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ZCS Administrator's Guide 8.0.4 |
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The zmrestore command is used to restore the mailboxes while the ZCS mailbox server is running.
The zmrestoreoffline is used to restore the mail server when the mail server is down. This command is run for disaster recovery.
The zmrestoreldap is used to restore the content of the LDAP directory server.The zmrestore process goes through the following steps to restore the mailbox, the database, the indexes, and the LDAP directory.
1. Retrieves specified accounts to be restored, or specify all for all accounts that have been backed up.Important: After you perform any of the following point-in-time restores, you should immediately run a complete backup for those accounts to avoid future restore problems with those accounts.
• -restoreToTime <arg>- Replay the redo logs until the time specified.
• -restoreToIncrLabel <arg> - Replay redo logs up to and including this incremental backup.
• -restoreToRedoSeq <arg> - Replay up to and including this redo log sequence.
• -br - Replays the redo logs in backup only, therefore excluding archived and current redo logs of the system.
• -rf - Restores to the full backup only. This does not include any incremental backups at all.
• "YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss"The result from the above example would be an account called email@example.com.
Include --contineOnError (-c) to the command so that the restore process continues if an error is encountered.When -c is designated, accounts that could not be restored are displayed when the restore process is completeThe zmbackupabort -r command interrupts a restore that is in process. The restore process stops after the current account finishes being restored. The command displays a message showing which accounts were not restored .Use the zmrestore command to restore one or more selected accounts. In the event that a user's mailbox has become corrupted, you might want to restore that user from the last full and incremental backup sets.
2. Run the zmrestore command to restore the accounts
Search index. If you do not restore the search index data, the mailbox will have to be reindexed after the restore.
Blobs. This is a useful option when all blobs for the mailbox being restored already exists.
HSM-blobs. This is useful when all HSM blobs for the mailbox being restored already exists.The zmrestoreldap command restores the global LDAP data including COS, distribution lists, etc. You can restore the complete LDAP server, which recreates the entire schema or you can restore specific accounts. You specify the session to restore. The restore command has to be run on the LDAP server being restored.


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Data frames are integral to R. They provide a standard format for passing data to model-fitting and plotting functions, and this standard makes it easier for experienced users to learn new functions that accept data as a single data frame. Still, many data sets do not easily fit into a single data frame; data sets in ecology with a so-called fourth-corner problem provide important examples. Manipulating such inherently multiple-table data using several data frames can result in long and difficult-to-read work-flows. This package provides new data storage objects called data.list objects, which extend the data.frame concept to explicitly multiple-table settings. Like data frames, data lists are lists of variables stored as vectors; what is new is that these vectors have dimension attributes that make accessing and manipulating them easier. As data.list objects can be coerced to data.frame objects, they can be used with all R functions that accept an object that can be coerced to a data.frame.
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A series of naphthalimide derivatives as intra and extracellular pH sensors. | |
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A series of new naphthalimide derivatives were synthesized and studied. Three of the materials (SM1, SM2, and SM3) possess methacrylate(s) moieties as pH sensor monomers, enabling these compounds to be polymerized with other monomers for thin film preparation for extracellular pH sensing. Herein, poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-co-poly(acrylamide) (PHEMA-co-PAM) was chosen as the polymer matrix. Structure influences on pH responses and pK(a) values were studied. The film P3 composed of the sensing moiety SM3 has a pK(a) close to the usual biological environmental pH of approximately 7. It was used as an extracellular pH sensor to monitor pH change during the metabolism of prokaryotic Escherichia coli (E. coil). On the other hand, the three sensor monomers are new intracellular biomarkers to sense lysosomes of eukaryotic cells since (1) their pK(a) values are in a range of 5.9-6.8; (2) their emission intensities at acidic conditions (such as at pH 5) are much stronger than those at a neutral condition of pH 7; (3) lysosomes range in size from 0.1 to 1.2 mum in diameter with pH ranging from 4.5 to 5.0, which is much more acidic than the pH value of the cytoplasm (usually with a pH value of approximately 7.2); and (4) the acidity of lysosomes enables a protonation of the amino groups of the pH probes making the sensors emit brightly in acidic organelles by inhibiting the photo-induced electron transfer from the amino groups to the fluorophores. Lysosome sensing was demonstrated using live human brain glioblastoma U87MG cell line, human cervical cancer HeLa cell line, and human esophagus premalignant CP-A and CP-D cell lines by observations of small acidic spherical organelles (lysosomes) and significant colocalizations (82-95%) of the sensors with a commercially available lysosome-selective staining probe LysoTracker Red under confocal fluorescence microscopy. |
Yanqing Tian; Fengyu Su; Warner Weber; Vivek Nandakumar; Bradley R Shumway; Yuguang Jin; Xianfeng Zhou; Mark R Holl; Roger H Johnson; Deirdre R Meldrum |
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Created Date: 2010-08-03 Completed Date: 2010-11-16 Revised Date: 2013-05-29 |
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Mike Philips is like a child throwing his toys out of the pram! his attitude is terrible, looks like a right arrogant idiot
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Well I don't know that I would give him kudos for that. I love Mathews myself, but that is the same thing many of us bashed Kubiak and Mack Brown for. Loyalty to their staff to a fault. I'm not saying this was the case as I wasn't informed enough about the situation, but I hate coaches that refuse to get rid of a weakness on their staff. With a guy like Mathews and Munchack though, those two are probably going to be forever attached to the hip. Playing aside one another as long as they have and being as successful as they both were together, you can't break that bond. They're going to stand side by side as coaches until the other gets that big job offer he really needs that is a clear upgrade.
Yeah, Pete Carrol fired his OC, a good friend, mid-season. Sometimes you have to make tough choices. This isn't high school.
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Thanks to a continued internal cost-cutting effort, HART staff slashed expenses. Now those savings can be proactively reinvested into HART services to provide the first enhancements of this kind since 2007. "We are pleased to be able to provide the community a balanced budget which has a planned increase of service hours to our riders," said Jeff Seward, HART chief financial officer. "That includes new late night, midday, and weekend service on some of our key routes. All of that was achieved through strong fiscal stewardship yielding over $1.2 million of savings."
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Organisational integration is being heralded as a critical "dynamic capability" and is seen as an important strategic issue for firms in the future. This study seeks to explore this issue in the specific context of e-commerce and information system integration, by considering the model proposed by Poon and Swatman, in the case of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK. Poon and Swatman propose that the model of business transformation enabled by traditional IT turns "inside out" when applied to the e-commerce domain. Their model suggests a hierarchy of levels of e-commerce integration. At the lowest level firms develop inter-organisational systems. At the next level they undertake limited integration with existing internal systems, and only at the highest level do they achieve full internal integration. The study, which was carried out by a mailed questionnaire, found that the proposed model is indeed valid. Three distinct groups of firms are identified that correspond to the hierarchical levels proposed in the model. The benefits realised by the firms were found to increase with increasing integration, but the level of process change required was found to be independent of the level of integration. Contextual variables, such as industry sector and organisational size, are explored for firms at the three different levels of integration. Developments of the Poon and Swatman model are suggested.
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So, how do you feel about planking? What's your favorite spin-off of it?My favorites would be:Batmanning Milking, which is where you randomly pour a gallon of milk on your head in public.Owling, where you squat down like an owl flap your hands and start hooting.
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What? What is planking? Doesn't it have something to do with punishment?
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plank·ing/ËplaNGkiNG/Noun:1.Planks collectively, esp. when used for flooring or as part of a boat.2.The act or process of laying planks. This is planking. But I'm pretty sure he was talking about this kind:[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq7NtDSIErE]Hope that link worked. If someone wants to change it for me, they most certainly may.
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Here is the link You didn't put the /url part. I personallt have never heard of milking.
Posted Nov 27, '12 at 9:47pm
I personallt have never heard of milking
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seen 1 = seen them all.only funny once, then never again.
Posted Nov 28, '12 at 1:24am
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Planking is so old...was funny for about a week..then became annoying. Especially when the hipsters got their hands on itNow a good one...Playing Dead. It is like planking..but you (and preferably a large group of people) play dead as if a something tragic/unexplainable just happened. Much more interesting results than planking
Posted Nov 30, '12 at 4:51pm
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I saw some planking vids awhile ago but theey were pretty funnny in my opinion some people were creative
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It's kinda stupid, no offense meant to anyone who likes it.
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We've all seen more than a few professionally designed infographics that convey more in a single webpage download than an entire 10 page article about some subjects. Infographics are perfect means to convey information and data analysis on the web, though it does take significant planning and powerful graphic design skills to create a compelling visual.
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Sodium-lithium countertransport kinetics in normal and hypertensive human pregnancy. | |
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Erythrocyte sodium-lithium countertransport activity is increased in a subgroup of patients with essential hypertension but activity also rises temporarily during normal pregnancy. It is not known if the mechanism of raised activity is the same in both of these situations. Standard sodium-lithium countertransport activity and its kinetic characteristics (sodium affinity and maximum velocity) were measured in 15 women with a normal pregnancy. The mechanism of raised sodium-lithium countertransport activity was an increase in maximum velocity. There was no change in sodium affinity. This contrasts with essential hypertension where the mechanism is increased sodium affinity. Sodium-lithium countertransport activity was also measured in 14 primigravidae whose pregnancies were complicated by hypertension, and mean activity was not significantly higher than in normal pregnancy. However, six women had increased sodium affinity suggestive of essential hypertension and a different underlying mechanism of hypertension to those with normal sodium affinity. Prospective measurement of sodium-lithium countertransport kinetics may lead to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of hypertension in pregnancy. |
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Last time I checked, Google claimed that 80% of YouTube videos had already been converted to WebM.
Besides, you are using flash (aren't you?) and flash still supports H.264. This battle isn't about current events - it's about the future viability of the open web. The W3C does not accept web standards that require loyalties, hence H.264 is completely unsuitable.
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So no, I'd rather not do that dance with you. We both made our points and disagree.
" Out of those 50, all 2 of them maybe had a minor positive impact on the majority of citizens. "
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Hey give the man some credit. He is only putting the finishing touches on the job started by the Bush dynasty.
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Budgeting for Vacations, Other People's Weddings, and Other Summer Stuff (Yay Summer!)
Mike: So Ester, it officially feels like summer! Maybe because it was 90 degrees the other day (but I still haven't put in my air conditioner, perhaps to Josh Michtom's delight). But I will! I did it in July last year.
Ester: We haven't either! I always hold out 'til the last possible moment, til I feel like a wax person whose own skin is melting off my body. For environmental reasons.
Mike: I guess for me it's part environmental reasons, but also because I don't think it's so terribly hot yet? I'm also not home very much, so that may be one reason. I'm at the office right now, and it's usually on, but it's quiet here today so I have turned off the a/c and opened the windows. It's below 80! Who needs it? Okay, so, the thing I wanted to ask you is whether you have summer travel plans and if you planned for it financially in advance.
Ester: Last summer, as you may recall, my husband Ben, babygirl and I decamped for seven weeks — we stayed in Vilnius, Lithuania, in an AirB&B that thankfully did not burn down (the Lithuanian rain would have taken care of that right away anyway I guess), in a couple different places in England, and then in a family friend's house in Spain. That was pretty amazing — and kind of ate up our travel budget for two years. So we don't have anything planned for this summer, really, except to figure out how to have, entertain, and enjoy time with a kid in the heat without leaving NYC. How about you?
Mike: I have a savings account through Ally that is specifically for vacations. I just checked and there is $400 in it.
I don't think I planned anything for this summer because of my recent trip to Playa Del Carmen. I have a black tie wedding to go to in a month. And then at the end of summer, I have another week-long work trip to Park City, which although will be for work will also kind of be a vacation? That'll be all paid for by the other company I work for.
Ester: How long do I have to work for you before you take me to Park City? :)
Mike: Hah, um—we can do a Billfold Trust Fall retreat at Coney Island if you want and hotdogs are on me.
Ester: YES. Let's take this show on the road! Anyway, my only travel things are wedding-related too. Do you budget for weddings via the same Ally vacation account? (How do people budget for other folks' weddings?)
Mike: No, I don't have a separate account for it, but have mentally budgeted for it, including the fact that I will be buying a tuxedo. The reason I'll be buying is because I looked at rentals and they were about $200 for these cheap tuxes, and there is nothing worst than renting a cheap tux (I remember them from high school!). But also, I have been looking at tuxedos for a month and cannot decide.
Ester: Please oh please write about the experience buying a tuxedo for the site. One of my most cherished memories about my wedding is that Ben went out and bought himself one — for the same reason as you — and then realized, the day of the ceremony, which was in D.C., that he had grabbed the wrong garment bag and left his tuxedo in New York. He ended up wearing an extra suit jacket that his groomsman had with him. Maybe you should try on THAT tuxedo actually! I don't know if Ben has ever even finally worn it.
Mike: I'm pretty sure it won't fit me! It's likely I will buy one off the rack and then have it tailored to fit. I've been looking for a while. Also, some of my friends were like, "Oh, and you can wear it to the Met Ball," because that is obviously happening to me in the future. (NOT HAPPENING.)
Ester: Or any ball! One never knows when one might get invited to a ball. Maybe one wakes up one day in a Jane Austen universe, or in "Downton Abbey" where a tux wouldn't even be good enough for certain occasions. Anyway, I like the idea of you owning a tux. It feels right.
Mike: I do remember that "Downton" episode. Okay, so I do have this other $400 that is supposedly for some kind of vacation. If you had $400, what would you do with it travel-wise?
Ester: I would hire a babysitter and then go screaming naked into the water somewhere, drunk with freedom. But that doesn't say much about what you should do. Um. I would do one of two things, probably: either pick a small city not too far away that I hadn't been to yet, like Charleston or Savannah (or Montreal!), and arrange a trip for a (long?) weekend; or I'd try to round up some friends and rent a house somewhere in the middle of nowhere and be languorous and indulgent together. Actually we're sort of doing that next weekend for a friend's bachelor party. (Said friend defines "bachelor party" very loosely.)
Mike: So for the Fourth of July, some friends and I are going to a cabin upstate, but the cabin is family-owned so it'll be a cheap weekend getaway, which is along those lines I think. The other thing I was thinking about was to just, like, not spend the money at all and keep it for next summer when the account will have more than a grand in it, and I can go to Italy or something.
Ester: Totally! That makes a lot of sense. Or you could split the difference and spend some of it on a day at a water park to or from the cabin, say, and a really nice dinner? It is really awesome that your new company is springing for two trips for you, essentially, one at the beginning of the summer and one at the end of it; next year might be different for some reason, and it makes sense to budget for that. But you should still do something nice and splurge-y for yourself.
Mike: Hah, I am a BAD SPLURGER.
Ester: Duh! I imagine that's why you have a VACATION FUND in the first place, to remind yourself to take vacation. (Did you read my piece on this? it makes you more productive and a better worker, seriously, science says so.) I am a bad splurger too though so I sympathize.
Mike: Yes, and I trust science. It's funny because I just bought a $50 gift certificate to an airline for a friend's birthday and when I sent it to her, I was like, "use this to have fun and find yourself a new adventure!" I should send that note to myself.
Ester: Me too! SCIENCE. I'm writing this at my improvised standing desk right now. But yes, totally. A relative gave us $100 once and earmarked it for something "frivolous" and I swear we took that injunction so seriously — what was sufficiently frivolous? We talked and talked and finally settled on Splish Splash, a water park on Long Island, and it was the best ever. We had so much fun. Another thing I might do with $400 though if I were only responsible for myself is visit a friend who lives elsewhere. I have friends and family on the West Coast; I might visit them. That only counts if they're friends or family you actually enjoy spending time with though. Obligatory / guilt-related family visits do not count as vacation.
Going back for a second, though, #RealTalk: black tie weddings? During the summer? I'm looking at my monitor kind of askance. Is it black tie optional at least?
Mike: No, it's black tie required! I have a really nice suit already that I would have worn were that the case. But I have a feeling this won't be my last black tie event, so I feel okay about going out and getting one. My inspiration has been looking at all these old classic photos of Sean Connery and Cary Grant and just finding something similar. Also, I kind of just want to wear it to the park and have a picnic? Like, why not, it's my tux and I'll do what I want with it.
Ester: Yeah! I'll have a black-tie birthday party. It'll be great: we'll get to dress up baby girl, and everyone can identify their old-school style icon. The trouble is maintaining that glam retro cool while sizzling in the sun. That is also my issue with black-tie summer weddings. Like, there better be a pool next to which to lounge in a stupor like Daisy in the Great Gatsby if you're gonna make me wear a gown, you know?
Mike: It'll be indoors! And I think there is a rooftop with a pool? It's a Manhattan wedding.
Ester: Oh my god, you know such amazing people. My next big wedding is at a rustic rural New Hampshire summer camp. There will be streamside yoga and campfires.
Mike: Hah, um, that sounds kind of fun? My secret is that I actually like going to weddings.
Ester: Me too! I cry at the ceremonies and dance at the receptions. But I'm also totally that guest that notices everything, from whether you invited too many people and it's crazy cramped, to the timing of the toasts (while we're still in the buffet line? come on).
Mike: Hah, I'm good with whatever the couple wants. Want a big Wedding Industrial Complex wedding? OK! Want me to show up at the courthouse with yellow tulips? Will do! Don't have enough food? I'll make something!
Ester: Hey, I said I *notice,* that's all. I too am good with yellow tulips or the whole shebang; in fact I'm helping a groom's mother pick out a dress this afternoon, and I am always available to write and deliver a last-minute speech. I love pitching in. Weddings are great! I wish they were slightly less costly and inconvenient, often, to the guests as well as the couple, but overall they make me really happy.
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Mike Dang: Probably great at everything but splurging and swearing.
Ester, I love your plans for your imaginary $400.
I am putting myself on temporary travel restriction. I can go see family as usual but otherwise no vacations outside of Florida/Georgia, at least for the rest of 2014. There's plenty to do here and it's cheaper to stay nearby and just take short weekend trips. We are doing OK financially but I want to really focus on paying off our last bits of debt and making sure we're 100% prepared in case my dude finishes school in Dec 2015 and does not find a job for a while. I am supporting us both now – he doesn't have a job, he's paying for his school costs out of his savings but I'm paying the rest of our expenses – and I want to make sure that's absolutely maintainable for well beyond the 18 months over which it will definitely be continuing. The first year has gone well, I think – honestly, if anything knowing it was all on me made me better with money so we actually got significantly ahead financially over the year despite going down to one income and paying for some major dental expenses and our wedding. Tomorrow's actually the one year anniversary of the day I got my current job and the day my husband put in his notice at his job to go back to school full time. Hurray! 40% of the way there, now.
Oh, also: I went through the massive glut of weddings in my friend group a few years ago, when I really wasn't able to travel to any of them, so I actually don't have any on the horizon except a local friend getting married in March. It's nice not to have to spend all my available $$ on that, especially as I live far from nearly all of my close friends so it generally involves travel (paying for both me and my dude), and we are not near a major airport so that's even more $$.
@ThatJenn Turns out this post was timely. Over the weekend a friend left a voicemail saying he and his intended had found their wedding plans (backyard wedding at her parents' house; parents were insisting on controlling details & guest list) for next March were getting WAY out of control, so they did the math and realized… it's cheaper for THEM if they have a destination wedding in Ireland! Exciting for them, and honestly I'd love the excuse to go, but since we are one-income right now it's just not a good time. My dude couldn't go anyway because he'd be in school and we're not doing a "weekend trip" across the Atlantic, and I couldn't afford to get us both there anyway. Going alone feels kind of mean to him and also a bit wasteful with my vacation time and money. Though I haven't said no quite yet… maybe I'll win the lottery or something. :)
mike dang in a tuxedo?! PIX PLZ :D
It took me a minute to realize that Mike wasn't in the wedding party, but rather was going to a wedding where *everyone* was wearing tuxedos, which: SWANKY. I was in a couple of weddings some years ago and had the thought that it would've been cheaper to buy a tux, but when you're a groomsman generally you all have to match, like the birdesmaids, so you usually end up having to rent no matter what swanky clothes you actually own!
Re: saving for travel, I have $250 a month budgeted for travel and move that amount into a CapitolOne Online account (RIP ING) on the 15th of every month. Obviously we don't actually spend that monthly but that's generally what it works out over the course of the year. Generally speaking there's enough in there to cover our travel expenses, though sometimes I have to "borrow" against the future (i.e. I'll be $500 short but I just won't put money in for the next two months) and we generally have enough if all-purpose savings to handle that kind of float.
@jfruh – I was also in a wedding in which the bride and groom called for black tie, so we had to rent a tux for our boyfriends (now husbands) and it was such a pain in the ass. When we got to the tux rental place (where they had like steered all guests too), OF COURSE the one my SO wanted was the same one the Father of the Bride was wearing, so that was a big no-no. And considering it was some typical North NJ banquet hall (with all the typical NJ wedding fixins) it looked like PROM. It was also a strange wedding, as there were no groomsmen, TEN bridesmaids, a MOH and a 'Woman of Honor', so all the pics are the groom surrounded by a softball team of women in long black gowns (barf) and he was also twenty years older than the friend, so you know, yeah. I don't talk to her anymore.
As for travel and other summer plans, we blew our latest vacay 'fund' on our anniversary trip, so probably just do some weekend trips and hang out. We're not planning on any big trips right now, since we are considering starting a family, so we'd like to move to a bigger place, etc. We have one wedding that we have to stay over for in August, which should be fine because we don't have any big plans. i believe there is a wedding shower, but they didn't send out invites and instead are spreading the information word of mouth, so since it's out of town I'm just going to pretend I didn't get a shower invite? I am usually pumped for showers, but I have two other ones in July and also, call me a stickler on etiquette, but like an evite would have sufficed?
I have a separate savings account for my friends' weddings and I have automatic deposits into it on paydays. I'll transfer money out at the end of wedding season or if I know I have fewer weddings than the year before.
@joyballz WHOA. Smart thinking award of the day goes to you.
@Heather F G I found myself getting salty about the expenses adding up and once I opened the savings account, I could actually enjoy the day (and bachelorette party and shower and hair apppointment and so on).
My dad has been pressuring me to take my two children and my girlfriend to go visit him in Portland, OR, which would be OK, I guess, except enormous cost + two children on a cross-country flight + MY DAD. But I didn't quite know how to say no, and then my friends had the good graces to invite me and my girlfriend to their wedding in Puerto Rico, which is also a lot of money, but PUERTO RICO.
I told my dad that if he wants me to visit more he should move to Puerto Rico.
I love/hate that a grand would pay for a trip to Italy. (I'm just bitter because I couldn't even fly to Italy one way for a grand.)
@eemusings Ugh, right? I went to Italy last summer and was totally (for some reason, I have no idea why) thinking that the flight would be less than $1000 – maybe like $800 tops. That was… not true.
@Madeline Shoes ooohhh tel me more. How do you go to Italy for less than 1k. Which sites do you use?
I already took my $$$ summer trip to see my very best friend for a week, languorous and indulgent style. Now we're beating back the desire to GO CAMPING EVERY WEEKEND because it gets pretty expensive pretty quickly but man oh man do I want to go up north and sit in the woods for like three weeks.
We're budgeting not only money but vacation time for a big trip we want to do a year from now. I am really excited about planning the trip but I want to go somewhere this summer SO BAD. We are lucky to live somewhere that there's a lot we can do in little weekend trips, but I want to get on an AIRPLANE. I feel like it's been so long since I've flown anywhere. I went on a little trip last October, and that the only time I've flown in over a year. Which, flying sucks, but going somewhere far away! I miss it.
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Her mantra for the past ten years, and through several books along the way, has always been the same: it's all about "the collapsing of the time that it takes for technologies to come together and create enormous efficiencies in the way we do things…and that we can't grow new businesses fast enough to satisfy the labor that's been displaced by the efficiencies."
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"As people learn more and more, they become focused on that knowledge, which becomes a liability," Weiner said, likening the situation to someone who has expensive, but cumbersome luggage, going on a journey, only to see someone with a less expensive, but also less cumbersome, backpack pass him by. The decision becomes whether to stay with the expensive luggage or giving that up for the backpack in order to move more quickly.
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