Understanding Retail-Sales Speak (1)
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Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Posted in Friday Funny Many of you are up to your neck in Christmas shopping. One week from today is Black Friday, a day of shopping madness. As you are out and about in stores, use this handy guide to help you understand what retail-sales clerks really mean. 1. “Can I help you find a size?” (Don’t touch that, I just spent an hour folding it and I don’t ...
LEAD! Part B: Christian Character (1)
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As mentioned earlier, the LEAD! Bible Study is a tripod, built on three legs: theological education character formation skill development Having finished writing the lessons for Part A, we now turn out attention to the second trimester (which the class with start in January). This blog post is for the initial outline; as before, the final version will be [...]
The Church (1)
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There was a time when “going to church” did not need an explanation. People understood what you meant and what you would do when you got there. Today, that is not the case because there is a struggle with the very definition of the word “church”. This is an important debate because the church is God’s entity that manifests His glory and wisdom (Ephesians 3:10, Ephesians 3:21). Our desire should, nonetheless, be the same as ...
HB, HB and HB (1)
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Just how many HB’s do you need? Turns out, a few Japanese companies figure the answer is three.Claes in Lund, Sweden, yeah, it’s all his fault. He sent me an email enquiring about those other grades of HB lead they have in Japan. See, I didn’t really even know about them, but I do now. Not content with 2B, B, HB, F, H, 2H etc like most folk, several Japanese lead suppliers have extra grades ...
Bikini Jeans? Oh.my.lands. (1)
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I am dying laughing about Craftastrophe, but this one had me laughing really hard. Check out More Gifts for a Redneck. Say it ain’t so.
My Fortune Cookie Fortune (2)
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How BRIC Countries Are Reacting to the Crisis: Wharton (1)
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Fear and loathing are rampant at U.S. firms thanks to the financial crisis. But how are things seen in the fast-evolving BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China? The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has some insight through its Knowledge@Wharton program.. They interviewed three business experts who know those countries. They are Shiv [...]
The meaninglessness of the IITs (3)
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Utsav Choudhury asks why should the common man support the IITs, IIMs etc., with his money? IIT, AIIMS , JU, Shibpur, never produced anyone of highest intellect and wisdom. They might have produced CEO’s, but in other part of the world CEO’s are the best profession for the college drop outs. In terms or research , IIT’s like all the other institutes of national importance fails badly. Then why we support them financially. do we ...
Gutless C-Suites, Cloying Lawyers Make HR Hell (1)
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One of my blogs on human resources departments must have hit a nerve because it has received 89 comments so far, plus a number sent privately to me via email. I’ll excerpt one from the latter category here because I find it remarkably frank and on the mark: “I think that HR is just as misunderstood as [...]