Archive for June, 2011

How to Avoid 7 Common On-the-Job Mistakes

How to Avoid 7 Common On-the-Job Mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes–but some of those mistakes are more avoidable than others. When it comes to your job, even just one mistake could result in major consequences for your career. Impress your employer by avoiding the following mistakes: Mistake #1: Being unavailable It’s inevitable that, at some point, your supervisor or co-workers will approach you [...]

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Israeli innovators build new ‘Silicon Valley’

Israeli innovators build new ‘Silicon Valley’

With a concentration of start-ups just behind that of Silicon Valley and an impressive pool of engineers, Israel is becoming the new standard for high-tech, with a unique business model. Internet-related activities contributed 9 billion euros (12.6 billion dollars) to the Israeli economy in 2009, representing 6.5 percent of GDP, according to a report from management consultancyMcKinsey. [...]

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Rory McIlroy mentions girlfriend as huge U.S. Open influence

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Whoops: An atypical baserunning mistake for Evan Longoria

  Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria(notes) may have had a monster weekend sans batting gloves, but it didn’t carry over to Monday’s 5-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. In the fourth inning,  Longoria committed a fielding error that extended the inning and allowed the Reds to score an extra run. Then, in the sixth, Longoria got caught [...]

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PepsiCo Wakes Up and Smells the Cola

Criticized for Taking Eye Off Ball and Focusing on Healthy Foods, Company Plans Summer Ad Splash PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP - News) is turning its attention back to Pepsi. The snack-food and beverage giant is launching the first new advertising campaign for its flagship Pepsi-Cola in three years—offering one of the most visible signs PepsiCo is throwing [...]

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Tiger Woods sports new beard at press conference

      For all golf news, follow Devil Ball on Facebook and Twitter. It seems playing golf isn’t the only thing that Tiger Woods has avoided doing while he’s rehabilitating a hurt knee and Achilles (he still has no timetable for a return). Shaving doesn’t seem to be on his list of daily activities, and on Tuesday at [...]

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America’s Dirtiest Cities

How do you define a city’s soul? For a lot of travelers, it’s in the dirt. Atlanta ad exec Patrick Scullin, for instance, loves Baltimore—but not because it’s particularly pristine. “Yes, there’s litter, smokers, and graffiti,” he says, “but that’s just life going on. The air sometimes offends, but a cool breeze off the harbor [...]

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‘WarGames’ remake coming from ‘King of Kong’ director

The original “War Games”Courtesy of MGM Global thermonuclear war is coming back to a theater near you. And, fittingly, a gamer is helping make it happen. Deadline reports that the 1983 film ‘WarGames’ is getting rebooted by MGM, who have tapped Seth Gordon — the man behind the acclaimed video game documentary ‘The King of [...]

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A disturbing trend: Neo-Nazi codes

The swastika, unmistakable symbol of Nazi power, has been banned in Germany for some time. However, neo-Nazis are finding ways around that law, initiating alternate graphics and codes to promote their Hitler-inspired beliefs. A new brochure titled “Hide and Seek,” featured in German news magazine Der Spiegel, explains the troubling trend. Of course, the symbols appear [...]

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Cirque du Soleil performer gets nutty with Padres’ first pitch

      Hideo Nomo and Tim Lincecum(notes) might have two of the most unusual deliveries in baseball history, but they don’t have anything on this Cirque du Soleil performer. Watch below as he flips and twists with flair before delivering the first pitch at Monday’s game between the San Diego Padres and Kansas City Royalsat Petco Park: [...]

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