Revealed: Google’s ‘two-tier’ workforce training document

Are they just following the lead of USA auto firms and how they treat 3 tiers of employees over the past twenty years? Of maybe the fast food industry that works people under the hours needed for workman’s compensation or benefits protection? Every firm that uses “temp” workers is doing something similar.

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Exclusive: internal document shows how Google employees are trained to treat temps, vendors and contractors

Google staff are instructed not to reward certain workers with perks like T-shirts, invite them to all-hands meetings, or allow them to engage in professional development training, an internal training document seen by the Guardian reveals.

The guide instructs Google employees on the ins and outs of interacting with its tens of thousands of temps, vendors and contractors – a class of worker known at Google as TVCs.

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“Love Knows No Bounds” Demonstrators Gather at Border

On Monday, a peaceful demonstration of over 400 people led by faith leaders from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and indigenous communities took place at the U.S.-Mexico border separating San Diego and Tijuana. The event was held in solidarity with migrants facing violent anti-immigrant rhetoric and persecution from the U.S. government, and an increasingly militarized U.S. border. “I’m here to declare that every person has inherent worth and dignity,” said Joyce Ajlouny, general secretary for the American Friends Service Committee. Held on International Human Rights Day, the demonstrations kicked off a week-long national call for actions called Love Knows No Borders: A moral call for migrant justice.

Source: “Love Knows No Bounds” Demonstrators Gather at Border

How would you make this poster come alive? (LOC)

The Library of Congress posted a photo:

How would you make this poster come alive? (LOC)

We invite you to explore and imagine. Poster House, a new museum, is accepting entries during December 2018 for their poster animating contest using a set of Library of Congress posters. Read more about it in our Picture This blog post, “Poster Parade: Free to Use–and Animate!”

And have a look at an earlier blog post that featured this very poster: Feast Your Eyes: Floating Pies.

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Lloyd J. Harriss Pies. [Milwaukee : 1947]

1 print (poster) : chromolithograph.

Summary: Poster shows George Washington crossing a river of cherry pies. It is a spoof on Emanuel Leutze’s painting of Washington crossing the Delaware

Notes:

• A.C. Schultz Litho. Co.

• Signed: Navigato.

Subjects:

• Washington, George,–1732-1799.

• Pies–1940-1950.

Format:

• Advertisements–1940-1950.

• Chromolithographs–1940-1950.

• Posters–American–1940-1950.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. No copyright renewal found in U.S. Copyright Office (checked 2014).

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12815

Call number: POS – ADV 20th c. – Food. S273, no. 1 (C size)

Poster Parade: Free to Use–and Animate! | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

The Library’s vast, international poster collection is featured in the latest “Free to Use and Reuse” image set. You’ll find much to enjoy from the 1890s through the 1960s among the posters, which promote travel, commercial products, war propaganda, entertainment, and more. We selected these posters in a special collaboration with Poster House, a new museum opening in New York City in 2019.

Source: Poster Parade: Free to Use–and Animate! | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

President Trump Really May Go to Jail—For the Rest of His Life

Nearly two years ago, in the first month of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, I touched off a firestorm by telling the public what our Intelligence Community—publicly attacked as Nazis by our 45th president on the eve of his inauguration—felt about their new commander-in-chief. As I tweeted, passing on the viewpoint of a senior IC official: “He will die in jail.”

This utterance outraged the president’s defenders and was considered outré, even though everybody in the IC I’ve encountered who’s familiar with the Trump case—not a short list—feels similarly. America’s spies before Trump took his oath of office concluded that the Kremlin helped elect the president, and the IC, which deals in facts rather than spin, has never wavered on this point.

Simply put, our president has most likely committed crimes, above all conspiring with a hostile power to boost his 2016 campaign (including seeking financial gain from that unfriendly foreign country), which none of his predecessors did, so it’s increasingly likely that Trump will accrue punishments never visited on any American president.

Just how much hot water the president and his retinue are in came into focus last week with multiple bombshells dropped by the Department of Justice. First, the Special Counsel on Tuesday informed a Federal court that Michael Flynn, the president’s short-lived first national security adviser, had decisively flipped on Team Trump.

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Violence against women: Three stories

Three real-life incidents, which I was a direct witness to, have contributed to shaping my perception of violence against women. One At the age of twelve, I woke up one morning to the news of the killing of my 14-year-old…

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