28 Nov 2009
After You’ve Gone - Fiona Apple
originally by Marion Harris, 1918
(posted by sometimesagreatnotion)Any time Fiona tackles an old song, you should pay attention - she usually knocks them out of the park. I don’t think it’s wrong to say that she would have been a HUGE star back in the early days of the 20th century.
there’s been a lot of fiona love ‘round the internet these days, i’ve found. this song made me swoon.
25 Nov 2009
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2010 Trends: 10 and 1/2 Trends to Watch
TexasWeird as it may be, there’s an undeniable pull toward the secessionist state.
Pick any 2009 economic rankings list and the “Texaplex” cities—Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin—will have nabbed a spot or three. Austin and Dallas are counted among The Wall Street Journal’s top Youth Magnet cities, and Texas cities were half of the Brookings Institution’s list of top 10 strongest metro areas. Texas dominated 2009’s lists of best relocation destinations, home-building markets and job-creation cities. This very magazine also named Austin one of its own Best Cities for Small Businesses.
“Texas has fared this recession better than most other parts of the country,” says Brad Burke, managing director of Rice University’s Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. “The state became much more diversified over the last decade. It’s investing [billions] in growth industries.
Certainly, the state’s low-tax, pro-business climate helps. Texas is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other, and accounted for an astonishing 59 percent of all new jobs created in the U.S. last year. Its current unemployment rate hovers below the nation’s average.
And let’s not forget how it nurtures entrepreneurship. Burke notes that applications to Rice’s graduate entrepreneurship program—ranked in the nation’s top five, of course—are way up.
Still need proof? Check out Gov. Rick Perry’s prolific “Texas Brags” web page.
Say what you will, disgruntled Californians, but one state still has a budget surplus, and its Lone Star is rising. —J.W., Entrepreneur Magazine, Dec. 2009
BOOYA.](http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kto3a3Jh611qz9vrao1_400.jpg)
2010 Trends: 10 and 1/2 Trends to Watch
Texas
Weird as it may be, there’s an undeniable pull toward the secessionist state.Pick any 2009 economic rankings list and the “Texaplex” cities—Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin—will have nabbed a spot or three. Austin and Dallas are counted among The Wall Street Journal’s top Youth Magnet cities, and Texas cities were half of the Brookings Institution’s list of top 10 strongest metro areas. Texas dominated 2009’s lists of best relocation destinations, home-building markets and job-creation cities. This very magazine also named Austin one of its own Best Cities for Small Businesses.
“Texas has fared this recession better than most other parts of the country,” says Brad Burke, managing director of Rice University’s Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. “The state became much more diversified over the last decade. It’s investing [billions] in growth industries.
Certainly, the state’s low-tax, pro-business climate helps. Texas is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other, and accounted for an astonishing 59 percent of all new jobs created in the U.S. last year. Its current unemployment rate hovers below the nation’s average.
And let’s not forget how it nurtures entrepreneurship. Burke notes that applications to Rice’s graduate entrepreneurship program—ranked in the nation’s top five, of course—are way up.
Still need proof? Check out Gov. Rick Perry’s prolific “Texas Brags” web page.
Say what you will, disgruntled Californians, but one state still has a budget surplus, and its Lone Star is rising. —J.W., Entrepreneur Magazine, Dec. 2009
BOOYA.
