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The Future Unified Process of the Unified Process
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  unifiedprocess agile rup 5.263 Visualizações
On Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009 Philippe Kruchten, Bruce MacIsaac, and myself participated on two virtual panels about the future of the Unified Process (we did two to support callers from around the globe) for the Global Rational User's Group (GRUG). During the panel sessions we discussed a bit of the history of the Unified Process, some of the misconceptions people have with it, some of the common mistakes people made implementing it (instantiating it to be documentation heavy and/or serial) due to those misconceptions, how it can be very agile if you choose to instantiate it that way, the OpenUP, the AUP, how UP relates to the IBM Practices, and other topics.
The links to the recordings are:
Hope you find it interesting. As I've written in the past, the RUP can be as agile as you want to make it. Furthermore, there are a lot of really good ideas in the RUP that the agile community can and should choose to mine, although sadly I see far too many teams doing things the hard way and reinventing the process wheel on their own. I hope they're enjoying themselves, because it clearly isn't a very efficient way for them to go about process improvement.
Agility at Scale Poster Now Available
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  agile large governance 1 Comentário 6.115 Visualizações
I'm happy to announce Rational's Agility at Scale poster which is currently available free of charge from the Rational poster order page.
Although I'm obviously biased as I was involved with its creation, the poster includes some really good information about how to scale agile software development practices effectively. It summarizes the scaling factors, such as large teams, distribution, regulatory compliance, application complexity, and so on that you should be concerned with. It also presents a full agile software development lifecycle that goes beyond the construction focused lifecycles of common "agile in the small" processes. It also summarizes the practices of lean development governance, giving you some insight into how to govern your IT environment more effectively.
I think it's a pretty good poster that's worth checking out. It's free, so it's hard to argue with the price. Most importantly, it would look pretty good hanging on your office wall.
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Large-Scale Agile Transformation and Adoption: Lessons Learned
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  scale adoption agile 6.463 Visualizações
At Agile 2009 in August Sue McKinney, VP of Development Transformation with IBM Software Group, was interviewed by DZone's Nitin Bharti about IBM's experiences adopting agile techniques. There are over 25,000 developers within IBM Software Group alone. Follow the link to the interview to view it online (there is also a text transcript posted there. There's some great insights into the realities of scaling agile in large teams, in distributed agile development, and in particular how to transform a large organization's development staff.
Tragic Mistakes When Adopting TDD
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  agileadopt tdd design specification requirements testing agile 6.985 Visualizações
My January 2010 DDJ Agile Update, Tragic Mistakes When Adopting Test Driven Development (TDD) , is now online. In the article I summarize what I consider to be common, and tragic, mistakes that I'm seeing organizations make when they attempt to adopt TDD.
These mistakes include:
The article also goes into potential benefits of TDD as well as potential challenges that you're face when adopting it.
The Snowflake Analogy
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  agile 7.427 Visualizações
When you're inside, safe in the warmth of your home watching snow fall on your driveway outside, all snowflakes look the same. But, when you look at a snowflake up close, particularly when you do so under a microscope, you quickly discover that all snowflakes are in fact unique.
It's the same with IT projects. When you look at them from afar, particularly from a very high level, they all look the same. However, when you look at them up close, you quickly discover that they too are unique. The agile scaling factors, which are really just general scaling factors applicable to all types of IT project regardless of paradigm, help to make this very clear. For example, when it comes to team size some teams are small, less than ten people perhaps, some are medium sized, and some are very large (with hundreds of people). When it comes to distribution some teams are co-located in the same room, some teams have team members in different cubicles in the same building, some have people working in different buildings, and some even have people working in different countries. Many agile teams work in regulatory environments, in fact the July 2009 DDJ State of the IT Union survey reports that one third of agile teams must comply to industry regulations, although clearly many agile teams do not have this as a concern. That's only three scaling factors. The point is that a small, co-located team working in a non-regulatory environment will work much differently than a fifty-person team working in three different locations, which in turn works differently than a two hundred person team in the same building working in a regulatory situation. Different teams, facing different scaling issues will work in different ways – unique snowflakes from a process point of view.
Scaling Agile: An Executive Guide
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  agile-scaling-model agileexec agility-at-scale whitepaper asm agile 7.583 Visualizações
My new paper Scaling Agile: An Executive Guide is now available. As the title suggests the paper overviews how to scale agile strategies to meet your organization's unique needs.
The executive summary:
Agile software development is a highly collaborative, quality-focused approach to software and systems delivery, which emphasizes potentially shippable working solutions produced at regular intervals for review and course correction. Built upon the shoulders of iterative development techniques, and standing in stark contrast to traditional serial or sequential software engineering methods, agile software delivery techniques hold such promise that IBM has begun to adopt agile processes throughout its Software Group, an organization with over 25,000 developers. But how can practices originally designed for small teams (10-12) be "scaled up" for significantly larger operations? The answer is what IBM calls "agility@scale."
There are two primary aspects of scaling agile techniques that you need to consider. First is scaling agile techniques at the project level to address the unique challenges individual project teams face. This is the focus of the Agile Scaling Model (ASM). Second is scaling your agile strategy across your entire IT department, as appropriate. It is fairly straightforward to apply agile on a handful of projects, but it can be very difficult to evolve your organizational culture and structure to fully adopt the agile way of working.
The Agile Scaling Model (ASM) defines a roadmap for effective adoption and tailoring of agile strategies to meet the unique challenges faced by a software and systems delivery team. Teams must first adopt a disciplined delivery lifecycle that scales mainstream agile construction techniques to address the full delivery process, from project initiation to deployment into production. Then teams must determine which agile scaling factors – team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance, domain complexity, organizational distribution, technical complexity, organizational complexity, or enterprise discipline, if any — are applicable to a project team and then tailor their adopted strategies accordingly to address their specific range of complexities.
When scaling agile strategies across your entire IT organization you must effectively address five strategic categories — the Five Ps of IT: People, principles, practices, process, and products (i.e., technology and tooling). Depending on your organizational environment the level of focus on each area will vary. What we are finding within many organizations, including IBM, is that the primary gating factor for scaling agile across your entire organization is your organization's ability to absorb change.
Answering Questions about Disciplined Agile Delivery
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  enterprise agile disciplined-agile-deliver... 1 Comentário 7.938 Visualizações
On April 25, 2013 I gave a webcast for the Global Rational User Community entitled Disciplined Agile Delivery: Going beyond Scrum . During the webcast a large number of questions were asked but unfortunately I couldn't get to all of them. So I've taken the opportunity to write up the answers in this blog posting.
Scaling Daily Stand Up Meetings
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  scrum metrics agility-at-scale agile 2 Comentários 7.983 Visualizações
Recently I visited a customer who had adopted Scrum. They were a few sprints, what Scrum calls iterations, into the project and were running into some difficulties. Although I was primarily brought in to educate senior management on disciplined agile software development, I was also asked to sit in on the team's daily stand-up meeting so that I could hopefully provide some suggestions as to how to address the problems they were running into.
Their work area was fairly typical. They had some whiteboards which they were using for project planning and tracking, with sticky notes to indicate what work had been taken on by each team member. The current status of the task (not yet started, in progress, and completed) was indicated by putting each sticky note in a corresponding column for the status and corresponding column for the team member. This allowed everyone on the team to easily share their status and to see the status of everyone else. On the sides were sketches of the architecture as well as some business oriented models. In addition to Scrum the team had adopted several practices from Agile Modeling, in this case they had done some initial requirements envisioning and architecture envisioning, as well as practices from Extreme Programming (XP) for construction. In short, they had followed a fairly common strategy of combining practices from various agile methods.
This would have worked perfectly fine if they had tailored the practices to reflect the situation that they were in, but instead they adopted them "straight out of the book". First, the team was distributed, with most of the team in the location that I was visiting but some people located in two other distant cities. Therein was the source of most of their problems. The people at the other two locations weren't getting much value out of the daily stand-up meetings, even though they would dial in, because they couldn't see the project status information. Although people at this location were trying their best to represent these distant people in the daily stand-ups it wasn't working well – their status information wasn't being kept up to date and for some people it was a bit of mystery as to what they were actually working on at all.
This team also had 30 people in it, which isn't a big deal although it can stretch the limits of the simple modeling and planning tools (in this case paper and whiteboards) that they were using. Because the team was larger they were investing a fair bit of time creating burn down charts at both the iteration/sprint and project levels. One of the unfortunate implications of using manual tools for project management is that any associated metric/status reporting in turn becomes manual as well. Considering how the agile community is so concerned with working efficiently, I find it comical that we have a tendency to overlook our own potentially unnecessary bureaucracy such as this.
The problem was that the team was applying strategies, in this case using sticky notes and whiteboards to capture the detailed iteration plan, applying similar strategies to capture key models, and were verbally relaying of status information between sub-teams. There are perfectly fine strategies for smaller co-located teams, but not so good for large or distributed teams. The solution was to recognize that they were in an Agility@Scale situation and needed to tailor their approach to reflect this fact. In this case they needed to forgo some of the manual tools and instead use electronic tooling such as Rational Team Concert (RTC) to share information across disparate locations, in particular the work assignment and corresponding status information. RTC also creates common agile reports such as burn-down charts based on the activities of the developers, providing accurate (nearly) real-time information while removing the burden of status reporting. The RTC project dashboard does more than just this, to see an actual example of one visit www.jazz.net to see the dashboard for the RTC development team itself. You can also see their actual work item list too, a more advanced version of Scrum's product and sprint backlogs.[Read More]
Offshoring Agile Testing
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  agile offshoring testing distributed geographic-distribution scaling-agile 1 Comentário 8.275 Visualizações
Over the past few months I've had several people ask me whether it makes sense to offshore agile testing, and more importantly when it makes sense to do so. So I thought I would share my thoughts on the subject:
I suspect that you're going to find yourself in serious trouble if:
In short, it can make sense to offshore agile testing in a very narrow range of situations. Be very careful.
Agile Software Development at Scale
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  rup scrum agility-at-scale xp agile 3 Comentários 8.550 Visualizações
It's customary to start a blog by describing the vision for it. Although this vision will undoubtedly evolve over time, it's always good to put a stake in the ground to get things started. Agile software development is clearly taking off and in my opinion is becoming the dominant development paradigm. Furthermore it appears that Agile approaches enjoy a higher success rate, providing better value for your IT investment, than do traditional approaches. Although organizations are succeeding at simpler projects with agile, many are struggling when applying Agile in more complex situations. They're finding that the "Agile rhetoric" doesn't always live up to its promises once you move into these complex situations. My goal with this blog is to share strategies for applying Agile techniques at scale.
When applying Agile strategies at scale you are likely to run into one or more of the following complexity factors:1. Geographical distribution. Is your team, including stakeholders, in different locations? Even being in different cubicles within the same building can erect barriers to communication, let alone being in different cities or even on different continents.2. Regulatory compliance. Regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley act, BASEL-II, and FDA statutes, to name a few, can increase the documentation and process burden on your projects. Complying to these regulations while still remaining as agile as possible can be a challenge.3. Entrenched policies, people, and processes. Most agile teams need to work within the scope of a larger organization, and that larger organization isn't always perfectly agile. Hopefully that will change in time, but we still need to get the job done right now. Your existing culture and organization can really hinder your ability to scale agile approaches, then a few "simple" changes can really help your efforts.4. Legacy systems. Although the politically correct term would be "proven assets" the reality is that it can be very difficult to leverage existing code and data sources due to quality problems. The code may not be well written, documented, or even have tests in place, yet that doesn't mean that your agile team should rewrite everything from scratch. Some legacy data sources are questionable at best, or the owners of those data sources difficult to work with, yet that doesn't given an agile team license to create yet another database.5. Organizational distribution. When your teams are made up of people working for different divisions, or if you have people from different companies (such as contractors, partners, or consultants), then your management complexity rises.6. Degree of governance. If you have one or more IT projects then you have an IT governance process in place. How formal it is, how explicit it is, and how effective it is will be up to you. IBM has been doing a lot of work in this topic over the past few years, and just recently Per Kroll and I have done some work around Lean Governance strategies. 7. Team size. Large teams will be organized differently than small teams, and they'll work differently too.8. System complexity. The more complex the system the greater the need for a viable architectural strategy. An interesting feature of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) is that it's Elaboration phase's primary goal is to prove the architecture via the creation of an end-to-end, working skeleton of the system. This risk-reduction technique is clearly a concept which Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum teams can clearly benefit from.
It is definitely possible to scale Agile software development to meet the real-world complexities faced by modern organizations. Based on my experiences, I believe that over the next few years we'll discover that Agile scales better than traditional approaches. Many people have already discovered this, but as an industry I believe that there isn't yet sufficient evidence to state this as more than opinion. My goal with this blog is to provide advice for scaling Agile so as to increase your chances of success.
So, it looks like I have my work cut out for me. My strategy will be to address common questions which I get when working with customers and with internal IBM development teams. I have the privilege to work with a variety of software development teams worldwide, helping them to become more agile. They're all struggling with the same basic issues although don't recognize it because they're too focused on their own situation. So hopefully I'll be able to spread the word about what's actually working in practice.
I hope that you stay tuned.
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Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  agile agility-at-scale 5 Comentários 8.690 Visualizações
I recently wrote an "e-book" for Internet Evolution overviewing agile software development at scale. The goal of the Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be ebook is to get people thinking outside of the box a bit when it comes to agile development strategies and see that they really are ready for primetime.
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Removing the cost barriers to getting the agile tools you need
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  rtc tools agile jazz 1 Comentário 8.893 Visualizações
Rolf Nelson recently recorded a short (5 min) podcast about IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC). RTC is a complete agile collaborative development environment providing agile planning, source code management, work item management, build management, and project health, along with integrated reporting and process support. I've worked with RTC for a couple of years now and have been truly impressed with it. What should be of interest to many people is the Express-C version which is a free, fully-featured, 10-license version of RTC which can be easily downloaded from www.jazz.net.
Large Agile Teams
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  discipilnedagiledelivery product-management safe testing agility-at-scale scaled-agile agile agileexec agile-exec architecture 8.935 Visualizações
I recently wrote a detailed article about Large Agile Teams that was a detailed walkthrough of how to structure agile teams of various sizes. I suspect that this is the most comprehensive online discussion of this topic. The article addressed the following topics:
I welcome any feedback that you may have about Large Agile Teams.
Agile Stakeholders at Scale
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  agility-at-scale outside-in-development xp modeling scrum disciplined-agile-deliver... agileadopt amdd analysis agile 3 Comentários 9.201 Visualizações
The popular Agile literature can often seam naive when it comes to how Agilists work with project stakeholders:- Extreme Programming (XP) has a practice called On-Site Customer where one or more people work closely with your team to provide information and to make decisions in a timely manner.- Scrum has the role of Product Owner who is the one single person that the development team goes to for decisions about requirements. - Agile Modeling (AM) has the practice of Active Stakeholder Participation which extends On-Site Customer to get the stakeholder(s) actively involved with the modeling effort through the use of inclusive tools and techniques.
These are great strategies for small, co-located teams doing straightforward development, but they quickly fall apart at scale. This occurs for several reasons:1. Stakeholders are a diverse group. Your stakeholders include end users, business management, project funders, enterprise architects, operations staff, support staff, other system development teams, and many others. Different people have different, and often contradictory, requirements and they certainly have different priorities. It's questionable whether a single person, or a handful of persons, can adequately represent this diverse group.2. One person becomes a bottleneck. Even with a small co-located team this is a problem, let alone one that is geographically distributed or one that is very large. There's no way that a single person can be available 24/7 in a responsive manner to support distributed teams.3. It's a difficult role. The Product Owner/Customer (POC) is responsible for representing the business to the development team. They're making important decisions on a regular basis, decisions which they'll be held accountable for.4. One person becomes a serious project risk. Not only is it questionable whether a single person can fairly represent all stakeholders, even if they could what happens if you lose that person? They effectively become a single point of failure for your team.
To scale this role, consider the following strategies:1. Recognize the true scope of the POC role. Not only are they stakeholder proxies they also are a development team representative to the stakeholder community as a whole. As stakeholder proxies they'll make decisions and prioritize the work, they'll run requirements elicitation sessions, they'll negotiate priorities, and they'll put the development team in contact with stakeholders who have expertise in specific aspects of the domain. As team representatives they'll often demo the current version of the system to other stakeholders, communicate the status of the project to people, and respond to various requests for information from the stakeholders.2. Have multiple people in it. A single POC works well for small, co-located teams developing simple software. At scale you'll soon discover that you need multiple people in this role so that they don't become a bottleneck. For distributed teams it's common to see each subteam have one or more POCs who are managed by a primary/chief POC. The primary POC typically works on the coordinating team with the chief architect (I'll talk about this role in a future blog posting) and the program manager (also a topic for a future blog posting).3. Train them in business analysis skills. The person(s) in the POC role need good business analysis skills. If fact, it's common for people who were formerly BAs for traditional teams to step into the POC role, particularly with BAs who originally come from the business side of your organization. This strategy has its advantages and disadvantages. As a BA they've likely got solid business knowledge but their instincts may motivate them to take a documentation-driven approach to providing information to the development team instead of a collaboration-based approach. Be careful.4. Consider the full system development lifecycle. There's far more to the POC role than supporting the development team during Construction iterations. During "Iteration 0", the Inception phase for an Agile RUP project or the warm-up phase for an Eclipse Way project, the POC(s) will often lead the initial requirements envisioning efforts. The product backlog, or better yet your work item list, needs to come from somewhere after all. During the release iteration(s), the Transition phase for RUP or the End-Game phase for Eclipse Way, the POC(s) will focus on communicating the upcoming release to the stakeholder community, will be actively involved with any final user acceptance testing (UAT), and may even be involved with training end users.
In my January 2008 column in Dr Dobb's Journal, posted at http://www.ddj.com/architect/204801134 , I provide detailed advice about how to scale the way that you work with stakeholders on Agile projects by applying the practices of Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD). There's no magic solution, you just need to choose to organize yourself effectively. The good news is that you can easily work with stakeholders at scale.[Read More]
Measuring Benefits of Software Development: Traditional vs. Agile
ScottAmbler 120000HESD Marcações:  agile project-management continuous-delivery devops metrics measures 9.536 Visualizações
I was recently involved in an online discussion about how to calculate the benefits realized by software development teams. As with most online discussions it quickly devolved into camps and the conversation didn't progress much after that. In this case there was what I would characterize as a traditional project camp and a much smaller agile/lean product camp. Although each camp had interesting points, the important thing for me in the conversation was the wide cultural and experience gap between the people involved in the conversation.
The following diagram summarizes the main viewpoints and the differences between them. The traditional project camp promoted a strategy where the potential return on investment (ROI) for a project would be calculated, a decision would be made to finance the project based (partly) on that ROI, the project would run, the solution delivered into production, and then at some point in the future the actual ROI would be calculated. Everyone was a bit vague on how the actual ROI would be calculated, but they agreed that it could be done although would be driven by the context of the situation. Of course several people pointed out that it rarely works that way. Even if the potential ROI was initially calculated it would likely be based on wishful thinking and it would be incredibly unlikely that the actual ROI would be calculated once the solution was in production. This is because few organizations are actually interested in investing the time to do so and some would even be afraid to do so. Hence the planned and actual versions of the traditional strategy in the diagram.
The agile/lean camp had a very different vision. Instead of investing in upfront ROI calculation, which would have required a fair bit of upfront requirements modelling and architectural modelling to get the information, the idea was that we should instead focus on a single feature or small change. If this change made sense to the stakeholders then it would be implemented, typically on the order of days or weeks instead of months, and put quickly into production. If your application is properly instrumented, which is becoming more and more common given the growing adoption of DevOps strategies, you can easily determine whether the addition of the new feature/change adds real value.
Cultural differences get in your way
The traditional project camp certainly believed in their process. In theory it sounded good, and I'm sure you could make it work, but in practice it was very fragile. The long feedback cycle, potentially months if not years, pretty much doomed the traditional approach to measuring benefits of software development to failure. The initial ROI guesstimate was often a work of fiction and rarely would it be compared to actuals. The cultural belief in bureaucracy motivated the traditional project camp to ignore the obvious challenges with their chosen approach.
The agile/lean camp also believed in their strategy. In theory it works very well, and more and more organizations are clearly pulling this off in practice, but it does require great discipline and investment in your environment. In particular, you need investment in modern development practices such as continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), and instrumented solutions (all important aspects of a disciplined agile DevOps strategy). These are very good things to do anyway, it just so happens that they have an interesting side effect of making it easy (and inexpensive) to measure the actual benefits of changes to your software-based solutions. The cultural belief in short feedback cycles, in taking a series of smaller steps instead of one large one, and in their ability to automate some potentially complex processes motivated the agile/lean camp to see the traditional camp as hopeless and part of the problem.
Several people in the traditional project camp struggled to understand the agile/lean approach, which is certainly understandable given how different that vision is compared with traditional software development environments. Sadly a few of the traditionalists chose to malign the agile/lean strategy instead of respectfully considering it. They missed an excellent opportunity to learn and potentially improve their game. Similarly the agilists started to tune out, dropping out of the conversation and forgoing the opportunity to help others see their point of view. In short, each camp suffered from cultural challenges that prevented them from coherently discussing how to measure the benefits of software development efforts.
How Should You Measure the Effectiveness of Software Development?
Your measurement strategy should meet the following criteria:
Not surprisingly, I put a lot more faith in the agile/lean approach to measuring value. Having said that, I do respect the traditional strategy as there are some situations where it may in fact work. Just not as many as traditional protagonists may believe.


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The stock markets traded flat with a high level of intra-day volatility on the run-up to the budget. Despite weak global cues, the domestic markets remained out-performers as investors were buying stocks even in small declines.
The positive vibes coming from the markets were very strong. As the government now has the strength in the parliament, investors expect a good reforms-oriented budget.


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The final round in the Warner Music auction closed yesterday, with two primary bidders said to be vying for the company, one being Len Blavatnik's Access Industries and the other, a coalition of brothers Tom and Alec Gores, whose respective company's are Platinum Equity and Gores Group – both suitors reportedly tendered bids around $3billion for the entirety of WMG. Attention has begun to drift to the looming sale of EMI by owner Citigroup, and the belief de-jour is that whomever ends up nabbing Warner Music, will also be aggressive in securing EMI as well. The result would likely be a cut and paste job between the various components of the two music groups. In another twist, The Telegraph reported yesterday that KKR-backed BMG Rights Management and Universal Music Group may be teaming up in an attempt to acquire either or both EMI and Warners, having put together a plan to carve up catalogues in an effort to avoid regulatory hurdles… Elsewhere, according to FMQB, Q Prime is expanding its promotion team, with an emphasis on bolstering the undertakings of its premier management operation, with a roster including Cage the Elephant, The Black Keys, Silversun Pickups, Snow Patrol, Muse and many others. Q Prime's Mom + Pop Records, who has releases from Sleigh Bells, Metric, Freelance Whales among others, should also benefit from the increased staff. The additions include Trina Schaefer (formerly of Island Def Jam), Erin Gellert (formerly of Epic Records), Devin Rosevear, Chris Frank (formerly of Universal Motown) and Michael Fang (formerly of Red)… Meanwhile, the news of a nearly 25 million additional user accounts being compromised in the recent PlayStation Network breach (77 million were initially reported) smacks of the Sony BMG rootkit blunder (and ensuing lawsuits), and it can't be good news for Sony Corp. CEO Howard Stringer, whose term has recently begun to be put in question more frequently… And for an interesting read about some of what labels are said to be demanding from cloud music, or locker, services (efforts from Amazon, Apple, Google and Spotify being the most widely discussed), check out the guest post from MP3.com and MP3Tunes founder Michael Robertson on TechCrunch.
[UPDATE - Bloomberg first reported yesterday that a last minute joint-offer for Warners was submitted by Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Ronald Perelman and Guggenheim Partners LLC. A winning bidder is expected to be announced on Friday.]


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While Obama remains silent, Congress moves to rescue Meriam Ibrahim
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Open-Faced ?Turkey? Sandwiches with Golden Gravy
Serves 4
At our local diner, one of the most popular menu items was thinly sliced roast turkey draped over soft white bread and topped with hot gravy that overflowed onto mashed potatoes. This healthier version, made with pressed marinated tofu and served with jellied cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes, recaptures that old experience. The baked tofu can be made up to 5 days ahead; wrap tightly and refrigerate.
- 1 lb. extra-firm tofu, cut horizontally in half
- 1 cup mushroom broth or soaking liquid from dried shiitake mushrooms
- ½ cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 2 Tbs. vegetable oil
- 1 Tbs. brown rice vinegar
- 1 Tbs. finely shredded fresh ginger
- 2 large cloves garlic, minced
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
It's Epic. And It's Here.
Guess what tomorrow is?
Answer: ONLY the most anticipated day in the Diller family recent history. This has been on the calendar for ages, probably about since the first Hobbit movie came out last year. And wonder of wonders, it comes out on the same day in the UK that it does in the US! Woohoo, we are not the meanest parents in the world for moving our children overseas!
This means that we'll have a new cultural experience: visiting a British movie theatre. Already, I'm noticing differences: It's called a cinema. You reserve your seats ahead of time when you order your tickets. And rumors are, it's totally acceptable to bring your own snacks. We definitely intend to test the veracity of that one. <wink>
The kids are uber excited. So much so that, Geek Alert, a couple of them are planning to wear the EXACT same clothes that they wore back in October when we, Geek Alert #2, visited J.R.R. Tolkien's grave in Oxford.
(FYI: Last year we didn't take Caroline to the movie, but she has since seen it multiple times on DVD, where we can fast-forward the scary parts, e.g. the Necromancer. This year, because she cares about this story with a passion that runs deep (and I quote: "That movie makes all the other movies I've seen not matter very much") she's going along, and we'll make judicious use of our parental guidance.)
I know we'll be thinking of a few of our fellow fan friends back in the States tomorrow, especially those from last year's LOTR class. Ian is already planning his next epic movie marathon and Hobbit-themed feast for when we return to the States. This article from NPR only fanned the flames.
What about you, friends? Anyone else have The Hobbit on this weekend's agenda? Or are you normal people? :-)
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- Gillian in WalesDecember 12, 2013 at 10:58 PM
Have fun! I'm jealous. We WILL get to see it, but it'll take a while as Alex is too little to come with us :-( Yes, you can order tickets in advance but the seats are generally unallocated so arrive in plenty of time in order to sit together. Also, snacks may have to be smuggled in - depends on the cinema. Prices for snacks are extortionate.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hope you get to see it soon, Gillian! And I am happy to deliver a successful snack-smuggling report. :-)Delete
- Gillian in WalesDecember 14, 2013 at 2:09 PM
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This is a Thai-basil inspired dish…made with short ribs.
Hardly a super healthy stir fry, I know. But, whatever. 🙂
It's one of my favorite ways to make short ribs in the warmer weather.
This is a slow cooker type of deal. Either in your crockpot, or in a big heavy pot on top of the stove. You could even rock it in the oven if you like.
Short ribs are among the toughest of the tough when it comes to beef, so it takes a lot of low, slow heat to coax them into tenderness. I got mine at my favorite local spot, Tendercrop Farm.
For this dish, I seared meaty short ribs in olive oil until they were nice and brown (there's flavor in that thar crust!).
Then, I simmered them for hours in ea tangy combo of orange juice and beef stock, with a generous amount of fresh basil, onion, ginger, garlic, and orange slices studded with whole cloves.
The result? Meltingly tender meat that's fragrant with citrus and Asian flavors. This is seriously a new house fav.
Let's get to it!
Chili Orange Glazed Short Ribs
3.5 lbs. short ribs
olive oil
kosher salt
1 cup orange juice, no pulp
1 cup beef broth
1 cup water
1 large orange, cut into about 8 wedges
5 cloves
1 large yellow onion, peeled and chopped
3-4 red chilis (adjust up or down depending on how hot you like it)
3 cloves garlic
1/3 cup basil, cut into ribbons
1 large knob ginger, sliced
2-3 scallions, cut into rings
1-2 red chilis, sliced into sticks
1 large orange, cut into about 8 slices
1/4 cup basil, cut into ribbons
Serves about 4
Sear the short ribs to develop flavor
Drizzle a little olive oil in a large, heavy bottomed pot and set it on the stove over medium-high heat.
I used my trusty 7-quart enameled cast iron pot. Sprinkle the ribs with a little salt, and toss them in the pot when the oil is hot.
Don't crowd the pot!
If your pot isn't big enough to sear all the ribs at once, do them in batches. If you crowd the pot, it's hard to get a good sear (the meat releases moisture, so your ribs will more steam than sear).
When they are nice and brown on one side, flip them over. Get all the sides, even the ends. Brown now = flavor later.
While the ribs are searing, cut up your orange and stick the cloves into the rind like little nails. (You'll get all that great clove flavor, but won't risk biting into a clove in the finished dish.)
Simmer the short ribs
When all your ribs are seared, toss them all back in the pot. Add the orange juice, beef broth, water, orange studded with cloves, onion, chilis, garlic, basil, and ginger.
Give the pot a stir as much as you can (there's a lot of stuff in there, I know). Bring the liquid up to a boil over high heat. Knock the heat down so that the liquid just holds a simmer.
Cover and simmer for 3 – 3.5 hours, stirring occasionally.
They're done when the meat comes away from the bone easily with a fork.
When they're done, the ribs will have released a fair amount of fat into the pot. That's just fine. We're gonna ditch it. 🙂
Strain the broth
Remove the ribs from the pot with tongs and tuck them away on a plate for a minute.
Strain the cooking liquid, discarding the solids. (After 3+ hours, trust me, they've done their job.)
Push the solids down a little in the strainer to smoosh out any remaining liquid.
Skim the fat off the broth
I told you there's a lot of fat, right? Skim all of that fat off with a spoon and discard.
You'll be left with all that super fragrant, flavorful broth.
Reduce the broth
Toss the broth back in your pot, and boil, uncovered, over high heat until it's reduced by about a half. Taste as you go, toss in a little salt, etc., to suit your taste.
You're concentrating all that flavor. If you want a soupier dish, you can totally skip this step.
If you wanted to go the other way and make a thicker, velvety sauce, you could thicken it with a little cornstarch/water mixture. (Whisk equal parts cornstarch and water together in a bowl, and add a tablespoon or two to the broth as it boils, whisking frequently. If you overthicken it by accident, thin it out with a little water or beef stock.)
Serve and enjoy!
When you're happy with your broth, it's time to plate up! Arrange your short ribs on a serving platter. I used a big, low pasta bowl. Add the reduced broth.
Sprinkle with scallions, basil, and cut hot peppers. Nestle the orange slices around the bowl.
And, voila! Serve and enjoy! I like to serve over steamed Basmati rice or rice noodles.
Want more short rib action?
Check out this other house fav. These Short Ribs Braised in Red Wine are heartier fare that make a great dinner for a cooler night.
Want to learn more about braising?
Want to learn more about cooking meat low and slow? Check out my primer on braising and get my recipe for Guinness Braised Short Ribs.


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Madonna: 'I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.'
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Back in our day, gas only cost a nickel. And MTV played music videos. And there was no such thing as climate change. And it never rained. Okay, we're exaggerating a little, but it's mostly true. Ish.
The thing is, oldsters look back at the past with rose-colored glasses, and Machiavelli is no exception. Just like other humanists of his day (check out "Genre" for more on humanism), Machiavelli was a total geek for the ancient world. If they had conventions, he probably would have gone in full costume as Alexander the Great.
It's easy to see his geekdom, because with nearly every rule that Machiavelli puts out for us, he gives us an ancient example in addition to a modern one to back it up. For example, when he's done laying out his basic guidelines for being an awesome ruler, Machiavelli tells us that the Romans followed his rules to a tee:
The Romans followed these principles whenever they took a new province: they sent colonists; they established friendly relations with weaker neighbours, though without allowing them to increase their power; they undermined stronger neighbours and they prevented powerful rulers outside the region from gaining influence there. Their stronger neighbours and they prevented powerful rulers outside the region from gaining influence there […] The Romans were simply doing what all wise rulers must. (3.8)
Sounds like the Romans were using Machiavelli's playbook. And as we already know, the modern version of this example was Cesare Borgia.
These ancient historical examples are always a little bit too perfect. Machiavelli holds these old dudes up on a pedestal, and he reads way deep into their actions sometimes. Check this out:
When David offered to go and fight the Philistine trouble-maker, Goliath, on Saul's behalf, Saul gave him his own weapons to bolster the boy's courage. But no sooner had David put them on than he refused the gift, saying he wouldn't feel confident with them, he would rather face the enemy with his own sling and knife. In the end, other people's arms are either too loose, too heavy or too tight. (13.5)
Really? Or maybe the armor was just too big and David wasn't trying to make some kind of commentary on relying on other people. But hey, we'll roll with it.
We don't want to rag on Machiavelli for loving the ancient past too much. He does give a modern example for every ancient one. And considering that Italy was being used as a beanbag in Spain and France's game of imperial hackey-sack, we can get how the past looks much nicer than the present.


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So, Thursday night a couple of our men who were visiting door to door and came across a man who came to the door.
The house was quiet, the big screen off and the man looked shocked to see them.
He told them he was struggling and searching for the truth and had just set down and began reading his Bible looking for God!
A few minutes into reading, God sent two of our men to his door to share with him the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
I just spoke to one of our men and he is planning to come tomorrow and walk the aisle and be baptized and is excited about serving God.
Door to door soul winning still works!!!
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XPhiler, on 04 February 2013 - 12:16 PM, said:
Sure, hey people you all loose 2 days worth of progress because Rasberry jam thinks its better for the game if everyone suffers for what these exploiters did. Expect this to happen again since exploiters didnt really loose anything and are sure to try again. I know well a rollback would fix the problem but a rollback isnt feasable it would annoy everyone people that did nothing wrong included and what for so that exploiters are free to exploit whenever they feel like it?
Lol check with CCP about that. The faction warfare exploit has been there since faction warfare was introduced so it took months. I was personally aware of some exploits that ran for years. Just cause this one exploit quickly become public knoweldge it doesnt mean they all will.
Because Anet have a vested interest in having no exploits regardless if people are free to exploit or not. Thats plain obvious, what do they gain with exploits in the game? nothing, what do they loose? more money made by exploiters means less gem purchases, people leaving the game cause no one likes to play a game ripe with exploits, exploiters get bored of the game quickly (what do you play for when you have everything ?)
Sure if you sell the box and then you have less bandwidth usage you make more profit but you're completing ignoring the fact that whoever got banned got a refund hence then didnt get extra profit from them because they got the money from the box and saved the bandwidth they'd use on top of that no. They gave him the money back, lost the money for the bandwidth he used from the moment he bought the game until the moment he got banned and also whatever credit card / bank charges that where incurrent at the sale and for the charge back. So your statement is completely wrong on all counts. Banning these players wasnt an extra profit for Anet because of saved bandwidth, it was a cost nothing else.
No you havent not once and you cannot because its absurd. Banning exploiters shines a spotlight on the fact you have an exploit and only developers can create exploits. I have yet to see anyone claim the exploit was the fault of whoever got banned but please feel free to look around and find me a single post were someone states the exploit was the fault of whoever got banned.
I'm not suggesting a rollback. I was merely saying that it is possible. What should be done is to eelete the exploiters' profits if you have to; to the market, removing all their possessions is the same thing as banning them.
I know, for example the Zaishen chest exploit in GW1 existed for a very long time. However, it had almost no result to the economy; if it had, it would have been detected and patched out.
No, as long as people believe that the fault of exploits lay with the playerbase, ANet have no problem with them. They are put out there, and then they are fixed. If they had a profit motive of putting out less bugs, we'd see less bugs in the game.
The banned people got a refund on their gems, not on their box purchase.
No, rants on boards about how the game is full of exploits, shine the spotlight on the exploits in your game. That is why bans happen - the developer don't want to admit that it was their fault that the economy took a hit. Instead, they blame players.


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The Gilf El-Kebir is a sandstone plateau located in the southwest corner of the Western Desert. The rocky surface slopes south-eastward are partially covered by sand because the Great Sand Sea to the north is gradually encroaching on the plateau. The area is extremely arid but it supports the Barbary Sheep, and several species of reptiles as well as small birds, among the latter is the ubiquitous White-crowned Black Wheatear. You'll find ancient rock art in Shaw's cave, and El-Mestikawi cave depicting several types of cattle that attest to a wetter period in prehistoric times.
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The man suspected in a series of rapes during the summer in South Dallas filed a civil lawsuit on Friday asking for a change of venue for his trial.
Van Dralan Dixson, 38, who didn't fight extradition to Texas after he was captured in September in Louisiana, filed the suit against the Dallas Police Department and Chief David Brown.
Dixson, who is in Dallas County Jail, said Brown in the suit that Brown "made a major mistake" by naming a person of interest who was later cleared of any involvement. Afterward, Brown gave the media "extra details to make the case look much worse" because he wanted to "cover up his actions," Dixson said in the suit.
Brown tweeted the name of the person of interest shortly after a meeting in South Dallas. He said he chose to do so only after police got a strong tip about the man and had exhausted all options for finding him. The man was asleep in his apartment when police found him.
Days later, police said DNA tests linked some of the rapes to Dixson.
This is the second federal lawsuit that Dixson has filed since he was arrested and indicted on four counts of aggravated sexual assault and charged with seven counts of aggravated robbery. A magistrate judge has recommended that the first suit, which is against the county sheriff's office, be dismissed.
In that suit, Dixson got help from Matthew McBride, a fellow jail detainee. McBride declined to talk about his conversations with Dixson in a recent jailhouse interview, but did say he "very little knowledge of what is going on" with Dixson's criminal case.
"I just pretty much wrote what he asked me to write," McBride said.
McBride said Dixson didn't like what was written about him in the newspaper, and blamed officials for releasing information about his current case and a past one.
"I don't believe the lawsuit has anything to do with the actual crimes," McBride said. "I believe it's how they've handled the situation."


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FRANKLIN -- An Edinboro man was taken to the hospital after a one-vehicle crash Friday night in Venango County.
State police at Franklin said Alex J. Baer, 20, was transported to Grove City Medical Center with a moderate injury.
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More than three thousand people were honored Saturday in one Eastern Kentucky county.
Laurel County unveiled a veteran's memorial in Downtown London. U.S. veterans, their family, and friends were all in attendance, but for them it was a time of remembrance.
The streets of Downtown London were filled with people to honor the U.S. veterans from Laurel County.
Major General Donald Storm is a Laurel County native. He spoke to the crowd about the current war in the Middle East as well as the importance of supporting the troops.
"It's important that we say thank you to these folks, these great American heroes that served in all services, in all wars," Storm said.
And people of all ages waved hundreds of American flags.
"To support our troops and be one of them one of these days," said Josh Vickers.
As the three large memorials were uncovered, the lines formed. Many just wanted to find the names of their loved ones.
"The veterans, as General Storm said, are the lifeline of our nation. I too am a veteran serving in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War," said Ann Carroll.
Flags stand above the monuments representing the major U.S. Wars.
"My dad had 4 brothers who served in World War Two, my mom had 2 brothers who served there, and I now am very proud of my grandson who is in the Navy," said Ollie Depew.
"Greatest honor that all of us ever had was to be allowed to wear the uniform of this country," Gene Asher said.
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We are very good at what we do. The expertise of your guide, manager and/or cook will ensure an exciting and memorable trip. Once the camp is underway, your meals, accommodation, group climbing gear, planning and preparation are all taken care of. All you have to do is arrive prepared to have a wonderful holiday, enjoy great climbing or skiing, scrumptious meals, and relaxing evenings with new and old friends. We have designed our schedule to offer a variety of opportunities, including camps for those still acquiring their mountain skills, and serious challenges for our more experienced members.
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Almost anyone who is fit and has a keen sense of adventure can come on an ACC trip. Some trips demand previous mountaineering or skiing experience. Others just require a great attitude, a sense of adventure and a good level of fitness. If you are unsure if a particular trip is for you, call the Camp Manager listed with the trip information. If you want a broader overview of the trip demands, contact the ACC's Mountain Adventures Coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Please note that you must be a member of the Alpine Club of Canada to attend one of our Mountain Adventures and you must have the Huts Option with your membership to attend our hut-based camps. For more details on ACC membership, visit the Membership pages.
In order to attend the General Mountaineering Camp, participants must be aged 19 or older. On all other camps, participants must be aged 16 or over but we do make exceptions for younger children in some cases. Please consult with the Mountain Adventures Coordinator if you are thinking about having your child attend a camp with you.
You are responsible for supplying personal climbing equipment for the camp (eg. ice axe, crampons, helmet, harness, skis, etc.). A gear list is supplied in the Information Package for each camp.
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Many camps are porter-assisted, however all participants will still have to carry a portion of the group gear; first aid kits, climbing equipment, food, etc. at all times. This is in addition to your food and other personal items. Therefore, you will need to ensure your pack is of adequate size.
If you require rental equipment, Gear Up. (on Highway 1A in Canmore) offers a 15% discount on rental gear and a 10% discount on retail climbing gear (excluding ropes) to Alpine Club of Canada Mountain Adventure participants. For further information and equipment reservations, visit www.gearupsport.com or email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (403) 678-1636 between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time.
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Trips may not always run exactly according to schedule for reasons beyond our control (weather, wildlife, Parks regulations, etc). Because of this, we recommend that you do not book any scheduled travel (such as airline flights) within a day or two of the final anticipated day of your camp.
Special note regarding weather and helicopter transport: Please note that helicopter travel can be delayed by bad weather, and this can sometimes include overnight delays. These sorts of delays are beyond the control of The Alpine Club of Canada, and we cannot provide for your accommodation and meals in the nearest town, should this occur. Although it does not happen often, you should be prepared for the possibility of this unforeseeable additional expense if your camp involves a helicopter flight.


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Pain relief during the process of labor and delivery is typically an important factor in the minds of expectant mothers. Divine Savior Healthcare will support each individual's decision regarding the management of their labor pain.
In the later stages of labor, many women find that they require stronger pain relief. IV medications are available if you choose to do so. Epidural and intrathecal analgesia are available 24 hours a day at Divine Savior Healthcare.
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View the original article at: http://www.countryweekly.com/news/alabama-records-waylon
The mountain music may have stopped playing for Alabama, but according to frontman Randy Owen, he and bandmates Jeff Cook and Teddy Gentry never really broke up. They simply took a break from recording—a hiatus that ended when they cut "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way," the first single from the upcoming Waylon Jennings tribute album, The Music Inside.
"Me and Jeff and Teddy, we're still together," Randy says. "We told everybody we just didn't plan to tour for a while, or maybe ever, but we might do some recording. After all those years, it was time to do it."
And Randy won't rule out more studio work for Alabama. "We might do some stuff and take it step by step and project by project," he says. For now, though, he's wrapping up his own solo project, a benefit album for firemen, police officers and those wounded in the line of duty, and taking time to jam with his pals—like Brad Paisley.
"Paisley was working on something interesting with some guys and they were writing a song and wanted me to come and work with them. I brought out my Music Man guitar and played it on the session," Randy reports.
Sounds like something we'd love to hear!
For more on the Waylon Jennings tribute album and Alabama, pick up the Feb. 7 issue of Country Weekly.
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