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seven themes redux

Marty Siegel wrote 1 day ago: For me, the core of Interaction Design Practice is the “seven themes of good design.” I view these t … more →

Tags: Learning, Reflection, seven themes, User Centered, machine-centered, Transparency, computer imagination, (re)design, Craft

Conservation agriculture, livestock and livelihood strategies in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia

Peter Ballantyne wrote 3 days ago: During the CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme Livestock Policy Group Meeting on 1 December 2009, O … more →

Tags: Conservation Agriculture, LPG, CIMMYT, ILRI, India, South Asia

Improving the value of maize as a livestock feed in East Africa

Peter Ballantyne wrote 3 days ago: On 1 December 2009, Dennis Friesen (CIMMYT) presented CIMMYT work on maize as a livestock feed to th … more →

Tags: animal feeding, Crop Residues, Crop-Livestock, LPG, CIMMYT, East Africa, maize

QOTD

cherylcline wrote 4 days ago: From The Superfluous Man (where else?) (emphasis mine): To many people, actually getting the disadva … more →

Tags: Healthcare, Idealism, thesuperfluousman

From 'no-win' to 'win-win' - managing the tradeoffs between forages as feeds or for soil improvement

Peter Ballantyne wrote 4 days ago: Speaking at the December 2009 SLP meeting in Addis Ababa, Michael Peters (CIAT), introduced a projec … more →

Tags: animal feeding, Crop Residues, Crop-Livestock, LPG, Central America, CIAT

Tradeoffs between uses of crop residues a focus for SLP policy discussions

Bruno Gerard wrote 5 days ago: Bruno Gerard, Coordinator of the CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme (SLP) introduces the SLP and a … more →

Tags: Crop Residues, Crop-Livestock, LPG, Meetings, News

Open door session of the LPG meeting 1st Dec 091 comment

Bruno Gerard wrote 1 week ago: Venue: ILRI-Addis Info Center 11:00 Improving Water Productivity of Crop-Livestock Systems of Sub-Sa … more →

Tags: Crop Residues, Crop-Livestock, LPG, Meetings, News

Livestock Programme Group Meeting in Addis 1-2 December

Bruno Gerard wrote 1 week ago: The steering committee of the CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme, called the Livestock Programme G … more →

Tags: LPG, Meetings, News

Shorts: @daverendall on tradeoffs

sherfelad wrote 1 week ago: Dave Rendall from The Freak Factor is so spot on: The same thing that causes some people to like you … more →

Tags: General Thoughts, comparative advantage, Dave Rendall, freak factor, Shorts, Strengths, weaknesses

Keeping Priorities Straight

Ryan Young wrote 1 month ago: Bjørn Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen Consensus, brings some much-needed common sense to the global … more →

Tags: Great Thinkers, The New Religion, Bjørn Lomborg, Björn Lomborg, copenhagen consensus, Economic Development, Global Warming, poverty, Priorities

Polygamy - the Ultimate Feminist Lifestyle4 comments

polygyny wrote 1 month ago: If polygamy didn’t exist, the modern American career woman would have invented it – I … more →

Tags: 4. Better Dating, Men Behave Better towards women, Bad, Marriage, Polygamy, Women, american woman, Independent Woman, woman, Mother, parent

Life at the Winter Palace

Winter wrote 2 months ago: I picked this apartment for a couple of reasons.  I prefer living on the second floor because I don … more →

Tags: Thoughts, Life, The Winter Palace

A segment of one

sherfelad wrote 3 months ago: Photo by Son Of Groucho During the last week I heard the expression “a segment of one” a … more →

Tags: Marketing & Customer Service, a segment of one, Customization, how, Marketing, Segmentation, Why

Re-thinking tradeoffs1 comment

sherfelad wrote 3 months ago: Photo by roland During the last few weeks, as part of our AGSM MBA integrative experience, we partic … more →

Tags: Management, Managing People, leadership, General Thoughts, Seth Godin, MBA, AGSM MBA, agsm, Choices

Intro: no free lunches

jennabroughton wrote 3 months ago: One of the first classes I took in college was Basic Economics. Truth be told, I was less than thril … more →

Tags: Economics, no free lunches, opportunity costs

The Note, 6/26/09: Caps and Tradeoffs: Energy bill takes political temperature

politicaln wrote 5 months ago: ABC News’ RICK KLEIN reports: Here's the thing about all that criticism of doing too much at onc … more →

Tags: politicaln.wordpress.com, Note, Bill, caps, Energy, Political, takes, Temperature

FAA as PM1 comment

Jason wrote 5 months ago: The FAA has recently been working on a plan to consolidate many of its meteorologists into two locat … more →

Tags: Daily PM, Aviation

Are We Free to Pollute the Atmosphere? Climate Change, Wealth and Liberty - Part 2

Michael Hoexter wrote 7 months ago: In Part 1 of this post I summarized US and worldwide efforts to create legal standards to limit GHG … more →

Tags: energy policy, Green Activism, Sustainable Thinking, climate ethics

End-to-end Arguments in System Design

pefaymon wrote 8 months ago: The paper “End-to-end Arguments in System Design” by Saltzer, Reed and Clark presents an … more →

Tags: R01. End-to-end Arguments in System Design, modularization, layering, where-to-implement, performance and quality requirements


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