It is typically a good idea to begin to develop a resume, that can be used in a variety of ways. You can give the resume to your teachers, who will work on your recommendations. That will help them to get to know you more broadly, as opposed to just their experiences with you in their class. You might even submit the resume as part of your college applications , if the resume adds important details about your activities which you don’t feel are adequately described in your application forms and essays.
The resume can take different forms depending on its use. For example, a sport-oriented resume featuring academic details (test scores, advanced courses taken, GPA, etc.) as well as a focus on a particular sport can be useful to give to coaches, who might be interested in recruiting you. A resume without the academic piece, which would be covered elsewhere in your applications, but with a lengthier focus on one or more activity themes (community service, leadership, music, etc.) could be a helpful component of your applications. We often encourage students to add several sentences of narrative detail to their resumes where they describe what they have done and learned through their various activities.
Earl Shugerman, will bring every week a serie of stories about Anglo-Saxon immigrants to Israel. This project is aimed to promote a more realistic view of life in Israel. The following story relates to an American immigrant named Jordan.
My name is Jordan. I came to Israel four years ago from Miami after receiving a degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Florida. My family is reformed and not particularly Zionist.
My original intention was to study Hebrew for six months at a Kibbutz ulpan near Haifa. I was out of the plane for about five minutes and I was already in love with the country. It was love at first sight and I am glad to say that I still feel the same passion. I came here for the experience and now proudly serve in The Israeli Defense Forces in combat engineering. I still can’t quite explain why I love this country so much. Perhaps there is no single reason or reasons.
My first year in the country was spent at the kibbutz studying Hebrew four hours a day and working in the kibbutz factory four hours a day to pay my way. Kibbutz life was interesting but not for me.
The Kibbutz is a community where members equally own all property. Individuals live on the settlements and usually work at them as well. Most kibbutzim are involved in either agriculture, light manufacturing or both. Residents live in nice homes with kitchens; but can also eat at community dining halls. City life is still my choice.
I left the kibbutz and applied for Aliyah with the assistance of Nefesh B’Nefesh. Nefesh is an organization that promotes Aliyah from English speaking countries. They helped me to navigate the paper work and advise me of both my rights and responsibilities including compulsory military service. Visiting mom and dad was very difficult. They respected my decision, but like most parents worried about my new life in Israel, especially the war.
Today they are so happy and proud of my decision that they are planning Aliyah! My dad is about to retire and the folks visited Zichron Yaakov as a possible home. It is just right for us; they both exclaimed! It was love at first sight for them as well.
I am now in my last few months of military duty and rent an apartment in Haifa. Two buddies and I found a beautiful place in the Horev area of Haifa with a view that is incredible. We can see the ocean and much of Haifa through our large picture windows. All three of us are new citizens and choose to live in Haifa for the same reasons.
Haifa is a beautiful city of hills and beaches that offers city life advantages but without the tension that we felt in other urban areas. Haifa is also a very peaceful and pluralistic community where people just enjoy life. Jews, Christians, Muslims and others live together in peace. During the army I was stationed in both the West Bank and Gaza. My impression is that most Arabs and most people just want to live peaceful lives and enjoy this wonderful part of the world.
Upon completing the military I intend to continue my education at The Technion. Haifa’s Technion is a world famous technical school that offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees, primarily in the sciences.
I hope that those individuals reading this article will consider Aliyah and come to live in this incredible nation and this wonderful city!
1) In 1978, Kamal Hasan’s Tamil movie “Sivappu Rojakkal” was released. He played the role of a Psychopath killer (femicide). A year later, a guy named “Psycho Raman” was caught for brutally murdering people especially women.
2) In 1988, Kamal played the role of an unemployed youth in the movie “Sathya“. In 89-90’s our country faced lot of problems due to unemployment.
3) In 1992, his blockbuster movie “Devar Magan” was released. It’s a village based subject. The movie portrayed scenes of communal clashes. Exactly a year later in 1993, there were many communal clashes in southern districts.
4) We all know in 1996 many people in our country was cheated by finance companies. Kamal Hassan had clearly depicted this in his movie “Mahanadhi” which was released in 1994, well a year in advance.
5) In “Hey Ram“(2000), there are few scenes relating to Hindu Muslim clashes. We all know 2 years later, Godhra ( Gujarat riots) incident happened.
6) He used a word called ‘tsunami’ in his movie “Anbe Sivam“(2003).The word ‘TSUNAMI’ was not known to many people before. In 2004, ‘tsunami’ stuck the east coast of our country and many people lost their lives.
7) In his movie “Vettaiyadu Vilayadu “(2006) there are two characters called Ilamaran & Amudhan who played the roles of psychopath killers. After 3 months of release of the movie, the NOIDA serial killing came to light (Moninder & Sathish)
In his latest movie “Dasavatharam” in 2008 he mentioned about a deadly virus, which spread via air, that may destroy the world. Now in 2009 we have the Swine Flu that spreads through air. And to be specific, in the movie Kamal develops a bio weapon and finds out the deadly effect of the virus in a lab in America . Now the first case of Swine Flu was detected in Mexico (NorthAmerica).
Finansminister Anders Borg talar om vargavintern som dragit över världens ekonomi. I denna storm säger han att Sverige kommer att klara krisen bättre än många andra länder, inklusive Usa, Storbritannien och Spanien.
Detta uttalande måste man se i skenet av den stundande valrörelsen som snart smyger igång. Nästa år är det val. Moderaterna söker mandat för ett längre regeringsinnehav där arbetslinjen skall råda. Moderaterna får se upp. Den tidigare bunker högern kanske tar över partiet igen. Sänka skatten för vanligt folk går hem i stugorna. Miljonärer som får sänkt skatt ger väldigt få röster.
För att inte hundratusentals skall ställas utanför den ordinarie arbetsmarknaden satsar regeringen på åtgärder. Kritiker säger att det är samma typ av åtgärder som socialdemokraterna anordnade under regeringen Göran Persson. Socialdemokraterna själva tycker att det är för lite av satsningar.
Den borgerliga regeringen tar en poäng i att de har varit tuffare mot bankerna än många andra länder, vilka har varit rädda för specialisering.
Behöver de svenska bankerna kapital från staten, kräver staten röststarka aktier i utbyte. Det får som resultat att de inte frestas att söka stöd i onödan.
I Usa har 84 banker tröttnat för gott bara i år. Det är en kraftig ökning.
Finanskrisen är således inte alls över. Det värsta har vi nog lagt bakom oss.
NEW YORK (CNN) – Nearly a year after surviving a plane crash in South Carolina, disc jockey Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein was found dead in his New York apartment Friday afternoon, his publicist said. He was 36.
Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein was one of two people who survived a 2008 plane crash in South Carolina.
“The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear,” his publicist, Jenni Weinman, said in a statement confirming the performer’s death. “Out of respect for his family and loved ones, please respect their privacy at this time.”
Goldstein was found unconscious and unresponsive in his lower Manhattan apartment Friday afternoon, New York police said. The cause of death would be determined by medical examiners, but “There is no criminality suspected at this time,” a police statement reported.
Goldstein and Travis Barker, the former drummer for rock band Blink-182, were the only survivors of a September 2008 plane crash in South Carolina that left both critically injured. Four others aboard the plane were killed when the Learjet skidded off a runway during takeoff from Columbia.
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“Daily I live with the guilt and grief of what happened that night, what I saw, who was lost and why I was spared,” he wrote in a December 2008 post on his Web site. “I have no words to express the pain that comes with knowing four people died, while I lived.”
In addition to spinning beats at clubs and festivals, Goldstein was known for dating reality-TV star Nicole Richie and actress Mandy Moore. At the time of his death, he had been working on an MTV show about drug addiction that had been scheduled to debut in October.
Siamo quasi a settembre e la nuova stagione televisiva sta per cominciare anche in USA.
A parte qualche cambiamento dell’ultim’ora, sono state ormai finalizzate le date di debutto dei nuovi programmi proposti dai grandi (e piccoli) network in chiaro e quelle delle returing series.
Dopo il salto, ecco un calendario di quanto ancora dobbiamo aspettare prima che le nostre serie preferite o quelle nuove che ci incuriosiscono maggiormente debuttino in USA.
8/9 90210 (CW)
8/9 Melrose Place (CW)
9/9 So you think you can dance (FOX)
9/9 Glee (FOX)
9/9 America’s Next Top Model (CW)
10/9 Vampire Daries
10/9 Supernatural
11/9 20/20 (ABC)
12/9 Cops (FOX)
12/9 America’s Most Wanted (FOX)
14/9 Gossip Girl (CW)
14/9 One Tree Hill (CW)
14/9 The Jay Leno Show (NBC)
15/9 The Biggest Loser (NBC)
16/9 Survivor: Samoa (CBS)
16/9 The Beautiful Life (CW)
17/9 Bones (FOX)
17/9 Fringe (FOX)
17/9 Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday (NBC)
Heute war ein normaler, nicht sonderlich spannender Tag. Trotzdem möchte ich euch kurz davon berichten!
Ich war heute bei meinem ersten amerikanischen Footballspiel. Der Halbbruder von Sammy, meiner Gastschwester, hatte ein solches Spiel mit seiner Mannschaft und so sind wir nach dem Abendessen zu einem Sportplatz hier in der Nähe gefahren und haben zugeschaut. Ich kenne weder die Regeln dieses Spiels noch weiß ich etwas damit anzufangen, aber gut – ich hab ein bisschen zugeschaut und es war ganz intressant, Football mal live zu sehen. Vorher haben meine Gasteltern Ana und Jeff ganz groß gekocht. Sie standen lange in der Küche und haben versucht german food zu kochen. Ich habe Ana ein Kochbuch geschenkt “german cooking today” und mithilfe von diesem haben sie versucht ein paar deutsche Köstlichkeiten zu kochen. Es gab unter anderem Kartoffelsalat, grünen gemischten Salat und Hühnchen mit Tomate. Alles war ziemlich lecker und endlich einmal nicht ganz so fettig wie ich es sonst von der amerikanischen Küche gewohnt bin. Man hat direkt gemerkt, dass diese Rezepte NICHT aus einem amerikanischen Kochbuch stammen, haha! Ich habe auch ein paar Fotos von dem Essen gemacht, werde ich Morgen für euch hochladen und dann posten.
Jetzt ist es 20 vor 11 abends und ich bin müde. Ich werde heute nicht allzu lang wach bleiben, denn Morgen früh wird früh aufgestanden um mit meiner Mama zu telefonieren, juhu. Nach dem Telefonieren fahren wir in die Highschool, um mich dort zu registrieren. So far so good. Bei euch ist es bald 5 Uhr nachts/morgens und so hoffe ich, dass ihr alle gerade schön in euren Betten schlummert.
There has been a lot written about Scotland’s decision to release al-Megrahi, the Libyan who was convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie and subsequently released, to the delight of Tripoli, on humanitarian grounds because he is in the terminal stages of cancer. Some has looked at the matter from a different angle (Scottish-English relations, rule of law versus politics), but most of it has been full of boilerplate outrage and not particularly interesting.
What most of this coverage has in common, though, is the assumption that al-Megrahi is guilty. No one seems to be talking at all about the fact that he had been granted an appeal, because last year, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), a public body funded by the Scottish Government Criminal Justice Directorate, found that al-Megrahi may have been the victim of a miscarriage of justice. The only two accounts of the affair I’ve seen that take this into consideration have been by Hugh Miles and Robert Fisk.
Miles, of course, wrote about the case two years ago, and I remember being surprised that his piece in the LRB didn’t make more waves. Accoridng to Miles, there has been an obvious quid pro quo:
It’s no secret the Libyans didn’t want their man to die in prison. They made it clear to the UK authorities that if he did, relations between the two nations would be badly damaged, which would place the $900 million joint venture between BP and the Libya Investment Corporation in jeopardy.
Despite deep mutual mistrust, the two sides managed to fix up an uneasy quid pro quo in negotiations behind closed doors. The convicted mass-murderer would be released on compassionate grounds if he promised to drop his appeal. Plainly the authorities were not too bothered about concealing the fact that a deal was done: the two announcements came almost simultaneously.
This suits both sides: the Libyans get Megrahi back while the British authorities are spared the potential fiasco of his being acquitted, which would inevitably lead to calls for a public inquiry into Lockerbie, not to mention the possibility of having to give Gaddafi back the $2.7 billion he paid in compensation.
Fisk gives us another view, managing to remind us, as he is wont to do, that he was around when the whole thing went down in the first place:
It was Megrahi’s decision – not that of his lawyers – to abandon the appeal that might have told us the truth about Lockerbie. The British would far rather he return to the land of the man who wrote The Green Book on the future of the world (the author, a certain Col Muammar Gaddafi, also wrote Escape to Hell and Other Stories) than withstand the typhoon of information that an appeal would have revealed.
…Megrahi’s lawyers had delved deeply into his case – which rested on the word of a Maltese tailor who had already seen a picture of Megrahi (unrevealed to us at the time) so he could identify him in court – and uncovered some remarkable evidence from the German police.
… [T]hey went a long way towards establishing that a Lebanese who had been killed in the Lockerbie bombing was steered to Frankfurt airport by known Lebanese militants and the bag that contained the bomb was actually put on to the baggage carousel for checking in by this passenger’s Lebanese handler, who had taken him to the airport, and had looked after him in Germany before the flight.
I have read all the interviews which the German police conducted with their suspects. They are devastating. There clearly was a Lebanese connection. And there probably was a Palestinian connection. How can I forget a press conference in Beirut held by the head of the pro-Syrian “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” [sic] (they were known, then, as the “Lockerbie boys”) in which their leader, Ahmed Jibril, suddenly blurted out: “I’m not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing. They are trying to get me with a kangaroo court.”
Yet there was no court at the time. Only journalists – with MI6 and the CIA contacts – had pointed the finger at Jibril’s rogues. It was Iran’s revenge, they said, for the shooting down of a perfectly innocent Iranian passenger jet by the captain of the American warship Vincennes a few months earlier. I still happen to believe this is close to the truth.
But the moment Syria sent its tanks to defend Saudi Arabia after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, all the MI6 truth-telling turned into a claptrap of nonsense about Col Gaddafi.
It should be noted, though, that Fisk is mixing up his Palestinian factions. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was George Habash’s group, while Ahmad Jibril’s outfit, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) broke away from Habash in 1968. (In all fairness, though, t’s sometimes confusing to wade through the various splinter groups and their acronyms, or as the Monty Python boys would call them: splitters.)
So it’s worth taking a look at the SCCRC’s press release (the full report isn’t publicly available), which states:
This has been a difficult case to deal with. The Commission’s enquiry team have worked tirelessly for over three years. Some of what we have discovered may imply innocence; some of what we have discovered may imply guilt. However, such matters are for a court to decide. The Commission is of the view, based upon our lengthy investigations, the new evidence we have found and other evidence which was not before the trial court that the applicant may have suffered a miscarriage of justice. The place for that matter to be determined is in the appeal court, to which we now refer the case.
Of course, this is not to say that al-Megrahi is innocent, just that there were reasonable and sufficient grounds for him to appeal the conviction. But instead of a legal appeal that would have brought who knows what new evidence to light, a deal was struck between London and Tripoli. Did the Libyans have anything to do with Lockerbie? Were they framed to keep Damascus’s support for the 1991 invasion of Iraq? Was it a hit that was outsourced by Iran to the PFLP-GC through Damascus to avenge the Iranian civilian carrier that had been downed by the US?
An appeal could have answered these questions. Again, according to Miles:
If al-Megrahi is exonerated, many tricky questions will resurface, not least what to do about the $2.7 billion compensation paid by Libya to the relatives of the victims of the bombing. And then, of course, there is the question of who really bombed Flight 103.
In the first three years following the bombing, before a shred of evidence had been produced to incriminate Libya, the Dumfries and Galloway police, the FBI and several other intelligence services around the world all shared the belief that the Lockerbie bombers belonged to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC), a Palestinian rejectionist organisation backed by Iran. The PFLP-GC is headed by Ahmed Jibril, a former Syrian army captain; its headquarters are in Damascus and it is closely allied with the Syrian president and other senior Syrian officials. In the 1970s and 1980s the PFLP-GC carried out a number of raids against Israel, including a novel hang-glider assault launched from inside Lebanon. Lawyers, intelligence services and diplomats around the world continue to suspect that Jibril – who has even boasted that he is responsible – was behind Lockerbie.
The case against Jibril and his gang is well established. It runs like this: in July 1988, five months before the Lockerbie bombing, a US naval commander aboard USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf shot down an Iranian airbus, apparently mistaking it for an attacker. On board Iran Air Flight 655 were 270 pilgrims en route to Mecca. Ayatollah Khomeini vowed the skies would ‘rain blood’ in revenge and offered a $10 million reward to anyone who ‘obtained justice’ for Iran. The suggestion is that the PFLP-GC was commissioned to undertake a retaliatory bombing.
… Other evidence has emerged showing that the bomb could have been placed on the plane at Frankfurt airport, a possibility that the prosecution in al-Megrahi’s trial consistently ruled out (their case depended on the suitcase containing the bomb having been transferred from a connecting flight from Malta). Most significantly, German federal police have provided financial records showing that on 23 December 1988, two days after the bombing, the Iranian government deposited £5.9 million into a Swiss bank account that belonged to the arrested members of the PFLP-GC.
The decision to steer the investigation away from the PFLP-GC and in the direction of Libya came in the run-up to the first Gulf War, as America was looking to rally a coalition to liberate Kuwait and was calling for support from Iran and Syria. Syria subsequently joined the UN forces. Quietly, the evidence incriminating Jibril, so painstakingly sifted from the debris, was binned.
Now though, it seems we’ll never know. So in a sense, all of the outraged coverage of the release is correct. We should be outraged. But we should be outraged, because the truth is being sidestepped for political expediency by everyone involved.
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Robert Fisk: For the truth, look to Tehran and Damascus – not Tripoli
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Ahmed Jibril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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Forget all the nonsense spouted by our beloved Foreign Secretary. He’s all too happy to express his outrage. The welcome given to Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi in Tripoli was a perfect deviation from what the British Government is trying to avoid. It’s called the truth, not that Mr Miliband would know much about it.
It was Megrahi’s decision – not that of his lawyers – to abandon the appeal that might have told us the truth about Lockerbie. The British would far rather he return to the land of the man who wrote The Green Book on the future of the world (the author, a certain Col Muammar Gaddafi, also wrote Escape to Hell and Other Stories) than withstand the typhoon of information that an appeal would have revealed.
Brown and Gaddafi. Maybe they should set up as a legal company once their time is up. Brown and Gaddafi, Solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths. Not that the oaths would be truthful.
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Megrahi’s lawyers had delved deeply into his case – which rested on the word of a Maltese tailor who had already seen a picture of Megrahi (unrevealed to us at the time) so he could identify him in court – and uncovered some remarkable evidence from the German police.
Given the viciousness of their Third Reich predecessors, I’ve never had a lot of time for German cops, but on this occasion they went a long way towards establishing that a Lebanese who had been killed in the Lockerbie bombing was steered to Frankfurt airport by known Lebanese militants and the bag that contained the bomb was actually put on to the baggage carousel for checking in by this passenger’s Lebanese handler, who had taken him to the airport, and had looked after him in Germany before the flight.
I have read all the interviews which the German police conducted with their suspects. They are devastating. There clearly was a Lebanese connection. And there probably was a Palestinian connection. How can I forget a press conference in Beirut held by the head of the pro-Syrian “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” (they were known, then, as the “Lockerbie boys”) in which their leader, Ahmed Jibril, suddenly blurted out: “I’m not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing. They are trying to get me with a kangaroo court.”
Yet there was no court at the time. Only journalists – with MI6 and the CIA contacts – had pointed the finger at Jibril’s rogues. It was Iran’s revenge, they said, for the shooting down of a perfectly innocent Iranian passenger jet by the captain of the American warship Vincennes a few months earlier. I still happen to believe this is close to the truth.
But the moment Syria sent its tanks to defend Saudi Arabia after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, all the MI6 truth-telling turned into a claptrap of nonsense about Col Gaddafi.
I know I’ve been gone long, but blame work + working out + a mini vacation up north (to cool things off, of course, but the truth is often far from imagination… more on that later). Okay, so in the past two weeks, I’ve been working out diligently and have been rewarded with a 4 pound loss, and 3 inches lost overall. I’ve been alternating between a full-boy weight workout and running on every other day. I spent the entire last two weeks sore because man, those 35 pounds really rip your muscles (okay, so I use 25 pounds for most of my exercises, but I DO do my abs with 35 pounds! Sadly, that exercise has been tested defective because 2 weeks of working out has not eliminated my soft tummy ).
I was so psyched for working out, and it was working out so well… I am sad to report however, that after the laziness (and a sunburn I got from the beach this saturday), I have fallen off the wagon. The two days after I got the sunburn (a first for me, I don’t usually go outside without sunscreen, but alas, in the midst of all the buzz of the beach, I forgot >.<), I was really careful not to do anything to make it hurt more, so I slacked off on working out. Then, I didn't want to go out in the sun running, and now it's been 5 days, and I still haven't worked out . Without the soreness, I feel so fat. Somehow, being sore made me feel thinner and healthier, and I have to say, my pimples were vastly reduced! The special anti-acne soap helped too, I'm sure. Well, I am determined to get back on track and shimmy my way into those green-washed denim cut-offs I've had since 9th grade. I simply must! Aside from all the cosmetic stuff, working out really does make me feel better about myself; it somehow exudes a sense of healthiness, that eating right can only add too (I still have to get to that stage).
Apart from that, my life has been pretty boring lately. Work is getting tedious, and some days I fantasize about quitting – it would open up time to do so many more things I am interested in doing! But, alas, money is the enabler of all that I want to do, and work gives me money, so I stick around. I don’t know how people do their 9 to 5 jobs for like thirty years or so. The more I do it, less appealing it becomes. However, I must note, I don’t have a regular office job, I work in the food industry, which is laden with people who are too young or inexperienced to get other jobs, or don’t have the qualifications to get other jobs (I fit in the inexperienced category. You’d think a high school diploma would count for something T_T). Of course, the only reason I’m not quitting after summer ends is because I need to have continuity in my resume, and show that I can work for an employer on a long term basis. I don’t think I’ll do this job into next summer; I have doubts if I’ll do it till the end of the semester, to be honest, but we’ll see how it goes.
School’s coming up the week after, and I am oddly excited! I can’t wait to be back on campus, walking through the historical buildings, drinking my beloved Vanilla Bean Hot Chocolate from Second Cup (they just don’t make it like that at any other location. There’s only one Second Cup I know that has those particular chocolate flakes which I like to add to my drink, and therefore I refuse to have my hot chocolate anywhere else, under normal circumstances), seeing my friends, hitting the books (gives me something to do), and even riding the subway . I am determined to get an awesome GPA this year, work out, eat healthy, stay organized, and be on top of everything. I’ve already signed up for time management seminars, so hopefully that helps me. Ah! I’ve gone on for too long now. I’ll post my thoughts on an interesting article about the juvenile death sentence in the States in the next post.
