Also available at: http://danielwrasmus.wordpress.com/ As America grasps for innovative ways to exit the recession, we have forgotten a fundamental business reality: measurement determines behavior. Ask any sales person if their bonus structure determines which products they lead with or not. The problem with America’s national investments is that they say green, but they shout industrial age thinking

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Strategic Measures–Toward New Measures for a Sustainable, Knowledge Economy

You know, I’d expect this kind of comment from some guido on Jersey Shore, not from one of the premier religious leaders in the country, son of a man who has counseled presidents through their darkest times, including President Obama. ( Obama and Evangelist Billy Graham Share a Prayer .

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We are better than this

Is the world better off because we’ve given these guys this much money in the past decade? via The Decade’s 25 Top Earners – The Wall Street Journal Online – Interactive Graphics Then, of course, Mr. Boffo explains it all.

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Dept. of "I’m just sayin’"

New Englanders will go through an elaborate drill this evening to make sure that our emergency weather nerds are at the ready, via http://ares.ema.arrl.org/local/2010_Hurricane_Hudson_Mass_Drill_Participants_Doc_Rev_1.pdf The purpose of the simulation?

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Hurricane preparedness

If you’re a student, you’re probably using an online calendar to keep track of your homework assignments, projects and plenty of other things that are a part of your schedule in school. Tests also go hand in hand with other academic activities, and it’s more important to keep track of them because you can’t afford to miss them

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Track School Test Schedules using Google / Zoho Calendar + Zoho Challenge

They say it’s not, so I guess that I believe them RentAFriend.com is a website that allows you to rent local Friends from all over the world. You can rent a local Friend to hang out with, go to a movie or restaurant with, or someone to go with you to a party or event

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To have a friend, you have to be a friend, unless you have the cash

While we were having our breakfast this morning, a young red fox paid a visit. With apologies for a picture through a screen door It made a quick tour around the bird feeders, but the squirrels and chipmunks knew to keep their distance. On its way to the back of the yard, it gave chase to the rabbit that lives in our wood pile

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Wildlife in suburbia

In these days of modern times, many aspects of life get complicated. You learn things, wonder about things, read things.

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Science- the cause and cure of all of our problems

While climbing up and down the limbs and trunk of the Boston Globe home subscriber telephone tree, I reached this message: Please wait for the silence for assistance.

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And now, here’s your moment of Zen

We needed to install one of those hand-held shower gadgets in the bathroom that my mother-in-law uses. We found a nice-looking Waterpik ® product, one that requires no tools for installation. It did, however, require several sharp implements to get the unit out of its plastic armor

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Around the house

Today’s cool and damp air reminds us that summer doesn’t last forever. The weather will get chilly again, even cold, and we’ll need heat from a variety of sources

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Ready, even though others are better at it

Wikis have come a long way from being just another tool for information aggregation. They are now widely used for online content sharing and collaboration at multiple levels.

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Making Your Enterprise Wikis Secure – Zoho Wiki offers Three Tier Permissions

I’ve been thinking about Hakkarainen’s Law of Great Events ™ lately. The law, briefly restated, is that, in any great event, such as a death, wedding, divorce, or other crisis, someone close to you will unexpectedly let you down

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More on Great Laws

The latest version of Google Docs appears to have removed the ability to add words to the spell-check dictionary. The Google Docs spreadsheet doesn’t have a simple way of displaying just the month and year of a date. You can write a formula that will do that, but Excel allows you to specify custom display fields easily

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Google does many things right, but not these

Kids of Finnish heritage and their fellow travelers usually remember just a few words and phrases of Finnish by the time that they’re adults. One such phrase, haista napa or “smell my belly button,”survives long after it makes sense. Anyway, a recent study indicates that the location of the belly button, if not its fragrance, is an important indicator of sports performance.

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Additional meaning to " haista napa"

Being a SAAS BI offering, Zoho Reports provides many advantages when it comes to collaboration. Instead of emailing spreadsheets around, data and reports can be shared online and can be accessed from anywhere, anytime from a browser

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Collaboration (Sharing & Publishing) Options in Zoho Reports

PHILADELPHIA – Swarthmore College student-athlete Rachel Wallwork ’10 was named the 2010 Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Women’s Tennis Performer of the Year for the second consecutive year, while colleagues Wiley Archibald ’10 (baseball), Kevin Friedenberg ’10 (men’s lacrosse), and Stephen Youngblood ’12 (men’s tennis) were also selected as Academic All-Stars for their respective sports, the paper announced on Tuesday.

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Four Swarthmore Student-Athletes Named to Philadelphia Inquirer 2010 Spring Academic All-Area Teams

In June, Scientific American published an article, 12 Events that Will Change Everything , that outlined 12 major scientific discoveries that would change the world if they were discovered or if they took place.

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Scientific American Predictions – Good Questions, but Question the Predictions

SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Garnet fans have spoken: The third consecutive ECAC Championship for the women’s soccer team has been voted the best Swarthmore Athletics moment of 2009-10

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ECAC Three-Peat Voted Best Swarthmore Athletics Moment of 2009-10

After nearly to 1,000 votes, it’s down to the final five for the best Swarthmore Athletics moment of 2009-10: Travis Pollen’s national championship, the men’s soccer team’s thrilling NCAA win, the women’s soccer team’s third-consecutive ECAC Championship, baseball’s late-inning win over F&M and men’s basketball’s upset win over Ursinus. Voting will end on June 30, with the winner announced on July 1

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