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A lot of people suggest you should prepare a boatload of questions to find out more about the company and the hiring manager so you know what you're getting yourself into. A question or two is great, but I think overdoing it is very risky, especially in this job market. You're single goal in the interview process is to...
What exactly do interviewers look for?
More than anything, they're looking for a fit, someone with the knowledge and experience to do the job and fit in with the company culture. The job specification will detail what they're looking for. If there's no spec or they won't give you one, then read up on the company and its business online.
Based on what you do know, think about a particular experience to show them you can successfully do what they need done. That's the main thing. Then just look and act the part and try to relax. Since you can't predict the future and you don't know what they're going to ask, just be as open and present as possible. Anyt...
As I explained in 7 career advice myths, the short answer is no, personal branding does not help. Sure, you should look and behave professionally in person and online. Clean up your social media presence by keeping your public profile professional and your personal stuff password protected between family and friends, f...
For more on the subject, check out What hiring managers really look for.
A survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre described Sunday how he and other terrorized worshippers concealed themselves in a supply closet as the gunman stepped over the body of a man he had just shot and killed, entered their darkened hiding spot and looked around.
"I can't say anything, and I'm barely breathing," recalled Barry Werber, 76, in an interview with The Associated Press. "He didn't see us, thank God."
The gunman, Robert Gregory Bowers, opened fire with an AR-15 rifle and other weapons during worship services inside Tree of Life Synagogue, killing eight men and three women before a tactical police team tracked him down and shot him, according to state and federal affidavits made public on Sunday. He expressed hatred ...
Six people were injured in the attack, including four officers.
Bowers targeted a building that housed three separate congregations, all of which were conducting Shabbat services when the attack began just before 10am in the tree-lined residential neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, about 10 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh and the hub of the city's Jewish community.
As authorities worked to piece together Bowers' background and movements, harrowing accounts from the survivors began to emerge.
Speaking at a vigil in Pittsburgh on Sunday night, Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers said about a dozen people had gathered in the synagogue's main sanctuary when Bowers walked in and began shooting. He said seven of his congregants were killed.
"My holy place has been defiled," he said.
Officials released the names of all 11 of the dead, all of them middle-aged or elderly. The victims included intellectually disabled brothers and a husband and wife. The youngest was 54, and the oldest was 97.
"The loss is incalculable," said Stephen Cohen, co-president of New Light Congregation, which rents space at Tree of Life.
The synagogue's rabbis urged mourners at an interfaith memorial service on Sunday to embrace tolerance and unity.
Themes of inclusion and compassion dominated the speeches delivered to an overflow crowd of some 2,500 at the University of Pittsburgh's Soldiers and Sailors Hall, as speakers decried the rise of toxic political discourse widely seen as creating an atmosphere conducive to violence.
Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers elicited shouts of "vote" from the audience as he called on political leaders, starting with "those in the room," to help put an end to hate speech.
"My words are not intended as political," he said from the stage. "My mother always taught me that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it."
The "Stronger Together" service opened with a performance by a Baptist gospel choir and included remarks by Christian and Muslim clergy, but it was largely led by Meyers and two fellow rabbis representing the three Jewish congregations who used the synagogue targeted in Saturday's carnage.
"What happened yesterday will not break us. It will not ruin us. We will continue to thrive and sing and worship and learn together and continue our historic legacy in the city with the friendliest people that I know," said Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, choking back tears.
"This is the darkest hour in our city's history," Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto declared during Sunday's service.
"But here's another thing about Pittsburgh. We are resilient. We will work together as one. We will defeat hate with love. We will be a city of compassion and we will be welcoming to all people," he said to cheers.
Bowers shot his victims with an AR-15—the weapon used in many of the nation's mass shootings—and three handguns, all of which he owned legally and had a license to carry, according to a law enforcement official who wasn't authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation, and who spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity.
US Attorney Scott Brady in Pittsburgh said Sunday night that federal prosecutors intend to pursue the death penalty against Bowers.
Bowers was a long-haul trucker who worked for himself, Brady said.
Little else was known about the suspect, who had no apparent criminal record but who is believed to have expressed virulently anti-Semitic views on social media. It appears Bowers acted alone, authorities said.
Bowers apparently posted an anti-Semitic message on a social media account linked to him just a few minutes before he opened fire during Shabbat services on Saturday morning. After the attack, he told an officer, "I just want to kill Jews," according to a federal affidavit .
In the basement, a half-dozen members of New Light Congregation were just starting to pray when they heard crashing sounds coming from upstairs, looked out the door and saw a body on the staircase, Werber, the survivor, recalled Sunday in an interview at his home.
He said Rabbi Jonathan Perlman closed the door and pushed them into a large supply closet. As gunshots echoed upstairs, Werber called 911 but was afraid to say anything, for fear of making any noise.
When the shots subsided, he said, Melvin Wax opened the door, only to be shot and fall back inside.
"There were three shots, and he falls back into the room where we were," he said. "The gunman walks in."
Apparently unable to see Werber and the other congregants in the darkness, Bowers walked back out.
A day later, Werber called the gunman "a maniac" and "a person who has no control of his baser instincts."
"I don't know why he thinks the Jews are responsible for all the ills in the world, but he's not the first and he won't be the last. Unfortunately, that's our burden to bear," Werber said. "It breaks my heart."
The massacre came at a time of increasing anti-Semitism in the US. Earlier this year, the Anti-Defamation League reported a nearly 60 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017—the largest single-year increase since the ADL began its tracking nearly three decades ago.
Perlman, who also spoke at the vigil Sunday night, said New Light lost three congregants.
"These three men, they cannot be replaced," said Perlman, his voice breaking. "But we will not be broken. We will not be ruined."
Bowers was charged with 11 state counts of criminal homicide, six counts of aggravated assault and 13 counts of ethnic intimidation in what the leader of the Anti-Defamation League called the deadliest attack on Jews in US history.
He was also charged in a 29-count federal criminal complaint that included counts of obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death—a federal hate crime—and using a firearm to commit murder. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the charges could merit a death sentence.
Bowers, who underwent surgery and remained hospitalized, is scheduled to appear in court Monday. It wasn't clear whether he had an attorney to speak on his behalf. A message left with the federal public defender's office in Pittsburgh wasn't immediately returned.
Of the six survivors, five remained in the hospital Sunday, and two were listed in critical condition.
The nation's latest mass shooting drew condemnation and expressions of sympathy from politicians and religious leaders of all stripes.
Pope Francis led prayers for Pittsburgh in St. Peter's Square.
"In reality, all of us are wounded by this inhuman act of violence," he said. He prayed for God "to help us to extinguish the flames of hatred that develop in our societies, reinforcing the sense of humanity, respect for life and civil and moral values."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman quoted Merkel on Twitter as offering her condolences and saying that "all of us must confront anti-Semitism with determination—everywhere."
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He captured my attention with his resonant short story "Vigilance," about a father who is summoned by the police to answer questions about his missing child. With his new novel, Ethan Hauser fulfills the promise of his story, which was a Nelson Algren Short Story Award finalist in 2008, and demonstrates his ability to ...
Set in suburban Boston during the time of an impending storm, "The Measures Between Us" connects disparate characters — a couple with a depressed daughter, a single father with an autistic son, a climate change researcher — in a kaleidoscopic fashion. The refractions of these tangential relationships make for a novel t...
This deeply affecting debut novel is full of hope, and no need to fear the 400 pages; it's a fast read for those in need of a quick, smart fiction fix.
Staff will be giving away free plants (while supplies last) for every two cans/non-perishable food items donated for the food bank.
FORT PIERCE — Join the UF/IFAS St. Lucie County Master Gardeners as they partner with the Treasure Coast Food Bank for a morning of giving, starting at 8 a.m on Saturday, Dec. 1.
Come out and support your local food bank.
Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer your plant questions until 11 a.m.
UF/IFAS St. Lucie County Extension Office 8400 Picos Rd., Fort Pierce.
Contact Kate O’Neill, education outreach coordinator for St. Lucie County Extension, at 772-462-1445 or kasmi@ufl.edu.
A top Pentagon general has informally rebranded the jihadists of Isis with the name “Daesh” after allies in the middle east asked he not use the group’s other monikers for fear they legitimize its ambitions of an Islamic state.
Lieutenant General James Terry almost exclusively used Daesh in reference to the militants at a press conference Thursday, although the Pentagon’s policy to primarily use “Isil” – an acronym for “the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” – has not changed.
Terry, who leads US operations against Isis in Iraq, said partners in the region had asked him not to use the terms Islamic State, Isil or Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria). Secretary of state John Kerry has also shifted his language in recent weeks, using Daesh 16 times and Isil only twice during remarks to N...
Daesh is also an acronym for an Arabic variation of the group’s name: al-Dawla al-Islamyia fil Iraq wa’al Sham. Most of the middle east and many Muslims abroad use Daesh, saying that although the jihadists have declared the nebulous region they control a caliphate, they neither adhere to Islam nor control a real state....
Isis itself has gone through many iterations and held shifting titles. It began in 1999 as Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, became al-Qaida in Iraq and then the Islamic State in Iraq under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, adopted “al-Sham”, and finally set out to be simply “the Islamic State”.
When Isis attempted to rebrand itself “the Islamic State” in September, residents in the Iraqi city of Mosul told the Associated Press that the jihadists “threatened to cut the tongue of anyone who publicly used the acronym Daesh … saying it shows defiance and disrespect”.
A fissure is beginning to divide the Republican Party, and that split could make life much easier for Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2012. The tea party movement helped Republicans retake the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections. But it did very little to help them govern because those new tea part...
Two of something doesn’t necessarily make it twice as good.
Before he flamed out, Democratic Presidential Candidate John Edwards gained a lot of traction with his speeches on two Americas.
Of course Edwards, his $400 haircuts, his mistress and their love child were part of the America he criticized. But there are two Americas. The gap between the “haves” and “have-nots” is wide and getting wider.
Another fissure is beginning to divide the Republican Party, and that split could make life much easier for Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2012.
The tea party movement helped Republicans retake the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections. But it did very little to help them govern because those new tea party members are completely disgusted with the Democrats and their policies but they are also almost completely disgusted with the establishment ...
There are now two Republican parties, and those two parties could very well mean two terms for Obama.
Mitt Romney started out as the frontrunner for the GOP in 2012. A strange phenomenon has developed where Republicans got excited about Sarah Palin and Chris Christie and neither one of them even decided to run. The polls have been very volatile with Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain, who have all spent time ...
Pundits continue to incorrectly refer to the rises and falls of flavor of the month candidates with the phrase “the honeymoon is over” when these are not honeymoons at all. Honeymoons come after weddings.
These candidates are the shady girls Republicans are taking home after frat parties in college. The only one they can see themselves married to appears to be Romney.
Those candidates tend to gain that support from the tea party. They gain traction with a good performance in debates or a platform push.
Bachmann shot up in support and won some straw polls before toppling back toward the group of also-rans in recent polling.
Her demise seemed to be Perry entering the race. Perry has since shot to the front of the pack and fallen back after bad debate performances, racially charged names for his hunting grounds, and most recently his decision to try to reanimate the otherwise dead birther movement.
The latest candidate to rise in the polls is Cain. But he seems doomed to follow same trajectory as the other candidates with problems on his stance on abortion, foreign policy and his overly simplistic "9-9-9" tax code plan.
If Cain does whither like the others have before him, only Romney will be left and he is damaged politically. He has left behind the moderates and Independents who might have supported him before in order to seek the support of the more staunch conservatives in the party. Very few of those voters can get excited about ...
Many Republicans believe that any Republican is better than Obama. But tea party voters won’t vote for Romney en masse.
Many will decide not to vote at all or find a third-party candidate more in line with their beliefs. In Kansas, that won’t matter. Obama couldn’t win Kansas if he ran unopposed. But in the 10-15 swing states where who the candidates are and what they believe actually affects the outcome of the voting, it will matter an...
If Romney were that candidate, none of these other candidates would gain any traction. If any of these other candidates were the answer Romney wouldn’t manage to hold onto his lead in the polls.
Two Republican parties means two terms for Obama.
Neither of the factions wants that results, but I don’t know who bridges the gap to keep that from happening.
KINGSPORT — The Tennessee Valley Authority was born on hydroelectric power.
Its dams along the Tennessee River and its tributaries go back as early as the 1930s.
Even with power now coming from nuclear and fossil plants as well as wind turbines, geothermal sources and solar cells, hydroelectricity still provides more than 12 percent of the TVA’s energy output.
“TVA has 113 hydro-turbines at 30 dams, that make a lot of good, clean, renewable energy,” said David Rowland, senior project manager for work on the South Holston Dam.
Hydroelectric is also TVA’s secret weapon for dealing with power outages and issues with other systems.
With most of those dams and the turbines and other machinery inside them more than 50 years old, TVA has over recent years been updating dams and repairing and replacing equipment that produces the hydro-electric power.
“TVA has systematically tried to revamp its hydro fleet. We have done 63 units so far; this will be 64,” Rowland said.
Sixty-four is the turbine at South Holston Dam near Bristol, one of two East Tennessee dams currently undergoing major work projects.
The cost of repairs going on at the two dams isn’t cheap, $450 million at Boone and $30 million at South Holston, but TVA officials say the repair work is worth it.
Part of the irony of work on dams is that, if the job is done correctly, most people won’t notice a thing. A big part of the goal in most such projects is to make the dam area look as it was before the project was begun. It helps that most of the work is usually either underground or inside.
That won’t totally be the case at Boone Dam, but even here when the work is done, much will look as it did before.
The issue at Boone is leakage that is not coming from the concrete part of the dam – the part most people think about when they think "dam" – but from the embankment on the right side of the dam as you look upstream.
The embankment is a 900-foot peninsular stretch of land that experts consider part of the dam itself.
He explained that all dams have seepage but “you want it to be small amounts and you want to be able to control that.
Beginning in December 2014, TVA took interim reduction measures. These included lowering the lake level. Winter pool at Boone is usually 20 feet below summer pool. TVA accelerated and dropped the lake below the usual 20-foot winter pool. A rock berm was added to block the muddy discharge.
An elaborate drilling procedure was begun. More than 800 holes, some as deep as 300 feet, were drilled. Cameras and other measuring equipment were sent down the holes. An organically safe dye was poured into some to trace movement of the water in the ground.
The project kicked off in earnest in July 2015.

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