June 2010
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50 Tips for Managing Stress and Staying Balanced
Image: D Sharon Pruitt/Flickr How do you reach the bottom line without bottoming out? Balancing a demanding career with a busy life can burn you out. There are ways around this. We’ve compiled 50 of them below. Quick Coping Tips When you’re in a jam, take a shot of the tips below to refresh yourself. […]
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FAA Certifies Flying Car “Terrafugia Transition”
The FAA has approved the Terrafugia Transition, a flying car, as light sports aircraft. The 1,444 pound vehicle, which the company calls a “roadable aircraft” on its website, required an FAA weight exemption to fit the sports plane category (the airbags and crumple zones required to make it street legal made the Terrafugia heavier than […]
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Oprah Tops Forbes’ Celebrity 100 Power List
Photo: Alan Light/Flickr Forbes has released its annual Celebrity 100, a list that combines pay and media exposure (including social media and the web) to determine the world’s most powerful celebrities. Here are the top 10, with their pay (pre-tax income between June 1, 2009-10): 1 Oprah Winfrey $315 million 2 Beyonce Knowles $87 million […]
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5 Things Robert Byrd’s Life Teaches Us About Leadership
Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in US history (1959-2010), passed away today. The longtime West Virginia representative left a long, colorful, and impressive leadership career in his wake. Here are five leadership lessons from the illustrious senator’s life and career: 1. Don’t forget your humble beginnings. Instead, use them to your advantage. It’s part of […]
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US Loses at G20 Summit
This month’s G20 (Group of 20) meeting took place this weekend in Toronto. Aside from 900 arrests, the G20 meeting’s outcomes were predictably mellow. Still, some countries made out better than others. Reuters compiled a nice list of G20 winners and losers. Here’s the America excerpt: U.S. President Barack Obama arrived at the summit on […]
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What People Really Want to Know About BP
I recently experimented to see what Google suggested for BP-related queries. Many are predictable, but some–like queries for BP jobs–indicate that people are looking for more than just news. Here are some of the more interesting finds:
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The World’s Worst Environmental Disasters Caused by Companies
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is one of the worst company-created environmental disasters in history. Water and wetlands are sullied. People are dead. We’re still waiting on wildlife casualties and strange illnesses. Amazingly, these themes are familiar. As long as mines and factories have existed, they’ve cut corners to save money, sprung leaks, and […]
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5 Reasons why cloud will rule the world
The drug of choice for many technically inclined people these days is “cloud computing.” I love cloud computing. Why? The idea behind cloud is a simple one. Rather than having dedicated servers for each client or group, a large number of people can share the infrastructure of a database, highly customizable software, or the general […]
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Interview: Protecting Your Small Business From Cybercrime
Image: José Goulão/Flickr If you think that only bigwig companies like Google and Facebook have security problems, think again. Small businesses are also prone to hackers, phishers, sneaky employees, and others with designs to wreak havoc on company assets. Safeguarding against these tricksters takes more than just a firewall. We caught up with Robert Gorby, […]
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50 Tips for Improving Your Career
Stuck in a career rut? Light a fire under your obstacles with the 50 career improvement tips below. General Advice for Improving Your Career From tweaking your online presence to widening your network, there are plenty of ways to give your career a boost. 31 ways to improve your career today. It could be time […]
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Delisted from NYSE
Federal regulators have ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to stop trading their shares on the NYSE. CNNMoney has more: …while the (government bailout) money given to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped put a floor under the U.S. housing market and overall economy, the two firms have continued to hemorrhage money. The two firms […]
