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Top team in the financial service industry is currently looking for Telemarketing Assistants.
Responsibilities include:
· Identify sales opportunities through cold calling and develop and maintain new
business.
Candidates will:
1. Possess a business related university degree and/or 2 to 5 years of relevant experience.
2. Have excellent communication and leadership skills, with a proven history of success.
3. Have high consideration for integrity and strong work ethics.
4. Have high energy and be willing to provide sustainable continuous support to team's effort.
5. Have career oriented mind with clean cut professional appearance.
Applicant will benefit from firm's:
· Leadership position in the industry.
· Continuous training through in house and regional workshops with some of Canada's top
financial advisors.
· Technological resources and professional expertise; access to a team of specialists:
C.A.s, lawyers, and tax specialists for an advisor's entire financial advisory needs.
· Marketing and business development support to advisor to help them build and maintain a
high net worth client base.
· Competitive remuneration package with impartial access to financial instruments.
TO SEND YOUR CV
E-mail: mark.pretorian@manulifesecurities.ca
Fax: 514-421-8970 Attn: Mark Pretorian
Mark Pretorian: 514-421-7090 ext. 270
Today, Facebook co-founder and My.BarackObama.com
alum Chris Hughes announced the soft launch of Jumo, his new philanthropic start-up that works to match do-gooders with appropriate
causes.
Currently, the Jumo site is merely an elegantly designed homepage that announces Hughes’s
mission to “bring together everyday individuals and organizations to speed the pace of
global change. We connect people to the issues, organizations, and individuals relevant to them
to foster lasting relationships and meaningful action.”
Hughes told us, however, that the site will later be organized much like a social network —
with profiles for individual users that contain a collection of information that they have shared
and used, pages for organizations created both by the orgs in question and others, and issue
pages that serve as a kind of discussion of the topics at hand.
Hughes says that the idea is to make sure that Jumo can get the most relevant information
possible to its users, so that they can foster on-going relationships with social organizations
to do the most good.
As a result, the current homepage features a rather intriguing survey box that asks the site
visitor an array of questions from, “If you had a daughter tomorrow, which would you name
her?” to “Would you say the world is getting better or worse?” Upon answering
these queries, you can also submit your e-mail address to get more information as it comes.
The site itself came about after a period of reflection on Hughes’s part. The Obama
campaign came and went, and he started thinking about how he could apply social media principles
gleaned from Facebook and My.BarackObama.com to have the maximum impact on the world.
While he was impressed by efforts following catastrophes like the earthquake in Haiti, Hughes thought we could be doing more. “I think
watching what happened after Haiti was hard for everyone,” he says. “The fact that so
much money was raised is just a testament to the fact that people really do care and help.”
Still, he applies the “don’t just give during the holidays — give all year
round” principle to the situation. “I was frustrated to see that moment of engagement
not functioning as part of a much larger process of supporting those organizations to help ensure
that tragedies like Haiti not happen again,” he said.
Currently, Hughes is hiring a team to
run the site from its Soho office. According to the job posting, he’s “looking to
hire hard-working individuals who value intellectual challenge, appreciate the importance of
online networking technology, and, most importantly, want to change the world.”
Top team in the financial service industry is currently looking for few candidates.
· One of Canada's largest independently owned financial planning firms currently
experiencing major growth nationwide.
· The firm is seeking motivated professionals who wish to build a solid business practice
while providing their clients with complete wealth management solutions.
Candidates will:
1. Possess a business related university degree and/or 2 to 5 years of relevant experience.
2. Have excellent communication and leadership skills, with a proven history of success.
3. Have high consideration for integrity and strong work ethics.
4. Have high energy and be willing to provide sustainable continuous support to team's effort.
5. Have career oriented mind with clean cut professional appearance.
6. Hold a professional designation such as the Canadian Securities Course (is an asset but not
required).
7. Be willing to develop understanding of complex personal financial and taxation strategies.
Applicant will benefit from firm's:
· Leadership position in the industry.
· Continuous training through in house and regional workshops with some of Canada's top
financial advisors.
· Technological resources and professional expertise; access to a team of specialists:
C.A.s, lawyers, and tax specialists for an advisor's entire financial advisory needs.
· Marketing and business development support to advisor to help them build and maintain a
high net worth client base.
· Competitive remuneration package with impartial access to financial instruments.
· Group package including, health, dental, disability & life insurance.
TO SEND YOUR CV
E-mail: mark.pretorian@manulifesecurities.ca
Fax: 514-421-8970 Attn: Mark Pretorian
Mark Pretorian: 514-421-7090 ext. 270
It's human nature - we are wired to be averse to change. When something new comes into our
lives, we inherently approach it with caution, and at times, with negativity and hostility; but
if that change is fundamentally good and right, it will gradually become widely accepted. For
startups, especially those in the early stages of existence, changes come frequently and now and
then in large chunks, which can be jarring for users who may have just become accustomed to the
previous version of a product.
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Anyone who uses Facebook knows that even the slightest changes
in UI or the shuffling of features can create a cacophony of public outcry in the form of "I Like
The Old Facebook Better!!" groups. But the interesting thing about those groups is that they
eventually fizzle out and people get used to the new version of the site. Change takes time.
So what are startups to do when an updated version of their product or service sets
off a firestorm of hate mail from previously pleased users? Well, for starters, make sure you're
not taking a Borg-like approach by assimilating customers into submission; forcing things on
people never goes over well. Secondly, as crowdSPRING
co-founder Ross Kimbarovsky advises, take the time to
listen to your users; after all, they are the ones using your product day-to-day and they
probably have a few good ideas.
"You have to be patient, you have to give your customers and your community some room, some time
to react, to criticize, to discuss, to debate," says Kimbarovsky in a recent video
blog. "You can't harshly tell them 'this is the way it is and that's it', because it will
close off communications and make it sound like you don't care what they say."
There also may be a chance to bring about the change gradually as to not upset your customers
with sudden drastic changes. Kimbarovsky recounts an example in which eBay wanted to change its background color from yellow to white, so
instead of flipping a switch, they slowly changed the background to a lighter shade of yellow
day-by-day until the background was white. But for the most part, changes can't always be long
and drawn out like eBay's color choices, so Kimbarovsky simply says to engage with your customers
when they react and let their voices be heard.
"After a short amount of time, if your change is good, if it's reasonable and if it's meant to
improve as you believe it is, then your customers and your community will understand it," says
Kimbarovsky. "And if it's not, then you will understand that it just isn't working."
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When a
reader lands on my blog, they’re going to run into a lot of people.
First off, there’s me. I am front and center when it comes to being in close
proximity to what I write. Not only is my e-mail address on my blog, but I even have a live
Plugoo widget that you can type into and send me a message on AIM. Sometimes I’m not
there or I’m busy, but I’m generally pretty responsive, since I spend a
disproportionate amount of my day in front of the computer with a chat client open. There
are links to where else you can find me, too—Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
On top of that, there’s a thriving little community happening around my comments, powered
by Disqus. I’m certainly responsive there, but you’re also bound to run into a
number of other people with different views and opinions, each of whom also have links to where
they are elsewhere in the social web.
La fondation Mozilla est très active. En plus de développer la prochaine version du
navigateur Firefox, Mozilla travaille aussi sur plusieurs projets
complémentaires qui à terme seront intégrés à son navigateur.
L’un des tout derniers projets se nomme Contacts.
Cette application qui est en fait un module agit comme un agrégateur de contenu. Il
récupèrera les informations concernant vos contacts depuis plusieurs sources. Ce
qui vous permettra d’obtenir en théorie plus d’information sur chacun de vos
contacts. Actuellement, uniquement quatre services supportent Contacts. Il s’agit de
Twitter, Gmail, Carnet d’adresses (Mac) et Gravatar.
En plus de vous servir de carnet d’adresses unifié, ce module offre
quelques fonctionnalités intéressantes. Lorsque vous adhérez à un
nouveau réseau social ou service Web et que vous désirez importer votre carnet
d’adresses. Contacts vous permettent de sélectionner les informations concernant vos
contacts que vous révèlerez à ce service.
Vous pourrez ainsi sélectionner uniquement le mail de votre contact et exclure toutes les
autres informations. Actuellement, vous n’avez pas le contrôle sur
l’information que vous cédez aux réseaux sociaux lorsque vous importez votre
carnet d’adresses.
Contacts offrent aussi un système de saisie semi-automatique. Par exemple, sur un site
Web, vous remplissez un formulaire qui vous permet de partager du contenu par mail. Lorsque vous
saisissez les premières lettres du nom de l’un de vos contacts, le système
vous offrira les contacts correspondants.
Contacts est au tout début de son développement, attendez-vous à quelques
bogues. Si la synchronisation de vos signets, mots de passe, historique et onglets vous
intéresse, je vous suggère d’installer Mozilla Weave.
Benoit Descary
Website has no objection to Ceop button 'in principle' but meeting online child protection team
next month
Facebook has told the home secretary, Alan Johnson, it has "no objection in principle" to an
anti-paedophile panic button, but would not commit to installing the feature. After a meeting
today the website said it had revealed to the home secretary details of its "more robust
reporting system".
It said its alternative to the Ceop button had been developed "by analysing millions of reports
submitted by users over the years".
Today's talks between Johnson and the UK's most-visited social networking site were in response
to the backlash against the site in the wake of the murder of Ashleigh Hall.
The schoolgirl was killed by serial rapist Peter Chapman, who posed as a teenager on the site and
lured her to her death.
After he was convicted of murder Ashleigh's mother criticised the site for not doing enough to
protect youngsters from predatory paedophiles.
Johnson said representatives of the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop)
would meet Facebook representatives in Washington DC next month to discuss the issue.
Johnson said he was pleased with the outcome of talks today.
In a statement he said: "We had a frank exchange of views in which I emphasised that including
the Ceop abuse reporting button on their site has the potential to transform child protection
– and that the company should put this above all other considerations.
"Facebook told us they have no objection to the principle of including the Ceop button on their
site and that they have now agreed to a high level meeting with Ceop in Washington on April 12 to
discuss this issue further.
"[Minister] Alan Campbell and I reiterated our view that Facebook must find a way to use this
button. I am pleased that the meeting with Ceop is taking place and await the outcome with
interest."
In a statement Facebook said it "would explore" adding the Ceop button to its safety centre and
would discuss proposals with Ceop at the meeting.
Last week senior police officers criticised Facebook for repeatedly refusing to sign up to
a panic button, with the chief executive of Ceop, Jim Gamble, saying police had been asking the
company to do so "for too long".
Last year 267 reports were received about suspicious activity on Facebook, 43% of which related
to cases of suspected grooming. In 81% of cases the individuals targeted had to make their
reports to Ceop through other websites, because Facebook does not have the direct link button.
Children use the button to make reports to Ceop's specialist police teams about suspected abuse,
grooming and severe bullying. Although Bebo and MSN have adopted the button, Facebook has
refused.
On 11 March Facebook threatened to sue the Daily Mail over the newspaper's allegations that
14-year-old girls who create a profile on the social networking site could be approached "within
seconds" by older men who "wanted to perform a sex act" in front of them.
· Crozier guaranteed at least £3.2m in first three years
· Grade got £2.26m in last year, plus £400,000 from options
Michael Grade left ITV with £2.7m in his pocket at the end of last year, while incoming
chief executive Adam Crozier is guaranteed to get £3.2m over the next three years and could
trouser more than £16m by 2015 if he hits all his performance targets.
Grade picked up £2.126m in salary and annual bonus for his last year as executive chairman
of the broadcaster, and also sold shares worth a further £401,567 under the company's share
options scheme, according to ITV's 2009 annual report, published today.
The ITV board also awarded him a further £167,000 to cover the remainder of his contract
– which expires next month – but calculated the payoff as
if he were merely non-executive chairman of the firm.
Crozier, whose move to ITV from the Post Office was
announced in late January, will receive a salary of £775,000 a year
– £50,000 less than Grade got in his last year – and
is being awarded a £200,000 cash sum as a "golden hello" for joining the company. He will
also be awarded £420,000 worth of shares when he joins on 26 April, which he can collect
over the next 18 months.
Coupled with his pension contributions and other benefits, Crozier will pick up about
£860,000 a year – before any bonuses – on top of his
golden hello, meaning he is guaranteed at least £3.2m over the next three years.
But he will also take part in the company's short-term cash bonus scheme –
which could net him a further £1.16m a year – and is expected to spend
£775,000 of his own money buying ITV shares.
ITV also outlined the long-term incentive plan it has designed for Crozier. He is being offered
up to 4,115,044 shares in ITV – worth £2.26m at today's share price
– that he can collect in 2013 "subject to delivering stretching
outperformance". He will not have to buy the shares – they are what are termed
in the City "nil cost options" – but they will be awarded depending on the
firm's financial performance.
Up to 75% will vest only if ITV delivers better than average returns than a comparator group of
companies including BSkyB and the Daily Mail & General Trust. He will get all the shares if
ITV's performance is in the top 25% of its peer group and none if its performance is below
average. The remaining options will vest "subject to the achievement of strategic measures", ITV
said.
ITV insiders said that if he meets all the performance criteria – which would
require a significant increase in ITV's share price performance – Crozier
could pocket more than £16m over the next half decade.
Archie Norman, who took over from Grade as ITV non-executive chairman at the start of the year,
is being paid a basic salary of £300,000 a year over his three-year term. Norman has also
been awarded 400,000 ITV shares a year, and bought 380,000 when he was appointed in November last
year.
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visibilité, je mixe table et css. Je fais un test d'envoi de mail, mon mailing passe nickel
sur toutes les boites que j'ai pu
Si vous
recevez un mail vous annonçant que votre compte Facebook a été
réinitialisé, méfiance : derrière ce message pourrait se dissimuler un
virus destiné à siphonner vos données personnelles.
Utilisateurs de Facebook, des pirates en veulent à vos données
Since leaving school to pursue writing at 16, Tim Pears has steered a quietly defiant course,
standing up for provincial life in the face of metropolitan self-importance and refusing his
readers easy consolations. Richard Lea meets him
For the novelist Tim Pears, brought up in a small village on the edge of Dartmoor and with a new
novel rooted in the English landscape, his home town of Oxford still has something of the feel of
the big city.
"I've lived here for 30 years and I still feel like I'm in exile, like an immigrant," Pears says.
He himself cuts a reassuringly outdoorsy figure, from his wind-blown cheeks and fraying fleece
down to his sturdy walking boots. "We all have an idea of where the authentic life resides. Most
Londoners think 'This is it, this is the centre of England, this is where reality is'. Whereas
I've never lost the idea that the authentic human experience is in between nature wild and nature
tamed: that is, the rural. We still can't exist without it – it's where our
food comes from and so on. And that's somehow real."
The low thrum of the nearby ring road wafts through the back door from the garden as he reflects
on what it's like to be a writer in a country which is so relentlessly metropolitan in its
outlook.
"It's a curious thing," he says, in his soft burr. "England is so metrocentric; it's so
London-based. Ninety-nine percent of people who want to do something interesting culturally with
their lives gravitate towards London. Most writers live in London, most film-makers, and people
who live outside tend to be regarded by the metrocentrics, and indeed by themselves, as
provincial – which is very different from America, for example. It's not like
all American writers live in New York.
"In a way I resist that. Part of the reason I've never lived in London is as a small act of
resistance – I'm not going to be drawn into that. I'll hold out for provincial
life."
There's something organic about Tim Pears's latest novel, Landed. The first part lays down the
roots of a tragic tale – an accident report, an occupational therapist's case
study of a man who lost his hand, and an account of the making of an outdoorsman, Owen, carved in
the image of a taciturn grandfather in the wilds of the Welsh borders. The second part blooms
into a dream journey that Owen takes with his two small children, measuring out the losses that
he has suffered and the happinesses he will never see in footpaths, tracks and stiles. It's a
journey Pears has made himself, tramping in the footsteps of his own character like a "method
writer" from the outskirts of Birmingham to the Welsh borders where his own grandfather used to
live. "I couldn't have written that without doing it," he says. "I cheated a bit, because I
stopped on the way. I slept one night rough, and then the next night I reached where my mother
lives, so I got a nice warm bed."
Despite the heightened reality of his fiction – the occasional swerve into
magic or mysticism – Pears describes himself as an "absolute realist". But
even for a writer who aspires to celebrate the world around him, to chronicle life as he sees it,
research is only the beginning. "The one novel that I've written which was explicitly set in
Oxford was my last one, Blenheim Orchard," he says. "It was the toughest one to write. It should
have been the easiest, because the research was on my doorstep, but actually it was very
difficult. Doing the research is one thing, but then one wants to process it through a screen of
one kind or another." And it's the imagination which powers the novelist's work, he continues.
"In my first book, there's a scene of a ceasarean birth – a completely
unqualified peasant helping a farmer's wife to give birth, and realising she needs to have a
cesarean. It's magic realism, but it's one of the best scenes I've ever written, and I had no
experience of anything like that at all. In a much later book there's a description of a woman
giving birth, which is based on being present at my own first child's birth, and it's not as
good."
Pears was born in 1956, and left school at 16 to become a writer. "Part of leaving school was
that I thought, I'm going to learn more from reading the books in my father's study than I will
from these crappy English teachers at school," he explains. His father, the village priest, tried
to talk him out of it, but agreed in the end that Pears could make his own decisions, as long as
he was prepared to live with the consequences. He spent the next 20 years writing "dreadful"
poetry and working in a succession of temporary jobs – librarian, labourer,
nurse in a mental hospital, pianist's bodyguard, college night porter, mail sorter
– before his first novel was published. "Looking back, it seems like quite a
funky thing to have done, different kinds of menial work, and I am really glad that I did it, but
at the time they were just horrible jobs."
The transition came when a poem about the death of his grandfather metamorphosed into a short
story, set in the vilage where Pears had grown up, and suddenly "this prose tumbled out, instead
of the painful poetry which I'd scratched, line by line. I've never written another poem since."
A clutch of short stories set in the village quickly followed, which in turn mutated into a
novel. At the time he was studying direction at the National Film and Television School and
dreaming of spending half the year making films and the other half writing. In the Place of
Fallen Leaves was published in 1993, just as he graduated. "The novel did really well, got great
reviews," he says. "There were obviously people waiting for the next one. The film ... " he
trails off. His graduation film just "wasn't very good. I didn't have people queueing up to give
me money to make a film." He says he's still in awe of people with the drive and commitment to
take a film from script to distribution, to direct the efforts of hundreds of others and still
maintain something of the personal vision which inspired them in the first place, but his time at
film school cured him of the desire to be one of them.
Five novels later, Pears still revels in the ability to create something with just a pen and some
sheets of paper, and has staked out a territory for his work to explore. "There are two great
arenas for the novel," he says with the confidence of someone who has taught creative writing for
more than a decade: "war and families. Since I have no experience of war, I write about the
battle zone of family life." The dynamics of households, how relationships echo through the
generations and how people respond when they are faced with stark choices are his subconscious
preoccupations: the family is "the strings through which the tunes are played". As a father with
two young children, the tragic relationships between Owen and his three children made Landed
painful to write, but he hasn't thought at all about what his children will make of it when they
come to read it. "Now you've brought it up, I'm kind of devastated," he laughs. "I'll have to
hide all the copies."
Landed went through many drafts before it reached its final form. The cross-country walk that
Owen takes in the second half of the book was the core of the early material –
though at first he had no plans to take the children along for the trip – but
the material in the first half, which throws light on Owen's despair through a series of invented
official documents, was shuffled around from draft to draft. Pears says the technical material,
including the seven-page accident report which boldly opens the book, was carefully managed to
provide background information – according to Pears a little-remarked upon but
very valuable aspect of fiction – while at the same time keeping the reader
wanting to turn the page. "You can never get away from that as a writer ... " he trails off, and
then hurries to contradict his own "glib answer" with the story of a painter called Clifford Pugh
he used to work with on building sites in his 20s. When Pears would tell him about a short story
he'd finished, Pugh would say that he didn't care about the work Pears was doing then; it was the
work he would be doing when he was 50 that counted. "Now that I'm 53, I realise that what he
meant was that it's the process," Pears says. "As you get older, you get more and more engaged
with the process of putting words on paper." The idea that he is thinking at every turn about how
to engage a fickle reader is missing the point.
With six novels published he's prepared to follow the material, to take a few more risks. "So
much of what's on sale is [the type of thing where] the customer wants to know what they're
getting," he says. "That's terrible in art – you shouldn't know what you're
going to get. The whole point is that we're going to have our experience opened up and our
sympathies widened. A book shouldn't be some kind of comfort blanket, where you're going to go
into a world that you've already been to before. I find that very disquieting," he shudders.
"Horrible."
It's an attitude which meant that Landed almost didn't get published. When he showed it to his
editor at Bloomsbury, with whom he had worked closely on each of his five earlier novels, she
"didn't like it".
"When my agent took it and said 'OK, I'll try to send it to other people'," Pears continues, "she
sent it to six or seven publishers, and during this heartstopping week one after another said,
'We quite like it, but we don't want it'. We didn't get any offers apart from the one from
William Heinemann." With the publishing industry in crisis, Pears is acutely conscious of other
writers who are struggling to find publishers, profoundly aware of the luck he has enjoyed since
he left school almost 40 years ago. "What I did, I certainly wouldn't recommend," he says. "I'm
not going to let my son do it, I'll force him to go through university, because I was very, very
lucky. I could easily not have been published. I'd still be painting houses now, and writing the
odd short story, when I could find time, and that wouldn't be a great life."
The U.S. Postal Service temporarily blocked the mailing of a bulk newsletter from anti-gay group
Family Research Institute advocating against the
military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, saying the content was "obscene" and "incited
force-able resistance against the government," KKTV reports:
"Local postal officials sent the newsletter to Washington for review. Wednesday morning, the
United States Postal Service Pricing and Classifications board overruled the local interpretation
that the newsletter violated guidelines for a non-profit bulk mailing rate. FRI will now be
allowed to mail out their newsletter at a non-profit rate, which is 3 cents less than the
standard mailing rate."
Read the content of the mailing (I think it's obscene too, but not for any reasons that would get
it banned from mailing),
AFTER THE JUMP...
****CONTENT OF MAILING FROM ANTI-GAY FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE****
Dear Supporter,
Well, a Democrat is President, and gays-in-the-military is up again for debate! This
month’s newsletter deals with this issue, as do the excerpts of the following Feb. 8 letter
from a Captain to Admiral Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
“This letter is in response to your shocking statement last week that you advocate
homosexuals openly serving in the military services. I seriously question the wisdom of your
position... I am a retired Navy Captain... and... in my more than 31 years of active duty, I
commanded two ships, served as Executive Officer on two ships, commanded Coastal Squadron ONE
(Swift Boats) in Vietnam, and was Chief Staff Officer on an Amphibious Squadron.... I received a
Juris Doctorate from the Hastings College of Law. Like you, I encountered homosexuals throughout
my Navy career and in civilian life. Unlike you, I do not find they are more deserving than
non-homosexuals or that they constitute a viable or necessary body of troops for the defense of
our country.
“My experience is Naval... the best analogy to a ship at sea is a prison.... During my
enlisted service, homosexuals seemed to be a clumsy lot. They had a tendency to repeatedly fall
headfirst down an engine room ladder. Some were even known to trip on deck and “fall”
overboard. The crew had a way of policing themselves to eliminate homosexual advances.... It has
been my experience that if sexual favors are available aboard ship, some enterprising sailor,
petty officer, or officer will find a way to take advantage of the offer. There is usually a
senior/junior relationship in such exchanges and the senior partner will reward the junior with
preferential treatment, such as duty assignments, watches, leave, liberty, and advancement. Such
preferential treatment can’t be hidden from other crewmembers and tends to destroy the
chain of command, discipline and morale. If a Chief Petty Officer, for example, is having sexual
relations with a non-rated sailor, it will have an adverse impact on those petty officers between
the two in the chain of command.... That sexual misconduct in the Navy exists to this day is
obvious. I recall that a lesbian ring was discovered on the USS NORTON SOUND back in the late
60’s or early 70’s. At about the same time my wife, now a retired Navy Commander,...
was aware of many cases of homosexuality involving the WAVES assigned to the Barracks. I also
recall that one of the cruisers returning from the First Gulf War reported 40% of the female
crewmembers were pregnant after a six-month deployment.
“In all my years of service, I never encountered a Commanding Officer who
‘asked’ a subordinate if he was a homosexual.... In regard to
heterosexual behavior, the UCMJ also proscribes common law marriage under the heading of Unlawful
Cohabitation (with or without evidence of sexual intercourse). It sanctions adultery and
prostitution (for both the prostitute and the patron). In the case of an officer, merely
“consorting with a notorious prostitute” constitutes an offense, again even without
evidence of sexual intercourse. The problem is that common law marriage is legal in 11 states and
the District of Columbia. I don’t believe that adultery is a criminal offense in any state
today. And in my home state of Nevada, even prostitution is legal. I don’t recall you
asking Congress to legalize heterosexual sodomy, adultery, prostitution, or common law marriage.
There are many punitive articles in the UCMJ that have no relationship to the satisfactory
performance of military duties, yet you single out homosexuals for preferred treatment. Again, I
must ask ‘why?’
“The argument I hear most often expounded by the homophiles is that the
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy deprives the military of
outstanding young men and women who want nothing more than to defend their country and that they
have the ability to operate a radar, or a gas turbine, or a gun as well as a heterosexual. That
can’t be true.... But, even if it were true, are homosexuals really worth the
administrative problems they would create by their mere existence? The Navy, today, does not
willingly accept GED holders... Minor criminal records are a bar to enlistment. Visible tattoos
and piercings are not permitted. Are these aberrations more damning than sodomy? Is it your
contention that cohabitors, adulterers, prostitutes, young men and women with tattoos, those with
only GEDs, or the obese cannot serve as well as homosexuals? If so, what is your empirical
evidence to support such an argument? If we get to pick and choose which laws we uphold, which
laws are next on the line to ignore? Carnal Knowledge? I would think a service man or woman who
has sex with a minor (Carnal Knowledge) could perform military duties as well, if not better,
than a homosexual. At least we don’t have children in combat, or in the military at large,
for them to accost....
“Have you considered the likelihood that some of the homosexuals will request sex change
procedures... Do you also advocate same-sex marriage or ‘partnerships?’
Will the homosexual’s partner be entitled to dependents’ benefits, including health
care, BAQ, military base access, and commissary and exchange privileges? Will they be entitled to
military housing? Would they be entitled to sex change procedures at government expense?
“While serving as Executive Officer on USS CATAMOUNT (LSD-17) in 1967, one of the Radarmen
was arrested by local police. While inventorying his personal effects a photograph of the sailor
performing fellatio on another male was discovered. The police turned the photo over to the Shore
Patrol, who forwarded it to me. During an investigation it was determined that five of the
ship’s Radarmen were involved in a male prostitution ring. They declared that while in
Radarman Class ‘A’ School at Treasure Island, their instructors
convinced them that they could augment their military pay by providing homosexual services to
gays in San Francisco. They took advantage of the opportunity presented and continued such
activity in San Diego. CATAMOUNT sailed absent several Radarmen and the Class
‘A’ School lost several instructors. Are these otherwise competent
Radarmen the type of sailors you want on your ships? I hope not!
Lawrence R. Jefferis, Captain, U. S. Navy (Ret.), Las Vegas, NV 89117
Hacene a créé son entreprise dénommée Them à Pékin il y a 4 ans. Il
n'y croyait pas trop au départ, et puis...
Il évoque pour nous la vie de sa Web Agency qui travaille à la fois pour des
entreprises chinoises qui veulent s'implanter en Occident et des entreprises occidentales qui
veulent s'implanter en Chine. Il est en quelque sorte, au milieu du gué multiculturel.
Comment est la vie à Pékin ? Où en est l'Internet chinois ? Quid des réseaux
sociaux ? (Facebook est bloqué). Quid de la "neutralité" (les Chinois n'ont pas
conscience que leur Gouvernement bloque des sites).. Them travaille-t-il plus pour des
entreprises occidentales que pour des entreprises chinoises ? Quels sont les secteurs en Chine
qui sont les plus demandeurs des services de Them ? Quid de la mobilité ? (pénurie de
iPhone actuellement). Quid de la monnaie virtuelle (kiukiu) ?
Pourquoi Google quitte la Chine ? La vraie raison selon Hacene. Sont
terribles ces Chinois !
Les Chinois ont d'abord créé des usines qui travaillaient pour des marques
occidentales. Puis ils ont créés leurs propres marques (Lenovo, Haier..)... Maintenant
les usines se mettent à vendre en direct en Occident. Pour l'Internet, selon Hacene il va se
passer la même chose... Beaucoup, beaucoup de startups en Chine... On ne va pas tarder
à les voir arriver... Et il faut aller à China City en mai à
Pékin : la grande conférence entre VC/business angels et startups (conférence
d'ailleurs organisée par un Français..)
Commentaires. J''ai reçu il y a quelques jours un mail d'une startup
chinoise me proposant ses services pour développer mes applications iPhone. Et ce matin j'ai
reçu un autre mail me proposant de devenir concessionnaire de voitures chinoises (Great Wall Motor
Company). J'ai aussi "billautshooté" Frédéric Levy à Manille
(bientôt sur mon blog). Même son de cloche. La roue tourne. Après la Silicon
Valley, c'est en Asie qu'il faudra aller... Cela tombe bien. Les Chinois vont mettre en oeuvre un
TGV mondial de Londres à Singapour en
passant par Pékin...
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"Everyone in the United States today should have access to broadband services supporting a basic
set of applications that include sending and receiving e-mail, downloading Web pages, photos and
video, and using simple video conferencing," opens the chapter of the Federal Communications
Commission's National Broadband Plan titled "Availability."
What would that mean in terms of performance? "An initial universalization target of 4Mbps of
actual download speed and 1Mbps of actual upload speed, with an acceptable quality of service for
interactive applications, would ensure universal access," the NBP says. The document calls this
the "National Broadband Availability Target."
"Everyone in the United States today should have access to broadband services supporting a basic
set of applications that include sending and receiving e-mail, downloading Web pages, photos and
video, and using simple video conferencing," opens the chapter of the Federal Communications
Commission's National Broadband Plan titled "Availability."
What would that mean in terms of performance? "An initial universalization target of 4Mbps of
actual download speed and 1Mbps of actual upload speed, with an acceptable quality of service for
interactive applications, would ensure universal access," the NBP says. The document calls this
the "National Broadband Availability Target."
Google is continuing its quiet war on Microsoft Office by making it easier for users to switch
from Exchange to Google Apps for e-mail. The company has launched a new server-side tool called
Google Apps Migration for
MicrosoftÂ@ Exchange, which not only migrates your company e-mail, but also moves your
calendar and contact info into the cloud.
According to Google's
Enterprise Blog, the migration is only four steps long and works quickly to bring in the
information that you choose. There's even the option to import the data in phases, which makes
life easier if there's too much to bring in at any one time. The tool works with both hosted and
on-premise Microsoft Exchange 2003 or 2007 and is free to those who already subscribe to Google
Apps Premier and Education edition.
The announcement comes less than two weeks after Google announced its
acquisition of DocVerse, a company that allowed Microsoft Office users to edit their
documents collaboratively on the Web. Both companies said that they had a "shared vision" for
enabling Office users to edit documents online, and Google is undoubtedly planning to integrate
DocVerse's features into Google Docs. With its Exchange migration tool and the acquisition of
DocVerse, Google is definitely treading on Microsoft's territory and trying to make it even
harder for small businesses to resist "going Google."
Earlier today, FTC commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour cited Google Buzz’s
“irresponsible conduct” at launch as an example of how companies are being too
careless with consumer privacy and online data.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the remarks were made at a public
roundtable on privacy-related matters hosted by the FTC, where Harbour made
it clear that the FTC can and will take an active interest in protecting consumer privacy.
“The Commission will unfailingly step in to protect consumers where we believe the law has
been violated, and that includes violations relating to privacy promises,” she said.
The commissioner’s remarks echo the sentiments of researcher Danah Boyd during her SXSW keynote, and the infuriated Gmail users who felt
exposed when they were involuntarily following or being followed by their frequent e-mail
contacts per the algorithm of Google Buzz’s original auto-follow feature.
Google has since made major
tweaks to Buzz, but Harbour believes the misfire is a symptom of a greater problem. She says:
“This is turning into a dangerous game of ‘copycat’ behavior
… Unlike a lot of tech products, consumer privacy cannot be run in beta.”
Obviously Harbour’s strong words were directed beyond Google and could apply to all
Internet companies that store personally identifiable information on consumers and their online
behaviors. As users we tend to forget about the implications of our online actions and naively
place our trust in the cloud by storing information, files and communication online. Hopefully
the FTC’s agenda around privacy will help to ensure that our trust is not abused in the
future.
Since the UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra motion comic series was released on the PlayStation Store
late last year, we’ve gotten a ton of questions asking if the Rika Raja and Daniel Pinkerton
multiplayer skins – which were made available in Europe as part of a bundle – would soon be available to our
community in the US and other parts of North America.
We can let you know today that the answer is YES!
When the PlayStation Store updates on Thursday, April 1 (we’re not joking), the UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra
Bundle will be available for purchase for $2.49.
What if you have already purchased all or some of Eye of Indra Episodes 2, 3, and 4? Fear not, we
have you covered.
Here’s what’s going to happen:
On Thursday, April 1, UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra Episodes 2, 3, and 4 will be TEMPORARILY
removed from the Store
ANYONE who purchased ALL THREE Episodes (#2, 3, and 4) prior to 12:01 AM, April 1, will
receive an e-mail on April 8 containing a PSN voucher code good for the FREE download of the
UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra Bundle INCLUDING the Rika and Pinkerton multiplayer skins.
*IMPORTANT NOTE: In order to receive the email with your voucher code, you MUST make sure that
your PSN account has a valid and working email address associated with your PSN ID. You must
also make sure that you have the option to receive marketing communications checked.
If you want the Rika and Pinkerton skins and have NOT purchased all 3 individual episodes
yet, you MUST do so before all the episodes are temporarily removed on April 1.
Starting April 1, the ONLY way to receive the Rika and Pinkerton skins is to purchase the
UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra Bundle. Buying individual episodes after this date will not make you
eligible to receive the voucher code for the Bundle and skins.
The individual episodes will return to the Store on April 15 for $0.99 each.
We have one last bit of good news – the UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra
Bundle will also be released on April 1 in Canada and Mexico, via your local PlayStation Store.
We’re really excited to finally be able to share the Rika Raja and Daniel Pinkerton skins
with our fans in North America. Many thanks are also in order to SCEA for putting in all the extra
effort to make sure everyone who have already purchased all of the Eye of Indra episodes will
receive the Rika and Pinkerton skins!
Let us know if you have any questions in the comments below and we’ll do our best to answer
as many of them as we can with as little bold text as possible.
Demander à un fan d'écrire une chronique sur l'album de « son » dernier
groupe, c'est un peu comme demander à un Italien de dire qu'il n'aime pas les pâtes.
Même si c'est le cas, il ne vous l'avouera jamais. A moins qu'on ne vienne vous envoyer un
mail avec comme objet « Défi ». Sur ce coup-là, j'ai l'impression de
m'être faite avoir. Faut que je perde l'esprit de compétition musicale, moi. Ou
pas...
Arid, groupe gantois, révélé en 1999 avec Little things of Venom,
nous revient avec son quatrième opus, deux ans après un All things come in to
waves qui m'avait laissée totalement accro.
Je vous plante le contexte : samedi 27 février, je cours ventre à terre chez mon
disquaire préféré, limite second chez-moi depuis près de quinze ans.
L'album est là ! Le pire, c'est je sais pertinemment bien que je ne saurai pas
l'écouter avant le lendemain pour cause de planning chargé. Ouais, tu parles !
Lorsque je rentre enfin dans mon « Home Sweet Home », il est trois heures du mat' et
je ne résiste pas. Résultat : le soleil pointe à l'horizon et je l'ai
déjà passé trois fois. C'est vous dire.
A la première écoute, je n'ai évidemment pas pu m'empêcher, comme bon
nombre de fans, de rapprocher Something brighter du son de Keane. De la
même façon, Lock and chain aurait tout aussi bien pu être chanté par le
regretté Jeff Buckley. D'autres bonnes surprises ne demandent qu'à
être découvertes : si Custom gold et son entraînante rythmique
donnant envie de taper du pied, la mélodie de All that's here is all that's left
devrait rentrer sans problème en tête tant musique et voix sont en harmonie l'une
avec l'autre.
La seule inquiétude, c'est que si Come on, premier single, est un très bon
morceau, il ne reflète pas forcément l'esprit musical général de
l'album. Un novice d'Arid qui entendrait le morceau risquerait donc d'être fort surpris de
découvrir les autres pistes dès la première écoute.
La plus belle surprise est sans aucun conteste la plage qui clôture l'album, petit bijou
musical comme je les aime : on commence léger, juste le synthé et la voix de Jasper
Steverlinck et puis la mélodie va crescendo, rejointe d'abord par la batterie de Steven
Van Havere et ensuite par la guitare de David Du Pré. Fan-tas-ti-que. Sincèrement,
à la première écoute, j'en ai chialé de bonheur. Parce que
c'était beau. Et parce que c'était déjà fini. Car là
réside une des faiblesses de cet album : comme son prédécesseur, il est
VRAIMENT trop court. Mais bon, c'est vrai qu'à tout bien considérer, je
préfère passer trente-neuf minutes de bonheur que de me dire que la moitié
des chansons est tout juste bonne à jeter
Donc finalement, l'émancipation (forcée ?) du groupe par rapport à sa maison
de disque après la sortie du second album et la prise en main de sa propre musique lui
réussit plutôt bien. Les choses s'étaient déjà amorcées
lors du précédent album et se confirment ici. Mieux encore, il me semble que le
groupe a évolué mélodiquement encore un peu plus. Il y a fort à
parier que le soutien de Luc Weytjens, producteur-claviériste-ingénieur du son qui
a par le passé travaillé avec Zap Mama et K's
Choice, a dû jouer dans cette évolution. Le fait que le groupe ait
passé pas mal de temps en pré-production en investissant un centre culturel pour
préparer les chansons avant l'enregistrement studio doit également avoir eu une
incidence.
Au final, le titre a beau vouloir dire « Sous les lumières de la rue froide »
(qui perd sacrément de son charme lorsqu'il est traduit), l'album m'a laissée tout
sauf froide. Quand à l'écoute d'un morceau, tu sens un frisson te parcourir
l'échine et atteindre le bout de tes doigts, tu sais que ça touche le
cÅ“ur. Oui, j'aime la voix de Jasper qui jamais ne m'a déçue. Oui,
j'aime entendre les riffs de guitare de David et oui, j'aime taper des mains sur les cuisses au
son de la batterie de Steven. Alors oui, j'aime musicalement ces trois-là et je suis fan
d'Arid. Et tant pis si ça ne plait pas. Que celui qui n'a lui-même jamais
été séduit de la sorte par un groupe me jette Under the cold street
lights à la figure. Amen.
Fox News' Marc Siegel said he believed the findings of a 3-month-old email survey which found
that 46 percent of primary care physicians would consider leaving their profession if health care
reform passes despite the survey's questionable methodology because its findings were similar to
a September 2009 Investor's Business Daily/TIPP poll. However, Fox News previously
acknowledged that the IDB/TIPP poll was also "not scientific," and statistician Nate Silver
stated that the poll was "simply not credible."
Siegel uses "not scientific" IBD/TIPP poll to prop up unscientific Medicus
Firm survey
From the March 17 edition of Fox News' America Live:
MEGYN KELLY (ANCHOR): Well, the health care survey conducted back in December is getting some new
attention today. It shed some light on how some medical professionals feel about the president's
plan to reform the health care system. According to the survey which was conducted by The Medicus
Firm, which is a national physician search firm, almost half of doctors who participated say they
will either be forced to leave or will want to quit the medical profession if this bill actually
passes. Joining us now for a fair debate, Dr. Kathleen London, a family practician, and Dr. Marc
Siegel, a member of our Fox news medical a-team. Good afternoon, doctors.
[...]
So this, we're just being told that actually the New England Journal of Medicine, which was
originally responsible for posting, not publishing, not conducting the survey, but for posting it
on its web site later removed it. It's not a scientific poll, it's a survey, but does it bear any
truth in your experience?
[...]
KELLY: Dr. Siegel, do you accept -- do you agree that this survey probably doesn't represent how
most doctors feel about this overhaul?
DR. MARC SIEGEL: No, Megyn I don't agree. First of all, there were 1,200 physicians that were
surveyed here, and it also reflected what was found in an IBS/TIPP poll that was done
back in September where Investors Business Daily also surveyed over a thousand
physicians.
Siegel was referring to a September 2009 IBD/TIPP
poll which found that 45 percent of practicing physicians would consider leaving their
practice if health care reform were passed.
ButIBD/TIPP poll's
credibility previously refuted by Fox News, Silver
Nate Silver: Poll is "simply not credible." In a September 16
post to his blog FiveThirtyEight.com, Silver listed five reasons why the
IBD
poll should be "completely ignore[d]":
1. The survey was conducted by mail, which is unusual. The only other mail-based poll that I'm
aware of is that conducted by the Columbus Dispatch, which was associated with an
average error of about 7 percentage points -- the highest of any pollster that
we tested.
2. At least one of the questions is blatantly biased: "Do you believe the government can cover 47
million more people and it will cost less money and th quality of care will be better?". Holy
run-on-sentence, Batman? A pollster who asks a question like this one is not intending to be
objective.
3. As we
learned during the Presidntial campaign -- when, among other things, they had
John McCain winning the youth vote 74-22 -- the IBD/TIPP polling operation has
literally no idea what they're doing. I mean, literally none. For example, I don't trust IBD/TIPP
to have competently selected anything resembling a random panel, which is harder to do than you'd
think.
4. They say, somewhat ambiguously: "Responses are still coming in." This is also highly
unorthodox. Professional pollsters generally do not report results before the survey period is
compete.
5. There is virtually no disclosure about methodology. For example, IBD doesn't bother to define
the term "practicing physician", which could mean almost anything. Nor do they explain how their
randomization procedure worked, provide the entire question battery, or anything like that.
Silver added: "There are pollsters out there that have an agenda but are highly competent, and
there are pollsters that are nonpartisan but not particularly skilled. Rarely, however, do you
find the whole package: that special pollster which is both biased and inept.
IBD/TIPP is one of the few exceptions."
Fox News itself acknowledged that the poll is "not scientific." During Neil
Cavuto's discussion of the IBD/TIPP poll on the September 16 edition of Fox
News' Your World, the on-screen graphic indicated that the poll was "not
scientific":
The Medicus Firm's survey was a promotional document for firm, used
unscientific methodology
The Medicus Firm - a medical recruiting firm -- conducted the survey in December
2009. The Medicus Firm, a Dallas- and Atlanta-based firm that recruits and
places physicians in jobs, was responsible for conducting the survey. It issued a
press release about the results on December 17, 2009. A report written by the Medicus Firm
subsequently
appeared in Recruiting Physicians Today, an employment newsletter produced
by Massachusetts Medical Society, "the publishers of the New England Journal of
Medicine." The report also appeared on the NEJM
"CareerCenter" website, but
was taken down on March 17.
Methodology consisted of emailing doctors in the Medicus Firm's database. The
NEJM CareerCenter article indicated that "[t]he survey sample was randomly
selected from a physician database of thousands. The database has been built over the past eight
years by The Medicus Firm (formerly Medicus Partners and The MD Firm) from a variety of sources
including, but not limited to, public directories, purchased lists, practice inquiries, training
programs, and direct mail responses. The survey was conducted via emails sent directly to
physicians."
Survey write-up was essentially a promotional document for the firm. After
discussing the results of its survey, Medicus
touted the importance of physician recruitment firms "[a]fter health reform is passed and
implemented":
What does this mean for physician recruiting? It's difficult to predict with absolute certainty,
but one consequence is inevitable. After health reform is passed and implemented, physicians will
be more in demand than ever before. Shortages could be exacerbated further beyond the predictions
of industry analysts. Therefore, the strongest physician recruiters and firms will be in demand.
Additionally, hospitals and practices may be forced to rely on unprecedented recruitment methods
to attract and retain physicians. "Health reform, even if it's passed in a most diluted form,
could be a game-changer for physician recruitment," said Bob Collins, managing partner of The
Medicus Firm in Texas. "As competitive as the market is now, we may not even be able to
comprehend how challenging it will become after health reform takes effect."
Fox News pushed both dubious survey and poll
Fox pushed Medicus survey, falsely attributed it to New England Journal of
Medicine. Several Fox News personalities highlighted the dubious
survey and falsely attributed it to
the credible New England Journal of Medicine.
Fox ran wild with "not scientific" IBD poll. Numerous
Fox News media figures highlighted
the IBD/TIPP poll, even after Fox News had described it as "not scientific."
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À l'occasion du Salon Linux 2010, Alter Way publie un livre blanc consacré à
Python ! C'est une présentation de haut niveau, très peu technique, dont le but est
de donner un aperçu des domaines d'application.
C'est un PDF de 44 pages qu'on peut télécharger ici :
Ce livre blanc est publié sous licence Creative Commons By SA 3.0. Par contre (et ça
j'y peux rien), il faut fournir une adresse mail pour pouvoir le télécharger.
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It's human nature - we are wired to be averse to change. When something new comes into our
lives, we inherently approach it with caution, and at times, with negativity and hostility; but
if that change is fundamentally good and right, it will gradually become widely accepted. For
startups, especially those in the early stages of existence, changes come frequently and now and
then in large chunks, which can be jarring for users who may have just become accustomed to the
previous version of a product.
So what are startups to do when an updated version of their product or service sets
off a firestorm of hate mail from previously pleased users? Well, for starters, make sure you're
not taking a Borg-like approach by assimilating customers into submission; forcing things on
people never goes over well. Secondly, as 
When a
reader lands on my blog, they’re going to run into a lot of people.
Die Mail-Suchmaschine Xobni gibt es jetzt
auch als App für Blackberry-Smartphones.
Earlier today, FTC commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour cited Google Buzz’s
“irresponsible conduct” at launch as an example of how companies are being too
careless with consumer privacy and online data.
Recommandations
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