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Survival Mode
Over the holidays, the college kids trooped home, looked around, and wondered what had changed. At least mine did. She asked if I was working more hours and why we focused on more personal, less expensive gifts. There was the unspoken question of what had happened to my career path…had I taken the wrong job or something? I mean, like, whatever.
It's possible that the contracting work isn't good for us long term since the jobs are somewhat lower-level, but we all know it's necessary. At this time in history, career takes a back seat to food on the table, but still the question lingers – Are you committing career suicide by taking a job for which you feel grossly overqualified?
The mind of a hiring manager is a mysterious thing, but this recent article on CNNMoney.com shows that experts believe it's not seen as career suicide. It's survival.
Some points:
•In today's economy and with current unemployment rates, companies will not penalize job seekers for taking a job to put food on the table.
•Working through a contracting firm is a great way to get your name and skills out there. A short term position can get the proverbial foot in the door, and while we are all waiting out the slump, we are proving ourselves in real terms to the decision makers. A short term contract led to my last career position, which kept us in milk and bread for over a dozen years.
Other salient points:
•Be honest in the resume and interviews about recent job changes, and discuss what these jobs taught. If it's working the support desk at BigRetailBoxStore-dot-Com, talk about how your customer service skills have improved. If the only work available was to be the Cable Guy, then stress the new found appreciation for the hard work of midnight changes and surviving extreme conditions. Whatever it is, we're learning something that will make us a better employee and a better person.
Experience gained during this recession can show employers how essential we can be to the IT department. Being adaptive, flexible, and creative have always been the real skills underlying all the tech-speak. Here's our chance to prove it.
Click Happy
Sometimes I forget that it's SO entertaining to watch someone clicking like mad around the computer screen, pressing extra hard on the virtual buttons, fiercely demanding that something, anything, happen.
They're Click Happy
Calling them Click-Happy is of course ironic, it's the opposite of happiness. Except we get to have a moment of schadenfreude, with a side of smug. It's the IT version of watching delusional victims in slasher movies, wildly fending off bugs or bats or whatever they think is crawling up their bodies. We'd never fall for that.
But wait…there's more! Aren't we all clicking along, trying to get our various critical apps and enterprise systems to do what we really want? Doesn't it seem just as pointless, and isn't there the nagging suspicion the vendors and BIG IT Companies are online and watching us from their shiny glass towers, like a galactic focus group chuckling and feeling expansively smug while we keep begging for better features and more responsiveness; clicking – clicking helplessly from one painfully disappointing upgrade to the next.
But why the Aych-Ee-double-hockey-sticks are we still waiting for IT solutions we really need to finally get done? I'm a patient guy, a man with a slow hand. But every time I get involved in another upgrade or consolidation project, these same business needs rear their ugly heads:
1. Virtualize everything. It is the solution to most of our ills: Availability, Cost Containment, Time to Market, Centralized Systems Management. Every CIO, every data center manager, every system admin, and certainly every business customer wants this. But (again with the but…) are we allowed to? How about our databases (Nope) or messaging (nope) or our most critical ERP apps (nope) or, ok, ok, wait. Here's an easy one, how about all our web applications (uh, nope, not all of 'em).
I know that in the trenches, under cover of darkness, we virtualize anyway, even though the vendors claim they won't support it. That's the relationship we have now. We sign agreements then sneak around behind the scenes doing what business demands.
Bottom line, the vendors need to step up and do the right thing, and stop playing marketing games or weaseling on their obligation to respect what their customers demand.
It's the post-9/11 thing to do, so Let Us Virtualize Everything.
2. Stop pop-ups. My teeth are grinding now, thinking of all the online applications, resume data and personal info I've entered on various sites, just to have it all wiped because someone programmed a "helpful" command that is (of course!) blocked by my browser.
Listen up; this is our 4 1/2 word manifesto:
We don't want pop-ups.
We've all blocked them so stop forcing us (especially job sites and applications) to unblock, reload the page and lose all our responses. I'm not a programmer, but I know there are options other than making me dump a perfectly good page full of carefully considered answers, just to let your pet circa-1999 script run a pop-up. I need the job, but do you have to add the humiliation of constantly re-answering those invasive questions?
C'mon people!
3. Remote Access. Please, please install enough VPN routers to handle the load. Every respected business has a viable DR plan. Why can't that include an option for the whole workforce to connect and work from Starbucks on a snow day? What's the downside…too much productivity and convenience? We all work through conference calls and desktop sharing anyway, let go of the brick-and-mortar old school management mentality.
I was in California during the San Diego fires of '07, and at least one major SoCal company kept its virtual doors open, because they had scaled up remote access as a DR plan. Everyone could stay with their homes and families while still emailing and doing their corporate thing.
As the astronauts say, this ain't Rocket Surgery, folks.
You get the idea, and if anyone has more pet peeves, throw up a comment on what might make your New Year brighter.
Righting the Wrong Resume
I got my first Christmas card today. That means only a few weeks before the big rush, the great onslaught, the thundering herd decends on job openings everywhere. Maybe even get an IKEA interview…
It's Resume season.
Widely recognized as "National Do Nothing" month, December is when requests for extra work get a gay wave and a tossed-off "Oh, we'll do it after the holidays". But post-New Years Day, the dam breaks after weeks of dithering and HR inboxes worldwide fill with scrubbed and shiny job applications. So now's the timeto start polishing, and get the best resume at the top of the pile (hint, yours).
And why not? After a couple of years in the doldrums, this new year should be good for hiring in IT departments. All the companies and governments that used spare cash (from former workers salaries) to expand networks, build out storage and servers, and upgrade websites will hire the people that keep it all running (Yea!).
To prepare efficiently (read: least effort), and since I'm a fan of Do Nothing month, I've skipped actually working hard, and copied from someone elses lessons on improving your resume (Seriously!). I've tweaked it for our use here, but it's legit (Really!), and the link to the source is at the bottom (Promise!).
Good luck and good writing…
How to make your resume stand out to a reader:
Example #1
I helped my company install about $750,000 in new network technologies.
Directed $750K in network upgrades through technical project management, while reducing operational costs 20%.
RULE 1 – It's always best to put the "effect" before the "cause."
The "after" is much more effective for two main reasons. First, it starts with a strong action verb ("Directed") that instantly communicates the nature of the achievement. Telling what you achieved is just as important as describing how you achieved it. Second, it tells not only the result (the $750,000 investment in networks) but also the cause (Technical Project Mgmt).
Example #2:
The company asked me to lead a big software development project that involved collaboration with several divisions in the company. I managed the two million dollar project and brought it in on-time and within budget. Part of the reason was that I used my Agile project management expertise and introduced best practices.
Delivered $2M software development project on-time/on-budget by leading cross-functional team and introducing Agile and ITIL best practices.
RULE 2 – Be Concise AND Compelling
The wordy nature of the "before" example will lose readers' interest quickly. It's not clear what was accomplished; the first-person, narrative style hides important details.
In the "after" example, the exact accomplishment is clear, as are the reasons why they were achieved. – Strong action verbs and a concise summary of the accomplishments keep focus on performance. Also, always use numerals in a resume… use of the figure "$2M" rather than "two million" adds punch to the number
Example #3
Used lean manufacturing techniques and tools to reduce the number of employees and save approx. $500,000 annually.
Slashed annual costs ~$500K by initiating lean manufacturing techniques, and network automation to reduce headcount and improve efficiency.
The "before" example isn't too far off with its use of an action verb. Plus, it uses numerals and conveys both the cause and the effect.
RULE 3: Use Good Action Verbs
Ah, what a few changes can do; The "after" example is more dynamic, conveying the accomplishment in a way that makes it shine. "Slashed" is a stronger action verb, and "reduce headcount" is a more concise, professional way of saying "reduce the number of employees."
To see RULE 4 – Mix Formats For Easy Reading, go to CleanTechies to get the original tips, and lots of other good stuff about resumes.
Job Sites for the Easy-going IT Lifestyle
Never run when you can walk, never walk when you can stand, never stand when you
can sit down and never sit when you can lie down" Satchel Paige
Maybe my standards are dropping, but I need a job that fits me a little better, where IT problems are solved at a languid pace while drinking not-great-but-OK-for-free coffee. And doing it all as comfortably horizontal as possible.
I keep looking but I'm not finding that perfect match on job websites. And I'm not demanding. These websites don't have to be elegant, or even very good – at least not at first. Shoot,, these days tons of ideas start out not great, designed by committee and pushed to market like a half-dressed jockey trying to jump on his horse at the starting gate, flailing along in the middle of the pack and pretending to be competitive.
My inspiration, of course is…the Zune. It went from a clunky brown brick…to a smooth cool futuristic design – that no one's buying – in only 6 or 7 generations.
So, in keeping with the "bad presentation of a not-original idea that we'll fix later" school of development, here are my Zune-like web sites intended for the modern IT professional…
– Radio ButtonsR Us: For the one-size-fits-all web designer with strong skills in, well, pretty much just radio button design. Motto: "No imagination required"
– TwistedPairJobs dot com: IT legacy employment. On the job training in green-screen monitor repair and Winchester drives. Help fulfill the growing demand for 286-based CPU programming! (Bring your Cuban passport)
– ResumeSizeMatters: QuicknDirty Resume' enhancement. Pay by the inch! (Warning: side effects of large resumes include drowsiness, inability to focus, paper cuts) Though rare, resume reviews lasting more than 4 hours may require an eye doctor.
– PhishingTheMarket: Jobs for the larcenous at heart, moral compass optional. Please include a proper ID (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) and provide some very personal information, banking details and secret handshake with your application.
– Grow_a_Pair.org: Let our Ex-drill sargeants expertly bring out the beast within, and send you snarling into interviews with both guns blazing. Motto "No Argument Too Small"
– TheDogAte_MyResume.tv: If you need excuses. we got 'em. Or did, 'til the faucet accidentally leaked and dripped water down the wall, shorting out the printer so we can't remember what we wrote.
– NoOneSeesTheWizard: Not no Way, Not no How… Save the time and trouble of applications and interviews – just call our HR hotline to hear a menu of rejections. Experienced applicants can press "9" to have them twittered directly to your cerebral cortex.
– Work.from.bed dot net: Skills in horizontal typing and drinking through a straw are essential. Motto: "Noon is the New 6 AM".
– CoffeeBreakAll.Day Hang out 24/7 with laptops in coffee shops using their free wireless. Work in a fast paced, noisy environment while…wait, you do that already. But if you claim to actually make money at this, please leave a note in the comments section.
We could use a chuckle.
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. – W. Edwards Deming
I respect one law over all others…the law of unintended consequences.
I can't think of a better example than government boondoggles, after the fanfare of a new program or regulation when all hell breaks loose over something unexpected. In the public world of the public trust, what looks like a benevolent hidden hand running things eventually turns out to be just another guy pulling levers and spinning dials without a clue.
My personal favorite lately: A couple of Governors ago we started outsourcing all state IT work to a gigantic computer contracting company. With eyes apparently shut tight, a contract was signed and delivered. The plan was to save money, create jobs, improve services and make everyone look good. The result has been lost money, a screwed up job market, disappointed customers and yards of of bad press for both sides. Throw in a broken economy, and we have a train wreck. Something hard to watch but too macabre to turn away from.
This whole public-private arrangement is so massive that it's warping the IT job market as if an HR darkstar is hovering in orbit, bending the space/time continuum. Projects that are priorties tend to create weeks of employment ads, recruiter calls and interviews. But when there's bad press and or an argument over state fundng, the interviews disappear and cutbacks start. Reminds me of old movies where the workers file in and out of the factory gates, working one day, locked out the next. At least they had snappy Hollywood dialogue to fall back on.
All that sturm and drang has created some cynical workers. Recently, a veteran of the contract wars showed up on my team. She'd been in big data center projects, then jumped to the state, the got rebadged, downsized, rehired, and finally hit the two-year limit. We all know about the two-year limit for non-employees, created by. . . wait for it . . .The Government.
(hint: Microsoft sued by Feds gets ruling that anyone contracted more than 24 months is really an employee)
What the state provides, the Federales can take away. Our new friend lands back on the street again, due to the arbitrary 2-year limit, arrives in our midst for the requisite number of months, and then will cycle back out again. Like the rest of us, she's lost the social contract of work-for-security that our parents enjoyed. We now have built-in clocks counting down the 730 days until we have to leave, even before we get our first paycheck.
Which creates another odd consequence, the two-tier society. Itinerant workers don't have the same status as full time employees. We temps often outnumber the permanent fully-employed by a wide margin, but they get the benefits, time off, parties, free flu shots and career paths. We get a check and a slap on the butt (not that there's anything wrong with that) as we head out the door when our time is up.
IT and tech aside, are we headed back to our agrarian past, with every worker an independent business like the family farm with a modern twist? Or will we swing toward the Big Contractor model where we become worker bees for one entity while really working for another. The third option, companies hiring people on their own payroll, is sounding out of touch…old-school.
(hint: European courts have found that many countries – Spain was cited recently – as having well over 50% of workers actually contractors, mostly due to the EU employment laws that make it impossible to fire deadbeats after they're on the payroll)
On this side of the pond, we still hold up individual liberty and responsibility as the model, but the IT market is global. Examples like this state-private IT contract show that we need better leadership here at home to avoid the disintegration of stable employment that the grey-beards in Europe have caused. We still have a shot at building careers in technology, and avoid just job-hopping, if we can upgrade the talent pool at the top.
At minimum, we should elect leaders who keep at least one eye open when they sign on the dotted line.
Who Moved My Cheez-its?
I hate Scurry. Sniff is practical, inquisitive. But that other one is just a hyperactive little rodent.
In '98, when computers were all beige, and Gates and Jobs still hated each other and Sun was the golden child of the bubble, the story of the rats and the little people came out. Their cheese went missing, and apparently being Lactose deficient, Sniff and Scurry immediately ran off to find some.
After pounding down an all-cheese diet day after day, I'd be looking for a green leafy salad to unblock things. . .just to avoid awkwardness in a confined space, if ya know what I mean. . .and I think you do. But in the story there were no bathrooms, so maybe food followed function in the maze.
In any case the two rats took off on their creepy little pink feet to find more Winsleydale and Stilton, while the little people settled in for opportunity to come knockin'.
It all seemed magical, if a bit childlike.
Change was different 10 years ago. The bubble was swelling up nicely, so we all cruised across its overstretched skin, enjoying the smooth ride to a shiny future of tech job security. Changes in the market were exciting; it was what made us go find the big cheese that brought big raises back in '99.
Today, change is like opening the fridge and the light doesn't come on. Squinting into the guts of the box, none of the formless shapes look appetizing. But we have to eat, and the fridge is where the food is. So we reach in and grab whatever job opportunity we can find, even if it's half-a-loaf compared to our old bread-winning gig.
I kept thinking that we'd been through this before. Heck, in '02 budgets for IT projects shriveled like forgotten grapes, but we rode that one out. This time, kicked out into the maze with severance in hand, I joined the legions milling around the job market like zebra on a river bank. But there was only one option, so in we went, fighting currents to make it to the other side and job security.
Back at the maze, we find handwriting on the wall, put there to give little people courage in the confusion of change. The first messages aren't all gems: "Having Cheese Makes You Happy" sounds like Yoda in his early years, before he figured out how to warp syntax to sound sage. ("Happy you are, when Cheese you have").
Around the corner, the advice gets better, if a bit deep for the likes of rats and lilliputians. "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" I'm thinking, Not Die, first of all. Fear of large moving trucks and bungee jumping have kept me on this mortal coil so far. To paraphrase Gekko, "Fear is Good". Still, it's a more useful piece of graffiti than Yoda's pre-teen advice.
Then it gets serious. "Smell the cheese often so you know when it's getting old". Aside from evoking disturbing images, that one could be useful. I may have seen the layoffs coming and jumped into a safe public tech position, insulated from the economic sturm and drang outside. But I wasn't really like Sniff, so I kept telling myself the work isn't stale so much as just getting sort of a strong odor. It was becoming Bleu cheese, or Gruyere, which my dad said smelled like gym shoes after they've been in the locker for a week. But I digress.
Overcoming inertia, anxiety and the worst recession in decades – we reach our (predestined?) destination. The memory of what we just went through can't stop our old habits – we love having our cheese and eating it too – so we're snoggers for the next bubble once again.
But there's one more piece of writing on the wall. Not inspiring as much as sobering. Maybe the only takeaway from this whole experience.
"They keep moving the cheese"
Dont. Stop. Swimming.
"Well, we might as well get this out of the way now. The employment numbers were uniformly horrible."
At times like these, I turn to my kid's video library for inspiration.
I give you: Dory, the blue-tang fish, who's helping a clown fish search for Nemo, his son.
She's clearly not qualified for the job, at first. Her lack of short term memory gets them both lost several times, but she doesn't quit; she starts repeating:
Just keep swimming…
"This was a very ugly labor market report, and there is no amount of lipstick that can improve its image."
Just keep Swimming
When Dory realizes that they're never going to make it without a change of plan, she adapts by repeating their goal over and over. To her surpise, it works and they keep heading in the right direction.
Just keep Swimming
"Restructuring at the Lloyds Banking Group could lead to 700 IT jobs being lost, it has been revealed."
Just keep Swimming
"Newly minted American engineers are going into finance because tech jobs have beenoffshored."
Just keep Swimming
" Hey Mr Grumpy Gills
You know what you gotta do
when life gets you down?
Just keep swimming "
U.S. high-technology job losses are slowing.
As things get better and the destination is in sight, they still keep moving, and never stop reminding themselves to:
" Just keep swimming swimming swimming
What do we do we swim, swim, swim… "
Conversation Tweets of IT Couple Working the Coffee Counter
Very private pillow-talk-tweets of an ex-IT power couple, taking the only jobs left in town…
😯Techbarista: got the job! seems easy enough but cappuccino machine leaks black tar…checking for buffer overflow
8)3DESlady: check ur training manual…
😯Techbarista: mine starts "All your base are belong to us"…Bad omen?
😯Techbarista: is it me, or does 'venti mocha no whip halfcaff double shot' sound like a command string?
8)3DES: so slow here I spent morning decrypting SSH link to home office. just idle chatter, so now rearranging R Bull, labels-front
8)3DES: still slow. homebrewing espresso mixed with red bull… Buzz On !!
😯Tech: yeesh, not good, don't overclock yourself
8)3DES: Roger that, hands so shaky dropped pastry – now the icing looks like Dick Nixon.
😯Tech: EBAY?
😯Tech: 🙁 called in sick today. Bosses garbled msg on vmail sounds like "Someone set us up the bomb". What?
8)3DES: . mgr here is like, high school man, like, really. guitar hero jedi or so he claims
😯Tech: yawn. busy but routine, reminds me of nights working in the NOC.
8)3DES: where is mouse for the cash register? :p
😯Tech: check under the counter…mice like pastries
8)3DES: hahah…wait, eww 🙁
😯Tech: 'sometimes a mouse is just a mouse'…freud
8)3DES: you mean fred, that operator on 3rd shift back at old data center. ate donuts & coffee 24/7
😯Tech: Yeah right, where did he end up?
8)3DES: started pest control company with his severance
😯Tech: fred? really? he didn't know subnets from sql queries.
😯Tech: knows his rodents tho, so call him about that mouse problem
8)3DES: enuff with the mouse, besides, he sold franchises and move to FLA to play in a band full time
😯Tech: he was smarter than i gave him credit…guess sometimes a mouse is more than just a mouse
8)3DES: yep, build a better mouse trap, yada yada, ticket to paradise 🙂
😯Tech: I miss midnight donuts with fred. meet you at Kr Kreme?
8)3DES: ok, but no more talk about rodents…and NO coffee, plz 😛
The Emperors New Clothes, or how to Dress Less for Success
Has there ever been a time in world history when dressing for work has been so bass-ackward?
In the grand pecking order of the IT workplace, the bottom spot has always belonged to the interviewee. Yet we show up wearing our finest, dressed like Cinderella going the ball. No matter that the rest of the office is in their Casual Fridays and Flip Flops mode.
At the top of the food chain, the Top Dog, the Cock of the Walk – to push the metaphor way too far – is sitting in the corner office wearing gym clothes. The one with the power and influence doesn't even stop by the house to pull on some slacks. It's the modern law of inverse proportion to the layers of clothing; The Less You Wear the More Influence You Have.
The irony seems lost on the HR folks, who soldier on with their advice to dress for the job you want, but would be shocked and dismayed if you applied in an outfit with a Nike swoosh on it.
So the job seeker, with no power or influence, is expected to fill out employment forms dressed like a Boston banker. All this while the assistants, receptionists, interns dress like Boston Legal, to make the office look professional. Of course, technical managers dress for what the job demands -no ties or heels or other impairments to occasionally crawl under the desk or behind a rack and poke about. Although they prefer the interns do most of the crawling.
And so it goes up the ladder…each rung dressing to show more importance by wearing less, until the person at the top is clad only in his or her pajamas, sucking on a sports bottle.
There was a time when being in charge meant looking like it. The emperor really did have clothes. Now the master and commander can only be spotted by the blinking, borg-like Bluetooth headset glued to his ear.
Maybe it's an American cultural thing. . . Lessons of Vietnam and all . . . more stars showing on the collar makes us a target. Perhaps there's security in blending in with the troops.
In any case, my dark blue suits gather dust when I'm fully employed and in charge. But when the paychecks stop coming, the jackets come back out and the ties windsor-knotted, until a new job is found. Then the process reverses and I'm back to khakis and golf shirts.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just a mystery how we got here, is all.
Onward Through The Fog…of Support Calls
"Mark! "
"You still there?"
My eyes snapped open.
The floor was sideways in my view, the phone lying a foot away, voices coming from the speaker. It was 2 am; I'd fallen asleep at home, on the floor, while the tech team was hard at work debugging a server problem.
I held up the phone, clearing my throat to show I was awake and fell back into the chair. No one reacted. Their snarky comments continued without pause…"wish I could check out"…"guess he's not a snorer".
I said something pithy, trying to sound awake. They kept talking. I squinted at my phone.
The Mute was on.
The mute button is hard to spot at that hour. Scowling, I pressed it. The phone started dialing… "beep, boop, beepbeep, boop" …I could see the conference number marching across the LCD screen.
I'd hit redial.
Is someone playing 'Mary had a little lamb' on their phone?" a loud irritated voice said. I waited an eternity for the dialing to stop to punch mute, and started to apologize. My dry throat croaked out a useless syllable. I coughed, and gamely checked in.
"There's our sleeping beauty. We were looking for you earlier," someone said, "have a nice nap?" I blamed my silence on the mute button, but stayed mute about my impromptu phone-number concert. In the pregnant pause that followed, no one challenged my dodgy answer – the unspoken consensus was clear – they all knew.
My reputation had preceded me. In the silence they were remembering the time I tried to switch phones at midnight, and killed the entire conference call.
Deep Nights and Weekends
Working the midnight-to-zero-five-hundred maintenance window is a world apart. Those who live in that sleepless domain: the Firewall Engineers, Server Admins, Network techs and Data Center 3rd shift – they all accept this eerie existence as the price paid to keep systems running.
They act and behave apart from the rest of society, made unique by living at odd hours and their knowledge of things unspoken and mysterious. They're the Deadheads of this generation.
I don't see myself as a poser – the one guy always trying to fit in without really being part of the crowd. But truth is, my assignment is not to do actual work, so to speak. I manage and coordinate across hard working and expert groups, each living in the unending fog of jet-lag symptoms that are part of snatching short naps between Sev3 calls, and running on empty after 30-hour continuous support "issues".
Has anyone studied the effect of waking up to a phone call at 23:55, heart racing, to a voice asking if you're ready to apply changes a 00:01? There must be an astronaut study or survival training guide that explains how sleep deprivation and irate IT managers can break a body down.
They've found funding for stuff like studying the impact of booze on fish
I'd like to see a few bucks tossed in to determine the health of this Army of Darkness, working deep nights and weekends on critical systems.
They are, after all, the sleep-deprived few who keep the lights on for the rest of us.


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The Home Services team at The Home Depot Bonney Lake #8562 can help with all your installation services and repair needs. Our store's address is 9602 214th Ave East, Bonney Lake, WA, 98391 and our phone number is (253) 470-8520.
Our hand-selected professionals are local, experienced, licensed, and insured. Our contractors have high customer ratings and can help you build your dream home. We offer more than 35 services to help you update your home's flooring, air conditioning unit or countertops. From installation to maintenance to repair, let us do it for you!
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At the Bonney Lake Home Depot, we are so much more than a hardware store. We are also your local contractor, here to help you from start to finish.
Store Manager,
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My computer is pretty snappy, and the UI is typically silky-smooth. However, for some reason, on virtually every Mac OS X computer I've used, opening the Applications folder takes an inordinate (>5 s) amount of time before any icons are shown in the window. Does anyone here know:
- What the heck is the computer doing?
- How to speed this up?


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Philip C. Kendall, Ph.D., ABPP,& Muniya Khanna, Ph.D.
Temple University, University of Pennsylvania
This computer-based training program is designed to train and provide materials to implement a cognitive-behavioral treatment for anxiety in children and young adolescents. CBT4CBT provides the rationale for the components of the treatment and step-by-step instructions on how to conduct each of the therapy sessions.
The treatment is designed for youth who are suffering from generalized anxiety, social anxiety, phobias, separation anxiety, and can be helpful for other anxiety related problems as well.
No internet connection is required.
CBT4CBT prepares you to implement either
(a) the 16-session Coping Cat treatment for 7 - 13 year olds (completed with the Coping Cat Workbook),
(b) the 16-session C.A.T. Project for teens , or
(c) the 12 session Camp-Cope-A-Lot (interactive computer program).
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Industrial Innovations Adds Mexican Representation
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Sunday, December 1, 2013
Sofka S.A. De C.V., Monterrey, Mexico, a provider of fluid-management solutions, is the newest distribution partner of Industrial Innovations, Wyoming, MI. Industrial Innovations provides Spra-Rite proportional lubrication mixing and spraying equipment. Sofka also represents Metal Mates lubricants and metalforming fluids.
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Fjord-cruise towards Esmark Glacier & Barentsburg
Departure date:
30 August 2020
Included in package:
- Transfer from/to accommodation.
- Guide on-board the ship
- Guided tour of Barentsburg by a Russian guide when docking is possible.
- Warm lunch from the barbecue is served by the glacier.
Pick-up at airport/campsite at 8:15am. Pick-up at hotels from 8:30am
We reccomend to bring warm and windproof clothing, including a hat and mittens. Dont forget your camera or binoculars!
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Its universe imbued with musical and artistic influences is unique. In 2012, RAYMOND WEIL is proposing a completely new demonstration of it with a campaign using strikingly beautiful images. With reference to the works that have inspired it, musical scores take off, revealing the Brand's watch creations, illuminated by a halo of light. A campaign rich in allusions to, and the elegance of, the image of a brand that occupies a unique place in the luxury watch industry.
The arts and music have always been at the heart of the RAYMOND WEIL universe. In a highly competitive watch industry, the Swiss watchmaker has imposed himself like a true orchestra conductor, with collections of prestigious watches, whose names evoke the grand masters, the passionate history and outstanding opera melodies, which have inspired it: parsifal, nabucco, maestro, tango and jasmine. This infatuation with the arts and music has been handed down from generation to generation within the Brand's founding family, together with its watchmaking know-how.
RAYMOND WEIL expresses the passion it shares between watchmaking and the arts in its completely new campaign, through sublime, chiaroscuro photographs. These images show off some of the Brand's new watch stars, as if illuminated by a projector against a dramatic background of musical scores. The style, chosen in homage to the photographic work of the famous Parisian Harcourt Studio, highlights the particular character of each collection, as well as the powerful and elegant design of the watches, with their perfectly proportioned volumes and refined materials. The link, which for RAYMOND WEIL unites watchmaking, art and music, also finds expression in the few words associated with the campaign: "Precision is my inspiration". Much more than a simple slogan, this sentence is a real leitmotif for the Brand, which, like an artist, a musician, a sculptor or a painter, derives its inspiration from the precision of the movements, repeated so often to the point of excellence.
With this new campaign, RAYMOND WEIL, pays homage to the great artists, to the fruits of their work, which keep on touching our hearts and inspiring us, and of course to Swiss precision watchmaking, in which the family company's roots are firmly embedded. The Brand also provides its timekeepers with a setting that matches its image: elegant, creative, combining technical know-how, cultural tradition and innovation.


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- Aggressively excellent 2D and 3D pictures
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- Unhelpful presets
- Gesture control system not quite there yet
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- 46in LCD with edge LED lighting
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- '800Hz' processing
- Two pairs of 3D glasses included
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On the price front the £1699 UE46ES7000 is £200 less than the equivalent ES8000 model. If you look back at our review of the Samsung UE46ES8000 you might be confused by this, as at the time we wrote that review we found a price for the set of under £1500. Now, though, you'll struggle to find the UE46ES8000 going for less than £1899 unless you stumble upon a voucher or special short-term discount.
Obviously our first job needs to be finding out just what that £200 saving costs you in specification and feature terms. There's an immediate aesthetic impact, as the UE46ES7000 replaces the metallic glimmer of the ES8000's bezel with a black finish that isn't quite as knock-your-socks-off glamorous as the silver of the ES8000s, and joins with a transparent outer trim in making the overall look feel a bit fussier. The UE46ES7000's 'cross' stand isn't as dashing as the startling 'Arch Flow' of the ES8000s either.
But this all says more about the gorgeousness of the ES8000's design than it does about any actual ugliness in the UE46ES7000. In fact, by any normal measure the UE46ES7000 is a highly attractive TV.
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The only other difference between the UE46ES7000 and the ES8000 series that stood out to us is the use by the cheaper model of a slightly lower level of micro-dimming processing; it only' gets Micro Dimming Pro rather than the ES8000 series' Micro Dimming Ultimate. This might not sound a big deal, but actually the ES8000s ability to assess and respond to incoming pictures faster and on a more localised level has the potential to have quite a profound impact on picture quality.
Unlike the cheaper UE46ES6800, the UE46ES7000 has a little bulge in its top edge containing a built-in camera – like you get with the ES8000 series. You also get the same accessories as the ES8000s, namely a second touchpad remote control; an IR blaster so the TV can change the channel of any Sky/Freeview/etc boxes you might have; and two pairs of 3D glasses.
The built-in camera, second remote and IR blaster all point towards the UE46ES7000 leaning more towards the ES8000 series than the ES6800. For they immediately indicate that the UES7000 features the same revolutionary alternative control systems – gesture, voice and touchpad – that made their debut on the ES8000 series.
We've covered these alternative controls in some depth before, so we won't do so again here beyond saying that while waving and talking to their TV won't appeal to everyone, both options can be genuinely helpful at times. For instance, the voice recognition system allows you to simply speak words into Web search fields, which is a vast improvement on trying to type stuff in via the TV's remote. As for the gesture control, while concerns remain about its accuracy and potential for fatigue, it does enable you to use the TV without needing any physical remote control at all. Handy if you're forever losing remotes down the sofa.
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The trackpad remote isn't entirely without its foibles, but at the same time it's a far superior way of browsing web pages and Smart TV menus to a normal remote control.
The sense of just how close the UE46ES7000 is to the ES8000 series continues with its use of the same Ultra Clear Panel. This was not sported by the cheaper UE46ES6800, and we suspect this is the single biggest reason for that model's pictures falling quite a bit short of the standards set by the ES8000 models.
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- The first two digits of the ID correspond to a City department or office. For instance, the first two digits in 2810-02 indicate the record is part of the Fire Department records.
- The second two digits generally represent a functional unit or activity within the agency. For instance, the second two digits in 2810-02 indicates the record is part of the Fire Suppression function.
- The final two digits are simply unique numbers assigned sequentially to a series within a unit or function. In this example the final two digits in 2810-02 indicates Fire Marshal Correspondence.
- Exceptions to this scheme are made for series in the ranges 9100 (Annexed Cities), 9300 (Board and Commissions), 9500 (Special Committees), and 9700 (Public Corporations). In these cases the first four digits of the ID designate a specific entity. For instance, the first four digits in 9312-01 indicate the records are from the Bumbershoot Festival Commission.
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With an area of 96 square miles, Santa Cruz Island is the largest of the Northern Channel Islands and is also the largest island in the entire chain. It is situated 19 miles south of the Santa Barbara coastline. Anacapa Island, Santa Cruz's closest island neighbor, is located 5 miles to the east.
Santa Cruz is the most diverse of the Channel Islands, in terms of its climate, geology, and topography. The maximum elevation on Santa Cruz (2470 feet) exceeds that of all of the other Channel Islands.
The flora of Santa Cruz Island includes about 490 native taxa and over 190 non-native taxa. The natural distribution of at least 45 of the island's native taxa are restricted to two or more of the California Islands; eight plant taxa have been found only on Santa Cruz Island.
The eight plant taxa which have been found only on Santa Cruz Island are:
- Acmispon argophyllus var. niveus (Santa Cruz Island silver lotus)
- Arctostaphylos insularis (Santa Cruz Island manzanita)
- Arctostaphylos viridissima (white-haired manzanita)
- Dudleya nesiotica (Santa Cruz Island live-forever)
- Malacothamnus fasciculatus var. nesioticus (Santa Cruz Island bush-mallow)
- Mimulus brandegeei (Santa Cruz Island monkeyflower)
- Ribes thacherianum (Santa Cruz Island gooseberry)
- Thysanocarpus conchuliferus (Santa Cruz Island lacepod)
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Thysanocarpus conchuliferus
Common Names: Santa Cruz Island Fringepod, Santa Cruz Island Lacepod, Island Fringepod
Taxon Synonyms: Thysanocarpus laciniatus var. conchuliferus
Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard or Crucifer Family)
Presumed to be extinct:
The Santa Cruz Island monkeyflower (Mimulus brandegeei) is presumed to be extinct (it was last seen in 1932), although a close relative (Mimulus latifolius) still occurs on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.
At least one insular endemic is now found only on Santa Cruz Island, but had a wider range in the past:
- Berberis pinnata subsp. insularis (island barberry) was previously known from Santa Rosa Island (last seen there in 1930) and West Anacapa (last seen there in the 1980s). This taxon is now known only from a few small colonies on the west end of Santa Cruz Island.


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The stylish South American capital with an epic history stakes its claim as an international center of cuisine, culture and design
Author Jon Marcus Photography Javier Pierini and Yadid Levy
IN THE HEART OF BUENOS AIRES, just off the avenue that honors the day Argentina won its independence from Spain, is the Teatro Colón. One of the most acoustically perfect theaters in the world, the 2,500-seat venue was designed by Italian architects using Belgian and Austrian marble, with French furnishings and floors made of oak from the forests of Croatia. Like Buenos Aires itself, the theater is a combination of the best of Europe, built at a time when the emergent city sought to become the Paris of South America, before its tortured run of brutal military dictatorships interspersed with fragile, contentious democracies (one featuring Eva "Evita" Perón, the charismatic first lady who posthumously became an international icon). Today, newly reopened after a three-year, $100 million renovation, the Teatro Colón is a symbol of a thrumming metropolis as eclectic as they come, not only in its architecture but also in the mélange of nationalities and cultures that blends European sophistication and Latin spice. The result is a diverse, thriving city that is wholly South American and, at the same time, absolutely unlike any other.
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It's quite curios to see the fascination of foreigners with Evita Peron. The picture they have of Evita comes probably from the movie or the play and has no connection to the real character. Many Argentineans have a very different and much less favorable opinion of who she was and what she did. At the same time and again based in a film, Juan Peron is view as a dark power behind her, also false. There would be no Evita without Peron and he was the driving force behind the changes that improved the living conditions of most workers in Argentina.
I think the author missed the mark. Most Argentineans go to Fervor for the seafood and fish, not the steak. Shopping on the same day in Palermo and in Recoleta is like shopping on Madison Avenue and in Brooklyn all in one afternoon. Buenos Aires is a large cosmopolitan city and it takes time to get from one place to another. Argentineans take you past the Evita Peron photo, say take a look, you've seen enough. There's so much more to this wonderful South American city with locals who speak Spanish, act like Americans, and think like Italians.


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Elementary particle physics, or high energy physics (HEP), is the study of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Why is our universe composed of matter rather than antimatter? Why do seemingly superfluous heavier relatives accompany the quarks and the electrons that we need to explain ordinary matter? Can we reconstruct the processes of the Big Bang and understand how the universe evolved into its present state? These are the questions that motivate the work of the faculty and graduate students who are engaged in HEP research.
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obliaf how can you update all the necessary dependencies?! and if the latest are curretly 8.04 version why you named them 8.1?! thanks for your patiance
No announcement yet.
Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers
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Unfortunately no, it is no longer possible to package current drivers on older Ubuntu.
8.1 is the mesa version (current git is 9.1), not Ubuntu version.
how is it possible we cannot use them? what's happened? in terms of speed in confront of 7.10 version I'm using on UBUNTU 11.04, what benefits mesa 8.1 offers?
I apply the Sapphire HD3850 AGP Opengl 2.1 featuring:
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AGP 4X/8X bus interface
256-bit GDDR3 memory interface
Ring Bus Memory Controller
Fully distributed design with 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
Microsoft? DirectX? 10.1 support
Shader Model 4.1
32-bit floating point texture filtering
Indexed cube map arrays
Independent blend modes per render target
Pixel coverage sample masking
Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
Gather4 texture fetching
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
320 stream processing units
Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
128-bit floating point precision for all operations
Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
Shader instruction and constant caches
Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle
Up to 128 textures per pixel
Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
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High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
Physics processing support
Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
High performance vertex cache
Programmable tessellation unit
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Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
Anti-aliasing features
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Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
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arma2-free crash with a black-screen on the current radeon driver with the oibaf ppa.
a hard reset is needed.
is there any suggestion to fix that problem ?
Looks like...
arma2-free crash with a black-screen on the current radeon driver with the oibaf ppa.
a hard reset is needed.
is there any suggestion to fix that problem ?
This was already reported in previous post. A fix was committed and I just updated the PPA, packages will be ready in a hour.
The desktop turns into a useless every 10 second crash and recovery mess.
"fixme:d3d:state_zfunc d3dcmp_notequal and d3dcmp_equal do not work correctly yet"
"EE r600_shader.c:5092 TGSI:endif - if/endif unbalanced in shader"
"Warning: R600 LLVM backend does not support indirect adressing. Falling back to TGSI backend "
"Fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8"
I take some pictures with my camera and started the game in the console for the error messages:
"fixme:d3d:state_zfunc d3dcmp_notequal and d3dcmp_equal do not work correctly yet"
"EE r600_shader.c:5092 TGSI:endif - if/endif unbalanced in shader"
"Warning: R600 LLVM backend does not support indirect adressing. Falling back to TGSI backend "
"Fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8"
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DuPont™ Zytel® PLUS nylon gets its ability to withstand long term exposure to heat and chemicals from SHIELD Technology, only from DuPont. DuPont™ SHIELD Technology combines several innovations, including polymer modifications and a special set of additives, to enhance many performance characteristics.
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Zytel® PLUS nylon products can retain strength when exposed up to 230 degrees C, which more than doubles the performance life of traditional nylon. This resilience makes these products attractive for use in applications exposed to hot air, including charge air coolers, EGR coolers, turbocharger air ducts, resonators, cylinder head covers, and exhaust mufflers. Some grades, such as DuPont™ Zytel® PLS 95G50DH2 reinforced with 50% glass would provide the higher level of stiffness at the upper temperature classes.
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"9:00- Mike Smith. BCBS. Coming in because he works at the liquor store across the street."
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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Well of course. "Dr. Grumpy! I work in the liquor store across the street! Help me!"
Dude, you should go across the street for a "house call" on that one! Maybe get paid in ... liquid!
Liquor store....
Maybe you can do trade in diet coke and alcohol.
Dr. Grumpy, work this to your advantage!
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One of the most hilarious intake comments was of the man who cut his finger, which was oozing pus.
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Illinois sees 11,000 concealed carry applications
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CHICAGO (AP) — About 4,500 requests for concealed carry permits were submitted the first day Illinois' online application system was open to the public, officials said Monday.
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The applications submitted Sunday during the system's first 24 hours of operation brought the total permit requests to more than 11,000, said Monique Bond, a spokeswoman for the Illinois State Police. The other 6,500 applications came in recent weeks, as the state allowed firearms instructors to apply for permits early in order to help test the online application system. Detailed information on what areas of the state saw the most applicants wasn't yet available, Bond said.
"Right now we're pleased with the ease of the process so far," she said. Bond called the number of applicants a "pretty healthy number."
In July, Illinois became the last U.S. state to approve legislation allowing residents to carry concealed weapons.
Those who are 21 or older, have a valid Firearm Owners Identification Card, complete a 16-hour training course and pass a background check can obtain a concealed carry permit for a fee. The five-year permits cost $150 for residents and $300 for nonresidents.
The law bans carrying concealed firearms in places such as schools, child-care facilities, courthouses, public transportation, college and professional sports stadiums and in establishments where alcohol sales make up more than 50 percent of a business's receipts.
Illinois lawmakers have projected that there would be 350,000 to 400,000 applications for concealed carry permits in the first year of the law.
Currently, applications can only be submitted online. But Bond said that by July, a written application will be available to residents.
"This is the most expeditious and efficient process," she said of the online system.
Still, it could be months before anyone receives a concealed carry permit.
State Police have up to 90 days to approve or deny applicants, provided their applications are complete and fingerprints are submitted in an electronic format. If an applicant's fingerprints aren't submitted, the State Police will have an additional 30 days to complete a manual background check. Law enforcement agencies can object to a license being issued within 30 days of an application being submitted.
Early interest in concealed carry permits varied greatly in different parts of the state.
Southern Illinois' Marion County hadn't received a single application Sunday, the sheriff's office said. But more than 2,500 applications were submitted during that time in Cook County, said Cara Smith, a spokeswoman for the Cook County Sheriff's Department.
Smith said that the numbers likely would have been higher if not for the deep freeze that was commanding so much attention.
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Holiday dialysis patients´ experiences
Many of our patients like to go on holiday as often as they can. What do they think about Holiday Dialysis the Diaverum way? Read here an assortment of statements that have been sent to us:
I have been to several different units since I have started dialysis and have found Rotherham to be the most comfortable overall experience. What I liked: The friendly and professional staff, the spacious ward, comfortable adjustable seats, no waiting around before treatment, car parking free and next to unit.Patient who visited our clinic in Rotherham / UK in 2014
From the very beginning the staff was welcoming, warm, made me feel relaxed and really went out of their way to help me in any way they could. I was picked up on time from my hotel by the bus driver and from where I was staying it was only a short distance away. The staff on the ward welcomed me very warmly, the doctor spoke good English which put me at ease and I was very happy with the treatment that I received here. I have no complaints and would definitely return to this clinic.Patient who visited our clinic in Pineda del Mar / Spain in 2012
I have been to Sema Parc before and I am very pleased with the treatment. The medical staff is very friendly and professional. I will definitely come back!Patient who vistited our clinic in Bucharest / Romania in 2012
This is very, very good. I am being very well looked after. It is actually much better here in Torremolinos than back home in England. The nurses check on you all the time and there is always a medical doctor present. Besides, the coffee here is fantastic! From the place where I stay to the clinic it is 15-20 minutes by car. It is really convenient. I don't have to worry about the payment, the E111-form [European Health Insurance Card] takes care of that.Patient who visited our clinic in Torremolinos / Spain in 2011
The Clinic is right at the door of the hotel. I normally take a taxi for my sessions and it takes 3-4 minutes to get there. Once there was a national strike and no taxis were to be found, so I actually chose to walk back to the hotel after the dialysis, that's how close it is. I do not experience any language barrier. The doctors and Paulina [the Holiday Dialysis coordinator in Malaga] all speak English. Everybody is very nice, friendly and helpful. I am really in favour of Spain, not least since there are one or two doctors present at all times. I would like to give thanks for all the help I received while on dialysis.Patient who visited our clinic in Torremolinos / Spain in 2011


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It's time again for Take Five, when HOH talks with a member of Congress about topics relatively unrelated to legislative work.
This week, Rep.-elect Ted Lieu, D-Calif., House Democrats' freshman class president, talks about his turbo technology, hotel points and celebrities in prison. Q. What was your first car? Any great memories of it? A. It was a Ford Thunderbird Turbo. It was a black and ... the inside was red, and it looked really cool.


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