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To educate, inspire and create opportunities to experience the life-changing power of music
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We believe strongly in the power of education to transform lives, and so we dedicate ourselves to the task of delivering exciting, meaningful music education experiences in partnership with Minnesota schools. Our Songwriting programs have been a success for 5 years and counting. This is how we nurture a life long love of making music
Why re-create the wheel? There are so many great music service organizations doing so much good work. Our goal is to unite them in partnership, creating a stronger web of support for musicians, more opportunities for young people, shared resources, and a spirit of cooperation that will lead to mutual success both at home and abroad. The way forward is together and we intend to be a lighthouse organization that fosters this collaborative environment.
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Leading innovation in music education
Our main educational offering is the Discover Music Songwriting Course that works with middle and high school teachers to engage students in the experience of creating music for themselves.
Students learn advanced music theory, are exposed to popular music styles, and are challenged to write their own lyrics, chords, melodies and harmonies. Once complete, the students record their songs in a professional studio with a backing band. Along the way students learn about music history, music technology and the science behind it, writing skills, critique skills, and build confidence in their own abilities.
The classes are taught by local music educators and performers. The students will have the chance to work with some of the most influential working musicians in the state. It's an incredible opportunity.
While the students are learning all about songwriting, they also engage in self-discovery. Songwriting is an intimate and personal experience that is incredibly introspective and emotionally challenging. Students often confront situations in their lives through song and share them. This is so important.
One of our goals is to provide young people with a tool to deal with situations and emotions in a healthy way. Starting in middle schools, we believe that introducing a tool like songwriting to these students when they're young might give them an alternative to drugs, sex and alcohol as they get older. Some may be able to use it as a tool to fight depression or deal with social situations.
Ask any songwriter...music saved our lives. We believe that's something worth passing on.
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Education professionals know that teaching facts and figures aren't enough...we're preparing young people to be the responsible, well-adjusted adults that will inherit the future. With this in mind, Discover Music programs aim to educate the whole person, engaging mind, body and heart in the experience of creating music.
Blend of Theory, History, Skills and entrepreneurship
Music is a complex business. Success often means that you have to be more than just an artist. You must also understand the technology and science of your craft, marketing, design, finance, management, strategy, and planning. Students are introduced to these crucial professional skills in the context of music business and learn quickly what it takes to make their projects successful.
Powerful Studio Experience
Middle school students get the chance to write a song with some of MN's top music professionals, but that's not all. They get to have those songs recorded in a REAL recording studio, Essential Sessions, with a professional backup band, producer, audio engineer, and get to sing on the class album. There's something powerful about stepping into the dimly lit booth, putting on the headphones, and singing your heart out into that big microphone that sticks with you...it's a one-of-a-kind experience our students never forget.
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It's a both/and thing, not an either/or thing. We're committed to working in partnership with the school districts we operate in to offer content that fits their schedule, accomplishes their educational goals, and involves any staff interested in working with us. Our curriculum is based on the fundamentals of the state standards framework. Educational content meets the requirements for classes to be offered for credit. Coming from a long history of consulting in public schools, we understand the territory and utilize an approach that engages administration, principals and teachers in guiding the learning objectives, scope and schedule of the coursework.
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What Visa will be starting, is based on NFC, so any phone or tablet with this chip will be able to take advantage of it. Fourteen banks and other financial institutions in the US and Canada, among which are US Bank and TD Group, will be partners in the pilot program. Visa hopes to use the leverage of its 30 million points-of-sale systems worldwide to convince merchants in adopting NFC payments as well.
The company already has pilots rolling in New York with its payWave mobile phone payments system, and also plans to work with the existing NFC payment projects, like ISIS. Visa's NFC system is supposed to start appearing at POS terminals as soon as this fall.
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Average hourly wage for sales associates: $10.41
CEO William Dillard II's total compensation last year: $4.01 million
Working sales at Dillard's can be a dramatic affair, complain several employees on Glassdoor.com. The clerks can be territorial, as they compete for sales numbers. There's little training, many say, and high turnover. Employees labor under the constant threat of termination, and with dizzyingly impossible-to-meet sales goals. The result: dismal morale.
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The benefits and pay are low and there's a ton of work, especially because many of the stores run with a skeleton staff, employees gripe on Glassdoor.com. "They are not very understanding about family emergencies, your health, and love loading you with way more than you can handle," says one manager, even though Dollar General saw its profits last quarter soar 36 percent from the same time last year. The discount chain gets an average employee rating of 2.4 out of 5.
Average hourly wage for sales associates: $8.31
CEO Do Won Chang and his wife and CMO Jin Sook don't have publicly available salaries, because Forever 21 is a private company, but Forbes estimates their net worth at $3.6 billion.
Do Won Chang is no stranger to grueling work, having held three jobs at once -- as a janitor, gas station attendant and coffee shop barista -- when he first immigrated to America in 1981. But now as the co-founder, along with his wife, of retailer Forever 21, Chang doesn't have to mop a floor again. He's worth almost $4 billion.
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"Minimum wage unless you annoy people into buying a wireless phone," said a sales associate. And because of the high sales targets, "managers will always be on your back about absolutely everything," said one sales rep in Arlington, Texas. "Almost to the point where your whole life revolves around RadioShack and would seem as if you have lost your personal life."
Average hourly wage for sales associates: $7.58
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., Tuesday—The United Daughters of the Confederacy came to tea with me yesterday afternoon on the White House lawn and we had a very delightful hour. In the evening, Miss Thompson and I took the train which deposited us this morning at 11:30 in Johnson City, Tenn. At Bristol I went out on the platform to greet some people who had kindly come down to see me and quite a crowd welcomed us when we alighted from the train here. It being Decoration Day, the Governor is coming to the federal hospital for veterans here and there will be a parade in which some veterans will march. I hope to have the opportunity of meeting the Governor and watching the veterans go by. After that, I have asked to see the camp run by the Optimist Club. I am speaking for this group tonight and am particularly interested in camps for children and the work carried on in them.
Our press conference is over and in a few minutes we will have lunch before we start on the afternoon's occupations.
I looked out of the window of the train this morning while I was waiting for my breakfast, and it suddenly occurred to me that scenes from a train window might give a rather good picture of the variety in the conditions and occupations of our people in different parts of the country. I saw a little girl, slim and bent over, carrying two heavy pails of water across a field to an unpainted house. How far that water had to be carried, I do not know, but it is one thing to carry water on a camping trip for fun during a summers' holiday, and it is another thing to carry it day in and day out as a part of the routine of living. On the outskirts of the town, I saw a wash line. On it hung two brown work shirts, a pair of rather frayed and faded blue dungarees, two child's sun suits and a woman's calico dress. Not much sign of wasteful living here.
Through its open door, I had a glimpse of the inside of a cabin in the hollow below us. It was divided into two rooms, one of them the bedroom with two beds in it. These beds took up about all the available space in the room and it must have been necessary to leave the door open for air. There was a pad which looked rather like the cotton matresses that have been made on WPA, and a quilt spread neatly over each bed. I didn't notice any sheets or pillows.
There has been rain down here and the fields look in good condition. We passed a man plowing in a field with two women not far away hoeing. Beyond, in a grove of trees, there stood a stately house and under the trees was a baby carriage. I caught sight of someone in a flowered dress sitting on the porch. Then I again saw a yard of an unpainted house in the outskirts of a small town and a happy looking woman rocking a baby on the porch while a group of youngsters played in the yard. Happiness may exist under all conditions, given the right kind of people and sufficient economic security for adequate food and shelter.


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The effect of extremely low doses of oxytocin (vapor) on the perception of pain (pricking of the finger) is studied on 48 healthy volunteers. Inhalation of oxytocin vapor from the standard solution in doses producing a sensation of smell lowers pain threshold by 56.5%. Inhalation of oxytocin vapor creating no sense of smell has a lower hypalgesic effect. The oxytocin-induced hypalgesia is consistent with reduction in the heart reactivity to pain.
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Maybe I'm having a brain fart, but what's type "I" cement, never heard of it, or at least I don't think so.
Tscar? ConcMsnry?
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I'm just finishing up using Pro-Stone from Owens-Corning on a basement project. I've been using a pre-mixed masonry mortar that is from Quikrete called CSC-4 (Code # 1191-84). They also have a product called Veneer Stone Mortar (Code # No. 1137). I can only get the CSC-4 locally. Both are specifically formulated for use with Veneer Stone (natural or manufactured). It takes me about three hours to use up an 80lb bag of CSC-4 and it stays workable the whole time as long as I keep it mixed. (about every 1/2 hour). I tried finding what proportions of sand, cement, lime they use, but it looks like it's a secret. That being said, I did a google search on this subject and found a thread:
Their formula was a 2 to 1 ratio of sand to cement. The sand was "mason" sand and the cement was Type-S. Looks like you're good to go.
Disregard, wiped the cobwebs off the brain. I assume he meant Type I Portland. Don't use the Portland alone.
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I'm starting a poll....do you wash all material or not. I love the feel of unwashed material. When I make a quilt I rinse it in synthopol and a dye sheet. Don't use any soap at all....what do you do?
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I'm starting a poll....do you wash all material or not. I love the feel of unwashed material. When I make a quilt I rinse it in synthopol and a dye sheet. Don't use any soap at all....what do you do?
Most material I don't wash, its easier to work with for me. Blks, reds and anything that might bleed is washed on a quick wash w/small amount of soap.
I do not prewash ! I love to live on the edge, feel the crispness, hug the chemicals and whatever else bad there is to not prewashing:)LOL I love the homespun old look...and have not been sad by any later washed quilts! Skeat
I prewash the fabric with soap. I have not prewashed the batting.
I have not enough.
Finishing up on quilt #3 and fabric for quilt 3 is about to go in the wash.
Maybe I will hold of all of the colors are similar so no need to worry about bleeding. They are from the same manufacture and I love the old quilt look so shrinkage is not a concern. I might just wait until some others have posted. before I start that load.
I use to prewash everything, but have cut back on that after reading here that it wasn't required . I do plan to continue to pre wash the reds or bright colors that might run, but otherwise I think I will live on the wild side and see what happens.. :wink:
always prewash,fabrics shrink at different percentages when washed as does the batting,although I haven't washed the batting,but I always prewash fabric
Looks like I'm in the minority, but I always prewash. I don't want any surprises like colors that bleed or cottons that shrink a lot. Also, sometimes there's an odor from whatever sizing the manufacturer uses and I don't like that.
I usually do not prewash. I like the wrinkly look of the quilt after I wash it. Seems to age the quilt (just like me). I do wash if it is for and exchange so it will be consistent with everyone elses.
I used to prewash everything, now I don't. I prefer unwashed, but I think it's a personal thing and what kind of look you're going for.
I don't prewash, love the crispness of the new fabric, never had any problems.


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BT today announced it was named a "leader" in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Telecom Service Provider 2013 Vendor Assessment.
In the IDC MarketScape report, it is noted how BT was one of the first telcos to recognise the importance of convergence with IT and continues to focus on innovation to move beyond connectivity. More specifically, the IDC MarketScape highlights BT's strengths in the following key areas:
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Luis Alvarez, chief executive BT Global Services, said: "We are proud to be named as a worldwide leader by the IDC MarketScape just two months after achieving a leadership position in the Asia Pacific 'next-generation telcos' IDC Marketscape. We don't sell networks - we sell what our customers can do with them. The IDC MarketScape reports encourage us to continue on that path. It validates our investments in innovation and in people. We will build further on our long standing collaboration with our customers and engage with them with new and even better services wherever they invest to expand."
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Responses to our October survey suggest that business activity picked up in the Carolinas since September and respondents grew increasingly confident in economic activity six months out. The company specific current conditions index jumped into positive territory while the region specific measure moved to breakeven (zero) for the first time since the recession started in December 2007. The national index was unchanged. Meanwhile, each of the three general expectations metrics increased notably.
In the company specific indexes, the sales revenue/shipments component swung from negative to positive and firms appeared to be drawing down inventories at a slower pace. At the same time, the prospects for hiring remained soft and changed little from September. The gap between the prices paid and prices received indexes widened slightly, indicating that firms' margins remained under considerable pressure.
The general availability of labor index moved higher, reflecting continued slack in labor markets, although the company specific measure eased modestly. The current business spending indexes continued to suggest weak spending for both equipment/software and services. However, the two business spending expectations indexes jumped into positive territory — the first time since May 2008 that both were above zero.
On balance, responses to the survey suggest that business activity improved in the Carolinas in October. The company specific index jumped to 17 from zero in September, and the region specific metric increased to zero for the first time since the recession started. The national index was unchanged from September, at 4.
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CLC hosts Give Kids a Smile Day
February is national Children's Dental Health Month, according to the American Dental Association.
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Bethany Rylicki, a CLC dental assisting student from Woodbury, worked with Rutman during one of 64 scheduled appointments. The annual event is sponsored by the Minnesota Dental Association. Appointments for free exams were also taken through CLC Dental Assisting at the office of Dr. Dominic Gagnon at Staples.
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According to the script of the film, one of the three characters of the Superstar has to be killed but the director apparently wants to keep all the three characters alive. On learning the intention of the director, Rajinikanth has reportedly told him not to change the script even a bit.
The Superstar also has clearly told the makers of the film that he would perform all the deathly stunts himself instead of using a body double. So, they have to wait for the actor to recover from his illness completely so that he could perform the stunts without affecting his health. The shooting of the film is now expected to resume in September.
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Mothers Create a Grammar Guide for the Text Generation
Geraldine Onorato had noticed that the grammar skills of her son Hunter were beginning to slip while he was in middle school at Junior High School 167 Robert F. Wagner on the Upper East Side. Still, when she sat down to work on grammar exercises with him one evening, her son's confusion over the word "slowly" took her by surprise.
"I said to him, 'That's an adverb,' " she said. "And he said, 'What's an adverb?' "
The question led Ms. Onorato, 55, a graphic designer from Manhattan's East Side, to begin a two-year project on a 16-page grammar guide, "Facts for English." More than 1,500 copies of the green booklet were given to the parents' association at Wagner middle school earlier this month.
Ms. Onorato began the project in November 2009, and about six months later she teamed up with Donna Harrow, 54, a longtime friend and parent from the Upper East Side. In what the two mothers call today's texting culture, both felt that students needed a few reminders on basic structure. So they took inventory, asking other parents, students and teachers about some of the most egregious grammar blunders.
Verb agreement, use of the double negative and when to use "I" or "me" in a sentence all made that list.
"It's important to form the basic skills of grammar that we were raised with," said Ms. Harrow, whose daughter Madison, 15, attends the Brearley School, a private school on the Upper East Side.
Although Madison receives about an hour of daily grammar instruction at Brearley, Ms. Harrow said, the language she uses with friends often bleeds into her classroom training.
"It's typical of this generation," Ms. Onorato said. "They text, they BBM, they write on their Facebook pages. Everything is an abbreviation, and punctuation is so nonexistent that it becomes difficult to separate their personal lives from their professional writing."
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Hit-and-Run Tragedy Bridges Jewish Divide
I generally find it hard to feel as if I am part of the same Jewish people as Satmar Hasidim. Living not far from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I see them regularly yet it's hard to imagine feeling more worlds apart.
At the mall I encounter young women — so young that in another life I would call them girls, but for the fact that they are married women wearing wigs with scarves or hats on top, and pushing infants in baby carriages. We shop side by side but their Yiddish chatter poses a shtetle wall too high for me to surmount.
When I see a teenage Satmar girl, often leading younger siblings or cousins, all of them demurely dressed in calf-length pleated skirts and sweaters over collared shirts, I occasionally need to quell an impulse to touch her arm and say "it's not too late to leave!" since she isn't yet married but will be, soon. I know it's ridiculous; for all I know these girls think similar things about my daughters.
Living utterly apart is what their community cultivates. But I hate that other Jews seem so foreign, and that many in my community find them intimidating, or feel judged by their standards eschewing anything to do with modern culture and excluded by the modesty signs in their store windows. It is only stubborn refusal to be made to feel marginalized that leads me to occasionally return to the bakery or hardware store on Lee Avenue, despite the fact that male clerks refuse to look at me and I have to politely insist on being served. Years ago, in upstate New York, a friend and I entered a kosher supermarket across the street from a Satmar bungalow colony to buy challah and dessert for that evening's Shabbat dinner. Even then the store had modesty warnings on the door. Though I was wearing jeans and not a skirt, I knew I was not immodestly dressed and felt no qualms about walking right in. My friend complimented my refusal to stay away. I am a Jew too, I said to her then. I have just as much a right to buy kosher food as they do. I will not willingly back away from my own claim on Jewish living no matter how many modesty signs they put in their windows.
But since that time the estrangement between Satmar and most of the rest of the Jewish community here has only grown. They hold dear practices most of the rest of us find impossible to understand, like metzitzah b'peh. They protect rather than disavow a convicted child molester like Nechemya Weberman. Many are anti-Zionist.
And yet. When Raizy and Nachman Glauber were killed late Saturday night, my sorrow was tinged with something more familiar than the sadness I would feel for any family suffering such an incomprehensible loss. The wedding portrait accompanying the news stories shows a couple all but touching, their faces shy while posed next to each other. His shtreimel's fur is carefully brushed upward, her expression apprehensive. They look stunningly young.
The news that their prematurely delivered son, cut from his dead mother's body, had passed from this world a day later added another layer of sadness. But even amid the sadness, there remained a sense of slight distance.
Then a letter surfaced. Said to have been penned by Nachman on his wedding day, in a neat Yiddish hand he wrote expressing thanks to his parents:
I feel an obligation to thank you for everything you did for me since I was a small child. You did not spare time, energy and money, whether it was when I needed a private tutor to learn or an eye doctor or general encouragement. Also, later on, you helped me to succeed in my Torah studies, you sent me to yeshiva to learn your values, religious and worldly, until I reached to this current lucky moment. But since kids do not grasp what parents are, and how much they do for them, and only when he matures and – with God's help — have their own kids, they could realize it. And unfortunately I may have caused you a lot of pain; I am asking you to please forgive me. I'm asking you, I'm dependent on your prayers, pray for me and my bride, and I will pray for you.
Any mother can appreciate the humble sweetness in his letter, the moving vulnerability in his appreciation for his parents and request for their love and prayers. Any parent can be proud to have raised such a son. And it is this more than anything that reached across the gulf that usually separates my life from theirs.
Nachman Glauber's letter showed me that despite our different values and ways of dressing, despite the vastly disparate ways in which we relate to the world, that we really are just mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, people who try to love and hope to be loved. That in the end, we belong to the same Jewish people. And same human race.
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UH Law School Ranks 6th in Experiential Learning
The University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law is ranking high for experiential learning. University officials say a recent issue of "Prelaw" magazine put the law school in sixth place for offering clinics that have students help actual clients handle legal issues. Last month's issue of "The National Jurist" placed the law school on its Honor Roll for one of the top 60 law schools delivering practical training.


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Decomposition of inequality change into pro-poor growth and mobility components: -dsginideco-
This short talk describes the module -dsginideco- which decomposes the change in income inequality between two time periods into two components, one representing the progressivity (pro-poorness) of income growth, and the other representing reranking. Inequality is measured using the generalized Gini coefficient, also known as the S-Gini, G(v). This is a distributionally-sensitive inequality index, with larger values of v placing greater weight on inequality differences among poorer (lower ranked) observations. The conventional Gini coefficient corresponds to thecase v = 2. The decomposition is of the form: final-period inequality - initial-period inequality = R - P where R is a measure of reranking, and P is a measure of the progressivity of income growth. For full details of the decomposition and an application, see S.P. Jenkins and P. Van Kerm (2006), "Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility", Oxford Economic Papers, 58(3): 531-548.
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I am, but I've seen a hundred photos of DWV (mostly after I saw these bees and got panicky.) These were definitely DWV, with the wings shriveled and crumpled. It's a very distinctive look, and I examined these bees under a scope.
Most hives have mites, so probably most hives have DWV. Not all will eventually collapse, according to my research.
It's my impression, from the research I've done, that numerous DWV bees is often a sign of a hive nearing collapse from a mite overload, rather than a disease like the foulbroods that will get out of hand if ignored. Obviously that didn't happen in my case, at least not yet. According to Michael Bush, if I remember accurately, finding a bee or two with DWV is not something to get too excited about. The theory I find most plausible is that this is a opportunistic virus that primarily affects bees weakened by mites or other stressors.
Of course, I am a newbee, so I could be completely wrong. But it doesn't matter, because I'm not going to treat for mites. So we'll see. There has been no more DWV as far as I can tell, and the hive is booming. If it were an infection that inevitably kills a hive, the hive would not be thriving, or so it seems to me.
I agree.. The hives I found the bee with a deformed wing is definitely booming. Its thriving for sure! I sent you a message.
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The heliosphere appears to protect the inner solar system from the vagaries of the interstellar medium
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The stuff between the stars—the interstellar medium—is far from being a homogeneous substrate. Astronomers have discovered that interstellar material is organized into clouds of gas and dust, exhibiting a broad range of temperatures, densities and compositions. Over the course of millions of years our sun passes through a variety of interstellar clouds, and it is now clear that the solar system must have experienced a broad range of galactic environments during its 5-billion-year history. The solar wind produced by the sun forms a heliosphere that protects the inner part of the solar system from the vagaries of our galactic milieu. Astronomer Priscilla Frisch describes what we know about our local galactic environment and about the dynamic interplay between interstellar material and the heliosphere.
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Getting things done here has been difficult and the only analogue I could conjure up is to go into Circuit City and ask someone to help you with your calculus homework. In most European countries they know more English than they will reveal because they feel subconscious. In Bali they know less and will encourage you with head nods and words to keep explaining your plans until you realize the responses you are getting have nothing to do with your goal and that the conversation has wound its way to a place of nonsense. In the end both parties are confused but smiling politely.
Our hotel was comfortable, had a swimming pool, outside restaurant (all of them contain no walls) and a spacious room. The only complaint was the dull thump and stray chords of the electric piano heard from downstairs as they belted out Indonesian and Western songs including such favorites as Paradise City and Desperado. They even dabbled in Karaoke and anybody could have a go at the mike, and they did too. The hotel acted as a sanctuary from the constant buzz and attention of street vendors. It's a difficult dilemma because the Balinese are incredibly generous and open people but you have to be stern with the vendors. Knowing the difference is an art form
We bought some of the Indonesian national dress, this is a "Bin Tang" t-shirts or tank tops. Bin Tang is huge and going five minutes without seeing its logo makes me feel like something is missing and thus fundamentally wrong. Like going into a church and not seeing a cross or a school with any pencils. Even as I write this I forgot how to spell Bin Tang. Luckily for me I was wearing the shirt and a quick glance down cleared up any spelling issues.
Buying anything in Indo is a long and uncomfortable process. Any vendor, taxi driver, and some stores spend a good portion of their day engaged in haggling. They start about twice the price and go from there. Usually about a third of the way through this mysterious haggling process it dawns on you that to haggle the necessary fifteen more minutes might save you 72 cents. I value my time more than anything below a dollar and I throw in the towel. The exchange rate was 9000 rupiah to one dollar which made everything incredibly cheap but difficult to calculate exchange rates. Quickly, if something cost 175600 how many dollars is this? (hint go to 10,000 per dollar) I spent 2 percent of my time in Indo counting the number of zeros on the bills.
I also bought my board after a long pondering sweaty walk down a couple dirty dusty streets. It is the JC 6'8" tuff light. Ironically it is the Peter Mel model, my good friend from Santa Cruz (he has seen me in his shop a couple of times). Of course our credit card did not work because we forgot to mention our one day stop over in Thailand.
Some people spend their entire vacation in Kuta beach. Being sober this is a mystery to us. The long expansive black beach was a postcard but the heat, constant attention, haggling, and busy streets left us depleted of physical and mental energy. It was like a video game were we started out each day with a specific number of energy points. Each hit would deplete our reserve. A taxi driver honking his horn, -3 pts, crossing the street through the random currents of scooters and cars, -25 pts, a random excuse me sir, -10pts, and hearing karaoke past ten o'clock, -150 pts. Kuta, I was glad we saw it but I was ready to move on.
Having said that we have since returned to Kuta a few times and each time stirs up a little nostalgia. Driving past we excitedly point at our old hotel and the vendors seem less intimidating and have been reduced to an annoying part of the landscape, like flies or sudden gusts of sand laden wind at the beach. Something to be tolerated but not feared. We are giving Kuta a mixed and diluted review but I still feel sorry for anybody who spends their entire vacation there.


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It is easy for a team to transition to Lean-Agile software development: Pick a good pilot project, get some training, re-arrange the workspace, learn the process, maybe use a coach. It has been done thousands of times. It is easy but all too often, there is no benefit for the organization. The goal is not making teams agile but making the business agile. This is a bit harder. Build your transition plan around the business and everyone—customers, business, and teams—will succeed.
A successful transition plan focuses on the complete set of work that is required to turn an idea into a product that customers can use. It will minimize the time and effort required. This requires looking at opportunities in business, management, team agility, and technical practices that will have the greatest impact on removing impediments and improving the flow of work.
Where to Start? Where Do You Want to Go?
The starting point for any journey should be to know where you are going. As obvious as it sounds, many organizations we see are not clear about this. They know they want to become more "agile" and much of the literature on Agile focuses on development teams. It seems natural to start introducing Agile in development teams. But making teams more agile is not the correct destination: it is a way station on the true journey of making the business more agile. Business agility focuses on enabling a business to respond quickly to competitors, to internal insights, to changes in industry or technology, and so on. All of your efforts should lead to becoming more and more agile as a total organization.
With business agility as the goal, it is easy to measure progress. One good measure is the elapsed time from when the idea is first developed until it is implemented, delivered, and customers can begin to use it. This is called the "cycle time." The shorter the cycle time, the better because short cycle times let the business penetrate the market faster and respond to competitive pressures more effectively. The value of this metric is that it focuses on the entire "value stream" for the product. A value stream is the whole set of work that is done to create a product, beginning to end. Ideas arise from interactions with customers who could be external or, in the case of IT, internal to the organization. Business stakeholders and product managers create a list of product enhancements to be built by the development organization and back to the customers (either external or internal for IT organizations).
Product development is just one part of the value stream. If you have good product development but some other step still takes too long or is blocked, then cycle time may be unaffected. Reducing cycle time requires optimizing the whole value stream which is a key focus of Lean. Lean suggests that removing impediments to work (delays which cause waste) improves speed to market while raising quality and lowering cost.
The Major Impediments to Agility
At Net Objectives, we have helped dozens of companies improve their software development capabilities. Most of these have involved development organizations with 50-300 people and the largest had over 4000. In their transition to Agile, all of these organizations have faced four general kinds of impediments.
The business side does not properly select, size or prioritize their product enhancements: Yearly planning forces stakeholders to ask for too many product enhancements and these tend to be too large. Faced with long delivery cycles, they pile on requirements just to be sure they get what they anticipate they will need. It results in working on too many projects at one time. It virtually ensures that the features have not been properly prioritized relative to each other. This means that some of the features the team is working on are not the most valuable to the business yet, because they were already started, they have to be finished before the team can turn to the next, more valuable feature.
Improper allocation of resources: To manage this crushing workload, teams are often isolated into "silos." Unfortunately, this dilutes the efficiency of the organization even more. Developers end up waiting for others to start work or to share information. In an attempt to remain productive, they start more projects. But this just adds to their overwhelm, reducing efficiency and causing more delay.
Non-existent teams: Team agility holds the promise of shorter development times: take a statement of need and build a system to meet it and then deliver the software quickly. Unfortunately, true teams often don't exist and are difficult to form. Just creating them without solving the cause of too many projects may result in a pilot team doing well with the rest of the organization being more overwhelmed than before.
Poor technical practices: Too often, code becomes complex and brittle and hard to maintain over time. With discipline, it doesn't have to. The proper use of acceptance test-driven development (ATDD), (unit) test-driven development (TDD), design patterns, and refactoring can keep code robust over time. While these techniques have been around for a long time, they are still not in widespread use. And that means there is a lot of poor code.