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Latest from the Blog Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers, seeks to answer.
Freedom Vaults : Guidelines for Saying No to Police Searches
One of the main powers that law enforcement officers carry is the power to intimidate citizens into voluntarily giving up their rights. Police are trained to believe in their authority and trained to perform their interactions with private citizens with confidence. It is their job to deal with problems and they learn to manage uncomfortable situations through strength. Most people, when confronted by police get a mild panic reaction, become anxious, and try to do whatever they can to minimize the time spent with the officer. Because of the imbalance of power between citizen and officer, when a law enforcement officer makes a strongly worded request, most people consent without realizing that they are giving up constitutional protections against improper meddling by the State in the private affairs of citizens. A common situation is that of the traffic stop.
Stocks Fall as Traders Focus on Japan Crisis - NYTimes.com
The anxiety was heightened by increasing volatility as stocks, bonds and currencies alike swung sharply through the course of a trading day punctuated by worsening news reports about Japan as well as word that police and riot troops had clashed again with protesters in Bahrain. “There is so much uncertainty about the Japanese situation and the Middle East that people are just struggling to quantify them,” said Barry Knapp, head of American equity strategy at Capital. Japanese stocks seemed set for another volatile trading day Thursday, amid reports that foreign financial firms are pushing Japanese stock market officials to halt trading.Japanese insurance companies, global insurers and reinsurers, hedge funds and other investors in catastrophe bonds are all expected to bear a portion of the losses that seem likely to exceed $100 billion. Total damage from the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, was estimated at $100 billion, according to the Insurance Information Institute, but only about $3 billion of that was covered by insurance. The greatest uncertainty surrounds contamination from the nuclear accident prompted by the earthquake and tsunami. Operators of nuclear plants in Japan are required to buy liability insurance through the Japan Atomic Energy Insurance Pool, an industry group. But they are required to buy coverage of only about $2.2 billion for liabilities, and the pool does not sell the utilities coverage for earthquake damage or business interruptions, suggesting it will again be up to the Japanese government to bear the brunt of those costs.
Japan’s Government Likely to Bear Much of the Loss - NYTimes.com
Kunio Imakawa, a 75-year-old barber, was not among them. Mr. Imakawa and his wife, Shizuko, lost his three-chair barber shop, their second-floor apartment and all their belongings in the tsunami.
‘Too Late’ for Some Tsunami Victims to Rebuild on Japanese Coast - NYTimes.com
Japan Finds High Radioactive Materials in Spinach and Milk - NYTimes.com
While officials played down the immediate risks to consumers, the findings further unsettled a nation worried about the long-term effects of the hobbled reactors. The Tokyo Electric Power Company , with help from the Japan Self-Defense Forces, police officers and firefighters, continued efforts to cool the damaged reactors on Saturday to try to stave off a full-scale fuel meltdown and contain the fallout. The latest plan involved running a mile-long electrical transmission line to Reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to try to restore power to its cooling system. About 500 workers from the utility connected the power line on Saturday. They were checking the cooling system, which has been disabled since the earthquake and tsunami hit more than a week ago, and hoped to restart it on Sunday.Among his tasks is to pump out radioactive liquid that has collected inside the burned-out reactor. This happens whenever it rains. The sarcophagus was built 25 years ago in a panic, as radiation streamed into populated areas after an explosion at the reactor, and now it is riddled with cracks. Water cannot be allowed to touch the thing that is deep inside the reactor: about 200 tons of melted nuclear fuel and debris, which burned through the floor and hardened, in one spot, into the shape of an elephant’s foot. This mass remains so highly radioactive that scientists cannot approach it.
Lessons From Chernobyl for Japan - NYTimes.com
Quake in Japan Broke a Link in Global Supply Chain - NYTimes.com
Mr. Prophet oversees all hardware purchasing for H.P.’s $65-billion-a-year global supply chain, which feeds its huge manufacturing engine. The company’s factories churn out two personal computers a second, two printers a second and one data-center computer every 15 seconds.
Edward L. Glaeser: Done Right, a New Applied Science Center for New York Makes Sense - NYTimes.com
Edward L. Glaeser is an economics professor at Harvard and the author of “ Triumph of the City .” On St. Patrick’s Day, the Bloomberg administration announced that New York City had “received 18 responses from academic institutions seeking to develop and operate a new applied science and engineering research campus in New York City.” These expressions of interest, from institutions as far-flung as Stanford and the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, are far from final plans, but they represent the next step in an ambitious concept of expanding the academic footprint in New York City.
'Otherwise Known as the Human Condition,' by Geoff Dyer - Review - NYTimes.com
That’s not a bad description, as it happens, of what’s so winning about Geoff Dyer’s skinny and genre-blurring books. Mr. Dyer doesn’t exactly drive in the night with his subjects, but he tests them in other ways.
Triangle Fire: Liberating Clothing Made in Confinement - NYTimes.com
Library of Congress The shirtwaist style, as depicted in a June 1896 issue of Scribner’s Magazine. View more photos » 5:04 p.m. | Updated One hundred years after the Triangle Waist Company fire, the fashion that employed small armies of seamstresses at the turn of the last century endures.Exploring the 'Net and Star Trek with Pearltrees | TG Daily
Over the past few days, you may have noticed that we've embedded a new tool known as Pearltrees in certain articles on TG Daily . For example, we added a "pearltree" in a post about WikiLeaks and accident-prone Japanese nuclear facilities , and another in an article describing the enigmatic Anonymous and their nemesis Backtrace Security . As you can see, Pearltrees embeds a significant amount of supplemental information related to a post in a way that is easy to navigate, while giving you a chance to preview content before you even click a link. There's a lot more to Pearltrees, though. During a recent interview, the company told us they are engaged in building an expanding a comprehensive "social curation" community. What does this mean for you?News Do we have innate knowledge?