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October 29, 2007

1and1

https://admin.1and1.com/

This is on their page:

Choosing a reliable web host is important. 1&1 is both the world’s biggest web host, and the fastest growing. Our global community is 6.39 million people strong. We are financially stable, profitable, and will be securing your website for many years to come.

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October 23, 2007

Blue Card vs Green Card

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7057575.stm

Blue Card
* Does not give permanent residency
* Valid up to two years, renewable
* Allows holders and families to live, work and travel in EU
* Applicant must have one-year EU job contract with salary of three times minimum wage
* Permanent residency automatic after five years

Green Card
* Gives holder permanent residency
* Valid for 10 years, renewable
* Allows holder to live, work and travel in the US
* Five channels to seek a card: employment, family links, a lottery, investment, or resident since before 1972
* Holders can become US citizens after five years

Posted by chek at 01:38 PM | Comments (0)

October 17, 2007

Filoli Gardens, Feb

http://www.filoli.org/

Filoli Center
Woodside, California

2007 Calendar

February 13 Filoli opens for 2007 season
February 27 -March 3 Opening Event:Camellia Treasures - Trees to Teas
March 21 - 25 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
March 31 Spring Festival
May 10 Flower Show Preview Party
May 11-13 Mother’s Day Flower Show and Brunch
June 28 Members-Only Twilight Stroll (1)
June 17 through September 23 Jazz at Filoli
July 17 - 21 Flowers in the Home
July 28 Wine with Roses (Evening Event)
September 18 Members-Only Twilight Stroll (2)
October 6 Autumn at Filoli Festival (Fruits at Filoli Cookbook)
October 28 Last day of 2007 season
November 23 - December 1 Holiday Traditions

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October 16, 2007

Export License

http://www.fragomen.com/

On October 16, 2007, President Bush signed S. 1612, a bill amending the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The new amendments significantly increase penalties for violations of U.S. export regulations, including deemed export provisions.

Under applicable Commerce Department rules, businesses and universities may be required to obtain export licenses prior to the release of certain sensitive technologies to foreign nationals in the U.S . depending on the nature of the technology and the foreign national's home country. This requirement, known as the "deemed export rule," treats foreign national access to technology in the U.S. as "deemed" to be an export of that technology to the foreign national's home country. Failure to identify the issue and, where applicable, failure to obtain the appropriate license, may result in visa delays and denials, foreign national deployment problems, civil penalties including loss of export privileges, and criminal sanctions.

Under the new law, civil penalties may now be imposed in an amount of up to the greater of $250,000 per violation, or twice the amount of the underlying transaction. Similarly, criminal penalties have increased accordingly and now include a fine of up to $1,000,000 and/or imprisonment for up to 20 years per violation. Prior to enactment, civil penalties were capped at $50,000 per violation, with criminal penalties limited to a maximum of $250,000 and/or imprisonment for not more than 10 years.

Not only have civil and monetary sanctions increased five-fold, but the new law also expands the criminal provisions to include conspiracy to violate and aiding or abetting a violation. In addition, the new penalties are retroactive for civil violations if subject to pending or subsequently commenced enforcement actions, and are retroactive for criminal violations if based on enforcement actions commenced on or after enactment.

In a related move, on October 11, 2007, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the National Counter-Proliferation Initiative to harness and coordinate the counter-proliferation assets of U.S. law enforcement, licensing, and intelligence agencies, including ICE, to combat the growing national security threat posed by illegal exports of restricted U.S. military and dual-use technology. The DOJ stated in a press statement that "[t]he threat posed by illegal foreign acquisition of restricted U.S. technology is substantial and growing," including efforts by Pakistan, China and Iran in particular. "Foreign states and terrorist organizations are actively seeking to acquire U.S. data, technological knowledge and equipment that will advance their military capacity, their weapons systems and even their weapons of mass destruction programs. Many have targeted our government, industries and universities as sources of these materials," according to Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. The announcement follows the appointment of a career DOJ prosecutor to serve as the first National Export Control Coordinator, a move that many see as suggestive of an upcoming rise in enforcement actions and prosecutions.

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October 15, 2007

Regular Expressions

http://www.regular-expressions.info/

A regular expression (regex or regexp for short) is a special text string for describing a search pattern. You can think of regular expressions as wildcards on steroids. You are probably familiar with wildcard notations such as *.txt to find all text files in a file manager. The regex equivalent is .*\.txt$.

But you can do much more with regular expressions. In a text editor like EditPad Pro or a specialized text processing tool like PowerGREP, you could use the regular expression \b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b Analyze this regular expression with RegexBuddy to search for an email address. Any email address, to be exact. A very similar regular expression (replace the first \b with ^ and the last one with $) can be used by a programmer to check if the user entered a properly formatted email address. In just one line of code, whether that code is written in Perl, PHP, Java, a .NET language or a multitude of other languages.

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October 10, 2007

Top 150

http://www.biblio.com/details.php?dcx=111304861&aid=frg

FILM: THE CRITICS' CHOICE: 150 MASTERPIECES OF WORLD CINEMA SELECTED AND DEFINED BY THE EXPERTS - Geoff (ed.), Foreward by Bernardo Bertolucci Andrew

This survey of 20th-century cinematic highlights divides films into categories such as "America: The Studio Years" and "British Cinema." A range of critics have penned brief, contextualizing essays for each listed film, and illustrations accompany them.

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October 08, 2007

Salary - Hot Jobs

http://hotjobs.salary.com/

Lets you research salary by industry and location.

You can find the average U.S. salary for a position, or get more detailed information that takes your experience and employer into account.

Posted by chek at 11:18 PM | Comments (0)

October 07, 2007

GlobexShip.com

http://www.globexship.com/contact2.htm

Shipping to Iran

Global Logistics Operations Beyond Expectations

When/where there is no DHL

Posted by chek at 05:18 PM | Comments (0)

Touchstone Rock Climbing

http://www.touchstoneclimbing.com/

Touchstone Climbing

Indoor Rock Climbing and Fitness Centers

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October 06, 2007

Sandcastle Classic, Oct, SF

http://www.leap4kids.org/sandcastle/index.html

The Sandcastle Classic is a spirited competition between teams of architects, engineers, contractors, and elementary school students to craft the most impressive creations of the imagination. Leap's major fundraising event of the year, it is the largest sandcastle building contest in Northern California.

2007: Sat, Oct 6, 10:00am-3:00pm

Ocean Beach, just south of the Cliff House (at the intersection of Balboa Ave. and The Great Highway)

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October 01, 2007

Lonely Planet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7021791.stm

Oct 2007
BBC Worldwide buys Lonely Planet

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