Program Updates, Spring 2009

Thank You Marnie! For the past nine years, our restoration program has been led both fearlessly and creatively by Marnie Criley ... s still pretty strange not having her as an official part of the Wildlands CPR team.  As we continue ... of restoration principles, building alliances with partners in the community-based forestry movement [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 20:02:13

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2009

Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel without addressing what Hamas is doing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:54:00

What the Iowa’s Fields of Paradox Taught Hillary Clinton

The fields of paradox lie fallow. The winds have stripped the trees to barren branches, their leaves scattered in haphazard piles waiting for random gusts to rearrange them yet again. In snow-flecked rows amidst hump-backed hills and sleepy-watered creeks, the last leathery skins of dreams and debacles rattle ominously [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 02:50:00

Netanyahu’s grand coalition

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST The “international community” is eagerly anticipating the incoming Obama administration’s policy toward Israel ... transition team have privately acknowledged that the widespread belief that Obama will move swiftly ... of time with the transition team since last month’s US elections, Obama’s people are “scope-locked” [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 20:48:10

Pastoral Leadership, Part 6: Competence

I have the joy of teaching in our Doctor of Ministry Program at Southeastern Seminary.  It is an outstanding program of study with majors in Expository Preaching, Leadership, Biblical Counseling, Faith and Culture, and Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth.  You can learn more about the program by going here or by phone at 919-761-2216 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 15:58:45

Lumberjack swimmers on wrong end of close call at WAC Championships

With a final total of 623 points, the Northern Arizona swim and dive team finished second place in their last meet of the season at the Western ... . NAU’s 800-meter freestyle relay team of senior Danielle Filipp, sophomores Vivian Landeck and Kate ... record.NAU made its biggest splash on day two of the meet. Junior Rachael Foe took home the team’ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 11:00:36

Chicago Bulls Season Preview

Dear John, What’s up, Pax? Can I call you Pax? It’s just that my strongest memories of you come from the days when you were wearing No ... enough. You targeted and hired Scott Skiles, the perfect coach for a young team. Came up unlucky ... this year’s number one. So far, none of them have proven capable of carrying a team. You’ve [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 02:58:23

Survivor: Gabon — Two Voted Off!

After months of waiting, the reality giant made its triumphant return like never before ... the temporary team captains and started the choices for their tribes in school-yard-pick form. Here’ ... !  The first player from each team to reach the top would be able to claim an individual immunity idol [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 03:46:53

LOST 5.08 “LaFleur” recap

They went and done it again. It’s a whole new ball game, kiddies. So saddle up, and let’s find out just exactly why Lost ’s showrunners have been calling Season 5 “the year of Sawyer.” It was a wild hour full of everything Lost does best, with one incredible moment of drama or revelation after another [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 07:57:09

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Friday, March 6, 2009

Market Cafe inside the Wegmans store on Peach Street received their Pennsylvania restaurant liquor license and will begin selling beer today ... by Linebacker Seth Fragale. No matter what the Erie indoor football team is called it seems more like a money making scheme to sell tickets, advertising and cheerleader calendars than a sports team [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 11:59:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/14/2008

The news stories to pay attention to tonight concern immigration. In Italy, a “Record Number of Would-Be Immigrants Arrive”. But the President of Italy says, “Immigrants are a resource — no more prejudice!” And in the UK, a report in the House of Lords: “Economic Benefits of Mass Immigration Are Close to Zero”.We report, you decide.Thanks to C [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 04:48:00

Enterprise 2.0 - A new Age of Aquarius?

It’s two weeks after the event, but here are my slides and notes from my presentation at Edge of the Web. Apologies for the delay. To those for whom some of this looks familiar, it shares an amount of common content with my recent paper at the BTELL EA conference. The audiences were very different, so the common content wasn’t an issue [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:57:56

WPF Developers: PDC Wrap-Up and Visual Studio Tooling Update

Over the next week or so, I want to put a bit of context behind some of the announcements from PDC, ... ). We span up a team a few months back that is focusing on building out controls, so you can expect to see ... such a large percentage of his time talking about WPF. We’ve got a big team working hard at new [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 00:05:18

How Obama is Already Taking Charge

Obama's immediate challenge is to fill the leadership vacuum created by a lame-duck president with historically-low approval ratings who seems to ... : (1) appointing a highly-capable economic team, and (2) telling the nation what he plans to do starting the afternoon of January 20. Specifically:(1) The members of Obama's new economic team fit the bill [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 21:28:00

Get Your First FREE E-commerce Website & Make Money Today!

Within the next few minute you are going to have the same opportunity the internet marketing guru’s have used to generate hundreds of dollars online ... /marketing strategies that can make you a pro in just days. You might’ve heard of him before. You only need ... to building a profitable full-time income online. Don’t know how to source for the highest [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 11:36:12

IN REMEMBRANCE: 2-22-2009

CONCHITA CINTRON, ‘GODDESS OF THE BULLRING’   By BRUCE WEBER Published: February 21, 2009   A headline in The New York Sun on Sept. 4, 1940, captured accurately, albeit with amused condescension, the startling anomaly embodied by Conchita Cintrón: “She’s a Timid Blue Eyed Girl But — She Kills Bulls Without Qualms [more...]

Date: 2009-02-22 23:55:43

Najib’s Challenge: Clean up UMNO

Barry Wain | Far Eastern Economic Review Malaysia’s planned leadership transition at the end of March from Ahmad Abdullah Badawi to Mohamed Najib Razak masks a fundamental reconfiguration of Malaysian politics. The United Malays National Organization is in long-term decline, after losing support among Malays for at least a decade [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 14:25:37

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/4/2009

The overwhelming evidence of global warming continues to accumulate — as does the level of ice and snow in Greenland’s central ice cap, which increases at a rate of about two inches a year.Shhh! Don’t tell Al Gore…Thanks to Abu Elvis, Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni, heroyalwhyness, JD, Lexington, LN, RRW, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:27:00

"An Offered Kindness"

Last Friday, regular readers of CT's Liveblog know I posted about Rick Warren's offer of assistance to Anglicans who are about to lose their church ... , we offer them space, out of gratitude, to the churches that helped us before we got our own building ... other congregations as competition, but as team members in the Great Commission. Helping other [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:42:56

Generation Generosity

together from the ground up with the goal of raising money for clean water - putting the charity and its' mission before anything else.   (Well, maybe another motivation was the desire to meet up with other Twitter users and have a good time. Fundraising events should be fun!)  And while there are commercial or business event sponsors [more...]

Date: 2009-02-07 00:15:53

Cables, dispatches and memoranda

A brief world news roundup for 9 March 2009. United States & the Americas Secretary Clinton - Bob, we are in the final stages of our policy review on Afghanistan and Pakistan and I don’t want to preview that or try to summarize where we are in the process until we are ready to unveil it. But Iran borders Afghanistan [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 05:17:43

MHR University - Brian Dawkins; The Delta Force of the Safety Position

  Let me start off by sharing a bias I have.  My favorite NFL player through history (who was not a Denver Bronco) has always been Brian Dawkins.  That he is now a Bronco seems almost like something out of an old "Twilight Zone" episode.  My favorite all-time player now a Bronco?  I wish it had happened years ago when Dawkins was in his prime [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 17:30:08

Cone Inc. Sheds Light on the Cause Marketing Conundrum

Anyone who's heavily immersed Cause Marketing, is already well aware of Cone Inc., and it's virtually impossible to perform a search on the topic without inevitably returning several results with Cone's many research studies or commentary. They have spent the past 28 years advising businesses and nonprofits on effective cause engagement, [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 12:17:56

Dial H for History: Marvel’s Legacy Heroes

As the year comes to a close, it’s become clear that in the Marvel Universe, there has been major upheaval from within the company’s heroic pantheon. With a new Captain America leading a band of Secret Avengers, what’s old is new again, with the concept of the legacy hero getting a set of legs at the House of Ideas. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 00:02:14

Slippery Slope of Scholastic Socialism

This is more than a funny title! This is a noticeble idealogy happening right here in my neighborhood. What caught my fancy this morning was a sign at my daughter’s school… “Word of the Month: Citizenship… ‘We are a citizen of the World.’ “  This got my attention because lately I keep hearing that statement  [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 20:58:10

Job Posting - HRG

Career Opportunities If you have both a genuine love for seniors and skills that you want to apply to a very rewarding career, ... leadership experience in Human Resources or related positions Specialized training in employment law ... , training, and preventive labor relations, preferred General knowledge of employment laws and practices [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 22:17:50

Job Posting - HRG

Career Opportunities If you have both a genuine love for seniors and skills that you want to apply to a very rewarding career, ... leadership experience in Human Resources or related positions Specialized training in employment law ... , training, and preventive labor relations, preferred General knowledge of employment laws and practices [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 23:18:59

Recruiting is Valued (Barely)

All-too-slim majorities of recruiters feel that their organizations view recruiting as strategic and valuable, ... be done to reinvigorate recruiting (explored in depth in the December/January Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership): Building pipelines of critical skills Honing attraction and branding efforts [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 09:24:57

Office Teamwork vs. Human Nature: Which Will Win?

by Bart Icles Wikipedia has probably one of the most complete yet simple definitions of teamwork “Teamwork is the concept of people working together cooperatively as a team in order to accomplish the same goals/objectives.” If you stop ... that doesn’t talk about the need to their team to work together. Why though is it viewed [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 12:27:07

Human Nature vs. Office Teamwork: Who Will Win

by Bart Icles Wikipedia has probably one of the most complete yet simple definitions of teamwork “Teamwork is the concept of people working together cooperatively as a team in order to accomplish the same goals/objectives.” If you stop ... that doesn’t talk about the need to their team to work together. Why though is it viewed [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 12:28:31

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Thursday, March 5, 2009

Michael and Teresa Jacobs of Bellevue, OH are suing Hamot Medical Center for $5 million saying that the hospital intentionally killed their son ... holds their first soccer tournament this weekend. GaREAT is a 110 acre indoor and outdoor sports ... the people of Erie and return to a line of Fiscal Responsibility. Dan has coordinated his election team [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 12:06:00

Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs

It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer , and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below). The wide-ranging interview touches upon everything from Google’s origins and how it fell upon its advertising business model by [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 01:01:47

FRITZWIRE: What's Going On In DC This Week

You can get the FritzWire weekly here, or sign up and get it every day from Fritz directly.  It's free, it's chock full of all sorts of education stuff -- legislation, events, jobs.  Today's edition includes new stim guidance.  Scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see there are even restaurant recommendations and online [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 14:23:27

Equality California Expands Marriage Fight, hire leaders to strengthen work in communities of color, faith and to ensure the freedom to marry for same-sex couples

SAN FRANCISCO – Equality California is bringing two leaders on board to expand EQCA ’s efforts to achieve full equality for lesbian , gay , ... coalition building efforts and to help bring resources and support to LGBT organizations, especially ... to have such extraordinary, accomplished leaders join our team as we continue our efforts to [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 21:34:28

E-learning seen as innovative solution for VET

A new international report released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ... and recognition of prior learning, is establishing VET as a preferred education option and allowing students ... this by tailoring our activities,” Mr Davidson said. “During 2008, a range of national industry sectors [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 00:39:42

I’m Scared of Heights!

We just got back from our Cross Point fall staff retreat. I’m very blessed these days to serve along side  19 of the best people I know ... Retreat staff led us through. Here’s a little video of our team building time… I would love to hear ... on vision, team building and the calendar for 2009. We’re finding that planning a yearly calendar [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 14:16:40

Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is ?Unlikely? To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs

It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer , and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below). The wide-ranging interview touches upon everything from Google’s origins and how it fell upon its advertising business model by [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 20:37:59

Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs

It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer , and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below). The wide-ranging interview touches upon everything from Google’s origins and how it fell upon its advertising business model by [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 23:00:20

The Wildlifer - winter 2009 issue

Issue 348 | Winter 2009 Time to Weigh in on Wildlife Conservation Policy Following the 2008 general election there will likely be major changes ... transition team for the Departments of Interior and Agriculture. As members of the administration continue ... opportunity to seize this moment of change in national leadership to advocate a better future [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 17:45:01

Demand Single-Payer on March 5, 10, 11th

If you want everyone in the United States to have health coverage simply paid for by the government for less money than we spend now, eliminating all health insurance companies, but allowing you to choose any private doctor or hospital of your choice, and boosting the economy with a net gain of 2.6 million jobs .. [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 04:34:07

Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs

It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer, and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below). The wide-ranging interview touches upon everything from Google’s origins and how it fell upon its advertising business model by [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 20:37:59

NAWAZ SHARIF .......... HYPOCRITE

M WAQAR I am surfing the net for latest global news and I read Govt of China opened their congress session in which their President is reading ... and their future, development etc, In America President Obama and his team working hard to fix current ... to get rid of load shedding etc, citizens are on their own, they are selling kids and kidneys, none [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 12:06:00

THE WORLD today!

——————————————————————————— 1. Barack Hussein Obama took power as the first black US President - Hope for a Change - Yes we can - A crowd that may have reached over two million people of all backgrounds celebrated as Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 00:24:08

THE WORLD today!

——————————————————————————— 1. Barack Hussein Obama took power as the first black US President - Hope for a Change - Yes we can - A crowd that may have reached over two million people of all backgrounds celebrated as Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 00:22:08

THE WORLD today!

——————————————————————————— 1. Barack Hussein Obama took power as the first black US President - Hope for a Change - Yes we can - A crowd that may have reached over two million people of all backgrounds celebrated as Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 00:30:08

THE WORLD today!

——————————————————————————— 1. Barack Hussein Obama took power as the first black US President - Hope for a Change - Yes we can - A crowd that may have reached over two million people of all backgrounds celebrated as Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 00:03:08

THE WORLD today!

——————————————————————————— 1. Barack Hussein Obama took power as the first black US President - Hope for a Change - Yes we can - A crowd that may have reached over two million people of all backgrounds celebrated as Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 00:19:08

THE WORLD today!

——————————————————————————— 1. Barack Hussein Obama took power as the first black US President - Hope for a Change - Yes we can - A crowd that may have reached over two million people of all backgrounds celebrated as Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 00:01:08

THE WORLD today!

——————————————————————————— 1. Barack Hussein Obama took power as the first black US President - Hope for a Change - Yes we can - A crowd that may have reached over two million people of all backgrounds celebrated as Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 00:02:08

THE WORLD today!

——————————————————————————— 1. Barack Hussein Obama took power as the first black US President - Hope for a Change - Yes we can - A crowd that may have reached over two million people of all backgrounds celebrated as Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 00:21:08

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