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The energy required to create an accurate quantum computer may limit the ability of scientists to make these novel devices small, fast, cheap and efficient, says a University of Arkansas researcher.
Julio Gea-Banacloche, professor of physics, found that the more accuracy you want, the more energy you need. He reports his findings in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters.
Quantum computing relies on using single atomic particles as units for information storage. Manipulating this information requires pulsed electromagnetic fields -- which contain energy.
"The question of where this energy is going to come from and where it is going to go has to be addressed," he said.
"Also, with solid-state controllers, such as capacitors, there is a minimum size because they have to be able to hold a certain amount of energy."
Gea-Banacloche wanted to determine whether there was a minimum amount of energy required for such quantum operations and if this has an impact on how well quantum computers perform.
He found that the energy needed to perform a calculation is inversely proportional to the error rate: In other words, more energy means less uncertainty.
"The more precise you want to be, the more energy you need to put into the system," he said.
Gea-Banacloche began to explore different types of proposed quantum computing control systems -- including atom-to-atom interactions and electromagnetic fields -- and found the same energy requirements in all of them.
"That is when I began to suspect there was some kind of underlying principle operating here," he said. "Ultimately, it all comes from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle." This principle states that the more precisely the position of a particle is determined, the less precisely the momentum is know in this instant, and vice versa.
Quantum computers have a property called decoherence time -- a time limit for operating before the system falls apart. Shorter decoherence times require a higher energy expenditure.
Gea-Banacloche's estimate of the minimum power requirement of a system with a ten microsecond decoherence time is 10 megaWatts. Most solid state quantum systems -- systems built of atoms in a solid matrix -- currently operate with even shorter decoherence times.
Atomic trap quantum devices, which use electric and magnetic forces to hold atoms in place, have longer decoherence times.
"It's not an impossibility, but it's an indication of how important it is to improve the decoherence times and improve error correction," he said.
Accuracy matters to all computer users -- and especially to researchers who rely on them to compute, store and retrieve data. But in the quantum computing world errors will occur unless something is done to prevent them.
Quantum computers must constantly scan and correct every bit for errors because of the decoherence property -- the tendency for a system to fall apart. If you have a device with a million bits of information, bursts of energy must be sent to all of the bits, all at once, all the time, to correct for errors. Devices with short decoherence times must perform these operations more often. So small margins of error require large amounts of energy.
"If you could come up with a way to tolerate more error, there could be a big payoff," Gea-Banacloche said.
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I used the RC version of Visual Studio 2012 to create an ASP.NET Webforms project and I intentionally took the 4.0 version of .Net and of the project template to avoid complications after the release of VS2012.
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As I noticed in the references, following assembly references are broken:
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I tried to re-install jQuery using NuGet but did not find these assemblies. If I now create a new .Net 4.0 ASP.NET Webforms project in Visual Studio 2012 I get a lot of new references which are not present in my current (originally created in the RC-version, now opened in VS2012 RTM), like:
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A narrative review of factors influencing detection and treatment of depression in Vietnam
1 Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165, Stockholm, Sweden
2 Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Drottningg. 4, 751 85, UPPSALA, Sweden
3 Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
4 Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165, Stockholm, Sweden
5 Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Unit for Studies of Integrative Care, Stockholm, Sweden & IC – The Integrative Care Science Center, Järna, Sweden
International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013, 7:15 doi:10.1186/1752-4458-7-15Published: 6 May 2013
Depression is among the most common psychiatric conditions in primary health care, and constitutes an important part of the global disease burden. However, it is difficult to obtain comparable data on depression worldwide and models for treatment and intervention need to be locally adapted. We conducted a narrative review of research literature on factors that influence depression screening, diagnosis and treatment among the Vietnamese population. This explorative approach included studies describing: a) culturally or contextually specific risk-factors for depression; b) any depression treatment seeking or treatment acceptability/adherence aspects or; c) depression screening among Vietnamese patients. We searched the PubMed and Cinahl databases, as well as relevant Vietnamese peer-reviewed journals and this produced 20 articles that were included in the review. Our findings indicate the importance of considering somatic symptoms when screening for depression in Vietnam as well as the use of culturally adapted and dimensional screening instruments. Our study confirms that depression reflects chronic social adversity, and thus an approach to mental health management that focuses solely on individual pathology will fail to address its important social causes. Further studies should elucidate whether neurasthenia is a commonly used illness label among Vietnamese patients that coincides with depression. The tendency among Vietnamese to seek traditional Vietnamese medicine and meditation practice when experiencing emotional distress was supported by our findings.


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Wide receiver was supposed to be Oklahoma's primary strength on offense this year.
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Once Ryan Broyles was injured and Kenny Stills and Jaz Reynolds were suspended or battling injuries, the Sooners often didn't have a full corps of receivers.
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Working title: "Mind over matter, the Puharich story"
The life and work of Dr Puharich has been documented in books, articles and there are fragments on film and audio recordings. Browsing the internet one can find the pieces and put them together to form a picture of who he was, what motivated him and the discoveries he did in his life's span.
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The main concept for the film is that I will be telling the story from my own experience, visualized by footage and stills from my archives. The emphasis will be on his work with the medium Phyllis Shlemmer and the insights derived from his contacts with extra-terrestrials. Most of the questions concerning life and human purpose have been answered and need to be conveyed. But of course his work in the field of physics will be covered.
Earlier I wanted to make a 40 minute documentary but I believe now someone else will take that task upon themselves. I have decided to make a film short enough to be on YouTube. A lot can be said in 15 minutes and on the internet it is for everyone to hear.
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Service Desk 7.5 Update
We just got a PowerPoint from Symantec informing us of the update coming later this year and it's now been confirmed that the ServiceDesk workflows will now be restricted and customers will no longer be able to customize them. This is a huge impact to us as we've customized Service Desk to work in our environment and the out of the box ServiceDesk install is frankly not very good as it's missing a lot of things we need.
We're on ServiceDesk SP1 so we already knew we had to create new servers since an official upgrade path for SP2 doesn't exist but this news may make us consider ditching the product all together. We know that ServiceDesk out of the box install does not meet our requirements in our company and I can't really see 7.5 filling the gaps so maybe we'll just stick with 7.1 for it's product lifetime. I'm disappointed that they chose this route and I understand why they did but they should really let the customer decide how we want to use the product so if we want to customize it then let us do so.
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Thanks for the info. I completely agree. In my opinion the best feature of ServiceDesk is the ability to customize the workflows. We have made a ton of changes as well - a lot of bug fixes, but quite a few changes to make the product meet our needs. If they take away this ability, I'm sure we'll switch to a different product as well.
If they gave us the option and said "If you make customizations to the workflows then we will not offer support" then we, as customers can make that decision. For them to take away the one thing that makes ServiceDesk unique and what they promoted when selling ServiceDesk shows poor judgement on their part. Give us the choice to do it or don't do it is all I'm asking for. Sorry if I seem upset but I am.
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More specific information regarding 7.5 will be available over the coming weeks. Also, I will be presenting a much deeper dive of our new strategy and upcoming features at Vision next month.
There are a couple of key objectives for this release:
1.)Upgrade Path. Because we currently expose all ServiceDesk processes, customers who customize these processes are presented with various challenges during upgrades. 7.5 will introduce an in-place upgrade path that will preserve all configurations and data and eliminate the need for additional hardware.
2.)Configuration. The Rules Engine was introduced in the 7.1 release, although it was limited in that it only covered a handful of use cases for Incident Management. In 7.1 SP2, we extended the Rules Engine to include complete configuration for the new Change Management process, as well as the introduction of email notification rules and templates.
In 7.5, we will be restricting access to the workflow package files that are delivered with ServiceDesk. Before we felt comfortable doing this, though, we spoke with dozens and dozens of customers about their use cases, and analyzed how they were customizing these flows to accommodate these use cases. As a result, we will be significantly expanding the rule sets available within the Rules Engine to include many more rules for Incident Management as well as Problem Management. These new rules are based on direct feedback from customers as well as general best practices.
While we feel very confident that the majority of use cases are covered, we are very interested in your ongoing feedback to help us continue to evolve this.
That's the process side. We also know that most customers edit the included feeder forms to some extent, and we certainly do not want to remove that flexibility. Going forward, we will continue to allow you to edit the feeder forms and add custom data types. Also, some integrated process such as SD Email Monitor will continue to remain exposed, as we know customers have unique requirements regarding how incoming emails are processed.
Furthermore, we will continue to allow you to edit all ServiceDesk portal (Process Manager) elements, including reports, dashboards, custom process view page views, etc. And, probably most importantly, we will continue to allow you to build supplemental workflows using the Workflow Designer tool.
3.) Performance. For those of you who have tried out the new Change Management process, you've probably noticed that it is lightning fast. Any action performed is immediately executed. We are planning to apply the "lessons learned" in this redesign to Incident Management. I've seen some early code, and I must say that it's pretty impressive.
In summary, I understand and can appreciate your comments above. But, I also believe we will achieve the right balance of configuration capabilities, performance and upgradeability in the 7.5 release.
I hope to see you at Vision. Your emails are always welcome as well.
Will Lewis
Sr. Product Manager, ServiceDesk
That's the process side. We also know that most customers edit the included feeder forms to some extent, and we certainly do not want to remove that flexibility. Going forward, we will continue to allow you to edit the feeder forms and add custom data types. Also, some integrated process such as SD Email Monitor will continue to remain exposed, as we know customers have unique requirements regarding how incoming emails are processed.
If my understanding is correct from this statement then what you're saying is that SD.Data.Integration will still be made available to us. Let's say for example I add a field to the ServiceDeskIncident datatype called UnitNumber (int) because I want to track the unit number of any computer equipment that is an incident might be associated with and we do not use the Asset Managment module.
I can put this field on the forms because they'll still be exposed to us which is fine but what if users have to go in and change it due to it being the incorrect value? Without having access to the SD.IncidentManagement workflow I can't just add a field to the Reclassify form. How would I do something simple like this to allow users to change the value of the unit number when working an incident?
This is just one use case and while I appreciate that some things are still going to be left open for us to customize, not being able to access SD.IncidentManagement severly limits what we can do.
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About this situation.
We have alot of costumers in latin america and we modify the incident management project because they want to have the processes like 'Resolved Incident' in spanish.
I would like to know if you will improve the translation to spanish in actions like 'Resolve Incident'; 'Create SubTasks' etc.
Actually we need to enter to incident managemet project and chance the descriptions to spanish.
Thanks for replying Will and I understand what you and your team are trying to do. Service Desk upgrades has always been a touchy subject because we have the ability to customize the workflows. But with hearing about no upgrade path for SP1 to SP2 and now this, it makes the product which suffered poor performance issues when it was released and finally became stable IMO with SP1 harder to support.
I agree with you that things should configured in the console and the Rules Engine is a good start along with the email templates. This will make things a lot easier for people to adminstrate Service Desk but what I don't agree with is not being able to customize the Incident Management and other processes. Unless you are totally revamping the Incident Management workflow and the ones that accompany it then it won't fit the needs of our company and I'm sure the needs of others.
There are a lot of things in Service Desk that are designed poorly that users like me have to go in and fix. Spelling mistakes, hard coded values, incorrect programming logic, odd design choices are just some of the things that I had to go in and fix.
For example, why doesn't the email monitoring notify the worker and append any documents when a reply is sent back? Why is it when I select a group to email it uses the emails of everyone in the group instead of the group email? Why is it when I reclassify an incident it has to to send out an email to me? Why is there a need to have a separate task to change the title and description when it should all be done in the reclassify task?
It's all the little things that because we have the ability to go in and customize make the user experience better than the out of the box install. Anyone that has used the product can see what works and what doesn't because the things that don't work are obvious. If you're going to lock down the workflows then I hope you give the users more options in the console. For example, we like to have our resolve task time out in 2 days so if we can't do that in the workflow anymore then give us that option to do it in the settings.
I'm sorry for the long winded rant and I know I'm just one person in one company but it seems like it's one thing after another with this product. I'm looking forward to Vision and seeing what your team has lined up but as a costumerI can't take anymore of these unexpected surprises that seem to always pop up.
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I was physically sick to my stomach when I heard about SD 7.5. I was told that it was not an in place upgrade but a reinstall just like we had to do with 7.1 sp1 to sp2. This after we were told we wouldn't have to do that again.
I have also made significant changes to SD to make it work in our environment and am a team of one for this product.
A few of the changes I have had to make are assignments list in the SD.Feeder.TechnicianIncidentForms. Another is changing the close the ticket process by taking out the users has to resolve it before it closes because my user would have refused to do it and it changed the report numbers for helpdesk for tickets closed in a day. We also had to purchase an addition search add on because there is no real search function in SD.
Will this new version address the screen refresh issues with IE? I also have the need when a urgent priority gets put in to be able to send a text/page to a group but there is only one e-mail address associated to a group.
I truly believe that that there needs to be an internal use case study done for ServiceDesk by Symantec on how not to please customers. I mean when it came out it was promoted as a product you can tailor customize for your environment as one of it's biggest selling points. The 7.0 versions were plagued with performance and stability issues and this seems to have been resolved with the 7.1 release.
Then they release SP2 which requires a new install and no upgrade path for SP1 costumers. People still do the upgrade despite needing new servers and transfer their customized workflows over to it. Then word comes out that 7.5 won't even allow you to customize the main processes. I imagine if Symantec put ServiceDesk in their own company this stuff wouldn't sit too well so why make your customers do it?
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We were sold on the product for the ability to customize ServiceDesk. Our sales representatives pushed this product as the answer to our needs. We invested in partner services for the installation and configuration as well as Workflow training with Symantec. It sounds like everything we planned as a company will need to be cancelled. We will need to answer to our management team who funded the purchasing of this product as to why we won't be able to fullfill the plans.
I am with all of you on how upset I am with the upgrade vs. non-upgrade issue and the revealing that the main processes won't be editable by the customer but I can also see where upgrades without such a lock down are near impossible based on how workflow is designed. I can't even believe I am saying this but we probably should reserve judgement until we've seen the product. I will be at Vision next month and certainly hope to drill as many questions towards the Symantec engineers as possible.
That being said, there are issues with the current SD.IncidentManagement that probably should be resolved in some way with having access to the settings in the portal being the best. Permissions settings and who can edit what and how should be more granular and be set through the portal. Email components should be pulled out and run independently so that they can be modified (it would be nice to alter a thank you without having to republish the entire main process!), having the quick close option be exposed or something similar and the ability to email everyone in a group, if they desire, when a ticket gets assigned. There are a lot more items, some big, some small but all edits that are made to help the software fit the organization rather than make the organization fit the software.
I don't expect them all to be answered but I certainly will take Will up on his offer and email him all of the settings that we have changed now (solely in SD.IncidentManagement as the feeder forms and email process will remain exposed) to make the system work for us and see what can be done, if anything for the 7.5 release or the future.
I wouldn't have an issue if the processes were designed properly with what most of us need. I think when a Service Desk product is missing something basic like a drop-down to change the status of an incident or allow us to create templates for sub-tasks but then don't provide a way to delete them unless you go into the database is very telling that some things have been implemented poorly.
Since they're locking the processes down we have to assume that they're going to catch all these little things that we caught and fix them but some of these nagging things have been around for years. I have a running list of things we needed to change for Service Desk to work for us (150+ items so far) and I still would like them to give us the choice to choose whether or not we are able to customize the workflows. Maybe Service Desk wasn't the right choice for us but we're stuck with it for the time being.
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With Vision next week, I hope the ServiceDesk developers will be upfront with all the changes they are planning especially with the lock down of the workflows. A full list of all the hopeful fixes (refresh, permissions, stability, performance, etc) would be a good start. There seems to be a lot of uncertainty with this product IMO and hopefully Will and his team can assure us that this route they've chosen is for the best. If not then our company will have to look elsewhere for our ServiceDesk needs.
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The refresh issue is the worst and needs to be fixed in this update. Our workers are complaining that they can't even leave the Send Email windows up for a long time as it just times out. You can imagine if you're typing up a 10 minute email only to lose it because of the refresh it can get frustrating. Basically you have 5 minutes to type an email or else it's lost. I can't believe that this hasn't been fixed yet.
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I think it's the same refresh issue because it refreshes in the background when the virtual window is open and then it just times out. It's similar to an IIS reset when you have a window up and do an IIS reset and it cuts off the connection.
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I like my beats fast and my bass down low
I like my beats fast and my bass down low
You should see the look on their faces when I tell them they have to write an email in 5 minutes or less or else it won't work. They give me the "Are you serious face?" and I am dead serious. Guess I can tell them to open up Word or Notepad and write it in there, then copy and paste it into the email but then I'm afraid of getting punched in the face.
We have to install the SP1 Rollup to fix the SQLtransaction.ZombieCheck() issue and I'm scared what that might break.
I like my beats fast and my bass down low
I am hoping they took my suggestion that we can change the lexicon strings to something fun like "talk like a pirate" or the Swedish Chef... "Bork Bork Bork... task assigned.. bork bork bork"
So, when we have ideas... do we want to start putting thumbs up on them? Maybe a a way we can say "we support that one?"
From Vision last week I can tell you that SD.IncidentManagement will not be editable, as well as ChangeManagement and ProblemManagement for that matter. The routing has been greatly improved inside of ProcessManager console to include boolean AND and OR as well as multi-level functionality (such as send email and route, etc.). The speed has been increased for IM and things such as re-assignment happen near instantly. From the little I saw and was able to ask about email templates also seem to be in the console as well. I can say, becasue I asked, that there is no change in the access using mobile devices which I am greatly disappointed about and I did put in a request to at least allow smartphones access to the entire portal so they can use the native webpage rather than be redirected to a mobile page but we'll see how far that gets. I will review my notes and if there's more that I missed I will post it. Hopefully Aryanos has even more information to add and if I am incorrect on some of this info please, someone, correct me. It was a long week and my notes might have been miss-written.
That's good news. The overall designed of the reassigment process in 7.1 SP1 is causing head aches for our support staff. They are use to the speed of HD 6.5. I can see why reassignments are slow in 7.1 from the workflow designs. Writing the ticket to exchange from the "Reassign Smart Task" then passing a Exchange Message ID to SD.IncidentEscalate to update the reassignment in exchange and flag is for SD.IncidentManagement event listener to perform the actual task creation and assignment and email notification.
The only wish I have to Symantec is please please allow for a in place Database upgrade rather than staging another. People will be hating me if I have three tickets systems going (HD 6.5, SD 7.1, and SD 7.5).
Deads locks are when seperate processes try to request the same information at the same time from SQL server. SQL server then has to decide which process to give it's "attention" to and return the data. In the mean time, the process that was ignored rolls itself back to a previous state. ServiceDesk reports this in it's log files as "SQLtransaction.ZombieCheck() issue".
There is no hard date. At Vision it was being mentioned sometime early fall may be the timeframe to look for it. At this point all we can do is cross our fingers that it will come out soon enough for some of us but also fix a lot of the outstanding issues.
It was also recommended to some of use that if you haven't gone live yet, if you can, hold off. This is primarily due to the lack of an upgrade path to 7.5. The same went for those of us on SP1, do not upgrade to 7.2 unless you need Change Management because then you will be doing 2 migrations in a very short span of time.
I can't really say. What I can say is that the entire ITMS Suite is getting a bump to 7.5 this fall and its something that they are really pushing for so I would think that they will do everything that they can to release it "on time". Again, you never can tell though. It might be worth a conversation with your rep to see if they have any more insight than we do.
Some More information in best of vision article https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/em-b01-whats-new-and-whats-coming-servicedesk
Sorry for the late update but here are some of the things regarding the SD 7.5 update from Vision:
- No upgrade path from SP1 or SP2 and 7.5 will be the base for all future upgrades
- As mentioned the Incident, Change and Problem workflow will be locked down
- Faster, stabiler, and reassignments and report updates are almost instant
- You can do most of the incident actions on one screen (edit incident details, reassignments, reclassify) instead of multiple smart tasks
- When a ticket is directly assigned to a worker, there is an assigned queue that can be set so the group permissions are set on the ticket. A default queue will be set for incidents without tasks so there will no longer be orphaned tickets. Not really sure how this works or if I may have misinterpreted it
- More robust rules engine to cover most user cases out there
- Direct control of SLA's through the portal and multiple SLA's can be set per group/individual
- Incident Management workflow has been slimmed down and more efficient and smaller footprint in the database space used up
- Some reports will removed. No changes to the reporting piece
- No new web parts planned
- Smarter installer so you can choose which workflows get upgraded when you do an update
- Incident Management process view is now similar to the Change Management process view
- More options to set/configure things will be put in the portal and not in the workflows
- Email/Feeder forms will still be accessible for modificiations
- Import/Export of categories for easier management. You can export the categories to Excel, make your changes and then import them back in
- Removal of confirmation screens so there is less forms to click through
- Subtasks will now automatically close if the main incident is closed
- Refresh issue fixed???
- No news of a beta
I think that is all of it from what I remember and Symantec is aware of all the negative feedback of the product and is working hard to fix it. Most of the team that worked on the initial versions of ServiceDesk left so those who came in after had to inherit all the issues with it.
My only concern is that they are basically resetting everything back to a Version 1 product with the 7.5 update so there will probably be a lot of issues when it is released.
I like my beats fast and my bass down low
While I certainly agree with you, I would bet that their answer to this is IT Analytics. We don't use it and probably won't be able to due to our infrastructure so it does make things extremely difficult, especially when you build a report with the same selected options but added in a different order, you never know what you're going to get!
When it comes out we're going to have three active systems (Altiris Helpdesk, SD 7.1 and SD 7.5) which is going to be a nightmare to manage. We've only put 12,000 + tickets into SD 7.1 so far but those will still need to be worked and archived. Really not looking forward to it all.
I like my beats fast and my bass down low
Unfortunately, everyone is in the same boat with this and going with three systems (HD, SD 7.1, SD 7.5)running side by side is a nightmare thought for us too. Unless our asset/deployment team has a need for new workflow components that may be in SD 7.5 to interface with their system and future plans for SMP 7.5, we will be staying on SD 7.1 SP1 as long as possible. It seems very stable at this point after many roll up versions being applied and numerous workflow design flaws fixed.
I do believe we officially list IE9 as something we test the Portal on for ServiceDesk 7.5 (at least right now, based on beta). The portal is designed to be browser independent so chances are IE10 will work fine.
If you mean the Symantec Management Platform, I am honestly not sure what the supported browsers will be.
If you are currently on Workflow 7.0 SP4, 7.1 SP1 or 7.1 SP2 Rollup, it does not differ in any way from the same versions without rollups.
*sigh* so typical Symantec to come up with a product that was supposedly 'cool' and then screw up the whole damn thing up to the point where everyone is starting to ditch the solution, only to have it 'fixed' at the point where everyone is starting to look somewhere else. when are they going to learn to design and release properly?


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March 30, 2011
A security researcher says he discovered keylogging software installed on two brand-new Samsung laptops that could be used to monitor all activities on the computer remotely.
Mohamed Hassan, founder of NetSec Consulting, discovered StarLogger software on Samsung laptops with model numbers R525 and 540 after running security scanning software on the systems after he bought them last month, he writes in a guest column in Network World posted today.
Windows-based StarLogger starts up when the computer is turned on, records all keystrokes made on the computer, can be difficult to detect, and can be set to periodically send surreptitious e-mails with information gleaned from the computer to a predetermined e-mail address, with screen capture images attached.
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Zulgad: DE Griffen looking forward to playing an attacking style on defense
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Questions about the Tampa-2 defense appear to be the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard at Winter Park.
This observation came to mind last week as defensive end Everson Griffen was asked about the difference between the scheme the Vikings used the past eight years and what new coach Mike Zimmer is installing this offseason.
"The Tampa-2 was fun, but let's get away from the Tampa-2, let's talk about this," Griffen said.
Griffen made it clear that Zimmer's defense will have nothing in common with what was employed in the past.
"We attack now. Our coach lets us attack now," Griffen said. "We make plays. I feel like we're go-getters. We're not waiting for them to strike. We're going to strike them before they strike us. That's what our defense is.
"We're high tempo, high speed and we're smart players. We just need to play as a team and be ready to dominate. Know that we're going to dominate every single play in every single game."
Dominating every play in every game might not be realistic, but Griffen's reference to playing an attacking style is good news for Vikings fans.
The Vikings finished next to last in the NFL in 2013 in total defense largely because they either lacked talent at certain key positions (for example, Chris Cook) or didn't use the personnel they had in a proper manner (thinking Josh Robinson could be used inside in the nickel package was a gross miscalculation).
Another part of the issue was the Tampa-2 had become far too predictable and made it easy for quarterbacks to pick it apart. It's interesting that Griffen applied the word attacking to what Zimmer wants to do because the Tampa-2 also had some passive tendencies.
The Vikings defense might struggle at times this season but it should not be because anyone is playing passive.
"We're going to attack and we're going to be smart," Griffen said. "We're not going to worry about what the other team is doing. We're going to play our style of ball and they are going to have to adjust to what we do."
Griffen, a fourth-round pick by the Vikings in 2010, is expected to play an important role, replacing Jared Allen as the starting right end. Griffen has played in all 16 games the past three seasons but still has only one career start.
The Vikings experimented with Griffen at linebacker during training camp in 2012 but quickly moved away from that idea. He finished with eight sacks that season and had 5.5 in 2013.
That production, and his potential upside, earned Griffen a five-year, $42.5 million contract in March that includes $19.8 million in guarantees.
"It lessens the pressure," Griffen said of the contract. "I get to go out there and have fun. I get to go out there and really become a master of my craft. Learn different moves and different techniques. I'm just ready to take it to the next level."
It will be interesting to see if Zimmer moves Griffen around. It was clear in minicamp that Zimmer will provide opponents with a variety of looks.
"Of course I want to be at right end. I'm a very versatile guy," Griffen said. "Whatever they have me do, I'm just going to do to my best ability and go out there and dominate and listen and learn.
"Absorb all the knowledge from the coaches. We have coaches that teach you here. Andre Patterson, coach (Robb) Akey. They are the best group of defensive line coaches I've been around. If you listen to them and adapt to what they are giving you that's the only thing you can ask for."
Griffen will enter the season with 17.5 career sacks and the fact he's replacing Allen could lead to an assumption that he will be collecting more quarterback takedowns. But Griffen's sack total might not be skyrocketing.
That's because Zimmer wants his linemen to occupy blockers and enable the linebackers to run free. This is why the Vikings took Anthony Barr in the first round and will line up the rookie at different spots.
So is Griffen concerned he won't get the type of opportunities that will come Barr's way?
"We're going to rush the passer. I'm not worried about the sacks, the sacks are going to come," he said. "You can't have a set number, you just have to go out there and play. I'm not worried about that. Coach Zimmer is going to let us play and let us do our thing within his scheme. The only thing I can do is go out there, be consistent, read my keys and execute my assignment every time. Then big plays are going to happen."


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A new report by Pacific Institute indicates that California has the potential to save a million acre-feet of water annually - not to mention enough electricity to power over 300,000 households - at a lower economic and environmental cost than the same old traditional, hard-path solutions such as building new dams and reservoirs that are currently on the table.
In California where water supply is scarce, to say the least, massive water savings can be achieved by taking the soft path towards water management rather than the traditional hard path approach. The soft path is a demand-side water management strategy on steroids, encompassing such practices as water conservation, water efficiency, water re-use, and low impact development. By contrast, the hard path is a supply-side water management approach, which relies mostly on generating new water supplies through building dams, reservoirs, diversions etc. While the latter approach still crucial role bringing new water to places that are truly in need, the former approach should be among first water management considerations as it opens the door to new ideas where freshwater use may not actually be necessary for certain operations.
According to Pacific Institute research, approximately 320,000 acre-feet of water can be saved annually in urban water consumption, and another 680,000 acre-feet can be saved annually in the agricultural sector--adding up to one million acre-feet of annual water savings--through the coordinated adoption of soft path strategies. But the benefits of the soft path approach do not stop at water savings. In addition, immense amounts of energy are saved in the process, and as result, massive cost savings are achieved. As reported in Pacific Instute's new report "California's Next Million Acre Feet: Saving Water, Energy, and Money," the use of water conservation and efficiency strategies could reduce California's water related energy use by as much as 2.3 million megawatt hours, the equivalent to the electricity needs of 309,000 Californian households.
Here is a press release for Pacific Institute's California's Next Million Acre-Feet:
A new analysis from the Pacific Institute recommends specific actions that can annually save a million acre-feet of water quickly and at a lower economic and ecological cost than developing new supplies. The assessment notes that new actions are immediately needed to reduce the growing tensions over the state's water resources and to address California's persistent water supply challenges.
This is a key time for California water: the California Water Bond has been tabled for at least two years and may be scrapped altogether. New reviews from around the state are calling for prompt efforts to use technology, economics, and institutional reform to address the state's water crisis. All parties seem to agree that the state will need a diverse portfolio of solutions – but it makes the most sense to do the most effective things first. The Pacific Institute's new report, California's Next Million Acre-Feet: Saving Water, Energy, and Money, quantifies more than one million acre-feet of water that can be conserved through improved efficiency, with savings coming from the urban and industrial sectors and improvements in agriculture.
"There is vast untapped potential to reduce our demand for water without affecting the services and benefits that water provides," said Heather Cooley, co-director of the Pacific Institute's Water Program and lead author of the report. "We identified how the next million acre-feet of water can be conserved in California, with approximately 30% of the savings from the urban sector and 70% from the agricultural sector. Both sectors have savings potential far exceeding this amount, and while we could have identified one million acre-feet of water savings annually in either sector alone, we're showing how all sectors can benefit from these improvements."
In the urban sector, the report identifies water savings from replacing old, inefficient water-using devices with high-efficiency models in our homes and businesses, as well as replacing some lawns with low-water-use plants. In the agricultural sector, best water management practices include weather-based irrigation scheduling, regulated deficit irrigation, and switching from gravity or flood irrigation to sprinkler or drip irrigation systems.
The efficiency improvements identified in California's Next Million Acre-Feet require an upfront investment of less than $1.9 billion, costs that could be borne by a mix of state, federal, and local agencies and individuals – all at a small fraction of the cost of the proposed water bond. The cost of the conserved water is $185 per acre-foot for the agricultural sector and a net savings of $99 per acre-foot for the urban sector, over the lifetime of the efficiency improvement. Conserving water also conserves energy, saves money, and reduces the need for new water and energy projects.
In contrast, building a new dam at Temperance Flat would require a capital investment of $3.4 billion and provide only 158,000 acre-feet per year; the cost of this water would be $720 per acre-foot, and cost estimates are rising. Unlike such proposed new water storage projects, urban and agricultural efficiency improvements often pay for themselves as a result of the many co-benefits that water conservation and efficiency provide, including reductions in wastewater and energy bills and improvements in crop quality and yield – and they can be implemented immediately.
Early this year, Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Water and Power that "improving the efficiency of our water use is the cheapest, easiest, fastest, and least destructive way to meet California's current and future water supply needs." Previous Pacific Institute reports on urban and agricultural water efficiency provide a comprehensive statewide analysis that finds that existing, cost-effective technologies and policies can reduce current state demand for water by 6-8 million acre-feet, or around 20 percent.
What do the water conservation and efficiency measures in the California's Next Million Acre-Feet report look like? A million acre-feet is nearly 12 times the city of San Francisco's annual water use and almost three times the amount of water that would be yielded annually by the proposed Sites Reservoir and Temperance Flat Reservoir combined. It would take 18 water desalination plants the size of the proposed Carlsbad plant (which would be the largest in the northern hemisphere) to produce a million acre-feet a year.
The Pacific Institute's analysis strongly recommends that water conservation and efficiency be a central component of any portfolio of solutions for California's water problems, and it offers specific strategies to help finance and implement them. Such strategies include financial incentives and rebates for water users, water pricing policies, metering, setting of targets, and education.
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People are always asking me for tips on how to make quick and healthy meals for their families. They just don't have the time. By the time they get off work, pick up the kids, eek through traffic and finally get home, the last thing they want to do is spend an hour getting dinner on the table. I get it. So, here are 5 must haves in your fridge to make meal time much more manageable.
On Sunday night once my kids have gone to sleep, I start to make a loose map of meals for the week and make sure that I have some things cooked and on hand in the fridge to make meal time easier. By washing, prepping and cooking things on Sunday, I find that my week nights are much more manageable.
1. Baked Sweet Potatoes/Russet Potatoes: We love potatoes at our house, especially sweet potatoes. I usually bake up 6-8 big potatoes (roast at 425 for 30-40 minutes depending on how big) at the beginning of the week. I store them in my glass tupperware and they are ready to go. Sometimes we make baked potato night with all the fixins' or sometimes I'll dice up the sweet potato and make a quick hash. You can also slice them up, toss in a little olive oil and herbs and through under the broiler for some quick fries. Potatoes are also great taco fillings. Saute with some taco seasoning and stuff inside a crispy taco shell. Potatoes are actually quite nutrient-dense, help keep your sugar levels steady and leave you feeling full.
2. Rinsed Greens: I always, always, always have my salad spinner in my fridge full of greens; red leaf, kale, spinach-whatever. It may not sound like much, but having greens ready to go is one of my best practices. It doesn't seem like much, but rinsing and sorting through a bunch of spinach can be really time consuming, especially if it just came from the ground. With ready-to-go greens, you can make a quick salad, saute up some greens and garlic or make a smoothie. We all need to make sure we're getting our greens and making them accessible is one of the best ways to make it easy to do so.
3. Cooked Brown Rice/Quinoa: This is a must! I try to cook up a bunch of brown rice at the beginning of the week and just keep it in the rice cooker bowl in the fridge. Brown rice can take 40 minutes to cook and even quinoa can take 20 so having this already done is a huge life saver. You can do a quick fried rice with veggies and tofu or saute it up with your "pre-cleaned" greens and sweet potatoes! You can even sprinkle it on top of your salad for a heartier meal.
4. Cooked Lentils: We love lentils in our house and substitute them for pretty much everything but they can take awhile to cook. Having them cooked and ready to go will cut out a lot of prep time. You can use them in a bolognese sauce, taco filling or sloppy joes. You could also saute them with your cooked rice. Lentils are so filling and are rich in protein, folate and iron. They may be the healthiest food out there!
5. Ready-Made Sauce: Ok, here is where we can tie all of these things together; with a sauce. I always have a vegan cheese sauce and tahini dressing ready to go to top off salads or rice bowls. But use whatever is your favorite; terriyaki sauce, hot sauce, hoisin-whatever you and your family likes best. And if you don't want to make it yourself, take a little help from the store and keep your favorite topping in your fridge. A good sauce always ties the meal together so pick out your favorite and keep it on hand.
I hope this little list helped. What are some of your favorite things to have on hand?
Are you ready for a super simple, fat free, warm, comforting Fall dish? Did I mention it has 7 ingredients and takes only 5 minutes of active cook time? It's true! The best part of this meal is that all you have to do is put all the ingredients into the rice cooker. Yes, that's right, I said rice cooker! It's amazing. I know, people have been using slow cookers for awhile now, but I don't have one, so I'm always pretty impressed when I can cook something without even being home.
So, I admit, lentils and rice may not be the sexiest dish, but it's definitely hearty and soul satisfying. I remember my Grandma Mary making this all the time, but she spend much longer standing over the stove cooking it. Of course as a child I didn't appreciate Italian peasant food, but over the years I have come to adore this dish and I feel like I'm giving my kids a little piece of my heritage each time we make it. My poor little rice cooker has been with me since high school but it's a trooper and always performs. Since brown rice and brown lentils have similar cooking times, I thought this just might work. And it did! The rice still had a little bite, the lentils were soft and the stock I used, kept everything moist and flavorful. Not to mention that this dish is loaded with protein, fiber and folate. And since it's made without oil, there is no added fat. This dish will help you stay full and satisfied for awhile. I hope you try this recipe at home.
Rustic Lentils & Rice
It's that time again, back to school. For most of us we are excited to get our little ones back into the routine of school and they're usually excited to see all of their friends. But with that often comes the responsibility of daily lunches. For some of us preparing lunches are easy. We thrive on getting creative with different food combinations, designing perfectly balanced meals for our little ones. But for others, we actually have anxiety about what to pack; either over packing with everything but the kitchen sink, or not packing enough. So wherever you are on the spectrum, here are a few ideas that are sure to please both parent and child; they're quick, cheap and packed with nutrients.
Hummus Wrap
Hummus is a food of the gods in our house. Packed with protein, it will keep your little one's energy up and sugar levels steady. Swap out any of the veggies below for what your child prefers.
1 sprouted tortilla
2 Tbsp hummus (any flavor your child likes)
1/4 avocado, sliced
2 long strips of cucumber
2 slices of bell pepper
Spread hummus on tortilla, layer in veggies and roll up. Secure with a toothpick or two.
Pasta & Peas
Using whole wheat or quinoa pasta in this adds protein and heartiness to this lunch. The peas are sweet and the quick cheese sauce is a sure win over any kid! The B vitamins and amino acids in the nutritional yeast are a bonus, too! If your child enjoys beans or lentils, this is a great way to sneak in some extra protein as well.
1 C cooked pasta of your choice
3 Tbsp thawed sweet peas
1-2 Tbsp garbanzo beans or cooked lentils (optional)
2 Tbsp non-dairy butter (We like Earth Balance soy free variety)
1 heaping Tbsp nutritional yeast
Splash of non dairy milk
In a small sauce pan, melt the butter and add the nutritional yeast and milk and stir to make a sauce. Add the pasta and peas to coat. Can be eaten warm or cold.
Tofu Bites
These little tofu bites are tasty and delicious. The camoflaged peas give your child a daily dose of veg and also adds more protein and vitamin C. The flaxseed meal adds a nice nutty quality to the panko as well as providing some vital Omega 3s. Pack with a little dipping sauce; my kids like ketchup or teriyaki sauce.
Crispy Tofu Bites
1 16oz package organic sprouted tofu
1/4 C pureed green peas
1/2 C non-dairy milk
3/4 C panko breadcrumbs
2 Tbsp. flaxseed meal
1 tsp. oregano
1 tsp. garlic salt
1 tsp. paprika
1/2 tsp. sea salt
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Remove the tofu from the package and pat dry with a couple of paper towels, being sure to remove all of the extra liquid. Cut into 16 equal size cubes and set aside. In one bowl add the milk and pureed peas and mix. In another bowl add the breadcrumbs, flaxseed meal, spices and mix together. Coat each piece of tofu in the milk/pea mixture and then roll it in the breadcrumb mixture, making sure to coat each side. Place on a greased cookie sheet and cook for 15-18 minutes (turning once) or until golden brown. Excellent served warm or cold.
What are some of your kid's favorite lunches?
My mama was in town a couple of weeks ago.
In addition to hanging with the kiddos and doing a little shopping, my mom is always eager to try new food. We're constantly sharing our latest foodie adventures and vegan recipes, so there were a couple of places I wanted to take her to. I had told her about M.A.K.E by Matthew Kenney in Santa Monica several months back and she was very excited to try it. We headed out for an early lunch one Sunday morning with my dearest friend for a girl's day out. My mom was in love with the menu. We ordered a bunch of food to share, some items I'd tried before and some new. Everything was absolutely delectable. We shared the Cheese Plate and Kimchi dumplings, which were divine. We also ordered the Kelp Noodles, Lasagna and Carrot Gnocchis. I really can't express how good the kelp noodles were-they are my favorite dish! They are creamy and spicy and aldente, if you can believe it. So good! The lasagna is unbelievably satisfying and the carrot gnocchis were light and delicate. We finished the meal with a duo of desserts; the Key Lime Pie and the Chocolate Ganache Cake with Churro Ice Cream. Wow! The desserts are a must try. The pie was light and refreshing and the chocolate cake was rich and decadent. The ice cream was freakishly dairy-like. So delicious! My mom is still talking about the meal! The thing I appreciate the most about this restaurant is that it's so good you don't even realize that the food is raw. It's not "good for a raw food place", it's just good food!
We also visited Susan Feniger's Street in West Hollywood. My husband and I just love that place. Although it's not a vegan restaurant, they have a ton of vegan options, each are clearly marked. And all of the options are delicious. It's not like they just phoned it in with the "veg" options (you know what I'm talking about), the food is really thoughtful and yummy. It's a small plate restaurant, which is perfect for us because we love to share. Ok, here's what we got: Yucca Fries w/Coconut Curry, Jackfruit Bao, Ramen Noodles w/Bok Choy, Tofu & Mushrooms, Potato Samosas & Apricot Cake. We liked everything. If you've never tried yucca fries, I suggest you do. They are starchy and crunchy and a nice alternative to potato. The coconut curry on top was a little thick for my taste but it was a delicious dish. The bao is my favorite. The bun is soft and a little chewy and it's covered in a peanuty-hoisen sauce-whew-so good! The ramen was solid. I always love a good noddle dish. The samosas were just delicious-crispy on the outside and chewy in the middle. It comes with a date chutney, cilantro pesto and raita (not vegan). I would eat the date chutney by itself, it was that good. And I loved finishing the meal with such a delectable little cake. It was moist and flavorful. I am always so excited when my dessert is more than sorbet :-)
If you haven't tried M.A.K.E or Street, you definitely should make your way there. You won't be disappointed. Where have you been eating lately??
My wife is the founder of Michy's Foods and she is vegan. She runs a vegan cookie company. We raise our kids on a plant-based diet. When we dine out, we tend to visit vegan establishments or at the very least seek out vegan menu options at non-vegan restaurants.
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Stocks ended the holiday-shortened week with their best weekly gain in nine months on mixed earnings in the tech and financials sectors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.16% and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.04% both finished up 2.4%, while the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.18% gained 2.7%.
As we enter one of the weakest earnings seasons in several quarters, one encouraging sign for market history buffs is that the S&P 500 rallied to show a slight gain for the year just before Easter after starting last week in the red.
With regards to earnings, Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets, said investors need to take a longer view on stocks and not just jump from earnings season to earnings season.
"I think investors in general make a huge mistake in companies, building a strategy on quarterly earnings alone," said Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets. "The recovery is more of a marathon than a sprint."
No sense getting myopic now
That sort of long term view is backed up by a recent analysis from Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial. Kleintop notes that we're currently in the weakest earnings cycle in 55 years with an annualized growth rate of 2.8% since the last market peak in the second quarter of 2007. The average growth rate is 7.8%.
While investors have been concerned that valuations have been getting ahead of earnings, Kleintop notes that for the most part, earnings have kept pace with valuations since June 2007 with S&P 500 earnings per share growing 21% and the S&P 500 also growing 21%.
Still, a further rise in stocks will have to be on the back of earnings growth, and while not as evident in first-quarter earnings, the rest of the earnings year will be decisive in determining the course of the market.
Even though only 16% of the S&P 500 has reported earnings this season, outlooks are looking less negative than usual, especially since they've been more negative than average recently. With 15 S&P 500 companies having given an outlook for the second quarter so far, only 9, or 60%, have issued an earnings guidance that falls below the Wall Street consensus, according to John Butters, senior earnings analyst at FactSet. While still early in the game, that's below the five-year average of 65%, according to Butters.
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BMO's Belski suggests focusing on companies that have higher quality earnings, those where cash earnings represent a larger portion of reported earnings per share and rely less on accounting tricks. Those companies tend to perform better over the long term regardless of the earnings environment, returning an average compound annual growth rate of 14.3% since 1990, compared with the 9.8% return for the S&P 500, Belski notes.
Companies that fall into that category reporting this week include Halliburton Co. HAL, +2.41% Qualcomm Inc. QCOM, +0.07% AbbVie Inc. ABBV, +1.71% and Gilead Sciences Inc. GILD, +2.22%
One of the advantages of not getting caught up in the short term is that a market correction is long overdue and that investors are more and more divided into two camps: that of complacency and that of expecting a big drop of more than 10% any day now.
"This year could be a sell in April," Belski said. "Corrections tend to happen when people least expect them." For his part, Belski maintains his 1,900 S&P 500 target for the year, meaning when all is said and done, he only expects the index to gain another 1.9% by the end of the year.


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My name is Sara Chatterjea and I reside in Fox Lake, IL with my husband and three children. I am an active, educated, mother and wife and opened my own home day care in October 2007. Taking care of children is my life, literally! As a little girl, all I ever wanted to be when I grew up was a mom. I started working with children at about the age of 12 by babysitting for local families and continued that while attending college in Minnesota. I graduated from Winona State University in 1998. After graduation, I worked in the juvenile justice field in Kenosha, WI; the foster care field in Racine, WI; and then a residential treatment center located in Lake Villa, IL for eight years. In 2001, I decided to attend graduate school to pursue a Masters in Teaching. In the course of completing that degree, I got married and had two children. I finally graduated with my Masters of Arts in Teaching from National-Louis University in March 2006.
In 2007, I felt a burdening need to do something different with my life. I was working with troubled youth at the residential treatment center and really wanted to get into teaching. However, I had two very young children at the time (ages 1 and 3) and wasn't sure how starting a new job at that point in my life would work. Many times in the past I had contemplated starting my own home day care but felt that I needed to become a parent first and experience raising my own children before attempting to help raise other peoples' children! I was driving to work one day in the spring of 2007, behind a mobile dog grooming truck… and I thought "that person obviously loves animals and started their own business, doing something they love," and then it hit me…I would do something I love and start my own home day care business to take care of and teach children! The second the idea hit me, it just felt right. And the rest is history!
I have personal experience with home day care. In 2004, after the birth of our first daughter, my husband and I were faced with the daunting task of finding a day care provider that could provide her with as much love, security, and patience as she would receive in our home. I knew off the bat that I did not want to enroll her in a child care center, and I felt that home day care was the best option for us. After a long process of narrowing down prospects, we decided on one provider, only to be faced with the task once again eight months later when our provider informed us that she would be moving to another state. After numerous interviews, we located another provider who came to be an important part of our family as our first, and ultimately second, daughters were cared for in a loving way while my husband and I worked. Our family has learned first-hand how invaluable a loving caregiver with a safe, clean, and comfortable home can be for the child and parent. I am a young mother with young children and I know exactly what it is like to have to leave your children in the care of someone else. I have felt those strings pull at my heart every time I had to drop my children off at day care. I have sat in many a business meeting during the day wondering what my children were doing at that very moment. Because of this, every day I strive to make the child care experience a great one for the child and parent.
I have truly enjoyed owning my own home day care. I feel completely honored to be a part of the children's lives that I care for. I love everything about it. I love giving my day care children the same love, teaching, and life experiences that I give my own children. I love being my own boss and managing, operating, and growing my own business. I love working with parents—listening to them, talking with them, and helping them raise their children. I love the special bond I get to create with each of my day care children, and that during the day when they need comfort, a hug, a lap to sit on, or someone to show their beautiful painting to….they come to me. I love that the children enjoy coming to my home in the morning, and, although it's not always convenient, some days they never want to leave! I even love the challenging days because every day is a new learning experience for me. I love that I am not just babysitting children…I am permanently influencing a child's life forever through love and quality child care programming every hour of every day that they are in my care. I feel this is my mark on the world, one little child at a time.
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For your leadership team, you hire and promote the best and the brightest who have a proven track record of delivering exceptional results. You have high expectations that they will inspire, develop, and motivate the same type of knowledge, skill, work ethic, and results orientation in the employees in their functional organizations. You also believe they can and will make valuable contributions as part of the leadership team by representing a critical point of view as issues are discussed decisions are made and executed.
What frequently becomes evident is that your leadership team has never really congealed as a "team." Instead, you have a leadership "group" of stellar individual performers and functional managers who exhibit an array of bad behaviors – from passive aggressive ways of not addressing issues to working around each other instead of with each other – to venting frustration openly with each other.
In my work with such teams, I've found little evidence of mal intent. In fact, intentions are almost universally positive. What I've discovered are five key obstacles to leadership team effectiveness that can be skillfully addressed in ways that support the group in its transformation into a high-functioning team. These include:
- Functional Team Primacy – the predisposition each leader has to operate from the perspective his first priority is to represent the functional point of view, rather than to think from an overall leadership team perspective.
- Lack of Unifying Common Goal – missing a clear team purpose or outcome that transcends all functional and tactical objectives.
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