Who Created the Voter-Fraud Myth? Teresa Sharp is fifty-three years old and has lived in a modest single-family house on Millsdale Street, in a suburb of Cincinnati, for nearly thirty-three years. A lifelong Democrat, she has voted in every Presidential election since she turned eighteen. So she was agitated when an official summons from the Hamilton County Board of Elections arrived in the mail last month. Hamilton County, which includes Cincinnati, is one of the most populous regions of the most fiercely contested state in the 2012 election.
No Republican candidate has ever won the Presidency without carrying Ohio, and recent polls show Barack Obama and Mitt Romney almost even in the state. Every vote may matter, including those cast by the seven members of the Sharp family—Teresa, her husband, four grown children, and an elderly aunt—living in the Millsdale Street house. 90 Day Low Carb Challenge with Lynn Terry & Kelly McCausey. What Went Wrong: The Betrayal of The American Dream. General: 'My Career Was Done' When I Criticized Flawed Warplane. Don Harvel, near his home in Georgia.
Photo: Kendrick Brinson/Wired Don Harvel thought he was cruising to a well-deserved retirement after 35 years flying cargo planes for the U.S. Air Force. Then in the spring of 2010 he was tapped to investigate the fatal crash of a high-tech Air Force tiltrotor aircraft – and everything changed. What Harvel discovered about the controversial hybrid aircraft drew him into a battle of wills with his superiors at Air Force Special Operations Command. Sir John Templeton 16 Rules For Investment Success.
Investing & Trading Rules, Aphorisms & Books (Fall 2012) Back in 2011, I pulled together a full run of Trading Rules & Aphorisms.
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In addition, it provides fewer opportunities for account directors to ride the coattails of past performance. “Now, even the guy who booked a million dollars’ worth of business in one month can’t sit still because 30 days later, we’re going to have an entirely new forecast,” Payne says, adding, “It’s a dynamic process that makes a lot more sense.” Although traditional one-year budgets are still the norm at most companies large and small, many accountants argue that rolling budgets can be a far more useful tool.
Unlike static budgets, they encourage managers to react more quickly to changing economic developments or business conditions. Marc Goodman. - StumbleUpon. Russia's Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals. Eugene Kaspersky, Soviet officer turned software tycoon.Photo: Stephen Voss.
How the Navy's Incompetence Sank the 'Green Fleet' Navy Secretary Ray Mabus addresses the sailors of the U.S.S.
Ingraham. Photo: U.S. Navy Updated 7/18/12 5:52 pm and again on 7/26/12 8:49 am. In October of 2009, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus took the stage at a hotel ballroom in Virginia to announce the military’s most ambitious energy plan in decades: a break with the U.S. fleet’s strict dependence on oil. The Navy’s biofuel push could cost an extra $1.76 billion per year. FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS. Www.vnsseed.com. Not Even Wrong. Graham Farmelo has posted a very interesting interview he did with Witten last year, as part of his promotion of his forthcoming book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
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The day after Jim Messina quit his job as White House deputy chief of staff last January, he caught a plane to Los Angeles, paid a brief visit to his girlfriend, and then commenced what may be the highest-wattage crash course in executive management ever undertaken.
He was about to begin a new job as Barack Obama’s campaign manager, and being a diligent student with access to some very smart people, he arranged a rolling series of personal seminars with the CEOs and senior executives of companies that included Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), Zynga (ZNGA), Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Salesforce (CRM), and DreamWorks (DWA).