January 13, 2010
October 27, 2009
October 21, 2009
How we cope
Just want to share this great post from spankyenriquez.blogspot.com:
We Cope
because we have
HUMOR,
“Inspired by the heroism
of Jericho Rosales, GMA
surfs up to Marikina!!!”
We Cope
because we have
BOOZE…
From the HEY JUDE bar in Boracay:
“With the support from local friends and tourists visiting the island,
we were able to raise more than P10,000 in one night;
With the positive outcome,
we have decided to continue with the drive
until this coming Saturday.
until this coming Saturday.
All these collections shall be donated to the GMA Kapuso Foundation.”
We Cope
because we have
HOPE!!!
Mula kay Kapamilyang
JULIUS BABAO:
During my coverage yesterday in Montalban, Rizal,
a lady came to me and gave me a cup of coffee.
She was covered in mud.
I asked her,
“Bakit naman nag-abala pa kayo?”
She said,
“gusto ko lang po itong ibigay sa inyo.”
She lost all her belongings
but still she showed me the utmost hospitality.
This is one of the reasons why we thank God
for making us who we are…
FILIPINOS.
October 10, 2009
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August 7, 2009
Brilliant Conversation – a must read!
An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the problem Science has with GOD, the ALMIGHTY. He asked one of his new Christian students to stand and…
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, you believe in GOD?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good?
Student : Sure.
Professor : Is GOD ALL – POWERFUL?
Student : Yes.
Professor : My Brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor : You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella.
Professor : Is GOD Good?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Is Satan good?
Student : No.
Professor : Where does Satan come from?
Student : From…GOD.. .
Professor : That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this World?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And GOD did make everything.
Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor : So who created evil?
(Student did not answer)
Professor : Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness?
All these terrible things exist in the World, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe
the World around you. Tell me, son…have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your
GOD? Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor : Yet you still believe in HIM?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol,
Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor : Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t…
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student : Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat,
Mega Heat, White Heat, a Little Heat or No Heat.
But we don’t have anything called Cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero
which is No Heat, but we can’t go any further after that.
There is no such thing as Cold.
Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat.
We cannot Measure Cold.
Heat is Energy.
Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it.
(There was pin-drop dilence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as
Darkness?
Professor : Yes. What is Night if there isn’t Darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the Absence of
Something.
You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light…
But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and its
called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, Darkness isn’t. If it is,
you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor : So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student : Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor : Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue
there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD. You are
viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure.
Sir, Science can’t even explain a Thought. It uses Electricity and
Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.
To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that
Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing.
Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just the Absence of it
Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your Students that they evolved from
a Monkey?
Professor : If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process,
yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the
argument was going)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at
work and Cannot even prove that this Process is an On-Going Endeavor,
Are you not teaching your Opinion, sir?
Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The Class was in uproar)
Student : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the
Professor’s brain?
(The Class broke out into laughter)
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s
brain, felt it, touched or smelt it?…
No one appears to have done so.
So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable
Protocol, Science says that you have No Brain, sir. With all due respect,
sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The Room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face
unfathomable)
Professor : I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student : That is it sir…Exactly!
The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH.
That is all that Keeps Things Alive and Moving.
NB:
I believe you have enjoyed the Conversation. …and if so…
You’ll probably want your friends/colleagues to enjoy the same… won’t you?
Forward this email to them to Increase their Knowledge… or FAITH.
That student was ALBERT EINSTEIN.
August 6, 2009
16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School
A great read from positivityblog.com by Henrik Edberg.
I am 28 now. I don’t think about the past or regret things much these days.
But sometimes I wish that I had known some of things I have learned over the last few years a bit earlier. That perhaps there had been a self-improvement class in school. And in some ways there probably was.
Because some of these 16 things in this article a teacher probably spoke about in class. But I forgot about them or didn’t pay attention.
Some of it would probably not have stuck in my mind anyway. Or just been too far outside my reality at the time for me to accept and use.
But I still think that taking a few hours from all those German language classes and use them for some personal development classes would have been a good idea. Perhaps for just an hour a week in high school. It would probably be useful for many students and on a larger scale quite helpful for society in general.
So here are 16 things I wish they had taught me in school (or I just would like to have known about earlier).
1. The 80/20 rule.
This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. The 80/20 rule – also known as The Pareto Principle – basically says that 80 percent of the value you will receive will come from 20 percent of your activities.
So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think.
You can just drop – or vastly decrease the time you spend on – a whole bunch of things.
And if you do that you will have more time and energy to spend on those things that really brings your value, happiness, fulfilment and so on.
2. Parkinson’s Law.
You can do things quicker than you think. This law says that a task will expand in time and seeming complexity depending on the time you set aside for it. For instance, if you say to yourself that you’ll come up with a solution within a week then the problem will seem to grow more difficult and you’ll spend more and more time trying to come up with a solution.
So focus your time on finding solutions. Then just give yourself an hour (instead of the whole day) or the day (instead of the whole week) to solve the problem. This will force your mind to focus on solutions and action.
The result may not be exactly as perfect as if you had spent a week on the task, but as mentioned in the previous point, 80 percent of the value will come from 20 percent of the activities anyway. Or you may wind up with a better result because you haven’t overcomplicated or overpolished things. This will help you to get things done faster, to improve your ability to focus and give you more free time where you can totally focus on what’s in front of you instead of having some looming task creating stress in the back of your mind.
3. Batching.
Boring or routine tasks can create a lot of procrastination and low-level anxiety. One good way to get these things done quickly is to batch them. This means that you do them all in row. You will be able to do them quicker because there is less “start-up time” compared to if you spread them out. And when you are batching you become fully engaged in the tasks and more focused.
A batch of things to do in an hour today may look like this: Clean your desk / answer today’s emails / do the dishes / make three calls / write a grocery shopping list for tomorrow.
4. First, give value. Then, get value. Not the other way around.
This is a bit of a counter-intuitive thing. There is often an idea that someone should give us something or do something for us before we give back. The problem is just that a lot of people think that way. And so far less than possible is given either way.
If you want to increase the value you receive (money, love, kindness, opportunities etc.) you have to increase the value you give. Because over time you pretty much get what you give. It would perhaps be nice to get something for nothing. But that seldom happens.
5. Be proactive. Not reactive.
This one ties into the last point. If everyone is reactive then very little will get done. You could sit and wait and hope for someone else to do something. And that happens pretty often, but it can take a lot of time before it happens.
A more useful and beneficial way is to be proactive, to simply be the one to take the first practical action and get the ball rolling. This not only saves you a lot of waiting, but is also more pleasurable since you feel like you have the power over your life. Instead of feeling like you are run by a bunch of random outside forces.
6. Mistakes and failures are good.
When you are young you just try things and fail until you learn. As you grow a bit older, you learn from – for example – school to not make mistakes. And you try less and less things.
This may cause you to stop being proactive and to fall into a habit of being reactive, of waiting for someone else to do something. I mean, what if you actually tried something and failed? Perhaps people would laugh at you?
Perhaps they would. But when you experience that you soon realize that it is seldom the end of the world. And a lot of the time people don’t care that much. They have their own challenges and lives to worry about.
And success in life often comes from not giving up despite mistakes and failure. It comes from being persistent.
When you first learn to ride your bike you may fall over and over. Bruise a knee and cry a bit. But you get up, brush yourself off and get on the saddle again. And eventually you learn how to ride a bike. If you can just reconnect to your 5 year old self and do things that way – instead of giving up after a try/failure or two as grown-ups often do – you would probably experience a lot more interesting things, learn valuable lessons and have quite a bit more success.
7. Don’t beat yourself up.
Why do people give up after just few mistakes or failures? Well, I think one big reason is because they beat themselves up way too much. But it’s a kinda pointless habit. It only creates additional and unnecessary pain inside you and wastes your precious time. It’s best to try to drop this habit as much as you can.
8. Assume rapport.
Meeting new people is fun. But it can also induce nervousness. We all want to make a good first impression and not get stuck in an awkward conversation.
The best way to do this that I have found so far is to assume rapport. This means that you simply pretend that you are meeting one of your best friends. Then you start the interaction in that frame of mind instead of the nervous one.
This works surprisingly well. You can read more about it in How to Have Less Awkward Conversations: Assuming Rapport.
9. Use your reticular activation system to your advantage.
I learned about the organs and the inner workings of the body in class but nobody told me about the reticular activation system. And that’s a shame, because this is one of the most powerful things you can learn about. What this focus system, this R.A.S, in your mind does is to allow you to see in your surroundings what you focus your thoughts on. It pretty much always helps you to find what you are looking for.
So you really need to focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want. And keep that focus steady.
Setting goals and reviewing them frequently is one way to keep your focus on what’s important and to help you take action that will move your closer to toward where you want to go. Another way is just to use external reminders such as pieces of paper where you can, for instance, write down a few things from this post like “Give value” or “Assume rapport”. And then you can put those pieces of paper on your fridge, bathroom mirror etc.
10. Your attitude changes your reality.
We have all heard that you should keep a positive attitude or perhaps that “you need to change your attitude!”. That is a nice piece of advice I suppose, but without any more reasons to do it is very easy to just brush such suggestions off and continue using your old attitude.
But the thing that I’ve discovered the last few years is that if you change your attitude, you actually change your reality. When you for instance use a positive attitude instead of a negative one you start to see things and viewpoints that were invisible to you before. You may think to yourself “why haven’t I thought about things this way before?”.
When you change your attitude you change what you focus on. And all things in your world can now be seen in a different light.
This is of course very similar to the previous tip but I wanted to give this one some space. Because changing your attitude can create an insane change in your world. It might not look like it if you just think about it though. Pessimism might seem like realism. But that is mostly because your R.A.S is tuned into seeing all the negative things you want to see. And that makes you “right” a lot of the time. And perhaps that is what you want. On the other hand, there are more fun things than being right all the time.
If you try changing your attitude for real – instead of analysing such a concept in your mind – you’ll be surprised.
You may want to read more about this topic in Take the Positivity Challenge!
11. Gratitude is a simple way to make yourself feel happy.
Sure, I was probably told that I should be grateful. Perhaps because it was the right thing to do or just something I should do. But if someone had said that feeling grateful about things for minute or two is a great way to turn a negative mood into a happy one I would probably have practised gratitude more. It is also a good tool for keeping your attitude up and focusing on the right things. And to make other people happy. Which tends to make you even happier, since emotions are contagious.
12. Don’t compare yourself to others.
The ego wants to compare. It wants to find reasons for you to feel good about yourself (“I’ve got a new bike!”). But by doing that it also becomes very hard to not compare yourself to others who have more than you (“Oh no, Bill has bought an even nicer bike!”). And so you don’t feel so good about yourself once again. If you compare yourself to others you let the world around control how you feel about yourself. It always becomes a rollercoaster of emotions.
A more useful way is to compare yourself to yourself. To look at how far you have come, what you have accomplished and how you have grown. It may not sound like that much fun but in the long run it brings a lot more inner stillness, personal power and positive feelings.
13. 80-90% of what you fear will happen never really come into reality.
This is a big one. Most things you fear will happen never happen. They are just monsters in your own mind. And if they happen then they will most often not be as painful or bad as you expected. Worrying is most often just a waste of time.
This is of course easy to say. But if you remind yourself of how little of what you feared throughout your life that has actually happened you can start to release more and more of that worry from your thoughts.
14. Don’t take things too seriously.
It’s very easy to get wrapped up in things. But most of the things you worry about never come into reality. And what may seem like a big problem right now you may not even remember in three years.
Taking yourself, your thoughts and your emotions too seriously often just seems to lead to more unnecessary suffering. So relax a little more and lighten up a bit. It can do wonders for your mood and as an extension of that; your life.
15. Write everything down.
If your memory is anything like mine then it’s like a leaking bucket. Many of your good or great ideas may be lost forever if you don’t make a habit of writing things down. This is also a good way to keep your focus on what you want. Read more about it in Why You Should Write Things Down.
16. There are opportunities in just about every experience.
In pretty much any experience there are always things that you can learn from it and things within the experience that can help you to grow. Negative experiences, mistakes and failure can sometimes be even better than a success because it teaches you something totally new, something that another success could never teach you.
Whenever you have a “negative experience” ask yourself: where is the opportunity in this? What is good about this situation? One negative experience can – with time – help you create many very positive experiences.
What do you wish someone had told you in school or you had just learned earlier in life?
August 2, 2009
July 8, 2009
Smile
I remember growing up watching re-runs of Charlie Chaplin movies and The Three Stooges ( I’m not that old though LOL )
“Smile” was the theme music for Chaplin last silent picture ‘Modern Times’ in 1936 composed by Chaplin himself. It became officially ‘Smile’ when John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added lyrics to Chaplin’s composition in 1954. Nat ‘King’ Cole recorded the song and it became a hit! ‘Smile’ remember us the meaning of a smile in every life, in every moment, even when life bites, even when we feel blue… it’s hard, but we can try… to smile
Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by
If you smile with your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying?
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just
Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
that’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying?
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
“A day without a laugh is a wasted day.” – Charles Chaplin
July 1, 2009
Money has no memory. Experience has.
Money has no memory. Experience has. You will never know what the total cost of your education was, but for a lifetime you will recall and relive the memories of schools and colleges. Few years from now, you will forget the amount you paid to settle the hospitalization bill, but will ever cherish having saved your mother’s life or the life you get to live with the just born. You won’t remember the cost of your honeymoon, but to the last breath remember the experiences of the bliss of togetherness. Money has no memory. Experience has.
Good times and bad times, times of prosperity and times of poverty, times when the future looked so secure and times when you didn’t know from where the tomorrow will come… life has been in one way or the other a roller-coaster ride for everyone. Beyond all that abundance and beyond all that deprivation, what remains is the memory of experiences. Sometimes the wallet was full… sometimes even the pocket was empty. There was enough and you still had reasons to frown. There wasn’t enough and you still had reasons to smile. Today, you can look back with tears of gratitude for all the times you had laughed together, and also look back with a smile at all the times you cried alone. All in all, life filled you with experiences to create a history of your own self, and you alone can remember them all.
The first time you balanced yourself on your cycle without support… The first time she said ‘yes’ and it was two years since you proposed… The first cry… the first steps… the first word… the first kiss… all of your child… The first gift you bought for your parents and the first gift your daughter gave you… The first award… the first public appreciation… the first stage performance… And the list is endless… Experiences, with timeless memory… No denying that anything that’s material cost money, but the fact remains the cost of the experience will be forgotten, but the experience never.
So, what if it’s economic recession? Let it be, but let there not be a recession to the quality of your life. You can still take your parents, if not on a pilgrimage, at least to the local temple. You can still play with your children, if not on an international holiday, at least in the local park. It doesn’t cost money to lie down or to take a loved one onto your lap. Nice time to train the employees, create leadership availability and be ready for the wonderful times when they arrive. Hey! Aspects like your health, knowledge development and spiritual growth are not economy dependent.
Time will pass… economy will revive… currency will soon be in current… and in all this; I don’t want you to look back and realize you did nothing but stayed in gloom. Recession can make you lose out on money. Let it not make you lose out on experiences… If you are not happy with what you have, no matter how much more you have, you will still not be happy.
Make a statement with the way you live your life: How I feel has nothing to do with how much I have.
My tech blog blocked ^x^
Was going to do my routine of checking my personal mail this morning and was supprised to get a mail from blogger to tell me that:
This blog has been locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. You may not publish new posts until your blog is reviewed and unlocked.
This blog will be deleted within 20 days unless you request a review.
Grr… I haven’t even started my plan of doing an all out link building to it.
I’ve requested the review and got this:
Your blog is marked as spam
“Blogger’s spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What’s a spam blog?) Since you’re an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.”
Hope it gets activated soon.
June 30, 2009
Job Openings for my company
1. TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST – UNIX ADMINISTRATION (16 RESOURCES NEEDED
Required Skills:
Tools: Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Cluster Server, IBM HACMP, Sun Cluster, HP ServiceGuard, kernel tuning
Hardware, O/S: Sun / Solaris, IBM / AIX, HP / HP-UX, Fujitsu / Solaris
Database: DBMS such as Oracle or DB2
Others: TCP/IP protocols, switching, routing, firewalls, load-balancing, proxy
Responsibilities:
- Managing large scale Unix based server infrastructure for 24×7 mission critical enterprise class environment
- End-to-end performance monitoring and tuning.
- End-to-end advanced system troubleshooting.
- Proficient in shell scripting – sh, ksh, perl
- Provide solid expertise to implement and support complex Unix OS based infrastructure.
- Maintain service levels as per the established Service Level Agreements.
- Proactively look for deficiencies and make suggestions to improve infrastructure and processes in order to improve availability and serviceability of the infrastructure.
- Work closely with Database Administrators, Storage Analysts, Application Support and other groups in order to provide fast problem resolution and to improve client experience.
- While assigned to a project actively participate and engage to deliver on time and within budget.
- Proactively look for opportunities and make suggestions to improve system availability and save cost.
- Involve and participate in resource management and the development of capacity plans based on historical trends and business drivers.
- Required to be aware of new directions in the areas of operating systems, computer systems.
- Determine level of availability for business requirements when implementing new designs.
- Identify and document availability shortfalls and develop corrective action plans.
* With onsite assignment opportunity
2. TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST – WINDOWS ADMINISTRATION (8 RESOURCES NEEDED)
Required Skills:
Hardware, O/S: x86 architecture (Intel, AMD), Microsoft Windows server systems (NT, 2000, 2003), capacity planning and monitoring, MS security including patch and virus deployment, VMWare, MS Virtual Server, TCP/IP networks
Certifications: MCSE/MCSA
- Responsible for providing operational technical support in both test and production environments.
- System implementation, adoption of tools and standard operating procedures, implementing and testing patches and system upgrades, developing documentation, securing the environment, assuming system responsibilities, providing support and resolving technical problems.
* With onsite assignment opportunity
3. TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST – WINDOWS SERVER MANAGEMENT (8 RESOURCES NEEDED)
Required Skills:
Programming Languages: VBS / WMI scripting, shell scripting techniques
Hardware, O/S: Windows Server 2000 and 2003 Linux (SuSE or RedHat), VMware ESX
Certifications: MCSE: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2003
CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Administrator
VCP: VMware Certified Professional (recommended)
RHCT: Red Hat Certified Technician (recommended)
Others: IP networking, Strong customer service, detail-oriented
Responsibilities:
- Local and remote server management
- 24×7 reactive tier 3 and proactive support for all server OS and hardware; adherence to service level objectives
- 8×5 funded and non-funded work request activities
- Server builds, transitions and retirements; adherence to strict check lists and formal sign off processes
- Accurate/ well documented change controls with an emphasis on outage mitigation/ back out steps
- Expedient, organized and well communicated production changes and critical patch deployments
- Participate in infrastructure design; provide insight into server platforms, OS and build strategies
- For all new server requests, act as the SPOC during the build phase which includes:
- Coordinate the server induction into the facilities; ensure asset information is carefully captured and documented
- Coordinate remote servers builds with regional teams
- Interface with network teams to ensure the server can see the required networks and is remotely accessible
- Coordinate with the various tools teams (backup, monitoring, software distribution, AV, etc) to ensure all required agents are installed and functioning on the base server
- Perform the OS and core technology installation tasks ensuring full compliance to departmental build checklists
- Complete and sign a “Production Readiness” checklist before the server is used in production
- For all server retirement requests, act as the SPOC during the removal process (all activities leading up to the server being physically removed and exited from TELUS). This includes:
- Coordinate final data archiving and drive wiping tasks
- Ensure tools teams are aware of server removal to reclaim the necessary software licenses
- Ensure network teams remove and reclaim all specialized routing and network address information
- Coordinate the physical server removal with facilities to reclaim the necessary power, HVAC and real estate
- During issue / problem response and resolution, ensure full compliance to the server OLA (Operating Level Agreement) and any applicable team activities (detailed problem logging, issue categorization, etc)
* With onsite assignment opportunity
4. STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR (6 RESOURCES NEEDED)
Required Skills:
Database / Storage: Veritas Volume manager (VxVM, VxFS), NetBackup, Hitachi, EMC, and IBM storage and backup solutions
Hardware, O/S: Brocade, McDATA
Certifications: Veritas Netbackup Administration, Hitachi Storage Solutions, EMC Storage Solutions, Brocade Certification
Others: Server platforms, virtualization, partitioning and workload management
- Sound experience in developing and documenting technology orientations and solutions.
- Experience with the deployment of enterprise solutions in a global enterprise.
- Experience with large director class Fibre Channel switches (Brocade, McDATA).
- 5+ years in Enterprise level Storage Administration
Responsibilities:
- Help manage and grow an enterprise-class storage and backup environment.
- Provide day to day support, performance analysis, incident/problem management, Capacity planning and data retention solutions.
* With onsite assignment opportunity
June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson dies at 50
(CNN) — Entertainer Michael Jackson has died after being taken to a hospital on Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest, according to multiple reports including the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press. CNN has not confirmed his death.
Jackson, 50, had been in a coma at the hospital, sources told CNN.
Brian Oxman, a Jackson family attorney, said he was told by brother Randy Jackson that Michael Jackson collapsed at his home in west Los Angeles Thursday morning.
Family members were told of the situation and were either at the hospital or en route, Oxman said.
Fire Capt. Steve Ruda told CNN a 911 call came in from a west Los Angeles residence at 12:21 p.m.
Ruda said Jackson was treated and transferred to the UCLA Medical Center.
Asked specifics of the patient’s condition, he said he could not discuss them because of federal privacy laws.
The music icon from Gary, Indiana, is known as the “King of Pop.”
Jackson is the seventh of nine children in a well-known musical family.
At the medical center, every entrance to the emergency room was blocked by security guards. Even hospital staffers were not permitted to enter. A few people stood inside the waiting area, some of them crying.
