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I am a learning researcher with an interest in self-directed learning and the personal learning networks that individuals engage in to support their learning. Increasingly, learners must take primary (and often, full) responsibility for their learning, so it is important to understand their motivations, how their learning skills emerge and develop (for example to identify learning needs, evaluate learning opportunities and recognise learning that has occurred), and how they can be supported and nurtured.
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Like I said before, Steve, I do not have a picture of my initial starting point. Its been a bane in my butt; I wish I would have taken one. However, I dug up one of my earliest photos. The date in the camera photo is wrong. When I started I had literal hanging man-boobs, weighed approximate 200 pounds, and wanted to lose about 45 pounds of excess fat (and knew nothing on how to start at the time). In this photo, its about one year after starting. I lost over 30 pounds, and had a lot of lower-front-end body fat that was really being a pain in the rear to get rid of.
This was on or about December 2006.
At this point I have come a very long way as compared to my starting point. Man-boobies gone, 30 pounds of fat gone, and I actually had the start of a chest appearing.
My weight in this pic according to my records was 173 pounds.
As you can see in this pic, a lot of lower abdominal fat was still there. This is the earliest picture. If there was a initial starting point picture, the difference would be astounding between the two of them.
But this was about to change in the next 6 months of intensive hard work.
Contrast the above 173 pounds with 152/154 pounds in these pics
At the time I didn't have a normal camera was using my cell phone camera, and all pics were taken by myself, and resolution is horrible, but it dod the job.
I will post additional years, since you requested, it Steve. It will be forth coming soon
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Okay so I bought yet another box of ammo. This time I wanted to try out a Barnes TSX bullet. So now I've got 20 of BUFFALO BARNES 250 gr. 338 WinMags. The reason for the post is this:
I just bought Reddings Type S Full Length Bushing Dies. I wad told that I needed to take a measurement of a loaded round. Hence the reason for purchased ammo. Plus I wanted to try a TSX. I'll end up using their 225 gr. after these are gone. Anyway. I was told to measure a loaded case to find out which bushing to use. So it measured .370. The bushings Redding says to buy for a 338 WinMag are from .361 -.365. So which bushing is best then?


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- This hotel has 91 rooms
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is 10 AM
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- Minimum check-in age is 18
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- One child (2 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Free children's club
- Pets stay free (dogs only)
- 1 per room (up to 3 kg)
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
- Free train station pickup *
- Free self parking
- Extended parking
- Free area shuttle
- Free beach shuttle
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- Children's club (free)
- Free breakfast
- 2 coffee shops/cafés
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Poolside bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Free beach shuttle
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Outdoor pool
- Outdoor tennis court
- Children's pool
- Tennis on site
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- Pool umbrellas
- Arcade/game room
- Billiards or pool table
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Elevator/lift
- Rooftop terrace
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- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
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- Roll-in shower
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- Air conditioning
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- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
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- Satellite TV channels
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- Free WiFi
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All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
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- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 16 years of age.
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Rollaway beds are available for an additional charge
Cribs/Infant beds are available for EUR 8.00 per day
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 160.00 per room (roundtrip)
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"reign in blood"
Since: May 09
#1 Dec 14, 2012
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married for seven years. Since our wedding, he has had increasing health problems.
He recently told me that he planned his funeral three months ago, without saying a word to me. I am very concerned that he seems more focused on death than on life. Am I wrong to be upset? He says I am.-- WIFE IN BURLINGTON, N.J.
DEAR WIFE: I don't blame you for being concerned because husbands and wives should be able to discuss important topics with each other, and this is one of them.
When your husband has his next medical appointment, go with him so you can speak with his physician. It's possible that because of his "increasing health problems" he has become depressed, and if that's the case, his doctor should be told.
It is always helpful for spouses to accompany each other to their medical appointments in case the patient forgets to ask a question or tell the doctor something he or she needs to know.
DEAR ABBY: My 24-year-old son, "Dustin," moved out five years ago, but he expects me to keep all his childhood and college items in his old bedroom because he says he doesn't have room for them in his apartment.
I'd like to clear out his closet and dresser and use the space for things I want to store. I need more space for me.
Dustin is calling me selfish because I want to change "his" room and move my stuff in there. I say I need the space, and if he wants to keep all his stuff, he should rent a storage locker. By the way, he sleeps here maybe five nights a year at most.
How long are parents obligated to keep their grown children's keepsakes?-- WANTS MY SPACE
DEAR WANTS YOUR SPACE: You are asking an emotionally loaded question. While, rationally, five years should be long enough, clearing "his" room instead of maintaining it as a shrine may feel like abandonment to your adult child.
Give Dustin a little more time to adjust -- like six months -- and then insist that he find a place for his things. That way it will be a little less traumatic.
DEAR ABBY: During these hard times, may I tell you about my daughter? Every year at Christmas, I let our children pick one present for around $30 for themselves. They know that we don't have a lot of money and that "Santa" brings only a few presents.
My daughter chose to give her "Christmas money" to a charity so that another family can be blessed. She's only 9, and she understands there are families who are in more need than us. She truly is an angel for reminding me of that.
I went to our local food pantry and told them what my daughter wanted to do for Christmas. The director wrote her a letter of thanks and explained how many families her $30 would be helping. I'm so proud of my girl. Sometimes it takes a child to remind us how all of us should act.-- BLESSED IN ILLINOIS
DEAR BLESSED: Yes, it's true. But invariably it takes good parents to instill a spirit of empathy and generosity in their children. So some of the credit belongs to you.
Since: Jan 10
Location hidden
#2 Dec 14, 2012
L1: If he's not THAT sick, then maybe he needs counseling. He could be depressed from his medical situation. If he IS that sick, then kudos to him for planning things so you don't have to. I think when you plan your own funeral and make the arrangements, you're giving a gift to your loved ones.
L2: Get rid of the big stuff you mentioned, then box his stuff up and keep it in rubbermaid tubs, if you have the room. If you don't, ship it all to him. If he's low on space, he can go through it all and find out what's really important. Your son sounds like an a hole.
L3: I guess I was a horrible 9 yo, but I never would have given up my christmas gift for another kid.
Since: Dec 07
DuPage County
#3 Dec 14, 2012
1 I think that age isa factor here; if the hubby is in his late 70s, what's wrong with pre-planning the funeral? My mother recently went and did this, and she's in fine health.
2 Why won't the LW be firm and give a deadline date? We've already told our HS senior that as soon as she's away at college we are decorating her room to be a guest BR. "Come and get it by 1/1/13 or it goes to charity or the curb."
3 This idea would go over like a fart in church at our house.
"Where is Tonka?"
Since: Feb 09
Neda, stay with me! Charlie
#4 Dec 14, 2012
1 He is doing you a favor.
2 Your kid is a spoiled brat. It's YOUR house not HIS room. You gave him too much entitlement.
3 Braggart, real charity is anonymous.
Since: Aug 08
Location hidden
#5 Dec 14, 2012
LW1: Need more info.
LW2: Tell Dustin to grow up and quit acting like a pansy. My parents gradually gave me a box here and there.
LW3: Blah, blah, blah.
My son's teacher sent home a note that said she would like to thank the "two families" who contributed to their toys for tots drive. Bambi and I thought it was rude to word it like that. We've probably spent close to 300 buying other people's kids toys this year for Christmas, and then to have that snot nose teacher send something home like that attempting to shame people, f' her.
"...,to wit"
Since: Jun 09
Location hidden
#6 Dec 14, 2012
I am 62 and in good health. I know where I want my funeral,what music I want played and that I want a party rather than a shiva or a wake. My kids know, so does my husband. I change my mind frequently, but this is lighthearted because nothing seems imminent.
My parents are in failing health. My mother is earnest in reminding me where their cemetery plots are, my father more ironic and a bit silly. Both are reality based.
Life ends. Western society has some rituals that accompany death. No sense in ignoring teh 800lb gorilla walking in the door.
"...,to wit"
Since: Jun 09
Location hidden
#7 Dec 14, 2012
L2 I know this Dustin person. He is masquerading as my older daughter who complains I have taken over her closet even though she left for college in August 2004 and has not lived here since.
Pffftt!!(but I have not taken down her docrations and art work)
Since: Jan 10
Location hidden
#8 Dec 14, 2012
I am strongly considering prepaying for my cremation/funeral expenses NOW and just having it done.
Since: Oct 09
#9 Dec 14, 2012
That's an excellent idea and more people should consider that, but you do need to be very careful about which company you choose and the terms of the contract. There have been several cases where the company (funeral home, crematory, etc.) pocketed the money and then either "lost" the paperwork (so they could then claim they didn't owe anything when the time came and families got a rude suprise), changed the contract without notifying anyone (illegal) or otherwise failed/refused to deliver when the time came.
Most places are reputable and ethical, but you never know, so do some heavy due diligence beforehand and go over the contract with a fine-toothed comb.
Since: Mar 09
#10 Dec 14, 2012
L1: What Ang said with a side of Saluki.
L2: Dustin is 24; let's assume he moved out at 18. That means it's been six YEARS - what's another six months going to do? You laid this groundwork by letting him think you'll store his stuff for eternity, time to have a heart to heart. The stuff I have left at my parents' house could all be thrown away, for all I care. I don't even remember what half of it is and clearly I'm not using it or in need of it.
L3: Yeah, I was a selfish little brat like the rest of us.:)
"Where is Everyone?"
Since: Jul 12
Location hidden
#11 Dec 14, 2012
L1: If he doesn't want you to talk to the doctor, you will not be able to. Privacy laws. About the funeral -- put me in a plain box if you have to, turn me into ashes, I really don't care. Don't spend time and money on my dead body. Spend the time and money NOW! By then, it's too late and I really won't care. Go ahead and have a great party though.
L2: Get a Pod, pay for a month, give Dustin the key and the info to pay monthly. He then has 30 days to decide what he wants to do with his stuff.
L3: That's sweet. Empathy is good. More people could use a dose of it.
"The two baby belly, please!"
Since: Sep 09
Evanston IL
#12 Dec 14, 2012
LW1: Thanks for not telling us what his medical problems are or how old both of you are. We need information, people!
LW2: He's had 5 years to figure out what to do with his crap. Just put his crap in a couple of boxes and put them in the basement (or attic or crawlspace).
When Dickie moved out, his parents had turned his room into an office within the month.
LW3: Sounds like a sweet kid.
"The two baby belly, please!"
Since: Sep 09
Evanston IL
#13 Dec 14, 2012
My dad and step-mom did this through the Neptune or Poseidon Society. I tried to google both and got mostly the same info; they set up the cremation stuff so when you die all your family has to do is call a number and everything is taken care of.
As far as I know, it worked perfectly with my step-mom.
#14 Dec 14, 2012
LW2: My mom made me back up all my stuff in boxes and put it into one of their closets when I moved out to go to college at age 18.
By the time I was 24, they'd had both a yard sale and had rented dumpster as part of a massive house cleaning effort. Anything I hadn't taken out of the house at that point was fair game for either.
#15 Dec 14, 2012
1. If he is planning his funeral, then I think it's fair that you get to start planning for his replacement.
2. "His" room is in "his" residence. Your son is a whiny punk. If it's not important enough for "his" place or a storage locker, then it's not worth keeping.
3. Your cookie is in the mail.
Since: Feb 08
Location hidden
#16 Dec 14, 2012
My mom had hers set up with a similar company. She did all that while still in CA, but all I had to do was call the funeral home when she died, and they took care of the rest with my only having to sign some papers. If we hadn't been going down to have the service for her friends and my brother, they'd have shipped the cremains for us as well.
Since: Feb 08
Location hidden
#17 Dec 14, 2012
Oh, and the price of the services rendered had increased over the years (nearly thirty) since she'd arranged her cremation. Part of the whole deal was that everything was done at the prices that were set at the time she purchased the services.
There was about 45 bucks left over after it was all done that they refunded to me.
Since: Feb 08
Location hidden
#18 Dec 14, 2012
Nope, what the doctor cannot do is talk to her without his permission. She can talk to the doctor all she wants and for as long as the doc is willing to listen. The privacy thing is one way only. ANYONE can call a doctor and give them information about a patient. The doc just can't give out any.
"Where is Everyone?"
Since: Jul 12
Location hidden
#19 Dec 14, 2012
I agree. That's why I said "If he doesn't want you to talk to him..."
"Where is Everyone?"
Since: Jul 12
Location hidden
#20 Dec 14, 2012
Wait -- reread Moon. I mean, why do you talk to a doctor? She wants information. That's what I meant. She will not get info out of the doctor without her husband's consent.
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Human resource policies are continuing guidelines on the approach the organization intends to adopt in managing its people.[1] It represents specific guidelines to HR managers various matters concerning employments. It states the intend of the organization about different aspects of Human Resource management such as recruitment, promotion, compensation, training, selections etc.[2] They define the conception and value of the organization on how people and things should be treated. Therefore, it serves as a reference point when human resources management practices are being developed or when decisions are being made about people. A good HR policy could provide generalized guidance on the approach adopted by the organization, and therefore its employees, concerning various aspects of employments. A procedure spells out precisely what action should be taken in line with the policy.[1]
However, each company has a different set of circumstances, and so develops an individual set of human resource policies.[3]
The establishment of policies can help an organization demonstrate, both internally and externally, that it meets requirements for diversity, ethics and training as well as its commitments in relation to regulation and corporate governance of its employees. For example, in order to dismiss an employee in accordance with employment law requirements, amongst other considerations, it will normally be necessary to meet provisions within employment contracts and collective bargaining agreements.[4] The establishment of an HR Policy which sets out obligations, standards of behavior and document disciplinary procedures, is now the standard approach to meeting these obligations. They provide frameworks within which consistent decisions are made and promote equity in the way in which people are treated.[5]
HR policies can also be very effective at supporting and building the desired organizational culture.[6]For example, recruitment and retention policies might outline the way the organization values a flexible workforce, compensation policies might support this by offering a 48/52 pay option where employees can take an extra four weeks holidays per year and receive less pay across the year.
In actuality, policies and procedures serves a number of purposes :[7]
- They provide clear communication between the organization and their employees regarding their condition of employment.
- They form a basis for treating all employees fairly and equally.
- They are a set of guidelines for supervisors and managers.
- They create a basis for developing the employees handbook.
- They establish a basis for regularly reviewing possible changes affecting employees.
- They form a context for supervisor training programs and employee orientation programs.
In developing HR Policies, there should be clear and consistent statements of the organization's policies regarding to all conditions of employment and procedures for their equal and fair implementation. In order to fulfill this objective, policies and procedures should be:[8]
- Clear and specific, but provide enough flexibility to meet the changing conditions.
- Comply with all appropriate law and regulation.
- Agree with one another and reflect an overall true and fair view approach to all employees.
The HR policies are developed by making decisions and taking actions on the day-to-day problems of the organization. The Process on developing HR policies involved the assessment of the following factors:[9]
- Identify the purpose and objectives which the organization wish to attain regarding to its Human Resources department.
- Analysis of all the factors under which the organization's HR policy will be operating.
- Examining the possible alternatives in each area which the HR policy statement is necessary.
- Implementation of the policy through the development of a procedure to support the policy.
- Communication of the policy and procedures adapted to the entire organization.
- Auditing the policy so as to reveal the necessary areas requiring change.
- Continuous revaluation and revision of policy to meet the current needs of the organization.
Human Resource Management consists of deliberate organizational activities designed to improve employee productivity and administration through such means as recruitment, compensation, performance, evaluation, training, record keeping and compliance. HR policies should be developed for key HR management functions covering eight commonly accepted responsibilities:[10]
- Compensation and Benefits.
- Employee and Labor Relations.
- Employment Practices & Placement.
- Workplace Diversity.
- Health, Safety and Security.
- Human Resources Information Systems.
- Human Resource Research.
- Training and Development.
The following steps should be taken when formulating or revising policies:[11]
- Gain understanding of the corporate culture and its shared values
- Analyse existing policies: both written and unwritten existing policies.
- Analyse external influences: HR policies are subject to the influence of many legislation, regulations and authorities, thus the codes of practice issued by the professional institutions, should also be consulted.
- Assess any areas where new policies are needed or existing policies are inadequate.
- Check with managers, preferably starting at the top, on their views about HR policies and where they think could be improved.
- Seek the view of employees about the HR policies, especially to the extend for which they are inherently fair and equitable and are implemented fairly and consistently.
- Seek the view of the union's representatives.
- Analyse the information retained in the previous steps and prepare the draft policies.
- Consult, discuss and agree policies with management and union representatives.
In order to write the first draft of the policies as step 7 have stated, the following content should be included:[12]
- Policy name
- Effective date of the policy and the date of any revisions
- Approval status - At this stage the status should be 'DRAFT'
- References - list other policies or documents related to this policy
- Purpose of the policy - what is it intended to promote or achieve
- Main policy statement
- Definition of any key concepts or terms mentioned in the policy need to be defined
- Eligibility or scope - Any stakeholders are covered by the policy
- How to deal with potential exceptions
- Positions in the organizations responsible for implementing and monitoring the policy
- Procedures for carrying out the policy - preferably written in numbered steps
HR policies could be classified on the basis of sources or description.[9]
On the basis of source[edit]
On the basis of their source, policies could be classified into
- Originated Policies - These are the policies usually established by the senior managers in order to guide their subordinates.
- Implicit POLICIES - These are the policies which are not formally expressed, they are inferred from the behavior of managers, which are also known as the implied policies.
- Imposed Policies - Policies are sometimes imposed on the business by external agencies such as government, trade associations and trade unions.
- Appealed Policies - Appealed policies arise because the particular case is not covered by the earlier policies. In order to know how to handle some situations, subordinates may request or appeal for the formulation of specific policies.
On the basis of description[edit]
On the basis of description, policies maybe general or specific.
- General Policies - These policies do not related to any specific issue in particular. General policies are formulated by the top management, this kind of policies are called 'general' because they do not related to any specific issue in particular.
- Specific Policies - These policies are related to specific issues like staffing, compensation, collective bargaining etc. Specific policies must confirm to the board pattern laid down by the general policies.
The following advantages could be achieved by the set up of HR policies:[9]
- It helps the managers at various levels of decision making to take decisions without the consulting their superiors. Subordinates are more willing to accept responsibility because policies indicate what is expected of them and they can quote a written policy to justify their action.
- It ensures long term welfare of employees and makes for good employee relationship as favoritism and discrimination are reduced. Well-established policies ensure uniform and consistent treatment of all employees throughout the organization.
- It lays down the guidelines pursued in the organization and thereby minimizes the personal bias of managers.
- It ensure prompt action for taking decisions because the policies serve as standards to be followed. they prevent the wastage of time and energy involved in repeated analyses for solving problems of a similar nature.
- It establishes consistency in the application of the policies over a period of time so that each one in the organization gets a fair and just treatment. Employees know what action to expect in circumstances covered by the policies. Policies set patterns of behavior and permit employees to work more confidently.
Influential factors[edit]
The following factors will influence the HR policy of an organization:
Laws of the country[edit]
The various labour laws and legislation pertaining to labour have to be taken into consideration. Policies should be conformity with the laws of the country otherwise they are bound to cause problems for the organization.
Social values and customs[edit]
Social values and customs have to be respected , otherwise the employees may be offended. Thus, the values and customs of all communities should be taken into accounts while framing policies.
Management philosophy and values[edit]
Management philosophy and values influence its action on matters concerning the employees. Therefore, without a clear broad philosophy and set values, it would be difficult for the employees to understand management.
Financial impact[edit]
HR policies cost money, which will reflect in the price of the product. Thus, the prices set the absolute limit to organization's HR policies.
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To walk into a cinema off the London streets and watch any of Disney's depictions of our capital city is a peculiar experience. St Paul's may find itself on the opposite side of the river from the West End, whose neon goes on and on; Big Ben becomes the last stop before Never-Never Land and (in the new Dalmatians) Knightsbridge borders directly on to the Thames.
London does not always suffer in being re-imagined this way. Anthony Lane in The New Yorker says that the London of the new Dalmatians film is "horribly damp and dull", but that this "could be excused as hyperrealism". In the original, 1961 animated version, however, set, like Dodie Smith's book, in the environs of Regent's Park, the artists responsible had no time for Sir John Nash's creamy neoclassicism - too much like Washington DC, perhaps - but instead took the rather grave, ornate style found in Wimpole Street and New Cavendish Street and gave it an enlivening, Parisian twist, arguably an improvement. Only when Roger and Anita get married and settle down do the artists stumble into cliche, squashing them into a tumbledown cottage that would be more at home in a Grimm's fairytale. A first-time-buyer's flat must be hard to Disney-fy.
Out in the countryside it's harder to go wrong: as long as the landscape has a bit of a roll to it, and is dotted at intervals with hedges, stiles, rivers and rustic stone bridges, it says England to most people, including most of us. Director Stephen Herek has contrived to commit spectacular and gratuitous solecisms by the inclusion of such non-native species as skunk and raccoon, for the sake of a few off-colour jokes. Though in the age of the Beast of Bodmin, most things are possible.
But of course the Disney vision of England doesn't stop at the scenery. Most of the people in this sort-of England are sort-of English. And like the architecture and the animal life, they go through some weird changes in their journey through the Disney brain.
One has grown accustomed to the fact that when Hollywood wants to tell audiences that so-and-so is a truly bad person, a monster of egotism, a little shit, a grasping pseud with paedophile tendencies, the quickest way to do it, besides giving him a moustache and a 50-a-day cigarette habit, is by using a fairly fruity British accent: clock Marlon Brando, for example, as the mad, eponymous geneticist in the new, abysmal remake of The Island of Dr Moreau, with his preposterous Etonian twang.
There is a simple explanation for this: Wasps (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), because of their historic privileges and snobberies, are the only ethnic group in America who are always fair game for a good kicking; and the Waspiest of the lot, with the added advantage of being the old oppressor, are the Brits. Nothing can provoke the average American to like British toffspeak. "I don't believe the British accent is really an accent at all," as one American put it. "It's just a conspiracy to make the rest of the world feel bad." One of the many refreshing things about Toy Story is that Mr Potato Head (the bad guy) talks neither like Neville Chamberlain nor Reggie Kray. He's just another American.
But watch Disney closely, ideally over and over again on video in the company of an addicted small child, and you realize it's not that simple. Take a film like Jungle Book, for instance. The original story is by Kipling and India was once part of the British Empire, but there is no overpowering reason why the creatures of the jungle should speak like Brits. Yet most of them do: not only the arch-villain, Shere Khan the tiger, with the most splendidly resonant growl in film, but most of the other animals as well. There is the leader of the wolves, who demands that Mowgli be sent back to the man village, the militaristic elephants, the black panther, the vultures who befriend Mowgli and who look a bit like The Beatles and mangle Liverpudlian horribly.
This leaves only two main characters to talk like honest-to-goodness Americans: Baloo the bear ("that shiftless, good-for-nothing jungle bum", as the panther describes him) and Mowgli himself, the two characters who epitomise spontaneity, irresponsibility and naturalness.
It's a similar story in Peter Pan: all the figures both of evil and of maturity and authority use Britspeak: not only Hook but also Mr and Mrs Darling, Wendy, and her pompous brother, John. Only the wild and the free are exempt: the baby, Michael, and Peter himself. In the cartoon of Dalmatians, only the baby puppies talk American.
Watching Disney's depictions of England and Englishness as an English person oneself is not totally unlike being an Indian or Arab or Chinese looking at 19th-century orientalist paintings or reading the orientally- based fiction of Conrad or Stevenson: there is the disturbing sense of being objectified, of being depicted in a way that, while apparently flattering and in some ways even observant, robs one of humanity and authenticity and autonomy, and makes one an ornament in a depiction of the world by those who are more powerful than oneself.
It is a version of the orientalist perspective described and attacked nearly 20 years ago by Edward Said in his book Orientalism - the irony being that the British, in their imperial heyday, were the masters of this orientalist fallacy. Now it is being done to us.
But there is a difference. The sentimental vision of England incarnate in films like Dalmatians and Mary Poppins is one which we, too, have invested in. Dick Van Dyke may be intolerable and loathsome as the cockney chimney- sweep, but much else in the Disney vision has the power to melt our hearts: the ranks of London chimney pots silhouetted against the sky, the apple- pie order of an old-fashioned house with big dogs and blazing fires and north-country staff in starched aprons and caps; the immemorial scenery of Big Ben and double-deckers, the rolling hills and thatched cottages, the overwhelming sense of a cosy, comfortable, well-regulated hierarchy temporarily disrupted for the purposes of the plot, but happily resumed once the villains have been defeated.
American audiences are besotted with this sort of nonsense, to the extent of allowing American characters, with their modern, spontaneous, anti- hierarchical temperaments, practically to be written out of the scripts. But it's no good sneering: evidence of our own infatuation with such imagery is no farther away than the nearest newsagent, where the cover of the Christmas number of Country Life, for example, is an engraving of a snow- covered village replete with happy, sledging children but lacking anything such as a car or a television aerial or a shop sign to tell you what century you are in. Or the latest issue of This England, "Britain's Loveliest Magazine", which urges readers to "tune in to yesterday" ("Evergreen Melodies" cassettes, pounds 4.99 each) or to buy books with titles like Tykes, Dumplings & Scrumpy Jacks.
In Country Life the potent cocktail of maudlin sentiment, antiques, and substantial thatched properties in the gated estates of Walton-on-Thames is at least tempered by a little wit, a little awareness of how contemporary realities do, as they must, intrude: uncomfortable facts like miscegenation, for example (this month's portrait photograph is of fashion designer Miss Selina Blow, who is "half-British, half-Sri Lankan", though seemingly all white). And the jokey Xmas snakes-and-ladders-like "Game of Villages" has lines such as "You discover the visiting Catholic bishop is your father - Back 4" and "The owner of the village shop wins the Lottery and closes down - Back 2". But when a solitary black face looms up - advertising "the ultimate running machine" - it's a jolt. What the hell's he doing here?
The unpleasant fact is that the cosy Disney fantasy of England is a projection of American wishful thinking at its most cloying and covertly racist. Why not locate the remake of 101 Dalmatians in Manhattan? Because then you would have to contend with the Rainbow Coalition that is the real New York. Keep it in London, or rather in a fantasy city called London, and you can indulge your whiter-than-white fantasies of order and hierarchy (and doubtless draconian immigration policies) for all they are worth, with no comeback.
Only the quarterly This England has the brutal honesty to make explicit the chauvinism that is at the root of all such sentimental conceptions of Home and Hearth: interspersing chocolate-box scenery with vituperative and fundamentalist anti-Europeanism; captioning a placid scene of chomping cows with the bizarre allegation that BSE was imported from France after the Battle of Waterloo; overlaying images of castles and cottages and the Houses of Parliament with ringing patriotic messages:
"O, sons of the Motherland, obey, obey
The call of the old Home Flag ..."
And this stuff goes down a treat in America, too. "I gaze at each picture with longing in my heart," writes Joan Mattews from California in the Readers' Comments column. "Of all the magazines I have subscribed to, This England is by far the best," writes another American. "It has great style and dignity."
It's flattering that Disney should lavish attention on our little island in preference to so many other places. But when one understands the game he's playing, that emotion is liable to curdle.
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In the early days, we used to apply one size fits all methodology because we didn't know better (see figure 1, which is a system provided in a map form). We used to yo-yo between methods but in 2002, most of us in the open source world had gone "all agile" whilst the enterprise was mainly "all waterfall and all outsourcing". Under such a model, the IT organisation is one large hierarchical department and one attitude. Be warned, single methods fail to deal with evolution and tend to run into excessive change control cost overruns.
Figure 1 - circa 2002 - One size rules all, OK!
By 2004, in the open source world, we had learned that one size fits all didn't work. We had started to work towards the use of multiple methods. We knew agile was suitable in the early stages of evolution of an act but we also knew six sigma was better for more evolved activities. The foolhardy amongst us had started to organise by this "bimodal" fashion with groups such as common services or systems and development (see figure 2). Under such a model, the IT organisation is two groups in a hierarchy and two polar opposite (usually competing) attitudes - a bit more "bipolar" than anything else. Be warned, these structures tend to fail to hand over activities and lead to lack of industrialisation of common components, spaghetti junction and platform rewrites.
Figure 2 - circa 2004 - Bimodal rules all, OK!
By 2005 to early 2006, many of us had learned that the jump between the novel and the industrialised was too large. We needed a third group and a different set of methods, techniques, culture and attitudes to cope with this. Structures that took this into consideration started to appear, in some cases we formalised the "missing" group in our "bimodal" structures e.g. we went from development and common services to development, framework and common services. This three party system was also applicable across the entire business as a pioneer, settler and town planner structure (see figure 3). Under such a model, the IT organisation is three groups and three overlapping attitudes which can be made to work in concert through the use of theft (i.e. enforced evolution). Be warned, such three party structures contain strong hierarchies and still tend to create large groups creating communication and other issues.
Figure 3 - circa 2005 / 2006 - Trimodal rules all, OK!
By 2007 to 2009, we had started to learn that we needed to divide our organisations into self organising cell based structures e.g. a starfish model, two pizza models etc (see figure 4). Under such a model, the organisation is broken into many small groups but it has no specific attitude and no means of dealing with evolution. Be warned, whilst many of the communication and growth issues are better handled, the lack of means of managing evolution can create problems itself. The structure itself still has a hierarchy for management of the cells (often through fitness functions i.e. defined criteria for performance) but the cells themselves are autonomous.
Figure 4 - circa '07 to '09 - Cell based structure rules all, OK!
Sometime around 2012, a few of us had started to look at deliberately combining both cell based structures and using three party concepts to cope with attitude, heavily using techniques developed in the military to create more adaptive structures (see figure 5). Under such a model, the organisation is many small groups and three overlapping attitudes which can be made to work in concert through the use of theft (i.e. enforced evolution). The structure blends both attitude and aptitude with autonomous cells operating in a management hierarchy.
Figure 5 - circa 2012 - Adaptive structure rules all, OK!
By 2014 ... be warned, this process is ongoing. The above leads naturally to administrative structures (covering training, culture and attitude) along with what can be loosely described as "battle groups" formed to implement a line of business. The closest there is to something that remotely resembles this sort of structure can be found in military organisations which have had many hundreds of years to learn how to combine attitude, aptitude, hierarchy and autonomy into a useful structure. The majority of organisations are still at the very beginning of one department and one attitude.
Three things to note ...
1) Don't think for one second anyone knows the best way of organising stuff in business - we don't. All we know are better ways than the past. Anyone who tells you they have the perfect way is talking horse.
2) Mapping an environment really helps with organisation or at least the exploration of the possible ways we might organise.
3) The use of mapping and high levels of situational awareness is a necessity for coping with evolution unless you have exceptionally talented people who understand that things evolve (i.e. they have their own mental models, can cope with inertia etc). Without extremely good situational awareness then I'd suggest you go for a cell based structure and hire rock star developers who work well with others.


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Terry Francona just won the American League pennant, the Manager of the Year Award and his Cleveland Indians will likely be among the favorites to win it all in 2017. Between that and his 17-year track record as one of the best managers in the business, he will have a job, somewhere, for as long as he wants one.
He said yesterday, however, that his body will likely limit how long he manages:
"It gets harder and harder physically. It really does. It takes me longer to recharge every year . . . I've had a lot of surgeries, a lot of health problems. It just takes a toll on you. I love [the game of baseball]. I really do, but I can't see myself doing something else. But there is going to come a day when I feel like I'm shortchanging the team or the organization. That's not fair.
"Even now, during batting practice, I'll come in and get off my feet a little bit. I think everybody understands. But when there comes a day when it gets in the way, I'm going to have to pull back, and it's not because I don't love managing. You have to have a certain amount of energy to do this job right."
Francona experienced some chest pains and had an elevated heart rate that caused him to leave a game early last season. In 2005 a similar episode caused him to miss three games while managing the Red Sox. He also has a history of embolisms and blood clots, some of which have hospitalized him.
With multiple World Series rings there isn't much more in baseball that Francona can accomplish, but here's hoping he sticks around and accomplishes a lot more before he trades in his baseball spikes for golf spikes and calls it a career.
A month or so ago it was reported that David Ortiz was going to meet with the Red Sox and NESN to discuss, maybe, spending some time in the broadcast booth in 2017. He's retired now, of course. Gotta keep busy.
Today we read that, yes, Big Papi may take the mic. Red Sox president Sam Kennedy said that Ortiz may be in the booth on a limited basis, and that Ortiz has talked about wanting to "dip a toe in that water."
I'm quickly becoming a fan of ex-players who want to, as Kennedy puts it, "dip a toe" in broadcasting as opposed to those who want to make it a full-time job. Former players who become full-time broadcasters tend to start out OK, but eventually burn all of their good anecdotes from their playing days and just become sort of reactionary "back in my day" dudes. There are some exceptions to that of course — guys like John Smoltz and Dennis Eckersley have kept it fresh and Tim McCarver never rested on his playing laurels as he forged a long career in the booth — but for any of those guys there are just as many Rick Mannings Bill Schroeders.
The part time guys who dip in and dip out — I'm thinking Pedro Martinez, Alex Rodriguez and even Pete Rose, who did a good job this past fall after a rocky 2015 postseason — tend to be more fresh and irreverent. They really don't give a crap on some level because it's not their full time job, and that not giving a crap allows them to say whatever they want. It makes for good TV.
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Hey there, my fellow readers and writers. Here's a new Buffy oneshot I cooked up. Hope you like it. :)
Pairing: Oz/Dawn
Rating: K+
Spoilers: None... It's Fantasy/AU. Dawn isn't the Key, and Oz never left Sunnydale.
Disclaimer: Genius Joss Whedon owns Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I own the songfics, oneshots, ficlets, poems and novellas I cook up from time to time.
Marking of Possession
Summary: AU. Oz makes it clear, in his own way, that he won't share Dawn with anybody.
It was nighttime in Sunnydale, California. Dawn was wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt, green shorts and white socks. She felt her cheeks heat up as Oz looked into her eyes and then moved up the bed a little, thus closing the inches of space between them a bit.
"Oz-" she began.
"Dawn," Oz suddenly growled, "I have a confession to make. I'm jealous."
"Really?" asked Dawn as Oz then reached over with one hand and put it on the back of her head, and then pulled her to him.
"Of course," Oz growled, putting her head under his chin.
When he began sniffing her hair, taking in her scent, the wolf inside of him began growling upon seeing a mental picture of the beauty that Dawn really was.
Dawn shuddered all over, but in pleasure instead of fear. Oz noticed, and then, after a few more minutes of getting her scent, he pulled away. The smirk on his face caused Dawn's eyes to widen.
Immediately, she pushed Oz away a little, got off of her bed and ran over to the door, hoping to get away. However, she stopped and almost yelped in both surprise and pain when a pair of hands grabbed her wrists.
"Silly little one," purred Oz's all-too-familiar, silky-smooth voice in her ear, "apparently you don't realize something here."
"Oz," Dawn said as she tried to make him relinquish his grasp on her wrists, "please. Let me go."
"I don't think so," Oz growled in reply. He then dipped his head and pressed his teeth against her neck, leaving a bruise as a mark. "You see, little Dawnie, I can't take it anymore. I watch as you always run around with your sister Buffy, as well as those friends of hers that see you as part of the gang. And that smile – you smile like a child."
Dawn struggled in Oz's grasp. "I am not a child!" she hissed in a whisper.
Oz pressed his body against hers. "But you do remind me of one – the child you were before you began this process called 'growing up', if you will."
As he turned her around, Dawn closed her eyes, hoping that he would stop soon and leave. But for her, there was no such luck.
"Don't," she whispered when she felt his other hand caress one of her bare legs.
"Try and stop me," he purred into her ear as he moved his free hand up her bare leg and over her shorts. "Now," he growled, "open your eyes."
Dawn then opened her eyes, only to let out a yelp when Oz picked her up bridal-style and carried her back to the bed. Luckily, it was a good thing that Buffy was sleeping over at Willow's and her mother was out of town.
"Now, now, Dawnie dearest," Oz growled as he lay her down on the bed. His blue eyes were looking deeply into Dawn's own ocean ones, as though he was looking into her very soul – or quite possibly reading her aura, she wasn't sure which.
Then he began to mark her skin with little nips and bites, making Dawn shiver half in pain and half in pleasure.
"I don't think I'll ever be able to explain these marks to Buffy," she said to herself, not knowing that Oz could hear her.
Oz chuckled a little. "Then I'll explain it to her. A word of praise here, a smile there, and she's under my spell too. After all, a young lady such as yourself should know that to put your trust in a werewolf like me is to take a great risk. A risk you never even thought about."
As he spoke, he then leaned down and ran his tongue around the shell of her ear.
Dawn bit her lower lip. She knew he had a point. After all, he sure knew how to put things into words – in a short kind of way, at least according to Buffy and Xander.
She knew he was mysterious. Enigmatic. Inscrutable to the last, if there ever was such a thing to be.


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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and everything from computers to car audio to cell phones to all manner of audio and video products is on display at the mammoth confab. We concentrate on computer audio products and related gear, bringing you up-to-the-minute reports from the show floor.
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest
Held each October in Denver, Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) is a must-see audiophile event open to the public and also important for manufacturers, delearsand, of course, digital geeks like us.