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Volume 2, Issue 4
Pages i–i, 357–523
Version of Record online: 13 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.79
Michael N. Dretsch, Kenneth J. Thiel, Jeremy R. Athy, Clinton R. Irvin, Bess Sirmon-Fjordbak and Anthony Salvatore
Version of Record online: 4 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.53
Impaired working memory functioning in soldiers with posttraumatic stress disorder. Mood symptoms contribute to working memory decrement.
Silvana Chiavegatto, Bruno Sauce, Guilherme Ambar, James M. Cheverud and Andrea C. Peripato
Version of Record online: 21 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.58
Maternal care is essential in mammals, and the environment provided by mothers may directly influence the viability of newborns and emotional behavior later in life. We investigated three candidate genes Oxt, FosB and Peg3 in LG/J and SM/J postpartum females contrasting some maternal care features that are impaired in the first ones. We observed a copy number variation in a stretch of 10 amino acids in the Peg3 gene with a higher number of repeats in LG/J females which, along with its lower levels of expression on the hypothalamus when compared to SM/J females, suggests its participation in maternal care variation between LG/J and SM/J mouse strains.
Mohamed Al-Khaled, Christine Matthis, Thomas F. Münte and Jürgen Eggers
Version of Record online: 21 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.59
Use of head CT to detect new infarction in patients with TIA and clinical predictors of CT finding in patients with TIA.
Masayoshi Ikeda and Yoshinori Oka
Version of Record online: 4 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.61
The regression relation between fiber diameter and internodal length was not a sensitive index of recovery. MCV and mean fiber diameter were the most sensitive indices of functional recovery during sciatic nerve regeneration.
Stephen L. Carlson, Andrew T. Kempsell and Lynne A. Fieber
Version of Record online: 4 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.60
D-Aspartate (D-Asp) activates a Na+ and K+ current of unknown identity independent of L-glutamate (L-Glu) in neurons of Aplysia californica. Portions of D-Asp currents were blocked by L-Glu antagonists including kynurenate and APV, but L-Glu currents were unaffected by APV, and showed greater block by kynurenate, suggesting that D-Asp and L-Glu may act at different sites. The mixed pharmacological results as well as an asymmetrical desensitization by D-Asp of L-Glu currents suggest that D-Asp channels in Aplysia are not uniformly characteristic of any known agonist-associated channel type.
Parizad Avari, Wenlong Huang, Sharon Averill, Bartomeu Colom, Beat A. Imhof, Sussan Nourshargh and John V. Priestley
Version of Record online: 7 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.63
We have examined the expression of JAM-C, a junctional adhesion molecule, in the rat sciatic nerve after crush injury. Expression, which was confined to paranodes and Schwann cell incisures, was downregulated after injury and re-expressed during axon regeneration. The time course of expression indicates possible roles for JAM-C in remyelination and node formation.
Hui-jun Zhang, Delin Sun and Tatia M. C. Lee
Version of Record online: 13 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.62
Research on how depression influences social decision making has been scarce. Findings of this study clearly illustrate that people with depression demonstrated a pattern of social decision making different from that of the healthy counterparts. These results contribute to furthering our understanding of the specific pattern of social behavioral changes associated with depression.
Alicia M. Celotto, Zhaohui Liu, Andrew P. VanDemark and Michael J. Palladino
Version of Record online: 25 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.73
This article investigates the basis of neurodevelopmental defects resulting from SOD2 loss-of-function. We discovered an increase in neuronal mistargeting that could underlie the observed aberrant neurodevelopment and brain morphology defects. This novel allele, SOD2bewildered, provides a unique opportunity to study the effects of increased mitochondrial ROS on neural development, axonal targeting, and neural cell degeneration in vivo.
Chris Zarow, Michael W. Weiner, William G. Ellis and Helena Chang Chui
Version of Record online: 26 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.66
In this study we found 31 cases of hippocampal sclerosis (HS) in a sample of 130 consecutive autopsy cases from the Ischemic Vascular Dementia Program Project. Because all cases were reviewed bilaterally we found that HS could be either unilateral or bilateral. While roughly half of all cases were bilateral, more than half of unilateral cases were left-only. While HS can be found as the sole pathological finding it is more frequently found in the context of other neurodegenerative diseases. Perhaps because of this, HS in late life is never diagnosed clinically.
Xian-Zhang Hu, You-Sheng Wen, Jian-Dong Ma, Dong-Ming Han, Yu-Xia Li and Shu-Fan Wang
Version of Record online: 26 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.67
More efficacious therapeutic approach for obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is strongly needed since there are limitations in both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. A novel psychotherapy, cognitive–coping therapy, has been established and our data suggest that it is an efficacious approach for OCD treatment and might be a potential complementary treatment of OCD for long term with higher response and remission rate, higher compliance, and lower rate of relapse.
R. L. Kember, E. L. Dempster, T. H. A. Lee, L. C. Schalkwyk, J. Mill and C. Fernandes
Version of Record online: 29 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.69
Using a maternal separation paradigm, we investigated phenotypic and epigenetic changes following early life stress in two inbred strains of mice, C57BL/6J and DBA/2J. We found an increase in the corticosterone response to stress in male, C57BL/6J mice that had undergone maternal separation, and early life stress induced a number of mild but significant behavioral changes, many of which were dependent on genetic background.
David B. Ramsden, Philip W.-L. Ho, Jessica W.-M. Ho, Hui-Fang Liu, Danny H.-F. So, Ho-Man Tse, Koon-Ho Chan and Shu-Leong Ho
Version of Record online: 11 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.55
In this review, we discussed the structure and function of neuronal mitochondrial uncoupling proteins (UCP) 4 and 5 and factors influencing their expression.
Pietro Cipresso, Laura Carelli, Federica Solca, Daniela Meazzi, Paolo Meriggi, Barbara Poletti, Dorothée Lulé, Albert C. Ludolph, Vincenzo Silani and Giuseppe Riva
Version of Record online: 19 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.57
The use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) tools in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), as effective means to compensate for the progressive loss of verbal and gestural communication, has been deeply investigated in the recent literature. The development of advanced AAC systems, such as brain-computer interface (BCI) devices, allowed to bypass the important motor difficulties present in ALS patients. More, BCIs could offer a new possibility to administer cognitive tasks without the need of verbal or motor responses, as highlighted by preliminary studies in this field. In this review, we outline the essential features of BCIs systems, considering advantages and challenges of these tools with regard to ALS patients and the main applications developed in this field.
Cleo L. Crunelle, Dick J. Veltman, Jan Booij, Katelijne van Emmerik – van Oortmerssen and Wim van den Brink
Version of Record online: 26 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/brb3.65
Stimulant dependence is associated with neuropsychological impairments. We summarize and integrate the existing neuroimaging literature on the neural substrates of neuropsychological (dys)function in stimulant dependence, including cocaine, (meth-)amphetamine, ecstasy and nicotine dependence, and excessive caffeine use, comparing stimulant abusers to non-drug using healthy controls.


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Not to mention Aham Oluo (on the poster!) who tore it up last night at Faire with Ouwar at The Trumpet Speaks. Fantastic talent!
I have seen Manoj, and it is awesome. Also, Hari is the best. I will be at this show and I will be drunk.
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Grants & External Funding
- SUNY/MAM Network Grant
Professor Maria Hepel was awarded grant "Advanced Carbon for Supercapacitor Energy Storage". this grant is a collaborative research through MAM Network with SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Albany and SUNY Buffalo.
- Network of Excellence (NOE) SUNY RF Grant
Professor Maria Hepel and three collaborators from SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Albany and SUNY Buffalo were awarded this grant for 2014-2016 to study "Carbon Nanocups, Nanotubes and Composite Graphene for Energy Storage"
- Maria Hepel was awarded SUNY RF seed proposal on "Education/Training/Outreach in Energy Materials 2014-2016.
- National Institute of Health (NIHR15Grant)
Professor Fadi Bou-Abdallah of the Chemistry Department at SUNY Potsdam was awarded an Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the amount of 260,611.00 (2015-2018). The research project "Heteropolymer Ferritins Structure-Function Studies" seeks to understand how iron, an essential trace element required for most living organisms, is taken up and released by ferritin, the major iron storage protein and how certain mutations in this protein can lead to debilitating iron-related diseases.
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Professor Maria Hepel of SUNY Potsdam & Professor C.J. Zhong of SUNY Binghamton have been awarded $150,000.00 to study "Functional SERS Nanoparticles for DNA Detection & Imaging".Project duration 2014-2015
- Title III Grant for FTIR (PDF)
Several undergraduate research projects are carried out in Chemistry Department under the Title III grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education in the program "Increasing Undergraduate Research in Chemistry Curriculum" by Professors: Maria Hepel, Antony Molinero, Clifford Rossiter, and Martin Walker.
- NSF CCLI Grant
Professor Maria Hepel of the Chemistry Department and Professor Daniel Aruscavage of the Biology Department have been awarded an NSF grant, Award CCLI, in the amount of $200,000, for two years 2010-2012. The grant is entitled "Raman Spectroscopy Implemented into Undergraduate Science Education". For more information, see NSF CCLI Grant (PDF).
- DoD Program Idea Grant
Professor Maria Hepel, Department of Chemistry at SUNY Potsdam, has been awarded $ 549,713 from the U.S. Department of Defense for a project entitled "Redox Abnormalities as a Vulnerability Phenotype for Autism and Related Alterations in CNS Development", project duration: 2008-2011.
- NSF-MRI Grant (PDF)
Professor Fadi Bou-Abdallah (PI) of the Chemistry Department at SUNY Potsdam has been awarded $126,525 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "MRI: Acquisition of an Isothermal Titration Calorimeter".\
- Cottrell College Science Award - Research Corporation (PDF)
Earlier this year, Professor Fadi Bou-Abdallah (PI) received a grant from Research Corporation (Cottrell College Science Award) totaling $36,925.


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Oh, the wonder of it all. Living dolls. Dancing snowflakes. A Christmas tree that grows to spectacular heights. It's The Nutcracker, performed by the Houston Ballet, in all its magical, colorful, holiday charm. With music by Tchaikovsky and stunning sets by Desmond Heeley, Ben Stevenson's production has something to delight every member of the family. It just wouldn't be the holidays without The Nutcracker!
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You can't select a building of a specific type but to find clinics you could go to the jobs section of the almanac and find a doctors location, he/she should usually be close to the clinic they work in. Other than that there isnt a way of highlighting clinics
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In this world tour, America figures into half of it – and it seems that Hungary comprises the other half. For big boob fans, though, all that will likely matter is that the title consists of four sets of very large mammary glands.
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Journal of Automated Reasoning
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ABox Abduction in the Description Logic \(\boldsymbol{\mathcal{ALC}}\)
- Szymon KlarmanAffiliated withDepartment of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Email author
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Due to the growing popularity of Description Logics-based knowledge representation systems, predominantly in the context of Semantic Web applications, there is a rising demand for tools offering non-standard reasoning services. One particularly interesting form of reasoning, both from the user as well as the ontology engineering perspective, is abduction. In this paper we introduce two novel reasoning calculi for solving ABox abduction problems in the Description Logic \(\mathcal{ALC}\), i.e. problems of finding minimal sets of ABox axioms, which when added to the knowledge base enforce entailment of a requested set of assertions. The algorithms are based on regular connection tableaux and resolution with set-of-support and are proven to be sound and complete. We elaborate on a number of technical issues involved and discuss some practical aspects of reasoning with the methods.
KeywordsDescription logic Abduction Non-standard reasoning services Semantic tableaux Resolution
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- Title
- ABox Abduction in the Description Logic \(\boldsymbol{\mathcal{ALC}}\)
- Journal
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Volume 46, Issue 1 , pp 43-80
- Cover Date
- 2011-01
- 10.1007/s10817-010-9168-z
- Print ISSN
- 0168-7433
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- 1573-0670
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Description logic
- Abduction
- Non-standard reasoning services
- Semantic tableaux
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- Szymon Klarman (1)
- Ulle Endriss (2)
- Stefan Schlobach (1)
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- 1. Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


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Pretty funny stuff lol.
meh. about as entertaining as watching a banana peel itself.
The audio is really bad. You can barely hear what he's saying.
The mad rage of Steve scared me so I turned it off.......
woops I fell asleep. Can somebody tell me what happened?
looks like that kid needs to try harder...
Thats 3 minuets of my life ill never get back
ya want his autograph...........put on a fu*king Panthers hat and take that other sh*t off.
welp would have been kool if I could understand him.
All I got out of that was that Smitty hates Jews
not as good as steve smith underhandedly dissing the fleur-de-lief tat some Saints** hooker got.
What a weak Jets fan. They could have at least could out with some better trash talk. "Revis gonna shut you down, Smitty!", or something. That would've been fun to watch.


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Pa. Auditor General Calls For Changes In Charter SchoolsThe abuse of public money is spotlighted in the indictment of former Pa. Cyber Charter School head Nick Trombetta.
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Published: Friday, July 15, 2005 at 11:24 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 15, 2005 at 2:44 p.m.
This in reply to Joe Pinero's letter concerning Councilwoman Teri Cavalier and her proposal to elimate smoking in public areas.
Pinero has every right to disagree with Cavalier's views on smoking. If he feels strongly on this subject, he can mount an opposition by contacting the other council members. She cannot pass any restrictions without their consent. But he crossed the line when he disparaged her intelligence with remarks such as "stupid politician" and "50 cents short."
It is obvious from his letter that he is passionate about the issue, just as Cavalier is. But it is more difficult to change another's mind or win people over to your side by namecalling because they disagree with your point of view. One would better serve their cause and case when not insulting the opposing side.
I personally know Cavalier and can attest that she is quite intelligent and cares about the people of Terrebonne Parish. She would gladly discuss the issues with you but only if you act in a civilized manner.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.comments2016-07-25T07:10:30.717+02:00Scrum BreakfastPeterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-41994905167420412162016-07-23T09:34:23.848+02:002016-07-23T09:34:23.848+02:00Several Board resignations (and one return in the ...Several Board resignations (and one return in the space of a few months. AFAIK the only reporting on the changes has been article on InfoQ: Scrum Alliance Directors ResignPeterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-46728716306935859982016-07-21T09:34:09.177+02:002016-07-21T09:34:09.177+02:00Peter, what changes in Scrum Alliance is your post...Peter, what changes in Scrum Alliance is your post referring to?bigpinotshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-60295623289620897592016-05-23T11:45:03.909+02:002016-05-23T11:45:03.909+02:00Hi Arpith Thank your for your insights and concer...Hi Arpith

Thank your for your insights and concerns.

I am reminded of some relavant quotes. "Respond to change over following a plan". "Planning is invaluable. Plans are worthless."

My challenges are similar to yours! Your comment is actually an example! It came completely unexpected, and I have an important deliverable to produce by tomorrow. I had to make a decision whether or not to respond, and if so when and how much time to allocate. I chose to respond more or less right away, and to limit myself to a 15 minute time-box.

In planning, I make a distinction between movable and unmovable items on my schedule. Moveable items help me remember what is important to me, so I when I ask myself , what do I do now, I can look at my calendar and see what I want to accomplish today. OTOH, if something comes up, I can move them without a guilty conscience.

I leave slack to handle the unexpected, and am experimenting both with scheduling break times and using trello to manage a backlog. I am realizing that sustainability is also an issue.

The goal of time management is becoming clearer to me. I want to make the best use possible of my time. This goal is not to be to be continually in action or to follow exactly what I have planned in the calendar.

Cheers,
PeterPeterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-66617435050260004092016-05-23T11:14:28.033+02:002016-05-23T11:14:28.033+02:00This is a good article, Have been following it for...This is a good article, Have been following it for a month now , even though I have below issues. I would like to here your points on these.

1. I get Random meeting invites on a day to day basis. Which is something out of my control. I have allocated some 'X' hrs for these meetings, but as these are on ad-hoc basis I tend to over-estimate it or sometimes under-estimate it.

2. After these ad-hoc meetings , the follow-up actions which has to be taken is also not predictable. This puts my planned activity on the toss.

At the end of the day, when I do the retrospection I sometimes be disappointed with the deviation b/w ask vs completed items.
The same happens when I try to coach teams also.

And also I am not comfortable in planning into minutes level. As you said how can any one be soo organized. Are we trying to be over-organized over-self here or it is just a theory.Arpith Pathangehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-25848276361138523252016-05-06T15:09:57.486+02:002016-05-06T15:09:57.486+02:00Hi Peter, great post! I've been both scrum master...Hi Peter, great post!

I've been both scrum master and project manager over the past several years, and your post particularly resonates with me since a lot of concepts I've built into my own system I also took from agile and scrum practices.

My initial thought was to treat my own task backlog as a PO would use the product backlog. I prioritize tasks considering value, effort, and urgency, and always take the next task from the top of the backlog.

I find the calendar approach to be too restrictive though. Since, as you mention yourself, estimating effort is quite difficult, I think it's better to use estimates qualitatively rather than quantitatively. That is, I can pretty accurately estimate if a task is small, medium, or large effort, but a 'medium' task might take anywhere from 10-30 minutes. Under such circumstances, it's not practical to line everything up in a calendar.

Instead, I take a 'kanban' approach here: take a task from the top of the backlog, complete it, and when ready, take the next task. Really the only important thing is to work on the next most important thing at all times.

The article you mention (which by the way is also very interesting) compares to-do lists against calendars. I also ran into the problem of ever-growing static to-do lists and keeping them up to date to be able to choose the next important task. As I mentioned above I don't believe calendars solve this problem however. What I did instead is introduce certain modifiers to task priorities that increase or decrease the values over time. This makes it possible for certain tasks to bubble up to the top over others eventually, based on their urgency or how long they've been in the queue. Others would sink to the bottom if I postponed them too many times (indicating they're not really that important anyway).

Of course all this needs automation to be practical. It's probably easier to show than explain, so I made a quick demo of the main elements of it: http://flowtree.wix.com/home#!demo/s989p

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this - do you see any drawbacks with taking this approach?Peter B.http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-33911287425114442102015-12-02T12:13:09.858+01:002015-12-02T12:13:09.858+01:00Thanks for a summarized list... Agreed, i have ex...Thanks for a summarized list...
Agreed, i have experienced that #3 and #10 are killer for scrum firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-14647108874897728912015-11-27T08:08:45.872+01:002015-11-27T08:08:45.872+01:00Dear Mark, Dear Anonymous (are you *the* anonymous...Dear Mark, Dear Anonymous (are you *the* anonymous ;-),

Sorry for the slow response.

I suggest you take a look at Steve Denning's article on Forbes Making the Whole Organization Agile

The probelm with SAfe is that it is not Agile. It may get Agile in the door or large organizations, which might be a good thing, but it fundamentally retains the mindset of the people at the bottom do what the people at the top tell them to, with only slow feedback loops.

Will that be good enough to save the whales? I have my doubts....
Peterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-29268364291753699112015-11-12T22:54:56.798+01:002015-11-12T22:54:56.798+01:00The original post was written a copule of yeara ag...The original post was written a copule of yeara ago, so now, I liek to hear about current situation of SAFe, DAD and LeSS in real situations. What is the current exposure of each one.

There is other consideration. Mark wrote that if people decide to use waterfall inside any scrum framework is people´s fault not the framework´s. I think that a framework is omething like an enforcement, and I think Scrum is not a Framework, it is a set of good practices tied in such way that if you follow them you have less chance to fail.

The best one, no matter what it demands, it is the one that do not forcé to use an specific set of tolos or programming language and most important, something that allows to get ridd off waterfall problems, leaving far away the tradicional Factory problems that have populated software projects. Not even Scrum has covered at least 50% of successful projects. this is a proof that we still need a better approach for software development.Juanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-9424971841987052842015-11-12T17:37:34.172+01:002015-11-12T17:37:34.172+01:00Dear Mladen, Thank you so much for this! I am thr...Dear Mladen,

Thank you so much for this! I am thrilled that our work has inspired you. I will post this back to the original thread so the workshop participants can benefit from your work!

Best
PeterPeterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-68789182620603007052015-11-12T17:03:12.537+01:002015-11-12T17:03:12.537+01:00Thanks a lot for this very helpful list. We will u...Thanks a lot for this very helpful list. We will use it as base for communication and that for, we prefer to have a positiv description. So we changed and used "we" instead:

The team reports to the Scrum Master at the Daily Scrum
We discuss our achievements and the Most Important Task for the day for ourselves and not for the Scrum Master.

People wait for instructions from the Scrum Master
We don't wait for instructions. We always identify and start the next Most Important Task.

Team members don't hold each other responsible [for their commitments]
We depend on each other's commitments.

The same impediment comes up twice
We never let a problem happen again.

"That's the way it is" => resignation
"We've always done it that way" is not a reason.

"I" instead of "We"
Always "we", not "I".

Flip charts are lonely
We come together to describe, diagram and prototype new concepts and designs.

Culture of conflict-avoidance
We are not afraid to disagree.

Decisions processes are unclear, nor are they discussed
We understand how a decision has been made and why.

Personal goals are more important than team goals
We prioritise team goals over personal goals.

Maybe it helps you, as well.
MladenMladen Miljichttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-19565383792841534802015-10-10T14:38:11.785+02:002015-10-10T14:38:11.785+02:00Hi Think Thanks for pointing that out. I have add...Hi Think

Thanks for pointing that out. I have added a link to the picture and taken a short at translating it.

Cheers,
PeterPeterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-20966552989655046522015-10-09T19:30:33.089+02:002015-10-09T19:30:33.089+02:00Hi Peter There was a second flip with more signs.....Hi Peter
There was a second flip with more signs...see attachments from Godela.Think Qualityhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-26062401791178106772015-10-09T19:28:05.168+02:002015-10-09T19:28:05.168+02:00Was very interesting to create this list. Many of ...Was very interesting to create this list. Many of these warning signs are quite common for teams who are new to agile. The point you added to the list (team members return to their desks after daily) is also a very good indicator (just recently observed this...)
Thanks for your translation.Think Qualityhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-25050613119777879762015-10-01T16:54:30.519+02:002015-10-01T16:54:30.519+02:00 great article have you done an update since 2013...
great article

have you done an update since 2013 as i would like to present thand open this type of discussion in a few firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-61345015487560285142015-09-09T19:36:53.140+02:002015-09-09T19:36:53.140+02:00Sure, lot's of them. I have had representative...Sure, lot's of them. I have had representatives of many in my public courses, and I have company courses for at least two. One that I know of even has a Scrum handbook - How we do Scrum in a/our regulated environment..Peterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-15767826126458814252015-08-04T13:43:01.658+02:002015-08-04T13:43:01.658+02:00Great post. Very helpful! I will try to apply this...Great post. Very helpful! I will try to apply this principle in my next PlanningHartog De Mikhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-90042221076015018862015-07-10T23:49:52.184+02:002015-07-10T23:49:52.184+02:00if you are interested in powerfull questions, you ...if you are interested in powerfull questions, you might want to look at (or help)

www.twitter.com/Retroflection or
www.retroflection.org for the app version of +2000 questions, posted since 01/01/2010Yves Hanoulle (@YvesHanoulle)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-40718032346753998972015-06-24T22:02:22.180+02:002015-06-24T22:02:22.180+02:00Really enjoyed the summary! I was wondering if y...Really enjoyed the summary!

I was wondering if you are aware of any pharmaceutical companies that currently use agile methodologies?

Thanks! andy.bloggerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-36213663854554031182015-03-09T14:04:32.711+01:002015-03-09T14:04:32.711+01:00Dear Anonymous, Thanks for your question! Questio...Dear Anonymous,

Thanks for your question! Questions like this are easier to answer if we ask ourselves, why are we making an estimate. I think there are three good (and many bad) reasons for estimating. The good ones:

Build a common understanding of the story -- This helps everybody get the implementation right.

Get an idea how expensive a story will be to implement -- this helps the Product Owner decide whether and when to prioritize the story.

Ensure that your wishes are more or less in sync with reality -- this enables to Product Owner to set realistic expectations with other stakeholders.

Among the bad reasons: giving the PO and Dev-Team ammunition to fight with.

My first piece of advice: It's only an estimate. Don't spend more time on the estimate than necessary, because estimates have no value for your users. Fundamentally it's an artifact of the development process, not a deliverable.

What speaks for changing the estimate: If you expect the feature will be much cheaper or much more expensive to implement than you originally anticipated, sharing that with the Product Owner will help him/her make better decisions.

What speaks against changing the estimate: Time spent on estimating is fundamentally wasted time. Changing the estimate of a story individual story also changes the estimate of the remaining features to release (burn-down target moves closer or further away). Estimate changes look like changes in scope, so this makes it much more difficult to figure out when you actually expect to release and it is less clear whether your backlog is changing because of changing estimates or scope creep.

So my personal inclination is not to worry about changing the estimate (unless there has been a substantial change in the acceptance criteria or understanding of the story). The difference between a 5 and 3 on 100 or 200 point project is just not worth wasting time on. Your velocity will be a little bit different in that sprint. So what?

OTOH - if your PO wants it and it's important to her/him, go with the flow. It's just an estimate. So pick a pragmatic approach that works for you and your Scrum Team and go with it.

Cheers,
PeterPeterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-34410640146965136332015-03-09T13:01:41.960+01:002015-03-09T13:01:41.960+01:00Hi, Thanks for your post. I have one question. Con...Hi, Thanks for your post. I have one question. Consider there 2 identical stories in the backlog. One taken at the sprint1 and anotehr one is planned only for spirnt 5. During spirnt 1 the team has sized Story A as "M" and when we went to Sprint 5 the sized the Story B as "M" again bec the previous story was sized as "M".

My quesiton is

1. Do we have to consider that the similar story was implemented earlier and so duplicating the story might be easy and so size should be less

2. Or do we have to size the new story as "M" and take additional story if the team has time to work on more story..

i asked this qustion bec the customer is insisting us to reduce the size of the story because they think it is easy to implement this story bec similar story already exists

I need your advince in firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-38146865949900684972015-03-09T12:59:11.370+01:002015-03-09T12:59:11.370+01:00Hi, Thanks for your post. I have one question. Con...Hi, Thanks for your post. I have one question. Consider there 2 identical stories in the backlog. One taken at the sprint1 and anotehr one is planned only for spirnt 5. During spirnt 1 the team has sized Story A as "M" and when we went to Sprint 5 the sized the Story B as "M" again bec the previous story was sized as "M".

My quesiton is

1. Do we have to consider that the similar story was implemented earlier and so duplicating the story might be easy and so size should be less

2. Or do we have to size the new story as "M" and take additional story if the team has time to work on more story..

i asked this qustion bec the customer is insisting us to reduce the size of the story because they think it is easy to implement this story bec similar story already exists

I need your advince in firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-78063090435142941522015-03-03T16:22:35.644+01:002015-03-03T16:22:35.644+01:00Peter, I've been coaching and living among peo...Peter, I've been coaching and living among people in southern India for most of the past year, and haven't had the experience with "yes" or "no" that you've described. There are a few things I'd like to point out from my experience:

1. There is no such thing as an "Indian yes". India is a civilization made up of 1.2 billion people who speak hundreds of different languages, and have cultural traditions that can change significantly every few hundred miles. I don't expect my experience of the words "yes" or "no" to be the same in the next southern Indian state, let alone in a different region of the country.

2. I've never experienced "yes" representing fear in India any more that I experienced it in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I also spent many months coaching. What I do experience in India is difference, and it's difference that I deeply appreciate. It's difference between a civilization that's developed over thousands of years, rather than the last few hundred. It's difference in a society where spiritual devotion is much more present in daily life than it is in the West. It's difference in a country where the 60% of the population with an income less than $2 per day can live deep lives of contribution to their communities, despite our Western notions of what it may be like for them. It's not about fear or accommodation, it's just different.

3. The people I've lived among in southern India have a much greater comfort with chaos and ambiguity than anywhere else I've ever been. I've experienced a significant ability for self-organization and flow, whether it's in Bangalore traffic, or walking around a mountain in a rural area with 100,000 spiritual pilgrams. Needing clarity around "yes" or "no" is a choice, and in my experience, that choice isn't as important in southern India as it is in the West. Many Indian business writers have called this out as a quality of Indian civilization that's very different from the West, and I encourage anyone wanting to train and coach agile here to explore it.

Like anywhere, there are cultural influences can cause big impediments, but no culture is immune to those. The India I've experienced has great zest for learning, and conditions within the civilization that are very fertile ground for Agile.Jeff Lopez-Stuithttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-11513102433312400272015-02-24T19:04:18.241+01:002015-02-24T19:04:18.241+01:00Hi Frank, nice to hear from you, been a while. ...Hi Frank, nice to hear from you, been a while.

However, I believe that you have misunderstandings about DAD. We absolutely do not recommend a project approach, we much prefer a product or release strategy. We are quite clear that we wish companies to reduce and ultimately eliminate the phases, as they move towards using the Continuous Delivery lifecycle where possible. The fact that Phases are present in DAD reflects the current reality of many if not most organizations however.

If people are applying DAD in a waterfall fashion, that is a problem of execution, and lack of understanding, not the framework.Mark Lineshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-14860269743550717972015-02-24T17:25:17.520+01:002015-02-24T17:25:17.520+01:00I am a bit surprised by the outcome. - What I like...I am a bit surprised by the outcome.
- What I like about SAFe is that Program level uses Scrum concepts: Scrum of Scrums. And at Portfolio level it uses Kanban concepts. So it becomes truely iterative.
- What I dislike about DAD is the phases. It makes it very tempting to continue thinking in waterfall.
- What I dislike about DAD and LeSS is that they still think in terms of projects. Most organizations I work in consist of programs (consisting of collaborating projects) and platforms (reused architectures and implementations). In DaD and LeSS there is little definition about how projects collaborate. Scaling is IMHO primarily on collaboration between projects in a larger organization.

So overall, I would expect a higher score for SAFe than for DAD or LeSS.

And yes, I understand the discrepency between the Agile values and the SAFe values. But I'd rather have a model that works for a complex (scaled) organization than a model that fits the statements of a manifesto.Frank Schophuizenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567408997062465825.post-28883304823131518702015-02-18T00:24:03.756+01:002015-02-18T00:24:03.756+01:00Peter, I am late to this party, I stumbled across ...Peter,
I am late to this party, I stumbled across this post. Nicely done. However a few updates:
- While Scott and I wrote that white paper while he was at IBM, it is not IBM IP. In fact, IBM has no involvement with DAD at this time. They are more focused on SAFe. You may be pleased to know that DAD doesn't pitch any tools :)
- I am glad that you understand that DAD has little to do with RUP. It does incorporate some UP ideas such phases (short ones please!), lightweight milestones and the need for a focus on work that mitigates risks early. While the basic/Scrum based lifecycle depicts Inception and Transition phases, we try to make it clear that where possible these should be reduced and preferably eliminated as orgs move towards using a continuous delivery lifecycle. But the reality is that some/most orgs are not there yet, so the basic lifecyle acknowledges the reality, while striving to be as agile as possible.
- For those that criticize DAD I usually find that they haven't taken the time understand it. For instance it is a process decision framework first, scaling second. We provide guidance to address all sorts of context (whether they be agile or lean) and add some enterprise discipline that really does need to be in place to effectively scale.
- SAFe and DAD are complementary
- Your link to the IBM DAD white paper isn't the best source for info on DAD anymore. The blog at www.DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com provides far more, up to date content
- when you wrote this, our book had just come out and it was true that it was hard to find much use of DAD. I am happy to say that it is quite different now. There are many large organizations that are not only using it on a few projects, but are rolling out the framework across their entire enterprise.

Mark Lines
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I use a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization system and need to get a VM off the system an onto a standalone box running KVM. Red Hat don't seem to support a way to do this, but commented that the latest virt-convert should do it.
I tried copying the image off the nfs export domain (both ovf definition and disk file), then ran
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But I get the error: list index out of range
The problem seems the same as this. I've tried it on RHEL 6, Centos 5.6 and Fedora 14. Any suggestions on what is going wrong?


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Mary Fournerat
Published: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 12:18 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 1:38 p.m.
Mary Lou F. Fournerat, 68, a native of Kaplan and resident of Lake Charles, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, March 25, 2007.
Visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to funeral time Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Broussard. Rosary will be prayed at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the church. Mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church.
She is survived by her loving husband, D.J. Fournerat of Lafayette; four daughters, Kathy Larue and husband, Mike, of Richmond, Va., Doris McBride and husband, Pierre, of Lafayette, Susan Younger of Abbeville and Mandy Landry and husband, Troy, of Broussard; one brother, Cliff Faulk and wife, Karen, of Harvey; and nine grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father, Ewell Faulk; and her mother, Agnes Touchet.
She graduated from LaGrange High School in Lake Charles and attended McNeese State University.
The family would like to express a word of gratitude to a lifelong caregiver, Earline Freeman, and the nurses at Lafayette General Hospital.
David Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Get Smart
- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release Date: Jun 20, 2008
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It's funny, exciting, preposterous, great to look at, and made with the same level of technical expertise we'd expect from a new Bond movie itself. And all of that is very nice, but nicer still is the perfect pitch of the casting.
Get Smart is action movie and spoof and, though it's often a little unbalanced, the ultimate result is a harmlessly entertaining picture.
The unexpected star is Hathaway, looking cool as a runway model in the role originated by Barbara Feldon, lithe as a (pink) panther, and displaying great comic timing.
Get Smart turns out to be a much more entertaining movie than its tedious trailers suggest. It's not going to redefine comedy as we know it, but it's amusing and briskly paced, busy with an engaging mix of supporting actors.
This redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms.
As for Hathaway, she's a revelation. Those eyes are still as big as Beamer hubcaps, but she's able to show more edge than her previous goody-goody roles have allowed.
Get Smart could have been smarter. But like the show that inspired it, it's still smarter than it looks.
Get Smart the sitcom was a one-joke affair and got tedious fast, whereas Carell's starry-eyed dweeb has room for nuance, for growth, for inspiration.
Director Peter Segal ups the ante on the action, aiming for Bourne more than Bond, but the stunts grow frenzied and increasingly flat.
It's a light, silly instantly forgettable comedy peppered with action set-pieces and affectionate nods to its fondly remembered predecessor, including a gracious end-credits dedication to the late Don Adams and Edward Platt.
Max's even more fabled shoe phone also makes an appearance - and, fortunately for Get Smart, the self-deprecating Carell isn't shoe-phoning in his inspired performance.
Mixes broad slapstick and off-hand one-liners in a sometimes surprisingly funny mixture.
The movie errs by turning Max into a figure of hangdog sympathy: "The 40 Year Old Virgin" with a shoe phone.
Despite a plot that should be simpler, Get Smart is as big on action as it is on laughs and works because it?s less a tired spoof and more a quality comedic adventure movie in its own right.
You never get the sense that the director, Peter Segal, knows where the funny is, whether in his star or in the story.
For the most part it's dull, bland and unsatisfying: a food-court version of home cooking.
This is a slap-dash effort whose producers threw money and stunts onscreen instead of the satirical gags and one-liners that made the old spy spoof so memorable.
Helmer Peter Segal's formulaic takeoff is neither fish nor fowl, not quite faithful to the show, but not quite bringing it into the 21st century either.
The film reunites Carell with his "Little Miss Sunshine" co-star Arkin, who, as always, delivers the goods, as do most of the other supporting players. Too long by at least 15-20 minutes, Get Smart is nevertheless a giggly summer movie.
Missed it by that much. Actually, the new version of Get Smart misses by a fair-size margin.
All that's missing is the spirit and the anarchic humor of the sitcom created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. The result is an overdressed, carefully stitched scarecrow of a comedy.
It flounders whenever it tries to weave the real world into its fantasia, partly because it isn't really about anything other than making money, partly because the spy-versus-spy battle doesn't entertain the way it once did.
Remaking Get Smart without Don Adams and Barbara Feldon is like remaking "My Little Chickadee" without Mae West and W.C. Fields--the best possible outcome is disappointment.
Get Smart neglects the laughs and amps up the action, resulting in a not very funny comedy joined at the hip to a not very exciting spy movie. Talk about killing two birds with one stone.
There are many stretches when it's easy to forget that Get Smart is a spoof; it's more like a third-rate James Bond with pratfalls.
At least we have Alan Arkin playing the head of CONTROL. His drone and deadpan are a perfect complement to Carell's. But please, pretty please, let's not go for a sequel on this one, OK?
In this distressingly generic spy spoof, it's not Maxwell who's clueless, but the filmmakers.
That Max Smart is played by the admirable Steve Carell, who is desperately looking for deadpan jokes in all the wrong places, is beside the point.
While the whole cast -- including Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson -- is game, too much time was spent coordinating chase scenes and explosions, and too little fixing a slack script that relies on bathroom humor and snickering sex jokes.
Rather than the laugh a minute promised by old comedies, Get Smart generates approximately one laugh per hour, and I can't remember either one.
Remaking Get Smart for the big screen might have sounded like a bad idea, but the movie shows it to have been something else: a REALLY bad idea.
Awards & Rankings
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 246 Ratings
User score distribution:
Positive: 70 out of 98
Mixed: 20 out of 98
Negative: 8 out of 98
Oct 17, 2011"Get Smart" is a terrible spy copy-cat movie. It does nothing right with its crude jokes, dumb action, a not-funny steve carell, stone-cold"Get Smart" is a terrible spy copy-cat movie. It does nothing right with its crude jokes, dumb action, a not-funny steve carell, stone-cold Hathaway, and homosexuality (Dwayne Johnson)?… Full Review »
Feb 11, 2011The action was better than I expected. As far as the humor goes, all the scenarios that Max gets himself into are, for the most part,The action was better than I expected. As far as the humor goes, all the scenarios that Max gets himself into are, for the most part, hilarious. Side characters supply great one-liners,too.… Full Review »
Jan 6, 2016The comedy is too light for me? Or heavy? I don't know. I fell asleep too much and I didn't regret it. This movie also reminded me of JohnnyThe comedy is too light for me? Or heavy? I don't know. I fell asleep too much and I didn't regret it. This movie also reminded me of Johnny English or The Tuxedo. I mean, the concept. Two agents, man and woman, have to become a partner. However, I like the part when Agent 99 had to pass the laser trap and she did it exactly like in striptease moves. But when Max tried to copy her, a very big mouse suddenly came out of his tux. Haha, got me lol.… Full Review »


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Catholic Memorial defensive end Peter Ngobidi signed his National Letter of Intent for UMass on Wednesday morning in a ceremony at the Baker Street campus.
Here's more from the release by CM communications director Joe McGonegal:
Catholic Memorial School's senior football captain Peter Ngobidi inked his commitment to play for the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday morning. As part of the national "Signing Day" ceremonies across the nation, Ngobidi joined a long line of Division-1 bound CM seniors who have gone on to compete at the next level.
The co-captain of this year's Knights squad, Ngobidi went to middle school in Roxbury and played Pop Warner football in Hyde Park before coming to CM. There, he immediately found role models, both on the field and off, and a mentor in Catholic Memorial coach Alex Campea.
"Peter has been a tough-nosed kid who's gotten better every year," said Coach Campea. "As a captain, he can be emotional and get his message across when the time comes, but his actions on the field are the way he leads."
Ngobidi will join the UMass roster as a defensive end, playing on the same squad as his former teammate A.J. Doyle, who played quarterback for the Minutemen this year.
For Ngobidi (DE, 6'3", 220-lbs.), the decision was also an academic one. "It was a better fit for me," he said. "I hope to major in business, engineering or physical therapy, but if I didn't know right away what I wanted to do, I wanted to have the opportunity to figure it out."
Injuries plagued the team this season, but Ngobidi remained a healthy presence and force on both lines.
This winter and spring, Ngobidi will ready himself for UMass, both by staying in shape on the track team and by studying his two favorite subjects, math and science. "They've always been my favorite," he said, "but this year, I'm leaning a little more towards math."


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Vote Shuler out
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 10:03 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 10:03 a.m.
To The Editor: On Washington Clean-Up Friday night, March 19th, I yell to my husband, "Obama-Non-Care will pass." He yells back, "How do you know?" I respond, "Shuler's voting no." Obviously, the Pelosi powers had released him to cast his "no" vote. How shocked I was to read about his claims that he was never undecided. Good grief! I can't tell you the number of times I phoned his office, only to be told that he had not yet decided how he would vote. I think my last call was the day before his "no" announcement. He has definitely learned how to play the political Washington games.
We need to vote him out. It is time to elect an honest, nonpolitical, common-sense, fiscally responsible, love-of-country representative to send to Washington. Jeff Miller has demonstrated all of these qualities and has (through his dry-cleaning business) been cleaning up my messes for more than a decade. I have complete faith that, if elected, he will go to Washington and help to clean up the mess we've got there now. Jeff Miller's election to Congress will truly bring "hope and change we can believe in!"
Susan Marker
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Get Involved: CANOE SPRINT
- From the section Olympics
Unlike canoe slalom, the canoe sprint events have been part of the Olympics for more than 75 years. Taking place on still-water courses, they are simple head-to-head races without gates or penalty points to contend with.
Tickets for all six days at Eton Dorney have sold out, with the home crowd hoping to see more British success after Tim Brabants' historic gold in Beijing. Brabants became Britain's first Olympic canoe champion by winning the Kayak singles (K1) 1000m race.
Kayak races are listed with a 'K' and canoe races with a 'C' - so the Men's C2 1000m event, for example, is simply a two-man canoe race over 1000 metres. Both disciplines have introduced new 200m sprint races, which promise about 30 seconds of explosive action.
As for the difference between a kayak and a canoe, kayak racers sit in the boat and use a paddle with two blades, while canoe athletes kneel and use a single-bladed paddle which they switch from side to side.
The men's K1 200m and K2 200m will be of interest to the home crowd as they contain British medal hopes in Ed McKeever, who won the 200m world title in 2010, and the K2 team of Liam Heath and Jon Schofield.
Why is it good for you?
Paddling uses most of the muscles in the arms and legs, with the strain of fighting against the power of the water leading to an increase in upper arm, forearm and chest circumference and grip strength. An hour's canoeing burns approximately 287 calories.
A Manchester Metropolitan University study also found that regular canoeists possessed superior heart strength, enabling them to pump blood around the body more efficiently.
As the canoe sprint relies on technique and strength, competitors often remain competitive at an age when most other athletes have retired.
Italian Josefa Idem claimed silver in the K-1 when aged 43 at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, while the most famous competitor of all is the German Birgit Fischer, who won an incredible eight gold and four silver medals between 1980 and 2004.
With her victory in the K4 500m in Beijing when aged 42, she became the first woman in any sport to earn medals 24 years apart.
Get involved
If you haven't canoed before, a starter course is a good idea. There are clubs and watersports centres all over the United Kingdom, with some offering teaching for mixed groups or for novices.
For those looking to join a club or begin lessons, visit the The British Canoe Union website for further information. You can also contact the BCU to find out the location of sprint meets.
If you are new to canoeing and kayaking, it is not necessary to purchase equipment straight away.
Very often clubs and centres will have equipment that you can use, under supervision.
After you begin to paddle more regularly you may then wish to purchase some of your own equipment such as a helmet, spray deck, buoyancy aid, paddle and even a canoe.
From entering the sport as a beginner it is possible to progress to national regattas at junior and senior level, where all paddlers are ranked within their classes.
There are approximately 4,500km of navigations and canals in the UK that can be paddled on with the appropriate licence. Whitewater centres also offer a variety of exciting sporting and team-building activities.
Go to the Canoe England,Scottish Canoe Association,Canoe Wales and Canoe Association of Northern Ireland websites for more information on how and where to try out or watch the sport.
More on the GB Canoeing website
Want to get involved with sport in your local community? Why not Join In ?
'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers.
More than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved.
As well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out.
Find an event near you.
The competition format at London 2012
- From Monday 6 August to Saturday 11 August, 248 athletes (158 men, 88 women) will compete at Eton Dorney.
- There are 12 medal races, nine in kayaks and three in canoes.
- Races are held over distances of 200m, 500m or 1000m, either solo, in pairs or in teams of four.
- Boats are seeded so that the leading competitors do not compete in the same heat.
- In events with 10 boats the competition begins with two heats. The winner of each heat goes into the final and is joined by six boats from the semi-final.
- Events with 11 to 12 boats see the winner from each of the two heats head into the A final, where they are joined by the top three boats from each semi-final. The losing semi-finalists go into the B final to decide the remaining places.
- If 13 or 14 boats are competing, the first five boats in each of the two heats progress to two semi-finals, while the other boats go to the B final. The top four boats from each semi-final progress to the A final to compete for the medals, while the other lower positions are decided in the B final.
- If 15 to 16 boats are competing, the first six boats in the two heats progress to two semi-finals, while the other boats go to the B final. The top four boats from each semi-final progress to the A final to compete for the medals, while the others progress to the B final.
- Events with 17 to 24 boats start with three heats. The first five boats in each heat, plus the boat with the best sixth-placed time, progress to two semi-finals, while the other boats are out of the competition. The top four boats from each semi-final progress to the A final to compete for the medals, while the others progress to the B final.
More on the London 2012 website
The rules at London 2012
Canoes are operated from a kneeling position with a single-bladed paddle, while kayaks have a closed top and are operated from a sitting position using paddles with blades at each end.
Canoe sprint races take place on open expanses of water, at least two-metres deep, with up to nine entrants in each race.
The objective is simply to be the fastest along the course and the first across the line.
Athletes are penalised for infringements such as repeating a false start or leaving the middle of their lane.
Any boat that capsizes before their bow crosses the finish line will be eliminated from the race.
Ones to watch
Team GB's Tim Brabants is the defending Olympic champion in the men's kayak over 1000m, but on current form GB's best gold medal prospect is Ed McKeever in the new kayak 200m event.
The 2010 world champion won back-to-back World Cup golds in May.
Kayak 200m pair Liam Heath & Jon Schofield won silver at last year's World Championship.
Germany's Max Hoff is a big threat to Brabants in the kayak 1000m, having won back-to-back world titles and three successive European titles since the Beijing Olympics.
Triple Olympic champion Natasa Douchev-Janics of Hungary took last year off to have a baby girl and has targeted medals in the kayak single, double and possibly four.
The kayak is thought to have originated from Greenland as a tool for hunting, fishing and transportation, while the canoe was used all over the world as a method of transportation, trade and war.
Canoe sprint, as opposed to slalom, has been the traditional form of racing since the sport's inception during the mid-19th century.
Flatwater canoeing featured at the 1924 Games as a demonstration sport before canoe sprints officially entered the Olympics in 1936. Women have competed in the kayak event only since the 1948 Games in London.


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Church calendar
Published: Friday, April 1, 2005 at 9:44 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 11:00 p.m.
- Workshop: First Baptist Church of Schriever will conduct a workshop for area choirs and musicians. The workshop will be held April 8 at the church, 1987 La. 311. For registration and other information, call Shirley Kirk at 223-3310 or Octavia Byrd at 580-1129.
- Dead Sea Scrolls motorcoach tour will leave from the Wal-Mart parking lot in Mathews on Thursday. For information call 537-3179.
- The Greater New Salem B.C., 818 Lafayette St. in Houma, will sponsor a fund-raiser of barbecue, fried chicken or fish dinner at 10:30 a.m. April 9. To place a phone order call 873-7026.
- The Freedom Center, on La. 311, will have a special guest, Damon Thompson, at 7 p.m. April 9.
- Louisiana Southern Baptist Fifth District Association Women's Auxiliary Ministers' Wives and Widow Department will hold its annual prayer breakfast fellowship at 8:30 a.m. April 16 at New Mount Pilgrim B.C., 146 Banks Ave., Houma. For information, call 872-2906.
- Let's Give Him Praise will be held at 11 a.m. April 16 at 124 Klondyke Road. There will be food, games, fun and live music. For information call 594-5802 or 851-7638.
- First Baptist Church of Raceland announces its 50th year anniversary as a church. A celebration service will be held beginning at 9 a.m. April 17 at 1949 La. 182 in Raceland. All former members and pastors are invited to attend and participate. For information, call 537-6065.
- New Rising Sun Baptist Church, 2300 St. Charles St., Houma, is hosting a one-year anniversary of its pastor, the Rev. Kenneth W. Jackson at 11:30 a.m. April 17. The Rev. Arthur Navarre and the First Baptist Church will be featured guests. For information, call 876-5287.
- Christ Missionary Baptist Church' Youth Department, 3152 La. 311, is sponsoring weekly tutoring session at the church from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. This service is offered free to students in kindergarten to 12th grade. Refreshments will be served. Students are asked to bring their books and work they need help with. Please be prompt with arrival and departure. For information, call 209-0777 or 879-2936.
- Holy Rosary Altar Society meets the second Tuesday in Rosary Hall, 8594 Main St., Houma. All parishioners 18 years or older are invited to attend.
- Contemporary Worship Service is offered at 11 a.m. the third Sunday of each month at First Presbyterian Church of Bayou Blue.
- The Rosary is prayed at 1 p.m. Thursdays at St. Anthony Adoration Chapel for the sick, world peace and to put God back into the schools and the country.
- Breakthrough Believers Ministry, 846 La. 182, Houma, The Healing Rooms of Houma from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Mondays, a place where people can come for healing of any kind. This is open to the community. All denominations are welcome.
- Breakthrough Believers Ministry, Women of Integrity meets at 8:30 a.m. every third Saturday at Golden Corral Restaurant. For information, call 223-0770.
- Power Luncheon is conducted at noon Thursdays at Grand Caillou Baptist Church, 3497 Grand Caillou Road. For information, contact the church at 868-5542.
- Open House Gospel Sing-A-Long is 6:30-8:30 p.m. the last Thursday of each month at the SLECA building, Coteau Road. For information, call Jimmy Savoie at 868-1819 or 537-9650.
- La Bible Study is at 6 p.m. every Tuesday at St. Mark Congregational Church on West Main Street in Schriever. The Lord's Supper is held at noon every fourth Sunday of each month at the church.
- The W-Zone, presented by WIRED Youth, is 7 p.m. Fridays at Liberty Family Church, 4808 La. 311. For information, call 851-4217 or 449-0931.
- "A Moment of Reflection," featuring lay evangelist Kerry Bueche of Voice of the Lord Ministries, is 10:28 a.m. and 7:58 and 10:58 p.m. on HTV 10.
- Bible study instruction by Kerry Bueche is conducted 9:15-10:15 a.m. Sundays and 9:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays in the St. Anthony Catholic Church Parish Center.
- RCIA meetings, for anyone interested in becoming a Catholic, are conducted 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays in the St. Anthony parish office, Bayou Black.
- St. Joseph Lay Carmelites gather at 1:30 p.m. the second Sunday of each month at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral Life Center, open to anyone 18 and older, including prayer, teaching, group sharing, meditation and a social. For information, call 446-0092 or 446-5797.
- Child Protection Contact Line: In response to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux has set up a Child Protection Contact Line to reach out to all victims of sexual abuse by anyone acting in the name of the church, along with family members or friends of the abused. The line will operate 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The local number is 873-0026.
- Low-impact aerobics and bench-stepping classes are available 8-9:30 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Coteau Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 2066 Coteau Road. For information, call Joan Blanchard 851-0224.
- Fund-raisers: The Transportation Committee of Greater New Salem Baptist Church will sell dinners for $5 a plate, beginning at 10 a.m. the first and second Saturday of each month.
- Bible study meetings are 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the North Thibodaux Volunteer Fire Station, 699 St. Patrick Hwy., led by the Rev. Tommy R. Jones of Christ Baptist Church Cathedral.
- Second-hands Thrift Ministry is open 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays at Little Caillou Baptist Mission, 5651 Bayouside Drive, Chauvin.
To submit items for the calendar, write to Church Calendar, The Courier, P.O. Box 2717, Houma, LA 70361. Include the name and telephone number of a contact person. Items can also be emailed to email@example.com. These items must be in by noon on Wednesday.
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Rambam Hilchos De'os 5:3
According to the Rambam, the mitzvah of simcha on Yom Tov does not encourage or even permit drinking (Hilchos Yom Tov 6:20):
Drinking on Purim is a specific case in which the direct mitzvah is to get drunk (Rambam Hilchos Megillah 2:15):
However, even there some opinions understand the Rambam to not be literal, and to just mean that one should drink more than he is accustomed to, get tired from the drinking, and go to sleep (Darkei Moshe O.C. 695:1).


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Both regular and ˜shadow RNCs brought to you by Big Oil
Our guest blogger is CAPAF's Joshua Dorner. This is a Think Progress cross-post.
Following scandal after scandal, many donors have abandoned the Michael Steele-led Republican National Committee in favor of other right-wing groups preparing to attack Democratic candidates in this fall's elections. The two biggest beneficiaries of the RNC's woes appear to be American Crossroads, the "shadow RNC" setup by Bush operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, and the Republican Governors Association, currently chaired by Mississippi Governor and former RNC Chairman Haley Barbour. Despite their apparent strategic differences, these three groups still have one thing in common: massive infusions of cash from Big Oil. Over $4 million of oil-related cash has spewed into the three groups in the second quarter alone:
AMERICAN CROSSROADS: American Crossroads, the shadowy 527 group setup by Rove and Gillespie as a supposed "grassroots" alternative to the RNC, and whose stated goal is to distort the facts in order to brand the BP oil disaster as "Obama's Katrina," has received 97 percent of its funding from just four right-wing billionaires. Of these, two made their fortunes in the oil and gas industry, according to a report by Salon. The two Dallas-based oil billionaires, Trevor Rees-Jones and Robert Rowling, each contributed $1 million to the group, which recently began airing misleading attack ads against Senator Harry Reid. Rove and Gillespie have also explicitly taken advantage of the recent Citizens United Supreme Court decision to setup a related 501(c)4 organization, American Crossroads GPS, in order to conceal the identity of some of their donors. The public will likely never know where the $5.1 million the group raised in June came from because of "the value of confidentiality to some donors," but it could have come from other right-wing oil billionaires like tea party-funder David Koch to major corporations like BP America and Goldman Sachs.
RGA: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has moved aggressively to promote the RGA as an alternative to the RNC. In addition to setting up "victory funds" across the country that have long been "the province of the RNC," Barbour recently told a private audience that "[he] had to raise the RGA budget by $10 million because the RNC is in such bad shape." Barbour, who has made something of a recent career out of downplaying the severity of the BP oil disaster, has indeed driven RGA fundraising to new heights during his tenure as chairman. As we previously reported, the oil and gas industry appears to have shown its appreciation for Barbour's Big Oil apologism by contributing more than $2 million to the RGA's coffers in the last quarter alone.
RNC: Despite its almost constant series of travails, the regular RNC, which still lists Gillespie as the owner of its headquarters, continues to take in boatloads of cash from Big Oil. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that so far this election cycle the RNC has received $555,439 from the oil and gas industry "" enough to make Big Oil one of the embattled committee's top ten sources of cash. The RNC unveiled a new ad yesterday attacking President Obama's response to BP oil disaster, perhaps in the hopes of drumming up even more cash from Big Oil.
Unfortunately for the regular RNC, there's at least one major GOP donor who is only giving his money to the shadow RNCs. Texas leveraged buyout billionaire Harold Simmons, best known for funding the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004 and false attack ads linking President Obama to Bill Ayers in 2008, has recently channeled $1 million to American Crossroads and $125,000 to the RGA.
4 Responses to Both regular and ˜shadow RNCs brought to you by Big Oil
The GOP has proven itself to be a gutter political party with no scruples.
The real tragedy here is that so many Americans buy this tainted bill of goods-
I hope the aforementioned clowns above- Rove, Gillespie et.al-have an explanation with the climate caves in. It will destroy the conservative movement in this country for decades.
The fossil fuel industry has an extraordinarily strong imperative to buy influence on the Hill. It's one thing to -talk- about C02, another to regulate it. If the paleo-energy industry allows regulations to take effect the tide of history is going to wash them away. They absolute -have- to get control of some legislation to make sure C02 is not handled like a pollutant, pronto.
I hope nobody in the U.S. who hangs out on this blog misunderstands the importance of the next election. Whine and complain about the weakness of the Democratic party, moan and groan about Obama, don't for a minute let your complaints turn into slothful complacency or you'll be way more frustrated than you are today.
@echo on Doug Bostrom's post.
I will be swallowing my minor differences this fall with candidates to volunteer at the phone banks, AND VOLUNTEER TO GET PEOPLE TO THE POLLS in order to make sure the clean energy candidate (which means no GnOPe 4 me) has the best chance possible.
Now I see the GnOPe is doing what it can to stop PACE legislation (Property Assessed Clean Energy) from working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Currently Fannie and Freddie are blocking PACE programs due to their panic over debt seniority. So H.R. 5766 has been introduced to ensure that the underwriting standards of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac facilitate the use of property assessed clean energy programs to finance the installation of renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements.
But the Republiwonts are blocking this in the Senate.
It's mind boggling as PACE creates local jobs, costs no tax dollars, and is a voluntary by both communities to offer it and people to participate.
Quite possibly a near-perfect clean energy catalyst.
And another pro-American, pro-jobs program the GnOPe is blocking.
Large Logos to share. I've cleaned up and enlarged the logo above for anybody who cares to use it:
Here is an enlarged, cleaned up (no background) version of the "gobp" logo gobp_lg.jpg:
and here is a large "No Is NOT A Solution" poster of mine gNOp-lg.jpg: