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Members' Newsletter - June 2006
Free Half-Day Workshops
26 September - Internal Selling Experiences
Conference on 09-10 November "How to Improve Education Marketing"
Recent Articles
from the Education and Training Press:
Reviews and Current Trends
Manager/Director Development
Selling and Marketing
Learning Media
Case Studies and Reports
Measuring Education Value
Processes/Managing Costs/Outsourcing
Training Professional
Education Administration
Gap/Technical Certification
And, Finally.....
Feedback, please!
Welcome to the sixth CEdMA-Europe Members' Monthly Newsletter
of 2006,
which will be sent out at the end of June to CEdMA Europe
members and to European colleagues of CEdMA USA members.
As usual, you will learn about updates to our
forthcoming programme of events (see
below), and there is
the collection of recent
articles whose content is consistent with the important topics
that you our members voted to cover in our recent Conferences.
The News section contains not only articles with the whole
month's news but also individually dated press releases.
In Reviews and Current Trends, we have articles on how more
spending has risen to more scrutiny in training and development, a
comparison of employment in France and India, convergence of the
web and work, how to get e-Learning acceptable across cultures,
and a very interesting use of the new "Google Trends".
The Training Manager/Director Development articles follow
the usual theme of providing useful support to you, so
among other things there are articles on selecting instructional
designers, learning strategy mater plan, employer branding for
recruiting, opportunities to move into consulting, ethics,
competencies for the successful training manager and providing
learning for technical leaders.
Selling and Marketing Education has only one article but
it's the important area of making managers "media-safe".
As usual, the
Learning Media articles are many and varied, and include a
podcasting legal guide, a link to interviews with executives of
all the LMS players, simulation and games, collaboration tools,
blended learning and a very interesting look at e-Learning in 2012
(for example, did you know that all but one of the technologies
currently in use were available in 2000?).
Case Studies and
Projects has descriptions of projects from seven different
Measuring Education Value
has three articles about how and when to collect the right data
followed by a discussion of how and why your should benchmark your
learning organisation.
Processes/Managing Costs/Outsourcing, there are five articles
describing various aspects of training outsourcing followed by a
discussion of the recent acquisition of Intellinex by ACS.
There are several
articles in Training Professional Topics (note the new
title to reflect that the contents are much wider than
"Instructor"), covering presentations, time traps, desktop
publishing, printing, content from outside providers and the seven
habits of truly unique trainers.
In Skills Gap/Technical Certification
there are descriptions of certification evolution, non-technical
skills for IT professionals and the programs at Cisco and Hitachi
Data Systems.
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2006 Free Half-Day Workshops
Workshop on 26 September - Internal Selling Experiences
The autumn CEdMA Europe half-day Workshop
will take place on 26 September 2006 1330-1700 UK time at
The speakers are Simon Maskrey, Jasmine
Huxtable-Wright and Neil Gregory who will not only describe
their own experiences (good and not so good!) in getting other
parts of the business to sell education services, but also
facilitate the discussion from the floor on other attendees'
efforts in this area.
Synopsis: The topics covered will be:
1330 Introduction - Mike
1345 Experiences from Sun Microsystems, Red Hat and Business
1515 Break
1545 Open Discussion with other contributions from the floor
1645 Summary
1700 Close
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printable agenda.
Please let
know if you or any of your colleagues will be
attending, so that we can make sure we have enough seats,
coffee, biscuits, and so on.
We shall send out joining instructions around
Friday 15 September 2006.
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Conference on
09-10 Nov - How to improve education
While the date is set
and the theme is set, location and agenda are yet to
be agreed, BUT please make the date in your diary NOW.
Please note that
the date has been changed to a week earlier.
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Articles from the Education and Training Press
E-Learning Market Briefing from Kineo (Jun 06)
Typically the dog days of summer are associated with a dog of a
sales pipeline for e-learning companies. This summer is shaping up
very differently. An unusually high degree of contract awards is
underway, and avid market watcher Steve Rayson has taken his eye off
the football (World Cup Soccer) for just long enough to bring you
the edited highlights in this months market update.
©2006 Kineo
Industry News from IT Skills Research (Jun 06)
IT Training Press Releases (Jun 06)
US Market Will Increase 40 Percent for Workforce Performance
Management (May 19)
Avilar Customer careLearning Surpasses 1 Million Course
RegistrationS (Jun 1)
Hatsize Announces TrueLab Interoperability with Interwise Connect
v7.0 (Jun 1)
Vantage Learning Posts Highest-Ever Transaction Volume in a Month
(Jun 2)
Security Finance Renews Partnership with Learn.com (Jun 2)
Previsor Acquires Brainbench (Jun 2)
Accenture to Help Unilever Transform HR Operations (Jun 6)
Instructional Design - Neil Lasher reveals the secrets of success
(Jun 7)
LearnKey Selected by Fiji Institute of Technology and Fiji Rugby
Union (Jun 7)
Horizon Wimba Announces Partnership with ANGEL Learning (Jun 9)
Trivantis Forms Relationship with Federal Government (Jun 9)
HRsmart Launches Latest Version of Its Learning Management Solution
(Jun 9)
NARA Selects The Learn.com LearnCenter (Jun 9)
Survey - Business Return on Rewards Investment Hard to Determine
(Jun 13)
Thomson Prometric Announces Agreement with UIMM (Jun 14)
Plateau Systems Unveils Plateau OnDemand (Jun 14)
British Organizations Target Grey Workers (Jun 14)
Australia's Tabcorp Takes a Chance with SumTotal (Jun 16)
Isuzu Re-Signs With Raytheon for Outsourced Learning Services (Jun
Raytheon Delivers Managed Learning Services for Pfizer (Jun 19)
Zaxby's Selects Meridian KSI as LMS Partner (Jun 19)
GeoLearning and GoLearn Renew Contract (Jun 19)
Columbian Chemicals Company Selects Websofts KnowledgeBridge (Jun
RWD Technologies Launches ePost (Jun 19)
Microsoft Certified Architect goes live (Jun 20)
Novell offers portable training for SUSE Linux Enterprise (Jun 23)
Chalk Releases chalkboard LCMS v.3.9 (Jun 23)
SumTotal Partners with HP to Deploy LMS in China (Jun 23)
Learn.com Releases LearnCenter v9.3 (Jun 23)
Bersin & Associates Announces Partnership with GoLearn (Jun 23)
Study - Accenture Releases High-Performance Workforce Research
(Jun 26)
Foote Partners Launches New IT Workforce Advisory (Jun 26)
Top 20 Companies in the Training Outsourcing Industry in 2006 (Jun
Reviews and Current Trends
The State of Training and Development: More Spending, More Scrutiny
(May 06)
As investment
in training continues to rise, with resources migrating away from
in-house programs, employers are demanding better accounting to
ensure that their development dollars go toward furthering strategic
goals and bolstering the bottom line. Technology and global
competition, the two driving forces of economic change in todays
business world, havent bypassed the once-staid world of training
and development.
©2006 Workforce
Management, May 2006
Lessons in Employment: A Tale of Two Countries (Jun 06)
What makes a countrys workforce employable, and what doesnt? To
figure this out, we should consider the cases of two nations who
have been in the news a good deal lately for events that ultimately
boil down to employment (or lack thereof).
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Work and the Web are Converging (Jun 06)
Trends often emerge in California before jumping to the
East Coast and spreading to the rest of the United States . Surfing,
Jacuzzis, skateboarding, designer pizza, varietal wines, organic
produce, and the Whole Earth Catalog are a few examples. Now add to
that list blogs, mash-ups, and innovation on the web.
Learning Circuits,
Cultural Adaptation - necessity for global e-learning (Jun 06)
eLearning seems
the perfect answer to todays business needs, especially for large
global businesses who have to train and retrain people constantly
across national boundaries. The technology is there and so is the
knowledge. But its not working well. Although most countries are
increasing their use of e-learning, growing evidence shows that the
learners are not happy.
LiNE Zine
E-learning trends according to Google (Jun 06)
the new Google Trends, you can start doing your own research.
Corporate Learning Trends You Can Use (Jun 06)
On the surface, trends
and business are a perfect fit. But if the content isn't relevant,
corporate learning trends can mislead businesses. Trends are
notoriously fickle, but the Corporate University Xchange has come up
with several corporate learning trends using best practice
information gleaned from research and requests from their clients
that bear consideration.
CLO Executive
©2006 Media Tec
Manager/Director Development
Selecting an Instructional Designer (Jan - May 06)
If you are looking for
an easy way to identify quality instructional designers from a stack
of resumes quickly, you are in luck. This four-part series of
articles describe little-known attributes squirreled away in those
resumes that recruiters and training managers can use to find the
diamonds in the rough. First, there's the
Challenges, then the
Importance, then the
Quality Point Checklist, and finally the
Shortlist Pitfalls.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Learning Strategy Master Plan (Feb-Jun 06)
elusive search for the holy grail of learning and development has
always been the creation of a learning organisation. So how do
organisations get there?
consultants have seen all the successful learning strategies in
practice. Following the ASTD framework, here are four briefings on
Efficiency and
Sustainability (this last one just added).
©2006 Kineo
Building an Employer Brand through Investments in Learning (Jun 06)
the talent pool dries up for many organisations, it becomes even
more important to build a strong employer brand that will get the
attention of future recruits.
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Semantics (Jun 06)
Let learning remain
learning. Don't call it Learning 2.0, or worse yet, "Next Learning".
You probably don't want the title CL2.0.
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Are You a Strong or Weak Leadership Link? (Jun 06)
Don't allow yourself to become the victim of an organisational
culture that does not recognise the contributions of the CLO and the
learning and development function.
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Implementing Learning-How-to-Learn Strategies (Jun 06)
How can a learning organization facilitate learning? Perhaps the
answer is as simple as returning to the fundamentals of education,
which focus the learner on the "how" of learning.
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Misinformation Management: Measuring Workforce Knowledge (Jun 06)
Regardless of industry, the objective of education is to support the
business operation. However, as businesses grow, many organizations
track training milestones without tracking direct improvements to
the business.
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
From CLO to Consultant: New Career Opportunities (Jun 06)
Many CLOs and other learning professionals who become fed up with
the bureaucracies of the corporate environment pursue independent
consulting. However, building a successful consulting practice is
not as easy as it looks.
Ethics Training and Axiology (Jun 06)
Now that two
bigwigs have been convicted in the Enron scandal, a landslide of
corporate ethics programs will probably follow, and thats not a bad
thing. Yet, ethics is not always easy to teach, because it
essentially deals with an individuals right and wrong actions.
Circumstances and corresponding responses and behaviors can be
subjective and might depend on many factors including an
individuals upbringing, personal value system and life experiences.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Social-Network Analysis: Is It the Next Big Thing? (Jun 06)
There is a growing recognition that what makes employees successful
at work is their personal expertise combined with their networks of
professionals inside and outside the organisation.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Retaining Career Moms - The Implementation of Telework Programs (Jun
Juggling a full-time
job, family obligations as well as the everyday responsibilities of
parenting can be demanding for working mothers, especially during
the summer while their children are out of school. In fact,
according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey of more than 600
women employed full-time with children under the age of 18 living at
home, one in four working moms report that they are dissatisfied
with their work-life balance and are actively seeking jobs that will
provide them with more flexibility. Furthermore, the survey found
that 52 percent of respondents said they are willing to take a pay
cut to spend time with their children. Considering that career moms
make up a substantial proportion of the U.S. labor force, many
organizations are embracing telework as a means to stay competitive
in today's expanding global economy, attract and retain top talent
and boost employee performance.
Performance Solutions,
©2006 Media Tec
Putting the Real World into IT Training (Jun 06)
did you get into training? If it was to train, then you cant go
wrong. But if it was to help people learn, change and achieve new
results then you
ought to be
aware of a problem a problem that can be conversely viewed as an
opportunity for you to get ahead of the competition.
©2006 The Fourth
Global Development (Jun 06)
do multinationals ensure that effective training for staff across
the world also meets local needs?
Learning and Development,
©2006 Human
How to Make Technical Training Stick (Jun 06)
The number of
subjects that an employee can be trained on is virtually limitless,
but some subjects offer more training challenges than others. The
exact and dry nature of technical training, for instance, offers
trainers a real challenge: How do you make information thats not
inherently sexy or exciting stick? Offering trainees entertaining,
focused content interspersed with frequent breaks can help employees
retain technical information.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Competencies for the Successful Training Manager (Jun 06)
What makes a good
training manager? The answer could vary considerably from industry
to industry and from academic organization to corporate company. But
professionalism, the ability to establish a rapport with a diverse
training audience and a high tolerance for ambiguity and change are
competencies likely to increase effectiveness across the board.
Providing Learning for New Technical Leaders Challenging (Jun 06)
It's probably not
surprising that when developing learning interventions to help
technical professionals transition into new positions as leaders,
much of the development focus is in the soft-skill arena. According
to Mary Ann Masarech, director of Employee Alignment Strategies,
BlessingWhite, Inc., that's exactly the case.
CLO Executive
©2006 Media Tec
Selling and Marketing
Media Matters (May 06)
Whats on the record? When it comes to media relations, make sure
managers know the rules of the game.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Learning Media
Podcasting Legal Guide - Rules for the Revolution (Mar 06)
The purpose of this Guide is to
provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues
specific to podcasting.
©2006 Creative Commons
Interviews with LMS Executives (Apr 06)
Elliott Masie is
pleased to present 18 interviews with the Senior Executives of
Learning Management Systems companies. These 20 minute audio
interviews with leading LMS and LCMS companies were conducted during
the LMS User Group on 6-7 April. PDF versions are also given.
©2006 Creative Commons
An Instructional Designer Looks at Digital Game-Based Learning
(May 06)
The potential of digital game-based learning remains largely
unrealized, in part because designers of "edutainment" games have
never understood how and why games are effective and how to align
curriculum with the game world without "sucking the fun out" of the
games (according to Marc Prensky). This has led some to believe that
educators and instructional designers should never be allowed near a
game. The failures of the edutainment industry largely result from
poorly understood theory and a lack of alignment between the worlds
of education and games. Games succeed precisely because they employ
sound pedagogical approaches such as situated cognition, cognitive
disequilibrium, and scaffolding to teach what is needed to succeed
in the game. By examining the underlying principles of games and
aligning them with educational theory and learning outcomes, it IS
possible to create effective blended game-based learning.
Instructional design is ideally positioned to guide this process.
This presentation provides an overview of some of the theories that
underlie games AND effective learning and explains how to align
these two worlds.
Richard Van Eck
Simulation - Even Better Than the Real Thing? (Jun 06)
Virtual training can net your organization real-life, tangible
results. Is there a simulation format thats compatible with your
training goals? And how do you know what you need?
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
So Happy Together (May 06)
Collaboration tools unite the right people with the right
technologies. But do you know what you need?
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Virtual Collaboration: Engaging Learning Through Technology (Jun 06)
Virtual collaboration, which uses technology to bring people
together, can help people achieve their goals. Learning and
development leaders should use virtual collaboration to help people
learn, practice and apply new knowledge and skills.
Not Without Purpose (Jun 06)
Studies find that workers get 80 percent of their job know-how
informally. The choice is whether they do it well or do it poorly.
T+D Magazine,
Blended Learning Opportunities (Jun 06)
Blended Learning Opportunities by noted experts on blended learning,
Dr. Allison Rossett and her colleague Rebecca Vaughn Frazee,
explores the common components of blended learning and how
organizations are preparing to best use this new learning method.
American Management Association
Use Blended Learning to Produce Better Business Performance (Jun 06)
I hear and I
forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Even thousands
of years ago, Chinese philosopher Confucius understood something
about the learning capabilities of the human mind. Times and
training methods have changed since Confucius day. Reading chapters
from a textbook or participating in online activities have become
the most popular and common ways to train. Although these types of
learning can cover the basics, they do not always have the ability
to delve into content in-depth or cover real-world situations.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
E-Learning in 2012 (Jun 06)
Kineos Mark Harrison recently presented his vision of e-learning in
2012 to a rapt audience at an e-learning network event. Guess what?
The future is already here. Mark points out that back in 2000,
nearly all of the technologies and breakthroughs that are core to
e-learning today were already available. The trick is, can you find
them? Will you make it into the informal learning wonderland or be
stuck in a hall of mirrors? This Macromedia Breeze presentation is
16 minutes long. And you don't need to look at it all in one go, as
Breeze has a skip forward and back option in its standard
navigation, so you don't have listen to every screen. Just go back
and forward to the bits that take your fancy even if the audio is
playing. Ideal if you want a second view.
©2006 Kineo
Case Studies and Projects
The American Way (May 06)
In the new feature Safety First, Training looks at how
companies ensure safety through training. This month, American
Airlines takes us through its emergency procedures.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Assessment Tool Helps Hospital Conquer Challenges (Jun 06)
CPP's personality indicator improves employee satisfaction and
T+D Magazine,
Prudential Financial: Growing Money and Learning Efficiency (Jun 06)
The Prudential Financial slogan
"Growing and Protecting your Wealth" parallels the company's stance
on learning.
Keeping Ahead of the Competition (Jun 06)
In 2005, WestNet
streamlined its process to develop and publish learning products by
creating a single source of content.
T+D Magazine,
Chelsea at cutting edge of e-Learning (Jun 06)
Chelsea is the UK's sixth largest building society, headquartered in
Cheltenham with a 34-strong branch network principally located in
southern England and a workforce approaching 1000 employees.
E-learning has been an integral part of Chelsea's training and
development portfolio for the past six years and is fundamental to
business success according to Jeff Farish, head of staff
development. ©2006 The Training Foundation
Training the Extended Enterprise (Jun 06)
Learn how NCR, recognized as one of the nations leading learning
organizations, has leveraged shared services and technologies,
transitioned to online learning, and adapted a single LMS to meet
diverse learner and business needs.
©2006 Bersin & Associates
Case Study: Autodesk Bolsters Its Channel Partner
Training (Jun 06)
To improve the performance of its channel partners,
Autodesk Inc. built a Web-based support tool and tapped Intrepid
Learning Solutions to provide content and training expertise.
Measuring Education Value
Curricula and Evaluation: Maximizing Results (Jun 06)
Without the synergy of curricula and evaluation, true strategic
learning organizations are falling short of expected results.
T+D Magazine,
Techniques and Best Practices for Measuring Training Effectiveness
(Jun 06)
If you want to quantify the
business benefit of training,
you must collect quantitative data upfront.
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Evaluating the Evaluation of Training (Jun 06)
Most trainers are
good at what they do. Their evaluations at the end of a workshop are
consistently high and for good reasons. They typically design solid
and well-paced workshops. They nicely mix lecture and exercises.
Handouts are provided both to illustrate and to use for later
review. Above all, the presenters are experienced and effective.
They are adept at adapting to work with different audiences or group
chemistry. They know how to handle deflective or argumentative
employees. But there is one area even the best-designed courses and
the most-effective trainers cannot overcome: the application of the
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Benchmarking your Learning Organization - How and why (Jun 06)
By comparing your organization to relevant measures, benchmarking
will identify where you are strong, where you are weak, and
specifically where you can focus to improve your operations.
©2006 Bersin & Associates
Six Ways to Close the Outsourcing "Execution Gap" (May 06)
Outsourcing sounds great. But those companies that have taken the
outsourcing plunge have found that reality is more complicated than
theory. . You run into what we call the "execution gap," the
difference between what needs to get done and what actually does get
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Can Do Spirit Invades Training (Jun 06)
Companies worldwide are continuing to discover new benefits of
outsourcing one or more of their training processes.
T+D Magazine,
Multi-Sourcing: Achieving Growth and Agility (Jun 06)
The practice of outsourcing training is following well-established
patterns in other areas, such as payroll, customer service and IT.
So today, the question a business-savvy training executive should
ask is not, "Do we outsource?" but rather, "What should we
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Solving the Offshoring Dilemma (Jun 06)
The debate over the best way to benefit from offshoring corporate
functions continues to rage.
T+D Magazine,
Training Outsourcing: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Jun 06)
Over the years, providing
high-quality training to employees has been somewhat problematic to
many companies. Most large organizations, sooner or later, will need
to outsource the design and development of training programs.
ASTD Links, ©2006
ACS Rocks the Training Outsourcing World with Intellinex Acquisition
(Jun 06)
The recent acquisition
by Affiliated Computer Services of Ernst and Young's Intellinex
Learning Services business will create a welcomed new powerhouse in
the marketplace for human capital and training outsourcing services.
Indeed, it has already created a buzz in the training outsourcing
industry that we haven't heard in quite some time. ©2006
Training Professional
The Lost Art of Presentations (Jun 06)
When speaking, be brief. It makes for a good presentation, and good
presentations drive sales. Its just one lesson in the lost art of
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Top Time Traps and How to Overcome Them (Jun 06)
Many professionals face this common dilemma each day: Too much work
to do and too little time in which to do it. To work more
efficiently, make sure youre not succumbing to the following time
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Overhead Projectors: Training Through Transparencies (Jun 06)
Although the liquid crystal display
(LCD) projector is becoming the presentation-tool of choice,
overhead projectors are still considered one of the most popular
presentation tools in todays marketplace. Like LCD or digital light
processing (DLP) projectors, overhead projectors offer many
advantages while giving presentations, especially the ability to
modify transparencies mid-presentation. With overhead projectors
trainers can highlight important points with a transparency pen,
write on blank acetate film similar to a chalkboard, disclose
information progressively with an opaque cover, modify the sequence
of training material to accommodate audience questions and transfer
virtually any type of content to a transparency. In addition,
transparency materials are relatively inexpensive and easy to
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Design Engaging Training Materials with Desktop Publishing
Software (Jun 06)
The design and accuracy of training
materials is critical for learner buy in, engagement and knowledge
retention. In fact, dull, lifeless training materials can actually
encourage passive learning. Instructional designers use many
different processes and software to design training materials
including: workbooks, newsletters, presentation aides, technical
manuals, etc. Desktop publishing software can help instructional
designers put punch into their training material design. However,
it is critical that they not lose sight of their targeted audience
because overly cluttered, elaborate layouts and fonts can negatively
affect learners as well. Ideally, desktop publishing software should
aid instructional designers in the design processmaking it easy and
fast. Lets look at the capabilities and special features of some of
the top desktop publishing software applications in the marketplace.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Putting Training and Learning on Paper (Jun 06)
organizations need to create and share information in an efficient,
cost-effective and reliable manner for their employees on a regular
basis, and information is passed on in many different waysthrough
instructor-led sessions, e-learning, simulations, blended learning,
etc. For instructor-led sessions, handouts, manuals, books, hard
copies of PowerPoint presentations, transparencies and more are all
needed to support effective learning.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Building Training via Content Providers (Jun 06)
Many factors lead
learning and development organizations to seek out additional
training from content providers. Some of the most common factors
include limited internal resources in terms of cost, IT
infrastructure and the size and proficiency of an organizations
training and development team specifically if an organization
employs instructional designers. In addition, organizations commonly
deploy learning initiatives deemed generic using external providers
because the content is comprehensive and meets the organizational
requirements to increase their employees skills.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Seven Habits of Truly Unique Trainers (Jun 06)
There are many
characteristics that make a good trainer just like being a good
employeethings such as being on time, being prepared, doing your
job, etc. Those things just make a good trainer. If you want to be a
unique trainer, someone who is outstanding, well thought of and
special, then you want to know and practice the seven habits of
truly unique trainers.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Education Administration
articles this month.
Skills Gap/Technical
Certification Evolution: Job-Role Certifications for Your Future
(Jun 06)
Certifications have evolved from vendor-driven programs to
industry- and customer-driven specialties that span across different
technologies, disciplines and vendors. As this evolution continues,
which certifications will fade, which will keep going strong, and
which will be the must-have certs of the future?
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Must-Have Non-Technical Skills for IT Pros (Jun 06)
IT professionals today need more than technology skills to graduate
into managerial roles. It takes a combination of soft skills,
business savvy and project management expertise to move up in the IT
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Cisco: A Wealth of Certification Resources (Jun 06)
The widely respected Cisco career certifications can be a valuable
addition to any network professional's credentials. With more than
700,000 certifications issued to date, Cisco Systems offers a wealth
of resources to support continuing success.
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Hitachi Data Systems Certified Storage Professional 2006 Program
(Jun 06)
In January, Hitachi Data Systems introduced its Certified Storage
Professional 2006 Program. The program is designed to validate the
skills and knowledge of Hitachi Data Systems partners, customers and
personnel in storage architecture, implementation and administration
of the company's products and technology.
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
And, Finally.....
The notorious American Wild West bank robber Jesse James (1847-82)
was hunted and demonised by the authorities, but was held in high
regard by many ordinary folk. Here's an example of why:
The story goes that Jesse James and his gang had taken refuge for a
few days in ramshackle farmhouse after one of their raids. The old
widow who lived there fed the men, and apologised for her modest
offerings and the poor state of the accommodation. While the gang
laid low, they learned from the widow that she faced eviction from
her landlord and was expecting a visit from his debt collector any
day. Taking pity on the old lady, as they left, the gang gave her
some of the spoils of their robbery to settle her debt - several
hundred dollars, which was a small fortune in those days.
The gang moved on, but only to a nearby copse, where for a couple
more days they watched and waited for the arrival - and departure -
of the debt collector, whom they promptly held up and robbed.
Of course robbing anyone is bad, but if you've got to rob someone...
Feedback, please!
I would really like to get input from you, the readers. Please
give me your feedback and point me towards any article or source
that you think the rest of the membership might enjoy. Thank you.
Mike Dowsey
Development Manager


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Public Art Tours
For a complete interactive map of the Public Art in Walnut Creek, click HERE.
Public Art Audio Tour:
There is now an self-guided audio tour available for Public Art in Walnut Creek, featuring 33 stops about the artwork in the downtown area. Look for the pink and orange Public Art signs around town, located by artworks. Dial the number on the signs to hear about that artwork. You can visit the Public Art Walking Tour web app online.
Public Art Walking Tour:
Bedford Gallery offers one hour docent-led walking tours of Walnut Creek's wonderful downtown public art collection every third Saturday, April through November. Our Docents are trained by public art specialists and can offer information and insight appropriate for all ages.
Time: Tours start at 11 a.m. and meets in front of the Lesher Center for the Arts on the plaza. Wear comfortable shoes & sun screen. Tours are approximately 1 hour.
Adult $5
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Life imitates art?
Recently one of the movie channels that specializes in "classic" movies did an almost constant run of that fantastic film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." While watching it I was struck with an awesome realization. This movie is the perfect, and I mean PERFECT, analogy for modern politics.
First, you have Nurse Ratched. She thinks she knows what's best for the patients. She's so confident in this knowledge that she'll use any means at her disposal to get her wards to do as she wants. Guilt trips, manipulation, or even brute force; it doesn't matter to her because, after all, it's for their own good. So, as should be obvious to any rational being, Nurse Ratched is the representative of the Democrats in this particular film.
Second, there's the star of the film, Randle Patrick McMurphy. He's a firm believer in the most return for the least effort. He wants the patients to think for themselves and not simply do what they're told so he's also a big proponent of individuality and self-expression. And, when it comes down to it, he's not afraid to go to bat for his people regardless of the consequences. Obviously Murph is the Republican stand-in for this flick.
Finally, for those third party people who just got off the short bus I haven't forgotten about you. There's even a guy in this movie to proudly represent you all. There's a scene where Murph is trying to get some of the patients to play a basketball game against the guards. One of the patients, brilliantly played by Danny DeVito, just stands on the court getting in people's way or throwing the ball against the fence cuz he really doesn't know what he's doing. Sounds like a pretty good explanation for the effect the third party candidates have anymore.
So, from here on out, every time you see or hear Hillary just remember that she's really Nurse Ratched's intellectual progeny and you'll be far better equipped to ignore the pointless drivel she spouts.


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Collabo Alert! Wizkid And Swizzbeatz Set To Drop New Song
Its no more news worthy to say talented US producer, Swizz Beatz is a big fan of Wizkid, Its something everyone is familiar with.
Back to memory lane sometimes last year, Swizz, took to Instagram to share the album cover of Wizkid's 2014 album, Ayo (Joy)and captioning it Vibes before posting a video of himself listening to Ojuelegba.
Well, seems that love for one another has soared into another level as Wizkid, some minutes ago to reveal that he just finished working with the talented Swizz on a new song.


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Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Chris' Film Club: Real Steel (2011)
Set in the near future, human boxers have been replaced by fighting robots, and Hugh Jackman plays a former boxer who grows closer to his son through fighting with an old, down and out boxing robot. Evangeline Lilly also stars.
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Throughout March and April ELK was busy conducting a brand audit to collect data from various stakeholders and reassess how we talk about our work with our community. We asked a handful of donors, partners, parents, kids, staff, and board members the question, "What is ELK?" We were interested in hearing how different ELK constituents described us and also in identifying what key words were used in talking about ELK. At the end of the collection period, we compiled all the data and created a list that represented the most utilized words used in the responses.
Going forward, these same ELK stakeholders will conduct a facilitated process to identify which of these words best define our mission, vision, and help us to develop a position statement for future growth! A fun and exciting process indeed. Stay tuned!
Some sample brand audit responses:
"ELK is a non-profit organization that provides learning opportunities for inner city youth of color to experience the wonders of nature which enables them to enjoy and appreciate our great earth. As they mature, they pursue college degrees (frequently in a science-related field) and grow up to be better stewards of our limited resources. The ELK kids also learn about team work, leadership and collaboration as a result of their trips and various activities together. "
"ELK is the bridge between our urban youth and nature! It is the window to self-discovery, exploration, knowledge, service and adventure! And when the window opens, it brings the urban to the wild and the wild to the urban!!!"


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Disney International approached me to executive-produce an original Pre-School series for them called "Get Moving With Mickey and Friends'. The format began with the presenter teaching a group of children a dance routine, before they put all the moves together and joined Mickey Mouse and a special friend for their final dance. Vamonos wrote the scripts, cast the children, art-directed, built the sets, filmed all the episodes and did all the post and delivery, including reversions for five different territories. It was a challenge, but incredible fun!
First Section – learning the moves
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I've been a busy Vamp and haven't had much time to document on my blog which I love to do, but here's some adventures lately...
This Vampire Krispy Kreme doughnut was so yummy! I need more haha V--V
Tea and scones at The Tea Salon Melbourne Emporium, look at that granny floral! Makes my heart swell 💗
I wanted some Granny Apple Pie tea but they were out, so I had the Sweetheart Tea instead!
Train reads!
Snooping at all the lovely granny brooches 😍
Mini golf with fabulous friends on Sunday.
A date night out with my husband 💋 We went to StoryVille in Melbourne, had some yummy cocktails based on Fairy tales, it was great!
Loved the Mushroom decor, in fact that's what lead me there 😍
We had a lovely date night V--V
What I wore ~ Vintage shirt, Bat brooch and Skull necklace.
I've been busy with my Rose making and now have Coffin boxes which will be up on my big Cartel soon!
I LOVE making Roses 💝
and snooping at Hair clients awesome books 😊


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Whilst Lewis Hamilton bagged his 80th Formula One pole position, Sebastian Vettel's ever-fading hopes of being able to fight for the drivers' championship continue to dwindle away after a tactical error in qualifying left the Ferrari driver down in ninth place on the grid.
With Ferrari struggling to overcome Mercedes in straight fight, their attempt at gambling in the tricky wet-dry conditions at Suzuka backfired. Their call for intermediates tyres at the start of Q3 was ill-timed, and it left their drivers rushing to complete a lap on a gradually-worsening track, with the rain eventually falling at the end Q3.
By the time Ferrari had set their first lap times, which were only good enough to put Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel in fourth and ninth, Mercedes had already stormed to a one-two, with Hamilton leading Valtteri Bottas by three tenths of a second.
"The team have done an amazing job this weekend, and the call by the team in Q3 was probably the most difficult call," said Hamilton after qualifying.
"You saw all of us bumbling and trying to figure out what to do. The team were just spot on with it and gave us the opportunity to grab this pole position.
"Whilst it was a bit of an anti-climax, because we didn't get to do the last lap, it was still…it's my 80th, I can't believe that I have 80, and I couldn't have done this without the team."
Max Verstappen also benefited from Ferrari's below-par qualifying to take a place in the top three, a position he will be hoping to hold on to during the race after Red Bull's comparable pace to Ferrari in practice. It was a bittersweet qualifying for Red Bull, however, as Daniel Ricciardo suffered power unit electronics issues in Q2, meaning he'll start from 15th on the grid.
Raikkonen took fourth ahead of Haas' Romain Grosjean, whilst Toro Rosso had a superb qualifying session with the updated Honda power unit, with Brendon Hartley taking his best qualifying result of the season in sixth and Pierre Gasly in seventh.
Qualifying Session One
Despite the top teams easily progressing and not needing to push to their cars to the maximum in order to get through to Q2, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel did a 180-degree spin of his car at the turn eleven hairpin, indicating how much he's pushing in order to compete with Hamilton, who topped Q1.
The session was interrupted with ten minutes to go due to a crash for Marcus Ericsson. The Sauber driver ran wide on the exit of turn six and spun off into the tyre barrier, damaging his Sauber and putting him out of qualifying.
Renault's Nico Hulkenberg had a similar crash in FP3, and his team faced a rush to get his car ready for qualifying. The Renault team succeeded, but he failed to progress into the second part of qualifying, getting edged out by an impressive lap from Williams' Lance Stroll.
Joining Hulkenberg in the drop zone were; Sergey Sirtokin, Fernando Alonso, Stoffel Vandoorne and Marcus Ericsson.
Qualifying Session Two
With Mercedes enjoying a pace advantage in Suzuka, they took up the option to try and progress into Q3 on the soft-compound tyres – the 'middle' choice tyre for this weekend. Ferrari chose the supersofts.
Regardless of Ferrari having the faster tyre, the Mercedes took the top two slots on the timing screen, albeit with Bottas finishing ahead of Hamilton for the first time this weekend.
With Ricciardo unable to get a lap in due to a power unit electronics failure, the Australian was eliminated, providing one of the shocks of qualifying.
Interestingly, both Haas drivers tried to take on Q2 with a set of soft tyres, and their plan looked to initially be partially-working with Romain Grosjean sitting in eighth place and Kevin Magnussen in twelfth after the opening laps.
With the ever-present odd spots of rain gradually intensifying over the course of Q2, drivers were unable to set any faster times in the closing stages of the session.
Getting their laps in just in time, Toro Rosso managed to get both cars into Q3, with Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley in ninth and tenth.
The drivers who weren't given another shot at qualifying due to the weather were Charles Leclerc, Kevin Magnussen, Carlos Sainz, Lance Stroll and Daniel Ricciardo, who was seen screaming in frustration inside his helmet as he walked down the pit lane towards parc fermé.
Qualifying Session Three
Ferrari were the only team to venture out on the intermediate tyres, but they quickly determined that the track conditions were too dry and bailed out for supersoft tyres.
With the Mercedes drivers initially alone in battling it out for pole, it was Hamilton who set the fastest time by going purple in the second and third sectors. Bottas was fastest in the first sector, but ultimately fell three tenths short.
With both Ferrari drivers taking too much of the damp patches at the spoon corner, neither Raikkonen or Vettel set good initial lap times. Raikkonen was fourth behind Verstappen and Vettel was down in ninth.
However, with the drops of rain deciding to intensify once again, no runners were given the chance to improve their time, leaving the Mercedes pair to lock out the front row of the grid unchallenged.
Verstappen remained third ahead of Raikkonen, with Grosjean taking fifth place for Haas and Toro Rosso claiming one of their best qualifying results of the year with Brendon Hartley sixth and Pierre Gasly seventh.
The Force India's of Esteban Ocon and Sergio Perez had perhaps hoped for more, but line up in eighth and tenth, separated by Vettel.
"It wasn't our day for timings, and the snap [mistake] into spoon [corner] didn't help. Yeah, not our qualifying," said Vettel.
"I think we made a step from yesterday, but unfortunately we were not able to confirm that."
JAPANESE GRAND PRIX, Qualifying
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m27.760s
2 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1m28.059s 0.299s
3 Max Verstappen Red Bull/Renault 1m29.057s 1.297s
4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m29.521s 1.761s
5 Romain Grosjean Haas/Ferrari 1m29.761s 2.001s
6 Brendon Hartley Toro Rosso/Honda 1m30.023s 2.263s
7 Pierre Gasly Toro Rosso/Honda 1m30.093s 2.333s
8 Esteban Ocon Force India/Mercedes 1m30.126s 2.366s
9 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m32.192s 4.432s
10 Sergio Perez Force India/Mercedes 1m37.229s 9.469s
11 Charles Leclerc Sauber/Ferrari 1m29.864s
12 Kevin Magnussen Haas/Ferrari 1m30.226s
13 Carlos Sainz Renault 1m30.490s
14 Lance Stroll Williams/Mercedes 1m30.714s
15 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/Renault No time
16 Nico Hulkenberg Renault 1m30.361s
17 Sergey Sirotkin Williams/Mercedes 1m30.372s
18 Fernando Alonso McLaren/Renault 1m30.573s
19 Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren/Renault 1m31.041s
20 Marcus Ericsson Sauber/Ferrari 1m31.213s
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Who's your money on for the Japanese Grand Prix? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
Who is the real Marlboro man at Ferrari (or F1 for that matter)? It's not Arrivo though, is it even John Elkann?
Funny trivia or whatever one would want to call it.
Louis Camilleri, is also named Carey.
Well one can't really demand that team orders and other artificial tricks are not supposed to happen in F1 as long as it's mot prohibited.
What is very anoying is the pretention of fairness and all the hand-wringing going on. They should just do it all the time and be clear about all the shadow-plays. But that would not look good from a marketing perspective of course. So this is what we get. And Toto knows too well that it's better to try to make it as open as possible, just like he introduced the Wing-man concept, and prepared the ground for it.
Still one is permitted some consumer complaints about the state of things.
i celebrated the championship a couple of days ago so this is all expected. roll on austin!
Some-one was wishing that it could rain to mix thing up and increase Seb's chances on Sat quali. The wish was half granted, it rained and Seb worse off then, he would have been. It does not look, he can handle the rain. We can't really blame Ferrari for his 9th position, whereas Kim will start on 4th position. If both drivers avoided the curves, they could have been in 3rd and 4th positions.
If intermediate worked, they could be in 1st and 2nd positions and fans would turned around and blamed MB for choosing the wrong tyres.
Ferrari has officially fallen apart! At one point it looked like they were going to run away with the season! Where did it all go wrong?
What strange irony for RIC. It's hard not to reflect on the Webber/Vettel days and wonder whether this is somehow Marco's revenge for RIC going to Renault? I know – illogical. But is it possible RIC's crew are not as mindful of his car now?
I dont get it, the LHFC,aveli and Toto were saying that the Ferrari is the fastest car this season, this Merc managed championship theory is starting to become obvious.
Jimothy, didn't I try and explain the concept of 'in season development' to you the other week? You should pay more attention….
As an aside, I'm on holiday and was going to get F1 TV pro to watch the race, but I can't because the payment method has to match the location I'm watching in. Good job guys…
F1 pro remains the most idiotic subscription service ever conceived. They're literally throwing millions of potential revenue away.
Can't you buy a burner credit card, then use that?
If I'd planned it in advance maybe; unfortunately I didn't know where to get a Barbados burner credit card at 11 at night 😀
to spice things up, i think the fia should award each driver with the points deficit they suffered to the champion a in the previous season. ie if vettel finished 50 points short of hamilton in 2018, he'd be given 50 points at the start of the 2019 season. we can then sit back and enjoy the chase.
Yep you've definitely hit the land of Pixies🧝♂ and Fairies🧚♀ where the Unicorns let you smoke Mary Jane from their horns 🦄
And Wizard🧙♂ hands out hallucinogenic sodas with happy straws and the sky is pink and fluffy.
Just say no to the Unicorns and ask Dorothy to click her heels and say "There's no place like a Santorum !" 🤣😊
50 point advance next thing you'll want a "Milligan" (free pass) for every bad overtake attempt Vettel messes up.
Thats a Mulligan . Dam autocorrect
So Lewis manages 400 points and next year Sirotkin who scored nothing starts on 400 points (example only nothing against Sirotkin) So Sirotkin can trundle around last every race and probably win the championship. Great Idea, can we have sprinklers with that.
What i want to know is who are the five other people who thought that was a good idea, come on MOD name and shame
Lol aveli you're ridiculous 🙂
Hmm, didn't you recently comment that Seb was going to win every title from 2018-20, to be on 7?
Fernando said he didn't leave a mm out there. I missed those type of comments from him of late.
I thought Seb was good enough to win in that car. He may not even be 6th fastest on the grid.
I was referring to Fernando leaving Ferrari and robbing us all of him in this years Ferrari and going up against Lewis.
hamilton spoke of ferrari's trickery a couple of races ago and they spoke of being gentlemanly while referring to bottas as a butler. they recently threatened anyone exposing their intellectual property to the world while hamilton wondered where all ferrari's pace had all of a sudden disappeared to.
i doubt anyone in the paddock can go against hamilton and come out victorious…
hamilton spoke of ferrari's trickery
No he didn't
He said there are some trick things in that car, eluding to the fact Ferrari had found something in Quali, he made no mention of the legality of the trick items.
Trick and trickery have completely different meanings..
How many naysayers accused Lewis of poor sportsman ship with the trickery comment. Only for the installation of a second sensor corresponding with a sudden drop in performance. Whatever "tricks" they were deploying it's no longer feasible.
First it was a right hook in Germany. Multi combo body blows in Italy. A savage uppercut in Singapore. The opponent is winded, knees are wobbly – time to finish him off Lewis. 😀
Thinking about how the Merc evolved into the fastest car, it seems they started with similar problems to last season with their Diva Mk2 then did a major revision to wheel design and a rethink on set up along with the usual aero evolution.
Now they've finally, after several seasons of having tyre setup as their Achilles Heel, got the tyre management nailed, I suspect the only thing that will stop them next season is a fully developed and reliable Honda engine and some close to the edge Red Bull car design – though I predict that quite a few Newey tricks will be consigned to the FIA naughty step – I think Ferrari and Mercedes have turned a blind eye this year (aside from contemplating the good bits) and the other teams don't have the resources to research the Red Bull tricks.
While nobody knows for sure, it does seem that Ferrari have been caught with an over-enthusiastic interpretation of the MGU-H rules and were less than transparent with the FIA given that the magic power boost evaporated with the additional sensor (which goes against the gentleman's agreement over protests). Ferrari can only hope to equal the Merc engine, will struggle to match the long term design of the Merc and need a major overall of trackside management. Together with Seb not being able to command the team after 2 years of failure we could see Ferrari in 3rd place next year.
the cheats have been exposed!
Wet quali? Well that means Lewis is on pole doesn't it? Seb messed up again?! What are Ferrari going to do about him? It was worth a punt trying the inters, and actually this gave the Ferrari drivers the best conditions, but they both made errors at Spoon and now they're nowhere. Hard to see what Seb can do from ninth tomorrow, wonderful as Suzuka is, it isn't easy to overtake there.
Great job by the Torro Rosso boys, q3 may have been a bit of a lottery, but getting there was a great achievement. Just like old times with Honda pulling out a 'Suzuka special', wonder what Fernando said about it….
What in the World has happened to Vettel?
He's a very good driver but this season he's up against a superior one.
Question. Ocon's grid penalty sets him back to P11. Leclerc progresses from 11th to 10th on the starting grid. Does he lose his free tyre choice because of that, or is his Q2 result decisive? Conversely, does Ocon gain free tyre choice?
No on both counts.
No and yes.
The sporting regs state "at the start of the race each car which qualified for Q3 must be fitted with the tyres with which the driver set his fastest time during Q2".
So Ocon must use what he used in Q2 and Leclerc can choose.
@ctrl-alt-del (and @Andrew M)
No, they have the same restrictions as when they qualified before grid penalties.
Just wait until the next automotive recession and Renault pulls the plug.
There is an "everything recession" coming to the "west" as a whole, as a result of greedy and selfish governments and bankers pouring money into inflating property prices and making them unaffordable, instead of pouring money into tech, manufacturing, science, education and innovation.
The hard times ahead couldn't be less suited to overpriced hybrid tech, so all those who invested heavily in hybrid will suffer massively, including F1. Mark my words.
LukeC is 100% correct about the financial 'melt-down' of the "West". Spring 2019 to be exact.
Indeed. Think the Global Funancial crisis of 2008, only much bigger, more widespread and longer-lasting.
Luke C, Sibelius
You're right about melt down, increased risks indeed for such a thing. But going back in general to fossil fuel etc, will not change nor be much cheaper. Maybe the opposite is true. And I'm talking about the society.
F1 will be in trouble regardeless when/if that happes.
That's why I'm surprised about the shortsighted approach. I can't understand the Merc policy right now. F1 has such a unpredictable if not to say difficult future ahead, and with the races lookin like they do most of the time alrady they are playing high odds game here, playing with fire. Maybe they just want to grab what they can and then withdraw from F1
Renault pulled the pug because they were caught defrauding F1, entire grid, the championships and fans.
Makes me chuckle that people point out how robotic and corporate drivers are lately, feeding us the standard stuff, having little personallity, groomed and trained to be marketing spokespeople telling us what they were told to say and yet the same fans believe the rest of the marketing plan is left to chance, given no thought and not at all steered towards desired outcome.
@Gary – I don't know how many times Renault has "pulled the plug", but the last time was due to the Singapore cheating scandal, rather than anything economy-based.
That said, I did learn this year that Renault are heavily tied in with the desires of the French government, so if there is a historical correlation between automotive recessions, or just recessions, and Renault throwing in the F1 towel, France could be in the background, calling those shots.
getting edged out by an impressive lap from Williams' Lance Stroll."
Thanks Editor for this, something to cheer up to my boy, Go Lance! 🙂
I see it this way:
– Ferrari tyre error vs Mercedes perfect tyre;
– Vettel turn 14 error vs Hamilton perfect lap
Mercedes team and driver were just better.
It's also explained because Bottas is P2 and Kimi P4 in qualify…
This season Ferrari and Vettel were good but with errors, and Mercedes and Hamilton were better.
Exactly! It's been that way from the from the start. Mercedes are a juggernaut. Thanks for playing Ferrari. Time to shut this farce down and let the Merc boys enjoy vacation a little early. Again!
The Ferrari comedy show continues; Ferrarain. They surely must have Ombrophobia — or may be Bernie Ecclestone's 2011 artificial wet track idea is responsible…LOL!
Poor RIC, hope next year is going to be less frustrating but his face was weary…
I haven't seen him smile in a very long time! But, again what's to smile about?
He's a victim of timing. Talented driver, but arrived in the era of Hamilton & Verstappen plus Merc dominance. He doesn't seem to have that extra tenth or two, certainly in qualifying. Give him a Merc or Ferrari and he'd probably find it and be in the mix, but timing means he did not find a seat at a top team table.
I fear sadly he'll drift around in midfield for a couple of seasons then fade off to Formula E or such like.
Hope I'm wrong.
Game over. Ferrari did another strategic mistake. They finally reverted to the pre Monza package and car started working again, in normal condition they were .3 slower from superHam
Kimi did a better job than Sebastian. Same conditions and caught out at the same corner but kept it on the island and did a half decent lap. Has to be his best chance for a win this season now so I hope he gets a demon start!
Strategy usually worked ok on Seb's weekends. Now they dont.
Something has changed….
they complained about their intellectual property, that's what's changed.
Maybe it's all the sensors on the Ferrari cars that are making them slow. The weight must be a hefty load:))
Chris, good gag, but something fishy going on with those sensors…..
Ham is Spot on. Why there has not been more complaints about one stop year is strange. It's part of the procession races we'we had
What I've not grasped is why a tyre engineer is unable to produce a tyre that can be driven hard and returns performance but degrades, or can be driven gently and lasts without being so sensitive to simply becoming unusable.
F1 should have tyres you can either thrash around for a 3 stopper 3 or 4 seconds a lap faster than a 1 stopper. This season the performance tyres have been fragile but have not delivered the speed advantage.
2 stops should have been the design goal and the ultrasounds should have been reliably fast but only good for 15 laps or so. Instead they are often only fast for a handful of laps and then grain so are no better than the harder compounds in terms of real race performance.
If Perelli aren't up to the job of engineering degredation then they should engineer some super fast tyres that don't degrade and there is then a rule to specify the maximum number of laps they are allowed to be used for.
Take away forcing to use multiple compounds, and if every tyre had a maximum specified laps you could probably get different setups suiting different tyre combinations and bring back 3 stop dashes vs 1 stop tip toes around.
Arivo comment:
"It is true that we are a young team, and we are probably missing an 'old hand', an experienced person capable of reading situations correctly and quickly."
That guy is now leaving with a smile on his face, they should have left the decicion making to Kimi


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There's a reason why Rafa has been so successful in football management – the profession he seems to have been made for – and that he is extremely ambitious and single-minded in reaching his goals.
And as manager of a big club like Newcastle United, who have been a sleeping giant for far too long, he seems at home with a City and a set of fans who share his passion for the game.
Newcastle has always been a football mad City with the emphasis on mad.
Rafa Benitez celebrates with player after 2-1 win
For the first time this season we saw an angry and frustrated Benitez of the touch-line as he kept berating the referee and Lee Probert – who was unlucky to have been appointed as the 4th official for the match – and Lee got an earful from the Newcastle manager – and often too.
Robert Madley has never had a good game refereeing Newcastle games and we remember how he awarded the game to Sunderland last season at the Stadium of Light on October 25th, 2016.
He awarded Sunderland a dubious penalty just before half time and sent Coloccini off – an erroneous red card that was later rescinded.
But we had lost 3-0 and lost 3 points due to a bad refereeing mistake from Madley.
Madley gave away another very dodgy penalty against Newcastle on Tuesday night and if referees are going to start giving penalties for what Ciaran Clark did against Glenn Murray then there will be penalties on almost every corner from now on.
It's an area of the game the FA and the referees have to clean up somehow – we see fouls all the time on corners from defenders that go unpunished and one of the most regular is defenders holding other player's shirts and dragging opponents to the ground.
There has to be some consistency from referees on what they do on corners.
But that's what happened and it was yet another penalty for Brighton and they're into double figures for penalties this season when we have had only two.
That seems to be what made Rafa so annoyed at Madley, who is young for a referee at only 31.
So we saw the rare spectacle of Rafa furious on the touchline.
But his football brain was in full swing still and the two substitutions he made late in the game paid off.
Daryl Murphy had three good attempts on goals and probably should have scored with a header from our first corner after he came on.
And Ayoze Perez kept his cool and dispatched a sensational (that's the right word in this case) winner into the net after 89 minutes.
Rafa's behavior on the touch-line showed his massive single-minded obsession this season to have Newcastle promoted and we won the game through Rafa's changes late in the game.
You have to also respect that Rafa took a massive gamble to stay on at Newcastle, because if we are not promoted it will not look good on his resume if he cannot get a famous club like Newcastle promoted.
So Rafa has taken a massive risk in his career – and the fans seem to understand that and this must be a season where Newcastle fans are out doing even themselves.
They are proving that Newcastle United is one of the best supported football clubs in the world and all credit to them for that.
A home attendance of over 51,000 in the second division of England – would you believe it?
What Rafa wants to do – and we hope he gets all the help imaginable from Mike Ashley – is to make Newcastle into one of the best teams in the world.
We are all for that – and that's certainly what Rafa wants to do – you have to aim very high to get any success at all.
Being in the top half of the Premier League as a major goal only leads to relegations.
What is not certain is whether Mike Ashley will do what's necessary to support Rafa in making Newcastle into a top side.
It was a phenomenal win on Tuesday night and we are still celebrating it.
But the game at Huddersfield on Saturday will be an ever bigger test of the lads and of Rafa Benitez.
We hope we can win that one too.
Howay The Lads!!
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One of my new favorite HB decks that I recently made. Roast your opponents with the cold fire of this glacier deck by using tempo cards such as: Jinja City Grid, Lateral Growth, and Replanting to empty your hand as quickly as possible then refill with the clearances. Once you're ready to roast, throw some Bryan Spiceton into the mix to get more bang for your beef.
The deck relies upon tempoing the hand out from HQ with a lot of ICE, thus allowing Bryan Stinson to do his job after all of your ICE are done laying down some seriously taxing punition on the runner. The deck has a lot of economy and, combined with the corp identity, generally has more than enough credits to let you rez all of your ICE as soon as possible for maximum taxing effect. Once plenty of ICE have been set out on the field, you can oftentimes quickly advance a CFC Excavation Contract to make even more money than you spent advancing since all of the ICE are bioroids.
Since all of the ICE are bioroids, it does suffer from a few apparent shortcomings" 1) if the opponent sees that you're advancing something early on and you haven't laid down enough ICE yet, they can sometimes use clicks to dash through your defenses without worrying about subroutines, especially if they do this before any programs are installed and 2) As mentioned before, these ICE are mostly there to tax the runner in order to activate Bryan Stinson, but if the opponent has nothing to take away so to speak, many of the ICE become meaningless, especially the sentries.
Enhanced Login Protocol was chosen for the current simply because runners sometimes can and oftentimes will try to click through all of the subs on some of your ICE. This is mitigated with ELP, as the runner will be much more limited turn-wise. The same can be said for the three Ikawah Projects. The goal of this deck isn't to use Elective Upgrade to insta score small agendas (I just have a copy in there since it is the second best 3-point agenda for this deck), it is more so about playing a game of attrition in which you are always the winner.
As for all of the bioroid ICE, I've mostly done this to synergize with the corp's ability and CFC Excavation Contract, but it is quite possible having all 20 ICE as bioroids is not a sage decision. Furthermore, I tried to construct the deck in such a way that there were roughly the same number of types of ICE for each Barrier, Code Gate, and Sentry, but in this case it might be better to just replace Vikram with another Code Gate or Barrier. The brain damage doesn't have any synergy with any other card in the deck because, like I said earlier, the deck wins by starving the opponent out (of credits), and certainly not by starving them out of cards. All of the other ICE includes are fairly self-explanatory includes.
With regards to other possible versions of the deck, I was considering going down to 7 agendas by taking out two CFC Excavation Contract and the Project Vitruvius to put in two more Elective Upgrades, taking out the Replanting and a copy of Bryan Stinson, then adding one more Jinja City Grid and two copies of An Offer You Can't Refuse. I think the only problem with this idea is that no matter when you play An Offer You Can't Refuse, the runner will simply always not refuse if you're already at 6 Agenda Points, so you'd have to use one before the runner thinks you can win the game soon/when the runner needs the credits to set up resources, programs, etc.
So that is pretty much it. Please post any suggestions you have about changes you think should be made and I might just playtest them later. Thanks for all the feedback and happy roasting :)
*Recently made changes:
Replaced Vikram 1.0 with a Seidr Adaptive Barrier for synergy with Jinja City Grid.
Replaced Elective Upgrade with a copy of Voting Machine Initiative to further inhibit the runner from making money/using clicks to break subs.
Replaced Replanting with a copy of Celebrity Gift since I was not having any problems dumping my hand, and credits are always useful in the deck.
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Willie Mullins planning late Power play with unbeaten Annie
Ireland's champion Jump trainer Willie Mullins has insisted that he will leave a decision on which race his uneaten mare Annie Power tackles at the Cheltenham Festival until the "last minute".
The six-year-old holds three entries at the Festival – the Champion Hurdle, World Hurdle and Mares Hurdle – and Mullins is keeping all options open.
However, with stable companion Quevega going for a sixth consecutive win in the Mares' Hurdle, for which she is 8/11 with Coral, it looks a toss-up between the other two.
The County Carlow handler said: "Annie Power is in good form and I'm just preparing her for Cheltenham like all the other horses. It will be at the last minute when we decide who goes where.
We have to consider things like whether she's ever met a real Champion Hurdle horse and the fact that she has done well every time we have done a longer trip.
"She was highly strung when with Jim Bolger but has settled down now. She seems to have taken her travelling over to England well and I hope it hasn't taken a lot out of her.
"We have to look at what else is in the races and hope everything falls into place at the last minute. At the moment, there are four or five who will be hard to beat in the Champion Hurdle, one or two in the World Hurdle and one in the Mares' Hurdle."
Annie power is currently 9/1 with Coral for the Champion Hurdle and 5/2 for the World Hurdle
Hurricane Fly, who is 3/1 joint-favourite with Coral to successfully retain his crown in the Champion Hurdle, is reported to be bang on target for the 2m showpiece on the opening day which he is bidding to win for the third time.
"Hurricane Fly came in very strong after a summer at grass and you don't expect a horse to improve at his age (10)," said Mullins. "I'd like him to win again at Cheltenham for the horse's sake, he deserves it. He missed two Cheltenhams and then wasn't right the year he got beaten.
"This fellow has great fight and aggression, they are the qualities that make him stand out.
Mullins, who is likely to field over 40 runners over the Festival's four days, could also be represented in the Champion Hurdle by the unbeaten Un De Sceaux who is an industry best price of 18/1 with Coral.
"Un De Sceaux looks well but going over two miles on that ground at that pace at Gowran at the weekend could have taken a lot out of him. He's a young talent that I don't want to abuse. He's done everything we've asked but we've found races for him where he could show his talents without coming under pressure.
He's not run in a Grade One and Saturday's race was really only a Grade Two in name. It could be difficult to throw him in the Champion Hurdle but we'll see how things play out in the next three weeks. He looks like a huge talent.
"I haven't looked at the opposition too much, I haven't really seen the English trials – I just concentrate on getting mine there.
"The decision on Annie Power will be very late. I'm looking at her and Un De Sceaux as the future and Hurricane Fly is the present."
Mullins also has an outstanding bunch of novice hurdlers and he is set to field three strong contenders in the opening Supreme Novices' Hurdle on Tuesday, March 11 while Faugheen is on course for the Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle on Wednesday, March 12.
"Vautour, Wicklow Brave and Valseur Lido are the three for the Supreme Novices'.
Vautour's jumping is very good, which is the key to the Supreme. He's different from last year's winner Champagne Fever, who is a lean racing machine.
Vautour is more of a strong three-mile chaser. He was not as visually impressive as he might have been last time but Champagne Fever disappointed last year on his run before Cheltenham.
Valseur Lido is fine and I think Wicklow Brave could really improve on the ground at Cheltenham. He definitely has the ability but his jumping is the thing that could let him down.
"With Faugheen we are looking at the Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle at the moment.
But he could run in any three of the novice races, with the amount of ability he has.
He had three runs (this season) and I didn't feel the need to run him again.
I've actually been a little disappointed with him recently but changed his feed routine last night so hopefully that will help him.
He's fit and ready to run, he won't need a lot more work."
Coral make Vautour their 11/4 favoruite for the Supreme, while Faugheen also heads the market for the Neptune at 3/1.
Mullins' novice chase team includes Champagne Fever, who is being aimed at the Arkle Chase on Tuesday, March 11, for which he is the 7/2 favourite with Coral.
"Champagne Fever is heading to the Arkle at the moment but I could still change my mind. I think he'll be back on his A-game this year.
To make a mistake jumping is not like him and his style of jumping is the reason we are going for the Arkle.
The Gold Cup in the future is where we are aiming with him and Ruby (Walsh) has the same objective.
It would be nice if he was the first Weatherbys Champion Bumper winner to win the Gold Cup.
"Ballycasey looks a staying sort. Someone wrote that he doesn't get three miles but if you look back there were reasons that he was beaten when trying that trip.
He's bred to be a three-mile chaser and, after his Leopardstown win, he is likely to go for the RSA Chase (Wednesday, March 12), although he is in the four-miler.
"The ground is the key to Felix Yonger and the JLT Novices' Chase (Thursday, March 13) looks the target for him."
Mullins' four-year-old hurdlers include Ivan Grozny and Gitane Du Berlais, who were both left in the Triumph Hurdle (Friday, March 14) at the latest scratchings stage.
"Ivan Grozny is not going to be good enough with his rating for the JCB Triumph Hurdle and possibly too good for the Fred Winter. But after his run the last day I think we will focus more on the Fred Winter (Wednesday, March 12).
"Gitane Du Berlais will definitely go for the Triumph although my owner would not be worried if she didn't go to Cheltenham.
She is very much next year's filly and is a real talent that is going to improve. I love the way she is going and who knows what could happen if she got soft ground in the Triumph."
One-time Cheltenham Gold Cup hopes Sir Des Champs and Rubi Ball are sidelined with injury, although Arvika Ligeonniere is on course for the Queen Mother Champion Chase on Wednesday, March 12, for which he is an industry best price of 14/1 with Coral.
"It was hugely disappointing to lose our Gold Cup horses and Arvika Ligeonniere is most likely to go to the Champion Chase. We're thinking of doing one or two things differently this year with him, just simple things."
Mullins will be bidding for a ninth success in the Champion Bumper (Wednesday, March 12) and added: "Black Hercules looks likely to go for the Champion Bumper and the same owner has Shaneshill and we could run both. I'll have a chat with Mr (Graham) Wylie."
Reflecting on his team, Mullins said: "This is out of this world stuff and I think the same every day I go to the gallops.
I'm not taking it for granted and we enjoy it. But everyone has expectations as a result and I know we could go there and not have any winners. People expect us to have winners but I know that three out of every four bankers don't win.
"I hope that Hurricane Fly and Quevega win, that would be huge, and then hopefully there might be another one somewhere along the way."


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Across the galaxy
Suhani Pittie explores the planets through geometry
Known for her bold designs, Hyderabad-based Suhani Pittie has firmly placed herself at the top of the list of leading jewellery designers in the country.
Favoured by everyone from Bollywood celebs to socialites, her latest collection, Innerstellar is a study in black and gold. Geometric shapes take centrestage, while uncut crystals and pearls also make an appearance. She tells us more about the line and her other projects.
Inspiration for Innerstellar.
A slight fascination with the bigger picture, the universe with all its galaxies. I wanted to take their wholesomeness and make a humble attempt at capturing their glory.
Key pieces from the line.
The three moon necklace and the round hassle with perspex. Both are strong pieces, beautifully styled, and will work with practically everything one wears. Most importantly, they respectfully combine the aura of the heavenly planets in their shapes.
Best way to style the collection.
They are modern in their styling, bold in their approach, but humble in their DNA. So they are as beautiful with Western as with Indian ensembles.
Challenges involved in creating the line.
Everytime, to come undone and do better than what I did yesterday is a challenge. To be all but to be new. Ita��s never easy.
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With Christmas just a few days away now I thought it would be handy for good people of the UK to have one place where they can check out the best deals on Pay As You Go BlackBerry smartphones. After all - the youngsters are still digging BlackBerry here, although I expect we have seen a slight loss is market share this year.
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Whether you are looking to pick up a BlackBerry for your children or partner, there should be something for everyone. All the below networks do of course also offer BlackBerry devices on contract too, but I suspect that Christmas time is when the PAYG market hits the roof.
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