mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 14 2008 | stock market, investing, Great Depression
Quoted: The causes of the Great Depression are still a matter of active debate among economists. The specific economic events that took place during the Great Depression have been studied thoroughly: a deflation in asset and commodity prices, dramatic drops in demand and credit, and disruption of trade, ultimately resulting in widespread poverty and unemployment. However, historians lack consensus in describing the causal relationship between various events and the role of government economic policy in causing or ameliorating the Depression.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 15 2008 | marketing, product management, shopping, books, toread
Recommended by Andrew Chen ( http://andrewchenblog.com/ ), a blogger who I respect quite a bit.
Looks like this book has a greater focus on case studies and specific techniques as compared to Scott Berkun's book, "Making Things Happen".
Quoted: The Product Manager's Handbook is the essential guide to successful product management in today's fast-changing business world. Product and brand managers, as well as upper-level sales, marketing, and branding executives, will find the text thorough and informative as it explains and analyzes the product manager's role in both traditional, hierarchical organizations as well as in newer horizontal, team-driven decision-making structures.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 19 2008 | mariners, sports, baseball, seattle
I don't understand the front office's decision making...
Quoted: # Jeff Clement was called up from Tacoma on April 30th to serve as the team's fairly regular DH, because Jose Vidro wasn't producing. Since that point, Vidro has gone 5-25 with zero walks and zero extra-base hits. Vidro has now reclaimed his role as the regular DH, with Clement's demotion. Because he's clearly earned it. Look, assholes, nothing's changed. Vidro is still the same pile of crap that just three weeks ago you thought was worth replacing. Don't give me the back injury excuse - that's new, and it's not why he's been bad. He's been bad because he's bad. Do you honestly think that giving him his job back is better for the team than putting Reed in left field and sliding Raul to DH? Or just putting Reed at DH and leaving Raul alone? Did you even consider these options? By calling up Jeremy Reed, you obviously think he has something to offer to the team, but by sitting him in the dugout, you obviously think he has less to offer than Jose Vidro, whose sorry ass you benched for a rookie earlier this very month. I don't get it. What are you going for?
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 29 2008 | seattle, events, non-profit, volunteer, training
Looks like a great way to get familiar with board service in the non-profit world. I signed up for the series starting on 4/3.
Quoted: In a series of three trainings, you'll learn about roles and responsibilities of nonprofit and public board members in addition to completing personal skill and interest assessments.
...
The Bridge coursework focuses on:
• financial and legal responsibilities
• governance structures
• fundraising and public budgeting
• personal reflection - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 17 2007 | books, toread, capitalism, democracy, politics
Recommended by my cousin.
Quoted: In this compelling and important analysis of the triumph of capitalism and the decline of democracy, former labor secretary Reich urges us to rebalance the roles of business and government. Power, he writes, has shifted away from us in our capacities as citizens and toward us as consumers and investors.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 07 2007 | seth, nbc, apple, amazon
Seth Godin on NBC's move from iTunes to Amazon...
Quoted: NBC could have been this middleman. They ceded this role to YouTube and then iTunes. Switching to Amazon merely creates a third player, but it doesn't do what the networks truly needed to do--build a direct relationship between the network and the viewer. Amazon has one, so does Apple.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 24 2007 | development, asp.net, performance, c#, .net
Some great tips in here.
Quoted: Web App Follies: Keep Sites Running Smoothly By Avoiding These 10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls -- MSDN Magazine, July 2006
...
LoadControl and Output Caching
Sessions and Output Caching
Forms Authentication Ticket Lifetime
View State: The Silent Perf Killer
SQL Server Session State: Another Perf Killer
Uncached Roles
... - KCTS/Seattle: The Public Network | Productions | KCTS Connects: Phylicia Rashad Directs at the Rep.,mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 06 2007 | seattle, events, theater, claire huxtable
Cool, Claire Huxtable is directing an upcoming show at the Seattle Rep.
Quoted: Phylicia Rashad is best known for her role as Claire Huxtable in The Cosby Show. She's also a Tony Award winner for her Broadway appearance in A Raisin in the Sun. She makes her directorial debut with the Seattle Rep in August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. Rashad originated the role of Aunt Ester in Gem during its Broadway run, and now comes to the Seattle Rep to direct the show in her first outing as a director.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 16 2007 | news, karl rove, politics
Quoted: The White House maintains that Rove remembers first hearing about the idea to replace all 93 prosecutors from Harriet Miers, a top White House aide designated at the time to follow Gonzales as the president's counsel.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 11 2007 | india, madhur jaffrey, khabar
An article my sister wrote is in Khabar: An Enduring Diva (Go to page 50)
Quoted: Madhur Jaffrey’s evocative memoir, Climbing the Mango Trees, and her starring role in the newly released film, Hiding Divya, show that this veteran diva of Indian cuisine and cinema is still going strong. Here, in an interview, Jaffrey shares family recipes, secrets, and stories?
Good job Shiwani!
redotted from: Anjali
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This is a very interesting loan product from BECU and has the potential of being one of the best 1st time mortgages for buyers that qualify.
It is called the "Helper" (HLPR) loan. Basically, it's aimed at 1st time buyers buying their first home, but it should also be useful for people who have already sold their homes and are looking for another.
There are income restrictions, credit restrictions and other guidelines, but this particular HLPR product (there are several others, see BECU's site) purports to have an ARM rate that is about 1% lower than the "going" rate. Based on my experience, their fees are also lower than most of the major banks.
This type of loan is great for someone that is looking at short-term ownership of a property. I spoke with several industry pros and they all believe that BECU is probably not making any money - perhaps even losing money - on this loan, but may be using it to bring borrowers into other BECU products that may be profitable.
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