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Are federal employee unions too political?
Tuesday - 6/1/2010, 5:40pm EDT
By Dorothy Ramienski
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If you're an avid reader of Senior Correspondent Mike Causey's columns (and we know you are), you know that we've been examining the issue of the federal pay freeze and union membership.
"By rejecting a 2011 pay freeze the Senate cut the legs out from under what would have been the greatest recruiting tool federal unions ever had," said Causey on Tuesday.
Needless to say, we got a lot of emails about unions in general, union membership, and even about the politicalization of unions.
So, is it true? Do unions always support the Democrats over Republicans? Are they overly political?
This week on the show, we talk with two representatives of federal employee organizations.
Colleen Kelley is president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and says her organization doesn't make it a point to support either party. They're looking out for feds only.
"I will stand by NTEU's record for who we support in elections and for who we support in return for their support of federal employees. NTEU has one criteria, and one criteria only for those who we support on Capitol Hill and that is how they vote on federal employee issues. Nothing else. Party affiliation does not matter, and even how they vote on issues that are not about federal employees. While those may be important to everyone, everyone has to decide what's most important to them. NTEU is not an expert on non-federal employee issues [but] we are experts on federal employee issues. We track very closely how those on Capitol Hill vote, and that's where our support is going."
Kelley added that the NTEU does not control how many Democrats versus how many Republicans support federal employee issues.
She says she wants to see more votes on both sides of the aisle in support of pay and benefits issues for feds, but NTEU goes by voting records alone when it comes to support.
"If the numbers come out that there are more Democrats that are supported by NTEU than Republicans, I would say lay their voting records out. That's because that's the way the votes go on federal employee issues, whether it's about pay or retirement or about FERS sick leave credit or about paternity leave or collective bargaining rights -- those issues are very easy to track and, as I say, I stand NTEU's record next to those facts any day of the week."
She added that her organization reaches out to everyone on Capitol Hill and that she's gotten support from members of both political parties in the past.
Judy Park is legislative director for the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) and says her organization has always tried to work with both sides of the aisle to get the job done because both parties have controlled Congress at one point or another over the years.
"NARFE, along with allies from the federal and Postal groups, have been successful in getting something [done], or preventing something from happening, which is often the case, regardless of who's in control. We've always had friends on both sides of the aisles. NARFE, at times, [has looked] to build support for certain bills . . . and we've had 75 percent of both the House and Senate going our way. 75 percent is not what either party is holding. So, we've had good friends coming forward from both sides."
Park also says she is always shocked to hear criticism that demands that her organization or others not get political when it comes to legislation for federal employees.
"That's where it all happens -- in the political arena. If you're not participating under that political tent in that political arena . . . then you're not doing your job. That's where you have to be. It's in the political arena that legislation germinates and it's in the political arena where it's incubated and, hopefully, where you finally find success. To say -- 'We're not going to be political' -- is just a fool's statement."
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DCS interim commissioner talks of change
Ninety days after he stepped in as interim commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Children's Services, Jim Henry thinks he's identified most of the "cracks in the system."
"Now we're working on remedying them," said Henry, commissioner of the state Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Henry was in Knoxville on Friday with two of his employees and Larry Martin, special assistant to Gov. Bill Haslam, to meet with area media about his plans to make broad changes to DCS.
Henry took the post after DCS Commissioner Kate O'Day, a Haslam appointee and former president and CEO of Knoxville-based Child & Family Tennessee, resigned in February amid growing problems in the department that included discrepancies in reports of the deaths of children with whom DCS had been involved and missing information about how decisions were made to handle those cases.
Last month, Henry reorganized the department and brought two DIDD staffers — Dr. Tom Cheetham and Scott Modell — to DCS as deputy commissioners of child health and child safety, respectively. He also hired longtime public policy expert Debbie Miller, who was fired by O'Day, in a new position as assistant commissioner of quality control.
Henry told the News Sentinel editorial board he is focused on making record-keeping within the department consistent, collaborating with other agencies to make sure children don't fall through the cracks, and creating a "cultural change" for case managers and social workers that includes better training and less fear of reporting problems.
"Some of the most difficult decisions are being made by some of the lowest-paid workers in state government," Henry said.
Cheetham said past practice has been to identify an employee to blame for a mistake and fire that employee without correcting the circumstances that allowed the mistake.
"You're bringing in new people and putting them in the same situation and expecting a different outcome," he said.
Cheetham said DCS has hired four "safety analysts" to collect data and analyze "human" and "system" factors as well as how the factors work together. The plan is also to provide training, which had been previously cut, and to cultivate an environment where case workers and social workers feel comfortable reporting problems without fear of retribution.
Rep. Sherry Jones, D-Nashville, who has long been an advocate of the need for changes within DCS, said cultural change will be slow but is absolutely necessary. Jones said she's already seeing early effects of efforts, but that training, oversight and smaller caseloads are all key.
"We need to hire people with social work degrees, not English degrees," Jones said. "We should never hire someone straight out of college and put them in Child Protective Services. ... They don't have the life experience to know what they're looking at" to see the subtle signs of physical and emotional child abuse.
Modell said the department will look at the deaths or near-deaths of all children back to midnight Jan. 1, including children in DCS custody and those who had past involvement with the department because of possible abuse or neglect. The new procedure, Cheetham said, calls for Henry to be notified of any DCS-related child death within an hour, for records to be entered and confirmed in the state's computerized system within four hours, and for the death to be reviewed within 90 days and again after autopsy results return if results are not available within the 90-day period.
"We want a 'gold standard'," Henry said. "It's going to be a real review. In some (past) cases, we found there wasn't much of a review."
In addition, a child abuse hotline has replaced DCS's central intake phone reporting line, with wait time to reach a live person trimmed from nearly 2 minutes to 18 seconds. Modell said dropped calls have decreased from about 20 percent to less than 4 percent as a result.
Though Haslam announced an immediate search for a new DCS commissioner, Jones said she hopes Henry will be given time to try to straighten out some of the department's more egregious problems, aiming for better morale, smaller caseloads and more transparency for the public and media.
So far, Henry has made changes to DCS, which has a $654 million budget, by saving money in other areas, but he said he's "not bashful" about asking Haslam for more money.
"But you can't fund your way out of this problem," he said. "You have to change human behavior, change people and the way they take care of their children."
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December 29, 2008
Aaron Eckhart, Laurence Fishburne and Blake Lively have joined the lineup of presenters for
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The event is to be telecast live on NBC Jan. 11.
Organizers said Eckhart, Fishburne and Lively will join the gala's previously announced presenters Simon Baker, Drew Barrymore, Glenn Close, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ricky Gervais, Jake Gyllenhaal, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Poehler and Seth Rogen.
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Psalm 8:1-9
Please note it''s difficult to get to v8 without going through 1-7. Why is this?
Prospective. It all flows together. Mysteries, the more you meditate, the more you dwell there the easier it is to get to Mark 4:35 which says in effect "And He says to them on that day, evening having come, Let us go over to the other side. And having dismissed the crowd, they take Him under their care just as He was, in the boat, and there were other boats with Him. And there arises a GREAT WINDSTORM OF HURRICANE PROPORTIONS, and the waves kept on beating into the boat, so that it already was being filled. (yeah they were sinking) And He himself was in the stern of the boat, sleeping on the leather cushion. (I prefer leather too) And they arouse Him from sleep and say to Him, Teacher, is it not a concern to you that we are perishing? (pause a moment and think about this) And having awakened, He rebuked the wind and said to the sea, Be getting calm: hush up and stay that way. (Here is a clue on what to say to storms when they come, and I don''t think he was whispering either. I think He spoke with expectant authority like you better) And the wind ceased its raging, and there was a great calm. And He said to them, Why are you such timid , fearful ones: How is it that you do not have faith? And they feared with great fear, and were saying to one another , Who then is this person, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
taken from Kenneth Wuest New testament expanded translation, but I have found that the amplified is similar.
So why do I persist in telling you this? Do I go seeking storms to make a display of power? God forbid! I tell you this because I care about you, Storms come that is for certain. You have to be educated in how to handle them both in sailing storm tactics, and in this way.
I think He put this in the Bible to teach us how to handle storms because He loves us.
And I love you.
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List of places named after St. Thérèse of Lisieux
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of places named after St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
- The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda, St. Theresa's, is named for her.
- The municipality of Sainte-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau, Quebec, is named in her honour.[1] There is a neighborhood in Québec City, Québec named after her. There is a community in northeastern Manitoba, named St. Theresa Point, Manitoba. Nearby, there is also a North American Native band named St. Theresa Point First Nation. They are situated on the southwest shore of Island Lake.[2]
- There is a Thérèse-Martin School in Joliette, Quebec.[3] In Ontario, there is a St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School in Richmond Hill, a St. Theresa's High School in Midland and a St. Theresa's School in Sault Ste. Marie. There is a Little Flower Academy in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- The Society of the Little Flower and Shrine to St Thérèse is in Niagara Falls, Ont.
- A school in Toronto, Ontario, St. Theresa Shrine is named after her.
- St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Little Flower Latin Catholic Church, Pottakuzhy,Ernakulam, Ernakulam Dt, India. Asia's first church built on honour of St.Therese of Lisieux
- Mar Augustine Memorial Lisie Hospital, Ernakulam.
- St. Theresa's Convent Sr. Sec. School, Karnal (HR), India.
- St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic Church, Vellayambalam, Trivandrum, India.
- St. Therese of Infant Jesus Catholic Church, Kandanvilai, Kanyakumari Dt, India. It is blessed on April 7, 1924.
- Little Flower Girls High School Vadakara, Koothattukulam, Kerala, India.
- Little Flower Church, Madappally, Changanasserry, Kottayam Dt, Kerala, India.
- Lisieux Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
- St. Theresa Church, Crawford, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India. Built during 1934.
- Little Flower Girls Hr Sec School, Crawford. Managed by Sisters of St Annes, Trichy; Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India.
- St. Theresa's Boys High School, Bandra, Mumbai, India.[4]http://theresianboyz.org
- Shrine of St. Therese, Doctor of the Church, in Villamor Air Base (Nichols), Pasay City, Philippines. Completed in 1983 as a chapel and reconstructed in 2005 and completed in 2007 during which it was declared as a diocesan shrine of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines.
- The Saint Therese of the Child Jesus Parish Church inside the University of the Philippines Los Baños campus under the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo.
- The municipality of Santa Teresita, Batangas was named in her honor.
- St. Theresita's Academy, a Catholic secondary school in Silay City, Negros Occidental, is named after the saint.
United Kingdom[edit]
- Parish of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, England.
- St. Thérèse of Lisieux R.C. Primary School, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, England.
- St. Thérèse R.C. Primary School, Heaton, England.
- Parish of the Sacred Heart and St. Teresa in Coleshill, Birmingham.
- St Theresa of Lisieux R.C. Church, Northiam, East Sussex
- St Theresa of the Child Jesus R.C. Church, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire
- St Theresa of Lisieux R.C. Church, Southwick, West Sussex
United States[edit]
- On August 23, 1923, the Shrine of the Little Flower and St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Parish in Nasonville, Rhode Island was founded as the first shrine and parish named in honor of St. Therese in the world just four months after she was beatified.[6]
- On December 25, 1924, the Irish Province of the Discalced Carmelite Friars officially founded St. Therese Church in Alhambra, California, and dedicated it to Blessed Therese of the Child Jesus St. Therese Church, Alhambra, California
- On March 13, 1925, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus in Indianapolis, IN was established. The parish has both a church and a school, commonly referred to as Little Flower.
- In May 1925, St. Therese of the Child Jesus in Philadelphia, PA was established and named in honor of St. Therese.
- In June 1925, St. Thérèse of Lisieux Catholic Church in Cresskill, NJ was established.
- In 1925, the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles founded St. Theresa School in Coral Gables, Florida.
- In 1925, the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan, was built in honor of Thérèse of Lisieux.
- In 1926, The Church of Saint Teresa of the Infant Jesus was established in the Castleton Corners area of Staten Island, NY.
- In 1926, St. Therese Little Flower Parish[7] in Cincinnati, Ohio had a humble beginning in a blacksmith shop converted into a chapel at the corner of North Bend Road and Colerain Avenue. Soon after, plans were drawn for the original church and school. Archbishop John T. McNicholas granted permission to start construction in July 1928. The church and school were completed in March 1929.
- In 1927, St. Thérèse de Lisieux Church and Parish was founded by Italian immigrants. It is the largest Catholic church in Uniontown, PA.
- In 1929, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower, located in San Antonio, Texas, was established.
- In 1930, Little Flower Elementary School was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. The school currently operates as one of the diocesan Jubilee Schools.
- In 1931, the parish of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus was established in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was later elevated to a co-cathedral.
- In 1934, Father Jimmy Byrnes opened Little Flower Catholic School in Mobile, Alabama.
- In 1939, Cardinal Dougherty built a high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in honor of St. Thérèse: Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls.
- In 1948, a Little Flower parish was established in Bethesda, MD with the Reverend Edward J. O'Brien as its first pastor.
- In 1952, St. Theresa of the Child Jesus was built in Leeds, Alabama, with the first Mass offered on July 27 by Fr. James Gallagher; the church was later dedicated by Bishop Toolen on February 15, 1953.
- In 1971, the parish of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus was established in Carlyss, Louisiana.
In San Diego, CA, St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus is an established church and elementary school.
- ^ "Sainte-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau (Municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ^ St. Theresa Point First Nation
- ^ École Thérèse-Martin de Joliette
- ^ http://theresianboyz.org
- ^ "Holy Family Parish, Belfast: chapels".
- ^ Shrine of the Little Flower, Nasonville, RI
- ^ http://www.littleflower-church.org/AboutUs/History.aspx
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South Africa Still Biggest Solar Growth Market in Sub-Saharan Africa
In a recent survey, 53.3% of those asked said that expanding in the South African PV market was a priority over expanding into other Sub-Saharan African markets.
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The new guide produced by PV Insider carried uses survey data of over 100 industry professionals and focused on the 'commercial development and sustainability of the South African photovoltaic market'. Within the guide firms stated which markets and for which applications they saw as the biggest growth opportunities. The guide revealed that 53.3% of companies will be focusing their business development spend on expanding in the South African market while 33.3% were focusing on other Sub-Saharan African markets. Only 13.3% stated that their main budget allocation would be towards cost reduction and technological development.
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How many people here live where it snows regularly? Any how many of those people just want to reach out and smack people when they are driving in said white stuff?
This weekend coming home from my gf's house, it was snowing harder than I have seen it snow in a long time. I mean, if i could see 1/4 of a mile in front of me, I was happy. It was snowing so hard that the snowplows couldnt keep the roads clear, even though each one only had like a 3-5 mile stretch. And here people are PASSING me (and others) in the fast lane. I was already going 55-ish, sometimes 60, and I thought that was plenty fast given the conditions. Yet I had people blowing past me and passing everything in sight.
I admit I passed a few people, but I did it on freshly plowed stretches, and I only did it becuase the people in front of me kept hitting their breaks (for those of you who have never driven in snow, hitting the breaks while it is snowing is bad). So, yes, I did pass people, but that was more for my safety than it was me wanting to get home faster.
Im just glad that I drove home and not my gf, cuz I woulda been goin crazy. The only people I trust to drive in weather like that are myself, my dad and my step-dad. My dad is a semi driver, so he drives for a living, and he has lived in this part of the country his hole life, so he knows how to drive in snow, and my step dad is a cop, so he is fully trained on how to drive (and drive fast in some cases) in the worst conditions. If anyone else is driving or around me on the highway, I go insane, becuase I dont trust them to not do something stupid.
Yea... so.. anyway... thanks for listening to my rant and if anyone has anything to add (like if this happens to you or you are one of the crazies who pass people or anything relevant to the topic) feel free to post it.


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Captains Log Supplemental,
The Tamerlaine has been assigned to assist with the reinforcement of the front line bases for the last 6 months. It has been exhausting duty. We have suffered some losses and have been damaged in at least one major engagement. After repairs Admiral Foxx has give us permission for shore leave at the nearest facility. That facility happens to be Deep Space 9. In a communiqué I had received some months ago it had been brought to my attention that this was now an open port. So now we may be recreating with the very people who actually fired on us and killed several members of the crew.
It does not take someone from Starfleet intelligence to realize there may be problems with this. But, the way I see it, My crew has earned the right to make a few hits and I just might help them to hitem
Personal Note Sometimes I think I got too much of my Great Grandfather Bela in me.
Marla Oxmyx out.
Marla stood on the Observation deck of the promenade. She was suppose to meet her Exec. He was late as usual. For a Vulcan he was not very punctual. As she stood there she could see the Tamerlaine as she was docked on the upper pylon. The little Nova class ship seemed almost dwarfed by the docking pylon she was up against.
"Captain" A voice came from behind her catching her off guard. Marla turned towards the voice and found her first officer standing there.
"One of these days Sorek you're gonna do that and im gonna drill ya" Marla said her Iotian accent comming out.
"Captain i see no logial reason for you to get a Drill and "Drill" me." his eyebrow going up inquisitivly.
"Never mind" she said giving up. Though he would never admit it Marla was pretty sure Sorek had a low and especially evil sense of humor.
"Well I was thinking we could go to Quark's. I hear they have Tamarian Iced Wine that is really good."
Sorek just nodded his assent and the two of them headed to the lower level. After just a few moments they found themselves entering Quark's. where they found themselves a table and sat down. Marla ordered her drink and a Vulcan tea. As the waitress walked off, Marla looked at Sorek "So i know ya like chess but do you play any other games Sorek?"
"I find chess to be satisfactorly engaging for my tastes Captain." He replied matter of factly.
"Really? Well maybe i can teach you a new one. Especially since you been beat'n tha pants off me for the last 6 months." She said as she unzipped her uniform jacket and pulled a pack of playing cards out of the inside pocket.
"I'm Not sanguine about card games Captain, but i will play if you will teach me." Sorek replied.
"Well its a very tough game." she said "Might be beyond you." she said with a devilish smile as she laid down the gauntlet at Sorek's feet.
His eyebrow went up as he acknowledged the challenge in her voice.
"It's called .... Fizzbin." She said as she began to deal the cards.
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After 2 years and 25k miles on my trusty steed karma pulled my number last sunday.
i was slowing to negotiate a left hand turn off of a 2 lane road and was struck from behind by a young teen driver traveing appxox 65mph (in a 45). My speed was approximately 15mph and slowing, hyper lights going.
Long story short, i'm now parapalegic. T12 and L1 were crushed along with the spinal cord in the middle.
I'm heading to surgery today to fuse and reconstruct the physical support mechanism i need to at least be able to sit up in a wheelchair.
I believe in the power of prayer and would considerate it a great honor to be included in any prayers over the next few days.
Holy smokes! You have what ever you need from me :thumb
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Good God. You are in my thoughts.
Done, my prayers are with you.
What an amazing attitude! I'm in awe. God Bless and best wishes for the future!
Plaese keep us posted on how you're doing.
Thinking of you (shit that sounds a lame comment but its true, bit lost for words).
:eek1 Dale words fail me - I hope your surgery goes well and one never knows what miracles can happen.
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I'm Speechless..... My prayers are with you. How the fu_k are you able to type let alone convey your message ?
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Our thoughts and prayers are with you, brother.
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I haven't prayed in a long time. I just said one for you.
You seem to be doing a good job of keeping your chin up. I'll be praying that you can continue to do so.
Wow. I'm at a loss for words. Good luck, I'll say a prayer.
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Hercules mainframe emulator
Shadow Files Instead of Snapshots
Hercules does not use snapshots like other virtualization programs, but it does implement shadow files, which can be put to similar use. To use a shadow file, you need to change the lines with the hard disk configuration slightly (Listing 2, line 29ff.):
0A01 3390 dasd/sys1.dasd ro sf=shadow/sys1_*.dasd 0A02 3390 dasd/sys2.dasd ro sf=shadow/sys2_*.dasd
After starting, Hercules automatically writes the shadow/sys?_1.dasd files. The sf+ * command at the Hercules console creates a new set of shadow files, up to a maximum of eight files. sf- * merge or sf- * nomerge accepts or discards the changes to the current shadow step. Accepting means that sf- merge writes the changes from, for example, sys1_2.dasd to sys1_1.dasd. To write changes to the original files, you must specify sf- * force (or omit the read-only option ro).
The Hercules suspend and resume commands save and restore the complete system state; however, this mechanism does not work reliably – zLinux will not work after you use it.
z/OS and MVS
From a Linux perspective, the mainframe is just one architecture out of many, so it makes sense to look at the operating systems that normally run on mainframes. On the current crop of systems, the operating system is z/OS 1.x. (Version 1.9 was released in September 2007.)
Unfortunately, z/OS is not free. Although there is an "ADCD" package for developers and a z/OS demo package, you at least need to lease an IBM machine to use it legally. This just leaves the granddaddy of today's z/OS, MVS (version 3.8), as an alternative for experimenting at home.
MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) was developed from earlier IBM operating systems; its direct predecessor is the OS/360 MVT (Multitasking with a Variable number of Tasks) variant. MVS then became the operating system for the next generation of hardware, the System/370 computer, which supported virtual memory as of 1972.
Interestingly, the older S/360-67 models did support virtual memory, but at the time, batch processing was regarded as far more important and hardware support for memory virtualization was thus omitted from the S/370 series.
MVS was released in 1974 and led directly via MVS/XA, MVS/ESA, and OS/390 to z/OS. Now MVS is freely available because operating systems at the time were distributed openly.
A "turnkey" MVS system is available for Hercules: the MVS Turnkey System [7][8]. The only additional software you need is a 3270 terminal emulator; Linux users can install the x3270 package that comes with their distributions.
If you think you can set up a mainframe system quickly and start using it, you will be disappointed. Although you can boot and down the system using the "Cookbook" [8], it will not help you much if you do not have any previous mainframe experience. If you are seriously interested in immersing yourself in this material and working your way through the available documentation – including the current z/OS documentation, which is freely available from IBM – you will enjoy the experience of your own mainframe.
Hercules offers a stable emulator for mainframe architecture. Running on a powerful midrange system, the performance should be sufficient to replace a zLinux test LPAR. If you are thinking of porting your software to zLinux, you can use Hercules or the Community Development System for Linux (LCDS), a service provided by IBM [9].
- Hercules: http://www.hercules-390.org
- Conversion table for DASD sizes: http://www.sdisw.com/vm/dasd_capacity.html
- ThinkBlue/64 Linux for zSeries: http://linux.zseries.org
- CentOS: http://www.centos.org
- MacIsaac, Michael, Ronald Annuss, Wolfgang Engel, et al. Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Distributions. Redbooks, 2001: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246264.pdf
- Linux Redbook portal: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/portals/Linux
- The MVS 3.8j Turnkey System: http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/turnkey-mvs-3.zip
- Information about the MVS Turnkey System: http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/index.html
- Community Development System for Linux (LCDS): http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/lcds
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- With more than 800 training hours under their belts, over the course of a five-month regime that's billed as being among the state's toughest, 25 academy graduates were minted as Gwinnett County Police Department officers on Thursday night.
The payoff? More training.
Recruits who graduated from the 81st Gwinnett County Police Academy must now complete a 60 workday field training program. They'll first observe specially trained officers on the streets, then be observed as they take the reins. It's part of the department's push to fill uniform patrol functions, so that more tenured officers may rise into specialized roles.
Should the recruits succeed, the department's sworn officer tally will be 726, keeping it the third largest in Georgia behind Atlanta and DeKalb County police. Another 23 positions are open, and hiring continues.
An ad campaign calling attention to the vacancies, which includes a prominent electronic billboard on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, is catching eyes, said Gwinnett police spokesman Cpl. Brian Kelly.
Similar campaigns in previous years have used popular Atlanta radio stations to get word of starting salaries -- $35,000 for non-certified recruits, $37,600 for those who are -- and $2,000 hiring incentives across the board.
Recruits are paid at the non-certified rate during training.
"Just as with any other type of business or industry, we compete for qualified applicants," Kelly said. "Getting the word out is part of that process."
Recent hiring has paid dividends. As the 80th class has been assigned to the streets, Chief Charles Walters was able to staff a code enforcement unit with five officers, rechristening it the quality of life unit that had dissolved in the face of budget cuts, Kelly said.
"Now, more than ever, that's an important goal for the department," he said. "In these economic times, we've all seen that many of the issues the (unit) was built to combat are exasperated by foreclosures and other economic peril."
As for the 81st batch of graduates, Kelly said the class size is about average, as some recruits typically quit. Shooting and driving portions of the academy have proven to be pitfalls, he said.
In many areas, the requirements of Gwinnett police training exceed the state's, Kelly said.
"Just because a recruit may fail here does not mean they couldn't qualify elsewhere," he said.
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Elections are over on more than 500 seats now and the lone day left for polls is May 12 when the only constituency drawing all the attention will be Varanasi for obvious reasons.
But there are a few other constituencies where the fight is equally thrilling if not the candidates that hyped. West Bengal has been in news this election season, much because of Modi-Didi spat and less for the exciting contest it is witnessing this time. North Kolkata is the constituency witnessing the most unpredictable and interesting electoral battle in Bengal.
Trinmool Congress (TMC) has renominated its sitting MP Sudip Bandopadhay while Congress has fielded vetran leader and the rebel from TMC—Soman Mitra who joined Congress after his differences with Mamata Banerjee. The other candidates in the fray are BJP state president Rahul Sinha and Rupa Bagchi of CPI-M.
Sudip won this seat in 2009 by a little less than 10,00,00 votes but this time he is facing a tough multi cornered battle. The most significant factor is Somen's crossover from TMC to Congress. Somen is one of the few leaders in Congress with a huge mass following and has won nine elections in his political career so far with just one defeat in his hand. This time he is eyeing a tenth win on a Congress ticket.The current equations, however, gives a lead to the Trinmool candidate as all the five assembly seats of this constituency are in their box. Also, the fact that Sudip is the sitting MP adds to the advantage.
The equations are projected to see a change as Congress candidate will cut into TMC's vote bank that too in a good chunk. Many TMC party workers who were unhappy with Didi and the incumbent MP Sudip Upadhay have joined hands with Somen and are rigorously campaigning for him. Thus TMC has lost a substantial ground in the constituency for sure.
On the other hand, the presence of BJP can not be ignored this time. With 'Modi wave' picking momentum, the BJP has a renewed lifeline that has boosted morals of its party workers who are holding road shows, door to door campaigning and public meetings every now and then.
BJP'S vote share in 2009 general elections was just 4.6% but surveys are showing a good increase in their vote share this elections. With TMC and Congress weakened due to inner fights and anti incumbency respectively, there are good chances of BJP's Rahul Sinha winning on May 16. Traditionally, BJP has always eyed Kolkata North as BJP and RSS both have their regional headquarters in this constituency only. With Marwari, Jaiswal, Bihari and Kalwar voters intact in their favour BJP is hoping to get on the Bank sailing on Modi wave this time.
But one can never forget the left in Bengal. There are talks about division of anti-left votes among TMC, Congress and the BJP. If it really happens, CPI-M candidate Rupa Bagchi may trump her heavy weight opponents. Most of the left leaders who are seeking a revival of their party in the state are heavily relying on anti-left vote getting divided, so unclear who will triumph on the counting day.


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As I've said before, the definition of marketing genius is the guy who convinces his company to pay for Irina Shayk to don their apparel and smile for the cameras while everybody ogles her leer-worthy hot body. So simple it's actually genius. I only wish I could afford Irina for the opening of my new home theater room, but I bought a sub-woofer off eBay instead. Not quite the same boom, but within blogger budget. Irina, let's hit the town. Enjoy.


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I used to use the Redken "Smooth Down" line but decided to give the Real Control line a shot when it came out. I liked the Smooth Down but I LOVE Real Control. It's GREAT for really dry, coarse hair. I use the shampoo, conditioner, intense renewal mask (~1x per week)and the Crema Care leave in conditioner. These products are fantastic and I would highly recommend them for extra dry hair like mine.
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The hunger games is a book about the world in the future where a government controls 11 districts with each district specializing in their own thing. a long time before there were 12 districts the 12 district lead a rebellion but was destroyed and the whole district disappeared. so the government makes the other districts pay a tribute every year to make sure that the other district wont rebel. every year there is something called the hunger games where 2 citizens from each district fight in a death match for fame riches and all the food they could wish which is rare because the districts live in poverty while the capitol flourishes. catniss is the tribute from district 11 and she must fight to win. when she gets to the arena she makes an alliance with a girl who later gets killed in the end her and the 2nd tribute form her district win.
I gave this book a 5 star because it was a different kind of book then all the others. it was the type of book I like action thriller. this book was a mix between sci-fi, action and survival. this book always kept me guessing what would happen next and I was left guessing wrong each time. I hope that you enjoy this book as much as I did. I wish to read this book again in the near future.
I was very disappointed in The Hunger Games. The writing was simplistic and just awful. The plot was decent and promising but was fairly anti-climatic. I understand this book is targeted for younger readers, but it could of been a lot better and I feel that it had a lot of potential but never went for it. The ending redeems it a little, but not much. I will finish the series, this book did manage to make me interested to see what happens but if the other two books are as plain as this one I don't see them getting higher ratings.
This book is about a country called Panem. It's separated by 12 districts and a capital. The districts had a fight against the capital. Every year after the war the capital reminds the districts never to do it again by having the annual Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are when 24 kids between 12 and 18 years go into a very dangerous arena. Katniss lives in district 12 and when her sister gets pulled from the reaping ball she volunteers and is about to face the dangers of the Hunger Games. I liked this book because the author used words that made you not be able to put the book down. I also liked this book because it had a lot of action and it kept the book moving. I recommend this book to mature readers that understand the meaning of life.
An interesting take on a post-Apocalyptic America, but too many plot holes, poor logic, and painful first person narrative for my taste. There are bright points, but the book takes too long to get to the actual Games, and doesn't really offer a strong description of what's going on until the end.
Overall, I question the use of first person here. Some of my favorite books are written in the first person, but this doesn't fit the bill. Katniss frequently jumps from present experience to extensive flashbacks suddenly and without much explanation, making it difficult to keep track of what's going on. I can tell why this is so popular amongst the YA crowd, but still has serious issues.
The concept of the book isn't particularly original — a nearly identical premise is explored in "Battle Royale," a wondrously gruesome Japanese novel that has been spun off into a popular manga series.
Nor is there anything spectacular about the writing — the words describe the action and little else. But the considerable strength of the novel comes in Collins's convincingly detailed world-building and her memorably complex and fascinating heroine. In fact, by not calling attention to itself, the text disappears in the way a good font does: nothing stands between Katniss and the reader, between Panem and America.
The Hunger Games isn't exactly a deep work of literature, but it is a fun, exciting adventure story with a cool, believable female hero. And a entertainingly bleak, dystopian world with just enough of a reflection of our own reality to be thought-provoking. And most of all, a media-savvy story of on-camera slaughter by a former television professional. Good stuff, check it out.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] The Obama administration turned a bright spotlight on prescription painkiller abuse in April when the Office of National Drug Control Policy released a national action plan and a statement from Vice President Joe Biden. With a cover article in the July edition of the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA), dentists focus that spotlight on themselves both as major sources of opioid drugs and as professionals with largely untapped power to recognize and reduce abuse.
"Many dentists really haven't even perceived there to be a problem," said George Kenna, an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, an addiction psychologist at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, and the corresponding author of the article. "Dentists write the third-most prescriptions for immediate release opioids in the United States, but they often don't know the appropriate number of doses to prescribe, how many doses a patient uses, or most importantly what patients do with the leftover tablets they have. Just ask someone the last time they threw away opioid prescriptions in particular. These leftover tablets accumulated from various sources, not just dentists that are often left in closets across the country are the primary source for prescription drug use initiation for children and adolescents."
As outlined by the administration's policy, facilitating ways to reduce the number of leftover painkillers such as hydrocodone and oxycodone that can become a supply of drugs in the home for those who would abuse them, dentists and other prescribers would be taking a significant step, said Kenna who is also a pharmacist. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health has found that seven in 10 people who have used painkillers nonmedically got the drugs through a family member or friend who had a prescription.
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Catherine and Dan have decided to host a tasting next Saturday, August 15. The theme is All about Pinots. Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio/Gris are the most well-known of these wines. For those more adventurous, there are many varieties of Pinots. I have been to a tasting of Pinots Noir and Grigio/Gris before, and they play well with each other. This tasting presents a great opportunity to compare Pinots from all over the world.
There's a bit of information on Pinots on the following two pages:
As usual, please bring a bottle of Pinot wine to share, an appetizer that complements the wine, and $1. For those who need some idea of where in town the tasting will be, Dan and Catherine live near the Mueller development. I'll send out the address/directions Friday afternoon or evening to those who have RSVPed Yes, and on Saturday to Maybes, and to wait-list-ees. See you Saturday! ~Jen
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I've had a long-term romance with Indian food. It stems from a time not so long ago that I developed a heart condition and was hospitalized at the University of Cincinnati with strict dietary restrictions on salt intake. Most of us don't appreciate the complexity of salt and the deep dependency we have on it […]
Class of 2020 Initiative—Schools eye strategic plan
Change in any organization can be brought about by a shift in leadership, a shift in demand for service, or a shift in budgetary balance, or, as in the case of the Yellow Springs Exempted School District, it can be induced by all three forces at once. This fall the district will tackle the Class of 2020 Initiative to formulate a strategic plan to guide the schools through the next 10 years.
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In the shade of the barn at the Greene County Fair on Thursday, Yellow Springs youth tended to their animals between shows. The Husky Hustlers 4-H club was represented by Anna Semler, who brought two yearling heifers and two heifer calves. Also part of the club, Keturah, Corbett and Kaliyah Fulton were busy caring for […]
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Since the public bus system was abandoned in the early 1970s in favor of omnipresent personal vehicles, Yellow Springs has not had a regular public transportation system connecting it to towns and cities in the region. But starting this week, the Greene County Transit Board, known as Greene CATS, and several regional partners launched a one-day-a-week bus route…
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At his family's farm last week across from Dollar General, 16-year-old Austin Pence was using the cool of the dusk to wash and blow dry two of his favorite animals. Mabel, a year-old heifer, and Bart, a 17-month-old steer, hung by the white barn calm and collected as their black coats began to take on a fluffiness.
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Diet and Fitness Trends for 2005 (cont.)
Just as the low-fat frenzy peaked in the early 1990s, then disappeared almost as fast as it came, carb-phobia seems to be on its way out. Harry Balzer, who tracks America's eating habits for the NPD Group, a leading national market research firm, predicts that low-carb dieting will start to decline after reaching its peak in 2004 (none too soon for companies such as Krispy Kreme, which has blamed declining sales on the carb police).
NPD's research shows that the number of people in the U.S. who say they follow carb-slashing diets like Atkins and South Beach hit a high-water mark in January at 9%. The number has since dropped to around 7%. That's not to say that you won't still be seeing low-carb products on supermarket shelves for years to come. After all, Snackwell's low-fat cookies are still around despite years of declining sales.
"But you can't fight statistics," says Bonnie Taub-Dix, RD, a dietitian in New York, and a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association (ADA). "Just as with the low-fat craze, the low-carb movement hasn't really changed our rate of obesity. All the low-carb aisles in supermarkets aren't making Americans smaller. All they're doing is making [food] producers' wallets bigger."
ADA spokeswoman Cynthia Sass, RD, says that consumers have finally become clued in to the underlying flaws in the "good food, bad food" approach to eating. "When you single out one nutrient and try to make healthy eating all about that, it doesn't work," she says. "When we were fat-phobic, taking fat out meant putting sugar in. Now, taking carbs out means putting fat in. There are low-carb foods on the market that have more total net calories than their original versions because the manufacturer has replaced those carbs with fat."
The plus side of the low-fat to low-carb pendulum, predicts Sass, is that consumers may have learned a little more about the idea of balance in food choices from these wild back-and-forth swings. "It doesn't have to be all or nothing, it's really about how much you're taking in of any nutrient compared to what your body needs," she says.
So what might replace carb counting in the hearts, minds, and waistlines of weight-conscious Americans?
The New Satiety Diet
The satiety diet involves eating more of the kinds of foods that make you feel full but don't make you fat. Penn State nutrition expert Barbara Rolls, PhD, calls it "volumetrics," and will release a companion book to her 2003 release, The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan: Feel Full on Fewer Calories, in the spring. Diet experts think it's an idea whose time has finally come.
"People have often associated volume with calories, but that's not true," says Sass of the ADA. "Now they're starting to get the message that two foods can have the exact same nutritional value and calorie count, but one may have a much greater volume -- which means it makes you feel full faster. People like this, because it's satisfying, takes longer to eat, and makes you feel like you've had more food."


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