This version of my resume has been through a resume & Job advisor at least FIVE times already so even though its NOT perfect, but it has went through a thorough Vetting process and i have been getting results in terms of interviews from potential employees and usually that is the very first hurdle many people have to get to first.

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I think this is not right. The nobel peace prize is supposed to be immune to diplomatic consequences. I find it sad that authorities around the world never change, it does not matter Chinese, Singaporean, Iranian, African, whatever race or country, any government in power always seeks to hold on to power.

"By NASSER KARIMI and IAN MacDOUGALL, Associated Press Writers Nasser Karimi And Ian Macdougall, Associated Press Writers – 1 hr 48 mins ago

TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian authorities confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.

In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize.

Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts in promoting democracy. She has long faced harassment from Iranian authorities for her activities — including threats against her relatives and a raid on her office last year in which files were confiscated."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091127/ap_on_re_us/shirin_ebadi_nobel_seized

I'm appreciating World Music now especially since i doscovered this artiste, Omar Sosa. Listen to his new album, ACROSS THE DIVIDE!

Yikes! This is awful for any student because if they do it, many other universities will follow suit! We must protest such occurrence as it will set a precedent for all Universities!! UCLA is already one of the most expensive University and this hike in fees adds another USD 2,500 to that fee!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/11/ucla-students-end-a-day-of-protest-over-fee-hiks.html

Yaohan, the bankrupt Japanese retailer is still alive and kicking in Richmond, Vancouver, Canada. Of course, only the sign remains. The actual retailer itself no longer exist inside the mall. Instead, the space has been taken over by British Columbia Chinese supermarket chain, T&T that somehow managed to retain the signage to Yaohan in this mall along the No. 3 road in Richmond.

Seriously, what is this with Twitter on the news all the time now? Everywhere I hear, twitter is the fad now. For businesses, they advertise or make their announcements about their products on twitter. Businesses are even using or encouraged to use twitter to promote employee awareness and cohesion via employee “following” their company’s twitter page. Businesses are also using that same strategy to develop customer interactivity and loyalty by using twitter. Some companies are even hiring employees to troll the social media sites and one of them being Twitter to search out complaints lodged against the company or its products and responding to them in twitter as a complementary complaints page for the company.
Ellen Degeneres, the famous talk show host is even using twitter to developed interactivity and excitement with her talk show by twittering hidden and random locations where she hid prizes such as tickets to her show.
Yet on the other hand Twitterers are being sued because of what they twittered about other people or because of vicious twitters; costing them their jobs or reputations. There was a news article I read once where this server in Beverly Hills, California was fired because he complained about an actress who did not leave a tip after lunch at the restaurant where he worked on Twitter and his blog. I also read that Miley Cyrus, a Disney actress decided to quit Twitter because of all the gossip magazines are taking what she writes in Twitter and twisting it around into the gossip spin machine.
Oh well, guess I won’t have that problem if I twitter since I’m just not famous at all… ☺

Today my blog is about Capitalism. In particular, I just watched Michael Moore’s newest documentary titled; “Capitalism: A Love Story”.
The first thing it comes to mind is, okay, this is Michael Moore’s biased view again on what he believes is the wrong and the right things and he is just presenting it in a sort of factual but also half fictional way. How he presents the narrative is his prerogative. Every filmmaker has to have his or her style. What he thinks is right or wrong, that’s another matter. On the other hand, his view is probably shared by a lot of other people especially after the so called financial collapse of the American as well as the world economies and the views he expresses in this docu-movie sure sounds like a lot of right to us.
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Oct 11th & Oct 12th. Well, Turkey time again. No plans yet but i sure will think of something to do with this Frozen turkey, courteously given to me by Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver as a free Thanksgiving gift by being an employee.

My paper argues that for the democratization of media as a movement to be effective, three major fronts have to be fought at the same time and to combine their synergies. One front is changing the lifeworld environment praxis or media education. Second front is changing the lifeworld through alternative media production. Third front will comprise of changing the system proper through alliances and coalition building with other social movements. All strategies argued for has strengths and weaknesses that are pointed out but combined, will produce the best possible victory for a democratic media.( Click here to read More )

Domestic technology and their inherent gender politics: Women, Engineering and Home appliances



Introduction
A myriad of feminist writers such as Vanek (1974), Cowan (1983), Bittman, Rice & Wacjman (1991) & Wacjman (2004) have argued that household technology that is supposed to improve the housewives life has in fact not been living up to expectations. Thus in fact, the time spent on housework has not been improved upon even with the introduction of modern day household appliances starting from the 1950’s. This paper will expound on that argument and also carve a thought that if women were to become designers of household technology and organizers of household space in their own right, perhaps then the domestic technology can actually be in favor of the women rather than be just another way to reinforce gender roles in the house. The feminists’ aims summarized by historian Aileen Kraditor are the most apt: “women’s sphere must be defined by women” (Hayden, 1991, p. 5). That would be a most visionary approach but I will also explore how even with that visionary idea, society and governments somehow find ways to reassert the hegemonic dominance of men over women.

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