Exterior Designs Landscape & Pool Construction Review Livermore California

We used Exterior Designs Swimming pool and landscape construction to improve our property in Livermore California.  They are  swimming pool contractor in Livermore CA and have done several projects in Livermore, Brentwood, Dublin and Pleasanton.  If you are considering Exterior Designs Landscaping or  Exterior Designs Landscape & Pool Construction in Livermore CA on Bess Avenue, I invite you to call me to discuss our experience with them.  If you are interested in an Exterior Designs Landscape & Pool Construction review or reviews, please give me a call or email.  I would be happy to discuss my experience.

 

All the best,

Doug

 

 

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Scary Federal Regulation on Savings Account Transfers

If this notice from Wells Fargo doesn’t state Government Control, I don’t know what does…  I have but three words, “Vote Them Out!”  Churn the politicians, all of them, in the next election.  No Incumbents…

 

Read on…

 

Subject	Savings Transfer Limits
Received	October 23, 2013
From	Online Banking

Savings Transfer Limits

We want to make sure you understand an existing federal rule (Regulation D) limiting certain types of transfers from your savings account to a total of six (6) per monthly statement period*. To help you stay within the limit, please keep in mind the following:

• The limit of six (6) transfers per monthly statement period from your savings account includes transfers through the following:
  • Online, Mobile, and Text Banking
  • Phone transfers - Using Wells Fargo's automated banking service or speaking with a banker on the phone
  • Overdraft Protection - Transfers to a checking account for overdraft coverage also counts
  • Third-party payments - Includes checks, wires, and ACH transfers (recurring and one-time)

• There are no limits on the number of transfers or withdrawals made in person at ATMs or Wells Fargo banking locations or on any type of deposit.
• If the six (6) transfers per monthly statement period are exceeded, an excess activity fee (currently $15) will be assessed for transactions that exceed the limit. If the limit is exceeded on more than an occasional basis, the savings account must be converted to a checking account (which doesn't have any transaction limits) or closed.

Beginning December 11, 2013
If the federal transfer limit of six (6) is reached or exceeded, additional transfers from savings accounts through online banking (including mobile and text) or the telephone may be declined for the remainder of the monthly statement period. We are taking this step to help our customers stay within the federal limit.

Easy ways to stay within the transfer limit:

• Keep track of your transfers (especially recurring transfers)
• Make transfers in person at an ATM or a Wells Fargo banking location

* Exceptions to the statement period may apply.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Member FDIC.

 

 

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FW: Health Care Reform Play or Pay Delay - Insperity Responds

Well, the below email from our outsourced HR company pretty much says it all about Obamacare… Costs will be higher, regulations and reporting will be burdensome, and since the law is so fragmented and unruly, other provisions are delayed.   The American people are being SCREWED slowly under this Administration fraught with scandals and regulatory destruction for small businesses.  My only advice to those of you who vote out there, is to never let anyone have a second term in any office.   They just get too much power and don't care about the people any more…

 

L (sad face) for America on Independence day.  Let's bring our constitution back!

 

God  Bless America!

Doug

 

 

From: Insperity [mailto:contact…  @  insperity.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 1:35 PM
To: Doug Renner
Subject: Health Care Reform Play or Pay Delay - Insperity Responds

 

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July 3, 2013 Health Care Reform Play or Pay Delay - Insperity Responds As you may already know, yesterday the federal government delayed implementation of the Employer Shared Responsibility provisions (also known as "Play or Pay") of the Affordable Care Act. The Play or Pay provisions that have been delayed until January 1, 2015 include: employer penalties for failure to provide qualifying health insurance (businesses with 50+ employees) employer and insurer reporting requirements Yesterday's announcement cites the need for stronger infrastructure and more clearly defined reporting procedures as key reasons for the delay. Additional guidance is expected soon to clarify what actions employers must take in 2014. Once this guidance has been issued, Insperity will review and provide additional updates and analysis. This announcement does nothing to delay the implementation of other major components of the health care law, such as: extensive marketplace reforms- which will generally lead to higher costs, taxes and fees for employers and employees alike the individual mandate provision- expected to increase expenses by driving greater participation in employer health plans the launch of state exchanges- likely to increase reporting requirements and administrative burdens for employers Health care reform will still have a dramatic impact on the health care landscape in 2014. This recent announcement only underscores the volatility and uncertainty that businesses will face with the implementation of health care reform. Insperity remains committed to helping its clients manage the challenge of health care reform and the many new regulations issued in association with this legislation.

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Regular Expressions from ANDTEK

This is a super handy RegEx reference that just hit my inbox from ANDTEK.  They make UC Applications that work with the Cisco UC gear we install a lot of.  Good stuff.   Enjoy….

 

From: ANDTEK [mailto:info@andtek.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:00 AM
To: Doug Renner
Subject: Regular Expressions for Douglas Renner

 

Regular Expressions for Douglas Renner
Usually we give you some updates about products, new trainings and updated features. This time we want to focus on an interesting technical feature which is useful in the AND Phone Application Server but is used in a lot of different technological fields – regular expressions. Regular Expressions are very powerful and useful so why not looking a bit deeper into that "evil language"?! The ANDTEK server uses regular expression in several modules to modify or replace phone numbers and to prefix or append information to a phone number. You use lookup or calling a number out of a directory? Believe us, Regular Expressions will become your best friend. There is always a point where you struggle about phone numbers which are not E.164 compliant, include spaces brackets etc.? Now you can think about changing each single phone number in the data source which takes you probably a couple hours or days. Or you use regular expressions to transform and modify those numbers into a format which can be handled by the CUCM. This work for incoming calls as well as for outgoing calls. First a few words about what regular expressions are before we come to the most common regular expressions which are used at our server. The Regex Alphabet and Words Regex is a written language that uses its own alphabet of special characters to form its verbs and nouns. These verbs and nouns are properly called metacharacters or operators and are written with the following characters: { } ? : ( ) . [ ] + ! < > * | ^ $ = Western numerals (0-9) and letters of the Latin alphabet (a-z) are also used in conjunction with those characters. A typical regex consists of a search pattern and a replacement pattern expressed with a combination of metacharacters and non metacharacters. Metacharacters tell a regex engine what to look for, where to look, when to turn a blind eye to what it is looking at and what to do once it's matched its search expression to something. Non metacharacters are the symbols, digits and words being searched for. They have no special meaning to the regex engine and represent exactly what they are – regular text strings. Non metacharacters are usually called literal characters or literals. We can tell a regex engine to treat a metacharacter as a literal character by placing a backslash () in front of it. This act is known as "commenting out". Most important Metacharacters Expression    Definition ^ Beginning of the string $ End of the string Use before any of the following characters to escape or null the meaning of it. + [ ] ( ) ^ . * { } $ . Any character * Multiple occurrences of the preceding character (even 0 occurrences) ? At least one occurrence of the preceding character + Preceding character occurs once or multiple times | Starts alternative match this|that would mean match this or that [x-y] Range for matching digits from x to y [wxz] Range for matching digits w or x or z (no y) [^x-y] Negates the class and means digits don't match the range x-y (xxxx) Back reference point group which can be used in the „Replace with" definition by using the expression $ where is the number of the group. Group numbers start with 1. Examples Now since we know what we can do with regular expressions we will not leave you alone with it. Here the most common regular expressions which are used to normalize numbers or make them searchable. Typically phone numbers in a directory are configured like +49 (89) 555-123 and need to be brought into an E.164 compliant format like +4989555123 or a format like 0089555123. This just takes a few regular expression statements for "Outgoing Calls": Regex    Replace    Result Explanation Comment [^0-9#+] +4989555123 Everything which is not a digit, a + or a # This will remove all special characters like brackets, spaces, dashes etc. ^+49|+ 49 00 0089555123 String begins with +49 or string begins with + 49 This will replace the +49 with 00 ^+[^49]|+ [^49] 000 String begins with plus and next two digits are not 49 or space 49 This will replace the + for international numbers with 000 For reverse number lookup you need to define a set of regular expressions for "Incoming Calls" to transform the calling number close to the format how it is written in your database. Let's assume you get calls presented in a format like 0089555123 or even without the area code like 0555123 while your database entry has the format +49 89 555123. The following regex will help you to get properly formatted phone numbers for the lookup: Regex    Replace    Result Explanation Comment ^00 +49 +4989555123 String begins with 00 This replaces the leading 00 with the country code +49 ^0 +4989 +4989555123 String begins with 0 This will replace the 0 with the country code +49 and insert also the area code 89 That's it! With just 5 regular expression statements you covered about 95% of your phone numbers to be able to dial them or make them searchable. But always keep in mind: Not regular expressions are evil, but overuse of regular expressions might become complicated.

 

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A great article on successful people

http://www.marcandangel.com/2012/01/22/12-things-successful-people-do-differently/

 

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Microsoft Exchange Build Numbers and versions

Here is a summary of the latest build numbers:

Exchange Server 2010 SP3 (KB2808208)
Build Number: 14.03.0123.003

Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2010 SP2 (KB2746164)
Build Number: 14.02.0342.003

Update Rollup 10 for Exchange 2007 SP3 (KB2788321)
Build Number: 8.3.098.3

The Rollups released in December 2012 were:

Update Rollup 5 v2 for Exchange 2010 SP2 (KB2785908)
Build Number: 14.2.328.10

Update Rollup 8 for Exchange 2010 SP1 (KB2787763)
Build Number: 14.1.438.0

Update Rollup 9 for Exchange 2007 SP3 (KB2746157)
Build Number: 8.3.297.2

For a full list of build numbers head over to the Technet Wiki at  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/240.exchange-server-and-update-rollups-build-numbers.aspx

Douglas Renner
Peak IP Solutions, LLC

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Livermore, CA 94551
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What is Play or Pay?

What is Play or Pay?

 

Beginning January 2014, employers with 50 or more full-time employees (including full-time equivalent employees) could find themselves subject to a tax penalty under the Play or Pay rules if they do not offer full-time employees the opportunity to enroll in "minimum essential coverage" that both (a) is affordable, and (b) provides a "minimum value." Failure to comply could subject the employer to penalties of $2,000 or $3,000 per employee, depending on the situation. These penalties are triggered if one or more full-time employees obtain coverage through a public exchange and receive a premium tax credit or cost-sharing subsidy.

Oh joy…

 

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Peak IP Solutions, LLC

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