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How should I express my internal promotion on my resume?

cosmic.osmo — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:44:11 -0800

I was recently received an internal promotion in my current team from a junior level to senior level title. This promotion is due to experience and performance: I will continue to work on the same projects as before in the same role. How should I express this promotion on my resume? There's also a further complicating factor (to me at least): my manager has been trying to get me this promotion for a year, but due to the economy, it hasn't happened until now. So this doesn't represent an actual career milestone to me, just when HR got around to putting their stamp on it.

I see three options:

1. List it under the same job, with just the new title, and mention the promotion and promotion date in the summary. I like this one the best, since nothing except my title and pay have changed, but I worry that some people might think it's misleading.

2. List it under the same job, but with two titles. I don't really like this as much, since it could be confusing, but it is a little more up front than #1.

3. List it as a different job. I've seen this mentioned in other places, and it has the plus of calling attention to the new title, but it's awkward since I will either have to describe the same projects twice or divide them up arbitrarily.

Flickr Photostream help.

trbrts — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:21:39 -0800

Is there anyway to embed a Flickr Photostream or slideshow on a web page and have it display title and captions for the photos? I've got a Flickr Slideshow of my PhotoStream embedded on a webpage. When viewing the slideshow I'd like the Title and and Description to appear with the photo. Is there a way to do this.

Thanks in advance.

How to drive home a car bought in another state?

HopperFan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:01:41 -0800

So I bought a car from out of state...please help me with the logistics! I bought a Volvo on eBay for a good price, yay. It's about 6 hours away, though. (Ohio to Virginia)

I've read this question, and this, this, and several others - but I still have questions, because there seems to be some conflicting information.

Step 1 : Insure vehicle. I'll be doing that tomorrow, I have the VIN.

Step 2 : Go to Virginia, meet seller with car. Make sure VIN on car and title matches with what was posted on eBay.

Step 3-4-.... : ?

The questions I've thought of so far are:

1. Does the seller need to have access to a notary? Otherwise, how would signing the back of the title and the bill of sale be valid?

2. Is it true that with a signed over title and a bill of sale, I could drive this vehicle back to Ohio and placate any police officers that happen to stop me?

3. It seems like a very bad idea to fedex payment down without a title in hand, trusting he'll send me the title in exchange, just so that I could obtain temp tags here before driving down. He hasn't asked me to do that, anyway.

The car does not currently have plates. I checked auto shipping companies, but the cheapest quote is around $300. This may or may not be worth it, depending on what I learn about this registration process.

Book Filter: Name This Book Please.

CollegeNelson — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:43:41 -0800

I want to give a book to a young friend but I can't remember the title and the librarian could not find it either. Book teaches about Gandhi in a cool way. I don't know the age of the book but the plot revolves around a white kid who was raised until 13 or 14 in India and after his father dies (at the start of the book), he move to US to live with his aunt. He then teaches the local kids about Gandhi and has a hunger strike to change either a rule or law I forget. It was written for young adults and is fiction but I don't know anything more.

What's my (potential) job title?

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:09:46 -0800

Another "what's my job title/description" question. Difficulty level: yet to be created, largely secular position within a religious community. A local religious congregation with far more financial resources than actual congregants is looking to create a position to address its shrinking, aging membership. I imagine this would involve some marketing, some outreach, some "relational organizing"* (though not all members may be comfortable with the seemingly politically tinted term "organizer," at least without some sort of modifier).

Are there precedents for this kind of position in other congregations? What kinds of job descriptions are out there? What kind of job titles would be appropriate?

More personally, as a possible candidate for this position (who doesn't foresee a long-term career in religious/faith-based management, but would like to transition into non-profit management or academia after my education is complete), what kind of title do I want to make this position seem relevant to the unchurched?

If you yourself do this kind of work (either as a minister, lay leader, or staff), I'd welcome any ideas or resources as well on where one might start.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_meeting

Help me remember the title of a book about a guy who saw the dead!

internet!Hannah — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:36:39 -0800

Please help me remember a book I read about a guy who saw ghosts! I'm remembering a book I read several years back that I rather liked. The main plot was a story about a guy who could see ghosts (who looked like normal people, except in black and white I think?). He was having marital problems because of this, and I think he couldn't keep a job, though he started hiring himself out as a ghost detector for real estate. I remember he didn't have a drivers license either, after wrecking his car dodging ghosts in the road.

I think he could also see "ghost roads", entire roads in black and white and if he followed them, he would die? I would have sworn the name of the book was Ghost Roads because of this, but when I tried to look up the book to reread it, all I got were entirely different books. I'm having the same problem with all the permutations I come up with as well (ie, Dead Streets, etc).

So, does anyone else remember this book? I'd really like to reread it if I can ever figure out what it was called!

Can't remember book title/author

Anon Ymous — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:17:00 -0800

I'm looking for a book I read in year 6 (1995), and I loved, but can't remember much about it. I think it was "world of O", or "secret of O", or something along those lines, but searches on that don't come up with hits on Google or Amazon. I remember that on the cover, the O had a sinuous line through it (like the yin/yang symbol), and there was a bit where the guy was given special gloves and socks that allowed him to cling on to a sheer cliff face (might have been a deep hole instead, not sure). Does anyone recognise this book? Help appreciated :)

Out of state used car headache

zvs — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:44:26 -0800

I'm looking into buying a used car, and found a pretty good looking one from a colleague in New Jersey. I live in Brooklyn. How the heck does this work? Parking and title questions follow... I've never bought a car before, so it's all new to me. If I buy this car, the original owner has to take the plates off -- then I guess I'll need a NY in-state temporary plate to get it to my house.

Problem 1: Do I just leave it in NJ until I manage to get NY plates? Do I have to get title to get a transfer plate, or does that include title? The website is less than clear.

Problem 2: Where the heck do I keep it? Will I get ticketed if it's on the street? Will I get ticketed for moving an unplated car during street cleaning?

Problem 3: Where do I pay sales tax?

Anybody done this before?

Name That Tune

dagnyduquette — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:06:04 -0800

I'm going crazy trying to find the title of a Wilco song I heard yesterday. It's a song that references women from different parts of the country wanting to "get with" the protagonist. My efforts to search their lyrics by album has come up fruitless.

Name of a movie

Ron Ducz — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:08:21 -0800

I am looking for a name of a movie that came out I think in the 60s or late 50s. I think it took place in the jungles of South America. A group of people are trying to track across the jungle and they are being attacked by headhunters. I know at the end there is a big fight by a river and in one scene a guy is wounded in a cart and holds up a gunpowder barrel that causes an explosion and they defeat the headhunters. Anyone with info please let me know.

What movie trailers am I thinking of?

PontifexPrimus — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:19:03 -0800

Searching for two half-remembered movies (or rather their trailers). One is about killer robots, another about an assassin(?) in a noir SciFi environment... First movie:
This one's quite old (several years), but it has been bugging me for a while. As I remember it it was a CGI(?) or stop-motion(?) sequence of three robots in a bunker-like structure they had to protect; they were supposed to kill a human intruder and played rock-paper-scissors to find out which one got to go, with one robot holding up a bladed hand and complaining "I can only do scissors". It's tormenting me that I cannot find out more about this sequence since the idea of deadly killer robots bickering had struck me as quite imaginative, and I always wanted to know more about where it came from.

Second movie:
A trailer I saw some months ago, focusing on a very Dark City-like setting. The hero(?) wore some kind of white cloth or latex face-mask which tied at the back, covering the full head when worn. It's not Crying Freeman or Cassherrn, although there might have been some acrobatics or fancy shooting involved. And it is definitively not Rorschach from Watchmen.
There was a certain artsyness to the trailer, some element of style that had stuck with me and made me want to see the movie.
Sorry if that's not much to go on, but I keep mixing in memories from different other movies if I try to remember more.

I'd be grateful for any ideas, tips and possible corrections to my feeble recollections...

Help us transfer our plates!

PhoBWanKenobi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:19:24 -0800

Florida DMVFilter: what's the easiest (and cheapest) way to register Mr. WanKenobi's car in the state of Florida? Mr. WanKenobi just moved in. Yay! He brings with him a nice, newish RAV4, which he owns outright and is currently registered in the state of NJ.

Since I hardly use my own car, which is registered in Florida, and since we certainly don't need two cars, I've just sold it on craigslist. I have the plates and all of that.

Now we're trying to figure out the best way to register Mr. WanKenobi's car. I would just send him over to get his own plates, but the state of Florida charges you an extra hundred bucks the first time you register any vehicle in the state, whereas transferring the plates would only be four dollars. We have no problem sharing the ownership of the car--we'll both be using it, after all--but I can't find anything on the website about transferring the title to a new co-owner, if that makes any sense. Do any of your Florida mefites have any experience with this? We'd like to avoid paying that hundred dollar "initial registration fee" again if at all possible!

How can I use downpayment from my boyfriend if he won't be on the mortgage?

akephalos — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:18:57 -0800

As an unmarried couple trying to buy a condo, the lender seems to have an issue with my boyfriend contributing the down payment, as it is only me on the mortgage. Even if he submits a 'gift' letter saying that the money is not a loan.

Why is this so complicated? We are two individuals that have been together for 3 years. Having myself alone on the mortgage is the only realistic way to do this, as he has parking tickets that were reported to credit agencies and trashed his credit score, which is why it won't work to have him on the mortgage.

This would be in Chicago. Without his contribution there is no way we can have a significant enough down payment. Is there no way to have just myself on the mortgage, the condo titled in both of our names, and his down payment accepted? ARG!

Happy to answer any questions.

An MP3 tagging problem

Proginoskes — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:16:54 -0800

I have several mp3s where the Title tag contains no spaces. For example, if the song is "Tangled Up In Blue", the title tag in the mp3 is "tangledupinblue". Is there any tagging software that will sort through these files and insert spaces between the words?

MVA vs. Tag and Title Service Center?

Loto — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:12:11 -0800

In Maryland, can a new to MD resident (with an MD license) bring in his out of state vehicle at a registered "Tag and Title" service center as opposed to using the MVA or is that a service only for cars already registered with Maryland?

Wherein Whelk Wants Wonderful Words

The Whelk — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:06:07 -0800

Name My Blog! After years of creating things and then casually tossing them aside, I've decided to create a blog to put them all in. Cartoons, short fiction, audio clips, short video, etc. A bit like Lore's Bad Gods. The only problem is, I've got no idea what to call it. I'm torn between something direct like "John Did That" or something that just sounds cool, "Automatic Inspiration" was a leading contender for a while. Want to avoid anything suggesting random, junk, or trash (Even though that's what it is, the whole theme is overused). Shower me with your minds, Mefites!

Save the forests!

coffeefilter — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:29:08 -0800

(Real Estate Title Company Experts) - Best way(s) to keep your house title off the grid for as long as possible? Bought a house a while back. Looks like the title company, unbeknownst to us, sent the info to a national database for recording. So now we've gotten lots of junk mail from all over the country for various mortgage scams and quasi-scams.

1. So ... in the future, what are some best practices to avoid this?

2. Do title companies have some sort of contractual agreement or financial incentive to add to the database?

(yeah, yeah, there are probably other ways for the info to find its way into the database, but what are the title companies up to?)

Save the trees!

This quesion brought to you by the letter A

youngergirl44 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:15:51 -0800

I have a young nephew and a young niece by proxy. What can they call me? Names, pronunciaton and alliteration inside! My first name is Amanda and I really dislike the alliteration and overall sound of "Aunt Amanda". I've been trying to come up with something else for them to call me, but I'm not getting anywhere.

I'm not a Mandy and my only nickname is Amy, which doesn't help the alliteration problem. In our family, we've always just used "Aunt + first name", so I don't have any real knowledge of other options for aunts.

What do you call your Aunt Amanda? Suggestions from those without an Aunt Amanda also welcome. :)

Help me title my PhD thesis?

meerkatty — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:15:10 -0800

Help me title my PhD thesis! Cool Photography/Cinema/Camera phrases wanted! The subtitle will be: Aspects of Photography and Cinema in the Fiction of XXX. But I need a cool front title. Something along the lines of:

Through the Lens: Aspects of....
Adjusting the Lens: Aspects of...

But those are kind of lame. I'm trying to come up with something that incorporates both photography and film, so "camera" and "lens" work but "shutter" doesn't, for example. The thesis focuses on the various angles of this visual field, so something that indicates a multiplicity of meaning would be great. Bonus points if it's a quotation from someone like Sontag.

You will get full credit in my thesis acknowledgments!

Do you add a suffix to your name in your email signature?

dudleybdawson — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:46:07 -0800

Do you add a suffix after your name in your email signature? For example, if you are a certified project manager, do you add PMP after your name? Or if you have your MBA, do you add 'MBA' after your name? If so, why? I ask because I believe in 99% of the cases where I've seen a suffix, it is unnecessary and not used within the right context or it just simply isn't worthy of being added after a name. I would be interested in some responses arguing both sides of the issue.

How to find dead parent's Texas mineral rights?

Anonymous — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:29:51 -0800

Finding deceased parent's Texas "mineral rights?" How can I do this cheaply? My pop was married twice. He and his first wife had property in Texas. They sold the land but kept the mineral rights. At least I believe it was called this. My pop told me about it decades ago when I was a kid, so I may have the name wrong. If someone were to find something underground, he would have the rights to it.

Pop and his first wife divorced. He remarried and had me. He passed away decades ago.

I would like to track down any mineral rights he has or had prior to his divorce in the 1950s. The property would be in Texas, possibly Bexar County. How can I do this for cheap / free? Internet methods especially appreciated.

First wife is unavailable & unreliable, so looking for official sources for this information.

What do to with a car with no title

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:37:07 -0800

My boyfriend doesn't have the title to his car. BMV says there's no way he can get the title short of legal action. What can he do with this car? (asked anonymously just in case he decides to get a lawyer involved)

My boyfriend, before I met him a year ago, bought a car from a friend. Friend said he would send him the title, and he never did. My boyfriend called his friend to get it but he never returned his calls.

We did a Carfax and VIN number lookup and it turns out the guy he bought the car from never owned it in the first place. Not only that, but the last official owner couldn't even have technically sold it because there's a lien on the car.

My BF applied for a court ordered title but was denied because the car has a lien on it.

I called our Clerk of Courts and they said they can't override a judge's decision on the title. I called our BMV and they said the same thing. The person I talked to suggested we contact the judge who made the decision and ask him what to do with the car.

I've looked up the name of the woman who owns the car and called the two numbers available but they were disconnected.

The car is a '96 and would be worth about $6000 if in excellent condition, which it isn't.

The history of the car shows a previously issued damaged title, rebuilt title and a salvage title.

So, after all of that, I basically have three questions:

-- Should my boyfriend sue the guy who sold him the car?
-- What can he do with a car that he doesn't have the papers to? Can he junk it/sell it for parts/donate it to charity without those papers?

The car's never been reported as stolen or abandoned, by the way. I would assume the owner who has a lien on this car doesn't want anything to do with it anymore.

(Yes, I realize my boyfriend probably shouldn't have bought this car in the first place, so practical answers as to what to do now are most appreciated. Thank you.)

Throwaway email: notitleanon@gmail.com

Is paying off an $11k auto loan with a credit card a bad idea?

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:31:28 -0800

Tricky car loan situation. I'm thinking about paying off the remainder of a car loan with my credit card. Is this a bad idea? My boyfriend and I have spent over a year trying to figure out the best way to get his car officially titled in his name. He's had the car since 2003 (new) and has been faithfully making (loan + insur.) payments on it. However the loan is completely in his ex-girlfriend's name (and he is listed on her auto insurance). The bank is the title holder, which means that the loan needs to be paid off in order for her to get the title and transfer it to us.

We both have really good credit (mine is over 800, his is above 675), but we also both have significant student loan debt. Consequently, we have repeatedly been turned down for a loan necessary to pay off the ex's car loan (so that she can receive the title and sign it over to us).

Here's the solution I came up with the other day:
1. Draft a contract stating that I will pay off the loan with the bank. When that occurs and the ex receives the title, she will sign it over to my bf (essentially selling the car to him for $1). We all sign.
2. I will draft a second contract, between bf and I, stating the terms of paying back the loan. We both sign.
3. Bf will register and insure himself and the car here in this state (CA), ex-gf will remove him from insurance policy, etc.

I am comfortable taking on this much debt ($11k at 11.99% APY). The car loan rates we were quoted were not any better frankly. My credit card limit allows for this purchase. Also, fyi, the car is not worth nearly that much, but its very reliable. He definitely needs to hold onto it for work, etc.

Leaving the situation as-is is not an option. The current loan is absolutely terrible. He is unable to register or insure the car in this state, or in his name. Its risky to have this situation go on with this sort of liability; I can't legally drive the car ever, and if anything happens to him or the car, it screws over his ex-girlfriend. We'd like to not make this her problem, and just get everything legit.

Is there anything wrong with this plan and/or paying off this loan with a credit card? I am worried about recent reports of people being 'dumped' by their credit card companies. Or other things, like random rate changes. Are these valid concerns, and is there anything else I should be worried about?

Fyi, I am most definitely not worried about making this sort of loan/$$ commitment to my boyfriend. We are in it together, for as long as I can foresee, and things are great. Also, he has borrowed significant money from me in the past and has paid me back on time, every time. This question is about any hidden drawbacks to paying off the loan on a credit card.

A drop in the river

Toekneesan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:08:23 -0800

How many books (titles, not editions or book pages) are available on Amazon? I'm looking for the number of titles Amazon currently lists. I'm not interested in how many they've sold or how many total products the site has. I don't care if they're in or out of print, new or used (though a breakdown of those categories would be awesome), I'm just looking for how many titles are listed on their US site. Google produced bupkis, Amazon's Media Center, even their annual report does not seem to mention the number of titles listed. Anyone got an educated guess or better yet, a cited figure?

He left behind medical bills and a very sensible car

*s — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:29:38 -0800

What is a fitting end for a ghost car? My friend died a few years ago without a will, leaving behind a 2001 tan Toyota Camry. Due to the hassle of getting the title (friend had hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills), my friend's wife would prefer to get rid of the car, rather than make it legit. Most people probably do not want to buy a car without a title that has an expired registration and environmental inspection that cannot be renewed.

As a result, my friend's wife wants to do something different with the car. What's something cool she might do with it? The weirder the better.

(We're already considering donating it to NPR, assuming they take cars without proper papers.)