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• David Cameron on poverty - does Big Society just mean Better State?

  
  linksUK — Authority: 112
  David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith have very successfully wrestled the poverty agenda off Labour in the last few months, and today David Cameron goes a bit further in fleshing out their vision. Apparently he’ll echo Labour’s commitment to ending child poverty (a commitment which should soon be enshrined in law ...
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• Recently Rediscovered Velázquez Painting Featured in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Recently Rediscovered Velázquez Painting Featured in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum -1.0 5 2009-11-10 01:35:25 1stAngel Exhibition Dates: November 17, 2009 – February 7, 2010 Exhibition Location: European Paintings, Gallery 16, 2nd floor Press Preview: Monday, November 16, 10:00 a.m.–noon ...
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• Social Networking: Keeping separation between business and personal networks

  
  Bryan Chapman — Authority: 98
  Are you having the same trouble that I am? Is you social network a mish-mash of professional contacts, friends, family members, acquaintances, friends-of-friends, celebrity links, and a bunch of other people that you either don’t know or can’t classify? Several years ago (a lifetime in technology), when I ...
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• Wardrobe Wish List: ASOS Draped Dress

  
  College Candy — Authority: 664
  When you’re on a budget you can’t spend your money on just anything. You need items that are versatile, timeless and just plain pretty. And this beautiful dress from ASOS is all that and more.  It is short enough and reveals just enough skin with its strapless design for hitting those clubs on Saturday night. Put ...
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• Implementing a socio- cultural ecology for learning at work – ideas and issues

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 421
  I have been invited to particpate in a workshop on ‘ Technology Enhanced Learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation ‘, being sponsored by the EU funded Stellar Network of Excellence at Garnisch in Germany at teh start of December. I am contributing to a session on Work Based ...
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• Twellow DevLearn 09!

  
  badsquare — Authority: 91
  To make the technology-enabled social networking easier (i.e. Twitter), I created a “Hello my Name is” Twitter sticker for attendees to write their twitter user name on. This will hopefully make the Twitter business card exchange must faster. My fantastic fellow T-Mobile co-worker Jeff Tillett and I will be ...
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• THE SIXTH FACE OF THE PENTAGON (Chris Marker, François Reichenbach, 1968)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 132
  If the five sides of the pentagon seem impregnable, attack the sixth side.” — Zen proverb Forty years ago, during the U.S. mayhem in Vietnam, one of the first books I taught was Norman Mailer’s autobiographical “nonfiction novel” The Armies of the Night (1968), in part about the massive antiwar ...
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• PKM Overview

  
  Harold Jarche — Authority: 463
  I will be presenting on personal knowledge management (PKM) for LearnTrends 2009 on Tuesday, 17 November at 12:00 noon Pacific (15:00 EST & 20:00 GMT). In preparation, I’ve created a 5 minute video overview (MP4) of the topic, summarizing many of the posts I’ve written on the subject (click link below to ...
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• Oz women executives turning to golf to climb up career ladder

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Melbourne, November 8 (ANI): More women executives are turning to golf hoping they could land promotion opportunities while swinging with the best, Australian experts have observed.Brisbane BMW and Westside BMW marketing co-ordinator Alicia Grant said corporate women could boost contacts over the greens that overhear ...
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• Initial public offering

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 125
  http://salin.wordpress.comI once accompanied my friend, Chi Le, to one of the many ‘street bookstores’ in Hanoi. And there I was amazed at my first site of books, piled on top of each other beside a busy highway, by the world’s greatest writers: Borges, Sinclair Lewis, Camus, Flaubert, Hemingway, Buck in Tieng ...
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• LEGO BIONICLE Visorak Oohnorak

  
  Most-Gifted-Toys.com — Authority: 155
  LEGO BIONICLE Visorak Oohnorak Although it looks a lot like a big mechanical bug, the Oonorak, in the complex mythology of the Lego Bionicle series, is actually a pretty sophisticated intelligence operative. It uses both telepathy and a talent for mimicry to masquerade as other people (and, presumably other ...
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• Transit

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 125
  http://raconteurist.bravejournal.comFrom where I am seated I could see the bluish gray mountains of Davao giving way to orange slits that are this day’s first lights of dawn. I’m at the international airport of this southern city waiting for my 6:30 flight to Iloilo City.I thought that last night was going to be ...
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• CAIRO STATION (Youssef Chahine, 1958)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 132
  Youssef Chahine, whose long career outlived its inspiration, died in his eighties in 2008. Fifty years earlier he made the stark, brash, gripping Bab el hadid , for which he cast himself in the lead role of Qinawi, a crippled newspaper vendor at Cairo Station whose twisted dreams and murderous activity are given ...
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• MARRIED LIFE (Ira Sachs, 2008)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 132
  “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle” — 13th-century Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria Suspenseful films run the risk of being inhuman; when they also bring great compassion to the camera, such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943) does, they can provide a merciful as ...
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• Organizational Mandates

  
  Organizational Transformation by Asif J. Mir — Authority: 127
  The formal and informal mandates placed on an organization consist of the various “musts” that it confronts. Actually, it is surprising how few organizations know precisely what they are (and are not) formally mandated to do. Typically, few members of any organization have ever read, for example, the relevant ...
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• REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE (Peter Greenaway, 2008)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 132
  The once-UK’s Peter Greenaway has been living in Amsterdam now for a decade. A lovely irony helps launch his pseudo-documentary Rembrandt’s J’accuse , ostensibly a meticulous analysis and deconstruction of Rembrandt van Rijn’s 1642 painting The Company of Captain Frans Banningh Cocq , better known as The ...
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• WE kill the criminals?

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 133
  The following editorial (my translation) appeared in today’s El Universal and was read on the radio: The massive uproar over the mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia’s announcement that  he would create an anti-crime  “cleaning squad” is compounded by his revelation of a suspected drug trafficker’s ...
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• “What are you working on?” Show your co-workers with Twitter-esque microblogging tools (but not Twitter)

  
  Career Transition Services Blog, Corporate Outplacement, Job Search Services at RiseSmart — Authority: 415
  We’ve seen the value of microblogging sites such as Twitter for sharing short ideas, links, and personal updates, but that kind of website is wayyy too public for business collaboration. (Think about all the secret projects, private sales figures, and other sensitive matters that you’d prefer everyone keep in ...
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• "...In Lagos, everything is informal..."

  
  Africa Unchained — Authority: 423
  An excerpt from Robert Neuwirths Lecture The Extroverted City of System D contribution in the book Open City : In Lagos , everything is informal . The bus system is informal —the government got out of mass transit business decades ago (though it has recently stepped back into public transport with a ...
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• Why aren’t the child poverty and welfare reform bills better aligned?

  
  linksUK — Authority: 112
  A couple of days ago shadow work and pensions minister Andrew Selous mentioned both our work on the informal economy and the community allowance campaign during the committee stage of the Child Poverty bill. It’s always nice to see a bit of lobbying reflected in what politicians say, but it also reveals ...
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