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Once you start living healthy, you'll begin to get addicted to feeling strong and powerful in your body. In fact, if you're not careful, your whole life might improve for the better because you'll be more positive and proactive. You'll discover for yourself the meaning of mens sana in corpore sano, the Latin aphorism for "a healthy mind in a healthy body." In time, by exercising regularly, staying hydrated, and eating healthy, you'll begin to look more like an ancient Greek athlete than what often passes for normal in an increasingly obese society.
Unfortunately, there's a price to pay for adopting this lifestyle. No, not the "no pain, no gain," type of price, the dollar kind of price. An unfortunate aspect of the modern world is that living healthy and being fit can become really expensive if you aren't careful. Since the results are worth the price, you have to figure out how to live healthy on a budget. Without realizing it, you may be responding to ubiquitous advertising that encourages you to spend too much on healthy living.
Here are some tips on how to follow a fitness lifestyle and pay far less for the benefit of looking and feeling great all the time:
- Don't join a gym.
Instead of joining a gym and paying monthly fees, keep the money in your pocket and exercise at home.
The benefits of lifting weights
If you want to sculpt a perfect body, lift weights. You don't really need to use the sophisticated exercise machines at a gym to build muscle. You can do the same thing by buying a barbell and dumbbell set for less than the cost of the monthly cable bill. By following a total body routine three times a week, you can completely transform your strength and endurance and look like a fitness model. Later on, when you get really strong, you might want to switch to a split training routine.
The benefits of spinning
Perhaps one reason you might have joined a gym is because of high-intensity classes, like a spin class. Well, you can buy a stationary bike; and get a spin class video to simulate a class in your own living room. Moreover, you can even buy a used stationary bike if you don't want to spend money on a brand new bike.
"To spin or not to spin?" That is a question that Hamlet should have asked. It would have pulled him out of his existential angst and given him a whole new perspective on the meaning of life.
Why hop on your bicycle and peddle furiously for 45 minutes? Well, you'll increase your energy as you push yourself, and each session will increase your endurance. Connected with the music, the team spirit, and a sense of purpose, you'll begin to feel euphoric. And, of course, you'll get all the benefits associated with a full workout, including beautiful, shapely legs.
- Plan your meals.
You might be surprised to discover how much you're spending on meals. With the cost of living on the rise, you get fewer groceries for the same price you used to pay a few years ago. Moreover, when you're at work, you might be tempted to eat out because you didn't prepare a packed lunch.
Although you might agree, in principle, that you can save money if you plan your meals, you might also be reluctant to follow this advice for some good reasons: it's complicated and it takes time.
However, here is a meal planning system from Emmie Martin and Samantha Lee that is simple to use and will save you both time and money:
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- One column should consist of the day of the week, followed by blanks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- The other column should have space for a shopping list.
- Now fill in all your meals. As you go through the week, depleting the foods you've bought, add it to the shopping list side.
This system forces you to think through everything you buy and eliminates impulse buying, getting extra food, or letting perishable foods go to waste. Additionally, through experience on what you like to eat, you'll get very efficient at shopping and meal planning, not wasting time on trying to figure out what you need to buy at the grocery store or what meals you should prepare during the week.
Other strategies the authors suggest for reducing your food bill is to "swap beans for meat, cook in batches, bulk up meals with carbs." To make meal prepping a bit more fun, invest in a new lunch box too, such as the eco-friendly stainless steel examples you can find at this lunchbox store. Every little helps when it comes to being disciplined.
- Add outdoor exercises.
Outdoor fitness activities are free or low cost. Besides working out in your home, you can also get some fresh air and sunshine by walking, running, or biking on the streets or in a park. Do the intensive exercises at home and the more relaxed exercise outdoors. For example, spin at home for 45 minutes since it's harder to race on the streets without coming to a halt at a stop sign every block and use a bike trail when you peddle outdoors.


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The Wyoming Cowboys galloped into Lincoln with all the swagger of a Frontier Days champion and left town with as much confidence as a rodeo clown who is bad at his job.
(Did I just write that? Holy crap. I might be ready for a career in mediocre sports writing.)
In all seriousness though, for three quarters the Wyoming Cowboys gave the Huskers fits… wait… scratch that.
For three quarters, the Huskers gave themselves and Husker Nation fits as miscues took points off the board and kept Wyoming within striking distance to ruin everyone's day.
Then the 4th quarter started and Nebraska slammed the door on Wyoming by scoring 28 unanswered points in one of the most crowd pleasing 15 minutes in recent Husker history.
Meanwhile, it was a quarter to forget for Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen. He had a run where three out of four pass attempts were picked off by the Blackshirts and contributed to another turnover with an errant backwards pass that was smartly scooped up by Dapper Ross Dzuris.
The most memorable play of the final period was Nate Gerry's first interception on the day. After he was brought down by Allen, Gerry handed the ball back to him and was promptly flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
It's hard to think of an example of trolling as masterful as giving the ball you just picked off back to the quarterback.
The refs clearly suspected Gerry of malice and promptly flagged him but I like to think Nate was just being helpful and wanted to make sure Wyoming didn't leave a football behind in Lincoln.
Let's break it down.
Gerry hands the ball to Allen and turns away so quickly he doesn't even have time to insult his mother.
Allen then gives a half-assed attempt at letting Gerry keep a souvenir and somehow manages to avoid a flag of his own.
It's so refreshing to see Gerry get flagged without being ejected.
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3: When he joined the 4th quarter interception party with a pick of his own, Chris Jones extended his INT streak to three games.
5: Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen threw his first five career interceptions on Saturday.
28: To find the last time the Huskers broke off 28 points in a 4th quarter, you gotta go back to 1996 when they rolled Oklahoma 73-21. They also put up 28 in the final period against Kansas in 1991 and Iowa State in 1984
More numerical surprises I found while looking through the box scores of every high scoring game from the last four decades:
29: Apologies in advance for the trigger warning but if you may recall, the Huskers did have a 29 point rally in the 4th against Purdue last year to bring the final score within 10 points. For everyone's sanity and peace of mind we won't mention that final score.
30: In 1982, the Huskers played their final game of the regular season at Hawaii on December 4. The Big Red entered the 4th quarter down 16-7 and would end up winning 37-16 thanks to what was surely a motivational pep talk from Tom Osborne.
48: In 1984 the Huskers broke the back of the Colorado Buffaloes with a 48 point 3rd quarter. There's no reason for sharing this other than it's awesome and is probably some sort of record.
Hope you enjoyed walk down memory lane and yes, I should probably get a new hobby.
57: In case you missed it, Tommy Armstrong now holds the Nebraska record for touchdown passes with 57.
105: Jordan Westerkamp returned to form with 105 receiving yards on just four catches. Westy's career yardage now stands at 2,059 only 631 yards short of breaking Kenny Bell's career record.
Finally, in case you missed it, Armstrong and Westerkamp are roommates.


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Sunday, February 28, 2010
DC hospital fires some nurses, other associates for not getting to work during colossal snowstorms
A private hospital in Washington DC, the Washington Hospital Center (MedStar Health), well known as a trauma center, has fired at least eleven nurses for missing work during the colossal snowstorms in Washington in mid-February. Theresa Vargas has the story "D.C. hospital fires 11 nurses, 5 staffers for snowstorm absences" link here.
Some nurses report termination several days after they had reported back to work and stayed overnight to avoid transportation problems. The termination letters apparently referred to gross misconduct. It's particularly disturbing that they took several days, when employees thought they would be all right.
During storms, calls go out for volunteers with four-wheel drives. Conceivably the National Guard could transport critical medical people.
In information technology, the workaround is usually to work from home. But during this storm, many people had power and probably broadband outages.
For several years in Minneapolis, I lived fifteen hundred feet from my job on the Skyway. It didn't happen much, but, yes, I could get other people's nightcalls. Work availability and ability to respond becomes an issue in some salaried jobs, relating to commuting distance, broadband access and family responsibility.
Wikipedia attribution link for picture of Washington Hospital Center
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Will "social media" become a fad matching dot-com bust. No, but employers have gotten silly
Patrick Gray has an interesting perspective on Tech Republic, "Antisocial media: Is this social media stuff really the future?" here. He compares the corporate interest in social networking as like the dot-com bubble of the late 90s; it's a fad that won't pan out like it is expected to. But whereas stock prices, particularly on the Nasdaq, were driven up by false expectations during the dot-com bubble, here a problem seems to be that in many businesses individuals are finding that employers want to expropriate their own online presence.
When you post, he says, make it professional and make it original. Don't just repeat rumors, especially on Twitter.
The link is here.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
What they should have taught you in school about the world of work: sales? (hucksterism?) manual labor?; watch your reputation!
Here's a cute article from Career Builder and Anthony Balderrama, "What they should have taught you in school; professional skills you wish you had learned," link here.
There is a lot of emphasis on soft skills and people skills, and even "small talk", the bane of introverted personality types. This is a far cry from the post last week on good technical interview "essay questions".
There are a lot of short quotes of what employers said in response to questions about what else people should be taught in school. Some of them were curious.
"Sales. No matter what you think, you'll be selling. Everyone's selling something; even if it's just themselves. Let's teach our kids how." My reaction, I don't want to become dedicated to peddling someone else's agenda.
Here's a good one that my father (with his mantra about "learning to work") would like:
"Manual labor. Everyone should have a manual labor job at some point. Wait tables and wash dishes. Pump gas. Mow lawns. A little humility is good for you and might prevent you from being a jerk later in life."
Call it "pay your dues!"
I noticed a post on Parry Aftab's "I Keep Safe" blog, "Some Employers, Colleges Asking Applicants to Pull Up Facebook During the Interview", link here, Jan. 29, 2010, link here and mentions the company Reputation Defender.
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Labels: online reputation, sales, soft skills
Sunday, February 21, 2010
IRS complicates things for programmers who want to go solo (trouble started in 1986)
Harvey J. Shulman has an improtant op-ed on p 8 of the Sunday Opinion Section of The New York Times today, February 21, "Our Low-Tech Tax Code" and its effect on information technology workers.
Shulman talks about a law called Section 530 from 1978, which allowed companies some reasonable basis, rooted in consistency, to let programmers remain "self-employed". But in 1986 a law called Section 1706 took away much of the protection for staffing firms, that had come into common use in the early 1980s.
In my experience, I hear a lot about staffing firms that offer the choice between W-2 (hourly and overtime, no benefits, but tax is withheld) or corp-to-corp, where one is an employee fully salaried by the staffing company with benefits. The political and legal climate is exerting considerable pressure on staffing companies to provide benefits. But for some technologists, being salaried might create some conflicts of interest. The article points out that the law and IRS action in 1986 might have shut down a lot of budding entrepreneurs who might have formed their own companies, able to employ others.
Remember, 1986 is the year that a notorious "tax reform" act was passed to eliminate passive real estate shelters, and it created more problems than it solved.
The link for the Times op-ed is here.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Candidates for programming jobs should know their stuff, at a conceptual level: what interviewers can ask, what programmers tell: the "IQ Test"
Tech Republic has a really important blog post Feb. 18 by Justin James, "Hiring a programmer: Ask these questions at an interview". The link is here.
I can remember the most common interview question back in the 1970s for COBOL programmers: how do you do a binary search? Or, what's the difference between SEARCH and SEARCH ALL.
The questions are a bit deeper now, and the article is written from the viewpoint that both procedural and OOP may be involved in the job (the bias is toward object oriented).
Yes, you should know the difference between "equality" and "equivalence" (or "value" equality or "instance equality", a concept which explains why sometimes "remembered" passwords in your browser don't work). Likewise, "call by value" vs. "call by reference". In the OOP world you need to know polymorphism, encapsulation, and inheritance. And you need to know about the different concepts in locking. (DB2 refines this further with share, update, and exclusive locks, or with the tricky concept of bind "isolation level, such as repeatable read and cursor stability).
He mentions that some well known software companies interview people by having them play puzzle games (back around 2000 a friend of mine called this the "IQ test"). There are also "whiteboard" oral exam questions, writing pseudocode to solve problems, like reversing an array without a loop. Ask an AP calculus student to write pseudocode for doing integration by partial fractions!
Certification tests, such as those by Brainbench, tend to emphasize detailed knowledge of many programming and design techniques, particularly in the database and SQL area, asking the examinee to predict results, or determine which alternative is most efficient, etc.
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
A job should be a career, eventually
Back in the summer of 1973, after a new manager had taken over the marketing branch of Sperry Univac in northern New Jersey where I had gone to work as a "systems analyst" in September 1972, the manager gave me his evaluation and said, "the most important thing to me is that you have a career". He did say that I had a "talent" for developing things and seeing them through to the end, through implementation.
The dark side of the comment was that I didn't have a "marketing profile." Univac then was #2 in mainframe computers, and with all the simplicity of its Exec 8 operating system and command-like JCL, it never could catch up with IBM. The hidden message, from an assistant manager, was that I had 90 days to find a transfer within the company.
I did find that in October, and wound up on a big benchmark in Minnesota anyway in early 1974, for Bell Labs. That would be ironic as eventually I would live in Minneapolis, but with another company (ING-ReliaStar) from 1997-2003.
In 1974, in fact, I would join NBC in New York City (at one of the only seven Univac installations in the City; another one was Pace College, and still another was the American Stock Exchange), as an applications programmer analyst, and my career took a direction that, in retrospect, gave it stability for almost the next thirty years.
I still remember that manager's comment about "a career". The last movement of Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony is based on a poem "A Career" by Soviet poet Yevtushenko, and the logline is, when translated, "A certain scientist, Galileo's contemporary, was no more stupid than Galileo. He knew that the earth revolves, but he had a family. And when he got into a carriage with his wife, after accomplishing his betrayal, he reckoned he was advancing his career, but in fact he'd wrecked it."
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Census accused of waste with temporary workers (AP, Commerce audit)
On a day that I am seriously considering calling Census later today about a temporary job, I I found this story about waste in Boston.com. It got mentioned this morning on ABC Good Morning America, in passing. It actually came from Hope Yen of the AP. The link is here. The article lets the expensive Super Bowl spot on CBS, but it says $3 million has been paid to temporary Census employees who haven't done any work, according to an audit that the AP says it has obtained. Apparently the report was developed by Todd Zinser of the Commerce Department.
If I go to work, I have to think about the oath seriously, and make sure it doesn't cause an "existential" or "prospective" legal conflict with my writing, particularly if I were to move into a supervisory role sooner or later.
In the DC area, Census, like all agencies, would be dealing with the lost of 4-1/2 days to snow.
And the temporary jobs are indeed a help given the economy.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Layoffs are really bad for business!
The February 15 issue of Newsweek has a great story by Jeffrey Pfeffer, "Lay off the Layoffs: Our overreliance on downsizing is killing workers, the economy – and even the bottom line", p. 32. The original online article appeared Feb. 5 with link here. Pfeffer os quite correct in noting that often layoffs don't improve the bottom line, and uses Circuit City, which lost the battle to even exist to Best Buy (a company that I remember well from my days in Minnesota, meeting a lot of their programmers in an XML class at Hennepin County Technical College in 2002). We've had periods when even in good times companies would make selective layoffs to improve the short term bottom line and stock price, and this whole "greed is good" strategy is unraveling. (Oh, by the way, if you noticed, "Wall Street" is getting remade this year with Michael Douglas and now Shia LaBeouf.
The Atlantic, in the March 2010 issue, runs an article by Don Peck (deputy managing editor), p. 42, "How a Jobless Era will Transform America". Peck talks about "funemployment" among young adults, and about opposing trends of stress on families and more interdependence among kin, something social conservatives want. The link is here.
Look also at this graph by Derek Thompson about the length of the average bout of unemployment, at the Atlantic online, here.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Employers want much more detailed resumes now than they used to
I get a lot of emails from TunaRez(link) offering resume evaluation, and an email yesterday (Tuesday Feb 9) related that the "rules of the game" for resume writing have changed. Employers want more now. They want to see not just what you did but how you did it. Using adjectives and adverbs is OK as well as active nouns and verbs (like in your English 101). They want to see more details, even on the resume, and start making decisions about "hiring" as well as interview even on the basis of the resume. Longer resumes may be all right for some people. And people will need to account for gaps in employment, not just layoffs but, for example, family care.
Even ten years ago, after the 2001, 9/11-related recession, outplacement companies had been telling candidates to keep resumes brief and functional, emphasizing "what" rather than "how" -- but with lots of quantification.
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Advice to mainframe programmers: stick with it, and specialize within mainframe
The scuttlebutt on the job market related to mainframe now comes across to me as this:
Ten years ago, if you have worked mainly as a mainframe programmer, particularly in the old-fashioned world of nightly cycles, JCL, on-call support, COBOL, CICS, S0C7's, AbendAid, etc (don't we remember this), it was more prudent to grow your background in the mainframe area where you had focused expertise, than to move into client-server, where it's hard to pick things up in non-linear learning curve mode. Why? For a moment, think about how you work at home. You use packages. You get proficient in what Blogger, Facebook, etc can do in detail, but you almost never need to write Javascript any more, let alone perl script. (Although, if you have to make an executive decision on how to redeploy your own website, it helps to know some things in detail.)
It seems like the contractor market seems pretty strong in focused areas like DB2, especially stored procedures; MQ programming, and certain kinds of applications, especially Medicaid MMIS and state welfare systems. The practical problem is that a programmer needs to be focused in one or two of these areas (not too many areas, because it gets diffused) and build a "reputation" over years – even an "online reputation" – on these areas. That may seem like asking for a lot of commitment from an employer base that acts utilitarian and not too willing to return the appreciation with long term career stability.
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Friday, February 05, 2010
Be careful: you can actually quit your job in Twitter
Well, you really have to be careful about what you say on your little microblog tweets, when you can resign from a job via Twitter. That's what Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems did a midnight last night, according to this MSN story by Elizabeth Strott, link
Gone, it seems, are the hardcopy resignation letters from the company laser printer.
What if somebody created a fake Twitter account and resigned for you?
The story also reports that sales jobs will increase at Oracle. It's possible that sales jobs will increase among a number of software companies. For example Pitney-Bowes (including Group-1 software, dealing with address standardization and USPS interfaces like MoveForward) has a page explaining its sales program here. Again we have the question, can techies sell? Should they?
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Census jobs: I may bite, but I must pay particular attention to usual confidentiality concerns and rules
Some time in the next several days or weeks, I may consider working for the 2010 Census. I want to set the record straight on some heightened concerns about strict Census confidentiality policies.
The Census Bureau, given its mission, has an unusual need to protect not only specific data items reported by individuals but also certain aggregate date in order to prevent any possibility that a hostile party could use aggregate date to identify individuals in unpopular groups. Because the data is used only in a statistical purpose for public policy, none of it can be made available to other government agencies, including law enforcement.
The Disclosure Avoidance Procedures are explained in the following web link. They may need several readings to be understood.
It's also good to review the questions on the 2010 census, here to get a feel for how various kinds of demographic data could be summarized by computer programs. Additional "details" as intermediate values could be computed from the responses on each form, following well known concepts in "procedural programming" of computers (common in older languages like COBOL).
The September 13, 2009 entry on my GLBT blog explains, with a Washington Post reference, how Census will count same-sex couples. This will be a new responsibility for the 2010 Census.
However, Census would have to protect data carefully, with suppression techniques like those mentioned in the above reference, in communities reporting only a small number of same-sex couples, to preclude any possibility that hostile parties could try to misuse the information. Similar concerns could exist for many other groups.
The same-sex couple problem illustrates how there could develop a heightened concern over accidental employee disclosure away from the job, in comparison to many other jobs involving data, where there is nearly always an expectation or legal requirement for confidentiality.
The legal basis for Census confidentiality requirements resides in Sections 9 and 214 of Title 13, United States Code, link here.
Every employee takes an Oath of Non-Diisclosure (link here) which is legally effective for life. Criminal penalties can be assessed for violation, even after leaving employment. In many private corporate jobs, similar legal requirements to protect stakeholder confidentiality after leaving employment exist, but often only with civil penalties. The Census Privacy principles are here.
Since my blogs cover such a range of issues (due to my "connect the dots" philosophy), I would be concerned about possible prospective concerns from an employer about inadvertent disclosure, particularly of sensitive aggregate information, at an unspecified time in the future, using a "propensity" model of thinking (following a legal model ironically known from the military's "don't ask don't tell" law).
However, I have always had to practice discretion in what I publish in my blogs, which, as I have discussed before, are unsupervised. There are always some ancillary personal situations that should not be disclosed, and there are always some specific matters related to previous employment that cannot be disclosed because of specific confidentiality agreements in the past. I have always honored these. Furthermore, I have been in situations before where someone could imagine scenarios where I might have a political motive to mine available data for some aggregate finding of potential use elsewhere. However, I have never used employer data for my own purposes.
In writing without third party due diligence to an "everyone" market, I would indeed have to practice care, and perhaps more care than ever before. For example, a comment that I believed there were X same-sex couples in some neighborhood of city Y could actually be a legal violation of confidentiality, even though the comment might seem to have political value. However, in principle there is no reason why it would be wrong to continue to blog (non-confidential and non-work-related) other subject matter off the job publicly while holding such a job. I see no direct problem with the Federal Statute (Title 13) or the lifetime oath. If I have direct reports, that could be another matter, and that may be covered in another post later.
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Monday, February 01, 2010
Be careful if employers give personality tests when you're already on the job (and when applying, too)
On Sunday, Jan. 31, Lily Garcia ran an article in the Jobs Section of The Washington Post about personality tests at work. The article is titled "Skip the test if you don't want your personality pegged at work", link here.
The article fields a question from a visitor who faces a Myers-briggs survey at work (link), which HR promises will be used only in the aggregate. Obviously, she fears being pegged by her employer as a "type."
Outplacement agencies give these tests to help give advice. But often employers give applicants 400-question true-false personality tests, both to detect deception but also to determine socialability, especially for customer service jobs. AT&T gave the test online to applicants, and would not let applicants who "failed" reapply for six months (back in 2002). TSA gives a test like this to applicants for screening positions.
Picture: Full Moon on a winter morning (no relation to post), when days start to get longer. "The days lengthen, the cold strengthens."
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Military Money: Here's What Men and Women in Uniform EarnSee military salaries by rank.
Men and women in uniform endure physical and emotional duress for the love of their country and to protect citizens from threats of all kinds. In return, the U.S. government provides benefits for military personnel and veterans — such as military pensions — as well as pay.
But just how much do military personnel get paid? The military pay scale in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps varies by rank and years of service.
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Airman Annual Salary
In the U.S. Air Force, airman salary depends on pay class and cumulative years of service.
An airman in the E-1 pay grade with less than four months of service will earn an annual military salary of $18,176, but those with more than four months of service will earn $19,666 a year, according to the military pay chart 2018. Those in the E-2 pay class earn an annual salary of $22,036, regardless of time served.
Airmen first class have a starting salary of $23,173, but that increases with years served. Those with three years or more of service can earn an annual salary of $26,122.
Read on to find out what money lessons you can learn from people in the military.
Private Annual Salary
In the U.S. Army, privates are paid according to their class. E-1 privates are paid $18,176 to $19,660 annually, E-2 privates second class are paid $22,036 and E-3 privates first class are paid $23,173 to $26,122, according to the Army pay chart.
The Marine Corps recognizes two classes of privates: E-1 privates and E-2 privates first. E-1 privates are paid $18,176 to $19,657 annually, and E-2 privates first class are paid $22,036.
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Seaman Annual Salary
In the U.S. Navy, E-1 personnel (seaman recruit) earn $18,176 to $19,660 annually, and E-2 personnel (seaman apprentice) earn $22,036, according to the Navy pay chart. For seaman recruits, the salary is bumped up after four months of service, but for seaman apprentices, pay does not change within the rank no matter how long an individual has served.
E-3 Navy personnel (seaman) are paid between $23,173 to $26,122 annually, depending on their years of service.
Corporal Annual Salary
In the Army, those who rank just below sergeant — E-4 specialist or corporal — are paid between $25,668 and $31,158 annually.
In the Navy, E-4 personnel rank as petty officers third class. They earn between $25,668 and $31,158 annually.
An individual with the rank of E-4 in the Air Force is a senior airman. He or she will earn between $25,668 and $31,158 annually, according to the Air Force pay chart.
In the Marines, E-4 personnel are corporals, and they earn between $25,668 and $31,158. Lance corporals rank just below corporals in the Marines. They are paid between $23,173 to $26,122 annually, depending on their years of service.
Salary isn't always the most important thing, however, because it's not the only thing that will make you wealthy.
Sergeant Annual Salary
The Army, Marine Corps and Air Force all have five levels of sergeants: E-5 through E-9. The Navy has five levels of petty officers, a sergeant's equivalent. Sergeant salaries are based on years of service, ranging from 2 or less up to over 40:
- E-5: $27,994 to $39,726
- E-6: $30,557 to $47,329
- E-7: $35,330 to $63,497
- E-8: $50,825 to $72,486
- E-9: $62,086 to $96,397
Sergeants can stow their hard-earned money away in banks and credit unions that offer military discounts.
Lieutenant Annual Salary
There are two classes of lieutenant in the Army: second lieutenant (O-1) and first lieutenant (O-2). Second lieutenants earn $37,296 starting out. After three years, they earn $46,922, which is where their pay is capped.
First lieutenants with two years of experience or less are paid $42,966. After four years, they get a salary bump to $59,259. And after six years, they can earn $59,461.
In the Navy, O-2 personnel (lieutenant junior grade) receive between $42,966 and $59,461. The equivalent of a captain in the Navy is a lieutenant (O-3). A Navy lieutenant is paid between $49,727 and $80,899. O-4 personnel (lieutenant commander) are paid between $56,556 and $94,432 yearly. The pay range is broken down into tiers according to years of service.
A second lieutenant in the Marines is paid between $37,296 and $46,922, but a first lieutenant is paid $42,966 to $59,461.
In the Air Force, a second lieutenant can make between $37,296 and $46,922, and a first lieutenant can earn between $42,966 and $59,461.
Check Out: See What a $100K Salary Looks Like After Taxes in Your State
Captain Annual Salary
In the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, a captain (O-3) can make between $49,727 and $80,899 annually.
Major Annual Salary
In the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force, a major (O-4) can make between $56,556 and $94,432. Majors are bumped up to the highest salary range after 18 years of service.
Colonel Annual Salary
In the Army, O-5 personnel are lieutenant colonels. They are paid between $65,549 and $111,362 annually. O-6 personnel (colonels) earn between $78,628 and $139,198.
O-5 personnel in the Navy are commanders. They earn between $65,549 and $111,362. O-6 personnel (captains) can earn anywhere from $78,628 to $139,198.
In the Marines, lieutenant colonels are paid between $65,549 and $111,362, depending on years of service. Colonels receive a salary between $78,628 and $139,198.
Air Force lieutenant colonels are paid anywhere from $65,549 and $111,362. Colonels earn between $78,628 and $139,198, depending on how long they have served.
General Annual Salary
The highest rank in the military, generals can earn a salary of more than $150,000. O-7 through O-10 personnel in the Army, Marines and Air Force are all called brigadier general (O-7), major general (O-8), lieutenant general (O-9) and general (O-10).
The Navy has its own classifications of these pay grades: rear admiral lower half (O-7), rear admiral upper half (O-8), vice admiral (O-9) and admiral (O-10).
According to FederalPay, military personnel in these branches receive roughly the same pay:
- O-7 personnel receive between $103,687 and $154,915
- O-8 personnel receive between $124,783 and $179,892
- O-9 personnel receive between $176,357 and $189,601
- O-10 personnel receive a salary of $189,601
In addition to these officer ranks, the Army and Air Force have general positions that are reserved for wartime: general of the Army and general of the Air Force. Similarly, the Navy has a fleet admiral position that is reserved for wartime.
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Gabrielle Olya and Lisa Christy contributed to the reporting for this article.
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It is estimated that an additional 55 to 90 million people will be trapped in extreme poverty in 2009 due to the worldwide recession. The number of chronically hungry people is expected to climb to over 1 billion this year, reversing gains in fighting malnutrition and making the need to invest in agriculture especially urgent.
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The MITOMED project's 12th project meeting was held in Girona (Spain) on 24/25 January. The project partners met at the University of Girona to take stock of actions to date and discuss the project's progress and continuity.
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Among the key forthcoming events to be organised at local level are the policy learning seminars. High-level local stakeholders and project pilots will be the main target group of these seminars and are likely to work on policy recommendations to be integrated into the MED M&C tourism management model, led by the IMC is in charge.
The MED M&C tourism management model will take stock of relevant EU and MED projects, the measures and principles to be applied and the future planning instruments.
Following this, an update on the Sustainable Tourism Thematic Community work on policy factsheets and other relevant MED initiatives was presented. One of the key upcoming events discussed was the IMC Political Bureau and seminar on emerging strategies and blue growth, held in Barcelona on 4 February, back-to-back with the Med Cat Forum.
The second day was dedicated to the inauguration of the first Catalan Green Beach in Sant Antoni de Calonge (Costa Brava). The Green Beach interventions were presented by the city council authorities in Torre Valentina beach.
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Guarding the Mexican border is paramount to our national security, but there just aren't enough agents to patrol the entire 2,000-mile stretch. As a result, the Department of Homeland Security is now using a new tool that's proved very effective overseas: predator drones.
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From four miles up, smuggling along the Mexican border comes in various forms: illegal immigrants sneaking through the brush, a drug-running, ultra-light airplane heading toward Tucson, Ariz., a Black Hawk helicopter corralling a group of border crossers. Those scenes are all seen by a predator remote-controlled aircraft armed with high-powered cameras, CBS News Correspondent Bob Orr reports.
Dave Gasho runs the predators for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a barren base in Arizona.
Pilots "fly" the planes from a trailer on the tarmac.
"Most people coming across the border are either migrants or drug smugglers," said Gasho. "We don't know who they are. They could be terrorists. They could be people who have intentions of harm against the United States."
Predators are best known for tracking and killing terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Here, on the U.S. border, they are used strictly for surveillance.
CBS News spoke with Gasho as a predator watched from above.
"I'm pretty sure they'll be able to tell you're wearing a blue shirt, tan slacks, I'm in a flight suit with a black hat," said Gasho. "They can see that."
Gasho said people trying to sneak across the border would be plainly visible to the drones, giving federal agents an advantage to get in position to intercept them.
Policing the 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico is more than a full-time job for some 17,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents, but the predators help shrink that challenge. They're able to peer miles into Mexico.
For agents like Colleen Agle, the predator serves as high-tech backup.
"They can make a rapid identification and classification of what exactly is there so that we know what kind of law enforcement response we need to make," Agle said.
Three of the aircraft fly along the Mexican border. Two patrol the Canadian border, and one cruises over the Caribbean.
In the last five years, predators have helped net 40,000 pounds of drugs and nab 7,000 illegal immigrants, according to Homeland Security.
"We are expanding the manpower resources," Gasho said.
Gasho wants more pilots to keep the predators flying around the clock, saying nothing else provides this kind of immediate intelligence.
"My boss in Washington, D.C., can log on and say, 'What are we looking at right now?'" Gasho said.
The picture is fed in real time to the command center.
The program is expensive. Each predator costs around $18 million and the aircraft has limits. They are only cleared to fly inside a narrow zone along the border and can't fly at all in bad weather. Still, to Gasho, the air fleet is essential.
"This is sovereign U.S. soil, and I think we need to defend it as such," Gasho said.
And Congress is sold. A fourth predator is on its way to the Mexican border.
More on Drones in U.S.
Errant Drone near D.C. almost Shot Down
U.S. Expands Use of Drones over Southern Border
FAA Pressed to Allow Drone Flights in U.S.


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Georgiev, Vladimir
Georgiev, Vladimir
Born Feb. 3, 1908, in the village of Gabare. Bulgarian linguist. Specialist in general and Indo-European linguistics. Member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1945.
A professor at the University of Sofia, Georgiev is a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1952) and the recipient of honorary doctorates from the universities of Vienna and Berlin. His chief works are Studies in Comparative and Historical Linguistics (1958) and An Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages (1966). Georgiev was awarded the Dimitrov Prize in 1951 and 1969.


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On March 23, 2017 at approximately 1725 hours Deputy Landon Loe was dispatched to the 200 block of Hempstead 179 in reference to a camper on fire.
Upon arrival, he made contact with Charles Butchbeck who stated that he was the owner of the farm. Charles stated that he was attempting to burn a round hay bale and an ember flew from the fire and ignited a nearby camper on his property.
Charles stated that after they noticed the top right of the camper was on fire, one of his farm hands then got into a backhoe and tore that part of the camper off in order to stop the spread of the fire. Deputy Loe noticed the fire had begun to spread slightly into the woods, but wasn't burning out of control. Guernsey Fire Department arrived on scene and handled the remainder of the incident.


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Kabou is stool, toy and tool.
Kabou is made to move.
Kabou is a stool for children that is both tool and toy – suitable for concentrated learning and working as much as for playing.
Kabou offers a dynamic form of sitting through an amplitude of different possible sitting positions. Those help ignite movement, ensure a healthy body posture and thus improve concentration and alertness. Kabou is a rotational moulded, durable, lightweight and versatile companion for everyday's life, easy to clean and suitable for indoors and outdoors in the public and private domain alike.
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If you wanted to convert a PW into a wrist watch, how can it be done?
If you wanted to convert a PW into a wrist watch, how can it be done?
Weld a couple of lugs on the case at 12 & 6 o'clock approx 22mm apart, counter sink the insides of the lugs to allow for strap spring bars and go crazy!
(or find a watch case that the movement fits in and go a little less crazy)
Pavo absolutus
You'd also want to have a new dial made that you could rotate 90 degrees, placing the crown on the right side instead of the top. This would make your wristwatch a "nine-eater."
Regards from Sunny San Diego..........Tom
"There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend, those with loaded
guns and those who dig!"................Blondie to Tuco in TGTB&TU (1966)
Depends on the case, really. Bear in mind that most cases weren't really designed to accept much bending force, so there's a risk of the case bending if you tighten the strap too much.
Also keep in mind that the large, relatively heavy balance wheel running at standard 4bps is going to be far less accurate when you're swinging it around at the end of your arm, and that the general lack of shock protection means you need to be very careful about bumping it.
"How do you convert a pocket watch into a wrist watch?"
Simple: you don't!!
(Why trash a piece of history that is becoming rarer every day?!)
Hartmut Richter
You'll find a lot of pocket-watch enthusiasts will react that way, and not without reason. If you just want a large watch on your wrist, there's lots of contemporary choices (even in mechanical). It isn't really clear to me why someone would want a "vintage" watch if they aren't interested in its history, and the appeal of the history is kinda diluted if you've modified it. Kinda like taking a Picasso sketch, and cutting off one side so that it'll fit in a certain frame.
The thing with old stuff is that once you change it, even slightly, you can't go back.
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We derive a general law for the factor of any beam generated by a partially coherent Schell-model source. The fourth power of M differs from its minimum value, attained in the coherent limit, by a term proportional to the second derivative of the modulus of the spectral degree of coherence evaluated for zero argument. Examples are given for cases of practical interest.
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Leaving for the Grand Cayman Islands to begin my cancer immunotherapy protocol! Read all about it and please help if you can. We so appreciate it.
As many of you know I have devoted my life to helping both people and pets holistically and now I really need help.
I battled for my life this entire year with stage 3 ovarian cancer, multiple surgeries, 6 rounds of chemo and a lot of holistic therapies that I share here and on my Facebook pages..
And now it is 'crunch time' for my husband and I to raise the last approximately $20,000 for me to get to the Grand Cayman's to begin my immunotherapy.
The immunotherapy protocol for me consists primarily of a series of 4 vaccines initially, which are made exclusively from my own stored tumor tissues, which were stored at the time of my first surgery, at StoreMyTumor and are available now for me to do this amazing protocol. We have just the right amount of stored tumor tissue for this purpose, thanks to how…
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Game Assets - Console Controller Buttons
A downloadable asset pack for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Set of console buttons, Dpads, Thumbsticks and bases, and bumpers with a great flat design. Great for any Xbox One or Ps4 game project! All button pngs are 256 x 256 and scale down nicely.
In order to download this asset pack you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Distribute-Then-Print refers to the digital transmission of a customer file to an affiliate printshop at another location -- many times in another state or country. This method saves time and shipping costs.
Choose from a wide selection of cups, pens, key rings, Food & candies.
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The cloud. Microsoft would have you think it's the real power behind the Xbox One. Google would have you think it's a magical place where everything is kept. Pity, then, that it's not quite as magical as that, even if the truth is interesting in its own way.
Filmmaker Timo Arnal has made Internet Machine, a documentary that takes us through one of the world's biggest data centers, located in Spain.
It's not really designed to be watched on a computer screen, though; Arnal made it to be enjoyed on large, multi-panel screens (like you'd find in a gallery or museum), where you can be immersed in a virtual environment.
Kinda reminds me of what a next-gen Mirror's Edge game would look like if they didn't need the white/red aesthetic...
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As promised in my Hidden Gems and Rough Diamonds post, I had a bit more of a search in the city to find some more Look.Stop.Shop installations that I couldn't find last time. These beautiful little watercolour (I think) artworks were in the window of a shop called Design A Space down a tiny little laneway called Manchester Lane. The artist is Emma Leonard.
Glass and reflections are definitely my enemy right now because it made it so difficult to take any decent photos of the window displays down in the Campbell Arcade. They featured these hanging black bunnies adorned with crystals.
Two other places I found down laneways I had no idea existed were Pieces of Eight and Lucy Folk.
My list of places to visit/spend my money at keeps getting longer and longer but I love buying and supporting Australian designers because they are so talented and truly deserve it.


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Vanilla Citrus Moisturizing Oil
A hydrating, all-purpose oil designed for face, body, and hair. Formulated with jojoba oil which is closest to the skin's natural sebum, apricot oil to soothe and hydrate, and essences of vanilla and sweet orange for an intoxicating aroma. Ideal for all skin types.


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Have you ever watched kids play with play dough? I always find it funny that a favorite play dough activity involves poking things into the dough until it resembles a small porcupine. After watching Abe do this one day, I realized that I could transform his adorable creation into a really cool Christmas ornament...
I love the retro feel of all the glittery star burst ornaments in stores these days. (CB2 has this cool flocked version and Crate & Barrel has these silvery ones, even Target has some!) They're all nice, but I really like how our more colorful creations turned out. I'd love to make one in every color of the rainbow!
You'll need:
play dough (or hot glue)
craft sticks (1 package is enough for about 2½ ornaments)
paint (spray paint or acrylic craft paint)
Mod Podge
It's a little hard for toddlers to work all the way around the ball (although the top half always looks great!), although older kids should be able to do this...or just break out their play dough and have a little fun of your own!
1. Make a small ball of play dough and poke a skewer halfway through it. (Works better if you use the flat end instead of the pointy end.)
2. Insert craft sticks all the way around.
3. Continue inserting craft sticks until your ball is adequately covered.
4. Insert a small paper clip or loop of wire into the dough if you want to be able to hang it later.
5. Put your ball in a cool, dry place and allow it to sit until the dough hardens. This could take up to a week. (For immediate results, skip the dough and build the ball with hot glue instead!) The sticks shouldn't wiggle at all if the dough is completely hardened.
6. Once the ball is dry, paint it. Spray paint is fastest, but you can also apply craft paint with a brush if you don't have or want to use spray paint.
7. Once the paint is dry, use a brush to apply Mod Podge. (If any of the sticks feel loose, you can glue them in place now, but if more than a couple feel loose your dough probably isn't dry yet!) Starting with the center and only working on a small section at a time, apply glue...
8. ...then immediately sprinkle with a lot of glitter. Once the center is coated with glitter you can start on the sticks. I was able to paint 10-12 sticks before the glue started to dry. I'd coat those in glitter and then paint glue on the next batch of sticks. I used the entire jar of glitter coating the whole ball, but once I funneled the leftover glitter back into the jar...
...it was almost completely full! Just don't be afraid to really sprinkle it on heavy to get good coverage.
9. Once the glue is dry, clip off the skewer so it's the length of the other sticks (I used pruning shears but a serrated knife works too), attach a string to the paperclip, and hang!
These would also look really pretty in a bowl or on a shelf, or leave the skewers on and group them in a vase like flowers! So many possibilities... Anyone else covering their house in glitter? Hogging all their kids craft supplies? I love so many of the ornaments we've made for our tree, but these are definitely some of my favorites!


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Aloha from Hawaii! Just kidding, Justin here from Greenland. Day 8 was a rather exciting one for us. We took a long hike down to the glacier in order to sample some very Mars-like terrain called a gossan.
Once we all safely made it to the glacier, we suddenly found ourselves on Mars.
The drill we were using required water to run, so we took a second hike even closer to the glacier to pick some up.
Returning up the hill to our drill site, we took some pretty good soil samples, then took the long hike home for the day.


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Product design & UX design
UX is the #1 reason why particular websites are so awesome users simply l-o-v-e using them and other ones are abandoned in no time.
Our approach to getting UX right
- We're obsessed about details, because we know that such small stuff as hidden filters or unclear homepage can turn the impression of a user 180 degrees. We believe your product is exceptional. It deserves impeccable UX.
- We're constantly balancing between analyzing customer behavior data and listening to user feedback. There's a right time for each.
Our process
No matter if you are working on a new website or you want to improve an existing one - the UX design process in our case will contain some or all of the following steps:
- Gathering data by assessing your business needs, auditing existing apps or websites, analyzing the market, competitors and the target group
- Creating personas and getting the full understanding of what your users need
- Conducting UX workshops (like user journey map or brand identity map)
- Creating wireframes and performing user tests
- Collaborating with developers during the implementation stage
- Iterating.
Here at Kiwee, we vowed to always be setting the highest bar for ourselves and our clients when it comes to user experience, because we consider convenience and intuitive design simply a must-have.


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Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of Z Video Showcases Bonuses, Digital Content
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Namco Bandai Games Europe began streaming a promotional video for the Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z game on Thursday.
The video highlights the bonuses available in the limited "Goku Box" edition. Included is a 25-centimeter (9.8-inch) tall figure of Goku in Super Saiyan mode designed by Hiroyuki Nakazawa, an artbook that includes work-in-progress visuals of characters and game stages, and a collector's box. Bonus digital content includes Naruto Uzumaki's Sage Mode costume for Goku.
In the "team melee action" game, up to four players can play cooperatively, or eight players can engage in a massive battle royale. The game will feature four different battle types, and a full-featured solo play. The game has online multiplayer support, and players can work together on attacks such as "Synchro Rush" or boosting each other's health via "Revive Soul."
Players can also form "dream teams" such as the "ultimate Son Goku team" (composed of four different forms of the hero from regular to Super Saiyan God) or a team of all forms of Frieza. Players can take on colossal bosses in 360° all-range battles. The game has 60 exclusive missions and over 70 different playable fighter characters, including the God of Destruction Birus and his companion Uis from this year's Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods film.
Namco Bandai Games will release the game in North America for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita (digital only), and Xbox 360 on January 28. The game will be available in Europe on January 24 and in Japan on January 23. Namco Bandai Games has confirmed that the game will also be released in Europe, Latin America, and Brazil.


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When & why VAT Agent in Bangladesh is a Compulsory Requirement?
A non-resident entity, who carries out business in Bangladesh but does not have a fixed place of business shall have to appoint a VAT Agent in Bangladesh as per the Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act, 2012 and The Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Rules, 2016 effective from 1st July 2017. The VAT Agent will be the person empowered to perform functions on behalf of the Business entity.
The VAT agent will be the person empowered to perform functions on behalf of the non resident with the VAT authorities.
How VAT Agent Shall Operate in Bangladesh?
The VAT Agent has to obtain a VAT Agent certificate on behalf of the non-resident which is usually valid for 3 years. The certificate can be renewed through an application before the expiry of the said certificate.
After nomination of the VAT agent of the non-resident shall have to inform the National Board of revenue of such nomination and the National Board of Revenue shall contact the VAT agent for obtaining his consent thereof.
Such VAT Agent of a non-resident shall bear all responsibilities and carry out all activities of the non-resident, and shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of all dues including taxes, fines, penalties, and interests that may be imposed.
Nevertheless, the VAT registration of the economic activities by a VAT Agent shall be in the name of the principal.
We at FM Consulting International are a body of professionals comprised of Chartered Accountants registered with Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh, Cost and Management Accountants registered with Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh and lawyers registered with Bangladesh Bar Council.
Our professionals have the requisite qualifications to act as the VAT agents of the non-resident entity in Bangladesh, having the requisite experience to deal with VAT authorities with regards to VAT return submission, obtaining VAT exemption, input/output tax credit, VAT Audit, VAT registration.
For further queries please feel free to contact us at [email protected].


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NYC-based duo Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper write songs through a telepathic kinship they've developed since they started making music together. "We have these sort of unspoken criteria when we're writing music.
We never really need to explain what that is but we both know when it's missing or when we've hit it." The pair, AKA Tempers, are set to release their 'Fundamental Fantasy' EP via The Vinyl Factory on 24th February.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently announced updates to the state's oil and gas drilling regulations, which the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) recently approved.
Changes to the rule include modernization and strengthening to regulate conventional and unconventional industries to better protect public health and safety and the environment. The "Environmental Protection Performance Standards at Oil and Gas Well Sites" rulemaking, which impacts Chapters 78 and 78a, advanced with a 15 to four vote from the board, which is an independent body that adopts the state's environmental regulations. The revisions considered public input from over 25,000 community members from throughout the state.
Specifically, the updated regulation is intended to improve water resources protection, public health and safety protection measures and data management, as well as foster more transparency and address landowner concerns.


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Microsoft this week announced that an application compatibility guarantee it gave to enterprises migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10 has gone global.
The "Desktop App Assure" program, which launched in October and was then available in North America only, has been expanded to all markets, Brad Anderson, the executive who leads the Microsoft 365 group, said in a post to a company blog.
[ Related: Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration guide ]
"We've heard loud and clear that one of the most important considerations for shifting to a modern desktop is application compatibility, and we've done a massive amount of work to ensure that Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus are now the most compatible upgrades ever," Anderson said.
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Squeaky shoes can be more than annoying — they can be downright embarrassing. Walking down the aisle in a quiet auditorium, entering a serious staff meeting, finding your seat in a silent testing facility. Luckily, if you have a favorite pair that won't stop squeaking, it's possible to silence them for good.
First, isolate where the squeaky noise is coming from. If you need to, have a friend put her head close to the floor while you walk to help you isolate which part of the shoe is making the noise. Rock your feet forward and back and from left to right, advises WikiHow. Once you know what part of the shoe is squeaking, sprinkle that area with baby powder, corn starch or baking powder. This will help to absorb noisy moisture and reduce noise from two parts of the shoe that may be rubbing together.
If it's the inside of the shoe that squeaks, lift the insoles and sprinkle powder along the inner seam. If the insoles are non-removable, rub the powder into the edge of your shoe base. If the tongue of the shoe squeaks, powder that area under the laces, according to WikiHow. If the base of your shoe is squeaking, massage the powder into the base at the seam since there are probably air bubbles.
Sometimes leather conditioner can work. Just rub some leather conditioner into your shoes, and then buff with a dry cloth. If they are suede shoes, be sure to use special suede conditioner and not regular leather conditioner.
You can also try swabbing your shoes with WD-40, according to ThriftyFun.com. It can be more effective at removing squeaks than leather conditioner, but you do need to apply it very carefully to prevent damage to your shoes. Spray one of these lubricants onto a cotton swab or cotton ball. Rub it into the outside seam of the shoe, working along the squeaky area or its entire outline. This YouTube video shows this tip at work.
If they are new shoes, the squeaking may be caused by a manufacturing defect and you may be able to return the shoes, according to WiseGeek.org. In this case, if you try to fix the squeak yourself, you may void the warranty in the process.
If the squeak is due to a loose heel, or the bottom of a shoe has come unglued from the top of the shoe, sometimes a tube of silicone caulk can help, WikiHow says. Carefully squirt some caulk into the hole, and let the shoe dry with rubber bands around it overnight, which will help keep the two parts of the shoe tightly together while the caulk dries. If the shoes are coming apart from wear and tear, it may be time to get rid of the shoes. And if they are new shoes, particularly expensive ones you don't want to damage, your best bet may be to take them to a cobbler.
A cobbler also may be the solution if you just can't fix a squeak yourself. Though shoe repair shops seem few and far between in recent years, a good cobbler will be able to isolate a loose shank inside the shoe or other hardware problem you just can't fix on your own.