But with no sign of Russia withdrawing its troops from Georgia despite a pledge to do so and indications it has moved short-range ballistic missiles into the disputed area of South Ossetia, it was unclear how the alliance would make good on Rice's vow.

On her way to an emergency NATO foreign ministers meeting on the crisis, Rice said the alliance would punish Russia for its invasion of Georgia and deny its ambitions by rebuilding and fully backing Georgia and other Eastern European democracies.

"We are determined to deny them their strategic objective," Rice told reporters aboard her plane, adding that any attempt to re-create the Cold War by drawing a "new line" through Europe and intimidating former Soviet republics and ex-satellite states would fail.

"We are not going to allow Russia to draw a new line at those states that are not yet integrated into the trans-Atlantic structures," she said, referring to Georgia and Ukraine, which have not yet joined NATO or the European Union but would like to.

She sounds so powerless. Its kinda pathetic.

Rice: NATO won' t let Russia succeed in Georgia - Central Florida News 13

Great news — Workforce Management reports that a growing number of companies are willing to foot the bill for telecommuters to work in coworking spaces. They offer the example of Chris Jurney, a senior programmer with Relic Entertainment, who left the company, and Vancouver, to move to Philadelphia.

More coverage of the broly.

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Corporations Picking Up Bill for Co-Working
Chris Jurney loves his job as a senior programmer of video games with Relic Entertainment. So when he moved from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Philadelphia because of his wife’s work, he was worried that he might not be able to return to his job.

But after a stint at a sister company, Jurney was thrilled that his bosses at Relic said he could come back to work for them and telecommute from his home in Philadelphia. But as many teleworkers soon realize, working from home can quickly lose its appeal.

“I was going totally stir crazy,” Jurney says.

The 31-year-old pitched a new idea to his boss. He found a place called Independents Hall just 30 minutes from his home, where he could share office space, have his own desk, free Internet, a conference room and all the coffee he could drink for $275 a month.nullnull

Corporations Picking Up Bill for Co-Working | workforce.com

Corporations Picking Up Bill for Co-Working

Chris Jurney loves his job as a senior programmer of video games with Relic Entertainment. So when he moved from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Philadelphia because of his wife’s work, he was worried that he might not be able to return to his job.

But after a stint at a sister company, Jurney was thrilled that his bosses at Relic said he could come back to work for them and telecommute from his home in Philadelphia. But as many teleworkers soon realize, working from home can quickly lose its appeal.

“I was going totally stir crazy,” Jurney says.

The 31-year-old pitched a new idea to his boss. He found a place called Independents Hall just 30 minutes from his home, where he could share office space, have his own desk, free Internet, a conference room and all the coffee he could drink for $275 a month.

My brother gets mucho coverage for co-working.

Corporations Picking Up Bill for Co-Working | workforce.com

Since March, we’ve been paying rent and working out of a simple space in order to save us from the work-from-home blues. We are also radically more productive when we work together (of course.) We got a place on the cheap with a sweetheart deal in an amazing location, and we haven’t looked back since. We’ve often joked about being able to fit a small call center inside our walls if we needed to, but the recent chatter has really made us look at all that extra space in a different way.

So what are we talking about here? What does this space have to offer? Here’s a quick list of amenities:

* central location, Midtown-Buckhead accessible
* no parking problems
* Lab amenities: land-line, dedicated fax machine, wireless internet, full kitchen, full bathroom, copious whiteboard space, lots of natural sunlight
* walkable amenities: Office Depot, Publix, Starbucks, Panera (dozens more)
* low cost, easy break-even (we already pay for it today)
* no barriers to entry: we handle the lease and we don’t require legal fluff, just grab a desk and get to work
* no barriers to exit: any coworker can leave any time, and we can fold the entire space in an instant when a new facility is finally born
* 3(+) insanely intelligent, radically diverse brains waiting to engage you and your startup plans

All that said, this space is not huge or luxurious. We can comfortably get another 3-5 people in here, and then some room for a few occasional floaters.

I realize the details aren’t so concrete right now, and that is by design. Today’s post is just to officially announce the space, but we’ll publish maps, photos, a video tour, pricing information (it’s cheap!), and the first desk assignments (zomg, who is signed up?!?!?) very soon.

CoworkAtlanta.com

There has been a lot of discussion lately about a co-working space in Atlanta and also a lot of people that are willing and wanting to help out. This is all good news, however we have to combine our efforts to ensure that we are duplicating them.

Where are we at?

That’s a good question. My personal opinion, which is different than others, is that we aren’t far. A lot of chatter on Twitter but that is about it. We need to organize, if only a little, to get this on the fast track.

Where are we going?

I think all we can all agree that we are looking for a permenant space. This space can be utilized for hot-desks and permenant desks as well as a meeting facility that could include a training room along with multiple conference rooms.

The location is a different story. There have been discussions of spaces both inside and outside the perimeter as well spaces located near marta, etc. If you do have a suggestions, please leave a comment.

Next steps?

From here we really need to get a solid idea of who is willing to pay and how much you would pay. Think of this as an informal survey. So if you like the idea we need you to leave a comment below. After the next week or so we’ll begin formalizing meet-ups to get feedback from the community and figure our who take the lead on all of this.

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So with that, here are the details of the next Open Coffee. We’re going to do it on August 27th from 2pm until 5pm or so at Cafe Intermezzo Dunwoody across from Perimeter Mall (unlike the Starbucks at Georgia Tech, there is definitely free WiFi from 10am until 7pm at Cafe Intermezzo). Some of you may realize that this is the same day as Capital Lounge. Hopefully Open Coffee will be the pre-lounge get together for some of you. I’m planning on grabbing some food after Open Coffee (perhaps at Alon’s?) and before heading to Capital Lounge. Feel free to plan for that and tag along with me. I’d be happy to have the company.

Atlanta Open Coffee - August 27, 2008 / (Sanjay_Parekh) == (Rambling)

So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, running queries in Terminal, using a CSS editor, and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we realized. “And much cooler.”

Sites: double click, start work.

Your Coda experience starts with “Sites”. Think of them as uber-favorites on cute little pieces of paper. When you’re ready to start work, just double click a site — Coda will instantly restore itself exactly as you left it, connecting to your server, restoring any splits and tabs, and allowing you to code, pronto.
the publish button
One-click publishing.

Work on websites locally, then publish them remotely to your server? Coda’s sites will automatically track your local changes, and do it all for you. Just hit the big, shiny “Publish All” button. Ka-plam! Up they go.

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The United States is Georgia’s closest ally. It maintained about 130 military advisers in Georgia, along with civilian advisers, contractors involved in all aspects of the Georgian government and people doing business in Georgia. It is inconceivable that the Americans were unaware of Georgia’s mobilization and intentions. It is also inconceivable that the Americans were unaware that the Russians had deployed substantial forces on the South Ossetian frontier. U.S. technical intelligence, from satellite imagery and signals intelligence to unmanned aerial vehicles, could not miss the fact that thousands of Russian troops were moving to forward positions. The Russians clearly knew the Georgians were ready to move. How could the United States not be aware of the Russians? Indeed, given the posture of Russian troops, how could intelligence analysts have missed the possibility that the Russians had laid a trap, hoping for a Georgian invasion to justify its own counterattack?

The Russo-Georgian War and the Balance of Power | Stratfor