Miscellaneous

How Healthy are the Oceans?

We don’t get too many chances to talk about water issues – or at least not as many chances as the topic deserves – and we have even fewer to talk about ocean issues. But a new project to measure the health of the oceans recently caught our attention and we wanted to share itRead… Read more »

Multiples

One of our clients swears the best thing I ever told him was to make a meeting before a scheduled meeting and make one after. As long as you’re in the building/neighborhood/country plan another stop. That means you need a stop-by rationale, tools, and research. However the meetings that create a favorable result are easyRead… Read more »

A few political law links for Tuesday, Aug. 30

FEC MEETING. The Federal Election Commission is scheduled to meet Thursday and the meeting agenda is online here. BACHMANN BOOK. Roll Call. “Several of Bachmann’s opponents for the GOP presidential nomination — including Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), former Georgia Gov. Newt Gingrich and Rep. RonRead… Read more »

Muni considers all-door boarding for buses

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (CA) is considering expanding all-door boarding to its bus fleet. Muni riders with Clipper cards or proof of payment already have the option to board light-rail vehicles through the back door. Now the agency is considering extending the policy to buses to speed up operations on crowded routes. TheRead… Read more »

Startup Genome Compass – a new behchmarking tool for startup businesses

I’d like to share with you one of the best recent applications that also represents a good approach how to combine theoretical knowledge and practical background in one case. Here it is,Startup Genoma Compass that could become a very popular and efficient way to measure startup success and to define in what stage of developmentRead… Read more »

When Did Statistics Go Mainstream? – 9/8 GL Training

Join GovLoop and our partner IBM to learn how to use analytics to boost efficiency and cut costs in our next GovLoop training on 9/8 at 2pm – RSVP **************************************************************************************************************************************** I remember the first time I got excited about statistics. I was in an introductory to statistics class and was taught how to use SPSSRead… Read more »

TSP Talk – Post Ben

From Monday 8/29 morning’s TSP Talk market commentary: Stocks opened sharply lower on Friday but investors seemed to find some positives from the Fed after the Ben Bernanke speech in Jackson Hole, WY. From Reuters on Ben Bernanke:“Although he said the Fed would consider what more it could do to boost growth — comments thatRead… Read more »