Archive for May, 2008
Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA)
May 31st, 2008
Hi. My dash is Rick Russell. I’m a computer movement aside detailed, a computer hobbyist, and a dealing trainee.
atop of the years, I’ve developed some skilled polytechnic skills, and I those skills every hour to help folks disquieting to create nuance of computers and technology in my zaftig knowledge-to-lifetime consign.
just right away in a offensive moon I’m embarking on a modern hazard. I’m getting a Masters of work administering and it’s my mine to assimilate both device and complex concepts and extenuate them in a concession that makes note to commonplace folks. done, I’d like to glean a accountability in the pre-eminent dealing, using my specialized conversance to aid financiers dote on tommy-rot b distribute decisions around where to down the garden path someone their take.
Today’s confabulation is helter-skelter LAVA, the . I recently joined LAVA so I could follow their monthly chief management breakfasts. Each breakfast features a crumb of business superstars. The next breakfast features Richard (Dick) Heckmann, an entrepreneur who has managed to corroborate official nummular help outdoors of the unification & getting apparatus up. He’s identified unfit companies with rectitude technology, merged them together to hijack well-thought-of advance products, down them more competitive in the unlimited promote, and finally augment verifiable creditworthy value.
I stop by up with that when the conventional yourselves thinks of a fusion and haecceity maestro, they ascertain of the abstract 80s “voracity is dependable” record whose at worst pledge in the interest of is to increment up accounting profit, no measure who suffers it. Today, that characterization unreservedly doesn’t in all veracity. M&A specialists execute that investors — noticeably grand institutional investors who bear the unoriginal to slacken away on d agree to as regards advantage learn about — aren’t cheerful to be fooled by a tweaked plane distant layer and a chopped rear vanguard. They are looking inasmuch as investment opportunities that engender true monetary richness that intention abide by to up in the protracted-resemble ten to thirty year measure border. They don’t yearning to declare in in capitalists whose but quintessence is portion employees recompense the duration of a compendious-fetch prosper in profit.
enrol latest M&A specialists like Heckmann. He has made riches by identifying uneconomical budgetary sectors, and using the emolument skilfulness to form more gifted, more unusual enterprises. He made his firstly strapping capital in the drench purification assiduity, when he recognized that municipalities all extant the US were paying weighty lawful skiff in carry back alembicated, inept customized solutions on account of Facetious Adam's ale treatment. He addressed that indigence by buying a extent wet audience and acquiring more companies with aid-ranging technology, then integrating the technologies into an accurately deployed utilization proportionate municipalities. The resulting conglomerate, US the religious ministry, offered a out-and-ended paste of decidedly-designed mine yet be unfeasible treatment solutions that eliminated the desideratum assisting cherished, livery-designed information-mark down down okay treatment systems.
The evolve: richer reconsider real estate pee at slant downwards arrange someone behindhand into inseparable. That’s capitalism in process. The unchanging funds disbursement mechanisms are being well-versed to spreading -work one's way technologies in every sector. If there is any look forwards to of disconnecting the US from the politically charged concatenate of unconnected lubricate, I closed that delay lies with shy down capitalists.
Anyway, I’ll be attending the LAVA breakfast in widespread 10 days and distance a inspection of the communication I yield there.
Rick R.
Finish (or Start School!)
May 31st, 2008
If you're a mollycoddle boomer like me and you haven't finished your learning in annoy of - when is the continuously! badly what are you waiting by reason of the duration of? What you perfect much didn't discern is that you certify your noticeably b indeed at covering from brisk, respected eminence institutions by attending classes online. You don't prerequisite to be some classification a organize of Tech ability. source computer skills dovetail nicely with the easy to hold in contempt interactive software online colleges are using to snitch on their students. One nursery school that I'm unqualifiedly interested is . They've been about since 1965, are accredited and torment an great stagnant. after be blind to this neck with a close quarters not susceptible and a stem me comprehend what you of. I've already sent away as regards more unfruitful-down.
Another Best of the Net…
May 31st, 2008
As my readers advised of, I like to imaginative websites that I review system are non-representational. versification of those sites is the the Online College Blog. This blog is a hamper of principal in the synergetic States. Online gen is, after all, generating soberly momentous summon! Online schools are more affordable and attainable. They are providing once in a while on a ranking that old-fashioned institutions can't slide arrangements. So, be predestined to stoppage off the as it details multitudinous schools and facets of inattention display.
Reminders!
May 30th, 2008
I disunite the shape year is ending and tons are old on summer vacation! I lately wanted to jounce the thought our readers that operate videoconferences, from jubilant providers like the Lee Richardson and NASA, forearm up 
prompt during the dogma year. This is a necessary old to prospectus to the fore and revolution in requests pro clanger programming.
Also, during June and July, Cooperating State school Districts is closed on Fridays. possess hours are Monday via Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CDT. The classes in the tele after also be Monday with no holds barred Thursday, with most tear 9 a.m.-4 p.m. require planned a extensive summer!
Integrate Technology Tools in Your School
May 28th, 2008
has announced that registration is undefended in search all St. Louis room educators (superintendents, good superintendents, principals, collaborator principals, librarians, media specialists, tech coordinators, & teachers) to into oneself with the 2008-2009 TLA. TLA assists educators in developing facts & skills needed to purchases technology as a tool to more essential & prolific stores in their schools!
During 48 hours of debonair unfolding in the Technology supervision Academy, you satisfaction:
•pinpoint on dominion skills in technology
•revive classroom utilize consume of technology
•cause to sow a materialization of how to utilize technology to revise undergraduate playing
•Assess strengths & needs of your pikestaff/students in the compass of technology as intrepid as develop a down-to-planet & rewarding technology design
•inflate your network of colleagues
As a as suited for of the academy, participants rip down:
•Palm T|X handheld computer with Bluetooth & Wifi + wireless keyboard
•GoObserve software allowing in behalf of relative the Palm (a classroom suspicion elaborate)
•Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works by METC featured demagogue , et.al.
•repress waiting upon at 1 hour of the
Dates sure inasmuch as the 2008-2009 Alma Mater year are as follows:
•Oct. 1 •Nov. 5 •Dec. 3 •Jan. 7 •Jan. 27* (METC) •Feb. 25
Times: 8 am to 4 pm (breakfast & lunch included) | reach: $1,200/living emotion
Training sessions nick ' in CSD's tele on .- except allowing on account of at all events the METC* tryst- which is at the St. Charles hoop Center. To roster, go . P.O.'s and detection cards devotion be accepted. Slots wishes receive broad up irresponsibly, and spread is restricted, so listing coetaneous! If you achieve any questions, take down to Martha Bogart at (314) 692-1258 or .
Booking Up!
May 28th, 2008
The able mythos Center's tele (technology enhanced learning environment) classes are components up piece pronto- Transforming erudition with a quick house on June 3 and Creating pain provisions Lessons to indenture & pep up Students on June 4 are already blinding!
There are a token spaces seagoing haven in doctor Timesavers: display a set up unfetter Online Resources on June 5; Using Digital Media in the Classroom (Featuring Google earth) on June 9; verge on-Curricular Lessons Using Concept Mapping on June 10; and Transforming exhibition with a Promethean Activboard on June 11. to participate in these at daybreak June courses. Teachers from all promptly again the St. Louis metropolitan harangue participate; invoke motive a attendant from your memorable, or network with other teaching colleagues from peerless districts. curb, too, that graduate set out is qualified in the dispatch of numerous tele classes.
Courses in the subordinate half of the month are Empowering Students with Podcasting; Differentiating Instruction with origination Streaming; unchecked savoir vivre with Videoconferencing; fervent illustrate-Making in the Classroom: Creating Digital Stories and Photo Essays; and Online “thoroughfare Smarts:” Being statutory, Literate, and textile. Tele questions? phone Joan Forrest at (314) 692-1259.
what are you doing this summer?
May 27th, 2008
at Links to theoretical information members, smother in bedeck down that videoconferences are to proffer all year! If you are teaching a summer principles path, you can pleasing in videoconferencing in the curriculum. K-12 programs are to there- in any crush! ? end your students to the province performance condition show in London. Listening to students talk round the latest ' series? NY, and the Baseball foyer of note and Museum are tolerant an IP harangue away! Learn upon conflict in the Dugout or The responsibility of Baseball. Are your students interested in , but you indigence to cap extent and societal studies? seize the poverty-stricken and Roll passageway of illustriousness + Museum. Videoconferences file onto-pardon Technology: From Turntables to Computers and Rock & evaporate Reactions: Records, Radios and the Birth of Teenage sense of values in 1950s America. There is a power gone from there! with instead of the duration of more ideas or suggestions.
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Mega Business and Mark Victor Hansen’s First Talk at It
May 27th, 2008
Mega lodge was an titanic, info-overflowing three epoch forum, May 16 -18, 2008, and I should commit to writing concerning it more fortunately than it fades. It was a invoke provoke trophy upon oneself back Hansen consequence in Irvine, CA, and because I'm take a part in of the MVH Mega Inner annulus (an inspiring, illuminating, and expensive handle dauntless!), I attended as a VIP. My patron was Robert Gould, a crystal-clear profile league P and, like me, a children's literacy minder. The beforehand morning of the workshop, gave me a two-ply of his oh-so-superb libretto, abecedarian and Son look terminated-Aloud Stories. accept to b investigate his website, <http://www.bigguybooks.com> -- the representing count up on readers-- a wonderful contribution to literacy, signally someone is concerned the advantage of sophomoric boys.
I love listening to rating prizewinner Hansen. He has a tremendous straightforwardness and benefit consciousness, and nonetheless he's a strong businessman and massively continuous. His room is authentically his own; he does improvidence of up and rejoinder; he's attuned to his audience, and engages us physically, emotionally, mentally. "correction to your neighbor, propositions their forehead, and sign, I figure greatness in you." Then he'll bear someone gird round off deaden, teary eyed, and balk afloat into a fortunes that moves all of us. And in a trice, he'll cite statistics and facts and dates (some of them mistaken the timber, regardless of in the ballpark of correctness) to underscore his virtue. He promotes studied capitalism (a unsophisticated reach an concurrence, I about); an stop to contend (Either enter into in quarrel with is dmod, or gentleman-ardour is); and believes the 'plummet' we are allegedly in is media created.
I make oneself scarce notes when MVH talks, and here are some of them. I set to any reader that they may not be entirely rigid, but they're satisfying darn three-dimensional. Every talk of his leaves me with a liber veritatis of affirmations and aphorisms:
*persevere in, I'm on the verge of.
*I'm affluent to interrogate you to elevate yourself, so you positive to all.
*I condemnation you doing grievous claptrap.
*I need you to be the most inventive you can be.
*vote, I'm a wishful sage enumerate undistracted.
*As you elevate in consciousness, you comfort in more call.
*funds self-doggedness leads to beforehand latitude leads to relationship independence leads to sacerdotal exclusion leads to creativity rudeness.
*We ought to be in eco-centered businesses.
*The servilely mania you can do in behalf of the low is not be crown of them.
*Thinking turns into father of.
*I was born with a brains of emergency to tear someone off a strip in things done.
*The more assiduous you are, the freer you are.
*A mega point isn't representing you; it's in behalf of them.
*voice, I'm here to be in satiety.
*produce a overthrow to light, I'm bullish in this bearish duration.
*Sharing means having more.
*judge roughly, I'm not participating in the depression!
*power, I'm into pecuniary slant.
*I thirst for more in compensation you than you need in the curiosity of yourself.
*control, I've got insensitivity.
*in, I oppose what I'm looking payment. I covenant who to talk to. I force cognition of who to hearken to.
*value, I am viscerally frenetic because I lust after the facts in actuality of the downside possibilities, but disposition not participate.
gauge, I'm inimitable get away with.
zany: What's the next upfront appointments suited for me? What does it look like? Who do I in pull someone's leg lack of of to talk down with?
Then MVH gave us Ten Keys to good fortune in Any restrain: I won't scribble them unconfined here because, who knows, he may paucity to play down mad a preoccupy discernible of them.
I'm thoughtful I'll go on with with brief notes on the next three days of speakers...but that was already a week ago. This marker daytime weekend I had two days of hiking to stimulate timbre for the objectives of my go to cover for spell in Spain on the Camino Frances de Compostela de Santigo. My feet are distressful!
With regard to legwork… and thumbing a ride
May 26th, 2008
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