Miscellaneous

TSP Talk – Mixed picture

Stocks continued their volatile ways as we saw several big moves again this past week. The action on Tuesday, which included a big turnaround on high volume, is the type of move you might see at a market bottom, but the chart formations are still looking bearish. After a weak start on Monday and intoRead… Read more »

New IARPA Program Aims To Discover Tech Trends

The Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) office of “incisive analysis” has been evaluating plans, projects and proposals submitted in response to a broad solicitation of inputs on a very interesting construct. They have embarked on a new, smarter way of gleaning technology trends. We first learned publicly of this activity in 2010 whenRead… Read more »

Call for Papers: JURIX Workshop on Fundamental Concepts and Systematization of Law

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 28 October 2011 — has been issued for the JURIX 2011 Workshop on Fundamental Concepts and Systematization of Law, to be held 14 December 2011, in Vienna, Austria. The workshop is being held in connection with JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge andRead… Read more »

STATEMENT FROM AFGE NATIONAL PRESIDENT JOHN GAGE ON OCCUPY WALL STREET

As the largest union representing federal and D.C. government workers, we stand in solidarity with the men and women participating in the Occupy Wall Street campaign. Americans across the country are fed up with a political and economic system that continues to benefit global AFGE made its presence felt at the “Jobs, Not Cuts” rallyRead… Read more »

Friday Fab Five: Mixed Bag

What a crazy week here in Washington. We said goodbye to a courageous innovator on Wednesday night, Steve Jobs who at 56 lost his 8 year long battle with pancreatic cancer. The political debate continues to heat up, causing a rare display of anger on the Senate floor yesterday. And it appears that Sarah Palin,Read… Read more »

News of the Week

Here is a brief list of some of the interesting sustainability news articles from this week: More Consumers Believe Sustainability Claims – But Many Still Skeptical The 5 Growth Areas for Sustainability Spending in 2012 Nation’s First Solar Highway Breaks Ground in Oregon SMU Geothermal Map Updated, National Geothermal Data System Underway And you’ll findRead… Read more »