alexhomer1

For email you should check out Toutapp, which has worked out really well for us.

GA is what we use for our site though

I was wondering this myself. Surely people are aware that they'll have to go through with this before the initial interview. 5% sounds like people who found another job and didn't feel like going through with this.

All in all, from someone with a somewhat legal background this seems like a pretty unsubtle form of age discrimination. It wouldn't be very hard to argue that this actively discourages people with families (aka older people) from applying.

If you missed it, the "animation" video is spectacular:

http://vimeo.com/74490099#

I've been looking into creating a video for my own project and after looking at dozens of ways to do it this one was hilarious.

"There is every reason to believe [sarin gas] was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists."

Obama asserted something quite different in last night's address. He stated that the Syrian army distributed gas masks to their soldiers before the attacks, that documents show Syrian generals reviewing the results after the attack, and that they planned to continue and expand the attack after the initial wave of gas was used. I would tend to believe Obama because he is much more credible than Putin, and has much more to lose if he can't produce evidence to support his claims.

Despite Putin's call for transparency, the fact remains that he is unwilling to tell the truth about what happened. Syria broke one of the most important international laws that we have, which is the ban of chemical weapons. If they aren't punished, then we are telling the world that it is OK to use chemical weapons.

Putin claims that the United States' position with Iran will be weakened if we intervene. The opposite is clearly true; our prior negotiations with Syria over their acquisition of chemical weapons in many ways mirrors our ongoing negotiations with Iran. We told Syria there was a red line and they crossed it. If we don't intervene in Syria, we are effectively telling Iran that our word is meaningless.

Putin's claims that an intervention will cause an escalation of the conflict and more terrorism are simply not true. The goal would not be to upset the balance of power or to cripple the Syrian army in any way.

Our objective would be to prevent the Syrian army from using chemical weapons again, and show the world that chemical weapons are unacceptable. Intervention would lower the risk of chemical weapons being used in the future, help discourage nuclear proliferation, and prevent the U.S.'s credibility in the region from being destroyed.

"I do know friends and family who have benefited from psychiatric medications, although that could entirely be due to placebo effect."

It isn't just you. EVERYONE knows people that have benefited from medication. I've seen people go from horrible, twisted states of mind turn into happy, functional people within months by taking medication. The idea that this is just a placebo effect is completely counter-intuitive, for too many reasons to list.

Don't believe for a second the idea that studies or science have anything to do with the author's opinion. People have been saying the same things ever since these medications were first released, without any facts or reasoning to back up their claims.

It isn't a surprise that after 30 years they've been able to come up with a couple of studies to back up what they're saying. What is surprising is that they'd be willing to ignore the tens of thousands of doctors all over the country that have seen these medications work, and the millions of people that have benefited from them. Studies have shown that about 75% of patients treated with antidepressants make a recovery. This is a miracle of modern medicine.

The idea that treating depression is a "loose and abstract field" is absurd. Millions of patients suffer from a range of similar systems. They get treatment, those symptoms are gone. There is nothing abstract about it. Yes, patients react differently to different medications, which is true for thousands of non-psychiatric conditions as well. In these cases, doctors also use trial and error.

Public figures against antidepressants are no better than Christian scientists who encourage patients not to seek treatment for cancer. They're also much more influential: they've persuaded hundred of thousands of people suffering from depression not to seek treatment.