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Organic Valley Is Recruiting Future Farmers of America

The cooperative of farmers is setting out on a national recruiting tour.READ»

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Babelgum Actually -- gasps -- Pays for Users to Create Videos

Ambitious long-form programming -- with a Sundance vibe.READ»

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Digg, WikiLeaks, and Censorship, American Style

Anti-free-speech/user-privacy articles are all over the news this week. And though the fuss over U.S. net neutrality may have been wrong, censorship is alive and well in America--it just takes a slightly different form.READ»

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Space Hero Glenn: Save Our Space Shuttles

If, like me, you're a fan of all things space-related, then this year's grounding of the Space Shuttle fleet is a tricky thing--sensible, and yet a poignant tragedy. Now the biggest voice yet has joined the pro-Shuttle debate: John ...READ»

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How America's Top Military Officer Uses Business to Boost National Security

Admiral Mike Mullen says the sea was his business. Now, as America's top military officer, he's reshaping strategy for a world in which economics and security are intertwined.READ»

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Crib Sheet: Gordon M. Snow, Assistant Director of FBI Cyber Division

This is the only freely-circulating photograph in existence of Gordon M. Snow, the newly-appointed deputy director of the FBI Cyber Division. But then, the FBI is probably marginally more aware of social networking etiquette than ...READ»

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Aliens Vs. Predator: A Decade-Long Grudgematch Revived

With today's release of Aliens Vs. Predator, Rebellion Games completes a decade-long journey. Designer Tim Jones reveals the ups and downs of bringing the established film franchise back to life.READ»

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Building a Better Sandbag: McCurdy's Armor Gives Troops Pop-Up Bunkers in Afghanistan

Lately we've seen the idea of pop-up architecture spread to businesses, books, and plenty of buildings. But perhaps the best use for rapidly-deployable structures is in disaster zones and on the battlefield. The Marine Corps in ...READ»

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Robocalypse Alert: Defense Contract Awarded to Scary BigDog

You remember BigDog, don't you? It's that loud all-terrain prototype robot quadruped that peopled your dreams with Terminator-esque nightmares when you saw the video. DARPA just awarded a $32 million contract to build it. The ...READ»

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Aftershock rattles Haiti

Untitled Document The 5.9 aftershock hit at daybreak. Shrieking Haitians ran from buildings and walls, fearing a repeat of the magnitude 7 quake that killed tens of thousands of people eight days ago. Hole digger Though the ...READ»

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Help Barbie Choose Her Next Career, You Guys!

Picking a job is tough! America's buxom beauty is unemployed and she needs your help with some career advice.READ»

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Boston Area Toyota Dealer Supports Toys for Tots

Acton Toyota of Littleton encourages Boston area residents to visit their Toyota showroom and donate a new gift for the Toys for Tots program.READ»

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Serbia & Montenegro Beat EU On Anti- Counterfeiting Laws & EU Standards

When traveling throughout Serbia & Montenegro in August 1999 for three weeks vacation. I also found Serbia & Montenegro banks to be 100% in accordance with EU anti-counterfeiting laws & guidelines.READ»

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Cellphonometry: Can Kids Really Learn Math From Smartphones?

Schools are partnering with mobile-phone companies to help kids conquer math. Are smartphone-learning initiatives more than a corporate gimmick?READ»

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Boston Area Toyota Dealer Collects For Toys for Tots

Acton Toyota of Littleton announces its continued support for the Toys for Tots collection program. Massachusetts residents can contribute toys for the program by visiting the Acton of Toyota showroom located near Boston, Mass and Nashua, New Hampshire.READ»

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The Rhythm of Design: How Being a Marine Drummer Set My Lifetime Creative Tempo

Peter Clarke's hybrid experience as a musician in the U.S. Marine Corps. gave him the skills to build a company that blends discipline and creativity to take on the challenges of designing the world's best-known brands.READ»

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Navy-Marine Relief Society (NMCRS)

Since its inception back in 1904, the Navy-Marine Relief Society (NMCRS) has been providing emergency financial assistance to active duty and retired Navy and Marine Corps personnel as well as members of their families. READ»

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Boston Dynamics Robots Tiptoe Toward Terminator

A new video of a Boston Dynamics robot has surfaced--possibly the scariest yet. The company's name alone should give you the willies if you've watched the Terminator movies or seen the previous chilling robots ...READ»

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ESPN Stifles Reporter's Personal Tweets, Totally Missing Twitter's Point

ESPN joined the ranks of organizations that issue policies for its members use of Twitter. In fact, it outright banned Tweets that don't serve the organization. Does this sound crazy to you? The news broke via the Twitter feed of ...READ»

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The Racism that Resides within us causes the “F” Bomb!

“Racism is conditioned by economic imperatives, but negotiated through culture: religion, literature, art, science and the media… Once, they demonized the blacks to justify slavery. Then they demonized the “colored” to justify colonialism. Today, they demonize asylum seekers to justify the ways of globalism. And, in the age of the media… demonization sets out the parameters of popular culture within which such exclusion finds its own rationale — usually under the guise of xenophobia, the fear of strangers.” READ»

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LeaderShaping your Way out of the Downturn

The last 18 months have been the most trying in decades for business leaders. The conditions that normally make running an organization of any type – a business unit or a team rewarding is market expansion, revenue growth, rising pay, and incentives – have been absent for most, replaced by the unrelenting tasks of survival, retrenchment, and cost cutting. What should leaders do in this depressed environment? The first task of leadership, Bison argues, is to identify the default future, discuss it, and analyze it, and then go about re-imagining – and, in effect, rewriting the future. The Bison Group’s program, “The Six Levels of Leadership,” helps business leaders overcome the daunting task of facing the future, by teaching them to rewrite the future that leads to real business transformation with profitable growth. And the lessons are just as applicable to individuals.READ»

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GE's Building Smart Microgrid for the Military

Military bases are often in isolated or disaster-ridden locations, which makes them ideal candidates for microgrids, or self-contained power grids. GE is capitalizing on the military's need for reliable power in all circumstances with ...READ»

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Are You Writing a Memoir or an Autobiography? How to Tell the Difference

It may seem like a small point, but before you sit down to record the events of your life, you should know: Are you writing a memoir or an autobiography? In casual conversation, most people use the terms ...READ»

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Defining a Refreshed and Irreplaceable Type of Organizational Leadership: The LeaderShaped Leader

The LeaderShaped Leader sits atop a hierarchy of six significant leadership and organizational behavioral stages – and possesses the skills of all six. Individuals without these skills have gaps in their understanding of producing exceptional leadership for the 21st century and beyond. Gone are the days of good and great; the future requires exceptional and extraordinary. With these six skill sets, leaders are able to perform in ways that leaves others amazed because of their ability to make it look so easy (work and reward orientation and organizational impact), yet effective. The implications for leadership in non-LeaderShaped settings are highlighted.READ»

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Seven Curious Things Online this Week

The future is scary: hadron colliders, HD-video iPhones and nanotube lightbulbs are as bizarre as they are promising. Thankfully, this week on the Web shows us that not all that much has changed; we're still the same gawkers we were ...READ»