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NORTH SHORE JEWISH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE. On Sunday, March 9, at the Peabody Marriott, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., a day devoted to sharpening the skills of leaders and future leaders in the Jewish community. Conference is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the North Shore and presented by The Ringel Group of Washington, D.C. $18 includes presentations, light breakfast, dairy lunch and snacks. Online registration. www.jewishnorthshore.org. PEABODY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Frank Shirley, author of "New Rooms for Old Houses: Beautiful Additions for the Traditional Home," at the Fire Museum on Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m. Shirley will discuss how to renovate an historic home while preserving the charm and integrity of the original structure. 38 Felton St., Peabody. Members free, nonmembers $3.
Creating a lasting impression
One recent week, her calendar was booked with more than 70 hours of appointments, meetings and tasks. District officials say her trademark focus and drive will be needed more than ever during her final months on the job. She wants her successor to inherit the district with no unfinished projects. Part of it is the superintendent's desire for closure, but, mostly, it's about leaving a mark. "It's leaving a legacy," Cowan said. "I want mine to be that the Auburn School District is a great organization that is running well." A meticulous leader Colleagues say Cowan is a persistent leader who goes out of her way to understand the ins and outs of her schools, which takes her out of the office and into schools and homes.
LeaseWeb Launches Windows Express Server
Business hosting provider LeaseWeb, in collaboration with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), has announced a new low-cost dedicated hosting service targeted at small and midsize businesses. LeaseWeb Dedicated Windows Express Server allows customers to be online within 24 hours with a proprietary start-up server and broadband package. Dedicated hosting -- as opposed to shared -- offers companies a complete system without the threat of negative performance caused by other users. The Windows platform guarantees continuity of the solution through upgrades. LeaseWeb's network has been shown to have a realized uptime of 99.99 percent, according to a WatchMouse study in 2006. LeaseWeb is based in the Netherlands with offices throughout Europe and in New York. « Back to Critical News « Get more advice every month.
Updated: When Good Interviews Go Bad
We love the band Sigur Ros. Their music is beautiful and moving, so much so that it doesn't matter that they're singing in a totally made-up language. Sigur Ros is four lads from Iceland, and recently, they were in New York to screen a new concert film Heima at the New Yorker Festival. Their P.R. folks called and asked if we wanted them on the show, to which we quickly replied, "hells yeah". Anyway, last Friday the band showed up promptly at 11am (EDT) and commenced to give what is possibly the worst interview in the history of electronic media. Seriously. It was that bad. We're not sure if they were tired, or if it was a language thing, or what... but wow. (UPDATE: Music journalist Jancee Dunn sorts through the interview's wreckage.) Whereas most shows would just bury an interview like that, we've decided to actually show it to you.
Real-life experiences, really well done
Our own age, that is. The first time Jerry Colbert listened to "Closer Than Ever," just after the revue's 1989 off-Broadway premiere, he thought it was ... OK. "Now, I think, `How could I not have loved this show?!' " says Colbert, a Charlotte-based actor/singer featured in Collaborative Arts' current staging at Spirit Square. Maturity, Colbert explains with a shrug, has added him to the show's passionate fan base among theater insiders. "It's filled with humanity," says Colbert, describing "Closer Than Ever" as a series of entertaining and often moving observations on a range of experiences, from dating to parenthood to the loss of a spouse. "All the songs address real-life situations that I think anyone who's achieved a certain age will relate to." The show, by songwriting team David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr.
Could the Irish scupper the Lisbon Treaty?
While European politicians were most nervous about the prospect of a British referendum, an Irish “No" is not an impossibility. Of course, the Irish rejected the Nice treaty in 2001. The Irish government broadly blamed it on a lack of time spent campaigning and will not make the same mistake again. Although after the Nice “No" they were required to vote again, I am pretty sure that would be impossible in the current climate. So an Irish “No" would be a very serious business. It would surely kill off the treaty of Lisbon, as surely as the French and Dutch killed off the constitution. Which would leave the leaders of the EU is a very tricky position: would they really spend the next two years trying to tweak the text again so that it looked sufficiently different, to go through the whole process again? Rejection signs? Some are already suggesting the foundations for rejections are there.
Alzheimer's hits family hard: 'Something's not right with Mom ...
They also have four kids, not two, and none of us makes it through a day without multiple kisses, hugs and "I love you's," just in case one of us decides to ship off to the Peace Corps upon leaving the house.
My mother has shrugged off severe physical discomfort for most of her life. It has been her habit to walk like a fiend, sew, cook, bake, garden, needlepoint, knit, decoupage pictures from art books, refinish furniture, read two newspapers a day, half a dozen magazines a week and, when the pain from a long ago injury keeps her up at night as it so often does, polish off another novel.
She also has been one to get her hair wet swimming, shoot baskets in the backyard and follow the Bears as if they were her own sons.
My father is in the scrap-iron business, a 9-to-5, suit-and-tie man, despite the fact that he often spends his days in filthy scrap yards and occasionally takes the wheel of one of his trucks.
Prizes given for plans to ‘tag’ an asteroid
In the student category, the $5,000 first-place prize went to the Georgia Institute of Technology. Engineering student Jonathan Sharma was the principal investigator for a mission design entitled Pharos. NASA and the European Space Agency co-sponsored the competition and will review the mission designs, the Planetary Society said. "We are very happy that this competition inspired innovative designs to solve an important problem that could affect life on Earth — as the dinosaurs learned the hard way," Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society's director of projects, said in an announcement listing the winners. “We hope the winning entries will catalyze the world's space agencies to move ahead with designs and missions to protect Earth from potentially dangerous asteroids and comets." To tag an asteroid
Although Apophis was used as the test case for the contest, the Planetary Society said the mission designs could be adapted to tag any potentially hazardous asteroid.
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