We made it!
For the last ten years, Nortel employees have lived under stress and uncertainty as the company’s decline gained fresh momentum with each newly appointed executive team. None was more vocal about renewal and communication than ... corporate jet for personal travel, loading his executive team with GE buddies (all very well paid [more...]
Date: 2009-03-11 21:49:23
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NY Jets furlough some employees, but not players
Filed under: Career, Recession The New York Jets football team is furloughing 60 employees on its business side for two weeks without pay ... teams in average salaries for its players, so I guess the team is already saving money by not paying ... assembled a great deal of talent, and we're at the crossroads of building our new stadium, so we don't [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 04:44:33
Sponsored Conversation: AIG Insures the Future
They’re controversial. But they’re here to stay and you’re going to see more of them as this recession deepens ... of sporting activities designed to facilitate team building. Such activities are a tradition at AIG, where ... arrived in Vegas at 8 pm. Just in time for cocktails with the AIG executive team despite my jet lag [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 09:48:50
Fish feel Jets' QB pain
Fish feel Jets' QB pain February 19, 2009 If there's an NFL team that can relate to the Jets' current QB situation, it's the Dolphins ... , that's for sure. I think they're a very talented football team." Sparano is thankful he doesn't have any ... . "My knee was messed up since training camp," Bowens [more...]
Date: 2009-02-20 03:21:45
Buyer Beware in free agency
A year ago, the Jacksonville Jaguars committed $23 million to wide receiver Jerry Porter and cornerback Drayton Florence in an effort to go from a second-round playoff loser to the Super Bowl. Instead, a team that had been 11-5 in 2007 fell ... . For most of the 10 years that Daniel Snyder has owned the Redskins, he has had the team's jet plane [more...]
Date: 2009-02-20 11:44:00
Free Agency 101: The 2009 Free Agency Period is here and NFL teams are ready to shop
(Philadelphia, Pa) — Remember “Alan Faneca”, all you fans out there with dreams of signing a free agent and moving instantly into Super Bowl ... Steelers to sign with New York Jets owner Woody Johnson’s “deep pocketed” team. The moves of bringing ... with a disappointing 9-7 record including going 1-4 in their final five games — lost to Denver, San [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 01:33:26
Sharks gave thanks en route to Dallas
Working the Corners is an extension of David Pollak’s blog… For U.S.-born Hockey players, Thanksgiving travel is one of the trade-offs ... for a little team bonding a night out for dinner that included wives and girlfriends. The Sharks’ party ... . Like Thursday, when the team practiced, then climbed on the charter jet to Dallas for today’s game [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 17:16:43
News: Browns Sign Poteat, Host Elam
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting the signing of nine-year veteran CB Hank Poteat to the Browns. Browns coach Eric Mangini continues to call on his former Jets players to fortify his new team ... will be released and re-signed between training camp and October? Rich Cimini updated his Jets [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 03:37:47
Official Statements From Jets on Favre
Owner Woody Johnson opening statement…JOHNSON: Good morning, everybody. I just got off the phone a couple of minutes ago with Brett Favre ... . We talked about how difficult this was for a guy who had been at one team for so long to come ... to the team and saw the way the New York Jets were organized, the plan, got to know the players [more...]
Date: 2009-02-12 00:01:04
George Hedges, 'Indiana Jones of Hollywood lawyers'
Hedges died Tuesday morning at home in South Pasadena of melanoma. He was 57 ... Determined to find evidence of the city, Hedges and a team of archeologists used the NASA Jet Propulsion [more...]
Date: 2009-03-12 02:56:09
Supersonic Car Will Be Faster Than a Bullet, Scientists Hope
Illustration courtest Bloodhound SSC British engineers and other experts are hoping to build a rocket-powered vehicle capable ... and mathematics, to a schools visitor centre featuring the 'classroom of the future' at the team's HQ in Filton ... "Building a car quicker than a fighter jet is not, however, the primary goal of the [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 20:06:04
Fired Up About Fired Up Ryan
am trying not to get caught up in the Jets' PR and local beat writers machine ( ... to a more confident, boisterous football team this year. I will never forget being at the Miami game at the end ... to having a little more freedom around the team facility. Nobody can argue the lack of emotion by Eric [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 22:40:58
Jets Keep Cutting, and Hope to Add a Raven or Two
The Jets appear set to drop another player:The Star-Ledger:Friday night the team also informed the agent for Brandon Moore that they plan to release the veteran right guard, according to a person familiar with the Jets’ thinking. With their newfound cap [more...]
Date: 2009-02-21 06:07:05
Enough is Enough
Guest post by Greg SchmalzWith unemployment at nearly 12 million and many businesses cutting back to stay afloat, ... green and white. I grew up as a sportswriter in my teens and was assigned the Jets beat back ... the Giants at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. When I stopped covering the team after the 1979 season [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 22:25:09
Why the Jets Chose Bart Scott Over Ray Lewis
Youth. Flexibility. Coverage skills. Those were some of the reasons Rex Ryan ticked off after the Jets ignored one of the N.F.L ... effort and (we) are excited to add Bart to our team. If there are other opportunities that present [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 05:23:56
Michael Travis: Volleyball, Democracy, & War
RAW: Russian Airstrike Against Civilian Area (Plus Aftermath) (9 August 2008) A Russian jet bombed a civilian area in Ossetia ... to what they view as far better sport; the defeat of "Team America" at the hand of the undisputed ... equipment and specialised training for the Hizballah-dominated Lebanese government, U.S. State Dept [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 12:14:06
Leaving on a jet plane
We're on our way to Plettenberg Bay from Cape Town to spend two days on team building and retreat with the Global Day of Prayer team. Please spare a prayer for us. We have a lot of critical planning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 05:24:59
End of the line for Eclipse Aviation
The Eclipse jet It appears the efforts to keep afloat Eclipse Aviation, ... that went out late Tuesday to Eclipse employees: “All of the executive management team at Eclipse ... owns the building. On Wednesday, O’Donnell said he was “disheartened” that the financing had fallen [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 14:20:03
DE Douglas meeting with Jets today
Not surprisingly, Ravens free-agent DE Marques Douglas, another Rex Ryan guy, is visiting with the Jets today, a league source confirmed ... million bonus is due, but there is a chance that a trade could happen before than. If a team really ... (presumably, a late-round choice) to the Rams to secure him. That also could mean re-working Holt's [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 18:45:46
Buzz: Are the Jets “Leaning” Towards Rex Ryan?
It seems today that Newsday is the only paper reporting that the organization might be finalizing their direction on one person and has a quote from a source attached to it. The longer it takes for a coaching announcement to come ... It’s clear that the team has had a lot of discussions and considered a lot of candidates [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:04:29
Elam might be next Jet to fly coop to Cleveland
Eric Mangini has struck again. The Browns have signed S Abram Elam, a restricted free agent, to a one-year, $1 ... in 2007, then lost the starting job to Smith before training camp even started. Mangini turned to Elam again only because Smith got hurt. Now, perhaps, the chance to tweak his former team was too tempting [more...]
Date: 2009-03-11 04:24:51
Supersonic Car Will Be Faster Than a Bullet, Scientists Hope
British engineers and other experts are hoping to build a rocket-powered vehicle capable of reaching more than 1,000 mph, ... the 'classroom of the future' at the team's HQ in Filton, Bristol, the aim is to make Bloodhound SSC accessible ... will be ready for testing in 2011. speed-logo.jpg "Building a car quicker than a fighter jet [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 19:23:20
Leaving On A Jet Plane
A little something different here. First of all, this is not my photo. It’s from the GE Aviation website ... known as the Dreamliner. For more info go here. The photo shows the engine at GE’s outdoor test ... this have to do with this blog? Well we (that being me and a team of others) designed a similar test stand for this engine [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 06:10:27
B... B... B... Brownies and the Jets
93717 By Don Delco NoLogoNeeded.com staff writer Scott over at Waiting For Next Year, ... to Cleveland, Ohio. Story here. It seems as if Eric Mangini and George Kokinis are building depth on the defensive side of the ball. It was no secret last season that when the team was generally healthy [more...]
Date: 2009-03-11 18:43:59
Mike Pettine Introduction Transcript
Mike Pettine the Jets new Defensive Coordinator met with the press yesterday and here’s the transcript of his discussion with them ... (CB West) in suburban Philadelphia. During over Pettine Sr.;s 30 years with that team, they were ... other from the beginning. We made a pretty good team in Baltimore. We joke about the relationship [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 13:17:28
Fins: Checking in on the Jets
The Jets are aggressive in free agency again, signing Bart Scott and trading for Lito Sheppard ... . It was a good organizational effort and (we) are excited to add Bart to our team. If there are other ... it carefully and see what we can do to help the team. RYAN: We added the ‘MAD’ backer (Bart Scott [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 16:14:50
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