A 19th Century Jail becomes 21st Century Hotel

Entrance Lobby Charles Street Jail of Boston, built in 1851, was active till 1990 ... ) came up theidea of redeveloping this jail.  Their idea: Convert the building into a four-star luxury ... of Historic Places, the team on the $150 million project worked closely with a bevy of agencies, including [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 22:27:47

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End of Hillary Term

An update is long overdue – so much has happened over the past few months in my volunteer work, extracurricular activities, and my school life ... this summer, with new board members, team members, and grant money buoying our efforts. Photos ... and schooling to AIDS and civil war orphans. We’re in the process of building a campaign around this school [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 23:08:37

Building with BOSS -- New Products to Share

It's been two months since we began "opening up" the Yahoo! Search infrastructure with the launch of Yahoo! ... , one of our team members designed a search engine to look for dog friendly activities in the bay area ... to generate customizable search results, BuildaSearch takes all the complexities out of building a search [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 20:13:16

Wireless Probing, Shiny Bugs, Remote Scanning

Probing the brain wirelessly - IR-absorbing lead selenide particles form the basis of a method for the study of neuronal activation in samples of ... and play molecular logic - A “plug and play” approach to building molecular logic units has been developed by chemists in the UK and Thailand. The team used various spectroscopic techniques, including [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 13:00:49

Planning can increase your effectiveness and efficiency by dovetailing activities

  “So how am I supposed to make time for this wonderful idea? ... Team seminar. This advanced AR seminar is designed for experienced AR staff and managers who need ... Relationship building exercise Chance to influence the analyst’s research priority list for the next year [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 13:00:09

Seo is absolutely essential when competing on line

by Stephan Tracer Firms that practice Seo can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a more broad and general approach ... of all is merging with conversion science. Search Engine Optimization is a combination of activities ... accepted as non-reciprocal links. Link building is a pretty general term used to describe anything [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 23:12:54

Letting Go of Antique Tomorrows

This article was written by Alex Steffen in June 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. We find ourselves, as I wrote a bit ago in an essay called The Empire of Crime, without a contemporary sense of our immediate surroundings or much of a model for a working future [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 18:33:54

A Call for Innovative Solutions to Air Transportation

This article was written by Alex Steffen in September 2006. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Air travel presents one of the stickiest problems we face. On the one hand, in a rapidly globalizing world, we need to fly to do business, build networks and see loved ones. Indeed, to many people ( [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 23:07:15

Seo is absolutely essential when competing on line

by Stephan Tracer Firms that practice Seo can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a more broad and general approach ... of all is merging with conversion science. Search Engine Optimization is a combination of activities ... to help you get there! Link building is different from link baiting”as work is different from fun [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 23:18:14

Origin: Marc Ngui

This is part of a new series of posts that will interview what we at Come Up To My Room think of as the  greatest designers, ... of budgets, building codes and the laws of physics. My final project at school was a comic that tried it’ ... /culture - as a story or founding myth might suggest - rather than the design of a team of specialists [more...]

Date: 2009-01-30 18:47:37

Markets in everything: p2p education

It will come as no shock to most readers that I think one of the key opportunities of the next decade or so is to harness the possibilities unlocked ... , however the combination of a fundamentally sound idea, in harmony with the inevitable secular change in how economic activity will be organized in a networked world, married to a strong committed tea [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 13:00:40

My Marriage Ceremony Gift Loves Her Green Baby Image

It was quite windy and gusting with great force as a plane came in at Trudeau Airport. Birds were chirping but their voices were drowned-out by a continuous rumble of traffic and 5 cawing crows madly flying.  3 crows flew away from the group.  The brisk wind didn’t relent. Temperatures were warm, snow was melting.   Rooftop gravel was showing [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 03:27:50

E-mail withdrawal - Day 1

So today was the first day of my “living OUTSIDE my e-mail inbox” experiment . I had very mixed success, but I’m encouraged by today’s results ... out (we are lucky enough to have a gym and locker rooms in our building). Returned to my at 2 p.m. and scarfed ... me to. When you set realistic goals and meet your commitments, co-workers and team mates  trust [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 03:58:43

Blogs - a means to finding people to do rhythmic things with?

I found this quite intriguing: Those thinking that online social networking is a substitute for face-to-face interactions might want to think again ... that participants that walked in step were initially more likely to cooperate as a team. In a second ... a simple activity in tandem or separately. As you'd expect from the hypotheses, individuals that [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 20:56:14

Finance

The last chapter of this spellbinding (at least to me) campaign narrative culminated with John McCain’s New Hampshire victory on January 8, 2008 ... it would take a serious transformation; one similar to a start-up company going corporate overnight ... RNC campaign efforts. In fact, we held the first victory event in my office in the Willard Building [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 22:26:18

Asylum Flood Encounters Popular Resistance

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer has sent us another article about Norway’s asylum crisis. He said this in his prefatory note:I’ve translated an article from yesterday’s edition of VG. The article deals with the massive opposition that the authorities and their lackeys are currently experiencing when it comes to finding suitable premises [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 16:05:00

Chapter 10, Part 2: Spies on Spies

Thu 5 Mar 2009 Posted by David Fields under Tiger and Fox         Retuning his radio to the Defenders frequency, he called ... about building this base, Tracker defects from an organization that intends to use him to help take over ... him more training, and perhaps recruit a … less committed … member to his own organization. His activities [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 01:00:19

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

follow up post on ym3.0

paul martin came back and reflected a bit more about what he read in youth ministry 3.0 (here was his first pass review). good schtuff, paul ... leaders to develop a team leaders to minister with than it has been to be a solo guy in the ministry ... t have a problem with entertainment, mind you, but I don’t want that to be what I depend on to reach kids [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 08:00:10

Poverty of Imagination

    Venturing out each day into this land of strip malls, freeways, office parks, and McHousing pods, ... differently?      The attempted re-start of revolving debt consumerism is an exercise in futility. We've ... for people with no income. We can't crank up a home-building industry with our massive inventory [more...]

Date: 2009-02-09 14:00:17

The Show: Coe&Waito’s Nest

This is part of a new series of posts that will interview what we at Come Up To My Room think of as the  greatest designers, ... of budgets, building codes and the laws of physics. My final project at school was a comic that tried it’ ... /culture - as a story or founding myth might suggest - rather than the design of a team of specialists [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 01:11:18

Construction and Partnering

Introduction Design advice and the critical evaluation of building proposals often address the means adopted to meet objectives ... to make, what materials to use, where a building should be oriented, how to construct features ... in building design in terms of solutions that are not specific to a time, place or client. This creates [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 02:23:35

Creating Carbon-Neutral Cities

This article was written by Alex Steffen in July 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Here's the reality: we in the U.S., Canada, Australia and (to a lesser extent) Europe need to move very quickly to make deep cuts in our climate emissions if we hope for any chance of making big [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 19:31:25

Tour de Cure 2009 in Henderson, NV

I contacted Mary Stokes today.  She is our local contact for the American Diabetes Association’s Tour de Cure 2009 in Henderson ... by registering, fundraising, team building and visiting participating sponsors. Point opportunities ... will be offered with a 2 Grand Prizes of weekend adventure escapes – ONE SUMMER, ONE WINTER to Brian Head Resort [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 19:15:32

He is Us

…He is Us I’m afraid Jim Kunstler is right. Go read it all, and remember that no people ever had a government better than itself ... payments. We can’t promote more mortgages for people with no income. We can’t crank up a home-building ... that, for now. So far — after two weeks in office — the Obama team seems bent on a campaign to sustain [more...]

Date: 2009-02-10 15:55:56

The Employee Free Choice Act: What's At Stake

In 1980, the United Labor Unions set out to organize employees at Detroit fast food chains in the hopes of sparking a nationwide movement to ... stop them. Or so they thought.

 As workers started building their union inside the three local franchises, top-level corporate executives watched closely. It quickly became clear [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 23:14:16

Our Philanthropic Footprints

This article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Giving well -- giving money which provokes positive transformation over the long haul -- can be like juggling porcupines: things can easily end in tears, and everything keeps moving quickly [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 22:00:05

5 Minutes Around the Blogosphere - Week 45

** Just when I was about to publish this post, something weird happened with my laptop and I think I may have lost some of the entries in the Blog ... , educational games, eco-friendly reusable lunch bags, backpacks, and more for pre-school, kindergarten ... is looking for a teen or tween that is making a difference through volunteering, activities, or [more...]

Date: 2008-08-10 07:53:02

E2 Solution for Energizing America to a Better Tomorrow

As any who come to these pages are already aware, my passion is clear … helping my/your family, my/your community, my/your nation, my/our world find a path toward a prosperous and sustainable energy future. A path that will help us (US) navigate the dangerous seas of the Perfect Storm combination of Peak Oil (and other peak natural resources) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:11:13

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

Home Delivery and the Bright Green Urban Experience

This article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Most North Americans think of shopping and driving as fundamentally paired activities. After ... to the idea that shopping works like this: 1. You get in your car. 2. You drive to a big building [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 19:00:59

Think Big with Bonus Rooms

NARI can provide hi-res digital before and after photos of award-winning remodeling projects to accompany your story. Contact marketing@nari ... looking for a room to house your extensive book collection, watch movies, exercise, play games ... and how many activities they will do in there.?A place for meditation            Bonus rooms [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 02:00:39

Lots of Opinions on Centralized Job Sites vs. Niche/Social Networking Sites for Recruiting

About two weeks ago I wrote on this topic, citing posts on Cheezhead and The Delaware Employement Law Blog that seem to support a big move away ... and social networking sites.  I also discussed some team building and employee engagement aspects ... beneficiaries of community-building as job losses have mounted, according to Advertising Age ).  Here [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 21:34:05

A Meteor To Kiss The World

January 11, 2009, Matthew Good After finishing all the bass tracks for the record last night I decided to drive home for my day off. Sleeping in a proper bed was a relief, to say the least. A little laundry, a lot of not moving, you get the picture. Tomorrow I’ll head back into town to start on guitars, which I’m looking forward to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 03:44:47

Why the Transition Movement Needs Mr. T.

I was in London over the weekend, seeing a concert at the Alexandra Palace by the utterly wonderful Sigur Ros, which was indeed utterly wonderful ... by climate change, nor by the results of the Oil Vulnerability Audit he did for the A-Team’s activities ... ). Each episode of ‘The A-Team’ that required them to fly somewhere usually had a scene where one [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 07:10:06

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

The Sphere of Market Capitalism Might Narrow

Sometimes you’re just too close to the problem, and you lose your ability to formulate the conventional response. Some year ago, after managing the business applications department for a chain of hospitals, the services firm decided that most of us in middle management were unnecessary dead weight and decided to move us to other accounts [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 07:17:26

Ambassadors, Kerry, Levey, Sanctions, and Peace

Fredric C. Hof ’s name was floated in a Kuwaiti paper as the next ambassador to Damascus. Sami Moubayed picked up the story, but soon published a denial from Hof , who explained that he had not been offered the job. Hof wrote, “To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of my impending appointment are greatly exaggerated. Indeed, they are false [more...]

Date: 2009-02-15 19:16:37

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

Affiliate Marketing: Website Builders Daily Digest

Affiliate programs have become very popular in the last few years and many people use them to make a lot of money online ... owners agree on allowing their website to be used for promotional activities, linking to site ... to relationship building and branding with measures like it’s care package campaign to the top [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 15:37:47

How to Hire the Right Person

A method to make sure I hired the “right person” is something I wanted desperately in the early years of my small business, ... all I could about it ( which wasn’t much — most of the team building information is geared towards big ... unlucky with others. I had some great team members, and others who embarrassed me in front [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 04:10:56

Offshoring, outsourcing, oh my

For many years, there has been a trend in all industries to look to outsourcing as a method to “reduce costs” and “improve efficiencies ... for less? I think not. And I think it fails on several fronts. Team building - Producing quality software requires a strong team. What makes a strong team? The question that is usually asked [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 16:22:48

Possible conflict of interest surfaces for President Obama’s new urban czar Adolfo Carrion

President Obama’s new urban czar renovated his Bronx home with help from the architect on a major development that needed his approval, ... by city law,” he said. “That was completely unrelated to my professional activities and entirely ... was part of a team seeking Carrión’s approval of one of the biggest taxpayer-subsidized developments [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 15:46:58

Crowded House

In today's Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove writes that Rham Emanuel will have his hands full refereeing turf wars in the suddenly overcrowded West ... related activities -- an office in the West Wing. Many Americans may assume that the president's ... at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB). Under Mr. Obama, the political director won't be in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-29 19:27:46

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

Designing User-Centric Web Sites

I’ve been noodling on how best to present a coherent vision of user-centric website and web service design and think I came up with at least a basic model that will serve my purposes. It’s made up of identity, friends or contacts, services, activities and notifications. To get concrete, let’s take The Future of Web Apps (London) site [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 20:03:49

ORG is looking for new Board members

The Open Rights Group’s Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing all aspects of its work, from payroll to policy decisions ... to join the team. The first requirement, of course, is for applicants willing to dedicate their time to building a sustainable digital rights organisation that can continue to make a real difference [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 14:05:13

International Privacy Day (With Synchronicity!)

Blogger: Ian GlazerToday is International Privacy Day (and also National Data Privacy Day here in the USA and maybe where you are too) ... from being easily defined.  Without a strict definition, though, how does an enterprise privacy team proceed ... I have ever met.  She uses a simple approach in building overall market strategies and brands [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 22:17:25

What We Did Last Summer: Social Network Aggregation and Activity Feeds in Windows Live

As some of you know, last year I worked on the platform behind the What's New page on Windows Live Spaces which provides the similar ... or not. Turning the idea on its head...it would be cool to be able to publish the activity list on other sites ... the following suggestions There's a lot of potential for this activity list given that it [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 00:43:42

Philadelphia Freedom Schools Servant Leader Intern Application

      Servant Leader Intern Job Description Philadelphia Freedom Schools™ summer programs are staffed by young-adults who serve as positive role ... Servant Leadership Training ™ in areas of child development, academic lesson planning, team teaching and facilitation, team building strategies, and positive conflict resolution. This inspirational [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 16:16:58

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