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Do No Harm: A Novel
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When a British emergency room doctor saves the life a woman who apparently attempted suicide, he is accused of committing a crime and stands trial. Not only is Dr. Matthew Kemble's medical practice at risk, but also his liberty. If he is found guilty of trespassing on a woman's right to die, he could go to jail.
The novel Do No Harm exposes the dangers faced by conscientious doctors in Britain. Dr. Kemble's decision to treat a patient in defiance of her Living Will pits him against English Law, public opinion and his own profession. The legal and personal battles he faces raise many questions about the role of the physician in the modern world, contemporary beliefs about autonomy and human rights, and the increasingly bitter clash of values in twenty-first century Britain.
Set in and around London, the story explores the interrelated stories of a physician facing ruin and imprisonment at the height of his career, his old friend and doggedly determined lawyer, Jonathan Kirkpatrick, and Maria, a passionate, dedicated but intensely lonely young campaigner who while working for the defense proves incapable of staying out of trouble herself.
Fiorella De Maria is an award-winning author. Born in Italy of Maltese parents, she lives in England, where she was educated at Cambridge. Her historical novel Poor Banished Children is about a Maltese woman kidnapped by slave traders in the era of the Barbary pirates.
"A gripping drama of ordinary human beings caught in a web of ethical confusions and moral complexities. It presents to us the razor's edge of conscience in an age dominated by relativism: What can people of good will do when faced with layers of evil in contemporary society, evils that present themselves as rational, legal, even 'moral'? How do they save life and bring hope to the hopeless- to do no harm, according to the Hippocratic oath? This novel is a biopsy of the sickness of late Western society, and more importantly a sign that we are not abandoned in the midst of it, and that good can triumph against all odds."
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"A soulful, beautifully written, and haunting novel."
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"Catholic writer De Maria deserves a wide audience."
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Six requirements for successful provisioning
Before you even think of provisioning new storage, it's essential to create specific procedures for this multilevel process.
What you will learn from this tip: How to align business and technical requirements for successful provisioning.
Before you even think of provisioning new storage, it's essential to create specific procedures for this multilevel process.
Classes of service. The first prerequisite is a clear definition of each service level's attributes to provide a foundation of common understanding between business units and the storage group. Ideally, class of service is backed by a financial model, so business units can choose service levels that match their business needs. Defining a class of service is more than specifying a type of primary storage -- other attributes may include availability, performance, scalability, backup, recovery, archiving, disaster recovery (DR) and security.
The request process. How business units request storage provisioning must be a documented process subject to organizational policy with explicit expectations of service. The procedure should define workflow and authorization along with performance metrics and completion artifacts.
Document the environment. Provisioning depends on discovering and measuring asset utilization of the entire environment. This includes arrays and controllers, storage network components, tape subsystems, media and management servers, links for replication and recovery site storage. This also includes documenting host initiators, multiple data paths, switches, routers, fan-out/fan-in ratios, interswitch linking, management LANs and associated firewalls, array controllers, etc.
Understanding capacity. Provisioning doesn't stop at primary storage. When a gigabyte is requested, five to 30 times that amount will be needed in secondary storage, depending on backup and archiving requirements. This may affect network traffic to backup servers, servers' processing loads and tape subsystems.
DR, particularly for top-tier applications, may mean additional requirements. The requested storage and its data change rate can affect synchronous and semi-synchronous links and may require storage at the recovery site.
Determine utilization. Another prerequisite is knowing the capacity that's actually available. This isn't just the storage requested, but also the fabric consequences of adding primary storage. Traffic, dual paths and fan-in/fan-out ratios can all be affected by provisioning new storage. Utilization must be carefully defined; databases and volume managers grab chunks of space that appear to be used, but aren't fully utilized.
Interoperability and standards. A number of standards have to be in place. To some extent, standards are required because heterogeneous storage and SANs aren't fully interoperable. They're also required to identify default LUN size and for mapping initiators to LUNs to protect the fabric's integrity. Depending on class of service, standards are required for dual-path capability, acceptable fan-out/fan-in ratios, use of interswitch links and port connectivity on the array.
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Texas files notice of appeal in same-sex marriage case
SAN ANTONIO — The state of Texas has officially given notice that it is appealing a San Antonio judge's ruling that completely struck down its ban on same sex marriage.
"Defendants ... Rick Perry, Greg Abbott, and David Lakey ... hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from the Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction, signed and entered in this action on February 26, 2014 ," said the state's notice, filed in federal court in San Antonio on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled Wednesday that the state's ban on same-sex marriage and its refusal to recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages are both unconstitutional. He said the ban violates provisions of equal protection and due process under the 14th Amendment.
However, he issued a stay until the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals weighs in on the matter, meaning the ban remains in effect and gay couples cannot yet get married here.
Clerks at the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans said Thursday they had not yet received any appeal paperwork as of noon, but noted parties have 14 days from when the judge in the district court enters a judgment to do so.
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Oscar Pistorius appeared to become physically ill during his murder trial Monday, as the expert who conducted the autopsy on the Olympic "Blade Runner's" shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp testified in court, NBC News reported.
"Pistorius retching loudly, possibly vomiting, as graphic postmortem details are delivered," tweeted reporter Rohit Kachroo after Gert Saayaman, head of the forensic medicine department at the University of Pretoria, took the stand.
The judge in the murder trial banned live broadcasting and tweeting of Saayman's graphic testimony. Judge Thokozile Masipa announced the ban after prosecutor Gerrie Nel, supported by chief defense lawyer Barry Roux, said Saayman's testimony would have an "explicitly graphic nature" and should not be shown around the world.
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"It's not a question of press freedom," Nel said.
Before beginning his testimony, Saayman said the "very personal nature" of his autopsy findings as well as graphic details about the injuries could "compromise the dignity of the deceased," as well as harm her friends and family, if they are broadcast.
"It goes against the good morals of society for us to make information of this nature available" in a way that children and other unsuspecting people might be exposed, Saayman said in the witness box.
Proceedings can be partly televised and the audio can be broadcast in its entirety under a judge's pre-trial order that sought to balance the right to a fair trial with the intense public interest in the Pistorius case and the principle of open justice. Under the order, some witnesses can choose not to be shown on television.
Earlier Monday, Masipa extended that order, saying "private witnesses are more vulnerable than public figures" and that still photographs of witnesses who requested some discretion cannot be published or disseminated for the duration of the trial, even if they were obtained from sources outside the courtroom.
The new ruling followed the publication in a South African media outlet last week of a photo of a witness whose image was lifted from a publicly accessible website.
Pistorius, the first amputee to run in the Olympics, is charged with premeditated murder for Steenkamp's shooting death. The 27-year-old Pistorius says the killing was accidental because he thought his girlfriend was a dangerous intruder in a toilet cubicle in his home.
Before the adjournment Monday, a security guard who said he spoke with Pistorius soon after the shooting of Steenkamp was questioned by the defense about his recollection of the sequences of the events that night.
The sequence is important for the defense because, if it can prove that Pistorius called security first, it could support the contention that he was seeking help as quickly as possible.
The guard, Pieter Baba, had recalled a conversation with the double-amputee runner, who killed Steenkamp in his home in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year. Baba testified Friday that he called Pistorius and was told "everything is fine" on the telephone. Baba said Pistorius then called him back moments later, didn't speak, was crying and the second call then ended.
Baba said he was responding to neighbors' reports of gunshots coming from Pistorius' home after 3 a.m. on Feb. 14, 2013. He drove with a fellow guard to Pistorius' villa and made the call from outside the house.
Baba's statement that he called Pistorius first could back the prosecution's case that the killing was premeditated, and that Pistorius was trying, at least initially, to conceal what he had done.
On Monday, however, Roux said call records showed Pistorius called security first, but couldn't speak because he was "indeed crying."
"I'm the one who called him first," Baba insisted.
"His call was first and your call was second," countered Roux, saying he had documents, including one from the police, which showed his assertion to be true.
"I put proof in front of you that Mr. Pistorius called first," Roux said. Roux said Pistorius had called before the guards went to his house.
"If Mr. Pistorius called me first, then I would have known that something was wrong at his house," Baba replied, repeating his version.


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46th Kabul-Delhi flight carries 20.5mt Afghan fruits
46th Kabul-Delhi flight carries 20.5mt Afghan fruits
KABUL (Pajhwok): A plane carrying 20.5 metric tons of goods, including fruits and fresh fruits, departed from Kabul to New Delhi on Tuesday, taking the number of flights between the two countries via the India-Afghanistan air corridor to 46.
The flight took off from the Hamid Karzai International Airport at 10:30am for the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, according to a statement from the Presidential Palace in Kabul.
The 47th flight from Kabul to New Delhi was scheduled for Friday (Nov 24) to be carrying 19 metric tons of fresh and dry fruits, it added.
The process of transferring goods to India via the air corridor program continues on a regular basis.
"The credit for the program's success goes to the strong coordination and cooperation among government entities and the private sector. We therefore entered the very optimal stage, where we have almost solved most of the challenges to the program."
The Presidential Palace said flight operations conducted recently had been smooth and standard.
Meanwhile, Afghan traders exported 3.3 metric tons of fresh fruits from the International Airport in southern Kandahar province to Dubai on two flights last week on November 8 (2MTs) and November 19 (1.3MTs).
In near future, the Afghan government plans to start exporting more goods through the air corridor to other regional and neighboring countries, particularly the UAE, the statement said.
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What they are saying..."Why wait to learn leadership in the workplace? Students can learn how to lead by using Kouzes and Posner's five proven leadership practices. [This] is the perfect guide for...[those] seeking to develop themselves for leadership."
Howard T. Prince II
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Britt Andreatta
University of California, Santa Barbara
What they are saying..."[The Student Leadership Challenge] (book) is a gift to university educators who teach leadership courses or develop trainings. workshops, and retreats."
Laura Osteen
Florida State University
What they are saying..."The greatest part about being in the virtual community was being able to hear the instructors, talk about the material we were discussing, as well as having our own discussion as a class with our other classmates over chat. You got a lot of interaction with the material, a lot of takes and nuances on what other people were taking away from the material that I don't think you would get in a traditional classroom setting."
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Oklahoma State University
What they are saying..."The Student Leadership Practices Inventory is the best tool I have used to help students assess their leadership effectiveness because it translates the concept of leadership into actions and relationships. By defining and measuring specific leadership behaviors, the Student LPI allows students to see how they are doing as leaders and to determine how they can improve."
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National Interfraternity Conference
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Stanford University
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Mississippi State University
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Nyack College, NY
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Texas A&M International University
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Texas A&M International University
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What they are saying..."Student leadership challenges are quite similar to adult challenges, and yet they differ as well– in scale and in the power of peer perspective. Kouzes and Posner have constructed a wide and sturdy bridge across these worlds. My college students will find relevant lessons and great inspiration in the diverse and compelling stories that are retold. We'd have a lot less adult leadership problems if more teachers and students used this great book.
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What they are saying..."The Five Practices has provided a framework for students to reflect on their leadership experience and restructure their philosophy and theories relating to leadership as they challenge themselves through these five practices.
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Randy D. Grimes, human resources director
Duke University
What they are saying..."A fantastic resource for leadership educators looking to further develop students' understanding of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in a tangible, hands-on way! It offers engaging activities that are sure to make an impact on your student leaders. This activity book is a great supplement to The Student Leadership Challenge, bringing the original concepts off the page and into the real world.
Kimberly Piatt, coordinator of leadership development
The College at Brockport.
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Laura Osteen, professor of higher education, Florida State University
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What they are saying..."The Facilitation and Activity Guide would have helped me not only to develop a better leadership program but to be a better leader myself. For those administering The Five Practices, this guide 'Models the way' and will be one of your best coaches."
Sam Eriksmoen, former director, Emerging Leaders Program
University of North Dakota
What they are saying..."Educators working at all levels will benefit from [The Facilitation and Activity Guide]. It is practical, applicable to diverse sectors, and works."
Katie Burke, director, L.E.A.D. (Leadership Education & Development)
Florida Atlantic University
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been ordered to take steps to correct poor risk management that led to a surprise trading loss last year of more than $6 billion.
Federal regulators also on Monday cited the bank for lapses in control that allowed the bank to be used for money laundering.
JPMorgan, the nation's largest bank by assets, will not pay a fine under the agreements with the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, a Treasury Department agency. The bank promised to strengthen its policies and procedures to control risk and to screen customers to prevent money laundering.
The regulators each issued two cease-and-desist orders against JPMorgan, a sanction that requires a bank to change its practices.
JPMorgan in May disclosed that its London office lost billions in trades designed to hedge against risk. The bank later said that some traders had tried to hide the size of the losses.
The loss, which occurred less than four years after the 2008 financial crisis, also hurt the bank's reputation. JPMorgan had survived the crisis by taking fewer risks than its competitors.
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry told a Senate panel in June that the loss at JPMorgan was tied to "inadequate risk management."
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon acknowledged before lawmakers that the bank made mistakes. But he defended its strategy for managing risk.
Still, the bank took action against several employees at the heart of the controversy. Two senior managers and the trader linked to the London trading operation were fired. The bank took back nearly two years' compensation from them.
In addition to the firings, Ina Drew, the bank's chief investment officer overseeing its trading strategy, retired after 30 years at the bank and voluntarily repaid two years of salary.
The bank also made a broad reshuffle of its top management, in an apparent bid to restore investors' trust.
The second action announced Monday against JPMorgan was related to money laundering controls. It was similar to an agreement Citibank reached with regulators last April.
Money laundering takes profits from the trafficking of drugs or arms or other illicit activities and passes them through bank accounts or other legitimate businesses to disguise the illegal activity.
Money laundering through banks has become a prime target for U.S. law enforcement.


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The path to becoming a top-notch leader is one that requires constant attention and fine-tuning, whether we are preparing to lead small groups, large teams, or simply preparing for the next steps in a leadership role. Useful tools and tips are available in a plethora of subjects important to employees interested in becoming a supervisor. By sharing our knowledge, ideas, and best practices agencies can collaborate to not only reach but exceed their training goals by developing top notch talent for the aspiring supervisor.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has trained Federal managers and executives to be effective Government leaders. We recognize the need for leadership at all levels, encompassing the many roles that influence, create and implement good governance. We seek to empower Federal leaders by providing career-long training that enlightens and fortifies them on their Leadership Journey.
To assist in the targeted training and development of current and future leaders, OPM has created the "Effective Learning Interventions for Developing Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs)" report. The report provides information on the most effective ways to develop each of the twenty-two (22) core leadership competencies and six (6) fundamental competencies within the ECQs. The report includes a Leadership Development Matrix, which serves as a quick reference guide and summary of the report.
If you have any questions regarding training policy or executive development, you can contact the Training and Executive Development Group by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
All leadership development should begin well before an individual transitions into a supervisory or managerial position. To ensure these individuals are well prepared to fill supervisory and managerial positions, agencies may provide training for those who are interested in becoming supervisors or managers. The head of each agency is responsible for establishing a succession management program which includes training to develop employees to become managers (5 U.S.C. 4121 and 5 CFR 412.201). Employee development programs are a fundamental tool for a robust leadership succession management plan. As a result of effective succession planning, an agency's employee development program can ensure an adequate number of educated/qualified individuals to fill supervisory and managerial positions for critical functions within the organization.
For more information and examples of agency pre-supervisory development programs please go to OPM's Training and Development Wiki.
Statute: 5 U.S.C. 4121
Regulation: 5 CFR 412.201
Leadership development should begin well before an individual transitions into a supervisory or managerial position. To ensure these individuals are well prepared to fill supervisory and managerial positions, agencies may provide training for those who are interested in becoming a supervisor or manager. Critical to the supervisory development process is the Individual Development Plan (IDP) crafted by the employee and their supervisor. Through the IDP, the employee should be able to clarify professional aspirations and the supervisor can provide insights on career tracks essential to the organization.
The head of each agency is responsible for establishing a succession management program which includes training to develop employees to become managers (5 U.S.C. 4121 and 5 CFR 412.201). Employee development programs are a fundamental tool for a robust leadership succession management plan. As a result of effective succession planning, an agency's employee development program can ensure an adequate number of educated/qualified individuals to fill supervisory and managerial positions for critical functions within the organization.
Agencies should consider the competencies listed in the OPM Supervisory Guide when developing their pre-supervisory developmental programs. In addition, pre-supervisory developmental programs should be based on the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs). Agencies may identify specific competencies from the ECQs and OPM Supervisory Guide and apply them to all leadership development programs starting with pre-supervisory training extending through executive development. Agencies should develop their pre-supervisory training programs to meet the needs of the organization and the aspirations of individual employees.
Many agencies have already established pre-supervisory training programs. A catalogue of Federal leadership development programs can be found on OPM's website under FedLDP. It is a searchable catalogue of leadership development programs throughout the Federal Government. Programs are listed in this catalogue by agency.
The Federal Workforce Flexibility Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-411) requires agencies to provide specific training to develop supervisors and managers as part of a comprehensive succession management strategy. To implement the requirements of this Act, OPM published final regulations on December 10, 2009.
The Act requires agencies to provide training to supervisors and managers on actions, options and strategies in:
The revised 5 CFR 412 on Supervisory, Managerial, and Executive Development requires new supervisors to receive:
Agencies must also provide training when employees make critical career transitions, for instance, from a non-supervisory position to a supervisory position or from manager to executive. This training should be consistent with assessment of the agency's and the employee's needs.
Those individuals new to the Federal Government who were previously supervisors in another organization must also receive training within their first year of appointment. Agencies may decide if these individuals should complete their entire new supervisory training program or only parts of the program that are Federal Government specific, such as recruitment and hiring. However, these individuals must still receive training in mentoring employees, performance management, and conducting performance appraisals.
Political appointees who are supervisors must also receive training within their first year of appointment. They must also receive refresher training.
The regulations mention specific topics including mentoring employees and performance management, but it is recommended to go beyond the requirements outlined in 5 CFR 412 when developing supervisory and managerial programs. Here are some additional topics agencies typically include in supervisory and managerial programs:
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Chief Human Capital Officers Memorandums for Supervisory Training
U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has trained Federal managers and executives to be effective Government leaders. We recognize the need for leadership at all levels, encompassing the many roles that influence, create and implement good governance. We seek to empower Federal leaders by providing career-long training that enlightens and fortifies them on their Leadership Journey.
Agencies should prepare, implement, and continually update Executive Development Plans (EDPs) for all senior executives. EDPs should outline a senior executive's short-term and long-term developmental activities which will enhance the executive's performance. These developmental activities included in an executive's EDP should allow the executive to develop a broader perspective in the agency as well as Government-wide. These activities should meet organizational needs for leadership, managerial improvement, and results. EDPs should be reviewed annually and revised as appropriate by an Executive Resources Board or similar body designated by the agency to oversee executive development.
Here is an EDP template your agency can use.
The Senior Executive Service is committed to developing leaders in the 21st century. One way to become an SES is to participate in a SES Candidate Development Program (SESCDP). These programs are designed to create pools of qualified candidates for SES positions. All SESCDPs address the five ECQs that embody the leadership skills needed to succeed in the SES. Many of the leader development activities on this website are also incorporated into SESCDPs.
Please visit the OPM Training and Development Wiki for more information and sample EDP templates
A Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program (SESCDP) is one succession management tool agencies may use to identify and prepare aspiring senior executive leaders. An SESCDP is designed to further develop SES candidates' competencies in each of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs). Graduates of SESCDPs who are certified by OPM's Qualifications Review Board (QRB) may receive an initial career SES appointment without further competition. QRB-certified graduates typically start their SESCDP with experiences normally obtained at the GS-15 level, or equivalent. However, some agencies open their SESCDPs to individuals at the GS-14 level, or equivalent. Note that QRB certification does not guarantee placement in the SES, and SESCDP participation is not required for selection into the Senior Executive Service.
Agencies tailor their SESCDPs to meet their particular succession planning needs and organizational missions. An SESCDP must last a minimum of 12 months and include the following requirements (mandated by 5 CFR 412.302(c)):
SESCDPs provide SES candidates with Government-wide leadership challenges, interactions with senior employees outside their department and/or agency, interagency training experiences, executive level development assignments, and mentoring.
The combination of these experiences should enhance participants' executive competencies and increase their understanding of Government-wide programs and issues beyond their individual agency and profession. SESCDPs address the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) that embody the leadership skills needed to succeed in the SES. OPM's Guide to Senior Executive Service Qualifications describes these leadership skills (competencies) and the behaviors associated with the ECQs.
In addition, SESCDPs advance the goal of a "corporate SES," a diverse corps of career executives who share a Government-wide perspective. They are well positioned to lead change both within their agencies and throughout Government.
Agencies must obtain OPM approval of their SESCDP before they conduct their next SESCDP and whenever there are substantial changes to the program. Agencies must seek re-approval every five years thereafter.
All SESCDPs are announced via USAJOBS. To be notified of future programs, you can set a search on USAJOBS.gov. To create a saved search:
Please note that SESCDPs are required to be open a minimum of 14 days
Executive onboarding is acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating new leaders into the organizational culture and business. The best onboarding strategies will provide a fast track to meaningful, productive work and strong employee relationships and be tailored specifically to the needs of the individual. Executive onboarding should be strategic, so that it not only prevents executive derailment, but expedites the executive's contribution to optimize strategic achievement.
While the terms onboarding and orientation are sometimes used interchangeably they are notably different. Nevertheless, they are both critical processes in the successful assimilation of new hires. Here are some important distinctions between the two:
The sooner a new executive experiences the benefits of a comprehensive and well-implemented orientation and onboarding program, the sooner the executive will become a contributing member of that organization.
To assist agencies in creating or modifying their own executive onboarding programs OPM created an Executive Onboarding Framework. The framework designed to provide a consistent model in which to introduce new executives into the SES and to maximize executive effectiveness. It is a flexible framework allowing adjustments that adhere to specific agency rules, policies, procedures and needs.
Agencies can access the framework on OPM's Wiki page on Executive Onboarding.
To maximize effectiveness, broaden perspectives and potential, and prepare for challenges on the horizon, Federal agencies should invest in and emphasize career development. In 2011, the President's Management Council (PMC) and the Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO) Council launched the PMC Interagency Rotation Program to bolster cross-agency exposure for high-potential GS 13-15s. This cost-efficient program provides each participant an interagency rotation assignment to help develop or enhance specific leadership competencies identified by both the participant and his/her home supervisor. These competencies align with the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs), and are outlined in the participant's Individual Development Plan (IDP).
The PMC Interagency Rotation Program enables emerging Federal leaders to expand their leadership competencies, broaden their organizational experiences, and foster networks they can leverage in the future. Specifically, the program aims to:
Current Federal employees should contact their Learning and Development office to learn more about participating in the program. Learning and Development offices with questions regarding program participation can contact the PMC Interagency Rotation Program by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com (DC metro area employees) and email@example.com (Field employees).


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By Outgoing Captain Danny Mayer '10
After coming off a solid fall, the men's team looked to translate all their hard work in the off-season into a successful spring. More than anything, the team was eager to capitalize on all of the time spent in the simulator, at McGolf driving range, in the workout room, and over spring break in Orlando, Fla.
Capitalize they did. In the first three tournaments of the spring, the Crimson did not finish outside the top three. They even notched a first place tie finish at the Princeton Invitational (despite losing the overall title in a card-comparison playoff). The team went into the Ivy League Championship as confident as ever. Thanks to the stellar and consistent play of the Crimson's core three – Tony Grillo '12, Mark Pollak '12, and Greg Shuman '10 – as well as the valuable contributions of captain Danny Mayer '10 and Louis Amira '11, the Crimson was poised to take down a championship title that had eluded it for thirty some-odd years. Unfortunately, the title eluded Harvard once more. Despite a first round, five shot lead at golf's hallowed Baltusrol Golf Course, the men's team struggled to maintain the lead over the final two rounds. Still, two members of the squad earned individual accolades – both Tony and Mark were recognized for their play with All-Ivy League second team status.
Without a doubt, the 2009-2010 season can be chalked up as a success for the men of Harvard. The team posted some good finishes throughout the year, and even broke several school records in the process, a testament not only to the talent and diligence of the team, but also to the excellent, process-oriented coaching style of head coach Jim Burke. In specific, the Crimson's scoring average of 294.07 was more than seven shots lower than any previous year's average. The team also set a record for finish percentage (at 76.6 percent), as well as records for the low 18-hole total, low 36-hole total, and low 54-hole total. Greg's individual win at The McLaughlin represented an unprecedented win at one of the most competitive tournaments in the North.
But records and finishes are just a manifestation of what each and every member of the team brings to the table, and to say that the team was simply comprised of good, hard-working golfers would be a drastic understatement. From my perspective, this year's team was more motivated and driven than any in recent memory. The time and energy put into the program – both on and off the course – by every person on the squad was unparalleled, and it definitively showed in the results of our performances. The team is maturing, becoming accustomed to sustained success, and there's no doubt in my mind that all the right pieces are in place for an Ivy League championship in the near future.
This effort will be undertaken without the involvement of the graduating seniors – Nick Moseley, Greg, Peter Singh, and myself. In spite of the graduation of more than a third of the team, I am confident that the team will thrive under the leadership of new captain Tony Grillo '12. With the help of the incoming freshman – Theo Lederhausen '14 and Seiji Liu '14 – the team will continue to have great success and accomplish extraordinary things!
Thanks to Fred Schernecker, without whom this program would not run so smoothly, and thanks to the Friends of Harvard Golf whose unwavering support allows us to constantly improve and work towards our goal of becoming the best program in the Northeast Region. But finally, a special thanks to coach Burke and the guys on the team who have made my (and I'm sure) each other's experiences at Harvard all the richer.


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Projects Underway
Debris is an interactive, collaborative installation
which is being created as a response to the problems presented
by single use plastic. The work reflects the literal problem
of plastic in the marine environments, while offering a symbolic
representation of the chemical body burdens carried by wildlife
and humans alike. In presenting these issues, we are asked
to consider misplaced notions of "disposability",
calling in to question consumer driven waste which has devalued
what is in fact a very important material.
more & Participate in the project
Upcoming Engagements:
La Vie Des Choses (The Life of Things)
July-October, 2015 in conjuction with the Biennial
of the Americas
Processus Art & Life, Denver
Surface Arts - Rumpueng
August 2015
Chaing Mai, Thailand
TransCultural Exchange
Expanding Worlds
February, 2016 - Boston University
With the Earth
March-April 2016
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station near the National Seashore,
Northern California
right: Alewives - Blue Whale Family: plastic
collage on watercolor paintings
Installing work at La Napoule - photo:
Initiated by Rian Kerrane, a native of Ireland,
Hybrid asks fourteen artists to "cross over".
The artists' work examines the experience of crossing
the Atlantic in the current political climate while acknowledging
historic influences from each artist's perspective;
identifying experiences of (dis)placement and immersion in
cultural and social surroundings from either side of the Atlantic.
RedLine provides the first venue for a pair of exhibitions,
the second of which will take place in Ireland, allowing each
artist to engage both with "local" proximity and
"foreign" distance in turn.
Regional Cultural Center
Letterkenney, Ireland
Residency: December, 2015
Exhibition: January, 2016
2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver CO 80205
August 11 – September 30, 2012
RedLine, Colorado and Irish artists take on each others' lands
by Ray Rinaldi for the Denver Post, 19 August
Art Ranch - Terraphilia Residency
June, 2012 - Salida CO
View work
The Hybrid work was developed around
the long term ecological impacts of hardrock mining on the
Arkansas river. The bulk of the miners who came out west were
from Ireland and have had a lasting imprint on the culture
right: Maid of Erin mine & Stringtown
mine, Leadville CO - tea, graphite, ink on paper
Nourish is a multifaceted project which seeks to
understand the way we grow and consume food.
Starting with the impacts of our industrial
food machine, a series of paintings were created to explore
the environmental consequences of imposing ourselves on the
land. As a counterpoint to the problems caused by industrial
agriculture, solutions are presented through educational works
about developing technologies built around the ideas of sustainable
agriculture. The third arm of this project reflects on the
resilience demonstrated by people around the world who are
finding ways to maintain traditions in the face of a globalization
which tears at the social fabric of our communities.
In 2015 SEED
Taos will travel to Denver
Image: Ladybug with carrot flowers and
seeds (detail)
Soil - Cultivating the Urban Lakou
December 2015 - Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
The effective revolutionary approach of the Lakou, Vodou
and Kreyol have much to offer a wider discourse on preserving
traditional farming practices in the face of monumental threats
from industrial agriculture. Drawing from the historical importance
of agriculture in Haiti, the Sacred Soil project will consist
of small permaculture gardens to cultivate nourishment at
neighborhood scale. Built from locally sourced materials,
oil barrels and tires will be collaboratively transformed
into sculpted vessels for the garden containers. They will
be installed through the urban Lakou, paired with catchment
systems developed to take advantage of intermittent heavy
rainfall in order to provide constant access to water so the
gardens may be sustained. Working with the most common ingredients
used in traditional recipes I gathered while working with
grandmothers during the 2013 Ghetto Biennial, planned companion
planting will be developed to make high density use of the
small spaces. Seeds will be sourced in local markets in Port-Au-Prince,
and on the farms where we will also gather soil in a way that
supports biodynamic and traditional farming practices of the
rural Lakou. Rounding out the project will be a celebratory
feast of Tchaka for Lwa Azaka, the well-loved god of agriculture.
Aqua Art Miami
December 2015 - C Emerson Fine Arts
Society for Caribbean Studies
July 2014 - University of Glasgow, Scotland
Moving Beyond Capitalism
July - August 2014 - Center
for Global Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
December 2013 - Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
Image: Soloman Market, from the Haiti
Small scale solutions & emerging technologies
of Thatcher Gray
A Year in Grandpa's Garden
seeks to educate children with solutions to some of today's
biggest environmental problems which are caused by the industrial
food machine. This body of work follows the development of
a permaculture garden by Thatcher Gray and Grandpa. Important
solutions stem from growing food in a sustainable way that
involves the next generation. Exploring the importance of
composting, gray water recycling & filtration through
wetlands, habitat construction & maintenance, seed saving,
biodiversity and nourishment, Thatcher Gray learns to be conscious
of impacts we have on our surroundings. Peter T. Leonard (Grandpa)
is a master gardener who focuses on a return to tradition
while incorporating new developments in polyculture, aquaponics
and permaculture. He is writing haiku to compliment the paintings.
The work is available online with expanded explanations and
links specific to the subjects addressed, and may be viewed
at TalesOfThatcherGray.com
12.12: "It is a charming account of three generations
working together to create a utopian family haven that speaks
to global responsibility"
from An
Artful Adventure in Sustainable Living
by Lyn Bleiler – Eco Source Magazine
7.12: A Year in Grandpa's Garden - Edible
Santa Fe
Featuring watercolors
on Permaculture
May 31 - July 19, 2013: Urban Earth
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts Center, CO
This exhibition highlights the importance of reconnecting
people and their environment through sustainable urban landscapes.
Opening Reception: May 31, 4-8pm
10.12 & 10.14: Slow
Food USA delegate to the Terra
Madre conference - Turin, Italy
Global Perspectives on Localized Food Movements
9.27.12: ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness - Reinvisioning
Art, Technology & Nature.
right: Carrot - Bee - Zucchini - watermedia,
tea, beet & red cabbage stain
The Butterfly Project
The Monarch butterfly population is on the verge of collapse.
Huge swaths of industrialized monoculture have all but decimated
the milkweed which is necessary to nourish the generations
of butterflies that complete a migration cycle. Chemical inputs,
especially pesticides, are fatal to butterflies. Visually,
the butterfly is fragile. These prints give the butterflies
a ghostly appearance to givea sense of their decline.
The interactive nature of this project offers the opportunity
for participants to express their hopes on cards made of repurposed
manila folders printed in the warm blacks and oranges of the
Monarchs. Prompts are offered so that people may share solution
oriented ideas in writing. We hope to engage participants
in a dialogue centered around solutions from regions north
and south of a border that is evident to us but invisible
to the graceful Monarchs. As we enter the Anthropocene, it
is vital that we recognize that in the era that has been named
after humans, it is up to us to ensure our future survival.
Collaboration with Susanne
Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound
November-December 2014
Curated by Claire Gilman of The Drawing Center
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center
Brooklyn, NY
Art as Catalyst
July - August, 2014
The Center for Global Justice
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Environmental Un-sustainability of the
American Food Machine
but beautiful Harvest
Lee Lee's stark style captures anger and elegance
among environmental degradation.
by Lennie Bennett, St Petersburg Times
Exhibition Highlights:
Equilibrium; Art for a Changing World
- Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL, 2014
Natural/Constructed Spaces - The Painting Center, NY,
Taos Contemporary - The Metro Center for Visual Art,
Denver CO, 2012
Nature:Working! - 910 Arts, Denver,
Vanishing Pollinators - WEAD installation at the
Bioneers Conference, 2010
Art & Agriculture - The Columbia Arts Center,
Extinction - Denver Botanic Gardens, 2009
REAP - C Emerson Fine Arts, St Petersburg FL, 2009
"Lee Lee's silvery gray Crop Circles
provides an aerial view of cultivated agricultural land seemingly
through a rain screen, as though the blurred landscape is
disintegrating beneath us"
- Curatorial statement by Galen
Cheney & Marianne Van Lent for Natural/Constructed Spaces
at the Painting Center, NY
right: Rain - Oil Refinery, Commerce City
(detail) watercolor, conte & oil
Ghost: Abandoned Slaughterhouse - watermedia & tar on
shotgunned collage
Crop: acryllic on canvas


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African Americans: Practice Interventions
Sharon E. Moore
African Americans number about 35 million or 12% of the U.S. population. Their life expectancy is lower than that of White Americans, and despite the educational gains made since mid-1980s, the unemployment gap between African Americans and Whites has increased. Similarly, although the number of African Americans working in white-collar occupations has increased, the disparity in wage earnings between African American and White workers continues. Regardless of social class African Americans are made to be cognizant of their race at all times. Today they are still at risk for social issues such as substance abuse, teen pregnancy, incarceration, poverty, high rates of female headed households, infant mortality that is twice as high as Whites, residential segregation, racism, and discrimination. As daunting as these problems are, the strengths of the African American community have allowed it to thrive even amid arduous circumstances.
HIV in an Era of Biomedical Advances: Prevention
Diana Rowan
Since the start of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic, numerous biomedical advances have caused the social-work response to shift from management of a crisis to prevention of an incurable, but treatable chronic disease. About 1.3 million people in the United States and more than 33 million people worldwide are estimated to be living with HIV. Rates of incidence in impoverished, marginalized communities are highest, with the rates continuing to increase among young African American gay and bisexual men. Other communities at high risk are people who are incarcerated, engage in sex work or other kinds of exchange sex, and participate in risky injection-drug use. Minority groups are often impacted because of reduced access to quality medical care and HIV testing. Social workers in HIV prevention work are challenged to educate clients and communities on the sexual risk continuum, provide more interventions that are culturally tailored for disadvantaged at-risk groups, and implement evidence-based HIV prevention and testing programs worldwide. The National HIV/AIDS Strategy now provides structure to funding opportunities for HIV prevention programs, and there is disparate access to effective treatments worldwide for those living with HIV.
Human Sexuality
Laina Y. Bay-Cheng
This entry defines sexuality and identifies dominant explanatory models. In doing so, the entry outlines the central debate regarding the relative contributions of biology and social context. In addition, it highlights current key issues in the field of sexuality: the connection between sexuality and social inequality, the growing emphasis on the promotion of sexual health and well-being rather than just the prevention of sexual risk, the salience of sexuality across the life course, and the debate regarding sexuality education policy. Finally, it identifies parallels between these trends and social work, including the relation of sexuality to social work roles and practice.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Edward R. Canda and Sherry Warren
This entry provides an introduction to mindfulness as a therapeutic practice applied within social work, including in mental health and health settings. It describes and critiques mindfulness-based practices regarding definitions, history, current practices, best practices research, and ethical issues related to using evidence-based practices, acquiring competence, addressing social justice, and respecting diversity.
Oral History and Social Work
Arlene Bowers Andrews
This article reviews basic skills for conducting and using oral histories, summarizes ethical issues, presents examples relevant to social work, and suggests useful resources. For social workers, oral history can be a way to record the history of social change as well as a means of promoting social change. Oral history can honor, inform, raise consciousness, and motivate action. Oral histories are particularly relevant for historically excluded populations and those with oral traditions. Generating the history requires a thorough awareness of the narrator, the story, and the role of the listener as well as skillful interviewing, use of digital technology, and appropriate archiving.
Out-of-School Suspension of African American Youth and Progressive Education Alternatives
Wendy Haight and Priscilla Gibson
Racial disproportionality in out-of-school suspensions (suspensions) is a persistent, multi-level social justice and child well-being issue affecting not only youth, families, and schools but society as a whole. It is a complex, multiple-level social problem that will require an equally complex response. The design of effective remedies will require adequate understanding of the problem as well as the historical and sociocultural contexts in which it emerged and is perpetuated. Progressive educators have offered a number of alternatives to harsh and exclusionary discipline, but research is needed to examine their effectiveness, especially in reducing racial disproportionalities.
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
Susan Schmidt
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) is an immigration classification that provides a pathway to lawful permanent residency for non-citizen immigrant children in the United States who have experienced abuse, neglect, abandonment, or similar basis under state law; who cannot reunify with one or both parents; who are under state court jurisdiction; and for whom it is not in their best interests to be returned to their country of nationality or prior residence. Social workers have played a significant role in the development of SIJS, and they have an ongoing role in the identification and referral of potentially eligible children as well as in the refinement of SIJS policies. Social workers' roles with SIJS represent the profession's multifaceted capacity, including support and referral with individual children, advocacy across multiple systems, and policy practice in the creation and continued improvement of this protective status.
Working With Latino Immigrant Families in Schools
Eden Hernandez Robles, Crissy A. Johnson, and Joel Hernandez Robles
Latino immigrant families and their students come with unique cultural and linguistic needs. Working effectively with Latino immigrants in schools is a challenge for social workers. Latino immigrant families represent a variety of racial, ethnic, historical, immigrant, gender, educational, and socioeconomic backgrounds. While scholars are able to identify aspects of culture and cultural values, their influence on education and how to integrate these values into intervention and prevention programs, or direct services, is still in need of further research. This article offers a portrait of the Latino immigrant population in the United States, discusses the definitions associated with the population, provides some considerations for social workers, and discusses interventions or preventions specific to Latino immigrant students that also include families.


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This Webinar provides an overview of common oral health barriers for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and the importance of overcoming these barriers. It will also share some of the ways HRSA has helped link PLWHA to oral health care, including the SPNS Oral Health Initiative.
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- Dr. Mahyar Mofidi; Branch Chief of the Division of Community HIV/AIDS Programs and Chief Dental Officer of the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau
- Jane Fox, MPH; Project Director of SPNS Oral Health Initiative Evaluation Center for HIV and Oral Health (ECHO), Boston University School of Public Health.


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Meet Emma. She's two years old and suffers from arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a rare disorder that makes moving her arms extremely difficult. But with the aid of Dr. Tariq Rahman, Whitney Sample, and her custom-fit, 3D-printed Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton, Emma now has the strength to lift her arms and play like any toddler. It's so darn adorable and inspiring that the room you're sitting in may suddenly become filled with eye-seeking dust particles.
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In a study examining dietary intakes of people when first diagnosed with bladder cancer at a major cancer center in New York, researchers found that the patients who ate 1 or more servings/month of raw broccoli versus less than one serving/month had a 43% reduction in death from all causes and a remarkable 57% reduction in death from bladder cancer when looking at data after 8 years of follow-up. Intakes of total vegetables, total fruits, and other cruciferous vegetables did not show any benefits on either overall survival or bladder cancer survival.
Further follow-up studies with human subjects are clearly warranted but in the meantime, eat your broccoli and other Brassica vegetables, some of them raw, and the rest only very lightly steamed or stir-fried, and save any steaming liquid to use for future soup stock. Of note, although intake of kale and collard greens was evaluated and found to offer no survival benefit in this study, my comment above about the usual cooking technique (i.e., boiling for hours on end) for these vegetables may have rendered their intake inconsequential in this type of study.
|Photo: Garlic Scape-Kale Pesto - this is not raw broccoli, but a delicious way to eat another raw cruciferous vegetable. Believe it or not (actually I'm embarrassed to admit this), I still have some garlic scapes in my refrigerator (the tops are dried out but the stems are in great shape!), so I'm going to try making this pesto using raw broccoli florets instead of kale. I'll let you know how it turns out!
Where kale (and broccoli) is more than decoration on my plate!
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Get your iSCSI game on: Best Practices
iSCSI is a mature protocol for accessing storage and a solid alternative to Fibre Channel. Technologies such as blade servers and server virtualization benefit from iSCSI as it lets you minimize the number of connections required. And because everything is IP-based, there's no more need to waste slots for host bus adapters, which simplifies your configuration.
- Ashish Nadkarni, IDC
| You don't have to be an iSCSI cheerleader, but you should know the score when it comes to this maturing protocol.
It's generally accepted that IP-based SANs are here to stay. iSCSI, the flagship IP SAN protocol, now enjoys or should enjoy the same respect as Fibre Channel (FC). But with respect comes responsibility. While some storage administrators may be hesitant to have iSCSI in their environments, it should be treated as a mature protocol and deserves the same level of administrative discipline deployed for FC networks. There are plenty of storage practices built around FC that can now be easily transferred to IP SANs or iSCSI networks. Let's examine some of these practices and determine how they can make your iSCSI experience similar to the one you have with Fibre Channel.
In the past year, the number of iSCSI installations has surged. Many have been native installations, as most storage vendors now offer some form of iSCSI support on their arrays. On the server side, most of the clients have been Microsoft Windows or Linux, again thanks mostly to free iSCSI-initiator software. While bridged iSCSI installations haven't increased as much, they offer an alternative for users who don't have arrays that support iSCSI or aren't yet willing to make the new investment (as it introduces an additional layer that increases overhead).
Technologies such as blade servers and server virtualization benefit from iSCSI as it allows you to minimize the number of connections required. Because everything is IP-based, there's no more need to waste slots for host bus adapters (HBAs). No HBAs means fewer cables, which simplifies your configuration.
Because Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) is now generally available on all systems, and most systems come with multiple network interfaces, the lack of additional HBAs doesn't present a problem.
What iSCSI means for storage management
A separate iSCSI network can be a physically separate network or a sub-component of a bigger network (like a VLAN on a corporate network). The key is to ensure that the traffic isn't contained only within that network or VLAN, and that there's enough dedicated bandwidth for devices to communicate with the storage port, which may be on a different switch. In general, it's a good idea to keep the storage and initiator ports on the same physical switch to minimize disruptions. While iSCSI networks are generally Gigabit Ethernet (and sometimes 10GbE), traffic should remain balanced. It's a good practice to make sure that storage fan-in ratios are within vendor recommended limits. Unlike other IP networks, traffic on IP storage networks is aggregated at the storage port and not just on inter-switch links (ISLs). This is due to the nature of how storage is accessed--it's an initiator-target model. In this model, initiators don't communicate with each other and neither do targets. (When it comes to non-storage traffic, servers can communicate with one another.)
Don't make the decision to accept or reject iSCSI strictly on the basis of speeds and feeds. Unless the FC or iSCSI camp surrenders, there will always be a war raging to decide who runs faster. If there's any comparison to be made, it should be on the basis of how many I/Os or connections can be sustained at high speeds by each of the respective protocols.
| The basics: Availability, security
Most networks offer some type of high-availability or failover mechanisms. They can be hardware-based (like Ethernet bonding) or software-based (like IP multipathing). IP traffic can switch between different interfaces, making for high availability when considering network access.
iSCSI benefits from this characteristic, hence, every iSCSI implementation should have some kind of high-availability mechanism built in. Storage vendors have also upgraded their multipathing software to support iSCSI and FC. The use of such software is recommended in addition to the IP mechanisms cited above.
FC SANs enjoyed an intrinsic sense of security because the networks were isolated from the rest of the infrastructure, minimizing external and internal intrusion. Basic security, such as LUN masking and zoning, is also available in iSCSI networks. But that's not all. By default, iSCSI configurations are insecure and by their nature (being IP-based) are exposed to much more risk than FC SANs. In the IP security world, authentication, authorization and auditing categories are commonly used. Most iSCSI configurations can be secured by the use of IPSec, a protocol commonly used in virtual private networks. iSCSI networks should never be configured for open access, just like a server should never be configured for remote access without passing any login credentials.
Booting from SAN
Booting from the SAN allows you to centrally locate all operating system images and eliminates individual images stored internally on servers. This is especially helpful in diskless blade and virtualized environments. But boot from SAN may be a stretch if you're converting to an iSCSI environment and your systems currently boot from local disk. In that case, you're better served keeping your legacy environment as is and having your newer servers boot from SAN.
In the IP world, TCP/IP tuning can be an exhaustive exercise. Because iSCSI is IP-based, it's not spared this troubleshooting. While the list of tunable parameters can easily fill a few pages, not all parameters apply to all situations; the storage and/or the iSCSI initiator vendor will generally have a list of parameters that need to be examined. The untuned iSCSI system will function, but the slightest load may cause performance issues.
Once you've deployed your first batch of iSCSI storage systems, you can build on top of that comfort level to deploy more complex solutions such as clusters. The basic concepts of clustering on the SAN remain the same as for FC, except the LUNs are now accessed via iSCSI.
So there you have it. iSCSI is a mature protocol for accessing storage and a solid alternative to FC. Fibre Channel may not be going away anytime soon, but iSCSI is definitely here to stay.


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DURHAM — University of New Hampshire senior linebacker Matt Evans was selected to participate in the 88th annual East-West Shrine Game, the nation's longest-running all-star college football game, scheduled for Jan. 19 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Opening kickoff is set for 4 p.m., and the game will be televised live on the NFL Network. Since 1925, the East-West Shrine Game has pitted the best college football players from the East and West sides of the United States against one another in an all-star game played to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Evans led the CAA with 126 total tackles, which ranked 19th in the country, and he tacked on a nation-best 87 solo tackles in his final season as a Wildcat. The senior, who became UNH's all-time tackle leader Nov. 3 in a home win against William & Mary, capped his career with 460 stops and 266 solo tackles; both totals ranked first among all FCS players that were active in 2012.
The UNH co-captain was recognized as a Walter Camp Football Foundation All-America for the third time, becoming just the fourth player — and third from UNH along with Ricky Santos and David Ball — to earn the honor thrice. The 6-foot, 228-pounder was also named an AP All-America, AFCA Coaches' All-America, The Sports Network All-America, Beyond Sports Network All-America Second Team, All-CAA First Team and All-New England Team. College Sports Madness recognized the middle linebacker as its CAA Defensive Player of the Year and as an All-America Second-Team performer. Evans, the 2011 Buck Buchanan Award winner as the national defensive player of the year, closed out the season with six straight double-digit tackle games (seven overall) and led the Wildcats in tackles nine times in 12 games.
Locals named to CHaD team
DURHAM — A number of local football players were named to the rosters for the second annual CHaD NH East-West High School All-Star Football Game.
Selected to the East team include Matt Dow (OL/DL), Kyle Seawards (RB/WR/DB) and Eric Wilson (TE/LB) from Dover; Dillon Crosby (RB/OLB), Rick Holt (DT), Kurtis Leonard (C/DE) from Portsmouth; Drew Francoeur (QB/DB) and Tyler Kretschmar (OL/DE) from Somersworth; Kyle Hall (OL/DL) from Spaulding; and Ryan Monette (RB/WR/CB/S) and Joe Richard (G/LB) from St. Thomas.
The game benefits the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD) and features the top graduating football players from across the Granite State in a battle of East vs. West at UNH's Cowell Stadium on June 29.
UNH athletes honored
DURHAM — University of New Hampshire senior offensive lineman Chris Zarkoskie was named to the 15th annual Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association (FCS ADA) Academic All-Star Team on Thursday. It is the second straight year Zarkoskie has received this award. The three-year starter, played left guard all 12 games this season, compiled a 3.58 cumulative grade point average as a psychology major.
Zarkoskie, UNH's senior co-captain, was previously recognized as a two-time member (2011-12) of the Capital One Academic NCAA Division I Football District I First Team. He earned CAA Academic All-Conference Team honors in 2010 and '11, was nominated for the 2011-12 CAA Football Student-Athlete of the Year award, received the CAA Commissioner's Academic Award in '10 and '11, and he's been named to UNH's Academic Honor Roll every semester he's been a Wildcat, including Highest Honors twice and High Honors three times.
Defender Alexis Crossley of the UNH women's hockey team was named Hockey East Rookie of the Month for December. She recorded four points on a goal and three assists through the four games of the month, all of which were against teams ranked in the top 10 nationally.
Against ninth-ranked Northeastern, the blueliner assisted on a goal in the first game as well as the second game and recorded five shots through the two games. In the final game of the regular-season series against No. 6 Boston College, Crossley tallied UNH's only goal of the game, coming on a power play. She extended her point-streak to four games with an assist against No. 4 Harvard.


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Retros, Reissues, Postmortem Pairings, and Perennial Read-Aloud Delights
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Article in Juvenile Fiction category.
Remembered from childhoods long ago.
- New York Review of Books Childrens Collection, featuring titles like:
- Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh
- Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill
- The Bear and the People by Reiner Zimnik
- The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon
- The Bears Famous Invasion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati
- Don Freeman
- Louise Fatio
- Retold by Margaret K. Soifer, Irwin Sahpiro, illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
- Tove Jansson
- Edward Ardizzone
- Paul Galdone
- Russell Hoban, illustrated by David Small
- Margret and H.A. Rey
- Leon Garfield
- The Black Jack *Eleanor Farjeon
The :Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep series
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
- What Can You Do With A Shoe?
- Bears by Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
- Shel Silverstein
- Dr. Seuss -- with some help from Jack Prelutsky & Lane Smith
- Other Lane Smith titles like:
- The Happy Hocky Family
- Pinocchio: The Boy
- see also his work with Jon Scieszka
- Carnela and Steven D'amico
- See also:Ella the Elegant Elephant
- Ross MacDonald
- Dan Yaccarino
- Jeanne Birdsall
- Franklin W. Dixon
- Wendelin Van Draanen
- Kathryn Kenny


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This was shot on a cloudy summer's midday in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
This roundabout is probably one of the most busiest of the city. It links together 21st of December 1989 Avenue, Aurel Vlaicu Street (two sections of E576), Fabricii Street and Library's Street.
Transylvania (Romanian: Ardeal or Transilvania; Hungarian: Erdély; German: De-Siebenbürgen.ogg Siebenbürgen (help·info), see also other denominations) is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term frequently encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crişana, Maramureş, and (Romanian) Banat.Transylvania was once the nucleus of the Kingdom of Dacia (82 BC–106 AD). In 106 AD the Roman Empire conquered the territory and after that its wealth was systematically exploited. After the Roman legions withdrew in 271 AD, it was overrun by a succession of tribes, which subjected it to various influences. During this time areas of it were under the control of the Visigoths, Huns, Gepids, Avars and Bulgars. Thereafter the Romanized Dacian inhabitants either moved into the mountains and preserved their culture or migrated southward. It is likely that elements of the mixed Daco–Roman population held out in Transylvania.[1] There is an ongoing scholarly debate over the population of Transylvania before the Hungarian conquest[2] (see Origin of the Romanians).The Magyars conquered the area at the end of the 9th century and firmly established their control over it in 1003, when their king Stephen I, according to legend, defeated the native prince entitled or named Gyula.[3][4][5][6] Between 1003 and 1526, Transylvania was a voivodeship of the Kingdom of Hungary, led by a voivod appointed by the Hungarian King. After the Battle of Mohács in 1526 Transylvania became effectively an independent principality ruled primarily by Calvinist Hungarian princes. Afterward, in 1566, Hungary was divided between the Habsburgs and the Turks, with the Transylvanian principality maintaining autonomy as an Ottoman subject.The Habsburgs acquired the territory shortly after the Battle of Vienna in 1683. The Habsburgs, however, recognized the Hungarian sovereignty over Transylvania,[1][dubious – discuss] while the Transylvanians recognized the suzerainty of the Habsburg emperor Leopold I (1687), and the region was officially attached to the Habsburg Empire, separated in all but name[7][8] from Habsburg controlled Hungary[9][10][11] and subjected to the direct rule of the emperor's governors.[12] In 1699 the Turks legally conceded their loss of Transylvania in the Treaty of Karlowitz; however, anti-Habsburg elements within the principality only submitted to the emperor in the 1711 Peace of Szatmár. After the Ausgleich of 1867 the region was fully reabsorbed into Hungary [4][6] as a part of the newly established Austro-Hungarian Empire.Following defeat in World War I, Austria-Hungary began to disintegrate. The ethnic Romanian majority elected representatives, who then proclaimed union with Romania on December 1, 1918. In 1920, the Allies confirmed the union in the Treaty of Trianon. Hungary protested against the detach, as over 1,600,000 Hungarian people[13] were living in the area in question, mainly in Szekler Land of Eastern Transylvania, and along the newly created border, which was drawn through areas with Hungarian majority. In August 1940, in the midst of World War II, Hungary regained about 40% of Transylvania by the Vienna Award, with the aid of Germany and Italy. The territory, however, reverted to Romania in 1945; this was confirmed in the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties[4].In distant regions, Transylvania is also often associated with Dracula[14][15][16] (Bram Stoker's novel and its film adaptations), and the horror genre in general, while in countries of Central and Eastern Europe the region is known for the scenic beauty of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history.


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