毛毛作业

晔阳

对国内不太了解。但是不知道Public Relations Specialist 的具体工作可以做什么，在国内是不是就配酒啊？

原帖由 羽毛 于 09-2-7 21:44 发表
不知国内哪些行业好些。感觉Public Relations Specialist 比较有前景，社会信息日趋自由开放，不论是企业和政府，都需要更专业的人员协调公共关系。

晔阳

对了，毛毛，你能喝酒吗？

羽毛

我也不是很了解这行业。国内可能不重公共关系，看重领导关系。尤其过年请来请去的。
毛毛已经淡出江湖了。过去喝一瓶应该没有问题。。啤酒
跟朋友一起极少喝酒。倒是跟那些大叔大婶，尤其讨厌敬酒，好象喝点酒才算有诚意，其实他们事业蒸不蒸日上，是不是福寿安康，我毫无兴趣，连跟他们吃饭都没兴趣。

晔阳

一瓶啤酒已经很不错了。比晔阳强。自打毕业以后，周边的女士们一个比一个的善饮。晔阳自感愧疚。所以呀，时时自己做做练习。待将来有碰得着的时候，咱们得比一下。

原帖由 羽毛 于 09-2-8 09:52 发表
我也不是很了解这行业。国内可能不重公共关系，看重领导关系。尤其过年请来请去的。
毛毛已经淡出江湖了。过去喝一瓶应该没有问题。。啤酒
跟朋友一起极少喝酒。倒是跟那些大叔大婶，尤其讨厌敬酒，好象喝点酒才 ...

晔阳

毛毛开始偷懒了？


Octuplets' grandmother criticizes daughterMon Feb 9,8:55 am ET


LOS ANGELES – The mother of the woman who used a fertility doctor to givebirth to octuplets, despite already having six young children, called herdaughter's actions "unconscionable" in an interview posted online.


Angela Suleman is caring for the six older children while her daughter ishospitalized after givingbirth Jan. 26 to the octuplets.


"She already has six beautiful children, why would she do this?"Angela Suleman said in the videotaped interview with celebrity news Web site RadarOnline.com."I'm struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feedthem in shifts and there's children's clothing piled all over the house."


The Web site posted photographs Sunday from inside Angela Suleman'sdisheveled three-bedroom home, where Nadya and her brood also live. Heaps ofclothing pour from an open closet door and a carpeted bedroom, where a bedsheetserves as a curtain, is cluttered with cribs.


Nadya Suleman's publicist Mike Furtney said that his client has been awayfor nearly two months, so shouldn't be held responsible for the home's currentcondition.


Furtney said his client planned to move into a larger home once theoctuplets were healthy enough to leave doctors' care.


He declined to comment on any of the remarks Angela Suleman made about herdaughter in the interview.
"Those are very personal issues between a mother and a daughter,"he said.


Angela Suleman said Nadya's boyfriend was the biological father of all 14children, but that she refused to marry him.
"He was in love with her and wanted to marry her," she said."But Nadya wanted to have children on her own."


Nadya Suleman, a divorced single mother, told NBC's "Today" showthat the same fertility specialist provided in-vitro fertilization for all 14of her children.


Angela Suleman seemed to contradict that account, saying the fertility specialistwho helped her daughter give birth to the octuplets was a different doctor fromthe one who aided in the birth of her first six children.


Angela Suleman said she and her husband pleaded with Nadya's first fertilitydoctor not to treat their daughter again, so Nadya found another doctor to workwith.


"I'm really angry about that," Angela Suleman said of the doctor'sdecision to perform the procedure.


A Medical Board ofCalifornia spokeswoman said Friday that it was investigating thedoctor — who has not been identified — to see if there was a "violation ofthe standard of care." The spokeswoman did not elaborate on the nature ofthe potential violations.


Angela Suleman also challenged her daughter's remarks in the NBC interviewthat she always wanted a large family to make up for the loneliness she felt asan only child.


"We raised her in a lovingfamily and her father always spoiled her," Angela said.

[ 本帖最后由 晔阳 于 09-2-11 00:35 编辑 ]

晔阳

America's Most Miserable Cities

Lousy weather, long commutes, rising unemployment and high sales tax. Welcome home.

Chicagowould seem to be on quite a roll these days. The city is a leading contender to host the Summer Olympics in 2016. The hometown Cubs had the most wins of any team in the National League last year and are one of the early favorites to win the 2009 World Series. And, of course,one of its own just became the most powerful person in the world (we're not talking about Oprah either, but she's close).

So with all of the good vibes coming out of Chicago, how does it show up as the third worst city on our second annual list of America's Most Miserable Cities?

Lousy weather, long commutes, rising unemployment and the highest sales tax rate in the country are to blame for the Windy City being near the top of our list. High rates of corruption by public officials didn't help either.

In Depth: America's 10 Most Miserable Cities

Misery was up around the country in 2008. Market meltdowns, bank blowups and bailouts and cratering home prices often overshadowed the incredibly positive stories of 2008 like the Beijing Summer Games and the historic election of Barack Obama. The highly watched Misery Index spiked as the unemployment rate plus the inflation rate surged to 9.6 in 2008, upfrom 7.5 the previous year. It was the highest annual level since 1993.

Our own Forbes Misery Measure saw a shuffling of the deck among the top 10cities, with five new candidates getting a failing grade this year.Topping the charts is Stockton, Calif., which was the runner-up on our list last year.

The Most Miserable CityStockton ranks in the bottom seven in four of the nine categories we looked at:commute times, income tax rates, unemployment and violent crime. Only New York City has a higher income tax rate than what Stockton, and all California residents, are forced to pay.

Stockton was ground zero for the housing boom and now the subsequent bust. Home prices more than tripled between 1998 and 2005 and then came crashing down last year. Stockton had the country's highest foreclosurerate last year at 9.5%, according to Realty Trac, an online marketer of foreclosed property. Things are not looking much brighter in 2009 as housing prices are expected to fall another 36% on the heels of a 39%drop in 2008. Also, unemployment is expected to jump to 13.3% from10.4%, according to economic research firm Moody's Economy.com.

"We are engaging the entire community and encouraging everyone to get involved and help us find solutions that meet the needs of our community," says Stockton Mayor Ann Johnston. "Volunteerism is encouraged, looking out for your neighbor, and taking personal responsibility where individuals can make a difference. We are partnering with all community organizations--schools, churches, non-profits-- to provide support services and help individuals and families get through these difficult times."

We compiled our rankings by looking at the 150 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S., which meant those with a population ofat least 378,000. We ranked those metros on nine factors: commutetimes, corruption, pro sports teams, Superfund sites, taxes (both income and sales), unemployment, violent crime and weather.

For this year's ranking, we added the corruption component. We used the criminal conviction of government officials in each area over the past decade as compiled by the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice. This division of the Justice Department was created in 1976 to focus on "crimes involving abuses of the public trust by government officials."

A Little Corruption Problem The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois,which includes Chicago, has been very busy in recent years. They convicted 385 public officials of crimes over the past decade, a percapita rate that puts it in the bottom third of big U.S. metros.

The Northern District office boasts of recent successful prosecutions,including "a corrupt former governor of Illinois, Chicago officials whorigged city hiring, individuals who lied about their support of foreign terrorism, corporate executives who cheated public shareholders and traditional organized-crime bosses who were responsible for notorious murders."

Illinois' record of public corruption, particularly in the governor's office, is staggering. Five of the past nine governor shave been charged with crimes, and three, as of now, have served time in prison. Whether former Gov. Blagojevich will do any jail time is still to be determined.

The misery in Chicago runs much deeper than just corruption, though. Unemployment is expected to surge to 9.2%in 2009, up from 6.6%. The Tribune Co. is mired in bankruptcy, while big local employers like Midway Games, Motorola and the University ofChicago Medical Center have all announced big layoffs.

Residents have been showing their dissatisfaction with Chicago with their feet,perhaps fed up by the average low temperature of 17 degrees in January.There has been a net migration of people out of Chicago for seven straight years, a trend that is expected to continue. And for all of the recent success of the lovable Cubs, last year marked the 100thstraight season without a World Series championship. The title droughtis 40% longer than any other major professional sports team.

Memphis Blues Sandwiched between Stockton and Chicago is Memphis, Tenn. The home of FedEx has an incredibly high rate of violent crimes, with only Detroit faring worse. The 1,218 violent crimes per 100,000 residents is more than twice the rate in the New York Citymetro area. The city's sales tax and rate of government employees committing crimes also fall within the 10 highest in the U.S. Prosports has been a mess in Memphisin recent years as well. The city's lone major franchise, the Memphis Grizzlies, has lost 74% of its games during the past three years, the worst in the NBA.

Detroit relinquished its 2007 crown of most miserable city despite a memorable2008 that included a jailed mayor, the further deterioration of the auto industry and the NFL's first zero-win, 16-loss season.

The Motor City benefited from our revised criteria this year (we added sales tax and sports teams in addition to corruption). Its 6% sales taxis one of the lowest in the country. The success of Detroit's winter sports teams more than offset the ineptitude of the Lions. The RedWings and Pistons won two-thirds of their games, including a Stanley Cup title for the Wings.

In Pictures: America's 10 Most Miserable Cities

[ 本帖最后由 晔阳 于 09-2-11 00:34 编辑 ]

晔阳

Exclusive: Aptera 2e

An exclusive drive of an aerodynamically slick electric vehicle that looks to change the world, three wheels at a time.

By Douglas Kott • Photos by Jay McNally, Jennifer Degtjarewsky and Brian Blades

Aptera 2e
I'm accelerating and cornering — hard — on three wheels, little wisps of tire smoke curling out of the slender front wheel pants as steering is cranked in and "throttle" applied. And no, I'm not in an early Volkswagen GTI that hikes up its inside rear tire. Rather, I've been given a drive in the Aptera 2e, a soon-to-be-produced electric vehicle whose shape is slipperier than a Teflon-coated salmon on glare ice, and whose composite construction offers both light weight and impressive structural integrity. Better yet, the 2e is scheduled to begin rolling off the Vista, California, assembly line this October for an as-yet-to-be-determined price between $25,000 and $40,000. Charge it overnight from your 110-volt home outlet, and it's claimed to have a range of 100 miles...in the carpool lane, if you wish.
Pie in the sky? Nope. The business model looks sound; nearly 4000 deposits have been placed (Robin Williams among the clientele), enthusiastic investors are locked in, and co-founders Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony have assembled a team that balances Detroit low-volume niche-production experience with California "anything is possible" attitude. Chief engineer Tom Reichenbach was formerly vehicle engineering manager for both Ford GT and Shelby GT500 programs; and CEO Paul Wilbur has a storied history at Ford, Chrysler and ASC. And Fambro, a biotech engineer and private pilot intrigued by his aircraft's composite construction, and Anthony, a composites specialist with a background in boat design and fluid dynamics, seemed predestined for this partnership.

But back to the Aptera itself. I'm in the pre-production prototype called Punch, so named for upholstery whose color matches that oft-spiked party drink. But the fabric's long gone, as Punch gets lots of track-testing duty and is tuned now with suspension settings and an a/c motor/controller that are nearing final production specs. With the rotary "shifter" clicked to D3, the most aggressive setting, it's responsive, easily modulated and reasonably quick: Reichenbach says 0–60 mph in under 10 seconds with a 90-mph top speed with its pack of lithium-phosphate-ion-"pixie dust" cells — that last part suggesting that their exact composition is a secret.

But flinging it around the streets near Aptera's headquarters, it seems quicker still, partly due to a go-kart-like agility that's carried off with a surprisingly civil ride. Adding to the feel is a view of the road rushing up at you (the base of the aircraft-evocative windshield plunges toward the pavement) and those wheel pants articulating with the inboard rocker-type front suspension, visible out of the dramatically forward-raked side windows. Steering and brakes are unassisted, but efforts are reasonable as the curb weight is only 1700 lb., about half the weight of a base Honda Accord.

Aptera 2e
Earlier, I rode with Reichenbach in another near-production prototype whose interior and exterior detailing is nearing final spec. Entering gracefully through the quasi-gullwing doors takes a few tries, but the door openings are large and once seated, the cabin width seems to split the difference between a Lotus Elise and a Toyota Corolla. There's a large hooded digital speedometer and bar-graph battery state-of-charge indicator, along with a central infotainment screen that offers mind- boggling possibilities. Leg- and head room were surprisingly generous for even my 6- foot-3 frame. And safety is preeminent in the Aptera's design — the final version will have both frontal and side airbags. And if there was any doubt about the strength of the composite construction, it was quelled as eight Aptera employees stood on the roof of a development shell. And that was after the shell had gone through government roof -crush testing!
It seems as if the future is here today...or at least come this October.

More at Road & Track
Slideshow: Driving the Aptera 2e
Slideshow: Behind the Scenes at Aptera

[ 本帖最后由 晔阳 于 09-2-15 21:26 编辑 ]

晔阳

这么漂亮的汽车没人喜欢？