Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater home is iconic and it is now opening its doors to overnight guests (sort of).
How to Milk an Almond (fresh homemade almond milk, easy) | Instructables.com
Fresh r
aw almond milk is delicious, healthy, unprocessed, and economical. There is no waste, no unrecyclable plastic-lined tetra-pak boxes or cartons to put in landfills and drink BPA out of, and this tastes much, much better than storebought.
Brand Makeovers: 3 Lessons in Reinvention – Reinventing Your Brand | Entrepreneur.com
“You need a brand makeover when the marketplace tells you so directly: Sales are slowing and market share is shrinking,” Adamson says. “But it’s often too late to change things when they are really off. You have to catch it just at the tipping point when things are going great, but the increases are diminishing and momentum is giving out.”
2009 UN World Drug report – The Big Picture – Boston.com
2009 UN World Drug report – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
The 2009 United Nations World Drug report, released earlier this year, notes that 2009 marks “the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)”, and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-year industry. As drug-related violence in Mexico appears to continue unabated, and crackdowns in Afghanistan are being made against its massive opium crops, new efforts are also being made worldwide in methods of enforcement and treatment of recovering addicts. Collected here are a handful of recent images from the rough world of illegal drugs across the globe. (37 photos total)
Ice-skating bear from Russia kills circus director in Kyrgyzstan – Telegraph
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: Nothing good can come of teaching bears to ice skate.
S.B.A. Softens New Good-Will Rules | NYTimes.com
We just ran across this issue with one of our clients, so I thought this would be good information to pass along. Note that the ‘good will’ limitation was $250,000 or 50% before, so this is a big policy change.
As always, all SBA deals are done according to individual bank policies so it remains to be seen if this change will actually help someone.
Effective Oct. 1, good will and other intangible assets can amount to up to $500,000, with no limit on the percentage of the loan. When intangibles exceed $500,000, the S.B.A. will recommend that banks limit the S.B.A.-backed loan to 75 percent of the purchase price.
Back in the U.S.S.R.: The secret Paulson-Goldman meeting | Blogs | Reuters
This
meeting took place between Hank Paulson, then Treasury Secretary and the Board of Goldman Sachs, in Moscow, in secret. This was two months before the collapse and subsequent bailout.
Goldman Sachs was a hugely powerful for-profit investment bank, and there he is, giving private chapter and verse on his opinions about the US and global economy, talking about internal Treasury matters, and previewing an upcoming (and surely market-moving) speech. All in secret, at a “social event” which somehow got kept off his official calendar.
Lap Dances at Yahoo’s Hack Days? A Lesson in Monitoring a Global Brand | Fast Company
When brand control becomes damage control:
“Scantily clad gyrating women” who give lap dances to men on your company’s dime can damage your brand within seconds.
For a sample of the outrage, click here. Especially entertaining are the dozens of Twitter posts.
IdeaPaint: Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard | Design & Innovation | Fast Company
I’m going to paint every square foot of my house:
The benefit–besides being able to brainstorm on almost every inch of your office–is that the paint is half the cost of whiteboard and better-performing–you can leave marks up indefinitely, and they won’t stain the wall.
Caught in the Middle: Rising Unemployment Takes Its Toll on Older Managers | Knowledge@Wharton
This spells trouble for one especially vulnerable group — managers in their 40s and early 50s. They tend to be more expensive than their younger counterparts; they may lack some of the high-tech savvy needed to succeed in a more efficient workplace; and they face a downsized job market that will stay that way much longer than usual.
