Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and members of his economic development staff are headed to India on Saturday with the Detroit Regional Chamber to drum up business. Patterson will travel to Mumbai and Pune for one-on-one meetings with "people that want to invest money and hire people in the state," said Maureen Donohue Krauss, the county's deputy economic development director. "We've worked them until they are focused on Michigan. We are trying to lure them to Oakland County." The trip is funded by the chamber and county. The taxpayers' portion is $6,000.
How things have changed! Didn't it used to be the other way around - folks coming here from India, seeking investment.
Indian American Sam Singh - Former Mayor of East Lansing, Michigan
Sam Singh an Indian American Former Mayor of East Lansing, MI has a BIG and I mean real BIG Agenda planned. Lansing City Pulse is reporting
Come March 2008, 12-year East Lansing Councilman and two-year mayor Sam Singh will finally find himself in a place where zoning and economic development are not on the agenda: Antarctica. (Note: Keep checking Sam Singh's journey for the next 16 months which will take him to over 25 countries by visiting his website/blog.) Instead of analyzing bike lane proposals, wooing developers or smoothing university-city relations, Singh will be running a half-marathon along pristine shores thronged by penguins and seals at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The Antarctic Marathon is one of the more exotic stops in a 16-month, globe-girdling trip Singh began Dec. 31.
Singh, 36, has dreamed of the trip since he was a teenager, when he started an ambitious list of places to visit before he died.
“For a long time, I thought this would be the type of experience I’d do when I retired,” he said. “Then you get fears of ‘Will I be healthy enough?’ or ‘Will I be able to do it because of family situations?’”
Sam Singh is going to mix Community Service along with his travels. This quote from his website
A major component for my travels will be to work with nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations throughout the world. I will use this section to highlight groups I work with as well as compiling the trends in the field of international volunteering.
It's 3 AM and I don't have anything better to do so what do I do, I look around Detroit on Google Maps. I pan towards the river front and follow the path I use to take during my jog (when the weather was warm) which is right by the river front from Cobo Hall to beyond General Motors Plaza. Guess what I noticed on Google Maps - A World Map on Granite at the GM Plaza. I blogged on this at MIBAZAAR. Here's the permalink.
C.K. Prahalad named the top management guru in the world
C.K. Prahalad, the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University of Michigan Professor of Corporate Strategy has been named the top Management Guru of the World by "Thinkers 50". C.K. Prahalad beat out Bill Gates (ranked 2nd) and Allen Greenspan (ranked 3rd).
Quoting University of Michigan Ross School of Business website:
According to Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove of Suntop Media, not many management thinkers actually follow up important early ideas with genuinely groundbreaking future ideas.
"This is what C.K. Prahalad has managed to do," Crainer said. "His work with Gary Hamel set the strategic agenda of the 1990s. Now, with 'The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,' he has established the social, entrepreneurial and economic agenda of our times."
Prahalad is one of nine children. His father was a well-known Sanskrit scholar and judge in Madras, India (now Chennai). When he was 19, Prahalad was recruited by the manager of the local Union Carbide battery plant. He worked there for four years. Prahalad calls his Union Carbide experience a major inflection point in his life.
Prahalad then went to the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), where he fell in love with a student at a nearby university. After five years spent trying to win their families' approval, the couple married and left for Harvard University. There Prahalad wrote a PhD thesis on multinational management in just two and a half years. The couple then returned to India, where he taught at the IIMA. But his ideas on global business were under constant attack from nationalists in India. He decided to return to the United States, as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
A rabid fox is still on the loose today after biting a township woman and her beagle near Ann Arbor Trail and McClumpha last night.
Around 9 p.m. Thursday, the crazed animal "came out of nowhere," nipped at the woman's ankle and broke the skin, said Plymouth Township Police Chief Thomas Tiderington. The woman's dog then chased the fox and was also bit. Both sought medical treatment, he said.
The incident is the latest following several attacks occurring in the same area over the last month.
"There's not much we can do…except notify the public to be on the lookout," Tiderington said. "We've contacted professional animal control and we're discussing what capabilities they have."
Careful out there when jogging or taking your dog for a walk!
University of Michigan Hospitals and William Beaumont Hospital in Top 50 Best Hospitals
University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, MI and William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI are in the list of America's Best Hospitals for Cancer Treatment as mentioned in US News.
Here's a look at America's Best Hospitals for Cancer Treatment on Google Maps.
Plymouth Township, Farmington and Saline amongst 100 Great American Towns
Michigan towns - Plymouth Township (ranked 37th), Farmington (ranked 55th) and Saline (ranked 59th), make it to the top 100 list of "100 Great American Towns" as mentioned in CNN Money.
That's great, the town I live in - Plymouth Township makes it to the top 50!!
I have mapped out "100 Great American Towns" on Google Maps along with the latest news from each of the 100 towns.
Check out the current IT Jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois in the following technologies: (source YAHOO HOTJOBS) Web 2.0, Java, SAP, .Net
Interested in going back to India? -- Check back later at MIBAZAAR for the latest IT jobs in India....
In Michigan 62% of the students scored proficient or better in Math Tests administered by the State of Michigan. This compared to 29% of the students in Michigan who scored proficient or better in Nationally administered Tests.
Whereas in Reading 82% of the students scored proficient or better in Reading Tests administered by the State of Michigan. This compared to 32% of the students in Michigan who scored proficient or better in Nationally administered Tests.
Check out Google Maps View of Test Scores in other States including Michigan.
India's Independence Day in 2007 - is it India's 60th or 61st Birthday. I would say it is India's 61st Birthday and 60th Anniversary.
Some of our area websites and desi radio programs keep saying "India's 60th Birthday" in relation to this year's (2007) Independence Day Celebration at Hart Plaza, Detroit and Rock Financial Showplace, Novi, MI.
International Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI ranked in Top 10 Best High Schools
Newsweek has come out with the list of Top High Schools in America. International Academy in Bloomfield Hills, MI has been ranked 7th. Here's a Google Maps view of the Top 100 High Schools in America.
