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Core HR and Payroll
Streamline core human resources and payroll for business transformation
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, a cloud-based core HR and payroll system
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, a cloud-based core HR and payroll system
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, a cloud-based core HR and payroll system
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, a cloud-based core HR and payroll system
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
Consolidate and streamline core human resources (HR) and payroll processes with a cloud-based, global solution for the total workforce. HR organisations can define and execute better people strategies, provide actionable insight, and focus on value-add activities that support the business. Streamline global HR operations and ensure legal and corporate compliance at the local level for better business results.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP
Core HR System in 40+ countries in less than 7 months
Kennametal found a better way to support organisational change by building talent for the future and standardising their HR systems.
100% global visibility of talent data
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Solve your specific core HR and payroll needs
Get a clear picture of core HR in the cloud
Unify employee data with a core HR management system (HRMS). Learn how to manage people effectively for less, while complying with local and global mandates.
Next-generation core HR system (HRIS)
Manage the workforce locally, while supporting the global business. Integrate core HR data to improve insight, strategic decision making, and business performance.
Position core HR as strategic to your organisation
Reimagine the value of your core HR and payroll process administration to the rest of your business. Find out how you can optimise HR technology and processes in the cloud.
Choose your SAP software for core HR and payroll
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
While every organisation wants to simplify HR processes and create a modern workplace that truly engages its employees, managing the complexity of HR in today's highly diverse, global workforce can be challenging. With our solution, you can optimise HR service delivery while providing personalised experiences that improve every employee's work-life.
- Cloud deployment
- Powerful organisational management
- Administration of global benefits
- Global absence management and time tracking
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
Managing the complexity of local payrolls and standardising payroll processes for a global workforce isn't always easy. Our solution provides a combination of proven technology, embedded localisation, and service delivery that represents the next generation of payroll process automation.
- Cloud deployment
- Global payroll processing
- Enterprise-grade payroll functionality
- Reporting, compliance, and auditing capabilities
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Service Center
Because employees expect HR experiences to be in-line with what they're used to in their personal lives, information must be personalised, contextual, and easily accessible. Our solution provides employees immediate access to their information through the HR help desk system where and when they need it – through their preferred communication channel.
- Cloud deployment
- Knowledge base integration
- HR ticketing
- Insight based on service-level agreements
SAP SuccessFactors Visa and Permits Management
Expand your market share in new countries and regions, bring the right people in at the right time, and ensure compliance with local and global HR requirements by managing and automating visa and permits processes with our solution.
- Cloud deployment
- Automated visa and permit processes
- Alignment with local governments
- Integration with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
SAP Fieldglass External Workforce Management
Find, source, and manage all types of external talent – contingent labour, project-based services including statements of work, independent contractors, and additional flexible talent pools.
- Cloud-based platform
- Greater visibility
- Enforced compliance
- Controlled spend
- Talent optimisation
HR Document Management
Engage a simple, secure, and compliant enterprise document management solution to increase efficiency, minimise risk, and reduce costs. Build, maintain, and manage a complete digital record of all your employees, from hire to retire.
- Cloud deployment
- Centralised 360-degree view of employee data
- Comprehensive document management
- Minimised compliance risks and faster audit cycles
SAP ERP Human Capital Management
Enable and manage your workforce with core HR capabilities to help your company succeed. Automate, streamline, and extend core HR processes to make the best use of your employees' skills and drive growth.
- On-premise deployment
- Automated employee processes
- Compliance with HR regulations
- Insights into workforce contributions
Realise your business goals by simplifying and accelerating your digital transformation
In an era focused on continuous innovation and anticipating customer needs, it can be hard to turn your vision into reality. This is where SAP Digital Business Services can help. We're part of SAP, so we know SAP software better than anyone else. With over 40 years of experience, we can help you reach your business transformation goals, and everything in between.
Transform your business with unparalleled service support enterprise-wide
SAP Digital Business Services connects business and IT to help you close the gap between your digital transformation strategy and execution. From designing and value discovery to accelerated innovation to productive usage for tangible business results, you can evolve your business by breaking new ground with a trusted adviser that knows SAP software best.
What are leading analysts saying about SAP?
SAP is recognised for cloud HCM suites
Learn how SAP SuccessFactors was positioned in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant worldwide vendor assessment of cloud human capital management suites for mid-market and large enterprises.
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SAP Performance Benchmarking
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Annual Salary for 9-month contract
When implementing SAP Successfactors Employee Central for an education customer, there are unique challenges, including employees with salaries for less than one year.
Extending SAP SuccessFactors solutions with SAP Cloud Platform
We have prepared an openSAP course with condensed and focused materials targeting the digital transformation in the HCM space.
Integration with SAP Cloud for Customer
In this blog we will see how to do an extension for the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central integration with SAP Cloud for Customer via CPI scenario.


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Why Traverse City?
"For years, this town of 14,894 on the shores of Grand Traverse Bay has tempted visitors with its natural wonders, which include freshwater beaches, skiing areas, forests, and the stunning Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes National Lakeshore," said writer Sandra Ramani. "More recently, though, it's the food scene that's creating a buzz, thanks to kudos from magazines like Bon Appétit and chefs like Mario Batali, who makes his home here in the summer."
The list included such destinations as Healdsburg, Calif., Bozeman, Mont., Sedona, Ariz., St. Augustine, Fla., Provincetown, Mass., Brattleboro, Vt., Door County, Wis., Galena, Ill. and Walla Walla, Wash.
All 10 were chosen, explained the respected travel site, because they "are attracting visitors with an often unexpected — and surprisingly sophisticated — array of independent and locally minded cultural, outdoor and culinary offerings, all minus the urban price tags."
"It's just continuing the string of great accolades we've had over the last several years," said Brad Van Dommelen, president of the Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau. ""It continues to keep Traverse City in a very great limelight that really helps create interest and awareness across the nation."
In the past year, National Geographic has named Traverse City one of its Top 10 Summer Trips for 2012, while the Travel Channel ranked it among the Top Seven Beer Destinations in North America, Budget Travel called it one of the 11 "Coolest Winter Places in America," and Money Magazine ranked it among the Top 25 Best Cities to Retire. In January the online travel site Away.com named Traverse City to its list of ten "Best Four-Day Vacation Spots" for 2013.
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Mayor Chris Beutler announced today that Lincoln homeowners who buy flood insurance will see their premiums further reduced by the City's recent upgrading in the federal Community Rating System. The 2,000-plus policy holders in Lincoln will now save an average of $160 a year through the City's participation in the rating system program, a total of more than $320,000 City-wide.
The Community Rating System rewards cities like Lincoln for taking extra steps to protect residents from floods," Mayor Beutler said. "Lincoln is one of only three cities in Nebraska to take advantage of the program. Our City has a better rating and receives a greater premium reduction than 95 percent of the more than 1,200 cities nationwide that participate.
The Mayor commended the Building and Safety Department and the Watershed Management Division of the Public Works and Utilities Department for their work with the Community Rating System. The program, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), provides lower premiums for property owners who have flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and are located in a participating city.
Lincoln has been active in the Community Rating System since October 1991. A City's rating is based on activities in four areas - public information, mapping and regulations, flood damage reduction and flood preparedness. "Even those without property in the floodplain benefit from this program," Beutler said. "These floodplain management practices save lives, protect the environment and prevent damage to private property and public infrastructure."
A major reason for the City's upgrade from class 7 to class 6 was the City's work with FEMA to take into account the protection that the Salt Creek levee provides for smaller, more frequent flood events. The class 6 rating provides for a 20-percent premium reduction for those policy holders who have structures in the floodplain, five percent more than the class 7 rating.
The NFIP provides federally backed flood insurance for communities that enact and enforce floodplain regulations. The three goals of the Community Rating System are to reduce flood losses, facilitate accurate insurance ratings and promote awareness of flood insurance.


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When talking about the 'Fathers of Snowboarding' it's important to talk about Terry Kidwell. Terry is know to be the 'Father of Freestyle' snowboarding, which we guess, unless you're all racers, is the type of snowboarding that you all participate in. He's the first guy to do a McTwist on a snowboard. Without Terry we could all be wearing spandex and going through gates. And that doesn't sound too awesome.
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Welcome to the Oconee County Property Appraisal Office Web Site!
The Oconee County Board of Assessors mailed assessment notices on May 18, 2018. The last day to appeal is July 2, 2018. If you do not file an appeal by that date, your right to appeal has been lost.
Our office is open to the public from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday.
The goal of the Oconee County Property Appraisal Office is to provide the people of Oconee County with a web site that is easy to use. You can search our site for a wealth of information on any property in Oconee County.
The information contained herein reflects the values established in the "most current published" tax digest. *Please note that the Assessors Office establishes values only. The Oconee County Tax Commissioner should be contacted with tax bill related questions.
Did you know?
Oconee County, the 135th county formed in Georgia, was created in 1875. Originally part of Clarke County, Oconee County takes its name from the Oconee River.
The Eagle Tavern State Historical Site is located in the county. Originally built as Fort Edward in 1789, the building had become a tavern by 1801. Some other interesting sites in the county are Happy Valley Pottery and the William Daniell House.
The cotton monoculture prior to the 1930s badly damaged the soils of Oconee County. Today, only about 19% of the land is identified as prime farm land. About 56% of the land is forest.
Jeanette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, kept her summer home in Oconee County. She was elected to represent Montana before many states even allowed women to vote. Rankin was a pacifist and was the only representative to vote against the U.S.'s entry into war against Japan.
Some of the special events in Oconee County include the Annual Oconee Fall Festival and the Christmas Parade.
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Forsan Hussein '00 is the CEO of the Jerusalem YMCA and a passionate advocate for peace and understanding
Forsan Hussein '00 came to Brandeis to bridge divides. The recipient of a Sylvia and Joseph Slifka Israeli Coexistence Scholarship, which goes to two Israeli citizens a year — one Arab and one Jewish — Hussein designed his own peace building major.
He took War and Possibilities of Peace with Professor Gordie Fellman, hosted the campus radio show Just Like You where he shared stories of Palestinian culture from food to politics and, with an Israeli classmate, organized coexistence dialogue groups that drew students from Brandeis and other universities in the Boston area.
"Those lessons that I learned during my interactions with the Brandeis student body made me believe at a deeper level that it all starts with one-on-one, people-to-people connection," Hussein says today. "The sense of social justice that Brandeis carries through its classes and through its extracurricular activities impacted me personally a great deal. The fact that students can actually start real change on the ground was a new narrative to me. That's something that I take with me through the rest of my life: the ability to stand up, to act, to change something as an individual."
After Brandeis, Hussein earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins. Today he is CEO of the Jerusalem International YMCA, a gathering place for people of all religions.
Wherever he is — in the United States, on a visit to his family's home in Sha'ab or at work developing the Y's peace preschool that brings together Arab and Jewish children — he continues to bring people of divergent ideologies and backgrounds into dialogue.
"I live three different mentalities: the Israeli mentality, the Arab-Palestinian-Muslim mentality and the Western mentality, he says. "Jumping among these three is not an easy thing to do, but it does allow me to do the work I do. I am a Muslim CEO of a Christian institution in a Jewish country. It doesn't get any better than that."


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Not just the best horror in ages but a remarkably astute teen drama, "Carrie" will make those who have seen Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's novel see the story with entirely different eyes. That tone-deaf, unjustly beloved original film is weak sauce. The new, modernized interpretation is hot lava.
That starts with the female empowerment and impending doom achieved by director Kimberly Peirce ("Boys Don't Cry") and writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who subtly investigate the realities of teen malice with no interest in cliche. As introverted Carrie White (Chloe Grace Moretz) bears the weight of destructive high school ridicule, it's the gorgeous, popular blonde Sue (Gabriella Wilde) who regrets her cruelty and discovers the evil of her entitled brunette friend Chris (Portia Doubleday). Later, in the well-known climactic sequence that's chilling without resorting to needless gruesomeness, the shifting flickers of conscience between Chris and her boyfriend, Billy (Alex Russell), are two of the numerous times when this "Carrie" adds depth to a haunting cautionary tale of bullying.
In her highest-profile role to date, Moretz effectively navigates Carrie's public and private crossroads. While her conservative, abusive mother (Julianne Moore) both literally and figuratively hits her daughter in the face with a bible, Carrie longs to live outside the wrath. A delicately winning turn from Ansel Elgort ("Divergent") as Sue's boyfriend, Tommy, who Sue convinces to take Carrie to the prom, movingly displays the transition from charity to sincerity. And not in a "She's All That" kind of way.
Eventually "Carrie," which nicely incorporates YouTube and texting but could have experimented further with Carrie embracing her telekinetic abilities, gets too blunt. Still, it's an important message: Teenagers must be both freed and overseen, and people can only handle so much. Especially in the case of Carrie, who discovers goodness in the world only to have her vulnerability return with a vengeance. Her story is not just that of a girl whose mom never taught her about her period; it's about the systematic destruction of a spirit just as it's finally seen a silver lining.
It reminds me of the "Simpsons" episode when Marge comments, "Kids can be so cruel." Overhearing and perhaps deliberately misunderstanding her, Bart exclaims, "We can? Thanks, mom!" Only later do adolescents realize what they've done, and it takes guts—just like this revitalized, Greek-tragedy-level "Carrie"—to right a wrong of the past.
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redrobin wrote:I've seen more 100 year flood,fire, hurricanes, ice storms etc than I can shake a stick at. I've seen at least 2 100 year floods and an ice storm like no one has ever seen . Curious what's next. Volcanoes?
4Diamond wrote:A large earthquake
leanin' H wrote:Generational disasters is a misleading media term, like pink slime! This Houston flooding was a "1000 year storm" according to the press. Now I am not in any diminishing the damage and loss of life Harvey brought, but weather records have clearly shown the same flooding or worse down there in the 1930's. We live in a generation of dishonest journalism. Anything for a headline or to grab more mouse clicks. We have drought and fire and floods and earthquakes where I live, although floods are rare. Even had a few tornados. I guess I wonder if we are having more disasters or if they are just hyped and publicized more?
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JR Machines is a second hand Machine Tools Dealer with warehouse in the UK and India. We procure se...Tools Dealer with warehouse in the UK and India. We procure second machines from the UK, Europe, Canada & USA. We are looking for an Excel management system to track our inventory. We need the system to handle purchase, shipment, sales invoice, etc.
Hi Everyone, i work for a clothing company and my boss always asks me to run an inventory report with images and all the details (which also called line sheet) i have attached a sample data please note that the sample data is for one category which is shirts but we have multiple category so for each category we need one report i am very good with
Create Microsoft Access Template for stock inventory management so that we can track the serial numbers of the product.
...pet project using JHipster. It requires a frontend UI, that a user can login to and search for inventory in a warehouse. And the capability to manage inventory (adjust inventory in and out of the warehouse; and change inventory parameters or move inventory from one location to another etc.). I have a hand drawn UI design on a few sheets of paper, that
Laboratory looking to update current reagent inventory table based in Access 2010 database to include the following features... • Create a new mechanism to assign a unique log (ID) number, based on the date received, for the inventory [đăng nhập để xem URL] assigned the log number must be fully protected and un-editable. The rest of the fields would come from
we need a multichannel order processing and inventory management saas software for multiuser. Task as 1 Order processing 2. Shipping 3. centralized Inventory management 4. centralized Price management For multichannel as Flipkart Snapdeal Amazon etc.
We implement open source systems for archiving collections for cultural and sc...source systems for archiving collections for cultural and scientific institutions. For our new project we are looking for Omeka Classic developer to create a plugin for simple inventory functions. More details on the plugin specification will be sent after direct contact.
Our startup develops a product for inventory management in working groups. Your part will be the app and related environment. To get a feeling - check app by sortly.com. We are looking for a full-stack developer or team of two if part-time. Planning three and more months (please do not answer if you have projects for 1Q19) of hard work for creators
A Wordpress Page that generates Inventory Numbers as described in the PDF.
I require an inventory dashboard system , Bootstrap 4 , Microsoft SQL Database, and web based with reporting
Have an example of an app I created on appsheet.. Need you to build me the same one with more capabilities and functionality and to api to SageOne accounting and Bitrix24 programs
1- build API to get and post data from website 2- record and update items in website , qty , location , images ,... etc 3- dashboard to list items and chart 4- use facebook account to login
I need an Inventory Management student or expert guy who can solve few questions for me. Easy job if you are good with Inventory Management. Price is 10$ fixed. Time : 1 day max.
I need my website re-configured.I need you to build my online store.
I am looking for a long term relation as well, as we have many projects coming up.. I have the page design with me. The design include each page, and how it should be. The operations start from, creating a product at warehouse 1. Create Product details Style Article details... 2. PO 3. GRN/Receive 4. Move to a store 5. POS Sales Discount Hold and bill another orde...
...have a webshop with roughly 230 variable products that we need added shipment size and weight to all variants. We also need added the supplier to the variants for simpler inventory management. Out of the 230 products we have already done 32-35 products. I have attached a screenshot of the variant product page of a already fixed product and marked with
...Freelancer will take a cut (10%) out of your payment. Install Wordpress, 1 custom theme, 5 basic plugins, 2 payment gateways. Install to webhost, connect webhost/domain. Add 10 inventory items from a few categories and design/customise 4 pages. Trim what isn't needed, optimise. Write a few documents with screenshots. Job needs to be done within 7-10
Inventory management application: 1. Input of tea purchased manually or copy from excel sheet 2. Differentiated on columns: Garden Name, Grade, Invoice No., Bag Size, No. of Bags, Total Kg, Price/Kg, Input, WIP, Sale, Closing 3. Categorization of different teas on the basis of quality - Good, Premium etc. 4. Creating batch for WIP (drag & drop) 5.
I need you to develop some software for me. I would like this software to be developed using PHP.
Hello We have several thousand listings active on ebay. Each listing is impo... Each listing is imported from amazon withou seller account login. We need a fast sync of inventory for each variation for all listings. The product id for amazon and ebay is same for each product variation. So you can take that as a criteria for inventory cross check.
Need help preparing for a test on operations and inventory management. Things you need to be able to do are: -Calculate process/system capacity and bottlenecks -Compute Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) -Calculate Seasonal Index, Indices, Average Seasonal Index -Use regression line and seasonal indices to derive
Based on the requirements I sent over via chat, and the expectations that you agreed on then and by accepting this project. Python/Django
Hi , i need our inventory management software to integrate with WP / opencart or mangento and then need android and ios app for frontend, our inventory management software export excel file (2lakhs products), we want to edit it , add few more fields and want to upload to our shop please quote with samples and send me how you follow this , layout
Looking for very clean APP to inventory a collection of items. Ability to take photo on phone / iPad, add details, add location, save to database. Able to run through sections in the database, scroll through imagers, select specific items, and move these items to another location. Able to generate reports of where items are located.
I need you to design and build inventory management module using .Net and sql server DB. complete module has to be based on RestFul Webservice
I need you to develop inventory management module and integrate the same in our current application. I would like this to be developed using .NET and SQL Server. it has to be web services based.
I am a book publisher located in the United States. I need a purchasing tool that will take inputs including unit sales history, point of sale sales history, costs for different production quantities, desired months in stock and expected turnaround time and will output a recommended reprint time and quantity. Since the costs are constantly changing, and we have more than a decade of prior data t...
* Background on the project: We purchase truckloads of inventory for which we receive a rough list of products we should be receiving. Upon receiving we would like the ability to scan through and confirm receipt of goods from that load, mark damaged/destroyed goods and also scan products we received which may not have been on our list. Through the
I am looking for lead generator and sales person, who will work along with me (remotely) to adjust the business for leads and get some sales. ...with me (remotely) to adjust the business for leads and get some sales. If you're interested, please comment with your previous experience in generating leads and also please add portfolios to your profile.
Build a custom cloud-based inventory management platform similar in functionality to tradegecko with the following features. - Multi-tenant (able to host multiple companies) - User management (with different rights) - Supports B2B selling with discount (products can be assigned to group A, B, ... and different discounts assigned to the groups)
We are looking to hire 3 individuals (or an Agency that can provide 3 team members) to help us update our dealer database of actual "on-the-lot" vs "listed online" inventory of various car dealership websites. We will provide approx 30 minutes paid training to explain the process and answer any questions you have. We will start with a small segment
#Nature of Business : IT Service #Need a Web based application to control, organize and track the work flow with inventory system at our office. #Requirements: 1. CLIENT/CASE REGISTRATION Collection of Client details + Media details Required Fields for Registration: CLIENT DETAILS Name*: Company: Phone*: Email: City: Country: Group: [LIST]
Deliverable: A working and testable build of C2 Log Version 1.0 Type of Freelancer: Creative, professional and reliable individual willing to complete the work within a week or less. This work represents the beginning of C2 Log. More work is available after completing this part of the project. ***Important*** **Read the attached project file before contacting me about job**
We are a startup (selling gym equipment online), we need someone to make a formula using excel for us to extract the information given by the manufacturing companies to an excel document which has a pre-existing format which we must follow for it to be imported onto our websit
We are a startup (selling gym equipment online), we need someone to make a formula using excel for us to extract the information given by the manufacturing companies to an excel document which has a pre-existing format which we must follow for it to be imported onto our website.
I need to develop an online inventory control software for multi user and multi branches, which will cover, item creation, item group, Purchase entry and Sales entry along with reports for all. Please only an experience developer needed with minimum 3 years experience in Inventory projects.
I am looking for experienced coders to develop inventory and sales ( invoicing) system with some reports. I need it for desktop using Visual basic .net. If you have already existing error free code you can also apply. more details will be send to selected coders. Source must work on network with multiple users and using ms SQL server.
Need to make inventory software for Gas station convenience store
I Need a Supply Chain Management & Inventory Management expert to solve question. Question paper is attached here. Please see it at first then bid. My budget is 10$ fixed. Time: 12 hours. If you are interested then contact with me. Thanks.
Look to have customise invoice and inventory software
Need to assess multiple facilities in the Phoenix area to document and report condition of security equipment onsite to create inventory. Estimate 5 locations, with each location requiring 1 day of work.
Need to develop one Inventory system for work communication with Client and Gold Agent and Gold Agent to Gold Maker Worker .. Portal which Must have Admin Panel for Managing Client Orders with Inventory. and Sub-admin panel for managing Worker Tasks real time..
I am looking for someone who has good experience in game and mobile industry. More details will be provided to the right candidates. Thank you.
App for physical inventory count I need a simple application that will be used to assist in the physical count of inventory at a manufacturing plant. The operator will locate a part on the shelf. Via the app, key in the part number. The screen will fill with the Part Number, Description, Drawing (if it exists). A box will ask for a quantity and
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1. Con...Convert Excel file containing 450 product details to CSV file for upload to Lazada 2. Create CSV file ready for upload to Lazada Malaysia Must also post product photos to external site. Must have experience of doing this ie uploading product files to Lazada before. Will not pay until upload successfully completed. Further data work possible.
We buy/sell/repair tank containers. I am automating the records system and need help with form design and reports and general Access/VBA skills from a reasonably local person. Look [đăng nhập để xem URL]
We are a printing company and need to build an app for material management such as inwarding, stocking, storage, billing, outward etc.
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Khathu: Hello Selma
Selma: Doing pretty good..staying away from 1/2 the folks I know, who all seem to be sick..coughing, hacking etc.. Afternoon Historybuff
HistoryBuff: Hey all Lol
Selma: Khathu are the researchers you have hired a part of society's in those areas?
alt: I just finished watching Sec'Y Clinton testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee .... GOP Sen. Johnson, McCain & Paul.. they ain't too intelligent!!!! LOL
Karoshi8: Hello everyone! Long time no see!
Selma: Afternoon Karoshi8 Happy New Year to you Karoshi8
alt: Hello HistoryBuff & Karoshi8 .. hpw are the two of you doing today?
Karoshi8: You too Selma!
HistoryBuff: Hey Karoshi8
Karoshi8: Pretty good today so far. How is that Ohio weather? Hello HistoryBuff.
alt: sunny & cold 'bout 15 degrees right now.
Khathu: I am still trying to locate one Selma. I am looking for someone connected to the genealogical and historical societies
Karoshi8: Lol! No thanks alt. It's 63 right now and I've go my electric blanket on!
Selma: Ok
HistoryBuff: I doing. How about you, Alt?
alt: oh wow Karoshi8, FL has spoiled ya LOL
Karoshi8: Yes! I have to come up to Ohio soon, and I've trying to hold off on that trip as long as I can.
Selma: Better wait till it gets warmer karoshi
alt: is there anything like RAOGK still around for helping folks do long distance research?
Karoshi8: I think so Selma. What is raogk?
alt: random acts of genealogical kindness (RAOGK) that was the name of a group/orgainzation.
Karoshi8: Oh. Cause I need some help. Having a hard time accepting that there are some things I will never know.
alt: here in Ohio Karoshi8?
Karoshi8: Ohio, Kentucky, and North Carolina.
alt: for Ohio you might try the genealogy chapters found on www.ogs.org
Karoshi8: Yes, I'm thinking of going to the convention.
alt: oh, okay in Cincy.. if so, I hope to meet you there.
Selma: What type of info are you looking for karoshi?
Karoshi8: Me too! I need to connect my Ohio Winburns to the Indiana Winburns. I also need to connect two groups of Stewart's in Kentucky.
alt: for Kentucky try www.aaggky.org .. especially if it is African American genealogy. and for Indiana try www.iaagg.org
Selma: Afternoon vkn
HistoryBuff: Hey Vkn.
vkn: howdy all
alt: Hello vkn
Karoshi8: Hello vkn
vkn: heyyyyyy history selma alt Karoshi8
Karoshi8: Just read Southern Seed, Northern Soil about the Robert's and Beech Settlements in Indiana. Even talked to the author.
alt: vkn, you got my response on the "expert tips" request?
Karoshi8: He didn't even realize that the people there were connected to the Ross County people.
alt: wonderful Karoshi8
vkn: i sure did alt and thanx muchly
Karoshi8: Thanks for the sites alt.
vkn: alt can you attend a 9am webinar 2morry
alt: is that right Karoshi8 ... that kind of shows us how "provincial' some authors can be.... especially with the Roberts, they have long and strong Ohio roots even before they went to Indiana.
Karoshi8: Do tell alt! PLEASE! I know I have some Robert's and I definitely have Winburns. But I don't know how they connect to the Indiana ones.
alt: If you remind me with an email vkn .... 9AM .... I'm up and kicking by then.
Selma: Doesn't abpolk have an Indiana connection?
alt: yep Selma, a 'bunch of'em"
vkn: thanx alt watch for details in mail and thanx to all for alonzo support and cleveland event
Selma: Jeez the big news for the past 2 days is Beyonce-Gate.. LOL
alt: Karoshi8, check here for some info on Roberts in Ross County, Ohio ... Chillicothe in particular http://www.lwfaah.net/oh/gray.htm
Karoshi8: Lol! Selma
vkn: http://tinyurl.com/bczn5y5
alt: thanx vkn.... I've alerted all of my Clevleand folks to the upcoming Lines performances in Cleveland on the 27th...
vkn: and me too all of my KERR and Karamu connections alt
alt: vkn, I'm almost positive that H. Leslie Adams, the AA Classical composer will be in attendance at one of the nights.
vkn: Well the two of them MUST meet alt
alt: I'm hoping they have the opportunity of 'connecting' vkn.
Karoshi8: Oh, that is Mrs. Beverly's page. I've spoken to her several times but I don't think we spoke about the Robert's. Thanks!
vkn: Karoshi8 do i have an email for you
Karoshi8: Not sure. It's email@example.com
vkn: thanx
alt: if it's Ross, SE Ohio & AA Bev has some information on them Karoshi8 LOL LOL
Karoshi8: Very true alt. That is where my Winburns lived.
vkn: 51 degrees here today
alt: hush yo mouf vkn LOL LOL turn it around for me 15 degrees
Karoshi8: From what I see, the Roberts came from North Carolina to Ross County, then some when on to Indiana.
vkn: woo woo too cold
Selma: 30 degrees here..bright and sunny
alt: yep, colder than ............ LOL LOL
Karoshi8: Now I understand why mine stayed in Ross county I suppose.
Selma: Umm..let me see if I have Abpolks narrative here
alt: Karoshi8, you know Ross county had the largest AA population in Ohio from like 1820 up to about 1850, or so, especially when Chillicothe was the state capitol.
Karoshi8: Yes. Chillicothe seems to be the place to be.
alt: at least it was in those early days.
Karoshi8: Thanks for all the help!
Selma: Think she posted the narrative on Heinneg's site
Karoshi8: freeafricanamericans.com?
Selma: Yes.. let me see
alt: http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/lyles.htm apolk's narrative on FPOC Indiana & Tennesse
Karoshi8: Thank you!
Selma: yes...on the Lyles family
alt: her narrative deals primarily with the Lyles & Lyles Station,
Selma: Yes..just re read
Karoshi8: Don't think I have any Lyles.
alt: but she also has family in eastern Indiana & Dayton, Ohio
Selma: Here focus is on Lyles/Liles but there are other surnames to which there are connections that are mentioned..good example of migration
alt: very good example of migration Selma
Karoshi8: Great!
Selma: Sometimes other folks narratives gives good examples of the type of info folks should take a look at
alt: Karoshi8, did the author you mentioned also get into the Weaver & Pettiford families in southern Indiana along with the Roberts?
Karoshi8: Yes and no. It was more about the settlements and reasons for their success. I have Weavers as well and I knew they were some at the settlements, but I didn't realize that Pettiford was also in Indiana. Makes sense since they are also a NC family/
Selma: Folks I have to run...have a great day Bye
Karoshi8: You too Selma I'm going to head out too. Everyone stay warm!
vkn: bye history my aches and pains are aching take all care history and be at peace


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The Cooler Me
Statistically speaking, there's probably a cooler you out there. The guy who's actually living that life you'd imagined for yourself before you got married, had a couple of kids, and strapped in to that desk job. Maybe he plays in a band, lives in California, wakes up at ten, and surfs before noon. Wherever he is, he's definitely having more fun than you are. What if you could track that guy down? Hang out with his friends. Eat, drink, and sleep according to his responsibility-free schedule? Then you could decide, once and for all, if the cooler life is the better life
Not too long ago, I was sitting backstage at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and drinking beer with my doppelgänger, a 39-year-old singer-songwriter named Kyle Field. Or rather, I was drinking beer by myself while he entertained his fans, most of whom seemed to be half his age. Despite his best efforts, he'd failed to conceal his grizzly good looks. He was very tan, had a big amber beard, and was wearing a sea captain's hat that somehow added to his charm. There are not many grown men out there who can wear a captain's hat and not look like a member of the Village People, but my doppelgänger is one of them. He spotted me through the haze of pot smoke and lifted his beer, and I lifted mine back. We were the oldest people in the room—perhaps the whole club. And yet we'd entered some alternate universe: a Neverland where no one aged or had children or worried about pesky bourgeois things, like brain cells or health insurance.
"When's your bedtime?" he asked later, clapping me on the back.
"Three hours ago," I said.
He laughed. "We're headed to Edinburgh Castle, if you want to come. Last call isn't for thirty minutes."
"I can't remember the last time I shut down a bar," I said.
"I wish I could say the same."
He went off to talk to a blonde woman in the corner, the sexiest of his three backup singers. He was not hitting on her: Rather, they seemed like old friends, goofing around and singing a song I didn't recognize. I'd always dreamed of being a musician in another life, yet a lot of the ones I'd met were lethargic hipsters so cocooned in their coolness they could hardly bring themselves to smile. Even their sneezes seemed like "sneezes." Kyle, on the other hand, was sincere and friendly and strangely innocent, someone who talked about "making out" with women and threw his head back when he laughed. I glanced at the person sitting next to me, a very stoned-looking girl who'd maybe spent a summer or two working with Tibetan orphans.
"How do you know Kyle?" she asked enviously.
"I don't really," I said. "I just met him a month ago. He's my doppelgänger."
"Your what?"
"My double.... You know, the person I might have been."
She looked from me to Kyle again, as if imagining him with overpriced glasses and a hairline in sudden retreat. "You can be anything you want to be, I think."
I nodded, though this seemed to me patently false. It assumed, for example, that you didn't want conflicting things at the same time. Case in point: I love my family dearly, and yet I'd boarded a plane to San Francisco that afternoon with a breezelike feeling of escape. I'd been up since 5:00 a.m., when my son tended to begin screaming. He was 18 months old and had yet to wake up in a way that was anything less than cataclysmic. That morning, I left my wife sleeping in bed and carried Clem into the kitchen to make coffee, but he would not let me do this. "Mama!" he yelled at me, shaking his head. He insisted on calling me "Mama"—his revenge, probably, for our having named him Clem. He cried until I took him to the window, where he could look at the backhoe parked across the street. I couldn't move from the window without incurring his wrath. When I finally put him down, the screaming woke up my daughter, Tess, who burst out of her room and collapsed on the couch.
"Which Pokémon do you want to be?" she yelled over Clem's screams.
"I don't know, sweetie. I haven't had any coffee yet."
"You can be a Basic or a Legendary if you want. Do you want to be Ho-Oh?"
If someone asked me to prove my undying love for my daughter, I would tell him that I have pretended to be over fifty different Pokémon characters. I have watched an entire Pokémon Advanced Battle DVD, which is essentially like roasting your soul on a spit.** **
"I don't want you to be Ho-Oh. Giratina is actually really powerful. He can do Shadow Force, DragonBreath, and Ominous Wind."
I looked over at Clem, who'd stopped crying and appeared to be passing some ominous wind. I took a moment to imagine the rest of my morning, the frantic work of keeping two children happy while getting them fed and dressed and ready for school,** **doing my best to bring Giratina to life while trying to clean the shit from my son's scrotum.
I mention all this not to complain about my life but to explain the buoyancy I'd felt on the flight to San Francisco and then later walking to a bar at one in the morning with my cosmic double, the person who'd fulfilled all the unfettered, bohemian dreams I'd had for myself right out of college. I'd imagined living in a house of hungry, half-crazed artists somewhere, a place with secondhand furniture and thirdhand lovers, all of us thumbing our noses at society while we aged gracelessly into fame. Like the Beats, the Lost Generation, the Merry Pranksters—whatever they ended up calling us, we'd have a "the" before our name. But aside from a brief bacchanalia in San Francisco that involved a weirdly polite orgy, I never found the bohemia of my dreams. Instead I went to grad school and stumbled upon the woman of my dreams. It took us nine years to get married—mostly because we believed it to be the last nail in the coffin, the apogee of conventionality—but we tied the knot eventually and had two kids and settled into an apartment with tastefully worn furniture and a fancy espresso machine that we never use. The truth is, despite the mornings of hellish Mr. Mom frenzy, there are plenty of blissed-out moments when I'm cuddling with my son or daughter on the couch and feel like I've found myself, that I've been blessed. Still, I can't help wondering.
Kyle and I ordered beers at the bar and then ended up stationed around the pool table while his bandmates played eight ball. The music was hip and deafening, and I worried about the elfin roar of tinnitus that had recently begun in my left ear. All around me, twentysomethings seemed to be having the time of their lives. Kyle was in fine form, making everyone laugh in his skipper's hat, but it was hard to tell if he was captain of an enchanted boat or a sinking ship. This was why I was visiting, to experience his life for a couple of days. Was my doppelgänger happier than I was?
As a writer, I'd always been fascinated by the trope of the doppelgänger and its long literary life, from Dostoyevsky to Nabokov to Spider-Man. Often, in books, these physical doubles represent the worst a character is capable of. Lately, though, perhaps because at age 41 I'd begun feeling less like the captain of my life and more like its deckhand, I'd started wondering** **if there was someone out there who embodies not your worst self, but your freest one—a person who encapsulates everything you've ever dreamed of becoming. Let's call him your Cooler Self. All those dreams that got lost along the way, the ones that were casualties of chance or duty or cowardice: There's a "you" out there—a mountain climber or war photographer or race-car driver—who brought them to fruition.
So I vowed to hunt down my Cooler Self. Demographically, I had a few rules: He had to be male, straight, educated, approximately my age, someone—if circumstances had been different—I could imagine becoming. I sent out an e-mail to my friends and was amazed by the number of names they came up with. There were actors, comedians, rock musicians, jazz guitarists, poets, choreographers, architects, artists, ad men, playwrights, and an avant-garde endurance drummer. There was an indie-rock singer who lived in a house full of young Swedish women and an erotic photographer who looked like Jesus. At some point in this dog pile of doppelgängers, I found Kyle Field, the brains behind the band Little Wings.
Less famous than some of the others on the list, but with a devoted cult following. I listened to one of his songs—a gorgeous number called "Look at What the Light Did Now"—that reminded me of an angelic-voiced Will Oldham. Then, as fate would have it, I found an Internet video of him singing a cozy duet with Feist. In the video, they're staring into each other's eyes, lounging in a rocky canyon somewhere with matching peacock feathers tucked behind their ears. They're singing that same song about the light, and though it's possible I'm reading into it, it seems pretty clear to me they want to fuck each other. This was the moment when he had me. It just so happens that Feist had become something of a deity in our house: Clem's all-time favorite video clip was her guest appearance on Sesame Street, when she sings "1234" while counting monsters and animals. I must have seen the thing over fifty times. Now, I like Feist; I think she's plenty talented. But the act of watching her bounce around with chickens in sunglasses so many times had rendered her grotesque. Basically she'd become a Muppet. So this clip of her soul-singing with Kyle Field—both of them, judging from how long they keep their eyes closed after the song is done, in no state to do much counting—seemed the perfect inverse of my life.
Of course, it wasn't just the Feist video that swayed me. My friend, in talking Kyle up, had made him sound like a modern-day Dean Moriarty. He'd also said there was something about Kyle that reminded him of me, something he couldn't exactly put his finger on, which made me intrigued and suspicious. By sheer coincidence the guy was playing a show in Portland, where my family and I were house-sitting for a month. I called him up on his cell phone.
"Wow!" I said, after introducing myself. "I can't believe you're in Portland."
"Cool. Yeah. Who is this again?"
"Tim's friend. I'm writing an article about my doppelgänger."
"What doppelgänger?"
Silence. In the background I could hear what sounded like a ukulele. What if he—my own double—thought I was a creep? "About time you found me," he said.
"You don't have a family, do you? Or a brand-new station wagon?"
He laughed.
"What time can I come by?" I asked.
"Oh, anytime. I'll just be kicking it around the house."
Kicking it. This is not a concept in our house. I drove out to the scruffy edge of southeastern Portland and pulled up to the place where my doppelgänger was staying, nervous about intruding. The house was everything I'd ever dreamed of—at least when I used to dream of such a life. There was a pile of construction lumber in the front yard, and the porch was covered in beer cans and Goodwill furniture and well-thumbed paperbacks, some of them as warped as giant clams. The front door was open, but when I called hello no one answered. If a stranger strode unannounced into my kitchen in L.A., I would have stabbed him with a knife, but the young couple I found fixing themselves a drink paid me no mind whatsoever. I had the sense I wasn't the first stranger to show up in their kitchen that day. I asked them where Kyle was, and they shrugged, telling me I was free to hunt around upstairs.
But when I climbed the stairs, I found only a few walls standing, and in place of a roof I saw the blue dome of the sky. If it had been dark, I might have plummeted to my death. I realized—to my delight—that the house was under construction.
I heard a shower running, so I went out to the front porch to wait for my doppelgänger to emerge. Eventually he did, dripping water on the floor. Would you believe me if I said I felt an immediate connection? That we grinned at each other, unable to contain ourselves? Except for our Teutonic height, we looked almost nothing alike: There was that beard, the kind you might call Whitmanesque, and he was wearing a trucker cap that said car-tricity. I'd bought him some beer, and we sat outside in the backyard. Because of the -construction, the owner of the place had moved his room into the yard, so that there was an immaculately made bed sitting in the middle of the grass. You could see the sky through the upstairs window of the house, a magic drift of clouds, like something from a Magritte painting.
I clinked beers with my cooler self, sitting next to a little wooden tepee stationed in the corner of the yard. I peered inside: It was horticultural, built to disguise a thicket of pot plants. Kyle took a swig. There was a clothespin clipped, inexplicably, to the brim of his cap. I wondered if he was crazy. Despite our connection, I half expected to dislike him—wanted to, perhaps, in order to validate the choices I'd made. I told him that the bed in the middle of the yard reminded me of an '80s music video.
"Right," he said. "Except the bed would be on fire."
"Slow-motion fire."
We laughed. It occurred to me that Pat Benatar videos might be the moon landing of our generation. I asked him how he liked Portland.
"Excellent," he said, pointing the clothespin at me. "It confirms my theory."
"What theory?"
"Oh, that the coolest people live in the cities with the tallest trees. I think because big trees remind you how small you are."
I nodded. We talked about San Francisco as a pretty good place for tree stature, and
I lamented that living there had become too expensive for anyone but hedge funders and Google employees. You couldn't find an apartment for under $2,000.
"I pay $475 a month," he said.
"How many roommates do you have?"
He shrugged. "Depends on the month."
I told him I was worried San Francisco was becoming like Paris or Manhattan, a city under glass, and Kyle surprised me by bursting into song. It took me a second to realize he was improvising a new set of lyrics to "Message in a Bottle." City in a bot-tle, he sang, doing an uncanny impersonation of Sting. He did not stop at the chorus but ad-libbed an entire verse about driving into the bottle's mouth from the Golden Gate Bridge. I laughed out loud. I was beginning to realize, partly to my dismay, that my doppelgänger had turned out very well. He was funny and charismatic, someone who could talk about "the three-way mirror of performance" without sounding pretentious. I liked him a great deal. It occurred to me he might be one of those rare people who make you feel as at home in his mind as you are in your own.
I kept waiting for him to disenchant me somehow, but it never happened. Instead we talked for five hours straight, sharing intimate details about our lives. As you might expect, there was some overlap: We both grew up in suburban L.A. We surfed as teenagers. We loved the band the Silver Jews. We'd both worked in assisted-living facilities. As a young man, too, he was never attracted to the idea of settling down. Marriage, family, material comforts: All of it daunted him. Unlike me, though, his priorities hadn't changed. He spoke about the halcyon years of his twenties—living in a house in San Luis Obispo, making music with his bandmate and good friend, the future indie celebrity M. Ward—not with the heartsick nostalgia of most people nearing middle age, but as if they were still in full swing. His Saturn-return moment, Kyle said, happened when he was 28 and working in a liquor store, playing music and making art. He realized he preferred the life of a lazy grasshopper. In fact, he explained to me, what people perceived as laziness wasn't laziness at all, but a kind of bravery.
"It was like being winked into a secret world," Kyle said. "I sort of realized I didn't have to be a busy ant. People get so caught up in ending up somewhere specific, in chasing a certain kind of life, but it's like that Alan Watts quote: Every point on the surface of the sphere is the center of the surface.** **You're at the center already."
"Do you ever wish you had more money?" I asked.
"Always," he said. "Are you kidding? When it comes down to it, though, all I really need is a skateboard and an iPod. I can write songs anywhere."
What about kids? I asked. A family? Did he ever worry he was missing out on something?
He stared at the bed sitting in the middle of the yard. "I haven't knocked it off the list. It might be fun to be one of those freaky old dads. But I'm too attached to my freedom, I guess—waking up at 10 a.m. and hopping on my skateboard to check out the surf. I like watching all the bandwagoners hustling off to work. If I'm feeling good, I'm the king of the world."
"And if you're feeling bad?"
"I'm the scum of the earth."
I told him that children would help with that. If I'd had a bad day of writing or teaching and I was generally feeling like a worthless piece of shit, there was nothing like being greeted by your kids back at home to snap things into perspective. I was bragging a bit—I wanted to squeeze some jealousy from him—but it was also, I felt, one of the unconditional rewards of fatherhood.
"But it's important to feel like scum sometimes, isn't it?" Kyle said. "To get down in that dark place and dwell awhile?"
I looked up at the house, surprised to see stars twinkling in the empty window frame. It was one of the hardest parts of family life, actually, the thing maybe I missed the most: the loss of that lonely** **place I used to dwell. As a young man drunk on books, I used to walk the streets for hours, feeling like an alien creature, following the darkening detours of my mind. People tend to talk about self-absorption as if it were a bad thing, but I missed those walks very much.
"So you've never regretted being a lazy grasshopper?" I asked.
"Oh, sure," he said, and he told me a story about living in a shack in someone's backyard, waking up every morning with -freezing-cold eyeballs. This was two years ago. His mind was plagued; he couldn't make music; nothing he did seemed to make sense. "I was writing checks that my life couldn't cash," was how he put it. The only thing that kept him from offing himself was picturing his little brother's face, how it would react to the news. But he'd pulled himself out of it now: He was alive, healthy; life had never been better. His checks were good. The story was familiar—I'd lived a version of it myself.
A wave of friends showed up at the house, and we sat out on the porch and drank more beer and sampled a gooey-looking bud plucked from a Mason jar we'd had some trouble finding in the dark. How I missed this life! The friends, the aimless camaraderie, the nowhere particular to be. Earlier Kyle told me that when he was on tour, he never had to book a hotel room because there was always somebody to welcome him, a couch he could crash on.
"Even in Europe?"
"I have a lot of friends," he said. "It's a different kind of wealth."
In one of my favorite movies, The Double Life of Véronique, the daily life of a Frenchwoman named Véronique is mirrored by the life of her Polish doppel-gänger, Weronika, who's played by the same actress. The two Veronicas never meet. Still, there's an uncanny moment near the end of the film when Véronique sees herself in a photo she took as a tourist in Kraków. This is Weronika, who by that point in the film has died of a heart ailment. Rather than awe or amazement, Véronique feels uncontrollable grief. The film seems to suggest it's not the fact that she has a doppel-gänger that upsets her, but that she's seen herself living another life. Perhaps what had seemed like destiny, her one true life, was simply a matter of chance.
After meeting Kyle, I started to think about why I'd chosen the life I had and not a less conventional one. I'd always considered it to be accidental: I fell in love, I lived in Tucson instead of Brooklyn, I never found the group of eccentric bons vivants I was looking for. But what if this actually wasn't the case at all? What if I needed the attachment of family, the ballast of the same bourgeois comforts I pretended to disdain, in order to survive? What if, given the same trajectory as my doppelgänger, I would never have made it out of that backyard shack alive?
The truth is, I'd had opportunities in my early twenties to lead a different kind of life, ones I tended to forget. I'd lived in Portland for a few months during its creative heyday, before anyone knew what a fid-gear bike was or cared about the provenance of their meat. Somewhere in the city Gus Van Sant was casting his next film, Miranda July was making her mark on the DIY art scene—and I was sitting in an apartment by myself, sleeping on the couch because I was too depressed to buy a futon. The only friends I made were the two severely retarded men I was looking after to pay the rent. From an artistic perspective, I couldn't have been less productive. In fact, I didn't start writing my first book until I met my wife and we'd settled into a life of cozy domestic routine. My first break came on a story about a suicidally depressed man living in Portland, based entirely on myself, but I wouldn't have been able to write it then—only while looking at a photograph of myself, from a different life.
Two months after meeting Kyle for the first time, I was on that plane to San Francisco, feeling a gust of freedom. This was my chance to see what his life was really like, in the place where he lived, and I was half-hoping he might reveal his secret despair. And I did see a glimpse of something: not despair, but a crack in the bohemian idyll. It was Kyle's first time headlining the Great American Music Hall, one of the most famous clubs in San Francisco, and despite the good vibes backstage afterward, the biggest show of his career had not gone as well as he'd hoped. For whatever reason, the band had never jelled, and it was late enough by the time they came on that the crowd's energy had already begun to drift homeward. Watching from the audience, I began to feel like somehow I was responsible.
"That was a cave gig last night," he said the next day, sitting on the porch of the hundred-year-old house he currently shared with four roommates. I asked him what he meant. He told me he'd felt like Sisyphus up there: not pushing the rock uphill, but chasing it back down through a crowded village. "Not even crowded—sparsely crowded."
We'd ended up shutting down the bar the night before, as he'd predicted, and I had a splitting headache. All I could think about between medicinal puffs of weed was my wife at home with the kids. She was a smart, beautiful, talented woman, and I had not slept well without her. Occasionally the front door would open and one of Kyle's roommates would squeeze past us on the way to somewhere, looking relieved to be outside. The house had a roof on it, at least, but it was quite small and did not seem intended for five people who weren't intimate. There was only one bathroom, for example.
"What do you do if someone's in there?" I asked.
"Pee in the backyard," he said.
I nodded. I could tell you how much I missed my children, or the way Clem giggled when I threw him into the air, or the tenderness of my wife's good-byes as I went off to grade papers—but that wouldn't be the full truth. I also liked sitting out there on the porch in the middle of the afternoon, feeling stoned and hung-over and debating whether "wait a fuck" was actually a Scorsesean expression or if my doppelgänger had invented it. I would not want to be doing it every day—or even every weekend—but I liked it then. And every time Kyle's life began to seem less than ideal to me, something else would surprise me and make it seem blessed.
There was his amazing popularity in the neighborhood, for instance. It seemed like everyone who walked by burst out smiling or yelled his name or asked him if he wanted to hit the surf. "My buddies," he called them. It was like sitting next to the groom at a wedding reception. When we went to buy beer at the corner, the Korean convenience-store owner embraced him like a son. In L.A., my life was consumed by family—I knew almost none of my neighbors, and the ones I did know I actively avoided. I had a balcony, but I never used it. If I wasn't inside the tortoiseshell of our beautiful apartment, I was in our low-emission station wagon driving the kids somewhere or getting myself to work. Here was a man who lived three blocks from the beach, one block from Golden Gate Park, whose life—as far as I could tell—was spent on porches. He even went outside to piss.
My point is: Even after the biggest show of his career had not gone well—been, in fact, something of a bust—my -doppelgänger seemed pretty damn happy. He told me a story about a trip he'd taken to Big Sur with a bunch of musician pals, how they'd decided to strip naked in the middle of the night and stand by the side of the road waiting for cars. Each time they saw one approaching, they posed like Greek statues, amazing its passengers when the headlights flashed upon them. I thought: I would have been the person driving past, astonished and laughing and sad not to be them.
At some point during the afternoon, Kyle got a text from one of his female friends that said "i feel like hanging out." I told him that if he needed to go, I'd understand.
"No. I already texted her back, but she doesn't want to come over. She just meant, literally, that she feels like hanging out."
He seemed delighted. I couldn't blame him: There was something poignant about the whole idea of this. Sometimes you can feel like doing something, feel like being somewhere else, without actually wanting to give up what you're doing.
For some reason, I told Kyle about how I'd asked my daughter recently what she wanted to be for Halloween, and she'd said "a confused chicken." This apparently meant dressing up like a chicken but pretending not to know what she was. I couldn't help thinking she'd hit upon a deep ontological truth: the idea that who you were would be obvious to everyone else but yourself.
Kyle looked at me carefully. "You love your kids."
"Yeah," I said.
"You know, I've started thinking of you as my bourgeois doppelgänger."
I tried to be flattered about this. The way he'd said "bourgeois" made it sound almost like a compliment. "Still, I can't help thinking what else I might have accomplished if I hadn't had children. Like I'm wasting my talent or something."
"There's always something else you could be doing," he said. "We're wasting a life as we speak."
There's a reason we drift toward attachment, I think, as we get older— attachment to people, to work, to things. As death moves closer, we try our hardest to dig in. We pound in the stakes so that our tents don't blow away. Still, it makes sense to me that the perceptions we once had of ourselves would be hard to cast off. We miss our youth, our freedom—which is not the same thing as wanting it back. We may think it is, but it's not. We're all confused chickens.
Among the many casually profound things Kyle said to me was a joke he'd made at that crowded bar we went to after his show. We were drinking beer with five or six of his friends, who were vying for the attention of his sexy backup singer. Watching them reminded me of what the dating scene was like. It was not something I missed. I was standing beside the pool table, blocking a stream of fucked-up twentysomethings on their way to the bathroom.
"I'm in the wrong place," I said, after getting splashed with beer.
"Aren't we all," Kyle said.
Which reminds me, now, of the student who came to see me in my office last year. I'd spent the morning grading short stories with titles like "Runaway Grandma"—time I might have spent writing my own fiction—and though I loved to teach, I was not at that moment feeling terribly well-disposed toward the academic life. The student was a very sweet kid, earnest and hardworking, who liked to refer to himself as a writer. I asked him if he'd thought about what he was going to do after he graduated, hoping to nudge him in the direction of something he was more gifted at.
"I want to be you," he said.
"Why?" I asked, startled.
He looked around my office, as if it were the answer to his question. In fact, it was one of the worst offices on campus. You could hear every splash and grunt from the bathroom across the hall, and one of the ceiling tiles was missing.
"You teach people," the student said. "You write books. You get to wear jeans to work. Who wouldn't want your life?"
For a while after visiting San Francisco, I couldn't shake the strange, ghostly feeling—like Véronique in that movie—of having glimpsed myself in another place. The truth is, now that I've sought out my doppelgänger, I don't feel any surer about the choices I've made in life. Sitting obediently through a faculty meeting or cleaning up the daily FEMA disaster of our kitchen, I think of the men out there directing films or traveling the world or simply reading a book before nine o'clock at night, and I feel a gust of Kyle envy. Some part of me will always feel the shadow of another life.
Recently I went to see a famous old poet read at the college where I teach. His poems were about death, yet they were hopeful and elegiac. Between poems, he rambled on about not being afraid of the unknown. He talked about his friends in Hawaii who were astronomers, how they understood that time was a fiction. He discussed the last line of his most famous poem, how it is important to bow "not knowing to what." Then something terrible happened. He began to trip over his words. He seemed lost and disoriented. Eventually he said he felt too weak to go on, and when he sat back down his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he lay there motionless, gaping at the ceiling. I thought he'd had a stroke. The look on his face—its yawn of frozen terror—seemed like a perfect rebuttal of everything he'd been talking about, of his life's work. Time, it seemed to say, was definitely not a fiction.
They shepherded us out of the room while sirens wailed in the distance. Strangely, when I got outside, my first thought was: Did he have children? It seemed like a very important question. As it turned out, it wasn't a stroke, he'd be okay—but I didn't know that yet. When I got home, my daughter was still awake, and I kissed her good night and sat on her bed longer than usual. I told her a story from my childhood, one of her favorites, and she corrected me when I got a detail wrong. She knew the story better than I did. Miniature plastic planets hung from her ceiling, meant to mimic the geography of the solar system. A few of them—like Saturn—had fallen off, but the earth still dangled above us, hanging literally by a thread. If someone told me I was going to die tomorrow, I thought, I would still want to be sitting right here. Because it was going to happen someday—very soon, in fact, in cosmological time—and it mattered immensely where I was. There was no time not to waste.


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News Americas, Philadelphia March 18, 2017 – The African and Caribbean Business Council (ACBC), the Philadelphia 76ers and the African Business Forum host The Second Annual African Caribbean Heritage Night on Wednesday March 29, 2017 from 4:30 pm to 9 pm at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
The African Caribbean Heritage Night starts with a business forum with the theme "The Future of Agri-Business in Africa" and diplomats and business owners from several African countries are expected to be in attendance. Presentations will be made by the embassies of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Mali on the status of agricultural production in their respective countries.
The business forum will present potential opportunities in Africa for Philadelphia area firms in a range of industries. Africa represents an area of rapid growth and the forum will enable networking with decision makers in several African countries.
The Philadelphia 76ers will make a special presentation on the NBA in Africa. The keynote speaker is Ambassador Dr. Robin Renee Saunders, who will speak about her new book, The Rise of Africa's Small and Medium Size Enterprises.
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Mr. Speaker, in fact, these are specifically economic measures. When I talk to leaders in my community and people in the provincial government, they say that in the current system there are overlapping regulations and it requires environmental studies to be completed when studies have already been completed, often by the exact same firms. This is stifling Canada's economy.
We will not abrogate any responsibilities with respect to the environment at all. I am proud of the regulations that protect Canada's environment. We have the most stringent rules in the world when it comes to offshore drilling and the hon. member should know that. Perhaps he should speak to his own provincial government and municipalities about why they so strongly support the government in this regard and what we are trying to do.
This is about creating a stronger economy, more jobs, more growth and more hope. That is why this budget bill has been constructed in the way it has been.


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Generally, people hesitate to make big, emotional statements because doing so is risky: Strike the right note and those feelings resonate with everyone, but do it wrong and you might end up looking stupid for caring so much. Lady Antebellum has always walked this line closely, and the group's best songs manage to flip those moments that could be maudlin or pathetic in the wrong hands – wanting to call an ex in the middle of the night, for instance – into massive, universal anthems.
On "Golden," the group's fourth proper album, the emotional openness is not gone, but its presentation is muted. Thematically, the potential is there. "Goodbye Town" explores a sense of bitter, post-breakup nostalgia; "It Ain't Pretty" finds Hillary Scott's narrator exploring heartbreak alone in a bar; and the title track offers an ode to a partner who makes the world seem brighter. But in real life the payoff of taking a risk comes from committing to a feeling, and these songs never feel particularly committed.
A collection of midtempo ballads, the album meanders through its ideas instead of running with them. It hints at massive choruses and electrifying guitar solos that never come. Supremely content, it aims for a broad accessibility that may make it more palatable for non-country fans – U2 and Springsteen fans who have written off the genre would be wise to check out Lady Antebellum – but also does little to engage them.
At the same time, Lady Antebellum sound consistently polished and well-composed, so when the group's songwriting rises to its talents, the product seems effortless. Opener "Get To Me" reels in the listener conspiratorially, and "Better Man" is a trenchant ballad with just the right serving of cheesy declarations of love. "Goodbye Town" closes with a vocally strained coda from singer Charles Kelley, the one time the album seems to push outside of a clearly defined comfort zone. Elsewhere, the band often sounds really good, but it mostly counts on sounding safe.
Kyle Kramer is a RedEye special contributor. @redeyechimusic
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Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr. is on a quest to become the next borough president of Queens, and has been the hardest-working man (or woman) in the race so far, traveling the borough far and wide to get his name out there and meet voters outside the comforts of his well-worn Astoria district.
He was recently at forum in the Rockaways, and appeared at a town hall meeting in Woodhaven and Bayside as part of his borough-wide "Safety Tour."
And last week he made an appearance in the heart of the old City Council district and current district of one of his opponents, State Senator Tony Avella. Vallone spoke at a meeting of the College Point Civic Association on issues such as a soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the new police academy, and extension of 20th Avenue.
Wow, talk about touching on some issues near and dear to the members of the College Point Civic Association. Someone has been doing their homework!
Seriously though, you guys, pundits much smarter and wiser than us here at Pol Position believe that it is Avella who is going to be one of the biggest obstacles when it comes to Vallone winning this race, the thinking being that they both appeal to the same kind of voter,
And that demographic tends to call northeast Queens home in large numbers.
So as this race heats up, it's going to be important for Vallone to connect with those voters, who let's not forget have been more than happy to vote for Avella in the past, even helping him upset Republican Frank Padavan, who held the State Senate seat prior to Avella for decades. Decades we tell ya'!
Which we guess is why Vallone is boning up on issues like the 20th Avenue extension and the new police academy. And let's not forget, Vallone has a brother, Paul, who has called northeast Queens homes for years now and is even running his own campaign for City Council this year, so we're sure he can help him get acquainted with the lay of the land.


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It has happened since the first time I played it. When asked to enter my kingdom name, I couldn't type anything into the fillform. Luckily, I managed to go back to the start screen, and somehow there was already a Kingdom of Fe. So I start playing for about one hour without getting through the tutorial. While playing, I can use the keyboard shortcuts, that means my keyboard were detected alright. Then I thought I wanted to start over, so I deleted the Kingdom of Fe, and when I tried to make a new kingdom, I remembered that I can't type. Now I can't play it at all.
Logging in to my Desktop Dungeon is impossible too.
I'm using Arch Linux.


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2010-11-10 / Events & Calendar
Amityville Woman's Club honors Rachel Erath
Rachel Erath was the guest of honor at the opening tea of the Amityville Woman's Club. Following decades of living in Amityville, she and her husband Robert are relocating to Florida. After detailing the multitude of things that Erath has done for the community, she was given a bouquet of flowers and a memory book.
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