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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Sikh temple holds service week after attack
OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) ? Hundreds of people gathered at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee spoke of redemption, unity and strength during the first Sunday service there since a gunman killed six people before fatally shooting himself.
The service capped a weekend of events meant to honor the victims and restore the temple as a place of worship. While there were still tears and red eyes, many participants said healing was under way.
Visitors removed their shoes outside and filed past portraits of the victims, shuffling down a flower-lined aisle into the main prayer room. They dropped dollar bills in front of a shrine where their holy book sits and bowed for two to three seconds. Then they sat on the floor ?women on the left, men on the right ? their heads covered with scarves, and listened as a priest recited religious hymns in the Hindi dialect of Punjabi.
Those at Sunday's service included Sikhs from as far away as California and about 50 from Cleveland, who chartered a bus to make the eight-hour drive to support their community.
"It's an emotional day but it's getting better," said Justice Khalsa, 41, of Milwaukee, who visits the temple three or four days a week. "I'm smiling and laughing now, but once this group goes away and we're back to our regular schedule, it will be haunting, I'm sure."
The proceedings began in the parking lot with a "nishan sahib," or a ceremony in which participants clean a Sikh flagpole to symbolize the temple's rebirth.
Women sang hymns as a group lowered the pole. About 50 people, mostly men and boys, unwrapped a faded orange cloth that covered the pole, washed the pole with water and milk and then rewrapped it with a darker orange cloth. The group then filed inside the temple for more prayers and hymns.
Wade Michael Page, 40, used a 9 mm pistol to kill six people and would four others, including a police officer, in an ambush that took place shortly before a service was to begin Aug. 5. He shot himself after being wounded by another police officer.
Page, an Army veteran with a record of minor alcohol-related crimes and a spotty employment history, had performed with several bands associated with white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups. Still, investigators say they may never know for certain what prompted his attack.
When relatives gathered to plan Friday's memorial for the six who died, several wanted to include a seventh empty coffin to remember Page.
"It would have sent a message that we have forgiven this man for his actions," said Amardeep Singh, the son of one victim. "We forgave him because otherwise it would have been a thorn in our side for the rest of our lives."
The idea was eventually scuttled, and most at the temple Sunday seemed to content to forget about Page.
"He should not be discussed," Khalsa said. "People like that aren't important. They don't deserve attention. We're concentrating on the people who lost their lives."
Temple officials unveiled a simple but powerful memorial to the victims. While leaders had repaired most of the damage to the temple, they left one dime-sized bullet hole unrepaired. Beneath it they installed a small gold plate engraved with "We Are One. 8-5-12"
The hole, a door jamb near the main prayer room, is meant to remind visitors of the victims: the temple president, three priests and two worshippers, as well as a police officer and three others who were injured.
It was in their memory that Amarjit Singh Kang, 48, organized the charter bus from Cleveland. He said attendees didn't think twice about whether to make the trip.
"It's important we all be together," he said.
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Online:
Sikh Temple of Wisconsin: http://www.sikhtempleofwisconsin.com
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Dinesh Ramde can be reached at dramde(at)ap.org.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sikh-temple-holds-1st-sunday-since-attack-151322806.html
8 Ways To Brand Yourself As A SME | Business 2 Community
(even if you?re a Generalist)
As I discussed in earlier articles, branding yourself as a generalist doesn?t work in today?s search driven market of job shortages and mass competition.
So what should you do if you?re a generalist?
If your career consists of wearing many hats, you run into special job search problems today. Fortunately there are a number of ways to brand yourself as a subject matter expert, even if you?re a generalist.
Here?s 8 ways to brand yourself as a SME:
- Self-perception: Part of it just comes down to your own self-perception. If you perceive yourself as a generalist, it will be difficult to convince a hiring manager of your subject matter expertise. Choose a few of the things you do better than anyone else, assuming they are marketable (I?m not sure there are many jobs that demand expertise in burping the alphabet), these are your subject matter expertises.
- Focus: You don?t have to explain every moment you were at work ? your resume isn?t a time card. Instead, focus on the specific things included in your work that relate to your subject matter expertise. You can include the hundreds of other things you did at points of your resume that get less reader attention.
- Selectivity: Choose 2-3 subject matter expertises, not 10+. Not even The Most Interesting Man In The World is an expert at 10 different things. He was an SME of just a few things at a time ? over a very long time (He once ran a marathon because it was on his way home). Stay thirsty, my friends ?
- Selectivity, part 2: Consider leaving items off your resume that don?t support the subject matter expertise you chose. So if you?re a subject matter expert in call centers, do you think it will help your branding by including the details of your first job out of college, selling copiers door-to-door? Listing the position makes sense, but listing the details shows that you put similar emphasis on that first job as your most recent job, 20 years later and 4 management levels higher. It just doesn?t make sense, yet many job seekers just don?t know a better way.
- Emphasis: Emphasize the specific achievements that support your subject matter expertise. De-emphasize (or leave off completely) the other tasks involved with your job that don?t relate to the SME you?re focusing on.
- Recency: Choose a subject matter expertise that?s reasonably recent. This doesn?t mean that it has to be your most recent job, but you?ll have a tough time convincing anyone that you?re an expert in something you did 20 years ago. Employers realize that someone who is doing the same job right now will remember far more, will be up to date, and probably won?t require any training or ramp up time. If you?re trying to sell experience you had 20 years ago, you will need to get current on the job function/industry and probably require re-training and ramp-up time ? making you a poor choice from an employers? point of view. For example, I?m a CPA, but you wouldn?t want me to do your taxes ? I haven?t done taxes since the ?80?s.
- Resume Real Estate: If you want to emphasize something further back than your most recent job, you?ll want to use your resume?s real estate to help draw attention to the experience you want the reader to focus on ? and draw attention away from less relevant experience. Readers will naturally give more attention to the largest chunks of your resume. This means to expand the footprint of your most relevant experience, while shrinking the footprint of your less relevant experience. Most candidates don?t write their resumes this way, giving the largest amount of real estate to recent work, whether relevant to the reader ? or not.
- Consistency: Make sure that the branding you choose for your resume is consistent with the branding you choose for your social media profiles. This means that if you?re a subject matter expert in tiddlywinks on your resume, you don?t want to brand yourself as a generalist or as a ping pong subject matter expert on Social Media. Over 90% of employers check social media profiles prior to making an offer and one of the main things they are looking for is consistency.
You aren?t forced into a brand ? you create it.
So why feel like you?re forced into branding yourself as a subject matter expert when you can select a portion of your overall experience to use as your brand?
? It?s all in how you choose to present yourself.
Author:
Phil Rosenberg is President of http://www.reCareered.com, a leading job search information website and career coaching service. Phil also runs the Career Central group, one of Linkedin?s largest groups for job seekers and has built one of the 20 largest personal networks on Linkedin globally. An active blogger about social media, career advice and job search information, Phil?s articles have been published by The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, CNN, CBS, AOL, FastCompany, CIO, ZDnet, The Examiner, and leading job/career/recruiting publications and sites. Check out one of Phil?s complimentary job search webinars at http://ResumeWebinar.com .
Source: http://www.business2community.com/strategy/8-ways-to-brand-yourself-as-a-sme-0242922
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Democratic Party platform group backs gay marriage
DETROIT (AP) ? The national Democratic Party's platform committee endorsed gay marriage Saturday for the first time and called for the repeal of a federal law that recognizes marriage as between a man and a woman.
The committee, meeting in downtown Detroit, let stand the work of a separate group that drafted the platform two weeks ago in Minneapolis. The platform is a broad statement of the party's priorities on the economy, social issues and national defense and next goes to the national convention in North Carolina in September.
Scott Dibble, a committee member and a state senator from Minnesota, said support for gay marriage can attract new voters.
"Young people are looking for a political home right now. This has become a defining moral question of our time," said Dibble, who is gay.
The platform says Democrats support "marriage equality" and the "movement to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples."
"We also support the freedom of churches and religious entities to decide how to administer marriage as a religious sacrament without government interference," the platform says.
In May, President Barack Obama said he personally supported gay marriage.
"This certainly been a journey for many people in this country, a journey for our president," Dibble told fellow committee members from across the country.
The platform also calls for repeal of a 1996 law, signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton, which recognizes marriage as between a man and woman. Some federal courts have struck it down as unconstitutional.
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, co-chairman of the platform committee, said there are "profound indignities" heaped on people who can't marry someone of the same sex.
"At the end of the day it'll maybe repel some and attract others to be more engaged," Booker told reporters, referring to the platform plank. "This campaign is not going to turn on gay marriage. This campaign is going to turn on who has the best ideas for the economy."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/democratic-party-platform-group-backs-gay-marriage-165954231.html
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Nudist park holds bash to attract younger crowd
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) ? Nudist resorts have a reputation for attracting older adults, but one Florida park is trying to change that.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel (http://sunsent.nl/RAS2ZV) reports Sunsport Gardens will hold a weekend bash aimed at attracting nudists ages 18 to 30. The Florida Young Naturist's Fourth Annual End of Summer Naked Bash is slated to be a celebration of nudity and body acceptance.
Sunsport Gardens principal shareholder Morley Schloss tells the paper the park has been trying to bring in younger members with lower prices, 24-hour hot tubs and Friday night drum circles.
The gathering at the 40-acre Loxahatchee park is expected to gather several hundred young adults. Nudist resorts around the country have been working to attract a younger crowd.
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Information from: South Florida Sun Sentinel, http://www.sun sentinel.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nudist-park-holds-bash-attract-younger-crowd-170642832.html
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