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Hah, how totally awesome is this..

[Thanks Misty]

Well, ya, accordingly to Lifehacker, we should all be dropping the following 6 words from our CV’s:

- Responsible for
- Experienced
- Excellent written communication skills
- Team player
- Detail oriented
- Successful

According to the author, these common phrases are problematic because they gloss over what should be an opportunity to demonstrate something specific that you’ve done. Sure a hiring manager wants you to have experience, but she’d rather know the details.

Interesting!

Cape Town Alive is giving away 2 tickets to what’s going to be an incredible psytrance New Years Party! The best part is that it’s as simple as ever, all you have to do is head on over to their blog and leave a comment – I kid you not!

I guess the only catch is that you have to create an account to be able to leave a comment, so if you’re not into creating accounts, then you’ll have to give this one a miss unfortunately.

Enter here

If you’re interested in the DJ line-up, click here, there’s also all the information you need :)

Google Co-ordinates: 33° 52′ 55.26″ S ; 18° 59′ 01.85″ E

Being Christmas and all, it’s important to know how to cook a turley, so for those of you who are struggling, here’s a video for you..

Happy Christmas from iMod!

“Meh”, a word which indicates a lack of interest or enthusiasm, became the latest addition to the Collins English Dictionary on Monday.

The word, which beat hundreds of other suggestions from members of the public, will feature in the 30th anniversary edition of the dictionary, which is to be published next year.

Though the word apparently originates from North America, Collins said it was now widely used on the internet, and was increasingly seen in British spoken English.

The dictionary entry for “meh” will say it can be used as an interjection to indicate indifference or boredom, as an adjective to describe something as boring or mediocre, or to show an individual is apathetic or unimpressed.

The word was popularised by the US comedy animation series The Simpsons, where characters Bart and Lisa use it to express indifference when their father Homer suggests a day trip.

It was submitted by Erin Whyte from Nottingham, central England, and a panel of Collins language experts singled it out from the hundreds of other submissions because of its frequency of use in modern English.

“This is a new interjection from the US that seems to have inveigled its way into common speech over here,” said Cormac McKeown, head of content at Collins Dictionaries.

“It shows people are increasingly writing in a register somewhere in between spoken and written English.”

Other words submitted to Collins’s campaign – which was launched in June and called on members of the public to suggest words they used in everyday English – were jargonaut (a fan of jargon); frenemy (an enemy disguised as a friend) and huggles (a hybrid of hugs and snuggles).

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South Africa is facing a mental illness “nightmare” that could have disastrous consequences if funds are not made available and drastic action taken, warn researchers and medical authorities.

“A recent Lancet study showed that it would cost only $2 (about R22) a person a year to treat people suffering from mental illness.”

The SA Stress and Health survey found that 16,5 percent of South Africans had suffered from common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders in the past year.

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The flu-like illness which has killed four people in Johannesburg is not airborne but is contracted through bodily fluids, said a spokesperson at the Morningside Medi-Clinic on Monday. “The disease is transferable through bodily fluids and is not airborne. We want to ensure that there’s no panic in the broader public… There is no outbreak at the hospital. We currently don’t have patients with the same symptoms,” said regional marketing manger Malinda Pelser.

Tests were not conclusive of any particular disease including viral haemorrhagic fevers. Pelser said hospital staff who had been in contact with the four people who died of this illness were being continuously monitored.

“We are monitoring those who treated the four patients who passed away but it’s in the hands of the department to trace and monitor families and other people,” she said.

The latest victims at the hospital were a cleaner and a nurse – both died on Sunday. However, Pelser said, the cleaner was not employed by the hospital, but by an outsourcing company. Another, a Zambian woman who arrived at Morningside Medi-Clinic with flu-like symptoms on September 12, was treated for tick bite fever and other potential infections. She died two days later. A Zambian paramedic who accompanied her into the country died last week. Pelser said the cleaner had been off work when she fell sick and the hospital called her home to enquire about her health.

“She fell ill off duty. She had been having problems with her health for months.”

Although the woman had the same symptoms as three others who died, this could not be confirmed because of her health history. The hospital would follow strict protocol and infection control measures, including isolation, if any other patient presented the same flu-like symptoms. The health department said it would conduct tests and post mortems to establish the cause of these deaths.

Those who visited Zambia in the last month and were experiencing flu-like symptoms or raised temperatures were urged to immediately go to their nearest hospital for examination

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Now how awesome is that? I would LOVE to be down there with that diver, sjoe! Thanks, Ruark, for finding this!