Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/20/2009
We don’t have a TV, so I was spared the inauguration. This morning, during a skype conversation, someone started telling me about the events as they were then unfolding in Washington.My response: “LALALALALALALA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”I’ve got four (or more likely eight or more) years to get used to Obama. So I’m going to take my time.Thanks to C [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 03:50:00
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Loose Lips Daily
As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. Good morning, all ... . Your morning entertainment: “Get Down With Brown!” MP3 LL WEEKLY—is off this week, for WCP’s FOOD ISSUE. Check out his culinary writing! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—DCision ‘08: The LL Postmortem [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 15:35:31
Please Don’t Riot… It’s Just What They Want
David Icke Sunday March 8, 2009 As I travel around America it is clear that this country is on the brink of an economic catastrophe the like of which it has never seen. And, of course, it is not alone. A similar story can be told around the world. The foreclosure figures are fantastic as families and others lose their homes through no fault [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 03:46:00
Stay at Home, Congress
by paradox Y’all’ll have to forgive me but there will be no skipping pixels of joy in my slot this morning, ... , but he is a partisan fighter and the transition team quickly took control of the media narrative ... seeing clips of Mathews on blogs prompting a confused very professional female reporter for different [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 13:35:44
Boosting Employee Morale Increases Productivity
The question asked by executives and managers - "How can I motivate my employees?" – is sometimes difficult to answer. Since each employee is motivated by a variety of different incentives, you need to find out what is of value for each person. Research shows that people often leave an employer because they haven't received the recognition they [more...]
Date: 2009-03-08 07:37:57
Planning a destination wedding: drawbacks
Doing business should not be exhaustive, emotionally draining, or result in severe disappointment. However, this was not at all the experience that my firm or my clients had during their one-week destination wedding to the Dreams Tulum Resort in Mexico. I believe in giving honest feedback. I believe in providing intuitive Customer Service [more...]
Date: 2009-03-01 21:14:49
With Obama, what change for Mideast?
President Obama has lost little time upon taking office in keeping a campaign promise to ramp up US diplomacy, especially in the Middle East ... ), Egypt, and Jordan, discussing his intentions for the United States to play a key role in building on a cease-fire in Gaza. Also on Wednesday, Obama reviewed with his national security team and top [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 10:07:16
The Obama Stimulus: Truth and Consequences
Never before have I learned so much so quickly from my readers as I have now — all just by reading the thousands of comments you have posted on my ... billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the fall, the U.S. government has loaned, invested ... Facility (TAF) … $50 billion to support short-term corporate IOUs held by money market mutual [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 12:30:59
The Obama Stimulus: Truth and Consequences
Never before have I learned so much so quickly from my readers as I have now — all just by reading the thousands of comments you have posted on my ... billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the fall, the U.S. government has loaned, invested ... Facility (TAF) … $50 billion to support short-term corporate IOUs held by money market mutual [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 12:30:29
The Obama Stimulus: Truth and Consequences
Never before have I learned so much so quickly from my readers as I have now — all just by reading the thousands of comments you have posted on my ... billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the fall, the U.S. government has loaned, invested ... Facility (TAF) … $50 billion to support short-term corporate IOUs held by money market mutual [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 12:30:37
Civil liberties advocates want law to guard against domestic spying
As more federal and local agencies collaborate across the country in a high-profile campaign against terrorism, ... that political activities, any public expressions against the government, are protected against this type ... about the political, religious or social associations, views or activities of a person unless” they are suspected [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:17:20
Please Don’t Riot… It’s Just What They Want
David Icke As I travel around America it is clear that this country is on the brink of an economic catastrophe the like of which it has never seen. And, of course, it is not alone. A similar story can be told around the world. The foreclosure figures are fantastic as families and others lose their homes through no fault of their own on a [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 16:26:45
Packers Roster Moves, Titans Preview
Much like Tony Romo almost a year ago to the day, the Packers decided to sew up the quarterback position long-term Friday before his current ... --more evidence of Favre's role in his nasty departure. The following is a quote directly ... I've realized is that football is more than a game - it's about building relationships and changing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 21:58:50
Pakistani response to “India’s Cold start strategy”: Limited strikes against targets vs Hot War leading to Nuclear Armageddon
Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | новости рупии | 卢比新闻 | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ルピーニュース | Notizie di Rupia | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا | RUPEE NEWS | November 30th, 2008 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | اخبار روپیہ India knows that it can never win a conventional warfare because of the Nuclear Mutually [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 02:28:50
Mashable’s Job Board Listings
The economy may be in the slumps, but not all companies are reporting layoffs. Some, on the contrary, are hiring for the best and brightest talent ... . The Digital Content Manager also has a role in building the Center’s social networking capabilities ... to join the Mashable team? Your requirements: a previous writing portfolio, previous editorial [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 18:45:53
Green College Spotlight: Cornell University
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York officially set a goal this year to integrate sustainability into all major operations, ... progress in areas like recycling, green building, waste, energy use and transportation. About 4,100 ... students take the bus into town for free and ride their bicycles on a campus that includes two LEED [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 11:00:15
Pedro Martinez: A Good Bet in ‘09
By Gary Armida The word “done” gets thrown around plenty in sports. Fans, media, radio hosts are quick to pronounce that a player is “done” after a down season or two. A quick glance before the 2008 season had many publications claiming that Mike Mussina was done as a quality Major League pitcher and that Carlos Delgado could no longer hit [more...]
Date: 2009-03-11 04:36:10
Mr Co-President
FOR the second day in a row, Barack Obama called a press conference wherein he introduced a new member of his economic staff and took questions from ... , like every pick Mr Obama has made thus far on his economic team. That leads to the news behind the news ... spending-heavy investment platform. Other deficit hawks filled lower-level roles on the [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 18:33:42
Two Checks On The Bucket List: My Morning On 'The Today Show'
Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post comes from Liz Funk who at the impressive age of 20 has just had her first book, Supergirls Speak Out: ... of Simon and Schuster's Touchstone/Fireside imprint, talking with a team of editors, publicists, and sales ... of its adult themes, she brought her daughter to see the highly sexual musical "Spring Awakening [more...]
Date: 2009-02-12 17:53:05
Down with team-building games
Count me among those who do NOT get worked up about city councils and other public bodies treating ... $3,000 on a "leadership seminar focused on team-building" at their retreat at the end of last week ... in a maze without talking to each other. To confess, I have a deep-seated prejudice against team-building [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 20:48:22
Maggie Brown on the early years of Sky Television
At 6pm on Sunday, 5 February 1989, I stood by Rupert Murdoch's side, as he switched on Sky Television for the first time ... Isleworth HQ was still a building site – I walked over newly laid tarmac and down dusty corridors. John ... by a dedicated Israeli-based News Corp subsidiary, NDS. From day one Sky was a company heavily driven [more...]
Date: 2009-02-05 07:45:00
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Paesa Pasindo Engineering is a national private Company having main business in construction industries, asphalt hotmix, equipment supply, ... in Building Structure with Pre-Cast system * Knowing time management & targeting Please send ... or write the code in your email subject within 14 days of this ad. To: RECRUITMENT TEAM Jl. A. Yani [more...]
Date: 2009-03-11 14:32:10
For Now, Hoyt Will Remain Treasury's GC
Robert Hoyt, general counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department, had his resignation letter into then-President George W. Bush by mid-December ... s incoming team. Last Saturday, though, Obama’s transition staff asked Hoyt to take back his resignation ... With all the economic uncertainty, he says that by keeping him on board, the Obama team is “just making [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 21:45:32
Ars at SXSW: our panel there; we're up for Web award and need your votes
For college students, mid-March means spring break: a time of revelry, debauchery, and time spent (though not always remembered) in tropical locales ... Awards , but more on that later in the post . Our team here put together an idea for a SXSW panel ... . This panel is about building strong online communities—of which almost all of you are a part. In [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 18:11:49
The Prophet and Apostle Movement: The Spiritual Twin Towers
I saw the link to the website from which this comes posted today at The Church of Jesus Christ . Loving to explore new websites, especially this one for it contains old audio sermons, I spent some time looking around and came upon this below. There have been oodles of articles written about Todd Bentley and Lakeland but this author, Rev. Mel C [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 09:49:56
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/12/2008
Some headlines to look at:“Muslim Killed Catholic Girl in Love With Flatmate”“London Fundraisers Linked to Stoning of 13-Year-Old”“Possibly Tens of Thousands of Somalis in the US Illegally”“New Anti-Christian Attack in Mosul, Two Sisters Killed”But then there’s this:“Denmark: Ready to Ban Headscarves for Judges”So it’s not all bad news [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 04:52:00
Morgan in Redrow power struggle
Troubled housebuilder Redrow is said to be looking for a buyer as it tries to fend off attempts by its founder, Wolves owner Steve Morgan, ... to invest £30 million in the team. Redrow, which announced a £46.2 million half-year loss in February ... Redrow shareholders about Mr Morgan’s plans and the board is in talks with him to clarify corporate [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 11:30:28
Petrosea Application & Helpdesk Supervisor
PT Petrosea Tbk has been designing, building and mining in all corners of Indonesia since 1972 and today is recognized as one of Indonesia’s leading ... , Internet, VPN, Server, Computer Hardware, etc). 6. Knowledgeable in problem solving ... communication skills – spoken and written. 8. Customer focus and a good team player. 9. Have Microsoft [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 02:43:08
Extension Time
Garth announced this morning that RSL has come to terms and inked defender Chris Wingert to a contract extension that will keep him wearing Claret ... in that building process.” Coming off a successful 2008 MLS campaign that saw him start 29 of his team’ ... has repeatedly mentioned the need to mold our team around a young, talented core of players to [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 19:19:28
Wade and Watkins: A study in contrasts
Crain Watkins Henry Wade I was a bit nervous when I learned that the Dallas-based D-Magazine had just published a feature length article on Craig Watkins the Dallas County District Attorney. D-Magazine made a valiant attempt to flip the Tulia script while the City of Amarillo was paying out $4 [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 15:19:39
Nazi nuke
The nazi scourge seems to be continuing undaunted... By Walter Griffin BDN Staff BELFAST, Maine — James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building a “dirty bomb.” According to an FBI field [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 23:22:40
Minutes Madness Continues
A Daily Babble Production If yesterday's game didn't provide the right opportunity for Doc Rivers to rest his star swingmen at the benefit of his ... , outscoring the Celtics 17-2 over a 6:30 span en route to building a 22-point lead that was cut to 18 before ... the team made a concerted push to get back in the game. All that is arguable. Especially [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 17:00:10
Why, on second thought, I dislike the Jacobs Deal
Daylight Savings Time fascinates me. It utterly fascinates me that everyone in the entire country — or at least all the affected areas of our great nation — will agree twice a year to change time. Here we all are, every last one of us, saying: “OK, yeah, you know what? It’s not 10 o’clock anymore. Nope. From now on, it’s 9 o’clock [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 14:44:53
Investing in Professional Development
by Rabbi Yoni ( Yonatan) Gordis As organizational leanness becomes a more necessary mode of thinking across the Jewish community, ... with the times. Building on a foundation of your team knowing its history and its culture ... of professional development, ranging from formal graduate degrees to less formal workshops, skills [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 06:01:50
The Community Radio Movement in India
India has been quite a latecomer to this promising channel of people empowerment through community media. Until late 2006, only educational institutions were allowed to set up campus radio stations having a transmission range of 10-15km. The scope was only recently expanded to also include non-profit agencies, agricultural research institutes, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 08:54:34
Finding Peace At Work And In Life: 8 Simple Strategies
by Lydia Hurlbut and Christiane Holbrook Imagine how great life would be if you could gain more support for you business building efforts ... on your team would be pitching in to help! Life would flow in balance. Implementing a few changes ... such as a virtual assistant or web designer are invaluable team members that allow you to get more done [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 20:36:35
Spend less and invest more
Given the grim economic scenario, many marketing executives are hacking through their budgets and resources like adventurers hurrying through an Amazon forest. Many others I have met in recent weeks are propagating a low/no-spend scenario. I believe that these are unviable options given the fact that sales must go on, albeit at lower volumes, [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 04:37:51
Looking Back On A Crazy Week
I don’t know if you’ve ever had one of those weeks before where you look and say, “how in the world did I make it through all of that?” …WELL….I just had one of those weeks. • Last Saturday, I had my friend Daniel Henderson in from Strategic Renewal to do several talks on prayer with various groups at West Ridge [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 21:56:43
Church Is Not A Chair (part 1)
When I was growing up in church, our family had a place that we sat for service every Sunday morning: right side of the sanctuary, second row, second seat from the end, right behind where the worship team would sit. That was my chair ... if a student or staff is missing from attendance by simply glancing at the seat they usually inhabit. I even [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 13:00:00
Liturgical Gangstas 6: Unappreciated Strengths and Overlooked Weaknesses
Welcome to IM’s popular new feature, “The Liturgical Gangstas,” a panel discussion among different liturgical traditions represented in the Internet Monk audience. Who are the Gangstas? Father Ernesto Obregon is an Eastern Orthodox priest. Rev. Peter Vance Matthews is an Anglican priest and founding pastor of an AMIA congregation. Dr [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 20:03:05
2006 NY Daily News Podcast Interview With Rahm Emanuel On Compulsory Service Plan, Will Media Ignore Again?
**Updated with transcript and quote As a follow up to my previous post on the media blowing off President-elect Barack Obama's conscription plan(which seems to be disappearing from the Obama transition team's site among many other agenda ... . It's so abstract. Do you go nine to five in some course in a Red Cross building? EMANUEL: The whole [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 23:44:48
Here's a Baptist database
The Baptist General Convention of Texas created a database. But it has nothing to do with tracking credibly-accused clergy predators ... whether those consultants may have been related to high-n-mighties in the Baptist building in Dallas ... have probably been swept under the rug. “The investigative team faulted the BGCT Executive Board for poor [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 22:36:00
California Place Park design proposals: “Where’s the playspace?”
By Tracy Record West Seattle Blog editor The question came about two-thirds of the way through this morning’s design workshop — second in a ... landscape architect Karen Kiest (photo above) had started the workshop. That was no small question ... . But before we finish going down that road, for those who couldn’t make this morning’s workshop - which [more...]
Date: 2009-03-08 06:59:17
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
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
Loose Lips Daily: Five Days to Go
As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—”Gray Kicks Segraves Out of Council Meeting” (and read Segraves’ account, too) IN LL WEEKLY (INAUGURATION EDITION) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:53:53
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
knitting at the ranch
it really is all that. you can set up your skein winder on the arm of the bench and crank away while soaking up the vista. then leave it there for several days cuz someone else might enjoy it too. now that’s living. i hadn’t been to new mexico for a very long time and when lauren baldwin contacted me about the possibility of teaching at a [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 02:52:47
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