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Do you know if you pay competitive pay rates? How many of your employees are close to retirement and how does that compare with the industry? What are others doing to attract and retain employees?
The Local Government Remuneration Survey is the only sector-specific survey in Australia that provides this remuneration information for a large number of Local Governments across the country. The 2012 process is again jointly organised by six of the Local Government Associations in Australia.
A survey of this type, if commercially created, would normally cost several thousand dollars. In being conducted exclusively within the sector by Local Government Associations, costs are kept to a minimum and participating Local Governments are able to purchase the survey outcomes for a discounted price of $250 (incl GST).
The survey outcomes provide an invaluable resource to assist Local Governments with the planning and implementation of salary structures and help guide workforce planning. The survey covers 100 common Local Government positions as well as a wide range of relevant information.
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This is a compelling essay on how journalism damages education with bad information. Although I've only posted the portion pertaining to Manson, I highly recommend reading the entire article, which can be found on the site linked below.
"...Then came Columbine.
To all the false data that had been produced by the earlier shootings, Columbine news coverage added a jackpot of misinformation. Nearly every major piece of information we know about Columbine is wrong, even including its location. It didnt happen in Littleton, Colo. During the long hours when the school was closed off, journalists put any and all information on the air unscreened and uncooked.
It is now known that the two perpetrators were not loners who targeted jocks. There was a trench coat group at the school, but it was made up of good kids, and the two shooters werent among them. Those killed were not the targetsthe entire school was, because it was planned not as a school shooting but as a bombing. The shooting began when the bombs failed. Diane Sawyer reported without any evidence that some of these Goths may have killed before. Charlton Heston said the tragedy could have been prevented if there had been a guard with a gun. There was.
It took years for the truth to come out about what actually happened at Columbine, and there was a costly consequence. Legislatures started passing punitive new laws and school districts started diverting money to security before getting good information.
Jody Ruggiero, a Reno parent and school board member. She had already been proselytizing the notion of some kinds of music as moral evils before Columbine. After that tragedy, she quickly hopped on the bandwagon of folks who blamed the influence of Marilyn Manson music on the young killers for the massacre. She led an effort to cancel a Reno Manson concert. I dont care what your religion is, she said. This is not about censorship. This is about public safety. Even Gov. Kenny Guinn, who in other disaster situations resisted panicky actions, reluctantly joined the effort to stop the concert. In the end, the concert was cancelled.
There was one problem with all this. The two Columbine killers disliked Marilyn Manson music. The linkage between Marilyn Manson and Columbine was all in the heads of Ruggiero and her allies.
That linkage of pop culture with the school shootings along with pop psychology proved to be an unending source of what had become harassment of students for their habits. Playing Dungeons & Dragons could get kids in trouble with parents or schools. In Clark County, girls in two schools were arrested for writing lists of people they disliked..."


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Enjoying stunning views over moorland from its peaceful and private position, Yeka Byre Cottage offers a luxurious, peaceful & romantic retreat. We have converted a traditional sheep byre into a beautiful country holiday cottage, away from the bustle of the town. There is a private walled garden with furniture for relaxing and a BBQ where you can have fun cooking kebabs and steaks. Come for a rest with gentle walks or a spot of fishing. Our Weardale Cottage is designed to comfortably accomodate 4 adults, there is a cot available to sleep a third child (toddler) which makes it available to a family of five. We have our own stretch of private fishing on the river Wear which is available to our visitors upon prior arrangement. A licence is required.
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But that comparison isn't quite accurate.
Poe, the Kansas City Chiefs' first round pick and the 11th overall selection in Thursday night's NFL Draft, is from a similar tough part of Memphis, Tenn., as the one Michael Oher grew up in.
But there was no Sandra Bullock character scooping Dontari Poe up on a rainy night, showing him a new life. There were no car rides with a spunky little brother, listening to "Bust a Move."
No, Poe's journey from Bluff City to Radio City was one that required patience, persistence and incredible perseverance.
It required focus and determination.
Poe overcame a troubled childhood in Memphis' Whitehaven section, where drugs and gangs were a part of his everyday life, to graduate from Wooddale High School, get the grades needed to play FBS college football and become the first member of his family to attend college.
When he was younger, he watched as his older brother, Robert Jr., was carted off to prison for drugs and guns charges. He saw his mother, Sandra, work multiple jobs to ensure that her youngest son, Dontari, would always be busy with after-school activities and out of trouble.
"This is our first trip to New York," Dontari's oldest brother, Pierre, said with a smile earlier this week at the EA Sports draft party. With Dontari and Pierre's brother Robert Jr. in prison and their father no longer part of their lives, Pierre, 29, plays an important role in Dontari's world.
"We're just having a blast; enjoying the experience. We're going down to Wall Street tomorrow. That'll be cool. We've never been. We've only seen it on TV. Can't wait."
The smiles couldn't be wiped off their faces.
But Poe wasn't smiling the entire week. And he hadn't been smiling much since emerging as the media darling of February's NFL Scouting Combine.
After a jaw-dropping performance in which he ran a sub-5.0-second 40-yard dash and pumped out 44 repetitions of 225 pounds on the bench press in Indianapolis, the 346-pound Poe experienced the roller coaster that is being the combine's "winner." First, he was the media's golden child. There were glowing articles, Twitter praise and scouts buzzing from New England to Arizona.
As the weeks went by, though, Poe went from media dreamboat to media punching bag.
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Poe didn't dominate at Memphis. He doesn't stand out whatsoever on film. Was he just another "Workout Warrior" — a Vernon Gholston or Mike Mamula — and nothing more? In a weak college football conference, he started 12 games and made just 33 tackles in 2011. He had only one sack. His team went just 2-10 on the year.
The NFL Network's Mike Mayock last week called Poe "a very average football player right now." ESPN's Todd McShay said, "I see the workout numbers, and I found myself wanting and waiting and wishing and hoping. Every single play I watched from Memphis, I was just hoping that he would make a big play. He will disrupt and be involved in some plays, but for a guy that you're talking about potential top-10, top-12 pick, I just didn't see the production and I didn't see a guy who understands and has a great feel for the game."
Poe tuned some of the heated criticism out.
Not all of it, though.
"As of right now, I have an unlimited amount of motivation because of what I've been hearing through the press," Poe said in an interview Wednesday. "It will motivate me more. But to say that it will be the ultimate factor in me trying to rip someone's head off because of the draft, you know, I was planning on doing that anyway."
When I asked him about that quote at Thursday's draft, a smile crossed Poe's face. "I'm just going to do my very best and compete."
Kansas City general manager Scott Pioli and head coach Romeo Crennel must feel strongly that he will. Poe, a guy who wasn't listed on any mock drafts or considered a Day One selection in January, was taken over consensus first-round locks Fletcher Cox and Michael Brockers. Both star defensive tackles from the SEC, Cox and Brockers watched in the Radio City green room as the draft's most curious first-round prospect flew off the board before them.
Poe goes to Kansas City, where he'll be expected to make an immediate impact. With longtime veteran nose tackle Kelly Gregg expected to retire, Romeo Crennel's 3-4 defense has a giant hole in the middle of its defensive line looking to be filled. Poe's 6-foot-3, 346-pound frame will do just that. He'll compete with Amon Gordon, Allen Bailey and 2011 sixth-round pick Jerrell Powe for the gig in training camp. He'll be expected to make an impact on Day 1.
More of an impact than he made in college.
"I'm ready to do whatever the coaches ask of me. I'm just ready to get started. I'm ready to play," an exasperated Poe said on Thursday, donning a new red Chiefs hat and sounding drained from a whirlwind 72 hours.
"In college, I always did what I was told to do," Poe said Thursday. "Whether that was filling up gaps, freeing up linebackers, whatever that may be … instead of me just being a selfish guy and going out and saying I'm going to get 50 tackles and 10 sacks, I just played my defense the best I could."
As the 11th overall pick in the draft, all eyes will be on Poe in 2011. And with recent top-10 question marks Tyson Jackson and Glenn Dorsey already in the Chiefs locker room, the local fanbase isn't going to accept another project on the defensive line. Failure's really not an option.
Kansas City hasn't won a playoff game since 1993. The Arrowhead faithful don't want "potential" and "long-term possibilities." They want results.
"I'll do the best that I very can," Poe nodded when reminded of this. "I'm excited, man. I'm excited to do help the Kansas City Chiefs get back there. Back to the playoffs."
As he walked through Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night flanked by his big brother, Poe shook his head in amazement. He had a dazzling new watch on his wrist and a suit that belonged on the cover of GQ draped around his giant frame.
He was a great distance from Memphis, but with his closest friends and family by his side, the 901 area code was still very much a part of him.
There's no movie, here. No Michael Lewis New York Times best seller.
Not yet, at least.
The book on Dontari Poe is just getting started.
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Fine Horseman is a song from Anne Briggs' 1971 album The Time Has Come. It was originally a composition by Lal Waterson, which she didn't record herself until later, adding extra verses in the process. I think Anne Briggs's interpretation is definitive – it's such a sparse, ambiguous and otherworldly recording, full of half-light and the scent of peat and old bracken.
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ImageThe refurbished Tate Britain reopened this week, including the Rex Whistler restaurant, the walls of which are lined with Rex Whistler's painting The Pursuit of Rare Meats.
Here's a brochure, dating from some point mid-century, which explains the painting. The story was a collaboration with the novelist Edith Olivier.
An expedition leaves the ducal palace of Epicurania, which includes the Crown Prince Etienne and Princess Claudia, led by the son of an impoverised Polish nobleman on a bicycle (a character depicted as Rex Whistler). They travel through a typically Whistler-ish Arcadian landscape, where his dark humour is often at work: "Meanwhile, a disaster occurs upstream where, due to his excitement at seeing a balloon overhead, a small boy falls into the river and is drowned".
The Pursuit of Rare Meats ends with the news that, "A sad result of the expedition was the death of the dowager duchess, who took too keen an interest for her age in sampling the rare meats collected".
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ImageImages from London's Geffrye Museum. Above: a painting from 1942 captures part of the audience at one of many wartime music recitals held in The National Gallery.
Above, a 1930s sitting room – one of the museum's many displays, and below, factory workers in wartime.
A way to the stars
VideoThere's a term 'dreampop' which I think came from America. It's where sound dislocates, swirls, soars or flows, river-like, waking those spaces that escape the everyday to become something more. Most books about pop culture reckon the most creative music comes from a need to escape, not from a location, but a nullifying mindset.
Dubstar emerged in the mid-1990s. A band with an indie sensibility in the tradition of The Smiths, they were also ripe for a full-blown popstar future. Halifax-born singer Sarah Blackwood, and her Edie Sedgwick look, delivered deadpan kitchen-sink lyrics like Jarvis Cocker's younger sister. But Dubstar were never part of Britpop, though signed to the same label as Blur.
Despite the obvious pressure to be upbeat and chart-friendly, their single releases are scattered with extra tracks that are something else altogether. They're works of lightly-handled introspection our more enlightened times would prize.
There's nothing brittle or ironic about these melancholy, side-lined songs, astute as the most incisive film-maker in capturing awkwardness and regret (In My Defense, I Lost a Friend, Song No. 9…).
Neither were Dubstar purely dreampop: driven by a dirty-realism, their sweeter, transcendent moments belied real teeth.
The track here is what Dubstar call an 'acoustic version' of their biggest single from 1996, Stars, (buried in one of the multi-format CDs that used to follow every band's releases back then). It's anything but, scored with strings into one of those pieces of music that step outside any particular time. I've put it with the original video with the luminous help of a rabbit.
I remember watching them perform this once on breakfast TV, as I got ready for work, when the presenter pulled a face and said something like 'That wasn't very happy was it?'. Subversive stuff for Stepford worlds.
Dubstar have apparently been making their fourth album for a good while and played live this year for the first time as a band since they shut up shop in 2000. There's a review here, and more about Dubstar here and here.
Autumn fires
VideoOne of Agnes Miller Parker's wood engravings for a 1930s edition of The Return of the Native. And then, from the same decade, a short film by Herman G. Weinberg called Autumn Fire.
There's a man in the city, a woman in the country – both gazing mournfully at their landscape: autumn leaves, splashes of gleaming rainwater, city skylines, billowing clouds, and even a squirrel. If time is short, skip to eight minutes in for the general atmosphere. Whoever posted this on YouTube has used Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun for the soundtrack, which is perfect.
Nowhere to hide
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ImageA straight run in the other direction
StandardAnybody who also thinks the above quote is quite inspired might enjoy this collection of films about changing London.
Because Britain also produced Michael Gove and the Daily Mail, I am in no mood to celebrate. Instead, today we are going to Paris. There are scooters, trees in bloom and, for a moment, you might escape.
Waiting in the wings…
StandardSometimes you look up and wonder what the dog is thinking.
Perhaps it was the lamp cables, or the glow from the fire, but I saw a wistful, unassuming little character, waiting in the wings of the theatre… perhaps the props man, a star without a stage waiting his turn…
'That Weimaraner's always goin' to steal my light…'


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The Center for Educational Leadership and Effective Schools (CELES) at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education held its Fourth Annual Summer Forum with the theme "Leadership on Purpose" from June 27-30 at UC Santa Barbara. The Summer Forum brought together over 90 educational leaders from around California in order to discuss ways "to take schools to another level," according to CELES Director Basha Millhollen. The Summer Forum highlights the continuing effort of CELES and the Gevirtz School to work with local school districts on meaningful reform aimed at making schools more effective. Leadership teams from school districts in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Lompoc and Lancaster – the four districts with which CELES has worked the past few years and a guest district – attended the conference as part of their on-going improvement efforts.
One highlight of the conference was a talk by Dr. Sharroky Hollie, one of the co-founders of the Culture and Language Academy of Success in Inglewood. This innovative charter school operates on the principle that an instructional program can support students' development of cultural and linguistic knowledge and awareness of themselves, their community, the nation, and the world as an entrée to a standards-based, academically rigorous, and intellectually stimulating curriculum. His presentation, entitled "American Education Can't Stand Standard English Learners," was deliberately provocative, he admitted, as he insisted, "We have to examine our belief systems and what we believe about children who can't achieve in our schools."
Dr. Hollie insisted that teachers had to "do things in the community – it's a basic pre-step to being culturally responsive in a deep way; it's not so much about book knowledge. You have to know the culture of the students you're working with to make a connection. So how do you learn? One way is through the arts."
Dr. Hollie's presentation focused on one part of the conference's major elements – how culture and community affect learning. In a series of generally participatory presentations, whole group activities, and team time facilitation, forum attendees discussed system transformation aimed at the overarching goal of improving student achievement. The participants examined issues such as systems theory, time structures, deep data, and transformation design.
Dr. Millhollen says about the event, "The forum is always hard work on the part of the participants, but once again it's been extraordinarily successful in shifting our thinking and being more successful in engaging the broader school community."
[More photos from the conference are available; contact George Yatchisin at 805 893 5789.]


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Could go to clanfield as they have a club race
8/10 series at Frankley this weekend, 13 buggy spaces left at the moment.
failing that open practice at Frankley on the 14th (this Saturday from 12-5pm)
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i should be over skewen park as i have a engine to run in.
just found out biggs is on for tomorrow. no timing, just use of the track. i will sort out if we can run a full day there for next sunday.
s3nutt you up for a run on the track at biggs next week if we can sort it. i know there is an electric reginal on that week. so we will keep it to nitro only not to tread on toes etc.
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London February 19, 2004 A new report by independent market analyst Datamonitor predicts global enterprise investment in firewall and virtual private network (VPN) solutions will reach almost $6 billion in 2007, double that of 2003. Increased publicity of threats and security breakers, recent worms and viruses all have highlighted the deficiencies in current security solutions and clarified the need for them, according to the firm.
According to the report "Firewall and VPN solutions," home working and the push for mobility/anywhere-anytime access for workers will see enterprise investment in secure sockets layer (SSL) VPNs in particular, soar to achieve a staggering 74 per cent compound annual growth between 2003 to 2007.
According to Datamonitor, the recent acquisitions in this market, such as Neoteris by Netscreen, which in turn has been acquired by Juniper Networks; and Safe Web by Symantec, show the aggressive positioning of vendors to gain market share in the high-growth SSL VPN market and such strategies will no doubt continue in the future.
The report stated that North America will remain the largest market and continue to provide the most revenues, predicted to reach $2.6 billion, although Latin America, followed by Asia Pacific will be the fastest growing. Datamonitor expects investment in security solutions by the government, utilities and pharmaceutical sectors to show the most rapid rise.
According to the analyst firm, changing work-business models will affect the uptake of SSL VPNs. The ability to have open communication and collaboration between stakeholders within a company and their supply chains and customer base is driving the market forward. The report said that home working and the increased demand for mobile access and the need for businesses to retain key personnel through more flexible working practices will see enterprise investment in SSL VPNS rise from $120 million in 2003 to just over $1 billion in 2007.
Financial services are considered by many vendors to be a major vertical in the firewall and VPN solution market and will remain so in 2007, Datamonitor said. However, government programs, such as the e-Europe initiative from the European Union, is pushing forward e-government policies, like those implemented in the United Kingdom, creating improved citizen access to local government institutions via the Internet. Such initiatives will involve substantial investment in security infrastructure.
In the United States, too, the Homeland Security Funds will provide substantial funds for investment in security solutions for government bodies. Datamonitor predicts global spend by the government sector will grow from $471 million in 2003 to just over $1 billion in 2007.
Utilities have been forerunners in the field of security mobility. The potential terrorist attacks threatening the national infrastructure of a target country are very real, leaving this sector aware of the threat from cyberterrorists. Datamonitor said that the obvious need for utilities to secure their networks would account for expenditure of $900 million by 2007.
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As the firewall and VPN market evolves, Datamonitor said managed services provision for firewall and VPNs is also a growing segment in this sector. Providing an end-to-end managed security environment means that customers need only have one point of contact for any security issue. In the VPN space, the most common form of managed services is that where the service provider owns the equipment and is paid to maintain and manage it on the customer's behalf. Other contracts in the overall security space are for monitoring existing solutions. Datamonitor believes this is a core area for growth, especially in the Internet protocol security (IPSec) VPN space.
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Santa Clara County Tops State in Immigrant Integration
KQED's STEPHANIE MARTIN: From learning a new language to navigating the naturalization process, there's no question that immigrating to the U.S. comes with a host of challenges.
A new report from the University of Southern California finds Santa Clara County is doing a particularly good job of helping foreign-born citizens become financially successful and engaged in society.
At the same time, it shows places like San Francisco and Los Angeles, while welcoming to immigrants, also have more hurdles for newcomers.
Manuel Pastor co-directs USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, which conducted the study.
Professor Pastor, before we get into the details, let's talk about why immigrant integration is important to California. One reason you cite is the number of kids here who have one or more immigrant parent. It's nearly half. What does that mean for the future of the state?
MANUEL PASTOR: Well, it means that to get the state on the right track for the future we need to make sure that those kids and their parents do well. And it's the right time to be paying attention to this issue, because in fact, the share of foreign-born in California is on the decline. It's been on the decline for the last couple of years in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. And what that means is that we're faced less with immigration issues and more with: how do we integrate and incorporate the immigrants who are already here?
MARTIN: So for this report, you and your colleagues created an immigration integration scorecard for 10 regions in California. What put Santa Clara County at the top of this list?
PASTOR: When we ranked regions, we ranked them along four different dimensions. One is economic snapshot - how people are doing now. The second was economic trajectory - how people are doing over time. The warmth of welcome - how welcoming, basically, the region and area was. And civic engagement - that is, how much were the immigrants themselves engaged in naturalization, civic life, etc.
Santa Clara County topped the list, and it did partly because of the nature of its immigrants. It's got a lot more higher-skill Asian immigrants who have been making progress over time. But it's important to realize that Santa Clara County also has lots of low-skill Mexican and other Latin-American immigrants. In fact, Santa Clara County has really been ahead of the game with an office of immigrant integration, with a community foundation that's been actively investing in immigrant integration activities including English-learning classes, and also a culture, both on the business side and the labor side that's really celebratory of immigrants.
MARTIN: Now, the East Bay is No. 2 on your scorecard. You note that the demographics are different there --more Filipino and Chinese immigrants, fewer Vietnamese and Indian, about the same proportion of Mexicans. And it's a different economy, too, with less emphasis on tech. How do those factors change how immigrants there have integrated?
PASTOR: The East Bay is really the, sort of, working-class cousin to what's been happening in the Peninsula. But it's a place where there's economic success and a place where there's pretty good trajectory over time. The East Bay also does pretty well in terms of having sufficient English-language classes and a relatively high rate of naturalization
MARTIN: What's the challenge in San Francisco, which you say is among the most welcoming cities for immigrants, and yet you rank it No. 6 on your list?
PASTOR: San Francisco faces the challenge of being a very high-cost area. So, one of the things that happens there is that it's very hard for people to make progress over time, and, in fact, if they make progress over time, they often depart from San Francisco.
MARTIN: Your study recommends that some type of statewide body is needed to address the issues. What are you envisioning?
PASTOR: Well, it could be a number of different things. One could be an actual office of immigrant integration. We used to have that at a statewide level. It could be a task force that brings people together across different agencies. One of the reasons why this is important is because there's a lot of best practices going on in different areas, and often those best practices really aren't shared across the state. So at a minimum, a statewide body of immigrant integration could lift up the best practices. It could also help us think through where are we doing the best job? Where do we have the most gaps promoting immigrant integration?
MARTIN: Manuel Pastor, thank you.
PASTOR: Thank you.
MARTIN: Manuel Pastor co-directs the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at the University of Southern California.


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Hawaii is uniquely positioned to take a leadership role in the pacific. Its geographical location, environmental resources, technological infrastructure, educational development, cultural diversity and outstanding quality of life make Hawaii a great place to live, work, and do business.
The State of Hawaii offers a host of incentives and advantages for U.S. and international companies seeking to start a business in Hawaii. These include a streamlined business registration process; a variety of tax credits; and subsidies and exemptions available to small businesses, high technology companies and the film industry. For more information, visit http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/business/locate_business/
The people of Hawaii enjoy an unsurpassed quality of life.
Breathtaking scenery and pristine beaches make Hawaii one of the most beautiful locations in the world. Low humidity, cooling trade winds and a lack of industrial pollution make Hawaii's air quality the best in the nation. Hawaii residents enjoy the longest average life expectancy in the nation. Hawaii's near-ideal year-round climate supports a variety of outdoor activities, particularly golf, tennis, and a wide range of ocean sports.
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Cultural opportunities are rich and varied in Hawaii. Hawaii has 73 museums, state monuments, zoos and similar attractions and enjoys the greatest imaginable variety of arts from the many cultures represented in the islands. For information about each island, visit www.go.hawaii.com.
Education: Hawaii hosts higher education and research efforts. Hawaii is at the forefront of national research in astronomy, ocean and earth sciences. The State of Hawaii initiated the first statewide after-school program in the nation. The "A+ Program" allows working parents to concentrate on their jobs, while qualified personnel are caring for their children. Inquires about Hawaii public, private schools and universities and colleges, should be directed to the Department of Education at (808) 586-3232 or visit www.doe.k12.hi.us.
Cost of Living: Hawaiis cost of living, while generally follows trends similar to the mainland, is approximately 30% above the national average.
Wages: Occupational wage and industry information can be found on the Department of Labor and Industrials Relations, Hawaii Workforce informer. www.hiwi.org
Taxes: All Federal taxes are applicable in Hawaii. The state personal income tax generally follows the national pattern. Detailed information can be found at the Department of Taxation at www.state.hi.us/tax/
Housing: As of April 2010 on Oahu, the median price for single-family, re-sale homes was approximately $563,000, for a condominium it was $308,000, as reported by the Oahu Real Estate report. There are no trailer courts or sites for mobile homes. For information, visit www.hicentral.com.
Shopping Malls: There are over 13 malls on the island of Oahu alone, with Ala Moana Shopping Center seeing over 42 million shoppers and diners each year. Visit www.gotomymall.com/hawaii/shopmals.htm
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Hawaii has 105,242 small businesses, according to the most current federal data available. Of those, 105,242 small businesses in Hawaii, 28,844 have employees. The remaining 76,398 are Hawaii small businesses that have no employees. These small business statistics for Hawaii do not include all self-employed individuals working in Hawaii.
Job count by industry (2007): Service (45.7%); Government (19.5%); Retail (11%); Manufacturing (2.4%)
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3D Printed Homes? Here's The Scoop - Singularity Hub 3D Concrete Printing: The Future of Construction - 3D Printer Advances Made in Mega Freeform Construction - RapidToday The printed world - The Economist 3-D printing could remake U.S. manufacturing - USA Today 3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution - New York Times
Science and technology buffs are abuzz about the latest video presentation by USC professor Behrokh Khoshnevis. At an April 2012 TEDx event, Khoshenevis demonstrated how an entire house could theoretically be built in 24 hours using a giant 3-D printer. Don't hang up your tool belt just yet though. Robotic construction has been in the news for over a decade, and about all we have to show for it are the same short walls and little domes. Still, given the pace of innovation in 3-D printing technology, an automated building application should not be dismissed entirely as science fiction.
3-D printing produces physical objects from computer designs. It has influenced manufacturing in the automotive, medical, aerospace, jewelry, and eyewear industries to name just a few. 3-D printing is an "additive" fabrication process as opposed to the traditional "subtractive" one. Plastic, metallic, or ceramic composites are laid down by high-tech nozzles, and built-up in very thin layers until the object is fully-formed. Industrial-grade 3-D printers once cost several hundred thousand dollars, but prices are dropping. In fact, a class of mid-range and low-end machines is now available for the small business and consumer market. The ability for individuals to economically design and produce prototypes is expected to spawn a wave of entrepreneurs and would-be inventors.
One of the early leaders in the consumer class of printers is a company called MakerBot. Their latest Replicator printer has received excellent reviews, and the company website features some fun videos of 3-D printing in action. MakerBot is also behind Thingiverse where digital designs can be downloaded for free as .stl files and physically created on your personal 3-D printer. Even Jay Leno has gotten in on the game. In this video, Jay visits a commercial shop to scan and reproduce a part for his 1907 antique car.
Going from 3-D printing auto parts to whole houses is quite a leap. The size of the machine, the uncontrolled outdoor environment, and the requirements and sheer quantity of the medium are just some of the challenges. Nonetheless professor Khoshenevis has relentlessly pursued automated building for the last 20 years. He calls his process and technology "Contour Crafting", and he has received backing at one time or another from the National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research, Caterpillar, NASA, and USG. A major breakthrough occurred in 2005 when a self-supporting, non-clogging, composite fiber concrete was created with just the right viscosity for 3-D printer nozzles. Since then, Khoshnevis and his USC-based team have made some slow progress, but full scale models and testing remain elusive. Khoshenevis says he will need a "few million" more in funding. The cost of the special concrete is not disclosed. Foundations and footings aren't mentioned either.
Other groups are utilizing concrete printing technology on a smaller and perhaps more practical scale. The Freeform Construction Project based at Loughborough University in the UK, has created custom architectural components in concrete which would be extremely difficult to form by traditional methods. The use of 3-D concrete printing to satisfy some of today's complex architectural designs seems a whole lot more plausible than automated whole-house construction.
However, as professor Khoshenevis says, if you can build a wall, you can build a house. He claims over a billion people live in sub-standard housing, and today's construction materials, resources and techniques are no longer sufficient to meet tomorrow's basic needs. Dramatic change is needed. So stay tuned. While you're waiting, the good news is that even if you can't put away your old tools, at least now you can print new ones.
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(BPT) - Preparing for Jack Frost's arrival can send a shiver down any homeowner's spine. A long to-do list for getting your home ready can feel overwhelming, leaving you wondering where you'll find the time and resources. But, with some optimism, easy tips and access to a few rental tools, you can winterize your home in just one weekend, leaving plenty of time to enjoy autumn's splendor.
Prepare your lawn and landscaping
Cold temperatures cause grass and other plants in your landscape to go dormant. Spend a few hours preparing your lawn for beautiful greenery next year.
Start by aerating. Renting an aerator is a cost-effective and efficient way to reduce thatch and provide extra space in the soil for water and oxygen to reach the roots. Find a local American Rental Association (ARA) member store near you by visiting RentalHQ.com. After aerating, spread a quality winter fertilizer to give your grass the nutrients it needs to grow strong. If you live in an area with harsh winters, remember to cover roses and delicate perennials so that they are protected.
Winterize your deck
The harsh winter elements can take a major toll on decking, so it's important to protect it. With a little time and effort, your deck will make it through winter unscathed and ready for outdoor fun in spring.
To keep the structure's integrity intact and wood looking beautiful, clean and seal your deck before winter arrives. Start by renting a pressure washer at your local ARA member rental store. The trained rental associate will give you guidance on safe and efficient operation of the pressure washer. After you clean your deck, let it dry completely and then apply paint or sealant.
Trim your trees
Weak trees and dead branches can break and fall during winter, possibly damaging your home, your car, a utility line, or worse. Be a responsible homeowner and cut weak or dead branches in the fall so you don't have to worry.
A chainsaw is the easiest way to deal with dead branches and will take much less time than hand sawing. You can rent a chainsaw to cut the wood into small logs or pieces for disposing of properly. Chippers can also be rented for grinding up the wood and using it for mulch in the spring.
Seal windows and doors
When temperatures drop, the small leaks in windows and doors become apparent. Avoid a chilly house and high energy bills by caulking your windows and weather stripping doors.
Weather stripping is cheap and easy. Apply the adhesive strip between the door and frame for a tight seal that limits the amount of air that enters or exits when the door is closed. Caulking windows is a simple process as well when you have a caulk gun. If you need a tall ladder to reach second story windows, consider renting it since you'll likely use it infrequently. While you have the ladder, clean your gutters of leaves and other debris that can cause backups and ice dams.
All you need is one weekend to prepare your home and yard for the cold weather ahead. Plus you'll get to enjoy the crisp autumn air while you get these quick and easy chores done.
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Navit or tangoGPS?
Still no good. The first thing you need to have good navigation is to have raw data. Not just maps (OpenStreetMap slowly becomes better here), but traffic data (including historical traffic data), photos of complex interchanges, etc.
This data is rarely available for free: either it needs to be sold for money or it may be supported via ads.
Which basically excludes distros out of the equation immediately.
As Cyberax said: I might use a free program for the sake of freeness, but normal users would cry and run away in horror from something like gpsdrive.
Not because the program is not any good, but because the lack of data makes it sub-standard.
The same with QR-codes, NFC, etc: it's trivial to write program which parses QR code, read NFC or does something like this. And, again, I might use a free program for the sake of freeness, but normal users would cry and run away in horror because they don't need to just read the QR code. They expect that program will do "something sensible" with data (if it's URL it must be opened, if it's a vCard it must be added to address book, etc). If I touch phone with my metro ticket Simple? Yes. Boring? Sure. But this makes it actually useful for Joe Average! Similarly with NFC: yes, I can probably find program which will read data from card, but will it show number of trips you have left on subway ticket like "useless" Android's app?
Free is too expensive (Economist)
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I hope Apple's OSM usage[1] will accelerate OSM's coverage.
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Document ID: 107188
Updated: Sep 02, 2008
This document provides information on the most frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Mobility Groups. A Mobility Group is a relatively new concept that is applicable to the Cisco Unified Wireless LAN Environment.
Refer to Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions.
Q. What is a Mobility Group?
A. A Mobility Group is a group of Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) in a network with the same Mobility Group name. These WLCs can dynamically share context and state of client devices, WLC loading information, and can also forward data traffic among them, which enables inter-controller wireless LAN roaming and controller redundancy. Refer to the Configuring Mobility Groups section of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide, Release 7.0 for more information.
Q. What are the prerequisites for a Mobility Group?
A. Before you add controllers to a mobility group, you must verify that certain requirements are met for all controllers that are to be included in the group. Refer to the Prerequisites section of Configuring Mobility Groups for a list of these requirements.
Q. How do I configure a Mobility Group on the WLC?
A. A Mobility Group is configured manually. The IP and MAC address of the Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) that belong to the same Mobility Group are configured on each of the WLCs individually. Mobility Groups can be configured either through the CLI or the GUI.
Q. How do I configure a Mobility Group with WCS?
A. Mobility Groups can also be configured with the Wireless Control System (WCS). This alternative method comes in handy when a large number of WLCs is deployed. Refer to the Configuring Mobility Groups section of Cisco Wireless Control System Configuration Guide, Release 7.0 for more information on how to configure the Mobility Groups with WCS.
Q. Can I configure WLCs in multiple Mobility Groups?
A. No. Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) can be configured only in one Mobility Group.
Q. Can the LWAPPs join a WLC that belongs to a Mobility Group that is different from the currently associated Mobility Group?
A. In all Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) versions earlier than 22.214.171.124, when a WLC goes "down," the LAP registered to this WLC can failover only to another WLC of the same Mobility Group, if the LAP is configured for failover. From Cisco WLC version 18.104.22.168 and later, a new feature called Backup Controller Support is introduced for access points to failover to controllers even outside the Mobility Group. Refer to Wireless LAN Controller and Light Weight Access Points Failover Outside the Mobility Group Configuration Example for more information.
Q. How are Mobilty Messages exchanged between WLCs?
A. In versions earlier than 5.0 , WLCs sends Mobility Messages with unicast mode, where the copies of Mobility Messages are unicast to all the WLCs in the Mobility Group. But in version 5.0 , Mobility Messages can be sent as Multicast messages wherein only one copy of the Mobility Message is sent to reach all the WLCs in the Mobility Group. Refer to the Messaging among Mobility Groups section of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide, Release 7.0 for more information.
Q. Is there a command to troubleshoot mobility communication between WLCs?
A. Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) software release 4.0 and later enables you to test the mobility communication environment with mobility ping tests. These tests can be used in order to validate connectivity between members of a Mobility Group, which includes guest WLCs. Two ping tests are available:
Mobility ping over UDP—This test runs over mobility UDP port 16666. It tests whether the mobility control packet can be reached over the management interface.
Mobility ping over EoIP—This test runs over EoIP. It tests the mobility data traffic over the management interface.
Make sure that the WLCs are configured in the same Mobility Group and ensure that you can ping the WLCs with the mobility pings. Refer to the Running Mobility Ping Tests section of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide, Release 7.0 for more information.
Q. How many controllers can be in a Mobility Group?
A. A Mobility Group can include up to 24 WLCs of any type. The number of access points supported in a Mobility Group is bound by the number of WLCs and WLC types in the group.
A 4404-100 WLC supports up to 100 access points. Therefore, a Mobility Group that consists of twenty-four 4404-100 WLCs supports up to 2400 access points (24 * 100 = 2400 access points).
A 4402-25 WLC supports up to 25 access points, and a 4402-50 WLC supports up to 50 access points. Therefore, a Mobility Group that consists of twelve 4402-25 controllers and twelve 4402-50 WLCs supports up to 900 access points (12 * 25 + 12 * 50 = 300 + 600 = 900 access points).
You can add different mobility members that are part of a different Mobility Group into the mobility list that is used for mobility anchors that can anchor within a different Mobility Group.
There can be up to 72 members in the list with up to 24 in the same Mobility Group.
Q. What is a mobility list? How many controllers can be part of the mobility list of a controller?
A. A mobility list is a group of controllers configured on a single controller that specifies members in different mobility groups. Controllers can communicate across mobility groups and clients can roam between access points in different mobility groups if the controllers are included in each other's mobility lists. In the example in this section, controller 1 can communicate with either controller 2 or 3, but controller 2 and controller 3 can communicate only with controller 1 and not with each other. Similarly, clients can roam between controller 1 and controller 2 or between controller 1 and controller 3 but not between controller 2 and controller 3.
Example: Controller 1 Controller 2 Controller 3 Mobility group: A Mobility group: B Mobility group: C Mobility list: Mobility list: Mobility list: Controller 1 (group A) Controller 1 (group A) Controller 1 (group A) Controller 2 (group B) Controller 2 (group B) Controller 3 (group C) Controller 3 (group C)Controller software release 5.1 supports up to 72 controllers in the mobility list of a controller and seamless roaming across multiple mobility groups. During seamless roaming, the client maintains its IP address across all mobility groups. However, Cisco Centralized Key Management (CCKM) and Proactive Key Caching (PKC) are supported only for intra-mobility-group roaming. When a client crosses a mobility group boundary during a roam, the client is fully authenticated, but the IP address is maintained, and EtherIP tunneling is initiated for Layer 3 roaming.
Note: Controller software release 5.0 supports up to 48 controllers in a mobility list.
Q. How do I secure or encrypt the Mobility Messages exchanged between the WLCs?
A. In order to secure the Mobility Messages exchanged between the Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs), enable the Secure mode between the controllers. In order to do this, issue the config mobility secure-mode enable command. In this mode, WLCs use the UDP port 16667 in order to exchange the messages. If there is a firewall, ensure that the UDP port 16667 is opened. In order to ensure this mode is enabled, verify the Mobility Protocol Port from the output of the show mobility summary command. Port 16667 indicates secure-mode (encryption). Port 16666 indicates non secure-mode (no encryption).
Q. What is Mobility Anchor?
A. Mobility Anchor, also referred to as Guest tunneling or Auto Anchor Mobility, is a feature where all the client traffic that belongs to a WLAN (Specially Guest WLAN) is tunneled to a predefined WLC or set of controllers that are configured as Anchor for that specific WLAN. This feature helps to restrict clients to a specific subnet and have more control over the user traffic. Refer to the Configuring Auto-Anchor Mobility section of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide, Release 7.0 for more information on this feature.
Q. What is the difference between RF Groups and Mobility Groups?
A. Mobility Groups:
A Mobility Group is a group of WLCs in a network with the same Mobility Group name. It allows for seamless client roaming and WLC redundancy.
A Mobility Group is formed statically.
Radio Frequency (RF) Groups:
An RF Group, also known as an RF domain, is a cluster of WLCs for which Radio Resource Management (RRM) calculations are done on a whole. RF Groups also help you to discover Rogue APs.
An RF Group is formed dynamically. Refer to the Overview of RF Groups section of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide, Release 7.0. for more information on RF Groups.
Q. Will Mobility Groups work between WLCs if I have one or more controllers behind a network address translation (NAT) device?
A. In controller software releases earlier than 4.2, mobility between controllers in the same Mobility Group does not work if one of the controllers is behind a network address translation (NAT) device. This behavior creates a problem for the guest anchor feature where one controller is expected to be outside the firewall.
Mobility message payloads carry IP address information about the source controller. This IP address is validated with the source IP address of the IP header. This behavior poses a problem when a NAT device is introduced in the network because it changes the source IP address in the IP header. Hence, in the guest WLAN feature, any mobility packet that is routed through a NAT device is dropped because of the IP address mismatch.
In controller software release 4.2 or later, the Mobility Group lookup is changed to use the MAC address of the source controller. Because the source IP address is changed due to the mapping in the NAT device, the Mobility Group database is searched before a reply is sent to get the IP address of the controller that makes the request. This is done with the MAC address of the controller that makes the request.
Refer to Using Mobility Groups with NAT Devices for more information.
Related Information
- How to configure the Lightweight Access Point in order to join the respective Wireless LAN Controller
- Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide, Release 7.0
- Cisco Wireless Control System Configuration Guide, Release 4.1
- WLAN Controller Failover for Lightweight Access Points Configuration Example
- Wireless Guest Access FAQ
- Technical Support & Documentation - Cisco Systems
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Rocky calculates that a disciplined investor who put $100 into the Vanguard S&P-500 fund every month for the past twenty years, now has a negative return on his entire investment (including dividends). This is a stark measure of the severity of this bear market, and it obviously shakes the confidence of many folks who responsibly "dollar-cost-average."
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Is picking up five years after knocked up left off.
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I'm sorry to hear you feel embarrassed by Georgetown University and it sounds like you are not comfortable attending a university with religious affiliation–or at least one that will not overtly finance activity that contravenes the doctrines of that religion. However, Georgetown is not denying you access to anything or infringing on any freedom you have in this country. Georgetown won't stop you from buying birth control on your own, from having premarital sex in your dormitory room, or from advocating your abortion rights on campus. The only thing Georgetown refuses to do is overtly pay for these activities. If it is important for you to attend a university that earmarks funds for activities contrary to Catholic doctrine, why did you choose to attend a Catholic university? Georgetown is not standing in your way of applying to another university. If you earned admission to SFS, there are surely a lot of outstanding secular universities to which you can be admitted, including ones with strong programs in international studies and the Chinese language.
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Kara, were you aware Georgetown was Catholic when you applied? (Seriously?)
Kara's post is most welcome. She shows how the University is basically dishonest when it claims to follow these catholic rules but then simply turns around and falsifies the reason for the prescription. It is time for women such as Kara to speak up. Thank you Kara.
I'm not a Catholic. I'm an atheist. I'm not necessarily opposed to premarital sex, although I do think it should be had only in the context of an exclusive relationship aimed at marriage.
But all that is irrelevant, because what I don't understand is why *I* should pay for *you* to have sex. Explain that to me, please. And don't try to argue that it costs less to pay for birth control than for giving birth and raising a child. Because then you had better explain why *I* should pay to deliver *your* baby, or to raise *your* child. All of those things are *your* problem, not *mine*, unless I voluntarily choose to make them my problem.
And this applies not only to Georgetown, but to all insurance. It's exactly why the government should allow insurers to decide for *themselves* what they want to cover, and people to decide *if* they want to buy insurance and *which* insurance company they want to buy from. And then they probably would not choose to pay higher premiums for ridiculous BS like birth control coverage that they could afford perfectly well on their own.
Well, *Daniel*, I think it's safe to say after reading your ridiculous comment that you have no idea how health care, birth control, or sex works. Do you want to explain to me how birth control is "perfectly" affordable? I'm assuming that you are in an exclusive relationship aimed at marriage and are therefore really experienced in purchasing birth control.
Also, "Box," I'm pretty sure that Kara is aware that she applied to a Catholic university. The fact that Georgetown is a Catholic institution isn't the problem. The greater issue is the fact that the Catholic Church and other religious institutions are refusing to cover birth control costs on the basis that they have a monopoly on morality. What is problematic is the fact that any dialogue questioning the validity of religious doctrine is taboo. Are we ever going to discuss the fact that there is no logic behind the anti-contraception argument? Allowing religious universities like Georgetown the "right" to deny its students birth control coverage just because it goes against supposedly incontrovertible religious teachings is absurd.
Kara is basically saying that she is a slut and wants the university to subsidize her personal lifestyle choice. What's next? How about schools should subsidize hospital fees whenever I get checked in after drinking too much?
Ella, no one forced Kara to attend Georgetown. We have our own values, and providing free birth control means we endorse sluts.


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