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One of the more pestilential elements of the atmosphere of modernity is a tendency to substitute for the actualities of things - for example, the concrete society into which one was born, say, the ancien regime - fantasies, phantasms, and illusions that faintly resemble those realities, but are, in reality, utopias - no-places. This aspect of modernity can manifest itself in virtually any corner of the human experience, though the specifically political seems to exert an especial attraction. Nevertheless, the tendency toward abstraction and fantasy can deform any discipline or practice, even those that are ostensibly tethered to quantifiable realities. And while the consequences may not be as sanguinary as those of the overtly political ideologies, they are no less real.
Exhibit A in the migration of the ideological temperment from the lush pastures of the political should be the black-box economy of collateralized debt instruments, derivatives, structured investment vehicles, and other financial arcana associated with the current liquidity crisis.
a staggeringly complex financial instrument that most Americans had never heard of, and which many financial writers still don't fully understand, became in a matter of months the most important influence on home values in America. That's not how the economy is supposed to work - or at least that's not what they teach students in Economics 101.
The reason this had been happening totally out of sight is not difficult to understand. Banks of all stripes chafe against the restraints that federal and state regulators place on their ability to make money. By cleverly exploiting regulatory loopholes, investment banks created new types of high-risk investments that did not appear on their balance sheets. Safe from the prying eyes of regulators, they allowed banks to dodge the requirement that they keep a certain amount of money in reserve. These reserves are a crucial safety net, but also began to seem like a drag to financiers, money that was just sitting on the sidelines.
"A lot of financial innovation is designed to get around regulation," says Richard Sylla, professor of economics and financial history at NYU's Stern School of Business. "The goal is to make more money, and you can make more money if you don't have to keep capital to back up your investments."
The rudiments of these esoteric instruments are not exactly new; various forms of derivatives have been employed for over a century as forms of insurance.
But today, increasingly, a new generation of derivatives doesn't trade on markets at all. These so-called over-the-counter derivatives are highly customized agreements struck in private between two parties. No one else necessarily knows about such investments because they exist off the books, and don't show up in the reports or balance sheets of the parties who signed them.
In other words, the new categories of exotic financial instruments were expressly created as essentially non-market vehicles, for the purpose of sidestepping regulatory requirements, particularly reserve requirements. It also bears mentioning that the mania for deregulation which swept over the Western political cosmos over the course of the last two decades created the atmosphere within which a dimly-comprehended, highly-leveraged class of speculative vehicles could be looked upon with benign neglect.
As the derivatives business has grown more complex, it has also ballooned in scale. Broadly speaking, (Satyajit) Das - author of a leading textbook on derivatives and complex securities - estimates that investors worldwide hold more than $500 trillion worth of derivatives. This number now dwarfs the global GDP, which tops out around $60 trillion.
Essentially unregulated and all but invisible, over-the-counter derivatives comprise a huge web of bets, touching every sector of the world economy, that entangles a massive amount of money. If they start to look shaky - or if investors need to start selling them to cover other losses - that value could vanish, with catastrophic results to the owner and unpredictable effects on financial markets.
A vast, incomprehensible latticework of abstruse financial abstractions, each one leveraged upon the one preceding it, may be more than seven-hundred percent larger than the real economy, to which it is only loosely tethered, being insusceptible of normal market valuation, and possesses the capacity to precipitate profound disruptions in the real economy if there occur but slight perturbations in its preconditions.
Two observations are apropos of this development, which itself threatens to wrest control of the real economy from real market actors, inclusive of the central banks. First, there has existed, beneath all of the rhetoric surrounding deregulation and the retreat of the frontiers of the state, a somewhat naive and misleading conception of the naturalness of economic activity, as opposed to the contrivances of political intervention. The former would, if left to their own devices, somehow "take care of themselves", while the latter would only muck things up by precluding the former from doing so; and, in the context of the political controversies of the Seventies, there was a measure of truth to the argument - which, however, remained misleading. Any economy more sophisticated than simple hunting and gathering, or the crudest sort of command economy, presupposes a body of custom and law by which economic practices are regulated and structured; simplistic arguments in favour of deregulation, therefore, either obfuscate by pretending that the question of which configuration of laws should be observed can be expressed in the form of whether there should exist (certain categories of) such laws, or substitute the phantasm of a natural realm, autonomous and self-sustaining, for the inevitable complexities and contingencies of actual economic practice. The former sort of rhetorical confusion engenders a confused and opaque political discourse, in which terms and concepts no longer possess stable meanings; the latter confusion is simply that of ideology proper.
In either case, the animating ideal, in the one case muddled, and in the other clearly expressed, is that of the self-regulatory capacities of market functions, a notion derived from the economic ideal of equilibrium, according to which markets rapidly correct for imbalances between supply and demand, minimizing the incidence and severity of economic downturns. It is imperative that it be recognized that equilibrium is merely an ideal, presupposing conditions which are impossible of realization, such as large numbers of small firms competing in an integrated market (ie., one with no purely regional players, locally dominant firms, etc.) bereft of 'friction', perfect information and the dissemination thereof, wholly rational (ie., "Utility-maximizing") actors, and so forth. Difficulties arise when it is imagined that the ideal can be incarnated, and when particular rule-sets, which may be radically flawed, are mistakenly perceived to be, or cynically presented as, a natural state of affairs. The related notions of a self-regulating market order and spontaneous order contain large elements of truth; it is merely the case that such orderly checking and balancing only occur within the framework of a wisely articulated and prudentially enforced and elaborated legal regime. Otherwise, the notion of ineffably wise and judicious, self-regulating, spontaneously orderly markets is mere cant. Knowledge is imperfect, men are irrational, and externalities always intrude; men are finite and fallible.
The potency of the fantasy, however, which has imparted an obscurantist colouration to our politics over the past generation, lies in its aforementioned ideological quality: the ideal of self-regulation implies the absence or superfluity of regulation correlated to concrete, contingent circumstances - something valid universally. Moreover, something valid universally obviates the necessity of prudential judgment, the ongoing balancing of ends and means in a matrix of inherited traditions and practices, and normative discourses. The distillation of ideology is the negation of prudence. There is always one answer. Reality always obtrudes upon such reveries, as it has in the current financial shakeout.
Second, seen under the aspect of ideology, the highly abstract, disincarnate nature of these exotic instruments and processes - essentially, symbolic manipulations which, by the alchemy of the age, high finance, are convertible with tangible realities - is representative of one of the general tendencies, or modes of thought, of Western modernity. Abstract symbolic functions are to some degree confused with the actual, substantial realities of the economic life of a nation, and eventually come to dominate that life, and that reality no longer possesses an independent integrity, but exists to serve the abstractions; reality gradually develops a tropism towards speculative vehicles divorced from concrete facts. These abstract symbolic functions are also the province of a coterie of mystagogues, governed by laws and relationships so arcane and abstruse as to place them behind the logic of ordinary market forces (Which is why some critics and regulators have spoken of "assigning" market valuations to them, to the end that some order might be brought out of chaos. But market valuations are not assigned at all.): a concatenation of abstractions predicated, ultimately, not on the nominal backing - bundled mortgage paper, for example - but in a fantasy of a finite infinity, the occult magic whereby ostensibly finite quantities can be multiplied almost indefinitely (yielding $500 trillion worth of paper predicated upon a small fraction of $60 trillion worth of real GDP). This is modernity's secular parody of the creatio ex nihilo.
Exhibit B in that migration of the ideological fever should be the transmogrification of evolutionary theory from a set of empirically-grounded and testable hypotheses to a sort of timeless, eternally valid set of precepts, applicable to anything whatsoever:
So it is that, in the field of evolutionary studies, we now find strange séances in high-tech laboratories where biologists, bent over their computerized abstractions, struggle to bring them alive as mutating, replicating, evolving organisms.
The scientists engaged in this occult-sounding project begin with a simple array of numbers—a data structure—where each number represents a low-level computer instruction. Perhaps, to begin with, the combined instructions don't do anything sensible other than to direct the computer to replicate the entire data structure. However, you can arrange the supporting software so that every so often a "mutation" occurs, resulting, for example, in an altered, added, or deleted instruction. This might destroy the possibility for replication, but if you start with a considerable number of these data structures, an occasional mutation might yield a non-destructive new capability. For example, a mutated element in a data array might happen to be the computer's instruction for performing a primitive logical operation, or, in combination with other, already present instructions, it might manage a more complex logical operation. Conceivably, a large number of such mutations could eventually produce a data structure capable of directing the computer to calculate the sum of any two supplied numbers, a feat that (depending on the computer) might require thirty-five or more instructions in a given sequence.
If you are like many scientists working in computational biology, you will be inclined to regard such data structures, along with the associated bits of programming, as "digital organisms"—organisms that, under the right software conditions, can be said to "reproduce," "evolve," and become "fitter." Each data structure, with its array of computer instructions, can be thought of as a "genome." When mutations produce a new logical capability, the software "rewards" the organism with more opportunities to execute its instructions and to reproduce, whereas mutations that compromise its logical capabilities reduce those opportunities. The organism thus has a "metabolism": it gains "energy" in the form of computer processing time whenever it is successful at logically processing numbers ("food") received from its software environment and returning the numerical products of this activity back to the environment. This means that the more logically capable organisms tend to proliferate and are encouraged along their evolutionary path toward ever more sophisticated arithmetic prowess. (Steve Talbott, from Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery, in The New Atlantis.)
At which point I will note simply that Talbott's essay is not to me missed, and that his takedowns of Per Bak and Daniel Dennett occasion much hilarity. Despite the disparate natures of the phenomena, both the black box economy, and quantitative, utilitarian economics generally, and the field of computational biology are manifestations of the distemper, namely, the ideological deformation of or discourses, which leads us to prefer our fantastical constructions and speculations - the ideas of things - to the things themselves. In the one, wealth that doesn't really exist reproduces itself indefinitely, and can convert itself into tangible things, and can even throw the world of tangible things into chaos and old night, while in the other, non-organisms reproduce and evolve as though they were organisms, and are thought equally as real, or perhaps more real still, than actual organisms - all because they express more 'purely' the eternal 'logic' of evolution. Such a preference for fantasy and illusion over reality is a sacrament of endarkenment.


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Why uberVU being acquired by HootSuite is good news for romanian startup community (for real)
Yes, I know everybody is very proud that a fellow romanian just sold his business and become millionaire in the process. Just like in gymnastics. And in football some very long time ago.
But beside the bitter-sweet celebration and buzz in the press and community, this really mean something important.
Because this is how the first wave of romanian angel investors are starting to appear. And I mean the first real angel investors - with know-how and networking that could really help romanian startups to grow world-wide (think super-heroes but with startup superpowers :).
I think this is the last important missing link for the romanian startup community to became internationally relevant. And yes, it's starting to happen right now. It will not be this year, or the next, but maybe in 4 or 5 years we'll be getting there.
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Gemma Shepherd: The English Knitter With a Graphic Eye
Gemma Shepherd, the mind and hands behind her eponymous label, Shepherd England, never really expected to fall into the world of knitting. "I wasn't very good at hand-knitting," she says, noting that, in fact, "it was hilarious how bad I was." But with an art school background in graphic design and photography, she's long been interested in capturing and creating new patterns.
That's why she launched her U.K.-based label in 2005; since then, it's garnered a small following for a vibrant and simple, but striking, collection of lambswool knit scarves and buttery leather-and-wool gloves. If anything, all of her eye-catching, handmade products — whether the zigzag called "Flash," or one called "Empire," which pays homage to New York's iconic building — show zero hint of any knitting shortcomings. Below, she explains her late-in-life knitting education, the value of heirlooms in a woman's life, and more.
Where did the idea to start your own knitwear company come from?
I left art school where I did graphic design, and I specialized in photography so I carried on doing that for a couple of years but it wasn't really moving anywhere for me. One day, I felt I wanted to try something different. I wanted to start making things again, because I really loved being in the dark room and going through that kind of process. I thought: You know what? I'm going to teach myself how to use a knitting machine. And it just started from there.
What specifically about knitting were you attracted to?
Aside from the actual knitting process is the actual designing, the making of these really nice graphic patterns, which was most intriguing to me and that's kind of how it began. Through a friend, I got introduced to Sid Bryan. He's one of the Sibling crew. At the time, he was doing stuff for McQueen and he needed an assistant for a few weeks before Fashion Week, so I got to do that. Certainly I was on the sharp end of the wedge. He taught me some really cool stuff, and then Shepherd England was born.
Tell us about your production technique, how are your products made?
I've got a studio at my mum's farm. When my dad died we had to sell the animals, but another guy farms all the land. So it's still got that really rural, lovely kind of feel about it with the animals. It's in Kent, south of London. We converted one of the small barns into a studio for me, so I work from there. It's all really homespun. Hopefully it doesn't look too homespun, but that's what it is at the moment. We're tiny but slowly branching out. I'm getting more and more recognized; it's exciting.
What's the balance between functionality and a statement piece?
They have to be functional, otherwise there's no point. I don't make stuff that's so out there that only a couple of people want to wear it. I want everyone to be able to wear it. You know, my mum is 74 and she loves wearing them. That's really cool, and then some hipster wears them as well. That's important to me. I want something interesting.
All your products are made of 100 percent Geelong wool. What separates it from other wools?
Geelong is in Australia. It's this very fine merino lambswool, and it's so incredibly soft; it's really versatile, it holds color really beautifully. You can have it quite thick and chunky and it's still just as soft and beautiful as if it was super-super-fine cashmere weight.
They sound like heirloom pieces.
God, that would be amazing. They're the kind of thing I want people to keep forever. Actually, I'm hoping to move into homewares, because I want that kind of thing where you pick a piece to keep in your home. As opposed to a fashion piece — which, whether you like it or not, always has a sense that you can chuck it away at the end of the season — I want things that you can keep hold of.
For U.S. consumers, the scarves and gloves are available on her website.


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On Tuesday, 10/16/12, an earthquake hit the Northeast. The epicenter was in southeast Maine, but the effects of the 4.0 magnitude earthquake were felt into Massachusetts and Connecticut. Fortunately, the damage from the earthquake was minor, but it begs the question: "is earthquake insurance now a necessity?".
Many reports show that the east coast could not sustain a high magnitude earthquake do to the age of the buildings. Experts say that many buildings on the east coast were built – unlike the west coast – with un-reinforced brick, stone or masonry, which could not withstand a high magnitude earthquake. Such an event would be devastating, especially in urban areas with high concentration of masonry. Places like Back Bay, Boston come to mind as areas that could be at risk.
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Beyoncé wore Mary Katrantzou for the single "Water" featuring Pharrell Williams and Salatiel, in her latest visual album "Black is King", styled by Zerina Akers.
The piece was inspired by electric lightning storms and the painterly colours in the sky after rain. A mix between sunrise and sunset.
The dress is a tech-organza base, selected for its high iridescence and intense shine, printed with a multicolour "rave cloud" which has merging colours of fuchsia, peach, citrus, ocean blue and sea green. Hundreds of laser-cut oyster ruffles are then tulle bound by hand in correlating colours, amounting to around 500 meters. These are hand tucked into place to create the perfect form of sculpted ruffles. The ruffles are print placed to make the dress bleed from colour to colour across the body.


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As I contemplated the approaching new year and the beginning of a new decade, thoughts of what goals I might attach to this significant moment bounced around in my mind. A few years ago I tried something new for 30 days throughout the year. The experience was entertaining and enlightening. But not wanting to repeat that scenario I toyed with the idea of twenty of something. Read twenty books (a pathetically wimpy goal, I admit). Or maybe go twenty new places, etc. Perhaps these goals would provide some structure and direction to my year but they seemed predictable and not especially inspiring.
As I mulled over these potential ambitions, the notion of choosing 20 verbs to guide, inspire, and mold this notable upcoming year took shape. As I considered which verbs I would designate as my verbs more and more possibilities popped up. I realized a single verb offered a number of possibilities:
reduce-my carbon footprint, my screen time, my waistline
try-bungee jumping (HIGHLY unlikely), a new food, to be on time
watch-a play, the sunrise, dogs playing in the yard
write-more blog posts, a letter, journal entries
The idea blossomed and I began talking to others about which verbs I could choose and how that would play out. I urged them to tell me what their verbs would be. My husband was initially a tad skeptical about yet another of my weird ideas. But he seemed to begin to warm up to the idea as we tossed out potential verbs and how we could add dimension to our year as we used them to inspire us.
I am viewing this scheme not as an edict that must be accomplished but rather as a framework to enliven the coming months and spark some inspiration.
My twenty verbs are written on twenty separate pages in this little notebook.
As the year unfolds I plan to enter notes to record what I'm anticipating will be 20 entries per verb. But checking off experiences or listing a litany of entries is truly not the focus of this adventure. If keeping these verbs in mind as the months go by helps me to add substance, adventure, and focus to my year I will absolutely consider this concept a success.
Here are the verbs I have chosen for 2020.
What verbs would you choose?
If you choose to give this a whirl I would love to hear about your experiences.
Happy New Year and best wishes for a year filled with contentment, adventure, and peace.


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On Tuesday, members of the AFSCME and UNITE-HERE stormed New Haven's City Hall to protest. Here is the video (story below):
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"We want a fair contract!" city workers called up to Mayor John DeStefano's window.
The mayor's reply: Maintaining workers' current benefits will "bankrupt taxpayers."
That argument became public Tuesday, as at least 250 union workers stormed City Hall for a face-to-face confrontation with the mayor. The workers marched to the Green from the High School in the Community, shouted chants outside DeStefano's window, then met him for a chaotic conversation from the banister overlooking the main staircase from the first to second floors of City Hall.
At issue is the city's quest for cutbacks in health and pension benefits in new labor contracts. Declaring that a "ruthless" City Hall has a awakened a "sleeping giant," union leaders decried what they called bad faith in negotiations and vowed not to force working families to give back in tough times. The mayor said the city can no longer afford to offer some benefits far superior to those in the private sector, at least not without raising taxes.
In the past five years, rising health care and pension costs amounted to a $36 million increase in the city budget, which was about 40 percent of the budget increase during those years, according to the mayor's office.
The costs keep going up, the mayor said, and are leaving the city hurtling toward an $82 million budget hole in five years, according to one draft report.
The mayor said the city's health care and pension plans are "far more generous" than the private sector.
It is curious to think that union bosses are actually puzzled about why they no longer have public support.
Read more @ New Haven Independent.
"I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes." Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
For more news and views on today's unions, go to LaborUnionReport.com.


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Web hosting trouble ticket systems allow hosting companies and clients to exchange information in a secure environment. They can also be extremely frustrating for both the web host and the customer. Trouble tickets are easy enough to file, but unless you're doing it right, you're probably waiting longer than necessary for a resolution. Want to get your web hosting trouble tickets answered in one email? These tips will greatly increase your odds.
Many hosts put up a server status page that shows clients whether their web hosting server is online or off. Other hosts have user forums on which they detail current technically difficulties, and give clients the latest information about what's going on. Know how your host communicates with clients and look to these areas first! Also, check to make sure your website is really down.
It's tough not to be frustrated when your website is offline and you have no idea how your web host is working to resolve the problem. Even so, it's important to practice good trouble ticket etiquette. Leave your frustration at the door when filing your ticket, calmly explaining the problem as succinctly as you can. While you may have one website that's offline, remember that your host has thousands, and they're just as up in arms as you are.
We've all seen emails and forums posts that look like a giant wall of text. Trouble tickets that are devoid of punctuation, proper spacing or that drone on and on will appear like a giant wall of text to web hosting techs, and your ticket may get pushed aside for a time so they can deal with the easier to address questions.
Bombarding your web hosting company with ten questions you've been meaning to ask them all at once, especially when they're dealing with an emergency, will slow down response time. If you have an emergency, like a website that's offline, inquire about that one issue only. Once that problem has been straightened out, you can go back and create a non-emergency ticket asking your other questions.
Using a few common sense guidelines will help you and your host communicate more quickly and efficiently.
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Jun 26, 2010
Mama's Sweet Red Bean Soup
Red beans
Granulated sugar
Sea salt
Heavy whipping cream or whole milk (if desired)
The quality of the ingredients is crucial since this is such a simple recipe,
This is especially true regarding the choice of red beans.
Try to use organic red beans,
Pick the type that looks "full," or "plumped."
If the beans are not sealed in a bag, smell it first,
Superior red beans come with an elegant sweet fragrance that you can't get from the regular kinds,
Trust me, you'll know when you smell one.
I didn't include the quantity/measurement in the recipe,
It's all up to you,
Some people like it dry; some like it soupy.
Here's how you make this Asian dessert,
First, pick out damaged red beans (broken, chipped, etc),
Rinse under cold water and pick out the ones floating on top of the water,
Afterwards, soak the beans with filtered water for a minimum of 2 hours,
My mom soaked it for 4 hours.
Once the soaking process is done, drain out the water,
Transfer the beans to a pressure cooker,
Pour in more filtered water,
The ratio between the beans and water can be somewhere from 1:3 to 1:5, depending on your preference.
Sprinkle about 1 teaspoon of sea salt,
Set the timer to 4 minutes, leave the rest to the pressure cooker.
Once it's done, add in granulated sugar till desired sweetness level.
Some people cook the beans without a pressure cooker,
That's doable, but can take hours to do so.
You can enjoy the red bean soup the way it is,
Some pour 1 to 2 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream on top of it,
Or you can try what my dad always does,
He prefers thicker red bean soup (almost no more liquid),
He'll scoop the beans in a medium sized bowl and pour whole milk to replace the liquid part,
Be creative and see what you like the most!
Cindy's Rating: 8
9 comments:
- AnonymousJune 26, 2010 at 12:59 PM
o yea~ReplyDelete
red bean soup, i like!
i get like bubba in forest gump contemplating about the varitions of red bean dishes.
To A Funky Place~ReplyDelete
Ha I remember watching that movie for so many times when I was back in high school!
- AnonymousJune 27, 2010 at 5:51 AM
:) that makes me feel good mumbelin about myselfReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM
My dad luuurved cooking beans, just green instead of red. Good times and great memories either way.ReplyDelete
Yummy! Those red beans look pretty. :) Very light red. I always seem to get this soup when I visit Chinese restaurants these days...they don't do tapioca much anymore.ReplyDelete
Milk with red bean soup: interesting! I should try that next time.
To sinosoul~ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comment! Red bean/green bean soup does bring out childhood memories!
To Eat Travel Eat~
My dad loves milk with red bean soup, remember to use whole milk!
I enjoy red bean soup that has been cooked till the soup already turned almost mushy of disintegrated red beans....maybe that is what I grew up with. ;pReplyDelete
To Tigerfish~ReplyDelete
Yeah, everyone has their own way of eating red bean soup, just like oreo cookies! I always open it and lick the cream part first!
Pretty much the same here too. :) That's also how most restaurants in my area serve it as.


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by Bob - WB6IXN
5/5/1999 10m Phone Net - Well done, OPs!...Great check-in! W6ZE/AF6C checks in RND, LDC, VDP, JD, LEX, IXN, WOX, KC6CVW (Jim), and HHC. AF6C misses the Club bfast...The Company loses a microwave link. And Bob says NOT has been called to serve in the Balkans conflict. RND misses the Club bfast...John works the sparsely populated 10-10 QSO Party! And John sees Docs soon abt a vision problem. LDC tells OPs that Dennis (formerly VFC), now in Arkansas, was right in the path of the OK/KS killer tornadoes! And Larry wonders if Cindy, OPI, might hve been called to the disaster scenes in the midwest! VDP says Dennis' mom lives in Wichita, one of the disaster scenes! And VDP handles disposition of RE's ham gear. Larry also uses his refurbished Kenwood 430 tonite, wid vy slight audio distortion. VDP also announces the VE test schedule at Cerritos fer this weekend. IXN, hearing all OPs well tonite, reports the 3.4 event in Yucca Valley last eve. IXN tnx JD fer the updated Club roster which is nw in the Club History. And Lowell tells OPs abt schooling in Norman, OK, when he was in the Service. LEX is off on business in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama, then to Detroit, and maybe, the Dayton Hamvention!! WOX works the 10-10 Contest, too, & wid the same results as RND experienced! CVW was working DX mobile from Mts. Laguna & Palomar all day. Nw Bob is working us mobile frm Miles Square Park before heading bk to the QTH in Newport/Balboa. HHC tells CVW to check out the Club website, and Ken tells OPs that the Club roster is nw on the web page!
5/5/1999 2m Phone Net - Gud check-in on 2m tonite!...W6ZE/IXN checks in VDP, TWA, SMY, TRA, GIX, LEX, BWH, and KFW. VDP cudn't hear TRA, and IXN said Gene was way dwn in the QRN! TRA was working wid a new ant! And VDP tries to coax Alex to hve a yard sale before he leaves the QTH. Jim, WA6GIX, `flies in and flies out'. TWA misses Club meeting, as Charles has been `under the WX' fer awhile. But wid summer on the way, TWA's health improves! Charles gets OC Fair info. frm BWH & IXN. SMY is presently unemployed, and Stephanie says that FCC is cleaning up the 435 machine! LEX & IXN discuss the making of transmission and engine parts fer Japanese-made autos. BWH, reporting in frm a Red Cross Communications Team meeting, tells OPs that they might hve a chance to procure a Red Cross Card by attending a 2-day re-credentialing event tentatively scheduled fer July 31-Aug 1. And Bob airs Newsline...And the FCC has eliminated the landline fer Ham call-ins on rules violations...Send complaints to: firstname.lastname@example.com. KFW checks in after Net, and Chris asks VDP abt taking the code test fer the Extra ticket at the VE session this weekend.
5/12/1999 10m Phone Net - W6ZE/AF6C checks in LDC, JD, KF6JVI, WOX, IXN, VPP, TWA, VDP, and BWH. All OPs experience high noise level at Net's beginning, wid much improvement later. LDC tells IXN abt a group offering tours of the San Andreas fault, and Larry installs a mud flap on the motor home. And this summer, Larry and the XYL will vacation at numerous lighthouses arnd the country, where Larry will try sum 2m `lighthouse DX'! JVI, Bruce, in Irvine, joins us wid weak sigs, although JD says Bruce's sigs were vy strong later, and AF6C acknowledges a call frm JD at work before noon. And, Lowell now contemplates joining the Oranges RACES group. WOX cudn't copy JVI in the QRN, and, WOX helped out at the VE session last Sat. JVI inquires abt the 2m Net, and exchanges his 10-10 number fer W6ZE's 10-10 number. VPP tackles repairing a leaking air compressor wid polyester resin, finds re-programming the Kantronics APERS unit perplexing, and inquires abt frequencies used by Red Cross Communications. When the noise level suddenly drops, TWA hears all OPs `as clear as a bell'! IXN notes that LDC's audio sounds better when Larry is a 'lil away frm the mike. And VDP's audio is also better fer the same reason. And AF6C mentions the book `Earthquake Country' by Robert Iacopi, which is still in print. BWH has vy gud sigs tonite, wid crisp audio, frm the QTH.
5/12/1999 2m Phone Net - W6ZE/IXN checks in KFW, VPP, BWH, VDP, PFA, HHC, ZH, and UBK. KFW works on a backyard shed, putting in a new floor and re-painting the structure. And Chris passes the code portion of the Extra class license at last Sat.'s VE session! BWH tells VPP that the Red Cross freqs. are in the minutes fer Red Cross Communications. Then BWH airs Newsline #1134, wid changes coming fer the 70cm band, allowing fer more repeater pairs. VDP tells OPs that backing off frm the electret mike on the HF rig improved his audio sigs on 10m. And Larry reminded OPs that Sat. is Armed Forces Day, so take sum time to work the remaining open bases! HHC checks in after attending a BD party. Ken tells OPs abt a happy family gathering at a Chinese restaurant, an upcoming visit to a Van Gogh museum display, and, helping his harmonic move frm Corona to Placentia! ZH says we still hve a couple of options in the works fer FD, but no FD site is sealed in concrete yet. And Chris says he is now living in an Apt. on Cabrillo Dr. in SA near 17th St. & the 55 Fwy. ZH's home phone is (714) 542-1758. Chris hopes to be on the air soon at the new QTH! UBK has his J-pole mounted on a balcony at the new QTH apt. near Lincoln & West in Anaheim. Presently on 2m & 220, Del doesn't hve the Hammerlund ready yet to listen to the 10m Net.
5/19 10m Phone Net - THE DX NET!...W6ZE/AF6C checks in P29DO frm Papua, New Guinea, and KF4GLE & KF4GYI, Lionel & Oscar, frm N. Charleston, SC., and W4BIG, who `flew in' and faded away in the QRN! Bob also checked in JD, KF6EUO (Earl, in GG), IXN, WOX, LEX, TWA, HHC, and VDP. JD hears P29DO on 10m a 'lil earlier, and Lowell tells OPs the 10m band was open last weekend, too. BIG fades away wid no return! WOX chats wid GYI & EUO, and IXN copies weak skip sigs frm Art tonite. IXN & ZE discuss the 5.6 Event near Mammoth Lakes, and LEX gives a rundown of the Dayton Hamvention...Plan on 2 days visit to see the whole thing! AF6C tells JD abt a party held fer a couple of employees, and TWA and OPs all get their `RFs', plus Charles also gets plenty of golf balls in the yard frm the nearby golf course! HHC checks in later, lamenting missing the earlier `goody DX'! And Ken forwards LO's new E-mail adr. to JD. VDP talks wid Ron Toering, TEZ's brother, who lives in Perris. And Larry gives RE's new adr: the Tustin Royal, 1262 Bryan Ave., Tustin, 92780!
5/19 2m Phone Net - W6ZE/IXN checks in ZH, VDP, KFW, TRA, HHC, BWH/m, EUO, TWA, UCH, and VPP...Gud check-in, OPs! ZH says no FD site has been confirmed as yet, and Chris has 5/9 sigs at IXN's QTH after he switches to the vertical ant.! Also ZH will speak at Club meeting Fri. eve., on `meeting RF guidelines'. VDP says RE's two daughters will hold a garage sale at the QTH this Sat. BWH says he suspects the CD ROM to be the culprit in his ailing computer at home. And Bob airs Newsline #1135 frm the QTH...and, Newsline says the FCC document on amateur radio restructuring will probably be ready this summer! KFW is still revamping the backyard tool shed, and gives ZH a 5/9 on the switch to the vertical ant. TRA, nw on a j-pole in the front yard, tells OPs he's hving truble loading his new GP-15 Comet ant.! HHC's mom just arrived frm Pittsburgh, PA. today on U.S. Air. TWA, IXN, and UCH discuss 5 hot springs in the High Sierra which UCH recently visited, in the Lake Crawley-Bridgeport area. And TWA contacts 5 Finland stations near the end of April! And VPP gets the Packet Gold & APERS programs working agn.
5/26 10m Phone Net - W6ZE/AF6C checks in LDC, JD, VDP, RND, IXN, YCJ, HHC, WOX, and YY. Band condx are vy bad tonite! LDC prepares fer vacation as Larry thinks abt taking the boat out to June Lake. And LDC asks abt a FD site. JD says PA and ZH hve been checking out possible sites, wid an alternate site in Yucca Valley offered by BWH. VDP helps RE's harmonics get ready fer a garage sale this weekend, and Larry wants to work the World-wide DX Contest this weekend. RND is dwn in the QRN at IXN's QTH, and John enjoys the Baker-to-Vegas writeup , by LDC, in `RF'. YCJ needs instructions on hw to program a new Motorola rig frm the keyboard! Ken also enjoyed the Dayton Hamvention and he looks forward to retirement in abt 15 yrs! And AF6C passes along ARRL Convention dates on the Queen Mary of Oct. 1, 2, and 3, 1999, to YCJ. AF6C confirms Hy-Gain move to Mississippi, and IXN reports on-going earthquake activity near Mammoth Lakes. And HHC inquires abt Earl, EUO, in GG, who is working on his General ticket. WOX' harmonic will graduate frm Jr. Hi., and Art has planned a family dinner out. YY is dwn in the mud at IXN's QTH!
5/26 2m Phone Net - W6ZE/IXN checks in ZH, YY, LDC, VDP, TRA, HHC, TWA, and BWH. ZH, home wid strep-throat, penicillin, and bedrest, says he must turn over FD site-finding chores to others! Also, Chris says he has run into a `brick wall' wid Tustin officials on possible FD sites! YY tnx ZH fer the Quad ant. Chris gave him...He used it on a recent camping trip near Daggett! YY cudn't hear IXN on 10m either. Now Barry is using a super J-pole wid 3 half-wave sections on 2m tonite. Both TVS & LDC will be on sabbaticals this summer, and both work at Long Beach City College! LDC uses his HT, working into a j-pole on 2m this evening, and Larry suggests Lakes Piru, Skinner, etc., as possible FD sites, where we cud reserve a campground. One wud hve to contact Riverside Parks & Recreation at 1-800-234-7275 fer further info. We thank TRA fer supplying the above landline number! And TRA took apart the non-oprative Comet GP-15 and found 2 burned out coils!...Hving replaced the coils, Gene has FB sigs on the band tonite! VDP thinks RE still has an HT fer 2m, and Larry says RE's adr. is 1262 Brian in Tustin, not far frm UCH's music store! HHC says Los Alamitos Air Base has much open space that wud make a nice FD site, and Ken says he & AF6C hve been repairing the FD generator, replacing a lost muffler. TWA sports 2-inch diameter tomatoes on his vines at present, and Charles awaits QSL cards frm European contacts made on Mar. 27 & 28. And BWH airs Newsline #1136, wid Bruce, K6PZW, a Super System member, at the mike!
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A Typical School Day
"On my first day at Integrated College Glengormley I was nervous because it was a new school and I only knew a few people. I didn't know any of the teachers and I also wasn't used to wearing a blazer and a tie.
Every day starts with morning registration in your Form class, and from 8:45-9:00am. Our teachers would come to our Form class depending on what subjects we had. But if we have Technology, Art, Science, HE or PE we go out to the department. Every day is made up of periods that last 53 minutes. It is always two periods then break time, then another two periods until lunch time. There are two more periods after lunch to finish up the day, except for Mondays and Fridays when we only have 5 periods in the day.
Break time is fifteen minutes and there is a whole playground just for Year 8 pupils! Lunch time is thirty five minutes and you go to the canteen to get your lunch. You can buy lunch, or if you have a packed lunch, you can just sit at the tables or outside on the benches. Then you have the option of playing games in the Year 8 playground or you can just talk with your friends. I like playing football with my mates.
The school is in the process of becoming fully integrated, which means Protestants, Catholics and people of other religions will all be welcome. I have been asked, along with others, to represent Year 8 in the meetings that discuss and plan how we will change the school, which has been really exciting.
You can earn achievements by having high attendance, and positive points. There is also tracking tests that monitors how well you are doing in all your subjects. I'm really pleased that mine have all gone well! I really love it in GHS and I think you will too!"


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/EINPresswire.com/ Washington, January 4, 2013 /EIN News/ EIN News, a leading media monitoring company, has added a new section to its Banking Industry Today website:
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I know kdb is a in-memory database. my dataset is over two terabytes in size. However my RAM is limited to 32GB. How will this work?
Like any computer process, the maximum amount of data loaded into memory is limited by the real physical memory addressable by your process. On a 32-bit server, this can be little as 2GB. On a 64-bit server, 64TB is possible as of this writing, and that limit will continue to increase in the future.
However, with memory mapped tables, the size of your table can theoretically be as large as your disk (assuming it does not exceed the kdb limitations{.}). As long as the operations you perform on your database don't require more than your RAM can handle at once, you'll be fine. That's how kdb has been handling multi-terabyte databases for years.


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Just as we provide premier quality service to our customers and independent agent partners, we dedicate an equal level commitment to enhancing the lives of our colleagues and members of our surrounding communities.
A Day in the Life
As an insurance company, we are people-focused in every regard. Here's a window into our daily life at Merchants Insurance Group! This short video was filmed at our corporate office in Buffalo, NY.
Diversity at Merchants
Fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to our values of integrity, respect, loyalty, teamwork, and aspiration to improve. We embrace our colleagues' unique backgrounds and cultures, and implement various initiatives to continuously strengthen diversity within our community.
Merchants Insurance Group is committed to diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Philanthropy at Merchants
We take the welfare of our local communities seriously. We frequently and consistently give back through corporate donations, colleague fundraisers, and volunteering.
Wellness at Merchants
The health of our colleagues is always a priority. We take our dedication to wellness even further than our comprehensive coverage options.


text: It was finally time to head south! We'd been hoping and assuming we could get the RV out, since we built the barn a bit close. When we return, it'll be back a little ways, but when building it, we needed it to be pretty close because of the lay of the land, pipes, etc. But Allen had no trouble at all!


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The Mobile World Congress is the largest, most comprehensive conference/expo in the world, focusing on mobile technology, content and business. It takes place in Barcelona in February. It's also incredibly useful, entirely different to the games events you may have been to and is located in one of the most astonishing exhibition venues in the world.
Think E3, but with suits, more money and a great deal less noise.
If you are creating, or considering creating content for mobile, you should be there. Scottish Development International has had a Scottish presence at the event for several years now. For 2013 the organisation is looking for companies interested in attending and exhibiting at the event.
Participating companies can access the following package for £420:
- Access to GSMA Mobile World Congress 2013
- Company presence on the stand with company logo and literature prominently displayed
- Automatic inclusion in Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) Brokerage event
- Bookable stand meeting room, plus use of touch down and soft seating area
- Inclusion in promotional marketing brochure
- Whisky Tasting Networking Reception
- Video profile of your company at the show
There are also several other partnership opportunities available via Interactive Scotland and the GlobalScot network.
To register for this event contact:
Catherineanne Caddle – Tel: 0141 228 2572 no later than 23th November 2012
Places are limited so register as soon asap in order to avoid disappointment.


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Through most of human history, the forest, beaches and rivers – they were the foundation, timeless and essential. They were there. Nothing was more real.
That was before two-thirds of the world's flowing fresh water had been dammed on its way to the sea.1 That was before beachfront resort development was named an "international megatrend."2 It was before clear-cut logging razed whole forests to the ground and mountaintop removal mining removed whole mountains. It was before 83 percent of the planet was affected by a "direct human footprint."3
We live in what many scientists now call the Anthropocene, the Human Age. Past epochs have been marked by ice age glaciers or collisions with wayward meteorites, but the extraordinary geological force of our times is us, that rascally species known as Homo sapiens. We book climate-altering transcontinental flights in the name of ecotourism, dig up whole landscapes for the rare earth elements that run our smart phones, and feed 10 percent of the world's forage fish catch—anchovies, mackerel, smelt—to our pet cats.4 We are the makers and breakers of the world. That's just how we roll.
Today, the landscapes where we live out our adventures may be there one day and gone the next. It is up to us, an outcome of human decisions. A mountain is a choice. A river is a choice. You get the picture.
And yet, it has become fashionable to pooh-pooh protest movements. Waving signs and shouting slogans has come to seem somehow obsolete, utterly lacking in the postmodern awareness that our beliefs at any moment are, as the intellectual French economist Thomas Piketty would say, "a social construct in perpetual evolution." Real, feet-in-the-street engagement seems almost pre-digital in its lack of cool, as though the decision to stake your visible, flesh-and-blood self to a cause is a form of blindness to the virtual networks our minds are now adrift in. With a simple Google search we can always assure ourselves that there is another way—and another, and another—of looking at every issue. "Protest never changes anything." Or so the story goes.
Let's take a look, then, at a map. It's a map of British Columbia, mountains and valleys, the Pacific coast like an unfinished jigsaw puzzle…I can't do better than to borrow from native-son writer Terry Glavin, who calls it "this ragged place." B.C. is one of the world's great adventure playgrounds, attracting explorers and fun hogs and weekend warriors. I live here, too, and this week alone I have plans to mountain bike the legendary North Shore, rock climb the legendary Squamish Chief, and canoe a lake that isn't legendary, though maybe it should be.
But back to the map. Scattered across its surface we see the green polygons that mark parks and other protected areas. Nearly 16 percent of B.C. is preserved from industrial development, more than any other Canadian province.5 If B.C.'s parks were lumped together in a single mass, they would form an area larger than such entire U.S. states as New York, Iowa, and Georgia.


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According to the Independent, Arsenal and their London arch-rival Chelsea have pledged to donate funds raised from their FA Community Shield meeting in August to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.
As expected, the clash between the two giants will raise in the region of £1.25m, all of which will be shared among those affected by the fire incident.
Many families of victims and survivors will also attend the match as guests, along with the emergency service personnel who battled the fire in which 79 people are feared to have died.
Fans of both clubs will also have the opportunity to donate an optional £5 when they buy their tickets.
In a statement released on the Gunners website, Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis said: "With the rest of the nation, Arsenal Football Club was shocked by the incident at Grenfell Tower and our hearts go out to all those affected by this tragedy.
"The club stands side by side with Chelsea in reaching out to the community and expressing our support and solidarity for those who have lost friends and family, their homes and their sense of security in the wake of this tragic event.
"We also pay tribute to our city's emergency services who showed immense courage and bravery. We play the FA Community Shield on Sunday, August 6, with the victims and the heroes of this terrible tragedy close to our hearts."
Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck said: "It was with profound shock and sorrow we learnt of the tragedy that befell so many people in Kensington last week. Our thoughts are with the families and friends of those who lost their lives and our deepest sympathy goes out to anybody who may have suffered in any way due to the dreadful fire at Grenfell Tower."
The football season's traditional 'curtain raiser' has a long tradition of raising money for a variety of charity and community organizations. The fixture takes place at Wembley Stadium on Sunday 6 August and pits the Premier League champions, Chelsea, against the FA Cup winners, Arsenal.


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Volume: 18 | Back to issueSubscribe Now
column By: Lee Hoots | March, 20
From the dawn of time, hunting has largely been a social affair, and for most of us that hasn't changed. Beginning in the fall of 2015, Successful Hunter has shared success stories written by hunters whose names do not appear on our masthead listing of regular contributors. These new bylines, and the well-written stories of public land success that follow them have piqued a great deal of interest. There is a reason for this. Tales of antlered game adventure and success typed out by hunters one might bump into on a dirt road or on a high-country ridgeline on public ground during bow or rifle season are inspiring.
They are inspiring to all hunters. There is a certain satisfaction all hunters share when a friend (or stranger) is successful on his own time and own dime, and it matters little if the buck or bull (or whatever game) is of record book proportion. The satisfaction comes from the time and effort involved to achieve the outcome, be it a trophy or meat for the freezer.
What has caught my attention to a greater degree, however, has been to hear from a few long-time readers that the subtle change in content over the last few years has made Successful Hunter a more well-rounded magazine. To me, such subscriber-offered encouragement should not be ignored.
It is, after all, Wolfe Publishing's intent to provide a "well-rounded magazine" to inform or at least entertain as many readers as possible with every single issue. As a result of all this, we want more of your public land, big-game success stories to add to the mix of content. Even fair-chase guided hunts will be considered. The point is to share them with the whole of our readership.
Now for the good part: Successful Hunter is willing to pay for the best stories and photos – in other words, the most well-rounded submissions accepted will be followed by a paycheck upon publication! Successful Hunter is willing to provide more than a T-shirt and/or a pair of boots that some storyteller may or may not even want.
Any hunter who has experienced the best public land hunt of his or her life will be given consideration. Of course, not all stories can be published, but all will be considered. Details regarding the submittal of articles and photos can be found on our Facebook page, and on page 43 of this issue.


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If you're looking for a perfect weekend plan then this is it. Brunch, shopping, music, great company and fun at the K1 Flea Market Sunday. A chance to eat, sip and engage in some retail therapy at the Klubhouse located in Ojijo Road, Parklands.
The flea market happens every Sunday from 10am to 6pm. If you only pop into K1 for reggae nights this is your chance to actually check out the club by day. You'll love the ambiance, there is a hippie kinda vibe going on.
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THE CATCH: Their menu is very pocket-friendly, everything is between Sh100 to Sh950. This is the most affordable Sunday brunch in Nairobi.
There were quite a number of vendors selling their wares when I visited. From tote bags by Michael Soi, succulent plants from Migwi farm, turbans from afro fanatic, homemade chillies, clothes, jewellery etc. (Sadly my mem card got corrupted but at least I had a few images on my phone.)
Here goes my Sunday at K1 Flea Market in 10 photos
1. Me walking into K1 like….
Where the brunch at?
2. Just in case you haven't heard about us welcome to K1 Flea Market Sunday
3. We won't break your bank, we promise, and we can prove it……
The Sunday brunch prices right at the entrance.
4. Can you do something funky with the setup? You said…..
We listened, didn't we?
5. Did you know desturi means custom well you just got schooled at this stand
Oh well, you just got schooled at this desturi stand customizing shoes.
6. Us we love Nairobi….
Na kusema ukweli hii joto ni ya mvua
7. Are you a dapper man?
8. It's time to sip…
When you can't choose whether to have a sangria or yoghurt parfait so you choose both.
9.Then there was the teriyaki beef mshikaki with viazi karai and fried egg
10. "How do you like your eggs?" we asked
Well, say no more….
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Suppose Roma Nova, the last remnant of the old Roman Empire, had struggled through to now – a tough little country with tough, resourceful people?
– Apulius, a young tribune sent to a backwater in 370 AD for having the wrong religion, encounters the fiery Julia.
– What does his lonely descendant, Silvia, labouring in the 1980s to rebuild her country, make of the Italian architect supervising the reconstruction?
– Can imperial councillor Galla stop the Norman invasion of England in 1066?
– And will Allegra, her 21st century Praetorian descendant fighting her emotions, find her way to her own happy ending?
Plus four further stories of the people of Roma Nova
Readers of INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO, AURELIA, NEXUS, INSURRECTIO, RETALIO and CARINA will be familiar with many of the characters in these short stories. But if you are new to Roma Nova, enjoy these eight 'behind the scenes' short stories and perhaps feel curious about exploring the longer novels…


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Hi! I want to tell you about my study in Poland. 2 month ago I was thinking about studying abroad. I had many options: England, USA, Germany, Cyprus. But program Multikid gave me an opportunity to improve my English in Europe, especially in Poland. Now, I learn English and Polish languages at University of Euroregional Economy. And you know what? It's the best holidays in my life. Day by day my English is becoming good, I found here many friends and also I can travel to other countries in order to rich my knowledge world and to familiar with other cultures. University of Euroregional Economy (WSGE) has a great future, best teachers, who have best approaches to learn us and they also motivate us to think clearly about our future and make it best. We have a good conditions, we can feel the student friendly atmosphere in dormitory, that locate near university. And my best regards to the agency MultiKid, especially to Manzura Djuraeva, because she gave me such chance.


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Once boasted in Money magazine as "One of the Best Places to Live in America, Limo Service in Ridgewood New Jersey is also professionally serviced by family-owned Ultimate Party Bus and Limo.
New Jersey limo companies have extraordinary experience with all types of functions. Need a limo for clients? Spring prom being planned? Winter wedding coming up? Katie and Keith of Ultimate Party Bus and Limo consistently deliver a family tradition of reliable, safe and courteous service at all times.
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With the recent downturn in the United States unemployment rate, some individuals can take advantage of the H-1B visa, a three-year, non-immigrant visa for professional foreign workers operating in the United States.
Do you qualify for this specialized visa? A qualified immigration attorney can let you know for sure.
What is the H1B Visa?
The H-1B is designed for individuals in a specialty profession. A US employer must sponsor someone for an H-1B visa; employees cannot apply on their own, and must meet several key criteria for consideration.
The applicant must have Bachelor's or higher degree (or experience equivalent) that is relevant to his or her specialized occupation, and the employer must normally require a degree for the occupation. The degree must be equal to a US bachelor's degree in the United States.
Does declining unemployment improve opportunities?
The United States' unemployment rate currently stands at 7.9 percent according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the lowest rate in several years. When unemployment rates are relatively low, work-related visas like the H-1B become viable options for some workers, as hiring companies are more likely to go through the application process and pay the required fees for necessary labor.
The USCIS initially grants the H-1B visa for a period of three years, although approved applicants can extend their visas for another three years and can extend thereafter if they have filed for permanent residence in a qualified time period.
As more jobs open up and economy strengthens, the demand for skilled workers increases.
How many H1B Visas are issued?
Each fiscal year, the USCIS offers a limited number of H-1B visas. The federal government, in particular Congress, decides the cap based on financial numbers and indicators from the previous fiscal year. It takes an act of Congress to change the cap level.
For the 2013 fiscal year from October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013, the H-1B visa program has a general cap of 65,000 and an advanced degree cap of 20,000. When the USCIS reaches this cap, it cannot approve any visa applications until the next fiscal year. Employers can apply for H-1B visas six months before the scheduled start of a specialized occupation. There are several exceptions to the cap rule that can be investigated with the assistance of an immigration attorney, particularly in the healthcare and education industries.
Given the United States' declining unemployment rate, the H-1B visa is a viable option for individuals with specialized skills and college degrees. As with most visa opportunities and applications, an experienced Denver immigration can help you select the best option for you.
When Can One Apply?
With Colorado employers thinking about their labor force needs for 2013, one should keep in mind that the earlier one can file an H-1B for a foreign national the better chance of getting within the visa cap. The earliest a US employer can file for a start date of October 1, 2013 is April 1, 2013. It is anticiapted that the cap will be reached within a few months of April 1st due to the improvement in the economy over the past year.
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President Trump Tribute To Billy Graham Very Emotional
Trump pays tribute to Billy Graham at Capitol, Listen To The Message Here
It was an emotional tribute of our time, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid tribute to the Rev. Billy Graham on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol, where the evangelist leader's body lay in honor.
The ceremony was marked with great congressional leaders and government officials; Trump talked of Graham's achievements and his rise to prominence as a religious leader.
The president also reminisced about Graham's impact on him growing up and told a story of his father encouraging the family to attend an event at Yankee Stadium where the evangelist was speaking.
And I remember that, because my father said to me, 'Come on, Son,'" Trump said. "And by the way, he said, 'Come on, Mom, let's go see Billy Graham at Yankee Stadium.' And it was something very special." I still remember the event of that very day
President Trump Tribute To Billy Graham was quoted as the most emotional tribute
Trump stood with Vice President Mike Pence and the first lady, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) nearby. The president tapped Graham's coffin several times as he paid his respects for the man of God
The Rotunda was filled with several cabinet members and political leaders, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions Senate Minority and Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
The man we recognize today shared the Gospel with more people face to face than anyone else in history," McConnell said.
Graham, who met with 12 U.S. presidents during his career and counseled several of them, died in North Carolina last Tuesday at age 99.
He is the first religious leader and fourth private citizen to receive official recognition at the Capitol, the last being civil rights leader Rosa Parks in 2005.
Some observers questioned the appropriateness of the government's officially honoring an evangelical Christian, but Trump said that it fitted for Graham to receive the tribute.
The body of Rev. Billy Graham, who died last week at age 99, lies in the Capitol Rotunda.
The ceremony lasted about an hour. Graham's body will stay at the Capitol on Wednesday, with public visiting hours from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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March 22, 2017 – We're back with another sneak peek at one of the incredible Arenas coming to Quake Champions. This week, we're taking a look at Burial Chamber, a gothic and grim combat space with wicked lava pools, tight corridors, and treacherous open spaces, where no one is safe from enemy Rockets and Rails. Skill is required to traverse this Arena, lest you find yourself tumbling to a molten death. Get your first look at Burial Chamber in this new video.
About Burial Chamber
The bones of a massive beast decorate the entry to this massive tomb. Hazardous platforms at the Perilous Outcropping dot the sea of lava, providing an ideal sniping spot for those skilled enough and brave enough to make the leap. With its winding tunnels and low ceilings, the claustrophobic grave sites of the Molten Underground offer up the opportunity for heavier Champions to do some serious splash damage, while the Lava Falls could provide an excellent chokepoint for skilled tacticians. Just be careful to avoid being pushed into the lava, which is a prevalent threat throughout the map.
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Little Ways To Improve Your Marriage
Clearly, a few small actions won't fix deep relationship problems. But for most of us, a handful of simple day-to-day actions increase the likelihood our spouse feels we care deeply about them, instead of feeling we don't care. Research has shown a few, gender-specific actions have a huge impact on a couple's level of happiness. These little actions take on even more power when they matter to your individual spouse. In other words, you are very likely to communicate deep feelings for your spouse if you make a habit of doing the same five things consistently.
The Fantastic Five for Him
(What wives can do to have a big impact on her husband's happiness.)
- The wife notices his effort and sincerely thanks him for it (for example, she says, "Thank you for mowing the lawn even though it was so hot outside." or, "Thanks for playing with the kids, even when you were so tired from work."). This deeply pleases 72% of all men.
- The wife says, "You did a great job at __________." This deeply pleases 69%of all men.
- The wife mentions in front of others something he did well. This deeply pleases 72% of all men.
- The wife shows she desires him sexually and that he pleases her sexually. This deeply pleases 85% of all men.
- The wife makes it clear to him he makes her happy (for example, she expresses appreciation for something he did for her with a smile, words, a big hug, etc.). This deeply pleases 88% of all men.
The Fantastic Five for Her
(What husbands can do to have a big impact on his wife's happiness.)
- The husband takes her hand. This deeply pleases 82% of all women.
- The husband leaves her a message by voice mail, e-mail, or text during the day to say he loves her and is thinking about her. This deeply pleases 75% of all women.
- The husband puts his arm around her or lays his hand on her knee when they are sitting next to each other in public. This deeply pleases 74% of all women.
- The husband sincerely tells her, "You are beautiful." This deeply pleases 76% of all women.
- Instead of withdrawing, the husband pulls himself out of a funk when he's morose, grumpy, or upset about something. (This doesn't mean he doesn't get angry or need space; it means he tries to pull himself out of it.) This deeply pleases 72% of all women.
We all know small, thoughtful acts are not a magic cure-all for every marriage problem. But all of us can build an all-important foundation that helps us believe our mate notices and cares. As it turns out, believing the other person cares is far more important to building a happy marriage than most of us ever realized.
Adapted from Feldhahn, 2013, The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages.
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Nurturing Joy
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3 Small Things For Improving Your Marriage Podcast Episodes
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So, it's been a busy month! I finished Nano on the 29th (cheers!) which I was very happy with. It's been an interesting experience to say the least. On the positive side – well of course there's finishing! also meeting some lovely and very supportive people, I think realising that I probably do make too many excuses when it comes to writing – it's easy to be too busy, or not be in the mood, not feel inspired etc. but when you're forced to squeeze some time or to feel like you have to sit down and now it now, then it's surprising how much you can get done.
Saying that I have felt stressed and frazzled at parts and I don't think it's something that could be kept up that extent long term (unless I can leave the EDJ for it!), I'm also not sure if it would actually be more productive to write this way long-term. I can already see glaringly things that need editing that I would normally have taken more time over as I was actually writing them. Still that's all to come 🙂
Anyway, we're now into December – which is already shaping up to be just as busy! I'm working on edits for my Serviced anthology submission, which should be out with Breathless Press in March next year, as well as getting rather excited that An Angel for the Tree is now out a week on Friday (squee!). I'm going to be doing a few visits to other blogs around that time – so will keep you updated on my travels 🙂 It's feeling a little surreal that after writing it back in July with carols on to try and make me feel xmassy – now it's actually coming out and it's almost Christmas! Am starting to get a bit in the spirit now – seems to be hundreds of xmas movies on tv and we even had a bit of snow on Sunday night 🙂
So, is anyone else feeling Christmassy yet? What do you have planned, any fun Christmas traditions? Do share x


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Formosa Oolong Standard Grade (TT11)
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Upton describes this as a "restaurant grade" Oolong. The dry leaves are broken, but coarse and take up quite a lot of space. They are dark and aromatic, and do not expand a great deal upon brewing.
When brewed, this tea has a moderate amount of bitterness and a fair amount of astrigency. The aroma is much more like a black tea than an Oolong. It is still slightly mellower than black teas. There is some complexity to the aroma, with an earthy quality and almost a suggestion of cinnamon.
I was surprised at how radically different in character this tea is from TT10, the fannings from, presumably a similar tea. That tea is much more mellow; this tea is bolder, stronger, and much more like a black tea.


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Capping years of tough negotiations, legal experts from 11 countries prepared treaty amendments Monday allowing the opening of Nazi archives that have been locked away from public scrutiny since World War II.
Historians and Holocaust scholars say releasing the roughly 50 million files stored in the German town of Bad Arolsen would break the bottleneck in the search for Holocaust survivors or for the fate of the victims, and would open a mine of data about the Nazi death machine.
The governing body of the International Tracing Service (ITS), an arm of the Red Cross body that oversees the archive, will vote Tuesday on changes in the 1955 treaty being prepared by a committee of lawyers and bureaucrats. It must be unanimous.
If the changes are adopted by the International Commission for the ITS, the amendments will require ratification by the parliaments of some of the 11 nations on the commission.
Until last month, Germany had blocked treaty amendments, arguing that access to the files by Holocaust researchers would violate German privacy laws.
In April, German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries announced a policy shift when she said Germany would work with the United States to open the files.
Officials close to the negotiations said, however, that lingering divisions within the German government and reluctance by the International Committee of the Red Cross had complicated the talks over treaty language.
"We were hearing multiple voices," said Paul Shapiro, a member of the US delegation, during a break in the closed-door talks. "But people understand that we are here to reach an agreement. I am encouraged."
The proposed changes would give researchers immediate access to the vast storehouse of records at Bad Arolsen, which contain concentration camp registrations, transportation lists and other files that identify some 17.5 million victims, prisoners or slave laborers.