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This last couple weeks has been rough. Due to really remarkably poor planning on the part of the client and our contract writers about 18 months ago, my employer laid off six people from our contract two weeks ago, including my boss and most senior team member. Overwhelming bitterness aside (for the team member, not the boss), I've been buried the last couple weeks trying to make a new balance. I think we'll be fine eventually, but there'll be some hiccups.
Horrors Unknown
I'm going to have to blame Candace for interesting me in Lovecraftian horror so long ago. For the last few months, I've been collecting Robin Laws' Gumshoe games. It started with Ken Hite's Trail of Cthulhu - an updated Lovecraftian horror game with a very different design philosophy than the lousy BRP system Chaosium uses for their stuff, and also distinct from Candace's fiat diceless system. Desiring more material to use to understand the system's philosophy, I followed up by purchasing the other Gumshoe games - Mutant City Blues first, which is less horror, more police procedural + superpowers. After that, I had to go to Indie Press Revolution to get the more obscure stuff, like Esoterrorists and Fear Itself.
Having collected all of this, I've started losing Stability and possibly Sanity reading disturbing modern horror stories and questioning: Why do I like horror? What makes it horrible and what makes it appealing?
I don't have any answers yet, but I'm not done asking.
Next: I need to go find R. Chambers' King in Yellow stuff to use for game research.
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Milwaukee police officer Karla Lehmann heard about Latasha Hayward's plight: Hayward and her kids -- ages 9, 5 and 3 -- had to move out of a homeless shelter in order to make room for needier people.
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We were chosen as one of the inaugural recipients of the American Thoracic Society's Best Practices in Fellowship Training Program!
Read our application essay here: OSU Pulmonary/Critical Care ATS Application
ATS program information: http://www.thracic.org/education/resources-for-training-program-directors.php
We have also participated in and received funding for several education oriented projects including those centered on simulation training, communication skills and career practice management skills.
At the beginning of each academic year, a senior fellow is chosen to serve as Chief Fellow by the Fellowship Committee. This honor is reserved for a fellow who has demonstrated excellence in their training and who is also recognized for their teaching and leadership skills. The Chief Fellow organizes the clinical schedule, the didactic conferences, and sits on the Fellowship and Division's Clinical Operations Committees.
Current and past Chief Fellows:
Throughout the year, outstanding efforts by individual fellows are recognized by the monthly awarding of a Buckeye Leaf(s). The Buckeye Leaf is a traditional award at The Ohio State University, prominent on the helmets of our football players. Fellows receive a Leaf for outstanding efforts in patient care, research, & education. Nominations come from faculty, patients and others within the Medical Center. At the end of each academic year, the fellow(s) with the most Buckeye Leaf awards is recognized as the Outstanding Buckeye at the end of the year Fellow Appreciation Dinner.
Past Outstanding Buckeyes:
This award was created in 2017 and has been named after a former pulmonary/critical care fellow who is remembered for his ability to remain calm under pressure and who never hesitated to help a colleague in need.
The recipient of this yearly award is a pulmonary/critical care fellow who exemplifies an eagerness to help others – both patients and colleagues alike and who possesses a true love of learning in order to better care for others. In a phrase, when you're "stuck in the trenches," this is the person that you are hoping to have by your side.
The Buckeye Adult Lung Award (BAL)
At the end of each academic year, the fellows select an individual faculty member for recognition for his/her outstanding efforts in fellowship education.
Past BAL Awardees:
Robert J. Fass Award for Outstanding Clinical Fellow
This award is presented to a clinical fellow in Internal Medicine who consistently demonstrates the attributes of an outstanding physician consultant. The housestaff elect a clinical fellow who is consistently available and helpful, a compassionate and knowledgeable expert, and an excellent educator of peers, housestaff, and patients. Several Pulmonary/CC Fellows have won this honor:
Outstanding Fellow Award, Columbus Children's Hospital
Awarded by pediatric residency program in recognition of outstanding clinical care, teaching of housestaff and medical students, and preservation of resident autonomy.
Darlene Buczak Award for Innovations in Education
This award from the APCCMPD is designed to honor Ms. Buczak's extensive service to the organization, and is given to an individual who demonstrates excellence and innovation in the education of fellows in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine.
James N. Allen Award for Excellence in Pulmonary Medicine
Chosen by the Pulmonary/Critical Care faculty and fellows recognizes the resident who best embodies the practice of pulmonary medicine as exemplified by Jim Allen, MD.
Critical Care Excellence Award
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BROWN RACES MATCO TOOLS CAR TO NO. 7 SPOT FRIDAY AT LAS VEGAS LAS VEGAS (Oct. 30, 2009) - Antron Brown raced his Don Schumacher-owned Matco Tools dragster to the provisional No. 7 qualifying position Friday evening at The Strip at Las Vegas...
LAS VEGAS (Oct. 30, 2009) - Antron Brown raced his Don Schumacher-owned Matco Tools dragster to the provisional No. 7 qualifying position Friday evening at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The 23-time NHRA winner used an elapsed time of 3.860-seconds to clock the seventh quickest run on the opening day of qualifying at the ninth annual Las Vegas NHRA Nationals.
Brown enters the penultimate event on the 2009 NHRA schedule ranked fourth in the standings trailing Tony Schumacher by 81 points or about four rounds of racing. On his first qualifying attempt of the weekend, Brown's bright blue Matco Tools dragster lost traction mid-track and slowed to a lap of 4.277 seconds at 259.21 mph. Friday evening under the lights at The Strip at LVMS, Brown powered his Brian Corradi/Mark Oswald-tuned Matco Tools rail to a performance of 3.860 at 314.09 to finish seventh in the order. Brown's teammates, Tony Schumacher and Cory McClenathan, finished third and sixth, respectively, on Friday.
"It's been a crazy week for this Matco Tools team and it was great to get back to racing today here at Las Vegas," Brown said. "We had a couple gremlins today, but it's good to get them out of the way. We broke a fuel line on the night run and that really slowed us down. It's all good though, we're in the show and ready to go some rounds on Sunday."
Professional nitro qualifying is scheduled for 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. (PT) on Saturday afternoon at The Strip at LVMS. Top Fuel will run first followed by Funny Car. Brown qualified second last October at the fall Las Vegas race at 3.812-seconds.
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Artist: Studio of Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, died ca. 1640)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: early 17th century
Culture: Japan
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions: 10 x 21 3/4 in. (25.4 x 55.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Chizuko and Frank Korn, in honor of Miyeko Murase, 2006
Accession Number: 2006.570
This painting is a section of a larger painting, cut from a pair of folding screens that featured scenes from the eleventh-century novel The Tale of Genji. Remounted as a hanging scroll, this scene is from a chapter of the story known as "The Ivy." Kaoru, the son of the novel's main character, Genji, lies in bed, a folding screen shielding him from the evening wind in the hills of Uji. By the faint light of an oil lamp, a maidservant piques the young man's interest with word of a young woman named Ukifune. The bright, thickly applied pigments are considered a hallmark of Sōtatsu's studio, to which the painting has traditionally been attributed.


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text: the Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky once described Stalinism as "the perfect theory for glueing up the brain." What he meant was that a regime as monstrous as Stalin's, which murdered 40 million people and enslaved many times more, was nonetheless able to persuade progressives and "social justice" advocates all over the world to act as its supporters and defenders. These enlightened enablers of Stalin's crimes included leading intellectuals of the day, even Nobel Prize winners in the sciences and the arts such as Frederic Joliot-Curie and Andre Gide. But brilliant as they were, they were blind to the realities of the Stalinist regime and, therefore, to the virtues of the free societies they lived in.


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Families have been taking road trips ever since the invention of the automobile. Today traveling by car is easier than ever… from finding motels, selecting restaurants, playing videos, to sightseeing. Whether you're behind the wheel, or taking a break and playing some casinoeuro mobile games, the latest apps provide many wonderful options… perfect for drivers, adult passengers, teens, and children.
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22-Apr-2017 Out Of Time by Miranda Sawyer
I still read quite a lot – blogs, online articles, my massive feedly feed of articles. And still a few books, but not as many as I'd like.
I'd hate to think that it's part of the dumbing down of the world, short attention spans and what not. I am into getting lots of sleep, cooking from scratch, lots of exercise, trying to balance work with play so it is just hard to fit in the time.
Anyway, virtually all of my book-reading is on my phone with the kindle app (I am into reducing devices and don't "even" have a tablet).
I bought this book Out Of Time by Miranda Sawyer. It was about :
"a very modern look at the midlife crisis – delving into the truth, and lies, of the experience and how to survive it, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour."
I don't think I am going through a midlife crisis or anything but am conscious of the constant drip drip drip of time ticking by. Kids getting older, now into late teens and early adulthood, and the gradual ageing of parents ie I am getting older and you just can't ignore that. Anyway I didn't really like her style much and didn't particularly enjoy the book, and very nearly discarded it a few times, although I did persevere and finish it. I found that the following paragraph really did resonate with me :
'You're at the life stage you're at. Accept it. If you have children, then all things have their season, and this is the season for staying in and looking after your children. Acknowledge where you are, accept where you are, move through it and enjoy it. Because the other option is to actively not enjoy your life.'
We do go through life stages and people should just be patient and accept it rather than just fight fight fight all the time. People can do many things but they can't do everything all at once. If you are always pushing against the grain it makes it a lot harder and a lot less enjoyable. I could go off into a rant about "mindfulness" although there is too much rubbish written about the concept, but in general there is a lot of merit to it all.
3-Jan-2016 Still on holiday!
I am still on holiday and hanging out at home, doing lots of sport, running, swimming, gym, possibly too much as my arms and legs are very tired and I have trouble getting out of bed before about 10am!
I finished reading The Razor's Edge book by Somerset Maugham. I really enjoyed it … this review is better than I could give it:
In the evening, gone 1030pm, me and Dawn walked thru Bonnie Vale campsite to Maianbar and as it was low tide crossed the beach to the spit and walked back on the beach. I gave her a piggy back across the stream! We got back home approx 11.30pm, it was warm and we worked up a sweat.
29-Oct-2014 A Fine Balance Book
This month's book for Book Club was "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry. I have read it before and loved it and I have read of bunch of his other ones also.
I loved the book again, I love the slow-paced build-up. I love the snippets into Indian life and different religions and customs but it's not rammed hard at you. It's good.
Obviously, it's set in India which always puts it firmly in my radar, I love books about India. The 2 tailors, from a lower caste are definitely underdogs, I am always a fan of under dogs. Dinah and Maneck complete the key four characters, are an interesting mix of people and backgrounds but the story goes well together and I felt like I really cared for them, which is quite rare in a book. It follows that successes and failures.
Here were some cool quotes I'd bookmarked:
The proofreader nodded, 'You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes,' he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance.'
But how firm to stand, how much to bend? Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.
'The rules should always allow someone to win,' Om insisted. The logical breakdown troubled him. 'Sometimes, no one wins,' said Maneck. 'You were right, it is a stupid game,' said Om.
'So that's the rule to remember, the whole quilt is much more important than any single square.'
People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them, put them in the same position as my beggars.'
'After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents – a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.'
So true, I often remark to Dawn that life is like one big random accidental series of occurrences!
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25-Sep-2014 Love in time of cholera
I finished this month's book club book a little bit early : Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez [wikipedia link].
Previously I had only read his famous Hundred Years of Solitude that I hated so wasn't looking forward to this but I actually quite enjoyed it.
Here is part of the New York /times review:
As we grow older it gets stranger, until at some point mortality has come well within the frame of our attention, and there we are, suddenly caught between terminal dates while still talking a game of eternity. It's about then that we may begin to regard love songs, romance novels, soap operas and any live teen-age pronouncements at all on the subject of love with an increasingly impatient, not to mention intolerant, ear.
At the same time, where would any of us be without all that romantic infrastructure, without, in fact, just that degree of adolescent, premortal hope? Pretty far out on life's limb, at least. Suppose, then, it were possible, not only to swear love "forever," but actually to follow through on it – to live a long, full and authentic life based on such a vow, to put one's alloted stake of precious time where one's heart is? This is the extraordinary premise of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new novel "Love in the Time of Cholera," one on which he delivers, and triumphantly.
The main guy falls in love as a teenager and writes many many love letters (reminds me of myself as a teen …) but the girl turns him down and he waits 50 years for her husband to die and be in with a nother chance. He has some affairs but never marries and is always focussed on getting her the right house and is just thinking about her. They do (amazingly) get another chance but by then they are old people in their 70's. It really makes you think about love as you get older, something I am facing !! gadzooks!
Yeah, a great book… much better than the the solitude one.
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13-Sep-2014 City Day Out
It's pretty obvious, to me at least, that a day out in the city is a weird thing for me to do, given I am there Monday to Friday and that I hate shopping, but it was a family thing. Chelsea was going to work and Kody was with friends at the Cronulla Spring Festival.
It was Dawn's birthday on Monday and she wanted to get some clothes and things and Jazmin wanted to go also, so I tagged along. yawn. I really don't like shopping. especially clothes shopping and even more especially when none of it is for me! However it was nice to be out with family, so that was good. They both got quite a few things so it was semi-worthwhile…
After we got back I went for a short run to Jibbon and along the beach and had a swim. The water is not quite as icy, but not really warm in any known description. Lots of bluebottles also but I went along the beach to the tucked on corner so missed them, thankfully.
On the train I started and finished reading a Kindle Singles book (ie very short, cost $3) : I Murdered My Library by Linda Grant. I found it from this article in the Guardian.
What happens when you begin to build a library in childhood and then find you have too many books? From a small collection held together by a pair of plaster of Paris horse-head bookends to books piled on stairs, and in front of each other on shelves, books cease to furnish a room and begin to overwhelm it. At the end of 2013, novelist Linda Grant moved from a rambling maisonette over four floors to a two bedroom flat with a tiny corridor-shaped study. The trauma of getting rid of thousands of books raises the question of what purpose personal libraries serve in contemporary life and the seductive lure of the Kindle. Both a memoir of a lifetime of reading and an insight into how interior décor has banished the bookcase, her account of the emotional struggle of her relationship with books asks questions about the way we live today.
I really enjoyed it and it resonated with me … I have been reading since I was about 5 years old and have had many many books, and am finally trying to part with them. I too use my Kindle a lot more now (actually the kindle app on my phone).
12-Sep-2014 Update from Bangladesh
This week I got an email from Shahed :
Second Term exam is started in Subornogram Foundation's School for the Cobbler Community Children at Bagmucha, Sonargaon on 6 September. 102 students are attending the exam. The exam will continue till 13 September.
The teaching in the school is going on very well despite several challenges and limitation of resources. This year 4 of our students of class five will appear in the Government exam in coming November.
This was great news but I felt like I wanted to know more ie it raises more questions than it answers.
He also sent a couple of photos:
As an aside, I also read a free ebook called "The Flinch" – you can download it from Amazon here for free. This was basically about pushing you to do stuff that scares yourself, moving outside your comfort zone where you'd normally "Flinch".
Anyway, after I had went to Bangladesh last year and met Shahed and Chris, I had thoughts of getting more involved with the school .. not really sure how but raising some money to help them and stuff. I think I still want to do this although am nervous about jumping in with both feet as it's then hard to extract myself some years later. Still I would like to get more involved, just need to think how. It seems to me that even raising $1000 a year is a big deal for that school and really that's only finding 50 people willing to donate $20 per year .. surely that's pretty easy.
I guess I will think about it some more.
19-Aug-2014 Half of a Yellow Sun
As I was away for a while in England I got behind on the latest book club book "Half of a Yellow Sun" by by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I finished it today.
At first it started off like an end-of-empire book about privileged whites and Africans but it quickly dived into the history surrounding the emergence of Biafra and the war for independence in the 1960s when it broke away from Nigeria.
I don't much about Africa really (never been to Africa) but it was a great read and I really enjoyed it. I feel quite inspired to want to go there now. One of the people at book club, Michael, lived in the area in the 1960s and really rated the book. Quite fascinating.
You can check out the book at Amazon, and a review in the Guardian – and extract here:
Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, takes its title from the emblem for Biafra, the breakaway state in eastern Nigeria that survived for only three years, and whose name became a global byword for war by starvation. Adichie's powerful focus on war's impact on civilian life, and the trauma beyond the trenches, earns this novel a place alongside such works as Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy and Helen Dunmore's depiction of the Leningrad blockade, The Siege.
Adichie takes her time in reaching the privations of war. Covering the decade to the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967-70, the novel first develops its characters in a period of peace and – for some – plenty after Nigerian independence in 1960. Among the protagonists are Odenigbo, or "the Master", a radical maths lecturer at the University of Nsukka – in what became the secessionist Igbo land – and Ugwu, the village teenager who becomes his houseboy, but whom he enrolls at the university staff school. A novel that descends into dire hunger begins with Ugwu's devoted creativity in the kitchen, confecting pepper soup, spicy jollof rice and chicken boiled in herbs. Beer and brandy flow as he serves the Master's friends while absorbing snippets of intellectual debate in the era of Sharpeville, de Gaulle in Algeria and the struggle for US civil rights.
Ugwu's domain is encroached upon by Odenigbo's lover, Olanna, the London-educated daughter of a "nouveau riche" businessman in Lagos, and the household is later disrupted by its links with Olanna's periodically estranged twin sister Kainene and her English boyfriend, Richard.
Ethnic differences are signalled between the mainly Igbo protagonists – whose persistent switching between English and Igbo languages is wonderfully conveyed – and those such as Odenigbo's Yoruba colleague, Miss Adebayo, and Olanna's ex-boyfriend from the north, the Hausa prince Mohammed. These differences assume lethal significance after the ostensibly Igbo-led 1966 military coup, which becomes a pretext for anti-Igbo pogroms after the counter-coup six months later. As Olanna and others become caught up in the violence, the novel captures horror in the details of "vaguely familar clothes on headless bodies", or corpses' "odd skin tone – a flat, sallow grey, like a poorly wiped blackboard".
As Biafran secession "for security" brings a refugee crisis, a retaliatory Nigerian blockade and all-out war, and the world (bar Tanzania) refuses to recognise the fledgling state, the focus is on the characters' grief, resilience and fragmenting relationships. Tending her adopted daughter, Olanna endures the descent into one-room squalor, food-aid queues and air raids without self-pity. But there is anger at the "bleakness of bombing hungry people", and the deadly kwashiorkor, malnutrition that afflicts children, dubbed "Harold Wilson syndrome" for the former colonial power's complicity. While Ugwu's forced conscription involves him in an atrocity whose legacy is lasting shame, the issue of forgiveness between the twin sisters subtly echoes that of warring political groups.
A history of colonisation is alluded to, not least in the tragicomic figure of Richard's anglophile servant Harrison, who prides himself on serving roast beef and rhubarb crumble, but adapts in wartime to roasting lizards and bush rats "as though they were rack of lamb". While Richard identifies with Biafra and intends to write the history of the war, it is Ugwu who takes up the pen and the mantle. As Richard concedes, "The war isn't my story to tell really," and Ugwu nods. "He had never thought that it was."
There are other quiet revolutions in the novel. Odenigbo, the "revolutionary freedom fighter" with endless certainty and self-belief, succumbs to drink and despair, while the seemingly compliant Olanna draws on profound strengths. The master-servant relationship is upended, as the "houseboy" returns with fondness and irony the Master's way of addressing him as "my good man".
The novel's structure, moving in chunks between the late and early 60s, is not without blips. At times I wondered how far Ugwu's omnivorous reading was reflected in his development. But these are quibbles in a landmark novel, whose clear, undemonstrative prose can so precisely delineate nuance. There is a rare emotional truth in the sexual scenes, from Ugwu's adolescent forays and the mature couples' passions, to the ugliness of rape.
Literary reflections on the Biafra war have a long and distinguished history, from the most famous poet to have died in the war, Christopher Okigbo, to Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi and Flora Nwapa. Born in 1977, Adichie is part of a new generation revisiting the history that her parents survived. She brings to it a lucid intelligence and compassion, and a heartfelt plea for memory.
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Jeremy Hope is the author of a number of articles and books on performance management and associated leadership issues. He is co-author with Robin Fraser of Beyond Budgeting (based on an article they wrote for Harvard Business Review, "Who Needs Budgets?") as well as co-author, with his brother Tony Hope, of two earlier books, Transforming the Bottom Line and Competing in the Third Wave. Both books have been translated into many languages and won coveted awards in the USA. His most recently published book is Reinventing the CFO: How Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value. Hope has given many keynote speeches at major conferences on performance management topics. He began his career as a chartered accountant and has since had experience in venture capital and business management. For the past five years his work has been focused on "Beyond Budgeting" and he is currently research director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT), an organization dedicated to helping firms improve their performance management processes.
Morris: You and your brother, Tony Hope, co-authored two books in which you explain why traditional accounting is no longer able to provide managers with relevant information for decision making. What led you to reach that conclusion?
Hope: Johnson and Kaplan's book Relevance Lost brought together many of the ideas that Tony and I were also thinking about. The main problem is that strategy is divorced from execution at both the planning and control stages. Accountants manage budgets and numbers rather than the business. This can lead to catastrophic failure as managers have no way of knowing if their strategy is working or whether their actions are creating value. Nor do most of them know where they are until mid-way through the following month.
Morris: If budgeting, as most corporations practice it, should be replaced, with what?
Hope: I use the word "budgeting" as a surrogate for command and control management. So it's not just a matter of replacing the budget. It's about replacing the whole performance management model. This means that you need some 'process' changes such as moving from annual negotiated targets to measures based on relative improvement against, for example, peers and best practices; moving from annual to continuous planning supported by rolling forecasts, and from annual resource allocations to more dynamic resource management. But you also need some 'leadership' changes. These include devolving more strategy, planning, forecasting and decision-making to front line teams and giving them more freedom and capability to act. It also means providing fast, open and transparent information. This is the real control system in any organization. The result is more speed and innovation as managers are not working under the threat of a fixed performance contract that drains energy and stifles initiative.
Morris: Heads of HR as well as CFOs are frequently not included in high-level decisions made by senior management in many organizations. I think that is a serious mistake. Do you agree? If so, how do you explain that exclusion?
Hope: I totally agree. The only way I can explain it is that the senior executive team still perceives HR directors as people who deal with recruitment and benefits and have little to say about strategy. The sad thing is that they're probably right. But the answer is to find the right people who can take HR into the boardroom. "Getting the right people on the bus and in the right seats" as Jim Collins said is critical to future success. Also finding ways to create self-managed teams and reward these teams effectively are key success factors.
Morris: In your opinion, what specifically can CFOs do to convince other senior-level executives (especially their CEO) that traditional budgeting practices and procedures must be replaced?
Hope: The key step is to build a case for change. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that the budgeting process is broken. Some CFOs have organized internal surveys that invariably show that functional and business unit managers believe that budgeting adds no value (but a lot of cost). Another option is to go to the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT) website (www.bbrt.org) where you'll find a free diagnostic that will help the CFO to gather evidence and present a comprehensive report. Another approach is to examine those companies that have recently abandoned budgeting. These include American Express, Unilever and UBS Wealth Management. Many others are 'on the journey'. Joining the BBRT is a great way to network and learn.
Morris: Given your response to the previous question, which barriers must CFOs be prepared to overcome to achieve that replacement?
Hope: By far the greatest barrier is the control mindset. Most finance people have a deeply embedded view that targets drive performance improvement and budgets control that performance. But most of the evidence suggests otherwise. Targets and budgets drive dysfunctional behavior as executives and managers play games with the numbers. Overcoming this barrier means convincing the CFO that the new control system is more effective than budgeting. This means knowing where you are today on all key indicators; knowing where you're going through quality rolling forecasts; knowing how you're doing against peers, prior years and best practices; knowing if your strategy is working through managing gaps and monitoring KPIs; knowing your key value drivers and so forth. With less time wasted on budgeting and more time spent on providing performance insights and effective control systems, the CFO and the Finance team will be welcomed as business partners.
Morris: You and Robin Fraser co-founded the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT). What is it and what does it do?
Hope: The BBRT is a members' consortium with networks in Europe, North America, South America and Asia/Pacific. Members pay a modest annual fee (around $12,000) and they join a learning network that provides case studies, research papers, CFO interviews, and diagnostics. There are regular meetings in all world centers that are packed with cases and workshops.
Morris: Now please focus specifically on Beyond Budgeting. In it, you and Fraser assert that the Balanced Scorecard provides a framework that helps to overcome some problems but still "plays second fiddle to a core management process driven by the annual budgeting cycle." How so?
Hope: The reason is that with both the budget and the scorecard running in parallel it's like driving a car with two steering wheels. While the scorecard has a 2-5 year strategy perspective, the budget is focused on the current quarter and year. The management dynamics are quite different. Few organizations have overcome this problem. So they pretend that the scorecard is just another top-down annual performance contract. The evidence is in the reporting system where you tend to see target-actual-variance with happy/miserable faces or colored traffic lights. There are other problems with the way that scorecards are used. For example, they take some putting together and coordinating across the business so changing them to reflect a change of direction is not easy. The organization becomes too "glued together" making the so-called adaptive organization seem like a long way away.
Morris: What is "the annual performance trap" and how can senior-level executives break free from it or, better yet, avoid it?
Hope: The annual performance trap typically starts with the negotiation of an annual fixed target. This might be a commitment to meet a profit figure that is communicated to investors and then cascaded down the business. The problem is that everyone from senior executives down to lowly managers is driven to 'make the number'. This obsession with 'managing earnings' is pervasive. But according to recent research by McKinsey & Co it is a waste of time. McKinsey & Co recently asked executives why they issued guidance and the answers were uniform: "higher valuations, lower share price volatility and improvements in liquidity." But their review of around 4,000 companies failed to support these perceptions. In fact they found no evidence that issuing frequent earnings guidance affects valuation multiples, improves shareholder returns, or reduces share price volatility.
The only impact was the increase in trading volumes that only affects companies with illiquid shares. On the contrary, the evidence suggested that providing quarterly guidance has real costs including the time that senior management must spend preparing the reports and an excessive focus on short-term results. So the answer is to stop making promises and managing earnings. The alternative approach is to define success in terms of relative improvement against peers etc. This avoids the short-term performance trap, as there is no 'game' or 'number' to meet.
Morris: Please cite an example or two of organizations that have used beyond budgeting principles to implement more adaptive processes.
Hope: American Express has now abandoned annual budgeting and moved to a continuous planning process supported by rolling forecasts and dynamic investment optimization. Unilever is another company that has now abandoned budgeting. It calls its new system 'dynamic performance management'. In both cases they claim that the organization is more adaptive. Also American Express CFO Gary Crittenden believes that the organization has more control than before.
Morris: How can abandoning the traditional budgeting process enable radical decentralization?
Hope: Decentralization is often taken to be the same as delegation; that is, giving managers the authority to make certain decisions within fairly narrow tramlines usually defined by the budget. This is not real autonomy or empowerment. To achieve that you have to eliminate the fixed performance contract, otherwise managers will feel no ownership or commitment. In other words, if the CEO tells managers that they are 'empowered' to make decisions this will mean nothing if they are still held to a fixed contract. That's why it needs removing. Managers (in teams) need to set their own goals and plans (challenged by senior executives) to build ownership. It's motivation 101!
Morris: Here's a related question. How can the adaptive and decentralized organization meet the vision of business leaders in the twenty-first century?
Hope: Think about how critical success factors have changed over the years. In the industrial age they were about efficiency and control but today they are about fast response and innovation. How can we grow the top line organically, is a key question today. The trouble is that, unlike cost reduction, growth cannot be mandated from the corporate center. It can only be enabled and encouraged by the performance management system. And targets and budgets are the barriers that must be removed. Anton Stadelmann, CFO of UBS wealth management, has removed the budget because it is the primary impediment to growth thinking. As Jack Welch once said, budgeting is an exercise in minimalization.
Morris: You assert that budgets and fixed performance contracts "assume an absence of trust." Why do they do that?
Hope: Trust and empowerment go together, as do budget and contract. They come from different cultural worlds. Empowerment cannot be 'given;' it can only be 'taken.' And for that to happen, managers must trust their superiors. What's needed is a 'no blame' culture, but that's not usually the case in the budgeting world.
Morris: For those who have not as yet read Reinventing the CFO, in it you explain how financial managers can transform their roles and thereby add greater value to their respective organizations. How can managers do that if other senior-level executives (especially the CEO) have fallen victim to "the annual performance trap?"
Hope: I agree there is a real difficulty here. CFOs must stand up and be counted. They need to be more effective at influencing their colleagues. They need to convince them that all the detail, complexity and micro-management that goes on is a waste of everyone's time. A strong CFO should be able to do this. But then of course they must deliver. Showing their boardroom colleagues new performance insights such as rolling forecasts and trend analysis will help to get their attention.
Morris: What must CFOs take into full account when re-thinking their planning, resource allocation, and performance measurement systems so as to enable managers to focus on new success drivers?
Hope: The key change is moving to driver-based rolling forecasts. This means focusing on only 8-12 lines on the forecast making it regular (monthly or quarterly) and fast (no more than a few days to complete and consolidate). These forecasts will be of much higher quality if bias is removed and the key to this is removing the fixed performance contract. A well-prepared forecast supports resource and capacity management, and is a key element of the new measurement and control system.
Morris: Almost everyone agrees on the importance of "measuring what matters." Must not the measures employed be appropriate to the given process level and based on the given purpose?
Hope: Absolutely right. But how often does that happen? The typical measures that Finance uses are the nemesis of lean thinking. While lean and six sigma managers are focusing all their attention on process improvement what do finance people do? They continue to set targets and measure performance around all the old boxes (i.e., functions and departments) on the organization chart. Clarifying the purpose of a process should tell managers what they should measure and how they can improve. It is a self-fulfilling cycle of improvement.
Morris: Please share your thoughts about enterprise risk management (ERM) and why, in your words, ERM "represents a shift from managing risk in functional silos to managing them across the whole organization."
Hope: Most CEOs and CFOs have nightmares about being taken away in handcuffs with the TV cameras filming every moment. So managing risk effectively is high on the agenda. But risks are not easily subjected to check lists. They are not always foreseen and can arise at any time. That's why a culture of trust and transparency is so important. Some organizations have gone some way to improving the management of risk. Enterprise risk management gives boards the ability to assess all the risks of the company and understand them, separately and in relation to each other, potentially identifying risks they may not otherwise have identified, and then making a determination to either mitigate that risk or choose to accept it. It's by no means perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
Morris: One final question. In effect, you are asking CFOs to "reinvent" themselves to become effective change agents when setting out to transform their respective organizations. What are the most important lessons learned from other CFOs who have already done that successfully?
Hope: All successful CFOs have created more time and capacity for Finance to add more value. They have cut back on measures, reports, IT systems, projects and so forth. They have centralized the routine back office work and decentralized decision support. They have simplified everything. They have improved the skills and capabilities of their teams. And they have also rationalized their systems. But above all, they have shown a determination to succeed. They have all demonstrated courage, perseverance and leadership. I never said it was easy!
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Play with dolphins during your own private island escape on this Nassau excursion! This is the best dolphin program you'll find around because you'll get to interact with these cool creatures right on the beach! Unlike similar excursions you may see, there's no waiting in an overcrowded pool or wasting time here on this Nassau excursion!
On this popular Nassau dolphin excursion, you'll be whisked away to a private island where you'll get to spend the day freely exploring a tropical paradise. When you first arrive, friendly staff members will provide you with a quick orientation about the dolphin encounter and help you fill out any necessary paperwork. And then the fun of your Nassau shore excursion begins! You'll wade out into the water until you're waist deep to greet your new dolphin buddy.
For approximately half an hour, the trainer will educate you on dolphin behavior and answer any of your questions. At the end of the encounter, you'll get a kiss from the dolphin and pose for a photo (available for purchase).
The rest of the day on the island can be spent however you'd like. Lay on the beach (lounge chair included!), go snorkeling in the beautiful waters or grab a refreshing drink - you can basically design your own adventure! Additional non-motorized water activities including snorkel gear, kayaks and paddle boards are available for rent.
If you're looking for some relaxing beach time, umbrellas are available on the beach on a first come basis, and there is plenty of shade on one of our patios or bars.
If it's a tropical drink you're after, there are four delightfully different bars on the island, each with its own mood. One of the most popular is the Frozen Tropical Drink bar where frozen margaritas, daiquiris and pina coladas await you.
If you're feeling hungry, the market offers something for everyone, from small snacks to complete meals of fresh sandwiches, salads, wraps; and the only Starbucks on a private island!
Restrooms are located around the island as well as fresh water showers and foot baths. Don't worry about getting back in a hurry; the ferry does not leave the island and head back to downtown until 2:00 PM, so you can take your time enjoying everything the island has to offer.
Please Note: For the welfare of the dolphins, loose items such as jewelry and cameras cannot be taken into the water during this Nassau dolphin excursion. Lockers will be provided during your interaction. You can capture your encounter forever by purchasing a photo provided on a CD by the local representative. Please note that this is NOT included in the price of the tour.
Reviewer: Lucy Delmotte
We very much enjoyed our experience with the dolphin encounter. Would recommend it to friends.
Reviewer: Lucy Delmotte
My daughter and niece very much enjoyed the Dolphin Encounter and the day at your Island. The cruise I booked was for their pleasure. Neither of them had ever been on a cruise so my hope was to introduce them to cruising and future traveling. They loved everything. Having a one on one with the dolphin was fun and exciting and joyful for all of us. They want to have another cruise next year so I will be working on our next adventure. Our hope is that my granddaughter will be able to join us next year. Now, you must know that the Travel Agent, Renee Mateusiak was absolutely the best. She helped me put this travel experience together. She was patience with my lack of experience and helped me plan our entire adventure. I will ask for her next year. She is great and should get recognized for her expertise and patience. IT WAS ALL WONDERFUL!!!!
Reviewer: Anne Rostosky
This was the highlight of my vacation! It was well-managed and a great experience.
Reviewer: Virginia
I was a little worried about not using the cruiselines vendor. We had a fun time, felt the price was reasonable. There was about 12+ of us who got to stand in the shallows and pet and kiss dolphin for about 15 minutes. Our guide was very friendly. We did buy the photos cd. a little pricey, but there are a lot of pictures, and let us all enjoy ourselves. It was about a 30 minutes to the island. We had a 90 minute wait until our encounter. We tried the food, it was good, and wasn't too expensive. We didn't buy any alcohol. We used beach & pool, and didn't feel it was over-crowded. There was a board with recommended return times for each ship, and staff were helpful. My only complaint was the main bathroom, in the food area, really nasty - especially considering the cleanliness elsewhere. I would've given it 5 stars, except for the rest room. I recommend the tour - it met our budget and we enjoyed the time on the island, relaxed and low keyed.
Reviewer: Steve Hay
My granddaughter, Claire and I truly enjoyed this dolphin encounter. The staff was very friendly and went out of their way to make sure it was a memorable experience. Claire had plenty of time to interact with Marge, the dolphin. Seeing the smile on her face was well worth the price. This was my first time using Shore Excursions but will definitely use them again.


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Simple Mashed Potatoes
How to Make It
Step 1
Bring potatoes and cold water to cover to a boil in a large Dutch oven; boil 25 minutes or until tender. Drain; peel, if desired.
Step 2
Beat potatoes at low speed with an electric mixer just until mashed. Add 1/4 cup butter, salt, and pepper, beating until butter is melted. Gradually add cream, beating just until smooth. Serve immediately. Garnish, if desired.
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Oh good, you're awake. How are you feeling? I see. Well, after inhaling that much chloroform, I can't say I'm surprised.
At any rate, welcome to your new home. I know what you're thinking: this cage is a bit cramped," but trust me, it's bigger than it looks. Oh, come now – there's no need for that. Shaking the bars? Did you really think my cage-building skills were so shoddy, that you'd be able to break free simply by shaking loose one of the bars?
And even if it had worked? Then what? You can plainly see that both exits are thoroughly blocked by a slab of reinforced steel. Were you going to shake your way through one of those as well? I doubt it. That steel is 3-ft. thick, which even I admit, is comically oversized. But what can I say? They were having a sale.
And did you fail to see the phaser gun that I am, at this very moment, pointing at your puny head? It's rather hard to miss, considering the sheer size of the thing. And I would think all those flashing lights would have caught your eye at some point.
Anyway, the point is: you're not going anywhere. So why don't you just let go of the bars and have a sip from your giant hamster water dispenser?
What am I going to do with you? Well, as you probably guessed from my lab coat and unruly hair, I am an evil scientist. I kidnapped you for the sole purpose of using you as a lab rat in my experiments (and, okay, a little torture – just for fun).
What type of experiments? Well, any that might aid me in my unholy quest to learn everything there is to know about this great world of ours and, if I'm lucky, acquire enough superhuman knowledge to eventually oppose the omnipotent power of God himself.
For example, I'm currently working on a shrink gun. It's supposed to shrink you down to the size of a pea so, fingers crossed! If you're lucky maybe we can get you into that program. Of course, that's provided you survive the next few months. It'll take at least that long before that project comes down the pipeline.
Also, see that fellow over there? I can't say for certain, but at some point I will probably try to sew his arm to your chest. Oh, don't worry. I'll cut it off of him first! If there's one thing I understand, it's that us guys like to keep to ourselves.
Speaking of which, not all of us have had the luxury of a chloroform-induced nap today. I think it's time I excuse myself and rested up for tonight so I don't get cranky. Because trust me, you DON'T WANT TO SEE ME CRANKY!
Anyway, make yourself at home. Oh, and you see that pile of tattered rags in the corner there? Go ahead and put those on. I've got friends coming over later and I think they'll get a kick out of it. Don't worry about your other clothes, we'll have someone come by and take them to the incinerator. That's all for now. See you tonight, dear specimen.


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Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone Fast Facts WHAT: Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone, 16th race in 17-race 2007 season WHERE: Raceway at Belle Isle, 14-turn, 2.125-mile temporary street circuit WHEN: 3:30 p.m. (ET),...
Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone Fast Facts
WHAT: Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone, 16th race in 17-race 2007 season
WHERE: Raceway at Belle Isle, 14-turn, 2.125-mile temporary street circuit
WHEN: 3:30 p.m. (ET), Sunday, Sept. 2
DISTANCE: 90 laps/191.25 miles
POSTED AWARDS: More than $1 million
CARS: Dallara chassis; Honda Indy V-8; Firestone tires; 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol
PREVIOUS RACE WINNERS: Inaugural event
2006 SERIES CHAMPIONS: Sam Hornish Jr.
TV: Race: ABC (live), 3:30 p.m. (ET), Sept. 2
Note: Live streaming video coverage of practice and AAMCO Transmissions Pole Qualifying (11:45 a.m., (ET) Sept. 1) is available at www.indycar.com and www.espn360.com.
Qualifying: IMS Radio Network, live web-cast, 11:30 a.m. (ET) Sept. 1
Qualifying wrap up: IMS Radio Network, 3:30 p.m.
Pre-race: IMS Radio Network (live), 3 p.m. (ET), Sept. 2
Race: IMS Radio Network (live), 3:30 p.m. (ET), Sept. 2
SCHEDULE (all times local; subject to change):
Friday, Aug. 31
10:30 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.IndyCar Series practice #1 (all cars)
2 -- 3 p.m.IndyCar Series practice #2 (two groups)
Saturday, Sept. 1
8:45 -- 9:45 a.m.IndyCar Series practice #3 (two groups)
11:45 a.m. -- 1:15 p.m.IndyCar Series AAMCO Transmissions Pole Qualifying (single-car, single lap followed by Firestone Fast Six shootout)
Sunday, Sept. 2
10:30 -- 11 a.m.IndyCar Series warmup
3 p.m.Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone pre-race
3:30 p.m.Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone (90 laps/184.5 miles) ABC (Live)
2.125 -mile temporary street circuit; with a minimum width of 34 feet.
Mainstraight: 1st: 1,000 feet; 2nd: 830 feet
Backstretch: 1st: 2,500 feet; 2nd: 1,100 feet
Turns: 14
A 982-acre island in the Detroit River, Belle Isle is managed by the Detroit Department of Parks and Recreation. It was home to the Detroit Grand Prix from 1992-2001, utilizing a temporary street circuit that was constructed specifically for the grand prix. Beginning in 2007, it will again host open-wheel cars with the IndyCar Series racing there for the first time.
With Detroit serving as the Automotive Capital of the World, it's fitting that auto racing returns to the Motor City in 2007.
The Detroit Grand Prix was originally contested on a 2.5-mile street circuit located around the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit. Formula One initially competed on the course (1982-1888) then CART held three races on the course.
In 1992, the race was moved to the streets of Belle Isle Park, an island located on the Detroit River, approximately two miles from downtown. Helio Castroneves won the final two races held on Belle Isle in 2000 and 2001.
*Five Indianapolis 500 champions are expected to participate in the Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone: Helio Castroneves (2001, 2002), Buddy Rice (2004), Dan Wheldon (2005), Sam Hornish Jr. (2006) and Dario Franchitti (2007).
*Five IndyCar Series champions are scheduled to participate in the Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone: Scott Sharp (1996 co-champion), Sam Hornish Jr. (2001, 2002, 2006), Scott Dixon (2003), Tony Kanaan (2004) and Dan Wheldon (2005).
*Drivers entered in the Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone have combined for 87 IndyCar Series victories, 83 IndyCar Series pole positions and 1,300 IndyCar Series starts.
*The Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone is the last of five road/street course races in the 2007 season. Helio Castroneves (St. Petersburg) and Scott Dixon (Watkins Glen International, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and Infineon Raceway) won the previous events.
*In 14 races thus far in 2007, there have been six winners. Dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan, Dan Wheldon are multiple winners. Franchitti won at Indianapolis, Iowa and Richmond. Wheldon won at Homestead-Miami and Kansas, Dixon won at Watkins Glen, Nashville, Mid-Ohio and Infineon and Kanaan won at Twin Ring Motegi, Milwaukee, Michigan and Kentucky. Other winners in 2007: Helio Castroneves at St. Petersburg, Sam Hornish Jr. at Texas. In those 14 races, 16 drivers have finished in the top five in at least one event.
The next IndyCar Series event is the Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 2 at the Raceway at Belle Isle. The race will be televised live by ABC and broadcast by the IMS Radio Network. The next Indy Pro Series event is the Chicagoland 100 on Sept. 9 at Chicagoland Speedway. ESPN2's coverage of the race will be televised at 5 p.m. on Sept. 13.
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So the cast is off and I'm able to get upstairs with hovering ambulance men in the background. Best thing so far was sticking my foot in a bowl of hot soapy water and then rubbing on baby oil. Aahh!
I now have a plate holding my leg together with 5 screws. I wonder if I'll set off airport alarms? Anyway, I'm relearning how to walk which currently involves leaning on the walker and making slightly better progress than just hopping. Physio consists of waving my foot in the air in clockwise and anti-clockwise directions and working my quads. I have another appointment in 4 weeks time and I aim to use those four weeks very lazily.


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The local church is the most powerful entity on earth today. She's the only institution that can champion lasting change in society. One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a few numbers growing into a strong, vibrant healthy congregation.
The church is called to be the light of the World and the salt of the Earth – a world that's changing faster than change itself. She exists for a world that barely appreciates her.
It thus becomes imperative that those who steer her (the Church) are both well-grounded in the Word and well trained to engage the ever-changing culture.
This is the very essence of Petra Leadership College – to resource the body of Christ with the next generation of labourers who will usher in the coming of our Lord.
The assignment of the College is clear – labour with the Lord to build His Church, engage the culture to shape and influence it and transform cities and nations. Only the church can do this.
The tools are to achieve this are different- Music, Arts, The Gift of Shepherding…
Traditional approaches don't solve contemporary challenges. Passion and zeal is never enough. Talent is insufficient. Training is very important.
This isn't a Bible School. It's a spiritual boot camp to equip and mobilize the church's finest labourers ever.
I implore you to sign up. If you have a burning passion to build His Church, shape culture, transform society, sense a call to serve The Lord or you just simply love what you're reading.
This is the Church's finest hour. I don't plan to miss out on the action. Do you?
Students may elect to be trained in any of the following disciplines:
- Pastoral Leadership
- Worship Music
- Creative Art
- Campus Missions
Students will also receive lectures in Core Subject areas which is compulsory for all students. (To see an overview of the Discipline & Core Subjects course content, please visit www.petracc.org/college-disciplines)
Petra Leadership College will run only on weekends, with the first stream in 2016 running from January 23rd – March 19th 2016.
There may however be other lecture days fixed in agreement with student's personal schedules for the discipline courses.
Admission for the January 2016 is currently open. The admission process starts with filling an application form online. To apply, please fill a form at www.petracc.org/college-apply
Registration for the January 2016 stream closes on the 31st of December 2015.
The tuition for Ordinary Certificate in Ministry is N 15,000 (Fifteen Thousand Naira only). This fee covers your admission processing, tuition, core subject manuals, and student handbook.
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