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(Community Matters) Too much to drink and need someone to drive you and your car home? This is way cool and such a win-win AAS here. Mostly college students, vetted and professional. Zingo 877-659-4646

(Community Matters) Wow, Acton opened it’s new school site, perched above Town Lake, overlooking downtown, last night. It’s a fantastic new campus. Jeff Sandefer beaming like a proud new papa, the visionary and philanthropist who’s creating the new MBA program for the 21st century.. Georgia Thomsen, Acton’s Exec. Director, oversaw the entire construction project, move in, party and preps for the newest class which starts boot camp next week. Steven one of the founders, so we both feel great pride and appreciation to Jeff & Georgia for allowing us to be connected. Many business notables in attendance including Laura Sandefer, Margaret Keys, Lauren & Phil Siegel, Jack & Carol Long, Dick Anderson, Jeff Serra, Kip Keller, Lolly & Rev. Mike Anderson, Ed & Shirley Perry, Acton Foundation Pres. Rick O’ Donnell, and many others I’m forgetting to mention. I took a few party pics and will upload them later. Michael Barnes of course in attendance so Out & About will have plenty more. Tom Hatch the architect. Lori Hawkins wrote about the school in AAS here. pics from AAS

(Community Matters) Michael Barnes and I wanted to catch up yesterday over lunch, so how better than a drive through the hill country to a favorite, Blue Bonnet Cafe in Marble Falls. Texas Highway Magazine readers named it the #1 restaurant in Texas for breakfast (which we both had) and one of the Top 10 restaurants in Texas. It’s home cooking at its best.

Proprietor John Kemper of course meeting and greeting the long line of folks waiting to be seated, and we arrived just after 11. Lots of families picking up young campers from Camp Longhorn. I could have sworn one stylish woman was Cindy Bock but she corrected me that she wasn’t. Missed her name but saw her again last night at the Acton opening.

Pies to die for. We split a piece of banana cream pie for dessert and both brought back apple pies, mine for Tana & Joe, Michael’s for Kip. Dozens of pies to choose from including Apple (reg or sugar free), German Chocolate, Banana Cream, Fudge, Chocolate Cream, Chocolate Meringue, Lemon Cream, Lemon Meringue, Cherry and lots more.

(Community Matters) Did the CNN correspondent, while speaking with Senator Obama, just use the phrase “let’s call a spade a spade?”

(Community Matters) I’ve been reading up on Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed (D). Graduated from West Point and obtained a masters in public policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard University. Paratrooper and Army Ranger before resigning and enrolling in Harvard Law. Rhode Island state senator 1984 – 1990. 1990 – 1996 US Congress. 1996 – today, US Senate. Member of Senate Armed Forces Committee, Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Senate Appropriations committee. I didn’t know Reed but looked him up since speculation that he’s a VP candidate.

(Community Matters) The second Charlie the Unicorn is finally here.

(Community Matters) The diet of the winningest Olympic athlete ever

Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelet. One bowl of grits. Three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.

Lunch: One pound of enriched pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread. Energy drinks packing 1,000 calories.

Dinner: One pound of pasta. An entire pizza. More energy drinks.

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(Community Matters) Matt Cooper rates Condi Rice

Is there a lesson here for business folks? I think it’s that the appearance of competence and executive authority can be misleading. rest here

(Community Matters) Funny and real

(Community Matters) From John Thornton’s Insomniactive

George Schultz: “If they are too big to fail, make them smaller”

(Community Matters) Sat for a long interview yesterday with Carol & Jack of Delta Associates to discuss an organization they’re helping with. Was enlightening to reflect back 12 – 15 years and to see two evolutionary stages of an organization while contemplating needs for a third. What allowed you to arrive where you are and what will it take to get to where you want to go? Heck, where even do you want to go?!? And, WHY? Is it furthering the original mission or has the mission changed, or does it need to change? What was and what is the vision? Are we talking about strategy, objectives or tactics? Realizing I get a mental picture of the vision in my head, like the jaws of a bulldog. Also realizing, I have to build that mental vision or risk being a flapper.

(Community Matters) Our good friend, Thinkwell CEO Carl Tyson sent me a note yesterday (for which I’m very grateful) about NetSquared.org. I hadn’t heard of this site. Their mission:

to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There’s a whole new generation of online tools available – tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as “Web 2.0”; we call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.