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The best of 2010 should be a call to action for 2011
The New Year always brings about a plethora of lists. The previous year’s best and worst laid out for all the world to see. Companies vie for top billing in employee satisfaction and profits. Individuals compete head on for product innovation and revenue. Fortune, Forbes, and Fast Company all have a list. They are meant to be recognition for a job well done but they are even more valuable as a glimpse into the future. Yesterday’s success is tomorrows skill set in demand. Inc. Magazine puts...

Governor's open house draws throngs of visitors
Gov. Rick Scott' s inauguration festivities continued Tuesday afternoon with an open house at the Governor's mansion. People lined up for several blocks for a chance to meet Scott and gawk at his new home. Some posed for photos with Scott and his wife in the dining room after offering handshakes and hugs. Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll and her husband doled out more greetings nearby in the Florida room. An outside tent offered guests cups of hot cocoa and cider on their way out. Marti Sacon...

Anti-cuts campaigners meet to debate next move
Demonstrators from the UK Uncut group outside Topshop, on Oxford Street in London. The organisation is meeting other campaign groups to discuss tactics. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Hundreds of online Activists, Student leaders and union officials who have been at the forefront of anti-government Protests over the past six months are meeting this week to co-ordinate the next stage of their anti-cuts campaigns. The conference, which is modelled on the successful Netroots Nation campaign in...

Teen drivers to face tighter curfew
They won't be able to drive between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., unless they are headed to or from work. That's two hours earlier than the current midnight-5 a.m. driving. And they won't be able to have more than one non-family passenger age 20 or younger in their vehicle, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian or adult 21 or older approved by a parent. An exception is made for travel to school or school-sanctioned events. The laws will apply to 16...

Social Media Agency Dachis Group Gets $30 M. to Help Companies Tweet
Dachis Group is the largest Social Media consultancy in the world, according to VentureBeat. The company, which has an office in New York, is planning to grow even more. Dachis Group just raised $30 million. Dachis Group sells research and software that helps companies manage their Social Media presence using something it calls "social business design." "By redesigning customer participation, Workforce collaboration, and business partner optimization from the perspective of the four core arche...

Washington software developers start conservative social media website
As the 2012 election begins to heat up, Conservatives will be looking to find alternate ways of getting information, since much of the so-called mainstream press tilts heavily to the left. Microblogging is defined as a web service that lets subscribers broadcast short messages to other subscribers of the service.  These short posts can be made public on a Web site and/or distributed to a private group. One example of a microblog is Twitter, currently in use by thousands worldwide.  Bar...

In Ramallah: Today an orchestra, tomorrow a state
A few tales from Ramallah:  The dangerous qanun and the intoxication of power   We leave the taxi at Qalandia checkpoint and for 50 shekels grab a ride in the back of a truck with Israeli license plates. The truck doors advertise flooring and construction, three scruffy men sit in the front seat, and soon we are staring through dusty windows at the imposing separation wall, massive amounts of construction and garbage, new cream white apartment and Office Buildings, and a disarray of ...

Max Starkloff, Pioneer In Independent Living For Disabled, Dies At 73
What is this? Max Starkloff on the Wedding day for his daughter Meaghan. Max Starkloff on the Wedding day for his daughter Meaghan. Max Starkloff lived in a nursing home on a hill outside St. Louis from the time he was 26 until he turned 38. The day after he moved out, he did something he knew he couldn't do and stay in a nursing home: He got married. Starkloff and his wife Colleen then started Paraquad, a group that became a national leader in helping other people with severe disabilities live ...

Goldman Sachs boosts Facebook value to $50 billion
A major infusion of financing that has elevated the projected value of Facebook Inc. to $50 billion may be the most concrete sign yet that the social-media king is becoming the center of Online Advertising and commerce, experts said Monday. The social-media world rippled with news over the weekend that the Palo Alto firm has received a $500 million infusion - $450 million from the formidable Wall Street Investment Firm Goldman Sachs Group and $50 million from Digital Sky Technologies, the Russ...

Robert DeLeo eyes law to restrict parole board releases
A fiery House Speaker Robert DeLeo today sharply questioned the Parole board’s decision to release a career con who allegedly gunned down a Veteran Woburn cop — and said he’s exploring Legislation to block Parole for those with multiple life sentences. “Right now we have a Police Officer who got brutally murdered. We all saw the film and the family and the heartache they’re going through right now. We have a gentleman with three life sentences who committed this at...

Robert DeLeo eyes law to restrict parole board releases
A fiery House Speaker Robert DeLeo today sharply questioned the Parole board’s decision to release a career con who allegedly gunned down a Veteran Woburn cop — and said he’s exploring Legislation to block Parole for those with multiple life sentences. “Right now we have a Police Officer who got brutally murdered. We all saw the film and the family and the heartache they’re going through right now. We have a gentleman with three life sentences who committed this at...

Deval Patrick: Don't rush to judgment in officer's death
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick says he’s waiting for a report from his Public Safety undersecretary before passing judgment on the state’s decision to Parole a career criminal police say shot and killed a Veteran Woburn officer. Patrick said Monday that he hadn’t watched a tape of 57-year-old Dominic Cinelli’s 2008 Parole board hearing and warned against a rush to recriminate. He said the focus should be on Officer John Maguire’s grieving family. Moments later, ...

Deval Patrick: Don't rush to judgment in officer's death
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick says he’s waiting for a report from his Public Safety undersecretary before passing judgment on the state’s decision to Parole a career criminal police say shot and killed a Veteran Woburn officer. Patrick said Monday that he hadn’t watched a tape of 57-year-old Dominic Cinelli’s 2008 Parole board hearing and warned against a rush to recriminate. He said the focus should be on Officer John Maguire’s grieving family. Moments later, H...

DNA clears Texas man who spent 30 years in prison
DNA test results that came back barely a week after Cornelius Dupree Jr. was paroled in July excluded him as the person who attacked a Dallas woman in 1979, prosecutors said Monday. Dupree was just 20 when he was sentenced to 75 years in Prison in 1980. Now 51, he has spent more time wrongly imprisoned than any DNA exoneree in Texas, which has freed 41 wrongly convicted inmates through DNA since 2001 — more than any other state. "Our Conviction Integrity Unit thoroughly reinvestigated this...

B.C.'s wacky leadership races
NDP leadership Candidate Dana Larsen is seen here holding Marijuana at The Dispensary on East Hastings. While the rest of Canada may have slowed down for the Christmas break, with two leadership races under way on the left coast, the wackiness continued as per usual in Supernatural British Columbia. * We’ll start with the BC NDP and the “race” to replace Carole James. Potential candidates were slow to surface, until finally someone put their name forward, and it’s a famil...

Internet Gains on Television as Public's Main News Source
The Internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet, which is little changed over the past two years but up 17 points since 2007. Television remains the most widely used source for national and international news – 66% of Americans say it is their main source of news – but that is down from 74% three years ago and 82%...

Mark Schwartz: The Sudden Bachelor Part 1- The Supermarket
You see that guy? The one making his way down the Supermarket aisle, picking up cans and putting them back, eying things like mops and pots and pans, holding them as if to weigh them, like an ape holding rocks, putting them down. You rightly surmise that he is a sudden bachelor. You craned your neck as you passed him in the aisle, as if going past a car wreck. You noticed he could use a shave and his shirt was mis-buttoned so one tail hung lower than the other. That dull, scared look in his e...

It takes a lot of courage for a fifty-ish woman to attack a teenage girl, doesn't it?
Willow is a teenager...teenagers make mistakes due to their youth and they learn...what is Kathy Griffin's excuse? POST YOUR COMMENT after reading below. Kathy Griffin announced her New Year’s resolution to continue a verbal assault on the Palin family. Only in 2011, the comedian said she intends to target Sarah Palin’s 16-year-old daughter, Willow. "I've already gone for Sarah, Todd and Bristol obviously," Griffin told The Hollywood Reporter. "But I think it's Willow's year to go do...

Urizenus Sklar: Generation W: WikiLeaks Ignites a New Generation of Hacktivists
While the traditional media and the United States government continue to fixate on the individual Julian Assange, a not so subtle cultural shift is taking root worldwide: Hacktivist culture is rapidly morphing from a small underground subculture into mainstream culture for a younger generation, not just in the United States, but worldwide. Julian Assange and Wikileaks did not start this cultural movement, but they have served as a catalyst for its robust growth and worldwide propagation. And w...

Gov. Deval Patrick eyes curbs on youth violence
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick says he’ll put a priority on curbing youth violence during his Second Term in office. Patrick told The Associated Press on Tuesday that while state government alone can’t solve the problem, he’ll work with those at the community level, including mothers and youth workers, to help bring about a change. There has been a spate of violent incidents involving Young People recently, including the May shooting death of an eighth-grade Boston honors s...

Gov. Deval Patrick eyes curbs on youth violence
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick says he’ll put a priority on curbing youth violence during his Second Term in office. Patrick told The Associated Press on Tuesday that while state government alone can’t solve the problem, he’ll work with those at the community level, including mothers and youth workers, to help bring about a change. There has been a spate of violent incidents involving Young People recently, including the May shooting death of an eighth-grade Boston honors s...

Golden Gate suicides totaled 32 last year
(01-04) 12:03 PST SAUSALITO -- It was a typical year for Suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge. Thirty-two people jumped to their Deaths from the world-famous span in 2010, according to the Marin County Coroner's Office. Thirty-one people jumped in 2009, as did 34 in 2008. The latest Deaths occurred while the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District attempts to raise $50 million for construction of a Suicide barrier that district Board Members approved in 2008. "This report means ...

Brett King: Banks Still Don't Get Mobile, But Neither Do Researchers...
I read with interest a post pointed out to me by @JenRBoyd posted on Mobile Commerce Daily highlighting a recent Celent report comparing US and EU investment in multi-channel. The problem here is that the conclusions of the report are correct, but even the report itself suffers from an old-school view of the banking arena, that is, we are still asking the wrong questions: The Generational Gap in Management If you've read my previous posts, you'll know that I'm particularly critical of the bra...

Focusing on Languages (Mainly Mandarin)
During her visit to High School for Violin and Dance in The Bronx on Monday, one of the stops in five-borough tour that worked as her formal introduction to her new job, New York City’s schools chancellor, Cathleen P. Black, gathered around a table with Students and alumni, discussing career paths, opportunities and plans. One man told her he was studying architecture at State University of New York at Delhi. One woman said she was majoring in Criminal Justice at Hostos Community College. An...

Chico promises job development, outlines plan to boost business
Gery Chico, Chicago Mayoral Candidate, speaks at a news conference Jan. 4, 2011, in Chicago. Calling City Hall the “number one impediment to job growth,” mayoral challenger Gery Chico unveiled a comprehensive plan on Tuesday to “break down the bureaucratic wall” and attract the businesses and jobs Chicago so desperately needs. The cornerstone of Chico’s plan is the appointment of a deputy mayor for business development and Job Creation who would preside over a R...