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Monday, July 18, 2011
Here we go
Well I am leaving for Texas in a few hours. I have decided to avoid highways for the majority of the trip - this will take 12 extra hours total. Should be fun though, seeing a more intimate view of the country than I would on highways. I have a reservation at Townhouse Restaurant in Chilhowie VA tomorrow evening, which I will be sure to post about. Ill probably be doing random brief updates periodically throughout the trip so...stay tuned!
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
Troy Waterfront Farmers Market, ACF Competition
Since returning to Albany I have been spending a lot of time at SCCC helping my friend Caitlin prepare for an upcoming competition. Caitlin and I first met a couple years ago when we were both on the SCCC Student Hot Foods Team. In the time since Caitlin has been on the Hot Foods Team a second time, she was elected the Student President for the Capital District-Central New York ACF chapter, she won the Student Chef of the Year Northeast Region. Now in just a few short weeks Caitlin, myself, and a great mentor of ours - Chef Christopher Tanner, will travel to Grapevine (Dallas) Texas for the ACF National Convention where Caitlin will be competing for the title of Student Chef of the Year.
A few practices ago, I took some snapshots of Caitlin's food..
'Pan Seared Trout, Caramelized Sweet Corn Gnocchi, Shellfish Tomato Stew with Pancetta, Basil Oil'
'Sauteed Chicken Breast, Red Wine and Tomato Braised Chicken Leg, Herbed Chicken Vegetable Sausage, Carrot Green Bean and Caramelized Leek Risotto, Sauteed Broccoli Rabe with Truffle & Olive Puree'
One thing that is especially nice for me is that while Caitlin is doing her practice run throughs I cannot really do much to help her, as we are trying to create an environment as close to the actual competition as possible. So I have the facilities and staff at SCCC at my disposal and I get to play around a lot. I have been doing a little work on sugar showpiece techniques which I hope to...get a little more practice in before posting about. At the last practice - after being inspired by a slew of posts at Ideas in Food, I made a plated dessert utilizing corn as a main ingredient
'Steamed Sweet Corn Cake, Roasted Corn Husk Ice Cream, Blueberries, Black Currant Reduction, Corn Flake Tuile, Mint':
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Sometime in the past week I made milk braised chicken, which was actually really great. You start by searing the entire bird in a hot pan, then braising it with milk, garlic, a fistful of whatever herbs, and some lemon zest. During the braise, curds separate from the milk which you then spoon over the finished chicken. YUM.
And lastly, today I visited the Troy Riverfront Farmers Market which was at its new location on River Street for the first time. Its a wonderful change, the vibe of the market has changed entirely - for the better. It was vibrant and full of energy and in a very charming area.
One thing I have to say is great about upstate New York is our farmers markets. They absolutely blow all the markets I went to in Chicago out of the water.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Road Trip
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Friday, July 1, 2011
Boucherie @ SCCC
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Daniel C. Hudson: Ramifications of the Zimmerman/Martin verdict
Published 3:45 pm, Thursday, July 18, 2013
There was no way the George Zimmerman/ Trayvon Martin Case could end well. It pitted against each other two rival ethnic groups in a state, Florida, and a legal jurisdiction dominated by a Caucasian governing class eager enough to play Hispanics against African-Americans.
Moreover, the most successful and prosperous element in the Hispanic population in Florida is quite different from the Hispanics immigrating legally or illegally over the Mexican border.
The Cubans in south Florida carry the legacy of the Cold War. They were encouraged and welcomed by whites as refugees from Fidel Castro and as challengers to his rule. By their coming, they affirmed certain patriotic sentiments cherished by white Americans about the "land of the free and home of the brave."
They carved out their own community in Miami, became conservative Republicans politically and secured benefits from Washington, not particularly meaningful to other Hispanics.
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It is hard to imagine how the one Hispanic female on the six member -- all female -- jury could have found anything but that George Zimmerman was not guilty. There were no African-Americans on the jury.
The state of Florida did not even want to prosecute Zimmerman. Demonstrations encouraged by the Rev. Al Sharpton and others created a national opinion forcing the state of Florida to arrest Zimmerman, but such demonstrations also provoked the old southern white defensiveness and resentment toward outside agitators.
Zimmerman's lead defense attorney appeared on television, including Sharpton's show, to present information and innuendo intended to discredit Trayvon Martin's reputation while knowing that such "evidence" would not be permissible at the trial. He fully intended to taint the pool of potential jurors.
Logically, he was engaged in a process of jury tampering although he did not violate any law.
The "stand your ground law" distorted the case.
That law has its origin in the paranoia of white Americans that they are constantly in danger of attack by black young men wearing hoodies.
Actually, it was Martin who initially was being stalked by Zimmerman who was not required to inform the teen-ager that he was an armed police auxiliary. And, of course, the police dispatcher had told Zimmerman not to follow Martin.
Logically, Martin in the first instance should have been able to invoke "stand your ground" against Zimmerman. In a strange twist, the aggressor was able to claim the right of defense against the unarmed victim.
Suppose a well-dressed white man being followed by an armed African-American police auxiliary. Can anyone imagine acquittal of the African-American? Surely, a jury would have decided at the least that the black man was guilty of manslaughter. Whatever the white man did would have been granted under the terms of "stand your ground."
Both sides were instructed to keep "race" out of the courtroom. Now that the jury has rendered its decision, the discussion is all about race.
Asked if there would have been any difference had Zimmerman been black, the lead defense attorney said that the difference would have been that the case would never have come to trial. This is the classic conception of race relations by many, even most white Americans.
Not only are young black men in hoodies -- or not -- to be feared for their propensity to violence, but blacks are given preferential treatment in this culture. And, we have a black President, after all.
Yet, how many whites would choose to be black to gain the advantage of this assumed preferential treatment? Answer -- none.
Do not bet on demographics changing the political playing field in the former Confederate states and other Red states.
A case like the Zimmerman/Martin one, or a Supreme Court decision like that which recently gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 might provoke short-term rage among African-Americans but by election time the apathy of hopelessness may set in among many blacks.
Demonstrations even if peaceful will put Hispanics on the defensive making them subject to a "law and order appeal" by conservatives.
The post-election soul searching by Republicans was short-lived. They have retrenched back on white supremacy, antagonism to social programs while supporting subsidies and tax breaks for the wealthy, restrictions on women's rights and the voting rights of minorities, obstructionist government -- the whole Far Right agenda.
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Australia keeper Schwarzer retires from international football
Schwarzer was Australia's most-capped player with 109 appearances since his debut in 1993. He moved to Chelsea as backup to established Petr Cech this season after more than five years and 172 appearances at Fulham.sports Updated: Nov 06, 2013 07:30 IST
Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer announced his retirement from international football Wednesday after a 20-year career that included two World Cup tournaments.
Football Federation Australia said that 41-year-old Schwarzer notified it of his retirement decision after initially being included in new national coach Ange Postecoglou's squad for a friendly against Costa Rica in Sydney on November 19.
Schwarzer was Australia's most-capped player with 109 appearances since his debut in 1993. He moved to Chelsea as backup to established Petr Cech this season after more than five years and 172 appearances at Fulham.
Schwarzer will be off-contract with Chelsea at the end of the Premier League season and his future with the team is uncertain.
Australia has qualified for next year's World Cup in Brazil, and Schwarzer represented Australia at the 2006 and 2010 tournaments.
Schwarzer played in Australia's 6-0 loss to Brazil in his last match for the national team in September. He has not allowed a goal in two League Cup matches for Chelsea.
"Mark has been a tremendous servant for the national team," Postecoglou said. "He has been one of our best performers over a long period of time and he has always remained passionate about playing for Australia. I know the Australian football community will join me in paying tribute to Mark for everything he's done for the Socceroos."
Australia teammate Tim Cahill praised Schwarzer as one of the country's greatest footballers.
"Mark Schwarzer a true professional and is one of the all-time greats for our game to ever wear a Socceroos jersey," Cahill said on Twitter.
Schwarzer was part of five World Cup qualifying campaigns. He saved two penalties for the Socceroos in the successful playoff against Uruguay in 2005, allowing Australia to qualify for Germany in 2006, its first appearance at a World Cup since 1974.
He began his career in Australia with the Marconi Stallions from 1990 to 1994, then played in Europe with Dynamo Dresden (1994-95), FC Kaiserslautern (1995-96), Bradford City (1996-97), Middlesbrough (1997-2008) and Fulham (2008-13) before moving to Chelsea this season.
Schwarzer won a League Cup in 2003-04 with Middlesbrough and was named Fulham player of the year in 2008-09.
Schwarzer's international retirement leaves 25-year-old Mitch Langerak as the front-runner for the Australia goalkeeping role.
Langerak was included in Postecoglou's 22-man squad for the Costa Rica match. Luke Wilkshire and Sasa Ognenovski were axed by the new coach and face an uncertain future with the side ahead of the World Cup.
Captain Lucas Neill was retained despite recent criticism of his leadership after the 6-0 losses to Brazil and later France that resulted in former coach Holger Osieck being fired. Postecoglou said Wednesday he would not guarantee Neill's continuing captaincy role past the Costa Rica match.


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RUFC - Moore 'It was an open game'
Rotherham United Manager, Ronnie Moore told Radio Sheffield that he thought his side deserved to win Bury at Don Valley today.
Speaking after the goalless draw, Moore said, 'I thought they gave us everything today bar the icing on the cake. But, when you're on top you have to score.
I thought Bury had the best chance of the game when the centre-half put it wide and should have scored but we've had a lot of chances and didn't get the break. But I can't go and have a go at them because we needed a little bit of luck, especially when Lawsy's (Nicky Law) gone through, although the pitch played a lot in that, and has probably cost us. Then Ryan's (Taylor) gone through and then Alfie (Adam Le Fondre) but he looked at the centre-half and if he hadn't then he scores. We've had loads of chances and yes we are disappointed.
'Bury are second in the table but I think we are a better team.
'We've had a game plan today and worked to it and done well and for the neutral it would have been a good game to watch. Both sides were going for it, they've not come here and sat back, they wanted to have a go. It was a very open game but if it had been a boxing match I think we'd have just edged it.
Speaking about Bury's central defender, Efe Sodje, who made some poor tackles, Moore said he thought he was lucky to stay on the pitch after being yellow carded on twenty-seven minutes. 'He got out of jail.'
Talking about substituting Jason Taylor this afternoon, Moore said it was tactical and said, 'I just thought we looked tired in there and I thought can we get the fresh legs of Omar (Daley) to go and give us a bit of something. It was just to freshen it up more than anything and Omar's come on and shown what a danger he can be. We want to keep Omar, not just for now but do something for next season too.'
Asked about the incident in the first few minutes when it looked like the ball was over the line, Moore said his players weren't too sure about it. 'But,' he laughed, 'it would have been nice to have had the linesman from Bradford!'
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News of Nelson Mandela's death yesterday broke during the London premiere of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," Justin Chadwick's biopic about the late South African president and anti-apartheid activist. Audience members learned of Mandela's passing at the age of 95 during and immediately following the screening of the film.
Per a statement from the Nelson Mandela Foundation (via Canada's National Post), two of those audience members were Zenani and Zindzi Mandela, Mandela's youngest daughters (pictured above with Prince William), who "immediately left the cinema," but reportedly only after requesting that the film continue playing.
While on the red carpet before the screening, Zindzi commented on her father's health. "He's 95 years old and he is pretty frail. We are hoping to see more of him," she told reporters, per UK's The Guardian.
Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, were also in attendance. Before leaving the event, a somber William praised the departed leader. "It is extremely sad and tragic news. We were just reminded what an extraordinary and inspiring man Nelson Mandela was. My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family right now."
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British actors Idris Elba, who plays Mandela in the biopic, and Naomie Harris, who stars opposite him as Winnie Mandela, were there as well. Elba issued a brief yet touching statement after hearing the news: "What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world. My thoughts and prayers are with his family."
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" opened in limited release on November 29, and is scheduled for wide release on Christmas Day.
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To pursue business opportunities in the livestock and meat production chain for the advantage and benefit of the emerging producers.
To pursue business opportunities in the livestock and meat production chain for the advantage and benefit of the emerging producers.
The meat and livestock industry in South Africa is dominated by white commercial producers, speculators, processors and traders. Very few black entrepreneurs have succeeded in entering the ranks of the established livestock producers and even fewer have established themselves in the meat marketing chain. Exclusion has led to mistrust and many black producers feel that they are being cheated by the commercial marketing system. Only exposure and direct involvement can improve this situation.
Until the emergent black farmers have established themselves in the marketing of their livestock and the black entrepreneurs have become an integral part of the commercial marketing chain, the meat industry cannot expect to enjoy more than token political support. Black farmers and businessmen need some interventions to become part of the formal meat and livestock sector. This action cannot be limited to marketing in the communal areas as this will perpetuate the exclusion of the black participants and will fail to introduce them to the commercial sector.
NERPO Investments Limited that is an existing public company established by the members of the Organisation in 1998 with the intent to promote and gain access as an empowerment company to the commercial red meat industry is a driving force for the implementation of this strategic objective.
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The Conservatives promise another omnibus budget bill, Nathan Cullen mixes his metaphors.
"Will I be surprised if they play parliamentary games and obstruction? No, I won't be," Van Loan said in an interview. "I guess we'll have to deal with that." Indeed, the second budget bill — just like the first — will almost certainly face fierce resistance from opposition parties who say they're prepared, if necessary, for another fight to stall the legislation and highlight its potential impacts on Canadians.
"They (the Conservatives) are hunkering down again. I guess they didn't take any lessons from what happened in the spring," said NDP House leader Nathan Cullen. "These guys are pretty obstinate. They believe their orders come from on high." Cullen said the NDP has asked for meetings with Van Loan to discuss the Tories' priorities for the fall session, but have been turned down. "I hope they put some water in their wine," he said, before adding: "We don't mind going toe-to-toe."


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Creating Places Where People Love to Work Is Possible, Profitable
Is it possible to have fun…at work?
Most people spend more time at work than at any other single activity in their lives, but most people feel that they can't—or shouldn't—have fun in the workplace. It's superficial, unprofessional, and counterproductive. It's something that should exist only after work is completed. Or so people thought.
In Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work, author Leslie Yerkes disposes of the myth that fun and work are mutually exclusive.
While most people do not know how to integrate the two, there are some people who love their jobs, who love to go to work, who get great value out of the experience and put great value into at the work experience at the same time.
In fact, organizations can use fun to increase employee and customer retention, motivate individuals and teams, and even improve overall productivity.
Yerkes details precisely how eleven different companies integrate fun into the normal course of business and shows how this translates into improved results across the board. Looking at places like Southwest Airlines, Pike Place Fish, and Prudential, she demonstrates eleven Principles of Fun/Work Fusion and offers thoughtful advice on how to put these principles into practice.
The principles are:
The book contains an inventory/short quiz that can be taken for each of the principles to assess where the company stands currently.
Yerkes suggests that the people take the quiz again 90-days later to assess the amount of change that has occurred since the company started focusing on having fun at work.
For this revised second edition, Yerkes conducted follow-up interviews with all the companies in the first edition to see how they have managed to maintain a prosperous and fun environment in the face of recession, national tragedy, and natural disaster.
She was thrilled to discover that all of the original eleven companies have continued to thrive; that not one of them was "done in" by having a culture of "fun and work." If anything, she believes it is the combination of business smarts and a positive culture that allowed each company to maintain their position, stay in business, and grow.
Yerkes concludes by identifying how these companies illustrate that fun integrated with work:
Creating places where people love to work is about creating a culture where individuals can freely bring the best of their whole selves to work each day. So go ahead and have fun at work!


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What would the title of your autobiography be?
"Tales from the Little Vampire"
What can't you travel without?
A camera, because I have big eyes and a bad memory, and Emergen-C, because I have a weak immune system.
Where is your favorite travel destination?
If you could choose one person to show you "their New York City," who would it be?
Oscar the Grouch, because I'm really curious what's down there.
Who has inspired you recently?
Damon Albarn. I went on a trip to Ethiopia with Africa Express, an organization he's part of, and I'm really inspired by how he moves from project to project, with no geographic or cultural boundaries.


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Yuletide and fanfic
For years, I've enjoyed reading Yuletide stories. Yuletide, for those who are not aware of it, is an annual fanfic exchange. When you sign up, you request a story (you actually have to give multiple possible options) and you also offer to write one (ditto). You volunteer and request based on "fandoms," which in the context of Yuletide can sometimes be as narrow as a single blog post or a TV commercial. Yuletide does require that the fandoms be small, or at least smallish -- you can't request or offer Harry Potter-based stories, Avengers, anything that has a huge amount of fanfic already.
Stories have to be turned in by late Christmas Eve, and everyone gets their story on Christmas Day. Authors remain secret until January 1st. All the stories are in an archive and can be sorted by fandom, so you can poke through and read all the stuff that appeals to you. (A Little Princess? Allstate's "Mayhem" commercials? Georgette Heyer's Venetia? They're all in there.)
This year I decided I wanted to play. I was assigned to write for someone who wanted Code Name Verity fanfic, and wrote a story called Damask Roses (it's also Rose Under Fire fanfic) and I wrote a Treat (an unassigned story I wrote because I looked at a bunch of prompts and felt inspired) about Disney Princesses at a college called Four Things That Weren't Adequately Covered in Mulan's RA Training.
The story I received was Addams Family (the movie) fanfic called College First. It's perfect -- filled with spot-on bits of deadpan dialog.
I've written derivative work before -- in fact, I've sold it, as you can totally do if you're deriving from something in the public domain. "In the Witch's Garden" (published in Realms of Fantasy in October 2002, available now in Gift of the Winter King and Other Stories) is loosely based on "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen. "The Golem" (published in Realms of Fantasy in October 2000, available now in Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories) draws on the Jewish legend of the golem created by Rabbi Loew.
I've also written straight-up fanfic, but not on AO3 and not in Yuletide, so that was really a new experience.
"Four Things" ... was really popular. And here's the thing about fanfic -- no one's writing it for money, obviously, so there's this whole culture surrounding it where people are rewarded for their writing and encouraged to write more with compliments. You do get compliments with pro writing; I've gotten some really lovely e-mails over the year, and my most recent published story, Bits, has a comments section with eight comments. By contrast, "Four Things" has 353 kudos (basically like a Facebook "like," only more specifically adulatory) and 40-some comments, all of them saying things like, "you are SO AWESOME."
You just do not ever get that sort of feedback in pro writing normally. Unless you are so famous that you are also getting stalkers. It's a funny thing.
And the weird flip side of this is that with pro writing I also always feel slightly embarrassed and awkward about compliments. (I avoid reviews, even good ones; they tend to paralyze me. The bad ones make me think, "oh my god, she's totally right: I DO suck." The good ones make me think, "oh my god, I'm totally going to let this person down." This is totally neurotic, and yet I know a lot of other writers with this same problem -- it's not just me.) Whereas with the fanfic I read every comment and let everyone's opinion of my brilliance buoy me up. It felt good.
Anyway. Yuletide was fun. Whether I do it next year will once again depend on whether I remember to sign up, though.


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I assumed as I drove to the airport a week or so ago that it might be possible to escape the madness of Washington while chasing trout in the mountains of Montana, but I was wrong.
The announcement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's decision to retire turned out to be a topic of conversation even among the folks who live here and never venture east.
The shape of the judiciary and even the Supreme Court, important as they are, have always struck me as issues that haven't really engaged the man and woman on the street. This time, however, many ordinary Americans see the coming battle over the court as important in a concrete rather than abstract sense and seem to be following things rather more closely than in the past.
Washington commentators characterize the battle as one in which a bullheaded president and his socially conservative allies are hell-bent on creating a Supreme Court majority willing to reverse Roe v. Wade and thwart those who would use the court as a tool in their war on guns, God and capital punishment. What they miss is a much broader and growing feeling that judges these days act as activist allies of a liberal elite trying to win through the courts that which they have failed time and again to achieve through the electoral or legislative process.
Social conservatives have believed for some time that the federal judiciary is out of control, but at least one recent decision seems to have convinced many others that they have at least as much at stake.
Americans have always been wedded to the concept of private property. Fifty-seven percent of us own our homes, and most of the rest aspire to own theirs, which may go far to explaining the shock of a Supreme Court decision expanding the concept of "eminent domain" to empower the state to seize private property from one party and give it to another just to increase tax revenues.
The court's action and the public reaction to it may focus public attention on the need for more conservative judicial appointees than all the spin doctors, political rhetoric and scholarly articles published in the past decade.
I say this because the court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London draws the line as clearly as any recent decision between those who share the Founders' belief in limited government and those who believe that government rather than people should have the final say over just about everything.
Government has of course always been able to condemn and take one's property for what the Constitution calls a "public use," and it was by twisting and expanding the definition of what constitutes such a "public use" that the court was able to undermine the very idea of private property in a way understandable to anyone who can read a newspaper or turn on a television.
In the past, the courts have followed the Founders by limiting such "takings" to things such as the need to build highways or provide railway or utility rights of way and the like that benefit the public at large and cannot be completed without acquiring property from private owners and providing them just compensation for it. The current court expanded the concept to include any taking that might enhance the condemning jurisdiction's revenue base. Thus, the liberal majority in Kelo said it was fine for the City of New London to seize the property of longtime homeowners and turn it over to private developers to build a luxury hotel and health club that would pay more in taxes.
Liberals can make fun of those they call "originalists" for their perceived slavish devotion to the words of the Constitution and the intentions of those who wrote it, but no originalist would ever vote simply to delete the words "for public use" from the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution ... which is exactly what Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and O'Connor rightly accused the majority of doing in this case.
So the battle over the court may come down to those who actually believe that Supreme Court justices, in rendering decisions, ought to look to the Constitution and the intent of those who penned it and senators and special-interest groups who believe that the court and those who sit on it should be free to decide cases on the basis of their feelings and instincts, prejudices and whatever might be politically correct on the day they vote.
Kelo demonstrates that a court that can ignore the words of the Constitution is a court that can do anything it wants. Bush's ace in the hole may be that very few Americans want such a court.
Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, is a managing associate with Carmen Group, a D.C.-based governmental-affairs firm (www.carmengrouplobbying.com).


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One of the nation's oldest and largest pediatric accountable care organizations, Partners For Kids is a partnership between Nationwide Children's Hospital and more than 1,000 doctors, and is an extension of Nationwide Children's long-standing mission of serving all children regardless of their ability to pay.
As an accountable care organization, Partners For Kids brings together health care providers to offer high-value, coordinated care to a defined patient population. Partners For Kids acts as a bridge between the state's five Medicaid Managed Care Plans and the actual care that approximately 330,000 children in central and southeastern Ohio receive under those plans.
Since its founding in 1994, Partners For Kids has proven that it can provide high-quality care at a lower cost.
Download a full Partners For Kids overview.
"Partners For Kids takes the traditional focus on health care and shifts it to a focus on children's overall health. It is the premier innovative pediatric health care delivery model in the country."
- Nick Lashutka, president of the Ohio Children's Hospital Association
Physician incentives for quality care, better drug prescription practices, care coordination and a focus on illness prevention have led to cost savings and better care for children.
Physicians are incentivized on target areas of child health that need to be improved. One example is through adolescent well-child visits, key for keeping children healthy. Many adolescents are not scheduling these exams. Taking it a step further, the organization will send physicians call lists for patients due for visits. Partners For Kids staff members will even travel to physician offices to help them schedule wellness appointments.
Care coordinators assist children with medical complexity and their families to navigate uneventfully, efficiently and as effectively as possible through the health care system. Data from 2014 show that patients enrolled in care coordination for at least 120 days saw hospital inpatient admissions and emergency department visits decrease.
Partners For Kids' Pharmacy Program works to hold down prescription costs in several ways while still providing patients with the medication they need.
Partners For Kids pharmacists provide guidelines to physicians who may be unaware that some medications are less expensive, more effective or more widely covered by health plans than others.
The Pharmacy Program works with the Medicaid Managed Care Plans to give patients better access to certain treatments that the plans do not already cover, and provides information that allows the plans to save money even outside of Partners For Kids. For example, the antipsychotic medication Abilify® is priced by pill, not by strength of dose. Two 5 milligram pills of Abilify® cost nearly twice the amount of one 10 milligram pill. Abilify® is long acting, so the single 10 mg pill is just as effective. If all Partners For Kids patients currently on Abilify® took just one dose per day, the potential savings is more than $350,000 per year.
All of these cost savings programs have led to steady or improving measures of quality care and patient outcomes.
"Ohio's focus is on value – quality care at a sustainable cost. We want to create an environment where every provider is on a path to value arrangements. It is very helpful to have Partners For Kids as an example we can point to of an organization that has done it the right way."
- Greg Moody, director of the Governor's Office of Health Transformation
To get the best outcomes possible, Nationwide Children's and Partners for Kids the importance of keeping children healthy in their neighborhoods and schools.
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IBM WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 offers advanced EDI and industry standards-based integrationIBM United States Software Announcement 207-020
February 13, 2007
|At a glance
WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS® V3.3 includes the following benefits:
- Delivers the latest and most capable stand-alone EDI translator in the WebSphere portfolio designed to meet high volume and performance requirements within multiple industries
- Includes substantial new functionality for transaction/document store, reporting and error handling, role- and group-based management, and audit trails
- Adds support for services-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations, new EDI standards, and for handling large files and international (Unicode) characters
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative or IBM Americas Call Centers at
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What's new in V3.3
- Migration to browser-based reporting
- Improved error and notification handling
- Improved group and role-based management
- Extension of management reporting to Data Transformation maps
- Improved audit trail functionality
- Enhancements to WebSphere® Data Interchange Client
- Enhanced data storage/handling
- Enhancements to Document Store for storing flat-file and XML data
- Support for submitting transaction replay/resend from WebSphere Data Interchange Client
- Ad-hoc submission of transformation commands
- Support for multiple and expanded Record IDs
- Streaming function to support processing of large messages
- Support for new ANSI X12 functional acknowledgements (X12 999)
- Java API for invoking WebSphere Data Interchange as a Web Service for use in SOAs
- Java API for parsing XML-format event log data enabling the creation of CBE/CEI-compliant messages, for use in SOAs
- Support for directory-based triggering of WebSphere Data Interchange Server
- Support for IBM Support and Educational Assistants
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|Key prerequisites
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Software requirements
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|Planned availability date
March 16, 2007, Tape, U.S. English only
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WebSphere Data Interchange facilitates the creation, deployment, execution, and management of data transformation, and related standards-based processing, between standards-based EDI and XML formats and internal application data formats. It supports requirements for EDI Trading Partner® data exchanges such as auditing and data content validation as well as other required functions. Examples include trading partner profiles, enveloping, syntax validation, and functional acknowledgment, which enable EDI-based integration between trading partners.
WebSphere Data Interchange supports data mapping and transformation conversion between standards-based EDI and internal application data formats. Standards supported include, but are not limited to, ANSI X12, UN/EDIFACT, and UCS. WebSphere Data Interchange supports the subsets of the published ANSI X12 and UN/EDIFACT standards as interpreted by industries such as retail, transportation, electronics, financial services automotive, petroleum, health care, insurance, and manufacturing.
WebSphere Data Interchange can operate as a stand-alone EDI system or it can be integrated with other enterprise applications, either through its WebSphere MQ-based interface, or through its own APIs, including a new Java API, which allows WebSphere Data Interchange to be invoked as a Web Service consistent with SOAs.
In the context of a typical enterprise architecture, WebSphere Data Interchange fulfills the role of an EDI broker that performs standards-based EDI validation, transformation, and exchange functions and propagates the resulting transformed data either internally or externally. It may also be integrated with WebSphere Partner Gateway to leverage business-to-business (B2B) gateway functions.
Internal propagation of transformed data may be conducted through a business process manager such as WebSphere Process Server, or through a message broker such as WebSphere Message Broker, or through direct connectivity with backend business applications, or through any combination of such capabilities depending upon on the needs of the enterprise.
Further, WebSphere Data Interchange can participate with the core elements of an SOA-based, B2B solution, including WebSphere Partner Gateway (for secure connectivity and trading partner management), WebSphere Message Broker (for mediation and routing of EDI-related messages as they pass between the gateway, WebSphere Data Interchange and internal business applications), and WebSphere Process Server (for managing business processes).
External bi-directional exchange of transformed data may be conducted through an EDI value added network (VAN) or through EDI/Internet transport mechanisms (such as EDIINT, AS1/AS2/AS3), or directly with trading partners, or via any combination of these, depending on the nature of the relationship between the enterprise and its trading partners.
WebSphere Data Interchange is sufficiently flexible in its architecture that it can integrate and interoperate with a wide range of such solutions. This is of particular advantage where an enterprise may already have an established EDI VAN provider.
Enhancements to WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3 for z/OS include:
- Document Store tables support flat-file, XML and international (Unicode) data, in addition to storing EDI data, which is currently supported.
- Data transformation processing store and retrieve data using the updated tables for flat-file, XML and international (Unicode) data. This addition of a PERFORM command can check the Document Store for any overdue functional acknowledgements, and generate errors for any that are overdue. These errors may be used to trigger new e-mail alerting and event handing capabilities.
- WebSphere Data Interchange Client users can reprocess transactions and interchanges from the Document Store, similar to the capabilities currently in the z/OS Facility.
- Migration of reporting function to a browser-based interface, and removal of dependency upon external viewer software includes the capability to generate predefined reports associated with the use of all WebSphere Data Interchange objects.
- Improved error handling and related e-mail-based notification of translation errors allow the replacement of the Common Error Services with a new Common Event Handler to allow "pluggable" actions when any "event" (including any message) occurs.
- Support for error and informational messages in a program-readable format (XML and/or fixed-record) allows automated processing.
- Support for message files can be routed to designated files or WMQ queues for handling by a user-defined or a WebSphere Data Interchange provided program. These may be routed based on criteria specified by the user, such as a given error severity level or the presence of specific errors.
- Inclusion of a Java API allows users to read and parse the message files, and allow users to process them easily, including the creation of CBE/CEI messages for use in SOAs.
- Improved filtering support of error messages reduces the PRTFILE size.
- Physical filenames can be added to messages in the PRTFILE.
- Support for e-mail alerts via SMTP when errors or other conditions occur is included. These alerts can also be sent to pagers, cell phones, and any other devices that support SMTP-based text messages. A handler is provided to process the program-readable message log, and generate alerts. Configuration parameters will be provided to allow users to customize the content and format of e-mail alerts.
- V3.3 includes support for pluggable e-mail component support integration with other systems.
- Inclusion of sample source code for the e-mail handler program allows customers to customize functionality.
- Management reporting function is extended to Data Transformation maps, which currently exists only for send/receive maps in WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3. Such function captures operational metrics such as, but not limited to, number, size, document type, and status of transactions exchanged with trading partners. They can identify which trading partner are using which maps. Such functionality is used for reporting and trouble-shooting.
- Role- and group-based access and management for the WebSphere Data Interchange Client are improved. They allow assignment of users to roles and groups, allow permissions to be granted to such roles and groups, and restrict access based upon such roles and groups.
- Improved audit trail functionality maintains a complete chronological log of all changes made to WebSphere Data Interchange objects, such as the date, time, and user ID associated with create, update, and delete changes.
- Support for submitting transaction replay and resend commands, and the ability to view results, from a list within the WebSphere Data Interchange Client and from the Document Store is included. Also removes dependency upon TSO CLIST and CICS® transaction menu in z/OS environments.
- Support for ad-hoc submission of transformation commands, and the ability to view results, from within the WebSphere Data Interchange Client allows greater flexibility in testing and production management and the ability to view related audit logs.
- Support for IBM Support Assistant (ISA) is included. It includes a new Tool workbench which provides users with the problem determination tools that IBM Support uses to resolve issues. Ongoing, different product teams will make additional tools available for ISA's tools framework so that users can perform problem determination on users' desktops.
- ISA also provides a service feature with an automated system and symptom-based collector. The system collector gathers general information from user operating system, registry, and so on. The symptom-based collection provides the unique ability to collect specific information relating to a particular problem that users are having. It also lets users automatically enable tracing, which will be helpful to IBM support as part of the data gathering process.
- Another aspect of the Service feature is the problem submission tool. Users can enter entitlement information once and have it saved for future sessions. Users can easily create a problem report and attach the collector file at the same time.
- Support for IBM Education Assistant (IEA) delivers online training and documentation for WebSphere products. Through this support, users will be able to benefit from additional Web-based educational and training materials.
Value Unit-based pricing
Value Unit pricing for eligible zSeries® IPLA programs enables a lower cost of incremental growth and enterprise aggregation. Each zSeries IPLA product with Value Unit pricing has a single price per Value Unit and a conversion matrix, called Value Unit Exhibit, for converting from some designated measurement to Value Units. Most commonly Millions of Service Units (MSUs) is the measurement designated by IBM to be converted to Value Units. Some other measurements are engines or messages. Since MSUs are the most common measurement, that measurement will be used for the remainder of this description.
Value Unit pricing offers price benefits for customers. For each zSeries IPLA program with Value Unit pricing, the quantity of that program needed to satisfy applicable IBM terms and conditions is referred to as the 'required license capacity.' Each of the various Value Unit Exhibits stipulate that the larger your required license capacity, the fewer Value Units per MSU you will need. Value Unit Exhibits are uniquely identified by a three-digit code and referred to using the nomenclature VUExxx, where xxx is the three-digit code.
Subsequent acquisitions of Value Unit priced programs offers additional price benefits for customers. The quantity of each zSeries IPLA program that you have acquired is referred to as 'entitled license capacity.' If you wish to grow your entitled license capacity for a zSeries IPLA program, the calculation to determine additional needed Value Units is based upon the number of Value Units already acquired.
For each zSeries IPLA program with Value Unit Pricing, you should:
- Determine the required license capacity, in MSUs
- Aggregate the MSUs across the enterprise
- Convert the total MSUs to Value Units, using the applicable Value Unit Exhibit, and
- Multiply the price per Value Unit by the total number of Value Units to determine the total cost.
To simplify conversion from the designated measurement to VUs or vice-versa, use the Value Unit Converter Tool. For additional information or to obtain a copy of the Value Unit Converter Tool, visit the Value Unit Converter Tool Web site
Note that Value Units of a given product cannot be exchanged, interchanged, or aggregated with Value Units of another product.
To determine the required license capacity for the zSeries IPLA program
you selected, refer to the
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|Product positioning
WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3 serves as a stand-alone EDI translator, supporting EDI and other industry standards. It supports standards-based data validation, transformation, and related processing to enable seamless, automated, reliable, and secure integration among trading partners in various industries. It may also be used for application to application data transformation supporting structured flat-file and application data formats.
It translates EDI standards-based data, such as invoices, purchase orders, and billing forms for exchange with trading partners. It also supports industry implementations of the ANSI X12, UN/EDIFACT, VICS, UCS, and RAIL and other standards. Translation can take place between any combination of EDI, XML, or structured application data formats.
WebSphere Data Interchange provides advanced data validation and standards compliance functions that allow the EDI functional acknowledgements, defined by EDI standards, to be generated in response to EDI messages, and to provide notifications on standards compliance. WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS can also be configured to both construct and deconstruct envelopes of EDI format data that contain batches of related EDI items such as invoices or purchase orders. Transaction Store Service and Event Logging allows for delayed enveloping of translated EDI data, delayed information of enveloped EDI data, and the tracking of messages through the system.
WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS includes a dedicated GUI mapping tool, the WebSphere Data Interchange Client, that is optimized to build EDI, XML, and application data format transformations. The WebSphere Data Interchange Client allows direct import of EDI standards definitions, record-oriented application data structures, and industry-standard or user-defined XML schemas and DTDs for mapping and translation. The WebSphere Data Interchange Client provides configuration and administration functions that allow the definition of the construction and "deconstruction" of envelopes.
WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS supports integration with WebSphere MQ, enabling interoperation with a wide range of enterprise applications, B2B gateways such as WebSphere Partner Gateway, business process engines such as WebSphere Process Server, information brokers (such as WebSphere Message Broker) and ERP systems (such as SAP R/3).
WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS supports connectivity with trading partners via both EDI VANs and EDI/Internet mechanisms. Its easy-to-use, configurable interface enables connection to leading VANs and Internet gateways. It also integrates with the WebSphere Partner Gateway which is the strategic IBM B2B gateway product, and includes support for EDIINT AS1, AS2, and AS3 transport protocols.
In the context of a typical enterprise architecture, WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS supports centralized EDI management, which performs EDI validation, transformation, and exchange functions. It propagates the resulting transformed data either internally or externally. Internal propagation of transformed data may be via a message broker, a process broker, direct to the business applications, or by any combination of these, depending on the needs of an enterprise. External propagation of transformed data may be via an EDI VAN or via EDI/Internet mechanisms (such as EDIINT AS1/AS2/AS3), or directly with trading partners or by any combination of such integration options, depending on the nature of the integration with trading partners.
For a description of the WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS, visit
Business Partner information
If you are a Direct Reseller - System Reseller acquiring products from IBM, you may link directly to Business Partner information for this announcement. A PartnerWorld ID and password are required (use IBM ID).
BP Attachment for Announcement Letter 207-020
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|Offering Information
Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site
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Softcopy (PDF) publications are available on the WebSphere® Data Interchange Web site
The publications are available in U.S. English only:
- WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3 Administration and Security Guide
- WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3 User's Guide
- WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3 Messages and Codes
- WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3 Utility Commands and File Formats Reference
- WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3 Programmer's Reference
- WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3 Mapping Guide
- WebSphere Data Interchange V3.3 Administration and Security Guide
The following publications are shipped as hard copy with WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS® V3.3:
- WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 Program Directory
- WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 License Information
- WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 Installation Guide
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|Technical information
Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
Any vendor hardware explicitly compatible and fully capable of running the specified operating system, the corresponding supporting software and associated applications unmodified. Responsibility to provide statement of full compatibility between machines lies with the original equipment provider.
Server products:
WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 can operate in two modes:
- Batch processing for EDI
- Online response to EDI requests
Online mode requires the CICS® environment, which is provided by CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2.3(5697-E93) or later. You must purchase and install these products separately.
To perform translation to/from XML formats in z/OS batch, the XML Toolkit is required. CICS Transaction Server for z/OS uses the XML parsing APIs that are built into Java SDK 1.4 and later.
Software requirements
- z/OS V1.6 (ESA mode), or later (5694-A01)
- CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2.3 (5697-E93) or later
- DB2® for z/OS and OS/390® V7 (5645-DB2), or later
- DB2 Connect® V8.2
- Windows 2000 or Windows XP for the WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 Client
- XML C++ Parser for the IBM XML Toolkit for z/OS, V1.9
To install this specific version and release of the parser, visit
To perform translation to/from XML formats in z/OS batch, the XML Toolkit is required. CICS Transaction Server for z/OS uses the XML parsing APIs that are built into Java SDK 1.4 and later.
Optional software products
- WebSphere MQ for z/OS V5.3.1 (5655-F10)
- EDI Communication software such as GXS Expedite Base/MVS V4.5 or GXS Expedite/CICS for MVS V4.5
- Software products that support the system Authorization Facility interface for WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 security
Compatibility: The WebSphere Data Interchange V3.2 products are upwardly compatible with WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3.
Limitations: The WebSphere Data Interchange Client can be used with both WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 and WebSphere Data Interchange Client for Multiplatforms V3.3.
DB2 is used as the data repository. VSAM files are not supported.
Planning information
Customer responsibilities: WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 contains the applicable IBM License agreement and License Information (LI) and will be presented for acceptance at the time of installation of the program. The license and LI will be stored in a directory called LICENSE.TXT for future reference.
Direct customer support: Direct customer support is provided by IBM Operational Support Services Support Line. This fee service enhances customers' productivity by providing voice and electronic access into the IBM support organization. IBM Operational Support Services Support Line will help answer questions pertaining to usage, and suspected software defects for eligible products.
Installation and technical support is provided by IBM Software Services for WebSphere (ISSW) or IBM Global Services. For more information call 800-IBM-4YOU (426-4968) or visit
For technical support or assistance, contact your IBM representative or visit
The program package contains the following:
- Memorandum to Users
- Pointer Sheet
- WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 3480 Cartridge
- WebSphere Data Interchange Client CD-ROM
- Program Directory
- Proof of entitlement (PoE)
Security, auditability, and control
WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 uses the security and auditability features of the z/OS operating system. The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
Software Services
IBM Services has the breadth, depth, and reach to manage your services needs. You can leverage the deep technical skills of our lab-based, software services team and the business consulting, project management, and infrastructure expertise of our IBM Global Services team. Also, we extend our IBM Software Services reach through IBM Business Partners to provide an unmatched portfolio of capabilities. Together, we provide the global reach, intellectual capital, industry insight, and technology leadership to support any critical business need.
To learn more about IBM Software Services or to contact a software services sales specialist, visit
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|Ordering information
Charge Metric
Part number or Program name PID number Charge metric WebSphere 5655-I40 Value Unit Data Interchange for z/OS V3
The programs in this announcement all have Value Unit-based pricing.
For each zSeries IPLA program with Value Unit pricing, the quantity of that program needed to satisfy applicable IBM terms and conditions is referred to as the "required license capacity." Your required license capacity is based upon the following factors:
- zSeries IPLA program you select
- Applicable Value Unit exhibit
- Applicable terms
- Whether your current mainframes are full-capacity or sub-capacity
Value Unit exhibit VUE007
MSUs MSUs minimum maximum Value Units/MSU Base 1 3 1 Tier A 4 45 0.45 Tier B 46 175 0.36 Tier C 176 315 0.27 Tier D 316 + 0.2
Value Units for mainframes without MSU ratings:
Hardware Value Units/machine MP3000 H30 6 MP3000 H50 8 MP3000 H70 12 ESL Models 2
Ordering example: The total number of Value Units is calculated according to the following example.
If your required license capacity is 1,500 MSUs for your selected zSeries IPLA product, the applicable Value Units would be:
Translation from MSUs to Value Units MSUs * Value Units/MSU = Value Units Base 3 * 1.00 = 3.00 Tier A 42 * .45 = 18.90 Tier B 130 * .36 = 46.80 Tier C 140 * .27 = 37.80 Tier D 1,185 * .20 = 237.00 Total 1,500 343.50
When calculating the total number of Value Units, the sum is to be rounded up to the next integer.
Ordering z/OS through the Internet
ShopzSeries provides an easy way to plan and order your z/OS ServerPac or CBPDO. It will analyze your current installation, determine the correct product migration, and present your new configuration based on z/OS. Additional products can also be added to your order (including determination of whether all product requisites are satisfied). ShopzSeries is available in the U.S. and several countries in Europe. In countries where ShopzSeries is not available yet, contact your IBM representative (or IBM Business Partner) to handle your order via the traditional IBM ordering process. For more details and availability, visit the ShopzSeries Web site at
Basic license
On/Off Capacity on Demand
WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 is eligible for On/Off Capacity on Demand (On/Off CoD) with a Temporary Use Charge calculated based on MSUs-per day usage.
Program Name WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 Program PID 5655-I40 Entitlement License option/ Identifier Description pricing metric S00XHTM WebSphere Data Basic OTC, Per MSU-day TUC Interchange for z/OS V3.3
To order, specify the program product number and the appropriate license or charge option. Also, specify the desired distribution medium. To suppress shipment of media, select the license-only option in CFSW.
Program Name WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3.3 Program PID 5655-I40
The following information is a summary of all license option/pricing metric offered for the above PID number.
Entitlement License option/ Identifier Description pricing metric S00XHTM WebSphere Data Basic OTC, value Units Interchange for z/OS V3.3 Orderable Supply ID Language Distribution medium S00XH2N U.S. English 3480 Tape Cartridge
Subscription and Support PID 5655-I52
The following information is a summary of all license option/pricing metric offered for the above PID number.
Entitlement License option/ Identifier Description pricing metric S00XHTR WebSphere Data Basic OTC, value Units Interchange for z/OS No Charge, Decline SW S&S V3.3, Subscription Per MSU SW S&S Registration and Support Orderable Supply ID Language Distribution medium S00XH2L US English Hardcopy Pub
Subscription and Support
To receive voice technical support via telephone during normal business hours and future releases and versions at no additional charge, Subscription and Support must be ordered. The capacity of Subscription and Support (Value Units) must be the same as the capacity ordered for the product licenses.
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These programs are licensed under the IBM Program License Agreement (IPLA) and the associated Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance, which provides for support with ongoing access to releases and versions of the program. These programs have a one-time license charge for use of the program and an annual renewable charge for the enhanced support that includes telephone assistance (voice support for defects during normal business hours) as well as access to updates, releases, and versions of the program as long as support is in effect.
S/390® and zSeries IBM Operational Support Services SoftwareXcel is an option for those customers who desire added services.
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Copy and use on home/portable computer: No
Volume orders (IVO): No
Passport Advantage® applies: No
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For operating system software, the revised IBM Operational Support Services SoftwareXcel offering will provide support for those operating systems and associated products that are not available with the newly announced Software Maintenance offering. This will ensure total support coverage for your enterprise needs, including IBM and selected non-IBM products. For complete lists of products supported under both the current and revised SoftwareXcel offering, visit
For additional information on the revised IBM Operational Support Services, refer to 601-023
IBM Operational Support Services SoftwareXcel: Yes
iSeries Software Maintenance applies: No
Variable charges apply: No
Educational allowance available
Yes, 15% education allowance applies to qualified education institution customers.
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To be eligible for On/Off Capacity on Demand pricing, customers must be enabled for temporary
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Upgrade and IBM eServer On/Off Capacity on Demand Software (Z125-6611) must be signed before
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IBM Global Services has transformed its delivery of hardware and software support services to put you on the road to higher systems availability. IBM Electronic Services is a Web-enabled solution that provides you with an exclusive, no-additional-charge enhancement to the service and support available on the IBM eServer platform. These services provide the opportunity for greater system availability due to faster problem resolution and preemptive monitoring. IBM Electronic Services is comprised of two separate, but complementary, elements: IBM Electronic Services news page and IBM Electronic Service Agent.
IBM Electronic Services news page provides you with a single Internet entry point that replaces the multiple entry points traditionally used by customers to access IBM Internet services and support. The news page enables you to gain easier access to IBM resources for assistance in resolving technical problems.
The IBM Electronic Service Agent is no-additional-charge software that resides on your IBM eServer system. It is designed to proactively monitor events and transmit system inventory information to IBM on a periodic, customer-defined timetable. The IBM Electronic Service Agent tracks system inventory, hardware error logs, and performance information. If the server is under a current IBM maintenance service agreement or within the IBM warranty period, the Service Agent automatically reports hardware problems to IBM. Early knowledge about potential problems enables IBM to provide proactive service that may result in higher system availability and performance. In addition, information collected through the Service Agent will be made available to IBM service support representatives when they are helping answer your questions or diagnosing problems.
To learn how IBM Electronic Services can work for you, visit
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The world owes all its best inventions to Engineers, who design and build complicated systems that make life on earth a little bit easier. As an Advisory Engineer, you're one of those experts. More specifically, you're a specialist who handles individual engineering tasks within a larger project. Employed by engineering firms in a variety of disciplines, from architecture and automotive to civil and computer, Advisory Engineers work under lead Engineers.
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Viacom is appealing to try to have its massive defeat overturned in a $1 billion lawsuit where they charged Google with copyright infringement for YouTube, Google's online video web site. You have to give them credit for trying. You kids get off of my lawn!
Viacom has firmly staked its position in the point of view of the 1900's, thinking that copyright holders can both preserve their copyright AND farm it out to other media companies at the same time for a profit, in a way that only benefits only the copyright holder. In today's media landscape you can choose one, but you do it at the expense of the other. Viacom's appeal was widely anticipated.
On Friday of last week, Viacom filed an appeal in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in an attempt to overturn the June ruling in which U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton of New York did not support Viacom's $1 billion claim that "safe harbor" protection under the DMCA did not apply to YouTube, granting Google's motion for summary judgment.
The case was a critical interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, and will be seen as a guide for whether web sites are responsible for user-generated content. Viacom claimed that YouTube was responsible for copyright infringement.
Viacom argued that Google allowed copyrighted content on YouTube to keep the site popular with users. Movies, songs and TV shows owned by Viacom ended up on YouTube after users repeatedly uploaded them. The YouTube news never ends.
More to come! Round two could be twice as nice as round one.
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No prob!
~Oh no Tammy did u not order my individual cake? LOL
Ms. Glenda, please.
Started by Lizzy, May 16 2007 03:22 PM
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Posted 16 May 2007 - 05:22 PM
Posted 16 May 2007 - 05:28 PM
| Originally Posted by Nrvsbride
Hey guys if a lot of people want pashs then I'll def go back. It would depend on when people's weddings are though. I am swamped with trials and I have a ton of weddings every weekend for the next couple of weeks so I can't promise anyone that needs pashs ASAP. But if someone's wedding isn't coming up for awhile then I should have no problem getting them. PM me with how many you would want and what colors. I have been able to get them for $2.75 each the last two times I went.
Are you getting these china town in NY,=? Maybe when my time comes I will take the train up and we can spend the day in chinatown. Does that soiund like a date in say 2030 when i get married LOL
Posted 16 May 2007 - 05:33 PM
Yes chinatown, NY. I think I am free in 2030. LOL. Don't worry the proposal will happen soon.
Posted 16 May 2007 - 05:38 PM
It is possible. For the first time he has been saying I love and I appreciate all that you do. also texting me love you. I dont know you may be booking a cruise to St thomas. But I have learned to chat and stop planning for myself
Posted 16 May 2007 - 07:54 PM
Well, if you are doing another run I'll jump on it too. Last time you did this I thought my wedding was too far away. Now I have a better idea of how many I will need. Let us know when you get a chance to do it. My date is still 7 months out so I'm in no rush.
Posted 17 May 2007 - 01:06 AM
Hey Glenda, thanks for posting so quickly. Maggie is looking for a taupe, a palm green (?) and I think a watermellony-coral color. She only wants 3 at this time....don't worry she doesn't expect you to make another run for her. She just wants to see them first. Does that sound terrible?
How do we pay you? I would want to get the money to beforehand, along w/postage, of course.
You have absolutely earned your way into God's graces by your kindness.
Yippee for GLENDA!!!!!!!!!!!
How do we pay you? I would want to get the money to beforehand, along w/postage, of course.
You have absolutely earned your way into God's graces by your kindness.
Yippee for GLENDA!!!!!!!!!!!
For the dance, at the reception, Maggie wore her crinoline and a lovely lace top. Looks like Tadd likes it!
Professional Photography by Michael B.www.michaelbstudio.comMinneapolis, MN
Professional Photography by Michael B.www.michaelbstudio.comMinneapolis, MN
Posted 17 May 2007 - 04:31 PM
wow glenda that would be the best offer i have had in years.. my wedding is not until next May so we have plenty of time and you could put all of the others girls first... i would only need like 10 so it should be very easy.... i will pm you and send you the mo ney and postage and colors...
thanks you are truely an angel!
thanks you are truely an angel!
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Posted 17 May 2007 - 11:29 PM
Since you girls are all asking about these- I thought I'd post that my guests LOVED them! They are fantastic quality for the price- I'd easily pay 5x more for them. My guests all used them throughout the wedding week and were impressed. They are of course not super expensive and they don't look like it- but they are well worth it and well appreciated...just an FYI! I got a taupe/beige color and they worked perfect- went with my decor and were neutral so my guests could use them in the evening with muptiple outfits.
Posted 18 May 2007 - 12:02 AM
I will wait to get a couple of people's request. Then I will go when the soonest person's wedding is. (Don't even know if that makes sense). I will go way before the first bride's wedding so I can make sure that they get it in time, but this way it will still give people enough time to know how many guests are coming and how many they will need. Also, for the girls having weddings during the summer months, I wouldn't recommend getting them b/c it is hot that I doubt any of your guests will use them. However if you just feel like giving a gift for them to take home then it could be nice.
~Lizzy I take no offense w/wanting to know what they look like ahead of time. I would be nervous to purchase something sight unseen also.
~Lizzy I take no offense w/wanting to know what they look like ahead of time. I would be nervous to purchase something sight unseen also.
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Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation (NAC), the Chinese automaker which purchased assets of the former MG Rover Group, announced that production of MG cars is to resume at the Longbridge plant in the West Midlands, UK, nearly two years since the last car rolled off the line at the facility.
Since signing the 33-year lease in 2005, NAC MG has moved the majority of the original MG Rover assembly equipment to its all-new plant located in the "New Technology Economic Development Zone" in Pukou, Nanjing Province, China. The company's mission to "revive, maintain and develop MG," will start with the manufacture of the MG TF 2-seater sports car for retail in both the UK and China.
The newly established manufacturing line in Nanjing will be responsible for much of the assembly process, but all right-hand drive MG TF roadster customer orders will be subject to final assembly in the revived Longbridge plant.
where can I find someone, somewhere who knows about the security system of a Rover 416i? thanks
Crikey, Gary…I'll sic our parts locater on that one. That should keep him busy for a long, long time.
OK–O'Clair sez (is this guy good, or what?):
online Rover Tech discussion- membership required. This forum is basically restricted to Techs only but you may be able to get access by contacting the forum moderator and feeding him a line of BS.
send email to firstname.lastname@example.com to request membership.
also check with UK enthusiasts online forums at http://www.motorcarsltd.com
The security system is part of the BECM, rebuilts are available from Black Dog Manufacturing. You can buy Black Dog through British Parts International. http://www.britishparts.com or 1-800-231-6563.


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Salisbury man charged with stealing metal
SALISBURY, NC (AP) — A Salisbury man has been arrested and charged after sheriff's deputies say he tried to sell about 400 pounds of metal he had stolen.
The Salisbury Post reported that 28-year-old Bradley Keith Hampton was charged with 20 felonies earlier this week.
Rowan County sheriff's deputies say Hampton was questioned by deputies as about 400 pounds of metal was being weighed at the scrap yard.
Investigators say they determined the steel frame supports had been taken from an auto parts store in Salisbury.
Detectives say Hampton had sold metal to at least two businesses on more than a dozen occasions.
Hampton was charged with 12 counts of felony larceny and eight counts of felony obtaining property by false pretense.
It was unclear if he has an attorney.
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Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d
Eco-friendly four-bay Nas?
Both have four 500GB hard drives – Seagate Barracuda LP in the ix4-200d's case – USB ports, two Ethernet ports, an LCD screen and so on. The biggest physical difference is that the Terastation's hard drives are easily removed from a front door, while the ix4-200d's are more permanently stored away. You can still remove the hard drives, but first you just need to undo a couple of screws and three sided of the case.
The settings page reveals most of standard Nas features you'd expect
Configuration is done solely from a web interface, with the bundled CD providing a manual, device finding software and EMC Retrospect Express HD for backing up files. The ix4-200d's web interface has a crispness to it that the Ajax interfaces from Qnap and Synology lack.
Features are divided into sensible categories, with separate pages for the web file browser, settings and user control. All the standards you'd expect from a high end Nas are supported like CIFS, SMB, NFS, AFP (including native Apple Time Machine support), FTP, Windows Active Directory so Windows, Linux and Apple users should all be happy.
At first glance, the ix4-200d provides an excellent DynamicDNS solution for remote access. From the ix4-200d's web interface you simply choose a name for Nas and pick between iomegalink.com or myiomega.com domain names and you're away.
However, after the first year you'll be charged $9.95 annually for the service and you can't use alternative, namely free, DNS services either, unless you configure your router to do the job of remote access instead.
BitTorrent port selection is restricted, although our speeds were fine
DLNA compatibility hints the ix4-200d has a few consumer features, with 1080p PS3 and Xbox360 streaming no problem. BitTorrent downloading is also handled through the browser. However, we discovered you could only choose a port between 6881 and 6999, ports that used to be and, most likely still are, throttled by ISPs.
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