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After trying repeatedly to use Verizon Wireless’s contact management feature and receiving an error each time, I used their support ticket form to request some help. I received the following message: I’ve yet to hear from them.
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Customer support according to VerizonWireless
Yesterday the Oregon Supreme Court conclusively ruled that employers are not required to accommodate the use of medical marijuana in the workplace, ending years of doubt and confusion on this critical issue. Click here to read the Court’s opinion in Emerald Steel Fabricators, Inc. v.
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Oregon Supreme Court: Employers Are Not Required to Accommodate Medical Marijuana
We had mentioned about Vana Consulting Group and their customized HRM (Human Resources Management) solution built over Zoho People before. Today, Vana has announced their latest version of Vana Workforce (formerly VanaHRM) and introduced a number of key enhancements including: Time Entry Workforce Schedule Planning Expense Management Benefits Enrollment and Calculations Job and Position Management Sales Compensation Performance Goals and Objectives Management Talent Management Employee Survey Global HR data including US, Canada, UK, India, Japan, and Australia Delivered Reports and Dashboards built on Zoho Reports Additionally, Vana Workforce introduced a number of service packages and a new customer community for customers.
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Vana Workforce – New Solution over Zoho People Announced
I was reading a briefing in The Week (April 9, 2010 – Invasion of the body scanners ), which explored the implications for full body scanning at US airports. Toward the end of the briefing I was struck by the following statement: current security measures cost the economy billions in lost productivity.” On the surface, that makes perfect sense.
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Airports, Body Scanners and Productivity
It seems that Anheuser-Busch is over-thinking Bud Light. Advertising Age first brought the story to light in “ Bud’s Big Blunder: Letting Consultants Steer Brand .” The story demonstrates a simple reality: it isn’t always about the numbers. Conduct all the research you want, but visceral appeal, the winning of the heart and minds of consumers, comes from creating an emotional connection to a product, not from research
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Bud Light’s Not So Light Use of Analysis
MINNEAPOLIS – Swarthmore College senior women’s swimmer Anne Miller finished in 11th place in the 200 yard butterfly at the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships on Friday evening, finishing in a time of 2:04.59 to earn All-America Honorable Mention honors, marking the seventh time the senior has reached All-America status in her career.
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Seventh Heaven: Miller Now Seven-Time All-American with 11th Place Finish in NCAA 200-Yard Butterfly
ATLANTA – Junior Kathryn Stockbower of the Swarthmore College women’s basketball team has been named a member of the 2010 WBCA State Farm Coaches’ All-America Honorable Mention Team for Division III, the organization announced on Friday morning.
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Stockbower Named to WBCA All-America Honorable Mention Team
Some generations of Americans will be known as the Greatest Generation or the soldiers who won The War to End All Wars. We’ve conquered polio, put men on the moon, given sight to the blind, liberated peoples from slavery, starvation, and disease. This generation faces new challenges and is not afraid.
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Still no cures for cancer or diabetes, but …
From the start, the census clause, Article 1, Section 2 , of the United States Constitution has given us trouble. Its goal seems simple – provide a mechanism for determining the population of the states so that the seats in the House of Representatives are properly allocated. via Constitution of the United States , Article 1, Section 2 In order to form this more perfect union, the founders had to agree to count each non-free person as 3/5ths of a person for the purposes of determining the populations of the states.
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Counting on ourselves
One of the important aspects of online collaboration is easy peer reviewing of one’s work. Zoho Docs as an online collaboration tool now provides a couple of reviewing features
(via OnTheCommon.com – The slow walk out of winter ) When we reached the top of the first rise on the camp road and saw the unfriendly mix of ice and snow with melting water and soft ground underneath, we opted for the prudent choice. We parked the car and walked the rest of the way.
Some years ago, Adam, Jenny, and Lily lived next door to Hilary Price of Rhymes with Orange fame. For my birthday, A, J, and L obtained a signed, framed edition of one of Hilary’s niftiest drawings: Screenshot via Amazon.com: Pithy Seedy Pulpy Juicy: Eleven Rhymes with Orange Books in One (9781550227567): Hilary B. Price: Books The framed picture is over our couch:
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From the paper to the book to the wall to you
MINNEAPOLIS – Swarthmore College senior women’s swimmer Anne Miller finished in 14th place in the 100 yard butterfly at the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships on Thursday evening, touching the wall in a Swarthmore College record-breaking time of 56.66, earning All-America honors for the sixth time in her illustrious career.
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Miller Earns Sixth Career All-America Honor With Record-Breaking Time in 100 Butterfly
Spreadsheet users know the importance of pivot tables and the role they play in easy summarizing and visualization of data. With Zoho Reports, you can make pivots by drag-and-drop. There are many summary functions available – Sum, Maximum, Minimum, Average and Count – when constructing pivots
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Zoho Reports: Advanced Summarizing Options in Pivot Tables
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Swarthmore women’s lacrosse team (3-0) stretched its winning streak to three on Thursday night with a decisive 17-5 victory over the Moravian Greyhounds (2-3). Sophomore Annelise Mowry led the Garnet attack with four goals and two assists.
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Garnet Stay Unbeaten After 17-5 Rout of Moravian
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – It was a tough day on the diamond for the Swarthmore College softball team, as the Garnet dropped a pair of games to homestanding Elizabethtown, 5-4 and 9-1 on Thursday afternoon. In the first game, Swat (4-8) saw a 3-1 sixth inning lead slip away thanks to four runs from Blue Jays (7-2-1) in the bottom of the frame, while in the second game, Blue Jays’ starting pitcher Emily Vogel limited the Garnet to just one hit innings over five innings
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Blue Jays Sweep Garnet Softball, 5-4 and 9-1
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Immaculata (1-5) pounded out nine runs on 12 hits while pitcher Aaron Dietrich held Swarthmore (3-6) to only two runs and six hits as the Garnet fell 9-2 in its home opener on Wednesday afternoon from Clothier Field.
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Garnet Offense Stagnent as Mighty Macs Run Past Swarthmore 9-2
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – Sophomore midfielder Max Hubbard netted a career-high four goals on just five shots, but an overtime goal from Ursinus’ Eric Farris, who scored three goals of his own, was the difference as the Bears rallied to defeat the Garnet 8-7 (OT) from Eleanor Frost Snell Field at Ursinus College. Senior Tyler Bradshaw scored two goals – bringing his team-leading total to 10 – while adding an assist to lead the Garnet (1-3, 0-1).
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Hubbard’s Big Day Not Enough as Bears Outlast Garnet Lax 8-7 (OT)
STERLING, Va. – Junior Kathryn Stockbower of the Swarthmore College women’s basketball team has been named to the D3Hoops.com Mid-Atlantic Region First Team, the organization announced today. The honor is just latest in a string of accolades for Stockbower (Fort Washington, Pa./Upper Dublin, Pa.), who in the past month has been named a finalist for the NCAA Division III State Farm® Coaches’ All-America Team while earning First-Team All-Centennial Conference honors for the third consecutive season.
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Stockbower Named D3Hoops First-Team All-Region, Second-Team ECAC All-Region
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – A return to the friendly confines of Clothier Field was just what the Swarthmore College softball needed following a six-game Spring Break road trip, as the Garnet dispatched visiting Penn-State Abington 9-0 and 16-3 to sweep the doubleheader on a gorgeous Tuesday afternoon from the College. Freshman Kate Smayda had all-around outstanding performance for the Garnet, combining for three hits and four RBI at the plate while winning Game 2 on the mound for her first collegiate victory
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Softball Back to Winning Ways With Sweep of PSU-Abington