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Have you ever made the mistake of leaving talent on the table when hiring or staffing? If so, you should consider what Robert Austin has to say in the video below about the Danish software testing company, Specialisterne. This company recruits and retains a workforce that is uniquely suited to the rigors of software testing. What's so special about their staff? Most have been diagnosed with some form of autism. It's important to note is that this company's business model is not based primarily on grudging accommodation of people outside the norm. Rather it's built on "using the characteristics of people with autism as a competitive advantage." Here's the company's extraordinary story in its own words:
At Specialisterne, people with autism work in an environment where they are presented with the best possible opportunities to reach their potential. They don't have to learn to adapt to the usual working-environment norms, such as being a good team player, being empathetic, handling stress well and showing flexibility. These are not the usual characteristics for people with autism; a fact that usual[ly] results in their being excluded long-term from the labour market. Instead, Specialisterne welcomes the very differences and character traits that are so often seen as a stigma.
Putting it simply; at Specialisterne, not fitting in is a good thing. The traits that usually exclude people with autism from the labour market are the very traits that make them valuable employees at Specialisterne, such as attention to detail, zero tolerance for errors and a persistence to get the job done. We don't see them as people with an autism diagnosis; rather, we see them as true specialists, which is why we refer to them as "specialist people". Imagine a world where someone who was once defined by their diagnosis, would instead be defined as a "specialist person" ?
As Austin notes in the video, companies that pass over idiosyncratic talent in favor of more well-rounded or complete talent end up "leaving talent on the table." They may settle for uncomplicated and reasonably good over slightly more challenging but brilliant. According to Austin, one way to ensure that you don't leave talent on the table is to check yourself every time you find yourself sacrificing talent for ease within your context when hiring and staffing. To explain the importance of context he paraphrases Thorkil Sonne, founder of Specialisterne, who uses the metaphor of a dandelion:
The dandelion is generally considered to be a weed. However, dandelions can be valuable: they have medicinal properties and can be used to make a salad, a coffee substitute and wine, among other things. Therefore, the dandelion's essential characteristics are not what makes us view the plant as a weed, but rather the context in which we find it. A dandelion in a lawn is unwelcome, while a dandelion in an herb garden is likely to be nurtured. Similarly, companies may consider people with autism to be unemployable because those companies have been forcing these people into inappropriate and unsupportive contexts. Change the context and then you realize the benefits.
In these days of shrinking budgets, do you want a minimally competent but unremarkable team, or should you be thinking about the competitive advantage you gain by hiring idiosyncratic talent? While idiosyncratic talent may require gifted managers, Specialisterne demonstrates the benefits of this unconventional approach.
They don't leave talent on the table.
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Every December the good folks at Stem Legal encourage bloggers to promote the many fabulous Canadian law blogs that are now available. And this year is no exception: a quick look at the #Clawbies2012 Twitter hashtag reveals some worthy additions for your RSS feedreader. As a Canadian living in the United States, it's my great pleasure to do my part for this commendable effort. So I'm offering my nominations for the 2012 CLawBies awards based on blog posts regarding one of my favorite topics — social media and the law:
- For a view of social media and the law from the perspective of management, I'd suggest you take a look at the Hicks Morley blog All About Information. You'll find some helpful information there on social media policies and guidance on what employers can do in and with social media.
- The Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada blog provides some informative posts that discuss social media examples and issues from both sides of the 49th parallel.
- Similarly, the Data Governance Law blog has been covering social media issues in both Canada and the United States. Even if you live and work exclusively in the United States, it's interesting to get this Canadian perspective on what's happening in your home territory.
I'd encourage you to check out these blogs, as well as other blogs listed on the Clawbies.ca website. In addition, check out the Canadian, Please video I've posted above (make sure you turn on the captions!). Once you've finished both exercises, you might understand better why Andrew Gunadie and Julia Bentley claim in the video, "I know that you wanna be Canadian."
Dennis Kennedy has just published the 2012 Blawggie Awards, which he describes as his "personal and highly-opinionated perspective" on the best law-related blogs of the year. These awards are a public service that he has cheerfully rendered since December 2004. In reading his awards posts over the years, you will inevitably discover a writer (or several writers) that you want to follow.
This post is my thank you to Dennis for including Above and Beyond KM in his 2012 list of noteworthy blogs. When Dennis paid me a similar compliment in my first year of blogging, it was a wonderful form of encouragement for a novice discovering the wild (and slightly daunting) world of legal blogging. Now that I have several years of blogging under my belt, the inclusion of my blog in Dennis' 2012 list is even more welcome. The reality is that it takes a fair amount of effort to mount a solo blog year after year. While I doubt most of us write to win awards or commendations, I must admit they are awfully nice!
Dennis is a blogging veteran who has experienced and written about "The `Unbearable' Everydayness of Blogging". For those of us treading the same road, it is a real gift to have him reach out and shine a light on our efforts. On behalf of myself and all the other legal bloggers you've supported over the years, I thank you, Dennis.
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I'm writing this in the wee hours of the morning of December 21 and am happy to report that despite worries to the contrary, the world has not ended in New York City — yet. It appears that the Mayan Calendar anxiety was misplaced. So back to business as usual?
Not so fast.
No matter whether you found the whole Mayan Calendar furor laughable or sobering, the focus on the end of time is a good reminder to think about how we spend our time. The reality is that most of us devote the bulk of our waking hours to work, but how many of us find our work truly engaging? You have to wonder when the most commented upon blog post on the HBR Blog Network in the last 24 hours was Finding Meaning at Work, Even When Your Job Is Dull. The authors of that post begin with the following attention grabber:
Do you experience meaning at work — or just emptiness?
In the United States people spend on average 35 – 40 hours working every week. That's some 80,000 hours during a career — more time than you will spend with your kids probably. Beyond the paycheck, what does work give you? Few questions could be more important. It is sad to walk through life and experience work as empty, dreadful, a chore — sapping energy out of your body and soul. Yet many employees do, as evidenced by one large-scale study showing that only 31% of employees were engaged.
Another post this week addresses the lack of engagement in the workplace with words of advice for managers: To Give Your Employees Meaning, Start With Mission. The post begins by quoting Jim Collins:
It is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.
I've written before about the importance of being purpose-driven, and these authors also focus on purpose, as articulated in a mission statement and as embodied by an organization's leadership. The point of the exercise is that when you feel you are making a difference in the world, you will take ownership of your work. That's a recipe for engagement.
Better still, engagement is not only for the young. In Don't Leave a Legacy; Live One, we learn that age need not be a barrier to accomplishing something meaningful. The author is the founder and CEO of an organization, Encore.org, that awards Purpose Prizes annually to honor
…individuals who are making monuments out of what many consider the leftover years, not only finding personal meaning but doing creative and entrepreneurial work that means more — work aimed at solving fundamental problems facing the nation and the world today.
Yet the quest for meaning in work shouldn't be overly romanticized. The author of Finding the Job of Your Life reminds us that
A meaningful job has boring moments, scary moments, angry moments. It is not a flat line of unvarying personal fulfillment. Nothing is great if it is monotone. There is no job of your life out there, waiting to be found. There are only jobs that may make you feel more or less alive. If you allow them to, that is.
While we may not be face to face with the end of time at this very minute, it's never too soon to consider the importance of spending time wisely. After all, you don't know how much time you have left.
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One persistent issue that arises in the world of knowledge management is how best to market your systems and services. Unfortunately, discussions of this issue often devolve into descriptions of tactics: launch email blitzkriegs, offer food to encourage attendance at training sessions, bribe potential users with the latest i-device or (in lower rent populations) Starbucks gift cards. Similarly, you see law firm marketing departments carpet bombing clients with generic legal alerts or seasonal cards that are rarely read or retained. In most cases, these tactics have nearly the same effect: they don't work.
So what are we to do? Focus on Milkshakes, Purple Cows and Otaku, of course!
My friend Jeffrey Rovner pointed me to an interesting talk by Clayton Christensen on marketing. Christensen posits that in order to motivate a customer to buy your product, you first need to understand the job for which that customer is likely to "hire" your product. The brief video clip below ends with the words: "…if you understand the job, how to improve the product becomes just obvious."
Just obvious? As we say in New York, "From your lips to God's ears," Dr. Christensen.
In the case of the milkshake, Christensen and his colleagues discovered that the drink was being purchased for two different jobs: (1) to allay hunger and provide entertainment during a boring morning commute and (2) to help parents placate children with a seemingly nutritious treat. So if you were marketing to the commuter, you'd play up the interesting taste and thickness of the drink that led to a longer and more satisfying period of entertainment. If you were marketing to the parent, you'd emphasize the nutritional benefits and the appeal to children, while perhaps thinning the milkshake to allow little mouths to drink the shake more quickly.
Digging further into this research, I learned that understanding a job means more than just understanding the bare function involved. In fact, there are three critical dimensions of each job: the functional, the social and the emotional. When developing and marketing a product, you have to address all three elements from the customer's perspective in order to optimize the chances of your product being "hired to do the job."
Purple Cows
Marketing maven, Seth Godin, is famous for pointing out that few of us stop the car when driving past a cow in the countryside. In rural America, a cow is not an unusual sight. However, if the cow in question was purple, not only would you stop the car, but you'd grab your smartphone, take a photo and post it on every social media platform you use. Why? A purple cow is remarkable — it is worthy of being remarked upon. Godin's thesis is that your product needs to be a purple cow. What does this mean? It needs to stand out from the crowd, it needs to be special — it needs to be remarkable. It follows, then, that developing products aimed at the lowest common denominator, designed to provoke the least amount of controversy, will pretty much guarantee that those products barely register in the consciousness of the consumer. (Christensen notes that every year 30,000 new products are launched, and 95% of them fail.)
Godin also refers to Otaku, which Wikipedia describes as "a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests." According to Godin, a product has a much better chance of succeeding if it appeals to otaku. Why? Because the care enough to seek it out and tell others about it. This kind of word of mouth marketing is priceless. The first step, however, is to know your otaku and match your product to their needs and interests.
So what do milkshakes, purple cows and otaku have to teach us? Understand the job your product is being hired to do, make sure your product is absolutely remarkable and then market it first to the people who care enough to tell others about your good work.
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We sometimes joke in our family that the moment you think you have everything organized and on an even keel — watch out! Something is bound to occur suddenly to upset that equilibrium:
- a key member of your team decides to relocate to be closer to family
- a strategic vendor goes out of business
- the bottom falls out of the economy
In the face of these often uncontrollable events, it can be hard to maintain your equilibrium. To be honest, the key may be to strengthen your resilience so that you can cope with these stresses and prosper.
Whitney Johnson takes all of this one step further. She suggests that it's important not to let your equilibrium lead to complacency. Her prescription for the complacent is straightforward and slightly unnerving: Disrupt yourself.
What does she mean by this? She borrows from the work of Clayton Christensen when she suggests that a better path to success is to seek out territory in a new market (or the low end of an established market) and use that as a base to disrupt your industry. She also borrows the notion of the S-Curve to explain how we should propel ourselves from one area of mastery to another:
The S-curve mental model makes a compelling case for personal disruption. We may be quite adept at doing the math around our future when things are linear, but neither business nor life is linear, and ultimately what our brain needs, even requires, is the dopamine of the unpredictable. More importantly, as we inhabit an increasingly zig-zag world, the best curve you can throw the competition is your ability to leap from one learning curve to the next.
If you're prepared to accept the challenge and are willing to disrupt yourself, Whitney Johnson has five suggestions for you:
- Assess. Assess where you are vis-a-vis where you want to be. If your current path will get you there with gradual improvement, you should stay on that "sustaining innovation path." If your path won't get you to your goal, try going where no one else wants to play (or hasn't yet thought to play) and look for opportunities there.
- Iterate. "Disruption is a discovery-driven process." We need to iterate, iterate and iterate again until we get the model right. Often the strategy that leads to success is different from the strategy you began with.
- Embrace Your Constraints. "Constraints are problems to be solved." They drive us to rethink how we do things.
- Be Impatient. Look for quick wins, small wins that confirm that you are on the right path. However, be aware that you'll need to be patient as your strategy of disruption unfolds.
- Start Today. "Dare to disrupt yourself, your status quo. Be disruptive. Now."
This post has focused on the personal benefits of disruption, but I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you to consider in the context of your law firm or organization the following observation from Clayton Christensen:
Whenever the tension is greatest and the resources are scarcest, we actually are much more open to rethinking the fundamental way we do business.
Legal industry commentators have said that when law firms finally find their backs against the wall, they will be forced to rethink their business model. Some would argue that the time is long overdue for law firms to disrupt themselves. It will be interesting to see which ones accept Whitney Johnson's challenge.


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HUNTINGTON -- The Westmoreland Neighborhood Association will host its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, at the Westmoreland Woman's Club, located at 2962 Bradley Road.
The featured speaker will be Kit Anderson, director of the Huntington Sanitary Board, who will discuss the new method of collecting sewage fees and other issues related to the Sanitary Board and the Waste Treatment Plant. Also speaking will be Captain Hank Dial of the Huntington Police Department, who will present the Westmoreland crime report.
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Mr. Patzig's Opus
By RON KELLEY
At first glance, he looks like a tough old Marine, and with good reason. Harry Patzig is Vietnam veteran, a no-nonsense kind of fellow who expects everyone to do their best every day. It's in his face. What you may not see at first glance is a teacher of 23 years with a love for music and a fierce passion for sharing it.
Patzig has the credentials – degrees from OWC, West Florida and Louisiana State University, where he got his doctorate in music – and taught college in Louisiana and Mississippi.
You may not see it, but you can hear it. Dr. Harry Patzig, now in his fifth year, has taken the Walton High School (WHS) Band to competitions throughout the South and brought home superior and excellent ratings. Patzig has honed the sound of the band, polished it and took his show on the road. Despite its modest size, it is a marching band, handling half-time festivities with confidence and enthusiasm.
Although an increasing number of plaques denoting top honors is threatening to take over the wall space in his office, Patzig placed the credit for the band's successes with the hard-working students, committed booster club members and the school administration.
"Principal Russell Hughes supports the band 100 percent," said Patzig. "When we were at a state competition in Jacksonville, he drove over to see us perform and offer encouragement. He didn't have to do that, but that's the kind of dedication the man has."
Patzig praised former WHS principal Mike Davis, too. "He worked so hard on designs for the music department in the new high school. Many of the features throughout the new school are a result of his legwork." Patzig also acknowledged the efforts of Jim McCall, District finance director, for finding a way to help outfit the band properly, the support of Assistant Principal Terry Shoaf, and the tremendous help of band Booster Club members Lynette Doyle and Veronica Hughes.
Patzig said he has received invaluable help and assistance from other Walton School District music professionals, including Renee Riggs, Cathy Drake and Kamber Harvey. "These wonderful ladies really helped me and work so hard to help prepare the students for a lifetime of music."
The WHS Band has a busy schedule ahead. In addition to the football games, they'll be competing heavily in October at Troy State University, at the Dothan Southern Showcase and at the Florida Band Association District 2 Music Fest in Panama City.
"We'll be doing the Christmas Parade here in December," he said. "We love doing that for the community and what's a parade without a marching band?"
How does the 61-year-old keep up the pace? "Kids keep you young. I feel 10 years younger than I am. I feel great!"
Part of Patzig's exuberance comes from being back home again. Patzig is a former Niceville resident and Choctawhatchee High School graduate. "I've been trying to get back home for years," he said. "I kept watching for openings. I was in Lake Charles when I found out there was an opening here at WHS. My wonderful wife, Lindy, knew this was what I had been waiting for. Nearly overnight, we quickly packed our bags and came to DeFuniak Springs. It was late in the summer and we didn't have much time, but we did it and we've been here ever since."
The 2008 band is not as large as some WHS bands have been historically, but Patzig said what they lack in numbers, they make up for in talent and determination. "We have an outstanding band and in the last five years we've had several exceptional music students go on bigger and better things," he said. "A flutist and saxophonist got scholarships at OWC and we've sent two percussionists to Troy State."
Though Patzig credits the work and support of others, it's clear that he remains the driving force behind the success of the Walton High School Band. "Even if I didn't have all their support, I'd do it anyway. I'd do it because I love it."
HARRY PATZIG, director of the Walton High School Band, has been inspiring band students to excel, resulting in excellent and superior ratings at competitions throughout the South.


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This isn't just BP covering this up…our gov has allowed these toxic chemicals…BP CEOs should be in jail. There are skin rashes reported in central US. Don't know if this is connected, but pharmacies are selling lotions, etc., at a rate they cannot figure out. Contact dermatitis is rampant. Are winds blowing this into the US?
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A perennially popular given name, of Continental Germanic origin, from haim 'home' + rīc 'power, ruler'. It was an Old French name, adopted by the Normans and introduced by them to Britain. It has been borne by eight kings of England. Not until the 17th century did the form Henry (as opposed to Harry) become the standard vernacular form, mainly under the influence of the Latin form Henricus and French Henri.
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English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term, an agent derivative of mille 'mill', reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, 'mill keeper') was the usual term. The American surname has absorbed many cognate surnames from other European languages, for example French Meunier, Dumoulin, Demoulins, and Moulin; German Mueller; Dutch Molenaar; Italian Molinaro; Spanish Molinero; Hungarian Molnár; Slavic Mlinar, etc.
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Homes are places where we feel comfortable and safe. But for children our homes are just not safe enough. This resource by KidSafe provides simple steps that you can take to make your home a safer place for children.
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Isaac Asimov once said, "It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn."
When we first teach business stakeholders about Enterprise Architecture, we have to help them to unlearn some bad habits. We have to help business people to unlearn their reliance on hierarchy and to begin to trust real data, analysis, and measurement to affect change in their own companies. We have to replace old and worn out concepts, ones that led to early success but will not lead to ultimate success, with new ideas. We have to replace bad practices with good ones.
So why do we replace "management by gut feel" with a flawed and incomplete metaphor: the concept of a roadmap?
The roadmap is one of the very first things that most Enterprise Architects ever produce that the business will actually see as valuable. Don't get me wrong… goals maps and capability assessments are valuable… but they are not so valuable that business people will pay to have highly paid people on staff to produce them over and over. Once, yes, but not every year. Not unless there's something tangible and useful that they can use. A roadmap, on the other hand, is directly useful. It is the result of a great deal of thinking and planning and illustrates, for all stakeholders, the order in which a problem will be attacked, by which teams, with all the interdependencies, tradeoffs, and constraints considered. It is the output that, we tell them, reduces the likelihood of failure in an area of business that normally fails: the effort of change.
There is no debate that the EA roadmap, properly executed, is valuable. However, the roadmap, properly executed, is not a map of roads. It is not an illustration of all of the possible connections between point A and point B across a landscape. The metaphor is completely absurd. The picture below is a roadmap.
And, in enterprise architecture, we would also refer to the following "thing" as a roadmap. Each of the bars represents a project that takes place over time. The picture is intentionally blurred.
How is the first image is even remotely similar to the second? They are not.
So what, you say! What's the actual problem here?
The problem is simple: the word "roadmap" already has a meaning. A map of roads is an illustration of all potential routes in a landscape. It is most frequently used in a very specific context. The person viewing a map is frequently interested in driving their individual car. They are one person, in one car, driving from one origin to one destination. Regardless of the origin, and the destination, the map doesn't change. As far as a map is concerned, there is no traffic. There is no contextual analysis: only facts. All of these statements are true of a "map of roads," but none of them work in the context of Enterprise Architecture.
An Enterprise Architecture roadmap, on the other hands, represent many people, on many projects, all acting in tandem. They are not going from a single origin to a single destination. They are moving from many origins to many destinations, in a manner that provides benefit, with careful analysis of interdependencies and constraints. An EA roadmap is a negotiated settlement that considers the needs of many stakeholders.
By using the word "roadmap," and then presenting an EA roadmap like the blurry image above, and we are asking our stakeholders to unlearn the concept from the first image (a map of roads) and to learn a new meaning. As if our job wasn't already difficult enough! We are asking them to unlearn years of bad business planning, and the first thing we do is given them a word that doesn't match the thing we are trying to teach!
If you want to cut down a tree, don't start with a dull saw.
Enough already. Let's stop using the word roadmap. Let's call it an "action plan" or an "orchestration." Something that implies that we are getting a group of people to behave as one in order to benefit them all. But most importantly, let's teach a concept that we want our stakeholders to actually use.
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If you have wandered the wilds of the MSDN or Technet blogs in the past few days, you will have noticed that the blogging system has been given a facelift. It takes a little getting used to, but it isn't bad, all in all. If there are articles or entries that are not rendering correctly, please let me know and I'll work to get the problem fixed. Thanks for your patience.
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." – Thoreau
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." – Thoreau
I had the occasion today to have a long chat with a senior architect about Enterprise Architecture. The conversation turned to the "underlying problem" that EA is supposed to solve. In other words, if we use terms like "alignment" or "simplification," what is the problem that causes misalignment and complexity?
To paraphrase Thoreau, I asked "what is the root of the evil we are striking at?"
The answer was simple, and glaringly obvious. Communication.
To whit:
As long as communication is flowing in one direction, from a leader to his direct report, then it is easy for the next person down the line to "drift" a little, performing work that may or may not produce the result that the leader expected. Such a system needs to be controlled in order to prevent that drift.
It would be like manufacturing a product on an assembly line without ever checking, along the way, that the intermediate parts are meeting quality control checks. When a part consistently fails a quality control check, you would go back up the line to find the systemic causes of the defect, fix the root cause, verify the result, and continue with manufacturing. This "quality feedback loop" is essential to producing a good product on a consistent basis by building quality into a product rather than trying to insert quality through massive inspection regimens.
The assembly line that EA addresses is the line that starts at strategy and ends at execution.
There is no question that being able to execute on good strategies is a required competency of a successful company. Execution is everything. And what is the mechanism that controls the quality of that execution, reducing defects and building quality into it along the way? Enterprise Architecture.
I'm going to jump to another metaphor here… this one is more visual. This is the metaphor that was going through my head during the conversation.
A company can operate entirely without enterprise architecture, just as you can build a chain composed entirely of "open" (or incomplete) links (left).
Such a chain will hold some weight, and it may lighter than a full chain. Potentially such a chain may be inexpensive to create. Sounds compelling, doesn't it?
But look at the real world. How many "open link" chains have you actually seen? Why is that?
A chain of open links cannot absorb changes easily. It is weak and frail. A sudden change in the weight bearing load, or a strong push in one direction or another, and the chain fails.
For this reason, chains have closed links (right). Stronger, responsive to change, easier to handle.
Let's apply this metaphor to the way a business operates. The chain in question is the chain of planning activities that starts with the formulation of strategies and culminates in a series of key changes in the way a business operates. The desired outcome of these changes, all summed up, is the realization of that business strategy.
Enterprise Architecture is in the unique position of addressing these "open" links by creating a quality feedback loop at every step of the way. Using Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, and Solution Architecture, the chain becomes stronger, more flexible, and less expensive to own.
This role of Enterprise Architecture is interesting, and completely distinct from that of other roles in the company. Just as a developer who tests his own code is prone to bugs, and a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client, a business executive who both articulates strategy and tries to rationalize the subsequent goals is betting against himself.
Enterprise architecture does not create the strategy. But it is essential for helping to insure that execution follows effectively from it.
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.—Lewis Carroll
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.—Lewis Carroll


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What's On Tonight: The Superstars, Warehouse 13, Saving Grace
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Loosely based on the ABC classic "Wide World of Sports," this show pairs eight celebrities with professional athletes from a variety of different sports for sporting events and challenges, including swimming, biking, running, kayaking and more. The teams are tested on speed, stamina, strength and strategy as well. Each week one team of athletes is eliminated a winning pair is left. The show is shot on location in the Bahamas.


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GREENSBORO, N.C.– Dr. Shelia Gorham is taking on a major project as the new principal at Allen Middle School in Greensboro. They are starting fresh after years of low test scores and unsatisfied teachers.
FOX8 first reported on the school's reconstitution in May.
Dr. Gorham says it's like putting together a big puzzle with a lot of new pieces.
"Everyone had to reapply. And I say everyone.. cafeteria workers, custodian workers, teachers, administrators," she explained.
She says of the employees who wanted to stay at Allen and reapplied there, Dr. Gorham and her team hired back about 25% of them.
"It's not that they weren't good teachers or anything like that. We were just trying to find a good fit for what we needed to have happen at Allen," Dr. Gorham added. "I tell people we're not trying to fix anyone, we're just trying to move forward."
The change she's talking about includes new structure and organization, she explained, with stronger accountability and discipline. They are also adding teaching coaches for math, science and language art. In addition, her team will apply consistent standards across subjects in grade levels.
They hope all of these changes will complement a revived push for academic excellence.
One of the challenges Dr. Gorham admits she will face is earning the respect and trust of parents, many of whom had strained relationships with staff at Allen in the past.
"Once they start to see we plan to do what we said we were going to do," she continued, "We will renew their trust in us. And we will let them see they made a right decision to keep their child here."


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Lakeside Sports Medicine is located at the iconic Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Aughtie Drive, Albert Park. Lakeside offers patients convenient access to a multidisciplinary team of highly trained health professionals.
We have specialists in a multitude of disciplines that are committed to providing high quality sports medicine from the elite athlete to members of the general public. These services include;
- Sports Medicine
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- Podiatry
- Myotherapy
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Lakeside Sports Medicine is also driving sports medicine research in the areas of tendinopathy and osteoarthritis management. We take a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment of chronic conditions and look to develop pathways that reflect the latest approaches as well as tailoring programs to suit the individual.


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A 1,000-square-foot, $70,000 expansion of The Manna House shelter for veterans and others working their way back from chronic homelessness is nearing completion, but work is at a stopping point and the house is in need of several finishing touches to put the new space to use.
By Monday, the men at The Manna House and the volunteer builders who are helping them will have finished the dry wall on a new eat-in kitchen with seating space for up to 24 residents, a walk-in pantry, two small bedrooms, a handicap-accessible bath, a small directors' office and a spacious covered porch that will be enclosed when donations allow.
Still needed in the new Reitzer Enclave, named in honor of the late Al Reitzer, and his wife Lynn, who is the expansion's lead backer, are paint, flooring, cabinetry and appliances.
"We're coming to a stopping point," Program Director Valerie Brown said. "The dry wall will be done by Monday and we have no flooring scheduled at all."
Lynn Reitzer, Congressman Phil Roe, city commissioners and a large crowd of Manna House supporters ceremoniously broke ground on the expansion in April. Demolition of the large back porch that was the favorite gathering place for the men's daily group sessions commenced immediately. By the end of spring, utility lines had been moved and a full basement dug for the new addition. Construction began in earnest in June. And as soon as the weather allows, daily group meetings will resume on the new back deck.
Funded entirely through donations and in-kind gifts of materials and labor, the addition has been nearly a year in the making and Brown said "the guys" are excited to see it wrapping up.
"This is their home and they love it here," Brown said. About 80 percent of them are veterans, most are age 65 or older and most have experienced chronic homelessness more than once.
"They work hard because just putting a roof over their heads doesn't mean they're not homeless. It takes a lot," Brown said. "For a lot of the guys, this is the longest they've ever been in a place."
The grant-funded transitional housing program allows the men to stay at the house for up to two years while they work to regain their self-sufficiency. At that point, Brown said, the younger men move on to other housing while the older residents have the option of staying on as resident mentors for the new arrivals and those transitioning out.
But Manna House residents most admired for their work in recent months have been the builders, including Tony Campbell, a heat and air man who has gone with a hammer in his hand since the construction began in June, and John Green, who came to the house with 16 years of carpentry experience.
Non-resident builders in on the project have included D&J Roofing, Mozen Architectural, several members of the Johnson City Home Builders Association and the local Rolling Thunder chapter, and a number of community volunteers who have come to work on the house independently.
Major financial contributions have come from the Reitzer Group International, Grace Fellowship Church, Good Samaritan Ministries and the local Rolling Thunder chapter and the fundraisers the chapter has conducted for the expansion.
At age 68, Brad, an Air Force veteran of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam, is the oldest of The Manna House resident mentors and may have the clearest insight into the support for its expansion. "There's a lot of respect for the military in this house," he said.
Currently, the house has space for 22 men and the expansion will bring its capacity to 24, or three more than its grant funding covers.
"Right now, there is such a need," Brown said, "We're just trying to help as many as we can get inside."
For others who would like to help, more information about The Manna House expansion may be obtained by calling Bob Garrett at Fairview Housing at 612-2995 or online at www.themannahouse.org.
Or, donations earmarked for the "Manna House Expansion" may be made by mail to Fairview Housing, 119 E. King St., Johnson City, TN 37601-4721.


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Amnesty International has a history of promoting anti-Israel bigotry, so this report that the NGO is hosting an event with the Hamas-friendly publication Middle East Monitor (MEMO) doesn't come as a major shock. But that doesn't make this collaboration any less disgraceful:
But now Amnesty has taken the next step in its easy-breezy attitude towards religious fundamentalism. The celebrated NGO has cosied up to a Hamas-friendly magazine based in London known as Middle East Monitor Online (MEMO). On May 23, Amnesty's Human Rights Action Centre will co-host what promises to be a ripping debate on "Complicity in Oppression: Does the Media Aid Israel?" The other co-hosts are MEMO and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
The magazine has published a column dubbing the Israelis "pathological liars from Eastern Europe, who lie as much as they breathe oxygen." Last week it printed a piece by Sheikh Raed Salah, a convicted Hamas fundraiser. MEMO is also led by Dr Daud Abdullah, who has called on Muslims to "carry on jihad and Resistance" against Israel.
So the fact that Amnesty is apparently hosting the magazine's event at its Human Rights Action Center is farcical. It could be that the NGO is simply unaware of MEMO's history. But given Amnesty's own track record, it might not even deserve the benefit of the doubt here.


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The new tendency of the ad market
The total turnover of the advertisement market still increased sharply in 2011. However, experts have noted that the growth of the market has been associated with the new media trends.
The Vietnamese advertisement market got 1.2 billion dollars in 2011, which meant a growth rate of 15 percent over the previous year. The growth rate was lower than the average rates of 25-30 percent seen in the previous consecutive years. Though the turnover increased, experts have pointed out that this would be a minus growth rate if comparing with the inflation rate.
In general, the market is quiet in the first months of the years, which is not a high sale season, while businesses are still planning their budgets for advertisement campaigns. However, the first quarter of 2012 witnessed a more dynamic kick-start than in the previous years.
The growth in the first quarter was attributed to the stable demand from the companies leading their production and business fields, such as food, drink, pharmacy, electronics manufacturers.
Though the total market turnover keeps increasing, a lot of relating enterprises have fallen into decay, because of the sharp increase of 20 percent in the number of newspapers and the number of TV channels. All the enterprises now have to compete fiercely in a small market, where the turnover increases slowly.
Television remains the most popular ad channel which has been holding 80 percent of the ad market share over the last many years. Meanwhile, e-newspapers and online channels have made a big leap in their development, print newspapers and radiobroadcasting have been in decline.
Commenting about this, Warwick Olds, Asian Strategy director of Riverorchid Group, believes that in fact, the media advertisement market would not get narrower. While some market segments could be narrowed or disappear, other segments would continue developing rapidly.
He said that this should be seen as a change and evolution rather than the decline.
He went on to say that communication firms should target new ideas which have high linkage. A growing tendency for the near future is that there would be a ramification which would target different specific segments. Besides, he has also anticipated the tendency of shifting from monologue to dialogue. The market would also witness the boom of digital communication, which would be led by social communication. These would be the biggest challenges for communicators.
Vu Kim Oanh, director of Fifth Media in Hong Kong, said that in previous years, in digital ads, clients mostly post ad pieces on some newspapers with high page views, while they now target social networks (like Facebook), forums and searching tools (Google).
According to Oanh, this shows that Vietnamese enterprises have been aware of the value of the community, thus pushing up the development of the market segment
The online ad turnover reached 35 million dollars in 2011, which is expected to rise to 60 million dollars in 2012 and to 100 million dollars in 2013. Though the turnover remains modest, experts have noted that online ads have developed very rapidly.
Experts have forecast that the online ad market would see the high growth rates of 50-100 percent per annum in the next many years and it would dominate over other traditional ad channels.
Currently, the costs of the ads on Internet are just equal to 1/10 of that on TV, and 1/4 on print papers. Meanwhile, it's clear that the less costly ad channels would attract enterprises in the current context of the economic difficulties.
Oanh has also predicted that the ads on mobile phones would see rapid growth this year, saying that many companies are planning the "mobile marketing" since they can see the increasingly high number of mobile phone users.
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Up, Yes. But How Much, How Fast?
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: June 27, 2004
WASHINGTON— ENJOY it while it lasts, because there may never be another time when money is this cheap.
Having cut interest rates to their lowest level in more than 40 years, the Federal Reserve is expected to start raising them again at its policy meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In some ways, the rate increases may amount to a final exam for Alan Greenspan, who, at 78, has been the Fed chairman for 17 years. Mr. Greenspan, who is expected to retire when his term as a Fed governor ends on Jan. 31, 2006, has already steered the economy through two recessions, three wars, a stock market crash, a bubble and a bust, and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
He must now wean the nation from a historic borrowing binge that he consciously fostered to fight off a trifecta of recession, terrorism and war. And he must do so smack in the middle of a closely contested presidential campaign that will turn at least in part on perceptions of economic well-being.
The big question is not whether rates will rise, but how much and how fast. Mr. Greenspan, acutely aware that abrupt rate increases in 1994 led to considerable economic pain, has made it clear that he wants to move more slowly this time.
But many experts worry that the Fed has already waited too long, contending that higher inflation is at hand. If so, Mr. Greenspan may have to move more quickly and less gently than he has apparently been hoping.
Even though Mr. Greenspan's political standing has never been higher -- Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly supported his appointment to a fifth term as chairman -- he has come in for continuous second-guessing and criticism among bond traders and investors who contend that he has fallen ''behind the curve'' on inflation.
NO matter who is right, the meeting this week will in some ways mark the end of an era. Borrowing costs have been lower than at almost any point in American history. Adjusted for inflation, the real federal funds rate, the rate charged on overnight loans of bank reserves, has been below zero for the last two years; it is now at minus 2 percent.
Consumers, able to borrow more money without higher monthly payments, have responded in force. Mortgage debt has soared at double-digit percentage rates for the last two years, climbing $1 trillion in the last year alone.
Americans borrowed to buy new houses or to improve their old ones. By refinancing at lower rates, they extracted cash to buy furniture and appliances. Using either their home-equity loans or zero-interest loans from car companies, they bought record numbers of cars, pickups and sport utility vehicles.
By all accounts, consumer spending propped up the economy at a time when businesses felt too shell-shocked to invest in new equipment or to hire more workers.
Although low interest rates have kept monthly debt payments low, people with adjustable-rate loans may feel a pinch in the months and years ahead.
''Households are clearly in a very substantial debt hole and looking at the prospect of borrowing on more expensive terms in the future,'' said Tom Schlesinger, executive director of the Financial Markets Center, a nonprofit research group in Philomont, Va. ''The Fed is basically gambling that business investment and the labor markets recover enough to handle that load.''
So far, the strategy has worked. Business investment revived last summer. The economy, which lost more than two million jobs in the first three years of President Bush's term, has created nearly a million since January. There are also preliminary indications that wages, stagnant for some time, are about to rise as companies hire more aggressively.
The timing could benefit President Bush's re-election effort. Although many voters remain anxious about the economy, the long-delayed upturn in jobs has already weakened Democratic accusations that Mr. Bush has the worst record on jobs since Herbert Hoover.
Even if rising interest rates slow the housing market before the election, most economists predict that they will not dampen economic growth or job creation until long after the votes have been cast.
Much has changed since the Fed moved to pre-empt a rise in consumer prices 10 years ago. Inflation dropped so low last year that officials worried about the opposite, much thornier problem -- a Japanese-style deflation. Productivity, a measure of the goods and services that workers produce each hour, has been climbing more than twice as fast as it did in 1994.
Perhaps most important, the Fed has labored mightily to take the surprise out of any policy change. More than six months ago, in speeches and policy statements, Fed officials began telegraphing the possibility of rate increases.
The idea, of course, is to keep financial markets from being spooked. To that end, Mr. Greenspan and others have developed a litany of catch phrases to signal changes in their outlook, from keeping rates low for ''a considerable period,'' to being merely ''patient,'' to calling for a ''measured'' pace of rate increases.
Beyond the elliptical phrases, which resemble nothing so much as communication by cue cards, Fed officials have made it clear that their decisions will be driven by specific changes: a rise in employment, stronger business investment and greater ''pricing power'' for companies -- meaning that they can charge more for what they sell.


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Lisa Stansbie - Founder
For the past twelve years Lisa and Michael have travelled all over Greece including many of the Greek islands. While on these trips Lisa decided that swimming in the beautiful Greek seas was an essential part of the Greek experience and set about learning to improve her stroke. As an (over) enthusiastic adult swimmer Lisa quickly developed her technique and joined the Leeds Masters Swimming Club. After falling in love with the sport Lisa started swimming competitively with both Leeds Masters and the Derby based Etwall Eagles Masters team. She holds national medals in breaststroke and regularly competes all over the U.K
Her other love is art. Obtaining a PhD in 2010 in the Philosophy of Art she has a passion for both the ancient and the contemporary. She has exhibited at numerous galleries internationally and her recent work is inspired by open water and channel swimming.
A convert to open water swimming in 2009 she started swimming 3.8k races. As a member of the British Long Distance Swimming Association Lisa swam the length of Derwentwater in 2011 to win the BLDSA 2 mile event, she was also a bronze medal winner in the ASA Midland Open Water Championships, swam in the ASA National Open Water Championships in 2012 and has taken part in a numerous open water races in the last three years. In 2011 she took part in the 2swim4life national event held at Guildford Lido, swimming 17 miles. She was also organiser and team member of the 2012 Etwall Eagles English Channel Relay Team, swimming the channel in 11 hours and 45 minutes.
Lisa has swam The Big Blue swim routes on numerous occasions and in different weather conditions and seasons, as well as swimming other sea routes in Greece including The Bay of Marathon, Porto Rafti, Vouliagmeni, The Cyclades Islands, The Peloponese, Monemvasia, Crete, Kythira, Kefallonia and Zakynthos.
Lisa's Ethos
"I love the challenge of swimming outdoors, of being close to nature and the swims I have undertaken in Greece have such water clarity. You are also surrounded by amazing scenery that its impossible not to stop and look at as you swim. I also love the crossings…Its a great feeling swimming from one island to another, a real sense of achievement when you finally arrive at your destination and look back thinking 'I swam from over there!""


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Charleston County
DAVIS, Jimmy, of North Charleston died Friday. Arrangements by Hilton's Mortuary of North Charleston.
HAMILTON, Lillian C., 88, of James Island, widow of Norman Hamilton, died Friday. Arrangements by Fielding Home for Funerals of Charleston.
HANCKEL, Sarah Burness Pinckney, 85, of Johns Island, widow of Richardson M. Hanckel, died Friday. Arrangements by James A. McAlister Funeral Home of Charleston.
HART, Richard Perry, 61, of Charleston, a realtor with Carolina One Real Estate, died Friday. Arrangements by Stuhr's West Ashley Chapel.
RATTIGAN, Margaret Elizabeth Nicholes Robison, 79, of Charleston, a home health caregiver, first married to the late Lester Robison and widow of John F. Rattigan, died Friday. Arrangements by Stuhr's Mount Pleasant Chapel.
REESE, Timothy Michael Jr., 19, of Sullivan's Island, a Clemson University student, died Friday. Arrangements by Stuhr's Mount Pleasant Chapel.
SCOTT, Christina Riley, of James Island, widow of James Scott, died Thursday. Arrangements by Fielding Home for Funerals of Charleston.
Colleton County
BARNES, Jensenia Vaughn, 98, of Walterboro, a former school teacher, died Friday. Arrangements by Parker-Rhoden Funeral Home.
Dorchester County
ANDERSON, Robert Eldon, 83, of Summerville, a tax accountant, first married to the late Barbara Stall Anderson and husband of Gloria Infinger Anderson, died Friday. Arrangements by Parks Funeral Home.
HAIRSTON, Roy A., of Summerville, husband of Sylvia Hairston, died Friday. Arrangements by Albert A. Glover Funeral Home.
PRINGLE, Fannor Mae, 73, of Ridgeville died Friday. Arrangements by Eutawville Community Funeral Home.
REDDOCK, Geraldine W., 61, of Summerville, a retired technical information specialist with the U.S. State Department, died Saturday. Arrangements by Simplicity Lowcountry Cremation and Burial Services of North Charleston.
WEST, Raymond Dean, 59, of Charleston, an Air Force veteran, retired assistant chief with the Charleston Air Force Base Fire Department and husband of Yong Cha Lee West, died Saturday. Arrangements by James A. Dyal Funeral Home of Summerville.
ADAMS, A. Jack, 69, of Upper Arlington, Ohio, formerly of Summerville, S.C., a Marine Corps veteran, former Tracy-Wells Co. employee, Almo Corp. retiree and husband of Winnie Adams, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Dunbar's Dutch Fork Chapel of Irmo, S.C.
CROSBY, Birdie R., 84, of Brunson, a Navy Veteran, farmer, retired treater operator with Westinghouse Corp. and wife of Iva L. Bowers Crosby, died Saturday. Arrangements by Peeples-Rhoden Funeral Home of Hampton.
DARBY, Leroy Jr., 74, of Lane, husband of Meryitis Bennett Baker Darby, died Friday. Arrangements by Henryhand's Kingstree Chapel.
LEWIS, Christopher C. Jr., of Columbia, formerly of Charleston, died Thursday. Arrangements by Leevy's Taylor St. Chapel.
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Joint Pain Symptoms and Most Important Tips for Arthritis
Joint pain can indicate a comparatively benign condition, such as mild sprain. Joint pain can be the result of a moderate condition, disorder or disease, such as bursitis, ankylosing spondylitis, a moderate ligament sprain, or a dislocation. Joint pain can also accompany serious conditions that can even be life-threatening.
Joint Pain Causes
Joint pain can be caused by injury or sickness touching any of the ligaments, bursae, or tendons nearby the joint. Injury or illness can also influence the ligaments, cartilage, and bones within the joint, most important to a painful joint
Joint Pain Symptoms
Pain is the chief symptom of most musculoskeletal disorders. The pain may be mild or severe, local or common (diffuse).
Although pain may be acute and brief, as is the case with most injuries, pain may be constant with chronic illnesses, such as rheumatoid arthritis
Most Important Tips for Joint Pain: -
• Apply Eucalyptus oil where there is pain. Steam the affected area or dip a towel in boiling water, twist the water out from the towel and apply it to the affected area.
• Have one tea spoon of cod liver oil every day-Stick to the one tsp measure. Avoid use of too much pain killers especially those containing narcotic and sleeping tablets.
• You can have a look at your diet as there are some products that will exacerbate the pain. Sometimes dairy products, citrus, alcohol, some meat, beef, pork, lamb, and vegetable oils have inflammatory effects and if your condition is inflammatory then this is a joint pain remedy that you should consider. You can find a good arthritis diet out there for you.
• Have lots of fruits containing Vitamin C like Guava, Oranges, and Gooseberries. Try avoiding milk and potatoes.
• Usually Joint pain is felt more in the morning. Apply some ointment on the affected area before going to bed everyday.
• Simple exercises in Yoga, Cycling, Swimming, Walking etc. can control the pain. Keep the exercises simple and do not overexert. Doing exercises standing in chest level water also improves the pain.
• Proper posture should be maintained while sitting, walking and lying down.
• If overweight, control weight by reducing food and doing exercises.
• Prepare a mixture by mixing equal quantity of carrot juice and lemon juice. Consume one tablespoon of this mixture daily is one of the best remedy for joint pain. Carrot juice strengthens our ligaments to a great extent.
• Drinking papaya seed tea has a positive effect in relieving join pain. Drink this tea at least 4-5 times every day for at least two weeks before you can see some results.
• Drinking of plenty of water is effective in bringing down joint pain. Water is excellent for the purpose of flushing out the toxins from the body and providing joint pain relief.
• When warm milk is inspired by adding one table spoonful of turmeric, it is an excellent remedy for joint pain relief.
• Grind four peeled pieces of garlic, along with two grams of Sprague. Dip this mixture in 30 grams mustard oil and heat, on low flame, for 1-2 minutes. Massage the aching joints with this oil, after cooling it down, to get release from pain and swelling.
Rheumatism arthritis, Palindromic Rheumatism and Home Remedies for Rheumatism
Rheumatism is not a single disease. It pertains to a whole range of conditions, all of which cause pain. These conditions affect the joints, the muscles and the ligaments. Rheumatism is more common among the middle aged and elderly people. The exact cause of most forms of rheumatism is not known. Exposure to wet and cold may aggravate the pain. There are many types of rheumatism, and some of the most common ones are:
1. Rheumatoid arthritis
2. Osteo-arthritis
3. Gout
4. Ankylosing spondylitis
5. Tennis elbow
6. Frozen shoulder
7. Cervical spondylitis
8. Fibrositis
Read more on Rheumatism and Home Remedies for Rheumatism. Also visit on Singapore Travel InformationCauses of Rheumatism
1. Poisoning of blood with acid wastes
2. Physically stressful work
3. Damp weather conditioner
4. Acid-alkaline imbalance (Acidosis)
Home Remedy for Rheumatism
1. An effective way to treat rheumatism would be to have one or two tsp of raw potato juice before meals.
2. Mix 1 tablespoon of cod liver oil in a glass of orange juice. Whip and drink this juice before going to bed.
3. In a glass of warm water, dissolve 2 tsp each of apple cider vinegar and honey. Have this concoction once or twice a day.
4. Mix carrot juice and lemon juice in equal proportions. Have a large spoonful of this concoction, everyday, to cure rheumatism.
5. In two tbsp of water, add one tbsp fresh limejuice. Have this twice a day -in the morning and at night.
6. In a pint of warm water, mix juice of three lemons and three tablespoons Epsom salts. Take one tsp of the mixture in the morning and one in the evening.
7. Mix oil of wintergreen, chloroform and rubbing alcohol in the ratio of 1:3:12. Once the mixture is prepared, rub it on the affected area.
8. In a quarter of cranberry juice, dissolve 4 tsp blackstrap molasses. Drink one glass of this juice everyday, for curing rheumatism.
9. Peel some potatoes. Wash 30 grams of this peeling in half a liter of water. Strain the decoction and have it three or four times daily. This is an effective way to treat rheumatism.
10. The green stalk of rhubarb is effective in curing rheumatism. Crush this with equal amounts of sugar. Have a tsp of this mixture three or four times everyday.
11. Include foods rich in calcium, magnesium and vitamin C in the diet. This would help in treating rheumatism.
12. Extract a cup of bitter gourd juice. Mix it with a tsp of honey. Daily dose of this, for three months, would be helpful in treating rheumatism.
13. Celery is beneficial in curing rheumatism. You can either use it as a condiment or a fluid extract. 5 to 10 drops of this fluid should be mixed with a glass of hot water. Have this decoction before meals.
14. Consuming half a dozen walnuts everyday is beneficial in treating rheumatism. However, make sure you chew them properly.
15. In a bucket of warm water, add some rosemary oil. Dip the affected area in this water. This would provide relief from the pain and treat the inflammation as well.
Eat fresh fruits, especially citrus fruits. Drink one or more of the following three times each day: orange juice, fresh lemonade and grapefruit juice. You may also eat the fruits if you prefer. Drink the juice or eat the fruits first thing to get the vitamins working in your system.
Foods to Avoid
Avoid eating meat and fish, caffeinated beverages, sugar, white bread and pasta, alcohol and pickled or very salty foods. All of these foods are acidic and, while they won't cause your rheumatism to get worse, may inhibit the work of the healthy foods in the rheumatism diet. The fewer acidic foods you eat, the more likely the alkaline foods will flush away the toxins causing rheumatoid pain rather than the acids in the foods you've just eaten.


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Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0
Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0
Book Details
About This Book
- Install and configure Citrix Provisioning Services quickly and efficiently
- Master the architecture of Citrix Provisioning Services
- Successfully manage and operate Citrix Provisioning Services
Who This Book Is For
This book is a useful guide for an admin/engineer who is new to the Citrix virtualization solution and provisioning service, and who is looking to get a good grounding in Citrix PVS. It's assumed that you will have some understanding of the basics of virtualization already, but that's all you need to know!
Table of Contents
What You Will Learn
- Install Citrix Provisioning Services
- Configure Citrix Provisioning Services
- Create and manage Vdisks
- Prepare a Master Target device
- Manage farms, stores, sites, and the Provisioning server
- Upgrade farms and Vdisks
In Detail
Disk streaming technology is advancing rapidly. Ardence (who were later acquired by Citrix) originally developed the disk streaming software now called Citrix Provisioning Services. Citrix Provisioning Services helps you stream a virtual disk across physical and virtual machines. It works at boot by using PXE to contact a TFTP server and pull down a small patron that registers the system. From there, it starts sending the individual blocks of virtual disk to the system that needs to boot via the network.
Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0 is a hands-on implementation guide that helps you to learn about the installation, configuration, management, and operation of Citrix Provisioning Services in a step-by-step manner. This will help you to take advantage of the real power behind Citrix Provisioning Services. The book gives you a good grounding in operating Citrix Provisioning Services with practical implementations, which are all fully backed up with code and illustrations.
His book will help you get familiar with virtualization and its implications, starting with characteristics of virtualization such as single image management, consolidation, centralized control, and on-demand streaming of virtual disks to Enterprise systems and to their customers.
In order to get a broader understanding of all the available features, you start with an overview of Citrix PVS before moving on to installation, configuration, and managing the system, allowing you to develop hands-on operational and administrative experience. You will also learn how to create a Vdisk, as well as how to manage farms, sites, stores, and the Provisioning server using Citrix Provisioning Services. If you want to take advantage of disk streaming using Citrix Provisioning Services, then this is the book for you.
With this book, you will learn everything you need to know about Citrix Provisioning Services from an administrator/engineer's standpoint.


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Chelsea Wilkinson
May 5, 2014
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Sophomore right-hander Chelsea Wilkinson has been named the Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Week, it was announced today by the league office. It is the first honor weekly honor for Wilkinson and the second time a Georgia player has been awarded a weekly honor this season. It also marks the first time since 2010 that a Georgia pitcher has earned SEC Pitcher of the Week honors.
Wilkinson went 2-0 with a pair of complete-game wins as Georgia swept No. 10/11 Kentucky in the final regular season series of the season. She struck out 18 batters and walked just three batters in 14 innings in the circle for the Bulldogs. Her two wins ran her record to 26-7 on the year, putting her in a tie for the most wins by an SEC pitcher this season. She now has 28 complete game performances this season.
The Taylorsville, North Carolina native was the only SEC pitcher to pick up two wins over a ranked team last week, while her 18 strikeouts over 14 innings were the most by an SEC pitcher last week. She allowed just one run on four hits and struck out ten batters in her complete game performance in Georgia's 4-1 win over Kentucky on Friday. On Sunday she allowed just one run on three hits and two walks while striking out eight Wildcat batters in her second complete game effort over the weekend.
Wilkinson leads the SEC in strikeouts and innings pitched. She also leads the Bulldogs in ERA (2.14), strikeouts (234), opponent batting average (.188), innings pitched (199.2) and saves (3).
Wilkinson and the Bulldogs return to action on Thursday, May 8 at 4 p.m., when they take on Florida in the SEC Tournament in Columbia, South Carolina.