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DFN: Walt Feigenson spent an incredible 45 minutes with the group this morning, funny entertaining and insightful. I’ve listened to Walt five + times, and I always get something new from his presentation. He did his presentation a bit differently this time, and proved that it can result in getting a job, Walt just landed [...]
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DFN: Last weekend, my wife and I went over to Carson City, Nevada to visit my wife’s mother. We go over to visit her every month, and this month, we’d bought tickets on the newly constructed V&T (Virginia & Truckee) Railroad, which takes people on a 12 mile train ride from Mound House (just outside [...]
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DFN: Spectaluar photography of Machu Picchu, great exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History! The Great Inca Road, A Spectacular Photography Exhibition http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=33965 Many theories have been offered to explain why the Incas built this stunning complex of stone buildings in such a remote place, on a high bluff nearly encircled by a river. [...]
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DFN: In a previous life, I managed the group at SBC which evaluated all new business opportunities. Mr. Hill’s comments regarding good, fact based assumptions are ‘spot’ on. Also, the tell-tale signs of overly profitable targets, eg, 80% pretax margins, are a dead give away for either too optimistic revenue forecasts, to optimistic expenses estimates, [...]
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DFN: This will be helpful information to have. The 13 Most Annoying People to Work With March 13, 2009 By Margery Weinstein, Manage Smarter Most of us have had colleagues over the years who turned annoying into an art form. Well, now it’s a classifiable art form. Career experts Christine Lambden and Casey Connor, authors [...]
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