For the third year running, ForbesWoman and TheBump.com partnered to take the temperature of modern American mothers.

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The survey was conducted over email and queried 1, 000 workers that McQuaid says spanned generations, gender, location and professions to take the temperature of the attitudes of Americans about their employers.

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So imagine my delight this morning to receive the annual report from the Center for Venture Research at UNH, which tallies angel investing activity from the previous year to take the temperature of the current funding landscape.

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Even for owners who cannot keep a constant eye on their pets, by monitoring and recording the number of steps they take, as well as signs of shivering and external temperature information, the new device enables owners to stay informed about the dog's regular activity levels, making it easy to detect any changes in their pet's health.

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Some sources of potential error have been known for a long time (for example, because of slight changes in their orbits, satellites do not always take temperature measurements at precisely the same time of day).

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That would take a much, much larger temperature increase, and the rising sea levels would be only one of many headaches.

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