Dominique!
3 June, 2007 | Comments Off | Category: Hobbies
But that’s precisely what happened last night. The Cavs got LeBron the ball and spread out, letting him go up against the Pistons on his own. And where most other heroes are known for single, clutch plays, James hit shot after shot after shot, regardless of where he was on the floor or who was guarding him.
Brian Windhorst was at the game, and said that;
Never have [I] seen a performance like that from him and never have I seen him be so calm. He wasn’t demonstrative and making all those primal faces, he was just coldly killing the Pistons. It isn’t often you know you are experiencing history at the moment it is happening. It doesn’t matter which team you cover as a journalist or which team you root for as a fan, there was no way you could watch LeBron score 25 straight points and think you weren’t being given a gift of an experience.
If you share my fascination, then allow me to recommend to you strange maps, a blog which collects unusual maps portraying places that are real or exist only in the cartographer’s imagination. A recent posting included this one depicting a “culture wars” battleground: where and how evolution is taught in the U.S.
Meanwhile, Bill Warters at Campus ADR Tech Blog links to “Baghdad: Mapping the Violence,” a BBC News animated map depicting the violence in Baghdad since May 2003 when the U.S. declared the end to major combat operations.
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World Directory of ADR Blogs adds its first Belgian mediation blog
First Belgian mediation blog!Important correction! Online Guide to Mediation and the World Directory of ADR Blogs nearly caused an international incident! I had originally reported that the World Directory had added its first French blog. In fact, it is it’s first Belgian blog. Mon dieu! Une erreur très embarrassante! Fortunately the blogger, mediator Dominique Foucart, charmingly and most graciously pointed out this regretful faux pas. I appreciate his understanding and hasten to correct my error here.
The deadly accuracy and consistency combined with the cold, calculating intensity that LeBron exibited makes him a dangerous player, even more so than he was before. He’s carried the Cavs on his shoulders, and shows no signs of stumbling.
For a recap of LeBron’s final 25 points, click here.
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It’s exciting in any event to announce now not just one but two firsts for the Directory: its first French language blog and its first Belgian blog. Even better! Merci beaucoup, Dominique!
I am delighted to announce that the World Directory of Alternative Dispute Resolution Blogs, my ongoing global blog project, has added its first Belgian blog.
Le journal d’un démarieur is published by Dominique Foucart, a mediator in family, civil, and commercial disputes. The goal of this blog, whose tag line is “Divorcer n’est jamais simple… la médiation peut vous aider,” is to share experiences in and reflections on family mediation practice, as well as to spread awareness of the benefits of mediation as a meaningful alternative to court.
Bienvenue to the ADR blogosphere to Dominique.
If you wish to add your blog or someone else’s to the World Directory of ADR Blogs, please let me know. It’s a commercial-free site, and there is no cost to be listed. I am especially interested in leads on ADR blogs outside the U.S. and Canada. If you know of any, I hope you’ll get in touch. The Directory has information on submitting your blog and submission guidelines.
Many thanks to to my friend Christoph Stroyer, a mediator, attorney, and blogger in Germany, for letting me know about this new blog.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007
ABA establishes Committee on Mediator Ethical Guidance
Committee on ethics provides direction for mediatorsThe American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution has announced the establishment of a Committee on Mediator Ethical Guidance.
More Knob Hockey
It’s another Knob Hockey crank call, this time victimizing Toronto’s Bryan McCabe:
With Ottawa down 2-0 in the series, I’m wondering how the tone of the next batch of spots might turn out. Stay tuned.
The head of strategy at IBM
3 June, 2007 | Comments Off | Category: Health
“Yes, American workers are dislocated — perhaps permanently in the manufacturing sector and significantly among professional and white-collar employees whose jobs won’t return unless the country invests substantially in their retraining and education.”
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Separating Outsourcing Fact from Hysteria
TCS: Tech Central Station reports the debate over outsourcing and its impact on the US economy reached a high level of what can only be described as irrationality, and even hysteria.
Outsourcing is not a new phenomenon, of course. Strictly speaking, the term refers to the subcontracting of any business function to an outside supplier, but in the current debate outsourcing to other companies within the home country is rarely mentioned. It is the offshore component that is controversial.
Estimates of the number of jobs involved vary wildly. The head of strategy at IBM, Bruce Harreld, has estimated that the world’s companies now spend $19 trillion per year on sales and other administrative costs, and of this only $1.4 trillion is outsourced. The McKinsey Global Institute suggests that offshore outsourcing may increase by 30-40 per cent a year for the next five years, while Forrester Research predicts that 3.3 million white-collar jobs may be relocated overseas by 2015. The potential cost savings involved are certainly very large. McKinsey has suggested the multinational companies can lower their costs by 50-70 per cent through the reorganization of their production and administrative activities. In the white-collar area, IT services are likely to be the most affected. Already some 16 per cent of such work is done remotely, and perhaps half of such jobs may move overseas in the near future.Arnie Herz, who has been called “one of New York’s most highly skilled and gifted mediators” by United States District Judge Carl Horn III, will be putting his own unique stamp on Blawg Review at Legal Sanity, the blog Arnie created to help lawyers achieve work-life balance and find reinvigorated meaning in their work.
For those of you who blog, if you’d like to help Arnie out and submit a blog post for his consideration as he prepares to deliver Blawg Review #108, here are the official Blawg Review submission guidelines.
In the meantime, Blawg Review #107 is hosted this week by the implacable Professor Kingfield. Sit up straight and make sure you’ve done your homework.
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Monday, April 30, 2007
May 1 is Law Day: how will you celebrate it?
May 1 is Law Day–Celebrate!Two weeks ago I published a post explaining why I would not be observing One Day Blog Silence today, April 30, when many bloggers will be observing a collective day of silence in honor of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings along with others who have fallen to violence throughout the world.
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Recruiting Overseas
Spokane Journal of Business reports American Industries International Inc., have been in the business of recruiting nurses, pharmacists, and high-tech engineers from foreign countries to work in the U.S. Though the 34-year Spokane resident says he has established business contacts in 35 countries, recruits so far have come solely from The Philippines and India.
“There is a dire shortage of nurses in the U.S.,” says Uddin. “At present, there is a shortage of 250,000 nurses in this country, and by the year 2020, the shortage is expected to jump up to 700,000 nurses. Washington state is currently short 6,000 nurses, and it is a proven fact that the higher the ratio of nurses, the lower the mortality rate.”
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