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WallCloud: October 22nd, 2008 : Apple French Second

I loved the music on the 33 rpm record and expect to love it again. Yes, second reviewer, I remember most vividly and fondly the Britten suite but no doubt will find the others, now forgotten, as delightful as I once did. Nostalgic I am (my grandson is watching Starwars videos over&a...
$11.98 : Apple French Second
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2008-10-22  VentureBeat
The competition between the Apple iPhone and the first Google Android cell phone is afoot. T-Mobile opened its San Francisco store on Market St. this evening to launch the T-Mobile G1,the first cell phone with the Android software from Google. The 3G cell phone, built by HTC, has a bun...
, Business , co:google , co:HTC , co:T-Mobile
2008-10-21  E-Media Tidbits
All aboard the atheist bus campaign (Comment is free): In the UK, this Guardian blog devised and launched a bus-ad campaign promoting atheism: "Religious organizations' jobs are made easier because there's no publicly visible counter-view to refute their threats of eternal damnation. T...
2008-10-21  Business Pundit
In the spirit of scrambling to keep tabs on federal attempts to grease our economic machine, here’s a roundup of the government’s latest news-making moves: Move #1 Forbes reports that the Fed unveiled the Money Market Investor Funding Facility (MMIFF), which will buy up a...
, Business , Economy , Government , Self-Preservation , another , new , new , new , new , second , second , stimulus , stimulus , stimulus , stimulus
2008-10-21  Optimal Training
There may be some debate as to who the greatest male distance runner of all time is, as both Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele have pretty impressive (and in my mind, equivalent) resumes.  But one thing is certain, Haile Gebrselassie has done much more outside of running than...
, Efficiency , Time
I'm happy with my latest spinning creation but I have decided that if I'm going for a bulky yarn I prefer a single ply. I used peacock and white top merino this time. I think I prefer spinning this better than batting but either way, this is my newest kick. The class is over now but I ...
Published:October 20, 2008Author:Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch, Nitin Nohria Editor's Note: By significantly expanding our understanding of the dynamics of competition, Michael E. Porter's Harvard Business Review article "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" launched a busine...
2008-10-21  WorldChanging
Is there a conservation lesson in the oil price collapse? This trend may not be fully reflected at the gas pump yet, but the cost of oil is plummeting right along with the stock market. Starting in mid-summer oil prices slumped a bit, then slumped some more...and then regained a...
, Bright
2008-10-21  Valleywag
Now that they've fired Melissa Gira Grant, I've got my first Sex Trade assignment! Owen told me to post about Slate's new clip on the escort business in Second Life. Easy: "This is Samantha Henning with Slate V. Now, some vices are socially acceptable. But prostitution, that's not one ...
, sex , Clips , I , Samantha , Second , Slate
2008-10-21  Daring Fireball
For a long time — the entire decade of the ’90s and the first few years of this decade — the story of Apple was the story of a company searching for a way to be something other than “the Mac company”. From a financial perspective of revenue and profit, the...
2008-10-21  Bible Money Matters
photo credit: Daquella manera I thought that talks of a second stimulus check for Americans had been tabled due to recent economic woes, but today I read that once again another stimulus check is being considered. Momentum is building for a fresh dose of economic stimulants to boost ...
, Commentary , economy , news , rebate , refund , another , economic , second , stimulus
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2008-10-21  Doc Searls Weblog
It isn’t adveristing itself. It’s the way it’s too often done. I almost never click on an ad, for three reasons. First is that I almost never find what I’m looking for. Second is that I don’t want to waste the advertiser’s money on a bad click-throug...
, Future , Past , VRM , problems
2008-10-21  NYT Theater
This spotty but enjoyable revival evokes the mood of aching, hopeful despair that Howard Korder’s 1988 comedy memorializes effectively.
, Theater , Second , Biggs, , Greif, , Scanavino, , Coiro, , Boys’ , Korder,
It's been an interesting week to say the least. Yesterday I found out that our university won't be laying people off, but instead I won't be accruing vacation days for the next six months. This bit of news come just 48 hours before I am using some of the last of my vacation hours to...
, The
By Eric Goldman American Airlines, Inc. v. Yahoo! Inc., 4:2008cv00626 (N.D. Tex. complaint filed Oct. 17, 2008). The Justia page. Here's a lawsuit I never expected. Fresh off their settlement with Google, American Airlines is suing Yahoo for selling keyword advertising triggered by...
, Trademark
The State Alliance for eHealth (created by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices) has released their report  "Accelerating Progress:  Using Health Information Technology and Electronic Health Information Exchange to Improve Care." The State Alliance is a cons...
, Healthy , HIT , RHIOs
2008-10-20  The Utah Amicus
This year the citizens of Davis County will have the opportunity to elect a new Davis County Commissioner.  Since this is a presidential election, little attention has been paid to local county races.  However, as reflected in your recent tax assessment notices, the person elected to...
, Uncategorized
George Packer: Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker: Ken Adelman intends to vote for Barack Obama. He can hardly believe it himself. Adelman and I exchanged e-mails today about his decision. He asked rhetorically: Why so, since my views align a lot ...
, Economics , Economics: , Politics , Sorting: , Sorting:
2008-10-20  EFF.org Updates
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of public interest groups called on four television networks today to stop stifling vibrant political debate on the Internet with overreaching copyright claims and proposed two measures to help YouTube protect onl...
Congress should consider implementing a second economic stimulus package, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said today, advising that any such program should be designed to have immediate impact and promote access to credit.
, Bernanke , Recommends , Second , Stimulus , Package ,
A lot of companies are looking for ways to find the highest potential customers and cover them more aggressively. This is really a key tenant of predictive modeling in the B2B arena--if you can find the customers that will grow, and get them while they're small, you'll ride the curve u...
, data , CRM
2008-10-20  Newly Corporate
Whenever the economy gets shaky, it’s a good idea to revisit the makeup of your professional network. This is true for two reasons. First, you might get canned. Down economic times lead lots of companies to lay people off, so you better be ready. Second, you might get promoted. A...
, Work , career , linkedin , Networking , peers , recruiter
In many Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases,unsecured creditorsinvestigatewhether a basis exists torecharacterize existing secureddebt as equity. The reason? A successful challenge canturnfirst or second lien secured debt into"back-of-the-line" capital contributions, enablingunsecur...
, Business , Chapter , The , recharacterization , second , subordination
Though I’ve never met Peet Gelderblom in person, he’s been a close friend of mine for nearly four years. Peet was one of the first people to directly contact me after I started this blog in November 2004—he wanted me to contribute a re-edited version of one of my first posts as a...
The 12th Summit of the International Organization of Francophonie wrapped up on Sunday in the capital city of Canada’s French-speaking Quebec province. During the three-day event, leaders from 55 member countries (including Belgium, Switzerland and Canada – though in these countrie...
, English
2008-10-20  TIME.com: Swampland
Does this mean an Obama presidency would be a cakewalk? Sayeth Adelman: Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment. When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, incons...
2008-10-20  SteveAudio
(Video from The Equality Campaign)The "No on CA Prop 8" battle continues. First, a "Hell to Pay" post at Daily Kos brought in over $100k in just over 24 hours. This money will be used for teevee adds to counter the lies spread by the "Yes on 8" coalition of the shameful.Second, our g...
, same , gender , human , love
What would you do if the government handed you a check for hundreds of dollars? We found out a few months ago what would happen — and it wasn’t economic stimulus. I wasn’t happy with the original economic stimulus payment because I didn’t think it actually addre...
, Consumer , Credit , Economy , News , Personal , Ben-Bernanke , debt , debt-based-economy , economic-stimulus , second
"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talk...
, Holy , Bible , Second , Interpretation
2008-10-20  Ad Arguendo
If you've been around as long as I have, you've seen this headline and the cycle it refers to, at least a half-dozen times. Click here for a concise summary from the AmLaw Daily. Yet, this time around, the move toward keeping more work in-house will be (more or less) permanent. That's...
2008-10-20  Embryo Motel
Wow, that was a long gap of no posting.  I admit to kind of keeping my head down and hoping to get past various milestones, at which I believe there will be smooth sailing.  It hasn't really gone that way, though not much has gone horribly wrong.  Yet.  So, first, I was focused on ...
2008-10-20  Aydin Design
Got distracted by still trying to embed dynamic ‘things’ like a Wordtree visualisation on wiki pages - think I’ve found a way to do which haven’t done yet -on Google Sites wikis. Just to make it confusing for anyone unfamiliar with Java (programming) and JavaSc...
, wiki , visualisation
By Alex Kolb Oct 20, 2008 Everyday readers of Zacks.com are offered four new stocks that fit each of the four main styles of investing: Aggressive Growth, Growth & Income, Momentum, and Value. For those who have checked out the companies under the different categories but may not have ...
In many Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases,unsecured creditorsinvestigatewhether a basis exists torecharacterize existing secureddebt as equity. The reason? A successful challenge canturnfirst or second lien secured debt into"back-of-the-line" capital contributions, enablingunsecur...
, Business , Chapter , The , recharacterization , second , subordination
I. Introduction With the financial crisis showing no signs of recovery many are worried about employment, job security, investments, and the overall economy.With the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings, the buyout of Merrill Lynch along with several other Wall Street firms, and the...
, Corporate
2008-10-20  Massively
Filed under: Real life, Business models, Launches, News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds Back in August, we talked about what we felt was an inevitability. A Second Life grid devoted to corporations and business collaboration, online 3D meetings and so forth. We figured that the age...
, 3di , business-models , featured , immersive-workspaces , justin-bovington , launches , linden-lab , mark-kingdon , real-life , rivers-run-red , second-life , virtual-worlds , virtual-worlds-london
2008-10-20  taxgirl
Even though many politicians - including President Bush - are still reticent to use the “R” word (recession), economic pundits, including those in the Bush administration are using it. Ed Lazear, President Bush’s chief economic adviser, has been quoted as saying that...
, government/federal , individual , politics , tax , Bernanke , Bush , economic , economy , second , second
Response to LinkedIn question: “Whether Six Sigma as a quality tool really delivers the benefits ? How does it makes difference from a common sense approach ? (Where the process wastes and the required solution is known / can be easily identified just by applying common sense)...
, Management , Quality , Six , quote , commentary , curiouscat , John , Systems
Stephen I. Vladeck[*] [download pdf] One need not look far these days to find proposals for how to “fix” U.S. detention policy, especially with respect to the non-citizens detained as “enemy combatants” at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.[1] In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ...
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The Rookies used a five-run third innings to break open a close game and cruise to a 14-5 win over the Vets in the annual Rookies-Vets Game on Saturday. Sophomore Zach Helton went 3-for-6 and drove in five runs for the Rooks to garner the game's MVP honors. The win marked the second-st...
I found myself in a rather unusual position last weekend - on a pew in a church in Glasgow. One of my oldest friends was having his first born christened. He had managed, with the convincing promise of a post-ceremonial drinking session, to convince me to attend the event. So there I s...
, Brand , Branding , Catholic
The current financial period is--according to Professor Randy Picker--an "interesting time." On Wednesday, October 15, the Law School Republicans and Democrats co-hosted a panel on the bailout featuring Professors Doug Baird, Todd Henderson, and Picker from the Law School and Profess...
, Baird, , Henderson, , Picker,
2008-10-19  The D & O Diary
One feature of the current financial turmoil is that the government has taken or will take control of or ownership positions in a number of business organizations. The phenomenon of government ownership of a private enterprise potentially could present any number of conflicts and chall...
, Government , Securities
2008-10-19  Fertilized
So it's that time for that token picture.We went to visit my sister this weekend and saw a pumpkin vendor and tried to take MT's picture in the pumpkins ... We had to come back after a nap and some tylenol ..Did I mention he is teething and screams like a bansheeFirst attempt:Second at...
2008-10-19  Ninth Circuit Blog
Judge Tashima writes for a very good panel, and gives us welcome new rules on identifying "victims" for fraud and theft cases under USSG § 2B1.1. United States v. Armstead, __ F.3d __, 2008 WL 4570608 (9th Cir. Oct. 15, 2008), decision available here.Players: Decision by Judge Tashim...
, McKeown , USSG , Loss , Victims , Sentencing , Tashima , Reinhardt
2008-10-19  Where's my belly?
What a weekend. We decided we would try and knock all the early makings of registering out and we simply had no idea what we were in for!  First, both of us realized that we are just not in to "kiddie" stuff.  Our taste has always been pretty clean and simple and we tend to agree on ...
2008-10-19  IP Law Observer
Case: In Re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation, Fed. Cir. No. 2008-1097 (October 15, 2008)The One Sentence Summary: Payments by a drug manufacturer to end patent invalidity claims did not violate antitrust laws because the anticompetitive effect was within the exclusiona...