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Manage typical problems: during the pregnancy time during this time the problem of nausea, thyroid, high Blood Pressure, edema, anxiety, restlessness, acidity, increased sugar etc can easily be managed through yoga practices – like dhyana & pranayama and vyayaam.
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Ease the process of normal delivery: The asanas and the yoga practices are oriented to prepare woman's body for normal delivery. Normal Delivery is very important for woman's health in future. Prenatal yoga postures help in strengthening the thigh muscles & flexing vaginal muscles for an easy dilation.
Samskaar (Impressions on Child): Meditation on oneself in this state is like giving the first impressions to the child that are certainly going to be with the kid for a lifetime. There is mantra chanting of certain special mantras that explains & elaborate philosophy of life & existence. This divine chanting nurtures the baby spiritually.


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Elkhorn — A 45-year-old former Williams Bay man who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography won't have to serve time in a state prison or the Walworth County Jail.
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However, Ronald Oehm, now of Whitewater, will have to register as a sex offender for the next 15 years and serve five years of probation.
On July 28, Judge Robert Kennedy spared Oehm from jail after he claimed he didn't intentionally seek out child pornography and, according to evidence on his computer, likely rarely viewed the illegal, illicit images.
Oehm was arrested March 25, 2010 when the Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation and the Williams Bay Police Department raided Oehm's Stam Street home and found child pornography.
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When I interviewed Alan Sparhawk in 2007, the singer/songwriter/guitarist touched on the idea of a "golden moment ... when you're sort of just struggling with some instrument and you sort of have just figured it out, and you are just figuring out the first possible ideas and melodies on it; it's really exciting."
He was talking specifically about Low's Drums & Guns, in which the Minnesota trio (featuring Sparhawk, his wife Mimi Parker on drums, and bassist Matt Livingston – who has since left the band) experimented with instruments they weren't comfortable playing.
In an interview last week promoting Retribution Gospel Choir's December 31 performance at RIBCO (supporting the Meat Puppets), that concept re-emerged in slightly different form. He cast it as freedom – but it's critical to understand that it isn't a natural state of being but the result of work and getting rid of ego. "Those are everything," he said. "'There was a moment where I was not in the way.'"
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A day after working five scoreless innings in relief, Joe Kelly got promoted to the St. Louis Cardinals' rotation. They're still figuring out when they'll need their new fifth starter.
Manager Mike Matheny said Saturday breaks in the schedule complicate the process. Among the variables, the Cardinals are off Monday and Thursday, the All-Star break is just a few weeks away and rookie Shelby Miller's work load is being monitored.
"We've drawn up easily a dozen models already, trying to think of the pros and cons of each," Matheny said. "If there's a start to be had, it will be Joe Kelly's.
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The Cardinals could use some pitchers on normal rest and give others extra days off. Matheny also said Kelly could be bullpen insurance after three or four days.
The 25-year-old Kelly made 16 starts as a rookie last year in place of the injured Jaime Garcia and was 5-7 with a 3.53 ERA. He has been used in long relief this season with long gaps of inaction, and before replacing Tyler Lyons in the second inning Friday against Texas he'd thrown just 22⁄3 innings since June 5.
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Muggsys's in South Baltimore will close Thursday, after its owners couldn't agree on a new lease with their landlord.
Danny Young, co-owner, said the disagreement with the landlord was amicable.
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Young denied a rumor that he or co-owner Brent Putman would take over Don't Know Tavern, which owner Jason Zink is selling. News of Muggsys's passing was first reported at Beer in Baltimore.
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I like her idea of telling Abbas (the president who is in his 9th year of a 4 year term) to just go to some warm place and count his stolen money.
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What makes PLO chief and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas tick?
In 2008, when Abbas rejected then prime minister Ehud Olmert's expansive offer of Palestinian statehood, he did so for the same reason that Yassir Arafat rejected then prime minister Ehud Barak's expansive offer of Palestinian statehood at Camp David in 2000.
In both cases, the PLO chiefs believed that if they waited, they could get everything they demanded from Israel – and more – without giving anything away.
As Abbas and Arafat both saw it, eventually either the Israeli Left would successfully erode Israel's national will to exist, or the Europeans and the US would join forces to coerce Israel into giving up the store. [……]
To get everything in exchange for nothing all they had to do was continuously escalate the PLO's political warfare against the legitimacy of Israel internationally, and escalate its subversion of Israeli society through political intrigue and terrorism.
Back then, Abbas and Arafat looked forward to the day when they could frame Israel's unconditional surrender and nail it to their wall.
But things have changed.
The rise of the revolutionary forces in the Islamic world since December 2010 has transformed the political landscape.
The Syrian civil war, the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the resurgence of al Qaeda franchises, the US's abandonment of its traditional Arab allies in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Barack Obama's aspiration to reach a meeting of the minds with the Iranian regime have completely upended the political calculus of all regional actors, including the PLO and Abbas.
As Palestinian affairs expert Reuven Berko wrote in an article published by the Investigative Project on Terrorism last week, if in the past Abbas wouldn't make a deal with Israel because he could get more by saying no, today Abbas cannot make a deal with Israel.
Any deal he concludes will lead to his overthrow.
Noting that Abbas was recently threatened by al Qaeda chief Ayman Zawahiri who called him, "a traitor who is selling Palestine," Berko explained, "The threats, veiled or not, by radical Islamists… and a quick look at [the] Arab-Muslim world, especially Syria, have made it clear to the Palestinians what the future has in store for them, and it now appears that in the meantime, they prefer the status quo to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state."
As Berko sees it, Abbas's primary problem is the residents of the UN refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and beyond. Israel's unwillingness to accept a so-called "right of return," which would enable millions of foreign Arabs residing in terrorist-controlled UN-run refugee camps to immigrate to a post-peace agreement Israel, means that in an era of peace, they will move to the newly created state of Palestine.
Berko rightly notes that these immigrants will not regard Abbas as their savior, to the contrary.
"The Palestinian leadership knows that if their demand for Palestinian control of the Jordan Valley crossings were accepted, the operative result would be floods of people seeking entrance into 'liberated Palestine.' They know that among them would be operatives of all the Palestinian terrorist organizations, to say nothing of the armed jihadists currently active in the Arab-Muslim world, especially in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, who would stream in 'to liberate all Palestine.' [……..]
The new immigrants would overwhelm Abbas and his comrades, making the Hamas ouster of Fatah forces from Gaza in 2007 look like a walk in the park.
Berko limited his discussion to a scenario in which these foreign Arabs are confined to "Palestine." But if Israel were to agree to his demand that they move into its sovereign territory, Abbas's future would be no different.
If Israel were to publicly renounce its right to exist, cancel the Declaration of Independence and adopt the PLO Charter as its new constitution, Abbas would be no better off than if he conceded Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, compromised on the so-called "right of return," and accepted the settlements.
In both cases, he would end up like Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi.
Some Israelis are pleased with Abbas's stand. As they see it, his position enables Israel and the Palestinians to operate under the status quo more or less unchallenged for the foreseeable future.
There are two problems with this view. First, neither the Americans nor the Israeli Left are willing to let the peace process go. US Secretary of State John Kerry's decision to devote two hours to yet another meeting with Abbas last week, despite Abbas's unity deal with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, shows that Kerry is constitutionally incapable of disengaging.
Likewise, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni's wildcat diplomacy, which involved an unauthorized meeting with Abbas in London last week, demonstrates that like the Americans, Israel's Left cannot relent.
Livni and her comrades have no issue other than the Palestinian issue. Their political survival is tied to the peace process.
The second problem is Abbas. Whereas he needs to prevent a settlement to keep the jihadists at bay, he needs to escalate the conflict to keep the local Palestinians at bay and maintain the support of the Europeans and the American Left.
Only by scapegoating and criminalizing Israel worldwide can Abbas maintain his relevance to the international Left.
The two-state model is his life preserver. The policy paradigm is based entirely on the false claim that the cause of all the region's ills is the absence of a Palestinian state. That state, it is believed, would exist save for Israel's land greed.
Those who uphold Abbas and the status quo ignore the consequences of Abbas's own imperatives. In the international arena, preserving the status quo requires Israel to maintain its allegiance to the two-state paradigm's inherent and malicious slander of the Jewish state. This allegiance in turn makes it impossible for Israel to defend itself effectively against the Palestinian led campaign to deny its right to exist.
In its internal affairs, maintaining faith in the two-state model and in Abbas as a legitimate and moderate Palestinian leader makes it almost impossible for Israel to take effective measures to defend against the Palestinian terror infrastructure.
The time has come for Israel to show Abbas the door. It would be best if we can do it quietly – offering him the opportunity to relocate to somewhere warm and retain all the loot that he and his cronies have siphoned off for their personal use.
Once Abbas is gone, Israel will have to choose between applying its laws to parts of Judea and Samaria and offering the Palestinians outside those areas a limited form of autonomy, or applying its laws to the entire region, conferring permanent residency status on the Palestinians and offering them the right to apply for Israeli citizenship.
Alarmists argue that without Abbas, Israel will go broke having to finance the Palestinian budget. But this is ridiculous. Once you subtract the hundreds of millions of dollars that go missing every year, and you take into account that Israel managed to govern the areas for 24 years, you realize that this is just one more empty threat – like the demographic threat — made by people who have no political existence without the facade of a peace process.
Abbas is not an asset. He is a liability. It is time to move past him.
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ResMed Launches Narval™ CC Mandibular Repositioning Device In The US
SAN DIEGO, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ResMed Inc. (NYSE:RMD), a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of sleep and respiratory medical equipment, announced the US launch of Narval™ CC, its state-of-the-art mandibular repositioning device. The company unveiled the product at last week's American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine annual meeting. Building on years of market leadership in France, its country of origin, Narval CC is an innovative, effective, world-class device that offers an alternative solution to patients for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120613/LA24222)(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100203/RESMEDLOGO) ResMed's introduction of Narval CC follows its acquisition of the France-based Labaratoires Narval. With the acquisition, ResMed added an additional therapy method to complement its comprehensive positive airway pressure (PAP) solutions, providing a broader offering for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea sufferers. "Obstructive sleep apnea is a severe disease which, left untreated, can have significant long-term impacts on serious conditions including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and, as very recent research has shown, cancer," stated Michael Farrell, president, ResMed Americas. "The gold-standard therapy for obstructive sleep apnea is PAP therapy. However, we know that today some patients either refuse PAP treatment or fail to comply. Narval CC provides an effective alternative for those untreated patients. With the release of Narval CC, ResMed is now the only PAP company with a customized solution for noncompliant patients or patients who refuse PAP treatment, giving our customers and patients another choice in their treatment." The Narval CC provides clinically proven treatment for snoring and OSA.(1-3) The cornerstone of the design is how it maintains the lower jaw in a forward position with a patented optimized retention of the mandible. This allows natural movement of the jaw, increasing patient comfort, and resulting in superior compliance and efficacy. Each device is custom-made to suit the complex dental anatomy of individual patients using a nimble and scalable computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) process. "Narval CC's proprietary design combined with CAD/CAM technology offers one of the lightest solutions on the market. Precision-enabled digital dentistry has arrived in the mandibular repositioning device market," said Kristie Burns, general manager, dental sleep, ResMed. "With Narval CC, we finally have a way to reach a previously untreatable patient group with a solution to help them achieve a healthy night's sleep." About ResMedResMed is a global leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of medical products for the diagnosis, treatment and management of respiratory disorders, with a focus on sleep-disordered breathing. The company is dedicated to developing innovative products to improve the lives of those who suffer from these conditions and to increasing awareness among patients and healthcare professionals of the potentially serious health consequences of untreated sleep-disordered breathing. For more information on ResMed, visit www.resmed.com. (1) Vecchierini M et al. Efficacy and compliance of mandibular repositioning device in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome under a patient-driven protocol of care. Sleep Med 2008;9(7):762–769 (2) Dookun R. 18 month assessment of 54 patients referred for treatment of anti-social snoring (AHI ≤ 30/hr) with a custom Mandibular Repositioning Device (MRD). Paper presented at the World Association of Sleep Medicine & Canadian Sleep Society Congress 2011(3) Geraads et al. First intention management of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) by custom-made mandibular advancement device: the medium-term results. Prospective study by the General Hospital Pneumologists College (CPHG). Rev Pneumol Clin 2010;66(5):284–292 SOURCE ResMed Inc.
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In this video, Part Three of the interview, he explains how corporations that externalize their costs to society, particularly environmental impacts, negatively affect market efficiencies and the democratic process.
I spent a lot of time in West Virginia litigating against the coal industry. There's 3,000 coal roads in West Virginia that have 22 inch asphalt on them. 18 to 22 inches and every inch costs the taxpayer millions of dollars, and the reason they have that is because the coal trucks weigh 40,000 pounds and they pulverize the surface. But it's not the coal companies that are paying for those roads. It's the taxpayers of the state.
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New York -- Efforts to improve and speed up access to care for people living with HIV/AIDS are gaining new momentum, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said today.
A total of 58 countries have now expressed interest in gaining access to lower-price drugs -- including treatments for opportunistic infections and antiretroviral therapy -- in the context of the public-private partnership started in May 2000 by five United Nations agencies and five private sector companies.
Five research-based pharmaceutical companies (Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Glaxo Wellcome, Hoffman La Roche and Merck) and the World Health Organization, World Bank, UNICEF, UNFPA and the UNAIDS Secretariat have been exploring ways of speeding up access to HIV/AIDS-related care and treatment in developing countries.
Twenty three countries have indicated interest in the past month alone. Eleven of the participating countries (ten of them in Africa, one in Latin America) already have reached agreements with manufacturers on significantly reduced drug prices.
The process is gaining new momentum as regional groups of countries recognize the potential of driving drug prices lower through regional procurement. This regional approach potentially also offers people moving between countries in a region access to fairly standard levels of care. Countries in Southern, Eastern, and West Africa are actively pursuing this option.
"A regional approach holds strong potential to expand the benefits of improved access to care, for example through the possibility of bulk purchasing, shared technical assistance and joint resourcing," said Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS.
Competition from generic manufacturers and a proactive attitude on the part of the research and development-based industry have helped reduce drug prices. Uganda's approach to lowering prices, for example, has involved direct competition between generics and research and development-based manufacturers.
Aiding the process is a database of drug suppliers set up by UNICEF, WHO, and the UNAIDS Secretariat, in conjunction with Médecins Sans Frontières. The database identifies prices and sources of selected drugs used in the care of people living with HIV/AIDS, including essential drugs to treat opportunistic infections and several antiretroviral drugs. A total of 34 manufacturers of drugs (29 of them manufacturers of generic products) have applied to be listed as potential suppliers.
"Significant price discounts are being achieved, but prices of HIV/AIDS drugs are still far beyond the reach of the majority of people who need them," said Dr. Piot.
Several other approaches are being used to ensure sufficient resources are allocated to comprehensive care programmes in hard-hit countries.
Governments are devoting more public funds toward prevention and care. Some -- like Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Mali, Morocco, and Senegal -- are allocating special funding to subsidize access to antiretrovirals for people who are unable to afford the drugs. Other countries, including Burundi and Rwanda, contribute to a special fund for purchasing drugs at subsidized prices.
Countries are also directing debt relief funds toward HIV/AIDS prevention and care programmes. Cameroon and Mali, for example, have converted part of their debt into a fund for care and subsidizing access to drugs.
Some governments have invited private companies to subsidize access to drugs for their employees and their families. In countries like Brazil and South Africa, regulation of existing insurance schemes has provided access to HIV/AIDS care for thousands of people who would otherwise have been unable to afford it.
"We have seen a sea of change in the way many governments approach the HIV/AIDS epidemic," said Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of WHO. "The possibility of treatment has given new hope, making countries scale up their efforts to fight the disease, through prevention and better diagnostics as well as beginning to provide care for those already infected."
Despite these advances, there remains a pressing need for even stronger progress on a range of other fronts.
Access to care and treatment will remain uneven until countries are able to afford AIDS-related drugs and diagnostic equipment, strengthen their health systems with the necessary infrastructure and trained staff, and provide adequate voluntary counselling and testing services and psychosocial support.
While significant price discounts for antiretroviral therapy have been achieved, the vast majority of people affected by HIV/AIDS remain without access to even basic drugs and medicines. Ensuring that essential care -- palliative care, prophylaxis and treatment for opportunistic infections -- is rolled out rapidly is as critical a challenge as making antiretrovirals more widely available.
No matter how low prices go, additional funds will be needed to meet the costs of care for the poorest. Most of it would need to come from increased development assistance that adds to what is already being spent on other, common and deadly diseases such as malaria.
Developing countries and donor agencies increasingly act on the awareness that care and prevention efforts are intimately linked. Consequently, they are viewing AIDS-related care as a good investment that holds direct benefits for people living with HIV/AIDS and brings indirect spin-offs for AIDS prevention in the wider community.
At least, 90% of the world's 36.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS live in developing countries -- 25.3 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Forty of them are in Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cap Vert, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Togo, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Twelve countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have registered their interest in collaborating with UNAIDS on access to care and treatment: Barbados, Belize, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, San Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. In Europe, Belarus, Romania and Ukraine have indicated their interest, while in Asia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have done likewise.
Eleven of these countries (bold, in italics above) have reached agreement with manufacturers on significantly reduced drug prices.
Prices of generic drugs in December 2000
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Prices of drugs from R&D industry in December 2000
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Prices of drugs from R&D industry in April 2001
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Zidovudine plus lamivudine combination (ZDV + 3TC)
Lamivudine (3TC)
Didanosine( ddI)
Stavudine (d4t)
Note that these are prices offered by the manufacturers. They, therefore, do not include wholesale or retail mark-ups -- which may make the drugs 10-30% more expensive to the end-user in Uganda, depending on the retail source from which the patient buys the drugs.
Prices of drugs from the research and development based industry in Uganda, Senegal, and Rwanda are very similar to those shown here.


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by Rick Brenner
It sometimes happens in project work that a problem arises that has no obvious solution. And it can happen that the team might try a number of solutions and still not resolve it. If the problem persists, you can reach a state where you simply do not know what to do. What do you do then?
What do you do when you're in a bind, with no good options? Punt? Here's a set of suggestions for finding your way through these quandaries, and a set of things to avoid doing while you're there.
The main thing to keep in mind is that you've tried all your usual approaches, that you've put your best people on it, and nothing has worked. Let's put this as tactfully as possible. In most human groups, two factors are present — hierarchy and standard solution patterns.
In technical project teams, there's usually a hierarchy based on some combination of competence and seniority. The team knows who to turn to for expertise in specific areas, and the hierarchy functions to smooth out normal operations. Standard solution patterns help to make our work more universally understandable, which helps us work as a team. Hierarchy and standard solution patterns are really helpful for everyday technical work.
But sometimes a great strength can be a great weakness. Both hierarchy and standard solution patterns work against you when you're in a stuck place. Here's how.
Hierarchy usually functions to make sure that the right people are consulted for particular problems. But it often does this by excluding other people. For example, if two solutions are proposed, one by the team's acknowledged expert in a particular area, and one by someone less so acknowledged, we tend to give greater credibility to the expert's solution. The non-expert's solution is sometimes set aside simply because of the author's stature — or lack of it.
Standard solution patterns work the same way, except they function in the space of how work is done. For example, if two solutions are proposed — one that's novel and non-standard, and one that's more conventional, more like the usual way of doing business — we're more likely to go with the one that's closer to the standard solution pattern. Normally, this is good, conservative practice.
When the team is stuck, it means that the usual way of working — through hierarchy and standard solution patterns — isn't working, and it's time to try something else. Here's a set of practices that will help you get around the hierarchy and the standard ways of thinking.
Sometimes doing nothing actually works. It may be that if you just focus attention elsewhere for a while, the problem will be resolved. This can happen in a number of ways.
Doing nothing might be difficult, unless you replan part of the project. Even though this can be an expensive thing to do, replanning might be well worth the price if it creates as an option the strategy of doing nothing.
Sometimes it might be difficult to pause to do nothing, because the problem you're having could be blocking something in the critical path. Can you replan to take it out of the critical path? If you can, you'll find a number of advantages:
Perhaps one or two people on the team know exactly what is needed to resolve the difficulty. And it could be that they simply don't know that they alone have this knowledge. They might be assuming that everyone knows it, and that for some reason, it isn't the key to the puzzle. Or it might not be the key to the puzzle by itself, but when combined with one or two other pieces, the problem resolves or a solution comes into view.
One thing that helps in these situations is a simple game that I call "What Haven't I Told You?" You play the game in rounds, with a small group of about ten or fifteen people. It helps if one person acts as a facilitator and scribe.
This game helps reduce the volume of knowledge that's held by each individual but hidden from the rest of the team, and it increases the volume of shared knowledge. In this way, it puts more light, more brainpower on the problem. It does this by intentionally inverting the hierarchy of technical competence and specialization. More about "What Haven't I Told You?"
This sometimes works, but looking to past experience can be dangerous if you're trying to think differently. It's like steering a car by looking in the rear-view mirror. If you can avoid that trap, you can mine the solution of one problem for the solution of the current problem, in two important ways.
Morphological Analysis, invented by Fritz Zwicky, is a technique for systematically determining the effects of combinations of factors. It's described in Conceptual Blockbusting, [Adams 86].
The basis for the success of this technique is that sometimes the problem you're dealing with has multiple contributing causes, and then understanding the problem requires that you have in mind several of these causes at the same time. Here's how to use it.
Make a list of all the relevant factors you want to consider, and write them in a single column along the left edge of a page or white board. Then make a copy of the same list across the top of the page or white board. Each factor in the left column defines a row, and each factor at the top defines a column. The intersection of each row and each column thus defines a pair of relevant factors. You really only have to consider the triangle of pairs above the main diagonal, because the cells along the main diagonal are just pairs of identical factors, and the triangle below the main diagonal duplicates the triangle above it.
The procedure, then, is to consider each cell — to meditate on it, and see what comes bubbling to the surface. The utility of this technique is that it provides a way to make certain that you consider all pairs.
You can extend it to triples, by thinking of a cube instead of an array. I've never gone to 4-tuples with this technique, but perhaps you could if you needed to.
Places to apply this technique might be to the list of items generated in a game of "What Haven't I Told You?," or to a list of options generated by brainstorming.
Increasing the pressure to solve the problem may help some people, but it causes many others to shut down. People are motivated in different ways — some avoid negative outcomes (the "away from" type), while others work toward positive outcomes (the "towards" type). The idea that increasing pressure will increase output comes from a belief that people are motivated to avoid negative consequences — that all of us are "away froms."
While this is true for some people, it isn't true for everyone. When you increase the pressure, you lose many of the Towards types. Now, if you've used this strategy over a long period in your organization, you may already have driven off most of the Towards, or you may have trained those that remain to behave in what is for them a less natural mode — that of the Away From. If that's the case, you may have lost some of your best people already, and depressed the productivity of many who remain.
But if there are any Towards types in your organization, remember that they respond better to a vision of a positive outcome than to a fear of a negative one. Driving up the pressure, if it's an example of keeping on doing what you've been doing, probably won't help. And it could contribute to tension and possibly low morale. If enough people are affected, the tension could also impact the Away Froms. Then you'd be in a pickle.
Interestingly, the effects aren't symmetric. Using a vision of a positive outcome as a motivation doesn't depress the Away Froms — it motivates them too.
Doing what you've been doing is how you got into this fix in the first place. To get out of it, you just might have to do something different. That's why I suggest that you might have to temporarily suspend standard solution patterns, or deviate from your usual hierarchy when you ask people to look at the problem.
You might have to adopt some unusual measures to do things differently. For example, if you want to increase the effectiveness of a brainstorming session or a game of "What Haven't I Told You?", conduct it in an unusual place. Or invite an outside facilitator. Or have a local stand-up comic or humorist do the facilitating. Pass out balloons or bubble mix. Declare a casual day (if you need to). If your organization already is casual, declare a Suit Day! Or hold the session outside. Jiggle the status quo. Sounds strange, but it often works.
New ideas are always fragile. They're easily crushed, because they're new.
Criticizing new ideas prematurely is a good way to kill them. Since new ideas are especially vulnerable to criticism, try to find ways to suspend criticism of new ideas. In a forum in which the team is discussing new ideas, try establishing a rule that suspends criticism. Instead, try a rule that if someone wants to comment on an idea, the comment must be confined to strengthening the idea.
Focusing on what will happen if you fail is an often-used tactic for applying increasing pressure to the project team. It can take many forms:
And so on. All of these threats assume that all people are of the Away From orientation. While some of us are, the people who are Towards types can be demoralized by threats. If they are, the general tone of the team can be depressed even if there are only a few of the Towards orientation.
Sometimes managers withhold information that they think will retard progress, especially if the information is bad news regarding availability of resources, budget, or some critical component. Sometimes members of the project team withhold information that they think might be dangerous to reveal, especially if they fear that they might be tagged with blame. Information is sometimes withheld on both sides of the supervisory divide — and it's almost always a bad idea, for two reasons.
It's nearly always better to tell the truth, to not withhold the bad news. Nearly always. The sole exception is the blaming organization. And in that situation, you have far more serious problems.
Punishment and blame are very effective at stifling creativity — and creativity is just what you need to get out of stuck places. Here's how they work.
For a complete discussion of the effects of blaming, see [McLendon 96].
You might find that there are some people working on the project that you believe may have considerable responsibility for the project's problems. Whatever you believe, relieving them of any significant portion of normal duties is a risky proposition. Complete reassignment is a better option. Best of all, do nothing, if you're confident that no further harm is likely.
The reason for this is that it's important to avoid creating an atmosphere of blame. If it seems to the project team that the individual is being punished for making a mistake, some of them could become so afraid of making a mistake that they'll be unwilling to take the ordinary kind of risks that a project team needs to take, such as speaking out about a good (or bad) idea.
We all want to learn from our mistakes, so it makes sense to try to find out why the problem arose in the first place. But save it for the Project Retrospective. If you try to investigate while the problem is still open, you're taking some big risks.
If you have some information to share, a meeting is a good way to do it. People can deliver the information they have to everyone at once, and there can be room for interaction, questions, and new insights. But sometimes, especially when the project is stuck on something, we tend to use the regular informational meeting as a way of exerting pressure on the teams that are stuck.
Of one thing you can be sure: the moment a long-standing problem is resolved, everyone will find out about it. There's no need to hold a meeting to share that kind of information. And as discussed above, increasing pressure isn't likely to help. Meetings to announce success in breaking a logjam or to increase pressure aren't likely to help much. They might even do harm.
Celebrations are another matter — they almost always help. If you want to hold a celebration of a success, go ahead and do that — but don't celebrate at a meeting.
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As a devastating summer storm hits Grand Springs, Colorado, the next thirty-six hours will change the town and its residents forever .
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Amnesiac Martin Smith believes if he can solve Mayor Olivia Stuart's murder he could solve the mystery of his identity. Maybe then the pain of his tortured dreams would stop and he could start a new life in Grand Springs with Juliet.
He and Juliet are closing in on the killer. But when Martin learns the truth of his identity, how will he come to terms with his traumatic past?
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|Release Date: March 05, 2004
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Looking ahead to 2016, value sales within the UK hair care market have been forecast to increase by a CAGR of 1% in constant value terms, to reach a value of £1.5 billion. Market growth is set to be attributed to new forms of innovation, better quality ingredients (following the herbal/organic trend) and greener packaging, but also to consumers continuing the trend to treating themselves to good quality hair care at home rather than in the salon.
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Thursday I prayed for a friend who's meeting a church this weekend. They may hire him and it would be an amazing opportunity. I played this song as we met.
We both cried as we connected with God's work and presence in his life.
Friday night I sat in the room of a woman who's been hospitalized for months. She's a Christian and is expected to die soon.
I sang a few lines from this song to her over and over. "You are welcome in this place, you are welcome in this place; God of power, love and grace, saturate my soul."
As I sang her heart rate dropped five beats per minute. I took that to mean that she was receiving comfort. If she could communicate with me otherwise I couldn't tell.
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An older lady is nearing the very end of her earthly life. God is welcome in that place.
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Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity
Rutgers University Press, 1999 - Art - 214 pages
The book contains essays that profile the state's 100 most significant works as well as the artists who created them, and features nearly 100 magnificent photographs that document these works, capturing the effects of time and the environment on each sculpture. Bzdak and Petersen selected these works for the variety of stories they tell and for their range of artistic expression, from traditional to contemporary, rather than focusing only on the best known or most visible works of public sculpture. By telling the stories behind the sculptures, the book captures New Jersey's history, especially history that may not be well known but that conveys significant information about how our predecessors lived and the official images they sought to leave behind.
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Rubio uses Palm Beach County to deliver major address on Israel
U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio plans a major foreign policy speech Thursday about Israel.
He speaks before a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition, meeting in Palm Beach County.
Republicans have been attempting to fracture the longtime alliance between Jewish voters and the Democratic Party. Jewish Republicans have stepped up those efforts as they argue that President Barack Obama isn't sufficiently supportive of Israel.
Rubio offered a preview in an interview with the conservative website Newmax. The former Florida House speaker from West Miami said Obama has undermined Israel.
Here's part of the Newsmax piece:
In responding to the Israeli raid on a Turkish flotilla, Obama has ignored the fact that the flotilla's organizers and participants were looking for a confrontation and have "strong direct ties to Islamic fundamentalists, jihadists, and terrorists and to many who do not believe in Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state," Rubio, a former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, says.
"I believe that there is an organized, systematic attempt to de-legitimize Israel's right to exist and to undermine Israel's right to defend itself," Rubio says. "And so Israel has never needed strong American support more than it needs it now."
Yet, Rubio says, "Some of the pronouncements and actions of this administration over the last year have emboldened those who are trying to de-legitimize Israel."
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Melting glacial ice reminds us of the North's role in global climate change. Detritus from the 2010 Japanese tsunami reveals the ring-of-fire traffic of economies, risks, species, bodies, and waste. Environments and communities in the North disproportionately bear the costs of the planet's dependency on oil. It is clear that the North is not an isolated, anachronistic, pristine, exceptional, or "authentic" space, as prevailing assumptions hold. As this collection seeks to demonstrate, the North is a dynamic, transnational, connected and contested space where natures, identities, histories, and politics constantly intersect.
We seek proposals for scholarly essays that address "the North" in these new and illuminating ways. Concerns often associated with the North—melting icebergs, oil development, and indigeneity, for example—are overwhelmingly approached from perspectives in the natural and social sciences, making questions about the truth of climate science, the validity of traditional ecological knowledge, or the cost-benefits of oil development projects dominate our thinking about the region. This book seeks to add an environmental humanities perspective and thereby challenge prevailing assumptions about Northern concerns, and even what counts as "the North" to begin with.
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From Unlikely Voter: Even in a wave election, some members of the losing party stand well in their own local elections. However one key trait of a wave election is that the losing party's base is so discouraged that they fail to show up. So if this Rasmussen poll is right, I think the nomination of Scott Walker for Governor by Republicans would depress Democrats | Read More »


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Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway will mark the arrival of Joey Logano as a full-time driver at the highest level of NASCAR.
Logano will make his debut at Daytona in the No. 20 Home Depot sponsored Joe Gibbs Racing ride in the Sprint Cup Series, replacing 2-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart behind the wheel of the car.
But before he gets there, the 18-year old Middletown native has some business left to tend to at the regional level of NASCAR.
Logano, the champion of the 2007 Toyota All-Star Showdown, will return to Irwindale (Calif.) Speedway Jan. 23-24 to defend his title in the race.
Logano's 2007 victory at Irwindale capped a magical seasons for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver. It was a season that saw Logano win in his debuts in both the Camping World West and East divisions, in the process becoming the youngest winner ever in each of those divisions. Logano went on to win five of 13 races in the Camping World East in 2007 on the way to becoming the first rookie to win a championship in the division.
The Toyota All-Star Showdown at the half-mile Irwindale Speedway is NASCAR's All-Star event for talent from all over NASCAR's regional and grassroots landscape.
"I can't wait to go back," Logano said. I've got the same car and that track is just a real cool race track. And we had a great time out in Southern California. I really enjoyed being out there. It's pretty much the Daytona 500 of short-track racing, and it would be awesome to go back and win it again."
Logano spent most of the 2008 season behind the wheel of Joe Gibbs Racing Nationwide Series car, becoming the youngest driver ever to win the history of that division in June. He finished the season with 13 top-10's in 19 Nationwide Series starts.
In August, after Stewart announced he was leaving the organization to form his own Sprint Cup team. Joe Gibbs Racing announced that Logano would replace him in the No. 20 car for the 2009 season.
In his NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown win, Logano led the final 87 laps and held off Peyton Sellers on a green-white-checkered finish to win the October 2007 Showdown. The event was moved to a January date after the 2007 race.
"In the beginning of the race, we weren't a bolt of lightning," Logano said. "We made a couple of changes and got it to the front. It was exciting."
Logano is coming off a stout showing showing on the ice in Lake Placid, N.Y., where he finished second to Todd Bodine in the Whelen Bobdsled Challenge.
"I can't wait to get back into a race car," Logano said. "It's been a while and I'm just getting antsy to race. It's going to be great to get back on track at the Showdown."
It's a who's who list of names looking to steal away the Showdown Champion's title from Logano this season, a list that includes his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate and friend Marc Davis, who qualified fourth in 2007 but suffered through mechanical issues much of the race.
"We have a lot to prove this year - being so strong last time and having nothing to show for it," Davis said. "We're taking the same baseline as last year. We should be pretty good off the truck and we have a whole lot of stuff to experiment with and see how the track has changed."
Also looking for the All-Star title will be former Camping World Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday, 2008 Camping World East Series champion and 2006 Showdown winner Matt Kobyluck of Montville and 2008 Camping World West Series champion Eric Holmes.
Also confirmed for the show are Peyton Sellers, Eddie MacDonald, Austin Dillon and Brian Ickler. Whelen Modified Tour Champion Ted Christopher gets a guaranteed starting spot for the race, but the Plainville driver is still in the process of securing a ride for the event.
Competition from Irwindale will air live on SPEED at 7 p.m. for both nights of the event.