10 Free Windows Programs Every PC Owner Should Install Immediately. You might not have realized it -- what with all the excitement over "Magic Mike" and all -- but we are rapidly approaching an exciting season: prime buying time for new Windows computers! (I know, I know, settle down.) The latest, super-fast Intel chips are now shipping in new machines; Samsung, Vizio, Asus, and Sony have all outed well-reviewed new models. Windows 8, the transformative new operating system for Windows computers, will be released to the world in a few months -- which either means an easy, $15 upgrade for your current machine, or that you should buy now if you think you're going to hate Windows 8 and don't want it pre-loaded on your shiny new PC). So, what free programs should you download first for your Windows machine? Loading Slideshow SolutoIf your PC takes forever and a day to start up and get going, then Soluto is for you. Susan Bernstein: Why Looking for a Job Online Is Bass-Ackwards (and What You Need to Do to Be Happily Hired)
I have a big soft spot in my heart for people who are "between jobs. " That's a term I much prefer to "unemployed," and maybe you do, too, especially if that's your current situation, right? So, whether you're looking for work, or know someone who is, I've gotta tell you, the old-school ways of getting yourself employed (especially checking online job search postings) are D-E-A-D. You need a much more powerful strategy, especially these days, when standing out from the crowd is crucial. The Old Way to Search for Work "I've been looking for a job for months and months, and nothing's happening! " my client, Joanna, whined to me, as tears rolled down her face.
So I compassionately asked Joanna, "What's your strategy to get a job? " "I've been so busy! I don't believe in "right" and "wrong," but I do think some strategies are more effective than others. And you can create your own jobs, too. (7) Follow up regularly You want to be talking with at least a few prospects at the same time. Request Information - Volunteer Abroad with Cross-Cultural Solutions. Brene Brown: The Power Of Vulnerability. In this special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post are excited to count down 18 great ideas of 2011, featuring the full TEDTalk with original blog posts that we think will shape 2012. Watch, engage and share these groundbreaking ideas as they are unveiled one-by-one, including never-seen-before TEDTalk premieres. Standby, the countdown is underway! Watch research professor Brené Brown discuss the importance of opening up oneself and feeling vulnerable, then read her follow-up post below.
My entire research career has been fueled by a commitment to bring to light the emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that we all experience but never discuss -- to find patterns and connections in our experiences so that we can learn more about the journey from fear and scarcity to love, belonging, and worthiness. The most difficult and most rewarding challenge of my work is how to be both a mapmaker and a traveler. One of my favorite quotes is from theologian Howard Thurman. Www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/algorithms/algorithms. Breakthrough Awards 2011: Popular Mechanics' 10 Most Transformative Products Of The Year (PHOTOS) Popular Mechanics' seventh annual Breakthrough Awards recognize the top people and products that have "dramatically advanced the fields of technology, medicine, space exploration, automotive design, and environmental engineering. " This year's breakthrough innovations range from smog devouring roof tiles to a device that lets you set up an instant small business anywhere.
Popular Mechanics is also honoring 11 innovators whose work "will transform the world in years to come. " “From off-the-shelf blood vessels to a cell phone tower the size of a Rubik’s Cube, our Breakthrough Award winners not only capture the imagination, but hold the potential to improve and save lives,” says Popular Mechanics editor-in-chief James B. Meigs, in a press release. The winners are chosen by Popular Mechanics editors who enlist the help of top experts and past Breakthrough winners to find the coolest inventions of the year. The products are then tested to make sure that they really do what they say they do. Will Bunch: The Tea Party, Right-Wing Media and the Dog That Didn't Bark.
You could make the argument that the Tea Party movement is the most potent force in American politics today. After all, the evidence is everywhere -- especially in Washington, where Republican lawmakers pushed the previously-unheard-of, tea-flavored notion that disaster aid for hurricane victims can only be paid for by cutting social programs. That was advocated by the same Tea Party faction, swept into office last fall, that has scuttled any talk that higher taxes -- even on millionaires and billionaires who thrived in an era of working-class decimation -- could ever be part of the Beltway's obsession with debt reduction. Yes, you could make that argument. But here's the weird thing -- if the Tea Party is really such a powerhouse of political influence... where has it been recently? Where's the Tea Party? The 2010 election was supposed to be the warm-up for the Tea Party's ultimate goal, which was turning Barack Obama into a one-term president.
For the most part, yes. Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Will Transform Society (Excerpt) Excerpted from Jeremy Rifkin's The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World, Palgrave Macmillan 2011. Energy regimes shape the nature of civilizations... how they are organized, how the fruits of commerce and trade are distributed, how political power is exercised, and how social relations are conducted. The locus of control over energy production and distribution is beginning to tilt from giant fossil fuel based centralized energy companies to millions of small producers, who are generating their own renewable energies in their dwellings and trading surpluses in info-energy commons.
Distributed Capitalism The new era will bring with it a reorganization of power relationships across every level of society. The partial shift from markets to networks establishes a different business orientation. Beyond Right and Left When was the last time you heard anyone under the age of twenty-five rant about his or her ideological beliefs?