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|Thanks Steez!
|at ur height the 153 ply is ur best best the 156 would be if u ride back country only but the 153 is good for all mtn everything
I think the 150.5cm Horgmo Pro will be a proper park jibstick! Having done some research I don't think it'll help me progress very well.
I've narrowed it down instead to the "donuts & Coffee" 153cm Ply?
The 156cm Aarron Biittner Pro Ply board?
Both the above have Structurn bases, Lock&Load camber, lighter, true twin tips, radius to flat tips,
and 6240 biax base!
The other option I think is the Lauri Pro Tone board in either 153 OR 156cm?
This features: Anti camber board but with a camber core. Radius to flat again, structurn base again.
REALLY REALLY lost with this one, but swaying more towards the Ply series! Just not sure which would be better, a 153 or a 156?
Hi, sorry for borrowing your thred, but I'm in the exact same situation hehe
I also started riding in January this year, been standing on a snowboard for about 50 hours in total, been hiting some boxes, small jumps and big jumps but no rails or such yet...
I currently own a 2011 DC Tone 153 (The wife mostly uses this), a 2011 DC Devun Pro 154 and a 2011 Stepchild Street Recession(for my summer setup :P )
I'm currently looking for the 2012 Torstein Pro model (150.5) or the Aaron Biittner Pro model (156.5)
My stats are:
182cm tall (6ft)
75-77kg (165 - 170 pounds)
9,5 US in bootsize (I currently ride the DC 2011 Park Boot)
Will the torstein pro model (love the black/white/red colours..) be to short for me?
Going to concentrate on learning butters, boxes and rails and maybe some jumps this season =)
Thanks in advanced!
|If you are riding an indoor park, you are going to want the shortert, butteriest deck you can get away with still riding when you can go to the mountain.
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i would like more at the 152-54 range if they have those sizes in the boards you want. you could def ride a 156 no problem but if you wanted to focus more on freestyle those sizes might be a little more suitable. do you plan on trying rails as well as bigger jumps or did you wanna just jib stuff and hit small jumps? also do you plan on doing any all mtn riding with this board or just snow domes?
They do but not in the same design! Haha I know that should be the last thing to care about though! But I can't help it!
I havent done any freestyle yet, just the odd spin on the flat in the domes, but I'm wanting to learn rails and boxes etc! So will be taking lessons on this, as well as small jumps! Don't plan on hitting any big jumps!
Most of the year the board will be used is snow domes, probably 2-3 weeks will be on mountains (We don't get much snow here in the UK! ) But when I am on a mountain I'll just want to try keep up with speed etc on the piste's. Probably not going to go looking for powder!
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Do you know what length you were riding before?
|i would like more at the 152-54 range if they have those sizes in the boards you want. you could def ride a 156 no problem but if you wanted to focus more on freestyle those sizes might be a little more suitable. do you plan on trying rails as well as bigger jumps or did you wanna just jib stuff and hit small jumps? also do you plan on doing any all mtn riding with this board or just snow domes?
|The neck/chin thing is a sloppy guideline, at best. I'm 155lbs, 5'10" have a size 9 boot and ride a 147cm. With that being said, I'm a rail-rat. I hit a few jumps, but nothing crazy. I also like to bomb the hill a time or two, but my mountain has a total of something like 900 vertical feet. For what you'd like to do it'd seem the 150 would do. The 156.5 would seem long in MY opinion, but I'm (extremely) biased towards shorter boards. Do you know what length you were riding before?
'12 DC Ply or DC Tone?
Sorry if regular readers read this every day or so, but I'm struggling a bit with this one, so as a newbie I ask you please bare with me...
I'm looking for my first snowboard but waiting untill 2012 gear is released (in particular DC's range of boards) now I've been looking at the boards they're set to release and REALLY like the DC Ply Horgmo Pro board. Or the Bittner, but would prefer the Horgmo!
Now my concern is that this board will be too small for me at 150.5cm?
Now obviously you'll need some stats about me to be able to tell:
Height: 5ft 10in
Weight: 12.5 - 13 stone (roughly 79/80kg)
Boot size: 9
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Took up snowboarding in January this year, and had my first holiday in March where I feel my confidence and abilities improved a lot. Have since been going at least once a month to my local indoor snow dome in the UK, and am really really eager to start some freestyle, so will probably book a freestyle lesson in the months to come.
Now I'd like a board which can do some freetsyle, and will help me advance with this, but one which will also be pretty good for piste runs when I get away fro the few times a year I will!
And before anyone tells me to look at another brand, I'm sorry but everything I've bought so far is DC and I kinda plan on keeping it that way! lol
So would this board be too small for me? As 150.5cm comes to just about my neck height/collar area?
Would I be better suited with a Bittner at 156.5cm?
I'd love to try and test the boards but at this moment in time there aren't any DC stores in the UK, never mind in the snow domes! There is one set to open some time this year which I'm hoping to visit which may let me try them, I just hope it opens as planned!
For now though, any advice as to which would be better for me would help! And it'd be much appreciated!!
I'm really just trying to avoid anything which will stop me advancing with my experience, I'd obviously prefer a board which is going to help me progress!
Thanks for the advice everyone!
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I just finished about my 50th 10lb spool of .024 wire in my Hobart 134. I am always amazed at how well these 110v units do thick metal. I have abused mine to no end and it has always done well. Here is a typical thick metal project, bucket from 1/2". Yea, I put the sharp edge on the inside (brain dead) But I later re-cut it with the hand held grinder again:
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|They look very similar to this old Lincoln Weld-Pak 100 I just picked up at a yard sale. Actually a flux-core wire feeder without gas.
Well chances are you won't need parts in 5 years (I mean, I've never used this welder, but you know what I mean).
However, most welders all use the same parts. My Solar uses lincoln gun parts.. I assume this does as well (Tweeco? That what I'm thinking of).. Everything INSIDE the welder can be bought from any electronics place.. I wouldn't be too cnocerned with parts, except maybe the whole circuit board, but in that case, Lincoln and miller would charge you an arm and a leg for their boards anyways.
How about getting parts 5 years from now?
When it comes to welders, stick with Hobart, Miller or Lincoln.
There are some gullible people if you think these are different machines than all the other chinese machines.
Now, that being said, I am quite happy with 99% of all my chinese machines/tools (HF Plasma comes to mind!). Just do your research. I'm sure this mig is fine. Nobody seems to have any problems with it.
And to the guy who keeps breaking everything, and couldn't make it through his lawn once.. I think he's doing something wrong.
When it comes to welders, I think going with a Lincoln, Hobart or Miller is worth it in the long run.
I think this is a case where it's just best not to go with an off-shore knockoff.
|The welder in question, is most closely related to the Century Wire feed/ Mig 140, actually it's exactly the same. A welder I think that has been discontinued ( cent 140 ). Century is made in China basically as a cheaper line to Lincoln. These 'knockoff's started coming in, around the time the Century model was discontinued and it's price was around $450 at that time. They could have fired up production of the knockoff's after Century shut down the production using the same tooling.. All I can attest to is, mine works well.
|I might have missed this in the discussion, but did anyone consider that the cheap Chinese-made similar welder was in fact a copy of the Lincoln and/or Eastwood. They do a lot of re-engineering of good products, producing a cheaper (inferior) copy. For example - I talked to the folks at Trique Mfg - they make bear claw latch kits for classic trucks. They used to buy the latch mechanism from a supplier - turns out the supplier started getting copies of the latches made in China. The Chinese latches were inferior, and would pop open. As soon as they realized this, they started manufacturing the latch in-house to insure the quality. The Chinese latches looked the same, but internally were made of inferior materials.
|For what it's worth I can vouch for Eastwood's backing up their products, especially the welders. I have the 135 MIG welder, and after a year and a half of use, the welder did fail. It kept pumping gas out the nozzle even with the trigger off. I called them up, talked to their tech line and they gave me a choice- either send me a replacement valve, or a replacement welder. I went with the valve as that is all I really needed, but they were willing to replace the entire welder. I was impressed.
|Native Dave
That is a very good point and one that I should have made when talking about using that 110 machine to weld 1/4" and thicker, I just assumed that his primary purpose was to weld thin sheet. My point was that the 110 outfit could weld heavier stuff in a pinch with proper prep but you are exactly right a 110 volt MIG should not be considered for heavier than light sheet metal except for an occasional small job.
I have the Hobart 135 (before the 140). All an all very similar. I have used it to weld a 1000 things and would do it all over again.
In a word about duty cycle, if you exceed duty cycle it means you are operating the machine beyond what it is intended and if you melt it, the manufacturer may not be so kind to repair your machine.
Some time AFTER you exceed the "Rated" duty cycle, if you continue to weld, it will heat up and trigger a breaker.
I can tell you welding plows, tractors and many things I should have never been welding, for the duration I was welding, that MY Hobart 135 clicks off, till it cools and has caused no damage. I have exceeded this many times doing extensive heavy welding which I surely could use a larger machine for.
I don't think Hobart would support my welder for how I have treated it but it has more then stood up to my abuse and paid for itself a 100x over.
Not bad I don't think for a low budget machine.
I bought the cart and autodark helmet from HF. Had to modify the cart a little to fit the welder and the 80cf tank.
My primary need for this welder was to weld sheetmetal. And this welder does that absolutely great. In my research I found statements that this welder was better for sheetmetal than the larger 220 Volt units were.
The thickest I've need to weld with it so far has been 3/16" thick brackets (side motor mounts, transmission crossmember and rear shock mount bar) to the frame of my '55 Chevy Bel Air. I think the frame is probably 14 gauge or so. This welder performed perfectly doing this too.
IMO, if your primary welding will be welding 1/4" to 1/4", then you should consider a larger welder. But, if 1/4" is only occasional and your primary welding is smaller, then this is a great size to get.
"Rated at 90 amps, 18 volts, at 20% duty cycle on a ten minute basis. It is capable of higher duty cycles at lower output currents."
I can tell you I have NEVER had this welder cycle off on me.
Here's a link to the product sheet on my welder:
Lincoln SP 135 Plus
I know you were directing this question to someone else but let me assure you that you can weld 1/4" with that welder. You may not do it in one pass but that generally would not be a good idea anyway with wire that small however with a bit of preheat from a torch and multiple passes you are not limited as to what thickness metal you can weld, those claims of "welds 1/4" etc" just don't make much sense and are nothing but sales pitches. The only limiting factor with these little machines is of course the duty cycle but that limits the time you can spend welding between cooling periods and with proper preheating and a willingness to give the machine ample time to cool between weld passes there really is no limit to the metal thickness you can weld, 1/4" would not be much of a problem at all unless you are talking about big items. Things like brackets or frames would be no problem but the trick is to preheat the weld area to about 400 deg or so (just too hot to touch with your bare hand), this is a good idea anyway no matter how big your welding rig. When you get your welder try welding two pieces of 1/4" while still cold then weld two more after preheat and you will see what I am talking about, even a propane torch can be used for this if you don't have a welding/cutting rig.
BTW, When the guy at Eastwood said those machines are made by a "Big company" he might want you to think that they are made by Lincoln because they look like Lincoln but the reason these machines (all the brands not just Lincoln and Eastwood) look the same is that they are all just rebranded Chinese imports that they all buy from the same "Big (Chinese) company! They are the same and this has become a common way of selling things these days, be it welders, machine shop equipment, etc, they buy from a Chinese supplier and slap their name on it! Some people seem to think that while they look the same the insides are different but they come from the same Chinese company and if those guys want to pay more money based on the idea that the more expensive brand is better then fine but from what I have seen (based on looking at welders and machinery) that simply is not true, it's your money and your call on the brand.
|roger1...timely post, I called Eastwood today and asked the same thing as others, "Who makes this rig". The guy wouldn't give a name but said that its made by a big name company. I said it looks like a Lincoln, again he said ...its made by a big name company. So my question to you, can you weld 1/4" plate with your 135...and whats the listed duty cycle. You have a nice outfit with the argon gas and cart. Looks like I have some research to do.
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — Iona College pulled away by holding the Canisius women's basketball team to two field goals during a stretch of nine minutes in the second half as the Golden Griffins lost 69-52 to the Gaels on Saturday afternoon. Canisius drops to 11-16 overall and 7-11 in the MAAC.
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Let me just start of by saying that my dog is even keel. His barks are too far and in between. He hardly ever barks. I've only heard him bark once. Yesterday, my sister brought her dog a Sheperd/Hound mix and they noticed each other and barked. They both barked a bit. He's going through deworming so I had them separated by a small gate that neither can get through.
My question is that is that normal behavior. He pulled to her but he did at times just sit and look and bark. Almost like he was observing her. I do plan to have them socialize once he's free of worms.
|Right now we're doing just basic obedience nothing to serious . I purchased this Schutzhund obedience book which is awesome and has great insight about when and how to start training. Reading it really helped us a lot as far as not pushing her to much with the training. We keep it simple with sit,platz, and stay. Than when we feed her ill have her sit and stay for a few seconds until I release her to eat with the "Essen" command. Shes doing great with these commands and shes great with my family and with my kids and niece and nephew. She doesn't really get excited with them and majority of the time ignores them. Its just other dogs she gets really excited with and ive sheltered her a bit you can say due to not wanting her to contract parvo or anything like that. Thats why we kept her socialization to her sibling brother which my mother in law has and the neighbors dog. She reacts the same to both plays very rough but it doesn't turn into anything more. She has been put in her place by the neighbors GSD which is is a few months older. I do want to walk her more now that her paw pads have healed ill just have to keep it short.
I don't think 'dust ups' and blood is normal. I got this advice when I first got my dog and he was pretty roughed up at the park a few times though no blood. Now I have a reactive dog that will go crazy at the sight of another dog.
If a dog has good nerves then he can probably handle the dust ups as you call them. But if he doesn't - then you have an insecure or a fear aggressive dog a few months later.
Same with people. If he's not comfortable around some people don't force him to interact. Same as above.
I wish I can go back with everything I know now.
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|What a cutie! The German Shepherd Dog breed is naturally dominate and this does come out with age. You are doing the correct thing in allowing your pup to meet and interact with other dogs as well as people at an early age. This socialization is critical and should start early on; one mistake folks make is working to socialize their pup for its first six months and then not continuing; socialization is an ongoing requirement and as such one never reaches a point at which the dog is 'socialized' for life. It's important for pups to learn to interact with their own kind early on; in doing so there will most likely be some 'dust ups' and possibly even a bit of blood drawn. This is normal and part of the socialization process. Some owners make the mistake of trying to 'protect' their pups from such interactions; this rarely does the pup a favor and can and does lead to behavioral issues further down the road. Qanuk, my 2.5 year old GSD was raised with my female Alaskan Malamute (Anana) and they had some real confrontations during his 18 months. Poor guy really had a tough time when his male hormones started flowing and he thought he should be the alpha dog; at that time he was around 70 pounds (he now weighs 86 pounds) but Anana weighs 122 pounds. She was patient with him to a point but then she'd just knock him flat, pin him to the floor and snarl in his face. He's had to learn that Anana remains dominant even though she's a female. However, over the last few years he's learned how to take advantage of her slower reflexes and bulk and he can pretty much hold his own now. When they play there's lots of snarling with teeth bared, barking, biting and similar but its all play. When your pup is interacting with another dog if either one opens the activity by kind of 'bowing' on stretched out front legs - possibly thumping the ground with alternating paws - this is 'canine speak' for everything that follows is play. This behavior is apparently genetically programmed into canines as they all understand the body language; wolves display this as well. If you see this then even if you see lots of snarling, bared teeth, barking and biting it's almost guaranteed to be play. From what you described it sounds as though your pup is just learning to interact with other canines; as time passes you will most likely see less of the uncertain reactions and more of what's obviously play behavior or, more seriously, actual aggression. And, like people, sometimes there are dogs that just cannot get along with another dog; under these circumstances it's best to keep said dogs apart. You also alluded to getting her into a training program ASAP; this is always a good idea - although at 14 weeks she's probably a bit young yet - as it will challenge her mentally and satisfy that need inherent in the GSD breed to be mentally 'busy'. Couple this with a lot of good, hard exercise and I'd bet you'll see a well rounded, confident and content GSD.
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I think socialization is hard to get right, and I made a lot of mistakes with my pup in that area! I had the idea that my puppy needed to interact happily with every person and dog that crossed our path. First of all, my dog just absolutely does not have that personality, and secondly, now I realize that I want her to focus and interact with me, not pay attention to every dog and person crossing our path! I found this article really helpful:
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I think socialization is hard to get right, and I made a lot of mistakes with my pup in that area! I had the idea that my puppy needed to interact happily with every person and dog that crossed our path. First of all, my dog just absolutely does not have that personality, and secondly, now I realize that I want her to focus and interact with me, not pay attention to every dog and person crossing our path! I found this article really helpful:
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|I really want to get her in a schutzhund club the only thing is the closest one to me is 2 hrs away and next month we're moving to Kentucky. I haven't found a club near ft campbell I have to keep looming though. I just want to make sure im going a about her socialization correctly.
I disagree and agree...yes..it's a training issue and at times ...complicated by temperament. There is an assumption being made by the human..."The OP said the dog barks cuz it couldn't be near the other dog."
A dog barking and pulling towards another dog has nothing to do with temperament. It's a training issue.
The OP said the dog barks cuz it couldn't be near the other dog. The OP then let's the dog get closer. It's a rewarding behavior. Why wouldnt the dog continue to pull and bark? It eventually gets what it wants by doing it.
The temperament of a dog is too often measured in regards to interaction between the dog/pup and human....dog on dog interaction is overlooked too often in the beginning. Positive reinforcement for coexistence among it's peers is equally as important.... leadership through discipline and unfaltering obedience will make a substantial difference. The potential for either side of the spectrum seems to create problems....a fearful pup versus an "aggressive" pup versus it's peers....many times is one and the same....as you have described....but dominance is always trumped by leadership....if in fact it exists.
At the end of the day, if a dog's temperament is of a certain nature....then you have more of a job to accomplish. Sometimes, in order to break the negative behavior you are witnessing....the remedy is quite the opposite one might imagine...
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Including a call to "shmem_set_cache_inv()" at the beginning of your program makes shmem_put() safe (at least you won't have to worry about cache coherence). Given that shmem_put() is about three times faster than shmem_get() (see Newsletter #56 ), this could be a nice optimization option, if you've been nervous about using it.
We've discussed shmem_set_cache_inv() before in the Newsletter (see #59 ), but a reader suggested I cover it again, given its importance.
First off, what does it do? Keeps the data in cache consistent with the data in memory -- even if a shmem_put() operation comes along and changes the data in memory. As an example, here's a test program given to me by Jason Wynne Parsons, a research assistant at ARSC:
/********************************************************************* * Here is a really short example which shows the result of using * shmem_set_cache_inv(). You could also use shmem_udcflush() after * the second pvm_barrier() call to obtain the same results. Try * running this with and w/o the cache control fxn and you'll see the * results immediately. I tested the code with 8 PEs. **********************************************************************/ #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <mpp/shmem.h> #include <pvm3.h> main() { int num_PES = pvm_gsize(0); int my_PE = pvm_get_PE(pvm_mytid()); long var; int pe; /* Include for shmem_put to work correctly */ /* shmem_set_cache_inv(); */ pvm_barrier( NULL, num_PES ); if( my_PE == 0 ) { var = num_PES; for( pe = 1; pe < num_PES; pe++ ) shmem_put( (long *)&var, (long *)&var, 1, pe ); } pvm_barrier( NULL, num_PES ); printf( "PE_%d: var = %d\n", my_PE, var ); return( 0 ); } /************************************************************/
Here is the output from two runs. The first with the shmem_set_cache_inv() call commented out, as above. The second with it active:
denali$ cache_inv.OFF PE_2: var = 8 PE_1: var = 416611824824 PE_4: var = 416611824824 PE_5: var = 416611824824 PE_6: var = 416611824824 PE_7: var = 416611824824 PE_0: var = 8 PE_3: var = 416611824824 denali$ cache_inv.ON PE_0: var = 8 PE_1: var = 8 PE_2: var = 8 PE_4: var = 8 PE_5: var = 8 PE_6: var = 8 PE_3: var = 8 PE_7: var = 8
Documentation on shmem_set_cache_inv() is available via man and docview. Also, as mentioned in earlier issues of the Newsletter, CRI has written T3D optimization papers which are available from the ARSC anonymous FTP server. Here's one which covers shmem_put() and shmem_set_cache_inv().
File Name: shmem.ascii FTP site: ftp.arsc.edu Directory: pub/mpp/docs/ Title: "SHARED MEMORY GETS AND PUTS ON THE CRAY T3D SYSTEM" An Excerpt: =========== The Get-It-Right rules: (2) Cache coherency on CRAY T3D remote processors can only be guaranteed when the cache invalidate filter is set on the receiving PEs by calling the shmem_set_cache_inv() or shmem_set_cache_line_inv(...) routines prior to data transfer or when full or partial cache flushing is invoked by shmem_udcflush() or shmem_udcflush_line(...) before attempting to use any data received. The performance rules: (1) When possible, use puts rather than gets. The put routines are asynchronous and allow continuation of work by the calling routine. The get routines stall the calling PE until the requested data is in local memory.
Memory Requests in NQS
[ Jayashree Harikuma of ARSC provided this. ]
Here's a sample output from "qstat -a:"
IDENTIFIER NAME USER QUEUE JID PRTY REQMEM REQTIM ST ------------- ------- ----- ----------------- ---- ---- ------ ------ --- 5815.denali R01d01D ZZZ m_64pe_24h@denali 707 4096 10800 Qge
REQMEM: represents the per-request memory limit for a request awaiting execution; the current memory usage (expressed in Kilowords) for an executing request or ** for a request with unlimited per-request memory.
The REQMEM column output you see from the output of qstat stands for the memory requested on the Y-MP. If you want more memory on the T3D you ask for more PEs. When NQS sees that you have asked for a large memory on the Y-MP it takes into consideration the load on the Y-MP. If a user wants about 16 Mw memory on the T3D he should ask for 2 PE. If he just specifies that he wants 16 Mw memory NQS will assume that he wants it for the Y-MP and prioritise his job accordingly.
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It is easy for companies to recognise the importance of leadership, but much more difficult for them to foster it. Janine Milne finds out how it is done
Jamie Oliver has it, so does Richard Branson. Margaret Thatcher had it, but then lost it spectacularly. They share little in common except for one important thing: they all possess the leadership X-Factor.
Effective leadership can mean the difference between a business flourishing or floundering. But while it is easy to see where leadership can go horribly David Brent-style wrong, it is much harder to define what makes a good leader and even harder to go about shifting corporate culture to encourage leadership at all levels.
For while leadership must come from the top, a Richard Branson-type figurehead will still need strong leaders throughout the company to be successful.
Mark Wilkinson, head of IT solutions at information giant LexisNexis, recognised that bringing leadership skills to the fore throughout his department was key to delivering the new IT strategy. He wanted to create a culture where all members of staff took ownership and responsibility for their work and encourage a think-beyond-the-payslip mentality.
Ownership issues
"I knew I didnt have enough ownership in my team or know how to fix it, thats why I went to Attiva," he says. Business performance training company Attiva devised a two-day leadership course for Wilkinson and other levels of people throughout the department. "All leadership books are about CEOs, so to try and bring leadership down to everyone in the organisation is fantastic," adds Wilkinson.
Everyone took away three key messages from the course: the importance of relationships, communication and ownership. "It was taken down to all the silos that existed and taught me last year how important relationships are. It makes it so much easier to accomplish things," he says.
Opening up the lines of communication and a greater awareness of strategic goals, helped the department become 16 per cent more productive. Now other parts of the business are geared up to take the same course. The key to successful leadership at all levels is tapping into peoples enthusiasm, says Wilkinson.
Tapping into passion "A leader is someone who can bring everyones passion out - passion drives everything, "believes Wilkinson. "When youre passionate about something like a hobby, it really shows. If you can get that same passion at work, thats great."
Insurance company Hiscox puts new employees through a course on personal presentation from management development company Jo Ouston. Hiscox is small and entrepreneurial and it is part of everyones job description to constantly question and not accept the status quo. The course helped Ian Holt, who is head of business and analysis and responsible for IT, to adjust to this leadership-driven company.
"Everyone here is very entrepreneurial and open and has ideas on how to make the business more of a success," says Holt. Creating such dramatic cultural change is the pot of gold for organisations. But it seems that many companies are not really as committed to promoting change as they profess.
Corporate apathy According to a January 2005 report, Leadership Development in European Organisations: Change and Best Practice, from leadership development organisation DIEU, nearly half the European companies surveyed fail to integrate their leadership development with business needs.
It finds that less than a quarter of boardrooms are fully committed to their companies goals of leadership development and there is no sign of them upping their investment in leadership.
But results take investment: both personally and professionally. "Training is very important and you have to start early," says David McKean, UK IT director at Cable & Wireless.
"I did a sales course early on and it completely re-calibrated my brain - it was the first bit of leadership training I went on."
And training can be important to help you understand yourself better, by promoting some much needed navel gazing. "The more you know about yourself, the better leader you are," says Wilkinson at LexisNexis. But it is nonsense to think you can go on a one day course and be transformed into leader. It is a work in progress. "Its about you as an individual, your experiences, your formal development - your managers and leaders in your business," expands McKean.
Natural talent
While leadership skills can be taught, it helps to have some natural leadership ability. "Its the old nature versus nurture debate, but as always in life, its both. You can have enormous natural skill, but theres no doubt that you become much more effective when you build on that," contends ex-BP CIO John Cross, now a non-executive director of ServiceTec.
For Cross, the traditional Hollywood and media ideal of a strong leader is very far removed from what is needed in todays businesses. "The Hollywood heroes to me are just keen to promote themselves and those are the ones I worry about. The really good guys have no need to do that: Bill Gates for example. Hes a great leader who has the ability to surround himself with good people."
Gates is more geek than charismatic, but he finds people with complementary skills to surround him. He recognises his strengths and weaknesses. In the same way it could be argued that Margaret Thatcher was a successful leader when she had Willie Whitelaw to curb her excesses, but did less well when Norman Tebbit became her chief sounding board. It is rare to get all the leadership skills you need in one person. Leadership strength comes from self-assurance, but not arrogance.
"Ive seen my share of arrogant leaders," recalls Cross. "My great leaders are John Browne [CEO of BP] and Jack Welch at GE. What they both had in common is that they are very self-effacing."
Restrained leadership His experience chimes with the theory from leadership experts. The qualities that most people admire in a leader are not charisma or strength.
"Interviews with CEOs at Fortune 500 companies found the differentiating factor of those who made it to CEO was empathy and the ability to work in a team. But the biggest factor was self-control," says Gordon Mackenzie, a director at training consultancy Performance First. A good manager is consistent, they do not fly off the wall one day and act all sweetness and light the next.
"If you look at research, the biggest reason why people leave companies is their relationship with their manager; the biggest cause of stress is the relationship with their line manager and the biggest cause of absenteeism is the climate create by the line manager," says Mackenzie. No matter how good the CEO or CIO is, you need good leaders and managers all the way down the food chain.
Feminine management Increasingly those leaders and managers are female. "Were beginning to see the feminisation of leadership," says Steve Kempster, director of leadership development at Lancaster University Management School. Partly that is because we are seeing an influx of women in management - women do better at school and university and are seen to have the right repertoire of personal skills: they are good at multitasking, forming relationships and negotiating, and they do not tend to let ego get in the way. As they progress up the management scale, they become role models for the next-generation. But just as Maggie Thatcher was quite male in her leadership style, todays feminine leader is embodied by male chef Jamie Oliver.
Training company Video Arts has taken Jamie Oliver and his television programme Jamies Kitchen as the inspiration for leadership and teamwork courses. In the programme, Oliver took a group of unemployed kitchen no-hopers and moulded them into an efficient kitchen crew capable of running a top restaurant, Fifteen.
The way he turned them around - with his clear vision, passion and inclusive rather than bossy attitude - encapsulates the skills needed to succeed in business "At first you see him as a man dominating the kitchen, but when you size it up, it actually shows a new generation perspective on leadership," suggests Kempster.
Personal clarity
But having the right personality traits will not be enough to see you through. You also need the drive to realise that vision and you need to understand your industry and be able to set realistic business objectives. "The best organisations we work with are those who have a real focus on performance, real clear goals and processes. Set goals, rules and processes, then the relationships will follow. Its not relationships first. You need clarity first and relationships will come," says Mackenzie.
Cross agrees it is a combination of business experience and personal leadership style that wins followers. "They need the capacity to set new objectives and to have a profound understanding of organisational processes and whats required to make people follow you," he says. "I would say a leader has to exhibit the capacity to see a future vision. Of course, someone may see the wrong vision. Its all very well for a general to march to the top of a mountain, but what if its the wrong one? Its all about strategic vision and that has to come from people who grasp the fundamentals of the industry they are in. A true leader changes the organisation - and keeps on doing that. They have to reinvigorate the business over time as the market keeps on changing."
Creating caretakers Cross is describing what the academics call transformational leaders, who have true entrepreneurial vision and determination to keep reinventing the business. But there is another kind of leader: a transactional leader, who is concerned with getting a job done. They give orders and keep records and follow systems - they fit the mould of managers, rather than leaders. It is possible to train transactional managers, but transformational managers are far more of a rare breed - they need that X-Factor.
Of course, companies need both sorts of people, but our education system, contends Mackenzie, is creating a nation of transactional rather than transformational leaders. "School and university teaches us to conform and accept and regurgitate knowledge, but it doesnt actually teach us to lead," says Mackenzie.
That is why a disproportionate amount of people who opt out of formal education prove to be very entrepreneurial. So too do dyslexics. The illustrious roll call includes Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and John F Kennedy, because they had to think creatively around problems and to ignore established rules.
As Mackenzie points out: "Someone whos dyslexic or wants to get on will question the point of learning about quadratic equations."
So if the education system is letting us down, what can we do about it? Ken Lewis was so shocked by the lack of leadership potential he found when recruiting for the company he founded, Dutton Engineering, that he decided to take action at the source and go back to school.
He set up a scheme where troublemaker teenagers, who were intelligent but determined to buck the system, would come and work a day a week at the firm and be mentored by one of his staff. "Ive always recruited on attitude and aptitude, not qualifications," he says. One of those youngsters has joined the company full-time and is being fast-tracked to greater things.
Learned behaviour The educational system and parents can do more to help create the next-generation of leaders simply by encouraging the right behaviour. "We learn leadership through the sets of experience we go through. The more we value leadership and the more you begin to identify with leadership, the more you tend to spot it," says Kempster.
So, for example, a kid that plays football like Wayne Rooney might be made captain. If someone then keeps telling them they are doing a fantastic job as captain, they will start to believe in themselves. "Leaders are the result of experience, so the quicker and earlier people can gain life experience, the more likely they are to step up to the mark. They get over their fear," says Mackenzie. And being a transformation leader is a scary business; it demands risk-taking.
Being a leader in IT is a special case, however. IT is a stickler for rules and systems - it is the nature of the job. If you do not keep within boundaries, you are not going to create software or systems that meet business requirements.
Unfortunately, that kind of thinking does not necessarily sit easily with the risk-taking, rule-breaking style of transformational leadership.
Quest for perfection
"One of the hardest things I had to do was creating high-quality leaders out of IT people," says Cross. "There is an emphasis in IT on perfection that simply doesnt exist in the business world."
In business you fail and learn. In IT, you strive for perfection. But someone with only business expertise cannot easily fill the CIO shoes. "Generalists dont survive either," adds Cross. "If they fail to understand the strategic technology agenda, they will fail. Youve got to be capable of understanding the technology market, while be firmly centred on the business.
In BP, I worked hard trying to ensure cross-fertilisation with the business. Recognising leaders when theyre in senior IT management is almost too late. Many will be too senior to be accepted in another part of the business."
There is no magic key that unlocks the door to successful leadership. It takes a mixture of innate talent, experience and training, as well as a hefty dollop of personal knowledge to succeed. But the one place to start is to love what you do.
"People who are managing and leading in the entrepreneurial sense - their passion comes across. Enjoyment has a huge impact," says Mackenzie.
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Arsène Wenger says there will be no time for celebrations as he takes charge of his 800th game as Arsenal manager on Saturday.
Of far more importance to Wenger is that everyone at the Club, including himself, concentrates on getting back to winning ways against Birmingham City after two Premier League defeats in succession.
"I don't mind [that tomorrow is a milestone game], what is important is that I focus on the result of the game tomorrow," said Wenger.
"It is not a birthday game, it is a very important game for us in the league.
"I hope and am convinced that everyone will be highly focused. It is a big game for us."
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Krenzien's Hat Trick Gives Phoenix Fifth Consecutive Win
By: Jill Wunrow
Green Bay, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Sophomore Sam Krenzien (Wauwatosa, Wis.) scored all three goals in Green Bay's (9-5-1, 4-2-0) 3-1 win over Detroit (5-9-1, 1-4-1) Wednesday in a Horizon League men's soccer battle at Aldo Santaga Stadium. The win was the fifth consecutive for the Phoenix and the first multiple goal-scoring game for Krenzien in his young career.
"This is a huge win for us," said head coach Kris Kelderman. "Before the game we reminded our players that we can't look ahead and it's one game at a time for us. They came out with a great attitude and great energy for the game and it showed."
With 27 minutes left in the first half Lawrence Talery (Coon Rapids, Minn.) served the ball from the left side of the box where he found Krenzien on the doorstep for the header goal and the 1-0 lead.
Exactly four minutes later, Tony Walls (Wauwatosa, Wis.) served the ball ahead to Krenzien who split the defenders and chipped the ball in the center of the net to boost the Phoenix lead to 2-0.
Green Bay outshot the Titans 15-3 and 5-0 on corner kicks throughout the first half of play with Krenzien leading the shot count with four.
"I've been pressing a lot lately and working on hitting the ball on target more during practice," said Krenzien.
Krenzien completed the hat trick less than eight minutes into the second half when Luke Goodnetter (Elm Grove, Wis.) found the sophomore forward on the left side of the box for the 3-0 Phoenix lead, putting the game away.
"As a team we're just happy for him," said Kelderman. "We know that he can be a good finisher and it's just a matter of having a night like tonight. He had a couple other chances and realistically could have had five or six goals."
With his three goals against Detroit, Krenzien now leads the Phoenix in the statistic along with Walls who also has netted five goals on the season.
"It just felt good to get one goal but to get three in one game on our home field was really neat," Krenzien said.
The Phoenix finished the game outshooting Detroit 20-7, allowing just four shots in the second half. Green Bay had seven corner kick opportunities throughout the game compared to the Titans' three. Krenzien led all players with five shots; four on goal, while Talery, Walls and Goodnetter all tallied assists in the win.
Green Bay has two games remaining in regular season play before the six-team Horizon League Championship kicks off Nov. 8. The Phoenix will head to Wright State Oct. 29 before wrapping up Nov. 5 as it hosts Valparaiso on senior day at 1 p.m. at Aldo Santaga Stadium.
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Mr. Garadhi now faces charges that he played a song that denigrated the illustrious leader of Zimbabwe, the Supreme Honcho, Robert Mugabe. According to Nelson Chamiri the song being played was "Nharembozha" which pokes fun at Mugabe.
Oh, well, I am certain the Zimbabwe police now have a special unit whose task is to find crimes they can charge members of the MDC with and throw them into prison.


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Menthol smokers know that there are a lot of options out there when it comes to menthol cigarettes. A lot of our staff are former menthol smokers, so we know that too. That's why our Premium and WOW menthol e-juice comes in nearly two dozen varieties. We make it easy to find a menthol e-liquid that tastes just like the brand of smokes you loved.
Which Menthol Vape Flavor Should I Choose?
Since we have so many menthol vape juice flavors, it can seem pretty tough to pick one to start with. Browse the flavor selection and find a menthol e-juice that has a similar profile to your preferred brand. If you need an additional nudge in the right direction, email our customer service team at [email protected] In addition to tobacco menthol vape flavors, you can buy menthol e-juice that tastes like mint-infused coffee, spearmint, and menthol peach. And then there's our best-selling e-juice of all time, Peppermint. We also carry high-VG menthol e-liquid from our Ultimo Vapor line and other top industry brands.