Lindaedgecombe
March, Friday 30, 2007
Bradshaw lights up York's night as speaker
On overcast, 18-degree day, Terry Bradshaw was arrogantly riding through the streets of Pittsburgh, celebrating the city's first Super Bowl title. With the smell of Iron City beer wafting from side to side the air, Bradshaw's float turned the corner and he was hit with a verbal assault from one of the city's hard-nosed fans:
"Hey blonde bomber, you better win that sucker again next year," the fan bellowed. The former Steelers' quarterback productively answered the demand leading Pittsburgh to a Super Bowl crown again in 1975 but the encounter was just one instance of the quarterback's sometimes-difficult relationship with Steeler fans and Pittsburgh's media.
March, Wednesday 28, 2007
Indian delegation visits City to promote business
A designation from the Indian House of the People, the Lok Sabha, led by Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, is on a three-day visit to HCM City. The 14-member delegation met with the HCM City People's group Chairman, Le Hoang Quan, on Monday. The visitors also met the Indian business community in HCM City to study about the business environment here and possible opportunities.
Also on Monday the allocation visited Binh Duong Province and detained talks with the chairman of the province People's Council, Vu Minh Sang. The lawmakers then visit the offices of two Indian companies, Godrej Vietnam Company Ltd., and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., at the Viet Nam-Singapore Industrial Park.
March, Monday 26, 2007
Youth governor learning the ropes of good leadership
The Athens High School junior know what a good leader would do. Earlier this month, his basketball team desirable him for a game. But as a candidate for adolescence governor through Michigan Youth in Government, he also had to be in Lansing. While advisers told him he should go to the caucus, Swank, a four-sport athlete and class president, knew the game was evenly essential.
"What type of leader would I be if I let my team down?" said Swank, who made it to both events. Swank this month was selected youth governor through the YMCA-run Youth in Government program, beating out two other candidates. A second youth governor is expected to be elected next month. After attending district youth government conference, students across Michigan go to Lansing for a mock government, in which they discuss and pass bills.
March, Wednesday 21, 2007
Comedian inspires area students
Bucyrus High School freshman Amber Spiegel loves the appearance Bucyrus inhabitant and inspirational speaker Judson Laipply gives."He gets his point across in such an entertaining and funny way. I really enjoy listening to him," Spiegel said of the inspirational comedian.
Her friend and classmate, Lydia Thiel, agree. "He is a good speaker. It was calming and fun to see his presentation," Thiel said.Laipply, the son of Bob and Sandy Laipply and a Bucyrus High School graduate, has been featured on such television shows as the Today Show, Inside Edition and Ellen DeGeneres for his Evolution of Dance, which became the newest video on the Internet about a year ago during YouTube.com.
March, Monday 19, 2007
Opportunity knocks
Starting a business was hard for Rachel Bur and her husband, Moe Zaw. The Frederick couple's jump into unexplored territory with limited resources is paying off thanks in part to a $50,000 Frederick County Small Business Revolving Loan Fund, mutual with hard work and persistence.
Since the pair opened Asian Supermarket on West Patrick Street in February 2003, the business has extended from an initial 1,800 square feet to more than 3,000 square feet. Additional expansion plans are being contemplate and the loan was paid off in November 2005, Bur said. Frederick County Economic Development officials sleet the business as a victory story.
March, Wednesday 14, 2007
Retired U.S. Army general to be keynote speaker for cancer
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf will trip to Naples on Friday at The Ritz-Carlton Beach Resort for a form sponsored by The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Foundation. The retired U.S. Army general will be the keynote speaker for a predictable 350 guests, counting retired Sen. Connie Mack, H. Lee Moffitt, Dudley Goodlette, ABC's Sam Donaldson, Moffitt Center Director and CEO Dr. William S. Dalton and Karen Dalton, and the event's co-chairs Joe Cox and Kimberly Speer Miller.
Schwarzkopf serves as Commander of Operations of Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He also has wage a personal clash with cancer and is now a spokesman for cancer research and patient care at Moffitt Cancer Center.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Minor-League MVP Still a Big-League Believer
Bryan LaHair won the Mariners' Best of the Rest award last season or else known as minor-league MVP. For a 39th-round draft pick, that meant development and validation, proof that belief counts when it's unwavering. So guess what happen next? LaHair found himself in Cuba in September, on the U.S. Olympic to qualify team, on a bus snaking slowly toward the championship game against the hosts. Nobody supposed then, either except LaHair and teammates.
The fans outside the stadium held two fingers up for the U.S. players, turning the peace sign into a forecast. LaHair glance at the 45,000 or so rowdy people in the stands. The ground almost shook.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Corporate Funnies
Considering this hoot of a story from Fortune. Turns out there are Speakers Bureaus, agents who book speakers for events, which have raise chutzpah to a whole new level. Two firms publicize that they have big-name corporate CEOs in their steady of speakers. Only problem is that the agencies have no relationship with the CEOs, and never have.
OK, that's not so humorous. But, when Fortune asked Angela Schelp, the president of Nashville-based Executive Speakers, about all this, Schelp reply to that: "A lot of speakers are not necessarily exclusively with a bureau, but we'll list them because we can contact them," she says. Hmm, lemme get this straight: You can make contact with them.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
WA Senate passes kids health care expansion bill
A measure that would offer health care coverage to thousands more children now heads to the desk of Gov. Chris Gregoire, after the state House approved it Tuesday. The vote was 68-28, with several Republicans to vote for the measure. The Senate passed the bill earlier this session and Gregoire is predictable to sign it. House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam, said the bill would fulfill the assure the state made to have all children in Washington enclosed by 2010.
"This bill is about children," Kessler said. "It is about Poor children and middle class children. We cannot maintain talking and talking and talking and finding excuses why we can't do it." A predictable 73,000 children in the state are without insurance, with about two-thirds of those qualified for government help. Lawmakers added sufficient money to develop state health insurance to about 10,000 kids last session.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Middle East prepares for largest-ever vision-x Dubai
Vision-X Dubai, the region's leading Optical and Ophthalmic industry exhibition, will carry together the highest number of persons to participate companies in its history when it opens this week from 6 to 8 March, according to organizer Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC). The event has developed by more than 30 percent in 2007, attracting specialists from the approximately the world covering fields as diverse as frames and fashion sunglasses, tools and machines and eye health treatments.
"Vision-X Dubai has been able to bring both sectors of the eyewear industry together under one roof, providing both a business growth platform for fashion buyers and a single opportunity for ocular healthcare experts to discuss new trends in treatment," says Helal Saeed Al Marri, Director General, DWTC. Such has been insist for space at the event that it has extended to a second exhibition hall, with improved space for national pavilions and major international trading groups.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Conference points to future of non-profits
For nonprofit organizations all over the Hudson Valley, much attention is paid to insuring the organization's long-term constancy, efficiency and success. Later this spring, SUNY Orange's Institute for Nonprofit Leadership and Management will effort to help the area's non-profits sharpen their center on the future during the institute's Annual Conference, scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 22.
"Looking toward the Future of Non-profits" will be the conference's subject as leaders and volunteers from non-profits throughout Orange County will meet at SUNY Orange's Harriman Hall. Seminars and workshops will be led by experts in the field of non-profit management. Anne Dalton, chief working officer of the Association of Junior Leagues International, and Diana Gurieva, executive vice president of The Dyson Foundation, will be the keynote speakers.
Wednesday, Febraury 28, 2007
Rulon Gardner Back on Speaker's Circuit
Rulon Gardner has a whole new tale of endurance to add to his motivational speeches. The Olympic gold medalist was back on a plane, back on the speaker's circuit and back on wrestling mat just days after a plane collide plunged him into a frigid lake near the Arizona-Utah border. Adding the meet to his growing list of near-miracles, Gardner said Tuesday that his disturbing weekend "is an experience I still can't comprehend."
Wearing jeans on a campus where they're not allowable and a leather jacket decorated with the Olympic rings. Gardner spoke at the Middlesex School about location goals and reaching them for about an hour. When the theater had to clear out for national French exams, he went over to the athletic building to provide a wrestling clinic. Why hop on a plane just two days after crashing in one? For the same reason he has resume wrestling just six months after he nearly lost his feet to frostbite in a previous outdoor ordeal.
Friday, Febraury 23, 2007
Leaving the power within untapped
I regret I won't be attending your March 6 inspiring extravaganza at the Ottawa Congress Centre. Unfortunately, this will mean I won't learn how to experience the power within me from exceptional leaders who could change my business, professional and personal performance. All right, I derivative the last bit from your newspaper ad. But truthfully, I couldn't have phrased it any better myself.
I suppose you picked Ottawa as a venue because you finished we need some novel inspiration. Personally, I'm regularly enthralled by the vehicular gymnastics of Highway 417 tail-gaters and lane-changers. Otherwise though, there doesn't seem to be anyone in town to inspire real oohing and aahing.
Yours truly can't go for two lawful reasons: It'll be a Tuesday. My regular employer isn't likely to permit it when I try to explain I'm going to hear Suzanne. Somers inspire me to do I can't understand what. If you'd made it a weekend engagement, I could have used the reason at home of going to a hockey game when a seven-hour brawl broke out.
