Here’s the trailer, and Netflix has the full movie on DVD now. Try to see it if you can.

Vanishing of the Bees – Trailer from Bee The Change on Vimeo.

Movie synopsis from http://www.vanishingbees.com:

Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives.

Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that make up one out of every three bites of food on our tables.

Vanishing of the Bees follows commercial beekeepers David Hackenberg and Dave Mendes as they strive to keep their bees healthy and fulfill pollination contracts across the U.S. The film explores the struggles they face as the two friends plead their case on Capital Hill and travel across the Pacific Ocean in the quest to protect their honeybees.

Filming across the US, in Europe, Australia and Asia, this documentary examines the alarming disappearance of honeybees and the greater meaning it holds about the relationship between mankind and mother earth. As scientists puzzle over the cause, organic beekeepers indicate alternative reasons for this tragic loss. Conflicting options abound and after years of research, a definitive answer has not been found to this harrowing mystery.

Taking Time to Rewrite That Resume

Don’t let the challenges of a resume rewrite overwhelm you. Take a look at your skills and successful resumes to get your head in the game.

By Lisa Vaas

She never had to look for work.

As a Truman scholar and a top-notch statistics, marine biology and water-quality expert with two master’s degrees and a Ph.D., work looked for this seasoned professional. Until recently, that is, when the bottom fell out of the economy.

After a recent layoff, the overwhelming prospect of redoing her resume is paralyzing the mid-career scientist. Because we’re hearing plenty of stories like hers, we turned to time-management and resume experts for help on how to prepare for a major resume update, even if you’re going to have a professional do the writing for you. Read on for their tips.

Professional, Google thyself

Henry Motyka likewise found himself overwhelmed when he found himself back in job-search mode after a long career as a business analyst and project manager. At first, he said, he was overwhelmed and “failed miserably.”

Motyka gleaned one crucial tip to shorten the process: A career coach told him to conduct an Internet search on his title to find sample resumes. He searched the terms “Business Analyst Resumes” and “Project Manager Resumes.”

Look for the strongest resumes that your search returns for a blueprint of how peers most effectively present their skills and accomplishments.

Talk first, draft later

Cheryl Heisler, president of the lawyer career consultancy Lawternatives, said the best advice she offers resume writers is to “talk first and draft after.”

“There is virtually no way to know what a new industry needs to know about you until you have a sufficient understanding of what employers in that industry are looking for,” she said.

Heisler said that while sampling industry-specific resumes is a good way to get started, the next step should be getting out and networking with people connected to your target market.

Heisler advised asking such people what skills and talents they look for in a new hire. Next, build evidence of those skills into your resume, “even if you developed those skills in a completely out-of-the-norm industry,” she said.

“Many abilities transfer really well from one industry to the next,” Heisler told TheLadders. “For example, I work with lots of lawyers who want to re-career. The technical legal skills they have honed (i.e. writing briefs, drafting contracts) probably won’t sell well in alternative careers. But break those technical skills down into their transferable components and you have demonstrated abilities to research, write, analyze, persuade, negotiate and get to a resolution. Those skills are marketable to most anyone.”

List accomplishments, dump responsibilities

Another way Motyka shortened his resume redo time is by only listing accomplishments and leaving off responsibilities. “No one wants to see those anyway,” he said.

Get professional help

“The biggest thing is to get help,” Motyka said. “Why waste time? If you aren’t sure of what you are doing, get someone who knows to help you.”

An overwhelmed mid-career manufacturing/engineering professional did just that, turning for help to Lynda Zugec, managing director of The Workforce Consultants. He was so anxious about writing his resume, he had pretty much just given up, Zugec said.

Try to replicate the coaching experience by asking yourself some of the questions Zugec asked her client:

• What tasks did you engage in at your prior work?
• What time periods did you take to complete the projects?
• What skills did you need at the time?

The conversation only took about an hour, Zugec said. Her client felt so anxious about the task simply because he’d exaggerated his perception of the information required. “Everyone knows what they have done and the skills they used to get there,” she said. “It’s just a matter of organizing it, and talking through it helps.”

Break the work into little chunks

Life/business coach Julie Melillo said that it’s helpful to break the resume-redo task into numerous smaller steps. Her approach:

1. Sit down at your computer.
2. Look through your files and locate your old resume.
3. Print out your old resume.
4. Google “resume makeover” and make a list of helpful Web sites.
5. Look for obvious resume errors.
6. Begin to make changes to your resume.
7. Show your resume to trusted people for feedback.

“Keep asking ‛What is the next step?’ and write down that step,” she said. “You won’t start out with a perfect resume. You’ll start out with a lot of questions and confusion — and that’s OK. Endure through the process of listing out your action steps and you will finish with a completed, stellar resume.”

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Sustaining the Environment at the High Sierra Music Festival
by Sarah Dayan

Quincy, California will host the upcoming High Sierra Music Festival, a four day celebration of music and positive community approach to keeping the world clean. The High Sierra Music Festival will take place on June 30, 2011, and run until July 3, 2011. Music lovers from all parts of California and the country will gather in Quincy to take in melodic tunes from some favorite bands and experience the energy of the outdoor festivity.

This year marks the 20th anniversary since the start of the Sierra Music Festival. Originally started with one main stage and just 20 bands jamming out, the festival has grown to accommodate over 10,000 spectators. With an outstanding lineup of 50 musicians ready to perform, the outdoor concert is a perfect summer opportunity for people to get out and enjoy some quality music. Bands and musicians performing include My Morning Jacket, ALO, Gillian Welch, Warren Haynes Band, and Maceo Parker. With the responsibility of providing a safe environment for all who attend, the people behind the festival make sure that the environment they use remains safe as well.

The High Sierra Music Festival has partnered up with Clean Vibes, an organization that directly works to sustainably clean outdoor festivals. Not only does Clean Vibes create eco friendly ways to deal with the large amount of garbage and waste at these festivals, it also promotes their ideas to concert goers. Education comes into play as a key component in the mission of Clean Vibes, believing that one of the best ways to motivate others is to show them first hand how simple it can be to clean the environment. Clean Vibes takes measures to make sure waste can be recycled or reused in creative ways. This decreases the amount of garbage sent to landfills, creating a more positive, purer atmosphere.

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Don’t be afraid of this question; instead use it as an opportunity to position yourself for success.

By Lee E. Miller

When I was a human resources executive doing hiring interviews, I almost always began my interviews with candidates by requesting, “Tell me about yourself.” I did that for a number of reasons, the most important of which was to see how the candidates handled themselves in an unstructured situation.

I wanted to see how articulate they were, how confident they were and generally what type of impression they would make on the people with whom they came into contact on the job.

I also wanted to get a sense of what they thought was important.

Most candidates find this question to be a particularly difficult one to answer. That is a misplaced view. This question offers an opportunity to describe yourself positively and focus the interview on your strengths. Be prepared to deal with it. These days, it’s unavoidable. Like me, most interviewers start off their interviews with this question. A lot of interviewers open with it as an icebreaker or because they’re still getting organized, but they all use it to get a sense of whom you are.

The Wrong Response

There are many ways to respond to this question correctly and just one wrong way: by asking, “What do you want to know?” That tells me you have not prepared properly for the interview and are likely to be equally unprepared on the job. You need to develop a good answer to this question, practice it and be able to deliver it with poise and confidence.

The Right Response

To help you prepare, I spoke to a number of career coaches on how best to respond when faced with this question. Heed the career advice that follows to ace this opener:

The consensus of the coaches with whom I spoke:

• Focus on what most interests the interviewer
• Highlight your most important accomplishments

Focus on What Interests the Interviewer

According to Jane Cranston, a career coach from New York, “The biggest mistake people being interviewed make is thinking the interviewer really wants to know about them as a person.

They start saying things like, ‘Well, I was born in Hoboken, and when I was three we moved …’ Wrong. The interviewer wants to know that you can do the job, that you fit into the team, what you have accomplished in your prior positions and how can you help the organization.”

Nancy Fox, of Fox Coaching Associates, agrees. She notes that “many candidates, unprepared for the question, skewer themselves by rambling, recapping their life story, delving into ancient work history or personal matters.” She recommends starting with your most recent employment and explaining why you are well qualified for the position. According to Fox, the key to all successful interviewing is to match your qualifications to what the interviewer is looking for. “In other words, you want to be selling what the buyer is buying.”

Think of your response as a movie preview, says Melanie Szlucha, a coach with Red Inc. “The movie preview always relates to the movie you’re about to see. You never see a movie preview for an animated flick when you’re there to see a slasher movie. So the ‘tell me about yourself” answer needs to directly fit the concerns of your prospective employer.”

Previews are also short but show clips of the movie that people would want to see more of later. They provide enough information about the movie so that you could ask intelligent questions about what the movie is about. Hiring managers don’t want to look unprepared by reading your resume in front of you, so Szlucha advises that you “provide them some topics to ask you more questions about.”

Highlight Your Most Important Accomplishments

Greg Maka, managing director at 24/7 Marketing, advises job seekers to “tell a memorable story about your attributes.” For example, if you tell an interviewer that people describe you as tenacious, provide a brief story that shows how you have been tenacious in achieving your goals. “Stories are powerful and are what people remember most,” he said.

One great example is that of Fran Capo, a comedienne who bills herself as “the world’s fastest-talking female.” She offers the following advice: “Whenever I go on auditions or interviews, I have a “set” opening I use. … I tell the interviewer what I do in one sentence and then say, ‘And I also happen to be the Guinness Book of World Records’ fastest-talking female.’ Then I elaborate.” According to Capo, the main thing in anything you do is to be memorable, in a good way. Your goal when you answer the ‘tell me about yourself’ question is to find a way stand out from everyone else.

And, Be Brief

Maureen Anderson, host of “The Career Clinic” radio show, stresses the importance of keeping your answer short: “The employer wants to know a little bit about you to begin with — not your life story. Just offer up two or three things that are interesting — and useful. You should take about a minute to answer this question.”

To make sure it is succinct and covers what you want it to cover, she suggests that you “write your answer out before the interview, practice it, time it and rehearse it until it sounds natural. Then practice it some more. The goal is to tell the employer enough to pique their interest, not so much that they wonder if they’d ever be able to shut you up during a coffee break at the office.”

Rather than dread this question, a well-prepared candidate should welcome this inquiry. Properly answered, this question puts the candidate in the driver’s seat. It gives her an opportunity to sell herself. It allows her to set the tone and direction for the rest of the interview, setting her up to answer the questions she most wants to answer.

Lee E. Miller is managing director of NegotiationPlus.com and an adjunct professor at Columbia University, New York. He is a career coach, corporate trainer, negotiating strategist and professional speaker. He is the author of Get More Money on Your Next Job … In Any Economy (McGraw Hill, 2009) and A Woman’s Guide to Successful Negotiating (McGraw Hill, 2010), which he cowrote with Jessica Miller, his eldest daughter. You can contact Lee at Lee@YourCareerDoctors.com

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