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Memorial Day Front Door Star Forget a traditional wreath this holiday weekend and show off your pride with this faux quilted star made with Mod Podge and fabric. This is a great way to use up little scraps of fabric and ribbons.
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Memorial Day Front Door Star
(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook . This week’s focus: values.) Are values an essential ingredient of leadership
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Twenty-First-Century Leadership: It’s All About Values
It’s always easier to picture how a manufacturing company can go green — just cut back on energy, waste, and material to reduce air and water pollution, for example. But what does it mean for a service-focused business, such as a software company, to travel down the sustainability path
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SAP and the Greening of a Service Business
From UCILeave it to the experts in Irvine to look up and discover that the real stars act just like their Hollywood counterparts — heavenly bodies, they say, prefer to gather in dark parts of the universe, then to collide madly and, um, then the galaxies replicate, creating a bevy of stars.
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Real galaxies huddle in dark spots, act like Hollywood stars
Un estudio preliminar del detector CDF del Tevatrón con 5’2 /fb de colisiones sobre la “evidencia de nueva física más allá del modelo estándar en el detector DZero del Tevatrón” que comentamos el 17 de mayo, basada en 6’1 /fb de colisiones y que alcanzaba las 3’2 desviaciones típicas, es decir, el 99’7% de confianza, no ha encontrado ningún tipo de evidencia de física más allá del modelo estándar. Muchos nos lo temíamos.
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El detector CDF del Tevatrón contradice al detector DZero sobre la existencia de nueva física en los mesones B neutros
The government notified the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Act, 2010 on May 18, 2010, which increases the limit of gratuity payment to employees in the specified sectors/establishments covered under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (“Gratuity Act”). After the amendment, these employees are eligible to receive gratuity up to Rs 10,00,000, which was earlier restricted to Rs 3,50,000. Thus, crores of workers will be benefited in establishments covered by the Gratuity Act.
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Tax treatment of Gratuity after Increase in limit from 3.50 lakh to 10 lakh
There’s a lot of so-called internet marketing guru’s out there coming up with new “get rich quick” products on a daily basis. They like to call them “blueprints” or “secrets revealed” or whatever else sounds cool, and tout them as the next best thing for making money online
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Don’t Fall for Get Rich Quick Schemes and Products
The following blog was authored by Alyssa Best, Senior DC Program Associate at Wider Opportunities for Women. In the past 6 months, I’ve experienced the excitement and anxiety of becoming a first-time homeowner – packing up my items to move into a much bigger space – and witnessing my 89-year-old grandmother, “Granny,” sell the house she’s owned and occupied since the 1960s – packing up her antique and treasured items to move into a small, one-bedroom senior living facility
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What Granny’s House Means to Me and Her Economic Security
Citizen participation, access to information and action usher in much needed reforms. The process to engage citizens is easy to describe but hard to achieve. So how do you grab and keep the attention of community stakeholders and keep them informed?
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Innovative Solutions to the Collective Action Problem: Participedia
As I’ve pointed out numerous times this week, anti-vaccine loons, led by Generation Rescue and a “health freedom” group, have organized an anti-vaccine rally in Grant Park in Chicago from 3 PM to 5 PM CDT. Anti-vaccine martyr Andrew Wakefield himself will be the keynote speaker, and there will even be very bad music promoting the anti-vaccine message. The rally, with its wonderfully Orwellian title, The American Rally for Personal Rights, will be pure crankery on display.
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Stand up for science against anti-vaccine fear today in Chicago
To telecom industry lawyers, it is the Five Books of Moses, The New Testament, The Koran, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Ultimate API for Everything. We’re talking about the Communications Act, and Capitol Hill leaders say it’s time to “develop proposals” to update the law. “As the first step, they will invite stakeholders to participate in a series of bipartisan, issue-focused meetings beginning in June,” the announcement notes.
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Congress: it’s time to rewrite the Telecommunications Bible
In my last post , I described a research project with Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP, on the need for speed in information delivery. It turns out that executives believe not all information needs to be delivered faster, but substantial percentages of executives — a majority, in the case of some types of information — want their information more rapidly than they currently receive it.
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How Do You Speed Up Information Delivery?
(Photo: Denise Yeager) Composting is the ultimate act of green frugality , turning unwanted organic material into rich humus for use in the garden rather than sealing it in plastic trash bags to spend eternity in a landfill. But for some of us, composting is something even more special — a hobby, a passion, almost a religion . I’ve even named my beloved compost pile; “Gomer,” as in Gomer Pyle (get it?)
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How to compost almost anything
The ongoing media and blogospherian outrage about Facebook’s behavior , and purported misbehaviors around the social network’s privacy policies and practices intrigues me. (Disclosure: My brother, Elliot Schrage , is a top Facebook executive; I’ve been an occasional resource for him on these issues)
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Facebook’s Privacy Debate Misses the Point
The following blog was co-authored by Ramsey Alwin and Brandy Baeur of the National Council on Aging Last year Della Davis, a senior in Saginaw, Michigan, frequently sought free meals at soup kitchens, and struggled to pay for her medications and utilities.
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Benefits Matter to Older Americans’ Budgets and Health
If you haven’t experienced it, you’ve seen it. Whether you’re a blogger or a marketer — or both — you’ve seen an audience rise up in revolt the moment someone tries to make a buck. You’ve sold out! You didn’t disclose! Whatever the contention, one thing is clear
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How to Monetize Your Site Without Causing an Audience Revolt
(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook . This week’s focus: values.) From the Gilded Age to the Information Age , business leaders who attain rock star status have often been the deal makers.
The following blog was written by Kate White, Executive Director, Elder Law of Michigan As the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform turns its attention to Social Security, it is vital that Washington doesn’t attempt to impose “responsibility and reform” on the backs of low income families. Social Security is the cornerstone of the safety net in the United States, providing a small income for people with disabilities, children, and older adults.
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Could You Live on Social Security?
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” — Stephen Kaggwa Earlier this week I was a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s morning show discussing “The Gulf Oil Spill and the Blame Game.” The other guest was Alan Webber , ex of HBR , founder of Fast Company , and author of Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self , and we had a wonderful conversation about the culture of unaccountability that contributed to the ecological disaster we are witnessing in the Gulf, and the blame game that is being played out in the media. One caller raised the fascinating issue of forgiveness, raising the legitimate concern that punishing failures like what happened with BP in the Gulf would lead inevitably to people denying responsibility, blaming others, and seeking to hide their failures
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When Should We Forgive Failure?
(Photo: Peter Dazeley) Do Americans care about fuel economy as oil spills into the Gulf of Mexico and gasoline hovers around $3 a gallon? You bet they do, though they also have a fair number of misconceptions about how to squeeze a few more miles out of every drop. The Consumer Federation of America’s (CFA) most recent survey says that if we had a 50-mile-per-gallon car fleet today, we’d save more oil than the entire proven reserves in the entire Gulf of Mexico.
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Six gas mileage myths