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My favorite Apple Watch apps are the following:Email:In fact, one reason I love smartwatches generally is it saves me a lot of time because I can immediately see which emails are coming in on my wrist and therefore need only open email on my phone/laptop when it’s necessary. This is huge for me with my work.Calendar:I really like the Apple S2 calendar interface with 3 viewing options. It’s very user friendly and I can quickly determine what events/meetings I have for the day without opening my calendar.Step tracking:This is more for interest sake than anything, although I’ve noticed occasio...

I just want to point out that despite all the issues that are cropping up with voting machines, there were better alternatives available when states were switching to the new systems. New York State came close to being fined for not having new voting machines in time because they insisted on buying machines that provided a voter marked, signNow back-up in case of challenges. That’s what we ended up with. signNow ballots that are read by the machine as they go through an electronic reader, then get stored in a locked compartment in the machine. This provides a signNow trail of actual marked ballot...

“Follow me, sir.” said the senior NCO as he began to give the new battalion commander a tour of the building. The NCO noticed that this commander was quieter than normal, moving slower, and acting different from tours with other past commanders. He noticed the Lieutenant Colonel slowed down and gingering rubbed his hand over a particular bank of wall lockers, that he paused in front of the trophy case and wall plaques, running his finger down the list of names. As they walked in a particular officer area, the commander walked away from his tour guide, and stood behind a specific desk. “Is t...

Arriving early and doing nothing is viewed more favorably than staying late and working assiduously. It’s unfair, but it’s only the first boot of real life to kick you in the ass.HR and the ethics hotline don’t exist as a resource to you; they exist to cover management’s ass. I’ve worked for bosses who have used racial slurs, homophobic epithets, threatened and intimidated staff, used drugs in the office, and misappropriated their expense credits, but they were never so much as suspended. I almost lost my job for marking a sale as closed when I got verbal confirmation from my client (with m...

I’m a NYC Police officer, 105th precinct lower Manhattan. Here’s my story.At first, no one was sure exactly what was happening.Everything seemed normal. Just the usual mid December evening news stories we would have expected; Amazon’s holiday sales were soaring, a winter “perfect storm” was forming off the coast and headed straight at us. And initial reports of a particularly virulent strain of the flu surfacing in major cities along the eastern sea board.Please remember to get your flu shot, Butch Stearns, Channel 7 NYC’s lead news anchor declared with reassurance.Better safe than sorry, B...

What are the major points to study to gain a better understanding of the Cold War? To understand the origins of modern American foreign policy - I'd consider the Mexican American War - 1846 - as a jumping off point and James K. Polk's 'Manifest Destiny' - he didn't invent the phrase but the phrase captured his intentions in regard to foreign policy. Lincoln was opposed to this war  - but consider the language implications of the words 'Manifest Destiny' and google an image of that phrase - a 19th century newsprint representation of it will come up.  Watch the PBS series on "The Roosevelts' -those episodes that talk about Teddy -(probably available on youtube) -   it giv...

The “Awful Bullflap” memos were a satirical, anonymous Apple internal publication made in a “press release” or “internal memo” format similar to the official “Apple Bulletin” memos. The name even fit into the same number of letters as the Bulletin’s distinctive banner.In the imaginary world of the memos, the “Awful Bullflap” reports on the activities of “Awful Computer” on “Badly Drive” in “Cuspiduro, CA” in a way that ‘coincidentally’ corresponds to what the “Apple Bulletin” might report about “Apple Computer” on “Bandley Drive” in “Cupertino, CA.” “Awful” stands for “Apple” and “Bullflap”...

I went through the U.K. marriage (“fiancee”) visa process last fall and just completed my further leave to remain application.Here’s what we submitted for each part.Fiance(e) visaCritically, you need to show that your British partner has annual income of at least £18,600/year or has eligible savings. There are several ways to do this; the most straightforward is if your partner has been employed by the same company for at least 6 months and can supply 6 months’ worth of payslips, a letter from their employer and bank statements with deposits matching what’s on their payslips. You can also meet the requirement through savings or self-employment or some combination of savings and employment; the visa application guidelines will give options for how to meet the income/savings requirement. If you do not meet this threshold and/or if you don’t submit proper documentation, your application will be refused.If you’re submitting a letter from your partner’s employer, it should include contact information for the company, your partner’s job title, how long they’ve been with the company and their salary. In our application, we submitted a letter from my then-fiance’s company, had his HR sign his past 6 payslips to verify their authenticity and then submitted 6 months of bank statements, where the deposits into his bank account matched his payslips.The second critical component after proving your partner’s income is proving that you’re in a legitimate relationship. We submitted flight, hotel, train and holiday bookings, photos of the two of us together, excerpts from email and WhatsApp exchanges that were dated and time-stamped to show an unbroken line of communication (my rule of thumb was one WhatsApp and/or email excerpt per month we’d been together but that might be excessive). If you’re getting married and have made bookings or inquiries in the U.K. for your wedding — registrar’s office, venues, that sort of thing — you can include documentation for that as well.Your fiance should have accommodation that’s suitable/available for you to live in when you move. You’ll need to answer questions about this in the main application and it’s a good idea to submit proof of address with your supporting documents. We submitted my then-fiance’s tenancy agreement but council taxes, mortgage statements, utility bills, etc. can also work.If you’re applying from a country where you’re not a citizen or don’t have permanent residency status, it’s a good idea to submit evidence that you’re there legally. I applied from Belgium, where I wasn’t a citizen but instead held a residency permit, and I submitted a copy of my Belgian residency and work permits and documentation from my work (payslips and my contract, as well as a copy of my lease). My payslips couldn’t count toward the visa’s income requirement, but it showed I was in Belgium doing what I said I was doing and was following immigration law there.Depending on your country of origin you may need to take an English proficiency test and/or have a tuberculosis test. The U.K. Visas and immigration site will have guidance on whether you need to do either of these.You’ll need to submit the main application and then the appendix specifically for the fiance visa. The main application will have very specific, very detailed questions about your fiance (sponsor in immigration lingo), your travel history and your immigration history. If you’ve traveled extensively, take care that the dates you give match what’s in your passport. You’ll also be expected to be up front about any prior visa refusals, not just from the U.K. For example, if you’ve been refused a Schengen visa or a U.S. visa, they’ll want to know about it.Note that it’s quite expensive to apply for the fiance visa from outside the U.K., and there’s no way to apply for this one from within the U.K. I believe it’s about £1,500 and the full payment is expected at the time of application. Any expedited or special services you tack on through third-party vendors will be extra. You’ll also need to submit biometric information — fingerprints, a new ID photo and a signature.Once you have the fiance visa, you’re able to travel to the U.K. to get married and must apply for further leave to remain — the FLR (M) category — before your initial fiance visa has expired. You can apply for the extension at any time after you’re married. Bear in mind that you will not be able to get married immediately after traveling to the U.K.; I had to spend seven “clear” days in the U.K. before we could give notice, and we had to have our notice published publicly for 28 days before we could get married. Be sure to account for this time so you don’t end up in a time crunch applying for your extension.Spouse visaAll that signNowwork you submitted to prove your partner met the income threshold? You get to do that all over again, and you need to provide the same information: 6 months of verified payslips with matching bank statements, plus the employment letter with all the aforementioned information.They want to make sure you actually got married. You should absolutely include your marriage certificate. We also included some photos of our wedding day and scans of cards we received.They also want to make sure you’re now living together. You don’t need to have a mountain of signNowwork (that’s more for the 2.5- and 5-year mark, where they expect you to have strong documentation of cohabitation and shared financial obligations) but you would ideally have a tenancy agreement, perhaps council tax or utility bills or something official that shows you reside at the same address. It must have come in the post; you can’t just print stuff off online. In our case we had two council tax bills, our new tenancy agreement and an account setup confirmation from the water utility.You’ll now need to pay the NHS surcharge for the duration of your residency permit. It’s £400 a year now, so a 2.5-year permit will cost £1,000. This will need to paid in full at the time of the application.You’ll also need to pay roughly £1,000 for the application fee (this is on top of what you paid earlier for the fiance visa). You can choose to pay more for expedited service.There’s an online application you’ll need to complete again, as well as declarations for you and your partner to complete and sign affirming that your marriage is genuine and giving the Home Office permission to run checks.You’ll also need to do biometrics again, so fingerprints, ID photo and signature. You can choose to do this at a satellite site close to you operated by a UKVI contractor. It’s fairly straightforward. They will also assist you with scanning and uploading your supporting documentation.In general my three pieces of advice are:Have plenty of savings. You can’t work in the U.K. on a fiance visa; you can only work once your spouse visa has gone through. Ideally — bearing in mind that you’re in a time crunch, as you need to apply for your extension before your fiance visa expires, regardless of at what point in your visa’s validity you get married — you’ll have money for your fiance visa, your eventual NHS surcharge and the spouse visa extension already saved up when you make your initial application. This is really the only way to 100% guarantee you don’t run out of money or have a shortfall. I had all of my visa-related fees in hand before I applied; I didn’t rely on future earnings, nor did I expect my fiance to pay the fee as his earnings needed to support both of us while I was out of work.Do not cut corners or underestimate how stringent the income requirement is. This is probably the top reason for a rejection — someone’s missing a bank statement, they don’t include payslips, the deposits don’t match the payslips, the income is too low, etc. This absolutely will fuck you up if you don’t have the right documentation.Triple-check everything and keep everything because you’ll probably need it later. Check your passport stamps to make sure your entry dates match up. Make sure you’re not missing anything. Make sure you sign anything that needs to be signed. This is not something to do quickly or half-assed. Give yourself enough time, have someone else look over it if possible to check after you with fresh eyes. Work on it, give it a day and look it over again — I bet you find a mistake you made. As soon as you’re set up with your fiance, start saving up council tax bills, doctor’s letters, utility bills, anything from your landlord, etc. Start preparing for your extension immediately and it will be easier to do when the time comes than if you’re lax with signNowwork and have to go back and find year-old water bills later on.Good luck.