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"For many Americans looking for work, the first stop is an online job board. Now job seekers are finding that prospective employers increasingly are looking elsewhere to find new hires—the companies’ own Web sites. To draw more applicants to their sites, companies such as software makers Intuit Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. are revamping their online career pages, including making them more interactive by adding videos and employee profiles. Companies also are trying to reach job seekers through social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Sodexo Inc., which provides food services to institutions, offers online “widgets” at its Web site, which send alerts to job hunters’ computer screens when the company has new openings. Companies say they are scaling back advertising on online job boards, which saves them money. By focusing more on their own career pages, companies also reduce the number of applications they need to sift through. And, they say, people applying through a prospective employer’s own Web site are on average better-qualified than applicants coming through job boards." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

I found my current job as a community manager with eduify.com on cragislist.com. I have tried to find a place to live on craigslist without the same success (2 people have tried and failed to scam me). Thanks for this valuable info RAPatton! - .Garin Kilpatrick.

"Second Hand Food and Drinks" - RAPatton

"Katharine Weymouth, the relatively new publisher of The Washington Post, is a lawyer who worked for the company for 12 years and was educated at the Harvard School of Business, so she is hardly a naïf in running a business. But she has never worked in a newsroom, a gap in her résumé that may have contributed to her current problems. As first reported in Politico, The Washington Post had sent out a brochure offering sponsorships — a fee of $25,000 for one, or $250,000 for an entire series — for an exclusive “Washington Post salon” at Ms. Weymouth’s home in which officials from Congress and the administration, lobbyists and, yes, the paper’s own reporters could have a quiet, off-the-record dinner, discussions to be led by Marcus Brauchli, the newspaper’s editor. Theoretically, you can’t buy Washington Post reporters, but you can rent them. I guess it sounded like a good idea at the time. Access, and its very close cousin, influence, define the Beltway. Millions of dollars are spent on having the right lobbyists, flacks and lawyers so that you can end up in a room with people who control your destiny." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

"The absence of a credible explanation, compounded a grievous wound to an important newspaper. The whole episode suggests a misreading of history that has been well covered by the paper but also, and perhaps worse, a tin ear to newsroom dynamics. Let’s put this in context: Ms. Weymouth is confronted with the same crisis as every publisher in the country. The Web has robbed newspapers of... more... - RAPatton

An evening in the Arena District & Short North, culminating with fireworks. I think the fireworks shots aren't too bad. - RAPatton

"At 28, Paloma has a successful career in the City, which often keeps her at her desk from 7am until 11pm; the toll on her social life can be heavy and means she has limited time to dedicate to forging a meaningful relationship. But not having a boyfriend, she insists, shouldn't mean having to forfeit her sex life: "I've always had a strong libido," she says, "and with a high-powered job to contend with, I find sex is an amazing way to unwind." Not that she isn't interested in finding a partner in the long term. On the contrary. Getting married and having children is a priority. Paloma's own parents have been married for 29 years, and the secret of their relationship, she says, is that they both waited until they found the right person. "Many women get involved in unsatisfactory relationships just because they believe that any companionship is better than none. But that is not what I want for myself. I want to wait until I meet the right man, and when I do, I'll concentrate my efforts... more... - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

It's nice to know that Eyes Wide Shut was not entirely made-up. - Gabe

"The first visitors allowed into the Statue of Liberty's crown in nearly eight years began the arduous climb today on an Independence Day journey laden with symbolism of freedom and national pride. "I feel like I was just born today," said Andrea Balfour, 38, as she prepared to ascend the 354 steps with her daughter, Mona. Mona won an essay contest to get to go up to crown Saturday -- her 13th birthday. The visit was the Staten Island pair's "biggest dream," Balfour said. The statue was closed to the public after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The base, pedestal and outdoor observation deck were reopened in 2004, but the crown remained off-limits. The National Park Service says the crown remained closed since Sept. 11 because the narrow, double-helix staircases could not be safely evacuated in an emergency and didn't comply with fire and building codes. Tourists often suffered heat exhaustion, shortness of breath, panic attacks, claustrophobia and fear of heights, spokesman Darren Boch said." - RAPatton

"The statue, 305 feet tall to the tip of its raised torch, was designed to mark the 1876 centennial of the Declaration of Independence. It faces the entrance to New York Harbor, welcoming the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free," in the words of Emma Lazarus, engraved on a bronze plaque inside the statue. The torch has been closed since it was damaged by a saboteur's bomb in 1916.... more... - RAPatton

Happy 4th? - Brian Sullivan

It was pretty cool; I was on my way home, just about to dip in the creek valley before my street and then they crawled right above my house. They were so low, just hugging the terrain, as if trying to avoid radar. My son said it was like an earthquake. - RAPatton

10 AM Automatic by Akron's own Black Keys - RAPatton via iPhone

Careful, she's gonna eat ya - Michael W. May

"Christy Turlington, the yoga-loving mother of two and former catwalk star, has demonstrated the continuing staying power of the former ‘supermodels’ in her newest venture in front of the camera. Ms Turlington, who turned 40 earlier this year, is the star of the new autumn/winter 09/10 advertising campaign for Yves Saint Laurent, designed by Stefano Pilati. She appears, sleek, toned and undeniably grown-up in the campaign, photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Turlington most recently fronted the YSL campaign five years ago. The new photographs have been released in a week which also saw the original ‘waif”, Twiggy, announced as the returning “face” of Olay, more than two decades after she was first photographed for the brand." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

:-)) - Live4Emma (L4S)

Good to see...LOVE her!! :)) - Emma

"The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life -- but its battery isn't one of them. Buyers are finding that the device, introduced two weeks ago, has trouble making it through a workday without a rest stop at the electrical outlet. It's proving to be something of an Achilles' heel on Apple Inc.'s flagship device, more than 1 million of which were sold in the first weekend. Even the company suggests on its website that users disable some of the phone's most vaunted features, including the faster 3G network itself, to keep it from shutting down during the day. Industry officials and outside experts sketched a complex picture of the technical and bureaucratic limits that might explain why, after two years and three generations of the device, the newest iPhone has less stamina than the first." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

They make a third party solution for that. Come armed with a Mophie battery case and you're set. http://www.mophie.com/SearchR... "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Christopher Harley

"They say an elephant never forgets. But apparently Thais have no problem in forgetting the elephant. Though the elephant is the national symbol of Thailand, the country has gone panda-crazy - so crazy that indignant zookeepers have taken the unusual step of painting elephants to look like pandas. The stunt has resulted in panda-monium as the zookeepers try to draw the country's attention back to its neglected giants." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

Poor Elephants!! - Nimabeckie

"For most of the 1960s, Hollywood was the last place you'd go to find the pulse of the pop culture. Movie attendance had reached all-time lows. The studios were crumbling -- most film lots were either up for sale, being rented out or looked like decaying junkyards. The movies were so archaic and out of touch with the times that for a three-year period in the mid-1960s, the Oscars for best picture (supposedly marking the best movies Hollywood could offer) went to a string of cobwebby costume musicals and dramas: "My Fair Lady," "The Sound of Music" and "A Man for All Seasons." The real excitement was over on the Sunset Strip, where an exciting new generation of bands -- the Byrds, the Doors, Love, the Buffalo Springfield and the Mamas and the Papas, just to name a few -- were popping up on practically every block. But in 1969, everything started to change. In that year, between April and December, an amazing swell of groundbreaking films opened in Los Angeles and eventually across the... more... - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

PBBBT!! i LIKE "My Fair Lady" and "The Sound of Music". also, someone needs to check their punctuation at that rag. - Dead Silence

Alex selected a cinnamon role and some hot chocolate; he chose wisely - RAPatton via iPhone

Just wikipedia-ed a "funnel cake" OH. MY. GAWD> - /Users/bryce/

A Funnel Cake is like a supersized beignets - RAPatton via iPod

"Brad Blumenthal — sometimes-home developer, sometimes-actor (you may recall him portraying Jerry Lewis in “Pulp Fiction”) — wanted a cutting-edge house in the Hollywood Hills that fully embraced its skyline views and used them as a design element. He turned to David Thompson, principal of the Los Angeles architecture firm Assembledge, who with partner Kevin Southerland came up with an ambitious plan for the kind of modern home Blumenthal wanted. To see how the house takes advantage of the stunning 180-degree views, including the panorama from the infinity pool that seems to spill off the hillside, keep clicking." - RAPatton

:D - vijay

...but ...there is no spoon. ;) - .LAG liked that

lol =P - Anna Haro

Dips are part of my routine now also; I think they improve my posture - RAPatton via iPhone

"On Monday, the sixth chapter of HABIBI saw completion. Each time I finish a chapter, I print and bind a set of photocopies for easy reference & editing. And I tally the page count, which now reaches exactly 500! Already the stack of photocopies on flimsy paper is catching up with BLANKETS. It’s an important mark in the book’s production. The end of the second act. On to the third and final act - the last three chapters - and fortunately they’re all shorter than the bulky hundred page chapters that filled out the middle of the book. I’ll be leaving on a trip on the fourth of July to visit family in Wisconsin and tinker with some rewrites on the book’s finale. And as noted before, I’ll be in Chicago for the American Library Association’s annual conference giving a talk with Neil Gaiman and Terry Moore about censorship in comics. “My These Novels Certainly Are … GRAPHIC!” Monday, July 13, 1:30 PM at McCormick Place." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

I've read it and loved it; so did Edythe - RAPatton via iPhone

"Though she’s not sure when the film will move forward, actress Alexis Bledel has been told that the script for “Sin City 2” is complete and that this one is going to be a prequel, at least as far as her character is concerned. “Someone told us yesterday that there’s a script,” Bledel’s “Post Grad” co-star Zach Gilford told MTV News during a chat with the pair. “I don’t know what their source was,” added Alexis, “but they said they read the second script. … Apparently, [I’m] back because it’s a prequel. Because [I’m] supposed to die in the first one. But you don’t see it, so maybe she doesn’t.” The prequel part is, most likely, a segment that adapts Frank Miller’s long-rumored-for-the-big-screen “A Dame to Kill For”. Director Robert Rodriguez previously stated that the sequel would blend old “Sin City” stories with all-new yarns by Miller. Since many of the lead characters in the first “Sin City” meet with some unhappy ends, the prequel route may be exactly what is needed to bring back some fan-favorites." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

That would be great if they made another sin city. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Gluten free... almost innocent! - Fossil Huntress

That pizza is crustless, they serve it in a plate, whereas tonight's had a gluten free crust - RAPatton via iPhone

Hai :) - martha

I found out that I had been sleeping with her mother--- all these years her mom has also camped out for tables - RAPatton via iPhone

Mmmmm honey vanilla bean sounds so good. - Michelle Jones

Michelle, it is very good. jeni's uses all organic, localy sourced ingredients and is one of Bon Apetite's top 10 ice cream shops - RAPatton via iPhone

"The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable. World Health Organization head Margaret Chan added that the holding of the meeting in Cancun showed confidence in Mexico, which has been hard hit. The WHO says most H1N1 cases are mild, with many people recovering unaided. As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases of H1N1 a day by the end of the summer. As the peak of the flu season approaches in South America, some areas have declared a public health emergency. El Salvador reported its first death from swine flu, a day after Paraguay reported its first fatality." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

mi sa che disdico il viaggio in scozia di agosto... speriamo che la British rimborsi... - Miketrevis

"Watch our world-exclusive English-language trailer for the lush meta-drama starring Penélope Cruz ... When Pedro Almodóvar's latest debuted at Cannes earlier this year, there was a collective swoon down the Croisette. Only the very hardiest critic could fail to be felled by such a dreamboat of a film. So, smelling salts at the ready because here, for your delectation, is a world-exclusive look at the full-length English language trailer (there's a Spanish version and a 30-second teaser already out there). What are your initial feelings? Apart from it looking drop dead gorgeous, of course. Can you, for instance, figure out what's going on? I was slightly bemused, and I've seen the actual film. To illuminate: it's a flashback-riddled mystery about a blind screenwriter called Harry Caine (Lluís Homar). Some years previously, when he still had his sight and was a director who went by the name of Mateo Blanco, he began a love affair with his leading lady, first-time actor Lena (Cruz). But... more... - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

Goodbye to Joe, Hello to Jake & Ellie and a few card sharks - RAPatton

My youngest niece - RAPatton via iPhone

Thanks, everyone. Like her mother, she seems to be bright, precocious and loquacious - RAPatton via iPhone