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A theme always on the agenda in one of the classes I teach in executive education programs here at Harvard is the virtues and drawbacks of rules as a way to design organizations. We walk through the good, the bad, the ugly, and the management challenges of managing in a rules-bound organizational environment. One point that always comes out in discussion is that rules and procedures can help employees figure out how to do their jobs well by reflecting knowledge and lessons learned from experience or from research. If we know that doing A, B, and C will almost always produce a good result, why keep A, B, and C secret from employees? I illustrate this by showing a visual of a box of Betty Crocker brownie mix. Betty Crocker doesn't just give you the mix and leave it to you to figure out how to make good brownies. Based on research at the Betty Crocker kitchens, they tell you to add an egg, a half cup of water, preheat the oven to 375, and bake for 8 minutes. Why should we ask people to re-invent the wheel?
The example is meant to start a discussion, and this year it started a very interesting one among a group of Senior Executive Service civil servants, general officers, and about half the class from outside the US. The instructions on the mix are a good starting point, one participant (who is, by coincidence, a senior contracting official in a major contracting organization) noted. But a good cook will use this as a baseline, a minimal level of quality, and adapt based on their own initiative to improve the brownies from there – adding coconut or other flavorings, experimenting with softness or hardness levels, and so forth. Another participant noted that a good company may give several alternative recipes for different tastes, and allow the user to choose among them. Needless to say, this conversation was not really about making brownies. The challenge for rule-bound government organizations is that, as the management professor Henry Mintzberg has noted, in a rule-bound organization, rules set up to establish a minimum standard of performance often come to be seen by employees as the only things they need to do to do their job – that nothing more is expected. This same official said the challenge for government managers is to encourage employees to use the rules as a base, but use their heads to figure out how they should be supplemented in particular cases. She noted that often she tries to upset people's mindsets by asking "why are we doing this," and not accepting "we've always done it this way" as an answer. It is also useful to draw a distinction, as a number of participants did, between rules that set the outer boundaries of acceptable behavior – integrity, ethical, legal, or safety issues – versus those that are giving advice about how to do a job better. In my view, the former need to be compulsory. An employee has no discretion to decide they would like to take a bribe. The latter generally should be guidance only, with a cultural expectation that they should be used when helpful, otherwise not necessarily.
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Isn't there conflict between these two statements? (emphasis added):"One point that always comes out in discussion is that rules and procedures can help employees figure out how to do their jobs well by reflecting knowledge and lessons learned from EXPERIENCE or from research."vs. "She noted that often she tries to upset people's mindsets by asking 'why are we doing this,' and not accepting 'we've always done it this way' as an answer."Procedures established as a result of a negative event are vulnerable to being overturned as memories fade. The negative event is typically not documented, memories fade, or the negative event took place so long ago that a new manager who comes along to "challenge" the procedure doesn't have a healthy visceral aversion to the negative event. The official may actually be challenging the corporate memory of her organization to remember the negative event. I know I'm channeling Edmund Burke, but sometimes some care should be taken before tampering with a complex system when you have limited information. Occasionally, an "old-timer" (I am not one myself) will say something to the effect of "We tried that eight years ago and it was a disaster". The old-timer's views are usually dismissed as bureaucratic resistance and belly-aching. She may be falling into a trap that some managers can fall into- thinking she knows better than the collective wisdom of her predecessors and employees. This is a seductive and dangerous trap.If the change is made, and is successful, she is an excellent manager and innovator. If it fails, then she probably fell into that trap. If there weren't so many failures, I wouldn't bring this up . . .
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This Sunday, over one thousand young people will descend on the White House. By the end of the day, hundreds of them, most of them students at more than 200 colleges and universities, will be arrested. There's something happening here.
Just days after a U.S. State Department review determined that ERM, an oil industry contractor and dues-paying member of the American Petroleum Institute, was capable of an unbiased review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, hundreds of youth activists will be risking arrest outside the White House as part of XL Dissent. Their objective is to secure a rejection of the climate-killing Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and to hold President Obama accountable for his campaign promise to safeguard climate stability by "end(ing) the tyranny of oil."
Power Shift was a life changing experience for me I was exposed to an entirely new world, new people, and new problems. I was empowered to get more involved in environmental activism from all of the action that I saw and heard about happening across the nation. I got connected to groups on my campus and started working with the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition, but this is not about me its about the people I connected with.
This blog was authored by Caroline Burney, a fourth-year student at Washington University in St. Louis.
Recently I participated on a panel with Clive Hamilton, author of "Earthmasters," at American University hosted by Washington Geoengineering Consortium www.dcgeoconsortium.org, we discussed geoengineering and environmental justice. Before the panel discussion Mr. Hamilton lectured on his book and ended his comments with a question, "Why are the Environmental Justice NGOs not a part of the conversation on geoengineering?"
Crossposted from Greenpeace's blog, The EnvironmentaLIST.
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But does the Order do enough?
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The President has said time and time again that it is his job to govern and our job to push him. Well gladiators, at this moment in time, we need to push him hard. This decision on Keystone XL will set the tone and direction of the United States energy policies and politics moving forward. Don't be fooled that this fight is solely about Keystone — it is not. This decision will impact every fight that we are engaged in within the environmental movement along with our allies in other movements.
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That "loving Jesus means hating gay people" is "proclaimed in Christian churches and on Christian television and radio broadcasts."
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USC lecturer Darry Sragow dismissed California Republicans as "really stupid," "racist" and "angry old white people" before his political science class last fall. Those remarks wouldn't be news - except that student Tyler Talgo secretly videotaped Sragow, and the bias-watchdog group Campus Reform posted 15 minutes of excerpts from the 2 1/2-hour class, which the Drudge Report picked up. That turned Sragow into a chew toy for cable news pundits.
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One Wish (Roxette song)
|"One Wish"
|Single by Roxette
|from the album Roxette Hits
|"The Rox Medley"
|October 9, 2006
|EMI/Capitol Records
|Per Gessle
|Roxette singles chronology
"One Wish", written by Per Gessle and performed by Swedish pop duo Roxette, is the first single released from their 2006 album Roxette Hits, the first release from Roxette since 2003. Per Gessle describes the song as an uptempo duet. The B-Side is "The Rox Medley" which, prior to this release, has been available on the radio and on iTunes.
Music video[edit]
The video, also directed by Jonas Åkerlund, was a mixture of new and old images, which were taken from different music videos by Roxette over the years.
Track listing[edit]
- CD Single
- "One Wish"
- "The Rox Medley!"
- MAXI CD single
- "One Wish"
- "The Rox Medley"
- "It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)"
- "Turn to Me"
- Svensktoppen
"One Wish" was tested on the Swedish hitlist "Svensktoppen", where it debuted on October 15, 2006 by entering at 4th place.[1] The Svensktoppen visit lasted for four weeks, with a 3rd place on October 22, 2006 as best result.[2]
- Top 10
The single charted at #2 in Sweden, #3 in Spain and #5 in Finland.[3]
- ^ "Svensktoppen chart archive. Wk 2006-10-15". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 2012-01-16. (direct link to chart)
- ^ "Svensktoppen chart archive. Wk 2006-10-22". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 2012-01-16. (direct link to chart)
- ^ "Swedish charts archive". Retrieved 2012-01-22.
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Creating Horror Stories
By Melissa Ford
Deep down, nestled in the heart of every parent, is a tiny kernel of fear, harboring the very beginnings of a frightening tale about their child. Without conscious awareness, this little seed germinates, slowly but insidiously spreading its shoots into our thinking, soon revealing a very REAL story which we play over and over about our beloved:
* My child is incapable of handling challenges.
* My daughter will remain friendless her entire life.
* My son will never make anything of himself.
Now I'm not making fun of these fearful stories; I was a master storyteller myself. But exposing them to the light of day and daring to share them with other parents, transforms them from scary truths into what they truly are:
Wild Imaginings. Scary Make Believe. Horror Stories.
How does this happen?
It starts because we scare ourselves about our child's unhappiness.
When our child is unhappy - angry, sad, lonely, etc - we judge those emotions as bad for our child or they mean something bad about us: we're inept, flops as parents, FAILURES. Of course, we don't want our child to suffer or struggle and we all want to be good parents but judging our child's unhappiness is the root of our problem. It's how we scare ourselves. .
Judgment is a powerful, creative force; that's why we employ it. Yet we mistakenly believe judgment sharpens our perception and enhances our problem-solving abilities. If we can determine what's wrong or bad, we can fix it or so the thinking goes. But the opposite occurs.
The minute we make unhappiness the enemy, clarity flies out the window leaving us grasping for solutions while experiencing upset, fear and worry. Now our stories feel real.
Why not use our imaginations to our benefit?
We can. By temporarily suspending our judgment and discomfort around our son's or daughter's unhappiness, we allow our mind to settle, our worries to dissipate, our heartbeat to slow. We are then free to discover the unexpected truth about unhappiness:
Our child is human, and humans get unhappy.
By viewing those fights between siblings or our son's meltdown over limits set or our daughter's self-doubt as a part of our nature, our experience, we can craft a different story, one which fosters peace and kindness and acceptance for our humanness.
And soon we'll have a LOVE story we play over and over about our beloved and ourselves.
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While he was widely viewed as one of the favorites to win the title at Money in the Bank 2014, Bray Wyatt was actually never in consideration as a champion by WWE. The company was dead set on putting the belt back around John Cena, as they felt that they needed their top star to be the face of the company while they're trying to win back the trust of the investors. Putting the belt on Wyatt might not evoke the same level of trust from people who might not necessarily follow the product as much as fans.
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For quite a few weeks now, there have been rumors of Miz making his television return to Monday Night Raw. Some speculations have Ric Flair joining him on that return. With Money in the Bank 2014 in the books now, those rumors are heating up again. Some believe that tonight will be the night when they finally come back and start the push for Miz.
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Since it has failed to reach expectations, the WWE Network has been a bit of a black eye for Vince McMahon and company. Things might be getting worse really soon, as quite a few subscribers attempted to cancel their service because of technical issues during the streaming of Money in the Bank 2014. WWE was already concerned about how to entice new people to sign up, so that they can finally break that million subscribers mark.
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In a rematch at Money in the Bank 2014, Alexander Rusev was successfully able to conquer Big E Langston again with his submission move. It was the typical match that you would expect from the two. There was a botched spot where Langston speared Rusev to the outside of the ring. However, the two of them more than made up for that by doing a great closing sequence.
June 29, 2014
In a very exciting match, Seth Rollins outlasted Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziggler, Kofi Kingston, Rob Van Dam and Jack Swagger to capture the briefcase at Money in the Bank 2014. WWE wants to continue the war between Ambrose and the Authority, so they had Kane coming out and providing assistance to Rollins. Despite the heel tactic to win the match, the Rollins victory was actually cheered by a good amount of fans.
June 29, 2014
Since WWE needed a filler segment at Money in the Bank 2014 and wanted to showcase Adam Rose a little bit, he was given a quick match against Damien Sandow, who was dressed as Paul Revere. Match was not really all that noteworthy, and Rose got the win after hitting the Party Foul finishing move. This was a segment that belongs more on Monday Night Raw than a pay per view.
June 29, 2014
Naomi Knight was given a crack at the WWE Divas Championship at Money in the Bank 2014, but it was Paige that walked away as the reigning titleholder after a DDT and a pin. The match was designed to further the eventual split between Naomi and Cameron, who was at ringside and taking glee whenever her tag team partner was in peril against Paige.
June 29, 2014
Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso had their biggest challenge to date when Erick Rowan and Luke Harper challenged them for the WWE tag team championship at Money in the Bank 2014. The twin brothers delivered by retaining the belt. The Usos performed a double superplex on Rowan before finishing him off with consecutive flying splashes from the top rope.
June 29, 2014
Thanks to the help of Kane, Seth Rollins was able to climb the ladder uninterrupted and win the briefcase at Money in the Bank 2014. The Big Red Monster came to the ring and attacked Dean Ambrose to clear the path. Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and Rob Van Dam were all laid out on the floor during the finale. WWE power couple Triple H and Stephanie McMahon came out afterwards to congratulate Rollins.
June 29, 2014
There is a feeling within the WWE locker room that management does not want Daniel Bryan back in the main event scene when he makes his return. Some are pointing out how he is being brought back in a minimum role at Money in the Bank 2014 as a sign of WWE downplaying his importance. Guys like Batista and Brock Lesnar would not be utilized in such a manner when they come back from their hiatus.
June 29, 2014
As of right now, WWE has a big match between Roman Reigns and Randy Orton penciled in for WWE Battleground 2014. The company could set up the feud during the title match at Money in the Bank 2014. There are some rumors floating around that Orton and Reigns could be battling for the title at Battleground, even though it's a bit early for the big push to begin.
June 28, 2014
Rumors are floating around right now that Cameron will be doing a heel turn at Money in the Bank 2014. She will more than likely cost Naomi Knight her chance at the WWE Divas Championship. There is also speculations that the incident will then lead to a triple threat match at WWE Battleground 2014, which would also feature Paige as the champion still.
June 27, 2014
Over the last couple of months, Wade Barrett has been gaining momentum in WWE after receiving a little push. A lot of fans want to see him winning the gold at Money in the Bank 2014. However, the chances of that happening have decreased tremendously, as the Intercontinental Champion has suffered some sort of shoulder injury. Medical tests are still being ran, but rumors are strongly suggesting that WWE will pull him from the pay per view.
June 25, 2014
The rumors of John Cena winning the WWE title at Money in the Bank 2014 just got hotter now that the company has accidentally revealed a poster for Summerslam 2014, which features what looks like a main event match between Cena and Brock Lesnar. There has been speculations over the last couple of months that when the former UFC champion makes his return to WWE, he would be thrown into a title program.
June 25, 2014
In the past, Vickie Guerrero was receptive towards a potential return to WWE some day, but her tone has definitely changed since starting a new career. Guerrero was recently contacted by the company to make an appearance on the special episode of Smackdown that aired this week. She rejected WWE and stated that it was time for her to move on with her life. John Laurinaitis and Theodore Long worked the segment instead.
October 11, 2014
When he received his release from WWE, many expected Theodore Long to retire from professional wrestling. It looks like those speculations were true, as the former on screen general manager of Smackdown has been relatively quiet since his departure. Long has not made appearances on the independent wrestling circuit or other events.
August 9, 2014
While there are some minor rumors about him potentially joining TNA or Global Force Wrestling, the widespread belief is that Theodore Long is more than likely going to retire now that he no longer works for WWE. He's already at a pretty advanced age, and his name value is not quite what it used to be since he was kept off of television for so long.
July 5, 2014
Booker T is running his first internet pay per view for his wrestling promotion, and Reality of Wrestling will have plenty of WWE presence there. Josh Mathews has signed on to help Booker do commentary for the evening, while Alex Riley will be making his return to the ring for a match. Theodore Long, who was recently released by WWE, will be on hand to act as the on screen general manager at the PPV.
June 19, 2014
WWE released a lot of people on Thursday. While Theodore Long was among the many names, his contract had actually expired and management opted against keeping him around. Since he is no longer under any contractual obligation to WWE, Long is free to sign with TNA or Global Force Wrestling if he so chooses. No word yet on whether or not those companies have interest in him since he has not been used as much in WWE lately.
June 14, 2014
There was a surprising amount of fans who have been wanting to see Theodore Long return as an on screen character, but that will not be happening. WWE gave the former general manager his release today. Long has rarely been used over the last year, and it was not clear if he actually had another role backstage.
June 12, 2014
While he hasn't been a relevant part of Monday Night Raw or Smackdown in quite some time now, Theodore Long is still actually employed by WWE. The creative department simply does not have a story line for him to work with at the moment. The long rumored feud between he and Booker T has essentially been put to rest and will not be utilized.
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The National Bank of Oak Harbor in August celebrated its 75th Anniversary by hosting a red carpet event for shareholders and guests, according to a company press release. The Oak Harbor office was transformed inside and out. As guests entered the red carpet, they were greeted by Gary P. Macko, president and CEO and Charles E. Hablitzel, chairman of the board of directors. They were then encouraged to continue their walk down the red carpet through memory lane, where one could reminisce by viewing window boxes featuring bank history and viewing a video.
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He chastised Republicans for brinksmanship, saying "some in Congress would rather see their opponents lose than see America win."
That's an assessment that has some validity, particularly among the new class of House Republicans who have used their outsized legislative power to stymie Obama at every turn since their election last November.
Working in Obama's favor is a Republican Party still struggling to find a presidential candidate who lights a fire with voters. Questions remain about the appeal of Bachmann and Paul beyond, respectively, the more conservative and libertarian wings of the party.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, looking for a strong showing in Iowa to boost his struggling candidacy, ended a distant third with 2,293 votes, or 14 percent. On Sunday, he quit the race.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee, wasn't on the ballot and isn't a candidate yet. But she showed up at the Iowa State Fair a day before the vote, drawing huge crowds and saying she hadn't ruled out running.
Like Bachmann and Perry, Palin is a tea party favorite, but her coyness about joining the race could hurt her chances should she finally declare.
While Obama's bus tour is meant, in part, to blunt the Iowa Republican festivities, it will have to compete for attention as the country digests Perry's rhetorical assault on Obama's presidency.
Perry, a former Democrat and the nation's longest-serving governor, told his appreciative audience that Obama's government had "an insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance." He accused Obama of presiding over an "economic disaster" that has been "downgrading our hope for a better future."
"I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your lives as I can," Perry said, clearly bowing to his tea party backing. Specifics for turning his promises into realities were absent.
By entering the race on the same day as the Iowa voting, Perry angered some Republicans but saved some campaign cash and energy.
If nothing else, voters won't be able to ignore the fact that Perry's speaking style and swagger are eerily reminiscent of another Texas governor who made the transition to the national stage: President George W. Bush.
With his solid credentials on social as well as economic issues, Perry is an immediate threat to Bachmann, Romney and every other GOP candidate.
Romney did not participate in the Iowa poll, which he won four years ago before dropping out of the race when he failed to catch fire against eventual nominee John McCain. Romney did join all the announced candidates Thursday at an Iowa debate.
But it was his pre-debate visit to the Iowa State Fair that produced a political gift to the Democrats.
Responding to a heckler who challenged him on tax policies that benefit big business, he blurted out that "corporations are people, my friend." The Democratic National Committee quickly used video of that remark in pre-straw poll television ads in Des Moines, the state capital. It was the kind of business-friendly Republican applause line that could haunt him with undecided voters and disaffected Democrats.
Obama and the other GOP hopefuls now face daily scrutiny as well as they try to avoid for the same kind of misstep. That's a nearly impossible task in the long, arduous and expensive path toward the White House.
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Ajay Malhotra is an adjunct professor in the School of Business Administration at Portland State University. When not teaching, as Executive Vice President and Partner at Massini Group, he is responsible for sales, marketing and business development. For over 15 years, Massini Group has enabled Fortune 500 enterprises to penetrate the small and medium business market more effectively.
Prior to Massini Group, Malhotra spent 15 years in the high-tech industry in roles spanning design, marketing, strategy and senior executive management. He spent 12 years at Intel Corporation, the world's largest chip maker followed by 3 years at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., the world's largest chip-design software maker.
Most recently, Malhotra served as Senior Vice President, Global Marketing for Cadence Design Systems. Cadence is an industry leader in Electronic Design Automation, software which enables the design and verification of electronic chips. Reporting to President and CEO Michael J. Fister, Malhotra was responsible for all aspects of global marketing for Cadence, including product and corporate marketing, corporate communications, brand strategy, and employee communications. Prior to Cadence, Malhotra was Intel Corporation's co-General Manager of Enterprise Marketing and Planning, responsible for Intel's marketing, product and technology planning within the Enterprise Platforms Group. This included responsibility for the Intel Itanium® and Xeon® processor families of products. Prior to that, Malhotra spent 3 years in Munich, Germany, where he managed Enterprise Solutions Marketing for Intel's EMEA (Europe, Middle East Africa) region.
Malhotra began his professional career at Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon, and subsequently moved to the company's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and then to Germany before returning to Oregon. His 12-year Intel career also included positions in microprocessor design, technical marketing, crisis management, product marketing, business development, strategy, Chief-of-Staff/executive advisor and international marketing management. These roles gave him extensive experience in the growth markets of Asia. He is the holder of a U.S. Patent in microprocessor design derived from his early innovations on Intel's first multi-processor capable processor, the Pentium Pro® Processor, representing Intel's earliest thrust in the enterprise server market.
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American comedian Lou Costello wasn't the most scholarly of lads growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, although he excelled in baseball and basketball. He won an athletic scholarship to Cornwall-on-Hudson Military School, but left before graduation to try a performing career. Reasoning that there'd be a lot of work for a top athlete in Hollywood, Lou… More Bio:
American comedian Lou Costello wasn't the most scholarly of lads growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, although he excelled in baseball and basketball. He won an athletic scholarship to Cornwall-on-Hudson Military School, but left before graduation to try a performing career. Reasoning that there'd be a lot of work for a top athlete in Hollywood, Lou travelled westward, but was only able to secure stunt-man work, specializing in the sort of spectacular falls that he'd still be staging during his later starring career. Tired of working anonymously in Hollywood, Costello decided to give stage work a try, and by the mid '30s he'd achieved minor prominence as a burlesque comedian. What he needed was the right straight man, and that man was Bud Abbott, with whom Lou teamed in 1936. Abbott was satisfied in burlesque, but Costello had bigger ambitions; it was he who actively promoted the team into radio and Broadway. In 1940, Lou finally realized his life's ambition to be a movie star when he and Abbott were signed by Universal Pictures. The team's second feature, Buck Privates, launched an amazingly durable film career; for the next ten years, Abbott and Costello were Hollywood's biggest moneymaking team. Though no pushover in real life, Lou became world famous for his portrayal of the hapless, trodden-upon patsy of the conniving, bullying Abbott; his plaintive "I'm a ba-a-ad boy" became a national catchphrase. A serious 1942 bout with rheumatic fever kept Lou out of radio and films for a full year. On the day of his professional return in 1943, an appalling tragedy struck Costello; his infant son drowned in the family's backyard swimming pool. Waving off mourners, Lou performed his comeback radio show that evening on schedule, as funny as ever, and broke down the minute the show signed off, while a visibly shaken Bud Abbott explained the situation to the studio audience. Lou was never quite the same after that, though his career flourished, surviving the occasional falling out with Bud Abbott and unprofitable attempts to change his screen image in such films as Little Giant and The Time of Their Lives (1946). Seldom making a professional misstep -- he moved from films to TV and back again with enormous success. Costello broke up permanently with Bud Abbott in 1956. His solo dates in nightclubs and television were satisfactory, and a starring appearance as a single in The Thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959) wasn't the disaster it might have been, but Lou Costello was basically unhappy going it alone. Still, he was thriving in show business and seemingly had a rosy future ahead of him in early 1959; sadly, in March of that year Lou Costello lost his lifelong battle with his rheumatic heart and died three days before his 53rd birthday.
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Op-Ed | More Fashion Mileage Per Piece
For the benefit of the world, buy carefully and get more "fashion mileage" out of each piece, argues Livia Firth.
For the benefit of the world, buy carefully and get more "fashion mileage" out of each piece, argues Livia Firth.
On the eve of the gala to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and celebrate the launch of this year's fashion exhibit, "Charles James: Beyond Fashion," Colin McDowell looks back at the life and work of the designer who Christian Dior called "the greatest talent of my generation."
On Fashion Revolution Day, the anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, Tamsin Blanchard challenges consumers take action against mindless fashion consumption.
Armed with huge sums of money invested at sky-high valuations, fashion start-ups are setting themselves up for failure. But with the right capital structure, any company that can build a brand that delights its customers can be an economic win for all involved, argues Lawrence Lenihan.
In his latest column, Colin McDowell sits down with the elegant, entertaining and inimitable Manolo Blahnik, who has built his eponymous shoe company into one of the world's most successful footwear brands.
Amidst a challenged and changing Australian fashion landscape, the search for unique designer talent returned some promising positive results, says BoF columnist Susanna Lau.
More than previous generations, millennnials want social responsibility and transparency from the brands they buy. Fashion companies that fail to change risk losing relevance, argue Maxine Bédat and Soraya Darabi.
Italian Vogue's domestic violence-themed cover story proves that fashion photography is a powerful medium which can carry important messages, but it should have been stripped of its commercial credits, argues Mimma Viglezio.
As "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk" arrives in London, Colin McDowell reflects on the life and work of French fashion's enfant terrible.
As London's Victoria and Albert Museum unveils "The Glamour of Italian Fashion," Colin McDowell explores the country's rich fashion history.
Technology will replace products, brands and financial strategies as the key source of value creation for fashion companies, argues Enrico Beltramini.
The April 2014 cover of American Vogue, featuring Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, proves that media now belongs to the people — but Vogue is not dead, writes Bonnie Morrison.


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Situated in Santa Fe, this hotel is close to Georgia O'Keefe Museum, Palace of the Governors, and San Miguel Mission. Also nearby are New Mexico State Capitol and The Harrell House of Natural Oddities and Bug Museum.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Villas de Santa Fe, a Diamond Resorts Intl Destination provides a spa tub and a fitness center. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Santa Fe hotel also offers barbecue grills, an arcade/game room, and a picnic area. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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The VITA program is sponsored by WWU's Beta Alpha Psi in cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service.
ANYONE may volunteer to help with VITA – even if you've never done a tax return before! All of the training you need is provided – free! Please join us in providing free tax help to the community!
The training and training materials you will receive are provided free of charge. However, to maximize the effectiveness of our program, we request that you commit to actually providing at least 20 hours of volunteer time in the community assisting taxpayers during this filing period. If you can volunteer 2 to 4 hours per week during the filing season (early February through April 15th), you can easily accomplish this. By committing to these 20 hours, we can ensure that resources are available to assist those who need our help.
By volunteering your time to this endeavor, you will be provided with:
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If this appeals to you, please complete the Volunteer Registration Form (online – click here to go to the registration form). Although the training is free, we request that you sign up (using the online form) as early as possible, so that we can be sure that we have sufficient training materials for everyone.
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