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Last month an anonymous street artist in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia transformed a Soviet-era war monument into a team of American pop culture icons, including Superman, Captain America, and the Joker. While the creative gesture received an outpouring of praise from the public, government officials did not appreciate it. The statues have apparently been a frequent target of graffiti artists, especially since many Bulgarians resent the monument as a reminder of Soviet oppression.
The army monument — which was quickly cleaned up after its colorful makeover — may soon have a new home in Bulgaria's planned Museum of Totalitarian Art, which culture minister Vezhdi Rashidov expects to inaugurate in September, according to the Sofia News Agency, which reported that "if the Soviet army monument in Sofia is dismantled and removed, it will…be placed there."
What else will fill the museum's over 80,000-square-foot space? The work of Communist-era artists such as Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Nayden Petkov, Ilya Petrov, and Boris Gondov. "A new generation will emerge," Rashidov said, "young and pure, which must not be deprived of the history and heritage of its people." The culture ministry has allotted three million Bulgarian lev ($2.2 million) for the renovation of the building that will house the museum.
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Giuseppe Rengo
Affiliation: Federico II University
Country: Italy
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- GRK2 blockade with βARKct is essential for cardiac β2-adrenergic receptor signaling towards increased contractilityNorma C Salazar
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Laboratory for the Study of Neurohormonal Control of the Circulation, Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328, USA
Cell Commun Signal 11:64. 2013..We tested the effects of cardiac-targeted GRK2 inhibition in vivo exclusively on β2AR signaling under normal conditions and in heart failure (HF)...
- Oral anticoagulation therapy in heart failure patients in sinus rhythm: a systematic review and meta-analysisGiuseppe Rengo
Division of Cardiology, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS Scientific Institute of Telese Terme, Benevento, Italy
PLoS ONE 8:e52952. 2013..Anticoagulation reduces embolic event and death rates in HF patients with atrial fibrillation, but if antithrombotic therapy is beneficial in patients with HF in sinus rhythm is still debated...
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Cardiology Division, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Telese Terme BN, Italy
Br J Pharmacol 166:2430-40. 2012..Here, we sought to investigate if β-blocker treatment in HF could lower SNS activation by directly altering adrenal GRK2 levels...
- [From bench to bedside: new insights into the treatment of heart failure]Giuseppe Rengo
Dipartimento di Cardiologia, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Telese Terme
G Ital Cardiol (Rome) 13:254-62. 2012..These observations stress the need for the generation of new therapeutic molecules able to target specific signaling pathways which might result in innovative therapies for cardiovascular disease...
- Adrenal GRK2 lowering is an underlying mechanism for the beneficial sympathetic effects of exercise training in heart failureGiuseppe Rengo
Cardiology Division, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Via Bagni Vecchi, 1 82037 Telese Terme, Italy
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 298:H2032-8. 2010....
- Changes of plasma norepinephrine and serum N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide after exercise training predict survival in patients with heart failureGiuseppe Rengo
Division of Cardiology, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Scientific Institute of Telese Terme BN, Italy Division of Geriatrics, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Int J Cardiol 171:384-9. 2014..In this study, we evaluate whether changes in plasma Norepinephrine (NE) and serum N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) after exercise training predict cardiac mortality in HF patients...
- Impact of diabetes mellitus on lymphocyte GRK2 protein levels in patients with heart failureGiuseppe Rengo
IRCCS, Scientific Institute of Telese Terme BN, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, Telese Terme, Italy
Eur J Clin Invest 45:187-95. 2015..Moreover, HF-related GRK2 protein overexpression promotes insulin resistance by interfering with insulin signalling. The aim of this study was to assess lymphocyte GRK2 protein levels in HF patients with and without DM...
- Reduction of lymphocyte G protein-coupled receptor kinase-2 (GRK2) after exercise training predicts survival in patients with heart failureGiuseppe Rengo
Fondazione S Maugeri, Istituto di Telese, Benevento, Italy
Eur J Prev Cardiol 21:4-11. 2014..In the present study, we evaluated whether lymphocyte GRK2 levels and short-term changes of this kinase after an exercise training programme can predict long-term survival in HF patients...
- Instruments for geriatric assessment: new multidimensional assessment approachesFranco Rengo
Salvatore Maugeri Foundation IRCCS Institute of Telese Terme, Benevento, Italy
J Nephrol 25:S73-8. 2012..Interestingly, some of these, such as the Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI), proved to play a relevant role in mortality risk stratification even in particular clinical settings such as chronic kidney disease...
- Impact of an Innovative Educational Strategy on Medication Appropriate Use and Length of Stay in Elderly PatientsGraziamaria Corbi
From Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy GC, GP Centro Medicina dell Invecchiamento, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy GG, RB Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, UK GP Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Baronissi SA, Italy GR, VC, AF Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy GR, DL, NF and Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Scientific Institute of Telese, Telese Terme BN, Italy GR, NF
Medicine (Baltimore) 94:e918. 2015..To evaluate the impact of an educational strategy on potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and length of stay in hospitalized elderly patients...
- β1-adrenergic receptor and sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1PR1) reciprocal downregulation influences cardiac hypertrophic response and progression to heart failure: protective role of S1PR1 cardiac gene therapyAlessandro Cannavo
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Translational Medical Sciences A C, G R, D L, G P, N F, D L, Department of Pediatrics and European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Diseases M V B, and Division of Cardiology, Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences M C D A, R P, E D P, P C, B T, A R, Federico II University, Naples, Italy Center of Translational Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA A C, J E R, W J K Division of Cardiology, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Scientific Institute of Telese Terme BN, Italy G R, C Z, N F and the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom T M P
Circulation 128:1612-22. 2013....
- Prothymosin alpha protects cardiomyocytes against ischemia-induced apoptosis via preservation of Akt activationAlessandro Cannavo
Division of Cardiology, Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Via Pansini, 5, 80131, Naples, Italy
Apoptosis 18:1252-61. 2013..The present study provides for the first time the demonstration that PTα offers cardioprotection against ischemic injury by an Akt-dependent mechanism. ..
- Hypermagnesemia predicts mortality in elderly with congestive heart disease: relationship with laxative and antacid useGraziamaria Corbi
Rehabilitative Cardiology Unit of S Maugeri Foundation, Scientific Institute of Telese Campoli, IRCCS, Telese Terme, Italy
Rejuvenation Res 11:129-38. 2008..The shown relationship between hypermagnesemia and laxative/antacid use should induce physicians to pay more attention to abuse of these drugs...
- Determinants of left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with recent diagnosis of essential hypertensionFrancesco Buono
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J Hypertens 32:166-73. 2014..Development of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a multifactorial phenomenon. We retrospectively assessed the risk factors for LVH in patients with recent diagnosis of essential hypertension...


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Lemony Turkey Breast Recipe
Lemon and a hint of garlic add a lovely touch to these moist slices of slow-cooked turkey breast. I usually serve the gravy over a combination of white and brown rice, along with broccoli for a healthy meal. —Lynn Laux of Ballwin, Missouri
- 1 bone-in turkey breast (5 to 6 pounds)
- Cooking spray
- 1 medium lemon, halved
- 1 teaspoon salt-free lemon-pepper seasoning
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 4 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/2 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1. Remove skin from turkey. Pat turkey dry with paper towels; spray with cooking spray. Place breast side up in a 5-qt. slow cooker. Squeeze half of the lemon over turkey; sprinkle with lemon pepper and garlic salt. Place lemon halves under turkey.
- 2. Cover and cook on low until meat is tender, 5-7 hours. Remove turkey and keep warm. Discard lemon.
- 3. For gravy, pour cooking liquid into a measuring cup; skim fat. In a saucepan, combine cornstarch and broth until smooth. Gradually stir in cooking liquid. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with turkey. Yield: 14 servings.
Nutritional Facts
4 ounce-weight: 154 calories, 1g fat (0 saturated fat), 92mg cholesterol, 149mg sodium, 1g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 34g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 4 lean meat.
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David Mathenge – Nameless Biography and Profile
David Mathenge (born August 1976), better known by his stage name Nameless, is a Kenyan pop artist signed to the Ogopa DJ's record label.He is also an architect and graduated from the University of Nairobi.
David Mathenge – Nameless Songs
He rose to fame in 1999 through a star-search contest on Kenya's urban music station 98.4 Capital FM, which he won with his original song "Megarider." The song was about a penniless young man who is trying to seduce a woman but only has enough money for Kenya Bus tickets, and not the rich lifestyle she desires.
He later recorded the track with producer Tedd Josiah and it went on to be hot on the charts for weeks. This was the turning point in his musical career. He went on to sign with the Ogopa DJ's label in 2001 and collaborated with artists such as the late E-Sir on "Boomba Train," and Amani on the regional hit "Ninanoki" in 2002 which broke Kenyan chart records by remaining 110 days at number one.
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Get A Grip by Amy Bucheger
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Everyone's so happy in your comics, Amy. An introvert such as me wouldn't know what to do around them.
It's kind of scary, isn't it? I'm not very good at drawing…especially facial expressions. The hostess is supposed to have a panic like expression. I had to shrink the panels to fit so it's kind of hard to see my full-fail attempt. Part 2 is going to be a challenge. Horrified and shocked expressions on some…
I may horrify and shock you with this admission. But when working the graveyard shift in an all male manufacturing plant the ladies room was always empty and clean, what a relief that was when nature calls, or shouts, or demands!
Oh no you didn't!! LOL! I've used the mens room on occasion when my bladder controls me. Have you ever noticed that the ladies room lines are always longer than the mens room? That's the only time I have penis envy…
Amy, to your credit, you draw doors and environments. My people just exist in front of empty screens.
Are you allowed to draw a toilet in a cartoon?
BTW, we were at a Red Sox game once at Fenway stadium and my wife had to use the lady's room. When she got back, she said it was the worst restroom she had ever been in and had a really long line. I asked her how it compared to other public lady's rooms she had used and she said that actually they were all about the same. She asked me about the men's room and I said it was fine just like all the other public men's rooms I had ever used. She then wondered why the men's rooms were OK and the lady's rooms sucked.
In order to explain, I had to reveal the great secret of lady's rooms to her: LADY'S ROOMS ARE DESIGNED BY MEN!!
The toilet police haven't pulled me over, yet. I'll let you know if they do. As for the great secret of the lady's room… that's hilarious and so true!!!
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Description: Norton Farmhouse
Grade: II
Date Listed: 20 September 1984
English Heritage Building ID: 297674
OS Grid Reference: SU9278906504
OS Grid Coordinates: 492789, 106504
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Books for gift giving: Children's picks from Boswell Book Company
On Nov. 25, we're publishing our suggested 100 Books for Holiday Gift Giving list in the Journal Sentinel's Sunday Cue section and at TapMilwaukee.com, with recommendations in a variety of styles, tones, genres and topics.
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When it comes to spring, one color scheme is pretty prominent: pastels. Like 'em or not, they are everywhere once the weather turns warm enough to emerge without 18 layers and no exposed skin. Looks like our favorite pinners were feeling the pastel spirit this week, providing us with 10 great reasons to embrace that pretty, washed-out palette.
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Having an agreed set of Key Evaluation Questions (KEQs) makes it easier to decide what data to collect, how to analyze it, and how to report it.
Sometimes the KEQs are already prescribed by an evaluation system or a previously developed evaluation framework. Usually they need to be developed and agreed on at the beginning of evaluation planning.
Key Evaluation Questions are derived from the purpose(s) of the evaluation.
Try not to have too many Key Evaluation Questions - a maximum of 5-7 main questions will be sufficient. It might also be useful to have some more specific questions under the KEQs.
The following information has been taken from the New South Wales Government, Department of Premier and Cabinet Evaluation Toolkit, which BetterEvaluation helped to develop.
A program evaluation should focus on only a small set of key questions. These are not questions that are asked in an interview or questionnaire but high level research questions that will be answered by combining data from several sources.
Here are some typical key evaluation questions for the 3 main types of evaluation:
Key evaluation questions for the main types of evaluation
|Typical key evaluation questions
|Process evaluation
|How is the program being implemented? How appropriate are the processes compared with quality standards? Is the program being implemented correctly? Are participants being reached as intended? How satisfied are program clients? For which clients? What has been done in an innovative way?
|Outcome evaluation (or impact evaluation)
|How well did the program work? Did the program produce the intended outcomes in the short, medium and long term? For whom, in what ways and in what circumstances? What unintended outcomes (positive and negative) were produced?
To what extent can changes be attributed to the program? What were the particular features of the program and context that made a difference? What was the influence of other factors?
|Economic evaluation (cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis)
|What is the most cost-effective option? Has the intervention been cost-effective (compared to alternatives)? Is the program the best use of resources?
What has been the ratio of costs to benefits?
Appropriateness, effectiveness and efficiency
Three broad categories of key evaluation questions to assess whether the program is appropriate, effective and efficient are often used.
Organising key evaluation questions under these categories, allows an assessment of the degree to which a particular program in particular circumstances is appropriate, effective and efficient. Suitable questions under these categories will vary with the different types of evaluation (process, outcome or economic).
|Typical key evaluation questions
|To what extent does the program address an identified need?How well does the program align with government and agency priorities?
Does the program represent a legitimate role for government?
|To what extent is the program achieving the intended outcomes, in the short, medium and long term?To what extent is the program producing worthwhile results (outputs, outcomes) and/or meeting each of its objectives.
|Do the outcomes of the program represent value for money?To what extent is the relationship between inputs and outputs timely, cost-effective and to expected standards?
While you can use different processes to develop evaluation questions, these should emerge as you consider the different activities associated with this step (the purpose of the evaluation, the type of evaluation, stakeholder interests, and preliminary assessments). There may be formal and at times general evaluation questions that need to be addressed where evaluations are mandated in legislation or arrangements such as National Partnership Agreements.
To clarify the purpose and objectives of an evaluation, there should be a limited number of higher order evaluation questions (roughly 3 to 5 questions) with sub-questions underneath each higher-order question. The higher-order questions can be grouped under the categories of appropriateness, effectiveness and efficiency.
A way to test the validity and scope of evaluation questions is to ask: when the evaluation has answered these questions, have we met the full purpose of the evaluation?
- A Practical Guide for Engaging Stakeholders in Developing Evaluation Questions: provides a detailed, step by step guide to engaging stakeholders in the development of evaluation questions. (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- Looking Back, Moving Forward: SIDA Evaluation Manual: provides a step-by-step guide to formulating evaluation questions. (p 70 - 72, SIDA)
- Evaluation questions: provides a comprehensive guide to the use of evaluation questions. (EuropeAid)
- Stakeholders' Interest in Potential Evaluation Questions: provides a template for developing evaluation questions which engage stakeholders' interest in the process. (National Science Foundation).
- Prioritize and Eliminate Questions: provides a template which allows the organisation and selection of possible evaluation questions. (National Science Foundation).
- Evaluation at country level: provides a range of example evaluation questions for country level evaluations. (EuropeAid)
- Evaluation at regional level: provides a range of example evaluation questions for regional level evaluations. (EuropeAid)
- Sector or thematic global evaluation: provides a range of example evaluation questions for sector or thematic global evaluations. (EuropeAid)
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My Takeaways From The Book One Word That Will Change Your Life
Goals by nature are complex. At least that's how I see them. As they segue to an action plan to achieve them, they must be clear and not too wordy, yet not vague or they will lose their meaning. Often times goals are "boiled-down" to a phrase or even one word for marketing and promotional purposes as a simple rally cry to those who are a stakeholder to these goals.
In the book One Word That Will Change Your Life by Jon Gordon, Dan Britton and Jimmy Page (not the guitarist), they propose you simply have 1 word as an overall goal for yourself for a year. They present a rather simplistic yet thoughtful process by looking inward, opening yourself up to discovering the word, then applying it to your year.
As I read this several takeaways came to me, including:
- You need to find a process that works for you – The steps in this book may work for you, and also they may not. Sometimes it takes a book like this to help you though such a process.
- Divine intervention is not for everyone – The book is based on faith in God in order to open one's self to "receive" their word for the year. This may be a turn-off for some, perhaps those who do not believe in a supreme deity. That being said, if you are a spiritual person, you can still follow this process without acknowledging a god to open up and find your word.
- Maybe simple is all you need? – If you are typically someone who does not set goals, or are someone who belabors the process to do so, following a simple process in this short book may be exactly what you need.
As simple as the concept is for One Word, the book is as short. It was written to be read in less than an hour, and tells a good story on how the concept was formed, how it works and how it has been used by others. One Word was another book I owned and found when I moved – note there are more to come! I don't recall the inspiration for getting it, but my guess it was its process meaning around goal-setting.
So I set a phrase and not a word
As I started 2015, I thought about this book that I had read a while back and decided to open up and see if I could come to a word to guide me through the year. As I reflected on where I was and what I was doing, what came to me was not 1 word but 3, and after trying to come up with a good 1 word for the 3, I decided to stick with the 3 – mix it up. As I am creeping up to my sixth decade on this planet, I often find myself getting a little stodgy and repetitive. I could be going to the same stores or reading the same blogs and sites or simply doing the same thing. Why not mix it up, expose myself to new things, foods, places, people, even if the change is slight. This way, I am making small, incremental changes in my life, which won't seem as obvious while in the process.
For myself, I will use the hashtag #mixitup to mark things new and different for me.
As always, I welcome your thoughts on the concept of One Word and the book itself. Have your goals so far this year been a challenge and you're looking for something new? Or have you followed One Word and chose your own? Please share in the comments to this post.
This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.
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My Guest Post On The CorporateStays.com Blog
I was recently invited to write a guest post on the blog for CorporateStays.com, a service which matches luxury accommodations for travelers in select cities in the world like Montreal, Miami and Panama City. Digging into my experience with travel, I decided to write about tips for traveling in the winter months. My post, Travel Tips for Travelling to a Wintery Destination, is now live.
Where my typical writing is about business and technology, I file this under the "occasional diversion" I refer to in the description of The Hot Iron. The more I write, the more these come to mind, and the more these may be available to read by you and others.
Thanks to my good friend CT Moore and the staff at CorporateStays.com for the opportunity to write this.
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Mixing It Up In 2015 And The Hot Iron Turns 8
Happy 2015! As today, the second day of January, officially marks the first business day of the year, and by now most have recovered from the merriment of New Year's Eve, I would like to wish you all a great new year.
Where rolling to a new calendar also comes with resolutions, mine is simply to mix it up in 2015. I started the new year off much differently than I did in past years: sans kids, just me and my lovely wife at a Spanish restaurant, where just about every year that I can remember has involved Chinese food (a Boston tradition) and the past several years have been with our kids, even if they were sleeping in the next room. This was a fun change, and a great way to ring in 2015.
So in mixing it up in 2015, I am not looking to make major strategy changes, but smaller, incremental changes that I see as adding up to something bigger and better. Maybe I take a different route to go someplace, or a different approach to reaching out to someone, or simply wear a different color socks on occasion – I am hoping to stop and think when I get into doing something routine or that comes too natural to me, and think how to change it in some way.
The Hot Iron at 8
December 30 marks the official anniversary of the launch of this little blog which is now 8 years old. It's almost wild to think I have been at this, at varying degrees, this long. Writing is something I have enjoyed more and more over time, and it has been both a creative outlet as well as a way to vent some of my frustrations over business and technology – the overarching theme of this repository. Whether this is your first time reading or you are a long time subscriber – thank you!
I have written an anniversary post of mixed sorts over the years, and if you're so inclined you can read them for the following anniversaries of The Hot Iron: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh.
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My Worst Managers Never Took Me To Lunch
When I look back across my career at the variety of managers I have had, there is a broad spectrum of them from amazing to horrible and everything in between. As I was recently thinking of those I considered the "worst" – those whom I had a poor experience working with – a common denominator came to light that I feel is central to why things did not work out well.
They never took me to lunch.
More Than A Meal
Don't get me wrong, I am not just looking for a free meal, nor do I think these people are cheap in any way. Frugality with a corporate spending account has come up in dealings with past managers, and for me it is near the bottom of the list.
The fact these managers did not take me to lunch goes well beyond the meal itself and its cost. It has to do with the overall action itself – getting out of the office, a 1-on-1 meeting in a different setting and the discovery and insight about each other that comes with the conversation over the meal. Or in short – the manager getting to know me better, and me getting to know the manager better. This deeper knowledge about a person is important for a working relationship, going beyond the surface and skillsets to truly get the most of that person, and ensure they are happy and satisfied in the work environment.
Meals Alone Don't Make A Manager
Where I feel that the invitation and act of taking someone to lunch is important in a working relationship, it is not the defining moment for a manager if they do so. In all honesty, most all of the managers I have had in all my years have broken bread with me, some at least once and others on a regular basis. And those managers would be represented across the above-mentioned spectrum. Even those whom I would rank along the lower end of that spectrum, I feel by having had a meal with them, and getting to know them as more than what was written on their business card, outranks those few who did not take this time or see it as important.
My Own Experience With Meal Invites
Where I have been talking about being on the receiving end of a meal invite from a manager, in my own role as a manager over the years I have taken many people to breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee, snack or food in some capacity outside of the office and away from the grind to have a conversation. Call it the Italian-American in me, or just call it effective, but this opportunity to further connect with a team member or colleague is a very important part of how I have been successful throughout my career.
Here's a couple of ways I have integrated lunch and my teams.
Re-energizing After Being Dazed And Confused
It was one of those meeting where you sit there and wonder, with all of this brain power, could we possibly cure cancer? But alas in the end really nothing was accomplished other than puzzled looks on everyone's faces and bad tastes in everyone's mouths.
I was asked to come to an "emergency" meeting and to bring my developers and even my graphic designer. As the manager of the front-end design and development team part of my job was to be the conduit between my team and senior leadership, who called the meeting and the people who did the great things to make our application a reality. In short, I would shield them from the insanity of such meetings. However the requesters pulled rank - literally - and demanded all of us in the meeting.
To make a long story - and long meeting - short, we all didn't need all of the king's horses and all of the kings subjects to be in the meeting, and after an hour or so we all staggered out of the meeting room with the above mentioned looks and tastes.
Once we all collected in the lobby I decided the team needed to be rewarded for enduring this, so I told them that I would be taking them to lunch. The meal would be on the company, but only if we did not talk about work; if anyone brought up work they would have to pay for their own meal. Needless to say everyone agreed. As we walked back from the restaurant, I realize that we had bonded even deeper as a team than we had before and learned a lot about each other's backgrounds and beliefs, and I feel it had a great impact on our teamwork going forward.
Not When But When I Want To
After joining a start-up company and signing my life away (and possibly my future first born) I was then given our business plan our operating guides, policies and procedures. Reading through all of it I noticed there was no mention about specific business expenses, namely meals. I raised this with our HR director who told me to talk with our CFO, and my conversation with him went something like this:
Me: "Hi Homer (not his real name), what is the policy on expensing meals?"
CFO: "Um, who are you taking to lunch?"
Me: "Members of my team, and others in the company?"
CFO: "Um, when?"
Me: "Whenever I want to!"
CFO: "Um…"
At that point I talked with the company president, whom I had interviewed and talked with extensively during the onboarding process to the company, and he knew my leadership philosophy and told me to take whomever, whenever, and to expense it. These meals, sometimes, at the local mall food court, sometimes at a sit-down restaurant, were integral to me getting to know the team I inherited at the start-up, who they were, what motivated them, and importantly issues they had within the company. Although I was only with the start-up for 6 months and 5 days (a story for another time!), it was a productive time and I got some great things out of our team.
More Than A Skillset
If you read other posts here at The Hot Iron you will see I talk quite a bit about managing and leading people, and it involves a deeper knowledge of who they are, in addition to what they do. Frankly, it just works for me – always has, and I believe it will in the future. Some have labeled my approach as "touchy-feely" and so be it – we all have our styles, and in the end it's up to the person as to whom they want to work for. Needless to say, I am not looking to work again with those past managers who didn't take me to lunch.
I welcome your thoughts and comments on my approach in the comments to this post. Has meetings over meals worked for you or not? Do you see it as a way to deepen a working relationship, or just fill your belly?
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What I Learned From Writing What I Learned This Past Year
Earlier this year I decided to write weekly posts here at The Hot Iron about what I learned over the past 7 days. Over 8 months I wrote 32 posts sharing numerous things that I learned. I wrote the last one on August 29, 2014, which will be my last in this series.
Fun for me while it lasted
The catalyst for this topic thread was simple - I had too many things I learned and/or wanted to write about but not enough time to write the posts. As much as I would like to simply "bang out" my thoughts on the keyboard, for me the writing process is more elaborate than that, from the thought on the topic to writing, to editing, to an accompanying photo… it takes me time. That being said, writing is something I enjoy and is a great creative outlet for me.
Writing posts that were more of a collection of nuggets of information was a good idea at first and something that interested me. I was also hoping to write single-topic pieces as well. Over time though the thrill waned and then it got to where I was not writing one every week, then the most recent gap of a couple of months. As for those single-topic pieces, they were few and far between.
Back to where it began
I've decided to retire this thread and return to writing as I gave before - posts on single topics on business and technology and other occasional diversions. For those of you who are my loyal readers I thank you and I hope that you'll enjoy this change as well. As always, I will never fully promise any number of posts, but am hoping to at least write one a week.
Still learning
As I still get disappointed when a day goes by when I don't learn something, I am still logging those thoughts and will be sharing them on my Twitter account – you can follow me there at @thehotiron. Of course there may be more diversions than in the blog itself, as well as more conversations and other thoughts but I still share all the business and tech news with my unbiased opinion as much as possible.
I hope you won't miss my "learned" posts – or will you? Please let me know either way in the comments to this post.
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Quick Poll – What Is The Work You Do Really To You?
Is the work you do a vocation, career or simply a job?
This is the question I am asking in this quick poll. As I am reading the book 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal by Dan Miller, this question is the activity of day 6 of the 48, where one is supposed to discuss this with 2 people about what they do for work and if it is a vocation or their calling, part of the progression of their career path or if it is merely a job where they are collecting a paycheck.
I have decided to go wide with this query and am asking all readers of this post to answer this poll. In addition, I am interested in the discussion of why you made your selection and welcome your thoughts in the comments to this post. As the comments are moderated, you may respond anonymously, and providing you are not spamming the comments with ads for knock-off merchandise, I will post them.
Thank you in advance, and I am eager to see your votes as well as your comments as to if what you do for work is a vocation, career or job.
Please make your selection below - if you cannot see the poll question please answer the poll here.
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My Takeaways From The Book Who Moved My Cheese?
I was aware of the book Who Moved My Cheese? for some time, yet I had no idea what the story was about. When I found the book after moving, I decided to take it and give it a read. It was a short book yet it was packed with a powerful message to me.
Written by Dr. Spencer Johnson, the co-author of The One Minute Manager (yet another book I have not read, but I digress) Who Moved My Cheese? is a story of people telling the story and discussing "who moved my cheese?" and what they took away from it. When you read the story it's hard not to put yourself into the characters of the story, whether it's those who are hearing the story or those who are in the story "who moved my cheese?" Interestingly, the discussion of the story takes place in Chicago.
After putting down the book, my takeaways were very obvious to me.
- Everything is in constant change – whether we realize it or not, things are always changing. This may be obvious for some things but for many things in our lives it probably isn't as obvious as others, yet we need to be aware of all change.
- Laugh at yourself – This is something I have always felt that I was really good at, but it's something that when you go down a certain path you may forget to do. By stepping back and taking yourself out of the situation, it will help you see things much clearer and allow you the opportunity to laugh at it a little bit.
- Be the "haw" – The character "Haw" in the story Who Moved My Cheese? is the hero, the one who decided to move on when things were bad. His line in the story about what you would do if you weren't afraid is something to take to heart.
- It's never too late to change – Even if things are very bad and you don't think there's an opportunity to change, there is a choice to make to remain where you are or get out and move on.
Granted this isn't the only book that has ever been written about picking up and moving on, but I think it tells it in a way that it realizes the struggles people have with just doing that and spells it out in a way that makes it easier for you to relate to it.
At 96 pages, Who Moved My Cheese? is an extremely quick read and I read it in about an hour. Though the book was originally published in 1998, it is a timeless story and very relevant today for what I'm doing and what other people I know are doing. I highly recommend you pick up a copy of the book. As I am done reading it, if you would like my copy please let me know and I'll share it with you.
I welcome your thoughts on the book Who Moved My Cheese? in the comments of this post. Was it a good story for you, or a silly read, or something else?
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The Work Project I Never Politically Worked On
Ah, company politics. They can be anything from mildly amusing to wrenchingly painful. In any case, they are at a minimum something you shake your head at. Unfortunately there are politics of some form in every work place and it really depends on the people involved as to how bad the politics can be.
The following story is one of company politics that to this day I still shake my head and laugh at. However at the time I admit I was pretty pissed off about it. It is a true story – one that I went through myself about a dozen years ago. The names of people in the company of all been changed to protect the innocent or feeble.
I was working in internal IT for a software company supporting the software and hardware for its public Web site and Intranet. Along came a major project where the company was going to implement PeopleSoft, an enterprise resource management or ERM system. As a result, everyone in IT was supposed to be working on the PeopleSoft project and not on anything else, including the work I was doing on our Web site and Intranet. Of course reality is always something different, as there was nobody else to technically support either of those projects, and I continued to support both.
One day I got a call about a major project the company was undertaking. It was going to go through a significant rebranding effort, keeping the same logo but rebranding all products and services including a new Web site. Although we had plenty of technical people in the company, I was the person to work on the new Web site as I knew it best, from the marketing team to the infrastructure to code behind it. The call had come from the marketing manager whom I had worked with since I've been there supporting the Web site. I then told her what the new "situation" was in IT, where I was not supposed to be supporting the current Web site, let alone build a new one. Needless to say this didn't make any sense to her, but she understood well how the company politics was, especially in IT.
Next up for her was to raise the "situation" up through her management, which then brought it up to the IT management and then came back down to me. I got a call from my manager who told me that after all I was supposed to work on the new Web site. But there was only one stipulation: I wasn't politically supposed to be working on this project therefore I wasn't supposed to tell anyone about it. So technically I was wasn't working on the project, even though it was going to take most all of my time for the next several months.
Makes perfect sense right? I didn't think so.
Despite the insanity of the "situation" I had a job to do. A lot of work went into building the Web site, but it was something enjoyed doing very much and it didn't seem like a job at all. I was working very closely with our marketing manager, where I was located in Boston and she was in Vermont. Throughout the entire project we never actually saw each other, but despite that we were extremely successful at what we built.
In addition to building the Web site, I was also responsible for registering and acquiring new domain names for our rebranded products and services. As this was a publicly traded company, the rebranding was very secretive and very few people knew what the new product names were to be. But I was one of them. So that's a lot of faith and confidence in the guy that's not officially working on the project.
Overall the project was a success and we launched the new Web site on the day the company launched the rebranding. A lot of hard work and long hours went into it, and where we were very relieved when it was over, there was a lot of pride in the work we did. About a week after the rebranding, an email came out from the president of the company thanking individually all the people who worked on the rebranding. That is, all except for me. Of course this made complete sense because the president wasn't told I worked on the project because for political reasons I wasn't working on the project as nobody from IT was supposed to be working on anything else but the PeopleSoft project.
No sooner did the email come out from the president, I got a call from the marketing manager who was completely shocked that I was left off the list. I have to admit I was slightly irate I didn't get official recognition, but I knew the "situation" and took it for what it was. At least my immediate colleagues knew I worked on the project and I got kudos from them. Where I did not get credit from the president, I knew what I did and was just as proud as I was before the email came out.
Several weeks later we had an all-hands meeting for the IT organization. As I wasn't really in the mood for going to listen to this meeting in person, I decided just to dial into it from my desk. At the conclusion of the meeting the chief information officer, or CIO, brought up the rebranding project and even singled me out for the work that I did on it. What? Public recognition from the guy who had decided I technically didn't work on the project and made sure that I didn't get credit for it from the president of the company? Needless to say I was mildly irate and may have even made a gesture at the phone as I was listening to this. Interestingly, the CIO himself never personally thanked me for the work that I did on the Web site, and knowing how he operated even his public acknowledgment was very halfhearted.
It's one thing going into a consulting project or a contract knowing that for proprietary reasons you can't reference you worked on a project. When it comes to political reasons for not working on a project, they typically make absolutely no sense and are more to cover for someone than anything else. This was the case here, in a company with plenty of resources and a "leader" who would not acknowledge a significant company effort in order to keep to his marching orders that all-hands would be working on the ERM initiative. Of course by that statement alone there is no leadership shown.
Have you ever been in a similar situation? How would you have reacted if it was you? I welcome your thoughts in the comments to this post.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Fall Is The Best Season
Happy Fall! Or at least the first weekend of it.
Fall, also known as Autumn, is my favorite season. Why? Here's my top 10 reasons.
10. Summer is wicked overrated. There is too much pressure to have your fun and vacation in the summer, when there is just as much to and plenty of time to do it in the fall.
9. Everything is cheaper in the fall, from hotel rooms to gas, as demand is higher in the summer due to the reason above. For what it would cost you to do what you do in the summer, you can do more – and more of it – for less in the fall.
8. It's a lot cooler in the fall than in the summer. Walking from your front door to the car won't cause you to sweat profusely. It's a great season to get outside and have a nice cool breeze going for you.
7. Fall colors are amazing. Growing up in New England, for me a short drive to the shopping mall gave me an amazing view of some of the best foliage in the world. Not to forget the fall colors you wear are equally striking.
6. Crunching leaves make for a great sound.
5. Fall is all about heartier foods. The meats and vegetables, and the soups and stews and meals they make, warm on the inside and are a great compliment to the weather. Fall even has its own fruit, the pumpkin (yes, it's a fruit, not a vegetable).
4. Halloween comes at almost the halfway point of the fall, and is a great celebration of fun and mischief for people of all ages. Plus the annual visit to the pumpkin farm prepares you for the night of bewitching.
3. Fall is when you go back to school. Where some kids like that and others don't, most parents agree and like it.
2. When you change your clocks at the end of Daylight Savings Time in the fall, you get back that hour you lost in the spring.
1. It's football season – the American kind! From playgrounds to the pros and everywhere in between, it's the time to cheer for your gridiron champions, not to mention the tailgating parties that go along with it.
It was somewhat tough to choose what order to put some of these in, as they all contribute greatly to my favorite time of the year.
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree on my favorite season? Or do you have other reasons to love fall? Please share your thoughts in the comments to this post,
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What I Learned This Week For August 22 2014
Armed with a to-do list, and an item named "write blog post" has helped me get this relatively on-time out the door!
- I visited "The Maxwell" this week. It is a retail complex in Chicago's South Loop, whose name comes from the now-gone nearby Maxwell Street retail area. It combines street-level stores, upper level stores accessible through a lobby and parking. The lobby is nothing to look at, but its ceiling is, and is pictured here.
- Did you know I am renting my Chicago Loop loft condo?
- I had keys made this week at that big-box orange-logoed hardware chain. They had this machine that scanned the keys then cut them. Impressive, only that one of my keys did not work in one door. Then I went to the local Ace hardware store who had one of the "old-fashioned" key cutters where you manually trace the key to make a duplicate, and the key worked perfectly.
- I had an extremely positive experience with Comcast customer service this past week, and an incredibly painful experience with their technical support a few days later.
- The more I learn about mobile app development, the more I realize people don't really know what their app is doing, such as what and when it is accessing something either on your device or over the Internet.
- I have heard about IRS form 990, which a non-profit must file with its taxes. However, I have not ever really looked at one at depth or compared them against other organizations. I did so this week, for the group Barrel of Monkeys whose Board I have joined, as well as for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Just create an account at GuideStar and look away!
- Strep – it's not just for your throat, and you can get strep in your nose and other body parts I won't mention.
- You can stain concrete. It is similar to staining wood, in that you are enhancing the appearance of the texture.
- My 10+ year old grocery cart finally came to an untimely collapse when one of the wheels snapped off and I wasn't able to repair it. I am honestly surprised it lasted that long.
- Amazon has a new feature called Amazon Smile where a non-profit organization you choose can earn a percentage of your purchases when you use the specific URL smile.amazon.com. It is unclear if the charity can earn money when you use the Amazon mobile app. I chose the Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company Inc. to receive whatever pennies they can earn from my purchases. Omayra was a long-time client of my Web consulting business and she is an amazing dancer and performer. Check out her Web site and look for videos of her online to see, and choose her dance company to earn whatever you can send their way.
- This blog was down for about 8 hours this past week – did you notice?
- After my ordeal with Comcast I hooked up a new wireless router, a Cisco/Linksys EA3500. When I went to run the setup, I noticed something called "Smart Wi-Fi" which immediately caused me to shudder – this wasn't the typical, very techie setup and router administration I was used to. First off, it wanted me to create an account to remotely administer my router. Really? Then, the setup failed, which never – ever – previously happened to me. After a little searching, I found similar people lamenting to this, and a solution to revert to the traditional, previous router administration Web interface. Not surprising, everything worked as expected.
- Did I mention I am renting my loft condo in the Chicago Loop? Actually, I did blog about renting my condo.
- This week someone closed an email with "be good to yourself!!!" This took me aback. First, this is nothing I have ever gotten in writing from someone. As I thought more about it, I was trying to think of the last time anyone ever said it to me. Then it dawned on me, it did happen, and way back in the day, by people I have never met in person. Yes, I am referring to the song Be Good To Yourself by Journey. Watch it on this link to YouTube or see it embedded below, and either way take a trip back in time… and be good to yourself!!!
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One person was killed Friday morning when a car and tractor trailer collided on the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway near Chevy Chase, police say.
Police say one person was killed when a car and a tractor-trailer collided on the Inner Loop near Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase about 3 a.m. The accident caused the car to catch fire.
Lanes were closed and traffic was snarled by the cleanup well into the morning commute.


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Earlier Marriage Law Traditions Offer Solutions for the Contemporary Marital Crisis
The history of marriage in the western tradition is multi-dimensional and holds clues to reversing the deterioration of the institution in modern times, according to Emory University Professor of Law John Witte Jr., who delivered the third Meador Lecture, "An Apt and Cheerful Conversation on Marriage: What Can the Western Tradition Still Offer to Marriage Law?" on Oct. 18. The Meador Lecture was instituted in 1997 by friends of professor Daniel Meador to memorialize his contributions to the law school over his 40-year teaching career. It aims to promote the interdisciplinary study of law and religion.
"Faith, freedom and family are the three things people will die for," Witte noted to open remarks that urged Americans to adopt a more pluralistic view of marriage law. While there is a tension now between what he termed "traditionalists" and "modernists" over marriage law, writers from Cicero to Calvin have also viewed their times as facing a marriage crisis.
But between 1975 and 1998, Witte said, 25 percent of pregnancies were aborted, half of all marriages ended in divorce, and there was a fivefold increase in the number of households with children but without fathers present. Now 40 percent of couples living together with children are not married.
"We must proceed on the assumption that the crisis can be solved," he said, and to do that we must understand how traditional morals and contemporary mores reflect a social tension between order and liberty.
The Roman Catholic Church asserted complete jurisdiction over the creation and dissolution of marriages until the Protestant Reformation. Catholic theology considered marriage to have a threefold nature: the natural (to raise children to serve God), the sacramental (to be a remedy for the sin of lust and to symbolize the relationship between Christ and the Church) and the contractual (which called for the consent of the man and woman to the union). The insistence on voluntary unions in the Church's canon law was a "watershed in western legal history," said Witte. "It set basic rules that persist to this day."
The Protestant reforms of the 16th and 17th centuries replaced the sacramental model with a social model. Protestants rejected the moral subordination of marriage to celibacy, which Catholicism considered a more holy renunciation, and the idea of a sacramental union. Protestants said celibacy is not more virtuous than married sexual relations. Thus Protestant theology directed marriage more toward civil law but meanwhile retained many of the features of canon law.
"It's only in the past two generations that traditional marriage has changed," Witte said. "It is now seen as mainly contractual. It's seen as a simple terminal bilateral contract."
Reflecting advances in reproductive technology and mounting economic demands on the household, "adults have free entrance, free exercise and free exit from marriage. Now marriage is a private sexual contract."
The dissolution side is getting streamlined too. "Alimony and child support payments are now giving way to lump sum payments that allow a clean break," Witte noted. The changes "have brought ruin to many women and children," he said, and men are still generally the greater beneficiary in divorces.
While the West has learned to balance the stringency of marital formation and dissolution, he said - "Loose formation rules require loose dissolution rules" - the earlier Christian tradition needs to be redeployed for today. It sees marriage as multi-dimensional and would reduce our tendency to simplify marriage to a single forum. Traditionally, for example, an annulment was granted "when a bad contract was made because a flaw was concealed from one of the parties. A divorce happened when a good contract was made but broken through the fault of one party. Today most states have collapsed annulment and divorce into one single act.
"We must resist the collapsing the stages of marriage. We should restore a reflective waiting period - engagement - and require more public notifications," the old practice of announcing the banns, said Witte. "The cause of the increase in no-fault divorces is really no-faith marriages."
While Witte called upon Americans to "enlarge
our concept of the household to include new members," he said
the western theological and legal traditions have little to offer
those want to extend the institution of marriage to homosexuals.
Homosexual unions are not seen as another form of civil union,
partly because Catholic canon law prohibited the acts involved
in homosexual unions. Because Protestantism has always maintained
that marriage is based on love (rather than being a way to rescue
individuals from lust) it presents less theological opposition
to gay marriage.
Reported by M. Marshall