Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Bad News from the U.S. Labor Market.

Unemployment rate jumped to 5,1% (from 4,8%) . The rate can be rose to 5,5% by the end of the year.

  1. Services : -13,000
  2. Privat service-sector: -5,000
  3. Business and professional-services companies: -35,000
  4. Retail: -12,400
  5. Temporary employment: -21,000
  6. Manufacturing companies: -48,000
  7. Auto employment: -24,000

The Number of people who stopped looking for work because they don't think they would find it (discouraged workers) rose to 401.000 in March.

"Finance and accounting, IT, engineering, scientific, legal - all have gone from very strong growth in 2007 to flat or even strong declines" Mr.Giliam.

In the first three months of 2008, the U.S. economy lost 232,000 jobs.

The Wall Street Journal.

Monday, April 7, 2008

"Drugs are cool"



„Nichuja Sibie...“

... means in russian „What the f*ck is that?!“ + “Wow!!”.

Since somebody uploaded the video with the capturing of the driver in Sankt-Petersburg, wich was under the drugs (police stopped him, because he was dancing by the driving), that expression got a second meaning. Today “Nichuja Sibie” is a nickname of the captured guy. People call him so, because he was repeating this words the most of the time by the arresting. On the end of the video he told once “OPA!!” (means “oops”) and “Param Pam Pam”.

Mr. Nichuja Sibie became famous and not only in RuNet (russian internet).
Dj Lvov (a famous dj in Russia) took this words and created techno-chaos soundtrack to the video.
The Broadcast “Maximum” from NTV (Russian channel ) made report about the life and family of Mr. NS with the interview of his wife.

I hope this example will motivate people not to take the drugs.
Because, as we can see, it’s so easy to became “famous” and be the object of jokes as absolutely stupid idiot.

1. Video with the capture
2. OST Dj Lvov
3. Broadcast "Maximum"


p.S. the guy's real name is Dmitry