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KNOXVILLE — Wednesday was a back-patting day around both University of Tennessee athletic departments, as every NCAA-sanctioned program on campus received satisfactory Academic Progress Report scores.
Staff File Photo by Angela Lewis/Chattanooga Times Free Press - UT coach Derek Dooley watches the annual Orange and White game in Neyland Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
UT had four programs fall below the 925-point penalty line in the APR's first multi-year report, but drastic improvements from baseball and men's basketball have helped put the entire department in good academic standing.
"If our student-athletes aren't winning academically, they won't be competing," men's athletic director Mike Hamilton said.
Hamilton and several others pointed to UT's state-of-the-art Thornton Student Services Center for keeping its time-strapped athletes on a proper academic track.
"I am proud of the progress all our student-athletes and coaches have made," Thornton Center director Eric Brey said. "I commend the students for their efforts and thank the Thornton Center staff, coaches, faculty, staff and administration for their continued support and encouragement."
Baseball made a stunning multi-year average leap from 898 to 936, thanks to a 982 score from the 2008-09 academic year.
Men's basketball scored a perfect 1,000 in 2008-09, raising its average from 924 to 935.
Men's hoops coach Bruce Pearl credited three areas — his players, Thornton Center assistant director for counseling Kelly Brock and director of basketball operations Ken Johnson — for his program's marked improvement.
"Our kids deserve so much credit for their hard work in the classroom," Pearl said. "The longer I'm in this, the more and more I respect our student-athletes and the rigors of their schedule.
"I also need to recognize Kelly Brock. She does a terrific job keeping my coaches and me updated on each guy's academic progress throughout the semester. She travels with us during the season and conducts study hall on the road. She is a great asset for Tennessee basketball. ... And Ken Johnson works hand in hand with Kelly to keep everyone on track. He's got great relationships with all our players and is a great role model for them."
Football, despite a recent turnover rash in the coaching staff, dipped only slightly from 949 to 944 on the multi-year scale. Men's swimming and diving (946 to 972) and men's tennis (932 to 947) also made double-digit improvements.
Men's track and field fell closest to the punishment line, with 10-point dips to 928 indoors and 930 outdoors.
The Lady Vols' athletic department continued its strong APR record. Only softball (948) had a multi-year score before 973.
Women's golf and tennis had perfect 1,000 multi-year scores.
"I am very proud of the accomplishments our student-athletes have made," women's athletic director Joan Cronan said. "Now, we not only keep score on the field of play, but the APR is the win/loss record in the classroom, which is in accord with our mission statement that our student-athletes are students first."
(Last year's average — 2008-09 — This year's average)
Baseball 898 982 936
Basketball 924 1,000 935
Cross Country 960 868 945
Football 949 928 944
Golf 977 973 969
Swimming and Diving 946 1,000 972
Tennis 932 1,000 947
Indoor Track and Field 938 894 928
Outdoor Track and Field 940 894 930
Basketball 973 980 973
Cross Country 981 1,000 985
Rowing 986 989 987
Golf 992 1,000 1,000
Soccer 953 938 947
Softball 964 875 948
Swimming & Diving 969 1,000 975
Tennis 983 1,000 1,000
Indoor Track & Field 969 1,000 973
Outdoor Track & Field 969 1,000 973
Volleyball 970 979 975
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Intel: Just 3,000 employees run Windows 7
Intel's CIO showed why it might take a while for Microsoft to make much of a dent in the XP-installed base yesterday as she urged the world to scrap any kit more than four years old. Diane Bryant came on stage at Intel's Cebit kickoff press conference in the wake of a video that described Intel as "sponsors of the future" and " …
Why Upgrade if you don't need to?
I have a 4 year old iMac and a 8 Year old PC, and no intention of upgrading either, I don't have to as they are both doing what they were bought for. Can't see any reason to upgrade just to put more profits into someone else's pockets.
because it's easier to
We define PCs as obsolete when we can't get the manufacturer to come and replace bits of them for free any more, which is typically 3years.
The cost of support does rise with age, especially for a company where time counts, too. More stuff goes wrong, more stuff slows down (most of what we bought ~4yrs ago wont run XP SP3 and Office 07) and the users complain more. Replacing hardware gets more difficult (DDR ram's not easy to buy now, and AGP graphics cards are shockingly expensive), especially for laptops. Quite a bit of this is the obsolescence built into Windows, but I'm sure someone somewhere's worked out what the benefit of that is.
You can buy better quality kit and keep it longer, but people prefer two £400 PCs to one £800 one, they feel more looked after.
Only four years?
"Bryant said that after four years, it cost more to support a client PC than to replace it."
I.e. buy a Windows PC and it'll be obsolete in four years. That's a pretty damning indictment of Windows. I change my computer every ten years. Come to think of it my 15 year old Mac still works and doesn't need any support. My eight year old RiscPC is still my daily workhorse. I've renewed the hard drive (the old one is still OK) and one or two other bits, plus OS updates but it doesn't cost that much to support.
OK I know he said a client PC but even so...
For once, not about Windows
"buy a Windows PC and it'll be obsolete in four years"
They seem to be talking more about the hardware than the OS. 4yo hardware would be obsolete (by their standards) whether it's running XP, Windows 7, or a flavour of Linux. Though, of course, then you need to define "obsolete". Some people would say something's obsolete if it can't run all the new shinies effortlessly, others would say that as long as they can view porn^H^H^H^H webpages then it's just fine.
15 year old Mac?
Impressive! I still have my 1994 Performa in storage and it might work. OTOH, it's probably close to impossible to find an IDE HD small enough, 16MB SD-RAM modules or a 68040 CPU or a new ethernet card in case I can't find a twistedpair transciever.
Oh, a monitor supported by OS 8.5 could be another problem, the original broke down some 10 years ago.
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10BaseT AUI transevers are still pretty easy to get. I had a boat load of them come in recently for some older cisco kit. (don't recall what, most of them are still on the shelf).
I am having troubles with IDE drives in general. The memory and proc you might have to find on online auctions, along with the monitor.
if all that is wrong with it though... you have some serious dryrot.
Hardware, not software driven replacement
This is, as a previous poster stated, about the inbuilt obsolescence of hardware. DDR RAM is a pain in the arse to source compared to DDR2. You can't replace a 4+ year old CPU without changing the motherboard, and then the RAM etc. It is essentially the shitty end of the Moore's Law stick.
Dump 4 yeard ol PCs?
WTF? Is this anti-greenwash or something?
How about keeping your 4 year old PC and swapping to an OS that does not crucify with it with bloat and crap?
Just a thought, but not one that will aid Intel's bottom line.
XP is almost 10 yearsold, so why bother going to the hassle of swapping the OS. if it's working. Keep it.....
You're not in IT are you...
It has little or nothing to do with the OS being bloated... This is an issue effecting ANY OS.
You replace old kit because:
- Application support - staying current in the business world with apps often means upgrades to hardware as well, and drops in productivity due to slower machines and less productive employees, or worse, and app upgrade requires an OS upgrade to be installed. Upgrading in place costs time, not only for the IT person, but the employee who's machine it is. In business, a typical PC based employee costs $50/hr, and the IT guy servicing it costs $100, (total business cost, which is not just labor and benefits, but equipment, space, heat, electricity, etc) then there's the load on ancillary systems and other support personnel. Also, cross supporting a current app one more than one OS increases testing cycles and complexity of the environment, as does having to maintain multiple different hardware images and drives bases of the same OS.
- Hardware maintenance - old parts mean that MTBF grows narrower. Every hour of downtime for an end user is lot time for the company in terms not only of that user, but someone on a help desk line, and someone else who facilitates the repair. Machines out of warranty not only cost time, but parts too. The frequency of failure only increases with age. 1 or 2 repairs in a year cost more than en entire new deployment.
- Employee perception. Yes, investment in hardware has a direct effect on employee morale. Using kit at work thats older than your $400 BestBuy special at home just feels wrong. Virtually ANY time, even a few seconds, spent waiting at work for an app, especially dozens if not a hundred micro-increments of time, simply drains on stamina, and it not only less productive itself, but frustrates employees and makes them actually do work slower as well.
Throwing a few hundred dollars into the budget to replace computers on a 3-4 year cycle keeps employees happier, lowers application testing costs, lowers support headaches, eliminates replacement part and upgrade costs, and eliminates LOTS and LOTS of help desk labor time (and staff). If you can eliminate just 1 help desk staffer, you could offset between 750 and 1,000 desktops with the money saved in just one year. More modern OS on more modern hardware also has backend benefits too.
Working? yes but...
Maintaining compliance is a bear! This old of an OS, and getting apps, security tools, and more that work for it? not easy. More so, changing to a new OS allows for use of more modern management, backup, administration, patching, imaging, and deployment tools. the time saved in IT by supporting a modern OS is a wash for the cost of replacing the old kit in just a year.
We're planning our own XP to 7 migration here this year. I can tell you why right quickly its been such a hot debate whether or not to move forward: Once the migration is complete, with the added efficiencies of the new deployment tools and monitoring systems, more than half our help desk and workstation support/deployment folks will loose their jobs. They know this, and they're heavily resisting, including putting forward false or exaggerated numbers. Each employee we eliminate is worth about 300-400 desktops over the course of 3 years. We have about 15,000 desktops. Software costs remain the same.
4 years ago though
yeh but remember the sort of rubbish you're talking about here.
I mean non-dual core for a start,everything, just everything.
what are you going to use it for?
I make that 0.375% so far
From someone who has 0% on windows vista or 7
Glad to be mainstream.
0.375% of what?
Or was it a typo of (3000/80000)*100%=3.75%
Considering the relative "newness" of Windows 7, that's a fairly high penetration for a large corporate. Would be interesting to see many they have deployed after the usually SP1 watershed.
Make that 3.75%
My calculator is steam powered.
3 years max
Most big companies renew every 4 years as the support contracts only last that long unless you pay a big premium which is the same cost as a new pc. After 4 years its fully depreciated so costs zip to bin and most laptops are knackered by 4 years.
Yup, contract costs
We're required by federal contracts to have supported hardware, OS, and software in most of our systems. After year 3, those costs rise ridiculously.
For example, the monthly cost of support on just one Power4 AIX system I'm in the process of replacing is more than double the support cost of a system I'm deploying to virtualize 12 such systems into VIO. By replacing 6 of these server chassis, the entire new hardware solution is paid for in less than 2.5 years. The extra capacity will be used for other apps and for test systems and is essentially free. We're literally getting twice the hardware, brand new, for less money than keeping the existing one in production, and that doesn't even count soft costs like the power and cooling savings.
For some reason..
I think a lot of Intel's engineers will be Linux users. No idea why I think that.
Missing the point
Some of you are missing the point, or the intended audience. Home PCs and computers owned by techies have almost no support cost except maybe the yearly AV licenses. Business PCs which are typically used by IT phobics who neither care how they work or have any desire to attempt repairing them will require support contracts or IT Support staff to maintain and repair the units. Factor in this cost, volume license costs, upgrade costs and the cost of lost time when a PC fails and Intel may well have a point.
lol...... erm, ok.
So some bint from Intel says we should be replacing hardware after 4 years... is that because the quality control at Intel is so piss poor that their components are likely to fail after such a short timeframe?
What would be funny is if AMD used this in their marketing gumph... "Buy AMD's latest CPU - we won't tell you to replace it after only 4 years".
That could backfire. I have quite a few AMD-based machines at home, but I haven't bought an AMD CPU in the last four years. My last couple of upgrades were Intel devices. However, even the old kit is still working just fine at what it does, no point in upgrading it while I can still buy spare PSUs and fans and hard drives, which are the bits that die most often (although I have had one CPU and two motherboards die over the years).
The problem is software getting bloated. Often Windows, but also Firefox is guilty (a good "virtual memory stress tester") and worst of all AV products. Of course, that is a Windows problem at heart.
I had a w2k machine without AV and it was fine for 8 years until the motherboard died, so its not a real need. Don't know how the hardware reliability goes, typically faults will rise after a couple of years, and that is a pain if you have a faulty motherboard - and have to re-install cause windows cant cope with hardware changes, and then re-license, and re-install apps, etc...
Now use LINUX with a windows VM, solves most of the above!
@Richard Porter:
I've got an 8086 that still boots, runs MS-DOS 6.2. Sure you may be fine with a junk P2 and 256mb of RAM but real people that have to do real work would prefer having a system that is actually fast and responsive, rather than losing significant amount of time to a disk that thrashes permentantly due to living in swap because they are too cheap and/or stupid to by a decent computer.
The problem with modern system loads is not the OS, It's THE APPLICATIONS. If you load any modern browser and open more than 2 tabs it doesn't matter how fantastic your OS is performance is going to drop off of a cliff, especially once it hits swap.
Sure, show off with your 'Red Dawn' OS but stop the lies and idiocy in pretending that just because you use a nerd OS somehow the rules of physics and reality don't apply to you. Just because FF was compiled with a 'free' compiler does not make it run any faster or use less memory - in reality Firefox on Linux runs measurably slower than it's windows counterpart.
Plus Linux simply doesn't do what I need a desktop OS to do, and the rest of the world agrees looking at it's miniscule marketshare.
A lot of insults and hyperbole in there. Can't Wintel apologists make their point without name-calling?
Too many BS points in your post to tackle all of them, but FF on OSX at home is running about a dozen tabs just fine thanks, as does Safari, Chrome and Opera. Perhaps you have a problem with your OS? But then I'm too cheap and/or stupid to buy a decent computer, so what do I know?
I like the name Kerberos - a yapping dog, wasn't it?
FFS! Windows Haters
There will be a whole shed load of comments along the lines "I have to replace PCs after 4 years? WTF Windows is crappy bloatware".... all these comments are going to lack understanding of BUSINESS reality.
I'm with Intel, I like to replace a user's primary PC at around 4 years, why you ask? No it's not because of Windows, I could easily reformat them with a fresh XP to get rid of user induced bloat - they ran XP fine when new, so they can run it now (run the appropriate edition of Windows, i.e. an older one for an older PC - although I have established 7 runs fine on a P4 with 2GB RAM).
No no I don't replace them because Windows is slow, I replace them because after 4 years of being on 24/7 they have a higher failure rate (they just do, hard drives and CPU fans mostly) and it's a data recovery/backup problem meanwhile the user is not working. Upgrades are no longer cost effective (especially for very old systems with DDR-1 etc) and the PCs are out of warranty so any failures come out of my budget to fix.
Software that is installed on these PCs also becomes more advanced than they can cope with, 4 year old PCs are not so quick in the latest Adobe apps for example, aren't great running flash heavy websites, don't do virtualisation very well so the developers can can't run their tests like they want... users complain, especially when the guy next to them with the new PC is being more productive because he can work quicker. The 4 year old PC might be 'OK' but a new one IS faster, less likely to fail, supports all the things staff want to run and is covered by a NBD warranty...
It's got sod all to do with Windows or any other OS for that matter.
Agreed, it has nothing to do with the OS
Most systems either fail in the first month, or keep going till time catches up.
Business systems are bought to a budget, with an expected hardware life of 3-5 years.
Once the cheapest nastiest part of the system starts to go, the rest of it will degrade faster and support costs increase massively.
In my experience it tends to be more PSU first, then disk due to the power fluctuations, then fans from the sheer weight of dust.
Complete desktop replacement took our calls in a small office from 15-20 per week to less than one a month. On a large scale, that kind of reduction is massively cost beneficial.
I have rackmount servers downstairs that are ~8+ years old. They still do the job, but the support contracts are coming due and the cost increase for renewal is almost double the cost per annum of simply buying a new cheap dell and transferring the app across.
While a home pc can creak along indefinitely, in a business environment, you can't afford not to have the equipment covered and lets face it, hardware is the cheapest cost in this business by far.
What baffles me
Is what the people who downvoted your post could possibly find that was wrong with it. I suppose because it vaguely, very vaguely indeed, could be considered slightly pro-Windows, and we can't have that, can we?
That's horrific. I'm developing on a nearly four-year-old PC right now. It's fine. I just bought a new home PC - that is slower than my work development PC (but consumes 20-30W so saving a fortune in leccy bills). Even the cheapest, slowest PC of today is more than capable of doing anything other than HD video editing or playing games. And the same goes for a half-decent PC of 5 or 6 years ago - possibly older. We have loads of old P4s running XP SP3, Office and a handful f internally developed stuff.
PCs are getting faster and faster. For once, software (namely, the new windows) isn't getting correspondingly bloated and slow. There is really no justification for replacing working kit at the moment. This just looks like an announcement from Intel trying to persuade everyone they "need" to replace kit - with more intel kit.
Sounds about right
Commercial organisations have to pay for support staff and also for the user to sit there moaning while waiting for a fix. Plus they get big discounts for buying in bulk.
We budget for a five year cycle, though on the if it ain't broke don't fix it principal some kit lasts much longer until a software upgrade overwhelms it.
I'm still using the same PC I bought in 2000
I've avoided the need to buy a new computer by replacing the CDR with a DVDR, upgrading the HDD (twice) the gfx card (twice) and replacing the Motherboard, CPU and memory (once).
I'm thinking of getting a new case, because the original is looking a bit dented and grimy,
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So, instead of buying a new PC, you simply replaced all of the components in it, some twice...
I do exactly the same thing with my gaming rig, a major overhaul about every 18 months. unfortunately, that does not work in businesses... The labor costs alone in paying someone to rebuild, re-image, test and put in production such systems would be half again simply buying a brand new rig.
Am I missing something in the demands of "Road Warriors" jobs
"Road warriors - sales people and the like - got a new PC every two years, she said. Engineers had to wait three years,"
Why does somebody who presumably only needs to run office apps need a 2 yearly upgrade when the employees running more demanding VLSI design apps, emulators, simulators, compilers, etc have to wait an extra year?
It's the same old story in software, every company I worked has simply bought desktop boxes as people joined, meaning the new marketing hire gets a quad core 4GB machine, while the dev who joined 2 years ago is still making do with a dual core 2GB box. The obvious solution of repurposing the dev's box to marketing doesn't seem to happen.
You should see how smooth the transitions on their Powerpoint presentations are.
It would bring a tear to your eye.
>>"Road warriors - sales people and the like - got a new PC every two years, she said. Engineers had to wait three years,"
Why does somebody who presumably only needs to run office apps need a 2 yearly upgrade when the employees running more demanding VLSI design apps, emulators, simulators, compilers, etc have to wait an extra year?
Probably because the road warriors in my experience are pretty rough on the hardware, phones and laptops have a tendency to be dropped, water damaged, run over, ports damaged from unplugging peripherals in a hurry and so on, not to mention shock damage over time from vibration and generally moving it around and thumping it on a desk on occasion.
Engineers tend to be set up in one place and not move the hardware around a lot outside of office moves, which greatly reduces the failure rate. They tend to break more peripherals than systems.
Besides, noone said the road guys get new top of the line hardware, the only reason it is a significant upgrade is because technology marches on. My guys tended to get a midrange laptop, then adjusted for specific needs, which was purchased in quantity to save costs and allow swift substitution for early failure.
not about the software
It's about:
1) salespeople with old n busted kit don't come off as impressive (especially those that work for a tech firm)
2) kit that breaks down is not acceptable to a road warrior
3) laptops on the run take lots more abuse than those that never leave the office
no ta
my amd 3000 athlon HP Pavillion is chugging along quite nicely at home on xp home and runs even better after i formatted it, thats 5 years without a format though.
so the intel CEO can spin on my mid digit
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RE you steam powered calculator. Maybe it just has that dodgy Pentium chip in that couldn't do calculations!
Replacement intervale
For some reason where I work, people with a job title with "engineer" in it are on a 4 year cycle, while people with "programmer" in the title are on a 3 year cycle. My suspicion is that the pay scales for engineers are slightly higher, so they are trying desperately to cut costs by calling more people programmers than engineers, and applying pressure every which way. Got PC envy? Change your title from "engineer" to "programmer" and take a pay hit... and productivity boost from a faster PC. (pay scales are determined by all the companies huddling together and discussing how much they can squeeze pay this year.... beady eyed lawyers undoubtedly watching to be sure no collusion occurs, of course, colluding on pay packets is OK, but colluding on prices isn't!).
Perhaps it is a hint... engineers are tossed out the door faster in "resource actions" than programmers too.... they just threw a bunch out on the trash heap last week.
Mines the one with the "made in China" label on it... what? you mean they all have that label now? Criminy....
HW, SW necessary but irrelevant
In business, both hardware and windows are necessary but irrelevant, as both together cost less than 10%, spread over the suggested 4 years lifetime. The application portfolio costs slightly more, significantly so if you count SAP. In our company, the rest goes on rewriting the OS per department and country, flying in the outsorcerers, and paying for PR to hide the poor desktop support.
On the home machines the 4-year rule looks unrealistic - my suite of music applications is on XP, drivers for all don't exist for newer Windows. On the other hand, my wife's G5 Mac is stuck in the snow-leopard trap, and will switch soon, for an anti-virus app .
So it depends what you are working on - I bet the Intel employees who already switched are development or application support guys. Maybe Jerry Pournelle's 1980 dictum was right, and one application per PC is best.
can you point me to the good Dr.'s words?
something to try
This is OT but whaddever, noticed that win (I run server 2k3) seemed a bit keen to force stuff onto disk even when there buckets of ram free so I disabled the pagefile and it made it noticeably snappier.
Worth a try.
This article and most of its comments are making me jealous. My company only replaces PCs when they break and can't be repaired. We have some that are now getting to 10 years old. In fact it was only last week I finally got rid of the last Windows 2000 client - we've finally made the switch to XP!
We have ~1500 client PCs in the UK, many more abroad.
The costs of churn
1. Environmental: didn't I just read a series of news articles about the mountains of discarded e-waste that blight some third world countries?
2. Intellectual: Miss Smith in personnel finally figured out how to put a watermark on every page using Word. Churn her desktop PC and you also churn her hard-won, valuable expertise.
simply amazing
it's simply amazing how many intelligent people can read an article like this and still not get the point. we are talking about businesses engaging in cost/benefit analysis of supporting aging kit versus buying new kit. Given the fact that Intel's employees use laptops for client PCs, their approach appears even more defensible. First, support costs do skyrocket after 3-4 years. Volume purchasing always gets a better replacement cost than simply replacing individual computers willy nilly. Business computers are most often on 24/7 and are used much more heavily than home machines. Laptops by their mobile nature suffer damage more quickly than a static desktop. Finally laptop pricing has been dropping like a rock, especially over the last ten years. Machines that cost in the $2,000 to $3,000 price range ten years ago, can be had for $400-$800 in volume today, especially if we're talking about purchasing kit in the middle range. Add this all up and it makes sense. All the arguments about what crappy bloatware windows is, how linux can make an under powered 10 year old computer fly, how "my ten year old computer" works just fine are simply irrelevant. These are carefully calculated business decisions designed to save the company as much money in IT costs as possible. Full stop.
ME still out there
I replaced an old ME PC today, and the only reason it was being replaced was that some PDFs can't be opened unless she has a newer version. She's just been upgraded to a new HP running XP downgraded from W7P.
The PC was otherwise perfectly ok and loaded very quickly.
I think XP will be around for a longer time than MS thinks
You are making too many assumptions
The readers of this fine publication fall into 3 camps:
1. IT professionals who read the article, weighed the comments and found they were in broad agreement with most of the findings.
2. IT Geeks who lovingly tend their own hand crafted PC's and want to show off their prowess
3. Linux fans who take ANY opportunity at all to let you know that Window$ is the biggest pile of crap in the known universe and if only everyone would switch to "free" software everything would be OK with the world (don't even try to explain that "free" software does actually incur costs to large organisations such as training end users, sorry, Lusers and having to provide slightly more expensive support staff otherwise you will be pilloried as a Micro$haft Shill!)
business reality
"There will be a whole shed load of comments along the lines "I have to replace PCs after 4 years? WTF Windows is crappy bloatware".... all these comments are going to lack understanding of BUSINESS reality."
I don't think they are. Throw Ubuntu or whatev on there, and until you get down to like a P3, the machine speed isn't really relevant. A P4-1.8 and a Core 2 will run most stuff just as well. Most businesses don't want people watching youtube all day, so the fact that a lower end system isn't as good with flash-heavy sites is pretty irrelevant (although very true). The rest? Well, yes, older systems are less reliable -- I would replace them at time of failure (or at time of "noisy fan" or whatever). With any Linux distro downtime should be minimal; in fact, in a domain environment with Windows downtime should be minimal too, since the user's stuff will be on the server.
Go thin client or at least turn aged desktops "dumb"
Anyone who considers migrating to Windows 7 from XP or Vista using a traditional "fat client" model is insane. Thin clients are cheap, have a longer desk life, use a fraction of the power, generate almost no heat, and present no data theft/recovery problems. Its not even about saving capex on the upfront purchase, its about cost of management.
Sure the true road warriors will always need their laptops, but for the other 80% of staff forget it. If I dont have a fat desktop then I'm not looking at it (and listening to it) as it ages. If Dell have their way we will all need new desktops every 12 months, meanwhile the upheaval associated with that, never mind the disposal costs, will be piled on top of IT staff already creaking backs.
Static thin clients or desktops-dumbed-down to terminals is the only way to escape the future Dell & Co have planned for you.
@Henry Winkler
"'all these comments are going to lack understanding of BUSINESS reality.' [...]
I don't think they are. Throw Ubuntu or whatev on there"
And right from the start, you're ignoring the BUSINESS reality of changing OSes, and the effect that would have on employee retraining, productivity, ability to exchange information with third parties... sigh, there's really no point in trying is there?
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Some residents of Huntertown are angry that they have only three days to voice concerns about a plan that has been in the works by local government since October.
Town officials are seeking state approval to send effluent flushed from its drinking water filters at the water plant into nearby Geller Ditch. Currently, the effluent is sent to Fort Wayne City Utilities for processing.
The water is a result of backwashing the drinking water system filters to flush out accumulated debris and particles.
Town officials have applied to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for a permit to discharge 6,000 gallons daily into the ditch, which flows into the Eel River.
A tentative permit has been issued by IDEM, and residents have until Tuesday at midnight to notify IDEM and weigh in on the matter.
Huntertown is in the process of constructing a new $1.8 million drinking water filtration plant on 11 acres along Carroll Road near Lima Road, part of a $4.5 million project to improve the capacity and pressure of the town's water system.
The new plant is expected to be operational before the end of the year.
The current water plant provides drinking water to the Allen County Fairgrounds and for nearby county land and buildings, including the Byron Health Center, the highway, sheriff's and health departments, and the Youth Services Center.
Sue Gongwer, president of the Huntertown Town Council, said she did not know specifics of the permit application, but she said the town applied for the permit because of the expansion at the filtration plant.
The backflush water will go through a process of reclamation and then through a filter system, Gongwer said.
It's my understanding that there will be very little backflush going into the ditch, she said.
The amount of daily discharge does not determine the significance of a permit, said Nicole Gardner, IDEM permit manager.
Other site-specific factors are considered as well, she said.
According to the original permit application of Oct. 14, signed by then-council President Jim Fortman, the discharged water would not include any pesticides or other contaminants.
The town would reclaim 90 percent of the water, Fortman said, and discharge the remaining 10 percent – up to 6,000 gallons a day – into Geller Ditch.
This is extremely clean water we are asking to discharge, Fortman said.
The balance of the backwash water would go through a surface sand filter before being discharged into Geller Ditch, and the remaining sludge would be pumped and disposed of in a landfill, according to the application.
Ted Nitza, program manager for City Utilities, said the discharge to Geller Ditch is not necessary.
Right now, they discharge to City Utilities and there is no harm done to Geller Ditch, Nitza said. There is not a lot of information on this permit. The few that are aware (of the application for the permit) do not seem to know why they are doing it.
The permit says the public has until Monday to send comments to IDEM, but because Monday is a national holiday, comments will be accepted through midnight Tuesday, IDEM spokeswoman Amy Hartsock said.
The draft permit also states that a copy of the permit would be available to the public at the Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health, but health department spokesman John Silcox said the health department had not received a copy. Hartsock said that will not affect the deadline for comments.
Huntertown resident Dave Garman found out about the permit Thursday and was clearly frustrated.
Why do they have to do this? They already have a cheaper, readily available alternative in place, Garman said. They seem determined to degrade Geller Ditch.
Garman was referring to another project – a proposed $11.2 million wastewater treatment plant that was intended to discharge into Geller Ditch. That permit was denied by IDEM in October, but Huntertown has appealed that decision.
Another resident who owns a farm east of Huntertown with a Churubusco address, but is near Geller Ditch, was also upset.
Gayle Marshall has complained of flooding and the possible degradation of Geller Ditch at past town meetings.
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Relationship Deception -- How to Avoid It and Repair the Damage
The woman, who described herself as a "good, moral Christian lady," said her husband recently found out her tricks and now wants to divorce her. Geez, no surprise there.
Obviously, this is an extreme case of dishonest behavior in a partnership. But we spoke with psychologists who say even the faintest of fibs can lead a relationship down a bad path.
Even White Lies Can Be Bad
In movies and media, a woman's lies are often something to laugh about. Who can't think of a wife who hides her shopping sprees or how much she charged on the credit card? A recent Wall Street Journal story revealed one woman who made takeout look like home cooking while still a newlywed and another who hoards the cash her husband gives her for a maid and does the cleaning herself.
But really, even these little, laughable lies can erode the sense of trust and honesty in the relationship over time, says Boston couples psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum, author of "Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay."
"It can start as a harmless-seeming résumé inflation: Your job is made out to seem more important than it really is, you make yourself out to have more money than you really do," she said.
"We think that these exaggerations and deceptions won't matter once we're deeply in love, once he sees how wonderful you are, he won't care. Or, more coldly, once he's in, it will be hard for him to get out. But a deception like this is a message saying, 'You don't count, only what I can get from you counts. The love you thought was real was really a lie.'"
All of this matters because bouncing back from a betrayal is difficult. And once the seed of distrust or doubt is planted, it spreads.
"There is an angry, chill distance," Kirshenbaum said. "People live like angry roommates, not intimate friends. It takes a long time to heal a betrayal. You can say you'll never lie again, but years will have to go by for me to believe it."
How to Deconstruct the Deception
Nancy Dreyfus, PsyD, a psychotherapist/couples therapist outside Philadelphia and author of the upcoming "Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love," says at the heart of these lies is the feeling that we won't be loved, found attractive or accepted if we tell the truth. The key to tearing down your trickery is putting yourself in your partner's shoes and allowing yourself to be vulnerable.
"Most people are good at knowing how they are feeling on the inside and how the other person is looking on the outside, not how they're feeling," she explained.
Because a lot of how we learn to interact with romantic partners is rooted in how we grew up with our parents, Dreyfus says it's essential to tell your partner why it's scary for you to tell the truth.
For instance, maybe you had a father who yelled when you told him you did something wrong, and you're afraid your partner might react the same way. It's true that he might not react the way you hope he will; but in the end, he will probably forgive you.
"Sometimes when you tell the truth, you create a mess," Dreyfus said. "It's wonderful to learn you can clean up the mess."
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Here you'll find our favorite recipes, both original goop creations and dishes shared by great make contributors. Browse by ingredient or category to find the perfect dish for any craving or occasion, or simply scroll to get inspired (and seriously hungry).
- 2 ¼ pound snapper fillets (or any mild, white fish)
- olive oil
- 1 lemon
- sea salt
- freshly ground pepper
- parchment paper
- cherry tomatoes (fresh or sundried)
- olives
- capers and or caper berries
- cured artichoke hearts
- roasted peppers
- anchovies
- marinated white beans
Antipasti Snapper in Paper
makes 2
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1. Pre-heat oven to 400°F.
2. Lay parchment paper on baking sheet or dish. Lay filets on paper. Season with salt, pepper, olive oil and a drizzle of lemon. Sprinkle antipasti items on top. (If you're using anchovies, place one on top of each filet so it melts into fish). Fold paper over fish to make a little package (this doesn't have to be perfect, just fold and secure the best you can).
3. Bake for about 10 minutes, until fish is cooked throughout, but still moist. Let rest for about 5 minutes before serving.


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15 April 2009 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the national greenhouse gas inventory, which found a 1.4 percent increase in overall emissions from 2006 to 2007.
Total greenhouse gas emissions in 2007 were equivalent to 7,150 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to an EPA release. The report measured carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride.
Overall emissions have grown by 17.2 percent from 1990 to 2007. This was due primarily to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions associated with fuel and electricity consumption, according to the report.
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EPA releases draft mandatory GHG reporting rules
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England remain on course to win a record seventh successive RBS Women's Six Nations title after beating Wales – the only team to beat them in the competition during this run of glory – 33-0 at Twickenham on Saturday.
The title favourites ran in six tries through Michael Staniford (2), Emily Scarratt, Kay Wilson, Sarah Hunter and player of the match Rowena Burnfield to preserve their unbeaten record at the home of English rugby.
England have now conceded just three points in their three matches to date – a penalty by Italy fly half Veronica Schiavon – and scored 123, with unbeaten France away and Ireland at home standing between them and another crown.
"I am really pleased with this performance," said England coach Gary Street. "Wales made us work hard for this victory, bringing passion and determination to the game and they tried very hard to stop our players in their tracks.
"At half-time when we were leading 13-0 we spoke about improving our discipline, to stop giving away so many penalties and to be more patience. When we started to do that the points came.
"We have now got two weeks to prepare for our penultimate game against France and really look at ourselves and analyse the French. With both teams unbeaten this is going to be a titanic battle but we are going to make sure we are ready for that challenge."
Wales, who stunned England with a 16-15 win in 2009, must now regroup to face Ireland this weekend in their rearranged first round encounter which was abandoned with the Irish leading 10-3 at half time due to freezing conditions.
First win for Ireland
A victory on Irish soil would be a confidence boost for Wales as they bid to secure one of two places at Women's Rugby World Cup 2014 through the Six Nations. The top two teams, aside from already qualified England and France, across the 2012 and 2013 Championships will confirm their places.
Wales and Ireland secured these places for WRWC 2010 and will be favourites to do so again for the 2014 tournament in France, leaving Scotland and Italy to join the highest ranked teams in Europe and a team from Oceania in a qualification tournament in 2013.
Ireland picked up their first win of the campaign in emphatic fashion, scoring six tries in the process of overwhelming Italy 40-10 at Ashbourne RFC to bounce back from the disappointment of losing 8-7 in France a fortnight earlier.
Marie Louise Reilly set the ball rolling with a fifth minute try with Niamh Kavanagh touching down in each half and Joy Neville, Amy Davis and Jennifer Murphy also getting their names on the score sheet to the delight of the home crowd.
France are the only other unbeaten team in the Six Nations after beating Scotland 23-0 in the first women's international to be staged in Stirling, a much closer affair than last year when Elodie Poublan scored five tries as France ran out convincing 53-3 winners.
Scotland coach Karen Findlay admitted to definitely seeing an improvement on their previous defeats by England and Wales, but their inability to deal with the catch and drive from the lineout proved costly with three of France's four tries coming from that form of attack.
Aida Ba, Cyrielle Bouisset, Gaelle Mignot and Marine de Nadai all touched down for France and the margin of victory at Bridgehaugh Park could have been bigger had fly half Aurélie Bailon managed to convert any of her side's tries.


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the ultimate guide to making Halloween scary again
Extreme yard tricks : create the creepiest house on the block
Extreme party tricks : throw an outrageous Halloween party
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This book is great! It has some great projects that will make for neat halloween decorations. There are also some neat pumpkin sculptures. Although it is a little grim at some parts, I find that the projects are great and overall, I enjoy the book. Very inspiring for heavy halloween decorators like myself!
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Tom Nardone, the author of "Extreme Pumpkins", returns with a book full of Halloween decorations, foods, costumes, etc. In this book, you will be instructed on how to make several projects, including gallows, costumes, roast humans (not real, but very edible), and a baby-eating yard monster.
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By Heather Sanders. After missing the exhibit when it was in Dallas, Texas 3 years ago, the kids and I finally experienced the Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston along with other members from our local homeschool co-op. Arriving [...]
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Peter Fonda's coming to town to give our DIFF's big-money prizes.Close to midnight this morning I got an email from Dallas International Film Festival Artistic Director in which, at last, he revealed the title of the fest's closing-night film: Burke and Hare, the latest from director John Landis ... More >>
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New York State Fair 2015
The Great New York State Fair is an annual state fair of New York. The Great New York State Fair has the status of being one of the largest state fairs in the US. It is a 12- day event that hosts farmers' expositions mainly. In addition to the farmers' expositions the fair hosts a number of exhibitions related to entertainment, education, industry and technology are held. Rides and concerts are other major attractions at the event. The fair generally runs for 12 days starting from the third or fourth Thursday in August and comes to an end with a spectacular fireworks display on Labour Day.
New York State Fair History
The New York State Fair was initially held in 1841, in Syracuse. Approximately one million people take part in this fair every year. It was in 1890, the venue of the event got permanently fixed in Syracuse. Until then different cities across New York hosted the fair. 2014 marks the 172th anniversary of New York State Fair.
New York State Fair 2015 Event Details
Date: This year New York State Fair is scheduled to start on August 27nd to September 7th, 2015.
Venue: Empire Expo Centre, Syracuse.
Major attractions at New York State Fair
The main attractions at the modern New York State Fair are
- Livestock
- Horse shows
- Showmanship competitions
- Agricultural exhibits
- Blue ribbon competitions
- Talent show competitions
- Amusement park rides
- Butter sculpting
- Food stalls giving a taste of all varieties of traditional food items.
- Live concert entertainments.
This year's concert lineup is expected to happen in June. All these key ingredients make the fair family-friendly and attract more than million people every year.


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Gene Hood grew up in Columbia, SC. He attended Davidson College but transferred to the University of South Carolina upon deciding to major in art. He received a BFA degree in drawing from USC in 1976. In 1978 Gene entered the MFA program at the University of Florida, studying primarily with John O'Connor and Ken Kerslake. He received his MFA in drawing in 1980. Hood then decided to pursue further study in the area of art history, and entered the masters program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He left UNC in 1981 for the PhD program in Comparative Arts at Ohio University. He completed coursework by 1984, whereupon he took a position with the Department of Art & Design at UW-Eau Claire.
Dr. Hood completed his dissertation and received his doctoral degree in 1989. In 1993 Gene traveled to Scotland to teach on the Wisconsin-in-Scotland program in Dalkeith. In fall 1996 Hood took on full-time teaching of art history at UW-Eau Claire. Gene and his wife Lisa have two children, Olivia and Iain, who accompanied their parents to Scotland in 1999 and 2005, where Gene taught on the WIS Program for a second and third time. Dr. Hood served as Chair of the Department of Art & Design at UW-Eau Claire in 2001-2004. His current scholarly interest is researching the art and architecture in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Krakow, and Budapest as preparation for teaching on the Central European Travel Seminar.


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Summer keeps lingering. It is late September as I write this and still loving the 70 degree days! But, all good things must come to an end. Or do they have to? Summer may be going away, but the things I enjoy doing don't have to. I thought this month I would share some of my favorite things and some resources.
Networking – I love meeting new people, getting to know them and what they do. It is amazing how many time those connections seem to bring new work, new friends, or new information at the time I need it. Linkedin and even Facebook is my new best friend when it comes to digital networking. I love the connections I get and am able to follow up with emails and enter into discussion in groups.
Research – I love spending time doing research on learning subjects. I am very interested in how we change people's lives through good learning. I see lots of ideas and implementations, and I am always amazed and inspired. ASTD.org,Trainingmag.com, and Clomedia.com provide some great resources and has many free informational resources.
Learning – Right here in the Northwest we have some great resources for learning about our own field. One that stands out is the University of Washington's Certificate in E-Learning Design and Development. You explore approaches to e-learning, instructional designs, tools and procedures for e-learning environments. Discover how to effectively assess program content and usability.
On the Job Learning – You "Google it" or "Bing it" many times a day. It is amazing how many times I get the answer to a question or some information by just opening a web application and doing a search. A truly "on-demand" service at the moment of need.
ASTD – Of course, I would be remiss if I did not mention our own resources! On our ASTD site we have events, blogs, and even links to many other sites for research. We are pushing our social media to the next level with Tweets, Facebook posts and a Puget Sound group on LinkedIn to get discussions from our peers going. Check them all out at www.astdps.org.
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Are you ready to "Ignite Your Mojo?" Register now for the ASTD Puget Sound 2012 Workplace Learning Conference, Friday, October 5, 2012 in Renton, WA
This one-day conference will feature an exciting line-up of speakers, with over 12 break-out sessions. The theme is "Ignite Your Mojo" and our goal is provide an energizing learning environment for Workplace Learning professionals to network, learn about some new leading edge tools, and re-connect with a passion for learning.
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Thursday, Oct. 4: Rapid E-Learning Workshop – Building Engaging and Interactive E-Learning! Featuring Tom Kulhmann, VP of Community for Articulate.
Join Tom Kuhlmann as he shares some practical tips on getting the most out of the resources you have to build engaging and interactive e-learning courses. Register to attend this workshop and the 2012 Conference for a high-impact two-days of fantastic learning!
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Innovative Learning Design Using New Technologies
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How do we design a learning strategy that is both engaging and meets the needs of a particular business with emerging technology? Learn about the most creative and innovative learning trends and strategies. Explore some creative and innovative ways to approach learning and organizational change.
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Jeff Tillett is on the forefront of learning and technology. Jeff started his career as a web designer and multi-media developer and then crossed-over into instructional design, specializing in elearning, social learning, and video learning, especially for mobile devices. He is widely known for his blog.
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Research and Learning Science: The Research Corner
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Putting Research and Learning Science to Use
Each month, we'll speak to learning professionals in the Puget Sound area to hear about the work they do, how they use learning research, and where research and learning science could help them.
This month, I spoke with two learning consultants at an area software company. They perform a wide array of learning and development program responsibilities, ranging from yearly needs assessments and curriculum management to content development , delivery, and evaluation. Both serve a global workforce of several hundred business professionals and work with a mix instructor-led and web-based learning.
Currently, both professionals rely more heavily and frequently on industry and profession-specific specific research, rather than research in learning science. Both mentioned several journals and resources related to their company and the business areas they serve. At the same time, the practitioners spoke of how mindful they are of foundational research in instructional design. For example, they are developing a more effective evaluation system that transitions from Kirkpatrick's Level 1 "smile sheets" to a Level 3 measurement of how training changes behavior 60-90 days after training has been delivered. Both spoke of the importance of an ADDIE approach to training development, recognizing that there are business circumstances when a rapid development approach may contract the optimal assessment time frame.
Evolving challenges in their positions have given rise to the following interests in learning science research:
* Developing strategies to maximize the return on limited (and shrinking) learning and development dollars. How do senior leaders ensure that the company is making wise investments?
* Understanding the trends in instructor-led, eLearning, asynchronous, and synchronous delivery strategies. What does the latest research tell us about the cost, ease of creation, implementation, and effectiveness of different approaches?
* Strategies for cost-effectively rolling out training to global audiences. What are the most impactful ways for deploying training on a worldwide scale when travel is prohibitively expensive?
* Finding ways to deliver effective training in small chunks (less than four hours) to a worldwide audience with nonstop, consistent milestones and deadlines.
Do any of our members have great resources to address the interests mentioned above? If so, please send them to me, and I'll forward them to this month's interviewees.
Innovation in the Learning Marketplace
I had an opportunity to meet with Nick Scott, co-founder of a next-generation Learning Management System (LMS), under development in Seattle and Eastern Europe. Their product, EDUonGo (www.EDUonGo.com) combines traditional LMS offerings with collaboration and social networking tools, allowing learners to share annotations and questions they've recorded at different points in the courseware. And courseware will be accessible on a wide variety of tablets and mobile devices, living up to the company's promise that customers can "Learn Everywhere."
EDUonGO (pronounced E-D-U-ongo) is currently working with a select group of schools and businesses to custom-develop their LMSs on EDUonGo's platform. While the company grows, its product and a select group of free courses are available for sampling. Check it out and see what you think. If you have questions about the product, or suggestions for the development team, send them an email at email@example.com. Or you can let me know, and I'll pass along your inquiry or comments directly to Nick.
Future Features on Research and Learning Science
In upcoming newsletters, look for these features:
* Industry trends,
* Reviews on new books and articles,
* Links to useful research resources and tools,
* Q&A from the research team,
* Retrospectives on published texts with enduring value,
* More interviews with practitioners and students
Let us know what else you'd like to see from us!
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