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Commitment. Compassion. Results. Standing up for Massachusetts.
Congressman Edward J. Markey is one of the most articulate voices in America for working families, consumers and protection of the environment. In in the House of Representatives, Ed serves as Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee. He is also a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee. From his position on these powerful committees, Ed has authored or helped shape every major environmental, energy and high tech policy over the last three decades.
Since the start of his Congressional career, Ed has been an outspoken leader for consumer rights, economic growth and affordable, quality healthcare for all Americans. He has fought to improve fuel efficiency standards for motor vehicles, to protect our planet from climate change, and to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Congressman Markey is pleased to sponsor Natick's Fourth of July activities.
www.edmarkey.org
5 Temmuz 2012 Perşembe
Committee to Elect Robert L. Jubinville
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Robert Jubinville was born and raised in Holyoke, Massachusetts. At an early age, he began to demonstrate his passion for helping others. By age fourteen, he was actively involved with the community through what is now known as The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Holyoke. This organization promotes the education, social involvement and character development of boys and girls of all ages. He continues to support the Boys and Girls Club and other local charitable organizations.
Robert Jubinville is running for the Govenor's Council.
The Committee to Elect Robert Jubinville is pleased to support the activities of Natick's Friends of the 4th.
Robert Jubinville was born and raised in Holyoke, Massachusetts. At an early age, he began to demonstrate his passion for helping others. By age fourteen, he was actively involved with the community through what is now known as The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Holyoke. This organization promotes the education, social involvement and character development of boys and girls of all ages. He continues to support the Boys and Girls Club and other local charitable organizations.
Robert Jubinville is running for the Govenor's Council.
The Committee to Elect Robert Jubinville is pleased to support the activities of Natick's Friends of the 4th.
VERVE-Crowne Plaza Natick
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The VERVE-Crowne Plaza Natick is the Crown Jewel of Natick, MA Hotels. Whether you're in town for a business event, wedding, group gathering or weekend getaway, the chic, new VERVE, Crowne Plaza Natick is the only name you need to know for the best accommodations in the area. From our amazing specials and packages to our incredible service to the gorgeous meeting and event space designed to meet your needs and exceed your expectations, our full-service hotel in Natick, MA offers everything you require for a most enjoyable stay in the greater Boston area. The VERVE-Crowne Plaza Natick is proud to sponsor the Friends of the 4th's Independence Day celebrations.
The VERVE-Crowne Plaza Natick
1360 Worcester Street (Route 9 Eastbound)
Natick, MA 01760
508-653-8800
www.VERVEhotelnatick.com
The VERVE-Crowne Plaza Natick
1360 Worcester Street (Route 9 Eastbound)
Natick, MA 01760
508-653-8800
www.VERVEhotelnatick.com
Kiwanis Club of Natick-MetroWest
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Kiwanis Club of Natick Metrowest, Inc. serving our community since 1946.
The Natick-Metrowest Kiwanis Club is a group of volunteers that come together to help children and families in our community. We conduct numerous service projects in the area and award college scholarships to area high school seniors going to college.
We also raise funds to support our service projects, local charities and pediatric research at Tufts Medical Center's Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute in Boston.
Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. Kiwanis and its youth-oriented Service Leadership Programs serve communities in more than 80 countries and geographic areas.
Natick-Metrowest Kiwanis Club is pleased to support the activities of Natick Friends of the 4th.
http://natickmetrowestkiwanis.iconosites.com/
Kiwanis Club of Natick Metrowest, Inc. serving our community since 1946.
The Natick-Metrowest Kiwanis Club is a group of volunteers that come together to help children and families in our community. We conduct numerous service projects in the area and award college scholarships to area high school seniors going to college.
We also raise funds to support our service projects, local charities and pediatric research at Tufts Medical Center's Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute in Boston.
Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. Kiwanis and its youth-oriented Service Leadership Programs serve communities in more than 80 countries and geographic areas.
Natick-Metrowest Kiwanis Club is pleased to support the activities of Natick Friends of the 4th.
http://natickmetrowestkiwanis.iconosites.com/
STAR Sponsors
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Thank you to the 2012 STAR Sponsors for their generosity! STAR sponsors are those who have hosted a donation jug, have given us a discount, provided a gift card or provided assistance/support.
Please visit them and thank them for their support of Natick's 4th of July Activities.
Sponsors are listed in alphabetical order:
Alltype Signs & Banners http://alltype.com/
Bacon Street Farm www.baconstreetfarm.com 100 Bacon Street **Jug Donation Location**
Bill's Pizzeria billspizzeria.com/index1.jsp 58 East Central Street **Jug Donation Location**
BJ's www.bjs.com Corrados Subs (Downtown) www.corradossubs.com7 Middlesex Avenue **Jug Donation Location**
George's Pizza www.georgespizzanatick.com 41 South Main Street
Jones Drug www.jonesdrug.com 7 Main Street **Jug Donation Location**Liberty's Ice Cream www.libertysicecream.com 2 Mill Street
Morse Institute Library www.morseinstitute.org 14 East Central Street
Natick DPW (Natick Public Works) 75 West Street
Natick Recreation and Parks Department natickma.gov/Public_Documents/NatickMA_ParkRec/index Cole Center 179 Boden Lane
Natick Wine & Spirits www.natickwineandspirits.com 7 Watson Street (by Roche Bros.) **Jug Donation Location**
Wegmans of Northborough www.wegmans.com
Please visit them and thank them for their support of Natick's 4th of July Activities.
Sponsors are listed in alphabetical order:
Alltype Signs & Banners http://alltype.com/
Bacon Street Farm www.baconstreetfarm.com 100 Bacon Street **Jug Donation Location**
Bill's Pizzeria billspizzeria.com/index1.jsp 58 East Central Street **Jug Donation Location**
BJ's www.bjs.com Corrados Subs (Downtown) www.corradossubs.com7 Middlesex Avenue **Jug Donation Location**
George's Pizza www.georgespizzanatick.com 41 South Main Street
Jones Drug www.jonesdrug.com 7 Main Street **Jug Donation Location**Liberty's Ice Cream www.libertysicecream.com 2 Mill Street
Morse Institute Library www.morseinstitute.org 14 East Central Street
Natick DPW (Natick Public Works) 75 West Street
Natick Recreation and Parks Department natickma.gov/Public_Documents/NatickMA_ParkRec/index Cole Center 179 Boden Lane
Natick Wine & Spirits www.natickwineandspirits.com 7 Watson Street (by Roche Bros.) **Jug Donation Location**
Wegmans of Northborough www.wegmans.com
24 Haziran 2012 Pazar
How's Your Focus?
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Last year about this time I set my New Year's Resolutions.
I know, I'm like that.
This was nothing fancy or well-thought-out, I just did it. I took a piece of scrap paper and wrote down the five things I wanted to focus on improving. They're a little bit private, but I can tell you this: four concerned some aspect of my career, and one was an athletic goal. Family, friends, spiritually - thankfully, I feel very good about those aspects of my life. Your areas of focus might include those, but mine didn't.
Here's how I did:
#1 - Nailed it. Blew my goal so far out of the water, it's impossible to even compare.#2-4 - Did somewhere between well and okay.#5 - Oops. Didn't even touch it. Abject failure.
This list, written on a scrap paper, lives in a drawer in my bathroom. Every few days I come across it as I search for the toothpaste or a nail clipper. It's a handy reminder of what I decided to work on last February.
This worked pretty well for me, but around the start of this month I decided it was time to update my list. Not start a brand-new one, because most of those items are ongoing concerns, not "do it and done" type things. They involve getting better at something, and that's a journey.
So Saturday, I retired the first list and replaced it with another. Three items this time, all in some way related to the original five.
This year, as with last, I'm judging everything I do by this standard: Does it promote one of my three goals? Specifically,
1. Does it help me write my next book?2. Does it help with the career move I'm making?*3. Does it help me train for the Naples 1/2 Marathon next January?
This post isn't about me, though. It's about you. What are your goals - not for the year, but ongoing? Try to have only a few. Aim for only one. Write them down. Put them someplace where you have to actually read them - preferably, someplace where they're in the way and you need to move them (and thus read them) as you search for the toothpaste.
And judge every action you take, all year long, by how effectively that action supports your quest for those goals. Cut out fun stuff that doesn't clearly promote those goals. Do more of what does.
Let me know how it goes.
*Career move? I've been eluding to this for a couple of months now. I'm only 44. If my role models are any indication, I have at least 40 more years of active work ahead of me (thank God!). So I'm going to continue to evolve and reinvent myself again and again. I can't wait to share my next step!
I know, I'm like that.
This was nothing fancy or well-thought-out, I just did it. I took a piece of scrap paper and wrote down the five things I wanted to focus on improving. They're a little bit private, but I can tell you this: four concerned some aspect of my career, and one was an athletic goal. Family, friends, spiritually - thankfully, I feel very good about those aspects of my life. Your areas of focus might include those, but mine didn't.
Here's how I did:
#1 - Nailed it. Blew my goal so far out of the water, it's impossible to even compare.#2-4 - Did somewhere between well and okay.#5 - Oops. Didn't even touch it. Abject failure.
This list, written on a scrap paper, lives in a drawer in my bathroom. Every few days I come across it as I search for the toothpaste or a nail clipper. It's a handy reminder of what I decided to work on last February.
This worked pretty well for me, but around the start of this month I decided it was time to update my list. Not start a brand-new one, because most of those items are ongoing concerns, not "do it and done" type things. They involve getting better at something, and that's a journey.
So Saturday, I retired the first list and replaced it with another. Three items this time, all in some way related to the original five.
This year, as with last, I'm judging everything I do by this standard: Does it promote one of my three goals? Specifically,
1. Does it help me write my next book?2. Does it help with the career move I'm making?*3. Does it help me train for the Naples 1/2 Marathon next January?
This post isn't about me, though. It's about you. What are your goals - not for the year, but ongoing? Try to have only a few. Aim for only one. Write them down. Put them someplace where you have to actually read them - preferably, someplace where they're in the way and you need to move them (and thus read them) as you search for the toothpaste.
And judge every action you take, all year long, by how effectively that action supports your quest for those goals. Cut out fun stuff that doesn't clearly promote those goals. Do more of what does.
Let me know how it goes.
*Career move? I've been eluding to this for a couple of months now. I'm only 44. If my role models are any indication, I have at least 40 more years of active work ahead of me (thank God!). So I'm going to continue to evolve and reinvent myself again and again. I can't wait to share my next step!
You Can Run, But You Can't Hide
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Recently, something on Twitter got my spider senses tingling.
When I "meet" someone interesting in a chat or through a friend, I like to check their bio - I'm sure you do as well. And what caught my attention was how many of these people are former employees of a certain company.
Interesting. It told me two things right off the bat. One, this company hires talented people. Two, talented people leave this company in droves.
Curious, I reached out to one of these people, a friendly acquaintance who is close Twitter friends with one of my best buds on Twitter. We had a connection through past interactions, and we had a level of trust through our mutual pal. In other words, I wasn't a complete stranger.
"I've noticed something I think you can help me with," I tweeted. "Can we take this to email so I can ask you a question?" He was happy to oblige, so via email I asked him about my observation. This is the gist of his reply:
"That company is a great place to make a name for yourself in our field. Unfortunately, they don't pay well, and management isn't the most enlightened. The nature of the work we were required to do there has changed dramatically since they hired me, too. By the time I left, we were innovating much less, instead spending most of our time on lower-skill tasks. I'm glad I've moved on, and I've never looked back. Same goes for my former colleagues." He named several I also followed, and I reached out to them as well for confirmation, which they readily gave.
I've read a lot of headlines about people losing their jobs because of boss-bashing Facebook posts or indiscreet Tweets. Less sensational, perhaps, is how potential recruits and customers use Social to check before they leap. But it happens every day all day long.
I personally don't choose a movie or buy technology without polling my network first. Of my friends and followers, I've got dozens or sometimes hundreds who will weigh in on anything I'm asking about. Often their replies include really useful links to blog posts, reviews, and articles that make my decision easy and shed new light on the object of my question. Increasingly, this is how it's done in the Twenty-First Century.
Employers, people are checking up on you. Once upon a time (you know, 5 years ago), people would ask a small circle of friends and family before trusting a recruiter and taking the career plunge. Now, that inner circle has expanded to thousands, and through connections it can quickly reach tens or even hundreds of thousands. Because of Social Media, no company can hide behind obscurity any longer.
And this is only the beginning. There are new Social applications, and new uses of existing apps, that haven't even been created yet. Two years from now ...three ...five? What I write about today will be so ubiquitous that companies will have no choice but to actually be better - or suffer the consequences.
Social Media isn't just changing the way business is done for those few of us who participate in robust online networks. It is driving a sea change in corporate transparency. Bad bosses? You can run, but you can't hide.
Join me here every Monday for a new installment of Social Media Monday.
When I "meet" someone interesting in a chat or through a friend, I like to check their bio - I'm sure you do as well. And what caught my attention was how many of these people are former employees of a certain company.
Interesting. It told me two things right off the bat. One, this company hires talented people. Two, talented people leave this company in droves.
Curious, I reached out to one of these people, a friendly acquaintance who is close Twitter friends with one of my best buds on Twitter. We had a connection through past interactions, and we had a level of trust through our mutual pal. In other words, I wasn't a complete stranger.
"I've noticed something I think you can help me with," I tweeted. "Can we take this to email so I can ask you a question?" He was happy to oblige, so via email I asked him about my observation. This is the gist of his reply:
"That company is a great place to make a name for yourself in our field. Unfortunately, they don't pay well, and management isn't the most enlightened. The nature of the work we were required to do there has changed dramatically since they hired me, too. By the time I left, we were innovating much less, instead spending most of our time on lower-skill tasks. I'm glad I've moved on, and I've never looked back. Same goes for my former colleagues." He named several I also followed, and I reached out to them as well for confirmation, which they readily gave.
I've read a lot of headlines about people losing their jobs because of boss-bashing Facebook posts or indiscreet Tweets. Less sensational, perhaps, is how potential recruits and customers use Social to check before they leap. But it happens every day all day long.
I personally don't choose a movie or buy technology without polling my network first. Of my friends and followers, I've got dozens or sometimes hundreds who will weigh in on anything I'm asking about. Often their replies include really useful links to blog posts, reviews, and articles that make my decision easy and shed new light on the object of my question. Increasingly, this is how it's done in the Twenty-First Century.
Employers, people are checking up on you. Once upon a time (you know, 5 years ago), people would ask a small circle of friends and family before trusting a recruiter and taking the career plunge. Now, that inner circle has expanded to thousands, and through connections it can quickly reach tens or even hundreds of thousands. Because of Social Media, no company can hide behind obscurity any longer.
And this is only the beginning. There are new Social applications, and new uses of existing apps, that haven't even been created yet. Two years from now ...three ...five? What I write about today will be so ubiquitous that companies will have no choice but to actually be better - or suffer the consequences.
Social Media isn't just changing the way business is done for those few of us who participate in robust online networks. It is driving a sea change in corporate transparency. Bad bosses? You can run, but you can't hide.
Join me here every Monday for a new installment of Social Media Monday.
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