What do Hiring Managers Want to See in a Cover Letter? Trademark Infringement and Dilution. From : Donald Snadek Date : Wednesday 14 March 2012 3.23pm To : David Thorne Subject : Trademark Infringement Dear Mr. Thorne: Your use of our Penguin mark on the book’s cover and your website is an infringement of our trademark. Our parent company, Pearson plc, and our affiliate, Penguin Books Limited, which is the registered owner of the mark, demand that we strictly enforce our trademark rights.
We therefore must insist that you immediately remove all images of the book’s cover from the Internet, and that you also immediately cease selling copies of the book with that cover. Dear Donald, I have received your email in regards to the infringement of Penguin’s trademark. Please see the attached letter. From : David Thorne Date : Wednesday 28 March 2012 2.14pm To : Donald Snadek Subject : The big letter Thank you for your message. Yes, the version of the letter I received was predominately in English.
Yes, a cat instead of a penguin would be acceptable. What if a penguin is riding the cat? 30 Fake Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavors You Want To Try. Advertisement We’ve all seen the fake Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors every now and then floating around the Internet, but I wanted to create a whole big delicious collection of them to share with you. After all, today it’s supposed to be the hottest day for this date in Atlanta since 1987, so it’s a perfect day for ice cream around here. When I started researching it, I found that there are dozens of fake flavors out there which were designed by some very talented and creative artists, but I just selected 30 to share with you here.
These are all flavors I’d try in nano-second. I have a confession to make though. I’ll just finish the Cherry Garcia I have in front of me, and then I’ll stop… Too bad you aren’t here because I’d share. Image Credits: [Next Movie] [Uproxx] [Huffington Post] [ROFL Razzi] [Panic Basket] [Inspire First] [Dessert Wiki] AGR tells employers ‘break down barriers for disadvantaged grads’ Talented candidates from certain social groups often ‘ unintentionally overlooked' Employer body the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has urged employers to revise hiring criteria as current methods exclude graduates from disadvantaged social backgrounds. Research from AGR and the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) revealed that employers are “unknowingly and unintentionally” putting up common barriers that stymie social mobility and overlook talented individuals.
These barriers include job offers based on degree classification and experience gained through unpaid internships rather than a candidate’s ability to do the job on an equal basis. Further results from this work showed that employers who lead the way in fair and transparent recruitment “are seeing clear business benefits including opening up a larger talent pool, increasing the skills base and more accurately reflecting the diversity of their customers and clients. ‘Hit and run’ driver suspended from job after mocking tweet. Employee regrets tweet as employer considers disciplinary action A worker who tweeted that she had hit a cyclist with her car including the hashtag ‘bloody cyclist’ has been suspended from her job.
Emma Way, a trainee accountant at Larking Gowen, was suspended after she announced on Twitter that she had knocked a cyclist off his bike and driven away, as well as suggesting she had done nothing wrong. “Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier – I have right of way he doesn’t even pay road tax! #bloodycyclist,” she tweeted. However, neither her employer nor the police were impressed by her attitude. Norwich Police contacted her on Twitter telling her to hand herself in. Her employers have also released a statement distancing themselves from her actions. "We are taking the incidents very seriously, and a full and detailed investigation will be carried out and appropriate action taken. Engagement levels rising in Europe, finds study. But UK scores still lagging behind regional average Employee engagement in Europe is rising slowly despite the region’s continuing economic difficulties, new research has shown.
Overall, engagement levels grew to 57 per cent in 2012, from 52 per cent in 2011 and 51 per cent in 2010, according to a study from consultancy firm Aon Hewitt. The top five drivers of engagement were found to be: career opportunities, organisational reputation, pay, work processes and innovation – factors which all registered improved scores in 2012. The areas recording the greatest increases were effective communication and brand alignment (both +10 per cent), followed by recognition (+9 per cent) and career opportunities (+8 per cent).
Meanwhile, engagement levels in the UK continued to lag behind the European average. The study found that levels here had stabilised at 47 per cent, having fallen from 52 per cent to 47 per cent between 2010 and 2011. Cross-border employment contracts should be multilingual. Belgian restrictions on which language should be used limits EU workers’ freedom of movement, says CJEU In Anton Las v PSA Antwerp NV the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decided a case involving the application of a Belgian law to cross-border employment contracts. Facts The company in this case operated in a Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. It was part of a multinational group whose registered office was in Singapore. Las, who was Dutch and resident in the Netherlands, was employed by the company to work primarily in Belgium as its chief financial officer. His employment contract was drafted in English.
No translation was ever provided. Belgian law required employment contracts, for those businesses operating in the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, to be drafted in Dutch. When Las was dismissed, he argued that his contract was null and void because it was not drafted in Dutch and that he was due a larger termination payment than that provided for under his contract. Student Money News - Save the Student. Kirk McDonald: Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You. Futures studies. Moore's law is an example of futures studies; it is a statistical collection of past and present trends with the goal of accurately extrapolating future trends. Futures studies (also called futurology and futurism) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history.
In the same way that history studies the past, futures studies considers the future. Futures studies (colloquially called "futures" by many of the field's practitioners) seeks to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change. Overview[edit] Futures studies is an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday's and today's changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies and opinions with respect to tomorrow. Methodologies[edit] The Straight Dope - Fighting Ignorance Since 1973. The Queen’s Speech. Henry Molaison: the amnesiac we'll never forget | Science | The Observer. In 1953, a young man named Henry Gustav Molaison, of Hartford, Connecticut, lost his memory and helped to invent neuroscience.
Henry Molaison's amnesia was the result of a highly risky "psychosurgical" procedure, an operation designed to cure the debilitating epilepsy he had suffered since childhood. In an attempt to remove the part of the brain that was causing Henry's fits, two holes were drilled in the front of his skull and a portion of his brain, the front half of the hippocampus on both sides, and most of the almond-shaped amygdala, was sucked out.
The procedure, hopeful at best, went badly wrong and Henry, then aged 27, was left with no ability to store or retrieve new experiences. He lived the subsequent 55 years of his life, until his death in 2008, in the permanent present moment. Henry Molaison's tragedy was, however, perhaps also the single most significant advance in understanding the function of memory made in the past century. She offers three, all pointedly emotional. The War of a Wounded Warrior Wife. RSC and Google team up for online Midsummer Night's Dream | Stage. Forget putting a "girdle round about the earth in 40 minutes", the Royal Shakespeare Company will present A Midsummer Night's Dream to a global audience over three days via the magic of the internet.
The RSC has partnered with Google for the project, called Midsummer Night's Dreaming, in which Shakespeare's fanciful play will unfold in real time. The production will use a number of online formats, from live-streaming to written blogs, all shared through the social network Google+ over the Midsummer weekend, from 21 June. It marks the company's second major foray into online drama, following its Twitter take on Romeo and Juliet, Such Tweet Sorrow, in 2010, which saw actors microblogging in character over the course of five weeks.
However, that project, though praised for its intentions, was ridiculed in practice. The Midsummer Night's Dreaming project will reduce the length of engagement required of its audiences, and centre on a day of live events on Sunday 23 June in Stratford-upon-Avon. Three Reasons Why More European Parliament is Good for Europe. The Hidden Job Market is Now Revealed as Source of Best Jobs and Best Talent. «Mais je persiste à penser que la meilleure raison, pour se suicider, c'est la peur de la mort.» A.Nothomb - Blog d'une Tepu. Make Your Extracurricular Activities Pay Off - The Scholarship Coach. I played trumpet in concert bands, pep bands, and orchestras throughout high school and college, including a few summers at a relatively prestigious music camp for high school students. It was at this camp where a guest conductor arranged the band in a way I'd never seen before. Oboes, bassoons, bass clarinets, baritone saxophones, and tubas sat smack in the middle, while the more populous trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and flute sections were consigned to the outsides.
What's more, the conductor dubbed this middle section "Scholarship Row. " After years of conducting collegiate bands, he'd come to learn that there was a shortage of talented musicians taking up these offbeat but crucial horn spots—thereby ensuring that there was a lot more scholarship money out there for an above-average bassoon player than for an above-average trombone player. [See U.S. News's Paying for College guide for tips on financing your education.] 1. However, it's not that simple. 2. 3. Best Advice: Learn to Listen to Your Team. Community college grads out-earn bachelor's degree holders - Feb. 26, 2013. Nearly 30% of Americans with associate's degrees now make more than those with bachelor's degrees, according to Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce NEW YORK (CNNMoney) That's 15% higher than the average starting salary for graduates -- not only from community colleges, but for bachelor's degree holders from four-year universities.
"I have a buddy who got a four-year bachelor's degree in accounting who's making $10 an hour," Omer says. "I'm making two and a-half times more than he is. " Omer, who is 24, is one of many newly minted graduates of community colleges defying history and stereotypes by proving that a bachelor's degree is not, as widely believed, the only ticket to a middle-class income. Nearly 30% of Americans with associate's degrees now make more than those with bachelor's degrees, according to Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.
Related: Colleges find a new way to get grads hired. Kindness is Thriving in Bend, Oregon! | Life Vest Inside. Andy Worcester and Mark Koopman, teachers at High Desert Middle School in Bend, Oregon, have started numerous Kindness Boomerangs within their school! Their 6th period class made THIS VIDEO and showed it to the 750 students within the school. The same class then performed Kindness FreezeMobs for the lunch room! WOW!!! We are blown away, this is phenomenal. Our Life Vest Inside team is SO proud! Read Andy’s full email: Dear Orly, I would like to share with you how your “Kindness Boomerang” video has impacted High Desert Middle School, in Bend, Oregon.
My teaching Partner and I are fortunate enough to work with an incredible group of kids who have embraced this idea, and are running with it. We followed it up today with a Freeze Mob of Kindness during our school lunches. With the help and enthusiasm of our students, we will continue to “throw boomerangs” throughout the year, as more activities are being planned. Sincerely, Andy Worcester, Mark Koopman, and our awesome 6th period class.
Kindness Hero of the Month: Ziwei Mao of Miami, Florida! | Life Vest Inside. A note from Orly Wahba, Founder and President of Life Vest Inside… It’s been one year since Kindness Boomerang first went viral spreading its message of kindness to the hearts of millions across the globe, and igniting the feeling of hope and possibility. I remember the hundreds of emails that would flood my inbox daily from people far and near expressing their gratitude in what the organization stands for. With every email my love for people grew. From a short email with a simple thank you, to a long email filled with a person’s most inner thoughts and hopes – each email, each tweet, each post inspired me, energized me, fueled me to keep pushing forward. To push beyond the fear of making Life Vest Inside not just a hobby but a life choice.
I remember people calling me crazy. Saying, “Orly, you don’t need to answer every youtube comment, email and post! That’s insane!” I remember the very first email that Ziwei Mao, this month’s Kindness Hero, sent my way. We love you, Ziwei! 5 questions to ask before you submit an application | Enternships Blog. For better or for worse, here at Enternships HQ we’re privy to a lot of conversations around The Best Way To Apply For A Job.
In a way, we like to think of ourselves as glorious employment spies, except that we’re rubbish at keeping what we learn secret, and our clothes are more colourful. With this in mind, we wanted to create a question check-list for our candidates, so that you can be sure every application you submit is face-explodingly brilliant. We’re not going to waste your time by reminding you to spell your name correctly, or making sure you’ve actually attached your documents (though, you know, probably do do both of those things). This isn’t about creating an acceptable application. It’s about taking your application into Megazord territory. Which is why the first question you should always ask is ‘Does this application feature the word Megazord?”
5. 4. 3. Go through your cover letter and your CV with a darkened, cruel eye. 2. 1. Lots of people apply for jobs. Working from home - is Marissa Mayer right? | Enternships Blog. So, by now we’re all aware that Marissa Mayer is sticking firm to the belief that working from home is “for layabouts and ovens” (not exact quote), and has banned it across the board at Yahoo.
It’s a move that’s caused both frustration and anger from her staff, but has been lauded by some as exactly what the company needs to get ahead. So is Miss Mayer missing a trick, or simply doing what must be done? The thing about Yahoo is that, currently, it’s not exactly blazing a trail. It’s famously a rather bloated company with an underperforming workforce, fending off a reputation that holds its best days are behind it. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to assume that something has to change, and that the change has to fundamentally shift the ways in which Yahoo go about innovating. So is trying to contain where work happens a good first step to more control? In her official memo to the company, Mayer stated that Now, on the surface, this is not an unfair statement. By Natasha Hodgson. Why You Should Work From a Coffee Shop, Even When You Have an Office. NUS ‘I Am The Change’ and Courtney Giles win the final round with Surrey County Council.
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