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The fragrance begins with a delicious blend of coriander and carrot seeds, creamy saffron and juicy quince: ingredients discovered during his trips to local markets in Jodhpur.
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Why Projects Succeed: Organizational Change Management
April 9, 2013 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Change Management,Project Management Best Practices
Why Projects Succeed: Organizational Change Management
By Roger Kastner
Is change management or project management more critical to project success?
Before you answer, let me tell you about two examples that might impact your response.
Like many of you, I've been on a few projects where I was able to appropriately set and deliver on expectations on scope, schedule, and budget ("on time, on budget, high five!"), only to have the end product of the project be a big fat zero in the marketplace.
One project I successfully led to an on-time and on-budget release had to be turned off six hours after being launched. The features in the newly released product generated such negative reaction in the marketplace that our company experienced a huge spike in complaints to the call center. The call volume was so high that it triggered a rarely used company policy allowing our customer care team to remove the new release from production without conferring with our product owner. Ouch.
If the measurement of success was delivering on scope, schedule, and budget, i.e., the holy trinity of project management, we nailed it. However, if the success was measured by ROI—which it should be, by the way—it was an undeniable failure.
With this project and any other project where I had successfully delivered the project on time and on budget yet the end product landed flat, we obviously had not done enough (or any) work to validate that customers wanted the product, or prepared end users for the product of the project.
Contrast that experience with a project I worked on where I took over the project management duties several months after the previous project manager was "forced" into agreeing to unreasonable expectations for scope, schedule, and budget. By "forced," I mean he was unsuccessful negotiating with the business owner who had unreasonable demands for project scope, schedule, and budget. To make matters worse, the project manager lacked sponsorship from his management to back him up in his attempts to appropriately set expectations.
Sure enough, by the time I had arrived, the budget had been blown out of the water and the target launch date was in serious jeopardy. The project was in such a bad place, my corrective action plan identified that we'd only be able to hit our schedule if we increased our team size, which meant a 50% increase in our budget and lowering our priority requirements into a future phase of development.
Even with all of these challenges and performance issues going on, the project team had done one thing extremely well from the start which would prove to be crucial to delivering success: getting customers involved in the project from day one. They ensured end users were involved in identifying why the new product was needed by engaging them to review prototypes, help test features, and even training other users in how to use the new product.
Once we launched, even though we needed 50% more money and had to defer some features that were originally promised, the products still landed with the target audience because end users had been involved since the project inception. And since the end users were successfully able to use the product to do their jobs, the product delivered on its expected benefits to the organization, maximizing its ROI even with budget issues.
Senior leadership and end users, forgetting any of the scope, schedule, and budget challenges, absolutely declared the project a big success. Now, if you asked the people on the project team (who had a vitriolic relationship with the business owner and had worked months of overtime) what their level of satisfaction with the project was, they'd say somewhere in between "low" and "couldn't get any lower." No one on the project team would declare the project a success nor would they want to duplicate that experience.
Let's look at the scoreboard: in the first project, we nailed project management nirvana by delivering on scope, schedule, and budget; however, because we ignored change management, it was a failure. In the second project, we failed on project management, but, we nailed change management, and the project was deemed a huge success.
Now, back to the original question: which is more critical to project success, project management or change management?
I will borrow a principle from improvisational comedy and answer with a, "Yes, and…" Imagine if we nailed both disciplines of project management and change management on a project. That is a recipe for success.
Impact of Change Management on Project Success
Every project attempts to introduce a change for a target audience. Projects are approved and funded with the expectation of achieving an economic result, and that result requires a change, on some level, in behaviors and actions. Whether the project is implementing a new payroll system or producing a new aircraft, the project will introduce a change.
The discipline of change management is a systematic approach for cultivating leadership support and end user acceptance for the attainment of a successful change. Change management can target organizational behavior and performance; for instance, attempting to increase the amount of accountable behavior exhibited by management. Change management can also be applied to attain adoption of the end product of a project. In both instances, the framework and approach can be similar, just as project management is similar on small- and large-scale projects. And that's not the only similarity between the two disciplines.
The Standish Group's annual Chaos research, going on for almost two decades, shows that roughly 30% of IT projects are delivered on time and on budget. Not great results. The research on change initiative success rates, such as IBM's Making Change Work and McKinsey Consulting's Change Management research and others, point to an eerily similar 30% success rate.
I think those success rates are an indication of the performance of practitioners in both disciplines, but not an indication of our capabilities to execute the work. Instead, it starts earlier in the project when we allow for higher-than-reasonable stakeholder expectations to be set. Of course, there are poor-performing practitioners out there, but I believe the key word is "expected" in the statement "70% of initiatives achieve less than expected results."
Now Project Managers Need to Do Project Management and Change Management?
The Why Project Succeed series has focused on the key things that contribute to successful projects, and when I share with project managers that we need to include a focus on change management, I usually get an exasperated look of, "What?!?! I need to do more than project management?!?!" My response is always no, you likely need to do less and focus more on what contributes to success. And since a successful project requires adoption of the end product, change management is one of those top-contributing success factors.
3 Principles of Change Management
So, how does the successful project manager adopt change management without doing two jobs or attempting to do too much?
Some initiatives will benefit from a dedicated change management approach that will be separate from the project management focus. That said, there will likely be projects where change management will not be a separate function, and in those instances, the successful project manager will adopt some of the change management principles to drive adoption of the end product.
Here are three principles that I recommend all project managers adopt to drive, um, adoption:
1) Change Impact Analysis
This analysis identifies in detail the changes that impact each role by identifying:
- the processes that are changing;
the details of the change in the process;
who is impacted by role and how much of an impact it is.
Once completed, then you can pivot on the role to see the aggregate amount and degree of change each role will experience.
This is a simple process, but the result is powerful. First, you will have created an inventory of change by process and role (always start with a documented list!). Second, you will see that not everyone is impacted by the change at the same level of degree. Being able to articulate who will be impacted and by what degree is very illuminating information, especially when you are planning your change management approach and leader focus. It also addresses resistance to the change.
2) Case for Change and Vision for Future
The first question people typically ask when a change is introduced is "why?" They yearn to understand first why the change is good for the organization, and then they ask "why is it good for me?"
The first answer needs to be articulated by the highest ranking leader possible, and no lower in the org chart than the project sponsor. The sponsor will need to articulate the Case for Change which captures the key circumstances and implications of the current-state challenges and rationale for why staying with the status quo is not acceptable. Just as important, the Vision for Future will set forth the target end state and the rationale of why that is preferable to alternatives and doing nothing.
Once the Case and Vision have been articulated, they need to be repeated. And repeated. And repeated. From the leader who first articulated the Case and Vision on down to the managers of the impacted individuals, the story needs to be consistent. Failure to have a consistent Case and Vision will raise doubts in the minds of the very people who need to accept that the change is good for the organization.
The fidelity and effectiveness of the Case and Vision can be measured both quantitatively and qualitatively and reported on to ensure the story is landing in the organization. If it isn't landing in parts of the organization, more leader and sponsor attention is required to understand why. If it isn't landing anywhere, there's either a problem with the story, or the consistency in how leaders are telling the story.
The articulation and acceptance of Case and Vision are necessary to enable the second part of change dialogue, and that is setting the context for change from the perspective of the individual.
For effective change to occur, individuals need to accept that the change is good for the organization as well as for themselves. The only way for individuals to accept that change is good for them is to have the details and context of change to be laid out for them in a conversation with their manager. That conversation can be laid out as following:
- Ask the employee what he/she thinks about the reason for change and the vision of the future state. If the employee has questions, answer them. If he/she doesn't think it's good for the organization, ask why. If the employee does think it's good, go to the next step.
Share with the employee how the change will impact his/her role (e.g., providing the context for change), share the timetable for change, and then ask if he/she understands the change and thinks it will be good for his/her role. If there are questions, answer them. If the employee doesn't think it's good for him/her, ask why.
At this point, it will be clear if the employee is an advocate, neutral, or resistant to the change. This information can be tracked across the organization to provide metrics for adoption over the course of the initiative. At the very least, it will inform how much acceptance and resistance to the change exists in the organization.
3) Resistance Management
Project managers will be very familiar with this process, since Resistance Management follows the same approach as Risk Management, with the key difference being Resistance Management only focuses on the human risks to success.
Identifying resistance to the change will occur throughout the project, and assessing and identifying the appropriate responses to the resistance follows the same framework as Risk Management. The important distinction is that you need to ask the specific questions and look for the specific evidence for human resistance to the change.
When I perform the change management role on projects, these in fact are the first things I guide clients to focus on, with the addition of a stakeholder assessment. That stakeholder assessment is very similar to the stakeholder management approach within the project management discipline, with the possible difference of identifying if the stakeholder's disposition toward the change and if the stakeholder is skilled in leading change. These two factors will inform the change management plan as to whether additional coaching or sponsor engagement is required.
How Change Management Benefits from Project Management
Combining change management and project management is just like the old Reese's Peanut Butter Cup slogan: "Two great tastes that taste great together." And it's a symbiotic relationship; change management initiatives are more likely to succeed when project management best practices are applied, but that should be no surprise to this audience, right?
As an example, another project success factor that should be applied to change initiatives is Minimizing Scope & Requirements, as we should challenge and reduce the amount of change in order to make it more consumable. The paradox in reducing the amount of change for end users is that it usually requires more change on the part of leaders.
Both need to exist in order for both to succeed.
I have never been a fan of measuring project success, and therefore the value of a project manager, solely on the ability to deliver on time and on budget. Attainment of the targeted return, achieving desired benefits, happy stakeholders—these seem like crucial factors in the definition of success… or at least they should be.
And therefore, I believe the project manager of the future will need to evolve his/her focus from Scope, Schedule, and Budget to include a fourth member—Adoption.
In this vision, the project manager of the future is not responsible for performing the role of the change manager on the project, just as the project manager is not responsible for writing software, attaching the wing to the fuselage, or swinging a hammer. However, the project manager is responsible for scheduling the work, assigning the work, and ensuring the work gets done, and that definition of "work" will need to be expanded to include "ensuring adoption" in order for the project manager to increase the odds of the project achieving its target ROI.
Of course, one could argue that Adoption is included in Scope, and I'd be good with that once I start seeing Scope documents articulate the approach and measurements for Adoption. Until then, I'm a fan of the Four Horsemen of the Success-aclypse: Scope, Schedule, Budget, and Adoption.
Reprinted with permission from Slalom Consulting – © 2013 Slalom Consulting
Roger Kastner is a Business Architect with Slalom Consulting who is passionate about raising the caliber of project leadership within organizations to maximize the value of projects. You can read more articles from the series on "Why Projects Succeed" here.
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I believe the project manager should be more concerned about the success of the project and the success measured by the parameters of scope, budget and schedule. Adoption of the product should be the concern of the project owner organization. The buck starts with the R & D and Marketing departments who will have to agree on what the end user will accept or buy into if well persuaded.
This spells out the difference between project definition and product definition. Product definition deals with the characteristics of the product. This is not necessarily what the project team do. This should be the baby of Marketing and R & D. Project definition has to do with work to do to produce the product. This is the burden of the project team. It is rather to say that the entire organization should be concerned about the issue of "Adoption". The R & D and Marketing should signify at anytime in the life of the project any need to change the product definition. The project team will comply by changing the project scope; and this eventually may impact the budget. Schedule will also be factored in in the budget in order to be on time despite change in scope. In this case the project team should not be afraid of the rhetoric of scope creep as long as the owner organization initiated the need and ready to bear the cost in the name of acceptance or adoption by the end user. I think this is what this article is all about.
Hi Phil – Thanks for your comment, you gave me a lot to respond to, I appreciate it.
The "Change Management" function I wrote about is "Organizational Change Management" or acceptance and adoption of the change that is introduced with the solution developed by the project team. "Scope Change Management" is within the recognized realm of the PM's role, and should remain, however, my suggestion is to add "Organization Acceptance" or "Org Change Management" to the scope of the Project Manager.
We may disagree on whether "adoption" should be within the role of the PM, however, from an enterprise perspective, projects are approved and funded based on the ROI calculation, "scope, schedule, and budget" are all functions of the "I" (or investment). PMs can absolutely have an impact on the "R" and the best way they can is to ensure the adoption and acceptance of the solution is addressed during the project timeframe.
Per your suggestion, marketing plays a similar role for attaining adoption in products that are commercially delivered, however, for the majority of projects that are internally focused, often there is no equivalent of a marketing department besides the PM and the Sponsor.
Just like the other areas within a PM's role, the PM is supposed to ensure that all the work is planned and executed, but these tasks are not necessarily performed by the PM. My recommendation is for the PM to also ensure that activities that build acceptance and garner adoption are planned and executed on, which will result in greatly increasing the likelihood of project success, as defined by attaining ROI.
Although, there will be activities identified that reinforce adoption of the change that take place after the launch and closure of the project, (i.e., when the PM is released), prior to closure the PM can ensure the transfer of accountability of those tasks to other managers, with oversight from the sponsor, to ensure those activities are performed.
While this may seem like adding more scope to the already overloaded PM role, I'd suggest the PM should focus on those elements of responsibilities that drive the most value toward attaining a successful project, and reducing the scope areas that do not impact success as much.
Thanks again, Phil.
Thank you Roger for explaining the role of Project Manager and success measures just beyond scope, schedule and budget. I agree with the aspect 'Adoption' should be added to measure the success.
You are welcome, Mohini, glad we agree.
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One view is that morality demands that the Australian Government do everything possible to seek justice for the journalists killed in Timor in 1975. To give the other side of the argument puts one in the position of the Jack Nicholson character in A Few Good Men: defending the indefensible.
But, just as Jack had some important points to make and dilemmas to expound, there are some arguments that should be heard before the moral grandstanding takes over:
The pragmatic realists have spent several decades trying to bury the Australian journalists murdered by Indonesian troops in East Timor. The most brutal and explicit example of this was offered nearly three decades ago by one of the great Australian diplomats of his generation, Sir Keith Shann. The Australian journalists who died in Timor, he said, had 'asked for it and they got it.'
This is the less than glorious company Stephen Grenville has joined with his perspective on the new police investigation into the Balibo Five. Stephen's milder version of the Shann thesis is that the Balibo Five were 'foolhardy in the extreme' to be trying to film a covert Indonesian invasion. The journalists, he says, 'intentionally put themselves into mortal danger' and their editors were even 'more culpable'.
The pragmatic realist argument has always been that the need for good relations with Indonesia trumps moral or legal concerns such as the murder of Australian journalists. To buttress this argument, the Balibo Five have to be traduced as fools who went looking for the fate that befell them. This is to misrepresent or misunderstand what journalists do in the midst of conflict.
As non-combatants, media workers do what few other sensible civilian would do — they actually head toward the conflict. While not acting like other civilians, though, journalists are clearly protected by the Geneva Conventions. And their work is a powerful support for the Conventions. Telling the truth about conflict endangers journalists. It can expose uncomfortable and powerful truths that cause headaches for politicians and diplomats. This is more than telling truth to power. It involves holding power to account.
If the film shot by the Balibo Five had gone to air, it would have dramatised the reality of Indonesia's secret invasion. Australian politicians and diplomats knew all about the invasion, even before it happened, because the Australian embassy in Jakarta had been fully briefed on Indonesian military's plans as they were developed.
The Balibo Five broke one of the simple rules of reporting conflict. The line of control or the path of the advance is the most dangerous place to be. Unfortunately, that is usually where the main story is happening. Being there was a judgement call. They paid the highest price for that judgement. They were not foolhardy. They did not ask for it.
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Graeme Dobell's post on the Balibo Five makes the perfectly valid point that journalists covering wars must take risks, and they are justified in doing so because they perform an important function. For that reason he rejects the idea that the Balibo Five were wrong to be where they were and that they therefore in some sense deserve what happened to them. I completely agree.
But that does not quite exhaust the question of what approach we should now take to these deaths. One can regard them as a tragedy and a crime, and still have doubts about how far we should sacrifice wider national interests in bringing those responsible to justice.
The main debate over the AFP's decision to investigate and presumably prosecute those responsible for killing the Balibo Five has pitted those who think it will damage Australia's relations with Indonesia against those who argue that securing justice takes precedence over maintaining good relations with Indonesia.
This is a slightly phoney debate in the present situation, because I do not expect that the AFP investigation will do much damage to our wider bilateral relationships with Indonesia. There may be more specific consequences for the AFP's relationship with their Indonesian counterparts, which has been very valuable to Australia over recent years and has probably saved Australian lives.
But if we did face a real choice between retrospective justice and current national interest, it would be hard to argue – as some in the present debate seem to — that the lives of Australians or justice for past wrongs should always take precedence over something as important to Australia as our relationship with Indonesia. Frankly, few of us consistently place such a high value on the lives of our fellow citizens.
Anyone who is not a pacifist must accept that there are circumstances in which we are willing to sacrifice the lives of our fellow citizens for the national interest. Indeed, we are doing so right now, in Afghanistan. If, when necessity requires, we are willing to weigh the lives of soldiers today against supposed benefits to our national interest, we are surely also justified in weighing the benefits of retrospective justice against the costs to those national interests. Or am I missing something?
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James Dunn is a former UN specialist on Crimes against Humanity in East Timor and author of East Timor: A Rough Passage to Independence.
The latest move in the Balibo affair has taken Australia to a kind of watershed in a sensitive aspect of our relationship with Indonesia. Are we going to continue to help Jakarta cover up a brutal chapter in its history, or should we now encourage the Yudhoyono Government to open up the past to much-needed public scrutiny?
Indonesia's hostile reaction to the AFP Balibo investigation was predictable enough, because it came just as Jakarta was facing renewed criticism in East Timor, at the tenth anniversary of the Suai massacre, which was much more brutal than Balibo.
The Balibo shooting and the Suai massacre span Indonesia's 24 year presence in East Timor, and remind us of an ugly fact: TNI (the Indonesian military) left the colony with the same cruel behaviour that it began with 34 years ago. Thanks in large measure to international accommodation (including from Australia), none of those indicted for war crimes has ever been brought anywhere near an independent tribunal. No other regime with links to the West has so completely escaped investigation for such serious crimes against humanity. AFP investigators may take the matter further, but they face huge obstacles, given the Yudhoyono Government's hostile reaction so far.
The Suai atrocity, in all costing over 200 lives, occurred only days after the results of the plebiscite were announced in Dili. A recent incident has revived Timorese interest in this incident, despite the urgings of their leaders to put the past behind them. It was the arrest of Maternus Bere, former leader of the Lauksur militia, who now lives in West Timor, but who returned to Suai to attend a wedding. His presence was noticed by a local policeman who arrested him, on the basis of a UN indictment for serious crimes.
The Indonesian reaction was extraordinary. His immediate release was demanded, with dark hints that there could be serious border problems if it was not heeded.
There is a possible explanation for this rather arrogant response. Based on my own investigations into the Suai affair, the militia were mere pawns, their orders coming directly from a TNI colonel then dressed in full uniform, and bearing an M-16 weapon. If Bere were to appear before an East Timorese court, his testimony could be of great embarrassment to TNI. The pressure was eased somewhat when the East Timorese prime minister ordered the release of Bere to the Indonesian embassy in Dili, a move that caused concern in the UN mission.
The rather arrogant and clumsy intervention by Jakarta caused an angry public reaction, and irritation and dismay in the government. The East Timorese Government may have quickly caved in, but the mood in the National Assembly is not so compliant. Jakarta's intervention was particularly hurtful and ill-timed for President Jose Ramos Horta, who had just delivered a very conciliatory address at the 10th anniversary commemoration, urging East Timorese to overlook their past sufferings and to end their campaigns for an international war crimes tribunal.
In the circumstances, why didn't Indonesia act more discreetly? One explanation is that the incident happened at a time when there are increasing calls from Indonesian democrats for a closer look at the TNI's past. Exposure of its command role in East Timor in 1999 would have led to renewed calls for the comprehensive investigation President Wahid's advisers had recommended in early 2000. Also, if Bere were to have appeared before a Timorese court, the leading role of Kopassus might have been exposed, at a time when this force is being rehabilitated as an anti-terrorist agency.
What most Timorese are seeking is Jakarta's full recognition of the war crimes committed and of Indonesia's responsibility. Without serious steps in that direction, reconciliation will be meaningless. A brooding resentment, especially towards the Indonesian military, will continue to lurk in much of Timorese society, where thousands consider themselves victims of crimes against humanity.
As for Australia, we should urge Indonesia to take an honest look at what happened in East Timor between the Balibo and Suai incidents. A recognition of its lessons is an important step in the path to the kind of democracy Indonesians now aspire to. It would also be an important step towards a better enforcement of the UN's vital role in securing implementation of the humanitarian standards the world community has committed itself to.
Photo by Flickr user Nomad Tales, used under a Creative Commons license.
Australia is again proving its friendship with Indonesia in a time of tragedy, underlining why Australia has some rights to speak directly to Indonesia about an old tragedy.
Debate has rumbled through this blog about the interests and morality involved in the Australian Federal Police investigation into the murder of the Balibo Five journalists in East Timor in 1975. Hugh and Stephen offer the realist view that Australia should concentrate on the future of its relations with Indonesia, not the bloody past. The admirable Jim Dunn — unwavering in his energy and his argument for more than three decades — replies that Australia should not 'continue to help Jakarta cover up a brutal chapter in its history.'
Why are we still arguing about the six dead journalists? Partly, they are a link to the larger issues of East Timor and a reminder of a set troubling policy choices adopted by Australia; choices that didn't turn out well. We are talking about the murdered Australians because they are one of the many strands in the conversation we have about what Indonesia means for our future.
The realist argument is that there are still too many questions to make it worthwhile for Australia to pursue legal action. And Indonesia will always cling to the fiction that the five newsmen in Balibo were killed in crossfire as troops advanced during battle. So let's avoid going into that marsh of argument by instead pointing to the sixth journalists to die in East Timor, Roger East.
East was not killed in crossfire or the heat of battle. He was murdered in the full light of day in front of dozens of witnesses. The day after Indonesian soldiers had taken Dili, East was among those marched to the wharf and executed with a bullet to the head.
There has been no coroner's inquest into East's murder. The closest we have come so far is the inquiry set up by the Foreign Minister, Gareth Evans, in 1995 and conducted by the former Australian Government Solicitor and former chairman of the National Crime Authority, Tom Sherman, into the deaths of the Balibo Five and Roger East.
Sherman had two goes at Balibo. In his first report, in 1996, he accepted the Indonesian crossfire line, finding that the Five had been killed on October 16, 1975, 'in circumstances of continuing fighting between the Fretilin and anti-Fretilin forces.'
Asked to have a second go because of the growing weight of evidence undermining that safe finding, Sherman reported again in 1999; this time bringing himself to the point of actually blaming the Indonesian military rather than anti-Fretilin forces. But the Indonesian burning of the five bodies did not necessarily mean the journalists had been murdered, Sherman reasoned. Instead, he found it was a 'charade' to destroy all evidence of a 'monumental blunder.'
The extreme caution of Sherman's judgement on the Five lends weight to the clear finding he had to offer about Roger East:
In contrast to the Balibo incident, the killing of Roger East took place in an urban area with a number of uninvolved persons in close proximity. The quality of the evidence on Roger East's death was much higher. The evidence came from two eyewitnesses, supported by strong circumstantial evidence of the killing from two further witnesses. In relation to Roger East I have concluded that, it is more likely than not, he was summarily executed by an unidentified Indonesian soldier late of the morning of December 8, 1975, in the wharf area of Dili.
In contrast to the Balibo incident, the killing of Roger East took place in an urban area with a number of uninvolved persons in close proximity. The quality of the evidence on Roger East's death was much higher. The evidence came from two eyewitnesses, supported by strong circumstantial evidence of the killing from two further witnesses. In relation to Roger East I have concluded that, it is more likely than not, he was summarily executed by an unidentified Indonesian soldier late of the morning of December 8, 1975, in the wharf area of Dili.
Roger East was dragged kicking and yelling through the streets of Dili. East loudly cursed the Indonesian troops as an Australian bloke would, identifying himself as Australian in every sense. He was taken to the end of the wharf. A bullet was fired into his head and his body was pushed over the edge.
In a strange way, the focus on Balibo has helped the cover-up culture in Jakarta and Canberra. With Balibo, some fig-leaf of doubt could still be waved. The word used could be 'death', not 'murder'. So Gough Whitlam could argue in 1980: 'It is still difficult to have an informed or rational discussion on East Timor in Australia because Australian journalists have been embittered by the death of five of their colleagues at Balibo…'
Once Roger East is added to the frame, the key word can not be passive. East didn't just experience death, he suffered execution. Or to requote Sherman, he was 'summarily executed.' East's fate since 1975 has been that of the forgotten freelancer. His professional testimony is a couple of print stories in fading scrap books, not the moving footage that the crews from Seven and Nine shot around Balibo in their last days.
Suddenly, though, Roger East is no longer faceless. Now he has the face of Anthony LaPaglia, the actor who plays him in the movie 'Balibo'. If Australian culture now perceives Gallipoli through the lens of a Peter Weir movie, something similar might just happen to the way Australians remember the death of six (not five) journalists. If that is what happens to the national conversation about Indonesia, then Roger East will no longer be absent from the national memory. The forget-and-move-on team will have a fresh problem, in some ways more clear-cut and potent than the Balibo Five.
If Australia does decide to pursue the Indonesian military, the murder of Roger East makes the case in its starkest form. East did not die in the midst of battle. He was executed on the orders of the Indonesian military command. That is worth remembering. Is it worth action against Indonesia? Thoughts on that dimension in the next column.
Photo courtesy of the official Balibo film website.
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But as with other news events where objective truth has become buried under years of gossip and rumor, the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman have attracted a fair share of experts who are convinced they've figured out what really happened June 12, 1994. Perhaps that's a consequence of a cultural flashpoint where nobody on either side of the debate got any semblance of closure.
No matter if they're serious journalists or Internet crackpots, all Simpson conspiracy theorists are convinced they can do what a year of courtroom drama could not: Crack the case, once and for all.
Below, the four most popular O.J. Simpson conspiracy theories.
O.J. Didn't Do It – His Son Did
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Dear's evidence is largely circumstantial: Jason Simpson's alleged history of violent mental illness – obtained, Dear's critics say, illegally – as well as holes in Jason's official alibi. His theory has received favorable, or at least not entirely incredulous, coverage from The Independent and the Huffington Post, but former Village Voice editor Tony Ortega says the detective is "full of it": "Dear's timeline for that night is a complete farce ... and his ideas for how O.J. Simpson's blood ended up at the scene are beyond preposterous."
O.J. Didn't Do It – He Hired a Serial Killer to Do It for Him
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The Rogers family claims that Glen called home a few weeks before the murder to say that he was "partying" with Nicole; receipts prove he was working in Los Angeles at the time. They also say that, after being found guilty of the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, Rogers told them he'd been hired by O.J. to steal an expensive pair of earrings from Brown's condo and to kill her if she got in the way.
There are multiple reasons to be skeptical of Rogers's claims. After his arrest, he claimed to have murdered as many as 70 people, a boast he later recanted. And again, the timing doesn't work; according to a contemporary report in the Cincinnati Post, Rogers was serving a six-week jail sentence at the time of the murders.
O.J. Did It – But Only Because He Was Being Mind-Controlled by the Illuminati
Adherents of this theory say that, at the time of the murders, O.J. was being mind-controlled by the Illuminati, who hoped that his trial would ignite a race war in the U.S. If you're thinking this sounds eerily similar to the Manson murders, well, the conspiracy-minded say that that is just more proof they're right.
O.J. Didn't Do It – the Murders Were a Case of Mistaken Identity
In an interview with the Associated Press, Bailey said that he suspects the two men were drug dealers who killed Brown in a case of mistaken identity. He swears that he will go to his grave defending Simpson of the charges against him.
"So long as I am alive," Bailey writes, "there will be one person – aside from Simpson himself – who 'knows' from the evidence that he did not kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman."
Gloria Allred, lawyer for the Goldman family's civil suit against Simpson, took issue with his allegations.
"If Mr. Bailey can't think of anything better than trying to help the public reputation of O.J. Simpson," she told the AP, "that's really sad."
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Harvest results A slow harvest finished at the start of September when the spring beans were finally harvested with results from all crops disappointing. Wheat yields (variety Robigus) were down 17% from last year's 10.4t/ha to 8.64t/ha. This was in line with the national trend. Spring beans (variety Syncro) averaged 2.56t/ha down from 3.1t/ha last year. There were large variations between the fields. At one end of the spectrum 1.23t/ha on the "lapwing field" whilst the highest yields were 3.92t/ha. The oilseed rape averaged 2.4t/ha with overall the minimum tilled fields, or part fields performing slightly better than the broadcast ones. However, this is not the whole story as the overall gross margin for the broadcast are likely to be higher. Although the yields were disappointing the overall profitability of the farm will be at it's highest due to the high wheat pices. This year we sold the majority of the wheat at over £150 per tonne compared to £70 last year.
This years croppingCrops for this year include 78.91 ha winter wheat (Oakley), 43.15 ha oilseed rape (expert) and 31.35 ha spring beans (Syncro). We will be maintaining our set-aside for this coming harvest at approximately 14hectares because of agreed long-term research commitments. The 14 hectares comprises the 6 hectares of non-rotational set-aside in wildbird cover, 6 metre margins and 8 hectares of rotational set-aside which is being used for the yellow wagtail trial.
Winter bird numbersThe first whole farm count of the 2007/08 winter took place in October. Despite some significant changes on the ground, i.e. no long term set-aside, the counts were very high. The total count was 1329 birds, the second highest count recorded, of 41 species (joint highest species richness). However, when 'game' birds such as pheasant and red-legged partridge, and woodpigeon are excluded it is the highest count recorded - 1002 birds. More proof that we are doing something right here. Highlights were: 153 yellowhammers (highest count), 102 skylarks, 70 redwing (highest count) and 53 robins (highest count). One stonechat and three corn buntings were recorded. Skylark numbers have continued to rise since the October count with 170 recorded on the broadcast oilseed rape fields alone in the last few days. Another whole farm count will be completed shortly.
CommunicationsThe farm has had some good exposure over the last few months, featuring on Countryfile and Farming Today. We have also had a short piece in Farmers Weekly featuring our results from this year. Darren Moorcroft gave an excellent presentation about the farm at the RSPB AGM and Chris Bailey has given six local members group talks around the country.
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Talk about dreams come true. The Gulisano family in Morristown is having its home redone from top to bottom this week for an episode of Madhouse Makeover, expected to air this winter on HGTV.
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TOPEKA, Kan. - Jene Kathryne Hillyer Angel, 60, formerly of Warren, passed beyond the veil Nov. 10, 2012, after a yearlong battle with cancer.
She was born Sept. 27, 1952, in Warren, the daughter of Kenneth N. and Carole Ferguson Hillyer.
A graduate of Warren Western Reserve High School, Jene went on to earn her bachelor of arts at California University and her master's at University of Colorado. She taught special education for 20 years and teacher education at Washburn University. She served as the first director of Kansas Families for KIDS, the executive director of Kansas Adoptive and Foster Families and was the safety manager at Goodyear and Amazon.
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Most first time visitors want to see falling water, and DuPont State Forest probably has as much per square mile as any public land in the Southeast. The large falls are on the Little River, but a couple of smaller falls on the Grassy Creek offer variety and perhaps more solitude. This page gives a brief overview of the most popular attractions and destinations in the Forest. Follow the link for more information, including directionsThe two largest and most popular waterfalls are accessed by walking upstream of the popular Hooker Falls parking lot on Staton Road. Triple Falls is about a 7 minute walk upstream, though the main trail is quite steep as you approach the falls.
Bridal Veil Falls is perhaps the most unique falls in the State Forest, with a 4' tall overhanging ledge on the upper section, and a long, shallow whitewater incline along the lower section. Access to Bridal Veil requires a longer hike or ride than other falls.If you are looking for a little cardiovascular excercise, take the "long route" from Old CCC Rd. up to Stone Mountain, the Forest's highest point at 3600 ft. The granite dome offers a 180 degree vista over the Forest during spring, summer, and fall, with nearly 360 degree views during the winter. A shorter route is also available off Sky Valley Road.
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Jason Jones, one of Comedy Central's favorite correspondents from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, inked a deal to star as the lead in a new ABC comedy pilot called How To Be A Better American. The Hollywood Reporter explains the show's premise: "[It] centers on a father (Jones) who embarks on a journey to be a better person and drags his family along kicking and screaming."
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Ebstein malformation
Ebstein's malformation is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly characterized by rotational displacement of the septal and inferior leaflets of the tricuspid valve such that they are hinged within the right ventricle, rather than as expected at the atrioventricular junction.
Prevalence is estimated at 1/50,000-1/200,000. Both sexes are equally affected.
Clinical presentation is heterogeneous and depends on the severity of the lesion (extent of tethering of the antero-superior leaflet across the normal valvar orifice), and the degree of dysfunction of the right ventricle. Patients with minor forms of the disease remain asymptomatic or may present with an incidental murmur, exertional dyspnea, fatigue, or palpitations. Those with severe forms can present at various ages with arrhythmias, cyanosis, and sometimes cardiac failure. Those with the most severe malformations present as neonates, often with so-called ``wall-to-wall'' hearts. During adulthood, supraventricular tachycardia can also be observed, a proportion of patients also having Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (see this term). The malformation is often associated with other cardiac lesions, such as atrial or ventricular septal defects, patency of the arterial duct, and pulmonary stenosis.
Etiology is unknown. In some cases, maternal ingestion of lithium was associated with the disease.
Diagnosis is based on cross-sectional or 3D echocardiography, which reveals the rotational displacement of the leaflets, the extent of abnormal tethering of the antero-superior leaflet, the extent of thinning of the atrialized inlet component of the right ventricle, and the degree of regurgitation or stenosis of the abnormal valve. The electrocardiogram can reveal right atrial hypertrophy, right bundle branch block, and supraventricular tachycardia. Radiography shows any cardiomegaly, and cardiac MRI shows the full extent of the valvar abnormalities.
The major differential diagnosis, particularly during fetal life, is dysplasia of the leaflets of the tricuspid valve. This, as can Ebstein's malformation if associated with pulmonary atresia, can lead to gross thinning of the walls of the right ventricle which should not be confused with Uhl's anomaly (see this term). The severest forms of Ebstein's malformation can produce an imperforate tricuspid valve, which must be distinguished from tricuspid atresia (see this term).
Antenatal diagnosis is now possible with fetal echocardiography that reveals hydrops fetalis.
Medical treatment relies on inotropic agents (in case of cardiac failure) and antiarrhythmic drugs (in case of tachyarrhythmia). Definitive treatment is surgical and consists of reconstructive surgery prior to the onset of cardiac failure. If the valve is too malformed, replacement is the only option.
Asymptomatic patients, and patients with mild forms of the disease, have a normal life expectancy. Patients with severe forms of the disease, particularly those presenting during the fetal period or as neonates, have an increased risk of death due to cardiac failure, including at birth or during physical exercise.
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Baseball Americas offseason update of the New York Yankees top prospects has more elite Charleston influence than any such previous list.
Eight of the players in the Top 10 have played for the RiverDogs of the low Class A South Atlantic League, including five members of Charlestons 2012 team.
Thats not surprising: Charlestons talent was so good last season, many considered the RiverDogs the best-stocked team in minor league baseball.
Right-handed pitcher Ty Hensley, the Yankees first-round draft pick last June, likely will play for the 2013 RiverDogs.
TOP PROSPECTS (Years with RDogs):
1. Mason Williams, CF (2012)
2. Slade Heathcott, OF (2011)
3. Gary Sanchez, C (2011-12)
4. Tyler Austin, OF (2012)
5. Jose Campos, RHP (2012)
6. Brett Marshall, RHP (2009-10)
7. Angelo Gumbs, 2B (2012)
8. Manny Banuelos, LHP (2009)
9. Ty Hensley, RHP (ETA 2013)
10. Rafael DePaula, RHP (ETA 2013)
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AN IMPORTANT PART of the process of psychotherapy is the patient's communication of information about affect to the therapist. It has been shown that there is appreciable agreement among independent observers on differentiation and quantification of affect.1 But the processes by which the therapist becomes aware of the patient's feelings are complex, and not well understood.
A discussion by a group of therapists produced the following list of methods through which they thought they might become aware of a speaker's feelings during family therapy. (Underlying assumptions are that the speaker may be unaware of his affect, and that the dialogue is not usually a direct attempt to communicate affect to the therapist.)
1. The exact meaning of the words indicates the speaker's feelings.
2. Metaphor or other conventionally accepted meaning of the words indicates the feelings.
3. The tone of voice
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The bulk of Stone, the film, is as much a mystery as the mysteries people of faith are challenged with from time to time. Presented in some respect as a lingering con game and equally meditative on man's connection to commit evil deeds, Stone is never what you are expecting it to be while watching it, though it is profoundly seriously about the issues it raises. Instead of a thriller, we're presented with a character study of two men of intersecting beliefs with women whose earthly pleasures in this life directly correlate to what they think might happen in the next. Nearly suffering a mid-life crisis of its own midway through as it sulks itself deeper into material some may describe as Bresson-ian, it never has a crisis of faith and allows three very interesting performances to come shining through the center and plenty to ponder in the end.
Robert DeNiro is Jack Mabry, a prison psychologist in a 43-year marriage to the long-suffering Madylyn (Frances Conroy) - one step removed from being Allison Janney's catatonic mate in American Beauty - who reads her Bible while allowing her husband his daily vices of drink and golf. On the verge of retirement, Jack gets a new case in Gerald Creeson, or "Stone" (Edward Norton) as he prefers to be called. Convicted as an accessory to arson and murdering his grandparents, Gerald is stand-offish about his chances for parole, saying out loud anything that can already be read in his file. There's no sign that Jack cares for this young man one way or another but he'll be damned if he's going to let him dictate how he's going to do his job in these final days.
In their talks, Stone mentions his primary reason for getting freedom and that is his wife, Lucetta (Milla Jovovich). He describes her as being from another world, mostly in the sexual realm, but is not just passing along extreme fancies. Gerald means to entice Jack for an eventual meeting that he has Lucetta eagerly trying to set up on the outside. Continually calling his home and showing up unexpectedly, Jack is not having any of it and appears on to their game. Repression and aggression cannot be sustained forever, though, and as Jack unprofessionally converses with the convict's wife, the convict himself begins to discover spirituality from a book or two as each see their priorities shift in unexpected terms.
The path that Stone leads and the very one that may entice you into the theater follows the promise that it may be another twisty mystery where not everything is as it seems. That is certainly an understatement that Stone can live up to since it is anything but. Where the film may actually stray from its more fascinating path is in allowing the audience to believe that definitive answers to their questions are coming. What would a film about the nature of sin and its judgment be though with such concrete resolutions?
Angus MacLachlan's screenplay, in opposition to the ways of understanding love in his last script, Junebug, confronts the middle ground of evil. Just where does the line begin in the eyes of the wicked and to those that castigate their actions? Gerald loses a decade of his life for being in the vicinity of a double murder and then covering it up. It is when he finally sees blood spilled before his eyes that he is sparked towards a life of wanting to understand his purpose here. Is Jack's evaluation of Gerald or any prisoner in any way tainted by his own misgivings as a human being? A shocking opening prologue does not exactly endear us to Jack. Because we are witness to it with a lot of blanks left to be filled, we are less forgiving to any sort of redemption in store for him while the tide begins to shift on Gerald and his newfound insights into the human condition. Unless, of course, it is just one big con as well.
The truth certainly lies in the three performances that force each actor to practically become different people in every scene due to our perception of them. Norton, no stranger to the effect of prison on characters (Primal Fear, American History X), opens with such a complete original that it's a shame when the story neuters him midway through his religious rebirth. It's a testament to Norton, though, that we can accept that rebirth as genuine where so many other films would choose to keep us on edge as to his sincerity.
It was nice to see DeNiro try to create a center for Everybody's Fine last year. It is doubly interesting to see him not just show up for any 'ol script that winds up on his doorstep these days and attempt to externalize a character with some real demons again. Just exerting his authority over Gerald as he tries to walk out of his office is more genuine passion than we have seen from one of the greats in a while. And yet who would ever imagine the day when DeNiro would be upstaged by Milla Jovovich?
Certainly one of the luckiest actresses thanks to the semi-successful Resident Evil franchise and a couple of convenient marriages, Jovovich has never earned much praise aside from being an object of beauty. In Stone she easily delivers her best performance since her little-seen turn opposite Adrien Brody in the ventriloquist comedy, Dummy. Lucetta is a very tricky character. Aside from confirming our fantasies that our attractive grade school teachers were really freaks at home, Lucetta is a lost little girl who is nevertheless in control of her desires. The way she manipulates Jack over the phone by shifting to whispery tones is sexier than any photo spread Jovovich has ever participated in and is a lynchpin moment for a performance we have to watch very carefully.
John Curran's work on We Don't Live Here Anymore and The Painted Veil has been rather uninspiring, bordering on the tedious. With Stone he has found a script where the overriding ideas trump the pacing and the unpleasantness of its characters. Many may centralize their focus on the showdown between DeNiro and Norton, picking up where they left off as adversaries in 2001's The Score, but the women play just as important a part as opposites. Each with their unwavering views of God are a crucial influence not just in their own behavior but for their significant others to eventually rebel against. And a capper scene between mother and daughter is a notable bookend to answering many of the questions about Jack's involvement as a husband and father in the decades we do not see.
Stone is thrilling for what we're left to ponder afterwards more than any suspense inherit in the interaction during it. The occasional misleading music suggests we might be headed for a powder keg third act where justice and tragedy coalesce. There are answers to be found in Stone, but they may be within our own beliefs and prejudices.


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When it's time to spice up your document, to make it more pleasing to the eye, one great way to do this is with a page background. Now in the next lesson we'll look at watermarks, but before we get there, we're going to look at applying our own background to pages in our document and this can involve applying page colors, borders and even effects like textures. It's fun. So let's give it a try. First of all, we'll need to open up a different document. Click the Office button, then Open and we're open up this one here, job posting 10, so give it a click before you click the Open button.
OK, so if we scroll down looking at this document, not much to it. Very plain and it looks like a job description here for training consultant. OK, let's begin with changing the page color. We're going to go to the Page Layout tab up here on our ribbon and next we're going to go to Page Color. You'll find it over here in the Page Background group. See we've got Watermark, Page Color and Page Borders as well. Page Color has a little drop down arrow. So when we click it, we get to choose from all of these colors we see in the palette.
Now look what happens when we hover over the colors without clicking them - we get that live preview. So as we move through some of these, we eventually find the color that we want and we simply click it. So I'm going to go down here to my standard colors, and that's a little too bright. All of these are pretty bright. And if I realize that maybe the color I'm looking for isn't here, I can come down to More Colors. I click More Colors, notice that I've got the Colors dialog box here.
The Standard tab is selected by default, and now I've got this palette here to choose from. I've also got some gray scales down below. If I go to the Custom tab, you'll see I've got even more to choose from and if I was wanting to be precise with the color, I can actually enter RGB values here, red, green and blue values, to get the exact color I'm looking for. I can also do HSL, Hue, Saturation and Luminance. So I'm going to change this back to our RGB and if I wanted to, I could just come through here.
Well what happens when I click on a color? I see the new selection and I see how it would appear versus the current selection. Well, I'll hit Cancel here, and I'm actually going to go back up now to my Page Color. And I'm going to come down to the Theme Colors here and select one from here, because I've got quite a few shades of the standard colors showing up here in this palette. So let's do a tan background and as we hover over these, you'll see a little quick tip show up.
There's orange and as I move down, you can see, these are various accents of orange. So I'm going to move over here to this third column, Tan, Background 2. And you can see Darker 10% shows up. That's the one I'm looking for. I'm going to give it a click. OK. So already we see some nice change to the look of our document. Now let's play around with some effects. So we're going go back up to the Page Color button, give it a click, but this time we'll go down to Fill Effects. When we click that, you can see we've got a number of tabs.
You've got Gradient and Texture, Pattern and even Picture if we wanted to. From Gradient we can choose from one color, two colors or from presets, if we wanted to. So I'm going to just click on two colors here. You see my first color is my selected color right now, the tan background, and you can see I've got some variants to choose from here. When I click on these, you can see a sample showing up down here in the bottom right-hand corner. I can change the shading style, there's Diagonal, so if I like that one right there and I want to choose a different color to mix with my first color, I can do that too.
And you can see I get some nice effects here. I'm going to selected this and then click OK. So right away, you can see that gradient going right through my document. That's kind of cool. Let's try some textures. Now we'll go back up to the Page Color button, down to Fill Effects, and this time we'll click on Texture. We've got some presets here to choose from, and there's a scrollbar, and it does show you that there's quite a few to choose from here. We've got some wood, some marbley, and we've got some material looking as well.
So this first one here, if I click on it and click OK, it's going to give me a totally different look to my document. Another option is Pattern. So let's go back to Page Color and Fill Effects and this time we'll go to the Pattern tab, and you can see we've got some built-in patterns, stripes, diagonal stripes, checks. And then we can choose two different colors for our foreground and our background. So if we wanted white and black for example, we'd click white for the foreground and then black for the background.
You can see it's much more vibrant that way. I'm not keen on any of these, so I'm just going to click Cancel here. And we're going to look at one more, we're going to look at the Picture section, even though we're going to save that for watermarks in the next lesson. We'll go back up to Page Color, down to Fill Effects and we'll go up to the Picture tab. So here's where we would select a picture that's going to show up in the back of our document, such as the cake logo. So if we are to choose that and click Insert. You see this is what's going to show up and it's going to be enlarged to fill our page.
And when we click OK, look what happens. It's repeated. So I'm not keen on that. It's kind of hard to read any of the text, so I'll go up to my Undo button, and I'm going leave it at this texture. Okay. It's very different than just changing the color. Let's see now what it will look like with a border of some kind. So this time, with Page Layout still selected on our ribbon, we're going to go to Page Borders. Give that a click and you can see we've got Borders, Page Border, which is little bit different, it goes around our entire page, and we got Shading as well, if we wanted to do that.
We'll keep it at Page Border. And you see we've got some different styles to choose from, as we scroll down, some of these double lines have thicker and thinner lines combined. And we get down into some shaded ones as well down here. So I'm going to choose this one here. I see a preview over here on the right hand side. You can see it set to three points. I can increase that by clicking the Width drop-down and change it to six points. It gets going to be applied to the whole document, in this case it's only one.
Look at these settings down here. That's for Box. If I prefer a shadow, I can click Shadow and you can see what's going happen here. It's going to feel like my document's coming off the paper. I've also got 3-D if I wanted to choose that. And it's all based on what I select over here under Style. And I can do my own custom ones. Let's leave it at the 3-D selection here and we'll click OK. All right. So there's our 3-D border. We still have our page background with our texture showing up, but a different color and style of border.
Kind of interesting. So I'm not quite sure that this border suits the style of my document. I'm going to go back up to Page Borders here. This time I'm going to go to Box and try one of these double wavy lines. I'm going to change the width to, well maybe not. We'll leave it at three-quarter points, and the coloring I'm going to change to something that matches my document. I'll go over here and we've got already got beige in there so I'll go to maybe a darker complementing color. When I click OK, there.
That's much more like it. OK, so that's very different. Another similar way to change the look of your documents is with a watermark and we're going to do that one next.


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It's a boy for Maya Rudolph.
The Bridesmaids star, 38, and director Paul Thomas Anderson welcomed their third child, son Jack, on July 3, her rep tells PEOPLE.
Jack – who is home and doing great – joins big sisters Pearl, 5½, and Lucille, 20 months.
While pregnant, Rudolph said she was especially excited to discover the sex of the baby, which she and Anderson chose not to find out prior to the delivery.
"The exciting part is not knowing who's coming," she explained. "You have to wait nine months for a surprise, but then it's a good payoff because it really is a surprise."
Rudolph next appears in Up All Night, premiering this fall on NBC.
Reporting by BLAINE ZUCKERMAN
Maya Rudolph, Paul Thomas Anderson Welcome Son
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
A group of World War II veterans helped provide some local students with insight as to what it was like to fight in World War II.
The fifth grade classes at Marrington Elementary School in Goose Creek recently saluted the brave men and women who fought for the country in World War II, during the school's observance of the war last week.
The week was completed by a visit to the class by six World War II veterans from the Army and Navy. More than 50 students listened to the stories of the war from men who had actually been there and asked their many questions of how it was living during this era of American and world history.
The students' questions ranged from "Were you afraid?" to "What was it like to be black and serve in the Navy aboard submarines?"
Four of the veterans were members of the United States Submarine Service.
Willie Jones, SD1(SS) Steward, served from 1943-1946 and qualified in submarine aboard the USS Sennet SS-408 in 1943. Jones also served on the USS Cod, SS-224 and USS Blower, SS-325.
Lee Allison, CS2 (SS), Cook, served from 1944-1951 and is current Commander of the South Carolina WWII Submarine Veterans. Allison served aboard the USS Grouper, SS/SSK/AGSS-214 and qualified in submarines in 1945.
Stacy Power. CSCM (SS), Cook, served from 1943-1969. Power served aboard surface ships during WWII and qualified in submarines on the USS Grenadier SS-525 in 1951. He also served on the USS Sablo SS-302, Greenfish SS-351, and the USS Sam Rayburn SSBN-635.
John Hill, HMCS(SS) Corpsman, served from 1941-1970 and qualified in submarines aboard the USS S-38 in 943. Hill also served on the USS Atule SS-403, USS Bugara SS-331, USS Chivo SS-341 and the USS Trumpetfish SS-425. He also served aboard the USS Tangier AV-8 early in WWII.
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