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Wrong. What you meant to say was:
"Impossible. As every MBA knows, there are no low salaries, only lazy workers."
It's not economists who are running these companies.
Do you have a reference from an MBA text book to point this out? I didn't get taught any of that with my MBA.
Economics 101 Supply and Demand with Substitution.
Your salary is based on the Supply of available workers and the Demand for that type of work. (which under this condition would show that IT workers should be paying a lot more) Then you have Substitution, meaning while there is a lot of Demand and short Supply the Companies have substitution available.
Lets say a DBA. I good DBA is an excellent asset to a company. They can extract data and find information that you didn't even know you had, you can get your systems running really fast. Now however if you don't have that DBA depending on the company size how much are they loosing with Excel Files and Access Databases, and people who have to do a lot of time intensive work. So the DBA will need to compete with the inferior substitution because if his salary is too high, it isn't worth it, because there may be alternate methods.
In my area DBA's get good money because they are valuable. However if you are a just a programmer it isn't that their work is easier or they are lazier, but because there are more available, so that means their prices are less.
Now if you prove yourself a hard worker, (and the company is using proper HR policies), The company will see your value as greater and give you a raise, and try harder to retain you. Because there is a demand for a hard worker and less of supply of such.
Now a lot of companies will try to dig from the bottom of the barrel to try to find a Diamond in the rough "A really good employee for cheap" now this is a method of disaster, however that is what they do, because their cash is tight.
The MBA classes do teach that the higher you pay a person the harder they will work (not the opposite) however, most of these MBA's you talk about are not MBA's but some guy with a AB or BB degree. and just because they are in a higher position, you figure they are MBAs.
That is an MBA and Basic Economists analysis of why the salaries are the way they are.
Now if you prove yourself a hard worker, (and the company is using proper HR policies), The company will see your value as greater and give you a raise, and try harder to retain you.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I've never seen this anywhere I've worked. There are so many things wrong with that statement it's hard to even know where to begin:
1. The best IT people are NOT hard working. They are astoundingly LAZY. They write almost nothing and never look like they are doing anything. And yet their code is fast, clean, maintainable and they are always moving to the next project because the last one is in production and butter smooth. It's 100% impossible for an IT outsider to know who the good employees are.
2. I've never been at a company that used any HR policy that even found good employees period. They SHOULD concentrate on what you accomplished and how much money it made or saved the company. Instead, they usually devolve into twisted popularity contests or seeing who is the most obsequious or who is the best meaningless rule-follower.
3. I've never been at a company (that wasn't a consulting company) where they gave ANY value to IT workers period. Despite the fact that you are out-earning them 2:1 in some cases and that your IQ is 25-30 points higher than theirs, they treat you like you are some dumb plumber or auto mechanic that dropped out of high school and are overcharging them for fixing their car or something.
4. Companies will spend a fortune to attract new talent and pay recruiters 10-15% for the privilege. But they have stupid rules in place that PREVENT them from EVER giving a 5% raise to an IT worker no matter how valuable they are. As such, they spend all their time re-training instead of retaining.
"The MBA classes do teach that the higher you pay a person the harder they will work (not the opposite)"
Good story. It's only it fails to explain why -oh why, there's a "... Forty-nine percent of U.S. companies having a hard time filling what workforce management firm ManpowerGroup calls mission-critical positions within their organizations. IT staff" on a country that just a decade ago had a surplus on such roles.
The MBA classes might teach whatever they (say) want. Quite a different issue is what their students learn... which basically ends up being "let's cry the government so we can get some more H1Bs on the cheap, get this quarter numbers fit and so get our bonuses and the hell with anything else".
Partially correct, but you are missing the most important thing gone awry in IT today.
Dear company,
While I understand you have vast needs in the IT area, and wish to do less with more there are limits to human capacity. I can not fill the role of Senior Unix Analyst/Engineer/Architect, Network Analyst/Engineer/Architect, MS Windows Analyst/Engineer/Architect, Storage SAN/NAS Analyst/Engineer/Architect, Firewall and Security Analyst/Engineer/Architect any more than you would expect your CPA to be your attorney, business analyst and lead sales person. You need to pick one or two of these things, preferably what I have spent twenty years mastering and allow me to do my job.
I also understand that you have developers that read trade magazines and demand that they have what they read about. This has created workplaces that are impossible to support. There should be no more than three versions of any Operating system on site and those should be limited to not more than 2 types of Linux. One for development, one for production, and one for legacy. Allow your IT staff to keep your development on track, give us the reigns and watch how fast you can go and how far you can drive.
Lastly, contrary to popular belief IT people enjoy time away from work and the office. We do not like to be on call 24/7/365 with no bonuses and no breaks. We expect to be treated with the same respect as the Corporate Lawyer that saves your ass in court, as we often save your ass with our magical IT skills and keep production up and moving even when systems collapse.
After I gave notice at my last job, my boss complained it was hard to replace me - and not because of a lack of applicants. In a nutshell, he said that all of the applicants either had zero relevant experience or they had great experience and tech skills but had absolutely no interpersonal skills. I've found that the ability to talk to non-technical people is more important to most hiring managers simply because it's a lot easier to train someone to be technical than it is to train them to work with people.
So what you say is you take what the non-technical people say back to the technical people. Couldn't the technical people just talk to the technical people directly?
So what you say is you take what the non-technical people say back to the technical people. Couldn't the technical people just talk to the technical people directly?
I'm a PEOPLE PERSON, DAMMIT!
I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you?
Except it was a small company, so I was the technical person too.... so yes, the non-techs were talking to the tech directly... which only worked because I could break down technical issues for the non-technical people and I could understand them when they talked about thingies and whatchamacallits.
Look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn non-techies so the techies don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
I just use the dead corpses of non-technical people to shim up server racks
A little Febreze always helps with the smell.
While interpersonal skills are important, in many jobs I've had there is WAY too much emphasis put on them. I personally believe this is because it is a skillset that a manager can understand while the non-technical types don't understand the technical competence. For certain I.T. people and programming-types it's much more important, IMHO, that they understand the technical side as 95% of their job should be in front of the computer (this is excepting support personnel that have to deal with the public). I've seen quite a number of work situations where it is the other way around.
There are 2 types of engineers that can't communicate.
1. Ones that can't communicate with non-technical people. I can find a place for them.
2. Ones that can't communicate with technical people either because they are total jerks. There is NO place for them.
I've found that the ability to talk to non-technical people is more important to most hiring managers simply because it's a lot easier to train someone to be technical than it is to train them to work with people.
I disagree with that.
I think it is easier for the hiring managers to evaluate "interpersonal skills" than it is for them to evaluate "technical skills". And since it is easier for them, they value those skills more.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ [codinghorror.com]
http://thedailywtf.com/ [thedailywtf.com]
I don't buy that.
I think it comes down to $$$. Same reason Jobs put Apple factories overseas to save ~$25 per iPod.
If the hidden-camera videos on youtube are accurate, the companies DON'T want to find U.S. workers, but instead collect resumes (per requirements of U.S. law) simply to throw them in the trash afterwards. Their real mission is to claim "we can't find any locals" to the Congress, so they can apply for temporary visas to import cheaper workers from overseas.
The only problem I have with this conspiracy theory is that it might be true for some giant company like MS or Intel which has political connections and hires lots of H1Bs, but it surely can't be true for some piddly little 500-person (or even 3000-person) company. The smaller companies don't have a lot of political connections, and time is of the essence to them; they can't wait the time needed to get a bunch of temporary visas to import cheaper workers, in fact the smaller companies usually don't seem to have any imported workers in my experience. Yet I still see lots of ridiculous requirements in job requisitions from smaller companies.
I've bought specialized software from some small home-grown companies of 3-4 programmers with at least 50% of the programmers being H1b. Yes it isn't evidence, but it does happen more than you think.
The only problem I have with this conspiracy theory is that it might be true for some giant company like MS or Intel which has political connections and hires lots of H1Bs
I think it's an ecosystem problem, if a significant proportion of the IT jobs are being replaced via off-shoring or outsourcing to inshore companies who don't pay as well then for every job lost you've also lost a person keeping their skills up to date and then the next generation see whats happening and say "fuck that, I'll get an MBA instead".
To start with it probably doesn't have a big affect but by the time you start losing the veterans to promotion and retirement after 10-15 years and haven't got their replacement already trained with some experience then it's too late. You need a certain critical mass of people interested in a career to keep it going or skills will be lost and once they are gone it's incredibly hard to get back at a national level.
You need people entering the IT careers at the bottom, to have some exposure to different IT career streams and for them to have a certain expectation of being able to develop a life long career out of it, and I don't think anyone really believes that will happen any more.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy which benefits those to have the ability to influence job markets at the expense of those who don't.
I'm going to call it an HR problem.
First, the IT people trend heavily to being introverts and poor people skills in general. So they are pretty much ineffective when it comes to recruiting talent.
Second, HR has no idea what IT needs, either in skills or personality. So they resort to a list of buzzwords. Anyone who has ever applied to a state position has gone through being rejected because they lacks a single buzzword in their resume, or,. are one month shy of the experience requirements.
So on the Can't Find Talent statement, I call the ultimate bullshit. They aren't looking and when they do find someone, they stupidly screen them out on stupid, irrelevant requirements.
The videos aren't really very hidden camera [youtube.com]. In fact they can be quite open about it.
I hire and supervise technical staff for a living (although it's a small enough team that I'm chipping in on the tech work as well).
I can manage somebody with fantastic technical skills but without people skills if (a) I can put him in a proverbial cave where I can keep the non-techies away from him and him away from non-techies, and (b) other techies can work with him. I would rather have somebody with great personal skills too, but if it comes down to technical skill versus people skill, I'll take the technical skill.
You can train people skills too: you sit your problem employee down and tell him exactly what your expectations for personal behavior are, and what you need him to do differently. You be specific about what behavior is inappropriate or problematic, and tell him what you need him to do differently. If you start seeing changes in the right direction, you encourage it by telling him what he did right.
This is interesting because what you are saying here is to actually **develop** your workforce.
Most corporations don't want to do that anymore.
It's actually self-interest to develop each member of my team:
1. If they piss off somebody important, that's going to land on me. Likewise, if they do a great job for somebody important, that's also going to land on me. So it's worth teaching them the people skills.
2. The more my subordinates can handle without me, the less I need to do and the more I can focus on longer-term and bigger-picture issues, and the more I can focus on managing upwards rather than downwards. Also, it means I can take vacations.
3. If I'm trying to be promoted, I need to have somebody ready to take on the work that I'm currently doing (unless I want to go insane doing 2 jobs). Grooming a subordinate (who's going to have a certain amount of loyalty to me for making that effort) to take on my job is the safest way to do that.
4. If my subordinates leave the company, they'll be more likely have good things to say about me, which makes it easier to find good employees.
This sounds like good advice. A lot of these people without people skills, especially the younger ones, probably simply haven't been in an environment where they were taught any in a positive manner. Broken or single-parent homes are the norm these days rather than the exception, and personally, as someone who grew up with a single parent, you don't get a whole lot of social training when you don't have any siblings and your one parent is gone all the time for work (including evenings). Schools certainly don't teach socialization, at least not in a positive way (more like Lord of the Flies style), so I think a lot of kids get their socialization skills in college. But this isn't all that great for technical majors since there's no women there, and only a limited amount of interaction with (male) peers for lab projects.
You can train people skills too: you sit your problem employee down and tell him exactly what your expectations for personal behavior are, and what you need him to do differently. You be specific about what behavior is inappropriate or problematic, and tell him what you need him to do differently. If you start seeing changes in the right direction, you encourage it by telling him what he did right.
Assuming you know what a RFC is, you write him a RFC. He will follow it. It'll probably look a lot like the old TCP and IP RFCs. "no evil bit" in any datagram, keep your TCP buffers small, sensible retry protocol if no response (not launch a ICBM), has something like ARP to figure out who to contact instead of flailing around or broadcasting spam mail to the whole universe, some kind of loop free spanning tree like topology to transfer problems around, semi-standardized handshaking protocol to initial and end conversation streams... Come to think of it, over the decades, networking/network programming guys have been the easiest to get along with of all techies I've known, from internalizing this kind of stuff.
That seems to be the case that I see. Positions that want YEARS of experience, long lists of certifications, and pay around $34,000.
Same with any other area, there is no shortage of people wanting jobs, there *is* a shortage of people wanting to be slaves. Shouldn't "market forces" tell these "job creators" that they are not paying enough?
Market forces are warped. That is what happens when you can buy laws and that is what is happening now. It's pathetic to see people scream at the free market and purchase legislators at the same time.
It's pathetic to see corporations scream at the free market and purchase legislators at the same time.
It would be pathetic, were it coincidental. The fact that it is not makes the act downright fucking evil .
Well, that and they are often some of least respected positions in the U.S. There are plenty of people in I.T. fed up with the fact that while it isn't really a "dead end" job, you are always in a bad situation. If you're bad at your job, you just eventually lose it. If you are good at your job, some places will be scared to advance you or, since being good at your job really mean more idle time in I.T., they'll claim it's a place to cut and STILL fire you. There's also that pesky fact that many of the baldy suits can't understand what you do.
The way I.T. has been handled over the years by the management types is a prime problem in getting people in to the jobs. The I.T. people are smart and they see the "creative" people get respect and they see the pointy-head management get overpaid. It's no surprise that it would lose it's appeal.
I have a position that has been open for 6 months. No one has turned us down on salary because no one has presented a skill set strong enough to get an in-person interview let alone an offer.
Apparently strong network security (packet/protocol level) + network operations background + minor software development + security clearance is an impossible combination to find.
Sorry, I don't buy your argument.
If you strike possessing security clearance from the listed of mandatory requirements, and change it to "must be able to obtain a security clearance", your field of candidates will open up. Yes, you will have to pay for someone to get cleared, and that is not cheap, but there is an acute shortage of information security practitioners as it is.
The reality is IS pro's with TS/SCI clearance command a premium due to the insatiable demand from the U.S. Government and firms that do business with the same.
I have a position that has been open for 6 months. No one has turned us down on salary because no one has presented a skill set strong enough to get an in-person interview let alone an offer.
Apparently strong network security (packet/protocol level) + network operations background + minor software development + security clearance is an impossible combination to find.
If the position has been open for six months and you have not received a qualified resume then you are doing something wrong.
Apparently strong network security (packet/protocol level) + network operations background + minor software development + security clearance is an impossible combination to find.
Ya think?
- Network security person + clearance. One job.
- NOC ops + clearance. One job.
- Part time software development. One job, either part time or contract.
Don't complain that you can't find somebody stupid enough to attempt to do all three jobs. If they already have their security clearance then their BS filter works just as good as your resume filter. There is no shortage of open jobs that are SINGLE jobs requiring security clearance.
I've seen my own share of job postings where it is clear the job will be a nightmare just by the way they word it. The classics are like yours, listing multiple full time jobs as a single job, and then mentioning overtime will be requested for the salaried position.
Depends on the size of the company. If you're a ten-person team, that could reasonably be one job because the time spent on any one of those tasks could easily be way less than a full-time position.
That said, as soon as you add the security clearance requirement, your applicant pool dries up. There's no good way around that unless you actively poach from other companies in your field. If you're big enough to do that, you're big enough for those to each be separate positions.
A long time ago in a career far, far away I proposed an information management solution to the administration of the hospital I worked for. They responded by posting a position for a person to head up the project. The requirements? 5 years experience as an Oracle DBA and 10 years experience as a degreed Medical Technologist working in a human leukocyte antigen laboratory. This was in 1994 or thereabouts. An oracle DBA with 5 years experience commanded at least $65k. An HLA med-tech with 10 years exper
Too many job ads are looking for insane amount of skills in one person...They ask for a "Unix Admin" person who knows how to code in C++, C#, manage an Asterisk server, install mange & tune 1000 RHEL servers, use NAGIOS, maintain a SAP system, automate sysadmin tasks using bash/ksh/perl/PHP/C/C++, setup and manage IIS & Apache, admin websphere & coldfusion, install manage and tune Windows 2003/2008/2008R2, manage VMware/vSphere/ESX/ESXi servers, perform second level support for Windows users, manage printers, travel onsite for servicing, be on call 24/7 (for no extra pay), and be able to interact like a jolly good fellow with customers, co-works and management, oh, and write documentation and explain things as well as Carl Sagan could.
Offered pay: $40,000-50,000/year
Sure...lots of people like that...and all are willing to do it for $40,000 a year
I don't think so...
But it gets worse!
If you don't put all the appropriate keywords they want, they won't even look at your resume, even if you could do all the things they ask for...for example, I had one recruiter, after seeing I had installed, patched, secured, put on line and monitored Solaris servers, ask me if I had ever configured a Solaris system. I explained that what I had listed includes "configuration", but he refused to send the customer my resume until I added "configured" to the sentence.
Then you get past the HR people...and you end up with a trivia contest from the tech people...who only know one way of doing things since they learned it by rote
Am I bit bitter at this point in my job search? Yes, just a tad. 10+ years Linux/Unix admin experience...and still can't get a job!
From the article the 3 reasons why they can't find people:
1.) lack of available applicants
2.) applicants looking for more pay
3.) lack of experience.
I'm willing to bet that all 3 reasons are related to #2. Post a job listing online, looking for 20 yrs experience in Java and offer 40K/yr. Lets see anyone reasonable come try and fill that job post without asking for more money.
Lets see anyone reasonable come try and fill that job post without asking for more money.
No they'll just go crying to their cronies in Congress to give them more H1B visas, saying there aren't any American workers out there. Then they'll hire some guy from India willing to work for next to nothing--who will produce shitty work in the long run, but hey it's all about the short term profits on paper anyway.
"IT positions some of the toughest jobs to fill in the US...because employers can't get enough cheap H1B foreign labor." This is not about finding Americans with enough technical expertise, of which there are plenty--it's about employers who aren't willing to pay for it, and want to hire cheap labor from India/China visa holders.
I think it goes beyond that. I'm seeing H1B's getting the same or even beter rates on contracts than US citizens or even NAFTA visa holders. In spite of that, I've seen uniformly inferior work out of those H1Bs from India. It seems to be a cultural thing since I see good and even superior work from Americans, Canadians, and Wetern Europeans of Indian decent. Yet, the H1B's are getting the jobs. The customers (employees of the contract issuers) are complaining bitterly about the poor service, and nothing changes.
I'm missing something here. If it's money, where are they cutting costs?
I have noticed that well over half of the recruiting companies I've had dealings with are Indian owned. It also seems that ALL of the IBM contract positions go through these Indian owned companies.
To be clear: we're not struggling to find *people*, we're struggling to find *talent*.
1. Americans bailed on the sector when the first big bump in 1998-2000. This left a gap that new trainees never really came in to fill.
2. H1Bs go home. This means the insane over-recruitment of H1B employees had a cost at the end of their terms.
3. There has been, up until 2008, and attitude in the U.S. that any college degree is good enough. My state only graduated 40,000 people from community colleges/trade schools this year. Everyone with higher aspirations just went to a 4 year school. To do less is to view oneself as a failure(and employers do too).
4. Combine that with a culture with a slight distaste for mathematics and science and that's more than enough basic features to explain a discrepancy of this level.
Look on the bright side, now fry cooks and sign-twirlers feel like they're really earning a 'competitive wage'.
They just need to up their offer. Go invisible hand!
If the salaries for those positions were acceptable to the people with those skills, they would have no problem filling the positions.
I get weekly emails from companies wanting me to do contract work, all senior engineer level work, as a contractor (no benefits, 1099 work), and the hourly rate is pathetic. Then they cry about not being able to hire engineers, and how we need to outsource/bring in H1Bs. Let them struggle.
I am a sysadmin and I get contract to hire stuff all the time. Problem is I am currently full time employed....no contract and I have full benefits. Now TELL me why I want to leave for your pathetic 2 year contract?
Offer me:
1. More than I make now.
2. Permanent...with bennies.
3. Better working conditions (competent project management and not constantly being asked to perform a miracle in a week).
Then....ONLY then will I consider even applying for the position.
Another mistake they make is asking for God like qualities in a technical position. Qualities like:
1. 10 years experience in a tech that has only existed for 5.
2. 365/7/24 On call (Bullshit)
3. That you can be a DBA, Sysadmin, Project Manager and chief cook and bottle washer.
I've seen that in MANY postings and it's impossible to fill because they ask the world and expect to pay for the city. That doesn't jibe.
To do well in IT you just have to have a certain problem solving ability. I don't think it is something that can be taught, or at least I can't tell you how to teach it. It isn't about knowing a lot about computers, it is about being able to process novel problems and find solutions to them, expediently preferably.
That's what we look for when we hire students (I do IT work for a university). Finding students with experience is hard since, well, they are students of course they don't have experience and that aside the kind of things we do, almost nobody has experience with. That's ok, what we are really after is someone who is good with problem solving, particularly the kind of problem solving you need for computers.
I've encountered more than a few people who are not very qualified/competent in IT. We've hired a few people since I've worked here and I've sat on their hiring board (the IT manager, my boss, usually has 4 other technical people with him on the board for interviews). The only people in interviews already made it past HR's resume filtering, and then were the best resume's from the bunch we got. Still, many have been totally unqualified and it becomes readily apparent in the interview process.
As someone who recently sought to fill one of those openings, I have some advice for companies looking to hire: Let your existing IT people write the job listing. A disturbing number of the listings I came across were ridiculous.
5 years experience required, for an entry-level position at $25,000 salary with weekends on-call? Nope. I might be unemployed, but I don't want to lose money on a job.
Looking for someone A+-certified with mainframe maintenance and 15 years of Java programming experience? I'm close to qualified, but now I'm scared.
Five programming tests and two phone interviews, and the face-to-face interviewer doesn't even get my name even close to right? I don't think the epitome of "faceless corporation" is the right fit...
Look, I understand that there are lots of IT folks out of work, and you think that if you ask for the world, you'll get it from them. You might meet some success, but is stripping your employees of dignity really the right way to get a productive workforce?
This is the same whining we hear year after year. It's been going on since at least the early 90s, if not earlier. With few exceptions, there are people out there willing to fill these jobs but employers are unwilling to hire them because (jumping on the bandwagon here) they don't want to pay these technical people what they are worth and will not accept anyone who does not meet the exact, cross the T, dot the I experience they think they want.
Employers have essentially pawned off all training on schools, completely unwilling to offer even the barest training to bring people up to speed. They now expect you to know the intricate details of their organization even though you have never worked for them before.
Employers have brought this upon themselves and are now acting like spoiled 2 year olds, stomping their feet and holding their breath until they get their way.
You want to know how to fill these positions? REDUCE the number of H1B visas and force employers to hire those unemployed IT folks who have applied for these positions but were rejected because they didn't fit the bill 100%.
When I see the same job postings from the same employers month after month, entry to mid-level jobs, not the high-end, ultra technical positions which legitimately could have a shortage of workers, there are only two conclusions to reach: either no one is applying for the positions (for whatever reason), or employers are rejecting everyone because their standards are too high (and their heads are too high up their asses to figure it out).
The problem is that all these employers are looking for $10,000 Ferraris and bitching because they can't fill the niche. That way they can go out and cry to the Labor Department for an H1-B so they can get somebody on the cheap.
It's not that the IT folks are asking for big money, but a decent living wage and employers are tempted with the H1-B rules to go out and leverage the crap out of them. Also there is a trend, in general, to have requirements so specific that the HR folks or the dreaded Taleo bullshit will filter out candidates who meet 70 to 80 percent of the requirements. I realize that's the situation we've been in for years but for all these employers who are crying I say that there are people out there who can work for them if 1) They're willing to pay at least the market rate for some of these positions rather than trying to drive the prices into the dirt and 2) Taking a look at their requirements and matching their candidates objectively, not allowing some fucking acronym matcher determine if a person is suitable or not for a job. Yeah, I know
maybe that's too much to ask but considering that the information is coming from an HR temp staffing firm, which is another big, big problem with the IT industry but that's another kettle of fish.
Companies (and HR departments in particular) are bad at hiring someone to grow into a job. They want someone who is in the top 20% of their profession and can do the entire job starting right away, but then they base their pay scales on the 50th percentile.
Headhunters also do a bad job, at a high price.
If there were people who could actually be trusted to do a good job at filling positions, lots of people would benefit.
The original article listed the 3 reasons the slots were hard to fill, "including lack of available applicants, applicants looking for more pay and lack of experience"
So in other words employers who don't recruit, don't pay much and aren't willing to train are having trouble. Well good.
Management are finally discovering what experienced IT staffers have been warning them about for years- failure to invest in training and mentoring entry-level staff will result in shortages over all levels of skill in the future.
Skilled staff are not a commodity. They are not widgets that can be easily replaced. Moreover, the attrition rate for the IT field is high- I am one of 4 people I know among my extended group of friends with more than 20 years in the business who are still working as non-management. Everyone else has either changed professions to something else, or is in management.
The unemployment rate for IT staff in my region is less than 3%. I stopped trying to get requisitions for new staff to train up years ago when I realized that until their pants are on fire, management at most companies simply won't understand that it can take three to five years to train up a good IT staffer, provided the will and funding are there to do it. So, this new "news" is not a surprise to me, and I've taken a more laid back approach as I've realized that there isn't any purpose to changing some peoples' minds about the growing staff shortage. As of now, I'm enjoying the ride, letting people call me and determining where I'm going to have to argue least about pay.
Don't forget the ageism thing. Shocked no one mentioned this.
Must have 25 years Java experience... and the unwritten rule is be under 30.
Sometimes ageism shows up in ridiculous combos, where the only way to get that combo is to already have that specific position, or be about 60.. and they only hire kids under 30.
What if drivers were hired like software developers?
Job title: car driver
Job requirements: professional skills in driving normal- and heavy-freight cars, buses and trucks, trolley buses, trams, subways, tractors, shovel diggers, contemporary light and heavy tanks currently in use by NATO countries.
Skills in rally and extreme driving are obligatory!
Formula-1 driving experience is a plus.
Knowledge and experience in repairing of piston and rotor/Wankel engines, automatic and manual transmissions, ignition systems, board computer, ABS, ABD, GPS and car-audio systems by world-known manufacturers - obligatory!
Experience with car-painting and tinsmith tasks is a plus.
The applicants must have certificates by BMW, General Motors and Bosch, but not older than two years.
Compensation: $15-$20/hour, depends on the interview result.
Education requirements: Bachelor's Degree of Engineering.
10 years C++
5-7 years Java
5-7 years HTML and CSS
2-3 years SQL
2-3 years Ruby
1 year JQuery
1 year COBOL
Familiarity with VHDL
Must be a Team Player
Must be willing to work 60 hours per week
Must know ballroom dancing
Must speak sloth
Salary 40,000 per year
I have no idea why they are having difficulties....
First of all, 1,300 employers Doesn't seem like that is an accurate representation of 49% of the entire US IT workspace. I wonder who funded the study, Koch Bros?
FTFA: "Forty-nine percent of US companies are having a hard time filling what workforce... The group surveyed some 1,300 employers" um, wtf?
What's more:
The Skilled Trades left the workforce when the USA shipped all of it's manufacturing tooling processes overseas in the mid 90s. The Engineers and Machinists had to find other ways to make a living. I'm not surprised you cannot find anyone to do it now.
IT Staff, Secretaries, Sales and Accounting were some of the first jobs to be cut following the housing/banking crash in mid/late 2000's.
Teachers rely pretty heavily on Unions to make their jobs worth the pay. No, I don't mean the Scott Walker 6-figure income district vice-superintendent pencil pusher, I mean the first grade teacher making $40k/year with a class of 20 kids. Tea Party is putting an end to the unions, so don't count on good teachers being available any time soon.
"IT Positiions Some of the Toughest Job to Underpay People in US"
or maybe
"Companies over specify jobs, find no one matches."
Well America. Maybe if you pay your "IT experts" decent wages and offer them decent benefits like the rest of the world does people would be willing to work there.
Recently I had an offer at a very well known vendor in the US. With 12 years working experience plus a few important industry certifications under my belt I felt I would get a decent offer. They (HR at this company, I felt like I was talking to a wall) wanted to offer me coming from Europe, 55k USD/salary yearly, 10 days vacation a year, some crappy health insurance plan, no relocation, no yearly bonus, no overtime pay.
I told them what I make here in Europe plus benefits and the HR lady almost fell out of her chair. "Saying we cant do that." Career wise would have been an excellent opportunity. Although, the pay and benefits would have been a step back into the dark ages. I told them thanks for the offer but no thanks.
American businesses cannot find the people they need because they have stopped looking. As has been mentioned here before, many HR departments are now dependant on robo analysis of electronicly submitted resumes to do their inital vetting. If you don't meet the robo criteria you don't get past square one. This results in many qualified candidates being passed over and under qualified candidates getting through because they know how to game the system.
I have personally seen several examples of both. In one instance the guy filled out an online resume form (you were not allowed to just upload your pdf), hit enter, and within a minute got a reply email saying "Thank you for applying, but after careful consideration we have determined that you are not qualified for the position." Careful consideration? Hardly. Needless to say his opinion of this particular company is less than what it was before he applied.
In another example, a guy who could not get past HR finally had a friend hand deliver his resume to the manager who was hiring. HR was furious for being bypassed, but the guy got the job.
Finally, a good friend of mine was pulling her hair out trying to find a good sqlserver admin. It seems that the only candidates that HR passed on to her happened to come from the same contracting company, with almost identical resumes, and all admitted in the interviews that they were actually programmers, but the consulting company thought they could do the job and had "tweaked" the resumes to make them look competent.
Companies that take shortcuts in the hiring process will pay for it in the end. A good HR department has to be willing to put in the effort to find good candidates.
Cheap, fast or good. Pick two.
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Treasuries fell and commodities gained as faster-than-forecast growth in U.S. retail sales bolstered optimism in the world's largest economy. U.S. equities retreated after the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached record for a sixth straight day.
Ten-year Treasury yields increased two basis points to 2.03% at 9:44 a.m. in New York and the S&P GSCI Index of commodities increased 0.2%. Crude oil gained for a fifth day in New York. The Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index each lost 0.2%. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index was down less than 0.2% after sliding 0.5% earlier. Chinese shares slid to a two-month low.
Commerce Department data showed sales at U.S. retailers rose 1.1% in February, the most in five months and more than twice the median estimate of economists. Industrial production declined 0.4% in January in the 17-nation euro area, exceeding a 0.1% decline forecast by economists, and adding to signs that the region's recession extended into the first quarter.
"The economy continues to do OK, the consumer continues to spend," David Katz, who oversees about $825 million as chief investment officer at New York-based Matrix Asset Advisors Inc., said in a phone interview. "You have a favorable environment for stocks and the economy, and as a result you've had a nice upward bias. Various data points have helped move the stock market higher."
Among U.S. stocks, Oracle Corp. gained after Canaccord Genuity Corp. upgraded the software maker. Coach Inc. advanced as Citigroup Inc. raised its rating. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc., a maker of cancer medicines, plunged after saying sales will miss analysts' estimates.
Adecco Miss
The Stoxx 600 has retreated this week after climbing to a 4 1/2-year high on March 8. Adecco SA, the world's biggest supplier of temporary workers, lost 1.1% today after fourth-quarter profit missed analyst estimates. Enel SpA sank 5.3% as Italy's largest utility said earnings tumbled 79% last year and won't recover until 2017. Prudential Plc advanced 5.1% as the U.K.'s biggest insurer by market value raised its dividend and reported income that beat projections.
Italian 10-year bonds fell after 7 billion euros ($9 billion) of debt sales and Spain's securities ended a run of 10 straight gains.
Italy's 10-year bond yield rose 10 basis points to 4.70% and Spain's rose three basis points to 4.76%. As well as the Italian auction today, Germany sold 4.3 billion euros of two-year notes, Britain issued 1.5 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) of 2052 securities and Ireland is selling 5 billion euros of 10-year bonds via banks.
In Japan, a lack of unity among lawmakers for nominees to run the central bank damped speculation for accelerated monetary easing. Retail sales in the U.S. probably rose in February for a fourth consecutive month, a report later today is predicted to show.
Bullish bets on Japan's currency in the options market climbed to a nine-month high after the largest opposition party said yesterday it would vote against BOJ deputy governor nominee Kikuo Iwata, an advocate of quantitative easing.
The yen erased gains versus the dollar after strengthening as much as 0.7% 95.45 per dollar, after reaching 96.71 yesterday, the weakest level since August 2009. It appreciated 0.3% to 124.79 per euro. Europe's shared currency weakened 0.4% to $1.2981.
Property shares slumped in Hong Kong and China on concern policy makers will step up curbs after Sina.com reported the city of Shenzhen banned developers from raising home prices.
"Property curbs and the central bank's possible attitude towards tightening liquidity make investors nervous," said Wang Weijun, a strategist at Zheshang Securities Co. in Shanghai. "There's concern the economic recovery will falter."
West Texas Intermediate crude climbed 0.8% to $92.23 a barrel, near to a two-week high. Lead, gasoline and natural gas also increased more than 0.5% to lead gains in commodities.
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i would have thought liquid cooling would make sense for datacentres - instead of huge electricity bills for A/C you could just plumb each rack into the building's water system
There are a few things that come to mind:
If you want to get all technical about it, you're basically wrong. The resistivity of air is exceedingly high. However, like all insulators, it has a breakdown strength, and at electric field strengths beyond that, the conduction mode changes. It's not simply a very high value resistor -- nonconducting air and conducting air are two very different states, which is the reason lightning happens. The air doesn't conduct, allowing the charge to build higher and higher, until the field is strong enough that breakdown begins.
For materials with resistivity as high as air in its normal state, it's not reasonable to call them conducting except under the most extreme conditions. Typical resistance values for air paths found in computers would be on the order of petaohms. While there is some sense in which a petaohm resistor conducts, the cases where that is relevant are so vanishingly rare that it is far more productive to the discussion to simply say it doesn't conduct.
This is one of those cases. Claiming that air is conductive is detrimental to the discussion at best.
With the caveat that thermodynamics scares and confuses me, if you have a bunch of heat coming out of the servers' water-coolers, couldn't you pipe that into a heat pump and recover some cooling energy or even electricity?
Yes. Now, THAT would be smart. Eliminate the cost of water heaters, augment winter HVAC bills, etc. Steam power plants use "waste" energy, the heat left over in the water after it runs the main turbines, to preheat the water going into the boiler. There's usually heat left over after THAT, and it is at a good temp for use in the power plant building itself. Any heat sent back out to the environment is wasted, and wasted energy = wasted $$.
Now, if it's enough wasted energy to warrant the cost of ca
instead of huge electricity bills for A/C you could just plumb each rack into the building's water system
Or you could use magical pixie dust...
The ONLY THING water cooling does is (potentially) provide a larger surface area to disperse the heat. It does not magically "cool" anything. Unless ambient temperatures are always much lower than you want your datacenter to be, you'll still be running the water through an A/C. And if you're lucky enough to be someplace that ambient temperatures are always that lo
Put a datacenter 300 ft underground, and see how far simple air cooling gets you.
Liquid cooling can affect the energy costs in a big way
No, it really can't.
With a system like this centralizing the area where heat is dumped, fluids can be piped out to a radiator sitting outside, so essentially, a large portion of the heat produced from a rack of computers, can be relocated outside of the data center.
You could similarly open up a data center, with just large fans blowing ambient air in and out.
With either method, it just wouldn't work. A $50,000 server rack is not your home PC. It's not
You could run the hot water for the building through a heat exchanger before you heat it up with a boiler. Cold Water -> Heat Exchanger -> Warm Water -> Boiler -> Hot Water Over all the energy used to go from Cold Water -> Warm Water is saved.
Unless your datacenter is collocating with a (large) laundromat, there just isn't that much demand for hot water at a datacenter. No laundry, no showers, little to no cooking.
Someone check my numbers.
Tap water = 7 degrees C.
Water heater hot water = 50 C
Even the article tries hard to tout its benefits but their own stats show its not worth it. Either it's a crappy implementation or its simply not relevant.
How so? They show that it's quieter and more effective than stock cooling, and significantly quieter than an aftermarket air cooling solution. What exactly are you looking for then? You gotta be more specific than just a completely unsupported criticism that doesn't even reflect the test results, let alone explain your personal criteria.
Here, try somet
You don't have to be an entirely patronizing asshole.
It's the internet, so actually I do (heh).
But you are still arguing from a position lacking in factual information. Water cooling can be almost completely silent, and can remain so even when cooling hardware that would otherwise require very loud fans for conventional air cooling.
This does not even address the additional cooling requirements seen in overclocking, small form factor, or otherwise special use equipment. A water cooled HTPC for example typically has to trade off performance for noise, as hig
plastic tubing and a non-toxic, non-flammable liquid are used to overcome evaporation issues,
If it is truly sealed, there should never be any "evaporation issues," as there is no where for it to evaporate to. Being non-toxic, non-flammable has nothing to do with it, I can think of another very common non-flammable non-toxic (in most of its forms and uses) compound thats readily available but is NOT used specifically because it tends to boil at relatively low temps and low pressures: Dihydrogen monoxide. As for plastic tubing, what else are you going to make it from? Metal? You could, but most sys
I'm not an expert on plastics, but PVC seems like a poor choice to me. It's too likely to degrade over a decade or so and become brittle or fragile.
This is kind of inevitable, and IMHO overdue. Monolithic heat sinks and fans the size of jet engine intakes have been a pain in the arse for top of the range gaming machines for years. Also, I don't know about anyone else, but the air cooling of my computer is a depressingly efficient mechanism for sucking dust and fluff into the computer and keeping it there.
Shuttle PCs have had a heat-pipe and heat exchanger liquid cooling system for years. This made possible their little "breadbox" systems.
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This is the USA we're talking about. They are more likely to feel outraged about being told to delete a Facebook account than state-sanctioned murder in cold blood.
In other news, gun proliferation is great (despite murder rates two orders of magnitude higher than civilised countries) but terminate a foetus and you're going to Hell.
I have seen no data on gun proliferation that indicates that allowing guns into the hands of law-abiding citizens increases murder rates. It does increase death in assaults and home-invasions.
In places like Detroit or Washington DC or Baltimore City where legal gun ownership is basically non-existent, the huge amount of gun proliferation results in an armed criminal element and a disarmed citizenry. This creates a power dynamic whereby criminals have much more control and can be abusive. In truth, a lot of murders seem to be between criminals--they wind up shooting each other in gang turf arguments. They're actually afraid to pull their guns on private citizens, because the gun crime charge is like 10 times worse than the armed robbery charge (you can get 20 years for using a gun as a prop to threaten someone, whereas you may get thrown in jail for 2 years if you rob someone at knife point).
In places like Texas and Florida, murder rate is lower; however 'justifiable homicide' happens more. Basically when someone gets attacked, they shoot back. This means more shootings happen between crazies and less between bullies who think they're malendrine gangster mafioso. The insecure, up-tight morons are a hell of a lot more insecure when people can shoot back; a gunshot draws attention and when everyone in the area has guns and is afraid mostly of being shot but feels like they can shoot you first, they all come looking for you. At least, the theory is strong enough that people believe it and are hesitant to pull out a gun. It's lose-lose: if you don't shoot someone, they might have a gun, and might shoot you (this is fucking hard to do--why would you pull your gun out if the other guy ALREADY has a gun pointed at you?!); if you do shoot them, someone might come looking to see if everyone's alright, and they might find you, and they might have guns.
On top of all that, we have this whole culture thing going on. Look at the death penalty deterrent. In Texas, it's not much of a deterrent because you'll probably be dead before you make it to the court if you're planning on killing someone. In South Dakota, it's not much of a deterrent for unknown reasons. In Wisconsin, also for unknown reasons, when they abolished capital punishment they had murder rates quadrupal in 2 years, and re-instated it to get the murder rates back down.
The same principle applies to gun ownership: local cultural factors will affect how people behave with guns. If they're all insecure hicks who think only of themselves, anything off their property is not their responsibility (no one comes to help you) and anyone on their property needs killin'; if they're more communal, guns simply make people feel empowered and they believe they have a social responsibility, and they use their guns to protect others when other (bad people) bring out their guns to harm innocents. There's a huge gradient between, there's crazy people, people who don't care, people who are paranoid, and people who are just inborn heroes.
I don't think any country can call itself "civilized" when it decides the best way to handle society is to put the common man into a power-disadvantaged lower class. There are bullies and there are victims, and if we make all the common people victims then the bullies get to be kings by abusing people. We should be teaching men and women to fight and to not be afraid, not to cower in fear and leave everyone else to die if they can save themselves from harm. Humans are weak and useless, individual humans have no survival traits; we need to function in groups to live.
In Wisconsin, also for unknown reasons, when they abolished capital punishment they had murder rates quadrupal in 2 years, and re-instated it to get the murder rates back down.
Wisconsin abolished the death penalty in 1853, never reinstated it, has only executed a single person in it's history, and has one of the lowest per capita homicide rates in America. So whatever your source is, it's crap.
In places like Detroit or Washington DC or Baltimore City where legal gun ownership is basically non-existent, the huge amount of gun proliferation results in an armed criminal element and a disarmed citizenry.
I can't speak for the other cities, but there is nothing overly restrictive about the gun owenerships laws in Detroit or the state of Michigan. Open carry is allowed assuming the gun is registered and CCW is legal after taking the course and the background check. The people of Detroit do often keep guns in their house because they know the police are not going to show up in any reasonable amount of time, if at all.
Just because the city is a shit hole, don't assume the reason for that is one that fits your ideological bias.
What do you mean about Detroit and legal gun ownership? Michigan has very liberal conceal carry laws, and I know several professionals who work in Detroit and legally carry concealed pistol just in case.
There were also stories several months ago about some break-ins in Detroit where the home owners shot the intruders. One of these was a guy in his 80s that killed one of the intruders with his shotgun. The media presented him as a hero, and there was no information about any charges against him as he was within Michigan's CASTLE law.
Michigan as well as Detroit have open carry laws, you might be hassled by the police for carry around a shotgun or rifle strapped across your back but I (IANAL) don't believe it's against a law anywhere. To conceal your weapon you need a conceal carry license, and the gun being concealed must be registered to the person with the CC permit. To get a CC you must complete a CC training course and fill out a form and pay a fee.
The only reason the majority of Detroit citizens couldn't own a gun would be if the majority of them are convicted felons. This is also not the case contrary to what you've heard on the news.
I have seen no data on gun proliferation that indicates that allowing guns into the hands of law-abiding citizens increases murder rates. It does increase death in assaults and home-invasions.
This is a trick statement used by politicians and NRA members. I understand what you are trying to say, but be aware that your statement is self-fulfilling since people who were law-abiding prior to using their gun in a crime will no longer be in that same category afterwards and can be conveniently overlooked.
For all we knew, Amy Bishop was a law abiding biology professor before she went on a shooting spree next door to the building I'm in on the UAH campus and killed three colleagues and seriously wounded three more.
In yet other news... abortion is murder: the killing of an innocent human for the desire of the one who does it.
Gun proliferation, while bad [and in some cases indicative of murderous thoughts], is not necessarily murder.
Go on, get some grounding. You sound like a soundbite.
I'm libertarian on most things. But if the whole purpose of the law is to protect the interests of the strong, while ignoring the weak, then I really don't see the point of it. When you approve of abortion, you cut the logical feet o
The court can only order your execution after you have been convicted.
The article is not clear, but it sounds like the demand was made prior to conviction.
They did this to Kevin Mitnick. He was initially forbidden to use any communications technology other than a landline telephone. Mitnick fought this decision in court, eventually winning a ruling in his favor, allowing him to access the Internet.
Seems like a similar type punishment. I bet it won't be hard for a good lawyer to change the ruling as it falls under unusual punishment. You could claim facebook is a requirement for getting a job (which in some fields it is), that it would put a undo burden on you, or even that there is no basis for the punishment and the judge is violating her freedom of speech.
The lady involved in this case is a horrible person, but her rights to let everyone know she's a horrible person should not be infringed.
Little does the judge know, you can never truly delete your account from there.
Not really. A Facebook account is used for expressions of speech, so the first amendment comes into force. A court can no more order the deletion of a personal Facebook account than it can order the burning of letters or books that I have written. The courts in the US treat first amendment rights as so important, they one has standing to sue is a law or regulation could possibly be affected negatively. Usually one only has standing to bring a lawsuit only if they have been injure in someway by a law/regulat
A judge ordering you to delete a facebook account is not violating your free speech. He's not saying you can't say things, just not in that particular forum.
This is akin to a judge ordering someone to whitewash a wall they covered with graffiti.
You're free to say all the things you said on facebook, somewhere else.
I didn't read the article (shocking I know) but if the the person committed a crime in connection with facebook, then the judge has a right to order you not to use it. Much like Kevin Mitnick wa
A court can order your execution
Um, no, it can't. That takes a jury. The court must then agree, but, in the US at least, without a conviction by jury *and* a recommendation of the death penalty by the jury as well, the court cannot sentence the defendant to death.
Never mind you being forced to delete an account, will Facebook wipe an account of their servers?
Never mind you being forced to delete an account, will Facebook wipe an account of their servers?
I'd doubt it. Probably like a version control system, nothing is ever really gone or lost. On the outside you only see trunk / latest rev, it will look gone at least.
It's like constitutionality and the supreme court. What the court says is constitutional IS constitutional, regardless of what anybody else thinks.
The same applies here (except for the fact that a higher court can say otherwise).
Last I checked, it wasn't possible to delete a facebook account. You can only deactivate them. I realise it's a technicality, but in a system based upon technicalities, it could serve to be an adequate defence?
I presume they would be satisfied with deactivation, or indeed, with her simply not using it. In TFA, it says they threw her in the can because she literally posted "LOL" about her DUI on FB after having been instructed to not use FB and the families of her victims noticed it. Presumably, even its continued existence on the Internet was not a problem as long as she wasn't communicating with it.
Of course you can.
http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account [wikihow.com]
I did it a year ago and have never looked back
Of course, whether or not FB actually deletes your data is another matter.
When you taunt the victims of your drunk driving accident with a flippant post, I am glad a judge can make you take it down, or even your whole FB account if you've shown that you're not responsible enough to use it wisely. If the judge can put you in jail I don't see why it's worse if he tells you to stay off of FB.
is "My dumb bass got a DUI and I hit a carLOL" even considered taunting?
It taunts grammar nazis like me who don't consider lol to be a punctuation mark.
Because being put in jail for a crime doesn't violate your freedom of speech. Being forced to delete your facebook posts/account does.
If it was facebook who deleted her account, that would be ok with me. It's up to them to decide what kind of speech they want on their servers. But the government has no right to moderate speech unless it is causing a immediate and local danger (fire in a theater). This is the same with the video causing all that trouble in the middle east. Yes, the government could take it down, but doing so violates the core principle of this country.
People look at idiots spewing hate as a bad thing. I look at it as a nice big poster that helps me separate out the idiots from the people worth spending my time with. In any case get a double dose of information. For example, with that anti-muslim video you learn that there are a few people in america who are douche bags and you learn that there are many many more 'muslims' in the middle east who are out of control, immoral, violent, murders just looking for excuses to bring their hate to the rest of the world. In the case of this ladies facebook post, you learn she is immature, immoral, and non-repentant. Basically, she's a horrible person. So if I was ever to meet her, I'd know to stay clear.
Well, according to how Facebook works, the analogy would be akin to the victims walking over to the perp's house to see the flippant remark posted on a piece of paper taped to the front door.
IOW, the victims had to actually go out of their way, and actually go there to see it. How can that be taunting?
Now if the perp was posting to the victim's wall, sending IMs, or suchlike? Okay, you may have had a better argument in that case.
The rather lightweight description in TFA (stupid sound-bite TV journalism) makes it sound like the order to "delete" her FB account was at her first court appearance (arraignment?). I'm not sure if there was a specific condition to the judge's order (like a bail condition), or if the judge just issued an order cold and expected it to stick.
However, it's not like there isn't precedent for a judge to issue an order supressing freedom of speech [wikipedia.org] early in a court proceeding. The rationale may be completely different, but the mechanism is basically the same.
What if the site did not allow for account deletion? Facebook arguably doesn't allow this. Maybe you can deactivate, but never delete. Even if it did allow deletion, what if it were some other site that did not allow it. How could the judge order something that isn't (easily) possible?
Now, suppose the judge orders you to give your password, but the site TOS forbids you from giving out the password? Can a judge order you to violate a TOS?
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1. Hey mini, a gift, someone is lucky
2. Oh no, mini, you've lost one of your ear muffs, and with this crappy British weather you'll freeze.
3. What a tit that mickey is, doesn't he realise that this is a hat and its the way the europeans wear them, uggh, I'd like to see him do a picasso and try and wear a hat!
4. I know mini, you could always use the box from the gift and place that over your exposed ear, that would keep you warm!
Mini - WTF?
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Match No. 19
UCSD (3-15, 1-12 MPSF) at No. 1 UCLA (17-2, 11-1 MPSF)
Thursday, March 8 • 7 p.m. (PT)
John Wooden Center • Los Angeles, Calif.
Live Stats
Match No. 20
UCSD at No. 12 UC Santa Barbara (5-12, 3-10 MPSF)
Friday, March 9 • 7 p.m. (PT)
The Thunderdome • Santa Barbara, Calif.
Live Stats
The Match-Ups
All-time series vs. UCLA: UCLA leads 49-4
First Meeting: 1/11/92 (UCLA 3-0)
Last Meeting: 4/1/11 (UCSD 3-0)
Last UCSD Loss: 3/26/11 (0-3)
Current UCSD Streak: Won 1
All-time series vs. UC Santa Barbara: UCSB leads 37-5
First Meeting: 1/28/89 (UCSB 3-0)
Last Meeting: 3/31/11 (UCSB 3-0)
Last UCSD Win: 1/8/10 (3-2)
Current UCSD Streak: Lost 4
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Tritons Lose at Stanford and Pacific
Despite 14 kills from Johl Awerkamp and Carl Eberts, UCSD was defeated in four sets by second-ranked Stanford last Friday at Maples Pavilion. Scores were 25-21, 25-15, 22-25 and 25-19. The Tritons out-blocked the Cardinal 10 to 7.5, but couldn't keep pace with their opponents' strong hitting. Stanford recorded 62 kills with 16 errors in 113 attack attempts, good for a .407 hitting percentage. UCSD hit .270 with 50 kills and 20 errors in 111 swings. Outside hitter Vaun Lennon tallied 13 kills and hit .348 (13-5-23), also contributing nine digs and two blocks. UCSD's middles accounted for nine blocks as Fred Stahl had five and Sebastian Brady had four. The previous time the Tritons traveled to Maples Pavilion (Feb. 11, 2011) they upset the Cardinal in a sweep, the team's first ever win on that floor. The victory snapped Stanford's 18-match home win streak.
Awerkamp once again led UCSD in kills but the Tritons ran into a hot Pacific squad last Saturday night and fell in straight sets at the Alex G. Spanos Center. Scores went 25-17, 27-25 and 25-16. Pacific led in almost every statistical category, most notably in attack percentage (.395 to .193) and blocks (12 to 4.5). The Tigers had five service aces and 11 errors while the Tritons did not collect any aces but had 10 miscues at the line. UCSD did hold a slight 25-24 advantage in digs. Awerkamp amassed 10 kills to lead the Tritons in that department for the fourth consecutive match. Stahl hit .462 with seven kills while Lennon totaled eight kills but also had eight attack errors.
UCLA Notes
Top-ranked UCLA has won its last five matches and has lost only twice this season - once against UC Irvine at UC Santa Barbara's tournament and once at Long Beach State. In the MPSF, Thomas Amberg and Weston Dunlap are first and second in hitting percentage with Amberg hitting .504 and Dunlap right behind him at .487. The Bruins also have four of the top 15 players in blocks per set, with Amberg at No. 2 (1.62) and Dunlap (1.05), Nick Vogel (1.04) and Kyle Caldwell (0.97) ninth, 10th and 15th. Libero Evan Mottram is seventh in the MPSF in digs per set with 2.15 while Gonzalo Quiroga is first in service aces per set at 0.50. Finally, UCLA as a team is leading the MPSF by holding opponents to a .190 attack percentage and ranks second in attack percentage (.355). The Bruins are third in the conference in kills per set at 13.51 and blocking average at 3.21. UCSD has won three of the last four meetings against UCLA, including a sweep in Los Angeles on Apr. 1, 2011. The Tritons won the season series in 2010.
UC Santa Barbara Notes
UCSB has lost its last three matches, most recently suffering a 3-0 defeat at home against No. 2 UC Irvine Wednesday. Three of the team's last four matches have gone to five sets, including a win over BYU in Provo on Feb. 25. Dylan Davis had 14 blocks against Cal State Northridge on Feb. 29, the most by any MPSF player since the 2010 season. In the league, Chad Kingi ranks fourth in digs (2.37/set), Davis is seventh in blocks (1.10/set) and Miles Evans ranks eighth in kills (3.60/set), ninth in digs (1.89/set) and 10th in points (4.07/set). As a team, the Gauchos are sixth in opponent hitting percentage (.273), eighth in aces (0.86/set) and ninth in assists (11.27/set) and blocks (2.21/set). UCSB played in the national championship match last season, falling in five sets to Ohio State. UCSD has lost the last four meetings against UCSB with its last victory coming on Jan. 8, 2010 in a non-conference match at the Gaucho's annual early season tournament.
In the MPSF
As a team, UCSD ranks fourth in digs (8.46/set) and sixth in aces (0.97/set). Individually, Mike Brunsting is ninth in aces (0.28/set) and Chase Frishman is 11th in digs (1.80/set).
Almost Unheard Of
The Tritons posted no service aces at Pacific on Mar. 3, just the second time that has happened all season. The first time was all the way back on Jan. 15 at Grand Canyon. Ranked sixth in the MPSF, UCSD is averaging 0.97 per set and has put down at least four aces in 11 matches. Carl Eberts and Mike Brunsting each have 16 aces to lead the team.
Making Kerouac Proud
The Tritons are currently in the midst of a six-match road swing, their longest of the season. The stretch began at Stanford on Mar. 2 and UCSD won't play at RIMAC again until hosting UCLA on Mar. 30 and UC Santa Barbara on Mar. 31.
UCSD Teams Up With Big Brothers Big Sisters Again
In conjunction with Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County, the UCSD men's volleyball team held a free clinic at RIMAC Arena on Feb. 18. It was the fourth consecutive year that the event was held. The clinic was part of BBBS' Sports Bigs program. For more information, please visit http://bit.ly/xCVJPr.
Hawaii Three-O
On Jan. 6, UCSD upset No. 11 Hawaii in straight sets for its first ever victory over the Warriors in Honolulu. It was also the first time in program history that the Tritons swept the Warriors. Scores were 25-21, 25-21 and 25-22 at the Stan Sheriff Center as Carl Eberts led UCSD with 14 kills, three aces, three digs and five blocks. He hit .478 and totaled a match-high 19.5 points. Greg Smith had a career-high seven blocks.
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West Maui Animal Clinic to host event
LAHAINA - West Maui Animal Clinic, 232 Lahainaluna Road, invites the public to join its staff and pet, Archer, on Saturday, July 13, for a day of food, fun, giveaways and finding forever homes for some of Maui's finest Pit bulls.
Among the dogs ready for adoption is 'Eleu, the clinic's Angel Fund "super dog" who has made an incredible recovery.
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King Kamehameha III School student Tony Nunez (above) last week came in second place in the Open Mini Groms Division (age ten and under) in the prestigious NSSA National Championship event in Huntington Beach, California. Sierra Lerbeck of Lahaina finished in fourth in the Open Longboard (all ages) final and second in the Explorer Womens Longboard (all ages) final. West Maui surfers also shined in the Explorer Super Groms (ages ten and under) final, with Nunez in third, Ocean Macedo in fourth and Eli Hanneman in fifth place. The contest is the highest profile youth surfing event in America.
Come to adopt - or just to show your support - and enjoy ice cream, hot dogs and giveaways.
Preschool to hold Movie Night
LAHAINA - Children of the Rainbow Preschool and Nursery will host its first Movie Night under the stars on Friday, July 26.
"Finding Nemo" will be shown from 7 to 9 p.m. Bring a chair or blanket to sit on; food and drinks will be on sale.
Children of the Rainbow is located at 142 Baker St. in Lahaina. The school is currently holding enrollment for keiki ages 2-5 for the 2013-14 school year.
Call 661-8281 for information.
Napili Community Garden to hold orientation events
NAPILI - Napili Community Garden will host orientations for 200-square-foot plots.
The group will meet in the garden's parking lot mauka of Napili Plaza at 4 p.m. on July 13, or 8 a.m. on July 17.
The fee is $40 for the remainder of 2013. If unable to attend one of the sessions, e-mail email@example.com.
For detailed directions and more information, visit www.Napiligarden.com.
Napili Community Garden to hold orientations
NAPILI - Napili Community Garden is holding orientations for 200-square-foot plots.
The group will meet in the garden's parking lot mauka of Napili Plaza at 4 p.m. on July 13 and 8 a.m. on July 17.
The fee is $40 for the remainder of 2013. If unable to attend one of the sessions, e-mail Napiligarden@ gmail.com.
For detailed directions and more information, visit www.Napiligarden.com.
Navy League to meet
LAHAINA - The Navy League of the United States/Maui Council will meet at 2 p.m. on July 14 and Oct. 13.
Members and prospective members are welcome to attend the meeting.
For more information, including the meeting location, contact Susan Adams Nealy at (503) 936-4092.


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Rachel Adele Kleinberg and Chad Michael Crills of Springs were married at the beach at Gurney's Inn in Montauk on June 24 under a huppah built by the bridegroom. Rabbi Gloria Milner and the Rev. Habacuc Vargas co-officiated in Hebrew and English.
Ms. Kleinberg, who is keeping her name, is the librarian at the Montauk School. The daughter of Lois and Larry Kleinberg of Amagansett and Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., she attended Duke University, North Carolina Central University, and Long Island University.
Mr. Crills is a private chef who graduated from Johnson and Wales University. His parents are Michael and Jaleen Crills of Ephrata, Pa.
The couple met through mutual friends on New Year's Eve several years ago. Mr. Crills proposed on Three Mile Harbor under the Great Bonac Fireworks show in the summer of 2011.
On her wedding day, the bride wore an ivory floral applique cocktail dress and was attended by Hailey London of Springs as her maid of honor. Mr. Crills, who wore khaki linen pants and a white shirt, was attended by Josh Page, also of Springs, as his best man.
Ms. London read "On Marriage" by Rainer Maria Rilke, and her mother, Janet London, sang "Tumbalalaika" to musical accompaniment by Jeff London. The bridegroom's mother read "How Do I Love Thee (Sonnet XLIII)" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The couple took a wedding trip to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.


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After Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered his latest State of the State address this month, the headlines rightfully focused on gun control, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy and other broad and timely topics that attract statewide attention.
After Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered his latest State of the State address this month, the headlines rightfully focused on gun control, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy and other broad and timely topics that attract statewide attention.
But such an important policy speech also tends to provoke regional questions. For instance, what's in it for the Hudson Valley?
Our region was given two somewhat evident shoutouts in the governor's speech. Cuomo clearly called for the state Legislature to legalize casino gaming upstate. (We assume that at least part of our region should count as "upstate.")
With at least two ongoing efforts to attract gaming here, this could bring thousands of new visitors and millions of dollars to the Hudson Valley. Cuomo also noted the progress toward building a new Tappan Zee Bridge, which is expected to create more than 45,000 jobs.
The speech, however, was full of nuance and proposals that deserve the full attention of our regional leaders as details become more clear in the weeks and months ahead. Cuomo's address included at least four initiatives that should have the Hudson Valley thinking and planning as a region.
First, our region's government officials and college presidents should convene now and develop a strategy to attract the "innovation hot spots" outlined in the speech.
These high-tech incubators would create tax-free zones, encouraging private industry to commercialize innovative ideas springing from the state's colleges and universities. With so many strong colleges in the Hudson Valley, we should be able to secure an incubator and produce impressive results.
Local boards of education also should heed suggestions from the governor's education reform commission, which seeks to incentivize school district consolidation, regionalization and shared services. In these tight fiscal times, these approaches might help our schools retain teachers or valued programs.
A regional approach would also help our Hudson Valley win the $5 million tourism advertising competition that Cuomo outlined. We have better attractions than any other region — historic sites, world-class hiking, art galleries, concert venues, wineries, shopping outlets.
But our counties have competed against each other for the same tourism dollars for too long. It's time to use our collective talents to promote the Hudson Valley, which is a greater attraction than its individual parts.
And we must also pay close attention to Cuomo's plan to spend $1 billion on affordable housing. Our region suffers from a wide disparity between average rents and average salaries, leaving many in a struggle to find reasonable housing for their families. This hampers community and economic development. Our regional leaders in housing and government must leverage these proposed state funds to close that gap.
As the old adage says, the devil of all these programs will be in their details. So we'll be paying close attention to Cuomo's state budget when it's unveiled this month, to see how each policy is supported by funding.
In any case, the Hudson Valley will be a much stronger competitor if it thinks and competes as a region.
Jonathan Drapkin is president and CEO of Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress.


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Boffins sound super-thin speaker revolution
0.25mm thick speakers promise great sound
A super-thin OLED display looks pretty daft if you pair it with a set of bulky speakers, so British boffins have designed a thin and flexible speaker.
The Flat, Flexible Loudspeaker is less than 0.25mm thick
The Flat, Flexible Loudspeaker (FFL) is less than 0.25mm thick and produces sound by passing an electrical signal through a flexible laminate made of layers of conducting and insulating materials.
The electrical signal excites the laminate, resulting in a clear and crisp noise with very high directivity and accurate sound imaging, the scientists claimed.
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Obituary: Yancey Shiflett
Former Armstrong resident, Yancey Shiflett, passed away at Golden Living Center Saturday, December 22, 2012. He was 96 years of age.
Roy Yancey Shiflett, the last living of 12 children, born to Pete and Anna Maude (Wasson) Shiflett, July 18, 1916, in Armstrong, MO.
He graduated from Armstrong High School in 1934. Yancey was an accomplished carpenter who built and repaired many homes in the area.
He married Virginia Lee McCully October 4, 1941, in Moberly, MO. Yancey served in the U.S. Army during WW II in European African Theater as a bridge builder. In his spare time he enjoyed fishing and coon hunting. He was a member of the Armstrong Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia of Glasgow; two daughters, Joanna Shiflett of Moberly and Betty (Gerald) Wyatt of Glasgow; one son, Roy "Pete" (Roberta) Shiflett of Lawson, MO; three grandchildren, Jay (Debra) Shiflett, Jill (Greg) Fuemmeler and Julie (Dakota) Welborn; and two great-grandchildren, Crystal Cierra Beeler and Jenny Lee Lewis.
Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers, Bryan, Melvin, Jim, Jeff, Joe, Sam, Beach, Scott, P.W., Finnis and Tom.
Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m., Monday, December 24, 2012, at the Friemonth-Freese Funeral Home in Glasgow with Rev. Harold Young officiating. Visitation was held one hour prior to the service and burial with military honors was in Walnut Hill Cemetery near Armstrong.
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ANZAC Day
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97 years ago today the ANZAC Corp landed at Gallipoli. It was supposed to be a daring thrust to take Constantinople (Istanbul) but it bogged down almost immediately becoming a slugging match that lasted until 9 January 1916. It was a decisive defeat for the Allies and had many repercussions. Including for the First Sea Lord, Winston Churchill. It was also very important to the Turks in founding the Turkish Republic under Ataturk who was one of the commanders.
It is often said that this campaign marked the beginning of national consciousness for Australia and New Zealand, much as the War of 1812 did for us Americans. It is the main memorial holiday in both countries, surpassing Remembrance Day, much as Memorial Day surpasses Veterans Day for us.
It is also commemorated in England, Canada, the United States, Thailand, India, France, Turkey, and several other countries.
And so we should take a moment today to remember those heroes who have stood with us in Europe (twice), in the Pacific campaign, in Korea, in Vietnam,in the cold war, in Iraq (twice) and in Afghanistan, and probably elsewhere that I've forgotten as well.
Here is what Atatürk himself had to say in 1934.
"Those heroes that shed their blood
And lost their lives.
You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country.
Therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies
And the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side
Here in this country of ours.
You, the mothers,
Who sent their sons from far away countries
Wipe away your tears,
Your sons are now lying in our bosom
And are in peace
After having lost their lives on this land they have
Become our sons as well."
- They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
- Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
- At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
- We will remember them.
ANZAC Day service in Portsmouth.
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The Uncompleted Dossier
Travels with My Aunt
Blind Love, and Other Stories
Mr. Greene's new novel begins in England and ends in Paraguay. The narrator, Henry Pulling, is a retired bank manager with "a weakness for funerals" and an affection for dahlias. At his mother's funeral he meets his aunt, Augusta, his mother's sister, now about seventy-five years old but still going strong with a Negro lover named Zachary Wordsworth. Augusta tells Henry that her sister was not, in fact, his mother; the espoused saint, indeed, "should have had a white funeral." Henry is reasonably curious about his origin, but he does not pester the theme, he is content to wait for disclosures.
Meanwhile the well-wrought urn which contains his mother's ashes is seized by a police inspector called John Sparrow. Wordsworth has concealed his supply of pot in the urn and must now flee to Paris. Augusta, like Mr. Greene an inveterate traveler, brings Henry on a trip to Brighton and thence to more exotic places, Paris, Istanbul by the Orient Express, Buenos Aires, Asunción. The trips are enlivened by encounters with Hatty the fortune-teller, Tooley an American girl on the loose, her father James O'Toole a CIA man, Wordsworth free of law but hooked on love, Visconti a war criminal but still Augusta's heart's desire. When the scenery is dull Augusta passes the time by recalling her earlier lovers with particular emphasis upon the merits and defects of Curran, Dambreuse, Wordsworth the present incumbent, and Visconti the ultimate.
These travels make a new life for Henry, and he rises to their challenge. At the end, we see him spending cozy evenings with Maria, daughter of the Chief Customs Officer in Asunción, and they read Browning together. The last lines of the book are taken from Pippa's first song in Browning's "Pippa Passes," and presumably they mean that Maria's travels will affect Henry as Pippa's passing affected the Asolan lovers of Browning's poem. Maria is fifteen, so Henry will have to wait a year for his fulfillment.
The book is a comedy, then, and sometimes a farce, but it is also Mr. Greene's De Senectute, turned upon age and death. Augusta gads about the world to prevent herself from dying, Henry's resurrection may have come too late, the book is full of death, a thanatopsis, an anatomy of melancholy fact. In one of the finest comic interludes a character, already dying, moves himself from one room to another in his enormous house to maintain the suspense of living, and dies trying to reach the lavatory. Turned toward death, the book implies, one longs for a way of life free from the venom of morality, grim death thwarted by happy days. Reading the other Wordsworth, Henry thinks of happiness as vision, with the proviso that "in the vision there is no morality." "Perhaps a sense of morality," he reflects, "is the sad compensation we learn to enjoy, like a remission for good conduct."…
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Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - It's been roughly seven weeks since Sporting Kansas City hoisted MLS Cup on home soil after a dramatic victory over Real Salt Lake.
Since then, teams have been wheeling and dealing all winter long in preparation for the 2014 season.
D.C. United and Toronto FC endured tough seasons last time out, but both clubs strengthened considerably with United adding Fabian Espindola and U.S. international Eddie Johnson along with veteran defender Jeff Parke.
Toronto, meanwhile, made probably the biggest splash of the offseason by landing England international Jermain Defoe from Tottenham and U.S. international Michael Bradley from Roma in huge deals.
While all this was going on, Philadelphia Union fans remained frustrated by their club's lack of activity.
But things got rolling in a big way during the MLS SuperDraft at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Jan. 16.
With the Union supporters group in full voice, Philadelphia made the first big move of the day, sending the No. 2 overall selection and allocation money to D.C. United in exchange for the No. 1 overall pick.
With the top pick in hand, the Union snagged University of Connecticut goalkeeper Andre Blake, making him the first goalkeeper ever to be taken No. 1 overall.
Blake, 23, was a bit of a controversial pick for the hometown club as it already has a young goalkeeper in Zac MacMath. But MacMath has yet to reach his potential, although he took some major strides last season, so manager John Hackworth felt Blake was too good to pass up.
Blake was widely thought of to be the best available player among draft circles, but he admitted after being selected by the Union that he was caught off-guard.
"I didn't see this coming, it's a big surprise, but what can I say," Blake told the club's official website. "Every player dreams of being the No. 1 overall pick and for me to do it as a goalkeeper, it's a great feeling and a great achievement."
Philadelphia also held the sixth overall pick in the first round, but traded down twice to recoup some of the allocation money it sent to D.C., winding up at No. 15 in the process.
With that No. 15 pick, Philadelphia selected Costal Carolina midfielder Pedro Ribeiro, who played for Union assistant coach Brendan Burke with developmental affiliate Reading United.
"Pedro is a guy that I worked with for about three months last season and is a player that brings a lot to the table," Burke told the team website. "He brings size and creativity and he's an honest kid.
The Union also bolstered their back line with the selection of Michigan State defender Kevin Cope at No. 25 and Akron defender Robert Derschang at No. 27.
Blake should give MacMath competition for the starting spot immediately, while the selections of Cope and Derschang gives the club some much-needed depth in defense.
But Philadelphia's major offseason coup came on Monday when the club announced the acquisition of U.S. international midfielder Maurice Edu on loan from Premier League side Stoke City.
Edu played minimally under Mark Hughes at Stoke and is exactly what Philadelphia needs to fix a midfield that struggled mightily to provide service to forwards Jack McInerney and Conor Casey last season.
In addition to Edu, Philadelphia signed Argentine winger Cristian Maidana before the draft, and it looks to have a deal in place for Sochaux captain Vincent Nogueira.
However, even with a complete overhaul of their midfield, will these moves make the Union a playoff team in 2014?
In short, it should. But Philadelphia will still need to find a veteran central defender to pair with Amobi Okugo if Cope and Dershang fail to impress in preseason training.
The new signings give Hackworth plenty of options as to how to line up his team. Edu figures to be a box-to-box midfielder who can defend as well as attack, while team captain Brian Carroll will stay in a deep-lying defensive role.
With Maidana out wide on the left, fan favorite Sebastien Le Toux on the right and Nogueira in a No. 10 attacking role, the Union should be much more potent in the attacking third this season.
Philadelphia Union fans have waited several years since their last playoff appearance in 2011, but with all the new faces on the pitch this campaign, 2014 should see the Union back in the postseason.


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