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lieutenanthawkeye wrote:
why do men cheat's on their wives?
Because they're fuckin' stupid!
Why do women cheat on their husbands?
OP: Asking such a stilted question is just asking for trouble.
Poi is the new Desu!
DeusExMachine wrote:
Breasts sag at age 30. Deal with it. xD
And men's junk stops getting up at 40. Ah haaaa!
mauddib1226 wrote:
I find it interesting that most of the posters here are young and probably not , nor have been married. Having been married and divorced (not for unfaithfulness) after 13 years, I believe I can answer this. Most couples when married have no idea what love or respect is. They also have expectations for each other that can never be met by the other. As an example, the woman wants romance 80 to 90% of the time, while the guy wants sex and then left alone. I know this sounds cynical but after experiencing it and have gone through counseling with other divorcees, I have realized that most of us don't have a clue what real relationships are. When relationship becomes stale, hurtful and etc. either party will find someone to console them on an emotional level and end up having an affair. This is not true for all marriages and there are dirt bags from both sexes that just don't care and hurt each other. But I find that, that is not most couples problems.
I'm married myself, and yeah, my hubby and I went through this rough time while I was stationed in MT...the job was really getting to me, so I wasn't in the mood much. He had gotten out, was unemployed for nearly a year. We were coming up to our 3 yr. anny, and I had just found out I got orders out of there, FINALLY! I thought it was odd that he started having texts coming to his phone, when we knew back then they charged you per text. But one Sunday, after having looked at his phone, saw that this 'Casey' was actually a girl! He had the nerve to talk about my wieght, when this chick outweighed my ass by 30-40 lbs!
Yeah, I was SUPER pissed! She was scared of me, because based off of what she saw on TV, black women tend to get into serious fights over their hubby/boyfriends. Nah...I had gotten orders, and I was not gonna ruin it. Yeah, I wanted to punch the ever-living SHIT outta my hubby, but due to the fact that I was still in the military, that cooled me down. Let's just say I was thiiiiissss close to going to Japan alone. But we worked things out, and we visited my parents before we left the country. My mom didn't tell my dad, otherwise, he would've been greeted with a .38 special vs. a smile. Plus, he was battling cancer, as well, so we didn't want to stress him out.
But I did tell him this: 'No offense to you, Casey,(and I think she picked up on it too), but you had better not say a GODDAMN thing about my wieght again! And if you do this again, whether we have a kid down the road or not, we are THROUGH!!'
Yeah, it might've been my fault that I wasn't doing my 'wifely deeds' as often, which was why he said he cheated on me, because HE thought I was cheating on him. Who am I gonna cheat on him with in MT??? Really???? And said that she called him beautiful. I told him if that's all it took, then you were a weaker man than I thought! That's some shit a woman would say! He looked like I stabbed him in the heart with those words, but I bet he felt foolish for saying that lame excuse! Again, we worked things out, and things have gotten better, in fact. We have a 3 y.o. son, and we're coming upon our 10 yrs. soon!
Men and women cheat for the same basic reasons.
-Their current relationship is lacking something they need.
-They want to feel wanted.
-They aren't in love with their current partner anymore.
The list goes on but I will stop there since those and others that come to mind have already been said. In my opinion though it just comes down to lack of discipline to not cheat when the opportunity arises. I will also add that people who cheat deserve no respect at all.
There could be a lot of reasons in it, but I read an article long time stating that it's because of Democracy. When people have the freedom to choose, they tend to choose the most irresponsible thing.
I forgot where I read it, some scientist in England did a research on why people commit adultery. It said that if your ring finger is longer than your index finger, it means you have higher hormone and higher possibility of committing an adultery..
this is not the article I read, but close enough I guess...
justanotherguy_2005 wrote:
Men and women cheat for the same basic reasons.
-Their current relationship is lacking something they need.
-They want to feel wanted.
-They aren't in love with their current partner anymore.
The list goes on but I will stop there since those and others that come to mind have already been said. In my opinion though it just comes down to lack of discipline to not cheat when the opportunity arises. I will also add that people who cheat deserve no respect at all.
well said...and the one who does it is a dick
I'm up for a NAFTA
Both genders cheat so why generalize that men do it?
a Chinese contractor codenamed "Hei".
lieutenanthawkeye wrote:
why do men cheat's on their wives?
Men cheat on their wives for the same reasons wives cheat on their men.
It swings both ways.
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Three Main Reasons
-The wife is too much.. (usually a nagger, no comfort, doesn't show affection, always bosses him around, or Unfair)
-He has found someone better (only idiots do this shitty reason)
-He's an ass..
In my opinion of course
I liek turtles :3
Kittychi75 wrote:
DeusExMachine wrote:
Breasts sag at age 30. Deal with it. xD
And men's junk stops getting up at 40. Ah haaaa!
No, that's 70, you dummyface.
New page: Ahbnaux
Because some women are needy! Fuck politically correct answers
I forget to log off when I leave, ALOT
Ragnarok210 wrote:
You can make the argument that it is genetics (Darwin).
But then you could also make the argument that we have evolved beyond the need to mass produce...
Searching for a divergence of 1%
not all men do that only assholes


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Event Timetable
Monday, November 11, 2013
Descarga el programa español
Lunes 11 de Noviembre del 2013
|Delivering Business Value Through Enterprise Transformation
|08.30 - 08.45
Welcome and Introduction to The Open Group
Welcome and Introduction to The Open Group
Dave Lounsbury, VP and CTO, The Open Group
|08.45 - 09.30
Enterprise Architecture and Organizational Transformation
Enterprise Architecture and Organizational Transformation
Sonia Gonzalez, Senior Consultant, Dux Diligens, Costa Rica; and Chair, AEA Costa Rica chapter
VIEW PRESENTATION HERE (Spanish version)
VIEW PRESENTATION HERE (English version)
|09.30 - 10.15
Business Capability Modeling and Service Fulfillment
Business Capability Modeling and Service Fulfillment
Don Brancato, Enterprise Architect, HP, US
The presentation is focused in Capability modeling related with service, application and business portfolios and presents an overview and Intro to Business Capability Modeling/Samples that can be applied in order to deliver value to the business through the mapping with business services and business processes
Key takeaways:
Don Brancato has been with HP for 3 years. Started EA practice for global preSales, supporting client EA maturity. SW Modeling/Engineering 10-yrs, EA 10-yrs. Former Principal EA at Apollo Group/Univ of Phoenix. Past sea captain, USCG & Federal Licenses to Master of Oceangoing Motor Vessels Any Waters, Any Tonnage. Former US Army Marine Warrant Officer (17-yrs). BS Aviation Computer Science with Weather/Flight - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ASEL). Directed Studies in Advanced Aerospace App Design - Washington University.
|10.15 - 10.35
|10.35 - 11.20
Building Business and IT Roadmaps with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®
Building Business and IT Roadmaps with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®
Larry Wallendorff, Corso, US
Business and IT roadmaps provide a time-based view of capabilities, applications, technologies and business processes within an organisation. Using the ArchiMate language from the Open Group, roadmaps can be communicated in a standard and repeatable manner with business and IT stakeholders. By extending the functionality both of ArchiMate and TOGAF 9, we are able to show how the inclusion of milestones, lifecycles, pie chart status, heatmapping, and export to Excel, Powerpoint and other visualisation aids, ensures that stakeholders have a good grasp of their current and future architecture states and alerts them to functional gaps, budget over-runs and redundancy.
Key takeaways:
-- How to ensure enterprise and solution architectures are future-proof
Larry Wallendorff is a Carnegie Mellon certified, TOGAF9 certified enterprise architect and speaker in Application/Business Architecture and EA Management Best Practices. Previously EA Practice Area Lead for IBM Rational North America, Larry has over 20 years' experience providing architecture management solutions/methods, industry/custom EA frameworks and assessments for Fortune 500 companies across industry verticals. Based in Colorado, Larry now manages the global pre-sales team at Corso, the premier Enterprise Architecture Business Partner for IBM.
|11.20 - 12.00
Effective Business Architecture - Connecting Innovation, Strategy & Implementation
Effective Business Architecture - Connecting Innovation, Strategy & Implementation
Sven van Dijk, BiZZdesign, Canada
Organizations need to continuously adapt to changes in order to maintain business success. This change can only be achieved if approached in a structured and coordinated way. Best practices and standards are available that help to innovate and design the organization. The challenge is to establish and maintain alignment between the various layers: strategy planning, enterprise architecture, and implementation design. Each layer defines the requirements and constraints for the level below. But most methods focus on a single layer, since the required guidance and model support are different on each of the levels. For example, on the strategic level key factors of a strategic proposition need to be captured, whereas on the level of implementation detailed models are required. This presentation will not only explore state-of-the-art methods and standards for effective business architecture practices on the various levels, but it will also show how methods and models can be connected. In this way, the results achieved at one layer kick start the work on the next level. Structured methods that are connected give organizations a powerful way to govern the implementation of strategy, as well as more agility to respond to changing circumstances.
Key takeaways:
-- Overview of standards on different levels of business architecture, more specifically the Business Model Canvas™, TOGAF®, ArchiMate®, and BPM.
Sven van Dijk is a consultant and trainer for BiZZdesign North America and is well versed in working with methods and tools for BPM & EA in various project contexts and speaks regularly at conferences and symposiums on EA & BPM around the world. An experienced, hands-on business consultant combining business skills with a strong technical background, and his extensive knowledge on structured methods and tools for enterprise architecture and business process management. His ability and experience working in various consultancy roles (specialist, process manager, project leader) and in various types of projects (IT implementation, Impact-of-Change analysis and Change Management) are of great benefit to our clients.
|12:00 - 12:45
Open Platform 3.0™ (Cloud, Big Data, and convergent technologies)
Open Platform 3.0™ (Cloud, Big Data, and convergent technologies)
Dave Lounsbury, VP and Chief Technical Officer, The Open Group
VIEW PRESENTATION HEREThere is a recognized convergence of technologies by industry analysts and practitioners creating the opportunity for a new federated architecture model. At The Open Group, we are referring to the convergence as Open Platform 3.0™.
Open Platform 3.0™ is centered around four to six technology trends converging on each other to form new business models and system designs. These trends include:
These convergent forces – united by the growing consumerization of technology and the resulting evolution in user behavior – offer the potential to create new business models and system designs. However, they also pose architectural issues and structural considerations which will need to be overcome in order for businesses to benefit.
The goal of Open Platform 3.0™ is to advance The Open Group vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ by helping organizations take advantage of the convergence of a number of modern technologies.
Dave Lounsbury is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and Vice President, Services for The Open Group. As CTO he ensures that The Open Group's people and IT resources are effectively used to implement the organization's strategy and mission. As VP of Services, David leads the delivery of The Open Group's proven collaboration processes for collaboration and certification both within the organization and in support of third-party consortia.
Dave's previous executive assignments at The Open Group and the Open Software Foundation (OSF) include VP Advanced Research and Innovation. In this role, he was in charge of coordinating corporate activity for major programs among the development, membership, and specification/test/branding business activities. He also served as VP of the Collaborative Development Group, which fostered availability and proliferation of open systems technology through collaborative funding and development. Major programs in the group included LDAP, ActiveX Core Technology, DCE 1.2, CDE-Next, and Complex Text Layout PST's, as well as support and consulting activities. Other assignments at OSF included Director of the Distributed Environment Engineering group. This group was responsible for production of the DCE 1.1 and DME 1.1/Network Management Option technologies. David was the manager of OSF's DCE effort from the announcement of the RFT in 1990.
Dave holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is holder of three U.S. patents.
|12:45 - 1:45
|1:45 - 2:30
Interoperability and Integration Project of Digital GovernmentMarcel de Mézerville López, Sotware Architect, Edificio Torre Sabana
Interoperability and Integration Project of Digital Government
Marcel de Mézerville López, Sotware Architect, Edificio Torre Sabana
|2.30 - 3.15
EA & TOGAF® Applied to Financial Sector - Bank of Costa Rica Case Study
EA & TOGAF® Applied to Financial Sector - Bank of Costa Rica Case Study
Orlando Retana, Chief EA Officer, Bank of Costa Rica;
Sonia Gonzalez, Senior Consultant, Dux Diligens, Costa Rica, and Chair, AEA Costa Rica chapter
This presentation is about a real study case for the financial sector in Costa Rica. In the case, the roadmap and approach taken for the EA capability development using TOGAF as a base framework is presented and also how the framework was adapted in order to fulfill the banks needs and particular organizational structure, culture and governance framework and also to purse the alignment and support for Cobit 4.1 implementation. Along the case, the different challenges and situations that had to be faced is shown and also the approach used to start delivering value through a quick win strategy. The lessons learned and future roadmap to be taken is also presented. In the last part of the presentation the new steps to come showing how to integrate ArchiMate and the vertical reference model BIAN is stated.
Key takeaways:
-- Steps to follow in order to adapt a general framework like TOGAF for a specific situation
Orlando Retana is an Information Systems computer engineer. He has a Business Administration degree and a Project Manager master. He has 40 years experience in the banking industry, 25 in the technical area and 4 in Enterprise Architecture, commercial business area, marketing and electronic banking.
Sonia Gonzalez Paredes is a Costa Rican with 20 years experience. She is a consultant in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Governance of IT and IT Service Management, Information Systems design and analysis, Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Systematic Innovation. She has professional experience as consultant, trainer (TOGAF, ArchiMate and Cobit 5), Project Manager and researcher. Sonia has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Costa Rica, and a Computer Engineering degree from Universidad de Costa Rica. She has TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 2.0 Certification, and COBIT 5 Foundations Certification.
|3.15 - 3.45
|3.45 - 4.30
Adding Value to the Business through Enterprise Architecture: EA as an Enabler for GRC
Adding Value to the Business through Enterprise Architecture: EA as an Enabler for GRC
Israel Tavares, MEGA International, Mexico
This presentation will explain the relationship between EA and the GRC (governance, risk management, and compliance) program. It will answer how an EA program could help to implement a GRC project in organizations; also, it will explain the involvement of the operational risk in whole the EA. Today's GRC challenges can be understood and addressed by using Enterprise Architecture methods. EA and GRC together can help an organization achieve its goals of continuous improvement of operations, risk management and the creation of value, transparency and sustainability. EA and GRC together make sure that a company is not simply adding a technology solution without fixing or updating its risk management, compliance and governance practices.
Key takeaways:
Israel Tavares has 10+ year experience selling solutions and services related to information technology, for public and private customers from diverse industry sectors, in Mexico, and other Latin American countries. Currently Israel reports to the V. P. Operations, He is responsibles for sales revenue. Experience with presenting to senior management about Governance, Risk, Compliance, Business Process Analisys and Enterprise Architecture subjects.
|4.30 - 5:30
Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation - Reactive Panel
Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation - Reactive Panel
Transforming an organization is about fundamental change in the way a business Operates, moving to an enterprise-centric position that includes a more complete view of the business, of which IT is a part.. The Open Group supports business transformation goals by working with suppliers and end-users to establish open, vendor-neutral IT standards that can be used in a cross-section of industries. This panel will discuss latest ideas in how organizations can leverage the work of The Open Group to achieve the benefits of business transformation.
Issues to analyze and discuss:
|5:30 - 6:30
|Networking Reception
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
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Martes 12 de Noviembre del 2013
|Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA)
|08.30 – 08.45
Welcome Message and Overview of AEA Costa Rica Chapter
Welcome Message and Overview of AEA Costa Rica Chapter
Sonia González – Chair, Costa Rica Chapter, AEA
This will be a short presentation about the vision, mision and projections for the AEA Costa Rica chapter. The main objectives and principles for the association will be stated and also a briefing about the project plan and activities regarding how the AEA will support the professional development national and international
Key takeaways:
-- EA professional development overview
Sonia Gonzalez Paredes is a Costa Rican with 20 years experience. She is a consultant in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Governance of IT and IT Service Management, Information Systems design and analysis, Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Systematic Innovation. She has professional experience as consultant, trainer (TOGAF, ArchiMate and Cobit 5), Project Manager and researcher. Sonia has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Costa Rica, and a Computer Engineering degree from Universidad de Costa Rica. She has TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 2.0 Certification, and COBIT 5 Foundations Certification.
|08.45 - 09.15
AEA Vision and EA Professional Development
AEA Vision and EA Professional Development
Steve Nunn, CEO, AEA
The Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA) is the definitive professional organization for Enterprise Architects. Our goals are to increase job opportunities for all members and increase their market value by advancing professional excellence, and to raise the status of the profession as a whole. Membership signals true professional excellence based on well-established. neutral and internationally recognozed benchmarks.
The AEA is committed to enhancing the careers of its members through:
|9:15 - 10:00
Critical Operations Datacenter Architecture (CODA): A Reference Model for Mission Critical Data Centers
Critical Operations Datacenter Architecture (CODA): A Reference Model for Mission Critical Data Centers
Oscar Luis Rojas Fernández, Infrastructure Architect, GBM
Project CODA is a solution to a hypothetical implementation of a datacenter based exclusively on these patterns.
My experience as a solution designer and architect in Central America and the Caribbean teaches me to respect and admire the local ingenuity. Using the resources in hand and adapting components to the local reality, we have been able to solve a great deal of challenging infrastructure problems.
For the last two years I have collected that intelligence in the form of design patterns that encapsulate technical experience, availability of supporting resources in the region, stability of the components and post-installation memories.
Our experience with CODA is relatively new, but so far it has proven successful as my company has been able to synchronize its design approach within its architects in the region, focusing on the integration of components where we can deliver repeatable results.
Finally, this is an example of basic and very practical use of EA, specifically at the infrastructure level. By making the components of our design reusable and grouping them into reference models, we are now able to pay back to our customers for that intelligence we took originally from them.
Intended audience: Infrastructure Architects, CIOs, general audience that may be interested in a very practical use of EA.
List 2 or 3 key takeaways:
Oscar Luis Rojas Fernández, Infrastructure Architect, GBM, is an electrical engineer with 25 years of professional experience in design, marketing and sales-support of technology solutions for the finance, data center and enterprise storage markets. An IBM-certified Enterprise Storage Solutions Architect, Oscar has managed IBM's Systems Storage and System z brands in 9 countries, and received numerous awards for top performance. Accustomed to interact with different sized customers: from small businesses to multi-national enterprises and governments. Oscar has experience as a manager and entrepreneur, technical instructor and conference speaker.
GBM is a leader in Central America and the Caribbean in integrating information technology solutions for clients, in order to add value to their business and derive the expected financial results.
|10:00 - 10:30
|Coffee Break
|10:30 - 11:15
Implementing EA for Homologation, Transformation and Standardization in a Complex Organizational Environment
Implementing EA for Homologation, Transformation and Standardization in a Complex Organizational Environment
Juliana Ceballos, Manager, Avianca Taca, Colombia
Implementing a framework in a company is an arduous task that requires dedication, perseverance and commitment. Beside this, you have to get the budget and the support to be able to start with the practice, and you have to reflect benefits in corporate finance the fastest as possible. An EA process without clear objectives and without tangible results is the reason why the application of these practices may fail. Enterprise Architecture, implemented with specific objectives, is a practice that delivers fast and valuable results to the company. The success lies in having a clear goal, a detalied working plan based on early victories and an good analysis of the corporate context.
In Avianca holdings, the synergy of Avianca and Taca airlines was identified as the rigth moment for the implementation of the EA framework. Driven by the technology area, the practice was essential for the implementation of all the IT projects and synergys. EA and the architecture repository where the main assets to achieve rapid technological synergies, the simplification and standardization with a defined strategic north, which ultimately resulted in the rapid uptake of benefits for the synergy, technological operational simplification and cost reduction. Delivering early victories was the key for the process to be recognized within the organization, an adapted TOGAF Framework became official and today is an essential tool for IT strategic planning and Avianca is now initiating the process of taking the EA to the C-Level to reach other organizations inside avianca, and to be part of the Avianca's strategic process.
Key takeaways:
-- Implement an enterprise architecture framework based on early victories and opportunities provided by the corporate context
Juliana Ceballos is Enterprise Architecture Manager for Avianca Holdings. She is a systems engineer with specialization of enterprise architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Javieriana in Bogota . She has more than eight years of professional experience in technology areas, from the development of software systems to technical architecture and enterprise architecture. She has four years of experience in enterprise architecture, in charge of all the area inside IT leading the enterprise architecture process and the technical architecture designs.
|11:15 - 12:00
Evolution of EA Practices at Intel
Evolution of EA Practices at Intel -- Case Study
Gloria Killen, Strategic EA Program Manager, Intel
This case stidy will focus on EA method and practices program at Intel and weigh the pros and cons of "making it better" and "doing it faster."
"Enterprise archiecture is a critical component of Intel's IT strategy. Enterprise architects map the way that technology and information help Intel achieve its current and future business goals.They produce strategic and solution-specific architectures ised by all major IT projects at Intel, and partner with Intel IT strategic planning, engineering, and operations groups to delver solutions based on these enterprise architectures."
"Over the past decade, Intel IT has transformed their enteprrise architecture practice into a strategic capability based on a common set of methods and tools. Within Intel, there are 150 enterprise architects. About 60 work in the core enterprise architecture group, and 40 are associated with specific Intel business groups." (Source: IT@Intel White Paper)
Key takeawys:
- Holistic view of enterprise-wide architecture practice at Intel
- Lessons learned
- How to achieve continuous improvement in an EA practice by applying annual maturity assessments- Talent development & acquiring business architecture skills
Gloria Killen is a Senior Technical Program Manager and has been at Intel Corporation for 12+ years. Having held a number of technical positions within IT, she is currently in IT's Strategy, Architecture and Innovation group where she runs the End-to-End Developer Experience Program.
|12:00 - 1:30
|1:30 - 2:15
Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA Together in Action
Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA Together in Action
Luis Caicedo, Assist Consultores Centroamérica S.A
Learn how these business initiatives - EA, BPM, SOA - can be aligned in their models of governance, life cycles and development methods to achieve real benefits together, directed to a single target. Many initiatives in recent years have emerged, seeking business agility by making appropriate use of information technology, so it is necessary to maintain alignment of these initiatives in various working groups, identify their relationships and take advantage of each one of them.
Intended audience: Enterpise, Business and SOA Architects, Process Analyst and Service Consultants.
Luis Calcedo a professional with 21 years of experience in multinational technology companies in Colombia and South America, an entrepreneur with business training in software solutions and IT consulting and IT/business alignment with Solid experience in Enterprise, Process and Sevices Architectures.
|2:15 - 2:45
AEA - Past, Present and Future
AEA - Past, Present & Future
Birgit Hartje, AEA Global and online community
Membership is the Association for Enterprise Architects (AEA) demonstrates your commitment to both your own professional development and the status of the Enterprise Architecture community as a whole. It distinguishes you from other EA practitioners and testifies to your skills and experience.
Birgit will talk about how to get involved with a local chapter and with the online community which provides instant access to AEA's global dynamic communities of your peers.
|2:45 - 3:15
|Coffee Break
|3:15 - 4:15
Closing the Strategic Gap Through Innovation and EAAlejandro Torres Padilla, CEO, Dux Diligens, and Chair, AEA Mexico Chapter
Closing the Strategic Gap Through Innovation and EA
Alejandro Torres Padilla, CEO, Dux Diligens, and Chair, AEA Mexico Chapter
|4:15 - 5:15
Driving Change - EA Practice in Latin America
Driving Change - EA Practice in Latin America
How can EA be applied in an effective, practical approach to deliver real value to organizations through the alignment of strategy and operation, and how can EA professional development leverage and support the practice in Latin America region?
Issues to be considered:
• The AEA Costa Rica mission is to spread and promote the benefits and importance of EA supporting innovation, sustainable development as well as knowledge generation and transference in order to deliver real value to organizations. How can we find ways to make this mission a reality?
• One of the fundamental EA principles is the alignment with standards and best practices in a way that can really be practical and applicable to organizations' reality. How can we face this challenge and define a practical approach without losing the vision?
• Planning and execution… architecture and implementation… how can the gap be closed in a synergistic way avoiding silos?
• Real cases input and opinions.
|5:15 - 5:30
Closing ceremony
Closing ceremony
Sonia González, Chair AEA Costa Rica (top photo)

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Leave it to the hit show "Breaking Bad" to resurrect a 1972 song by the British rock band Badfinger.
The final episode of the AMC drug trade drama, which drew more than 10 million viewers Sunday night, closed out with the band's 41-year-old single "Baby Blue," used in cunning reference to Walter White's signature blue-hued crystal meth.
Proving the influence of the series, that placement boosted sales of the tune, which is currently the ninth-most-selling song on Amazon.com's MP3 chart. Streams on the online music service Spotify jumped 9000% after the finale aired.
PHOTOS: 'Breaking Bad' scenes | Every season, every episode
The song begins with the lyrics, "Guess I got what I deserved / Kept you waiting there too long, my love. / All that time without a word / Didn't know you'd think that I'd forget / Or I'd regret the special love I have for you / My Baby Blue."
Badfinger singer Pete Ham wrote the song about Dixie Armstrong, an American woman he dated. It was a Billboard Top 20 hit from the band's album "Straight Up," originally released on the Beatles' Apple label. It appeared in the 2006 Oscar-winning Martin Scorsese film "The Departed."
"Breaking Bad" has given it new life. According to Billboard, sales increased 30-fold for the week ended Sunday and is poised to reenter the publication's singles chart.
The band recorded another album for Apple, called "Ass," in 1973. The band continued to record, but faced major financial struggles. Ham hanged himself in 1975.
CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox debuts show some promise
NBC halts Hillary Clinton miniseries; CNN scraps report on her
Lady Gaga, Eminem and Arcade Fire to headline new YouTube awards
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ON LOCATION: People and places behind what's onscreen PHOTOS: Biggest box office flops of 2013 PHOTOS: Celebrity production companies
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina filed a long-shot appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday asking the justices in Washington to avert an "economic catastrophe" by overturning lower court rulings that could force the South American government to default on billions of dollars in debts.
Making Argentina pay cash in full to investors who didn't accept bond swaps in exchange for defaulted debt could destabilize the global economy by making other voluntary debt restructurings "substantially more difficult, if not impossible," the petition said.
"Full payment of the holdouts would cut Argentina's reserves approximately in half, an unimaginable result for any nation," Argentina's lawyers argued. "Any sovereign would protest if a foreign court issued an extraterritorial order threatening its creditors and citizens and coercing it into turning over billions of dollars from its immune reserves."
By ignoring the federal sovereign immunity law that normally protects other countries' assets from seizure outside the United States, the lower court decisions also could make U.S. assets overseas vulnerable to similar seizures by other governments, the petition said.
Hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer won a judgment of $1.3 billion plus interest in the debt dispute, but has never been able to collect despite sending lawyers around the world to try to seize Argentine assets.
The courts in New York accepted his argument that Argentina has been a deadbeat nation and a serial violator of U.S. court rulings.
But Argentina's lawyers said the lower courts' remedy is deeply flawed, because it gives Argentina two equally devastating choices:
— Argentina could pay cash in full to plaintiffs led by Singer's Cayman Islands-based NML Capital Ltd. as the courts ordered and then watch holders of more than "$15 billion in defaulted debt and accrued interest" rush to make similar claims on Argentina's dwindling reserves.
— Or Argentina could stand firm against what the petition calls a violation of its sovereignty and see a New York judge block its regular payments on $24 billion in debt held by the 92 percent of bondholders who accepted new Argentine bonds at steep discounts in 2005 and 2010.
"The Second Circuit recognized that it could not directly command Argentina to pay, but held that it could achieve the same result by giving Argentina a choice: pay Respondents or suffer a calamity," the petition said.
"The 'choice' between satisfying a monetary obligation ... and defaulting on $24 billion of exchange bond debt — threatening draconian consequences for the Argentine people — is no choice at all, let alone something a district court can impose on a foreign sovereign," the petition added.
The Supreme Court already agreed to hold an April 21 hearing on a ruling enabling NML to force several banks to disclose Argentine assets. But that's just a side issue — Tuesday's request asks the justices to examine the heart of the case, which will set a precedent for all the remaining interests that hold debts Argentina hasn't paid since its 2001 crisis.
A negotiated settlement could head off a crisis, but there have been no formal talks.
Lawyers for NML on Tuesday denied media reports in Argentina suggesting that Singer would not talk with the Argentine government until the Supreme Court rules.
"It is a complete fabrication and totally false — an unsourced, made-up story apparently desperate to explain why Argentina still refuses to negotiate a resolution with its creditors," said Matthew D. McGill, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. "NML has said numerous times, publicly and privately, that it is ready and willing to negotiate a resolution whenever Argentina is ready to come to the table."
Associated Press writer Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this report.


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The single greatest thing about the social web is how it has forced people to overcome their technophobias in order to connect with other humans.
/by Chris Messina (source)
The single greatest thing about the social web is how it has forced people to overcome their technophobias in order to connect with other humans.
/by Chris Messina (source)
Chris Messina are all your old writings (factoryjoe.com/blog) archived anywhere other than the Internet Archive? (Just reading this, wanting to cite it in indiewebcamp.com and wondering if you have a more canonical version)
4206 #steps today
Wondering if Laura Kalbag and @gigapup have come across @cutefight?
Wondering if @lauralkalbag and @gigapup have come across @cutefight?
Conclusion from today's discussion: #cat owners should be required to eat any small animals their feline pets kill/maim and bring back as gifts.
#php-mf2 0.2.0 update brings API improvements and twitter classname -> mf2 classname conversion so you can bung in markup from twitter.com and get (slightly buggy) mf2 json out #microformats #update #php
Try it out here.
zakkain thanks! Wouldn't have been possible without previous work by Aaron Parecki and Tantek Çelik. So have you got it installed/what publishing software are you using it with?
8704 #steps today
Those last two notes posted using latest Web Action Hero Toolbelt, now with select-to-quote UI #webactions #indieweb #quoting
If content is important to you, keep it close. If your content is important to others, keep it close and well backed up.
by Drew McLellan (source) #indieweb
Empower yourself. Your friends. Your community. But push yourself to go further, because you can.
– Tantek Çelik (source)
Drew McLellan well maybe that's going a bit far, but morrisoffspring are a bit awesome #folk
That excellent post of Tantek Çelik's, like all well–hyperlinked documents, lead me to a whole raft of great #indieweb resources I hadn't come across before:
(In other news: I need to make a "dump tabs into new note dialog" browser #extension)
bruce lawson "yee-haw", surely :)
pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
Every now and again the otherwise banal PHP docs make me laugh.
6947 #steps today
Cross-browser selection UI injection flow:
mouseup on
s.isCollapsed === false, return
e.innerHTML and
e.textContent now return useful values, and e's coordinates can be used to inject UI into the page
To resolve: what element should e be? Or more accurately, what display property should it have?
inline-block (inline mucks up if selection is across block elements, block mucks up selections within text nodes)
Jovian Salak alternate solution: we throw a DIY pizza party with recitals of Half Caste, as a joint leaving party
Jovian Salak I know the solution: a farm nearby is selling a small hay bale (£3.50). Let's buy it and roll it to the #mound.


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Valet parking begins at Houston's William P. Hobby Airport
HOUSTON – Travelers having trouble finding a parking spot at some Houston airports have another option.
Officials with William P. Hobby Airport say valet parking has begun with online reservations being accepted Monday.
Hobby has partnered with USA Parking System for the Valet Premier Parking service.
The company in July began offering valet parking at George Bush Intercontinental Airport at a regular daily cost of $25 per day. Both airports until early January are offering special daily valet rates of $20.
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Radiofrequency palatoplasty is a new procedure that uses an electrical current to shrink and stiffen the back part of the roof of the mouth (soft palate and uvula). When the soft palate and uvula are stiffer, they are less likely to vibrate and you are less likely to snore.
After the surgery, most people report a little pain, such as a mild sore throat, that lasts 1 or 2 days. Taking acetaminophen (such as Panadol or Tylenol) usually eases this pain. Radiofrequency palatoplasty is usually performed in a doctor's office, and many people return to work and other regular activities in about 3 days.
Radiofrequency palatoplasty is sometimes used to treat snoring in people so that their bed partner can sleep better. One of the most common causes of snoring is the vibration of the soft palate and uvula. Radiofrequency palatoplasty shrinks and stiffens these areas of the mouth, making them less likely to vibrate.
Compared with other surgery procedures for snoring, radiofrequency palatoplasty is relatively painless and it takes only a short time to recover.1
It takes about 4 weeks after the surgery for you to notice a decrease in your snoring. You may need additional treatments if the first one doesn't decrease your snoring enough.2 Because radiofrequency palatoplasty is a new procedure, how well it works over the long term is not known.
Complications during surgery include accidental damage to surrounding blood vessels or tissues.
Complications after surgery are rare. But complications after surgery may include:
Surgery is rarely used to treat snoring. It may not completely cure snoring, and the risks of surgery may not be worth the small benefit you gain.
If you develop sleep apnea after having radiofrequency palatoplasty, diagnosis may be delayed because you do not snore. Snoring is common with sleep apnea, but most people who snore don't have sleep apnea.
Snoring is not always considered a medical problem, so provincial health plans and private insurance may not cover treatment.
Before considering surgery, all people who snore should try non-surgical treatment.
Complete the surgery information form (PDF) (What is a PDF document?) to help you prepare for this surgery.
- Kashima ML (2007). Selected disorders of the nose and throat: Epistaxis, snoring, anosmia, hoarseness, and hiccups. In NH Fiebach et al., eds., Principles of Ambulatory Medicine, 7th ed., pp. 1849–1864. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Chambers CL (2002). Surgical management of snoring. In TL Lee-Chiong Jr et al., eds., Sleep Medicine, pp. 429–433. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus.
Last Revised: April 7, 2012
This information does not replace the advice of a doctor. Healthwise, Incorporated disclaims any warranty or liability for your use of this information.


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April 19, 2008
PRINCETON, N.J. - Racing away from home for the first time this spring didn't prove to be a problem for the Yale women's crew. The Bulldogs' varsity eight, which is ranked second in the nation, edged No. 4 Princeton and No. 12 Tennessee on Lake Carnegie. Yale finished in 6:38.1, nearly two seconds ahead of second-place Tennessee, which came in at 6:40.4. Princeton was a close third in 6:40.5.
With the win over Princeton, the Bulldogs captured the Carola B. Eisenburg Cup for the second straight year. The last time Yale held possession of the cup two years in a row was 1987 and 1988.
The Bulldogs' second varsity and varsity four also finished first. The second varsity completed the 2000-meter course in 6:52.5, five seconds ahead of second-place Tennessee. Princeton was third in 7:07.4. In the varsity four race, Yale cruised to a nearly 15-second win, finishing in 7:41.4. Tennessee (7:56.4) was second followed by Princeton (8:02.6).
Yale's varsity eight, second varsity and varsity four boats are all undefeated on the season.
"We're continuing to get faster each week," said Yale head coach Will Porter. "That's been our focus all season."
In the varsity eight race, Princeton had a slim lead after 200 meters, but the Bulldogs edged ahead at 400 meters and led for the rest of the way.
"Our varsity did a good job," Porter said. "We're getting better with our speed off the start. We got into a nice rhythm."
Yale won the third varsity four B race in 7:56.5. Princeton was first in the novice eight race with a time of 7:07.4, and won the second novice four race in 8:28.5.
The Bulldogs are back on the Housatonic River next Saturday, hosting third-ranked Virginia and 13th-ranked Harvard.
Varsity Eight
1. Yale 6:38.1
2. Tennessee 6:40.4
3. Princeton 6:40.5
Second Varsity Eight
1. Yale 6:52.5
2. Tennessee 6:57.5
3. Princeton 7:07.4
Varsity Four
1. Yale 7:41.4
2. Tennessee 7:56.4
3. Princeton 8:02.6
Novice Eight
1. Princeton 7:07.4
2. Yale 7:31.6
Third Varsity Four B
1. Yale 7:56.5
2. Tennessee 8:02.1
3. Yale B 8:15.8
Second Novice Four
1. Princeton 8:28.5
2. Yale 8:44.0
Yale Boatings
Varsity Eight
C: Mia Kanak
8: Taylor Ritzel
7: Christina Person
6: Tess Gerrand
5: Jamie Redman
4: Alice Henly
3: Maren McCrea
2: Caroline Nash
1: Christine Glandorf
Second Varsity Eight
C: Berkley Adrio
8: Katherine Adams
7: Cara Dermody
6: Jennie Hansen
5: Catherine Hart
4: Stephanie Madner
3: Emily Matykiewicz
2: Lee Glandorf
1: Rebecca Nadal
Varsity Four
C: Erin Haber
4: Suzanne Salgado
3: Karrin Weisenthal
2: Allix Wilde
1: Alexandra Thompson
Third Varsity Four B
C: Alyssa Reyes
4: Mary Pat Wixted
3: Melissa King
2: Katherine Kazimer
1: Lilah Hume
Third Varsity Four C
C: Ruoxi Wu
4: Ryan McCarthy
3: Zoe Ballance
2: Laura Gottesdiener
1: Margaret Sullivan
First Novice Eight
C: Sarah Brownlee
8: Jennifer Zeckendorf
7: Roxanne Carini
6: Amanda Grady
5: Mary Freeman
4: Hayden Mulligan
3: Lauren Ross
2: Mary Barrosse-Antle
1: Lily Blair
Second Novice Four
C: Christina Lin
4: Lily Twining
3: Phoebe Hinton
2: Ariel Baker-Gibbs
1: Alexandra Cook
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beautifully photographed Michael, wish nails didn't look so "press-on" -ish, regardless, very nice
True, it would be more sincere just natural. This was just a single quick hands shot in the figure session.
Michael,I have a great respect for all your images! At least all I have seen.Best regardsErik
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Hong Kong authorities filed 39 counts of manslaughter Wednesday against the two boat captains whose vessels collided last year in the city's worst maritime disaster in decades.
The charges filed by police are for every death in the Oct. 1 crash. Five other crew members were arrested after the accident and have been ordered to report back to court later.
The Lamma IV boat was taking power company staff and their families to see holiday fireworks when it sank rapidly after colliding with a commuter ferry, the Sea Smooth, near Lamma Island. All of the dead, including eight children, and most of the nearly 100 injured were on the smaller boat, owned by the Hong Kong Electric Co.
An inquiry into the crash wrapped up in March and is expected to submit its findings and recommendations later this month. The inquiry heard testimony from survivors and examined the vessels' exterior lights, crew members' steering and radar use, and design flaws on the Lamma IV, including a missing water-tight door.
The crash was Hong Kong's worst maritime disaster since 88 people died in a ferry accident during a typhoon in 1971.
Online: Commission of Inquiry: http://www.coi-lamma.gov.hk/eng


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Friday, July 20, 2007
Mel Blanc Does The Andy Panda Polka!
Here's a track from an obscure kiddie record from the mid-1950s, Woody Woodpecker's Family Album (released by Decca Records). It features some catchy original tunes by Clarence Wheeler (who was the musical director of the Lantz shorts at the time), dialogue written by Lantz storyman, Homer Brightman and featuring the voices of Grace Stafford as Woody, Gloria Wood as Chilly Willy and Mel Blanc as... just about everyone else (see? it ties into this blog after all!).
Here's Mel doing the voice of Andy Panda (!) who has invited Woody over to his house to watch "Prof. Flutengluten" (also Blanc) perform "The Andy Panda Polka"... a hilarious piece of audio that you can listen to on your iPod on your way to buy the Woody DVD on Tuesday.
Enjoy! The Andy Panda Polka MP3
3 comments:
- David Gerstein said...
Disturbingly, this is the second cover of this song that I've heard. I think you were at least partly responsible for my having heard the first version, weren't you? (Dull version sung by a non-accented male tenor... without the Woody hand-slapping bits, leaving it unexplained as to why the dance should make its performers into "little jokers.")
Do pandas eat honey? I don't think so.
- July 21, 2007 at 6:31 AM
- Jon Cooke said...
I believe the song originates from this album (I have even seen sheet music for it, crediting "Woody Woodpecker's Family Album" as the source) and , believe it or not, there's a *THIRD* cover of this song floating around out there. It's from the Golden Records "Woody Woodpecker Cast Album" from the 1960s sung by an all-female chorus!
- July 21, 2007 at 2:34 PM
I've heard yet another version sung by a single female, not polka style, on a 45 from Cricket Records.
- December 26, 2010 at 9:19 PM


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alexinla wrote:Are these Disney Adventure cruises seasonal aka all summer long? Maybe I try to get a job there for next year as this looks great.
alexinla wrote:I think in general the Americans who do European River Cruises are more financially stable. I worked for Viking a couple of years and let's say 95% of guests were awsome and also interested in European Politics, I was holding discussion roundtables that were interesting. But unlike Robb, I had some people I wanted to throw into the river,lol.(Never did it of course)
The salt mine looks amazing, I never did that one as I hate going underground. Somehow a phobia of mine. Are these Disney Adventure cruises seasonal aka all summer long? Maybe I try to get a job there for next year as this looks great.
DirkFunk wrote:I'm sure the majority of employees are people working contracts for AMA Waterways (who Disney contracted to provide the boats), so they'd probably be the ones to go to.
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In yet another blow to the Orlando Magic during a largely dismal season for the franchise, the NBA suspended small forward Hedo Turkoglu on Wednesday for 20 games without pay for testing positive for methenolone, an anabolic steroid.
Turkoglu said the drug test stemmed from a medication he took over the summer when he was in Turkey. He said he received the medication from his personal trainer to treat a shoulder injury and didn't check with Magic medical staff to make sure the medication was safe.
"I'm sorry," Turkoglu said. "I want to apologize [to] the DeVos family, the Magic organization, my teammates and, most important, all my fans here and all around the world and back home. This is a situation I never wanted to be in."
Turkoglu said the league tested him in December, and Magic general manager Rob Hennigan said team officials were told by Turkoglu about the positive test a week ago.
Hennigan said he believed Turkoglu "unknowingly" took the substance.
"Clearly, Hedo made a mistake," Hennigan added. "He knows he made a mistake. He's owning it. It's certainly a disappointing circumstance for us, but I personally feel very confident in the amount of diligence we use to inform our players as to what can and cannot be taken."
Turkoglu became the second Magic player since 2009 to be suspended by the NBA for violating the league's anti-drug policy.
During the 2009 postseason, Rashard Lewis twice tested positive for an elevated testosterone level and was suspended for the first 10 games of the 2009-10 regular season.
Lewis said he took an over-the-counter supplement that he didn't realize contained a banned substance called dehydroepiandrosterone, or DHEA.
In the league's anti-drug policy, DHEA and methenolone each fall under a list of banned substances classified as "steroids, performance-enhancing drugs and masking agents" (or SPEDs).
Turkoglu, who will turn 34 years old in March, did not provide details about the substance he took — whether it was injected or whether he took it orally — or how many times he took it, even though he was asked those specific questions during a news conference at Amway Center.
NBA players are subject to four random tests each season and to two random tests each offseason. Anyone who tests positive for SPEDs for the first time receives an automatic 20-game suspension and is required to enter the league's SPEDs program.
Turkoglu has missed most of this season because he fractured his left hand in the Magic's season-opener.
He also had missed the team's previous three games.
At the time, team officials said Turkoglu missed the first two games because he had flu-like symptoms and missed Sunday's win over the Portland Trail Blazers because he had a sore back.
"For sure, he missed the game because of the flu and the back soreness," Hennigan said Wednesday. "It had no connection or correlation to what we're learning today."
In 11 games this season, Turkoglu is averaging 17.2 minutes, 2.9 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.1 turnovers per game. It's the least productive season of his 13-year NBA career — a career that includes several superb playoff performances during the Magic's run to the 2009 NBA Finals.
"I feel bad for him," teammate J.J. Redick said. "I trust Turk. I've known him a long time, so if he says it was an accident, I believe him."
But Redick also said players have to be careful these days.
"There's some stuff at Whole Foods that I don't put in my body," he said. "They have DHEA supplements there. They have all sorts of supplements there. . . . There's a million things we're not allowed to take, and he took responsibility for it. It's his fault. You have to do your due diligence before you put anything in your body."
Turkoglu is earning approximately $11.8 million this season, and his suspension will cost him about $2.15 million in lost salary.
"You just have to do better research, I guess, when you take some stuff for your body," Turkoglu said.
"That's the only mistake I made. Like I said, I only took stuff for my shoulder and I was feeling better after I took [it], and that was it. It wasn't something that I came back all jacked-up and [had] a great body and I'm flying off the roof and dunking all the balls. It wasn't just something that helped [make] my performance better."
Given his age, Turkoglu likely doesn't fit into the team's long-term plans.
The 2013-14 season is the final year of Turkoglu's contract, and only about $6 million of his scheduled salary of $12 million is guaranteed, according to the website ShamSports.com.
"I think we're going to get through this step," Hennigan said. "We'll worry about the summer when the summer comes. Contracts are what they are. We need to make decisions about a lot of different things in the summer, and certainly Hedo's situation will be one of them."
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With alien assassins and laser guns
A Small Favor, developed by two-man team ClickShake Games, has some big shoes to fill. Cartoonist and animator Jay Ziebarth describes it as a combination of "the gritty, futuristic adventure style of Full Throttle and Beneath a Steel Sky with the side scrolling sci-fi exploration of Another World." Name dropping three of my favorite games is certainly enough to pique my interest.
The adventure game is based on a browser game from the same team, and follows an alien assassin as he does "favors" for unpleasant gangsters. When he comes across an opportunity to wipe the debt that forces him to work clean, he embarks his toughest mission.
Puzzles promise to run the gamut from traditional inventory conundrums, to assassinations and violent coercion. The nameless protagonist always has his trusty laser gun by his side, and he can use it to intimidate other characters and "make life and death decisions."
With its apparent focus on exploration and interesting puzzles, I'm certainly intrigued. A Small Favor will launch on Mac and PC, and a Kickstarter campaign for the project will be kicking off later this month.
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by Adam Weissman
In the tightly knit community of the college campus, animal
rights groups have a chance to seize public attention to a
degree that is impossible in any other forum. Campuses are
limited and fairly uneventful communities (similar to small
towns), where any news is big news. Additionally, because
students are geographically concentrated over a comparatively
small number of buildings, student activists can maintain an
extremely high level of face-to-face visibility.
Getting Started
Most schools have activities offices where you can find out
everything you need to know about acquiring formal recognition
and funding for a new group. Many institutions require a
statement of purpose, a member list, formal officers, and a
proposed budget.
It is helpful to assemble a small steering committee of
animal liberation-minded people on your campus. If you don't
know any other pro-animal students, contact a local animal
rights group and ask if they know of any students on your
campus. Leave notes on windshields of people with animal
rights bumper stickers on their cars. Approach clubs with
similar goals--like environmental groups--and announce your
intention to start a group and pass around a sign-up sheet to
see if anyone wants to be involved. When you have a core group
of about five or six students, hold a series of meetings to
brainstorm potential club goals and to wade through the
administrative red tape necessary to get a group started.
Below are some of the issues that need to be discussed in
steering committee meetings and some of the work that must be
completed before official meetings begin.
Some schools automatically fund new groups while others
require students to appeal to the student government for
funding. Most schools, though, will require that all budgeted
funds be roughly pre-allocated, meaning that you will have to
guess in advance on which issues/programs/events you will be
spending the money. Don't forget to find out how much
flexibility you have in reallocating at a later time.
Costs and Benefits of Formal Recognition
Formally recognized groups have access to meeting space
and, possibly, offices, funding, and a level of respectability
to administration that will facilitate dialogue. On the other
hand, many schools place severe restrictions on what groups
can and cannot do. In the past, animal rights groups, such as
at Brown and the University of Guelph, have been forcibly
disbanded following Animal Liberation Front raids. Some
militant student animal rights groups deliberately avoid
recognition so their school cannot threaten to disband them
when they use tactics such as home demonstrations against
There is a simple way to enjoy the best of both worlds:
operate an unrecognized group specifically for activities not
approved of by school policy for recognized groups. For
example, New York University requires that groups holding
rallies and other street events formally register these
actions. Worse, they can decide the time, place, and location.
NYU student activists avoid being hampered by these policies
by either making other local organizations the official
demonstration sponsor or by using an ad-hoc name such as NYU
Students against Animal Cruelty, as opposed to the formally
recognized Students for Education on Animal Liberation.
As people tend to make group commitments early in the
school term, it is critical to begin outreach as soon as
possible in the semester. Investigate activity/club fairs at
your school, hang posters announcing your meetings all around
the campus, make and distribute "show card"-sized handouts
announcing your group, and table at concerts on campus and
well-traveled areas (like student centers in colleges and main
entrances in high schools). High schools students can stuff
all faculty mailboxes, particular those of teachers with
homerooms and, after a little research, possibly include
information on your group in the school's daily announcements.
Try to include a new announcement each day with a different
animal rights fact. You should also approach the campus radio
TV stations, as well as the student newspaper about running an
announcement about your group's first meeting.
Even if there isn't a specific campaign that launches the
group, a steering committee should try to define both
long-term and short-term goals. This does not mean that the
steering committee will define the whole agenda for the
duration of the school year. Rather, the committee will
develop a base of ideas to draw upon when the group is
officially launched, regardless of whether they are actually
used or not.
The First Meeting
Involve everyone. People come to animal rights meetings
with a varying level of knowledge, experience, and commitment.
It is important to balance the need to keep a meeting
well-organized, structured, and fast-moving on the one hand,
while making people feel like they are actively involved
participants whose input is valued, on the other hand.
Stick to the agenda. The first meeting should have a very
clearly-recognized facilitator and a formal agenda, as should
all subsequent meetings, generally speaking. The facilitator
should structure the meeting and keep things moving.
Provide give-aways. Animal rights literature on a range of
issues should be available at the meeting. Supplying free
vegan food, if possible, creates a welcoming environment.
Show an animal rights video. Starting meetings with a video
is invariably an excellent ice-breaker. One of the best videos
for this purpose is Their Future in Your Hands--short,
informative, and powerful, but not overwhelmingly gory. If you
do intend to show graphic videos, you should inform meeting
attendees in advance and give them the opportunity to turn
away or leave the room for the duration of the film. Following
the video, have people in the room say their names, what
brought them to the meeting, and any special interests.
Discuss some of your potential projects. It's fine to
develop a few ideas through the steering committee and then
discuss them with the group, but it is also important to be
open to new ideas and to not force campaigns on people if they
seem uninterested. Rather than taking on an intimidating,
monster campaign from the outset, a group can building itself
through smaller, simpler tasks and goals.
Assign specific tasks. At the end of the first meeting
people should have specific things to do. Delegate jobs that
require little experience but are critical and make people
feel valued, such as tabling, postering, and leafleting.
Tabling is effective because it inspires people to practice
their facts and answers to animal rights questions. You can
even hold an animal rights question and answer session to prep
people for tabling. Practice is important, but be sure to
avoid creating a set of memorized answers. Encourage people to
think for themselves and keep reading and learning to better
discuss these issues.
Reevaluate the group's structure. By the time the group is
holding formal meetings, you may choose to dissolve the
steering committee or open it to interested people. I've
primarily used steering committees as tools to shelter
potential new activists from very boring administrative work
involved in launching a group, but other groups have held
steering committees as a permanent fixture will into the
group's life, to allow a highly motivated few to maintain
group focus. This is particularly useful with very large high
school groups that run meetings oriented more towards
education than action and where members can be as much
"audience" as activists.
The Power of Campus Media
It is easy to underestimate the importance of campus media
on the grounds that very few students actually read their
school papers. Ignoring your school paper causes you to miss
out on great outreach and educational opportunities. It is
fairly easy to develop one-on-one relationships with educators
and reporters at your campus paper by simply visiting their
office and talking about your issue. You can also send press
releases a few days before every event you hold. Some school
papers will allow the animal rights group to write a weekly
column, so be sure to ask if this is possibility and find out
if you can run photos with the articles.
Campaign for Change
Groups should choose campaigns considering their members'
level of interest in an issue, the potential for the campaign
to achieve change in policy, the likelihood of changing
attitudes of members of the community, and the potential to
further the animal liberation movement. Most importantly, the
goal of the campaign must be attainable. Taking on a campaign
with no chance of success will only promote frustration and
apathy once it becomes clear that victory is impossible. It is
far more meaningful to take on smaller--winnable--campaigns,
thus building confidence and a formidable reputation, and
training your members for the bigger battles that lie
There are many, many animal rights issues to address on
campuses, including banning dissection, abolishing animal
experiments, ending campus use of rodenticides and
insecticides, stopping your school from investing in or
purchasing products from companies that abuse animals such as
Procter & Gamble, promoting veganism on campus,
challenging campus animal agriculture programs, and educating
the campus community on a wide range of animal rights
Because the world will not go vegan overnight and meat
consumption is such an entrenched practice, promoting veganism
works best as a less confrontational campaign. It is hard,
after all, to be accusatory, when the majority of the public
are the accused.
Campus groups tend to have three major goals in promoting
veganism on campus: education, increasing vegan food options,
and specially eliminating particularly cruel animal
Tactics for education include tabling, holding veganism
seminars, leafleting with literature such as Why Vegan,
promoting awareness of campus vegan options through a vegan
guide, and free food events:
Veganism Seminars: These can include videos on veganism,
discussion of the ethical, health, and environmental
implications of meat consumption, vegan cooking
demonstrations, vegan purchasing tours of health food stores,
and distribution of lists of vegan-friendly local restaurants.
Members of your group can talk about what motivated them to go
vegan and how they made the transition, and take questions
from attendees.
Campus Vegan Guides: Vegan Guides briefly explain veganism
and list all available vegan foods in school cafeterias and at
restaurant vendors in food courts. They also flag items to
watch out for that may seem to be vegan but may have hidden
animal ingredients. These can be distributed far and wide on
Food Distro Events: Vegan bake sales can raise money while
informing people that tasty, attractive baked goods can be
vegan. Attention-getting events such as "McVegan," where
activists set up a vegan burger stand that satirically
appropriates the McDonald's logo, catches people's attention,
gets them to eat vegan burgers, and gets them thinking about
meat consumption, all while keeping a smile on their faces.
Vegan Food in Cafeterias: Campuses have notoriously poor
food choice for vegans. However in stark contrast to most
other cases where activists request change, college food
service programs are often open to requests for change by
animal rights activists. It is important to be polite and
provide clear options of what vegan foods cafeteria could be
serving. You can also request that all food items be labeled
with ingredients to make it easier for people to know what is
in their food. Be wary of unkept promises by food bureaucrats
and be persistent for change, without being critical of food
services staff.
Selective Food Bans: Specific foods are so obviously cruel
that even meat eaters may support their elimination from the
menu. The most obvious is veal. Collect petition signatures
from students and submit them to food service. Write
editorials for the school paper. Hold educational events where
students are asked to step into a human-sized veal crate to
get a feel for what life in intensive confinement is like.
Post anti-veal poster and stickers on bulletin boards, in
bathroom stalls, and anywhere else on campus. Encourage
students to write letters. Try to get the student newspaper to
conduct a student opinion poll on veal. Try to pass a student
government resolution supporting a veal ban. Offer food
services a specific vegan alternative. If none of these steps
work, consider escalating to protests and ultimately, direct
Historically student organizations have been at the
forefront of freedom struggles. Student animal rights groups,
with proper planning, can help make animal rights one of the
most powerful social justice movements of the 21st
Special thanks to Freeman Wicklund and Melanie Bartlett,
whose ideas and experiences have been drawn upon heavily
throughout this article.


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Eight Market Basket execs firedBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
July 21. 2014 12:36AM
MANCHESTER — At least eight Market Basket supermarket chain executives were fired Sunday in what one called a "cleaning house" that marked the end to the store culture of having corporate leaders who worked their way up the ranks from front-end store jobs.
Mike Kettenbach, deli buyer at the chain's Tewksbury, Mass., corporate headquarters, confirmed he is among eight corporate officers to receive termination notices Sunday.
"I feel I was wrongfully terminated. They didn't really cite a reason, so I really don't know why I was fired," Kettenbach said by telephone Sunday night of the package delivered by courier and waiting for him when he returned home from a wake.
But Kettenbach, who started working for the grocery chain when he was 14, suspects his dismissal is related to the fact he is the nephew of the chain's beloved former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas.
"He's my uncle. So I can only assume that they, for lack of a better term, wanted to clean the office of the faction they disapprove of, as they say," Kettenbach said.
Arthur T. Demoulas was ousted as CEO last month after years of family infighting that resulted in his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, assuming control of the board of directors.
Kettenbach said he will contest his dismissal through "any means possible."
He is one of at least eight corporate officers from New Hampshire and Massachusetts who were fired Sunday. Kettenbach said this second round of dismissals followed an earlier rout of seven managers who either were fired or retired when Arthur T. Demoulas was ousted last month.
Market Basket management confirmed "certain individuals are no longer with the company," Boston.com reported.
"Their actions continued to harm the company, negatively impacted customers, and inhibited associates' ability to perform their jobs," Market Basket said in the statement.
Company officials have said they will not eliminate employee profit-sharing or the 4 percent discount given on most store items.
The only corporate officers left are the newly installed chief executive officers Felicia Thornton and Jim Gooch, Kettenbach said.
"There is no future without people. They've done irreparable harm to the company. I don't see how they come back after basically executing the top 15 to 16 executives in the company," Kettenbach said.
Others dismissed Sunday include: Tom Trainor, a grocery supervisor and former store manager; Tom Gordon, a grocery supervior; Steve Paulenka, facilities manager; Jim Lacourse, a grocery buyer; Joe Schmidt, operations supervisor; Dean Joyce, warehouse director; and Joe Garon.Trainor said he also was fired by a courier who arrived at his home.
"When I started this fight over a year ago I knew the risk but I also knew that I was fighting for something much bigger than myself. I was fighting for my MB (Market Basket) family, for Arthur T. Demoulas, a man that I have tremendous respect, loyalty and admiration for. A man that I would run through a wall for. I have no regrets. I would do it all over again and I leave the company I love with my head held high in the knowledge that there wasn't a single thing more that I could have done," Trainor wrote on the wearemarketbasket.com web site.
Like Kettenbach, Trainor said he will attend the rally set for 9 a.m. Monday at Market Basket in Tewksbury.
Throngs of customers signed petitions seeking Arthur T.'s reinstatement over the weekend even as they faced aisles running out of produce and other groceries after warehouse workers and drivers loyal to Arthur T. went "on strike" in support of their former leader, one Manchester store employee said.
The store hasn't received a grocery delivery since Thursday. No fish or produce had arrived since Friday, said an employee who spoke on condition of anonymity or risk being fired. Milk and eggs, however, continue to come in daily, the employee said."She's getting very thin," said Dale Barmore, a three-year employee who primarily works in the cafe.
"Our entire back store room has one-half palette left. That has just oranges" which are used for making juice to sell in the cafe, she said. "We're not getting trucks in," she added.
Yellow signs hung from empty produce aisles apologizing to customers for the inconvenience.
"Please pardon our appearance as we try to persuade the board of directors of Market Basket to reinstate Arthur T. Demoulas as CEO of Market Basket." the sign read.
Delivery delays are attributed to the walk-out of certified fork-lift and other heavy equipment operators as well as licensed truck drivers. They are being replaced by workers either not certified to work on heavy equipment or who lack commercial operator driving licenses, one employee said.
At least 500 customers at the Manchester store have signed a petition since noon Sunday seeking Arthur T.'s reinstatement, one employee said.
"Arthur T. is the only way to go," Bill Myers of Goffstown said after adding his name to the petition. "The other people who want to take over, they're just trying to line their pockets with gold ... The employees, the customers and everyone else are going to suffer."


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13 Dec 2012 11:43:49 AM
The Travel Chronicles, Part 4: California Inspiration
(Photos courtesy of the author. If you missed the first three installments of The Travel Chronicles, click here to catch up.)
By Elias Cepeda
After any failure one natural inclination is to enter a depressive state. Another is to get on to the next thing you can take action on as quickly as possible, replacing success for failure, joy for disappointment, in order to stave off depression.
I'd just gotten my ass kicked in Canada. I very badly wanted to instantly transport to LA and Vegas where fun, work, and training awaited me. Instead, I had a long, sleepless night and ten hours of layover-ridden air travel ahead of me.
I could only be so active during that time. Mostly, I sat and thought. My cell phone was not working well up north and so I didn't even have text messaging and phone calls to distract me. As I write this, it has been nearly four months since my fight in Canada and I have yet to watch tape of it even once.
I have, however, seen the fight, what I can remember of it, over and over in my head enough to satisfy me for some time. Most of that replay happened at the airports I arrived at, waited in, and departed from over and over that day after the fight.
I arrived in Las Vegas after 11 p.m. on Friday. The initial idea was to get a rental car and drive straight away to Los Angeles where I'd be staying with my friend Dave Doyle. Perhaps more than any other major media editor or writer over the past decade, Dave has been a major driving force in getting MMA covered in the mainstream. When he was at Fox Sports, Dave got his bosses to let him cover MMA, a true coup for the sport. He also got the Associated Press involved, doing great coverage for them and later, as an editor of the MMA and boxing sections at Yahoo! Sports, built the largest and most widely read combat sports pages in the English speaking world.
Dave now writes for MMA Fighting. Lucky for me, his smarts extend beyond the reporting and writing realm and he gave me some useful advice on my plan to drive from Vegas to LA through the night after a whole day of traveling. "You can come here any time you want, Elias, that's fine. But if you try to make that drive as tired as you will be, you'll probably die in the desert."Read More DIGG THIS