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When to Turn to a Personal Injury Attorney Specializing in Paralysis
Any injury caused by someone else's behavior or negligence is serious, but paralysis is an utterly life-changing event that many people are never able to recover from. The terrifying reality is that the ability to work and enjoy a normal quality of life can be taken away in a moment as a result of a paralyzing injury. Here at McGehee ☆ Chang, Landgraf, we are dedicated to helping our clients obtain full and fair compensation for injuries resulting in paralysis. Whether our clients are paraplegics or quadriplegics, we understand just how difficult it can be to function without the body's full motor capacity.
With countless Americans currently living with paralysis, caused by the fault of someone else, it is crucial for these victims to have the financial support they need to cope and adjust to their new life situations. Learning how to live with the medical challenges associated with paralysis often takes a team of dedicated friends, family members, and trained healthcare workers as well as the funds necessary to purchase equipment, make up for lost wages, retrofit homes, and pay for such advanced care. We advocate for those whose paralysis was caused by physical assaults, auto accidents, or falls due to someone else's actions or negligence.
What Are the Types of Paralysis?
The extent of a paralyzing injury is described by one of two names: quadriplegia or paraplegia. Paraplegia occurs when a person is unable to move the lower extremities, often from the waist down. When the spinal cord is damaged lower down on the torso, paraplegia may occur and patients are often unable to ever walk again. Quadriplegia refers to the inability to move all four extremities. A neck injury is commonly the cause of quadriplegia, as an injury to the spinal cord in that area can impact almost the entire body.
Common Causes of Paralysis
There are some medical conditions that can lead to paralysis, but more often it is the result of an accident causing injury to the spinal cord. Some of the most common causes of paralysis include the following:
- Car accident
- Workplace accidents
- Slips in hazardous conditions
- Gunshots
- Surgical errors
- Obstetrical malpractice
These types of traumatic injuries can occur when someone else fails to behave in a way that is appropriate or reasonable in most situations.
Short-term and Long-term Effects
Looking at the short term, paralysis affects a person's ability to live the life he or she once enjoyed. Without the ability to walk, everyday tasks become challenges that take a lot longer to perform or must be completed by another person. In the long term, paralysis can prevent a person from being able to work, earn a living and support a family. In addition, there are many medical conditions that a paralyzed person may face in the future, including muscle atrophy, breathing concerns and deep vein thrombosis. The financial cost of paralysis often impacts both the ability to provide for a family as well as to keep up with adequate medical care throughout the years.
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MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. Russia will respond symmetrically to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the US or any other country their diplomats will be told to leave Russia on the basis of reciprocity, Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of foreign policy committee in the upper house of Russian parliament said on Monday.
"My proposal is to read these reports in the following manner - the US has passed a decision on expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats from the US and 60 American diplomats from the Russian Federation,'' Kosachev tweeted in Facebook commenting on the expulsions of Russian diplomats from the US, Germany, France, Poland, "and some other North-Atlantic countries aligning with them."
"The US has passed a decision to close down one Russian consulate in the US and one US consulate in Russia," he went on. "Poland has decided to expel four Russian diplomats and four Polish diplomats from Russia."
Kosachev believes Russia will be retaliating actions of this kind symmetrically until foreign politicians come to their senses. "From now on, stops at all stations until they [Western decision-makers - TASS] come round."
"There's very little hope for apologies because it's not the apologies they kicked off this foul and extremely cynical game for," the senator indicated.

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I flew from CDG to San Fransisco on a 777-300ER of Air France.
Seats and pitch good, the IFE screen was quite small but for a night flight it's not that important.
The food quality was on overall good, but the quantity was small.
The flight attendant were nice.
I really appreciate the fact that they serve Champagne in economy class for aperitive.
This is a point where other companies are saving cost.
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We are a: Kindred Spirits is a four-star, family owned and operated country resort. We have 21 cottages and 25 rooms.
Where: We are located beside the famed Anne of Green Gables House and just a short walk from Cavendish Beach and the National Park.
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The Estes Park Cycling Coalition (EPCC) heard a special update from the Estes Valley Recreation and Park District (EVRPD) Executive Director Tom Carosello as well as an update on the Stanley Bike Park during their regular meeting on Wednesday.
Here are the key takeaways from the meeting.
1. EVRPD Executive Director Tom Carosello updated the board on some of the happenings at the recreation district for 2019. He said that there will be improvements to the Stanley Bike Park, an overhaul of the tennis courts as well as various ballpark improvements. He also noted that the EVRPD added barbecue grills and new roofing to the shelters at Stanley Park.
2. With the help of a $10,000 donation from a community member, matched dollar for dollar by the EVRPD, the Estes Valley Dog Park will receive some new upgrades in 2019, including irrigation and a new drinking fountain.
3. Carosello said that the EVRPD plans to expand their hours at the Marina in 2019 due to expressed interest in sunset rides from community members.
4. The campgrounds will receive shade shelters, bear-proof food lockers and trash cans in 2019.
5. Bike lanes along Elkhorn Avenue downtown were discussed during the meeting. Carosello expressed concerns that it would be difficult to add an extra lane to the road without pushing businesses back. He advised the EPCC board to meet with the Transportation Advisory Board in town to discuss the possibility of new bike lanes in town.
6. Todd Plummer, the treasurer of the EPCC, offered an update on the Stanley Bike Park. He mentioned that after serving the community for one year so far, the bike park could use some maintenance. He said he wants to improve the perimeter trail and improve the pump track that is starting to erode from use.
7. The mountain bike racing team at the high school requested that the EPCC add a jump line to the park. That's going to be a primary focus for the EPCC in 2019.
8. The EPCC is also pushing its annual membership drive. In 2019, members of the coalition will receive discounts at various places around town that have partnered with the coalition.
9. The board also voted on a photo contest to see which photo would become the face of their 2019 membership cards.
Pick up a copy of Friday's Trail-Gazette in print for a full recap of the meeting.


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Last week, I posted a status about a Youth Congress sermon about the HIV and uncut hair and people thought I was being satirical. And as much as I wish it was a farce, it truly wasn't...
Youth Congress did happen. And by all accounts it was youth congress: Except even more boring.
However, there was the usual lot of screaming preachers with angry hand gestures. And these preachers talked about how important their beliefs were in spite of the truth: No one really cared except for the kids who were there, and most of them seemed to care too much about the hype and too little thinking about what was said.
Of course there was some fornicating, dancing, and tears.... all expected. All monotonous. All boring.... aka the same thing I predicted about 2011 Youth Congress ended up being very true about 2013 Youth Congress as well...
And all was well with the world....
With the Holy Exception that was James Maroney. It was he who was preaching in his home-state of Kentucky last week. And it was he who had all the expectations of the Youth Congress world fall on his shoulders. It was he who would not disappoint. And by "not disappoint" I really mean it was he who would carry the future of the UPC on his back in one single sermon....
Because from the porch of a plantation (Kentucky being the last state to free the slaves), James Maroney announced that he officially hates the devil:
And that was towards the end of the allegedly inspired and ridiculously obvious content that was preached that night....
The entire sermon can be found here since the embedding is disabled. But if you listen for too long you'll feel your brain slowly deteriorate as if it was watching an MTV reality television show:
But if you want the Sparknotes version of Maroney's entire sermon, realize this is the overall conclusion:
Unfortunately for Maroney the previous quote from his sermon wasn't the dumbest thing he said.
He did have far more laughable crap to shoot out of his mouth. In fact he delivered the single dumbest testimony I've ever heard in church:
If you didn't get the above message, here it is:
We have found the cure to the HIV. And lucky for us it has nothing to do with biology or science or the New York Times crossword puzzle. In fact all the billions of dollars spent on HIV research over the past thirty years was totally a non-factor. Because the cure to the HIV you see, was in the hair:
Uncut hair to be exact.
Forget protected sex. Forget abstinence. Forget science. Forget bestiality even.
The surest way to prevent the HIV and to cure it is uncut hair.
Problem with the scientific community: They forgot to ask us of Apostolic fame what exactly God wanted the cure to be.
Because God's answer to the HIV is a bold and proud, loud shout: "UNCUT HAIR!"
And don't call it magic hair. Because it's a medical solution: Just don't cut your hair ladies. And the good Lord, He is with you. (If you're a dude nurse, I'm so so sorry but there's no hope).
James Maroney does not give two flips whether or not you think he's crazy, because the proof is in the pudding. And by pudding, I mean the proof is in the uncut hair...
Forget the fact that this kind of needle pricking thing from an HIV victim happens to nurses over 16,000 times a year. Forget the fact that of those 16,000 nurses who end up pricked with HIV contaminated needles, that 0.45% of all those nurses end up with HIV (source from an ivy league institution found here).
That means out of 16,000 nurses who run into the problem that Maroney's nurse runs into, only 72 at the very most end up with HIV.
But Maroney says forget the number crunching FORGAWDSAKES! Forget the stats. Forget the research. Forget the math. Forget the science. James Maroney has discovered the cure for the HIV apparently.
If James Maroney said it, it must be true, right? It's the uncut hair that saved the women's life. And that's just how miracles work okay?!?
Miracles work at a .45% rate these days. And that's the Maroney MAGIC HAIR LINE!
It's science. Complex Einstein stuff right here.
And let's forget about how stupid God must be if he's really up in heaven watching all these kids born with HIV in Africa die out simply because they or their mother didn't have uncut hair (2.2 million people die of AIDS annually).
As much as one testimony sounds real cool and can get a bunch of youth riled up, let's think about the bigger consequences of what this ignorant preacher is saying: It's not about research or science or millions of unjust deaths: It's about the HAIR!
If you didn't catch that, I'm implying that Maroney is a flat out idiot.
The UPC should be ashamed of itself if it doesn't condemn such nonsense. There used to be many ministers in the UPC talking against the Magic hair doctrine and somehow their voices have been silenced in the past years. All the while idiots like Dr. Maroney get to spout their hateful, ignorant doctrines.
Talk to your pastors and let them know that as fun as an uncut hair/HIV testimony sounds, that it's simply hateful and unbiblical.
And either that Maroney guy goes to hell in his imbecilic Southern arrogance (assuming he doesn't repent for his heresy), or I'm happily whistling my way to hell myself.... Because there's no way a merciful God exists who promotes such self-aggrandizing apostolic identity boasting venom.


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You get the QuickBooks Error Code C=342 on your screen when you attempt to open a QuickBooks Company file which is damaged severely. This error can pop-up on any of the QuickBooks versions out there. You will have to restart your QuickBooks on your desktop and make a new company file. The other option is to get the QuickBooks ProAdvisors to look into the problem and try to fix the error for you. Dial the QuickBooks Support Phone Number to contact the QuickBooks Experts.
Causes of QuickBooks Error Code C=342
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I purchased the Amazon Fire TV so I could watch live Tv or DVR programs in a bedroom without a Joey. It worked great for a week and a half and then the Fire TV prompted me to Activate my Dish Anywhere App as if it were the first time using it on the Fire TV.
The Fire Tv (stick) screen puts up an activation code, I log on to the website: DishAnywhere/activate.com and enter the code and it says it is successfully registered. The Fire Stick appears to be logging in to Dish Anywehere only to loop back to the Activate screen again. It's a vicious loop.
I have performed the usual troubleshooting methods: uninstalled the Dish Anywhere App from the Fire Tv, restored the Fire Tv to factory settibgs, reset the Hopper, reset the modem and router. You name it, I've tried it - more than once. I've spent an additional hour of my time using the chat version of technical support with a Dish rep who ended up asking me to call and speak to (what I assumed) a higher level tech only to be told:
It is an issue but at this point it is not at the forefront to be addressed because the issue is not widespread. She assured me that it is however being investigated. She could give me no timeframe and said to just keep checking back. Not exactly what I call great customer service.
I then spoke with Amazon Tech support and she escalated it up the ladder of technicians and says I will receive a call with two to three days.
I am very dissatisfied with the level of urgency for a product that Dish advertises and supports. This is on the verge of being ridiculous.
Hello, Crockie. I understand why this would be completely frustrating to have the DISH Anywhere App work perfectly on your Fire TV and then just stop. When you report an issue to us we forward it to our Engineering Team. The reason why we don't have an exact date of when it will be fixed is because it does take the up to 14 days to investigate the issue, and then a bit more time to find a fix for it. We are not trying to keep our members in the dark, and I do apologize if that's how it feels.
We do have some good news! We are estimating that the update to the DISH Anywhere App will come out on 06/30. This should help resolve this issue.
Hello and thank you for your reply. I'm afraid I let my frustration get the better of me. I apologise for the tone of my post and do understand things take time. Thank you again for the update.
Best regards,
Hi Caleb-
Any update on the update? Dish Anywhere is still not working with the Amazon Fire Tv or the Ipad.
Hey Crockie. Did some checking on this and the update is set to go live later today 7/2. I don't have an exact time currently. This should fix the activation loop on Fire TV devices.
Awesome! Thank you for your timely reply, RobertS!


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"Created for "tree-huggers", Dutch designer Dré Wapenaar thought up this singular construction in 1998 for British activists so they could sleep among the branches of trees they were trying to save.
The Treetent is made of steel, canvas and plywood and measures 15 feet high by nearly 9 feet in diameter."
Do you see the problem here? I'll give you a second.
Treehugers are using dead trees (plywood) to sleep on! Gasp! "Don't kill trees...unless I can use it for something."
I wonder if the Boy Scouts will be using these thing in the future. Wookies do.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Hypocricy knows no bounds!
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Archive for the 'King Abdullah' Tag
Woman appointed to Saudi Council of Ministers
This blog's very first post concerned women's rights in Saudi Arabia and we have since followed other developments in the desert kingdom, good, bad, and ugly. This one is good: King Abdullah has appointed a woman to the Saudi Council of Ministers for the first time. Noor Al-Fayez will serve as deputy minister for women's education.
Saudi Arabia is one of the world's few remaining absolute monarchies. The Council of Ministers is appointed by and responsible to the king and merely advises him on the formulation of general policy and assisted with managing the activities of the bureaucracy. The council consists of a prime minister, the first and second deputy prime ministers, 20 ministers (of whom the minister of defense also is the second deputy prime minister), two ministers of state, and a small number of advisers and heads of major, autonomous organizations.
Khaled Al-Maeena, editor-in-chief of Arab News, an English-language daily newspaper in Saudi Arabia, called many of the other appointments in what is the council's biggest shake-up since Abdullah became king in 2005 very "progressive", which is a very good thing.
King Abdullah appears to be, very slowly, moving the country in a more liberal direction, but considering how reactionary the place is it's still just about the most conservative place on the planet. He is 84 years old and the Crown Prince is just two years younger. Succession to the Saudi Monarchy can be a messy process and it will be interesting to see how things shake out in the next two decades when the last of the sons of Ibn Saud, the nation's modern founder, pass on.
Mecca to be remodeled
The Economist has an interesting story about Saudi plans to remodel Mecca, the holiest city is Islam. The city is the original hometown of Mohammed, the founder and chief figure in Islam, and was a key religious center even before that time. Muslims are supposed to pray five times each day, at appointed times, all while facing in the direction of Mecca, and are urged to participate in the haj, a pilgrimage to the city during the holy month of Ramadan, at least once in their life if they are able.
As international travel has gotten easier, more Muslims have been able to visit Mecca, causing significant logistical problems (including people often being trampled to death). A chief reason for remodeling parts of the city, including the most important mosque there, the Masjid al-Haram ("Sacred Mosque") is to accommodate the 2.5 million pilgrims that come to Mecca during the haj each year. At present, the mosque can hold up to 900,000 visitors; plans are to expand it to a capacity of 1.5 million.
Given the great importance of the mosque and Mecca to Muslims, it is not surprising that the Saudi plans are stirring up debate. The fact that one of the architects chosen for the project, Briton Norman Foster, is a non-Muslim has added to the controversy. Non-Muslims are not allowed to enter Mecca, so he'd have to supervise the project from a distance and couldn't visit the site itself.
But the city has already undergone huge changes. The Economist reports:
Even before the plans to give the Haram mosque a facelift emerged, many Muslims were uneasy about the renovations already underway in Mecca. The modern city bears little resemblance to the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad. Visitors to Mecca can buy a latte from Starbucks and a snack from KFC or McDonald's. Moreover, the first Islamic school where Muhammad is believed to have taught as well as the house of Khadija, his first wife, are believed to have been destroyed as construction in Mecca has boomed. Critics such as Mr Angawi fear that if these plans go ahead, more damage will be wrought upon Mecca's historic buildings. Some suggest that Saudi Arabia's rulers don't concern themselves much about preserving these historic sites because their interpretation of Islam regards venerating holy places as akin to idol worship.
It will be interesting to see what sorts of decisions are made by Saudi leaders, including King Abdullah—who is the "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" (in Mecca and Medina)—in this matter.


text: Isabelle brings a strong passion for social justice and a background in direct service to NEO Philanthropy. Prior to joining NEO, she served as a case manager for a human services nonprofit in Boston conducting outreach and advocacy using a community-based approach for adults diagnosed with major-mental illness. In this role she provided direct counseling and crisis-management services to her clients while simultaneously developing individualized treatment plans and conducting clinical assessments under state-mandated guidelines. Isabelle graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University where she studied Psychology and Law & Public Policy. During this time she participated in an intensive social entrepreneurship program at Ganesha University located in the city of Singaraja in Bali, Indonesia, where she worked with a team of American and Balinese students to develop the framework for a community based nonprofit organization focusing on the issue of high adolescent suicide rates in the city.


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It's become clear that texting while driving leads to deadly car accidents, and you know it. That's why you invested in a hands-free texting system that uses talk-to-text technology. All you have to do is push a button, and then your mobile device transcribes what you say.
You think it's a perfect solution. Now you can text without ever taking your hands off of the wheel!
But, is hands-free texting while driving really safe?
You could argue that it is safer than traditional texting, but that definitely does not mean it is safe in an objective sense. One study said that using voice-to-text was "just as distracting" as holding a phone in your hand.
There are a few issues. To start with, you still have to locate your device, push a button, check the spelling and send the message. It's not as if you're uninvolved in the process.
The bigger issue, though, is the mental distraction. That doesn't go away just because you're talking instead of texting. You still have to devote energy to thinking about the conversation and processing that information. That means that you're multitasking -- something that humans really don't do very well. The distraction of using voice-to-text can lead to accidents because you're not wholly focused on driving.
Remember, any distraction in the car is potentially dangerous, no matter what it looks like. New technology may be designed to help, but do not assume it is just going to eliminate all your risk.
Unfortunately, even if you put away your phone entirely and vow never to text again, you're still at risk from other distracted drivers on the road -- who may involve you in an accident. If that happens, learn more about how you can obtain compensation to cover the medical bills for your injuries and lost wages through a consultation with an attorney.


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I arrived at the village on foot, slowly emerging from a land of ghosts. As I left behind the thick forest and crossed the cement bridge into Chikatsuyu, I became conscious of the dirt smeared across my face, the brambles caught in my hair and the vagabond look in my eyes. This place meant humans – and civilisation. But after three days hiking the sacred mountains behind me, I didn't feel particularly human. Bit by bit I had begun to believe in the kami spirits said to reside in the rocks, animals, streams and trees around me. And I admit that in my crazier moments, I had started speaking to them out loud.
A few hours' train ride south of Kyoto lies one of the world's most ancient pilgrimage routes. The Kumano Kodo is a network of narrow trails winding through the dense mountains of Japan's Kii Peninsula, with a unique fusion of Japanese Shintoism and Chinese Buddhist beliefs at its heart. Back in the 6th century, Buddhism was introduced to much of Japan by China. Instead of ousting the indigenous Shinto religion, the two faiths melded to create a set of beliefs revering the natural environment, which is believed to hold kami spirits. Practitioners of the faith set up their base deep in the Kii Mountains, marking the beginning of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage route.
Kumano beckoned to me as a nature lover, and I was fascinated by the idea of a tangible path to a sacred realm. As I began my travels through Japan in April, I decided it was time to explore a different side of myself; to embark on the physical act of pilgrimage in order to uncover my own spirituality. In Japanese, the word for 'walk' is synonymous with the word for Buddhist practice – the walker is thus a practitioner, and his faith is the path. As I was soon to learn, each step across these holy mountains would sink into my psyche, bringing me closer to a world of spirits.
I set out on my first day of the Kumano Kodo from Kii Tanabe, and spent the night in a traditional ryokan (Japanese inn). I woke at the break of dawn to watch from my futon on the floor as the thick mists which coat the mountains overnight dissolved to uncover the forest below. I remember thinking that if spirits had to choose one place on earth to reside, this would quite possibly be it. I took a hot bath in the ryokan's steaming onsen springs, nibbled half-heartedly on a pungent Japanese breakfast of miso soup and fish caramelised in soy sauce, strapped on my backpack and set off.
The trail started right by the ryokan and the morning was mild, sunlit and warm. Around an hour into the hike, I passed a stream on my right, which reflected burgundy leaves and a cherry tree's pale-pink blossoms like a watercolour. I placed my palm on one of the trees – all dizzyingly tall, yet hardly a hand's width in diameter – and wondered how the thin trunks could possibly manage to withstand such weight. The ground under my feet was damp from a night of rain and formed a dark-red blanket, which smelled of wet earth and moss. As the narrow trail wound up the mountain, birdsong echoed, and I tried not to slip on the roots, which poked out to form varying shapes of veins, organs and deer horns.
The focus of the Kumano pilgrimage is to worship at the three Grand Shrines of Kumano, but there are also smaller subsidiary shrines known as oji, and there's something both pure and touching about their simplicity. They're usually made out of stone or wood and decorated with scattered coins, cups of tea, blankets to keep the spirits warm as well as other trinkets pilgrims offer as they pass. Coming across my first one, I placed a coin in the wicker basket, and its metallic clink sounded out across the hushed forest. I realised the same action had been performed by countless pilgrims before me – from retired emperors to samurais and rural farmers – who had walked these paths for thousands of years. In their time, they would have undertaken rigorous rites of worship and purification, including cold-water ablution (washing) followed by elaborate ceremonies of sutras, prayers, dancing, sumo and poetry. It felt odd, but somehow comforting, to now be part of that story.
My moment of serenity was disturbed by a screaming pack of uniformed schoolgirls who came charging up the path towards me. I was a little annoyed, a sensation which jarred with my supposedly serene state of pilgrimage, but as they passed by they stopped and chatted to me for a while, offering me some of their dried fruit and nuts and even helping me book a homestay in the next town. (This was all done via frantic typing on no less than seven mobile phones, before animated phone calls I had no chance of comprehending.)
I asked them to explain the deities of the shrines to me, and they told me the kami come in many forms: the landscape, forces of nature, spirits of ancestors, cheeky (and sometimes wicked) beings or deceased souls. Kami are believed to be hidden from this world, inhabiting a complementary existence which can mirror our own. When you walk through their lands in harmony with all the awe-inspiring aspects of nature, you are said to be conscious of 'kannagara no michi', or 'the way as it is with the gods'. After the girls had continued on their hike, speeding through the trails ahead of me, I noticed a series of bright white and yellow orchids quivering on an imperceptible breeze, and listened to the sound of a faraway waterfall. I tried to turn off my thinking mind and sink into a true state of kannagara no michi.
A few days before, this state of mind had come to me in Koyasan, a Buddhist temple complex perched on top of an alpine basin. Koyasan was founded 12 centuries ago by Kobo Daishi, one of the most famous monks in the history of Japan and the father of the Shingon school of Buddhism. (In the true manner of the greats of old, he was also an engineer, calligrapher and a poet.) Today, Koyasan can be reached by a creaky old cable car, and is the best place in Japan to stay overnight at a Buddhist monastery – here you can enjoy delectable kaiseki meals cooked by monks as well as watching their morning ceremonies. It is also home to a vast cemetery called Okunoin, where I walked in reverent silence under colossal 500-year-old cedar trees, their boughs swaying and groaning above me like brittle doors, as I passed beside more than 300,000 mossy statues, altars and tombstones called gorintō. The entire cemetery, with its ancient trees and labyrinthine paths, vibrated with a profound sense of energy.
Deep in a meditative state, I arrived at a clearing at the uppermost point of the Koyasan path. Dappled sunlight fell in coral tones through the leaves overhead, and their shimmering reflections made me feel as though I was swimming inside a fluid cloud of light. Dazed, I strolled off the main path into another smaller clearing, lay down my bag and stretched my aching back. Then some reflections in the distance caught my eye. They were coming from a part of the forest just beyond the clearing which was shrouded in shadow, but they appeared as darting lights I could only catch out of the corner of my eye. I walked over. As I came closer, the lights were duller, but my hairs were standing on end as if all the air around me was electrified. I wasn't scared. I felt the right thing to was to offer a token of respect, and I took some beads out of my pocket, placed them on the ground and said: "Thank you."
Right before nightfall, I heard a sudden noise just behind me. I whirled around, my heart pounding, because although it's said to be rare, it would be just my luck to come across a bear on an isolated mountain path. Instead I saw a short, slim Japanese man dressed in white pilgrim robes with a walking stick and a conical straw hat marching up behind me, eyes doggedly fixed on the road. As he passed me, he turned and with an expression of surprise asked me: "You so tall, where you from?" I grinned and answered: "Switzerland… a little far from home." His entire face lit up as he exclaimed: "SWI-ZA-LAND! I went there last summer – the Matterhorn, I climbed Matterhorn!" The conversation continued for a while until we bid each other goodbye, and I smiled to myself, at the realisation that here I was on his mountain – while only recently, he had been on mine…
It has been said that walking for days on end is one of the best ways to get acquainted with your own mind. I have to agree, but I believe there is far more to it than that. The trail inspired me to consider other forms of energy, other beings, and whether parallel worlds brush up against our own. Many times on those mountain paths I found myself staring into the distance, hearing strange sounds, sensing that I was in the presence of something else. And when I finally cleared out my backpack at the end of my adventure, I found a handful of colourful, mottled green stones lying right on top of my clothes. I had never seen them before. There could well be an explanation for their presence, but I chose to believe in the possibility of a more magical interpretation. I now have them piled up on my nightstand to remind me of that journey; to remind me every day of the way of the kami.
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Daily Roundup
>> Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Omar compares the election in Iraq to the election in Syria
Free speech for all artists, or only some?
More bad news for Democrats, but very good for Iraq and America
Khaled's editorial about the future of Iraq.
Ali has a complaint
I was sent to this post about Smikl's experience as an Iraqi-American being sent to Iraq. But I want you all to visit his site and read the archives. Good stuff.


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Dental X-rays, age and immigration
Some of us are fortunate enough to look younger than our years and young adults are well used to producing evidence of their age at bars and clubs. But what if you are from a country where birth records are poor or non-existent and you are claiming asylum in the UK?
And what if your asylum Case Worker thinks you are an adult but you know you are still a minor? The UK Border Agency is reviving an old and discredited practice from the 1970s by trialling the use in Croydon of voluntary dental X-rays to establish an individual's age.
Why Croydon? It is the location of UK Border Agency's Asylum Screening Unit where claims for asylum are processed.
Predictably this has stirred concerns about human rights and UKBA's somewhat elastic understanding of that word "voluntary".
The trial is more remarkable for the storm it is causing in the child welfare and scientific communities. Vigorous opposition has come in the past from a former Children's Commissioner and a former Chief Medical Officer. The latter described the scientific basis of the trial as "weak and limited"; and that's before one tackles the ethical issues surrounding individuals (often vulnerable and under strain) giving informed consent to the taking of X-rays.
Arguably there should not be a debate at all because the deliberate exposure of individuals to ionising radiation (i.e. x-rays) is very strictly controlled by the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000. These Regulations are vigorously applied throughout the health service and are rooted in the principle that no person shall be exposed to medical radiation, unless this is justified by a medical practitioner. Justification means demonstrating a net medical benefit in terms of diagnostic and therapeutic functions, when weighed against the risks to the individual and the availability of alternative techniques. Special care and consideration is always required in the case of minors and where exposure to radiation carries no direct health benefits for the individual.
This is not another bizarre case of health and safety running amok; radiation can be extremely dangerous if misapplied, so the Regulations are one of the cornerstones of current radiological practice.
While the need to secure our borders is something that most of us welcome, we are not sure that this trial is a good idea. In fact, we are sure that the sooner a better way of age verification is found, the better.


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6 Stuffs Your Online Profiles Should Manifest
Landing your dream internship is no easy feat. Many employers call for an experienced candidate with relevant skills and a personality compatible with company culture. To stand out, you need to think outside the box — and social media platforms can offer a goldmine of your strongest selling points.
Cover letters and resumes, although a necessary requirement for most job postings, don't always provide an accurate portrayal of who you are to an internship employer. Your application materials may shout, "Hire me!" — but beefing up your online profiles, includingFacebook, LinkedIn, GitHub and even your personal website or blog, can ultimately be your golden ticket.
What an internship employer finds online can make or break hiring decisions. Here are six things your online profiles need to showcase while you're on the hunt for a dream job or internship.
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Cover letters and resumes are almost always going to read as professional documents — but your online profiles can offer perhaps the most accurate reflection of your level of professionalism. While social media profiles are mainly used for, well, socializing, there's always room for you to flaunt your professional talents: the projects you've worked on and various qualities that might appeal to a potential employer. While there's no golden rule for professional social communication, below are a few tips on how to display professionalism in your online profiles.
- Participate in relevant conversations on LinkedIn, and be sure that your LinkedIn profile is an adequate reflection of your skills and experience.
- Engage in professional conversations on Facebook about news stories, expert opinions and industry information. Utilizing relevant hashtags (sparingly) displays your investment in the conversation.
- Showcase your passion for your future career by mentioning events (like hackathons) you've attended, side projects you've been involved with and volunteer experiences you've completed.
- Highlight your personality traits by mixing personal and professional posts — be sure that you're not posting anything too personal. Your "Spring Break '08" photo album should probably remain for your eyes only.
While there's no one-size-fits-all approach to professionalism, displaying interest in the industry you wish to enter is a great start.
Industry-related activity,
You may not use your online profiles to engage in career-related conversations, but there are still a variety of ways in which employers can determine whether or not you're invested in your industry.
- You may be more interested in following the conversation or sharing valuable information rather than actively participating. If this is the case, be sure you're following thought leaders and sharing any industry-related links or insights to show you're keeping up with the conversation.
- On Twitter, participate in Twitter chats related to your major or industry. Curate your profile with retweets that are intriguing.
- For LinkedIn, join groups that are specific to your space.
As always, be consistent and stay active so the employer knows it's not a temporary spike.
Expert communication,
Conversation on social media will often take a more short-form, casual tone. But this doesn't mean you should throw grammar, spelling and general sentence structure out the window. Rather, your online profiles should highlight your expertise in sharing information, connecting with others and properly representing your interests — and it should do so articulately and intelligently.
- Post well-crafted updates, confident exchanges of insight and conversations on a variety of topics.
- Start a blog — whether it's through Tumblr, WordPress or Blogger — and share your posts to showcase your writing skills and grasp of the industry.
The "wow" factor,
While voice, professionalism and passion are a good start, you shouldn't be afraid to step it up a notch when applying for an internship. Seize the opportunity to stand out.
- On Twitter, consider creating a hashtag for your dream internship. This allows you to put your social media profile at the center of the application process and gives the internship employer a sense of your online footprint in real-time.
- You may also consider posting a video resume, or creating an online campaign to really impress your potential internship employer.
A large, valuable network,
Often, it's all about who you know when it comes to securing an internship or job. Consider your online network as a group of professional references — while members of your network may not have directly signed off on your expertise, you've made the decision to follow and communicate with them.
- Follow and, if possible, engage with as many influencers, innovators or leaders in your industry as you can. Not only do these interactions highlight your devout interest in your career, but they also provide evidence that you're staying up-to-date on the relevant conversations taking place online.
Correlating links,
Your online profile should consistently present a variety of applicable links — not only to industry-relevant content, but to your own portfolios, profiles and online work. An internship employer should be able to easily find a link to your personal website, blog, online portfolio and even your resume. This shows commitment and makes your application materials more accessible.
Red flags to avoid
You probably use your online profiles for personal updates, which is unavoidable — but unfortunately, many internship candidates take this a little too far and post some cringe-worthy content. Remain wary of a few warning signs that potential employers may find worrisome.
- Updates that are opposite of the company's values
- Repeated controversial posts on a number of topics
- Plagiarism or unsourced information
- Badmouthing your previous employer
- All-around negativity
If you want that coveted internship, put your best face forward on your online profiles. Show that you're up-to-date on relevant company information, passionate about the industry and an all-around savvy Internet user: Bonus points if you've reached out to the company via social media prior to your screening process.
Grab Recruiters Attention By Telling Your Story in Job Interviews
Alan Carniol is the Founder of InterviewSuccessFormula.com, an online training program that helps job seekers deliver powerful answers that prove why they are the right person for the job. Follow Alan and Interview Success Formula on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Imagine sitting in a job interview. You're already nervous. You know you have something to contribute. You really admire the company. However, when the interviewer asks you to tell them about yourself, you buckle. You realize telling your story in person is quite difficult. You stumble or forget the most important pieces of your personal story, potentially damaging your interview experience. Now what?
We create stories about ourselves in mere minutes online in social profiles or blog "about" pages. Why is it so hard to tell the same story in person? Perhaps the solution is to merge your two stories, your online self and offline self, together in order to optimize your image. The following are a few tips that can help you to craft a compelling personal story for job interviews.
Your Two Stories
According to Rafe Gomez, author of What's In It For Me: A Powerful New Interview Strategy to Get Hired In Today's Challenging Economy, the trick is to create validations.
"The online story — blog posts, articles, etc. — should validate the assertions and promises made in the offline story — resume — if you're seeking to leave a positive and memorable impression in a job interview. For instance, if you're presenting yourself in interviews as being an experienced sales executive who has delivered results for your employers, your online story should support this assertion,†Gomez says.
Further, blending the two stories will back up any career history claims you've made during the interview. "Online mentions of, references about, or discussion of your accomplishments will serve to legitimize your offline claims, and make it indisputable that you could be an invaluable addition to your interviewer's organization.â€
According to TheLadders job search expert Amanda Augustine, making the two as similar as possible can make telling your story more interesting.
"Your online presence and interview responses give you a chance to provide more color to your career history. You can go into more detail and really show your passion for a particular industry or company in ways that aren't possible in a resume. However, the bottom line is that both stories should be similarly positioned,†Augustine says.
Look at your interview story as a way to "sell" your accomplishments, strengths and motivations to the interviewer. By doing so, you clearly show why you're worthy of the position.
"Remember that as a job seeker, you must develop a personal advertising campaign to tell prospective employers and recruiters what you're great at and passionate about, and how that's of value to an organization. Your online presence, resume, and how you pitch yourself during networking events and interviews are all components of this campaign. Each of these components needs to tell one consistent story to build a strong personal brand,†Augustine explains.
Be Sure Your Story Checks Out
A recent JobVite survey indicated nearly four out of five hiring managers and recruiters check candidates' social profiles. It's possible you will be researched online before your interview. If your offline story does not match your online one, the interviewer may challenge you.
"Before an interview, make sure you Google your name so you know what any recruiter or hiring manager will see when they search for you (and trust me, they will). If any damaging results show up, now you have a chance to try and remove them or at least prepare a response for the interview. The worst thing you can do is look surprised or taken off guard when an interviewer challenges your story based on something they found online," says Augustine.
It's also important to spin the conversation back to your accomplishments if things start to go sour. According to George Dutch of JobJoy, flush out concern by asking what caught their attention and if they have any specific concerns about your capabilities.
"Understanding the interview as a risk assessment exercise helps you respond appropriately to these kinds of challenges. It's not personal — they don't know you — it's them doing their due diligence," Dutch says.
Creating your interview story in a digital era means more than telling the interviewer about yourself. Merge your online and offline stories to create a more cohesive story. Doing so helps the interviewer understand why you're right for the job.
What do you think? What are some other ways to create your interview story in a digital era?
3 Must Do Things To Recruit Your Top Tech Talent
Scott Rothrock is the co-founder and CTO of RemarkableHire, a talent-sourcing platform that uses social evidence to help recruiters and hiring managers find and evaluate the best job candidates. Connect with him and the RemarkableHire team on Facebook and Twitter.
Finding top-notch technical talent can be hard. But are we experiencing a shortage of qualified candidates, or are brilliant minds simply being overlooked? Traditional recruiting methods just don't cut it in terms of finding highly skilled candidates anymore, and companies may be to blame for their less-than-brazen use of these hiring techniques.
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Top tech candidates are out there. So, how do you find and hire top talent?
Get serious about seeking talent. While companies say they are looking for the next "game-changing" employee, they certainly aren't updating their selection processes to do so. Journalist George Anders, author of The Rare Find: How Great Talent Stands Out, observes the incredible shortcomings of companies who rely on conservative selection processes — and end up narrowing their criteria to such a degree that they often miss candidates with unusual potential.
Anders explains that wise leaders shouldn't expect exceptional talent to come in a neat package. Companies should be scouring the market for candidates with resilience and creativity, while keeping traditional skills, such as work ethic and reliability, in view.
Employers should consider finding talent through methods that are as unique as the candidates they're seeking. Facebook's strategy of using online programming puzzles to test and attract new talent stands out as a great example. These forms of tests offer an alternative route for those who might initially be overlooked during an application process.
There's no doubt that hiring managers and recruiters are serious about the hiring process. But their hiring methods sometimes take too few creative liberties, and therefore pass up serious talent. While the resume was once the mainstay of the HR industry, for instance, you're likely to miss candidates with serious potential if your hiring process relies solely on resumes. In this day and age, many of the top tech candidates spend much more of their time honing their craft than they do honing their resume.
Recruit to train. Let's face it: Not all employers are blameless for the talent recruitment struggles they're facing. Peter Cappelli, a professor and author who recently wrote,Why Good People Can't Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It, presents a possible solution for this issue. Cappelli argues that companies need to return to the ancient way of doing things — focus on recruiting talented people, and train them to be the skilled employees you wanted all along.
With the unemployment rate at 7.9%, business leaders are still complaining about the shortage of qualified candidates. These same leaders' companies offer job descriptions with an impossible number of requirements, and then use software to filter through thousands of applications. The talent search is doomed from the start when there are precise words needed to alert the applicant-tracking software that a candidate should get through the gates and into an interview.
The tech industry should not be forcing applicants to apply through automated resume screening tools. Put more emphasis on a candidate's core abilities to learn and adapt rather than being overly precise on a given skill set. If you focus on foundational competencies and professional athleticism, you'll be able to look at a broader pool of qualified candidates and maybe even find the talent that your competitors might have overlooked.
Go niche. Social communities revolving around specific areas of interest — such as GitHub, Dribbble and StackOverflow, for example — exist for every nook and cranny of the tech industry. Use these to attract talent looking for specific jobs rather than post on a generic job board, where your listing can easily be lost or overlooked. Not only can you assess candidates' qualities even before the first interview and find out if their area of expertise is consistent with yours, but you can also create and build a network of potential candidates to look at when you have other openings.
As more and more tech candidates contribute to these online, peer-reviewed communities, recruiters can get deeper, more objective appreciations for the candidates' core competencies. By using this information, you can rank candidates based on how well they've demonstrated the core set skills you're looking for, and save time that would otherwise have been spent in screening interviews. Because of the way many of these niche communities are designed, you'll be able to see actual examples of candidates' expertise rather than bullet point descriptions of their skills.
Don't stand in your own way of finding the tech talent you need; take advantage of these tips to set your organization apart, and find a perfect match.
What is your company doing to find and attract top tech talent? Tell us in the comments.
4 Things that Provides a Ways to Knock Off Your Resume
Brie Weiler Reynolds is the content and social-media manager at FlexJobs, the award-winning site for telecommuting and flexible job listings, and a former career advisor. At FlexJobs, Reynolds offers job seekers career and work-life balance advice through the FlexJobs blog and social media.
One area of job searching that confounds plenty of job seekers is what to include on a resume. Include too much information, and you'll lose recruiters in unimportant details. But, with too little information, recruiters won't be sure you're qualified for the next step in the process.
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Since most job seekers have excessive information on their resume and don't know what to eliminate, let's start with four things you can always leave off of it. These tips will help you better organize your information, and present it in a format that is easy-to-read and quickly understandable for recruiters.
An "objective." This is the statement at the top of a resume that tells an employer what you're looking for — but it's got to go. They already know you're interested in their job, so it's unnecessary. Instead, use a "summary of qualifications" to introduce employers to your most relevant skills and experience, and to show them exactly how your experience can fit their needs.
Unrelated awards, hobbies and interests. Our CEO once had a job seeker who claimed to be a "pig-wrestling champion" on his resume, which is a great accomplishment, I'm sure. But it had nothing to do with the job he applied for, and it distracted from the rest of his qualifications. Unless it directly adds to your qualifications for the job or helps the employer see how you fit with their company culture (for example, if you're applying to an outdoor apparel company and you are an avid hiker, that's a hobby that matches their culture), leave it off your resume.
Too much formatting. Keep your resume simple, so recruiters can read it quickly and easily. Don't use bold, italics and underlines all at once. Don't use more than one font, and be consistent in the way you present information. Bulleted lists are much easier to read than paragraphs. Keep your resume single-spaced, and shrink your margins to a half inch. You'll be surprised at how much space poor formatting can take up on your resume, pushing it far longer than it needs to be.
Lists of tasks for each job. Instead of telling recruiters what you did at your past jobs, tell them what you accomplished — what were the overarching results of your day-to-day tasks? Rather than rewriting your job description, tell recruiters how you did what you did and why it made a difference to your employer and customers.
What you leave off of your resume can be just as important as what you include, so make sure that precious real estate is taken up with relevant, well-stated, interesting information. Recruiters should be able to check off their list of qualifications easily by reading your resume, and come away with a sense of who you are and the value you can bring to their company.
How Employers Can Create a Livable Culture of Go-ahead
A recent CareerBuilder survey suggests that 21% of workers plan to change jobs this year -– a 17% jump from last year, and the highest percentage since the recession.
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For employers, this turnover rate can be a frightening thought, especially when you consider the potential impact that the loss of an employee can have on productivity and morale. In this competitive environment, many employers are likely wondering how to keep their brightest stars and how to bring promising fresh blood neatly into the fold.
Not long ago, Big Spaceship held a hack day, in which members of our crew could self-organize to produce anything that made our agency a better place. There were a number of results — from solutions for a healthy workplace to tools to appreciate daily moments of humor and joy. Big Spaceship has been evolving its culture for 14 years, but it wasn't until recently that a printed book -– a rarity in the digital age -– would illuminate the ins and outs of our company values and what they mean to employees new and old.
Turns out, this simple reminder of our values has been a key ingredient in keeping our already tight-knit crew as cohesive as ever. It's helped the youngest and newest staff members feel engaged and confident, and encouraged the most senior employees to remain open-minded. Culture is organic; it changes and it can't be dictated by one person.
As your company begins to look inward to attract and retain employees, here are five tips that any business can use to create its own culture manual.
You can't mandate culture,
A successful manual must be a manifestation of the culture that already exists at your company. Its origins should be completely organic –- a far cry from many corporate environments, in which a single person or committee is responsible for dictating the culture. Remember: Your culture may be encouraged from the top-down, but it will only take hold from the bottom-up.
One of the ways that smart business leaders can spur this phenomenon is by actively putting hiring power into their employees' hands and allowing them input on who joins their environment.Google, renowned for its organic culture, is a great example of this; the company institutes committees when taking on new hires, naturally helping everyone feel involved and valued.
Balance friendly encouragement with tough love,
People appreciate the honest truth, because it means you respect their intelligence. A lot of things that make a company great require sacrifices, and your manual should tell both sides of the story.
Encourage your employees to ask for help when they need it; feeling supported is absolutely essential to maintaining worker happiness. But don't let them get too comfortable. Force them to take initiative and, instead of complaining, take it upon themselves to make changes when and how they see fit. Happiness and productivity both stem as equally from independence and confidence as they do from a sense of support.
People will pitch in if you give them freedom and time,
Freedom and time are golden. In the modern workplace, these are two attributes that can be extremely hard to come by — especially when it seems as if every half-hour a new meeting alert pops up. Technology is turning many employees' ways of life into a vicious cycle, transforming them into slaves to their calendars.
Don't let your employees become cogs in the wheel. Give them permission to take a step back from the grind and make culture a priority, not an add-on. Sometimes the best brief will say, "Here's the general space we're playing in. The rest is up to you."
Stand for something,
Studies have proven that purpose-driven brands have greater success than those that are only concerned with maximizing shareholder value. But aligning your company with certain beliefs and behaviors also means that not everyone will be a perfect fit within the company's culture. To be straightforward at Big Spaceship, we list our values on our careers page, because we know it will help attract the right kind of people — and let others know they might be better off elsewhere.
Southwest Airlines is a brand that's been lauded for being particularly purpose-driven in recent years. They've built up a reputation for being hard-working, respectful and, perhaps most importantly, laid back and friendly. They stay away from candidates who don't fit the bill, and these efforts have paid off: The company has only a 2% turnover rate.
Find the themes that define the way you work,
It's important that every workplace articulate its unique features and create themes, both internally and externally, that can be narrowed down and shared with all employees.Defining distinct pillars will help your employees feel grounded in their day-to-day, and will keep the sometimes numerous and potentially overwhelming aspects of your culture in perspective.
Zappos is successful at this type of transparency. Its list of ten core values, while a bit lengthy, manages to convey a simple and flexible framework within which its employees can work and play. It's a strategy that's worked for us, as well. Our manual has three chapters: the first is about embracing humanity in the workplace, the second is about collaboration and the third is "We Change."
Dear Patron's, how do you inspire Go-ahead in the workplace? Share in the comments.
Ways to Trick Out Your Startup's Office Environment
Last week we showed you some of the startup world's most creative office spaces. These colorful environments with airy floor plans and comfortable conference rooms put the cubicle to shame — but before you start shelling out for employee skate parks and rock climbing walls, consider that not all office luxuries will serve your workspace equally well.
Mashable spoke with several startup employees to find out what they loved about their unconventional office spaces, and the results were fairly unanimous: An open floor plan and quirky extras encourage communication, collaboration and general satisfaction far more than cramped cubicles.
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"The more comfortable our employees feel in the office environment, the more comfortable they are to speak up and share their opinions and insights with the team," ZocDoc CFO Netta Samroengraja says in an e-mail.
Most startups have certain crucial design elements in common. These include employee lounge areas with cozy seating and colorful accents, snack-filled kitchens where employees can chat as they refuel and TV monitors used for everything from video-conferencing to gaming.
Startups with enough square footage also tend to shell out for recreational spaces — ZocDoc has a game room outfitted with beanbag chairs, a ping-pong table and an acoustic guitar — that contribute to a playful work environment that's not just about punching the clock.
Some office add-ons will make sense for only a small segment of businesses; TastingTable, for instance, rents a test kitchen and dining room staffed with two full-time chefs near its SoHo offices. The extra kitchen space is a boon for the food-and-drink newsletter, but is probably a less prudent investment for a software firm.
At Zazzle's sprawling Redwood City headquarters, everything from the communal desks to the wallpaper was custom-made to reflect the company's design-it-yourself ethic, according to co-founder and CTO Bobby Beaver. Likewise, Etsy takes a DIY approach to office design with colorful knickknacks, quilts and plushies, all made by Etsy sellers. "My apartment is so boring compared to the office," says Sarah Starpoli, Etsy's Employment Experience Manager.
Quirky office additions such as HowAboutWe's popcorn machine — which one employee assures us is regularly put to good use — or Zazzle's ping-pong table may not rank as "strictly necessary" for your startup, but they undoubtedly contribute to a more welcoming work environment. "Go to your local IRS office to get a taste of the dark side of an office landscape,"Squarespace's director of interface, Michael Heilemann, suggests.
There is, however, a fine line between a morale-boosting office perk and a misallocation of your startup's precious funds. So, when you're decorating that new exposed-brick loft space, go the more sensible route and avoid the 10 extravagant accessories in the gallery below — ball pits, bike repair shops and Bengal tigers are on the list — that only Google and Facebook can really afford, at least until you've made your first million.
Ways to Write Recommendations on Amazing LinkedIn
Most of us have worked with great colleagues, bosses and employees over the years who we'd be happy to recommend on LinkedIn (or anywhere, really) in a heartbeat if asked.
Problem is, of course, that sitting down and writing said recommendation always takes more time than you think it will. What should you say that will make your contact stand out — but still sound genuine? Should you describe every amazing skill this person has — or keep it short and sweet?
Don't worry. We've turned that daunting task into a five-step (and five-minute) process. Next time you're asked to recommend someone, follow this template (complete with sample lines to cut and paste.
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Start With a Knockout Line,
As with any good writing, you want to start with a line that grabs your audience and makes them want to read more. (After all, what good is a great recommendation if no one reads all the way through?)
Ideally, this line will show right away what an awesome person your recommendee is. Be careful, though, to avoid phrases like "one of the best" or "one of my favorite employees" — while, no, not everyone's going to be the ultimate superlative, there are plenty of words and phrases that sound just as strong, but less qualified.
"It's rare that you come across standout talent like Mike."
"Few people have the opportunity to report to a manager who is also a coach and mentor— but I did when I worked for Susan."
"'Ridiculously efficient' is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Tim."
Describe Your Relationship,
Next, you'll want to give the reader some context as to how you know the person, including your reporting relationship, what you worked on together and the length of time you've known each other. While you don't have to give all the details (LinkedIn will show the company and both of your job titles on your recommendation), it's important to let readers know why you're qualified to give the recommendation. (And, of course, be sure to note that it was a positive working relationship.)
"I had the pleasure of working with Jim for two years at the Smith Company, collaborating on several project teams."
"I hired Carrie as a freelance designer in 2011 after seeing her online portfolio, and she's completed six flawless projects for me since then."
"Mark expertly filled the role of social media coordinator for my company's marketing team for just over a year."
Share a Standout Trait,
If you're recommending someone, there's a good chance you think he or she is smart, talented, organized, wonderful to work with, the list goes on. So, there's no need to use the limited characters in your recommendation to state the obvious.
Instead, think about one or two things this person does better than anything else — or that really stand out to you above others — and focus your recommendation there. You can also ask the person if there's something he or she would like you to talk about: For example, if she was your executive assistant but is now applying to her first management role, she'll likely want you to highlight her experience managing volunteers over her organizational skills.
"I was particularly impressed by Kelly's ability to handle even the toughest clients — and effortlessly. That skill often takes years to develop among customer service professionals, but it seemed to come perfectly naturally to her."
"I was always in awe of Fred's ability to command a room and get people on board with ideas — even people who were initially on completely different pages."
"Matt's ability to juggle multiple projects was unlike any I've seen before and made a dramatic difference in the productivity level of our team."
Add a Touch of Personality,
Let's face it: Everyone wants to hire someone who not only gets the job done, but who's also great to work with. So, if you can share a tidbit about what it's like to work with this person or some insight into his or her personality, do so! (Just, you know, know your audience. "Sophie planned the best office happy hours ever!" might not go over so well with her future employers.)
"Oh, and she made sure our Monday morning staff meetings were never without bagels and coffee. Talk about motivating a team!"
"And we still miss her on the office softball league!"
"No matter how tense a meeting, Annie made sure everyone left with a smile."
End With Your Solid Recommendation,
Finally, it's always nice to seal your recommendation with a final line that makes it clear that you give your contact an enthusiastic thumbs-up. You don't need to do much here — think short, sweet and solid.
"Allison would be an asset to any team."
"As a team member or a leader, Steve earns my highest recommendation."
"Any employee would be lucky to have Michelle as a manager."


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Eleanor & Park
Eleanor and Park
Rainbow Rowell
In this convincing chronicle of first love set in Omaha, Nebraska in 1986, Rainbow Rowell introduces the reader to two high school students, Eleanor and Park. Eleanor is an outsider. She's the new girl in town: redhead, tall, complex, and abundantly sarcastic; Park is the unwitting, low-key, average guy at school.
When the two first meet on the bus, they hardly speak; though slowly but surely they begin to fall for one another. From stealing first glances, to cryptic conversations about anything other than what they're really feeling, to sharing the intimate details of their lives, Eleanor and Park find their way to navigating life together. Readers will follow Eleanor and Park through all of the agonizing rites of passage in a typical American high school: gym class, school cafeterias, bullying, riding the bus to school, and finding a niche and group of friends, but they will really get to know the characters through their lives at home.
This is where Eleanor's narrative really steals the spotlight. Her step-dad is physically and verbally abusive, while her mother – a shadow of who she could be – just tries to keep the peace. Rowell grounds Eleanor's home life in the everyday details of a young woman struggling to get by… and just barely managing to do so. You can't help but admire Eleanor whose simultaneous vulnerability and strength is harrowing, striking, and sad.
By comparison, Park has things easy. He has an overbearing father, an embarrassingly-stereotypical (to his mind) Korean mother, and importantly, a stable home life – a stark contrast to Eleanor's experience. As Eleanor and Park grow closer and the disparate elements of their lives become intertwined, their differences put their newfound relationship to the test.
Ultimately, this is a story of two people finding each other, then finding themselves. It's a story of growing together and growing apart, all at the same time. Readers will be asking: how could it possibly work out between them? Then again, how could it not?
ELEANOR & PARK will leave readers desperately rooting for both characters, with all the immediacy and intensity of first love found in many young adult novels. Though the premise may sound like a familiar boy-meets-girl/girl-meets-boy story, this novel is anything but common. Rowell's spot-on writing and tone provide a nuanced look at how one person can enter your life and undoubtedly change it forever.
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Themes : FAMILY LIFE. LOVE. SCHOOL & SCHOOL STORIES.
- "Funny, hopeful, foulmouthed, sexy, and tear-jerking"
Kirkus Reviews
- "This sexy, smart, tender romance thrums with punk rock and true love."
Gayle Forman, bestselling author of If I Stay
- "The pure, fear-laced, yet steadily maturing relationship Eleanor and Park develop is urgent and breathtaking and, of course, heartbreaking, too."
Green, John. An Abundance of Katherines. Speak, 2008.
Green, John. The Fault in Our Stars. Dutton Juvenile, 2012.
Rowell, Rainbow. Attachments: A Novel. Plume, 2012.
Sepetys, Ruta. Out of The Easy. Philomel, 2013.
Smith, Jennifer E. This Is What Happy Looks Like. Poppy, 2013.


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Putting an effective succession plan in place is one of the biggest challenges facing every farm family, according to John McCallister, the manager of Northern Ireland's new Land Mobility Programme.
"It tends to be the elephant in the room, which rarely gets talked about within families. This is a fundamental error and is one of the reasons why the transition of a farming business from one generation to the next is not always as smooth as it should be," he said.
John made these comments while on a recent visit to the Seaforde farm of Allan Chambers. The business has been managed as a share farming venture with Neill Patterson for the past six years.
"The farm is an exclusively arable operation with approximately 1,200t of grain produced on an annual basis," Allan explained.
"Neill has a separate poultry meat operation with the litter produced by the birds used to fertilise the cereal ground.
"On the back of an extensive soil testing and liming programme, we are now pretty much self-sufficient from a potash and phosphate perspective. Nitrogen fertiliser is bought-in to meet crops' optimal growth requirements."
Allan is quick to confirm that the share farming arrangements, agreed with Neill, have worked well.
"Older farmers must recognise that they cannot continue to keep their land, livestock, buildings, and machinery in good working condition for ever. Planning to involve a new generation in the business is essential."
Courtesy of his new role, John McCallister will be responsible for the promotion of land and enterprise mobility, through collective arrangements such as partnerships, shared farming arrangements and leases between younger farmers and older landowners.
Both the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) and the Young Farmers' Clubs of Ulster (YFCU) are confident that the Land Mobility scheme will benefit both older and younger farming generations by matching people to opportunities.
The objective is to put older farmers facing the challenge of succession in touch with younger farmers wanting to get into the industry.
John will be responsible for creating a database of interested older and younger farmers that will help link to appropriate opportunities. The service will outline available options and will develop an agreement based on personal priorities and circumstances. He added:
"Share farming is only one of the options that can be considered, in the context of the Land Mobility Service.
"The scheme itself will be every flexible in nature. I also recognise that it will take time for a landowner to build up a good working relationship with an interested young farmer, who is keen to develop a career in production agriculture.
"The reality is that large acreages of land in Northern Ireland are not meeting their production potential. The conacre system is partly to blame for this, as it gives the person renting the ground no longer term security.
"Land leasing, based on agreements lasting up to five or ten years, is one way around this problem. And the land Mobility Service can make this happen."
McCallister continued: "We also need to see changes to the tax system, which would encourage land owners to actively engage in leasing arrangements. This has already happened in the Republic of Ireland. And the impact this is having, in terms of facilitating young people's entry into production agriculture, is tangible."


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It is a familiar creature that constantly moves but is always home. It has a mouth on the bottom of its foot. It has a foot but no leg. The animal leaves a trail wherever it goes. What is it? It's a snail, of course!
Snails are common and unusual. Common, because we all recognize snails when we see them, and unusual, because, in spite of their familiarity, most people know little about them. Snails are ancient creatures. As a group, they've been so successful that very few habitats, on land, in water, or near it, lack snails.
Snail design is basic: a large muscular body, or foot, with attachments. Everything is connected to the foot. The head and antennae are in front, the tail is out behind, and the shell is on top. The shell has a good deal to do with the success of snails. Snails retract the muscular foot, along with all the other essential body parts, into the shell for protection. Their shells give them cover against environmental extremes like heat and dryness, or from predators.
A snail moves slowly and won't outrun a bird or shrew or hungry ground beetle. But it can hide in its shell and make its soft, fleshy body as unavailable as possible.
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[The Spirit of Kingston passenger ferry]
If ever a sea-going vessel has sailed uphill, here it is the much-beleaguered passenger-only ferry between Kingston and Seattle's Colman Dock. Following in the wake of the Aqua Express, a passenger-only service that failed back in 2005, the Port of Kingston's SoundRunner service has seen no shortage of headwinds since its launch a year ago. And without a substantial increase in patronage, the service appears doomed to follow the Aqua Express into history.
Beginning Tuesday (Nov. 1), however, holders of the ORCA regional transit smart card became able to use the card to pay their fares aboard the port's boat, the Spirit of Kingston. Port of Kingston executive director Kori Henry has high hopes that introduction of the convenient card will come to the undertaking's rescue.
Speaking on Monday (Oct. 31), Henry said the Spirithas been averaging about 30 passengers per run, but needs to carry at least 80 to break even — that is, to remove the need for any operating subsidy. Last winter, the port had been looking at a 130-passenger threshold as assuring solvency, but Henry noted that, since then, "we've cut the budget a lot, so that our burn rate [of cash] per month has come way down."
The discovery may encourage greater steps to remove old pilings coated with the preservative.
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EVERETT — Perhaps the biggest surprise in a recent study of pollution in Puget Sound and other waterways was the amount of toxic material from wood soaked with creosote, physiotherapist
a state official said.
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an oily, coal-based liquid used to preserve wood, was extensively applied to pier pilings and bulkheads through most of the 20th century. Creosote contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which have been known to cause health problems in fish.
Creosote-treated wood has been banned in new construction along the water by the state and by some cities. New rules are proposed to write the ban into Snohomish County code. Numerous cleanup efforts in the state have taken place in recent years.
Still, the pollutants are prevalent in salt water in Western Washington, said Rob Duff, an environmental manager for the state Department of Ecology.
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PORT TOWNSEND — Port of Port Townsend officials have chosen Puget Sound Express Inc. to operate its passenger-only ferry service, which they have committed to begin in August 2013.
The port commissioners made the decision Wednesday at the same time that port officials heard that final paperwork for the collection and administration of a $1.3 million grant to build a boat for the route was approved by U.S. Department of Transportation.
"It was a big day for us," said port Deputy Director Jim Pivarnik.
"We are anxious to move forward."
Coverage in the Port Townsend Leader:
Port chooses Puget Sound Express to operate passenger ferry to Seattle
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Three Sheets Northwest:
[Mark Bunzel, who visited close to 140 marinas this year to update the Waggoner Cruising Guide, addresses marina owners on Thursday.]
Very few people have visited close to 140 marinas in the Northwest in a single season, but Mark Bunzel has.
Bunzel, the new owner of Waggoner Cruising Guide, traveled some 1800 miles over the summer boating season and visited most major marinas from Olympia to Ketchikan. He knows a few things about what boaters want, and shared some insights with an audience at the 2011 Northwest Marina & Boatyard Conference in La Conner yesterday.
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The revamped regulations define a liveaboard as a vessel used as a dwelling unit for more than 30 days in any 45-day period or more than 90 days in a year, the same definition used by the state's Department of Natural Resources.
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From dealerships, rental businesses and repair retailers (and extra), the Canadian automotive industry provides numerous fulfilling and lengthy-lasting career opportunities. The Organization Internationale des Constructeurs d'Cars ranks the United States because the second-largest producer of vehicles, second only to China within the variety of motor automobiles produced per 12 months. In the Nineteen Eighties Italy overook the United Kingdom but has conceded to Soviet Union that, like Poland and Yugoslavia, found massive-quantity manufacturing of automobiles by Italian FIAT help.
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The 2019 Western State Conference East All-Conference team selections for Baseball were announced recently. Citrus landed 8 players on the list of honorees.
The WSC East Gold Glove award was given to left fielder Thomas Chavez. Garnering 1st-team honors were Samuel Gomez and Kanta Kobayashi. 2nd-team recognition was given to Teppei Fukuda and Enrique Zalidvar. Roberto Moreno and Go Hattori we're chosen as Honorable Mention selections.
Citrus Baseball ball finished a playoff season with a 19-20-1 overall record, and a 13-7 conference clip. The Owls competed against some of the toughest competition the area has to offer, and the squad qualified for the SoCal Regional Playoffs.
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