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In Washington D.C., the International Spy Museum is dedicated to espionage and provides a global perspective on an all-but-invisible profession that has shaped hisory and continues to have a significant impact with world events. Featuring the largest collection of international espionage artifacts ever displayed for the general public to see, some for the first time. Located at 800 F Street NW, next to a hotel Washington USA provides its visitors, you’ll be able walk to the museum and see artifacts that illuminate the work of famous spies and pivotal espionage actions.

You’ll get to bring to life the strategies and techniques by the men and women behind some of the most secretive espionage missions in the history of the world with
Operation Spy (OpSpy), which is not an exhibit but a live-action spy adventure. You don’t read about spies, you are the spy! You’ll have one hour to find a missing nuclear trigger, as you dive into an intense challenge combining live-action, themed environments, special effects, and hands-on activities such as cracking a safe, decoding messages and conducting a polygraph test of a suspect agent. This operation is for children ages 12 and up and is considered a separate experience at the International Spy Museum.

The International Spy Museum’s mission is to educate its visitors about espionage in a very engaging way, by providing context that fosters an understanding of espionages important role in and its impact on historic and current events. The Museum focuses on human intelligence and reveals the role spies have played throughout history. The presentations are nonbiased, apolitical and accurate. In addition there are several permanent exhibits such as the ‘Introduction to Espionage’, which is a ‘who-done-it’ exhibit featuring movies, film noir and literature that portray anything to do with spies, but you’ll leave with your preconceived ideas behind and you learn about the authentic tradecraft that has been used throughout time and around the world; with ‘The Secret History of History’, you’ll travel back through the centuries and get to trace the earliest moments of this profession; ‘School for Spies’, examines over 200 spy gadgets, weapons, bugs, cameras, vehicles and technologies; and in the ‘Spies Among Us’ exhibit, experience the storm clouds gathering as World War II draws near, and the fronts which concealed German and Russian spy rings operated right under our noses.

Hours are: 9am to 7pm and general admission is $18 for adults and $15 for children. Additional cost is added for OpSpy and other interactive activities, check website for details.

Fionn Downhill is an experienced speaker and the CEO of SEO and online reputation management company Elixir Interactive. Fionn’s impressive presenter bio includes over 23 renowned search marketing events including Search Engine Strategies as well as the Online Marketing Summit (OMS) — which kicked-off its 23-City tour May 20th in Phoenix, Arizona.

OMS isn’t the typical summit. With its focus on education,speakers must adhere to strict guidelines aimed at closely limiting the self-promotion and advertising typically seen at many search marketing events.

Fionn Downhill’s presentation at OMS Phoenix this May offered interesting insight into digital asset optimization for search in 2010. To find out more about Fionn or other OMS speakers visit visit www.onlinemarketingsummit.com/speakers/

There has been a lot of going ons about the IPad. Is it worth it? If you don’t have one yet, you may want to take a look at this video and find out some things about it. The main thing he likes to say about it in the video is that the IPad is for the Consumption of Content, not for the creation of it. You won’t want to write an essay on it, or even a blog post. You make up your own mind though.

Obama is out there once again giving speeches. The biggest difference is that this time he is already president, although there are others. Last time his speeches were given at colleges, but this time it will be at a high school. This is not because he is moving down in the world, but because they won a contest in which the prize was him as their commencement speaker. This is part of his movement to show his support for exceptional schools and to provide support to those schools that need to improve.

With one of South Korea’s ships having been sank not very long ago, South Korea President, Mr. Lee must walk a fine line between kowtowing to his conservative base, and keeping the country stable enough that people still want to invest in the country. While he has a straight forward message about what they are going to do now, the situation is a little more complicated than it might seem on the surface.

Loving to cook is a good thing. Someone who can cook well is pretty much always appreciated. It looks it is also becoming a skill more and more people want to learn because as I was looking through some of the best videos on the web today I came across this one.

How To Use Your Guide Hand – The funniest videos clips are here

It has gotten a lot of hits, and is honestly a pretty good cooking video.

As technology evolves, so too should education and what better way than to introduce technology into the classrooms both for the kids and for the teachers. There are a number of ways this can be done, but here is a list of five really good ones suggested by a young pioneer.

When movies changed from silent films to talkies, the whole style of writing also changed. It turns out that there is a very specific style of writing that is ideal for script writing in modern films, and there are a number of people who go to school for it under a different name. Here is the full story because she can put it much better than I can.

The offshore oil and gas industry is notoriously dangerous, where death is an ever present danger for those out in the field.  However, changes and improvements in leadership training have helped to cut down on such deaths.  With executives at some of these companies getting the best training possible, workplace safety is slowly becoming better and better for their employees while still maintaining great levels of production.

Health and Safety Executive show how deaths and serious injury are very low today.  In this previous year in fact no deaths were reported in any offshore locations.  The year before that showed the same figures.  Such findings are becoming a common and positive thing.   As for injuries, they are very low at the moment, the lowest they been for about twenty years.  There were only thirty cases this year, which is even less than what Health and Safety discovered last year in their research.

The cause for all these excellent findings?  Altering how management back onshore comprehended the safety of their offshore employees says Health and Safety Executive Ian Whewell.  Because most senior level executive got promoted through positions in departments like marketing not in engineering or other fields associated with offshore practices, they did not fully understand what serious hazards were involved in the business of drilling and how important workplace safety is, especially for their company.  Because management leaders have received the proper business training and injury was reduced, and as a result, so did production and morale.

Though the training was simple in nature, it made a great improvement in comprehension for those leaders with no experience outside of the cubicle environment where it is difficult to imagine the tragedies that can happen in offshore drilling.  The effect of such training seminars were immediate and obviously successful, seeping down into all areas of the bsiness.

I checked out of my room at the Cambridge Hotel because I found a little apartment. I’m a little bit more acquainted with the city and my new job, and it’s only been 3 weeks. I’ve learned that there’s a whole College System at Cambridge University which is unique to Cambridge and also for Oxford. So, I’ll do my best to explain this uniqueness the only way I know how which is complicated, so stay with me, hang in there. I promise it won’t hurt.

Cambridge was founded in the 13th century, the first college that is. This period was a dark time for all of Europe which wasn’t too concerned about the education process. As centuries passed, other Colleges were added and they pretty much functioned as a University. Outsourcing teaching by these other Colleges, yes outsourcing just isn’t some new idea, became the status quo for a new upcoming University in Cambridge. These Colleges rented lecture halls, rented the professors and their lectures from the University for their students. In other words, it’s the Universities which employees professors, which gives the exams and which hands out the diplomas. It’s the Colleges that are to take care of accommodations, student administration and tutoring.

Have I lost you yet? Stick with me here, okay? All Colleges offer the same subjects and they compete with each other for students. They have different ways of tutoring, different qualities of buildings and the biggest difference between them is fees. Like Trinity Collegex will lure rich students because it can afford to ‘rent’ very qualified and highly recommended professors to help tutor. They’ll even get renowned professors from around the world that will tutor only up to 5 students. Now, the other Colleges will target the less affluent, but brighter student. It’s kind of like, who is a better student? The rich and dumb or the poor and smart? That’s enough for one day’s lesson. Come back tomorrow, refreshed and ready to hear about Cambridge University.