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Cempaka Asean: ‘Japan’s Beethoven’ Admits Using Ghost Composer
Jakarta Globe – AFP, February 5, 2014
composer Mamoru Samuragoch in
Hiroshima, western Japan in December 2013.
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composer dubbed Japan’s Beethoven confessed Wednesday to hiring someone to
write his most iconic works, leaving duped broadcaster NHK red-faced, and
casting a cloud over a figure skater set to dance to his music in Sochi.
Samuragochi, 50, shot to fame in the mid-1990s with classical compositions that
provided the soundtrack to video games including Resident Evil, despite having
had a degenerative condition that affected his hearing.
Samuragochi,
who also spells his name Samuragoch, became completely deaf at the age of 35
but continued to work, notably producing “Symphony No.1, Hiroshima,” a tribute
to those killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
Time magazine published an interview with him, calling him a “digital-age
to myself,” Samuragochi told the magazine. “If you trust your inner sense of
sound, you create something that is truer. It is like communicating from the
heart. Losing my hearing was a gift from God.”
reputation grew when public broadcaster NHK aired a documentary in March last
year entitled “Melody of the Soul,” in which it showed the musician touring the
tsunami-battered Tohoku region to meet survivors and those who lost relatives
in the 2011 catastrophe.
shows Samuragochi playing with a small girl whose mother was killed in the
disaster and apparently composing a requiem for her, despite his own struggles
flocked in their tens of thousands to buy his Hiroshima piece, which became an
anthemic tribute to the tsunami-hit region’s determination to get back on its
feet, known informally as the symphony of hope.
Wednesday morning the composer’s life was revealed to have been a fraud, and an
NHK anchor offered a fulsome apology for having aired the documentary.
his lawyer, Mamoru Samuragochi confessed early Wednesday that he had asked
another composer to create his iconic works,” said the anchor.
“NHK has
reported on him in news and features programs but failed to realize that he had
not composed the works himself, despite our research and checking.”
statement, seen by AFP, offered an unqualified mea culpa.
“Samuragochi
is deeply sorry as he has betrayed fans and disappointed others. He knows he
could not possibly make any excuse for what he has done,” it said.
broadcaster quoted Samuragochi as saying his deception had begun nearly two
hiring the person to compose music for me around 1996, when I was asked to make
movie music for the first time,” he said. “I had to ask the person to help me
for more than half the work because the ear condition got worse.”
the commission, said NHK, adding the real composer, whom it has not identified,
has not yet responded to requests for comment.
Winter Olympics medal hopeful, figure skater Daisuke Takahashi, has also been
caught up in the row.
Takahashi’s
program in Sochi includes a dance to a sonatina allegedly composed by
Samuragochi that was unveiled two years ago.
Columbia, which has sold his CDs and DVDs, said in a statement that the company
was “flabbergasted and deeply infuriated” by his revelation.
assured by him that he himself composed the works,” it said.


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While most rap stars are busy chasing girls, Posner chased his degree. The burgeoning rapper, whose first single "Cooler Than Me" is heating up the charts this summer, didn't walk away from an education when he scored a record deal and instead led a double life as student by day, pop star by night. All that hard work has paid off for the Duke University grad as his debut album "31 Minutes to Takeoff" lands in stores. (Tuesday)
While most rap stars are busy chasing girls, Posner chased his degree. The burgeoning rapper, whose first single "Cooler Than Me" is heating up the charts this summer, didn't walk away from an education when he scored a record deal and instead led a double life as student by day, pop star by night. All that hard work has paid off for the Duke University grad as his debut album "31 Minutes to Takeoff" lands in stores. (Tuesday) (Timothy Saccenti / RCA Music Group)

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BBC News - Daily Post milestone: Newspaper celebrates 50,000th edition
Daily Post milestone: Newspaper celebrates 50,000th edition
Tuesday, 27 March, 1945: David Lloyd George, the only Welshman to become prime minister, dies at his home in Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd
Saturday, 23 November, 1963: John F Kennedy is shot dead in Dallas, Texas
Friday, 22 October 1965: Protests over the flooding of the Bala village of Capel Celyn to create a drinking water reservoir for Liverpool Wednesday, 2 July, 1969: Prince Charles's investiture as the Prince of Wales in Caernarfon Castle
Monday, 21 July, 1969: First man on the moon is celebrated
Wednesday, 28 February 1990: Floods devastate the seaside town of Towyn - by now the Daily Post is a tabloid newspaper
Monday, 1 September, 1997: The death of Princess Diana
The modern Daily Post - as the 50,000th milestone is finally reached
Newspapers launch tablet editions
Liverpool Daily Post to go weekly
Daily Post launches two editions
From the Crimea War to two world wars, Moon landings, John F Kennedy's assassination, and The Beatles in Bangor - the Daily Post has covered them all.
And now the newspaper that was brought to life in a small printer's shop in Liverpool almost 160 years ago is celebrating a stunning milestone - its 50,000th edition.
Spanning three centuries, the Daily Post is now the undisputed regional daily paper for north Wales. And while many still refer to it fondly as the Liverpool Daily Post, the newspaper has long cut the apron strings that tethered it to the Merseyside parent.
In 2013, the Post is a stand-alone north Wales paper printing two editions for north-east and north-west Wales, while its founding title back in Liverpool is now only a weekly sheet.
It was before the emergence of television as a force in journalism, and looking back that made a huge difference”
Derek Bellis, veteran journalist
The original paper saw its birth at a time of revolution in the newspaper industry, as the government of the day under Lord Palmerston repealed the Stamp Act on 1 July 1855.
Quick to seize the moment, Liverpool entrepreneur Michael James Whitty brought out the very first edition of the Daily Post, hastily drawn up at a printer's shop in Lord Street in the city.
His intention was clear - to undercut the Liverpool paper of the time, the Mercury, by producing the very first one-penny regional newspaper in Britain.
And it worked. Fifty-years later, the Mercury would merge with the Post, while the company under the leadership of Alexander Grigor Jeans had grown in stature and reputation launching its sister evening title the Liverpool Echo. The Jeans family held control of the Post as its company continued to expand into an international brand, and it was in the 1950s that veteran north Wales reporter Derek Bellis became a rookie reporter at the paper.
"Sir Alec Jeans was the boss, he was the third generation of that family to own that newspaper. He read every word that went into it," recalled Bellis - now 80, and still working as a journalist in north Wales.
Graffiti close to the Daily Post offices reflect the warmth felt for the paper in north Wales
"It was a broadsheet newspaper, it was very different times. I'll say it was challenging, and you had to be alert. It was a wonderful training ground, and some very famous journalists passed through that newsroom.
"It was before the emergence of television as a force in journalism, and looking back that made a huge difference. People relied on the printed word."
By the 50s, the Daily Post was already well established as the regional newspaper for north Wales - even though it still bore the masthead of Liverpool Daily Post.
Continue reading the main story	DAILY POST HISTORY:
1855: Paper launched from Lord Street in Liverpool by Michael James Whitty - a man who became Liverpool's first chief constable - and established the city's fire service
1869: Edward Russell begins a 50-year reign as editor - receiving a knighthood in 1893. The Liverpool Echo is also born
1904: The Daily Post and Liverpool Mercury merge - though it is the Daily Post name that ultimately survives. Alexander Jeans is managing director - himself knighted in 1918
1919: Russell becomes Baron Russell of Liverpool - dies the following year
1955: Post celebrates centenary with a service at Liverpool Cathedral
1957: Colour photographs appear in the paper for the very first time
1981: The Post becomes a tabloid newspaper
1986: The Post and Echo split from parent company to form Trinity International - which becomes the UK's largest regional publisher when it buys Thomson Corporation in 1996
2003: Welsh edition of Daily Post is launched - separate from the Liverpool paper
2005: 150th celebrations
2013: 50,000th edition is published
"I remember going to a meeting which Sir Alec Jeans held with his district reporters. He asked Arthur Williams, a journalist who was based in Caernarfon, how things were going," explained Bellis.
"Arthur retorted: 'Mr Jeans, the Daily Post is next to the Bible in Caernarfon. Everybody believes what they read in that newspaper'."
Of course a lot has changed since the 1950s - especially in the newspaper industry.
The basics though have never changed. You have to have a nose for news, you have to be able to communicate with people”
Judith Phillips, Daily Post columnist
One person to witness that relentless change is Judith Phillips. A reporter for weekly stable mate, the North Wales Weekly News, and a forthright columnist for the Daily Post itself, she has spent the last four decades in and out of the Daily Post's current HQ in Llandudno Junction.
"When I first started out things were so very different," she said.
"For instance trainee journalists at that time all wrote copy in longhand because there was only one typewriter in the office and the chief reporter had control of that. "We had one telephone on the newsdesk and we all had to share that. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.
"We really got to know people in the community at first hand and built relationships with them."
Today, she insists, the skills remain the same - even if the technology is radically different.
"We still do that [build relationships] but we do it through different means, through email, social networking. I'm a huge fan of Twitter," she said.
"The basics though have never changed. You have to have a nose for news, you have to be able to communicate with people, and in print journalism you have to be able to to write a story that captures the reader's attention and imagination."
But how does the Daily Post, like every other newspaper, face the current challenges that the industry faces - in particular the rise of the internet?
In the case of the Post the answer appears to be: Fight fire with fire.
Landmark location: Nestling between Conwy and Llandudno Junction, the HQ is known affectionately as the Daily Post roundabout
"I think the media industry as a whole has gone through a... kind of evolution rather than revolution," remarks the Daily Post's executive online editor Dan Owen.
"We've got to understand that people's habits with regards to the news are changing. If we don't adapt to that then we are going to find ourselves in a lot of trouble."
In fact it appears the Post has always been keen to adopt the latest technology to get its stories out and first started touting its online internet presence back towards the end of the 1990s.
"We are very much online and have been for several years," said Owen.
"But you'll see different things creeping in week-to-week at the moment. We've launched an e-edition of the paper, so you can physically turn pages of a paper on your tablet, your iPad.
"And in the last week we've launched an app as well. We're going with the times and making sure that we are keeping up to speed with how people want to digest news."
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WillCollier.com: David Scott Is Hiding From His Constituents
I noticed with some interest this story about Congressman David Scott, as linked by the Blogfaddah and Hot Air. In the video linked below, Scott screams at a questioner at an open meeting, implying the doctor who politely asked Scott some direct questions was not one of Scott's constituents. As you'll see in the report, this was (being charitable) a mistaken impression on Scott's part.
Fair warning--the volume on the commercial preceding the news report is ear-splitting:
An unedited version of the meeting, including Scott's rant, can be seen here.
Scott represents the 13th District in Georgia, which has been stretched many miles around Interstate 285 to collect a number of localities. As is the case with the doctor in the video, Scott happens to be my own personal congresscritter, and as it happens, I checked last week to see whether or not he'd be making any appearances during August.
It turns out that Scott is planning one and only one meeting on health care during this month-long recess, and he's holding it in the Democratic stronghold of Jonesboro, in Clayton County. In point of fact, this appearance doesn't even seem to be an actual town meeting; it's billed on Scott's website as a "health fair."
Although I didn't know it at the time, I took Scott's advice and emailed his office on Wednesday to ask whether the Congressman would be holding any actual meetings up here in the northernmost spur of his district, the not-remotely-a-Democratic-stronghold of Smryna in Cobb County. Smith's staffer, Michael Andel, replied that Scott holds "events all over the place," and noted that he'd held a town meeting in Smyrna last year, but stopped replying when I asked specifically whether a meeting on health care--which after all is something of a vital issue at the moment--would be held in this area during the recess. I suppose more than one meeting every two years is a bit too taxing on the Congressman's busy schedule.
I can't say I was terribly surprised. Scott very rarely pays any attention to the northern half of his district, which is highly gerrymandered to insure a majority of the votes come from Clayton County. Scott puts up a billboard every two years (and he should update the photograph on it--I didn't realize until I watched the video linked above that his hair has turned grey) and recently put in a satellite office in the basement of a local bank, but other than that we don't see or hear much of him at all.
And apparently, we'll be seeing even less these days. Judging by Scott's behavior over in Douglasville last week, he's got very little interest in being questioned, much less in being disagreed with.
Those darn free citizens. It's like they think Congressmen work for them, instead of the other way around.
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Moment by Moment: Deck the Halls
Only two more days and school will be out!!!!! I know I shouldn't be so excited, but the thought of having two weeks off and not having to deal with prepubescent teenager's attitudes sounds glorious to me right now. So much so, that I even went out tonight and bought some more lights. Really, WalMart had a sale, so I stocked up for next year. I came home and when I pulled in the garage I spied another tree up on a shelf. I decided that I knew just where it would look the nicest, so I took it in the house, put a string of my new lights on it and fit it into just the right place.
I put a grapevine tree on my porch that I made years ago and has been in the cellar for years. The other night I noticed that it wasn't burning, the perimeter lights were out and the ceiling fan, which I keep running 24/7/365 to keep the porch dry, wasn't running. I reset the breaker, but about 10 minutes later, out again. So I started unplugging stuff and discovered that the plug on the fan was shot and kept tripping the breaker. So, now the fan is off and everything else is staying on.
I decided tonight that I was done Christmas shopping. Everyone I buy for has enough except Lil Bro. I have bought him some neat stuff, but all necessary. I want to get him something cool that he wouldn't expect. But I don't know what. He buys everything he needs/wants and hasn't given me a list. So, either cash or a gift card seems like a good idea.
I have stuff to stuff socks with. I have gift wrap, ribbon tape and scissors. I hate to wrap, but I like to see the finished product, so I will get at it later on in the week. Tomorrow night I have been invited to dine at the local Elks Lodge, and stay for their Christmas Party. A group I used to sing with is entertaining, and they want me to come back and sing with them just for this gig. The assured me that we would be singing stuff I already knew, so I agreed. I know they want me to rejoin the group, but I am just not ready to do that yet.
Today, I was sorta offered a part-time job working from 4 to 6 every afternoon Mon thru Fri. No weekends. With the glut of bills from Tilly's illness and so on, I could use the extra cash. I will know more in a couple of weeks. It wouldn't start until after the first of the year. Might be good to have that to do. We'll see.
So, I am about ready. The halls are decked. I will probably not quit decking until the very last minute. Prof said she was going to cook me some good stuff while she was home.. and I have a couple of recipes that I am going to try out while she and Kiddo are here. We plan to meet friends, eat, drink and be merry. I have another Christmas party to go to after Christmas. So it looks like things will be busy around here.
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The Professor's going to cook?? Should I worry now or later, cause I do remember her saying something about an exploding chicken!! LOL
Hey dad, the house sounds lovely and you sound all ready for us to arrive! Can't wait! What's the new job?
(And Lilith- I exploded a chicken 16 years aga!!!!!!! and Dad has fire insurance!)
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Workshops | The Ivy Project in Stanley Park
Artist Sharon Kallis and the Stanley Park Ecology Society are inviting members of the public to work together on a site-specific environmental art installation. English ivy is an invasive plant species with strong impacts on the forest. During the project participants will explore creative ideas that address this, pulling out the rooted plant masses and weaving forms from the tendrils. Eventually, with close monitoring and observation, these forms will be returned to the forest as artificial nurse logs, bird habitats and crocheted anti-erosion bio-netting. As these sculptural forms decompose they will also return essential nutrients to the soil. In this human-landscape dialogue, nature becomes an active participant in the work, opening up generative spaces in which both humans and the natural world have voice and agency.
This human landscape intervention will happen in 12 stages, on the last Saturday of every month throughout 2009. Sharon Kallis will work with any interested community members or groups that attend these free, drop-in sessions.
“As an artist, I am interested in collaborating with others, sharing bodies of knowledge as well as at looking at the natural world, and how sculptural eco- interventions can mimic the design models of nature- Biomimicry as a sculptural pursuit is an exciting quest.” SK
“Biomimicry is the practice of developing sustainable technologies inspired by ideas from Nature. Energy efficient buildings inspired by passive cooling in termite mounds and non-toxic fabric finishes inspired by water repellent lotus plants are examples of biomimicry changing our world today. While humans have a long way to go towards living sustainably on this planet, millions of species – each with nearly 4 billion years of field testing – contain technological ideas to help us succeed in our all-important quest to become a sustainable species on a biodiverse planet.” taken from the Biomimicry Institute website.
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Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – US President Barack Obama criticised the elections in Burma today, stating that they would be “anything but free and fair”.
Myanmar’s election expose ruling junta’s abuses: Clinton
MELBOURNE – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a visit to Australia Sunday that Myanmar’s elections “expose the abuses” of the ruling military junta.
Voting ends in heavily criticized Myanmar elections
Myanmar held its first elections in 20 years Sunday, a vote that passed under heavy security and with little obvious enthusiasm from voters.
Obama: Burma Elections Not “Free And Fair”
President Obama has said Burma’s first elections in 20 years will be “anything but free and fair”.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Confined to her crumbling lakeside home, long-detained Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi poses little threat to Myanmar’s first election in 20 years on Sunday, but her possible release in a week could shake things up.
Myanmar goes to the polls for the first time in 20 years today. Many of its citizens here, however, have mixed feelings about the future it promises.
Burma’s Elections: Junta Believes in Politics
For all those people still recovering from the furiously contested mid-term vote in the U.S., it’s time to rest easy. The November 7 election in Burma, where a military regime has ruled since a 1962 coup and nary a poll has been held for two decades, promises no such electoral drama. After all, the ruling junta has stacked the decks so thoroughly in its favor that the victory of army-backed parties seems almost assured. Indeed, opponents of the upcoming polls decry the exercise as little more than an attempt by the top brass to legitimize its grip on power.
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Reuters:Polls open in Myanmar’s first election in 20 years
(Reuters) – Polls opened under tight security in Myanmar’s first election in 20 years Sunday, a scripted vote that assures army-backed parties an easy win but brings a hint of parliamentary politics to the isolated, oppressive state.
Aljazeera:Voting underway in Myanmar
CBC News:Burma holds 1st vote in 20 years
Polls opened Sunday in Burma’s first election in two decades, but the vote is widely expected to end in victory for a party backed by the country’s military junta.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/11/06/burma-election.html#ixzz14YtxXGcj
BURMA – ELECTIONS:On the brink of ethnic violence
Burma votes in national elections on 7 November for the first time in 20 years. Ruling generals say the polls will mark a transition to democratic civilian rule – but critics say they will leave the military junta firmly in control. The BBC looks at the key questions.


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The Everyday Ramblings of a Lunatic Housewife: Life is like a fire pit...
This morning on Facebook I referenced another fire pit evening in my backyard. For those of you who aren't familiar with what this is, it's basically a pit with fire. That seemed rather self-explanatory. Ok, I'll be nice and provide a little more detail. What this usually consists of is friends and/or family members - basically whomever you invite or sometimes, in our case, lovingly invite themselves - sit around a fire, tell stories, eat, listen to music, dance, talk, drink, and/or laugh. These are not specific requirements. Some or all of these can happen on any given evening. It truly depends on the mood of the group and the set of circumstances.
Last night's fire pit was not planned. At 7:00pm, Eric and I were chatting with a friend in our sitting room when another mutual compadre called and requested a fire. Why not? It was a beautiful Northern Colorado night. It's too early in the season for my nemesis, the mosquito, to start feeding upon me. There was no wind to start a wild fire - at least one that could be pointed back to this residence. Hanging out in the backyard with my friends and husband - what a lovely suggestion.
It doesn't take long to move a party outside; Eric sets up his music, a few patio chairs are taken to the center of the yard, and the carcinogenic, faux fire logs with a three hour life span are lit in our stainless steel tub. Evening to commence. Whatever will be, will be.
Last night's party was fun in that my husband and one of our two guests needed to let off a lot of steam. This is why I love spontaneous get-togethers; it always seems to be cathartic for someone. I'm glad. My only criteria for these backyard assemblies is that there's an abundance of laughter. I don't care about the mess. I'm not worried about people drinking too much as long as they're within walking distance to their homes. If someone's had a crappy week, feel free to get it out by dancing goofy around the fire. No one is ever judged at my home. We may laugh our asses off and tease you at future parties but that's a given - it's part of the cover fee. My theory is quite simple; leave happy.
Unfortunately, not everyone agrees with my criteria. When the magic hour of 10:00 pm hits, I become much more sensitive to the noise level and number of f-bombs being dropped during any one topic. My children are never anywhere near the activity. The boys are upstairs watching TV, playing electronics, or asleep to be even remotely aware of the hedonistic craziness going on outside; however, the three adjacent yards closest to our house, who aren't normally involved in the neighborhood festivities, are extremely close to the action. I cringe remembering some of last Autumn's adventures. No wonder they slam their windows when I try to talk with them.
I suppose I brought this long ramble up for a single reason, one of these adjacent yards also has a fire pit. These folks moved into their house the same day we moved into ours. In the six years my family has lived here, I've only seen their fire pit used once and that was for a special occasion. Eric and I just purchased our second pit because the first one was too small for our needs. Life is like a fire pit my dear friends and blog readers - it needs to be burned constantly and with passion. Don't wait for a special occasion to light it because after all, isn't life reason enough for a celebration?
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One-third of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, only half have it under control | Move your Assets!
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One-third of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, only half have it under control
Posted: October 22, 2012 | Author: aremmert | Filed under: Health | Tags: blood pressure, CBS News, health, hypertension, LifeVest Health |1 Comment
By Michelle Castillo, First Posted on CBS News, September 5, 2012
(CBS News) Sixty-seven million Americans – about one-third of the country – have high blood pressure, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released Tuesday.
However, only half of them have are actively working to control it.
About 36 million Americans aren’t taking medication or other measures to keep their blood pressure at healthy levels.
“We have to roll up our sleeves and make high blood pressure control a priority every day, with every patient at every doctor’s visit,” CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a teleconference with TIME. “We can use the whole health-care team. We know that when pharmacists, nurse practitioners, allied health workers, office staff are all involved in care, we can see rapid and dramatic improvements in blood pressure control.”
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Tony was very hospitable and welcoming. The house was as described and Tony was eager to accommodate any requests I may have had. The home is located in a quiet neighborhood with the golf course in the back yard. Beautiful!
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Sustainable, entrepreneurial, web-able, sociable: The life and Blogs of Nick Horslen: Dealing with difficult employees - tops the issues list for small business.
Halliwells and Personel today you could say would rank this so high. As this items goes on to say:
"...In the Personnel Today and Halliwells survey, topping the list of employees who give the most headaches came the bully and the liar, while easily the most commonly cited was the moaner – someone who perpetually complains about petty issues such as lighting or heating, taking up excessive company time and demoralising colleagues. ..."
Its worth reading, among all the other challenges to get your business going and knowing the challenges for any startup in employing its first people! Its about dealing quickly with the good and the bad of your own learning process and decision making. Its all about taking a lead, showing some leadership and encouraging the leadership in your business. Time is too short to deal with all the other important stuff to let this get in the way. Deal with it before it deals with you.
enjoy! http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/entrepreneurs/need-to-know/24896/difficult-employees.thtml
AND...Make sure its not the reverse for your staff ie dealing with difficult employers!
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Review: Spectral by: Shannon Duffy ~ Community Bookstop
Convinced she’s a part of the witness protection program, sixteen-year-old Jewel Rose is shuffled around the globe with her family
like a pack of traveling gypsies. After arriving at lucky home twenty-seven, she stumbles upon a mysterious boy with magical powers claiming to be her guardian . . . and warning of imminent danger. Despite the obvious sparks between them, Jewel discovers a relationship is forbidden, and the more she learns about dark, brooding Roman, she begins to question who she can even believe—the family who raised her, or the supposed sworn protector who claims they’ve been lying to her all
As she struggles to uncover who her family has really been running from, she is forced to hide her birthmark that reveals who she is. With new realities surfacing, unexplained powers appearing, and two tempting boys vying for her heart, Jewel battles to learn who she can trust in an
ever growing sea of lies, hoping she’ll make it through her seventeenth
birthday alive.
My Thoughts: I loved this book. This book follows Jewel who’s spent most of her life traveling from one small town to the next and having her named changed so many times. In this latest move she is now True. Deep down Jewel/True just wants to be a normal teenager, but as her birthday approaches she finds out everything is not as it should be. Her aunt, grandmother and uncle have moved in with her family, giving Jewel/True no privacy. All eyes seem to be on her to see if she is feeling any differently. Determined to find out what is going on she goes to the library to research it and stumbles upon being a witch that she never knew. She also spends time with Roman who is a guide to Jewel/True. She also develops a friendship with Chase which puts him in sticky situations. The cover of this book is so beautiful and captivating. Definitely a great book people will soak up. I know I did in one sitting! Shannon Duffy is a great powerful writer who’s book Spectral could be up there with Cate Tiernan’s Wicca series.


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Tomorrow keeps a’comin’ | cinemaelectronica
« Tomorrow came and went…
Tomorrow done come and went… »
Posted September 29, 2008 at 7:46 pm Permalink Reply
Bail out didn’t pass. More Republicans voted against it that Democrats. And we’re still standing. Not wearing sackcloth and ashes yet. While our attention was diverted by this con, er, scheme, er, proposal, the Senate granted the Defense Dept, overwhelmingly, I might add, a $612.5 billion defense spending bill for fiscal 2009, including $70 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Man, we are loaded, eh?
Posted September 30, 2008 at 4:59 am Permalink Reply
even though great(er) depression 2 is now upon us this seems to be “good” news. At least it mitigates the frightening possibility of hyperinflation. Or at least slows down it’s coming. I’m thinking we dodged a bullet, but we are still very wounded. Perhaps whoever proceeds Bush will now be forced to reign in all that military spending. As things get rough at home it’s gonna be hard to justify spending all that to chase a middle eastern boogey man. ehh, maybe not. Monday September 29th is a historic day. The day the ponzi scheme that was the American economy for decades was finally exposed.


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Divine Developments: Judges Ch. 9
Judges Ch. 9
Reading judges now. Wow the Isrealites really have a hard time following God's law (who can blame them). Joshua is dead, Moses is long dead - and now the isrealites are left to follow God on their own. But, they stray and worship other gods and so things fall apart. They cry out to God who sends a judge to tell them what to do, and to rescue them - delivering them. God almost gives up on the Isrealites a few times. Still very hard. But, I really like this passage:
13 “But the vine answerevingd, ‘Should I give up my wine,(A) which cheers both gods and humans, to hold sway over the trees?’
Thank you to http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+9%3A8-15&version=NIV for having typed this out in advance for me.
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Take your life back.: 2008
Real cost savings in IT spending
IT savings is all the rage here in the States. With budgets tightening and falling stock prices everyone, and I mean everyone is looking for ways to cut costs and yet still somehow maintain the same level of business operation and quality.
Well here are my 5 fitness tips for trimming the fat in IT spending, where you could create significant value while reducing costs.
1) Stop doing things twice, and use automation. Quality assurance has long been viewed as a necessary evil. The reality however is that it is business critical if you want to avoid major customer satisfaction issues and maintain security and compliance coverage. Human capital is always the largest expense in issuing quality checks. However, most systems could be designed and built with error checking and quality validation as part of the build and design. If your development organization is writing code, and your QA team is checking code, you are wasting money. Get these teams to an agile development workshop so that they can start to think about optimization techniques that could eliminate teams of business analysts manually testing or having to write ineffective regression automation scripts.
2) "Do it yourself" only where it makes sense. Too many organizations have leveraged internal staff in a figure it out mode. While this build longer-term internal knowledge capital and can work towards job satisfaction and retention, it ultimately is more expensive. Where the function is core to your business model then it makes sense. Otherwise look to an Software as a service, or Manages Service Provider who can give you economies of scale with point expertise.
Most providers have demonstrated ROI in a 2 year period in both CapEx and OpEx.
3) Tune business processes not just systems. In the past 9 years of managing performance engineering teams, I have learned one thing. It is always faster to fix how people use a system, then to tweak an poorly designed system. So before embarking on expensive load testing and system tuning efforts, evaluate the end-users usage of the system through operational profiling. Monitor and shadow users for a week. It will be enlightening how many time saving tips you can bring to the business community without spending any additional cash.
4) Monitor the end user's experience not just the infrastructure. OK, you'll have to spend some money up-front. However, the pay back can be significant if transactions are properly captured and labeled. By monitoring the performance and availability of critical transactions, this allows you to focus and "break-fix" dollars on key business driving processes. Many organizations have embarked on fixing system issues that really aided very little in the operational aspect of a business. By knowing where you can create gains in the environment to affect the business, you can plan and spend with significantly greater value.
5) Integrate request management and time tracking. Last but certainly not least, is optimizing the people. Project management tools, time tracking tools and defect tracking tools and service desk tools continue to be disjointed in many organizations. This lack of clarity to issuing and fulfilling requests leaves many, many loops holes in personnel accountability and management. In this down economy, plus during this holiday season, it is a fact that people loose focus more easily, they get distracted, and they loose ambition to take full responsibility. Providing a consolidated view of "work orders" and "work plans" will help keep your most expensive asset working optimally.
While there are many more areas within IT to cut, I believe these are the key ways in which you can reduce costs while still maintaining the highest level of quality.
Next months blog: Is now the time to start an IT Service Management initiative? I'll discuss the pro's and con's of taking on a project like this in this economy.
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Labels: best practices in IT cost reduction, doing more with less in IT, IT cost reduction, IT cost savings, IT improvements, IT management, IT spending tips, saving money in IT, why does IT cost so much
Don't underestimate the infrastructure
We all would love to live in a world where extremely complex and sophisticated technology was just simple and easy. Commodity IT, where I can just turn-on my PC and the world is at my finger tips. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but...
Things break - That's life.
We wish they wouldn't.
Like my good friend and colleague Jon Land says "When I booted up my 3270, things just worked. Unless the Mainframe was down". Of course that was until we tried to utilize that system with the corporate networks, Internet and now mobile applications. Then all of sudden we are back into the world chaos.
Let's compare this:
Plumbers cost $60-$80/hr, here in Massachusetts anyway . Yet, the average IT infrastructure consultant is about $40-$55/hr.
The cost of copper is driving plumbing up through the roof. Just in case you didn't realize guess what is in those rubber ethernet cables... you guessed it, copper. Material costs are through the roof in IT as well, plus we have energy costs off the chart which are more now that we have more dense operating environments.
I could go on with this comparison, but the bottom line is that having turn-key (or turn-faucet) results requires solid planning, a total approach to design and the understanding that when things break it's going to be messy.
A failure to incorporate your infrastructure needs into your enterprise architecture, will result in a continual failure to get the services you need, when you need them.
Like the old adage says: Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
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Labels: data centers, enterprise architecture, hardware, IT infrrastructure, IT support, ITIL, networks, power conservation, service design, ValIT, Value driven IT, value of IT
Service Outage Avoidance - The mother of all metrics
In my role at Vigilant as both a consultant and an executive I have had the opportunity to interview hundreds of operational IT managers and directors. In most cases the number one metric they were managed by was "Availability" or "System up-time".
What turns into a very interesting dialogue is when you talk to them about how they collect those metrics, report those metrics and respond to those metrics. Here are the shortfalls of taking this approach:
Up-time - this is very rarely measured from the End-users standpoint. So you are immediately putting IT on the defensive when you state the system was available on the network, but the end-user is not able to execute business on the system.
This reported metric only gives credibility to how quickly IT personnel was able to find and fix the outages. Outages are typically caused by poor release practices or change management, IT functions, anyway.
A new approach that should be considered is how I measured my operation as an IT director and what Vigilant consultants call "Service Outage Avoidance" (Not to be called SOA or real confusion sets in)
This metric is the marrying of component availability to end-user availability. You can accomplish this by monitoring a systems network & server components for availability along with the end-users behavior. When an outage occurs at the component level, yet the service stays up to the end user, due to you superior availability design of the system, you have achieved avoiding a service outage.
Availability metrics then should be broken into the 5 following categories:
Network (Link status, utilization, drop/error rates)
Server (OS stats, CPU, HD, Mem)
Application (DB, J2ee, .Net, etc)
Business Logic (Code interfaces, Connectors, ETL, etc..)
Business Process (Transactions, order counts, etc...)
End-User (real-time screen to screen, refresh, errors, etc..)
"Service Outage Avoidance" metric shows the percentage of downtime of a component where end-user was available. (i.e. 4months of aggregate downtime of SAN on Email system during 12 months of end user availability)
Your next management report then will show something like this:
Email Services - Service Outage Avoidance: 25%
What this metric means is that we had an impact at a component level of 25%, but due to proper design and management we avoided having a business impact.
In other words, "You know how we weren't sure if it was worth it to build in all that fail-over and redundancy. Well here is how valuable that decision to spend was."
If you can equate the up-time value against this, you can calculate the ROI.
i.e. Up-time value of Email for 1mos= $1million dollars.
Cost of redundancy $1M
1 year ROI is 300%
(4mos *$1M = $4M return - $1M investment = $3M. $3M(return)/$1M(Investment) = 300%)
In my next blog - Don't underestimate the infrastructure
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Customers - Are they always right?
So you finally get a chance to look at your customer surveys. Disappointingly after all the coaching and training and process around your service desk, your customers are still complaining.
What's the deal? you say to yourself. "I thought if we put this Service Management process stuff in place customers would be happy, at least that is what Matt told me. Last time I listen to that idiot."
While not taking my advice is many times a good thing, it's not that the processes did not work, its that the implementation was not taking into the most important aspect of Service Management. It's Customer Service Management, not Process Service Management. That means that you have to take into consideration the customer's unique circumstances.
So while Customers are not always "Right", they can be made to feel like they are getting the service they are paying for, by listening to them and acknowledging their intelligence and frustration.
Too many groups are putting in Incident and Request models that are purely focused on the work flow, not the communication. The customers request or incident needs to be resolved, yes, but they also need to feel like they are getting attention individually. Let me share an example with you.
Recently I purchased a VHS to DVD copier. Upon making my 3rd or 4th copy successfully the device stopped reading the VHS tapes. It was snowy on the screen but with clear voice. I called tech support, where upon the technician following his trouble-shooting steps told me that I needed to plug in the "Yellow" jack from the back of the device to my television.
I explained that I was using the Component cables which were Red, Blue and Green and that my TV did not have a "Yellow" Jack to plug into. The technician insisted that the device could not work unless the "Yellow" jack was plugged in. Mind you I had told him several times that I had successfully made copies, and that nothing had changed with my physical connections. Needless to say a horrible experience, and I ended up returning a product that is probably fine because of someone not listening to the customer.
In a different call to my Internet provider Comcast, I had completely the opposite outcome. After troubleshooting why my connection was not working, I finally called Comcast. Now I know it's been a while since I've got my hands dirty with technology, but I still feel pretty comfortable troubleshooting network issues. Upon plugging my laptop directly into the Cable Modem, I realized that the problem was with their Cable Modem. So I called the Comcast tech support. I explained my situation and the steps I had taken. The Comcast rep told me "Can I put you on hold one moment, you clearly have taken some steps to isolate this and let me see if I can pick up where you left off." Literally within 2 minutes the router was up and running and my Internet was back up. He apologized for the inconvenience and then explained to me that they would add my device to their monitoring solution so that they would be notified again should this happen.
Next on my hit list of topics: The mother of all Metrics "Service Outage Avoidance" - how this one set of metrics can be the key to your next raise.
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Labels: Customer Service, Help Desk Improvement IT Communication Tips, Service Desk, SLA; Service Level Management; ITIL; Service Strategies; Service Management; IT performance
Service Catalogs are the key to demonstrating Value
What is a Service Catalog? Simply put it is system or documentation that allows people to preview the services they can obtain from you and the expectation they can have of getting those services (time, cost, quality, etc...).
Do we need a Service Catalog? Do you need a resume to get a job? No, but if you want the right job, and want to get paid fairly for the abilities you can bring, and want to set the right expectation, then you will want to have a clearly articulated resume.
Same thing with the IT Service Catalog. If you want the business to appreciate the value IT brings to the organization, and you want to ensure that staff, suppliers, and costs are adequately budgeted for, then you must present to the business your capabilities. The Service Catalog is where you will publish and present what IT will do, and thus what they will not do. At face the business will not necessarily want IT to have this. If you do not currently have an IT Service Catalog, then currently the Business can ask you for whatever they want, and IT has to scramble to either try and justify why they can't do it, or figure it out. If there is no cost allocation in place for IT resources, then in the eye of the Business stake holder IT is a free resource, and we all know what the value of free - zero - free has no value.
Thus to really drive the value of IT services, IT must put in place a definitive "what we do, how we do it, and how much it costs" communication platform. More advanced organizations are using this information to build an on-line IT ordering site where people can order account setups, email boxes, new laptops, PDA's and Blackberries, and other enablement services. These sites will typically hang-off the Service Desk platform so that people can get services ordered without having to interact with a service request person. This can lead to tremendous cost savings and it also leaves the business in more control. So many organizations are finding the business more willing to fund the Service Catalog under the umbrella of Self-Service optimization and cost efficiency.
Next blog: "Is the customer always right?" I'll share some tech support stories to show the difference between a customer focused support person and a person who answers the phone and follows a script.
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Labels: Best Practices, CIO, CoBIT, IT Capability models, IT operations, IT support, ITIL, ITIL V3, Self Service Automation, Self-Service, Serivce Desk, Service Catalog, ValIT, Value driven IT
SLA's why are they needed?
Service Level Agreements - SLA's. For those who have been able to develop them with metrics that are meaningful and achievable, they love them. For everyone else, they are a nightmare. What makes a good SLA? In my experience, it takes very little to make a good SLA. First, it needs to be understandable. If you don't understand the commitment of service that you need to perform, then the actions you need to take to improve will be a mystery.
For example, if a person at a fast food restaurant was to get measured on the quality of their hamburg, that is good thought, but what does it mean? It's not like they can change the type of beef or bread or other things like that. So rather than just say improve the quality, the manager needs to put in measures that the employee can affect. Time on the shelf less than 10 minutes, bread no older than 5 days, etc...
Those are factors that the employee can watch and adjust, ultimately improving the SLA. Which brings me to the second factor. It has to be measurable. If you can not measure it you can not manage it. If you can not time the hamburger on the table, the age of the bread, you can not determine it's indication of quality.
If you look at the standard SLA's in place that are not on the nightmare side of the house, they are things like 99.999% up-time. If you asked most IT folks what that meant you would get different answers. Some would say the server 99.999% of the time up over the course of a year. Others might say 99.999% would mean that application services are available to all users for no less than 15 minutes in the course of a year.
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Labels: SLA; Service Level Management; ITIL; Service Strategies; Service Management; IT performance
To many, troubleshooting seems to be a gift that either you have or you don't. For instance, my father is a mechanic. When he owned his own repair shop he would hire young guys who would spend hours troubleshooting a problem, but then within minutes from my old man getting involved he could quickly diagnose the cause of a problem. The timing belt, carburetor issues, whatever it was, he was quick to pinpoint. Inevitably once the problem was found there was the “oh, of course” from the Junior grease monkey.
First, troubleshooting is not something you are born with. It is a skill that is harnessed based on 3 common factors:
1) What you know
2) What you don’t know
3) What you are learning
Do you know what is working? Do you know what is not working?
What don’t you know is working? What don’t you know is failing?
What have I proved with this step? What have I disproved with this step?
Infrastructure: Hardware, Networking, Operating Systems
Application: 3rd party application services
System Interfaces: Connectivity between dependant systems
Business logic: Business rules that cause transactions to operate differently
Business Process: The way the end-user is executing the transaction
Business Service: Dependency on data or other elements for success
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Labels: availability management, Incident Management, IT operations, IT support, ITIL, performance troubleshooting tips, Problem Management, tips for troubleshooting, triage, troubleshooting
Performance Engineering Tips - A solid plan leads to better results
Creating a performance plan has many challenges, creating a realistic load test has to be one the greatest. Load and performance testing is many times seen as a nice to have. However, no one ever says "yeah, I'm OK if my applications ran slower". As load and data capacity increases, this is exactly what happens. Mid-stream in the operation of business the applications can suddenly start to slow down. This happens usually without warning and almost always has a detrimental impact to the business.
How can you keep this from happening? A better test plan is the place to start.
Review the types of activities that the users will be performing. We call these transactions.
Review the location and amount of users. Take into consideration network speeds.
Review the amount transactions that will be performed.
Many IT performance testers simply look at user count and business transactions. Failing to understand the network conditions the volume of transactions will produce an inadequate simulation.
The better the simulation - the more valuable the predicted operation of the system when it goes live.
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Labels: Compuware, HP software, IBM, ITIL, load testing, LoadRunner, Performance Center, performance engineering, QA testing, QALoad, Release Management, STA performance testing
Why are we still fighting fires?
"We have spent so much money on monitoring tools and consulting, why are we still fighting fires?" I heard this from a recent prospect. The simple answer is because we live in a complex and high demand world. As IT proffesionals we are trying to do a lot with a little; little training, little vision, little strategy, little focus. Organizational process alone is not going to cut it. If we want to fight fires, then we have to campaign like Smokey the Bear. "Only you can prevent forest fires!" was his motto. What is yours?
How about these? "Only you can prevent outages from unplanned changes!"- By implementing some more rigourous controls around change and release management.
"Only you can prevent unnecessary downtime by distracting priorities!" - By implementing better incident management procudures, you could avoid the "SWOT" call mentality that takes the engineers attention off of restoring the service and diverts it into CYO for mangaement.
"Only you can prevent business impact from IT service failure!" - By properly planning and validating your infrastrcuture through capacity and load testing, infratstucure validation for fail-over and applicaiton profiling, you can ensure your build and release managment processes are catching issues before your users do.
Why are you still fighting fires? Probably because your processes are like disconnected piles of twigs and your culture is overly reactive.
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Labels: Change Managmenet, event management, Incident Management, IT operations, ITIL, Problem Management, Release Management, Service Operation, Service Support, troubleshooting
The value of visual monitoring systems
It still amazes me how many clients I still sit with at lunch or at a business meeting, where their pager or cell phone goes off and without even looking at the message just clear it. Then they will smile and say "stupid monitoring system". I've started to joke with them that they must have stock in Duracell. Is the monitoring system stupid, or is it the way they are using it?
The reason people ignore the messsages is because of false arlarms. Why are they false to begin with?
The whole ide of of paging people is great to get their attention while they are out and about. With technology advancements in cell phone, why are we not using more of a visual alerting capability. When is RIM (makers of BlackBerry) going to step up to the table and give us some visual icons to alert us IT folks of systems issues. It can tell me I have a text message or voicemail. How about a disk full or critical application failure? A few simple icons that in a glance I could see whether i need to look at the alter details or not.
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Labels: alerting, blackberry, IT support, monitoring, systems management, visual operations
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blue aluminum: June 2008
I finally got a GRS Benchmate on Thursday. I used to use one at my old job, I think it's great. I can't believe I waited so long to get one for myself, especially since I love work holding tools so much.
trying to fold the vase
I was pushing out the strips of metal on the vase last week. I made a pusher out of delrin and a file handle.
Pushing the things out went ok.
Folding did not go so well.
There are certain edges I need to trim down a bit so the piece fits together better. I need to cut about 1mm off about half the edges. The piece is not very rigid because it is pierced everywhere, so trimming these edges will take a while. I haven't worked on the piece since this point. I was annoyed about the extra work I will have to do, and I have some other things I need to do, so this vase can wait.
done piercing
I finished the piercing today.
I am going to sand it while its still flat. In this photo I am sanding what will be the inside of the piece. I don't think I will use the palm sander to sand the outside cause even with fine grit sand paper it sometimes leaves little squiggly scratches that are hard to get off and I don't like the way they look. The final finish on the piece will probably be 400 grit sandpaper.
I need to decide on a patina. Maybe a light liver of sulfur patina. That's kind of boring, but I don't know of anything else that I like.
It's been a little while since I last posted. I had been busy with other things, so I didnt have time to work on my copper vase at all till the other day. The piercing is almost finished, I will probably finish piercing Sunday night.
Entries are due July 1st for Lark Books 500 Plastic Jewelry. I don't normally work with plastic, but I think I am going to try to make a piece or two in delrin to enter the book.
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RESEARCHERS FIND BIG RISK OF DEFECT IN CLONING ANIMALS - The New York Times
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