It would be nice if you could right-click on the Windows 7 taskbar icon and it would list previous projects in the jump list. I notice that Sublime currently shows previous files. Previous projects would be more useful.

We've devoted a lot of time this Hotels Week to the best places in New York City for humans to stay, but now our attention turns to the non-human companions. Lots of hotels in the city allow pets, but most are less than welcoming, with exorbitant fees and limits on the number and weight of pets allowed. Then there are a handful of hotels that not only allow pets but welcome them, offering amenities and services more luxurious than most dogs (and some cats, although they probably don't care as much) will ever get the chance to experience.

1) The Tribeca Grand welcomes pets with open arms—there's no surcharge and complementary treats, bedding, food and water bowls, and doggy bags are provided upon arrival. Other pet services can be arranged through the concierge. In addition, guests can request a pet goldfish for the duration of their stay, free of charge.

2) Like its sister hotel, the Soho Grand has no surcharge, treats, bedding, optional goldfish, etc. It also has its own dog run, complete with fire hydrant water stations and a landscaped garden.

3) The Affinia chain, including such hotels as Affinia Fifty, Affinia Dumont, Affinia Manhattan, and others cater specifically to pet owners, but the amenities differ slightly from hotel to hotel. The Fifty, for instance, offers skin moisturizer, odor remover, mosquito repellent, and a bad-breath zapper for dogs, while The Benjamin has a doggie bathrobe. (Treats, food and water bowls, toys, and other staples are standard at every one.) The hotels have a $50 pet fee, $10 of which goes to the Humane Society of NY.

4) Affinia's chief competition for pet-friendliest hotel chain is Kimpton, which has four New York City outposts: 70 Park Avenue, The Muse, Ink 48, and Eventi Hotel. The Muse has a teacup pomeranian as a mascot and a human/pet spa package, which includes in-room pedicures for both parties. The other hotels offer similar amenities, and there are no initial fees for bringing an animal, although the pedicures will cost you.

5) The Ritz-Carlton Battery Park charges a hefty $125 fee and only allows pets under 20 pounds, but on the bright side, it offers a bunch of pet amenities including dog beds, toys, treats, bowls, and waste bags. The desk also gives a you welcome note for your pet, so that's worth $125 right there.

6) Loews Regency on the Upper East Side charges a $25 cleaning fee, but also provide pet owners with complementary gift baskets that include treats and a bowl. They also provide such services as a room-service menus for cats and dogs, dog-walking route maps, [et-walking and pet-sitting services, and of course the customary treats and toys.

7) The Algonquin Hotel has a pet cat named Matilda III, the latest in a tradition that began when owner Frank Case adopted a stray that had wandered onto the premises in the late 1930s. The hotel has kept a house cat ever since, naming the males Hamlet and the females Matilda. The cat gets a birthday party every year and has an email address. Guests' pets get to stay for free.

8) The Hotel Pennsylvania hosts the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, which is a pretty good pet-friendly credential. Owners have to pay a $25 fee and pets get a free treat upon check-in.


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I took my eleven-year-old son to Colorado for a paleontology adventure. Digging up shards of tibia bone with a toothbrush is so not what I want to do with my time, but I want to support my son in finding his passion, and he is enthralled with paleontology.

There’s a great program at the Museum of Western Colorado. We drove there. Omaha is a midpoint between our house and the dinosaur dig, so we stayed there for a day at a hotel where Warren Buffet, who is known for being a reasonable, down-to-earth guy, drew the line at drinking a Pepsi (he’s on the board of Coke), so the hotel guy had to walk five blocks to get two Cokes.

So we get to our first day of our dig, we go to the edge of a cliff in the badlands near the museum. We look down and the guide says, “That rock down there is about 150 million years old, but we don’t have enough money to know for sure.”

My son can’t look. He already has altitude sickness. At the point where the paleontologist shows us the cliff we will dig on, my son, who has read too many earthquake books, announces that we might die, receives unimpressive reassurance, and then throws up.

This is either a photo of my son doing his perfect dream job, or my son right before he throws up in all over the Pleistocene period.



We go back to our hotel.

He told me he could never do a dig. He said next time we should just go to Omaha. “They have such a good zoo,” he said. He was scared he’d never be a paleontologist. I wanted to tell him that he was doing the dig because it cost $1500. But instead I told him that maybe this was a good job for him at the wrong place.

This is a common problem with our work.

1. it’s the skills you use in your job that matters, not the industry you’re in.
My son learned so much from the trip. He learned there’s a high demand for fish experts. “We are in the age of fish,” said the paleontologist who was nice enough to leave the tour and drive us back to our car. “There are more fish right now than any other type of animal, and only fish people study fish.”

My son is fascinated by the idea that because fish skeletons are so varied and so different from mammals, you have to specialize in that to understand it.

My son is also fascinated by the idea that someone needs to organize the excavation trips. He likes managing. Of course: he’s an INTJ. If you know your personality types, and you know your strengths and weaknesses, then all you need is a job that leverages your strengths. An INTJ is great at solving complex problems and managing teams to solve problems. He could do that in technology, in education, or in paleontology.

So I told him he should keep reading those paleontology books he loves. And we are still planning to go on more paleontology trips – just no treacherous digs. Because he’s a lot like a career change in that he’s invested so many years in reading about environmental science that it seems a shame to focus on a job in another field when he doesn’t necessarily need to.

2. Trends in an industry matter more than whether you like the industry now.
Before you decide if you’re in the right career or not, look at trends. Most of you will need to continue working for at least a decade or two. The jobs that will be around in the next decade are nothing like what we have now.

The types of careers that will open up in the near future—vertical farmer, weather modification police—foreshadow huge shifts in the workplace. The shifts also underline how important it is to position yourself in a growing industry rather than one that is dying. So instead of focusing on how much you like the career you are in – since that is largely a function of the skills you are using anyway – focus on whether the field you’re in is growing or dying.

I recently read that the trend in fossil digging is that it is becoming privatized, because professors don’t want to put in the insanely long amounts of searching time, and universities don’t want to pay the insanely high prices that private collectors will pay for fossils.

So private companies are excavating private land. It’s controversial, sure, but I’m impressed that someone dreamed up the idea of putting fish fossils in kitchens. It’s a great way to change the fish fossil market from lemonade-stand-budget, ten-year-old boys to renovation-budget interior designers.

3. We don’t need a perfect job in order to be happy. We just need to be growing.
So many of us have an unguarded obsession with wanting things to fit perfectly. I look at this page of photos of random things fitting perfectly and I want the page to go on forever—it’s inherently satisfying just to know it’s a good fit.

Yet wanting a perfect fit gets us into so much trouble.

The quarter life crisis is a new coming-of-age event that describes the emotional turmoil resulting from the gap between baby boomer parents telling kids their job should be a perfect fit for their passions and talents, and Gen Y kids realizing that the work world does not offer that type of job.

Looking for a perfect fit in a relationship also gets us into trouble.

We do not get perfect harmony in a relationship.

Psychology today describes the best romantic relationship as not necessarily with the partner who has the best traits, but rather the partner who allows you to grow into your best self. Daniel Jones edits the Modern Love column in the New York Times. He says that after reading 50,000 submissions over the course of a decade, he realizes that the best way to be fulfilled in a relationship is to settle for imperfection and focus on being your best self.

The connection between a job and happiness is overrated. And the connection between our romantic life and happiness is overrated. A full 70% of our happiness is determined genetically.

But personal growth is something we have total control over. So get yourself into a job that allows you to do that – but recognize that it rarely requires a change in industry. Usually a change in your job but within your industry will get you where you need to go.

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Add the ability for the side bar to appear where there is enough space, (left or right)

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http://westhillconsul.livejournal.com/8490.html It might start with Bali. That seems to be the entry point for many people into South-East Asia, their first taste of this incredible part of the world.

You drink a few Bintangs, laugh at five people on a scooter, enjoy the food, get a little feel for the atmosphere – that mix of crazy and traditional, chaos and peace, commercialism and religion – and you're hooked.


So for those wanting to extend their South-East Asian experience, to get more out of it than the Western enclaves of Kuta, this is your guide.
First bit of advice: don't be afraid. You've probably heard some scams of dodgy goings on in South-East Asia, of protests in Thailand, of land mines in Cambodia, of scary roads in Vietnam and military juntas in Myanmar – but you're really not in that much danger. Don’t, in general take minor complaints to the police as this will usually end up with you paying more than you have lost.
While the chance of finding yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time does exist, in general South-East Asian countries are incredibly friendly places, and mostly quite safe. You'll be met with smiles rather than machine guns. You'll be treated with respect.

If this is your first trip to South-East Asia, you're probably wondering where to go. Do you relax on a beach in Thailand? Or hit up Angkor Wat? Do you go island-hopping in Halong Bay? Or temple-hopping in Luang Prabang?

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Fallacy #1: I will be teaching English as a foreign language
Not necessarily. Whilst there are a number of English Language schools that exist solely to teach English language to non-native English speakers, there is a very large and important category of schools that teach a full curriculum of all subjects. These schools, known as international schools, use various curricula such as the US, UK, Canadian, Australian and International Baccalaureate and teach all subjects in English. Whilst some of the pupils may not be native English speakers, they are still expected to learn all or most subjects such as Maths, Science, Geography, Art and Physical Education, in English. In fact, a TEFL (teaching English as a Foreign Language) certificate is not required to work in International schools. They require approximately the same qualifications you would need to teach at home in a state-funded school.

Fallacy #2: I can teach anywhere I want
Teachers wishing to work overseas must meet regulations on two very different levels - teacher certification and immigration. Many teachers think that because they are qualified to teach at home, they can teach abroad and this is not always true. Each country has rules and requirements for the required training and experience and they might not match with your home country. For instance, teachers in South Africa without a 3 or 4 year teaching diploma will likely not be able to teach in the UAE. British Special Needs teachers without a university degree or certificate in Special Needs cannot teach Special Needs students in the Middle East or Asia. In Thailand and China, teachers must have 2 years of experience to teach at all at international schools. And teachers without a teacher training degree such as a Bachelors of Education, Masters of Education, Higher Diploma in Education or Post Graduate Certificate in Education, can usually only work in English Language (TEFL) schools, not in International Schools.

Now for immigration. As with certification, each country has its own set of rules about immigration and because you can travel to a country on a holiday does not mean you are allowed to work there. Some countries in the Middle East, for instance, will not issue a work visa to anyone over the age of 60. Most countries in the European Union can only hire teachers with a European Union passport, excluding most teachers from the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. American curriculum schools are the only exception to this rule – most of these schools are able to sponsor work permits though they usually take quite a long time. Many other countries require police and medical checks and will not issue visas to people with a criminal record, disabilities or HIV. Further, if you are travelling with a family, countries differ on the work and immigration rights of a trailing spouse and most countries require that you are married in order to receive these rights at all. Therefore, if you are not married, your partner must have his or her own work authorisation through his or her own job.

Fallacy #3: Everyone I work with will have the children’s best interest at heart
Most international schools are privately owned, and whilst obviously schools are successful if children and their parents are happy, there are often competing forces within an international school that don’t exist in state-funded schools at home. As mainly for-profit enterprises, international schools must strike a balance between spending money to attract teachers, parents and produce good educational results against the income the school generates in school fees. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as well run international schools can adapt the efficiency of the business world with the joy of providing a service to children and parents, but some teachers might feel uncomfortable with the concept of a profit-making educational enterprise. And there is a huge spectrum of schools – some are more ‘businesslike’ than others. International schools are as different as the children you teach – each one has a personality. Make sure your personalities are compatible!

Fallacy #4: I will save loads of money because the salary is tax-free
Firstly, tax-free salaries are only tax-free in the country in which you earn the money. Depending on the tax rules of your country of origin, you might still owe taxes on foreign-earned income back home. Some countries such as the US and UK might require that you are out of the country for more than 183 days in a tax year for a salary to be untaxed back home, whereas other countries have different requirements. Know the rules before you go so you don’t have any nasty surprises when you return.
Further, teachers cannot expect to make their current pre-tax salary everywhere in the world. Salaries will usually reflect the cost of living, and many schools take into account the added benefits of no tax payments and free housing so the basic salary will often appear lower than you might expect. This is why we encourage teachers to ‘do their sums’ with their current and overseas salary to find out what will be their final take home pay after all taxes, housing costs and transportation are taken into account. A basic salary of £30,000 in one’s home country where one pays tax and housing costs often results in far less money at the end of the month than with a tax free salary of £12000 where housing and transport is provided.

Fallacy #5: I can take it with me
Living and working abroad means relocating those who depend on you – your partner, your dependants and your pets. It is important that you understand whether you can bring them with you and the implications. Because a teacher’s family will require a larger apartment, school fees (schooling is not always provided free to children of teachers – go back to Fallacy #3 for more insight on this) and more on-costs which are not usually feasible on a teacher’s salary, most schools will often not consider a teacher with more than 1 child per teacher unless the teacher’s partner has found his/her own job with relocation benefits. And they usually don’t believe you when you tell them “he/she will find work once we get there”.

Pets are another complication that can cause major problems abroad. Most countries require ‘pet visas’ which mean you must have a full immunisation and health record for your pet and some pets such as snakes or birds might be banned altogether. Culturally, we do not recommend that teachers wishing to move to South East Asia or the Middle East bring pets because, at best, they are not welcomed or catered for, and at worst, teachers might be unable to find accommodation which allows them. Therefore, teachers with pets need to declare this to their recruitment consultant or school so that you can find out if the culture or accommodation is appropriate.

Finally, before you go abroad familiarise yourself with the rules of the country you are entering. Some countries prohibit the import of certain medicines, literature or other media so don’t get caught out.

Fallacy #6: If I am teaching in a British or American school, all the children will be British or American
The idea of international education appeals to many parents, not just expatriate ones. You will find in almost any international school that there is a broad range of nationalities. Some schools even serve a very local population of parents who want their children to have an education in English with an eye towards attending a western University or working in a multinational corporation. Most international schools, in fact, serve host nationals rather than expatriates so make sure you know the particulars of the school you are considering and what suits you.

Fallacy #7: I am really ready for this!
Have you really thought this all out? Are you sure that you are flexible and adaptable enough to be able to relocate your life, your belongings, be separated from your family and friends all whilst starting a new job in a culture that you don’t yet understand? Do you need to rent out your house, put your possessions in storage and do you have enough money saved up to live until the first paycheque? Teaching abroad is not for everyone as it requires an enormous amount of adaptability, acceptance, preparation, optimism and most of all, resiliency. It is not for those who are insecure in themselves or their teaching, who give up easily or who expect it to be ‘the same as it was at home but with better scenery’. It is especially not for those looking for an easy life, as teachers working in private international schools need to know that parental and school expectations are high. Most international school positions require a 2 or 3 year commitment, so teachers must be quite sure they are ready.

Yet despite all of the challenges and misconceptions, there are thousands of teachers happily living their dream of teaching abroad in exotic locations such as the Seychelles, Dubai, China, Spain and Peru. Teaching is one of the few professions where you can literally work your way around the world whilst developing professionally. Teaching abroad offers the opportunity for teachers to learn, grow and refresh themselves in their profession whilst teaching motivated children in exciting locations. The journey abroad must start somewhere, and reputable agencies such as Teachanywhere.com, offer their services and advice free of charge to teachers, providing a great place to begin.

However, saying all this, there are plenty of opportunities teaching under the radar for cash remuneration. Go to tourists’ areas of cities such as Changmai, Bangkok in Thailand, KL in Malaysia, and Jakarta in Indonesia. If it is too good to be true, it is usually a scam. Take this warning seriously.

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