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Early Years Classroom Teacher, Singapore
Closing date:
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Fixed Term
Suitable for NQTs: No
Australian International School has a vision to be known internationally as an institution which represents educational excellence in all aspects of its operation. Our school philosophy commits us fully to the notion of a holistic, rounded education, which cherishes the arts and sports as well as academics as essential dimensions of each student's education.
The objectives of an Classroom Teacher are " High Quality Teaching Practice", "Contribution to Learning Area and Curriculum Development", "Building Relationships with Students, Staff and Parents" and "Contribution to the Whole School".
The ideal candidate must promote and support the following statement:
"We believe every child has active rights and is capable of contributing to the community. The child is at the heart of the learning process. Teachers facilitate this learning through care and respect, creating an interactive and inspiring learning environment. A place where children are encouraged to take risks, to explore and to be in control of their own learning. We recognise children as unique individuals, celebrating their voice and interests, while making learning visible and meaningful through authentic documentation and collaboration with our community."
The successful applicant will have a strong understanding of the needs of nursery and preschool education (ages from 18 months to 5 years olds). He/she will have the capability to achieve brilliance in the delivery of the finest education aligned with the School's Mission, Vision and Values delivered via the Reggio Emilia approach and the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years Programme (IB PYP).
AIS welcomes the right candidate to join our AIS team in the Early Learning Village commencing in January 2019.
The ideal candidate for this role must have the following skills, experience and qualifications:
- A minimum 4 year recognised teaching qualification including a Bachelor's Degree and teaching diploma or a Bachelor in Education
- Minimum 3 years teaching experience in any Early Years setting
We are offering attractive salary and benefit packages to successful candidates.
Please provide the following supporting documentation as well as completing our application form:
- CV or Resume (max 2 side of A4)
- Cover Letter (max 1 side of A4)
Further information about this position is available in the attached job description. Only applications submitted using the school's application form will be considered. Please submit your completed application form, cover letter and CV by Friday 16 NOVEMBER 2018, 23 59 (UK Time).
Cognita Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.
The Australian International School in Singapore offers high quality academic programs for students aged 2 months - 18 years from over 50 nationalities. Globally focused, distinctly Australian – AIS aims to enable its students to develop into rounded...
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EMC has announced an expansion of its Proven Professional training and certification program, which aims to better help customers and partners develop expertise on deploying EMC information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions.
"The EMC Proven Professional certification and training program is the most comprehensive of its kind in the information storage and management industry," claims Alex Robertson, technology solutions manager, EMC SA.
"It provides customers and partners with specialized skills, detailed knowledge and proven strategies to position, design, implement, manage and maintain an infrastructure for ILM," he says.
According to the company the course content, exam and certified status are identical to the training that EMC uses to train its own technical personnel. Certification, it says, helps customers to enhance productivity and meet service levels.
It also, says the company, helps EMC partners to differentiate their capabilities and to address new opportunities.
"The enhancements to EMC Proven Professional are the direct result of input from our customers and partners," says Robertson.
"EMC has designed a program that participants can customize to match specific needs, stay current on the latest storage technologies and improve competitive advantage. To date, more than 3 000 people have achieved EMC Proven Professional status. As more customers look to manage their information throughout its lifecycle, we expect demand for these training classes to increase dramatically," he says.
The company notes that the program has been enhanced to provide even more focused customer and partner training programs, with a greater number of sales and technical roles.
It says that the EMC Proven Professional curriculum offers four certification paths to customize learning needs: storage administrator, technology architect, customer engineer and implementation engineer.
EMC adds that two pre-sales accreditation tracks are available for reseller partners.
The company believes that, with more than 45 instructor-led and 75 e-learning titles, its courses enable customers and partners to specialize in relevant subjects for certification and accreditation, including business continuity, storage area networks (SANs), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage management.

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Today was our first gathering. I laid everything out to show how we need to package our donated hats.
I shared my own patterns and had some literature on our chapter. I had some hats on display so the group of ladies could see how nice these patterns will be.
Each hat is packaged in a ziplock bag with a Scripture Card inside.
I placed some Scripture cards in a small basket on the table for them to be able to take to place in their own creations for donation.
I made sure we had plenty of yarn around the living room for everyone.
I cant thank these wonderful ladies enough for donating their time and materials for this great cause.


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Yes Hard Feelings
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- Written by Kuldeep Chaudhary
This is the story of 27 year old Cab Driver Martin from LA, California who was suffering from Erectile Dysfunction. He could not afford the cost of the penile implant surgery in the US and his med would not cover it. He got the solution in India and within 10 days his Mojo was back. A Heart Touching Story
Martin was Ecstatic. This was his first kiss in Life. Julia was 2 years senior to him in the school but Martin was extremely popular amongst the girls. At the age of 17 he measured 198 cm and was the top basketball player in the school team. The girls crooned over him but he only had eyes for Julia. After the game where he scored 38 points Julia asked him for a date. Martin was the youngest of the three siblings. One of the elder sister was married while the other was about to be married. Coming from a very humble background, Martin had started doing odd jobs at the age of 15.
He only had 25 bucks in his pocket so he took Julia to Olympic Blvd where Mariscos Jalisco, a Mexican food truck serves No-frills Mexican food offering cold seafood dishes, shucked oysters, cocktails & more. Martin was nervous as this was his first date. After the food they started to walk back to their respective homes holding hands when Julia pulled him into a tight embrace at a dark corner. Their lips met and Martin knew that he had found the love of his life. After 2 years of dating, Julia and Martin rented a one room studio apartment in downtown LA. Martin had dropped out of the school and was now working as a bartender at a night club. The sexual relationship between them was great as both were extremely passionate. Another two years passed, Martin was now a handsome grownup man of 21 years.
One morning Martin realized that he was losing his Mojo. He was not able to get proper erection. Julia told him not to worry as this may be happening because of working late into the night. Every passing day made his condition worse and in six months time he was not able to get it up at all. They started to drift apart and finally Julia moved out. Martin was shattered, he thought of consulting a doctor but the fee of USD 600 was beyond his reach. He changed his job and joined a security firm so that he could work during the day and get proper sleep in the night. 6 Years passed and now Martin was driving a cab for Uber and Lyft making around 3000 grands every month. After paying the Lease on the car and the house he would be left with only 1500 grands. When young couples hired his cab and cuddled together he would squirm in his seat. On Social Media he tried to follow Julia but there was hardly any activity. She had simply disappeared in thin air but Martin could not get her out of his mind. He had her phone number but could never gather the courage to call her.
On July 17th he had this passenger called Mr. Sylvestor hire his cab from the LA International Airport for downtown LA. On the way Mr Sylvestor started talking about his visit to India for a Surgery which costed only USD 14000 while the same would have costed him 35000 grands in the US. On the 30 minute drive Sylvestor was only talking about the price difference between the two countries. How cabs in India would be charging only 3 bucks for the similar kind of journey. Martin could not hold back and narrated his ordeal to the passenger. Sylvestor consoled him and gave him one phone number to call in India. After dropping the passenger Martin parked his car at Grand Central Market and dialled the phone number given by Sylvestor. After several rings the phone was picked up by a sleepy growling voice. The person said hello hello but Martin choked for words. The person at the other end said do you know what time of the night it is. Martin suddenly realized the time zone difference and simply said sorry sir and hung up.
Later in the night while lying in his bed after a hard day's work Martin dialled the number again. This time the person at the other end gave a cheerful greeting - `Yes Sir how can I help You'. He identified himself as Dr Raman Tanwar, Andrologist at GNH Hospital. Martin narrated his ordeal to Dr Tanwar and immediately got a very reassuring answer. Within minutes Martin had received an email detailing the entire procedure, its cost and several videos showing how the surgery would be done. The email also contained the procedure for getting medical e-visa for travelling to India. Martin was on top of the world. The cost of the surgery was USD 3500 and tickets to India costed him 1060 bucks. He was left with only 1200 bucks after this. His heart was pounding and he could not wait to board the China East Airlines which would take him to Shanghai from where he would get another flight to New Delhi. There were direct flights available but he chose the cheapest one. The hospital was thoroughly professional and had sent him the picture of Mr. Israr who was supposed to meet him at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The flight landed at 1.30 am in the night and there was Mr Israr waiting for him. He was escorted to the hospital in a nice car. After many years Martin was travelling in a car as a passenger.
At the hospital he was ushered into a nice room with a big LED TV. It was already 4 am in the morning and Martin tried to sleep to get over the jet lag. He woke up around 11 am with the arrival of Dr Raman. The surgery was scheduled for the next day but there was a problem. Martin had 8 inch penis and the readily available implants were only 6 inches. Dr Raman told him not to worry as the customized implant would be made available in 2 days time. The surgery finally took place on the third day of his arrival.
Martin was elated to see the bulge in his hospital pyjamas. He was so overcome with emotions that he sent the pic to Julia on whatsapp.
Within minutes he received a phone call on his whatsapp. His hands were trembling as Julia was calling. The first words that Julia spoke were `When are you coming back'.
As Martin walked out of the LA International Airport Julia was waiting for him. She ran towards him and hugged him tightly. As she felt the hardness between his legs she whispered `Yes Hard Feelings'


text: National News AFA announces YFS Media partnership Author: AFA Editor/Friday, 2 February 2018/Categories: Ticker Only The Australian Futsal Association (AFA) is delighted to announce a bespoke partnership with grassroots sport media specialists YFS Media. The partnership will focus on scaling up the quality and quantity of media provided to AFA competitions, tournaments, matches, events and tours. YFS Media has been working closely with AFA and the futsal umbrella body, International Futsal Alliance (IFA), since September 2016. This has involved a full suite of media coverage being provided to three IFA World Cup tournaments (all of which involved an AFA national squad team) and the inaugural Escape Travel AFA Cup, which took place in Brisbane in October 2017. Every single match at each of these tournaments has been live streamed, with additional coverage coming in the form of match photography, match reports, social media highlights and match commentary & analysis. Robbie Forsyth, director of YFS Media, said: "It is extremely exciting to enter this partnership with our friends at AFA. We have thoroughly enjoyed helping to provide the global audience that the IFA World Cup events deserve and it was an unbelievable experience to be involved with the launch of the very first Escape Travel AFA Cup. Whilst in Brisbane to cover that tournament, we saw first hand the impressive setup AFA has at all age groups and levels of futsal. We can't wait to start raising the profile of these competitions and highlighting the success stories in each region, on a year round basis." Alistair Miller, CEO of Australian Futsal Association, added: "AFA offers the complete futsal player pathway, from recreational local events to representing Australia overseas. We take great pride in each of our programmes and competitions. This partnership will give our young players positive, confidence boosting coverage and help immortalise their priceless childhood memories through photo and video." The partnership kicks off in February, so stay tuned to AFA's website, Facebook page and Instagram account for all of the latest updates. For more information on YFS Media, visit www.yfs.media. If you are passionate about providing media coverage to events in your area and would like to get involved, or have a news story, we would love to hear from you. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com. Print Number of views (2463)/Comments (0)


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I have had a problem trying to start a saved VM. I got the error "Failed to open a session for the virtual machine ..."
I have attached the message dialog box. I have tried a solution quoted in another thread but without success.
If anyone has a solution I would appreciate it, the VM has some data one its drives which would take quite a few hours to re-create.
II use a win10 x64 host and the guest machine is also win 10 x64.


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Fri, 27 January 2012 at 11:10 am
Diddy Hosting Super Swanky Grammy After Party
- Party with Sean "Diddy Combs" after the Grammys … for $50,000 – TMZ
- Check out Kristen Stewart in a new Snow White still – Just Jared Jr
- Jada Pinkett-Smith steps behind the camera for a new project – Lainey Gossip
- Find out why Lindsay Lohan is in more legal trouble – The Superficial
- Which celeb is rumored to be Blue Ivy Carter's godmother? – US Weekly
- Watch Florence + the Machine's latest video – MTV Buzz
- Celebs show their support for designer Jason Wu – Popsugar
- What do you think of Salma Hayek's leather look? – Trendmill
- Mark Wahlberg surfaces after his 9/11 comment controversy – Celebslam
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A short time back US singer, now resident in the UK, Lars Pluto posted something on Facebook that one of the acts on his recent Revolution In The Round gig in Manchester had been called and warned off playing by the BCMA, they seemingly veiled threats regarding the acts future potential. I went to the gig and it was excellent. I had a great time. BCMA seemingly have issue with Lars as Lars, rightly is a fierce critic of how they run their awards.
Fast forward to last night and Hannah Johnson, formerly of The Toy Hearts and now touring as a solo artist posted this on Facebook.
I have always known that the BCMA stinks, that it is at best dishonest but this is a new level of low, and Buckle and Boots Festival, you have lost my custom. It's sickening that Jim Duncan, a man with a grudge can do this, and not only that, still have people paying lip service to his org. Appalling.


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Last weekend we took out the screens and put in the storm windows. As you know, in our lil' ol' National Register home, doors and windows that fit perfectly in 1931 don't quite fit soundly any more. So we need a "cussometer" to keep track of the ongoing storm-window fittage issues.
"Issues," as you know, is the twenty-first-century way of saying problems.
But we just expect it at this point. We build in time for planing, sanding, Dremeling (if necessary) surfaces of parts that won't fit. And we keep notes on how much of a bitch it is each year! Hence the "cussometer."
This year, we were dumbfounded at how easy it was! The biggest worry is always the biggest storm window, the one facing north. It's at least forty pounds, it doesn't fit easily on its two little hooks, and it's far too high above the back porch stairs to even see well (much less manipulate from outside).
We just expect it to be a pain, but this year, it simply went on its little hooks and slid right into place. We secured the hooks inside, and stared at each other in disbelief. Wow!
Why was it so easy this year!? We chalked it up to the drought, and the settling and resettling of our back porch. Well, the drought was good for something! It rated a zero on the cussometer. A zero!
Then, we did the three little side windows, that face east. These are easy-peasy. Being smaller, they're lighter, plus we can reach them from outside, from the top portion of the porch steps, which go right past them.
And uh-oh! We had celebrated a too early! The last window to go in simply didn't have enough space. What the heck? It's usually the easiest one of all! So we had to go to the basement for the planer to make the window narrower. It took a while, but at least it wasn't on a window that was heavy or impossible to access from the outside. But it did take a couple of hours . . .
Oh, well. At least it's done, and the cold air we're getting now will be outside and not in.
Are your storm windows in? Are you keeping warm? I hope so! Because it sure looks like winter's arrived now!
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Storm Windows Cussometer Report, 2012
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Once you have decided to purchase, now you need to get pre-approved for the purchase. Our office work hand in had with Towne and Country Mortgage a team of professionals who will help you during the qualification process and guide you through the closing.


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Good books are like fitness for the mind. A good read can inspire or offer practical insights. Here's our selection of books that have touched us.
change management | biographies | executive coaching | executive coaching for career transition | teambuilding 2.0
change management | biographies | executive coaching | executive coaching for career transition | teambuilding 2.0
The procrastination equation
Piers Steel, PhD
isbn 978-0-06-170362-1
Good insights on why we procrastinate. Why we do ourselves short. And useful actions to stop procrastinating. We find especially the sections with the 12 main life domains in chapter 5 helpful to get organized.
Darren Hardy, Compound effect (engels)
isbn 978-1-59315-724-1
Darren is able to present one's life as millions of micro choices and illustrates how making many correct small decisions isn't just a smart way to live, it is literally the foundation of the working universe itself. He provides tools to apply to improve your own life.
Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable
isbn 978-0143110378
Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion.
McChesney, The 4 disciplines of execution
isbn 978-1451627053
Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? This book offers a practical methodology that can solve every leader's #1 challenge: EXECUTION.
Noam Wasserman, The founder's dilemmas
isbn 978-0691158303
One founder told us: 'we considered our first month with no fixed salary as a badge of honor'. Another one said: 'I had to get off the heroin drip of my monthly salary.' This book is particularly systematic in going through all of the issues.
David Noer, Healing the wounds
isbn 978-0470500156
David Noer lays out a 4 way approach to reenergize the people in the organization, after a downsizing. Classic book in it's field, newly edited and published in 2009.
Clayton M. Christensen, The innovators dillema
isbn 978-0062060242
"Absolutely brilliant. Clayton Christensen provides an insightful analysis of changing technology and its importance to a company's future success." Michael R. Bloomberg, CEO & Founder, Bloomberg Financial Markets
Lynda Gratton, The Shift
isbn 978-0007427956
Five forces are changing the way we will work in the future: demographics, technology, energy, globalization and society. Based on her research, she described these trends in this book very vividly. It helps change your view on how our world of work is changing, and we're in the midst of it!
Chip Bell, Wired & Dangerous
isbn 1605099759
This book describes very powerful how customers have changed. Why they are distracted and how they make their choices today. We are moving from the old 'word of mouth' towards 'word of mouse'. Social media is already having an enormous impact on the purchasing process. And it has only just begun! In the book, they describe how to connect to the new customers and find a new balance of 'service calm'.
Eduardo Porter, The price of everything
isbn 978-1591843626
A fascinating book about supply and demand and how prices are set. The author explains how the decision making process works and why we pay what we pay. This book offers pragmatic insights that will definitely help you.
Bryce G. Hoffman, American Icon
isbn 978-0307886064
At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the taxpayer lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself.
Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
isbn 978-0062301239
Under his leadership, Elon Musk is transforming industries like automotive (Tesla), Rocket science and solar energy. A true unfolding story about a start-up entrepreneur from Silicon Valley who is currently scaling up the companies he's involved in.
Gandhi, Prisoner of Hope
isbn 978-0300051254
Well researched and balanced portrait of one of the most important men from the 20th century. His non-violent approach to make change happen is still an inspiration for many of us today.
Mandela, The Authorized Biography
isbn 978-0679781783
Leading South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy. One of our modern day legends.
Eckart Wintzen, Eckarts Notes (Dutch)
isbn 978-9056379674
This is the last work of Eckart before he passed away in 2008. The Dutch ICT entrepreneur was the founder of BSO, later BSO/Origin, before it was sold to Philips. He grew the company from scratch with his revolutionary cell-approach, making all employees think and act as intrapreneurs.
Howard Schultz (Starbucks), Onward
isbn 1605292885
Brutally honest story about the turnaround that Howard Schultz executed as the ceo of Starbucks between 2008 - 2010. After having spent almost eight years in a strategic role, he returns for the second time as ceo and takes back operational control of the day-to-day business of the company; completely unexpected. He tells the Starbucks story about the turnaround first hand, not hiding mistakes he and the company made over the years. A must read on modern leadership!
Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness
isbn 978-1455508907
This book offers entrepreneurial inspiration and a best case in setting up an 'unsexy' business extremely successful, and extremely fast. The name of the company?: Zappos.com They sell a lot of shoes online every year in the US. For instance by focussing on culture as the #1. priority.
Ricardo Semler, De Semler methode (Dutch)
isbn 978-9049200831
Ricardo Semler turns around the classic principle of an enterprise built as a pyramid. This Brazilian citizen built a very successful conglomerate in Brazil. Long before the financial and economic crisis hit the markets, Semler was running his companies with Corporate Social Responsibility and what we refer to today as the 3 p's: People, Planet, Profit.
Paul Donkers en Herman van Herterijck Regisseer je eigen loopbaansucces
isbn isbn 978-9491121029
Our first book in Dutch on how to be the master of your own (career) destiny. Full of pragmatic tools to support your journey. Order here.
Deepak Chopra Soul of leadership
isbn isbn 978-0307408068
In this book, Deepak Chopra focusses on the SOUL of leadership. By knowing and developing yourself, he gives guidance for personal growth and ways to lead your teams to success. Free yourself and get your ego out of the way.
Richard Thaler en Cass Sunstein Nudge
isbn 978-0143115267
This book is all about improving the quality of your decisions. Providing insights in the imperfect way we make decisions. By applying choice architecture you can improve decisions about health, wealth and happiness.
David Dotlich & Peter Cairo Why CEOs fail
isbn 978-0787967635
The 11 behaviors that can derail your climb to the top. Today, for a leader, it's easier than ever before to go from 'admired' to be seen as an 'idiot'. 55 - 75% of all leaders is likely to derail at some point in their career. This books looks at the dark side of personality. Because if you are more aware of the weak spots in your personality, we all have them, you can start working to increase your odds for having a meaningful career. We have the Hogan Develpment Survey (a.k.a. Hogan Dark Side Assessment) available to get more scientific insight into which of the 11 behaviors you're vulnerable for.
Deepak Chopra, The Soul of leadership
isbn 978-1846042706
You cannot separate a leader from what he or she is like on the inside and what their foundation is because out of that flows their decisions and actions. In this book, Deepak Chopra brings it all together in his very pragmatic style. Concise, yet deep.
Deepak Chopra with our partner Paul Donkers in Dublin, november 2012
Olivia Fox Cabane, The Charisma Myth
isbn 978-1591844563
Charisma is not a characteristic, it's a skill and it can be mastered for anyone seeking improved executive presence. Potentially a life changing read. Written in a very straightforward style. It comes with exercises. The book probably could be more compact. But still, highly recommmended.
Stephen C.Lundin & Harry Paul and John Christensen, Fish!
isbn 0340819804
This book is a must read for ALL who want to have more satisfaction from their daily work.
You will quickly learn that it is all about (YOUR) attitude, self-confidence and persisting with faith.
Indeed "there is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself".
Two hours reading and life long practicing to improve your Fun-Work balance!
Marshall Goldsmith, Mojo
isbn 978-1846681462
What matters in life is: wealth, health, relationships, meaning and happiness. In his 28th book, Marshall provides us with insight in getting more meaning and happiness into our lives. He provides practical tools to start measuring meaning and happiness. Marshall is a master at making the intangible, tangible. Another great book after his 2007 bestseller: What Got You Here, Won't Get You There. We're fans of Marshall's work.
Marshall Goldsmith, What got you here, won't get you there (engels)
isbn 978-1846681370
This is one of the most pragmatic books written on executive coaching, ever. Only from 2007, it's already a classic. We use Marshall's methodology weekly in our executive coaching practice. And with very good results. Especially very successful people with large responsibilities find added value from it.
Marshall Goldsmith & Paul Donkers in New York, October 2018
James E. Lukaszewski, Why should the boss listen to you? (English)
isbn 978-0787996185
A must-read for everyone who works in a staff role with line managers. This great book provides the insights and tools to improve the impact in dealing with senior management.
Steve Harrison, The manager's book of decencies (engels)
isbn 978-0071486330
First book from the man who inspired Paul to create and introduce Lee Hecht Harrison in The Netherlands in 1999. Very pragmatic tools for managers to improve their behavior.
The reluctant networker
Neil Munz Jones
isbn 978-1909116672
'The new leader's 100-day action plan' Bradt, Check, Pedraza
isbn 978-0470407035
We recommend this book because it provides the reader with real life examples for making a good start in a new company or when promoted to a new role. If applied well, you'll increase the odds of making an excellent start. Oftentimes the first 100 days are underestimated, while 40% of all executives fail in their new job, measured after 18 months! This book builds on a step by step approach for making the first impression, building your team, communicating your announcement to avoiding most of the common pitfalls and finally, making some quick wins. The book is suited for both seasoned and for new executives.
Geoff Smart, Randy Street and Alan Foster, Power score
isbn 978-0345547354
The authors of the book Power Score serve up a credible way, for all the leftbrainers among us, to calculate how a successful management team can be translated into numbers. With this approach, they make the missing potential of a team visible. They suggest what you can do differently to achieve a higher score. Their formula measures three parameters:
- The priorities of the organization (the WHAT)
- Who will do it? The people in the management team that work on the priorities (HOW).
- Relationships. How do we work together here? (HOW)
Patrick Lencioni, The five dysfunctions of a team
isbn 978-0787960759
Patrick Lencioni wrote a well-read book a few years ago called The five Dysfunctions of a Team. In it, he works with a pyramid of five levels. Management teams can not be effective, if they do not work well together on each of the different levels. You need to address each level before you can reach the next stage of the pyramid. For example, you should be able to trust one another before you can deal with conflicts in an effective way.


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President Obama's reelection team claimed on Friday that Mitt Romney would serve as "an outsourcer-in-chief in the Oval Office."
Team Obama has seized on a report that Bain Capital invested in firms that specialized in outsourcing American jobs overseas during Romney's tenure at the venture capital firm.
But the Romney campaign calls the story "fundamentally flawed," maintaining that the report in the Washington Post confuses outsourcing — essentially hiring another company to perform work that had traditionally been done in-house — with offshoring, where American jobs are sent to lower-paid workers in other countries.
The dueling campaigns lobbed accusations back and forth Friday over the article, which details filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that reveal Bain Capital provided funds to some of the first firms to specialize in outsourcing American jobs.
Top Obama strategist David Axelrod argued the story was "significant moment in this campaign."
"This is really significant because throughout this campaign Gov. Romney has suggested that the experience he has in business has given him special insights into the economy and that would translate into jobs and growth and benefits to the American worker. This article speaks to the kind of experience he has, the kind of insights he may have drawn from this experience, and it goes to the fundamental question of whether that's the experience we need in the Oval Office," said Axelrod on a conference call with reporters. "Do we need the philosophy that embraces outsourcing and offshoring as a positive tool in our economy?"
The report has provided new life on the issue of Bain Capital for the
Obama campaign, which saw early attack ads critical of Romney's tenure
at the firm derailed when top-level surrogates — including former
President Clinton and Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker — criticized their
A NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last month showed the attacks failed to gain traction, however, with half of respondents saying they did not know what Bain Capital was. Of those who did, 19 percent viewed the firm negatively, 9 percent viewed it positively and 19 percent were neutral.
The Romney campaign argued the Post story falsely gave the impression that the firms that Bain invested in helped move American jobs overseas.
"This is a fundamentally flawed story that does not differentiate between domestic outsourcing versus offshoring nor versus work done overseas to support U.S. exports. Mitt Romney spent 25 years in the real world economy so he understands why jobs come and they go," said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul in a statement.
The Romney campaign also noted that some of the overseas call centers cited by the Post story were built in other countries to service foreign customers who spoke different languages.
Obama's surrogates dismissed that defense Friday, saying that many of the jobs moved by companies Bain invested in went from the United States to foreign workers.
"Anybody who looks critically at Bain, not just these investments, but the entirety of its profile under the governor's stewardship will see that well more than three-quarters of their jobs actions had to do with offshoring as contrasted with domestic outsourcing," said Leo Hendry, the managing partner of InterMedia, on the call with reporters.
Hendry went on to say that even in instances where jobs were domestically outsourced to other American firms, that normally meant that a long-tenured or union worker lost their job in favor of someone willing to work for less, ultimately hurting the middle class.
"I'll leave it to Gov. Romney and his campaign to explain to workers in Ohio and Michigan and all over this country the difference between offshoring and outsourcing," Axelrod said. "I don't think either in the minds of most Americans wherever they live is a prescription for a better economic future."
The Romney campaign said Friday that the president's continued attacks on the private sector would make an economic recovery less likely.
"As President, [Romney] will implement policies that make it easier and more attractive for companies to create jobs here at home. President Obama's attacks on profit and job creators make it less attractive to create jobs in the U.S.," Saul said.
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As posted a few weeks ago, I continued my research in the area of network covert channels. This posting aims on providing a short summary on the work I've done in the area within the last years.
Covert Channels are hidden communication channels and a part of the Information Hiding research. Lampson defined them as "not intended for information transfer at all" in 1973 in his paper "a note on the confinement problem". I skip the details and the context of multi-level security (MLS), especially the Bell-LaPadula model. However, covert channels can now be used to bypass censorship and thus can support the free expression of opinions but they can also be used by botnets (a good introduction is provided by Zander et al. in this journal article).
My early Work
In 2006, I developed a tool called "vstt" (very strange tunneling tool) capable of using multiple network protocols to transfer data to a destination system and able to accept input via socket or (named) Pipe on Unix-like operating systems. One of the very first steps, after playing around with some Linux/BSD SOCK_RAW codes and by experimenting with the available "tunneling" software from the hacking community, was to develop the idea of protocol hopping (i.e. a protocol switching covert channel). The first program capable to do such a protocol switching was "LOKI2" by daemon9 (phrack magazine, 1997). LOKI2 is based on a manual "/swapt" command that let the user switch between ICMP and UDP. In 2007 (exactly ten years later) I implemented the first "protocol hopping covert channel" in the tool "phcct" (cf. my Hakin9 article about it (in German), or my english Hakin9 article on another covert channel type ("protocol channels", see next section) that contains a small discussion of protocol hopping covert channels, or try Google Scholar). Phcct did not demand on a user's input anymore and switched the protocol automatically as well as on a transparent way.
However, the idea of protocol switching resulted in another, similar idea: the "protocol channel". A protocol channel is a covert channel based on the idea to transfer information not by adding a special content or time information to a network packet but by using a specified network protocol. Thus, the hidden information was represented by the network protocol itself. You can read more about that in my paper on protocol channels. A proof of concept code called "pct" (protocol channel tool) can be found here.
Covert Channels with Internal Control-Protocols
However, let us come back to the protocol hopping covert channels. These covert channels are protocol switching covert channels, as explained in a paper called "low-attention forwarding for mobile network covert channels" [pdf] I wrote together with my Ph.D. advisor. The paper initially put the old basis for the protocol hopping into the scientific context.
The idea is to build a hidden covert channel overlay network and let the peers/proxies of the overlay network communicate using different protocol hopping covert channels. The overlay network's goal is to minimize the raised attention by using protocols and areas within protocol headers that are unlikely to raise attention on a given link. This optimization depends on the context (each network is different) and can be optimized to minimize the overhead or to minimize the amount of transferred data. Also the forwarding between two hops/proxies within the covert overlay network can be optimized by producing as few data packets as possible for forwarding a hidden message and by caching the hidden information for a time t. In that paper we additionally proposed an upgradable covert channel overlay network based on version and capability information exchange using the covert channel's micro protocol.
The exchange of protocol information, state information and other kinds of management information between hidden covert channel peers is done by a covert channel-internal communication protocol, a so-called "micro protocol" as I already invented it in 2008 while I wrote my diploma thesis at the University of Applied Sciences in Kempten on my very early-stage thoughts about both, protocol hopping covert channels and protocol channels. A current summary on my work on micro protocols can be found (in German) in the proceedings of Doktorandenkolleg Ruhr (page 35). However, the previously mentioned paper on low-attention forwarding extends the knowledge of these micro protocols from my old diploma thesis by important ideas (such as combining multiple areas of the TCP/IP network stack and giving different network protocols different "weights"/linking them to different sets regarding to their detectability) and you can find all the details there.
At CMS 2013, we presented an approach to develop low-attention raising micro protocols by providing an systematic engineering approach for covert channel-internal control protocols based on formal grammar.
Additionally, one of my paper of mine covers the problem of traffic normalization (done with the previously mentioned micro protocols) that leads to a two-army-problem within the covert channel overlay network. This problem does not only apply for the kind of overlay network we proposed, but for other approaches (e.g. 'adaptable covert channels' by Yarochkin et al.), too. The work will appear under the title The Problem of Traffic Normalization Within a Covert Channel's Network Environment Learning Phase at the SICHERHEIT'12 conference.
Limitation, Detection, and Prevention of Covert Channels
In 2011, I also finished my Master's thesis (University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg) on the analysis of known means that were developed to limit, prevent or detect network covert channels as well as local covert channels. It is not possible to summarize all the results in this posting but I work on a new german book that will be published in Q3-2012 that includes *all* details of my Master's thesis too. However, some examples and a general introduction (in German) is available as a video of my Datenspuren 2011 talk.
In May 2012, we presented work on the limitation of the previously mentioned protocol switching covert channels that is available via open access (pdf): Steffen Wendzel, Jörg Keller: Design and Implementation of an Active Warden Addressing Protocol Switching Covert Channels, In Proc. 7th International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2012), Wagner, A. and Dini, P. (Eds.), pp. 1-6, IARIA, Stuttgart, 2012. The limitation system is based on the idea to delay protocol switches based on an Linux netfilter feature. Our paper received a best paper award at the ICIMP 12 conference. There is also an extended journal article of the paper available that discusses the topic in more detail (also available via open access): Preventing Protocol Switching Covert Channels.
In joint work, we could also show that it is feasible to detect protocol channels using a static formula as well as machine learning.
Covert Channels and Side Channels in Building Automation Systems
Last, but not least, we worked on the investigation of covert channels and side channels in building automation systems (BAS) and especially on covert channels in BACnet. An inter-operable BAS middleware was developed to limit covert storage and side storage channels in building automation systems by applying multi-level security (MLS). A paper addressing these hidden channels as well as the protection means was presented under the title Covert and Side Channels in Buildings and the Prototype of a Building-aware Active Warden at the first IEEE International Workshop on Security and Forensics in Communication Systems (SFCS 2012), Ottawa. A second paper on BACnet (see link above) was presented at the 3SL workshop.
Dynamic Routing in Covert Channel Overlay Networks
In joint work, we (especially P. Backs) developed a dynamic routing approach for covert channels in overlay networks for which I contributed the concept of "status updates", i.e., a means to minimize the size of micro protocol headers.
I have currently much more research in the queue and will publish information as soon as it passed the scientific peer-review processes.
2012-02-11: Added a few words about the BAS middleware paper (SFCS'12) and the traffic normalization paper (SICHERHEIT'12).
2012-06-18: Added new paper of the ICIMP 2012 conference.
2012-07-08: Added Protocol Channel Detection paper and link to BAS side/covert channel posting.
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Deuteronomy 1
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Ceiling Cat sez GTFO Horeb
1 oh hai I is deutronomy and this is transcripshin of words mozes sed to ppl in the desert. k here they are:2 first I tells u it is 11 days to go from horeb to kadesh cuz of sum montins. 4 sum reson u shud no this. k, now start 4 real:
3 On november 1st, 40, mozes was transl8n 4 ceiling cat, cuz ceiling cat wuz tellin ppl what 2 do4 k wait i forgot 2 tell u, but this is after mozes killed some kings that were making him angry. k, no moar intrupshins:
5 k wait again, btw they were in a place calld moab (sry). neway, mozes was tellin a story to sum ppl about his advencher with them. mayb they were forgetful, cuz they were there too, even I was there sept i forget so u need to listn to mozes instid, here he is, take it away mozes:
6 K, so it starts off when ceiling cat says u guys r on this meowntin 4 too long7 so u can has jurnee and go a diffrint montin. Is called amorites. also u shud go to youfrates river. and even further. just gtfo the montin ffs.8 k so here is a map, and u shud be thankful cuz I am tellin u about ur land. Is yours. Is ur land becuz remember when ceiling cat said ur fathers cud hav this land, so u can has.
Bosscats R Namd
9 Remembur when dat happend? ya, i was lik teh only 1 doin any werk at teh tym.10 cept now ceilng cat was watchin u guyz do eech udder LOL so now dere is lots of u, so u can do teh werk11 oh ya and ceilng cat was like LOL u guyz shud do it even moar when u get off teh montin.12 i meen srsly i cant do all teh werk!13 So u bring me smart doodz and i make dem ur rulerz so dat u can has govermint, and i will sez whether it is good or not.
14 and u were all: kthx
15 i maid u a govermint wit ur smart doods.16 den i maid a supreem court and sez 2 be fare 2 everyone, not jus ur frends.17 k sew i sez 2 be gud at juging. an' dun be cowrds, ceiling cat will protict u becuz relly he is juging u or sumting. neway if it is 2 hard u can just tell me and i will judg it 4 u.18 so ya, remember dat tym i maid ur governmint? Dat was teh awesomez.
Spiez Go For Looksee
19 k so after i mad ur govermint then we went on the jurnee i was talkin about b4, cuz ceiling cat told us to. we went from horeb to kadesh (this is why i was talkin abut it b4, k so it tooks 11 days). it was prity scary. we went to mont kadesh. sry i forgot to say kadesh is in amorites. is same thing basicaly.20 neway, i was like, 'ok we're here, and ceiling cat is giving u ur land. Yours.'21 and i said 'ceiling cat says 'this is urs.' don't be scard.'
22 then u guys wer all 'ok so how r we going to go up the mowtin?' and like 'which cities can we ransack or whatever' and then u were all 'lets send out some guys to chek things out'
23 and i said is gud idea. so i got 12 of ur men fro ur tribs. k u guys proly remember this, but neway...24 so they went up in the hills and cheked out the eschol vally.25 they didnt find ne cities but they found sum frut and brot it back and said 'ceiling cat's idea was prety good chek it the frut we finded'
Ceiling Cat Iz Oppozd!
26 but then u guys were lazy and thought the montin was too big to clim, even tho i told u ceilng cat ordred u to go up.27 and then u wined about how ceiling cat was trying to kill and u said the ppl in the amorits are going to kill us, that was ceiling cats plan all along. and u sed egypt was way bettr.28 u said 'we cant go up, ther cities HUJE and they will kill us, speshilly becuz Anak ppl are ther.'
29 so I sed 'chill out and stop being pussies'30 and I told u 'ceiling cat is going to fight too, just like when he fighted with u in egypt, remember?'31 'and remember when on ur jurnee ceiling cat carried u guys down the montin ffs. i think he can handle this."
32 eksept u guys were all 'wait that didnt happen' and 'is he rly going to halp?' and u still didnt trust ceiling cat.33 ceiling cat even finded u places to camp and stuf, I meen srsly, dont u remember?
34 Ya, but i bet u remembr what happend next: Ceiling cat got pissed off is what happend next.35 he said "then no, u cant has land. Not Yours."36 and he added 'eksept for Caleb who did what i sed.'
37 and then he sed even I cant has the land.38 He tells me 'Joshua (is my assistant) can has land instead. Not yours.'39 Ceiling cat sed though that 'ur kids can has the land tho...40 ...but u guys need to gtfo. hows about u tak ur jurnee to the red sea and mak like a tree and leev.'
41 Then u guys all chanjd ur mind and were all 'oh shit!! ok we can has fight now, ceiling cat, we r sory, srsly.'
42 But ceiling cat was all 'is too late. i is not acceptin ur apologies. if u go fight now u will be pwned cuz i not fightin with u'
43 and then lol and behold, u went up neway like a bunch of noobs44 and then u were pwned just lik ceiling cat sed, and they chasd u off the montin (all the way from Seir to Hormah.)45 then u came back and u cried. and u were all 'ceiling cat why u no help us?' but ceiling cat was lik 'duh, i told u i was not going 2 help u' and put u on ignore.46 so u guys stayed in kadesh for awhile not doing anything rly... anyone else think is weird i am telling u what happen to urselves? neway, that's the end of chaptir one.
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YZJ's yard will be full till 2015 and it is now filling up slots for 2016 delivery. The company has 30 options outstanding with clients worth US$1.48bn, some of which could be converted into orders in due time.
Meanwhile, we believe near-term catalysts are lacking in view of weaker quarterly earnings widely expected for FY14 as it executes lower-margin vessels. Our target price is intact, still at 1.4x FY14 P/BV (-1 s.d. of its 5-year mean). Maintain Hold.
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We believe an expected 13% yoy earnings decline in FY14 could be an overhang. Low-priced ship contracts signed at the bottom of the cycle (2010-12) could become a burden after YZJ delivered all its pre-GFC vessels by end-2013. Gross margins for shipbuilding are expected to slide from their 5-year average of 24% to 15-18%. We see downside risks for margin and order momentum for the Chinese yards on the back of (1) continuous appreciation of Rmb vs. the more stable KRW, and (2) labour costs rising 10% annually since 2010.
Offshore being sidelined
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FORT WORTH — With running back Michael Alisa questionable for Friday's Armed Forces Bowl against Tulsa due to an ankle injury, BYU could depend heavily on seniors JJ Di Luigi and Bryan Kariya.
How much will Alisa's likely absence impact BYU's ground game?
"Quite a bit, because Mike has been so effective between the tackles the second half of the season," said coach Bronco Mendenhall. "So it will really be a chance for Josh Quezada and Bryan Kariya to share or split those type of runs that Mike was successful with. Then we'll have J.J. still doing his normal thing."
Di Luigi is No. 11 in career rushing yards at BYU (1,179) and No. 15 in career all-purpose yards (3,035).
"He's just a few yards away from really being one of the most balanced, and prolific producers at BYU," Mendenhall said. "He'll be joining pretty elite company. We still feel like we have good balance, but no question, without Michael we won't be as effective as what we've been in that part."
Di Luigi said he's confident in the Cougars' rushing attack, even without Alisa, who suffered an ankle injury in the regular-season finale at Hawaii.
"I don't think it affects the running game much. The other running backs take more reps now. I think we'll be fine."
LAST PRACTICE: BYU wrapped up its final practice of the season Wednesday afternoon at Burleson Centennial High School outside of Fort Worth. Former BYU wide receiver Margin Hooks, who hails from Texas, attended the practice.
For the seniors, it was their final practice as Cougars.
"It's a little weird, a little surreal right now," Di Luigi said. "I think it will set in after the game. It's a sad time but it's a happy time."
Senior wide receiver McKay Jacobson, who is No. 16 in career receiving yards at BYU with 1,792 yards, will be putting on a Cougar uniform for the last time this weekend.
"He was the first real significant commitment I received as a head coach, in terms of a player that a lot of other people were after," Mendenhall said. "So he holds a special place to me just because of that decision that he made (to go to BYU). He trusted in me and the program early on before we really had a record to show how good we could be."
PUTNAM OUT: Another senior, defensive lineman Matt Putnam, is academically ineligible for Friday's game, Mendenhall said Wednesday.
Putnam has had a history of classroom woes, and he missed the first six games of this season due to academic issues.
"It was a little bit of a surprise," Mendenhall said. "Matt Putnam ended up getting an incomplete in one class. When he got admitted into school, it was late so he worked like crazy. He needed to pass that class or get credit for it to be able to play in the game. So he was short. He's not playing."
Mendenhall added that Putnam broke his finger last week in practice.
FAMILIAR FACE FROM NEW MEXICO: Tulsa's first-year running backs coach, Holman Wiggins, played at New Mexico when Mendenhall was coaching there from 1998-2002.
"Holman Wiggins was a great running back when I was at New Mexico," Mendenhall said. "I think we came in at the same time and he graduated at the same time that I left. It's great to see him in coaching."
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QUOTABLE: "I love bowl games and all that stuff. But it's past Christmas and we're still playing football. That's really exciting for me. I want to hold on to every minute of it because after the bowl game, it's winter conditioning and lifting and running your guts out and that's not fun. But practice is fun."
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- Hoathwaite - Lake Coniston: RomaDome or 22ft Yurt
Whilst we do allow groups.. I would just like to say that if you do want to proceed you should be aware that it is a family site and so do need to respect the tranquillity of those around and adhere to the site rules.. I haven't had a problem but always like to mention it so that everyone is cool with that..
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PERTH, Australia – Commonwealth nations approved changes to the rules of succession to allow first-born daughters to inherit the British throne, Britain's prime minister David Cameron announced Friday.
"We will end the male primogeniture rule so that in future the order of succession should be determined simply by the order of birth," Cameron said after talks with the Commonwealth's 15 other realms at the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting in Perth, Australia.
Pressure to reform the centuries-old law increased following the April wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
Cameron's proposed agreement will also clear the way for an heir to the throne to be able to marry a Roman Catholic and still succeed to the Crown.
"These rules are outdated and need to change," Cameron said at a news conference. "The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man just isn't acceptable any more. Nor does it make any sense that a potential monarch can marry someone of any faith other than Catholic."
"People have been talking about changing [these rules] for some time," he added. "We need to get on and do it."
Cameron indicated that the British parliament would implement the changes after the other realms had formalized their approval.
Cameron's comments came on a day of ceremony and soul-searching at CHOGM.
The queen used her opening statement to endorse the need for reforms which allow the Commonwealth to deal with future challenges.
"I wish heads of government well in agreeing further reforms that respond boldly to the aspirations of today, and that keep the Commonwealth fresh and fit for tomorrow," she said.
"In these deliberations, we should not forget, that this is an association not only of governments but also of peoples -- this is what makes it so relevant in this age of global information and communication," she added.
She made particular reference to the 11-member Commonwealth eminent persons group, which has urged radical reform of the organization, saying she looked forward to hearing the outcome of discussions on the group's recommendations.
Several hundred protesters marched on the Perth Convention Center, where the leaders are gathered.
They included anti-nuclear, refugee rights, environmental and anti-corporate greed movements.


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Mustard Crusted Pork Chops with Apple Salad
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- For salad, in a large bowl toss together arugula, apple, celery, radishes, and pecans; cover and chill. For dressing, in a small bowl whisk together vinegar, oil, honey, and blue cheese. Season with salt and pepper; cover and chill.
- In a small bowl whisk together Dijon-style mustard, whole-grain mustard, mayonnaise, brown sugar, thyme, and the 1/4 teaspoon pepper; set aside.
- For a charcoal or gas grill, place chops on the rack of a covered grill directly over medium heat. Grill for 10 to 12 minutes or until 145 degrees F, turning once halfway through grilling. Transfer chops to a plate and let stand for 5 minutes. Spoon mustard mixture over chops.
- Toss salad with dressing; serve with chops.
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To toast nuts, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spread nuts in a shallow baking pan. Bake for 5 to 10 minutes or until light brown, watching carefully and shaking once or twice.
Nutrition Facts (Mustard Crusted Pork Chops with Apple Salad)
- Per serving:
- 542 kcal ,
- 38 g fat
- (8 g sat. fat ,
- 6 g polyunsaturated fat ,
- 19 g monounsaturated fat ),
- 105 mg chol. ,
- 627 mg sodium ,
- 17 g carb. ,
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Handful of high-profile cases last year drew national attention
By Gabrielle Banks
Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON (AP) — In her early days as a trial lawyer, Lee Rosenthal contemplated what it took to be a great judge.
The Houston Chronicle reports you had to be thoughtful, efficient, compassionate, creative, practical and independent. But above all, she's often said, a judge had to be fair to all.
Decades later she taught a class for judges at Duke University with biographies of the greats — Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. and Judge Learned Hand. Now presiding in Houston as chief judge over one of the busiest federal dockets in the country, she often recalls the judges who heard her cases in the late 1970s through the early 1990s — the outstanding ones and those who were flat-out awful.
"I saw how much good a good judge could do and how much worse a bad judge could make any case," said Rosenthal, 65. "I guess I'm grateful to both."
She brought her experience as a lawyer and 25 years on the federal bench to a series of high-profile cases last year that drew national attention.
Her rulings backed disenfranchised citizens and triggered bitter rebukes from local civic leaders in a Voting Rights Act challenge that upended the Pasadena city elections and in a suit that led to sweeping revisions of the Harris County bail system.
Among the dizzying blur of 621 civil and criminal cases before her last year was the indictment of former U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman and two aides on charges they lied in campaign filings and helped Stockman solicit $1.2 million under false pretenses.
And perhaps as significantly, Rosenthal has also made a mark in American law beyond her seat at the Rusk Street courthouse. She has lectured and taught about the justice system in five countries, sat by invitation on six circuit courts and risen to national prominence helping shape the rules by which courts will function in an increasingly technological society. She is considered a pioneering voice on how judges should handle troves of electronic evidence in the digital age.
Appointed in 1992 to the lifetime seat by Republican President George H.W. Bush, she has strived to be impartial and non-ideological, following the law and the facts where they lead, colleagues said.
Lawyers consistently rate her among the top jurists in the Houston Bar Association's annual poll, which grades judges on courtesy, timeliness, impartiality, decisiveness and knowledge of the law. That assessment carries over to appellate court, where official data shows her rulings are reversed at a significantly lower rate than other trial judges.
One high court jurist, Senior Judge Carolyn Dineen King of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, describes Rosenthal's rulings as "first rate" and "put together like a Swiss watch."
"There's no fat on them and there's also not likely to be any mistakes," she said.
Rosenthal declined Chronicle requests for an interview, but confirmed certain information by email. Details of her legal career and early life emerged in interviews with dozens of judges, former clerks, lawyers, academics, friends and family. Peers in the sprawling Southern District of Texas hit on similar themes, calling her rational, patient and impeccably prepared, with exceptional integrity, extraordinary intellect and boundless energy.
Even her harshest critics do not fault her dedication.
C. Robert Heath, the lawyer for Pasadena in the voting rights case, said the judge was attentive, clear and fair, even though he believes she was wrong in ruling against his client.
"People disagree on the law," he said. "She's a good judge."
Attorney John O'Neill, who defended 15 trial court judges in the bail lawsuit, said she is "a very bright and deeply involved jurist."
But that's where the praise stops.
"I also believe that her opinion in the Houston bail case is the most tragic of my 45-year legal career, causing unnecessary carnage in the entire criminal justice system of Harris County, including chaos and a massive increase in both non-appearance rates and crime," O'Neill said, adding that her 193-page ruling was "exhaustive but deeply at war with both the text of the Constitution and many years of Supreme Court precedent."
The eldest of three children, Lee Hyman was born in Indiana and grew up moving from one college town to the next as her father pursued jobs in academia. Her mother Ferne was a librarian. Holiday and birthday presents were usually books.
The judge's sister, Ann Root, said Lee was a very studious child, reading storybooks to her younger siblings and spending car trips glued to a book.
"Lee loved her books," Root said. "Often she would be sitting in the middle of all the chaos, I'd be playing with my brother and she would have her nose in a book."
At the dinner table, the family discussed literature and world news. Fairness and kindness were essential.
Rosenthal's father had been a Marine sergeant in Hawaii during World War II and was close enough to see pilots' faces as they dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor. Harold Hyman became a historian, specializing in the Civil War and Reconstruction. He told his children the scariest moment of his life was as a demonstrator crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, with Martin Luther King Jr. because he couldn't tell who his enemies were, Root said.
A job offer at Rice University brought the family to Houston for Lee's senior year at Bellaire High School. Her mother took a position at Rice as research librarian, where she worked for 35 years.
A year after moving to Houston, the Hymans left for a Fulbright stint in Japan and Lee, who graduated at 16, set off for the University of Chicago. She earned her bachelor's in philosophy and a law degree at the university.
She landed a coveted spot after graduation as a clerk for Chief Judge John R. Brown on the Fifth Circuit, who was known for trailblazing rulings during the civil rights era. Brown's willingness to risk vilification or harm in order to do what he believed was right resonated deeply with her. She has said she learned it was vital to be correct on the law and at the same time sensitive to the practical impact of a ruling.
Bill Barnett, a partner at Baker Botts where she landed next, recalled being surprised at the caliber of her work for someone right out of law school. Her analysis and writing were sharp and she was well-prepared, he said.
She tried civil cases and did appellate work for corporate clients in state and federal court. She made partner in 1985 and put her name in for judge in 1991.
By the time she took her oath as a federal judge, she and her husband, Gary Rosenthal, also a lawyer who is now a partner for a private equity firm, had four young daughters. The eldest now lives in Brookwood, a community for adults with functional disabilities that has been a hub for volunteerism among her extended family. The judge's next child served two tours in Afghanistan as an Army intelligence officer with the 82nd Airborne and now attends medical school. As for her twin daughters, one is in Denver working for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as AIPAC, and the other is in Boston working on a graduate degree in art history.
In 25 years of donning a black robe, Rosenthal has heard a broad range of criminal and civil matters of varying complexity and backed out of a few along the way. She was assigned 45 cases involving claims against Enron, but recused herself in 2002 because she had once owned stock in the company. She presided over the murder-for-hire trial of Robert Angleton, a River Oaks bookie acquitted in his wife's slaying.
In 2006, she ruled against the city of Houston and Harris County in an Americans With Disabilities Act lawsuit, ordering them to install sidewalk ramps at 34 intersections in Montrose that had been repaved in a transit project.
After the circuit court overturned another judge's sentence, Rosenthal presided over the resentencing of Tyrone Williams, a truck driver involved a smuggling attempt that resulted in the deaths of 19 immigrants. He got 34 years in prison.
And in one of her most cited opinions, Rimkus v. Cammarata, Rosenthal laid a framework for courts to deal with spoliation — the destruction of evidence — in the digital era. She ruled that a person shouldn't be sanctioned for negligently losing data, saying that lawyers had to prove that data were lost or destroyed in bad faith.
In the Harris County bail case, her ruling resulted from a class action by indigent defendants who were held for days on minor charges, including a young mother who couldn't post $2,500 after an arrest for driving with a suspended license. The case created a rift among county officials, with one judge, the sheriff, the district attorney and a county commissioner publicly siding with the indigent defendants.
But the majority on Commissioners Court opposed the suit and spent more than $5 million fighting it. Their lawyers argued the county had reformed its bail protocol and the judges should maintain discretion to set bail rates.
Rosenthal reviewed videos of thousands of bail hearings, and ultimately concluded that the "wealth-based" system discriminated against poor defendants. Harris County's appeal to the 5th Circuit is pending.
In the voting rights case, Rosenthal ruled that Pasadena discriminated against Latinos when it changed the way it elected city council members. After reviewing reams of election data, she found that Latino voters, many of whom lived on the poorly maintained north side of town, did not have an equal chance to elect officials who would represent their needs.
As chief judge, Rosenthal is the chief administrative officer of the court, overseeing its operations, the office of the Clerk of Court and serving as the judiciary's liaison to local, state and federal agencies.
Her fellow jurists have high praise.
"She's the judge we all aspire to be and the judge all lawyers aspire to appear in front of," said U.S. District Judge Gray H. Miller, a colleague in Houston.
Another Rusk Street denizen, Magistrate Judge Mary Milloy, noted her voracious appetite for reading and "ardent passion for the law."
"She's like the queen of the nerds when it comes to rules and procedure," she said.
U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison, who appeared before her as a lawyer, noted her fairness.
"You know when you're in Lee's court your client will get an absolutely level playing field — nobody starts with an advantage or a disadvantage," he said.
Beyond the courtroom, Rosenthal has taken on leadership roles in academia and at the prestigious American Law Institute, of Philadelphia, where she helped draft a model penal code on sexual assault. She was tapped by two chief justices of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist and John Roberts, to chair advisory committees that craft and revise rules to help federal courts function fairly and efficiently.
"Lee's years in these committees had a permanent mark on how the federal courts around the United States operate," said David G. Campbell, a district court judge in Arizona who served with her on a civil rules committee.
She has demonstrated some of her most stellar work in this capacity, others said.
Attorney David Beck, who served with her on the standing committee overseeing all the federal court rules committees, recalled watching her mind at work during one distilled moment that showed the judge she's come to be.
About 30 of the greatest legal minds Beck ever worked with — judges, lawyers, academics — were having a very heated debate on a rule of civil procedure.
Rosenthal sat back and took it in. She chimed in once or twice to say something.
Then she sensed it was time for a resolution.
"In a very articulate way she laid out the pros and cons articulated by both sides," he said. "And then she said it seems ... that the reasonable position was X. She just laid it out, and that was what we did. There was no further debate."


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My daughter has shown some interest in playing this "game your addicted to." I just want to be clear about the rules around having multiple accounts as I would probably be using my credit card to pay for both of our accounts and we would probably be playing at overlapping times. Can this be done or would it show up as a violation of existing rules?
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The Eternal City Rules and Policies The Eternal City is a game for mature role-players. Please make an effort to stay in character, even if you are not actively contributing to what is going on around you. Out-of-character (OOC) comments should be kept to a minimum and reserved to whispers. Please avoid out-of-character comments on any public 'channel' or in populated areas where others will hear them. The standard for making OOC comments is to whisper them and enclose them in brackets []. Keep in mind that some characters can hear whispers so even in whispers, please keep OOC comments to a bare minimum. We ask that players keep profanity to a minimum. Although this is a game for mature role-players, gratuitous or excessive profanity detracts from other players' enjoyment of the game. Violations of the game's OOC policies will result in warnings from the staff. After three such warnings per character, the character will no longer have access to the game's THINK command. Gamemasters may disable a character's think command at their discretion, with no warnings. There is also an automated system to monitor the think for certain OOC words or phrases. The Eternal City allows for multiple characters per user. However, we ask that you keep each of the characters as separate as possible. Please don't share equipment or money, and most especially do not share in-character information between your characters. They should be distinct individuals. Any shared equipment or money will be confiscated. Multiple violations of this policy can result in your account being limited to one character. --Multiple Accounts in the same Household-- Only one free account is allowed per household. You may own as many paid accounts as you wish, but only one account at a time (per person) may be logged in at any time. We understand that some households have multiple family members who play, but ONE player should never have more than one account logged in at once. In the case of multiple family members playing from the same household, any information passed between characters on the other accounts MUST be passed via IG means. The sharing of items between characters on accounts held by people in the same household should be kept to a minimum. If any abuses of these rules are found, the household itself may be limited to one account, period. Use of the WHO command to see who is on-line is strictly an Out-Of-Character convenience, and should not be used for any In-Character purposes whatsoever. Iridine is a city of thousands of people and many people crowd the streets at various hours of the day. Doing so to the detriment of other characters or players is considered cheating. Logging out to avoid a conflict or to avoid the consequences of your character's actions (e.g., your character is knocked unconscious during a battle, or your thief character has been spotted and is being chased by constables) is considered out-of-character and cheating. If you are caught doing this it will be up to the Gamemasters' discretion to move your character back in game to allow whatever your character slept to avoid to continue. Please do not abuse bugs that you may find in The Eternal City. Players should use the @report command to notify the staff of bugs as soon as they are discovered. The abuse of bugs is considered cheating and unacceptable. Please abide by the decisions and requests of The Eternal City's staff. If you have an issue with any decision or request made by the staff, please send a note to email@example.com explaining the situation and your position. Under no circumstances will verbal or other abuse of the game's staff be tolerated. Please make an attempt to resolve disagreements or issues constructively. The world of The Eternal City is alive with many Non-Player-Characters who may note and remember your character's actions. Always expect that there will be in-game consequences or results to your character's in-game actions, good or bad. We allow player-versus-player combat and conflict, including 'player-killing' under the following guidelines: 1) There must be a good in-character reason for doing so (if you aren't sure, ask a GM). This means that creating character simply for nuisance purposes, or to go on killing sprees is NOT allowed. 2) Attacking, stealing from, and killing newbies, in all cases, is not allowed. If you aren't sure if a character is a newbie or not, don't attack. The only exception to this is a constable subduing a newbie for a lawful arrest. Scripting while away from the keyboard is not allowed. You must be at your keyboard at all times that your character is logged into the game. The staff will, at times, change the text for certain situations if someone is suspected of using triggers. You should be able to respond to evolving circumstances around your character. Scripters will get one warning before the character in question is removed from their account. The use of any MUD clients other than the ones provided to you by the official web site is strictly forbidden. Names, plots, and descriptions of characters or places in The Eternal City are copyright and property of Skotos Tech and may not be used by anyone without the express written consent. Submission policy: All player submissions (including, but not limited to, stories, descriptions, plot ideas, graphics, maps) become the sole property of Skotos Tech. Intolerance of others due to sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, physical appearance, birth defects, etc. will NOT be tolerated. If anyone is found guilty of harassing another player because of any of the above reasons, their account will immediately be closed. Hate speech, in any form, will NOT be tolerated. Bullying (outside of in character interactions) will NOT be tolerated. The above rules and policies are enforced in conjunction with Skotos Tech's ToS. Multiple violations of any of these policies can result in suspension of your account..
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This is a make-it-yourself planisphere designed to show where Kepler is pointing. Learners can use it to locate exoplanets around stars in the night sky. It comes with two wheels: one with coordinate grid for plotting additional exoplanet stars and... (View More) one without grid that is easier to read; and two holders for varying latitudes (one for 30°-50° and one for 50°-70°). The product is updated approximately annually to incorporate improvements and any newly discovered planets orbiting naked eye stars. (View Less)
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The Golden Age of wrestling, the 80's saw the rise of modern styled professional wrestling. In this the third sourcebook for The Squared Circle Wrestling RPG we take a look at this pivotal moment in wrestling history. Global Assault Wrestling is the company that rose to prominence in the 80's and is one of the biggest wrestling
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