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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Low Carb Deep Dish Pizza!!!
Weight loss: not this time. It went up a little bit. No worries. Weight fluctuates. It went up .4 of a pound. Still down over 5 pounds overall so far.
Today was errand day. Had to get groceries, pet food, Red Bull mix for the Soda Stream (and I just had to have some Yankee candles that were half off!), etc.
First I went to a local farmer's market called Froberg's. Their produce is so much cheaper and better than what I find at the grocery store. Any lettuce is .99 cents!
The loot! The nuts are for my parrots. Love going to that place.
Chuck is feeling much better. Guess the shot helped out! He even went to the range to try out some new bullets.
Breakfast: OK, last night I made some eggnog bread to make french toast. This morning I cut it into slices but it smelled so nasty that I tossed it in the trash. Ick!
Instead I made the low carb pancakes. These are really good! Rachel and Chuck enjoyed them as well. Charlie opted out. He doesn't know what he's missing. approx 4.5 grams carbs
Lunch: After the visit to the farmer's market, I needed lunch. Heading to the grocery store while hungry is just asking for a disaster to happen. Ice cream and cookies tend to jump into the cart on their own. I swear I never touch them.
So I had some leftover Taco Bake covered in a bunch of lettuce, some salsa and sour cream. Tasty! approx. 7.3 grams carbs?
Dinner: a friend had mentioned having pizza for dinner and suddenly I knew I had to have some. Fortunately for me I just happened to have a recipe for low carb gluten-free deep dish pizza!! Look how pretty!
Mine was topped with wild boar Italian sausage, pepperoni and a few bell peppers.
Charlie said that this was one of the top 3 favorite things of his now of all the things I've made. Yeah, it was good. The crust was even crisp. I was surprised how good it turned out.
The crust recipe is HERE.
The pizza sauce recipe is HERE.
Both are found in Low Carbing Among Friends cookbook.
I will definitely be making this again. I still can't quite get over that I had low carb pizza that tasted fantastic. :-D Carbs in crust 1.3 grams carbs. Pizza sauce and toppings approx. 4.5 grams carbs
Dessert: eventually I craved a little something sweet. So I nibbled on an Atkins bar here and there for a few hours. 2 grams carbs
So for the day I had approx. 19.6 grams carbs. I didn't have as many veggies as I was supposed to even though I loaded up my taco bake with greens. Tomorrow I'll make an effort to get in more.
It was such a great day! I didn't spend too much on groceries, got some new candles, gorgeous weather, and a great meal.
Hope your Saturday was great too!
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Omg, that pizza looks delish!!!!ReplyDelete
I made pizza too, but mine was topped with sauteed eggplant and roasted red peppers...perhaps a way for your veggies?ReplyDelete
As a new vegan, the description of your pizza rocked my world! wild boar sausage? That isn't fair, lol!
I agree with your post. That pizza looks really good. Now I am going to have to make low carb pizza in the next few days.ReplyDelete
Kyle, I'm trying to win you back to the dark side. :)ReplyDelete
Kent, try the pizza! I'm loving your recipes, by the way. Trying your cinnamon rolls tomorrow.
You betcha all bets are off during camping season - and when I am in Mazatlan.ReplyDelete
And I agree - I think we would have a lot of fun together and I also think Chuck and Ron would get along quite well.
When Chuck comes to Calgary, you should come too - except not now during the winter - let's do summer and we can take you camping...


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We wanted to make the human body more interactive and more STEM based. I think all of us have seen the lung bottle made out of a water bottle, balloon, and straw, right? Rather than presenting the model to the students and have them identify the parts, I decided to challenge my students to building a working lung model. The problem they were provided was to inflate a balloon inside of a bottle without touching the balloon directly.
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I love the quiet street and the wooded lot. It makes eating (or just sitting) outside lovely.
One thing that I am still getting used to is the bugs. They are big and they are everywhere.
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It appears that KIRO in Seattle was down a live truck after theirs caught caught up in some power lines.
It happened in Olympia, the fire department it's still not clear if the truck operator drove with the mast up, but it appeared that way (I can speak from experience on that).
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JOSEPH MANUEL ORTIZ, PETITIONER,v.ROBERT H. TRIMBLE, ACTING WARDEN,RESPONDENT.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Gregory G. Hollows United States Magistrate Judge
Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner was convicted of possession of a sharp instrument while incarcerated in a penal institution with two strike priors and sentenced to a prison term of 25 years to life in 2008 in Sacramento County Superior Court. See Petition, p. 1. Petitioner challenges his conviction/sentence on the following grounds: 1) ineffective assistance of counsel for "cumulative reasons," including, failure to investigate accuracy of rules violation report, failure to investigate/challenge credibility of prosecution witnesses, failure to object to critical evidence obtained in violation of petitioner's constitutional rights, failure to object to improper questioning by the prosecutor that implicated a petitioner's/defense witness's Miranda rights/right not incriminate himself, failure to object to inappropriate questions of defense witnesses by prosecution or to the harassment or badgering a defense witness, failing to consider/realize prejudice to petitioner by making a comparison of him to "Al Queda" in closing argument; 2) due process violation by trial court error in failing to permit jury instruction/defense argument on a necessity defense theory which had supporting evidence; 3) due process violation by trial judge's "abuse of discretion" in refusing to provide exculpatory evidence and by permitting improper questioning by prosecutor; 4) due process violation by trial judge error in failing to define "corpus delicti" and its application; 5) defense counsel grossly mischaracterized probable sentence on guilty plea on strike priors and gave erroneous advice regarding possible jury trial;*fn1 6) the state court decision was an unreasonable application of clearly established law with respect to the petitioner's contention that his possession of the deadly weapon was not voluntary;7) the 25-year-to-life sentence is grossly disproportionate to the offense and violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment; 8) the judge, rather than the jury, determined the verdict because of the court's exclusion of the necessity defense.*fn2 Petition, pp. 4-12.*fn3
Pending before the court are: 1) respondent's motion to dismiss claims one, three, four, five and seven for failure to exhaust state court remedies, filed on October 28, 2011, to which petitioner filed his response in the form of a 2) motion to stay, filed on January 3, 2012,*fn4 to which respondent filed an opposition on February 6, 2012.
The exhaustion of state court remedies is a prerequisite to the
granting of a petition for writ of habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. §
2254(b)(1). If exhaustion is to be waived, it must be waived
explicitly by respondent's counsel. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(3).*fn5
A waiver of exhaustion, thus, may not be implied or inferred.
A petitioner satisfies the exhaustion requirement by providing the
highest state court with a full and fair opportunity to consider all
claims before presenting them to the federal court. Picard v. Connor,
404 U.S. 270, 276 (1971); Middleton v. Cupp, 768 F.2d 1083, 1086 (9th
Cir.), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1021 (1986).
On July 30, 2008, following a jury trial, petitioner was convicted of possession of a dirk or dagger or sharp instrument in a prison in violation of Cal. Pen. Code § 4502(a), that petitioner admitted to having been convicted of robbery in 1999 and attempted murder in 2004 and that he was sentenced to a term of 25 years to life. Motion to Dismiss (MTD), p. 1, respondent's Lodged Document 1. Petitioner filed a petition for review on direct appeal to the California Supreme Court on April 26, 2010, which was denied on June 9, 2010. Id., Respondent's Lodged Documents 1 & 2. Petitioner has confirmed respondent's contention that petitioner has filed no state habeas petitions, by, on the instant habeas petition form, having checked "no" to the question as to whether, other than a direct appeal, he had filed any petition or application with respect to the judgment in any state or federal court [other than the present one, of course]. Petition, p. 2.
A review of the state Supreme Court petition confirms respondent's argument that petitioner has exhausted only his claims related to the defense of necessity, that is, his claims two, six and eight. The sole issue before the California Supreme Court was framed as follows:
On the facts of this case and where evidence indicated defendant possessed the weapon solely because of fear or great bodily harm from other inmates if he refused to do so, he was entitled to an instruction on necessity as a defense.
Respondent's Lodged Document 1.
In his motion for a stay, petitioner appears to be contending that the claims of the instant petition have already been presented to the state court, but concedes that the state-appointed appellate counsel did not present the issues in a "concise[] and specific manner... . [or] "was unable to concisely and specifically" argue and present all of the issues. Motion to Stay (MTS), pp. 2-3. That being the case, petitioner contends, he has provided good cause for the court to grant an order to stay the petition. In his opposition to the petitioner's motion for a stay and abeyance pending exhaustion of unexhausted claims, respondent argues that petitioner is not shown good cause for a stay and a stay would otherwise be futile. Opposition (Opp.) to Motion to Stay, pp. 1-6.
Stay and Abeyance Legal Standards/Discussion
A court may stay a petition and hold it in abeyance pursuant to either Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269, 125 S.Ct. 1528 (1995), or King v. Ryan, 564 F.3d 1133, 1135 (9th Cir. 2009)(citing three-step procedure of Kelly v. Small, 315 F.3d 1063 (9th Cir. 2003)*fn6 ). Kelly and Rhines set out different procedures and impose different requirements for obtaining a stay.*fn7
Under Rhines, 544 U.S. at 277-78, 125 S.Ct. at 1535, the United States Supreme Court found that a stay and abeyance of a mixed federal petition should be available only in the limited circumstance that good cause is shown for a failure to have first exhausted the claims in state court, that the claim or claims at issue potentially have merit and that there has been no indication that petitioner has been intentionally dilatory in pursuing the litigation. Under Kelly, the court may stay a petition containing only exhausted claims while allowing the petitioner to proceed to state court to exhaust additional claims. Id. (citing Kelly, 315 F.3d at 1070--71). Once the additional claims have been exhausted, the petitioner may amend his petition to add them to the original petition, provided that the claims are not time-barred (as a stay pursuant to Kelly does not toll the federal limitations period with respect to the ...
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This is a course blog for the classes on digital government and social media in the public sector" class taught by Professor Ines Mergel at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. The blog posts include comments and ideas from MPA, MAIR and EMPA students studying the use of new technologies in the public sector.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Guest speaker: Kent Aitken, Government of Canada
He is one of the authors of the CPSrenewal.ca blog and a contributor to the Canadian Government Executive magazine.
Mr. Aitken will speak to us about his experiences implementing and supporting the use of intra- and interorganizational social media applications, especially GCPedia.
You can find him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
As you prepare for our class session, please think about your questions on the use of social media technologies as internal knowledge sourcing, sharing and creation tools. Leave your questions in the comment section to this blog update.
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Dear Kent,ReplyDelete
Welcome to our class.I am eager to learn from your experiences. I am interested to know, rather curious, to understand what kind of next generation of technology do you foresee in web-net technology in the context of one of your blog? How Government organizations can relate to this?
Dear Kent,ReplyDelete
Your profile speaks enough about your personality. Would you please share your experiments on social media strategy of government and its outcome? What inspired you and what keeps you going in the government set-up?
Still to know about your concept of new tools. What do you mean by this?ReplyDelete
Please share your experiences on how did you created the atmosphere of social media strategy implementation? What is your SWOT analysis and future plan? What types of changes supported you?
Thank you for laying out some great questions. I'll think about those and try to address them on Wednesday, and we can return to this space afterwards if we want to dive deeper.ReplyDelete
Thanks for taking time for interaction. Sure, would like to be in touch even after going back from here for the public cause.ReplyDelete
Mr. Aitken,ReplyDelete
One of the themes that I noticed in many of your blog posts, and as you directly stated in your October 23rd post on CPS Renewal, is "it's worth sharing your ideas." In your experience, I was wondering how governments take a pulse of the ideas that are available to them. I am specifically interested in how the exchange of ideas differs from within the government and the and from outside of the government.
Looking forward to speaking with you on Wednesday!
Mr. Aitkin,ReplyDelete
I am curious to know how or if the use of GCPedia has changed the culture within the Canadian government. In one of our readings, the author talked about government, in this case the United States government, using 20th century tools to solve 21st century problems. However, with the most recent healthcare website debacle in the US, it seems that even 21st century tools are not being used in an effective way to deal with current issues. In your recent blog post you talk about moving from an analog to a digital world, whether successfully or unsuccessfully. Can you speak a bit more as to why you think Healthcare.gov was unsuccessful? I look forward to talking with you tomorrow!
please tell us, how the experience sharing is useful when political and administrative culture are quite different?ReplyDelete
you may find it slightly inconvenient ,but, if you can, please share your real experience, instead of theories, as it give us more clearity,at times.ReplyDelete
GCPedia appears to be a good innovation by the Government of Canada for collaboration and knowledge sharing among Government departments and agencies. It would be certainly facilitating coordination and collaboration on interdepartmental issues.ReplyDelete
But how good is the content? Would it have information about all spheres of Government activities? Is there any agency responsible to ensure quality of content?
And what is the feedback of this innovation from departments/agencies? Are they finding it useful?
I get the sense that we'll run out of time today, so I may try to address some of the questions that won't come up as naturally through the GC Collaboration presentation.ReplyDelete
On Mr. Soni's first question on the future of technology: It's so hard to tell! I think the imperative for the public sector is firstly to work on being adaptable for an unpredictable technological future, and only secondarily to plan for likely future states.
In the context of this class, social media is a part of that future state (and I was a long-time Twitter skeptic). It's not a fad - it's actually an incredible reasonable continuation of a trend in communication that goes back 300-400 years: when new technology becomes available, people can divide their communications needs into increasing niche approaches. These days it's smartphones and many-to-many communication, a few centuries ago it was the printing press and academic journals.
Anything else I'd suggest would be me simply repeating the reasonable predictions of technology writers: smartphone applications dying out as browser-based models become better and everything becomes internet-connected; government taking CFPB's lead and testing government's public interaction (especially websites) for useability.Replies
Oh, and one addition: government's internal collaboration platforms will be more like government buildings with lobbies to the outside world within five years. Right now they're gov-only, increasingly we'll build spaces to which we can invite international, private sector, or civil society collaborators. Or just use Github.Delete
On Ms. Wollaeger's question, we'll get into culture today. But for Healthcare.gov? As Clay Johnson noted, large IT problems have high failure (or at least, time or cost overrun) rates.ReplyDelete
My view would be that we're trying to build 21st century tools (Healthcare.gov) with 20th century approaches (methodology, hiring practices, procurement, organizational norms), which is why it breaks down. IT is a different thing altogether.
Here's a comparison. For major real estate projects, cost overruns are common and expected. The major variable is soil conditions - crews don't know QUITE what they're dealing with until they start digging. The difference is that the project sponsor can understand this intuitively; it's easy to imagine that massive rocks change a construction approach, and even the rough magnitude of the complication.
For IT, however, there's no intuitive sense of difficulty. The senior executives responsible for IT projects either learned how to program 30 years ago, or never at all. And depending on the programming language you're using, a feature could require one line of code, a script pulled wholesale off the internet, or a thousand hand-coded lines. It's hard to say.
Healthcare.gov was a lot of moving pieces, and interdependencies mean complex projects. Another example: most programs you'd use in Windows have a little script built into them that allows you to use the volume controls built into your keyboard. Coders have to think of every weird little thing like that for every program.
So you have that, plus a procurement environment that makes project sponsors try to define all the requirements before they start digging into the metaphorical soil. And lastly for major drivers, feedback loops. It's a feature of hierarchies that important information, when it has to be relayed through several links in an organization, can change or break down. In this case, senior executives and the Obama administration didn't know how bad the situation was, which does nobody any good.
Which brings me to Ms. Petruzzelli's question about taking pulse, but I'll try to answer that this afternoon.Replies
Which I'll do for the last three questions as well, I think they'll fit into this afternoon's conversation well.Delete
Thank you all!
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While blogging as a phenomenon grew, what are the threats in blogging process in public sector?
Do you think that there should be codes to regulate that process?
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I think the threats are pretty minor. I can think of a handful of Canadian public servants that blog about their jobs, and hundreds that use Twitter. In Canada, in the last five years we've had one suspension over a tweet and one manager intervention for a blog post (not me). And that's out of thousands of blog posts and hundreds of thousands of tweets.Delete
There are codes here. Generally, we find that people are respectful and aware of the possibility for public srutiny. Those of us that are active on Twitter often have conversations about how to interpret our Values and Ethics code, which applies. It includes a duty of loyalty to the government, not damaging the government's reputation, and maintaining political neutrality. It was clarified in this Guideline for External Use of Web 2.0:
But here's the thing. When phones and email were new, there were concerns about use, risk, and productivity. As blogging becomes increasingly normal, we'll relax our goverance. It's hard to imagine a Policy on Proper Use of Telephones now.
Public servants blogging has far more long-term benefits than risks. We're at a point in time when the public has enough information about their government to scrutinize it, and not enough to understand it. So rather than having citizens use FOIA to get documents, public servants can be proactive about information-sharing and use their public presence to build trust, and to present information with context and explanation.
As an aside, for the earlier adopters blogging means a competitive advantage. There are many smart people in the Government of Canada, and many people who have thought about emerging issues for the bureaucracy, but the difference is that everyone knows what I'm thinking about. Which means I get a lot of interesting opportunities to weigh in on innovative projects and initiatives around gov.
That said, being more open about our work is going to be good for everyone in the long run. It creates opportunities for collaboration, reduced duplication of effort, and the more we know about people, the better we'll align people to jobs throughout the whole organization.
In the reading 'The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a complex Adaptive Intelligence Community by D. Calvin Andrus, in the part related to Information Theory, Shannon has been stated to be showing that the noise in the channel is information in and of itself and thus can be used to transmit messages .It is also mentioned that there is meaning in the noise. Please throw some light on this aspect of noise in the communication channels.ReplyDeleteReplies
What a fantastic reading that is. From 8 years ago! The talk about wikis and blogs as platforms sounds outdated; the talk about a complex adaptive community still sounds progressive.Delete
Oh! For the record, he was right:
"The single strongest predictor of group effectiveness [in US intelligence units] was the amount of help that analysts gave to each other. In the highest-performing teams, analysts invested extensive time and energy in coaching, teaching, and consulting with their colleagues. These contributions helped analysts question their own assumptions, fill gaps in their knowledge, gain access to novel perspectives, and recognize patterns in seemingly disconnected threads of information. In the lowest-rated units, analysts exchanged little help and struggled to make sense of tangled webs of data."
Oddly, this is a concept I'm still trying to pursue here: distributed learning throughout an organization through the adaptive management model. It requires a move from:
"plan->do->monitor->evaluate" (which Andrus referred to)
"set goals->hypothesize->model->monitor->evaluate"
...Which has "increasing organizational capacity and knowledge" as part of the goal outcome to any solution.
(I get to pitch things like that through one of our government's current pulse-taking channels.)
On the sigal/noise side of things, we're getting outside the territory in which I think I can make a meaningful contribution. Noise such as "I'm sick today" on Twitter is enough, when aggregated across a region, to predict disease outbreaks better than Public Health reports. That said, an organization like the CIA could easily apply the same analytical rigour* to their internal email system and pull out insights from word patterns. So in the most obvious sense, there is definitely meaning in the noise. Past that, I haven't explored Claude Shannon's work enough. "The Information" by James Gleick is a good primer on Information Theory though:
*We spell rigor with a u up here. ;)
Mr Aitken,ReplyDelete
I am curious what your thoughts are on balancing speed of information sharing and collaboration with the need for quality assurance in the public sector. I am a US military officer and have very limited experience with these types of technologies. Much of our reading in preparation for today's discussion focused on the need for organizations to be able to network and collaborate faster because of the speed with which information flows today. In your experience how can an organization achieve greater speed and efficiency through these technologies without sacrificing the quality and/or accuracy of the information? Or is it your opinion that these technologies are inherently more accurate because they are collaborative in nature? Thank you.Replies
I mentioned the accuracy of Wikipedia comparing to or beating out Encyclopedia Brittanica on Wednesday. One quick addition: I do think that quality is the major long-run benefit to collaboration, not speed. Collaboration and multiple eyes expose the complexity of problems, which - correctly - slows the process down sometimes.Delete
But there's another caveat I'd add. Contributing to a community takes a lot of time. It's not crazily "efficient" when you start. But here's the speed benefit to slowly creating a community around goals and issues: in situations when you actually need information or help very quickly, you already know who to reach out to. And, they're willing to help you because you've helped them in the past. It means that teams can manage their schedule and demands in aggregate, rather than have people be individual bottlenecks because they're pressed for time individually.
The "Givers Take All" model based on the intelligence community in the US is a good example of this working where accuracy is also vital. I linked above, but here it is again:
Mr. Aitken,ReplyDelete
Good afternoon.
Organizations in general and particularly in public organizations are political arenas where multiple actors (government, interest groups, the academia, firms, and public opinion) compete for power and scarce resources and where differences in needs, perspectives and interests are the source of constant conflicts (Bolman and Deal. Reframing Organizations. 2013). With social media governments –in democratic societies- face the challenge to meet high expectations for openness, transparency, accountability and responsiveness. Transparency implies the duty to make accessible information concerning government activities that is relevant, timely, comprehensive and reliable. In your opinion:
- What are the keys to effectively moderate the "negotiated internet interactions" that wikis offer in such a complex environment?
- How to ensure that these interactions result in the productions of relevant, timely, comprehensive and reliable information?
Thank you.
Let's focus on intra-/interorganizational tools today and not all social media tools used by government employees in general! We only have limited time to learn about the innovations of the Canadian government.ReplyDelete
Mr. Aitken,ReplyDelete
In our readings there was mention of the need for "critical mass" and "trust" to engender success. What can or should an agency do to ensure those elements are in place? Is it simply a matter of - if you build it they will come?
Thank you for your time and insights.Replies
"If you build it they will come."Delete
The thing is, if "it" is a platform, "they" will be the 1% of your possible user base that are A) highly engaged or B) early adopters. Outreach, engagement, training, and community management are all vital.
To build trust: communication (including, in our case, policy direction that says "this is okay") is key. It should be multi-channel and repeated periodically.
Long term, trust is well served by people participating effectively, and people reacting to hiccups with perspective. Executives need to understand the communities involved, to create context for those inevitable hiccups - one imflammatory comment will draw more attention than 1,000 constructive ones, at least to those outside the system.
One of the key drivers towards critical mass is purpose. Some people work openly and collaboratively out of principle, or out of a intuitive sense of the long-term benefits. Others need specific business reasons to try different ways of working for the first time. We're seeing this more and more these days: senior executives using the features of our collaborative plaftorms as the primary hub for a business process. Nothing drives adoption more.
Community managers want to develop roadmaps for users of different comfort levels and tech expertise: defining use cases and user personas and nudging them towards activities that help them climb their own unique learning and comfort curves.
During your presentation, you discuss the heightened efficiency of government communication and collaboration since the development of GCPedia. Have life-long civil servants adapted quickly to the new means of communication? How has the government adapted to the new heightened efficiency and what kinds of projects have been made available due to GCPedia's communication resources.ReplyDelete
Thank you for taking the time to talk to our class!Replies
Have life-long civil servants adapted quickly? Some have, absolutely. But here's the data:Delete
Public servants under 25 years of age are about 25% more likely to use GCpedia than, say, those 60+. The likelihood gap is more like double for the professional networking tool. But the distribution is fascinating. Our community-enabling power users are by no stretch the new or young public servants - those people who've been dedicated to keeping up with technology but also have a certain depth of experience in the GC environment are probably more representative of our community drivers.
On the question of heightened efficiency. Are you familiar with Gartner's Hype Cycles?
The idea is that technologies go through a understanding phase, a period of inflated expectations, a trough of disillusionment, then a plateau of productivity. Because platforms like GCpedia and GCconnex are flexible and user-driver, some people are very much so at the productivity stage. But I'd be of the opinion that the GC writ large isn't, not quite yet.
That said, there are many fantastic success stories for projects that live off GCpedia. For instance:
- It's streamlining communication between embassies around the world and our Foreign Affairs department's HQ.
- Execs are building support for their strategies through engagement and two-way communication on organizational initiatives.
- A seniormost executive-level committee reviewing how the GC develops policy is relying on the two tools for community input, resources, and feedback - the subject matter is simply too complex for a small team to manage without the help.
- Public servants are using the tools to find jobs that fit their skills and interests, making the alignment of people to positions better at the organization level.
- And volunteer teams use GCpedia to organize one of the GC's most successful recruiting programs.
Thank you all for fascinating and challenging questions, and for the opportunity to speak to you. I very much so hope it was interesting and, ideally, at least a little informative.ReplyDelete
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text: Happy Monday! This weekend we got a little crazy and decided to paint the interior of the casa! It was beige overload and we were over it! The color? "Bunker" blue since it literally was the wall color at the fabulous beach house we stayed at last Varn family beach week. Since I'm a terrible roller, Nate did the majority of the work (I was in charge of taping and edging) and I took D to the mall for a Mommy/Son date! He got to ride the "choo choo" and eat lunch in the food court- he's growing up so fast!


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Oh My! The first book was good but the end of this book had me in tears. Rose is struggling to keep control when so many things in her life are out of her control, but I have to ask the qeustion; does she really truly want to keep control? Everybody keeps telling her she needs more self control but I get the feeling she doesn't really want to keep that control. Then again Rose's life have been in someone else's hands most of her life so maybe she is now desperately grasping for it. I geuss I won't have a more solid theory until I have read the rest of the books.
Also major friendship goals in this book. Lissa's and Rose's relationship is envy worthy. Though there is one sided I have a feeling that will change soon. They have had some difficulties but after the ending of this book I think some of them will be resolved. However if my memory serves me well when I read a book new problem surface when other resided.
Rose maybe kick ass but she is also so delightfully human. I won't spoil the ending for you but if you agree that the wrapping up of this book proved this than please comment.


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Hey Bursties it's Lily and, dont think im not furious, because I am! Your probably wondering why I'm so FURIOUS it's because, THEY ARE HAVING ANOTHER FASHION FRIDAY!
Why an I angry about that, you ask. Well, it's simple because I don't like Fashion Friday. This is just my opinion. I don't like Fashion Friday because everything they sell is a RARE AND I'VE WORKED HARD TO GET EVERYTHING I NEED IN THIS LAST MONTH! And now they're selling it? i don't get it. People pay real money for this stuff then you sell it in shopz?! I like how they're making things cheap because of people who can't buy this stuff. I just don't like the fact that I'm a customer who consumes these virtual (read when I say VIRTUAL) ITEMS FOR REAL money! And honestly they're taking rares and making them not rares anymore.
"fashion fridays are stteped its taking rares and making them not rare anymore..." EllaQueen says posting on MyaWooz's wall. I agree with you 100% , Ella.
Now, I want to take a moment to congratulate the winners of lasts week quiz..... GUESS THE FEELINGS OF THE OUTFITS! We had many entries, but I only could pick 1of you :( And the winner is....... XXXSUNSHINEXXX
Congratz! And thx for reading Woozworld Burst! Ill give you your prize later! :D
Alright, let's talk about the click n' win issue. People are excited about this, and some people are not. (people who are not aka. ME) I dont like this for the same reason about about Fashion Friday. I don't like how they're turning rares into non-rares.
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In Game 2 of the EuroLeague play-off series titleholders UMMC defeated Famila Schio on the road in Italy and for the 10th consecutive time (!) qualified to the EuroLeague Women Final Four.
We remind that earlier in the week on March 7 competing in Game 1 of the Quarter-Final series in Ekaterinburg Foxes soared past Schio with near double score advantage - 92:47.
Famila Schio (Italy) – UMMC Ekaterinburg (Russia) 67:102 Quarters' results: 14-27, 19-29, 14-24, 20-22
In the starting period, UMMC has accumulated a comfortable advantage - 27:14 and by the time of the interval doubled it - 56:33, leaving behind any doubts about the game outcome.
The home side showed true dedication and desire to win, however it was not enough to resist the reigning Champion. Olaf Lange's team once again prevailed in all game components. In the end of the match, UMMC successfully passed the 100 points mark while the final buzzer fixed a decisive 102:67 success on the scoreboard.
26 points from UMMC Captain Diana Taurasi made her the most effective UMMC player, while few Foxes also made double-digit contributions: Brittney Griner – 19 points, Evgenia Belyakova – 10 points. Sancho Lyttle missed a couple of points to have another double-double: 8 points and 10 rebounds. Laura Macchi scored 21 points for the hosts.
UMMC won 2 Games in the best of three games series to wrap up a 2-0 series win and for the 10th consecutive time qualified to the EuroLeague Women Final Four. On April 14, Foxes are going to compete against in the Semi-Final round against the winner of the Fenerbahche (Turkey) against Avenida (Spain) pair.
We remind that the EuroLeague Women Final Four will be held on April 14-16. The venue will be specified later according to the game results of the Euroleague Quarter-Final series.
Meanwhile Foxes are having the next games in the Championship of Russia Quarter-Final round. In the Quarter-Final series the reigning Champion is going to give a battle to Dynamo Novosibirsk. Both teams are having Game 1 of the best of three games series on March 22 in Novosibirsk. Game 2 will be held on March 27 in Ekaterinburg. In case it is necessary, Game 3 will also take place in Ekaterinburg on March 28. All games start at 19.00.
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Archive for April, 2008
With Apologies to Freddie Mercury
Any of my readers (what readers?) who are still following the Expelled debacle should get a kick out of this parody song courtesy of MartinC.
"Should have stuck to game shows" indeed.
Unrest in the Land of Lincoln
Outside the atheist community, this story hasn't had much media attention. This account gives the basics – last week a Democratic Representative from Illinois had a rather vitriolic reaction to an atheist activist who was testifying at a hearing regarding the donation of government money to a Baptist church. Rep. Monique Davis told the man he had "no right" to be there, and that it was "dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!"
(She also referred to Illinois as "the Land of Lincoln where people believe in God". In fact, President Lincoln's religious views were ambiguous at best, and more than a few statements of his lean decidedly away from theism.)
Well, the story finally got some national media attention tonight, being featured atop Keith Olbermann's nightly "Worst Persons in the World" list on MSNBC's Countdown. See the video at onegoodmove.
Contact info for Rep. Davis is here if you'd like to send a measured response to her hate-filled tirade.


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This morning I received the BFF Bridal newsletter. This issue featured a company named Love Letter Logos that will create a custom monogram for you starting at $300., with pre-designed logos starting at $75., which reminded me of former Knottie Kristin Sanchez, who did a monogram (see above) for one of my brides last year for $25. Her pre-designed prices have since gone up to $45., but at any price, having your own custom logo is one way to add personalization to your day and home.
As for me, I've decided to get the shower curtain with the single letter "B".


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Status of the Fort Smith Excavations
Author(s): Jackson W. Moore, Jr.
Year: 1962
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OU Queen Miley Ray Cyrus turns 19 years old on Nov. 23, 2011!
Kelly Osbourne told E! News about Miley's party: 'It's intimate, but it's going to be the sickest thing she's ever seen in her life.. I see her on the same level mentally as me, I also realize that Miley's 19 and she deserves to still have fun. Because that girl has so much pressure on her and has worked her ass off her entire..
..life that I think a lot of the time people forget that she deserves to have fun too. So that was my mission for her, to make her birthday.. the best day ever. I've got all sorts of madness and craziness.' Kelly she's been planning the party for days and was even at the event venue until 11 PM on Monday working everything out.


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