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NPR - Looking for a Good Man or Woman

NPR is going to launch a new music operation next year and is looking for a producer.

This is a really exciting project that may well shape much of what will emerge as beign public radio in the future.

Here is the ad

Love music? Love NPR? Combine these loves and help us build and launch an exciting new music discovery site at npr.org. NPR Music is looking for an experience music producer with significant Web-based production and marketing skills. We're seeking a talented, creative, passionate music enthusiast to implement audio and visual programming for a large and loyal audience.

Looking for a genuine fan of all genres of music, the Internet and public radio. Strong written and verbal communication skills required to ensure coordination with NPR stations and colleagues. Must be a creative individual who thrives in a fast paced environment, pays attention to detail, is quick to take initiative, is a team player, and above all, knows the difference between AAA music and AAA baseball.

NPR is a growing multi-media broadcast operation. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including three weeks of annual leave.

To Apply:
Send cover letter and resume, identifying position by number (#DMW1565) and title, to:
NPR, Human Resources Department
635 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001-3753
Fax: 202-513-3047
Email: employment@npr.org

National Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Nils - Santa Revealed

So is this what Santa looks like in real life?

The Truth About Christmas

Unschooling - Entering the Consciousness?

The New York Times ran a supportive article on Unschooling today

With Macleans running a major piece on how we might question Homework - is this a sign that cracks are appearing?

Off to Washington

Up at 4.30 am to catch the 6am flight to Montreal. With luck I will be in Washington by 10.30. It is now possible to all but commute from PEI. The challenge is getting home! It will take the entire day to do that on Wednesday.

Why many women worry

The image of the beautiful woman is entirely manufactured - don't believe me?
Watch this.

Global Warming - Proof at last

Finally, proof that we can all see and all understand that Global Warming is occurring - Thanks Alan for advising me to use better graphics

Complex or Complicated

I have had some biting comments about how silly I am to make a distinction between Complex and Complicated. According to the dictionaries used by these commenters, there is no difference and I am just a wanker.

So in hope of more undertstanding I bring in the big gun - Johnnie Moore.

Here is the pdf of his brilliant chapter on this topic in the More Space Book Project where he clearly shows the difference and the issues of confusing the two.

Here you can hear his podcast as he reads the chapter and if you want, you can either buy the book or see other chapters. ( I am another author)

Sex and Middle Aged Men

It doesn't get much better than this! Craig with Margaret and Pepper - lucky chap

Relationships - Where do we live?

Here is a wonder producing show that reveals the relationships that we have with everything

Relationships - Complex Work - Science - Parenting

By chance, as I was looking for more material on Romanian Orphans, I came across this outstanding series on relationships, parenting and the complex outcomes on children of what they experience. It is Called the Science of Mother's day

Apart from the insight that it provides as to why so many kids do so badly at school, the issues related to daycare etc. It also provokes my thoughts about how we are organized for work.

I hear all the time about Stress in the workplace but see little evidence of the tasks themselves being stressful. Compared to say warfare or a dealing room, most jobs are exceptionally routine and require little skill or effort for a well rounded person. But the stress is real and we see its evidence in an ever increasing spiral of health care costs. The workplace drives much of our adult illness today. This slide taken from the Whitehall Study in the link shows that in the British Civil Service that you are 4 times more likely to die early of Heart Disease than the people at the top.

The further down you are in the modern hierarchy, the less long you will live and be healthy.

So here is the link - if you have a workplace where you neglect the needs for real relationship you will get an unhealthy and acting out workforce.

If you have a home life where this is also true, then your kids are in trouble. If there is no loving person in a child's life then later there will be little chance that he will be able to cope with life and little chance that any remedial action will turn this around. What is behind this bold statement?

The connection between neglect and abuse and a primate's ability to thrive or cope is the hormone called Cortisol. Neglect and abuse, drive the production of Cortisol.

High Cortisol levels are at the foundation of the behavioral and health problems of the modern age. What drives them is that we have dropped the ball on the reality that for humans, legitimate relationships are the holy grail for a good life and a healthy society.

I will come back soon to this and point out the dollar costs to the workplace and to the healthcare system. But in the follow on you can see the costs of abuse and neglect on PEI's Children.