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A BROKEN Immigration System: The New Year's Eve H-2B Debacle
You can't make this stuff up. This is the world that I and a few other local colleagues of mine work in.
So, I asked my wife what she wanted to do to bring in the New Year (not that we usually do anything more than have dinner with some close friends), with the caveat that no matter what it was, I had to be home … in front of my computer … at midnight … because I had work to do. That's right, many of my colleagues and I (on the East coast anyway) were at our offices or at our homes in front of our computers working as the clock struck midnight. And then mayhem ensued, and I promise you, it was not fireworks or noisemakers. Let me explain.
One of the visa programs that some of my clients use is the H-2B nonimmigrant visa program. The H-2B nonimmigrant visa allows foreign nationals who are citizens of certain named countries (with limited exceptions) to accept "temporary" non-agricultural employment in the United States (e.g., landscape workers, ski resort employees, etc.). Before doing so, however, the sponsoring employer must first obtain a temporary labor certification from the U.S. Department of Labor ("USDOL") by establishing that there were no willing, able, and qualified U.S. workers available during a recruitment period.
Like some other visa programs, there is an annual numerical limitation for this visa program; specifically there are 66,000 H-2B visas that are available in each government fiscal year. Also like some other visa programs, there are more companies filing applications for a temporary labor certification from the USDOL than there are visa numbers available.
Of the 66,000 worker positions that are available annually, 33,000 are allocated to each half of the fiscal year. This allows industries that traditionally have opposite seasons (e.g., summer beach resorts v. winter ski resorts) to have a "fair" chance at participating in the H-2B program to obtain necessary temporary workers. Because of the incredible demand associated with the H-2B program (indeed even our President allegedly uses this program for his resorts), H-2B applications are now date and time stamped to the millisecond in order to establish the order of submission. Applications are processed by the USDOL in the order that they're received. And for the second half of the government's 2018 – 2019 fiscal year, the period for filing a temporary labor certification with the USDOL commenced one millisecond past midnight on New Years Eve.[1]
As the New Year rang in, the USDOL later reported that there were applications for 97,800 workers that were about to be filed by an "unprecedented volume of simultaneous system users."[2] The USDOL noted there were 22,900 server login attempts on January 1, 2019 versus a mere 721 attempts in the same period on January 1, 2018. Not surprisingly, the government's online filing system crashed. The exchange that went on over the next couple of hours, well past midnight, on the American Immigration Lawyer Service's ("AILA") H-2B attorney Listserv, bordered on a combination of sad, pathetic, and ridiculous. It was also really so unnecessary.
Readers of this piece know how much I long for meaningful reform to our immigration system. There are many substantive examples that I've written about over the past few years. This is not one of them. This is a procedural reform, somewhat selfishly written for sure (as anyone who knows me knows that I can barely stay up to 9:00 pm on a normal day), but it's important.
What kind of program requires employers (or yes, even their attorneys) to sit by their computer at the stroke of midnight, on New Years Eve no less, requiring them to hit "submit", tens and sometimes hundreds of times, so they can participate in a visa program to fill necessary positions with their company? And in today's day and age, what kind of government is so ill-equipped to handle the unprecedented volume that they themselves created? Was the system not adequately stress tested? Was no one monitoring it (perhaps in light of the current government shut down)?
As annoying as this whole debacle has been, it's not missing New Years that bothers me. Everyone who knows me knows that I'm usually sleeping at the stroke of midnight in any event. It's that our government can't come up with a better and more equitable system within which employers and their counsel can work to get things done. It really is ridiculous. The H-2B program is an absolutely necessary program for many employers. The process for participating in it, however, is unnecessarily cumbersome and needs to be reformed
[1]For those companies (or their attorneys) filing outside of the eastern time zone, the filing time was an hour earlier for each time zone west you go.
[2] At that time, the USDOL indicated that employers had prepared 5,400 H-2B applications, which were in a queue to be submitted to the USDOL, seeking a total of 97,800 workers.
Saratoga Race Course's Back Stretch Workers: More Need for Immigration Reform
I am very fortunate to live in Saratoga Springs, New York. Last Friday was opening day at the Saratoga Race Course, and the weather cooperated. As a result, the crowds were out to watch racing at what I would argue is the country's finest racing venue.
Friday morning, at about 5:30 AM, the line outside the track was all the way down Union Avenue, with thousands of patrons trying to be the first ones through the gates. About a month or so ago, I saw a similar line, but this line was filled with hundreds of people hoping to get summer jobs at the track. Those jobs are for what I will call "front of the house" positions, like gate attendants who take your money, people who sell programs, and food and beverage providers. Of course there are many more.
Those who weren't in that line, however, were the back stretch workers who do all of the little things to make our track experience enjoyable. These are the trainers, exercise riders, jockeys, grooms, farriers, veterinarians, muckers, jockey agents, and all the other positions associated with horse racing.
While many of these workers are U.S. citizens, quite a lot of them are foreign nationals from Central America. Many of them enter the United States annually on an H-2B nonimmigrant visa. Quite frankly, these are positions that U.S. workers do not want to fill, and unfortunately for those in the horse racing industry, they are stuck trying to navigate the incredibly cumbersome (and expensive) process of obtaining an H-1B nonimmigrant visa for these workers on an annual basis… and in 2012, it got a lot worse.
The H-2B nonimmigrant worker classification allows foreign nationals who are citizens of certain named countries (with some limited exceptions) to accept temporary non-agricultural employment in the United States, after the employer has obtained a temporary labor certification from the U.S. Department of Labor by establishing that there were no willing, able, and qualified U.S. workers available during the period of recruitment.
The H-2B classification allows foreign nationals to provide "temporary or seasonal" services or labor, provided the employment does not displace U.S. workers "capable of performing such services or labor" and as long as the H-2B employment will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers.
The temporary job may be professional, skilled, or unskilled, and there must be a seasonal, peakload, intermittent, or one-time need for the temporary services or labor. Therein lies part of the problem with using the H-2B nonimmigrant visa for backstretch workers. Employers need to clearly show that their need is short-term; that is, regardless of whether or not the position by itself can be explained as not being a permanent one, the employer has to have only a temporary need for the worker (i.e., a seasonal, peakload, intermittent, or one-time need for the temporary services or labor).
This was not a particularly big issue until 2012, when the government changed its interpretation of the law, effectively making a program that is vital to the horse racing industry, and to our enjoyment of it 40 days a year in Saratoga Springs, that much more difficult. The government used to say that workers met the standards of "seasonal" and "temporary" because the same owner or trainer needed them in different locations at distinct times of the year. In 2012, however, the government's interpretation changed, and its position now is that these backstretch workers are essentially year-round employees. Now, owners and trainers must file separate visa applications for each worker at each meet. Perhaps the larger stables can afford this, but the smaller ones cannot.
This is yet another example where immigration reform could be useful. Unfortunately, things in Washington are not looking promising. When our government cannot even resolve the current humanitarian crisis affecting all of the children arriving at our borders, what chance do the owners, trainers and backstretch workers have?


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- Most people believe that renovating their homes kitchen or finishing the basement is what will bring more value to the home and help to sell it faster. This is not entirely true, although renovating the kitchen for $22,000 definitely helps, you will really only be making back about $0.50 to each dollar you spent on renovation. Bathroom renovations will rake in more per dollar than a finished basement or remodeled kitchen, a little over $1.50 per every dollar you spent.
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Edrans Achieves AWS Premier Partner Status in Record Time. The achievement has been officially announced during 2018 re:invent Global Partner Keynote
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Edrans announced today that it has achieved the top-tier AWS Consulting Partner status, having been designated as a Premier Partner after completing the rigorous process in just eight months. Becoming the only Premier Partner in the Spanish speaking Latin America.
"We were told to expect it to take between one to two years to get the qualification, but because we were already working using the practices defined in the Well Architected Framework and had been closely partnering with AWS teams, we took on the challenge of completing the process faster," said Javier D'Ovidio, Edrans' cofounder and director of operations.
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The following is a short article I wrote that was published in Youth Work Now Magazine (A supplement of Children & Young People Now) this week. In addition to the print copy, it can be found on the CYPNow website here.
Leave the hidden agendas behind
I recently read a quote from London mayor Boris Johnson about the need to "build human capital".
Now we all know Johnson has a habit of making flippant remarks, but this one caught my attention. Talking at a charitable conference, he said: "Faith groups who want to slip in the odd coded message in favour of salvation: I have absolutely no problem with that."
Although I work for a faith organisation, I have a problem with the approach that Johnson advocates.
I've spent a huge amount of time trying to justify to members of the faith community why we run generic youth work with no faith content. Conversely, I've often had to defend the faith aspect to those colleagues in non-faith environments who assume we are trying to convert young people. It's a difficult tightrope to walk, especially when people are unsure of your motives.
What I've learned from all this is that faith groups need to be upfront and honest about their intentions – both to the general public and to young people. If we're going to run a generic youth club, then it should be just that. If we want to do an evangelistic event, then it should be clearly communicated so that young people are not tricked into attending a religious service. Slipping in a "coded message" is simply not acceptable practice.
The same principle applies in the wider youth work context. Think how ridiculous it would be for youth workers to try to hijack an organised activity to promote a particular message. Imagine 15 young people sign up for an ice-skating trip, yet as soon as they get on the minibus, the worker starts a lecture on safe sex complete with hand-outs. Those young people would feel that their trust had been betrayed.
While that may be an exaggerated example, there have been a number of claims over recent years that youth workers across the sector are forced to become more dishonest in order to achieve targets. I have heard workers talk of "playing the system" or inventing ways to get the young people to "want to learn things" so that recorded outcomes can be completed. Many lament this, but feel unable to do anything else.
This manipulation of young people is dangerous territory. When we start to enforce a hidden agenda into our work, we limit the possibilities for open and honest relationships. Our craft is based on our ability to earn respect, so a secret agenda is damaging to our work.
Of course, there are always times when opportunities for dialogue and conversation present themselves, and it might be appropriate to broach certain subjects or introduce particular themes. At times we may even need to give our opinion or argue for a distinct course of action. But this should come out of relationships, not a prescribed agenda.
Youth workers, including those in the faith communities, must continue to be upfront about their motives.
It's vital if they want to earn young people's respect.
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I thoroughly enjoyed sailing the Italian and French Riviera aboard Azamara Club Cruises' Journey. I loved the smaller size of the ship, only 697 passengers, very easy to navigate. The fact that the ship is smaller, you are able to get into many ports the larger ships can not get into.
This itinerary is great for people watchers, shoppers or those who just want to sit at sidewalk cafes and enjoy a cappuccino or a bottle of the local wines. The views along the Riviera are spectacular!
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"When you want to convince a developer to help you make a change to the product, nothing is as compelling as bringing the developer into the lab and having them watch people fail." (Dan Harrelson – Adaptive Path)
The Hyperlink as Organizing Principle
"What does a hyperlink mean? The question itself is problematical. We might be satisfied with the simpler and related question of what a hyperlink is and what a hyperlink does. But in trying to understand what the larger social effects of hyperlink networks are, it is not enough to be able to define a hyperlink, we need to understand its nature, its use, and its social effects." (Alexander Halavais – in Turow T. and Lokman Tsui (eds.) 2008, The Hyperlinked Society)- courtesy of davidweinberger
What's Design Mean to You? Interview with Vinay Venkatraman
"Design is one of the professions that bridges the analytical way of doing things with the synthetical way of doing things. If you consider analysis to be breaking a thing down into finite elements, and looking at relationhips inside it and making sense out of it, you can say that synthesis is about the interrelationships and the combinations of things. I think that designers have this unusual intuition for what could be meaningful in this analytical [information]. It's less rational, and more emotional in its approach." (Matt Balara – Interviews)
In search of a beautiful mind
Video included – "He was long a jewel of the MIT faculty. Now, after a devastating brain injury, mathematician Seymour Papert is struggling bravely to learn again how to think like, speak like, be like the man of genius he was." (Linda Matchan – The Boston Globe)
Weekly User Testing: TiVo Did It, You Can, Too
"TiVo ran 12 user tests in 12 weeks while designing its new website. As TiVo's experience shows, frequent and regular testing keeps the design usability focused." (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Interaction Design and Service Design: Expanding A Comparison of Design Disciplines
"Interaction design encounters service design in business innovation, e-government, and a whole range of other settings. There is a range of service settings in which interactive artefacts are used to perform service, and a set of business innovation strategies combining process innovation and interactive technology. In the meeting between these the service perspective becomes a challenge to interaction design, and technology usage becomes a challenge to service design." (Stefan Holmlid – Nordic Design Research Conference)
Better Ballots
"The notorious butterfly ballot that Palm Beach County, Florida election officials used in the 2000 election is probably the most infamous of all election design snafus. It was one of many political, legal, and election administration missteps that plunged a presidential election into turmoil and set off a series of events that led to, among other things, a vast overhaul of the country's election administration, including the greatest change in voting technology in United States history." (Whitney Quesenbery et al.)
Ryan Freitas talks with Mitch Kapor
"As always, Mitch has plenty of wonderful things to say. There's a significant history lesson, some pointers on entrepreneurialism, and some very frank perspectives on the principles of design." (Ryan Freitas – Second Verse)
Playing with Complexity
"(…) in the presentation I argue two things: one — that the more sophisticated applications of interactive data visualization resemble games and toys in many ways, and two — that game design can contribute to the solutions to several design issues I have detected in the field of data visualization." (Kars Alfrink – Leapfroglog)
Engaging Personas and Narrative Scenarios
"Personas and scenarios help designers to imagine the users and aid development of design ideas. The concept of engaging personas and narrative scenario explores personas in the light of what what it is to identify with and have empathy with a character. The concept of narrative scenarios views the narrative as aid for exploration of design ideas. Both concepts incorporate a distinction between creating, writing and reading." (Lene Nielsen PhD thesis 2004)
Designing a Different Kind of Intranet: An Intranet for a UX Team
"Most of us who are working as part of a design team in a services company, a product company, or even a design boutique have to live with a generic intranet. In this article, I'll describe how to leverage your company's intranet and how to build a community around an intranet for a UX team." (Anirban Basu Mallik – UXmatters)
Convergence and Emergence: 2008 IA Summit
"It is clear that the discipline of information architecture is undergoing change. I was amazed at the range of job titles I encountered. Very few people actually had the title information architect. This must be a sign that the rapid development of the Web and the technological advances that are occurring are just moving so fast what we do is very hard to define. It is just a label, and we shouldn't become too hung up on it, but I think the IAI need to be aware and wise to the developments that are going on in other disciplines such as IxD and UX in general." (James Kelway – UXmatters)
Now Let's Do It in Practice: UX Evaluation Methods in Product Development
UXEM workshop in CHI'08 (April 6th, 2008 in Florence, Italy) – "The aim of the workshop is to transfer knowledge from practitioners to academics about challenges with putting UX evaluation into practice, and from academics to practitioners to inform and inspire practical UX work with research findings of UX evaluation methods. Participants will gain an overview of the current state of practical approaches, tools, and methods for UX evaluation, as well as insights into the importance of UX evaluation in product development. The main outcomes of the workshop are a model of different UX evaluation methods across product development process and a list of UX evaluation challenges in product development. " (Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Virpi Roto, and Marc Hassenzahl)
Meaningful Measures: Valid User Experience Measurement
Proceedings of the International Workshop (Reykjavik, Iceland June 18th 2008) – "The workshop VUUM brings together a group of experienced HCI researchers and practitioners to explore a long-standing research problem – the meaningfulness of measurable constructs and the measurability of nonmeasurable ones. One may argue that basically everything can be measured, but some things may be more 'measurable' than the others; how to estimate the threshold of measurability remains unclear. The sixteen interesting submissions in this volume touch upon the basic issue of the formal-empirical dichotomy. Many arguments can be boiled down to the fundamental problem that our understanding of how people think and feel is still rather limited, which is essentially inferred from people's behaviours. Psycho-physiological and neuro-psychological data seem promising, but the issue of calibration and integration is a big hurdle to overcome. Nonetheless, we are convinced about the value, meaningfulness and usefulness of this research endeavour." (Effie Law et al. – MAUSE COST Action 294)
The future and what it holds
"The focus of my questions in this video interview with Howard Rheingold, was kindly suggested by the event organizer Leandro Agrò, and they focused on (a) the future of technology, (b) the speed at which things change, (c) who will eventually control the Internet, (d) what we can do about it, and (e) how pervasive technology will become in the next few years." (Robin Good's Latest News)
Considering the User Perspective: Research into Usage and Communication of Digital Information
"In this article we present the methodology and initial results from qualitative research into the usage and communication of digital information. It considers the motivation for the research and the methodologies adopted, including Contextual Design and Cultural Probes. The article describes the preliminary studies conducted to test the approach, highlighting the strengths and limitations of the techniques applied. Finally, it outlines proposals for refinement in subsequent iterations and the future research activities planned." (Kelly Snow et al. – D-Lib Magazine May/June 2008)
The Importance of the Management Perspective in the HCI Field
"We explore the roles and the importance of having a management community inside the Human-Computer Interaction field and inside the large CHI community. We believe that the management community keeps the broad HCI field in touch with the strategic and managerial values of HCI research and practice. It can be an effective advocate and bridge for bringing the importance of HCI research and practice to the strategic and managerial levels of organizations, thus HCI work can have bigger and broader impact on people, organizations, and societies. We call for additional energy, effort, and participation to the management community." (Ping Zhang and Roberto Polillo – CHI 2008 DVD Proceedings)
Twelve emerging best practices for adding UX work to Agile development
"If the user experience practice in your company was weak before Agile, Agile development isn't going to help things. If your user experience practice was strong before Agile, it'll remain strong after Agile, and evolve to adapt." (Jeff Patton – Agile Product Design) – courtesy of thehotstrudel


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Thanks to social media, information-sharing across the globe has never been as easy as it is today.
In order to better communicate with our students, their natural parents and host families, our alumni, our foreign partners, and our staff – across multiple media and in a more timely fashion – St. Paul Preparatory School has expanded our social media presence.
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Productsup provides a SaaS solution for product content integration, optimization and distribution. Our aim is to help brands and retailers to stay agile and be at the forefront of digital transformation.
How Productsup fits into the commerce ecosystem
Create compelling, channel-ready product feeds, without a line of code.
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In 2015 Productsup was accepted for IBM's Global Entrepreneurship Program and in turn, the company was welcomed as a member of the IBM PartnerWorld.
As part of this, we've been exploring innovative ways in which we can work together with IBM to simplify and maximize the work for businesses. After some deep evaluation and testing, we partnered with IBM Commerce platforms to enable a seamless transfer of product data from IBM WebSphere Commerce – without the loss of information.
Last week, IBM officially recognized Productsup as a "ready for commerce" software. Now with their stamp of approval, the company is officially listed in the IBM Global Solutions Directory. Have a look here.
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Brighton & Hove Albion have appointed Dan Ashworth as the club's new technical director. Ashworth is currently The Football Association's Technical Director, and is set to begin his role with Albion in the spring.
Chairman Tony Bloom said, "There is no doubting Dan's standing within the game, and we are absolutely delighted that he will be joining us as our technical director.
"Dan's CV speaks for itself, and while his work alongside Gareth Southgate, with England's senior men's team, was well documented last summer during the World Cup, it's also worth highlighting his excellent work and successes across all the England men's, women's and junior teams."
Ashworth, 47, will be responsible for the club's ongoing football development. He will also oversee the academy and medical departments, as well as player recruitment at all levels.
Paul Barber, Albion's chief executive, added, "We've been delighted with the progress we've made across the club with all our teams over recent seasons, and our aim is that Dan's arrival will help us to build on the great work that's already been done here.
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Several stars from the Tamil film industry today called on actor Kamal Haasan and congratulated him for having been appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts Arts et Lettres (Knight in the National Order Arts and Letters) by the Minister of Culture and Communication, France.
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Hello folks, Tim Dutton here. I have had the pleasure of being able to form an alliance with the very talented Sallyann Phillips. Our first project is book one in the Wolf Moon investigations series, yes I said series. This series will focus on different investigative cases. Because of this Sallyann has asked me to do some blog posts describing different Investigative tips and techniques, and I am more than happy to oblige. I hope you enjoy them and learn something useful while you're at it.
This first post, I will explain how you can apply current knowledge to work different cases that would appear completely different on the surface. So am I qualified to be explaining these to you? Well, I will let you decide that, but I did make a pretty decent living by being a private investigator for over twenty years before becoming a full time writer, so I hope I picked up a thing or two along the way.
My specialties were fugitive recovery (bounty hunting) and personal protection (body guarding). Over the years, I acquired quite a bit of training, knowledge and experience on these two investigative specialties and become comfortable performing them. There did come a time when clients started asking me to perform different types of cases. When I first started offering these cases I was very nervous and unsure of how to go about them. Lucky for me I knew an old cranky ex-ranger, ex-sheriff, with a heart of gold, who just happened to take pity on a lost soul. (hope he doesn't know I said he had a heart of gold. Would get an ass kickin' for that.) I will simply call this man Virgil for reasons me and Sallyann know. So Virgil taught me the difference between specifics and concepts.
A specific is a unique or special fact or attribute about anything.
A concept is just a general idea of something, usually derived from a specific instance.
So, how does that help us? To simplify, which Virgil also taught me, every case will be different or specific to its own details. If we think in these terms we will over complicate them and make them hard to work. Our capacity for knowledge is limited, we cannot possibly learn how to investigate every single case completely different or specifically. However every single case can also be broken down into concepts. Simple ideas that have similar attributes. So with this in mind it basically means we can focus and learn how to do one or two types of cases very good. We can then apply this knowledge and skill to work any other type of case we may come across.
Try to give you a short example here. (Let you in on a little secret, Sallyann will laugh when she sees the part about me trying to keep it short. She knows when I talk about something that interests me, I can be a bit long winded, but I will try.) As a bounty hunter the first place I check after starting the case, is the last known address. Lots of knowledge on the skip can be uncovered here. Now let's say we wanted to work a hit and run accident case. Where do we start? Well last known address is a specific place, so let's think of it as a concept. Yep, you may have already guessed, the scene of the accident. The last place both subjects of the investigation were seen or known to have been is the place you will start. Now, with a bounty hunter case the skip, or the subject of investigation is known, his whereabouts is not. In a hit and run accident case, the subject of the investigation is unknown and his whereabouts is also unknown. Every case no matter what type will involve taking known information and using it to find unknown information. By going to the last place they were known to be, you can interview people in the area, get tag numbers of cars there at same time and same day, and look for any clues laying around. Did a piece of the hit and run car fall off? Where is nearest body shop? Does skip have any phone numbers of friends or family wrote down somewhere in house. Matchbooks from bars, hotels? Business cards. Any eye witnesses to hit and run, to give description of car, driver? Any witnesses to skip moving out, name on moving truck, description of anyone helping? Want a good witness find a little old lady sitting on her front porch, she won't miss anything.
I could go on and on, but if I do that it will be way beyond short. I think you get the idea. Just think outside the box and use concepts to find specifics. This can be applied to anything in your life. If something seems complicated, break it down to smaller concepts and tackle each part separately until you get it done as a whole. Writing an entire novel seems like a daunting specific, but you can break it down to chapters, then scenes, then paragraphs, then sentences, then words. Every story begins with a single word and every story is just a concept of an idea, waiting to be turned into a specific story.
I look forward to sharing bits and pieces of my experience with you, I hope you do as well.
Thank you for reading,
Tim Dutton 🐺


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TV Series Duration
TV shows have been increasing in popularity for many years now, and that probably won't change for a while. Even if you haven't watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Wire, Breaking Bad, or Friends, your friends have probably been going on and on about them, so you know that they're addictive. If you're up-to-date with your favourite series, you probably have the date the new season airs written on your calendar and can recall it at any given time of day or night (or you simple know which day of a week you download it because it won't air on your local TV for another 2 years). Either way - once a TV series has become a significant part of our daily routine we hardly realize how much time we spend thinking about it, let alone watching it.
This calculator lets you do the maths quickly. Simply insert:
- Average episode duration.
- Number of episodes per season.
- Number of seasons the show is airing for.
The tool will quickly return how much time you could be spending on your favorite show. It should come very handy if you're just starting a series that premiered a few years back, or you watch to rewatch your favorite childhood show, and need to know how long to you should book off work.


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Like many top tech companies, Lyft jobs come with their fair share of perks. From unlimited vacation days to the free Lyft credits employees enjoy, there's no question that this company has a lot to offer top tech talent.
Which is good, because in the highly-competitive rideshare industry, Lyft needs all the help it can get to compete with top companies like Uber and Via. Innovation, seamless technology, and a best-in-class customer experience are going to help bring Lyft to the next level, and to get there, they need to attract (and retain) the best of the best.
Thus, Lyft salaries need to compete with what candidates would expect from other top tech companies in the San Francisco Bay area. Luckily, for these six jobs, that is absolutely the case. Here are the five top-paying tech jobs at Lyft:
Note: salaries may have changed from time of publication
|National Average
|Product Manager
|Software Engineer
|QA Test Engineer
|Data Scientist
|Product Designer
#1. Product Manager—$315,000 per year
Hearing that any tech job pays $315,000 per year is likely to draw some attention, but when one of the top paying Lyft job goes to a product manager…now that's something you don't see every day.
And yet, it's entirely the case. According to Paysa, product managers at Lyft hold the top spot as far as salaries are concerned. With an average annual base salary of $174,000, bonus plan that pays $47,000 per year, and nearly $100,000 in annual equity, Lyft product manager salaries are some of the best in the business and are well above the national average salary for product managers.
Average salary for a product manager at Lyft
#2. Software Engineer—$263,000 per year
Software engineers provide some of the most in-demand services in all of tech, which is why most top companies understand you need to make a pretty competitive offer to lure in top candidates.
Well, it looks like Lyft got that memo. The average Lyft salary for software engineers is $263,000 per year, including a $164,000 annual base salary, $14,000 bonus each year, and $84,000 in annual equity.
Average salary for a software engineer at Lyft
While the base salary itself is well above the national average salary for software engineers, it's likely that equity that might be the biggest draw for top engineers in San Francisco. Lyft has yet to make its debut on the stock exchange, making the company one of those rare "tech unicorns" that could potentially payout big when they go public. But, you better start looking at Lyft jobs soon—rumors are swirling that a 2018 IPO is imminent, so time is limited to land some of that pre-IPO equity.
#3. QA Test Engineer—$212,000 per year
The national average salary for QA test engineers is just $94,000 per year. That means this QA test engineer salary at Lyft of $212,000 is over double the national average. Not too shabby.
Average salary for a QA test engineer at Lyft
Notice that the breakdown of that salary varies slightly from the product manager and software engineer salaries at Lyft. Though QA engineers have a base salary of $151,000 per year and annual equity totaling $61,000, they do not have an annual bonus plan like some of the other positions.
#4. Data Scientist—$209,000 per year
If you're a regular follower of the Paysa blog, then you know we've extensively covered the rise of the data scientist position in the tech world—a job that the Harvard Business Review called "the sexiest job of the 21st century."
Data matters a lot to a company like Lyft where understanding their audience and being able to anticipate their needs can be a deciding factor between winning customers' business and seeing it go to a competitor. Hence, the data scientist job at Lyft is one of the best paying roles at the company.
Lyft salaries for data scientists average out to $209,000 per year, including a base salary of $147,000 and annual equity of $62,000.
Average salary for a data scientist at Lyft
#5. Product Designer—$167,000 per year
Lyft is undoubtedly a company that values their product people. From the product managers at the top to product designers in the #5 spot, Lyft clearly understands that a good product team can elevate your brand above the competition.
Product designer salaries at Lyft average around $167,000. That includes $128,000 each year in base salary, $13,000 bonus, and $26,000 in annual equity.
Average salary for a product designer at Lyft
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Neon Indian, Toro y Moi & MNDR played Mercury Lounge – pics
words & photos by Erez Avissar
Going by phone/digital camera clips I'd seen online, I wasn't expecting what I got from Neon Indian Tuesday night. This genre called "chillwave" seemed to me all but doomed to ever really work well in the live setting — not only is it all lo-fi and bedroomy, but Alan Palomo's peers (Toro Y Moi, Washed Out, Memory Tapes) didn't make the decision to recruit a live band. Opener Toro Y Moi was good, but yeah, there is only so much one man can do live.
Neon Indian, fresh off a European tour, played with loads of confidence, improvising, tweaking, and expanding. And they delivered: "Terminally Chill" hit hard, as did "Deadbeat Summer," and the rest of the highlights from their great record. I didn't think there were any songs left for an encore, but what did they do? Come back out (sans-Leanne Macomber) as Vega to play an extended (12″ version?), totally spaced/funked-out "No Reason," temporarily turning the place into the best club on earth.
Neon Indian finish their three-night NYC run at Brooklyn Bowl tonight (12/17) with Tigercity and Awesome New Republic (tickets available at the door?). More pictures from the first of two shows at Mercury Lounge below…
Toro y Moi
Neon Indian


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It is learnt that two have come together to cobble up the numbers even as the BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur's faction tried to muster support for their presidential candidate Rajeev Shukla.
According to top sources, Srinivasan is learnt to have expressed his support to Pawar or his nominee. In return Srinivasan wants that his tenure as ICC Chairman should continue unhindered.
The Tamil Nadu strongman is apprehensive that if the Thakur group retains control of the Board, they may nominate a new ICC Chairman from India in his place.
Srinivasan had called a meeting of his loyalists in Bengaluru yesterday to gauge his strength. While five of the six East Zone members had skipped the meeting, only Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) attended the meeting although their secretary Asirbad Behera, who is the voter, chose to stay back.
While KSCA represented by Brijesh Patel and Kerala CA represented by TC Mathew were there, it is not clear as to how many units actually attended this show of strength meeting called by Srinivasan.
The CAB had already clarified that they won't attend any meeting till Dalmiya's condolence meeting gets over on October 2.
National Cricket Club, which is like Dalmiya's family club, represented by his friend KP Kajaria also were not present. Kajaria himself is not keeping well these days.
While Thakur faction is in favour of Shukla taking over as the president, it does not have the clear majority to ensure victory for the Congress MP. – PTI


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It's been revealed that Andy Murray's girlfriend, Kim Sears, left him because he was playing too much Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the PS3. Now that's a new one in the celebrity circles, leaving your guy because he spends too much time on the PS3, and in Murray's case it was up to seven hours a day! Video games are a blast. And I admit even I've played Modern Warfare 2 and the game lives up to the hype: The graphics and gameplay are jaw-dropping. But if you are a top tennis player trying to win your home London year-end championships and trying to chase down Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in the rankings (did I mention that you haven't won a Slam yet?), you are not helping your cause by spending up to seven hours or more a day smoking the bad guys. Luckily for Andy Murray, he's got money and he stays at nice hotels in exotic locales, because without that "bait", it's tough for a guy like him with a video game addiction to land girls like Kim Sears. I know Murray has quite the entourage though clearly not enough because someone on his crew needs to have the courage to yank the controller away, it's not helping. In his defense, Murray is now rumored to be dating Miss Scotland. Hope she's a gamer!
Even Modern Warfare 2 Can Come in Between an ATP Player and his Boo


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Saturday, December 30, 2017
Rorica & Dobrica Kamperelic, Belgrade, SERBIA
Many Thanks to my performance artist friends in Serbia Rorica and Dobrica for this series of self portraits from some of their performance works. Very Much appreciated, with Love from Canada.
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Marc Deb, Arras, FRANCE
Merci Marc for the beautiful mailing that arrived with the series of laminated artworks.
Very much appreciated . . see you in the mail!
Mark Sonnenfeld, East Windsor, New Jersey, USA
Many Thanks Mark . . more on Mark's writing at: New Mystics
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Diane Bertrand, St. Leonard, Quebec, CANADA
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Irma Soltonovich, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA
Thanks Irma . . Post card # 1242 now joins the installation!
Check out more from the talents of this amazing Visual Artist at her site: IRMA SOLTONOVICH
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Minnie Churchill, Grand Falls - Windsor, Newfoundland, CANADA
Many Thanks to my Aunt Minnie in Newfoundland who has the title of being the eldest corespondent in my mailings. . . . . she is now approaching her 105th year!
She loves mail . . so stay tuned mail art friends I have an idea to make the 105th quite a joyful mailing . .
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Rick Van Krugel, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA
After several episodes of return to sender with the mailman and post office the mailing of postcard # 1247 has now found its way to the collection at Studio J. Many Thanks to Rick for his determination.
Check out the Dynamic Duo of Rick and Linda at: Darshan/Alexander
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Tom McBeath, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA
I recently got to be in the audience of the Belfry Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol"
Tom was in town portraying the character of Scrooge. It was one of those moments of live stage presence that will remain with me for years. The cast was truly amazing.
Many Thanks to Tom for signing and mailing these images for me.
Check out his IMDb profile: Tom McBeath
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Saturday, November 18, 2017
Leo Varadkar, Dublin, IRELAND
Many Thanks to Prime Minister Leo Varadkar for this reply to postcard mailing #1199
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Martin Batchelor, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA
Many Thanks to artist and gallery owner Martin Batchelor for the return of postcard # 1226
Check out the Gallery at: MARTIN BACHELOR GALLERY
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Sasha Zamolodchikova, Kelowna, British Columbia, CANADA
Many Thanks to Performance artist Sasha for the return of postcard # 1246
A pleasure to have you in the collection.
See more from my friend at: SHANNON LESTER Interdisciplinary Artist
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Saturday, October 21, 2017
Mary Crosby, Malibu, California, USA
Many Thanks to Actress Mary Crosby for her reply to my most recent mailing and request to join the next phase of the portrait gallery project . . the 8" x 10"
See more about her career at "MARY CROSBY"
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Labels: CALIFORNIA, Malibu, Mary Crosby, USA
Friday, October 13, 2017
Crackerjack Kid, Chuck Welch, Hancock, New Hampshire, USA
Thanks Crackerjack for the fantastic series of Portrait ATC's and artistamps . . always a delight to get you mailings.
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King Norodom Sihamoni, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
Some days the mail brings wonderful surprises . . today a registered letter arrived . . enclosed was this signed postcard (#1189) from King Norodom Sihamoni.
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Saturday, October 7, 2017
Phil Fogel, (Green Lantern of Victoria), Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA
Thanks Phil . . pleased to have the Green Lantern join the Portrait Gallery.
Phil is part of the an amazing group of volunteers who help support local charities.
Check them out at: Super Heroes of Victoria
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Thursday, October 5, 2017
Sarah Slean, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Thanks so very much Sarah for the signings . .
what a pleasure to hear you perform and get to meet you tonight here in Victoria. Your brilliant artistry shines trough in so many ways. . . Much Love on the journey.
Check out her site: SARAH SLEAN
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Friday, September 22, 2017
The Sticker Dude, Joel Cohen, New York, New York, USA
Thanks Joel for this envelope of sticker delights .. from RAGGED EDGE PRESS
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Thursday, September 21, 2017
Lisa Kaltenegger, Ithaca, New York, USA
Thanks to scientist Lisa Kaltenegger for signing the poster and image at the Imax film preview of The Search for "Life in Space"
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