Stand Out from Other Job Applicants by Bringing More Than Just Your Resume to the Interview

In today's tough job market, anything you can do to stand out from the crowd of applicants can help you land a job. Two ways you can impress the interviewer in a short amount of time are bringing work examples and creating a presentation for the interview.

Rather than just bring the standard cover letter and resume, you can bring along everything from a work portfolio to thank you emails from clients or customers. Recruiter Abby Kohut says on the DailyWorth blog that she's always wowed when people bring their work samples and is also impressed when candidates show a five-minute or less presentation on their experience and why they're perfect for the job.

The ZipRecruiter Blog also echoes these recommendations, saying that maybe one or two out of every ten job candidates will do a presentation?and set themselves apart from 80-90% of the competition with this effort.

Creativity helps too, as one job seeker created a Time Magazine cover with her photo on it for her "resume accompaniment" when applying for a job at the Time Warner Foundation. (People have done crazier things to land a job.)

Q&A: To Get a Job, You MUST Stand Out | ZipRecruiter Blog

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Interview with a Saber Tooth Tiger

Cave lion(esse)s, Aurignacian era; Chauvet cave, France

From our science correspondent AA.

AA:?We?re in a cave at an undisclosed location on the Himalayas, interviewing Ms. Lilypad, a saber tooth tiger. Ms. Lilypad, what made you agree to this interview after your species has lived incognito for literally millennia?

LP:?I got tired listening to the TED goombahs going on and on about de-extinction.? So I decided to write my memoirs.? Why should everyone get rich and famous but us?

AA:?Were you able to find agent representation?

LP:?(Extends a claw towards an avalanche of printouts). They?re falling all over themselves, but most are suggesting chewtoys as royalties.? What do they take us for, wolves?

AA:?Everyone thought you?d gone extinct.? How did you manage to survive?

LP:?We had to leave yaks alone, couldn?t afford to arouse suspicions.? We scraped along by carefully harvesting yetis, plus the occasional climbing expedition when things got really lean.? Though humans are more trouble than they?re worth, with all that extra stuff to remove.? Do you know how bad GoreTex tastes?? Plus it wreaks havoc with our digestion.

AA:?How did you manage to escape detection, especially after the advent of sophisticated surveillance technologies?

LP:?Whenever we crossed in front of one of those silly hidden cameras, we clapped a paw over our fangs.? The National Geographic doofuses thought we were Siberian tigers (snickers and grooms her whiskers).

AA:?Are the others in your group on board with breaking cover after all this time?

LP:?Most are.? The warmup made the yeti population plummet. Plus made them tougher to chew. We?re all looking forward to real food, like mammoth steaks (starts opening a jar of horseradish sauce).

AA:?But if you eat mammoths, you?ll drive them back into extinction!

LP:?Do you want to have an unregulated mammoth population explosion?? If we don?t do our part, they?ll trample everything into mud! (Sniffs the horseradish sauce, wrinkles her nose).? Besides, you?re a fine one to talk.? Rapacious bipeds.

AA:?Point taken.? Where would you prefer to live, given a choice?

LP:?The Siberian cousins tell us things look pretty grim up there.? Similar reports from the Polar Bear Bureau on Greenland and Nunavut. Antarctica has a good food supply, though the habitat?? We considered zoos but the photos look awful.? I mean, aluminum bathtubs? Circuses are better ? at least you get to do something.? So we got proactive, put together a proposal for cleanup services.? Sent it to big-city mayors.

AA:?What was the response?

LP:?Guarded.? On the other hand, we got eager queries from cartels and military leaders.

AA:?How much territory would you require?

LP:?Something the size of Rhode Island. (Pause).? Per tiger.

AA:?Would you consent to being part of scientific investigations?? Experimentations?

LP:?We?re flexible.? But after watching a few episodes of Nova, we?re really wary.? Some things are off the list for sure.? Ixnay to tranquilizer darts and forced mating. (Eyes correspondent?s arm)? Mind if I test the horseradish sauce on you?

AA:?Bad idea.

LP:?Ok. (Grumbles under her breath).

AA:?What do you think of the transhumanists? ideas about uplift?

LP:?We saber tooth tigers are already as uplifted as we want and need to be.

AA:?What about their concept of turning predators into loving vegetarians?

LP:?Send them over, we can discuss this face to face (starts opening a jar of wasabi).? Send over the guys who think that tiger parts cure impotence, while you?re at it.

AA:?Speaking of that, have you had cubs of your own?

LP:?A few.? Hard to find nice males with a decent genetic pedigree.? Plus they try to expand into your territory afterwards, as if one mating gives them lifelong rights (growls).? Also hard to teach the cubs good hunting habits, with all the skulking and hiding we?ve had to do.

AA:?Are you looking forward to becoming part of the world?

LP:?We do the live-and-let-live thing, everyone?s happy.

AA:?By the way, isn?t Lilypad an odd name for a top-of-the-chain predator?

LP:?My mom named me after the tiger in Elizabeth Marshall Thomas? Animal Wife, whose pawprints looked like water lily leaves.? (Purrs).? She read a lot ? winters here are long!

Lilypad; photo by Peter Cassidy, staff photographer

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Researchers discover how cells distinguish friend from foe

Monday, April 1, 2013

Researchers at UC Davis have shown how the innate immune system distinguishes between dangerous pathogens and friendly microbes. Like burglars entering a house, hostile bacteria give themselves away by breaking into cells. However, sensing proteins instantly detect the invasion, triggering an alarm that mobilizes the innate immune response. This new understanding of immunity could ultimately help researchers find new targets to treat inflammatory disorders. The paper was published in Nature on March 31.

The immune system has a number of difficult tasks, including differentiating between cells and microbes. However, the body, particularly the digestive tract, contains trillions of beneficial microbes, which must be distinguished from dangerous pathogens.

"We are colonized by microbes. In fact, there are more bacteria in the body than cells," said senior author Andreas B?umler, professor and vice chair of research in the UC Davis Department of Medical Microbiogy and Immunology. "The immune system must not overreact to these beneficial microbes. On the other hand it must react viciously when a pathogen invades."

The key to distinguishing between pathogenic and beneficial bacteria are their differing goals. Ordinary digestive bacteria are content to colonize the gut, while their more virulent cousins must break into cells to survive. Salmonella achieves this by activating enzymes that rearrange the actin in a cell's cytoskeleton. Fortunately, cellular proteins sense the active enzymes, leading to a rapid immune response.

In the study, the researchers investigated a strain of Salmonella, in both cell lines and animal models, to determine how the innate immune system singles out the bacteria for attack. Salmonella uses a secretion system, a type of molecular syringe, to inject pathogenic proteins, such as SopE, into the cell. SopE activates human GTPase enzymes RAC1 and CDC42, which break down the surrounding actin, allowing the bacterium inside.

But breaking and entering has consequences. Sensing the active GTPase enzymes, and recognizing their pathogenic nature, a protein called NOD1 sends the alarm, signaling other proteins, such as RIP2, that the cell is in danger. Ultimately, this signaling pathway reaches the protein NF-?B, a transcription factor that instructs the genome to mount an immune response, activating genes associated with inflammation, neutrophils and other immune functions.

Though it had been hypothesized that GTPase activation might trigger an immune response to attacking bacteria, prior to this study, no one had identified the pathway to NF-?B. These results were somewhat surprising, as NOD1had been thoroughly studied; leading many researchers to conclude it had no further mysteries to divulge. No one expected it to play such a significant role in alerting the innate immune system that cells were under attack.

These results could help researchers find new targets to combat inflammatory diseases. For example, NF-?B is known to be involved in a variety of conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis, sepsis and others. By understanding the pathways that activate inflammation, scientists and clinicians can develop ways to inhibit it.

"These pathways might be triggered erroneously because the host thinks there's an infection," said B?umler. "Knowing the pathways and how they are activated is critical to controlling them."

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Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier

Only one U.S. service member was killed in February, but the death toll climbed to at least 14 in March. The recent stabbing reveals the ongoing danger to troops, even as full withdrawal approaches.

By Kim Gamel,?Associated Press / April 1, 2013

U.S. Army and Air Force officers pray beside the remains of Army Sgt. Michael Cable at Dover Air Force Base, Del., March 28. An Afghan teenager killed Cable in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials announced today.

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Last week's calculated attack shows that international troops still face myriad dangers even though they are increasingly taking a back seat in operations with Afghan forces ahead of a full withdrawal by the end of 2014.

Just one U.S. service member was killed in February ? a five-year monthly low ? but the American death toll climbed to at least 14 in March.

Overall, the number of Americans and other foreign forces killed in Afghanistan has fallen as their role shifts more toward training and advising government troops instead of fighting.

But a series of so-called insider attacks on foreign troops by Afghan forces of insurgents disguised as them has threatened to undermine the trust needed to help President Hamid Karzai's government take the lead in securing the country after more than 11 years at war.

The attack that killed Sgt. Michael Cable, 26, of Philpot, Ky., last Wednesday occurred after the soldiers had secured an area for a meeting of U.S. and Afghan officials in a province near the volatile border with Pakistan.

But one of two senior U.S. officials who confirmed that Cable had been stabbed by a young man said the assailant was not believed to have been in uniform so it was not being classified as an insider attack.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said the attacker was thought to be about 16 years old. He escaped so his age couldn't be verified.

Cable's brother Raymond Johnston, a 42-year-old waiter in Owensboro, Ky., said the Army told the family the basics of what happened and that his brother was stabbed in the neck from behind.

Johnston said his brother, who also did a tour of duty in Iraq, was "prepared before he left for anything that happened" in Afghanistan.

Cable met individually with Johnston and three other family members before leaving for Afghanistan and had similar conversations with each ? that the deployment was extremely hazardous and that his family and friends should "continue to enjoy life" if he was killed.

"He was able to communicate to the family about if the worst was supposed to happen, what we were supposed to do," Johnston said.

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TechCrunch Is Breaking Into Real-Money Gaming | TechCrunch

Even though the Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey state legislatures just passed laws that pave the way for online gambling in the U.S., Zynga is not going to be the first to get in on it.

Given how terrible the economics of running a blog are, TechCrunch has been exploring new revenue streams. They may include, but are not limited to, premium Justin Timberlake-filters on blog posts, Path 3.0-like stickers for Livefyre comments and a new sponsored section about Scientology-related hardware startups.

What has been most promising, however, are virtual currencies and real-money gaming. If the hope of real-money gaming has boosted Zynga?s shares by about 15 percent in the last six months, imagine what it can do for AOL?s stock.

In that vein, we?re launching a new series of slots and social betting games that let you put real money on the startups you think will get ahead. Think of it as an even easier way to bypass SEC regulations around being an accredited investor.

Why bother with the $1,000 minimums of Funders Club or deal with AngelList or SecondMarket, when you can just straight-up gamble your seed capital?

Yes, the game on top of this post really works. Seriously, click the spin button. There are real prizes in this, including a ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco (which is worth $1,795). The Tesla Roadster, I?m afraid, is virtual though. But if you do get three Alexias in a row, she could write you a poem and if you get three Anthony Has in a row, he could sing you his infamous rendition of the Sex Pistols? ?Anarchy in the U.K.? over Skype. For every three-in-a-row match that readers get, we?ll collect their contact information for a drawing. And one person randomly selected from each pool will win the prize.

Special thanks to real-money gaming platform Betable and Murka, a social gaming studio for putting this working game together in literally a week.

Betable, the real-money gaming platform, is reinventing entertainment by merging the worlds of gaming and casino-based entertainment. Betable provides the license, support and infrastructure that allow developers to legally integrate real-money gaming into their mobile and social games and applications. Betable is dedicated to providing players with world-leading security, player location and identity verification to keep their funds safe and to ensure responsible gaming. The company is privately held and is headquartered in London, England with an office in...

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/01/techcrunch-real-money-gaming/

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High court poised to upend civil rights policies

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?

Addressing two pivotal legal issues, one on affirmative action and a second on voting rights, a divided Supreme Court is poised to answer those questions.

In one case, the issue is whether race preferences in university admissions undermine equal opportunity more than they promote the benefits of racial diversity. Just this past week, justices signaled their interest in scrutinizing affirmative action very intensely, expanding their review as well to a Michigan law passed by voters that bars "preferential treatment" to students based on race. Separately in a second case, the court must decide whether race relations ? in the South, particularly ? have improved to the point that federal laws protecting minority voting rights are no longer warranted.

The questions are apt as the United States closes in on a demographic tipping point, when nonwhites will become a majority of the nation's population for the first time. That dramatic shift is expected to be reached within the next generation, and how the Supreme Court rules could go a long way in determining what civil rights and equality mean in an America long divided by race.

The court's five conservative justices seem ready to declare a new post-racial moment, pointing to increased levels of voter registration and turnout among blacks to show that the South has changed. Lower federal courts just in the past year had seen things differently, blunting voter ID laws and other election restrictions passed by GOP-controlled legislatures in South Carolina, Texas and Florida, which they saw as discriminatory.

"Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes," Justice Antonin Scalia said in oral arguments earlier this year, suggesting that it was the high court's responsibility to overturn voting protections overwhelmingly passed by Congress in 2006.

The legal meanings of "equality," ''racism" and "discrimination" have been in flux since at least 1883, when justices struck down a federal anti-discrimination law, calling it an unfair racial advantage for former black slaves. Today, justices face the question of whether the nation has reached equality by a 1960s definition or some new standard.

By some demographic measures, America has reached a new era. But the latest census data and polling from The Associated Press also show race and class disparities that persist.

EDITOR'S NOTE _ "America at the Tipping Point: The Changing Face of a Nation" is an occasional series examining the cultural mosaic of the U.S. and its historic shift to a majority-minority nation.

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Pet Battles - Searching for pets question

I finally got into the pet battling, and I've been battling trainers and getting some pets to max level. I recently wanted to get a rare quality of the Thundertail Flapper out on the Isle of Thunder (worked amazingly well against Major Payne's mechanical pet), but couldn't find many of them on the map, and have never seen one mixed in with another critter - though I finally did find one this morning.

So my question is, is there a method to making the pets you want appear? More specifically:

- Will pets eventually despawn and repopulate on their own, or will they always stay on the map until they're defeated/killed?
- If I forfeit and kill it outright with melee, does that help the respawn process at all?
- Should I battle/kill all of the surrounding pets that aren't what I need just to get them off the map as well, assuming they're all potential placeholders?
- I've heard some pets only spawn at a certain time, like the Restless Shadeling, but are all pets this way?

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