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Anyone here still think the Tories have changed?
Self-hating Tory Queen, we'll hold our collective breath on that one. If the vote goes against the government's proposed legislation, then we'll know they haven't changed one bit. These conservatives and some in the labour camp think that every child needs a mother and a father, well, I suppose they would support an abusive father or mother, rather than have a child raised by one loving, supportive parent. Its not a perfect world nor is it an ideal one,neither are all marriages, partnerships or other relationships. Odd that since this is a somewhat gay-related issue that none of this mattered prior to civil partnerships and equality laws. Nobody really cared. I agree with Stonewall on this one, this is indeed about discriminating against lesbians and to some extent gay men.
Is there an amendment for ensuring a child also has a "mother figure if 2 guys or even one guy adopts a child, or even pays for a woman to give birth to his child?
The amendment actually refers to "the need for supportive parenting and a father or a male role model", not just 'need for a father'.
Immediately everyone is assuming this is a dig at lesbians, but google male role model and you'll find plenty of research that shows the negative impact of the absence of male role models in kids, particularly amongst adolescent males. Whilst two lesbians may be able to bring up their IVF kids in a healthy, balanced and loving environment, the HFEA Register data for 1991-2006 refers to lesbian couples accounting for 'only a small percentage' of IVF treatments.
The proposed amendment could of course be a reaction to the weight of evidence that suggests that your regular lone (heterosexual) female household, cannot bring up a child as well as one where a male role model (often a father) exists. If no male role model exists within the family, the child tends to look for one outside the household, hence the likes of Beenie Man, Elephant Man, Sizzla, Bounty Killer, Vybz Kartel, Buju Banton and others of the murder music crew become role models that young people look up to.
The whole world doesn't all revolve around us being gay (not all the time anyway).
And to add to this debate, we cannot assume that every GLBT person would support the right for a lesbian couple to have IVF treatment. I believe that allowing IVF to a lesbian couple (or, for that matter, a gay male couple) is just plain wrong. And isn't it strange how this debate has raged on and on and yet we have forgotten the most important thing of all – the interests of the child.
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ST Stephen's College principal Valson Thampu, on Thursday, announced that beginning July, the college will offer a course in translation studies.
Thampu made the announcement at an event to inaugurate the St Stephen's Centre for Translations. Delhi University (DU) Professor of English Harish Trivedi, who will be the first honorary chair of the centre, inaugurated the initiative with the words, "Let the translations begin!"
He said admission to the course would be open to all, regardless of whether one is a student of the DU. "St Stephen's has plenty of space. That's all we have," the principal remarked.
Thampu, who won the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award for translating Sarah Joseph's 'Othappu' from Malayalam to English, is seen as the inspiration behind the SCT. On Thursday, both Thampu and Trivedi emphasised on the importance of collaborative translation.
"Creativity has nothing to do with exclusivity," said Thampu, inviting Babli Moitra Saraf, principal of Indraprastha College for Women, to be a part of the SCT. Saraf, a Stephanian of the '75 batch and Thampu's student, is herself a translator having translated Mahasweta Devi's works from Bengali to Italian.
Stating that it was a good thing that the principal was himself an 'implicated' translator, Trivedi quipped, "It's always good to have the boss on your side."
Principal Thampu will be in charge of Malayalam translations undertaken by the SCT. Shirshendu Chakrabarti from the English Department of the Delhi University will oversee works in Bengali. The SCT will also have translators working on Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, Hindi and German texts.
Thampu said that an alumni member called Manmohan Wanchoo will be the director of the North American operations of the SCT in an honorary capacity and will facilitate translation of texts to European languages.
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The collection of documents offers a similar level of benefits from the past school year, including coverage for health and dental insurance, long-term disability care, paid time off and retirement compensation.
Before acting on the teacher handbook, board members wrangled over some of the specifics, including a provision about banking sick leave - a benefit Superintendent Kelly Thompson said has not been heavily used in the past.
"We denied some teachers' requests last year because they didn't go through the process," Thompson said, referring to the steps outlined in the Family Medical Leave Act.
The board's motion in favor of adopting the 2012-13 teacher handbook came with a caveat. Thompson has to include language indicating current sick leave allocations will remain frozen at the current rate of 90 days until further notice.
Comparison to other districts
While the handbook has been approved, the board and administration will continue to review employment and benefit terms in years ahead. The in-depth examination will kick off at the Committee of the Whole meeting next month and continue into the foreseeable future.
Board member Eric Schroeder said he would like to see comparables, in terms of what other surrounding school districts offer for employee benefits.
"I want us to be competitive," Schroeder said. "But I'm thinking we maybe should look at what other districts are doing."
Liberal use of sick days
Teachers currently do not receive paid time off through vacation. But Thompson said there are other classifications, including sick days, personal time, funeral leave and business.
Board member Rick Petfalski said he would like to see the list of permissible examples surrounding sick days reigned in.
"As it stands, the sick days are pretty liberal in how they can be used," Petfalski said.
The sick day accrual procedure will be closely tied to the district's review of retirement premiums, Thompson said.
"We'll be talking about all of these specifics at the next (Committee of the Whole) meeting," Thompson said. "This will definitely be something we look at as we address retirement."
Schroeder said he would like further review of the sick day accrual procedure that has been in place.
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CAVEAT ALERT! To some, the following will be racist or insensitive or politically incorrect or anti-diversity or bigoted or disrespect for the dead. It's none of those things, just a look at how people act in life and react to death, especially celebrity-death, the point of reference being the death of Muhammad Ali, also known at one time as Cassius Clay, Jr. Also, I consider prizefighting a cruel and crude "sport," marked as much by corruption as by the pain. One wonders, for instance, about the second Ali/Liston fight that lasted less than three minutes.
Ali shouted, "I'm the greatest," and the phrase took off in both the public and especially the media, both of which have virtually deified him. Ali didn't say the greatest of what but he's been termed the greatest of a lot of things by government officials and others such as goodwill ambassador, boxer, representative of the nation, etc.
The term "greatest" needs to be placed in the proper perspective. Most will agree that greatness is ascribed to those who in a good cause make the greatest sacrifice possible, the ultimate being one's life. Thus, the nineteen-year-old soldier shipped home in a box from the Middle East has achieved greatness, while at age 19 Ali was well into his career, which involved bashing people's brains into mush for money – not a great cause.
It has been claimed over and over that Ali was the "greatest" boxer of all time, even though he was savagely beaten a number of times. The greatest heavyweight boxer since at least the 1940s was Rocky Marciano, who held the championship in the 1950s. He fought 49 times, including numerous bouts for the title. He won every bout, 43 by knockouts, and simply retired, never beaten. He also served in the army 1943-46 (drafted) during WWII, though he could have claimed to be a conscientious objector. The greatest heavyweight of the last hundred years was Joe Louis, who held the title 1937-49, the longest such tenure in boxing history. In his prime, he enlisted in the army for WWII.
Ali dodged the Draft, however, in the Vietnam era, claiming upon religious grounds since he had converted to Islam and described himself as a minister of sorts. Elijah Muhammad, head pooh-bah of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam at the time, is said to have given him the name Ali. Elijah and the NOI were later condemned by Malcolm X because of Elijah's adulterous activities with young girls, and was assassinated soon after. Fittingly, Ali died on the eve of Ramadan.
Ali remained a practitioner of Islam until his death, though Louis Farrakhan became its head and is best-known for his hate-speeches/writings concerning white people, including Jews. As a good Muslim, he should have been buried within 24 hours of death. That couldn't happen because Ali had contrived a two-inch-thick document mandating his "funeral" arrangements, which sort of tied-up Louisville, his birthplace, for hours and hours, especially by a long hearse-processional (19 miles) through city-streets…sort of in-your-face stuff. Ali's father claimed that the Muslims taught Ali to hate white people.
Ali was convicted of draft-avoidance, given a five-year sentence, but escaped it on a technicality. As a conscientious objector, to dodge the Draft he had to swear he was against all wars, which he did, but apparently had forgotten that he was on the record as willing to fight in a war involving Islam. Somehow (one wonders), this was not introduced correctly, if at all, at trial so he went free.
Much has been made of the three years the greatest couldn't fight anywhere (all licenses nullified or not considered and passport revoked), thus costing him money. He spent that time railing against the war. Baseball-player Ted Williams batted .406, an unbelievable feat in 1941, had a Draft deferral but enlisted in the Navy anyway in 1942 and was recalled (fighter pilot) during the Korean War, during which he was shot down once, thus giving up five years in his absolute prime time (lifetime average .344 and 521 home-runs). One can only wonder what that five years cost him and hordes of fellow-pros who traded their skills, potential records and money for military service.
Ali was/is an idol for many, but actually he was just the "Greatest Narcissist."
And so it goes.
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O God of Right (pdf).
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[Allah Akbar!]
Old Jihad Johnny slashed their necks,
Their heads bit dust, the bloody wrecks,
With well-honed knife he slit their throats,
Screamed "Allah Akbar, bloody shoats!"
The ayatollah loved the show
But kept his distance...blood could flow
And stain his long white priestly gown,
Though Christian slaves could scrub it down.
The imams hung around old John...
He lived in England till upon
The day he left to find out why
He killed small dogs, made children cry.
He found a home there in Iraq
When he discovered chopping-block
Was not for dogs or goats, indeed,
But infidels, to weep then bleed;
The mullahs taught him Allah's word,
That infidel-lives were absurd...
At least Mohammad got that down
When caravans were not in town
For him to plunder, take some slaves
To rape awhile, send to their graves.
Old John learned fast the art of slice,
The dog-blood never smelled so nice,
His job beat marching in the sand...
The imams rushed to shake his hand.
And as his evening prayer was said
He begged to fill Christians with dread,
His grand philosophy was terse –
Of Jews and Christians nothing worse
Than letting them live on and on
Midst Allah's word that they be gone.
Of all those known as infidel
Or Shiite, who should be in hell,
He was right glad to put them there
And gain rewards for courage, rare,
Although his victims were bound—tight—
Could make no threats, however slight,
To give someone a fighting chance
Just ruined with blood his safe romance.
John filmed be-headings, loved the fame,
When films were shown he loved the shame
When westerners defiled his name...
Yeah...to Iraq was glad he came.
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Scaling agile is not simple. The complexity increases not in proportion to the size of the team but at the square of the size of the team. That means a 20 member team project will be 4 times as complex as a 10 member team.
To ensure that complexity does not turn into chaos it is inevitable that the pure agile way of working may have to be sacrificed – is it possible without violating agile manifesto? It is also inevitable that the agile practices will need to integrate into other practices of the enterprise.
To be able to scale agile we need to understand:
- What the dimensions to this complexity?
- How to split the problem and the team?
- How to introduce processes and tools?
- How to manage collaboration among distributed team members?
- How to plan and manage workflow?
Dimensions of scaling and the need to integrate with other enterprise processes
Scaling Agile: An Executive Guide – Scott Ambler
To scale agile to an enterprise level, eight dimensions of complexity needs to be handled.
- Team size – from less than ten to hundreds
- Geographical distribution – from collocated to globally distributed
- Regulatory compliance – need for mandatory compliance
- Domain complexity – straightforward to complex and emerging
- Organizational distribution – from all in-house to multiple external parties
- Technical complexity – from homogeneous to heterogeneous including legacy
- Organizational complexity – from flexible to rigid
- Enterprise discipline – from no external constrain to need to adhere to enterprise standards
Different options of splitting the teams
Scaling agile teams – by features or by component? – David Draper
There are four options to split a large team into smaller sub-teams
- Component orientation: (Pro) Typically this is how developers align themselves. (Con) Need to split user-centric feature – focus shifts away from business value.
- Discipline: (Pro) This is how enterprises are already organized. (Con) Risk longer lead times with a "throw over the wall" attitude.
- Location: (Pro) Collocated teams tend to be more effective. (Con) Need to match feature set with specific team.
- Feature: (Pro) Aligns well with goal of delivering value. (Con) Integration issues may arise.
In practice a mix-and-match approach may be best where the split is done primarily based of feature and location.
Harmonizing the tool and process dimension with agile practices
Scaling Agile for Project Teams – Alan Bustamante & Rahul Sawhney
There is a need to harmonize three dimensions of people, process and tool. Here are some of the recommendations on how to achieve it.
- People issues are best tackled through structure, empathy, communication, and people-oriented policies.
- Addressing process challenges for scaling requires organizations to understand their process focus and validate that it is aligned with the organization's vision, mission, and values.
- Focus on tools that support and facilitate the team and sub-team's processes by eliminating or minimizing non-value added work.
- Configuring tools around a flawed process will still yield a flawed process. Fix the people and process issues first.
Making distributed teams effective through communities of practice
Scaling Agile to work with Distributed Teams – Mike Cohn
Total team size increases complexity. Distribution increases complexity. It becomes impossible for all team members to know each other let alone trust each other. One way to build the bridge is to set up communities of practice.
- A group of likeminded or like skilled individuals which is self-organizing, organic and can span projects / location
- All communities need not be officially sanctioned – they can completely informal to highly institutionalized
- Creating proper environment for the communities is important
Managing the product backlog at multiple levels
Scaling Agile Processes: Five Levels of Planning – Hubert Smits
Agile planning activities for large-scale development efforts should rely on five levels:
- Product Visioning
- Product Roadmap
- Release Planning
- Iteration Planning
- Daily Planning
Product Vision is more like a desire of what the product will deliver once it is finished and would not talk about specific features. On the other hand Product Roadmap would talk about high level product backlog from which backlog for lower levels will be derived. It will communicate when releases are needed, what would be sufficient functionality and what business value would be delivered.
Like the two previous levels Release Planning is also for all the teams. Releases are defined by fixed date, theme, and planned feature set to which all teams must commit to. Typically, the product release would be once a quarter and the iteration cycle would be 2 to 4 weeks.
Managing workflow between multiple teams using Kanban
Large-Scale Agile – James Shore
Use Kanban for workflow not within a team but between teams.
- Treat each agile team as a work cell
- Use Kanban to manage cross-team workflow
- Create a Product Portfolio team which is collocated, cross-functional, intact team consisting of product managers, business experts, UX designers, architects etc.
- Partition the teams in such a way as to minimize the dependencies
- Monitor the system using lean techniques which is Visual control, Throughput and Value-stream mapping
- Sacrifice reuse in favor of throughput
- Keep communication flowing with Scrums of Scrums
Since, to scale agile, we may have to deviate from the spirit of the original manifesto, the question is how much can we deviate and still call the resultant methodology agile? And, when does it become an iterative development methodology?
Incidentally, iterative development seems to be as successful as agile development. Have a look at this survey outcome.
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