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If you're interested in contributing to this series, then drop me an email. The series seems to be very popular with readers and I need a steady stream of new ones to keep it going.
Also, please leave constructive comments, questions, and so forth. Simply telling someone what a mess they have, how they have made poor decisions, and so forth is not helpful. There is a way to say, "That was a mistake, but here's what you can do to correct it" that both acknowledges the problem and offers a solution. It's this sort of feedback that this series is intended to solicit.
Next in the series is FMF reader VA. She answered my questions (in red below) as follows:
Please tell us a bit about yourself.
I am a 29 yr old female. I currently live in New York, NY and have lived here for six years. This city is expensive! My situation has improved a lot over the last two years, due to a higher salary and better managing of my finances. But I know I still have a long way to go. I am single.
Describe your financial situation (who works in your family, how your income is (general), how your expenses are, etc.)
Income: $3200 take home pay/mo, post-deductions (health insurance ($100), subway card ($112), 401k ($420) are monthly expenses deducted pre-tax.)
- Total After Tax Expenses: $2382
- Rent: $1285 (soon to be $758)
- Utilities (electric and gas): $60
- Student loan: $170
- Newspaper: $15
- Food (groceries, restaurants and bars): $430
- Travel: $222
- Other: $200
- Emergency Fund: $5000
- Investments: $5000
- Student Loan: $5000
What are the current financial issues you're facing (saving, paying off debt, etc.)?
By getting a roommate and increasing my cashflow by $500, I need to decide where to allocate the extra money. I feel that I'm behind on retirement saving and will likely increase my contribution by 2%. (Current is 8% with a 4.5% match). Next, should I pay off my student loan or put more into my emergency fund and investments?
What are your plans for the future (retire early, build your career, etc.)?
I plan to continue to "catch up" and aggressively save. It would be great to develop some side income as well. As far as the living situation, I don't know how long the roommate arrangement will last. I would like to move in with my boyfriend eventually. However that worries me as he has a large amount of law school debt, over $100k. I also worry about my long-term prospects in this city, as entering the real-estate market seems impossible. I do love it here and enjoy my job, perhaps it's worth the sky high rents. My overall goal is to save as much as possible to give me more options.
What's your best piece(s) of financial advice and/or your general philosophy on personal finances?
General philosophy is to spend where it counts. I love traveling and occasional restaurant indulgences. However my lifestyle is simple, free of gadgets and "stuff". I learned some financial lessons a little late in the game, and I wish I had saved more in my early 20s. Save early!


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A computer that quits working is a nightmare. If you're having problems with your computer, then you'll have to send it out for repairs. But how do you find a reliable and honest computer repair company near you? Below are some of the tips that you can follow.
- Request for referrals.
Somebody you know may have repaired their computer before. Ask family members and friends which computer repair company they trust. They'll gladly drop a name or two if they've had a good experience with a technician in the past.
- Don't fall for big ads.
Don't base your judgment solely on advertisements or fliers. Advertisements oftentimes feature the best of the company but you will only know a few things more about them after you have read several reviews from their past clients.
- Do a little bit of research.
Before hiring any computer repair company, find out more about their background. Check their business license, certifications, contact numbers, location, and other important details. Verify if all of their claims are true. See if they are affiliated with any group that can vouch for their credentials.
- Evaluate the technicians.
The computer company can tell you about their accomplishments all they want, but it's the technicians who will be doing the actual work. Try to know more about the actual service providers first. Visit their store and talk to the persons who will be repairing your computer. Assess their knowledge on the matter and find out if they are helpful, professional, and honest.
When talking with a computer technician, it is necessary that you ask the right questions so that you can assess his or her knowledge on the subject matter, more particularly on the problem that you're having. Don't rely on your assumptions and get direct answers. Some of the questions that you may ask are as follows.
- What is your rate?
Ask the cost of the service outright so there won't be any surprises in the end. Some computer repair companies charge a fixed rate while others charge by the hour. It's best to know beforehand how much you'll be paying instead of worrying about it soon.
- What will happen with my files?
Surely, there are many files stored on your computer. Depending on their importance, you definitely want to retrieve them after the repair. This is an important question to ask the technicians so you'll know if they'll make a backup of your files or if you have to do it yourself. Some may charge extra for this particular service.
- When can I get back my computer?
The technician should set your expectations right when it comes to completing the project. Everybody knows that a computer is a crucial tool for school, work, and business. A repair time of over a week is not acceptable. You should be able to get your computer back after a few days.
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6 Ways to Get Long Term Care Insurance: Know Your Options
- By Julie Stewart
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- April 27, 2016
Many potential long term care insurance (LTC) buyers worry they cannot afford or qualify for coverage. Others may want more features such as income or death benefit. Hybrid, or linked-benefits products, can help by giving more flexible alternatives.
Universal life and fixed index annuities can include riders that provide LTC-like benefits in the event of chronic illness, confinement, etc. This reduces the cost and provides a more lenient qualification process.
With so many insurance purchasers moving from traditional LTC to alternative solutions, we would like to help become more familiar with all the options. One of these may be a better choice for your client and knowing what is out there can help you bring more value to them.
Who are the best candidates for these long term care options?##
Generally speaking, anyone between 45 and 70 with assets to fund LTC is a good candidate. To help think through your existing book of business, consider the following categories.
Dig through your book for those who:
- Have been declined for LTC
- Have evaluated, but opted not to buy LTC
- Have older LTC policies that are facing increased premiums or decreased benefits
- Have no LTC coverage and have assets on the sidelines
- Are considering life insurance
- Have existing annuities that are no longer essential for retirement
- Are planning to self-fund LTC
Consider one more category – clients with annuities. We have a unique solution for those who are age 80 to 85 and own annuities and you need to know more about this new option.
There are options available for people in a variety of situations. Know what those options are and position yourself to capitalize on this market.
The Milner Group can help you bring more value to the people you meet with and we look forward to showing you how we can make writing long-term care insurance a little easier.


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A Letter from the Creator.
If I were the creator of life and all things, the being to which everyone always asks a million questions about the purpose of life, our place in the universe, and a dozen Whys, maybe I'd write the world a letter to try and put things into perspective.
I think I'd start the letter off by telling you that creating is hard, and surprisingly unpredictable work, and the first thing you have to understand is that I am trying my hardest to do this job the best I can. Then maybe I would apologize and say I am sorry because the truth is, all this started out as a simple passion project.
The universe is a vast and empty place, and being a lover of what you call Nature, I simply wanted to create some natural life, to plant some atoms and grow something beautiful — just a few flowers, trees, oceans, stars and mountains — to fill the big empty void.
So that you maybe understand me better, I want you to imagine having a passion for creating gardens, and to look upon your earth and see one vast land ripe for indulging that passion. In the pursuit of your passion, you set out to travel the earth, not by flying from place to place, but by traveling by land and sea like a nomad, trying to discover every inch of every place you go.
In each destination, you stop to test the air, soil and atmosphere to see if it would sustain natural life, stopping in dozens upon dozens of places, traveling for years, decades, even centuries, all to find the right conditions where the seeds you want to plant can grow into the flowing balance of Nature.
How many lifetimes do you think that would take you? And even if you managed to do it within one, how many more lifetimes would you need to retrace your steps and check up on each garden you had planted? And within the space of those lifetimes, how many of those gardens do you think would naturally evolve past anything you imagined?
What would you do if you returned to one of your gardens and found that a vast number of species had sprung to life in your absence? And instead of simply destroying them, you decided to take the time to understand them. Imagine how many more lifetimes it'd take you to study every life form that had evolved, to study their habits, their ways of living and why, to learn every single one of their languages.
Maybe, to help you again put this into perspective, I'd challenge you each to learn all the individual names of each individual fish in the sea. Maybe I'd ask you to imagine what it would be like to be surrounded by a million bees, all buzzing in your ears, the buzzing actually being their language, but to you it's just incoherent buzzing.
Maybe I would challenge you to plant a garden of your own and wait for a colony of ants to appear in the soil. Then spend every moment of every day of your life watching those ants.
Try to make their lives as perfect and free as possible, to learn all their names, to learn to understand their method of communication, to take care of them, and to try and stop them from fighting when they go to war, without destroying in any way the earth in which they live, or bring any harm to a single one of them.
For every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every month of every year of your entire life, make these ants your soul purpose. Would you give up everything just for these ants?
And if you did, if you learned their language and finally were able to understand them, and in doing so you found out that all they asked you was Why, how would you respond? Maybe I need to still put things more into perspective for you.
Have you ever met two parents who are in complete control of their children? Two parents who know where their children are at all times, two parents who have absolute power over their children, from birth into adulthood. Two parents who are able to stop their children from ever doing anything bad, like bullying, littering, or even killing?
You might say it's not the same, that no one truly knows what raising a child will involve, that you are not able to read your children's mind, that you have no supernatural powers over them that allow you to control their every action. That in the end you have to let go and let your children take responsibility for their own actions, especially when they become adults.
So I ask you, why would you assume I have any more control over my creations than you have over yours?
But let me apologize again, as I have to ask you another hard question: Why do you seem so unaware that you're not the only creatures that surprised me by springing to life? And what do you think those other creatures, who vastly outnumber you, are asking when they howl and whine, and cry in sorrow to the sky?
Maybe I'd tell you that if you could understand the language of other animals, as well as of the trees, flowers, mountains and oceans, then you would know that you're not the only ones wanting answers, that most of the time the other animals, as well as the trees, plants, oceans and mountains, are asking me why humans seem so hell-bent on wiping them out, and how I can call myself a just Creator if I created this two-legged, crazy human species of destruction.
Maybe I would answer your big question of Why do I allow bad things to happen? Well, have you ever thought that I am constantly working to stop bad things from happening?
I am constantly working to purify the oceans, rivers and lakes you keep polluting. I am constantly burning my fingers making sure all the stars are lit in the sky, and the fires of the Sun are regularly stoked and blazing hot, to light and nurture the earth upon which you live. I am the creative conductor of gravity, having to forever keep my skills sharp and focused, or else your planet would stop spinning.
I am the caretaker and gardener of Nature, trying to keep things flowing and in harmony. And maybe I want to ask you why you seem to be trying so hard to make my job as difficult as possible.
And I won't lie, I have contemplated taking the easy way out and simply terminating this project, as I have many more to concentrate on and give my time. In all honesty, I am tired, and my hands are cut, bruised and swollen from the constant work.
Sometimes I can't think straight because of all the languages I have to decipher in my head, because I am constantly studying everything that exists on this earth, trying to understand and figure out the best way to keep things in balance and harmony. And not just for this one ecosystem, but for the dozens I have planted all over the universe.
Creation is demanding work, and sometimes I just want to get rid of all my gardens, go home, and sleep for a millennium. But I don't, because creation is my passion, because I am driven by the belief that all life is amazing and deserves a chance to exist.
If I were the Creator of life and all things, the being to which everyone always asks a million questions about the purpose of life, our place in the universe, and a dozen Whys, maybe I'd write you all a letter, and these are a few of the things I'd tell you. But I'm not… I'm just a writer, allowing my contemplations of life, existence and the universe to flow out in words.
Emanuel Adelekun is a writer and a filmmaker, as well as a hip-hop-culture-loving warrior-b-boy. Always honest, he talks too much, always has an opinion, and tends to push people, but that's okay with him because he has accepted that he's a wild, fiery spirit who believes in true self-expression. He follows the path of always striving to develop, improve and better understand the frequency on which his soul vibes, making this his way of life. In the end, he believes in keeping it simple: stay open, live to explore, experience, and enjoy the moment. Cherish your mistakes, always be a student, don't take shit from anyone, and treat others how you would like them to treat you. Through his words, Emanuel hopes to make connections with other similar souls, and maybe open people to something more inside themselves. You could contact Emanuel via his website, Instagram or Facebook.
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"Two young girls, Satsuki and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures." - Imbd
In Japanese with English Subtitles
Admission is free for this film.
Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 9:30am
Yukon Arts Centre
- Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
- 1988, Japan
- 82 minutes
- Film Subtitled
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«The new edition of Angelika Bammer's Partial Visions is an important and innovative book. Important because it explores with great insight and originality a fundamental theme for any emancipatory theory, not just feminism: the ways in which the utopian impulse is essential for the task of understanding the world so as to transform it. Innovative, because of the way the wonderful concluding section of the book embodies a utopian vision of knowledge through collaboration and dialogue.»
(Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Research Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
«This timely reissue of Angelika Bammer's Partial Visions is a welcome addition to recent conversations about the problem of narrating feminist histories and the challenge of keeping the possibility of feminist futures alive. Framing its incisive account of key feminist utopias of the 1970s with a thoughtful new meditation on what those visions did and did not accomplish and a vibrant roundtable discussion about whether such utopian longing is still a viable strategy for twenty-first-century feminisms, this book makes a significant new contribution to discussions about what might be possible in a radically re-imagined and renewed feminist future.»
(Jan Radway, Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
What would a good world for women look like? How would we get there from where we are and how would we have to change ourselves in the process? This book examines a critical moment in recent American and western European history when the utopian dimension of political movements was particularly generative and feminism was at their core. The imaginative literature that emerged out of American, French, and German feminisms of the 1970s engaged the dialectic between the actual and the possible in radically new and creative ways. Ranging from conventional utopian and science fictions to avant-garde and experimental texts, they countered the idea of utopia as a pre-set goal with the idea of the utopian as a process of «dreaming forwards.»
This book explores the transformative potential of feminist visions of change, even as it sees their ideological blind spots. It does more than simply look back to the 1970s. Instead, it looks ahead, anticipating some of the shifts and changes of feminist thought in the following decades: its transnational scope, its critique of identity politics and the gendered politics of sexuality, and its embrace of affect as an analytical category. The author argues that the radical utopianism of second wave feminisms has not lost its urgency. The transformations they envisioned are still our challenge, as the vital work of social change remains undone.
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Angelika Bammer is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Comparative Literature at Emory University. Her scholarly and creative work explores women's writing and feminist thought, the relationships between history and memory, displacement, and cultural identity. She is completing a historical narrative stretching across four generations, Born After: A German Reckoning.


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Engineers Zero in on Crucial Climate Change Challenges for Singapore at Inaugural IES Climate Change Resilience Forum
Experts talk about the way forward for engineering community post-COP21 global climate deal
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Singapore, 13 July 2016 – The inaugural IES Climate Change Resilience Forum welcomed more than 80 participants today to discuss key business and engineering challenges faced in mitigating and adaptation to the impact of climate change, focusing on turning the COP21 Paris Agreement into action by the engineering community. Mr Heng Chee How, Deputy Secretary-General of National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) graced the event as the guest-of-honour.
Hosted by The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) with NTUC as the co-organiser, the forum was held in response to Singapore's signing of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change in April 2016, committing signatories to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
For Singapore, the commitment translates to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 36 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, and stablising emissions with the aim of peaking around 2030. This presents new challenges for engineers, as innovative engineering solutions are vital in enabling Singapore to achieve its pledged targets.
Forum Highlights
IES has brought together leading authorities to provide engineering professionals with insights into the impact of COP21 and explore essential avenues for capacity building in engineering for greater climate change resilience. The forum built on critical conversations that took place at the World Engineers Summit on Climate Change 2015 held in July last year.
The forum featured three post-COP21 topics by subject matter experts: "Significance of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change" by Ambassador Kwok Fook Seng, Chief Negotiator, Climate Change, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; "From Paris Agreement to Domestic Implementation" by Ms Xueman Wang, Coordinator, Climate Change and Cities, World Bank Group, Global Practice for Urban; and "Paris Agreement and Sustainability: Challenges for a Tropical Megacity" by Prof. Subodh Gautam Mhaisalkar, Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering and Executive-Director, Energy Research Institute @ NTU (
), Nanyang Technological University.
The forum also offered updates on the latest tools to assess climate exposure via the presentation on "Rapid Appraisal Technique for City Infrastructure Exposure to Climate Change" by Ms Stella Whittaker, Principal, Sustainability and Climate Change, Ramboll; as well as the roles of the society and the young in climate change via presentations on "Hearts & Minds for Action on Climate Change" by Mr Vivek Kumar, Director of U Associate & U Future Leaders and Chairman, Asia-Pacific CMO Council; and on "Environmental Education for Climate Change - The Way Forward" by Prof. Lye Lin Heng, Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), & Chair, MSc (Environmental Management) Programme, National University of Singapore - Law School.
Two panel discussions were also held at the forum to uncover valuable perspectives on core challenges of climate change to local engineering community: "Opportunities and Challenges for Engineers after COP21 Agreement" chaired by Dr Sanjay Kuttan, Program Director,
, Nanyang Technological University; and "Capacity building on Climate Change Resilience" chaired by Er. Tan Seng Chuan, IES Past President & Chairman, International Outreach Committee.
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Women Hyper Ventilate, Men Fix.
Before marriage you could understand each other very well and sometimes you could anticipate your partner's thoughts even before they were born.
You were like mind readers and you share the same frequencies, completely in tuned with each other in body and spirit.
After the marriage, some of the magic began to fade and both your frequencies began to wander off. You could not be able to receive each other's messages loud and clear.
You need to take stock that you have entered a new phase in your marriage life. Your communications with your partner has to be improved and you need to understand the differences between a man and a woman.
You should remember that your partner is a completely different being and they don't think the same as you do. One of you is now at the South Pole and the other has drifted to the North Pole.
You cannot expect your partner to come to you all the way. If he meets you half way , that is the best you can get out of him . You need to have mutual compromise in your communications.
You may not feel complete satisfaction but that is the best solution because you both share the same boat and you cannot have the boat go in both directions..LOL! You need to work together for your common good.
Being a woman, you would like to share the details of your daily life and sometimes when you have some problems you would like to ventilate it out to get some relief's and understandings from your mate. It is a form of de stressing for you or otherwise , your brains will be constipated.
The men may not feel the same as they seldom want to talk about their work for fear of boring you to death with the details which they think is not worthy to speak about. Further more , it maybe too technical for you to understand..LOL! Men don't like to gossip about office affairs. Gossips are all mundane and uninteresting to him..
Many women feel that their husbands don't talk enough or express their emotions or inner feelings. It is not that men don't want to talk about their emotions, They are afraid to be misunderstood by their wives.
Women see things differently. A positive thing for him maybe negative to her.. If she is the negative type, everything good or bad about him will be negative to her. That is why , the less said the better and there is less misunderstandings.
God made her the talker and the men the listener. When women vent their frustrations ,it is to want the attentions of their husbands and to fish for sympathies from him. He should really listen before offering to fix her problems.
She is not interested in the solutions. On no accounts should he disagree with her actions even if he knows she is not in the right. Otherwise, he will also be branded an enemy and will face her wrath too..LOL! Later on , she will come to her senses but she will understand and will not be angry with you.


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Did Your Network Stack Up on Black Friday & Beyond?
For IT leaders in the retail sector, the make-or-break buying season between Black Friday and the New Year can be nerve-wracking. As success in the retail industry becomes increasingly tied to technology, each year the spotlight shines a little brighter on the CIO and the IT team. Executives and other stakeholders are watching to find out if the (usually costly) investments in the network and new technologies, like Internet of Things (IoT) systems, paid off.
For those retailers whose networks weren't ready to meet the demands of the holiday season, their stores likely experienced frequent downtime, insufficient bandwidth, or poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) resulting in a poor in-store experience for customers.
Some retailers may have missed their deadlines to open new locations, resulting in critical revenue losses. Further, it's possible the next headline-making customer data breach has already taken place, and won't be discovered for weeks or months.
As retail technology continues to evolve, the networks that stack up during the holiday seasons of the future will be those with an Elastic EdgeTM. An Elastic Edge moves, contracts, and expands to meet constantly evolving business needs, provides pervasive network connectivity, and accommodates the increased traffic generated at the Network's Edge.
Four Best-Practice Technologies for Retailers
The retail sector requires constant improvement and iteration to keep a competitive advantage. In the New Year, CIOs will begin executing strategic initiatives to advance the customer experience and engagement, reduce expenditures through operational improvements, and position the company to take a proactive — rather than reactive — stance on future trends in retail technology.
Whether the network didn't stack up this year, or can't accommodate next year's needs, consider implementing the following solutions:
Software-Defined Perimeter for IoT Deployments
No company wants to see their name and "data breach" in the same headline. Some of the last decade's most headline-grabbing breaches happened as a result of a monolithic network infrastructure: all applications, including those housing sensitive data, were insufficiently segmented from each other and were easily compromised.
A Software-Defined Perimeter (SD-Perimeter) solution helps simplify deployment and management of IoT devices and applications, and greatly reduces the cost and complexity of securing the network by virtually air-gapping applications.
SD-Perimeter creates a private IP overlay for Internet and enterprise WAN isolation. In a matter of minutes, retailers can orchestrate and deploy secure overlay networks for IoT devices anywhere — effectively quarantining risky devices and applications from sensitive data, like Point-of-Sale (POS). These private networks are completely invisible to potential hackers, and because the solution is cloud-delivered, retailers can eliminate hardware typically required to secure IoT devices at the Network's Edge, resulting in both improved security and significant cost savings.
Parallel Networks for Reduced PCI Scope
Another way to eliminate the massive risks associated with monolithic networking is to deploy Parallel Networks, or air-gapped networks that are physically separated from the enterprise network. These can be useful for technologies that the IT team doesn't trust or want on the core network.
Another key benefit of Parallel Networks is the ability to drastically limit the scope of the network subject to PCI Compliance. By placing technologies not related to sensitive data on Parallel Networks, companies can enhance security and reduce the effort needed to maintain compliance.
SD-WAN for Improved Network Function & QoS
During retailers' busiest season, the demands on the network may require the company to utilize multiple WAN links. In the past, adding more WAN sources has typically meant adding more hardware and additional management, resulting in additional expenditures. Further, in a typical deployment the policies dictating how and when each WAN source should be utilized remain static.
Software-Defined WAN solutions allow retailers to collapse the management of multiple WAN sources into one platform that can be managed remotely from a single pane of glass.
In anticipation of times when the primary link will fail completely or even simply become congested, IT teams can dictate which applications are business-critical, and the network will automatically traffic steer these applications over the best WAN source available, ensuring that the most important applications continue to operate seamlessly, resulting in the best QoS.
LTE Failover for Cost-Effective Network Reliability
A single minute of network downtime can cost a company an average of $5,600, per Gartner. Without the ability to transmit customer credit card data in real time, retailers risk authorizing fraudulent purchases or even losing customer credit card data in transit. Even momentary downtime can cause revenue losses; just a few minutes in line can cause customers to abandon their purchases en masse.
Of course, retailers often employ backup WAN connectivity, but the most reliable wired solutions are extremely costly and subject to the same outage causes as the primary wired links because they are usually buried in the same trench.
In contrast, LTE failover isn't subject to the same outages wired lines are and can provide a cost-effective way to achieve 99.99 percent uptime, allowing retailers to ensure they won't see revenue losses or incur risks due to network downtime.
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Would be cool SFO do the orchestral version of Seventeen. I can imagine the whole string section bowing "She's only seventeen, daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me"
You might be tempted to think of Winger as a dabbling dilettante of sorts, one who is following in the classical footsteps of Paul McCartney and Neil Sedaka. In point of fact, Winger's debut classical recording shows him adept at creating beautiful and intriguing music that sounds light years apart from rock.
Expertly recorded at Skywalker Sound by Leslie Ann Jones, with help from a team than included Sean Royce Martin of Reference Recordings, the album was initially released on CD. Now, months later, it is about make a second coming as a hi-rez, 24/96 download that will be available on all the major sites.
The lead work, Conversations With Nijinsky, is inspired by the fabled dancer who premiered Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. The work was composed while Winger was studying composition with his composer/teacher, Richard Danielpour. Begun in 2012, it grew organically out of Winger's life path, which at age 16 took him from an initial interest in martial arts to the study of ballet. At the same time that he was playing covers of Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Van Halen and others, Winger was listening to ballet scores by Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Stravinsky, and Debussy. and allowing them to inspire his flights.
When the final movement of Conversations With Nijinsky was performed by the Tucson Symphony a few years back, it made such an impact on Tamara Nijinsky, daughter of the famed dancer for whom it is named, that she declared, "Kip Winger has captured my father's heart and soul. Many have been inspired by Nijinsky in words and dance, but no one, until now, in music. Nijinsky was inspired by the music he heard. And now, Kip Winger reminds us of Nijinsky's genius with his work."
Of course, it is fair to say that unless the music was a total travesty, Nijinsky's 90+ year-old daughter would have been prone to love it. But the score really is quite wonderful.
In four movements, Winger imagines how Nijinsky's career might have developed had he not suffered a nervous breakdown in 1919, when he was 29, and been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Vividly performed by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra under Martin West, Conversations with Nijinsky's extremely colorful first movement, "Chaconne de feu" (Chaconne of fire), shares some of the vital rhythms and percussive excursions that helped set afire Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Quite lively, and more than a bit carefree, it revels in the drama central to so much ballet.
The second movement, "Waltz Solitaire," seems cut from the same cloth as Shostakovich's grotesquerie. As I listened, I kept imagining elephants waltzing away in the middle of a three-ring circus. "Souvenir Noir," with its misty dark opening, returns to Stravinsky land before bring us to a final "L'Imortal" (the immortal one) movement that starts with the tolling of a bell, then gets very big, and develops from there.
Winger's most widely known ballet score, Ghosts (begun 2006), is a four-movement fantasy that he considers his first piece worthy of publication. The roots of the piece lie in the fact that the studio in Nashville where he wrote it was originally a hospital morgue.
Winger claims that he sensed ghosts around him when he was working. "This may sound kooky to disbelievers, but I was open to the idea that there were some people from the spirit realm in the room," he says in the liner notes. "I used it. I saw images of some of the people and superimposed them on dance characters."
The choreography to Ghosts is by Chris Wheeldon, former Resident Choreographer for the New York City Ballet. Wheeldon first met Winger in 1997, when the rocker was pursuing ballet, and watched his career unfold. In 2007, when Winger sent Wheeldon a recording of one movement of Ghosts, the choreographer bit. Ghosts eventually premiered at San Francisco Ballet in 2012. Since then, it has been performed in Lincoln Center, Sadler's Wells, and Théâtre du Châtelet, the very same theatre in Paris where Nijinsky caused a sensation (and a sensational riot) in Rite of Spring.
Most compelling, to these ears, are Ghost's extremely beautiful Adagio and Finale. The latter picks up energy and indulges in syncopation before ending in a strangely lingering, haunting manner. It's as strong a work as the final piece on the program, A Parting Grace, which is an adagio that may become part of a future concerto for guitar and orchestra. Supremely lyrical, with an undercurrent of quasi-melancholic, nostalgic retrospection, its beauty is wonderfully conveyed by Jones and forces. Winger may envision A Parting Grace as a pas de deux that will eventually become part of a ballet, but it can stand on its own as a lovely instrumental fantasy.
Winger's music seduces with its rhythms, atmosphere, and imaginative excursions. Despite its occasionally derivative nature, it has much strength and variety. For those open to exploration, but who do not feel the need to go to the harmonic ends of the earth to find satisfaction, Winger's freshman foray into the world of classical music is recommended.
Would be cool SFO do the orchestral version of Seventeen. I can imagine the whole string section bowing "She's only seventeen, daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me"
Hi Jason
Thank you for opening my mind about Kip Winger, know for me from in the past from his "Hair Style Metal" ;-) music period with Alice Cooper and also with his band Winger (that was both not my favorite kind of music, even I like metal, but more progressive than "hair style" metal). Before reading your blog, I thought this must be a different "Winger", but it is the same person. This teaches me again: Never be closed minded. Thank you.
See you at the CES?
If end up blogging your room, please play me some of Winger's non-classical music. I'm stronger than you may think, and my taste is far more diverse than people expect. It's mostly a case of not burning my ears.
Very nice- JVS!
you are full of surprises, my audiophile friend.
Happy Listening!
And it's lovely. What a nice surprise.
Thanks, Jason!


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What does a week in the voice over business look like? If you're Bill DeWees, it's very busy….lots of clients, lots of projects, and a whirlwind of activity. In this video Bill breaks it down and shares lessons learned in an "Anatomy of a Winning Week Recording Voice Overs."
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Nadi is the third-largest municipality in Fiji. It is located on the western side of the main island of Viti Levu. Nadi is multiracial with many of its inhabitants Indian or Fijian, along with a large transient population of foreign tourists. Along with sugar cane production, tourism is a mainstay of the local economy.
The Nadi region has a higher concentration of hotels and motels than any other part of Fiji. It has the largest Hindu temple in the Southern hemisphere, and is a site for pilgrims called Sri Siva Subramaniya temple. Nadi International Airport located 9 kilometres from the town, is the largest airport in Fiji. Thus, Nadi is the principal port of entry for air travellers to Fiji, even though it is on the western side of the island of Viti Levu from the nation's capital and largest city, Suva.


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It is beyond doubt that potential consumers to products spend considerable time in the social media. Accordingly, business people need to repackage their content in a manner that must attract and retain the attention of the audience. A message may be good enough but if it cannot capture the attention of the audience, it is useless. At the same time, a message may be good at generating attention but if it does not communicate what the company is selling, it is also useless.
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On May 19, Malcolm X's birthday, the NAACP Portland branch kicked off a series of events to honor the life and legacy of the civil rights icon – culminating in a fundraising brunch featuring Ilyasah Shabazz as the keynote speaker.
E.D. Mondaine, who stepped into his role as president of the Portland branch earlier this year, said the time is ripe to remember and continue the work of Malcolm X.
"[Malcolm X] reframed the work of empowering marginalized communities not just as a dream, but as an imminent reality that must be lived into in the here and now," Mondaine wrote in a short statement about Malcolm X week that was shared with The Skanner. Today our survival depends on seeing the world in its three-dimensional, rounded, and fully realized existence — understanding that we are all of us the same distance from its luminous center. In the name of righteousness, now is the time we must walk the unbroken circle that binds us together."
In an interview with The Skanner, Mondaine said the time is ripe to remember the legacy of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as well as the forces that led to the 1909 formation of the NAACP by a biracial group responding to lynchings and Jim Crow laws.
The deaths of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Alfred King, and John and Robert Kennedy in the 1960s meant "so many voices were gone" from the national stage and many members of the public became complacent about racism, Mondaine said. He likened the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who ran a campaign explicitly targeting Mexican and Muslim immigrants, to turning on the lights in an apartment that hadn't been cleaned for decades – and discovering it full of scattering cockroaches.
"We've been given a gift in President Trump. The gift is our ability to see ourselves in what we've built together as a nation."
Mondaine is from St. Louis, and recently made a trip home that included a solemn, solitary pilgrimage connecting two sites critical to the racial history of the United States. Mondaine realized Dred Scott, who was born into slavery and whose unsuccessful lawsuit to obtain freedom resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling that people of African descent could not be citizens, is buried just three miles from the site where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police in 2014, sparking days of protest and national scrutiny of law enforcement's interactions with young Black men. Mondaine walked from Scott's grave to the site of Brown's death weeping, without company or ceremony.
"We're in a critical state in America," Mondaine said, and Malcolm X's calls for better education, for economic enterprise and for unapologetic self-defense are timely.
The week of events honoring Malcolm X's legacy and life started May 19 with a birthday event in the branch's new office at Lloyd Center Mall, continued Wednesday with a night of readings from local spoken word artist Mic Crenshaw, musical performances by Eldon "T" Jones of N-Touch, Norman Sylvester and many more on Wednesday, May 23, in North Portland's Celebration Tabernacle Church.
They will culminate in a fundraising brunch from 10 a.m. to noon May 26 with keynote speaker Ilyasah Shabazz. Shabazz is the daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. For more information about the X-Factor Brunch, click here.


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H1B Visa and Minimum Salary of $130,000 – The Real Math
$130,000 minimum salary for H1B Visa Applications?
Let's take a deep dive and look at the real numbers by using TCS as an Example.
- Title: Computer Systems Analyst
- Location: Tampa, Florida
- Employer: Tata Consultancy Services
When applying for H1B visa, LCA is required.
LCA stands for Labor Condition Application.
- What is H1B Visa LCA (video)
Employer is required to get a certified LCA before applying for H1B Visa. How did we arrive at $130,000 Minimum Salary for H1B Visa?
TCS has applied for H1B Visa for on of it's employee to work in Florida (I think the client is Citibank).
Looks like they are paying the employee at Level 2 for Computer Systems Analyst Position. The difference in Salary between Level 1 and Level 4 is ove $48,000
Step 1: Find Prevailing Wage
Find Prevailing Wage for Computer Systems Analyst for Tampa Area.
Step 2: Find the Wages Paid by TCS
Find how much wage TCS is playing for Computer Systems Analyst in Tampa area.
Now, how does $130,000 number come about? Why media is reporting, minimum $130,000 is required.
Let's look at the same Computer Systems Analyst position for San Jose (Silicon Valley).
Level 4 Wage is $134,971.
As per the H1B Visa bills that has preference system that may look like this:
- Advanced Degree in STEM from a US university
- Companies who offer a Level 4 wage for that H-1B worker
- Advanced Degree degree in any other major from a US university
- Companies who offer a Level 3 wage for that H-1B worker
- Bachelor's degree in STEM from a US university
- Bachelor's degree in any other major from a US university
- Etc..
As you can see the 2nd criteria shows Level 4 Wage.
So, if an Indian Outsourcing company has to apply for H1B Visa for an employee located in India, they would have to pay Level 4 wage to get H1B visa.
This is developing story. Stay tuned for updates.
Note: This is a proposed bill, not yet implemented. No further details are Ava at this time.
Question – How much do you think TCS would pay for someone for the same role in California – San Jose Area?
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Is FY 2018 H1B Visa list is out ? if not when same is expected.
Hi All,
I want to know the current H1B level wages.My employer filed h1b under Level-1 wage.
Annual Sal $95,000.
Is this fine?
Are you missing a clause (may be) – 130k restriction is for H1B dependent employers? or is it being proposed for all?
According to the left wing logic used by Robert Reich and others to justify minimum wage, raising the H1B threshold will simply force employers who pay H1B visa holders $110K to pay them $130K.
What happens to people who earn more than 85 %ile wage but do not have a masters degree in US and are not in Indian consulting companies? The new bill proposes elimination of masters exemption clause. I want to know if both conditions (Masters + salary) need to be satisfied or if you earn more that 85%ile you're good?
Hi Raghu,
How can i access the H1B plan B course? When I click on the course it says 'page not found'.
None of these bills will pass given how strong the lobby groups are for the outsourcing companies. Trumps executive order is the real deal.
I'm sorry, but this article appears to be misleading, without adding any real analysis. There is no logical thread between the various steps. As outlined in Section 3 of the summary of the Act by Sen. Lofgren, the $130,000 limit is arrived at by following the DOL's Occupational employment Statistics, specifically for Computer and Mathematical Occupations. The relevant statistics are [here](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes150000.htm). The $130,000 figure comes about because the Act proposes to fix the H1B salary at the 85th percentile of what somebody in the Computer and Mathematical operations profession would earn. The median (50th percentile) for this profession is $81,430, the 75th percentile is $109,490 and the 90th percentile is $138,420, so it would appear that the 85th percentile is ~$130,000, probably rounded up a little bit.
Hello, great content here. My question relates to the $60k minimum wage. I am not able to find any information on USCIS that says there is a blanket $60k minimum wage for H1b visas. It seems like the minimum applicable wage is determined by the LCA, and is dependent on location and field of work.
Please clarify if you know the answer. Thanks
There isn't a blanket $60K wage. Paying a min of $60K apparently means visa applying company doesn't have to prove "shortage" or "special skills". $60K is WAY to low to reflect skills shortage.
What if the OFLC website gets updated this year and they make level 1/level2 as 100k or 130k…Because it was last update on july 2016 and before that it was updated on august 2015.
Excellent job with the article, Raghu. After hearing and reading about the "130k" from all around the internet and from friends, deep inside I knew there had to be more to it – It does take folks quite some years to reach that salary. Will stay tuned for further updates from you.
What about Indian students in the united states ?
Please write an article for them.
Students come with the assumption there are jobs in the US for them. There isn't, relative to the number coming.
Masters and PhDs,
The FLC databases show PhDs working for $21 an hour at universities. Complete glut of Masters and PhDs being pumped out of universities, because they make a fortune off of them (there never was a job market for Masters or PhDs – which is mainly why there are little to no US students in them).
Please watch this congressman's discussion,
Just to make things clear…
– Here's the proposal direct from the horse's mouth: https://lofgren.house.gov/uploadedfiles/high_skilled_bill_sxs_and_analysis_-1-2017__final.pdf
– Gist of it:
-> The 130k limit applies only to "dependent companies", which by the definition in the proposal is a company that has >15% of its workforce as H1-B holders. In other words, desi consultants, TCS, Infy, Wipro and the like
-> Non-discretionary bonuses can be counted towards the 130k requirement
-> 20% of H1-B visas to be allocated to start-ups with Elimination of the advanced degree exemption (a.k.a "Masters quota" as we call it)
-> Elimination of per-country cap for immigrant visas
TL;DR – if your company has less than 15% of workers on H1B, you're fine.
More importantly, this bill was introduced by Zoe Lofgren, a Democratic Congresswoman from California. The chances of this being passed = near zero
Why near zero? There have been many articles on H1B reform being a bipartisan supported issue. Actually, the Republicans used to have a bill which would grant a green card to Ph.D. STEM degree holders. But it was held hostage by President Obama because he wanted the congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill which would benefit illegal immigrants.
Yes, this bill was introduced by a Democrat congresswoman, but I believe she has bipartisan support from the other side of the isle.
I think this bill is a step in the right direction.
Thank you for the article. I am also looking for "130K" everywhere. I dont see it. I think for the current H1b employees who are getting less than 100K/year will be in trouble while changing job or extending the status.
If this bill passes, I am certain that all people who are seeking to work in the USA, will be unable to do so. No (or very few) US employer will hire foreign workers, when the minimum is set at $130,000, which is what this bill aims at; to prevent industries to hire cheap foreign workers.
It appears as if the Indian IT sector will have to shift to europe, as they do not have the same restrictions. In turn droves of people (including their families) who are here on H-1B Visas, will be forced to leave when the companies that they work for, are unwilling or unable to bump up their pay to adhere to the minimum wage.
This is Trump's proposed "Americans first" policy. Forcing companies to hire americans, before they can hire foreign workers.
I think The people currently working here and their families would not be affected as their LCA is already filed . Only fresh H1bs and / or extensions would be impacted .
This will backfire. Companies will start moving to Asian countries like India and China… Practically in a team of five members, one highly skilled is required, rest all need to follow the skilled person with some dedication. Thats all. The company also want to pay only to the one highly skilled and for rest….. why they have to pay a lot. This will lead to establishing ODC (offshore delivery center..) and manage the workforce…. Any business man American,Indian,Korean,European or Chinese… at the end of the day…. thinks about operation cost…. and optimizing the cost….
Because this visa was never intended to import cheap labor, and it is being used for that.
If there was no reason to offshore, they'd have done it by now. And at some point, if most of their operation is offshore, we'll have to oust them from US stock market.
Nice job Raghu! I've explained this to 4 worried people since this morning -all working in Mechanical Engineering companies with good paying jobs and with MS from a reputable US school. Not to mention my worried parents after watching a sensationalist piece in local media which lied saying that this bill has already passed.
In essence, this bill (if passed) is more beneficial for the immigrants who invested enough time and effort to attain an advanced degree in the US.
Hi .
Im still confused about this.
I am into Electrical Engineering and ive got M.S from US univ and have 5 yrs experience.
I am a level 3 engineer in my company and hence make little less than 130k . So will I have any problems in renewing my h1-B or during LCA for PERM ?
Given US is as fickle as a kid in an ice cream shop, it's going to be a while before congress converges on a new policy, if ever.
Hello. Will there be a difference between a H1B dependent employer and a non-H1B dependent employer?
Read somewhere that this change will not affect non H1B dependent employers pay scale.Any idea?
Its will impact companies like Infosys ,microsoft,Tata(mostly H1b dependent companies) etc., but not to apple,google,facebook,Aol etc ( to these companies equal pay work force culture regardless of citizenship/h1b ).,
Not true. If pay restrictions, Apple/Google/FaceBook/etc. have $60K and less paid H1Bs. 75% of H1Bs are currently paid $60K or less.
If that is how it is gonna work there is no point studying undergraduate degree in the US if you plan to work after that. US will loose billions.
Already tons of foreign students who falsely thought a US degree meant a US job.
Think about it – proliferation of degreed does not equate to endless number of jobs available.
Hi Raghu,
Thank you for the explanation.
Can you also explain how things change for students that have completed their Masters in US working at Level 1 but do not have H-1B yet.
Hi Raghu,
I too have the same question in mind.
Thank you
Hi Raghu,
If I am a MBA student in the US, should my minimum wage also be $130,000 to qualify for a H1B visa?
Karthic Srinivaas
Hi…Companies don't mind u hold masters or bachelors degree..what they need is highly talented & high skilled ..if min wage becomes 130k its gets more & more tough to find job especially to fresh graduates of foreign nation students ….& more people foreign national will loose jobs bec h1b companies prefer cost cuts …
How about the one who is not in Tech field,live in small town of 60,000 population and has done master from US university. How would it effect to us.
@ Khilendra – Can you elaborate your question please?
Hi Raghu, question about this. My employer will be applying for my VISA under the Statistitan category ( looking a thing my LCA from last year). I looked up the Level 4 wage in my area and I am actually getting more than that. How would that relate to the $130k minimum wage? Thanks
Hi Raghu,
What about people alrady on H1B and working in USA?


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Log Landing WMA
This brochure is designed to provide the public with information and a summary of regulations pertaining to hunting and other recreational use on the Log Landing Wildlife Management Area. Regulations that are new or differ substantially from last year are shown in bold print. Area users should familiarize themselves with all regulations. For exact wording of the wildlife laws and regulations, see the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's wildlife code, on file with the Secretary of State and state libraries. This brochure and the Florida Hunting Regulations handbook should provide the information necessary for you to plan your hunting activities. These publications are available at MyFWC.com.
Persons using wildlife management areas are required to have appropriate licenses, permits and stamps. The following persons are exempt from all license and permit requirements (except for quota permits when listed as "no exemptions," recreational use permits, antlerless deer permits and the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp [federal duck stamp]): Florida residents who are 65 years of age or older; residents who possess a Florida Resident Disabled Person Hunting and Fishing Certificate; residents in the U.S. Armed Forces, not stationed in Florida, while home on leave for 30 days or less, upon submission of orders; and children under 16 years of age. Children under 16 years of age are exempt from the federal duck stamp. Anyone born on or after June 1, 1975 and 16 years of age or older must have passed a Commission-approved hunter-safety course prior to being issued a hunting license, except the Hunter Safety Mentoring exemption allows anyone to purchase a hunting license and hunt under the supervision of a licensed hunter, 21 years of age or older.
Licenses and permits may be purchased from county tax collectors, license agents, by telephone at 888-486-8356 or through the Commission's Recreational License Issuance Services (RLIS). A no-cost Migratory Bird Permit is available when purchasing a hunting license. Any waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older must possess a federal duck stamp.
Quota Permit Information:
Quota permits are not required for this area.
Area Regulations
All general laws and regulations relating to wildlife and fish shall apply unless specifically exempted for this area. Hunting or the taking of wildlife or fish on this area shall be allowed only during the open seasons and in accordance with the following regulations:
- Any person hunting deer or accompanying another person hunting deer shall wear at least 500 square inches of daylight fluorescent-orange material as an outer garment, above the waistline. These provisions are not required when hunting with a bow and arrow during archery season.
- Taking of spotted fawn, swimming deer or roosted turkey is prohibited.
- It is illegal to hunt over bait or place any bait or other food for wildlife on this area.
- Driving a metal object into any tree, or hunting from a tree into which a metal object has been driven, is prohibited.
- No person shall cut, damage or remove any natural, man-made or cultural resource without written authorization of the landowner or primary land manager.
- Taking or attempting to take any game with the aid of live decoys, recorded game calls or sounds, set guns, artificial light, net, trap, snare, drug or poison is prohibited. Recorded calls and sounds can be used to hunt furbearers, wild hog and crows.
- The wanton and willful waste of wildlife is prohibited.
- Hunting, fishing or trapping is prohibited on any portion of the area posted as closed to those activities.
- People, dogs, vehicles and other recreational equipment are prohibited in areas posted as "Closed to Public Access" by FWC administrative action.
- Taking or herding wildlife from any motorized vehicle, aircraft or boat, which is under power is prohibited until power, and movement from that power, has ceased.
- Most game may be hunted from ½ hour before sunrise until ½ hour after sunset (see exceptions for each season).
- The release of any animal is prohibited, except by permit from FWC or written authorization from the landowner or primary land manager.
- The head and evidence of sex may not be removed from the carcass of any deer or turkey on the area.
- The planting or introduction of any plant is prohibited, without written authorization of the landowner or primary land manager.
- Wild hog may not be transported alive.
- A hunting license is not required to hunt wild hog.
- Littering is prohibited.
- Fires are prohibited.
- An FWC Law Enforcement Officer may search any camp, vehicle or boat, in accordance with law.
- Falconers may hunt during the statewide falconry season anytime a management area is open for public access.
- Open to public access year round but only from 1½ hours before sunrise until 1½ hours after sunset.
- Persons must enter and exit the area at designated entrances or via the Suwannee River. Please note: The Booker Spring Tract is accessible from the Suwannee River only; the Guaranto Tract is not accessible from the river.
- Information about public boat ramps can be found at MyFWC.com/boating.
- Motorized vehicles are prohibited except in the parking areas.
- Parked vehicles may not obstruct a road, gate or firelane.
- No motor vehicle shall be operated in areas designated as closed to vehicular traffic.
- Hunting equipment may not be taken onto the WMA until after 8 a.m. the day before the opening of a season and shall be removed by 6 p.m. 1 day after the end of the season.
- All deer harvested must be reported to the harvest reporting system within 24 hours of harvest. See Florida Hunting Regulations handbook for deer harvest reporting instructions.
- Hunting at night with a gun is prohibited.
- Muzzleloading guns used for taking deer must be .30 caliber or larger, if firing a single bullet, or be 20 gauge or larger if firing 2 or more balls.
- Hunting wildlife (other than migratory birds) with air guns is allowed. See Florida Hunting Regulations handbook for details.
- Hunting turkey with air guns is prohibited, except pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) air guns propelling a bolt or arrow are allowed.
- Children under the age of 16 hunting with a firearm or air gun must be in the presence of a supervising adult.
- No person shall discharge a firearm or have a loaded firearm in hand while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
- For hunting non-migratory game, only shotguns, rifles (muzzleloading and rimfire only), pistols, air guns, bows, crossbows or falconry may be used.
- For hunting migratory game, only shotguns, bows, crossbows or falconry may be used. Shotguns shall not be larger than 10 gauge and shall be incapable of holding more than 3 shells in the magazine and chamber combined.
- Hunting with full automatic firearms, centerfire rifles, explosive or drug-injecting devices and set guns is prohibited.
- The discharge of a firearm outside of periods open to hunting or in areas closed to hunting is prohibited per s. 790.15 FS.
- Hunting deer or wild hog with dogs is prohibited.
- Hunting with dogs is prohibited, except dogs may be used for hunting small game (quail, rabbit, squirrel and migratory birds) during small game season.
- No person shall allow any dog to pursue or molest any wildlife during any period in which the taking of wildlife by the use of dogs is prohibited.
- Dogs on leashes may be used for trailing wounded game.
- For purposes other than hunting, dogs are allowed, but must be kept under physical restraint at all times.
- Deer - No person shall exceed statewide bag limits.
- Area limits -
Archery season - See statewide limits below. During the period from September 14 through October 13, that limit may include any combination of antlered and antlerless deer. Only antlered deer may be hunted after October 13.
Muzzleloading gun - See statewide limits below.
- Statewide limits - Annual limit 5 deer (only 2 of which may be antlerless), daily limit 2, possession limit 4.
- As part of the statewide annual deer limit, youth less than 16 years of age may harvest 1 deer annually not meeting antler point requirements but having at least 1 antler 5 inches or more in length.
- Area limits -
- Wild hog - No size or bag limit.
- Turkey - No person shall exceed statewide bag limits.
- Area limits - Daily limit 1.
Archery season - Only bearded turkey or gobbler may be hunted. Hunting turkey after October 13 is prohibited.
Youth turkey and spring turkey - See statewide limits below.
- Statewide limits - All fall seasons combined limit 2, spring season limit 2, daily limit 2, possession limit 2.
- Area limits - Daily limit 1.
- Gray squirrel, quail and rabbit - Daily limit 12, possession limit 24 for each.
- Raccoon, opossum, armadillo, beaver, coyote, skunk and nutria - No bag limits.
- Bobcat and otter - Possession limit 1 unless in possession of a trapping license.
- Migratory birds - See Florida Hunting Regulations handbook.
September 14-15, 20-22, 27-29, October 4-6, 11-13 and November 1-3 and 8-10.
Permit, Stamp and License Requirements - Hunting license, management area permit, archery permit, deer permit (if hunting deer), wild turkey permit (if hunting wild turkey), migratory bird permit (if hunting migratory birds), and state waterfowl permit and federal duck stamp (if hunting waterfowl).
Legal to Hunt - Deer with at least 1 antler having 2 or more points (each point 1-inch or more in length) and having at least 1 antler 5-inches or more in length, antlerless deer (which includes does and bucks with antlers less than 5 inches in length, but not spotted fawns) through October 13, wild hog, bearded turkey or gobbler through October 13, gray squirrel, quail, rabbit, raccoon, opossum, armadillo, beaver, coyote, skunk, nutria and migratory birds in season.
Regulations Unique to Archery Season -
- Hunting with guns or crossbows (except by disabled crossbow permit) is prohibited, except that centerfire shotguns are allowed for hunting migratory birds.
- Hunting antlerless deer or turkey after October 13 is prohibited.
October 19-20, 25-27, November 15-17, 22-24 and December 20-22 and 27-29.
Permit, Stamp and License Requirements - Hunting license, management area permit, muzzleloading gun permit, deer permit (if hunting deer), migratory bird permit (if hunting migratory birds), and state waterfowl permit and federal duck stamp (if hunting waterfowl).
Legal to Hunt - Deer with at least 1 antler having 2 or more points (each point 1-inch or more in length) and having at least 1 antler 5-inches or more in length, wild hog, gray squirrel, quail, rabbit, raccoon, opossum, armadillo, beaver, coyote, skunk, nutria and migratory birds in season. Bobcat and otter beginning December 20.
Regulations Unique to Muzzleloading Gun Season - Hunting with archery equipment or guns, other than muzzleloading guns, is prohibited, except that centerfire shotguns are allowed for hunting migratory birds.
November 29 through December 1, December 6-8, 13-15, January 3-5, 10-12, 17-19, 24-26, January 31 through February 2, February 7-9, 14-16, 21-23 and February 28 through March 1.
Permit, Stamp and License Requirements - Hunting license, management area permit, migratory bird permit (if hunting migratory birds) and state waterfowl and federal duck stamp (if hunting waterfowl).
Legal to Hunt - Wild hog, gray squirrel, quail, rabbit, raccoon, opossum, armadillo, beaver, coyote, skunk, nutria and migratory birds in season. Bobcat and otter from December 1 through March 1.
Regulations Unique to Small Game Season -
- Hunting with centerfire rifles is prohibited.
- Hunting wild hog with dogs is prohibited.
- Dogs may be used to hunt quail, rabbit, squirrel and migratory birds.
Youth Turkey: March 14-15.
Spring Turkey: March 21-22, 27-29, April 3-5, 10-12, 17-19 and 24-26.
Permit, Stamp and License Requirements - Hunting license, management area permit and wild turkey permit.
Legal to Hunt - Bearded turkey or gobbler.
Regulations Unique to the Spring Turkey Season -
- Legal shooting hours are ½ hour before sunrise until sunset.
- Hunting other animals is prohibited.
- Only bows, crossbows, PCP air guns propelling a bolt or arrow and shotguns using a #2 or smaller shot size may be used for hunting.
- During the youth turkey hunt, only youth under 16 years of age may hunt and must be under the supervision and in the presence of an adult not younger than 18 years of age. Adults with required licenses and permits for taking wild turkeys may participate when in the presence of a youth, but may not harvest a wild turkey.
May 2-10.
Permit, Stamp and License Requirements - Management area permit.
Legal to Hunt - Wild hog.
Rails, common moorhen, mourning dove, white-winged dove, snipe, ducks, geese, coot, woodcock and crows may be hunted during statewide migratory bird seasons that coincide with the seasons where migratory birds are listed as legal to hunt in this brochure.
Permit, Stamp and License Requirements - Hunting license, management area permit, migratory bird permit, and state waterfowl permit and federal duck stamp (if hunting waterfowl).
Legal to Hunt - See Florida Hunting Regulations handbook.
Regulations Unique to Migratory Bird Seasons - All Migratory Bird Regulations shall apply.
- Hunting ducks, geese and coot with lead shot is prohibited.
- Centerfire shotguns are allowed for hunting during established area seasons when migratory birds are legal to hunt.
- Shooting hours for mourning and white-winged dove are noon until sunset during Phase 1 and ½ hour before sunrise until sunset during Phases 2 and 3.
Allowed year round.
Permit, Stamp and License Requirements - Fishing license (if fishing) or management area permit (if frogging).
Legal to Take - See Florida Freshwater Fishing Regulations Summary.
Regulations Unique to Fishing - All General Freshwater Fishing Regulations shall apply. Shooting frogs is allowed only during the listed open hunting seasons and only with the legal methods of take during each particular season.
General Information:
- Information for persons with disabilities can be found at MyFWC.com/ADA.
- If you have any questions about this material, please call the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission at 386-758-0525 (TDD 800-955-8771).
- The FWC is not responsible for protection of personal property and will not be liable for theft of or damage to personal property.
- Please report the location of any sick or extremely skinny deer to the Chronic Wasting Disease hotline, toll free at 866-293-9282.
Suwannee River WMD Rules and Information:
- These lands were acquired and are managed by the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) for the conservation and protection of water resources, public recreational use and the restoration of natural communities. The SRWMD lands may be used for recreational purposes that are compatible with these objectives.
- Public use of SRWMD lands is regulated by Chapter 40B-9, Florida Administrative Code in addition to the FWC rules listed above. For detailed information regarding public use rules and recreational opportunities on SRWMD lands, please visit mysuwanneeriver.com or contact the Land Management Specialist at 386-362-1001, 800-226-1066 (FL only) or email@example.com.
- The SRWMD management activities include prescribed burning and timber harvesting during most months of the year. For personal safety reasons, area users should contact the SRWMD for information and locations at 386-362-1001 or 800-226-1066 (FL only). Notices are posted at mysuwanneeriver.com.
- The possession of alcoholic beverages is prohibited.
Cooperation Requested:
If you see law violators or suspicious activities, contact your nearest Commission regional office or call 888-404-FWCC. You may qualify for a cash reward from the Wildlife Alert Reward Association.
The U.S. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability. If you believe that you have been discriminated against in any program, activity or facility as described above, or if you desire further information, please write to: The Office for Human Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240. The project described in this publication is part of a program funded by federal dollars under the Wildlife Restoration Act. Federal funds pay 20 percent of the cost of the program.


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