I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six read more

I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six weeks off a year, employees are demanding more day to day flexibility, like the ability to telecommute, flex-time and child care or elder-care benefits. Those are the other areas where we are seeing real growth, while sabbaticals are sort of going up and down.

We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let read more

We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let people know our First Friday happenings.

Who doesn't want to win, especially at home, with family here and an opportunity to enjoy it?

Who doesn't want to win, especially at home, with family here and an opportunity to enjoy it?

Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group.

Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group.

I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. read more

I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.

If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.

If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.

There's something big coming to the outside area of Ottawa, sort of a private clinic for holistic aspects of healing. read more

There's something big coming to the outside area of Ottawa, sort of a private clinic for holistic aspects of healing. It's going to be a huge $150-million dollar project and it's going to attract the world's attention.

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak,

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak,

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem read more

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.