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A computer-illiterate user in the finance department requests a laptop to use at home, and this IT pilot fish objects. "There are only two IT people to support approximately 100 users and 35 servers," fish groans. "The amount of time we'll have to spend with this one user will be absurd. "Needless to say, we lost that battle. She got a notebook, and eventually she was able to work from home through our Citrix gateway." Fast-forward a few months, when a help desk request comes from the user: She's unable to work from home. Fish takes her notebook and tests it. He dials out, connects through the VPN to the Citrix gateway and logs in. Everything works fine. Then he sits down with the user and carefully explains how to use the VPN and the Citrix gateway. She takes notes, including fish's most-important-first-step rule: Make sure you are on the Internet and are able to access the Web before trying to use the VPN.
First Presbyterian continues efforts to clean up the Gulf
Even before they returned home from a mission trip to the Gulf Coast in fall, a group from Neenah's First Presbyterian Church knew it wouldn't be the last time they'd see that region.
"On the way back, we all said, 'We've got to go back.' People feel a call to go back," associate pastor the Rev. Paul Huxtable said. "Progress is being made, albeit very slowly. The important thing is that we don't forget there's going to be continued need on the Gulf. It's important to continue to focus on the people. It's the people we're working for."
Huxtable is the leader of the Presbyterian mission group, which has made five trips to the storm-ravaged area. Their first visit was just a month after Katrina hit in August 2005. The group departs again on Feb. 24 for yet another trip to work alongside residents helping rebuild homes in Mississippi as part of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, an outreach of Presbyterian Church USA.
New York Mets GC, David Cohen
Let's go Mets!: Since 1962, the New York Mets have represented Major League Baseball's National League in New York. Founded in 1962, they have morphed from Casey Stengel's lovable losers to 2006's Eastern Division champions. The team is based in the Flushing, Queens, neighborhood of New York City and is owned by real estate magnate Fred Wilpon. Approximately 200 full-time employees are bolstered by "hundreds" of part-timers, players and game-day workers, Cohen said. He declined to discuss revenues of the privately held company.
Dreams of field: The Mets' longtime home at Shea Stadium will fade into history with the debut of a new stadium planned for Opening Day 2009. The closing of the old facility and the deals for the new one, to be named Citi Field, are the fruits of a decade's effort.
Employee wins second discrimination claim after employers fail to ...
An employee has received an undisclosed settlement from the Home Office after she took it to tribunal for reneging on an agreement, reached after an earlier claim, to let her work part-time. Prison worker Olubunmi Idowu-Ajeigbe was claiming £200,000 in damages after her employer failed to honour an agreement that said she could work part-time.
An Employment Tribunal upheld her sex discrimination claim and had been due to award her compensation this week when Idowu-Ajeigbe accepted what is believed to be a substantial five-figure sum from the Home Office.
The payment was made on condition that she sign a confidentiality agreement banning her from talking about the case.
The agreement that Idowu-Ajeigbe could work part-time stemmed from a previous case she took against the Home Office, making this the second time it has settled a sex discrimination claim brought by Idowu-Ajeigbe.
Franklin County Nursing Home makes comeback
Within the Franklin County Nursing Home is a committee of residents who represent the interests of all who call the facility home.
People from "the outside" — even those who work in the Nursing Home — cannot attend their meetings unless the committee extends them an invitation.
So the wise pay attention when this committee makes a recommendation.
When Franklin County legislators needed to hire an administrator — someone the state Health Department would approve of — the committee made its wishes known.
Just days later, Interim Administrator Donna MacPherson was hired for the full-time job.
And no one can argue with the choice.
Since she began filling the position when Mary Palmer left the post in June, MacPherson has gleefully thrown herself into transforming the Nursing Home into a real home for its residents.
Labour can't afford General Election now
GORDON Brown will be excused if he has a wee smile on his face after yet another monumental cock-up hit the Home Office this week - the cupboard full of neglected files on criminal convictions of Brits abroad may well scupper Dr John Reid's thoughts of challenging the Chancellor for the Labour leadership.Dr Reid was sent into the department - which is responsible for everything from policing, prisons and the probation service to homeland security, immigration, asylum, and nationality - to sort the chaos and muddle which has swamped it in recent years.Soon after, he assured everyone that all was well, and it was fit for purpose. Patently, it is not.This week's fiasco, in which ministers were forced to admit that British nationals convicted overseas of rape, murder, or paedophile offences could be working with kids because their records had not been processed by our police, will have dented hard man Reid's reputation as a fixer and probably made Mr Brown even more of an odds-on favourite to inherit the Blair crown.When he becomes PM, the Chancellor could be urged by some of his more hot-headed supporters to call an early election, to build on the honeymoon period he will inevitable enjoy as the country breathes a collective sigh of relief that Tony Blair is spending more of his time with the rich and famous.Some have even suggested Mr Brown could seek his own mandate as early as October, as the Brown effect neutralises the Tory revival under David Cameron.The other scenario is that October 2008 would be the ideal time to go to the country.
