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WAS it a suicide attempt or an accident?
Police asked the question after outgoing Cagayan de Oro Rep. Benjo Benaldo shot himself with his licensed caliber 9mm semi-automatic pistol inside his Congress office Thursday night.
Quezon City Police District director Senior Superintendent Richard A. Albano ruled out any foul play in the shooting and said only the lawmaker could say what really happened.
"The possibility of foul play, that's negative. What's being looked at is what happened. I think it's only the congressman who can answer that when he's well," Albano said.
"Alam po ninyo, hindi naman natin masasabi sa ngayon kung magpapakamatay nga ang kongresista, dahil wala naman tayong saksi para makapagsabi noon, kaya tanging ang makakasagot lamang nito ay ang kongresista mismo," Albano told reporters in a press conference.
An investigation showed that Benaldo was alone inside his office at the House of Representatives when the incident happened. Investigators discovered that there was no other access to the room of the lawmaker who recently was in the limelight due to alleged marital problems with his wife, Brazilian model and actress Daiana Menezes.
"If you look at it, it was a big room and there's no other door inside where one can enter or exit so anyone can be seen going inside," he said.
The victim was alone in his office when his colleagues heard a gunshot Thursday evening. He was immediately rushed to the nearby New Era Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound from a 9mm bullet that hit his chest and exited at his back before hitting a window jalousie. He has been transferred to the St. Luke's Medical Center in Q.C. where he has been listed in good condition.
Albano, however, said they are still investigating if it was a suicide try since responding investigators failed to find any suicide note in Benaldo's office. He added that they are also looking at the possibility that it was a case of an accidental shooting.
As of yesterday, police are still investigating how Benaldo got hold of the gun inside the tightly-guarded House of Representatives which is currently undergoing a refurbishing for President Aquino's State of the Nation Address.
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte appealed to the other lawmakers and to the public to respect Benaldo's privacy.
Belmonte said that people should avoid making speculations while the lawmaker is not yet ready to talk about the shooting.
"Right now the incident continues to be thoroughly investigated and I hope that we all respect the privacy of the family at this time and avoid any other speculations. Benjo has not disclosed his reasons for what happened and may do so at the right time," Belmonte said.
Belmonte also ordered a full report of the incident from House Sergeant-at-Arms General Nicasio Radovan who is also coordinating with the Quezon City Police Department.
Marikina Rep. Romero Quimbo said he had talked with Benaldo one hour before the incident and, according to him, there is no foul play involved.
"I cannot speculate if it was self-inflicted or accidental. But what is apparent is that he was alone in his room when it happened while the staff members were outside of his office," Quimbo said in an interview.
"Obviously, if there was any foul play and if there was a third party, he would have told us. We talked for at least an hour or we were together for about an hour," Quimbo added.
Like other lawmakers, Quimbo said they already noticed Benaldo looked depressed after he lost in his re-election bid. He also was allegedly having a marital problem with his wife Daiana.
A few days ago, Menezes posted in several social networking sites her pictures of her with bruises and complained of experiencing domestic violence. Menezes did not mention Benaldo's name but later on they admitted their marital problem in public.
"Hindi naman maipagkakaila na hindi siya nanalo sa re-election. If you are not re-elected, that is a very painful experience. Dapat maintindihan natin 'yun. He also has personal problems with his private life so siguro nagkapatong-patong," Quimbo said.
Benaldo and Menezes got married in Las Vegas. With Joel dela Torre, Jester P. Manalastas
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Dollars and Sense: Just how long can this bull market go on?
Down week. The markets have been pretty easy to chart this year so far. Stocks dropped significantly in January. But they roared back in February, with the Dow recovering almost all its January losses and the S&P 500 recovering all it lost and more, setting a few new records. But between Monday and Thursday of this week, the market dropped about 500 points, moving March into negative territory, too.
Wondering why. The market sank every day this week, but each day's drop had different reasons. Monday, for example, brought no big economic news, but Boeing shares fell 2.5 percent after safety concerns arose over the weekend that put pressure on its stock. That helped drag the Dow Jones industrial average lower, with Boeing the biggest loser of the 30 stocks making up the blue-chip index. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared last weekend with 239 people aboard. In separate but related news, Boeing said it had discovered hairline cracks on the wings of 42 Dreamliner 787 jets that are still being built.
Not buying it? Of course, the drop of a single stock doesn't send the markets down 500 points. In fact, on Monday and Tuesday, stocks kind of drifted. I could never prove this, but last Sunday was the fifth birthday of a bull market that has gained 178 percent since March 2009. And I think a lot of traders are wondering just how long this can go on. Only five other bull markets since World War II have reached a sixth year without some sort of significant correction. So it's not a matter of "if," but "when"? We're in a season when traders are startling at their own shadows. Every time markets go down for a day or even a few hours in a row, they wonder if now's the time to sell and come back in after the correction. That's why we've been seeing these 200-point, daily swings in the Dow.
Now that's ironic. All this jitteriness is particularly interesting as it comes in the face of pretty good economic news. The Labor Department said this week the number of job openings rose 1.5 percent to 3.97 million. That was close to November's five-year high, and it means job openings have returned to pre-recession levels. Staffing company Manpower does an employment outlook survey, released this week, and it reported more employer optimism than we've seen in years. Retail sales rose 0.3 percent in February, and new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to 315,000, a number that signals sustained job creation.
Global concerns. But bad news from overseas trumped good news here at home. Lingering concerns over a possible economic slowdown in China and building tensions in Ukraine continued to weigh on global markets. Both Germany's DAX and London's FTSE index saw drops this week. On Wednesday, Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 1.7 percent and Japan's Nikkei fell a dramatic 2.6 percent. Again, no major economic news. Just general jitteriness.
Will jitters continue? We do get more economic reports from the United States this week than last, including the Consumer Price Index and Housing Starts. Both are due out on Tuesday. If these reports all point upward, they could cure the jitters, but if they're lackluster or negative, I expect this caffeine rush the markets are on could continue.


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Crimson Keeps Searching For Right Chemistry
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — One sign of how far Brown has come from a year ago after the game, Coach Digit Murphy told her team she was happy that a 1-1 tie with Harvard this early in the season could be considered a disappointment.
Brown (3-4-1, 2-1-1 ECACHL) did not let any scoring come easily for No. 6 Harvard (3-2-2, 2-2-2). The Crimson held the 34-27 shot advantage but struggled to execute against Brown's pressure, which generated turnovers throughout the game.
Both goalies went unblemished aside from a 92-second stretch early in the third period when each team traded goals. Brown sophomore goalie O'Hara Shipe made 33 saves to stave off the Harvard attack, and she was adept at clearing rebounds away from Crimson skaters. On the other end, Ali Boe made up for one Crimson defensive zone turnover after another in making 26 saves, none bigger than in the final minute of overtime when she reached over to play a shot off a loose puck in front.
"I'm pretty happy," Murphy said, "But I would have liked to have won today. I thought we played well enough to win, I thought we were aggressive. The puck was bouncing around and hit a couple posts."
Brown was most impressive in generating more dangerous scoring chances when on the penalty kill than Harvard did on its own power play, although the Bears could not cash in on those chances.
"We're good forecheckers," Murphy said. "In our rink it's a little smaller barn and it's hard for teams to handle that pressure we put on them."
"They're definitely better than they were last year," Harvard coach Katey Stone said of Brown. "They have better team chemistry than a year ago and that's translating to the on-ice performance."
Brown netted the game's first goal 5-on-5 at 3:25 of the third period, just 10 seconds after what might have been a Hayley Moore goal, disallowed by a quick whistle. But Brown could still smell blood, and kept the pressure on. As the entire Harvard defense looked to Kathryn Moos, she played the puck across to Kim McManus, who one-timed the puck in for an easy finish and a 1-0 lead.
But Harvard answered right back just 92 seconds later, when for once rebounds managed to bounce to Crimson players. This time it was sophomore Laura Brady taking the first swipe, and freshman Jenny Brine putting the puck in the net. It was one of the few positives for Harvard to take from the weekend.
"We've made some great surges at the end of games, and that's awesome," Stone said. "I was pleased how when they scored, we came right back and scored. Those things are really positive and we've got to continue to build on that."
The weekend still left plenty of room for improvement for the Crimson. One obvious target area for improvement is the power play, which entered Friday ranked first in the country before going 0-for-14 in two games this weekend.
Stone said the power play struggles resulted initially from adjustments that did not work out, and then the team could not easily adjust back to what it was doing before. She admitted she could have done a better job coaching this weekend.
"We're just a little out of sync, and I take responsibility for that," Stone said. "It's early in the season. We're trying to sort of figure out chemistry and what's going to work. You change things around a bit and think you're going to get a spark, and sometimes you get a dud."
Those problems were not isolated to the power play. Harvard also tried juggling its lines a bit, moving top goal scorer freshman Sarah Wilson to the third line initially. Then Harvard had to shuffle again when Liza Solley got banged up in the first period.
But Harvard's needs extend far beyond just finding the right line combinations.
"We've got to get back to basics and do the fundamental things well," Stone said. "Part of that is coming back and playing good defense …We're going to keep it simple and accentuate our strengths."
Harvard continues the season with a tough pair at No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth. The Crimson will have to do a far better job with the puck in its own end if it plans to stay close with the Bulldogs.
"We've got some time to work on them and what they're going to do, but more importantly we've got to take care of ourselves and do the things we do well," Stone said.
Although it's an Olympic year, and expectations for the Crimson are not as high as usual, Stone is not willing to lay down and die.
"We are young but I said to the kids yesterday, 'I don't want people to say, 'Oh, they were a young team this year.' I want us to be good, and we're going to get good,'" Stone said. "It's just taking us a little time to get our rhythm."
Brown, having taken three points from archrivals Harvard and Dartmouth, has reason for confidence going into the Mayor's Cup tournament next weekend.
"We have a good team," Murphy said. "People have a tendency to overlook us, which is fine."
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PHOENIX—On December 5, 2012, a federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a two-count indictment against Abdullatif Ali Aldosary, 46, of Coolidge, Arizona, for malicious damage to federal property by means of fire and explosives and felon in possession of a firearm.
The indictment alleges that Aldosary maliciously damaged by fire and explosives a building located in Casa Grande, Arizona that was leased to the United States Social Security Administration. The indictment further alleges that Aldosary possessed a firearm after having previously been convicted of a felony offense in the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Aldosary is scheduled to be arraigned in federal district court in Phoenix on December 11, 2012, at 10:30 a.m., before U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven P. Logan. He is being detained pending trial.
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Those attending the Automated Operations Technical Council (AOTC) 2010 conference in Philadelphia this spring would like to share their experiences. Hope to see you too next year!
Perils, Pifalls and Problems of Managing Heterogenous Virtualization
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Perils, pitfalls and problems of managing heterogeneous virtualization
Recently I spoke with Jasmine Noel, founding partner of Ptak Noel and Associates, LLC, regarding her research on the increasing drive for virtualization. What follows are some interesting observations -
"Enterprises keep asking for more agility (i.e. deploy more stuff even faster) and lower capital costs (i.e. minimize idle resources). Virtualization seems like the perfect answer. Virtual images can be deployed faster to provide more agility. More virtual images can be packed onto fewer physical systems to lower capital costs.
If only that were the end of the story.
Datacenter operations teams are realizing that virtualization is not a homogeneous, one-size-fits-all solution. Enterprises seem intent on acquiring different virtualization platforms as well as heterogeneous hardware platforms. This heterogenous virtualization is changing systems administration in some very fundamental ways:
• Virtualization decouples the traditional server and OS management from the physical hardware. This means administrators are being given a bunch of new, overlapping tools to manage the different virtual systems, which increases the potential for errors that impact business services.
• Virtual image management becomes more important (because someone will have to clean out the inevitable virtual sprawl) and more complex (because someone will have to minimize the business risk of high-speed image deployment).
• Matching dynamic workloads to virtual resources that can be easily and automatically added, deleted, moved or changed can't be done manually. Imagine trying to hitch a bucking rodeo bronco to a wagon that changes size every few minutes -- which doesn't bode well for guaranteed completion of critical business workloads.
There is no escaping these issues. Every enterprise has virtualization strategies for different types of infrastructure and applications. No single form of virtualization fits every aspect of those strategies. Thus there will be different hypervisors in the enterprise -- heterogeneity will persist. So what can be done about it?
• Start educating the executives that a virtual image needs proactive administration to keep it healthy They also need to understand that managing a roster of hundreds of virtual images is vastly different from keeping a spreadsheet list of 10-20 golden configurations. IT staff will need a major productivity boost keep up.
• Start seriously thinking about managing resources via policies, since it's the only way to control changes that can happen automatically.
• Start evaluating which of the repetitive administrative activities can be done in a cross-platform, cross-VM manner. The more those tasks can be automated, the more time there'll be to spend on avoiding the perils, pitfalls and problems of managing heterogeneous virtualization."
IBM is a client of Ptak Noel and has provided compensation to Ptak Noel for participation in this interview.
Linux on System z
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As you consider moving workloads to Linux on System z, you will want to evaluate which workloads are the best fit. Ideally, data intensive or mixed workloads are best suited for System z whereas CPU intensive workloads may be better run on other platforms. On a recent webcast where I was co-presenting with Bill Reeder (IBM Linux Enterprise Servers), we discussed best workloads for Linux on System z which leverages the strengths of System z like WebSphere MQ, Domino, SAP. We also talked about good workloads for Linux on System z which run well on Linux on System z but can also run on other platforms. So, there are other factors (e.g. organizational politics) which must be evaluated in deciding the ideal platform for workloads.
Wayne_Z_World : Highlighting the business benefits of WMQ configuration tools
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OMEGAMON XE for Messaging is a complete WMQ management solution. Many customers focus exclusively on the performance monitoring aspect of the product, which is the ability to monitor WebSphere Broker and WebSphere MQ, and disregard the WMQ configuration agent.
The configuration agent is a robust, feature rich, component of the solution. However, the features and associated benefits of the configuration component are distinctly different from those of the monitoring components. When discussing the WMQ Configuration agent, I like to begin by covering the business benefits it offers. The following items (IMHO) represent the business benefits of the WMQ Configuration agent.
* Centralized administration of WebSphere MQ objects
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* Eliminates configuration errors
* Assists in dealing with large numbers of objects
* Disaster recovery tool
The list of features offered by the WMQ Configuration agent are too lengthy to list here, but a full accounting can be found in the product documentation at:
Future blog entries will cover this material in more detail.
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Hi. I am Wayne Bucek a 20-year veteran in the systems management arena. When I have to come off the bike trails, I am a Consulting IT Specialist for zTivoli solutions. My favorite part of the job is to assist customers with the selection, design, and implementation of IBM zTivoli products. I am IBM-certified in WebSphere MQ.
Prior to joining vendor community, I had a real job - 10 years' experience across the disciplines of z/OS systems programming, application programming, and performance management.
I hope to make this blog a place z techies can come to link their real world business problems to zTivoli solutions.
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Webcast Oct 29: Using Tivoli Analytics for Service Performance to improve ROI
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Using Tivoli Analytics for Service Performance to improve ROI
Broadcast Date: October 27, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight, 3:00 p.m. GMT, 4:00 p.m. British Summer TimeReducing manual analysis, false alerts and diagnostic processes translates into improved productivity. But how is this possible with today's technology? If you can get data from multiple sources within your environment and perform analytics across multiple monitoring tools, you'll have a better understanding of the relationship among different product metrics — making your systems more sensitive to when a problem has occurred. This type of proactive model minimizes service disruptions, and enables you to get the most from your monitoring investments by detecting emerging problems that would otherwise go missed.
Join us for this complimentary teleconference on IBM Tivoli® Analytics for Service Performance. You will learn how you can reduce service outages by moving to a proactive analytics model that minimizes service disruption and improves the value from monitoring across mainframe and distributed environments. The resulting IT analytics are designed to help business and IT professionals who are interested in performance and application monitoring, operations and service availability, and overall System z® quality. If you currently use any monitoring product, such as ITCAM, OMEGAMON®, OMNIbus, or Tivoli Business Service Manager and performing event and service management, this teleconference will be of interest. IBM Tivoli Analytics for Service Performance can take information from your current monitoring products and perform predictive analytics to find problems before they become outages.
You'll come away from this teleconference with a good understanding of Tivoli Analytics for Service Performance capabilities, including how it:
Speaker: Richard Gleeson, Tivoli Product Manager, IBM Software Group
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Linux on System z Video
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Have you seen this video? It's fun. It was produced to help celebrate the 10th birthday of Linux on System z. It is System z focused, but later in the clip, you'll notice a very familiar screen. It looks like Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
Link to Video http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMLabGermany#p/u/0/0i7kBnhN3Lg
Private Cloud on System z
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Did you know that System z was a great platform for a private cloud? Software Group did a benchmark comparing a popular Intel based hypervisor to z/VM and observed the impact to CPU utilization, throughput (transactions per second), and response time of a sample application as they varied the number of virtual servers. Their results are documented in a paper: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_ZS_ZS_USEN&htmlfid=ZSW03125USEN&attachment=ZSW03125USEN.PDF
There is a companion paper that discusses the TCO implications of private cloud versus public cloud: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_ZS_ZS_USEN&htmlfid=ZSW03126USEN&attachment=ZSW03126USEN.PDF
Have you noticed that when the press talks about cloud, they're typically not talking about System z? I wonder why. I have some theories, but would be interested in your perspective.
Pulse Call for Speakers Extended
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Good news for all is that the "Call for Papers" for Pulse 2010 has been extended by popular demand. November 20th is the revised deadline so there is more time to finalize creative input. I spoke with Marcus Boone, product manager for Tivoli's system z portfolio, regarding suggestions for Pulse participation. He is anxious to hear from those customers who can share real-world experiences on how an integrated approach to service management on System z is creating real benefits. Virtualization projects with savings, new Linux workload projects or best practices in the very complex world of 'always available' are good examples. Marcus believes Pulse 2010's emphasis on alternative forms of customer participation, such as roundtables, panels and open discussions to support a topic will be both more interesting and more meaningful to all.
Please plan to join the conversation. Submit your proposal online at http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/.
Top 10 Ways To Participate in PULSE 2010
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Top 10 Ways to Participate in Pulse 2010
Pulse 2010 will be held February 21-24 in always exciting Las Vegas and feature the best of the best in Service Management. There will be announcements, presentations, demonstrations and receptions. Analysts and experts will address specialized topics for business leaders, technicians, and executives. Get smart, get certified and get connected. Plan to participate now. Call for papers and session contributors ends November 2.
Dec 13 Telecon - SmartCloud Workload Automation
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Dec 13 Telecon - Unattended Cloud application execution with SmartCloud workload automation
Register now: http://ibm.co/SsNzHG
Consolidating various product roles, as the backbone for enterprise scheduling
Implementing dynamic scheduling capabilities that can virtually integrate into a larger high-availability infrastructure
Using a per-job-priced metric, based on the number of jobs actually managed, enabling you to pay per-job for workloads that are being managed
Speaker: Xavier Giannakopoulos, Workload Automation Product Manager, IBM Software Group
Broadcast Date: December 13, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 4:00 p.m. GMT / UTC
Developed for: IT and enterprise architects and managers; operations managers and system administrators; CTOs; and project managers and researchers
Technical Level: Intermediate
Cloud environments bring with them a new set of challenges with lots of additional workload and resource management. Much of the savings gained from cloud deployments comes from reduced resource usage. But this requires well-managed, automated provisioning of applications and workloads and the capability to quickly de-provision, as well, to free up resources when there is no longer a need for the workload or application. If you're moving to implement cloud support for new workloads and applications, these are important considerations. Workload automation can help.
IBM SmartCloud workload automation capabilities are designed to provide a consistent look and feel that enables unattended workload or application operations, with the provisioning and de-provisioning of cloud resources and infrastructures. Join us for this complimentary webcast as we look at how to gain additional value with improved availability and productivity by automating much of the workload associated with managing applications in a cloud. You can save time and money with SmartCloud workload automation, while simplifying cloud operations.
Join us after the teleconference for a live question-and-answer session. The teleconference will also be available for replay after the event
Webcast Nov 15: What's New: OMEGAMON for Mainframe Networks V5.1
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Improved Network Monitoring with OMEGAMON for Mainframe Networks V5.1 Teleconference
Speaker: Kirk Bean, Tivoli System Automation Product Manager, IBM Software Group
Is network performance and availability important to your business? Can you quickly find and fix network problems before they become outages?
IBM® has redesigned OMEGAMON® XE for Mainframe Networks based on customer requirements to provide significant new network visibility. The redesigned OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks V5.1 helps subject matter experts resolve network issues across the enterprise using fewer screens and keystrokes.
In this complimentary teleconference, we'll share what's new in OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks V5.1, within the overall OMEGAMON V5.1 family — beyond improvements in user interface, and installation and configuration. You'll learn how to monitor and maintain your entire mainframe environment to more quickly find and fix problems before they become outages.
Join us after the teleconference for a live question-and-answer session. The teleconference will also be available for replay after the event.
Teleconference: Improve System z Storage Management - Dec 5
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Improve System z Storage Management with Integrated Storage Suite Teleconference
Speaker: Kevin Hosozawa, Tivoli System z Storage Management Product Manager, IBM Software Group
Out-of-control storage growth is putting a heavy load on many storage administrators — from the management of complex, multi-vendor heterogeneous IBM® System z® storage devices, to resolving performance bottlenecks with little visibility into the storage environment. Without an increase in budget or staff, it's also becoming more difficult to minimize outages and manage changes in the storage environment.
Join us for this complimentary teleconference as we review all the recent new capabilities in the Tivoli® System z Storage Suite, including integrated z/OS® storage management capabilities — visibility, control and automation — for the storage administrator. The suite can provide z/OS storage management awareness into application and workload management, enabling a more efficient process that helps reduce costs and fosters efficiency in problem identification and resolution.
The IBM Tivoli Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS, V1.1 delivers a feature-rich storage management, audit and reporting software suite that includes:
You'll learn how the new capabilities in this suite can improve storage availability and performance at a lower cost.
Join us after the teleconference for a live question-and-answer session. The teleconference will also be available for replay after the event.
Webcast Oct 25: Tivoli Business Service Management on z
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Teleconference: Tivoli Business Service Management for System z
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Speaker: Clayton Ching, Senior Product Manager, Tivoli Business Service Management, IBM Software Group
With enterprises becoming increasingly complex, and the volume of events growing, the problem of preventing problems from impacting service is becoming more urgent. IT shops need to respond proactively to infrastructure-related issues that are causing service degradation. But how do you get past multiple user administration interfaces, and difficulty in seeing historical and real-time events in a business context? How do you get to what matters most?
Business Service Management brings clarity and focus to what's important for IT in terms of business priorities. Prioritization of business services is the key to managing any enterprise environment, whether IBM® z/OS® or distributed, because your business services and all the underlying dependencies need to align. In this session, we will define Business Service Management and roadmap methods on what you need get you there.
Join us for this complimentary teleconference and learn how to architect and manage complex relationships between services and supporting infrastructure for increased visibility, impact assessment and reduced risk related to business events. We'll discuss a methodology to get z/OS events into Tivoli® Netcool® OMNIbus, and in turn Tivoli Business Service Manger. We'll highlight integration with the Tivoli Event Pump, and contrast it with other methods. This method closely aligns lines-of-business and IT operations teams, enabling collaborative and holistic management of services and dynamic infrastructures, such as cloud.
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Final OMEGAMON V5 family products now released
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IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks V5.1 and OMEGAMON for z/OS Management Suite V5.1 helps to optimize business application
performance and end-user productivity.
IBM has now completed announcing all the OMEGAMON V5.1 family of products. With the announcement of Mainframe Networks and Management Suite, all the OMEGAMON products incorporate the new V5.1 capabilities. New capabilities of IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE for Mainframe Networks V5.1,
and Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/OS® Management Suite V5.1 are designed to:
• Improve the efficiency of problem resolution by requiring fewer steps to isolate root cause of performance problems in real time, and therefore, enabling higher availability.
• Improve visibility, control, and automation with a new more comprehensive enhanced 3270-based UI capable of viewing the entire enterprise-wide environment from a single 3270 screen.
• Reduce the time required for installation, configuration, and maintenance by leveraging enhanced Tivoli Monitoring functions and a new PARMGEN
configuration tool.
• Include an enterprise end-to-end view of performance monitoring and availability on a common technology for both z/OS and open systems.
Customers can now monitor and management z/OS, IMS, CICS, DB2, Networks and Storage from a single OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 screen.
Webcast Oct 11: Quick ROI from Tivoli Asset Management on z
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Oct 11 Telecon - Gain quick System z ROI with Product Discovery and usage tracking with Tivoli Asset Management
Register: http://ibm.co/TufJRX
Topics include:
* Automatically creating and updating a complete system inventory via high-speed scanning and in-house application tagging
* Identifying where applications and tools are installed and used by factors such as region, machine, LPAR, storage volumes and related datasets
* Generating interactive reports that use hyperlinks for drilling down into specific details
Speaker: Alfonso Parra, Product Manager, Tivoli IT Asset Management Portfolio, IBM Software Group
Broadcast Date: October 11, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. EDT / 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC.
Join us for this complimentary teleconference as we discuss how Tivoli Asset Discovery can manage the full-life cycle of hardware and software assets on z/OS and provide real ROI quickly and on an on¬going basis. It helps organizations track software location and usage in a granular manner. For example, you can monitor software usage by job name, department and individuals, and also measure usage growth month by month. You'll come away with a clearer view of the actual cost of products and applications shared by users and business processes across your enterprise — without adding a lot of overhead.
Webcast Sept 27: Improved IMS Monitoring with OMEGAMON V5.1
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Improved IMS Monitoring with New OMEGAMON V5.1
Date and time: Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. CDT
Speaker: Mike Goodman, OMEGAMON® for IMS Product Manager, IBM Software Group. Check out his blog: Mike E ends with z.
Join SHARE and IBM for this complimentary webcast and get the details about what's new with the redesigned and improved Tivoli® OMEGAMON for IMS V5.1, including easier region navigation, reduced MIPS usage and the capability to issue IMS commands from OMEGAMON. We'll discuss how it reduces potential delays or outages by reporting coupling facility structure statistics and other critical IMS attributes. As a key component of the overall OMEGAMON family of products, you'll learn what IBM has done in this new release to make it quicker and easier to manage your IMS environment - and your overall mainframe environment.
Webcast Sept 13: Increase System z storage visibility with OMEGAMON Monitoring
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Increase System z Storage Visibility with OMEGAMON Monitoring Teleconference
Topics include:
Speaker: Kevin Hosozawa, Product Manager, OMEGAMON for Storage, IBM Software Group
IBM® System z® storage is increasing fast due to the large amounts of data that businesses are collecting, which in turn is increasing the amount of budget spent on storage. That storage is also becoming more critical for the business. Are your storage costs growing too fast? Can you quickly find and fix storage problems before they become outages? This webcast will show how redesigned capabilities in the Tivoli® premier monitoring and problem management family of products can address both those questions.
IBM has redesigned OMEGAMON® for Storage based on customer requirements to provide significant new visibility into System z storage. The redesigned OMEGAMON XE for Storage V5.1 allows subject matter experts to resolve storage issues using fewer screens and keystrokes. OMEGAMON along with IBM's Storage Management Suite can provide end-to-end visibility, control and automation for good storage management.
Join us for this complimentary teleconference and get the details about what's new in OMEGAMON for Storage V5.1, including additional hardware support, automation and analytics. We'll also discuss how you can more easily monitor and maintain your entire mainframe and storage environment to quickly resolve problems. You'll learn why OMEGAMON for Storage should be a key component of your overall IBM Storage portfolio.
Join us after the teleconference for a live question-and-answer session. The teleconference will also be available for replay after the event.
Webcast August 23: Cloud on System z
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Taking Advantage of a Cloud-Ready solution to simplify moving to Cloud on System Z
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Speaker: Mike Baskey, Chief Architect, Cloud on System z, IBM Software Group
Every IT shop is trying to figure out how to save money and decrease risks by implementing a cloud environment — beginning with the right platform. IBM® System z® has had virtualization for years, and with new tools, it can support the provisioning, orchestration and monitoring necessary to successfully gain the value of cloud on a System z platform.
Have you considered implementing cloud on System z? Join us for a complimentary teleconference and learn how IBM solutions give you the capability to monitor, provision and automate activities needed for cloud service management and how IBM is enhancing cloud on System z going forward. We'll show you how to create and reuse images automated with pre-built workload patterns, and later, automatically de-provision. This teleconference includes a discussion of the various new components available to support a cloud environment on System z, including Cloud Ready for System z — and image-based deployment for cloud service delivery and management—and Tivoli® Provisioning Manager. You'll come away with a good understanding of why System z is a great cloud platform.
Join us after the teleconference for a live question-and-answer session. The teleconference will also be available for replay after the event.


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|As part of international week, Wednesday in the Commons featured the Asian Tea Ceremonies of China and Japan. Dr. Jubilan explained the ceremonies as they were presented to an intimate group in McShea Commons. Photo provided by Amy Herzog.
|The DeSales University Men's lacrosse team played their home-opener game against Moravian College on March 18. DeSales ended up on the short end in the game losing, 13-11. Senior sports and exercise science major Matthew Brancaccio broke the all-time record for assists from a DeSales lacrosse player in a single game. The team currently has the record of 2-5 overall and 2-1 in the MAC Conference, with wins over King's College and Eastern University, and only falling in the conference to Elizabethtown on Wednesday, March 25.vided by Caitlin Scott.
Students recall their favorite April fool's jokes.
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"Last year my suitemate came into the bathroom when I was taking a shower and poured Kool-Aid powder on me, and it made me all sticky."
- Justin Wood
Sophomore Psychology Major
"Last year, Megan Costello put newspaper, masking tape and saran wrap on my door so that I couldn't open my door. I had to run and bust through the door. I fell into the hallway it was funny."
"I switched the sugar with the salt at a local diner when my friend was away from the table. When he came back he put a bunch of salt in his coffee and almost threw up."
"My brother put a rubber band around the water hose on my sink at home. When I went to use the sink I got sprayed. My dad got hit with the water too."
"My senior year in high school we broke into an assembly and srayed everyone in it with water guns."
"My junior year of high school year I told all my friends my parents had decided to move instead of waiting until I graduates. I called everyone and put it in my away message, I included a link to a picture of my new house, which was really a link to a myspace page saying April Fools."


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AEG Live has announced a Seattle date for platinum selling pop singer Selena Gomez on a 56-city tour that begins in August, in Vancouver, B.C. The singer/actress has recently updated her image from clean-cut teen pop star to a more adult persona, with her new single, "Come & Get It" and a racy role in the film "Spring Breakers." Gomez, who has had three albums debut gold, plays Seattle Nov. 12 at KeyArena. Tickets go on sale at noon Saturday (800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com). Prices have not been announced.
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The Franconian Switzerland: Bayreuth and its Envir
The Franconian Switzerland: Bayreuth and its EnvirBy car, 112 km, 1 day
A rolling plateau cut by deep valleys southwest of Bayreuth forms the northern tip of the Franconian Jura. The soil, composed of porous limestone, has undergone intense erosion, creating numerous caves and dolomite formations. 19C Romantics, inspired by the landscape, gave it the evocative name of ''Franconian Switzerland''.Customise this route and add it to My travel book
The devil's caves
Off the beaten track, the undulating plateau of Swiss Franconia (southwest of Bayreuth), is gashed by deep valleys. It forms the northern extremity of the Jura and its porous limestone shelf has resulted in many caves. The Devil's caves (Teufelshöle) are among the largest, adorned with impressive stalactites and stalagmites, in particular the "Cathedral of Barbarossa". The cave's exit, through a labyrinth of massive, chaotically heaped rocks, is picturesque.
Parc de Sanspareil
After the completion of the Hermitage in Bayreuth, Margravine Wilhelmina and Margrave Friedrich acquired an old hunting estate which they transformed into a rock garden and called it «Sanspareil» (Without equal). At the edge of the grove stood the Oriental building, fitted out in the Bayreuth Rococo style making it an example of Franconian court art.
Hermitage Castle
This used to be the Margraves' Bayreuth residence. The old Castle was built in 1715 and converted by Wilhelmina in 1736. She wrote her memoirs in the Chinese Mirror Cabinet. In the grounds, note the grotto, and the artificial ruins of a theatre built in 1743.


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The Artist Review
"Going To The Movies Is An Event Again!"
December 25th, 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol. Harry Potter. Thor. What do these films have in common? I'm sure there are many answers, but what stands out the most to me is that they are all begging to be seen on the big screen, in some cases the biggest. Viewers tend to rush out to see these films in theaters because of the 3D, surround sound, and huge picture. But listen to what I am about to say: The Artist--yes, the new black and white silent film--is more deserving of a theatrical experience than any other release this whole year.
Not because of the big screen. Nor is it because of the great sound quality (heh). No, the reason you need to go and see The Artist while it's still in semi-limited release is because of the audience, the one thing you can't recreate no matter how advanced your home theater system is. You see, this delightful film pays homage to the early days of filmmaking. The days when going to the movies was an event. Theaters would sell out, people would dress up, and it was an experience to remember.
The Artist isn't a film to rent. It's a moviegoing treat. A rare experience where the onscreen energy makes the audience come alive. At first, settling into the silent nature of the film is awkward, but the movie is very aware of that. It often pokes fun at itself. Or maybe it's poking fun at the audience. A crowd laughs and applauds in the film, but we hear nothing. It seems to be telling us right from the start that it isn't going to manipulate our senses to win us over.
It's essentially Singin' in the Rain. The familiar premise is about the transitions from old to new and how quickly fame can fade. George Valentin (Jean DuJardin) is the biggest of all silent movie stars. He is the face everyone wants to see. His smile stretches from ear to ear, almost literally. His fame is illustrated in the turning point of the film when he bumps into a young woman (Berenice Bejo). He flirts with her a bit, and she soon becomes a paparazzi sensation. "The name is Peppy Miller!" she declares confidently. Valentin is taken by her.
It's 1927 and "talkies" are just being introduced. The studio he works at, Kinograph, halts all silent productions to go with what the public wants--"fresh meat". Valentin laughs it off, because he can't imagine people wanting to hear voices onscreen. People do, however. And they especially want to hear Peppy's voice. As she becomes a rising star, he begins to fade away. Even though this story is set in an era dripping with nostalgia, the film feels rich, and the parallels about old and new seem modern and relevant.
One of the marvels of this motion picture is how perfectly it captures a sense of time and place. The film feels authentic. It's not an imitation or a rendering of the silent film era. It belongs, both there and here. There are subtle references to classic films, but this isn't just a herald to those films. The film keeps from being pushy and pretentious, and remains accessible to all audiences. Is this shameless Oscar bait? Maybe. But The Artist wins on many other levels than that.
DuJardin is a real star. It's a different challenge to connect with an audience without using your voice, but he has electrifying energy. He shapes a character without using exaggerated body movements or absurd expressions. It's his subtle gestures that rule his performance. We see joy and loss through the same two eyes. His performance is the best of 2011. His costars, from the adorable Berenice Bejo to the comically gruff John Goodman, don't feel quite as well-rounded, but they don't need to be. The Artist is about one man. One journey.
The biggest scene-stealer of all, though, is a hilarious Jack Russell Terrier (listed in the credit roll as Uggie). He gets the biggest laughs in the film and will win over even the most resistant viewers. Aside from him, there are a few great tongue-in-cheek jokes and other innocent gags that make this enjoyable from start to finish. Briskly paced and light on melodrama, The Artist is quick on its feet and never boring.
Awards buzz has been circling this film since festival season, but now it is beginning to pick up real steam. Right now it is the frontrunner for Best Picture, with DuJardin sneaking up behind Clooney for Best Actor. It's deserving of both of these awards and a handful of other technical categories like Art Direction, Original Score, and Cinematography (the film is presented in authentic 4:3 aspect ratio). An interesting note is that if this film takes home the prize for Best Picture, it will be the first time since the very first Oscar ceremony in 1928 that a silent film has won. I do, however, hope that this film is viewed as more than just "this year's film to beat." The Artist is, in a way, timeless.
I know I wasn't convinced when every critic was raving about this film. It seemed to be just another Benjamin Button, just vying for voters attention. But as it turns out, The Artist is one of my favorite moviegoing ventures of the year. It's an old-fashioned film for the modern audience. Classy and ambitious, this is a film to remember. But I repeat what I said earlier: this movie is meant for theaters. It's meant for big crowds. If I had waited to watch this at home, I probably wouldn't have engaged with it as well. So take a trip to the city. Take your friends and family. Don't wait around. This silent film is one to make some noise about.
19 comments
- Ivona-Poyntz • 4 years ago
Brilliant film.
- slysnide • 4 years ago
@moviegeek: I dunno which backwoods town you live in man, but it sounds like your theater audience is a whole lot better than mine. :P So I'll be skipping this theatrically. I really did like "Benjamin Button" though, it stood on its one without screaming Oscar Bait, especially since it didn't score any great ones. :P
@jayaottley Favorite, ay?! It's in my top 10 :)
- jayaottley • 4 years ago
@moviegeek Brilliant review dude, and this is definately by far my fav movie of the year.
This film was astonishing to me, if i find time i'll have my review up later :)
@daveactor7 I would love to see it happen! Same to you :)
@diaigma picky, ay ;). Selective is the word I like lol.
- daveactor7 • 4 years ago
I love films like these. This is gonna win best picture for sure. Awesome review and happy holidays! =D
@thedude-abides I'm sure it will soon!
@bawnian-dexeus Here's hoping!
@corey Oh get lost :P
- ghostman • 4 years ago
@moviegeek@corey You guys crack me up! :D
Anyways thank you for reviewing this MovieGeek, I look forward to seeing this in theaters soon ( right after I see Tintin!)
- thedude-abides • 4 years ago
Great review, @moviegeek. Unfortunately, seeing it in theaters is out of the question for me, as it's not playing anywhere near where I live.
- corey • 4 years ago
@moviegeek And a Merry Christmas to you too, ass :P Wouldn't be a perfect Christmas without a couple family slurs....well, in this case MW family slurs haha
- bawnian-dexeus • 4 years ago
@moviegeek Hopefully it is close by when I get back to Arizona, if not, well, I won't have that experience :/
- corey • 4 years ago
Excellent review @moviegeek. I was supposed to see this today but the plans fell through. I'll see it before New Year's Eve and I'm very excited for it. I didn't appreciate what you said about Benjamin Button though...hater :P lol
- bawnian-dexeus • 4 years ago
Merry Christmas MW friends! My gift to you all is a review of one of 2011's best.


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When the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan a year ago Sunday, Takashi Saito felt helpless. Thousands of miles away at spring training, he had no word from his family.
He considered leaving camp and returning home. A part of him is glad he didn't.
"If I did, I probably wouldn't have come back," Saito said through an interpreter. "It could have ended my career."
It turned out Saito's immediate family was all right, but he has relatives who still are dealing with the aftereffects of the most powerful earthquake to hit Japan.
Relatively speaking, his spring with the Diamondbacks has been uneventful. The team has been slow-playing the 42-year-old's schedule in hopes of keeping him healthy, and he was scheduled to make his second Cactus League appearance Saturday night at Salt River Fields.
Perhaps his most interesting interaction of the spring: Dinner last week with manager Kirk Gibson. Saito beamed when asked about it Saturday.
"I really had fun," he said. "As you know, Gibby has a lot of experience in baseball, and we got to talk about (former Detroit Tigers manager) Sparky Anderson. I was able to hear a lot of interesting stories."
Gibson has encouraged his players and even reporters to interact with Saito and has said he can learn things from Saito, who is in his 21st year in professional baseball.
"I'm really flattered that he feels that way," Saito said. "I'm not sure there's anything I can teach him, but if there are things that Gibby wants me to try to help out with my teammates with, I'd be happy to do it."
Reliever Mike DeMark, in camp on a minor-league deal, said he got tips from Saito on throwing a cut fastball.
"He was very helpful," DeMark said. "He has a ton of knowledge, and even with the language barrier, I was able to learn a lot from him."
Aware that Saito had difficulty staying healthy last year, particularly in spring training, the Diamondbacks have tried to limit his activity during workouts, asking him to take it easy during certain drills and even giving him nearly an entire day off early in camp.
"I don't know if (the lighter schedule) is good or bad yet, but it's what my manager and trainers want me to do," Saito said. "If they believe that will help, that's what I'm going to do."
Saito said he returned to Japan in the off-season and visited some of the places most affected by the earthquake and tsunami, including the area where his father grew up.
"The house where my father grew up in -- he doesn't live there anymore -- was wiped away by the tsunami," Saito said. "Where the house used to be, there's now a seawater lake and there are seawater fish swimming in that lake."
He said he has aunts and uncles who still don't have a permanent residence and instead still are living in temporary housing that was built immediately after the disaster.
Right-hander Josh Collmenter said he's on target to throw a bullpen session Sunday, and if all goes well, Gibson said Collmenter would make his second Cactus League start on Wednesday. Collmenter skipped his previous start due to forearm tightness.
Gibson said there's a chance prospect Trevor Bauer will get a third Cactus League start, most likely Wednesday, when the club has split-squad games against the Padres and Rockies.
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Cognitive Studies Concentration (CGST)
Coordinator: Professor Roy O. Elveton
Cognitive studies examines different approaches to questions concerning the nature of mind, the representation of knowledge, the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language, the development of learning and intelligence, and the assessment of "goodness of fit" between purportedly similar systems (e.g., the computer and the mind). Exploration of some or all of these questions has been and is being undertaken in such disciplines as cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, animal cognition, social cognition and others. The concentration in cognitive studies therefore represents a formal means of bringing together students and faculty in different disciplines who share common interests. We seek to enrich the view provided by any one discipline through an exploration of the contributions of others.
The concentration is designed for students majoring in psychology, philosophy, computer science or linguistics (as a special major), although all students are welcome.
Requirements for the Concentration:
To encourage breadth within the concentration, no more than four courses taken from a single department (or four Cognitive Studies courses cross-listed in a single department) may be counted toward the minimum seven required.
Introductory Courses:(Students must take both of the following):
CGST 230: Introduction to Cognitive Science
LING 115: Introduction to Theory of Syntax
Core Courses: (Students must take four courses, at least one of which must include a course with an emphasis on methodology, indicated below by an asterisk)
CGST 110: How to Build a Mind
CGST 240: Logic and Minds *
CGST 232/233: Cognitive Processes and Lab *
CGST 236: Thinking, Reasoning and Decision-Making* (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
CGST 380: Seminar in Developmental Psychology (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
CS 327: Artificial Intelligence
LING 215: Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language* (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
LING 237: Language and Mind (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
PHIL 210: Logic
PHIL 212: Epistemology
PSYC 234: Psychology of Language * (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
PSYC 250: Developmental Psychology
PSYC 258/259: Social Cognition and Lab *
PSYC 332: Psychology of Music
PSYC 386: Adolescent Cognitive Development
Seminar:(Students must take at least one advanced seminar):
CGST 373: Categorizing Artifacts, People and Natural Kinds (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
CGST 386: Adolescent Cognitive Development (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
An advanced seminar in Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, or Psychology, designated in a particular year by the coordinator.
Cognitive Studies Courses
PSYC 232. Cognitive Processes Cross-listed with CGST 232. An introduction to the study of mental activity. Topics include attention, pattern recognition and perception, memory, concept formation, categorization, and cognitive development. Some attention to gender and individual differences in cognition, as well as cultural settings for cognitive activities. Psychology 232 requires concurrent registration in Psychology 233. Prerequisite: Psychology 110 or permission of the instructor. 6 credits cr., SS, WinterStaff
PSYC 233. Laboratory Research Methods in Cognitive Processes Cross-listed with CGST 233. Students will participate in the replication and planning of empirical studies, collecting and analyzing data relevant to major cognitive phenomena. Prerequisite: Psychology 110 or permission of the instructor. Psychology 233 requires concurrent registration in Psychology 232. 2 credits cr., SS, WinterStaff
PSYC 234. The Psychology of Language Cross-listed with CGST 234. An introduction to the psychology of language. Topics will include the psychological status of linguistic theory, language acquisition and processing, aphasia, bilingualism, pidgins and Creoles, and the influence of language on thought. The course will emphasize the use of methods from experimental psychology in developing and testing theories of language phenomena. Prerequisite: Psychology 110 or 230, or Linguistics 110 or 115, or consent of the instructor. 6 credits cr., SS, Not offered in 2000-2001.
PSYC 236. Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision-Making Cross-listed with CGST 236. An examination of the way people think and reason, both when given formal laboratory tasks and when facing problems and decisions of everyday life. Students consider their own reasoning and decision-making through course exercises. Topics covered include: Models of formal reasoning, decision-making, heuristics and biases in thinking and problem-solving, the development of reasoning ability, moral reasoning, improving thinking, problem-solving and reasoning skills. Prerequisite: Psychology 110 or consent of the instructor. 6 credits cr., SS, Not offered in 2000-2001.
PSYC 373. Categorizing Artifacts, People, and Natural Kinds Cross-listed with CGST 373. What processes underlie our categorizing of people and things? How are our categories represented? How are they acquired and how do they change? How do they affect our reasoning and perception? We will discuss the implications recent work in psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy have for these questions, and the more general problem of the categorization of experience. Prerequisites: Psychology 110 and 232, or Psychology 230, or consent of the instructor. 6 credits cr., SS, Not offered in 2000-2001.
PSYC 380. Seminar in Developmental Psychology: Cognitive Development During the Preschool Years Cross-listed with CGST 380. We will consider the development of memory, perception, and attention, as well as concepts and categorization, problem-solving and thinking, during the years from 2-6. We will focus particularly on how these developments are reflected in children's spontaneous behavior and play. Course requirements will include readings, class discussions, short papers, a final project, and regular observation of preschoolers or kindergarteners. Prerequisites: Psychology 250 or permission of the instructor. 6 credits cr., SS, Not offered in 2000-2001.
PSYC 386. Adolescent Cognitive Development: Developing an Identity and Life Plans Cross-listed with CGST 386. An examination of recent literature on how adolescents develop their value system, explore their goals, begin to make life-framing decision, establish new relationships, and discover answers to the question ""Who am I?""Course readings will involve primary literature, and the course is discussion-based. Prerequisite: Psychology 250 or consent of the instructor. 6 credits cr., SS, Not offered in 2000-2001.


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Armchair chiefs
January 10, 2008 - Heather Ziegler
It's amazing that people who do not climb in behind the wheel of a police cruiser or pull on firefighters' boots each day become armchair experts on those professions come election time. No one can tell me that the issue of the two-man cruiser was not timed to coincide with this year's city elections. However, while I believe the chief of a department, in most cases, got his or her job because of past achievements, experience, leadership and dedication, there must be and there are checks and balances to their operations. So why not let the chiefs run their departments? As a young reporter I used to chase the firetrucks and cop cars. I would watch these men and women in action and respected what they did. It would make me crazy mad when I would hear some guys watching a building burn down then criticize the firefighters running into the buildings. Or when the police would be running down a bad guy, there would be smart alecks cheering for the criminal. I don't get that. Whatever your stance on the two-man cruiser, let's not overstep our boundaries and micro manage something as casual observers. If there is something wrong, sure, bring it up at council and commission meetings. If that doesn't work, then start your petitions, go to the media, but don't try to convince me that you know more than the chiefs if you aren't wearing the uniforms.
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How to Write an Aphorism Essay
An aphorism is a thought used to say a lot in one sentence. To write an essay on an aphorism is a simple prose assignment.
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1Choose your aphorism for instance: "Its plain hard work that does it...!" This explains how and why people struggle to get where they want to be in life.
2Think about your audience: what does each need to know to understand this concept.
3Analyze the meaning of the thought: Tell the life story of the average person. All of life you have to work hard in order to be where you are today and to continue to where I want to be in the Future.
4Develop your theory of what it means: Follow the hard winding road, but if you don't do it right, then it will lead you somewhere you don't want to be.
5Expand and extend the thought while staying on topic: Work hard on your one special purpose is important but also on everything you do. This aphorism shows that you should work hard whether it's in school, at your job or it's something you're doing around home. So to accomplish a goal you must work hard. Just working on things you need to do here and there will never get you where you want to be. Holding back what you want to do in life is bad; get you plan started.
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AGon left a big hole that is still a big hole. With his contract, to take on bums with massive contracts like Crawford and Beckett, it just shows how high a value the Dodgers placed on him.
AGon should have been retained, and Beckett should have been traded on his own. Crawford should have been traded sometime during or shortly after the 2013 season. Cherry's incompetent and sold at rock bottom and bought at top dollar.
Trotter, this post is proof that you're only here to play the contrarian. How would the Red Sox would have made out in those separate trades of Beckett and Crawford, two 'bums with massive contracts'? And what about the precipitous drop in AGon's OBP and SLG this year?
Also, you may have missed this news flash, but Cherry's involvement in this transaction was limited.
This is the part of the trade that the casual fans miss, like Trotter and the OP.
It wasn't just Beckett and CC's contracts that were problematic, it was Gonzo. His K/W has declined three straight years. The decline from SD was unavoidable, but his decline with Boston to 81/31, and 29/11 with LA, is huge. I like Gonzo, and he might well return to form, but for $21M at age 30+, I no longer like the contract.


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The employer pays for the previous month. The check she would receive today is only for Ausust's hours worked.
The employer told my daughter that she would hold her pay (for unknown duration...and she only pays once per month, at the beginning of the following month) because she gave less than two week's notice. She did not miss any work in August...today would be the first day that she misses a half hour (and Friday of this week...as she was bullied into working these two days to complete the two week's notice).
Thank you for your follow-up, Dan.What the employer is doing is not just wrong, it happens to be illegal. An employer cannot legally withhold pay for ANY reason unless the employee consented to it in writing. It is truly that simple, and if they do not pay her in a timely manner, your daughter can contact the Dept of Labor to file a complaint against them, or take them to small claims court and compel them to pay her as requested. It does not matter how small or large a company is, they CANNOT withhold regular pay.Good luck.
EVEN.....if she DID sign a paper upon employment that she would give two week's notice (and, since she is going in this week, she did just that).
Dan,Giving a promise to give notice is not the same as agreeing to withhold pay. The first is arguably a breach of contract but it would not give rise to the employer permitting himself to keep her wages. Employees are entitled to be paid regularly, not at the whim of the employer--that is the violations in this instance.Hope that helps.
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What the F is a frush? Nerds on VH1 Classic right now to hopefully cheer up @jonhein after his Michigan loss pic.twitter.com/JluVXwcmnq
Sal Governale
2 of my favorite drummers together tonight! @cwotd and Peter Criss on That Metal Show! 11pm. VH1 Classic. @realdonjamieson @Mrjimflorentine
Jon Hein
jonmhein: Watch ep 2 online here – t.co/y9bs4fJwRF RT @jvmnjp great pic! So bummed I don't get VH1 Classic.
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robertAbooey: Yes….that's the hard part! RT @kukka5 it took me half an hour to find vh1 classic. It was next to OWN
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jonmhein: You did. VH1 Classic on Thursday nights at 10. RT @schroddybach Did I see @jonmhein and @robertAbooey in a new show on VH1?
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CB2 Happy With the Smile's Liquor Plans
Even Zella Jones is onboard!
We often report on the frustration that many bar and restaurant owners feel when they face their various community boards, but at the Community Board 2's SLA committee meeting last night, the Smile's co-owner Matthew Kliegman sailed through the process with his bid to upgrade the shop's beer and wine license into a full liquor license. Even Zella Jones, the noted Noho activist who frowns on most liquor-license apps (including this one at one time!) gave a nod of approval: "I honestly can't say there is another establishment in Noho that personifies the neighborhood. It's very low key and has a very nice clientele. So I'm in favor of granting this because I'm really afraid of what might happen if someone else took over this location." [Earlier]


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NEW YORK (AP) — Celia Keenan-Bolger will go from a Tennessee Williams classic to a brand-new work by Sarah Ruhl.
The Tony Award-nominated actress has signed on to star in Ruhl's play "The Oldest Boy," to be directed by Rebecca Taichman. It begins previews Oct. 9 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.
Keenan-Bolger's Broadway credits include the shy Laura Wingfield in the revival of Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and a fearless Molly in "Peter and the Starcatcher." She has also been in "Les Miserables" and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."
In "The Oldest Boy," she will play the mother of a toddler who is believed to be the reincarnation of a high Buddhist teacher. His parents must decide whether he should begin training far away or stay home.


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Celts Counting on Shaq for the Playoffs?
Re: Celts Counting on Shaq for the Playoffs?
posted at 4/5/2011 3:06 AM EDTThey don't need Shaq as long as Jermaine O'Neal can handle 25-30 minutes and Krstic 15. That means no swelling for JO and he's moving around close to the year before this one and before he tailed off against the Celtics in the playoffs. If Shaq can also handle his 15-20, then Doc will have a surplus of diversified bigs to pick and choose from. I don't know about Shaq returning as soon as it says today in the paper, but I think Shaq will be able to get through the playoffs. It would be nice to have him if we play Orlando or Los Angeles. Every other team he's not necessary if Jermaine and Nenad are relatively healthy. There is a definite chemistry with Shaq playing with the Big Four. He's still somewhat of a scoring machine and takes some pressure off the other guys.
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posted at 4/5/2011 3:49 AM EDTIn Response to Celts Counting on Shaq for the Playoffs?:Only half right. In the east the Celts can beat any team that's in the playoffs right now. Even without Shaq. Sure Shaq will help, about a 10% boost on offense, but it's not true when they say Shaq will have to carry the Celts to another championship. The Celts will win the east with JO, Krstic, and Baby at Center. This year the Celts beat the Lakers, at Staples, even when Shaq was scoreless. The rematch in Boston, a few weeks later, was a different story. Shaq didn't play and the Celts lost. This time Andrew Bynum was not in foul trouble and he killed the Celts on the boards. Even with Perk starting and playing well the Celts couldn't stop the Lakers. Last June Celtic fans saw how Perk and Sheed were unable to take advantage of an Andrew Bynum playing with one leg. I'm a Celtic fan, but even I don't think the series would have gone to 7 games if Bynum was healthy. The Celts need Shaq because Andrew Bynum must be contained or neutralized.
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Multiplier effect
Big families are good for nations and good for the environment
The date of this issue, April 22, throws me back to when I was in college 36 years ago and we observed the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The celebration gained wide backing that year for reasons as polluted as the rivers that needed cleaning. Some supported it out of fear of overpopulation. Richard Nixon publicized it in the hope that students who spent time on ecology would have less time for anti-war demonstrations.
Some Christians-I was not one at the time-became involved for the right motives. They understood that God made Adam a gardener, calling him to take the raw materials of nature and make them more beautiful and more productive. Early this month New York City pastor Tim Keller offered an excellent exegesis on this theme to a group in his city. He observed that many people, including venture capitalists, are gardeners, taking the bare materials of the world and adding value.
God wants us to be fruitful and multiply, but I started thinking after hearing Mr. Keller that gardeners do not grow on trees. To help us produce gardeners, God provided incentives such as sex and the expectation of old age. Within marriage, if it feels good, do it-and behold, a certain percentage of unions will multiply the population. Within the confines of old age, folks who know they will weaken want children who can support them down the road.
Overpopulation fanatics a generation ago, forgetting that every "extra" mouth brings with it one more pair of hands, ardently tried to make big families unfashionable. They were aided by the removal of the age-old incentives. Effective contraception offered sex without reproduction (and abortion became a backup). Social Security offered retirement income without reliance on children. Sure, other incentives remained: Kids are fun, it's satisfying to watch them mature, and God says all that is good. But with sex and security no longer tied to procreation, many couples had one child instead of four.
Over the years the separation of sex and security from reproduction has trimmed but not stopped U.S. population growth, because the United States is the most religious country in the West, and many people still have the faith to have children. We've also learned that affluence and ecology are not at odds: A rich country can afford environmental protection. Still, abortion has led to a shortage of willing hands for many needed jobs, so we take in immigrants.
Many de-Christianized European countries have shrinking populations. The 20 million or more immigrants who do Europe's dirty work are from Muslim countries and therefore much harder to absorb. The Ottoman armies centuries ago could not get past the gates of Vienna, but demographic changes make Europe ripe for Islamic takeover during this century.
Similar population concerns have now led to an immense policy change in Israel. Demographers predicted that Israel, if it annexed the West Bank, would eventually have an Arab majority. Most Israelis shuddered, said they could not allow that to happen, and voted to hand over territory to Palestinian terrorists. Japan, although not threatened by invasion, is having its own anguished debate as a census unveiled earlier this month showed a decreasing population.
I'm not, let me emphasize, arguing against contraception used by married couples who have been fruitful or plan to multiply. (Other Christians differ on that, and we should respect each other's positions.) Nor am I saying it's necessarily wrong to have government stipends for the elderly. (Some Christians disagree.) My point is that massive social changes have consequences unanticipated by planners but predictable by those who, because of biblical teaching, discern the nature of man. Children are a blessing but also a lot of work, and our sinful nature is to be risk-averse unless material benefits are evident.
This puts a different spin on Christian calls for societal revival. We normally speak of the need to be born again to attain eternal life in heaven, and that is true. But cultures that have been Christian and are now losing population need to be born again through a new Reformation that would once again emphasize God's command to be fruitful and multiplying gardeners. A nation that is not born again will eventually die, and its environment will revert from garden to wilderness.


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Use retinoids and peptides at night
"They're both proven collagen boosters and will accelerate cell renewal," Dr. Grossman says. "Go with the strongest retinoid you can tolerate, whether it's prescription-strength or over-the-counter." Rx formulas come in different intensities but generally move up in strength from Retin-A to Differin to Tazorac. "To minimize irritation, dilute the formula with moisturizer," Dr. Grossman advises. "Or use less frequent doses and work up to every night."
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The goal of 'social norming' is to articulate the 'social norms' on a college campus. This is important because 'social norms' are the perceived standards of acceptable social attitudes and social behaviors that prevail among the members of a college community. Yet, such perceptions may in fact be gravely mistaken, and so create among members of a college community incorrect assumptions about approved and agreed upon attitudes and behaviors.
One dimension of social behavior of special concern on college campuses is alcohol consumption and associated behaviors. Recent surveys of college students reveal that most students greatly overestimate the amount of high-risk drinking that occurs on their own campus and on college campuses in general. Because of that erroneous assessment, students may conclude (counter-intuitively) that high-risk drinking is the social norm on a campus, meaning that binge and other drinking activities are tacitly accepted-- which in turn may lead them to increased alcohol consumption. In other words, the misperception may cause students to believe they are justified in consuming large amounts of alcohol, and cause other students to feel pressured to engage in high-risk drinking behaviors in order to fit in with the campus culture.
The Social Norms Campaign aims to correct such mistaken assumptions and to foster among students a more accurate understanding of alcohol consumption on campus. The Social Norms campaign collects from and distributes to students the more accurate data on student consumption in hopes of correcting any misperceptions and the associative behaviors such misperceptions may instigate.