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DFN: And the tombs keep on coming! I went to the King Tut Exhibit at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco on Saturday. Today is the last day of the exhibit. Bought a book regarding Carter’s discovery of the King Tut’s tomb. Interesting read so far, and if gives great insights into the current struggles [...]
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Jerry Garfield – Creating Confidence, dealing with stress – 3/18/10 Executive Coach, networking session afterwords, networking templates, cards not enough. Sit in circles, 7, max number for good interaction, no such thing as a road map to a job search. Jerry’s spent the last three years in / out of employment. Economy makes it emotionally [...]
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DFN: Bottom line, the President’s plan doesn’t seem all that bad, and I can see personally, I’ll benefit when I retire and I’m faced with the conundrum of what to do about health care. I found a summary of the Health Care Reform Bill, the final Act will be a compromise between the Senate and [...]
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DFN: Good overview of the ‘components’ that make up the wireless industry and the major players in each segment. The Infrastructure Ecosystem The cornerstone for today’s wireless communications networks March 1 2010 – 4:30 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100301/INFRASTRUCTURE/100309989/the-infrastructure-ecosystem Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in RCR Wireless News’ January [...]
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DFN: Telco’s find the use of DAS a better alternative to fully building out their own networks, and improving coverage. Generally, it takes 9 months to a year to deploy a DAS network, the telco pays for some of the upfront costs and commits to using the network often built to their own specifications for [...]
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Brian Golter spoke at Job Connections today, if you weren’t able to attend, I’m sorry, you had the misfortune to miss one of the best speaker’s we’ve had this year. This is the second time he’s spoken at JC. I’d intended to take notes during his talk, but, my iPhone ‘crapped’ out. You know things [...]
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DFN: There’s recently been some concern regarding the 8+ quake in Chile altering the ’tilt’ around which the earth axis rotates, thus changing weather patterns, so this big asteroid theory makes sense. FYI, the location of the ‘hit’, is Chicxulub, near Merida on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Lastly, while research the Chile earthquake, I discovered the [...]
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DFN: Alternative energy is of interest and as I’ve said before I use this blog to keep track of articles which have caught my attention. Fuel Cells in Bloom Posted: Mar 05, 2010 09:46 AM by Aaron Levitt http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2010/Fuel-Cells-in-Bloom-UTX-FCEL-BLDP-PLUG0305.aspx?partner=YahooSA Tickers in this Article: SPLS, EBAY, KO, WMT, SO, SI, PLUG, BLDP, FCEL, UTX A Silicon [...]
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DFN: Another advantage of DAS, besides to plug specific ‘holes’ and boosting carrier network capacity, is that it puts the risk of the capital investment on the DAS companies and off the carrier, and it minimizes the carrier capital investment. True, the trade off for the carriers, is that they have to be willing to [...]
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DFN: Critical help during ‘transition’. Having insurance is the number two concern ‘you’ have when you’re not working (#1 being not having a job). Special Study: How the Temporary Extension Act of 2010 affects the COBRA premium subsidy rules On Mar. 2, the President signed into law H.R. 4691, the “Temporary Extension Act of 2010” [...]
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