An auditor’s report into the financial dealings of the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has cleared him of any wrongdoing. Rajendra Pachauri had faced numerous allegations about his relationship with the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a non-profit based in New Delhi of which he is the director general. Now the Guardian newspaper has published a review of Pachauri and TERI’s financial records, conducted by the auditors KPMG
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Pachauri cleared of financial wrongdoing
The Los Angeles Times reported that an executive with Northwestern Mutual Investment Services twice put his semen in a woman’s water bottle at work. The first time it happened, the woman drank the semen laced water and felt ill
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Man Puts Semen in Female Co-workers Water Bottle – Is This Sexual Harassment?
Whether a soldier needs a cure for the common cold or brain surgery, the NATO hospital on Kandahar Airfield can handle it. This is one of Afghanistan’s most sophisticated hospitals, and it provides top medical care on the front line. Just minutes by helicopter from most conflict spots in the country’s south, the hospital saves the lives of 98 percent of the injured who come here.
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NATO Hospital Offers Top Notch Care in Taliban Heartland | Asia | English
By Randall Mack, Purchasing Manager People seem to either love them or hate them, there is no in-between. I tend to agree, as a child tomatoes were most commonly found in my napkin or under my chicken bones. My mom never understood why this was, as she loves the juicy fruits. As I got older I questioned this action myself, and as I began to explore new avenues for where my food came from. I discovered that those ‘so called tomatoes’ were nothing more than mushy, watery, impostures. Tomatoes should be sweet and delicate, not offensive and bland. When I eat a tomato these days I want to taste their sugars and their elegance, I don’t want to feel like I am eating a soggy cracker. These days eating a real tomato is a treat, something I put on par with climbing a mountain or sleeping under a redwood. Their growing season in Colorado greatly depends on how our summers develop, so lately we haven’t been able to enjoy their greatness until now. Grant Family Farms have beautiful heirloom varieties right now that display the true essence of what the tomato stands for. Subtle and sweet they are truly a summer time treat. My days of being fooled are over and I no longer stand for the general atrocities that run rampant in Colorado. If it’s not the season neither freshly picked, then I revert back to my childhood and use them as pawns; strategically finding their way to the rim of a plate or under my leftovers
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CSR’s Weekly Local Purchases: You Say Tomato, I Say Tomoto
Traditional Oil Painting Demonstration with Joe Gyurcsak August 30st 2010 6:00 PM Students will be presented with an in depth workshop in regards to direct alla prima painting techniques. Depending on subject and time frame student will experience the visual development of a painting from the initial marks to blocking in large masses to the final touches. Joe Gyurcsak will express the importance of preparation in regards to palette of color, brushes, lighting, composition and plan of how to proceed.
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FREE Painting Demo @ the BAC
A Big THANK YOU from the Train Signal Team This month marks 8 years for Train Signal as a company and we couldn’t be happier to celebrate this special time with you, our loyal fans, blog readers and customers. Thank you for your continued support, your enthusiastic confidence in our training products, and your help with making what we do that much better. We couldn’t have done it without you! We know that you were the driving force behind our accomplishments like winning the Windows IT Pro Community Choice Award for best training product and making the Inc 5000 list of top fastest growing companies in America three years in a row.
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Train Signal: Thank You for 8 Great Years!
Train Signal’s 8 Year Anniversary Giveaway Our goal is and always has been to help you learn and this year’s prizes will help accomplish this in a fun way. Here’s what you can win: Grand Prize Trip to TechEd 2011 or VMworld 2011 Join the Train Signal team at TechEd 2011 or VMworld 2011! One lucky winner will get a chance to go to either TechEd 2011 or VMworld 2011 on us.
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Train Signal Celebrates 8 Great Years with 8 Great Prizes
Analysts at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore Labs have run the numbers on the US energy use in 2009, and come up with similar results to those obtained when examining the country’s carbon emissions: energy use is dropping at a pace that is faster than would be expected based on the slowing economy alone. Even better, the growth in renewable energy, coupled with increased use of natural gas, is displacing significant amounts of coal.
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US energy use is dropping and shifting to renewables
Are you having trouble finding your favorite odor eliminator at retail stores? Great news – you can also shop for Fridge IT activated charcoal odor absorbers at Sur La Table stores too
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Fridge IT odor absorbers available at Sur La Table stores
Designed for Plaid! This little cutie began as an outdated holiday themed cookie stand and a cotton print thrift store skirt. Before I began the revamp, I washed the skirt and scrubbed the cookie stand clean
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Make This: Re-vamped Cupcake Stand
There are so many things in the world that need fixing, don’t you think? More people need health insurance – but not from my money! Refugees need space and facilities in order to live halfway decently – but not in my backyard! Religious groups have the right to open their centers wherever they want – but not in my neighborhood! It’s a common public phenomenon – NIMBY, Not In My Backyard.
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Not In My Backyard
naturally dyed fabrics after rinsing. hawthorne on the left, apple on right apple branches In early June I pruned wild crab apple branches and wild hawthorne branches that grow along the side of my road. hawthorne branches I stripped the apple leaves before chopping the branches up small and covering them with water.
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dyeing with hawberry and apple bark
Email is back. Despite repeated proclamations of its extinction, rumors of the death of email marketing have been greatly exaggerated — especially since email and social media are a powerful combination.
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The Three Key Elements of Irresistible Email Subject Lines
It’s late August and our thoughts turn to buying bulbs to plant this fall for spring flowers next year. With the garden design in progress, an overall busy summer, and a garden so dry that it seems to be sucking not only water from the faucet but bulb buying motivation from my very gardening soul, I have not yet purchased bulbs.
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Three Acronyms To Help You With Bulb Planting
Leave it to my friend Melissa from Little Locavores to call it like it is. We were together on the White House lawn at the launch of Michelle Obama’s Chefs Move to Schools campaign, and were two of the only people who expressed concerns over the sustainability of the program. She was a little more
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Realistic Kid-Friendly Menu Plan for the Week
Everybody knows to be a little wary of the blurb on the back of books but the pitch for Peter Mandelson's memoir is still a bit rich. Did I really buy TheThird Man because “Much has been written about the man at the heart of New Labour
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PR lessons from the "Prince of Darkness"
While it’s clear that we have a lot going for ourselves right out of the womb, it’s equally clear that one of our most admirable qualities is that we rapidly “get it” – we learn languages, skills for manipulating objects, hip hop dance moves, recipes for coconut mojitos, and how to charm people into liking us (ideally, in that order). Rather than experiential learning like this, early AI work focused on sophisticated reasoning problems.
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The New AI: Turn Robots Into Infant Scientists | Science Not Fiction
MUMBAI: When American Senator Charles Schumer described Indian software firms as `chop shops’, few imagined that the taxman back home could add salt to the slur. Indeed, Indian income-tax authorities are beginning to claim tax on the money that software firms make by sending their boys to work with companies in the US, Europe and other markets—a business that is known as onshore software development, or simply ‘body shopping’. For the I-T department, this is an activity that involves export of manpower and not export of software.
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Onsite revenues of IT companies under tax scanner
The ScienceInsider blog published a letter from Harvard’s Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences which states that Marc Hauser was indeed found guilty of scientific misconduct under their investigation process. it is with great sadness that I confirm that Professor Marc Hauser was found solely responsible, after a thorough investigation by a faculty investigating committee, for eight instances of scientific misconduct None of this pushing it off on the hapless trainee anymore
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Harvard found Marc Hauser guilty of misconduct, his lab claims he manipulated data
Don’t forgot to stop by CSR this Saturday, August 28 th from 12-4pm for our semi-annual Bake Sale ! Professional Pastry Arts students will be transforming our kitchen into a student-run bakery for the day serving pies, tarts, breads, croissants, cakes, and much, much more! The Bake Sales are some of our most-anticipated community events of the year and give our students the feeling of working in a real bakery for the day. Make sure your calendars are marked for one of the sweetest afternoons of the year. Shop early for the best selection!
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REMINDER: The Bake Sale is this Saturday!