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Friday, October 11, 2002 
categories: Culture

On Saturday the band will travel to Conway, NH for a private party performance. We've done this before as Arthur (formerly of The Kool Whip Boyz and Strange Fruit) passes us an invite every year. This will be the first time with Seitu in the band. He's a good sport but I'm not sure how well he handles cold temps. I did advise him to bring extra warm clothing. Flannel shirts and fuzzy hats r'us.

Next week two gigs! Lisa and Randal's wedding and return to Cafe Amonte in Woburn , MA.
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categories: Financial, Biz

ABC News - Shoppers, jittery about their own job security and the shaky stock market, continued to penny pinch in September, dimming prospects for a solid holiday season.
Retail blues San Francisco Chronicle
Retail chains report dismal sales in Sept. Boston Globe
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Arkansas Democrat Gazette - Taipei Times - Hartford Courant - and 78 related »
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categories: Financial, Biz

Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, reported third-quarter net income yesterday of $2.4 million, a drop of about 85 percent from the $16.7 million in the quarter a year ago. Revenue fell about 11 percent, to $352.4 million from $397.6 million a year earlier.

The chief executive, Peter R. Kann, called the business environment for The Journal "uncontrollable and awful."

"From a simplistic point of view, we've gone from a market nine months ago that was trying to look ahead and assume the best, to a market looking a foot ahead and assume the worst."
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categories: Financial, Biz

The telecommunications equipment maker, which will also report a wider-than-expected loss in the fourth quarter, said the layoffs will reduce its total work force to 35,000.
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categories: Financial, Biz

Plus, yahoo for Yahoo!, and digital radio loud and clear.
The Motley Fool

iSay - GET OUT OF SECURITIES! What a misnomer, securities, should be insecurities. The market is filled with manipulators, liars, and thieves. You are gambling with your principle. Find something that has real value, that you understand and buy it.

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ABC News - WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 Advocates of an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks are blaming the White House after the collapse of an announced agreement to create the panel.
Deal on 9/11 panel falls through CNN
Deal for independent Sept. 11 probe reached Boston Globe
United Press International - Seattle Post Intelligencer - Reuters AlertNet - Washington Post - and 88 related »
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categories: Culture, Biz, Politics

What distinguishes the leader from the misleader are his goals. Whether the compromise he makes with the constraints of reality -- which may involve political, economic, financial or people problems -- are compatible with his mission and goals or lead away from them determines whether he is an effective leader. And whether he holds fast to a few basic standards (exemplifying them in his own conduct) or whether "standards" for him are what he can get away with, determines whether the leader has followers or only hypocritical time-servers.

The second requirement is that the leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege. Effective leaders are rarely "permissive." But when things go wrong -- and they always do -- they do not blame others. If Winston Churchill is an example of leadership through clearly defining mission and goals, Gen. George Marshall, America's chief of staff in World War II, is an example of leadership through responsibility. Harry Truman's folksy "The buck stops here" is still as good a definition as any.
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categories: Politics, War, World

Bush's arguments strain the limits of plausibility to justify war on Iraq, and this, says Simon Tisdall, means regime change is imperative - in Washington

iSay - I always find it useful reading non-US news and weblogs to get the international P.O.V. But why is the internet only partly enabled? We could and should be having conversations on these P.O.V.'s. But what technology to use?

Newsgroups = Flames, high noise.

IM = high noise, try to follow a conversation when all are 'talking'.

email = time shifted, private and not threaded, try to follow who said what in an email.

Message boards = When moderated, a good solution.

Weblogs = another good solution some implementations better, more akin to moderated message boards.


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categories: SciTech, Biz

San Jose Mercury News - Silicon Valley residents are continuing to lose confidence in the future of the economy -- both nationally and locally -- as they grapple with the worst tech recession in memory, a new survey shows.
Computer science enrolments plunge in wake of tech bust Straits Times
Computer majors down amid tech bust USA Today

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categories: Culture, Politics, War, World

Yahoo Headlines - Former US President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human ...
Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Jimmy Carter Voice of America
Jimmy Carter: president, peacemaker, peanut farmer CNN
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e.thePeople (Democracy is a conversation) asks the question and receives replies from "just folks".
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