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[Internet Time Blog] Work-life was much simpler in the last century. Information work entailed following instructions, logical analysis and left-brained procedures.
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[TheFilmChair.com] CONNECTED movie review | TheFilmChair.com: Shlains work, which the director allows us to skim, gets down to this: For centuries left-brained, patriarchal thinking has moved Western culture forward, but at a cost. (Focus on productivity over happiness, for example.) Shlain continues the thought saying that the internet, with visual patterns manifesting themselves online, has the potential to activate all global citizens right-brained creativity, thus solving the big problems of today.
[Idea Exchange] Tell The Story Right: The Jobs Plan We Need, Part 2 | NAMAC: Imagine how healthcare would change if clinics, hospitals, and hospices were infused with cultural creativity, guiding people in drawing on their own heritages and imaginations to support their healing. What if every ward had its own storyteller, its own musician, its own visual artist to help patients and their loved ones generate the images and experiences that can strengthen the ability to heal and support their ability to cope when healing is not possible?
[Travel Impact Newswire] Next Generation of Corporate Leaders Lacks Critical Thinking Skills ...: “One of the most interesting developments in the area of social good is the rise of ”shared value”by putting social issues at the center of their strategy, brands can benefit their business, their customers and society in general,” says Tony Pigott, global director of EthosJWT and president and CEO of JWT Canada. “By reconsidering products and target demographics, forging partnerships with local groups and improving productivity in the value chain, companies can become a force for positive change while enhancing their long-term competitiveness.”
[Impeach Obama Campaign] Video: Wayne Madsen on Obama's Indonesian Citizenship and ...: It's all in thier best interest in order to maintain THEIR wealth……..The mafia did it for years…..The government simply got bigger than the mafia…….That's how the U.S. works.
[Left Brain/Right Brain] Coming soon, the DSM-V. No more PDD-NOS - Left Brain/Right ...: Bill, lots of people who start their life as so-called low functioning autistics grow up to be exactly like you, when they acquire verbal skills. However, the ones who can’t talk aren’t necessarily retarded, and even if they were, you shouldn’t be ashamed of sharing traits with them.
[Uploads from Okinawa Soba] MINORU YAMASAKI -- Japanese-American Architect / Designer of ...: A 2002 survey ofAmericans' attitudes toward Asian Americansand Chinese Americans indicated that 24% ofthe respondents disapprove of intermarriagewith an Asian American, second only toAfrican Americans; 23% would be uncomfortablesupporting an Asian-American presidentialcandidate, compared to 15% for an AfricanAmerican, 14% for a woman and 11% for a Jew [in other words, better to have a blackpresident than a black spouse];
[Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters] A Call for Reinforcements | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters: maybe you will have better luck than they did with the French Revolution (hey, I guess it eventually got sorted out, but wasn't that quite the killing fields, if you also tack on all those who got killed in the consequent Napoleonic wars?) Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but that is not the agenda of most of those sleeping in the rain in Zuccotti Park.
[Erick's blog] Perry vs. Romney | RedState: Although Rick Perry will need to give more articulate explanations on the issue of social security in future debates, there is no doubt that he has raised the stakes by taking on an extremely controversial subject. How Perry answers this question in the next few weeks will determine his fate as the front runner.
[Tunbridge Wells Ordinariate Blog] Not a good week for Christianity | Tunbridge Wells Ordinariate Blog: on the other side of the word from France which are administered more or less exactly as if they were physically part of metropolitan France and whose populations vote and send representatives to the National Assembly and who may travel and settle in France if they wish. There are places where that has worked quite well, in particular where missionaries followed the flag and the population was willing to accept the culture of France and the religion brought by the missionaries.
[Leon_H_Wolf's blog] CNN/Tea Party Debate CoverItLive/Open Thread! | RedState: Hours before the vote on the Bush Administration’s TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) in 2008, Governor Rick Perry, then chairman of the Republican Governors Association co-authored a letter with former Governor of West Virginia Joe Manchin (now Senator), then chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, to congressional leaders urging them to “to leave partisanship at the door and pass an economic recovery package. We know no one likes the hand theyve been dealt, and now is not the time to assign blame.” In the gubernatorial Republican primary last year, Perry’s opponent Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) defended HER vote for TARP and accused Perry of hypocrisy by pointing out his letter with Joe Manchin urging the passing of an “economic recovery package”, just hours before the vote on TARP.
[Site blog: LearningSpace] Learning Journals - OpenLearn - The Open University: Most experts will tell you that the overall success of a business starts with the human factor, the employee. Every person, no matter who they are, have a desire for sustenance, shelter, safety, respect, and a strong sense of accomplishment.
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