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Leading Scottish law firm Anderson Strathern prides itself on being at the cutting edge of technological developments in both the legal and financial services sectors.

The firm recognises the value of technology and has developed sophisticated systems to meet the needs of clients at all times and from anywhere in the world.

Andrew Getley, Director of Information Systems at Anderson Strathern, led a recent initiative to move to a virtualised infrastructure in order to achieve a range of benefits for the firm. He said:

“With both our server room and our uninterruptible power supply (UPS) approaching capacity we were about to embark on an extensive CRM project that would require substantial additional server stock for both our live and Disaster Recovery (DR) systems. We recognised that a move to virtualisation would avoid the need for any additional processing hardware and minimal additional storage capacity. We also wanted to improve DR recovery speeds and simplify the management of system updates and changes, boosting our resources and spending less time on server support.

“We approached Castle because they have a market leading position within the Scottish legal sector. They have demonstrated extensive prior experience and were recommended by a number of other firms who had been through a similar process.

“We have now effectively refreshed all of our servers and consolidated all data storage onto a Storage Area Network,  which means that new servers can be provisioned for testing and live use in just a matter of minutes.

“Our Disaster Recovery system is fully up to date whenever systems are updated or modified, without the need to apply the changes to both live and DR systems. The time required to invoke our DR system to the most recent backup is reduced to a few minutes and the process can now be undertaken by any member of the IT team and does not require specialist knowledge of individual applications.

“Often suppliers specify substantial additional processing capability which we are obliged to provide and we can now allocate and remove resource as required because we have a much clearer picture of processing and memory requirement for the system.

“In line with our commitment to the ISO 14001 Environmental Standard, the reduction of power needed to operate and cool servers was a key deliverable for the project. The introduction of the VMware solution has allowed us to empty three server racks and energy consumption has dropped significantly, whilst our UPS uptime has more than doubled.

“The team at Castle worked closely with us throughout the planning and implementation of the project and we were impressed with their ‘can do’ attitude.”

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Cast UK are working in partnership with Lockhart Catering Equipment, part of FTSE 100 group, Bunzl PLC. Recruiting for the Light Equipment division of the business, we are looking for an experienced buyer to take full ownership and control of a main category within the division and develop this further. The successful candidate will have full ownership and autonomy from cradle to grave over the category.

Ideally the perfect candidate will come from a strategic purchasing environment of which they have and can demonstrate full ownership for the category / product they are purchasing.

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Bunzl Catering look for candidates whom are confident and enthusiastic about their categories and take pride within their numbers. The perfect candidate, in addition to buying experience within a FMCG / Food Retail environment, should be able to take full ownership and accountability for their numbers in all situations.
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  • Effective numeracy, literacy and word processing skills
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  • Full UK driving licence
  • A proven track record of building robust client relationships
  • Generating and "closing" new business
  • Ability to negotiate potentially complex contracts
  • Competent in Microsoft Office products i.e. excel.

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Our client, who is a market leading business, are looking to recruit a Contract Manager to join their growing team in West Yorkshire. Reporting into the Senior Management team, you will be the responsible for managing a team and a client contract.

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  • Experience of managing a small team of individuals is desirable
  • Managing KPIs and ensuring these are hit on a regular basis
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  • Innovative with a positive and pro-active approach to change
  • Able to use initiative, organise own workload
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You can’t succeed in your new startup if you can’t win customers, and the new Internet-empowered customers are tough. They are in control, and they no longer care where or from whom they buy. They do have a specific purchase progression with key milestone moments that determine your win or loss outcome in every transaction.

I agree with the premise in a new book by the widely respected expert on business growth, Robert H. Bloom’s “The New Experts,” that today’s customers are armed with three lethal weapons – instant access to information about every potential purchase, immense choice, and real-time comparison of competitive prices.

They don’t care about customer loyalty, and all that matters is that you deliver what matters most to them, when it matters most. If you are a new entrepreneur, you business life depends on understanding the following four decisive moments in their buying process:

  1. Your now-or-never moment. This is your buyer’s all-too-brief first point of contact with your business. You have to create customer preference at this moment or the customer will vanish – probably forever. The key lesson here is to think like a buyer, not a seller. The first priority must be to get your prospect to know you and trust you.
  2. Your make-or-break moment. This refers to the often extended period of consideration, negotiation, and decision to purchase, during which far too many transactions fall through. You win here by remaining consistently engaged with real interaction and involvement, and by knowing their needs and values better than any competitor.
  3. Your keep-or-lose moment. This moment is the period when your customer is actually using your products and services. Rather than a sigh of relief at the sale, you must redouble your efforts to improve the relationship while the customer is first using, consuming, enjoying, and relying on the product or service they purchased from you.
  4. Your multiplier moment. This moment is when you can convert a one-time customer into a repeat customer and an advocate and referral source for your company. These are the transactions that require far less investment and will create far more profitable revenue. You need a reliable system of metrics to measure your performance here.

While this is viewed by customers as a blessing, this buyer empowerment is seen by many businesses as a curse. Some won’t change, and they will die. As a startup, you at least don’t have to overcome the inertia of how things have always been done in your company, but you do have to recognize the new reality and use it to your competitive advantage.

The simple recommendation is that empowered customers have to be met by your empowered employees, using the same Internet technologies to keep up. After you embrace the new reality, the first thing you need to do is get the new requirements ingrained in your most innovative employees. Then you have to trust them.

Trust them to think and act independently on behalf of your startup and your brand. Clear a path for them, see what they come up with, provide resources, and support them. When they make mistakes, highlight the learning experience, pick them up and get them innovating again.

The other things that your whole team needs to do are to reduce complexity and deliver a consistent customer experience. This allows your startup to handle new input, resolve customer issues and move forward more swiftly. Entrepreneurs that recognize this empowerment and the importance of delivering a positive, consistent customer experience will gain and maintain the competitive advantage.

Because it’s a wide-open market, the latest technology often comes to consumers first. The old-style, top-down, “push” marketing, where you drive the process, isn’t working anymore. You need to understand and capitalize on the decisive moments of empowered customers now-or-never.

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Brownies and Rainbows from Sir John A. Cumber Primary School recently did their part for their community, hosting a tea party for West Bay seniors at the school.

The event, now in its 10th year, was held on May 11 at the school’s Shirley Kidd Memorial Hall, and brought smiles all around as the youngsters served refreshments and delicious fare to elderly members of the district.

Local MLA, Education Minister Tara Rivers attended the tea party.

Sir John A. Cumber acting principal Lorna Lumsden, along with the students, helped coordinate the event.

“We express appreciation to Celita Zimmer and her team of the John Gray United Church in West Bay for assisting with the event,” said teacher Annette Vaughan.

“We’d also like to thank Brenda Connolly and Woody Foster from Fosters’ Food Fair, and Valerie Hoppe and Chef Steve Griffon from the Marriott Resort who contributed to the refreshments.”

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Eco villa project, located on the outskirts of Moraira, with panoramic valley and mountain views. Just a short drive to a wide variety of shops and supermarkets, and a five minute drive to either the town of Benitachell and the town and beaches of Moraira. This villa will be built by a local constructor experienced with eco-villas, a high quality property with the most up to date materials and installations Construction time: six months from receipt of building license.
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Frosh Watch: Kentucky's Kevin Knox back into rankings, wins Freshman of the Week

CBS Sports has once again teamed up with the United States Basketball Writers Association and its Wayman Tisdale Freshman of the Year Award. Every Tuesday throughout the regular season we post a Freshman of the Week winner in addition to our Frosh Watch, which is a ranking of the top 10 most statistically impressive freshmen in men's Division I college basketball. The feature works hand in hand with the Tisdale committee and the USBWA. The winner of the award will be announced in March, and a ceremony for all USBWA honors will take place in early April. The cycle for Freshman of the Week consideration starts on Tuesdays and ends Monday nights.

This week's decision was the closest of the season yet. The two finalists put up career-bests in points, led their teams to a pair of wins last week, and both are on the Frosh Watch. The headline gives away the winner, but to see who nearly got the honor, scroll down to the Frosh Watch.

And since there's nowhere else to put this, I might as well include this freshman-to-freshman highlight out of UCLA. Jaylen Hands' in-the-air, through-the-legs alley-oop to Kris Wilkes. Whoo!

Kevin Knox, Kentucky

What a response by the Kentucky newcomer. He's earning this award one week after falling out of the Frosh Watch. Message received, Kevin! Knox put up a career-best 34 points in UK's stunning 83-76 win at No. 7 West Virginia on Saturday. Prior to that, last Tuesday, UK beat Mississippi State 78-65. Knox averaged 26.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and shot 70 percent overall, and 75 percent from 3-point range, between those two games. If you need more context: Knox made nine total 3-pointers in both games. He showed, definitively, that he is Kentucky's best player.

That's why he's Freshman of the Week.

Here's a stunner: Knox's 34 points at West Virginia are the most by a Kentucky freshman in a non-conference road game. I mean ever -- in the history of the program.

If Knox can continue to be a lead player, Kentucky will continue to be ranked. The Wildcats jumped back into the polls this week, and they also bumped up two seed lines in our Bracketology after winning at WVU. Calipari's lucky to have a guy like Knox on his squad. Remember, his commitment to UK came as a surprising one. Without him, this team might have been destined for the bubble.

Here are the top 10 freshman performers in college basketball through Jan. 30.

1. Trae Young, Oklahoma

Key stats: 29.6 ppg, 9.6 apg, 4.1 rpg, 2.0 spg

Last week: No. 1

Young is coming off his strangest week of the season. He took a season-low nine shots (honestly, it might have been the fewest shots he's taken in an organized game in half a decade) in Oklahoma's 85-80 home loss to Kansas last Tuesday. That KU game was the first of the season in which Young played 40 minutes in a game that didn't go to overtime. On Saturday, Young hoisted 17 attempts but made only six. That was the loss to Collin Sexton and Alabama. (More on that in Sexton's section below.) Young still managed 21.5 points, 8.5 assists, 3.5 rebounds and shot 6-of-12 from 3-point range between both games. This is mediocre for him and season-defining for most others. He's in no immediate danger of slipping from the top spot.

Next game: Tuesday vs. Baylor.

2. Marvin Bagley III, Duke

Key stats: 21.5 ppg, 11.4 rpg, 1.5 apg, 64.2 2-pt FG%

Last week: No. 2

Bagley was docile on Monday night, putting up 12 points in Duke's 88-66 win over Notre Dame. It was Bagley's lowest point total in a game this season in which he did not leave because of injury. No matter, because Duke didn't really need his best. Also, Bagley just won ACC Rookie of the Week for the sixth time. In the loss to Virginia, Bagley put up 30 points and 14 rebounds. He was dominant, and yet it kind of didn't matter. Virginia, man. Bagley's hit the 30-point mark six times this season. That showing was good enough keep him at No. 2 on the Watch. He made 13 of his 18 field goals, including two 3s.

Next game: Saturday at St. John's.

3. Deandre Ayton, Arizona

Key stats: 19.5 ppg, 10.7 rpg, 1.8 bpg
Last week: No. 3

Went for 17.5 points and 7.0 rebounds in Arizona's wins last week over Colorado and Utah. Ayton now ranks in the top 16 nationally in 10 statistical categories.

Third: 2-point field goals (157)
Fourth: offensive win shares (3.2)
Sixth: defensive rebounds (180)
Seventh: total win shares (4.5)
Seventh: player efficiency rating (31.1)
12th: rebound average (10.7)
12th: defensive rebound percentage (28.7)
13th: field goals (166)
15th: total rebound percentage (20.5)
16th: field goal percentage (61.9)

Next game: Wednesday at Washington State.

4. Brandon McCoy, UNLV

Key stats: 17.5 ppg, 9.8 rpg, 1.5 bpg

Last week: No. 4

McCoy has made 144 2-point field goals, which ranks 12th in college basketball. McCoy put up 21 points in UNLV's 88-78 home win over San Diego State on Saturday. The Runnin' Rebels are 15-6 overall but 4-4 in the league. McCoy is putting up nice numbers despite logging a tame 27.5 minutes per game.

Next game: Wednesday vs. San Jose State.

5. Tremont Waters, LSU

Key stats: 15.2 ppg, 5.8 apg, 3.6 rpg, 2.3 spg

Last week: No. 5

That is so casually beautiful. It's one of my favorite plays in college basketball this season. That's the kind of stuff D'Angelo Russell was doing at Ohio State

Here's another angle.

Next game: Wednesday at Tennessee

6. Mohamed Bamba, Texas

Key stats: 13.1 ppg, 10.9 rpg, 4.4 bpg

Last week: No. 7

Bamba, who won FOTW back on Jan. 2, lost out to Knox this week. Still, he bumps up another spot to get to No. 6. No player has progressively improved his position in the Watch over the past seven weeks like Bamba. Heck, maybe he'll wind up finishing fourth at season's end. Bamba averaged 24.5 points, 13.5 rebounds and 3.5 blocks on 79 percent shooting last week. He did it averaging 29 minutes and was 3-of-3 from 3. He also hit 16 of his 17 foul shots. Texas won its games vs. Iowa State and Ole Miss. I came really, really close to giving FOTW to Bamba, but Knox just barely had a better case. Bamba leads the Big 12 in rebounding and blocks. He will almost certainly break UT's freshman record for swats by the time next week's Watch gets here. Three more and Chris Mihm's record 90 is no more.

Next game: Wednesday at Texas Tech

7. Collin Sexton, Alabama

Key stats: 18.5 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 3.3 apg

Last week: No. 6

The most hyped game of Sexton's season ended with an 80-73 Alabama home win over Oklahoma on Saturday. Sexton had 18 points on 8-of-14 shooting, plus three rebounds and two assists. No steals, three fouls, three turnovers. He looked, at times, like the superior physical prospect he is to Trae Young. But on the whole, he didn't completely get the better of Young. He absolutely used his physicality to force Young out of rhythm, but even then there were times when Young still got his. If you found yourself paying much more attention to Virginia-Duke, which was happening concurrent to Oklahoma-Alabama, here's a recap of Sexton v. Young.

Next game: Wednesday vs. Missouri

8. R.J. Cole, Howard

Key stats: 23.6 ppg, 5.9 apg, 3.6 rpg, 1.7 spg

Last week: No. 8

Howard is on its first three-game win streak against Division I opponents since November of 2015. And it hasn't won three straight against MEAC foes since almost three years to the day: Feb. 2, 2015. Cole is a big reason why. The Bison won 85-75 over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday. Cole -- who won FOTW last week -- put up 28 points, six rebounds, six assists and three steals. He shot 56 percent in that game, his second most efficient performance of the season. At this point, Cole seems unlikely to crack the top five but just as unlikely to fall out of the top 10 for the rest of the season.

Next game: Saturday vs. Florida A&M

9. Jaylen NowellWashington

Key stats: 16.7 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 2.6 apg

Last week: No. 10

A year after Markelle Fultz, in comes Jaylen Nowell as one of the best freshmen in America. Unless you're a Pac-12 fan or a college basketball die hard, you probably haven't seen him play. Nowell had 14 points, nine rebounds and four dimes in Washington's win over Washington State on Saturday. Mike Hopkins has the Huskies at 15-6 and on the cusp of bubble talk so long as the Dogs can get through their homestand this week against the Arizona schools. Does not feel like an overstatement to say that Washington's NCAA Tournament chances hinge greatly on the next pair of tips. Will Nowell play like a vet?

Next game: Thursday vs. Arizona State

10. Kevin Knox, Kentucky

Key stats: 15.5 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 1.6 apg

Last week: N/R

Knox isn't a natural distributor, so his role on this team is built around creating his own shot and becoming a mismatch while flourishing at power forward. I think Knox is destined to be a 3 at the NBA level, but it's become clear over the past three weeks that Knox is most effective when he's defending bigs and pulling them out on offense. I would be surprised if Calipari doesn't gameplan for Knox to get a touch on every possession, when he's on the floor, against Vanderbilt. Ride the hot hand.

Next game: Tuesday vs. Vanderbilt.

Previous Freshman of the Week winners:

Dec. 5: Trae Young
Dec. 12: Deandre Ayton
Dec. 19: David Jenkins Jr.
Dec. 26: Trae Young
Jan. 2: Mohamed Bamba
Jan. 9: McKinley Wright IV
Jan. 16: Trae Young
Jan. 23: R.J. Cole

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Nanomedicine is a rapidly growing field in the academic as well as commercial arena. While some had predicted nanomedicine sales to reach $20.1 billion in 2011, the actual growth was much more rapid, with the global nanomedicine market being valued at $53 billion in 2009, and forecast to increase at an annual growth rate of 13.5% to reach more than $100 billion in 2014. In 2006, more than 130 nanotechnologybased drugs and delivery systems had entered preclinical, clinical, or commercial development. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) reviewed 18 marketing authorization applications for nanomedicines in 2010. In 2011, 22 drugs that had been approved by the FDA, and 87 Phase I and Phase II clinical trials were listed in the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) data base, Although the fastest growing areas of nanomedicine are applications in medical imaging and diagnosis using contrast- enhancing agents, most nanomedicine research and commercialization is in the area of cancer drug therapy, including nano gold shells. In the short and medium term, the main use of nanoparticle medicinal products is to provide vectors carrying active components or to deliver materials that can be activated and/or detected at the site of interest. This includes reformulation of existing therapeutics as small particles to aid delivery - a strategy used in several products already marketed like Doxil and Abraxane. However, most current work is in the area of third-generation vectors that combine a biodegradable core and a polymer envelope (PEG) with a membrane recognition ligand. While previous uses of nanomedicines have included using liposomes as passive vehicles for drug transport, active nanomaterials with complex properties and functions in drugs are not too far in the future. These include self-assembling peptide nanofibers, scaffolds for tissue regeneration, sensors of biomarkers, artificial retinas, and chip-based nanolabs. These developments hold the potential to provide immense benefits for disease treatment in the near future. At the same time, the novel technologies also raise safety and ethical concerns in human subjects research (HSR) that may challenge the existing system of oversight. One aspect of HSR that has not received robust attention are concerns about occupational exposures of researchers and lab workers, and exposures of bystanders such as health care workers, family members, and caretakers during HSR using nanomaterials ("third-party" exposures). In principle, exposures can occur during the handling and administering of the pharmaceutical by the health care workers or the family members (if they are involved in drug administration). The high nanoparticle content of biological wastes excreted by research subjects also has been cited as a concern for potential exposure to bystanders and the environment. Laboratory containment and disposal practices, as well as excretion and shedding, can additionally release nanomaterials into the environment. There are several stages that precede the clinical trial phase of nanomedicine research, including the production of the raw nanomaterials, synthesis of the pharmaceutical in a lab or manufacturing setting, and preclinical drug studies in animals and in vitro. Most of the somewhat limited exposure information that we have so far is associated with such production, synthesis, and preclinical studies in industrial settings. Less is known about occupational exposures in the clinical trial phases and the post-marketing phase - both in terms of the types and magnitudes of the nanomaterial exposures as well as the types of workers who may be exposed. This paper provides a description of the types of potential nanomedicine exposures, the existing oversight framework for handling worker and third-party exposures, the deficiencies of that framework in clinical and residential settings, and possible new approaches to oversight.
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At Victory Village in Jackson, executive director Nichole Mulford tries to make the rooms for struggling veterans feel like a home.

They can seek company in the sitting room or the sunny backyard. Mulford says many residents  light up when they see her own young children running around the complex.

“A lot of times when veterans come to us, we’re all they have left,” Mulford said. “They’ve lost their families because of what they’re going through with health issues, mental health issues.”

She and her husband, an Iraq veteran, founded the home nearly six years ago after noticing a dire need for more housing and health services for vets.

About 12 percent of Amador County residents are veterans, compared to 6 percent nationally. Post-traumatic-stress disorder, substance use, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury and experience with firearms make veterans about 22 percent more likely to die by suicide than the rest of the population, according to research from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Data from Amador County’s public health department shows that more than a quarter of people who died by suicide in Amador between 2010 and 2017 were veterans. Nationally, veterans account for about one-fifth of all suicide deaths.

Mulford said many veterans suffering from depression, PTSD or other issues feel too ashamed to reach out.

“There’s a stigma with mental health in general, but when it comes to veterans it’s bigger,” she said. “When they’re in the military, it’s ingrained into them to be self reliant … and asking for help would negate all of that training.”

Making matters worse, the nearest Veterans Affairs medical center is about 40 miles away. Most veterans aren’t eligible for county behavioral health services because they aren’t on Medi-Cal, and they’re unlikely to be able to pay for therapy out of pocket.

To provide at least a baseline of support, Victory Village offers a PTSD peer coach. He’s a Vietnam veteran trained to talk with individuals and run a weekly group.

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Guy Searcy, a 65-year-old resident of Victory Village, said he sees the coach a few times a week for meridian tapping, a form of alternative medicine meant to release negative emotions by physically tapping certain pressure points on the body.

He said it helps a lot with his PTSD. But like many of his housemates, it took him a long time to realize that he couldn’t handle everything on his own.

“It took a lot of steppin on my pride to do it,” he said. “Veterans should know by now. you’re part of a brotherhood. We stuck together then and stick together now. We point each other in the right direction and try to help those that are having a difficult time coping.”

He gets a lot of needed social interaction that keeps his spirits up. But perhaps more importantly, he gets a roof over his head. Many veterans struggle to find affordable housing. It’s part of the wider homelessness problem in Amador County.

“A 32-year-old vet called us — his house had burned down,” said Terry Sanders, the Amador County veteran service officer. “He called us, but what do we do for him the next month? And the month after? Acute help is available, but how do we fix the safety net issues that got him there?”

The Amador Tuolumne Community Action Agency opened a new residential facility for veterans this spring. County Supervisor Lynn Morgan recently launched a pilot program arranging for a Veterans Affairs health officer to visit isolated people in the ‘upcountry’ area once a month. Find more resources for veterans here.

If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. You can find additional resources, including programs for youth, seniors, veterans and Native Americans, here.


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Post by yeknafar » 2018/07/12 22:05:58

Thanks for your attention.
I am using a cload to prevent DDOs attacks on my site and it is supposed just I see the IP of my cload on my server but when I check it with

netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

I see many strange IPs and when I Google them I find they are attacker IPs.

- I am using centos web panel (CWP).

Now I wonder:
- Why they come to my site directly and do not go through the cload to prevent them? (I do not think they have my IP, I have used 2 different cloads)

- I ban them manually, can it becomes an auto action?
- Are they doing Slowris attack on my site? (Because I receive for example 335 load average and database error sometime or even 3 times a day with low bandwith)

- Is it a good job to ban the most famous attacker IPs ? If yes how can I get the list?

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Post by TrevorH » 2018/07/13 06:20:19

- I am using centos web panel (CWP).
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Post by lightman47 » 2018/07/13 11:33:53

For the most part "they" are bots that bang-away at IPs. They don't have yours until they get to it and your machine responds - then they have it.

I use fail2ban as I must use passwords, with retrys set really low. It's a little bit to set up but works nicely.

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Training is the most exciting part of a project. It’s the point when our team hands over our hard work and shows our clients how the final product will actually work for them. It can be really hard to get everyone in a training session at one time. Even then, knowledge imparted from classroom-style trainings can easily be forgotten if not written down. After our trainings, we deliver a written handbook for editors to reference as they work with their new site. Here are a few of words of wisdom that make a handbook useful and usable for your content managers!

Living Documents Should Live Online, Not on Your Desk

A lot of organizations print their handbooks. They want something that flips open as a reference. The problem is that information quickly becomes out of date, especially as  your website iterates over time. This results in different staff members having different versions with different information, causing confusion that is easily avoidable. By keeping your handbook digital and accessible via a single URL, everyone always has the most up-to-date copy.

If you must have printed copies, make sure they display a version number, like “v. 2.1”, and date on the cover. In the version number, the first number should be used for large changes, like new fields or content types, and the numbers after the decimal for small updates, such as corrected typos or further clarification.

Online documents also allow the user to quickly skip to specific sections. This is much easier than trying to flip to the right page, and makes it simple to share knowledge by sending teammates a direct link to the most pertinent help text. Once you’ve gone digital, the Internet is your oyster.

GIFs and Screenshots Lead the Way

Skitch has long been our favorite for annotating screenshots. The hard-to-miss, hot pink annotations are designed to clearly stand out against brand colors. Everyone on the team, clients especially, love Skitch because clarifies each element of a screenshot.

Creating a website handbook

Screenshots are helpful,  but animated GIFs can be even better at precisely illustrating exact steps. With Google Docs, you can use  animated GIFs right inside the document! LICEcap is a great tool for recording straight to GIF, because it saves time by avoiding  conversion from video. GIF Brewery is another great option.

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When recording GIFs or taking screenshots, try to focus in on only what is relevant. Don’t capture the whole computer screen if all that matters is a link in the upper left corner. Provide just enough context to orient the learner and nothing more.

Use Landscape Layout

Computer screens are usually landscape layout. So, a document that’s also in landscape layout provides more room for screenshots that show more detail. In Portrait mode, pictures can get squished and unclear.

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Use a Different Font for Nomenclature

Just like in any Computer Science textbook, it’s important to distinguish conversational language from specific application terminology. For example, to someone who isn’t familiar with Drupal lingo, the following sentence could be confusing:

To find your content, click Content in the upper left hand corner. Then click the Content type drop down and press filter.

The word “content” is used several times in the sentence and could easily be misinterpreted, even with capitalization. Font treatments like bold and italic could be used to indicate emphasis or phrasing in the handbook itself. So, using a different font creates an obvious distinction. In Computer Science fashion, a monospaced font looks different enough that there should be no ambiguity.

To find your content, click Content in the upper left hand corner. Then click the Content type drop down and press filter.

See, it’s just a little easier on the eyes!

Remember your Audience: Avoid Technical Speak

As experts, it can be all too easy to rely on industry jargon to communicate. Unfortunately, this contradicts the whole point of the handbook! Many times, jargon words can be deleted altogether, or swapped out for a more accessible synonym. Words to watch out for include:

  • View
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  • Node
  • Output
  • Reference
  • Configure
  • Override
  • Interface
  • ...the list goes on

Basically, avoid any words that have either no real-world use outside of the application (e.g. Node) or have a different real world use outside of the application (e.g. View,  Field). Explain concepts via their content, rather than by the software architecture terminology.

Include Context and Other Helpful Instructions

Content editors aren’t always aware of the strategic decision-making that went into the new software. Explain to the reader what the larger strategic goals are when instructing him or her on how to use a bit of functionality. For example:

A Community Story is intended to share accounts of the work we do with the organizations and non-profits beyond our revenue-generating work. These stories will show that we’re invested in our community and enjoy giving back.

It can be helpful to reiterate help text from the application in the handbook, though be mindful of the help text becoming dated. Image dimensions and copy length are often more obvious in the handbook than in the subtly styled help text on the site. The handbook also allows you to include visual aids to show where information will appear, which isn’t usually an option with in-software help text.

Avoid Redundancy and Only Highlight Uniqueness

Repetitive steps and phrases will make eyes glaze over. Instead, explain key concepts and then specify only the differences when working through similar items. For example, explain in general how to add content. Then, for a particular content type, hone in on what is unique to that type. This saves time for the learner and teaches skills through repeatable steps.

Every project and client is different so, inevitably, not all handbooks look alike. Each time we make a handbook for a project, we learn something new, not only about what we do as a company, but also about human nature. Training can be a challenging time for the agency and the client, but a great handbook can go a long way in putting everyone at ease.

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I've written some articles early in this new year that God laid on my heart concerning the judgment and the glory of God. We are living in such a time where I believe both will manifest simultaneously. This word I share with you now is a very important word especially for ministers. Lives and destinies are at stake, and a new spiritual door has been opened, but we cannot walk through it unless we are willing to yield to the refiner's fire.

"But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver, and they will present to the Lord offerings in righteousness" (Mal 3:2-3).

As my wife and I were praying for a sick minister recently, the Holy Spirit cut in. He began to teach us by revelation the reason ministers often don't enter into the fullness of their callings, and why sometimes even their lives are cut short. This is what He said: "There are reasons why men were limited and didn't enter into the times and seasons of their lives. There are limitations through character. Over and over again I deal with men, but until they're put under the refiner's fire and My dealings, they cannot go into that new season and walk in that new place."

A few years ago, the Lord has turned up His refiner's fire on our own lives and ministry. He spoke to us more thoroughly and more urgently about our love walk, our words, our lifestyle and our diet. These things do matter, friends if we want to fulfill the call of God on our lives and enter into the fullness of our ministry. These things do matter if we want to run our race and finish our course.

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When we allow the refiner's fire to deal with our soul, fleshly strongholds, attitudes and emotions, then the devil cannot have a handle on us. So it is really God's mercy and protection for ministers that they don't receive a greater glory on their lives and gifts, because with it comes a greater judgment. To whom much is given, much will be required, and ministers receive a greater condemnation (James 3:1). History is littered with casualties of mightily anointed men who left this earth prematurely and whose callings were aborted for lack of the refiner's fire. God was merciful in taking them home when He did so their fruit could be saved and their works could follow them.

Let me give you a recent example from our lives so you can learn from it. A few months ago, when we were ministering in another nation, two ministers asked my wife and I how a certain mutual minister friend of ours was doing. We told them that we had heard he was now divorced and his adult children were backslidden. In the past, this now-divorced minister preached frequently and had a platform in the nation we were in. The Lord told us our comments could rob him of favor and future opportunities to minister in that nation.

We didn't know the details of the divorce, nor did we know if the minister was at fault, or if he was, whether he had repented. You are siding in with Satan, the accuser of the brethren, when you accuse others after they've repented. This happens so often in Christendom today when we throw stones at others' apparent sins even after they've repented. Many ministers would think nothing of making comments like this, but the Lord does. We repented before the Lord and apologized to those two ministers the next day.

Our attitudes, words, offenses and dealings with other ministers and the body of Christ in general are so important in determining our health and whether we enter into the new doors and seasons of our lives and ministries. Yielding to the refiner's fire can take us into our next assignments, open doors and new levels of blessing and glory that God has ordained for us.

The gifts and callings of God are without repentance—meaning God will not change His mind about your calling and purpose in Him, but the fullness cannot be seen in a man's life until he goes through the refiner's fire. Ministers need to go to the altar again and live from there. For ministers to go through certain doors of utterance of greater glory and influence, they have to be refined, not easily offended and not given to any carnal appetite.

Years ago, in an extended time of prayer and fasting, the Father told me that he had not opened certain doors for me because of His protection. Then I wept when He said that I would have ceased to be a man after His own heart if He had opened those doors when I had wanted Him to. He is a good Father. He will not give us instructions or assignments that He knows we cannot obey through our insufficient character, thus giving access to the enemy to legally attack us. Parents do not give their elementary schoolchildren instructions fit for a college student. Lack of maturity of character limits what they are able to do and obey.

Moses was a great example of a minister who moved in the flesh, killing a man to deliver his brethren from bondage, and as a result he spent 40 years in the refiner's fire on the backside of the dessert. God had big plans and a high calling for Moses, but he could not fulfill it until the refiner's fire had done its work in his life. There is a difference in how God deals with us in the New Covenant versus the Old Covenant, but the principle remains the same.

We'll discuss those differences and more in Part 2 of this word on the refiner's fire perhaps next week.

The important thing to remember now is this: Let's not judge other men but let us judge ourselves (1 Cor. 11:31).

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Dogs trained by professionals for veterans who have served honorably

Vets Helping Heroes mission is to provide the financial support for assistance dogs trained by professionals for veterans who have served honorably and active duty military personnel injured during service in the U.S. Armed Forces. Assistance dogs provide independence and service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. In addition, they are a source of much needed enjoyment as beloved “family members” – running with children, providing comfort for spouses, and the security of knowing that they can even provide such services as predicting an oncoming seizure.

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VETS HELPING HEROES is a charity founded by WWII Veteran and POW, Irwin Stovroff. After his incredible wartime experiences, Irwin finished his education, married, started a family and had a successful career in the furniture industry. When he retired at age 75, he began volunteering at the local Veterans Administration Medical Center helping to get Vets all of the benefits to which they were entitled. When he discovered that the Veterans Administration did not get government funds to provide service dogs of any kind, and that all dogs were funded by private donations, he started this charity with the single goal of purchasing quality-trained dogs for wounded Vets who needed them.

Now 93, Irwin continues to work tirelessly. His life has been the subject of an award-winning independent film, The Gift of Life; and the basis for a fictionalized treatment in book form, “An Extraordinary Life – Gone to the Dogs”. He has been featured on “The Sean Hannity Show”, “The Bonnie Hunt Show” and “Inside Edition” among many television spots. Irwin tells his story to everyone who will listen, urging anyone who can to give money so that we can try to stem the tide of wounded Vets who are suffering from both physical and emotional injuries, including Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Assisted by a Board of nine other professionals, many of whom are retired military (one of whom, Mel Pollack, spent six years as a Prisoner Of War in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton”), Irwin is leading the battle to make everyone aware that our Vets are facing a crisis. We are losing 22 Vets a day to suicide alone.

Vets Helping Heroes has raised over $4.5 Million during its short existence, and has used that money to investigate and approve multiple dog-training facilities which Vets Helping Heroes has sponsored to place over 125 dogs with Vets in need.

The VA has spent lots of money “studying” whether service dogs can assist Vets with PTSD. While the VA is studying, Vets Helping Heroes already knows that dogs can, and do, help save lives and give fulfilment and independence to Vets with PTSD and other injuries. We are moving full speed ahead to try to make sure that every Vet who can benefit from one can receive a properly-trained service dog appropriate to his or her needs. We hope you can help.

For further information, please visit our website at www.VetsHelpingHeroes.org and watch the short version of “The Gift of Life” in the lower right-hand corner of the Home page.

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5-Steps to Managing Business Listings for Financial Institutions

5-Steps to Managing Business Listings for Financial Institutions

How accessible is your financial institution to your customers? In the past two years, Google has seen a 900% increase in “near me tonight/today” searches. This rise in “near me” searches shows just how important it is for financial institutions to have accurate and high ranking business listings.

From individual branches to ATMs to financial advisors and more, banks and other financial institutions have multiple listings they need to monitor. In the world of finance, trust is everything. Customers turn to ATMs in a moment of need, your ATM listings need to be accurate or it could cause them to lose all trust in your brand. If your customers can’t trust the information on your business listings then how are they supposed to trust you to manage their money? Here are the 5-steps a financial brand needs to take to manage their listings.

5 Steps: How Financial Institutions Optimize Local Branch Listings

1. Start with a brand audit.

In order to manage your listings effectively, you have to know how you’re currently performing. Chatmeter offers free brand audits to help brands get a better understanding of how their business locations are performing online. In this audit, you can see how your locations are ranking, which locations are missing information or not listed at all, identify duplicate listings, and even see how you’re performing compared to your competitors. A thorough brand audit will help benchmark your brand’s online visibility so you can make improvements.

2. Claim all your listings.

Did you know that financial institutions can have more than one listing at a single location? Unlike other brick-and-mortar storefronts, financial institutions can have multiple listings at the same location. A single branch can have a listing of their own, an ATM listing, and even listings for professional services provided within the branch such as a financial planner. By failing to claim all your listings, even if they belong to the same address, you can be losing out on thousands of potential customers.

If you have yet to claim any business listings, start with the tier one sites; Google, Facebook, Yelp, Apple Maps, Foursquare, and Bing. These are the main sites people use to search for a business. When claiming a listing you’ll want to include your business name, address, phone number, website, category, business hours, and an accurate description. This information is known as NAPWCHD.

To improve your listing credibility you’ll want to claim tier 2 listings as well and work with data aggregators to claim listings on smaller online directories. By claiming all your listings and keeping your information accurate, you’ll build trust with search engines to improve your rankings.

Example of a single location with multiple listings for each service.

3. Create a strategy for managing local business listings.

Once you’ve claimed all your listings, you’ll want to establish a strategy for managing them. Multi-location brands have a choice between managing all their locations at the corporate level or individually at the local level. This means additional training if you choose to entrust local branch managers to maintain their local listings.

Most multi-location brands turn to a listing management platform, like Chatmeter, to help monitor listings for inaccuracies. Tools like Chatmeter’s Workflow can help corporate offices work with local branch managers to ensure both consistency and accuracy at every location all from a single platform.

4. Optimize your listings.

Claiming your listings is one thing, but if you want customers to visit your ATM or local branch, you need to rank high enough for them to find you. You can optimize your listings by adding photos, choosing the right category keywords, using Google Posts on GMB listings, responding to reviews, and answering questions from the public. Optimize your listing even further by setting up appointment booking and messaging to encourage customers to contact you.

5. Monitor and improve.

You’ll want to monitor your listings over time and make sure you’re making improvements both online and in-branch to keep your financial institution ranking high. Reviews impact your rankings by 15%. Make sure you’re consistently responding to reviews and making improvements to the customer experience based on the feedback found in reviews. By improving customer experience through digital channels, the largest global banks and insurers saw shareholder value grow by an average of 10% per year. Providing your customers with a consistent and seamless online to offline customer experience, you’ll not only gain the trust of current customers but you’ll earn new ones as well. This all starts with accurate and easy to find business listings.

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Managing multiple listings for your financial institution is not easy when done manually. Trust a listing management software, like Chatmeter to help you manage your listings efficiently. Whether you want to take a hands-on or hands-off approach to managing your financial business listings, Chatmeter has a solution for you. Schedule your free brand audit today to learn more.

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The history of Brooklyn Crescent Park, by David Colman.

Under the will of George Bancroft of Cheadle, who died in 1843 or 1844, the land on which Brooklyn Crescent Park now stands and which includes the land on which some of the houses within the present Conservation Area were built, passed into the ownership of George Bancroft Withington and Charles Withington.

Under his will of 14th July 1876, Charles Withington bequeathed his estate to Ernest Withington and after his death on July 21st 1921, the Cricket Field, now Brooklyn Crescent Park passed into the ownership of Bernard Withington.

In 1929, Mary Francis Godson, a resident of number 1 Brooklyn Crescent, spearheaded a move along with a group of residents to purchase the land on a fifty fifty bases with Cheadle and Gatley Urban District Council.

It was bought from Bernard Withington, of Whitehall Road Brooklands, and George Hansford of Southport for the sum of £1,025. The amounts paid by the local residents were as follows:

When the rights to what is now Brooklyn Crescent Park were acquired by the local householders, it was conveyed to Cheadle and Gatley UDC to be kept as an open Space.  It was to be used only as “a Cricket Ground, or Tennis Courts or a Bowling Green or Public Park”.  “…no buildings other than a pavilion, tool sheds or a shelter shall be erected thereon or on any part thereof.”

From that time until the 2nd world war, it was a sports field for the use of Cheadle Primary School. During the war it was used to grow vegetables as part of the ‘dig for victory’ campaign, returning to its use as a sports field later on.

In the 1970’s, its use was changed to an urban park and it was planted with trees and shrubs, particularly azaleas and rhododendrons which make a lovely Spring display even today. The new Brooklyn Crescent Park was opened by the Chairman of Cheadle Council, Betty Johnson, in April, 1973.

The Park has been maintained by Stockport Parks Department ever since that day, but after 30 years, the park needed some serious work doing in order to restore it to its original standard.

In 2005, a groups of residents formed a “Friends of Brooklyn Crescent Park” in order to raise funds to provide an all weather path around the perimeter of the lawn and new benches and litter bins. They also secured a grant to improve the visibility in the park, felling self-seeded trees and overgrown shrubbery.

In total, the groups raised £62,000, and the completed project has ensured the future of the park as a haven of peace and quiet in the middle of a busy village. Brooklyn Crescent Park is used by young families, senior citizens, worker and shoppers from the village and people with mobility problems who can now have safe and easy access.

Brooklyn Crescent Park is situated off Massie Street, approximately 1/4 mile south of High Street


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5 Quotes That Prove Sarah Palin Doesn’t Need Less Filter

1. Domestic Violence Metaphor With a Side of Impeachment

Enough is enough of the years of abuse from this president. His unsecured border crisis is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, ‘no más,’” wrote Palin in a piece for Breitbart on immigration.

Here we have a good old fashioned physical abuse comparison mixed with two words of spanish to really drive home for anyone confused on whether or not Palin sympathizes with the plight of unaccompanied minors currently crossing illegally into the United States — many of whom are seeking refuge from violence and gang intimidation.

“Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate … It’s time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment,” she writes.

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Child care centers forced to wait months to renew licenses

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Staff shortages at the Department of Children and Family Services are causing some child care centers to wait months before their licenses can be renewed – causing problems for child care businesses and possibly putting children’s safety at risk.

In the fourth quarter of the 2013 fiscal year, just 53 percent of child care providers were able to renew their licenses on time, according to a report the department submitted to the Illinois General Assembly in September 2013.

Also, just 60 percent of providers received their annual monitoring visits on time (though in some cases this may be due to providers not responding to requests to set up the visits).

Karen Hawkins, a spokeswoman for the department, says there are currently 43 vacant licensing representative positions, plus 10 temporarily vacant positions due to staff on leave. Overall, at the time the report was issued, DCFS had just 125 licensing representatives statewide, compared to 155 in fiscal year 2010.

“We are looking at recruiting more staff. We are looking at whether we can be more efficient with technology,” Hawkins says. “It is budget season, so we are looking at ways to increase resources.”

She notes that the agency has long struggled with retaining its staff, who often move up the ladder into other state jobs.

But Sessy Nyman, Vice President of Policy and Strategic Partnerships at the child-care advocacy group Illinois Action for Children, says that the shortage of licensing representatives could be putting children in danger.

“What happens when a licensing process starts to falter is that some child care providers are eagerly waiting for their representative. [But] some of them are taking this as a free-for-all,” Nyman says. “[They’ll say to themselves] ‘I’m licensed for eight, but I’m going to take care of 12.’ The challenge is that you only find out about it after the fact, when it is, sometimes, too late. And that is what you desperately want to avoid.”

Altogether, the state is responsible for overseeing more than 8,500 home day cares and more than 3,000 child care centers.  The report shows caseloads for licensing representatives have increased dramatically in recent years. In Northern Illinois and in Cook County, there are currently an average of 104 home day cares and child care centers per licensing representative, up from around 90 in fiscal year 2010. The National Association for Regulatory Administrators recommends significantly fewer – 50 child care centers or 100 homes per licensing worker.

Though child care programs are allowed to continue operating with expired licenses, they are not able to access food subsidies for low-income children from the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program, which requires that licenses be current.

A report by ChildCare Aware of America ranked Illinois 21st in the nation for its oversight of child care centers. The state’s weak point: Infrequent visits by licensing representatives and other inspectors.

Finances pose barrier to hiring

One child care provider contacted by Catalyst Chicago, who did not want her name to be used, said she has been trying to get approval to open an additional child care room since December 2012.

Expanding would allow her to let in families off her waiting list and also allow her current students to attend for more days.

“The DCFS representative has not been able to come out,” she said. “I have to keep turning [parents] down. We only have 16 children right now; for me to open this classroom would be another 10 children.”

Hiring licensing representatives can be a challenge for the cash-strapped department, Nyman says, because hiring for child protection positions is seen as a more urgent priority.

But, she notes, the state recently contracted with a licensing researcher to use a tool that will allow licensing representatives to check for “red flags” instead of verifying that every program meets every licensing requirements.

Under the new system that could start as soon as this July, licensing representatives will get a “top 10 list” of things to check which will show that “if that provider does those things well, statistically speaking, they do everything else well” – allowing licensing representatives to spend more time on child care centers where young children could be in danger.

She believes the new system will allow licensing representatives to give child care programs more attention – a crucial step to improving quality.

 “If you are building a quality (early childhood) system, but you have a faulty licensing system, it becomes very hard to succeed,” Nyman says.


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Every fall, John Green watches the looks on new teachers’ faces fade from sunny and warm to cloudy and chilly along with the weather.

“They come in with all this anticipation. You look around in October, November, and it wanes,” says Green, a 23-year retired veteran of Chicago Public Schools who taught 8th grade at Fuller Elementary in Grand Boulevard and served as assistant principal at three schools.

New teachers “need someone to direct them as far as [school] culture, parents, attendance books, problem-solving, professional growth, technology, self-assessment, classroom management,” explains Green, a mentor at Castellanos Middle School in Little Village. “All of these things are hitting them at the same time, and none of that is addressed in college. There, they get content knowledge.”

Julie Voynovich, a 7th-grade language arts and reading teacher who worked with Green last year, agrees. “College really does not prepare you for teaching,” she says. “John was my troubleshooter. If I needed to know anything, John would know where to go.”

Green and other former teachers are guiding rookies at 80 schools through the Retired Mentors Program, a two-year-old partnership with the Chicago chapter of the National Retired Teachers Association, the educator wing of (and precursor to) the American Association of Retired Persons, which pays some of the costs. Mentors earn $200 per day for 20 half-days of work.

Chicago’s project, part of a national initiative launched in 2002, is serving 163 new teachers this year (71 of the newcomers are special education teachers). Some of the schools were identified as hard-to-staff. Some new schools without many experienced faculty also asked to participate.

The program attempts to match mentors with mentees by grade and subject matter. But those factors are not overriding.

Disillusionment and discipline

The University of California at Santa Cruz is working on an evaluation of the program, to be completed in 2007. So far, according to a report from the national teachers’ group, a university survey found that 75 percent of participating new teachers say they benefited from the program.

Evidence that the program is helping to keep teachers on the job is beginning to surface, although the data involve small numbers of teachers. Of the 68 newcomers who began working with mentors in spring 2004, 62 stayed in the district and 43 stayed at their schools.

In 2005, the number of participating teachers more than doubled. Of 154 teachers, 122 stayed in the district, 97 of them in their schools.

Karen Cushing, program coordinator for the CPS Department of Learning and Development, notes that some new teachers from the schools served in 2004 quit before mentoring got underway.

“They realize, ‘This isn’t what I thought it was going to be,'” she says. “Part of the reason for this program is to help them through what we call ‘the time of disillusionment.'”

Mae Coen, a 36-year veteran who taught at Austin and Steinmetz high schools and has mentored at Douglass Middle, May Elementary and Clemente High, says some first-year teachers badly need confidence.

“Very little praise is given to these new teachers. They become very frustrated,” Coen says. “That’s where the mentors come in, to be the sounding board, to be the crying shoulder.”

Because student misbehavior is often the most difficult problem new teachers face, classroom management is a key component of the training provided to both mentors and new teachers; other topics include data-driven instruction and multicultural awareness.

Race, culture clash

Mentors can also help newcomers to bridge racial and cultural divides with their students.

Alvin Lubov, former veteran principal at Frederick Douglass Middle School, remembers one disillusioned young woman who was teaching at a school in a troubled minority neighborhood. Several teachers had been assaulted there.

“She really needed someone to talk to and vent,” says Lubov, who’s serving as a mentor this year at Mose Vines, a small school in the former Orr High campus in Humboldt Park.

The young woman, who is white, said her parents were apprehensive about the situation, so Lubov called to talk to them as well. A mentor can provide new teachers with “safety in an emotional sense,” he says. “People need to know that there’s somebody out there looking out for them.”

Christopher Stralkowski, who taught 7th and 8th-grade math as a new teacher at Ruggles Elementary in Greater Grand Crossing two years ago, says mentor Catherine Boyd-Morgan helped him to communicate with his students at the predominantly black school.

“There is an idea that, ‘You’re an outsider coming into our school, coming into our neighborhood,'” says Stralkowski, who now teaches 3rd grade at Ruggles. Boyd-Morgan, who is African American, talked with students and “was very helpful in making it clear that teaching and education are based on students’ minds,” not race or culture, he says.

“Lo and behold, come January or February, it was a non-issue.”


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Chicago made Amazon’s short list. There’s still plenty of competition.

Amazon’s list of 20 potential sites for HQ2, its second headquarters, didn’t overlook any obvious contenders, including Chicago. A few dark horses made the cut too.

Who’s the real competition for Chicago?

Chicago is one of “the big boys,” along with Boston, New York City, Atlanta and Dallas, whose size and infrastructure make them contenders for just about any major corporate headquarters project, said Mark Sweeney, senior principal with Greenville, S.C.-based site selection and economic development consultancy McCallum Sweeney Consulting.

Chicago’s population is comfortably above Amazon’s stated preference for a metropolitan area with at least 1 million people, and it has an educated labor pool, access to prominent colleges and universities, a strong transportation network and access to a major international airport, and relatively affordable housing, site selection experts said.

Chicago doesn’t have an obvious tech reputation, but wages in computer and mathematical occupations are lower here than in most other cities on Amazon’s short list.

As for some other cities, Boston is tough to beat when it comes to prestigious universities, Atlanta and Dallas also have excellent access to international flights, and New York City is simply “too big to ignore,” especially now that Amazon is expanding into other industries, said John H. Boyd, principal of The Boyd Co., a Princeton, N.J.-based corporate site selection consultancy.

The fact that three Washington, D.C.-area sites were included — the city itself as well as Northern Virginia and Montgomery County, Md. — suggests proximity to lawmakers and regulators is attractive.

Newark, N.J., meanwhile, could benefit from easy access to New York City, a major airport and willingness to offer big incentives — something Amazon’s request for proposals suggested would be a significant factor, Sweeney added.

Even cities that haven’t garnered much attention so far have selling points. Miami, for instance, has no personal income tax and is the “gateway to South and Central America,” a region where Amazon hopes to grow, Boyd said.

Other cities seemed to have longer odds, including Chicago’s fellow Midwestern candidates, Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, which don’t have big reputations as tech hubs, experts said.

Chicago could be an “interesting hybrid” between cities too big to fulfill all of Amazon’s wishes and underdogs too small to meet its needs, said Dennis McAndrew, founder and principal at Cleveland-based site selection consulting firm Silverlode Consulting.

“If Amazon wanted to walk that line, Chicago is a natural choice. … Whereas some smaller cities are going to have to convince Amazon that its basic needs can be met, Chicago doesn’t need to do that,” he said.

Its biggest challenge is likely to be a reputation for fiscal woes, higher taxes and political dysfunction, McAndrew said.

Boyd agreed, but said he doesn’t think those issues are deal-breakers.

“No city is perfect,” Boyd said. A city “can marshal incentives to underwrite being in a high-cost state, and it’s less of a cost-driven project than most. It’s more about the labor market, brand of the city, air service and transportation infrastructure.”

In an emailed statement, Mayor Rahm Emanuel noted the city’s success in luring GE Healthcare, ConAgra and McDonald’s headquarters from the suburbs or out of state, and said the region would continue working “to make the case to Amazon that Chicago is the ideal location for HQ2.”

“We are prepared to compete at the next level and the next level after that,” he said.

Amazon shared little about how it narrowed the pool of 238 applicants beyond the fact that it used the criteria it laid out when announcing the search. The list of 20 contenders was unranked, and Amazon said it planned to work with each location in the coming months. Still, experts said it’s unlikely Amazon thinks all 20 have an equal shot.

Keeping a longer list could help them “cover their tracks” and gives them a backup plan if problems crop up with an early front-runner, McAndrew said.

It’s also good for Amazon’s brand in every city on the list, said Boyd, even those he thinks have little chance of actually winning the project, like Los Angeles.

“The LA market is so large … it would almost be malfeasance if it wasn’t in the top 20,” he said. “There’s a PR benefit for Amazon in acknowledging them and saying they’re seriously considering them.”

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