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Survey finds tight budgets, furloughs and an aging workforce contribute to shortage
State governments are facing critical IT personnel shortages, according to a recent report by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. And many of the causes that NASCIO identified are similar to measures being proposed for the federal workforce.
"State layoffs, furloughs, hiring freezes and lack of salary increases [have] exacerbated this situation," wrote Chad Grant, NASCIO policy analyst and author of the study, "State IT Workforce: Under Pressure - A National Survey of the States." The other major contributor, a substantial number of state employees at or nearing retirement age, could also affect the federal workforce.
Forty states, the District of Columbia and one territory responded to the Web-based survey, which was completed in November. The survey benchmarked data from NASCIO's 2007 survey on the same subject, "State IT Workforce: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?" and found that although the issue is more pressing today, the worst may be yet to come, because many older workers have held off on retiring due to the down economy.
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Nearly two-thirds of respondents anticipate having to reduce staff and, consistent with the 2007 survey, nearly a quarter of state CIOs predict that between 21 and 30 percent of state IT employees will be eligible for retirement in the next five years. Twenty-nine percent anticipate that between 31 and 50 percent of their IT employees will be eligible for retirement in the same time period.
An aging workforce and tight budgets are only part of the problem, however. In a survey by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or ISC-Squared, many respondents blamed a shortage of IT security personnel on a limited talent pool. Nearly half said that current information security certification programs, which are increasingly required in both government and the private sector, are inadequate and do not address the needed skills.
"There are not enough people to go around," Philip Reitinger, deputy undersecretary at the Homeland Security Department's National Protection and Programs Directorate said in November. "And getting them is really hard."
The greatest challenges, however, are hiring freezes and elimination of vacant positions. The average anticipated staff reduction was 10 percent, with the lowest reported at 2 percent and the highest 20 percent. And the federal workforce is facing similar pressures. Already a two-year salary freeze is in place. Meanwhile, various bills propose measures such as 10-day furloughs for federal employees or reducing the overall size of the workforce by 10 percent. Others propose increasing the existing salary freeze to three years or more.
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So we got that one Congress Critter who wants to furlough us because several states have already done that to their employees. Now there is evidence that those states only managed to shoot themselves in the foot by doing this. So the arguement now can fairly be phrased as "the states have already screwed themselves with ill-considered furloughs and its only fair that the federal government screw itself as well."
Canada and India are working toward shared services models with co-operative code bases. This reduces cost and standardizes without a rigidly identical view. In the private sector, we see this in something like Salesforce, where one changes the skin, and even the visible field titles although the underpinning code is common. In the case of India, at the Federal level, there is a shared consultancy core to the states. Canada is using more of a services core approach, in their case going through the consolidation struggle, first with the internet issues. Significant cost savings if applied at state, county, city, and village level could result, and, at the same time extend the workforce. Many of the existing systems, to my knowledge, live in old spaces not suited to cloud, that require specialized hardware - locking in higher cost. If pursued in a cloud approach, reuse aspects could be quite something. The politics would be hard, not so much between the IT professionals as between the user base, fearing change.
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Bell and Rogers seem to believe that all people do in the country is occasionally load a webpage and update their Facebook profiles.
I called Rogers and apparently our address is in range of their 4G network. The cap is a measly 15 gigs but they're topping out the surcharge at $50 for exceeding it.
I find that exceedingly hard to believe. No mention of an extra usage price cap on the Rogers website.I strongly suspect you've been lied to.
ISDN?I've been of the opinion for a while that somebody should design a hybrid solution that takes advantage of a low throughput low latency connection like ISDN or dial up, and a high throughput high latency connection like satellite, and combine them to produce a connection that would seem to be low-latency high-throughput for most applications. Dynamically route packets over the appropriate connection at different stages.For example, during an HTTP request, you would do the request over ISDN, and the first few packets would come in over it too, then as soon as the satellite starts feeding back data half a second later, that takes over for the rest of the transfer. Pipelining helps too, obviously.
Back in the day....there was a 1-way cable connection, send out packets over dial-up, receive packets over cable connection....not in the bigger areas, but smaller areas....it has limitations because you could only have 1 computer setup, and had a PCI card in your computer and the card cost I believe about $2-300 dollars...
So after all that, the Rogers was essentially unusable. I could barely connect at all, and only at speeds much worse than Xplornet. I took it back but they screwed up the cancellation, so I have to go back into the shop tomorrow.Xplornet mailed me a pamphlet telling me I'm eligible for a 4g fixed-wireless upgrade. Their "ultimate" package has been adjusted apparently, it's now 60 gigs for $89.99, with speeds up to 10 Mbps. I know it won't be anywhere near that, but 60 gigs is much better than either Rogers or Bell, and I already know my location is good for their current fixed-wireless.
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Ever heard of Beppe Grillo?Submitted by Smaulgld.com on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 21:42
Beppe Grillo, a fed up comedian, ran for Prime Minister of Italy and nearly won!
Yet the news out of Italy was that Berlosconi lost or that Bersano lost- sounds very similar to the press treatment that Ron Paul got when he ran for President in 2012.
The difference is while Ron Paul drew crowds of thousands, Beppe Grillo spoke to crowds in the HUNDREDS of Thousands.
After his strong showing, he refused to form a government with the others-said it would be like Wellington forming a government with Napoleon.
Here is a Beppe Grillo rally-check out the size of the crowd at 16.24
Here he is explaining money
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...I do not know sign language ;)
I watched mostly the second video and he makes good points generally in line with libertarian ideas, but the gold part I don't agree with. It's a commodity that has use just like any other so I wouldn't single it out. Anyways... overall he seems good, but I'm always suspicious of the smooth talkers..
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i saw this and said the exact same thing
he got 20% of the vote. just a percent or two behind winning
cnn spun it just a "protest vote" and didn't air his total figures.
Beppe Grillo was so Clearly anti establishment
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Transition from aluminum to copper
Looking at buying a place with some aluminum wiring. Insurance shouldn't be a bother but I do see outlets have been replaced with Decora style, which aren't (I believe) AL rated. Assuming they've been done right, there will be a transition via pigtail to copper.
If not, I will be replacing them and doing them properly (vendor or predecessor PAINTED the outlets. Looks stupid.)
Just wondering - haven't seen info online to confirm this or not - can I use regular Marrettes (I prefer Cantwist) on the aluminum to copper transition, with the appropriate paste, or are there special connectors?
Also, can grounds be crimped? I'm assuming not, since the crimps I'm familiar with say copper only.
I should note, I'm in BC, Canada, so the rules are somewhat different, but the principles should be the same.
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Looks like I need these:
No pretwisting? Really? Is that optional, or actually preferable?
Looks like they're pre-treated with antioxidant paste, which is handy.
Here is a link that might be useful: Twister Al/Cu
Hi alan. Those wirenuts are still CSA rated, but they are not recommended by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. If you can possibly find AL or ALR rated devices, use paste and a torque screwdriver, that's the way to go. Use AlumiConns
for the grounds.
The old AL alloy gets brittle too fast when bent or squeezed too hard. Squeezed not hard enough and you get arcing. That's why the torque screwdriver. And why pretwisting is problematic. You can't twist away with wild abandon like you can with copper. Go gentle. If you don't pretwist, the instructions still say, turn the wirenut until the wires twist two times.
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Hi! I am no expert, but I know that my parent's house original wiring is aluminum, and the house was built in 1971. All of the all-aluminum connections, the aluminum-copper connections and the connections with a fixture's wiring have worked flawlessly with the Marrette 63 and Marrette 65. I bought some of the Ideal purple twisters for the kitchen chandelier, and it took about 4 months before the connection failed to the point it melted the wire nut.
Wow re the melting. Thanks for the tips. Ironic that I have a crimper now, but won't have copper to use it on.
Have you seen how much those torque screwdrivers cost? $200-$300 - wow.
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There are two ways to solve the cable connector. First, You can get an "Right Angle F Adapter" at Radio Snack that will probably fix you right up.
They also make replacement cable wall plates that recess (often tilting downward) the jack. These are popular to install behind flat panel TVs. Just google recessed cable wall plate.
Here is a link that might be useful: Right Angle F Adapter at Radio Snack
"Have you seen how much those torque screwdrivers cost? $200-$300 - wow."
Use a small 1/4 inch drive inch-pound wrench and the correct hex drive adapter and bits.
The smaller wenches are a lot less expensive, and the adapters have no affect on torque readings.
You can even use 1/4 inch drive extensions to make reaching easier (I usually keep about a 3 inch one on my wrench).


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Happy Thursday all!
Vuitton here with a quick recap of a few celebs who caught our eyes this week.
From Londontown to the concrete jungle that is NYC, these stars spared no expense when it came to looking their best. Let's see who made the cut!
LaLa kept it cute and casually glam in a hot pink summer dress and fierce blue booties while on a girls' day out with her lovely mom, Carmen. Paula Patton and Marsha Ambrosius opted for rocker chic looks in leather biker jackets, a trend that will never go out of season. Jessica Alba and Jameela Jamil chose separates to set the tone for their looks this week: Alba in a chic white pant suit, Jamil in a Dolce & Gabbana top, playful skirt and knee highs with cute booties.
Who were your faves this week?
PS: After some convincing from Claire, yours truly is now on Twitter! Follow me @VuittonDahar. Pity my iPhone won't let me be great and post pics.
I love Jessica Alba's look the most.
Loving Lala's shirt dress.
This is a snooze fest, but I'll give first prize to LaLa for giving me color and great hair.
My faves: Rhi Rhi and Jessica Alba….that's me!!
I like Paula Patton—simple and chic.
I love all the looks….well put together from each one of them!
Rhi, Brandy and Jesica were my faves this week. I love Marsha but hate how she looks here and I don't like the booties Lala was wearing.
Go Rhianna, she is statuesque. Love her new look. Jessica A., Kesha, and Paula P. very, very Good! Chic
Denim on denim huh? I guess everyone is gonna let that ride..I adore Marsha but she looks uncomfortable and nuts! lol Brandy looks adorable, and is that Keisha from Total?! lol Guuurrrrrrllll lmao! But no real wows.
Lala hands down.
That chick in the striped looking dress…yuck from head to toe. Rihanna's pants look country. Lol. Not feeling them. Everything else looks nice!
Love Rhianna, Brandy, Paula, Jessica and Keisha/Omar's looks!! I like Marsha's booties!!
jessica alba looks amazing!
kesha and omar…so cute!
marsha, marsha, marsha! *jan brady voice*
i like mini dresses but i don't like obvious shirts worn as dresses..a la lala!
brandy looks like she's about to attend a tea party.
Brandy and Paula Patton both look stunning!
lala top is too short to be considered as any type of dress. she looks like she was lounging in the house in a tshirt and decided to put on heels and go out.
she looks unfinished and a bit inappropriate.
Why does Rihanna have on a chain belt?
Marsha's shoes/booties X__X. I love Khloe K. Odom, but what is going on with her sleeves, lol. I guess it happens to everyone. The best looking on this post in my opinion is Kesha (I think thats her name), Omar Epps wife. But last but not least, I really hope pointy-toed shoes aren't coming back, lol.
lala looks nice, but the dress is kinda short, rih too, she's giving me texas country bey with that fit and hair. and thats a different look for marsha. keisha looks nice, didnt she have a baby recently?
brandy is killing em. hair, dress, shoes. i love the shoes. lala forgot something. me no likey.
rihanna & brandy looked cute . khole needs to stop with those damn extensions #LetItGo . marsha looked gorgeous but those shoes were a BIG FAT HELL NO! smh , hot ass messs . lmaooooo . the girl in the purple suede platforms was givin me the most life !
-somebody needs to burn marsha's heels … ASAP
Omar & his wife.
Brandy looks great, I want Rihanna to change her hair. Lala looks like she's lost weight (good job girl) and I hate all the other ensembles but Kiesha looks gooooood
Jessica ALba looks GREAT!
My faves this week are Brandy(that dress is ka-yute!), Rihanna, Jessica Alba(simple and chic!) and the fabulous ( rocker-chic ) Paula Patton.
Keisha (Of the 90's group Total) is hands down my favorite she always looks so classy & her make-up is always flawless. Get it Gurl!!!
And lets's be honest Rihanna is always 2 steps a head of the rest, as usual!! SMDH! (Her Ferragamo's are a must have for the Fall/Winter season)
I am a stylist based out of the Atlanta area, I worked with Lala while she was in town and I had the pleasure of pulling those booties for her! She is rocking the hell out of them!! Love how that look came together!
Not feeling any of the looks. Rhi Rhi boo let go of those LEE jeans. Lala baby doll your dress is a little too short and summery for October. And Marsha my love…. I didnt know they made high heel rain boots. Ok I'm done.
finally rihanna's hair looks good!
I'm not even sure why Rihanna deserved to be featured, her jeans look cheap/dated and that chain belt?!
Lala forgot her pants.
Jessica Alba looks great.
/The end
I love Rihanna's double denim, on her. I love that her style now is not so much about what's on-trend but what her real style is.
Omar Epps and his wife look amazing. His wife is so beautiful!
I love what Jameela Jamil is wearing. The skirt/booties matching thing is so 90's in a good way.
I love that colour on Lala but I really don't think that shape suits her much with the size of her bust. I think a belt or something was needed to cinch in her waist.
So no ones gonna talk about khloe's sleeves??
Rihanna and Brandy both look cute
Rihanna looks gorge!!
And Omar Epps' wife is so pretty.
My two faves
where is lala's dress from ?
Keisha, neck up. GORGEOUS


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Veteran receives his medals.
SALEM - A Eugene veteran of World War II received his Purple Heart and Prisoner of War medals Tuesday, more than 60 years after earning them through his service in the war's Pacific Theater.
Omar McGuire, 85, was awarded his medals in a ceremony in the Capitol. His wife, Lucy-Le, and Gov. Ted Kulongoski pinned the medals on McGuire's blue blazer as the audience in the governor's ceremonial office gave a standing ovation.
McGuire served in the Philippines with the U.S. Army Air Corps. He survived bombing by the Japanese but was captured and forced to endure the 100-mile "Bataan Death March."
McGuire later was forced with other U.S. captives to provide prisoner labor. He survived bombing by the United States of the Japanese steel mill where he was working at the end of World War II.
McGuire was active with several veteran organizations but it wasn't until recently that he contacted the military to inquire about medals, since he was discharged without having ever pursued them.
Given the chance to address the audience, McGuire did not speak of his own military experiences leading up to the belated awarding of his medals. Instead, he praised his wife, whom he married shortly after the war.
"Anybody who has been married to a POW for 60 years deserves some kind of a medal," he said with a smile.
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