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Data Center Connectivity Site Foreman, Forest City, NC
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Forest City, NC, US
Posted 43 days ago
Job description
Responsibilities
Assist the Site Supervisor in leading the Cabling and Infrastructure Build Team in their performance of each Data Center build/retrofit project, including allocation of resources, task assignments and ensuring the quality of their installation, per design and completed on schedule.
Develop early equipment procurement recommendations and monitor timelines.
Determine all hardware and materials required to complete each build/retrofit project and work with chosen suppliers via SCO to procure.
Create Bill of Material for site requirements.
Perform installations on an as-needed basis and the example in which the Team is to perform.
Coordinate schedule and impact assessments with Operations and Construction teams.
Oversee operational activities such as Rack Moves/Adds/Changes and capacity upgrades.
Perform Quality Assurance audits to ensure DCC work meets standards.
Identify any process improvements.
Coordinating internal staff and consultant teams as required.
Provide weekly project status report (financial, schedule, quality).
Responds to operational escalations and emergencies as required.
Assist in developing network cable/rack/cabinet installation processes and standards.
Ensure installation/tests are documented in accordance with procedures.Requirements:
Experience in the design coordination and installation of structured cabling solutions and seismic support systems for large-scale Data Centers and telecommunication facilities.
Experienced in Fiber Optic troubleshooting and performance testing.
Training and certifications in Network Cabling and Telecommunications standards for copper and fiber per IEEE/ANSI/TIA/EIA and BICSI standards are strongly desired.
Background in Project Management and delivering on time, within budget and to applicable standards.
Practiced in working with industry standard construction build codes and safety requirements including OSHA, ITIL, NFPA and C7 (Low Voltage Systems) Licensing.
Experience in closely supervising contractors, constructors and multiple suppliers all towards meeting the same build objectives.
Effective negotiation skills and ability to provide solutions to complex problems under pressure.
Must be fluent in English and have effective communications skills.
Must be familiar with MS Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.Industry: Internet
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Tuesday, July 07, 2015
N.C. lawmakers lift ban on Sunday hunting
“Sunday is for rest — rest not just for man but also animals,” Christian Action League head Mark Creech said of compromise legislation to allow firearm hunting on Sunday but not during the morning worship hour.
By Bob Allen
Baptists in North Carolina opposed to ending the state’s ban on Sunday hunting got some accommodation in a compromise measure passed by the legislature that prohibits hunting with a firearm between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Sundays, hours when most rural congregations gather for Bible study and worship.
“The Christian Action League appreciates the sensitivity and respect shown by lawmakers in adding this provision,” said Creech, who broke with fellow conservatives in the National Rifle Association to oppose lifting North Carolina’s century-and-a-half ban on Sunday hunting. “Moreover, without such a provision, I am concerned other Sunday laws already on the books that show deference to the churches could be jeopardized.”
Creech, a former Southern Baptist pastor, said many people today view any effort to defend a special observance of the Lord’s Day as old-fashioned, puritanical and impractical in today’s complex economy.
“But the fact is, if we have no concern for setting aside one day a week for special worship and focus on the things of God, we’re not likely to honor the Lord the other six days of the week,” Creech wrote in a commentary. “If we are concerned about using all the days properly, we should also be concerned about using the Lord’s Day right.”
Despite arguments to the contrary, Creech submitted that “if we are to reconnect with our spiritual moorings, if our nation is to once again be restored to its former glory, if we are truly to maintain our heritage, it will involve a return to honoring and keeping the Lord’s Day.”
Creech said Sunday rest is intended “not just for man” but for animals as well.
“Man and nature run on a seven-day clock,” he said. “One day is essential for rewinding. Sunday is for worship — a time to be still and listen for the voice God — a time to break away from our focus on the temporal and give ourselves to those things eternal — a time to concentrate on character building — a time to make certain we are adequately concerned for God’s business and not just our own.”
“This legislation by no means outlaws the Lord’s Day or destroys it, but it does add an additional distraction by law that simply allows it to go by default,” Creech said. “Human experience has shown us the importance of the Lord’s Day. We do not live by bread alone, neither are we the sum total of our amusements and indulgences. We live by a right relationship to God and in obedience to his commands.”
The Baptist Faith and Message describes the Lord’s Day as “a Christian institution for regular observance.”
“It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should include exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both public and private,” the official confessional statement of the Southern Baptist Convention says in Article 8. “Activities on the Lord's Day should be commensurate with the Christian's conscience under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.”
While most attention to revisions to the Baptist Faith in Message in 2000 focused on narrowing parameters regarding the role of women in the church and home, the reworded article on the Lord’s Day softened language used in 1925 and 1963 versions saying Sunday should be characterized “by refraining from worldly amusements, and resting from secular employments, work of necessity and mercy only being excepted.”
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Monday, July 08, 2013
Satanic graffiti found on Gastonia church
Crime
Credit: NBC Charlotte
by AMY COWMAN / NBC Charlotte
Posted on June 13, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Updated Thursday, Jun 13 at 5:52 PM
GASTONIA, N.C. -- Vandals strike a Gastonia church spray painting hateful words and images. This happened the same week that children are at Covenant Baptist Church for vacation bible school.
"Can't understand why anybody would do something like this? How much did they accomplish," questioned Pastor Olin Byrum.
A blanket covers up the graffiti in the back of Covenant Baptist Church in Gastonia. Vandals wrote an expletive word and then God plus an upside down cross. Pastor Olin Byrum says it's very disheartening.
"We're trying to reach out to people, share Christ with others, and now we have to spend time doing things like that," said Byrum.
It's spray painted on the back of the church where the kids play on the playground. All this week they've had vacation bible school for the children.
"Fortunately they haven't been back here, so, and hadn't even wanted to come back here, so I guess that's good for us; we've kept them busy.”
The church has already tried twice to clean the graffiti off with no luck so far. Pastor Byrum says he just wants the people responsible to come forward, take responsibility and they are forgiven.
"I just can't understand why you'd do something like that, of course there's no hate, God loves them, we love them hopefully they'll repent and see the error of their ways," Byrum expressed.
Vacation Bible school continues Friday, meanwhile they say they believe they'll have to sandblast the wall to get the graffiti off.
So far no arrests have been made in the case.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Asheville Mother Grove Goddess Temple to celebrate spring equinox
ASHEVILLE — After making it through the harsh winter, people in Western North Carolina are looking forward to the warm sun of spring. Some are preparing to celebrate the season's change with an ecumenical ritual.
Saturday officially marks the first day of spring, being the day of the spring equinox.Members of Mother Grove Goddess Temple will celebrate at 7 p.m. Saturday with A Breath of Appalachian Spring: A Ritual in Celebration of the Spring Equinox, in the parish hall of the Episcopal Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village.
Saturday's event is open to all faith traditions, said Byron Ballard, wiccan priestess and a member of the temple. Mother Grove “isn't a wiccan group, though some of us are wiccans,” she said.
“Mother Grove is an outgrowth of the work of several people in the goddess/earth religions community,” Ballard said. “Its goal is to create a permanent sanctuary, where people of all faith traditions may openly and safely celebrate the divine feminine, the goddess.”
Wicca is a modern religion built on the ancient agricultural religions of Europe, she explained. “Wiccans may also refer to themselves as witches.”
Jill Boyer is a co-founder and priestess with Mother Grove. She says she looks forward to celebrating “with my celebrants and community, having time to celebrate something that is very important to me and the ritual aspects themselves.”
Boyer believes people have an ancient and human need for ritual and celebration in groups, and to acknowledge the changing of the seasons.
The celebration will consist of raising a circle, singing, “whistling up the wind” and flying prayers written on paper airplanes. Ballard will lead the ritual, explaining that it is a joyful expression of the beginning of spring and coming together as a community.
Nonperishable food items will be collected at the event for the Mother Grove Cornucopia Project food drive.
“Last year, as part of the celebration, we asked people to write a prayer or wish on a piece of paper and fold it into an airplane,” Ballard said. “We spent about five minutes flying planes around the room. Then we asked people to pick up a plane that was not theirs, take it home with them and pray for that person.”
Ballard said that “whistling up the wind” is an old English and Appalachian tradition. March is usually the windiest month, so the element of wind will be emphasized at the celebration. One person will whistle while three others honor the elements of earth, fire and water.
“It's a lovely holiday for children,” Ballard said. “The first chance to get out and see what's growing, to welcome baby chicks and lambs, to taste the first little green bits of chickweed. All pagan and wiccan holidays are family-friendly. Many Earth religionists choose to honor their spiritual traditions as a family group.”.
Source: http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100319/LIVING/303190029
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Episcopal Organization? Meet your future:
After making it through the harsh winter, people in Western North Carolina are looking forward to the warm sun of spring. Some are preparing to celebrate the season’s change with an ecumenical ritual.
You mean some kind of joint Catholic-Protestant-Orthodox thing? Nope.
Members of Mother Grove Goddess Temple will celebrate at 7 p.m. Saturday with A Breath of Appalachian Spring: A Ritual in Celebration of the Spring Equinox, in the parish hall of the Episcopal Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village.
And nothing says “Welcome, spring!” quite like a fake religion performing its strange ceremonies inside the cathedral of another fake religion.
Saturday’s event is open to all faith traditions, said Byron Ballard, wiccan priestess and a member of the temple. Mother Grove “isn’t a wiccan group, though some of us are wiccans,” she said.
Noted.
“Mother Grove is an outgrowth of the work of several people in the goddess/earth religions community,” Ballard said. “Its goal is to create a permanent sanctuary, where people of all faith traditions may openly and safely celebrate the divine feminine, the goddess.”
This is badly needed what with all the witches the Christian right burns in the United States all the time. What are you looking at me like that for? You know it’s true.
Anyway, exactly how are they going to celebrate Katharine Jefferts Schori the divine feminine, the goddess? With “ancient” rituals like these.
The celebration will consist of raising a circle, singing, “whistling up the wind” and flying prayers written on paper airplanes. Ballard will lead the ritual, explaining that it is a joyful expression of the beginning of spring and coming together as a community.
If I’m not mistaken, the pagan Celts used paper airplanes to pray to their gods. But why do all this in the first place?
Jill Boyer is a co-founder and priestess with Mother Grove. She says she looks forward to celebrating “with my celebrants and community, having time to celebrate something that is very important to me and the ritual aspects themselves.”
Boyer believes people have an ancient and human need for ritual and celebration in groups, and to acknowledge the changing of the seasons.
Inventing gods. Performing weird rituals devoid of meaningful content for no particular reason other than emotion. I’d say TEO’s just about there.
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
N. Carolina Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Sit-Ins
Chris Simkins Greensboro, North Carolina 01 February 2010
The Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina that was the site of the famous sit-ins on 1 Feb 1960
February is Black History Month in the United States. It pays tribute to people and events that shaped the history of African Americans. A pivotal moment happened 50 years ago when four black university students in North Carolina sat down at a whites-only lunch counter to get something to eat. They were denied service, but their actions re-ignited the U.S. civil rights movement and the struggle by millions of African Americans to achieve racial equality and justice.
Hundreds of people gathered at a former Woolworth department store to pay tribute to what happened here 50 years ago. Inspired by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., four black college students walked into a Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 1st, 1960. They sat down at the "whites only" lunch counter but were denied service because of their skin color.
Joseph McNeil was just 17 years old when he and his friends refused to leave the segregated counter. At the time, they could have been arrested for breaking so called "Jim Crow" laws that were enacted to keep blacks and whites separated at public places such as theaters, hotels and restaurants.
"If we had to be arrested for a week or one day or two months or three months we felt what we were trying to do was worth it to make that statement and to defy racial segregation," he added.
Franklin McCain says he was driven to participate in the sit-ins because of the discrimination that surrounded him.
"I was quite ready to do something to seek relief, a spot of dignity, humanity and my manhood," said McCain. "And fortunately I met three other guys who felt the same way."
Jibreel Khazan from Greensboro remembers what the white waitress told them.
"'What do you boys want?' And we said we would like to be served very politely. And she said. 'You know we don't serve colored people here, there is a lunch counter over there, a stand up counter.' And we said thank you ma'am we'd rather sit here," recalled Khazan.
Days later and tired of the discriminatory practices, more blacks and even some white people got involved in the sit-in movement. Joseph McNeil says that at one point more than 500 students jammed the lunch counters at Woolworth and other stores with segregated lunch counters.
"We were doing what needed to be done," said McNeil. "Not just that, but keeping up the commitment of coming back day after day as we promised the stores what we would do if they didn't open the [lunch] counters to everyone."
Longtime civil rights activist Julian Bond says the Greensboro sit-ins changed the course of the civil rights movement during the 1960's.
"It injected a degree of activism in the civil rights movement which until then had been largely confined to activism in the courts," explained Bond. "All of a sudden, activism in the streets became part of the arena, part of the weaponry that the movement used and that just changed everything."
In July 1960, and after $200,000 in lost business, Woolworth agreed to integrate its store allowing blacks to be served at the lunch counter.
Historian Lonnie Bunch says the Greensboro campaign was not the first, but it did capture national media attention and spark hundreds of similar non-violent protests across the country.
"So celebrating the Greensboro sit-in really tells us we are celebrating the sit-ins that occurred in other parts of the south and other cities throughout the north," noted Bunch.
Jebreel Khazan says he's honored to have a place in history but gives credit to the wisdom of his ancestors.
"We just happened to be blessed to be the four that did this and it caught fire throughout the country but all things are possible if we only believe and that was what I was taught," he said.
On the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins, a new chapter in the history of the civil rights movement has begun with a new international civil rights museum. Community leaders want it to be a lasting tribute to the sacrifices so many African Americans made for equality and social justice.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Prayer in gov't meetings causes controversy
A federal judge will soon rule in a North Carolina case on prayer in government meetings.
Of this specific prayer, Parker says, "It was in Jesus' [Name]. They talked about the virgin birth. They talked about Jesus dying for all of us on the cross on Calvary." Parker says, "It was sectarian throughout the entire prayer."
One of the plaintiffs in the suit, Janet Joyner, finds that offering prayers in a sectarian manner "denies the individual the right to pray to whomever they want to pray or to however they address their transcendent understandings."
County Commissioner Gloria Whisenhut argues that the county policy is not sectarian as it involves all faiths. "We have Mormons [and] Jewish. We've had an array of different faiths," she establishes.
Don Baity, pastor of Berean Baptist Church, disagrees with the suit. "It just seems that we're concerned about the minority that's offended," he contends. "I'm offended as a Christian when they tell me that I can't pray in Jesus' name and they take my First Amendment right away from me when everything in this country works by majority rule."
