Guest editors Shea and Pace have submitted this link for your consideration: 101 Reasons To Breastfeed Your Baby
Last night, various Reddit users posted links to stories from ABC and other news outlets reporting that the Secret Service had been dispatched to the home of Senator Joe Biden.
That wasn't a 100% slam dunk but a pretty good indication of the pending announcement, which Obama's campaign had otherwise managed to keep in great secrecy up until that point.
Still, there's a lesson in there about “Internet time” and the fact that nothing's a secret for very long anymore in this day and age.
In undergrad, I went to a speed reading seminar put on by the Psych Students Association. Basically, the instructor said that if you just kept training yourself to read more and more “parts” at a time – words then phrases then sentences then paragraphs then pages, you'd be able to speed read books and other materials in no time flat because you'd learn to grab keywords from each “part” and get just as much meaning as if you'd done a careful, thorough reading. The instructor did caution that it required ongoing practice and I think I lasted about a week before I was on to some other flight of fancy to distract myself. Still, that memory came back when I heard about Spreeder.com which bills itself as an online speed-reading application.
Pace has recently added “kisses” to his bag of tricks. When you say “kisses” or make a lip smacking kissing noise, he'll do the same thing.
That's pretty cool in and of itself but the other night, he was sleeping on the couch between Shea and I. I leaned over him to give Shea a kiss goodnight as I was off to bed. From between us, we hear “Smmmacck!” as Pace, still asleep, must've heard me kissing Shea and decided to make the noise himself from wherever he was in dreamland!
Ever wonder how “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” seems to have access to pretty much any news clip they want? A former technician on the show posts a comment on a PVR blog with some insight into how they do it.
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Shea's cousin got married today to a recent RCMP graduate. The ceremony was at the chapel at the RCMP Training Depot (apparently the oldest building in Regina – I did not know that!) then the reception was in a small town forty minutes outside Regina and about ten minutes down the road from where Shea grew up (and where we had our very similar, small-town wedding reception five years ago!)
Here are a few shots from our day…
RCMP Training Depot Chapel, Regina, SK
Our Family on the Depot Grounds
Pace hanging out by the bar…literally!
“Do you know the two-step?”
A bit of hypothetical reality question for you – what is the single most important thing you should do as a manager to help staff accept institutional change?
