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- Sunill Samanta
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"Excellent hotel with good hygienic food"
- Posted 2 months ago
Newly made hotel with good furnishing. The rooms are good looking with clean bathrooms. Staff attended from entering the hotel till boarding. Room service was awesome. Enjoyed good hygienic food with good drinks. Meals were not that expensive. Television was of good quality loved the total experience. Would love to stay once again at the next visit to Bhubaneswar.More » « Less
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- Aakash Agarwal
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"Neat and clean rooms with good staff"
- Posted Oct 19, 2014
In a budget yet you would feel a luxurious stay over there that is Vits Bhubaneswar. The room is neat and clean, the interiors are good especially the bathroom providing 24 hour hot water. Very close to the railway station, so the location is also good. The hostel staff are good but the best thing is the food, it's delicious and its tasty its mouth watering.More » « Less
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- Subha Mishra
- Lives in Cuttack
- 3 Reviews
"Excellent reception but location was average"
- Posted Sep 26, 2014
I went there alone by own car for official work in December, 2013. Location was average. Outer look was not good but inner look of the hotel was okay. Check-in and check-out facility was smooth. Reception of the hotel was excellent. Behaviour of the staff was friendly. Services were quick and on time. Rooms were neat and clean. All basic amenities were available like TV, AC, geyser, etc. Food was fabulous. Indoor and outdoor activities were not available. Bhubaneswar is a fine place for tourist visit. It is a recommendable hotel for tourists.More » « Less
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- Rakesh Sharda
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- Lives in Indore
- 6 Reviews
"Budget hotel; excellent rooms"
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
Vits, Bhubaneswar is a nice budget hotel to stay. Its near to railway station and airport. The rooms are excellent with all amenities. The food is of good quality but needs a bit improvement. The hospitality is good and staff is courteous. The pure veg restaurant requires improvement in hygiene.More » « Less
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- Ib Thomas
- Lives in Gurgaon
- 2 Reviews
"Everything was very good there"
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
I went there in May, 2011. Hotel was located in the city. Facilities were good there. Location and appearance wise, it was very good. I booked it online. Booking and front office was also very good. Services of the hotel were very good. Room was also very good. It was clean and spacious. Room service was also good. Everything was good there. Food was very nice. Swimming pool was there but we did not use it. Bhubaneshwar as a tourist place is very good. I had gone there with couple for relaxation.More » « Less
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- Subramaniam sairajan
- Lives in Bangalore
- 7 Reviews
"Good enough place"
- Posted Sep 18, 2014
Good decent hotel with good accommodation, not very interesting but still we can quote good and effectiveness. The reception is quite good but restaurant is too costly for the quality of the food given. The local outsiders allowed in the bar which cause disturbance otherwise it should have been good. Overall we may say fair enough things. With a little bit of improvements and suggesting, it should be okay.More » « Less
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- B k Josih
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"Well-behaved staff and good food"
- Posted Sep 17, 2014
This hotel was good and easily located. The transportation service was near to the hotel. The staff behaviour was good and they attend all request. In food veg and non-veg were provided. The Wi-Fi facility was provided and there was no parking facility. The interior and exterior decoration was good. All amenities were provided. It was a trip with family. All other activities were provided. There was a sea view from room. There was no delay in check-in and check-out.More » « Less
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- Harshbardhan Sahu
- Lives in Cuttack
- 3 Reviews
"Location and appearance were very good"
- Posted Sep 12, 2014
Hotel was conveniently located. Location and appearance were very good. I went there in my own vehicle. Check-in and check-out facility was okay. Hotel staff was good. I went there for a meeting in the month of July, so I did not book room there. They provided parking facility in the hotel. Bathroom was neat and clean. I took my meal in the hotel and it was good. Activities were available but I did not use any activity in this hotel. Bhubaneswar was wonderful place as tourism. I will recommend this hotel to other travellers.More » « Less
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- Satya Mohapatra
- Lives in Bhubaneswar
- 2 Reviews
"Comfortable location, on time staff service"
- Posted Sep 8, 2014
Hotel location was very good and comfortable. Outside and interior side look of the hotel was awesome. I did not face any problem during check in and check out. I did not face any problem in the hotel. Staff service was on time and they did friendly and cordial. It was our conference visit. I did not take room there. Hotel was very good. I had dinner in the hotel it was delicious. About activities I am not sure. Services were good.More » « Less
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- Kamal kumar
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"Overall a nice stay with good service"
- Posted Jul 22, 2014
Stay in the Hotel was nice. Good services and staff is very helpful. It was really relaxed and we enjoy staying in hotel. Room are spacious and comfortable with clean and pleasure environment. Our room has also been updated.More » « Less
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Lanham v. Ferriter et al
|Thomas Creel Lanham
|Mike Ferriter, Michele L. Steyh, Billie Reich, Benjamin Bouley, Sherry Glovan, Richard Collins and Larry Tendal
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|ORDER DISMISSING CASE WITHOUT PREJUDICE. Motions terminated: 29 MOTION to Dismiss filed by Thomas Creel Lanham, 32 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS re 29 MOTION to Dismiss filed by Thomas Creel Lanham. Judge Magistrate Keith Strong termed case no longer referred. 23 MOTION to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction - Failure to Exhaust and Judgment on the pleadings filed by Sherry Glovan, Billie Reich, Benjamin Bouley, Michele L. Steyh, Mike Ferriter, Richard Collins. Signed by Judge Donald W. Molloy on 6/13/2012. (dle)
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Is the tag on this beauty. Lady said its a dieffenbachia (sp?)
I knew it was a dieff..the lady at Trax Farms told me and she def. ssems very knowledgable, has been the mgr of the houseplant dept for years. When i googled leopard lily though, i got nothing that looked like this plant. I couldnt pass this one up either. I have 100 places i can place it, it was cheap and i love love the variegation. It is so unique, to me anyway. AND it was the only one. I know they are they are poisonous. All plants are up and out of reach from the kids. The only time Jake gets near them is picture time. Then he goes to smell each of them because I taught him to smell the flowers. So he thinks all plants are flowers...even grass. Pretty cute.
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Toni..Hubby didnt even notice it. ;) I put it in a place where it blended very well. He even knew I was going to Trax Farms, my new fav place. Told me to have fun... (haha)
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Wow! That place is huge!!! I would have a lot of fun there too, until new much lighter-weight condition of my wallet sunk in.
I've never seen a Dief like that either. If you get a spare minute, would you mind showing a pic where it emerges from the soil? I'm nosy/curious. Calling it any kind of lily implies flowers to me. Did the lady mention anything about that? Regular Diefs are capable of flowers, but that doesn't happen on most people's house plants, from what I've read.
I googled "Dieffenbachia leopard lily" to see what I could see and Wiki article on Dief was high on the first page, even when I changed it to "dieffenbachia + "leopard lily"" and "Dieffenbachia AND leopard AND lily." BUT the word lily doesn't appear on that page at all. Hate when Google does that!!!!! If I wanted to return results from just one of the words I typed, I wouldn't have typed the other words or attempted to add boolean operators to the search. Looks like Goog doesn't respond to them anymore. Anyway, it seems that the whole world besides me knew this was a common name for this plant. (Insert high pitched "hmmmmph" noise.)
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My DS's 5th b-day is in a few weeks. I didn't want any type of character themed party. Somehow, maybe it was watching the end of Sesame Street one morning, I came up with the idea of having a "B" party. You know, something like "Nathan's Big Boy Birthday Bash." The child loves balloons, balls, bubbles, boats, bugs, butterflies, bumblebees, and books so I thought it might be fun. As the date approaches, I feel like I'm getting stuck. I need to do the invitations ASAP. Maybe shape the invite in the letter B and write the details on that? I wonder if I can find a B online and print it. Any other idea on where or how to get a B?
I think I'll be good on the food aspect. I can think of a hundred things to make for the adults and the kids that start wtih B. Games will be baseball, bubbles, and maybe backwards croquet??? ;) DS decided he wants a banana cake in the shape of a bumblebee so I'll have to get a mold or do some fancy cake carving.
Any other creative ideas? TIA!
Love the theme!
How about a B scavenger hunt? A list of things to find that start with the letter B - bug, ball, bandana, broom, bracelet, butterfly, bell, book, etc... Have a picture next to the word for kids that aren't strong readers.
While they're sitting waiting for food/cake, give them B themed coloring sheets.
A cake in the shape of the letter B with some icing bees on it might be easier than a bumble bee cake.
Have fun, and happy birthday to your guy.
I expected it to be "Bobby's Big Boy Birthday Bash"! :)
It's a VERY cool idea! and it sounds like you have it well planned already.
On the banana "bumblebee" cake (also a great idea!), I would consider using two round pans of different sizes. The larger round would be the body and the smaller round his head. I'd try making some waxed paper wings to tuck at the base of his head -- might need to glue or tape a little veining or support pieces to hold it in the cake. I think it would work! I can certainly envision it. lol!
Amazing....I went to a "bee" themed birthday party for a 4 year old on sunday! LOL!
The mom made the cake out of one of those pudding cake mixes, baked 2 layers and froze them. and while they were frozen shaped them into a sort of dome shaped bee body. She then filled it with some yellow tinted butter cream ( from a can she said!) made stripes with some black frosting also from a can...and used licorise sticks for antennae and some sort of other candy for the eyes.
This was a little girl's party so they made bee costumes out of paper bags and wore bee hats with antennae and played pollinate the flowers and gather nectar. some kids were flowers with a paper flower lei and others were bees and it was a chase game!
Have fun!
This is a cute 'B' is for bear concept - perfect for a kids party
What about doing the letter B but also a color theme? Maybe Blue and Black?? You could find a cute banner on etsy I bet. I found some really cute party decorations for my daughters puppy themed party on there.
Well, the party was a success so I thought I'd share the results after your thoughtful replies.
Cut out a large letter B from paper printed with balloons. I randomly wrote on the front B=Ball, B=Balloon, B=Book, B=Bubbles, B=Bugs. Then I wrote the party details for the Big Boy Birthday Bash on the other side, including that this was a "B" themed party.
Food: (I was cooking for about 43 adults and kids.)
Beefy Ribs and (Buns with Hotdogs for the kids)
Brown Rice and Chickpea Rainbow Salad (GREAT pesto vngrte)
Beans with Lemon and Walnut Vngrte
Bacon and Blue Cheese Mashed Potato Casserole
Biscuits with fresh herbs and Basil Butter
Basil lemonade
Blueberry lemonade
Banana cake in the shape of a bumblebee. I found a baseball cake pan the shape of half of a ball and thought "why not make that the body of the bee?" So I did. I used a 6" round cake for the head, but I cut it out a bit to fit snuggly into the round body cake piece. I frosted it with golden yellow buttercream. I was in a hurry so instead of mixing black icing for the bee's stripes, I sprinkled on brown jimmies in stripes. I used black licorice for the antenna and legs. I made wax paper wings with popsicle sticks as veins. I found those black licorce wheels as big eyes. It was so cute!! And tasty! Since I needed cake for 43 people, I made some extra banana cupcakes frosted with the bee frosting and some jimmies.
Balls (football, baseball, tennis balls, curvy ball and catchers, bouncy balls, soccer ball, beach ball, etc.)
Bubbles (FIL makes his own bubble juice and has tons of fun wands)
Butterfly pinata (couldn't find a bumblebee) filled with small bouncy balls, bee rings, etc.
Treat bags:
Black Bags filled with small "B" items like bubbles, ball erasers, blowers, etc.
Decorated the house and deck with tons of balloons from the Dollar Store. Some of the gifts given to DS began with B, and some even decorated their gift bags and cards with B. It was cute to see people get into the theme.
All in all, it was a great party. Kids had a fabulous time--too much of a good time at moments. ;)
Thanks for your help!


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Wanted: Charles Albanel
tkopari(Z4 MN)April 17, 2013
I really want some cuttings of Charles Albanel, preferably rooted (or not), or suckers. I have rooted cuttings of Abraham Darby and Music Maker available now. I will have un-rooted cuttings available from all of the roses on my Have List sometime in early June (I hope).
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No More Pop For Elton
Picture: Investor Charles Brandes and wife Tanya Brandes leave the Dorchester for Elton John's White Tie and Tiara Ball London, England - 24.06.10
Elton John has ruled out recording any more pop albums, insisting he wants to devote the rest of his career to tackling the blues.
The Rocket Man reveals working with piano legend Leon Russell on new album The Union has made Elton realise he's too old for the mainstream charts.
And, despite being one of the biggest pop stars of all time, he's turning his back on the genre.
Elton tells USA Today, "I've never had such a personal experience making a record (as The Union) and it's given me verification that what I should do in the future is make records like this.
"I might collaborate with Lady Gaga or the Scissor Sisters on a single, but I'm not going to make pop albums anymore."


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Oregon mental hospital to honor 'forgotten souls'
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — They were dubbed the "forgotten souls" — the cremated remains of thousands of people who came through the doors of Oregon's state mental hospital, died there and whose ashes were abandoned inside 3,500 copper urns.
Discovered a decade ago at the decrepit Oregon State Hospital, where "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed, the remains became a symbol of the state's — and the nation's — dark history of treating the mentally ill.
A research effort to unearth the stories of those who moved through the hospital's halls, and to reunite the remains with surviving relatives, takes center stage Monday as officials dedicate a memorial to those once-forgotten patients.
"No one wants to be laid to rest without some kind of acknowledgement that they were here, that they contributed, that they lived," said state Senate President Peter Courtney, who led a successful effort to replace the hospital and build the memorial.
Between 1913 and 1971, more than 5,300 people were cremated at the hospital.
Most were patients at the mental institution, but some died at local hospitals, the state tuberculosis hospital, a state penitentiary or the Fairview Training Center, where people with developmental disabilities were institutionalized.
Hospital officials have been working for years to reunite the remains of their former patients with surviving relatives. Since the urns were found by lawmakers on a tour of the hospital in 2005, 183 have been claimed.
The 3,409 that remain and have been identified are listed in a searchable online database. Thirty-eight urns will likely never be identified; they're unmarked, have duplicate numbers or aren't listed in ledgers of people cremated at the hospital.
They came from different backgrounds, for different reasons.
Some stayed just days before they died, others for nearly their entire lives. They came from every state except Alaska and Hawaii. Nearly 1,000 were born in 44 countries. Five were born at sea.
Twenty-two were Native Americans. Their remains won't be part of the memorial; they'll be returned to their tribe for a proper ceremony. Members of the local Sikh community are working to claim the remains of two people.
Many of the 110 veterans still there will eventually receive proper military burials, though some are ineligible due to dishonorable discharges or insufficient information available.
Some patients spent a lifetime at the hospital for conditions like depression and bipolar disorder that, in modern times, are treated on an outpatient basis.
"At the time, they just put them in a safe place and treated them with what they knew to treat them," said Sharon Tucker, who led the two-year research project.
Records are sparse, even for people who lived for decades inside the walls. Some suffered from severe delusions, others from physical deformities. Some seemed to be institutionalized because their families just didn't know what to do with them.
But what does survive is a window not only into who they were, but the time in which they lived.
— Mr. S. Erickson was committed on Feb. 2, 1929, at age 78. A doctor who examined him wrote that he "wanders around naked at night" and suffers from senility. A laborer, 5-foot-5, 125 pounds with gray hair and blue eyes, he arrived in New York from Norway on the steamship Norstatter on Aug. 22, 1883, according to the doctor's report.


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The Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) Hotels and Resorts will open its first property in Bekal in Kasaragod district likely in five months. Home and Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan will inaugurate the work on the resort named Beach Camp, with 30 cottages, on July 31.
The cottages will come up on two hectares of land situated between the Bekal beach park and the tsunami park. The State-owned Bekal Resorts Development Corporation has leased out the land for 33 years. Beach Camp will be the first property of the KTDC in the Malabar region and its 32nd resort.
The corporation has decided to use 'knock-down' technology to construct the cottages and to complete the first phase of 20 cottages within five months, an official told The Hindu. Structures existing on the premises will be made use of. Till now, the property was being used as a tented camping site.
Each cottage resembling a tent will offer the guests a spectacular view of the Bekal Fort and its surroundings. "We will be marketing the property in the lower section of the premium class as in Ponmudi, as there are already high-end resorts in Bekal," the official said.
In the second phase, another 10 cottages and a swimming pool will be constructed. The property will have an Ayurvedic centre as the KTDC plans to market beach and ayurveda.
KTDC Chairman Cherian Philip says it will construct premium properties in Kozhikode and on the Muzhappilangad beaches as part of the government's efforts to develop tourism in Malabar.
An investment of Rs.750 crore is estimated in Bekal, which was declared a special tourism area by the Union government in 1992 for integrated resort development. Six sites with an area of 89.03 hectares have been given on a 30-year lease. Five-star resorts are coming up on 76.89 hectares spread over four panchayats. Already, Rs.100 crore had been spent at Bekal for creating infrastructure.
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Has Your Project Hit Bad Weather? Here's How to Communicate in Crisis
Best Practices,
Human Aspects of PM,
Lessons Learned
Categories: Best Practices, Communication, Government, Human Aspects of PM, Leadership, Lessons Learned
If you're in the Northern Hemisphere right now, you may be dealing with inclement winter weather. That in turn means your local public officials are dealing with how to communicate during a crisis. Project practitioners can learn from them.
Late last month in New York, New Jersey and the New England region in the United States, officials were tasked with preparing citizens for a snowstorm called "historic" before it arrived—but which ultimately spared New York City and neighboring New Jersey. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had to defend the decisionto shut down the city's subway system due to snow for the first time in its 110-year history.
Similarly, project managers must be aware of the downsides involved with communicating risks on fast-changing projects to stakeholders. If flagged risks don't materialize, we might find ourselves unable to gain cooperation at a later date.
Here are three communication rules of thumb, each corresponding to a project stage, to keep in mind when you have imperfect information about a project with constantly changing variables—but still must address stakeholders.
1. Plan ahead: One of the first rules of crisis management is to be fully prepared for a crisis.In New York City last month, we saw de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo get out early and explain that the forecast indicated the storm could be the largest in the city's history. Only 6 inches of snow ended up falling, but the city's leadership did have a good plan and did effectively prepare the population for the storm.
What can practitioners take away from this? Depending on the type of project you are running, take a few moments to think about how you are going to communicate with your team in case of a problem or uncontrollable event occurring, even if it's just laying out the steps you need to take on the back of an envelope.
2. Have a clear message:When you are communicating in a variable or crisis situation for your project, you need to have a consistent message, even if you are delivering imperfect or changing information.
Think about how the U.S. National Weather Service issues "advisories," "warnings" and "watches." Although some people can be confused by these terms, the service's definitions of them are distinct.
As a project manager, you may want to put your stakeholder messages into three categories: best case, worst case and most likely case, for example. Choose whichever categories work for your project and clearly define them. Bottom line: Confidently communicate what you know and how it will impact the project and your stakeholders.
3. Review and adapt: Like all good project managers, you likely review best practices at the end of your project. If the project involved communicating in crisis—whether related to weather or a different kind of variable circumstance—it's especially important to take a few moments at the end to review what worked and what didn't.
Like the planning and messaging stages noted above, the review doesn't need to be highly complex. These questions can elicit communications lessons learned:
• How well did my plan allow me to begin communicating early in the crisis?
• Was my message easy for all stakeholders to understand?
• What about my communication delivery methods worked? What didn't work?
• Did stakeholders respond to my message in the way that I wanted?
These are just three approaches crisis communications. How have you overcome communication challenges driven by project crises or adverse situations in your organization?
How to Think Like an Elite Project Management Professional
By Conrado Morlan
For most of us, good isn't good enough — we want to be the best at what we do.
Becoming an elite project management professional requires focus, drive and a willingness to learn from our role models, whether they are bosses, team members or co-workers performing very different functions in the organization.
You may not possess all of their abilities, but some of the traits you admire in them are within you. Becoming an elite practitioner is partly about tapping into your hidden inner potential. I believe that a crucial part of professional development is developing a mindset that will unlock your abilities.
To that end, I adapted the following mental strategies from The Champion's Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive by Jim Afremow. Based on high-performance psychology research, these strategies will help you learn how to think, feel and act like one of the best.
1) See Success
Imagine yourself at the end of the project, when the product or service has been delivered and the organization has achieved its strategic goals. Visualize the ideal scenario: a satisfied project team, optimized processes, and satisfied internal and external customers.
This will help you define the optimal project execution and "turn on" success in your mindset.
2) Stay Positive
You may be assigned to a project in an area in which you lack experience. Identify your deficiencies at the beginning of the project and define a strategy on how to address them — bring an expert to your project team, identify a mentor or train yourself.
3) Do Not Panic
Projects are not a bed of roses. You will have to deal with changes in scope and risks, difficult teammates and resource constraints. Resilience is an important trait for project managers. Focus on the solution, not the problem. Dogged determination will help you reach your professional goals.
4) Be Confident
When meeting the project board, what is your body language saying? Are you smiling? Research shows that "power posing" can positively affect the brain and might even have an impact on your chances for success. Adopt the pose of a powerful project management professional!
5) Evaluate Progress
Assess yourself: How well are you emulating the behaviors of your role models? What did you do that was good? In which areas do you need to improve? What changes do you need to implement? This evaluation will give you perspective on how close or far you are from your goals.
What are your strategies for taking your performance to the next level? What do you think sets the very best project management professionals apart from the rest?
Seattle's Troubled Tunnel: 3 Communications Tips for Regaining the Public's Trust
Best Practices,
Change Management,
Generational PM,
Human Aspects of PM,
Lessons Learned,
PM & the Economy,
PM Think About It,
Program Management,
Project Delivery,
Project Failure,
Project Planning,
Social Responsibility,
Categories: Best Practices, Change Management, Communication, Complexity, Ethics, Generational PM, Government, Human Aspects of PM, Leadership, Lessons Learned, PM & the Economy, PM Think About It, Program Management, Project Delivery, Project Failure, Project Planning, Social Responsibility, Stakeholder, Strategy, Teams
One of the biggest public works projects in the United States right now has some major problems. It's a more than $3 billion effort in Seattle, Washington to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, an aging elevated highway on the city's waterfront, with a 2-mile-long tunnel. If you've been keeping an eye on the project, you know that the tunnel-boring machine (dubbed "Bertha") broke down more than a year ago, creating various challenges and overruns. Public outcry is mounting.
Now, if you're like me and believe in the power of communication to ensure that projects run more smoothly, the tunnel project has highlighted the need for more openness, better stakeholder management and speaking to your audience in understandable ways, instead of falling into buzzwords or corporate speak.
If I were working on the project right now, here are three things I would look at to regain the public's trust and help everyone in Seattle and the state of Washington understand exactly where the project is.
1. Be willing to convey incomplete information. The project's big challenge is that the machine built specifically for drilling the tunnel encountered a setback when it struck a metal pipe during the excavation process. Unfortunately, it took project leaders over a week to convey the extent of Bertha's problem, the course of action and any sort of timeline to get things back on track. Since Bertha stopped working in December 2013, information has trickled out to stakeholders.
The project's leaders could have set a much different tone early on by stating what they know and what it means to the project—along with an acknowledgement that they really aren't 100 percent sure what the solution is, and a clear statement that they will work to provide status updates to all stakeholders as often as possible.
Instead, it's been "hard to get straight answers," as the Seattle radio station KUOW put it.
2. Be honest. This really goes hand in hand with the first point about having the confidence to convey information that is accurate, even if it is incomplete. The public has begun to doubt that project leaders are being honest about the tunnel's current status and future. This is partly because when the city's department of transportation (DOT) or the state government has updated the community about the project, they have given information that seems farfetched and is tough to believe in light of Bertha's lack of progress.
Case in point: A DOT official recently toldSeattle's City Council that the project was "70-percent complete." That claim was met with a great deal of skepticism by journalists and members of the community.
The lesson for project managers is: Don't fudge information to avoid blowback. In the long run, you are putting your project at a strategic disadvantage because you may lose funding or you may come under heavier oversight…or worse. So just explain things in an honest and forthcoming manner.
3. Be consistent in the delivery of information. A lack of consistent communications has been one of the big failings for the Seattle project team. And when there's an information void, it will usually be filled by something you aren't going to like. In this instance, the lack of communications has led to a real breakdown of trust.
That's why you need to make a plan for communicating consistently with stakeholders. It should include the best ways to communicate with specific stakeholder groups, and a plan for gathering accurate, up-to-date information from the project team. To ensure timely gathering, build the consistent delivery of information into day-to-day project activities. Set a schedule of when you want your team members to communicate information to you, and hold them accountable.
In turn, you need to inform key stakeholders of when and how you'll communicate information to them, and then stick to that plan.
In most cases, communications comes down to recognizing the importance of clarity in effective project leadership. In Seattle, you can see what a lack of a clear process can do to the trust between stakeholders and the project team. I'm confident that most unsuccessful projects began to unravel when communications stopped being clear and consistent.
What do you think?
Sprinting a Marathon
Lessons Learned
Categories: Agile, Leadership, Lessons Learned
By Conrado Morlan
It was a cold and windy morning in Chicago as I lined up among more than 40,000 runners from all over the world. I was ready to start my seventh marathon.
I had set five hours as my target finish time, and I joined a team of runners with the same goal. Before the race at the assigned corral, I met my fellow runners and the pacers who would keep us at the correct speed.
After running the first mile with the group, led by the pacers, I inevitably started to think as a project manager. I realized the race mimics an agile Scrum project, and I began to identify roles and responsibilities based on the context of the race.
The pacers played the Scrum master role. At the end of every mile, they confirmed that the runners' cadence was right, providing feedback on speed and recommendations on hydration. At the same time, they led the stand-up, checking with every runner on how he or she was doing and if anyone would need additional support. Pacers also kept updating the backlog to ensure product increments were delivered by the runners on every sprint.
The group of runners was the self-managed development team. We had acquired the skills and abilities required to run the race after weeks of training. Our project was set to be completed in eight imaginary sprints of 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) each and would deliver the final product — the ninth sprint. It was our task to keep the cadence and burn rate constant.
As in any project, issues cropped up. On my fifth sprint, I had to make adjustments to my race plan and update my "backlog." Around mile 15 (kilometer 24), I detected a blood stain on my left foot that kept expanding as I tried to keep my time under 11:30 per mile, so I decided to slow my pace and let the five-hour group go ahead. By mile 19 (kilometer 30), the situation was under control, and I set my new pace. But between mile 24 and 25 (kilometer 40), I had to stop at the aid station for pain reliever ointment to alleviate the discomfort of cramps in my quads.
In any race, no matter the distance, spectators and volunteers are key. They are the stakeholders of the runner's project. Their function is to provide support along the race with signs, words of encouragement and refreshments. Spectators and volunteers' commitment to the runners is unconditional.
An important part of the agile approach is the retrospective. For my marathon project, here's how my retrospective would look:
What went well?
· Enjoyed the experience of running with a pace team
· Finished my seventh consecutive marathon and my first World Major Marathon despite a few problems
· Improved my strength, endurance and recovery time dramatically
What didn't go so well?
· Not taking advantage of the resources provided at the aid stations
What have I learned?
· Running with a pace team lessens race stress
· The importance of listening to my "brain/body" and paying attention to its signals from the very first step
What still puzzles me?
· After finishing seven consecutive marathons, why do I still want to run more?
· Why do challenges pump adrenaline into project management professionals and runners?
This marathon gave me valuable lessons that will be applied at my next race, the Dallas Marathon, where I look forward to improving my performance.
Do you inevitably start thinking as a project manager when performing non-project related activities? If so, share your experiences.
How Managers Can Grow Into Leaders
As we move toward the end of the year and prepare our personal and professional goals for 2015, I've been thinking about how someone can go from being just a manager to being a leader.
Years ago, a big project I was working on with American Express and one of its partners ran into trouble. A lot of factors probably led to that, but one still stands out to me: I was succeeding as a manager but failing as a leader. And that was the project's ultimate downfall.
Over the years, I've been able to reflect and grow from that experience. Here are three ways you can use my experience to help you become more of a leader in 2015.
1. Focus on the vision. Managers are, by their nature, implementers. We get tasked with projects that we may not have had a great deal of input into. But just because we're helping our sponsors reach their goals doesn't mean we can't apply our vision as well. To focus on vision in your management and leadership, start by formulating what this project means to you, the organization, the team and the end users. Then, most importantly, personalize those aspects that are likely to inspire your team.
2. Focus on important conversations.I once read that a project manager spends 90 percent of his or her time communicating. To become a better leader, focus on the most important of these conversations: ones with your sponsor and your team. They are the people who are going to be able to inform you about changes in circumstances, troubles in a project or resource challenges. While there are lots of important people to talk with, the most important are the ones who have the most direct impact on the project's success or failure — so prioritize those.
3. Look at the long-term.This advice ties into having a vision for your project and having conversations with your important team members and sponsors. But thinking long-term also means you need to infuse your vision and conversations with a future orientation. This might mean that you talk with your sponsor about how a project fits into a long-term strategic plan for the organization. Or, it might mean that you spend time during conversations with your team members asking about their goals and values. This can allow you to shift your actions and assignments in a way that delivers on the promise of the current project. At the same time, you will have built a stronger understanding and real relationship with your sponsors and teams that will transcend your current project and have lasting benefits for projects and years to come.
What are some of the ways you've helped make yourself a stronger leader, rather than solely a manager?


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"Hate Bein' Sober" (ft. 50 Cent & Wiz Khalifa)
Check out the song below courtesy of Fake Shore Drive. However, make note that this version does not feature a verse from Wiz Khalifa, who is to appear on the finally album cut.
Of course, Finally Rich drops December 18.
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Hydrangeas and upcoming freezes
I'm assuming that the impending freeze is going to kill unprotected hydrangeas back to the ground and ruin this year's bloom season (except for the reblooming types)? It looks like upper 20's are possible here! Yikes! Some of my hydrangeas that are in sunnier spots already appear to have been zapped earlier in the Winter. I think they broke dormancy early in January during the warm spell and got zapped later in the month. UGH! I can't believe we are facing temps in the 20's after so much early heat and EVERYTHING leafed out, blooming, etc.
Yep, blackberry winter is coming with a vengeance. I just crammed part of my
garage with stuff in pots that was already getting big or pretty, so I can haul it all out again next week. And theres still more to go inside out back. The neighbors already probably think im a wacko plant nut out in the yard again.
heres a pincture link to the garage so far.
Here is a link that might be useful:
Blackberry Winter is when temps return to cold or Winterlike conditions in April when the blackberries are blooming. And I saw plenty of blackberry blooms while running this morning, so this is definitely Blackberry Winter! Yikes!
Shoot, now y'all got me worried about my hydrangeas. I have 4 that are little bitty fellas, but my Nikko Blue is 5 ft tall. Well Terramadre, I guess the sheets will be coming out.
Biscuit I'm not worried about my gardenias, nor tea olives. They do just fine during the winter with no problems and the gardenias haven't started budding yet.
If your wood is not killed, you shoot get bloom. If they have already leaved out, and the leaves are mushed, just let them fall off and push out new leaves and you will probably get bloom. Annabelle and Endless Summer should bloom although they have taken a hit.


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two square vacancies in 6b...
after i harvest my carrots and beet (only one grew :/)i will have two empty squares.
suggestions for what to plant this time of year are appreciated!
More carrots and beets? Some bush beans? I'm leaving a lot of my squares empty, as the veggies next to them need the room.
Here is a link that might be useful: Annie's Kitchen Garden
I put zinnias in where I took out the radishes and bolted spinach to attract pollinators for the later warm-crops. I'll have 2 more blocks once the lettuce & beets/carrots go by, which will house either more Zinnias, maybe marigolds, or I might try my hand at cover-crops just for ha-has.
granny - i was thinking more carrots and beets but i thought they preferred cool weather. i would like to give beets another go, as only 1 out of 9 made it this time. i just LOVE beet greens (apparently many insects do too...)
mmqchdygg- wow, never heard of zinnias. just googled them - what a pretty, colorful flower! i was thinking marigolds to repel pests.
thank you, both. i guess my trip to the local nursery will help me make my final determination!
I think you should kinda look at what your weather is like as well. Our weather has been so cool and wet, I planted a succession series of beets, chard and more lettuce and they are going gangbusters!!
They may get mauled by sun later, but I will be okay with it because my poor garden is in such desperate need of sun right now:)
Beginnerkelli, I planted both beets and carrots in July last year, and the beets were my best and sweetest and not bothered by leaf miners. The carrots didn't get real large by the time winter weather hit, they were barely big enough for eating but very sweet. I'll be planting both around July 1 for fall harvests, if I'm not completely sick of them by then. Cucumbers could also be an option. I did bush cukes in pots last July.
Here are the notes I kept:
7/18/2008 Planted two rows in bed #1.
8/23/2008 Growing beautifully. Lost two or three to cutworm. Leaves not bothered by leaf miners.
9/15/2008 Small and sweet. Plan to plant last crop about two weeks earlier next year, or around July 1.
7/18/2008 Planted a 6" wide row in bed #1.
7/26/2008 germination was rather poor. The ones that did come up look healthy, but I doubt they will mature before we leave for the winter.
10/1/2008 pulled carrots for rabbit, too small for eating. Plant at least a month earlier for late crop.
Here is a link that might be useful: Annie's Kitchen Garden


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