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What is a Lean Enterprise?
This is my definition of a Lean Enterprise:
"A Lean Enterprise is an organisation that allows the business to continuously learn new and better ways to deliver value by validating hypotheses using a rigorous scientific approach."
There is a lot to it, so let's examine.
A Lean Enterprise enables the business to identify valuable ideas fast. A Lean Enterprise is different from more traditional organisations (e.g. pathological and/or bureaucratic) because the whole organisation is tuned towards delivering business value. The products to build (portfolio management) are chosen based on gathered facts and data, rather than more ego-driven approaches, i.e. the Highest Paid Person Opinion (HYPPO) principle or gut feeling. In the majority of large enterprises, only about 25% of projects is decided based on some financial data.
In a Lean Enterprise, each business value hypothesis is quickly validated in production and the business adapts its strategy based on the feedback received by the end users.
The business grows through a series of incremental, calculated experiments, each taking a product (and the company at large) from one target condition to the next.
The key question is: how do we enable the business to operate in such environment?
The answer is: culture, people, processes and tools.
- The Organisation must have a culture geared towards enabling the business to quickly identify valuable ideas to invest on through the scientific method. The side effects of reaching this outcome are that as a consequence, the organisation lives the right culture of leadership / followership, trust, respect and mission to deliver value. There is no room for ego-driven decisions, conjectures, bias and so on.
- The Organisation must be structured in self-organising teams, empowered to take decisions within the culture and general direction boundaries and ultimately responsible for the organisation success
- Technology must build the road that the business will use to rapidly validate hypotheses and adapt its strategy based on the observation of data and numbers. To do so, apart from being deeply rooted in the aspects just mentioned above, technology must use the right tools.
- A Lean Enterprise doesn't distinguish between the business and technology: there simply are people with different skills, all geared towards the delivery of business value faster, better and cheaper.
The Four Pillars of Lean Enterprise Technology execution
While in India on a business trip, my friend John Ferguson Smart and I came up with a vision that represents the four pillars of Lean Enterprise Technology execution.
We believe these are:
- Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
- DevOps
- Test Automation
- Agility
Moreover, we identified four outcomes when looking at the four pillars in a clock-wise flow.
The Outcomes derived from the Four Pillars of Lean Enterprise Technology Execution
When looking at the Four Pillars of Lean Enterprise Technology Execution in clockwise order, we can see four outcomes:
- When combining BDD and DevOps we deliver value sooner.
- When combining DevOps and Test Automation we can deliver Quality at speed.
- When combining Test Automation and Agility we can adapt with confidence and finally
- When combining Agility with BDD we can discover value effectively
When combining the four pillars together we believe we have built the road for the business to continuously validate their business value hypotheses, therefore laying the foundation for a Lean Enterprise operating model.
Let's now look at the four pillars in a bit more detail so that we establish a common language.
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
Plain and simply, BDD is a requirements discovery technique. Whoever tells you otherwise doesn't know BDD. Many will say that BDD is a specific tool (like Cucumber JVM or JBehave or Selenium), or that BDD is Given/When/Then.
BDD is an operating model that stimulates and requires the business, technology and people with testing experience (Los Tres Amigos) to collaborate, interact and discuss in order to define the right thing to build, through executable acceptance criteria.
To implement BDD, organisations might choose different tools and there are techniques (like the Gherkin format Given/When/Then) that allow the capturing of requirements using a format very close to the natural language, while at the same time allowing the automated validation of those requirements.
BDD should be used before starting to code. If you're using Scrum, BDD should be used as a design tool before entering Spring Planning. If you are using the Improvement Kata, BDD should be used in the execution cycle, when defining the expectation of each PDCA cycle.
BDD is what allows teams to build the right thing, rather than verifying that the thing they've built is right. Because of what BDD is, this operating model leads to very healthy practices when it comes to requirements engineering, e.g. the delivery of business value through an incremental series of Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) or what I call Minimal Enjoyable Products (MEPs).
DevOps, like Agile, is a term that has been and is being abused by various practitioners, particularly those who are new to it, and those who are trying to make a profit out of it.
It's enough to search for the word DevOps online to find all sorts of interpretations. There are even companies that provide DevOps courses and certifications, as if DevOps was an exact science that could be taught with right or wrong rules and precise execution models.
DevOps is a term that defines the close collaboration between Development and Operations in order to provide the business with the avenue required to validate hypotheses @ speed @ high quality. It does so by automating whatever is possible. This means Continuous Delivery but also Infrastructure Provisioning, Configuration Management and Monitoring. It means attention to operation details when developers write code and the employment of development techniques and practices when managing operations.
Continuous Delivery is the ability to automatically deliver technology artefacts into production at the fastest pace (in some organisations, like Amazon, this means thousands or releases into production every day) with the highest quality. This is only possible if:
- Infrastructure is managed as a commodity, i.e. automated provisioning, tear up and down and configuration
- There is an Automated Delivery Pipeline, through which artefacts flow from left to right
- Every artifact flowing through the Delivery Pipeline is automatically validated to be what the business wants (thanks to a BDD operating model)
- All environments are functionally and architecturally identical
- There are no manual barriers between a line of code being committed to an SCM tool and the same line of code being deployed to production
- The artefacts flowing from left to right in the Delivery Pipeline are continuously and automatically tested
- The Continuous Delivery pipeline offers quality gates to safeguard operational risk. These can be automated (when the organisation is mature) or manual (such as pressing a button to deploy an artefact to the next environment), depending also on the organisation's risk appetite and the MVP's risk profile.
- Each artefact is physically decoupled from any other artefact and the only mean of communication between components is via (RESTful) interfaces.
- Each change should have the concept of a "Limited Blast Radius", meaning that if something goes wrong, generally is not catastrophic. If we apply the Spotify model (more on this later) with self-empowered and independent teams, generally the team responsible for the failed release can recover pretty quickly thus the damage is limited.
- Additionally, the underlying architecture and tools should allow for 100% uptime whenever possible using techniques such as green/blue deployments and A/B testing
From the above is clear that the following are enablers for a Continuous Delivery operating model:
- Cloud (whether internal or external). Please note that internal Clouds are subject to finite capacity and therefore introduce a potential impediment to Continuous Delivery.
- Configuration Management, i.e. the ability to automatically set up hardware with the software and infrastructure artefacts required to run an application. Puppet, Ansible, Salt Stack and Chef are all examples of configuration management tools
- Product Teams, each one responsible for one or more components. Each team lives and breathes the "You build it you run it" culture. Each team is fully responsible for the whole MVP lifecycle, from defining it through BDD to implementing, deploying and maintaining it.
- Microservices or Containers. A Microservice architecture is the perfect landing place for an independent component to run and communicate with other components through interfaces, using widely open and known protocols (e.g. HTTP)
- A Continuous Integration tool, like Jenkins, that runs the Delivery Pipeline
- A Release Management operating model that allows artefacts to automatically flow from left to right, without human intervention. This doesn't mean that artefacts will be deployed into production blindly; a Delivery Pipeline should still provide quality gates that guarantee the quality of what a team is delivering.
- A log management tool, like Splunk, that is capable of aggregating logs from multiple running instances of a component and present them as coming from a single instance
- The adoption of the 12 factors in each component's architecture.
- The adoption of BDD as requirements discovering technique
- The adoption of Testing Automation (TDD) as a way to automatically validate that the component is right (what the business wants)
- Modern monitoring tools that can detect when a component instance is down and isolate it from the live service and conversely detect when an instance becomes available and add it to the pool of component instances offered into production. Monitoring tools should also automatically detect when any of the infrastructure required to run the component has issues and either take automatic steps to correct the fault or notify the operations team proactively (The Circuit Breaker Pattern). Monitoring tools should also be used to gather facts and data about each production deployment so as to offer the business the tools to validate their business value hypotheses and adapt their strategy.
Test Automation
Testing automation is the ability to automatically run one or more test suites to provide various feedbacks, e.g. whether the code quality is good or whether the team is building the right product. Generally we use TDD as a technique to run automated test suites, whether these are unit, integration, performance or BDD tests.
Agility means the ability to quickly adapt and act depending on gathered facts and data and to remove obstacles that stand in the way of reaching our goals. These can be around our way of working, feedback from production users once a component is deployed to production, a change in regulation or market condition and so on. Agility is a word, Agile is not. Agile is an adjective. So one might seek Agility and become Agile, but one cannot do Agile. Agile is not a thing.
Most refer to Agile as the mind-set resulting from adopting the Agile Manifesto. I personally think that the Agile Manifesto is a great document for developers wanting to move away from a Waterfall-like culture and way of working but it's widely inadequate for a Lean Enterprise. I wrote more about why I think this is the case in one of my previous articles.
So a Lean Enterprise is Agile because it can adapt quickly to continuously improve its way of working and be competitive. This means that if you're seeking Agility, by building a Lean Enterprise you will get that for free.
Which methodology should we be using to evolve organisations into Lean Enterprises?
Now that we have defined the four Lean Enterprise pillars with regards to technology we can define how these fit with the rest of a Lean Enterprise organisation.
From the Theory of Constraints, we learn that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link and that a system is only as fast as its slowest part. This means that in order to accelerate we need to elevate the weakest link in our chain. With regards to a Lean Enterprise, we need to identify the biggest bottleneck and break it; then move to the next one and so on, being careful not to slip into inertia, i.e. the feeling that we are now OK.
If we see a Lean Enterprise as a system and we are able to map the flow of value from left to right, we can identify the bottlenecks and resolve them.
The question is: how do we remove them? This is where a methodology generally comes in. Some will decide to use Scrum, others some sort of "Scaled Agile" methodology, e.g. SAFE. I believe that all of these so called "Agile" methodologies are just marketing tools and they contributed to the death of Agile as a principle and a mind-set. There is plenty of material that illustrates in depth what I'm saying. Here are some examples:
- Agile is Dead
- The Death of Agile
- Why Agile doesn't scale and what you can do about it
- The Land that Scrum Forgot (thank you Peter Merel for the link)
The Improvement / Coaching Kata as a tool to grow Lean Enterprise Organisations
The Improvement and Coaching Kata (ICK) is an organisational approach to delivering complex changes. Apart from applying the scientific method to the delivery of incrementally more effective ways of working through a series of PDCA cycles, the ICK allows organisations to grow managers as leaders and embed a culture of leadership and followership, permeated by the right approach to feedback.
The ICK allows an organisation to mathematically link any activity up and down the organisation.
With the ICK, Leaders are also Followers, depending at which level they sit within the organisation.
The ICK is based on a flow that is very simple to understand but difficult to master:
- Understand the direction
- Grasp the Current Condition
- Establish the Next Target Condition
- Iterate Toward the Next Target Condition
Steps 1-3 are the Planning Phase, Step 4 is the Execution phase.
If we use the ICK across the entire organisation, then we can mathematically link all activities up and down the organisation, from the CEO to the receptionist.
The fundamental concept when using the ICK across the entire organisation is that one's direction (or challenge) is the Next Target Condition from the level above as illustrated in the following picture.
Now I believe that if we use the ICK across all levels of the organisation, we can transform pathological and bureaucratic organisations is generative ones, i.e. a series of Lean Enterprises.
The other advantage of successfully implementing the ICK across an organisation is that it leads to a Lean Enterprise culture where the whole organisation is tuned towards allowing the business to quickly identify that 5-10% of ideas that actually generate value and invest on them and discard (or pivot) the other 90%.
This is not just a technology problem, which is why I find Lean Enterprise transformations so fascinating. Being able to separate the winning ideas from the ones producing no value or negative value is the differentiator between the companies that will be successful tomorrow and those who will go out of business.
Nokia and Kodak are examples of companies that, although market leaders in their golden age, failed to innovate and cannibalise themselves, didn't listen to data and therefore didn't adapt. The moment the iPhone reached the market, Nokia was dead and similarly the moment Kodak decided to keep its digital cameras on the shelf to protect the film industry they condemned themselves.
It's companies like Amazon, Google, Netflix and Spotify that keep cannibalising themselves (by that I mean disrupting their core business to continuously improve). They all have one thing in common: they are Lean Enterprises.
How do we organise people in a Lean Enterprise?
In pathological or bureaucratic organisations, there's typically a hierarchical structure. We will have departments which in turn will have "thematic" themes, e.g. products. Depending on the size of a thematic team, this might be decomposed in Product teams. In organisations that have adopted an agile structure, such as Scrum, XP, Kanban and so on, each product team might be divided into cross-functional teams, e.g. Scrum Teams.
Such organisations are typically driven by an ego-driven culture, where the person at the top is better than anyone else and commands all decisions (the HYPPO principle we have discussed earlier). Success is determined by the number of people if one's line management and how much one earns.
In such organisations, budget management is centralised and typically rolled out in a Waterfall-like structure, where the COO and CFO allocate money depending on the CEO strategy and pots of money trickle down the organisation down to Product team level, where the Product Team Lead (generally an SVP / Director level) needs to decide how to allocate them. Being a Waterfall approach, all decisions about how much money each team gets need to be made up-front. This results in all budget-receiving candidate teams to go through the budget planning death-march, i.e. they've been asked to transform from engineers in magicians and instantly develop the gift of predicting, to the very date and to the very last person in the team, all projects they will be working on, how many people they'll need, when it will get done, what value it'll deliver and so on. This is known as "capacity planning" or "budget cycle" and when rolled out in a Waterfall-like style, it's likely to have a 100% failure rate. By that I mean that 100% of the projects will not deliver exactly what was budgeted, at exact the dates that they've advertising to get the money, with exactly the money that were asked and delivering exactly the value that they had promised.
A Waterfall-like budget-cycle also leads to the wrong behaviour: middle-management, i.e. the people asking for budget, will need to demonstrate that they needed that money otherwise they risk that in the next budget-cycle they won't be given the same amount. So it's not atypical seeing a "spending frenzy" activity towards the end of the budget-cycle, which can materialise in training courses, new vanity projects, new equipment, new software and so on.
So what do we need?
A Lean Enterprise manages money differently: yes, there is a direction that senior executives provide, e.g. "We will become the best digital bank in the world" and there is a pot of money available but the money doesn't get allocated all up-front, based on crystal-ball plans. Money gets allocated to either experiment hypotheses to find the best 5-10% ideas or, once these are found, money is spent in making of these ideas the best possible products. This way of working requires the whole organisation, from the CEO to the receptionist, to be aligned within the same strategy, to understand the direction and how each layer in the organisation can contribute towards the strategy execution. This is why the ICK described above is such a powerful tool: it allows such alignment and chain of activities to be mathematically linked between various levels in the organisation.
So rather than a Product Team Lead asking for £10,546,780 to rollout 4 projects with 47 people, such and such hardware (down to CPU cycles details), such and such software and so on, the responsibility starts with the business that needs to think differently at the way they deliver value.
People in the business will have hypothesis to generate value, e.g. "I think that if we deliver this functionality in the next two-three months, we can increase our customer base by 30%". Then it's the job of the Technology team to allow the business to validate this hypothesis in the shortest possible time, possibly by implementing the four pillars of Lean Enterprise Execution as described above. Once the functionality (MVP) is in production then technology and the business should work together to gather data on how that MVP is actually performing and compare what actually happened with the expectations. Then one of three things will happen:
- The hypothesis has been validated, therefore this enters the list of ideas to invest on
- This was a really bad idea, let's just kill it
- The idea is pivoted into an alternative MVP that might generate some value
In such operating model (the Lean Enterprise operating model), money is allocated at two different stages: to allow the business to validate business value hypothesis and to seriously invest in the winning ideas.
To allow the business to identify highly valuable ideas through the scientific method (Plan-Do-Check-Act), the organisation must have the right structure and the right culture: I believe that such structure is very similar to the Spotify model, of which I show a representation below (the image is free for you to reuse. I'd be nice if you could attribute it to me if you're going to use it).
With this model, an organisation is broken down into a series of Lean Enterprises, where each one is fully empowered to choose how to deliver value within the organisation's boundaries, i.e. culture, guidelines and principles. A Tribe is a "Product Team" as described above and it's comprised of a number of "Squads", each fully independent and fully empowered to deliver value. Each squad will work with the business to validate a business value hypothesis (MVP) and through the scientific method will iterate through continuous delivery cycles until one of the three outcomes described above happens. This structure means a number of important things:
- A Squad is fully empowered to take any decision that is necessary to support the business in delivering value. This means that they are empowered to decide which technology, architecture, methodology and so on to choose in order to achieve their goal
- The Four pillars of Lean Enterprise technology execution are enablers for such structure
- DevOps practices are required in order to accelerate the Time-To-Market cycle, through a continuous inspect and adapt cycle
- There must be a culture of automated risk management (not avoided risk management), where comprehensive test suites and an outcome-driven approach to regulations must permeate teams activities
- Since for this structure to be productive, speed is essential (enabled by DevOps), the whole organisation must be tuned towards allowing a rapid cycle of MVPs from development to production. This touches on areas such as Access, Release, Risk and Portfolio management.
- Finally, the business must have the right culture, which is about deciding on the portfolio based on facts and data gathered by the MVP cycles into production, rather than ego, power and position within the company.
Across Squads there are a couple of structures which might vary depending on the organisation:
- Chapters. This are cross-Squad teams of similar skills, e.g. web or Java developers, DBAs, middleware developers and so on. Typically, one of the people in a Chapter will be the line manager for the Chapter but not in the traditional term. This person will act more as a servant-leader and a coach
- Guilds: A Guild is a community of practice / interest across Tribes and its purpose is to continuously define and share ways to improve.
This kind of structure has got an effect also on Performance Management. As the unit of business value delivery is now a Squad rather than a single person, targets and performance must be set at the Squad level. This demands a heavy involvement of HR in the design of such organisation and in the definition of what good looks like.
Finally, this structure requires the proper architecture. Each Squad should produce a mini "Product" (MVP) that is completely independent from any other. The only way two products should interact is via RESTful APIs. Therefore the correct architectures to support this organisational structure are Microservices and Containerisation.
The moving from a Monolith to a Microservice architecture, Jeff Bezoz addressed his team with an email that contained the following content:
- All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.
- Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.
- There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.
- It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols — doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.
- All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
- Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.
- Thank you; have a nice day!
Today Amazon releases some 10k times /day into production. Google, Netflix and Spotify all have similar metrics.
To know more on the Spotify model, you can watch the following Youtube videos:


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Strong company earnings boosted stocks on Wall Street Friday. Investors also saw a chance to add to their holdings after declines earlier in the week.
Nike reported a surge in profit, sending its stock price to a record. Tiffany topped earnings predictions, boosted by demand from customers in Asia.
A strong run-up in stocks this year is encouraging investors to buy whenever the market dips, says Ron Florance, managing director of investment strategy at Wells Fargo Private Bank.
"We still have an astonishing amount of money sitting on the sidelines," says Florance.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 90.54 points, or 0.6 percent, to 14,512.03 Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.09 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,556.89. The Nasdaq composite gained 22.40 points, or 0.7 percent, to 3,245.
Nike's stock hit an all-time high, rising 11 percent to $59.53 after the company reported a spike in quarterly profit. Tiffany's stock rose nearly 2 percent to $69.23 after it reported strong earnings.
Despite Friday's gains, the S&P 500 was down for the week, falling seven points, or 0.3 percent. The index was weighed down by another debt crisis in Europe and disappointing corporate news.Comment on this story
The Dow had its worst week in more than a month, shedding a fraction of a percentage point.
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The Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, a banking haven, struggled to devise a plan to avoid financial collapse.
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The Victoria secret model slammed her body shamers in a lengthy instagram post nearly one year back when she was criticised over her weight and attempts to be a model. The confident and popular model is only 21 years old and inspiring the younger generation not to become prey to body shamers.
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One year and 100 lbs. lighter with the HCG Diet at the Natural Path Portland
My name is Sharna Miller. I began my journey with the HCG diet over a year ago in June 2010. At that time, I weighed 265 lbs. and felt terrible about myself. I avoided mirrors and there was not an hour that went by in my day that I did not mentally beat myself up about my weight. A co-worker of mine began the HCG Diet and although she did not have more than 30 lbs. to lose; she did it and kept it off. I was inspired to try this program. I was also so scared that I might fail at it. It almost felt like a last resort.I called one Monday morning and got Dr. Madda on the phone. He told me the ins and outs of the HCG Diet. He was so motivating and charismatic and I felt like I already had support. I made my appointment to get started. I told my husband that I was going to do the HCG Diet and he was very skeptical. Dr. Madda had told me that he was welcome to come to my first appointment so that he could understand what the program was all about. I needed his support as I embarked on this journey to lose weight on the HCG Diet.
My first appointment for the HCG Diet.
My first appointment lasted an hour and a half and was so comprehensive. Dr. Madda went over the entire program, took a full medical history, did a series of physical exams, scanned my body and recorded my body composition and sent me home with things to do for one week to prepare for the HCG Diet program as well as a lab requisition for some general bloodwork.The following week, I came back to my appointment ready to go. I had my lab work done, I had read the Natural Path HCG Diert guide over 5 times and really felt like I understood what I needed to do. Dr. Madda reviewed my bloodwork and made recommendations based on some parameters that were out of whack. He had me do a practice injection which I was so afraid of and it turned out to be a piece of cake.
Beginning the HCG DietI began the HCG Diet with the loading days. I gained 3 lbs. during these days and ate a lot of fat. It was a nice excuse to eat a lot! I have to say I enjoyed it and by the second day, I was also ready for some low calorie fare. The HCG phase of the HCG diet was certainly a challenge for me, especially the first 10 days. I had very little actual hunger but my cravings for sugar crept up on me daily.Dr. Madd a helped me through with some Candida cleansing herbs and glutamine. By Day 10 they had resolved and then I hit a stall around my period. For 6 days I lost only .2 lbs. I was frustrated and scared that I had failed at the HCG Diet. Alas, Dr. Madda coached me through an apple day and I resumed losing consistently. I stayed on for 49 days and lost 37 lbs. In the stabilization phase, I lost 3 more lbs. of which I did gain back in the next 3 months. I felt so energized from this loss of weight that and the HCG Diet that I began exercising daily at the gym.Just with exercise and my new improved diet, I continued to lose a few more lbs. over the next three months to make my new total 42 lbs. I was ready for the next round ...
Round 2 HCG DietThis time, I knew what I was in for and took the bull by the horns with the HCG Diet. I really loved the HCG Diet so much for changing my life and this time my husband did it with me.† It was amazing and I lost another 30 lbs. to make a total of 72 lbs. lost. Again, I continued to lose through the stabilization and maintenance phase of the HCG Diet and over the next three months my total loss was 77 lbs.
Round 3 HCG DietI had a goal of 100 lbs. to lose and in my third round of only 30 days. I was at 165 lbs. A dream had come true. The HCG Diet is really amazing and I encourage anyone who has weight to lose to give this a try. Dr. Madda is so supportive and will help you more than you could imagine through the process.
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Rap artist Azealia Banks have gone off on Sarah Palin and it's the new Twitter battle to watch
On Sunday April 3, Azealia Banks tweeted that Sarah Palin should be gang-raped by the 'biggest burliest blackest' men, and needless to say, Palin did not like it so she promise to file suit against Banks. The legal threat has not quieted Banks as she now Tweeted
'Everyone can tell you're spreading them cheeks for Mr. Trump'
It may be the wrong battle for Azealia though because Palin has the power of the rich far right white and the KKK and they may even own the rights to Banks music.
Banks have now sent a letter of apology to Palin after realizing the power she's is up against. However it's already too late as Palin is determined to make an example of her, so no other such rants ever come from anyone else.
Palin in a statement said she will take legal action against Banks
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Banks letter published at her Tumblr page
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I hope this message reaches you in good spirits and in good health. I want to start this letter off by telling you that I actually, really like you. While many other American people may see you as someone to be ridiculed, I truly believe that you possess a certain 'je ne sais quoi,' (a french term which is often interpreted to denote one's inexplicable charisma.) Given a bit of book-reading/media-training/patience, that charisma could become your magic carpet. There is something very charismatic and misunderstood about you. The misunderstood bit oftentimes reminds me of myself. You're very passionate about the things you believe in, super determined, and most certainly aware of who you are and where you stand in this world, as a parent, as a politician, but most importantly, as a woman.
Given the propensity of conservative right-wing media publications to veer into very fearful/erroneous/baseless/contradictory/prejudice analyses of us 'melanated,' peoples of the United States, It should come as no shock to you that a satirical article accusing you of saying, 'Even the French understand that Slavery wasn't our fault because the negroes liked it,' Would be provocative enough to ruffle a few feathers. Now since learning that the article was not published officially, I sincerely apologize for any emotional distress or reputational scarring i may have caused you.
In my honest defense, i was completely kidding. I happen to have a really crass, New-York-City sense of humor, and regularly make silly jokes in attempts make light of situations which make me uncomfortable. As the fabric of the American Nation is EMBEDDED with racism, I merely made a raCIALly driven joke to counter what i believed to be real, raCIST rhetoric. Also, i never said you should be raped. I used the term 'run a train,' which is slang for group sex, NOT for 'rape.' There are many distinctions between the two. As a woman, I would never trivialize something as lewd and criminal to provide myself any sort of comic relief because it simply… just isn't funny. (and no, urbandictionary.com is not a reputable source of information to seek clarity on the aforementioned dichotomy). However, i find great irony in the right-wing media's attempt to 'victimize,' you in this situation. Seeking empathy through sensationalism is something left-leaning liberals are frequently ridiculed for by the Right. But American Hypocrisy is nothing new. Considering the imminence of 2016's polarizing presidential election, I've taken it upon myself to do my own social research. I've recently had the opportunity to indulge in a few lengthy conversations with some very popular conservative figures. I've concluded: Amongst millennial conservatives, Censorship paired with the (questionable) social necessity for political correctness are atop the list of social grievances. It is as though this newest generation of conservative voters desire the right to express their true feelings, free of any filter and free of any consequence. I too harbor a similar sentiment regarding censorship and self-expression, as i am an artist. I cherish my ability to express myself freely, yet remain totally aware that for every action, there will be a reaction. All in All, Woman to Woman, I hope you will accept my sincerest apology.
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Please join us in Houston, Friday March 31st for a showing of the latest visual display technologies from two of the Industry's leading Manufacturers, Barco and Stewart Filmscreen. This event will offer informative and concise presentations as well as live demonstrations and face-to-face time with the experts.
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Morning Presentation
10:00-11:00 AM Barco: Projectors, Clickshare, Event Master Image Processing
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Experience the "Phantom™ HALR™" , now shipping. This is a flexible front projection material that can be used in high ambient light environments such as lobbies, conference rooms, retail, and hospitality areas. Exceptional crisp imagery, day or night. Available up to 40' x 90' seamless in fixed frames and 25' x 45' for ElectriScreen housings/enclosures. Stewart represents 70 years of invention and quality workmanship, building a product that lasts decades. Video Link from ISE
Video Wall Solutions
Come see Barco's latest generation tiled LCD Video wall solution the HDV5521 in a 2x2 array and experience the unique features that makes Barco the best choice for todays LCD Video Wall applications! Barco will review their portfolio of tiled LCD offerings and demonstrate the unique calibration capabilities only offered by Barco, to ensure your customer's enjoy the best image quality with the lowest total cost of ownership for the life of the product.
Wireless Presentation and Collaboration
The brand new CSE-800 is here! The latest product to the Clickshare family introduces a number of unique features, including simultaneous sharing of up to 8 people, automatic & manual moderation, and blackboarding & annotation. The CSE-800 is the most powerful system in the ClickShare family today.
Laser Phosphor Projection
It goes without saying, Laser Phosphor is quickly becoming a mainstay in today's AV Installations. We'll have the new F-90 Laser Phosphor available for your viewing pleasure, along with a 20 minute segment of the presentation about best practices for this category. The F-90 is a 13,000 lumen, 20,000 hour light source. Ideal for mid- large venue projection, Corporate, Higher Ed.
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Barco's Screen Management System is the most advanced video processing and presentation control systems on the market today. These systems provide source selection, advanced windowing features, seamless switching, video effects and integrated control for professional video presentations. Thanks to their modular and scalable architecture, Barco's Screen Management System can support a wide variety of show configurations.


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The human body is a wonder to behold. Yet there's evidence that malignant cells arise daily in our body. Fortunately, a lymphocyte named the "killer T-cell" identifies malignant cells and ordinarily eliminates them.
John Dean of Watergate fame once told the president that "there is a cancer on the presidency." One could argue that the mass killings by a few dysfunctional persons in our nation are of themselves "a cancer on our nation."
Some have called for arming teachers with lethal weapons to protect our children. Instead, why not emulate the air marshal program employed to protect airline passengers from terrorists and rogue passengers?
Such persons could be specially trained teachers or administrative staff. Part of their effectiveness is that they could be present in most schools but they would not be identifiable. A person determined to kill would likely start with uniformed guards. But widespread knowledge that they are "out there, but hidden in plain sight" would have a deterrent effect.
If a killer entered our schools anyway, such persons would be ready to defend more effectively than the many heroes who died trying to save students at Sandy Hook Elementary. By borrowing from the wisdom of our own biology, we may be able to offer protection from the horrific acts of a deranged and vicious killer.


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From its roots as the oldest technological research university in the English-speaking world, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute launched an ambitious agenda of renewal and growth. The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies is one of the breathtaking new facilities setting the tone for Rensselaer's vision as a premier research university in the 21st century.
The building's street front responds to the existing campus with the use of brick and limestone, while the south side takes on a more modern language. A ventilated L shaped atrium connects the lab program to the office and administration program via bridges on the upper floors and an interior pedestrian street on the main level. Separating the programs allowed a more cost effective design as laboratory space has very strict code requirements and is more expensive to build.
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Thread: No email when the instance down
06-08-09, 13:17 #1Registered User
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Unanswered: No email when the instance down
Hello everyone, I am new in DB2.
I just test the "Health Center". If I "Quiesce" the database, I can get the alert email. If I stop the instance, I can't get the email which tell me the instance is down.
How to config the health center to send an email when the instance is down.
Thanks a lot,
06-08-09, 15:25 #2Registered User
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you can activate fault monitor to restart the instance - is the mail not shipped by admin server ? the settings are anyhow in admin cfg ..Best Regards, Guy Przytula
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Thank you very much. That's more info fot the test db.
db2 => get db cfg
Database Configuration for Database
Database configuration release level = 0x0c00
Database release level = 0x0c00
Database territory = US
Database code page = 1208
Database code set = UTF-8
Database country/region code = 1
Database collating sequence = SYSTEM_1252
Alternate collating sequence (ALT_COLLATE) =
Number compatibility = OFF
Varchar2 compatibility = OFF
Database page size = 4096
Dynamic SQL Query management (DYN_QUERY_MGMT) = DISABLE
Discovery support for this database (DISCOVER_DB) = ENABLE
Restrict access = NO
Default query optimization class (DFT_QUERYOPT) = 5
Degree of parallelism (DFT_DEGREE) = 1
Continue upon arithmetic exceptions (DFT_SQLMATHWARN) = NO
Default refresh age (DFT_REFRESH_AGE) = 0
Default maintained table types for opt (DFT_MTTB_TYPES) = SYSTEM
Number of frequent values retained (NUM_FREQVALUES) = 10
Number of quantiles retained (NUM_QUANTILES) = 20
Decimal floating point rounding mode (DECFLT_ROUNDING) = ROUND_HALF_EVEN
Backup pending = NO
Database is consistent = NO
Rollforward pending = NO
Restore pending = NO
Multi-page file allocation enabled = YES
Log retain for recovery status = NO
User exit for logging status = NO
Self tuning memory (SELF_TUNING_MEM) = ON
Size of database shared memory (4KB) (DATABASE_MEMORY) = AUTOMATIC
Database memory threshold (DB_MEM_THRESH) = 10
Max storage for lock list (4KB) (LOCKLIST) = AUTOMATIC
Percent. of lock lists per application (MAXLOCKS) = AUTOMATIC
Package cache size (4KB) (PCKCACHESZ) = AUTOMATIC
Sort heap thres for shared sorts (4KB) (SHEAPTHRES_SHR) = AUTOMATIC
Sort list heap (4KB) (SORTHEAP) = AUTOMATIC
Database heap (4KB) (DBHEAP) = AUTOMATIC
Catalog cache size (4KB) (CATALOGCACHE_SZ) = 260
Log buffer size (4KB) (LOGBUFSZ) = 98
Utilities heap size (4KB) (UTIL_HEAP_SZ) = 5000
Buffer pool size (pages) (BUFFPAGE) = 250
SQL statement heap (4KB) (STMTHEAP) = AUTOMATIC
Default application heap (4KB) (APPLHEAPSZ) = AUTOMATIC
Application Memory Size (4KB) (APPL_MEMORY) = AUTOMATIC
Statistics heap size (4KB) (STAT_HEAP_SZ) = AUTOMATIC
Interval for checking deadlock (ms) (DLCHKTIME) = 10000
Lock timeout (sec) (LOCKTIMEOUT) = -1
Changed pages threshold (CHNGPGS_THRESH) = 80
Number of asynchronous page cleaners (NUM_IOCLEANERS) = AUTOMATIC
Number of I/O servers (NUM_IOSERVERS) = AUTOMATIC
Index sort flag (INDEXSORT) = YES
Sequential detect flag (SEQDETECT) = YES
Default prefetch size (pages) (DFT_PREFETCH_SZ) = AUTOMATIC
Track modified pages (TRACKMOD) = OFF
Default number of containers = 1
Default tablespace extentsize (pages) (DFT_EXTENT_SZ) = 32
Max number of active applications (MAXAPPLS) = AUTOMATIC
Average number of active applications (AVG_APPLS) = AUTOMATIC
Max DB files open per application (MAXFILOP) = 32768
Log file size (4KB) (LOGFILSIZ) = 1024
Number of primary log files (LOGPRIMARY) = 13
Number of secondary log files (LOGSECOND) = 4
Changed path to log files (NEWLOGPATH) =
Path to log files = C:\DB2\NODE0000\SQL00002\SQLOGDIR\
Overflow log path (OVERFLOWLOGPATH) =
Mirror log path (MIRRORLOGPATH) =
First active log file =
Block log on disk full (BLK_LOG_DSK_FUL) = NO
Percent max primary log space by transaction (MAX_LOG) = 0
Num. of active log files for 1 active UOW(NUM_LOG_SPAN) = 0
Group commit count (MINCOMMIT) = 1
Percent log file reclaimed before soft chckpt (SOFTMAX) = 520
Log retain for recovery enabled (LOGRETAIN) = OFF
User exit for logging enabled (USEREXIT) = OFF
HADR database role = STANDARD
HADR local host name (HADR_LOCAL_HOST) =
HADR local service name (HADR_LOCAL_SVC) =
HADR remote host name (HADR_REMOTE_HOST) =
HADR remote service name (HADR_REMOTE_SVC) =
HADR instance name of remote server (HADR_REMOTE_INST) =
HADR timeout value (HADR_TIMEOUT) = 120
HADR log write synchronization mode (HADR_SYNCMODE) = NEARSYNC
HADR peer window duration (seconds) (HADR_PEER_WINDOW) = 0
First log archive method (LOGARCHMETH1) = OFF
Options for logarchmeth1 (LOGARCHOPT1) =
Second log archive method (LOGARCHMETH2) = OFF
Options for logarchmeth2 (LOGARCHOPT2) =
Failover log archive path (FAILARCHPATH) =
Number of log archive retries on error (NUMARCHRETRY) = 5
Log archive retry Delay (secs) (ARCHRETRYDELAY) = 20
Vendor options (VENDOROPT) =
Auto restart enabled (AUTORESTART) = ON
Index re-creation time and redo index build (INDEXREC) = SYSTEM (RESTART)
Log pages during index build (LOGINDEXBUILD) = OFF
Default number of loadrec sessions (DFT_LOADREC_SES) = 1
Number of database backups to retain (NUM_DB_BACKUPS) = 12
Recovery history retention (days) (REC_HIS_RETENTN) = 366
Auto deletion of recovery objects (AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ) = OFF
TSM management class (TSM_MGMTCLASS) =
TSM node name (TSM_NODENAME) =
TSM owner (TSM_OWNER) =
TSM password (TSM_PASSWORD) =
Automatic maintenance (AUTO_MAINT) = ON
Automatic database backup (AUTO_DB_BACKUP) = ON
Automatic table maintenance (AUTO_TBL_MAINT) = ON
Automatic runstats (AUTO_RUNSTATS) = ON
Automatic statement statistics (AUTO_STMT_STATS) = OFF
Automatic statistics profiling (AUTO_STATS_PROF) = OFF
Automatic profile updates (AUTO_PROF_UPD) = OFF
Automatic reorganization (AUTO_REORG) = ON
Enable XML Character operations (ENABLE_XMLCHAR) = YES
WLM Collection Interval (minutes) (WLM_COLLECT_INT) = 0
06-10-09, 03:24 #4Registered User
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the db cfg is not usefull in this case ? any reason for showing this ?
as indicated : use fault monitor and see
Configuring DB2 fault monitor using db2fmc and system commandsBest Regards, Guy Przytula
Database Software Consultant
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At a press conference in the San Mateo (Calif.) Serra gymnasium earlier today, standout Will Powers committed to Stanford over Cal.
"I really like Coach (Walt) Harris and believe in him and what he's doing," Powers said. "I really wasn't considering Stanford as much as the other schools before he got there. Once I talked to him, I felt really comfortable with him and the direction the program was going in.
"It was a tough decision because I liked Cal a lot too. I went back and forth all week but in the end, Stanford just felt like the best place for me. You can't beat the academics there and I like the defense they play and how I'll be used. They want me as an outside linebacker and I think that will be a good position for me."
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Powers is one of the elite defensive linemen in the West region, currently rated the No. 2 end in the West and is a borderline top 100 player nationally. At 6-4, 225 pounds, he has very good speed and athleticism and clocked a 4.56 in the 40 at the NorCal Nike Camp on a wet, slow field. He had offers from schools all over the country including Nebraska, Notre Dame and Oklahoma as well as the entire Pac 10 minus USC.


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Rooms, services Maritim Hotel Galatzo Peguera is offering 133 tasfefully furnished, nice rooms for those looking for a place to stay at in Peguera. The hotel is offering you freshly prepared fine local meals in its restaurant every day. Parking is availably nearby for those arriving by car. Refreshing wellness services will be available to you on the spot, the steam room and indoor pool will also be at your disposal. You may take a car rental service to check the most important tourist attractions. If you wish to spend your leisure time actively, you may also take the nearby opportunities to play table tennis, rent a bike, play billiard and minigolf. The local gym will provide a great opportunity to do sports and exercises. The bar is an ideal location for a personal meeting and a relaxing evening talk. You can secure your valuables in the safe. Wireless Internet connection (WiFi) is available at the hotel, enabling portable devices and smartphones to go online. The exact equipment and the exact list of available services of Maritim Hotel Galatzo Peguera can be read on the information sheet below.
Payment In order to finalize the reservation you may be required to provide credit card guarantee or advance payment by credit card, depending on the chosen room, date and price.
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Garden, Bar, Elevator, Safe deposit box
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February 2017 will bring us a climate that will augur well for the broadening of our awareness. Movement and action will have the effect of banishing the shadows of the past. This forward-looking climate is down to Mercury, who will be in transit through Capricorn until 7 February.
When he arrives in Aquarius, he will encourage our further progress with pared-down baggage, which will be made up of more certain values. The Sun's transit will consolidate this tendency and add opportunities to distance ourselves from personal considerations, to have a clearer view of collective interests. The influence of Venus in Aries will have a tendency to highlight disagreements between individuals, whilst the Sun will encourage us to seek compromise, get things into perspective and smooth out our differences. Be careful, however, of impulses and words that will rain more quickly than thoughts, with the transit of Mars through his home sign of Aries. This could raise the temperature and reactivate former frustrations.


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This page will be updated by the Tabulation Director as teams qualify from regional tournaments.
Bid Allocations: Each regional site is allotted a minimum of seven direct bids to an opening round championship tournament, or "ORC", as indicated. The top six teams at each ORC will receive bids to the National Championship Tournament. Each school may earn no more than two bids to the Opening Round Championship Series. If a bid from a Regional to an ORCS is declined or otherwise ineligible, that bid is placed into a nationwide Open Bid pool, and will be distributed to the next best team, nationwide, which did not qualify for ORCS. AMTA does not anticipate distributing any open bids until – at the earliest – the week between the third and fourth weekends of regionals. For more information on the Open Bid procedures and to view the current open bid list, click here.
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Morning Shots: Tree-Lighting Drama, The Grammys, And Broadway Tickets
• You may have seen two-disc combo packs that include Blu-ray and DVD versions of a movie (Disney has experimented with them for kids' movies, in particular); now the Jason Bourne movies are coming out in "flipper disc" versions, with Blu-ray on one side and DVD on the other. There's no ultimate escape from encroaching obsolescence of your gizmos except to decide to live a gizmo-free life, but the possible advantages for folks who want to be able to watch on whatever player is available could convince some takers.
• If you love TV specials about trees, you'll really love the news that NBC insists its tree-lighting special tonight will go on just fine, in spite of a labor dispute that threatened to disrupt the completely miserable, crowded, loony experience that is December in Rockefeller Center. (It is possible that this item has been influenced by the fact that I worked in Rockefeller Center.)
• Here's the problem with getting mad at Britain's version of Dancing With The Stars for going on tour and depriving real dance groups of income: it sort of implies that you want people to attend your performances because they aren't offered more appealing alternatives. I can certainly understand the frustration over celebrity dancing being more appealing than quality dancing, but is criticizing them for touring really the answer?
After the jump: The Grammys, more media in-fighting, another sign of success for Glee, and more.
• The Grammys are among the who-cares-iest awards in a whole season of "who cares?" awards, but for those of you who deeply care about the current status of the Taylor Swift-Kanye West brouhaha, the Grammy nominations will be announced tonight.
• Brad Falchuk, one of the creators of Glee, has a new deal with 20th Century Fox TV. Next up: marching band! (Probably not. I wish, though.)
• The best part of this story in The New York Times about Broadway ticket sales is the line graph that shows, as near as I can tell, no patterns whatsoever. "Here is a graph that demonstrates that we have no idea what might happen."
• This piece in The New Yorker is getting some mostly negative attention, primarily for its high placement of Knocked Up among the writer's favorite films of the decade. Two things, however: (1) I like the fact that he says these are his favorite films of those he's seen, not the best films overall, and (2) If you read the description of Knocked Up, it's not really just that movie that's being praised there; it's the power of funny directors.
• This argument that e-readers will wind up like eight-track players is one of those weird tech pieces that's written from a purely money-maximizing perspective that pretends that it's the same thing to carry a Kindle (which I can read from with one hand while standing up on the Metro) and to carry a miniature laptop. The inaccuracy of the idea that you can substitute these two devices for each other is genuinely preposterous, no different from saying nobody should need an iPod when you can just carry around your computer with all your music on it.
• Rupert Murdoch and Arianna Huffington threw down yesterday, with him accusing her (in a roundabout way) of theft and her telling him (in a roundabout way) to "stop whining." Fight! Fight!
• I never realized how many blogs The New York Times actually has (they have one about high-end auto racing!) until I read this piece about how they may fare against expected cuts.


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When Tanya Ellis first opened the doors of her apartment for a few friends to listen to records, drink wine and celebrate turntable culture, she had no idea what it might turn into. A year later, Wisdom on Pennsylvania Avenue SE is overflowing with people packed tight for last month's Vinyl + Vino DC event. What started as a casual group listening session in Ellis' Edgewood home is now a full-blown scene unto itself, attracting the likes of not just vinyl enthusiasts and music lovers, but also scenesters and neighborhood randos.
For the coterie of three that got the operation off the ground, the growth of the monthly parties is surreal.
"It's surpassed what I thought it could ever be at this point in time. I remember the first big event we had, we were concerned with anybody even coming," Alexis Weathers, 33, said. She and her partners are throwing their largest session yet on Sunday.
"I never thought it was going to be this big, this fast," she added. "That's all I can say. I really didn't."
Vinyl + Vino's features DJs who are known heavies in the area. On this night in November, Sam "The Man' Burns, a local DJ and music historian who's a legend in the area's House scene, is spinning. Previous months have brought in other D.C.-based acts with plenty of years on the decks under their belts, including Underdog and Two-Tone Jones. The vibe is far from bougie: There's no dress code and certainly no bottle service. "Pitch Perfect," the 2012 goofy comedy about a university's all-girls singing groups plays on the TV above the bar. The room has an aroma somewhere between incense and cocoa butter. There's more natural hair than fake hair in the crowd. Some brought vinyl to be played, others wore it.
Tissa Khosla, 23, moved to D.C. from Florida with his girlfriend this year. He's a saxophone player that takes his records seriously, and had them in tow at last month's event.
He brought along Miles Davis' "Water Babies", which he picked up a year ago in New Orleans, to enter into the party's cover art contest. It won. He also brought Duke Ellington's "Indigo". When he listens to this album, "I imagine they would have played this and they would have had a ball, like an actual ball," Khosla says. "If the world ends," he says of vinyl, "it'll still be there."
But the story of how this triumvirate came together to start a group that that throws down- to-earth, vinyl-heavy, interactive parties is one that links friendship, a love of music, and personal discovery.
Jennifer Bryant was longing for an experience that reminded her of the record gathering she used to attend while living and working in South Africa. Born in Virginia, raised in Columbia, Md., and now living in D.C., she's a local. She's also the conceptual leader for the themes of many of the events. Her goal was to make sure that all the events, dating back to the house session beginnings, were inclusive.
"Everybody doesn't collect vinyl. Some people just came for the music, some people just came for the drinks. … What we wanted to create was a space, for everybody," said Bryant, 28, who runs a non-profit association in Dupont Circle. "From people that collect [vinyl] to people that just kind of want to expand their musical horizons. And I think that even if you don't come for one of those two things, you end up kind of having done that unintentionally, so everybody really wins."
Bryant also started the Meetup.com group DC Vinyl Lovers in December 2012 and used to have a jazz blog. She met Tanya at a clothing swap and Alexis at a DC Loves Dilla (a tribute and fundraiser for the late hip-hop artist J Dilla) concert. It's all been pretty organic from the jump.
Weathers grew up as a musician, in Silver Spring. Playing the violin since she was young, she's a veteran of the Wolf Trap and Kennedy Center circuit as a performer. She played classical music mainly, but her tastes diversified as she got older.
"Growing up I listened to alternative music, and then hip-hop of course, because my brother was a little bit older than me. I was listening to what he was listening to," Weathers, who runs a Tumblr called 'Concert Material,' said. "Then, I hung out with a lot of Latino people, so I listened to a lot of Latin music. My father was into blues and oldies but goodies, so all of that was just in my household."
For her, the musical side of the experience is one that she hopes empowers DJs, many of which she knows locally, to be themselves more in their sets. "I noticed in D.C. a lot of DJ's play what the audience wants, but to me it's more interesting to see what the DJ can play from him or her's own like, set. Of their own collection," she said. "We've been discussing this for years, I'm like 'oh you have that? I'm like do you ever play that? 'Nope, nobody wants to hear it.'" I'm like what? It's crazy, so I'm like, we actually need to do something for the DJs. They need to actually play their own music. That's what I would love to get out of it."
She also happens to work for a wine company. "[That's] the vino part. …Mainly, I'm a music lover, that's my first thing, wine is going to be second for me."
But for Ellis, 35, the expansion of Vinyl + Vino came along at a time when her personal growth was something she was struggling with. A TV and film producer by trade, event planning is something she came to after a divorce had her feeling a bit lost.
"It's scary and exciting. I'll never forget the very first one that we did officially at Wisdom. And was so surprised at myself, at how I almost had, like, an anxiety attack just putting out the invitation on Facebook," said Ellis, who was born in Liberia and raised in Massachusetts. "I've always been interested in black culture, the diaspora. … As I've evolved in terms of my life and the experiences I've been through and the struggle that I've been through, I've really recognized that I love to entertain."
The timing couldn't have been better. When Bryant posted on Facebook that she was interested in an all-vinyl event, Ellis was in the process of acquiring her father's collection that he'd amassed in the 70s. "He never used it. He never used his turntable, he wasn't listening to his records anymore, he'd totally gone the CD route, you know, MP3 route," she said. "I was like, well you know what, I'm getting this vinyl collection, I think [I want to] do a little situation like this, why don't we get together and see if we want to do it together?"
Sunday, the operation is advancing from its bar phase to a new locale, with more room to dance, at Union Arts. Some of you might know it as the old warehouse loft party spot on New York Avenue NE. It's a pretty big step up for the women, who are still doing this as their side gigs, effectively. There have been talks of expanding, potentially creating a collective and inviting more national DJs to their gigs.
But for now, they're just trying to keep their eyes on their original goal and mission: good music and good conversation. "I like being able to connect people and give them a comfortable experience in the sense that they can walk in and they can feel comfortable. They don't feel like they need to be on display," Ellis said. "If you want to dress up, great. If you want to look really flashy and fly that's awesome, but you walk in not feeling that you're in a pretentious atmosphere."
So far, mission accomplished.


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Archive Notes - November 2012
Hurricane Sandy
Our thoughts are with faculty, staff, students and alumni whose homes or whose families and friends are in coastal areas that were hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, as well as our fellow SUNY institutions that were impacted. Thank you for your patience during the power outage on our campus, and especially thanks to the employees who go above and beyond to make sure that we get back to business, no matter what the weather brings our way.
Social Hour – Whine & Jeez
Some of our colleagues from around the campus are finding their way to the monthly "Whine and Jeez" social hours and having a good time visiting with one another. Please mark your calendars to attend the next "Whine & Jeez" from 4-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 14.
PACES No. 1 in SUNY
In the most recent SUNY Student Opinion Survey, SUNY Potsdam was ranked the highest among comprehensive colleges for food service on campus. Kudos to PACES for taking first place...we have long known that their dedication to local, sustainable produce, quality and variety have added so much to our campus community. We are so glad to say we are No. 1 in this category.
Other accolades from students
Also in the SUNY Student Opinion Survey, we are also ranked highest among comprehensives for the following categories:
- #1 for availability of courses in students' majors
- #1 for discussions, meetings, or conversations with instructors outside of class
- #1 for developing a mentoring relationship with a faculty/staff member
- #1 for developing skills in speaking clearly and effectively
- #2 for engagement in research or other creative projects under the guidance of a faculty member
- #2 for collaborating with other students on class assignments
- #2 for developing an understanding of self
- #3 for parking
- #3 for athletic/recreational facilities
- #3 for course registration processes
- #3 for academic advising
Provost named to NYS Teaching Board
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Margaret E. Madden has been named to the State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching, which was established in 1998 by the Board of Regents to advise the Regents and the Commissioner of Education on matters related to teaching in New York State. The board is comprised of 28 members, including K-12 teachers and administrators, higher education representatives, public representatives and one teacher education student.
Faculty achievements
Our hardworking faculty members continue to distinguish themselves through their scholarship and professional activities. Here are just a few achievements of note:
- Stephanie Coyne DeGhett, a lecturer in the Department of English & Communication, won the 2012 Press 53 Novella Contest with her novella, "Hazzard's." She and Donald McNutt will read selections from their poetry and prose on November 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the College Writing Center through the Faculty Writers Reading Series.
- Associate Professor of Voice Donald George is working on a book, under contract from Oxford University Press, entitled "Master Singers: Advice from the Stage," featuring interviews with opera artists including SUNY Potsdam alumni Stephanie Blythe and Dimitri Pittas, among others.
- A poem by James Allen Hall, an associate professor of English and Communication, has been included in "The Best American Poetry 2012," the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry. The poem is entitled "One Train's Survival Depends on the Other Derailed."
- Professor of Art Marc Leuthold is exhibiting sculptures in New York City in an ongoing exhibition at the George Billis Gallery through November 17. He is the first artist to exhibit ceramics at the gallery, which normally features only paintings.
- Algonquin Books has published "The Beach at Galle Road," a novel by Joanna Luloff, an assistant professor of English and Communication, whose story draws on her experiences serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sri Lanka.
- An article of mine, entitled "The Expansion of Nahuatl as a Lingua Franca among Priests in Sixteenth-Century Mexico," appeared in the journal "Ethnohistory," vol. 59, number 4.
- Professor of Chemistry Maria Hepel was awarded the 2012 Northeast Region, ACS Award. The Northeast Region established this award in 2008 to recognize notably outstanding achievements by a chemist in the Northeast Region. The award is conferred annually on a scientist who has made meritorious research contributions leading to the advancement of pure or applied chemistry.
Graduate Recruiting & Enrollment Announcement
In an effort to revitalize graduate recruitment, I am pleased to announce that the Admissions Office will be assuming responsibility for the recruitment and enrollment processing of the graduate student applicants. Heather teRiele has been appointed as the new Graduate Recruiting and Admissions Counselor for in-state enrollment, and Kelly Crosbie as the new Graduate Recruiting and Admissions Counselor for out-of-state and international enrollment. Graduate Faculty will continue to approve candidates for admission into their programs.
The College has also begun a search for a new Director of Graduate Studies to work collaboratively with faculty and staff on all aspects of the graduate studies program. The current graduate recruiter, Peter Cutler, will assume the role of Assistant Director of Graduate Studies. In addition to the new Director, these positions will allow the scope of the Graduate Studies Office to be expanded.
On Friday, Oct. 19, the College's chemistry department served up a whole lot of fun for the community with its second annual Chemtoberfest. Part fall festival, part science fair, the event had a variety of activities to spread a passion for chemistry to young and old. Even though the weather wasn't very cooperative and most events were moved inside, Chemtoberfest 2012 was an incredibly successful event.
Alumni Participation
According to the FY2010/2011 Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) Report (which is the most recently available data):
- SUNY Potsdam ranks #15 in the nation in alumni participation in giving for public masters universities.
- Among its 13 peers (SUNY masters universities), although Potsdam is one of the smallest (larger only than Purchase), we still rank:
- #1 in total amount given by alumni ($1,697,039)
- #1 in percentage of undergraduate alumni who give (10.4%)
- #2 in total funds raised per student ($697)
Gunther Schuller visit
The Crane School of Music will welcome a distinguished artist-in-residence from Nov. 10 to Nov. 15. Gunther Schuller, the innovative and influential composer, conductor, performer and music theorist, will work with Crane students in panel discussions, masterclasses, coaching sessions and concerts. Don't miss the capstone "Tribute to Gunther Schuller" concert on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall. The performance will include the Crane Jazz Ensemble, the Crane Wind Ensemble and the Crane Symphony Orchestra presenting Schuller's compositions. He will take the podium to conduct Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to close this special concert. For more information on the visit, see http://www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/Gunther-Schuller-Residency.cfm.
Civility Sit-In
I am so proud of the many students, faculty and staff who joined in the first-ever Civility Sit-In on Oct. 18. In the first-ever simultaneous event like this that we have held with SUNY Canton, the sit-in brought together our BEAR @ Potsdam (Be Ethical And Responsible) initiative with Canton's CARES Project. The campus will continue to work to raise awareness and address issues of incivility.
SUNY Potsdam submitted two proposals for Round II of the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grants. One of the proposals was jointly submitted with SUNY Canton and would provide support for the Institute of Arts, Sciences, and Technology which was outlined in the July joint report to the Chancellor and Board of Trustees. The second proposal submitted by SUNY Potsdam would support the beginning phases of the creation of a hotel and conference center and housing in Lehman Park, an economic development opportunity long desired in Potsdam and outlined in the College's Facilities Master Plan.
Shared Services Update
We are making good progress in conversations with SUNY Canton regarding shared services. Provost Madden, Dean Marqusee, and Prof. Jan Trybula will be the Potsdam representatives on the Steering Committee for the SUNY Institute for Arts, Sciences, and Technology. The Steering Committee will develop mechanisms to bring faculty and departments together to discuss collaborative curricula and ensure that shared governance practices are included. In administrative areas, the integration of Payroll and Human Resources are progressing smoothly. Our joint CFO, Natalie Higley, is working with both campuses to develop single offices for Purchasing and Travel, and for Accounts Payable. System CFO Brian Hutzley has asked that we develop a timetable for integration of most administrative functions over a two-year period. As the President's Council embarks on that timetable, we will be working with individual offices and employees.


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