Tying the Knot: The Founding of Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Dr. Carson also shared with the audience a newly released report, Tying the Knot: The Founding of Silicon Valley Community Foundation. This detailed case study, captured by award-winning journalist Janet Rae-Dupree outlines the candid details of a complicated merger between two, very different, community foundations (the Community Foundation of Silicon Valley serving Santa Clara County and the Peninsula Community Foundation serving San Mateo County). The union of these complementary, yet fundamentally different, foundations is told in this compelling case study that shares moments of inspiration as well as deeply rooted philosophical challenges in the creation of the largest community foundation in existence.

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Taking a Full Measure of the Future

IT managers may be called on to do any number of things over the course of a week, but there is one thing that they know they absolutely must do without fail: Measure, measure, and then measure one more time. Let just one number slide too far out of alignment with the others, and the dominoes start to fall. Keep everything in balance and systems hum along without interruption.

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On the Cover: The Road to Smart Growth

How will we create the Silicon Valley we want and need? Start with smart planning

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Workplace Wellness | Cleveland Clinic Health

Tackling tobacco use, weight loss, nutrition and stress management on the job is good for everyone's bottom line. Struggling to work full time, care for her critically ill husband and contend with her own health issues, Valencia Reeves-McMillan doubted she could add one more thing to her already overloaded life.

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Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike - New York Times

IT'S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience. Andrew S.

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Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies

From the skeleton to skin to its systems - get a grip on the human body Pursuing a career as a health care professional? Need to understand how the human body works? No problem - this hands-on workbook gets you up to speed in anatomy and physiology facts in a focused, step-by-step manner.

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Creating the Heart of a Planet in the Heart of a Gem | SLAC News Center

Although materials scientists have theorized for years that a form of super-dense aluminum exists under the extreme pressures found inside a planet's core, no one had ever actually seen it. Until now.

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Novel Magnetic, Superconducting Material Opens New Possibilities in Electronics | SLAC News Center

Menlo Park, Calif. - Scientists have reached a crucial milestone that could lead to a new class of materials with useful electronic properties. In research reported in the Sept. 5 issue of Nature Physics , the team sandwiched two nonmagnetic insulators together and discovered a startling result: The layer where the two materials meet has both magnetic and superconducting regions - two properties that normally can't co-exist.

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