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A Man with a Noble Cause
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Here is an article that Mr. Randy Hough (a USCF board member) wrote about Paul almost 30 years ago (there are a few minor factual errors but in general it was well written).
Sept 1986 Chess Life, page 26
Paul Truong: Happy To Be A USCF Member
BY RANDALL HOUGH
Assistant Editor, Chess Life
Paul Truong is a survivor. And although he would like to say that his love for chess helped to sustain him during two hellish weeks in early 1979 aboard a crowded, leaky, wooden refugee boat — it would be untrue.
For Paul, who was born in Saigon on June 2, 1965, and whose Vietnamese name is Hoainhan, found that "survival pushed everything else to the back of [his] mind." Still, chess does play an important role in the life of this energetic, young Vietnamese-American.
Paul learned the moves in 1970 at age five from USCF master Kenneth Clayton (Paul learned chess at age 5 from his father. Mr. Clayton started to teach him at age 6 but since one did not speak Vietnamese and the other did not speak English, their interaction was very difficult.), who was then working in Vietnam as a computer adviser. Paul and his father Tien, who spoke good English, used to visit a local sports club (It was actually not a local sport club. It was the National Sports Center. It's local because of the vincinity of the center.) with a large swimming pool, billiards tables, and whatnot. But it was chess which attracted the lad. Recalls Clayton of the young boy: "
He was always attentive, retained what I taught him, possessed good nerves and evaluated positions objectively. I recall one game against a strong player, whom Paul defeated in an ending in which he used a Bishop to trap his opponent's Knight on the run of the board. Playing virtually a piece up, he just walked in with the King. He had seen a similar maneuver in one of my games."
At age eight, Paul won the closest thing that Vietnam had to a national championship (This was the national championship of South Vietnam and not Vietnam because at that time, North and South Vietnam were split. They were 2 separate countries just as North and South Korea. Therefore, no player from North Vietnam could compete and this championship only included players from South Vietnam.) by finishing behind only Clayton in a tournament at the sports club. "In our game," Clayton remembers, "I set some nice traps that he saw. I was finally able to wear him down positionally, but it was a real struggle." Clayton estimates that the eight-year-old's strength was in the class "A" range.
UNHAPPY DAYS
The happy times didn't last. The South Vietnamese government fell to the Communists in early 1975, and Tien Truong, a former employee of the United States government, faced hard times for himself and for his family. And in 1979, when the Communists began to persecute Vietnamese citizens of Chinese ancestry, the Truongs formulated a plan to leave. Acquiring false identification papers and greasing the palms of a few officials, Tien and Paul managed to leave. "We wanted the freedom a human being deserves," says Paul, "and my father was concerned about his children's futures." But Paul's mother, Yen, and a younger brother, who was too young to make the perilous journey through the South China Sea, had to remain behind.
The following six weeks were the most memorable period of Paul's life. Over 600 passengers were crammed into a 150-foot wooden vessel, which had to return to Vietnam for repairs after several days at sea. When the boat again left Vietnam, after payment by the passengers of additional bribes, it was boarded by pirates on the second day out. And the refugees found themselves without much of their food, medical supplies, and valuables. Women were raped, and the boat was virtually torn apart as the pirates searched for jewelry.There were additional boardings, and the boat drifted for days beneath the tropical sun – a vessel of misery filled with terrorized human beings. And then the refugees were spotted by an American oil tanker.
Tien Truong persuaded the tanker's captain to help the passengers reach the East Coast of Malaysia, where they spent weeks in a teeming, island refugee camp before setting out in a new boat. On this second voyage, people began to die of hunger and thirst before reaching the coast of Indonesian Sumatra … where they were again turned away.
In despair the passengers began to throw over board the dead bodies in order to lighten the boat's load. And suddenly, the Indonesian authorities took pity on these unwanted refugees, allowing them ashore. Whereupon. Tien and Paul spent six months in yet another camp. On December 1, 1979, Tien and Paul arrived in the United States, sponsored by an aunt who lived in New Jersey.
PRAYERS, HARD WORK, SAVING
Paul started school in the ninth grade in Washington Township, New Jersey finding that he had plenty of catching up to do. Tien looked for and eventually found a job with Versa a valve manufacturer in Paramus, New Jersey. Where he now works as a control manager. After school, Paul also worked. He and his father offered and they saved money to pay for the freedom of his mother and younger brother And years later – in August 1985 – they to arrived in America.
School, money scrimping, hard work – none these things kept Paul away from his old love of chess. But his rust was apparent in early American tournaments, and his first rating was only in the 1600s. However, he improved rapidly thanks in significant measure, to support from the North New Jersey chess community. At the 1981 New York State Championship, he achieved a USCF master's rating, which he has kept ever since.
Thus far in his chess life, Paul's most memorable competitive experiences (aside from playing for the Collins Kids against Iceland in 1983) occurred in the summer of 1984 when he qualified for the U.S. Junior closed and when he participated in Gary Kasparov's "Starwars Simul" – a set of ten classical game played by Kasparov in London against British and U.S. juniors with the Americans in New York playing via a telecommunications hookup. Paul went astray in a complex middlegame, but the then world championship contender later said that Paul played better than any of his compatriots.
In a Sicilian Defense, Paul Truong sacks a Rook for White's Knight on c3. That's the sort of sharp trading he had to practice to survive a perilous journey to the United States.
NM Ken Clayton visiting Webster University in 2014
37 years ago on April 30, 1979, my father and I escaped from South Vietnam as boat people. When I arrived in America on December 1, 1979, I did not speak any English. I did not have any money. I had no home. On many occasions back then, I did not know how to pay my rent. I was living for a while on a 30 cents a day budget (3 bags of Ramen noodles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner). I also had to endure so much discrimination and racism. For all the obstacles and challenges I had to face, they made me stronger and better.
So for those who whine about lack of opportunities in the greatest country in the world, get off your behind, work harder, and create your own opportunities for yourself and your family. I went from absolute zero to owning my first company at age 22 and owning my first of many homes shortly after that.
Did I always succeed? Of course not. But after each time I failed, I picked myself up and worked even harder.
There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what the hell happened. Opportunities are always out there for those who dare to dream big and have the willingness to take chances and work hard to reach their dreams.
A Memoir of a Modern Odyssey
By Leslie Alan Horvitz
"Being a refugee is being a name and a number on lists. It is being in a mass of people shuffled from one point to another, not knowing what you have to do next or where you are going. It is being a child fearful you will be separated from your parents. It is being an elderly woman too weak to walk without help, but not too weak to smile luminously at a small act of kindness. It is having faith to believe that wherever you go will be better than where you have been. When you are a refugee, hope is the last thing you dare let go."
— Dr. Kenneth Wilson of World Vision International, a refugee organization:
After Saigon fell to the Communists in the spring of 1975, hundreds of thousands of conquered South Vietnamese, desperate to escape the country out of fear of political persecution, slipped out of ports in small, rickety wooden fishing boats, headed into the open sea in hope of finding refuge in a new land. The refugees became known as the "Boat People."
The crews manning these craft were mostly fishermen, used to navigating rivers and coastal waters; who had never been to sea before in their lives. Buffeted by typhoons, torn asunder by high winds, boats went down by the scores, their passengers vanishing without a trace in a watery grave. Packed together in unsanitary conditions, refugees succumbed to disease and exposure and became easy prey for Thai pirates who robbed and brutalized them, raping and abducting the women. Many of the kidnapped victims were taken to Kra Island off the southern coast of Thailand, where they were hunted down like animals.
It's estimated that over a quarter of a million of Boat People perished at sea. The true number will never be known.
In spite of these daunting odds, more than 1.6 million Vietnamese eventually found new homes — 250,000 of them in the West, mainly the US. Some, however, ended up settling in such improbable places as Iceland and Bermuda. Strangely enough, though, until now, the saga of the Boat People has largely gone untold. Many of the Vietnamese refugees don't want to speak about their ordeal, whether because of guilt or simply because they find it too difficult to dredge up painful memories.
Some former Boat People, however, are determined to bear witness to what they saw and what they endured. In one sense, this story is a dramatic account of one survivor – Paul Truong, who was 13 at the time he set out with his father Tien on the harrowing journey to America. But while this book will be told from Paul's perspective, as a first-person account, it also aims to present his personal narrative in the larger context of the saga of the Boat People — the largest mass exodus of asylum seekers by sea in modern history.
The older son of a top Vietnamese supply officer liaising with the US Embassy in Saigon, Paul was raised to be excel at everything he attempted – in the schoolroom, in soccer or in swim metes. But the one skill that Paul mastered above all others was chess, a game his father encouraged him to play even though he didn't know the game himself. By the age of eight Paul was already a national chess champion, easily beating experienced players many years his senior. Chess taught him several things: self-confidence, the ability to focus and think several steps ahead of his opponent, skills that would later prove crucial to his survival at sea.
In April of 1975, as Communist forces lay siege to Saigon, Paul's father tried to get his family to safety. A wiry nimble teenager, Paul slipped into the US Embassy compound as the last evacuees were being lifted off by helicopter from the embassy roof. But in the chaos Paul's father, mother and baby brother were barred from entering the compound by MPs. Unwilling to desert his family, Paul turned around and left the embassy grounds to rejoin his family. Fearing arrest because of his connections to the Americans, Tien went into hiding. For the next four years he plotted to escape the country with Paul, relying on a clandestine network of dissidents and smugglers to obtain information and false papers.
Armed with false documents identifying them as Chinese refugees, Tien and Paul made their move the night of April 30th, 1979 – four years to the day that Saigon fell – knowing that security forces were likely to be distracted by celebrations in honor of the Communist takeover. Even apart from concerns about their safety, their departure was a wrenching one; with no chance of surviving an ordeal at sea, Paul's mother and baby brother had to stay behind. Paul and his father had no way of knowing whether they would see them again.
It wasn't until June that Tien and Paul finally put to sea. Their boat, which could safely accommodate 20 fishermen, was jammed with well over six hundred men, women and children. Provisions were meager – some water, dried fruit and bread and for most people a single change of clothes. The only sanitation was in the form of a bucket passed from hand to hand.
Two days out at sea, with only a single compass to navigate by, the boat was set upon by Thai pirates armed with knives and pistols. After robbing the terrified passengers, the pirates dragged several women back to their boat. They were never seen again. Only four hours later the refugees suffered a second attack. These pirates were even more ruthless. Paul, who knew next to nothing about sex, watched in horror as the pirates stripped 12-year old girls and elderly women alike and proceeded to rape them. He couldn't understand why the men wouldn't jump the assailants rather than stand helplessly by. No sooner had the second contingent of pirates gone then a third pirate launch bore down on them. By the time pirates came for a fifth time there was practically nothing left to take. In retaliation the pirates sank the boat.
With no land in sight, surrounded by sharks attracted to the body parts floating in the wreckage, Paul and his father managed to stay afloat. Even when all seemed lost Paul was determined to survive: he had a mission – he was going to reach America and find a way to get his mother and brother out of Vietnam. He wasn't going to allow anything –sharks, Thai pirates, or even the South China Sea – to swerve him from his goal. Almost miraculously, the survivors – about 300 in total – were rescued by a passing US oil tanker.
The refugees' ordeal was not over, however. The tanker deposited them on an island off the coast of Malaysia. They were then placed in a squalid refugee camp where disease was rampant and where guards distributed the most generous rations, not to the starving or infirm, but to the women who slept with them. The Malaysians, like many other Asian governments, looked on the boat people as a nuisance to be gotten rid of as quickly as possible. After a few months, the authorities herded the refugees on another fishing boat that was in even worse shape than the one they'd begun their journey in, with barely enough water or fuel to last a single day. A naval patrol boat towed their vessel out to sea, alternately speeding up and slowing down, putting such strain on the lumbering craft that it would have broken in two – which was the navy's intention – if it weren't for an act of heroism by a teenage girl who saved the boat from sinking.
But saved for what? Reduced to a ration of one Coca Cola bottle cap of water three times a day, the refugees began to die off at an increasing rate. After drifting for days, they finally came within sight of a deserted island belonging to Indonesia. But as they approached the island, Indonesian patrol boats interceded, threatening to blow them out of the water if they came any closer. Paul's father, because of his fluency in English, tried to negotiate – to no avail. Tien then came up with a desperate plan to deliberately sink their boat and dare the Indonesian navy to stand by while they all drowned…
The gamble paid off. The refugees were allowed to go ashore. The first group, nearly delirious from lack of food and drink, scrambled towards a nearby stream to slake their thirst. By the time Paul and Tien reached land in the last launch scores of people lay dead – the water turned out to be poisonous.
With world attention suddenly focused on the surviving remnants on the island, the Red Cross began delivering desperately needed provisions. Official delegations from several countries followed in their wake to interview the Boat People for the purpose of issuing visas. Over the next several months Tien organized the makeshift camp, making certain that everyone had what they needed to survive. Tien's principal concern was to ensure that every refugee had a new home to go to. The US delegation was the last to arrive. Because of his past service to the US Government, Tien had no trouble securing a visa for himself and Paul. In addition, they had family members living in the States.
After an exhausting journey that took them nearly halfway around the world, from Indonesia to Singapore and then to LA they finally reached their final destination: Newark, NJ. They were still wearing the same T-shirts, shorts and sandals that they'd left Saigon with. This is how Paul describes his memory of his arrival: "When we got to Newark Airport at four in the morning it was snowing. This was the first time I'd ever seen snow. My uncle and aunt met us and drove us to their house. I remember sitting in his 1969 Plymouth Satellite and thinking what a huge car it was. It was December 1st 1979. We'd arrived right before Christmas. The streets were full of decorations and lights. And I thought, Wow, this is America."
It would take several years struggling to scrape money together and dealing with red tape before Tien was finally in a position to bring his wife and his younger son to America. "No matter what happens to us I swear that we will never be divided again," Tien declared during an interview with a local TV station after his family's emotional reunion.
Over the next several years Boat People continued to flee Vietnam in hope of reaching safe haven. For a while their plight drew the sympathy of the world and more nations including the US opened their doors to them. By the end of the 1980s, however, the Boat People, who were now seen as economic, and not political, refugees, began to wear out their welcome. Thousands of them were forcibly repatriated to Vietnam. By the early summer of 1997 all but a handful of the refugees were flown home by the United Nations, bringing to an end the saga that had began in secrecy with the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Prologue: Treading water in the South China Sea, surrounded by debris from a sunken boat and body parts of its drowned passengers, threatened on all sides by sharks, with no land in sight, a fourteen-year-old Paul Truong waits for deliverance.
Chapter 1: The child of an important South Vietnamese official working at the US Embassy, Paul is taught to excel at studies and sports. His father, Tien, believes that Paul needs to be trained rigorously because he is destined to make a significant contribution to his country.
Chapter 2: At the age of five Paul discovers chess and only weeks after learning how to play the game achieves an improbable victory in the National Junior Championship (under 21) against youths as much as four times his age.
Chapter 3: As Paul captures one chess title after another, becoming chess champion of South Vietnam at the age of eight, he is poised to become Asia's first Grandmaster. His chance to test his mastery of the game comes when he is invited to The World Junior Championship (under 21) tournament in Manila scheduled for September 1975. It is a tournament that Paul will never get to play in.
Membership card to the Sports Club in Saigon where the National Championships were held
Chapter 4: In early spring of 1975 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces break through South Vietnamese defenses. For the first time in the war Saigon is seriously threatened. Emergency drills are carried out at Paul's school. In spite of the deteriorating military situation the US Embassy and the Saigon government insist that there is no danger of collapse.
Chapter 5: By the end of April Communist forces have reached the gates of the city. Panic grips Saigon. Tien scrambles to evacuate his aunt's family but remains convinced there will be sufficient time to get his wife, Paul, now 9, and infant son out of the country before the North Vietnamese seize Saigon. He books a commercial flight to the US for May 1st. On the night of the 28th violence intensifies inside the city.
Anthony and Paul Truong in 1974
Chapter 6: On the morning of the 30th Tien's family reaches the gates of the US Embassy where a panicked crowd has gathered in hope of being evacuated by US choppers from the roof of the embassy. Even though Tien worked at the embassy he cannot prove his credentials to the MPs guarding the gates. Paul slips in with a surging crowd but in the crush his family is left behind. Rather than abandon his family he goes back outside. In desperation the family tries to find alternate means of escaping – there is none.
Chapter 7: That night Paul's family waits out a pitched battle being fought beneath their apartment windows as defenders of his mainly Roman Catholic district try to stave off conquest by Communist forces. Realizing that he faces arrest and deportation to a 'reeducation camp,' Tien goes into hiding.
Chapter 8: Life under the new Communist regime grows increasingly unbearable. Paul's mother becomes the sole breadwinner, working as a knitter. Paul chafes at the new rules imposed on him at school, refusing to wear the mandatory red scarf of the Communist youth organization, even resisting when he is threatened at gunpoint by a Communist officer in front of hundreds of his schoolmates.
Chapter 9: Refusing to give up hope for freedom, Tien, relying on trusted friends, makes contact with the captain of a fishing boat who is willing – for a price – to smuggle refugees out of the country. Arrangements are made for Paul to accompany friends to a port in the south of the country. But the captain fails to show up and the mission is aborted.
Chapter 10: Undaunted by this disappointment, Tien secures false identity papers – one for him and one for Paul. The trouble is that the papers are intended for an older Chinese man and a younger Chinese boy. Even so, Tien and Paul study Chinese and hope that when the time comes their papers won't be too closely scrutinized.
Chapter 11: Tien chooses the night of April 30th 1979 – four years to the date from the fall of Saigon – to make their escape in the belief that security forces will be too distracted by anniversary celebrations to pay much attention to two Chinese refugees heading south. Because neither Paul's mother or baby brother would have much chance to survive at sea they have to remain behind. Father and son have left just in time. Only hours after their departure, police come to the door of their apartment, prepared to take Tien into custody.
Chapter 12: Just as Tien predicted, guards at the checkpoints on the road south are too drunk to realize that the papers are fraudulent. In the morning Paul and his father board a fishing boat with hundreds of others fleeing the country. But no sooner does the boat put out to sea than engine trouble develops and the boat has to be towed back ashore. Paul and Tien are detained in a stockade near the port for the next three months until they can raise $50 to buy their way out and secure passage on a second boat.
Chapter 13: With 650-700 people packed together on a boat never designed for journeys at sea, Tien and Paul embark on a fateful journey they hope will bring them eventually to America. Tien reminds Paul that he must survive, whatever happens, so that one day he can get his mother and baby brother out of Vietnam.
Chapter 14: On the second day at sea the fishing boat is set upon by Thai pirates who rob the passengers and abduct several women. A few hours later the boat is attacked again; this time the pirates rape the women while their husbands and sons are forced to look on helplessly. Before the terrorized refugees can recover from this assault they suffer a third and fourth attack. By the time the fourth group of pirates climb on board the refugees have nothing left to take. In retaliation the pirates sink the boat.
Chapter 15: Several hundred Vietnamese are thrown into shark-infested waters. There is no land in sight and no apparent source of help. Then, miraculously, the survivors – about 300 in all – are rescued by a passing US tanker.
Chapter 16: To the disappointment of the refugees, the tanker can only take them so far – to an island belonging to Malaysia. They are crowded into a squalid refugee camp inside an old abandoned soccer field where their numbers are further reduced by disease and starvation. Like other Asian countries, Malaysia regards the Boat People as a burden. Then the refugees receive word that they are being taken out to sea once again in a boat no sturdier than the one that had sunk.
Chapter 17: It soon becomes obvious that the Malaysians aren't just trying to tow their boat out to sea – they want to kill them. The Malaysian naval launch alternately speeds up and slows down with the intent of putting so much strain on the refugee boat that it will rip apart and sink. Only the audacious action of a teenage girl who severs the line with a knife spares the refugees from certain doom.
Chapter 18: With no food, no fuel and barely any water, the boat drifts farther south until it comes within sight of a deserted Indonesian island. But any hope of landing is shattered by the appearance of three Indonesian patrol boats. The Boat People are warned that if they approach the island they will be blown out of the water. Both because of his natural leadership abilities and his fluency in English, Tien takes charge.
Chapter 19: Tien tries to negotiate with the Indonesian captain – to no avail. In desperation, Tien orders the captain to ram their derelict vessel against one of the patrol boat in hope of sinking themselves and forcing the Indonesian navy to rescue them – basically it's a mass suicide attempt in which suicide is not the object. When that fails to work, Tien asks refugee families to throw overboard the bodies of relatives who'd succumbed to exposure and disease in order to drive home to the obstinate Indonesians the gravity of their plight. Suddenly they hear the rumble of an aircraft overhead – it's a Red Cross plane.
Chapter 20: Although he vehemently denies it, the Indonesian captain in all likelihood has experienced a change of heart. Whatever the cause, the refugees are permitted to land on the island. Tien waits with Paul until all the refugees have gotten off the boat safely before getting in a launch himself. By this point he is so weakened from dehydration that he faints. Paul fears that he might not make it.
Chapter 21: Hours later, though, Tien recovers, only to discover that scores of refugees have died as a result of drinking from a stream on the island that turns out to have been contaminated. From that point on the survivors take the precaution of boiling the water. Little by little, aided by Red Cross emergency deliveries, a camp is established under Tien's direction. He is too busy to find food for himself; that job falls to Paul who soon becomes an expert in foraging the woods and streams for dinner.
Chapter 22: With the refugee crisis now on the world's radar screen, delegations from several Western countries begin arriving on the island to interview refugees with the aim of distributing visas. Tien is determined to ensure that everyone has a home to go to. Because of his past association with the US Embassy, he has no trouble obtaining visas for himself and Paul, granting them permission to live in America.
Chapter 23: In December 1979 – eight months after setting out on their odyssey – Tien and Paul begin the final leg of their journey that will take them from Indonesia via Singapore and ultimately to Newark, NJ. Still wearing the same T-shirts, shorts and sandals that they had on when they left Saigon, they are picked up at the airport by relatives they haven't seen in years. Bewildered by lights up in the streets for the Christmas holidays, Paul is stunned to see something that he had never experienced before: snow.
Chapter 24: Tien and Paul struggle to adjust to life in their new home, sharing apartments and taking any work they can get. (At one point Paul holds down no less than seven part time jobs simultaneously while going to school.) In their own way, each succeeds in realizing the American dream. But their greatest achievement comes seven years after their arrival in the US when they are finally able to get Paul's mother and brother out of Vietnam. After being cruelly divided by war and geography the family is finally reunited.
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When the economy is tight, the marginal members of the headhunting business get very nervous because the low-hanging fruit disappears. They actually have to work to make a living. Meanwhile, the best headhunters are busy with challenging assignments because The Truth About Speeding Trains is that while they may slow down a bit for a curve, they don't stop. These companies keep hiring, but carefully.
You've probably heard me say that 95% of HR workers aren't worth spit. And I usually put that in context by adding that 95% of headhunters aren't worth spit, either. But look at the bright side. 5% of HR workers and 5% of headhunters have no competition.
Many "headhunters" don't know how to find new clients, and they sure don't know how to find the best candidates. They pick the low-hanging fruit and call it a job. Let's take a look at what this means, and how it affects you.
Don't give us low-hanging fruit.
A headhunter recently wrote to me, complaining that her corporate clients don't want her to submit resumes of people whose resumes are already plastered all over the job boards.
We have seen a couple of clients indicate that they do not want to see resumes of candidates who have been sourced on the popular job boards (even if they have not sourced the candidate themselves). ["Sourced" means "found."] We always clear the candidate on the client company to determine if they have been contacted or applied to the company. We would never submit a candidate who has indicated contact with a client company.
Translation: We find resumes on Internet job boards and we send them to companies, hoping to get an interview, a hire, and a fee.
Translation: This employer doesn't want headhunters to submit resumes that are plastered all over the Internet job boards. The employer's HR monkeys are already crawling all over those resumes.
We own the low-hanging fruit.
We feel that corporate recruiters are making these statements because they have been told that it is their job to find these people on Monster, Dice, etc. We know for a fact that they oftentimes do not contact all the candidates on these job boards that might match the requirement. We also have people referred to us through our network and they just happen to have their resume on Monster.
My question is this: Do you have a good response to this particular objection? In my opinion they are cutting off their nose to spite their face. Thanks.
Hmmm. Employers don't want to pay $30,000 fees for people whose resumes are already all over the Internet. And this headhunter wants advice on how to compete with its HR clients for resumes that HR can get on its own for free.
The fruit is, ah, rather RIPE.
Sorry, but I agree with the employers on this one. Why pay headhunting fees for people who are on the job boards? In fact, why pay anything for people who spread their resumes all over kingdom come? Those resumes are free — and rather overly-ripe. In fact, most of them stink. The problem with those candidates is that their motivation to work for your own client is about as thin as the credibility of the job boards. (See CareerBuilder is for Dopes.) They have posted their resumes because they want a job, any job. My clients wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole. My clients want people who want to work for them, not for any company that comes along.
If your corporate clients pay internal recruiters to pick over resumes on job boards, someone ought to tell the board of directors that the flushing sound it hears is the recruiting budget going down the online toilet. Anyone who sources candidates on job boards should get out of this business. We get paid good fees to go find good people who are so talented that they're not looking to jump on every "opportunity" that comes along. Just because HR is lousy at recruiting doesn't give us an excuse to send a check to CareerBuilder every month and put our feet up.
The problem you're facing should make your firm realize its business model is founded on mediocrity. Armchair recruiting is not worth big fees. Racing your client to find resumes on the job boards "that match the requirement" is not a business. It's monkeys competing with monkeys for low-hanging fruit.
Meanwhile, I advise every job hunter with a brain to get out of the monkey house.
The good headhunters are out in the field, finding and meeting the best-of-breed in the industry, and building relationships with them. Five years later, they may recruit those people — while you're sipping a Diet Coke and filtering buzz words on Dice. 40%-70% of jobs are found and filled through personal contacts. Those contacts take years to cultivate. That's why headhunters get paid $30,000 to fill a $100,000 position — not because they surfed Monster.com and beat a personnel jockey to candidate #30984213.
It's appalling that headhunters rationalize using The Job Board Dump to fill positions for their clients. Your business is in jeopardy because you've been pretending your monkeys are better than your client's monkeys. Now, what should you do about your corporate client who doesn't want you to send the drek that her staff is already sifting through online?
Do what you get paid for.
When the economy tanks, the best headhunters are still busy filling positions for hiring managers whose standards just keep getting higher. (Those managers often turn to headhunters without notifying their personnel monkeys.) The question is, how will you define your firm?
Like I said, when the low-hanging fruit disappears, 5% of headhunters have no competition. The monkeys send threatening notes to one another about who is in charge of the low-hanging fruit. Meanwhile, Monster and CareerBuilder keep collecting fees — and the monkeys are falling out of the trees.
Eeek – now I am scrambling to get my resume taken off Monster right now! Unfortunately, I was advised to post it there by a "friend" who worked in internal recruiting at a large online retailer in Seattle. "We use Monster ALL the time," she says. And I should have known better: this same HR wiz of a "friend" who constantly bragged about her $120K-a-year salary got fired for getting drunk with direct reports and mouthing off in front of company execs. Next time, I'll check with Nick first! Meanwhile, off to yank my resume off Monster.
The problem with the notion that people whose resumes are on the job board are not worth anything is that I have encountered companies who *only* hire through those boards. I have hunted for another way in, only to be referred back to the link that required me to register with CareerBuilder. Argh!
OTOH, there was one position posted to one of those sites that I was able to locate on their own website. So I do recommend other readers look to see if there is another way to apply. I have been in job search mode this summer and have been most successful when I located contacts outside of HR and CCd HR when I did submit a resume to my contact.
Nick, I'd like to thank you. I've had this feeling for a while, but this article confirmed it – I'm not in your target audience.
Your target audience seems to be well-off people who don't have trouble getting jobs, just getting the right job. I'd suspect most of your readers aren't in your target audience either, so it's pretty bold of you to admit that you see most of us as "low hanging fruit", whose resumes are "ripe".
Again, thank you for your candor.
Tim, thanks for your comments, but headhunters place lots of people who are not "well off." The profession would have you believe it deals mostly in the rareified income strats, but the truth is, headhunters make most of their money at mid-level salaries. When I talk about "low-hanging fruit," I don't mean low salaries. I'm referring to resumes on the job boards that "sorta kinda fit" a job requirement. These headhunters pull them down and submit them to HR departments who are "sorta kinda happy" to hire someone, anyone. In most companies, HR has no skin in the game. They don't get rewarded for hiring great people; just for filling positions. And that's the problem. Mediocrity in HR promotes (and pays!) mediocrity in the headhunting business. The "low-hanging fruit" are people who will take a job, any job, with the result that they are soon job hunting again. You could be earning $30,000 and still be picky about where you work because you want to build skills and increase your value. Now, I've got no gripe with anyone who snares a job just to pay the rent – that comes first. But the smart job hunter goes to lengths to cultivate relationships that lead to really good jobs where skills grow and the person's value grows, too. In my opinion, most of those people aren't out plastering their resumes all over the place. They're looking for their next job quietly and carefully, because they'd rather not do it again in another year.
I agree with most of what you say. The job boards pewk a bunch of people to HR in a high volume and impersonal way. Some or maybe a majority may be without direction looking for anything that comes their way, but not all folks. I have a friend who was an expert in AutoCad and taught it for ten years. With a well written resume containing key words, he was contacted one day after posting on Dice and eventually hired. I think you might state that relying on or spending any more than 10% of your job search effort on the internet is a waste of time.
I wonder how well do companies that want to screen those that plaster their resume everywhere check that the candidates coming from firm XYZ aren't also posted on Monster, Dice, CareerBuilder, etc.
My experience with job boards is that they are a way to get to recruiting companies which can almost be like roulette in terms of when will there be jobs, when will they hear back from sending a resume/doing a phone screen/doing an interview. Some recruiting companies will do more than just a handshake and see your face and body, which is nice but why is it so rare? Don't they want the candidates to succeed and get the job or are they just pigs being led to slaughter unless the pig is MacGyver and figures a way out of the trap?
Companies may need to give some thought to employee-relationship management which may be a new field coming soon to a company near you. Or is that too cliche to say?
JB, it's rare because the cost of entry to the headhunting business approaches zero. In Silicon Valley back in the 80's we joked that all it took was a pencil and a dime. The dime was for the phone booth, and the pencil to write on the wall. No office required. I think it's comparable today. There are simply too many fast-buck artists in the business, and they behave like slobs. It truly is rare to encounter a good, legit headhunter. Remember that only about 3% of positions are filled by headhunters. Proceed accordingly.
Love your idea for a new field… I'll believe it when I see it. It seems to be pretty black and white. Companies either do it right, or they don't.
If 4% of jobs are filled by job boards and 3% are filled by headhungers, how are the remaining 93% filled?
Do you have statistics on the percentage filled by newspaper ads, university placement offices, professional organizations, and networking, etc?
I have been recruiting for over 3 ½ years now. I have listened to the great debate of over whether recruiters should get off their duffs and go out and "find" candidates using a variety of headhunting tactics or should we use job boards and on-line search techniques.
Here is my opinion, for what it is worth. I have used all kinds of techniques to find suitable candidates for my clients and here is the bottom line, who cares where they come from as long as you are able to find the most talented, capable and skilled employee to meet the needs of the company that is hiring?
There are two kinds of candidates, the active candidate and the passive candidate. Just for fun let's look at the definition of these two people.
1.	Active candidate – someone who can see the handwriting on the wall in their current position and is preparing to be out of work, is getting their resume ready and starting to look. Or they have been "downsized" through no fault of their own and are searching for a more secure, stable environment to go to. They are anxiously engaged with companies and recruiters and traditionally responsive and quick to keep appointments for telephone and personal interviews. Even top-level executives realize that the best place to begin a job search is to get their resumes posted on the on-line job boards (Monster, Career Builders, etc) and on professional affiliate job boards (SME, APICS, etc).
2.	Passive Candidates- someone who is happy in their position, usually not job searching and who feels secure in his corporate position. When approached by a recruiter, may be mildly interested in the proposed job but has no real incentive to begin the arduous task of updating a resume, interviewing and considering selling their home and relocating to a new city. Often times the passive candidate is annoyed or downright offended that a recruiter intrudes on his work time to offer up a position that he does not want, even for a substantial increase in salary. If a passive candidate has even the slightest inclination that his position is in jeopardy his first feeler in the job market is to list his resume on one of the on-line job boards under a "confidential" jacket to see if there is anything open in his field.
Given the definition of these two types of candidates, I'll take the active candidate all day long. This person wants and needs a job. They are looking for anyone who can help to match them up with the right company. The trick, in my opinion, is to be able to sift through the thousands of resumes to find that perfect candidate without losing your mind. Typically this takes hours, days, and weeks of concerted effort. The human resources manager that has this thrown upon them by corporate management is already drowning in day to day personnel issues and has a constant stream of employees who are at their office door for advice, comfort or help of some sort. They also typically do not have the kind of manufacturing or technical background to be able to sort through the hundreds of details on each resume that give clues to whether or not a candidate will fit into the skill set and culture that the company needs. They certainly could be trained to do this but who ever has the opportunity to train them or even recognize that it is needed?
Recruiters beware. All of the hype about passive candidates is not always gospel. Granted, perhaps the "perfect" candidate may be out there working. The world has changed, when the labor market is tight and the best candidates are hard to find you may have to seek out the employed person. However, give me a good active candidate that has his (not-so-perfect) resume out all over the internet who will respond to my emails and phone calls immediately, who has integrity and the exact skill set that I need – I'll take him!
I publish my resume' because I am looking for people and companies who seek services I choose to sell. If they also seek some sort of fealty, then perhaps I'm not what they're looking for. But professionally, I am successful. I understand your hypothetical company's distaste for the recruiting fee. But if they don't want me because they found me… on the bathroom wall, even!… then they're dumb. Your client has ten feet poles against me? I'm not jumping at every opportunity. I jump at the best of them. How do you think relationships form, anyway? Exposure of legitimate service is part of sensible marketing communications, and all channels are fine with me. Let the anti-CareerBuilder forces follow their folley!


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I am trying to append the text from the HTML form to the end of an existing text file in the same folder as my HTML file. The following code I have almost works, but it's creating a new file on my desktop instead of editing the existing file. Any ideas how I can fix this?
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Gee-Gees end season in OUA quarters at Carleton
Photo: Kim Wiens.
Team's disappointing finish not representative of solid season
After a solid 6–2 regular season, the Gee-Gees football team clashed with their most hated rival in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) quarterfinals on Saturday, Oct. 29.
The depleted and demoralized Garnet and Grey squad was unable to get any sort of momentum to swing their way in the game, resulting in a disappointing 45–9 loss.
The game hadn't even kicked off yet before the bad blood between the teams boiled over, as sidelines emptied for a dust up at midfield. The skirmish led to the ejection of second-year Gees linebacker Ricardo Lubin.
Once the game finally got underway, it was all Ravens from the start as they jumped out to a 17–0 lead before the Gees had a chance to respond.
A lone field goal would be all the Gees could muster up in the first half, as their pass-heavy offence was plagued by wet conditions.
Early in the third quarter, things went from bad to worse for the Gees when star fifth-year quarterback Derek Wendel injured his throwing arm, dashing any real chances of a comeback.
Fourth-year backup QB Victor Twynstra entered the game and took a little time to settle in. Meanwhile Carleton's defence was relentless, continuing to rake over the Gees' offensive line.
Twynstra, who will be preparing to take over the starting job from graduated Wendel next season, looked very effective using his legs to extend plays. The veteran showed off his ability to scramble rushing for 62 yards on eight attempts.
His passing numbers were less effective against the invigorated Ravens, tossing for 60 yards on 6–15 attempts. Regardless of these shortcomings, he was still able to thread a nice pass to Luke Ffrench for a touchdown in the fourth quarter.
While a slew of sloppy miscues and penalties plagued both teams, they specifically affected the Gees on either side of the ball and special teams throughout the game.
Injuries that held six Ottawa starters out of action, along with arguably the toughest schedule of any team in the conference, piled up to the point of a full breakdown in season's close.
"This is two years in a row now the OUA has not given us an off-week," said Gee-Gees head coach Jamie Barresi.
"This is like being in a heavyweight fight. You go through stuff like (injuries) and you don't get a break during the season … Give the team we played a lot of credit … but the OUA needs to do something about this. It isn't right."
Scheduling doesn't explicitly lead to a team's success, but playing three teams off of a bye week and a run of nine consecutive weeks of football has given the Gee-Gees next to no time to get players the rest they need.
"There were a lot of things that were kinda creeping up on us," said Barresi. "To get to where we are, I give our guys a lot of credit to go 6–2 and end up like this."
Although a fantastic career for Wendel comes to an end, his possible successor was prepared for his number to be called and looks forward to the opportunities of a new year in 2017.
"I always prepare as a starter, making sure I'm always in and involved with the offence," said Twynstra. "We have a good team coming back so we have to prepare, get better, and learn from our mistakes and we'll be good for next year."
The Gee-Gees have a young team that proved they can play with some of the best teams in the conference this year. Losing players like Wendel and receiver Mitch Baines will hurt, but just as most football teams do every year, they'll figure it all out come late August.
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Lyle Irvin Moma, 82, of Stonington passed away at 12:40p.m. on Saturday, January 26, 2019 at Meadow Manor Nursing Home in Taylorville. He was born on August 29, 1936 in Blue Mound, the son of John Irvin and Louella May (Myers) Moma. He married Nancy Mae Reider on December 27, 1958 in Stonington. Lyle retired from St. Vincent Memorial Hospital and previously worked as a supervisor for Aramark. He attended Joy Assembly Church in Stonington and loved spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife: Nancy Moma of Stonington; son: Kevin Moma, wife Donna, of Decatur; granddaughter: Ally Moma of Decatur; brothers: Laverne Moma (Judy) and Bill Moma (Linda) both of Taylorville; and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; sister: Beverly Endrizzi; and a nephew.
The funeral service for Lyle will be held at 11:00a.m. on Thursday, January 31, 2019 at McClure Funeral Home in Taylorville with Rev. Tim Moats officiating. Burial will take place in the Old Stonington Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10:00a.m. until the time of service, Thursday in the funeral home.
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ACC Championship Game: A Virginia-Wake Forest Title Game Still A Possibility
By Brian F. Updated Nov 10, 2011, 7:30pm EST
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Brian: With the calendar turning to November, Boston College is out of the running for the Atlantic Division crown (and any bowl game for that matter) quite early this season. With BC out of the running, we turn our attention to possible ACC Championship Game matchups that don't include the Eagles.
As Ivan Maisel wrote this week, there are two surprises still in the running for their respective division titles.
"If you're looking for the happiest surprises of the season, look to the ACC, where Wake Forest (5-4, 4-2) and Virginia (6-3, 4-2) control whether they will win the Atlantic and Coastal divisions, respectively."
Can you imagine a Wake Forest vs. Virginia ACC Championship Game matchup? Would more than 10,000 fans show up to this year's game in Charlotte? Is this the worst remaining possible matchup in the ACC Championship Game for the conference? And what's the best possible matchup for national interest and attendance? Your thoughts?
Jeff: Wake Forest will beat Maryland easily at home. So the Atlantic Division absolutely comes down to the Demon Deacons game at Clemson this Saturday. Wake Forest has a chance to knock off the Tigers but Clemson is significantly favored in that one and rightfully so. While I don't expect it, there is a chance Wake Forest is playing in the Charlotte this season.
Meanwhile, Virginia has absolutely no chance whatsoever to make it to Charlotte. They still have three conference games remaining including at Florida State and Virginia Tech. The Cavaliers would have to win out in order to win the Coastal Division because either Georgia Tech or Virginia Tech will finish with only two conference losses or better.
Nationally, though, a Wake Forest-Virginia matchup in the ACC Championship Game would be the worst possible outcome for the ACC. It would pit a #21 vs. #23 nationally ranked team against one another or, more likely, Wake Forest wouldn't be ranked at all.
TV ratings would be terrible. But would ticket sales be a bust? Absolutely not. Wake Forest has played in the variously named Charlotte bowl before and done well with ticket sales. They will bring 30,000+ fans to the game just as they do to a normal home game. Virginia is also a big school and is under a five hour drive from Charlotte. Virginia has traveled moderately well to bowl games in the past and with the thought of who knows when UVA might make the ACCCG again, fans would travel en masse to Charlotte.
While the game might not quite sell out, it will absolutely have a very good crowd. This is the benefit of moving the game to North Carolina. Even with one of the least desirable matchups possible, the game will still draw an excellent crowd. If the game were played in Tampa again, there would be fewer fans than the Boston College vs. Virginia Tech 2008 matchup.


A new game has recently been making it's way into the gaming community that's currently in early access. It's called Satisfactory by the makers of Goat Simulator. You play as an employee of FicSit, a company looking to industrialize alien planets either by yourself or with a group of friends. The game drops you off and gives you some guidance on how to proceed with gathering and manufacturing resources through milestones located in the HUB.
At the moment there isn't a full story or anything in the way of a narrative. It's just here's your parent make things to complete milestones. Each level getting more complex and in a way destroying the planet you landed on. From slaughtering the inhabitants for research, spewing toxic fumes into the air, and hollowing our the planet of all it's resources. Those resources include iron, coal, limestone, and copper to just name the starting resources that are needed. There are a total of six tiers at the moment though developers state this might increase in the future.
You can choose one of three environments to start out with: Grass Fields, Northern Forest, or Rocky Desert. Each with it's own drawbacks. Grass Fields gives you a lot of space to build but resources are far apart. Northern Forest has a lot of plants but not as much space for building. And Rocky Desert has more ores but less vegetation. Other than a different look to the map there isn't much difference in gameplay at the moment between the worlds. As there isn't much to the survival aspect at this time other than get food when you get low on health. But maybe in the future they will be expanded upon.
Another thing I would love to see some adjustment on is the layout of the blueprint GUI as it is just a mess at the moment. Would be nice if things were broken out by materials or tiers to make it easier to locate, but it's not that massive of an issue since a lot of resources you make you'll end up putting the machines to work for you from the use of constructors to assemblers or foundries. If you have everything being produced that way, you can just use the time in the game to explore and locate new resources while your operations are taking care of reaching the milestones for you.
I honestly thought I would get bored playing this game after a while but it has yet to do. Though my factory is a bit of a mess at the moment as over time my careful planning has devolved overtime as I try to make new things possible. And though I did engineering in college for two years before switching to computer administration, the game does a good job at getting you to think several steps ahead of planning to get your factory the best it can be. And what the correct next steps should be to adjust it to make those steps work. Like splitting your supplies in half to do multiple things to organizing the factory to be more efficient.
Coffee Stain Studios has a really great game in the works and I can't wait to see where they take this in the future since it's still in development at the moment. And to think this is the same developers who made the wacky game of goat simulator. If you want to try out the game out for yourself it's available on Epic Games for $29.95. Not sponsored I just really enjoy it.
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Gulbarg society massacre : Ahmedabad court acquits 36, 24 convicted
2 June, an Ahmedabad court pronounced its verdict and convicted 24 people in connection with the Gulbarg Society riots - which claimed the lives of 69 people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri. The court has charged 11 of the accused with murder under IPC section 302.
The case was being monitored by the Supreme Court, which gave its nod for pronouncement of the judgment by 31 May.
The horrific riots that broke out in Gulbarg society left 69 people dead, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri.
Inquiries into London flat allegedly linked to Vadra show two different stories
Confusion reigns over the ownership of a house in London, allegedly linked to Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, via defence consultant Sanjay Bhandari.
While one set of investigations quoted by The Economic Times into UK land registry records shows that Flat No. 12 in Ellerton House, Bryanston Square, London, has been owned by Harold and Shirley Sacks since 2005, another set by The Indian Express shows that it was bought in June 2010 by a Sharjah-based company called Mayfair Investment FZE allegedly linked to Bhandari.
'Vindictive' govt suspends FCRA registration of Lawyers Collective for 6 months
The Lawyers Collective, a public interest advocacy group headed by lawyers Indira Jaising and Anand Grover, has been deprived of foreign funding for six months by the home ministry, which has accused it of misusing the funds it receives.
The order suspends the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act registration of Lawyers Collective for six months. There is also a show-cause notice that asks the group why the registration should not be cancelled.
Jaising and Grover have fought several cases against the government and BJP leaders. The group has accused the government of being vindictive, according to The Telegraph.
Orbit bus case: Inquiry panel files report without a single witness against accused
An official panel looking into the allegation that a mother and her teenage daughter were pushed out of a bus in Punjab which led to the girl's death, has submitted a report that has no witness against the four men accused in the matter.
The incident occurred last year on an Orbit bus co-owned by Punjab's deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal near Moga town.
Sources told The Indian Express: "No one has said that the mother (Shinder Kaur) and daughter (Arshdeep Kaur) were pushed out. The girl's mother and brother (Akashdeep Singh), who were the prime witnesses, said that they didn't remember any details..."
British forces in Libya use Bollywood music as psychological warfare against ISIS (it works)
Bollywood music is being used as a weapon of psychological warfare by British forces stationed in Libya to annoy Islamic State terrorists and make them reveal their hideouts.
The idea was implemented on the advice of a Pakistani-born intelligence officer in the British Army who said that Bollywood music would annoy IS operatives because they consider music un-Islamic.
"We needed to unnerve militants and at the same time use some sort of passive measure to gauge their force strength in the area we are working and it went well," said a source to the British newspaper Daily Mirror, according to NDTV.
Jats move Supreme Court against Punjab high court's stay order on quotas
The Jat community of Haryana moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a challenge to the Punjab high court's stay on reservations for the community.
After a violent agitation for quotas in government jobs and educational institutions in February, the Jats were granted reservations by the Haryana government in April, but the Punjab high court stayed the notification on 26 May.
On Wednesday, the Haryana Akhil Bharatiya Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti told the Supreme Court that job recruitments and student admissions had already started, so the stay order needed to be set aside, according to The Telegraph.
For baby sea turtles, it helps to have a lot of siblings
Sea turtles do not have an easy start to life. After hatching, they have to break out of their shell, dig their way out from beneath the sand, then make a mad dash across the beach to the water where they may or may not find food and safety - hopefully without getting snapped up by a predator. All of this requires a bit of luck and a lot of energy. And the energy a hatchling expends on breaking out of the nest is energy that can't be used on surviving the rest of the journey.Now, a new study has quantified the amount of energy a baby sea turtle uses to dig itself to the surface. Having lots of siblings - and, thus, lots of help - can really be a time and energy saver, researchers have reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology. That also implies that the conservation technique of dividing clutches may instead make hatchlings worse off.Figuring out the energy expenditure of baby sea turtles took some trial and error, a report in sciencenews.org said. For the final experiment, the scientists buried clutches of eggs just about to hatch beneath 40 centimeters of beach sand in a chamber with opaque walls.
China: No country for academics?
Political scientists and law experts are fleeing to America as Beijing's grip on freedoms in China intensifies under President Xi Jinping.Many academics feel there is no longer a place for them in President Jinping's increasingly repressive China, the Guardian has reported. As Chinese activist and scholar Teng Biao sat at home on the east coast of America, more than 13,000 km away his wife and nine-year-old daughter were preparing to embark on the most dangerous journey of their lives. "My wife didn't tell my daughter what was going on," said Teng, who had himself fled China seven months earlier to escape the most severe period of political repression since the days following the Tiananmen massacre in 1989."She said it was going to be a special holiday. She told her they were going on an adventure. "One year after their dramatic escape through southeast Asia, Teng's family has been reunited in New Jersey and is part of a fast-growing community of exiled activists and academics who feel there is no longer a place for them in Xi Jinping's increasingly repressive China. Until about 12 months ago China's top universities "remained islands of relative freedom", said Cohen, who has studied the Asian country for nearly six decades.
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A 21 613-as számú mellékút egy egészen rövid, egyirányú, öt számjegyű mellékút a Nógrád megyei Nézsa községben.

Nézsa rendhagyó településszerkezettel jött létre: jellegzetesen magas toronysisakú, Szent Jakab nevére szentelt temploma a falu kellős közepén áll, amit két oldalról közrefog a községen áthaladó országút. A két ág közül csak a templomtól keletre húzódó, észak felé egyirányú, kicsit rövidebb szakasz viseli az országút 2115-ös számozását (ennek neve Szondy út), az ellenkező irányú, valamivel hosszabb szakasz számozása a 21 613-as (települési neve Táncsics út, majd az egyetlen kereszteződése után, ahol a Táncsics út folytatása dél felé kiágazik, szintén Szondy út). A 2115-ös útnak egyébként pontosan a 17. kilométere van a templom mellett; a kitérő szakasz hossza az országos közutak térképes nyilvántartását szolgáló kira.gov.hu adatai szerint 82 méter.

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Should I Register as an Independent Professional or Sole Proprietor?
Freelancing has been a viable option for individuals nowadays because of its numerous advantages compared to the usual office jobs.
However, there seems to be an issue regarding these self-employed professionals whether they are complying with the tax requirements in the country, as well as if they should accomplish the different requirements for business registration in the Philippines to ensure the legality of their source of income.
If you fall under this population of workers, here are everything you need to know about paying your taxes and registering your small business.
According to the Section 236 (j) of the Tax Code, any person, regardless if he's natural or juridical, should make, render, or file a return, statement, or other documents, as required by the authority of the Internal Revenue Code.
A Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) shall be obtained with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for proper identification for tax purposes. The TIN, then, shall be indicated on the return, statement, or document that the individual wishes to file with the BIR.
There are three categories that businesses in the Philippines can be classified into—according to ownership structures, namely the sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.
But, we'll only focus on sole proprietorship as this is the business type usually owned by a single individual (proprietor) such as a small or home-based business, where the proprietor has full control and authority over the entire company.
The proprietor owns all the assets of the company and is solely responsible for its liabilities. He also enjoys all its profits but endures losses of the business as well.
For the tax aspect, conversely, the proprietor and his proprietorship can be considered as one taxpayer—with a single TIN as well. Further, he should register with the Department of Trade and Industry for the proper trade name application.
Obtaining a Mayor's Business Permit and registering with the Social Security System (SSS), PhilHealth, Pag-Ibig Fund, and other applicable government agencies are also necessary for sole proprietorships. Accounting services provided by professional bookkeepers can be tapped by small business owners, especially those not having any knowledge of the processes of business registration.
If you don't have any organization yet providing services to clients, your income is considered taxable, and thus, you need to register yourself as a self-employed, independent professional.
Unlike in sole proprietorship, registering with the DTI isn't necessary since your full name would be used as your trade name and refer to your services.
However, paying your professional tax with the Mayor's Office and registering with the BIR is necessary, as well as registering with the SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-Ibig Fund.
On the other hand, filing for an income tax return isn't required if your income is derived from interest on bank deposits and has been subjected to final withholding tax. Other circumstances, however, such as having a gross income that exceeds your total personal and additional exemptions would require filing for an income tax return with the BIR form 1701/1701Q.
• Obtaining loans from different financial institutions like banks, lending companies, and SSS, as well as applying for a credit card would be much easier as your annual income tax return (BIR form 1701) will serve as your proof of earnings.
• Your credibility as an individual rendering service among your clients will increase through your BIR registration and official receipts under your name.
• You'll likely earn more in the long haul as you're able to pay your taxes on time and avoid incurring penalties like interests and surcharges.
• Tax evasion, which is punishable by lax, wouldn't be possible.
Registering your business or yourself may seem to be a demanding and challenging task to accomplish. Then again, with the potential benefits that you can reap from it, as well as ensuring your professionality is important in complying with the law.
Just keep in mind all these tips, and you're on your way to enjoying your chosen career path and having a stable source of income that can help you throughout.


Candidates for admission are required to provide evidence of their acceptance of and surrender to Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord, evidence of proven Christian character, and a desire, willingness and commitment to serve Him as a pastor or leader in the local church. The candidate must demonstrate a lifestyle that is consistent with the standards of conduct that are expressed in the Bible, a daily walk with Christ that reflects a devotional life that produces compassion, discipline, spiritual and emotional maturity. It is also necessary that the candidate possess the ability to develop strong interpersonal skills and friendships, be able to nourish and influence others positively. It is also important that candidates be active members in an evangelical protestant church and participate regularly in worship and educational activities. A positive recommendation from a minister or designated leader in the church is also required as well as character references. References and recommendations of all applicants will be evaluated upon submission of the formal application.
Written detailed description of conversion experience.
Essay explaining your reason for choosing to attend the Guido Bible College and how the education will be utilized.
Two letters of reference from a pastor and Christian friend.
High School transcripts or GED completion diploma.
The cost for each class is $450.00 (which includes the primary text) plus a $50.00 application fee.


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Elodie Holmes is the owner and head artist at Liquid Light Glass. She founded the company in 1986 and went on to establish the Baca Street Arts district in 2000. Since then she has focused on providing opportunities to local artists, internships for local high school students, and classes for the public. In addition to supporting the arts community, Holmes is an internationally acclaimed artist. In 2016 she received the New Mexico Governor's Award of Excellence in the Arts in recognition of her achievements. Her work has appeared in galleries, permanent collections, museums, and private collections around the world. To learn more about Elodie Holmes, please visit her personal website: www.elodieholmes.com.
Marcy Albin has served as the gallery manager at Liquid Light Glass for almost two decades, and has 25 years of experience in her field. Marcy's expert knowledge of sales and glass art make her an indispensable member of the Liquid Light Glass team. She manages every aspect of the gallery, including shows, classes, and special events.
Jannine has spent her entire life in the arts. After working as an illustrator for over a decade Jannine moved to Santa Fe, where she met Elodie Holmes and fell in love with glass blowing. Under the tutelage of Holmes, Jannine learned how to adapt her design skills and vibrant color palette to this new medium. Now Jannine puts her 15 years of glass art experience to work making her own art, teaching classes, and assisting Holmes in the hot shop.
Cia Thorne is an accomplished glass sculptor whose work appears in galleries nationwide. She attended California College of the Arts and has trained with glass masters Pino Signoretto and Martin Janecky. Thorne currently shows her work and teaches classes at Liquid Light Glass.
Al Leedom is an established glass artist who ran his own studio and gallery for over a decade. He and Holmes are close artistic collaborators and met while working with Peter Vanderlaan in the early 1990s. Leedom presently teaches classes and exhibits his work at Liquid Light Glass.
John discovered Contemporary Studio Glass while working as a Sound Engineer in Seattle. Eventually he got to know many of the local artists and began his own glass collection before relocating to the Southwest. He continues to cultivate his passion for glass art by studying glass blowing and working in the gallery.
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What Are We Baptized For?
THE WEEKS AFTER EASTER have always been especially important. Think of the first Easter—the bewildered disciples spent seven weeks being taught by a crucified and resurrected person. It must have been amazing, slightly unbelievable, then gone too soon. In the ancient church, Easter was a time for the newly baptized to immerse in the church's odd and distinctive teachings. We dunked you—and then told you what that means. First Peter was originally a baptismal manual, a guidebook on the way to being the sort of peculiar people God wants (1 Peter 2:9). We do well during this month to look for extra opportunities for teaching. What does it mean to be baptized into a dead-and-alive-again person?
One thing it means in our own strange days is to craft creative ways to care for God's beloved poor. We are experiencing a shredding of our country's social safety net. Say whatever you like about it politically—the reality is there are more poor in more need. Someone is going to have to help. Why not us? It's commanded in our Bible and our church's heritage. There will be more of them, trust me. Our neighbors will notice and get curious about this Jesus about whom we teach. God desires a people of mercy who adore the poor, who treasure creation, who notice the dignity in every single human face. Not because it's nice. But because God has a human face.


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Cookin' up innovation
By Gina Acosta - 02/25/2019
If you ever wanted to go around the world in a day without getting on an airplane, you can.
In a 75,000-square-foot warehouse just north of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., you can go to the Himalayas, to Europe and to Central America all in one visit, as long as you don't have a particularly severe allergy to spices.
There, at the headquarters of the Spice Lab in Pompano Beach, Fla., the aromas of Himalayan salts, Belgian sugars and Mexican chilis greet you as you pull open the double-glass doors leading to the family-run food manufacturing business. The Spice Lab, founded in Florida in 2009, offers artisanal salts, spices, seasonings, teas and gourmet gifts from around the world in an array of packaging options for private brand grocers and many other retailers.
A few steps toward the back of the massive building reveals a wall of spice jars, everything from teriyaki seasoning to vindaloo powder to herbes de provence, a French herb blend. This global stage of food flavors turns out to be the perfect setting for a new breed of chef/food scientist/product development guru in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries, called the "research chef." These flavor magicians work in all sectors of the food industry but play an increasingly starring role in the retail and CPG worlds as they help optimize ingredient systems for companies to use in their finished products.
Everyone from The Kroger Co. to Campbell Soup Co. to Yesway Convenience Stores has a research chef or a culinary innovation manager or a food innovation guru. Some retailers and suppliers have research chefs specifically working to develop recipes and products for their private-branded programs (Chad Beuter at Meijer is one example).
At the Spice Lab, the flavor magician is chef Fiona Tam Kennedy, whose passion for food led her from anthropology courses to restaurant work to now chef-in-residence at the Spice Lab.
"I had been working as a private chef. With this opportunity at the Spice Lab, I like that there are so many different components to it," Kennedy says. "I'm a chef, I'm writing recipes and I'm taking photographs. I like the whole collaborative aspect of it, working with different people in the company and the art department. It's just very nice group-thinking."
Like many research or ingredient chefs, Kennedy wears many hats, but she also has specific job responsibilities: product development, recipe testing, trend research and creating formulas that can be mass-produced. A typical day for Kennedy may involve recreating a spice blend or coming up with recipes that will sell the product.
"I'll be asked to reverse-engineer a spice blend. So I'll take a little bit of it and almost brew it like tea to try to figure out what spices might be in there, because once you add the hot water and heat you can get a much better sense of the flavor, of what's in there," Kennedy says. "It feels like detective work sometimes. And then once we come up with different spice blends, then it's a matter of coming up with recipes in order to sell it. And how to use the spice blend in recipes."
As more retailers and suppliers hire chefs like Kennedy to spur innovation, the work of research chefs is putting a spotlight on the opportunities and challenges involved in making consistent quality products that keep up with evolving consumer preferences.
Spicy growth
Lately, Kennedy has been reformulating and expanding the Spice Lab's seasoning line to be more on-trend, which means meeting consumer demands for all-natural, Kosher and gluten-free products. The company has redesigned some of its packaging and labels, with each product offering a "Chef Fiona's Corner" feature. The labels highlight tips and suggestions for using the product and feature a cute caricature of the chef herself. And if the consumer wants more content, he or she can find ideas and recipes on the Spice Lab's website, spices.com.
The company has become a major player in supplying some of the country's largest retailers with Himalayan pink salt, which as a category has grown 3,700 percent with monthly sales now reaching near $1 million. The company sells private brand pink salt through Trader Joe's and Costco Wholesale, among other retailers.
The global seasonings and spices category is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6 percent during 2019–2023, according to Technomic. The market research firm attributes the growth trajectory to the trend of more diverse and globally inspired foods appearing in restaurants and grocery stores. One research chef who is keenly aware of these multicultural trends is Joel Minkoff at Sky Valley Foods, a Danville, Va.-based maker of all-natural sauce and marinade products.
"What we really look to at Sky Valley is the real trends to optimize existing recipes, so we really look toward authentic ethnic flavors," Minkoff says. "That's been one of the overarching trends that we've seen across all of our private label business. Everyone wants the next big ethnic trend and that's really where we put a lot of our effort, in discovering that, sourcing the real ingredients and coming up with products that are culinarily exact."
Like Kennedy at the Spice Lab, Minkoff spent years working in restaurants. Eventually he landed research and development roles at Campbell Soup Co. and Chelten House, which has created more than 1,000 private brand products for U.S. retailers.
"At Sky Valley, we're constantly coming up with new ideas, engaging with the customer for both the private label and the branded side, and then we actually are in the lab collecting ingredients, making samples, tasting samples, using them in applications and developing the product that we would manufacture in the factory," Minkoff says.
For a research chef, it's not just important to come up with formulations and recipes, he adds. It's equally important to understand the relevancy and functionality of commercial ingredients, and then to be able to apply that knowledge to the development process.
"A lot of chefs don't have that final skill where they can come up with a great recipe, but they have no idea how to formulate it or scale it up right," Minkoff notes. "For us, the overarching theme at Sky Valley is no matter what it is, whether it's our brand or whether it's private label, the food has to taste great. If the salad dressing doesn't taste great and it doesn't work on a salad, my work is really for nothing."
Both Kennedy and Minkoff say that in order to be a successful research chef in CPG, it's important to have a good understanding of culinary arts, food science and food manufacturing. And critically, it's also important to have a grasp of current consumer trends, which these days revolves around the development of products that are free-from undesirable ingredients, sustainable, clean label, non-GMO and frequently organic.
For innovation inspiration, Minkoff says he travels to food shows, leans on groups such as the Research Chefs Association, does a lot of research, and, of course, is constantly stopping to see what's on the shelf at retailers around the country.
"We'll go to different retailers and look at what everyone is doing to make sure that we're keeping up with trends," Minkoff says. "So we're always constantly innovating on our own, filling the gaps with new items. For us, one of the big challenges is having the right partners that can accept that innovation."
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Lynton is an award winning underwater movie photographer, plus he and Edith have co-operated on a number of publications such as the 8th Edition New Zealand Shipwrecks revisited and updated with Keith Gordon.
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The Kelly Tarlton Recognition Award for Services to Underwater Heritage recognizes individuals or groups who have made significant and lasting contributions through research, practice, or advocacy to underwater heritage, maritime archaeology or maritime history. The award recognizes members of the underwater heritage community for long-term accomplishments or those who have made a notable impact through a significant innovation, body of work or publication. A candidate's contributions can include innovative ideas or maritime conservation projects, including services that have promoted underwater heritage in New Zealand or wider Pacific communities linked to New Zealand. The award includes a certificate of recognition, and an invitation for the recipient to present a keynote talk at the annual NZUHG Conference. A public citation for the award will be placed on the NZUHG website. While no monetary award is made, awardees may be assisted with travel and sustenance costs to attend the NZUHG conference.
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Ed Haines – Beechcraft A36 Bonanza TKS Testimonial
Ed Haines lives in Michigan and is the previous owner of a 1986 Beechcraft A36 Bonanza equipped with inadvertent TKS Ice Protection, which he flew for over 10 years.
How did you get started in aviation?
I did drilling and oil consulting for a major oil and gas exploration company in Traverse City. They had a Beechcraft Baron, Cessna Conquest, a helicopter, and a 1979 Cessna 172. With one-and-a-half hours of training, they sold the 172 to me for about $16,000 and I started flying lessons.
Why did you choose TKS?
Although boots are an option, I didn't really see any other option than TKS. I studied the system pretty good and saw the guys on Beechtalk really liked it. I had the TN system installed at Tornado Alley Turbo in Oklahoma and while there decided to have TKS installed right after. The turbo-normalizer and TKS are hand-in-hand systems. If you have a turbo-normalized system and don't have TKS, you're wasting your money somewhere.
What does TKS do for your mission?
Traverse City can be gloomy for about 4 months. A lot of the time that's only in the first 2,000 feet and you're up in blue sky. But if you don't have an ice protection system, you're grounded for a good portion of the year. The TKS system allowed me to take off at nearly any point.
A lot of times I went south where it would be warmer, so you're not really concerned about ice at the destination. Your enroute time might be ice-free, but getting back in at your destination could mean flying through several thousand feet of potential ice. Many times that's exactly what happened. But instead of being puckered up while exiting the ice, you're stress free.
I flew with other pilots that were amazed at how good a job the system performed. We would see ice accumulate on the windscreen, and then it just rots away as the fluid streams across. The ice was trying to build, but the system wouldn't allow it.
Any truly memorable experiences in icing with TKS?
I flew the Bonanza to Hilton Head, South Carolina one time. This was before I started going to Arizona. The pilot I flew with never had a deicing system but had flown in a couple of Cessna 182RGs. On the way home we had several thousand feet of light to moderate icing coming back into Traverse City. We turned the system on at 7,000 feet, started our descent shortly after, and entered the clouds at around 4,000 feet. Traverse City is around 600 feet sea level. The ceilings were pretty low. I just remember the smile on his face. We saw the ice trying to build on the airplane, and the system kept it clean.
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I received my Ph.D. in Health Economics from Linköping University and became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics in 1991, where I was appointed Associate Professor in 1994. In 2001, I became a Professor in Health Economics at the Department of Community Medicine at Lund University (now the Department of Clinical Sciences). In 2006, I initiated the Health Economics Program (HEP) at Lund University, which is currently supported by a program grant from the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS). Between 2007 and 2008, I was employed as a Professor at the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) at the University of Aberdeen. In 2009, I returned to Lund University, where I currently hold a joint professorship at the Departments of Economics at the School of Economics and Management and at the Medical Faculty, Lund University. I am the head of the Health Economics Unit at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Lund University. I am also an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University Business School, Melbourne, and a Research Director at the Swedish Institute of Health Economics in Lund.
My research agenda focuses on exploring the relationship between economic factors and individuals' health-related behavior. I'm particularly interested in measuring and explaining the sources of income-related inequality in health. I'm also interested in the consequences of risky behavior and chronic diseases. My other research focus on the economic evaluations of health interventions, health system effects on health care costs and productivity. I published in journals such as: Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Health Economics, Economics and Human Biology, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Human Resources and American Journal of Public Health.


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Local campaign group welcomes Sound of Jura fish farm application withdrawal
Friends of the Sound of Jura (FoSoJ) learned with relief today that Kames Fish Farming Ltd has decided to withdraw their application for a 12-cage fish farm at Dounie Bay, south of Crinan.
Under pressure from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage, they had broadened their original assessment of the farm's environmental impact, and concluded that that it would damage the important wildlife of this Marine Protected Area.
The proposal had attracted much concern from a wide spectrum of the local community, many of whom rely on the Sound of Jura to support environmentally sustainable local businesses.
Mark Smith, speaking on behalf of FoSoJ said "We have always maintained that this industrial-sized fish farm should have no place within a Marine Protected Area. The wildlife of the Sound includes the rare Flapper Skate, porpoises, otters and seals, as well as smaller rarities like the Northern Sea Fan. They have been spared being smothered in thousands of tonnes of fish faeces laced with pesticides every year. The wild salmon and sea trout which migrate to the River Add have been spared the catastrophic burden of sea lice associated with fish farms. We will continue to promote the Sound of Jura as an important resource for use by the local community, anglers, creel fishermen, scallop-divers, sailors, tourists and all of us who value and depend on the good health of the marine environment."
Two petitions organised by FoSoJ have been signed by more than 3400 people in total, the vast majority from the west of Scotland, more than 1200 of them from Argyll and Bute. SEPA have said they received 86 letters opposing the granting of a CAR (pollution) licence and apparently none in favour.
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