HOW TO: Use LinkedIn’s “Year in Review” App to Find Hidden Jobs

LinkedIn’s “Year in Review” app gives careerists everywhere another compelling reason to connect with internal and external colleagues. What does it do? It loads a clickable picture board of your LinkedIn connections who have changed jobs in the last three years. Right now you can view 2011, 2010, and 2009.

Why do you care?

1. You simply want to congratulate them.  Get on the phone now — before you get distracted.
2. You might be The Perfect Fit for their old job. Get on the phone now!
3. They might be building a new team in their new role. Get on the phone now!
4. They might have joined a growth company that’s in recruitment mode. Get on the phone now!
5. Based on your similarity to the job changers, you might gain some insight about roles and industries that match your transferrable skills.

I read about “Year in Review” at Irene Koehler’s AlmostSavvy.com blog. It took me 24.3 seconds to click through to “Year in Review” here, login to LinkedIn, and then load my network’s 2011 transitions page. Ya know, I’d probably do this once a week if I was in an active job search.

BTW, this app is a good argument for connecting with:

1. People you know.
2. People who do what you do.
3. People in your industry.

It’s a potential source of career enhancing job market intelligence!

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Russian nuclear rocket engine may get mankind to other planets--RT

 

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Humans on Mars and beyond and protecting the Earth from asteroids… A new nuclear propulsion system to be used in spacecrafts is set to be developed in Russia.

The technology will allow bigger vehicles to be sent into space, making manned missions to Mars possible. It will also mean new and more efficient type of satellites to monitor weather and gather intelligence.

 

“It’s a kind of inter-orbital tow spacecraft for launching new heavy satellites and spacecraft to far-destined orbits, as well as to the Moon and other planets in the Solar system. At present we have rockets with chemical fuel that can launch a vehicle weighing 5-6 tonnes. While these new vehicles will weigh two, or even four times more,” explained Igor Afanasyev from Cosmonautics News Magazine.

The Kremlin has set aside some 17 billion rubles to help develop a nuclear-powered rocket engine. 500 million rubles of that money are set aside for 2010.

Russia's space company Energia, which helps to develop the engine, estimates the new spacecraft could be tested by 2015.

Currently rockets use solid or liquid fuel boosters, which are very energy-inefficient. With the new system, once the payload gets into space using conventional fuel, they can then stop using that  booster and switch over to the new nuclear-powered drive that has the potential to bring payloads to much greater distances.

That is something that can help get payloads to the ISS, and this is even more important, as the US space shuttle program is going to end in 2010 and not resumed until 2015.

It also has implications for getting mankind even further to the Moon, possibly to Mars, and even exploration further in the cosmos.

This new technology also has potential applications for military defense. For instance it could be used to monitor troop movements in the field.

But what rocket and space corporation Energia is trying to really stress is the new system’s civil defensive potential.

“Some media outlets have misinterpreted our words on the application of the system – saying it might be used to propel a military spacecraft with offensive capabilities into space. In reality the system will help provide communications in regions hit by natural disasters and military conflicts. It will also be used to avert an asteroid threat and to monitor our territories,” Energia’s statement says.

 

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Second Sukhoi 5th-gen prototype to take wing soon--RT

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The second prototype of the Sukhoi PAK FA, Russian fifth-generation fighter jet will be ready for test flights by year’s end. The first aircraft is being tested ahead of schedule.

The first flyable PAK FA prototype has so far done 40 flights at the aviation company’s facility at Komsomolsk-on-Amur, head of the producer Mikhail Pogosyan told journalists on Monday. The Russian counterpart for the American F-22 Raptor did its maiden flight on January 29, 2010.

The Sukhoi PAK FA is expected to be approved for series in 2015. To date, the Defense Ministry has contracted 100 of the aircraft, although that number may increase to 150, Pogosyan said.

There will also be an export version of the fighter developed in collaboration with India. Sukhoi estimates the potential market for it as high as 100 aircraft annually thanks to its superior performance-to-cost ratio.

PAK FA is a stealth heavy fighter with a combat load of 7,500 kg. That is enough to carry up to eight R-77 medium range air-to-air missiles or two long-range Novator K-100 air-to-air missiles in its two internal bays. The aircraft has a range of 5,500 kilometers and a top speed of 2,500kph. The expected price tag is $100 million.

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Revolutionary railroad: atomic train being developed in Russia

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Russian Railways (RZhD) and the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) intend to create a nuclear-powered train, reports Interfax.

According to RZhD vice-president Valentin Gapanovich, the train, consisting of 11 carriages, will house scientific exhibits.

The estimated cost of construction is as yet unknown, as well as the safety measures for such transport.

In the middle of the 20th Century the transport industry almost fell in love with the idea of nuclear-powered vehicles.

In 1958, the Russian newspaper Gudok (The Horn) wrote that “even though a nuclear-powered locomotive is likely to weigh more than a steam or diesel one of the same power capacity, it can be sent to remote areas such as the Arctic, where it can work throughout the winter season without additional supplies.”

The newspaper also wrote that the nuclear-powered locomotive can be easily turned into a mobile power plant, supplying energy to saunas, laundries, and greenhouses.

The idea of using nuclear power in everyday life seemed very tempting for the US engineers too. Ford Motor Company developed the Ford Nucleon – a nuclear-powered concept car – in 1958.

The vehicle did not include an internal-combustion engine; it was powered by a small nuclear reactor in the rear of the car. It was a steam engine powered by uranium fission, similar to how nuclear submarines work. However, Ford Nucleon never went into production.

US media also speculated on the idea of a nuclear-powered vacuum cleaner. That project also never saw the light of day.

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Babies at risk from mothers’ fears of medical system

Growing numbers of mothers reject the public healthcare system

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Growing numbers of people in Russia are choosing to turn their backs on official medical services, due to a distrust of the public healthcare system. Fearing that treatment by licensed doctors may be dangerous, they risk the lives of their children.

In the latest example, a mother tried to use the internet instead of a doctor to help her baby, which resulted in the three-month-old girl’s death from pneumonia. Doctors say, had little Asya been hospitalized earlier she could have had a chance of survival. However Asya’s mother, Yulia Mikova hesitated too long and she is now facing criminal charges for negligence.

Speaking on a Russian TV talk show, Yulia tried to explain why she and people like her distrust for official medicine:

“You have to understand, we did want to avoid unnecessary medical intrusion, but we are not in a cult! We cared about our children’s health and wanted only the best for them!” she insisted.

“Asya was my happiness! Losing her is the worst possible punishment. I’ve learnt my lesson. God is my witness that what happened is the scariest thing in my life,” she added.

In the show she was hounded as “an irresponsible mother who watched her daughter die online,” after her desperate posts asking for help on the internet reached the wider public.

The tragic story is just one among those who do not trust official healthcare. They may be a fraction of Russian society, but their number is increasing, and doctors are alarmed. Part of the trend is giving birth at home without a licensed doctor’s supervision.

“There are usually three reasons behind a woman’s choice: first is when a mother falls under the influence of an alternative group that makes a business out of it, delivering babies without a license. The second group are those who prefer everything natural as it was before hospitals, and the third is the most unpleasant for us – when a patient had a bad experience connected to the medical establishment,” Mark Kurtser, Moscow’s chief gynecologist, told RT.

Stories of medical maltreatment or even worse continue appearing in the Russian media. An unplanned amputation of a baby’s limb and an alleged swap of a woman’s healthy newborn for a disabled one are among the most recent cases.

Those dark stories often have another side to them, but they are scary enough to make young women dread any hospitals, drugs and doctors.

“People who are afraid of clinical medicine have their reasons for that – they are afraid of the complications they might get in maternity wards, of unnecessary medical intrusion. There are quite a large number of deaths and crippled lives,” explained Dmitry Aivazyan, medical lawyer at the NGO League for protection of patients' rights.

Veronika Titova believed her mother when she told Veronika that doctors might harm her and her baby.

“The idea of a natural delivery at home sounded very convincing to me, until my son and I nearly died in that birth. I am lucky neither of us ended up in a grave!” she told RT.

Veronika is one of those who opted for home birth with the assistance of only a midwife. The practice is unregulated in Russia and skates on legal thin ice, making it open to abuse. Veronika’s midwife barely had any relevant training, but took the money and never asked if the baby survived.

Despite the controversy over home birth, the majority agrees that in today’s Russia if you want to minimize the risk, giving birth in hospital is the answer. But with mothers wanting more choice, the system as it currently stands could do with a re-think. After all it is the newborns and their health that matter most and their arrival into this world should be a happy and a safe one.

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No Japan without nuclear energy – Japanese official--rt

 

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despite concerns over Japan's government hushing up the dangers, the second highest-ranking nuclear official in the country thinks the issue is simply too complicated for the general public to come to terms with.

RT takes a closer look at the nuclear crisis in Japan in an interview with Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the Nuclear Industry and Safety Agency.

“The Japanese government tried to distribute or make available all the information we got from TEPCO [Tokyo Electric Power Company] and from our monitoring assistants…, [but ] we have to explain [the situation] in the manner which people can easily understand,” he told RT.

The Japanese official noted that, despite all the figures on the situation around the country’s nuclear crisis being distributed to the public, it is not always easy for ordinary people to understand what these figures actually mean – how dangerous or safe a particular situation is.

“We think that, except for places very close to the nuclear power plant, Fukushima Daiichi, there is no big risk for ordinary people. So we should make them understand that point,” he said.

On April 19, the Japanese government notified education authorities of Fukushima Prefecture that the level of 20 millisieverts (mSv) per year is to be used as a radiation safety standard for school grounds and buildings in Fukushima Prefecture. This is 20 times the international standard of one mSv per year, which has been in effect until now and is comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in some countries.

The spokesman for the Nuclear Industry and Safety Agency believes that these new standards are justifiable in an emergency situation.

“We do not say that 20 mSv [per year] is safe, but it’s an applicable standard in this type of emergency situation,” he said.

In conclusion, Hidehiko Nishiyama pointed out that, as of now, it is impossible to imagine Japan moving away from atomic energy.

“Thirty per cent of our electricity [is produced] from nuclear energy. So, we have to use nuclear energy in the near future at least,” he concluded
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The “Disneyland for adults”, the first-ever Museum of Erotic Art - said to be the largest in Europe - has opened its doors in the Russian capital.

Erotic themes are everywhere you look at the G Spot Museum. Beware: there is literally nowhere to hide from sex paraphernalia.

With over 3,000 kinky exhibits on display, it could become one of the few fun museums that the viewers, especially the younger ones, genuinely look forward to revisiting.

Following the steps of its twin brother “Musee Erotisme” in Paris, the Erotic Museum in Amsterdam or in Berlin, Russia’s “sex treasury” takes its visitors step by step through a whole palette of sexual art – artifacts, sculptures, pictures, toys, objects, lingerie, you name it. 

The selection of erotic art from different cultures and centuries promises to be titillating and entertaining. Along with the permanent exhibits on display, there will be new exhibitions by modern artists who have something to say on matters sexual.

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Apart from visual images, however the museum could also offer those particularly interested some practical “food for thought”. There is a chance to learn new things, based on the true story of historical and ethnic facts from around the world through the colorful display of erotic memorabilia.

The whole matter of sex is scrutinized to the point where you might feel like you need a breath of fresh air after you have covered just one third of the exhibits on display. Stay calm – the museum is open 24/7. 

Should it prove a success among Muscovites, the museum could become a must-see on the list of the key tourist attractions, along with the Kremlin and Red Square.

Sex was long considered a taboo in Russia, and continued to be so up until the ground-breaking Perestroika era. The climax came during a historic TV bridge between American and Soviet women, back in 1986. When a Soviet woman was asked about how sex was reflected in the local Soviet media, she replied, “There is no sex in the USSR….” 

Films made in Soviet times had been stripped of sexual scenes, thoroughly censored by the authorities. The change came only in the late 1980s when the sex-bomb of Soviet “Perestroika cinema”, Natalia Negoda, appeared naked in the scandalous film Little Vera, featuring explicit sex scenes unthinkable in Soviet times. After the film’s release, the actress became the first Russian woman to pose nude for Playboy magazine.

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Google Tests a New Interface

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Anil Jadhav said...

Loooks awesome.

Please make Gmail Interface look better. Needs a change :)

June 18, 2011 9:18 AM

Anonymous said...

I approve. What does the pencil icon do?

June 18, 2011 9:33 AM

Alex Chitu said...

Good question. It's probably added by the Scribe extension.

June 18, 2011 9:35 AM

Anonymous said...

The "cached" and "similar" links will be available to those who seek them, moving them would reduce clutter.

June 18, 2011 9:36 AM

Juuso said...

That pencil icon is from my Google Scribe extension.

June 18, 2011 9:37 AM

M Haidar H said...

I think it's awesome. But why the selected icon colored red?

June 18, 2011 9:43 AM

Anonymous said...

I like it. I think it's a good sign that Google has recently been putting more effort into UI / UX.
BTW - "new search button inspired by Bing" - how do you know it was inspired by Bing?

June 18, 2011 9:45 AM

Alex Chitu said...

Bing is Google's main competitor when it comes to search. Whether Google likes to admit it or not, many of the design changes from the past 2 or 3 years were inspired by Bing. Some examples: the new image search interface with infinite scrolling, "more sizes" for image search, homepage backgrounds, interactive doodles, video previews. There are many UI features first introduced by Bing and later added by Google. Just install Bing's iPad app and you'll notice that Microsoft's search team creates great interfaces.

June 18, 2011 10:00 AM

nJoshi said...

This is not fair.....

June 18, 2011 10:09 AM

Anonymous said...

I agree that it is possible that it was inspired by Bing, but we can only guess, we don't know it for sure.

June 18, 2011 10:48 AM

Formula One eBookstore said...

nice one, love it, I don't think it looks like Bing, it's a google interface as always, simole

June 18, 2011 11:39 AM

Felipe Alvarez said...

Beautiful

June 18, 2011 12:16 PM

Juuso said...

Now everybody knows that i follow Google geek and Chrome dev relations.

June 18, 2011 12:28 PM

Anonymous said...

Where is the link to translation tools?

June 18, 2011 12:58 PM

multilind said...

type in "gay" and watch the rainbow ..

June 18, 2011 3:16 PM

Z.Andreas said...

Very nice, long live the simple Google! :D

June 18, 2011 5:02 PM

Tecno-Net said...

Video:

June 19, 2011 2:45 AM

Tecno-Net said...

New video:

June 19, 2011 3:22 AM

Sathiya seelan said...

Cool design. Google has finally done away with useless junks.

June 19, 2011 9:25 AM

Anonymous said...

I like the lucky button, it's quicker to enter a keyword and go directly to a site than to find it in my 2000 favs and/or type it into the address bar.

June 19, 2011 12:14 PM

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I just finished my clinical year at a top 5 medical school. The emotional blunting that occurs is tangible, and I have no doubt that this is a real phenomenon. At the beginning of the year it was not uncommon for classmates to start weeping at the death of a patient, now such an event is often met with a solemn shrug. I think, perhaps, that this emotional change is a necessary response to the near-constant barrage of depressing situations one sees in a trauma bay or ICU. Those classmates and residents who have retained their pre-med school “emotional understanding” are less effective in life-and-death scenarios because their personal emotional responses prevent the kind of dispassionate logical thinking that is necessary for good patient care in emergent circumstances.

As for the comments about teaching, most medical schools now have classes to teach empathetic patient interviewing and techniques to turn your interaction with a patient into a partnership. These classes produce students that spout off insincere platitudes like, “that must be so difficult for you” or “i can’t imagine what you’re going through,” instead of encouraging real emotional bonds that will promote patient satisfaction. The humiliation style of teaching (we call it pimping) that you decry has produced the best physicians the world has ever known. Being asked a question that you don’t know the answer to in front of 100 of your peers is terrifying at first, but it provides the best motivation to learn the staggering amount of facts and patterns that are necessary for adequate patient care. A person whose psyche cannot endure temporary embarrassment in front of classmates will never be able to be a good in patient doctor where death, pain, and disfigurement are everyday occurrences.

Empathy and kindness will win you rewards in patient interactions, but those benefits (e.g., increased patient “enablement”) have the greatest impact in the primary care setting. Empathy will not make the radiologist see more clearly, nor will it make the surgeon’s scalpel sharper. As the medical schools produce fewer and fewer primary care physicians (only 5% of my class will go into primary care), it makes sense that we are trained to operate in the high stress inpatient environment. If we are becoming more emotionally removed, it’s because we need to in order to survive a 30 hour shift in the pediatrics ICU where we have to fill out death certificates for three kids or when we have to tell the pregnant woman that her 7-month old fetus will not survive outside her body. I am not setting up a dichotomy, there are great inpatient doctors who have empathy oozing from every pore in their epidermis, but these are without the doubt the exception. For somebody decrying the lack of empathy in doctors, you don’t seem to have a whole lot for those providers who have to deal with sickness and dying on a daily basis.

Just as medical doctors and surgeons were once trained separately, I imagine that specialist and primary care docs will be trained separately in the future. This is already starting to happen in the form of physician assistant and nurse practitioner programs, in which non-MDs are providing fantastic primary care. Those going to primary care can have their emotional naivete sheltered from the harsher realities of illness, and they can enjoy greater patient satisfaction. Those who want to take care of seriously ill patients can develop the emotional coping mechanisms necessary to survive in the hospital.

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