Dow Faces Bouncy Ride to 5,000: Strategist – CNBC

Another one?  I was hoping I was just way off in my estimates…but the fear is here.  (I’m not afraid, nor should anyone else be, but they are…)

Dow Faces Bouncy Ride to 5,000: Strategist – CNBC.

Rosenberg says: Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg – CNBC

I don’t like it either, but it is there.  Read it. 

Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg – CNBC.

PMI BUffalo Fall Professional Day 2010 Schedule

Monday, September 13th, 2010

 Buffalo Convention Center

The planned schedule for the day is:

7:00 AM – Registration Begins
7:30 to 8:45 AM – Executive Outreach Breakfast with Dr. Stephen R. Covey Sr.- Room A
9:00 to 11:30 AM – Dr. Stephen R. Covey Presents – Ballroom
11:30 AM to 12 PM – Project of the Year Presentation – Ballroom
12:00 to 1:15 PM – Lunch – Room 106
1:15 – 2:30 PM – Session 1A Elizabeth Alo (Fredericks) – Crucial Conversations – Room B
1:15 – 2:30 PM – Session 2A Bob Baim – Avoiding Your Project Hitting the OS Phase – Room C
1:15 – 2:30 PM – Session 3A Andy LaGarde – Microsoft 2010 Review – Room D
1:15 – 2:30 PM – Session 4A Franklin Covey 4D – Room E
1:15 – 2:30 PM – Session 5A “Stop Playing Games” by Rick Morris – Room F
1:15 – 2:30 PM – Session 6A “Activity-Based Management for Financial Institutions” by Brent Bahnub – Room G.
2:45 to 4:00 PM – Session 1B Elizabeth Alo (Fredericks) – Crucial Conversations – Room B.
2:45 to 4:00 PM – Session 2B Bob Baim – Avoiding Your Project Hitting the OS Phase – Room C.
2:45 to 4:00 PM – Session 3B Andy LaGarde – Microsoft 2010 Review – Room D.
2:45 to 4:00 PM – Session 4B Franklin Covey 4D – Room E.
2:45 to 4:00 PM – Session 5B “Stop Playing Games” by Rick Morris – Room F.
2:45 to 4:00 PM – Session 6B “Activity-Based Management for Financial Institutions” by Brent Bahnub – Room G.
4:00 to 5:00 PM Tea and Crumpets at the Membership Table in the Lobby.

Buffalo PMI Fall Professional Development Day

Fall Professional Development Day
Monday, September 13 2010, 7:30am - 5:00pm
Buffalo PMI Fall Professional Development Day: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen Covey, Author of  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Date:  September 13, 2010 Registration Time: 7:30 am End Time: 5:00 pm Location:        Buffalo Convention Center                         Convention Center Plaze                         Buffalo, NY                         http://www.buffaloconvention.com/index.html PDU’s: 7 PDU registration number: TBA Registration Link:  http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=202586 Member Rate – $225 Member Group Rate - $200 (must have 5 or more) Non Member Rate – $250 Non Member Group Rate – $225 (Groups of 5 or more) Contact info: Bob Smering, <A onclick=” style=” href=” mce_style=”"mailto:<img src=” style?>
Location : Buffalo Convention Center

Predictive Project Management – Strategies for Avoiding the OS Phase®

 Topic: Predictive Project Management – Strategies for Avoiding the OS Phase®

Speaker: Bob Baim

Summary

The OS Phase^TM is quickly becoming a standard phrase to describe failures experienced on projects and even those recently experienced on Wall Street and the global financial markets.  The OS Phase^TM is the point in time where everything appears to be going well but then hits the wall.  The OS Phase^TM is that point in a project where the true project status is revealed and the project team is forced to admit that they are in trouble. 

Bob will discuss several high-profile projects and their experiences of hitting the OS Phase^TM.

About the Speaker

Bob is an internationally recognized executive consultant, trainer, and author. He divides his time between teaching advanced principles of project management and helping major corporations to actually implement efficient project management processes.  He has consulted to numerous Fortune 500 companies in a broad range of industries including process plant design and construction, software and network development, telecommunications, robotics, automotive, and financial management. 

Registration

Online Registration: Click on this link to register

 Date and Time:
August 11, 2010 at 5:30pm

Location

Fountain Blue
2300 South Mannheim Road
Des Plaines, IL 60018
               (847) 298-3636         (847) 298-3636

Note:

• Registration is limited. 
• Registration is limited to first 375 people. Once we reach the 375 maximum, registration will be cut off.
• No Walk-in registrations can be accommodated 
• Remember - Registration Deadline is 11:59 p.m. CT on Sunday, August 8, 2010
• Notice: Photographer on Premises: A professional photographer will be on site to document the PMI Chicagoland Chapter program activities. Photographs are the sole property of PMI Chicagoland Chapter.  By registering for and attending these events, attendees understand that PMI Chicagoland may use the likenesses for future promotional purposes.  If you do not wish to be photographed, please notify the photographer and/or videographer on site.

Extreme Prediction

Over a year ago I posted what many people considered to be an extreme, if not stupid prediction. I was just looking at numbers and proportions, and not much else, and I said that the dow could reach a depression era lows. Here is the link to that post.

http://dropwisesolutions.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/the-dow-to-1700-this-is-a-depression

Here are a few other articles that are worth reading that seem to point to a similiar, unfortunate conclusion.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/7871421/With-the-US-trapped-in-depression-this-really-is-starting-to-feel-like-1932.html

Dow repeats Great Depression Pattern

Let’s hope things do not get as extreme as I thought last year. I suppose we can wait a little while longer before calling my prediction foolish.

The Interdimensional Time Loop

The Interdimensional Time Loop

This is what I have to travel through to go back in time and fix the past. Yes Ah hahahahahah AAHHH hahahahahahaaaaa.

I’m Leaving On a Jet Plane

Don’t know when I’ll be back again.

Oh Babe, I hate to go.

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go!

I’m off to San Francisco, for a ULI conference. It will be fun, but I sure will miss my wife and family. Jamie and Autumn are such good kids and I am sure they will be extra specially good for their mom. I’m also, but not quite as, sure that the dogs will not eat anything important or go to the bathroom in the house too much. Lilly really needs to stop peeing in my office. I hope she doesn’t teach the new dog that trick while I’m gone.
The reptiles won’t miss me, I’m not sure how aware they really are of the rest of the world. I’m glad the family can hold down the fort, I miss them tremendously already.

Is that Hot or Not I Can’t Tell

Well I’m not going to post it – it is just too frikin funny lookin:
check out this boing boing site

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/08/searching-for-the-sk.html

Are you eff’ing insane? Nobody could look at that image and think it wasn’t altered, or that the model wasn’t physically deformed somehow. It isn’t even remotely attractive, beyond those with a fetish for holocaust survivors.

This isn’t Size Zero, it’s Size Negative. Size Cuckooland.

“I’m just not sure I could fit in her (outfit)”

 

Arkizzle:

I’m not insane for getting a little turned on by that skinny waist, arms and legs.  Personally, the unphotoshopped photo up on the site now is much more,( how did you say it as a mod? Oh yeah,) eff’able, because who really wants to chance breaking  a girl that is that skinny.  But, the unnaturally skinny waist is not new, nor is the male attraction to it. 

Women had to wear corsets to make themselves ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE THAT (or worse) by slowly shifting where their internal organ sit over time.  Women were doing this centuries before the holocaust.  I’m certainly not advocating this unhealthy practice, or defending RL from being very irresponsible, I am just saying that as a man, the photoshopped image would be enticing, if it weren’t so obviously fake (hence why I suggested it be blurred in the first place.)  And I did get my joke through, even if I hid it a little too well, (just remove the parenthetical additions to my statement about fitting in her).  

 

 

 “”And sadly, the image is actually very enticing..”

Are you eff’ing insane? Nobody could look at that image and think it wasn’t altered, or that the model wasn’t physically deformed somehow. It isn’t even remotely attractive, beyond those with a fetish for holocaust survivors.

This isn’t Size Zero, it’s Size Negative. Size Cuckooland.

“I’m just not sure I could fit in her (outfit)”

 

Arkizzle:

I’m not insane for getting a little turned on by that skinny waist, arms and legs.  Personally, the unphotoshopped photo up on the site now is much more,( how did you say it as a mod? Oh yeah,) eff’able, because who really wants to chance breaking  a girl that is that skinny.  But, the unnaturally skinny waist is not new, nor is the male attraction to it. 

Women had to wear corsets to make themselves ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE THAT (or worse) by slowly shifting where their internal organ sit over time.  Women were doing this centuries before the holocaust.  I’m certainly not advocating this unhealthy practice, or defending RL from being very irresponsible, I am just saying that as a man, the photoshopped image would be enticing, if it weren’t so obviously fake (hence why I suggested it be blurred in the first place.)  And I did get my joke through, even if I hid it a little too well, (just remove the parenthetical additions to my statement about fitting in her).

I love it! PROTECT INSURANCE COMPANIES NOW

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

You have to watch this video!!!