| Dale Dauten: Try disorganization chart, Management 2.0 suggests
Take some issue facing the company and create a blog around it. Let everyone opine about and debate the issue, and see what results. You should have seen the reactions to that suggestion. It was like I suggested that they climb naked into a cement mixer, just to see what happened. Or, more accurately, as if I had suggested to a zookeeper that he let all the animals out of their cages, as an experiment. .
Gadgets Eureka Aerospace Uses Microwave Beams to Stop Cars
High-speed police chases are nothing new to Americans these days. Local (and often times national) TV stations are quick to break into regular programming when a high speed chase occurs and will follow the incident to its completion. TV stations know that people are keen to tune in -- just as they are likely to slow down and rubberneck for an accident on the side of the highway. Criminals and TV stations alike may have something to fear in the future thanks to Eureka Aerospace. Eureka's contraption has nothing to do with the "PIT Maneuver" or spike strips -- instead, it uses microwaves to effectively zap a cars electrical system rendering it inoperable. The rooftop mounted device in its current version measures 5' x 3' by 1' and weighs roughly 200 pounds. The high-powered weapon operates at 300 MHz and is not harmful to humans.
May 2006
The first wild daisy of the bunch (I've been encouraging them to fill in the back gardens where they will...) unfurled in this morning's early light.Posted by PicasaThe line of beach roses (rosa rugosa) brought back from the remnants of Willa's garden are budding up nicely, too.Posted by PicasaEven the birds weren't making much noise this morning, just the occasional chk chk from flocking blackbirds. It's a bit like the hush that falls over an audience just before the curtain goes up. Posted by PicasaThis orange calendula prepares for its moment in the sun at the feet of the Coronation Gold yarrow.Here's the Jupiter's Beard (centranthus ruber for the Latinistas...), also preparing to come into bloom. Yep, things are looking pretty sweet out there.Posted by PicasaThis fancy marigold, and five of his seedpack mates joined the cast of the garden yesterday, as I prepare beds for the impending planting out of our great looking tomato plants.Posted by PicasaHeading back to tour by the gardens around the house, I found the blue columbine opening nicely...Posted by PicasaThere's an old azalea at one end of the front garden.
New Salvos on Affirmative Action
The data reveal large differences in grades and standardized test scores, and indicate that black applicants are much more likely to be admitted, even with lower grades and test scores. These are the sort of data that have been influential in other states that have considered — and passed — statewide bans on affirmative action. "The people of Michigan have a right to know the extent to which discrimination is taking place," said Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, which is releasing the data today and planning a series of events in Michigan to publicize the figures. David Waymire, a spokesman for One United Michigan, which is leading the fight against the referendum, said that the data being released were "worthless" because they did not include breakdowns by economic class.
Filmmakers Face Book-To-Screen Challenge
Sure, every year there are several book-club favorites that turn up at the multiplex. Perusing the list of Academy Award best-picture winners can feel like a trip to Barnes & Noble, from "Gone With the Wind" and "The Godfather" to "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The English Patient." But during this tumultuous, strike-hobbled awards season, at least a dozen movies with literary roots have real shots at winning the biggest prizes. Some of those novels, like Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner," are beloved and readers feel proprietary about them. Others, like Ian McEwan's "Atonement" and Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," seemed impossible to adapt because they were too complicated, too internal. The adaptations themselves range from the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men," which maintained much of Cormac McCarthy's rich Texas vernacular, to Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood," in which the writer-director merely used Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" as a leaping-off point.
Sakhalin Region
Sakhalin Region is spread over 59 islands. It was formed within its present boundaries on January 2, 1947, out of the former Sakhalin Region, Khabarovsk Territory, and territories that became Russian possessions after the victory over Japan in the Second World War. The region includes Sakhalin Island, the adjoining small islands, and the Kuril Islands. It is located on the eastern shores of the Eurasian mainland in the transition zone between the continent and the Pacific Ocean.
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Soon, outlandishly sized parachute bucktails or heavy umbrella rigs loaded with soft-bodied white or chartreuse Sassy Shad bodies were released over the squeaky-clean boat's transom, port and starboard sides.
Sadler let out several hundred feet of line from each outfit, double-checked the drag mechanisms on the reels, then stuck the rods into their holders. The trolling began, but Sadler didn't join the merry-go-round. He stayed away from the other boats, kept the radio chatter to a minimum, and right around the time we munched on the first sandwich of the day Sadler shouted, "Fish on!"
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If you're buying jeans for a gift, help's on the way
Shoppers should be prepared to answer questions about whether the recipient's jeans typically gape at the waist or cause a "muffintop" above the waistline; whether she has small, average or prominent hips and thighs; what features she'd like to accentuate; and whether she wears flat shoes or heels to determine pant-leg length.
Zafu.com has an eight-question survey to help shoppers find the "perfect jeans in three minutes." Site visitors shouldn't be shy about disclosing information about their "saddle bags" or "stick legs" and need to determine whether they'd like the jeans to make their rear-end look "booty-licious" or make wider legs look "long and lean."
At Levi Strauss & Co., the company has phased out its glass "body scan" booths, introduced in 2005, whose technology traced a customer's body and suggested sizes and styles.
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