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Look how big they are getting!! And TEETH!!!
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Beautiful babies, I admire what you do. Much love, Fran
Oh my gosh they are so big and beautiful, I barely recognized them with all thae teeth and hair
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New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday took a jibe at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of betraying soldiers and ex-servicemen by "lying" about OROP scheme implementation.
The BJP leader also termed it an "irresponsible behaviour" by a national leader to "exploit the tragedy" of the suicide of a former soldier over implementation of the One Rank, One Pension (OROP) scheme.
"No one should try to change a personal tragedy into political gain, especially a party whose fortune is already sinking," Jaitley told reporters here at a press conference.
He said that for 10 years, when the Congress-led UPA was in power, it did not initiate any meaningful step to implement the scheme.
"It was only before 2014 Lok Sabha elections that the UPA formed a committee to workout functional modalities. It was obvious that it was filled with political motives. If the UPA government was so much concerned, why did it not shell out a single rupee for the OROP?" Jaitley said.
Jaitley's comments came hours after Rahul Gandhi accused Modi of betraying soldiers and former servicemen by "lying" about implementation of the OROP scheme.
The Congress leader also sought a government apology for the police manhandling of the family of retired Subedar Ram Kishan Grewal, who killed himself by swallowing poison over the scheme for ex-servicemen on Tuesday.
Gandhi, who was detained by Delhi Police thrice in two days over the issue, told the media here that he met some 80 ex-servicemen and "they said what Modiji is calling OROP implementation is only pension enhancement".
"Narendra Modiji, you should stop lying and work to implement the OROP scheme," the Congress leader said.


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Introduction: Egg Rice Ball
Here is an "egg shaped" egg rice ball. These are a few favorite variations:
egg + bacon bits
egg + peas
egg + furikake
egg + carrots + sesame
Step 1: Step 1: Ingredients
Washed & dried plastic Easter egg
Cooked rice (still hot)
Diced Cheddar cheese
Step 2: Step 2: Make Scrambled Egg
Add salt and pepper as you scramble the egg. I used four chopsticks to make a finer scrambled egg.
Step 3: Step 3: Mix
Mix the finely scrambled egg and cheese into hot rice.
Step 4: Step 4: Shake
Put rice mixture into plastic egg and shake it.
You need to shake about 30 times to every direction until you hear sound of solid rice.
Step 5: Step 5: Eat It
Ta-da! Your "egg-shaped" egg rice ball is ready to be eaten. You can nestle it on shredded cabbage to give it a real Easter look.
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I love this so much. My mom used to make us arroz con huevos frito for dinner ALL the time when I was a kid. Cheap to make and plenty of protein. This bad boy is going in my recipe book ASAP.
Hi tiaciousz,
What shape was your mom's arroz con huevos frito? Any Special ingredients?
It's a very basic dish, just fried eggs over rice! At Cuban restaurants though, the rice is usually scooped using a bowl and takes the shape of the bowl. I can't wait to make these <3
How did the rice not stick to the mould, was any oil used for the inside
Hello, thank you for your comment. I didn't put any oil. After making few rice balls, the plastic egg was getting sticky. sorry I can't answer why.
Thank yoooooou for your comments!
Very creative and yummy!
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Indian military might cannot suppress Kashmiris' struggle: Sehrai
Srinagar, February 06, 2019 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, senior APHC leader and the Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, has said that India's military might will never succeed to suppress the Kashmiris' ongoing struggle for securing their inalienable right to self-determination.
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai in a statement issued in Srinagar strongly reacted to Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's threatening remarks on Kashmir. Modi during his recent visit to occupied Kashmir had stated that New Delhi will break the back of militancy in Kashmir.
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai in his statement said that the people of Kashmir were not scared and they could not be cowed down by the threats of India. He said that the foundation for Modi's disturbing warning was laid by Indian Army Chief, General Bipin Rawat in past.
"We are not scared and we won't be cowed down. The threat of harsh action and breaking back of Kashmiris who are struggling for political birth right comes from an unpalatable realization," Ashraf Sehrai said. "Both military and political leadership of India are deeply informed by the reality of Kashmir – the reality that Kashmiris will sacrifice their lives till freedom from Indian occupation. This is an unpalatable reality for the state," he added.
Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman further said that linking Kashmir dispute with development was a well-planned move by India to divert attention of world community from the real ground situation of gross human rights violations and atrocities against the Kashmiris. He said, Kashmir is not an issue of economic privileges but a political and humanitarian issue which can be resolved by the implementation of UN resolutions on Kashmir and through a sustained result-oriented meaningful dialogue among India, Pakistan and the people of Kashmir.
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai asked New Delhi to shun its aggressive approach on Kashmir and hold plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir so that the Kashmiri people can decide their fate by themselves.
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Companies are studying customer behavior to improve product design and identify new business opportunities. The potential payoffs are huge.
By Lauren Gibbons Paul
Robyn Waters was on a mission, in search of cool products to help Target jump-start the upcoming back-to-school season. It was the spring of 2001, and Waters, at the time Target's vice president of trend, design and product development, needed a way to sniff out untapped customer needs and serve up ultra-hip products for a wide spectrum of departments. Having helped the $48 billion discount retailer establish the back-to-school period as its own mini-holiday season, with two years of double-digit sales increases, Waters' team needed a spark to keep the momentum going.
"We needed a strategy for growth. Better colors weren't going to do it," says Waters. She had met Dev Patnaik, a principal with Jump Associates, at a conference in late 2000 and was taken by his unconventional presentation on design strategy. With only a tiny budget to work with, Waters hired Jump to go into the field and discover what desires and fears were lurking in the hearts of incoming college freshmen. What were these teens worried about? In a word: laundry. "You think of the kid as wanting to have a cool rug, a cool lamp, a cool bedspread. But what was really on their minds was laundry. They were intimidated by it," says Waters.Waters' team and Jump passed the findings along to Target's merchants, who rallied around the idea of making the first year of college easier for freshmen. "We did a laundry bag that had washing instructions printed on the side. We told them to separate lights and darks. It was very simplistic, but it was [hip] and fun," says Waters. "We didn't talk down to them. The message was, 'Hey, dudes, we're going to make your life a lot easier.'"The first back-to-school season after the project was a big winner, continuing Target's run of double-digit increases. That's when the corporate marketing group began to take notice.
"Because of our success, marketing started to take a much more instrumental role in driving this. It was like a baton being handed off in a relay race," says Waters. The marketing department brought in the vibrant young designer Todd Oldham to create new products that promised to add the next layer of excitement. Once marketing was involved, Target invested much more heavily in this type of trend research, Waters recalls.
This emerging discipline—known as ethnography, ethnographic market research, business anthropology, social research or usability testing—involves observing and interacting with customers in their natural element in order to make more informed choices about product design or business development. Long the domain of academia and in-house R&D lab rats, ethnography is beginning to play a more prominent role in product design and development at many large companies. For marketing executives well-versed in the costs and benefits of quantitative market research, this new generation of qualitative analysis demands their attention. Or at least, many proponents argue, it should.
"CMOs are responsible for top-line growth, so they do things like review their agency and redo their logo," says Patnaik. "But if they're smart, they will also plant some long-term [product development] seeds. What are you not working on today that you should be tomorrow? That's your insurance policy against making a bad short-term decision."
To be successful with this emerging type of research, Patnaik argues, you first must throw out any preconceived notions about your customers—what they need, even who they are—and engage them on a far deeper level in their everyday environments.
"We follow [consumers] around for days, and we interview them. We go to their homes. We watch them play games. We find out about their social network," says Patnaik. If it all sounds a bit esoteric, it is. Then again, this type of research could mean the difference between releasing the next iPod and the next Segway.
There are plenty of skeptics who maintain that qualitative research is expensive, time-consuming and frustratingly open-ended. Compounding the challenge, the political jockeying between the product development or research groups (which normally head up this type of project) and the marketing team can be tiresome. And forget about gauging ROI ahead of time. "With any new product or marketing platform, you don't know in advance what the return will be," says Ken Erickson, PhD, principal and founder of Pacific Ethnography.
But for marketers who are willing to put in the extra work to really understand their customers' context, the returns can be significant: increased market share for current products and richer data on which to build and market more successful future products. Long after the ethnographic research is done, "you can keep mining the data and coming up with new product ideas," says Kazuyo Masuda, research manager with Ethnographic Research. Even in a sea of seemingly endless change, the contexts in which customers operate don't shift overnight.
Field of Dreams
Ethnography has its origins, not surprisingly, in anthropology. During the 1970s and 1980s, awareness of ethnography increased as researchers studied issues such as the transmission of AIDS in poor urban communities or tuberculosis treatment compliance in rural areas.
In the late 1990s, businesses got in on the action when Kodak, Microsoft, Whirlpool and others began applying ethnographic principles to the study of consumers. The idea was that no product exists in a vacuum. Observing behavior in context, as opposed to conducting a survey or even a focus group, is a far more effective means of gathering useful feedback, because people often say or believe one thing but do another.
"The smartest thing you can do today is get close to the customer, inside their hearts and minds, not just their wallets," says Waters, who left Target in 2002 and is now president of her own trend consulting firm, RW Trend. "This kind of work gives you a better platform for an exciting marketing campaign."
The practice is taking hold in other companies, though oftentimes in an ad hoc fashion. In the spring of 2003, Thomson's RCA unit was nearing production of a portable consumer electronics device that integrated video, audio and photo recording and playback into a form factor slightly larger than a 3-by-5-inch index card. Since the device, eventually dubbed the Lyra Audio/Video Jukebox, was a completely new product type for RCA, and because only one competitive offering existed in the category, Gavin Johnston, program manager for worldwide user interface design and research for Thomson U.S., decided it was high time the company learned more about its target audience.
"We didn't want to assume that the only people who would use the [new device] were between 18 and 25," he says. So Johnston kicked off his own brand of field research. For several days, he and a colleague rode Chicago's El trains, observing passengers as they shuttled to their destinations.
To get a better sense of how commuters used portable devices—with a "device" being anything from a cell phone to the daily newspaper—Johnston interviewed riders about "what they were doing and how they were feeling." He and his partner watched commuters as they listened to their Walkmans, read their books, tapped on their laptop keyboards. Johnston also gave a prototype of the new RCA player to 12 potential users—some selected from the field work, others recruited by an agency—to play with for two weeks. He was curious to see how people would use the various features—playing music, for example, while viewing photos.
From the research, Johnston concluded that the video player not only had to be tough enough to stand up to everyday use, but it also had to look like it was tough enough. He recommended several changes, including some user interface tweaks and lightening the device. Because the Lyra was so close to production, however, the product team had enough time to make only some of the user interface changes. "Changing code is easy. Changing industrial design is not easy. We didn't have enough time," says Johnston.
As it was, the interface tweaks alone resulted in an additional 2 percent in market share, Johnston estimates. For the other design problems that couldn't be fixed before the release, Johnston anticipated—and Thomson received—numerous support calls and returns of the Lyra. "We knew there were problems with it, and we knew exactly what those problems were," says Johnston. He expects those problems to be fixed in the next release of the device, which is due early next year.
Johnston claims that the type of in-depth customer research he conducted provides an advantage that traditional market research cannot match. "The statistics that you have are the same statistics the guy across the street has," he contends. "The advantage comes when I have a little extra twist that you don't have."
Proof Positive
The challenge for ethnography proponents comes in justifying the research up front. "Much of what I do doesn't have a tangible cost benefit on the surface," says Johnston. "But if our recommendations [for improving the Lyra device] had been made, we would have saved millions [in support costs]."
Although most marketers are accustomed to justifying the cost of quantitative research—whether a big-ticket custom project or an annual subscription to a research house's reports—it's much harder to build an ROI case in advance around qualitative research. "We cannot guarantee what you will get out of a project," says Ethnographic Research's Masuda. "But we can guarantee that we will answer the questions you bring to us at the beginning."
Richard Jew, product line marketing manager at Finisar, agrees it is fruitless to require proof of hard return prior to commencing a qualitative research effort. Having worked on several of these products during his high-tech career, Jew was a strong advocate for qualitative usability studies when he joined Finisar in late 2003. "You always discover things you didn't know before. I knew we would get something out of it," he says.
With Jew's support, Finisar's engineering group hired KDA Research to learn more about how network managers would use Finisar's new NetWisdom network-monitoring tool. "We [contacted] people who had never used the product. We wanted to see how those with no background would approach it," says Jew.
KDA assembled a group of seven network managers, watching as they used the product for the first time and asking open-ended questions. This gave Jew and his team insight into the network managers' daily lives that they would not have received elsewhere. "I got a sense of their problems. They are on call 24 hours a day. They need to access the system from home," says Jew. "I got anecdotal reaction on how they compare our product to someone else's." The research confirmed the engineering team's concerns about pieces of the user interface that needed improvement. As a marketing manager, Jew gained insights into which aspects of the product to highlight in Finisar's next major campaign.
Beyond an initial product launch, ethnographic research provides the types of insights that tend to keep on giving. Target, for example, used the research from its back-to-school work to later create a "kitchen in a box" bundle, consisting of two mugs, plates, silverware and basic tools such as a can opener, to help students prepare and eat meals in their rooms.
Thomson's Johnston is a strong believer in the staying power of good field work. "People want to apply this to a single product and run," he says. "But it really applies to 20 products and marketing strategies you've never thought of."
Lauren Gibbons Paul is a freelance writer based in Waban, Mass.
From CMO magazine (a publication of CXO Media, Inc.), November 2004


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…Says no longer Business as Usual
In a move to tackle challenges of dwindling revenue, the Director General, National Lottery Regulatory Commission, Lanre Gbajabiamila has asked all erring lottery operators to defray all debts owed to the Federal Government or face stiff sanctions which may include revocation of licenses, as well as arrests and prosecution.
Mr. Gbajabiamila gave this warning at a meeting in Abuja between the management of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission and lottery operators, especially those who had failed to comply fully with the Terms and Conditions of their licenses and operating Permits.
At the meeting which had several sister regulatory agencies as observers, the Director General stated in clear terms that "all operators owing the federal government within the lottery industry would be made to cough out all they owe", adding that the NLRC could not be found wanting in discharging its mandate, especially in the aspect of revenue generation.
He pointed out the fact that the Commission has been magnanimous enough to show understanding with the operators, regarding their operational challenges, but the Commission in turn must not lose sight of its mandate nor the operators their obligations to the government.
"Commission has been magnanimous enough to understand with operators, over time, but operators need to understand that they have obligations to government. The commission is under pressure to prove itself against the backdrop of the feeling of underperformance by our supervising agencies; it will not be business as usual, henceforth; erring operators may have their licenses/ permits revoked" he stated. He further stated that inter agency synergy with the EFCC, NFIU, NCC, NPF, SCUML, as well as NITDA would help the Commission in realizing this objective.
According to the Director General, NLRC has carried its licensed operators along for so long as a show of understanding towards their plight including jurisdictional challenges, and would therefore not rest on its oars in ensuring that all monies owed to the government are collected on or before December 31st, 2019.
Continuing, the DG stated that beginning from 2020 the Commission would seek to strengthen its regulatory efforts through a number of measures including forensic audit of all operators financial transactions, spot checks, data transmission to Central Monitoring System, monthly vetting of operational record books, and other provisions of the Terms and Conditions of their licenses and permits.
He urged operators to go back and with the mindset of making amends where necessary.
Legal Adviser to the Commission, Tanko Ashang, advised the erring operators to ensure they comply with their respective obligations to the government regarding their remittances. He said he was seconded to the commission to further advance the mandate of the Attorney General of the Federation and would not hesitate to prosecute defaulters who fell short from the Terms and Conditions of their licenses and or permits.
Some of the operators who spoke at the meeting listed their operational challenges to include jurisdictional rivalry between the federal and state governments which they said was affecting their operation; double taxation, etc, while soliciting the support of the commission in overcoming those challenges and pledging compliance to fulfilling their obligations to the Commission and the government.


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Below outlines steps you can take to overcome your people and organisational challenges to make sustainable improvements to your business.
Below outlines steps you can take to overcome your people and organisational challenges to make sustainable improvements to your business.
Gain a deep understanding of the business, its context, values, aspirations and uniqueness
Develop the most appropriate organisational framework given the business context and purpose
Develop a high-level plan to bring organisational and cultural aspirations to reality
Identify critical issues and opportunities, and how to mitigate or exploit these
Build an organisation structure from first principles aligned with the work of the business
Clarify roles and responsibilities, break down silos and demarcation, build integration
Eliminate non-value adding structural layers and duplication at all levels
Get the right people, in the right roles, doing the right work
Define leadership roles and work, ensuring it is tailored into the activities of these roles
Understand the work and capability requirements of leaders and how critical these are for people
Develop leaders and teams - processes, behaviours and skills
Work together - permanent teams, project teams, alliances and partnerships
Align business and people systems to values, strategy and desired culture
Establish systems to better engage people and optimise performance and productivity
Includes workforce planning, role design, induction, performance management, career development, succession management, graduate and trainee employment, training management, fair treatment and communication
Develop and implement a training and development strategy and management systems
Design and implement a professional and competency standards framework
Develop a skills and capability audit and response action plan
Design and deliver a training needs analysis program
Research and analyse in-country value (ICV) and localisation practices, barriers and opportunities
Develop ICV strategies and implement plans, from individual businesses to whole industry sectors
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If you want a great point or middle dropper fly for salmon and seatrout then this is the one.It is often used on loughs for spring salmon.Tied on a strong wet fly hook this classic is still as popular as ever from Killarney to the Hebrides.
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This selection includes a mixture of classic patterns from the Mallard and Claret, Fiery Brown, Golden Olive and Sooty Olive through to modern favourites like the Telephone Fly. I have made some variations to classics like the Butcher, Pearly Invicta, Peter Ross and Alexandra, giving them painted eyes or adding holographic tinsel bodies. This has generated new interest in these patterns.


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I'm just going to quickly write that last Friday sucked, and that's all there is to say about that.
Here it is, Day 22 of 30 days on my exercise bike, and I guess I'm sort of happy with my progress so far, even though I know it can be better (missing last Friday, for example), but I'm still here, still doing it, and except in cases where a morning blows up with stuff getting in the way, I'm liking my little time on the bike, and thinking that for December I might try to shift the time a little earlier so that I can exercise at a faster pace and get sweaty. But, December is 9 days away, so for now I just am looking forward to a good run down the homestretch for the rest of November!
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Kyle Corcoran
The Senior Walk is an event made to remember your past achievements and how far you've come. It's an emotional time when you realize your finally done with school and all that hard work just so you could graduate.
"That's just an emotional experience, your 12 years are done like now you're adults now in the real world." said senior Ahnyae Hedgepeth, a student organizer of the Senior Walk.
A Senior Walk is a celebration for seniors during which they walk through or around the elementary school they attended as a way to appreciate their accomplishments.
Next Tuesday, June 11, the current seniors will participate in Norristown first official Senior Walk and will be separated by the elementary school they attended. If a student attended multiple elementary schools, they'd have to pick one, and if they didn't go to any elementary schools in Norristown they would then go to Musselman.
Business Math teacher Kyle Corcoran came up with the idea for bringing the walk to Norristown. His Chick-Fil-A leadership class helped a lot in planning this event. To receive the Chick-Fil-A sponsorship, the students in Corcoran's class had to write a letter to the restaurant, most students being from his Business Impact class. Landing this deal was their 3rd project.
He is hoping for 100% participation from graduating students. Planners hope to load the buses by 11 am, spend about 30 minutes at the elementary schools, and then head back to the high school by noon.
Corcoran thought it would be a good idea because it's a positive thing, and in his words "we need more positivity in this school." This has been a plan in the making for about two years, and he has been talking to multiple students throughout the year about this event.
Corcoran believes that if the elementary schoolers see someone "they thought would not have graduated then they will get encouraged and want to follow after them".
The Walk will also be for the elementary school teachers. Corcoran talked about how this might inspire elementary school teachers who don't typically see their hard work pay off.
This event is co-student run, and some Seniors played a big role in it, but Corcoran put a lot in this event. There's a lot that went into planning like working with the elementary principals and the principal and vice principals at NAHS. They had to create schedules for each school, set up the buses, and make sure everyone is on board.
There are two students assigned to a school, just to make sure everything runs smoothly and if it does well they student get credit for it.
When the seniors leave to board the busses, high school band teacher Vicki Blum will have her band play for them. Once they come back, the seniors plan to have have a picnic in the parking lot and get ready to graduate the next day.
In hopes that this does well, then they will have both the middle schools and elementary schools on board. This is a very sentimental event and a great way to close of a school year and a major part of their educational careers in years to come.


text: Turkey and Russia enjoy more than five hundred years of diplomatic relations with each other. Yet, this long history has been dominated by rivalries and conflicts rather than cooperation and partnership. Since the 15th century, the geopolitical struggle between Ottoman sultans and Russian tsars over the Black Sea and the Balkans resulted in many Ottoman-Russian wars. Even the simultaneous collapse of the two empires during the First World War did not radically change the picture in the Turkish-Russian relations. Although the Soviet Union and the newly founded Republic of Turkey attempted to develop a strategic dialogue in the 1920s, this came to an abrupt end with the start of the Second World War. Stalin leadership's demand of territory in Eastern Anatolia as well as greater control in the Turkish Straits in the post-war period compelled Turkey to join NATO in 1952 and strategically align with the Western bloc during the Cold War. Still, particularly from 1960s onwards, Ankara and Moscow gradually improved their economic ties in the fields of trade, industry and energy despite political and ideological differences.


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Entrepreneurship finds a home in downtown Eugene
On Thursday, the University of Oregon Board of Trustees voted unanimously to accept a "gift of real property" from the city of Eugene for a building in downtown Eugene that will serve as a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation in the city.
Located adjacent to the downtown campus of Lane Community College and near the Eugene Library, the building at 942 Olive St. will provide 12,800 square feet of flexible space for training, education, and support of entrepreneurs from the university and the community.
The building will house the programs of RAIN Eugene—including maker space, lab space, and formal and informal meeting spaces for entrepreneurial community events—alongside the Tyler Invention Greenhouse and the UO Department of Product Design's Downtown Innovation Launch Lab.
The integrated programs will establish an entrepreneurial hub that links creators, designers, students, mentors, local and regional businesses will reinforce the strong collaboration between the City of Eugene, the University of Oregon, and the entrepreneurial community.
The Regional Accelerator and Innovation Network (RAIN) is a state and local partnership between entrepreneurs, the business community, government, and higher education designed to advance the formation and growth of startups regionally. RAIN Eugene, managed as a partnership between the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, the University of Oregon, and local governments, operates the RAIN Eugene Accelerator which provides hands-on training and mentorship to startup founders.
The Tyler Invention Greenhouse seeks to build upon the UO's strengths in green chemistry and nanoscience and encourage green product ideas stemming from basic research discoveries. The Downtown Innovation Launch Lab is a set of design studios and design services connecting UO's expertise and students in product design with entrepreneurs inside and outside of the university.
The city will transfer the property to the UO for a nominal fee of $1, after which the UO will be responsible for further development of the space, including important seismic upgrades. According to documents submitted to the UO Board of Trustees, renovation costs will be offset through state bonds, the Alice C. Tyler Perpetual Trust, and university resources and/or philanthropy.
The building will be operated by the University of Oregon through the Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation.


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Edinburgh Fringe
The B in the Room is, put simply, a superb piece of storytelling with talented young actors and genuinely laugh out loud moments. It is a two-hander, following a schoolboy and a young woman through their first forays into discovering their bisexuality: but it does not make the mistake of preaching to the choir.
While The B in the Room contains nothing earth-shatteringly new, especially its themes of religion and homophobia, the fact that it isn't trying to break The Mould Of Theatre is almost more refreshing. Bisexuality is an identity that is so often sensationalised, and it was really pleasing to see our protagonists' identities so normalised: woven neatly into woes about distancing friendships, talking to cute girls in coffee shops and 'passing' your first dates without dying of embarrassment.
As with most things, bisexuality is not a singular experience, and the choice to have both characters identify as bisexual was clever. Too often, a solitary queer character is left on stage, having to rail against 'the norm' by themself. To have two bisexual characters standing in solidarity even when seemingly alone was a powerful and impressively subtle 'you are not alone', as well as allowing for a much quicker plot, not weighed down with having to watch an external bigot catch up with us.


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A sportsperson experiences all the tough hurdles to become the best one amongst the rest. To be the fastest, bestest and irreplaceable a sportsperson undergoes a lot of health issues such as ligament tear, bruises, leg sprain, muscle pull, join pain and more. These health issues are nothing when compared to their victory with all the hard work they have put it to achieve it.
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Client: WA Grapes via Elevencom
Creative agency Elevencom chose us to help with their photo requirements as part of a project to put together a booklet for WA Grapes. We visited a number of local grape growers in WA and ended up with a strong library of photos.
'It was a great experience working with Matt at Photography Project. He was professional, flexible and went out of his way to deliver a great result on a tight deadline. I'd be happy to recommend Photography Project and look forward to working with Matt again in the future.' – John McLachlan, Director – Elevencom
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Since 1971, the number of cancer survivors in the United States has tripled, and is growing by 2% each year. As of 2005, there were 10.7 million cancer survivors, who now comprise 3.5% of the U.S. population. The burgeoning numbers reflect improvements throughout the cancer continuum, including early detection, supportive care, and therapeutic approaches. This special issue of Hematology and Oncology Clinics of North America builds on the considerable momentum that cancer survivorship has gained over the last twenty years. Included herein are current statistics on U.S. cancer survivors; new paradigms in the follow-up care of cancer survivors; and specific recommendations for the follow-up of survivors of childhood cancer, testicular cancer, and Hodgkin lymphoma. This issue also describes selected sequelae of cancer treatment, including second primary cancers, cardio-pulmonary toxicity, and infertility. A separate manuscript is devoted to the evolving field of the molecular genetics of cancer survivorship. Other articles discuss the promotion of healthy lifestyles among cancer survivors, the application of integrative and complementary therapies, and the existence of advocacy organizations and support systems.
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Titolo: Cancer Survivorship, An Issue of Hematology - Oncology Clinics
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Coliseum: House With a Curse
Is it hardcore? Is it stoner rock? Is it something else entirely? You won't figure it out by only listening to it once, that's for sure.
House With a CurseLabel: Temporary Residence Ltd.
US Release Date: 2010-06-21
UK Release Date: 2010-06-28
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What separates Coliseum from the majority of other hardcore bands in the world is their obvious love of groove-laden alternative rock such as Queens of the Stone Age. Most of their songs are catchy, with great hooks and interesting structures. The genre fusion they utilize likens their sound more to stoner rock bands like The Sword, Baroness and Cursed than other hardcore bands. However, while that new approach does help them stand out from the pack, it also has the potential to alienate traditional hardcore fans looking for simplistic song structures and sing-along lyrics. Coliseum doesn't seem to care about that potential problem, though, forging ahead with their sludgy hardcore sound on House With a Curse, their first album for new label Temporary Residence Ltd.
Right from the start, it's clear that Coliseum has only increased the portions of groove rock in their sound. After the weird instrumental opening of "Introduction", the album jumps right into "Blind in One Eye", which sounds like it could be a B-side of The Sword's last album. It also quickly becomes evident that Coliseum is taking the Rage Against the Machine approach to instrumental mixing, making the bass just as prominent as the guitar throughout the album, sometimes even more prominent. "Cloaked in Red" is the obvious example of this, with Mike Pascal strumming his way through the entire lead line on bass, while the guitar is barely even noticeable for the first half of the song. The idea is to put the primary focus on the groove elements in the song, and it works well to that effect.
However, while genre diversity can and should be embraced, it becomes a problem when diversity leads to the appearance having no direction. The reason that Coliseum's previous two albums worked with this formula is that the hardcore parts were still the clear-cut foundation of the sound, with the groove parts mixed in to add variety. House With a Curse doesn't have such a foundation because it's unclear what the primary focus of the sound should be. The emphasis is clearly on the groove parts throughout the album, but the hardcore parts -- repetitive riffs, simplified time structures and drum parts, and Ryan Patterson's acidic vocals -- are all constants throughout the album, as well.
Songs that go off the map like "Skeleton Smile" only complicate things even more, taking completely different approaches that don't center on either groove or hardcore. Sharp-eared listeners will also catch additional instruments like organ, violin, accordion, and tambourine mixed into some songs, at which point it finally becomes clear that trying to give this album a genre classification is pointless. It's only then that listeners can really find enjoyment in this album and its purpose -- experimentation purely for the sake of itself. That said, few can deny the fact that once these songs are accepted for what they are, they become fun and interesting.
Only over time and repeated listens does this album get more enjoyable and less confusing. But the first few listens will leave many feeling lost, because of the differences between House With a Curse and the band's first two albums. Fans going in expecting to hear the traditional Coliseum sound will walk away feeling disappointed. In that sense, this album is akin to Sepultura's first two albums with Derrick Green singing, because the sound changes take time to get used to. If you're hoping for a traditional hardcore album from Coliseum, you probably won't ever get it. But if you can devote the time and repeated listens to this particular album, you'll grow to like it over time.


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Coopers Marquees supply the most technologically advanced modular semi-permanent structures available in Ireland. Whatever your requirement we can tailor a layout that fits your need and budget exactly and we have the resources to deliver and construct your structure to even the tightest deadline.
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We have engaged Coopers Marquees over the past 10 years to provide a Marquee for Christmas events in Cork and Dublin. We fully expect to engage them again for the upcoming season. We have at all times found them to be very professional in their dealings with us and with the public.
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The Big Bang Theory coming to an end after Season 10 had been a hot topic for a long time. But since the hit CBS show was picked up for Season 11 and Season 12, it finally slammed all the exit rumors. However, new reports revealed that the popular American television sitcom might not go past the 12th season, and Jim Parsons reacts to the new claim.
The Big Bang Theory lead actors, Kaley Cuoco (Penny), Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper), and Johnny Galecki (Leonard Hofstadter), signed another three-year contract back in 2014 to continue their characters until Season 10. Since the three main stars didn't renew their contracts at the moment they were expected to do so, talks about The Big Bang Theory Season 10 being the last installment started to swirl.
Kunal Nayyar, who plays Rajesh Koothrappali on the show, revealed to E! News in 2016 that his contract only goes until Season 10. He then shared that he had no idea what was the status of the show at the time, saying, "To be completely honest, I know people are gonna want to know what happens after season 10. I don't know what's going to happen." Understandably, his statement started concerns from loyal fans and also ignited more exit speculations.
Then viewers finally had a sigh of relief after The Big Bang Theory was officially picked up for two more seasons. Unfortunately, talks about a possible exit never really died down despite the good news. In fact, rumor has it that The Big Bang Theory Season 12 will be the show's last and final installment.
Jim Parsons recently shared his thoughts on whether The Big Bang Theory Season 12 is indeed the end. During the Young Sheldon press conference that was part of the Television Critics Association tour last week, the 44-year-old actor addressed the issue.
Although Jim Parsons didn't deny the possibility of the show's ending, he shared that there were no talks about it at all, saying, "It's really getting into a very individual state of how does everybody feel, and whatever. And that includes the writers, who we've not had a major discussion with yet. There hasn't been a cast and producer discussion about the future of our show."
The funny actor then said that whatever the outcome is, he fully enjoyed all The Big Bang Theory seasons and felt really lucky to be a part of it.


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#MinuteMondays: Confession
Last week we looked at Psalm 8 and saw that the glory of God should humble us. As we see our sin in comparison to God's holiness, we see our weakness, failures, and sin. In short, we were created for far more than the mud pies we settle for.
We were created to exercise dominion over creation and our desires. We were created to live for more than pornography, alcohol, drugs, entertainment, success, wealth, food, and the plethora of idols laid before us each day. And yet we often chase those things. Even in Christ, we aren't exempt from falling into sin, even for seasons. We know it is hard to wage war against Satan, battle the flesh, and resist the world!
When we sin, what should we do? Should we lose all hope? Is there any real assurance that God still loves us? There is, and we find God's promise in 1 John 1:9: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness".
That leaves us with 3 options in handling our sin:
1. We can wallow in Eeyore-like self-pity and live with a "woe is me" mentality, thinking that we will never make progress and never be loved by God. I find myself here sometimes, do you?
2. We work from a foolish sense of self-righteousness and live with a "great is me" mentality, thinking that our progress was our own. I find myself here sometimes, too. How about you?
3. We can rest in Christ's forgiveness and live with a "God have mercy on me, the sinner" mentality, knowing that God is "faithful and just" to forgive those who trust in Christ. Why? Because Jesus paid it all. Not some, not most, but all! This will also drive our pursuit of repentance because Jesus cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Only the gospel has the power to do that!
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Dong-A Korando
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Dong-A Korando. 1986–7 (prod. n/a). 2-door SWB convertible UV, 3-door SWB UV, 3-door LWB UV. 1949 cm³ (I4 OHC), 2238, 2771 cm³ diesel (I4 OHV), 4229 cm³ (I6 OHV). Renamed Geohwa Korando, after Dong-A bought the company. Still under licence from AMC, including the OHV six, though smaller engines were sourced from Isuzu. Very utilitarian, resembling the Jeep CJ-7. Nine-seat version called Korando Family.
Marque: Dong-A | Predecessor: Keohwa Jeep | Successors: Ssangyong Korando (CJ), Ssangyong Korando Family
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About Heather
Heather was born & raised in Winslow, Maine. She graduated from University of Maine at Augusta in 2012 with her Bachelors in Mental Health & Human Services. Heather has always had a passion for real estate. She purchased her first home in 2012 at the age of 22 which has now turned into an investment property. She purchased her second property in 2016, with her husband, where they reside with their dog, Duke. Heather is a member of the Central Maine Apartment Owner's Association, and a past board member. 'Heather is on the Board of Directors for the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce. She sits on the Chamber's Marketing & Membership Committee, Co-Chair for the Coldwell Banker Plourde Super Raffle and Secretary for KV Connect. Heather grew up a gymnast, and although she is 'retired', she has not lost her competitive spirit. Heather loves the challenge of finding all of your needs and wants in your future home. She will also work endlessly to sell your property. If you want a Realtor who always has Real Estate on the mind, contact Heather Thorne Today!


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What Will Convenience Retailing Look Like in 2030?
MELBOURNE, Australia — It's 2030. You drive into the local convenience store to fill up — high-efficiency liquid fuel on the left, electrical vehicle plug-ins on the right. You head into the store through recycled timber automatic doors to discover a food and wine tasting event in progress. A loyalty promotion pops up on your smartwatch: today's seasonal special is locally sourced farm fresh chicken. So, you tap your watch, grab dinner for the family, and tell the store operator you'll see her tomorrow morning for a drive-thru coffee on the way to work.
Truth is, according to Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) CEO Jeff Rogut, there is no way of really telling what the convenience stores of 2030 might look like, but none of the above is out of the question.
"So long as the convenience industry's commitment to innovate continues, the landscape may change even more drastically over the next decade," Rogut said. "Our challenge is to maintain our value proposition amid ever-changing technology and emerging consumer generations. This means adapting to change, attracting new customers and re-framing threats, such as increased government regulation, into opportunities to introduce new products and services."
The Melbourne-based association recently commissioned its most forward-looking and comprehensive research project to date. "Convenience 2030," undertaken by the Australian Consumer, Retail and Services (ACRS) research unit at Monash University, involved extensive interviews with convenience leaders around the world to identify the key changes, trends and opportunities for the convenience industry in the lead up to the year 2030.
The consensus seemed to be that, given the ever-shifting technology landscape, evolving consumer behaviors and population characteristics, the future for the industry is difficult to predict. But some key themes emerged.
"The research highlighted the opportunity and importance for our industry to establish new strategic partnerships, be it with fresh food producers, niche diet providers, alternate fuel companies, electric or driverless car companies, delivery service providers, or loyalty programs," Rogut said.
Convenience stores will also need to focus on attracting new customer segments to ensure they remain a pillar in local communities. "Our customer base today is largely male-dominated, so an opportunity exists to adapt our offer to encourage more women seeking fresh, healthy food and safe environments to our stores," he said.
Millennials are another increasingly important target market for the industry. "Just as millennials are becoming more educated, they're entering the middle class, so they have disposable income," said the managing director of a North American convenience chain, who participated in the research. "They are our future customers. They're also being led by their mobile devices and the influences of their peer group, who are all talking about healthy and ethical food, so that trend is definitely translating into an enhanced offer inside and outside the store."
Along with providing a comprehensive picture of the current and future state of the international convenience sector, "Convenience 2030" details a series of "planned quick wins" accessible to the industry, such as self-service, beacon devices, and destination drivers. It also outlines "planned innovations" that could be just around the corner, such as operational automation, predictive systems and artificial intelligence (AI) to manage inventory and targeted promotions.
A key takeaway, according to Rogut, is that the future of the convenience industry in Australia looks bright, with opportunities aplenty despite the challenges to come.
"It will be fascinating to see how the convenience industry evolves through to 2030. The AACS previously commissioned the 'Convenience 2020' report in 2011, and the drivers and forecasts made then have largely come to fruition," Rogut said.
"As you enter the store of the future, you might pass the local convenience store delivery driver on the way to a customer's house, or look up to see beverages being delivered by a drone. … You might find a large selection of private label products ecologically sourced and sustainably packaged to choose from. You might see people interacting with augmented reality entertainment options as you make your choice. The possibilities are endless," he continued.
"In China now, they are building unstaffed stores where consumers enter using their mobiles and also pay for goods with their phones. But while there is a vast array of drivers that will impact our industry, re-shaping it in expected and unexpected ways, the one constant that will always hold us in good stead is an unwavering focus on the customer, and providing the most complete and convenient service possible."
People today operate on a short-term cycle in terms of whether they want to be fed, have a drink, send or collect a parcel, or pay a bill, according to the director of a major European convenience store chain who took part in the research. "They generally want to do it quickly and efficiently, and convenience stores enable them to do that."
The "Convenience 2030" report is free to all AACS members and available for purchase for $3,950 for non-members. Contact Rogut at [email protected] for further information.


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Trump off to a better start than commonly believed
Donald Trump's first 100 days have not been the foreign policy disaster, or even the major break with long standing US goals, that many feared. There's a long way to go, and he really needs to stay off Twitter, but he could hardly be worse than his predecessor. Give Trump a chance?
U.S. President Donald Trump has shaken things up in America and the world, and not always in a constructive way.
However, there are reasons to be optimistic, and let's not forget how bad Barack Obama actually was, especially on the foreign policy front.
Besides, Trump has already taken a more mainstream line across a host of foreign policy areas, including NATO and Russia.
Of course, there's plenty we still don't know about Trump. And, frankly, a 100-day marker isn't all that helpful. Nonetheless, early indications suggest that America's current president is more comfortable with the projection of American power than Obama ever was.
From Afghanistan to Syria to Yemen, we've seen that already. Trump's team also looks poised to do far less micromanaging than Obama's inner circle did, a positive if unsurprising development. Admittedly, we're still waiting for the president to move from tactics to strategy.
Trump should consistently praise alliances, support free trade and champion America's unique role in international politics.
He also needs to be more disciplined and spend less time on Twitter. Additionally, Trump should reconsider his position on foreign aid and recognize that human rights are an important aspect of U.S. foreign policy.
The president doesn't exactly have big shoes to fill. Obama is poised to go down in history as one of America's worst presidents, a talented and smart man who was never up for the job – content to lead from behind, discard pragmatism for ideological purity, and repudiate American global leadership.
Trump has a long way to go, though the potential upsides to his presidency cannot be discounted.
Taylor Dibbert is a writer based in Washington, D.C.
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Christopher Garwood is a sophomore at USC, where he studies with William Kanengiser, and he just won the 7th annual Pacific Guitar Festival competition. GSI was a sponsor of the competition and so we thought it would be fun to record some videos with the winner. He played his competition pieces for us – Bach's Allegro BWV 998 on a 2012 Sakurai-Kohno 'Professional-J' and Turina's 'Sevillana'. We ended up doing two takes of the Turina – first on a 2013 Jochen Rothel maple guitar and then on a 2005 Eric Sahlin – so here are both versions.
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Known as the skilled co-pilot of the infamous Millennium Falcon, the legendary Wookiee warrior CHEWBACCA will star in his very own limited comic series! After the battle of Yavin, Chewbacca is on his own when he crash lands his ship on an Imperial occupied planet. Now stranded, Chewie finds himself caught in the middle of trying to return to the rebellion and helping a young and feisty girl in need. Writer Gerry Duggan (DEADPOOL, 1872, HULK) and artist Phil Noto (BLACK WIDOW, X-23, UNCANNY X-FORCE) bring us a never-before-seen tale of the heroic Wookiee we all know and love.


text: Mobility Tibbr launches integrated meeting app Nestor E. Arellano @NestorArellano Published: June 17th, 2013Tibco Software Inc. wants Tibbr, its work-focused social network, to become the workplace home screen for online corporate collaborations and conversations.The company recently announced the launch of Tibbr Meetings, which the company claims to be the first solution to integrate into a single screen major Web conferencing and online meeting applications."We already have people collaborating on Tibbr," said Sriram Chakravarthy, head of the engineering and product management division of Tibbr. "Now you can initiate an online meeting or session with any of the major conferencing apps without having to … set up your system to meet the requirements of the session provider."Tibbr Meeting He said Tibbr Meeting is pre-configured to enable users to immediately connect to their platform of choice, such as Cisco WebEx, Skype, Google Hangouts video chat, and GotoMeeting with a single mouse click.RELATED CONTENTTibbr updates its Tibbr mobile appOnline collaboration tools for every budgetThe new release also simplifies activities such as inviting attendees, sharing documents, taking notes and tracking topics or assignments, he said.Providing a single screen to enable quick collaboration across diverse platforms is increasingly becoming critical and many large enterprises and medium-sized businesses, according to Ram Menon, president of social computing at Tibco.For instance, he said, departments within a single company may employ different online meeting and collaboration platforms. Aside from that, the firm's various clients are also likely to use their own preferred platforms.Tibco estimates that users or IT personnel spend as much as 15 to 20 minute on average to set up an online conference."The process to set up and manage meetings across an increasingly diverse pool of meeting platforms is time-consuming and painful," said Menon.One of the collaboration tools Tibbr Meeting is in competition with is Yammer, a cloud-based enterprise social networking software, which Microsoft bought for $1.2 billion last year. Microsoft has integrated Yammer with its Office, Lync and SharePoint enterprise products and is currently integrating it with Office 365.While Yammer focuses on messaging and microblogging activities, Tibbr provides users with a Facebook-like experience of sharing events, images, files and updates in a corporate context.One of the useful features in Tibbr Meeting is Subjects. The feature allows users to follow or track conversation threads concerning products, campaigns or assignments based on the subject name they are tagged with. Mobility cloud services, computing canada, video collaboration


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PageRank Through YouTube
As I was considering what topic to discuss for this blog post, I found myself mindlessly clicking around YouTube from video to video, once again in a stuck in a situation brought on by procrastination. But upon going to yet another related video suggested by YouTube, I realized that I was in a network the whole time. Every video on YouTube provides you with a list of other videos that you may be interested in on the side, and this can cause one to spend hours browsing around the video site.
I was curious how this network worked. How did YouTube successfully give me more and more videos to choose from that kept me from leaving and doing actual work? Immediately I thought about the PageRank concept. When determining a link's PageRank, the search engine will look at the amount of web pages that point to it, then this information is used to determine those pages' PageRanks. This process is done back and forth repeatedly to determine the most accurate value that will be used to make the page's PageRank. After this value is calculated, the most relevant websites to someone's search will be shown on the results page.
On YouTube, this process is done between videos. Since the recommended videos are generated by YouTube itself, the rank of each video cannot be determined simply by linking from video to video. I set out to discover which factors play a large part in giving each video relevant matches. It seems that the most important, and obvious, factors are the video's current views, title, description, and, probably most importantly, its tags. The tags play a big role because the videos with the most tags in common, otherwise known as keywords to identify a video, will point to each other. This will then give each video a higher PageRank relevant to its tags. When someone enters a search query that uses specific words, the relevant videos based on these factors will be shown to them.
Other factors here are the views that your channel has, the amount of subscribers you have accumulated, and how well your other videos rank on the site. The deep integration of all of these factors to provide recommended videos to its users shows just how much YouTube has incorporated the concepts of networks. As YouTube evolves its search engines, their algorithms will only improve and give us a better experience overall.
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Kirby – you are right but the all these can be irrelevant if the content is poor, because YouTube want you to watch the video as this is more revenue for them. So if people are ditching within seconds, even with all the above, they wont get found because content is still King.


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There are a number of different management approaches to transformational change. Transformational change is organization-wide, continuous, and usually implemented over long periods of time [ 9 ]. This particular kind of change, as opposed to transitional change, involves a fundamental, almost paradigmatic shift in the priorities, strategies, and culture of the entire organization.
Transitional change focuses on incremental change or replacement of existing processes.
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It is often reactive in nature, and in most cases, it is controlled, deliberate, and planned. The end-state is known and predictable [ 10 , 11 ]. In contrast, transformational change involves more proactive, continuous change [ 12 ]. From a systems perspective, transformational change is emergent in that the end-state is often not exactly known [ 11 , 13 ]. By its nature, transformational change involves re-engineering of the entire organization [ 14 , 15 , 16 ]. There have been a number of different approaches to transformational change that have been used successfully in health care [ 12 , 13 ].
Consistent themes have emerged regarding key drivers that are critical to the success of transformational change efforts. First, while senior leadership support is absolutely essential [ 12 ], the importance of committed, empowered, and accountable clinical leaders at the point of care cannot be emphasized enough [ 13 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ].
Given the multidisciplinary nature of health care today, physician and nurse leadership dyads working with multidisciplinary teams have been particularly successful [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ]. The most successful organizations at transformational change provide their clinical leaders with the appropriate leadership skills training which frequently include some degree of training in improvement science and adequate resources. Physician leaders especially should be provided with time away from their clinical duties to work with their nursing partners and their teams.
There are a variety of improvement tools available e. However, a standardized approach using a common language to improvement should be used [ 16 ].
Clinically based improvement teams are generally supported by internal quality consultants, project managers, data analysts, and financial analysts in the most successful organizations [ 12 , 13 , 14 ]. For this reason, successful organizations pay particular attention to measurement systems and data management and analysis. In this way, everyone from the board of trustees, chief executive officer, and senior leadership team to middle management and front-line clinical leaders and providers fully know why the organization exists and for what purpose, who they are as an organization and what they stand for, and where the organization is collectively going [ 27 , 28 , 29 ].
In many ways, the mission, vision, and core values are fundamental to the overall culture of an organization, which is fundamental to the success of any transformational change effort.
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Treacy and Wiersema [ 30 ] noted in the early s that the top performing companies, the companies that were the leaders in their industry, narrowed their business to focus on delivering superior value to their customers in one of three value disciplines—product leadership, customer intimacy, or operational excellence [ 31 ]. Importantly, these market leaders generated a sustainable competitive advantage through industry leadership in only one of these three value disciplines, while sustaining performance that met industry standards in the other two value disciplines.
An organization that chooses customer intimacy as its value discipline is interested in providing their customers with a total solution, not just a product or service. These organizations are passionate about helping the customer understand what is needed, ensuring a great solution is implemented, and having a great relationship with each and every customer. Structurally, decision-making is often delegated to employees who are closest to the customer. Importantly, market leadership in customer intimacy must be coupled product differentiation and operational efficiency—in other words, market leaders in customer intimacy sustain industry standard performance in the other two value disciplines.
It is a focus on the core processes of invention, product development, and market exploitation. The structure of these organizations tends to be loosely defined in order to enable experimentation as well as creative and entrepreneurial behaviors that lead them into new solutions. Again, market leadership in product leadership must be coupled with operational efficiency and customer responsiveness.
In these organizations, operations are standardized and tightly managed and employees are clear about their responsibilities and their authority.
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Management systems are focused on integrated, reliable, and high-speed transactions, and compliance to norms. In an effort to bring value to customers, these cultures focus on waste and reward efficiency. These organizations are also highly dependent on teamwork through which every team member holds every other team member accountable for achieving the organizations process and outcome measures. Everybody knows the battle plan and the rule book, and when the buzzer sounds everyone knows what he or she has to do.
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The heroes in this kind of organization are people who fit in, who came up through the ranks. In operationally excellent organizations, the employee of the year is the best team player and peer recognition is the best complement. Organizations that are market leaders in operational excellence must meet industry-level standards in the other two value disciplines—product differentiation and customer responsiveness. Operational excellence is really about achieving process reliability through continuous process improvement.
Avedis Donabedian proposed the structure-process-outcomes framework to achieve operational excellence. Only by putting the right structures in place with effective and reliable processes can the best outcomes be achieved. When outcomes are measured and followed closely, processes can be evaluated and changed or modified, when necessary and as appropriate, in order to produce even better outcomes [ 32 ]. Processes refer to how care is provided in the delivery system—for example, how different providers interact and work together to take care of patients.
Clinical microsystems appear to be another key driver of successful transformational change [ 12 , 14 , 16 , 49 ], especially when the clinical microsystems are led by empowered, accountable clinical leaders who are trained in process improvement. Front-line leaders will be in the best position to fully know and understand how their individual microsystem functions best. Front-line leaders are ideally positioned to monitor key processes at the unit level and should be trusted to make the right decisions on how best to improve process reliability in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Only through process reliability can excellence in operations be achieved. It then follows that operational excellence leads to improved outcomes. Quality healthcare is a complex system of people and processes. When they work effectively together, health care organizations are capable of great clinical outcomes, patient, family, and employee experiences. This complexity requires that clinical leaders and managers and their line employees take full ownership of care, integrating all of the system knowledge and capability in direct service to the patient.
Structuring an organization to enable the line to fully own the outcome produces results. Being collaborative across traditional health care boundaries ensures ones outcome is sustainable. The relationship between physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, patients, and families is a critical component of success in any operationally excellent organization.
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Several health care systems have organized the structural elements of their delivery system using a systems engineering approach. The industrial engineering literature would describe an individual hospital as a macrosystem consisting of multiple, individual microsystems and mesosystems Fig. The Institute of Medicine suggested that focusing on how small clinical, unit-based teams function and interact with other unit-based teams will lead to transformational change of the overall health care delivery system in its report, Crossing the Quality Chasm [ 35 ].
The business school professor, James Brian Quinn, noted that the top performing Fortune companies all focused on their smallest replicable units, i. In addition, senior leaders, including the chief executive officer and members of the board of trustees, were trained in quality improvement and held hospital leaders accountable for improving safety, patient-family experience, and outcomes [ 54 , 55 ].
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