental and other organizational restraints. Seven major features that stand out ar ...

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Usenet, Usenet - Introduction, Usenet - ISPs news servers and newsfeeds, Usenet - Newsreader clients, Usenet - Moderated and unmoderated newsgroups, Usenet - Technical details, Usenet - Organization, Usenet - Binary content, Usenet - Internet jargon and history, Usenet - History, Usenet - Sociological implications, Usenet - Google Groups, Usenet - Related topics, Usenet - Usenet terms, Usenet - Usenet history, Usenet - Usenet administrators, Usenet - Usenet personalities, Usenet - Credit

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The architecture of Usenet is sometimes characterized as anarchic or as civic/democratic. Some see it as a global community or collection of online communities. While the views vary, one shared perspective among the users is of Usenet as an alternative medium to institutionalized mass communication, more open to participation from a wider variety of the general public. Usenet can be a tool boosting an individual's ability to communicate, free from governmental and other organizational restraints. Seven major features that stand out ar ...

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Usenet, Usenet - Introduction, Usenet - ISPs news servers and newsfeeds, Usenet - Newsreader clients, Usenet - Moderated and unmoderated newsgroups, Usenet - Technical details, Usenet - Organization, Usenet - Binary content, Usenet - Internet jargon and history, Usenet - History, Usenet - Sociological implications, Usenet - Google Groups, Usenet - Usenet terms, Usenet - Usenet history, Usenet - Usenet administrators, Usenet - Usenet personalities, Usenet - Credit

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Supporters of common era notation promote it as a religiously neutral notation suited for cross-cultural use. Arguments given for standardizing common era notation include: The calendar used by the West has become a global standard — one built into every computer's hardware. It should be religiously and culturally neutral out of consideration for those cultures compelled to use it out of necessity. [11] It has been largely used by academic and scientific communities for over a century now, and is not a complete ...

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Common Era, Common Era - Chronology and notation, Common Era - Origins, Common Era - Usage, Common Era - Support, Common Era - Opposition, Common Era - Other calendars in use

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