plus 3, JobThread Partners with Foreign Policy to Expand Targeted Job Ad ... - YAHOO! |
- JobThread Partners with Foreign Policy to Expand Targeted Job Ad ... - YAHOO!
- The long road home: GM workers keep their jobs but there's a catch ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune
- A's reliever Devine is a man who deserves a break - San Francisco Chronicle
- Army Alcoholics: More Soldiers Hitting the Bottle - ABC News
| JobThread Partners with Foreign Policy to Expand Targeted Job Ad ... - YAHOO! Posted: 22 Feb 2010 06:54 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. JobThread, a targeted ad network for jobs, announced today that it has added ForeignPolicy.com to its ad network of more than seventy-five niche publishing web sites. The Foreign Policy Job Board posts jobs of specific interest to professionals in political and global affairs, and those with experience in international development, economic policy, government relations, consulting and education. New York, NY (Vocus) February 22, 2010 -- JobThread, a targeted ad network for jobs, announced today that it has added ForeignPolicy.com to its ad network of more than seventy-five niche publishing web sites. The Foreign Policy Job Board posts jobs of specific interest to professionals in political and global affairs, and those with experience in international development, economic policy, government relations, consulting and education. Employers include the US and foreign governments, NGO's, universities and IT and management consulting firms, recruiting for positions at all career levels. JobThread has applied its targeted model to Foreign Policy, which allows employers to reach passive and active job seekers based on their behavior, skills, interests and location, delivering ads alongside contextually relevant content. "The Foreign Policy Job Board is a feature that creates additional value for our more than one million monthly unique visitors," said Amer Yaqub, Publisher of Foreign Policy. "We are very pleased to be able to offer this service to our audience because the jobs are specifically tailored to their career interests." "The Foreign Policy Job Board will save readers time as they pursue new career opportunities because it only lists jobs that are appropriate for their interests. We further enable readers to identify jobs based on their geographic location and experience level, so they can narrow their search for positions that meet their criteria," said Jason Wies, CEO of JobThread. "Job-seekers who are looking for roles as economists or policy analysts, or positions in international business and economic development will find the Foreign Policy Job Board to be a very valuable tool in their search efforts." About Foreign Policy About JobThread Contact: ### JobThread Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| The long road home: GM workers keep their jobs but there's a catch ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted: 22 Feb 2010 06:12 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. With Dohner gone, his wife, Jane, has become skilled at everything from repairing water tanks to installing furnace filters. Her day starts at 4:45 a.m., when she and the kids feed the dogs, rabbits, cows, chickens and horses. The two boys take care of their dad's snow plow business. Dohner still keeps up his duties as chair of the tiny township (population 800), using vacation days to attend monthly meetings. On Sundays, Jane gives her husband spaghetti casseroles, brownies and other dishes for the week, and waves goodbye. It's much easier than last summer. She sat on the front porch and cried the first time he left. "You can't think of five years," she says. "I think I can't do it for so long. ... I just texted him Thursday night and said, 'This stinks.'" But there seems no good solution. "We built this place and worked so hard to get it to where it is, so do you want to leave?" she says, glancing outside at the tranquil snow-covered countryside where the dogs frolic and horses graze. "But some days," she says, "I think we should have all gone as a family." ___ Steve Kerl now knows about the rodeo, the Texas Rangers and traffic jams — all part of his new surroundings. He works at the GM plant in Arlington, Texas. His home remains in Janesville, about 1,000 miles away, making it impossible to return more than a handful of times in the past year, though his wife, Kristy, and two children have visited. When Kerl first drove down last March with his wife, they talked several times about turning around. He forged on, but his wife didn't like what she saw, so she returned home. If it's any comfort, Kerl can look around the factory floor and see others who've picked up stakes, coming from Michigan, Tennessee, Missouri — and, of course, Wisconsin. Kerl says he transferred to Texas because it was the only option then and auto jobs were fast disappearing. "I figured it would be better being on the inside looking out rather than the outside looking in," he says. He wishes he could see his daughter's cheerleader activities and would have liked to have taken his son to college. "He's only going to be a freshman once," he says. And yet, he's reluctant to gripe about his life. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| A's reliever Devine is a man who deserves a break - San Francisco Chronicle Posted: 22 Feb 2010 05:57 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. But no, Devine didn't even consider it, if you believe him to be an honest and forthright fellow, because he has had plenty of experience as the guy who always draws seven-deuce. He was going to be the A's closer last year, then his arm blew and he got to have Tommy John surgery while Bailey came from the far suburbs of nowhere to win the closer's job and the American League Rookie of the Year award. "No, I never really thought about that," he said with a laugh when asked if he'd even given any thought to putting thought to foot. "I've learned a lot about myself through my career, and I've learned a lot about the game. This is part of it. He came on, made the best of his opportunity and it's great for him." Devine is by his count "a good three or four weeks ahead of schedule" to take his place in the surprisingly deep Oakland bullpen, but not as the closer. In fact, he's probably sitting as the third right-hander behind Michael Wuertz and Brad Ziegler, even though "I want to be a closer, I have a closer's mentality, and it's my goal to get there someday. I'm ready if the chance happens for me." So far, though, the only chance Devine has gotten has been to feel the back of the game's chain-mailed hand. He has had a hip flexor and a back problem, he has had two successful grievances against his former team, Atlanta, to win his rightful pay, and his big moment on the field was a walk-off series-ending homer allowed to Houston's Chris Burke in the 18th inning of the fourth game of the 2005 National League Division Series. In his eighth game in the majors. At age 22. So never mind kicking Bailey's seater - Devine should be aiming for the deity in charge of being gratuitously mean to baseball players. But again, no can do. "Oh, I wouldn't change a thing, not even that," the almost disturbingly chipper right-hander said. "The injuries, the rehabs, all of it. It's made me the person I am. I've had my down moments, I wondered a few times why me, but I owe my brother Matt thanks for telling me not to be such a (whiner). So I finally just said, 'Screw it. I'm not going to worry about it.' " So he doesn't worry about it. Unless bad luck decides to make a spot inspection this spring, he will resume the search for his big break without giving in to the urge to give Bailey a Nike hello. At least we think he'll resist the urge. The man is only human. E-mail Ray Ratto at rratto@sfchronicle.com. This article appeared on page B - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Army Alcoholics: More Soldiers Hitting the Bottle - ABC News Posted: 22 Feb 2010 06:47 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. After Army Sgt. Edison Bayas' car finally came to a rest on its roof, his jumbled, drunken thoughts immediately turned to the men he left in Iraq, as if he was still on the battlefield. But he wasn't in Iraq. He was in an El Paso intersection with a blood alcohol content more than three times the legal limit, his 19-year-old victim nearly decapitated in her car a few feet away. Bayas, a decorated career soldier, is now serving a 15-year-prison sentence for intoxication manslaughter. He's just one of thousands of soldiers whose problems with alcohol spun out of control in the midst of two wars, mounting pressure and a continuing stigma that macho guys don't get help. After years of increasing alcohol abuse within their ranks, soldiers are now seeking treatment in record numbers, according to new figures put out by the Army. Nearly 9,200 soldiers sought treatment for alcohol abuse in 2009, a 56 percent increase since the war in Iraq started. Another 11,892 were required to undergo "alcohol education" -- a 16 to 20 hour course for soldiers who were disciplined for an alcohol-related incident, but not found to have an actual abuse problem. "There has always been a healthy work-hard, play-hard ethos to the military," Tom Tarantino, legislative director for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association, told ABCNews.com. "It can turn very quickly over from being recreational to a problem." Drinking with Army buddies is a legacy that goes back likely as long as the Army itself. But as military brass worries over increases in substance abuse, suicides and mental health issues in its active-duty service members and veterans, alcohol use has come to be seen as a serious problem, rather than a rite of passage. Army officials say 85 percent of the soldiers who seek outpatient substance abuse treatment are there because of alcohol. The Army is now in the midst of a nationwide search for additional counselors in an effort to reduce the wait time for help from days down to hours. There is currently one counselor for every 2,000 soldiers. But is it too little too late? Maybe, some soldiers and veterans say. "I don't necessarily think they pay enough attention until it's too late," said Brian, a three-tour Fort Hood area soldier who did not want his last name used. More than two years sober and on temporary disability from the Army with traumatic brain injury and other extensive combat-related medical problems, Brian said it was the realization that his career in the military was over that prompted him to get treatment. "I realized I wasn't ever going to have a job that was going to enable me to drink like in the military," Brian said.
Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Add Images to any RSS Feed To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
No comments:
Post a Comment