FIRM stands for Flood Insurance Rate Map. Post-FIRM means built after the effective date of the initial Flood Insurance Rate Map for the community or December 31, 1974, whichever is later.

For insurance rating purposes, the date of construction or date of substantial improvement (the date the permit was issued provided that construction begins within 180 days of the permit date) is utilized to determine if a building is considered "Pre-FIRM" or "Post-FIRM." A building is considered Pre-FIRM if the start of construction or substantial improvement was on or before December 31, 1974, or before the effective date of the community's initial Flood Insurance Rate Map. See similar questions...

NA) stands for not approved. All boards except for the Test Area are semi-moderated, which means that all posts by new members have to be reviewed and approved by a moderator. The (NA) marks a post that has not yet been approved, it is only visible to moderators of that board, and to the user who posted it. As soon as it is approved, everyone can see it, and the (NA) disappears. See similar questions...

When our firm established its website in 1997 - ten years after our founding - we naturally posted our phone number and mailing address. Unfortunately, we quickly realized that more problems were caused by doing so. Firstly, we were surprised at how many resumes and calls that we received from people who were in fields that were in no way related to our recruitment markets. See similar questions...

By design, we are a virtual company with NO FORMAL OFFICES. We all technically work from home. This is why we have no overhead and can pay huge commissions. To us, it’s a new world where we can be more productive and efficient by being virtual. It’s a business model that gives us the competitive edge. The only downside is that it requires people on the team that are motivated by the mission and their own ambition within the mission. See similar questions...

You may see employers interviewing who do not show up on your bid list as they are not interviewing your class on-campus.  Often, these employers may have an interest in speaking to 3Ls as well, just not through the OCI process. If you are a 3L and are interested in a firm which is coming on campus, but its posting specifies only 2Ls, send your resume directly to the firm. If you wish, you may contact the firm's recruiting coordinator and ask if they are accepting 3L resumes. top See similar questions...

If you submit a post without entering anything in the message box, the server usually assumes you made a mistake. If you *want* to post just a subject, without a message, then click the "no message, just post above subject" box when you enter your post. The subject will then have "(nm)", which stands for "no message", automatically added to it. Don't type it in yourself. If you click that box by mistake, any message you enter will be ignored. This isn't an option when starting a new thread. See similar questions...

The Post-High School (PHS) score indicates that your student did as well as a high school graduate would have done on that grade-level test. It does not necessarily mean that your child can read and understand college-level reading material. See similar questions...

A gold star beside a message means that another person on the board thought that message was worthy of highlighting, as a way to point out the quality of the post to other members. The button to do this is inside each message and is called "Must Read Flag". To mark a post as "Must Read", click the "Must Read" button, located at the top of the post display screen: Note: You must be a contributing member to flag a post as "Must Read". See similar questions...

This means that your site is connected to another site by a partnership agreement. When we opened an account for you on the mother site and posted your information the networked site has direct access to that information. Nevertheless, you cannot logon to a networked site. See similar questions...

If a post is marked as frozen, it means that a moderator has decided that no more edits will be allowed on that post. You can always create more new posts, however, and edit other non-frozen posts as well. See similar questions...

Well apparently it has to do with something called gene expression, which refers to the pattern in which genes are switched on and off. And gene expression has a major effect on your body's biological processes. Each cell in your body contains a 'power-factory' that produces energy, called the mitochondria. See similar questions...

The numbers in parenthesise indicate how many new topics (or posts) have been made since your last visit to the forums. Registered (anya, Camille, hudson702, Manuella, mindfreak, pharos, 1 invisible), 121 Guests and 51 Spiders online. See similar questions...

The technique is what our scientists call "Hydraulic Suction." As the post is driven into the ground, the ground immediately around the post is mechanically strengthened by a reduction in soil porosity and an increase in soil compaction. Thus the surrounding ground pressure will secure the post up to sixteen times firmer than a similar Bored and Tampered Post. See similar questions...

If you haven't shot your film yet, it begins before you shoot - by selecting the finest production dialogue mixer you can afford. The little bit extra paid to a great production mixer can save you tenfold later in post-production. See similar questions...

A Post flood is not a sudden point of cure, but an arbitrary point chosen as a goal, when about 95% of the repressed anger is gone, and mood swings are minimal. Q How long will it take before I am post flood and fully recovered from emotional disorders and addictions. See similar questions...