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By Ranga CHANDRARATHNE
A number of his poetry shows commitment to a form of solidarity with
the cultural dimension of nation building, and several poems in this
volume keep their share of that concern, ' hoping yet to mend his
bitter, broken times', because cultural anatomy is secured far more
slowly than political independence or economic sufficiency.
One of the poems in Still Travelling which vividly captures the
transformation of life and times in Singapore is Arts House, Smith
Street, Singapore.
Arts House, Smith Street, Singapore
(for Wong Yoon Wah)
Having left Mountain Head through
Lower Gate for these Southern Seas,
They miss morning's children-laughter
Competing with the sun's as little fingers
Count ducklings waddling on the bund.
Look up into the wide blue benediction;
Gather clouds into your savouring arms:
They tell a daily story. Below, early paddy
Thrives as elders light their dreaming pipes
While watching crickets dry.
Fireflies will blink to night; the lonely moon
Descend upon a beam of generous light to stir
The hesitant longing of a maiden's heart.
Watched by impatient sighing shadows,
She denied the body's yearning, lies apart.
He too will follow the swallows South where indentured
fathers-uncles-sons- nephews sweat daily and
then nightly nurse them in Kongsis.
Those left at home uphold lamp-lit pieties, While ancestral halls fold
deeper into quiet.
The temperature is charged; the evening sky
Has more colours, but no crags to help it glow.
Moods re-arranged. Ink flows with a second spirit.
Stars have new names; winds rise into a rolling,
Plaintive call; strange incense fills the air.
Twilight creeps across blue-burnish waters
As the riding monsoon brings out kindred
Memories. No lark but seagull cries
To baleful dog-star high above the curving
Slide of dolphins hunting the turning tide.
You hear water swish when the caged carps breathe;
Ripples where crabs slip tactfully into pure stillness.
No crocuses in spring; no spring; no plum blossoms
Waiting for a poet. Only spider orchids for company;
A land where man and nature are a different history.
My neighbour is another language.
Readers interested in Thumboo's works and the criticisms it has
attracted can have a look at particularly the essays by Jonathan Webster
following website:
Jonathan Webster who had studied Thumboo's poetry extensively had
analysed his works which include "The Poet's Language: Foregrounding in
Edwin Thumboo's Gods can die " in World Englishes. 17.3, November 1998:
359-368. and "Thumboo's David" in Ariels: Departure and Returns. A
Festschrift for Edwin Thumboo. Singapore: Oxford University Press,
Professor Thumboo has received various awards in a career spanning
more than four decades, including the National Book Development Council
of Singapore Book Award for Poetry in English (1978, 1980 and 1994), the
Southeast Asia Write Award (1979), the Singapore Cultural Medallion
(1980), the ASEAN Cultural and Communication Award in Literature (1987),
the Public Service Star (BBM) and Bar in August 1981 and 1991
More than most other writers in Singapore, Thumboo has demonstrated
his awareness of the roles, responsibilities and commitment that poets
take towards the creation of a Singaporean identity and a Singaporean
image as a multi-lingual and multi-cultural nation steady trading the
conscious path.
Perhaps, it is the fate of the first generation of writers after
independence to be so deeply committed to the issue of nation and nation
building. The writers who come later have not been exposed to the
pressures, challenges, the excitements and pain of a nation coming into
being, specially a nation that is multi-racial, multi-cultural and
therefore, exposed, perhaps, to tensions that are not apparent in a
homogeneous society.
Edwin Thumboo may well deserve the title of father figure in
Singapore and undoubtedly had paved the path for many young poets to
look more closely life around them. The accumulation of his poetry
spread over more than fifty years provides some indication to the
younger writers how they are able to look at some of the essential
forces in contemporary Singaporean society steady and with all the
poetic energy they can muster.
His widely acclaimed poem "Ulysses on the Merlion" is deemed by
several critics as a landmark in the literary history of Singapore.
For him, these commitments as reflected in the themes of his poetry
remain. Thumboo has repeatedly demonstrated through his poetry and other
writings, the need for a heightened his awareness of the roles and
responsibilities that poets take towards the creation of a Singaporean
identity and a Singaporean image of itself. His later poetry and
critical writings bear ample testimony to this sensitivity including his
commitment to spirituality and inner peace.
This sensitivity of this poet is reflected beyond poetry and academic
work creative impulses. His great hospitality and support for friends
and those around him is well-known beyond the boundaries of Singapore.
He is among the greatest poets in Asia.
One of the prominent themes figured in the large and rich corpus of
Thumboo's poetry is nation and allied themes. It is relevant to examine
the discursive concept of nation. According to Raymond Williams, a term
'nation' is closely associated with 'native' and 'territory'. Raymond's
notion of nation and a point of history in history, has been further
expounded by well-know historian Ernest Rrnan. According to Renan, " A
nation is a soul, a spiritual principal. Only two things…constitute this
soul,…One is in the past , the other is in the present. One is the
possession in common of a rich legacy of remembrance. The other is the
actual consent, the desire to live together, the will to continue to
value the heritage which holds in common'.
The main themes in the corpus of Edwin Thumboo's poetry can be
identified as birth of a nation, ethnicity and multi-cultural
population, class structure, Singapore's political and public figures
and the powerful bureaucracy which plays a vital role in the government
of Singapore.
A significant aspect of Prof. Thumboo's journey of poetry is that it
is almost synonymous with Singapore's birth as a nation and its
illustrious journey to a vibrant modern nation. Although the history of
Singapore can be traced back to the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in
1819, it was in 1959 when Singapore was granted self-government under
Lee Kuan Yew that it became a fully fledged nation. Prof. Thumboo's
career in poetry commenced in his undergraduate days in the early 1950s.
His first collection of poems- Rib of Earth appeared in 1956, three
years before Singapore becoming an independent nation. The fact should
be bore in mind is that Prof. Edwin Thumboo is not only the pioneering
anglophone poet but also one who established a tradition of English
poetry in Singapore.
Thumboo deals with the themes of ' birth of a nation', 'ethnicity'
and ' multi-cultural nationalities' in poems such as '9th of August
-1&11", " The Way ahead ", " The Immigrant' and " Ulysses by the
A proclamation, gently colonial:
Singapore shall forever be…
We think he sought alternatives
But failed against those minds
They had been fingered through
By a hoard of words, spumed
Across the Ra'ayat:
Their call become a prayer
In firm ancestral beckoning.
Some say his clever tongue
9th of August -11
..For us what then?
Make strangers out of friends
To face each other till the bitter end.
In the first couple of lines (A proclamation, gently colonial...),
Thumboo referred to the failed attempt to merge Singapore with Malaysia.
What is noteworthy is that Thumboo does not seek to merely represent the
history of the nation as chronicler would do but to offer a poetic
interpretation of it. In the poem "9th of August -11" , Thumboo
elucidates the issues relating to multicultural and diverse ethnic
groups in Singapore. The line 'make strangers out of friends', he
referred to the division among Chinese, Malay and Indian population in
Singapore. However, Thumboo does not lament over such divisions. He as a
public poet has his own vision for Singapore. He eloquently expresses
his vision for a multi-ethnic nation where people of diverse ethnicities
and races live in harmony in poem such as "The Way Ahead".
Nostalgia is prominently figured in Thumboo's poetry. His vision for
the nation is clearly articulated in
Ulysses by the Merlion which is widely acclaimed as a Singaporean
..Despite unequal ways,
Together they mutate,
Explore the edges of harmony,
Search for centre;
Have changed their gods,
Kept some memory of their race
In prayer, laughter, the way
Their women dress and greet
They hold the bright, the beautiful,
Good ancestral dreams
Within new visions,
So shining, urgent,
Full of what is now…
Without the slightest doubt, the above stanzas eloquently express the
grand vision Thumboo has for his island nation home to many ethnicities
and races. Despite the differences of race and ethnicities, the
multi-ethnic populations flourish in a cosmopolitan and technology
–driven Singaporean society. "Explore the edges of harmony, search for
centre;", while up-keeping their diverse traditions, faiths and perhaps,
ways of life, the population explores a common destiny and common
identity yet keeping 'some memory of their race'. They also hold
somewhat sacred 'good ancestral dream'.
In essence, it is the visionary behind the public poet who comes to
the fore through memorable yet inclusive lines. These lines are
inclusive in the sense that they not only mere codify the history of
Singapore and its present and the vision for its future. The vision so
articulated in Ulysses by the Merlion, is in complete harmony with
Renan's definition of nation, 'a nation is a soul, spiritual principal.
One is in the past, the other in the present'.
It seems that Thumboo firmly believes that the vision for the future
of the garden city as Singapore is know, is one which assimilates
diverse ethnicities and races into its kaleidoscopic society while
providing spaces for each race, ethnicity and religion to flourish in a
harmonised environment. But there is a common identity together with a
common destiny which is the 'centre' made out of 'the edges of harmony'.
One of the principal techniques Thumboo employs to drive home the
message throughout his poetry, is the apt use of short but powerful
lines. This is manifested even in Ulysses by the Merlion:
Explore the edges of harmony..
Search for Centre:
They hold the bright, the beautiful,
Good ancestral dreams...
The line ' Expore the edges of harmony' sums up in the most effective
manner the way in which the multi-ethnic and multi-racial population
explore a common ground ' Centre' in the midst of flourishing diversity.
The line 'kept some memory of their race' signifies that they
(population) keep their native tongues though the common language of
interaction, education and commerce remains English.
The literary landscape of Singapore is rich with literary productions
from main ethnic stocks in their native languages such as Chinese, Malay
and Tamil besides a flourishing corpus of literature in English.
The past also constitute an important segment of the nation, 'a rich
legacy of remembrance' according to Renan's definition of nation.
Thumboo epitomises the history of Singapore as it was then in his
childhood and as it is now, a technologically driven highly urbanised
city state in the poem 'Island':
There was a quiet Island,
With a name,
You must believe me
When I say that sunlight,
Impure but beautiful,
Broke upon the bay, silvered
The unrepentant burning noon.
There were persons in this place.
Too young to know the sea,
Aminah cried;
Harun, who followed crabs and tide
Ambitiously, learnt
To keep the spray out of his eyes.
Their father in his bid
To make a proper life
Lived the way his father did
Mangroves and palm
Unfold in brittle shades of green.
Houses on stilts, boats drawn up
The sand, the makeshift pier, village shop,
Smoke from kitchen fires,
All frame a picture.
Romantic. Nostalgic.
But image changed
Nearby hills are pushed into the sea.
Tractors roar, lorries thrive
Till the ochre of the land
Scooped out day and night
Crept upon the sand.
Aminah, Harun now reside in flats,
Go to school while Father
Learns a trade
In the former part of the poem, Thumboo portrays a silent and almost
sleepy fishing village where children have a little or no education and
have to take up their parents' trade which is fishing. The impoverished
of the village is amply captured by keywords such as 'the makeshift
pier', 'some smoke from kitchen fires' and 'village shop'. It was the
nostalgic but impoverished fishing village that was Singapore before it
became a modern nation. It is 'a legacy of remembrance' or 'Good
ancestral dreams' in Thumboo's own words that constitute the
memory-escape of the people of Singapore. The later part of the poem
describes modern nation of Singapore after its independence and the
massive development drive which turned the once third world country into
a first world country with a flourishing economy.
The poem At Mandai, captures not only the early days before the war
but how the old calm and quiet life with its regime of customs and
traditions vanishes into memory as cities were constructed connecting
Mandai to the city through super high ways. Thumboo looks back on that
part of history both personal and public with a sense of nostalgia. It
is one of the insightful poems which captures the change which is,
sometimes, painful to the poet.
Before the war our countryside enveloped
You and me, helped stitch prepositions
To exponential numbers roaming among
Dainty custard apples. For the inquisitive,
Slightly disobedient, there were little
Infinities in sound in light in the ant's
Unexpurgated sting..or how four fingers moved
To make a convenient abacus. Everything
Narrated. Syabas! Grandma's tales
Were tragically real but where was Swatow
Anyway! We dreamt of them as fantasies,
As games which adults played.
Exploding rubber seeds; durian trees in flowers:
Daily rhythms gradually subverting into
Time into power to compute, arranging,
The shaded layers of memory, inventing
Movements in the mind; how transact for toys; how
Cajole and manage. There were somewhat, you might
Think latterday. Before shifting dioramas
Of colour forms adventure directing child's
Eye released with morning weaving batik sun
Sliding down Mandai Hill into valleys still
Dark intimidations, favourite treetops
Floating on mist, construe. The first birds fly
Decisively; a breeze begins as light achieves.
Mandai to city connect beginnings departures and
Returns ...with no anointing by the sky no
Blessings from the earth no healing by wind
No boundary except the spirit's wholeness from
Father to son commemorating the road forebears
Took when hunger sang when muscle tested rock.
O city all is made redone rewritten reinforced,
Traditional impart, all still looking for means
Ends hastening margins hinterland calm
Judging eye and hesitations of the noble
Heart. There are older voices. Avenues were
Streets before; gleaming condos replaced
Ancestral homes, extended celebrations.
We move, adjust, discover yet again
There are two imaginings, perhaps
More between pages, between lines,
Ways to unfold digest visions.
There is a strain of lament present throughout the poem. The rapid
development has brought about prosperity and high standards of life. But
it has taken away the old life which is now confined to 'Good ancestral
Class structure in Singapore is a prominent theme articulated in
Thumboo's corpus of poems. Poems such as "Plush" and "How to win
friends" gives insights into the class structure in Singaporean society
and the class dynamics at work.
The Executive beams
From plush Diethelm chair,
Table priced to match.
Cigar in the air,
I came for a drink,
To spin the past and let it sing.
The goodies spread:
Adelphi cakes, Bacardi rum,
Cheese cookies in the breeze
Of Collyer Quay.
His talk expanded,
That smile was monogrammed.
Yes, poor chap,
Can't even change his car:
I've got a Volvo, by the way,
Sporty and good for girls...
We can't all win:
Some at the door,
Where guys like me come in.
Proud, uncouth, man,
Is this the tapper's son
Six years away from Jemaluang
Beneath this slim executive tan?
The corporate attitude of the company executives and their system of
values are ably portrayed in the poem. The Executive may be a tapper's
In the poem "How to win friends", Thumboo portrays new elite class in
Mr.Ang, man about town,
Married bachelor, gay, affable,
Enjoy regular predictable welcomes:
Here, there, places between,
Day and night, rain or shine.
Sometimes about him
Pleases people.
He has, you might say,
A gift of quick intimacy
Of sorts.
His temperamental golf
Supports a large handicap.
Yet caddies wait for him,
Despite drives into the rough,
His complex, multiple putts.
At the airport, Ang bags,
Custom made, uniquely vulgar,
Attracts the greatest care: labels,
Locks contentiously checked,
Their colour admired repeatedly
He takes all sweetly,
Observing many hands make light work.
Because he is present,
The table at the bah koot tay
Stall by Clyde Terrace market
Gets an extra wipe, the soup delivered
Steaming hot, chilies finely sliced.
Even the resident fly
Is kept safely out of sight
At posh hotels
The doorman, absurd in a bird of a hat,
Opens the door with extra flourish. ....
Mr Ang represents a new class emerging in Singapore quite different
to the class represented by Indian immigrants or Muslims Thumboo
portrays in poems such as "Immigrant" and "Ahmed".
Thumboo's representation of nation can be seen in poems such as
"Immigrant" and "Ahmed" where he articulates about the plight of
non-Chinese particularly Muslims in Singapore. In the poem 'Immigrant'
Thumboo portrays the hardships that the first generation of immigrants
had to undergo in Singapore.
Days and Indian days stretch
Beyond the grasping of his hands,
They were the hoe, the sickle in the sun.
Though his body sweated into fields
The seed kept the cruel silence..
A striking feature of Thumboo's poetry is that on some instances, he
employs a language without metaphors and images with the intention of
portraying the 'outer world' of his nation. Yet they are powerful poetic
representations of the island nation of Singapore, its nostalgic past
and present and the poet's vision for its future.
His corpus of poems written over fifty years constitute, among other
things, the rich harvest of a poetic legacy and as a pioneering work
which sets the tradition of English poetry in Singapore.
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With a stay at Grandview on Grace Bay in Providenciales (Grace Bay), you'll be convenient to The Regent Village Shopping Mall and Grace Bay Beach. This 4-star condo is within close proximity of Salt Mills Plaza and Leeward Beach.
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Hadoop distributor Cloudera announced the fourth version of the Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop today, exactly 12 months after the launch of v3.
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Cloudera says it made HBase, HDFS, MapReduce, Flume and system-wide data compression much speedier than it was before, going as far as saying that the new versions "set a new standard for Big Data management systems" in terms of performance. Flume, Sqoop, Hue, Oozie and Whirr, which are also all available under an Apache license, have been tweaked as well.
Extensibility is another big focus for CDH4. HBase co-processors and an open source resource management model can be used by developers looking to build their own real time data-powered apps, in addition to the improved API. The interface now offers more access, specifically as it pertains to integrating third party BI components with the distribution.
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The DREAM Act sends the message that although American immigration law in effect tries to make water run uphill, we are not monsters. It says that we will not hobble the prospects of young people raised and schooled in America just because we were so perverse to demand that their parents wait in a line before a door that never opens. It signals that we were once a nation of immigrants, and even if we have become too fearful and small to properly honour that noble legacy, America in some small way remains a land of opportunity.


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Also, if you didn't work for them, how do you know they've had a turnover of more than 50 electricians in two years?
How, also do you know, for a fact, that they're "twice as expensive" as other electrical firms?
Guess, I wonder how you also know about him treating his employees like garbage and then not paying them.
Where have you observed their work in comparison to others and determined it to be inferior? Is this why he hires new people all the time and doesn't pay them? If ALL these people are that bad, perhaps MOST electricians are therefore bad, in YOUR estimation. Sounds like sour grapes to me, Mr. former employee.
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September 23, 2011
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I read an interesting article a few days by James Clear.
James writes a wonderful blog on health and business success that I really enjoy reading.
Here's the start of James article...
This Coach Improved Every Tiny Thing by 1 Per cent and Here's What Happened...
In 2010, Dave Brailsford faced a tough job.
No British cyclist had ever won the Tour de France, but as the new General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain's professional cycling team), that's what Brailsford was asked to do.
His approach was simple.
Brailsford believed in a concept that he explained as the "1 per cent margin for improvement in everything you do." His belief was that if you improved every area related to cycling by just 1 per cent, then those small gains would add up to remarkable improvement.
They started by optimising the things you might expect: the nutrition of riders, their weekly training program, the ergonomics of the bike seat, and the weight of the tires.
But Brailsford and his team didn't stop there.
They searched for 1 per cent improvements in tiny areas that were overlooked by almost everyone else: discovering the pillow that offered the best sleep and taking it with them to hotels, testing for the most effective type of massage gel, and teaching riders the best way to wash their hands to avoid infection.
They searched for 1 per cent improvements everywhere.
Brailsford believed that if they could successfully execute this strategy, then Team Sky would be in a position to win the Tour de France in five years time.
He was wrong. They won it in three years.
In 2012, Team Sky rider Sir Bradley Wiggins became the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France. That same year, Brailsford coached the British cycling team at the 2012 Olympic Games and dominated the competition by winning 70 per cent of the gold medals available.
In 2013, Team Sky repeated their feat by winning the Tour de France again, this time with rider Chris Froome. Many have referred to the British cycling feats in the Olympics and the Tour de France over the past 10 years as the most successful run in modern cycling history.
James's article went on to explain how looking for consistent 1 per cent improvements could have a profound impact on many parts of your life.
After reading the article it occurred to me that the same 1 per cent improvement concept could easily be applied to marketing.
So what we look for are dozens of different opportunities to make a 1 per cent improvement in our various marketing activities.
For instance, we could improve the way we use testimonials in our marketing by at least 1 per cent.
For some people this could mean they talk to one happy client a month on the phone. And ask this person what they like the product or service they purchased and why they would highly recommend it. Then put this positive feedback on their website. You will now have 12 new positive testimonials a year and that will improve your testimonials by at least 1 per cent.
You could easily improve your quotes and proposals by at least 1 per cent.
Just include 2-3 glowing testimonials from delighted customers with every quote or proposal you give to potential new clients.
You could easily improve the way your existing clients remember you by at least 1 per cent.
Just send ten clients this week a short hand-written note in the mail saying that you appreciate their business and wish them a positive year ahead.
You could easily improve your sales presentations by 1 per cent.
Just ask one extra question when talking to potential customers.
This could be something as simple as 'why is that important to you?'
Now a 1 per cent improvement in one part of marketing is quite simple to do.
And when you make dozens of tiny improvements like this the increases in your overall results can be spectacular.
'To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.'
Winston Churchill
Action Exercise:
What 1 per cent improvement in your marketing can you make this week?
Graham McGregor is a marketing consultant and the creator of the 396 page 'Unfair Business Advantage Report.' www.theunfairbusinessadvantage.com (This is free and has now been read by business owners from 27 countries.) You can email him at the link below.


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Uri Avnery considers the role of propaganda in the war on Gaza. The battle for the TV screen is one of the decisive battles of the war.
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Anna Chen reckons we're all being driven towards a dystopian future, and that the next stop could be terminal…
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Bamboo is so tough and so plentiful it's used for construction scaffolding all aver Asia. So why not use it to build bikes? It seemed like a good idea to design maestro Craig Calfee and to the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City. The two have teamed up to build better bikes for poor Africans in rural areas and stimulate the local bicycle industry in a number of African countries. The NI talked to Bamboo Bike Project co-ordinator and Columbia scientist David Ho.
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This CMMI Implementation Guide is a reference book for anyone interested in implementing
CMMI in their organization. The purpose of this book is, to provide insight in to CMMI
Implementation phases and best practices to be followed in this journey. Most of us agree, that
CMMI is more a De facto model that IT Industry follows and other industries also has shown lot
of interest in adopting this model. The day to day popularity and its adoption rate is on the surge
for CMMI. In this scenario, this book will help the new organizations and implementers, on how
to approach CMMI Implementation practically in their organization. This book is not a
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Wow, what a great way to start the day! This morning I was lucky enough to wake up to the news that EventDV magazine has just named us as one of the "hottest and most influential" videographers in the World. Of course I'm completely humbled by this award and would like to thank fellow videographers (the only ones eligible to vote) for giving me this great honour!
I also can't forget to thank my amazing team here at Cloud Nine and our phenomenal couples. Without either of them, this kind of recognition wouldn't be possible. Congratulations as well to all the other amazingly talented videographers that also made the list!
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Of all the features we notice about a person upon meeting them, their eyes are often the first connection we make. But some people just aren't satisfied with the color of their peepers, wishing their dark corneas away in favor of a pleasant shade of blue.
Those unhappy with brown eyes may find just what they're looking for: Laguna Beach doctor Gregg Homer has developed a new procedure that can actually convert brown-colored eyes to blue in just a matter of weeks. The operation itself is fairly straight forward: Using a laser tuned to a special frequency, the doctor actually alters the cells that produce the brown coloration in the eye. After a few weeks, the darker color begins to fade, revealing the blue pigment underneath. As the doctor explains it, the procedure only works for brown-eyed individuals, as they already have a bluish coloration hiding underneath.
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Female City College student punches attacker. He runs away.
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"Sexting" is when somebody —probably somebody who's drunk — texts you on your cell phone and the subject matter is overtly sexual. So instead of "texting" you, they're "sexting" you. "Sexting" is sort of the phone sex of the 2000s, but you can do it anywhere, which is better than traditional phone sex. "Sexting" can also include flirty or even nasty pictures. I haven't heard anyone else use ["sexting" as a word], so I'm claiming it as my own. Feel free to use it as you'd like. Think of me every time you do.
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CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) President Bush stuck out his right elbow Thursday, jokingly demonstrating how he'll escort his daughter down the aisle at her wedding this weekend.
He made the gesture at Andrews Air Force Base before boarding Air Force One for the flight to Texas, where Jenna Bush will be married Saturday before about 200 guests at the family's 1,600 acre, secluded ranch. Asked if he was excited, the president smiled and gave a thumbs up.
"He's looking forward to it," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters aboard the plane as it flew from rainy Washington to sunny Texas. "He's excited like any proud father is to see one of his daughters get married."
"I think he's also going to make sure he gets a good night's sleep tonight so he can stay up late the rest of the weekend and enjoy all the activities."
First lady Laura Bush is already at the ranch getting ready for the outdoor wedding on the spread in central Texas. Jenna, 26, is marrying her longtime boyfriend Henry Hager, who turns 30 on Friday.
Jenna and Hager of Richmond, Va., opted for a more low-key affair, thinking a White House wedding would be too formal and stuffy. More than 200 friends and family are converging at the ranch for the wedding.
The White House says it will be a closed affair. No details are expected to be released, although White House officials say the family might agree to release a photo or two of the wedding on Sunday.
"This is really a private event for the family," Johndroe said. "I think the activities of the weekend are going to be really a private celebration for Jenna and Henry's family and friends."
Marvin Bush, one of the president's brothers, and his family flew down with Bush on Air Force One. The group, along with White House advisers, hopped on the Marine One presidential helicopter with Bush, who hurried them up with a wave and a smile.
Bush has joked that he has had little to do with the wedding planning — that he's mostly just expected to open his wallet. Vice President Cheney noted that on Thursday when he visited one of the government's financial centers in Philadelphia, where the economic stimulus checks are being processed.
"He's on his way to Texas for his daughter's wedding this weekend," Cheney said about Bush. "So you can bet he'll be writing a few checks, too."
Tricia Nixon, one of President Richard Nixon's daughters, was the last child of a president to get married at the White House. She married Edward Cox on June 12, 1971. Since then, other children of presidents have gotten married, but their weddings were not held at the White House.
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A growing number of Americans are not just dissatisfied, but angry at Washington after repeated standoffs over taxes and the deficit have pockmarked the start of President Obama's second term.
Fully 30 percent of Americans say they feel outright "angry" about Washington in a CBS News poll released Tuesday, up from 21 percent in December and numerically above a previous high of 28 percent amid the 2011 debt ceiling battle. Republicans continue to express the most anger (43 percent), but independents have fueled the rise with an 11-percentage point jump in anger.
Indeed, independents have soured on Obama in particular since his reelection. In the CBS News poll, independents disapprove of Obama by a 50 to 38 percent margin, a flip from February when they tilted 48 to 37 percent in approval. That mirrors a 10-point approval drop from January in a Washington Post-ABC News poll earlier this month.
The drops among independents has dragged on Obama's overall rating, which is down to 45 percent in the CBS poll, mirroring declines in other polls.
With 2014 elections still in the distance, it will be a long time before the public can register its dissatisfaction at the polls (one potential showdown is the tight Virginia gubernatorial race to be decided this November). But with any major deficit compromise likely to include some tax increases and cuts to unpopular programs, it's not clear how Washington will climb back into the public's graces.
The CBS News poll was conducted via conventional and cellular phones March 20 to 24 among 1,181 adults nationwide. The margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus three percentage points.
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Levins overtook NCAA 3,000-meters, 5,000-meters and cross country champion Lawi Lalang in the final seconds of the race, recording a top national time of 13.18.47 and earning a Canadian Olympic A+ Qualifier.
"It felt better than any other race and I knew going into the final mile that I was going to make it," Levins said. "Training has gone really well this past week but I never could have expected to achieve the Olympic standard this early in the season. It feels amazing."
Southern Utah was also represented at the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays by Austin West, who earned a fourth-place position in the Summit League with a 3:50.56 finish in the 1,500-meters.
Devan Antczak also raced with the T-Bird distance squad, recording a 20th-place time of 9:28.35 in the steeplechase.
Cody Olsen represented the throwers at Mt. SAC and recorded a seventh-place finish in the javelin, throwing to a mark of 200-4. Multi athletes Wade Nielson and Stephen Wilson also competed at Mt. SAC, finishing ninth and 13th in their division with decathlon scores of 6228 and 5243 respectively.
The Thunderbirds also competed at Azusa Pacific's Bryon Clay Invitational on Friday, where the men's 4x100-meter relay squad took the title with a 41.94 finish. The squad included Kyle Kopp, Wade Nielson, Preston Myers and Shaun Murray. Myers also led the T-Birds in the 200-meter dash, recording a second-place Summit League time of 21.53.
The men's distance team also earned some top finishes at Azusa Pacific, led by Clinton Rhoton with a third-place finish in the 5,000-meters. Rhoton was followed by Ryan Barrus in ninth place with a time of 15:00.85.
Daniel Keller led the team in the 800-meters with an 11th-place time of 1:53.34, while Dallas Eborn finished 10th in the steeplechase with a 9:30.78.
Kopp led the men in the field, finishing sixth in the long jump with a distance of 23-6 and tying his own personal record.
SUU was represented by Chris Johnson and Phillip Renaud in the throws, as Johnson earned a ninth-place mark of 51-7.75 in the shot put while Renaud finished 21st in the hammer with a 149-1 toss.
The Thunderbirds will now prepare to host Utah Valley in a dual at home on Saturday, set to begin at about 5 p.m. Several members of the team will then compete at Stanford's Payton Jordan Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif. on Sunday.
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Ok I didnt drive it, but my wealthy Aunt just got a new Sequoia SR5 and I made her let me sit in it today lolI wanted to drive it so bad, just to feel that 5.7L's power. Unfortunatly she wouldnt let me, so heres my review of the interior.The general design of the dash is quite odd, it reminds me of those white and black cookies. The materials felt ok, but they're nothing special. The seats are comfy, but dont let this vehicles size fool you, as I found it to be fairly cramped. The second row was filled with crap(for lack of a better word) so I couldnt get back there.I wish I could have driven it, but oh well. I'll give the interior a 3 out of 5 rating though. It really didnt feel as special as I thought it would, considering it won that MT comparo. I like the interior of the Expedition much better, even if the materials aren't as soft.
The Tundra and Sequoia may be fast 0-60 but they will not be moving fast off the lot! 14-18 mpgs, looks god awful, Toyota should have never invested so much time and money into full size trucks. If your aunt is so wealthy why did she buy a Toyota Sequia over the lush Mercedes, Land Rover, or Cadillac featured here http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suv/112_0607_full_size_suv_comparsion
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Nd4spd.:They areLOLOLOLOL...  Every family has 'em. I have a cousin who bought a Azera when it first came out... went thru two trannys and an engine withing the first 6 months. Her dad who is a STANUCH GM guy... was P I S S E D. When I had my Isuzu Trooper the guy tried to kill me... no lie... then I told him that Isuzu was 49% (at the time) owned by GM... he seemed to calm down from there  ANY WAY... does she ride BIG WHEELS on the top of the vehicle??? I heard that a 2008 Sequoia is really capable of riding up to 20 Plastic Big Wheels on top.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz0_xGrnmVMSeriously... I may be an idiot.. because I just can't figure out how this commercial pertains to how great an SUV is by hauling plastic Big Wheels
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If you dont believe him, here is the link!Toyota Haulin' Big Wheels
I've seen the commercial. I could probably fit 20 big wheels on my Bronco.
Doesn't a Big wheel weigh about 5 lbs??? Seriously... when I was 4 I remember picking mine up with my pinkie and turning it around in tight corners out in the Alley
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I will say that the Sequoia looks alright from the rear. The Tundra front doesnt do it for me though. it looks to much like a large mouth bass, or a catfish.
That or carrying giant inflated human hampster rolling balls. No trailer when the thing shows up, but part way through there is a trailer to haul the giant inflated things around.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPpj_nTAtwk
The Verdict: A 638-hp flip-off to those in the mainstream media who think GM doesn?t build any good cars.
I want one of those hampster balls though. That looks like alot of fun.
^^^Yeah rolling around in one could be cool.
The Verdict: A 638-hp flip-off to those in the mainstream media who think GM doesn?t build any good cars.
The Sequoia is an "ok" SUV. I don't particularly approve of the mass of the vehicle though. It just seems like it is trying to be a John Cena, with a little bit of Tom Brady. And I absolutely hate how Toyota is trying to Market that asteroid.I guess it would be a great car for it's "intended" purposes, such as work, towing and carrying a lot of cargo... But unfortunately, that isn't going to happen.But don't know If I want a vehicle that looks like other people...(You notice how the Front Bumper looks like the square chin of others?)
Evolution is achievable with an idea...An idea comes from inspiration...
Yeah, and I do hate Tom Brady.Personally I would go with an Escalade Platinum or a Tahoe LTZ.
Seems to me I was just reading a Road and track (or was it MT) in the airport last Friday that had the Sequoia dominating the segment, and delivering crazy acceleration and the SAME MPG AS THE WAYYY SLOWER 4 SPEED CHEVY!The wifey and I love ours and EVERYTIME I push the button to fold the third row flat I think of all the lucky Escalade and Tahoe/Suburban owners out there with those 62lb beauties they have to wrestle
LOL, this from the guy three years ago talking up how his daily driver fleet was going to be all hybrid because he was so concerned about cutting emissions and wanted to save the world.Now sitting in his driveway are the two biggest gas hogs in their class.Nice job!Also, good thing Ford offered power folding seats first in this class so toyota could copy it. Well at least this time you couldn't wimp out and only get the 4.7, like your wimpy truck.


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So, are we all Instagrammed out? We've covered how much money everyone made, how CEO Kevin Systrom is a self-taught programmer, and whether Facebook will be the death of the service. But now that everyone's recovered from the billion-dollar sticker shock, the question is: What does this mean for Pinterest? Basically, she's the prettiest girl in town, and she just caught the bouquet at her sorority sister's wedding.
We're not talking about Pinterest's literal loveliness here. Rather, it's already the 3rd most-visited social networking site, and it's got a plan for generating revenue. And while Instagram helps Facebook get good at a weak spot (mobile photo sharing), Pinterest has wound circles around Facebook's real Achilles heel: ecommerce. As investor Mark Birch writes:
Facebook however has their sites set on an even bigger and more audacious goal, building the next great commerce platform. Their F-commerce strategy does not get the attention that other things do at Facebook, but make no mistake that Facebook is closely watching Pinterest. If anything P-commerce is well ahead of F-commerce and completely disrupts Facebook's strategy of enclosing commerce in their walled garden.
That means the Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street is already name-checking Pinterest as a potential next move for the soon-to-be-public company. If Zuck was freaked out enough to plunk down a billion for Instagram, just think how much he would pay for an even stickier startup that's already figured how to monetize.
Nor is Facebook the only suitor under discussion: The Guardian featured Pinterest as the lead image in this most-likely-to-be-acquired roundup, and over at Quora, the topic of "Pinterest Acquisition Offers & Interest" is suddenly seeing action. "There will definitely be a bidding war for Pinterest," analyst Jake Wengroff tells ZDNet Asia. He promises the site will "definitely be acquired." Strong words, sir.
CNET just goes straight for broke:
While there are a lot of very good companies that could easily get acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars, few have the same, critical values that Instagram has. And not just to Facebook. There's really only one startup that emerges as most Instagram-like: Pinterest. All the others are battling for position as distant followers.
Even if Pinterest waves away outright acquisition offers, peHUB points out the company can have essentially whatever it wants from VCs:
The deal also means that venture capitalists who were flying golden paper airplane term sheets at Pinterest, telling the company it had a $1 billion valuation, will have to come up with a better offer.
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Young adults charged with intoxication
Four alleged underage drinkers were arrested by Salinas police after an argument outside Jaime's bar Sunday night.
Officers said they arrived in the 200 block of Salinas Street around 11:30p.m. and learned that a group in the rear parking lot had been inside the bar drinking and had taken their argument outside.
All four were under age and consuming alcoholic beverages at the bar, police said, and were on probation.
Arrested and charged with public intoxication and probation violations were Ivan Frias, 18, John Gonzalez, 19, Angel Ramirez (no age provided) and Mathew Yanez, 20.
Police said the incident will be referred to state Alcohol Beverage Control officials.
Traffic stop yields 40 grams of marijuana
A Salinas woman was booked on marijuana charges after a traffic stop at Garner and First avenues on Sunday. Around 5:30p.m. officers pulled over driver Crystal Hernandez, 23, and said they smelled marijuana inside the vehicle.
A search turned up around 40 grams of marijuana and "evidence indicative of sales," police said. Three occupants in the vehicle were released.
Hernandez was booked into county jail on a charge of possessing marijuana for sale.
Video fingers parolee as burglary suspect
Salinas police said they used video footage to identify a parolee suspected of burglarizing a South Salinas business several times in recent weeks.
Albert Key, 56, was arrested after the business in the 1000 block of South Main Street was broken into Saturday.
The owner had installed a surveillance system after the business was vandalized and suffered break-ins.
Officers who retrieved video footage that captured Saturday's break-in said they recognized Key and went to the area he was known to frequent. He was arrested around 3:30p.m. Sunday.
Key provided false information to officers about his identity, police said, and had a parole warrant for his arrest. He was booked at the jail on charges of burglary and providing false information to police, and was also held on the parole warrant.


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Medical AdvancesThrough Your iPhone?
Bioengineering professor Boris Rubinsky has what he hopes is the perfect antidote to bulky, expensive, hard-to-use medical machines: the mobile phone.
The University of California professor says that by reducing a complex electromagnetic imaging machine to a portable electromagnetic scanner that can work in tandem with a regular cell phone and a computer, he has essentially replicated a $10,000 piece of equipment for just hundreds of dollars. The mobile scanner plugs into the phone, which beams the data to the computer, generating an image that can be transmitted to a doctor or hospital far away.
Despite all the advances in medical diagnostics, two-thirds of the world's population has no access to imaging technologies. Worse, about half of the imaging equipment sent to developing countries goes unused because local technicians aren't trained to operate it or lack spare parts, according to the World Health Organization. But thanks to the proliferation of cellular and other wireless networks, researchers are stepping up efforts to deliver crucial medical services from afar. "You go through India, anywhere, in the middle of the road, there's someone with a cell phone. A friend calls me from the jungles of Costa Rica," says Rubinsky. "I can see so many applications in which the cell phone becomes an integral part of a medical device. A cell phone can cut the cost of almost every [diagnostic] device."
From Ultrasounds to Heart Monitors
Rubinsky is hardly the only medical researcher who sees this potential. Indeed, of some 30 health-care-related projects at various universities recently funded by Microsoft (MSFT) Research, 17 involve cell phones. One team, at Washington University in St. Louis, is attempting to take ultrasound readings using a cell phone and a TV. Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh are working to create a heart monitor that relies on a cell phone to analyze the readings and dial 911 whenever a person's cardiac activity careens into dangerous territory, providing emergency responders with a location and a preliminary diagnosis. "The cell phone is going to solve rural health-care problems, whether it's rural India or rural Indiana," says Kristin Tolle, Microsoft Research's program manager for external research in biomedical computing.
Cell phones may also help reduce the frequency of medical errors. Researchers at startup Gentag have developed disposable wireless Band-Aids containing radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that transmit key information to a cell phone. As a nurse is about to administer a drug, the Band-Aid may warn that the patient is allergic to it. The Band-Aids, expected to be introduced commercially in Europe this summer, can also enable a phone to monitor a patient's temperature or glucose levels, alerting a nurse if there's a spike.
Apple's (AAPL) hit iPhone, with its large color screen and full Web access, has been a boon for some graphics-rich medical applications. A software company called Life Record is using the iPhone to help physicians view patients' medical records, including electrocardiograms and brain scans, on the go. "Since the iPhone release, our business has quadrupled," says Michael Pike, Life Record's chief software architect. Doctors can also use Life Record to order prescriptions, an area where many medical errors occur.
With the iPhone spurring more handset makers to introduce similarly robust devices, the U.S. market for medical cell-phone software is expanding rapidly. Sales of phone applications for medical professionals are expected to rise from $111.8 million last year to $276 million in 2011, according to consultancy Ambient Insight.
Medical Record-Keeper
Consumer versions of mobile medical software may also see a boost. This June, Life Record plans to introduce an application that will allow individuals to have access to their own medical records via an iPhone for $50 a year. When visiting a new doctor or specialist, iPhone-toting patients will be able to pull up all of their medical information, including past X-rays and another physician's notes, by connecting with Life Record's servers over the Internet.
Cell phones can also play an integral role in remote care for patients with chronic illnesses. BeWell Mobile, based in San Francisco, has created an application that lets asthma or diabetes sufferers enter their home test results into their cell phones and send them to the doctor daily. If a patient's glucose levels spike, the software suggests the patient hold off on certain foods or try a different medication. Or a doctor may call the patient with more personal recommendations.
A recent two-year trial with BeWell at clinics operated by San Mateo Medical Center in California has shown the software can drastically cut down on emergency room visits. The trial involved 50 asthmatic patients, ages 12 to 20, who had previously landed in the ER four to five times a year. But using BeWell, none of the participants came to the emergency room during the trial. "We can actually change patients' behavior, and that's the big breakthrough," says Peter Boland, business development director at BeWell.


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21. A Prejudice
"True, I talk of dreams,
'Which are the children of an idle brain
Begot of nothing but vain phantasy."
--Romeo and Juliet.
FOR one moment I sat a prey to superstitious horror; then, my natural incredulity
asserting itself, I looked up and remarked:
"You say that all this took place the night previous to the actual occurrence?"
He bowed his head. "For a warning," he declared.
"But you did not seem to take it as such?"
"No; I am subject to horrible dreams. I thought but little of it in a superstitious way till I
looked next day upon Mr. Leavenworth's dead body."
"I do not wonder you behaved strangely at the inquest."
"Ah, sir," he returned, with a slow, sad smile; "no one knows what I suffered in my
endeavors not to tell more than I actually knew, irrespective of my dream, of this murder
and the manner of its accomplishment."
"You believe, then, that your dream foreshadowed the manner of the murder as well as
the fact?"
"I do."
"It is a pity it did not go a little further, then, and tell us how the assassin escaped from, if
not how he entered, a house so securely fastened."
His face flushed. "That would have been convenient," he repeated. "Also, if I had been
informed where Hannah was, and why a stranger and a gentleman should have stooped to
the committal of such a crime."
Seeing that he was nettled, I dropped my bantering vein. "Why do you say a stranger?" I
asked; "are you so well acquainted with all who visit that house as to be able to say who
are and who are not strangers to the family?
"I am well acquainted with the faces of their friends, and Henry Clavering is not amongst
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A Longer Wait for That Final Offer
So you want to work here? Great! Take a number. That's right, gone are the days when companies hired workers in less time than the six hours or so it took the theglobe.com's IPO to go from $9 a share to $97. Just last fall, when the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 3.9%, a job interview seemed almost like a burdensome formality. No major felonies? Come on down!
Now, with the U.S. economic expansion taking a breather and joblessness at 4.4%, employers are changing their tune. It's no longer such a merry one, at least not for job seekers. Before, it was all about speeding things up. Now, it's all about slowing the hiring process down.
Consider the case of this 20something job candidate who was contacted by a recruiter about an analyst position at a debt-rating agency in late February. The New Jersey resident, who has an MBA from one of BusinessWeek's top-30 B-schools, first visited the company in early March to interview with four execs. Later that week, he got a call saying an offer was in the works. But that offer never came. Instead, two weeks later, he was back at the company's offices for another round of interviews -- this time with five more senior execs.
After that visit, the recruiter repeated that the company was "urgently" looking to hire someone, he says. But again, two weeks elapsed without a peep. A third visit with an HR official would be needed, he was told. Two weeks after that interview -- and nearly three months after his first contact with the company -- did it finally came through with an offer. The kicker? The $60,000 starting salary was 30% less than he had been expecting. "I've been talking to other people at the company who work in similar positions," says the candidate, who ended up taking the job. "Nobody went through anything like this."
These days, a lot of job seekers have similar stories to tell. Even though hiring has slowed to a trickle at many companies, they don't want to be caught with an empty tank once the economy recovers. So they're finding ways to keep their recruiting pipeline full without rushing to put people on their payrolls. With a little luck, they're thinking, holding off on hiring for even a few months may keep people on the hook -- but off their books -- until the economy bounces back, perhaps as early as the fourth quarter.
Putting the pavement pounders through more interviews is one way of drawing out the hiring process. The time between initial interview and job offer has increased by 50% to 100% since the recent boom ended, estimates Robert Morgan, president of the human-capital consulting group at Fort Lauderdale-based Spherion, an outplacement company hired by employers to help laid off employees find new jobs. "We're definitely seeing a more extensive interview process," says Morgan.
Partly, he adds, that's because job searching has turned from a seller's into a buyer's market. "I'm not saying that [the hiring process] is more extensive than it was before the boom. I just think that in the last 18 to 24 months, people had thrown a lot of standards out the window because of the speed with which they needed to hire." Today, Kintera Inc., a software company in San Diego, doesn't "feel as pressed because we don't hear 'I have six offers,'" says Chief Executive Harry Gruber. "It's back to normal. During the hiring craze of a year or so ago, we almost had to make people an offer before they left the premises."
This year, by contrast, Charlie Callahan, chief executive at PeopleSupport Inc., a Westwood (Calif.) company that provides customer-care services to such businesses as hotels, says he's doing only a few searches for full-time employees. Thus, job candidates are being subjected to "closer scrutiny" than they might have been just a year ago. Someone who would report directly to Callahan would now interview with at least 10 other execs at the company, he says, adding: "It's a longer cycle of interviews."
Of course, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. It increases the odds that someone who is hired will be a good fit. And a battery of interviews could also be a sign that an employer is serious about a candidate.
Whatever the case, many employers are being reasonably up-front about their motives. Like a growing number of companies, PeopleSupport is also turning to "rent-to-hire" as another way to keep talent around without having to make a full-time commitment. Callahan says about a dozen execs at the middle-management level and above in his 500-employee company are "rented" at a daily rate as contractors. If there's a mutual attraction, when the economic outlook is rosier they could be first hired, Callahan says. "We fully intend to add folks, but I'm not going to do it all at once when we are watching our cash position and our burn rate."
Other employers -- mainly consulting firms -- are asking new recruits to push back their start dates. The 150 MBAs and college grads hired by DiamondCluster International, a business strategy and technology consulting firm, must now start three to four months after their original reporting dates. In return for suffering that inconvenience, the new hires are getting a $2,000 monthly stipend, their signing bonuses in advance ($25,000 for MBAs), and relocation expenses.
"We wanted to make sure that we didn't have to rescind offers," says Jill Rupple, a DiamondCluster partner in charge of the company's global recruiting. Because of the sluggish economy and typically slow summer season, the delay in starting dates is part of a larger cost-management program at the company, which includes salary cuts for partners.
At Boston Consulting Group, new hires now have the option of taking three months of intensive language training, which would delay their start dates by the same period. Other recruits must chose from three potential start dates designed to stagger the times when they begin drawing a paycheck. "This is to do a better job of integrating a class into BCG," says a company spokesman. "The economy had everyone take a look at how we can do it better."
Still, not all companies are entirely honest in their efforts to keep prospective employees on the line. A growing number are telling job seekers that they're the top candidates when they aren't even close, says Kate Wendleton, president of the Five O'Clock Club, a national career-counseling and outplacement organization. "They feel they need to keep people interested," adds Wendleton.
Reports one job seeker, an operations and supply-chain exec in southwest Ohio who has an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management: "A large industrial manufacturer that I've been talking to since March has been saying that I'm its only finalist. There has been no movement on the job. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I'm being strung along."
Stuck in the middle are executive search firms that round up candidates for companies to interview, and they say it puts them in a tough position when applicants get the runaround. "When they stretch out the interview process, what they don't always realize is that there happens to be a human being involved -- the candidate," says Jack Mohan, president of Management Recruiters International's Boston Group. "It's excruciating. We have to be the intermediary who deals with the candidate and still make the client [company] look good. They don't end up looking good."
So, what's the best way for a company to keep the bench warm when it can't say for sure when it'll add to the team? Companies ought to be honest about freezes or other situations that will hold up hiring while affirming their ongoing interest in finding new talent, says Barbara Mitchell, a principal with Millennium Group International, a human resources consulting firm in Vienna, Va.
While noting that "you can't just shut down the pipeline," Mitchell, a former HR exec at hotel-chain Marriott, says any company that lies about an employee's prospects of getting hired risks developing a bad rap. "An organization that would string you along is not the place you would want to work," she adds. Of course, as long as the unemployment rate keeps creeping up, Americans will have less choice about where they go for a paycheck.
By Eric Wahlgren in New York


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January 6, 2014 | Variety
Dennis Johnson, a TV programming exec and producer who was among the first African-Americans to rise through the Big Three network ranks, died Dec. 23 while on vacation in St. Barts. He was 68. A Virginia native and graduate of Temple U., Johnson had a nearly 20-year run at Showtime. He got his start as… Read more
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