Rain Barrel Bear – YouTube. At least this bear emptying the rain barrel isn’t as damaging as the flooding caused by the raccoon who shoved aside the sump pump outside the downstairs french doors. After having the basement flooded twice and replacing a burned out sump pump, we caught the culprit in the act. The…
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CV Employees
CV Incentive Mechanism: Employees Definition of employee engagement DreamWorks Animation Cultivates a Culture of Creativity – Featured Article – Workforce. – 2012 August 13 DreamWorks Animation’s (DWA) products are labor-intensive, and a significant portion of that labor consists of knowledge workers. In common with many other knowledge workers, DWA employees must leverage their knowledge to…
Snap Judgment
Lemonade – Snap #318 | Snap Judgment. Snap Judgment: always engaging, memorable stories, pushes us outside our comfort zones – but not in the squirm-inducing fashion of TV sitcoms with their cheap tricks.
Moyers & Company on Voter Suppression
Episode Description for: MOYERS & COMPANY. – Suppressing the Vote Bill Moyers and his guests make a compelling case for fighting voter ID laws because the right to vote is a fundamental democratic principle and the number of otherwise eligible voters that these laws effectively prevent or discourage from exercising their right to vote is…
Moyers & Company on Voter Suppression
Episode Description for: MOYERS & COMPANY. – Suppressing the Vote Bill Moyers and his guests make a compelling case for fighting voter ID laws because the right to vote is a fundamental democratic principle and the number of otherwise eligible voters that these laws effectively prevent or discourage from exercising their right to vote is…
General Colin Powell on Purpose
General Colin Powell | City Arts & Lectures. On 2012 August 12 KQED broadcast a 2012 June 7 City Arts & Lectures conversation with General Colin Powell in part discussing his new book It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership. It was an engrossing conversation which unfortunately is not available as a podcast or…
Blogging Tips
I’ve found that a good way to get blogging is transition what you’ve already been doing in text messages, emails, letters to the editor, forums, Facebook, and tweets into comments on your own blog. If you are using WordPress, then you can make this transition easy by installing the ‘Press This’ plugin on your browser…
“Fables”
The graphic novel series Fables written by Bill Willingham tells the story of how the European fables fled the Homelands for America and the subsequent trials and tribulations of these fables, their progeny, those left behind, and the fables of other lands. Volume 18 is due to be published 2013 Jan 22. This series runs…
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt: Why some say ‘The Kiss’ is better than the ‘Mona Lisa’ – CSMonitor.com. – 2012 July 14 I had the opportunity to see ‘The Kiss’ and other Klimt paintings and murals this April in Vienna, and then the Klimt paintings in the Neue Gallerie in NYC on the way home in NYC. I…
Skeuomorphic clouds
Skeuomorph – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Is cloud skeuomorphic or just derivative of mainframe timeshare computing? Retro?