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વેબસાઇડ પરથી દિલ્હીના દંપતિને જામનગરમાંથી મળ્યા ભારત અને ભારતી

વેબસાઇડ પરથી દિલ્હીના દંપતિને જામનગરમાંથી મળ્યા ભારત અને ભારતી

જામનગર: બાળકની ઝંખના કોઇપણ દંપતિને ગમે ત્યાં દોરી જાય છે ત્યારે બાળક દતક લેવાની વેબસાઇડના માધ્યમથી હજારો કિલો મીટર દુર દિલ્હીથી જામનગર સુધી સુશિક્ષીત દંપતિ દોડી આવીને કસ્તુરબા સ્ત્રી વિકાસ ગૃહમાંથી ભારત અને ભારતી નામની બે જોડિયા બાળકોને દત્તક લેવામાં આવ્યો હોવાનો બાળકો વગર પીડાતા માતા-પિતા માટે પ્રેરણા દાયક કિસ્સો સામે આવ્યો છે.

જામનગરની સેવા સંસ્થા કસ્તુરબા સ્ત્રી વિકાસ ગૃહમાં માતા-પિતાથી વંચિત…

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Government of Canada invests in tracing the steel supply chain

Government of Canada invests in tracing the steel supply chain

$300,000 to help Peer Ledger and Mavennet develop innovative solutions to a government challenge

OTTAWA, Jan. 24, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ – The Government of Canada is committed to improving the traceability of steel in the Canadian supply chain to increase firm efficiency, ensure responsible sourcing of materials, and verify domestic content requirements when needed.

Today, the Honourable Navdeep…

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What is stressing you out?

What is stressing you out?

Being in control

For me, it was when I tried to make everything perfect and as the result ended up to control the outcome of decisions and actions, and not necessarily just mine. It was the time that all my actions were based on seeking approval and showing how good and knowledgeable I was. The time that I had little trust in myself and my true abilities and potentials—seeking knowledge to…

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Politics: Michael Cohen pleads guilty and says he broke campaign finance law at Trump's direction

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, has reached a plea deal with prosecutors. He entered guilty pleas to five counts of tax evasion, one count of bank fraud, one count of making an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an illegal campaign finance contribution.

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, has reached a plea deal with prosecutors.

He entered guilty pleas to five counts of tax evasion, one count of bank fraud, one count of making an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an illegal campaign finance contribution.

Cohen is the focus of a criminal investigation in the Southern District of New York into whether he violated campaign-finance laws, committed bank fraud or wire fraud, engaged in illegal lobbying, or participated in other crimes.

President Donald Trump's former longtime lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, struck a deal on Tuesday with prosecutors to plead guilty to eight federal crimes.

He entered guilty pleas to five counts of tax evasion, one count of bank fraud, one count of making an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an illegal campaign finance contribution on October 27, 2016 — the day a $130,000 payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels was finalized.

During his plea entry, Cohen said he had made the illegal campaign and corporate contributions "at the direction of the candidate" and with the "purpose of influencing the election."

He did not identify said candidate by name, but it is widely understood to be President Donald Trump.

After entering his guilty plea, Cohen was released on a $500,000 bond. He is set to be sentenced December 12.

Cohen is the focus of a criminal investigation in the Southern District of New York into whether he violated campaign-finance laws, committed bank fraud or wire fraud, engaged in illegal lobbying, or participated in other crimes.

Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"These are very serious charges that reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty," said Deputy US Attorney Robert Khuzami in a press conference after Cohen's hearing. "They are significant in their own right. They are particularly significant when done by a lawyer."

How we got here

The FBI raided Cohen's home, hotel room, and office in April, seizing more than 4 million documents from Trump's longtime lawyer.

Those documents then underwent an extensive, months-long review for claims of attorney-client privilege, a process that recently concluded. Only a fraction of the documents were protected by privilege, while the rest were handed over to the government for use in a potential prosecution of Cohen.

At the center of the investigation is the $130,000 payment that Cohen facilitated to the porn star known as Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election to keep her quiet about her allegation of having a 2006 affair with Trump — an allegation Trump has denied. The FBI was looking for documents related to that payment and similar arrangements with other women.

Investigators have also taken interest in some of Cohen's business dealings, particularly as they related to his once sprawling taxi business, The New York Times reported Sunday.

The Times reported that the Cohen investigation reached "the final stage," with prosecutors weighing whether to file charges before the end of August.

How this could affect Trump

Mitchell Epner, an attorney at Rottenberg Lipman Rich who had previously served as a federal prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, told Business Insider in a Tuesday email that if Cohen reached a plea deal, "the most important question is whether it is a 'cooperating' plea deal."

Epner later added that even if cooperation is not a part of this plea deal, it doesn't rule out the possibility of him acting as a cooperating witness in the future.

"If Michael Cohen is not cooperating now, he likely will continue to try to get a cooperating plea agreement by providing substantial assistance to any prosecutor who will take it, SDNY or Special Counsel," Epner told Business Insider in a subsequent email after news broke of the plea deal later on Tuesday.

Roland Riopelle, a partner at Sercarz & Riopelle who was formerly a federal prosecutor with the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, told Business Insider in an email Monday that the brief five-month delay between the FBI's raids and potential charges signaled to him that "this may be a cooperation plea agreement."

"If the matter was contested, the delay could be longer before charges were returned," he said, adding that the recent "silence from Cohen and his lawyers is also something that weighs in favor of a cooperation deal."

Senate intel committee says Cohen cooperated with their investigation

The Senate Intelligence Committee's Chairman Sen. Richard Burr and Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner put out a rare public statement on Tuesday after the announcement of the deal, disclosing that Cohen had cooperated with the committee's investigation.

"We recently reengaged with Mr. Cohen and his team following press reports that suggested he had advance knowledge of the June 2016 meeting between campaign officials and Russian lawyers at Trump Tower," they said.

They continued that Cohen testified before the committee that he didn't know about the meeting before The New York Times reported it last summer. Cohen's legal team told the committee his client stood by that testimony.

"We hope that today's developments and Mr. Cohen's plea agreement will not preclude his appearance before our Committee as needed for our ongoing investigation," they wrote.

Michael Avenatti, Daniels' attorney, tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the day's developments "will permit us to have the stay lifted in the civil case & should also permit us to proceed with an expedited deposition of Trump under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it."

"We will disclose it all to the public," he tweeted.

source http://www.newssplashy.com/2018/08/politics-michael-cohen-pleads-guilty.html

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The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), in an affidavit to the high court, said that the Delhi Police, on a trial basis, used the FRS on 45,000 children living in different children's homes. Of them, 2,930 children could be recognised between April 6 and April 10. via Snapzu : Life & Personal Interests

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FEATURE-In drought-hit Zimbabwe, women's "second shift" burden grows

By Andrew Mambondiyani

MARWENDO, Zimbabwe, Jan 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rhoda Mhlanga looked tired.

Even so, Mhlanga, who lives in a remote village in eastern Zimbabwe, managed to smile as she served food to her customers – mostly long-distance truckers traversing the Mutare-Chiredzi highway.

She serves food 12 hours a day at her small eatery in the Tanganda business centre – but it wasn’t the day job that was overwhelming her.

It was the double shift so many women around the world face – their paid work as shift one, and the second shift of hours of unpaid, domestic work they are often expected to do in addition.

For Mhlanga and many other women, that unpaid work has been steadily increasing over the past few years for what may seem like a surprising reason: climate change.

Over the past decade, Zimbabwe has received erratic rainfall, which experts have linked to climate change. That makes agriculture more unsustainable and unpredictable.

The droughts have taken a toll on the country’s agriculture-based economy. Crops and livestock, starved of water, have died, leaving many families food insecure.

During last year’s drought, one of the most devastating in decades, over 4.5 million Zimbabweans were left without enough food.

Life has become especially difficult for many people in rural areas, particularly women who are traditionally responsible for providing food, water and firewood for their families.

For Mhlanga, the droughts, the lack of stability, and the constant threat of falling deeper into poverty mean she must wake up very early in the morning and not sleep until late at night, balancing her business with providing her family the most basic necessities.

She spends up to three hours a day looking for firewood, she said.

“There are no more trees left around here, and we need to look at new spots. We have no choice; we need to cook for our children,” she said.

With only a few drought-resistant baobab, mopani, and acacia trees still standing in her sun-baked area, many women sneak into off-limits areas such as game parks to find wood, risking arrest and hefty fines.

Their efforts are consuming huge chunks of their working hours, making life harder for them and their families.

And as droughts lengthen, the amount of time they can spend on paid work – the kind that shows up in a country’s GDP – is shrinking. Meanwhile, unpaid work is growing – a little understood side effect of climate change.

LIVES AT A ‘VIRTUAL STANDSTILL’

Until a decade ago, Chisumbanje, which lies about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Tanganda, was a thriving cotton and maize farming region. Now it’s essentially a desert, and a place where women spend hours, and travel sometimes six miles a day, looking for water, food and firewood.

Because only 40 percent of Zimbabweans have access to electricity, according to the World Bank, many of these families need firewood to cook.

Sekai Siyapeya, who lives in the region, often starts her day at 4 a.m. and goes to bed around 9 p.m. after cooking supper for her family. In the morning she prepares food for her children before they dash off to school, after which she rushes to do odd jobs at Chisumbanje Ethanol Plant.

A mother of nine, Siyapeya ekes out a living doing menial jobs at the plant, but the pay is barely enough to sustain her big family.

A few years ago, before worsening droughts began, Siyapeya and her family could grow their own food and had enough to eat, she said. They also used to grow cotton, which they sold, giving them enough money to take them until the next harvest.

But with the drought, income from cotton farming has dried up, and they cannot grow their own food anymore. Nor does Siyapeya have the time, given her large family and the hours she must spend to find the essentials to feed them, to build skills to find other work.

On the days that she goes to fetch firewood instead of working at the plant, she loses much-needed money as the family breadwinner; her husband is unemployed. But he is also one of the highly traditional men – common enough in rural Zimbabwe – who maintains that household chores are reserved for women.

Society still frowns at men who fetch water or firewood or cook. So while Siyapeya’s husband spends most of his time at home, he does not help with domestic work.

Ultimately, men must be part of any solution to cut the time women spend on unpaid work, said local traditional leader Kudzai Mungazi. His wife, Christine Mungazi, wakes at 3 a.m. to look for water before she takes her products, including tomatoes and green vegetables, to sell at her roadside market stall.

“My life is now revolving around looking for water,” she said. “At times I don’t get the water until 12 p.m., which means I have to bring my wares to the market late in the afternoon. This is affecting my business.”

“Without water, our lives have come to a virtual standstill. We can’t do any other activity except looking for it,” she said.

In the past, the local government helped communities drill boreholes to increase access to water. But Kudzai Mungazi said his family had not received help despite pleas to local authorities.

Effectively dealing with worsening drought, however, may require not just well drilling but efforts to change the traditions that leave women solely responsible for much household work.

“Yes, culturally these duties were part of the daily lives of women. But with these recurrent droughts we should find a way of helping women,” said Kudzai Mungazi, who said he helps his wife collect firewood. “The problem of water should not be a women’s issue – it affects all of us.”

MEN STEP UP?

In an effort to encourage men to help with household work, volunteers trained by international humanitarian organisation World Vision are talking to rural communities, and in particular men, about the importance of sharing housework.

Prosper Hobwana from Farai village in Chipinge district is one such volunteer. During household visits he speaks to villagers on the importance of sharing responsibilities among men and women, pointing to the changing climate and the burdens it is putting on women.

The initiative, launched in 2015, is slowly gaining traction. But Hobwana said there were still resistance.

“Some men still find it hard to help women cooking or looking for firewood because of our cultural beliefs. Men believe these jobs are for women,” he said.

Creating effective policies and other interventions to address the problem and improve women’s lives and incomes will likely require better data on and understanding of the hours that women spend every day on unpaid work, including what that is “worth” to the economy, experts say.

“An income-generating (government) project targeting women cannot succeed if the women are spending most of their time looking for water or firewood”, warned Kudzai Mungazi.

A senior official in Zimbabwe’s Statistics Agency (ZimStats), who asked that his name not be used because he was not authorised to speak to the press, said most of the surveys conducted by his agency to measure hours of work were funded by donor agencies.

“At the moment we have not been commissioned to do a survey specifically on unpaid work. I hope soon we might get funding for research on unpaid work,” the official said.

He added such data would help the government come up with policy and economic interventions to benefit women.

Eddie Cross, a Zimbabwe legislator and economist, said that quantifying unpaid labour – not just measuring it in hours, but attempting to assign it a market value – would be a daunting task.

“Unless you do a detailed field survey on a comprehensive basis, you can have no idea what women are doing with their time each day,” he said. “If you then value that at the minimum wage ($250 a month) the results would be huge – (unpaid work would) probably be bigger than all other economic activities,” Cross said.

CLEAN COOKSTOVES

In Africa, collecting fuel for cooking accounts for up to an hour each day for many women, said Corinne Hart, director of gender and humanitarian programmes for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.

“Women can spend up to five hours per trip and sometimes have to sleep overnight in the forest because they have travelled so far,” she said.

More widespread use of energy efficient or renewable energy-powered cooking could help cut the time needed to gather fuel and cook food, she said, pointing to successes in Africa and South Asia.

Many of today’s more efficient cookstoves reduce fuel use by 30-60 percent, resulting in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and reducing impacts on forests, habitats, and biodiversity.

Zimbabwe’s Finance and Economic Development Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, acknowledged the impact of the current drought on women in the country, and admitted there was no clear government policy to tackle the issues surrounding unpaid work.

He said the government was working towards ensuring the availability of clean water to drought-stricken areas by fixing broken boreholes and sinking new ones, and said the national government, rural district councils and development partners were working to ensure the availability of water in stressed rural communities.

But for Rhoda Mhlanga of Marwendo, working lengthening double shifts remain a reality as Zimbabwe’s droughts strengthen.

“Our local river has dried up, and we now have to queue at the local borehole for water for drinking and other domestic uses,” she said – one more hour each day in her already long workday.

(Reporting by Andrew Mambondiyani; editing by Laurie Goering :; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit news.trust.org/climate)

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Minister Bains announces new cybersecurity centre to help protect Canadians online

Minister Bains announces new cybersecurity centre to help protect Canadians online

Today, while at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, met with Ajay Banga, CEO of Mastercard. They announced a $510-million investment by Mastercard to establish the new global Intelligence and Cyber Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia (of which $420 million is eligible under the Strategic…

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Minister Bains to promote Canadian economic opportunities at World Economic Forum

Minister Bains to promote Canadian economic opportunities at World Economic Forum

Delegation to position Canada as leader in clean, digital and data-driven innovation and growth

OTTAWA, Jan. 21, 2020 /CNW/ – The Government of Canada is building a modern, inclusive and sustainable economy that works for all Canadians. Canada’s highly innovative people and businesses fuel the country’s success in a rapidly changing global economy and the creation of good middle-class jobs for…

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Homegrown businesses conquering new markets

Homegrown businesses conquering new markets

Beauce entrepreneurs and workers can count on Government of Canada support

SAINTE-MARIE-DE-BEAUCE, QC, Jan. 15, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ – Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED)

Beauce is a manufacturing region renowned for its entrepreneurial dynamism. Its geographic location greatly facilitates exports to the United States. To strengthen their position in the industry and on…

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Minister Bains announces investment in game-changing clean technologies

Minister Bains announces investment in game-changing clean technologies

Fourteen projects across Canada will help reduce environmental impact and create a more competitive economy

RICHMOND, BC, Jan. 15, 2020 /CNW/ – The Government of Canada is supporting the development of clean technologies that cut pollution, build healthier communities and create well-paying middle-class jobs.

Today, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and…

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Calm?! Who, Me?

When Stress Ruled

Sitting on a bench by the customer service area at Toys R Us, along with my mom, a man walks over and says “smile, life is great!” His comment startled both of us and brought us back to the present moment. We noticed our clinched fists and jaws, tensed bodies and the sadness that had taken over our entire being.

Stress ruled my life back then. And for all that matters, stress…

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It's all about what you do today

It’s all about what you do today

Why NOW?

“The future depends on what you do today.” Mahatma Gandhi

Many of us go through life thinking that we have all the time in the universe. We keep pushing things that we personally want to do back and tell ourselves, “I can get to that when the kids are older.” “I do this when I have more money.” “I can visit such and such place when I …” or “I can write, paint, own my business, etc… when I…

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Healing Through Art

Expressive Art and Healing 

Published by Home Care Services Santa Clarita

A Conversation With Aazam Irilian About heal the heART

Art was always a part of her life, she was the girl that was the decorator, she has a passion for art with a masters in education.

She does paining, sculpture, with fabric, knit, sew and more.

Heal the Heart – uses the creative process as a tool for healing, during the…

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Tech: Here's where Google's first 21 employees are now (GOOG, GOOGL)

Out of Google's first 21 employees, only six still work for the search giant. Among them: Susan Wojcicki, Urs Hölzle, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page. The rest have moved on to angel investing, philanthropy, and for many, lives of luxury.

Only six of Google's earliest employees still work at the internet giant — and that includes founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Some early Google employees have gone on to become entrepreneurs, while others are now angel investors, and a lucky few have gone on to become top executives at other tech companies. A few are happily retired.

In 2015, a Quora user compiled a list of all the original Googlers and where there careers have taken them. Only six of the original 21 are still at the company, which reorganized to become Alphabet almost three years ago.

Here is what's become of the first 21 employees since launching their careers at Google.

Jillian D'Onfro and Alyson Shontell contributed to previous versions of this article.

21. Marissa Mayer joined Google as a software engineer, then became CEO of Yahoo.

Employed by Google: June 1999 to July 2012

Most recent position at Google: VP of local, maps, and location services

Current company/position: Mayer served as CEO of Yahoo from July 2012 until June 2017, leaving the company after the completion of Yahoo's sale to Verizon. These days, Mayer is keeping a low profile, although she recently said she's started working on her next tech venture and has rented out Google's old office, the place she started her career in 1999.

20. Kendra DiGirolamo joined Google as an ad sales coordinator and left three years before the company went public. Now she's at Driscoll's.

Employed by Google: June 1999 to May 2001

Most recent position at Google: Advertising sales coordinator

Current company/position: DiGirolamo currently works as a senior business systems analyst at Driscoll's, a family-owned berry farming company.

19. Larry Schwimmer was an early software engineer at Google. He introduced Snippets, a productivity system, to help Google manage employees during the company's explosive growth period. He also drove the launch of Google Moon, a Google Earth-like service that shows satellite photos of the moon.

Employed by Google: 1999 to at least 2005 (unknown)

Most recent position at Google: Software engineer

Current company/position: Unknown.

18. Jim Reese was an engineer at Google. He was once knocked out by a 200-pound metal beam in a data center that Google was leasing.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Chief operations engineer (and "Head Neurosurgeon" — he was a physician before coming to Google, and jokes on his LinkedIn that he performed frontal lobotomies at the search giant on Thursday mornings only).

Current company/position: Reese currently serves as a board member for Spark Program — a career exploration program for middle schoolers — as well as an advisory board member of Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics.

17. Gerald Aigner was brought in to manage Google's supply costs. Now, he's in London working as an "internet professional."

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2006

Most recent position at Google: Aigner was a member of Google's senior staff, according to his LinkedIn page. Specifically, he was in charge of the data center and internet/leased line negotiations, hardware design and purchasing, hardware and network monitoring, and performance optimizations. Aigner also founded Google's Zurich office in 2004.

Current company/position: Aigner lists himself on his LinkedIn profile as an "independent internet professional" based in London. He is also listed as an adviser for Maxeler Technologies, a London-based computer support company for which he is "exploring renewable energy and wireless technologies."

16. Susan Wojcicki is still at Google. She became the CEO of YouTube in 2014.

Employed by Google: April 1999 to present

Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee, and she followed Google's ninth employee, Salar Kamangar, as YouTube's CEO. In 1998, before Wojcicki even started working for the company, she and her husband rented out their garage and several rooms to the fledgling Google team for $1,700 a month.

Current position at Google: CEO of YouTube since early 2014. Before that, she was SVP of products and commerce, then SVP of YouTube.

15. Joan Braddi runs product partnerships for Google.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Braddi is Google's vice president of product partnerships and serves on the board of the biochemistry startup Profusa.

Current position at Google: Braddi previously served as vice president of search services at Google; now she's vice president of product partnerships.

14. Chris Skarakis led Google's business development until May 2005. He has since founded Blip.fm.

Employed by Google: May 1999 to May 2005

Most recent position at Google: Director of business development

Current Company/Position: Skarakis is the founder of Blip.fm, and also cofounded Fuzz Artists and served as its executive vice president. Skarakis serves on the board of directors for Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Little Kids Rock. He was formerly on the board of directors for the Kanye West Foundation, which shut down in 2011.

13. Rachael Chambers left her job at Netscape to join Google as an executive assistant in May 1999.

Employed by Google: May 1999 to October 2000

Most recent position at Google: Chambers was hired as an executive assistant, and left as an ad sales coordinator.

Current company/position: Chambers serves as a strategy and planning manager at Cisco. Prior to that, she was a program manager for Cisco on Cisco Customer Strategy and Success.

12. Steve Schimmel also did business development for Google and was the company's 13th employee.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2004

Most recent position at Google: Business development

Current Company/Position: Schimmel now does some angel investing. His startup investments include HireAthena, Crowdrise, Roozt, and Guide. He also sits on the board of Airspace Systems, a venture-backed startup that makes specialized drones.

11. Omid Kordestani worked at Google for nearly 16 years before leaving to join Twitter.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to August 2015

Most recent position at Google: Chief Business Officer and senior adviser

Current company/position: Kordestani left Google in October 2015 to join Twitter as executive chairman. He bought nearly $2 million worth of Twitter stock in 2016.

10. Salar Kamangar used to be CEO of YouTube.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Kamangar served as CEO of YouTube until February 2014, when he stepped down, supposedly in favor of finding a new challenge at Google. Susan Wojcicki took his place.

Current position at Google: SVP of products for YouTube.

9. Georges Harik joined Google as a software engineer, and was one of three members on Google's initial engineering hiring committee.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Harik most recently served as product management director. Harik was one of Google's first 10 employees and was responsible for product and strategy around Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, and more. He was also behind AdSense and the AdWords Online system and was the director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator inside Google.

Current company/position: Harik is now a cofounder of messaging app imo.im, cofounder of hslabs, and an angel investor. He also previously served as an adviser to GV, Alphabet's venture capital arm.

8. Urs Hölzle has been at Google for almost 20 years.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Current position at Google: Hölzle is SVP of technical infrastructure, which means he oversees the design, installation, and operation of Google's servers, networks, and data centers. Before he joined Google in 1999, Holzle was a computer science professor at the UC Santa Barbara.

7. Amit Patel was a top Google engineer and helped come up with Google's unofficial slogan, "Don't Be Evil."

Employed by Google: 1999 to unknown

Most recent position at Google: Though we couldn't find Patel's most recent title, Steven Levy's book "In The Plex" offers some interesting details about him. Patel was instrumental in highlighting the value of Google's search logs. He also asked Eric Schmidt if he could share his office, shortly after Schmidt had joined the company as CEO (Schmidt said yes because he thought it would be "un-Googley" to say no).

Current Company/Position: Unknown.

6. Harry Cheung was an original Google engineer.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to December 2004

Most recent position at Google: Cheung served as a software engineer at Google. His nickname used to be Harry "Spider-Man" Cheung because he was a "crawl" engineer, monitoring the progress of Google's "spiders" as they indexed the web.

Current company/position: These days, Cheung is an angel investor in startups including Caviar, Qwiki, Badgeville, and PrePay. He's also a founder at Roostify, a home-lending startup.

5. Ray Sidney was a software engineer at Google — he left 18 months before the IPO.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to March 2003 (he left about 18 months before the IPO, which made him quite wealthy).

Most recent position at Google: Software engineer

Current company/position: Sidney is the co-owner of The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain as well as Big George Ventures, a sustainable real-estate developer. He's also a triathlete and an amateur pilot, and he once donated $1 million to help launch a public bus service near Lake Tahoe, according to CNET.

4. Heather Cairns was an HR manager at Google.

Employed by Google: 1998 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Cairns was an HR manager who hired Google's first 200 employees.

Current company/position: Cairns was previously an angel investor who provided funding for women-led companies that are pursuing social ventures. Her LinkedIn now lists her as the president of Coastal Streets, a small real-estate development company in Massachusetts.

3. Craig Silverstein was Larry Page and Sergey Brin's first hire.

Employed by Google: 1998 to 2012

Most recent position at Google: Silverstein worked on various projects, including mentoring engineers and serving as technology director. As Google's third employee, he helped actually build the search engine.

Current company/position: Silverstein now serves as dean of infrastructure at Khan Academy.

2. Sergey Brin is the cofounder of Google and serves as the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Employed by Google: 1998 to present

Current position at Google: Besides any cofounder duties, Sergey Brin was overseeing Google X, the company's "moonshot factory," until Google's reorganization in August 2015. Now, Brin is president of Alphabet, Google's parent company.

1. Larry Page is the cofounder of Google and the CEO of Alphabet.

Employed by Google: 1998 to present

Current position at Google: Page helped found Google. After Google's reorganization, Page became CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

source https://www.newssplashy.com/2018/06/tech-heres-where-googles-first-21_26.html

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Tech: Here's where Google's first 21 employees are now (GOOG, GOOGL)

Out of Google's first 21 employees, only six still work for the search giant. Among them: Susan Wojcicki, Urs Hölzle, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page. The rest have moved on to angel investing, philanthropy, and for many, lives of luxury.

Only six of Google's earliest employees still work at the internet giant — and that includes founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Some early Google employees have gone on to become entrepreneurs, while others are now angel investors, and a lucky few have gone on to become top executives at other tech companies. A few are happily retired.

In 2015, a Quora user compiled a list of all the original Googlers and where there careers have taken them. Only six of the original 21 are still at the company, which reorganized to become Alphabet almost three years ago.

Here is what's become of the first 21 employees since launching their careers at Google.

Jillian D'Onfro and Alyson Shontell contributed to previous versions of this article.

21. Marissa Mayer joined Google as a software engineer, then became CEO of Yahoo.

Employed by Google: June 1999 to July 2012

Most recent position at Google: VP of local, maps, and location services

Current company/position: Mayer served as CEO of Yahoo from July 2012 until June 2017, leaving the company after the completion of Yahoo's sale to Verizon. These days, Mayer is keeping a low profile, although she recently said she's started working on her next tech venture and has rented out Google's old office, the place she started her career in 1999.

20. Kendra DiGirolamo joined Google as an ad sales coordinator and left three years before the company went public. Now she's at Driscoll's.

Employed by Google: June 1999 to May 2001

Most recent position at Google: Advertising sales coordinator

Current company/position: DiGirolamo currently works as a senior business systems analyst at Driscoll's, a family-owned berry farming company.

19. Larry Schwimmer was an early software engineer at Google. He introduced Snippets, a productivity system, to help Google manage employees during the company's explosive growth period. He also drove the launch of Google Moon, a Google Earth-like service that shows satellite photos of the moon.

Employed by Google: 1999 to at least 2005 (unknown)

Most recent position at Google: Software engineer

Current company/position: Unknown.

18. Jim Reese was an engineer at Google. He was once knocked out by a 200-pound metal beam in a data center that Google was leasing.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Chief operations engineer (and "Head Neurosurgeon" — he was a physician before coming to Google, and jokes on his LinkedIn that he performed frontal lobotomies at the search giant on Thursday mornings only).

Current company/position: Reese currently serves as a board member for Spark Program — a career exploration program for middle schoolers — as well as an advisory board member of Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics.

17. Gerald Aigner was brought in to manage Google's supply costs. Now, he's in London working as an "internet professional."

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2006

Most recent position at Google: Aigner was a member of Google's senior staff, according to his LinkedIn page. Specifically, he was in charge of the data center and internet/leased line negotiations, hardware design and purchasing, hardware and network monitoring, and performance optimizations. Aigner also founded Google's Zurich office in 2004.

Current company/position: Aigner lists himself on his LinkedIn profile as an "independent internet professional" based in London. He is also listed as an adviser for Maxeler Technologies, a London-based computer support company for which he is "exploring renewable energy and wireless technologies."

16. Susan Wojcicki is still at Google. She became the CEO of YouTube in 2014.

Employed by Google: April 1999 to present

Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee, and she followed Google's ninth employee, Salar Kamangar, as YouTube's CEO. In 1998, before Wojcicki even started working for the company, she and her husband rented out their garage and several rooms to the fledgling Google team for $1,700 a month.

Current position at Google: CEO of YouTube since early 2014. Before that, she was SVP of products and commerce, then SVP of YouTube.

15. Joan Braddi runs product partnerships for Google.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Braddi is Google's vice president of product partnerships and serves on the board of the biochemistry startup Profusa.

Current position at Google: Braddi previously served as vice president of search services at Google; now she's vice president of product partnerships.

14. Chris Skarakis led Google's business development until May 2005. He has since founded Blip.fm.

Employed by Google: May 1999 to May 2005

Most recent position at Google: Director of business development

Current Company/Position: Skarakis is the founder of Blip.fm, and also cofounded Fuzz Artists and served as its executive vice president. Skarakis serves on the board of directors for Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Little Kids Rock. He was formerly on the board of directors for the Kanye West Foundation, which shut down in 2011.

13. Rachael Chambers left her job at Netscape to join Google as an executive assistant in May 1999.

Employed by Google: May 1999 to October 2000

Most recent position at Google: Chambers was hired as an executive assistant, and left as an ad sales coordinator.

Current company/position: Chambers serves as a strategy and planning manager at Cisco. Prior to that, she was a program manager for Cisco on Cisco Customer Strategy and Success.

12. Steve Schimmel also did business development for Google and was the company's 13th employee.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2004

Most recent position at Google: Business development

Current Company/Position: Schimmel now does some angel investing. His startup investments include HireAthena, Crowdrise, Roozt, and Guide. He also sits on the board of Airspace Systems, a venture-backed startup that makes specialized drones.

11. Omid Kordestani worked at Google for nearly 16 years before leaving to join Twitter.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to August 2015

Most recent position at Google: Chief Business Officer and senior adviser

Current company/position: Kordestani left Google in October 2015 to join Twitter as executive chairman. He bought nearly $2 million worth of Twitter stock in 2016.

10. Salar Kamangar used to be CEO of YouTube.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Kamangar served as CEO of YouTube until February 2014, when he stepped down, supposedly in favor of finding a new challenge at Google. Susan Wojcicki took his place.

Current position at Google: SVP of products for YouTube.

9. Georges Harik joined Google as a software engineer, and was one of three members on Google's initial engineering hiring committee.

Employed by Google: 1999 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Harik most recently served as product management director. Harik was one of Google's first 10 employees and was responsible for product and strategy around Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, and more. He was also behind AdSense and the AdWords Online system and was the director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator inside Google.

Current company/position: Harik is now a cofounder of messaging app imo.im, cofounder of hslabs, and an angel investor. He also previously served as an adviser to GV, Alphabet's venture capital arm.

8. Urs Hölzle has been at Google for almost 20 years.

Employed by Google: 1999 to present

Current position at Google: Hölzle is SVP of technical infrastructure, which means he oversees the design, installation, and operation of Google's servers, networks, and data centers. Before he joined Google in 1999, Holzle was a computer science professor at the UC Santa Barbara.

7. Amit Patel was a top Google engineer and helped come up with Google's unofficial slogan, "Don't Be Evil."

Employed by Google: 1999 to unknown

Most recent position at Google: Though we couldn't find Patel's most recent title, Steven Levy's book "In The Plex" offers some interesting details about him. Patel was instrumental in highlighting the value of Google's search logs. He also asked Eric Schmidt if he could share his office, shortly after Schmidt had joined the company as CEO (Schmidt said yes because he thought it would be "un-Googley" to say no).

Current Company/Position: Unknown.

6. Harry Cheung was an original Google engineer.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to December 2004

Most recent position at Google: Cheung served as a software engineer at Google. His nickname used to be Harry "Spider-Man" Cheung because he was a "crawl" engineer, monitoring the progress of Google's "spiders" as they indexed the web.

Current company/position: These days, Cheung is an angel investor in startups including Caviar, Qwiki, Badgeville, and PrePay. He's also a founder at Roostify, a home-lending startup.

5. Ray Sidney was a software engineer at Google — he left 18 months before the IPO.

Employed by Google: January 1999 to March 2003 (he left about 18 months before the IPO, which made him quite wealthy).

Most recent position at Google: Software engineer

Current company/position: Sidney is the co-owner of The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain as well as Big George Ventures, a sustainable real-estate developer. He's also a triathlete and an amateur pilot, and he once donated $1 million to help launch a public bus service near Lake Tahoe, according to CNET.

4. Heather Cairns was an HR manager at Google.

Employed by Google: 1998 to 2005

Most recent position at Google: Cairns was an HR manager who hired Google's first 200 employees.

Current company/position: Cairns was previously an angel investor who provided funding for women-led companies that are pursuing social ventures. Her LinkedIn now lists her as the president of Coastal Streets, a small real-estate development company in Massachusetts.

3. Craig Silverstein was Larry Page and Sergey Brin's first hire.

Employed by Google: 1998 to 2012

Most recent position at Google: Silverstein worked on various projects, including mentoring engineers and serving as technology director. As Google's third employee, he helped actually build the search engine.

Current company/position: Silverstein now serves as dean of infrastructure at Khan Academy.

2. Sergey Brin is the cofounder of Google and serves as the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Employed by Google: 1998 to present

Current position at Google: Besides any cofounder duties, Sergey Brin was overseeing Google X, the company's "moonshot factory," until Google's reorganization in August 2015. Now, Brin is president of Alphabet, Google's parent company.

1. Larry Page is the cofounder of Google and the CEO of Alphabet.

Employed by Google: 1998 to present

Current position at Google: Page helped found Google. After Google's reorganization, Page became CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

source https://www.newssplashy.com/2018/06/tech-heres-where-googles-first-21.html

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Buhari: 10 things we learnt from president's democracy day speech

Here are the 10 lessons we noted from President Buhari's democracy day address.

President Muhammadu Buhari has just addressed the nation on the occasion of Nigeria’s 19th Democracy Day commemoration.

Here are 10 lessons we drew from a speech that lasted 25 minutes.

1. Buhari says the change the APC promised is well on course

 If you thought the APC change agenda has been an illusion, here’s Buhari to placate you.

“This administration came at a time that Nigerians needed Change, the Change we promised and the Change we continue to deliver. We have faced a lot of challenges on this journey and Nigerians have stood by us in achieving the three cardinal points of this administration namely; Security, Corruption and the Economy”.

2. Buhari scores his government high on war against Boko Haram.

According to the president, Boko Haram was almost seizing the entire country before the APC led administration took over in 2015.

“Before this administration came into being 3 years ago, Boko Haram held large areas of land spanning several Local Governments in the North East”, Buhari said.

“Today, the capacity of the insurgents has been degraded leading to the re-establishment of authority of government and the release of captives including, happily, 106 Chibok and 104 Dapchi girls, and over 16,000 other persons held by the Boko Haram”, the president added.

3. Buhari says power supply has improved

The president said, “in the area of power generation, Nigerians from all parts of the country continue to report better power supply and less use of generators. This underscores the effectiveness of the methodical plan to deliver incremental and uninterrupted power supply to our homes, markets, offices and factories.

“The country achieved 5, 222.3 MW representing the highest peak of power generated onto the national grid and delivered to customers in December, 2017.

“With new facilities, repairs and rehabilitations by government and private investors, generation capability now exceeds 7,500 MW”.

4. Buhari says his administration is winning the corruption war

According to the president; “Like I have always said, if we don’t kill corruption, corruption will destroy the country. Three years into this administration, Nigerians and the international community have begun to applaud our policies and determination to fight corruption.

“We are more than ever before determined to win this war, however hard the road is. I therefore appeal to all well-meaning Nigerians to continue to support us in this fight”.

5. Killer herdsmen and their sponsors will be hounded and made to face full wrath of the law

Killer herdsmen have been on a rampage across Nigeria. Buhari says their time is now up.

In the president’s words: “The unfortunate incidences of kidnappings, herdsmen and farmers clashes in several communities which have led to high number of fatalities and loss of properties across the country is being addressed and the identified culprits and their sponsors shall be made to face the full wrath of the law”.

6. Criminal elements and insurgents across the country are in for a rough time

In the words of the nation’s Commander-in-Chief; “This administration is pained over the grievous loss of lives and properties occasioned by the carnage of insurgency and other forms of criminality in the country.

“I wish to assure Nigerians that we will not rest until all criminal elements and their sponsors are brought to justice. Government is boosting the capacity of our security agencies through recruitment of more personnel, training and procurement of modern equipment, enhancement of intelligence gathering as well as boosting their morale in the face of daunting challenges”.

7. Buhari says the economy is doing well

The president said; “The National Bureau of Statistics reports that the economy grew by 1.95% in 1st quarter 2018, which is a good performance when viewed against -0.91 in 1st quarter 2017 and -0.67% in 1st quarter 2016 respectively.

“Our foreign reserve has improved significantly to 47.5 billion USD as of May, 2018 as against 29.6 billion USD in 2015. The inflationary rate has consistently declined every month since January, 2017”.

8. Buhari says he’s for young people seeking political offices

As it stands, there’s the age barrier for young people who want to make a difference by going into politics.

A “Not too young to run” bill has been passed by the national assembly and Buhari says he won’t hesitate to sign same when the bill arrives his desk.

The bill was passed by the national assembly in July 2017, with amendments made to Sections 65, 106, 131, 177 of the Constitution.

These amendments seek to reduce the age qualification for president from 40 to 30; governor from 35 to 30; senator from 35 to 30; House of Representatives membership from 30 to 25 and State House of Assembly membership from 30 to 25.

“In few days to come, I will be joined by many promising young Nigerians to sign into law the “Not Too Young to Run” Bill 36”, Buhari promised.

9. Buhari appreciates women and mothers

The president said: “It is pertinent to also make mention of the immeasurable contributions of the Nigerian woman to national development and advancement of democracy, over the last three years.

The government and people appreciate you all as mothers of our great country”.

10. Buhari wants you to behave yourself with elections coming

Here’s an admonition from the nation’s number one citizen: "Let me use this opportunity to urge us all to conduct ourselves, our wards and our constituencies with the utmost sense of fairness, justice and peaceful co-existence such that we will have not only hitch free elections but also a credible and violence free process”.

source http://www.newssplashy.com/2018/05/buhari-10-things-we-learnt-from.html