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Dunking your Cake into a tasty source of data
APIs make it easier for developers to interact with web applications and systems. To understand the capabilities of the Learning Registry, and how Jorum could potentially use and benefit from the it, I decided to create a CakePHP Datasource for the Learning Registry API. My framework of choice is CakePHP. CakePHP is designed for rapid development, and is ideal for prototyping web applications.
So far, I've created the READ parts of the LR Datasource. The LR Datasource abstracts the connection requirements and the intricacies of the API and helps connect Cake developers directly to the LR, allowing them to simply "plug-in" to a node and use the data obtained directly in their developments.
Recently, I have been working on the Jorum Dashboard; a web application that will provide an up to date, accessible window to statistical data about Jorum resources. The dashboard is written in CakePHP and I have been able to plug the LR Datasource directly into the application, giving me access to LR nodes (including the JLeRN nodes).
With the READ capabilities of the Datasource I can access paradata about resources and display that information within the Jorum Dashboard.
In the future I'd like to develop the Dashboard so that it submits the DSpace stats about resources, collects further usage data about resources from other sources including Topsy, Twitter, Google, Klout, and posts this paradata to a Learning Registry node.
You can find this and other CakePHP Datasources that I am working on at the following Git repository: https://github.com/cookiescrumbs/Datasource


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Fish ? syntax matters
Syntax matters
When fish 1.0 was released to the 'Net almost a year ago, it contained most of the user interface features found today, but a rather-limited placeholder syntax. It quickly became painfully apparent that people where not willing to look past the fact that fish had a rather weak syntax and focus on whether the user interface had merit. For this reason, almost all my time spent on hacking fish in the last year has been spent on implementing a sane shellscript syntax. I have implemented most of the ideas I already had planned for fish, but many changes have been made along the way, both after suggestions and submissions from users and developers, and from new ideas that came along the way.
Block syntax
Shellscript is a programing language, and like most other programing languages, shellscript supports the notion of grouping multiple commands into blocks that have a special purpose. This purpose can be to perform a block of commands multiple times (a loop), to conditionally execute a block of commands (a conditional), or to simply refer to a large block of commands using a single short name (a function). Posix shellscript is not very consistent when it comes to block syntax. Blocks can either end with the opening keyword in reverse, such as fi or esac, using a special keyword such as done, or using a special operator such as ;; or }. Fish always uses the keyword end.
|Posix syntax
|Fish syntax
if true; then echo hello; fi
if true; echo hello; end
for i in a b c; do echo $i; done
for i in a b c; echo $i; end
case $you in *) echo hi;; esac
switch $you; case '*'; echo hi; end
hi () { echo hello; }
function hi; echo hello; end
The second problem with the Posix block syntax is that most blocks may be executed in a different process than the main shell. This means that operations that change the shell state, such as variable assignments, are not guaranteed to actually have any effect in the shell proper. This is not the case with fish; in fish all commands without exception are evaluated by the same process. Bash is actually pretty good about not forking of subprocesses all the time, but if you ever want to write a portable shellscript, or if you want to combine loops and pipes, this will bite you.
In Posix shell, all variables are global, i.e., they are shared between all running code. This makes it rather dangerous to name a loop variable $i, since if your code is called inside a loop using the same variable name, interesting things may happen. In fish, variables do have scope, and the default scope is the scope of the currently evaluated function, or global if no function is called.
set pirate Arrrr begin set -l pirate Avast # Outputs 'Avast', since the local pirate variable shadows # the global variable echo $pirate end # Outputs 'Arrrr', since the local scoped pirate variable went # out of scope echo $pirate
As can be seen in the above example, variable assignment is performed differently from other shells. In fish you use code like
set foo bar to set the variable foo to the value bar. There are many reasons for this.
- To avoid the whitespace sensitivity, i.e.
foo = barand
foo=barmeaning different things.
- To make variable assignment into just another command. In fish, everything, including loops, variable assignments and function definitions, are regular commands.
- To make scope and other nice features easily accessible using a single command. Use
set -l foo barto make foo a variable in the scope of the currently innermost evaluated block. Use
set -g foo barto make it a global variable.
- To make it easy to define and use arrays.
Speaking of arrays...
Another missing feature of Posix shell is array variables. By contrast, all variables in fish are arrays. It just so happens that many arrays only have one element. To define the variable deer, with the values rudolph, blitzen, and humbert, use the command
set deer rudolph blitzen humbert. See how easy that was? Here are a few more useful array commands:
echo $deer[1 2]
|Write out the first and second elements of the array deer.
count $deer
|Output the number of elements in the variable deer.
set deer[2] dunder
|Set second element of the array deer to dunder
set -e deer
|Remove the variable named deer
set -e deer[1 2]
|Remove the first and second element of the variable deer. Only the third element, humbert, remains, and will thus be the new first and only element of the array.
On startup fish turns all environment variables into arrays using the : (colon) character as the separator element. This means that PATH, CLASSPATH, CDPATH and other common lists are arrays in fish, so you can do things like this:
for i in $PATH ... end
In fish, there are no positional parameters. Instead, arguments to the shell, as well as arguments to functions, are passed through the array variable $argv.
There are two Posix methods for creating a command that is evaluated inside the current shell, aliases and functions.
- Aliases are defined using code like
alias ll="ls -l". Aliases can be used anywhere in a pipeline, but they can not be given arguments and since they are only a single line long, they are very limited on what they can do.
- Functions are defined using code like
ll () { ls $*; }. Functions can not read from a pipe.
Aside from the problem with not beeing able to read from pipes, and the inconsistency of suddenly using {} to denote a block of code, functions have another syntax problem. Which of the following are a legal function definitions?
hello () {echo hello }
hello () {echo hello;}
hello () {;echo hello }
hello () {;echo hello;}
hello () { echo hello }
hello () { echo hello;}
hello () { ;echo hello }
hello () { ;echo hello;}
The not so obvious answer is that only number six is valid, all the others are syntax errors.
Fish functions are defined using code like
function hello; echo hello; end, they can be used anywhere in a pipe, and they accept arguments. Arguments are inserted into the $argv array-variable.
Subshells, command substitutions, oh my!
Posix shells have three related concepts that deal with executing a piece of code in a process other than the main shell. These are subshells, command substitutions, and process substitutions. A subshell is a forked child shell that executes a command and then exits. A command substitution is a forked child shell that executes a command and then exits, and whose output is turned into arguments for another comman. Process substitution is a forked child shell that executes a command and then exits, and whose output is passed on to another command through a pipe. Got that? Unless you already knew what they where, probably not. The next section is an in-depth description of some Posix features. The more experienced readers can skip to the end, where the fish counterpart is described.
Is the posix syntax for subshells. The above will cause a Posix shell to fork and the child will issue the ls command. We can see that the action takes place in another process by issuing a command that chnages the shell state, such as:
foo=bar (foo=hello) echo $foo
The second line assigns the value 'hello' to the variable 'foo', and the third line prints the value of the variable 'foo'. But since the second line was executed by a different process, the output will be 'bar', not 'hello'.
Next, let's explain a command substitution. A command substitution works like a subshell, only the output of the command substitution is captured by the calling shell, and tokenized on newlines, and the result is passed as arguments to another commands.
convert $FILE $(basename $FILE .jpg).png
The above Posix command (it is not valid fish code) is a command substitution used to change the suffix of the filename stored in the $FILE variable from .jpg to .png. The output is then sent to the outer command, in this case the convert command, which is used to convert the JPEG to a PNG image.
Process substitution is very similar to command substitution. It is used to send the output of a command into the calling command, much like command substitution, but with the difference that the output is not sent through commandline arguments but through a named pipe, with the filename of the named pipe sent as an argument to the calling program.
The Posix syntax for process substitution looks like this:
diff <(sort foo.txt) <(sort bar.txt)
The above command will create two procces substitution processes, sorting the files foo.txt and bar.txt respectively. The output of these processes will go into a pair of pipes. The diff command will be started with a pair of filenames as arguments, with each of these filenames poiting to the reading end of the process substitution pipes.
The only concept described above that fish implements is command substitution. To group multiple commands into a single element one can use a block of commands, such as
begin, ls, pwd, end, and as we shall see below, the fish syntax is powerful enough to implement a process substitution workalike as a simple shellscript function. Fish uses a slightly different syntax for command substitution than Posix shells. Where Posix shells can use either $() or `` to denote a subshell, fish uses simple parentheses, (). So the above command substitution example is written as follows in fish.
convert $FILE (basename $FILE .jpg).png
This is probably one of the least strongly motivated changes in fish syntax compared to Posix. The reason is simply that by doing so, $ is made to only denote variable expansion and nothing else, thus arguably making the syntax more consistent.
It should be noted that fish does not execute command substitutions in a second shell process, like Posix shells do. This means that even in command substitutions, it is legal to use built-in commands that change the shell state, such as variable assignments.
Since it is allowed to use variables as commands in regular shells, it is impossible to reliably check the syntax of a script. For example, this snippet of bash/zsh code may or may not be legal, depending on your luck. Do you feel lucky?
if true; then if [ $RANDOM -lt 1024 ]; then END=fi; else END=true; fi; $END
Both bash and zsh try to determine if the command in the current buffer is finished when the user presses the return key, but because of issues like this, they will sometimes fail. Even worse, this piece of perfectly legal code is rejected by bash:
FI=fi; foo() { if true; then true; $FI; }
Fish avoids this kind of problem, since variables are not allowed as commands. Anything you can do with variables as commands can be done in a much cleaner way using either the eval command or by using functions. Fish also avoids passing code into the shell as text as much as possible, to increase the amount of code that can be verified beforehand. Before starting to evaluate the contents of a file, fish runs extensive syntax checks on the code, meaning bugs and errors will be found as early as possible.
The original Bourne shell was a macro language. It performed variable substitution, tokenization, and other operations on one line at a time without understanding the underlying syntax. This results in many unexpected side effects: Consider the following block of code:
smurf=blue; smurf=evil; echo Smurfs are $smurf
On the Bourne shell, it will result in the output "Smurfs are blue." Macro languages like M4 and Bourne are not intuitive, but once you understand how they function, they are at least predictable and somewhat logical. Bash is implemented as a standard language using a bison grammar, but still chooses to emulate some of the quirks from the original Bourne shell. The above example would result in bash printing "Smurfs are evil."
On the other hand, variable values are still tokenized on spaces, meaning you can't write rm $file, since if the variable file contains spaces, rm will try to remove the wrong files. To fix this, the user has to make sure every use of a variable is enclosed in quotes, like rm "$file". This is a very common source of bugs in shell scripts since it is simply a case of the default behavior being unexpected and very rarely what is wanted.
In summary, by making bash a non-macro language that sometimes behaves like one, it becomes unpredictable and very hard to learn. Fish is not a macro language and does not pretend to be one. Variables with spaces are still just one token.
Posix shells have four modes for writing text:
world=earth; echo hello $world prints "hello earth"
|Supports all types of parameter expantion except C-style backslash expantion, etc. The space and newline characters can be prefixed with a backslash to change their meaning.
|Single quotes
world=earth; echo 'hello $world' prints "hello $world"
|No parameter expantion is performed and the only special character that is recognized is the ' (single quote). Should not be confused with ` (backtick) which is used for command substitution.
|Double quotes
world=earth; echo "hello $world" prints "hello earth"
|Performs command substitution and variable expantion, the backslash and $ character are treated specially. Expanded variables are not tokenized on spaces or tabs.
|Dollar quotes
echo $'x68'ello $world prints "hello earth"
|Performs C-style backslash expantion.
Fish is not ideal when it comes to quoting either. There where initially only two modes for writing text, unquoted text, supporting all types of parameter expantion including C-style backslash expantion, and quoted text (using either single or double quotes) with no support for parameter expantion of any kind. Since a legion of users have complained about the lack of variable expantion when using double quoted strings, and since this can be used to expand an array variable into a single parameter token, I have caved in. The latest release of fish has three modes when writing text.
set world earth; echo hello $world prints "hello earth"
|Supports all types of parameter expantion, including C-style backslash expantion, etc.
|Single quotes
set world earth; echo 'hello $world' prints "hello $world"
|No parameter expantion is performed and the only special character that is recognized is the ' (single quote).
|Double quotes
set world earth; echo "hello $world" prints "hello earth"
|Only variable expantion is performed. Expanded variable arrays only result in a single argument.
I'm not entirely happy with having three separate modes for expanding text; this is a compromise to give users what they are used to, and to make some array operations easier.
Other features: Event handlers
When defining a new function in fish, it is possible to make it an event handler, i.e., a function that is automatically run when a specific event takes place, such as when a signal is delivered, when a specified job exits, or when a variable changes value. For example, specifying a signal handler for the WINCH signal is done by writing:
function --on-signal WINCH my_signal_handler echo Got WINCH signal! end
Other features: Universal variables
Universal variables are environment variables whose value is shared across all users running instances of fish, and whose value is automatically preserved across reboots and logouts. All fish configuration variables (there aren't many of them) are universal variables, meaning that when you change a fish setting, such as one of the syntax highlighting colors, the change takes effect at once on all your running fish instances. The syntax for defining a universal variable is very simple, just use the -U switch for the set built-in, like
set -U foo bar.
A pretty cool example of universal variables in action can be had by opening up two fish terminals side by side and changing some color propery in one of the shells, for instance by issuing the command
set fish_color_cwd blue. The current working directory part of the prompt in both running shells will turn blue at once.


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If you have even an ounce of Bow Tie blood, you will immediately recognize the three names presented above as nothing less than legendary small-blocks. During the muscle car era of the '60s and early '70s, this trio carried the torch into battle for their respective displacements. Sure, the fuel-injected version of the 327 was rated 10 hp higher than the carbureted L76, but both shared the same internal components.
The DZ302 came about because of the need to produce a 5.0L displacement powerplant for the popular SCCA Trans-Am sedan racing series. The LT-1 350 represented the last hurrah for the high-squeeze, solid-lifter small-blocks, as the '71 version made due with just 9.0:1 compression compared to 11.0:1 for the 1970 model.
We all know now that the power ratings in the old days were somewhat suspect. The manufacturers played games with the official power ratings in order to appease the buying public, insurance companies and racing officials alike. Offering their engines with elevated ratings was not uncommon, as horsepower sold cars and with the lack of available dynos to verify the claims, it was difficult to tell the difference between a 350hp engine and one rated at 370hp.
Speaking of ratings, it is also important to note that these differed wildly from those used today by the OEMs. Where the new LS3 small-blocks are tested to the latest SAE net (flywheel) standards and are rated with full accessories, exhaust and the factory induction system (basically the way it comes in the car), pre-1972 engines were rated in optimized condition sans accessories (open dyno headers, no accessories, no air inlet restrictions, etc.). What this means is that a 370hp LT-1 from 1970 is actually much closer in actual power output to the 300hp LT1 circa 1995.
Regardless of the differences in the power ratings, what we really wanted to know was just how each of these legendary small-blocks compared to each other. Was the output of the high-winding 302 really closer to the often-touted 400hp than the rated 290 hp? Was the 365hp 327 more than a match for the later 370hp LT-1 350? After all, both the 302 and 327 shared slightly wilder cam timing than the LT-1, but would the milder cam timing offset the additional displacement? Would the shorter stroke small-blocks make more peak power than the long-stroke 350? These were all questions that deserved answers and these answers had to come from more than the recollection of some racer who ran one back in the day.
This is one of those times when a simple session of bench racing snowballs into a monster of a dyno project. Obviously, the only definitive answer had to come from the dyno. Real back-to-back testing was the only surefire way to provide not just peak power numbers for each, but overall power curves. After all, man does not live by peak power alone. It is the average power production that provides the key to a successful street powerplant, and since all three of these production small-blocks were indeed street motors, we needed to test them.
Testing three legendary engines meant building three legendary small-blocks. Luckily for us it was unnecessary to reproduce the motors down to the last casting number. Basically all we needed to do was pay close attention to the engine specs of each and duplicate these where necessary. There were a few mandatory items in each build up, namely things like 11.0:1 compression, the proper cam specs (duplicates of the original) and original big-valve "fuelie" cylinder heads. While each of the motors was adorned with different casting numbers, the reality is that the big-valve performance heads were much more alike than different.
Flow numbers and port volumes indicate that a set of 492 heads is fundamentally identical to a set of (big-valve) 461, 186, 041 or 040 castings. Having run a number of these heads on the flow bench and through various small-block build ups, they produce near-identical power numbers. In fact, you're likely to see as much or more power differences between two sets of the same casting numbers (given core shift and production tolerances) than two different castings.
Rather than opt for the restoration, our original game plan was to build three 11.0:1 short-blocks using the various stroke combinations and top them with the same 492 head castings. You might be wondering how the 302, 327 and 350 all share the same 11.0:1 compression ratio, given the use of the same 64cc combustion chambers and decidedly different stroke lengths. All of the small-blocks originally featured 5.7-inch connecting rods, but the difference in stroke was made up by a change in compression height of the pistons. The 3-inch stroke 302 originally featured a 1.80 compression height, while the 327 and 350 featured compression heights of 1.675 and 1.56, respectively. Since the static compression ratio is a function of the displacement (bore and stroke), the smaller-displacement 302 featured a taller piston dome than the 327 and 350 to achieve the same 11.0:1 compression.
Our short-blocks were likewise equipped, but because of the pricing and availability of the original forged pistons, we opted to equip all three short blocks with 6.0-inch connecting rods. This allowed us to reach our goal of 11.0:1 compression on each combination with the use of (nearly off-the-shelf) Probe Racing forged pistons. By altering compression heights, Probe was able to produce three different dome pistons for each of the combinations. The 302 required 12.5cc domes, the 327 just 7.5cc and the 350 produced the requisite 11.0:1 compression with just 2.5cc domes.
The three short-blocks were assembled using crankshafts from different sources. The 302 featured a steel 283 crank courtesy of L&R Automotive, ditto for the 3.25-stroke, cast crank used in the 327. The 327 crank was a large journal so it dropped right into the large-journal 350 block, but the early 283 crank was of the small-journal variety. The cure was to utilize bearing spacers from Clevite, which allowed the installation of the small-journal 283 crank into the large-journal block.
The blocks sourced by L&R Automotive included a trio of 4-bolt blocks. After machining (thanks again to L&R), the blocks were stuffed with balanced assemblies including the proper cranks, 6.0-inch, H-beam rods from Pro Comp (small journal rods from Crower for the 283) and Probe Racing forged pistons. Also included in each were high-volume oil pumps, HD pump shafts and main studs, all from Pro Comp. The L76 327 and DZ 302 were equipped with Elgin factory reproduction, solid flat-tappet (single-pattern) cams that speced out at 0.484 lift, 254 degrees of duration (at .050) and a 114 degree lobe separation angle (the Duntov 30-30). The LT-1 received a dual-pattern cam offering a 0.459/0.485 lift split, a 242/254 duration split and a slightly wider 116 degree lobe separation angle. The cams were run with Comp Cams double-roller timing chains, 6.75-inch (neutral) dampers and factory front covers and oil pans.
As indicated previously, our original intention was to top each of these legendary short blocks with the same set of 64cc chamber iron heads. As luck would have it, we found period-correct head castings for all three of our test motors. The 492 castings would be run on the LT-1, while the 327 received a set of big-valve, 461 heads and the DZ 302 was toped off with a set of 186 castings. Our pair of 492 heads actually came from two sources, one from Westech Performance and the other from L&R Machine. Both 492 heads were in excellent condition (the one from Westech was untouched) and prior to assembly on the awaiting LT-1 short block was treated to a fresh valve job using new stainless steel 2.02/1.60 valves from Pro Comp, a set of Comp Cams valve springs that offered 130 pounds of seat pressure at 1.825 installed height and a light surface to ensure straightness.
We measured the chamber volume of each head and they checked in at 62cc in both cases. The 461 heads for the 327 and the 186 heads for the 302 were given the same treatment, basically bringing them up to factory fresh condition (but no porting of any kind or any special valve job).
Given the wild cam timing and more-than-adequate static compression ratio of each of our small blocks, it was actually the cylinder heads and intake manifold that held back each of these factory motors from offering even more power. It might be interesting to see what one of these short blocks motor might do with a set of AFR heads and a single-plane intake.
Speaking of intakes, our mills all received period-correct intake manifolds. The early 327 featured an original L76 dual-plane high rise (461 casting) courtesy of a seller on Ebay, while the same source was used for the LT-1 intake. Since the intakes used on the 1969 DZ 302 (610 casting) and 1970 LT-1 (110 casting) were nearly identical in terms of design and performance, we elected to run both of these with our over-the-counter factory replacement (024 casting).
All three were originally equipped with Holley 780 (3310) 4-barrel carbs, but since that carb was no longer offered by Holley and a restored unit was well out of our price range, we decided to top all three with a modern Holley 750 Street HP. Pony Carbs offered up an original 780 Holley for testing but we just couldn't bring ourselves to dismantle the carb for jetting and secondary spring changes necessary to work with each configuration.
In terms of the ignition system, these engines were originally equipped with points distributors, but we elected to run an electronic ignition on the dyno. We wanted to ensure adequate spark energy to maximize the power potential of each legendary combination. We also ran the engines with optimal timing rather than factory-spec.
It should also be mentioned that the Elgin reproduction flat-tappet cams were combined with the factory long-slot, stamped-steel rockers (from Comp Cams) and a set of hardened pushrods. If not factory equipped, the heads received an upgrade in the form of screw-in rocker studs (from Comp Cams), but the factory valvetrain components were run to ensure accurate dyno data.
Basically, we were running optimized combinations of each of these motors in the same way enthusiasts might have tuned their motors back in the day. Rather than choke each combination with the restrictive factory exhaust manifolds, we opted to run the same 1.75-inch dyno headers on all three combinations.
No question, the Street HP carburetor added some extra horsepower, too. A Meziere electric water pump replaced all of the factory accessories.
Given we had not one but three impressive small blocks to test (actually four counting the low-compression LT-1), we fully expected there to be a few issues and true to form, this dyno session was not without its incidents. The first issue occurred when we brought the finished 461 heads to the airflow bench. What we thought was a set of untouched, factory castings with a fresh valve job was actually a ported set. With no replacement set of 461s at our disposal, we opted to run the 327 with the same set of 186s used on the 302. Given the similarities in airflow between a set of 461s and 186s, this was an accurate representation of the true power of the 327.
Next up was the intake manifold, The author purchased the required intake via E-bay but the intake was actually for a 1963 L76 and not the later (and higher HP) 1965 L76. The difference was that the 1963 version was equipped with a Carter carburetor and not the more desirable (and available for our dyno session) Holley carb.
With time running out, we opted to run all three small blocks with the 1970 LT-1 Z/28 intake. Correct for the LT-1 and as-near spot on (in terms of performance) for the DZ302, the intake was actually slightly better than the original manifold for the L76. We'll run a back-to-back test on the two intakes to clear up this issue and provide the results for the interested parties, but know that the L76 might be up slightly from where it would be with the stock manifold.
Naturally the stock exhaust manifolds would kill some of the power compared to the long-tube headers, but the factory tested them with open headers in the late-'60s and early-'70s (SAE gross) so we were comfortable with this (especially since all of the test engines were run in the same configuration.
When we test the stock L76 intake, maybe we'll toss on a set of stock manifolds just to see what the headers were worth. Let's hit the dyno and find out which combo is king.
*461 heads eliminated for test due to obvious porting; 327 was run with 186 heads.


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NEA Speaks Up for Its Members to Save Jobs
July 1, 2010
Faced with the layoffs of more than 150,000 NEA-member teachers and education support professionals, the Association this spring launched a high-energy, rapid response campaign to fight back. And they didn't do it alone. Partnerships with state affiliates have been crucial to the success of the campaign thus far in calling attention to the crisis facing public schools if educators are deemed expendable by state and federal legislators.
Take North Carolina, where one laid-off member's writing on the state affiliate's website was the spark that led to lobbying in the halls of Congress.
When Gina Frutig wrote a blog post on the North Carolina Association of Educator's website about the harrowing financial situation she faces raising two children on one salary that was about to evaporate, it was amplified nationally with a feature story on http://neatoday.org. Frutig spoke at an NCAE rally on the capitol steps of her home state and then later, on the floor of the statehouse. Just a few weeks later, she came to Washington, D.C., and joined NEA's lobbying team to talk with members of Congress about the devastating impact of educator layoffs.
Coordinated through a new regional desk field operation in constant communication between NEA and state affiliates, the face-to-face lobbying — which also took place between members from Indiana, Illinois, California and Oklahoma and their representatives — garnered front-page newspaper and television attention and was invaluable in the ongoing effort to shore up Congressional support for the Education Jobs Fund.
Stories like Frutig's are coming in in droves from across the country to http://educationvotes.nea.org — the campaign website NEA established to encourage activism by members and supporters of public education. Drawing on that repository of hundreds of heart-rending stories, NEA lobbyists, leaders and communications specialists are able to quite literally put a face on the education jobs crisis for lawmakers, the media and influential members of the education and policy communities.
NEA this past May organized a national Speak Up for Education & Kids Day, which resulted in 34,374 calls to Congress by supporters of the Education Jobs Fund, using the 866-608-6355 hotline the Association established for the campaign. (Speak Up Day's impressive tally helped push the total number of calls that NEA members and supporters placed to Congress thus far this spring and summer urging their support to save educators' jobs to more than 60,000.) Throughout the day, NEA campaign advertising on television and online reached an estimated audience of 3 million people.
Social media has played a crucial role in not only getting NEA's message out about the importance of saving educators' jobs, but also in encouraging concrete action to achieve that goal. More than 30,000 people have become friends of the Speak Up campaign at http://www.facebook.com/speakupforkids. On Speak Up Day, an estimated audience of 100,000 Twitter users viewed NEA's tweets that called for action. And in recent weeks, hundreds of NEA's social media users called or emailed Congress.
In what could be the final days of the jobs campaign — the U.S. House could take up the emergency supplemental legislation containing the $10 billion for education jobs as early as today — the work by NEA and state affiliates will continue in earnest to ensure success. There are members of Congress to get off the fence. There are Congressional supporters to bolster and thank.
Long hours on the campaign by NEA and state affiliate staff, leaders and members are daunting at times but necessary. Perhaps Frutig puts it best: "I will do this not because I have nothing better to do, but because I can't afford to put the responsibility in someone else's hands."
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I searched the internet for traditional Swedish clothing, so I would get an idea how to color her in. There are lots of choices.. some are just blue, yellow and white. Usually I pick my paper first but with this one I just coloured her in and tried to match the colors with papers I had. I ended up with my last sheets of this very pretty Stampin up paper. It is sooo pretty.
I am going to list this card on Etsy if you are interested. As always I embellished and decorated the inside to match the front – but I never use bulky or heavy embellishments in the inside. I like if the card can be closed nicely.
Inside: corner stamp (Sweet Princess& Princes Collection 2012) – Sooo cute.. sorry no photoWagon with Tulips
Sweet Home Sentiment – all by Magnolia Sweden can be found through Sir Stampalot
Ribbons: Stampin Up!
Dies: Quick-Kutz – Cuttlebug tiny Tags die – perfectly sized Sentiments to go with this die can be found at Papertrey Ink
Flowers: Prima Collection (large yellow with feathers and pearl), Tulips (Wild Orchid Crafts)
Other: Wood button (Joann's), square paper doilies, wooden swirls are by Kaiser Kraft and were gifted to me by my very sweet friend Nicole thanks girlie!!!!
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No I have not done an analysis of the possible forces on any of the links or mounting. So far I have been building it to what I think is husky enough. I have thought about making spacers that utilize 2 bolts per rod end to secure the upper link instead of just one bolt as I do fear that it will have issues with flexing the mounting bolt. The mounts for the upper link on both the chassis and axle have a 5 inch spread and will be using 3/4in grade 8 fine thread bolts. If you could walk me through or present an example of how I would go about doing an analysis that would be greatly appreciated Brian.Brian P wrote:Your supports for your upper arm look quite far apart (at both ends). Have you calculated the tension force on that upper arm under maximum acceleration and calculated the stresses on the crossbar that the upper arm is secured to?
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MIRALI - While the United States recovers from superstorm Sandy, away from the glare of the international media, five million Pakistanis are struggling to get by in the country's third successive year of massive floods.
Two years after the worst floods in Pakistan's history captured the world's attention, this summer's monsoon rains once again inundated huge areas of the Indus Valley, with rural parts of Sindh province the worst hit.
At the floods' peak in September, more than quarter of a million were in relief camps across the country. Many have now gone home, but in Sindh, 160,000 remain homeless.
Abdur Razzaq Mirali is among them. As hundreds of thousands of Americans wait for their electricity to come back on after Sandy, 55-year-old Mirali's ambitions are rather more modest.
"Look, this is my house," he told AFP, pointing to a small mudbrick building half-submerged in filthy brown water. "I am waiting here for the water to recede so we can start our normal life again."
Mirali and his family have waited two months so far and still their village - also called Mirali - swims knee-deep in foul-smelling water polluted with human and animal waste, where snakes dart around.
The 80 families of the tiny hamlet in Jacobabad district, around 500 kilometres north of Karachi, shelter in makeshift shacks on a patch of higher ground overlooking their waterlogged homes and fields.
The world has paid scant attention to Pakistan's flood victims this year. No blanket media coverage, no benefit concerts by pop stars, just foreign aid organisations doing their best on the ground with limited resources.
But among Mirali's flood victims there is no resentment of the global attention lavished on America's eastern seaboard, only gratitude for US help and a feeling of solidarity not always present in a country where anti-American feeling often runs high.
"We should not be jealous of them. They are very generous people who have always helped us. They deserve the attention now when they are in duress," said farmer Ghulam Ali, 26. "What we just want is to be helped to restore our normal life."
In this remote rural area, foreigners are a rare sight and so all white aid workers are regarded as 'Americans'.
"It is really amazing to see these Americans are helping us here despite having a much worse storm in their own country," said Hashim Mugheri, dressed in a worn-out shirt and loincloth and sporting a grey walrus moustache.
"The Americans are helping us here and some of our people are still abusing and hating them," he said.
The National Disaster Management Authority says five million people have been affected by this year's floods, three million of them in Sindh, and more than 1.1 million acres (450,000 hectares) of crops destroyed.
With so much farmland under water, there are fears for food supplies. The World Food Programme (WFP) is working to supply 1.2 million people with rations for and hopes to extend the scheme for 700,000 of the most vulnerable for a further two months.
"This three-month intervention will ensure continued unconditional food support as lands are inundated and crop planting remains unlikely in many areas," said Nicole Carn, WFP Emergency Response Coordinator in the region.
"While floodwater is slowly receding in many areas, food insecurity remains a major concern in the affected areas."
The NDMA says it has handed out more than 230,000 37-kg ration packs with rice, flour, lentils and other essentials - more than 50,000 of them in Jacobabad district.
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NGOs are warning that more help is needed, and quickly, and Wahab Pandhrani, who heads local aid group Pirbhat said Islamabad had let its people down by not appealing for foreign assistance.
"The government committed a huge blunder by taking the disaster too lightly," Pandhrani said.
"There is still time to launch an appeal for international help as we could face a huge problem in food security and malnutrition shortly."
Stacey Winston of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said nearly $170 million was needed to support families for up to six months with food, water, shelter and other necessities, particularly with winter approaching.


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Of course everyone's engagement is through their cultural lens and filter, but just as scholars attempt to be objective as possible, I think practitioners can also attempt to be as objective as possible. There are numerous translations of the Tipitaka and just as we do peer review and look at case replications in academia, we can do the same with translations. We can look at varying translations and look for the most objective and analyze where there might be some differences and then and make some conclusions.zavk wrote: To pretend that one's engagement with the Dhamma can be 'untainted' by such broader cultural, social, political and intellectual forces is totally disingenuous and totally anachronistic.
Yes, we all ask for sources, usually from the Tipitaka. I think I might be missing your point here, sorry, but what else do we have to go on for a source? The Tipitaka is the primary source of teachings in Theravada Buddhism.
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In 1975, Alex Mitchell of England was laughing maniacally while watching the "Kung-Fu Kapers" episode of the UK comedy program The Goodies. After 25 solid minutes of guffawing, Mitchell let out one last chortle and died of a massive coronary.
Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn in Norfolk county, was particularly tickled by this martial arts demonstration, in which a Scotsman (who practices the art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye") battles a black pudding sausage. Mitchell's widow watched her husband die and wrote a letter thanking The Goodies for sending her husband off with a smile on his face.
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As the public part of his big inquiry was getting under way just over a year ago, Lord Justice Leveson spoke of "the elephant in the room" - the internet. The phrase, which he would repeat more than once in following days, suggested that he got it. He had grasped just how vastly and irreversibly the shape of the media was changing.
But he didn't get it. Or he couldn't face it. And so the report on the culture, practices and ethics of the British press published a week ago is elephantine in more than just its size.
The internet gets a sprinkling of mentions along the way, but only five paragraphs are devoted to the subject in a chapter headed "The relevance of the internet", which begins on the 736th of 1987 pages.
The chapter might be more accurately titled "The irrelevance of the internet". The online world is an "ethical vacuum", writes Leveson. "People will not assume that what they read on the internet is trustworthy or that it carries any particular assurance or accuracy." It intrinsically lacks "the notional imprimatur or kitemark" of a newspaper.
But such an assertion is, as others have pointed out, as sensible as saying that what you hear on the telephone is inherently trustworthy. What matters is who is talking.
Leveson points to those naked Prince Harry photographs. There is a "qualitative difference", he says, between their publication online and in a newspaper.
He means that the "intrusion" is vastly greater in print form. But to people who have grown up with the WiFi on, the qualitative difference is almost entirely the opposite: the pictures' print publication is neither here nor there; their appearance online is everything.
Leveson has clunked his learned tome squarely on the lid of Pandora's box. An elephant-shaped Pandora's box, if you must. And while the reflex is easy to understand - he has 2000 pages already, without lumping in the unwieldy questions of digital disruption - he has done more than just bury the matter. His report is erudite and engaging. But already it is out of date.
Because the extraordinary shift implied by digital technologies, chief among them the internet, changes almost everything. What nerds call convergence means that the old divisions of TV, radio, print, etc, are melting away. The television people produce screeds of printed words on their sites; newspapers' sites, meanwhile, are full of video and audio content. On top of and intertwined with all that is the rise of web journalism, or the blog, amorphous term though that is.
Here in New Zealand, our own examination of the state of the press and regulation puts these questions front and centre.
The Law Commission's ongoing review has at its heart, built into its central remit, the internet - its task being "to review the adequacy of the regulatory environment in which New Zealand's news media is operating in the digital era". There was no such clear directive for Leveson - but neither was there any excuse for failing to engage with it. (The NZ Law Commission's issues paper was delivered as a submission to Leveson; he seemingly didn't give it much stock.)
As the Law Commission review recognises, convergence of media is likely to require a convergence of regulation. It recognises, too, that online journalism, including bloggers, should fall under its purview, envisaging a system whereby individual bloggers can be afforded the privileges of the press (such as privacy act exemptions) if they opt in to the regulatory framework.
All of this stuff, and how to accommodate it in a regulatory framework, not to mention the equally dizzy-making challenge of social media, can invite an almighty headache. Especially when faced with an angry mob - the press! the irony! - roaring threats about the impact of legislation (such a change would lead to Britain "following in the footsteps of Putin and Beijing and tyrants worldwide", seethed one long-serving Sun columnist this week).
But of course it's messy. Press regulation can never be got right. Like systems of government, like dentistry, the best is the least worst. Leveson, however, appears to have been searching for the least worst solution with a firm gaze in the rear view mirror, and the hack-happy carnage left by Murdoch's tabloids on the road behind. Meanwhile, we're entitled to be quietly satisfied that New Zealand's alternative effort is focusing on the bumpy, unfamiliar terrain ahead.


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Mark Collie made a splash on the '90s country scene by blending traditional honky tonk with raw rockabilly energy. Born in Waynesboro, TN, he grew up a fan of the Sun Records stable and later discovered progressive country songwriters like Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. He took up both guitar and piano, and joined his first band at the age of 12. He worked part-time as a local radio DJ while in high school, and toured the Southwest with several different bands after graduation. In 1982, he moved to Nashville to pursue a songwriting career, but failed to make the grade at any of the city's publishing houses. Instead, he started performing his own material, and took up a monthly residency at the Douglas Corner Cafe, which helped earn him a following. MCA's country division signed Collie after witnessing a 1989 showcase performance, and his debut album, Hardin County Line, was released the following year. Despite critical acclaim, the album wasn't a huge seller, and of its singles -- "Something With a Ring to It," the title track, "Looks Aren't Everything," and "Let Her Go" -- only the latter managed to make the Top 20. The 1991 follow-up, Born & Raised in Black & White, was a more polished effort that featured the minor hits "She's Never Comin' Back" and "Calloused Hands," but some felt it backed off the strengths of his debut. That changed on his 1993 breakthrough effort, Mark Collie, which returned to the rowdier, harder-rocking style of his debut and produced his first Top Ten country hits with "Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin'" and "Born to Love You." He also had some success with "Shame Shame Shame Shame" and "Something's Gonna Change Her Mind," and he kept going strong with the stripped-down 1994 follow-up, Unleashed, which spawned the hit "Hard Lovin' Woman." Collie subsequently moved to Warner subsidiary Giant for 1995's Tennessee Plates, which slowed his career momentum somewhat. The only other Collie release that has appeared to date is the budget-priced greatest-hits-live set Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin' (1998). ~ Steve Huey, RoviWIKIPÉDIA


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This week we saw the release of the much-anticipated Mass Effect 3 and an announcement that 2013 will bring a new SimCity chapter. But it wasn't all about the heavy-hitters. Opposable Thumbs also brought you stories about indie developers fighting blatant rip-offs of their games, and "protestors" outside of GDC unhappy with the way games seem to nickle-and-dime the player instead of enticing them with better, more challenging games.
Mass Effect 3 review: a proper ending—but not a perfect one: Mass Effect 3 lives up to the high expectations set by the previous games in the series, wrapping up the sprawling story and offering a more action-packed experience, though the experience isn't without its problems.
Binding of Isaac creator: Nintendo rejection shows internal divisions over company's image: The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen tells Ars Technica that his discussions with Nintendo over a potential 3DS version of the game show a company with serious internal divisions over how to balance its family-friendly image with broader content.
Maxis announces new SimCity for 2013: Maxis will finally be creating a new entry in the popular SimCity franchise in 2013, promising features such as full 3D graphics, internet-connected cities that can affect one another, and even "curvy roads"
Attacking the clones: indie game devs fight blatant rip-offs: Clones of games are causing trouble not only for developers, but for an unwary gaming public. A presentation at GDC explored ways of attacking the problem of cloned games.
"Protestors" call games industry a "temple of sin," demand repentance: A pair of "protesters" outside the Game Developers Conference helped draw attention to what they see as the sins of a game industry focused too much on monetizing players and too little on providing meaningful experiences.
Artificially intelligent vs. artificially human: creating better NPCs: At a Game Developers Conference presentation this week, two industry veterans laid out some ideas for making in-game characters more believably human, rather than rigidly, logically intelligent.
Epic touts console-quality graphics in browser-based Flash games with Unreal Engine: At a Game Developers Conference presentation, Epic Games President Mark Rein showed off the power of Epic's Unreal Engine 3 running inside a Flash-powered browser window, including a better-than-console version of Unreal Tournament 3.
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Oh dear, wise and powerful monks,
I wasn't sure where to put this, but I'm seeking perl wisdom, so I thought I'd put it here.
I've been coding for some time now, not long enough to call myself a wizard or guru, or even journey man, but enough to get me in trouble. I love this language so much, and there are so many contributors out there, I feel like I need to make a contribution.
One problem. I don't know what to contribute. I'd like to write a module, but I don't know what for, anything I can think of has been done already.
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text: SNU-1 (ATCC® CRL-5971™) Organism: Homo sapiens, human / Tissue: stomach / Disease: gastric carcinoma General Information Characteristics Culture Method Specifications History Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits Organism Homo sapiens, human Tissue stomach Product Format frozen Morphology epithelial Culture Properties suspension, multicell aggregates Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Disease gastric carcinoma Age 44 years adult Gender male Ethnicity Asian Storage Conditions liquid nitrogen vapor phase Karyotype SNU-1 is a near-diploid cell line with a modal chromosome number of 47; double minute chromosomes were found in 28% of the cells. They have a reported colony-forming efficiency of 1.9% in semisolid medium and a population doubling time of 26 hours. The cells grow as floating aggregates of round cell clusters. This is a hyperdiploid human cell line with the modal chromosome number of 47 occurring in 94% of cells. Higher ploidies occurred at 42%, which is very high. The karyotype of 47,XY,t(1;4) (q24;q33), +M1 is very uniform and stable. M1 is an F- sized small metacentric chromosome. Images Derivation SNU-1 was derived in 1984 by J. Park and associates from a poorly differentiated primary carcinoma of the stomach, taken prior to cytotoxic therapy. Clinical Data 44 years adultAsianmale Antigen Expression Blood Type O; Rh +The cells express the surface glycoproteins carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and TAG 72. Receptor Expression vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), expressed Oncogene myc +; erb B2 + Effects Yes, reported colony forming efficiency of 1.9% in semisolid medium.RefPark JG, et al. Characteristics of cell lines established from human gastric carcinoma. Cancer Res. 50: 2773-2780, 1990. PubMed: 2158397 Comments The cells are L-dopa decarboxylase (DDC) negative. SNU-1 cells were positive for VIP receptors but lacked gastrin receptors. No evidence of amplification or rearrangements was noted in the N-myc, L-myc, myb and EGF receptor genes. The cell line expressed levels of c-myc and c-erb-B-2 RNA that were comparable to other cell lines. There was no expression of the following genes: N-myc, L-myc, c-cis, IGF-2, or gastrin releasing peptide. Complete Growth Medium The base medium for this cell line is ATCC-formulated RPMI-1640 Medium, ATCC 30-2001. To make the complete growth medium, add the following components to the base medium: fetal bovine serum (ATCC 30-2020) to a final concentration of 10%. Subculturing Cultures can be maintained by addition of fresh medium or replacement of medium. Alternatively, cultures can be established by centrifugation of the suspension with subsequent resuspension in fresh medium. Add medium as the cell density increases. Medium Renewal: Every 2 to 3 days Cryopreservation Freeze medium: Complete growth medium supplemented with 5% (v/v) DMSO Storage temperature: liquid nitrogen vapor phase Culture Conditions Atmosphere: air, 95%; carbon dioxide (CO2), 5%Temperature: 37°C STR Profile Amelogenin: X,YCSF1PO: 12,13D13S317: 11,14D16S539: 9,12D5S818: 12,13D7S820: 9,12TH01: 8,9.3TPOX: 8,10vWA: 14 Population Doubling Time 26 hrs Name of Depositor J Park Deposited As Homo sapiens Year of Origin 1984 References Park JG, et al. Characteristics of cell lines established from human gastric carcinoma. Cancer Res. 50: 2773-2780, 1990. PubMed: 2158397 NCI-Navy Medical Oncology Branch Cell Line Supplement. J. Cell. Biochem. suppl. 24: 1996. Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS Other Documentation Cancer cell line mutation data Cell Micrograph References Park JG, et al. Characteristics of cell lines established from human gastric carcinoma. Cancer Res. 50: 2773-2780, 1990. PubMed: 2158397 NCI-Navy Medical Oncology Branch Cell Line Supplement. J. Cell. Biochem. suppl. 24: 1996.


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- Transfer the dough to a large mixing bowl. Beat in eggs one at a time, mix well between adding.
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I am not only writing this to let you know how good I am holding my end up, (for I could not possibly feel any better,) but to see if I can draw a return fire from home. To be frank I have received five letters from a girl I have danced with a post card from one of the boys, a letter from Anna Christie, and two post cards from other friends, but only one letter from (Home.) Now all this mail from these dear friends of mine is gladly received, but the good of even these is taken away when I don't find a letter from home amongst them.
You would think that the first sergeant was a Santa Claus, and Christmas came every day to see the boys crowd around looking, yes begging for mail. And believe me some of the young fellows have some pretty sorrowful faces when they don't receive any. If you have got all the mail I have sent, you can't say Im not holding up my end. Now don't think that I am kicking but do appreciate the sense in which I am writing.
There is an awful lot of smallpox down here and we were all vaccinated last night. Every body had to take it. We are getting quit a lot of gaurd duty down here latly, which means very little sleep at night. It is too hot during the day to even think.
Although I haven't felt hungry since we got here they feed us very good. It seems as though the more water you drink down here the more thirsty you get. I bet I drink twenty bottles of tonic a day, but I don't see how that will last much longer even if I am a sergeant an my pay is more than a privates.
Ice is so high here that if you want a cold drink you have to buy tonic or beer, and this goes so fast and ice melts so quick that it is hard, sometimes to get anything cold. I bet you could almost make tea with the water we are expected to drink. For every pound of food we eat, I bet we eat two pounds of sand, but after it is down, it must do us good, for every body seems happy. Tell Burt I will be able to roll B.D. with one hand pretty soon, for it seems to be the standard in this part of the country.
There is some talk of our taking a ten day hike to Fort Hancock about Friday, but we hear a lot of talk. Say what do you know, from my tent I can hear a piano, which has just been presented to the machine gun company. It has just got here and the first tune they are playing on it is, "When I dream of old Ireland Im dreaming of you." OH I cant discribe how good it sounds. They are now play, "When I leave the world behind" It seems as though I am in the kitchen now and Lena is playing. It might seem funny to you but it takes me right back home.
As I cant say any thing or do any thing that will make me feel any nearer to you than to listen to this real music I will close now with a longing to soon be with you all soon, I will remain the same Sam
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This video is about cage nuts and describes how to install and remove them, and how to identify if your product includes cage nuts.
You may have heard of cage nuts and wondered what they are and how they are used. Today we are going to discuss cage nuts and show you some of their advantages and uses.
Cage nuts are used to mount IT equipment in server racks, such as the StarTech.com 4POSTRACK25U. Server racks compatible with cage nuts can be easily identified by the square holes the cage nuts use. Cage nuts are great for protecting your equipment from stripped threads and allow for convenient mounting of your server rack equipment.
A cage nut houses a standard nut in a cage with a spring. The cage has two wings that can be pinched together to allow the cage nut to be inserted into a square hole. The wings are then released to hold the cage nut in place. Cage nuts come in many sizes but M5 and M6 cage nuts are mainly used in IT environments. M6 is a heavier, more robust cage nut that M5.
Let's take a look at mounting a Cage Nut on a rail in the StarTech.com 4POSTRACK25U.
In some situations, you may be advised to use a slot screwdriver to help install cage nuts. However, you will find it much easier to use a cage nut mounting tool.
To install a cage nut, use your tool to attach one of the wings from the cage nut. Keep the pressure on the cage nut with your finger and then attach the other wing. The cage nut is now ready for the mounting screw.
To uninstall a cage nut, use your tool to release the cage nut wing on one side and then the other side.
You can check to see if your StarTech.com product includes cage nuts by navigating to the StarTech.com website, searching for the product, and checking the Technical Specifications tab under the heading What's in the Box.
StarTech.com also sells cage nuts and screws in both M5 and M6 sizes which can be seen by navigating to Server Rack Accessories and the section Mounting Screws and Cage Nuts.
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When you install your rack equipment, it's important to put the heaviest equipment on the bottom of the rack, first. This provides a strong base and is especially important if you are installing a lot of equipment on a tall rack. This also prevents the server rack from becoming top heavy and falling over.
If your equipment is long, heavy, unbalanced or otherwise difficult to handle, ask someone to help you install the equipment so you don't injure yourself or damage the equipment.
Finally, when you tighten down your screws make sure you don't strip or damage the screws. This is especially important to be aware of when using electric tools which can generate more torque.
The patch panel will be mounted using cage nuts, so the first step is to install them.
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What does someone with an organizational management degree do?
All companies and organizations need management and leaders to make sure things run smoothly and make sure that employees and customers are satisfied. People with an organizational management degree have learned the skills necessary to strategically lead these companies and organization. Management can involve leading an entire organization or supervising specific departments.
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- Human Resources Managers: Involves the management of an HR department, which is in charge of recruiting, training, employee benefits, enforcing labor laws, hiring new employees, ect.
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£7 per hour for reading from a checklist and pissing off end users that know more than you isn't at all bad.
A survey of fifteen of the most popular technology job titles reveals salaries for both permanent and contractor positions around the UK. Bottom of the list is the helpdesk with starting salaries of £18,000 or contractor jobs from £7 an hour, or just £6 in Scotland. But high salaries go up to £36,000 in London or £32,000 in …
Not necessarily because the individual who hold the position actually makes the organisation that much more profit (although as they are the only individuals in positions of pivotal decision-making, very fews others have the authority to decide on the directions that make or lose the corporate millions or billions).No. these people get paid a lot to incentivise the people below them.The reward of the "lower ranks" for the hard work and long hours they put in, is that one day - if they stick at it long/hard enough, is that they'll get the top paying job and then become the figurehead who spends all day "working" with other executives, on the golf course.
People seem to think that getting and keeping high paying jobs is about talent - if you've good enough, you'll be rewarded. Those people are wrong: to get the best paying jobs involves putting in more than the 9 - 5, 5 days a week. The promotions and pay rises are rewards for 60-hour weeks, working weekends and evenings. Taking work home and spending time away from home improving the company's profits. Oh yes, and having the dependability to not rush off and abandon a piece of work 'cos little Jonny's developed a runny nose (or other orifices).
You can either have a work-life balance, or you can go for the money. It's a free country, make your choices.
A recent job advert for JobCenterPlus recruitment stated, quite clearly, that people who worked at the Brighton Job Centre would get more money than those working at any of the other Job Centres in East or West Sussex.
So civil servants doing the same work less than 10 miles apart get paid differently... is Brighton really /that/ bad, or is that where the Directors live?
That is, the old aphorism about lies, damned lies and statistics.
£7 an hour for me translates to about £14K, and my company (like I'm going to tell you the name) is known as one of the lowest-paying in the industry, save Crap-Gemini.
Oh, and incidentally, not all firstline helpdesks are filled with checklist readers. Mine's filled with utterly perverted IT workers.
A starting teacher will get £20,000 (25 in London), which may rise to £60,000 or so for the head of an Inner London primary and £100,000 for a handful of heads of large secondary schools.
A nurse starts at £15,000 and is unlikely to ever get over £50,000 and even that would be for a matron ( yes they do apparently exist, they're called Modern Matrons now).
So sitting on an IT desk and saying;
"Have you switched it on and off again?, You have, Oh well you'll have to reinstall windows then". Doesn't seem too bad.
When what they're actually doing is sitting around surfing the Internet and talking the right kind of management bullshit that's in vogue at the moment. The high paid jobs are all given by arseholes to other arseholes that they're friends with. Nobody actually gets to work their way up from the bottom unless they can talk shit for England and are fucking incompetent at actual work...
Can't say I've seen any of my managers doing a shred of useful work in my life...
> That would be the reason Women don't get to the top of professions as much as men
Apparently not. (anyway, I said nothing gender-specific). The point is that high paying jobs are the rewards for putting in the work. Look again at what I said - there's a phrase: " ... improving the conmpany's profits ..." that's the key. Obviously the more time a talented worker spends working the greater the contributions they will make, hence higher rewards. I had hoped that would have been obvious, and I wouldn't have to spell it out. Apparently not.
If yo really want to talk about pay-gaps, which is straying WAY off topic, read this piece from the FT
Apart from the observation that "Men want power enough to hang on to it and women don't want it enough to make them let go." (this observation by Lucy Kellaway - I'm not saying I hold to it though), the piece considers the reasons why women tend to earn less and don't get as many top jobs as men can be summed up as:
"Far more important was what happened when children came along. If you look only at promotions and earnings, childless women are all but indistinguishable from men."
Which gave rise to my closing comment about freedom and choice.
I agree with your statement re. women, it's true that they do tend to "damage" (for want of a better word) their promotability by getting pregnant.
But as for "improving the company's profits" in my experience that's more like "taking credit for improving the company's profits". I don't deny that if you are hard-working, talented and put in the extra effort that it *may* help to get you promoted/more money, but the reality is that in many cases, it just leaves you tired. And the fuckstick that plays golf with the CEO or wears a better suit and talks better bullshit, gets the promotion.
That's not just unqualified cynicism though; many smaller companies take the wrong road of keeping their top performers trapped where they are (because they are so good at their jobs) because they are afraid of losing their skills when that person moves up the ladder. So instead of putting someone who can motivate and inspire the people below them because they actually know what they're talking about, they put in the guy who sucks at his job.
@ El Reg
"But high salaries go up to £36,000 in London or £32,000 in Scotland or £31 and £29 an hour respectively."
One's salary is roughly 2000 times one's hourly rate (40 hours per week * 50 weeks per year). That's one lazy bunch of people they've surveyed.
@ Pete 2
"The point is that high paying jobs are the rewards for putting in the work."
Yeah? Really? Ever been an NED who gets £50,000 a year for 10 hours work? No? You're not near enough the top of the pole to accurately survey the terrain.
" ... improving the conmpany's profits ..."
It can therefore be argued (and has been argued in many companies I've worked for) that sales salaries should be ten times technical salaries. If you have aggressive sales people and a shit product you'll still bring in the money. Sales: no skill, no talent, little work, and usually revolving around a little network of wide-boys who trade clients with each other for purely personal (and not company) gain. With apologies to El Reg Sales.
"Obviously the more time a talented worker spends working the greater the contributions they will make"
Not necessarily. So your "obviously" shows an inability to think clearly. Clocked hours, hours spent actually working, work produced and revenue created are all different, and that is why your arguments are so muddled.
How much are _you_ actually _costing_ your company?
"Which gave rise to my closing comment about freedom and choice."
Yeah, and if we were all actually free to choose more life than work (and many, many people would) ... your house of cards would come tumbling down. Since people at the top rely on (feed off) those at the bottom, perhaps they should redistribute their wealth a bit more instead of dropping £10,000 on a bottle of whisky.
"anyway, I said nothing gender-specific"
No, you just chose an example that was suspiciously redolent of many male managers' attitudes towards female staff. You could have chosen a more general example of less than fully committed staff, but you chose that one.
"It can therefore be argued (and has been argued in many companies I've worked for) that sales salaries should be ten times technical salaries. If you have aggressive sales people and a shit product you'll still bring in the money. Sales: no skill, no talent, little work, and usually revolving around a little network of wide-boys who trade clients with each other for purely personal (and not company) gain. With apologies to El Reg Sales."
I agree with a lot you say, but the above paragraph is just fucking crazy. Maybe you're from sales and marketing or whatever but I hate to break it to you but sales is basically lying. People don't get sold things unleess they've been conned, people buy things, the "sales" person is completely irrelevant. That's why companies like MFI go bankrupt, they start thinking it's all about the sales, then when everyone catches on that the product is shit it doesn't matter how good the sales person is, nothing can save them. Probably the best money spinning places to be are where there's no "product" and all you're doing is "selling" something abstract. There are plent of knobs out there to buy bullshit and no way they can measure the quality.
The problem isn't that of wages or pay gaps. The problem is with incompetent managers surrounding themselves by uneducated arsehole gobshites who know even less than they do but by virtue of that tend to question things less. This makes said manager feel vindicated and often becomes self-propagating.
Try having a proven track record in four separate Engineering disciplines along with a vocabulary of more than 20 words AND the intelligence to use them and then some halfwit who left school with no qualifications suddenly outranks you.
I'm not bitter or twisted and I remain philosophical about it. I have my self-respect. Others have brown noses and a working life where they'll taste nothing but shit. I hope they like the taste.
Hmm if you are so talented and clever what are you doing posting on El Reg on a Friday morning? Best make sure you don't piss off your IT support too, they can leave all sorts of nasties on your hard drive.
Personally I think you can keep your 60 hour weeks, working weekends and holidays. go look up the parable of the railroad engineer and the hammer.
"I agree with a lot you say, but the above paragraph is just fucking crazy. "
You're probably right. :o)
"Maybe you're from sales and marketing or whatever but I hate to break it to you but sales is basically lying"
Hang on ... I can't work out whether you actually agree with me or not ... !?
My dislike for sales is based on a few years spent watching them operate in the communications sector. There was a hell of a lot of deception going on to the extent that it really was lying. I know it was lying because I had data in one hand and sales bumpf in the other.
I guess you're taking exception to my remark that "[i]f you have aggressive sales people and a shit product you'll still bring in the money." I stand by that remark. I think it is evidenced by the sheer amount of crap that's out there and being bought.
"when everyone catches on that the product is shit"
But how long did it take in the case of MFI? They were a national joke for years, and still people bought their product. It takes a lot of anti-sales to bring a sales-oriented company down and how much money is made by the cheap suits in the meantime? Enough for many of them to demand and get big raises and bonuses. By the time the company is failing they've moved off elsewhere, which is why _I_ think sales people should get a 10th the salary of technical people. With apologies to El Reg Sales.
"There are plent of knobs out there to buy bullshit and no way they can measure the quality."
To a greater or lesser extent, we are all knobs who buy bullshit. Look at every single thing you have bought, and ask yourself "In all honesty, why did I buy that"? There's a lot of science that goes into developing sales and advertising techniques (if you consider psychology a science) and we're all guilty of being conned at some point or other. I agree with Martin Gardner that smart, scientific types are often more vulnerable than most, believing themselves to be immune and having few natural defences.
Anyways, we both agree that sales is a con, but you seem to have a bit more faith in and respect for your fellow human then I do. Would that be a fair way of putting it?
The biggest problem in the IT industry these days is the damn CEOs and CIOs want lots on incoming money, but they dont want to spend money to make sure service is good enough.
Then they wonder why customers are leaving.
The company I work as a remote technician (I am based in the USA) for a webhosting company who are also based in the USA that have been firing a lot of techs lately, and theres rumors of money trouble.
However, it appears that with the average USA based tech making $20000/yr (starting base), they are actually hiring poeple from thailand at approx $5000/yr. For ever tech that gets fired, they get 2 from thailand. This means that the company saves $10k per year, probably going into ceo pockets.
Unfortunantly, these techs take 2 months to train (compared to 1/4 of the time for a US based worker) for first line support.
After the 2 months of training, the thailand techs still can't handle tickets.
For example, they will get a ticket sayig "I cant send email through webmail" , they read the "cant send email" and send our standard reply for users who are having issues using mail clients such as outlook or mac mail. (Usually when this occurs, its because ISP is blocking port 25).
Of course the reply has absolutely nothing to do with the users issue, since webmail has nothing to do with a mail client.
Oh, and they expect us to spend less then 5 minutes on a ticket. This really isnt enough time to check the users account info, let alone start resolving an issue.
In the past 2 years, I have seen the level of support given to users drop considerably due to the stupid choices made by management.
Just waiting to get fired.
I am always surprised at peoples reactions to this type of research. Unfortunately organisations have "pay bands" and brackets, so if your good at your job you may still only earn the same as a collegue who is shockingly bad. Unfortunately thats life, not just in IT.
Obviously were your business is located will also have an effect on your wage, aswell as other factors, such as your companies size (ability to pay more), size of customers, size of contracts, your responsibilities etc etc etc.
My own company pays purely on performance and ability. If we have a great help desk worker who works hard, fixes lots of issues he will always get paid more and be up for promotions compared to those who dont perform as well or those we feel dont have as much knowledge or ability to learn more. The key is to ensure you can monitor performance well enough...
Finally noticed some responses with regards to women. I think that women often work a lot harder than men (in general not always obviously) and they are more often than not, more disciplined in their working. In many cases I am sure women work harder than men just to get the same recognition, unfortunately too many in IT see this industry as a very male orientated one....its simply wrong...
"People don't get what they deserve. They get what they negotiate."
Unless you work at the place that I do and you fall under an agreement of non-negotiation; for pay, conditions, notification & consultation (for redundancy etc.) But you don't find that out until you receive your contract of employment. Still this job fulfils a need for now.. another year or two here then I can move on.
"Obviously the more time a talented worker spends working the greater the contributions they will make, hence higher rewards. I had hoped that would have been obvious, and I wouldn't have to spell it out. Apparently not."
This is, in fact, not only not obvious, but totally incorrect.
The best workers (Particularly on IT helpdesks) are the ones who quickly resolve a problem, and are free to move on to the next. The best people can be more effective in two hours than a typical worker is in eight, and than a poor worker is in twelve.
You correctly note that those who put in a twelve hour day are more likely to be promoted than those who put in four or five hours of actual work, spend three or four hours a day drinking coffee and surfing el Reg, and piss off home on time (or even early).
My team of five consists of four people who are good at their jobs, and who go home on time (except during genuine emergencies); plus one who, through their own incompetence, has to work back two or three hours every day, despite having less workload than the rest (because when we finish our work, we help with theirs).
Who will get the promotion? Who SHOULD get the promotion?
Your assessment of the way in which promotions are assigned is touchingly naive, and would no doubt be lovely in an ideal world. Unfortunately the world is much less than ideal, precisely because it is full of fools who actually believe this kind of bullshit - and even think that it is 'obvious'
Too true.
AC 3August: You negotiated too. You signed up! Negotiate with your feet and walk out if you don't like the deal.
Negotiation is primarily a sales job.
Everyone knows you're nice and helpful. What you need to do is have hard verifiable numbers that you've contributed directly to the bottom line. That's what good sales people do and how they earn big dolla.
If your contribution saves the company $5M per year you have a far better negotiating position than being a random cog in the machine.
Would love to know where in the South West Helldeskers earn £10 an hour cos I would work there.
£10/hour is a lot more than the £7.79 (slightly less than £16k pa) that I get. And I use my brain, rather than reading a script.
This survey can be safely disregarded as it has no relation to the reality that I work in.
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