JOBFINDING: Boston IT

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Job Title: Developer/Programmer
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Boston
Duration: 6-12 months with potential opportunity to go permanent
Functional Area: Information Technology working with Tax Department
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Prestigious, well-established, multi-billion dollar investment management firm seeking a software developer to develop, maintain, and enhance our investment operations systems, working closely with the operations team. The ideal candidate has experience in financial services/investment management industry and has the desire to expand his/her business knowledge.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

 Create, design, develop, document, and implement new software programs
 Develop SQL stored procedures and write reports to support multiple back office departments
 Maintain and enhance existing reports and software applications
 Develop technical specifications based on business requirements

Requirements:

 Must have 4-6 years in SQL development preferably in the investment industry.
 Experience working with C# or VB.
 Previous experience working with reporting tools, such as Crystal, MS Reporting Services, or DEV Express XTraReports is strongly preferred.
 Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal skills
 Ability to gather and understand requirements in the financial sector
 Must be detail oriented, able to prioritize work and to effectively manage multiple concurrent projects while adapting to rapidly changing work demands
 Willingness to take initiative and see problems through to completion
 BS in Computer Science or equivalent
 Tax and Accounting knowledge a plus

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FUN: Birthday wishes from my new “friends” at Social Security; probably want to kill me as cheaply as possible!

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Dear FERDINAND J REINKE,

Happy Birthday from Medicare! We wish you well in the upcoming year and want to remind you of the preventive services Medicare offers to help you stay healthy.

Our records show that you have not taken advantage of some of the preventive services which are available to you now or in the future and listed in the table below.

Month/Year Preventive Service Name and Due Date
January PROSTATE(01/12) PSA(01/12) COLORECTAL(01/12) PPV(01/12) PHYSICAL(01/12) CARDIOVASCULAR(01/12) DIABETES(01/12) ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM(01/12) ANNUAL WELLNESS VISIT(01/13) CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (BEHAVIORAL THERAPY)(01/12) DEPRESSION SCREENING(01/12) OBESITY COUNSELING(01/12) HIGH INTENSITY BEHAVIORAL COUNSELING(01/12)
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

To see more details of the services you are eligible for, visit www.MyMedicare.gov and select “Preventive Services” under the “My Health” tab. Or, talk to your doctor for more information.

Remember, Medicare is your partner in health.

Sincerely,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Please do not reply to this email, as we are not able to respond to messages sent to this address.

This e-mail was sent by Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services based upon the request in your MyMedicare.gov profile. To stop receiving e-mails,please unsubscribe from our mailing list by signing in to www.mymedicare.gov and clicking on the “My Account” link in the banner.

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INTERESTING: Discovery About Galaxy Distribution

Sunday, January 13, 2013

http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/01/06/2138243/teenager-makes-discovery-about-galaxy-distribution?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Teenager Makes Discovery About Galaxy Distribution
by samzenpus

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Janek Kozicki writes “It has been long thought that dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda galaxy (M31), or any other galaxy for that matter, are distributed more or less randomly around the host galaxy. It seemed so obvious in fact that nobody took time to check this assumption. Until a 15 year old student, Neil Ibata, working with his father at the astronomic observatory wanted to check it out. It turned out that dwarf galaxies tend to be placed on a plane around M31. The finding has been published in nature. Local press (especially in France) is ecstatic that a finding by a 15-year-old got published in Nature. However, there’s another more important point: what other obvious things didn’t we really bother to check?”

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So we don’t know what we don’t know and we don’t bother to check either?

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INTERESTING: Luddite comes up with a good find

Saturday, January 12, 2013

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For all you tool freaks…..and then some!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=E3mzhvMgrLE&NR=1

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I expect that we’ll see this in a lot of tools over the next century!

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TINFOILHAT: The assassination of JFK; a coup d’etat

Saturday, January 12, 2013

http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/adams-d1.1.1.html

Lee Harvey Oswald Was a Patsy
A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 170 with Don Adams

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And it turns out – I firmly believe in my heart that Oswald was an informant for the FBI. And I believe that he was directed in everything that he did. Because he worked in an Air Force base over in Japan called Atsugi Air Force Base, which, when I was in Honshu, which was the big island of Japan, right after the war, this site was the top-secret site where all the U2 flights originated and where powers and the rest of the stuff flew from, from Atsugi, over Russia. And this is where Oswald worked. You don’t work in a place like that, with that type of top-secret activity and stuff and then become a member of Communist activity. I think that they directed him, told him this is what they wanted him to do, defect from the country and go to Russia and do the things. And they were trying to use him as an agent. And he was working for the U.S. government as an agent. And I believe he was that when he got killed.

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So the “official story” is “barbara streisand”!

A coup d’etat by LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover and the CIA?

When will the truth come out?

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RANT: Buchanan predicts a Revolution

Friday, January 11, 2013

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/05/buchanan_there_would_be_a_revolution_if_government_confiscated_weapons.html

Buchanan: “There Would Be A Revolution” If Government Confiscated Weapons

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JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: With no Second Amendment, Congress could pass a law, as limited as this: banning assault rifles or as sweeping as prohibiting all private firearm ownership and requiring the surrender of all privately held firearms.

BUCHANAN: There would be a revolution in this country!

MCLAUGHLIN: Baloney! That doesn’t mean you can’t own one, but you have to put it in first and then go try —

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Would this be the issue that puts people out in the streets in opposition?

Would there be the revolt?

It would be devestating!

In any event, it would imho lead to the dissolution of the Union.

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GUNS: Liberals break laws with impunity

Thursday, January 10, 2013

http://www.tellthetruth2012.com/bozells-column/david-gregorys-props-and-pomposity

David Gregory’s Props and Pomposity
Published: 1/1/2013 12:32 PM ET

Subscribe to L. Brent Bozell III
By L. Brent Bozell III

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The D.C. police investigation of NBC hotshot David Gregory for waving around an empty ammo magazine on “Meet the Press” easily proves two things. First, D.C.’s “ammunition control” laws are ridiculous. But more importantly, once again, we find the arrogance of the national press knows no boundaries.

Let us stipulate that this kind of law is just plain stupid. Empty ammo magazines are less threatening than mosquitoes. The point is, however, that liberals like David Gregory do subscribe to this kind of idiotic law — for everyone else.

Was Gregory so ignorant that he didn’t know he was breaking a D.C. law? Nope. We learned NBC contacted the D.C. police and asked for permission to wave the props, and the cops said no. Then Gregory did it anyway. So not only did he believe he was above the law, he broke it so he could produce maximum buzz for his Sunday show.

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Not only are they above the law — stupid or otherwise — but they rub our noses in it.

Argh!

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PRODUCTIVITY: Intergenerational war

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

http://changethis.com/34.05.Generational

Click to access 34.05.Generational.pdf

Turning the Generational Dial: A Plea to Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y By Carol Orsborn, PhD

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Carol Orsborn argues that instead of participating in a complicated generational tug-of-war of who is more relevant, Gen X and Gen Y must learn from Boomers because these following generations will also face the same elongated lifespans and increased vitality…and buying power.

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Interesting that today’s Gooferment fiscal stupidity is a direct assault on the future generations’ pocketbooks and wallets.

And they don’t see it.

Or they don’t understand.

Argh!

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RANT: AT&T still stinks

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

I tried to order mifi from them twice.

First, time the system glitched. Second time, I completed.

Then, I have to call in to be ided.

Argh!

The girl asks four questions: ever live in one of these four? nope. ever live in one of these four? nope. ever live in one of these four? nope. ever work for one these four? Yes, D.

Long wait.

“Wrong. Your order is cancelled. You have to go to a store to order. With two forms of id?”

No wonder they are in trouble. If they didn’t have the Gooferment protecting them, they’d be out of business.

But, in this instance, they are the only game in town.

Argh!

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Why did I expect a different problem with the IPHONE5?

Insanity

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WRITING: Addie finds peace (a fragment from a future effort with the working title “Joan D’Arc; One Story from beginning of Third Vermont Republic”

Monday, January 7, 2013

Addie finds peace

Church bells! Church bells announced War’s end. Not heard in Vermont since the Blue Hat’s began their reign of terror.  Addie knew what she had to do. Donning her famous pink helmet with “warrior princess” above a scratched out “in training”,  she slung her “Uncle John”. That full size 12 gauge was heavy on her shoulder. She peddled her pink bike down hill from the farm almost effortlessly. The beautiful Green Mountain hills were a little greener today. The sky a little bluer. And the bells a little sweeter.

In what appeared to be the blink of an eye, she was at the Bennington Bridge. She looked around and a crowd had assembled. How had they known? She strode to the heated “Headsman’s Pike”, where the evil Blue Hats had “posted” the latest victim of their “justice”. She knelt before it and prayed for her Uncle, her Brother, her Comrades, and All that had died at this terrible place. She rose and saw that the crowd had knelt with her. She stepped off five long paces from the pole. The crowd receeded back like ocean. She unlimber Uncle John’s favorite gun. Waved the crowd back on the left and right. They moved slowly. She just waited. When it was safe, she fired at the pole. About head high. Took five but the pole shattered in the middle. The top fell to the river below. She walked to the stump, actioned out the remaining ammo, hung the gun on the stump, and topped it with her pink helmet.

It stayed that way forever. The helmet faded. The sling rotted. Some one nailed the rusty gun to the stump. But, it was said to be there for her return should ever Vermont need another heroine.

That was the end of the public appearances ever reported of Joan D’Arc.

Needless to say life didn’t end for Addie. Although to conceal her identity, she began to use the name Megan.

Life was good. The Farm prospered. Peace abounded. People returned to the normal ebb and flow of life. But the Third Vermont Republic, founded on the blood of patriots, developed a national identity, that prevented the disunity of any disagreement from becoming personal and nasty.

The fact that dueling was reintroduced helped quite a bit. Heinlein said it best: “An armed society is a polite society.”

From time to time, when in Bennington for errands and chores, Addie, now called Megan, would stop at her Uncle’s favorite tavern by that fateful bridge and have one of those disgusting beers he liked. His stool at the end of the bar was always empty with a glass, a pencil, and a pad of sticky notes as if he’d just stepped away. She sat on the stool next to his. It made her feel closer to him. That corner had pictures. One of te kneeling prisoners, arms bound behind them, surrounded by the hated Blue Hats. This minutes before the massacre. Someone had framed the New York Times story reporting that the “criminals were apprehended, given a fair trial, sentenced, and executed”. Below the story, scratched on the frame, scrawled roughly a title: “Lest We Forget”. Did anyone in Vermont ever read the New York Times after that?

She shed no tear. This was now a lesson of history. She could only pray it wasn’t forgot.

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