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We are part of the problem if we don't change our own expectations of our own earning potential and ability to get into the game, play the game, and win in the business world! Dr. Lois Frankel's excellent book Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office outlines the typical traps that even very intelligent, high-powered executive women fall into because they are not even aware of how to play the corporate game. I summarized many of her key points in my series called "Success in the Corporate World" (which is not just for women, BTW, but also men who are "too" nice) at http://shanelyang.com/2008/02/13/success-in-the-corporate-world-self-test/
Women Are Responsible For Inequalities in the Workplace
It's not news that women tend to hit glass ceilings in the workplace far sooner than men do. It's also not news that women tend to earn less money than their male counterparts in exactly the same positions.
Is it possible though, women are actually partially responsible for these inequalities? Recent studies say yes.
U.S. behavioral scientist and author Shannon L. Goodson has studied and compared tens of thousands of men and women from 34 different countries to figure out what is going on. She discovered that women are less likely to project themselves professionally (regardless of country or culture).
Upon first blush, this shouldn't be so bad; aren't we taught that modesty is more attractive than blatant egotism? Isn't it unladylike to be too forward?
But when we live in a world where (as Goodson confirmed) self-promotion is key to getting bigger salaries and better positions, it seems that feminine modesty is simply detrimental.
Here are some ways you can start to actively promote yourself without being looked upon as the "office bitch":
- Draw attention to your contributions, especially if they go above and beyond the original task assigned.
- If you are proud of something you believe you do well, make sure the right people know about it. If they know that you enjoy a particular task or have a knack with it, you may find your job shifting to encompass more of it, utilizing your talents better and giving you more job satisfaction.
- Participate in social and professional networking events, and be sure to mingle.
- If a task takes you less than the allotted time, be sure to bring it to your boss's attention.
- Make suggestions for how your skills might be better utilized if you feel you aren't working up to your capabilities. Warning: don't let your boss pile more work on…indicate that these suggestions are for future improvement of the company, and that these responsibilities warrant a new position or restructuring of your current position.
- Ask for a raise if you feel you deserve it! The worst anybody can say is "no".
Goodson's studies reveal another possibly scarier fact: female managers are not as supportive and encouraging of other women as you may think. Those women who have made a leap to management and are on the fast track may actually sabotage the careers of other women under them. So if you are an employee working underneath one of these managers, be sure not to look to them for that maternal encouragement you may expect – in fact, watching your back may be sadly necessary. I have personal experience in this area; by expecting the woman across the desk from me to be kind and nurturing, I have botched interviews, become agitated in meetings, and even been bitten by office politics in unlikely ways.
In many cases you can overcome workplace inequalities without having to change your behavior. Instead, a simple shift in attitude will do:
- Don't expend energy worrying about outcomes…focus on the job, and show off the results in the end.
- Eliminate stage fright from your vocabulary. Join Toastmasters if you need to become more comfortable presenting in front of groups - it's fun and incredibly helpful. (And it's more of that social networking I was talking about - you just may meet your next manager there).
- Don't worry about being "intrusive" in opening up lines of communication with others (especially managers higher than you).
- Don't be intimidated. Women are more likely than men to be intimidated by wealthy people, and those in powerful positions. Remember – they are just people too.
In this day and age, hard work alone is not enough to succeed and flourish in the workplace. Don't be a martyr – get out there and self-promote! Only you can be your biggest cheerleader – nobody else will do it for you.
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The point about the women bosses sabotaging other women is kind of sad because it is true in a lot of places. Male managers I have met have been more encouraging and supportive in general. Men are also more likely to just treat me like a guy and a teammember rather than competition. I don't know why women end up being more scheming and manipulative.
I've had 2 highly respected females as my boss, and I can further support they both allowed me (a male) far more room to grow than my female colleagues. I was actually skeptical going into a "female dominated" subgroup within these companies, but within a month, I basically got anything I wanted.
To some extent, I actually miss that working environment b/c the same competitive tendencies can be found in predominantly male working environments. Although, it's generally nothing a few beers and buffalo wings can't solve at happy hour.
Interesting research indeed.
I think many women who have reached higher levels believe that they will not be able to work with other women on the same level- that another woman in a comparable or equal position will be their replacement. This is especially true for women who have reached the ceiling; they feel they will not be able ot move up any further, therefore the newer woman is a threat to their job.
Sadly enough, sometimes they're right.
Think like a man. Work like a dog. Act like a lady.
There is still a lot of repression in the workplace. If women can get past the nay-sayers they will also be passing up those people in the promotions.
Women need to start ignoring the status quo.
When people tell you them they can't do something they should ignore it.
@ Xin Lu: Men work well in survival mode. Most women don't.
Women have to fight for their rights, their men, their children and their jobs.
Men don't have to fight as much. If a man and a woman were competing for the same job position the woman could fight for her life even if she is over qualified and the man could put in half that effort qualified or not.
Put two women in that mix and the more assertive one will win. Qualified or not.
Nora has got the assertive part correct. Tooting your own horn should be second nature.
I vote for not blaming the victim, though I understand that she can and should empower herself. If a woman adopts what society deems as masculine characteristics (being tough for example) then she is condemned; if a man adopts feminine charactertistics (being nurturing), then he is celebrated. Our culture and attitudes about gender, race, age, etc. can and should be altered as well.
And though I am out of the corporate loop nowadays, I do hear quite a bit about diversity training and hope that it teaches employees, managers, leaders, etc. how to value different approaches to solving problems.
I just finished a book called "Mean Girls All Grown Up" (I can't remember the author and I mailed it to my mom). It is the best book that I have read on women and communication! I am planning on letting all of the women in my life borrow it, because it really describes how we women can be so destructive to other women and how to NOT let that office gossip/politics get you down. :)
it is "Mean Girls Grown Up" by Cheryl Dellasega.
Here is an article on it:
Oh so true. I recently left one of the world biggest corporates because I just couldnt handle the game playing - by the women. When I first joined said corporate, male dominated department, bit "boys club" but surviable. Moved departments - OMG! The women pretend to be your best friend, attempt to ask you your deepest darkest, or if considerably older, "mother" and patronise you (even if you have no maternal need). Within 3 days, with me naively innocent to the schemes at hand, I had been completely sabatoged - in a new team, before I had a chance to establish myself.
For the next 3 years I spend 50% of my working time having to "protect my arse".
In short, it was extremely insecure behaviour. Women the same age see you as competition, women who are older seem to resent the fact that they did it the hard way so why should todays women have it easier.
Obviously I found a few good women - suprisingly mostly amongst Gen Y rathern than X or boomers (for the rec, I'm an X).
When I returned to work after a bub, well, I had it unofficially slammed down my throat that despite the fact I was completing roles above my level, and they were hiring, promotion wasnt coming to me. I got so sick of having to play childish "cover your arse" games that took over 60% of my time - so much for client time!
In the end I decided it was completly beneath me, and walked away.
This, from a corporate that is one of the oldest and largest in the world. So much for "diversity" and "bullying" policies.
...if all the women in the world took steps to dress more modestly, we could put an end to sexual assault!
What a sexist b*tch you are. Men should learn how to control themselves and not what women wear, don't you think? Not all men sexually assault women so how is it a woman's fault?
OK... so the blame the fat post wasn't enough, you decided to finish things off with this?
Take a look at this study:
The Double-Bind Dilemma for Women in Leadership: Damned if You Do, Doomed if You Don't
*Now* I'm considering unsubbing to this rss feed. What a load of drivel.
Yes, I agree with this article....except I am at a loss of how to overcome the sabotage and lack of support from my female supervisor.
I agree with comment #11- what a load of drivel.
"I have personal experience in this area; by expecting the woman across the desk from me to be kind and nurturing, I have botched interviews..."
I'm sorry, but we're supposed to be "kind and nurturing" on top of being competent businesswomen? Respectful yes, but nurturing? It's a sexist assumption that women need to be mothers/nurturers in the office. I don't see businessmen being asked to nurture anyone.
My current manager is a woman VP, and she's a sharp, savvy, impressive person. She supports ALL her team because that way she's successful too. I've had just as many male managers "sabotage" their people as women.
possibly tell me that you have never experienced women putting other women down at work, gossiping and/or generally bullying other women.
It is possible to lift others up without putting yourself down.
This article does not say that we need to be sacrificial lambs and let other women use us as a stepping stone.
The point is proven in the article that you shared:
"Respondents' comments revealed that when women behave in ways that are traditionally valued for men leaders (e.g., assertively), they are viewed as more competent, but also not as effective interpersonally as women who adopt a more stereotypically feminine style."
I'm sure that respondents were BOTH male AND female. We must wonder, why, if a man tells us something *assertively* we think that he is confident and if a woman does then she is a b****? Women often take business personally! This leads to ill-feelings and gossip. Have you ever wondered why guys don't seem to talk about the people that they work with as much as women?
This is a destructive cycle, and we all need to play the game or get out. Don't take things so personally! And before you gossip about another woman, ask yourself why that is necessary. If you have a woman supervisor that is encouraging to the entire team, then that is great! But before you say that it is sexist to say "men sabotage women just as much as women"...just note the next time you hear someone gossiping about another woman in at your workplace. Or making a snide put-down.
I'd be willing to wager it is a woman.
I certainly don't like it. And I definitely don't think it is right. I just want to understand it.
Thank you for having the courage to write this. I tire endlessly of hearing the "party line" regarding how women are not given equal this and that. At the end of the day, it is up to US to pursue what we not; not up to anyone else to give it to us, simply because we lack a penis. It's nice to see studies are finally being done to debunk this popular myth.
As far as I can tell Goodson's study is not peer-reviewed (that is, not looked at by other scientists in her field to determine whether it is BS or not). I'd like to see the questionnaires and methods, but would have to buy her book to do that. I'll just have to take Goodson's word for it.
Can those women who have been discriminated against by their female bosses please give examples?
Women are responsible for inequalities in the workplace? What an appalling assertion. While your point may be that there are ways for women to improve their chances at getting ahead in the workplace, blaming women for their own disadvantage within a patriarchal system tarnishes any advice you give those same women.
There's a lot more to the issue than just this study. I recommend reading Susan Pinkerton's "The Sexual Paradox". What I found interesting was the high number of women (versus men) who opt out of high power careers to raise children or to be a caregiver to an aging parent. Her arguments are really quite compelling.
I also think its dangerous to assume that the experiences of all women are alike. Women face additional discrimination based on religion, race and marital status. As a single woman without children, I am treated differently by management and by other women who have a family (as if that makes them somehow superior).
As women, it seems that so much of our worth in society is tied to having children -- an attitude I think is perpetuated by women. It's like I've failed the initiation rights for some all-important club. (My male friends and colleagues don't treat me with condescending pity the way like the women do).
"Goodson's studies reveal another possibly scarier fact: female managers are not as supportive and encouraging of other women as you may think. "
So true. My first career change was knocked out from underneath me by an older woman jealous and threatened by the younger women with degrees getting hired. She touted herself liberal Democrat but her boss a conservative gave me more responsibilities and chances to prove myself. No matter how much I proved and listed my accomplishments she used her longevity and influence to get me fired once she got to be section manager.
I have always worked to speak out about my contributions and going over the top in effort and it has always been treated and 'that's expected, so what". I have consistently outperformed other workers either male or non-minority and regularly given the paternalistic pat on the head and disbelieve I could REALLY do the job well or be qualified.
The acting unprofessionally could be NOT acting like the 'good ole boys around the water hole and or over time any human develops a sense of disenchantment, aggravation and resentment as unfair/unequal workplace policies, rules and promotion hiring activity continues under the euphemism "We aren't discriminatory. We don't believe in quotas for minorities & women. We're just making sure the BEST qualified are hired and promoted and the automatic standard is unfortunately white males are ALWAYS better qualified." So overtime you get a taint of 'chip on shoulder'


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Stare at these screenshots of The Phantom Pain the new game announced at the Spike Video Game Awards that pretty much everyone knows is really Metal Gear Solid V.
Ah, but do you need more evidence that this is MGSV?
Then keep staring.
Keep staring, because what some people might see as, say, a water stain, others see as the Virgin Mary. They did at a highway underpass in 2005:
... which brings us to this "discovery" by tipster Brian Lesyk:
I like Brian's spirit here. Even if he's just hallucinating, this is great. I wanted to doubt him, yet, when I look back up at the unmarked images, I can't un-see the M and the E in "Metal". And the G in "Gear" is now popping out. I am sure this is merely a psychological effect and that there is a fancy name for it. It's also too fun not to share.
Do you see any words in those shots? Or the Virgin Mary?
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We knew we wanted to make Beatrix's fourth birthday special. It was the first year she's gotten really excited about the idea of a birthday, she'd just started a new school, and everything about it had to be magical. There was just one thing that might foil our plans: mid-October weather in New York.
As it turns out, the weather gods shone down upon us with a beautiful sunny day. The carousel was the perfect plan. The children had automatic entertainment, and if they didn't feel like spinning around any more, there was a giant field behind our tables and benches for them to run around.
We had so much fun using the old Prospect Park carousel as a jumping off point. I designed everything around typical carnival colors in red, yellow, and aqua. The table was set with striped paper straws and old-fashioned popcorn boxes. The children were all given a felt crowns from Felted Kitten and decorated them with jewels from Party City. The matching invitations and party favor bags were custom designed by Peppertowne. We styled the cupcake tower to look like a carousel by topping the cupcakes with horses and other animals. I scored vintage style lollipops and had Duane Cake Patisserie match the cake to an actual carousel horse. The children left in pied piper chorus playing their mini recorders from the goodie bags.
Most importantly? The children had a blast. If I could predict the weather I would want to repeat this party every year.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
The Golden Age
11 comments:
- Judy Shreve said...
Midnight in Paris - one of my favorite movies this year! I love that French poster - look at that Van Gogh sky!
Wouldn't it have been fabulous to live in Paris in the twenties!
- February 6, 2012 at 4:59 PM
- Lorrie said...
I keep hearing about that movie, guess I'll have to watch it some day. I love the starry night sky and the city poster. Wow!
I've never really thought about a favourite decade. But there was a frantic wildness about the roaring 20s that does fascinate me.
- February 6, 2012 at 5:28 PM
- Tiedupmemories said...
I'm not sure which decade would have been for me..Anywhere from the 20's throught the 50's. I want to see both of those movies! Thank you for the reviews!
- February 6, 2012 at 5:48 PM
- kandeland said...
thanks...I will have to check out those movies...
- February 6, 2012 at 6:38 PM
- Jillayne said...
I loved that movie too and yesterday I was browsing the bookstore for the book The Great Gatsby. I love that era too and am looking forward to researching it more - the music and the fashions - I think it was an exiting time!
- February 6, 2012 at 8:34 PM
- rachelsmith133 said...
This sounds like my kind of film, although I hadn't heard about it before, I will certainly be watching it now. :-)
Have you seen some of the pictures from the new version of The Great Gatsby being made? The costumes look beautiful.
- February 7, 2012 at 4:22 AM
- Laurel's Quill said...
Haven't seen this movie ( not a big fan of Owen), but i appreciate your love of the era. I think my golden era is now, while I am in my 60's. I would live in Paris anytime...or Rome...or Tuscany. Love to watch the traveling shows...dream on:)
- February 7, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- Jennelise said...
I just saw this movie with my Mum and we both absolutely LOVED it!!! Such a wonderful movie! :) I wish I could move to Paris, write a novel, and spend my evenings walking through time!
- February 7, 2012 at 11:07 PM
- Jennelise said...
I just saw this movie with my Mum and we both absolutely LOVED it!!! Such a wonderful movie! :) I wish I could move to Paris, write a novel, and spend my evenings walking through time!
- February 7, 2012 at 11:07 PM
- Julia said...
Your post was the first I heard of Midnight in Paris. It sounds delightful and I will have to see it. I am quite partial to the Art Deco style of the 20's and adore fringe and sequins.
- February 8, 2012 at 10:29 PM
- Kevin Kidney said...
Agreed! The movie is dreamy and wonderful. I wasn't a big fan of Owen before this, but I think this is the perfect role for him (finally!) I'm enjoying your blog --great creativity here, and refreshingly uplifting to read! Thanks!
- February 23, 2012 at 1:28 PM


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And yet... I always find it terribly surprising when someone speaks out in favor of the grind. "No. No." they say, "we like the grind. The grind is important. It provides meaning. Context for all our hard work."
You like boring, monotonous, time consuming tasks? Really? Forgive me while I display some skepticism for a moment. For I find it impossible that even a masochist would really enjoy tasks that, by definition, are uninteresting, repetitive and cause players mental weariness.
No. I don't think you really do like the grind. No one likes the grind.
I think you like the reward.
I think what players like is the sense of achievement that comes from overcoming difficulty. That and the shiny Pavlovian treat that usually accompanies that sense of achievement.
No. It's not the "grind" that players find rewarding. It's the reward that they find rewarding.
I'm convinced that if you created a "box" in the middle of Orgrimmar that players could jump on for free coins that players would happily jump on that box 24/7 and proceed to send Blizzard thank you emails for giving them that box. The "box" they would say is the smartest idea ever.
But, of course, it's not the "box" that players would enjoy but the Reward it provides.
We need challenge, but do we need Grind?
As MMO players, we crave challenge. We want challenge. It's what gives our virtual achievements context and meaning.
As I wrote in Mid-June, there are several ways to make your MMO more difficult:
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Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was the US Airways captain who guided his suddenly engineless Airbus into the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, after striking a flock of Canada geese. Together with the majority of my colleagues, I have the utmost respect for Captain Sullenberger. But that's just it: respect. It's not adoration or a false, media-fattened misunderstanding of what he and his crew faced that day. As the public has come to understand it, Sully saved the lives of everybody on board through nerves of steel and superhuman flying skills. The truth isn't quite so romantic.
I was getting a haircut one day not long after the accident when Nick the barber asked what I did for a living. As is too often the case, any talk of piloting at some point turns to the saga of Sully-upon-Hudson, and this was no exception. Nick grew starry-eyed. "Man, that was something." he said. "How did the guy ever land that plane on the water like that?" Nick wasn't looking for a literal answer, but I gave him one anyway. "Pretty much the same way he's landed 12,000 other times in his career" was my response. There was silence after that, which I took to mean that Nick was either silently impressed or thinking "what an asshole."
I was exaggerating but eager to make a point: that the nuts and bolts of gliding into water aren't especially difficult. The common sense of water landings is one of the reasons pilots don't even train for them in simulators. Another reason is that having to land in water will always be the byproduct of something inherently more serious—a fire, multiple engine failures, or some other catastrophic malfunction. That is the crux of the emergency, not the resultant landing.
And nowhere in the public discussion has the role of luck been adequately acknowledged. Specifically, the time and place where things went wrong. As it happened, it was daylight and the weather was reasonably good; there off Sullenberger's left side was a 12-mile runway of smoothly flowing river, within swimming distance of the country's largest city and its flotilla of rescue craft. Had the bird-strike occurred over a different part of the city, at a lower altitude (beyond gliding distance to the Hudson), or under more inclement weather conditions, the result was going to be an all-out catastrophe, and no amount of talent or skill was going to matter.
Sullenberger, to his credit, has been duly humble, acknowledging the points I make above. People pooh-pooh this as false modesty or self-effacing charm, when really he's just being honest. He has also highlighted the unsung role played his first officer, Jeffrey Skiles. There were two pilots on board, and both needed to rise to the occasion.
Nothing they did was easy, and a successful outcome was by no means guaranteed. But they did what they had to do, what they were trained to do, and what, presumably, any other crew would have done in that same situation. And let's not forget the flight attendants, whose actions were no less commendable. Thus the passengers owe their survival not to miracles or heroics, but to less glamorous forces. They are, in descending order (pardon the pun): luck, professionalism, skill, and technology.
There's little harm in celebrating the unlikely survival of 155 people, but terms like "hero" and "miracle" shouldn't be thrown around lightly. A miracle describes an outcome that cannot be rationally explained. Everything that happened on the river that day can be rationally explained. And a hero, to me, describes a person who accepts a great personal sacrifice, up to and including injury or death, for the benefit of somebody else. I didn't see heroics; I saw professional execution in the throes of an emergency.
And if we're going to lavish praise on men like Sullenberger, who did not perish, what of the others like him, whose stories you've likely never heard, mainly because their planes didn't come splashing down alongside the world's media capital? I give you Captain Brian Witcher and his crew aboard United Airlines flight 854, a 767 flying from Buenos Aires to Miami in April 2004. They never made headlines, but what they had to deal with was almost unthinkable: a complete electrical failure over the Andes at three o'clock in the morning. Under darkness, with their cockpit instruments dead or dying fast, including all radios and navigational equipment, they managed a successful emergency landing in mountain-ringed Bogota, Colombia.
Or consider the predicament facing American Eagle Captain Barry Gottshall and first officer Wesley Greene three months earlier. Moments after takeoff from Bangor, Maine, their Embraer regional jet suffered a freak system failure resulting in full and irreversible deflection of the plane's rudder. Struggling to maintain control, they returned to Bangor under deteriorating weather. Visibility had fallen to a mile, and as the thirty-seven-seater approached the threshold, Gottshall had to maintain full aileron deflection—that is, the control wheel turned to the stops and held there—to keep from yawing into the woods.
If you need a couple of heroes, take Gotshall and Greene, whose emergency must have been incredibly harrowing. Theirs was pure seat-of-the-pants improv. A fully deflected rudder? There are no checklists for that one.
This article was originally published on AskThePilot.com and is used here with the author's permission. Patrick Smith is an airline pilot, air travel columnist and author behind the site AskThePilot.com. In his spare time he has visited more than 70 countries and always asks for a window seat. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.


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The Booming Anti-Bullying Industry
As instances of school, workplace, and cyber-bullying receive greater attention, an unregulated web of consultants, therapists, and coaches have sprung up.
How Do You Measure a Complex Bank's Risk?
Can all of a bank's many operations be boiled down to a single measure of overall risk? And—given the ripple effect that a bank failure has on the economy—can that measure be corrected if it gets too high? The FDIC wants to find out by the end of the year. The agency is examining 105 banks with assets of more than $10 billion and creating for each a scorecard based on categories like earnings and heavy exposure to credit. The plan is to charge each institution based on the threat it poses to the global financial system—in theory, deterring future crashes. It's a tricky task—one the American Bankers Association calls too new and subjective. "It was rolled out amid troubles in the industry. There hasn't been a long-enough period to know what would work," says James Chessen, the industry group's chief economist. Then there's the perennial question of how government regulators can ever keep up with private bankers' complex inventions. "We all thought mortgage-backed securities were fine...
Summers Leaving Obama's Economic Team
Lawrence Summers plans to leave the White House at the end of the year, making Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner the president's lone remaining high-profile economic adviser.
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New Unemployment Numbers Better Than Expected
The number of people filing new unemployment claims dropped this week, but the four-week average remains the highest it has been since November 2009. On the heels of other bad economic data, what does this mean for the economy?
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With a weak housing market and volatile stock prices, people will have to save money to feel flush again. But with the economy in the dumps and unemployment high, is it possible to save money?
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Why Lincoln's Win Still Won't Help Financial Reform
Even though Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln narrowly won the Democratic primary Tuesday night, her signature derivatives legislation won't survive the summer.
A Tale of Two Recessions
One hallmark of this recession has been the disparities in how the unemployment rate has affected different groups of people.
Richard Florida: Rethinking Blue-Collar Jobs
Following the release of his latest tome, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, NEWSWEEK'S Nancy Cook asked Florida about his vision for "upgrading" the service economy. Excerpts:
Overseas Companies Hiring American Workers
Amid the ongoing recession, American freelancers are finding more and more work abroad.
Overseas Companies Hiring American Workers
Amid the ongoing recession, American freelancers are finding more and more work abroad.
Economic Troubles May Have Driven Shahzad to Terror
Five days after the attempted car bombing in New York City's Times Square, new details have emerged about the alleged attacker's troubled financial life, as well as the government's slow response in tracking him. According to The New York Times, Faisal Shahzad hit a rough patch during the recession. JPMorgan Chase foreclosed last summer on the Shelton, Conn., house he shared with his Colorado-born wife and their two children, while the Los Angeles Times reports that the couple tried to sell broken furniture and used clothes for extra cash. Several media outlets from ABC News to the Times make the intellectual leap that these economic troubles fueled Shahzad's radicalization and his anger toward the U.S. His financial problems prompted him to spend several months in Pakistan, including Peshawar and Waziristan, two areas known for their strong Taliban presence. ...
Fabrice Tourre: Gaining Cred on Wall Street
The Goldman Sachs employee at the center of an SEC investigation may have been denounced in Senate hearings, but he's being lauded on Wall Street. What gives?


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I have an idea/suggestion for a map. I've been toying with the map I am talking about, but am no good at creating mazes.
Here it goes, have the giant robot in the center of the map, players randomly spawn somewhere in the outskirts of the maze.
The goal is to navigate the maze and get to the robot at the center before anyone else. To make this "minigame" fun we would need to add dead ends. We could have it so players earn no money through the match, and win when they earn 300 by entering the robot. We could make it last longer by making the person in the robot as the only one who makes money, and other players have to navigate the maze to kick him out of the robot (we would need to remove the robots damage, making it so the robot couldn't kill other bunnies). Anyway, if/when I have a map created i'll either send it to you or recommend playing it one Saturday.


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Create a brand-new "brand you"
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Life is so unfair. In today's economy you actually have work to look for work, taking valuable couch time to counterfeit diplomas, or invent accomplishments like winning the Nobel Prize for Barbecue.
It's just not enough to be a conniver and a kiss-up. These days, you also have to be a brand.
"Branding" -- that's the buzzword in employment circles these days. Potential employers want to be able to pluck you out of the great morass of generic job seekers simply because they instantly recognize in you something unique and memorable -- like Kleenex, Coca-Cola, or ex-lax.
According to reporter Alina Tugend of The New York Times, branding professionals can teach you how to wrap your scared, feeble, inadequate self in a bright and bold new label, complete with unforgettable name and button-cute graphics.
Like Dan Schawbel, the author of "Me 2.0: Building a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success," who suggests the key to building your brand is finding your niche. You might think you have already found your niche -- it's under your desk -- but for Schawbel the secret for creating your brand is to "discover your passion" and "put it together with your experience."
For example, your passion for thrift could be put together with your experience stealing other people's lunches from the coffee room refrigerator to create a kind of Robin Hood brand. You steal from the hungry and give to the rich, mainly yourself. Gee, I see a lot of Wall Street firms typed up offer letters already.
Whether you brand yourself as proven and reliable, like Metamucil, or calm in the face of stress, like Xanax, or wild and sexy, like Desenex, establishing your brand is only the first step in the branding process. That's right, Mr. and Ms. Brand X, you also have to market yourself.
The favored place to let your branding flag fly is the Internet. "It's about building a community," says Veronica Fielding, the president of Digital Brand Expressions. Makes sense. You certainly don't want to meet anyone face to face, which would mean the logical place to expose the brand new Brand You is one of the popular antisocial networking sites, like Facebook or LinkedIn. Start with your online profile. Instead of putting down prosaic, expected information, like your blood type, or the name of your favorite Jonas Brother, use graphics to make your online persona match your brand.
Let's imagine that your brand identity is designed to show your aggressive approach to business problems. You would want to upload photos of bloody battle scenes of carnage and slaughter, the better to demonstrate what you will do to the competition, or any co-worker who uses your pencil.
Important as it is to establish your brand's unique and scary presence, it is only the beginning of your online networking efforts. "You want to find groups," Fielding suggests, "alumni, former employees of your last jobs, trade groups." The idea here is to join the group and then wait in hiding -- a cyberspace stalker -- for opportunities to "establish yourself as someone insightful" by "chiming in with your opinion."
Unfortunately, your opinions are usually quite lame, which is probably why you are looking for a job in the first place. But don't let that stop you from promoting Brand You. Demonstrate you are a team player by butting into online conversations with supportive messages, like "you guys are big doo-doo heads." Demonstrate your abilities as a "people person" by adding a smiley-face emotogram to every e-mail, even the e-mails that include threats and promises of retribution.
Now that's the way to build a brand.
The experts also suggest that you promote your brand in the offline world. Don't go out in sweats and old T-shirts; you never know who you might run into. In the same spirit, be sure to sleep in your best Armani interview outfit. You never know when a fire will break out, and you'll find yourself on the sidewalk with a prospective employer.
Another piece of good brand advice is from author Sherry Beck Paprocki, who cautions that you shouldn't hover over the free buffet at a networking meeting, because she "would hate to have three meatballs in my mouth and try to explain what I want to do."
This wouldn't be a problem for you, of course. As anyone who knows you knows, having three meatballs in your mouth is what your brand is all about.
Bob Goldman has been an advertising executive at a Fortune 500 company in the San Francisco Bay Area. He offers a virtual shoulder to cry on at [email protected] To find out more about Bob Goldman and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.


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BT has launched the first ever "real world" trial of a 10Gbps broadband network at Cornwall-based engineering firm Arcol.
The proof-of-concept trial uses new fibre technology called XGPON (Tens of Gibabits on a Passive Optical Network) developed by electronics company ZTE, in partnership with BT Openreach.
Arcol is connected by a direct fibre link from its offices to BT's exchange in Truro. It is the first business in the country to experience so-called "hyper-fast" broadband, with more bandwidth available than was used at the highest peak for the entire Olympics media network.
The 10Gbps service runs in tandem with the company's existing 330Mbps service, which was established by the Superfast Cornwall Programme – a partnership between the EU, BT and Cornwall Council.
"What is exciting about this trial is that these hyper-fast speeds have been obtained over the exactly the same fibre that carries BT's fibre broadband services today. All we are doing is changing the electronics at either end," said Ranulf Scarbrough, programme director for the Superfast Cornwall programme.
Potential speeds are so fast that the physical limits of the networking and computer equipment prevent the line from being used at its maximum capacity, according to BT.
Arcol has no current plans to deploy the technology but Alun Morgan, technical director at Arcol, said the ability to connect at such fast speeds was "opening the door" for the company to achieve much more.
"We are still only just discovering the sorts of things we can do with these speeds, such as taking advantage of services like videoconferencing and using a cloud-based ERP system so we can access this information elsewhere, and it has enabled us to be much more efficient and aggressive," said Morgan.


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Her name is Shiah. She's the long lost sister or the Quileute Tribe - Embry's twin sister who disappeared with his unknown father the day after they were born. (Embry's mum is the one with pack blood instead of Embry getting his 'wolf' from his father)
She ends up back in La Push with the pack after her dad passes away.
Such an interesting twist.. confusing.. yet interesting.
Her life is continuously changing.
I hope you like this. I've been working on this for a while but never put it up. It becomes less puzzling in the next couple of chapters :)
Oh & it does have a few naughty words in it so just warning you
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One of the biggest surprises of the 2012 offseason was the decision of the Denver Broncos to trade quarterback Tim Tebow. One of the biggest surprises of the 2013 offseason has been the decision of the New York Jets to keep Tebow on the roster.
Though cutting or trading Tebow would create some cap space (he has a base salary of $2.58 million in 2013), the Jets presumably are squatting on Tebow in the hopes that someone will offer something/anything for the former first-rounder for whom the Jets gave up a fourth-round and sixth-round pick last March. (At least they picked up an extra seventh rounder as part of the transaction.)
Things get interesting come April 15, when the Jets open their offseason program. Tebow undoubtedly will be there will bells on, working hard to prepare for the coming season. Apart from the risk of an injury that could put the Jets on the hook for his full salary in the coming year, Tebow brings an inherent distraction. Will the Jets want him around the players who, unlike him, actually have a chance of being on the roster in 2013?
It's unlikely that anyone will trade for Tebow, and the sooner he gets a chance to join another offseason program, the better the chance he'll have to prove himself. So the right thing for the Jets to do would be to cut him, sooner rather than later.
With the draft coming only 10 days after the Jets open their offseason program, the biggest question is whether they'll cut him if they can't trade him before April 15, or whether they'll cut him if they can't move him during the draft.
Either way, any outcome other than the Jets cutting him would be a shock.


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(Since I spent most of my time on this blog arsing on about our myriad wars, and since we're coming up for the ten-year anniversary of The Fabled, Most Awesome Virtuous Anti-War March Ever To Achieve Pretty Much Nothing, I thought I'd revisit TFMAVAWMETAPMN. After all, every other lazy bugger is).
I remember it was very cold, and I was very hungover. It took a long time to get to Glasgow - either lots of people were driving through for the protest, or there was a football match on.
I remember it was damn loud and some jokers had brought drums, but I recall being fine with that. It was all kind of exciting.
I remember we joined in right behind a bunch of Commies with shouty placards, since it seemed as good a place as any. "Who are these guys?", Mrs R. asked me.
"A bunch of Commies, by the looks of things", I told her. I seem to recall that the crowd behind us were crusties, Greenie types, although my memory is vague by now.
I remember that when we turned south and made for the Clyde, a workman in a hardhat shouted down from some scaffolding at us. "Don't you have anything better to do? Get a job!"
Get a job? I had two, for Christ's sake. "It's Saturday, dickhead" I shouted back, and added the finger for good measure. I was a youngster, you know how it is.
I remember Mrs R's friend phoning her right then. "Youse are pure fannies", Mrs R's friend told her. "Do you want Saddam to bomb us?"
Mrs R told me her friend thought we were pure fannies and wanted to know whether we wanted to get bombed by Saddam. I told her I thought brainless, credulous horseshit like that was one of the main reasons for being there in the first place.
I remember when we got to the Armadillo, where the Labour Party conference was being held, we had to wait for about an hour and a half for everyone else to arrive.
I remember the Prime Minister had showed up earlier than expected for his big troop-rallying, let's-bomb-fuck-out-of-Iraq-for-reasons-that-make-no-damn-sense speech and then buggered off long before we got there, to avoid any unpleasantness with the huge crowd of pissed-off people.
I remember the snipers on the cranes overlooking the Clyde, and how big their rifles looked even at long distance. I remember the police cars parked at the Armadillo all had one copper driving, and another with a sub-machine gun in his lap. MP5s, I'd learn later from playing Call of Duty. Deadly effective up close, but not so much at range.
My mate thought they were there to protect us from terrorist attack; I thought they were there to protect the Labour Party delegates from popular attack.
I remember thinking there must have been about sixty thousand people there. I'd been to enough football games to know what a big crowd looks like, and this was a big crowd. I remember the cops thought it was half that size.
I remember that the protesters were about evenly-split between Barber-jacketed middle class folk, studenty/crusty types, and ordinary Glaswegian punters.
It was the Glaswegians who actually made an effort to speak to you. They were nice and many were clearly from rough parts of the city, and although some of them had some fairly wacky ideas, all of them appeared to be basically aware that wars involve killing fuck out of people in vast numbers. That put them far ahead of the lawyers at my work, who mostly thought this war was an awesome idea.
I remember that many of the speakers were boring as hell. I remember Tommy Sheridan blared slogans at us like an angry foghorn, exuding little of the personal charisma that he's apparently famous for. I remember John Swinney gave us a hedging, if-this-then-that speech of the genus you'd expect from a professional politician with higher ambitions. Mind you, I remember that Jimmy Reid - I think it was Jimmy Reid, anyway - was witty and acerbic, which I liked, although I had no idea who he was back then.
It may be because I like her so much that I remember Margo MacDonald making most of the points I agreed with: the ones about how the whole affair was a stupendously retarded and dangerous idea, certain to end in a godawful bloodbath; about how the Vietnam War must've struck people as sane at some point, even though it was plainly deranged, but mostly about the jaw-dropping levels of political bullshit citizens were being forced to wade through, to get at anything that looked like a semblance of truth.
Somebody pointed out that the previous Gulf War had been sold as a virtuous police action, but later turned into an insane death-rampage, although I don't recall who. Somebody else noted the many and various porkies that had been told about the new war, and how you couldn't trust anyone who you caught telling you porkies. You couldn't trust them at all, and you were a sucker if you did.
And then, we walked back to Mrs R's car and went home.
I remember it was still very cold, even though it was a beautiful sunny day, but I remember there was a widespread feeling of satisfaction, like something good and worthwhile had been done... Like maybe, some kind of contribution had been made to the debate, a statement that couldn't just be ignored or slyly shoved aside. The crowd was plainly a mish-mash of political cranks and ordinary citizens, but getting this many people to take time out to agree on one basic message - This war is total bullshit - felt like an achievement.
I don't remember whether it was that night or the next day that we got the Prime Minister's response, but I do remember that I was out of the front room, and that Mrs R shouted me through to the TV.
"Tony Blair was just on talking about the marches", she said with a confused look on her face. I asked her what he'd said.
"He said he was glad that we could protest, because people in Iraq can't do that", she said.
"Uh, okay. What else did he say?"
Mrs R shrugged. "That was it. He said it's great that we can march, because Iraqis can't".
"That was it?" I looked at the TV. The newsreader was talking about something else. I clearly remember rubbing my temples like I had a bad headache coming on.
"The man's a fucking lunatic", I said eventually.
"Yes", Mrs R said. "He is".
Then, we watched the football reports.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
TFMAVAWMETAPMN, Redux
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- levi9909 said...
That's funny, I was hungover on the London demo. It had been a friend's fiftieth the night before.
> I remember the cops thought it was half that size.
Which confirms your estimate. Want to know how big any demo was - take what the polis say, and double it. For some reason this applies even to tiny demos where everyone present can name everyone else.
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The Redskins have gotten a strong preseason from linebacker Ryan Kerrigan, one of the centerpieces of the unit's strong finish in the 2012 season as well.
That strong finish helped lead the Redskins to the NFC East title, one of many things we'll be talking about when Kerrigan visits Pro Football Talk on NBCSN on Tuesday afternoon. We'll find out how it feels to have linebacker Brian Orakpo back in the lineup after a torn pectoral muscle wiped out his 2012 campaign and whether Kerrigan thinks the team can be even better this year.
We'll also continuing our look at some of the storylines for the coming season when we tackle turnover in the playoff ranks. Which 2012 playoff contestants are destined for the dustbin this time and which teams will replace them? We'll share our thoughts during the show.
It all gets started at 5:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN.


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Minnesota Orchestra management and musicians are still worlds apart as they meet with a federal mediator on Monday, six days before the orchestra's union contract expires.
Management's original proposal, delivered April 12, would cut musicians' average salaries to $89,000, from $135,000.
Musicians have made no counteroffer. With the season-opening concert still four weeks off, the union has no strike leverage. But neither is it inclined to accept the current proposal.
"I wouldn't be surprised if there is a lockout," said John Budd, a labor-relations expert at the Carlson School of Management. "That's what we've seen elsewhere, and if you look at the economics, it makes sense from a management perspective."
A lockout would prevent musicians from working and receiving paychecks. The union can challenge the legality with the National Labor Relations Board, but the appeal process could take weeks.
"It's a possibility," said principal trombonist Doug Wright, a member of the union team. "It's not in our control, and, obviously, we'd like to avoid it."
Management could declare an impasse and impose the final offer, while the two sides continue talking. That, too, could be challenged. Another possibility is to continue talking, which the musicians would prefer.
"Playing and talking is a thing this orchestra has done before," Wright said.
Finances blamed
The board has said for three years that the orchestra no longer can "survive based on optimistic economic assumptions and the hope of limitless benefactor generosity." The orchestra in fiscal 2011 reported its largest deficit ever, $2.9 million, a shortfall that could double in 2012.
Musicians said that if the board was crying poverty, it should agree to an independent financial analysis.
"We're trying to wrap our heads around what the problem is," Wright said Friday. "A lot of the information we see is in conflict with itself. There are pieces missing."
Michael Henson, president and CEO of the orchestra, said on Friday that no immediate financial crisis exists, but he likened the investment funds that help fund each season to a retirement account.
"You can't spend 90 percent of it in the first four years of retirement," Henson said. "You need to make it last."
He indicated the orchestra would like to draw no more than 5 percent annually from the funds; the draw rate has averaged nearly 10 percent over the past 10 years, he said.
The parties have not met since August. Earlier this month, the orchestra published on its website details of its proposal, summaries, a strategic plan and an open letter making its case to the community.
Musicians, initially angered that the orchestra had gone public, have used the salary proposals to rally fans. More than 2,000 people have signed petitions in support.
Union and management at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra also are meeting this week, ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline. Musician Carole Mason Smith said the union has significant questions about a second offer from the orchestra, but indicated "everyone wants to get a deal done."
Will there be losses?
With a Minnesota Orchestra agreement in peril, observers wonder about a work stoppage and whether musicians -- some of whom are taking auditions elsewhere -- will leave. Said Richard Davis, the U.S. Bank chair who heads the board's negotiating team: "It's going to be very challenging to find a way to protect the artistic integrity of this world-class orchestra and not lose the players that have made it that way."
He has reason to worry. Before and during a 2011 strike, the Detroit Symphony lost its concertmaster of 23 years, its principal timpanist and the entire percussion section. The St. Louis Symphony experienced losses, too, when musicians struck in 2005.
However, St. Louis just returned from a well-received European tour that included the BBC Proms -- much like Minnesota did in 2010.
"Most of the bitterness is gone," said Sarah Bryan Miller, music critic at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "There were a lot of people who thought they were going to get jobs elsewhere, but they didn't."
Detroit made at least six hires last spring, including Yoonshin Song, who left the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra to become concertmaster.
Bargaining strategy
If there is no deal when the contract expires, the question of impasse looms heavily. It is a legal point at which management can lock out musicians or impose the final offer while talks continue.
"For better or worse, though, there's no flag that goes off or button that pops out like when you're cooking a turkey that says we've reached an impasse," Budd said.
And why hasn't the union offered a counter?
"The strategy would be, it's so extreme that they are waiting for management to revise to something they think is more of a platform to negotiate from," said Budd.
As negotiations unfold his week, logic could take a back seat to the personal chemistry. Bryan Miller said that in 2005 in St. Louis, deliberations deteriorated because of personalities on both sides.
"The attitude is much better now," she said.
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