Friday, March 09, 2007
The Conference Board 2007 Diversity Conference
Senior executives will examine challenging diversity issues and present best practices at The Conference Board's 2007 Diversity Conference. This year's meeting will be held in three locations -- March 29-30 at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, April 25-26 at the Hilton in New York, and May 23-24 at the Westin River North in Chicago.
The theme of this year's conference: Rhythms of the World: Examining and Honoring our Uniqueness and Multiplicities.
"Globalization has resulted in a 'flattening' of our world and greater demand for insights into how we can all work together and maximize our diverse contributions," says Carole Weinstein, conference program director.
Read more: ConferenceInter-Galactic Website Translation
A Finnish member of parliament is aiming for re-election by campaigning with a translation of his Web site into Klingon, used in the TV series Star Trek.
"Some have thought it is blasphemy to mix politics and Klingon," said Jyrki Kasvi, an ardent Trekkie. "Others say it is good if politicians can laugh at themselves."
Read more: KlingonWord of the Day: coterminous
coterminous \koh-TUR-muh-nuhs\, adjective:
1. Having the same or coincident boundaries.
2. Having the same scope, range of meaning, duration.
In a democracy the interests of the people are, or at least should be, coterminous with those of the state. -- Ronald Steel, "The Domestic Core of Foreign Policy", The Atlantic, June 1995
That kind of sociological prejudice rests on a false supposition, . . . that "social" and "governmental" are coterminous, and that anyone who is against governmental action is therefore essentially "atomistic." -- Brian Doherty, "Cybersilly", Reason, August/September 2000