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Want a 10-foot-tall painting of Star Wars action figures
(Credit: Kickstarter) Do you still have your original "Star Wars" action figures? Mine are tucked away in storage, but looking at Rob Burden's artwork makes me want to dig them out. The San Francisco artist is so obsessed with his old "Star Wars" figures that he does 10-foot-tall oil paintings of them, like "The Birth of a Jedi," above. The works ...
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Why We Shouldnt Be Surprised That Managers Dont Embrace Complexity
Leonardo da Vinci , the great genius of the Middle Ages, asserted that, "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Most modern managers would agree. Every good operation works hard to streamline their processes down to the barest ...
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A Fishing Tournament In Gotham City
Captain Frank Crescitelli produced his first belly howl of the day. His 32-foot Regulator fishing boat was one among 40 others of its ilk being tossed about mercilessly in the crisscrossed waves of the active New York Harbor on this pleasant Friday in the spring. A helicopter flew overhead, commandeered by a film crew. Kid Rock blared from the Regulator's speakers. And Captain Frank--he of ...
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If Orb Wins Preakness Sell All Your Stocks
LOUISVILLE, KY - APRIL 28: Julio Gondola holds Orb while Stuart Dillender attaches his blanket after being bathed during the morning excercise session in preparation for the 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on April 28, 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Kentucky ...
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Slide Show Lamborghini Egoista Dream on
Absurd? Check. Irresistible? Double check. From Autoweek.com, here are some things you should know about the Lamborghini Egoista concept, which has made quite a splash since its debut as part of Lamborghini's 50th anniversary ...
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Realtor receives top state honor at ceremony
The Women's Council of Realtors has more than 12,000 members nationally and is an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors. Its mission is to empower women Realtors to reach their full potential as entrepreneurs and real estate industry leaders. Jones has worked in the real estate industry and been a member of the Association of Realtors for 14 years. She has been a member of the ...
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Paul B. Farrell $10 trillion in X-Prizes needed to save the world
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Yes, X-Prize billionaires are failing their mission: "Making the Impossible Possible." Now they need at least $10 trillion to save the world, and a far grander vision, the new ...
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How BlackBerry is fixing its once broken brand
Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben is trying to re-energize the brand by focusing on the BlackBerry name, eschewing old standbys like Bold and ...
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Winklevoss twins on Bitcoin Time to work with the Feds
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who parlayed Facebook cash into a multi-million dollar Bitcoin stake, say making money means working with the Feds. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin Foundation is about to hire its first D.C. ...
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5 Worst Home Renovation Projects
TheStreet ) — A new bathroom or roof can make your home a lot more pleasant, but don’t expect to recover its cost when you sell. That’s because a recent analysis by Remodeling magazine and the National Association of Realtors found that none of 35 upgrades studied will boost your home’s value enough to cover the job’s nationwide average price. ';You can ...
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Australian dollar drops below parity with US dollar mainly due to US positive gains
The Australian dollar fell below parity with the US dollar and stayed down during the whole week, which is widely attributed to positive indicators in the US economy.On Friday, the Australian dollar took another step lower, falling as low as 97.33 US cents, a level not seen since June 2012.The Australian dollar tumbled to 98.3 cents late on Thursday, breaking through its 11-month low of 98.5 ...
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Stocks surge higher on positive news about US economy
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City. Stocks surged higher, the fourth straight week of gains for Wall Street. (Spencer Platt/Getty ...
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IRS And 501 Damned If They Do Damned If They Dont
English: Senator Norm Coleman (R - Minnesota) and his wife, Laurie Coleman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Damned if you do, damned if you don't. While heads role at the IRS for allegedly picking on Tea Party groups, the agency is being sued ...
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Dirty Dozen The 12 Worst Mutual Funds
High fees plus poor performance: The formula is pretty easy to determine what makes a bad mutual fund. Some, though, are worse than others--and some are so bad that they've made it into one publication's unofficial hall of shame for charging big fees but delivering small results. Funds that depend on bad market performance--"bear funds"--for their growth have done ...
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New Microsoft CFOs compensation package disclosed
Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I. ...
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DirecTV reportedly wants to buy Hulu again
(Credit: Hulu) Satellite TV provider DirecTV is thinking about buying all or parts of streaming-video site Hulu, according to news reports Friday. An unnamed source ...
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When Is An Apology NOT An Apology New Lessons From Abercrombie Fitch
It takes no responsibility for the action that prompted the apology. It has no sense of mea culpa, or remorse, but rather seems to transfer the blame to you - sorry YOU got upset, not that I did something to upset you. In a marriage, too many of those, and you are headed to divorce court. In a friendship, that way lays "unfriending." And so, here we go again. Given the groundswell of ...
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Yahoo to consider $1.1B price tag for Tumblr this Sunday -- report
AllThingsD reported Friday. Unnamed sources told ATD that the deal is entirely in cash, which means Yahoo isn't offering up any stock options for the hip blogging site. The sources also said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer -- who has been trying to turn the large, struggling company around -- thinks buying Tumblr is key to her vision of a new Yahoo. Yahoo sent out ...
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Ready for Windows 8 Were just starting on Win 7 says Dell
(Credit: Microsoft) Maybe everyone's focused on the wrong Microsoft operating system. Dell said during its earnings conference call on Thursday that "commercial" customers, meaning corporate customers, are just now transitioning ...
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San Diegos export potential problematic
The choice is not whether we compete but whether we do it well or not, and the cost or risk of competing poorly is falling behind. San Diego is faced with trade-related infrastructure capacity constraints in four of the five ways to move people and goods in and out of the region, forcing us to depend upon the increasingly constrained infrastructure located in the greater Los Angeles area. To ...
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Northrop Grumman lands $555.6 million contract
Northrop Grumman's San Diego division has been awarded a two-year Air Force contract potentially valued at $555.6 million to modernize its Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles, the Defense Department ...
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San Diego firms report March quarter results
Envision Solar, a San Diego maker of solar tree structures for parking lots and other uses, posted lower sales and larger loss for the quarter ended March 31 compared with the prior ...
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Europe investors bow to Africa Asia in U.S. real estate deals
The panel analyzing capital investment in U.S. real estate, from left, were: John R. Miller, Charles H. Fedalen Jr., Christopher R. Ludeman, J. Michael Stedman and Jon H. ...
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New Concussion Foundation to Deal With Ticking Time Bomb
A new health epidemic looms on the horizon like a ticking time bomb. It is the spectre of cumulative brain damage suffered from repetitive sub-concussive hits to the head in football and other sports. A concussion does not necessitate being knocked out cold. It is a blow to the head or body creating a change in brain function. Research is now showing that damage is occurring in regular action to ...
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Listening to Customers Yields Success
In my 40+ years as an entrepreneur, and heavily involved in the entrepreneurial community, I have observed the wild success of many businesses, and the fast failure of others. All had a superior product or service, so why did some fail? Many companies tend to focus too much on that product or service and forget to listen to what customers are telling them. This inevitably resulted in declining ...
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Rhode Island offshore wind farm contraversey
There is division in the ranks over a wind farm planned for construction off Block Island, while officials in the state government have accused future surveys for potential new sites of lacking in scope.
Deepwater Wind is becoming a controversial name in Rhode Island over plans to build an off shore wind farm just off the coast of Rhode Island. While not as controversial as Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil rig that caused the mess in the Gulf of Mexico, the renewable energy plans of Deepwater Wind are certainly raising some hackles. Read more
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