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UK rewards polluters & locks up people who want to save the planet
2014-08-28 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur was imprisoned like Napoleon on Elba? It would be perverse to return the favour of great, public works by depriving people of their freedom. Yet that is just what we're doing in Britain right now. The contributions...
Microsoft offers $150 Kinect, but does anyone actually want one?
2014-08-27 21:31:20| Extremetech
Starting on October 7th, the unbundled version of the Xbox One's Kinect sensor will go on sale for a whopping $150. That's right, one hundred and fifty American dollars for a peripheral that Microsoft has gone out of its way to distance itself from. With a price that high, who would consider buying this standalone Kinect?
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If You Used UPS to Ship Packages in the Last Seven Months, You Might Want to Check Your Credit Cards
2014-08-21 18:34:27| Air Courier - Topix.net
The shipping company UPS announced this week that hackers infiltrated its system and could have compromised the credit card information of customers at more than 50 of its stores.
If You Used UPS to Ship Packages in the Last Seven Months, You Might Want to Check Your Credit Cards
2014-08-21 18:34:03| Trucking - Topix.net
The shipping company UPS announced this week that hackers infiltrated its system and could have compromised the credit card information of customers at more than 50 of its stores.
Do Women in the Car Business Ask For What They Want?
2014-08-14 22:17:59| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The Situation: As the talk and literature gain more focus about why women do not always gain authority, position, and power in corporations, car companies, and dealerships, respected Carnegie Mellon has come up with a program, two powerful books, & a six two-day modules at the Pittsburgh campus to help women in the auto industry to become more empowered through negotiation skills and just plain Asking for what they want. What is the program called & its objectives? The Carnegie Mellon Leadership and Negotiation Academy For Women is the first program of its kind to look at critical leadership skills through a negotiation lens is now offered through Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business Executive Education program in partnership with the H. John Heinz III College. Developing strong female leaders within organizations is the key objective of the Carnegie Mellon Leadership and Negotiation Academy for Women. The program, which consists of six two-day modules, is now enrolling students for its fall cohort, which will begin study in September 2014 and complete the program in March 2015. Why automotive management should enroll their women executives: Research has found men are four times more likely than women to initiate negotiations, and those women who do negotiate often experience negative social consequences. Academy participants will gain greater expertise in networking, communications and authority, while improving their ability to recognize negotiable opportunities, develop strategies of influence, create mutually beneficial agreements, navigate power imbalances and optimize group performance through diversity. GET MORE DETAILS __________________________________________________________ The Article Do Women in the Car Business Ask For What They Want? appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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