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Objective: Patients with schizophrenia show reductions in hippocampal volume. However, the time course of these changes is still unresolved. The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which hippocampal volume change in patients with schizophrenia is confounded by effects of age and/or antipsychotic medication.
Method: Between 1995 and 2003, two structural magnetic resonance imaging brain scans were acquired from 96 patients with DSM-IV–diagnosed schizophrenia and 113 healthy subjects within an interval of approximately 5 years. Hippocampal volume change was measured and related to age and cumulative medication intake during the scan interval.
Results: Patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls demonstrated significantly different age-related trajectories of hippocampal volume change. Before the age of 26 years, patients with schizophrenia showed increased volume loss relative to controls. In contrast, after the age of 40 years, controls showed larger volume loss than patients with schizophrenia. Higher exposure to atypical antipsychotic medication was related to a smaller decrease in hippocampal volume over time.
Conclusion: Our findings suggest progressive hippocampal volume loss in the early course of the illness in patients with schizophrenia but not in the more chronic stages of the illness. The relationship between larger exposure to atypical antipsychotic medication and smaller hippocampal volume loss during the interval may suggest neuroprotective effects of these agents on hippocampal volume.
J Clin Psychiatry 2010;71(6):737–744
Submitted: July 28, 2008; accepted January 30, 2009.
Online ahead of print: January 12, 2010 (doi:10.4088/JCP.08m04574yel).
Corresponding author: P. Cédric M. P. Koolschijn, PhD, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, A.01.126, University Medical Center Utrecht, PO Box 85060, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands (email@example.com).

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NORMAN — Oklahoma coaches have been mum on any sort of changes they were making going into the season. However, one they said would occur came to fruition. The Sooners did have a linebacker on the field for every play in the 34-0 victory over Louisiana-Monroe, and the group produced.
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Reality Steve is saying that the report that Sean is cheating on his final 1 with Emily is not true.
Probably right but you know she would jump at the chance to get back with him since he's most probably doing DWTS.
Yeah I think Sean has moved on. Everyone knows how fake Emily is.. just like her boobs, teeth, face and her personality. I like Courtney better than Emily.
So did anyone watch the Crazies Tell All?
I guess Des is frontrunner for Bachelorette from this group.
Is AshLee delusional or devious with the "there is nothing between them and me" stuff or is Sean a tool? Or all of the above? "You were my frontrunner, but I suddenly realized that you don't make me laugh."
Tierra didn't improve her image at all. Will she try for BPad or will she fade into the woodwork?
Lesley wasn't featured much, but she came off as sane.
Poor Kacie B. stuck in the back row with the nobodies.
I think I will have a snack and take a nap before I eat and go to sleep.
I didn't get a chance to watch last night but hope to catch the online version on ABC's site this week.
It does seem from reports that Des was campaigning hard for the Bachelorette job. Wouldn't be surprised if she got it since the final 2 is out of the running. As long as its not Emily or Ali coming back for round 2, I'm on board.
Lesley is too sane for this show.
Oh and the letter -- it is still a mystery.
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b) from AshLee telling Sean she will wait for him to finish his famewhoring?
c) from Sean's mom telling him she is ready to let her little boy go?
d) from ABC asking him to be on Dancing with the Stars?
Pure speculation, I have no info.
I think I will have a snack and take a nap before I eat and go to sleep.
I read a speculation that its the final 2 girl that was actually his real final 1 backing out and saying "goodbye".
I personally think it will turn out to be #C, the mom giving her permission to get engaged.
Went over to NewFORT to see what they had to say about the letter as I hadn't been there in weeks.
They think its from the final 1. About what, who knows.
Fleiss said in a tweet that the letter's outcome won't be resolved until the "After the Final Rose".
Did read that one of the mods has confirmed that Desiree is the next Bachelorette. Her brother better have a huge role then!
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Tenley & Kip seem to have broken up. Nothing official though.
Ashley and JP are still adorable.
Wetpaint is the reason why NewFORT is saying the final 1 is the letter writer:
Don't read if you don't want to know who the final 1 is:
So I heard that the next bachelorette is Des.
I'd watch Des' brother as the Bachelor!
So what's this Des like? Do we like her? Is she a Jillian/Ashley or an Ali or an Emily?
If the brother's that hot, they might bring him into the show to "advise" her.
Jenny - the brother is a certifiable anger management candidate lunatic. Looks like he just got out of jail and he accused Sean of being a playboy. Our re-virginized Bach was NOT happy. And nope, he's not hot. Unless you like man skanks.
Des is very sweet. And cute.
Youtube has Des' hometown date up.
This is part four that begins with Sean talking to the brother:
Ah, OK. Does bring a whole new dimension to the meet the family visits though.
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I told all of this to my doctor, you know what he says: that's the problem, fruit is loaded with sugar. If you are making smoothies every morning with fruit the calories, it's not a good idea. I was flabbergasted, never in my wild imagination that I would told that smoothies are not good. He said that fruit are loaded with sugar and is bad when you are trying to lose weight. Also we discussed about the meds, perhaps wean from them (except thyroid). But I want to keep the Ativan for the time being. Thats takes the edge off and I take it for sleep. He agrees it was ok but we going to knock off Topamax. It was both of our decisions. He usually refills the pills for 5 months and calls them to the pharmacy. He was surprised that I wanted to be of of Topamax because many of patients that take it, one of side effects is losing weight. I said...look at me doc, well it's not the case with me. Besides isn't the main reason for Topamax is for seizures.....which i dont even get them. Anyway, it was his call. What you think about the fruit and the smoothies and I am doing the wrong thing with the fruit, because he said the worse thing to have when you want to lose weight.
Fruit is normally a good way to get yourself to have an alternative to the sweets you might crave. I have been one that struggled with my weight ever since I was a child, and then almost every med I have been on for seizures always had a weight gain side effect with it. I lost weight to a healthy weight in the last two years. I did it with weight watchers, but the most important things I learned was eating meals and snacks throughout the day and portions. Keep variety in your diet and your exercise. Your body if you are trying to lose needs change. I lost my weight slowly. I had to build up exercise and keep changing my routine. I also had to find a way to get recipes that were things I liked to eat like mexican food that were healthier than what I got at restaurants. Don't stick with just chicken even though it is a healthy meat work in fish or lean meats that you like as well. If you do to much of the same your body basically retains the wait or can even gain because of your emotional times of feeling deprived. It takes a lot to get the right plan that works with your body because everyone is different. It took me a year and nine months for me to lose 120 pounds. Please let me know if you need any other weight loss tips. I like to be able to pay that forward because I struggled with it myself for so many years. Good luck and keep in touch.
Your DR is rite! So, here is an interesting article I found. Scroll down to fruits, to find which is best for you. Then scroll down some more to read about Best Foods for weight Loss!
Of course there is the old adage: 'Everything in moderation' to consider, too. Try adding Only the fruits listed for your blood type. Or less of those not suggested. My GF uses mainly Veggies, in hers. I've noted even Hubby has cut back on some of the fruits he used to mix in mine. Mainly using Pineapple & blueberries. W/ an Increase in Spinach, carrots, etc. But, I am trying to Gain Weight, not lose it. And when he adds extra fruit, my weight increases.
If Topamax is controlling your seizures, Don't give it up, till you try the Food Chart.
Love Candi
Welome to the group.
Weight has always been a problem with me. I was either too small or had a bit too much. Right now I'm feeling the effects of menopause and water retention.
I took Topamax for years and couldn't gain a pound. Whopper, Hagaan Daz, Ensures, and I continued to look like Olive Oyl. That was frustating.
As the ladies have already stated, each of our bodies will respond differently to the same thing. Like you, I have a regular excercise routine, I walk at least 30 minutes a day or do a Richards Simmons dvd.
Candi, is it possible that the combination of meds is adding to her weight problem? Here we go again with the interaction of our daily meds.
Cin, I hope you find a combination of foods and excercises that you are happy with. We all share your frustations. Hang in there.
I take 200 mgs of topamax since march 12, and have had better sz control, prevention of Migraines, and have lost alot of weight.
I have gone from 177 to 156.2 since March 12th. Back into size 14 pant size and 8 undies, and some L t shirts.
I am only 5'2" so I need to get back to being at least 130 lbs.
That weight gain was from the Vimpat I was on for 2 years.
I took 600 mgs of it. Now I take only 100 mgs at night, and when I fly into see hin in sept he will completly remove it.
I also take 3 mgs of klonopin, and 800 mgs of Lamictal as well and have a VNS implant that works great for me.
I dont work and I get SSDI every month. I went shopping over weekend and bought lots of fresh veggies, peppers (red, yellow, green), broccolli, carrots, cauliflower, green onions. It took awhile to cut all of them to put them in baggies. That way I will have ready snacks that are healthy. I also buy bought my usual bread that I love whole grain 100% wheat. Some wheat tortillas that i will make veggie rollups or wraps. Noo fruit whatsoever...for my own benefit. But i think it will be ok without topamax because I never got a seizure that i recall.
I am confused here. Clarify this for me. You said you don't have seizures & remember having seizures/Headaches???? Are you saying you have been seizure free since being placed on Topamax???? Because, then at the end of your post, you said you never had a seizure that you can recall. It may be none of my business: But, why are you on SSDI?
Next: You went off your Topamax Cold Turkey? You weren't weaned off it slowly? Please, keep note of Anything 'unusual'. Coming off anti-seizure meds cold turkey can Trigger seizures! You may feel fine so far, but, I would definitely be 'cautious' for the next few weeks. Good Luck! Hugs
Love Candi
Please clarify this for us.
Do be catious with "cold turkey" situation. There is the probability of the absense of seizures is due to the fact that your body has yet to recognize the absense of the med. Med leels will fall and seizure activity is likely(but not definite).
Be on the lookout for the "unusuals" .
Have a good day.
I didnt like Lamictal for some reasons for I dont remember.. After leaving hospital I looked for a regular doctor for my checkups and meds. I asked him that i didnt like the Lamictal and asked for another med. He prescribed Topamax and also he said of all seizure meds, topamax has a side effect of losing weight. Well, that didnt happen to me.
I have been on topamax for over a year and I felt I gained weight instead of losing. This past checkup we discussed dropping the Topamax. He didnt refill it for me anyway. When you said keep note of anything "unusual". Can you mean what you mean. What should I watch out for.
W/ seizures, there is no clue what a seizure 'feels like'. We only know what we feel after a seizure. Some after affects depend on the type of seizure. After affects range from sore all over, chewed tongue (if convulsive) excessive tiredness, confusion or feeling dazed, memory loss.
You said you had been on Topamax for over a Yr. Your DR Should have weaned you off the med Slowly! The fact that he didn't May cause you to have Seizures, again!
Cindi You know yourself Best. So, anything I mentioned or anything that is not the 'norm' for you should be noted. Please read More Info about seizures posted in our Resources. The More you know, the better! Brain Trauma &/or thyroid Issues are Leading causes of Seizures. So, I do Hope you will keep a Daily Journal (More Info under Tips)
BTW: Have you visited WebMD's 'Diet' page? Chek out Living Healthy, at the top of this page. It has Lots of 'helpful' Info/recipes for you. You mentioned you bought Wheat bread. Hate to say this, but, for some people certain Foods, grains, flours, additives Trigger seizures, also. As you will note when you read the Journal advice.
Knowledge is Power! Keep asking questions &/or do your own Research. Hugs!
Love Candi
Thanks for clarifying what you were saying. It is so easy to start talking about a situation and forgetting that others don't know it as we do. Think about how our docs fall into med terms when they with us. We have to remind them that we don't have medical degrees. "Say that in general English, please."
Anyway, I hope the past posts have been useful to you in some way. Til next time, take care.
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Niagara Gazette — During the Thanksgiving travel week, syndicated radio host Alex Jones ran a campaign called "Opt Out and Film," which asked his listeners to opt out of body scanners at the airports and instead subject themselves to pat downs, which they would then film as a means to hold TSA agents accountable by forcing them to refrain from the transgressions that are too common to just consider anomalies: from general physical and mental abuse of innocent travelers to the groping of not only adults, but children as well.
The Buffalo Airport was the epicenter for the movement (although you wouldn't know by the lack of local media reports) as Dan Dicks of Press for Truth spent the day there, handing out handbills about the TSA's ills and filming interviews with travelers and his run-ins with transit police who, of course, gave him a hard time. You can see the nearly nine-minute-long video on YouTube at tinyurl.com/BuffaloTSA.
Long gone are the days of love for individualism and liberty, so most Americans, who are now either inherently passive or deeply fearful of the alleged day-to-day threat of terror promulgated by Big Government, probably think Jones and Dicks are the problem and that the latter had what was coming to him when authorities considered him to be the threat. I figure that 9 out of every 10 people I talk to about TSA are fine with having their rights violated in Orwellian ways because they value safety more so than freedom, even though the lack of safety has never been proven since 9/11 and it was clearly used as an inroad by federal, state, and local governments to unleash all manners of control.
I, on the other hand, have some dignity. I don't want men grabbing my crotch, federal hacks running their hands over my attractive wife while power-tripping agents look on with sexual thoughts, and adults creepily touching my daughter … all things that were they to occur elsewhere, would be considered sexual abuse.


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Do iPhone WebApps Have a Future in the Post-App Store World?
We've asked this before: do iPhone WebApps have a future? Sure, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and even Apple to some degree are all racing to own what many think will be the next paradigm shift in platforms: the cloud.
But when Steve Jobs announced WebApps as the first iPhone development environment back at WWDC 2007, the silence was deafening. Sure, many innovative games, utilities, and optimized RIA (rich internet applications) emerged -- and Apple keeps track of them on a completely non-iPhone optimized directory, but the moment the iPhone SDK was released, the momentum shifted near-instantaneously. (Even the Facebook 2.0 App managed to trump their previously dominant iPhone WebApp).
TiPb uses the WPtouch iPhone Theme to present a better experience to iPhone browsers. After all, even in light of Apple's "just the internet", they have encouraged these types of sites through their developer guidelines, and have snuck in code into iPhone OS 2.1 to allow full screen WebApps that hide the "chrome" (interface, including URL and search boxes, buttons, progress bars, etc.)
One of our readers, Christopher, also sent in word of his iWebKit tools, which seek to make it faster, simpler, and easier to develop and deploy iPhone websites.
So is there's still a time and a place for both? Is that time shortening and the place getting smaller for WebApps on the iPhone? Or will they ride the same tide as Microsoft Office for the Web 2009 (or whenever it ships) and surge ahead again, allowing native Apps to enjoy only transient dominance?
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Can "web apps" get the user's location via GPS?
Make phone calls?
Interact with a contact list?
Detect tilt motion?
Screen touches?
Zoom-in/out pinches?
Detect altitude?
I highly doubt web apps are going to be relevant after the app store because dedicated apps that can run without using an internet connection are superior for the user.
On a side note, I'm STILL waiting for background notification and push email...
Technically Paula, the only reason web apps can't do most of those things you mentioned is because apple prohibits mobile Safari from offering those kinds of low level device functions. Interested in maintaining security within the browser, Apple has not bothered with certificates for web app designers or some other form of proprietary authorization to enable developers to make full festitrd web applications that rival native ones.
at least web apps don't crash and make your iPhone unstable. :(. Also after using the re facebook app as opposed to the web app, my battery life has taken a huge hit. I am revertig back to the web app till they can get it to be a little more stable.
There is no substitute for an app that can be used offline. The only apps which have any purpose being web apps are those that depend on the internet for 100% of their functionality. We are a long way from being connected to the net over every inch on, below and above the earth.
Webapps have there place, so do native apps. It's a loooooong way off before webapps can replace native apps completely.
The mass adoption of HTML 5 is not far away and with the introduction of HTML5 (and the ability of webapps to store data locally) webapps will see a rise.
But 'till then WebApps and Native Apps can live together:)
Of course there's a place for web apps, the benefit they have is leveraging server side processing power over desktop alternatives. The footprint they have is minimal as it's all done through the web browser. Its true that desktop apps have offline access and quicker responses than online apps, ultimately it's good to have a mix of desktop/online apps.
All the webapps I've written so far interact directly with pages in Safari. So yes, there's certainly a future for webapps in that context at least.
I know I'm very late to the party but I believe a combination is best. Reference materials that are updated a lot like wikipedia, wolfram-alpha and urbandictionary work best through a webapp interface. Instapaper works well by taking advantage of tabs but only if your device can cache pages well (iPhone 3GS, Pre). If webapps functioned like the wolfram alpha where it hid the safari UI, I wouldn't mind them too much.


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Remember that Frisbee post we did? Ahhh, it sure was nice taking a break from the grind to play a little lappy Frisbee!
Unfortunately, it was only fun for one toss… Then we got scared. And yes, we got this amazing picture on our FIRST TRY! Amazing right? So… What do you think about this picture? Did you like it, hate it or would you change something? Let us know and be honest.


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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
–Arthur Schopenhauer
In 1714, the British government offered a prize for a method of determining longitude at sea, with an award of £20,000 (three million pounds in today's terms). John Harrison, a Yorkshire carpenter, worked on the project for several decades and eventually in 1761, came up with a design that proved accurate on a long voyage to Jamaica. The scientific establishment refused to believe that a Yorkshire carpenter could possibly have solved the problem that had stumped the best scientific minds. In 1773, when he was 80 years old, Harrison received a monetary award in the amount of £8,750 from Parliament for his achievements, but he never received the actual prize. A Yorkshire carpenter was the wrong person to have solved the problem.
In 1865, Gregor Mendel, an unknown professor read a paper at two meetings of the Natural History Society of Brünn in Moravia, giving the results of studies in which he had cultivated and tested some 29,000 pea plants. His study presented a solution to a problem that had stumped the finest scientific minds. The paper was ignored by the international scientific community for the succeeding 35 years until it was eventually realized that Mendel had indeed come up with the solution. His work later became known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance and he was hailed as the father of modern genetics, but his work was ignored by the scientific community. A researcher on peas in Moravia was the wrong person to have solved the problem.
In 1981, Barry Marshall, a pathologist in Perth, Australia, came up with an odd idea: stomach ulcers are caused by the presence of spiral bacteria. His idea was at odds with the thinking of the international scientific community. It was ridiculed by the establishment scientists and doctors. How could bacteria possibly live in the acidic environment of the stomach? In 1984, frustrated by the widespread disrespect for his ideas, Marshall actually drank a Petri dish of liquid containing the spiral bacteria, expecting to develop, perhaps years later, an ulcer. He was surprised when, only three days later, he developed ulcer symptoms. It took until 2005 before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. An obscure pathologist from Perth had been the wrong person to have solved the problem.
Over and over again, we see that when a bold new idea challenges an entire way of thinking of an international community, if the idea comes from an unexpected source, it can languish in obscurity for decades, even though the solution to a problem that needs to be solved is staring the experts in the face.
Something similar seems to be happening in management which for decades has struggled to solve a fundamental conundrum: how do you get disciplined execution along with continuous innovation? Promising efforts to improve one dimension always seem to cause losses on the other one. Disciplined execution crushes innovation, and innovation by its nature is undisciplined. The problem has seemed insoluble.
Yet, just over a decade ago, a set of major management breakthroughs occurred. These breakthroughs enabled software development teams to systematically achieve both disciplined execution and continuous innovation, something that was impossible to accomplish with traditional management methods. Over the last decade, these management practices, under various labels such as Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean, have been field-tested and proven in thousands of organizations around the world. My own recent work distills, builds on and extends these principles, practices and values so that any organization can now achieve to apply the elusive combination of disciplined execution and continuous innovation.
Unfortunately, these management discoveries were not made by "the right people": academics in business schools or high-paid managers in big corporations. The discoveries were made by the people that, in prospect, you would think are the least likely people to have solved a management problem: geeks. Software developers were known to be antipathetic to both managers and management. Badly dressed, unkempt, even sometimes unwashed, speaking about issues that managers could hardly grasp, these employees were the most problematic of a big organization's employees. How could they possibly have solved a problem that had stumped the finest management minds on the planet for decades?
In retrospect, it's not hard to see why they solved the problem. In the 1990s, huge sums of money were being lost because the work of software development was always late, over budget, and plagued by quality problems. Clients were upset, and firms lost money. The developers were seen as culprits and were punished. They worked harder and harder. They labored evenings and weekends. They got divorced. It made no difference. The software was still late, over budget, and full of bugs. They were fired, but their replacements did no better. The standard prescriptions of management didn't work with software development. Something different had to be found.
Yet the management world remains generally in denial about the discoveries of Agile.
You can scan the pages of Harvard Business Review and find scarcely even an oblique reference to the solution that Agile offers to one of the fundamental management problems of our times.
Or take a look at a standard management textbook, by Chuck Williams' MGMT. There is not a single reference to Agile, Scrum or Kanban and only one obscure reference to Lean.
The only general management book that I have discovered to mention Agile in any significant way is Mark Addleson's Beyond Management: Taking Charge at Work. Addleson writes, "By looking for practices that are good for knowledge-work, which break the stranglehold of management on how to organize work, we can learn a lot from from a mini-revolution in software development known as 'agile methods.'… Agile methods offer a way out of this impasse, with a far reaching, even radical solution to building good software."
Beyond Management is only one of the very few general management books to recognizes the obvious truth that the solution to an intractable management challenge has come from an unexpected source.
Read also:
Scrum is a major management discovery
Applying inspect & adapt to the Agile Manifesto
The five surprises of radical management
Executive education workshop: Making The Entire Organization Agile
Steve Denning's most recent book is: The Leader's Guide to Radical Management (Jossey-Bass, 2010).
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Hi Steve
Have look here plenty info maybe too much! http://bit.ly/qlSUvM In particular the Q&A might help.
In terms of methodology it really is "agile" working direct with users who are encouraged to contribute to ideas how to work more effectively both in build and subsequently, as such it becomes their process. The challenge becomes knowing what you want and this relies on your skill sets but with this new approach you no longer need to have a detailed final spec which speeds up deliver and helps keep users engaged.
Yes your final comment is the innovator's dilemma. Domination is bad for innovation and society in general – but that is another subject!
My company has been building and testing a software development platform that uses flowcharts as real code, making the development process easy, not source-code centric and usable by more people than just programmers.
Once the business logic is 'programmed', and the user interface painted, the code is generated, compiled and deployed. Easy, transparent, and stable. We extended it in such a way that it became a collaborative platform.
Initial comments from programmers was very negative. After investigation, their major complaint was that the code could be understood even by the project manager…
Things look brighter now, since we could prove that an average project took considerable less time, and 50% less money. That last argument is always a winner.
All this, simply by breaking some barriers and applying the principles of agile development.
One last thing : It took us 15 years. In some way, I can relate to the historic examples.
Dear Steve,
Why only software development?
I have for the last few years shifted from being a biomedical researcher to managing large multi-partner biomedical research projects. Whenever you say "project management" to a biomedical researcher they break out in hives and begin to shake. They fear that project management will take away their creativity, and science is very creative. You almost never end up finding or doing what you set out to do.
Your phrasing made it completely clear for me: "Disciplined execution crushes innovation, and innovation by its nature is undisciplined. " Just by feeling my way through what works I have settled upon something that resembles Agile. I call it Open Innovation Project Management. I have as a result had some run ins with dyed in wool project managers.
I have now linked up with some software developers to address the painful inefficiency that is inherent to research proposal preparation. Sure enough a kan ban board features prominently. You can see some screenshots on our landing page www.grantsnap.com.
When we show this to researchers their eyes light up. I would be curious to hear your and other experience with taking Agile beyond software development.
Dear Steve,
Now I know the next book that I have to read.
When you work on a project that involves up to 40 different institutions or companies, it becomes clear that there are different challenges from what you see in typical project management. One of those is that you are competing with individuals' demands and their institution/company hierarchy so that their ability to commit time to the project waxes and wanes. So, you need to have flexible resourcing: who is going to work on what next and who is going to solve what issue? They also tend to be complex projects formed by people with a lot of ideas. Hence, what you do seems to be in constant flux addressing new issues, following new opportunities and figuring out what you need to do to accomplish what you set out to do. Typically it is impossible to anticipate or even scope all the complexities that need to be addressed.
The result is that you need the flexibility that is embodied in Agile, but yet there needs to be structure as well. That, I think it really the trick – balancing between flexibility and structure, innovation and delivery.
Hi Steve,
I don't think many project managers will agree with you when you say that "Agile is the best kept management secret on the planet". Agile is heavily criticized for many reasons, and some project managers claim that Agile's existence is merely to support the consultancy business of its creators.
You can read this post we have published a long time ago on Agile Limitations ( http://www.pmhut.com/limitations-of-agile-software-development ) and see whether Agile is really that panacea or not.
PS: I'm reflecting the community's opinion about Agile, not mine!
I would suggest the biggest obstacle to agile-type development is offshoring. IT outsourcers have great difficulty sending developer jobs overseas when the developers are embedded in the business. The waterfall approach, defined by many processes, makes offshoring much more feasible.


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Three Games Out.
As of Thursday morning, the Philadelphia Phillies were three games out of the second Wild Card spot in the National League.
Unbelievable. Incredible.
The sports stations are abuzz with talk about the turnaround that the Philadelphia Phillies, a team given up for dead at the trading deadline in late July, have made.
The Fightins' have a history of being one of the best second-half teams in baseball and Manager Charlie Manuel is working his magic. The team also usually has strong Septembers.
This one is no different.
The recent homestand turned into a six-game sweep over the Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins, making it one of the best winning homestands in franchise history.
Last year, the St. Louis Cardinals caught fire in September, rolled through the playoffs and won the World Series. And the Phils had the best record in the playoffs and got knocked out quickly.
So the Phils are catching fire at the right time.
Meanwhile, the Wild Card competition -- the Los Angeles Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates -- is struggling to play competitive baseball.
These Phils have some swagger. They believe in themselves and feel that they can't lose, coming back several times when games looked bleak.
Jimmy Rollins has carried the team on his back in some games. And the much-maligned bullpen has turned into one of the best in the business, with lights out work by rookie Phillippe Aumont and closer Jonathan Papelbon.
General Manager Ruben Amaro maybe made the best move of the turnaround by dropping Joe Blanton, Shane Victorino and Hunter Pence.
In came an influx of Lehigh Valley IronPigs that has given the team the jolt of life it's now enjoying.
Players such as Erik Kratz and Kevin Frandsen are putting up breakout numbers while relievers Jake Diekman, Justin De Fratus and B.J. Rosenberg and starter Tyler Cloyd have made a difference.
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And pitchers Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee have goten back to the sound starters that they are. Meanwhile, Kyle Kendrick has turned into Cy Young.
The Phillies are still a longshot.
There's still a few weeks of games to play. But they've got fans believing in them. And they are believing in themselves again.
With the way the Fightins' are playing, who knows what could happen if they make the playoffs. And wouldn't that be something.
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At the other end of the spectrum are northeastern states, mostly those in New England, which put up few obstacles to voting by convicted individuals. Maine and Vermont are the only states in the nation that do not disfranchise anyone for a crime, even individuals who are incarcerated. Among the remaining 48 states, Massachusetts and New Hampshire disfranchise the smallest percentage of convicted individuals. Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania are also far below the national average.
Nearly six million Americans are prohibited from voting in the United States today due to felony convictions. Six states stand out: Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia. These six states disfranchise seven percent of the total adult population – compared to two and a half percent nationwide. African Americans are particularly affected in these states. In Florida, Kentucky, and Virginia more than one in five African Americans is disfranchised. The other three are not far behind. Not only do individuals lose voting rights when they are incarcerated, on probation, or paroled, a common practice in many states, but some or all ex-felons are barred from voting. All six of these states have non-automatic restoration processes that make it difficult or impossible to have one's rights restored. Not coincidentally, all of these states maintained a system of racial slavery until the Civil War.
Generalizations about regional difference are complex should be made cautiously. Although the six states with the highest rates of disfranchisement are all in the South, six other states also impose life-long disfranchisement for some or all felons. Arizona and Nevada have relatively high rates of felon disfranchisement. Midwestern states, particularly Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan, have low rates of felon disfranchisement, as does North Dakota. Nonetheless, the Northeast and South stand in stark contrast.
Regional differences in felon disfranchisement today are the result of regionally divergent histories of slavery and criminal justice. New England states had outlawed slavery by 1800. Soon, they also stopped treating convicts like slaves, barring state-administered corporal punishment for criminal offenses in the first few decades of the nineteenth century. Instead, northeastern states embraced an ideology of criminality that emphasized rehabilitation. This attitude toward both slavery and punishment led many citizens and lawmakers in the northeast to oppose disfranchisement of convicts or at least curb the reach of this punishment. In the colonial era, Connecticut limited the courts that could deny convicts the vote. Maine's 1819 constitutional convention rejected a proposal to disfranchise for crime. Vermont ended the practice in 1832. In other northeastern states proponents of such disfranchisement measures faced strong opposition. For example, Pennsylvania's 1873 constitutional convention restricted felon disfranchisement to those convicted of election-related crimes; an effort to disfranchise convicts in Maryland in 1864 passed only after a long debate.
In contrast in the nineteenth-century South two groups were permanently cast out of full citizenship: African Americans and convicts. Although the enslavement of African Americans ended in 1865, "infamy" – the legal status of those convicted of serious crimes – was imposed on a growing number of the new black citizens. Accusations of prior crimes were used in the 1866 election as one of the first tools used to deny the vote to former slaves. In the 1870s, nearly every state in the former Confederacy (Texas being the exception) modified its laws to disfranchise for petty theft, a move celebrated by white leaders as a step toward disfranchising African Americans.
The legacy of slavery and segregation in the South is important to this story but so is the different regional trajectory of criminal justice. All southern states except South Carolina and Georgia (states today that still have among the lowest rates of disfranchisement in the South) enacted laws disfranchising for crime between 1812 and 1838, and there is little evidence of dissent or debate over this punishment anywhere in the region. Furthermore, southern states rejected the concept of criminal rehabilitation and focused instead on punishment. After the Civil War "convict lease" systems replicated in many ways the system of slavery for those who fell into it, creating a class of mostly-black individuals who were subject to physical punishment, public abuse, and humiliation, and denied voting rights.
In the past, as is also true today, individuals with criminal convictions fought long battles to regain their voting rights. Far from being a population that is uninterested in politics, individuals barred from voting have challenged obstacles to re-enfranchisement and overcome tremendous hurdles to have their voting rights restored. Consider the case of Jefferson Ratliff, an African American farmer living in Anson County, North Carolina, who in 1887 paid the court an astounding $14 to have his citizenship rights restored, ten years after his conviction for larceny (including three years' incarceration) for stealing a hog. In Giles County, Tennessee in 1888 a man named Henry Murray paid $2.70 in court costs in an unsuccessful effort to have his voting rights restored. In other cases, poor and illiterate individual petitioners facing a complicated legal process sought help from friends and neighbors. In Georgia, Lewis Price petitioned Governor William Y. Atkinson in 1895 for a pardon so that he could vote. He explained, "I am a poor ignorant negro and I have no money to pay to the lawyers to work for me. So I have to depend on my friends to do all of my writing."
The historical record shows that state and local governments have consistently failed, throughout the nation's history, to enforce these laws in a fair and uniform way. Coordinating voter registration lists with criminal court records and pardon records — difficult in today's world of information technology — was nearly impossible in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. People who should have been able to vote were often denied the vote due to false allegations of disfranchising offenses; convictions were secured through suspect judicial processes prior to an election for partisan ends; and people who should have been disfranchised often voted. Sometimes these appear to have been honest mistakes made by officials charged with merging complicated statutory and constitutional requirements with voter registration data and court records. In many cases though, other agendas—partisan, racial, personal—seem to have been at work. In short, felon disfranchisement laws have long been subject to error and abuse.
Race both rationalized and motivated laws imposing lifelong disfranchisement for certain criminal acts in the post-Civil War period. Since then a variety of factors have led to the persistent sense, particularly in southern states, that individuals with prior criminal convictions are marked with a disgrace and contamination that is incompatible with full citizenship. Felon disfranchisement today preserves slavery's racial legacy by producing a class of individuals who are excluded from suffrage, disproportionately impoverished, members of racial and ethnic minorities, and often subject to labor for below-market wages. In these six southern states, the ballot box is just as out of reach for former convicts as it was for enslaved African Americans two centuries ago.
Dr. Pippa Holloway is the author of Living in Infamy: Felon Disfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship, published Oxford University Press in December 2012. She is Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. Contemporary data comes from Christopher Uggen, Sara Shannon, Jeff Manza, "State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 2010."
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If you aren't willing to follow the law yourself, then you can't demand a role in making the law for everyone else, which is what you do when you vote. The right to vote can be restored to felons, but it should be done carefully, on a case-by-case basis after a person has shown that he or she has really turned over a new leaf, not automatically on the day someone walks out of prison. After all, the unfortunate truth is that most people who walk out of prison will be walking back in. Read more about this issue on our website here [ http://www.ceousa.org/voting/voting-news/felon-voting/538-answering-the-challenges-to-felon-disenfranchisement ] and our congressional testimony here: [http://judiciary.house.gov/_files/hearings/pdf/Clegg100316.pdf ].
"If you aren't willing to follow the law yourself, then you can't demand a role in making the law for everyone else." Why? Have you seriously never broken a law? I ran a stop sign the other week and got pulled over. Should I therefore be denied the vote for the rest of my life? Nearly everyone has broken some law; that's not a reason to deny them participation in democracy. And how on earth can the government really determine if "someone has turned over a new leaf"? Do you really trust courts or parole boards to scrutinize people and determine their worthiness for electoral participation? Dont you think that's putting a bit too much power in the hands of the state? I believe everyone should have the right to vote. Period.


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A former Yazoo corrections officer was supposed to guard those who broke the law. But now, he will join them behind bars.
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The Muskogee County Health Department is taking appointments for children entering kindergarten or the seventh grade to receive any needed vaccines.
Most children entering kindergarten will need the following required vaccines:
• Second dose of MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine).
• Fourth dose of polio.
• Fifth dose of DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccines).
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Parents of children who have moved from other states should check their children's records for hepatitis A vaccination, which is required for students in all grades in Oklahoma.
Students who will enter the seventh grade are required to have a Tdap booster. Teens in the eighth and ninth grades must also have one dose of Tdap if they have not received it already. Tdap protects against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough), which continues to circulate in Oklahoma, causing serious illness in babies and toddlers. One death from whooping cough has been reported in Oklahoma this year.
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As James "Whitey" Bulger prepares to face charges in court in Boston, including for the killing of 19 people, West Roxbury's US congressman called on the Justice Department to examine the FBI's involvement with the notorious crime boss.
"With the capture of Mr. Bulger, my hope is that this will bring some closure for the families of the victims," Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-MA, said in a statement. "There may also be an opportunity to gain additional information regarding the FBI's involvement in these crimes. It remains the responsibility of the Justice Department to see that a full investigation is completed."
Bulger, who was , worked as an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation before his many years on the run with companion Catherine Greig. John J. Connolly, Jr., a former FBI agent, is now in federal prison after racketeering and obstruction of justice convictions stemming from his involvement with Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang.
Bulger had been wanted for at least 19 murders that occurred in the 1970s and '80s in connection "with his leadership of an organized crime group that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the Boston [area]," according to the FBI.
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