Cost of Bipartisanship: The continuing resolution signed into law by President Obama ensures there will be no government shutdown next week and is being hailed as a return to "bipartisanship." It is House and Senate Republicans showing that the two parties can work together and get the nation's work done. It is also a return to the old ways of getting work done, which means the taxpayers had to pay extra for the "cooperation." As Capitol Hill news organization Politico's David Rogers noted but did not elaborate, there was "a 63-36 vote in which 10 Republicans -- nine of them from the Senate Appropriations Committee --again provided pivotal support." It was not coincidence that 90 percent of the supporting Republicans came from the committ...
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.