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A Scrum Master's Duty
by Christian Bisson, PMP
A scrum master is an essential part of an agile team. However, it seems their role is often underestimated or misunderstood. In this article I'm hoping I can shed some light on the value they bring.
How People See Them
Here's what I've heard over time:
Elves of happiness
Since scrum masters want teams to perform well, they want to make sure team members are happy. That sometimes makes others think that all scrum masters are trying to do is to make everyone happy without an actual purpose behind it.
Since scrum masters often talk to the team and gather information about the status of a project, they are often mistaken for coordinators—people tasked with giving a status report to the product owner or taking notes during meetings.
Some people simply have no clue what scrum masters do, thinking they are an overhead that could be removed without any impact because they don't actually "produce" anything.
What They Actually Do
Help teams grow
One of the scrum master's main tasks is to educate the team with agile principles, but also to help the team become self-sufficient. In a way, their main duty is to actually become useless as the team becomes more mature.
Scrum masters can do so by sharing agile knowledge and by coaching teams as they go through retrospectives where the team is motivated to talk about how they can improve.
Facilitate anything
There are so many different roadblocks that can reduce a team's efficiency—whether it's poorly defined requirements, inefficient meetings, lack of documentation or communication, or conflicts. A scrum master can help tackle anything that might slow down the team.
Keep the focus on the right place
Not being hands-on in projects allows scrum masters to have a different point of view that allows them to re-focus teams when needed. Whether it's toward the developers and their commitment to the sprint, or product owners and their focus on a product's vision, scrum masters make sure to remind everyone where their effort should go.
It can be hard to quantify a scrum master's usefulness since they do not actually produce deliverables. But having experienced an agile project both with and without a scrum master, I can vouch for their role. They bring so much on a day-to-day basis to the teams they work with, which in turn brings quality products to clients.
Have you experienced working with scrum masters? What do you think is most important about their roles?
Avoid the Internal Project Trap
Best Practices,
Project Delivery,
Categories: Best Practices, Project Delivery, Strategy
By Ramiro Rodrigues
In my last post, I shared tips for closing external projects. Now it's time to tackle internal efforts.
As part of this discussion, it's worth remembering that PMI's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) does not differentiate between the origin of the customer (internal or external) for the scope verification process.
So even if a project is internal, project managers should obtain acceptance and have at least one approval by the customer in order for the project to be formally closed.
A crucial question to consider: What does your organization's project methodology say? Are you required to get a form signed to show formal acceptance at the end of the project? If so, the good news is you're closing process is outlined for you.
It gets complicated when you're not required to sign a formal document or there is no defined methodology for closing an internal project. It creates a great organizational trap for project leaders as projects that are not formally completed tend to repeat the phoenix fable: a project is resurrected over and over again with new work requirements because there is no record of a signed agreement signalling the completion of the work.
Imagine having to re-run a project months—or even years—later when there are no more resources, schedule or budget available to execute the remnants that emerged? On top of this, you're probably already involved in other assignments, and you may not even remember the full context of that project.
The most effective strategy for not falling into this trap is to produce an informal document of acceptance—a simple text that describes the macro deliveries of the project scope and send your customer a hard copy or email copy. But be careful to include a text that makes it clear that the parties (you and the customer) agree that the deliveries quoted have been made to the desired quality.
And make sure you receive acknowledgement—even a simple "okay" response will be sufficient to file the document and to protect it from unwanted resurrection.
How do you ensure internal projects don't come back to haunt you in your organization?
Take Advantage of the Talent Gap
Benefits Realization,
Best Practices,
Portfolio Management,
Categories: Benefits Realization, Best Practices, Leadership, Portfolio Management, Strategy
By Jen Skrabak, PMP, PfMP
There's great news for the profession: According to PMI's latest Job Growth and Talent Gap report, there will be a need to fill 2.2 million jobs globally each year until 2027, growing to a total of 88 million project management jobs in all. Moreover, much of the growth is outside the United States—in places such as China, India, Brazil and Japan.
Project-related job growth is expected to be 33 percent overall, with health care (17 percent), manufacturing/construction (10 percent) and information services/publishing (6 percent) representing the top three industries.
How can you position yourself to take advantage of these trends? Here are three things to work on.
1. Get a Certification
Although certification by itself doesn't guarantee that you will be hired, it does mean that you have demonstrated knowledge and experience in project, program or portfolio management. There aren't many PMI Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)® credential holders out there, so obtaining this certification will help set you apart.
But, instead of viewing the PfMP certification as the goal, plan to take it as a journey. If you find that you don't have the requisite experience, how can you position yourself by taking volunteer roles to gain the experience?
Career development should be a joint responsibility between you and your manager. You should express the desire and develop the knowledge to grow your experience in certain areas, and your manager can work to open up opportunities to help you practice your knowledge.
2. Practice
Work on delivering strategic initiatives, driving change and providing innovation consistently and reliably. It's not experimenting, but actually delivering—first on a smaller scale, then on a larger scale.
For portfolio managers, for example, you may start by managing the portfolio of a department or product, then move to an entire business unit, segment or product line, and finally on to an enterprise level.
There are three key areas to grow the depth and breadth of your experience:
1. Strategic alignment: Go beyond understanding the strategy and proactively work to translate that strategy into specific initiatives. This can be done by defining the business cases, developing multi-year roadmaps or translating high-level concepts into specific projects that will deliver the result, benefit or transformation promised.
2. Benefits realization: This starts with validating the business case and ownership of the benefits, and is typically realized three to six months after the project/program delivery via operational budget savings, reductions or reallocations. Few organizations realize the benefits because they are often too optimistic in the upfront business case and fail to follow through by ensuring that operational budgets reflect the promised savings or headcount efficiencies.
3. Project/program delivery: The foundation of portfolio management is good project and program execution to deliver the product, service or result on time, on budget and per the scope. It doesn't matter if it's agile, waterfall or hybrid. Although the portfolio manager may not be responsible for the delivery, the delivery affects the portfolio value. Ensuring that the portfolio value is realized means ensuring the project or program was delivered effectively and efficiently regardless of the methodology.
3. Communicate Effectively
Working on the portfolio level means that you're communicating a vast amount of information—anywhere from 15 to 50 projects and programs—in an actionable way to executives. I've had executives tell me, "Don't tell me what's going right, tell me what's going wrong and how to fix it." Your role is to remember the four "C"s—clear, concise, compelling and credible. Be to the point, tell the story and build trust with a clear plan of action to fix any potential issues proactively.
Project Success Buzzwords: Are These the Same?
Categories: Communication, Leadership, Stakeholder
By Linda Agyapong, PMP
I received a lot of interesting feedback on my last post, "What Defines Project Success," which has necessitated a follow up.
For those who missed the discussion, Aaron Shenhar et al. summarized it perfectly by saying there is no one-size-fits-all definition for project success. Instead, it's based on the philosophy of "how different dimensions mean different things to different stakeholders at different times and for different projects."
Every project is different and hence could have different success criteria. These were the exact same sentiments that folks shared in the discussion on my last post. This time we'll dissect the concept of project success by breaking down some of the buzzwords surrounding it.
Project managers Jim, Mary and Alex (the same characters from our prior discussion), entered into a high profile kick-off meeting with some Fortune 500 clients regarding an upcoming million-dollar project. When the floor was opened for the clients to ask questions, they unanimously said that nearly 50 percent of the discussion went over their heads because all they could hear were buzzwords.
These buzzwords were "project success" vs. "project management success" and "project success factors" vs. "project success criteria." The clients could not figure out if they meant the same or not. Let's help Jim, Mary and Alex break down these buzzwords to their clients based on recent research I performed.
Project Success vs. Project Management Success
Terry Cooke-Davies embarked on an empirical study to identify the factors that are critical in obtaining successful projects after stakeholders had been disappointed with the project results that were being obtained. His study was to address the following three broad concerns:
· The factors that make project management successful
· The factors that make projects successful
· The factors that make projects successful on a consistent basis
Although his three concerns may appear to be intertwined, Anton de Wit provided a distinction: Project success identifies factors that help to attain the overall objectives of the project, whereas project management success focuses on addressing some of the project's constraints (including time, cost and quality) within the project.
Based on this understanding, Mr. Cooke-Davies concluded that there is a cycle of individual success (such as an individual's leadership style), which leads to corporate success that later transforms into corporate best practices. As such, once these best practices are consistently applied, it could lead to making projects successful on a consistent basis.
Project Success Factors vs. Project Success Criteria
In their research, Ralf Müller and Kam Jugdev argued that project success factors identify the specific elements within the project "which, when influenced, increase the likelihood of success." They added that these are the independent variables that enhance the success of the project. And Mr. de Wit described them as "those inputs to the management system that" directly or indirectly lead to the project's success. (Can you name some specific examples?)
Conversely, Dr. Müller and Dr. Jugdev explained that project success criteria are the measures (or acceptance criteria) by which the final outcome of the project will be judged, i.e., whether the project is successful, challenged or a failure. They added that the project's success is measured by these dependent variables. (Can you name some examples?)
So there you have it! Are you enjoying this ride so far?
In my next post I'll tie this concept of project success to the stakeholder. Until then, I'm interested to get your perspective on this topic.
Understanding Expert Judgment
Categories: Leadership
By Lynda Bourne
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) uses the concept of "expert judgment" in most of its processes, but only has a relatively brief description of the concept. It describes expert judgment as "judgment based on expertise appropriate for the activity being performed" and advises, "such expertise may be provided by any group or person with specialized education, knowledge, skills, experience or training."
This description leaves three questions:
Obtaining the expertise necessary to arrive at a wise judgment is not the exclusive responsibility of the project manager—you do not have to be the expert! However, the project manager is undoubtedly responsible for the consequences of any judgments that are made.
Instead, project managers should focus on knowing how to obtain the necessary expert advice and how to use that advice to arrive at the best project decision.
Finding an Expert
The first challenge in applying expert judgment is identifying the right people with the right expertise to provide advice.
By definition, an expert is a person whose opinion—by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience—is recognized as holding authoritative knowledge. But this definition is subjective and different experts will frequently have very different opinions around the same question or set of facts.
Also, as the Dunning-Kruger effect explains, people with limited knowledge are often absolutely certain about the facts.
Experts, however, being more cognizant of what they don't know and having the knowledge to appreciate the complexity and depth of a problem, will frequently only provide a probabilistic answer, such as, "I would suggest this option, but…."
The decision-maker must ensure that the information brought into the judgment process is the best information—not the information that is advocated most loudly.
The organization needs to make information available to its managers about the sources and types of expertise available, and the location of useful experts. This information needs to be updated on a regular basis and be accessible.
Wise Judgments
In the context of expert judgment, judgment is an action verb—it is the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions based on information and knowledge derived from the application of expertise. Consequently, while the project manager can, and frequently should, seek expert advice to help inform his or her judgment, ultimately the considered decision that comes out of the judgment process is the responsibility of the project manager.
The defining competence of every good manager, project managers included, is their ability to make effective and timely decisions. The challenge is balancing the decision's importance, the timeframe in which the decision is required, the cost (including opportunity costs) accrued in reaching the decision and the availability of the resources used in the decision-making process.
The key elements of effective judgment are:
The judgment portion of expert judgment is part of the individual manager's skill set. Their innate abilities should be supported with training and a culture that rewards a proactive approach to deciding.
Making an Expert Judgment
Bringing expertise and decision-making skills together to form an expert judgment works best in a structured process. PMI's publication, Expert Judgment in Project Management: Narrowing the Theory-Practice Gap, outlines the framework:
When significant decisions are needed on a regular basis within the organization, standard operating processes should be defined to reinforce the practice of obtaining an expert judgment using the organizations knowledge resources.
How do you go about making expert judgments?


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|Sep 27, 1932
|Filing date
|Dec 3, 1929
|Priority date
|Dec 3, 1929
|Publication number
|Mcneely James W
|Original Assignee
|Mcneely James W
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Referenced by (35), Classifications (8)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Sept. 27, 1932. J. w, cN 1,879,377
SCREEN AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed Dec. 3. 1929 Lit Patented Sept. 27, 1932 PATENT OFFICE JAMES W. MCNEE-LY, OF LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA scnnsn AND METHOD ornArimernn SAME Application filed December a, 1929. Serial No.411,2so.
This invention relates to an improved type of screen adapted to be employed in classlfication of materials. The invention partic-' ularly relates to a screen structure which permits the use of fine mesh screens in shakers or vibratory screening apparatus. The invention also relates to a'method whereby a fine mesh screen may be produced as a unitary body. 7 7
Various types of vibrating and shaking screens have been employed heretofore for the classification of materials. Screens of 20 mesh and finer, however, have not been used successfully inview of the fact that such fine mesh screens are relatively fragile and weak, and for this reason can not be employed in large sections. Such fine mesh screens are easily deformed and subject to sagging and even when supported on cross pieces, (such as vibrating bars), have a very short life, as the vibration between the cross piece and the screen causes a bending of the line screen adjacent the cross piece or bar, which eventually causes the screen to break there.
An object of this invention is to disclose and provide a screen constructionwhich will permit the use of fine mesh screens in vibratory or shaker types of classifiers and screening devices. I
Another object is to disclose and provide a screen structure which will materially increase the life of a fine mesh screen.
Another object is to disclose and provide a screen construction which will permit the installation of a fine mesh screen as a unitary body, and in this manner obviate extremely careful and diflicult installation problems now existing.
Another object is to disclose and provide a method of producing a unitary screen body for use in vibrating or shaker type screening and classifying machines. y 9
In describing the invention, reference will be had to the appended drawing, in which: Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic representation of one type of inclined vibrating screen mechanism in which the invention maybe placed in operation. i
Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan viewof a portion of a screen made in accordance with this invention. 9
- Fig. 3 is a vertical section, taken through a portion of the screen illustrated in Fig.
2, the section being taken along the line 3-3. 65
Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion of supporting grating made from a unitary piece of material.
Fig. 1 illustrates, diagrammatically, one form of a customary type of screening apparatus. The apparatus may comprise a frame 1 having upper and lower clamping bars 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. A screen 6 of theproper mesh is then clamped at its lower end between the clamping bars 4 and p 5 in any suitable manner, and the upper edge of the screen 6 then clamped between the bars 2 and 3. Certain screening devices include means whereby the clamping bars 2 and 3 may be longitudinally moved and positioned, thereby permitting the clamping of the screen between the bars 2 and 3 before the screen is placed under tension. Attention is here called to the fact that the screen 6 is held to the members 2, 3, 4 and 5, only at its ends, the side edgesbeing left free to vibrate. p
The'screen 6, during operation, is preferably shaken, vibrated or oscillated. As shown in Fig. 1, a supporting bar 7 may be positioned beneath the screen 6 and connected to an upper yoke or arm 8. The arm 8 is then operatively connected to a crank 9 driven by means of asuitable gearing 10 from a motor 11. The gear box 10 and the motor 11 may be mounted on a transversely extending member 12 supported by the sides of the frame 1.
Operation of the motor will, therefore, cause the crank 9 to rotate and in this manner cause a vibratory motion to be set up in the screen 6, in view of the fact that the connecting link or yoke 8 is attached to the screen.
It is to beunderstood that the above description is merely illustrative of one general type of screening device. The screen 6 in the illustrative example reciprocates in a plane at right angles to the plane of the I screen. In other types of screening devices,
If the screen is not placed under sufficient.
tension, sagging Wlll occur in the unsupported sections of the screen, as for example,
between the bar 7 and the clamping bars 4 and 5.
Attempts have been made to place a heavy open mesh of. various kinds, such asfor example an ordinary two mesh screen or special flat surface mesh immediately beneath a. fine mesh screen, such as a 20 to 100 mesh and finer screen, but it has been found that even if the shaker bar 7 is placed beneath the coarser screen so asto clamp the finer and coarser screens together, the finer screen will be cut up intosinall units corresponding to the configuration of the supporting screen, during usage. The natural period. of vibration of a coarser screen differs from the natural period of vibration of a finer screen, and. for this reason the two screens will repeatedly contact with each other with considerable force,.thus permitting the material being screened tobe caught between the two screens tocut into. and destroy the finer screen.
.In accordance with this invention, I have found that if a coarse flexible screen be placed under tension and a finer flexible screen then placed under tension above, and the two screens then firmly connected together substantially over their entire contact areas, then aunitary screen is produced whichmay be employed in the various devices utilizing such screens without causing the finer screen to be-broken down.
For example, as shown in Fig. 2, a large open mesh flexible screen 15 composed of preferably rectangular strand (or woof) and stay (or warp) members 16 and 17 woven or otherwise connected together, may be employed as a foundation. Instead of an open mesh screen, a grating cut or punched from a single sheet of material, as shown in Fig. 4, may be employed. The finer screen indicated at 18 and shown in more detail in Fig. 3 is then superimposed upon the foundation screen 15. The foundation screen 15 isthen placed under tension and the finer screen 18 also placed under suitable tension. The foundation screen 15- is then connectedto the finer screen 18, as for example, by means of solder 19 or by brazing the two together. In this manner, each of the areas of the fine screen" 18 between the supporting meshes 16 and 17 is under a suitable tension and is maintained under such tension because of the greater rigidity of the supporting mesh 15. A combined screen structure made in accordance with this invention may thus be shipped as a complete unit and can be readily installed in classifying devices of the art, of the vibratory, shaker, oscillating and other types.
It is not necessary to exercise great care in the installation of such a combined screen, and it is impossible to subject the fine mesh 18 to an undesirable tension, as any tension which would" be applied to the combined screen. during installation would be preliminarily taken up by the foundation screen 15.
Furthermore, when such screen is vibrated as-by means ofja shaker bar 7, it vibrates and flexes as a unit and'thevibrations carry all over the area of the screen; they are not dampened as they have been heretofore, but instead the foundation screen 15 carries-the vibrations to all portions of the finerscreen 18. In; addition, the tendency for a fine screen to be cut up into smaller sections or squares because of the difference in natural frequency (as is the casewhen a sub-screen is used as heretofore) ,.is obviated and the two screens vibrate as a unit. Material being screenedis incapable of entering between the supporting screen 15 and the finer mesh 18 and cutting t-hefiner screen into sections.
If the two: screens have been soldered together, then if the upper screen 18 has been worn away by. natural abrasion in usage, the foundation screen 15 may be recovered by merely heating the unitary screen and stripping the worn off fine mesh screen 18 therefrom.
By employingthe method described hereinabove, fine screens of 100 mesh and finer may. be used in commercial apparatus, and will be found'to possess a life which renders them. economically useful, whereas hereto: fore it has not been possible to employ screens of such fineness in commercial equipment because of the excessive wear and unsatisfactory characteristics.
Instead of soldering the finer mesh and the foundation mesh together as shown in Fig. 3, the two screens may be held together by means of small bolts and washers or rivets indicated at 20.
Numerous changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction, the invention not beinglimited-to the precise structure shown, but embracing all such changes as come within the scope of the appended claims.
I claim;
1. As an article of manufacture, a unitary body comprising an open mesh flexible foundationscreen, anda fine mesh screen in superimposedrelation thereto, said fine mesh screen being maintained under tension in such position by means connecting said foundation screen and fine mesh screen at a plurality of points distributed over the area of said screen.
2. As an article of manufacture, a unitary body comprising an open mesh flexible and vibrationable foundation screen composed of warp and Woof portions, and a fine mesh screen in superimposed coextensive relation thereto, said fine mesh screen being inseparably attached to said foundation screen at substantially all Warp and Woof portions thereof over the area of said foundation screen.
3. As an article of manufacture, a unitary body comprising an open mesh flexible and vibrationable foundation screen composed of warp and woof members, and a fine mesh screen in contact therewith, said fine mesh screen being soldered to said foundation screen at a plurality of points distributed over the area of said screen.
4. A method of producing a unitary fine mesh screen comprising placing an open mesh foundation screen under tension, placing a fine mesh screen under tension and in contact with said foundation screen, and then connecting said fine mesh screen to said f0undation screen at a plurality of points distributed over the area of said screen.
5. A method of producing a unitary fine mesh screen comprising placing an open mesh foundation screen under tension, placing a fine mesh screen coextensive with said foun dation screen under tension and in contact with said foundation screen, and then soldering said fine mesh screen to said foundation screen at a plurality of spaced points of contact distributed over and within the area of said foundation screen.
6. A method of producing the unitary fine mesh screen comprising placing a fine mesh screen under tension uniformly in all directions, contacting said screen with an open mesh foundation screen, and then connecting said fine mesh screen to said foundation screen at points of contact While said fine mesh screen is maintained under tension.
Signed at Los Angeles, Calif, this 19th day of November, 1929.
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A toroidal belt limiter ALT-II pumped through 8 portholes is being developed for TEXTOR as a joint IEA - cooperation project. The exposed surface area is 2.8 m**2. The ALT-II project is to follow the single head pump limiter module ALT-I presently installed. In the final stage of the experimental programme the total heating power absorbed by the plasma will be 4.2 + 6.2 MW. Methods of heating and their power fractions: Ohmic heating 0.5 + 0.7 MW, ICRH 1.5 + 2.5 MW, and Neutral injection 2 x 1.1 + 2 x 1.5 MW; duration of heating pulse: 3 secs. Average heat flux to the wall: 0.11 + 0.16 MW/m**2; Assumed fraction of the total power deposited onto the toroidal belt limiter: eta = 15 %. Expected power flux density to the limiter: 150 + 220 W/cm**2 energy flux density: 450 + 660 J/cm**2. The maximum local or temporal excursions from these values are expected to be less than a factor of 10 and of 3, respectively. Means foreseen for impurity control: gas puffing together with particle exhaust, low-Z materials, boundary ergodization.
Additional information
Bibliographic Reference: 4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HEATING IN TOROIDAL PLASMAS, ROMA (ITALY), MARCH 21-28, 1984 VOL. II, P. 1373 1478 P., VOL. I AND VOL. II, 1984 WRITE TO MONOTYPIA FRANCHI, ST. LUCIA - VIALE UMBRIA NO. 28, 06012 CITTA DI CASTELLO, PERUGIA (ITALY), PRICE: US


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It's not often that mother nature gets involved in our lives. Most of the time, she keeps to herself, does her own thing, and we all just live in her world. But it's evident that she couldn't stand by and watch this Bachelor in Paradise nonsense any longer. So she grabbed a jellyfish and stung Juelia with it, proving that even the best of the paradisers need to make a change in their approach to life. Honestly, if that jellyfish sting isn't a sign, I don't know what is.
Fun fact: Tenley is the Chandler to Juelia's Monica.
Meanwhile, the rest of the heathens are sitting around waiting to find out which guy Chelsie is going to pick for her date. And after quick talks with both Dan and Nick, she decides that the grungier one is more her style, and she asks Nick out. He says yes, but when he goes to tell Ashley S, she finds herself in the worst situation for having "the talk" with a guy: She's washing her face. Horrible, right?
After Ashley spends 10 minutes—I repeat: 10 minutes—splashing water on her face, she talks to Nick just long enough for him to tell her that she smells like a brewery—so sweet—and that he doesn't see a romantic future for them. Ashley agrees, but she really just can't believe that he'd come talk to her while she was in such a vulnerable position. I mean, she had soap on her face. I dare you to name something worse than that.
Glancing around base camp, the only couple cuter than Joshua and Tenley is Carly and Kirk, who are on the fast track to a happily ever after … at least until Mackenzie from Chris' season walks in. Just kidding, she's not a threat to anyone except her future children whom she might name after vegetables.
As Ashley I puts it, you might remember Mackenzie as the "sweet, really young mom who loves aliens." Or if you're me, you'll remember her as mother to Kale.
Getting the scoop from Ashley I—an always objective source—Mackenzie finds out that Justin and Dan are really her only two options this week. As for Jared? Well, he's like a combination of Ashton Kutcher and Joe Jonas, and Ashley I cannot get enough.
Out on the water, Chelsie and Nick enjoy their extremely uneventful time on a yacht, where Chelsie decides this must be what it's like to be Beyoncé, which is an insult to Beyoncé if I've ever heard one. Also, I wouldn't call this your "Titanic moment." You do know how that movie ends, right?
And you know what? If you ARE going to have a Titanic moment, do it right. Because I'm pretty sure Nick just yelled, "I'm on top of the world," which makes absolutely no sense.
As Chelsie and Nick float on by base camp, Dan is still hung up on Sam. According to him, the two of them have more in common than any two other people in the house when it comes to passions, travel, etc. Honestly, I wasn't convinced until I heard they both liked white rice. I mean, that's the stuff fairytales are made of.
But guess who else likes Sam? Nick, who has no interest in poor Chelsie.
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Dreaming of the BlogHer Conference
Last night I had a dream that I was at the conference. But for some reason, my mother lived there. We were all staying with my mom; Pissy, Kristine, a whole bunch of people. It was the night before the conference and we were all hanging out at my Mom's house, it was a BIG party.
The Sarcastic Journalist arrived.
She brought her baby.
Then she left.
And left her baby.
With ME!
Now, I'm fine with babies, I have had a bit of experience in that department; but I was little put off that she left her sleeping baby with me to watch while she took off to go God knows where. She said that she would meet us at the conference at noon the next day and that I could bring the baby with me there to return to her. She left bottles and instructions. I remember saying to someone, "I don't know if I remember how to mix up formula," but then I remembered that it was one scoop of powder to every two ounces of water."
Then, she called the next morning and said that nothing good was going to happen at the conference THAT day and she would just show up the next day. I have NO idea where she was, but she was completely content leaving her baby with me to take care of. Luckily, in the dream, the baby slept the entire time. Which if my memory of babies serves me correctly, that's not usually so much the case.
We were at the conference and I was attending to the baby; someone commented about how cute my baby was. I looked at them and said, "Well, yes, she is cute, but she's not my baby. She's the Sarcastic Journalists baby, she left her with me." At that moment, in my dream, it dawned on me that I was attending to the Sarcastic Journalist's baby and I didn't even know the Sarcastic Journalists, REAL name. Then I said to the person I was speaking to,
"I am SO blogging about this tomorrow."
So from my dream, I have concluded a few things:
If you go to the BlogHer Conference and the Sarcastic Journalist is there, and she has her baby with her; be very cautious if she asks you to look after her.
I really NEED to go to the BlogHer Conference.
I really need to NOT go to the BlogHer Conference.
I need to lay off the mind-altering drugs before bed.
One of the above.
In FINAL conclusion: Although I don't know her at all, I'm sure that the Sarcastic Journalist is a very lovely person and a wonderful mother and would never dream of leaving her precious baby with a complete stranger whom she didn't even know her real name, or write a run-on sentence like the one I am writing now, because afterall, she is a journalist. So please don't judge SJ, her character, or her mothering abilities by my very strange sub-conscious.


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I don't even know where to begin.
A little over a year ago, in the Spring of 2013, Melinda came home from work and said one simple word, "China?" It wasn't a place we had been thinking about. After a 6-month assignment in New York City we were wishing we could spend some time overseas, but our thinking was more Europe than Asia; English-speaking Europe. London. We wanted an Expat experience, but nothing too "foreign." Ha! What we got was a choice, Shanghai, China, or stay in Seattle. We love Seattle. we had recently moved into a one-bedroom penthouse apartment with a private deck that was bigger than the living room and it had views from Mount Rainier to West Seattle, to Bainbridge Island to the Olympic mountains. Oh, and the Space Needle, too. James was living on Capitol Hill and we saw him frequently, we had season tickets to the Sounders FC and Izaak & Melinda loved long walks along the waterfront. We had, to our way of thinking, the perfect Seattle life. But…
We chose China. Shanghai. A city of 24 million people. Hot, humid, smoggy, polluted, crowded, noisy, incomprehensible.
Now, after more than a year living along the banks of the Huangpu River on the Pudong side of Shanghai we are saying goodbye to this city and this country; On Friday, I will perform my last Time Lord impersonation, leaving Pudong International Airport at 12:40 PM and arriving in Seattle, Washington at 8:39 AM the same day. I will miss this city, I will miss this country and I will miss Asia. I'll miss being an Expat.
Air Pollution
The picture at the top of this post was taken shortly after we arrived last October, from the bar on the 86th floor of the Jin Mao Tower. At the time I was appalled by the color and texture of the air I was breathing, but soon came to agree with the barista at the local Starbucks that an AQI of 150 wasn't that bad. I have seen days where the air has a greenish-gray hue, the AQI was 459 and visibility was less than 50 meters and I have seen bluebird skies, but mostly I have seen varying shades of gray; On sunny days it's light gray, on cloudy days it is dark gray.
China has a serious problem with air pollution and it isn't just the cities. Although Beijing is the worst and Shanghai is rapidly approaching the hazardous levels of the capital city, even the surrounding countryside is subject to dense smog from field burning and coal-fired power plants.
Food Safety
"Rat or Cat?" is how most people respond when you tell them you ate street food, and it is with good reason. There seem to be few laws governing food safety ans even fewer that are enforced. Yes, occasionally China's version of the FDA catches Wal*Mart selling fox meat mislabeled as the more desirable Donkey meat, or a small company is busted for scooping used cooking oil out of sewers and dumpsters –gutter oil–and reselling it. They even bust a McDonald's supplier for changing the date on old, expired packages of chicken, but those are he few that actually happen (and they are almost all western companies).
Nobody is regulating the guy walking down the street with blue, plastic netting dangling from each end of a wooden pole, holding metal bowls filled with turtles, that he is trying to sell to small mom & pop restaurants . Or the guy who netted some eels from a putrid canal and is selling them on the sidewalk. Gloves and hairnets in food preparation areas? When pigs fly! And speaking of pigs, a meat supplier was recently busted for selling pig's feet that had been bleached white in order to make them more appealing. Yum.
Take Your Shoes Off At The Door:
After just a brief period of time in China it is easy to understand why this culture has developed the custom of removing your shoes before entering the home. A short walk anywhere will cover your shoes in more DNA than working in a CSI lab: pee, poop, phlegm, snot and spit, you name it and it is being expelled from people walking down the street in huge volumes! I have had the person behind me on the metro escalator sneeze so forcefully that my neck was covered in spray and my hair moved. Walking at my NYC pace, passing people sauntering along the street, I have had my shoes spit upon more than once as I pass someone on the street.
And cab drivers are notorious for stopping to piss almost anywhere on the street in broad daylight (Hint: never sit in the back seat with your leg touching the door, drivers will often open up the back door as a screen when taking a piss and the spray coats the inside of the door). I once saw an old man waiting for a bus outside the IAPM mall decide he needed to pee, so at 3 PM, in broad daylight, he whipped it out and watered the meticulous landscaping before boarding the bus.
I understand why they people in China are always hocking up a wad of phlegm, it's because they are constantly breathing in filthy air, filling their lungs with microscopic PM 2.5 particles at hundreds of times the levels considered safe. And many of them smoke like chimneys. Everywhere; in cars, in offices, in restaurants, in bars, in airports, in train stations, in hotels, in bathrooms. Everywhere. A few weeks ago, Melinda, Trish, Larry and I were taking a taxi home from dinner and the driver was on a call via the speakerphone when we heard this ear shattering hocking sound that sounded like it was happening in our ears. Melinda, sitting in the back behind the driver, recoiled in horror, sure that they wad of phlegm was going to shoot out the drivers window and back in her window. Alas, it was the guy on the phone!
Sidewalk Life
Not only are the sidewalks of Shanghai the receptacle for bodily fluids of all types, they are the lifeblood of the city.
It's on the sidewalks that people live their lives: they cook, they eat, shop, play cards, gamble on mahjong, peddle their goods, repair shoes, cut hair, sew clothes, buy turtles, sell crickets, cage ducks, feed chickens and skin and butcher sheep. If you can imagine it, it probably occurs on the streets of Shanghai.
I had the Ayi's set of keys made by a street locksmith. Melinda's purse was repaired by a street shoemaker. We bought all our fresh fruit from a sidewalk vendor who parked her van on the sidewalk and sold out of the back. And I ate more than one "stick meat" of unknown species purchased on the street. If you can't find it on the streets of Shanghai, you don't need it.


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Band play Reading and Leeds later this month
Peace have revealed a new look and boyband-style dance routine on the video for new single 'Lost On Me' – click above to watch.
The group wear all-white outfits in the clip, while singer Harry Koisser sports a dyed red shaggy hairdo. It sees the band practising a dance routine in a rehearsal studio, and taking it out on the street when an accident occurs. They narrowly avoid being hit by passing cars, they terrify a family having a picnic and, eventually, appear to come to a sticky end.
The song is the latest to be lifted from the Birmingham band's forthcoming second album. Peace have already revealed 'World Pleasure' and 'Money', from the upcoming LP, which was recorded at London's Dean Street Studios.
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We all know of the importance of the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities. It sets forth the criteria – the symptoms or limitations – for virtually every type of condition, disease or disorder, and assigns corresponding percentage disability ratings based upon these criteria. In theory, the percentage ratings represent the average impairment in earning capacity resulting from such diseases and injuries and their residual conditions in civil occupations.
While the Schedule attempts to approximate the actual impairment level caused by service-connected disabilities, it often falls short of that goal. Some scheduler disability ratings underrate the actual impairment level of a veteran's disability; and, even a few may overrate the actual impairment level.
Nonetheless, except for certain minor exceptions, all claims must be evaluated by the scheduler criteria and fixed percentage ratings. This means that a VA adjudicator – whether a Rating Specialist, Decision Review Officer or a Board Veterans Law Judge – may not consider criteria or symptoms apart from those listed in the Schedule to assign a lower disability rating than what is determined by the Schedule.
In other words, if the listed criteria are met, the veteran is entitled to the corresponding percentage disability rating, even if the disability may not actually impair the veteran to the extent of the assigned disability rating.
In Massey v. Brown, 7 Vet.App. 204 (1994), for example, the Court held that the Board erred when it found that a higher rating was not warranted based on factors and symptoms that, while representative of Mr. Massey's mental disability and arguably related to his earning capacity, were not specifically included under the applicable diagnostic code. Id. at 207-08.
Similarly, in Drosky v. Brown, 10 Vet.App. 251 (1997), the Veterans Court vacated a Board decision which denied the veteran entitlement to a thirty (30) percent disability rating. In that case, the veteran had service-connected rheumatic heart disease with an enlarged heart, one of the criteria for a thirty (30) percent disability rating.
The Board denied entitlement to this rating, reasoning that the veteran's enlarged heart was "expected" and not "significant, abnormal, or disabling." Id. at 255.
The Court vacated the Board's decision, holding that the Board erred by considering factors outside the rating criteria—namely, whether the appellant's enlarged heart was unexpected or significant.
More recently, in Jones v. Shinseki, 26 Vet.App. 56 (2012), the Veterans Court criticized the Board for considering the beneficial effects of medicine in determining the veteran's disability rating, when this factor was not listed in the applicable diagnostic code. In that case, the veteran sought an increased rating in excess of ten (10) percent for service-connected irritable bowel syndrome. Under the schedule, the maximum 30% rating was warranted for a "severe" disability with "diarrhea, or alternating diarrhea and constipation, with more or less constant abdominal distress."
The Board denied the higher disability rating, reasoning that "anti-acid medication provided some relief of symptoms." The Court held that the Board erred by considering the ameliorative effects of medication, as this factor was not listed in the applicable diagnostic code. Id. at 63.
Practice Pointer:
Always carefully check the listed criteria for each percentage rating under the applicable diagnostic code of the Schedule. If the veteran's condition meets the criteria for a certain disability rating, then as a matter of law, he or she is entitled to that rating. A VA adjudicator may not consider factors outside of the Schedule to assign a lower rating.
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Hary Tanoesoedibjo, CEO of PT Global Mediacom, said that several strategic investors have shown interest in participating in the IPO, including U.S private equity firm Saban Capital. He declined to give an amount the firm was looking to raise.
Sources told Reuters in March that MNC Skyvision planned to raise $300-$400 million via an IPO in June after scrapping the plan last year.
MNC Skyvision is Indonesia's market leader in satellite pay-TV with a 78 percent market share from its two brands Indovision and Top TV. (Reporting by Fathiya Dahrul; Editing by Neil Chatterjee)


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FYR Macedonia is an upper-middle-income country that has made great strides in reforming its economy over the past decade. Following strong economic growth during the period 2002–08 averaging 4.3%, average GDP growth has declined to 2.1% per year since 2009. The main drivers of growth since 2009 have been construction (supported by sizable public investments), industry (particularly manufacturing), and wholesale and retail trade.
Although the country has made significant progress in terms of its economic development, efforts are still needed across a range of areas to generate economic growth that will create jobs and improve living standards for all. However, real GDP growth would need to accelerate to around 4.5% for FYR Macedonia's living standards to converge with those of the new European Union (EU) member states within the next 20 years.
Accession to the EU remains the anchor of the Government's reform agenda. FYR Macedonia became an EU candidate country in 2005, and since 2009 the European Commission (EC) has recommended opening accession negotiations. However, the decision continues to be postponed, in part due to the dispute with Greece over the country's name. The EC has an active program of assistance to FYR Macedonia, including Instrument of Pre-Accession (IPA) funding, the largest source of concessional funds in the country.
Economic growth did not translate into significant poverty reduction in FYR Macedonia before 2008, but poverty seems to have declined somewhat in recent years.
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The Rift Within Canada's Constitutional Lute
Published: June 19, 1987
To the Editor:
Your editorial criticizing former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau for his impassioned opposition to the Canadian constitutional accord (''Trudeau the Spoiler,'' June 6) presents an optimistic view of the agreement not shared by even its strongest proponents.
Persuading Quebec to sign the 1982 Constitution is a goal that every Canadian federalist shares. Yet, it is critical to determine the costs imposed by the Meech Lake agreement. The nine Anglophone provinces were reluctant to grant Quebec ''special status.'' In return for their concessions, the provincial first ministers obtained, among other provisions, the right to ''opt out'' of new programs enacted by the Federal Government and to veto any proposed changes in the 1982 Constitution.
These concessions are nothing at all like ''our own constitutional compromises,'' as you state. While a small minority of American citizens (fewer than 5 percent) can block the adoption of a constitutional amendment, a much smaller bloc can do so in Canada under the Meech Lake accord. Prince Edward Island alone (one half of one percent of Canada's population) can prevent the adoption of an amendment.
Since Canadian politics are much more polarized regionally than American politics, the threat of a provincial veto is much more potent. It is simply implausible to believe that the 13 smallest states in the United States would band together to stop the enactment of a constitutional amendment; they are too diverse, and the force of national public opinion would not permit it. Yet it is not at all unrealistic to imagine a situation in which a single Canadian province would block a constitutional amendment.
As we consider the adoption of catastrophic health insurance in the United States, we never contemplate the idea that some states might be able to ''opt out'' of such a program; it is as foreign to us as the notion that states impose tariffs on each other. Yet in Canada provinces do impose such tariffs.
Mr. Trudeau's career was built on the idea of forging a single nation and a single national sense of identity. The 1982 Constitution was the device by which such identity was to be expressed. The Meech Lake accord merely acknowledges that the problems of Canadian federalism are intractable; it does not do anything to heal old wounds, be they Anglophone-Francophone or West versus Central Canada or rich versus poor provinces.
No wonder the former Prime Minister is anguished. The agreement, which seems to be most popular among Quebec nationalists and some Western separatists, ratifies the Tory view that Canada is a ''community of communities,'' where people remain just as free to speak Lithuanian as French or English. It is not a nation with a single spirit, as the United States is. The constitutional accord contains a legal warning against a future federalist who might try to find some common denominator among Canadians other than opposition to confederation with the United States.
Mr. Trudeau has every reason to be anguished. As a Canadian Tory acquaintance of mine, himself not a very strong Federalist, said of the agreement: ''They gave away the store.'' ERIC M. USLANER Professor of Government and Politics University of Maryland College Park, Md., June 8, 1987


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1. Get them off your camera
Whether it is a DSLR or point and shoot or iPhone, the first job is to get them onto a laptop or computer. This does a couple things. First off, it is a backup. If the iPhone gets lost or stolen, the images are gone. If the DSLR gets left on an airplane, the images are gone. Second off, you can do a whole lot more than swipe your finger across the screen occasionally to remember your trip.
2. Use the pictures as a slide show on your computer. Or the desktop wallpaper.
There's nothing better then sitting at work and seeing palm trees floating across the screen to get you through the day. Or the laughing images of your children sliding down the ski slopes. My desktop background changes with the season. Right now its a lonely island in the South Pacific (just waiting for me to come back to it). In a month it will be the ski slope of Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, British Columbia.
3. Hang 'em Up
Get one or two images from each vacation printed. Nowadays you don't even need to get a frame - just order a canvas print. They come ready to hang. If you go with the frame, IKEA has some collage frames that hold three images. One year when I was feeling like we hadn't gone anywhere in forever (say it like a teenager to get the full effect), I looked at the pictures on our "vacation wall" and realized we had hit two states and a different country in an eighteen month time span. I guess we had gone on vacation.
|This one was actually a gift for my aunt - the photo was taken off her back deck.
4. Slide show on the big screen
When we come home from a trip, somehow every relative in a 75 mile radius shows up at my house within a week (I guess they think we have t-shirts for them). In the old days people pulled out the slide projector (remember those?) and screen (going waaaaayyyy back), argued over the bean bag and settled in for a show (or the coinciding nap). Now you can stick the images on a DVD or thumb drive (if you have one of them fancy TV's) and just push play. The pictures rotate through the screen and none of them will be upside down (you have to be of a certain age to get that one).
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5. Make cards
This one has saved my butt a few times. I print out 25 4x6 pictures and put them in blank cards. The cards can either be cardstock that you folded and glue the prints on or actual blank cards where you insert the image into a pre-cut frame. Because they are blank, you can use them for any holiday, event, birth, get well, belated anniversary, belated birthday...you get the idea.
6. Send out some holiday cheer
Christmas-time I know I have a good chance of getting mail that is not a bill (at least the odds get better). Vacations are probably the one time of year families actually like getting together to have their photo taken (although a good portrait photographer will make this an enjoyable experience any time of the year). Make the best of both worlds and turn your vacation photo into a Christmas Card. With templates out there and online options galore, it's pretty painless to get a good card to send out to family and friends.
|This was one of my most brilliant ideas - New Years cards with a blank spot on the back for Thank You's!
7. Get yourself published
Scrapbooks are great! I have a few (or 20) myself. But they are bulky and can be hard to store. Not to mention printing the pictures, getting out the stickers and the coordinating paper and double sided tape (one or three was always missing when I needed it). These days I use an online publishing company like blurb.com or lulu.com and put together a book. This is the one I did as a thank-you-for-letting-us-crash-your-condo for my parents. Smaller than a scrapbook; less counter space used in the kitchen.
8. Image a Month Club
Or a fancy way of saying "Calendar". We gave these out at Christmas (the idea-creativity juices stopped flowing sometime around November) and they got rave reviews. An uncle of mine said it was a much better gift than something we could have bought because they were photos of somewhere we'd actually been. Pretty good coming from someone with a way better camera than us (the nerve). Lots of places print them. My favorite so far has been Lulu.com.
Above all, get the images in front of you so you see them every day. Sometimes I find a memory card I'd forgotten about at the bottom of a camera bag. I dump it and it's like Christmas - the dog when it was a puppy, my daughter when she played soccer, images of an aunt that recently passed away. Spend a few minutes of your day and get those pictures back into your life. You spent a lot of money on them.


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Energy procurement decisions can effect a business' carbon footprint as well as their bottom line. But procurement decisions need to consider State regulations, the business' peak demand and load requirements, managing current and future energy needs and trends in energy prices and products.
About the module
This module focuses on how to review energy tariffs, contracts and general procurement practices to reduce costs.
In this module business leaders will access tools and case examples to review current energy procurement practices and identify potential quick wins in areas such as peak demand, load management and tariff structures. In particular the team will be better equipped to:
- Present information on energy markets including energy prices and site energy baseline data to inform cost savings opportunities
- Identify, prioritise and align energy procurement cost saving opportunities with the current and future energy demands of the site
- Engage others from within teams and across the site to progress and monitor energy procurement cost savings
- Develop action plans to progress procurement cost savings
- Revisit action plans and monitor progress against targets.
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Practice and implementation
- Module 3 practice guide
This practice guide covers six key skills for understanding and managing energy costs focusing on energy markets and procurement.
- Module 3 facilitator runsheet
How to run the planning session for the module – topics, questions and outcomes.
- Module 3 presentation: Energy procurement
This presentation is part of the planning session for Module 3. It can also be used as an information resource for topics such as energy market regulations and contestability, understanding energy bills and negotiating supply contracts.
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Harris also expressed confidence the United States could defeat any North Korea missile attack on an American aircraft carrier strike group but said the United States should study placing additional missile defense capabilities in Hawaii.
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Asked about defences of the continental United States, Harris deferred to other commanders but said: "I do believe that the numbers could be improved".
"There is no limit to the strike power of the People's Army armed with our style of cutting-edge military equipment including various precision and miniaturised nuclear weapons and submarine-launched ballistic missiles", the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a front-page editorial.
"With each provocation, North Korea jeopardizes stability in Northeast Asia and poses a growing threat to our allies and the USA homeland".
Both, the United States and South Korea made a decision to the early deployment of the missile defence system after talks between the South's acting president and visiting US Vice President Mike Pence, earlier this month.
All 100 US senators will gather Wednesday for a White House briefing on the volatility in North Korea.
Cardin said the USA needs to plan for contingencies as Kim Jong Un is an unpredictable leader but there's no "pretty military solution".
The strategy hinges greatly on the cooperation of China, North Korea's main trading partner.
US representative for North Korea Policy Joseph Yun met Tuesday with his Japanese counterpart Kenji Kanasugi and Kim Hong-kyun of South Korea.
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