(the following applies if you live in the United States and I believe some parts of Canada)
If you are having financial difficulties due to the current age we are in, you may be able to get assistance by picking up the phone and calling “211”. You will talk to a person who will be able to match you to social services resources that may help you with your need. You dial 211 on the telephone and you will talk to a person. You can explain your need and the person on the other end of the telephone will find social service resources that may help you with your need.
For details can go to
United Way of the Midlands
Address: www.unitedway.org
Pathway
Click on a link called “211”
(for my computer, the link “211” appeared on the right side of the computer)
You will be directed to the following web page:
211 web page
Address: 211.org
Pathway:
Move mouse over the link called “About 211”
This will open a menu of different choices, where you will find a choice called “About 211”
Click “About 211” link
Then you will get a screen that describes the 211 service
The 211 service will match your need to different social service resources that may be able to help you.
The 211 service describe being available for people in United States and parts of Canada
Hope that everyone doing ok, and people are able to stay safe. Thoughts, prayers, and hope are offered to all and hopefully this crap (bleep) (bleep) situation of the current new age will end soon.
Trivia question to occupy people minds
According to Google, what is the most popular color in the world?
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If there one advantage of the current age, it may be the expansion of connections in the digital word. (Using “connections” in the broad sense of meeting people, resources, information and experiences). Many parts of human society have moved to the digital world that may have only been available in the physical world before the current age.
Examples of moving to the digital world could be
* jobs – hear about jobs be done online
* social groups – social groups that may have meet only in the physical world are now meeting online. A social group web page called meetup (www.meetup.com) advises social groups to meet online
* churches – churches that may have only met physically are not offering their services online
* Career associations- career associations that may have meet physically in the past are now meeting online. I know personally the American Marketing Association and the Association of Talent Development have had meetings online.
* Education – we now have entire universities offering their courses online (or the majority of their courses online) (like Harvard university has transitioned their courses to go online in the current age)
People may face difficulties making connections in the physical world but do not have problems accessing connections in the online digital world; people may face barriers like:
* time – may have another event scheduled as the same time the meeting is occurring
(meetings done online may store archive the meeting that will allow people to access the meeting later)
* travel – the meeting may be too far away; or may not be able to access public transportation to get to the meeting. The meeting done online means distance not a factor; anyone can access the meeting through the Internet
* may not be able to physically go the meeting; a person may have physical difficulties that prevent the person going to the physical meeting; but the person can join the meeting online.
When the current age is over, many patterns of going online will likely remain; people who have difficulties making connections to the physical world; will likely have more options to make connections in the digital world
Hope that everyone doing ok, and people are able to stay safe. Thoughts, prayers, and hope are offered to all and hopefully this crap (bleep) (bleep) situation of the current new age will end soon.
Trivia question to occupy people minds
According to Google, what is the tallest building in the world?
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Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope is that you will find the information helpful in your career journey. As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that helpful to you.
Career associations can give helpful information to people.
(career associations are groups of people who gather together related to a particular profession.)
With the current time of social distancing, you may not be able to physically meet in a physical meeting. You may believe that career association meetings may not be occurring. Career associations may still have a career association meeting done virtually. Check with your career association if career associations meetings are still occurring. I know personally myself that virtual meetings have occurred as part of the American Marketing Association and the Association of Talent Development.
Hope that everyone doing ok, and people are able to stay safe. Thoughts, prayers, and hope are offered to all and hopefully this crap (bleep) (bleep) situation of the current new age will end soon.
Trivia question to occupy people minds.
What is the largest building in the world?
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We continue our tour of different workforce development offices of the United States America. We focus on Alaska.
If you go to their web site
State of Alaska. Department of Labor and Workforce Development
Website: http://labor.alaska.gov/
The website has many different features, here some features you may find useful and enjoyable:
(1) Search for Jobs
Web page gives people method to search for jobs. Here one method to search for jobs:
Website: http://labor.alaska.gov
Pathway
Click (click the stuff in italic)
Job Seekers (the second column from the left part of the screen)
Enter Alaska’s Job Bank (called the ALEX system)
Find a Job (in the second column towards middle of web page)
Then have a choice of what part of Alaska you like to search for jobs in; get the message “Please select an option below to indicate where you would like to work”
Get a map of Alaska; I choose the option
“Anywhere in the State of Alaska”
Then you have different options to do a search –
One option method is a keyword search
I typed in “Trainer”
Then get a list of choices, you see a list of job titles
You need to register with the web site to see more details about the jobs.; you can gain more features to website if you register; and to register is free
(2) List of Job Resources
List of job resources that may be useful to you
Website: labor.alaska.gov
Pathway
Click
Job Seeker (toward left part of screen; on your 2nd link from the left)
Job Seeker Resources
Gives a listing to find job positions
(3) Fraud –
Have to be careful of fraud/scams and other places on the Internet can create problem for you with negative stuff on the Internet
Here some information about fraud/scams
Web site: labor.alaska.gov
Pathway
Click
Job Seekers (the second column from the left part of the screen)
Enter Alaska’s Job Bank (called the ALEX system)
Avoid Online Job Scams! (towards the left part of the screen)
Takes you to usa.gov/online-safety – gives information about online safety
(4) Alaska Times Trend magazine
If you like a enjoyable read about economics, finance, and Business ideas in general, you may find the Alaska Times Trends magazine to be an enjoyable and fun read.
Website: labor.alaska.gov
Pathway
Click (click the stuff in italic)
Research and Analysis
Alaska Economic Trends Magazine (click the magazine itself; on the left part of the screen) and you can then download a copy.
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Some pieces of literature are great
Some pieces of literature are grand
Some pieces of literature are glorious
We now reveal to you the reader – a great, grand, glorious piece of literature
We now read the following:
A wonderful
This has been a great, grand, glorious piece of literature that slowly being revealed.
Stay tune to future posts when we uncover another letter to this great, grand, glorious piece of literature.
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I decided I wanted to explore and learn new stuff. I learned that our local college was having an exhibit showing off different stuff. The Science Department and Art Department were both having exhibits. I went off to the local college and look at the Science Department.
I found the Science Department was using poster boards to explain stuff. Poster boards can be useful to explain stuff so I decided to look at the material on the poster boards. The poster boards were on the wall.
I saw one poster board called “Normal Number System”, you know the number system that people learned in school like 1,2,3,4,5, and so on – very good tool and glad people learn it and use it
Then somehow, I took a wrong turn and ended up in the Art department. The Science Department and Art Department are right next to each other. I enjoy learning new stuff so decided to look at the items in the Art Department. The Art Department was also using poster boards to describe stuff. The poster boards were on the wall.
The first poster board in the Art section called “Hexadecimal Numbers” and the poster board had mixture of numbers and letters and the poster board showed creativity going through an explanation of words how letters are numbers like “A” is 10, “B” is “11”, and so on until you get to 16 or something like that; will admit the artist had a lot of imagination.
Anyway, went to the next poster board and the poster board called “Binary Numbers” a strange piece; had a white poster board that had a bunch of “0” and “1” on it. Which is fine, I found the piece to be somewhat boring, but will admit the artist had a lot of imagination.
I do not mind looking at these two poster boards, I do try to expand my mind when it comes to artwork, and try to experience new things; troubled the artist for “Hexadecimal Numbers” and “Binary Numbers” seem to communicate in their artwork somehow connected to reality and was not artwork; I do not like mislabeling of claiming something that was science when it was art. I thought I may complain to the Art Department but I decided to go to the next art piece.
The next art piece called “Imaginary Numbers” and my concerns were taken care of – this art piece was at least true in labeling the numbers were imaginary created by the artist without claiming the numbers were connected to real life. The art piece had a variety of stuff like small “i”, some sort of cure wave line that is hard to describe. A person really has to see the art piece to see the creativity involved. The art piece also showed small numbers and equal signs. – the piece looked interesting – I would probably add a few more symbols like smiley faces, trees, and mountains myself but I am not the artist. And the artist used a lot of imagination. And I appreciate the truth that this artist used to describe the art piece, the numbers are “imaginary”.
(attempted humor here, hexadecimal, binary and imaginary numbers are real and used in science for those who may not know). (and yes, my non mathematical brain cannot understand it, the numbers written on a page might as well be art work to me).
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Some pieces of literature are great
Some pieces of literature are grand
Some pieces of literature are glorious
We now reveal to you the reader – a great, grand, glorious piece of literature
We now read the following:
A wonderfu
This has been a great, grand, glorious piece of literature that slowly being revealed.
Stay tune to future posts when we uncover another letter to this great, grand, glorious piece of literature.
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Research can be helpful to know what you are doing; cannot research everything but can be helpful to do some research if you can.
Television can have a influence on people; I give the example of the New York Ball falling down.
I would watch on New Years Eve as a child into adulthood the New York ball fall down. I somewhere came up with the idea of going to New York and see the Ball drop in person; see the event live. I saw people having fun and celebrating the New Year occurring on TV and I wanted to be part of the party; part of the celebration.
I saw the New York ball fall down this year 2019/2020 and enjoyed it; part of the enjoyment was fulfilling a childhood dream. I had the fulfillment of a long dream of mine.
With that being said, if the T.V. had said that:
– You cannot warm up when you want (many of the stores were closed in Times Square)
– You cannot eat (unless you bring food along, did see someone order pizza? – not sure how that worked?? But in general, no food is available)
– You cannot go to the bathroom (if go to bathroom you will leave the area; and cannot come back)
– You cannot sit down (may be able to sit on the border fence or ground; But no chairs and cannot bring chairs)
I would have thought the people going to see the ball falling down on New Years Eve as idiots and having a delusional attack of the mind of some kind.
I lucked out – I was able to research the event ahead of time (thank you Google and YouTube) (YouTube video has videos about the New Years Eve ball drop); so I knew what was coming up with the event; I also lucked out with the weather; if you know what the event going to be like; you can make a determination if you want to go to event.
If you do your research and know what to expect, I would say watching the New York ball fall down in person is a event you will likely never forget; I was lucky I was able to fulfill a lifetime dream; and any time a person can fulfill a lifetime dream is something to celebrate for any person anywhere
(I guess technically would say positive dream; if you dream take over the world and be life worldwide dictator; then would hope that dream never occurs)
As always, thanks for reading – it is a joy and privilege to offer writing that people can enjoy and take time out of their busy schedule to read.
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With understanding that opinions can be wrong and/or people can disagree with opinions, I would like to offer one now…
Look at the impeachment process and possible results. I am making the assumption the president will not be impeached.
I suspect that there will be an avalanche of stuff produced as a result of the impeachment process. So, I decided to add my thoughts to the Blah Blah pile.
These are guesses of what may occur – so the guesses may be wrong or right – if I was good at predicating the future, I would be a mega – gazillionaire by winning the lottery numbers.
Helpful to know the Bias of the author; I tend to have a liberal bias.; with that being said, do not like the idea that we box people in teams or tribes of “liberal” or “conservative” (or maybe it’s “democratic” or “republican – have no real idea how the teams or tribes are defined).
Think life much more complicated than having two teams or tribes; people can have multiple opinions on a variety of different topics. And the people I know will respect your opinion as long as you don’t attempt to force your opinion onto others.
My biggest concern about the idea of political tribes or teams is the potential loss of human connections that otherwise may occur if people are on opposite teams or tribes – may not agree with a person politically but may be able to connect with a person in sports, hobbies or some other area of life.
Anyway, here my guess of what the impeachment process may do
* President office become stronger; the office of the President will become more powerful.
* Investigations – will become usual and routine.
People in power will use investigations as a political tool.
People out of power will see investigations as worthless and politically motivated.
Whistle blowers and those in government who say investigations have problems will be reduced.
Investigations that have broad support or done in nonpartisan way will be reduced.
* Government information can have a slant view – information may have a more slant view to those in government; all types of information – history, economic, medical, may be adjusted to those in power. The result is people may not find the government information as reliable or trusted.
* Information will be judged by a person’s viewpoint – the space of information that all (or the majority) of people agree to be correct will be reduced. Whether you view the information correct or not will be influenced by your prior beliefs, experiences, and ideas.
Thank you for taking your valuable time to read my blah blah thoughts on the topic. It is wonderful to have people read my stuff; I do enjoy people taking the time to read my stuff out of the multiple many choices people can read from. Thank you.
As with everything I create, some parts of this post may be right and some parts of this post may be wrong. The idea of post was to create thought and discussion. Again, thanks for reading.
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With understanding that opinions can be wrong and/or people can disagree with opinions, I would like to offer one now…
“The sky is Purple”
When you look at the sky on a clear day, what color is it? If you say “blue” you are most mistaken, for that was an answer in the Old Times. In the New Times, the answer varied upon what the dominant wind says the answer should be. If the dominant wind says the sky is “purple”, you say “purple”. If the dominant wind says the sky “green”, you say “green”. If the dominant wind says the sky is “polka dotted”, you say “polka dotted”. Your answer based upon what the dominate wind says the answer should be.
What is the dominant wind you ask? The dominant wind is the dominant society view in society; it is the view that has power, the view that has strength. The view that gives rewards to those who answer correctly; and punishes those who answer wrong. The dominant wind may come from economic, political, or whatever source it may be – but it is the view on top, the view that has power. The dominant wind is the society viewpoint that the strongest at the time.
You may find the following skills useful in the New Times.
*Able to identify the dominate wind
*Give the correct answer of what the dominate wind says the answer should be
*Alert enough to know when the dominant wind changes
*Change your answer to match what the new dominant wind says the answer should be
*Forget old answers; old answers based upon old dominant winds; if challenge, say the old answers were “false”, “your responses were falsified” or something similar.
(You need to change your answers fast and with certainty).
Some features of the New Times
In competition for political (economic, social) power may have the following features:
*Attack, Attack, Attack – your best defense is the offense. You attack the person on everything. Attack the person enough that the person destroyed. If the person able to withstand the attacks, attack the person close connections – family, friends, close acquaintances – attack until the opponent destroyed and squashed.
*Government serves the dominant wind –government serves the dominant wind. Government regulations, ideas, funding, facts, investigations all serve the dominant wind. Everything in the government services the new dominant wind including weather reports, economic data, medical data, history – everything.
When a new dominant wind dominates government, government services adjust to the new dominant wind. All old ideas related to the old dominant winds are false.
*Marketing slogans are important in the New Times – Long discussion of complex policies and procedures are such Old Times – in the New Times we create marketing slogans – simple easy to remember marketing slogans – pick a few effective marketing slogans and repeat, repeat, repeat. Repeat the marketing slogans enough that the marketing slogans are burned in everyone’s subconscious. Repeat, repeat, repeat that everyone (or almost everyone) believes the marketing slogans. Additional add-ons are to create visual and sound symbols related to the marketing slogans.
Welcome to the New Times – where the sky may be “purple”, “gray”, “polka dotted” any color except for “Blue”
The following was a thought piece of where society may be going; I am not good at guessing the future; and my hope the society described here is one where the society is not going; the writing piece designed for discussion and thought – and like everything else I create may be wrong in parts and correct in others.
Thank you for reading
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