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Monday, November 28, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Oil spill darkens feel-good story of urban salmon creek
A catastrophic oil spill has dashed what had been a feel-good story about salmon returning to an urban waterway.
Reports say that up to 1,000 liters of home heating oil leaked out from a Kenneth Street home last Tuesday and contaminated? Swan Creek and parts of the Colquitz River system.
Dorothy Chambers has spent five years working with other volunteers to try and rehabilitate Colquitz Creek. She told the News that there was a sickening smell of oil and dozens of dead fish in the creek.
?The sight of the salmon at the surface gasping for air and swimming erratically was sickening,? Chambers said.
Saanich responded to reports of the leak by installing barriers to absorb the oil at five locations.
?I can add that the property owner is cooperating fully and the drain connection has been isolated from the storm system,? Saanich?s manager of public works Mike Ippen wrote in an email to Chambers and others concerned about the creek. ?No additional material will enter the drainage system. We will continue to monitor the booms and pads and replace as required.?
Chambers replied that the pads weren?t working.
?Although the spill was known to be from Kenneth Street flowing into Swan creek, none of entrances into the Colquitz had any absorbent protection at all,? Chambers wrote in a email sent to Ippen. ?The fish fence is saturated with reeking oil and all of today's Coho were dead.? What a sight for the families who came to watch the salmon release. Twenty-four large dead Coho in three days ? Coho that are intact, in perfect shape.? Mostly all large females, still carrying 3-5000 eggs each, which will never hatch and will affect this run for years to come. It is probable that the 162 Coho we released on Tuesday are affected from the oil which was already flowing up stream where they were heading.?
The feeling of dejection was the opposite of the sense of optimism that volunteers felt earlier in the week when record numbers of salmon were being counted in the creek.
More to come.
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Obamas, NFL PLayers, Others Volunteer This Thanksgiving Season (SLIDESHOW)
From the first family to rookie NFL players, many with big hearts have been moved to give back this Thanksgiving season.
Check out the top volunteer efforts across the country, taking place at locations ranging from homeless shelters to "Occupy" camps.
And it's not too late for you to take part in the season of giving thanks and giving back. See Huffington Post Impact's list of ways to volunteer this Thanksgiving season.
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President Barack Obama hands out food for Thanksgiving at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. He is joined by his family including first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha.(Susan Walsh, AP)
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Readers Respond to "The Sunny Side of Smut"--and More
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MIRROR THERAPY
I read with great pleasure ?Reflections on the Mind,? by Vilayanur S. Rama?chandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran [Illusions]. These experiments involving the senses are indeed fascinating. Similar experiments were first done by a well-known behavioral optometrist, Robert A. Kraskin, more than 40 years ago in Washington, D.C. He used the techniques in diagnosis and for vision rehabilitation?including for Luci Baines Johnson while her father was in office. He called his regimen of eye exercises ?squinchel? and taught it to many optometrists and vision therapists nationwide at various professional meetings and workshops. As a member of the advisory board of the Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association, I thank you for bringing this useful and interesting phenomenon back into public awareness.
Diana P. Ludlam
via e-mail
MIND-SET ISN?T EVERYTHING
?Painful Pessimism,? by Janelle Weaver [Head Lines], is misleading: most drugs are taken to effect a cure, but the study was only on pain management. It has long been known that pain management is very complex and involves both physical and psychological factors. My wife has ovarian cancer, so I have ?become very aware of how many people truly believe that a positive attitude is the key to a cure. It ain?t necessarily so! We have had drugs fail totally when we expected them to work, and vice versa. Please, please, please, Scientific Amer?ican Mind, don?t feed the antiscience, antipharma sentiment.
?Daouda?
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PONDERING PORN
Melinda Wenner Moyer?s article ?The Sunny Side of Smut? [Perspectives] misleads readers by painting a ?sunny? and innocuous picture of pornography. Not only does Moyer?s account leave out much research that depicts pornography in bleaker terms, it also overstates the sunniness of porn. The overall insinuation one gets from the article is that porn is not all that bad.
When children are in porn, no one simply looks at the declining rates of child sexual abuse and blithely insinuates that child pornography has a ?sunny? side to it. There it is acknowledged that the children depicted in child pornography (mainly girls) are harmed in its creation. Nonchild pornography is still a form of prostitution (paying women for sex acts), and there is ample evidence that women are harmed in systems of prostitution. Pointing to those who claim they were not harmed does not erase the harm of those who claim they were.
To indicate that porn does not harm relationships, Moyer looks at studies that take the porn users? side of the equation (their reports of sexual satisfaction and intimacy), as if that is sufficient to indicate that relationships are not harmed by porn. She ignores other research that indicates wives and girlfriends report being deeply hurt by their boyfriends? or husbands? porn use.
Finally, I think the ?benevolent sexism? Moyer indicates that pornography produces hardly compensates for the ?more negative attitudes toward women? that she concedes it brings about.
Saffy Casson
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I am a senior family and individual psychotherapist. My long experience is that pornography is not at all harmful to anyone, even adolescents. I am a clinician, however, and not a scientist.
I do know that statistics establish correlations, not causes or effects. The correlations some cite about bad marriages and pornography do not establish anything causal. Spouses who are jealous of their partners? autoerotic private life need to grow up. A jealous partner who interprets the other?s interest in porn as rejection might consider whether the other finds one an unsatisfactory partner in sex and life in general and get to work on making things better.
?Dr. Whom?
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Keeping Your Pets Safe During The Holidays: Tips From The ...
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) ? As the holiday season gets underway this Thanksgiving weekend, the ASPCA is out with?tips for pet parents, to ensure the safety of your furry family members during the festivities:
No Feasting for the Furries:? Most people know not to feed your pets chocolate?and anything sweetened with xylitol, but other toxic table foods can be hidden in recipes, including garlic, onions, grapes/raisins and fatty foods like turkey skin and?avocado.? In addition,?bones should never be given to a pet, as they can become logged in the throat or intestines.? Call the ASPCA Poison Prevent Hotline ?if you think your pet has ingested something dangerous: 1-888-426-4435.
O Christmas Tree: ?Securely anchor your Christmas tree so it doesn?t tip and fall, causing possible injury to your pet. This will also prevent the tree water?which may contain fertilizers that can cause stomach upset?from spilling.??Use a tree skirt to prevent your pet from drinking the water, which could result in nausea or diarrhea.
Tinsel-less Town: Kitties love this sparkly, light-catching ?toy? that?s easy to bat around and carry in their mouths. But a nibble can lead to a swallow, which can lead to an obstructed digestive tract, severe vomiting, dehydration and possible surgery. It?s best to brighten your boughs with something other than tinsel.
Forget the Mistletoe & Holly: Holly, when ingested, can cause pets to suffer nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Mistletoe can cause gastrointestinal upset and cardiovascular problems. And many varieties of lilies, can cause kidney failure in cats if ingested. Opt for just-as-jolly artificial plants made from silk or plastic, or choose a pet-safe bouquet.
Watch the video below or click here.
Get more safety tips in the latest edition of All For Animals with 1010WINS? Susan Richard:
That Holiday Glow: Don?t leave lighted candles unattended. Pets may burn themselves or cause a fire if they knock candles over. Be sure to use appropriate candle holders, placed on a stable surface. And if you leave the room, put the candle out!
Wired Up: Keep wires, batteries and glass or plastic ornaments out of paws? reach. A wire can deliver a potentially lethal electrical shock and a punctured battery can cause burns to the mouth and esophagus, while shards of breakable ornaments can damage your pet?s mouth.
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Toy Joy: Looking to stuff your pet?s stockings? Choose gifts that are safe.
- Dogs have been known to tear their toys apart and swallowing the pieces, which can then become lodged in the esophagus, stomach or intestines. Stick with chew toys that are basically indestructible, Kongs that can be stuffed with healthy foods or chew treats that are designed to be safely digestible.
- Long, stringy things are a feline?s dream, but the most risky toys for cats involve ribbon, yarn and loose little parts that can get stuck in the intestines, often necessitating surgery. Surprise kitty with a new ball that?s too big to swallow, a stuffed catnip toy or the interactive cat dancer?and tons of play sessions together.
Careful with Cocktails: If your celebration includes adult holiday beverages, be sure to place your unattended alcoholic drinks where pets cannot get to them. If ingested, your pet could become weak, ill and may even go into a coma, possibly resulting in death from respiratory failure.
Put the Meds Away : Make sure all of your medications are locked behind secure doors, and be sure to tell your guests to keep their meds zipped up and packed away, too.
A Room of Their Own: Give your pet his own quiet space to retreat to?complete with fresh water and a place to snuggle. Shy pups and cats might want to hide out under a piece of furniture, in their carrying case or in a separate room away from the hubbub.
New Year?s Noise: As you count down to the new year, please keep in mind that strings of thrown confetti can get lodged in a cat?s intestines, if ingested, perhaps necessitating surgery. Noisy poppers can terrify pets and cause possible damage to sensitive ears.
Don?t Shop, Adopt:? If you?re thinking about adding a furry family member, please make adoption your first option.? There are thousands of loving animals at shelters across the country waiting for their forever homes.? To see photos of adoptable animals at the ASPCA, visit www.aspca.org.
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Wildfire hits more than 20 homes in SW Australia (AP)
PERTH, Australia ? More than 20 homes have been destroyed or damaged by wildfire in Australia's southwest after authorities lost control of a planned forest-burning operation.
Emergency services officials say hundreds of people have been evacuated from townships in the Margaret River region of Western Australia state as more than 100 firefighters battle the blaze on Thursday, assisted by aerial water bombers.
The state government has confirmed that the blaze began Wednesday morning when a controlled burning operation in a nearby national park got out of control.
Authorities try to reduce wildfire risk by burning off dead wood and grass in controlled operations aimed at preventing the flames from spreading beyond a contained area.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
PFT: Week 11 power rankings
APIt?s a nice, feel-good Thanksgiving week story.? Bears quarterback Jay Cutler breaks a thumb.? The Broncos have cut a former Bears quarterback who?d like to play in Chicago again.? And there?s nothing more natural than a homecoming on the fourth Thursday in November.
The only problem?? At least 22 teams can provide the flight delay and/or the traffic jam that prevents Kyle Orton from scarfing down sausage with the Superfans.
After the trading deadline, all players who are released must pass through waivers.? Priority is determined by record.? And so every team higher than the Bears in the pecking order will have dibs on Orton, if they choose to exercise it.
The Bears reportedly are No. 30 on the list.? Which means that every team except the 49ers and Packers will be able to grab him.
It doesn?t matter whether Orton ?wants? to play for the Bears.? If another team claims him, he has 2.5 million reasons to show up.
At the top of the stack, what better way to test whether the Colts are in full-blown ?Suck for Luck? mode than to see whether they?d bring in a quarterback who is significantly better than Curtis Painter or Dan Orlovsky?? They?d be crazy not to make a claim.? Unless they?re truly crazy for Andrew Luck.
The 4-6 Chiefs also need help, given the performance of Tyler Palko on Monday night.? (And with the Chiefs playing the Broncos again on January 1, there could be some strategic benefit to having him around.)? Ditto for the Redskins, whose head coach could be coaching for his job, with Rex Grossman and John Beck as the blanks in the bazooka.
And how about NFC teams that hope to pick off a wild-card berth if/when the Bears slide with Caleb Hanie or Nathan Enderle?? The 7-3 Lions, 6-4 Falcons, the 6-4 Cowboys (whose primary backup, Jon Kitna, is banged up), the 6-4 Giants, the 4-6 Bucs, and even the 4-6 Dream Team would have an incentive to block the Bears from getting their way.
Let?s also not forget about the Texans, who may not be completely sold on Matt Leinart, despite the decision to put all their eggs in a beer bong.
Finally, it would be foolish to overlook good, old-fashioned spite.? In 2002, Deion Sanders wanted to emerge from retirement and hop onto the silver-and-black bandwagon.? So the Redskins released his rights.? And former Redskins coach Marty Schottenheimer, the man whose presence in 2001 prompted Sanders to pick retirement over playing, put in a waivers claim on Sanders, short-circuiting his plan.? With three NFC North teams on track to make it to the playoffs, maybe the 2-8 Vikings would be tempted to keep the Bears from getting Orton, in the hopes that they?ll have company in the non-playoff party.
That?s highly unlikely.? But the point is that there are many possible motivations, and just because the Bears want Orton and Orton wants the Bears, it doesn?t mean he?ll end up there.? Indeed, the fact that the Bears and Orton are trying to rendezvous could be the tiebreaker for a team that is thinking about disrupting that plan.
UPDATE 10:35 p.m. ET:? As a reader pointed out on Twitter, claiming Orton has another benefit.? When he leaves as a free agent in March 2012, the team that employs him for six weeks would be in line of a compensatory draft pick.? So there?s one more good reason to consider doing it.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Mediator appointed in Dodgers-Fox Sports dispute (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? The Los Angeles Dodgers bankruptcy case judge appointed a mediator to try and sort out the dispute between the baseball team and Fox Sports regarding the sale of the team's television telecast rights.
Judge Kevin Gross on Monday appointed retired federal judge Joseph Farnan Jr. as the mediator, court documents show.
The parties will share the payment of the mediator's fees and expenses and the mediation will start on November 28 in Los Angeles, California.
At the end of the process, the mediator will file a report stating whether the matter has been resolved or not, providing any further details, the documents show.
On Monday, the judge had canceled Tuesday's hearing on whether to dismiss the team's bankruptcy filing. [ID:nN1E7AK1M2]
Fox Sports, part of News Corp, which has a contract to broadcast the team's games through 2013, on Friday had asked the bankruptcy court to consider dismissing the bankruptcy case.
It argued that the team's bankruptcy was not valid and was an attempt to invalidate Fox's TV-rights contract.
The Dodgers, meanwhile, has struck a deal with Major League Baseball in which it has agreed to sell the team -- including the media rights -- and it wants to begin those negotiations immediately rather than wait for the contract to expire.
The hearing, which is scheduled for November 30, in which the debtors are looking for approval for the sales procedures for the team, will go ahead, barring an order from the court.
The Dodgers filed for bankruptcy in June as its owner Frank McCourt struggled to meet the payroll.
The case is In re: Los Angeles Dodgers LLC, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware, No. 11-12010.
(Reporting by Tanya Agrawal in Bangalore; Editing by Maju Samuel)
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Diego Maradona lashes out at rival Al Ain coach
By MICHAEL CASEY
updated 8:29 a.m. ET Nov. 21, 2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Diego Maradona says an opposing coach's celebration was "not right and unacceptable" after his team lost a league match that ended with supporters being pelted with stones.
Maradona, who took over at United Arab Emirates club Al Wasl in May, was upset with the way Al Ain coach Cosmin Olaroiu celebrated the 1-0 victory on Saturday.
Maradona says "all that happened was not right and unacceptable in professional football."
Al Wasl also says that the Al Ain supporters threw stones at the fans and their cars as they were leaving the match.
Maradona left for Argentina on Sunday to attend the funeral of his mother, Dalma Salvadora Franco de Maradona. She died Saturday.
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Trash Talk: Aside from American football, the rest of the public?s attention is up for grabs, which is why it?s an opportune time for soccer to make its move. And an ideal opportunity for the MLS to bring David Beckham back.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Keira Knightley details her hysteria in "Dangerous Method" (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) ? In director David Cronenberg's new film about Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis, "A Dangerous Method", Keira Knightley plays Jung's formerly hysterical patient and lover Sabina Spielrein.
The movie debuts in U.S. theaters on Wednesday, and Knightley told Reuters back in September at the Toronto film festival that she initially turned down the role due to its spanking sex scenes opposite actor Michael Fassbender, who portrays Jung.
But the 26-year-old British actress said the promise of such a dream role and working with Cronenberg, Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen (who portrays Freud) was too enticing to walk away. It also helped that Cronenberg promised the spanking scenes would be clinical, not "sexy."
Q. Before the movie, what did you know of psychoanalysis?
A. "Absolutely nothing. I mean I had obviously heard of Freud and Jung, and I knew vaguely that it was all meant to be based on sexuality and that your parents came into it somewhere. But apart from that, I really didn't know anything. So it was a question of starting from scratch."
Q. You've said you read "a stack of books."
A: "A Jung biography. And then 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' and the letters between Freud and Jung. It was Nietzsche, a little bit of papers by Freud, papers by Jung and then I found a book called 'Sabina Spielrein: A Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis.' That was Jung's notes on Sabina and then her dissertations and several papers, essays about her and then diary entries. So it was quite a stack."
Q. Did you ever think about studying psychology?
A. "No ... there are a lot of parallels in acting. You are trying to understand the world from a different point of view without judging it. Looking at it from a psychological point of view is something you do naturally as an actor anyway."
Q. Your depiction of hysteria in the film has drawn mixed criticism. How did you come up with say, your jaw movement?
A. "That's the tricky thing, when you are reading a script that says, 'has a hysterical fit, ravished by tics'. And you go, 'OK, what does that mean? And what do you mean a tic?' So really, a lot of the reading was based on trying to get descriptions of tics and trying to understand what that was.
"I wanted it to be shocking, because what was going on internally (for Sabina) was shocking. I just thought, I wanted to reflect that externally as much as possible, so I literally sat in my bathroom pulling faces at myself until I came up with this jaw thing. And I thought, 'Well that looks vaguely demonic,' and then I got on Skype with David (Cronenberg) and I had about two or three ideas and he went, 'That one.'
Q. Is this your most difficult character yet?
A. "As far as a role, every actor wants a role like this. It sounds perverse to say it's fun, but it's so interesting. Trying to understand that, to get into that point of view. Particularly if it's a filmmaker like David Cronenberg. I would have had serious reservations playing an hysteric with a director whose work I didn't admire as much has him."
Q. Every actor says sex scenes can be difficult. These seemed particularly so. Would you agree?
A. "They are always difficult and they are always exposed. This one was, sort of, something quite different...There were these two scenes, and I didn't know that I could do those two scenes. In the age of Internet and all the rest of it, I didn't know that that is what I want particularly to be out there.
"I phoned him up initially to turn it down because I thought they were incredibly important for the piece. So it wasn't a question of trying to negotiate them out of the film because I thought they were very necessary for the film. But I just thought, 'I don't think I can do that.'
"So, I phoned up David and said, 'I love you, I love your work, but I really don't think that I want to do this.' And he said, 'Well it would be a tragedy if you turned the role down because of that, so if necessary we can take them out.' And I said, 'No, because I understand why they are there'. He said, 'Well look, I don't want it to be sexy, and I don't want it to be voyeuristic. I want it to be clinical.'
"We talked for quite a long time about exactly what it was and trying to understand it psychologically. Once we discussed, I said 'Alright, fine, as long as it is not sexy. That brutal horrible aspect is kept, and it isn't a sexy spanking scene.'"
Q. Do you ever look back to learn from any performances?
A. "I don't watch any of them. I haven't seen 'Bend It Like Beckham' in nine years. It's all a learning curve. There are going to be good performances and there are going to be bad performances. There are going to be experiences where you click with people and experiences where you don't. There are performances that I know just from having been there where I haven't done well, just because I couldn't, for one reason or another. And then there are performances that I know on the day, actually that was pretty good."
(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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Monday, November 21, 2011
How to Get a Finance Job With No Experience | Newsatspot.com
Finance is one such industry which is difficult to get into, especially for undergraduates and people switching from some other industry to finance. This happens because such candidates lack experience, which is considered as a key factor by finance companies for hiring new employees. Several resumes reach the interviewer?s desk, but, only the candidates who either display reasonable work experience or have something exclusive, are called for the interview. It is during the interview, when a candidate without any work experience can create an impression on the interviewer, to get into the industry. Experts often get several questions on how to get a finance job with no experience from candidates who are interested in making a career in finance. Here is what they recommend.
Tips to Get A Finance Job With No Experience
Build a Strong Resume
A candidate?s resume is responsible for creating the first impression on the interviewer. Hence, a strong resume with no typos, proper formatting, and accurate information must be built. Candidates who are unable to build a good resume must not hesitate from taking the help of professional resume builders. With a perfect resume, the candidate?s chances of being shortlisted for the interview are highly increased.
Take up Internships
Candidates lacking full-time experience in finance, face difficulty in obtaining jobs. Generally, only entry-level finance positions are open to such candidates. As most of the entry-level positions do not require experience, the number of candidates with no knowledge of the work involved will be substantially high. To stand apart from the group, candidates can gain some work-related knowledge by taking up internships in finance companies. Internship will help the candidate understand how the finance industry works, what are the various departments involved, and how the work flows through these departments, to finally meet customer demands. When interviewers come to know that a particular candidate is well aware of the functioning of the industry, his chances of getting selected are more as compared to others.
Work for Different Internship Programs
Diversifying areas of internship helps the candidate in gaining perspective of different functions in the finance industry. For example, equity trading, bonds, portfolio management, commodity trading etc., are all individual areas of the finance industry, and each of them has a different kind of work involved. Working in different areas during internship can give a clear picture to the candidate and make it easy to choose a field in the huge finance industry. This will also be a plus point for being selected in the interview, as it will reflect the candidate?s knowledge in various areas and his dedication towards the industry.
Build Your Network
Many finance companies offer internship programs to identify prospective employees for the upcoming year. A good performance during the internship can open the doors of companies for a well-performing candidate. Building healthy relations with full-time employees working in the company can be a good way of getting into the business. Apart from this, going for informational meetings with people working in the industry helps the candidate to learn about their companies and other relevant information. While doing so, candidates must maintain a formal approach and try not to be too aggressive. Calling up contacts several times or sending them e-mails five times a week can force them to avoid meetings, which will not be good for the candidate.
Read Financial News
Going through financial news may not seem interesting at the beginning to candidates taking their first step towards the industry because of their lack of understanding and knowledge about the whole subject. However, with consistent reading, candidates will be able to remain updated about the happenings in the finance industry, which can be showcased at the right time during the interview. Interviewers are generally impressed with such candidates who keep track of what?s going on in the industry, even when they are not directly associated with it.
Learn Financial Terms and Jargon
During interviews, it is highly possible that the interviewer will ask the candidate meanings of various financial terms which are used every now and then in the workplace. Being equipped with the correct answers will leave a mark on the interviewer and increase the chances of being selected, even if the candidate does not have experience.
Prepare for the CFA Exam
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) is a reputed designation in the finance industry. A candidate needs to appear for three exams and gain four years of relevant experience to achieve this designation. Every level of exam needs the candidate to fulfill 250 study-hours. Therefore, any candidate appearing for the CFA exam is rated a bit higher than others, as finance professionals know what it takes to become a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Improve Communication Skills
A candidate who is able to present his thoughts in front of the interviewer clearly, is better than the ones who fail to express themselves properly. Improving communication and presentation skills will help the candidate to perform better in the interview. It is better to practice commonly asked questions so that any blunder during the interview can be avoided. An interview lasts about 20-25 minutes. It is during this short time period, when good candidates are selected and not-so-good ones are rejected. So, it is better to be prepared beforehand for the face-to-face session.
Jobs in the finance industry depend on the stock market. When the market is booming, jobs in the industry boom as well. And when the market takes a bearish turn, the number of jobs in the market also reduces. Whatever be the situation, getting a good entry-level job is not easy for candidates with no prior industry experience. However, keeping the above things in mind will surely help candidates in cracking interviews and taking their first step toward building a successful career in finance.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Art show features work of ex-Red Wing Konstantinov
FILE - In this June 7, 1997 file photo, Detroit Red Wings defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov raises the Stanley Cup in celebration after Detroit swept the Stanley Cup finals over the Philadelphia Flyers, in Detroit. An exhibition of art by ex-Red Wings defenseman Konstantinov is going on display. Konstantinov was left with disabling brain injuries following a 1997 limo crash six days after he helped the Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup in 42 years. (AP Photo/Tom Pidgeon, File)
FILE - In this June 7, 1997 file photo, Detroit Red Wings defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov raises the Stanley Cup in celebration after Detroit swept the Stanley Cup finals over the Philadelphia Flyers, in Detroit. An exhibition of art by ex-Red Wings defenseman Konstantinov is going on display. Konstantinov was left with disabling brain injuries following a 1997 limo crash six days after he helped the Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup in 42 years. (AP Photo/Tom Pidgeon, File)
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) ? Art by former Detroit Red Wings defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov, who was left with disabling brain injuries following a 1997 limo crash, is being displayed to raise funds for an organization that supports people with such injuries.
The exhibition titled "Animals and Inspiration" includes 42 of his pieces and takes place Thursday night at Gallery U in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, The Detroit News reported (http://bit.ly/vJjvKQ ).
"We consider them folk art," said Ashley Cook of Gallery U. "They are lots of paintings of animals done in watercolors and paint blots."
Konstantinov was injured six days after he helped the Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup in 42 years. His rehabilitation has included attending the Universal Institute in Troy, which also operates the gallery.
The exhibition illustrates Konstantinov's expression through the use of paint, dough, clay. Pieces include three-dimensional works.
Signed and framed artworks are available for purchase. Proceeds will go to the Brain Injury Association of Michigan, a nonprofit organization that provides services for those who suffer brain injuries, their families and people who help them.
The gallery said Konstantinov's family visited the gallery before the exhibition and they have asked for privacy during the show.
Konstantinov, teammate Slava Fetisov and masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov got into a limo after a team party at a golf course. Traveling about 50 mph through the suburb of Birmingham shortly before dusk, the limo veered across several lanes, jumped a curb and slammed into a tree.
Fetisov escaped with relatively minor injuries and was able to help the Red Wings repeat as champions the next season.
Konstantinov, who was comatose for more than five weeks following the wreck, and Mnatsakanov both came away with brain injuries. Konstantinov has made slow, steady progress over the years in his rehabilitation.
The limo driver ended up spending time in jail.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Arabs, Israel to attend nuclear talks, Iran uncertain (Reuters)
VIENNA (Reuters) ? Arab states and Israel plan to attend a rare round of talks next week on efforts to free the world of nuclear weapons but Iran has yet to say whether it will take part, diplomats said on Wednesday.
The November 21-22 forum, hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, is seen as symbolically significant bid to bring regional foes together at the same venue, even though no concrete outcome is expected.
If conducted smoothly with relatively toned-down rhetoric on all sides, it could send a positive signal ahead of a planned international conference next year on ridding the Middle East of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.
"It is a good opportunity for everybody to sit and talk but
I don't think it is going to achieve a tangible result," a Western diplomat told Reuters.
An Arab envoy said he and others would probably mention Israel's assumed nuclear arsenal in their statements, but would not include anything "that would create polarization" in the meeting room.
"We expect to pinpoint the issues that could be an obstacle or impediment to establishing a nuclear free zone in the Middle East and possibly how to deal with them," the envoy said.
"Everybody knows that the Israeli nuclear capabilities are a big obstacle in this endeavor," the Arab diplomat said in comments that may irritate Israel.
Israel is widely believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, and faces frequent Arab and Iranian condemnation.
Israel and the United States regard Iran as the region's main nuclear threat, accusing Tehran of trying to develop an atomic bomb in secret. An IAEA report last week added weight to those allegations which Iran denies.
Next week's discussions, convened by IAEA chief Yukiya Amano, will focus on the experiences of regions which have set up Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zones (NWFZ), including Africa and Latin America.
IAEA member states decided in 2000 to hold the meeting but it has taken this long for the parties involved to agree on the agenda and other issues.
All 151 IAEA member countries have been invited to the talks, to be chaired by senior Norwegian diplomat Jan Petersen, but Middle East envoys will take center stage.
NUCLEAR MEETING IN FINLAND
"The forum will consider the experience of five NWFZs and two regional verification arrangements and discuss the potential relevance of such experience to the creation of a NWFZ in the Middle East," the IAEA said in a statement.
Diplomats said Israel and Arab states had accepted the invitation but that there had as yet been no word from Iran, which in September said it saw no justification for such a meeting now and took a swipe at arch-enemy Israel.
Israel, the only Middle East country outside the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has never confirmed or denied having nuclear weapons under a policy of ambiguity to deter numerically superior foes.
It says it would only join the treaty if there is a comprehensive Middle East peace with its longtime Arab and Iranian adversaries. Israel would have to renounce nuclear weaponry if it signed the 1970 agreement.
Last month, the United Nations said Finland agreed to host a potentially divisive international meeting in 2012 to discuss ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction.
The idea for that conference came from Egypt, which pushed for a meeting with all states in the Middle East to negotiate a treaty that would establish a nuclear arms-free zone.
Washington's commitment will be key to the success or failure of next year's talks, Western diplomats say, as it is the only state that can persuade Israel to attend.
The Arab envoy and others said setting up this kind of zone in the Middle East would not happen any time soon.
"It is very distant. It is a very complicated issue. There is a lot of mistrust among the parties," the envoy told Reuters.
(Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Android Crushed the Smartphone Competition Last Quarter
The smartphone OS space looks a whole lot different than it did a year ago. Android has seriously stepped up to become the top dog, Symbian is a force no more, and iOS ... well, not everything changes.
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Brad Pitt to Retire From Acting, Have More Kids With Angelina Jolie?
Is Brad Pitt already thinking about retirement and full-time daddy duty?
Maybe, and sooner than you might think. In an interview with Australia's 60 Minutes, the Moneyball star revealed an exit strategy planned for his great career.
It involves the half-century mark. When asked how much longer he would like to keep on acting, the 47-year-old answered fairly succinctly, "Three years."
That doesn't mean he wants to be absent from the industry altogether. But Pitt says he plans to step off-camera and get behind it, if at all, by age 50.
"I'm really enjoying the producing side and development of stories," Pitt says. "Getting the stories to the plate that might have had tougher times otherwise."
Something he may not be ready to say bye to? Procreation! "You know, I don't know that we're finished," Pitt says. "I don't know yet. I don't know."
Even with six children, Pitt says he "obviously" enjoys the chaos and that all the running around, and even the lack of sleep is fine with him right now.
"Those late nights are so fun when one of them's up or those mornings when they get up and make pancakes or something. That's what it's all about."
Indeed. Watch out, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Review: Kindle Fire sacrifices to get under $200 (AP)
NEW YORK ? The Kindle was always an odd product name. Amazon used a verb to name a thing, raising the question: Kindle what? Now we have the answer: Kindle Fire.
The Kindle Fire is the first full-color, touch-screen Kindle. It's available in the U.S. starting Monday for $199.
A price like that for what's essentially a small iPad is bound to light the flames of desire this holiday season. I want to cool those down a bit, or some of you will buy the Fire and feel burned.
The Fire is the best Kindle yet, no doubt about it. It's amazing that it costs half of what the first Kindle cost, just four years ago, yet does so much more than display books.
It's more of an all-purpose computer than an e-reader. It shows movies, TV shows and Web pages. It does email and lets you play games. You'll be lucky to get any reading done, with so many other things to do.
But it has to be weighed against the competition. When you do that, it becomes apparent just how spare Amazon had to keep the device to limbo under that $200 price level.
The Kindle's design is even starker than the iPad's. It's a black monolith with only one button ? the power switch ? and two jacks, for headphones and power. All the controls are on the screen.
The screen measures 7 inches diagonally, a bit larger than the monochrome Kindles and a bit less than half the size of the iPad's. The smaller size does make the Fire more portable than an iPad; it will fit nicely into a handbag, for instance.
The size of the screen wasn't much of an issue on the monochrome Kindles because they were mainly good for showing text anyway. But the responsive color screen of the Fire opens up a lot of possibilities, such as showing magazine and comic-book pages.
Here, the small size of the screen gets in the way. It's just too far from standard page sizes to do them justice. Magazine pages look tiny. Amazon has to jump through some hoops to make them readable, like including a mode that shows just the text. But flicking through a magazine is still a lot of work ? and that's one thing that should not be like work.
Barnes & Noble's Nook Color, launched last year, has the same problem ? a nice color screen that's too small. The iPad gets it right, for a few hundred dollars more.
While we're on the subject of "too small," let's talk about the Fire's memory. It has 8 gigabytes of storage. That's enough for more books than you'll ever read, but 10 movies will eat up the whole thing.
The cheapest iPad, which costs $499, has twice as much memory. The Nook Color, which costs $199, also has 8 gigabytes, but it comes with a slot for memory expansion with cheap cards. I don't understand why the Fire doesn't have a slot like that. The very first Kindle did. There's no step-up model of the Fire with more memory.
Amazon says the Fire doesn't need more memory because the company provides an online storage locker, where you can stuff all your music and other content. That works when you have Wi-Fi coverage, but not otherwise ? the Fire doesn't have the ability to use cellular networks, as some of the monochrome models do.
The Fire also lacks a camera and a microphone. Those aren't things you'd expect in an e-reader (the Nook also lacks them). But they are standard features on tablets and are quite useful, particularly for videoconferencing. Their absence is forgivable at $199.
The color screen means, inevitably, that battery life suffers compared with e-readers that use power-sipping monochrome screens. Amazon puts the reading time at eight hours, compared with about 30 hours for the new $99 Kindle Touch, which has a monochrome, touch-sensitive screen and is designed just for reading.
The Fire's software is based on Google Inc.'s Android software, used in smartphones and a bevy of tablets that compete with the iPad. None has really caught on, except to some extent the Nook Color. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says this is because the other tablets lack an ecosystem of the kind Apple provides in iTunes: an integrated market for books, movies, music and applications.
Amazon has done a good job of setting up its own store. Buying and downloading books and movies is a quick process ? as long as you're buying them from Amazon.
People complain about how Apple dictates the terms of access to the iPhone and iPad, but Amazon's Kindles have always been more restrictive, and the Fire is only a slight departure from that strategy.
You can't buy copy-protected books from anyone but Amazon and expect to read them on the Fire, as you can on the iPad. Even the Nooks allow third-party books. Amazon achieves this control by operating its own app store, separate from the Android Market run by Google. Clever people will figure out a way to bypass this and install any app they want, but most people won't want to bother.
To Amazon's credit, it's allowing the excellent Comixology comics app onto the Fire. That means you don't have to buy your comics from Amazon, and you aren't restricted to the Fire's built-in (and inferior) comics browser. It's also letting the apps for the Netflix and Hulu streaming services onto the device, in competition with Amazon's own streaming service.
So the Fire does justice to fiction and movies, but the iPad does better in almost every way, particularly in the selection of apps, which is about 50 times greater than the Fire's.
If the step up to $499 is too much, you might want to consider the Nook Tablet, which comes out Friday. At $249, it will be the same size as the Fire, but with twice the memory, plus a memory expansion slot. It won't access all of Amazon's goodies and apps, but it will have Netflix and Hulu. Take a look at it before jumping to the Fire.
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Peter Svensson can be reached at http://twitter.com/petersvensson
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Lauder, maker of breast cancer's pink ribbon, dies (AP)
NEW YORK ? Pink was Evelyn Lauder's color.
In her long career as an executive at cosmetics giant Estee Lauder Cos., the company founded by her mother-in-law, Lauder worked with many shades of red, peach, bronze and even blues, but pink was the one hue that changed her life.
In 1992, Lauder worked with her friend Alexandra Penney, the former editor-in-chief of Self magazine, to create the pink ribbon campaign for breast cancer awareness. It started small with Lauder and her husband, Leonard, largely financing the little bows given to women at department store makeup counters to remind them about breast exams.
That grew into fundraising products, congressional designation of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and $330 million in donations ? $50 million from Estee Lauder and its partners ? to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which Lauder also started.
That money helped establish the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, which opened in 2009.
Lauder died Saturday at her Manhattan home from complications of nongenetic ovarian cancer. She was 75.
Just last month, she reminisced about the early days of the breast cancer campaign. When it launched, it was so little known that some people thought it symbolized AIDS awareness.
"There had been no publicity about breast cancer, but a confluence of events ? the pink ribbon, the color, the press, partnering with Elizabeth Hurley, having Estee Lauder as an advertiser in so magazines and persuading so many of my friends who are health and beauty editors to do stories about breast health ? got people talking," she said. Then, three years after distributing the first pink ribbon, a flight attendant noted it on Lauder's lapel and said, "I know that's for breast cancer."
"From there, it became ubiquitous," she remembered.
Lauder had been diagnosed with her cancer in 2007, but it didn't slow her down much. Come each October, she appeared at cancer awareness events around the world.
The rest of the time, she went to work at Estee Lauder's Fifth Avenue headquarters, which, despite its annual revenue of $2.48 billion, was run much like a family business. Over the years, Evelyn Lauder would hold many positions there and she helped develop its lines of skin care, makeup and fragrance.
She came up with the name of its popular Clinique brand during the 1960s. Most recently, she held the title of senior corporate vice president.
Her other passion was photography, and she was the author of the book "In Great Taste: Fresh, Simple Recipes for Eating and Living Well."
Born Evelyn Hausner in 1936 in Vienna, Austria, she fled Nazi-occupied Europe with her parents, and they settled in the U.S. She attended public schools in New York City and Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
As a college freshman, she met her husband, the elder son of Estee Lauder and whose family owned what was then a small cosmetics company.
"We had five products in the line, we only had two or three colors in our lipsticks," she told cable news channel NY1 in 2005. "It was a baby company."
The young couple married in 1959. Leonard Lauder is now chairman emeritus of the company. Estee Lauder died in 2004 at 97.
Leonard and Evelyn Lauder's son William is executive chairman of Estee Lauder Cos. Another son, Gary, is managing director of Lauder Partners LLC, a technology investment firm.
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AP Fashion Writer Samantha Critchell contributed to this report from Ridgefield, Conn.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth, Fugitive For Four Decades, Comes Forth In Police Shooting
South San Francisco Patch:
A man who has been a fugitive for over four decades turned himself in this morning for shooting at South San Francisco police officers.
Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth, 67, surrendered this morning at the Redwood City Superior Court for shooting at officers during a 1968 getaway, according to his attorney, Paul Harris. He plans to plead guilty, Harris said.
Read the whole story: South San Francisco Patch
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