text:
Requirements Collaboration-TFS & inteGREAT
Siddharth Bhatia
Microsoft Visual Studio Principal Program Manager Lead
Asif Sharif
Chief Technologist – eDev Technologies
During this webinar we will explain and demonstrate how the inteGREAT RLM software extends the capabilities of Microsoft's TFS & Office platforms; combined providing a comprehensive, simple to use, highly scalable, requirements solution for all project stakeholders.
As part of this presentation we will demonstrate:
- Creating and saving requirements and specifications to a central TFS database
- Reusing requirements & specifications (data, process, actors, etc.)
- Modifying Word & Excel documents and performing an incremental import into inteGREAT
- Automatically generating project documents in Word, Excel & Visio; including Use Case, Test Case and traceability documents
- Automatically generating mockups of an application from previously created requirements
- Performing an Impact Assessment
- Creating a baseline of a project and comparing it to the current state
- Collaborating online to review and approve requirements or raise issues and tasks against them
Date: April 25th
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
View Webinar | Download Slides
The inteGREAT ed Quest for Software Requirements
Roxanne Miller CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
Author of The Quest for Software Requirements
Join eDev Technologies and Requirements Quest to see how the latest release of our Requirements Lifecycle Management tool, inteGREAT, supports the methodologies outlined in Roxanne Miller's "The Quest for Software Requirements"
Date: April 23rd
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
View Webinar | Download Slides
Requirements Elicitation
Part 2 – 5 Best Practices
Sola Oduko, BA, MA, MBA,
ISEB ITIL® Expert accreditation in IT Service Management,
Are you a seasoned business analyst who is wondering why you haven't been so successful eliciting requirements? Or, have you just been assigned to elicit requirements and don't know how and where to start?
We all have been there. At one of your initial meetings you asked your users "What are your requirements?" and got the following replies: "we don't know"; "to enable us perform our work better"; or, "we are okay with whatever you suggest a best practice system can do".
It's time to stop struggling and increase your success at eliciting requirements by attending our two-part webinar series, on the 5 No-Nos and 5 Best practice methods for eliciting requirements. Sola will explore the five mistakes most people make while eliciting requirements and further expose you to how to make requirements elicitation a fun thing. Sola has lead implementation of several application and technology infrastructure projects, and has managed several business analysts in eliciting and documenting requirements.
Learning objectives:
- Recognize and understand different techniques for eliciting requirements.
- Understand the 5 No-Nos of requirements elicitation.
- Become familiar with 5 Best Practice methods for eliciting requirements.
Course Outline:
- Overview of requirements elicitation techniques.
- The Five NO-NOs of requirements elicitation.
- The Five Best Practice methods for eliciting requirements.
- Applying what you have learnt at your workplace.
Requirements Elicitation Part 2 – 5 Best Practices :
Date: April 4th
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
View Webinar | Download Slides
Requirements Elicitation
Part 1 – 5 The No-Nos
Sola Oduko, BA, MA, MBA,
ISEB ITIL® Expert accreditation in IT Service Management,
Are you a seasoned business analyst who is wondering why you haven't been so successful eliciting requirements? Or, have you just been assigned to elicit requirements and don't know how and where to start?
We all have been there. At one of your initial meetings you asked your users "What are your requirements?" and got the following replies: "we don't know"; "to enable us perform our work better"; or, "we are okay with whatever you suggest a best practice system can do".
It's time to stop struggling and increase your success at eliciting requirements by attending our two-part webinar series, on the 5 No-Nos and 5 Best practice methods for eliciting requirements. Sola will explore the five mistakes most people make while eliciting requirements and further expose you to how to make requirements elicitation a fun thing. Sola has lead implementation of several application and technology infrastructure projects, and has managed several business analysts in eliciting and documenting requirements.
Learning objectives:
- Recognize and understand different techniques for eliciting requirements.
- Understand the 5 No-Nos of requirements elicitation.
- Become familiar with 5 Best Practice methods for eliciting requirements.
Course Outline:
- Overview of requirements elicitation techniques.
- The Five NO-NOs of requirements elicitation.
- The Five Best Practice methods for eliciting requirements.
- Applying what you have learnt at your workplace.
Requirements Elicitation Part 1 – 5 No-Nos :
Date: March 28th
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
View Webinar | Download Slides
Managing Requirements Maturity
Garry McGouldrick
SVP of Sales & Professional Services with IAG Consulting
Garry McGouldrick is the Senior Vice President of Professional Services at IAG Consulting , the largest consultancy in North America solely focused on business and systems requirements. Over the last seven years with IAG Consulting, he has worked on dozens of high profile strategic projects ensuring that both business & project objectives are realized in a timely and cost effective manner. With almost 20 years of experience assisting large organizations to manage technology and related IT projects, he is well known for his ability to assist clients to scope requirements and implement a budget and plan to provide true business value.
Managing Requirements Maturity
Improving organizational Requirements Maturity is a strategic approach to improving project success and aligning IT with the business to meet objectives on time and on budget consistently.
According to the recent IAG BA Benchmark study of 437 large and medium organizations in North America and Europe, the organizational level of Requirements Maturity is directly proportional to the likelihood of project success. Companies invest millions of dollars in recruitment, hiring, and training of Business Analysts every year without a detailed understanding of the role and how to integrate into the enterprise; the average Requirements Maturity level in North America is only 1.8 on a scale of 1-5, and only a fraction of those measured qualified at a level 3 or higher. For individual and organizations that are serious about improving in a consistent and measureable way, IAG will explain the key concepts and results you can expect by improving organizational Requirements Maturity
Learning Objectives:
- The impact of requirements maturity on overall business and project objectives
- The Requirements Maturity Model
- What are the 5 levels of maturity
- The key requirements capabilities
- All process areas that should be considered when measuring requirements maturity
- How to assess requirements maturity
- A high level roadmap to improving requirements capabilities
Date: March 15th, 2012
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
View Webinar | Download Slides
Leading Innovation through Enterprise Analysis
Jonathan Nituch, CBAP®, PMP®
VP of Operations at Fortress Technology Planners
Contributor at The BA Coach.com
Business Analysis and Project Management Instructor at Sheridan and Conestoga Colleges
Jonathan Nituch is the VP of Operations at Fortress Technology Planners and has over 14 years of experience in business analysis and project management. Through his work at Fortress, he has helped dozens of companies to identify their business needs, select an approach, and successfully execute projects to meet those needs. A passionate and energetic speaker, Jonathan's enthusiasm encourages audience members and motivates them to move forward with their goals. He has contributed some popular articles and podcasts to The BA Coach.com and teaches project management and business analysis at two community colleges in Ontario.
Leading Innovation through Enterprise Analysis
Innovate or die.Organizations can no longer deny this simple truth in today's economy. How can companies achieve the innovation needed to survive in this environment? What type of leadership is required? How can business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders work together to reach this goal? In this webinar, Jonathan Nituch will discuss how enterprise analysis can be used to face these challenges. You will learn the type of environment necessary for innovation to occur and the style of leader that is needed to create and maintain such an environment. Jonathan will also share a simple but powerful methodology to create, validate, and evaluate innovations for your business unit.
Key Content:
• Discussion of a key trend in leadership
• Examination of the myths surrounding innovation
• Exploration of the environment for innovation
• Quick review of enterprise analysis, portfolio management, and strategic planningtheory
• A lightweight, bottom-up enterprise analysis (strategic planning/project portfolio management) methodology
• Results and pitfalls of the methodology.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe leadership as defined through understanding of needs.
- Identify the components of an environment for innovation.
- State the definition of enterprise analysis, portfolio management, and strategic planning.
Employ a 5-step methodology to lead innovation through enterprise analysis.
Date: February15th, 2012
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
View Webinar | Download Slides
BA Certification – Why and How
Gary Gack, Founder at Americas Requirements Engineering Association; Supporting Member at International Requirements Engineering Board; Trainer and Principal Consultant, Owner at Process-Fusion.net
Author of Managing the Black Hole: The Executive's Guide to Software Project Risk
Process-Fusion.net is owned and operated by Gary A. Gack, a senior software and IT professional with more than 40 years of diverse leadership experience in the areas of business analysis, requirements engineering, requirements management, business requirements discovery, software quality, software metrics, and project management – both domestic and international.
BA Certification: How and Why
Have you ever wondered how you can convince management to provide funding for professional education and certification? In this webinar Gary will review the benefits of and business case for professional certification. You will take away an "elevator speech" that will help convince the boss. Are you aware that there are several different approaches to certification (and re-certification? Not all certifications have the same requirements or use the same process. In the final section of this presentation Gary will provide a comparison of the two most widely accepted certification regimes for Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis – those offered by the International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA) and by the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB).
Key Content:
- The "business case" for RE/BA training and certification
- Certification requirements comparison
- Training
- Experience
- References
- Re-certification
- Costs
- Content comparison of two popular certification regimes
Learning Objectives
- Understand the value of training and certification for professionals
- Understand the value of training and certification for employers
- Understand the differences in requirements between the two most popular RE/BA certifications
- Understand the differences in content and approach offered by the IIBA and by IREB
Date: February 1st , 2012
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EDT
View Webinar | Download Slides
Using Requirements for Test Automation In a fully integrated Microsoft ALM Solution
|Kathleen (Kitty) Hass
President, Kathleen Hass and Associates, Inc.
|Adam Gallant
Technology Solutions Professional, Microsoft
|Asif Sharif
Chief Technologist, eDev Technologies
The concept of linking your software requirements with testing is well known and the benefits are clear – deliver software on time, with the required features and sufficient quality. Involving QA teams at the start of the project helps to identify risks before they make it into the plan, where they will be harder to find and costly to correct. For QA teams to effectively evaluate risks in the project plan, requirements need to be clear, unambiguous and properly documented.
Industry research shows that the root cause of more than half of all errors identified in projects are introduced in the requirements phase. As a result, many organizations are looking to reduce their risk by implementing formal requirements management practices. The adoption of a formalized requirements management discipline can be leveraged by the quality assurance organization by implementing a requirements-based testing methodology that ensures comprehensive test coverage. Requirements-based testing can increase efficiency, reduce the risk of failure, and improve overall software quality.
Learning Objectives (at the end of the session, participants will be able to):
- Apply a Knowledge Management Approach to Requirements Development and Test Automation
- Define Use Case and Auto-generate Test Case with full traceability
- Understand how inteGREAT and Visual Studio provides a comprehensive ALM Solution
Date: Oct 26, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
Tool vs. Process: Which Comes First?
Joy Beatty Vice President of R&D at Seilevel
Joy Beatty is Vice President of R&D at Seilevel, a professional services company focused exclusively on helping Fortune 1000 clients change the way they create requirements in order to enhance business outcomes. As a managing principal at Seilevel, Joy drives innovation and development for new methodologies that improve requirements, assisting clients as they build business analysis centers of excellence. She has developed the curriculum for Seilevel's well-regarded training and leads select training sessions. To date, Joy has provided training to more than 600 business analysts via professional association seminars, industry conferences, and Seilevel classes.
She has presented at numerous requirements-related conferences and speaking events. Joy is currently working on a book about a requirements modeling language, RML®; the book includes how to create and use a wide variety of models.
Tool vs. Process: Which Comes First?
Are you thinking it's time to update (or finally define) your requirements best practices? Have you also realized you need a requirements management tool? Do you want to avoid rework and the wasteful "unlearning curve" later? If so, this webinar is for you.
Joy Beatty, VP R&D at Seilevel, is going to compare the reasons to start with the requirements process to reasons why you might start with the requirements tool, highlighting some non-obvious ways to think through this decision. During this webinar, she will recommend which approach to use—tool first or process first—including tips to make it work and approaches to deal with common challenges. At the end of the webinar, she'll also share a free take-away, a copy of Seilevel's recent requirements management tool research. That research includes reviews of 16 tools against 200 criteria, and is set up so you can manipulate the priorities for your own tool selection decision.
What you will learn:
- Strengths and weakness of the reasons to start with requirements processes as compared to requirements tools
- A recommended approach to putting both processes and tools in place
- Suggestions to successfully implement a new requirements management tool
Date: September 21st, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
How to Get Sign-Off On Just About Any Deliverable
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
Author of The Quest for Software Requirements
Roxanne Miller, a self proclaimed 'Requirements Super Freak', is the founder of Requirements Quest and has been consulting on business analysis practices for over 15 years. She is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) and an active member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®). Her energetic and entertaining style make her a back-by-popular-demand speaker in the business analysis community. Roxanne Miller's book, The Quest for Software Requirements, is an in-depth reference guide with over 2,000 elicitation questions and a tested framework to help individuals succeed in developing and installing software systems.
How to Get Sign-Off On Just About Any Deliverable
Are you tired of wasting time in 3-hour-marathon meetings to review deliverables, only to end up frustrated because you still have not reached consensus? Roxanne Miller reveals a tested technique called Ink-Free Sign-Off™. Discover how to increase stakeholder buy-in and commitment to deliverables. You will gain an understanding of role-based participation as a key to stakeholder contribution. Roxanne will provide a format for tracking and monitoring this iterative and incremental approach, which can help you report on progress. Tracking review progress can increase stakeholder accountability for identifying and resolving issues with the deliverable under review. Register now and learn how to eliminate 'sign-off' as an obstacle to your project success.
Key Content:
• Reasons why most deliverable reviews don't work
• Role-based participation
• Three steps to the Ink-Free Sign-Off™ approach
• Agenda preparation
• '2-5-30 Rule' for planning deliverable reviews
• Format for conducting a review
• Three review outcomes
• Track and monitor review progress
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how role-based stakeholder participation is key to raising issues with the deliverable under review.
2. Discover a 3-step approach that can increase stakeholder buy-in, commitment, and accountability.
3. Gain templates and tips for conducting a successful deliverable review.
Date: August 24th, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
Adapting the BA Role for Complex Projects
Kathleen (Kitty) Hass
President of Kathleen Hass and Associates, Inc.
Does the business analyst role change, either significantly or subtlety, as project complexity increases? If so, how? This presentation describes the business analysis approaches that are most appropriate for low-complexity, moderately complex, and highly complex projects. We examine what complexity management looks like in the day-to-day life of a business analyst. We present the need for the BA to be comfortable with lots of uncertainty and ambiguity in the early stages of the project. We discuss how the business analyst would be leading and directing plenty of brainstorming, alternative analysis, experimentation, prototyping, out-of-the-box thinking, trial and error sessions, and encouraging the team to keep options open until they have identified an innovative solution that will leap us ahead of the competition.!
Learning Objectives (at the end of the session, participants will be able to):
1. Discover the appropriate project cycle model – from linear, to iterative, to adaptive, to extreme – to use for projects of differing complexity.
2. Examine business analysis best practices for projects of varying complexity.
3. Determine the best business analysis practices for capitalizing on complexity to foster innovation.
Date: July 27, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
View Webinar Download Slides Download Project Complexity Model
Date: Aug 3, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
Getting the Right Stakeholders Involved
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
Author of The Quest for Software Requirements
The Standish Group International reports, yet again, that user involvement is the number one success factor for information technology projects. If user involvement is so important, why are we still failing to get it? Have you ever worked on a project where the Sponsor told you what people you could (and could not) talk to? Would you like a tangible tool for securing the people you really need? This session will show you the proven, step-by-step technique to identifying the right stakeholders for your project, as well as securing the resources needed. It is not "Who you know;" rather, it is "What Who knows" that leads to project success!
Learning Objectives (at the end of the session, participants will be able to):
1. Understand the key to the stakeholder profiling technique in order to identify potential stakeholders.
2. Identify a tangible means to securing resources for your next project.
3. Take a role-based approach to creating a reusable stakeholder list.
Date: June 21st, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
Eliciting Non Functional Requirements
Presented by Roxanne E.Miller , President of Requirements Quest author of "The Quest for Software Requirements"
Functionally, the home builder constructed a beautiful home. However, somehow this non-functional detail was missed. Does this scenario sound familiar to any of the missed requirements on your projects lately? Do performance requirements such as response time, throughput, capacity, and availability get missed? What about flexibility requirements such as scalability, multi-lingual, installability, and extendability? Roxanne Miller will reveal "patterns" of non-functional requirements that can reduce the possibility of missed requirements that cause project rework. Come and find out what you've been missing.
Date: May 11th 2011
View Webinar Download Slides
What's new in inteGREAT 2011
Presented by Asif Sharif and Bob Savelson
Wizard Manager, Simulation Wizard, Configuration Manager, etc.
Date: April 12, 2011
View Webinar
inteGREAT and The Decision Model
On Dec. 14 and Dec. 16 eDev Technologies and KPI (Knowledge Partners International) hosted two joint webinars featuring the award winning software inteGREAT and The Decision Model. inteGREAT specializes in automating requirements and incorporates important elements of The Decision model, the business Logic framework linking Business and Technology invented by Barbara von Halle and Larry Goldberg.
- Asif Sharif, President and CEO
eDev Technologies
- Barbara von Halle, Managing Partner of Knowledge Partners International LLC (KPI), and co-author of The Decision Model – a Business Logic Framework linking Business and Technology (Auerbach 2009), will talk about how to solve a common, chronic failure in business requirements. She introduces The Decision Model as a practical and successful approach to the age old problem of capturing business rules and logic. The Decision Model is a technology-independent model based on the natural structure of business logic and nothing else. The model is proposed in Barbara's groundbreaking book, written for both technical and non-technical readers. It provides a detailed theoretical framework as well as insights into adopting The Decision Model for business rules projects. The book also provides commentary on the use of The Decision Model in Enterprise and Business Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, business requirements and management practices in general.
Date: Webinar Part 1 – Dec14, 2010
View Webinar Download Slides
Date: Webinar Part 2 – Dec16, 2010
View Webinar Download Slides
Learn more about The Decision Model
Requirements Leadership Forum – Webinar Seminar Series
eDev Technologies presents a series of Educational Webinars for the BA community via the Requirements Leadership Forum. These sessions will feature leading Thought Leaders, Authors and Evangelists who's many years experience will prove invaluable to all who attend.
1- How the Agile Movement affects the historical Business Analyst role
Scott Stribrny is the Cofounder, President, and Managing Director of Group Atlantic, Inc., a consulting firm that has advised private, commercial, and governmental organizations on successful strategy development and operations improvement since 1992. He is also a senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Risk Management & Governance practice. He is currently advising on techniques for effective product requirement specification and risk management.
There's no question about it—agile principles help expedite software development. Yet, the business analyst role seems conspicuously missing from the Agile Manifesto. Does agile make the skills of the business analyst obsolete? Certainly not! Why? Because if companies hope to achieve strategic goals, they need someone who is ferociously focused on the business value expected from the project outcomes, to help provide guidance not only during a project but also before it is invested and after it is delivered as well. Are you ready to make the transition to this value-centered development-approach? What is it like to be part of an agile team? What agile analysis practices might you adapt even if you're working on a traditional (waterfall-style) project?
This presentation examines how the agile movement affects the historical Business Analyst role on a project team and creates opportunities to learn new skills and develop new ways of working together. Collaboration, facilitation, leadership, coaching, and team building become significant new skills required for Business Analysts on Agile projects.
You will learn:
- How to successfully influence an agile project by defining requirements in smaller increments. This demands adaptation to new ways of eliciting, specifying and managing requirements.
- How the business analyst integrates and collaborates with members of the team and
- How to improve business analysis by applying agile principles.
Date: November 2, 2010
View Webinar Download Slides
Requirements Best Practices
Cheryl has 26 years project management experience managing full-life cycle ERP implementations as well as managing custom software development projects. Over the past 7 years, Cheryl has turned her focus to the front-end of the development life cycle as she works with customers to properly define scope and to effectively elicit, validate, document and manage requirements. In this webinar, you will learn the key activities a team must perform during the front-end of the life cycle to ensure that the project's scope has been clearly defined and baselined, all documented requirements align with the scope, and the requirements are clear, complete and defect-free. In this webinar, you will learn that spending the time upfront in defining scope and requirements will put your project on the path to delivering on-time, within budget and to the stakeholder's quality standards and expectations.
You will learn:
- See the consequences of continuing business as usual
- Understand scope and its importance
- Conduct a scope review and risk assessment
- Understand some of the common requirement defects that you can cure with standards and discipline
- Be aware of the use of requirement attributes in providing better products, better maintenance, and less troublesome upgrades
- Validate requirements through reviews
- Manage change
The Evolution of Scope Management- Fresh Techniques in Stakeholder Management
Speaker Tim Joshi is the founder and innovation leader for Synovia Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in business performance improvement, business analysis, and strategic planning.
For Project Managers (or senior Business Analysts) who currently are or aspire to lead projects in complex, politically charged environments. This webinar provides professionals with a look at scope management from a stakeholder management perspective and sheds light on why past approaches to scope management have high failure rates. By viewing projects as organizational performance improvement initiatives that require high degrees of collaboration between stakeholders, Tim Joshi dissects the anatomy of success and failures.
The session exposes the key challenges in current approaches to scope definition and subsequent management of scope. From this understanding Tim reviews techniques that are producing the very best scope management results in the industry.
You will learn:
- The root cause of scope management failures
- Gap areas with current approaches
- Characteristics of techniques that are producing top quartile results
Capturing Data Requirements
Greg Bhatia: Professional Business Analyst, Mentor and Principal for MCOM Training
Greg will talk about how often Data Requirements are overlooked in large projects and the associated impacts, including lower adoption rates, limited scalability and diminished project ROI as well as some best practices such as capturing data requirements proactively and making Business Intelligence a key long term goal in your data discovery process.
You will learn:
- The value of doing data discovery early on in a project and ensuring that the data supports both short term and long term (BI) goals.
- The importance of documenting data requirements for dual audiences (Business and technical)
- Common pitfalls in large scale data dependent projects and how to mitigate these risk
- The important questions to ask during data discovery to make sure that the data you capture supports the business requirements.
Business Requirements as a Central Theme of Enterprise Architecture
Bruce Miner will discuss the importance of a solid foundation of business requirements to the enterprise architecture practice. This involves business requirements as expressed as strategic direction, long term and short term business objectives, business process details and key performance metrics. The importance of understanding implicit requirements in terms of regulatory constraints, integrity considerations, availability and security from a business perspective will also be explored as the impact on a final architecture can be significant.
- A high level view of the enterprise architecture lifecycle.
- The central theme of requirements in the enterprise architecture lifecycle.
- The critical elements of being current, consistent and communicated.
- Early implicit requirements gathering from a business perspective.
- Business objective prioritization as a key to architecture decision points.
Date: June 9th 2010
Time: 1 pm — 2pm EDT
Best Practices to address top 5 requirements project issues
Dr. Ralph Young, Requirements Evangelist and Author of Effective Requirements Practices (Addison-Wesley, 2001), The Requirements Engineering Handbook (Artech House, 2005), Project Requirements: A Guide to Best Practices(Management Concepts, 2006), and How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control (Management Concepts, 2009)
Dr. Young will address the fundamental importance of requirements in providing a basis for all of the follow-on work that is performed on a project and how to apply industry experience and best practices to achieve organizational and project improvement. Key among the best practices is the compelling need to take the time and effort to figure out what the real requirements are before starting other technical work. Dr. Young has stated that this incorporating this best practice in the project approach is prerequisite to overcoming the root cause of extensive project failures (more than half of all projects). Further, industry experience is that the amount of rework required on a typical project averages 45%. Given this industry experience, what should we do to enhance our project approach and improve the chances that our project will be successful?
You will learn:
- How to implement an organizational improvement approach
- How to improve project start-up
- Why and how to identify what Dr. Young refers to as "the real requirements"
- How to improve business analysis
- How to establish an attitude and habit of continuous improvement
Date: May 26th 2010
Time: 1pm – 2pm EDT
Comprehensive & Robust Requirements Specification Process (CRRSP)
Barbara Davis, CEO of E2Consulting and the mastermind behind CRRSP
Barbara will discuss Comprehensive & Robust Requirements Specification Process (CRRSP) as one of the first true requirements methodologies. Where other sets of deliverables simply derive requirements deliverables as they relate to the overall project methodology, CRRSP provides a clear set of tasks and deliverables for requirements that can be adapted to different project methodologies. Barbara will discuss how CRRSP impacts the Organization, including how it turns requirements into a revenue generator, and how E2Consulting implements CRRSP, including requirements validation.
You will learn:
- CRRSP overview (including how and why it is different)
- How CRRSP can be added to any project at any point during the lifecycle to add value
- Causes of requirements issues
- How to assess requirements for ambiguities
- How inteGREAT supports the CRRSP methodology
Date: May 12th 2010
Time: 1pm – 2pm EDT
Discovering requirements in simple steps
Ian Alexander, Principal of Scenario Plus Ltd and lead author of Discovering Requirements (Wiley, 2009)
Ian will speak about how to discover requirements in simple steps. The talk will follow the plan of the book, treating requirements knowledge as 10 different elements. These elements include familiar items like Stakeholders, Goals, Context, Scenarios, as well as some like Rationale and Measurements that should perhaps be better known than they are.
The talk shows that these pieces of knowledge fit together and may all be needed to provide an effective understanding of the Requirements. We will briefly demonstrate how inteGREAT supports the 10 different elements of requirements knowledge.
You will learn about the need to:
- Identify stakeholders
- Define and analyze stakeholders' goals
- Analyze functional requirements using scenarios
- Discover software qualities, interfaces, and other constraints
- Define requirement attributes including rationale, measurements, and priorities
Date: April 21st 2010
Time: 11am – 12pm EDT


text:
Creative / Writing Contests
Thanks for taking interest in our exclusive list of Creative / Writing Contests! Below are our latest additions. You may also
Add Your Own Listing
if you feel that it will benefit our visitors.
Writing Contests
Win Writer in Residence Contracts and $50,000+ in Travel Prizes with Trazzler
Whisperingtree.net Holiday Writing Contest
Whisperingtree.net Holiday Writing Contest
Video contest pays $100 to the winning YouTube video.
Video contest pays $100 to the winning YouTube video. Create and post a YouTube video that resolves the problems impacting our company's mascot, Alligator Bob, and you could win a prize while learning to trade on-line. Entrants are asked to make a short (15-30 second) YouTube video that solves Alligator Bob's problems while presenting new ones. Winning video gets awarded $100. There is no cost or obligation to enter and win, enter as many videos as you like. To view the current Alligator Bob Video goto YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fOfNQ5QfTo For contest rules visit FlatDoor.com: http://www.flatdoor.com/alligatorbob/
Hexaquest - The game
Use your imagination and send in "questions & answers" for an upcoming quizz boardgame. No limit to how many entries you can send. The more you send the bigger your chances.
A few minutes could win you a great prize!
Annual Spring Fling Writing Competition 2008
Writing Competition for all genres. $3.50 entry fee, Grand Prize is $500.00 Must register on the site. Join free!
StoryMash - Mash for Cash #3
Collaborative writing contest. No entry fees! Contest is for the best three chapters that continue any existing story.
$10 Journal Contest - What's Your Story?
Share your story with us and win a $10 gift card
Funny Mom Story Contest
Win a Spa Gift Basket if your story is voted the funniest mom story!
Twisted Kreations
Writing, Art, & Music contests for prizes such as Money, Ipods, and Digital Cameras.
KrollTravel.com -- Win Music CD and Free Downloads!
Win a Lounging with Fairmont music CD with 10 recordings plus two free musi
Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Contest
Quarterly writing contest where we provide a topic or theme and ask you to write a short science fiction or fantasy story.
submit your story or picture to win $100 Ticketmaster Voucher
Auto Insurance Monthly Writing Contest
We're looking for original auto insurances stories. Top prize each month is $100. Contest restarts the 1st of every month and ends on the last day of every month.
White Cloud - America's Worst Bathroom Photo Contest
Send us photos of the Nastiest, Most Shocking, Horrendous Bathroom yo
Tourist attractions in UK towns - win upto Ł100
Win Ł100 or Ł25 runner up prize for writing non-fiction articles on your home town, or any town that you know a bit about, and its activities and attractions for tourists. Visit the website for more in depth rules and guidelines.
Classic Literature Essay Contests
The Dusty Shelf, a literary e-zine, is running several essay contests. Winners will be published in the e-zine and receive a merchandise package. See contest page for details.
The Litchfield Review Writing Contest
seeking dynamic new writers for our classy magazine
Pepper Carlson
Contest for all Genres
Flash Fiction Writing Contest
500-word short stories. $5 to enter. $500 total paid out. Quarterly contest.
Uncle_albert7's JaysSong Edition Home Page
Visit my site, it contains a book-preview in MS PowerPoint form
Free monthly baby photo contests, baby webpage competitions, me
That Comedian
Monthly photo caption contest. One entry per person per month. Anyone can enter, however the prize can only be shipped to a U.S. mailing address. The funniest caption wins a That Comedian T-Shirt
"Faith after the Facts"[holy bible section]
faith overcomes futility....the revelations refers to an opening of the scriptures*
Writing Contests - Drama, First Chapter, First Novel
Three Semi-Annual Writing Contests with Cash Prizes!
xtreme fiction
xtreme fiction contest - short fiction of 1000 words or less. ongoing, no entry fee.
© 1998-2009,
Online Contest Index.
Helping you win contests since 1998!

subset: commoncrawl


text:
MAR 26, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
A Must Read - Share
Taxpayers shell out nearly $3.7M for ex-presidents
Associated Press
Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Updated 5:57 am, Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Under the Former Presidents Act, previous inhabitants of the Oval Office are given an annual pension equivalent to a Cabinet secretary's salary — about $200,000 last year, plus $96,000 a year for a small office staff.
[...] with ex-presidents able to command eye-popping sums for books, speaking engagements and the like
Read More
Editor's Picks
Hey you have no friends!!! Get to work and start inviting friends to help build your Comunitee. Click Here to invite friends.
© 2011 Comunitee, Inc.


text:
I've seen some sets of armor that semm to be only acquired trough Story missions in PvE, the one that comes to mind for me is the "Commando" medium set.
I'd like to know, what are the equivalent sets of armor that can also only be gotten trough PvE story for heavy and light, like the commando gear. So i can know what to save when doing story on another toons.
IngwayMember Since 01 Nov 2011
Offline Last Active May 22 2013 02:18 AM
Community Stats
- Group Members
- Active Posts 668
- Profile Views 3889
- Member Title Sylvari Specialist
- Age 24 years old
- Birthday January 25, 1992
Not Telling
Contact Information
101 Excellent
User Tools
Ingway hasn't added any friends yet.


text:
Members of Meridian's West Mount Moriah Baptist Church hosted what they call, 'Ministers in Music Concert' Sunday afternoon. The church's inspirational choir organized the event as a fundraiser. But they say the main focus is their worship.
Members of West Mount Moriah Baptist Church are no stranger to the world of music.
"We have about five choirs and a music ministry here," says Pastor Odell Hopkins, with West Mount Moriah Baptist Church.
That's why they took the opportunity to share their gift of music with the rest of the community. Not only did the church members take the time to worship together. They also embraced the simple joy of singing.
"Really, they like singing and we like singing at West Mount Moriah. So it's a good opportunity to share with our neighbors, share with fellow pastors, and share with fellow choirs," says Pastor Hopkins.
Bill Watson is the Vice President of the Inspirational Choir at West Mount Moriah. He hopes to spread a positive message through song.
"We just hope everybody leaves here with a clear mind and a good heart. Most of all, uplifting Jesus name," exclaims Watson.
Ministers in music was held at West Mount Moriah, but those church members weren't the only ones in attendance. Members from Saint John Baptist Church, Grace Baptist Church, and El Bethel Baptist Church also participated in the day of fun and praise.
"We decided to host it here again, because it is part of the music ministry's efforts to keep the spirit of Christ alive. And it's the season. The backdrop of Halloween coming and all of those things. We wanted to present something positive," says Pastor Hopkins.
And they hope to take this positivity with them throughout the rest of the week.


text:
Graduate Courses in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Four Foundations of Mindfulness
The practice of meditation is the oldest relaxation technique known to human kind. Today, Mindfulness Meditation is widely used as a means to increase focus of attention in the present moment thus allowing our innate calmness and clarity of mind to come forth. This is a great aid in responding skillfully to the stressors in our lives. Historically, Mindfulness Meditation is based upon Four Foundations: Mindfulness of the Body, Mindfulness of Feelings, Mindfulness of Mind, and Mindfulness of Mind Objects.
Class Dates: TBD
Instructor: John Orr
Time: TBD
Location: Center for Rehabilitation Care of Chapel Hill, 1807 North Fordham Blvd (on 15/501 in the former Borders building) Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Course Cost: $250
Click Here to Register
Questions? Email us at: firstname.lastname@example.com or phone us at 919-966-8586.
Visit our Four Foundations section for more information!
Four Qualities of the Heart: Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity
There are four states of mind that support our mindfulness practice and when experienced, allow us to feel light and flexible, open and concentrated at the same time. They are: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. During this series of classes together we will open to these beautiful qualities of the heart, which are inherent to our being. We will also explore what seems to block us from dwelling in these beautiful states of heart-mind. It is often our fears that get in the way of our access to this loving heart. Using mindfulness practice and guided meditations focused on loving kindness, compassion, joy and forgiveness, we will make contact with this loving heart, nurture it and manifest it in the many contexts of our daily lives.
· Instructor: John Orr
Questions? Phone 919-966-8586.
The Heart Opens: Cultivating Compassion with Lovingkindness Practice
As we recognize the universality of human suffering we learn to cultivate mindfulness and kindness and our hearts open, first to ourselves and then to others. We will practice with the ancient phrases of Lovingkindness offered towards ourselves, to all Beings everywhere and to 3 specific categories of people in our lives: those who are easy to love, neutral people we know, and the ones we find most difficult to love. We will learn how the heart can soften and open even when it feels resistant and threatened. Underpinning this work will be our practices of mindful awareness while sitting, breathing, walking, and stretching.
To register,to email@example.com. Questions? Phone 919-966-8586.


text:
Breadcrumb Navigation:Human Resources > Benefits > Current Page
Phased Retirement Program Guidelines for Departments
Below you will find information for departments about Phased Retirement Program guidelines and action steps to assist faculty entering and exiting this program.
Who's Eligible?
Full-time tenured faculty members with at least five (5) years of NC State University service who participate in the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System (TSERS) or Optional Retirement Program (ORP) are eligible to apply for PRP participation if they:
- are at least age 62 [for TSERS participants] or at least age 59 ½ [for ORP participants] upon entering the Phased Retirement Program; and
- are eligible to receive a benefit under the TSERS or ORP plans.
(A break in service is not required prior to entering PRP because the ages listed above meet "normal retirement age" requirements for the purposes of this program.)
Additional eligibility details can be found within Regulation 05.57.01, Phased Retirement Program for Tenured Faculty.
When Is Notification Sent Out?
Notification for participation in the Phased Retirement Program is sent via email during the month of August for the start of the next academic year. For example, notification for the 2015-2019 PRP will be communicated in September 2015.
Announcement Notification for NC State's Phased Retirement Program
How Do I Apply ?
The faculty member formally applies to the PRP by submitting an unsigned UNC Phased Retirement Program Application and Re-Employment Agreement (the "Agreement") directly to the department head. Details about the application process are explained in the Phased Retirement Program Department Guidelines.
Next Steps
Once a faculty member is approved for Phased Retirement, the department will be notified. Phased Retirement always begins on July 1 each year. Click on the following document for HR System instructions:
Department HR System Actions for phased retirement (PDF)


text:
Multiple Myeloma
|Study ID
|Multiple Myeloma
|Phase II
Purpose This study will evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of PCI-32765 in relapsed or relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma.
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) is an enzyme that is present in hematopoietic cells other than T cells and is necessary for downstream signal transduction from various hematopoietic receptors including the B cell receptor as well as some Fc, chemokine, and adhesion receptors, and is crucial for both B cell development and osteoclastogenesis. Although down-regulated in normal plasma cells, Btk is highly expressed in the malignant cells from many myeloma patients and some cell lines. PCI 32765 is a potent and specific inhibitor of Btk currently in Phase 2 clinical trials. The current study is designed and intended to determine the effects of PCI-32765 in subjects with multiple myeloma.
- Diagnosis of symptomatic MM with measurable disease, defined here as having at least one of the following:
- Serum monoclonal protein (M-protein) ≥0.5 g/dL as determined by serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP)
- Urine M-protein ≥200 mg/24 hrs
- Serum free light chain (FLC) assay: involved FLC level ≥10 mg/dL (≥100 mg/L) provided serum FLC ratio is abnormal
- Relapsed or relapsed and refractory MM after receiving at least 2 previous lines of therapy, 1 of which must be an immunomodulator.
- Refractory myeloma (to most recent treatment) is defined as disease that is nonresponsive while on treatment or progressive disease within 60 days after the completion of preceding treatment. Nonresponsive disease is defined as either failure to achieve minimal response or development of progressive disease while on therapy.
- Men and women ≥18 years of age.
- ECOG performance status of ≤ 1.
- Subject must not have primary refractory disease defined as disease that is nonresponsive in subjects who have never achieved a minor response (MR) or better with any therapy.
- Polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein, and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome, osteosclerotic myeloma, or Crow-Fukase syndrome.
- Plasma cell leukemia.
- Primary amyloidosis.
- Certain exclusions on prior therapy.
- ANC <0.75 x 10^9/L independent of growth factor support.
- Platelets <50 x 10^9/L) independent of transfusion support.
- AST or ALT ≥3.0 x upper limit of normal (ULN).
- Total bilirubin >2.5 x ULN, unless due to Gilbert's syndrome.
- Creatinine >2.5 mg/dL.
- Unable to swallow capsules or disease significantly affecting gastrointestinal function.
- Requires anti-coagulation with warfarin or a vitamin K antagonist. Requires treatment with strong CYP3A4/5 inhibitors.
See this trial at ClinicalTrials.gov
Access protocol and consent forms at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Please remember:
- Talk to your health care providers first before making decisions about your health care.
- Whether you are eligible for a research study depends on many things. There are specific requirements to be in research studies. These requirements are different for each study.


text:
Welcome to our newest RIC Congregation, St. Andrew Lutheran in Beaverton, OR!
Here you will discover a place where you can come to give thanks, to pray, and to celebrate together in word and music.
Here you will encounter fellowship, care and love provided by people committed to each other, to their community and to God.
Here you will find a place of comfort and a place to find your way again when you may have lost the path. St. Andrew offers the opportunity to minister to others and to respond together to the challenges of our times, be it hunger, homelessness, joblessness, environmental degradation, natural disaster, war, or racism.
Here you will discover and nurture your talents in service to God.
Here you will find a place for spiritual growth, education and renewal. You will find a journey of discovery that begins with our community at baptism and extends to the community beyond our walls and often beyond our borders.
Here you will find a Place of Grace.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Welcome to St. Andrew Lutheran in Beaverton, OR!
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
tired of Looking for anyone to keep me company And allow me out money wise. Ag women looking for fuck in Tampa Florida es x-x Local Serious Mobile Have some sort of pic If u have zero of that I most certainly will delete ur concept. Let me find out: ). women looking for fuck in Tampa Florida South Chicago Heights Illinois IL US United States, Minor Hill, Golden MO, Altamont village, Falkland NC, Linefork, Hwange ZW Zimbabwe, Bringhurstdiscreet married dating Selma, horney adults search black pussy.
Written on 9/3/2012, by Elinor" rel="author">Dayna


text:
POPLAR BLUFF - Holiday travelers can expect to have lots of company on the road and Missouri State Highway Patrol officials are again urging motorists to drive safely.
"Obey the speed limits and pay attention, don't drink and drive, and be patient," advised Sgt. Larry Plunkett, spokesman for the Missouri State Highway Patrol. "Leave early and have a safe trip."
The number of travelers dipped some last year, according to Plunkett, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
This year, however, MSHP officials are expecting numbers "probably closer to years past," Plunkett said. "We expect for people to be getting out again."
For their part, the Missouri State Highway Patrol will participate in Operation C.A.R.E. (Combined Accident Reduction Effort).
As part of this operation, all officers not on extended vacation are required to work as additional officers are assigned to Missouri's roadways to enforce traffic laws, especially those related to drunk driving, speeding, and seat belt use.
"We've been participating in the program for about 10 years now," said Plunkett. "We'll be on all the primary roadways." Operation C.A.R.E. for the Thanksgiving holiday will be in effect from 6 p.m. Wednesday until 11:59 p.m. Sunday.
"We count all of the fatalities that occur during that period," said Plunkett. "Our ultimate goal is to get that number to zero."
During the 2001 Thanksgiving holiday weekend 16 people were killed and another 798 injured in 1,872 traffic crashes, according to the patrol's data - one person killed or injured every 7.5 minutes, statistically.
The patrol also reported a total of 78 killed and 4,150 injured in Thanksgiving holiday weekend traffic accidents over the past five years.
Operation C.A.R.E. involves a network of state agencies and county law enforcement agencies from Texas up to the Ohio Valley, according to Plunkett. "We primarily do it on the primary peak travel holidays," he said. Of those, Thanksgiving is number one on the list.
Many motorists will have full cars with small children among the passengers, which can cause additional stress and distractions for the driver. "We ask that they pull over and take a break instead of trying to deal with it going down the roadway," Plunkett said.
Cell phones can also be a distraction, and Plunkett advised only to use them while driving if you have a hands-free device.
As 70 percent of accidents are attributed to inattention or excessive speed, according to Plunkett, having law enforcement achieve "maximum visibility" is just as important as them monitoring the roads.
"Our goal is to prevent people from driving too fast or losing their concentration," Plunkett said. "Being seen seems to have a greater deterrence than any other single item."
Troopers will assist motorists as needed, but motorists can do their part to prevent breakdowns from occurring.
"Make sure your car is ready to make a long trip before you load up your family and go, especially since it's looking like we're going to have some cold weather," Plunkett advised. "We encourage everyone to check their tires -
we have a lot of blowouts during peak travel periods."
He recommended having your vehicle serviced for antifreeze and other fluids. "Make sure you have plenty of gas in the tank before you go," he added.
Drivers can prepare themselves by resting up for the trip and calling Missouri's Road Condition Report at 1-800-222-6400.
The Highway Patrol's Emergency Assistance number, 1-800-525-5555 or *55 on a cellular phone, rings directly into the closest Patrol headquarters.
"We receive several *55 calls," said Plunkett. "The only thing we ask is please make it an emergency."
The emergency assistance number should be used to report traffic crashes, crimes being committed, or other emergencies on Missouri's highways.
For non-emergencies, you can call the Troop E headquarters at 840-9500 or a local law enforcement agency.
"If you see drunks or someone else driving in a threatening manner, give us a call," said Plunkett. "We appreciate the phone calls."


text:
No products
Warning: Last items in stock!
Availability date:
HPI Crankshaft Standard Shaft Nitro Star T- HPI15121HPI Standard Crankshaft for the Nitro Star T-15 engine.
Recipient :
* Required fields
or Cancel
This is the HPI Standard Crankshaft for the Nitro Star T-15 engine.
Features: Constructed of steel
Includes: One crankshaft for the HPI Nitro Star T-15 pull-start engine
Requires: Installing in crankcase
|Main Category
|Engines & Accessories
|Free Shipping
|Free Shipping
No customer reviews for the moment.
No customer questions for the moment.
|Ask a question
Recently Viewed products


text:
Active Quorum Systems
This paper outlines a flexible suite of object replication protocols that brings together Byzantine quorum systems registers and state machine replication. These protocols enable the implementation of Byzantine fault-tolerant applications that make minimal assumptions about the environment and that run in at most two more communication steps in almost all cases of non-favorable executions (in comparison with favorable executions). The existence of much work on Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) read/write protocols, most practical work on BFT replication is based on the notion of replicas as state machines that evolve in a coordinated way, which can be very restrictive for practical applications.


text:
The Do you like watersports/piss? (for gay men) Test
Tests others are taking
millertime4728 / m / Gay
The Are You Hip for Jesus Test
Myst3r324 / m / Straight
LiberalMiser21 / m / Straight
The Values & Personality Traits Test
marksh_taco33 / m / Straight
Connect your existing OkCupid account
Sign in
Welcome Back!
Restore your account to continue meeting new people.
Reset your password
We'll email you a link to reset it.
Email sent!
An email is on its way to .
If you don't see it, try checking your Spam folder.
Enter Authentication Code
Sign in
Not so fast!
You need to complete your basic info on the mobile app before you can use the desktop site.


text:
Thursday, 21 February 2013
There's a trillion dollars in student loans at 7% interest. There's Social Security and Medicare getting shakier every year. One aircraft carrier has had to cancel its trip to the Persian Gulf. The roads and bridges are crumbling. The educational system produces ignoramuses and idiots. And American officials, not content with the two trillion dollars spent on all the wrong things in Iraq, and the one trillion in Afghanistan, and the $75 billion in aid that has gone to Egypt, and the more than one hundred billion, over many decades, that has gone to Pakistan, and the billions given to Yemen, Somalia, Jordan, and the "Palestian" Authority which consists of the Arab shock troops of the Jihad against Israel, apparently is not enough.
Here's one more official, promiising promising, this time in Somalia again:
USAID chief visits Mogadishu, says US is committed
Meanwhile, black African Christians are harried and attacked, in Kenya by Somalis, in Tanzania, on the island of Zanzibar, by descendants of Arab slaveholders who used that island as a way-station for black slaves whom the Arabs then took by dhow to Muscat and Oman, in Nigeria, a country where the Muslims of the north -- Hausa and Fulani -- started killing Christians en masse in the mid-1960s (hence the Biafra War, in 1967-69, when Christians, predominately but not exclusively Ibo, tried to form a state of their own) on, have now been joined by the Boko Haram fanatics who want to impose the full monty of Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira. Everywhere -- in Niger, for example, and in Cameroun, where if the French pull out because of fears of local Muslims, there will be little left -- the Saudis are buildinig mosques, to spread the Full Gospel of Islam, replacing those mosques and local imams who preached an easygoing, not-quite-accurate, syncretistic version that, until now, has been sufficient unto the day.
But now the US "is committed" to giving aid to Muslim Somalia? Why don't the Saudis, or the Emiratis, or the Kuwaitis, or the egregious waddling emir of Qatar, give aid to Somalia? Don't they want to keep the fanatics from the door, that is from Somalia to Yemen to the Gulf, a hop, skip, and jump away?
Posted on 02/21/2013 6:48 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
21 Feb 2013
I object to your classification of Zanzibar being run by the descendents of Arab slavers, nothing of the sort. You appear to have forgotten, like most Zanzibaris, Karume's revelution wnen every last Arab in Zanzibar was brutally slaughtered, their women raped and married off to the army officers. What you are seeing in Zanzibar is 40 years of relentless Wahabi propaganda bearing fruit. Ditto for any other African country with muslim populations.
21 Feb 2013
Hugh Fitzgerald
In late January 1964, when the Arab rulers were overthrown in


text:
Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act
|Long title
|An Act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise the procedures for new drug applications, to amend title 35, United States Code, to authorize the extension of the patents for certain regulated products, and for other purposes.
|Acronyms (colloquial)
|Hatch-Waxman amendments
|Enacted by
|the 98th United States Congress
|September 24, 1984
|Public law
|Statutes at Large
|98 Stat. 1585
|Acts amended
|Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
|Titles amended
|21 U.S.C.: Food and Drugs
|U.S.C. sections amended
|Chapter 9 § 301 et seq.
|Legislative history
|Regulation of therapeutic goods in the United States
|Prescription drugs
Over-the-counter drugs
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
Controlled Substances Act
Prescription Drug Marketing Act
Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act
Hatch-Waxman exemption
Non-governmental organizations
|United States patent law
|Types of patent claims
|Other topics
The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (Public Law 98-417), informally known as the Hatch-Waxman Act, is a 1984 United States federal law which encourages the manufacture of generic drugs by the pharmaceutical industry and established the modern system of government generic drug regulation in the United States. Representative Henry Waxman of California and Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah sponsored the act.
Hatch-Waxman amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Section 505(j) of the Act, codified as 21 U.S.C. § 355(j), outlines the process for pharmaceutical manufacturers to file an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for approval of a generic drug by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Section 505(j)(2)(A)(vii)(IV), often referred to as Paragraph IV, gives the first company to file an ANDA for a particular drug 180 days of exclusive rights to market the drug as the generic alternative to the branded drug. The 180 days begins on the first day of marketing the drug under the ANDA, if the paragraph IV certification is not challenged by the pioneer manufacturer. If the paragraph IV certification is challenged by the pioneer manufacturer, the 180 days begins on the date a court finds that,as required under paragraph IV, the patent of the pioneer manufacturer was not valid, enforceable, or not infringed.
The Act enables a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer to develop copy of a patented innovator drug without duplicating the clinical and non-clinical studies or risking liability for patent infringement damages. The generic manufacturer must only demonstrate bioequivalence to the innovator.
Relevant pharmaceutical industry background[edit]
Because the bill was hard fought, there has been much written about it after the fact. Below is a brief history of the conditions surrounding the pharmaceutical industry and the prevalence of generic drugs that tie into goals and significance of this act.
Prior to 1962, drugs were approved for safety only. In 1962, in the aftermath of the discovery that the use of a drug called thalidomide by pregnant women (mostly in Europe) had caused severe birth defects, Congress added a requirement that drug manufacturers also prove the effectiveness of the products before FDA could approve them for marketing. Thus, under these amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, new drugs had to be proven both safe and effective before they could be legally marketed. It is also important to note that for drugs approved prior to approval of Hatch Waxman, generic versions could be approved with a "paper" new drug application (NDA). This "abbreviated" NDA was based solely on published scientific or medical literature. Therefore, a generic manufacturer could get its drug approved by presenting academic articles about the chemical demonstrating that it was safe and effective. Despite this fact, it was found that in the years after 1962 there were 150 drugs that were off-patent, but for which there were no generics because generic companies simply would not spend the time and money doing the clinical trials to get to market, and that there were only fifteen "paper NDAs," for post-1962 generics.[1]
Main provisions of the bill[edit]
The first provision discussed in the Act handles the issue of drug competition. Title I of the Act discusses the authorization of ANDAs and the provision that prohibits the FDA from asking for more than bioequivalence study. This part of the Act is one of few pieces of legislation that restricts the powers and reach of a federal agency.
The Act provides for a period of exclusivity such that once a New Molecular Entity (NME) is approved, a generic version cannot be approved for five years. The Act also calls for a three-year data exclusivity period for supplements requiring clinical trials. It also sets out the certifications that must be made when someone files an ANDA. The first is that the drug associated with the ANDA is not patented. The second is that the patent for the pioneer version has expired. The third is that the generic will not be marketed until the patent for the pioneer has expired. Lastly, the applicant believes that the patent for the pioneer drug has not been infringed or is proven invalid. These 4 alternative statements are referred to as the paragraph I, II, III, and IV certifications.
The paragraph IV certification proved to be fairly controversial in the efforts to get the bill passed. The controversy erupted because of confusion as to how long the FDA would be required to wait before approving a generic for marketing if it claimed that the patent for the pioneer was in fact invalid. Initially the wait period was decided to be eighteen months, however, this was later changed to thirty months.
In terms of patent term restoration, the bill provides that a pioneer drug can receive an extension term equal to one-half of the time of the investigational new drug (IND) period, which runs from the time human clinical trials begin to the time the NDA is submitted. In addition to getting credit for the IND period the complete period of NDA review is added as the second part of the extension. This is so long as half of the IND period plus the NDA review period is less than or equal to 5 years. Furthermore, the time after the drug has been approved and is on the market cannot exceed fourteen years. These numbers are strictly arbitrary numbers that were deemed to be sufficiently long to provide incentive for research-based pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs. The regulations also speak as to how extensions for pipeline drugs (drugs currently under FDA review) should be handled. The Act provides that pipeline drugs would receive two years or less of extended term. This was based on the assumption that if they were under review already that they would be approved in a year or two, making there no need to provide a longer extension. However, some pipeline drugs have taken eight years for approval, which exposes the flaws in this logic. (This patent term restoration part of the Act appears in title 35 of the United States Code.)
Lastly, the Act provides that if the pioneer company fails to exercise due diligence during development, a period amounting to the time delay will be subtracted from the patent extension period when seeking patent term restoration.[2]
Potential revisions[edit]
There are several important potential revisions to the Hatch-Waxman Act. One of these revisions includes a one-for-one extension, and a change from the one-half of IND period to a full IND. Furthermore, there is the issue of decreasing NDA review time. Initially the legislation was enacted because of the concern that overall drug development time was getting longer and longer. However, the FDA has done a remarkably good job in cutting back the time for NDA review as a result of initiatives and funding resulting from PDUFA (the Prescription Drug User Fee Act). Despite this major improvement in FDA review, the human clinical trials are taking even longer. Another proposal has been to remove the two-year extension limit for drugs under review and the arbitrary five- and fourteen-year limitations. This last particular revision also would permit multiple extensions of the same patent and change the five-year limit to ten years to match competing international standards.[3]
See also[edit]
- ^ Mossinghoff, Gerald. "Overview of the Hatch-Waxman Act and Its Impact on the Drug Development Process." Food and Drug Law Journal. 54. (1999): 187-194. Print.
- ^ Mossinghoff, Gerald. "Overview of the Hatch-Waxman Act and Its Impact on the Drug Development Process." Food and Drug Law Journal. 54. (1999): 187-194. Print.
- ^ Mossinghoff, Gerald. "Overview of the Hatch-Waxman Act and Its Impact on the Drug Development Process." Food and Drug Law Journal. 54. (1999): 187-194. Print.
(5) http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Testimony/ucm115033.htm
External links[edit]
- "The "Hatch-Waxman" Act: Selected Patent-Related Issues", United States Congressional Research Service, April 1, 2002
Court Cases[edit]
See also[edit]
- "The Generic Drug Scandal"
- "Release of generic Lipitor is delayed"
- "Biotechnology Companies Try to Ward Off Generic Drugs"
- "Driving Up Drug Prices"
- "Biologic Drugs May Get Less Protection"


text:
Adelaide Airport Ltd. Dec 12
- December 2012
- Standard & Poors
Natural-monopoly position in the state of South Australia Reasonably reliable long-term passenger growth Diverse income sources Small catchment area and susceptibility to reduction in services during industry stress Financial metrics that are weaker than our expectation for the rating Restoration of financial headroom in the near term to be in line with our minimum expectation is dependent on significant deferral of capital expenditure or distributions The rating on Australia-based Adelaide Airport Ltd. (AAL) reflects our view of the airport's natural-monopoly position in South Australia (AA/Stable/A-1+); relatively stable revenue; and detailed capital-expenditure program, which can be easily scaled down. These strengths are somewhat offset by the airport's relatively small catchment area, and its current financial profile being weaker than our expectation...
Companies mentioned in this report are:
- Adelaide Airport Ltd.
- New Terminal Financing Co. Pty Ltd.
Action: Review
Standard and Poors RatingsXpress Credit Research provides in-depth coverage of international corporates, financial institutions, insurance companies, utilities, sovereigns and structured finance programs. RatingsXpress Credit Research lets users determine the credit rating of holdings and identify key factors underlying an issuer's creditworthiness, distinguishes the different risk exposures for new and existing deals, and provides an understanding of how their analysts interpret key regulatory, political and environmental events and their economic impact.
Research Type: Full Analysis
- Adelaide Airport Ltd.
- New Terminal Financing Co. Pty Ltd.


text:
The Guns & Hoses Comedy show to benefit autism education will be held on Saturday, November 17, 2012, from 7:00pm to 10:00pm.
Featured fire and police comedians are John Di Resta, Mick Thomas, Billy Bingo and Stacey Prussman.
Ticket prices start at $40.00. VIP tickets with reception and premium seating are $75.00 apiece. All proceeds benefit the Nassau-Suffolk Autism Society of America. To order tickets, please call Tim at 917-612-8439.
Landmark on Main Street
232 Main Street
Port Washington, NY


text:
Worldox Time and Billing Connectors
Worldox Quick Client Matter Connectors automate the process of updating Worldox profile field tables – connecting you behind the scenes with the latest information from your linked time, billing and practice management systems including Elite, Juris, Omega, AcumniEW, Prolaw, PCLaw and others.
How connectors work
Quick Client Matter connectors enable law firms to use the same data structures for Document Management that are in use for billing and practice management. These connectors run via the Windows Scheduler, updating relevant Worldox profile tables with new or changed Client and Matter data derived from direct queries to your billing/practice management systems.
Connectors synchronize Worldox document repositories with practice management,
time and billing systems. They eliminate input errors, making the entire update
process invisible, automatic.
Two more valuable benefits:
System Requirements:
Database configuration:
If the SQL database is not configured for windows authentication with the workstation login account having read access to the database tables, then it may be necessary to create a database account with read permissions on the relevant tables.
The connection to the SQL database may be via a suitably configured DSN for direct access or by a defined ODBC link. The Omega connector only operates using an ODBC connection via the relevant driver for the CACHE database.
Worldox Quick Client Matter Connectors are sold on a one time site licence of $1,500 - with an annual maintenance cost of $300 per year for product support and upgrades.Notes:
Quick Client Matter Connectors can be configured by Worldox Technical consultants to work with other SQL based billing systems. If your site is using a different billing system for client matter information, please contact Worldox to discuss your requirements.
Our consultants can usually develop a connector very quickly if they can have access to your database to determine the structure and required queries.
See the Elite Connector Demo
Call us today! 800-962-6360


text: hey everyone, bobo here, i am looking for a hearse or vintage ice cream truck in the texas are to buy? A hearse 70's-and under. i would like to find out that is running and the body in good shape. i dont mind doing a lilttle restoration. If any one can help me out that would be great. Trying to get prepared for the new season and its shopping time once again!


text:
Here's the big board results for the Worst Company In America 2007.
15 rounds.
32 companies.
101,067 votes.
One Worst Company to rule them all: RIAA!!!!!
Relive the dream with the blow by blow history. — BEN POPKEN
Here's the big board results for the Worst Company In America 2007.
15 rounds.
32 companies.
101,067 votes.
One Worst Company to rule them all: RIAA!!!!!
Relive the dream with the blow by blow history. — BEN POPKEN
And all is well in the world.
I just wish the RIAA was a company so this moniker would have more clout.
While I'm unsure about the whole "company" classification, I would agree with the results; fewer companies/corporate organizations have displayed such a blatant disregard for their "customers." I think, if the RIAA were a company in the true sense of the word, their practices of suing without any rational consideration would have destroyed them long ago.
I wish I had nominated US Airways. Based on a lot of the stories coming out of PHL, they could have given RIAA a run for its money.
Isn't this post and thread a little redundant because of RIAA Wins Worst Company In America 2007?
You should do a re-release of all the articles released by the site about the RIAA as a tribute to the organization winning the Worst Company in America tournament.
Will a certificate be sent to them?
Isn't this post and thread a little redundant because halliburton's corporate HQ is moving to dubai?
@ajn007: Dude, what's your beef with this? How is the RIAA, an American corporation, "not a company?" Its business may be representing other companies in an industry by lobbying, but how is that any substantially different from, say, a PR company or even a law firm?
As for karmaghost's assertion that "if the RIAA were a company in the true sense of the word, their practices of suing without any rational consideration would have destroyed them long ago," I don't see why. Their customers are other big businesses, and they're doing exactly what their customers pay them to do. They never take on anyone who's capable of fighting them on a large scale, so while their business practices may be predatory and downright evil, there's no good argument for them not being a company.
@UnStatusTheQuo: Id probably pay to see that
This is a joke. 98% of the people who answered this poll cant even tell you what Halliburton does. They voted with their Bush-hate.
@markymags: I agree, super article about the evil RIAA (i voted for Exxon but oh well).
This should be the Worst Company!
Would never recommend their services to anyone. For more information about me visit http://WWW.michaelellenbogen.com
6-26-06 Spoke to Claire. Informed her about issues – warranty stated "15yr. Warranty. Unconditional Parts & Labor Glass Lifetime NON – TRANSFERABLE" Told someone would contact me.
6-27-06 Drew diagram explaining what needs to be done. (not asked to do this) Faxed paperwork along with original contract – Verified fax received. Spoke to Pat- handing it to Clair.
8-08-06 Spoke to Nancy – Claire out today./ Pat called – she will check into this and get back to me
9-08-06 Spoke to Nancy – Claire out today- will check into this-she does not see information for my name or address./Pat called – she would check into this, did not have the fax information I sent. Told her she was supposed to get back to me last time I called. Informed her I verified the information was received by her mother Claire on 6-28-06. Told she will call next week and Craig Secreta (one of the owners) will do the repairs. Asked me to resend the fax information. This was excuse for not following up with me.
9-12-06 Resent fax./Confirmed receipt by Craig the owner.
9-14-06 Spoke to Craig – he will fix the leaks and leave parts so I can do the rest of repairs on my own. I was OK with this because he said the warranty did not include those items.
9-26-06 Spoke to Craig – will check schedule and let me know when they will be out.
10-6-06 Asked for Craig – Pat said he would call me back.
10-11 Asked for Craig again – Left message with Pat.
10-12 Spoke with Bob Nasuti, said that he was the oldest owner of the company. Told him I was dissatisfied with his company. Assured me he will make it right and get back to me.
10-20 Left message for Bob with Pat
10-27 Spoke to Craig – will be out to fix leak on Wednesday.
11-02 Left message with Pat for Craig – no one out to make repairs.
11-03 Left message with Pat for Craig or Bob (owners of company)
11-07 Spoke to Bob, speaking to Craig in the background. His excuse – "I just didn't make it". Bob said Johnny Trotter will contact me by end of day to set up another date.
11-09 Called for Bob or Craig – Not in per Pat. – John Jr. will call me today.
11-10 John Trotter called – will call next Monday after figures out his schedule.
11-15 Spoke to Bob – will call John Trotter, have him call me today.
11-17 Spoke to Craig – will call next week. Might come on Wednesday. Asked him to let me know before so I can make arrangements.
11-24 Boxes of parts outside my house in the rain. Not notified they were coming. Roof still leaking.
11-28 Left message with Pat.
12-19 Spoke to Pat – Bob will get back to me./Called them-Just received my original fax that I sent with "I will do the repairs" circled. That was true for only a few items on the list -indicated on the paperwork very clearly. Also discussed list of items many times with all parties involved. Spoke with Bob Foreman. Left message for either owner to call me.
1-04-07 Spoke to Craig – will have the guy call me.
1-18 Did not hear from anyone – called again – all are in meeting and will call me back.
2-02-07 Spoke to Craig Secreta (owner). I said, "don't you have any control over the people in your company. I have been trying to resolve these issues since 06/26/06. The roof leaks and needs to be fixed for the third time since the original installation of my patio room." He assured me that he would call me back within the hour to get this resolved.
Still have not heard back from anyone. The sad part is, there is not much you can do, other than taking the company to court and waste more of your time.
Company has many names under this and other addresses Owners or crooks- you decide- Robert C Nasuti & Craig Secreta
Catalina Home Enclosures
Home Enclosures by Catalina
Catalina Doors & Windows Co Inc
What upsets me most about the RIAA would have you believe is that they are doing this on the artist's behalf. What they fail to disclose is the sharholders of the labels are their clients, not the artists. The RIAA is looking down a long, dark tunnel right now. They know their days of mad money-making are coming to an end and trying to innovate and change direction would be a costly and time consuming endeavor that the shareholders would not appreciate. So, rather than loose money, they are going after families (recently sending a subpeona to a 10 year-old girl to testify against her mother!) college students, and even soldiers. Their actions are greedy and shameful. If you are an artist on a major your record label may be a part of this organization and actually supporting it's decisions. For more information about the RIAA check out and subscribe to: Recording Industry vs. The People
First, I agree with orig_club_soda. Most people don't actually hate Halliburton as a company; they hate how Bush/Cheney awarded them huge government contracts without any true or fair competition.
Second, what about the MPAA? Wikipedia says they're a "non-profit trade association" — so I'm assuming that means they don't qualify as a "company" for this contest. (It also says RIAA is a "trade group" — implying they're for-profit, though I'd argue the MPAA is, ultimately, very much for profit: the direct profit of its members.) Whether they qualify or not, I'd say they're at least 85% as evil an the RIAA.
I always read about how Bank of America sucks this, and Bank of America sucks that, but never had experience the suck that is Bank of America first hand.
what a joke. Monsanto should of been number one without a doubt. I mean, monsanto is so far above every other company that the very fact this site doesn't even see it shows how much of a damn joke it is. Give me a break. This really pisses me off that someone, anyone, would think haliburton beets monsanto….this is a joke……do people not fu*kin read anymore??????
We are currently testing a new commenting system. Want to help? Request an invite.
Consumerist is currently testing a new user experience. If you received an invitation to participate in the beta test, please sign-in below.
Interested in participating? Learn more here.{* #userInformationForm *} {* traditionalSignIn_displayName *} {* traditionalSignIn_password *}
If you are part of the beta test group, you will receive a link that will allow you to create a new password. If you are not part of the test group, you can learn more here.


text:
Warning: This assignment is algorithmically difficult. Start early, and be certain to create an algorithm before you begin programming. As a reminder, you can get help in office hours.
A strand of DNA is formed from four nucleotides called adenine (abbreviated A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and guanine (G). Genetic information is determined by the sequence of nucleotides along a strand.
For this assignment, you will write a program that finds the longest common nucleotide sequence in two strands of DNA. Each strand is represented by a sequence of letters from {A, T, C, G}. For example, in the strands ATGC and TGAC, the longest common sequence is TG. The two strands are not required to have the same length, and it is possible for the two strands not to have any common sequence (a sequence of length 1 does not count).
You may work in pairs for this assignment, but you must follow
guidelines covered in Pair
Guidelines. If you work in a pair, you will receive
two extra credit points on your grade for this assignment. You
partner with someone in your lecture. Also, you must partner
with someone that you have not partnered with previously this
Note: You may not use any programming construct that we have not covered in class.
File Name: DNA.py (Note the all caps on DNA!)
Your program will prompt the user to enter two strands of DNA. You will write out all the common longest subsequences, one line at a time. There may be 0, 1, 2, or more longest subsequences. It should do this using the getStrands(), longestCommonSubseq(), and printCommonSubseqs() functions, which should all be called from your main() function. Your program should continue prompting the user until the user enters the empty string. (To enter the empty string, just press return.)
getStrands() is a function written by you that prompts the user for two strands and returns a tuple containing the two DNA strands.
longestCommonSubseq() is a function written by you that accepts two DNA sequences and returns the length of the longest common subsequence of the two strands.
printCommonSubseqs() is a function written by you that accepts three parameters: 2 DNA strands and a length, in that order. The function finds all common subsequences of the specified length and prints them to the screen.
Here is a sample run of the program with the user's input in green:
Please enter a strand of DNA: ATGGCATAAGCTT Please enter another strand of DNA: TGCAGCTGCATCAGGAT Common subsequence(s): AGCT GCAT Please enter a strand of DNA: TAGGCAT Please enter another strand of DNA: GAA No common subsequence was found for TAGGCAT and GAA Please enter a strand of DNA: AAAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaa Please enter another strand of DNA: aaaaaaaaaccaaaaaaaa Common subsequence(s): AAAAAAAAA Please enter a strand of DNA: AAGGTTCCAAGGTTCC Please enter another strand of DNA: CCTTGGAACCTTGGAA Common subsequence(s): AA GG TT CC AA GG TT CC Please enter a strand of DNA: AGTCAGTCAGTCAGTC Please enter another strand of DNA: TCGATCGA Common subsequence(s): TC TC Please enter a strand of DNA: AGTCAGTC Please enter another strand of DNA: CTGACTGACTGACTGA No common subsequence was found for AGTCAGTC and CTGACTGACTGACTGA Please enter a strand of DNA: Please enter another strand of DNA: Ending program
Your subsequences may print in any order, but the rest of your output should match this sample output. You may assume the user enters strings with only A, C, G, and T (upper or lower case) unless they enter a string of length 0 (also known as an empty string).
Test your program by running it several times. Put your test runs with at least 5 pairs of sequences and their output in comments at the end of your .py file
Name your file DNA.py. Be certain to begin your file with the following header:
# File: --name of file-- # Description: --a description of your program-- # Assignment Number: # # Name: --your name-- # EID: --your eid-- # Course Name: CS303E # # Unique Number: --your section number-- # # Date created: # Date last modified: # # Slip days used this assignment: # Total slip days used:If you used pair programming, include name, EID, course name, and unique number for both partners along with the other required information.
turnin program to submit your file. The file must be
turned in
by April 17th at 11pm. If you use slip days, please notify your
when you turn in your file. Your program will be graded
according to
the following general grading criteria:
Correctness: Does the program pass the provided and additional test cases? Take off points for failures.
Testing: Did the students add more test cases?
Documentation: Are the methods and complicated code segments documented (especially the complicated code)? Is the header correctly filled in?
Design/Efficiency: Program should not contain huge, convoluted methods that should be broken up into other methods. The algorithm is not trivial, and students often use huge methods that go on for 50 lines or more. They need to modularize the code.
If you used pair programming, both partners must have enough slip days left to cover any slip days you use. (e.g., If you use two, both partners must have at least two left to use.) Turn the assignment in using just one partner's turnin account. The grader will grade it and enter the grade for both partners.
Did you remember to:


text:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
Mary Logan ("Mama")
Character Analysis
Here's a nice descriptive touch about Mama: she smells like "sunshine and soap" (6.106).
Okay, need more of a reason to care, other than that she's clean and hopeful? Mama is the mother (duh) of Cassie and her brothers. She's intelligent, educated, and caring—and she's also a bit of a "disrupting maverick" who doesn't believe the status quo should be accepted (1.174). Cassie really looks up to Mama. Check out this quiet moment, when Mama fixes Cassie a "grown-up hairdo" for church (6.105):
Then she wound each braid into a flat chignon against my head. My hair was too thick and long for me to do it well myself, but Mama could do it perfectly. I figured I looked my very best that way.
"One day, Mama, you gonna fix my hair like yours?" (6.109-11)
So, why does Cassie admire her mother so much?
Radical Teacher
Well, here's a reason we admire her: she teaches her students "radical" (1.174) material about slavery that isn't covered in the county-approved textbooks. Cassie spies on Mr. Granger while some of the school board members observe Mama's class. Even though the white men are watching, she talks about slavery, and "she spoke on the cruelty of it; of the rich economic cycle it generated as slaves produced the raw products for the factories of the North and Europe; how the country profited and grew from the free labor of a people still not free" (8.101).
And she doesn't back down. Mr. Granger tells her that she shouldn't teach what's not in the book, but Mama insists that "all that's in that book isn't true" (8.105, 8.107).
So that's where Cassie gets her sassiness and strength. Mama isn't afraid to stand up for what she believes in and what's right. Even if it gets her in trouble. And it does: Mr. Granger has her fired.
Community Organizer
Mama also organizes the boycott against the Wallace store. She's tired of complaining and says so:
Everybody from Smellings Creek to Strawberry knows it was them but what do we do about it? We line their pockets with our few pennies and send our children up to their store to learn things they've got no business learning. [...] As I see it the least we can do is to stop shopping there. It may not be real justice, but it'll hurt them and we'll have done something. (7.58)
In other words, Mama is one strong woman who is not to be trifled with. The community trusts her and initially goes along with the plan. She's a natural-born teacher and leader, and we get the feeling that Cassie will grow up to be similar. At least, we hope so.


text:
Authority Domain » Computers & Internet » Issues
Links Sort by: Hits | Alphabetical
|Slow Computer Tips - http://www.computertooslow.com
ComputerTooSlow.com contains tips and guides to make sure your computer is running the fastest it can be running. Many times, your computer is slow because of a problem due to defragmentation, a full hard drive, spyware, or some other problem like this. The guides on this site are written to be useful for both the power user and the computer novice. -


text:
a1 ELISABETTA MERLO is associate professor at the Institute of Economic History, Bocconi University, Milan.
a2 Francesca Polese is assistant professor at the Institute of Economic History, Bocconi University, Milan
The Italian fashion industry rose to a position of international prominence in the second half of the twentieth century. An important factor in the sector's global success was the opening up of the international, particularly the American, markets. The changes that occurred within the fashion industry after World War II, most critically the end of the Parisian monopoly, offered opportunities that were exploited differently by the various competitors. While cities like London and New York managed to promote themselves as alternatives to Paris, Italy was initially unable to create a single fashion capital. Florence, Rome, and Milan felt themselves equally entitled to become the staging ground for Italian fashion production, but Milan, benefiting from certain features of its productive structure, eventually emerged as the winner. The city's success was based on a long, steady accumulation of resources and the ability to harness its creative and managerial capabilities. The result was Milan's emergence as a fashion "superstar" in the 1970s.
Elisabetta Merlo is associate professor at the Institute of Economic History at Bocconi University in Milan. She is in charge of cataloging the historical archives of the Camera nazionale della moda italiana (Association of Italian Fashion Designers), and she has written extensively about the history of the Italian fashion industry. Among her recent publications are Moda Italiana: Storia di un'industria (2003), and "Le origini del sistema moda," in La moda, edited by C. M. Belfanti and F. Giusberti (2003).
Francesca Polese is assistant professor at the Institute of Economic History of Bocconi University in Milan, where she conducts research in the fields of Italian business history and the history of the fashion business. Recent publications include "In Search of a New Industry: Giovanni Battista Pirelli and his Educational Journey through Europe, 1870–71," in Business History (July 2006); "Big Business Performance in the Twentieth Century: Italy," with C. Brambilla et al., in Essays in European Business Performance in the Twentieth Century, edited by C. Brautaset (2005); and Alla ricerca di un'industria nuova (2004).


text:
Muirlands living at its best
6415 Muirlands Drive • 5 BDRM/5 BATH • $3,990,000.
This elegant Tuscan-style estate located in the highly desired Muirlands neighborhood offers amazing views of the ocean and golf course. Exquisitely appointed amenities are throughout with rich travertine flooring inside and out, 8-foot African Alder doors, Pella windows, wine storage/closet, and digital whole house audio system. The spacious gourmet kitchen features stainless steel Viking appliances, Fisher & Paykel dishwasher drawers and a convenient butler's pantry. The master retreat is an invitation to romance with two fireplaces and whirlpool tub, all with an ocean view. Four of the bedroom suites are complete with baths and walk-in closets. A fifth bedroom has been transformed into a media room with surround sound and special lighting. This incredible home offers an amazing rooftop deck for entertaining and a three-car garage. The free flowing, open floor plan maes for easy California living at its best.
Theresa Moujaes • ENGEL & VÖLKERS • (858) 324-9001


text:
AMD Bulldozer Launch in September Now Official, Two New 8 Core FX Processors to arrive in Q1 2012
Taiwanese Motherboard manufacturers have leaked details of AMD's Upcoming Bulldozer CPU's and Release Date. According to them, AMD will start Mass Production of B2 chips in August and the processors will officially launch in September (Q3 2011). A recent cinematic trailer has also exposed Bulldozer Launch Date of 19th September 2011 which you can see here.
The AMD Bulldozer lineup consists of 32Nm SOI based chips which will be supported by the AM3+ Socket featuring the AMD 990FX Chipset. The first Q3 2011 lineup which will be released in September would consist of Four processor models, The FX-4100, FX-6100, FX-8100 and FX-8150. We already detailed these processors over here .
The FX-8150 will be the flagship Bulldozer CPU featuring eight cores, Clock speed of 3.6Ghz (Turbo – 4.2Ghz), 8MB L3 Cache, 1866mhz+ DDR3 Support and a Max TDP of 125W. This would be replaced with a second lineup which AMD Plans to release in Q1 2012. Following are the 8 Core processors to be included in the latter lienup:
AMD Bulldozer and Llano Fusion Pricing Information Leaked
New AMD Bulldozer (Zambezi-FX) Benchmarks Leaked
AMD Bulldozer (Zambezi-FX) and 9-series "Scorpius" Platform Detailed through Leaked Slide
[Breaking News] AMD Bulldozer (Zambezi-FX) Processors Delayed to Q3 2011
AMD Bulldozer (Zambezi-FX) Specifications Leaked by Asus
AMD Bulldozer (Zambezi-FX) CPU Performance Exposed, Beats i7 2600K in CineBench Benchmark
Get Latest Tech News Daily
We cater to your constant need to remain up to date on today's technology. Like us, tweet to us or +1 us, to keep up with our round the clock updates, reviews, guides and more.


text:
The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Source: Merging with Siva (Master Course), Pages: 133
Contributed by: Meenakshi
Divinity has one ultimate secret, which it will also whisper in your ear if your mind becomes quieter than the fog at sunset: the God of this world is found within, and you know it is found within: in those hushed silent times when the mind becomes still, the body relaxes into infinity, the senses expand to become one with the world- in those glistening times, a subtle luminosity, a serene radiance, a brilliantly transparent clarity shimmers as the true nature of all manifestation, erupting every now and then in a compassionate Radiance before whom all idols retreat, a love so fierce it adoringly embraces both light and dark, both good and evil, both pleasure and pain equally....
Ken Wilber
Source: "Simple Feeling of Being"
Contributed by: Artemisilke
Discovering your radianceBasically, radiance is a state of being rather than something you do, but there are some practices that can help to uncover your natural glow.Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.
Denise Linn
Source: Secrets and Mysteries, Pages: 125
Contributed by: MarleMac
Seeing the small is called Clarity.Keeping flexible is called Strength.Using the shining Radiance,You enter the Light,Where no harm can come to you.This is called Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
Source: unknown
Contributed by: crystal dreamer
All things radiate forth an intense aliveness.
David Hawkins
Contributed by: Rob
Copyright © 2016 Gaiam, Inc.