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the start for DeMarco and logged a career-high amount of carries, but the sledding on the was decidedly rough versus a stingy Jaguars front.Visiting North America give the team the best possible preparation for the new , using top class training facilities and playing some great stadiums, Woodward, Manchester United's executive vice chairman, said a statement.I am delighted that those fans be able to every kick of every match of the 2017 Tour, presented by Aon, on the new MUTV app.Christmas Day Schedule ?
His father, Drury, was drafted 42nd overall by the Flames 1989 and skated 414 career NHL with the Whalers, Flames, Senators, Mighty Ducks, Islanders and Blue Jackets.The WNBA said the Las Vegas Aces have forfeited a game scheduled to be played on Aug.All all though, with looking at a heavy workload Week 17 against a Jacksonville defense that is tougher on the pass than the run, the 6-foot-3-pounder is appealing lineup option both – and daily fantasy formats.However, made up for the underwhelming rushing effort with a spectacular 66-yard receiving touchdown on a second-quarter screen pass that opened the scoring on the afternoon.
Davy Propper, a surprise inclusion place of playmaker Sneijder, scored his first international goal after seven minutes a bright start for the hosts, who had not won their previous seven matches at the Amsterdam Arena.Luxembourg also host Bulgaria a dead-rubber clash.Meanwhile, while the Jaguars are locked into the No.thought he had a one-yard rushing touchdown the third quarter, but it was called back on a false start.
The scheduled five-game Unmissable Tour 2017, presented by Aon, includes matches against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester City, as well as two MLS clubs, the Los Angeles Galaxy and Real Salt Like City.Club executives said the matches would be available via the MUTV app.The brother of the Philadelphia Eagles' 2012 seventh-round draft pick, running back Brown, transferred from Miami to the field more regularly.July 17 Real Salt Lake Rio Tinto Stadium, Salt Lake ?
Some 60 rubber ducks will drop off the Wabash Bridge into the Chicago River on Aug.Club executives said the matches would be available via the MUTV app.Neither finished their careers with those schools, however, as they chose to complete them the same place — Manhattan, Kansas, to play for head coach Snyder.03 2018 by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire Titans' : Set to head backfield 2018.
It didn't take for to make impact at Kansas State and became the Wildcats' most consistent force on the defensive side of the ball during his tenure Manhattan.Scotland took some time to settle into a rhythm on a bumpy surface at the Groupama Arena and Allan made a good stop from a Balazs Dzsudzsak free-kick 20 minutes .Uses hands very well.Former Watford forward Tamas Priskin was sent off after half hour for elbow on but it was only Andre 's header from Cristiano Ronaldo's cross that sealed all three points.now tops a running back depth chart that also includes Fluellen and Khalfani Muhammad, with the Titans likely to add further depth at the position free agency and or the draft.
Sweden's superior goal difference over means a draw against the Netherlands would move them into first if Belarus claim unlikely win at the Stade de .Visiting North America give the team the best possible preparation for the new , using top class training facilities and playing some great stadiums, Woodward, Manchester United's executive vice chairman, said a statement.Sweden, who beat 2 , are second Group A behind the French after Bleus' incredible draw Toulouse, following a resounding 4 win Belarus with goals from Emil Forsberg, Christoffer Nyman, Marcus Berg and Granqvist penalty.


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I've been mugged before, but never at gun point. So that was interesting.
I've been mugged before, but never at gun point. So that was interesting.
Incendiary: Hi Tom, it's nice to see you.
Tom McRae: Hi.
IN: I caught the gig the other night in Utrecht, which went very well I thought.
TM: Thanks.
IN: But I've just heard that you had a little trouble afterwards.
TM: Well it was fine, really. We were just drunken musicians on the way back from a venue at four in the morning. And, you know, you take a wrong turn down a wrong alleyway and that sort of thing happens. And you know, I've been mugged before, but never at gun point. So that was interesting. No one was hurt, everybody handed over their money, 'cause it's only fucking money. It's not worth dying for. Then we all walked away and got even more drunk, so it was fine.
IN: Well I'm glad to hear you're alright. It's not often you hear those kind of stories around here.
TM: Well no I was mugged before, in Amsterdam. And that was my fault too. I suppose you just need to be sensible wherever you are and it hasn't changed my opinion of the place 'cause I love coming here and Holland is just beautiful.
IN: Well I've been a big follower of yours, and I must say that I do like reading your rants on the internet. What I do see in you though, is a strange kind of duality. On one side there's the angry, venting person who writes those long rants and comes up with some dark and bitter lyrics, but then that's completely counteracted with the quite jovial, cheerful person on stage. I suppose it just makes you quite normal in a sense, but it's refreshing to see a performing artist with, what seems to be, very little pretense around them.
TM: I had to think about that very hard when I started, because who you are when you start is who you remain. Once you're written about by a bunch of people then that's the story forever. And I was in real danger of being the tortured, dark, deep poet and I knew that that would be a straight jacket for me. It wouldn't allow me to grow up and to change and to do other things. Also, if you do have a construct and a personality and a persona that you choose that isn't really you, it is incredibly tiring. You know, I don't mind it being pretense because basically art is pretense anyway, but I do think that, for me, I need to feel that it's real. I need to be real in those situations otherwise it doesn't connect with me. I don't put on the shirt that I wear on stage and become Tom McRae, I go on stage with the same bad mood I've had all day. I just do it. It saves on energy and it just allows me to be free.
IN: I think your music, or your work in a sense, has a kind of duality to it as well though. A lot of your rants online have a political slant on them and some of that appears in your lyrics at times, but underneath it all there's this sense of….well, menace isn't the right word, but this kind of grumbling. (Tom laughs) But then you place that next to some of the most beautiful, and I mean really beautiful and lush music next to it and the way you play with those two opposing forces I think is what hooks me. I wonder how much of that grumbling comes from the fact that, isn't it right that your Father was a vicar or something?
TM: Yes, that's right. And my mother in fact.
IN: I wondered how much that kind of spiritual upbringing, when compared to the world you see around you, has resulted in a kind of conflict.
TM: Well, we're all the product of our childhood and our upbringing and you can't get away from it. But also, it's all that you know. So if all you have is an incredibly strict, religious upbringing then that's how you see the world. But, the things that I got from it, both good and bad. In fact, not bad, not bad at all. I was brought up with the idea that there is a mystery and a magic and a beauty to the universe and my parents happen to call it God. And that's fine. I was brought up to go to big buildings and sing my heart out and that was a good thing. To be part of the pageantry and ritual and to be involved, and to see my parents being involved in communities and to be in situations where they were trying to make changes, even small changes to people's lives. Those were great things.
To put another positive spin on it, the other great thing it gave me was a fucking huge thing to rebel against. It gave me a massive, massive thing that I knew I had to throw off and reject. From the age of eleven or twelve I just thought, "This is clearly fucking ridiculous." I'd read the theology books in the study and I'd read the Bible countless times and I thought, "Well, these are all great stories, but for fucks sake people come on. This is nuts." So I rebelled against it and left it behind and now I'm free of any sort of religious traces. It's allowed myself to be myself completely, to own myself and my position in the world completely and that's a gift. That's lucky. I was filled with a certain amount of anger and rage because of it, but that became fuel for the fire, sort of, later in life.
IN: I can understand that because I was brought up as a Catholic. My mother's a strict Catholic, although she named me Damian and chose Judas as my confirmation name.
TM: Wow.
IN: Head altar boy till I was eighteen, believe it or not, but then as soon as I went to Uni it was like, "Ok, that's enough." But there's a thing that the comedian Dara O Briain says, where he goes, "I don't believe in God at all. Not a religious person in the slightest. Still Catholic." And no matter what you do, you can't get away from it can you?
TM: No.
IN: Now, I don't want to go down a big theological discussion road with you, but I wondered if all that gave you the sense of the power that music had?
TM: Absolutely. One hundred percent. I mean, I didn't have any pop music in the house. My parents didn't listen to any modern music. My sister's did, but, really, they had a Simon and Garfunkel record and a Bob Dylan record. That was my choice from my parents record collection. But I would go to church and I would sing the hymns. I would walk down the aisle singing Once In Royal David's City and I'd be thinking, "These are banging tunes. These are fucking great." And that emotion of singing loud and singing with other people and have them harmonise with you. That's spiritual! You don't need God for that. Tribes have been doing that since people could make noise. And clearly, that was my first experience of music.
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Surveillance videos captured the horrifying moment a Florida sheriff's deputy confronted his ex-girlfriend and shot her with a service pistol before committing suicide.
Three weeks after they broke up, Deputy Michael DeMarco waited in his patrol car outside a Boynton Beach condominium complex on Oct. 12 to confront Yuly Solano, according to police documents cited by the Palm Beach Post.
In the shocking video footage released by Boynton Beach police on Friday, DeMarco can be seen climbing out of the car before the two walk side by side out of the frame.
When they reappear, Solano can be seen backing away and holding her hand to her face in apparent fear while DeMarco raises the gun and points it at her.
Moments before he opened fire, DeMarco said, "You treat me worse than a dog," according to the documents.
DeMarco shot Solano several times before he fired the gun in his chest and head.
Police arrived to find DeMarco dead on the asphalt, while Solano lay four feet away "screaming in pain and fear," the documents reveal.
She was rushed to the hospital, where she remains in the intensive care unit.
Solano faces several surgeries, according to friends who spoke to the Sun Sentinel, and her daughter created a GoFundMe page, writing, "She was shot four times and has survived! She is a miracle of God!"
DeMarco harassed her with constant phone calls and emails after Solano broke up with him for being racist and possessive, according to police reports.
DeMarco also filed a civil lawsuit against her seekingmoney for furniture because he did not want "to have another man sleep on the mattress that he purchased for them," Solano told police.


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Canidae All Natural Pet Foods is going green by manufacturing its Snap-Biscuits and Snap-Bits dog treats at a wind-powered facility in Oklahoma, USA, according to a company press release.
Thirty-four towers and turbines, with massive 110-foot blades, combine to produce 50 megawatts at peak output.
Canidae saves about one pound of coal for every kilowatt-hour generated by wind, according to the release.


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Today With Sean O Rourke Thursday 27 April 2017
(Listen back to episodes of 'Today with Sarah McInerney' here)
The mid-morning current affairs magazine with the stories of the day, sharp analysis, sports coverage, in-depth features and consumer interest.
Yesterday the new National Children's Hospital finally got lift off... It's expected that the building work on the massive project could begin in a matter of weeks.
The hospital which will be located at the St James' hospital site in Dublin will have single ensuite rooms for every patient and will have the very latest technology.
But, this much needed new facility will come at a cost – and the latest projected figure is an eye watering one billion euro. And there are still concerns about traffic congestion, parking and access to the new hospital for families travelling from outside of the capital.
Eilish Hardiman is chief executive officer of the Children's Hospital group and she joined us this morning.
There has been a development this morning in the ongoing row over the location of the new national maternity hospital at the st.vincents hospital site in dublin. As we heard in the news headlines former master of holles street peter boylan told newstalk earler that he has resigned from the board with immediate effect.
Joining us this morning were Labour party leader Brendan Howlin and two board members of the National Maternity Hospital – Sinn Féin councillor Micheal MacDonncha and Green party councillor Clare Byrne – both of whom were at the meeting last night..
Could cutting corners on regulations address the housing shortage? Karl Deeter of MortgageBrokers.ie says that accepting a few 'trade offs' on things like disability access and fire safety could be the key to delivering more homes and Karl joined us in studio,we were also joined in our Limerick studio by Mary Hughes, Director of HRA Planning Consultants and former president of the Irish Planning Institute.
The annual conference of the Prison Officers Association starts in Galway this morning and one of the key concerns for the association is increased number of assaults. Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald addressed the prison officers earlier this morning.
Jim Mitchell, Deputy General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association joined us this morning from Galway.
This month we've been reading Echoland by Joe Joyce, a detective novel set in 1940s Dublin by Joe Joyce.
In studio this morning were John Connolly, author, Natasha Fennell, Director of Stillwater Communications, Michael Colgan, now the former Director of the Gate and Elaina Ryan, Director of Children's Books Ireland.
Paddy O'Gorman has been to the Tallaght District Court.
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Windows XP and Vista News and Tips
Some stuff I didn't get a chance to comment on this week.
Mark Minasi is one of those guys tech people look up too, published many books on technology and always seems to be on top of and in the middle of everything Windows related. He has a monthly newsletter and this one has some great Windows Vista info in it. This month he talks about Windows Vista Complete PC backup system, using it to backup to an unsupported network drive, Windows Vista does not recognize Windows XP's roaming profiles, and Software License Manager.
CompletePC Trap: Never Lower Your Drive Size
I love Vista's new CompletePC backup system. In case you've not looked into it, CompletePC Backup has a few neat features:
It backs up entire drive letters to a VHD (virtual hard disk) format. The process takes quite a while the first time you do it, but the incremental backups are quite quick, in my experience.
The beauty of the VHD format is that it allows you to create multiple snapshots of a disk, all stored in one file. Even better, the file format is smart enough to just hang onto the incremental information, so that even if you've done a complete save of, say, your C: drive ten times over the past few days, the VHD file won't be ten times the size of your data. Instead, the backup will probably be only a few percent larger than the current size of the data on your hard disk.
Here's the really neat part: restoring a CompletePC backup. When storing your system information to the VHD file, CompletePC removes the hardware-specific parts of the backup. Result: you can restore your CompletePC backup to another system as a bare-metal restore, regardless of the make and model of the system that you're doing the restore on. So, for example, suppose you have an Acme laptop running Vista on a given motherboard chipset, ATI video chipset, and an IDE ("PATA") hard disk. You make a CompletePC backup of that system. Then the Acme laptop dies and you buy a Zephyr laptop that features a different motherboard chipset, an Nvidia video chip, and a SATA hard disk. You boot the Zephyr laptop with the Vista Install DVD and use CompletePC Restore to restore your Acme laptop's data and operating system to the much-different Zephyr… and it works. (This assumes that Vista has or can find drivers for the stuff in the Zephyr, of course.) Source: Mark Minasi's Windows Networking Tech Page Issue #63 July 2007
Six months on, Vista users still griping Some working around flaws or sticking with Windows XP. Jessica Mintz talks to Chris Pirillo about Windows Vista and him upgrading back to Windows XP.
Microsoft re-assures partners on Vista compatibility Microsoft has used its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) to stress that it's working to solve stubborn compatibility problems between Windows Vista and partner products.
Vista's advanced speech recognition technology The fake Steve Jobs talks about Vista's speech recognition, includes video of someone using it to write a perl script.


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Learning from Jesus' Questions - What Am I Thinking?
Jesus knew what they were thinking so He asked them, "Why do you have such evil thoughts in your hearts?" Matthew 9:4 NLT
Mark Twain wrote, "What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those other things, are his history." Reader's Digest, Jan 1993, p. 155
My mind so easily slips into negative or evil thoughts, bringing turmoil to my soul. The apostle Paul understood, encouraging me by saying...
...Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise...Then the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:8-9 NLT
My thought life is like a fight between two dogs described in an Indian proverb. The dog I feed the most will win. Join me in asking at any given moment, "Which dog am I feeding?"
Dear Jesus, please forgive me for what I think. I open my mind to you, Lord. Fill me with thoughts of you - those things that are true and honorable, right, and pure - those thoughts that bring peace to my soul.


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An enterprise process framework defined and delivered with IBM Rational Method Composer
In the 1960's software engineering used the term "software crisis" to define the ever growing complexity, expectations, and changes around software engineering. The crisis was manifested by over-budget and over-time software projects delivering products of low quality that did not meet requirements and were difficult to maintain.1
Along the same lines, today's IT industry is experiencing a similar challenge regarding process in terms of complexity, expectations, and a continually changing environment. The disparity of IT processes coupled with the intricacy of the IT enterprise impedes the optimization of IT services and products.
An IT enterprise process framework (IT-EPF) is a mechanism for harmonizing process disparity and managing the associated complexities. It uses five architected views: alignment, process interdependence, governance, organizational operations, and process traceability. This enables clarity and visibility into critical process failure points.
Here are some examples of common process failure points managed by an IT-EPF:
- Process silos with redundant and overlapping functions operate with autonomy within the IT enterprise
- Mismatches between processes with differences in structure and maturity
- Failure of organizational collaboration and transition of activities, such as:
- The synchronization of the software development lifecycles and infrastructure operation practices
- The assimilation of Enterprise Architecture (EA) technology governance into all aspects of technology adoption such as software development efforts and infrastructure environment management operations
- The transition of an infrastructure or software project change request to portfolio management as a demand item for approval as a new project
- Mechanical and bureaucratic governance that imposes process inefficiencies.
This article provides an overview and strategic synopsis of an IT-EPF, showing how it enables the harmonization of process and manages complexity. The discussion then turns to the application of IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC) to enable these features.
State of process in the IT enterprise
Today's IT environment is characterized by IT leaders attempting to restructure their operations to be adaptive. They are looking towards process as one of several means to achieve this end, but they face the following constraints and limitations1:
- Processes typically address only a segment of the full scope of IT operations. For example, IBM's Rational Unified Process (RUP) is focused on software lifecycles and the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) orients on the infrastructure.
- Processes lack coordination, traceability to policy, and often contradict each other. For example, RUP and ITIL both define configuration and change management but with different roles, work products, and tasks.
- Many processes are large, complex bodies of information, not easily consumable by the uninitiated. For example, classic RUP is over 3000 Web pages in length and ITIL is composed of eight publications covering a dozen plus disciplines.
- A majority of governance and governance-based processes are intuitive, ad-hoc, or non-existent.3 One of the primary reasons is that IT industry processes, such as RUP and ITIL, are not enabled to facilitate the integration of governance in a mature manner. For example, RUP has no mechanisms for the integration of compliance management.4 Similarly, ITIL exists in the same state but without any actionable process elements to facilitate integration of governance.5
These constraints and limitations are a hurdle inhibiting the use of process within the context of enabling an organization to be agile. But overcoming this hurdle would lead to efficiency and financial benefits. The efficiency benefits are derived from the harmonization and management of complexity. Silos are eliminated, mismatches are managed, dependencies are coordinated, and governance is sustainable.
Financial benefits are derived from the ability of the framework to reduce inefficiencies and manage the integration of governance on an enterprise scale. Elimination of redundant or mismatched processes, for example, reduces overhead costs. Effective governance has been shown to increase financial benefits as follows:
- Higher ROI from effective governance processes: A survey revealed that "81% of CEO's and CIO's identified a higher ROI"6 due to the IT organization having implemented an effective governance-based process.
- Superior IT governance equates to greater profits: Firms with superior IT Governance have more than 25% greater profits than firms with poor governance. The firms with the return had custom-designed governance processes aligning IT decisions with monitors for performance and accountability.7
- Increased market value with improved governance: "On average, when moving from poorest to best on corporate governance, firms could expect an increase of 10 to 12 percent in market value."8
And these are just a few of the efficiency and financial benefits that an IT-EPF can provide to an organization: the first in terms of maximizing quality and consistency of IT operations; and the second in terms of reducing overhead costs, improving profits, and increasing market value.
What is an IT enterprise process framework?
Simply stated, an IT-EPF is a mechanism for abstracting the organizational processes and their various elements. Figure 1 visually presents an example of the key elements of an IT-EPF. This framework is composed of process definitions (the outermost spheres) for a sample set of IT enterprise processes, enterprise alignment and governance (the center sphere), process intersections and dependencies (the lines), and an underlying process architecture (the underlying circle) that synchronize the elements.
Figure 1: Visual representation of an enterprise process framework for a sample set of enterprise processes
Five views for improved perspective
An IT-EPF organizes processes and associated elements into views. The views abstract and modularize the IT enterprise to allow visibility into the critical enterprise operations. This visibility, in conjunction with the decoupling of critical process elements, enables harmonization and management of the IT enterprise complexities. In turn, this realizes consistent, collaborative, and synchronized operations.
Supporting this perspective is an underlying alignment and governance framework. The objective of the framework is to provide sustainable compliance management, leverage governance to improve IT-spend, and facilitate improved enterprise alignment. The framework realizes these objectives by means of actionable alignment and governance process elements that are seamlessly integrated into organizational processes.
In summary, the five IT enterprise views9 are:
- Strategic process alignment. Captures both internal and external alignment to synchronize processes with enterprise strategies.
- Process interdependency. Maps process dependencies between enterprise organizational processes and manages them in terms of responsibility, consistency, and collaboration.
- Governance infrastructure. Standardizes regulatory compliance mechanisms and control points across all organizations within the IT Enterprise; streamlines the integration and implementation of transparent governance to constituent organizational processes.
- Actionable process suite. Captures the complete set of IT enterprise processes specific to the enterprise's constituent organizations. Unified by a shared process infrastructure, the discrete processes are owned and utilized by the individual organizations but are harmonized and managed across the enterprise via this view.
- Process traceability chain. Maps the implementation of strategy, governance, and standards from policy to the process actionable elements realized in day-to-day tasks. Traceability enables the identification of process elements for strategy, alignment, and policy while also facilitating the management of process change.
A mechanism for point-of-view, abstraction, and actionability
An IT-EPF is an ideal for harmonizing and managing complexity, because it provides:
- An actionable process established at the enterprise level.
- The abstraction of enterprise process elements.
- An overarching viewpoint of the IT enterprise process infrastructure.
Actionable process established at the enterprise level
IT-EPF defines objectives, governance, and alignment strategies as actionable process elements. This enables constituent organizations to extend the enterprise process elements to their specific needs and integrate them within their own processes.
For example, an IT enterprise defines a change management process as an enterprise standard to control technology changes in a consistent manner across the enterprise. This would be defined as a set of standard roles, tasks, work products, and common workflow. The software engineering organization would utilize the enterprise change management process to meet the fine granular details necessary for change management of software. On the other hand, the infrastructure group would extend the same IT enterprise change management process to fit within ITIL's definition of change management; focused on control of change to production with less concern over the granular details.
The common thread is that each of these organizations is applying an actionable process that integrates across the enterprise in a consistent and seamless manner. An IT-EPF introduces actionable process at the enterprise level and leaves specific implementation to the individual organizations.
Abstraction of standard enterprise process elements
Abstraction is the reduction of complexity by filtering out the detail. An IT-EPF abstracts the common and critical process elements in the IT enterprise, such as governance. The abstraction provides visibility into the common elements and ensures they are not lost in the details of day-to-day tasks or subsumed by a single organization. Furthermore, with abstraction the common elements can be extended by individual organizations to integrate governance and enterprise standards into their processes without encumbering organizational needs.
For example, an IT enterprise implements EA governance process around technology adoption affecting both new and existing technology. Around this process are defined governance and standards. A software development organization can expand the EA governance criteria to meet internal software development standards around Java or .NET. Meanwhile an infrastructure group would expand the same EA governance criteria along the lines of production hardware and operating systems.
To each of the individual organizations, the merging of their standards with the EA governance is transparent, yet their commonality can be traced to the originating source in EA. This enables each organization to build upon their own needs by piggybacking on the EA governance, all while governance is seeded throughout the organization for managing changes to the enterprise technology landscape.
Overarching viewpoint
Change in an organization is difficult without an overarching point of view that allows for the coordination of diverse processes in terms of overlap, intersection, and structure. Compounding this matter is the fact that implementation of any organizational process entails some level of change; typically significant change. Further, an IT-EPF facilitates coordination by providing insight into the changes necessary to optimize the IT Enterprise. It identifies what processes are operating towards IT enterprise objectives, which processes are in conjunction with the business, where processes have coordinated integration points, where processes are overlapping and redundant, and where mismatches exist.
For example, configuration management is performed by both software development and infrastructure groups to meet their own needs and objectives. Yet, like change management processes, configuration management intersects other activities, especially when change is involved or responsibility for software is being transitioned from the software development group to another group in the organization. An IT-EPF enables the identification of where the configuration management processes overlap, where they intersect in terms of release management, and maps the differences in each organizations implementation of configuration management. This understanding facilitates collaboration and manages the changes to the benefit of all organizations impacted.
Impact of business drivers
To successfully realize the advantages of an IT-EPF, it is important to understand the impact of the business drivers acting on the IT Enterprise. As an enabling mechanism, an IT-EPF is a common ground for the constituent IT enterprise processes to collaborate both with the business as a cohesive whole and internally with each other.
Figure 2: Business drivers acting on the IT Enterprise
Figure 2, Business drivers acting on the IT Enterprise, presents a strategic view of the business drivers impacting the IT enterprise and thus the IT-EPF. This figure presents a sampling of business drivers that need to be given consideration to fully realize the benefits of an IT-EPF.
The impact of business drivers on the IT enterprise processes can be quite complex and sometimes contradictory. For example, the driver for business agility via technology combined with technology solutions with a best-fit can drive the selection of new software in a rapid manner as it hits the market. On the flip side, the drive for quality and reliable technology services leads the infrastructure processes to be more constant and methodical to realize stability, predictability, and availability. This impedes the adoption and deployment of new technologies; furthermore, this approach can create cultural differences between the infrastructure and software groups. The end-result is a complex set of interactions that are underlined by process and cultural contradictions.
While there are always overlapping business drivers, some drivers have a greater impact on a given organization. Without a balancing mechanism, the higher priority drivers create an evolutionary state where each IT enterprise process is slowly pulled further out of alignment by a set of business needs that outweigh the whole; such as an infrastructure organization driven to put priority on stable and reliable production environments. This focus results in less priority on business drivers such as agile technology adoption and deployment to remain competitive.
In this environment, after a period of time, processes are either barely in harmony or are extending the functionality of their processes to pick up the slack. These situations are underscored by conflict between organizational process elements or by redundant and overlapping processes. An IT-EPF allows for the coordination of changes across the IT enterprise arising from an external business driver by harmonizing the processes and managing their inherent complexities.
Compounding this situation is the recent and nearly frantic business drive to implement enterprise governance; especially to meet regulatory compliance requirements imposed by external entities. A "risk-assessment survey reported that executives ranked regulatory noncompliance second -- above terrorism, and surpassed only by losing to competitors." Without harmonization and management of governance driven processes, processes will become a hindrance to success due to their bureaucratic and non-agile nature.
Enterprise process framework and RMC
Achieving process harmonization requires the application of industry best practices coupled with process engineering and organizational change management. For most IT Enterprises, a solid and pragmatic approach is not enough to capture the depth and complexity of all operations and interactions needed for process harmonization. A tool is necessary to manage the myriad details and abstract them into a more consumable format.
An IT-EPF supported and delivered with the IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC) can provide a solution for harmonizing and managing the complexity of IT enterprise processes. Besides RMC being a tool for process definition and publication, it also:
- Facilitates the social engineering of organizational and cultural complexities.
- Provides a structure enabling the traceability of strategy to policy to implementation.
- Unifies standards for consistent implementation of strategy, governance, and alignment.
- Captures organizational complexities via workflow and dependency diagrams.
- Enables consistent application of standardized work products across the enterprise.
Application of RMC to defining an IT enterprise process framework
RMC provides value to defining an IT-EPF for multiple reasons. While the most obvious reasons are related to tool functionality -- such as publishing content to a Website, enabling collaborative authoring, and integration with tools such as IBM Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM) and Microsoft Project -- a less obvious reason is the Unified Method Architecture (UMA). UMA is the process meta-model the tool is built upon; UMA is a derivative of the Software Process Engineering Meta-model (SPEM) 2.0 released by the Object Management Group (OMG).
SPEM 2.011 expands the scope of the meta-model to a view of engineered process applicable to any process definition; in this case an IT-EPF model to abstract processes into the five views. In fact, the features of SPEM 2.0 are an ideal fit for the IT-EPF. Besides the benefits of harmonizing all enterprise processes to an industry standard, SPEM 2.0 also realizes aspect-oriented process design, encapsulation for reuse, and dynamic binding to propagate changes through all processes at a single touch point.
As IBM's RMC utilizes UMA as its fundamental architecture, the tool is precisely suited for capturing and defining the views of the IT-EPF in an industry standard format. This suitability can be seen by IBM's definition of the UMA. This definition enables RMC to realize the following:
- Separation of concerns:
- Packaging and configuration of method content, processes, and plug-ins in method libraries.
- Separation of core method content from the application of method content in processes.
- A separation of recommended method and guidance description fields.
- A separation of semantic elements from their notation in process diagrams.
- Reuse and extendibility:
- Content reuse by allowing each process to reference common method content from a common method content pool and process patterns via extends and copies.
- Support multiple families of processes in different varieties and combinations of life-cycle models for process definitions.
- Provide the means to customize method content and processes without directly modifying the original content.
- Enable aspect oriented solutions where a specific process can be engineered to meet a specific business need via extending defined processes.
- Management of complexity:
- The definition of an optional extensibility mechanism in the method for large-scale management of method and process repositories.
- Provide the ability to consistently and effectively manage and maintain whole families of related processes with variations.
- Define multiple and consistently maintained views on processes with immediate updates to dependent processes when a parent process is changed.
- Establish variability binding between process elements and process patterns so that changes made to the original process element is propagated throughout all dependent process components.
The focus on separation of concerns, reuse, and management of complexity allows for the design of a process with an engineered object-based perspective in terms of abstraction, generalization, modularity, and cohesion; each of which lends itself to reuse and the management of the complexities inherent in an IT-EPF. These design philosophies benefit the construction of an IT-EPF within RMC as outlined in the following subsections.
A key benefit of abstraction is the ability to reduce complexity by factoring out the detailed level to observe higher level design patterns. Details are gradually extended that keeps the high level design intact. RMC enables this though the use of Method Libraries which are a composition of processes and process extensions. The Method Library is a critical component to the IT-EPF as it enables the grouping of like-processes. This allows for the identification and alignment of processes needed to meet the IT enterprise needs while also providing a mechanism for each organization to define and capture its own unique processes. Figure 3 shows an example of a single Method Library for an infrastructure organization utilizing IBM's ITIL Tivoli Unified Process (ITUP). Note that the Method Library is composed of plug-ins that contain entire process or process extension definitions; another layer of abstraction enabled by RMC. This example also demonstrates one level of reuse in terms of organizational processes. In this particular case, the plug-ins for corporate compliance (corp_compliance), EA Governance (corp_ea_goernance), and corporate process standards (corp_process_framework_standards) are used by all organizations across the IT Enterprise. This level of reuse facilitates consistency in strategy, governance, and policy.
Figure 3: Sample method library -- Infrastructure
RMC enables each organization within the IT enterprise to define in detail the set of processes and process extensions, in the context of Method Libraries and plug-ins respectively, needed to meet their own unique needs while being harmonized with the IT Enterprise. Such abstraction ensures alignment is set at the enterprise level from the top down.
Figure 4, Business Drivers to Enterprise Internal Alignment, presents an example of how the business drivers and the IT enterprise are evolved into an Enterprise internal alignment model. This demonstrates the transition of aligning the business drivers with the various organizations of the IT Enterprise.
Figure 4: Business drivers to IT enterprise internal alignment
With an abstract structuring of the business drivers against that of the IT enterprise constituent organizations, it is possible to define a logical view of the IT enterprise process library, as shown in Figure 5. The IT enterprise process library is an abstract model of the modularization of the critical operations of the organizations comprising the IT Enterprise. As depicted in Figure 6 farther below,, these operations are captured as process method libraries.
Figure 5: IT enterprise internal alignment to logical model of the IT-EPF process structure
As presented in Figure 6 below, an IT-EPF method library can be defined and realized with RMC from the logical model of the IT-EPF process structure. The IT-EPF logical model is the basis for structuring and organizing the RMC Method Libraries.
Figure 6: Logical model of the IT-EPF process structure to realization as an IT-EPF RMC method library
This approach starts with an understanding of the organizational business drivers. From this point an internal alignment view is created as the basis for logically modeling the packaging of processes. The logical model is realized within RMC as a set of Method Libraries.
Figure 7 shows an expanded view of the final product presented in Figure 6 but with labeled dependencies; the IT enterprise Method Library is composed of Method Libraries for the IT Program & Portfolio, IT Infrastructure, and Enterprise Architecture. As software development is of higher concern to the organization a corporate SDLC Method Library is created to standardize RUP and the organizational resources and software standards.
Inheriting from the Corporate SDLC are two Method Libraries. The first, Corporate SW Development Method Library, is specific to custom software development and release of enhancements. In parallel with this hierarchy is the Corporate SW Services Support Method Library specialized for the maintenance of all applications in production. The Corporate SDLC Method Library ensures that the processes utilized by both SW Development and SW Services Support organizations are in alignment. This level of abstraction within RMC allows for the identification of key dependencies where process harmonization needs to occur.
Figure 7: Sample enterprise method library demonstrating abstraction of dependencies
The ability to abstract via RMC enables the capture of higher level aspects of an IT-EPF in terms of method libraries, dependencies between those method libraries, and the key plug-ins contained within each organizational method library.
Generalization, also known as inheritance, provides a means to simplify complexity and institute consistency by means of extending common process standards through child objects. In terms of RMC this is realized by variance functionality where a given role, task, work product, guidance, or process can be extended by an element, contribute to an element, or replace an element. This allows for the implementation of process standards that are consistently implemented across the enterprise but with the unique flavor, maturity, and level of detail of each organization. This harmonizes processes in terms of consistency across the enterprise and also allows for the management of complexity where critical enterprise changes are made at one point and then inherited by the specialized implementations.
Figure 8 shows a sample enterprise process framework method library demonstrating generalization, which depicts several aspects of the relationship between the Method libraries. In terms of generalization, the PMO office maintains plug-ins as standards used throughout the IT Enterprise. In this particular example there are the process framework standards, corporate compliance, and project portfolio management plug-ins used throughout the IT organizations. This type of plug-in dependency structure establishes consistent standards and governance across the organization as a means to implement a regulation framework that is defined and owned by a given organization. Another type of generalization represented in this diagram is the asset financial management plug-in which shares governance in terms of asset management between the PMO and Infrastructure Method Libraries.
Figure 8: Sample enterprise process framework method library demonstrating generalization
The underlying architectural meta-model of plug-ins, method content packages, and process packages driving RMC institutes the organization of processes and process extensions into modules. This allows for discrete ownership and focus upon key concerns. Plug-ins within each method library can be extended and reused across the IT enterprise to drive consistency and seamless integration. Further, modularity allows for separation of business concerns in terms of process maturity, process differences, project vs. operational processes, and process ownership. And finally, such modularity simplifies the many complexities enabling focus upon the critical elements. Coupled with a Roadmap, a process implementation can focus on particular plug-ins and/or method libraries based on risk, priority, and value.
Figure 9 shows a sample enterprise process library demonstrating modularity; this depicts a sampling of modularized processes in the form of method libraries with a partition of business concerns into enterprise architecture (EA), program & portfolio management (PMO), and infrastructure. This modularity allows for differences in process maturity, process differences, and ownership over the discrete processes while harmonizing these processes. For example, EA is responsible for EA governance. The EA Method Library contains a plug-in that is in read\write format. This plug-in is distributed in read only format to the owning organizations of the Infrastructure and Corporate SDLC Method Libraries. This allows for specialized implementation of standards in a consistent fashion so all EA governance organizations are utilizing the governance in the same manner.
Figure 9: Sample enterprise process library demonstrating modularity
Another benefit of modularity is the ability to exchange only the key process concepts between different processes from different organizations. This enables the integrating organization to focus on the points where collaboration needs to occur vs. absorbing an entire process. In this example, the integration between RUP and ITIL is represented as shared plug-ins between the two Method Libraries.
Cohesion is the grouping of elements into like process elements. High cohesion is the target state as this lends to a robust, maintainable, reliable, and reusable process structure; on the other hand, low cohesion results in the opposite. Cohesion in RMC is enabled by means of the separation of concerns previously outlined but only realized with a sound approach to process engineering. The concept of an IT-EPF encapsulates the core objectives of cohesion; a process structure that harmonizes disparate processes and manages their complexities. This is achieved through industry best practices of organizational assessment, stakeholder driven requirements definition, model driven process engineering, and organizational change management.
Figure 10 presents the infrastructure method library, where the focus is on all the elements relevant only to infrastructure. As can be seen there are a high number of dependencies just within a single focused method library composed of elements relevant to conducting the activities and operations of an infrastructure department. Without separation of concerns into cohesive method libraries, the complexity grows exponentially. This is a key rationale for separation of concerns; the more plug-ins, the greater the complexity of dependencies.
Figure 10: Sample method library demonstrating cohesion
Mapping the views to RMC and other IBM Rational tools
Admittedly, RMC is only one tool of several that can be utilized to realize an IT-EPF, but it is a vital tool because it enables the capture of actionable process into a format that is consistent, cohesive, and reusable while managing the many complexities inherent in an IT Enterprise. One of its most critical features is the realization of processes at a task step level with concise responsibilities, defined work products, and explicit process flow from the top level to the actual steps within a task. This allows for the definition of actionable process that can be executed as organizational operations. Definition of governance in an actionable format seamlessly integrates into actionable processes, and thus provides for consistent implementation of process elements throughout the organization.
As with any tool it does have its limitations. Though when paired with other tools the full set of IT-EPF views can be realized. Table 1 maps the IT-EPF views to a sampling of primarily IBM tools and their usage in realizing the IT-EPF.
|Process Suite
|IBM Rational Method Composer
|IBM Rational Requisite Pro
|IBM Rational System Modeler
|Text Editor or equivalent enabling technology
Why not other methodologies?
There are business and enterprise methodologies that encapsulate the IT-EPF but their perspective on process is at a different level of perspective in comparison to an IT-EPF. For example, the Zachman framework defines and models an enterprise's systems architecture, but it only touches on the processes in terms of a list of enterprise processes, a business process model in terms of enterprise systems, and technical workflows for the architecture and enterprise systems. None of these views delve into the same details as the IT-EPF -- let alone realize, harmonize, and manage actionable processes. The Zachman views are simply focused on the processes and workflows that impact the enterprise architecture and systems rather the full gamut of processes to realize IT objectives. IT-EPF is focused on harmonizing process, managing their complexities, and realizing a state that makes them actionable vs. being descriptive.
But this does not mean that Zachman and IT-EPF are not complimentary. In fact, their complimentary nature was exactly what I had in mind when writing this article. The IT-EPF is part of a greater whole, encapsulating the entirety of strategy, operations, and resources that comprises the IT enterprise and the business beyond. The IT-EPF enables the harmonization of the processes within the Zachman framework. And the Zachman framework captures a view of the IT enterprise that compliments the process harmonization and management enabled by the IT-EPF. The same consideration goes for Scott Ambler's Enterprise Unified Process.14 And in terms of the many approaches to process improvement, they are go hand-in-hand with an IT-EPF.
The importance of an IT-EPF is its ability to enable the harmonization and management of the IT enterprise process complexities using UML model-driven process engineering and the IBM Suite of tools. This provides a framework and structure to unify organizations in terms of collaboration in overlapping objectives, consistent application of policy and governance, and alignment with the business. Just as it takes a village to complete the gamut of IT enterprise operations, it takes a village of methodologies and tools to define and optimize the IT enterprise.
Today's IT enterprise environment is characterized by high degrees of intricacy, increasing demands from its customer base, and an ever-changing landscape. In this environment IT leaders realize that an enterprise needs to be agile, responsive, and dynamic to provide quality services and products to its customer base.
With the advent of IBM's Rational Method Composer and the evolution of industry best practices, a solution avails itself that will allow an enterprise process solution. This solution can facilitate the management of the complex processes while enabling them to be both pragmatic and definitive. When applied on an enterprise scale, RMC enables the realization of an IT enterprise process framework (IT-EPF).
An IT-EPF is a mechanism to harmonize process and manage the many intricacies of an enterprise-scale process framework. It meets the needs of the IT enterprise in terms of both internal and external alignment and seamless integration of governance in the IT enterprise without undue bureaucracy. Additionally, an IT-EPF is an organization wide process structure that consolidates, establishes, and standardizes process throughout the IT enterprise. This framework provides a common ground for all IT enterprise organizational entities to perform their work in collaboration. Thus an enterprise standard is established that drives consistency across all constituent organizations of the IT enterprise and yet, enables each individual organization to realize its fullest potential to maximize the quality and effectiveness of its services and products.
When all of the organizations within the IT enterprise are performing processes in a coordinated manner the power and capability of the entire enterprise is magnified. There are no wasted actions and the entire IT enterprise can focus on the needs of the business. Governance and regulatory compliance are more easily attained working within a defined process framework such as the IT-EPF.
Utilizing industry best practices for process engineering and organizational change management, coupled with IBM's Rational Method Composer (RMC) a process framework can be defined, implemented, and maintained in an understandable format. RMC is ideal for building, compiling, and then delivering an IT-EPF that is both distributed yet interconnected as its content is based on the concept of separation of concerns. The focus on separation of concerns allows for the design of a process with an engineered object-based perspective in terms of abstraction, generalization, modularity, and cohesion. Each of which lends itself to managing the complexities inherent in an IT-EPF.
1Software Crisis, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Foundation Inc., December 2006.
2 Clearing the Clutter: Getting Value From IT Process and Best Practices, Corby James CTO, Noblestar Systems Corporation, December 2004.
3 A study commissioned by the IT Governance Institute showed that 42% of 695 surveyed CEO's and CIO's have a mature process for IT Governance while 58% have either no, intuitive, or ad-hoc processes in place.
4 A beta plug-in for compliance management has been released for RMC that addresses and presents how to implement compliance management using RUP.
5 IBM has released the IBM Tivoli Unified Process (ITUP) that captures and defines ITIL to the actionable level.
6 "Findings of the IT Governance Global Status Report -- 2006," commissioned by the IT Governance Institute.
7 "IT Governance: How top performers manage IT decision rights for superior results," Peter Weill and Jenny W Ross. Harvard Business School Press.
8 The McKinsey Quarterly, 2002 Number
9 I intend to provide greater depth of detail on these five views and their fit within the IT-EPF in a second article to be published this spring.
10 "Lock out business risks," Amir Hartman with Craig LeGrande and Tom Goff, Optimize, Issue 50 (December 2005)
11 Software & Systems Process Engineering Meta Model (SPEM 2.0), Internal Version 1.7, Primary Contact: Peter Haumer, Object Management Group, http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ad/06-11-03, September 2006.
12 Model Driven Process Engineering, Erwan Breton and Jean Bézivin, Societe Soft-Maint, Nantes, Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2001. COMPSAC 2001.
13 Zachman Framework, The Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement, http://www.zifa.com.
14 Enterprise Unified Process Home Page, Scott Ambler, http://www.enterpriseunifiedprocess.com, Ambysoft, 2002Â2006.


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I'm in pain *howls*! How could the anime producers of Legend of Basara be so cruel?!? I should have known better than to have watched this. I've read reviews that the anime is not enough and that the ending episode just fizzled and went kaput. But who can resist a plot that vaguely resembles Romeo and Juliet? Not me, of course. Guess I'm just a masochist at heart -_-;
Legend of Basara was created by Yumi Tamura as a manga which ended in 1998. The manga was a hit that an anime counterpart was produced. Unfortunately, the anime didn't stir much interest in Japan; it ended in the 13th episode, which only covered five volumes of the manga.
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Three years after the Red King was born, fraternal twins were born: a boy named Tatara and a girl named Sarasa. Tatara was prophesized to be the fated child, the one person who will save the nation from the tyrany of the Red King. Unfortunately Tatara was killed by the Red King's henchman, and for the people not to lose hope in the longed for independence from the Red King, Sarasa cut her long hair and masqueraded as Tatara. Except for a handful of people, nobody knows that Tatara, the small but fearless leader of the rebels out to take down the Red King, is really a fifteen year old girl who took the responsibility of her twin brother as fulfillment of a promise she had made to him to save their people when he's gone.
In Tatara's (Sarasa's) first
battle against the Red King, she sustained an arrow wound that necessitated
a good long soak in a hot springs nearby. Thinking she was alone, she
stripped and was having a luxurious time when a guy with a horse came.
The guy, called Shuri, saw Sarasa nude and easily told her to get out
of the water so his horse could get in. Sarasa refused, so the horse went
in the water nevertheless until horse and girl were eye to eye ^_^ Shuri
finally tossed her her clothes, and as Sarasa waded out of the water,
Shuri attempted to kiss her. He was rewarded with a fist on his nose ^_^
Shuri complained that she's the first girl ever to make his nose bleed,
to which Sarasa left in a huff.
That's how I felt when I watched the Legend of Basara anime. It all started out fine. We have this hunk of a Red King: cold, calculating, arrogant. Then he turns all mushy with Sarasa, who while occupied with problems of leading a group of rebels, also manages to fall in love (lucky her!). We're also shown the Red King's inner demons, how he was predicted to be the son that would kill the emperor, and so was branded like a slave and was practically disowned by his father. The Red King wanted to prove that not all prophecies come true--ergo his strong dislike for prophets--and this he set out to do by trying to capture Tatara, the rebel who was foretold to defeat him.
Just when I'm getting comfortable in my seat and waiting for the moment when Shuri and Sarasa would discover their true identities, they get to part in the 13th episode :( Worse, another character, Asagi, came into the picture, and I'm left with the impression that the initial Blue King might be a fake and that Asagi is really the Red King's brother -_-; The end. No follow-ups. No OAVs. I was left hanging on the edge of my seat and would remain there unless I go read the manga :(
Okay, as if it wasn't enough to torture me with a vague ending (if you could call it an ending), the supporting characters are also a sight to behold. Heck, there are few anime with lots of eye candy, and Basara is one of them. There's Nagi, the prophet with long white hair who doesn't seem to age. Another hot bishie is Ageha, a one-eyed slave who also has powers of divination. He saved Sarasa's life when she was young by sacrificing his left eye to the Red King (yep, that was Sarasa and Shuri's first meeting). Ageha also has a tendency to cross-dress, but that doesn't deter me from liking him ^_^ Shido, the Red King's older cousin, is also an acceptable hottie (errr, take no notice of the metal bands around his head) who appears to live the easy life but turns into a shrewd strategist when it comes to war. Interestingly, Shido reminds me of Youji in Weiss Kreuz; guess it's because Shido also wears a pair of colored glasses ^_^ Of course, Asagi is also hot :D
Then again, people say I'm very critical, and Legend of Basara, besides the nasty, half-baked ending, is not without gripes: Initially when I first watched it, the artwork turned me off. Not because it was badly drawn, but because the setting was mostly done in the desert; I always find the desert dreary. Then again, when I sat down and watched it, I forgot how bleak the desert looked and was struck at how hot the bishies were drawn (alright, so I'm drooling). Unfortunately, the eyes of the women (Sarasa included) are so big to the point of bizarre. Sarasa admittedly is not pretty. Guess it's because Yumi Tamura tried to make Sarasa passable when dressed as Tatara, but still, that doesn't justify how big her eyes were. I won't deign comment on the opening and ending themes of the anime -_-; The instrumental tracks in the anime are average though.
So what's my verdict on Legend of Basara? It's a great anime! I can't overemphasize how great it is without making cartwheels ^_^ It definitely holds promise and it's really a shame that it didn't receive much appeal to the Japanese audience back when it was shown on TV. The manga however is another story. Guess I have to go read it to appease my Basara craze.
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Fritz Sdunek (pronounced free-ts zdoo-neck, April 18, 1947 – December 22, 2014) was a German professional boxing trainer and former amateur boxer.
Sdunek was one of the most successful and famous boxing trainers. He trained, among others, such world champions as Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko and Dariusz Michalczewski. He was born in Lüssow, Germany.
Sdunek died in Hamburg on December 22, 2014, at the age of 67.[1]
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A March couple has retired from running March and District Deaf Club after 34 years.
Stalwarts Godfrey and Catherine Palmer were presented with a gift each at the club's last meeting.
Ann Ratcliffe, of the club, said: "The club has enjoyed many happy moments over the years and deaf people have travelled there from around the surrounding areas.
"Throughout the club's duration, Godfrey has been the secretary and Catherine, his wife, has always supported him.
"She has been instrumental in making refreshments and lovely cakes.
"Godfrey has been the mini bus driver on our annual outings, done the chef duties on barbecue nights and arranged the Christmas dinners and parties.
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"Godfrey is now our president and it is good to know that he and Catherine will remain members the club, but in a more leisurely capacity.
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Changing roles of nurse educators employed in acute and chronic care settings : the impact of professional and statutory mandates in Ontario at four sites of one hospital corporation /
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The role of the hospital-employed nurse educator is evolving. Factors influencing this change include the introduction of standards for nurse educators by the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO), a change in the way nurses ...
Registered nurses' perceptions of factors impacting on their continuing education /
(Brock University, 2002-05-19)
This qualitative study examined the effects of hospital restructuring on a group of nurses at a community hospital. Eleven nurses were asked questions in order to gain insight into their experience in this situation. Ten ...
Effect of combined care nursing on patient satisfaction, staff satisfaction, and quality of care /
(Brock University, 1988-06-09)
This research evaluates the effect of combined care nursing on three outcomes: i) patient satisfaction; ii) staff satisfaction; and iii) quality of care. Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital was in the early ...


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Hi, everyone! Today, I have a card to share with you. I had been very busy for the past few weeks but I want to share with you this card that I made just in time for Mother's Day. I used to create cards for my mom when I was a kid. I can still remember how she loved it so much. She is now 74 years old and she kept all those cards I made for her. I truly am a certified mama's girl!
In this project I used the Mom's Life Clear Stamps. These are small stamps perfect for journals and planners. I decided to take it to the next level and use it to create a stamp background.
The supplies that I used for this card are quite basic. I used a lot of dye inks for the stamp background:
White cardstock for the card base measuring 4 1/2″ x 5 1/2″
Red cardstock cut in four 2 1/8″ x 2 5/8″ pieces
2 white rectangle cardstock in 2″ x 2 1/2″ for the stamp background
2 pieces of stripe pattern paper in 2″ x 2 1/2″ from American Crafts Hip Hip Hooray Paper Pad.
A small piece of black cardstock for the sentiment.
Small piece of Red glitter board for the MOM sentiment
Mom's Life Clear Stamps
Alphabet die cut for the MOM sentiment.
Love you Forever stamp sentiment
Ranger Archival Ink in Garden Patina
Ranger Dye Ink Pad in Electric Lime
Ranger Dye Ink Pad in Pink Gumball
Lawn Fawn Dye Ink in Lobster
Versafine Onyx Black Ink
WRMK Score and Trim Board
Big Shot Die Cut Machine
Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
Tsukineko Embossing Pad
Ranger White Embossing Powder
Nuvo Crystal Drops in Simply White
Heat Gun
Tape runner and scissor
After I scored and cut the cardstocks, I made the stamp background. I used my Tim Holtz Stamp Platform for accuracy. You can use an acrylic block but I had to repeat the stamping as I wanted to intensify the colors. In a piece of scrap paper, I made a guide where I could place the white cardstock so I could stamped two cardstock simultaneously by switching one from the other without removing the stamp in the platform.
I glued the red cardstocks with the stamp background and the stripe pattern paper together and adhere them on the white cardstock base card. I used my T-square ruler to align them.
For the sentiment, I die cut the letter M and O Alpha die cut on the Red glitter board using my Big Shot Machine. For the black background, I traced the dies on a small piece of black cardstock and fuzzy cut them.
Lastly, I heat emboss the Love You Forever sentiment in a black cardstock and placed them below the MOM glitter sentiment. For added dimension, I used Nuvo Crystal Drop in Simply White on both sides of the sentiment.
This is a quick and easy card project. I wanted something simple yet colorful. The only process that took me several minutes to create was the stamp background but other than that, it took me less than 30 minutes to finish this card.
I hope this inspired you to create your own cards. See you on my next post and thank for stopping by! Happy Mother's Day!


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I am a Danish-Puerto Rican journalist and activist, living in Berlin. I am the former Managing Editor of Global Voices (this website). Previously I worked with openDemocracy.net. On Twitter, I am @solanasaurus, and once upon a time I blogged at Solanasaurus.com.
Latest posts by Solana Larsen from October, 2011
Food Around the World on Blog Action Day 2011
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Life in the sky twistsAnd turns into anotherFly before the fall Copyright © Robin LeeAnn
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Fuel running low
As a creator, we can only create so much before we fall. I don't mean "fall" where our lives turn into chaos, but rather when we "fall" onto our beds. That's how I am with this blog some days too. After almost two years, it's getting harder to find new content to write about. Some … Continue reading Fuel running low
Inspiration to busy creators
Sometimes the world may be against you. Everything may seem to fall apart as if you can't get anything done. But even writing down three words is progress towards a goal. Three more strokes of a painting. Three more pages of a book. A little bit a day can go a long way.
A creative way to get to know your characters
Vivid characters are an essential part to any story. Without strong characters, the story can seem uninteresting and fall apart. Understanding your characters is a good way to develop them. One creative way to explore your characters is to find songs that describe them. For example, I have a character named Victoria who's fighting on … Continue reading A creative way to get to know your characters
What could discredit me
Sometimes I wonder if my taste in literature discredits me for being an English major and/or writer. The more I dive into the writing world, the more I realize I don't fit in some areas. I love writing and editing. I can discuss creative work for days. But I don't like older literature too much. … Continue reading What could discredit me


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Milk Chocolate Mint soap
This soap smells amazing and it's great for your skin too! If you like anything chocolate or peppermint or both (like I do!) you will love this soap. It is made with olive oil infused with chocolate mint ('Mentha piperita'), the yummy scent is enhanced further by the addition of peppermint essential oil and gets its rich, dark color from the addition of cocoa powder which is packed with antioxidants. And the almond milk contains Vitamin B2 (which helps hydrate your skin) and essential fatty acids which help control oil buildup.
* each bar weighs approx. 4 oz. prior to curing.
* each bar is approx. 2.75" wide x 2.25" high x 1" thick.
Ingredients: chocolate mint-infused olive oil, coconut oil, castor oil, sodium hydroxide, almond milk, cocoa powder, peppermint essential oil.


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Your child's vacation date is nearing. You have your travel plan ready. Infact, you might have already made the bookings. You are all set to jet off. But are you really.?? Looking back, travelling has been a very important aspect of my journey. From travelling day in and day out to new places for work… Continue reading Your GO-TO guide to be vacation ready
Tag: happiness
Plan is to plan the unexpected
Exactly a month back at 6 pm, I had no clue my life would change completely in the coming 12 hours. I was 34 weeks along and what started as braxton hicks in the evening soon turned into full on contractions. We rushed to the hospital at 1 am and were informed that I will… Continue reading Plan is to plan the unexpected
When they start school…
Most of you started reading this to find out what happens once the big change starts and your toddler turns into a pre-schooler.. Whether it's an easy transition or a tough one. Will they settle fast or bring the house (in this case - school) down. Let me answer that for you. NOOOOOOO!!! This post… Continue reading When they start school…
We have heard these three words endless times and we try everything possible to achieve this goal. But where does the work actually start?? It started the moment that strip turned pink. Yes, along with eating carefully, taking your supplements on time and routine visits to your doctor, this is something that requires equal attention. … Continue reading SIBLINGS WITHOUT RIVALRY
Farewell 2015
After taking a break from blogging for 7 months, I decided to pen down my thoughts from this year before we bring in another one. This year has shown me a lot of ups and downs and literally transformed me into a whole new person. The year brought with it a bundle of happiness which… Continue reading Farewell 2015
Once In A While….
Once in a while I want to be a child. Yes, I want to forget about all my problems, sit with a bowl of ice cream and play super Mario. Once in a while, I want to be scared. I want to acknowledge my fears and talk about them and be heard. Once in a… Continue reading Once In A While….


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Winter Dance - Postponed/Cancelled
Join us for an evening of dance performance in contemporary, jazz, tap, acrobatics and world dance.
Staff craft works out of class work, challenging the students to excel in diverse dance styles vital to their future employment. An evening of variety and amazing diversity, you will wonder how the staff and students do it….. so will we! 4 shows only, so book early.
Wednesday 24 June at 6pm and 8pm
Thursday 25 June at 6pm and 8pm
Studio Theatre Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School
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Southbank VIC 3006
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Build a Cedar Bench in an Hour
One summer afternoon not long ago, my wife and oldest daughter had gone out, leaving me to mind the little ones. We decided to make a fire in the fire pit and roast hot dogs for supper. We lit the fire … Continue reading
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Unniappam-Sweet banana pancakes
Unniappam is a traditional sweet of Kerala and made during any festive occasion. Its a combination of rice with banana and spices and its completely gluten free as well. An ebelskiver pan could be used to prepare this dish but batter can also be poured into pancake pans as well. Its a very flavorful dessert item.
Raw rice-2 cups
Jaggery melted(Indian Raw brown sugar)-3 cups
Banana(mashed)-1 medium
Black sesame seeds-2 tbsp
Coconut pieces-3 tbsp
Cardamom powder-1/2tsp
Ghee-2 tbsp
Salt-1/2 tsp
1. Soak the raw rice in 3 cups of water for 2 hours.
2. In a saucepan, melt jaggery with 1/2 cup of water until it turns completely liquid.
3. In a Vitamix or any other strong blender,grind the rice, cardamom powder, salt together until smooth. Add very little water during this process.
4. Slowly add in the melted jaggery along with the mashed banana until well combined. Transfer this to a bowl, cover and keep it aside for 2-3 hours.
5. In another small pan, add ghee and once hot add in the coconut pieces. Stir until it turns golden brown.
6. After 3 hours, fold in salt, coconut pieces and black sesame seeds into the batter and mix well. Now the batter is ready for the pancake pan.
7. Heat a pancake pan-add a ladle of batter to it and cook on low heat until you start to see bubbles on top. Flip it to the other side for another minute and now unniappam is ready.


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Black tee with pocket and back design. We Are All animals on the back and Liberation For All on the front.
The perfect t-shirt for all activism - envronmental, human and non-human animal liberation!
Liberation For All
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This design aimed to combine the both environmental, human and non-human animal liberation. Whist emphasising that we are all animals and this is all our home we must protect. The perfect t-shirt for all activism and one of our favourite designs to date!


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Heli is a Chinese company which is known for manufacturing forklifts. It's turnover is about 1 billion USD, when it comes to forklift manufacture, being the leader and eighth in the world. Usually, these forklifts are rated for loads, with a specified weight and a particular center of gravity. The norm is that, this information will be present on the name plate which is attached as a tag to the forklift. The most important thing about forklift operation is that, it should have a rear-wheel steering. Coupled with it's characteristic of being unstable, the forklift must be taken in to consideration as a single unit whose centre of gravity keeps varying with each and every movement. Generally, the precaution with regards to forklift is such that, it should not go through a turn with a raised load at a high speed, as centrifugal and gravitational forces shall combine to cause disaster. Forklift hydraulics are usually controlled, either with the levers which manipulate the hydraulic valves or actuators which are electrically controlled. To go along with raising and lowering of forks, the tilt also goes on to provide limited ability to operate on a non level ground as well. Hence, choose heli forklift repair in dubai for utmost customer satisfaction.
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Benefits of Sleepwell Glory Coir Mattress
Many people are suffering from back pain with growing age. Back pain is common in women and men aged above 50 years. Sleepwell Glory Coir mattress is recommended for such people to enjoy a nice and uninterrupted sleep every day. The mattress provides firm support for the back and slowly cures the back pain.
The Sleepwell Glory Coir mattress is treated to prevent the growth of bacteria, harmful dust mites and fungi. It provides the utmost comfort for the entire life. It comes with a good quality fabric in Maroon, white, off-white and multicolor. It doesn't cause any bad odor even for several years of continued usage.
The good quality coir mattress is usually offered with up to 7 years of warranty. Some of the models are offered with pillow top and foam top for comfort and sound sleep.
It is easily movable with a maximum weight of 44 kgs for some models. You can even choose Sleepwell Glory Coir mattress with a weight of just 6 kg. It is already assembled and qualifies for free shipping.
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Ariadne is a spacious, charmingly decorated house split onto 2 levels, ideal for a couple and provides access to a shared pool. The fully equipped kitchen is located downstairs where an open space lounge, furnished with comfortable sofa bed, opens up onto a large terrace covered in vines and surrounded by stoned arches. An impressive rustic wooden staircase leads to the upstairs where is the air-conditioned bedroom with double bed which opens onto a private terrace shaded by colorful Bougainvillea. The modern bathroom comprises a big bath and free Wi-Fi is available.
Apartment facilities: Balcony, Pool view, Mountain view, Flat-screen TV, Air Conditioning, Seating Area, Sofa, Clothes rack, Bath, Free toiletries, Toilet, Bathroom, Kitchen, Refrigerator, Microwave, Electric kettle, Kitchenware, Stovetop, Toaster, Outdoor furniture Apartment size: 60 m² Bed Size(s): 1 large double bed, 1 sofa bed. Please note that the 3rd guest will be accommodated in a sofa bed or in a roll-away bed.