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UC Davis Class of 2022 Personal Financial Success
drip 1: Introduction To Personal Financial Success
Greetings! (1:10)
drip 2: Your Guides For The Journey
Who are we? (3:05)
drip 3: What Is Drip Teaching Methodology?
Why is the course structured this way? (3:31)
drip 4: Why Is Your Financial Success Important?
We want to help!
drip 5: What Are Your Financial Concerns?
What are your fears?
drip 6: Why Is Your Budget Important?
The Theory of Budgeting
drip 7: What Are Your Budgeting Habits?
Budgeting Habits
drip 8: How Often Do You Check Your Budget?
Budgeting Habits
drip 9: Real Life - Why Is Budgeting Important?
Hear from practicing veterinarians! (5:17)
drip 10: What Is Your Budgeting Tool?
Your technology tools for budgeting
drip 11: What Is The Theory Of Habit Formation?
The Method to the Madness (0:53)
drip 12: Creating a budget
Videos: Keeping track of every dollar
drip 13: Real Life - How Does Budgeting Apply In Practice?
Video: Budgeting for all types of veterinarians (6:40)
drip 14: The Cost of Attendance
What does this mean?
drip 15: Real Life - Why Is Budgeting Important?
Videos: Budgeting for success (4:56)
drip 16: Paying for Vet School
Employment During Veterinary School
drip 17: Starting Your Budget
Creating a budget!
drip 18: Real Life: The Cost of Attendance
Understanding the Costs (5:10)
drip 19: How To Pay For Vet School Loans?
The Basics of Student Loans
drip 20: Paying For Vet School
drip 21: Paying for Vet School
Other Income During Veterinary School
drip 22: Paying for Vet School
Videos: Former Students Awarded Scholarships and the Impact of Savings (4:59)
drip 23: What Is Compound Interest?
The 8th Wonder of the World
drip 24: Tips For Minimizing Personal Expenses
Life Hacks for Veterinary Students
drip 25: What Type of Spender Are You?
Different Ways That People Spend Money
drip 26: The Cost Of Money
What does a dollar cost?
drip 27: The Cost of Attendence
How much do you plan to borrow for veterinary school?
drip 28: My Career In Veterinary Medicine
Videos: Success with a DVM (6:57)
drip 29: My Career In Veterinary Medicine
Videos: How have student loans impacted your life? (6:32)
drip 30: The Cost Of Attendance
Student Loan Repayment Systems
drip 31: How do you find that GREAT job?
Investing Your Time in Career Development
drip 32: How to Develop a Resume
Judging a book by the cover
drip 33: Starting the process to locate THE job
Your career starts now!
drip 34: What Is an Emergency Fund?
Sleep better at night!
drip 35: Resume Templates
Putting your life on two pages!
drip 36: The Building Blocks of Your Resume
Put It All Together
drip 37: The Cover Letter
Your story on one page!
drip 38: The Check-Up
Your Budget is Due Next Week
drip 39: Cover Letter the Right Way
Frequently Asked Questions -- Cover Letter Edition
drip 40: My First Job
Video: Graduation in the Morning; Pulling a Calf That Night (3:15)
drip 41: Assignment Reminder
Your Budget is Due Three drips from Today
drip 42: My Veterinary Life
Career Planning Resource
drip 43: Exploring Career Pathways
What do veterinarians do?
drip 44: Public Health
Videos: Careers in public health
drip 45: Shelter Medicine
Video: Careers in shelter medicine (1:51)
drip 46: Act Now to Save Tens of Thousands of Dollars
Return Unnecessary Loan Proceeds
drip 47: How Are Your Resume and Cover Letter Progressing?
Your Resume and Cover Letter Are Due Soon
drip 48: Well-being Assessment
Are you taking care of yourself?
drip 49: Career & Income Well-being
Video: Well-being and Purpose (1:19)
drip 50: Resource Highlight
National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)
drip 51: Resource Highlight
VIN Foundation | Student Loan Repayment Simulator
drip 52: Resource Highlight
drip 53: Assignment Reminder
Your Cover Letter and Resume Are Due Today
drip 54: Well-being and your career
You Can be Content and Successful as a Veterinarian With a Plan!
drip 55: Compensation of Veterinarians
How are veterinarians paid?
drip 56: Meet Dr. Amy Anderson
A Typical Financial Situation and Why It Is Not Sustainable
drip 57: We Want Your Feedback
How Are You Doing? How Are We Doing?
drip 58: Your New and Improved Budget
Get Ready for Financial Crunch Time
drip 59: The Power Of Decreasing Recurring Expenses
Take Five Minutes and Check Your Budget TODAY!
drip 60: Credit Scores
This Number Plays a Huge Role in Financial Success
drip 61: How to Build and Maintain Your Credit Score
Use and Don't Abuse Your Credit
drip 62: New Graduate Budgeting
It Takes a Plan!
drip 63: Credit Scores and the Veterinary Business
Impacts Throughout Your Career
drip 64: Credit Card Debt
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
drip 65: Debt-Management Resources
Debt Service is a Function of Income
drip 66: Budget Check-in
How Are You Doing?
drip 67: If You're in a Deficit
Growing Your Income (0:44)
drip 68: If You're in a Deficit
Reducing Expenses
drip 69: Discretionary Income
Income-Driven Repayment Plans
drip 70: VIN Foundation Student Loan Repayment Simulator
Reprise: Your Student Loan Debt
drip 71: Your Future
Resource: Career Planning and Tools
drip 72: Stress Reduction In Vet School
Video: 17 Science-backed, Inexpensive Ways to Reduce Stress
drip 73: Re-visiting Your Budget
Do You Have a Budget Surplus or Deficit?
drip 74: Income Scenarios
What Might You Be Paid for Doing What You Love?
drip 75: Continued Professional Development
Board Certifications, Internships and Residencies
drip 76: Practice Ownership
One Means to More Income
drip 77: Assignment
Final Budget, Cover Letter and Resume
drip 78: Budget Basics
How One Recent Graduate Manages Her Student Loan Debt
drip 79: Cover Letter Basics Recap
Show Your Passion, Desire and Competency
drip 80: Resume Basics Recap
Leaderrship, Teamwork, Communication
drip 81: More Budget Basics
Keep It Simple
drip 82: Maintaining Financial Health
Debt-to-Income Ratio
drip 83: Defining Your Financial Goals
Improve Your Chances for Success
drip 84: Set Spending Guidelines
Fine-Tune Your Budget
drip 85: More on Cutting Spending
You Can't Get Enough on This Topic
drip 86: Sticking to Your Budget
It Takes Daily Attention
Introduction to Contract Law and Negotiation
drip 87: Why This is Important
drip 88: What Do Employers Want?
drip 89: The Market for Veterinarians
drip 90: Compensation for Veterinarians Part 1
drip 91: Compensation for Veterinarians Part 2
drip 92: The Important Provisions of a Veterinary Contract
drip 93: The Restrictive Covenants
drip 94: The Law of Taxation and Benefits
drip 95: Relationship-based Negotiation
drip 96: The Interest Lists (1:44)
drip 97: The Process
How One Recent Graduate Manages Her Student Loan Debt
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Wednesday night's match will be streamed on USLnation.com.
This past Sunday, July 14, Whitecaps FC U-23 clinched a playoff spot with a 1-0 win against Washington Crossfire. The lone goal for the Blue and White was scored by Niall Cousens, with the assist coming from dominant midfielder Cam Hundal, who provided many chances for the Blue and White throughout the match.
Despite having a severely depleted squad due to injuries as of late, head of high performance Stuart Neely's side has only lost one out of their last seven matches and will be looking for two straight wins to end the regular season.
The 'Caps, who are locked into the third spot in the Northwest Division, will be looking to end the season strong before traveling to face Cascadia rivals Portland Timbers U-23, who finished in second, next week in a one-match knockout round.
Wednesday's match will see the return of goalkeeper Simon Thomas from international duty with Canada at the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The 'Caps were able to overcome his absence with some outstanding performances from Whitecaps FC U-16 Residency goalkeeper Marco Carducci.
Thomas was a member of the last 'Caps team to make the PDL playoffs in 2008, as the Blue and White made it all the way to the national semifinals before falling 2-1 to eventual champions Thunder Bay Chill. Current 'Caps U-23 midfielder Gagandeep Dosanjh, who has been sidelined most of this season after undergoing knee surgery, was also on that 2008 team.
Two other players from 2008 joined Thomas on the recent Canadian Gold Cup roster, defender Adam Straith and striker Randy Edwini-Bonsu. Other notable Residency graduates from the 2008 roster include: Philippe Davies (now with Richmond Kickers), Ethan Gage (Nyköpings BIS), Kyle Porter (D.C. United), Dever Orgill (IFK Mariehamn) and Alex Semenets (Toronto Lynx - formerly with FC Edmonton).
The SeaWolves have had a disappointing season, but will be looking to end the season on a positive note. The Washington State side have only won two matches this season and have the highest number of goals against (28) in the Northwest Division, while also having the fewest number of goals scored (14) in the division.
They are coming off of a 2-1 loss on the road to Washington Crossfire, which saw midfielder Brady Ballew score the lone goal for the SeaWolves.
In their last match against Whitecaps FC U-23 on June 7, the 'Caps won 3-2 in a hard fought match in Edmonds. Earlier this season, on May 26, the Blue and White won 5-1 in a lopsided match at UBC's Thunderbird Stadium.
Following their conclusion to the 2013 regular season, Whitecaps FC U-23 will head across the border to face Portland Timbers U-23 in a one-match knockout playoff on Tuesday, July 24.

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After the cupcakes have cooled, I keep then in large Tupperware-style containers. Food safety experts recommend that cupcakes with whipped cream, buttercream, cream cheese, or ganache frostings should be refrigerated. While I always keep whipped cream and ganache in the fridge, I often keep my buttercream and cream cheese cupcakes on the counter. I haven't gotten sick yet (nor have any of my tasters), but if you choose to also leave them out, it is at your own risk. Refrigerated cupcakes should always be brought to room temperature before eating.
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Michele Panozzo Named Athlete of the Year
Michele Panozzo, 33, of Rockford was named 2013 Special Olympics Illinois Outstanding Athlete of the Year. She was honored at a reception held on June 14 before the Special Olympics Illinois Summer Games Opening Ceremonies at Illinois State University in Normal.
Outstanding Athlete Criteria
The Outstanding Athlete Award recognizes a Special Olympics Illinois athlete whose achievements, dedication and commitment to their team and themselves exemplifies the purpose of Special Olympics.
Michele's Involvement with Special Olympics
Michele started in Special Olympics in 1988 when she was 8 years old. She has been on her current team, the Rockford Red Hots, for 20 years. Michele has competed in a variety of sports during a quarter-century including athletics (track & field), basketball, bowling, softball and bocce.
She always displays good sportsmanship while practicing or competing and always gives maximum effort, according to her nominee for the award. After competition, she always has a smile on her face, whether she has just won gold or took last place. The Red Hots team has family outings during the year where the athletes and family members go to sporting events and other activities. Michele enjoys the social aspect as much as the competition. And of course, she loves the dance and pizza parties in the Area and state competitions.
Job and Accomplishments
Michele works at the Barbara Olson Center of Hope and shows her medals to all her friends and family members during the week. She has made hundreds of friends over the years, which would have not happened without Special Olympics.
Michele's accomplishments include winning more than 100 medals and ribbons, winning the Ron Knisley Spirit of the Games Award twice at the State Basketball Tournament and carrying the torch at Opening Ceremonies at Harlem High School for Northwestern/Area 1 Spring Games.


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Number: 105-11
Date: June 4, 1998
On June 4, 1998, the House passed H.R. 3433, the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Act of 1998, by a vote of 4 10 to I with 2 members voting "present".
Below are descriptions of the provisions in H.R. 3433 as passed by the House:
- Directs the Commissioner to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program which would provide Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability recipients with a ticket they may use to obtain vocational rehabilitation (VR) services, employment services, or other support services from an employment network of their choice.
Responsibilities of Commissioner of Social Security
- Select and enter into agreements with one or more program manager(s) to assist the Commissioner in administer ing the program.
- Terminate agreements with program manager(s) who fail to meet the performance standards specified in the agreements.
- Preclude program managers from direct participation in the delivery of services to beneficiaries or from holding a financial interest in an employment network in the service area covered by the program manager's agreement.
- Select, and enter into agreements with, employment networks to provide services
under the program.
- Terminate agreements with employment networks whose performance is inadequate.
- Provide for such periodic reviews of employment networks as are necessary to ensure effective quality assurance in the provision of services by employment networks.
Responsibilities of the Program Manager(s)
- Perform such tasks as assigned by the Commissioner.
- Recruit, and recommend for selection by the Commissioner, employment networks which can provide services under the program.
- Monitor employment networ ks under its jurisdiction to ensure that beneficiaries have adequate choices of services and that employment networks comply with the terms of their agreements with the Commissioner.
- Ensure that payment by the Commissioner to an employment network is warranted.
- Establish and maintain lists of employment networks available to pro vide services and make such lists available to beneficiaries.
- Ensure that each beneficiary has reasonable access to services, i.e., case management, benefits counseling, supported employment, job training, placement, and follow-up services.
Employment Networks
- An employment network may consist either of a single provider of such services or a group of providers organized to combine their resources into a single entity.
- An employment network may provide services either directly or by entering into agreements with other providers which can appropriate services.
- To serve under the program, an employment network must:
- Demonstrate to the Commissioner that it has substantial expertise and experience in the field of employment, vocational or other support services for individuals with disabilities.
- Demonstrate to the Commissioner that it has substantial expertise and experience in the field of employment, vocational or other support services for individuals with disabilities.
- Employment networks must:
- Meet and maintain compliance with general selection criteria such as professional and governmental certification and educational credentials, and specific selection criteria,
- such as the extent of their work experience with specific populations.
- Meet the financial report ing requirements prescribed by the Commissioner.
- Prepare periodic reports, on at least an annual itemizing specific outcomes
achieved with respect to services provided to beneficiaries.
- Develop and implement an individual work plan which a written vocational evaluation which takes effect upon approval by the beneficiary.
- Meet and maintain compliance with general selection criteria such as professional and governmental certification and educational credentials, and specific selection criteria,
Employment Network Payment Systems
- Authorizes the Commissioner to pay employment networ ks under either an outcome payment system or an outcome milestone payment system. Each employment network will select the payment system will be used hy the employment network for the duration of the agreement with the Commissioner.
- Under the outcome payment system, an employment network shall be paid a fixed percentage, not to exceed 40% of the average SSDI or SSI payment, for 60 months during which he/she does not receive a benefit.
- The outcome-milestone payment system provides for milestone payments in combination with outcome payments. However, the total of the outcome milestone payments shall be less than the total amount of payment to an employment network that has elected the outcome payment system.
- Under the outcome payment system, an employment network shall be paid a fixed percentage, not to exceed 40% of the average SSDI or SSI payment, for 60 months during which he/she does not receive a benefit.
- Requires the Commissioner to review periodically the specifications of the payment
system (percentage and total payment) to ensure that the system provides an adequate
incentive for employment networks to assist beneficiaries in entering the workforce.
- Allows the Commissioner to alter the percentage or total permissible payments as well as the number and amount of milestone payments to allow an adequate incentive form employment networks.
Continuing Disability Reyiews
- Prohibits the Commissioner from initiating continuing disability reviews or other reviews during the period that a beneficiary is using a ticket to work and selfsufficiency.
- Authorizes transfer of funds from the OASI and DI trust funds and the SSI general fund to carry out the provisions with respect to title II disability beneficiaries and title XVI recipients. Requires the Commissioner to determine the total amount to be paid to program managers and employment networks and the amounts which should be charged to each trust fund for title II beneficiaries.
Effective Date
- Effective with the first month following one year after enactment of the Act.
Program Implementation
- Directs the Commissioner to implement the amendments in graduated phases at phasein sites selected by the Commissioner so as to ensure prior to full implementation, the refinement of the program processes.
- Requires the Commissioner to fully implement the program as soon as practicable but not later than six years after the effective date.
- Requires the Commissioner to design and conduct a series of evaluations to assess the cost-effectiveness of the program and the work outcomes for benefic iaries receiving a ticket to work and self sufficiency under the program.
- Requires the Commissioner to report following the close of the third and fifth fiscal years ending after the effective date to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance on the Commissioner's evaluation of the progress of activities. as well as the success of the program and the Commissioner's conclusions on whether or how the program should be modified.
State VR Agencies
- Each State VR agency may elect to participate in the program as an employment network (or to revoke such an election). Also, directs the Commissioner to provide for periodic opportunities for State VR agencies to opt in or out of the program as an employment network.
- Services provided by State VR agencies participating in the program shall be governed by plans for VR services approved under title I of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
- Requires a written agreement between the State agency and the employment network to allow the State agency to accept any referral of a disabled beneficiary from the employment network initially assigned a ticket to work and self-sufficiency by the disabled beneficiary.
- Directs the Commissioner and the Secretary of Education jointly to prescribe regulations specifying the terms of such agreements.
- No payment shall be made to an employment network if employment network makes referrals to the States agency without entering into a written agreement or in violation of the terms of the written agreement.
- Directs the Commissioner and the Secretary of Education jointly to prescribe regulations specifying the terms of such agreements.
- Requires the Commissioner, if the amendments have not been fully implemented in a State. to determine through regulations the extent to which the requirement concerning prompt refer ral to the State agency applies and the authority of the Commissioner to provide vocational rehabilitation services in such State by agreement or contract with other public or private agencies, etc.
Ticket to Work and Self-Sufiiciency Advisory Panel
- Establishes a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Advisory Panel, comprised of 6 members, 4 of whom must have experience or expert knowledge as a recipient, provider, employer, or employee in the field of employment services, VR services, and other supported services. The Panel shall be appointed within 90 days of enactment. The Panel is to advise the Commissioner on the following:
- Phase -in s ites for implementation of the program,
- Access of disabled beneficiaries to employment networks, payment systems, and management information systems to ensure the success of the program.
- Development of performance measures for the employment networks.
- The most effective designs for research and demonstration projects associated with the program or conducted with respect to the reduction of a beneficiary's disability benefits on account of earned income.
- Phase -in s ites for implementation of the program,
- Requires the Panel to provide annual progress reports to the President and Congress
on the program.
- Requires the Panel to transmit a final report to the President and the Congress, not later than eight years after the date of enactment, which includes a detailed statement of the findings and conclusions of the Panel and its recommendations for legislation and administrative actions.
- Terminates the Panel 30 days after the date it submits its final report.
- Directs the Commissioner to prescribe regulations necessary to implement the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program.
Work Incentive Specialists
- Directs the Commissioner to establish a corps of work incentive specialists to specialize in title II and title XVI work incentives for the purpose of providing accurate information to disabled beneficiaries.
Demonstration Projects Involving the Reduction of Disability Benefits Based on Earnings
- Directs the Commissioner to conduct demonstration projects to evaluate the effects of a $1 for $2 withholding of SSDI payments for earnings over a level specified by the Commissioner.
- The demonstration projects shall be conducted in a sufficient number of localities to ensure a thorough evaluation of the appropriateness of national implementation of the $1 for $2 withholding for SSDI bencficiaries. The demonstration projects should determine:
- The effects, if any, of induced entry and reduced exit;
- The effect, if any, on a project being conducted in a locality under the administration of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program; and,
- The savings to the Trust Funds and other Federal programs as a result of the project.
- The effects, if any, of induced entry and reduced exit;
- Requires the Commissioner to determine the annual cost, the reasons for the return to work of beneficiaries who participate in the project, the employment outcomes, the merits of trial work periods and periods of extended eligibility for each project.
- Authorizes the Commissioner to waive compliance with the title II benefit provisions in so far as is necessary for a thorough evaluation of the alternative methods under consideration. Requires the Commissioner to submit a written report to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance 90 days prior to the start of a project. Also, require the Commissioner to submit periodic reports on the progress of the projcct(s) to the Congressional committees.
- Directs the Commissioner to suhmit (I ) an interim report on or before June 9, 2000, and each of the succeeding years thereafter, on the progress of the demonstration projects. and (2) a final report on the demonstration projects not later than one year after their completion.
General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports and Studies
- Requires the General Accounting Office (GAO) to study the extent to which existing tax credits and other employer incentives under current law encourage employers to hire and retain individuals with disabilities participating in the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program and provide a written report no later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act.
- Requires the GAO to conduct a study to evaluate the coordination of ssm and SSI programs as they relate to individuals who are eli gible for both programs , or whose eligibility changes from one program to the other. The study should focus on the effecti veness of work incentives and medical coverage for these individuals. A report is due not later than 18 months after the date of enactment.
Extension of Medicare Coverage
- Provides during the 7-year period beginning on the date of enactment, an additional two-year extension of Medicare beyond the current Medicare extension of 48 months for program participants.
- Requires SSA and the Department of Health and Human Services to submit their recommendations for further legislative action with respect to this extension of Medicare coverage to Congress not later than six months prior to the end of the 7-year period beginning on the date of enactment.
Technical Amendments Relating to Drug Addicts and Alcoholics
- Amends the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 (PL. 104-121) to clarify the meaning of the term "final adjudication" and clarifies SSA's authority to make SSI medical redeterminations after January 1, 1997. (A similar 55I provision was included in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 [P.L. 105-33].)
- Expands the applicahility of the provisions in P.L. 104-121 which require treatment referrals and authorization of a $50 fee for organizations serving as representative payees for SSDl heneficiaries who arc incapahle and have a DA&A condition.
Extension of SSDI Program Demonstration Project Waiver Authority
- Extends the section 505 demonstration project waiver authority until June 10, 2001.
- Authorizes the Commissioner to expand the scope of any demonstration project to include applicants for benefits under the SSDl program with impairments which may reasonably be presumed to be disabling for purposes of the demonstration project and to conduct demonstration projects involving SSDl applicants only.
Perfecting Amendments Related to Withholding from Social Security Benefits
- Allows individual to request voluntary Federal income tax withholding from certain Federal payment, including Social Security benefits.
Treatment of Prisoners
- Provides incentive payments to correctional institutions for reporting incarceration of all title II beneficiaries.
- Replaces the criteria for barring SSDI benefits to prisoners from "an offense punishable by imprisonment for more than one year" to a "criminal offense."
Revocation by Members of th e Clergy of Exemption from Social Secnrity Coverage
- Creates a two-year window of opportunity to allow members of the clergy who initially revoked Social Security coverage to elect coverage.
Additional Technical Amendments Relating to Cooperative Research or Demonstration Projects Under Title II and Title XVI
- Clarities the Commissioner's authority to make grant" and payments under cooperative
research or demonstration projects in advance or by way of reimbursement to carry
out demonstration projects and cooperative research for title II and title XVI under
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All regular administrative, service and support staff who have prior supervisory approval are eligible to receive paid vacation. Employees with primary titles that are Administrative, Service & Support who are exempt from classification because their positions are primarily directing instructional or research activities are not subject to this policy.
Probationary Employees
Vacation time is not earned unless the probationary period is satisfactorily completed. However, employees needing to take time off during their probationary period may utilize personal days or, with supervisory approval, employees may take leave without pay.
Regular employees who have satisfactorily completed their probationary period accrue vacation time from their date of hire in accordance with the rates detailed in the following table. If an employee works greater than 75 percent FTE but less than 100 percent FTE, he/she will accrue vacation time on a prorata basis. Employees may accumulate twice their annual accrual.
|Employee Group
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|Office, Technical, Maintenance and Service (includes all employees in positions designated as nonexempt and eligible for overtime pay)
|5 or less
|Over 5
|Over 15
|Administrative and Professional (includes all employees in positions designated as exempt and not eligible for overtime pay)
|5 or less
|Over 5
Administrative and Professional employees will accrue vacation on the monthly pay cycle. In computing vacation accruals, an exempt employee must be in active status by the 15th of the month to be eligible for that month's accrual. Office/Technical and Service/Maintenance employees will accrue vacation on the biweekly pay cycle. In computing vacation accruals, a nonexempt employee must be in active status on the Monday of each week of the biweekly pay period to be eligible for the accrual for each week. Partial accruals are not granted. Vacation time continues to accrue during vacation; sick leave; leaves of absence with pay of at least 75 percent FTE; and leaves of absence without pay granted for disability compensable under Workers' Compensation. Vacation accruals will be available to the employee only after returning to work in regular status.
Length of Service
All full-time continuous service continuing from the date of employment is counted including periods of sick leave; authorized absences, with or without pay; and interruptions of service of less than four (4) months each, due to the University's temporary lack of need for the employee's services. Any period of service as a Variable Hour Employee, which occurs immediately following and preceding periods of regular service, for the convenience of the University is counted. Finally, all continuous service accrued under either vacation schedule is also counted. Employees who return to full-time work following termination of employment or a voluntary reduction to a Variable Hour position are considered new employees and do not receive credit for any previous full-time service.
Using Vacation
Vacation time must be earned before it is taken and, although accrued, is not available until the first day of the following pay period. Absences from work that are not caused by an illness or injury must be charged to accumulated vacation except for: absences due to death in employee's immediate family; absences for jury duty; leaves of absence of less than 30 days treated as excused absences and absences due to illness or injury which the employee elects to charge to accumulated vacation with supervisory approval. Employees who have exhausted vacation time may, with supervisory approval, take leave without pay in increments of whole days or less. Vacation time must be earned before it is taken. Official University holidays occurring during a vacation period are not charged to accumulated vacation time. Payment in lieu of vacation time is not permitted. Upon resignation, termination or interruption of service, payment for all unused, accumulated vacation will be made, provided the employee has satisfactorily completed the probationary period.
Unused Vacation
Any balance of unused accumulated vacation time is transferred with an employee transferring from one department or campus to another. Employees changing from regular to Variable Hour status will be paid accrued vacation in a lump sum at the time of change. Employees changing from exempt to nonexempt status, and who have accruals that exceed the maximum allowed in the nonexempt status, will receive, at the supervisor's discretion, pay or vacation days for the excess accrued amounts before this status change is effected. Accrued vacation will not be considered as time worked for purposes of calculating overtime. Vacation payout for monthly (exempt) employees will be computed using the hourly rate of pay.
A permanent record of vacation accruals and use must be maintained for each employee.
See Also
HR 107 Attendance, HR 307 Workers' Compensation, HR 401 Holidays, HR 403 Personal Days, HR 404 Sick Leave, HR 407 Family & Medical Leave Act, HR 408 Leaves of Absence, HR 410 Legal Proceedings and HR 412 Funeral Leave
Date Created: 09/26/1997
Last Updated: 09/15/2013
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Friday started off with me parking in the rear parking lot where the old horse warm-up track was and where the September '09 cover truck was shot. Before I even got out of my car I could hear the sound of Rob McKeown's '67 F-100 Ford pickup squealing its tires on the autocross course. If you missed the story on Rob's truck ("The Evil Twin," Oct. '10), you can check it out on our website, Click Here To read the full article. Rob, like myself, got hooked on autocrossing his truck and has made some really great progress tuning his suspension with help from the vendors that were also racing.
This year also marked the 4th annual Goodguys Editor's Challenge and I was not sure how to feel about the event since it would be my first time. Rob had said he would let me drive the '67 Ford in the contest but the event organizers wanted to even out the playing field since the three-time defending winners from Camaro Performers were back to try and claim their fourth (they did). This year the editors would be driving vendors' cars instead. Ride Tech's '69 Mustang, One-Lap/Optima's '68 Camaro, and Hotchkis' '68 Plymouth Roadrunner all performed well, that was up until the clutch in the Camaro fried. Detroit Speed's Stacy and Kyle Tucker stepped up let to the editors finish their remaining laps with their car. The editors had the opportunity to complete one hot lap in three different vehicles and the average of those three lap times became their official time. It was really fun to drive each car and push them to the edge of my limits. With that said, I somehow managed to place Fifth among some stiff competition. This makes me want to finish my truck to have a little fun with the car guys and try to beat my best lap time. John Drummond of Goodguys expressed it best when he said that autocrossing "gets people into the event a lot more than sitting in a lawn chair. This was great!"
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The Backend API is deprecated as of March 13, 2014 and
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March 13, 2019. Developers are required to migrate all backend instances
Services, otherwise the instances will no longer be managable, and will
stop serving traffic.
For information on converting existing apps, see Converting Backends to Services.
You can add backends to your application in a configuration file called
backends.yaml, which declares the name and desired properties of each backend
server. The
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About backends.yaml
Backends have several unique and important differences from default App Engine
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Any work that requires continuous processing or preserved state, such
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To make a backend failfast, add the
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login: admin. This login declaration blocks external requests, while allowing
internal requests (for example, from another instance of your application, or a
Task Queue) to access a handler without additional configuration.
start directive allows each backend to define a separate handler for
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App Engine provides four different classes of backend instances, each with different memory and CPU limits. These classes allow you to configure your backend with the processing capacity you need to perform your work. Each class has a specific hourly billing rate. See Pricing for more information.
The default class for backends is
B2, which gives you 256MB of memory and
1200MHz of CPU capacity.
You can change the class of a backend using the
class directive in
- name: cmdline
class: B4
class directive has the following values:
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B2 (default)
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Backends definitions
backends.yaml file has a single list element called
backends. Each
element in the list represents a backend for the application. Backends are
subject to Billing, Quotas, and Limits.
backends directive can have the following directives:
- The server name, composed of letters, digits, and hyphens. The name
"default" is reserved and cannot be used. You also cannot use a name that is
already used as an application version.
This name is also referred to as the
- Determines the backend's instance class, which determines the memory and CPU limits for each instance. The default class is
An integer between
20indicating the number of instances to assign to the given backend. Defaults to
1if unspecified. The instance number is also referred to as the
Each instance can handle multiple requests if your application is marked as threadsafe in
appengine-web.xml. You can also configure the maximum number of concurrent requests. This feature is experimental. Backends have pending queues; requests to a busy instance retry for 10 seconds before aborting.
- Specifies the maximum number of requests that each instance can handle simultaneously. If unset, App Engine determines the concurrent request limit dynamically.
A list of settings, which can include one or more of the following options.
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- failfast (Experimental!): The
failfastoption disables pending queues, so that an instance that is busy returns an HTTP 503 error immediately when it receives a new request. You can achieve this same behavior by adding an
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A Southern Tradition
Posted 08 September 2003 - 05:08 PM
Point of Origin?
Multi cultural uses?
Posted 09 September 2003 - 07:56 PM
"Once a common site in the Southern landscape, the bottle tree is now an increasing rarity as ancient folk beliefs and costumes fall from the common usage. The origins of the tree go back the ninth century. In the Congo, where hand-blown glass was hung on huts and trees as a talisman against evil, you can find the practice of removing the foliage from a tree (preferably a cedar, because of all the branches point heavenward) and placing the tree in the yard of the house. The bare branches are then covered with colorful glass bottles that attract any evil spirits that may be lurking near the house. The spirit becomes mesmerized by the play of sunlight through the colorful glass and becomes trapped inside the bottle. When the wind blows past them, the moans of ensnared spirits can be heard whistling on the breeze."
ok for some reason this first link is not working properly but if you copy it and paste to address bar then add 's%20yard.htm to the end of it you can view the page
http://northbysouth......an's yard.htm
Posted 10 September 2003 - 10:25 AM
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Posted 11 September 2003 - 02:59 PM
I hope you can find that link. Ya'll got my interest going on these trees now and I just know I'm gona have to take a drive around some of these country roads to see if I can find some ;D
Posted 12 October 2003 - 11:03 AM
Now that I have seen this one I am considering constructing one of my own. So if some of my post seem to be coming out off a drunken tongue, it will be due to the excessive amounts of Sky vodka being consumed to complete this project. 8)
Posted 13 October 2003 - 09:38 AM
I've never heard of this southern tradition, but it sounds very interesting. I'm going to keep my eye on this thread, and maybe we'll find out more about these Spirit Trees.
Both my grandparents were born and raised in Harlan Co. Ky, also known as Bloody Harlan. I'll ask my almost 89 yr old grandpa about it next time I visit. He may know something about them.
Posted 13 October 2003 - 11:15 AM
Posted 13 October 2003 - 03:30 PM
Hey so were mine. we might be kinfolk ;D, But mine are gone to the other side.So I don't think I would get any info there ???
Both my grandparents were born and raised in Harlan Co. Ky, also known as Bloody Harlan.
Posted 13 October 2003 - 03:57 PM
I don't know if it's allowed or not, but I'll try to post the link here.
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Somebody explain it to him, i have my hands on my cock, so its impossible for me to embark on long complicated elaborations
Seymour Butts LOL
God Alisha klass is awesome
The dork in the video needs to shut up.
um shes annoying nd talking a lot too. the guy is just great..
If every guy came home to woman like this every night, there really would be peace on earth! Stick her in any hole and she wants more. This should go out as a training manual to all women before they become sexually active. Make this happen
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The way she sucked his dick with her ass hole was awesome. The best anal I have ever watched....
Great vid but I hate the dudes voice
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Ain't gonna sit comfortably for a week
Dream girl,TOP!!!
Seymour is the greatest and this woman is the absolutely amazing! This is a woman!
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this video makes me crazy
I've blown my load so many times to this vid. She is sensational.
Seymore Butts is amazing !!!
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So hot I want to get in her ass
Now this is one woman who KNOWS how to ass fuck. I hope other porn actresses are taking notes.
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The best porn clip EVER!
That tongue wow :)
"Thank god for not letting your penis die on us" LOL
Seymore bums
Would love her to sit on my face with that ass and eat it up! She even milks his cock with her ass. DEDICATED HONEY!
I love the way she sucks his cock. Wish she would come and suck mine next.
Please add "spaghetti straps" as a category - nothing sexier than a girl with nice tits and no bra and visible/hard nipples wearing some slinky thing with only straps on her shoulders...
lucky fucking dude....where can i meet a girl like that????? Most sexy girls are totally off their rockers, only good for shagging, nothing else.....
I wish this could be named, or tagged 'Alisha Klass'. In a weeks time it will just be lost in a sea of youporn videos with a general title. We won't be able to find it easily again.
why has this not got a 100 percent rating
I think during this scene you can see someone playing WoW on the computer in the background. Says everything lol.
i going to do a handjob ....
très belle vidéo .
There's no better! This nice babe gives perfect blowjobs - and if she gets this big deep deep into her sweet ass: brilliant!
shes my favorite by a country mile...xoxo
i have a cock very much like his. unfortunately though, i have very little experience, so i can't use it as well as he does. :(
Wow, what a girl, she is a beautiful fucking bitch
Hard as steel!
waouh , c'est la scène de sodomie la plus bandante que j'ai jamais vue. Cette jeune femme est délicieusement perverse, elle est en plus très jolie. Que ne donnerai-je pour "subir" le même sort que l'acteur masculin.
What a waste...Alisha only does scenes with her hubby, "Seymore Butts." She's so whipped, she's even got his name tattooed on her ass! I bet she's such a pain in the ass outside of the biz.
I jizzed a lot
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Ohhhh she has a nice ass and a big hole =))
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ugh the way she just wants ass sex and not vagina. if theres no such thing as trannies and women, shes a dude
Whoa!! Amazing!! now i can sleep peacefully.
Can't watch this. The dude is making the most assinine noises. Just a 2 minute long disgusting throat noise.
Is rocky Balboa fucking her? Lol
Who is she?
very hot show& nice i like
I love licking the nice tasty asshole of a hot woman, and fucking it, starting slowly and going faster and deeper... everytime i do that to my gf she wet all the bed sheets.. sad that she only want my cock up her backdoor occasionaly, one time or two each month... well, at least i can eat her pretty butthole everytimes we make love...
She's gorgeous you can tell she was prepared if not loving the dick stroking her ass
Seymore butts is the "dork" in the background and she is alisha klass. She is the only chick who does not act and sincerely loves getting fucked in her asshole
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She is a beauty an moans very nice. I wonder how she would moan with me? My cock is way bigger than his...
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Best anal vid so far. Not her first but she still put on a show. The cum stache at the end was awesome. Loved it. Lookin to try this with my girl soon.
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WASHINGTON – If one man's trash is another man's treasure, what about taking that trash and using it to power a car?
"The average family in Alexandria puts out 46 pounds of garbage every week," says Michael Clem, a recycling program analyst with the City of Alexandria. "That's enough for me to power this car (for) 38 miles."
Clem was referring to an electric car, a Nissan Leaf that is powered by electricity made from garbage. The car has the City of Alexandria seal on it as well as a statement that reads, "The car is powered by trash."
"Trash is a valuable resource," says Michael Renga, business manager with Covanta Energy. "It can be converted into energy. It shouldn't be wasted in a landfill."
He says the company's local Energy from Waste facility has a partnership with Alexandria and Arlington. All the trash that residents put along the curb outside and all trash that can't be recycled, his company will take.
"Instead of going to a landfill, we take the waste and convert it into energy," he says. "We have 45 of these facilities throughout the U.S. and we've been doing it in Arlington and Alexandria for 25 years."
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How Many Uninsured Are There?
The Wall Street Journal's Numbers Guy tackles the question:
The Census Bureau estimates that the number of uninsured amounts to 45.7 million people. But the agency might be over-counting by millions due to faulty assumptions...
Even though legislation won't cover many of them, illegal immigrants are especially difficult to enumerate: Few raise their hands to be counted. Prof. [Jonathan] Gruber estimates they make up about 13% of the uninsured today, or nearly six million people of that 45 million number...
Of the rest, some people are eligible for health insurance but don't know it and many can afford it but don't want it. About 43% of uninsured nonelderly adults have incomes greater than 2.5 times the poverty level, according to a report released Tuesday by the business-backed Employment Policies Institute.
He left out a few things, though.
The estimate of 46 million uninsured, which comes from a less-than-ideal government survey, has been the occasion of a fraud on the public. For 20 years, the Church of Universal Coverage told us that 40-some million Americans are uninsured for the entire year. Then, experts including the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said that no, 40-some million is the number who are uninsured on any given day, and a lot of those people quickly regain coverage. The number of Americans who are uninsured for the entire year is actually 20-30 million. Yet the Church of Universal Coverage kept using that 40-some million estimate as if nothing had happened – even though the meaning of that estimate had completely changed.
The Congressional Budget Office also reports that as many as 15 percent of those 20-30 million chronically "uninsured" are eligible for government programs, so they're effectively insured.
According to economists Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania and Kate Bundorf of Stanford, as many as three-quarters of the uninsured could afford coverage but choose not to purchase it. Again, according to the Congressional Budget Office, 60 percent of the uninsured are under age 35, and 86 percent are in good-to-excellent health.
Government intervention has made health insurance unnecessarily expensive for them, so these folks quite sensibly don't want to be ripped off. Mandating that they buy coverage is really about hunting them down and taxing them.


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Consider a symmetric algebra $H$ over a field $k$. By definition, this is a $k$-algebra $H$ with a symmetrizing trace $\tau$, which is a $k$-linear map $\tau:H\to k$ such that $\tau(hh')=\tau(h'h)$ for all $h,h'\in H$ and the corresponding bilinear form is non-degenerate. I have been using chapter 7 of Characters of finite Coxeter groups and Iwahori-Hecke algebras by Geck and Pfeiffer as a reference for symmetric algebras.
According to Theorem 7.26 of this reference, if $H$ is split, then $H$ is semisimple if and only if all Schur elements are non-zero. The Schur element $c_V$ of a split simple $H$ module $V$ can be defined by $$ \sum_{b \in \mathcal{B}}\chi_V(b)\chi_V(b^\vee)=c_V \dim_k V, $$ where $\mathcal{B}$ is a $k$ basis of $H$, and $\lbrace b^\vee:b \in \mathcal{B}\rbrace$ is the basis dual to $\mathcal{B}$ under $\tau$.
If $H$ is split and $k$ has characteristic 0, are the Schur elements always non-zero? Equivalently, is a split symmetric algebra over a field of characteristic 0 always semisimple?
I assume that the answer is no, because I would have seen a result along these lines if it were true, but I can't find a counterexample.


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After countless bike commutes to work, I've got my routine down. Tires pumped, water bottle filled, battery for lights charged, bike clothes laid out, messenger bag packed with work clothes and food. Everything ready the night before. I've done this a few hundred times and know what works for me.
Today a few monkey wrenches were thrown into the mix....
Ride in felt good, usual Seattle weather - 40s and wet. It's been colder then usual and getting back to normal Seattle weather feels right. It was light out when I left, no lights needed. When I hit the bike room at work, noticed my bike lights were on - whoops. Must have hit the switch by mistake - never happened before. Mental note to leave work with some daylight remaining.
While changing out of my racer wanna-be costume and into work duds - discover I packed my 9 year old son's underwear instead of my own. Oops. When grabbed out of the clean clothes pile, they look the same - just a few sizes too small. I grab the spare pair of underwear out of my desk drawer, usually reserved for when I completely forget my own. A few work days going commando teaches a you a lesson. Plus - if I ever get laid off, can leave 'em in my desk for a little surprise.
Spring comes early in the Northwest, not temperature wise, but budding tree wise - killing my allergies. What's the best thing to do when you have allergies? Ride to work, of course. By mid morning, my eyes are itching so bad, feel like scratching them out. Maybe I'll pop the lenses out of my bike glasses and replace them with small funnels - this way I can inject the pollen directly into my eye sockets. With any luck both eyes will swell shut like Rocky, then I can ask co-workers to "Cut me Mick" - so I can regain enough vision to view some boring Powerpoint presentation.
Work day over and while changing back into racer wanna-be outfit for the ride home - discover the strap from one of my Sidi shoes is missing. I didn't notice that when taking 'em off. I search around for it - no where to be found. Maybe a PC virus escaped and ate it under my desk. In any case, it would have been worthless, since the busted off stub remained in the shoe itself. I could have at least used it to gouge my itchy eyes out.
I grab some packing tape and wrap it around the shoe to keep it on, then cover the mess with a rain bootie. My rain booties are so destroyed I need pliers to get 'em on and off - both zippers tabs are busted. I head down to the bike room for the return trip.
On the way home, I stop at Counterbalance Bicycles, right off the Burke-Gilman trail, and pick up a new Sidi shoe strap. While continuing the ride home, realize I only purchased part of strap, still missing a section to fix the shoe. Crap. Maybe I should have asked for some pliers to pull my bootie off to check. Yeah, that would have provided a few minutes of entertainment for the bike shop crew.
About half way home, dark enough for lights. I power mine up to discover a dim beam that throws a feeble spot on the wet ground. Sweet. The battery is almost dead. No problem, I think I have every bump memorized on the B-G Trail anyway. I make it home and cut the taped shoe off.
Even with goofy events of the day, still beats driving and sitting in traffic. Mini adventures are part of the fun of bike commuting - equipment, weather or people related.
It all makes for good stories and funny stuff to remember. You need to put yourself out there for things to happen.
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