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The UAE is four hours ahead of UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time -
formerly known as GMT) and there is no daylight saving. Hence, when it is 12.00
midday in Abu Dhabi, it is 3am in New York, 8am in London, 10 am in
Johannesburg, 1.30pm in New Delhi, and 6pm in Sydney (not allowing for any summer
time saving in those countries).
Abu Dhabi has a sub-tropical, arid climate. Sunny blue skies and high temperatures can be expected most of the year. Rainfall is sporadic, falling mainly in winter (November to March) and averaging 12 cms per year in most of the emirate. Rain is more common in the 'Oasis City' of Al Ain, the emirate's second largest city, due to its proximity to the Hajar mountains.
Temperatures range from a low of around 13C (50F) on a winter's night, to a high of around 42C (118F) on a summer's day. The cooler months, November to April, are the most pleasant time to visit, when temperatures are around 24C (75F) during the day and 13C (56F) at night.
Abu Dhabi's electricity supply is 220/240 volts at 50 Hz. Square three-pin sockets are standard. It is advisable to bring a plug adapter with you, though most hotels can supply adapters for other kinds of plug and they can be bought locally.
Most of Abu Dhabi's five-star hotels, malls and heritage attractions have
wheelchair facilities. Wheelchair ramps often have steep angles.
Abu Dhabi International Airport is
well equipped for physically challenged travellers. There is a special check-in
gate with direct access from the car park, as well as dedicated lifts, and a
meet and assist service.
Abu Dhabi has a very family-friendly environment. Baby changing rooms, play areas and kids facilities are commonplace in malls and hotels alike; most hotels have paid child care services. Kids' menus, high chairs and play areas are common in most restaurants.
Most Abu Dhabi hotels offer complimentary internet access to their guests, or paid access to non-guests. There is a growing number of establishments outside of hotels - such as coffee shops and restaurants - that also offer wireless Internet access. Visitors who don't have their own laptop can drop by Internet cafés in malls and along most busy streets.
Islam is the official religion of the UAE, and is widely practised. The Islamic holy day is Friday. Muslims are required to pray (facing Makkah) five times a day. The times vary according to the position of the sun, when the modern day call to prayer is transmitted through loudspeakers on mosque minarets.
The UAE Constitution provides for freedom of religion in accordance with established customs. Abu Dhabi is tolerant of other religions with people being free to practice their religious beliefs, so long as they do not interfere with Islam. Non-Muslims can get an insight into Islam through complimentary guided tours of the spectacular Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque - one of the world's largest. The tours run at different times during the week.
Lightweight summer clothing is suitable for most of the year, but something slightly warmer may be needed in winter months. Take a jacket or sweater when visiting hotels or the cinema, as the air conditioning can be fierce.
Although the attitude towards dress is fairly liberal throughout the Emirates, a healthy amount of respect for local customs doesn't go amiss, especially when shopping or sightseeing. Short or tight clothing may be worn, but it will attract attention - most of it unwelcome.
Malls, health clubs and resort facilities are generally more accepting of what's fashionable, but when visiting government offices it is best to cover your shoulders and legs. It is especially recommended that you dress more conservatively during Ramadan.
In the evenings, restaurants and clubs usually have a mixt of western, Arabic and Asian styles. Again, ladies are advised to take a pashmina or jacket because of cold air conditioning.
Ramadan is the holy month in which Muslims commemorate the revelation of the Holy Quran (Islam's holy book). It's a time of fasting and Muslims abstain from all food, drink, smoking and unclean thoughts (or activities) between dawn and dusk.
At sunset, the fast is broken with the Iftar feast, the timings of which are published in all daily newspapers.
All over the city, festive Ramadan tents are filled to the brim each evening with people of all nationalities and religions enjoying traditional Arabic mezze and sweets. The dates of Ramadan change each year following the Islamic lunar calendar.
During the holy month of Ramadan, shops often change their hours by closing during the day, re-opening an hour or two after sunset, and staying open later at night. Food outlets and restaurants generally remain closed or offer takeaway services only during the day and then open up for Iftar after sunset.
Non-Muslims are respectfully required to refrain from eating, drinking or smoking in public places during daylight hours. Failure to do so could upset people or lead to an official complaint. During Ramadan, the sale of alcohol is restricted to after dusk, while shops and parks usually open and close later. In addition, no live music or dancing is allowed (so nightclubs tend to close for the entire month) and cinemas limit daytime screenings.
Ramadan ends with a three-day celebration and holiday called Eid Al Fitr, which is characterised by gifts being given amongst families, friends, neighbours and charities.
The local currency is the UAE dirham (AED or Dhs) which is divided into 100 fils and is pegged against the US $ (US$ 1: AED 3.6725).
Most shops, hotels and restaurants in Abu Dhabi accept major credit and debit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, etc.). It is prudent to confirm acceptance of credit card or debit card payments with staff especially if there is no visible signage indicating acceptance of credit card payment at the store premises or the till/counter.
Most ATMs across Abu Dhabi bear the Visa, MasterCard, American Express Cirrus, Maestro or Plus logos, which means credit card owners can withdraw cash against their accounts from them. Hotels also provide foreign exchange services, and there are many foreign exchange bureaus across the city centre.
If you are looking for gold jewellery and/or exotic Persian carpets and other handicrafts, Abu Dhabi's souks might offer you the best deal (so long you have good negotiating skills). For shoppers of luxury items, the absence of sales tax or any other type of taxes is an excellent incentive to buy. We also suggest you try the local dates products (fresh, baked or preserved), which are simply irresistible.
Shops have varied return/exchange policies but generally they allow customers to either return or exchange items within a given time frame, and as long as you can produce the receipt.
There are endless choices of dining options in Abu Dhabi, and visitors are always bewildered by the sheer volume and diversity of F&B outlets across the emirate. Cuisines from around the world mingle in Abu Dhabi with restaurants offering a vibrant and varied mix of international flavors and impressive culinary standards.
Hotel outlets serve alcohol and these are complemented by many superb unlicensed outlets across the emirate. Non-Muslims can consume pork in certain restaurants – any dishes using pork ingredients will be prepared separately from non-pork dishes and are clearly marked on the menu.
Average dining in popular hotel restaurants ranges between AED100 / US $27 to AED200 / US $55 per person, excluding beverages. Many fine dining and high-end restaurants may add a service charge (usually around 10%) and a tourism levy of 6% to your bill. These charges are often included in the menu prices and the menu will denote when they are. You may choose to reward your waiter directly with a tip – the usual 10-15%.
Tipping is not expected, but is commonly practised in the emirate. Gratuities to staff at hotels and restaurants are at your discretion. Many fine dining and high-end restaurants may add a service charge (usually around 10%) and a tourism levy of 6% to your bill. These charges are often included in the menu prices and the menu will denote when they are. That being said, if you are very happy with the service, it is not expected but quite common to leave a tip on top of the already included (16%) fees & service charges. If these charges are not included, then you may like to add a 10-15% tip to the total bill.
Weekend in Abu Dhabi is Friday and Saturday, and the first day back to work (for most companies) is Sunday. There are, however, certain offices that remain open on Saturday too.
Government offices are generally open from 7am to 3pm or from 8am to 4pm Sunday to Thursday. Some might end their working days at 5pm, if the staff take a full one hour lunch break. Private companies normally operate between 9am and 5pm (6pm), and some of them also work on Saturday. It is recommended to visit government offices in the morning and to make a call to confirm an appointment prior to leaving your hotel or accommodation.
Getting around Abu Dhabi is easy and taxis are reasonably priced and plentiful and can be flagged down at the roadside or booked by phone through the TransAD hotline 600 535353.
Street taxis are easily recognised. They are either silver with a yellow roof sign (newer taxis) or white and gold with a green roof sign (older taxis). Both old and new taxis are metered, yet many of the old taxis may negotiate the fare in advance. A tip is not expected but always welcome.
If you want to explore the emirate, your travel agency can organise tours that include transportation to and from the places you would like to visit. Renting a car is also an option for those wanting to travel a lot. To hire any vehicle you will need a passport copy, credit card and a valid driving licence from your home country, or a valid international driving licence.
Otherwise, the bus network that plies the emirate is very efficient. In the capital, modern air-conditioned buses operate round-the-clock. The service is easy to use, with passengers hopping in and out of any bus by placing a one dirham coin in the collection box next to the driver. There are also buses travelling to Al Ain and other parts of the emirate, which can be taken from Abu Dhabi's Central Bus Station on Murour Road.
You will find all major car rental companies in Abu Dhabi, plus a few extra, and it's worth remembering that larger, more reputable firms generally have more reliable vehicles and a greater capacity to help in an emergency (an important factor when handling the trying times following an accident).
All rentals are inclusive of registration, maintenance, replacement, 24-hour assistance and insurance (comprehensive insurance with personal accident cover is advisable). For short term rental, many companies offer daily rates - there are booths at the airport and most of the major hotels, and there are numerous shops dotted throughout the city. It's worth ringing around for rates, although usually the most competitive rates can be found online.
To hire any vehicle you will need a passport copy, credit card and a valid driving licence from your home country, or a valid international driving licence.
If you have a UAE residence visa, you will need to have a valid UAE driving licence.
The average cost for a five-star double room in Abu Dhabi is AED 590 / US$161, excluding taxes (16%). Rates may or may not include breakfast. It is advisable to book your room far in advance, as hotels get busy very quickly, especially in high season or during busy events.
An increasing number of five-star hotels are now integrating fully furnished hotel apartments into their properties. Hotel apartments are ideal for families or for those who plan an extended stay in Abu Dhabi. An average night for a hotel apartment is AED 370 (US$ 100) for a double room.
There aren't any hostels in Abu Dhabi. However, the budget traveller can check out some of the more affordable hotels in our Where to stay pages.
The emergency phone number for Abu Dhabi Police is 999. Whether you need police assistance, an ambulance or for any other emergency situation, this is the number to call. Calls to this number are free of charge.
When calling the emergency number, please remember to state your name, the nature of the accident, address of the emergency and how serious the situation is.
If you are involved in a traffic accident, it's important to contact the police immediately. In case of a minor incident, move your car to the side of the road, as there are fines for obstructing traffic. You cannot file an insurance claim without a police report.
For other enquiries, Abu Dhabi Police operates a dedicated Tourism Police section which will advise and guide you on a range of matters. You can contact them on +971 2 699 9999.
Abu Dhabi has been named the Middle East's safest city in the 2011 Mercer Quality of Living Index.
Abu Dhabi's virtually crime free environment and well organised emergency services will bring you peace of mind and a relaxing stay.
Citizens of Australia, Andorra, Austria, Brunei, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America and the Vatican State can get a free-of-charge entry visa upon arrival at Abu Dhabi International Airport.
GCC citizens do not need a visa to enter the UAE.
Citizens of all other countries will need to apply for a Tourist, Transit or Visit Visa prior to their trip. If you are flying with Etihad Airways, a visit visa may be arranged for you upon request. If you have booked your trip through a travel agency, in most cases they will be able to arrange this for you.
Five, four and three star hotels can apply for visas on behalf of guests who have booked a stay with them. Please note that not all five, four and three star hotels have this system in place. Make sure you check with your preferred hotel if they offer this service. This service does not currently apply to guests staying in hotel apartments
While the airline, travel agency and hotel can apply for your visa, please make sure you give yourself enough time for it to be approved, and note that they do not take responsibility if the visa is declined.
Otherwise, you will need to apply for a visa through your nearest UAE embassy. An eye scan will be required at the airport.
For more information on visa types or how to get your visa, visit the Abu Dhabi Government website or call its contact centre on +971 2 666 4442 (800-555 from inside the UAE)
Click here for the list of foreign embassies that are located in Abu Dhabi, including their contact information.
As per UAE federal law and Abu Dhabi Government law, all visitors to the UAE must have medical insurance cover. In case of emergency, treatment to stabilise the case is free. Other treatment must be covered by a cash payment or insurance card for covered individuals.
In a medical emergency, Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (+971 2 610 2000) and Al Noor Hospital (+971 2 626 5265) both have Accident and Emergency units. If you are injured in a traffic accident, you will automatically be taken to Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, as it has the best A&E treatment facilities.
The Abu Dhabi Government portal provides an updated list of 24-hours opened pharmacies and medical services, including hospitals, clinics, and medical centres in Abu Dhabi. If you don't have internet access you can call the toll free number 800 555 (+971 2 666 4442).
While normal tourist photography is acceptable, it is polite to ask permission before taking photos of people, particularly women. Photographs of government buildings, military installations and ports and airports should not be taken. Also, cameras may be banned in public areas designated for women and children only.
UAE nationals usually wear traditional dress in public. For men, this is the kandura - a white full length shirt-like garment, which is worn with a white or red checkered headdress, known as a ghutra. This is secured with a black cord (agal). Sheikhs and important businessmen may also wear a thin, gold-trimmed robe (bisht) over their kandura at important events.
In public, Emirati women wear a long, loose black robe (abaya) that covers their normal clothes - plus a headscarf (sheyla). The abaya is often of very sheer, flowing fabric with intricate embroidery and beadwork along the wrists and hemline.
Sheylas are also becoming more elaborate and a statement of individuality, particularly among the young. Headwear varies with some women wearing a thin black veil covering their face and others, generally older women, wearing a leather veil (burka), which covers the nose, brow, cheekbones and lips.
Although Arabic is the official language in the UAE, English is widely spoken. Most business transactions in Abu Dhabi are conducted in English.
Most cigarette brands are available in Abu Dhabi, while a pack of cigarettes costs anywhere between AED 5 (US$1.36) to AED 10 (US$ 2.7). Certain F&B outlets allow smoking inside, while others are smoke-free. Most business, shopping and leisure establishments have designated areas for smoking. Visitors are asked to refrain from smoking between dawn and dusk during the month of Ramadan.


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26 scholars 'cannot endorse' the gender-neutral NIV revision
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A group of 26 scholars has signed a statement declaring that "we cannot endorse the TNIV translation as sufficiently accurate to commend to the church."
The TNIV is the new gender-neutral "Today's New International Version" unveiled Jan. 28 by the International Bible Society. It is a revision of the widely used 1984 New International Version (NIV) Bible translation.
The 26 scholars' statement was released Feb. 1. Meanwhile, a list of more than 100 "inaccuracies" in the TNIV was compiled by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in a daylong review of the TNIV Jan. 31. A 25-page document listing the translation objections is posted at the organization's Internet site, www.cbmw.org.
The 26 scholars who have stated their refusal to endorse the TNIV include two Southern Baptist Convention seminary presidents, R. Albert Mohler Jr. of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Paige Patterson of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, along with Wayne Grudem of Phoenix Seminary in Scottsdale, Ariz., and a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society; Harold O.J. Brown of Reformed Theological Seminary; R.C. Sproul of Ligonier Ministries; John Piper of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis; and Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. of First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Ga.
The one-paragraph scholars' statement in full:
"In light of troubling translation inaccuracies -- primarily (but not exclusively) in relation to gender language -- that introduce distortions of the meanings that were conveyed better by the original NIV, we cannot endorse the TNIV translation as sufficiently accurate to commend to the church."
Spokesmen for the International Bible Society were unavailable for comment the morning of Feb. 1.
Another leading theologian, J.I. Packer, did not add his name to the signatories, but told Baptist Press: "This [TNIV] is a retrograde move that the translators have made. I have read a text of a statement by Wayne Grudem and others, and I find myself in sympathy with it. I find it to be a passing modern fad, frankly, to object to the inclusive masculine pronoun. To change the shape of biblical verses to fit this fad leads to a good bit of under-translation. The masculine pronoun belongs in almost every language of the world. The gains that this translation seeks to achieve are far outweighed by the loss. I appreciate the NIV, and I think they have taken a wrong turn." Packer is a theology professor at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the author of numerous books, including "Knowing God."
The CBMW, in a statement accompanying its 100-plus findings, noted:
"The task of communicating the truth of the Word of God to the world is at the core of what it means to be an evangelical. With such the case, evangelical Christians should be zealous and eager for the translation and distribution of the Holy Scriptures. The New International Version (NIV) has served an entire generation of evangelical churches as one of the most widely used and widely distributed translations of the Bible.
"When the International Bible Society announced unexpectedly [Jan. 28] that they were once again moving forward with a 'gender accurate' translation of Scripture, Today's New International Version (TNIV), many of us hoped that the NIV would not return to the inaccurate gender-neutral translation practices that had caused widespread protests over the planned release in the U.S. of the NIV-Inclusive Language Version in 1997.
"However, we are saddened by what we have found in this translation. After examining hundreds of passages in the TNIV, the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood is disappointed to announce that many of the changes in the TNIV actually mistranslate Greek words, thereby distorting the meaning of the text of the Word of God."
The CBMW stated that its 25-page document notes "dozens of such changes. ... While we realize that there may be room for scholars to differ over a few of these examples, we are convinced that the vast number of them, taken as a whole, show this to be a translation that should not be commended for use by the church of Jesus Christ."
The CBMW statement was signed by the organization's president, Bruce A. Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Seminary; vice president, Wayne Grudem; and executive director, Randy Stinson.
Ware told Baptist Press, "One of our most cherished treasures is an accurate translation of the Word of God. If the translation gets it wrong, multitudes of Christians may be misled and never know what God actually said."
Most, but not all, of the inaccuracies Ware said are in the TNIV relate to the Bible's gender language. "The TNIV changes multitudes of singular pronouns to plurals, thus removing the sense of individual relationship or responsibility God intended us to know."
Ware continued, "The 'Son of Man' in Hebrews 2:6 is changed to 'human beings'; the 'men' of Acts 20:30 are now merely 'some' who will arise; James 3:1 now warns not 'brothers' but 'brothers and sisters' not to presume to be teachers; and many, many more. Oddly, in John's gospel, the 'Jews' who oppose Christ are, in the TNIV, the 'Jewish leaders' only.
"Claims that no concern for political correctness or ideology promotion stand behind these translation decisions are hard to accept," Ware said. "In light of such inaccuracies and distortions of meaning, I would encourage Christian people to urge their Bible publishers to exercise exacting faithfulness to God's own Word. Yes, we need accurate translations, but unfortunately, the TNIV falls short of this goal."
Mohler, of Southern Seminary, stated that the TNIV seems to be following an "agenda of political correctness at the expense of the clarity of the biblical text. Those who love the Scripture should use and commend those translations that are most accurate and faithful to the text. No knowledgeable person would claim that accuracy is easily achieved or that any translation has achieved absolute accuracy; nevertheless, it is sad to see a major publisher and Bible society produce a translation with this degree of compromise.
"We should be very careful not to exaggerate the deficiencies of this translation. Thankfully, no gender-neutral language is used for God," Mohler said. "Nevertheless, the deficiencies of this translation represent a significant loss and will add to confusion in evangelical circles.
"This controversy is also disappointing, since the IBS had at one point indicated that it was abandoning all plans for a gender-neutral NIV," Mohler said in reference to a 1997 statement by the International Bible Society that calmed a controversy over its intention to introduce a gender-neutral Bible translation in the U.S. market by 2001.
Stinson, of the CBMW, amplified several of the organization's findings, including:
Hebrews 2:6, which the NIV renders: "What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?"
The TNIV: "What are mere mortals that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?"
The TNIV translation, Stinson said, "removes the possibility of connecting this with Jesus, who called himself 'the Son of Man.' [It] mistranslates the singular Greek words huios ('son') and anthropos ('man'). [It] no longer calls the human race 'man,' but 'mere mortals.'"
Concerning Hebrews 12:7:
NIV: "Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?"
TNIV: "Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their parents?"
Stinson's assessment: The TNIV "mistranslates Greek terms huios ('son') and pater ('father'), which in their singular forms cannot mean 'child' or 'parent.' [It] obscures the parallel with God as Father."
In a Jan. 29 statement to Baptist Press, IBS communications director Larry Lincoln said, "Accuracy and clarity are prime with us." The TNIV, he said, uses "generic language" for men and women "only when the text was meant to include both men and women." He argued that the TNIV should be called a "gender-accurate" translation instead of the term used by some in the media, including Baptist Press, as "gender-neutral." An overview of the TNIV is available on the Internet at www.tniv.info.
Steve Johnson, IBS vice president for communication and development, sent an e-mail to Baptist Press after its Jan. 28 news story on the TNIV, stating: "I wish to state for the record that the overriding concern of the [Committee on Bible Translation, a 15-scholar group responsible for the NIV text] is ALWAYS accuracy and clarity. While there may be differences within the body on the specific rendering of Greek and Hebrew, the influence of social agenda into any translation is NEVER permitted. We regret that once again, the issue of providing God's Word to the next generation of English-speakers has become an issue of division in the Body of Christ."
Russell D. Moore & Michael Foust contributed to this article.


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As a wake-up call to his taste buds, food editor Ian Knauer adds a dollop of this vibrant, garlicky hot sauce to his egg sandwich (it often finds its way onto his lunch and dinner plates, too). Its versatility is the key—any variety or combination of chiles will produce a different yet full-flavored, lip-tingling sauce.
- Yield
- Makes about 1 pint
- Active Time
- 30 min
- Total Time
- 1 day
- 1 head garlic
- 1/2 pound fresh red, yellow, and/or orange hot chiles
- 1 cup distilled white vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 bunch thyme
- Equipment: 4 (1/4-pint) canning jars with screw bands and lids; canning tongs
- Make chile relish:
- Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Cut off and discard top of garlic head to expose cloves, then wrap head in foil and bake until very tender, about 45 minutes. Cool to warm, then peel cloves and transfer to a food processor.
- Stem chiles and add to processor along with vinegar, sugar, and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt. Pulse until finely chopped.
- Simmer chile mixture in a small saucepan, stirring, 2 minutes.
- Sterilize jars and lids:
- Wash jars, lids, and screw bands in hot, soapy water, then rinse well. Dry screw bands. Put empty jars on a rack in a boiling-water canner or a deep 6- to 8-quart pot and add enough hot water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil, covered, then boil 10 minutes. Remove canner from heat, leaving jars in water, covered. Heat lids in water to cover by 2 inches in a small saucepan until water registers 180°F on an instant-read or candy thermometer (do not let boil). Remove from heat. Keep jars and lids submerged in hot water, covered, until ready to use.
- Carefully remove jars and lids with canning tongs, then drain jars upside down on a clean kitchen towel and quickly dry lids.
- Fill, seal, and process jars:
- Place 2 or 3 thyme sprigs in each jar and ladle sauce (while still hot) into jars, leaving 1/4 inch of space at top. Run a clean rubber spatula between sauce and sides of jars to eliminate air bubbles. Wipe off rims of filled jars with a damp clean kitchen towel, then firmly screw on lids with screw bands.
- Put sealed jars in canner (on rack) or pot and add enough hot water to cover by 2 inches. (If you have a jar that is partially full, do not process it. Cover it with a lid and screw band, then keep in refrigerator.) Bring to a full boil, covered, then boil, covered, 10 minutes. Transfer jars with canning tongs to a towel-lined surface to cool. Jars will seal and eventually have concave lids (you may hear a ping).
- After jars have cooled, 12 to 24 hours, press center of each lid to check that it's concave, then remove screw band and try to lift lid with your fingertips. If you can't, the lid has a good seal. Replace screw band. Put any jars that haven't sealed properly in the refrigerator and use them first.
Cooks' notes:
• If you are using jars with rubber rings (still sold, but not recommended by the USDA), follow the manufacturer's instructions.
• Chile relish keeps in sealed jars in a cool dark place 5 to 6 months.
• Chile relish keeps in sealed jars in a cool dark place 5 to 6 months.


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As you search for a job, keeping track of numerous different resumes can be difficult.
Have you ever considered moving to a paperless resume as a way to keep track of your work history and experience? Paperless resumes are easy to create and use. There are a number of sites that offer services to assist you creating a paperless resume — and this trend continues to grow as more and more job hunters move away from hard copy resumes. Once you have made the decision to start using a paperless/online resume, here are some ways that you can be sure to get results:
Highlight your accomplishments
An online or paperless resume should still highlight your accomplishments. You need to share your key skills and how they can benefit a company or work as an advantage for a future position. As you begin to adjust your resume, be sure to put your experiences in an order that will showcase your greatest accomplishment first and so on. As you highlight your qualifications, be sure to remember what makes you marketable to potential employers.
Industry keywords
Using keywords in your resume whether it is online or not is crucial for your success. Even if you aren't applying to a specific position, be sure to use industry keywords to help get you noticed by recruiters searching online for talent. Identify these keywords by looking at job descriptions that you are interested in — do you see trends in the words they are using? These are keywords that you should add into your resume wherever appropriate. These can help you get noticed by recruiters.
Maximize your exposure
Once you have developed your resume, post it to more than one site to get yourself exposed to as many recruiters as possible. There are many sites that will offer you to post your resume for free, such as Indeed Resume. Conduct some research into these sites to be sure that they can help your job hunt.
Also, don't forget to use your own online sources such as social media or a blog. These sites can help you just as much as free online resume posting sites. The more exposure that you can gain, the more your chances increase for being found for great opportunities.
Contact information
Be sure you have the most recent and correct contact information easily accessible. Having your contact information at the top of your resume makes it the first thing that a recruiter sees.
In addition to having your information as visible as possible, you need to be sure that the information is up-to-date. Providing easy to find and up-to-date information is important when searching for a new job.
Paperless resumes are becoming increasingly more popular, and if used correctly can help you get a jump start on your career.
Have you started using a paperless or online resume?
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Growth and questions prompt DPI review of virtual schools
Emrollment up 38 percent
OSHKOSH, Wis. — The state plans to review Wisconsin virtual schools during this academic year.
The number of virtual schools increased from 25 to 28 this year, and enrollment rose 38 percent to nearly 6,800 students.
Department of Public Instruction spokesman Patrick Gasper told the Oshkosh Northwestern the study was prompted by the increase and questions the state receives about the schools' operation.
Gasper said they plan to contact district administrators, principals, teachers, parents, charter school board members and others. Local school boards oversee virtual schools.
John Jacobs is director of the Wisconsin eSchool Network, which includes seven virtual schools. He said he hopes the study recognizes there's no "cookie-cutter" approach to digital learning.
A Gannett Wisconsin Media investigation revealed significant achievement gaps between students in virtual schools and those in traditional brick-and-mortar schools.


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WESTPORT -- Making use of timely baskets and continuous ball movement Staples High School was able to pick up a much-needed home victory Friday night.
The Wreckers defeated Fairfield Warde 63-48, led by David Katz's game-high 23 points. Staples improved to 3-6 with the win.
"He's our senior leader and our captain," Staples coach Colin Devine said of Katz. "He's playing really good basketball for us; I'm very happy for him."
Katz hit two 3-pointers in the first quarter and the threat of his outside game enabled him to exploit the paint and either finish inside or pass to a cutting teammate.
"I had a few threes early on and I knew they were going to come out on me," said Katz. "So that helped me get inside and dish to the big men down low who were taking it all the way. I was trying to be a little more versatile than just a spot up shooter."
With Katz able to contribute assists as well as points, the Staples offense was clicking on all cylinders.
"We really needed a total team effort tonight to get the win," Devine said of his team's unselfishness. "I thought we took very good care of the basketball for the majority of the game and it resulted in good looks."
Freshman Ben Casparius of Staples contributed 11 points on three 3-pointers; causing even Warde coach Ryan Swaller to laud his rally-killing ability.
"Ben made some big-time shots in the corner that he had to make," Swaller said. "We gambled a bit and he made them to keep the score out of reach."
For Warde (1-9), it was the inexhaustible effort of Brian Kerrigan that kept his team in the game. The senior forward contributed 17 points while continuously battling on the boards for the undersized Mustangs.
"(Kerrigan is) a true competitor and he leaves it all on the floor; he played very well around the basket today," Swaller said. "He's the leader of this team; everyone looks up to him and follows his lead. He walks out of a game as sweaty as can be with bruises all over and never complains."
Giacomo Brancato scored a team-high 20 points for the Mustangs.
"As a whole I thought we had good intensity, which is what we focused on in practice," Swaller said. "We got down at times and we could have let the game get out of hand but we didn't and we were able to get a turnover when we needed it. The energy was there but we just couldn't get those baskets."
For Staples the victory was certainly a step in the right direction.
"If we want to be a playoff basketball team we need eight wins," Katz said. "This was our third so hopefully we build off of it and keep going."
Staples 63, Warde 48
Nicholas Cotto 1 0-0 3 Brian Kerrigan 7 3-5 17 Terrance Walden 1 0-0 2 Thomas Luckner 0 1-2 1 Kavon Polk 1 0-0 3 Giacomo Brancato 6 6-8 20 Christopher Smaldone 1 0-1 2
David Katz 7 7-10 23 Darryle Wiggins 2 0-1 5 Jake Melnick 1 1-2 4 Todd Goldstein 7 1-2 15 Nick Esposito 1 1-2 3 Ben Casparius 4 0-0 11 Harry Kohn 0 2-4 2 Totals 22 12-21 63
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Mr. Souza has more than 15 years of experience in Accenture. Prior to his current role, Mr. Souza led the Corporate Strategy offering group globally and had also been responsible for the energy, chemicals, utilities and natural resources services group in Brazil. His experience is primarily in the areas of corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions and operating models.
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There's a little black spot on the sun today.
No you don't want to miss this rare display. (With apologies to Sting)
It's V-Day 2012, the day Venus transits the sun, appearing as a black dot against the star's searing surface. It's a show that won't make its celestial revival until December 2117.
For many skywatchers, this event is drawing eyes because it is rare and intimately tied to the history of humanity's quest to take the measure of its corner of the cosmos. In the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists risked their lives traveling to far-flung corners of the globe to carefully record the track of the first lady of the solar system across the sun. Back then, it was the best means available for trying to estimate the Earth's distance from the sun and derive a size for the solar system.
But for some astronomers, Tuesday's transit offers an unique opportunity to use Venus as a surrogate for Venus- and Earth-size planets orbiting other stars, as researchers hone their skills at analyzing potential havens for life outside the solar system.
For others, the transit could help unravel a longstanding mystery about Venus itself: What drives the "super rotation" of its atmosphere? Venus spins on its axis once every 243 days. Its atmosphere performs the same feat in four days, with winds traveling at nearly 450 miles an hour.
A long time to wait
Venus's transits owe their century-scale frequency to the orbital paths Earth and Venus trace around the sun.
Seen in relation to the plane of Earth's orbit, Venus's orbit has a slight tilt – about 3.4 degrees. Depending on where the two planets are in their respective orbits, that leaves Venus trailing the sun toward the horizon at nightfall or rising ahead of the sun before dawn. But on Tuesday the two planets' orbits are aligned in such a way that Venus will pass directly between Earth and the sun during Venus's inferior conjunction, or closest approach to Earth.
Venus's transits occur in pairs, separated by eight years – Tuesday's transit is paired with one in 2004. The pairs repeat their appearance twice in a 243-year cycle, with one return time spanning 105.5 years, and the other 121.5 years. So, if you miss this one, tell your children to tell their children to take heart. We're in a part of the cycle with the shortest return time – in December 2117.
Astronomers are working hard not to miss it.
A chance to study other Earths
Tuesday's transit represents "a great opportunity" to test approaches for studying atmospheres of Earth-scale planets orbiting sun-like stars, says Jean-Michel Desert, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and a member of the team conducting the experiment.
The team, led by Alfred Vidal-Madjar at the Institute for Astrophysics in Paris, will use the Hubble Space Telescope to watch the transit via the light reflected off the moon, since the orbiting observatory would be permanently blinded if it tried observing the sun directly.
The group plans to use a spectrometer aboard Hubble to track changes in the spectra of light reflecting off the moon before, during, and after the transit. Before and after the transit, the light will carry only the fingerprints of chemical elements in the sun. During the transit, however, sunlight passing through Venus's atmosphere will add chemical signatures from the planet's envelope of gases to the mix. By subtracting the "during" from the "before and after," the team expects to glean information about Venus's atmospheric recipe.
The results aren't likely to provide any new insight into Venus's atmosphere itself, Dr. Desert says. The composition of its atmosphere is already well known. The team, however, will use them to evaluate new techniques to discern the atmospheres of Earth-like planets in other solar systems.
As close as Venus and the sun are, pulling information on Venus's atmosphere out of sunlight reflected off the moon is just as challenging as trying to spot the chemical fingerprints of an atmosphere on a planet orbiting a star light-years away, Desert explains.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory also will be observing the transit directly and will use the sun's backlighting to analyze Venus's atmosphere as well as to use the transit itself as a means of calibrating the observatory's telescope.
Super-rotation observations
Meanwhile, another team is gathering data from solar telescopes around the world relating to the bright, thin, halo-like arc of light tracing the planet's disc as it begins and ends its pass across the sun. Scientists spotted the arc as they observed Venus's transit eight years ago. It was sunlight reflected through layers of the atmosphere above the cloud tops, forming an illuminated arc similar to those astronauts see tracing Earth's curvature at sunrise and sunset as they orbit.
By making careful measurements of this limb of light and teasing from it information about how temperatures and densities in that part of the atmosphere vary with latitude, the US-French team conducting the research hopes to provide an additional test of models that researchers have constructed to explain super rotation, says Jay Paschoff, an astronomy professor at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. He and astronomer Thomas Widemann of the Paris Observatory are coordinating the effort, which involves nine Earth-based solar observatories, as well as two sun-watching spacecraft.
Such high-speed atmospheric circulation relative to a planet's or moon's rotation rate also has been observed on Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's moon Titan.
The transit is set to begin at 6:03 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time as Venus first appears to touch the sun's disk. The transit will end around 12:50 a.m. EDT June 6. As a starting point for viewing tips and other information about the transit, visit NASA's Venus-transit site.


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Monopolies give me heartburn, and what warms my heart is the prospect of monopolies being overthrown.
Two Australian examples of the latter were in the news recently.
Monopolist Telstra is feeling the heat from mobile phones. The exodus of customers giving up their fixed lines is turning into a stampede. In a few years, landlines will seem an anachronism. Apparently, there is higher demand for speed and data that is "difficult to monetise". Translation: It's impossible to charge monopoly rents on commodities. Hasta la vista, Telstra.
Australia Post is being squeezed by email. It's amazing that a 4.2 percent fall in postal volume can result in a 65 percent fall in profit. Of course, there were other costs as well, but this is dramatic. With more and more communications going electronic, it's hard to see how Australia Post is going to stay relevant. There'll be electronic media, and there'll be courier services, with nothing left over for the postal monopoly. We live in a post-post world.
A trans-Pacific terror
The takeaway for me is that monopolies may stifle innovation up to a point, but a wave of innovation of a higher order will eventually overthrow them.
My cup of joy runneth over.


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Sanchez was among the dead in the September 12 smash, which also injured 135.
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S1072 JJ knit classic joggers with side pockets
Featuring: semi fitted at the hips and through the leg classic knit joggers are offered in full and below the knee length. Bottom hem is finished with semi fitted leg bands. Waistline is finished with a very easy to make 3-casings waistband with 2 elastic bands and an optional drawstring. Two deep side pockets are finished with bands. Comfortable to wear, not too tight and not to baggy joggers that will become one of your favourite garments to wear in a casual setting.
Comes with a detailed tutorial with step by step instructions and photos.
1. PDF tutorial with pictures (29 pages)
2. A4/Letter gradable pattern in sizes XS-XXL in REGULAR/PETITE/TALL height (28-34 pages to print). Finished measurements are included in the pattern.
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The pdf pattern is a beginner one (3/10) with easy to follow detailed tutorial.
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Horace Mann employees offered Unconscious Bias training
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (May 7, 2019) – Cultivating an environment where diverse experiences and perspectives are welcomed and employees feel comfortable and encouraged to discuss diversity and inclusion is exactly why Horace Mann President and CEO Marita Zuraitis has signed the CEO Action Pledge for Diversity and Inclusion. By signing the pledge Zuraitis states "it's a natural extension of what we foster every day at Horace Mann."
Zuraitis' pledge includes:
continuing to make our workplaces trusting places to have complex, and sometimes difficult, conversations about diversity and inclusion,
implementing and expanding unconscious bias education, and
sharing best - as well as unsuccessful - practices.
The CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion is the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace. Zuraitis joins more than 600 other CEOs in taking the pledge.
This week, Horace Mann is hosting its first Day of Understanding for its employees. The Day of Understanding includes an hour-long workshop that allows employees to have meaningful conversation around bias in the workplace. This workshop is being offered throughout the day on Thursday, May 9 for all employees.
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Can you imagine to have a live meditation session with a Guru from India, a yoga practice with an inspiring coach like Keith Mitchell or check out a live motivational speech from someone like Tony Robbins? The online platform Think BIG made it possible; instead of traveling to India, going to a yoga studio or book an expensive ticket, you can now do online sessions at home just from behind your laptop. The platform currently has twelve inspiring trainers from South-Africa, India, The Netherlands and Nepal who offer a variation of mediation, yoga and motivational training sessions.
It all started three years ago when Nadine Witteman and Raoul Milhado came up with a new concept: an inspiring workshop for people who wanted to turn their dreams into goals. The name of the workshop became Think BIG, which stands for Believe, Integrate, Grow. After a few successful workshops the duo wanted to do something bigger, which is logical if you look at the name of the concept.
They wanted to reach the whole world and there's only one possible way of achieving this; it's by building an online platform where their exclusive knowledge and fascinating holistic tools are being shared with individuals and organizations. The core feature of the platform is providing live training sessions through the webcam in order to reach everyone's highest potential. Their mission is to sign up the most unique inspirers & coaches from all over the world to offer people the most exclusive and inspiring content.
One of the founders is Nadine Witteman. She's an experienced life coach, trainer, writer, illustrator and entrepreneur based in Amsterdam. Nadine: 'Our amazing group of inspiring coaches will guide and support you through live streaming coaching & webinar sessions.Our coaches are coming from different backgrounds and they all have years of experience in multiple fields such like mindfulness, meditation, yoga, personal coaching, motivational speaking, health & personal growth and a lot more.
We strongly believe that focusing on personal development and creating consciousness in combination with a positive mindset is key for big quality of life.'
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As infrastructure and operations professionals seek to broker cloud services for the enterprise, they are coming to terms with the need to "cloudify" existing vSphere infrastructure in order to make these environments more developer-friendly and support migration of workloads to AWS or other clouds as their needs evolve.
In other words, the goal is to make vSphere look and act like a public cloud. The biggest challenges that enterprises face when trying to unify vSphere and cloud environments isn't technical, but rather cultural. For example, getting agreement on what "cloud" even means? What cloud characteristics are required, and what gaps must be filled to cloud-enable vSphere?
There are six key requirements that must be addressed to deliver all the benefits of cloud on vSphere:
* Rapid Self-Service. According to the2014 State of the Cloud Report, 71% of cloud-focused companies provide self-service portals that enable developers to provision new infrastructure in the cloud in less than an hour. This expectation sets the bar when creating cloud-like vSphere environments.
To satisfy these expectations, organizations need to fill several critical gaps between vSphere capabilities and public cloud alternatives. Developers or even business users need to quickly and easily provision workloads through a self-service portal. Self-service also provides the opportunity for IT to deliver a catalog of standardized VMs for commonly used workloads. By offering self-service access, vSphere admins can shift from low-value activities of manually provisioning VMs to high-value activities such as offering agile infrastructure and standardized catalogs of services. A good self-service portal will also give IT teams better visibility, governance, and management.
* Migration and portability across cloud and virtualized environments. IT organizations are already working to implement hybrid IT environments that leverage vSphere and private clouds, as well as AWS and other public clouds. In doing so, enterprises are making strategic choices to avoid lock-in to any particular vendor, resource pool, or virtualization technology.
One-way migration (typically from virtualized data centers to AWS or public clouds) can provide significant value for organizations looking to eliminate data centers and move to pure public cloud services. Moving these workloads can require some refactoring of applications to operate effectively in public cloud.
However, delivering ongoing application portability goes well beyond brute force "lift and shift" migrations. There are several compelling reasons for investing in application portability including lifecycle-based deployment, cloudbursting, disaster recovery (DR), and supporting multiple hypervisors.
To maintain application portability, it is important to plan ahead and put in place a multi-cloud foundation that makes it easy to change the underlying infrastructure.
* Support for DevOps and Configuration Management. vSphere leverages black box golden images that make it difficult to track, audit, and control the software, versions, and patches included in each golden image. As a result, many enterprises create manual spreadsheets simply to track such details as the date, time, and person associated with any changes made to VMs.
Although existing vSphere golden images or VMs can still be leveraged, the process of cloudifying vSphere offers new opportunities to phase in more modern configuration management techniques. Using automated configuration management tools can help in the evolution from golden-image production to an infrastructure-as-code model. This is a key enabler for the shift to the growing DevOps development movement that streamlines development and reduces errors through automation and collaboration.
* Single pane of glass for management, visibility and governance. When virtualization first took over server infrastructure, the savings were astronomical. However, the ease of setting up virtual machines quickly led to VM sprawl, which is the habit of provisioning VMs for users with limited ability to track whether VMs were fully utilized, under-utilized, or dormant. In addition, application owners often request more compute resources than are used because it is difficult to predict in advance the appropriate level required. As a result, companies experience sub-optimal use of resources, with excess capacity often running at 30 percent.
As organizations leverage vSphere environments, AWS, and other clouds to meet infrastructure needs, they must develop an approach to managing and governing across all of the available resource pools.
Companies will continue to leverage familiar vSphere and vCenter tools to help them deploy and manage their virtualized environments. However, a cloud portfolio management solution that works in parallel with existing vSphere management tools can be used to deliver these multi-cloud capabilities. Enterprises can use cloud portfolio management to gain complete visibility and centralized governance across all of their resource pools, while continuing to use existing vSphere tools for management of their underlying virtualized environments.
* Cost and capacity management. As organizations combine both public cloud and on-premises infrastructure, they need to develop new processes and approaches to managing costs and capacity.
Prior to public cloud, organizations purchased on-premises infrastructure as discrete capital expenditures that were managed through detailed business cases followed by lengthy approval processes. While this process provides oversight on costs, it requires companies to accurately forecast capacity requirements and then either over-provision to meet peak capacity or limit application usage in order to smooth out variability in demand.
In addition, if demand was lower than expected, there was no opportunity to reduce these sunk costs, and if demand was higher, new purchases triggered another round of approval processes. Even organizations that chose to outsource data centers were typically locked into expensive, long-term contracts that often did not provide the flexibility to adapt to changing business environments.
With enterprises now using a combination of public cloud and on-premises infrastructure, they will need to master both traditional discrete capacity management approaches and continuous cost management approaches in order to minimize overall spend.
To introduce some aspects of continuous cost management for vSphere, companies will want to attach costs to vSphere resources and offer cost visibility (showback); cost tracking and analysis; and cost allocations (chargeback) for these resources. Companies should provide standard costs on standardized VM sizes running in their vSphere environments. Cost estimates should be visible to self-service users before they provision workloads, and actual costs should be visible and available for reporting and analysis at any time through the self-service portal.
* Greenfield vs. legacy applications. Cloud-enabling vSphere can help speed greenfield application development and improve efficiency in managing or migrating existing legacy applications that are already deployed in vSphere.
For greenfield requirements, a self-service portal is the critical component to helping developers leverage virtualized infrastructure for development and testing. In addition, new development offers an opportunity to experiment with or advance best practices for cloud portability, configuration management, and DevOps.
For existing legacy applications, organizations can start by leveraging "single pane of glass" management tools to gain visibility and governance across all types of infrastructure, whether cloud or virtualized. They can next identify segments of the application portfolio that will deliver significant benefits through migration to cloud, which may include mobile, social, web-scale, batch, and big data analytics applications. These existing applications can be prioritized for moving to cloud.
The cultural and technical barriers will eventually come down between virtualized and cloud environments. One of the first steps is getting on the same page on what cloud means. Armed with those agreements, everyone can get behind initiatives that move their companies forward.
Thakrar oversees RightScale's integration with various public clouds, such as Rackspace, Windows Azure and private clouds platforms such as OpenStack, CloudStack and vCloud.


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It's Friday, March 1, and that means the federal government has crossed the much-hyped and dreaded deadline for the fiscal reductions known as the "sequester."
The members of Congress who for voted for the Budget Control Act – and the budget cuts contained within – and President Barack Obama who signed it into law on Aug. 2, 2011, may not have believed the day would arrive, but now it has.
But today is only the beginning of the beginning.
For one thing, Obama must sign an order formally starting the "sequester" or spending reductions, which according to a new estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, would amount to $42 billion in the current fiscal year.
And White House aides have indicated that the president is not likely to put pen to paper on that order until after he meets with congressional leaders, a meeting slated for Friday morning.
Once Obama signs the order to start the spending cuts, any furloughs of federal workers could not begin at least for another 30 days due to federal regulations and to collective bargaining agreements which the government has with the unions that represent roughly half of the federal workforce.
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House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference Feb. 28, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
So the Border Patrol Agents in Arizona won't suddenly vanish on Friday and the civilians who repair Navy ships won't be ordered to immediately put down their tools.
As with many things the federal government does, there are multiple rules, regulatory hurdles, avenues for appeal and opportunities for litigation.
As Under Secretary of Defense Robert Hale, the Pentagon's Chief Financial Officer, explained last week, "The bottom line is, furloughs would not actually start for DOD employees until late April."
He explained, "There's a whole series of notifications. We started the first one today (Feb. 20), with the notification to Congress, along with a message by the secretary of defense to our civilian employees. That starts a 45-day clock ticking. Until that clock has run out, we cannot proceed with furloughs."
Despite the fact that $85 million in sequester budget cuts are scheduled to take effect Friday, lawmakers still have not been able to arrive at a solution. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports
He added, "At some point in mid-March, we will send a notification to each employee who may be furloughed. That starts a 30-day clock, waiting period, before we can take any action. And then later on in April, we will send a decision to employees, and they have a one-week period, once we've made that decision, to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board."
The Merit Systems Protection Board is the independent agency which hears and decides complaints when a federal employee claims that he or she has been the victim of an unfair, punitive, or discriminatory personnel action. The board issued 7,585 decisions last year.
Related: Budget cuts likely to be felt on Main Street
In a memo sent Wednesday to Cabinet officers and the heads of federal agencies, Danny Werfel, the controller of the Office of Management and Budget, emphasized that agency heads "must allow employees' exclusive representatives" – their unions – "to have pre-decisional involvement" in planned furloughs or other personnel actions "to the fullest extent practicable" and must bargain with the unions over the impact of furloughs. The head of each department or agency must comply with "any and all collective bargaining requirements."
In his memo, Werfel did not flatly warn federal agency heads to not hire any new personnel, but he did say they should give "increased scrutiny" to hiring any new workers, as well to the money they spend on training programs, conferences, and travel.
Like Hale at the Pentagon, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano emphasized in her briefing for reporters this week that the effects of the spending cuts – while they will be substantial – won't be instantaneous.
"The impacts people are going to see – and they will build over the next several weeks; you won't see them immediately like a shutdown, but it will accrue over the next few weeks," she said. "Lines, procedures, wait times (at U.S. ports of entry and airports) are all going to get longer."
She added, "It won't be like a (government) shutdown, where it's like turning off the light switch. But all I can say for folks is these are the effects that will accrue. Please don't yell at the customs officer or the TSO (transportation security officer) officer because the lines are long. The lines over the next few weeks are going to start to lengthen in some dramatic ways in parts of the country."
Just as the personnel decisions will take weeks to ripple their way through the federal workforce, so too will decisions on contracts for new ships, drones, and electronic gadgets.
"I don't anticipate that we will cancel many, if any contracts, because we'd incur substantial costs," Hale told reporters last week.
He said that due to the spending cuts, the Pentagon might delay entering into new contracts, "but I wouldn't expect that we will terminate existing contracts."
Seeking to reassure contractors, Hale said, "If you've got a contract with us, we're going to pay you ... . Even under sequestration and furloughs, we will find a time to keep our payments to our employers and the vendors on time."
The slow grinding of the bureaucratic wheels does not mean that furloughs won't hurt, if they occur.
A fact sheet issued by the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal union which representing 650,000 federal and D.C. government workers, spells out some of the possible pain:
•Up to 22 days out of work with no pay, equivalent to a 20 percent pay cut;
•Reduced contribution to workers' retirement savings accounts;
•Reduced take-home pay due to the deduction of health insurance benefits at the full salary rate.
But as a recent report from the Congressional Research Service pointed out, the sequestration procedures provide for exemptions for many groups.
Among the categories which the law spares from the spending cuts are:
•Social Security benefits
•The Medicaid health insurance program for low-income people
•Payments to individuals in the form of refundable tax credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-wage workers and the tax credits under the 2010 health care law to help people buy health insurance.
•Retirement benefits paid to retired federal workers
•Child Nutrition Programs, including the School Lunch and School Breakfast programs,
•The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called "food stamps"
•Pell Grants for college students
•Unobligated cash balances, carried over from prior years, for nondefense programs
•Pay for military personnel.
This story was originally published on Fri Mar 1, 2013 12:00 AM EST


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