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Millennials are too picky -- focused on lifestyle, not work. You might think this is a complaint unique to American employers. But as I'm discovering in my travels through Thailand, the lament is echoed here.
Talk to anyone here recruiting young folks, and they consider millennials a risky prospect. They're are easily bored. Attracting and retaining them is hard. They're difficult to keep engaged.
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Thailand is an established Asian powerhouse that claims to have 0.7 percent unemployment. It's in the middle of a transition from manufacturing to design and, from what I can see, experiencing unprecedented prosperity, despite huge environmental and political challenges. When I arrived in Bangkok, I expected swarms of autorickshaws like you see in Bangalore; instead I saw fleets of Mercedes, as in Sao Paulo.
Listen to Thai technology leaders, and you'll hear the the same complaints about millennials you hear in the United States. Apinetr Unakul, president of TESA (Thai Embedded Systems Association), said it's a misconception that there aren't enough engineers in Thailand. "They just don't want to work in a factory," he said. Replace "factory" with "cubicle" and you get a similar story on the software side.
The Internet changed everything
I find it interesting that millennials in Thailand seem to identify more with their generation than with their culture. Anyone recruiting young tech workers in any American city could relate similar experiences with youthful recalcitrance.
When I asked Unakul about this, he said: "They grew up with the Internet and the Internet changed everything." He also talked about the concept of the "new rich" -- where people worked to gain experience -- but work to live rather than live to work. At a certain point they take their cash and travel. (I'm not certain he was referring directly to Tim Ferriss, David Moore, or any of the folks in the "quit your job" movement.)
Tech guys in the older generation didn't land in a cubicle, the cubicle landed on them. Nonetheless, they were invested and vested, and they thought they had a job for life with a pension. Many were disabused of the latter notions in the early '90s.
When I came onto the scene in the latter '90s, I found an "Office Space"-like environment with relatively arbitrary top-down rules and relatively little meaning in what I did. At times I found particular tasks interesting -- like writing a crazy query that did several outer joins and unions to figure out how many products were returned (and to explain how many false positives the query may have returned due to the shoddy data). I switched jobs every six to 12 months to give myself a change of scenery, the chance to learn something new, and the opportunity to earn another $5 to $10 an hour.
Being loyal to a company didn't occur to me. I mean, they irradiated me with fluorescent lights 40 hours per week and stuck me in a cubicle, dreading the thought of another interminable conference call. At any moment they might randomly lay off an entire department. Why would I be loyal to that?
I got my real education when the dot-com boom went bust and the job market became a buyer's instead of a seller's market. Had it not been for the growth of the open source market and a freak decision to go into that at the right time, I'd have been out of luck. But what if I'd never experienced that reality check?
Consider the younger generation today. They think 2009 was a real recession for the tech industry. I mean, there were six months when we couldn't just get any job we wanted, but had to hang on even if we didn't like our jobs. That was tough!
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Causes of bladder stones should be treated. Most commonly bladder stones are seen with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH--enlarged prostate) or bladder outlet obstruction.
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Most bladder stones are expelled or can be removed without permanent damage to the bladder. They may come back if the cause is not corrected.
If the stones are left untreated, they may cause repeated urinary tract infections or permanent damage to the bladder or kidneys.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of bladder stones.
Prompt treatment of urinary tract infections or otherurinary tractconditions may help prevent bladder stones.
Benway BM, Bhayani SM. Lower urinary tract calculi. In: Wein AJ, ed. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 89.
Sharma R, Dill CE, Gelman DY. Urinary bladder calculi. J Emerg Med. 2011;41(2):185-186.
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This is the story of the Demon Baguette.It started innocently enough. We had half a loaf of French bread left over from another meal and intended to serve it with some home-made soup. We put it in the microwave to warm a little.All seemed well when we sat down to eat. Then, we started to experience a burned smell. As we watched, the crust of the bread eerily darkened as smoke began to rise from the loaf.A dash to the sink was in order.We later determined that the bread was a little too dry and had caught fire from the inside.
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Quote from: Amara on January 21, 2013, 02:31:32 PMQuotethe hallways reeked of garlic for days!!This sounds fantastic! I would have loved to come home from work to that lovely scent.I used to live near a town that had a warehouse for spices. Every so often, the WHOLE TOWN would smell like garlic. I called it Heaven.
Baking, in general, is not my best thing. I am a decent cook, but a generally bad baker. I have tried again and again and again to make pie crust, and seem to finally have it down so that it comes out a good percentage of the time. But the failures still stick in my mind. Dry, overworked, overwetted, soggy, horrible messes that ruined perfectly good pie fillings for a long time. And we won't even talk about my attempts at biscuits-it is a series of painful memories that I am working hard to repress.And one from my sister:She used a very thin (cheap) aluminum pan to make poached eggs. She boiled off the water and melted the pan and burned the eggs. A smell I assure you I never want to smell again.
I once tried making Ina Garten's roasted potato soup recipe. I ended up with a very large pot containing what looked and tasted like a mix of wallpaper paste and hagfish mucus. Another recipe that was never tried again.
When I was in high school, I had a friend who I had many "adventures" with. One day we were at her house and we decided to make some cookies. I was on board with this, because I was really interested in her brother, and what teenage boy doesn't love cookies? (I met him at school and was starting to be 'friends' with him when I met her. I didn't know they were related for about a month and a half)So, back to these cookies. We were using her mom's go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe, guaranteed to be delicious. I was reading the ingredient list, and Friend was grabbing everything and putting it on the counter. It's important to note that Friend was child #5 of 6 in her family, so her mom bought almost everything in bulk. Things like flour/sugar/rice were in smaller, plastic bins. We got to work, mixed up our dough, but we could only find one cookie sheet, so we resigned ourselves to baking several batches. But the first batch turned out really weird. Picture a fried egg. The center mass of each cookie (where the chocolate chips and nuts were) was bigger, but where the cookies had spread, was almost paper thin. Friend called her mom, described the problem we were having, and Mom said it sounded like we needed more flour. So, we added more flour. And more flour. And More flour. It was still not working. If anything our cookies looked worse. So we decided it didn't matter how the cookies looked, we would eat the misshapen monstrosities anyway. I mentioned that I liked her brother, right? Around the time we decided to just eat them, he came home. Before tasting them myself, I offered him a cookie. He took one bite, then ran to the sink and not only spat it out, but he kind of retched a bit as well. I was almost in tears, until I absently nibbled on a cookie, and ran to the garbage can. As it turns out, our cookies were indeed lacking flour. Friend had mistakenly grabbed powdered sugar instead. We made cookie dough with no flour at all, and about 8 cups of powdered sugar. They were terrible. I was embarrassed that I had offered one to the Love of My Life.I don't think I'll ever live that one down. You see, Friend is now my SIL; I married her brother, and my MIL knows far too many embarrassing Teen Twiggy stories since SIL and I got into a great many interesting situations together.*Edited to remove huge emoticons
This reminds me of when I was at school, there was a truly awful project we had to do in cookery class which involved us all setting up cake stalls and selling to other pupils, so basically a huge popularity contest which my group lost badly every week. One week a member of my group was off so two of us decided we'd make what she usually made, chocolate chip cookies, because everyone likes cookies and we thought they'd sell. In a classic case of too many cooks spoil the broth we forgot the sugar from the mix. Those were not nice cookies, unsurprisingly they didn't help us with our quest to be the "winning" team.
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The university is stepping up to serve those who served the country. Carolina has started a veterans' student services advisory committee, created a student veteran organization that is part of a national chapter, developed a Campus Resource Guide designed to introduce new student veterans to the veteran specific resources available to them at Carolina, and started the Green Zone training program for faculty and staff.
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Gov. Nikki Haley announced Thursday morning that her chief of staff, Bryan Stirling, will be the new state Department of Corrections director. Current director Judge Bill Byars is retiring at the end of September.
Before serving as chief of staff, Stirling was a state deputy attorney general for more than six years, and was in private law practice before that.
He says he'll have two main priorities. "I think it's safety of the workers, safety of the guards, which translates to safety of the general public. But I also think giving these people life lessons, so the ones that are going to get out, so they don't return," he says.
The state's recidivism rate, which is the percentage of former inmates who end up back in prison within three years of being released, is at a 20-year low of 27.5 percent. Three years ago, the rate was 30.6 percent.
Gov. Haley said Stirling is known for calm leadership and being able to work with both sides of an issue.
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State Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison criticized the appointment, saying, "Governor Haley continued an alarming pattern today, once again appointing political staff to head a state agency where they have little experience or qualifications in the given field."
But Democratic state Rep. Todd Rutherford of Columbia, House Minority Leader, tweeted after the announcement, "Congratulations to Bryan Stirling on his appointment to become the new Director of the Dept of Corrections. He will do a fantastic job."
In addition to the recidivism rate being at a 20-year low, the state's prison population is also down. As of June 30, 2013, there were 22,168 inmates in 26 prisons in the state.
But Stirling is facing challenges, including the fact that the agency has more than 500 vacancies for corrections officers. Part of the problem is that the starting salary of $25,060 is lower than what many counties pay the officers who staff their county jails.
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Autumn turned to winter Thursday as a storm system rolled into northern Utah, blanketing the mountains and the valleys with snow and triggering a spate traffic accidents and power outages.
More than 2,200 northern Utah residents were left without power in weather-related outages that began late Thursday morning and extended into the afternoon.
Hundreds of other Rocky Mountain Power customers were without power for periods ranging from less than an hour to several hours in Lindon, Pleasant Grove, South Ogden, West Haven and Kamas. By Thursday night, the company reported all its large outages had been restored.
"Whenever we get snow this early in the season the leaves on the trees tend to cradle the snow and that can weight down and break the branches, causing them to come into contact with the power lines," said Rocky Mountain Power spokesman Jeff Hymas. "We caution the public that when they see downed lines to stay away from them and immediately report them."
Snow began in downtown Salt Lake City just before dawn, a few flakes at first that built to a steady dusting that shrouded the horizons in gray and dusted streets and rooftops white.
Northern Utah's forecast into early Friday morning called for rain showers, occasionally mixed with snow, in the valleys and snow showers heavy at times in the mountains, with mostly clear and dry skies by the later morning. The weekend forecast calls for highs in the 50s with partly sunny skies on Saturday and increasing sunshine Sunday.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service issued a slew of storm-related advisories. The NWS reported a wide range of snow totals in the Wasatch and western Uinta mountains, from a few inches to 42 at Powder Mountain; and freeze warnings were in place through Friday morning for east-central and southeastern Utah, from Price running south to near Escalante and southeast to encompass Green River, Moab, Blanding and Bluff.
The mountain snows caused serious delays for commuters in the canyons east of Salt Lake City, where chains were required along some stretches of Interstate 80. Interstate 84 between Weber and Morgan counties was briefly closed early Thursday morning, forcing closure of the Mountain Green Elementary School in Morgan, while icy conditions slowed travelers in Utah County's Spanish Fork Canyon.
There were nearly 80 weather-related slideoffs and crashes reported Thursday to the Utah Highway Patrol, none involved life-threatening injuries. One of those accidents, on Interstate 15 near Lindon in Utah County, saw a semi slide on icy roads, forcing another vehicle into the back of a UHP cruiser; the trooper was not hurt, Johnson said.
While the northern half of the state experienced early winter-like conditions and high temperatures only in the 40s, southern Utahns enjoyed more typical autumn weather. Under mostly clear, sunny skies, Utah's Dixie looked for highs Friday in the upper-60s, mirroring Thursday's forecast.
The Utah Division of Air Quality graded all monitoring stations at "Green," or healthy for breathability.
Salt Lake City's high temperature Friday was pegged at 46, up from Thursday's 42-degree forecast; Ogden looked for 46 and 41 degrees, respectively; Provo 49 and 45; Logan 45 and 41; Wendover 46 and 45; Duchesne 44 and 43; Cedar City 53 and 52; St. George 68s; and Moab 53 and 54 degrees.


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Stratton just released his new album, No Wonder, on November 3rd, via the indie label Stunning Models on Display. We are excited to share with you songs from the LP, which we strongly encourage purchasing, not just because it's magnificent, almost magically splendid, from start to finish, but also to help encourage this prodigy to continue crafting his warm, heart-felt compositions.
In fact, NPR called Stratton's music "disarmingly proficient"; PopMatters declared No Wonder "pretty damn close to a straight-up masterpiece" and the highly respected All Music dubbed the album, "stirring and hyper-personal yet universally beautiful."
Stratton was born in California and grew up in New Jersey where he began composing songs on piano at three years old. Fans of Nick Drake and Mark Kozelek will likely hear why comparisons of Stratton's music have been made to these prolific songwriters. In fact, Stratton's favorite album of all-time, he said, is Drake's classic Pink Moon.
If you enjoy Stratton's breathtakingly beautiful, and deeply personal, music, please vote for him as Deli Magazine's Artist of the Month. Last month, Stratton performed a set at New York's CMJ supported by the blog Pop Tarts Suck Toasted. In addition, he has previously toured with Sam Moss and These United States. Stratton one of the most gifted musical geniuses of our time, and we hope to hear much more from him in the months and years to come.
"Your California Sky" - Will Stratton from No Wonder (2009)
"Who Will" - Will Stratton from No Wonder (2009)
Earlier this year, Stratton self-released a free EP, Vile Bodies; even more reason why we'll be following Stratton's career for a long time to come.
"Vile Bodies" - Will Stratton from Vile Bodies EP (2009)
"Lying in the Dark" - Will Stratton from Vile Bodies EP (2009)
Note: After downloading and unzipping the free MediaFire EP, make sure to add .mp3 extension to the song titles so you can listen to them in your preferred music player.
Finally, here are just a couple of the amazing tracks off Stratton's stunning 2007 debut LP, plus a cover from his mentor, Nick Drake. Special thanks to catbirdseat.org and slowcoustic.com for the following tracks.
"I'd Hate To Leave You" - Will Stratton from What the Night Said (2007)
"Night Will Come" (Demo) - Will Stratton from What the Night Said (2007)
"Place To Be" (Nick Drake) - Will Stratton from Herohill.com
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- At 6:53 PM , Ashlee said...
Memories are resurrected, the present is embodied and the future is envisioned with Will Stratton's entrancing music.
Pure. Penetrating. Addicting.
- At 3:10 AM , said...
Sure is a lot of hype'n going on. Meanwhile, as I attempt to find out more about this alleged musical "genius", my Mac browser crashes. His "free" "Vile Bodies EP" doesn't exist. Um, no thanks, I think I'll pass.
- At 2:02 AM , said...
The link works fine for me. What browser are you using? Are you saying the link caused your browser to crash? Your comment is confusing. Is the "hyping" or "non-existant" EP - the reason you "pass" on the music? I don't understand what ur saying.
- At 7:48 PM , said...
Funny... after listening to "Who Will" I felt like he was canneling Nick Drake only to scroll down the page to see a ND cover. HA! Thanks once again IMC for anther great discovery!


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Claiming that McCain's "straight-talker image" would be jeopardized by flip-flops, Gannett News Service doesn't note they've already occurred
A Gannett News Service article claimed that John McCain "has built up such a straight-talker image that any aroma of pandering or changing positions to placate conservatives would expose him to the flip-flopping label he has pinned on [Mitt] Romney." In fact, on two of the issues cited -- taxes and immigration -- McCain has changed his positions to more closely align himself with the base of the Republican Party, which the article didn't note.
In a February 6 article [1] -- which carried [2] the headline "McCain's goal is to woo the right without compromising" in the Detroit Free Press -- Gannett News Service political editor Chuck Raasch wrote that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) "has upset all three wings of the GOP coalition," such as "[f]iscal conservatives [who] were bewildered that McCain opposed President George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2001" and "foreign policy conservatives," who say McCain "was offering amnesty to lawbreakers in an immigration reform bill also supported by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., whom conservatives passionately dislike." Raasch later asserted that McCain "has built up such a straight-talker image that any aroma of pandering or changing positions to placate conservatives would expose him to the flip-flopping label he has pinned on [Mitt] Romney, the former Massachusetts governor." Yet Raasch failed to note that on two of the issues he cited -- taxes and immigration -- McCain has changed his positions to more closely align himself with the base of the Republican Party.
After opposing the Bush tax cuts in 2001, McCain voted [3] against legislation [4] in 2003 to accelerate the tax reductions [5] enacted in the 2001 bill and to cut dividends and capital-gains taxes. In 2006, however, he voted [6] for the bill extending the 2003 tax cuts. When asked during the April 2, 2006, broadcast of Meet the Press why he had changed his position, McCain replied [7]: "I do not believe in tax increases. ... The tax cuts are now there and voting to revoke them would have been to -- not to extend them would have meant a tax increase." Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, reportedly [8] said at the time: "It's a big flip-flop, but I'm happy that he's flopped."
A press release [9] on McCain's campaign website states, "John McCain will make the Bush income and investment tax cuts permanent, keeping income tax rates at their current level."
Regarding immigration [10], McCain has reversed [11] his position on a key element of the immigration debate: He once called for comprehensive reform that addressed the creation of a guest-worker program, a path to citizenship, and border security, arguing [10] that border security would be ineffective "no matter how formidable the barriers" without the establishment of a "temporary worker program," but now says border security must be addressed before other reforms can be made. A November 4, 2007, Associated Press article [12] about McCain's change in position on immigration quoted him telling reporters that "I understand why you would call it a, quote, shift" and that "I say it is a lesson learned about what the American people's priorities are. And their priority is to secure the borders."
Further, McCain has made inconsistent statements on whether he would support his own immigration bill [13]. During CNN's January 30 Republican presidential debate [14], McCain asserted [15] that he "would not" support his own comprehensive immigration proposal if it came to a vote on the Senate floor, despite having stated [10] on the January 27 edition of NBC's Meet the Press that he would sign that very legislation into law if he were elected president. In a February 5 column [16], nationally syndicated conservative columnist Mona Charen noted McCain's changes on immigration and asserted that "his own flip-flops leave him with a huge H (for hypocrite) on his forehead when he singes Mr. Romney for opportunism."
In contrast with Gannett News Service, in a February 5 article [17] and sidebar [18], Washington Post staff writer Michael Dobbs documented several McCain "flip-flops," including on taxes and immigration.
From Raasch's February 7 Gannett News Service article:
What McCain does and says next will determine whether he can win over doubters, including popular talk show host Rush Limbaugh and American Conservative Union President David Keene, who says McCain has "sneeringly" disrespected conservatives for years.
Since first running for president in 2000, McCain has upset all three wings of the GOP coalition.
-- Social conservatives are angry that he pushed through campaign finance reform that they believe hurts their ability to communicate during elections.
-- Fiscal conservatives were bewildered that McCain opposed President George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2001.
-- And foreign policy conservatives believe he was offering amnesty to lawbreakers in an immigration reform bill that also was supported by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., whom conservatives passionately dislike.
On his radio show Wednesday, Limbaugh suggested conservatives face a choice of either "sitting it out and letting these guys die in a landslide" or join in the fight against Democrats.
"The moderates in our party pay no price for sabotaging the party," Limbaugh said.
Some Republicans are likening this period in the campaign to 1964 when Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller fought a sharp ideological fight for the GOP nomination and the conservative Goldwater lost the general election in a landslide to Democrat Lyndon Johnson, and to 1976 when Ronald Reagan carried the conservative mantle against President Gerald R. Ford.
Conservatives believe both losses eventually led to the Reagan Revolution of 1980. McCain frequently refers to himself as a "foot soldier" in that revolution.
GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway suggests McCain opponent Mitt Romney faces a choice similar to Reagan's in 1976: Fight on in what looks like a losing cause in 2008 or regroup as the conservative choice in 2012.
McCain has portrayed himself as a principled conservative who sometimes has deviated from conservative orthodoxy but says his ability to reach out to Democrats on issues like global warming and immigration will help him attract independents and Reagan Democrats. He has surrounded himself with conservative icons like Jack Kemp, Steve Forbes and Phil Gramm.
"Do we have a lot of work to do to unite the entire party? Sure," McCain told reporters Wednesday in Phoenix. But he said he believes conservatives will rally to him as Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama "move further and further to the left."
But McCain is also in a self-constructed box.
He has built up such a straight talker image that any aroma of pandering or changing positions to placate conservatives would expose him to the flip-flopping label he has pinned on Romney, the former Massachusetts governor. McCain has a far more cordial relationship with another primary foe, ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who also has been accused of not being conservative enough for some Republicans.
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Martin Solveig and Laidback Luke are about to blow things up with their latest collaboration. "Blow" has finally been released on Beatport, and to celebrate, the two have also released a commercial for what they call "The Spray of Life."
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by links18, Nov 18, 2012.
Free might be the worst Olineman we have right now. And yes, it does deserve its own thread.
might be?
he might be the worst tackle in the league.
Probably is bad enough to deserve a He so bad He .......................................... Thread
He was pretty bad. Parnell is beginning to look like the lesser of two evils. He seemed to at least hold his own today.
I agree with your statement. He can't block anybody. We need to upgrade this position.
Sick of him. He was abused throughout the game.
I was hoping he would turn it around but that is not the case. The Cowboys need 4 new lineman. Smith is the only one worth anything and he's hurt.
The guy is a turnstile. He's so bad it's almost scary. Guy needs to be cut and replaced this offseason
I honestly don't know how Free can live with himself, having to pick up Tony Romo off the ground, play after play.
Parnell deserves a shot.
Free should not be a Cowboy next year.
Have to start investing premium draft picks on offensive linemen. Cowboys lucking out with reclamation projects like Kosier, Colombo, and Leonard Davis for a few good years has them suddenly thinking they can turn anyone into a good starter without paying the price for it.
I really do wonder what happened to him. He was a good RT and was even a pretty decent LT for a while. Now suddenly he can't play?
Who is the backup?
I honestly never saw him being a good RT, i always thought he was a solid backup, and thats where he should stay
Notice, how I said offseason for just that reason
I know. It seems like he is so much slower than he was 2-3 years ago. Can't play in space against speed guys and seems to get over powered a lot. Crazy how much he has regressed.
Yeah, it's weird. I bought into the idea last year that he had a shoulder/arm injury, and thought he'd be at least serviceable this year. But now it looks like he just totally lost it after 2010.
Im a little worried about Smith also, I guess I had my expectations high from the good season he had last season
he got his money and stopped working hard at training and the like


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