Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
A LITTLE STORY
Did you ever want to see a movie but weren't sure what kind you wanted to see. A shot-em-up, a sci-fi, one for the girls, or how about a good western? Westerens, you can't beet a good old spaghetti western with Clint Eastwood. The writers of those movies were not very imaginative but they could add suspense and a lot of wait time between the characters lines. It beets the heck out of going to an art show or watching a mammal swimming around in circles in a pool. One place you will not see me in is a craft show, unless of cource it's a computer show.
I could watch, talk about boring, a fishing show, but it has to be a good fishing show not something about catching cat fish at 2 oclock in the morning.
Getting back to the craft show, I guess if it was about exploring something, like the Amazon or some other exotic place.
I'v been to Brazil a number of times but haven't been to the amazonian jungle. I feel jealous of those who have gone their, and I might add made it out alive. I'm not a scientist or doctor but I am convinced most if not all the cures for all diseases are their. The plant life holds so many things as well as the animal and insect life we haven't found yet. One thing I would guess is if we continue to cut trees and destroy the natural settings we risk loosing potential cures for cancer and other life taking diseases. When roads are built and other destructive things takes place the whole eco system is forced to either adapt, and in most cases it can't, or it is simply gone. When a person wants a particular skin from a particular animal for their hand bag or someone else wants a certain piece of wood to make their cane, when they could very well do with that same item made out of plastic or another type of wood but because they have the money, that's what they want and nothing else will do. I guess I got off the betten path from the beginning of this little story but they are my thoughts and probabley some body elses also.
Chow for now.
I could watch, talk about boring, a fishing show, but it has to be a good fishing show not something about catching cat fish at 2 oclock in the morning.
Getting back to the craft show, I guess if it was about exploring something, like the Amazon or some other exotic place.
I'v been to Brazil a number of times but haven't been to the amazonian jungle. I feel jealous of those who have gone their, and I might add made it out alive. I'm not a scientist or doctor but I am convinced most if not all the cures for all diseases are their. The plant life holds so many things as well as the animal and insect life we haven't found yet. One thing I would guess is if we continue to cut trees and destroy the natural settings we risk loosing potential cures for cancer and other life taking diseases. When roads are built and other destructive things takes place the whole eco system is forced to either adapt, and in most cases it can't, or it is simply gone. When a person wants a particular skin from a particular animal for their hand bag or someone else wants a certain piece of wood to make their cane, when they could very well do with that same item made out of plastic or another type of wood but because they have the money, that's what they want and nothing else will do. I guess I got off the betten path from the beginning of this little story but they are my thoughts and probabley some body elses also.
Chow for now.
Monday, March 29, 2010
POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS AND THEIR THOUGHTS
This is a debatable thought. Wheather or not a potential employer should use or consider using information they fine online about you in considering you for a job.
The following is brought to you courtesy of CNN.
A recent survey commissioned by Microsoft found that 70 percent of recruiters and hiring managers in the United States have rejected an applicant based on information they found online.
What kind of information? "Inappropriate" comments by the candidate; "unsuitable" photos and videos; criticisms of previous employers, co-workers, or clients; and even inappropriate comments by friends and relatives, according to the survey report, titled "Online Reputation in a Connected World."
Such prying into anyone's online life makes me uncomfortable.
On the defence side of this is, your putting yourself "out their" for anyone to see, not just your friends.
"I understand that when [employers look] at someone's Facebook page, they're just trying to paint a bigger picture of the people they're hiring -- so they're not just a name on a résumé," he said. "But that doesn't demonstrate whether they can do the job. It shouldn't matter what someone does when they're not in the office."
This person said he's not sure that employers would object to the information on his Facebook page. For him, it's more about personal privacy.
"Too many people take pictures of you. I didn't want to go through and 'untag' all of them," he said. "There's nothing illegal or too ridiculous in the photos ... but people don't take pictures of people studying or doing school work. They take pictures of people at parties and doing silly things."
For better or worse, online screenings may be a permanent part of the 21st-century hiring process. The Microsoft survey found that 79 percent of U.S. hiring managers have used the Internet to better assess applicants.
Dan Eggers of Partners Marketing Group in Marietta, Georgia, is among that 79 percent.
"We review and certainly do research on anyone we're looking at hiring or using as a contract employee," Eggers said. "We would Google their name, look at LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter."
He said his firm usually only consults an applicant's online reputation to make sure he or she hasn't misrepresented their work experience.
"We try not to pay a lot of attention to wall posts from others. It would take quite a bit for us to be reacting to that," Eggers said.
But racist or homophobic comments will land your résumé and cover letter in the garbage, he said.
"People have a false sense of security about their personal information out there on the Web ... they think only their friends will see it," said Jack Rayman, senior director of career services at Pennsylvania State University.
Elana Borchers, an Indiana University senior, said she exchanged her last name for her middle name on Facebook in November when she started applying for jobs. Borchers even decided to keep her alias after landing a full-time position a month later.
"Not everything is certain," she said. "If my employers saw something on my profile now that they didn't like, they could take my job away."
Not that she's worried about the content on her Facebook page.
"There's nothing bad [on my profile]. I'd rather they learn about me in person," Borchers said.
"Big Ten schools have the reputation of excessive partying. That's something that's here with me in college, I don't plan to take that partying with me in the future and I didn't want someone to see that and judge me."
Borchers said she thought about removing pictures of her partying, but "they're my memories and I want to keep them for now."
Many of Borchers' friends are playing the Facebook name game, too -- dropping their last names or using a nickname to hide from potential employers and grad-school admissions officers.
"A lot of my guy friends changed [their user names] to a nickname that their friends call them, so everyone still knows who it is," she said.
Facebook spokesperson Kathleen Loughlin said she could not comment on the number of users who change their name on Facebook, but students who spoke to CNN said that among their peers, the trend is rampant.
Another Indiana University senior, Jeffrey Lefcort, changed his Facebook user name to Jeffrey David -- his middle name -- when he began applying for jobs, even though he doesn't think his page has anything inappropriate.
"I just didn't want to be found by someone who was looking for me that I'm not friends with," Lefcort said. "My Facebook profile is not intended for employers. I didn't want them looking at my personal life."
Like Gawel, Lefcort eventually ditched his pseudonym and opted instead to tighten his Facebook privacy settings -- something Facebook's Loughlin said is encouraged.
With the Internet playing such a large role in business today, few recruiters don't assess applicants' online reputations in some capacity before hiring, said George Matlock, director of operations at Matlock
Advertising and Public Relations in Atlanta, Georgia.
And while Matlock said he almost always Googles a person's name before hiring them, he steers clear of Facebook.
"I haven't looked at [an applicant's] Facebook page," he said. "I try to stay away from it, myself. I think it's too personal ... maybe I'm just scared to see what's out there. Facebook tends to be something pretty private."
Emily Mitnick, a Michigan State University senior who also changed her name on Facebook, said she has nothing to hide but wants to keep a low profile and avoid being searched by potential employers.
Mitnick uses LinkedIn to communicate with the "professional world." She describes Facebook as a place "where I can be social with my friends and I don't have to be professional.
"I don't have any of my [tagged pictures] available to the public -- just for precautionary measures, not because they're inappropriate," she added. "I would just like to remain somewhat private."
Rayman, the Penn State career counselor, said he recommends that students with potentially incriminating photos or posts change their name on social networking sites. But it's not always that easy to escape your online reputation, he said.
"Web sites are almost impossible to eliminate," Rayman said. "They get cached somewhere and they'll keep coming up. It used to be if you had a poor reputation in one school, you'd move to another and your record didn't necessarily follow you. It's getting harder and harder to do that as everyone is on the Internet and everyone knows everyone's business."
The following is brought to you courtesy of CNN.
A recent survey commissioned by Microsoft found that 70 percent of recruiters and hiring managers in the United States have rejected an applicant based on information they found online.
What kind of information? "Inappropriate" comments by the candidate; "unsuitable" photos and videos; criticisms of previous employers, co-workers, or clients; and even inappropriate comments by friends and relatives, according to the survey report, titled "Online Reputation in a Connected World."
Such prying into anyone's online life makes me uncomfortable.
On the defence side of this is, your putting yourself "out their" for anyone to see, not just your friends.
"I understand that when [employers look] at someone's Facebook page, they're just trying to paint a bigger picture of the people they're hiring -- so they're not just a name on a résumé," he said. "But that doesn't demonstrate whether they can do the job. It shouldn't matter what someone does when they're not in the office."
This person said he's not sure that employers would object to the information on his Facebook page. For him, it's more about personal privacy.
"Too many people take pictures of you. I didn't want to go through and 'untag' all of them," he said. "There's nothing illegal or too ridiculous in the photos ... but people don't take pictures of people studying or doing school work. They take pictures of people at parties and doing silly things."
For better or worse, online screenings may be a permanent part of the 21st-century hiring process. The Microsoft survey found that 79 percent of U.S. hiring managers have used the Internet to better assess applicants.
Dan Eggers of Partners Marketing Group in Marietta, Georgia, is among that 79 percent.
"We review and certainly do research on anyone we're looking at hiring or using as a contract employee," Eggers said. "We would Google their name, look at LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter."
He said his firm usually only consults an applicant's online reputation to make sure he or she hasn't misrepresented their work experience.
"We try not to pay a lot of attention to wall posts from others. It would take quite a bit for us to be reacting to that," Eggers said.
But racist or homophobic comments will land your résumé and cover letter in the garbage, he said.
"People have a false sense of security about their personal information out there on the Web ... they think only their friends will see it," said Jack Rayman, senior director of career services at Pennsylvania State University.
Elana Borchers, an Indiana University senior, said she exchanged her last name for her middle name on Facebook in November when she started applying for jobs. Borchers even decided to keep her alias after landing a full-time position a month later.
"Not everything is certain," she said. "If my employers saw something on my profile now that they didn't like, they could take my job away."
Not that she's worried about the content on her Facebook page.
"There's nothing bad [on my profile]. I'd rather they learn about me in person," Borchers said.
"Big Ten schools have the reputation of excessive partying. That's something that's here with me in college, I don't plan to take that partying with me in the future and I didn't want someone to see that and judge me."
Borchers said she thought about removing pictures of her partying, but "they're my memories and I want to keep them for now."
Many of Borchers' friends are playing the Facebook name game, too -- dropping their last names or using a nickname to hide from potential employers and grad-school admissions officers.
"A lot of my guy friends changed [their user names] to a nickname that their friends call them, so everyone still knows who it is," she said.
Facebook spokesperson Kathleen Loughlin said she could not comment on the number of users who change their name on Facebook, but students who spoke to CNN said that among their peers, the trend is rampant.
Another Indiana University senior, Jeffrey Lefcort, changed his Facebook user name to Jeffrey David -- his middle name -- when he began applying for jobs, even though he doesn't think his page has anything inappropriate.
"I just didn't want to be found by someone who was looking for me that I'm not friends with," Lefcort said. "My Facebook profile is not intended for employers. I didn't want them looking at my personal life."
Like Gawel, Lefcort eventually ditched his pseudonym and opted instead to tighten his Facebook privacy settings -- something Facebook's Loughlin said is encouraged.
With the Internet playing such a large role in business today, few recruiters don't assess applicants' online reputations in some capacity before hiring, said George Matlock, director of operations at Matlock
Advertising and Public Relations in Atlanta, Georgia.
And while Matlock said he almost always Googles a person's name before hiring them, he steers clear of Facebook.
"I haven't looked at [an applicant's] Facebook page," he said. "I try to stay away from it, myself. I think it's too personal ... maybe I'm just scared to see what's out there. Facebook tends to be something pretty private."
Emily Mitnick, a Michigan State University senior who also changed her name on Facebook, said she has nothing to hide but wants to keep a low profile and avoid being searched by potential employers.
Mitnick uses LinkedIn to communicate with the "professional world." She describes Facebook as a place "where I can be social with my friends and I don't have to be professional.
"I don't have any of my [tagged pictures] available to the public -- just for precautionary measures, not because they're inappropriate," she added. "I would just like to remain somewhat private."
Rayman, the Penn State career counselor, said he recommends that students with potentially incriminating photos or posts change their name on social networking sites. But it's not always that easy to escape your online reputation, he said.
"Web sites are almost impossible to eliminate," Rayman said. "They get cached somewhere and they'll keep coming up. It used to be if you had a poor reputation in one school, you'd move to another and your record didn't necessarily follow you. It's getting harder and harder to do that as everyone is on the Internet and everyone knows everyone's business."
Monday, March 8, 2010
Chile and Tiawan Earthquake
Chile looters return goods
By admin
Published: March 8, 2010
Pressed by police and military patrols, Chileans returned hundreds of television sets, washing machines and other electronic and furniture items stolen from stores and warehouses.
The looting had broken out in the wake of the devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile on February 27. It led to curfews and the deployment of some 14,000 soldiers – a move unprecedented since the 17-year dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that ended in 1990.
Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean president, visited a depot of returned goods Sunday, promising justice. “This looting has nothing to do with survival,” Mrs Bachelet said. “It had everything to do with people trying to make a profit on the suffering of others,” she said, promising to apply the full weight of the law on looters.
Meanwhile, the national blue, red and white flag fluttered at half-mast from buildings across the country at the start of three days of national mourning, in a week in which president-elect Sebastian Pinera was due to be sworn in.
Religious ceremonies, some taking place in the open air, brought Chileans together to remember their dead – now officially estimated at 452 after officials revised down a first toll of 802.
Many of the nation’s 16.8 million inhabitants joined a wave of solidarity alongside public and international aid efforts, and looters handed back stolen goods under threat of arrest.
Demolition and reconstruction efforts have slowly begun in badly-hit areas. Aid has poured in from across the world but, with severed bridges, fractured freeways and villages washed off the map, the nation has struggled to deliver relief to many, including some two million homeless survivors.
Costs to repair damaged infrastructure, not including repairs on public buildings or damaged ports, would amount to as much as £759 million ($1.2 billion), Sergio Bitar, the minister of public works, estimated on Sunday. However, he added: “Chile’s infrastructure held up well.”
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Taiwan Rumbles: 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Taiwan
By admin
Published: March 4, 2010
Tectonic plates all over the pacific are going crazy as Taiwan gets shocked by a 6.4 Magnitude quake.
A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked southern Taiwan on Thursday morning causing buildings to sway hundreds of miles to the north. Local news reports said at least one person was injured.
The quake was centered in the county of Kaohsiung, and struck at a depth of about 3.1 miles. Kaohsiung is about 249 miles south of the capital, Taipei.
Residents in Taipei could feel buildings shake, and the quake caused power outages. The island’s high-speed rail service was suspended, Taiwan’s cable news stations reported.
No tsunami alert was issued.
By admin
Published: March 8, 2010
Pressed by police and military patrols, Chileans returned hundreds of television sets, washing machines and other electronic and furniture items stolen from stores and warehouses.
The looting had broken out in the wake of the devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile on February 27. It led to curfews and the deployment of some 14,000 soldiers – a move unprecedented since the 17-year dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that ended in 1990.
Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean president, visited a depot of returned goods Sunday, promising justice. “This looting has nothing to do with survival,” Mrs Bachelet said. “It had everything to do with people trying to make a profit on the suffering of others,” she said, promising to apply the full weight of the law on looters.
Meanwhile, the national blue, red and white flag fluttered at half-mast from buildings across the country at the start of three days of national mourning, in a week in which president-elect Sebastian Pinera was due to be sworn in.
Religious ceremonies, some taking place in the open air, brought Chileans together to remember their dead – now officially estimated at 452 after officials revised down a first toll of 802.
Many of the nation’s 16.8 million inhabitants joined a wave of solidarity alongside public and international aid efforts, and looters handed back stolen goods under threat of arrest.
Demolition and reconstruction efforts have slowly begun in badly-hit areas. Aid has poured in from across the world but, with severed bridges, fractured freeways and villages washed off the map, the nation has struggled to deliver relief to many, including some two million homeless survivors.
Costs to repair damaged infrastructure, not including repairs on public buildings or damaged ports, would amount to as much as £759 million ($1.2 billion), Sergio Bitar, the minister of public works, estimated on Sunday. However, he added: “Chile’s infrastructure held up well.”
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Taiwan Rumbles: 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Taiwan
By admin
Published: March 4, 2010
Tectonic plates all over the pacific are going crazy as Taiwan gets shocked by a 6.4 Magnitude quake.
A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked southern Taiwan on Thursday morning causing buildings to sway hundreds of miles to the north. Local news reports said at least one person was injured.
The quake was centered in the county of Kaohsiung, and struck at a depth of about 3.1 miles. Kaohsiung is about 249 miles south of the capital, Taipei.
Residents in Taipei could feel buildings shake, and the quake caused power outages. The island’s high-speed rail service was suspended, Taiwan’s cable news stations reported.
No tsunami alert was issued.
Monday, February 8, 2010
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