plans to change the shopping experience, shun heavy discounting and sell services along with products.
Business & Technology | AP Interview: JC Penney CEO talks about the chain | Seattle Times Newspaper
The focus on price needs to change. Consumers want it to change. We just don’t have CEOs with leadership in Australia to provide that vision.
It’s not about legacy, I’d like to see it get done. That is my job.” - Bill Gates
Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’
A fantastic view on getting stuff done.
SPIN king Shane Warne is being sued over this month’s road-rage incident with a Melbourne cyclist.
Warne cycled off to court after road-rage incident | News.com.au
or is he? Listen to this:
A significant part of the present state government’s electoral success was its removal of ministerial control over development which was having a detrimental effect on the beautiful northern areas of Sydney.
O’Farrell’s next stop should be zoning near stations
Now the same people want to reintroduce the ‘‘developer chooses, minister enforces’’ idea. How can this be justified? Look at the planning map and you will see why. All the new developments will be ‘‘out there’’.
Donald Hawes Blayney
Coles opens a fresh front in discount war
We bitch about the price of our food but never about the producers getting fucked to achieve this.
We bitch about foreign companies buying up our land, but never about the farmers selling their nation out.
We bitch about foreign companies buying out or financing resource companies, but never bitch about the prospectors in the mining sector (see most of the WA or QLD’s most wealthy) selling their companies out to foreign nations and companies.
We never ask the tough questions because we duck them, we dive them and we run scared from them.
- Why don’t we value our produce and producers and invest in them through their output?
- Why don’t we value our land and its ability to sustain this nation of ours?
- Why don’t we value and invest in our considerable resources and drive home greater profits locally?
- Why is it that the great Asian nations of Singapore, China, South Korea, Japan et al value our countries assets more than we do?
* We = the nation of Australia, as seen through the middle-swinging-voter group of people.
Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old) (by AdamLaddVideos)
Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
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Let's take a hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit our friends in Newport Beach. I'll whip out my map and draw our route down the coast
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- Michael Wolfe, CEO, Pipewise, Inc.
Recipe : Banana Bread
This recipe is courtesy of Nadine and uses olive oil in place of butter. Damn tasty!
Ingredients
- 5/3 cups plain flour
- 3/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup caster sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 3 mashed bananas
- Optional: handfull of dates, sliced or whole (but pips removed)
Steps
- Preheat over to 160-180C.
- Sift flour and baking powder in a large bowl.
- Add sugar and cinnamon and mix to combine.
- Combined bananas and vanilla extract and add to the dry ingredients and combine.
- Add in eggs and olive oil to the mix and combine.
- Finally stir through dates (if wanted) and pour into bread pan for baking.
- Sprinkle with additional brown sugar and bake for 60 minutes (or until cooked).
- Remove from oven and cool on a cooling rack.
- EAT! Fantastic with honey and ricotta, a spot of butter or plain. Goes even better with coffee.
