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5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) is an important bio-sourced intermediate, formed from carbohydrates such as glucose or fructose. The treatment at 150–250 °C of glucose or fructose in pure water and batch conditions, with catalytic amounts of most of the usual acid-basic solid catalysts, gave limited yields in 5-HMF, due mainly to the fast formation of soluble oligomers. Niobic acid, which possesses both Lewis and Brønsted acid sites, gave the highest 5-HMF yield, 28%, when high catalyst/glucose ratio is used. By contrast, we disclose in this work that the reaction of fructose in concentrated aqueous solutions of carboxylic acids, formic, acetic or lactic acids, used as reactive solvent media, leads to the selective dehydration of fructose in 5-HMF with yields up to 64% after 2 hours at 150 °C. This shows the potential of such solvent systems for the clean and easy production of 5-HMF from carbohydrates. The influence of adding solid catalysts to the carboxylic acid media was also reported, starting from glucose.
Among the organic compounds that can be obtained from biomass, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) is probably one of the most important platform molecules. Indeed, it can be prepared through catalyzed dehydration of largely available carbohydrates, such as glucose (
5-Hydroxymethylfurfural from carbohydrates.
Structural formulas of Terephthalic acid and 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid.
Therefore, extensive research efforts are currently being performed to develop efficient and sustainable methods to prepare 5-HMF. However, up to now, there is still no intensive commercial production of 5-HMF, due certainly to the lack of an efficient and sustainable process to produce 5-HMF from cheap carbohydrates.
In this field, one can say that it is particularly difficult to analyze the literature data due to the wide variety of conditions used (water/organic media, ionic liquids, use of HMF extractive solvent, amounts of extractive solvent/reactive phase, high catalyst/reactant ratio, concentration of sugars, temperature, nature of the carbohydrate, …). Nevertheless, various aspects of 5-HMF chemistry have been recently reviewed [
5-HMF is synthesized via acid catalyzed carbohydrate dehydration, generally from monosaccharides such as fructose or glucose, but one can also obtain 5-HMF directly from lignocellulosic raw materials [
To solve the problems of the low 5-HMF selectivity in the water medium, the following approaches were applied more or less successfully:
ii- An alternative solution is to perform the reaction in organic/aqueous media or in pure organic solvent. DMSO (Dimethylsulfoxide) is the usual organic solvent for the 5-HMF synthesis. If the glucose dehydration in 5-HMF in pure water is not selective, in DMSO, higher yields (42%) were reported [
iii-Ionic liquids are being increasingly investigated to synthesize 5-HMF. In 2006, Moreau
Metallic chlorides in ionic liquids were reported to be an exceptional system capable to convert glucose in 5-HMF in high yield. In the catalytic system, CrCl2/EMIMCl, yields in 5-HMF of 62–69% were reported starting from glucose [
From the brief overview presented above, it is clear that the challenge of a selective synthesis of 5-HMF will depend on the acid-basic catalytic system combined with an adequate reaction medium and process. Although many papers deal with carbohydrate dehydration in 5-HMF, only a few gave insights on the catalyst properties which would be favorable to the 5-HMF selective formation. In particular, on the role of the nature and of the strength of the acid sites which would promote a selective dehydration of hexoses into 5-HMF.
Among them, Kuster
On the other hand, although it is expected that Lewis acids might dehydrate carbohydrates, the question of the nature of the acid sites is essential but remains controversial, particularly when water media is concerned. By contrast to the ionic liquids media reported above, the use of Lewis acids in water has, for a long time, been considered as meaningless, due to their unavoidable conversion into Brønsted acids. Again, Carlini
One can conclude that if the most recent literature underlines the role of Lewis acid sites, not only to isomerize glucose into fructose but also for the fructose dehydration step, the earliest studies rather underlined the role of the Brønsted sites in the carbohydrate dehydration step.
At this stage, the question of the use of a catalytic system capable of isomerizing glucose into fructose appears to be the key point. Accordingly, would it be possible to design a catalytic system which could isomerize glucose into fructose and then dehydrate fructose into 5-HMF? For that, it is essential to clarify which types of sites are involved in each elementary step.
As can be seen from the above, from the recent literature data, it seems that this problem could be solved by using Lewis acids capable of promoting both the glucose-fructose isomerization and fructose dehydration. The efficiency of Lewis acid catalysts such as Sn-Beta zeolite to isomerize glucose into fructose in water was shown by Davis
Currently, glucose isomerization into fructose is a large-scale industrial process, catalyzed by immobilized enzymes [
Besides the recent approach consisting of using Lewis acids to isomerize glucose in fructose and to dehydrate the fructose into 5-HMF, another approach consists of using amphoteric catalysts with basic sites to isomerize the glucose and Brønsted acid sites to perform the dehydration. Watanabe
To summarize, we would say that the mechanism of dehydration of hexoses in 5-HMF and the nature of the active sites involved in the elementary steps, the isomerization and the dehydration, are not well established. That is probably why, up to now, the design of an efficient catalytic system for the direct conversion of glucose into 5-HMF, in water, has still not been achieved.
As regards the formation of 5-HMF in pure water, by means of a heterogeneous catalyst, one can turn to some reference works. The use of aluminosilicate catalysts to produce 5-HMF from fructose was patented in 1992 [
In almost all these studies, high conversions of the reactants (especially fructose) were observed but limited yields in 5-HMF were still reported. Moreover, in most of the studies, a quantitative amount of glucose and catalysts were used, combined with the use of a limited volume of water. However, as mentioned above, due to many differences in the experimental conditions used, it is rather difficult to compare the literature data in this field.
We wish here to report our efforts, on one side of the study, in the preparation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural with the influence of a large panel of solid catalysts in pure hydrothermal conditions using fructose or glucose as reactant. On the other side we introduce our first results in the use of aqueous concentrated liquid carboxylic acids as an alternative reactive solvent system.
We choose in a first set of experiments to study the reactivity of glucose in water in the absence, then in the presence, of various solid catalysts chosen as regards their acid-basic features. First, let us report in
Glucose conversion and 5-HMF yield in water as a function of the temperature.
Starting from fructose, the influence of the pH value was investigated in more detail at the lowest temperature, 150 °C (
Fructose conversion at 150 °C in aqueous solutions of various pH.
Since, in neutral conditions, the conversion of glucose and fructose is limited at 150 °C after 2 h of reaction, we choose these conditions to evaluate a large panel of solid catalysts susceptible to promoting the formation of HMF. The selected catalysts evaluated here are well known for their different acid-base features, some of them are commercial catalysts, others have been optimized for different catalytic applications investigated in our group, but their efficiency in this reaction has never been reported or compared in the literature in equivalent aqueous reaction conditions, with catalytic amount of solid, 5 wt%/sugar. Different Brønsted acid catalysts were selected: a strong Brønsted acid, Cs2HPW12O40, and commercial zeolites H-ZSM-5 (Si/Al = 40) and H-Y (Si/Al = 15) which are Brønsted acids of moderate acid strength. Niobic acid (amorphous hydrated niobium oxide from CBMM (Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração), NbO(OH)3 from TGA analysis: abbreviated NbOH in the following) which was reported in the literature to be an efficient catalyst for fructose dehydration was also studied here. Niobic acid modified with H3PO4 and H3PW12O40 were also evaluated as Nb-based oxide with enhanced Brønsted acidity. Amphoteric supports, such as ZrO2 and Al2O3, as well as their corresponding hydroxides, ZrOH and Boehmite were also tested. Zirconia, modified with Cs (ZrCs) or Mg (ZrMg), aimed to improve the zirconia basicity, was also evaluated by comparison to un-modified zirconia. Zirconium phosphate (ZrP) was also included in the list, already described as a weak solid acid, efficient in fructose dehydration [
Glucose conversion in aqueous media at 150 °C in the presence of various acid-basic solid catalysts together with amphoteric Zr and Al-based solids.
We can clearly see that most of the catalysts present a low activity in the glucose conversion with a limited yield in 5-HMF, except the basic mixed oxide, MgLaO, which only catalyses the glucose isomerization with a conversion of 60% and a yield into fructose of 23%. This result shows the remarkable performance of this mixed oxide to isomerize glucose into fructose, compared to the other basic materials ZrCs and ZrMg [
Infrared spectra of pyridine adsorption on NbOH then vacuum treated at 150 °C.
The heteropolyacid Cs2HPW12O40, possessing the strongest Brønsted acidity within the series, gave the highest glucose conversion, but with a very low 5-HMF yield, explained by its rehydration in levulinic and formic acid, the main products detected by HPLC. Note that the protonic zeolites H-Y and H-ZSM5 are completely inactive in the present conditions.
Starting from fructose, only a few selected solid catalysts were evaluated at 150 °C: Cs2HPW12O40 (Cs2H) and ZrW, a Brønsted and Lewis solid acid, and the most active solid in 5-HMF formation, NbOH (
In the presence of catalytic amount of solid catalyst (5 wt%/sugar), we note a significant increase of the fructose conversion compared to glucose with ZrW and NbOH, and less significantly with the pure Brønsted solid acid (
Apparently, the best catalyst evaluated here seems to be niobic acid, NbOH, in agreement with the literature data [
Fructose conversion in aqueous media at 150 °C in the presence of Cs2HPW12O40, ZrW and NbOH.
We investigated first the influence of the temperature starting from glucose and fructose in the presence of NbOH. From glucose (
Glucose conversion in aqueous media in the presence of NbOH as a function of the temperature.
Fructose conversion in aqueous media at 150 °C in the presence of NbOH as a function of the temperature.
Glucose conversion in water in the presence of increasing amounts of NbOH.
The results described above as well as those from literature definitively show that pure water is not an easy medium for 5-HMF production. Indeed, to have a significant conversion of either glucose or fructose, many solid acid catalysts are active but none of them form 5-HMF selectively. Whatever the catalytic system employed so far, undesired side-reactions leading to a mixture of levulinic and formic acids and mainly oligomeric by-products soluble in water are always observed. NbOH is certainly one of the most efficient solid acids to produce 5-HMF from aqueous glucose or fructose solutions, but its effect, when used in catalytic amounts, is limited. As a first conclusion, we can say that the glucose and fructose conversion in hot water is a complex process leading easily to the formation of soluble water soluble products of difficult identification. The expected product 5-HMF can be obtained only in a limited amount, whatever the nature of the solid used in catalytic amount. In the presence of a solid catalyst in pure water, we did not succeed in producing 5-HMF in a yield equivalent to the one obtained in an aqueous medium where the pH value is finely tuned between 1.5 and 1.9. 5-HMF yields higher than 40% were obtained in such homogeneous conditions.
The lack of selectivity in the aqueous media is at the origin of the use of extracting organic solvents, insoluble in water, making bi-phasic systems able to avoid this over-reactivity of 5-HMF (see Introduction). By curiosity, we evaluated whether the addition of a 5-HMF extraction solvent in the reaction media might significantly increase the yield in 5-HMF. Thus, experiments were performed in our standard conditions (150 °C, 2 h of reaction, 1 wt% glucose, 5 wt% of NbOH), but half of the water was replaced by MIBK (methyl isobutyl ketone) or ethyl ether. From
Glucose conversion in water at 150 °C in the presence of NbOH: influence of extractive solvent addition: MIBK and diethyl ether.
Another approach is the use of pure or aqueous organic solvent as reaction medium, which can modify the properties of the aqueous medium and have a positive effect on 5-HMF selectivity. In an effort to find an original and convenient medium to produce 5-HMF, we evaluated liquid carboxylic acids as potential candidates. These are environmentally-friendly solvents produced at low cost, and for some, from renewable resources, and widely used in the chemical industry. As far as we know, only a very few examples of this system have been reported for this application and the earliest studies have reported the use of catalytic amounts of organic acids such as formic, acetic, oxalic or levulinic acids [
We wish now to report our first results on the reactivity of fructose and glucose in concentrated aqueous solutions of organic acids, disclosed recently as efficient and clean media to directly produce 5-HMF [
As a complement to the studies reported above on the 5-HMF formation in pure water in the presence of various solid catalysts, here we report the unexpected efficiency of concentrated aqueous solutions of organic acids used in the absence of added strong acid catalyst, to form directly 5-HMF from fructose, without assistance of an extractive solvent. Then, our first attempts to add solid catalysts to this medium will be presented.
The reactions were still performed in our standard conditions, at 150 °C for 2 hours, with a solution of 20 wt% of organic acid in water and 1 wt% of hexose. In contrast to the study cited above where low concentrations (~1%) of organic acids were evaluated [
Glucose and fructose conversion in 5-HMF using a concentrated aqueous solution of lactic acid as reactive solvent.
Fructose conversion in 5-HMF using concentrated aqueous solutions of different carboxylic acids as reactive solvent.
To our surprise, we observed that the presence in water of 20 wt% of acetic or formic acids also led to high 5-HMF yields of 43−53%.
These results show that carboxylic acids, which are weak acids, possess the required acidity to convert fructose efficiently into 5-HMF without significant transformation of the latter. The pH of 20 wt% acetic acid in water is 1.7. This fits well with the narrow pH range shown to favor the 5-HMF formation in equivalent conditions (
Fructose conversion in 5-HMF obtained in acetic acid aqueous solutions of various compositions in the absence of added solid catalyst.
Fructose dehydration in 5-HMF obtained in formic acid aqueous solutions of various compositions in the absence of added solid catalyst.
We have shown that the aqueous concentrated organic acid solutions provide a medium for the optimum acidity for 5-HMF formation, starting from fructose. However, since these media do not dehydrate glucose, which, in principle, requires a preliminary isomerization in fructose, it seems reasonable to conclude that the weak Brønsted acidity of these media does not promote glucose isomerization.
Fructose dehydration in 5-HMF obtained in lactic acid aqueous solutions of various compositions in the absence of added solid catalyst.
Therefore, these first results prompted us to add solid catalysts in the media, which might catalyze the glucose isomerization. Solid Lewis acids: AlW, Sn-Beta, ZrW or a solid base, MgLaO. In addition, we tested the influence of the presence of solid acids with Brønsted acidity (heteropolyacids, sulfonated carbon) or with Brønsted and Lewis sites (H3PO4/NbOH). The idea was to check the possibility to get 5-HMF starting from glucose by combining a heterogeneous acid function of various strengths and the homogeneous weak Brønsted acidity brought by the liquid carboxylic acids medium. Our preliminary results are summarized in
Glucose conversion in 20 wt% acetic acid aqueous solutions in the presence of added solid catalysts.
Glucose, fructose, 5-HMF and carboxylic acids were obtained from Aldrich and used as received. The catalysts Cs2HPW12O40, ZrW (W 12 %wt), ZrO2, ZrCs (Cs 3.3 %wt), were prepared according to published methods [
Reactions were performed in a 100 mL batch autoclave using a Teflon insert and equipped with an internal thermocouple. The aqueous organic acid solutions were prepared by addition of the organic acid to water solutions of hexose. After introduction of the mixture, the reactor was flushed with He before heating (10 °C/min). The reaction medium was stirred using a magnetic stirrer under autogeneous pressure. The reaction mixture was analyzed on a Shimadzu HPLC system equipped with a RID (Coregel 87C column, 80 °C, water as eluent). In addition to 5-HMF, the following products were identified and quantified: mannose, levulinic acid, formic acid, lactic acid, acetol. Some products were detected by HPLC but not identified. In that case, the response coefficient of 5-HMF was applied. The sum of these products was abbreviated "other products". All given yields are molar yields. The relative error on the hexoses conversion and 5-HMF yield is 5%.
FTIR spectra of self-supported pellets of NbOH) were recorded with a Brucker Vector 22 spectrometer in absorption mode with a resolution of 2 cm−1. The samples were placed in an IR cell equipped with CaF2 windows and treated
We first reported in this paper our results on the hydrothermal conversion of glucose and fructose, in batch conditions, varying the reaction conditions, temperature and acidity, in the presence of a large panel of usual solid catalysts. First, we showed that relatively high 5-HMF yield can be achieved via a fine tuning of the pH of the aqueous solution between the values 1.5 and 1.9. A variety of catalysts with various acid-base features were employed. We showed that whatever the catalytic system, limited yields of 20–30% in 5-HMF were obtained in batch conditions with the most efficient solid acid catalyst, NbOH, used in large amounts, far from the catalytic one. Anyway, these results confirmed that the use of pure water as solvent in the presence of solid acids does not permit an easy formation of 5-HMF, due to the reactivity of 5-HMF.
We then reported our first results concerning the use of concentrated aqueous solutions of liquid carboxylic acids as reactive reaction media for this transformation. The presence of 10–50 wt% of formic, acetic or lactic acids in water gave high conversion of fructose with 5-HMF yields up to 64%, indicating that these aqueous solutions present the adequate acidity to promote this reaction. However, these reactive media are unable to convert glucose. Our preliminary results dealing with the addition of solid catalysts in these media which would promote the glucose isomerization into fructose, such as Lewis or basic solid catalysts, did not give the expected results in batch conditions.
Nevertheless, these solvent systems, which are clean and green, deserve a deeper attention and further studies are currently performed to address in detail the influence of external catalyst addition while optimizing the reaction conditions.
The authors thank the CNRS, the University of Lyon 1 and the French Research National Agency (POLYGLU Project) for funding.


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If you're wondering what kind of a guy Phil Hughes is, check out this quote from Buster Olney's latest Yankee dispatch over at ESPN.com:
"On May 1, in his second big league appearance, Hughes walked Rangers leadoff man Kenny Lofton after starting him off with a couple of strikes. The kid called Posada out to the mound. "If I walk another hitter after starting out 0-2, punch me in the mouth," Hughes told the veteran catcher. The Rangers did not get a hit off him for the next 6-plus innings."
That's a 20 year-old talking. I can't wait 'til he gets back in the rotation.
Special thanks to commenter rbizzler over at River Ave. Blues for pointing out the quote.
The Yanks are off to a slow start, 1–0 Rangers in the top of the second. Check back later for the post-game.

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Help - I hate my new job and have only been there 3 months
I absolutely hate my new job after just 3 months. I moved from the public sector to consultancy for 2 reasons - money and status. I have now found out how misguided I was to base a job on these 2 superficial factors. From day one, I knew I'd made a big mistake. The commute is horrible, the work is dull and I don't have a clue what I'm doing most of the time, the environment is ultra competive, my colleagues are not my kind of people (work and money obsessed) and there is no social side to the job. On a normal day I leave the house at 7.30am and get home at 8pm. I have worked in the office between midnight and 1.30am on a number of occasions though. I think about work all the time, worrying about all the stuff I have to do and panic so much. When I'm at work I'm almost paralysed by fear. I can't sleep as I'm so worried and on numerous occasions I've cried in the toilets at work. I've never hated a job so much and let soemthing consume me in this way. Some friends have said 'just quit', others have said 'wait until you find another job'. I'm quite lucky in that my partner has a good job so we can cover the bills and I'd also go back to the public sector so I'm not as affected by the current state of the economy. However, I'm so worried about quitting without another job and also about how it will look on my CV (was thankfully in last job for over 3 years) but know that staying while I look for a job will make me ill and also I could risk jumping into another crap job to escape. I am prepared to take a salary cut for shorter hours and more enoyable work and am prepared to do some temp work in the meantime. Anyone been in a similar situation and have any advice?
I just don't know what to do and worry that other people and future employers will think I'm a quitter.
Many thanks
I hate my job too and recently it has been cosnuming my thoughts almost of all the time. Constantly worrying about what I have done, what I have not manage to get done, how I am going to cope with all the incerasing workload and ever demanding unrealsitic bitchy boss.
I dont really like anymore what I am doing as I have a feeling of constantly just trying to catch up rather then achieving anything at the end of the day. It has made me alsmost ill (constant headaches, fatigue and it has aaffected my overall hapiness generally).
Like you, I have been thinking if should I leave without having another job, worry ehat will happen and of course if I will find a good job afterwards. This has been going on for months making me more miserable then ever. Then I realised I am free to make the choice, I dont need to serve the sentence and I have made my decision.
I have decided to go back after new year and hand in my notice. Since I have made the decison I have been feeling relieved and more optimistic about my future. There are jobs out there and there is one for me too. It can be of course bit scary at the times when you may suddenly panic about finding work but I always say to myself that there is no way I would not find something right (and of course there is always temping). I am in a similar situation whre my boyfriend can pay the bills etc so our lifestyle would not change that much. Whatever happens it still feels hundreds times better then being in that place that basically ripes me off my life. As to your dilema of worrying that you are a quitter: you can always say something about commuting being a real inconvenience that you did not forsee, I have left a job after 3 months and that is exactly what I have said. I suggest you also contact some of the employment agencies and apply for some jobs and see what response you get.
I dont know what else to say but I wish you a good luck.
Speaking as a public sector consultant - if you can get out, do so. I am guessing you work for one of the larger firms. Well there's a lot of dross work in them, and like anything else, to get to the top where the more interesting work often is, you need to want it bad enough. Most people don't and have the same experience as you. Consultancy isn't for everyone anyway. It's a special type of work and can be quite isolating for some people. Go back and do what you do best. Money and status aren't everything - as you have found, they often aren't much. But maybe in the future, when you have some more experience and seniority under your belt, you might consider consultancy again. There is a bigger market for the specialist consultants and many work alone or in smaller companies. These are often very different. And don't worry about telling people the truth. You don't have to go into details. You made a career choice - it wasn't for you and now you realise that and are looking for something better suited to you.
There are a couple of practical things you can try. A gap in employment on your CV, particularly after a short period in a job doesn;t necessarily suggest a good long term bet to a new employer. Not all will think this, but it is a risk. So, planning your next step before you do anything is a good move.
If you left your last job on good terms then I would first suggest speaking to your old boss, telling them that the new job is not working out as you had hoped, and seeing if there are any suitable vacancies that you can be considered for. You would certainly not be the first person to go back to their old job after finding that the grass isn't greener, and you have nothing to lose. And your old manager might well welcome you back, knowing that a bad experience working for someone else means that you are probably unlikely to leave any time soon!
If that doesn't work out then look into some temping. This will obviously depend on what you do, and may not apply in all jobs, but you might find that there is scope for short term contracts if not weekly temping. This would then give you the space to work out what you want to do next, while still maintaining your employment record. And if you are on a short term contract the employer will expect you to be looking for other work as the contract approaches it's end, so using it as a stepping stone while you look for something more permanent should not cause you any problems.
I'd therefore suggest speaking to an agency or two in your specialist area of employment (rather than a general employment agency), and seeing what options they suggest. They will also be able to give you an idea of what the employment market is like.
Thanks all for your advice. It's been very useful. This week at work has been horrid and I know it's so wrong for me. Have never felt so stressed It is one of the bigger consultancies (I think I would have felt better and got much more interesting work in a small consultancy).
I am really worried about having just a few months on my CV but life is too short. Have decided to hand in my notice in the next few weeks as still on 4 week notice period as part of my probation. Dreading handing in my notice though as I'm worried I will be tagged with the 'couldn't take the pressure' label...but once I do I know I'll feel really relieved.
Good luck martamonika in your search for a new job!
I wouldn't worry about it. The larger consultancies have fairly big staff turnovers and they probably won't think twice about you being another one. Don't get offended - but they have a lot of "cannon fodder" and they are easy to replace. It might put it is perspective if I tell you that I lecture part-time for a university, and I know for a fact that these agencies recruit dozens of students straight out of university, without a scrap of experience. In the clients place, would you want inexperienced "consultants" of this kind? I know the quality of work these agencies produce - and that's why the "little people" can survive against them - because we offer experience, tailored solutions, and high quality. I recall many years ago managing a consultancy firm on a rather large project. They turned in their report, and instead of the name of the local authority who commissioned the report, it had the name of another one. The sum total of supposed weeks of work was having cut and pasted a few local facts into a generic report - and they forgot to amend the clients name in the process of cut and paste and had left in the name of the last client! Like I said, quitting now doesn't say anything bad about you - it says more about them. Good luck.
In itself, one short period on your CV, especially after a longer period for a different employer, is not too much to worry about. When looking at CVs for prospective candidates employers will understand that not all other employers are good ones, and that sometimes it shows far more gumption to leave after a short time than to stick it out when the job isn't working out.
What is more of a problem is if your CV is peppered with jobs where you have stayed for less than a year - that's a red flag that somebody isn't likely to stay too long, although it depends on a number of things - a number of short-term jobs would be OK if they were fixed term contracts or temping, or might be overlooked if they were a while ago with longer employment since.
I once rejected a candidate for a job who interviewed really well, but on checking with her agency why she had so many short periods in jobs on her CV (over a relatively short period) was told that she kept finding that jobs she accepted hadn't worked out as she had thought they would at the interview. Hardly looked like she would be one to stay for a reasonable length of time.
So, I wouldn't lose any sleep over how this looks on your CV. However, you will certainly be asked about it at the interviews for your next job, so it is worth thinking through what you are going to say about it.
Thanks all again for your help but I have one last question (sorry!).
I really don't want to hand in my notice and say I'm leaving without a job to go to and I'll probably temp for a while, as I've always been leaving positions for better paid jobs not no job or less money (and if I'm honest I worry about what people there will think about me ... I know I shouldn't care!). Is there any way I can make it sound better? I really don't want to go through the whole 'it really wasn't the job for me' discussion as imagine they'll think I didn't give it enough time, couldn't stick it etc. It's such a big org that bland references (if you can call them that - they only ever confirm x worked here from x to x) go from HR anyway so my managers will never know what I was up to.
Also, what would I say in an interview when they ask why I only did the job for a short while? What's the model answer?
Thanks again!
There isn't one. But the best lie in the world will give you away unless you are the most accomplished liar in the world - in which case you should have been better suited to the employment! Tell the truth! It does not reflect on you that you were enticed, nor that you realised that it wasn't for you. It says that you are self-aware and capable of making judgements and acting on them. To be honest, provided it's truthful, and your reference backs up that you weren't sacked (which it will), the answer to why you left will be the one that any interviewer will be least interested in. Concentrate on your skills and what you have to offer.
Agree with Shikahra - there isn't an ideal answer, because situations will differ from person to person, and if you aren't telling the complete truth then it will also depend on how convincing a liar you are!
So the safest bet is to tell the truth, although preparing your side of the "truth" is worth doing.
A basic point to consider would be to soften any criticism of your former employer, but it's a difficult line to tread. You need to avoid simply coming out and slagging them off, while finding a way to show what you did not like about the working environment. As Shikahra says, an interview is an opportunity for you to show an employer what you have to offer, but it is also for you to find out whether the new job would suit you. So, it doesn't necessarily hurt for you to say that, for example, you didn't like the size and impersonal nature of the working environment and are looking for a smaller, more personal place to work. Or that your core skills are X, Y & Z and unfortunately these skills were under used in your last job.
If the new employer is going to be very similar to the last one then it's better to find out straight away than go into another job that you hate.


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By Hannah Sawyer
This article originally appeared in the Gettysburgian, August 24, 2011
Gettysburg Recreational Activities Board (GRAB) director John Regentin believes that orientation isn't just about getting to know your way around campus, it's about getting to know what's beyond campus as well. With this in mind, Regentin and the GRAB staff piloted a redesigned orientation program last August which would encourage incoming first-years to take advantage of the resources that Adams County has to offer.
GRAB had previously run ropes course and team building activities during orientation week, but last year, Regentin's team took a more hands-on approach by leading hikes in nearby Michaux State Forest as well as belay classes at the Den and evening paddles in local lakes as part of the First Year Experience program. "We want to encourage students to get out and see what's around them," said Regentin.
Based on last year's success, Regentin has added a new option: a GPS program designed to orient students not only to the campus, but also to the town. Eight to ten students are given a GPS with wave points which take them through downtown Gettysburg in an effort to "get new students beyond The Pub" and out into the community. Along the way, first- years will learn a synopsis of the town's history as well as how it relates to the college.
While ASCENT programs have always been an integral part of the orientation experience, Regentin said that he designed felt that more needed to be done to build on that experience once students return to campus, and that it was also important to present a more comprehensive picture of the GRAB program to first-years who hadn't taken part in ASCENT. He believes that these programs give first-years a better understanding of all the services that GRAB provides.
"ASCENT is just the beginning of what four years can offer," said Regentin. They are ready to start sign-ups for winter break trips which include snowshoeing and ice climbing in the Adirondacks, backpacking on Cumberland Island in Georgia, and a paddling trip in the Barrier Islands. A full list of May trips has also been finalized which includes a bed and breakfast trekking tour in Ireland, and backpacking trips to Peru and Lake Tahoe.
But one of Regentin's main goals this year is to get students out on their own exploring. "It's been tough getting students to take advantage of their own experience. People usually wait for us to organize stuff," but with the new space "there's going to be a lot more opportunity for people to at least see what's being sponsored."
With a newly redesigned gear room that "looks like an REI", Regentin hopes that students will "take advantage of what they have to offer" throughout the fall. GRAB has a full array of gear, maps, and guide books and charges just a 5$ fee for all equipment rentals. "We've gotten comments from people saying 'Wow, we didn't realize you guys had all of this stuff."
"Whether they do it on their own or through one of the GRAB programs," Regentin wants students to realize that they can experience the outdoors on campus, locally, or even as they "go all over the world."


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Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi is advising Republicans newly in charge of the House that they must keep voters' frustrations with the nation's lagging economy focused on Democrats who still run the Senate and control the White House.
Barbour told House Republicans on Friday that they mustn't become arrogant or believe that they are running the government. He says some in the GOP became cocky in 1995 and some asserted President Bill Clinton didn't matter.
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Tammy and all NYS readers,
I was born in Buffalo, NY, and still have some extended family in western NYS. I've lived in Kentucky for 30 years, and my autistic son is 8. He receives no state-provided services, and my insurance covers very little therapy for him. ABA is not covered, so at age 4-6, when I had him in an ABA preschool program, I paid for it myself.
He began elementary school at age 6 for half-a-day. Public school provides little therapy (90 min. speech/week & 30 min. OT/week). He's in his 3rd year in a special ed class that is called LD (it's not designed with autism supports and strategies). He now attends 4 1/2 hours a day, and hates school. I've requested a placement in a smaller classroom (his class has 10 children, one teacher, and 2 assistants). Perhaps one teacher and just a few students with autism would be more appropriate based on his sensory needs. Also more one-on-one is a must. It's the only way he learns (I teach him at home).
Our district tells me they cannot offer a classroom specifically for autistic students. They are placed in LD, EBD, BD, MD or FMD classrooms where they are mixed with students of varying disabilities based upon their intelligence. There is one other child with autism in his classroom who takes up alot of the teacher's time (he's the Principal's son). The other 8 children have learning disabilities and some development delays.
School is worse for him this year than ever before. He's just not emotionally tolerating it, is not complying, and is not socializing with anyone at all. I live in Louisville (the state's largest city). There are no private elementary schools for autism here. There are two private elementary schools for LD, however, and they are very expensive (since they're not designed for autism, they might not be much more beneficial for him other than providing a smaller classroom).
If I moved to western New York with my son, can you tell me what type of services and education I might expect? Is there a website or place I can call to get this info.?
I know property taxes are much higher there than in Kentucky (my relatives pay 3 to 4 times the property taxes we do in Louisville) which has me very frightened (I'm already broke due to my son's therapy expenses). If I worked full-time I'm afraid he would regress without all the one-on-one home-tutoring that I do with him. Are you aware of any home-school alternatives in NYS for kids that don't do well in a school environment? Like a teacher or materials provided to you if you homeschool? There's nothing like that here. If you homeschool here, you're on your own.
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Essential Federal Resources
An abundance of good Federal guidance on accessible pedestrian design exists. The U.S. Access Board, drawing upon recommendations of its Public Rights-of-Way Access Advisory Committee (PROWAAC), is nearing completion of accessibility guidelines specific to the right-of-way. Its November 2005 draft PROWAG (www.access-board.gov/news/row-draft.htm) is recommended as a best practice by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Department of Transportation, where the current ADA standard, ADAAG 1991, is silent or inapplicable. When completed, PROWAG will replace ADAAG as the standard for new construction and alterations in the right-of-way.
This section of the report is drawn from the list of resources compiled for PROWAAC by member Barbara McMillen of FHWA's Office on Civil Rights. It was shared by Lois Thibault, Coordinator of Research for the Access Board and a member of its staff PROW team as well at this project's Advisory Board.
Please note: Some of the resources listed in this section are available as PDF files. In order to view PDFs you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this software installed, you can download Acrobat Reader for free on Adobe's web site.


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Walt Disney's animated film "Doremon In Nobita and The Steel Troops: The New Age" will release in Indian theatres on October 6.
Doremon In Nobita is a story of an earless robotic cat named Doraemon who travels back in time from the 22nd century to help of a schoolboy named Nobita Nobi. Nobita feels jealous to see his friend Suneo's new robot and asks Doraemon to make better robot for him. However, initially Doraemon denies for it, until Nobita accidently gets pieces of a mysterious robot that have fallen the sky. After collecting and assembling all parts of them, a giant robot, Zanda Claus is build up.
But, soon Nobita and Doremon know that the robot is not a toy but it is a powerful weapon that will help them fight against Robot Army which is planning to destroy Earth.
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I'm surprised when people make me out as some sort of Head Girl, goody two shoes but that's an occupational hazard after spending so many years reading the news.
Your husband, John, is the government's new food czar, is he the new Jamie Oliver?
John would never claim to be a chef but he does share Jamie's values on healthy fast food.
Does he rule the kitchen?
We share the cooking, although I probably do a little more chopping. John has got the most amazing palette so when he says something is 'bloody lovely', you know you've done alright.
What would you eat for your last supper?
What I had for supper last night: rare-cooked steak, new potatoes which I dug up myself from our garden, washed down with a large quantity of very cold rose.
What advice would you give to your 18-year-old self?
Pub wine gives you a really bad hangover. The sooner you realise that the more you spend and the better you'll feel in the morning.
What was it like starting out as a young female newsreader?
It felt great, I started at the same time as people like Gabby Logan and Emily Maitlis and we still all hang out together. I'd love to say we swapped jackets and tips about autocues, but it wasn't like that.
What last made you cry?
Emotional pieces of music, so I'm likely to be in floods for most of the Proms.
Is there a book that changed the way you thought about things?
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. She writes about nature and and climate change in a way that made me more aware of those issues.
What's the worst job you've ever had?
Telesales in a basement in Soho. I discovered on Day 2 that it was bogus advertising space I was selling. I left on Day 3.
What did you buy with your first pay cheque?
Some glorious stirruped ski pants from River Island. It was the early 90s.
What's been your biggest fashion mistake?
I'm not sure I can share the cat suit story with you, other than it was vaguely see-through with velvet spots.
What's you desert island box set?
The entire Glee oeuvre. Or anything Danish.
What's your karaoke song?
Ever since I was heard singing Summertime to an accompaniment of cow bells in the basement of a German bar in West London I have steered clear of karaoke.
Who would play you in the film of your life?
I have no idea…Bette Midler?
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Our View - May 05, 2011
The murderer of more than 3,000 people on September 11, 2001 has finally received his due. Osama bin Laden was buried at the bottom of the sea after U. S. forces put him to death earlier this week.
Many have rejoiced in his death. But it is not the end of the war his forces have started.
Terrorism undoubtedly will continue until the country that put an end to Nazism and other dictatorships succeeds in convincing people that freedom and democracy must be the way of the world and the birthright of everyone, no matter where they exist. With the ending of bin Laden, the war will continue and many who were on his side may become even more violent with his demise.
We must take his death in stride and continue to support efforts to make the world a safer place in which to live. As the leading defender of freedom in the world, we need to take the leadership in seeking that goal.
We led the world successfully in that pursuit during World Wars I and II and in the Cold War against communist forces who wanted to take over the globe. And we must continue to put our full efforts in that goal.
In so doing, we will not be encroaching on anyones beliefs. And we leave them free to live their own lives the way they desire.
But we are intent on preventing them from interfering with the freedom of others. It is evidently the assignment of the United States of America to lead the way in that direction.
And we must continue to do so.
As we put bin Laden to rest, let us remember there are others out there waiting to take his place and pursue his goals through terrorism. Let us put them to rest, too.
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Board of Directors Makes Plans to Add New Members to Assure Continuing Vision for the Foundation
After nearly 14 years of passionate service to patients and others affected by cutaneous lymphoma, Judy Jones, Founder of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation (CLF), has stepped away from daily operations and from her role as President of the Board of Directors. Ms. Jones will remain in service to the Foundation as President Emeritus. In this capacity, she will provide recommendations into key Foundation advocacy and research initiatives designed to benefit patients. The Board of Directors will also continue to seek her expert counsel and support on key issues affecting the Foundation. Ms. Jones will also continue providing support to patients and caregivers through the CTCL-MF online support group and maintain her connections to patients and supporters through her Foundation email address: .
"Thirteen years ago, the Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation was founded to provide information and support to patients about their disease", said Judy Jones, founder and immediate past president of the Board of Directors. "Over the years, it has not only accomplished this, but has become a major player involved in advocacy, research and the worldwide cutaneous lymphoma community. With a good solid base in place, I can now step down and let others take the Foundation to even greater heights in the future."
After her diagnosis with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma in 1990, Ms. Jones realized how little information and support there was for people diagnosed with this disease. Her quest to find answers for herself led her to think of ways in which she could be of service to the thousands of people affected by cutaneous lymphoma but who might be in the very same predicament she and her family found themselves. In 1996, she launched the CTCL-MF listserv, which began as a very early email-based social network for patients and caregivers, and it has grown into a global source of patient support and information overseen by Judy.
"We are extremely fortunate to continue to have Judy as a resource as we take the Foundation into its new phase of growth," said Jennifer Viano, CEO of the Foundation. "We all have some very big responsibilities to fill, but Judy's love, passion and commitment for this organization has set a standard of patient support and advocacy which my staff and I are dedicated to maintaining and even exceeding." Ms. Viano assumed the role of CEO in April 2010 in an effort to begin transitioning Ms. Jones' operational responsibilities.
Soon after Ms. Jones began the CTCL-MF listserv, she met Stuart Lessin, M.D., a dermatologist practicing in Philadelphia (and current CLF Medical Advisory Board Chairman), and Judith Shea, wife of a patient who created the Lee Allen Cohen Memorial Fund to support patients diagnosed with mycosis fungoides, a form of cutaneous lymphoma. Together, these visionary leaders formed the Mycosis Fungoides Foundation in 1998. In 2005, to more accurately reflect the scope of the Foundation's services, the Mycosis Fungoides Foundation was renamed the Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation.
"The needs and rights of the thousands of people worldwide afflicted with cutaneous lymphoma have had the uncommon energy and representation of Judy Jones," said Michael W. Young, the Foundation's new Board President. "No single person has so effectively and passionately worked to find better treatments for cutaneous lymphoma, better access to care, and more productive research than Judy. In the over ten years I have worked at her side, whether on the Board of Directors, with the pharmaceutical industry, in Washington, DC, or at dermatology and oncology/hematology conferences around the globe, her light has been our beacon. I look forward to her continued guidance as President Emeritus and to knowing her family gets to enjoy more time with her now."
Ms. Jones' vision coupled with her dedicated work throughout the years has resulted in extraordinary growth in vital areas of the Foundation including programs and services, advocacy, awareness, and research. In particular, Ms. Jones has forged key strategic alliances with the medical community at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), the Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID), the United States Cutaneous Lymphoma Consortium (USCLC), the International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas (ISCL), the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), the Dermatology Nurses' Association and with aligned patient advocacy groups such as the Coalition of Skin Diseases, Lymphoma Research Foundation, the Lymphoma Coalition, the Canadian Skin Patient Alliance, and the Genetic Alliance.
In an effort to continue building upon Ms. Jones' vision for the Foundation, the Board of Directors is actively seeking new leadership for the CLF Board and invites interested individuals to contact the Foundation at 248.644.9014 or .
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The Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation is an independent, nonprofit patient advocacy organization whose mission is to support every person with cutaneous lymphoma by promoting awareness and education, advancing patient care, and facilitating research. The Foundation was founded in 1998 and it is the only organization worldwide that offers comprehensive programs and services that provide information, resources and support to people affected by cutaneous lymphoma. The Foundation currently serves people from 67 countries who access our organization for assistance and support. For more information, please visit www.clfoundation.org or contact the Foundation at (248) 644-9014 or .
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Cutaneous lymphomas are cancers of lymphocytes (white blood cells) that primarily involve the skin. Classification is based on lymphocyte type: B-lymphocytes (B-cell) or T-lymphocytes (T-cell). Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is the most common type of cutaneous lymphoma that typically presents with red, scaly patches or thickened plaques of skin that often mimic eczema or chronic dermatitis. Progression from limited skin involvement is variable and may be accompa¬nied by tumor formation, ulceration and exfoliation, complicated by itching and infections. Advanced stages are defined by involvement of lymph nodes, peripheral blood, and internal organs.
Cutaneous lymphomas affect thousands of individuals worldwide. CTCL affects over 30,000 in the United States and Canada. The incidence of CTCL is increasing in the US with approximately 3,000 new cases being diagnosed annually.
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Our personnel clearly understand the lack of clarity and depth inherent in the half-formed thoughts of the bullet format. In an apparent effort to overcome the obvious deficiency of bullets, some briefers put entire paragraphs on each briefing slide. (Of course, they still include the bullet point in front of each paragraph.) Some briefs consist of a series of slides with paragraphs on them. In short, people are attempting to provide the audience with complete, coherent thoughts while adhering to the PowerPoint format. While writing full paragraphs does force the briefer to think through his position more clearly, this effort is doomed to failure. People need time to think about, even perhaps reread, material about complex issues. Instead, they are under pressure to finish reading the slides before the boss apparently does. Compounding the problem, the briefer often reads these slides aloud while the audience is trying to read the other information on the slide. Since most people read at least twice as fast as most people can talk, he is wasting half of his listeners' time and simultaneously reducing comprehension of the material. The alternative, letting the audience read the slide themselves, is also ineffective. Instead of reading for comprehension, everyone races through the slide to be sure they are finished before the senior person at the brief. Thus even presenting full paragraphs on each slide cannot overcome the fundamental weakness of PowerPoint as a tool for presenting complex issues.Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets (Thanks, Bill!)
The next major impact of slide-ology has been the pernicious growth in the amount of information portrayed on each slide. A friend with multiple tours in the Pentagon said a good rule of thumb in preparing a brief is to assume one slide per minute of briefing. Surprisingly, it seems to be true. Yet, even before the onslaught of the dreaded quad chart, I saw slides with up to 90 pieces of information. Presumably, some thought went into the bullets, charts, pictures and emblems portrayed on that slide, yet the vast majority of the information was completely wasted. The briefer never spoke about most of the information, and the slide was on screen for a little more than a minute. While this slide was an aberration, charts with 20 items of information portrayed in complex graphics are all too common. This gives the audience an average of three seconds to see and absorb each item of information. As if this weren't sufficient to block the transfer of information, some PowerPoint Ranger invented quad charts. For those unfamiliar with a quad chart, it is simply a Power Point slide divided into four equal quadrants and then a full slide is placed in each quadrant. If the briefer clicks on any of the four slides, it can become a full-sized slide. Why this is a good idea escapes me.
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"It has been an ongoing frustration for accountants to have to tell their clients that the person who knows their financial affairs best can't give them any financial investment advice and they have to go see a separate financial planner who may not have the same level of insight," says Institute of Chartered Accountants general manager policy Yasser El-Ansary.
This is particularly pertinent to finance chiefs in medium-sized businesses which are usually too small to have a corporate accountant in house but are big enough to face complex investment decisions.
A selection of managing directors and financial controllers from three different unlisted medium-sized enterprises revealed off the record that the financial planning industry's vested interest in selling products and services made them reluctant to seek strategic advice from them.
It seems logical that a finance director who was considering whether the best growth strategy for their business would be to invest in new plants and equipment or look to acquire a smaller competitor, and all the assets that come with that, would be able to talk to their accountant and get some advice.
Since the Financial Services Reform Act was introduced in 2002, a Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL), as issued and regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has been required to provide any sort of "financial investment advice".
The penalty accountants currently face if convicted of carrying on a financial services business without a licence is a $22,000 fine or imprisonment for two years, or both.
This has meant that accountants have been excluded from supplying advice on investment decisions and been restricted to advising clients upon the best way to execute transactions they had already decided upon independently.
One exception has been the 'accountants' exemption for SMSF advice', which has allowed accountants to offer clients advice on the set-up or close-down, but not running of, their personal self-managed super fund.
Now, as part of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms, which passed through the Senate on June 20, it will be much easier for accountants to meet the requirements to provide this "investment strategy advice".
When the FOFA consultation began it was flagged that the accountants' exemption would be removed and replaced with new arrangements. All three of the accounting industry professional bodies have been active in the push for this reform. "It has been an ongoing battle for the past decade," says El-Ansary.
"The campaign's focus was always to encourage a regulatory framework that would more reasonably allow accountants to move in to the financial advice," says El-Ansary. "The profession never argued it should be excluded from the need to be regulated under the ASFL framework.
It was simply too onerous to expect accountants to comply with all of ASIC's AFSL requirements on top of the qualifications and ongoing professional development that is already required of them, he says.
All three organisations are pretty chuffed about the solution which has been reached.
The first hurdle that needs to be met before ASIC will grant an AFSL is the knowledge test.
Under transitional arrangements which begin from July 1 all practising public accountants – be they members of CPA Australia, Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia or Institute of Public Accountants – who apply for an AFSL will automatically be recognised as having sufficient experience to meet this.
This will apply until June 30, 2016 after which junior accountants will be able to gain the skills required to meet the knowledge test by working under the supervision and control of more senior people within their firm, much the same as financial planners and advisers do.
ASIC's second criteria for an AFSL is the skills test.
Accountants will not be automatically recognised as meeting this, however recognition has been won that the qualifications they already hold mean they should be subject to less additional training.
Over the coming months all three of the accounting bodies will be working with ASIC to design an appropriate training program for their members. "Hopefully that will be in place by end of 2012," says El-Ansary. Accountants wishing to be granted an ASFL will need to pass the course and then complete a refresher every three years.
All other AFSL criteria are mostly administrative relating to the proper holding and maintenance of the licence, such as indemnity insurance.
Accountants will be able to be registered for an AFSL under the new arrangements from July 1, 2013.
"It is expected that about 10,000 to 15, 000 accountants will be attracted in to the AFSL framework, doubling the number of financial advisers, over the next three years," says El-Ansary. Currently, there are approximately 15,000 financial advisers and 40,000 practising public accountants in Australia.
"These changes, more than any other in the suite of FOFA reforms, go to the heart of the stated policy agenda to improve the quality and affordability of financial advice," says El-Ansary.
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Friday, February 18, 2011;
PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas claims to be interested in negotiating a two-state peace settlement with Israel. For two years he has enjoyed the support of a U.S. president more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause than most, if not all, of his predecessors. Yet Mr. Abbas has mostly refused to participate in the direct peace talks that Barack Obama made one of his top foreign policy priorities - and now he has shown himself to be bent on embarrassing and antagonizing the U.S. administration.
Rejecting direct appeals from both Mr. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Abbas chose to persist on Friday with a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution that called on Israel to cease settlement construction in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Though the administration supports this position - and has counterproductively pressed it at the expense of its larger diplomatic aims - it vetoed the resolution, as Mr. Abbas knew it would do. For a number of good reasons, including its hope of preserving the chance of peace negotiations, the Obama administration could not allow a one-sided U.N. condemnation of Israel.
The only effect of the Palestinian initiative will be to embarrass the Obama administration at a delicate moment, when popular uprisings around the Middle East already are challenging pro-American leaders. It will have no impact on Israeli settlement construction, and it will deal a further blow to the prospects for peace talks. It will bolster the right-wing Israeli government. Conceivably, it could cause Arab protests now focused on autocratic rule to take an ugly anti-American turn.
Mr. Abbas has known all of this all along. Yet he refused to set aside the resolution even when the administration offered a generous compromise - a proposed "presidential statement" from the Security Council criticizing Israeli settlements as well as the firing of rockets at Israel from Gaza. Mr. Obama is taking considerable heat from Congress just for proposing this outcome - and yet in a 50-minute phone call Thursday, he was unable to win the Palestinian president's assent.
Mr. Abbas's stubbornness might seem spectacularly self-defeating - but only if one assumes that he is genuinely interested in a peace deal. In fact, the U.N. gambit allows him to posture as a champion of the Palestinian cause without having to consider any of the hard choices that would be needed to found a Palestinian state. It enables him to deflect criticism from the rival Hamas movement about his friendly relations with the United States. It might even allow him to head off a popular Palestinian rebellion against his own autocratic behavior - Mr. Abbas has failed to schedule overdue elections, including for his own post as president.
The Obama administration has all along insisted that Mr. Abbas is willing and able to make peace with Israel - despite considerable evidence to the contrary. If the U.N. resolution veto has one good effect, perhaps it will be to prompt a reevaluation of a leader who has repeatedly proved both weak and intransigent.


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Non-Park Use of Seattle Parks and Recreation Property Permits
Non-Parks Use of Seattle Parks and Recreation Land Policy
If you need or want to use park property for a non-park use, you must obtain permission from the Department of Parks and Recreation, usually in the form of a Revocable Use Permit.
"Permits for Non-Park Use of Park Property" includes any private use of park land or park open space that limits or diminishes the public's ability to use or enjoy park land, even temporarily. This would include activities such as making repairs or changes to your property, installing or replacing utility lines, storing belongings on park property, and adding or removing landscaping. View the Policy for Non-Park Uses of Park Property
Park lands include parks, playgrounds, viewpoints, boulevards, and other land under control of the Department of Parks and Recreation. If you are not sure, please check with the Department before proceeding. You can phone the Department's Property Management office at 206-233-7935 or you can click on the titles to the right to read more about Revocable Use Permits. Permits are revocable upon thirty (30) days notice or immediately upon failure of the Permittee to comply with the terms and conditions of the Permit. Unauthorized use of park property, including failure to apply for and obtain a Revocable Use Permit, is unlawful and subject to enforcement actions or other remedies as specified in Seattle Municipal Code 18.30.
Applying for a Revocable Non-Park Use Permit
Download the Application, complete, sign and mail along with a non-refundable application fee of $200 to:
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Revocable Use Permit Fees
Application Fee - $200
(non-refundable; includes one (1) on-site inspection and two (2) hours of staff time for reviewing and processing application)
Inspection and/or Monitoring - $200 per hour
(Application fee includes one on-site inspection. Additional on-site charges at $200.00 per hour may be assessed, for on-site inspections and/or monitoring, if specified in the Permit or if necessary in the Department's judgment, due to Applicant's or Permittee's action(s), or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the permit.)
Limited Term Permit $250 per day or $325 minimum, whichever is greater
Continuing Use Permit, determined by formula (V x A x B x R) OR $650 minimum, whichever is greater, please see the formula below
Processing Charges, $130 per hour (costs of staff time in excess of two (2) hours to review and process permit applications; payable prior to permit issuance.)
*Exceptional permit conditions requiring staff monitoring will be billed to permittee. Full staff time expenses will be billed.
Formula for Continuing Use Permit Fee
Continuing Use permit fees shall be charged for uses expected to continue for an extended period of time, generally beyond ninety (90) days (e.g., encroachments or other non-park uses that will not be corrected or eliminated within a ninety (90) day period). Continuing Use permit fees shall be calculated using a formula based on land Value, Area of use, a Barrier factor, and a Rate of return (V x A x B x R).
The Value of the park land used shall be determined by calculating the average of the assessed value per square foot of the benefited property and the assessed values per square foot of comparable (i.e., similarly zoned, having similar amenities such as waterfront or view), nearby (within a distance not to exceed 1,000 feet) non-park properties.
The Area shall be the total of the square footage of park land actually used or occupied for non-park purposes and/or the square footage of park land that is subject to a barrier to public use and/or enjoyment.
The Barrier Factor is a multiplier of 1 or less than 1, representing the extent of barrier to public use and enjoyment, as set by the following scale. If two or more Barrier Factors may apply, the greater factor shall apply.
1.00 Full use and/or occupancy of area, preventing public use or occupancy of the area (e.g., a private structure); or creation of a physical barrier denying public use or access to the area (e.g., a fence or hedge);
.70 Creation of a perceptual barrier by improvements or actions that capture the public space for private use (e.g., paving, shrubbery, other plantings);
.35 Private landscaping or other improvements on park land that violate, exceed, or are inconsistent with established design guidelines or reasonable standards intended to preserve the public park-like character of park lands (e.g., private access drive or walkway in excess of standard; private lighting or safety railings that exceed a security function).
The Rate of return (i.e., land capitalization rate) is set at 10%.
Continuing Use permit fees for permit periods of less than twelve (12) months are payable in full prior to permit issuance. Continuing use permit fees for permit periods anticipated to continue for twelve (12) months or more may be pro-rated and annualized and payable in advance for such annualized date as the Department shall establish. If the permit period is shorter than anticipated, the permit fees paid in advance shall be prorated for the time used and over-payment shall be refunded, except in the case of revocation due to Permittee's failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the permit, in which case no refund shall be given. Permits for utility installations, such as electrical, natural gas, or telephone service, shall be charged as Limited Term permits, based on the permit period necessary for installation.
There is no Permit Fee charged for Limited Term permits of ninety (90) days or less issued expressly to allow the removal or elimination of an encroachment onto park land.
There is no Permit Fee charged for certain non-park uses of park land which may be allowable by property right, such as driveway access from the roadway portion of a park boulevard if access is not available from any other right-of-way, or pedestrian walkway from a public sidewalk to the abutting private property, if such uses comply with established design guidelines or reasonable standards intended to preserve the public park-like character of park lands.


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A two-year bonus paid in one year and a sharp drop in the pay of one senior media person pushed
Mr Burke, who has run Village with brothers
The Kirby brothers, who swap the roles of executive chairman and executive deputy chairman every four years, were paid about $4.5 million each and collected the same bonus as Mr Burke.
Short-term incentive payments, including cash bonuses, pumped up the remuneration of most of the people at the top of this year's list.
Peter Gammell collected a $1.5 million bonus for his work as chief executive of
Mr Gammell's total remuneration from Seven Group in 2010-11 was $4.92 million. He also received $130,274 for sitting on the board of Seven West Media, which is 29.6 per cent owned by Seven Group.
Seven West was set up in April after
The reported 2010-11 remuneration of key Seven West executives such as
Seven West's annual report made no mention of
The Seven group took Mr Warburton to court and succeeded in delaying his start at Ten from July to January. Mr Warburton's base salary at Ten will be $2.2 million a year, which could rise to $4.4 million if he reached various performance targets.
One of the biggest remuneration declines was posted by
He fell from first on last year's list to eighth this year, thanks to a 31.2 per cent drop in his remuneration to $3.62 million. (Austar is the subject of a $1.9 billion takeover bid from Foxtel.)
The Austar executive who saw the biggest decline in pay was chief information officer Dean Walters: his remuneration fell 37.5 per cent to $1.18 million. This year, Mr Walters moved to Austar's largest shareholder, Liberty Global, as chief information officer of its European broadband operations.
Another senior Austar executive, chief operating officer
Mr Hopkins left APN in December. His successor, Brett Chenoweth, started in January on a base salary of $1.5 million a year, slightly below Mr Hopkins' base salary of $1.73 million last year.
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Ought to my Baby View this Movie: Figuring out Film Scores
Lately likely to movies seems like it needs getting out a little personal loan. nonton film online Not just are ticket costs hovering all around $10 every but popcorn and soda are approaching selling prices which the oil corporations might be proud of.
Along with this, you will be predicted to decipher the film scores which might appear fairly foggy from time to time. Is usually a movie which is rated PG ideal for the four-year-old? How about a PG-13 motion picture? Must a toddler genuinely be 13 so as to see it?
When making an attempt to determine if a movie is suited for your personal youngster the best spot to start out his comprehending just what the movie ratings indicate.
The Motion picture Association of America has five formal ratings for movies. These are generally:
G for normal audiences
PG for parental steerage recommended
PG-13 for parental advice strongly proposed for children under the ages of 13
R for limited to kids under the ages eighteen except if accompanied by older people
NC-17 for nobody seventeen and under will probably be permitted in to the theater.
You are more than likely to G rating on strictly kid's videos. These will likely be motion pictures that have delighted endings and they are completely without the need of violence or any sexually suggestive circumstances and language. These movies are unquestionably safe to allows small children of any age watch.
PG films tend to be more alongside the strains of a loved ones film, some thing that each mom and pop as well as young children will take pleasure in. PG films could possibly have some low-level violence like a fistfight, mildly sexually suggestive situations such as a kissing scene or is a bit nerve-racking scenarios these types of as in the event the negative man has the nice male in the difficult place. Most kids around the age of eight tend to be more than able of managing predicaments they see on screen in PG films. Kids beneath the age of 8 may very well be possibly frightened by or unable to be aware of several of the circumstances that occurred in the PG movie, with regards to the psychological age from the personal kid.
PG-13 movies are meant for a slightly older viewers than PG movies. In PG-13 movies you are likely to seek out better amounts of violence this sort of as gunfights and blood, a lot more sexually suggestive circumstances, though not overly sexual, such as lengthy associated kissing or some fondling and more suspenseful and rigorous predicaments. PG-13 may have specific language these kinds of as curse words or descriptive sex terms. Mom and dad need to think carefully and maybe preview the motion picture in advance of using children under the age of 13 on the film. That becoming reported, most youngsters more than the age of ten are able of managing the circumstances and language viewed in these videos.
R videos are meant for grown ups. Rated R films can have extreme violence, sexually specific circumstances, incredibly powerful conditions or simply a great deal of serious language. R rated films could also demonstrate drug use or even more significant prison activity. Young children beneath the age of 16 mustn't be permitted devoid of grown ups. Technically, movie theaters are suppose to ID small children and verify which they have an grownup with them but a lot of the time this does not come about. Parents must in all probability not get kids under the age of 10 to those flicks. For youngsters involving the ages of 10 and 16, mom and dad really should give critical consideration regarding whether or not or not the child is mature adequate to handle circumstances located inside the movie.
NC-17 is a comparatively new score. It was made to interchange the generic X score. It truly is unusual to find a motion picture in theaters that has a ranking of NC-17. Most filmmakers would like in order to avoid this score as is taken into account from the general public to generally be the same class as porn. Even though videos do receive the NC-17 score because of to very sexually express cases, the NC-17 rating is supposed that can help a motion picture viewer know the difference amongst a crafted film having a created plot and people as well as a film whose sole goal would be to exhibit sexually express scenes.
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Pace Media The one particular factor that gives the online market place the ability to help keep on growing is engines like google along with person generated media specially on-line blogs. Taking into consideration the reality that the web is constantly transforming, you would like to acquire a confirmed internet marketing strategy which includes of specified confirmed digital internet marketing choices that guarantee achievement. Presented are a few with the best Web optimization marketing and advertising methods
Search engine marketing Optimization:
One of the most successful Search engine optimisation advertising remedy will be to perform search engine optimization, significantly on account of the point that serps today give cost-free promotion which might be identified by finishing up on-page optimization. As you will discover about many web pages which are developed on everyday basis, many them compete to get stated about the first lookup result webpage. Investigation demonstrates that about 75% on the people on the lookout for a little something look at just the initial page of their success and click on around the look for listing that seem about the top rated.
So as to compete successfully, you would like to acquire an online site that includes the required keywords and phrases or perhaps a key word phrase. Be certain which you Search engine marketing advertising and marketing answer adds the keywords and phrases to the title of your site, its description in addition to it search term Meta tags as well as first heading as well as the remainder of the human body. It is a system which ought to be adopted, although it doesn't promise that your website page will appear within the best, however it is important in an effort to get going.
An algorithm is used by Google to ascertain a web-sites website page rank from 1 to ten. The upper the page rank, the higher the web site is taken into account. Authority sites ordinarily have a very PR7 assigned to them and getting back links from them would certainly deliver the Google spider to your website on typical foundation.
As a way to receive a back again connection, you are able to simply just email a ask for to the Webmaster to conduct website link exchange. If accepted, you will need to spot a hyperlink for their site on your website site that will serve being an Web optimization advertising and marketing resolution. Another choice is for yourself to get inbound links for possibly a regular monthly fee. It really is best to buy a backlink from a PR8 web page as 1 connection from a web-site with these kinds of a large webpage rank is value a huge selection of inbound links from PR0 web-sites. Bear in mind that owning too many backlinks from small rating websites would only be damaging for the internet site. Before carrying out website link exchange from very low position internet sites, conduct a little of study just as if the internet sites are blacklisted by Google, than your site will suffer in addition and there's a excellent prospect that you just won't ever give you the option to recuperate from this decline.
As a way to obtain the most effective outcomes, be certain that you simply restrict your Search engine optimisation marketing and advertising answer link exchange to only all those with PR5 and previously mentioned. Ensure that that you avoid link farms in the least charges as this may only transform detrimental to your site.
Doing the job in Motels – A good Career Possibility?
hotel careers You will discover numerous employment that happen to be relevant to the hospitality business mainly because it is without doubt one of the key industries that hire people. This really is on account of the actual fact that there are a lot of belongings you can perform doing the job in the hotel and plenty of diverse professions are wanted. If you are currently operating within a resort or are attempting to be involved in this business, you should also recognize that you'll deal with several issues. Things will not be incredibly glamorous but remain incredibly fulfilling.
Initial of all, let's see a quick overview of employment which might be linked to your lodge marketplace. A hotel demands a receptionist the truth is additional than 1. If you can talk and understand two or maybe more languages and know are can easily understand a pc process, you can certainly make an application for this work. You must start off from the little resort and little by little reach your aim. When you have encounter, you'll be able to implement to hotels that happen to be more lavish should you like. The atmosphere there might be better, but this is simply not a truth so just take time and energy to contemplate it. Positions around the reception desk or foyer consist of grooms, bell boys and concierge, but not all inns have them. A hotel also requirements housekeeping and cooks to operate.
Housekeeping jobs include men and women to wash rooms, persons being answerable for the flooring and keep track of activities. Kitchen employees contains cooks and cooks and naturally provider. So if you will be a cook dinner and like a hotel surroundings you are able to choose for your resort task. You will discover also a lot of jobs for functions. Therefore the lodge also wants people with levels and knowledge for the income departments, administration and advertising departments.
When you undoubtedly are a qualified inside the above types and therefore are serious about hospitality it is possible to make an application for a position that could allow you to implement your information in this particular ecosystem. You might be requested to promote product sales, preserve and raise the standard providers the lodge provides and come across strategies to lower down charges. Preserving funds, conserving time and growing profits is what hotels are all about.
The something that you will require working in resorts is to be consumer oriented. Consequently irrespective of becoming a cook dinner or even the manager, you ought to have the client as your priority. Services that happen to be presented needs to be in keeping with them and also you must always clearly show that you will be eager to locate a answer in every trouble. It's also advisable to be genuine in case you are not able to do just about anything about a thing that they inquire you and suggest options.
Personalities that have these features are these that reach the field. Working in lodges is just not simple because the atmosphere is incredibly constrained and conflicts with workforce arise normally. In conditions like these, there is certainly unfortunately not much you are able to do. Be sure to contain the skills essential and do your career nicely to be able to maintain a degree of dignity that could help you with your job.
How you can Get Breastfeeding Correct Through the Starting
Most girls desire to give their newborn the most effective they can and need to nurse their toddlers.how to breastfeed However, if you're a first-time mother you may not know regarding how to start off it appropriate. And so the very best time you have to be reading through this when you are still expecting or plan on having little ones.
Therefore you created up your thoughts, you would want to nurse your little one. Once you get there inside the healthcare facility to give delivery, explain to the nurses and medical practitioners regarding your desire. Insist that you simply only wish to breastfeed and do not want that they will give any formula to the newborn newborn. You might not understand correct now my issue of check out, why I insist on getting so rigorous.
With my initially little one everything went mistaken through the starting: I was saved from him for additional than 6 hours while in the recovery room and through the night time the nurses gave him bottles. Both of these facts built the real difference for me with my very first child that he would never ever nurse. Whenever a child is born it ought to be set on to the breast as quickly as possible. Evidently they've a purely natural instinct to suck around the mothers breast. But when the infant is specified a bottle instead, they are really acquiring used to the easy circulation of a bottle. So when you want to try afterwards on to obtain your child to nurse, they toddler clearly will not choose to put plenty of energy into it. The infant understands which the milk from the bottle comes out with out significantly work. Though I tried later for a very long time to acquire my little one to breastfeed, I hardly ever succeeded with him. Only with my second toddler, following planing correct from the beginning, I not only succeeded but nonetheless proceed to breastfeed.
Therefore you sorted out the breastfeeding only situation. Now acquire by yourself time and feed your toddler as usually as you can. The greater you set him on the breast, the greater milk you might get later on on. It would harm at the starting. (Consider treatment to normally hold your infant the appropriate way, and normally insist that he would not just consider your nipple although the total areola.) You can also make use of a calming cream that helps you heal the cracks on the nipples with the starting. Just really don't fret, the pain will go away, and later on you can not have anymore difficulties with cracked nipples.