Do We Really Value Authority?

OK, I'll just go ahead and admit this right now: I'm a fan of several reality TV shows, most notably "Survivor" and "The Apprentice ... that perhaps her team needed to finish some of the tasks it had started, including building a shelter ... she was not selected as her team's "Project Manager," she nevertheless stepped in when her team was busily [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 02:00:28

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Behind the scenes of Windows 7 Enterprise

Behind the scenes of Windows 7 Enterprise Posted by Freeware Master on 8 March, 2009 No comments yet This item was filled under ... , and has stepped up its game to get the corporate world excited about its upcoming operating system ... principles to go by: Planning: Our team spent six months on planning Windows 7 in a “vision phase.” [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 07:08:04

We don’t need to spend more money on education

I am very concerned that calls for increasing education spending will do to the future economy what increased health care expenditure has done in the ... an inordinate amount of money and time on activities that promote team spirit at the expense of “ ... governments are building community and fitness centers, public sport complexes and aquatic parks [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 22:28:52

National Security Challenges For Obama Administration

By Michael P. Noonan PANEL 1: How Will We Fight? Colonel T.X. Hammes, USMC (ret.), author of The Sling and the Stone , opened by noting that the U.S. has no national strategy, but rather a series of goals with no ways or means assigned to them. He argued that the Department of Defense must return to threat-based analysis after the past decade of [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 13:00:17

SUN: Vancouver mayor eyes city hall lawn for vegetable garden

By Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun March 6, 2009 VANCOUVER -- Barack Obama’s got nothing on Gregor Robertson when it comes to having green cred with the ... building, will be converted into a community garden for people to grow food. “Vancouver has really ... of bringing agriculture to 12th and Cambie comes from Robertson’s Greenest City Action Team, which [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 01:04:06

Change You Won't Believe

       The peak oil story has not been nullified by the scramble to unload every asset for cash -- including whomping gobs of oil contracts -- ... because the primary energy resources needed for it will be contracting.       Just as global oil ... of it was the suburban sprawl-building fiesta that has now climaxed in the real estate bust. By the early [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 14:31:56

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

Brian Williams, Clean Coal, and Oxymorons [w/video]

In celebration of NBC’s “Green Week”, the network ran a couple of stories on the Nightly News about the politics and technology of “clean coal” ... , as they walk around the world’s only clean coal power plant, where an East German energy research team ... near ready for prime time. China alone is building two coal-burning power plants each week [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 05:06:27

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

No Pants 2k9

On Saturday, January 10th, 2009 nearly 2,500 people took off their pants on subways in 22 cities around the world. In New York’s 8th Annual No Pants! ... / song by Tyler Walker Team Captains: Agents Good, Linder, Lovejoy, Scordelis Digital Video ... , recently moved into an apartment building right next to Foley Square, so we were able to get [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:16:09

Please Don’t Riot… It’s Just What They Want by David Icke

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 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 01:40:09

Something New And Challenging

on March 8th, 2009 Full Name: Travis ModisetteLocation (City, AA): Washington, DC (metro region)Phone Number: 5104322871Email: mustang67@gmail ... and has advancement opportunities.RESUME:QUALIFICATIONS •Outstanding communication and team-building skills • ... SKILLS •Actively participated as a part of a multi-disciplinary treatment team which includes [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 10:34:27

Senior Software Project Manager

Via One (http://www.viaone.com) is a privately-held global prepaid transaction processing and enhanced mobile services company We are opening a ... project management, problem solving and analytical skills; rigorous, data-driven decision-making ... process improvement. Develop and determine project approach, effort, schedule, team member roles [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 12:48:44

Teamwork - Inspiration Thoughts

by Bart Icles Working as team can be a hard goal to strive for because it feels like such an uphill battle ... .- Henry Ford -Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants If I could solve ... final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 19:17:56

Inspiring Thoughts On Teamwork

by Bart Icles Working as team can be a hard goal to strive for because it feels like such an uphill battle ... .- Henry Ford -Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants If I could solve ... final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 19:15:50

Inspirational thoughts on Teamwork

by Bart Icles Working as team can be a hard goal to strive for because it feels like such an uphill battle ... .- Henry Ford -Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants If I could solve ... final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 02:04:05

PollDaddy Goes Automattic

It’s another exciting day here at Automattic. Today we finally get to announce that we’ve acquired the market-leading poll and survey service ... to look at building out our own service for this, it became more obvious that, while on the surface ... to Sligo and put back a few pints with the team and we decided to make things work. They went [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 19:56:17

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

Good Boats, Good Captains: Applying the Investment Mantra for Profit

The title is a play on the last one and a famous epigram of the greatest of the Greek Stoic philosophers, Epitectus: Normal 0 We should act as we do in seafaring: “What can I do?”—Choose the master, the crew, the day, the opportunity. Then comes a sudden storm. What matters it to me? my part has been fully done [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 01:40:22

Event: Amazon Web Services Tel Aviv Meetup, December 3

My friend Martin Buhr, European Business Director, Amazon Web Services will be visiting Israel next week and asked for my help in promoting his ... Services team. - - - What does every tech business need, besides a great idea? The ability to scale ... access to Amazon’s robust infrastructure and technological resources via services such as Amazon EC2 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 13:29:18

Gimme a 'P'!!!

When teaching graduate classes at Drake University, I feel it's my responsibility as a professor to demonstrate to my students that passion is a ... had a great post about building excitement.  The author, Don The Idea Guy, states: First ... about keeping their jobs than they are about building excitement for those same jobs [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 12:00:00

Federation-Apocalypse Session 49: Ambassadors of the Fey

   With the Ritual of Unbinding complete, the restriction-programming on the praetorian guardian was shattered. “Feeling better?” “Well that certainly helps matters a lot. Nice to be able to think about certain topics without have to come at them a roundabout way.” “So who were you answering to then? [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 04:28:25

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

Four boards negotiate recommendations from reservoir task force report

At a joint meeting on March 3, 2009, the four boards with authority over the local water and sewer system adopted five out of seven recommendations of the South Fork Rivanna Stewardship Task Force.  Albemarle County Supervisors got approval for an additional request to seek legal advice on whether implementing actions from a dredging feasibility [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 15:07:40

Happiness Is Promoting Health and Development in the Amazon

This is the latest on my (minimal, I admit) personal research on Brazil’s ecology. Just another great article. One can get to other news items featuring Brazil by clicking on links to the left either “Brazil,” “Natural Resources” or “News.” I am, still, currently writing a synthesis of the latest material [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 21:00:18

Headlines from Worldchanging Seattle 01/09/09

This week's flooding was devastating for families in Western Washington, ... . In the months and years to come, it is important that we to continue think long-term about how, by building ... to strengthen community, spread educational resources, or just make the city a more vibrant, beautiful [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 01:41:55

Lake Bogoria and Conservation Challenges

Sarah Chamblis of Princeton university spent ten days with me on an ecology and conservation field course through The Great Rift Valley ... office itself is a round, two-story cement building, and the site also includes a classroom and an outdoor platform with a 10-foot statue of a globe ringed prominently by the equator.  It is all appealing [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 07:44:53

The Madness of Multiculturalism: Muslim Sues Police after Being Told He Might Handle Pork Products

Cook Hasanali Khoja is accusing the Metropolitan police of religious discrimination after it refused to guarantee in his contract that he would be ... , he was asked to move to another team where he would be expected to cook what officers nickname the “999 ... pork. I had a letter from the human resources department saying that I would not be required to [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 11:13:31

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

Do You Want To Hire Personnel? Advertise That Online

by Marv Beller Employing suitable professionals for your job openings is time consuming and costly, as well as quick and easy. It’s merely a matter of good resources management. Do you have any idea of the number of free job ... , Yahoo or any other search portal is the most direct and efficient way of building a big list of free [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 19:25:16

Yanks Claim Witch Hunt as Pols Try to Mandate Cheap Tix

Photo by Skyliner72 on flickr The Yankees have done all right for themselves with politicians when they've needed officials to sign off on financial assistance for their new stadium. But when team brass has had to come in and answer to some representatives who have been more than skeptical of the deals the team has received [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 17:42:19

DrumBeat: December 28, 2008

With gas falling, trucks come back NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After nearly a year of flagging sales, low gas prices and fat incentives are reigniting America's taste for big vehicles. Trucks and SUVs will outsell cars in December, according to researchers at the automotive Website Edmunds.com, something that hasn't happened since February [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 14:31:34

Collecting Craft and Game Supplies for Children in Egypt

  Dear Children and Families,                                                    February 20, ... ? There are two ways that you can do that this month! Northland’s Children’s Ministries team has been blessed ... world with the message of Christ and invited our team to serve the 130 children whose parents [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 20:32:19

Israel “Brand” will magically smell sweeter

It is more important to be attractive than to be right By Stuart Littlewood A Redress article Stuart Littlewood considers the impossible mission of a British public relations firm hired by Israel to boost the image of the Middle East’s most notorious land-grabber, ethnic cleanser and all-round threat to world peace [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 20:30:52

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

City Eco Labs and other compelling reasons to go on living

(((My residency at Sandberg Instituut has ended gracefully and I am in transit for the next few days ... , dry toilets, sustainable urban drainage, alternate reality games, watershed planning, seed banks ... made by a team in Delhi that brings the bike-based commerce of the streets of India alive - in St [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 08:37:52

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

Celebrating Marty's Life

Thanks to you all for the kind words, prayers and support over the past week. Without question the toughest week of my life ... to online resources that enable teachers to teach better. To memorialize Martin's fun-loving spirit we will also be building a playground at the orphanage near Martin's home and creating a scholarship [more...]

Date: 2009-02-18 21:41:49

Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008

Today is my birthday, and I decided to give you all a gift that few of you have been highly anticipating for a few months now. My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. I spent about 3 days (and nights) on it (without sleep) and I was quite happy with the turnout [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:55:21

Avoiding the Pink Slip Epidemic

While there is no sure fire way (pun intended) to avoid being pink slipped, there are a number of steps you can take to increase the chances of holding on to your current position.   1.  Do the Basics Well Be on time. Don’t take long lunches, leave early, dress poorly, use work time and resources for personal business [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 19:15:11

adidas: branding one sole at a time

Take a minute one morning this week as you clean, feed, and dress your body and think of the brand choices you make each day. Savor a sip from that cold glass of orange juice, thick with pulp, and consider the labor behind those 8 ounces of liquid. Decades of dedication and careful manipulation go into the marketing of that brand so that when you [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:13:05

What’s with da Yoof?

We really need to invite some Young People to the People’s Republic to change our jaundiced minds about stuff. For we are grown old and crabby, and here followeth the evidence. I was never into student politics, of any stripe, largely because all those that were seemed like such unconscionable wankers [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 23:14:25

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

Agile Cuts Costs by a Factor of Four - or More!

Original F4 Technologies logo 2002-2004 I know what you are thinking with the title of this post - I am drinking the Kool-Aid ... resources to get to a sustainable place with the current population in the world.  Chapter ... . My summary take-away from Good to Great is: “Right people building the the right things right” “ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 19:43:13

Dan Abrams and the Presumption of Innocence

I just read this op-ed piece by Dan Abrams in the Wall Street Journal . He responds to criticism about media ignoring the presumption of innocence ... is what got me. My favorite quote is this one: Essentially we stack the legal deck in favor ... a team of lawyers. In New York State this is known as the District Attorney's office. An Assistant [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 13:43:00

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

5 Ways to Gain More Value from Your PR Agency

What follows is a guest post by Nicole Jordan , a former client at the Rubicon Project .  Nicole is also a blogger of some renown ... to the request, but also threw in a few kind words for our team! Here’s Nicole: Being ... see them as part of our team. My SHIFT team literally helped be the company’s eyes and ears [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 01:26:04

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

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