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Having someone like Karil Drake in our city, who considers volunteering a priority in her life, should make us all proud ("Volunteer gets her work done quietly," June 30).
I really appreciate the work she performs, and we should all take on such responsibilities, especially in such a bad economy that we are currently in. Contributions of this kind can be done only when we volunteer and encourage others to do so.
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Ban junk food from public places
To protect ourselves from harmful and deadly epidemic diseases, we should start to act. It is very obvious that as smoking bans spread from the public to the private sector, the consumption of tobacco is decreasing. Therefore, by expanding a junk-food ban to all public places, especially in workplaces, the possibility of decreasing consumption for junk food will be more effective.
Exercise and have an active lifestyle. The consumption of junk food is increasing because most people do not realize its harmful effects.
By advertising healthy food and setting up a schedule for daily exercises will bypass the need for plastic surgery for liposuction or other cosmetic surgeries.
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Swipe-fee reform is sorely needed
Last summer, 368,199 7-Eleven customers in California signed petitions asking Congress to stand up for consumers and reform the unfair, hidden swipe fees that credit card companies charge each time someone pays at my store with a debit or credit card.
We brought those petitions to Washington, D.C., and the Senate has gotten us close to real reform that will benefit Main Street merchants and consumers. There's still work to be done though, before my customers and I will see the much-needed decrease in swipe fees.
We need Rep. Brad Sherman to finish the job and make sure his colleagues keep swipe-fee reform in the financial reform bill and pass this Main Street stimulus into law. Without Sherman's support and leadership, Los Angeles small-business owners and consumers can expect the same greedy behavior from the big banks and credit card companies that we've been experiencing for years.
Since 2001, the banks and credit card companies have hiked swipe fees by 30%, and the rates keep going up. Currently, consumers pay an average of $400 each year in these hidden fees — an amount that goes straight into the coffers of credit card companies.
Luckily, the swipe fee amendment as included in the financial reform bill that just cleared the Senate presents a direct benefit to consumers and merchants.
Sherman, this is your chance to stand up for local merchants and consumers. We're looking forward to your support and the resulting swipe-fee reform.
Matt Mattu
Los Angeles
Editor's note: Mattu is a 16-year 7-Eleven franchisee of six stores throughout Los Angeles County and was recently elected president of the Joe Saraceno Franchise Owners Assn.
'Eclipse' is not a children's movie
I am writing in regards to the release of the movie "Eclipse" of the Twilight saga. For those who don't know, the movie is about an 18-year-old girl who must choose between a werewolf and vampire who both love her.
When I saw a late showing on June 30, I was surprised to see children no older than 10 (some as young as 6) attending the movie. I cannot judge every 10-year-old's knowledge of what a virgin is or their knowledge of what Bella, the 18-year-old, could want from Edward, the vampire, when she starts taking off her clothes, but I strongly suggest that this content is too mature for children under the recommended age of 13.
When you add in the brutal fight scenes (which received several horrified shrieks from the audience) between vampires and werewolves, you might even want to think twice about letting your young teen see this movie.
Sean Ruggles
GCC should be cutting expenses
In order to balance the budget, Glendale Community College would have to cut another $1.86 million, according to the latest articles ("GCC faces more cuts," June 23).
I believe the college can still cut thousands of dollars in extra expenses and not have to cut all these classes, which can force students to spend two more years in college. If faced with that, it may lead students to choose other colleges that offer more classes.
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John as everyone else has said, Walsh mother of pearl, no question at all. Lovely quality metal flower holder, added to the bowl by Walsh and not by a metalbasher buying in the glass from Walsh. Whether Walsh actually made these flower holders and their naturalistic epergne metalwork is not known, but, as they were in Birmingham, they would probably have been able to buy them from a local metalbasher at a lower cost than making them.
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Earlier this year, President Bush lifted an executive moratorium on oil and gas leasing offshore, so with the signing of this bill the petroleum industry is free to lease areas of the Outer Continental Shelf that have been off-limits for 27 years.
"This Act lifts the legislative moratoria on oil and gas leasing on significant portions of the Outer Continental Shelf and the prohibition on the completion of regulations for commercial leasing of oil shale, which will allow us to reduce our dependence on foreign oil," the president said.
While environmentalists predicted the bans would be reinstated in the next Congress, the National Taxpayers Union was pleased with the opportunity to develop more domestic energy supplies.
"The Democrats' concession on offshore drilling and oil shale leasing bans will allow development of our country's vast energy resources and - most importantly - will provide American consumers with some much-needed price relief in the future," said National Taxpayers Union Government Affairs Manager Andrew Moylan.
"Congress's decision not to extend the ban will make available more than 86 billion barrels of oil offshore and, potentially, as much as 800 billion barrels of shale oil. While these resources won't be accessed overnight, the promise of increased supply in the future will help calm volatile markets," he said.
Oil production platform 60 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico (Photo credit unknown)
Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma called the expiration of these moratoria "a victory for the American people and our goal of energy security."
"America is finally able to utilize its plentiful domestic natural resources to help address high gas prices at the pump," Inhofe said today. "A vast majority of Americans now support offshore drilling and greater use of domestic energy resources. Republicans have consistently proposed measures to address high gasoline prices by increasing our domestic production."
The Outer Continental Shelf holds at least 19 billion barrels of recoverable oil. These enormous reserves are equivalent to 35 years' worth of oil imports from Saudi Arabia," the senator said.
In addition, up to 1.1 trillion barrels of oil are estimated to be recoverable from oil shale and at prices as low as $35 to $48 dollars per barrel, within the first 12 years of commercial scale production, he said. At current rates of consumption, Inhofe estimates that 1.1 trillion barrels equals more than 145 years of domestic supply.
But environmental groups concerned about the climate change impact of burning more oil and gas are opposed to offshore oil and gas leasing and oil shale development.
"The lifting of the ban on drilling for oil and oil shale doesn't mean the end of the fight for clean energy, which Big Oil and its allies have exploited for their own gain," said Frances Beinecke, president of Natural Resources Defense Council. "We look to the next Congress and a new president to reverse course and deliver a clean, homegrown energy future."
Allowing the ban on offshore drilling to expire lets oil companies drill as close as three miles off shore, putting our food supply, oceans and coastal economies at risk, Beinecke warns.
She points out that offshore drilling and production create huge quantities of waste that contain toxic and radioactive pollutants, which can contaminate fish and marine life.
Also, between 1981 and 2005, there were 187 large oil spills as a result of offshore drilling, she observes.
"The gains from expanded offshore drilling are minimal," says Beinecke. "Only three percent of the world's reserves are off our coasts, yet we consume 25 percent of the world's oil. And offshore drilling won't produce results for 10 years. Even then it will be a matter of cents saved; not dollars."
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Two people injured in Spiro house fire
Two people were flown by medical helicopter to a Tulsa hospital after a house fire Monday night. According to the LeFlore County Sheriff's Department, the fire happened on Stewart Loop near Spiro at approximately 8:30 p.m. Two people were injured, a woman and a man who were found lying on the ground outside the home unconscious. According to emergency crews on the scene, the woman was seriously burned and is in critical condition. The man suffered minor burns and smoke inhalation. Sources close to the investigation say the fire is being considered a possible act of domestic abuse. LeFlore County Sheriff Rob Seale and Undersheriff Kendall Morgan returned to the scene Tuesday afternoon as the investigation into the incident continued.


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2014 Student Speaker — Emily Rose King
I started going to UAS when I was in high school and participated in the Dual-Enrollment Program offered at UAS. My committed and passionate professors that first semester were the reason that I decided to stay in Juneau to attend university (well, that and the low cost tuition that helped with the student loan aspect of education.) Graduating, I can see that UAS has not just enabled me to grow academically, but personally as well. I've had the opportunity to teach inside the local prison through an internship with the English department, I have substantial out of class conversations with my professors, and on more than one occasion I've almost crashed my car because of my captivation with the incredible sublime beauty that encompasses Juneau everywhere. I'm indebted (literally and metaphorically) to this university for helping me become the woman I am today. ~Emily King
Emily King is an English major with a creative writing emphasis. She excelled in her course work and her many endeavors. In her creative writing workshops, she demonstrated an excellent ability to stand up in front of a group and talk, teach, and lead discussion.
She is a creative and innovative thinker. In the fall semester of her senior year she designed an extremely rigorous internship called "Healing through Poetry" in which she went into multiple communities in Juneau to teach poetry, including the Lemon Creek Correctional Facility, the AWARE shelter, and the alternative high school.
Emily recently learned that she will be teaching at a bilingual elementary school in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This placement is through a program called Teach For America that places committed individuals in schools in low scoring rural and urban school districts with the goal of helping them achieve through creativity and passionate teachers.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Junior Carter Williams scored ten of her 12 points in the second half alone to propel the Pfeiffer University women's basketball team to victory over Conference Carolinas foe Lees-McRae. With the win the Falcons improve to 3-16 overall and 2-9 in conference play, putting an end to a seven-game losing streak. Lees-McRae falls to 9-10 on the season and 6-4 in the conference as a result of the loss.
Following a three-pointer by freshman Ariana Tillman with 9:31 left to play in the first half, Pfeiffer stretched a commanding lead over the visiting Bobcats to ten. Lees-McRae would spend the rest of the half whittling away at that lead however, and by the time the buzzer sounded for halftime, the two teams would be deadlocked at 30 apiece. The Falcons finished the first stanza shooting only 30% from the field, and while the matchup appeared fairly even up to this point, the second half would be all Pfeiffer.
Wasting absolutely no time out of the locker room, the Falcons went on an 8-2 run in the first three minutes of the second half to retake the lead. The Bobcats weren't ready to head for the bus just yet, and following a run of their own and a layup by Kerri Belcher, Lees-McRae tied the game at 49-49 with 10:55 left to play. Despite the push by the visiting team, Pfeiffer would never relinquish the lead, and refused to allow another tie or lead change for the duration of the evening.
Along with Williams' 12 points, three other Falcons contributed double-figure scoring numbers. Junior Lauren White put up 14 points and was one rebound short of a double-double. Also chipping in double-digit scores were freshman Alexis Stallard with 11 and Tillman who tossed in 10 points of her own. The Falcons shot 52.4% from the field in the second half, crushing their first half numbers.
Lauren Lewis led all players with 22 points and Belcher brought down 11 rebounds for the game's only double-double.
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Paul Joseph Watson & Alex JonesPrison PlanetWednesday, March 7, 2007
Are Boeing fitting their aircraft with illegal devices that could enable terrorists to remotely hijack airliners and crash them into high profile targets? In light of what happened on 9/11, Boeing's blanket denial that this practice has taken place is both highly suspicious and a threat to national security.
We talked to airline industry representatives to ask them if such technology had been installed in commercial airliners and they denied all knowledge, despite the fact that Boeing were hit with a record fine of $15 million after the company broke the law by selling commercial planes equipped with the QRS-11 gyrochip, which is also used in the guidance system of the Maverick missile.
According to the Associated Press, from 2000 to 2003 Boeing shipped 94 airliners oversees, mainly to China, that contained the chip, a device used for "military applications," stated the report.
According to the Seattle Times, "The QRS-11 chip, made by a unit of BEI Technologies in Concord, Calif., is just over 1-½ inches in diameter and weighs about 2 ounces. It sells for between $1,000 and $2,000. Described as "a gyro on a chip," it is used to help control the flight of missiles and aircraft."
"There could be dozens, even hundreds more components like the QRS11 gyros that have slipped under the eyes of State Department enforcers, said Joel Johnson, the vice president international of the Aerospace Industries Association," reports the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and "Aircraft incorporating the QRS11 chips are already routinely making flights."
Should it concern us that Boeing began installation of a chip that turns a plane into a remotely guided missile immediately before 9/11?
One month before 9/11, German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that U.S. military-industrial complex giant Raytheon landed a 727 jet six times by remote control using GPS technology at a Hollomon AFB in New Mexico.
In April 2001, aviation history was made when a Global Hawk, which is equivalent in wingspan to a Boeing 737, flew by remote control out of Edwards Air Force Base, across the Pacific Ocean, and landed safely at the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh, in South Australia state.
Other sources from within the airline industry have told us that such devices were common in aircraft years before 9/11, a remarkable supposition that has led many to suspect that the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were executed using this remote access system.
Recent newspaper reports discussing these devices and the policy to have them in all airliners within three years assure us that they would prevent another 9/11 style outrage - but because any such system is vulnerable to hacking allied with the fact that pilots have no way of overriding the autopilot, not even with secure access codes, this only increases the chances of another 9/11 style attack.
A comprehensive investigation on behalf of those who have the authority and resources to perform it needs to be mandated immediately into whether devices that completely remove control of a plane from the pilot and that have illegally been installed in many existing aircraft are a fundamental danger to national security.
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1. Indian Oil Corporation
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. is currently India's largest company by sales with a turnover of Rs 201493.85 crore (Rs 2014.93 billion) , the highest-ever for an Indian company. IOC is also ranked in Fortune 'Global 500' listing. It is also the 20th largest petroleum company in the world. Established in 1959 as Indian Oil Company Ltd, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd was formed in 1964 with the merger of Indian Refineries Ltd (est. 1958). Indian Oil and its subsidiaries account for 47 per cent petroleum products market share, 40.4 per cent refining capacity and 67 per cent downstream sector pipelines capacity in India. The Indian Oil Group of companies owns and operates 10 of India's 19 refineries. These include two refineries of subsidiary Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd and one of Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited.
IOC's maxim is 'Bringing Energy to Life'.
2. Reliance Industries
"Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth." These are the words of the founder of Reliance, Dhirubhai Ambani. Reliance Industries, is the largest private sector company in India. It is the second biggest company in India. The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is today headed by Mukesh Ambani.
A Fortune Global 500 company, the group's activities include exploration and production of oil and gas, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals (polyester, fibre intermediates, plastics and chemicals), textiles and retail. Reliance is the largest polyester yarn and fibre producer in the world and among the top five to ten producers in the world in major petrochemical products. Major companies are Reliance Industries Limited (including main subsidiaries Reliance Petroleum Limited and Reliance Retail limited) and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited.
Reliance's maxim is 'Growth is life'.
3. Bharat Petroleum Corporation
BPCL is India's third largest company. Listed in the Fortune 500 & Forbes 2000 listings, BPCL calls itself a 'MNC in PSU garb'. Way back in 1976, the Burmah Shell Group of Companies was taken over by the government of India to form Bharat Refineries Limited. On 1st August 1977, it was renamed Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited. It was also the first refinery to process newly found indigenous crude (Bombay High), in India.
After nationalization in 1976, Bharat Petroleum charted out a rapid growth path. Turnover, profitability and financial reserves have grown significantly over the years. Bharat Petroleum produces a range of products, from petrochemicals and solvents to aircraft fuel and specialty lubricants, besides supplying fuel directly to hundreds of industries, and several international and domestic airlines.
4. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation of India Ltd is a Fortune 500 company. The corporation operates 2 major refineries producing a wide variety of petroleum fuels and specialties, in Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam. HPCL holds an equity stake of 16.95 per cent in Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals. In addition, HPCL is planning to set up a refinery in Punjab.
HPCL also owns and operates the largest lube refinery in India. The history of HPCL dates back to 1952. The company was incorporated in the name of Standard Vacuum Refining Company of India Limited on July 5, 1952. On 31st March 1962, the name was changed to ESSO Standard Refining Company of India Limited. In 1974, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited came into being after the takeover and merger of erstwhile Esso and Lube India Undertaking, Caltex Oil Refining Ltd and Kosan Gas Company. HPCL is thus a result of the merger of four organizations.
HPCL's maxim is 'Future full of Energy'.
5. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
ONGC is the fifth largest company in India. It is also has the distinction of being highest profit making corporation in India. ONGC is a Fortune Global 500 company which contributes 77 per cent of India's crude oil production and 81 per cent of India's natural gas production. The company was incorporated on June 23, 1993 is an Indian public sector petroleum company.
It was set up as a commission on August 14, 1956. Indian government holds 74.14 per cent equity stake in this company. ONGC is engaged in exploration and production activities. It is involved in exploring for and exploiting hydrocarbons in 26 sedimentary basins of India. It produces about 30 per cent of India's crude oil requirement. It owns and operates more than 11,000 kilometers of pipelines in India.
ONGC's maxim is 'Making tomorrow brighter'.
6. Steel Authority of India Limited
SAIL is the sixth largest company in India. Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is the leading steel-making company in India. It is a fully integrated iron and steel maker, producing both basic and special steels for domestic construction, engineering, power, railway, automotive and defence industries and for sale in export markets.
SAIL is ranked amongst the top ten public sector companies in India in terms of turnover. SAIL manufactures and sells a broad range of steel products. The government of India owns about 86 per cent of SAIL's equity and retains voting control of the Company.
SAIL produces iron and steel at five integrated plants and three special steel plants, located principally in the eastern and central regions of India and situated close to domestic sources of raw materials, including the company's iron ore, limestone and dolomite mines. The company has the distinction of being India's largest producer of iron ore and of having the country's second largest mines network. This gives SAIL a competitive edge in terms of captive availability of iron ore, limestone, and dolomite which are inputs for steel making.
NTPC is the 7 the company in India. NTPC Ltd is the largest power generating company in India. A public sector company, it was incorporated in 1975 to accelerate power development in the country as a wholly owned company of the government of India. At present, the government of India holds 89.5 per cent of the total equity shares of the company and the balance 10.5 per cent is held by FIIs, Domestic Banks, Public and others.
In a span of 32 years, NTPC has emerged as a truly national power company; with power generating facilities in all the major regions of the country.NTPC was incorporated in 1975. In the last 31 years, it has grown into the largest power utility of India. NTPC is the sixth largest thermal power generator in the world.
NTPC's maxim is 'Powering people's progress'.
8. Tata Motors
Tata Motors is the 8th largest company in India. Tata Motors recently created history in India Inc history acquiring luxury auto brands — Jaguar and Land Rover — from Ford Motor for $2.3 billion dollars. The company is also the world's fifth largest medium and heavy commercial vehicle manufacturer, and the world's second largest medium and heavy bus manufacturer.
Tata Motors has gained worldwide recognition under the leadership of its managing director Ravi Kant. Established in 1945, Tata Motors today has 4 million vehicles on Indian roads, since the first rolled out in 1954. The company's manufacturing base is spread across India – Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) in the east, Pune (Maharashtra) in the west, and in the north in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Pantnagar (Uttarakhand). A new plant is being set up in Singur near Kolkata in West Bengal to manufacture the world's cheapest car, the Rs 1 lakh Nano.
Tata Motors is the first company from India's engineering sector to be listed in the New York Stock Exchange. In 2004, it acquired the Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company, Korea's second largest truck maker. Tata Motors and Fiat Auto formed an industrial joint venture at Ranjangaon (near Pune in Maharashtra, India) to produce both Fiat and Tata cars and Fiat power trains for the Indian and overseas markets.
9. Tata Steel
Tata Steel is the ninth largest company in India with a sales turnover of Rs 25117.78 crore. Established in 1907, Tata Steel is the world's 6th largest steel company with an existing annual crude steel capacity of 28 million tons. It has operations in 24 countries and commercial presence in over 50 countries. Founded by Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, Tata Steel completed 100 glorious years of existence on August 26, 2007. The first private sector steel plant which started with a production capacity of 1, 00,000 tons has today transformed into a global giant.
The company also has three Greenfield steel projects in the states of Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh and proposed steel making facilities in Vietnam and Bangladesh. Through investments in Corus, Millennium Steel (renamed Tata Steel Thailand) and NatSteel Asia, Singapore, the Tata Steel has created a manufacturing and marketing network in Europe, South East Asia and the Pacific-rim countries.
Tata Steel's vision is to be the global steel industry benchmark for value Creation and corporate citizenship. Tata Steel is one of the few steel companies in the world that is Economic Value Added (EVA) positive. It was ranked the 'World's Best Steel Maker', for the third time by World Steel Dynamics in its annual listing in February, 2006. Tata Steel has been conferred the Prime Minister of India's Trophy for the 'Best Integrated Steel Plant' five times.
10. Sterilite Industries
Sterlite Industries, a part of Vedanta Resources, a London-listed metals and mining major, is India's tenth largest company in terms of sales. Sterilite Industries had a sales turnover of Rs 24,376.83 crore (Rs 243.76 billion) in 2007. Sterlite Industries (India) Limited was acquired in 1986, bringing together several metal related activities managed by the Agarwal family. Sterlite was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in 1988 and on the National Stock Exchange in 2004.
Vedanta was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2003. Vedanta has two copper businesses, the first based in India and the second at Konkola Copper Mines in Zambia, which was acquired in November 2004. The copper business in India is held within Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd. There is some captive copper mining, but the business is principally in smelting and refining. Sterilte has plants in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu and Silvassa. Sterlite owns two copper mines in Australia. In 2005-06, Sterlite had a domestic market share of some 43% of copper sales.


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Marketing Medical Device Patents in the US
February 25, 2009 at 12:27 am 3 comments
Hi, Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon and Patent Attorney on Medical Devices here.
Appelfeld Zer Fisher is a patent firm that provides patent drafting, filing and prosecution of patent application. Additionally, Appelfeld Zer Fisher provides a unique service of providing good business advice on how to find investors and/or strategic partners for your unique inventions. As a part of this additional service, which happens to be highly important to all of our clients, I dedicate these next few posts.
Many fledgling medical device firms or inventors are posed with the question as to where it is best to introduce technology. For example, firms or inventors have the option to begin production and advertising in the United States. Alternatively, there are many other countries where such devices can be introduced.
Of course there are many factors that affect these decisions, but I would like to bring to your attention one very important issue in this blog with respect to product introduction.
The United States physicians and surgeons are exceptionally keen on writing articles about medical devices. Such an article may be an analysis of the efficacy of the product, which draws on a survey of several hundred uses of the product including clinical trials of several hundred patients.
Such a survey is of course fair and competent and can do your medical device a great service. This is particularly true if your medical device is a unique solution to a well known problem.
On the other hand it is often the case in the US that a reviewing physician or surgeon will publish an article regarding one surgical or medical experience in which the reviewer found a flaw in your device. The article may enhance the reputation of the surgeon for finding "flaws" in your invention. But the article will spell the doom or your technology – no matter how "off base" the author is.
In other words, the US market is exceptionally sensitive to "untoward", even completely unanticipated results that result from misuse of your devise. It can be highly problematic to introduce an award-winning device in the US, only to have your success destroyed by a "renegade" article by a lone, perhaps incompetent, surgeon who failed to follow the guidelines of the instructions you included with your device.
OK, so this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon and Patent Attorney signing off with the advice that a great way to lose weight is to eat while you are naked and in front of a mirror. Restaurants will almost always throw you out before you can eat too much.
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text: Dmitri Chubarov wrote: > Hello, > > we have got a VX50 down here as well. We have observed very different > scalability on different applications. With an OpenMP molecular > dynamics code we have got over 14 times speedup while on a 2D finite > difference scheme I could not get far beyond 3 fold. > 2D finite difference can be comm intensive is the mesh is too small for each processor to have a fair amount of work to do before needing the neighboring values from a "far" node. > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Eric Thibodeau <kyron at neuralbs.com> wrote: > >> PS: Interesting figures, I couldn't resist compressing the same binary DB on >> a 16Core Opteron (Tyan VX50) machine and was dumbfounded to get horrible >> results given the same context. The processing speed only came up to 6.4E6 >> bytes/sec ...for 16 cores, and they were all at 100% during the entire run >> (FWIW, I tried different block sizes and it does have an impact but this >> also changes the problem parameters). >> > > Reading your message in the Beowulf list I should say that it looks > interesting and probably shows something happening with the memory > access on the NUMA nodes. Did you try to run the archiver with > different affinity settings? > I don't have affinity control over the app per say. I would have to look/modify pbzip's code. Although, note that the PID's assignment to one processor is governed by the kernel and is thus a scheduler issue. Also note that I have noticed that the kernel doesn't just have fun moving the processes around the cores. > We have observed that the memory architecture shows some strange > behaviour. For instance the latency for a read from the same NUMA node > for different nodes varies significantly. > This is the nature of NUMA. Furthermore, if you have to cross to a far CPU, the latency is also dependent on the CPU's load. > Also on the profiler I often see that x86 instructions that have one > of the operands in memory may > take disproportionally long. I believe that could explain the 100% CPU > load reported by the kernel. > How do you identify the specific instruction using a profiler, this is something that interests me. > From the very little knowledge of this platform that we have got, I > tend to advise the users not to expect good speedup on their > multithreaded applications. Using OpenMP (from GCC 4.3.x) and an embarrassingly parallel problem (computing K-Means on a large database), I do get significant speedup (15-16). > Yet it would be interesting to get a > better understanding of the programming techniques for this sedecimus > and the similar machines. OpenMP is IMHO the easiest one that will bring you the most performance out of 3 lines of #pragma directives. If you manage to get a cluster of VX50s, then learn a bit of MPI to glue all of this together ;) > Even more so due to the QPI systems becoming > commercially available very soon. Don't know that one (QPI)...oh...new Intel stuff...no matter how much I try to stay ahead, I'm always years behind! > At the moment we have got a few > small kernels written in C and Fortran with OpenMP that we use to > evaluate different parallelization strategies. Unfortunately, there > are no tools I would know of that could help to explain what's going > on inside the memory of this machine. > Of course, check out TAU ( http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/tau/home.php ), it will at least help you identify bottlenecks and give you an impressive profiling infrastructure. > I am very much interested to hear more about your experience with VX50. > > Best regards, > Dima Chubarov > > -- > Dmitri Chubarov > junior researcher > Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences > Institute of Computational Technologies > http://www.ict.nsc.ru/indexen.php > Eric -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20081007/bb7f12af/attachment.html>


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Ready-Made Christmas–Rent Boreas Inn (all five guest rooms or only one!) for $595 per night!
November 28, 2010 by: Susan Goldsmith
Boreas Inn can be ALL YOURS, decorated with love for the 2010 Holiday. Rent one room or all five for $595 plus tax per night for a three-night minimum. This is a $320 per night savings!! Boreas Inn's ready-made holiday removes the stress and will let you relax and enjoy the Holiday–invite the people you want to be with and let Susie and Bill do the rest of the arranging. Just bring your gifts for under the tree! This price includes our signature breakfasts and champagne on Christmas morning! Starting December 21 and ending December 27, you can rent Boreas for a grand and luxurious escape for you, your family and friends. You pick the three nights you'd like to stay, and we will supply an inn full of warmth and wonder and of course, breakfasts to die for! Susie and Bill will arrange your Christmas dinner at one of our fine restaurants open for Christmas (and Christmas Eve of course)!
We ask for a maximum of 10 people and no children under 10. Wander the beautiful beaches, sleep in fine linens under down and on top of our feather beds. Maybe you will be held captive by a big Pacific storm by one of the fireplaces or maybe the weather will be warm and sunny! Wander the Discover Trail and look for whales from the North Head Lighthouse or the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, dine out in our fabulous restaurants, take naps and soak in our brand new hot tub! Before somebody else grabs the chance, make your reservation now! If you book online, just request all of the Inn's guest rooms, put in the three nights you would like to request and mention the Ready-Made Christmas Special and we will adjust the cost! Or feel free to call us at 888-842-8069. www.boreasinn.com This offer is not valid with gift certificates and there is a 30-day cancellation policy. We will hold the first night (plus tax) as deposit. Make your request soon!!!


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Campus lighting is a high priority, and improving lighting conditions is a continual effort throughout the year. There are lighted routes to all academic buildings and residence halls.
Shrubbery control is an ongoing project for the Physical Plant and the University Police Department. Hedges, trees and shrubbery are trimmed regularly to enhance visibility and lighting on campus.
UPD officers conduct a security survey of the campus at the beginning of each semester. Recommendations from this survey are forwarded to the Southern Miss Physical Plant upon completion.


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"Safe and sane" fireworks will be available for purchase at 10 stands around Huntington Beach.
According to the city website, fireworks will be sold from July 1 to July 4. Hours are noon to 10 p.m. through July 3 and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on July 4.
Ten nonprofits will sell the fireworks at the following locations:
•Huntington Beach High School baseball team: 19640 Beach Blvd. at the Newland Center.
•Goldenwest swim team: 6967 Warner Ave. at Big Lots.
•South Huntington Beach Girls Fastpitch: 21132 Beach Blvd. at the Beach Promenade.
•Edison High School Model U.N.: 8891 Atlanta Blvd. at Vons.
•Huntington Beach Youth lacrosse team: 10085 Adams Ave. at Ralphs.
•Edison High School Band Boosters: 9045 Adams Ave. at Ace Hardware.
•Marina High School football team: 16600 Bolsa Chica St. at Albertson's.
•Marina High School baseball team: 5922 Edinger Ave. at the shopping center.
•American League Post 133: 8230 Talbert Ave. at WalMart.
•Huntington Beach Junior All American Football: 19081 Goldenwest St. at Ralphs.
Authorities said discharge of fireworks is permitted only from noon to 10 p.m. on the Fourth of July.
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Justin Moore Talks Life, Death and Impact of 'If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away'
'If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away' is an extremely personal song for Justin Moore, as it mentions a deceased grandfather he was very close to. The song 'Grandpa' from his self-titled debut album was about the same man. Taste of Country Nights host Jeremy Robinson can relate to what Moore went through with his grandpa's death, and he shares his own story with listeners.
"That's why we spend 200 nights away from our families is to have exchanges like this," Moore says after the song plays. Listen to the full exchange below.
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- Jun 5:
- Caribou Ranch, famed Boulder County recording studio, to be inducted into Colorado Music Hall of Fame
- Jul 1:
- Caribou Ranch will close its gates, Guercios focus on rebuilding brand
- Jun 30:
- Fabled Caribou Ranch above Nederland sells for $32.5 million
- Jul 22:
- Caribou Ranch property, historic recording studio near Nederland up for sale
NEDERLAND -- In its heyday during the 1970s and early '80s, Caribou Ranch -- tucked in a lush valley three miles north of this mountain town -- was the "creative monastery" for some of the biggest names in the music business.
Songs such as "Philadelphia Freedom," "Shining Star" and "New York State of Mind" were penned in Caribou's cabins and on the ranch's grounds.
More than 150 artists -- including John Lennon, Michael Jackson and The Beach Boys -- would record at Caribou's state-of-the-art music studio before a fire silenced the barn-based recording operation on a cold day in March of '85.
A quarter-century later, Caribou is on the brink of potentially the biggest change to come to the Peak to Peak Highway property since 1971, when James Guercio, a young and idealistic Chicago music producer, settled here to establish one of the first destination recording studios.
Efforts are underway to reopen the studio and vault Caribou to "Sundance" status.
"Music is definitely going to come out of this valley again," said Guercio's son Will.
Two weeks ago, Jim Guercio and his family listed their remaining 1,600 acres of Caribou for $45 million; however, a simple transfer of ownership to a deep-pocketed buyer might not be how the story ends.
The Guercios are envisioning a potential multi-deal transaction that could involve the sale of parts of the property and a separate deal where the family would bring on a partner to reopen the music studio and have Caribou attract a variety of artists and clientele.
"At some point, you've got to face mortality," said Jim Guercio, 68, a few days after Breckenridge-based Mountain Marketing Associates Ltd. posted the sale listing online.
To carry Caribou forward for the next generation, Guercio said his family is facing economic realities and aligning those with the overwhelming desire to preserve the area's natural beauty and the ranch's place in music history.
"We have the commitment and the dream," Guercio said, "but we might not have the resources 50 years from now."
'Spiritual experience'
As the 1960s came to a close, Jim Guercio was growing wary and restless about the way music was produced in New York and Los Angeles.
Studio rules and union regulations hindered the ability to produce, Guercio said, noting he couldn't man the controls himself, but rather had to relay instructions to an engineer.
Creativity was taking a back seat to efficiency.
A band would drop cash for a three-hour block only to have that window tighten because of the set-up and breakdown of equipment.
The recording of Blood, Sweat & Tears' "Spinning Wheel" was the final straw for Guercio.
As the clock was running out on the session and as the horns continued their pomp and circumstance without a fade, the distracted union engineer accidentally started to erase the master track, Guercio said. The drums, horns, vocals -- everything -- were gone from the end of the song.
Guercio took a razor blade to the tape and spliced in more of the carnival-like "Oh du Lieber Augustin" melody that playfully joined the track.
"I didn't know it was going to work," Guercio said.
The track achieved Gold record status and was nominated for three Grammy Awards in 1970, winning in the Best Arrangement category. The Blood, Sweat & Tears self-titled record also took home Album of the Year.
Guercio, however, had his fill.
"'I can't work like (this); I've got to have a studio,'" Guercio recalled saying at the time.
To escape the radius of the record companies' reach and rule, Guercio scoped out ranches in the West. He looked at land in Montana and Wyoming, but quickly found what he desired in Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
At Caribou -- a property eyed for a 120-house subdivision -- the interplay of the rushing North Boulder Creek with the pine trees, wildflowers, high mountain hay, historic homestead and the breadth of wildlife captured Guercio's attention.
"When we saw this place, it was a spiritual experience," he said.
After three years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Guercio in 1971 started moving forward on his creative hideaway.
He wanted a studio where there were no restrictions on equipment or engineers, a studio where equipment and instruments could be accessed 24 hours, seven days a week and no breakdown or set-up would be required. He wanted that studio to be nestled in an environment where everyone could be inspired.
"It was the most crazy experiment," Guercio said. "Everybody said, 'No one will come up there. What are you, nuts?'"
The "Field of Dreams"-esque build-it-and-they-will-come mantra would be realized.
Joe Walsh did, and others followed
Walsh, the former James Gang member, was working nearby on a record for his new band, Barnstorm, when a mixer blew. Hearing that Guercio was building a studio in a barn, Walsh ventured over to Caribou and recorded Barnstorm's self-titled album there.
During the next 14 years, Caribou Ranch hosted more than 150 musicians; served as a setting for a couple Dick Clark-produced TV specials; and was a home of a steady mix of antics and artistry.
Lingering memories
On a recent Friday at the ranch, as Guercio tended to a phone call, Kenny Passarelli -- a Denver-based bassist who played on dozens of Caribou records, including Barnstorm -- and John Carsello, longtime Caribou ranch manager-turned archivist, strolled through the property relaying memories in spitfire with each step and turn.
They kept a room of wooden skis, boots and jackets for the stars who often would arrive in platform shoes.
One of the trees on the property bears a scar from Stephen Stills running a car in the wrong gear.
Billy Joel, spooked from the potentially haunted Running Bear cabin, stayed in the taxidermy head-laden house where the crews typically stayed. A bandmate grabbed a wild boar's head, donned it with a beret and sunglasses and placed a cigarette in its mouth and placed it on Joel's bed.
Joel, who was renowned for impersonations and could throw his voice like a champ, would prank call the ranch pretending to be Paul McCartney or Elvis Presley.
As John Lennon laid down vocals and guitar for Elton John's version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," May Pang, Lennon's then-girlfriend, was taken aback by the oxygen tank sitting in the middle of the recording studio.
The 8,600-foot elevation at Caribou also created some interesting effects musically. Artists could sing an octave higher and a kick drum's boom at Caribou would bounce a plastic Jesus off a dashboard at sea level, the Caribou crew said.
When Michael Jackson visited the ranch to record parts for Bad, the singer who was raised as a Jehovah's Witness put on a fat suit and headed down the mountain where he went door to door preaching.
"People in Boulder didn't know they were talking to Michael," Carsello said.
Minus a TV or a couch here or there, Caribou's cabins largely remain unchanged.
The same smells -- the Ponderosa Pine, the mortar and the smoke from the wood-burning fireplaces -- permeate today as they did then.
"All of a sudden, you're back here in 1972," Passarelli said of the sensory-triggered memories.
In the barn, which served as the crux of the operation, a lingering char masks the familiar smells from the cabins.
On a cold day in March 1985, Will Guercio, then 6, was watching "The Smurfs" with his sister when they heard a loud siren. Running to the window of the master house, the children saw a thick, black cloud barreling out the smokestack of the barn.
A space heater had sparked a blaze that crawled up a corner of the barn and quickly ravaged the control room, game room and kitchenette. When Guercio returned that night from California, one-third of the barn was destroyed.
Guercio later decided not to rebuild the studio operation. The music landscape was moving toward digital and the way rock 'n' roll was changing wasn't necessarily the best environment for his kids.
The elder Guercio has stepped foot in the barn only five times since the '85 fire, Will Guercio said.
Portions of the barn now serve as storage and as a vault of its melodious past. Gold records line the stairway to the second floor where enlarged photos sit on easels in the entryway to the former control room and lounge.
The pictures, which include a black-and-white photo of The Beach Boys smiling by the fireplace and a color photo of the control deck, give a glimpse of what existed previously.
The rocks of that fireplace now bear the scorches from the flames.
The blaze, however, did not consume the heart and soul of the operation.
Behind an Oz-like curtain sits the recording studio. The thick, brown carpet has been replaced by a wood floor, but the place "where the magic happened" remains unscathed.
'One shot'
Will Guercio estimates that it could take upward of $3 million to outfit the studio to today's standards. That projection could drop as officials from outfits within Nashville, L.A. and New York have reached out to the local ranch and expressed interest in contributing equipment, he said.
"They say, 'We don't know what you're going to do, but we want to be involved in Caribou,'" he said.
Both artists from Caribou's prime and those from the current crop of musicians also have said they wanted to record at the isolated ranch, he said.
He believes that there once again is a demand for a destination studio -- especially at a time when paparazzi reign and a cell phone snapshot is seconds away from going viral on the Internet.
Will Guercio, who has developed roughly 20 different business plans for the property, said the site that was his family's home for the past four decades is ripe for opportunity.
The pastoral Elk Meadow, where the band Chicago was filmed riding horses for one of their TV specials, is a natural amphitheater that could serve as a backdrop for a concert, he said. The cabins could be refurbished to "five-star" accommodations for the visiting musicians or other guests of Caribou, if the ranch were to host weddings or corporate retreats, he added.
"White collar, blue collar ... people deserve to see what my dad created over the years," he said, adding his vision is to create the "Sundance of the music world."
Rumbling through the property in a four-seat utility vehicle, Will Guercio extolled the potential for the site. The 34-year-old Guercio has spent the better part of 12 years preparing for a sale -- digging ponds, clearing slash and readying infrastructure.
Through past transactions with the city of Boulder and Boulder County, more than half of Caribou Ranch became open space and the remainder gained a slew of entitlements.
Possible developments could include nearly 20 homes, including up to 10,000-square-foot estate houses, and structures such as a fishing lodge and equestrian center.
Will Guercio said a good chunk of calls he's fielded have been from the $5 million to $10 million buyer -- a music-loving investor who's interested in owning an estate home on the ranch.
Declining to disclose details, Guercio said he and his family are progressing in discussions with potential partners for the ranch headquarters and studio and are "95 percent" settled on a business plan. Guercio added that talks also are ongoing with the city of Boulder and Boulder County officials.
Ron Stewart, director of Boulder County Parks and Open Space, cited policy and said that he could not talk about any possible negotiations with parties until those talks have been finalized.
"We wouldn't have the capability nor the interest in buying out the full interest in the property," Stewart said.
To the extent that Boulder County is interested in certain parcels, Stewart could not say.
"It's a magnificent property and it's one of the larger, if not the largest holdings in that upper mountain region in Boulder County," he said of the open space purchase. " ... It's something that we really feel good about having done."
Will Guercio echoed his father's sentiments about the economic realities of continuing to operate the expansive ranch and acknowledged that there is a sense of urgency on the family's part to solidify a deal or multiple transactions. The younger Guercio also expressed a desire to continue living on the ranch and finding a way to make music at Caribou while preserving the property as his father intended.
"It's our family ranch, we want to do what's right," Will Guercio said. "We only have one shot."
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If You Want Your Kids to Turn Out Well, Get Them Involved in Music
Want to make your kids better people?
Here's new that will be music to your ears.
Have them play instruments or sing together. A new study says playing instruments and singing together will make them more empathetic and allow them to more easily emotionally identify with others.
Cambridge University's Centre for Music and Science studied several dozen children between 8 and 11 years old, and found those who participated in games in which they played instruments and copied each other's movements and phrases to make synchronized music had higher levels of empathy than the kids who hadn't engaged in such activities.
Researchers believe music gave children "an understanding of each others' intentions through a common aim and experience," thus leading to more empathy between them. As a result, the scientists said music-group sessions could be instituted in schools to make kids more considerate of one another.


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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Are you a Millennial? Good! Keep reading.
If you're a Gen Xer you can keep reading, too, although you've already learned through tough experience everything I'm going to talk about. If you're a Baby Boomer, scram. I don't need any more flack from Baby Boomers for spilling the beans about the way the business world really works. We had our chance to fix the massive structural problems in the business world, to clear out the termites that have nearly eaten through the foundation, but we didn't do it.
Now Millennials represent our only hope.
Here's the secret that nobody tells you about business, my young brothers and sisters: it's fake. It's a movie set, like those one-street Western towns that have facades on the fronts of the building but nothing behind the facade. Everything that seems imposing and impressive about business is made up. It doesn't exist.
Business is just a bunch of people getting out of bed and putting on a suit every day. It isn't any different from regular life, but lots of people will tell you it is. They'll tell you that you have to act Professional in business, use a different language, different rituals and a different tone of voice, but why?
All the fake, formal, gray, boring, linear and analytical stuff in business comes from the fearful brains of people who want to prop up the broken Godzilla edifice. That's the structure of rules, policies, fear, and obsessively left-brain thinking that has already shown itself to be a waste of time and a pox on our planet.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Get the salary question out in the open
You can't keep going on interviews with no idea of what an employer is planning to pay you if you get the job. You have to bring up the topic of salary.
If you need inspiration to ask the salary question, just think about a plumber.
The plumber isn't going to come over and walk around looking at the work that a homeowner needs done without talking about money. Eventually the plumber is going to say "You're looking at about ten thousand dollars worth of work" or the homeowner is going to say "How much is this going to cost me?"
They're not going to dance around the topic and hope for the best. Only job-seekers do that, and only a certain kind of job-seeker.
The kind of job-seeker who doesn't bring up salary during the hiring process and hopes that s/he gets a job offer with a reasonable salary in it is afraid. That's the only reason to keep silent about such a vital topic.
The job-seeker is afraid that if he or she brings up the salary topic, the employer might not like it. They might get mad and cast him out of the candidate pool. That's the fear. Think about it, though – that fear isn't reasonable. If you're thinking about working with people who would be so hostile and crazy that they'd drop you from a candidate roster just for asking about salary, why would ever consider working with them?
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Make the most of your time
You arrive alone. Your heart is beating a little faster than normal and suddenly all of your charisma and charm go out the window. You try to lock eyes with someone so that you can find a temporary home in what can feel like a sea of strangers. But everyone looks happily engaged in conversation.
While this might sound like your experience at a middle school dance, it's also what many people feel when they enter a networking event. These are completely natural reactions, even for the biggest extroverts. The great news is that people go to these events to meet strangers, so you're in the same position as everyone else. Here are 17 helpful tips for navigating a networking event and making the most of your time there:
Find the bar! Whether or not you're drinking, it's always a great idea to position yourself at the edge of the bar. Many people run for the bar when they get to a networking event in order to get a short respite from an overwhelming entrance. If you position yourself a few steps from the bar, you can easily strike up a conversation as people turn with drink in hand.
Be yourself. Networking events are meant as jumping-off points for relationship building. If you can't be yourself, you'll be starting off these new relationships with a lie. Don't try to be the person you think others want to meet. Be genuine. The people you connect with when you are authentic are the ones you'll want to stay in touch with.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Be genuine with other people
When I was 20 years old, I went to work at Citi for a summer internship. I didn't really have a clue what I was doing, but I went to the office every day and worked on a basic scenario analysis project. I knew I could spend my summer half-assing my work or really, actually try to learn something.
I chose the latter. I went to all the speaker events, every lunch meeting, and all of those happy hours. I had lunch with different co-workers and senior leaders every day. I emailed and followed up with everyone I met.
All that persistence paid off — by summer's end, I had one-on-one meetings with the CFO of Citi, the Chief Diversity Officer of Citi and more than 10 Managing Directors. Me! A 20-year-old intern! Some decade-long employees at Citi said they'd NEVER talked to that many senior leaders.
At the end of the summer, my Managing Director, Jaidev Iyer, announced "Erica, somehow you've been able to get noticed everywhere you go."
I didn't realize this was a gift until much later in life. When I was 27 and on stage at the World Economic Forum at Davos 2012, activist Desmond Tutu told our group of 70 Millennial leaders that we can lead a revolution in the world. That's when it clicked for me.
But this blog post isn't about me. Its about YOU. It's about the fact that I'm not the only suburban-born, Indian-American girl who can get noticed. The truth is getting noticed isn't much about me either. It's about how I translate my gifts to others.
When we share ourselves in a genuine way, we build real relationships and create ways for others to help us grow.
Here are my top six tips on how to get noticed, get hired, or get just about anything you want:
Every time you meet someone, focus on how you can support them first. Give, give, get is a mantra that has helped me build deeper connections with others.
Be self-aware. Don't ask for too much of someone at the beginning. Build the relationship and understand where they're coming from.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Make a difference in your job search.
I've heard from job seekers who simply didn't know some of the things that will help them effectively job search. One person I spoke to recently didn't know you should send a thank you note after an interview. Another wasn't aware that he didn't need to include all of his many years of experience on his resume.
Some of the things on the list are little things that make a difference. Others are significant enough that they can make or break your job search. Here are 15 things you should know about job hunting that will help you find a new job quickly.
You can save time job searching by using advanced search options on job boards. All the major job boards (like Indeed.com, SimplyHired.com, CareerBuilder, Monster, and Dice) have an "Advanced Search" option where you can search by keyword, location, a radius of a location, job title, company, type of job, date posted and other options. Here's my list of the top 10 best job sites.
Applying for every job you find isn't always a good idea. Focus your search on jobs that you're qualified for. You'll have a better chance of getting selected for an interview. Sending out random resumes and cover letters is just going to be a waste of time. Before you start job hunting, take the time to decide what type of job you're seeking. Even better, come up with a target list of companies you'd like to work for and do your best to get noticed by them. Here's how to get noticed by your dream company.
Don't stop applying for jobs while you are waiting to hear back from an employer. Most job seekers are rejected by over 15 employers before landing a job. Learn from your mistakes, and keep applying until you get the right offer. Worst case scenario, you will be juggling multiple job offers. That's a good thing.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Ready for a new job?
Most career experts would tell you to start looking while you're still employed. But when you do—you must tread carefully.
"When you're working, your professional network is working for you because you're constantly interacting with your industry contacts," says Andy Teach, a corporate veteran and author of From Graduation to Corporation: The Practical Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder One Rung at a Time. "They can inform you about jobs you may not be aware of. If you're not working, you're out of sight and out of mind."
Sara Menke, the founder and chief executive of Premier, a boutique staffing firm in San Francisco, says having a job while looking for a job makes you that much more attractive to a potential employer. "Companies want to hire the best of the best and [those people] are usually employed," she says. "Plus, quitting your job before having a job is a big risk that you should avoid. Most people do not have endless streams of income, so you should stay in your position until you get that firm offer for new employment."
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Ready for a new job?
Most career experts would tell you to start looking while you're still employed. But when you do—you must tread carefully.
"When you're working, your professional network is working for you because you're constantly interacting with your industry contacts," says Andy Teach, a corporate veteran and author of From Graduation to Corporation: The Practical Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder One Rung at a Time. "They can inform you about jobs you may not be aware of. If you're not working, you're out of sight and out of mind."
Sara Menke, the founder and chief executive of Premier, a boutique staffing firm in San Francisco, says having a job while looking for a job makes you that much more attractive to a potential employer. "Companies want to hire the best of the best and [those people] are usually employed," she says. "Plus, quitting your job before having a job is a big risk that you should avoid. Most people do not have endless streams of income, so you should stay in your position until you get that firm offer for new employment."
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Monday, August 25, 2014
Sorting out the myths from common sense advice
I'm trying to sort out the myths from common sense advice as I look for work. We're all hearing about the sluggish economy and unemployment numbers. Some of the news is good, some a little more dicey and then there are the stats that seem to get pulled like taffy and twisted into different shapes depending on who's quoting them. It's hard to know what to think, but I know that I need more work. Here's a list of some of what I've learned about trying to land a job and the search itself.
1. Looking for work is harder than actually working. I wish I'd kept track of all the hours I've spent revising my resume, searching job sites and writing cover letters rife with keywords. There are also all the hours I've spent researching companies online before even submitting my application. It's a lot of work. I dutifully scroll through every job search email that pops up in my inbox. Just when I think I've got all the settings right, I find more jobs I'm woefully unqualified for. It's important to focus. I'm having more success now that I've honed in on the types of positions I really want and am qualified for. It's quality over quantity.
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Monday, August 25, 2014
If you haven't looked for work lately, be sure you know the new rules about resumes
Job searching has changed dramatically over the past few years. If you want to succeed, you'll have to take a much different approach than you did previously. Here are 10 things today's job hunters need to know:
1. Google has replaced the resumé. Recruiters are now using Google and LinkedIn searches to find talent, instead of paying for job-board or talent databases. Many companies are even mandating that every new application go through a Google screening process.
So that means the first page of your Google results matter much more during a job search than they ever did before. I've written an article showing how to increase your rank in Google and attract the attention of hiring managers.
2. A summary of your work history is enough. Because there are so many candidates competing for each job, HR people (or hiring managers, if they are tasked with recruitment) often scan resumes very briefly. The average time spent on a resume is 30 seconds.
LinkedIn gives you a way to create a summary; use it.
3. Social proof is a must. Social proof—the testimonials, endorsements and recommendations of your abilities that appear on social networks—seriously reduce the perceived risk of you as a candidate.
The most costly mistake a hiring manager can make is to give a job to the wrong person. Some say that if a new hire leaves within three months, it costs the organization one and a half times that person's annual salary. And with the economy as tight as it is, you can understand why hiring managers are so risk averse.
If you don't have many endorsements and recommendations in your LinkedIn profile, get some before looking for a job.
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Monday, August 25, 2014
Find the right balance
1. Expose Yourself
People entering the business world today are a commodity. They've gone to the same schools, taken the same courses, read the same books, and watched the same movies. Meanwhile, companies like mine are desperately seeking fresh minds to help them navigate massive cultural and technological changes. Where are they going to find them?
Growing up in a small town in Indiana, I led the middle-class life of Beaver Cleaver, until I was kicked off the high school tennis team. Then my real education began with a new curriculum of hustling, drinking, smoking, cruising, fighting, and sex. (I mostly examined the latter.)
Think of your life as a big magazine rack. When you're standing in front of it deciding what to choose, resist the normal impulse to reach for People or Cosmopolitan. Instead, grab a copy of Game Informer, Inked, Guns and Ammo, or Bass Fisherman. Apply the same approach to movies, books, and people. You need to expose yourself. Whether you're looking for your first job or your fifth, you'll benefit from exploring unusual ideas and engaging unconventional individuals. If you experiment with your life, you'll learn a lot about yourself and the rest of the human race.
2. Hit the Road
Americans are a sedentary lot. Only one out of three have a passport. When they travel, their favorite destination is Las Vegas, where they can photograph the Eiffel Tower, float in a gondola, and visit the pyramids. Less than 5 percent of US citizens travel overseas each year. As a result, they know less about the rest of the world than the rest of the world. This is a problem when every cell phone is made in China and every service call is answered in India.
Selling expensive leather wallets to unsuspecting tourists in Florence, Italy, I learned why Americans are afraid to travel. Foreign businessmen like my boss Enzo were just waiting to rip them off. In two-thirds of the world, bribery is an accepted business practice and bargaining is an art. You need to learn the regional ropes by studying or working abroad, because every employer is banking on international sales to fuel their future. If you want to compete in the global economy, especially in a melting pot like Miami, you've got to hit the road.
3. Ask the Captain
Knocking on a captain's door opened a new world for me. While my contemporaries were graduating from college, I talked my way into a job as a cabin boy on a Norwegian tanker bound for Asian destinations I'd never imagined. In your career you will encounter "ships" that can transport you to unexpected places. You just have to figure out how to ask the captain.
Senior executives are intimidating to those just starting out. But they're the ones who can have a real impact on your career. Stalk them in the hallways. Corner them at events. Drill them with smart questions. Ask for their help. If you want to be a captain tomorrow, you should start by asking one a question today.
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