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To keep herself going, she developed a habit of writing fiction in the mornings, as a reward, an incentive and a way of earning money, before tackling the increasingly onerous Dreyfus manuscript in the afternoons. It was while she was trying to imagine Dreyfus in his setting in Paris that she was reminded of herself as a young woman, memories that she transformed into the Linnet Muir stories, about a girl who is living in New York, but comes back to Montreal when she is 18. "She looks at her old convent school and thinks, 'All you have to do is wait to grow up and then you are free,' " Ms. Gallant recalled many years later.
Linnet Muir was named, as Ms. Gallant herself was, after a songbird. She said she could have gone on writing the heavily autobiographical stories, "but in the middle of them [William Maxwell], my editor at The New Yorker, retired and I had a new editor [Daniel Menaker] who didn't like them. They made him impatient. He wasn't interested in Montreal and he wasn't interested in this girl. I could sense it."
She recalled years later: "He wrote me a letter in which he said: 'Some of us around here wish you would go back to writing real stories.' That 'some of us' infuriated me."
Those weasel words zapped Linnet from Ms. Gallant's imagination. "It was as if a double door into that Montreal of the forties had gone, and I couldn't see through them any more," she said.
That rejection shows how sensitive Ms. Gallant was to criticism. At the same time, though, Mr. Menaker had a point. The Linnet Muir stories are fascinating for the clarity of Ms. Gallant's physical memory of Montreal and for her nuanced grievances about her early life, but as fiction they are not nearly as multifaceted or polished as her European stories.
Her stories weren't translated into French and published in France until 1988. She never sought promotion and said she liked being anonymous, and quietly observing her neighbours in their quotidian lives. An appearance on the French literary talk show Apostrophe changed all that. "I went out on my errands the next morning, and everywhere I went, the shopkeepers looked at me," she told The Globe in 1996. "The dry cleaner, the pharmacist, the grocer, everyone had seen it and was astonished to see me. 'Mais vous êtes un écrivain,' they said. 'You are a writer.' "
She and her work were feted even as her production of new stories dwindled. She received numerous honorary degrees, the Molson Prize from the Canada Council, the Canada-Australia Literary Prize, a tribute at the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront in Toronto, the Blue Metropolis Literary Prize, the Inaugural Matt Cohen Prize, the Pen Nabokov Award for career achievement. She was also named a Companion of the Order of Canada.
The past preoccupied her more than ever in her last years because she was preparing her diaries for publication. That project, with the help of trusted friends, editor Frances Kiernan and lecture agent Steven Barclay, will be published in Toronto and New York in 2015. Tentatively titled The Journals of Mavis Gallant: 1952-1969, the book covers a nearly 20-year period from soon after she arrived in Paris through the student riots in 1968.
"Of course, it would have been best for Mavis to have seen the publication of these wonderful journals," M&S publisher Doug Pepper said in an e-mail. "It has taken years and a lot of hard work to transcribe them and make them ready for publication, but well worth it. They are raw, beautiful, insightful, and pure Mavis," he said. "She told a Paris Review interviewer that she would never write her memoirs. What we have instead is, to my mind, even more illuminating and fascinating to read."
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I saw all the reviews complaining about the orangey hue of the Sexy Siren, but I ignored them. Why? Because I really was looking for an orange-red lipstick! This color isn't that. It isn't "orangey" either. It's pretty much just orange. Kind of like the color of a nectarine, really. Aside from that, I didn't like the texture. Basically, this product is going back because I will never use it.2
The low rating is based primarily on the color and not on the quality of the lipstick or liner.
I ordered the sexy siren thinking that it was going to be like it looks the picture, more of red, but its not, its orange... bright orange. I applied it anyway in hopes that it might not be that bright once it went on, and no luck.
The product itself however, applies well and feels smooth and and the liner goes on easily.
I want to love this product. It feels beautiful, has a lovely application, and the color is deeply pigmented. And, yet... Oh, the color! (I purchased Frisky Fuchsia.) It is very, very bright. I've tried it in many ways: daytime, nighttime, rubbed in like a lip stain, deeply applied and matte, with/without different lip pencils... the list goes on! I just can't get the hang of this color!
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The lip pencil and stick were perfectly paired, so for an intense look, they were great together. They were much too much for me. I am fair completed, and these would have worked better for someone with more color in both skin and eyes. They are best for a night time glamor look...3
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If a questionable person is getting near you, and you are starting to get worried, you need to try to remove yourself from this person, not point your gun at him. I am not going into detail on every little possible scenario on this matter, as you see.
Say this fella is a bodyguard. If he is a bodyguard he is not just going to lay you out unless you are a physical threat to the person he is watching over.
Another point worth mentioning is if for some reason a famous person is being a 'tard and wants their favorite table your reaction should not be to get upset or ranty with them. A calm, "then go talk to the manager," should be the most you need to say. If the famous 'tard for some reason started being stupid an employee would be much more than likely to report the situation to their boss.
Long story short, there is no reason for that particular situation to become exculated to the point where drawing a weapon is needed.
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Nine members from 103 Search and Rescue Squadron enhance skills with Icelandic authorities
February 12, 2016
WINNIPEG — Members of 103 Search and Rescue Squadron from 9 Wing Gander, Newfoundland, are returning home after training with the Icelandic Coast Guard and local Search and Rescue teams from February 9-12, 2016.
Nine Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) personnel along with a CH-149 Cormorant helicopter took part in multiple exercise scenarios, including training with the Icelandic Coast Guard vessel Thor (or "Þór" in Icelandic). There were also inland and glacier search and rescue joint exercises with volunteers from local Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue (ICE-SAR) teams.
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- 103 Squadron's CH-149 Cormorant and nine crew members participated in open water and boat scenarios with the crew of the Icelandic Coast Guard vessel Thor (or "Þór" in Icelandic). Specific elements of these exercises included: hoisting from a ship, hoisting from a life raft and hoisting from the sea.
- There were also inland and glacier rescue scenarios with a rescue team from the Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue, known as ICE-SAR.
- In addition, there were visits to various local Icelandic Coast Guard locations and facilities as well as a NATO air station at Keflavík.
- Training occurred out of the Icelandic Coast Guard's base at Reykjavik airport with several activities taking place across the Iceland territory.
"The Canadian Armed Forces is equipped with a great fleet of CH-149 helicopters and a highly trained group of airmen and airwomen. The RCAF SAR force is something Canadians take pride in. Working alongside other Arctic countries active in SAR reminds us that we might wear different uniforms but we are all driven by the same motto ' that others may live'. This invaluable training and partnership ensures we are better integrated if we were called upon to cooperate in the future."Lieutenant-General Michael Hood, Commander, Royal Canadian Air Force
"This exercise has allowed the Icelandic Coast Guard and ICE-SAR to share with our Canadian partners our methods and experiences in overcoming the most challenging environment; the Arctic. We have greatly benefited from this joint exercise and have in our Canadian neighbours a strong partner in executing Arctic search and rescue. This training truly demonstrates the tenant of cooperation essential to our profession. We might be separated by thousands of kilometers but we are joined in our desire to save lives."Commander Senior Grade, Audunn Kristinsson, Deputy Chief of Operations, Icelandic Coast Guard
"We are proud of the men and women who serve fearlessly to make Canada a world a leader in Arctic search and rescue. The North Atlantic is a very challenging search and rescue environment which makes it crucial to deepen our relationships with partners like Iceland in this region. This collaboration augments our interoperability which strengthens our existing alliance."Brigadier-General David Lowthian, Deputy Commander, Force Generation, 1 Canadian Air Division
"The RCAF's front-line line SAR professionals have gained significant familiarity with the protocols and associated capabilities of their Icelandic colleagues. In the event that Canada and Iceland are jointly called in response to a SAR mission, our shared experience may be a key factor in saving lives."Major Jean Leroux, Commanding Officer, 103 Search and Rescue Squadron
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Re: Re: st: Creating a indicator of the number of job with highestwage
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Re: Re: st: Creating a indicator of the number of job with highestwage
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The -reshape- idea is good. It can be slimmed
reshape long w_job, i(ID) j(jobnum)
bysort id (w_job): gen Number_job = jobnum[_N]
reshape wide w_job, i(ID) j(jobnum)
but this solution, like Kelvin's, will return
any missing for each -id- as the maximum.
There are various ways around that; just be warned.
The calculation can also be done without a
-reshape-. We can also trap any missings that way.
gen max = w_job1
gen Number_job = cond(max == ., ., 1)
qui forval i = 2/4 {
replace max = max(max, w_job`i')
replace Number_job = `i' if max == w_job`i'
Kelvin Foo
reshape long w_job, i(ID) j(jobnum)
gsort id -w_job
by id: gen Number_job=jobnum[1]
reshape wide w_job, i(ID) j(jobnum)
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> I have a dataset. Each individual can at most have 4 jobs (job1-job4). For
> each individual I know the hourly wage for each job (w_job1-w_job4). I
> wonder how I can creat a variable indicating that which job has the highest
> wage. Refer to the following example. The variable I want to creat is the
> 'Number_job'
> ID w_job1 w_job2 w_job3 w_job4 Number_job
> 1 10 100 0 0 2
> 2 120 30 10 0 1
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To Our Children's Children's Children (A Rock and Roll Epistle)
By Richard Girard
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971), U.S. theologian, historian. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, Foreword (1944).
In April of this year, Riane Eisler wrote an extraordinary article for Tikum that was picked up by AlterNet. It is entitled "Roadmap to a New Economics: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism," and can be read in the April 13, 2010 issue of AlterNet's e-mail newsletter (http://www.alternet.org/story/146173/). This article makes a point that is often lost in the argument between proponents of capitalism, socialism, and all of the other "ism's:" If a solution doesn't improve the world for our children and their children, it is worthless.
It is so easy for us to get lost in the discussion of the minutiae of subtle arguments of philosophy and politics, and to forget what is really important. We must always keep in mind that when we seek a system to provide us with a guide for our future form of government and economy; that if it does not take into account our children and our grandchildren, as well as those who are disabled and disenfranchised--in whole or in part, including women--it does not merit our attention.
One of the reasons that I consider Karl Marx far superior to Ayn Rand, is that Marx mentions children 344 times in volume one of Das Kapital, whereas I do not remember children being mentioned by Ayn Rand once. Marx realized that children are our future, and spoke out in his writings against using children as factory workers. For Karl Marx, a child deserves both our respect and our protection.
I first read Riane Eisler fifteen years ago when I spotted a copy of The Chalice and The Blade in a used bookstore. Her concepts of the partnership versus the dominator social/political system in a society resonated deeply within my own psyche, which was fed up with the waste, corruption, and self-serving excuses that marked American political discourse and policy, which I was experiencing every day working for the State of Colorado.
Top down, hierarchical control of America's political, economic, social, and educational systems, are as antithetical to the visions' of men like Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine and their hopes for this nation as a monarch. This system is directly responsible for the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, where news reports tell us that visiting higher ups from British Petroleum overruled workers on site concerning safety. Eleven dead human beings and eighty-five million plus gallons later (that's 2,000,000+ barrels); they still do not have it stopped.
Because the people at the top--BP (formerly known as British Petroleum), Halliburton, and Transocean--are far more interested in the profits they might lose than the damage they might cause to the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem and the financial ruin they are bringing to the people who derive their livelihoods from its beautiful waters. And they have put enough money in our politicians' campaign coffers to silence any serious protest from that quarter (Nineteen and one-half million dollars and 49 lobbyists since 2009 according to the watchdog group Public Citizen. See http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/04-4.)
If I were President of the United States, I would appoint a Special Counsel with all possible speed, to investigate potential charges of murder for on site management, manslaughter for the off site management, plus bribery, and charges for any and every violation of environmental law I could make stick, plus bringing civil suits against all three companies. I would also, as Robert Reich suggested for BP in his Common Dreams article, "Why Obama Should Put BP Under Temporary Receivership," place all assets of BP, Halliburton, and Transocean within the reach of the United States Government into government receivership, until all law suits stemming from this disaster are settled. (See http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/01-5.)
The giant multinational corporations have been abusing the American public for far too long: socializing their expenses (especially their losses) while increasingly privatizing their profit by reducing their taxes to one-quarter or less of what they were fifty years ago. It is the small businessperson and the middle-class tax payer who has borne the brunt of the tax burden for the last twenty-five years, in spite of more than forty percent of the population not paying any Federal income tax.
This is because the small businessperson and middle-class tax payer pay fifteen percent (of all wages up to about $110,000.00) in real tax terms to FICA, the Federal payroll tax. These individuals also tend to pay the majority of state and local taxes and fees, and unlike the Paris Hiltons of the world, the small businesspeople are usually paying both an income tax and a capital gains tax if they are having any success at all with their business.
What this has done is rewarded the richest one or two percent of the American population by leaving more than half of their wages and any other income untaxed by FICA's approximately fifteen percent payroll tax. For example, a person making wages of $390,000.00--the annual income required to be in the top one percent of our nation in terms of earning income--only pay 4.3% of their income to FICA.
Dave Johnson recently wrote an article for OurFuture.org titled "Reagan Revolution Has Come To Roost--In Charts" (see OurFuture.org, June 15, 2010; http://www.ourfuture.org/trackback/46883), which demonstrates the negative effect that thirty years of supply side economics has had on America's middle class.


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a rather fast black man who is actually quite young. REALLY BLOODY STUBBORN AND ANNOYING. Hates it when people touch his hair and claims it hurts... what a pussy. doesnt like losing at chess and is really competitive when it comes to other people being faster than him. He also has two metal pins in his leg which he never lets anyone forget.
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The government will launch direct cash transfer in 51 districts from 1 January and cover the entire country by April 2014, just ahead of the next Lok Sabha elections.
The Prime Minister's Office on Friday cleared the roadmap to implement the UPA-2's ambitious project that could see the government crediting nearly Rs. 2,000 billion --- around 40 % of Centre's plan budget -- straight into bank accounts of millions of beneficiaries of government schemes across the country.
Cash transfer will include a wide ambit of welfare measures from food and fuel subsidy to financial entitlement such as scholarships and pensions. The transfer will take place through Unique Identification or Aadhaar based biometric authentication system to ensure that the right person gets the money into his or her bank account.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi on October 20 initiated pilot projects to test the Aadhaar authenticated electronic cash transfer mode for different government schemes.
"All government departments engaged in transferring benefits to individual beneficiaries will quickly move to an electronic direct cash transfer system based on Aadhaar payment bridge," a PMO statement issued after a meeting chaired by Principal Secretary to PM Pulok Chaterrjee with officials of different ministries said.
To meet the ambitious deadline, majority of Indian residents will need to have a bank account and Aadhaar number of end of 2013. As of now, half of 1.2 billion Indians have a bank account and Aadhaar number has been issued just 21 crore residents.
Chatterjee issued directions to the Department of Financial Services and to achieve universal financial inclusion and Nandan Nilekani led Unique Identification Authority of India to roll out Aadhaar speedily in line with the road map decided.
"It is a challenge we will achieve," a senior UIDAI official said confidentially and adding that the authority was generating over a million Aadhaar numbers every day.
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Cross Country Sweeps Mountain West Awards
Sept. 18, 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Fresno State junior Olivier Bernard and sophomore Lyndsie Etherton have earned Mountain West Men's and Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Week honors, respectively, for races contested from Sept. 10-16, 2012. It is the second consecutive week that Etherton has earned the honor and first Mountain West career honor for Bernard.
Bernard, a native of Laval, Quebec, Canada, placed sixth at the Sundodger Invitational in Seattle, Wash. He ran the 8-kilometer course in a career-best time of 24:14.53, the top time at that distance in the MW this season. The Bulldogs finished second as a team.
A Fresno, Calif., native, Etherton placed fourth at the Sundodger Invitational. She ran a time of 20:58.34 over the 6-kilometer race, a Fresno State record at that distance. Etherton topped the old mark of 21:12 set by Marissa McPhail in 2007. The Bulldogs finished second as a team behind No. 1 ranked Washington.
2012 Mountain West Men's Cross Country Athletes of the Week
Sept. 4 - Alex Muntefering, Jr., Colorado State
Sept. 11 - Jeff Howard, Jr., Boise State
Sept. 17 - Olivier Bernard, Jr., Fresno State
2012 Mountain West Women's Cross Country Athletes of the Week
Sept. 4 - Kaitlin Hanenburg, Jr., Colorado State
Sept. 11 - Lyndsie Etherton, So., Fresno State
Sept. 17 - Lyndsie Etherton, So., Fresno State
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Resurfacing of Seagirt boulevard has commenced. It is one of a number of Rockaway streets to be restored. Milling will take place also and a few weeks later crews will come by to resurface.
It has been reported that the southern corner of Rockaway Beach boulevard and Beach 108 street constantly floods during heavy rains. School children have to literally be carried across the street to get to PS 225.
Beach blocks in the Arverne Urban Renewal Area are filled with trash and other garbage. Something should be done to stop this illegal dumping.
Fishing was good Monday morning in Jamaica Bay. One of the party boats was so close to the sea wall that one could have passed sandwiches across to the fishermen.
That huge rat on Seagirt boulevard is there to protest the use of non-union labor on the new extension to Wavecrest Gardens, so we've been told.
The situation that resulted in the removal of the bus stop in front of the Seaside Library near Beach 116 street will be readdressed by the transportation committee of Community Board 14. One recommendation being considered is for the eastbound Q22 bus to have a stop in front of the Beach 116 street subway station.
Thank you, thank you. . .to whoever is responsible for filling in the potholes on Rockaway Beach boulevard in the Rockaway Park area.
Good news for the Far Rockaway community. Assemblywoman Pauline Cummings has obtained funding to update and renovate the Mott avenue subway station, making it totally handicapped-accessible. In addition, Borough President Claire Shulman has told Community Board 14 that she is dedicated to doing something to improve conditions at the Far Rockaway shopping center.
Here we go with another study. The Empire State Economic Development Corporation will be putting together a task force to study the economic feasibility of Destination Technodome. It is now almost three years from the date that plans for Technodome were announced and it looks like it still isn't any closer to becoming a reality.
Street paving, along with new sidewalks, curbs and sewers, will take place starting in 2002 for the Sommerville area of Arverne. The initial funds allocated for the start up costs of this program is $7 million.


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1. Re: 802.1xgeertm Jan 20, 2012 9:04 AM (in response to Liora)
Liora wrote:
I wanted the Nook Tablet mainly to watch netflix while I'm at the gym. But my gym is at my school, and my school uses 802.1x EAP.
• EAP Method: TTLS
• Phase 2 authentication: PAP
I can log in, but then I get a little yellow caution sign in the lower left corner, and it tells me that I need to do something with WAP.
How can I get this to work? As a law student I'm at school 12 hours a day, and I'd like my tablet to be functional in the place I spend the majority of my waking hours (I have a regular nook for reading, and of course my textbooks. I need the internet to be able to use this one).
I know it's not a problem with the network - because guess what other tablet works, according to the IT people and the bookstore, which sells it? I want to keep my nook.. it's better than the alternative. But if I can't use it for what I bought it for then I don't see how I can.
I searched a bit on Google about this. It seems the automatic Wifi detection works not always correct in this case.
Try using the "Other network" option to manually put in all the correct information needed for the Wifi connection.
2. Re: 802.1xLiora Jan 20, 2012 9:17 AM (in response to geertm)
I'll try this when I get to school today. Also I meant 'MAC' not 'WAP'
When I do this on my iphone/mac it downloads a certificate, do you happen to know if that's something that is only macs or if it's all devices, and if my nook is even capable of that?
3. Re: 802.1xDeanGibson Jan 20, 2012 11:11 AM (in response to Liora)
This is an esoteric area; you might try contacting your school's "IT" deparment to see if they have any solutions for you.
4. Re: 802.1xLiora Jan 20, 2012 11:15 AM (in response to DeanGibson)
Yeah they were mean. They wouldn't add my MAC address for me and they wouldn't let me use the event network. All they did was say they thought the Kindle worked. I'm opposed.


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As ospreys return to the bay, monitors flock to orientation
About thirty osprey (fish hawk) enthusiasts gathered recently at the Audubon Society in Bristol to an orientation session for this year's osprey monitoring program, an ongoing volunteer effort to track the number of active and successful nests in Rhode Island.
The group included both current and aspiring monitors who came to share recent osprey observations and to hear how to select a site, secure approval and build a nesting platform for the growing number of birds to call home. Last year some 60 volunteers watched 208 sites and observed 168 new fledglings.
Monitors eagerly shared what they had seen firsthand: the nest high atop a light tower at Barrington High School athletic field was knocked down in a storm, but the birds were recently seen rebuilding. Applause from the group.
People want to see ospreys up close
Volunteer Mike Gerhardt of the Warren Land Trust reported success with a nest at Baggy Wrinkle Cove in Warren. The recently built platform yielded an empty nest in its first year, but successfully fledged two birds in year two. "Our monitoring attracted a lot of friends and bird watchers," Mr. Gerhardt said, "People want to see them." One said her friend's son built an osprey platform as an Eagle Scout project.
Other monitors at the event: Eric Shaw of Newport watches a nest at the U.S. Navy Base, and two at Gooseberry Beach; Luis Mendes watches nests in Bristol County (MA) and Portsmouth; David Abell watches eight nests in North Kingston; Paul Sanroma watches nests at Mill Pond in Bristol; and David Winsow watches Allins Cove in Barrington.
Some nests are high up and difficult to see. Eric Walsh, who works with Audubon to track the state population, said the activity in a West Bay nest at Route 4 "is best observed at 65 mph" as he drives by on Route 95. Other monitors reported two birds dead near a cell tower, likely victims of electric wires. Federal and state agencies want to know about findings of dead osprey, Mr. Walsh said.
How to set up a nesting platform
Jonathan Scoones, director of volunteer services at Audubon, invited newcomers to contact him if they were interested to set up a new nest or join monitors. He gave a rundown of the steps in erecting nest platform:
1) Identify a location on open ground, near water and away from taller trees and people and not within 200 ft. of another nest.
2) Secure approvals from the R.I. State Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) if the site is within 200 ft. of the coast or coastal feature (wetland, river, etc.). This can easily be done online, Mr. Scoones said, adding that applications need to show ownership of the land and approval from the local building official. A $50 fee is also required.
3) Select a design: either tripod, planks between two dead trees or a center post set in concrete. Materials can be easily purchased at Home Depot or similar store for under $200, Mr. Scoones said, including a 6"x6" post with a 3 ft. section sheathed in aluminum as predator guards to safeguard against climbing raccoons, and a nest platform with wire mesh base and an elevated perch.
4) Build the platform and wait for the birds. Construction can be a fun community event, Mr. Scoones said. Audubon volunteers enjoy helping newcomers start their own monitoring. "Just put a few sticks on the platform to give birds the idea a nest has been started," he said. "Then you can name your own nest to be included in monitoring data."
Birds return to Rhode Island from Central and South America in mid March, locate former or start new nests with two to four eggs through April, incubate the nest in May, feed their young through June till they fledge in July (young will fledge 50-55 days after hatching) and return south between late August and late November.
Monitors observe and document a variety of data
"The goal of the monitoring program is to document the breeding success of our population," Mr. Walsh said. He said monitors make a total of eight 15-minute visits to each nest during the season, recording data such as "are ospreys present at the nest, are they incubating (sitting on the nest), are young present and if so how many, are adults bringing food to the nest?" Data is submitted online.
"Avoid rainy, windy, hot and cold days when adults may be shielding their young," Mr. Walsh said. "Early to mid morning or evenings when they are active are the best times."
Mr. Walsh spoke highly of the success rate of Rhode Island's monitoring program, which has tracked the dramatic comeback of the osprey to this state since its near demise in the 1960s. Over the last 35 years, the osprey has rebounded with the ban of DDT and concerted volunteer efforts such as the Audubon monitoring program.
"It has been a perfect storm of factors contributing to this success," Mr. Walsh said, "including our small, accessible state with lots of shallow open water surrounding a fish-healthy Narragansett Bay, and a volunteer effort that has grown organically with more and more people taking an interest in this magnificent bird.
Volunteers who are interested in joining the monitoring program should contact Mr. Scoones at Audubon (401/949-5454, x3044 or email@example.com). To learn more about the RI osprey population or its monitoring program, visit riosprey.info.
Bristol resident DeWolf Fulton teaches English at DelSesto Middle School in Providence. He is a former editor of the Bristol Phoenix and an avid bird watcher.


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"In the midst of your work console yourself with Him as often as you can. During your meals and your conversations, lift your heart towards Him from time to time; the slightest little remembrance will always be very pleasant to Him. To do this you do not need to shout out loud. He is closer to us than we think." – Brother Lawrence
God is aware of each moment of our life. Not aware in a detached Yes, I'm aware that you are going about your day, having your oatmeal for breakfast and sending your children off to school kind of way. Rather, he is very present to us in each moment, very aware of not only our external situation, but our inner state, our anxieties, our joys, our sins, our thoughts about our neighbor. God is not stalking us, or spying on us, waiting for us to step out of line. He is merely being present to us, watching over us, looking to nudge us in the right direction and to discipline us and redirect us when we head down a wrong path. But rather than think of him as merely an observer or guide, we ought to think of him as a friend who is close to us, cares for us, and actually wants us to carry on a conversation with him. While we want to avoid an overly sentimental view of the Lord of Heaven and Earth, our God who became man is, indeed, a personal God. He walked among flesh-and-blood human beings like ourselves, conversed with them, loved them, encouraged them to embrace their identity as beloved children of a benevolent Father.
So let us speak often with God. Heavenly conversation is not reserved for church services alone. Our Father invites us to speak with him during meals, during our menial tasks, studies, and errands. There is nowhere we go that God is not present to us, listening to us. Let David's poetry serve as a reminder:
Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
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Re: Introducing HP Service Manager 9.20
Re: Introducing HP Service Manager 9.20
Hi Yvonne, Can you provide an update on the web client performance, adoption of the web client vs the windows client among your customer base, and web client vs windows client performance globally for 9.20 or 9.30 customers? SInce 1 1/2 years have past since it's release, how does this compare to the 8-18-2010 post:
I consulted Product Management on your question on the web client. Based on significant customer feedback, we have determined that the web client is preferred by a high margin. This is the trend we see in the marketplace for enterprise software as well. In response to this customer demand, we are placing our development focus on the Web client. Therefore, there will be a growing gap in functionality in the Web client versus the Windows client over subsequent releases
Good morning Yvonne!
Have a short comment-question. I am developer in a biggest project in Russian Federation on Service Manager. We have more then 80 installations all over the country with custom integration between them and central region. Project started more then a year ago, when SM 7.11 was not even released. So the whole project is build on the SM 7.01 IIA. Customer needs are very specific and we made a tons of customization to the system to meet their needs. As it is logically understood migration from SM 7.01 to SM 7.11 or any other version can not be done and even is not considered in newest future.
When we do face some product bug in the system, HP support mainly solve bugs only for the never versions (like SM 7.11). As I understand it is considered that to solve Bugs for older versions is very expensive and not sufficient from the HP point of view. All this race for the newer and newer versions of the system (now it is SM 9.2 already) leaves all the projects on the HP SM 7.01 without solution patch releases. And I want to mention that of course it is not a single project built on SM 7.01.
Suppose in close future most fix releases will be made only for SM 9.2 and there is not end for the race of the endless upgrades of system from version to version. Also I want to mention that upgrade needs a lot of workhours to be fulfilled properly and most customers doesn't want to spent money on this endless migrations.
Would be glad to hear what is your point of view regarding this problem.
well said comrade Vadim.
This endless upgrade process is a joke. There are so many bugs, which indicates that very little testing is done by HP, It is clear there will be many more upgrades as vadim suggests and they are expensive. It is obvious HP are going to rebuild SM (robust, easier to configure etc) with us being their testers.
We are currently like vadim on 7.01 we are upgrading the run time library to 7.11 ( I dont know why) and this what should be a MINOR task has taken two weeks of onsite HP ($$) plus a cast of several here. Heaps of problems were found, and it will take a couple of weeks more and for what to possibly encunter another 44 pages of bugs.
I am glad the soccer is on, i am going home.
Right comment coldbeer,
We have tryed to make migration from SM7.01 to SM7.11 on our test servers to just see what we can by ourselfs and will it be possible for us to make migration with non default configuration. It tooks quite lot of time and several hands for it (all this comes as used workhours - and we know time is money). And this was done on the defalt db.
As we all know product is not perfect, has bugs and needs manual Tailoring to make him more likely to real life then it is OOB. In my case the thing is even worth because we have Russian localised system, which often has much issues in naming translations and other form customization. Besides of that each customer wants to the system much more looking like his iolder one to which he got aquinted. Most customers are migrating from SD 4.5 and they want much features which were implemented there + some new features which was not in old system and is not in SM. As the result of this we had around 600 request for customisation, logic change, form correction and other configuration stuff. So if i know migrate to the newer system version for which only most bug patches are realised i will have to implement this from begining. Anyone wants to count how many hours will it take to understand and get all spots in which changes where done while fulfilling this 600 requests and making them from 0 in the new environment? I am even afraid to think about it, because i know that we wont even revise 60% of places that were changed to get the solution required by customer.
As the result i am left almost without bug patch support becuase i can not catch up with that race of Upgrades from version to version.
Best Regards
Vadim Gordadze
Dear Yvonne_Bentley,
Would be very useful, if you could add links to Documentation and to the software itself.
Also, is there smth like Migration Guide?
From my previous expiriense with HPSM - its very poor for good documentation.
Was it changed for this version?
Dear Yvonne,
Is that true, that in the future HP is going to get rid of Windows desktop client and use only Web version? Also, does Web client have features which are not available in the Windows version?
Hello Nika,
Don't know if it is true about getting rid of Windows client, but if it is , then it will be very big mistake!
First of all Windows client is best suitable for the development as it is much friendly and easy to use then the web one. Form designers menus and all other things look much prettier in the windows client.
Also regarding not available features of the windows client comparing to the web, I suggest that it is more vice versa. As I already mentioned above Windows client is much more suitable for development then web version.
Can say that specialist of our customer thing as I am. Windows client is much more suitable for day to day work because even function of viewing high number of records by switching from page to page in web client is very uncomfortable. Options drop down lists are moved in such way that you can not guess which one is for the current record and which one is for the qbe search results. In localized system we had problem with localization of statuses because of problem with Global variables in web.
Can not list everything because it all appear after facing the problem but as a conclusion I can say that Windows client is 100% better for operator and development performance improvement.
Regarding documentation-
Yes there were migration guides which were available via the partner access. Don't have links at the moment but I know for 100% that they are this migration guides, as our specialists were using them.
Thank you for the answer, Vadim_Gorda.
Ok, we will wait for our partners to download the Guides and the distributive itself.
Interesting, why the blog owner does not respond to the posts.
It is a big question for me too NIka.
When i posted my first reply here, first of all I was waiting for any answer from the blog poster and not from other community participants. Maybe there is obligation for them to just pass information down to the partners and other interested users and all other conversations are made in separate place.
Regarding the manual - I managed to find it on partner site (got a hard copy of it and browsed by the name) and here is the link directly to the manual https://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document
Or you can search for it from https://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals with the name SM7.10UpgradeGuide.pdf or HP Software Service Manager Upgrade Guide.
Cheers and hope it will help you
Thanks a lot, Vadim, downloaded!
You are welcome Nika.
here is a 9.20 Upgrade guide link which I saw on old ITRC forum http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document/
Just as a fast question regarding SM 9. After installation of web part, first opening of the web requires several minutes (3-5) the same time is required to log in to the system (3-5). Does it depend on the browser? System makes initial configuration or why it requires so long to initially start?
Hi everyone,
Just got back from vacation in Spain. It was great!
I see there have been some comments about HP Service Manager 9.20 and upgrades. Good to know you're out there!
Remember that HP SM 9.20 is just an extension of the SM 7.x family (and a very simple, straightforward upgrade). It was re-numbered from 7.20 to 9.20 to reflect how tightly it integrates with the new releases of HP Universal CMDB 9.0, Release Control Analysis 9.0, and other products in the HP BTO portfolio.
The documentation is online - http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals and an upgrade guide is coming very soon.
And if you have support-specific items, you can go to
Stay in touch,
Hello Yvonne,
Would like to spent my vacation in Spain as well and I am 100% sure that it was very nice Think as all of us you are very happy to return to job after vacation .
Regarding Upgrades and other technical issues it only sounds easy to upgrade from 7.01 to the 9.2 version. Checked RTE upgrade but it did not solve some issues as it was declared, but think it is more technical side and really better to be posted in the Support forum part.
And regarding non technical issue, want to mention that it was a very big disadvantage of making all forms nice looking for web but totally uncomfortable to work from windows client. Don't want to dig in deep but everything displayed in sequence for scrolling and removing tabs was a very bad idea.
I can go very deep discussing it so I better stop now
Thanks for answer again!
There's a problem with this statement:
"Remember that HP SM 9.20 is just an extension of the SM 7.x family (and a very simple, straightforward upgrade). It was re-numbered from 7.20 to 9.20 to reflect how tightly it integrates with the new releases of HP Universal CMDB 9.0, Release Control Analysis 9.0, and other products in the HP BTO portfolio. "
The problem is that is not true. HP made undocumented changes to workflow and processes in SM9.20.
For Example:
When introducing the IIA build, HP updated change management to use the assignment table for the assignment of workgroups for changes and tasks. In IIA presentations, this was referred to as a deliberate process improvement. This carried forward into the out-of-box 7.1x releases.
- The assignment file was updated to include Change Coordinator information.
- Configuration Items and Services were updated to list the assignment groups that supported them, and when escalating to a change, those assignment groups are listed in the escalation wizard.
- The Service Catalog, when defining an item fulfilled using Change, prompts the user for the assignment group to which the change will be assigned.
The Issue:
In Service Manager 9.20, Change Management has reverted to using Change Message groups (defined in cm3groups) instead of assignment groups as a result of a logged defect correction. This is a significant change and has many potential problems (especially as the switch was done poorly, and has introduced multiple other issues—see case for details).
- This is a significant workflow change, yet it is not called out in the product release notes or any other documentation.
- The current out-of-box build bypassed any problems with this change by including change groups with the same name as all of the assignment groups, but this seems, quite frankly, an incredibly poor solution.
My Question:
What is the intended product workflow?
Is the intent to use Change Groups moving forward for change and task assignment?
IF so, is the intent to actually update the other parts of the system to support this change?
- Wouldn't it be helpful to actually explicitly call out such a significant workflow change in the documentation?
- Will Configuration Items require designation of both Assignment Groups related to SD/IM/PM and Change Groups for Change?
- Will the Service Catalog be updated to prompt for change groups when defining an item fulfilled via the change connector? Will the change escalation wizard be updated to prompt for cm3group?
- If it will be required to create matching assignment and change groups, what plans are there to automate the process, as it creates unnecessary overhead for customers, especially in larger organizations?
- Because cm3groups are also used to defined approval groups that are not workgroups, will there be a method to exclude the "approval only" groups from being selected when assigning a change?
Hi J_Stagaman,
I am currently securing a Product Management resource to respond to your questions. I appreciate your feedback and intend to address them as soon as possible. Stay tuned.
Hi Nika,
I consulted Product Management on your question on the web client. Based on significant customer feedback, we have determined that the web client is preferred by a high margin. This is the trend we see in the marketplace for enterprise software as well. In response to this customer demand, we are placing our development focus on the Web client. Therefore, there will be a growing gap in functionality in the Web client versus the Windows client over subsequent releases
Hello Yvonne,
To be honest I don't know which part of customers was asked about which do they prefer to work in as specialist web or windows client, but I can really say that in our not small client pool and even larger my friend specialist and their client pool there are 0 customers which prefer to use web for working with the system then the windows client.
Hi All
"We" have been told that the version number of SM 9.2 is to reflect how tight the integration is between SM 9.2 and uCMDB 9.0. I must admit that I not have been able to test version SM 9.2 and uCMDB 9.0 yet (my system is stil SM7.11 and uCMDB 8.03)..... But out of what I can understand the uCMDB - SM integration is stil based on the uCMDB replication/federation process in the new version. I disagree that this is a tight integration.
Alot of manual/"complicated" work to enable replication of CI's from uCMDB to SM is not a tight integration.
My opinion is that it should have been a direct integration (Based on WebService-API) from SM to uCMDB that enables users inn SM to access all types of CI's in uCMDB. Users in SM should then be able to direct change attribute-values on CI's in uCMDB (Attributes that is tagged as changeable).
I do understand that there is a need for CMDB functionality inside SM for those users that do not have the uCMDB product... alternatively HP should be able to deliver a lightweight uCMDB to those users that do not have the full uCMDB license.
Hi Vadim,
I will for sure share your feedback with the Product Manager responsible for user interface development.
Hi Joshua,
I'm communicating your comments to the Service Manager Product Manager responsible for SM integrations and will let you know when I hear back from him.
Thanks Yvonne
Agree with Vadim.
As the link can be not always perfect when working in distribute environment, we prefer the windows client too.
Thank you for the answer.
Cheers Nika In fact we are not alone it is really a huge part of customers which doesnot want to work with web at all.
Hi Vadim,
In March 2009 our Service Manager product management team conducted a system usability survey and received results from 89 customers, partners, and HP internal pre-sales and services folks.
Our findings were that though customers currently have better perception of the Windows client than the Web client, most (> 95% of HP Service Manager/ServiceCenter customers and > 85% of HP Service Desk customers) would prefer the Web client for end users (defined as non-developers and non-administrators) if comparable system performance, functionality, and usability could be achieved.
So HP Service Manager 9.20 reflects this improvement focus on the web client and the plan is to continue focusing new development on the web client to strengthen its viability for customers.
We are also responding to market changes and trends, and intend to stay competitive with other web-based cloud computing offerings. The web versus windows application debate, from a market standpoint, was over about 10 years ago.
Hi Nika,
Could you please elaborate on what you mean about the link not always perfect in a distributed environment? We'd like to evaluate your comment more thoroughly for possible product improvements but don't exactly understand what is being conveyed there.
I don't won't to go in endless discussion but don't you think that 89 customers, partners and other is veryy veryyyyyyyyy small amount of people asked to get the real view of customer wishes. Can you approximately imagine what percent of the total amount of HP SM and Service center users was 89 in 2009. I think it was like less then 1 percent. And situation at 2009 is not the same at the mom(ent. I had a very short look at the 9.2 but the first thing that exploded my mind was an endless sheet of the incident record which looks very nice in the web as it has + symbols to expand the view (the thing which was made instead of tabs made in previous versions) but in the windows client it did not had them and I do see all the tabs expanded with endless scrolling to the bottom. I don't know if this discussion has any sense but this is my and out clients opinion.
Hi Vadim,
Fair enough. We would have loved to have more customers actually respond to the survey we conducted but that's what we had to work with, that and our market and competitive analyses. Also we received very favorable feedback from customers en masse at the recent Americas HP Software Universe on the web client improvements of HP Service Manager 9.20, so we saw that as further substantiation of our assessment.
I do understand your viewpoint. The Service Manager product management team has been made aware of it specifically. And, as always, your feedback is valuable and invited. Hopefully you will consider the web client improvements over time and perhaps re-evaluate the viability for your clients' situations.
Hello Yvonne,
I did not say that I don't consider web clients improvements or I think that they are bad. These modifications are good and web client looks better then before, but I was pointing at the fact that this improvement must not be done in harm of the windows client. Web became better then before but windows client became much more worth then it was in previous versions, interface became more then unfriendly which in fact forces people to use web which they does not want to use in the cases I stated above in my posts.
In fact if you try to use windows client you will understand what I do mean. Any changes in the system must not be done in harm of other part
Here's the response R&D sent via swconsult:
Sorry for our delayed response, as this is a tricky situation, and we were waiting on other departments to weigh in. Basically, John is correct in his assessment. In SM 7.10/7.11, Change Mgmt was not converted effectively to use Assignment Groups instead of Change Groups. So, we reverted back to using Change Groups in SM 9.20, but this has also introduced some defects. The guidance is to use Change Groups and we will fix those defects. I encourage John to open those defects in HP Support so that we can address them.
My assessement is that the use of Assignment Groups for change was completely successful. That allowed change groups to be soley used to define approval groups and review groups.
--Every customer I worked with went with this approach, even customers who had previously used cm3groups in SC.
--Many Service Center customers used this approach by tailoring the system in the past, because the maintenance of cm3groups through profiles is needlessly complicated and requires excessive administrative overhead.
But I really think it is unacceptable that HP executed the change so poorly, and the response from R& D is:
--We made the change, but no we see no need to tell anyone that we altered a core product workflow.
--We made it poorly, so that it introduced number of defects.
--We, R&D, are unable to identify defects and customers have to do it for us.
--We, R&D, apparently don't require that the developer making changes to a module fully understand that module or complete basic testing of their changes.
There are also some MAJOR issues with the response:
--If, AS R&D STATED, "Change Mgmt was not converted effectively to use Assignment Groups instead of Change Groups" how did the change EVER get into the released product?
--It was maintained in the released product for two years and was rolled out as a Best Practices driven change.
My existing case (4616901496) lists every issue I have found. I will not be opening additional defects. R&D can reference the existing case.
Nice one John Me and my colleagues already figured out that main testers are partners which tailor system according to their projects and face the bugs while doing that
Hi John,
Thanks for opening this dialogue about Change Management and the issues you encountered. I have engaged deeper R&D and Product Management resources to more thoroughly investigate because these look like fair questions to me and I believe the original response SWConsult was putting together for you was neither complete nor extensive enough to address your full set of concerns and questions. We want to give it the attention it deserves, so please give us a few days to come back with a more substantive and complete response. Thanks for your patience on this.
Thanks for responding. A principal concern is the apparent randomness of the change back to change groups. After the IIA build was released, we advised customers to move to using assignment groups for change based on HP guidance that IIA's use of common workgroups for SD/IM/PM/Change was consistent with Best Practice. We made the recommendation on good faith that HP, having made the change, had done so after proper consideration and advised clients that using assignment groups would simplify support and future upgrades, as the move to assignment groups was called out as a benefit of the IIA/best practice workflow. Now, those customers are potentially penalized for following the out-of-box model.
The reversion to change groups in 9.20 is troubling because it makes it difficult to advise any customer that they can expect consistency. The change appears random, and the fact it was completely undocumented is especially troubling.
Just to be clear, overall I am very impressed by the 9.20 release. I find it impressive that HP focused on a number of changes to improve the core usability of the tool. The normalization of display options across the modules (e.g. replacing OK with Save & Exit) and the major improvements in list behavior in web tier are welcome. Despite the issue above, I believe the new web client resolves many long-term usability challenges and that those improvements are are of great benefit to customers.
I recently had the opportunity to present at a user group meeting and very strongly emphasized the benefits of the new web tier, the embedded integration with Release Control, and other improvements. In my current customer implementation, we elected to pause the build to move from an active SM 7.1x to SM 9.20 based on a review of the new web tier.
Hi Yvonne.
Thank you for your interest.
What do our team prefer to use the Windows client -main cause is that its more effective.
What takes 5 sec to load in Windows client, can take about 14 sec in Web!
And if you have server in other city, and the link bandwidth is not very good, it could take even longer.
Hi Joshua,
The Service Manager integrations product manager has been on vacation and I finally was able to work with him on a response to your comments on SM/UCMDB integration. He says the following:
"The integration of SM 9.20 and UCMDB 9.0 is tight because it does not rely on any other integration technology such as Connect-It. We built a direct web services based interface that allows customers to view the actual state of a CI from the UCMDB natively in the SM UI. The CI data that is coming from the UCMDB can also be federated from other sources such as Asset Manager.
The integration also provides for a closed loop change management system, using a reconciliation engine that can effectively deal with unplanned changes that are automatically detected in the environment. HP plans to continue to make the UCMDB integration even tighter in future releases."
Then, to address your comment about "...alot of manual/complicated work to enable replication of CI's from UCMDB to SM", he responds this way:
"With UCMDB 9, and the introduction of the new 'Integration Studio', it is now easier to configure the integration, which involves a one-time transfer of CI's from UCMDB to SM. The integration will then update the list of CI's in SM when UCMDB discovers new CI's or new attribute values. This is done by configuring the replication jobs which is easily done in the Integration Studio UI, by filling out credentials and system information for the SM server."
Joshua, I hope this addresses your concerns. Please let me know if you require any further detail.
Hi Yvonne
Thanks, for your answer
I stil believe that HP can do even more on the integration between uCMDB and SM.
* Make it possible to: From SM manualy create CI's and CI relationships in uCMDB.
* Make it possible to: From SM change attribute-value on CI's in uCMDB.
My opinion is that it should be seamless for the SM user to view/change data in uCMDB.
ITIL Configuration Manager/Coordinator will work with SM GUI... Not with the uCMDB GUI.
Br. Rune
Hi John (J_Stagaman),
Thanks for meeting with our Service Manager product managers to discuss the change management issues you raised in more detail. They walked away from that meeting with a lot to think about. Here is their initial response so you and others following this thread can see what is being done behind the scenes:
"We have reviewed the issues that you have raised. In discussions with our development team, we confirm many of your findings. Based on this, we have escalated a development activity to fully understand the broader implications of this situation, and to identify the appropriate mitigation strategy to address it. This activity will take some time because we want to ensure that we can address all the core and peripheral implications to the product. Given the importance of this issue, we will communicate our findings and resolution plan through the appropriate support channels."
Hi Rune (Joshua),
Thanks for your further inputs on SM/UCMDB integrations. I will share them with the integrations product manager. Please feel free to provide a more detailed set of examples if you have more to share and I'll make sure he gets them all.
This is really valuable input and we appreciate the time you are putting into documenting the improvements you would like to see.
Hi Nika,
Thanks for your elaboration on your original comment "...the link not working in distributed environments...". You are actually referring to performance differences between windows and web clients. I have shared your comment with the UI product manager for Service Manager. As you are now aware, there will be continued improvements in the web client to deal with such issues. I will share any response that the product manager provides me to address your comment.
Hi Nika,
The UI product manager for Service Manager did get back to me. He states that we did improve the web client performance for SM 9.20 so it should be significantly better than SM 7.11, and we will be continuing to focus on improvements to performance in subsequent releases.
What version are you running right now?
Hi Yvonne
Earlier my company was using HP ServiceManager. With ServiceManager it was
quite easy for the Configuration Manager to create new CI types.
And it was easy for the different Configuration coordinators around the organization
to manualy create new CI's and relationships between these.
Most of the CI's in ServiceManager was maintained manualy (We had a few autoamtic integrations).
But off course the world must go forward and we decided to go for Service Manager with UCMDB
as the CI master.
Good things :
Ability to do atuomatic discovery.
The idea with "Closed loop incident process"
Possibility to see actual CI status from SM.
What could be improved:
Not all CI's or relationships can be discovered automaticaly/integrated trough a datafeed.
* Configuration Manager need therfore a method to, in SM, create CI types with it's attributes and ability to add extra attributes on existing CI types.
* Configuration coordinators need the ability to, in SM, create/change CI's (attributes) and relationships.
All CI's and relationships should be apart of the UCMDB even those that are created manualy.
And the natural place to work with CI's for a Configuration Manager/Coordinator is in the Service Manager GUI.
Personaly I'm not shure that replication of data from uCMDB to ServiceManager's CMDB is the right strategy to get a tight enough integration between Service Manager and UCMDB. Having the CI's & relationships stored in two places (UCMDB & SM CMDB) will, I think, make the integration more complicated than it need to be ( Both for the end-user that should administrate the integration but also for HP that need to solve new needs) . But off course how to solve the challanges technicaly is not important for me.
Somehow the ServiceManager need to be able to natively use (Write, change & view) UCMDB data directly (For those customers that have uCMDB).
I see that combined'ing manualy changed CI/attributes/relationships with automatic discovery data in the same datasource could be problematic. Maybe is it some CI attributes/relationships that the user should not be able to manualy change due to that it's "owned" by "DDM Discovery".
Br. Rune
Hi Yvonne.
We are running HPSM 7.01 currently, and we installed 9.20 on our test environment - and yes, it works much faster!
Hope to see further improvements. Thank you.
And do you know, when Russian help and Russian language pack will be available for SM 9.20?
Thanks in advance!
I am very interested in Russian language pack release as well! Help is not that urgent as the pack
Hi Nika and Vadim,
The SM 9.20 language packs are available electronically for purchase. They will be made available on the partner web site this week. Physical SR is imminent.
If customers want to access the language pack themselves, then If they are current on maintenance, they are able to find the language packs using My Updates on SSO. Otherwise, they have to order the language packs by contacting their sales rep.
Hi Nika,
Regarding Russian help:
It is an integral part of the language pack, on the same CD image, so available this week as well.
Thanks Yvonne!!!!!
Seems that it is already available : Partner Donwload: https://h20229.www2.hp.com/partner/protected/downl
I even already installed it Thanks again Yvonne
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An animated version of a trainer for San Antonio Independent School District explains the rules for safely riding the school bus to students.
Since its inception just over 10 years ago, Student Transportation of America Ltd. (STA) has undergone a staggering transformation.
The company's school bus fleet has multiplied from a few hundred buses to more than 5,000 throughout the U.S. and Canada. STA is now the fourth largest school transportation contractor in North America.
In April, STA sold several million of its common shares for gross proceeds of about $60 million.
SNCF Participations S.A., a new investor to STA, purchased 6,557,377 common shares for $40 million. The company is a subsidiary of Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, the French National Railway.
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, STA's largest shareholder, purchased 1,709,402 common shares for $10 million.
Additionally, several of STA's other existing shareholders purchased just under $10 million in common shares.
Along with SNCF's investment, STA agreed to expand its board of directors to eight members and add Jean-Pierre Farandou, director of SNCF's Public Transport Division.
Here, STA Chairman and CEO Denis Gallagher shares details on the deals and how they tie in with the company's goals for growth.
SBF: How did these transactions come about?
DENIS GALLAGHER: This actually started with SNCF. They have been interested in transportation in the U.S. Through Rothschild Investment Banking in New York, they contacted us and asked if we would be interested in at least having a meeting with them. So we did, and they were interested in making an investment in the company.
They did understand that the Caisse de dépôt was the largest shareholder through the filings that they were able to see, and they had a great deal of respect for the Caisse. They thought they could be a good strategic investor for us as well. As we were coming close on firming up an agreement with them, I told them that I would like to show the deal to the Caisse and some other large shareholders within the company to see if anybody else would be interested in participating alongside of them. And SNCF had some "asks," as I would call them. One of their asks was that they wanted to be a long-term partner and a long-term investor. They also wanted an opportunity to have board representation. I explained to them that that was going to require them paying a bit of a premium to the trading price versus just coming in and buying shares.
Caisse has been investing in STA for several years. What are the driving forces for its continued confidence in STA?
Well, the Caisse has been a passive but certainly supportive investor for STA since October of 2001. We went public in December of 2004. So they had been in the company about three years and were very supportive of us through an investment that they had in a private equity fund. They like the continuity of the revenues and the contractual nature of the business. This is pension-fund money — they like a good yield. And they get to learn the business. They are in investments all over the world, and they manage them very carefully. They're not month-by-month, quarter-by-quarter investors — they look at the long-term. They got in with us when we were about $30 million or so in revenue, and this year we'll be upwards of $220 million in revenue. So they certainly have been able to grow with us.
What type of experience and insight does SNCF's Jean-Pierre Farandou bring to the STA board of directors?
Jean-Pierre was a nominee that SNCF put forward, and I was pleased that they did. He is highly experienced in passenger transportation, both from rail and bus operations that SNCF is involved with in France. SNCF competes with FirstGroup and National Express in rail and in some bus business in the U.K. and Europe.
Jean-Pierre is somebody that I think will fit extremely well in our board. Our board is a bit of an orchestra, as I like to call it, because the last thing I want is an all-tuba section or an all-drum section. It's a very eclectic board. And I think Jean-Pierre has a good sense of transportation in general. Basically, he is really an operations guy, so he's going to bring operations experience to the board.
What are the key benefits of the transactions for STA?
We used the proceeds to pay down some of our existing debt, which we use just for growth. The key benefit of the transaction is that it sets us up at a very good time, with so many opportunities in school bus transportation in North America, for us to continue the growth that we've had in the rural and suburban markets — and in nice, profitable venues for our shareholders.
The opportunities in school transportation in North America are driven by not only the Laidlaw/FirstGroup merger; they also are driven by the increased amount of conversion activity that is going on in the U.S. This is a very promising time for school districts to take a look at what business they are in: education or transportation? Unfortunately, sometimes it requires hard times for them to take this look. There are severe budget constraints in a lot of states that we deal with, and there are capital investments that need to be done in equipment.
States where there's not contracting — we probably see those as the biggest opportunities to be able to come in and bring capital and bring resources and bring expertise, and to see some major changes in the conversion process over the next 10 years.
STA has been expanding rapidly since you founded it about a decade ago. Do you expect that to continue?
We've been growing at about a 20-percent compounded annual growth rate for the last seven years. We don't see any reason why we can't continue that growth rate for the near future. Again, we like to acquire companies in targeted markets. We don't plan on being in every market. We like the rural and suburban business. So we like to get into a market with an acquisition and see if we can grow the market through bids, privatizations and other tuck-in acquisitions in the region. Our appetite is good.
This is a business where, despite the consolidation that has happened, there is still a tremendous number of smaller companies out there. We see our ABC program — which is acquisitions, bids and conversions — being able to feed our growth in the foreseeable future. We're about 55 percent acquired and about 45 percent organic growth through bids and conversions. We would like to maintain that as we go forward.
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