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Friday, February 8, 2013

Medical Aesthetics ? The New Job Search Weapon? | Personal ...

Right or wrong, looks do matter in the job market of 2013. With 12 million unemployed and over 35 million currently employed people competing for a finite number of jobs (CareerBuilder Employment Survey, Jan 24, 2013) more and more people are turning to medical aesthetics, a branch of medicine that deals with beautification of the body with the help of surgery and/or cosmeceuticals (the combination of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals), in the hopes that it will give them a competitive edge.

In a perfect world each of us would be judged solely on the content of our character and not on how we look on the ?outside.? But obviously, we certainly don?t live in anything even approaching a perfect world, and looks do indeed matter to most people. That is particularly true?and definitely relevant?in the job market, where looks can (and do) influence not only IF you get the job, but also, how well you are likely to fare throughout a career.

The so-called ?beauty premium??the idea that ?pretty? people, whatever their professions or aspirations, tend to do better than the rest of us mere mortals in nearly everything?has long been recognized as an important driving factor for success. Numerous studies have shown this to be true, and one of the more sweeping studies was conducted by Newsweek in 2010, right in the midst of the worst job market in over a generation. (Nothing I?ve seen during the last few years would seem to throw those survey findings into dispute, either.)

Here is just a sample of the Newsweek survey results*:

Fifty-seven percent of hiring managers participating in the survey said that qualified but unattractive candidates should expect to have a harder time landing a job.
More than half of the hiring managers advised job seekers to spend as much time and money on ?making sure they look attractive? as on perfecting a r?sum?.
When asked to rank employee attributes in order of importance, managers placed looks above education. (Of nine character traits measured, looks came in third, with experience being number 1 and confidence being number 2. Education was number 4.)
Handsome men earn, on average, 5?percent more than their less-attractive counterparts (good-looking women earn 4?percent more). Over a career, these handsome men can expect to earn $250,000 more than less attractive men.

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A growing numbers of both men and women are buying into just how important a role appearance (read: ?good looks?) can (and does) play in the workplace these days. Even pre-recession, a 2007 survey of 700 people, conducted by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, nearly 8 out of 10 respondents said ?appearance? is at least somewhat important when it comes to ?getting ahead? in the workplace. And some of them are actually doing (or at least considering doing) something about it.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons . . .

About one in ten women and men say they would consider cosmetic surgery if it made them ?more competitive? at work.
The most common reason cited for career-related ?nips and tucks? is tied to aging.

?First, people will come to me and couch it in different terms,? said Dr. Ellen Mamur, chief of dermatologic and cosmetic surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. ?(They may say) I?m under a lot of stress, I want to look a little fresher.? But then, I?ll hear about age discrimination at work.?

Men are far more likely than women (30 percent versus 14 percent) to say that they are seeking cosmetic surgery solely for ?work purposes,? although dermatologists and plastic surgeons say increasing numbers of women are also citing this reason.

And just look at the booming cosmeceutical market?wrinkle reducers, anti-aging creams, eye creams, ?vitalizers? and the list of profit-making (game changing?) products goes on and on.

Right or wrong, fair or not, one?s appearance obviously is intricately tied in with one?s professional brand, or at least with one?s perceived professional brand?as well as a strong influencer of ultimate success in the workplace. And, since most of us are never going to be mistaken for one of the ?beautiful people? among us, no matter what we do, the best advice would seem to be this: Make sure you look as good as you can when applying for a new job and while you are actually on the job. Whether or not that quest includes medical aesthetics is a call only you can make.

*Survey was conducted in 2010 and included 202 corporate hiring managers, from HR staff levels to senior vice presidents, as well as nearly 1,000 members of the general public.

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Be watching for Skip?s new book in the ?Headhunter? Hiring Secrets series of bestselling job-hunting books and publications, Career Stalled?How to Get Your Career Back in ?High Gear? and Land the Job You Deserve?Your Dream Job! ^TMPublication is scheduled for spring 2013.

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Skip Freeman?is the author of the international bestselling job hunting book ?Headhunter? Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever!?(http://portal.sliderocket.com/BFDSG/Find-Your-Dream-Job)?and is the President and Chief Executive Officer of?The HTW Group (Hire to Win), an Atlanta, GA, Metropolitan Area Executive Search Firm. Specializing in the placement of sales, engineering, manufacturing and R&D professionals, he has developed powerful techniques that help companies hire the best and help the best get hired.

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Historical perspective: How Maine acquired an income tax ...

Just 100 years ago the nation ratified one of the most far-reaching amendments to the Constitution: the 16th Amendment authorizing a federal income tax. Proposed by Congress in 1909, it won approval by three fourths of the states over a four-year period that ended in February 1913. The income tax has become so far reaching, the centennial of its enactment is an occasion that deserves a look at what it has meant to Maine.

Maine?s income tax has generated much public discussion recently after the 125th Legislature voted to lower income taxes. And the watchdog Tax Foundation on Wednesday said its analysis of the governor?s proposed 2014-15 biennial budget shows that if the governor doesn?t adjust income tax rates to inflation, it will raise average tax rates ?in all cases.? But how did Maine come to have income taxes? The history lends perspective to the debate today.

In Maine, both party political platforms in 1910 gave support to the federal income tax amendment. But when legislators convened a few months later many of them initially had cold feet about voting for ratification. Setting in motion a strange set of events was a nine-to-one vote of the Legislature?s taxation committee to withhold ratification of the federal amendment unless Maine at the same time enacted its own state income tax.

Both a large number of the majority Democrats ? who then controlled both branches of Maine?s Legislature ? along with many of the minority Republicans ? argued that only by a state income tax could Maine guarantee that the revenues raised would stay at home. House Taxation Chair William R. Pattangall, a Waterville Democrat, charged that the western states would rob eastern states, such as Maine, of their tax money in order to install ?irrigation schemes costing millions? and that Maine?s tax money would be sent out West to be ?taken up by speculators who hardly gave us a chance to say goodbye to it.?

Pattangall?s fears about the drain of federal income tax dollars away from Maine have not fortunately in modern times been borne out. The flow of federal dollars into Maine has always exceeded the amount our taxpayers have paid out. The surplus flow back in our direction is attributable in part to Maine?s large number of social security beneficiaries.

In any event, after an extensive debate over the wisdom of the new federal tax, the Maine House turned it down, 82 to 43. It then proceeded to vote for ratifying the federal tax on condition that a state income tax be enacted at the same time.

Surprisingly, the vote was not along either party or typical ideological lines. A number of rural Republicans voted for the tax. Some urban based Democrats voted against it. In a pattern that would repeat itself in future tax votes by the Maine Legislature, those hardest hit by the property tax ? such as farmers and logging contractors ? voted for a state income tax on grounds that such a tax held out the promise of property tax relief. Urban professionals, for whom the prospect of paying a tax on incomes seemed a greater threat, voted against it.

The Maine House vote tying the federal income tax to enactment of a state income tax didn?t last long, however. When the Senate balked, the House reluctantly then went along with ratifying the federal income tax constitutional amendment without tying it to simultaneous imposition of one at the state level. In less than two years, enough other states ? three fourths of the then 48 ? had ratified the amendment so that by February 1913 it became law of the land. Among its first missions was helping to finance World War I.

The question of whether Maine should adopt an income tax would continue to be a feature of Maine legislative debates for decades to come. By 1919, two thirds of the Maine Legislature, by then controlled by the GOP, went so far as to propose a state constitutional amendment, then seen as necessary to enable the state to enact one. When the next year the amendment came up for voter ratification, it failed on a 65,000 to 54,000 vote.

GOP Gov. Frederick Payne pushed for one in 1949 but wound up settling for the state?s first sales tax two years later instead. Our own income tax finally won approval in 1969, and it soon became a mainstay of state revenues. (It was passed by a Republican Legislature and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Kenneth Curtis.) We became the 39th state to adopt such a tax.

What Maine and the rest of the nation did a century ago set the stage then for sweeping change in the entire underpinning of both federal and state governments. After all, it would be hard to imagine our state governments today operating without the federal support to the states made possible by the national income tax. Whether one mourns or celebrates it, however, this year?s federal constitutional income tax centennial is certainly something to observe.

Paul H. Mills is a Farmington attorney known for his analyses and historical understanding of public affairs in Maine He can be reached by email at pmills@myfairpoint.net.

Source: http://bangordailynews.com/2013/02/07/opinion/historical-perspective-how-maine-acquired-an-income-tax/

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Robin Roberts set to return to 'GMA' on Feb. 20

NEW YORK (AP) ? ABC News says Robin Roberts will be back on the job at the "Good Morning America" anchor desk on Feb. 20. Her return will be five months to the day since her bone marrow transplant to treat a rare blood disorder.

Roberts has gotten the all-clear from her doctors, according to the announcement made Thursday on "GMA." She reached the critical 100-day benchmark in December.

In January, she began a series of dry runs at the "GMA" studio to re-acclimate herself to the work routine.

Her last day on "GMA" was Aug. 30 before she started her medical leave.

About a year ago, Roberts began feeling the symptoms of her illness, known as MDS.

She said in a statement: "What a difference a year makes."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/robin-roberts-set-return-gma-feb-20-135303382.html

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Howard Goodall's History of Music review | Arts & Entertainment ...

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Saturday, 26^th?January 2013. 9.30 pm

A?camera, a screen and a piano, those are all the tools a good teacher needs to teach music. Or so the great Howard Goodall thinks anyway. His Story of Music sets out to be another clear BBC Documentary, covering from the Stone Age of Music to Opera?s birth.

There are a million ways of telling the story of music?, as Howard Goodall says, and this complete documentary is certainly his. Perhaps there really is nobody better?to talk about music?than a man who has won awards for his work as a broadcaster and composer of choral music, stage musicals, film and TV scores. He?says at the start that music is a mirror of the time when it was written, so if we know about music, we will know at least half about history.

Howard Goodall drives us on a six-episodes tour?from the beginning of music, in the Stone Age, to the birth of Claudio Monteverdi?s opera, back in the Baroque period. When lyrics and rhythms were hard to remember, Goodall tells us?about the first monks? and nuns? work, which was about writing down several times the same melody just to remember it. We barely have instruments left from that period, every score is missing. Shame on us!

All along the documentary, we learn about the history of music, without even noticing it. The show presents us with a peculiar mix of ancient and up-to-date images which are backed on a current chorus of voices, increasing in number as we move along different important scenes of music.

He does not miss a single detail, summing up centuries in just 60 minutes. Goodall makes travel back in time possible, from Egypt or Greece to Spain or Italy, key places in music?s development. You almost feel like you were there. You really do not have to be into music to enjoy being taught some basics about this big issue. It becomes even easier when he plays the piano, playing some of the most known songs as he explains each discovery in the wide world of music.

Goodall tries to be hip. He contrasts 21^stCentury clips and artists like Bruno Mars or Lady Gaga with the first Christian?s origin songs. He?even makes a stave with some snacks, before sharing who Guido D?Arezzo and Perotin were and how important their contribution has been to musical language.

This graphic documentary supplements Goodall?s speech with amazing images from the environments where music was born: Alhambra?s gardens, the Greek Parthenon, Christian churches, gargoyles. Indeed, it makes you want to travel. It is not just music, which manipulates our emotions, landscapes play their role too.

That lead us to the final part of this BBC masterpiece, the birth of Claudio Monteverdi?s opera, a fusion of music and theatre, one of the most complete genres.?With or without the assumption that we have five episodes left to know everything about music, this documentary ends?letting us know that this little story does not finish here.

Source: http://caledonianblogs.net/aej/2013/02/06/howard-goodalls-history-of-music-review/

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Thursday, February 7, 2013

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Dropbox releases Sync API to application developers

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I think most of us are familiar with Dropbox. Around these parts we not only use it, but we rely on it every day by keeping some essential files in one easy to share place. Easy being the key -- you can get a file from any device with a web browser, or use one of the dedicated applications found on most desktop or mobile platforms. But Dropbox is more than a place to share files with your friends or coworkers, it's a piece of the cloud that's tied to you, where you can store just about any information for safekeeping. That's where today's news comes into play.

Because you can store bits of information in a Dropbox account, it makes a great "footlocker" to store application settings and data. Think of how the Carbon backup app works with Dropbox, or how an app like mSecure can store a database there for easy recall anytime the user is connected. The data is safe, everyone has access to a free Dropbox account, and plenty of folks already have one. With today's news, the folks making those apps now have a new API to help them handle all the syncing from a device to that Dropbox cloud,

Our mission is to let users access their data wherever they are. The Sync API lets Android and iOS developer focus on the core of the app and leave all the complexities of syncing and storage to us

-- Sean Lynch, Dropbox product manager

We spent a few minutes talking with Sean Lynch and Brian Smith from Dropbox, and we talked about the new API and how much it can help developers of mobile apps. As they mentioned, Dropbox's goal is to provide easy access to your data, no matter where you are. With a mobile device, that can be tricky. Imagine uploading or downloading a large file, and during the transfer your train goes underground and you lose your signal. When you hop out and head back up to street level, your phone reconnects and the transfer has to pick up where it left off. With today's new sync API, all this is now handled for the developers. Developers can let their application work with Dropbox as if it were a local file system, and even work offline.

Developers only need to drop the new API library into your app, and it handles all the heavy lifting -- all they need to do is tell it to. With the old API, developers had to keep track of syncing and storage themselves to keep the user from losing data during the transfer. Developers can take more time to focus on the core functionality of their app, and we (the users) benefit. The API has no external dependencies, and nothing will break when the Dropbox app is updated.

If you're a developer, or just the curious type, be sure to head over to the Dropbox site. You'll find documentation, tutorials, and even example apps to point you in the right direction. And when you build that killer new app that uses Dropbox for syncing, be sure to drop us a line -- we'd love to see it.

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