Being desperate is a turnoff in dating AND it's a turnoff in job hunting.
On this show, I discuss "the stupid interviewing mistake" of seeming desperate and explain how to correct it.
I'm back with another piece of advice designed to help you find work more quickly. This is about 1 of those stupid interview mistakes the job hunters make all the time. That is, appearing desperate.
Have you ever been on a date with someone who seemed desperate? Women, come on! You can't tell me you haven't been on a date with someone who seemed desperate! They are just too… Fill in the blank. Too much. I want to presume to know how you feel when this happens. I just simply say that in situations where I've been out with desperate women, it is not been a pleasant experience.
Women who appear desperate come across, in the male vernacular, as stalkers. I suspect the same is true on the women's side..… And worse. Such behavior in dating doesn't work and it certainly doesn't work in job search.
When you go on the interview and you seem too eager, (I act the part in the audio to demonstrate how obnoxious it seems), The hiring manager eventually asked themselves, "What's with this person?" You can't appear too eager; it's okay to be accommodating. Your role is to relax and to deal with your potential future boss as a peer so that they understand, and you understand what you are capable of doing for them so that they can evaluate and assess you and see how you fit into their needs.
Acting like the obedient schoolchild, sitting in your chair, leaning forward (I haven't done that when you were a kid), just doesn't work. It doesn't make you more attractive than other people to your future boss. If anything, it makes you less appealing! That's because you seem like you are desperate. No one really likes desperate.
Relax. Follow my advice about the single best question you should ask on any interview. Talk with them as an equal,, and explain how your background, that which they are looking for. Do it with confidence and self assurance because part of your job on interview is to put their mind that these and demonstrate that you are the solution to a problem that they have. They need someone to do such and such. You want to talk about how you did for someone else before..
In joining them, you don't want to do this for the next 30 or 40 years of your life. You want to understand the upside for you. If the role, do you want to do the same thing for the next 3 or 40 years? Of course not!
You always want to make sure you ask questions about your potential future with the organization. If you don't like the answer, don't be a schmuck can take the job And then blame them for what's happening to you. It's your fault, then.
Here's another one of those stupid interview mistakes people make, particularly executives – – – being somewhere else.
I want to talk with you today, I'm not concerned with your senior professional (though I see more with seniors with staff level people)... As an executive, you go to interviews and you've got a very full plate. You are handling a lot of things, you are walking out on situations that will require your attention. You are distracted. That's probably the best way to put. You are distracted. You arrive at an interview where people carve that significant portions of the day and you're not prepared to focus right away on delivering your message, let alone even remember your message. You're still back in your office you're still back at home , because the distraction could also come from your home. As a result, you don't deliver at the meetings.
Terrible mistake to make! It's 1 of the dumbest things you can imagine.
Your spending time to talk with people about the role. He clearly interests you, about an opportunity that appeals to sufficiently that you're carving out time in your day to talk to people about it, and you're not prepared because you still back at your office or your back still in an argument with your wife/husband/partner or the kids if absent you... Whatever it is, you are off somewhere else. Dumb thing to do.
I just want to encourage you that if you feel like you would be distracted, take a few minutes before hand, I out in your car, get some coffee, spend some time by yourself and focus. Meditate and beat you at your best.
After all, when you are evaluating and assessing people and you get the sense that someone is not on the game, what is your 1st reaction? Rejection, of course. It will be the same for you, too.
Put aside the members from now. Put aside the distractions. Be focused on being the best you, you can be.
I was talking to someone yesterday, doing a little bit of research for project I am working on. He is someone who has been with this current firm for about 10 years. Good background. Resin through the ranks. All that happy kind of stuff you want to see in an employee. He has decided to move elsewhere. He says he's stuck. That's okay. I understand that. That happens. But he's running into a roadblock. The roadblock is he knows exactly how it's done at his current firm but he has not been exposed to other organizations. He has started to blame the job market. It's not the job market. It's the choice he made.
If you're someone who is in a situation where you're not getting the interview results that you want, have you practiced interviewing? I don't mean just simply flippantly practicing the answers but doing mock interviews with someone who is able to critique you. Who can talk with you about your experience.
You know, if you're in a technology field of some sort – – engineering, IT , whatever – – are you someone who has practiced answers to predictable questions with a friend of yours who can really grill you hard to see how you respond to a grilling? Do you answer the basic questions well? Do you know how to answer behavioral questions well? I bring this up because, most the time, the answer is no. I know that because when I do it, I sit and listen to the results that I get from people.
It's not the job market. It's you. You not working at finding a job.
So, I'll just simply if you want to keep getting these results and eventually stumble into something by accident, keep doing what you are doing. It's okay. You'll go through a lot of trial and error. You will go through the heartache. You'll have to listen to a lot of your friends go, "So, how's the job search going?" And not being able to report any sort of results.
You have to change it up. You got to do things differently and you've got to get some help. Most of you don't even know how badly you interview. You don't even know what you're doing wrong. I was looking at someone's resume yesterday-- spelling error in it. He didn't see it. It happens . . . And repetitive words and the marketing lingo in a technology resume. . . It's ridiculous.
You know it's so stale and in some offensive these days that someone talks about an old language like it's out of the 50s. It's ridiculous!
So, get some help, dammit. Work with someone who understands what you do and who can guide you through your resume, critique it for you and turn things around. Otherwise, you are going to interview for jobs that you really desperately want and you are going to fail. You will have to tell your friends how you failed, look at your wife or husband or partner and tell them how you failed.
It's awful. Just get some help, okay?
I point to one of the mistakes job hunters make when interviewing in person or doing a video interview.
I see a lot of mistakes that people make and this 1 is geared toward job hunters. It can occur in an in person interview and they can occur in a video interview. What you're doing when you make this mistake is tipping offices of nerves that you have that you want to disguise for better.
What I'm doing as I record this is sitting in a swivel chair and rocking from side to side. I'm actually feeling calm this morning, so this is quite a bit of an act for many people I talk with by Skype, some version of video interviewing whether it's FaceTime or some other way our talk to a person, I see them rocking in the chair a little bit. You not disguising you nerves. It's really that simple.
If you are doing a video interview, you want to have a basic chair. No swivel to it. If the role, if you are nervous. I don't want to be revealed this way. I would rather have you use you nerves with your hands so that you use your hands to emphasize things as you speak.
If you are sitting with me, my hands to be about waist high as I'm talking. But when were talking now, when speaking with your hands you want to use them to illustrate going point by point by point. You can illustrate that with your hands and I am flicking them as I would an interview.
You never want to cross your hands across her face. You may want to frame your face at times, or frame your body at times with your hands. Never EVER block your face because there was a signal and that about hiding... At least that the signal the people are trained to believe that the behavior indicate (I think it's a case of nervous energy, but this is again how people are trained).
At the end of the day, you always ALWAYS want to demonstrate being firm, certain, confident and rocking chair turns you back in the being a little boy your little girl back in public school sitting at a desk, maybe being brought up in front of the teacher... All that sort of nonsense. You don't need that.
EP 1212 I use a lesson from sports to point to a way to trip yourself up and fall into a trap.
In job hunting, that's the "applying to the ad where you say to yourself, "I this one like a glove," or the interview that you are told is a "courtesy interview," so you don't do anything to prepare.
Trap games invariably involve a tougher contest than people expect. Even if you get the offer, often it is for less money than what you expected because you just didn't prepare and perform like you needed to.
The one thing that athletes discover time and again is that there are no trap games on schedule. There are no situations that they step into that are (I'll use slang expression) there are no "gimmes." There are no things that basically you don't have to perform for.
For you, kind of like in your work if you take everything for granted and you don't try to get better, you fall behind in, right? Well, in job hunting, it's the same thing. There our way too many trap games that can become you being trapped. That's what trap games are all about. You are caught in the trap of expectations that this is good be easy when it isn't.
So, if you're invited back for a formality interview, you are told that the vice president, the C suite executive, the president of a firm, just wants to meet you as a formality, I assure you know may be the toughest interview, you get because, for them, everything matters.
So, they go through things in meticulous detail in order to ensure that when you're hiring someone in the money is coming out of the budget, you're not a waste.
So, don't fall for the trap. Don't get yourself caught up in the trap. Instead, prepare like your life depends on it. Prepare like every game counts.
Ep 639 There's something about desperation that is a turn off.
I want to talk with you about another 1 of those stupid interview that job hunters make way too often. This is the mistake of being unprepared.
If you're aggressively looking for work, you may be sending out your resume to tons of different places. You just don't remember. The phone rings, they start saying, "Hi! My name is so and so. You forwarded your resume," and your 1st response is, "Which position is this?"
Right off the bat you let people know that you are spamming your resume to a bunch of places. I'll be kind. . . You submitted your resume to a lot of different places looking for jobs. The way to handle that situation is to say, "I want to talk with you. I am in with someone right now. Can I call you back at…? (Offer up time)" this way, you can go back to your notes, see which job this was and then be able to speak intelligently about your background and how it fits. Remember, your job is to talk about what you've done that relates to what they are looking for and not just talk about what you've done.
Another boo-boo, and this 1 is even worse. You're an in person interview. They just invited you into talk. You taking no time to research the firm and what it does. A lot of firms like to know you understand some basic information about them so that you can link it to what you've done, not just simply what they're looking for what their business does.
Or, you walk in the door and sit down and basically say, "So, which job is this?" Or words to that effect. There are lots of little ways that it comes across that you are unprepared to talk about their job. You can't do this. What you're basically doing is indicating that you don't care. What does it really take to be prepared? After you submit a resume, you save the original job and into a file refer to it before the interview. It's that simple.
Don't be unprepared. It sends a bad signal to an employer about laziness . You don't want to be doing that. You always want to be in control and demonstrating that you are a professional.
Rather than be unprepared, in the case of a phone call, simply say, "Can I get your name and number and can I give you a call back in about an hour," or "Can I call you back at 2:30?" Whatever the time is. "That doesn't work for me. Can we do it at 4 PM?"
"Sure, we can do that four."
"What's your number?" You get your notes and call back, look at your job description so as you're ready. You will be able to speak intelligently about your background and how it fits their job.
Even knowing what the job description says, remember to ask my Single Best Question You Should Ask On Any Interview before things kick off because things may have changed a little bit since the 1st conversation or since you saw the ad.
I offer up some of the stupid questions to never ask at an interview.
Today I want to talk about some of the worst questions, the questions you should never ask on any job interview. As much as I expect maturity, intelligence and professionalism from people, every once in a while I get surprised. Rather than commit these gaffes on the interview, I would rather head them off.
So let me talk with you about the time questions you should never ask a job interview.
1. "By the way, what does your company do?" Why would you ever asked this question? Why didn't you just Google the firm's website before the interview? Why didn't you just spend some time on their website to learn what the firm does in advance of your interview? If you are interviewing with the startup that's in stealth mode, I'm sure you can find something on Mashable or TechCrunch that my talk about what the firm is trying to do. Regardless, you can just Google and find out what the company does? When you ask a question like this, you send the message to an employer that they don't like.
2 & 3. Do you do a background check?" The Cumberland the question is, "Do you do drug testing?" I laughed at these questions because you have obviously sent up an enormous red flag for them that says, "There's a problem in my background," or, "There's an issue with my background." You have told him that there is an issue with such a thing.
4. "Do you have any other jobs available?" You basically told him that's a not interested in what they are talking with you about. You are better off continue through with the interview in a very professional way. If they ask, "Are you interested," you can be honest and tell them that you have some questions about whether this is the right role for you. It will allow you to get your questions answered. If you do have questions about the job. It's very mature they ask a question like this.
5. "What's your insurance coverage like?" What are things you don't want to cover the early stages of interviewing or early stages of a job search with the firm's benefits. You want everything focused on your ability to do the job, that you have a lot of passion and enthusiasm for "doing the job," you are there to help them satisfy THEIR needs, you are not there to have yours fulfilled AT THIS TIME.
That is a point later on in the interview where they are starting to fall in love and started to lust after you and you can start dealing with benefits. Initially ago stay off this question.


It came in the middle of a show about football, of all things. (I shouldn't be that surprised. Sports=virility in American iconography.) A wife telling her husband about her unexpected pregnancy; a pregnancy after years of infertility, nonetheless. His disbelief melting into kisses and laughter and joy. A perfect little moment.
For the most part, I have come to terms with my sub-fertility. I'm not burdened by it the way I once was (like the long-ago day I chose the URL for this blog, for example). I remember lying next to T in bed one night, my heart breaking at the thought that we might never have a child with his gentle blue-gray eyes. Sad that we wouldn't know what the combination of our genes could produce. Angry that there wouldn't be a tangible piece of us living on in the world.
I don't think about those things much anymore. And when I do, they no longer carry the same emotional freight. I'm still frustrated with my body for various reasons, but not for denying me the experience of mothering. Because, in truth, it hasn't. I may not be Puppy's birth mother, but I am a mother. Lately I'm more apt to roll my eyes than cry my eyes out when I think about my fertility.
But as those big-picture losses have faded, they've been replaced by pricks of sadness about smaller losses. Silly, little moments which shouldn't mean anything: Watching a home pregnancy test turn positive. Sharing that first moment of joy with T. Announcing it to family and friends with a clever t-shirt for Puppy. Looking at a sonogram and being able to think, "This is my child." Just moments, unimportant in the long-term.
The moments are different in domestic adoption. Announcements must be made in hesitant steps: we are waiting on a potential match, there may be a placement, this child may join our family. Even on the day you can finally say, "Yes, we have a new family member," the happiness is qualified by the attendant loss for the first parents and child. There are very good reasons for it to be that way; I'm not bitter about that. But sometimes I wish there could be a moment of unadulterated joy somewhere along the way as our family grows.
I love how our family came to be. But tonight I'm sad for the little moments I'll never have.
"Even on the day you can finally say, "Yes, we have a new family member," the happiness is qualified by the attendant loss for the first parents and child. There are very good reasons for it to be that way; I'm not bitter about that. But sometimes I wish there could be a moment of unadulterated joy somewhere along the way as our family grows."
I've never heard said so perfectly. Thank you.
Thanks Em and Crina. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who feels those things.


WASHINGTON – Commercial Window Shield has completed a second window film installation project at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the nation's capital.
The project involved installing switchable smart window film on interior office and conference room windows. The film has an electrical component that is wired to a light switch. When the switch is off, the film remains clear allowing passersby to see inside. When the switch is on a decorative pattern emerges in the film, blocking views of the interior and turning the glass into a privacy wall.
Previously, Commercial Window Shield installed 42,000 sq. ft. of solar control film to correct heat, glare and fading issues with furniture, carpet and artwork at the convention center. The Phase 1 project included installing 7,500 sq. ft. anti-bird strike film on the L Street bridge corridor, a regular fly-through zone for birds.
The Phase 2 smart window film project was a continuation of the original contract, signed in 2016, which called for possible additional projects over a four-year period.
Commercial Window Shield's experience with complex projects, such as Grand Central Terminal and Bethesda Metro Center, helped secure the original project. Special, custom-made scaffolding was required for the difficult task of installing solar control window film on the building's skylights in the L Street bridge area and the 80-foot wall of glass on the building's Vermont Avenue side.
Commercial Window Shield has previous experience with convention center film installation projects. Previously, the company installed security window film on 2,500 windows at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, where hurricanes are a constant threat.
With more than 30 years experience, Commercial Window Shield is the nation's leading security window film and solar reflective window film installer. Among its many projects in the nation's capitol region, the company has protected windows at the U.S. Capitol, FBI headquarters, Pentagon, and all House of Representative and Library of Congress buildings. Nationwide, the company has completed projects at O'Hare International Airport, the Willis Tower [former Sears Tower], Merrill Lynch headquarters, and the Denver and Philadelphia mints.


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[M]y husband heaved a sigh and gazed longingly at the painting.
I sighed back at him. I wasn't so sure. Twenty years ago, weird was more our thing than it is now, in mid-life.
"I don't know," I ventured, "it just might be too non–Pottery Barn." "Pottery Barn" has become our buzzphrase when we look around our house and try to define the style we're going for. It's not quite Pottery Barn, but it's no longer thrift-store chic either. And while Maine is home, our house is free from iconic landscapes, seaside cottage décor, or rustic camp comfort. Our weekend excursions to antique and junk shops occasionally yield modest, interesting treasures, which we work into our otherwise unremarkable furniture-scape.
Now a strange creature — more boy than girl, more adult than child — stared back at us from a wall in Cabot Mill Antiques, a seemingly endless labyrinth of curiosities in Brunswick. The child stood at a table wearing a blue jumper with a ruffled neckline, the kind you see in paintings hundreds of years old. It hung like a dress over matching trousers. The boy's body was all odd angles, skewed by nonsensical proportions. His rosy cheeks and lips seemed at odds with his manly head.
The background was the color of muddy water, with a spotted dog — at least, I think it was a dog — jumping up, perhaps to reach whatever was in the child's right hand. A coin purse? A dog treat? There were no hints. The table in the picture was bare.
What if an art historian walked into Cabot Mill Antiques, stopped short in front of the blue boy, and, recognizing it for a rare and priceless thing, shelled out the sticker price of $29.99 — then later sold it for enough money to put his kid (our kid!) through college?
But what if I was wrong? What if an art historian walked into Cabot Mill Antiques, stopped short in front of the blue boy, and, recognizing it for a rare and priceless thing, shelled out the sticker price of $29.99 — then later sold it for enough money to put his kid (our kid!) through college?
Could we take that chance? We did.
A week later, the painting was still there, and my husband still pined for it. I told him to buy it. At worst, I said, if it doesn't work at home, it would be great in his office — right alongside his "outsider art," a piece entitled Elvis Eaten By Spiders.
On day five of "living with it," I was eating a bowl of Kashi and staring at the painting when I noticed an odd thing. The man-child's face appeared to have softened; his gaze was appreciative. "You get me," he seemed to be saying.
I posted an image on Facebook.
"It looks like something from a Stephen King novel," commented friend Claire.
"Well, the dog's tail is obviously the paint brush that painted the three spots on the dog, and after that it just gets more and more brilliant. (Love it.)," offered Mark, an artist and professor.
"Obviously, the blue boy is from the artist's 'who hid my glasses?' period," joked Howard, an author, theater director, and rabble-rouser.
"It looks like a bad reproduction, like you see on Antiques Roadshow," wrote yogi friend Susan, in what could have been construed as an uncharacteristically brusque tone.
So I'm going with that. For now, the blue boy hangs on our freshly painted Tangerine Tango wall (take that, Pottery Barn!), opposite my father-in-law's fabulous painting of a yellow sardine tin wreathed in a swimming stream of little fish. He looks right at home.
Lorry Fleming lives in Bath. Her work has appeared in Bowdoin Magazine, Northern New England Journey, and a number of Maine publications.


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Circle Christian sophomore Canon Claycomb broke the school record with an 8-under 63 in the district tournament at Deer Run. He beat teammate and defending 1A state champion Eugen Hong by two strokes. The pair along with Daniel Core will look to lead the Centurions to the team title at the state tournament in November.


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It Will Just be Us
Posted bykeramgould July 27, 2020 Posted inArc ReviewsTags:arc review, book review, crooked lane books, featherboundbooks, five star, ghost stories, haunted house, horror, it will just be us, jo kaplan, paranormal, supernatural
TITLE: It Will Just be Us
AUTHOR: Jo Kaplan
SETTING: Virginia
PUBLISHER: Crooked Lane Books
GENRE(S): Contemporary, Horror, Supernatural, Family
Thank you to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for my DRC in exchange for my honest review.
Sam Wakefield's ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp, isn't a place for children. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors, are filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as one. In the presence of phantoms, it's all Sam can do to disentangle past from present in her daily life. But when her pregnant sister Elizabeth moves in after a fight with her husband, something in the house shifts. Already navigating her tumultuous relationship with Elizabeth, Sam is even more unsettled by the appearance of a new ghost: a faceless boy who commits disturbing acts—threatening animals, terrorizing other children, and following Sam into the depths of the house wielding a knife. When it becomes clear the boy is connected to a locked, forgotten room, one which is never entered, Sam realizes this ghost is not like the others. This boy brings doom. As Elizabeth's due date approaches, Sam must unravel the mysteries of Wakefield before her sister brings new life into a house marked by death. But as the faceless boy grows stronger, Sam will learn that some doors should stay closed—and some secrets are safer locked away forever.
Through the winding halls and endless closed doors of Wakefield Manor, the sprawling house built in its enormity by Mad Catherine Wakefield, is full of ghosts. Generations of Wakefield spirits roam its three floors, showing you snippets of memories past. That is just the way of the house and the current inhabitants, Samantha Wakefield and her mother Agnes are so completely used to it that watching these flickering moments have just become part of their normal everyday life. Besides, these were their ancestors so there is no fear… in the daylight hours anyway.
When Sam's sister, Elizabeth bangs on the door one night in the middle of a storm, her hair and clothes soaked and her belly protruding, they bring her inside. She is very vague with details, but announces that she has left her husband, Donovan and is moving back home to finish out her pregnancy.
With Lizzie in the house now, Sam is telling us, through her haphazard way, what is going on in the house and in their lives now as well as bits of interspersed information about the past, like her tumultuous relationship with her sister and her mother, what growing up in this house was like, and all of the stories she has pieced together about the manor's and surrounding swamp land's history through the reel of the house's memories she has seen in all her years of living here.
When Sam becomes plagued by the visage of a cruel young boy who seems to love tormenting animals and people alike, she begins to feel the new shift in the house, a shift that is brought on by the arrival of her sister and her unborn son, Julian.
There are so many depths to this story and the history Jo Kaplan has created surrounding it. The immense swamplands on the back of the property hold so many strange and terrifying myths. Rich in history, these lands once held liberated slaves who took to the swamplands for a safe place to live out their stolen freedom. But the swamp has it's own scary tales. These mingle with lore of the old house until it as all tangled together like the vines that snake from the acrid swamp marshes.
This was everything I look for in a horror novel. It was truly scary. I read it in the middle of the night, in the dark of my bedroom and found myself actually scared. Like didn't want to leave the safety of my bed and didn't dare go right to sleep afterward for fear of having nightmares.
The one great thing about the horror genre is that it is the one genre where you do not need a happy ending. You almost come to expect the ending to be unsatisfactory. This book ended just the way I wanted it to, honestly, the way I could already tell it was going to. Samantha was a great narrator, even though she was not always trustworthy or straightforward. You are being told the story from her mouth, from her perception and she isn't always a great judge of character. This was absolutely wonderful and I will recommend this book to horror lovers and people looking for a fully comprehensive haunting tale.
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 L' vista il nord America e la Francia. Subisce ua sconfitta nel primo test con la Francia, ma si riscatta prontamente nel secondo match:

 Il  si reca in tour in Galles dove subisce pesanti rovesci

 Il  in Argentina si aggiudica entrambi i test contro i Pumas

 Il  va in Tour in Galles. La squadra, che raggiunto il livello più alto della sua storia conquista un risultato storico:

 La  si reca in Tour in Europa. Gli All Blacks travolgono la Scozia, ma cedono all'Inghilterra.

Contemporaneamente la selezione della seconda divisione del campionato neozelandese, il Divisional XV si reca in tour nel pacifico.

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The Confession that Never Was
Our Correspondent Mar 20, 2009
See also: Sirul Azhar Statement
On November 9, 2006, at Kuala Lumpur's Travers police station, Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, then a 35-year-old member of the country's elite Special Action bodyguard unit under Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, sat down and confessed to the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu.
The dead woman, a Mongolian translator who had been executed nearly three weeks before in gruesome fashion with two bullets to the head, is at the center of what would be one of Malaysia's biggest political scandals ever, involving not only sex and murder but hundreds of millions of dollars in defense contracts. But the case, which has been underway in a Shah Alam courtroom since June of 2007, is notable for what neither the prosecution, the defense or the judge appeared to want to be bought into open court.
On Feb. 3, a tearful Sirul asked the court not to sentence him to death for Altantuya's murder, saying he was like "a black sheep that has to be sacrificed" to protect unnamed people who have never been brought to court or faced questioning.
"I have no reason to cause hurt, what's more to take the life of the victim in such a cruel manner," Sirul said. "I appeal to the court, which has the powers to determine if I live or die, not to sentence me so as to fulfil others' plans for me."
Sirul and Azilah are now awaiting sentencing despite the fact that the trial was concluded in February. Sirul's confession is an extraordinary and chilling document. In the session, tape-recorded and conducted in Bahasa Malaysia, or Malay language, Sirul was told he was not obliged to answer questions but that whether in answer to questions or not, his remarks would be recorded as a statement.
But although the volunary confession indicates that Sirul had been cautioned, it has been ruled inadmissible in the long-running trial of Sirul and his boss, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri, and Abdul Razak Baginda, the admitted lover who jilted Altantuya after a torrid affair. Razak was later declared not guilty and freed without having to put on a defense. He has since left the country for England.
An extraordinary amount of evidence connects Najib, now preparing to become Malaysia's prime minister, to the case. SMS messages exist between Baginda and Najib reassuring him not to worry when he was first under suspicion, saying Najib would fix things. A private investigator hired by Razak Baginda to keep Altantuya away from him after she returned to Malaysia to confront him said in a statutory declaration that Baginda, a well-connected head of a political think tank, had told him Najib had introduced Altantuya to him. The private investigator was forced to recant his statement and hurriedly left the country.
Although Sirul's statement was ruled inadmissible, presumably that would not have prevented lawyers from repeating the questions in open court in an attempt to get him to answer them. Among other things, in the confession, Sirul says "Azilah talked about a reward of between RM50,000 and RM100,000 if the case was settled."
Since Baginda has been freed, it raises the question of who else was going to pay the two men to kill Altantuya. That question was never asked or answered in court.
In other court testimony, Sirul said Azilah had told him "there was work to be done and just asked me to follow him." Musa Safri, Najib Tun Razak's chief of staff, he testified, "had told him about a friend …who had women problems." {mospagebreak}
Neither Najib nor Musa has been questioned about who sent the two men first to the Hotel Malacca, where, according to the testimony, Azilah wanted Sirul to kill not only Altantuya but the two women who had accompanied her to Kuala Lumpur in an attempt to confront Baginda.
According to other reports, Altantuya had served as a translator in Paris for the Malaysian government's US$1 billion purchase of three French submarines which was routed through a firm owned by Baginda and which netted him a €114 million commission. Najib, one of Baginda's best friends, was defense secretary at the time and engineered the purchase.
In a letter found after Altantuya's death, she expressed regret for attempting to blackmail Razak. Baginda, in a statement to the police, said she was asking for US$500,000 from him, presumably for her role in the transaction.
Sirul and Azilah went to the Malaya Hotel but decided not to kill the three women "because of the presence of CCTV (closed circuit television cameras)."
Ultimately, according to the confession, the two went to Razak Baginda's house where "there was a Chinese woman (Altantuya) who was causing a commotion."
The two, with the help of a Malay woman, presumably Lance Corporal Rohaniza Roslan, Azila's former girlfriend, bundled Altantuya into a red Proton Wira and drove her to where Sirul's jeep awaited. Rohaniza later claimed she had been coerced to change her testimony. The prosecution attempted to impeach her as a witness.
"Along the journey, Azilah asked me to find a place to 'shoot to kill the Chinese woman." Eventually after she was driven to Sirul's house to pick up the military explosives that would be wrapped around her body after she was dead, she was then driven to the Punchak Alam forest reserve near the suburban city of Shah Alam.
"I saw Azilah outside the jeep carrying a bag containing an M5 weapon and silencer from the jeep that was located at the foot rest of the passenger seat and gave it to me ordering me to 'shoot to kill' the Chinese woman who was inside the jeep."
They took her jewelry and other articles, Sirul said, and "I saw that she was in a state of fear and she pleaded not to kill her and said she was expecting." Nonetheless, Azilah wrestled her to the ground, apparently knocking her unconscious, and "I opened fire towards the left side of the woman's head. After the Chinese woman was shot, Azilah removed all her clothes and I took a black garbage bag and Azilah put all the Chinese woman's clothes into the bag."
Azilah, he said, "noticed movements in the Chinese woman's arm and ordered me to fire another shot but the gun did not fire. I then emptied the weapon and loaded the gun again and fired another shot at the same area which was the left side of the woman's head. I then took a black plastic garbage bag and with Azilah's help put the bag over the Chinese woman's head to prevent blood from spilling."
With Sirul holding her arms and Azilah holding her legs, they carried Altantuya into the woods. "Azilah then carried the bag containing the explosives and handed it to me. I took the explosives and attached them to the victim's head while Azilah attached the explosives on the victim's legs up to the abdomen." After attaching a wire to the explosives, they blew her up.
After returning to the Bukit Aman police station, "I had a bath and changed clothes and put the clothes that I wore during the incident together with the victim's clothes into a plastic bag. After that, I entered the jeep and drove the jeep to a rubbish container in the Bukit Aman area near a construction site. I threw some of the victim's belongings and the wire that was used to detonate the explosives together with the empty bag that contained the explosives into the container.'
Then he went home and went to sleep.


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Non-Scientist Bill Nye Tries To Scientifically Support Abortion. Fails Miserably...
Courtney Kirchoff
Remember the once relevant but never real scientist Bill Nye the Science Guy? Yeah, he had the catchy song at the start of his show: Bill Nye the Science Guy, BILL, BILL, BILL! and used lots of fun fart noises to appeal to the kids? That Bill Nye. Well he's back, and he's making a move into the abortion debate with this video:
Many, many, many, many more hundreds of eggs are fertilized than become humans. Eggs get fertilized and by that I mean sperm get accepted by ova a lot. But that's not all you need. You have to attach to the uterine wall, the inside of a womb, a woman's womb. But if you're going to hold that as a standard, that is to say if you're going to say when an egg is fertilized it's therefore has the same rights as an individual, then whom are you going to sue? Whom are you going to imprison? Every woman who's had a fertilized egg pass through her? Every guy who's sperm has fertilized an egg and then it didn't become a human? Have all these people failed you?
It's just a reflection of a deep scientific lack of understanding and you literally or apparently literally don't know what you're talking about. And so when it comes to women's right with respect to their reproduction, I think you should leave it to women.
No Bill, here's a little history for you. The definition of pregnancy was conveniently changed in 1965 so that certain abortifacients could be sold as "preventative" care. What was the definition and what was it changed to? Pregnancy used to be when the sperm fertilized the egg. Human. Pregnancy. See, birth control manufacturers didn't want to tell their women that while some contraceptive methods available truly were preventative (and still accepted by many Christians today) some of their pills and devices were in fact, abortafacients, so they simply changed the definition of pregnancy to implantation. Facts.
Notice how he also made a jab about "fact-based" and then asked "Well what's wrong with that?" Nothing, Bill, except you've got your facts wrong on this one. Abortion isn't about women's bodies and what they can and cannot do with them. Trust us, we don't care what a woman does with her body so long as she keeps it away from us. Really. Seriously.
Except here's the el problemo with Bill's argument: our "idea" of an "unborn person" clashes with his barbaric idea that it's totes fine to suck it out of a woman's womb while calling it a "woman's body." Also, facts again. Yes, those pesky facts Bill wants to rely on while casually avoiding them. Life begins at conception. It's settled, true science. That's why even so many prominent atheists, with no ideological battle in the fight, are willing to concede this argument.
But here's the takeaway: looks like the pro-abortion crowd is getting nervous. They're falling back on the age old "My body, my choice" and "don't tell a woman what to do, you SEXIST" mantra, because they know they're losing their slippery grip on the curettage and forceps.
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The I-7188(D) is for industry applications and can be used to replace PC or PLC devices in harsh environments. The I-7188(D) controller is designed for palm-size embedded systems that require high reliability, PC-compatibility, and compactness at a reasonable price.
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in knowing you won't live till thirty.
I would snap myself before then.
Soon, you get to rest.
when you're sure it's better for them gone.
I just couldn't live like this.
your friend death is always there.
it takes a lot to shake you.
is you can rebuild it all your own.
you never thought you'd live!
that they themselves do not?


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Five miles past Glenrio on old Route 66 is the ghost town of Endee, New Mexico which had a population of 110 in 1946. Along the way you can view several abandoned homes and structures before arriving at Endee.
Endee was founded in 1882, gaining its name from the old ND ranch. A post office was established in 1886. Endee was originally a wild west town where cowpunchers went to blow off steam on Saturday nights. Some people claim that the town was so rough that a trench was dug on Saturday to bury the gunfight losers on Sunday. In 1950, 187 people made their home in Endee, but today, this town has been long abandoned and forgotten.
The post office in Endee opened in 1886. The settlement was founded as a supply center for area ranches, including the sprawling ND Ranch established by John and George Day in 1882. Post office closed in 1955, three years after the completion of a realignment of Route 66 that bypassed the community.
Continuing down this old dirt road to Bard you will see the remains of an old Rock Island trestle. The settlement of Bard was also said to have been a wild town during the cowboy days, where drunkenness and shootouts were commonplace.
In the 1940's it was a trading center for local ranchers, consisting of a store, a gas station and several houses. At one time, Bard had 195 people, but by 1980 the town had been reduced to ten. Today, Bard, too, is but one more casualty of Route 66.
Continuing west on old Route 66, the dirt and gravel road will take you all the way to San Jon, if road conditions permit.
The initial settlement in Bard dates to 1906, and population became sufficient to warrrant a post office in 1908. The following year, acceptance of an amended post office application change the name to Bard City, and another amendment in 1913 changed it back to Bard.
Numerous sources claim the name comes from the association a pioneering family had with a railroad siding named Bard in Texas. However, the most probably namesake is the Bar-D Ranch operating in the area at the time of the town's establishment.
On three different occasions, the entire town relocated to capitalize on the change in traffice patterns from predominately railroad to automotive. A 1946 highway guide indicates a population of 26 and a sparse business district consisting of a gas station, garage, and post office. Today Bard is a ghost town.
Russell's Truck Stop opened near the site in late 2009. The unique complex blends the modern, all purpose travel center with an automotive museum and Route 66 gift shop. However, the address of the travel center indicates an address of Endee.
Another few miles along your journey, you'll come to San Jon (pronounced San Hone), a small agricultural community curled up against the vast open spaces of Eastern New Mexico. This quiet village of just about 300 people is not quite a ghost town but many of its old businesses display otherwise. However, this was once a busy stop for early day Route 66 travelers with several gas stations, garages, motor courts, and restaurants.
The settlement was founded in 1902 and soon became an important ranching and shipping center when the railroad arrived just two years later.
pouring anymore beverages these days.
In those vintage days, San Jon was the largest town on those eastern plains and was the hub of cowboy nightlife on Saturday nights. Unfortunately, its streets are quiet today, after having been passed by the interstate, lined with empty buildings testifying to better times.
Continuing on for a little more than twenty miles, you will soon arrive in Tucumcari. As you travel along watch for the many "Tucumcari Tonite" billboards, which have been popular since the vintage days of the Route 66.


How to watch Master of None: Season 2 (2017) on Netflix Australia!
Yes, Master of None: Season 2 is now available on Australian Netflix. It arrived for online streaming on October 4, 2017.
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Season 1 of Master of None has 10 episodes. Because different Netflix countries have different availability for episodes, you'll need to check the episode listing below to see which are available in Australia.
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Mr Lee Where R U?
by Uncle Bob Culver | Jan 25, 2013 | Bob's Bus Blog
Mr. Lee lost near the Grand Canyon finds God's perfect help!
After visiting 5 smaller national parks near the Grand Canyon in August several years ago on the last night of our Go West tour, our passengers, all international college students /scholars, began filing their way back onto the sleeper bus for our final leg home to Atlanta. To my surprise and horror, one spot was vacant. Mr. Lee of China was missing.
So I asked everyone, "Who had dinner with Mr. Lee tonight?" Dead silence. "This can't be happening," I assured myself. So I asked, "Who last saw Mr. Lee before we left for dinner?" Still nobody spoke.
I quickly rejoined, "Who remembers last seeing Mr. Lee this afternoon?" One shaky voice finally answered, "When we left the Indian Cliff Dwellings (Walnut Canyon National Monument) at our midway stop this afternoon, I saw him still in the bathroom as we were leaving." Dumbfounded, I exclaimed, "That can't be right: that was 4 hours and 3 stops ago!"
But when no one else could vouch for where they had last spotted Mr. Lee, I quickly located a phone booth (before the days of cell phones) to call home to ask my wife, Lynn, if she had heard from him, but the line was repeatedly busy. Oh, for a cell phone–but that would not be available for another decade. Quickly, I got out my itinerary, found the name of the Walnut Canyon Cliff Dwellings National Park Superintendent, with whom I had previously arranged an educational tour and fortunately kept his letter with phone number included, and then made a belated call. "Have you seen a Mr. Lee from China", I inquired … at 10 PM.
To my amazement, he replied, "Oh yes, I've seen him and been with him for several hours this afternoon. He waited by the highway for you to return and when you didn't, he came to us for help. But we couldn't understand his limited English so, fortunately, we found a local couple from China from the local university who translated for him. Then I found your letter and called your wife to find out what she knew. She said, if you hadn't come back by now, that means you had forgotten him and wouldn't realize your mistake until you after dinner when you made your final head count for the night. She said you were a bit of an absent minded professor. She sure got all that right!"
Sheeplessly, (I know the correct word is sheepishly; but I had lost one of my sheep!) I asked, "Where's Mr. Lee now?" The Superintendent replied, "Oh, the Chinese students took him to the local police station and from there to the Greyhound station to catch the next bus to Oklahoma because your wife said once you found out where he was lost, you wouldn't backtrack 200 miles, but would rather meet him at the next major layover on your itinerary which is tomorrow afternoon in Oklahoma City." I hate to admit it, but Lynn was right… again!
After phoning the police and Greyhound bus station to confirm that Mr. Lee had gotten on the right bus, I finally connected with Lynn. My brain scrambled and with egg on my face, I didn't know what to say, other than, "Thanks for bailing me out."
The next afternoon, our schedule called for a 4 hour break in Oklahoma City, including swimming and showers at the home of a prominent businessman, Kirk Humphreys, who later served as its Mayor. (Kirk Humphreys was Oklahoma City's 34th Mayor and began his second four-year term in office in April 2002.)
After a tour of the city, we drove by the bus station at the precise moment Mr. Lee's bus arrived. Boy, was he a sight for sore eyes and glad to see us, too! In front of the group, I asked, "How did you get lost?" Why didn't you call my wife right away–you had her number on the piece of paper I gave you at the beginning of the trip and told you to always keep with you…."
Mr. Lee then shared how he tried to run to catch the bus at it was pulling out of the parking lot, all the way to the highway, 1 mile away where he then waited and waited and waited. "But what about the piece of paper with all the important phone numbers, I gave you?" I asked in my defense.
"I left it on the bus," was all he could say with big eyes and curled lips. We broke into around a applause and hugs and listened to the rest of his story, including how he had no money to pay for the ticket. Peering into my receipt bag to see if there was any group money leftover (our goal is to break even on any trip) and finding only $80, I gladly paid Mr. Lee for his unexpected adventure.
We were dead even financially; but alive in faith!
That's a great story by itself…..but here's the rest of the story:
A month later, in September, I led another Go West trip, but on its final day, to change the schedule a bit, we toured Dallas, Texas rather than Oklahoma City. While showering at a church that shared an international friendship ministry with ISI (Intl Students, Inc.), I was speaking to the intl pastor, when a local Chinese young lady overheard me being called "Uncle Bob".
She inquired. "Are you Uncle Bob?"
Honored that anyone outside our bus would know my nickname, I proudly said, "Yes. I'm Uncle Bob"
"Do you know Mr. Lee?" she questioned.
"Mr. Lee? I know many Mr. Lees. Which one do you know?", I asked.
"The Mr. Lee who was lost outside the Grand Canyon", she exclaimed.
Ugh. "Here we are in Dallas a thousand miles away from there. How in the world did you know about that Mr. Lee", I wondered.
"I'm the one with my brother and a friend who found Mr. Lee on the side of the road (I-40) waiting for your bus!"
"How can that be? I thought Mr. Lee walked back to the park ranger's office. I thought they were the ones who found a Chinese couple from the local university to help translate", I muttered.
"Oh no, what happened was that we were traveling from Los Angeles back to Dallas on I-40 when I spotted this man standing on the side of the road. He looked lost, so I told my brother to stop for him, but he would not. I told him the man was Chinese, but my brother and his friend said, 'How can you tell? He looks like the other Indians around here!' I insisted he was from Beijing. 'How do you know that?', they mocked. "His hair cut looks like yours," I said. Finally, I told them the reason we must turn around and help is because that's what God would want us to do. You see, I recently became a Christian and I've learned that God wants us to be merciful just like our Father in Heaven shows us mercy." She went on to say, "We then took him to the bus station, bought him dinner, gave him the extra money he needed to buy his ticket and prayed for him."
I wanted to give my side of the story, but her soft, gentle reply had already knocked me over. God is indeed full of Mercy and wants each of us to be filled with His Spirit so that we, too, can share God's amazing love with others in need.


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Families worried for children's safety after Canton changes busing policy
By: Olivia Fecteau
CANTON, Ohio — Canton City School District K-12 students who live within one mile of their school are no longer being picked up by buses, in a recent change to the district's busing policy.
According to the district's website, this is a return to an older policy, after six years of busing students who lived more than a quarter mile from school, and is meant to help make up for a "major budget shortfall." A spokesperson for the district noted that the district estimates it will save $1.2 million per year by making this change.
But the change has some parents and grandparents feeling frustrated and upset just two weeks into the school year.
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PHOTO: Gibbs Leadership School in Canton, where Patricia Kelley's granddaughter is a student.
Patricia Kelley's granddaughter, 11, attends Gibbs Leadership School in Canton. The girl's 8-year-old sister is also a student. Kelley said she is concerned about the fact that the girls now have to walk close to a mile to get to school.
"It's just sad that we're supposed to believe that our kids' safety is a big concern for the school [district]," Kelley said.
Kelley said she was concerned about what her family and all children walking to school in Canton might have to deal with, from violence to nearby sex offenders.
"What is it going to take, one child to get killed, and then they might wake up, or one child to get snatched up, then they might wake up?" Kelley said.
A search of Canton's crime map, linked from the city of Canton's police website, shows that within a one-mile radius of Gibbs Leadership School, there are more than 50 sex offenders.
A search of that same area shows crimes from within the last year that range from robbery to assault.
Tara McClelland, a mother of two students who now won't be picked up by buses, told News 5 she was concerned for the safety of her children. Her youngest two children are now expected to walk to school.
"My son and or my daughter who are 12 walk the 6 year old," McClelland wrote via text message. "We have to find people to take our 9 year old to school, considering she has to cross a busy street and walk through a neighborhood that has had a lot of violence."
One of her daughters "has cried numerous times about not having a bus and wants her dad or I to change our schedules and it just isn't possible to do that," McClelland wrote.
Kelley's family also had to make arrangements to drive the children to and from school, but she said not every parent or grandparent is able to do that.
"A lot of parents can't get off to come get their kids," Kelley said. "A lot of parents don't have vehicles to come get their kids."
Ohio law only requires busing for students living at least two miles from school.
The district said in addition to hiring more crossing guards, its safety and security officers and Canton Auxiliary Police are monitoring and patrolling areas that might be unsafe for reasons other than traffic.


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Taylor Swift Announces North America Reputation Stadium Tour
November 13, 2017 TER Staff Leave a comment
Are you ready for it?!? Following the release of her new studio LP, Reputation, Taylor Swift has announced her North American stadium tour of the same name.
Kicking things off on May 8th at Glendale's University of Phoenix Stadium, Swift will make stops (with more dates likely to come) in Chicago, Toronto, Seattle, Pasadena and many more, until the first leg of the tour concludes on October 6th in Arlington, TX. So if you don't want to miss out, and trust us that you won't, be sure to register for Swift and Ticketmaster's Taylor Swift Tix program to get your tickets in pre-sale. Registration closes on November 28th.
Check out the Reputation Tour dates below and register for Taylor Swift Tix now.
Reputation Stadium Tour Dates 2018
May 8 – University of Phoenix Stadium – Glendale, AZ
May 12 – Levi's Stadium – Santa Clara, CA
May 19 – Rose Bowl – Pasadena, CA
May 22 – CenturyLink Field – Seattle, WA
May 25 – Sports Authority Field at Mile High – Denver, CO
June 2 – Soldier Field – Chicago, IL
June 30 – Papa John's Cardinal Stadium – Louisville, KY
July 7 – Ohio Stadium – Columbus, OH
July 10 – FedEx Field – Washington, DC
July 14 – Lincoln Financial Field – Philadelphia, PA
July 17 First Energy Stadium Cleveland, OH
July 21 – MetLife Stadium – East Rutherford, NJ
July 28 – Gillette Stadium – Foxborough, MA
Aug. 4 – Rogers Centre – Toronto, ON
Aug. 7 – Heinz Field – Pittsburgh, PA
Aug. 11 – Mercedes-Benz Stadium – Atlanta, GA
Aug. 14 – Raymond James Stadium – Tampa, FL
Aug. 18 – Hard Rock Stadium – Miami, FL
Aug. 25 – Nissan Stadium – Nashville, TN
Aug. 28 – Ford Field – Detroit, MI
Sept. 1 – U.S. Bank Stadium – Minneapolis, MN
Sept. 8 – Arrowhead Stadium – Kansas City, MO
Sept. 15 – Lucas Oil Stadium – Indianapolis, IN
Sept. 18 – The Dome at America's Center – St. Louis, MO
Sept. 22 – Mercedes-Benz Superdome – New Orleans, LA
Sept. 29 – NRG Stadium – Houston, TX
Oct. 6 – AT&T Stadium – Arlington, TX
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Fredericton-Area Literary Events
If you're in the Fredericton area over the few weeks, there are some great literary opportunities on offer. The Fredericton Arts Alliance is hosting writer Forrest Orser as part of its artist in residence program this week. And on June 25, CBC Radio will be recording Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids at the Cedar Tree in downtown Fredericton, which promises to be fun and hilarious. Details on both below.
UNB alumnus and past Fiddlehead contributor Forrest Orser is one of the artists in residence at the Soldiers' Barracks in Fredericton's Historic Garrison District until June 20. He will be available to discuss his work and writing in general from 1:30 to 5 p.m. each day. The other artist in residence is Mariah Sockabasin, an aboriginal artist and fashion designer. She will be presenting her work from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. every day. This is the 13th year that the Fredericton Arts Alliance has organizing its series of one-week artist residencies in the Soldiers' Barracks. The residencies are also part of Fredericton Tourism's cultural tourism programming. Orser has published poems and short stories, including "Wild Horses on an Island" in the Summer 2011 issue of The Fiddlehead. After more than 30 years as a reporter and editor with The Daily Gleaner, he is now a freelance editor.
Do you still have any of your childhood or teenage writing? CBC Radio presents Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids, an open-mic evening of juvenilia — book reports, diary entries, poems, letters from camp — read out loud by adults to a room full of strangers.
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https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/business/article/Merger-creates-Humongo-firm-414947.php
Merger creates Humongo firm
Marketing company takes aim at digital, social media
Michael C. Juliano, staff writer
Source Marketing, a Norwalk-based marketing shop, acquired a smaller agency called Plaid, now renamed Humongo.
Source Marketing recently got Humongo.
The Norwalk-based integrated marketing company with 52 employees acquired Danbury-based digital creative firm Plaid with seven employees and, with Plaid's help, came up with the new name depicting great size -- in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way.
"We wanted something to mark that this was a new agency and show how humongous we are," said Darryl Orht, who founded Plaid in 1996. "We're now tied to a much larger team."
The merger with Source Marketing, a subsidiary of New York City-based marketing communications firm MDC Partners, will allow Humongo to handle an ever-increasing workload as a result of the growing social media sector, Orht said.
"We love it because we have a classic business challenge of having more work than we can handle," he said. "We had to turn down business last year."
The acquisition, which was initiated by MDC, will allow Humongo to offer a wider array of services and bring on additional digital media strategists and marketing planners to meet the challenge, Orht said.
"Digital and social media are hot right now, and marketers know you have to be smart about marketing," said Ohrt, who is working for as many as 50 clients at one time, including Aflac and Columbia Records. "We've really exploded."
Several firms expressed interest in Plaid, which experienced modest and steady growth for many years, but Source Marketing and MDC provided the perfect fit given their corporate culture and understanding of social media, Orht said.
"Not many people actually get it," he said.
Plaid was acquired because of its expertise with social and mobile media, Derek Correia, Source Marketing's CEO, said.
"We can now offer our clients world-class thought leadership in this incredibly important arena from people who eat, sleep and breathe it every day," he said.
Source Marketing was recently hired by StarKist to help promote the Pittsburgh-based company's "Have You Been StarKist" ad campaign by creating coupons and tuna fish recipes for newspapers, magazines and dispensers placed in supermarket aisles and checkouts.
Source Marketing's purchase of Plaid is not surprising, given companies' rapidly escalating use of social and digital media as a marketing tool, said Gerald Cavallo, a marketing professor at Fairfield University.
"Marketing money is shifting to these venues because it's a more cost-effective way of reaching people," he said. "This makes for more opportunities for companies like Source Marketing and Plaid to grow."
Publicly traded MDC posted a net loss of $18.3 million for 2009, compared to a net income of $100,000 for the previous year.


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Taunton in Bristol County, Massachusetts — The American Northeast (New England)
First School House
By Marc Belanger, August 16, 2008
1. First School House Marker closeup
First School House. . Near this elm tree stood the first school house build 1637 . Tree Planted and tablet place by the Lydia Cobb Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Tercentenary of Taunton 1639-1939 . This historical marker was erected in 1939 by Daughters of the American Revolution. It is in Taunton in Bristol County Massachusetts
Near this elm tree stood the first school house build 1637
Tree Planted and tablet place by the Lydia Cobb Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Tercentenary of Taunton 1639-1939
Erected 1939 by Daughters of the American Revolution.
Marker series. This marker is included in the Daughters of the American Revolution marker series.
Location. 41° 54.09′ N, 71° 5.256′ W. Marker is in Taunton, Massachusetts, in Bristol County. Marker is on Church Green, in the median. The Elm tree planted in 1939 had to be cut down a new tree has replaced it though. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Taunton MA 02780, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Memorial for Soldiers against Terrorism (a few steps from this marker); Site of the First Successful Iron Works in the Old Colony (approx. 1.6 miles away); First Burial Ground (approx. 5.1 miles away); The Site of the First House in Norton (approx. 5.1 miles away);
By Bryan Simmons, May 15, 2012
2. First School House Marker
Winneccunnett Pond Area (approx. 5.1 miles away); Anawan Rock (approx. 5.8 miles away); King Philip's Cave (approx. 5.9 miles away); Dighton Community Church (approx. 6.2 miles away).
Categories. • Colonial Era • Education •
The new tree
More. Search the internet for First School House.
Credits. This page was last revised on September 21, 2017. This page originally submitted on May 25, 2012, by Bryan Simmons of Attleboro, Massachusetts. This page has been viewed 500 times since then and 2 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on September 9, 2017, by Marc Belanger of Taunton, Massachusetts. 2, 3. submitted on May 25, 2012, by Bryan Simmons of Attleboro, Massachusetts. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.


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«Ogre Battle» () — пісня британського рок-гурту «Queen» з їхнього другого студійного альбому «Queen II». Написана вокалістом гурту Фредді Мерк'юрі, пісня є «найважчою» в альбомі.

Історія
Пісня була написана у 1972 році, але Фредді Мерк'юрі не хотів її записувати, до тих пір поки у гурту не з'явилося більше студійного часу, щоб реалізувати свої ідеї (тоді ж Браяном Меєм була написана подібна пісня-«хіт» «White Queen (As It Began)»). У зв'язку з цим, деякі елементи пісні були зіграні гуртом на концертах ще до її запису.

Пісня має кілька повторюваних частин. Крики видавав Мерк'юрі, а найвищі голоси співав Роджер Тейлор наприкінці приспіву. Браян Мей наслідував бойовий шум своєю гітарою «Red Special», яка, поряд із ударними Тейлора, призводила до незвичної на той час швидкості мелодії. На прохання Мерк'юрі продюсер Рой Томас Бейкер використав деякі прогресивні рок-рішення, такі як негайне протиставлення реверс-гітари оригіналу у вступі та сильне відлуння гонгу. Це одна з пісень альбому, яка не закінчується остаточно, вона переплітається з наступною піснею — «The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke».

Існує версія пісні, записана 3 грудня 1973 року в радіостудії «BBC», яка була випущена в альбомі «At the Beeb» 1989 року. Вона була на десять секунд коротше, ніж оригінал, це версія зазнала суттєвих змін, вся композиція стала «жорсткішою», зник півхвилинний вступ, як це було в до оригінальній версії, і вона отримала іншу обробку. Загалом, це був своєрідний концертний запис, що найбільше відчувалося в вокалі: поки у записі «BBC» Тейлор співає високі партії, Мей співає низькі партії, а Мерк'юрі співає головний вокал, тоді як в студійній версії всі вокали виконав Мерк'юрі.

Пісня також увійшла до відео «Live at the Rainbow '74», яке було записано під час концерту від 20 листопада 1974 року в театрі «Rainbow», яке було випущено у 1992 році як частина подарункового бокс-сету «Box of Tricks».

Створення
У 1998 році у в одному з інтерв'ю гітарист гурту Браян Мей розповів, як створювалася пісня:
«Фредді написав пісню "Ogre Battle", а також музику для неї з дуже важкими гітарними рифами. Дивно, що він вирішив зробити це. Коли Фредді брав в руки гітару, у нього спостерігався гарячковий прилив енергії. З боку це виглядало так, ніби дуже нервова тварина грає на гітарі. Фредді був дуже нетерплячою людиною, це відбивалося на його грі. Його техніка гри на гітарі не була високою, але вся мелодія була у нього в голові. Ми відчували, що вона рветься вийти назовні. Його права рука з шаленою швидкістю вдаряла по струнах. Фредді записав багато матеріалу на гітарі. Частину з нього я навіть уявити собі не міг. Таким чином, Фредді змусив мене шукати способи вилучення незвичайних звуків на гітарі. Це було по-справжньому чудово»

Не виключено, що сюжет пісні Фредді Мерк'юрі черпав з книг Джона Толкіна.

Концертні виконання
Пісня виконувалася гуртом на концертах з «Queen I Tour» до туру «A Day at the Races Tour». Це одна з небагатьох пісень, виконуваних на концертах гуртом задовго до їх офіційного релізу в альбомах. Пісня виконувалася гуртом повністю. Однак все ж є відмінності між студійним записом і записами з концертів. Наприклад, Мерк'юрі між рядками робив паузи, а деякі слова взагалі не промовляв. Після першого виконання приспіву музиканти різко припиняли грати, і тільки після короткої паузи, що супроводжується оплесками і радісними вигуками слухачів, Меркюрі говорив: «He gives a», і на словах «great big cry» музика поновлювалася.

Оригінальний текст пісніHe gives a great big cry And he can swallow up the ocean  With a mighty tongue he catches flies  The palm of a hand incredible size  One great big eye has a focus in your direction  Now the battle is on Концертне виконанняHe gives a great big cry  Swallow up the ocean  With a mighty tongue he catches flies  Palm of a hand incredible size  Great big eye has a focus in your direction  Now the battle is on''

Музиканти
 Фредді Мерк'юрі — вокал
 Браян Мей — гітара, бек-вокал
 Джон Дікон — бас-гітара
 Роджер Тейлор — ударні, гонг, бек-вокал

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Посилання
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Пісні Queen


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Job search is hard and requires lot of effort.
Here in Happy Schools, you have read several experiences shared by students about the process they took to find a direct, full-time job.
Finding job cam be done via consulting companies and fake resume is required.
And some students take the job search lightly because of they think consultants are there and it's an easy backup option.
I never advocate or advice anyone to do unethical things. Just follow the process and stick to the law. It's going to come back to hurt you by taking shirt cuts. As you are reading this guide and list of things required to do the find a job, you would realize that effort required.
Who said studying in USA is going to be easy or finding a job is going to be easy.
This my job search story: I was preparing my resume. I took a copy of my old resume and after admiring it for few minutes, I wasn't sure why I would even need a new resume or that's what I thought.
Then I asked my roommate for his copy of his resume, so I could use it for the template and replace the contents with what I have done, what courses I have completed and other fun stuffs.
I was sitting on my bed with my laptop and I froze. Words weren't coming out. I didn't know what to write and how to form the sentence.
Then I did what anyone with access to Google would do. Then I had a resume after about 1 week of work. Then I would admire the work I have done crafting this resume.
So, I would apply for few jobs, then wait for an email or phone call. After a couple of weeks, I would work on getting new version of my resume with brand new layout and the same content. And it was a a cycle of expectations of an interview call and disappointment.
Then I asked my batch mates who were applying for internship around the same time to learn what they are doing and how are they feeling. Guess what? There weren't any different. We're all pretty much doing the same routine and expecting different results.
Then I learned the hard way, but good way. I eventually got an internship, then full-time job. Here's the lessons I learned along the way and something that no one is going to tell you.
Get Admission. Get a Degree. Get a Job. Get Paid.
But, none one told me about the missing pieces.
Probably you are hearing (or heard) the same story. Just find a way to go to the USA and your life is all settled for happily ever after. But, that's not the reality. Life teaches you hard lessons on the way. Those lessons make you a better person.
So, what can be done about that? What can you do about that?
How can I help you find a career here in the U.S.A. based on my experience and journey?
I have collected and answered some of frequently asked questions about job search for students on F1 Visa.
1. How do I find a job in the USA as an International student?
Be a "Grade A" student.
You could be attending B, C, D Grade schools., but remember to be a "A Grade" student.
When I say Grade A, I mean everything about you counts here. Your academic skills, subject knowledge, interview prep, personality, communication skills, maturity and attitude.
2. What does A class student mean?
Don't chase grades, chase knowledge. Scoring B grade in a tough course is better than A grade in an easy course. Have you thought about taking two easy courses and one tough course to keep up the grades? That's probably not going to help you.
Along with that, you have to re-invent yourself. Studying in the USA is a golden opportunity that is available to a selected few. Make maximum utilization of the resources available at your campus. And experience your life on your terms and find ways to enrich and enhance your experience.
Note: When I say A Grade, I mean Type A personality kind of thing. It includes overall personality and your attitude.
3. What does it take to find a job?
Effort. Actually, quite a lot of effort. First, start with developing yourself and your knowledge. Then build your network. Find a mentor. Improve your communication skills. Understand what it takes to find a job. Don't expect to come into the country as an average student, take easy courses and expect that you deserve a job. Unless you have stretched yourself, finding a decent job is going to be tough. I'm talking about finding a full-time job, not a "Desi-consulting" kind of jobs.
P.S. I don't recommend anyone using fake resume or proxy interviews. I absolutely hate that and I'm sure Immigration department is going to crack down on such practices.
4. How do I find a mentor?
There two types of mentors: Real people and Books.
You can find someone who can guide you. If you can't find a person, then read the books. Lots of books. Reading 200 to 300 books will give you pretty much the same effect or at lest 80% of a direct mentor. In either way, you need to invest time to book reading habits if you don't have one. Then become good at reading the way that's going to give maximum impact and a system to go back to refer to important points in the future. Check out the Resources Page for a list of recommended books for boosting your career.
5. How do I build your professional network?
Circle 3: People you meet at networking events, meet-ups, professors.
Circle 5: People you meet in conference, hiring managers, HR personnel's.
Now, consider these circles as concentric circles.
It's easy to build your network up to level 3.
It takes effort to build your professional network for Levels 4 and above. Students who end up finding jobs without a ton of effort are those who get good at building their network beyond Level 4.
6. I get it. Circle 4 and above is tough. But, how do I reach them?
Ask your mentor for introduction. Then ask the new person for another introduction. Keep at it daily, weekly. Your network will grow.
If you like to learn more about building your professional network, join this Free Job Search Boot Camp course delivered via Email.
Here's couple of books that I recommend to learn how to use LinkedIn – LinkedInfluence and Blue Sky Linked Guide.
7. Why do I need to improve communication skills?
Communication skills don't mean writing emails and speaking over the phone. It's way beyond that.
How you act and react to a specific situation. Understanding the clues based on the situation. That's called situational awareness. It's part of your communication skill. If your English proficiency test scores are below par, then you have to work hard on improving your spoken English, situational awareness skills. And not to mention your personal productivity.
8. How to do improve my spoken English?
Read books and more books. Ask feedback from your mentor. Make sure you pick a mentor who can point out the mistakes. Then think about ESL courses in your campus or online courses to improve your spoken English. It can take 3 to 6 months of practice with 15 to 30 minute effort per day to see improvements to your slang and length of sentences that you can speak.
9. Gosh, that's a lot of work. Is there an easier way?
Yes, you can take shortcuts. Let me know how it works out for you. It will come back to hurt you. Where is your personal ethics?
As you can see, you came to USA to get educated, not to cheat!
10. What else should I be doing in the school to get a job?
Well, you need a resume, good social media profiles to showcase your skills (aka personal branding) like a blog or a profile page.
Go to events, build your social skills, join clubs and society, etc. Then be proactive and stay productive.
11. Did you just say a Blog?
A blog is a must to showcase your work. There's a difference between having a blog that really showcases you as a person and your abilities. Lot of Indian F-1 students are hiding under a false name with fake resumes. Why do you want to do that? More about that here – Consulting companies and their dirty business.
Monitor your social media usage. Employer will be looking for them to learn more about you. If your social media profile is not "Mom Approved" then chances of getting an interview call is going to be tough.
Did you see a high school basketball coach was fired fired over a picture she posted in FB with another high school coach?
13. Why do I need a resume for job search?
Of course you need a good resume for job search. Even if you have a LinkedIn profile and a blog, you still need a resume. A Good Resume, one that's crafted to showcase your accomplishments and lessons earned.
14. How do I know if my resume is good enough?
Get your resume reviewed by your mentor and professionals in your network or have your resume written professionally. The resume is an evolving document. Most students resume would have work experience and projects. That's a good start. But, what you write below that counts. Then you have to make sure the key elements of your resume are highlighted and visible when hiring managers scans the resume.
15. Why professionally written resume, why spend the money?
You are an Engineer, when you are awarded an Engineering Degree.
You are a Doctor and you get the medical degree.
They don't teach resume writing skills in college.
Would you go to a Dentist for your stomach problem? No, you don't. But, when it comes to resume writing, don't try to be a certified resume professional, when you are not.
This is what What Hiring Managers look in your resume.
16. I don't have any work experience. Is it easy to find a job as an entry level student?
Millions of college students don't have on the job work experience, when they graduate.
As an international student on F-1 Visa (U.S.A.) it can be a challenge to find a job, unless you put in your work and ready to transform yourself. To find a Entry Level job, you have re-invented yourself during the period of stay in the USA as a student.
If you don't have work experience and would be graduating to look for Entry Level job, then make sure you find an Internship and work one or two semester on CPT. Then try to get that CPT Internship converted into OPT Job.
17. What should I do to re-invent myself?
Are you stretching your knowledge and ability?
Are you taking tough courses that make you better?
Are you facing problems head-on or ducking?
How many self-improvement books are you reading per year?
Do you have a monthly, quarterly, yearly goals that are tracked, monitored and measured?
If you like to have multiple job offers lined-up when you graduate, then you have been different.
18. What should I do, if I don't know what kind of job I need?
As a young adult, it's hard to know where you want to be in your life and what kind of career you like to have.
When you don't have a clear picture, then start with the first job offer you get. Then you can develop and identify your interest.
Don't chase dollars and higher pay in your first few jobs, rather focus on learning opportunity.
You have several decades to earn money, but what you learn in first 5 years after your school is going to stop you for success or failure in your life ahead.
19. I know my interests, what should I do next?
Great. Work towards that. When you work on a job that you love, you will make money on auto-pilot.
Instead, if you chase the dollars by doing the job you hate, you are not going to be successful at it.
20. What should I do to make more money?
Be an entrepreneur where you an be your own boss you control your destiny. You can tend to be entrepreneurial with your own day to day tasks at work or personal life.
Target wealth, not pay check to pay check savings. Start small.
The biggest ability that living, working and studying in America is going to teach is you is, how to make income, give you the ability to generate income.
When you have that skill, you will be able to survive anywhere in the world. That's why American Education and Life is in such demand.
I was just like anyone else. I had the opportunity to see what America has to offer. So many inspiring examples of people who made it with pure hard work.
21. How do I make wealth?
If you love what you are doing in your job, you will grow no matter what life throws at you. Make sure to find a filed that you are passionate about.
22. I hate my job, but I'm not sure what I should do to enjoy life?
If you hate your job, then figure out what you love to do. It can be working for, another employer or do something that motivates you.
You can still work in a company and start something on your side that you enjoy. Use the motivation and energy that you get from one source to drive the rest of your day.
23. How do I make money by doing what I love?
Remember that 10,000 hour rule? You become an expert when you have spent at least 10,000 hours (from the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell). When you become an expert or even when you have spent 5,000 hours, you can start selling and charging for services. You start making money when your expertise level increases. You start making wealth, when you become an expert.
Do the math: Spend 3 hours per day on what you like. That's 1095 hours per year. In 4 years time, you can start making money. You should be doing part time to full- time income from 4th. If you think, you can't make a full-time living from the work by then, then just push yourself for one more year. If nothing works out to 5 years, think about another new interest.
This applies to the skills you are acquiring in your day job. More experience you get, better you become at your skills and employers would want to hire you and keep you.
25. I can't spend 5 years to know if I can really make money?
Well, you can't become an expert over night. I have been blogging for years now. I had zero blogging skills. But, I kept at it, I learned as I went along. I picked-up new skills. I invested in courses and networked with professional bloggers.
Universities reach out to be promoted via the blog. How did this happen? It did not happen overnight. It took small dedicated effort over long time.
Above all it all comes down to finding what you are passionate about.
I love to help people. I have a family (2 kids and wife), I want see tech them life skills and spend time with them. I do also love to help others with my ability. So, I'm doing this blog as a way to express my passionate side of things.
I have seen friends to wood work as hobby. Others are real estate agents (they love homes and outdoor projects). I have seen friends do drag racing on weekends and others build homes.
These are skills that will help you stay on track and be passionate of life and help you and your family move forward.
I'm sure every one has a skill form which you can driver energy and passion to motivate you on other areas of life.
26. I don't want to work hard or go through all this long, hard process. I live to have fun and relax.
That's good for you. You can earn money by doing a job that you will hate or others hate you at work. But, there will be a point in time in your life, you will realize you need to get going, change yourself. I just hope, it's not too late when you realize you wasted precious life by being average and chasing your moving dreams.
That's 26 things to set you on the right path to find a full-time job and living a passionate life. But, I hope if you can get just a few things right, it would make a considerable difference in your life and career.
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This reminded me why I came to the USA, and why I chose to stay.