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Elegarth

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    FUTURE AWARENESS PROJECTS

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    How about Deaf Awareness Week?

    Is not a bad idea, are their any sources online?

    I liked the idea of a Mental Health Awareness. The official month for it is May, and I think it's something that is increasingly prevalent, yet too often overlooked in society.

    Another great idea, any known sources of info?

    Windows 10

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    Down here, Meteorology and Physics are both majors hosted by the School of Physics from the Faculty of Science (it works like that here, the University is divided into Faculties, each faculty has 1 or more schools, each schools hosts the careers or majors, and classes for other careers that need them).

    If you are doing physics, you have to take 6 optional classes from a list of like 20 available, and if you select carefully those 6, you end up 1 class away from a major in Meteorology (and the same applies for the meteorologists). So is funny, they call it the 2x1 career combo. Not that you would get a job here thanks to those 2 particularly unemployed careers, but hey, you know, teaching physics at high school pays apparently (that't what about 70% of my class mates are doing now). I never graduated anyway, decided that having a family and a good paid job was better for me.

    I started doing call center stuff at 18, first working as Customer Service for BetOnSports.com Have you guys heard about all the phone gambling business that was done abroad by Americans and how it took years for the IRS to pursue them? Well, about half of them had their Customer Service here and it gave employment to THOUSAND of young university guys who spoke good english and knew how to use a computer here.

    I worked on BetOnSports for about 1 year, then another year in a different sportsbook, and then another. Attrition is high, but they used to pay well. When I was 21 I stopped working in those places and moved to work full time at my university as a professor's assistance and later on as teaching assistance, where I actually teach university level classes (mainly General Physics Lab 1, 2 and 3) for engineering and science students. Enjoyed it, I was very good to the point where I actually was assigned more groups than actually graduated guys. It helped the university: I was reliable, trustworthy and less expensive (I was paid as an undergrad assistant, not as a half time professor). I eventually made it to Coordinator Assistant for labs 1 and 3. By then I was 23/24 and was sharing my time between those clases; an assistance post at the Plasma Research Lab at the Nuclear, Molecular and Atomic Interactions Research Center; my Peruvian girlfriend; my elected position as General Accountant to the Student's Federation of my University; and a shit-load of drinking... So I was tired, exhausted, and decided to make a change after my GF dumped me: quit the Student's Fed, quit the university classes but 2, quit the research center, and find a night shift job as Customer Support for a website that still operates today: https://www.bingohall.ag/(formerly .com), more online gambling. Within 6 months I was Accounting Support; 6 months later, Payout Lead and 6 months more and I was accounting department manager, with 4 accountants under my supervision... they didn't liked being managed by an undergraduated physics student. I left that place in 2010 and moved to HP, where I did 3 years of HP Proliant Servers Support (running MS and Linux and ESX/ESXi) and then moved to my current post as SAP Enablement and Data Manager...

    EDIT:

    I'm not sure why I wrote all that but it seemed relevant. I'm only 32 but it seems I've lived a liftime already, can only admire the experience of some people here. I'm happy about it.

    Hello, TWP!

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    Hi Elegarth, thank you.

    Can you explain me (or point me to some text) how international stuff works? what are endorsments, how do they work?

    I can do both.

    When you join the World Assembly, you are able to both GIVE and RECEIVED endorsements. Endorsements are what they mean: "an act of giving one's public approval or support to someone or something". In NS, the way it works, is that you can give and receive endorsements to and from other nations within your region who also belong to the World Assembly. They work for a few things:

    - The nation with the higher number of endorsements in the region is the World Assembly Delegate, and de-factor ruler of the region, with capacity to eject and ban people, modify the region's page and flag and others.

    - The nation's influence is a mix of both their number of endorsements and the amount of time in the region. The more time or more endorsements, more influence you will have. What is influence? Is sort of a unit of power, I guess. When the Regional Officers and the Delegate eject or ban people, they spend influence, and the amount of influence they spend is related to the amount of influence the nation ejected or banned had. New nations are almost free to expel and ban.

    - A minimum of endorsements is needed to submit World Assembly and Security Council proposals, should that be your gaming desire.

    You can read more in the game's FAQ: https://www.nationstates.net/page=faq

    Windows 10

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    I learned Remote Sensing using LANDSAT and SPOT imagery when I was studying for my physics major with a minor in meteorology. At the Meteorology lab they still have some of those old magentics saves as a memento, but all their info was already ported to CDs and DVSs (a few years ago, I hope they have now moved to other storage options, lol).

    I had to learn to create filters, and to interpret land and meteorological findings under different filters, heh.

    What did you majored / mastered in, Winni?

    Windows 10

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    I totally understand what you say regarding the EliteBooks.

    Convergys is now also here in CR. They have like 1500 employees doing support.

    The Canadian market up-mark is huge, so I know what you mean about the money.

    And at home, I use my work laptop so yeah :P

    FUTURE AWARENESS PROJECTS

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    How is my idea on No Tobacco Day?

    My problem with that idea is that it can have more negative reactions that others. I'm a former smoker, used to smoke 3 packs of cigarettes per day, and if there was something that would make me angry was people coming and telling me stuff about it. I stopped smoking eventually, but I can totally see how it would indeed ruffle some feathers negatively... You see what I mean?

    Windows 10

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    Underneath it's all the same hardware these days, so when you buy an Apple you're paying for the design and name as well.  Personally I am still a Windows guy for my workstations/laptops, but most of my servers when I have a choice are Linux (usually Ubuntu Server these days).

    If you're going for an HP, I would have a look at their Business lineup rather than their consumer if you can...the HP ProBooks (yeah, I know, basically rifting off the Mac Book name) are quite good...we brought in about 400 of them last year at my office and I've only had to do warranty on maybe 4 of them...  and so far only one kid has managed to actually damage the case so bad that we had to order new parts, so they seem fairly durable.  And they're light weight.

    As an HP employee, this. Hardware is just the same recycled components over and over again, hell, Apple and Dell and Lenovo use the same manufacturer consortium for their PCs and Laptops, and we (HP) use the same as ACER and others do. Chinese conglomerates with a 100 different "legal" names that sell the same stuff to the different companies... So yeah, HW is all the same.

    And indeed our BUsiness lineup is far better than our consumer line up. I like the EliteBooks more than the ProBooks (and EliteBooks is what we are actually given internally to work, so yeah, make a guess at why :D ) I'm partial to the 840 G3 (I own a G2, and looking forward to change), it can go up to 32GB Ram and is light enough. Battery on the G2 model is also good enough, G3 is improved. I'm not a fan of Windows 8 or 10 tho, so I am indeed looking for something that stays in Win 7 and works :P

    Winni,

    If you have actually had to call to the Business Support line of HP... then you've probably talk to people in the same floor I work here at HP Costa Rica :P We have the Customer Support and Tech Support floors here :P

    FUTURE AWARENESS PROJECTS

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    As you already know, we recently completed our first Autism Awareness Week and had previously collaborated with another region's DIABETES AWARENESS DAY.

    In a vote for the region, the majority of voters considered this is a thing we should continue doing, as a manner of taking advantage of the thousands of persons we reach in the game.

    I've created this thread to open a long term discussion and perhaps even to create a small committee that could work on researching and creating our future awareness day / week / weekend whatever.

    There are some I'd like us to for sure (like October's International Breast Cancer Awareness, as well as November's Men Movember Awareness for Prostate Cancer. We don't NEED to do them monthly so we may still have 5 months before the two I'd like us to make sure we keep in sight.

    I've sent a TG to all those who voted for the option about wishin to be involved with the planning, but ANYONE seing this is more than welcome to propose, comment and even offer their help :)

    Let's do something nice for the world together :)

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