Monday, December 8, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Bailey elementary school?
Hello from an alum! A friend of mine passed along this link:
http://innovationsacademy.org/Welcome.html
Innovations Academy is a new charter school in San Diego. Their mission statement:
"...a place for students and families powerfully create their lives through self expression, compassionate connection, and purposeful learning"
The statement that really caught my attention:
"We are devoted to creating a community of learners."
Crazy huh? I don't think they have ever heard of Bailey, but it might be worth getting in touch with them, just to let them know they aren't alone and perhaps help to create a community of people dedicated to whole person development and everything else we hold dear at Bailey.
(If you are really impressed and want to help, they lost one of their start up grants and are looking for donations to start on time Sept 2nd.)
- Tracy Kerchkof, Class of '07
http://innovationsacademy.org/Welcome.html
Innovations Academy is a new charter school in San Diego. Their mission statement:
"...a place for students and families powerfully create their lives through self expression, compassionate connection, and purposeful learning"
The statement that really caught my attention:
"We are devoted to creating a community of learners."
Crazy huh? I don't think they have ever heard of Bailey, but it might be worth getting in touch with them, just to let them know they aren't alone and perhaps help to create a community of people dedicated to whole person development and everything else we hold dear at Bailey.
(If you are really impressed and want to help, they lost one of their start up grants and are looking for donations to start on time Sept 2nd.)
- Tracy Kerchkof, Class of '07
Sunday, June 8, 2008
What's next for Bill Clinton?
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- What a long, strange, unhappy trip it's been for Bill Clinton.
Former President Clinton watches his wife announce that she is suspending her campaign Saturday.
When Sen. Hillary Clinton officially launched her drive for the White House 17 months ago, the former president's possibilities seemed endless. His wife's nomination by many of the party faithful was seen as a virtual certainty.
When the Clintons moved back into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the political world would once again be Bill Clinton's oyster. Maybe there would even be a co-presidency.
Perhaps he would get another crack at settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some even speculated that he would follow in the footsteps of William Howard Taft and become the second ex-president to serve on the Supreme Court.
Suddenly many of those possibilities are gone, or at least significantly reduced. The 42nd president's reputation as a master politician and respected elder statesman has been damaged. Some Clinton partisans are privately grumbling that he helped sink his wife's presidential campaign.
How did this happen? How did it all go so wrong for the man who almost single-handedly led the Democrats out of the political wilderness 16 years ago?
For starters, the question of how Hillary Clinton's team should best use Bill Clinton on the campaign trail was never completely resolved.
Don't Miss
Sen. Clinton endorses Obama for president
Election Center 2008
Her campaign had to perform what may have been an impossible balancing act. On the one hand, it had at its disposal a spouse who was almost universally admired in the Democratic Party. On the other, Hillary Clinton needed to demonstrate her independence and strength outside of her home state of New York as a genuine political leader in her own right.
Second, even when the campaign struck the right balance, it couldn't always get the former president to the stick to the script.
Bill Clinton's first major verbal stumble came in the run-up to the New Hampshire primary. He told a crowd at Dartmouth College that Sen. Barack Obama's claim to have been an early and consistent opponent of the war in Iraq was "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
In the ensuing media uproar, many Democratic activists -- African-Americans in particular -- came to believe that the former president had, in fact, belittled Obama's entire campaign effort.
A little over two weeks later, the man once labeled by author Toni Morrison as "America's first black president" stumbled over the race issue yet again.
While stumping for his wife in heavily black South Carolina, he seemed to try to minimize the impact of a likely Obama win by noting that the Rev. Jesse Jackson also won the state in 1984 and 1988 but went on to lose both nominations by wide margins.
"Jackson ran a good campaign," Bill Clinton said. "And Obama ran a good campaign here."
Critics accused the former president of trying to peel off Obama's white supporters by marginalizing Obama as the "black" candidate.
Condemnation of President Clinton's remarks came loudly and swiftly. When Obama crushed Clinton in the South Carolina primary, exit polls indicated that the former president's campaigning was an important factor in determining the vote of approximately six in 10 voters. Those voters who professed to care most about Bill Clinton's efforts broke for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton by a margin of 11 points (48 to 37 percent).
As the weeks dragged on and Obama slowly increased his delegate lead, the former president complained that the media's coverage of his wife's campaign was biased against her. His famous temper flared repeatedly when confronted by reporters and voters.
To make matters worse, Hillary Clinton's increasingly populist rhetoric was undercut by the news that the Clintons had earned a whopping $109 million since leaving the White House, largely due to his sizeable speaking fees.
Finally, on the eve of the last primaries in Montana and South Dakota, an article by Vanity Fair national editor Todd Purdum portrayed Bill Clinton as an angry, reckless individual who had been possibly "seeing a lot of women on the road," and whose personality may have changed since a 2004 heart bypass operation.
The Clinton campaign called it a "tawdry, anonymous quote-filled attack piece" and "journalism of personal destruction at its worst," but the former president came out stronger, calling Purdum -- the husband of his one-time White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers -- "sleazy," a "scumbag" and a "really dishonest reporter."
Although Hillary Clinton's campaign apologized on the former president's behalf, the damage had once again been done. The fallout from the Vanity Fair article was, for some Hillary Clinton's advisers and supporters, the final piece of evidence that the former president had been more trouble than he was worth on the campaign trail.
The numbers, however, present a somewhat more mixed verdict. Fifty-three percent of Americans viewed the former president favorably in a late April CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll; 43 percent viewed him unfavorably.
These numbers are actually slightly better than Bill Clinton's 51 percent favorable and 48 percent unfavorable ratings at the time he left office. Although they may be low for a former president who remains above the political fray, they are not necessarily so terrible for someone who has been in the middle of a heated nomination fight since January 2007.
It should also be noted that Bill Clinton's favorability numbers have been consistently higher among those voters most likely to turn out in Democratic primaries and caucuses.
Looking ahead to the fall, Obama may be tempted to send the man sometimes referred to as "Bubba" into states like Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Pivotal blue-collar Reagan Democrats have been reluctant to embrace the Illinois senator's message of change. Bill Clinton may still have enough of the old political magic left to sway some of these voters by Election Day.
And yet it is precisely Obama's emphasis on the need for change that may ultimately result in the former president sitting on the general election sidelines. Bill Clinton embodies, for many swing voters, the kind of partisan bickering that they are now eager to leave behind.
Although the former president's verbal stumbles and seemingly endless controversies may have worked to Obama's advantage in the primaries, they are more likely to help Sen. John McCain in the general election.
Clinton himself seemed to acknowledge this might be the end of the road for him last week. He told South Dakota voters Monday that this "may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind." If so, one of the most important and colorful chapters in modern American political life has now drawn to a close.
Former President Clinton watches his wife announce that she is suspending her campaign Saturday.
When Sen. Hillary Clinton officially launched her drive for the White House 17 months ago, the former president's possibilities seemed endless. His wife's nomination by many of the party faithful was seen as a virtual certainty.
When the Clintons moved back into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the political world would once again be Bill Clinton's oyster. Maybe there would even be a co-presidency.
Perhaps he would get another crack at settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some even speculated that he would follow in the footsteps of William Howard Taft and become the second ex-president to serve on the Supreme Court.
Suddenly many of those possibilities are gone, or at least significantly reduced. The 42nd president's reputation as a master politician and respected elder statesman has been damaged. Some Clinton partisans are privately grumbling that he helped sink his wife's presidential campaign.
How did this happen? How did it all go so wrong for the man who almost single-handedly led the Democrats out of the political wilderness 16 years ago?
For starters, the question of how Hillary Clinton's team should best use Bill Clinton on the campaign trail was never completely resolved.
Don't Miss
Sen. Clinton endorses Obama for president
Election Center 2008
Her campaign had to perform what may have been an impossible balancing act. On the one hand, it had at its disposal a spouse who was almost universally admired in the Democratic Party. On the other, Hillary Clinton needed to demonstrate her independence and strength outside of her home state of New York as a genuine political leader in her own right.
Second, even when the campaign struck the right balance, it couldn't always get the former president to the stick to the script.
Bill Clinton's first major verbal stumble came in the run-up to the New Hampshire primary. He told a crowd at Dartmouth College that Sen. Barack Obama's claim to have been an early and consistent opponent of the war in Iraq was "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
In the ensuing media uproar, many Democratic activists -- African-Americans in particular -- came to believe that the former president had, in fact, belittled Obama's entire campaign effort.
A little over two weeks later, the man once labeled by author Toni Morrison as "America's first black president" stumbled over the race issue yet again.
While stumping for his wife in heavily black South Carolina, he seemed to try to minimize the impact of a likely Obama win by noting that the Rev. Jesse Jackson also won the state in 1984 and 1988 but went on to lose both nominations by wide margins.
"Jackson ran a good campaign," Bill Clinton said. "And Obama ran a good campaign here."
Critics accused the former president of trying to peel off Obama's white supporters by marginalizing Obama as the "black" candidate.
Condemnation of President Clinton's remarks came loudly and swiftly. When Obama crushed Clinton in the South Carolina primary, exit polls indicated that the former president's campaigning was an important factor in determining the vote of approximately six in 10 voters. Those voters who professed to care most about Bill Clinton's efforts broke for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton by a margin of 11 points (48 to 37 percent).
As the weeks dragged on and Obama slowly increased his delegate lead, the former president complained that the media's coverage of his wife's campaign was biased against her. His famous temper flared repeatedly when confronted by reporters and voters.
To make matters worse, Hillary Clinton's increasingly populist rhetoric was undercut by the news that the Clintons had earned a whopping $109 million since leaving the White House, largely due to his sizeable speaking fees.
Finally, on the eve of the last primaries in Montana and South Dakota, an article by Vanity Fair national editor Todd Purdum portrayed Bill Clinton as an angry, reckless individual who had been possibly "seeing a lot of women on the road," and whose personality may have changed since a 2004 heart bypass operation.
The Clinton campaign called it a "tawdry, anonymous quote-filled attack piece" and "journalism of personal destruction at its worst," but the former president came out stronger, calling Purdum -- the husband of his one-time White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers -- "sleazy," a "scumbag" and a "really dishonest reporter."
Although Hillary Clinton's campaign apologized on the former president's behalf, the damage had once again been done. The fallout from the Vanity Fair article was, for some Hillary Clinton's advisers and supporters, the final piece of evidence that the former president had been more trouble than he was worth on the campaign trail.
The numbers, however, present a somewhat more mixed verdict. Fifty-three percent of Americans viewed the former president favorably in a late April CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll; 43 percent viewed him unfavorably.
These numbers are actually slightly better than Bill Clinton's 51 percent favorable and 48 percent unfavorable ratings at the time he left office. Although they may be low for a former president who remains above the political fray, they are not necessarily so terrible for someone who has been in the middle of a heated nomination fight since January 2007.
It should also be noted that Bill Clinton's favorability numbers have been consistently higher among those voters most likely to turn out in Democratic primaries and caucuses.
Looking ahead to the fall, Obama may be tempted to send the man sometimes referred to as "Bubba" into states like Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Pivotal blue-collar Reagan Democrats have been reluctant to embrace the Illinois senator's message of change. Bill Clinton may still have enough of the old political magic left to sway some of these voters by Election Day.
And yet it is precisely Obama's emphasis on the need for change that may ultimately result in the former president sitting on the general election sidelines. Bill Clinton embodies, for many swing voters, the kind of partisan bickering that they are now eager to leave behind.
Although the former president's verbal stumbles and seemingly endless controversies may have worked to Obama's advantage in the primaries, they are more likely to help Sen. John McCain in the general election.
Clinton himself seemed to acknowledge this might be the end of the road for him last week. He told South Dakota voters Monday that this "may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind." If so, one of the most important and colorful chapters in modern American political life has now drawn to a close.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
What is our Impact?
Here is a great video that encourages each of us to think about our personal impact on the world. Enjoy.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Something interesting.
In my article, that I know you have all read already,...=)... I mentioned that leaders were doing nothing about the violence in America. Well, apparently there is a doctor who is in Minnesota. Dr.Gerald Ronning, a clinical psychiatrist, is doing research into the writtings of three shooters, including one from Columbine, to find any connections. For the full article, here is the link. I thought you all might find this interesting.
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=510044
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=510044
Monday, May 5, 2008
PostSecret
For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of hearing about PostSecret.com, I’m here to share it with you. So basically, it’s a website where people send in their secrets anonymously and they get posted for the world to see. It was started by a man named Frank Warren, who’s now known as the “most trusted stranger in
I was inspired to write this up for Bailey when I stumbled across another PostSecret lover, Suzy Borkowski. As I read each new secret, I find new revelations all the time. One of the most profound things I’ve discovered through PostSecret is how small the world is, how even though every individual is unique, we all share the same passion, love, sadness, joy, embarrassment, desire, fear, delight, regret, obsession etc. I am constantly thinking about shared experiences and this website just gives me this incredible connection to every other person who reads the new secrets every Sunday like I do. Sometimes the secrets are hard to read and it’s heartbreaking to think about the people out there who have shared a completely devastating or horrifying secret. I know this in itself has turned people off of PostSecret, but the flip side of that are the extremely happy secrets and the ridiculous ones, or even the funny ones that make you stop and think “ha, I didn’t think anyone else did that…” It makes our embarrassing moments and awkward habits not so bad, knowing you’re not alone. Though I think the biggest thing people get from this website is HOPE. Knowing someone out there shares your same secrets; other people have gone through what we are going through, it’s empowering and exhilarating and strangely conforting. Plus, sharing a secret you’ve been holding on to for way too long is healthy. I believe in the psychological benefits of self disclosure and that bottling up these secrets can be harmful. Even just anonymously posting a secret on a website can lead to healing. Personally, I think it helps me understand myself a bit better each time I read a new secret and find I can relate to it. So try it out, check out this weeks secrets and share your thoughts.
Monday, April 21, 2008
The Dalai Lama Visits Michigan
On Sunday, April 2oth I was fortunate enough to see the Dalai Lama himself speak at the Chrysler Arena in the AA.
Most people only get to see him once in a lifetime, I guess I've been lucky having seen him twice!
The speech was for two hours, but what rang clear in my mind was the importance of friendship. "To non -believers, I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness...Taking care of others actually benefits you."
We go throughout our daily lives being so busy and wrapped up with work or school(welcome to America) and sometimes don't take the time or effort to slow down and breath. Relating that quote to Bailey was an easy task for me. I get to stop by Bailey a few times a day and see friends. It kind of takes me away from the craziness of school. Try it out, enjoy the company of your friends, you may find that it can be very rewarding.
Laugh a Little
My ANR 210 class knows how I feel about being happy, but I wasn't always so sure the Dalai Lama's teachings were authentic. So I tried it. Bailey's very own Meredith told me it worked, ASK HER! Two friends spent a good twenty minutes laughing about I can't even remember, Karen laughed, Dustin laughed...it became infectious.
Meredith later told me that she was in such a great mood for the rest of the day and guess what, I'll bet she made whoever she was with in a great mood too.
Have a great day and don't forget to Smile
-Brett
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
What Would Your Last Lecture Be?
This is a link to a Youtube video brought to my attention by Dale Elshoff and I find it to be amazing.
This video requires me to reflect on the question, what would my last lecture be? What are those pieces of wisdom I would hope to impart on others if I had the luxury of time before my impending depature from this world? That is my question to you - what are those items you hope to leave in others' lives?
Glenn
This video requires me to reflect on the question, what would my last lecture be? What are those pieces of wisdom I would hope to impart on others if I had the luxury of time before my impending depature from this world? That is my question to you - what are those items you hope to leave in others' lives?
Glenn
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Current Debate on Autism
An issue that is continuing to raise concern in my own personal arena is autism. I have a close friend with a brother who is autistic, and their passion for spreading awareness of this disability is becoming part of my own interests. Check out what Jenny McCarthy Says on this HERE and also the current debate on its relationship to childhood vaccinations HERE.
Interesting fact:
Autism is suffered by 1 in 150 kids, making it more common than childhood cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined.
Interesting fact:
Autism is suffered by 1 in 150 kids, making it more common than childhood cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Bailey Scholars History Videos
Hey all!
I uploaded two videos to YouTube and wanted to share them with you HERE at the amazing ThinkBailey.com.
The first video is something that Bailey alum Olga Kaitskaya put together. It begins with a tour of the first Bailey Space at Wills House and then shows some really interesting dialogues from way back in the day (or 1999. lol.).
You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIydhHuXCP0.
The second video is the slideshow that was shown at the Bailey Ball this past weekend. Complete with pictures looking back at our first ten years and JAMMIN' tunes, I hope you enjoy it.
You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtTS0EvGyA.
Again, thanks to EVERYONE who took part in this past week's festivities and all that helped make them possible.
Peace and love,
Dustin
I uploaded two videos to YouTube and wanted to share them with you HERE at the amazing ThinkBailey.com.
The first video is something that Bailey alum Olga Kaitskaya put together. It begins with a tour of the first Bailey Space at Wills House and then shows some really interesting dialogues from way back in the day (or 1999. lol.).
You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIydhHuXCP0.
The second video is the slideshow that was shown at the Bailey Ball this past weekend. Complete with pictures looking back at our first ten years and JAMMIN' tunes, I hope you enjoy it.
You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtTS0EvGyA.
Again, thanks to EVERYONE who took part in this past week's festivities and all that helped make them possible.
Peace and love,
Dustin
Monday, March 17, 2008
Higher Ed's "Civic Engagements" Get Dumbed Down
By BRIAN McKENNA contributed by Neera
In 1964, after a military coup, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire was jailed for seventy days and later exiled from his country. He did not return for 15 years. His crime? Using a wildly creative method to teach peasants how to read and write. In 1970 Freire published what was to become a world-historic book based on his efforts, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." The work presented his radical approach to overcome peasants' "culture of silence" as a way to teach literacy. After nearly forty years the book retains its power. read more
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Bailey's Future Thread
Hello community,
I'm hoping that everyone has read Glenn's email before reading this one. (If not, I highly encourage everyone to do so! He's no Nicholas Sparks but it's still good....lol...kidding, Glenn).
He and Don both raise important questions. I personally am drawn to the question Glenn asks: "Do we meet the needs of the University, College and Department but are not basing this entirely on their influences?"
I wish we could only worry about meeting our own community needs but to exist in the university, we must follow what they require of us. And when Glenn came on, 75-100 community members was necessary for our continued existence. Luckily for us, we've reached that. And now we find ourselves asking, "Is it possible to be TOO big?" and "Would Bailey still be Bailey with 150+ community members?" and even "Would I want to be a part of Bailey if it grew that big?"
The first thing that I need to realize for myself is this: everything is relative. Whatever decisions are made in BCC and in the community, they will not please everyone. This saddens me so much....to think that some people would choose not to be part of a community that grew larger. But it also saddens me to think that we would ever NOT let someone become a member of Bailey if they truly wished to.
All I know is that I personally do not have all the answers. None of us do. But part of the perks of being in a community is that we can discuss with passion (rather than argue with raised voices) finding those answers together. Again, we must keep in mind that not everyone will agree but a consensus needs to be reached (in my opinion) so that Bailey can know which direction it now travels: one of unlimited growth or one of controlled sustainability or something completely different.
I encourage....beg......urge everyone with a voice and a thought about any of these questions to speak so that as a community we can forge the path Bailey will take in its next 10 years.
Please join the dialogue. In addition to sending this email, I'm posting a new thread on ThinkBailey.com where we can discuss. Also, PLEASE remember that BCC meets every Monday at 6pm in the Bailey space. We'd love to fill every chair in the room with impassioned Baileyites.
Peace and love for ALL Bailey members,
Dustin Petty
I'm hoping that everyone has read Glenn's email before reading this one. (If not, I highly encourage everyone to do so! He's no Nicholas Sparks but it's still good....lol...kidding, Glenn).
He and Don both raise important questions. I personally am drawn to the question Glenn asks: "Do we meet the needs of the University, College and Department but are not basing this entirely on their influences?"
I wish we could only worry about meeting our own community needs but to exist in the university, we must follow what they require of us. And when Glenn came on, 75-100 community members was necessary for our continued existence. Luckily for us, we've reached that. And now we find ourselves asking, "Is it possible to be TOO big?" and "Would Bailey still be Bailey with 150+ community members?" and even "Would I want to be a part of Bailey if it grew that big?"
The first thing that I need to realize for myself is this: everything is relative. Whatever decisions are made in BCC and in the community, they will not please everyone. This saddens me so much....to think that some people would choose not to be part of a community that grew larger. But it also saddens me to think that we would ever NOT let someone become a member of Bailey if they truly wished to.
All I know is that I personally do not have all the answers. None of us do. But part of the perks of being in a community is that we can discuss with passion (rather than argue with raised voices) finding those answers together. Again, we must keep in mind that not everyone will agree but a consensus needs to be reached (in my opinion) so that Bailey can know which direction it now travels: one of unlimited growth or one of controlled sustainability or something completely different.
I encourage....beg......urge everyone with a voice and a thought about any of these questions to speak so that as a community we can forge the path Bailey will take in its next 10 years.
Please join the dialogue. In addition to sending this email, I'm posting a new thread on ThinkBailey.com where we can discuss. Also, PLEASE remember that BCC meets every Monday at 6pm in the Bailey space. We'd love to fill every chair in the room with impassioned Baileyites.
Peace and love for ALL Bailey members,
Dustin Petty
Monday, February 11, 2008
Comment
Sunday, February 10, 2008
One Day One Job
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Fed Sends Signal with Deep Cut to Interest Rate
The Federal Reserve, confronted with a global stock sell-off fanned by increased fears of an American recession, cut a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Tuesday, the biggest one-day move by the central bank in recent memory.
The Fed said it was cutting the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other on overnight loans, to 3.5 percent, down by three-fourths of a percentage point from 4.25 percent.
read moreMonday, January 21, 2008
The Writers Strike
The studios and the guild prepare for a long work stoppage. They remain far apart on Internet residuals.
By Richard Verrier and Claudia Eller,
November 5, 2007
The question now is no longer whether or when they will strike, but how long a walkout will last and how much pain it will inflict.
Both sides are girding for what many believe will be a long and debilitating strike, potentially more disruptive than the 22-week walkout by writers in 1988, which cost the entertainment industry an estimated $500 million.
"Once it starts, it's going to get ugly," said one of the guild's strike captains Sunday.
A strike doesn't necessarily preclude the writers and producers from continuing to negotiate on a new contract and could even accelerate that process as both sides try to minimize the financial toll it could take. Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers spent more than 10 hours in talks at Sofitel hotel in
"It is unfortunate that they choose to take this irresponsible action," alliance President Nick Counter said.
The guild said that although the union had agreed to withdraw its proposal to double DVD pay, which had been a stumbling block in negotiations, producers refused to make concessions in other key areas. Among other things, producers refused to grant the union jurisdiction for most new-media writing, the guild said. They also insisted on a proposal that would allow them to reuse movies or TV shows on any platform for promotional purposes with no residual payment.
"This proposal alone destroys residuals," the guild said.
Sunday's talks marked the most substantial meeting since the parties began protracted negotiations this summer, raising a glimmer of hope that a deal might be within reach. Back-channel efforts by some of the industry's top writers and chief executives appeared to break a logjam that had stopped the sides from starting the negotiations in earnest.
The apparent headway came amid outside pressure from such respected writers as "ER" creator John Wells, a former guild president, and "Desperate Housewives" executive producer Marc Cherry as well as News Corp. President Peter Chernin, Warner Bros. Entertainment Chairman Barry Meyer and Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger.
A federal mediator brought in last week had coaxed both sides back to the table Sunday. But ultimately, not enough progress was made to avert a strike. Even as negotiators were hunkered down behind closed doors, strike captains were sending e-mail notices to guild members and guild directors, informing them where to show up today on the picket lines. Earlier in the day, writers at the guild's West Coast headquarters in the
The union had organized a network of 300 strike captains who were ready to stage daily pickets at all the major studios, including Disney and Warner Bros. as well as
Any1 eat fish? I don't but this is something to question says the NYT
- China produces about 70 percent of the farmed fish in the world
- Harvested at thousands of giant factory-style farms that extend along the entire eastern seaboard of the country.
WHERE CAN I SIGN UP FOR HIS JOB?!?!?!
This guy has THE COOLEST JOB EVER!!!! He basically just travels the world. Check out his video and look around his web page! He talks about his journey to students at Champlaign College in Vermont here:
Below
I linked his website and the other two parts to his lecture. On his
website you can see bloopers of his videos dancing as well as contact
him, ETC.
WHAT A COOL GUY TO LISTEN TO!!!! We should try to get him to come here????
-Bridget Quigley
Did you know?
THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!
The things that struck me the most:
-the fact that so many kids, LITTLE kids have used computers.... do YOU remember computer labs in grade school?
The little computers you learned to type on? Life BEFORE computers? Before cell phones?
WE ARE THE LAST GENERATION TO REMEMBER LIFE BEFORE THE INTERNET!!!!!
-Note that the fastest growing countires aren't the richest, in fact Africa's birthrate more than doubles our own and most
of their countires GDPs are less than 10% of ours.
-Africa provides the world with over 75% of our natural resources
-IF EVERY COUNTRY USED AS MANY RESOURCES AS THE USA WE WOULD NEED THE RESOURCES OF AN ADDITIONAL 7 PLANETS!!!!!!!
just
some things to think about. I thought this video was the coolest thing
I'd seen in a LONG time. Blows my mind and argues a lot. Who says
some things to think about. I thought this video was the coolest thing
I'd seen in a LONG time. Blows my mind and argues a lot. Who says
we wont build our own OZONE layer one day? Who knows?
-Bridget Quigley
The Story of Stuff
Guitar
So I am searching youtube, as I usually do when I am bored, and I cam across this video. It is one of the most viewed videos of all youtube history. Bare in mind when i first saw the title it read, GUITAR, i thought oh a video of a kid attempting to play the guitar, and everyone on youtube is prolly laughing and forwarding it to their friends. But WOW was I wrong, yes it is a kid but he is FREAKEN SWEET. Check it out for yourself. (a little twist on a "Classic")
The 7th Anual Year In Ideas
Contributed by Meredith
For the seventh consecutive December, the magazine looks back on the passing year through a special lens: ideas. Editors and writers trawl the oceans of ingenuity, hoping to snag in our nets the many curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations of the past 12 months. Then we lay them out on the dock, flipping and flopping and gasping for air, and toss back all but those that are fresh enough for our particular cut of intellectual sushi. For better or worse, these are 70 of the ideas that helped make 2007 what it was. Enjoy
For the seventh consecutive December, the magazine looks back on the passing year through a special lens: ideas. Editors and writers trawl the oceans of ingenuity, hoping to snag in our nets the many curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations of the past 12 months. Then we lay them out on the dock, flipping and flopping and gasping for air, and toss back all but those that are fresh enough for our particular cut of intellectual sushi. For better or worse, these are 70 of the ideas that helped make 2007 what it was. Enjoy
The future of Search
With Google currently dominating the cyber world... are the becoming too powerful and is there any stopping them?
This is a topic I know Brett and I debate over and over. This article only touches the brim of a debate, and proves nothing, but it does raise an interesting point. Go search in your free time and post some other articles. I am interested to see what hard evidence there is out there for this claim. As a disclaimer I do not believe google will take over the world, I am simple interested in keeping a close eye on institutionalized technology front runners. Also I love gmail and many other FREE apps google provides.
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate (biodiesel) Truck
by Tom Schueneman, Triple Pundit Nov. 28 2007
Contributed By Neera Singh
I thought you might be interested in this truck that left London for Timbuktu on biofuel from chocolate...Though many of us would want to eat the chocolate instead of fuelling our cars with it - but still...good ideas for future...for lean and sustainable societies,
Check it out
Contributed By Neera Singh
I thought you might be interested in this truck that left London for Timbuktu on biofuel from chocolate...Though many of us would want to eat the chocolate instead of fuelling our cars with it - but still...good ideas for future...for lean and sustainable societies,
Check it out
Can the African Sun Power Europe?
by Patrick Metzger Dec. 4 2007
Contributed by Jon Wiita
The European Union is considering a $10 billion plan that would see a string of solar power stations in North Africa and the Middle East deliver electricity to Europe via undersea cables.
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Contributed by Jon Wiita
The European Union is considering a $10 billion plan that would see a string of solar power stations in North Africa and the Middle East deliver electricity to Europe via undersea cables.
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See for Yourself
by Tim Laseter and Larry Laseter Nov. 29 2007
Contributed by Brett Kopf
Sam Walton discovered the advantages of centralized checkout counters by taking a 500-mile bus trip to visit a competitor in 1951. In the 1960s, Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota production system, trained his managers by having them stand in a small circle on the factory floor for eight-hour stints simply observing the manufacturing process. Today, Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE, spends 60 percent of his typical 100-hour workweek on the road.
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