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It’s pretty simple, really. You ask any member of the fraternity for an application, fill it out, and return it. That’s it.If you don’t know anyone who’s a member, then do this:Go to the Grand Lodge website for your jurisdiction (every state in the United States has one, almost every country (besides the United States) has one.Use the Lodge Locator tool found on most Grand Lodge websites to find a Lodge near you. if the Grand Lodge doesn’t have a tool or list of Lodges on the website, then go to your local phonebook and look up Masonic Lodge. if that still doesn’t work (or you can’t find a phonebook) google Masonic Lodge and your city.Once you’ve found a Lodge, contact the Secretary. Ask to attend the next public event or Lodge dinner, and go down and meet the members. Talk with them. See if the Lodge is a “good fit” for you. Every Lodge has a different flavor; if you don’t feel comfortable in the first Lodge, find another one and do the same thing: go meet the members.Once you’re comfortable, ask for an application. Fill it out and return it.You’ll talk to three members - they’re interviewing you - and then your application will be voted on at the next Stated Meeting. This process can go quickly or slowly depending on how often the Lodge meets, and how quick they are to assign an investigative committee to you.You’ll receive notification after the vote about scheduling your degrees. There are three of them; Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft, and Master Mason.That’s it.There are some requirements to joining:You must be a man.You must not have a criminal past.You must believe in a Supreme Being.To correct some misconceptions:You don’t have to have “a good and respectful character among fellow peers.”You don’t have to be “at least 21” to join; different jurisdictions have different requirements - some require a man to be 18, others require them to be 21. Check with your Lodge secretary to find out the minimum age.There’s no such thing as “Masonic age.”Freemasonry isn’t a “brotherhood.” It’s a fraternity.Freemasonry isn’t an “order.” It’s a fraternity.Before you join, you don’t have to read anything. You certainly don’t need to read Manly P. Hall, Albert Pike, or (shudder) John Robinson.Do not read “The Lost Keys of Freemasonry.”Do not read “Born in Blood.”Do not read “Morals & Dogma.”Do not read “What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of its Disciples.”“The Lost Keys of Freemasonry,” “Born in Blood,” and “What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of its Disciples” will mean nothing at all to you until you’re a member of the fraternity. Even then it’s questionable as to whether they’re useful books that will help you understand the fraternity.“Morals & Dogma” is an old book, written by Albert Pike, that is very, very, very dry reading. It’s specific to the Scottish Rite and has nothing at all to do with joining Freemasonry or the Blue Lodge. Don’t read it. If you join the Scottish Rite, read “A Bridge to Light.”If you want to read an EXCELLENT book on Freemasonry, I recommend “Freemasons for Dummies” by Chris Hodapp. It’s the best book out there.If you have any other questions, feel free to ask a Freemason.

Never. You need to sign the bond only after joining.This bond is because company is spending a lot of money for your training and development and this is extremely high in the initial period. So company should get minimum service from you.

Under FATCA, the Czech government has signed a treaty with the U.S. government where they agree to have financial institutions document whether or not U.S. citizens are account holders (and therefore, they pretty much have to document all account holders). So, if you do not fill out the W-9, the bank will have to close your account as you will not have provided sufficient evidence to document whether or not you are a U.S. citizen. Countries have been signing the treaties and starting to implement over the last couple of years - portions of the Czech treaty become effective in 2014.

Let's talk some data here -The twenty “Whitest” girl names -MollyAmyClaireEmilyKatieMadelineKatelynEmmaAbigailCarlyJennaHeatherKatherineCaitlinKaitlinHollyAllisonKaitlynHannahKathrynThe twenty “Blackest” girl names -ImaniEbonyShaniceAaliyahPreciousNiaDejaDiamondAsiaAliyahJadaTierraTiaraKiaraJasmineJasminJazminJasmineAlexisRavenThe twenty “Whitest” boy names -JakeConnorTannerWyattCodyDustinLukeJackScottLoganColeLucasBradleyJacobGarrettDylanMaxwellHunterBrettColinThe twenty “Blackest” boy names -DeShawnDeAndreMarquisDarnellTerrellMalikTrevonTyroneWillieDominiqueDemetriusReginaldJamalMauriceJalenDariusXavierTerranceAndreDarrylSo how does it matter if you have a very white name or a very black name? Over the years, a series of “audit studies” have tried to measure how people perceive different names. In a typical audit study, a researcher would send two identical (and fake) resumes, one with a traditionally white name and the other with an immigrant or minority-sounding name, to potential employers. The “white” resumes have always gleaned more job interviews.According to such a study, if DeShawn Williams and Jake Williams sent identical resumes to the same employer, Jake Williams would be more likely to get a callback.The implication is that black-sounding names carry an economic penalty. Such studies are tantalizing but severely limited for they can't explain why DeShwan didn't get the call. Was he rejected because the employer is a racist and is convinced that DeShawn Williams is black? Or did he reject him because “DeShawn” sounds like someone from a low-income, low-education family? A resume is a Fairly undependable set of clues - a recent study showed that more than 50 percent of them contain lies - so “DeShawn” may simply signal a disadvantaged background to an employer who believes that workers from such backgrounds are undependable.Nor do the black-white audit studies predict what might have happened in a job interview. What if the employer is racist, and if he unwittingly agreed to interview a black person who happened to have a white-sounding name - would he be any more likely to hire the black applicant after meeting face-to-face? Or is the interview a painful and discouraging waste of time for the black applicant - that is, an economic penalty of having a white sounding name? Along those same lines, perhaps a black person with a white name pays an economic penatly in the black community; and what of the potential advantage to be gained in the black community by having a distinctively black name? But because the audit studies can't measure the actual life outcomes of the dictious DeShawn Williams versus Jake Williams, they can't assess the broader impact of a distinctively black name.Maybe DeShawn should just change his name.So does a name matter?The data show that, on average, a person with a distinctively black name - whether it is a woman named Imani or a man named DeShawn- does have a worse life outcome than a woman named Molly or a man named Jake. But it isn't the fault of their names. If two black boys, Jake Williams and DeShawn Williams, are born in the same neighborhood and into the same family and economic circumstances, they would likely to have similar life outcomes. But the kind of parents who name their son Jake don't tend to live in the same neighborhoods or share economic circumstances with the kind of parents who name their son DeShawn. And that's why, on average, a boy named Jake will tend to earn more money and get more education than a boy named DeShawn. A DeShawn is more likely to have been handicapped by a low-income, low-education, single parent background. His name is an indicator - not a cause - of his outcome. Just as a child with no books in his home isn't likely to test well in school, a boy named DeShawn isn't likely to do well in life.And what if DeShawn had changed his name to Jake or Connor: would his situation improve? Here's a guess: anybody who bothers to change his name in the name of economic success is - at least highly motivated, and motivation is probably a stronger indicator of success than, well, a name.—It would go very big, but you can get the essence of the impact of names of people on their lives.Source: FreakonomicsI recommend this book to all and to read this full study on parenting and naming children, its just awesome.

There is an undocumented key that can be used with the standard defaults to retrieve the phone number of the device. This can then be matched against entries in the address book to find the contact that is likely the phone's owner. The phone number in the defaults is not guaranteed to be correct and Apple will reject your app these days if you attempt this and it is noted in review.On the other hand another possible route is to take advantage of the fact that many iPhone owners do not change the name of the device from the default. The default name often contains the owner's first name in the form of something like: "Horselover's iPhone". You could then search the address book for the same first name. It is certainly not bulletproof, as common first names could yield duplicates and of course the user could have changed the device name easily.

Well the true answer would be, You just can’t.But, Understand this,You have only two choices: Embrace it OR Neglect it.The so called ‘forgetting the past’ is nothing but neglecting it. The more you neglect it the more it will haunt you. Ultimately, you will make the same mistakes and thus fail and therefore will be driven towards Insanity.Whereas if you embrace it, you will be able to look at it objectively. This will let you learn from your mistakes. Be advised, Mankind progressed for thousands of years because it learnt from its mistakes.The past happened because it was supposed to happen. Our life is literally a roller coaster ride. There are always ups and downs. Remembering only the downs is what leads us to think about forgetting it. So, also remember the good times too. A major reason why you want to forget the past is because of our failures. Things that didn’t turn out as you thought it to. Behind each of those failures, those rejections, somehow we were at fault at some level. But now you can learn from them. The past can show us where things went wrong, where those steps were missed and where those actions were mistaken. Remember, all your past actions from your birth led you here, reading this sentence. Respect it.