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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Report: Arcing power lines caused Utah wildfire


	Essential News from The Associated Press

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Sales consultant | Jobs in Business Development

Details: Home Improvement Retail Network Seeks ?Roll Up Your Sleeves" Salesperson with Entrepreneurial Sales Drive?Bath Fitter is on a mission to make bathroom renovation painless and affordable. We are ?work hard, play hard" home improvement people, committed to making a bathroom renovation easy and enjoyable. Bath Fitter is a $400 million dollar North American retailer that continues to grow rapidly by providing tub, shower and wall components. Our Bath Fitter are used by home owners, major hotels, leading universities and commercial property managers. By using our patented processes, Bath Fitter clients are able to dramatically reduce? the expense and time spent remodeling a bathroom to less than a day compared to? traditional bathroom repair, which is time consuming and costly. ?Our debt free company was founded in 1984 with offices and manufacturing facilities in Montreal, Canada and Nashville, Tennessee as well as 200 retail stores across North America.?DescriptionThe Bath Fitter Sales position is a unique opportunity.? You must be willing to conduct evening appointments three days a week, and during the day on Saturday, at the customer?s home.?? Additional appointments can be generated during day and weekends to greatly maximize your earning opportunities.?Our sales people?s primary responsibility is to acquire and delight our clients.?? A great candidate must be able to manage their time, maximize ten weekly corporate leads provided by corporate, and long term must generate five additional weekly leads through referrals and other self generated devices we equip you with.?? An ideal candidate for this job will love home improvement, have common sense mechanical aptitude, be great with people and love to sell for a firm that is the best in its class.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

EU's Barroso, Netanyahu talk Iran, peace process

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Newly discovered crustacean species named for Bob Marley

Arkansas State University marine biologist and Bob Marley fan Paul Sikkel named the tiny Caribbean blood-feeding parasite?Gnathia marleyi.

By Associated Press / July 11, 2012

A Caribbean fish, known as the French grunt, that is infested with gnathiids is pictured in this handout photo supplied by the National Science Foundation. The late reggae musician Bob Marley has given his name to a species of parasitic crustacean that infests fish in Caribbean coral reefs. The species is now known as Gnathia marleyi.

Elizabeth Brill/National Science Foundation/Reuters

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A tiny blood-sucking parasite that infests fish on Caribbean coral reefs has been named after Jamaican reggae icon Bob?Marley.

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Arkansas State University marine biologist Paul Sikkel discovered the parasite off the U.S. Virgin Islands a decade ago but it was only recently unveiled as "Gnathia marleyi" as an homage to the singer.

Sikkel says he dubbed the tiny crustacean due to his "respect and admiration" for?Marley, who died in 1981.

The National Science Foundation says the creature is a new species within the family of gnathiids, parasites commonly found on coral reefs that are ecologically similar to blood-sucking ticks on land. It infests some fish that inhabit reefs of the shallow eastern Caribbean.

Celebrities such as comedian Stephen Colbert and singer Beyonce have had insects named after them.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Alligator bites off swimming teen's arm in Fla.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/alligator-bites-off-swimming-teens-arm-fla-110250029.html

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The Dirty Suicidal Secret of Facebook

At the core of the dot-com collapse was the problem that folks running a lot of companies simply lacked the key skills necessary to run those firms. Both Google and Facebook are demonstrating behaviors suggesting they too lack critical skills, and unless that is fixed, their initial success will eventually be overshadowed by their catastrophic failures.

The last time we had a major "social networking" type of effort it was with collaboration, and the poster child for the effort was Lotus Notes. It largely failed -- not because the idea wasn't a good one, but because the company fundamentally didn't understand that the market was being made hostile to the concept.

In short, while collaboration technology might have worked prior to the 1980s, changes in how employees were measured and compensated increasingly ensured that it couldn't work in the years following the creation of Notes. Not understanding the human and organizational aspects of collaboration doomed Notes to failure as anything but a complex email platform.

Social networking faces similar challenges in that the firms driving it don't appear to have developed skills in understanding people or advertising -- both of which are critical to the long-term success of the products. Entire classes of ads aren't working, and trends indicate that users are becoming tired of the sites and moving on.

The core problem is failure to understand the mechanism that makes social networking work or the science of advertising.

I'll end with my product of the week: the amazing Tesla S, the car from the company that will likely fail if Obama loses.

Notes Failure

Back to Lotus Notes. Collaboration was a great idea, because the standing belief was that folks wanted to work together and that many, if not most, of the problems in companies were due to lack of internal cooperation and collaboration. This was likely true. However, the solution was created by engineers without collaborating with ethnologists.

What they didn't notice was that over the decade or so prior to the creation of Notes, people had been discouraged from collaborating in the U.S. by policies that came from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which was a misguided attempt to fix discrimination.

What the EEOC drove were policies like forced ranking, currently being blamed as a primary cause for Microsoft's lost decade. Ironically, this practice is now the core of a Microsoft discrimination suite. The policies were designed to treat employees equally but had the unintended consequence of pitting them against each other competitively.

Policies like this provided strong incentives against collaboration and fueled not only sole contributor efforts but behaviors that resulted in increased stealing of credit from others. If you strongly feel the person you are collaborating with will either steal credit or steal your raise, it is unlikely collaboration will be successful -- and that went to the core of Notes' failure.

Don't get me wrong, Notes had other issues -- but if its core strength couldn't be realized, then its core value was false, and it's failure was preordained.

As the owner of Notes, IBM could have driven a smarter employment trend to fix internal measurements (it is currently driving the Smarter Planet initiative), which would have made both Notes and collaboration in general more successful -- but it didn't see the problem. It is this same blindness that plagues firms like Google and Facebook.

Why Google and Facebook Will Fail

Google+ is a joke in social networking, but it could be the canary in the coal mine for Google itself, because it showcases that Google fundamentally doesn't understand how people and advertising work. Engineers generally don't understand people, and behavior is core to both social networking and the advertising that funds it.

Google, at its founding, appeared to believe that ads were somehow evil and tried to distance itself from them even as it built a business that was funded by them. This kind of internal conflict doesn't bode well for Google's long-term success. The firm is in the ad business, like it or not, and yet it seems to be doing everything it can to fund any other business it can think of.

Strangely, most of these new businesses are eventually somehow tied back to ad revenue. For instance, Google's new Nexus 7 tablet is sold at cost with the idea that secondary revenues, including ad revenue, will support it.

Facebook is clearly having major ad problems -- kind of playing out like an episode of "Mad Men" at the moment. Some types of ads are working, but traditional display advertising has failed, and even the types of ads that are working are likely becoming less valuable as the noise on the site increases.

In short, Facebook is dying -- but not due to competition, regulation, or any other external pressure. It is dying because Facebook is slowly, accidentally, committing suicide.

In the end, the problems with Google, Facebook, and social networking appear to come down to developing products that are based on modifying behavior using ads and technology but only developing one of those three internal skills. Neither firm has a deep understanding of how ads or people work, particularly among the critical executives running the companies.

Wrapping Up: Dot-Com Revisited

Lotus, Netscape, Palm, and a host of other firms are no longer with us because of similar failures and not realizing that initial success doesn't lead to long-term survival if you don't develop the skills necessary to ensure your model works.

These firms are hardly alone. We are seeing publishing firms crumble because they thought they were in the content business and never realized, after decades of living off ads, that they were in the ad business all along. If they understood that one simple thing, they'd likely have been able to ride out the current digital storm -- but they didn't. Many more will be gone by the end of the decade.

So, in the end, the lesson here is that whatever your source of revenue and profit are, that is the business you are in, and if you don't understand the core aspects of that business, eventually you will no longer be in it. So the dirty secret, if you haven't figured it out, is that Facebook and Google don't understand either social networking or advertising, which suggests both firms are in for a troubled future.

Product of the Week: The Tesla S

Product of the Week

The future of the electric car industry is tied to Obama, much like alternative energy was tied to President Carter years ago. Right now, the odds look very similar to those surrounding Carter's re-election -- in some ways, Carter was better off than Obama is -- and that doesn't bode well for electrics like the Tesla S.

That is unfortunate, because the Tesla S is an amazing car -- but it still costs too much to survive without government help. I'm a big believer in an electric future, and even though the current gas-based ecosystem and slow charging make electrics useful for only a few of us, for those who can use them, the Tesla S is the best choice by far.

Tesla S

It does 0-60 in an estimated 6.5 seconds, which is good for class, but there is a performance addition that does it in 4.4 seconds, which is supercar fast. It has the appearance of a Lexus, and a 17-inch Nvidia-driven screen that is simply amazing to look at, though it is a bit distracting.

Inside, it is very comfortable for four, unlike a supercar, which is lucky to seat two comfortably. With the federal subsidy, it is under $50K -- less than many luxury cars -- and the performance edition, at $84K, is still far cheaper than the old Tesla roadster, and faster and more useful as well.

Because it is the first electric car I think I could love, the Tesla S is my product of the week.

Source: http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/2128ccae/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C75570A0Bhtml/story01.htm

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Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (Reston, Virginia)

MICROSOFT PREMIER FIELD ENGINEER

Enjoy being where the action is? Then this is the position for you!

The purpose of the Premier Field Engineer (PFE) position is to provide Microsoft customers with reliable technical solutions to the complex integration problems associated with business solutions built on the Microsoft platform. The PFE Team supports a diverse variety of technical solutions built with Microsoft technology and products Typical tasks performed in this role include specific problem isolation and correction, user and kernel mode debugging, conducting application design and supportability reviews, performance tuning, application stability consulting/troubleshooting, code reviews, and porting/migration assistance, configuration management, pre-rollout testing and general development consulting. The prospective PFE candidate should draw upon all resources at Microsoft, to advise and consult on the use of Microsoft technologies to avoid such problems in the future.

Primary responsibilities include providing technical and creative solutions for service delivery by visiting customer problems sites, while ensuring customer satisfaction with Microsoft SQL, Networking, BackOffice and Desktop software. The successful candidate will be capable of performing on-site support of on-going support activities including but not limited to Premier Support, supportability content development, and escalation team support.

The Rapid Response Engineer acts as the customer-visible point of escalation and resolution for Premier Support and provides advanced technical support to corporate customers and end users for complex products, including highly escalated issues. Provides support in-person at the customer?s place of business, as well as via telephone, written correspondence, and electronic media.

Expert level knowledge in at least one of the following areas is required:

Database - SQL 7.0/2000/2005/2008, Troubleshooting, Disaster Recovery, File Replication, Performance Tuning, Security, Day-to-day support/administration

Infrastructure/Management Technologies:

? Superior knowledge and demonstrated technical proficiency in System Center Operations Manager with experience in managing medium to large environments.

? Troubleshoot all aspects of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) effectively and understand the product configuration, flow and logging in detail.

? Understand fully the base Operating System and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs and be able to discuss in detail at least one of the following Management Packs: Active Directory, Exchange, IIS or SQL including configuration, tuning and customization.

? Experience in other Microsoft Management technologies, including Active Directory services (AD), SCCM, System Center Essentials and WSUS is desired.

Messaging ? Exchange 2000/2003/2007, LDAP, OWA, Clustering, ADC, LCS

OS and Directory ? Windows 2000/2003/Vista, Directory Services, Active Directory, AD/AM, MIIS, Dfs, Virtual Server, ADFS

Developer Technologies - .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, Web Services, XML, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WCF, WPF, WWF, InfoPath, Visual Studio.NET

Information Worker and Collaboration ? Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS)/MOSS 2007, Windows SharePoint Server (WSS), Content Manager Server (CMS), Groove, IIS, Office

Enterprise Application Integration ? BizTalk, HIS, Windows Workflow Foundation, Commerce Server

Skills requirements:

-MCSD, MCSE or other applicable advanced certification strongly preferred

-Exceptional customer service, communication, problem solving, and technical writing skills are required

-Must have sufficient technical depth to communicate with development and other internal organizations at a peer level

-Must have the ability to work independently w/ minimal supervision and as part of a team

-Must possess current passport or be able to obtain passport within 90 days of hire

-The position will require travel to customer sites about 30-40%

-US Citizenship

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Source: http://www.microsoft-careers.com/job/Reston-Microsoft-Premier-Field-Engineer-VA-20190/1256385/

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