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(BU) Run the company, whether it's an established corporation like Iacocca's Chrysler, or your own new business.
(BU) Tackle a job in the public or national interest, like Robert McNamara did in going to Washington at substantial financial sacrifice.
(BU) Gain the functional experience it takes to qualify for the next major step up the career ladder, like the controller who needs treasury experience to become a vice president of finance or the executive who needs international experience to qualify as a future company president.
(BU) Break into a dynamic, high-growth, emerging industry from one that is mature or dying -- or maybe getting in on the ground floor of the next Apple Computer.
(BU) Leave a second-class company in an industry to join the industry leader.
(BU) Make a radical career change, like the long-time school teacher who wants to get into publishing or the company president who wants to teach at a graduate business school.
(BU) Get away from being typecast as the indispensable specialist or technician in the mindset of a current employer and get into management.
(BU) Step over from a service firm (such as in management consulting, brokerage or advertising) with traditionally high salaries to having a business or investments using the services.
(BU) Return to your hometown or some other geographically desirable part of the country.
(BU) And to improve chances for employment when one is out of work -- but even then, no job-seeker should ever convey a willingness to accept a salary cut until at least two months have passed since the last paycheck.
The overwhelming majority of those who take a salary cut do so for professional rather than personal reasons, according to Sibbald.
"The best reason I've heard comes from a former commercial real estate supervisor who saw no future for herself in that field. She took a $4,000 salary cut to become a secretary in a prominent consulting firm, because, as she put it: "I wanted a career -- not just a job."
Today, 10 years later, she is the administrative partner of another consulting firm, its second largest stockholder, and earning six times what she was in real estate.
"So, ironically, taking a pay cut may be the best way to make more money after all," Sibbald said.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol would like to remind the public that driver examination stations throughout the state will be closed on Monday, October 8.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol would like to remind the public that driver examination stations throughout the state will be closed on Monday, October 8, 2018, in observance of Columbus Day. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, October 9, 2018.
NETBALL: Liz Watson is refusing to think ahead of this month's Constellation Cup as she continues to enhance her claim on a starting midcourt berth with the Diamonds for next year's Commonwealth Games.
As the Diamonds hit back from their quad series loss to New Zealand with a three-goal win over the Silver Ferns in Auckland on Thursday, the Melbourne Vixens' vice-captain took another step towards establishing herself as the team's first choice wing attack.
Watson was given the starting nod at wing attack alongside Kim Ravallion in centre in the first Constellation Cup battle, carrying on her encouraging form from August's quad series as the team's long-time star in the position - Madi Robinson - sits out this four-Test scrimmage.
While Watson said she felt more comfortable every time she stepped on court with the Diamonds, the 23-year-old acknowledged every player in the team was only as safe as their last performance.
"It's obviously a dream to be there (Commonwealth Games), but we know how hard you have to work to get there and our squad is so talented that we can chop and change players in and out based on performance,'' Watson said.
"Even with the 13 players travelling with us on this tour, we know that performance is huge and that is what we're getting used to game after game.
Watson, who now has nine Test caps to her name, felt her game had already grown since the start of the quad series, which followed a best-and-fairest season with the Melbourne Vixens.
"In the quad series, I had opportunties to get on court and have a taste of it and now I feel a lot more comfortable and confident, especially in that wing attack position,'' Watson said.
The Diamonds arrived in Christchurch on Friday for Sunday's second Constellation Cup Test against their arch rivals before the series heads to Australia for the last two Tests in Adelaide and Sydney.
Diamonds' coach Lisa Alexander will select the final 12 for the second Test from the travelling party of 13 after training on Saturday, with Caitlyn Nevins getting the nod ahead of Kate Moloney in the opening battle.
Watson said the Diamonds would draw confidence from their physical first-Test victory against the Silver Ferns, but the team needed to find a way to keep improving.
"Obviously the way that we ended the quad series was not how we wanted, so for us to come out the way that we did ... we will definitely take a lot of confidence from that game,'' Watson said.
"To do it over in New Zealand was extra special, the crowd was really loud and really intense, especially in that last five minutes. It was credit to our team how composed and how connected we stayed.
"But we've still got lots to learn from that game and there are a few mistakes that we want to get rid of, so that will be the focus leading into game two."
Watson said she was looking forward to seeing her Vixens' teammate Moloney break into the team.
"I know when she gets her opportunity she will make the most of it and she deserves to be here so she will get her time very soon," Watson said.
Opinion: First-timers and upgrading buyers have different concerns.
Have you ever seen one of those bumper stickers that says, "The worst day fishing is better than the best day working"? Thats how I feel when I look at todays PCs. The worst PC you can buy today is a great piece of gear, better than what you could buy at any price not long ago.
The value proposition of new machines is getting many people interested in upgrades—but the industry still treats PC buyers as first-time customers, failing to lower key barriers to an upgrade purchase.
The prices of new systems are astonishing. On Dells site, for example, I find for less than $500 a machine with a 2GHz CPU with 256K cache, 512MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive and a CD-burning/DVD-playing optical drive, plus a 15-inch flat-panel display. If Id put up with the weight, bulk and heat of a 17-inch CRT, I could knock off another $100.
What Id get is a whole lot more than most people need for Internet, e-mail, digital photos, and most school or work tasks done at home. The problem is that retail channels, even direct Internet sales, cant make any money selling (and, crucially, supporting) a machine that costs much less.
If you want the media capabilities of a current entry-level machine, your older system may seem pretty lame. There are plenty of people whod be happy to have it, though, and who might reincarnate it for a second life of useful work at essentially zero cost.
As I was writing this column, in fact, I got an e-mail from a reader replying to my column of last week on Microsofts Windows Vista. He had purchased a Pentium III machine for $50, installed Ubuntu Linux in a process that he described as "smoother than any version of Windows Ive ever used" and wound up with a machine that he now finds quite worth having around.
In an eWEEK Labs TestRun roundtable podcast on Vista late last month, I recalled a comment that someone made in the late 1980s about OS/2: "If wed known that the successor to DOS would take two years to deliver, wouldnt multitask old applications well, and would require us to buy new applications with a new look and feel, we could have just adopted desktop Unix and gotten there a whole lot sooner."
With its potential for application breakage in nonadministrator accounts, its new look in core applications such as Microsofts Office 2007 and its need for costly hardware to show off its most visible differences from previous Windows versions, it seems as if Vista might inspire similar thoughts—and now, desktop Unix options are cheap and easy. The phrase "tipping point" comes to mind.
Meanwhile, with people pulling out their credit cards for holiday shopping, Im getting a lot of questions from friends about what they should consider as an upgrade and how they should go about upgrading from what theyre currently using—because few people are buying a first-ever machine. It seems to me a sadly missed opportunity when vendors sell PCs in a way that reflects a conception of all customers as first-time PC buyers.
People ask me how theyll get their old work files moved across to a new machine. They want to know if theyll need to buy new applications software. They want to know if new versions of their current applications will correctly handle work product files created with older versions that theyve been using.
They want to know if buying a Macintosh is a realistic option for someone whos been using Windows for several years. PC configurations and PC selling processes should directly address these questions.
What would it cost, for example, to include a back-panel connector on a new PC and a cable—something that would let anyone who can use a screwdriver take the hard drive out of an old machine and transfer files to a new one? If I were a brick-and-mortar seller of PCs, I guarantee you that Id be seeking to differentiate myself from mail-order sellers by offering migration assistance.
Warner Bros. bought the rights to the project late last year from the Weinstein Company, which had been developing the movie with “Wild Tales” director Damian Szifron.
Warner Bros. made the announcement Friday. “The Six Billion Dollar Man” is the second title to land on the date after an untitled Blumhouse project.
Warner Bros. also said its romance drama “The Sun Is Also a Star” would be released two week earlier on May 17, 2019. Yara Shahidi, star of “Black-ish” and “Grown-ish,” is in negotiations to star in the movie adaptation of the bestselling YA novel for Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros., and MGM.
Additionally, the studio set the Melissa McCarthy-Tiffany Haddish mob drama “The Kitchen” for release by New Line on Sept. 20, 2019. McCarthy joined the project on Feb. 13 with “Straight Outta Compton” writer Andrea Berloff directing from her own script, in which a group of Irish mobsters sent to prison and their wives take over their jailed spouses’ organized crime operation in 1970s Hell’s Kitchen.
President Trump on Friday rescinded the nomination of Ron Vitiello to lead United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"Ron's a good man, but we're going in a tougher direction," Trump said.
The decision reportedly took U.S. lawmakers and Homeland Security officials by surprise, per The Washington Post. Vitiello, in fact, was supposed to accompany the president on his trip to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, but was alerted on Thursday that he would not be making the journey. ICE leadership at first believed there was a clerical error in the trip's itinerary.
But Trump reportedly had been going back and forth on his decision to nominate Vitiello in the first place for months. He was influenced by complaints from senior adviser Stephen Miller and ICE union boss Chris Crane, White House aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity said. Per CNN, Miller told Trump that Vitiello was not in favor of fully shuttering the southern border as Trump has threatened to do.
Vitiello has advocated for Trump's immigration policies, but he has refrained from making "bombastic" public statements about enforcement matters.
The studio that planned to go forward with a movie by Bryan Singer in spite of the sexual abuse allegations against him may be getting cold feet.
Red Sonja, a fantasy film Singer was to direct, is no longer on Millennium Films' slate, and it is not expected to shoot this year as previously planned, Deadline reports. The project has not been canceled nor has Singer been fired, but this would seem to be a reaction to the allegations against him, and Deadline notes that the movie has been repeatedly delayed over the past decade.
The July 2015 shooting death of 32-year-old Kate Steinle at San Francisco's Pier 14 was a staple of President Trump's campaign, an emotional punch to attack "sanctuary cities," so Trump criticized a jury verdict Thursday evening that acquitted the shooter, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, of homicide charges and convicted him of a lesser gun offense.
On Sunday, British Prime Minister Theresa May's office denied a newspaper report that President Trump's state visit in the fall had been put on hold after Trump angered many Britons with his tweets about London and its mayor, Sadiq Khan, after last week's terrorist attack. "The queen extended an invitation to President Trump to visit the U.K. and there is no change to those plans," a May spokesman said, and White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the idea of postponing Trump's visit "never came up" when the two leaders spoke last week, adding, "The president has tremendous respect for Prime Minister May."
But whether or not the invitation stands, Trump is "considering scrapping or postponing" the visit anyway, after expressing "increasing skepticism to aides about the trip," The New York Times reports, citing two administration officials. The trip was tentatively scheduled for the fall, probably in October, and Trump "has not definitively ruled out going," the Times reports, "but he has told his staff that he wants to avoid a marathon overseas trip like his nine-day trek to the Middle East and Europe, which he found exhausting and overly long," and he prefers that foreign leaders visit him.
FAIRFIELD -- She was the first in her group to finish play Wednesday, and she took her ball out of the cup, walked back to her caddie, just wiped her hand on a towel.
It looked as if Daniela Lendl had a few holes still to play. In fact, she had rolled to victory in the 44th Connecticut State Women's Amateur Championship in businesslike style.
"I just wanted to make the putt," said Lendl, 16. "I didn't want to finish with a three-putt. I was excited, but I knew (my partners) still had to make their putts. I didn't want to disturb their rhythm.
"I had to keep myself calm."
Lendl did that for three days, except perhaps for the first five holes Wednesday, when she went out in 4-over par.
"Finally, my dad told me to relax," said Lendl, whose father, former tennis star Ivan, was her caddie for all three rounds.
Lendl recovered, shot par the rest of the way, and finished with a three-round total of 2-over-par 218 to win by 14 strokes. That's one better than the lead she had after Tuesday's second round, in which she set a course record with a 4-under 68.
Sarah Sideranko of New Britain shot 75, low round of the day, to finish second. Daria Cummings of Monroe was one stroke behind in third.
Cummings followed back-to-back 78s with a 77 Wednesday, but she couldn't forget several short, missed putts.
"I had to get my dad out of his evening commute (Tuesday) to come to Tashua and work with me," Cummings said. "I made him miss dinner for it."
Cummings will play for the USGA State Team in Fort Wayne, Ind., next month with Stamford's Debbie Johnson and Shelton's Lisa Fern-Boros. Fern-Boros wasn't thrilled with a 79 Wednesday, which left her in sixth place. Johnson tied for 14th.
Jennifer Tierney of Danbury tied for seventh with a 240. That tied her with Kelly Whaley, 12-year-old daughter of onetime Greater Hartford Open competitor Suzy Whaley.
Stephanie Ko of Darien tied for 14th with a 246, but she was thrilled to shoot a 78 Wednesday and break 80 for the first time.
Another woman from Darien, Becky Montgelas, shot 77, tied for the third-best of the day, and won the senior championship with a three-day 242 (11th overall). She said she consistently gave herself good chances to make her second putts.
She also put Tuesday's emotional crush behind her. One of her four sons, Ian, had just packed for college; she shot an 84, including a 47 through nine holes.
"I was playing with a friend of mine," Montgelas recalled with a laugh. "She said, What're you doing?'"
New Milford's Priscilla Wargo claimed the Super Senior championship. Wednesday's 83 gave her a three-round 250.
"I got a couple of lucky bounces," she said. "I kept it straight. That's what you have to do to win."
Kate Gulemi of Fairfield had been tied for sixth after the second round, but she withdrew because she had to return to a Wednesday afternoon class at Dartmouth.
As promised, here is my second review of a particularly slick (and free) App in Google's new Google Apps Marketplace. Manymoon is a "Free Social Productivity, Project Management & Task Management" application.
As promised, here is my second review of a particularly slick (and free) App in Google's new Google Apps Marketplace. Manymoon is a "Free Social Productivity, Project Management & Task Management" application. First and foremost, this is a lot of tool for the low, low price of free. It's not going to displace Microsoft Project in the enterprise, but for schools and SMBs, it's the perfect way to manage projects, whether solo or within a workgroup.
Many of us have used Microsoft Project at one point or another. It's incredibly powerful and in a former life with a big biotech firm, I couldn't have imagined coordinating drug development and FDA submission efforts with anything less. Of course, most people in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries say that for every day a drug waits for approval or sits in the pipeline waiting to get to the FDA, the respective company is losing on the order of a million dollars. With those kinds of numbers, licensing Project and learning its functionality intimately are no-brainers.
Most folks, though, aren't working for billion-dollar companies managing (or even participating in) multi-million dollar projects. They just need to keep track of what they are doing when and with whom. They need to know dates of events, due dates for deliverables, and who in their group is responsible for a given set of tasks. Enter Manymoon.
Manymoon lets you create as many projects as you want with as many tasks as you want, leveraging the Google Calendar API within Apps. Additional storage for project documents, extra email integration, and other interesting (though probably not necessary for many small businesses and organizations) features can be had for a monthly subscription fee.
The first project I've been tracking has been my Apps Roulette series. Interview notes, blog post drafts, timelines, interview schedules, etc., have all been easy to document. Especially useful for me (since my organizational skills leave something to be desired) has been the ability to attach Google Docs to a specific task. For example, if I create a task for an interview with the Expensify founder, then right within the task interface, I can create a Google Doc for my notes and the draft post. When I access the task via a reminder, the Manymoon website, or my Google Apps account, the documents are right there, along with the Webex information for which I'm invariably hunting 30 seconds before the interview is supposed to start.
Even the free version can scale quite well beyond me, myself, and I. I've installed it in our school district's educational domain, as well, and users are just beginning to explore its capabilities. Project management is not the sort of thing educators often discuss, by the way. However, as we look at moving to a new scheduling model at our high school, building major curriculum documents, and rolling out new SaaS tools for our elementary schools, we're managing projects, whether the teachers and administrators know it or not.
That's where Manymoon really shines. It isn't in-your-face project management; it's a tool built right into an existing groupware product that lets you and your users keep track of the essentials without needing PMP certification to get it done.
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Tara Reid has lashed out at Lindsay Lohan and admitted they hate each other.
Reid also claimed that when the "Mean Girls" star flips if she is photographed by friends when drinking.
“She’s so paranoid, anyone who has a camera phone on her, she drops it in the ice bucket," she said. "You can’t go on attacking people."
“She crashed one of my friend’s cars and I asked him ‘why do you let he do this’?" she said. "He was like ‘I don’t know.’ I don’t think people should get away with that much."
A state report shows that Indiana's 92 counties reported $345 million in delinquent property taxes and $175 million in late fees and interest owed in 2018. Northwestern Indiana's Lake County had the highest in both categories, with $96 million in overdue taxes and $102 million in penalty fees.
Supporters say many Lake County properties with delinquent taxes aren't attractive to purchasers at tax sales because of the large fees owed.
Last year, the team beat second place Chapel Hill 432-246 in the 3A state meet. Koletic and Gaeckle set a 3A state record and earned All-American honors with seniors Christen McDonough and Dana Pruitt in the 200-yard medley relay.
Gaeckle also earned All-American honors and set a 3A state record in the 100-yard backstroke, beating the second place swimmer by almost five seconds. She also won a gold medal and broke a 3A state record with the 400-yard freestyle relay team and won an individual gold in the 200-yard freestyle.
Koletic took home golds in the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle, and Gilligan was a part of the gold-medal winning 200- and 400-yard freestyle relay teams for Catholic. Both were also All-Americans.

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