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Setting up a Cross-Functional Team
Working Effectively With Other Functions
If you've ever worked in a cross-functional team – that is, a team that includes people from different departments in your organization – you'll know how much of a challenge it can be.
For instance, who should lead the group? Will everyone be motivated to meet the team's objectives? And how can people balance the needs of the team with their responsibilities in their day-to-day role?
In this article, we'll look at what a cross-functional team is, and we'll explore the challenges behind setting one up. We'll also look at strategies that will help your team succeed, right from the start.
Although we're exploring setting up cross-functional teams inside an organization, you can apply many of these strategies to working collaboratively between organizations, too.
What Is a Cross-Functional Team?
A cross-functional team is simply a team made up of individuals from different functions or departments within an organization.
Teams like this are useful when you need to bring people with different expertise together to solve a problem, or when you want to explore a potential solution. For example, you might put together a team made up of people from finance, engineering, production, and procurement to come up with a solution to reduce the lead-time for a new product.
One approach is for team members to be "loaned" full-time to the cross-functional team, returning to their day-to-day role once their contribution has finished. Alternatively, they may work on a part-time basis, continuing with their existing responsibilities alongside their cross-functional team-work.
The most important distinction between the creation of a cross-functional team and the formation of a new department is that members of a cross-functional team maintain substantial links to their day-to-day responsibilities and to managers in their "home" department.
Projects often involve people from a variety of functions. However, projects tend to have a more formal structure, have set deliverables and timelines, and have a definite end point. A cross-functional team is more likely to be used when the team has an ongoing responsibility, or when the team is meeting for a short period of time to solve a problem.
It's always a challenge to create a new team, but setting up a cross-functional team has additional difficulties.
For instance:
- Team members may still be doing their "day jobs," with the same responsibilities, workload, and deadlines as before. This can lead to prioritization issues.
- People might be reluctant participants, and may not be happy to take on the additional work and effort that being part of a cross-functional team often requires. (This may be true for you, too!)
- It's more difficult to set priorities, make decisions, motivate people, and manage performance when you don't have direct authority over members of the team.
- Team members may be required to use a different set of skills in a new environment. For example, a programmer who normally works alone may now be required to work with others.
How to Set up Your Team
If you're tasked with setting up a cross-functional team, use these strategies to give your team the best chance of success:
1. Set Objectives
Begin by setting a goal for your team. What are its objectives, and why has it been set up?
Create a Team Charter to clarify these objectives and identify the resources that the team can call upon. Get these objectives agreed with senior managers in the organization, and by the managers of the departments affected by your new team.
2. Define Roles and Select the Right Team Members
Once you have an idea of what you want to achieve with your team, you can identify the roles that you need to fill, and the types of people you want in those roles. (Bear in mind, however, that you may need to select your team based on who's available at the time.)
When defining roles, remember to think about more than just the technical expertise each person should have. For example, will they need good communications skills, or good decision making skills? Or, will they need to be able to work to tight deadlines?
Once you have team members on board, work through the Team Charter with them to make sure that you're all working to achieve the same objectives. Update your Team Charter if necessary.
It's also important to give people the opportunity to talk through how they see things. Be really clear about what you can decide as a team, and what has already been agreed by more senior people.
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Although having shared goals and objectives will help motivate people, you'll likely need to motivate them in other ways too, especially if they were reluctant to join the team. Our article on Motivating Your Team looks at how you can motivate people effectively.
3. Consider Resources and Logistics
It seems obvious, but new teams need access to all normal, basic resources, and it's worth making sure you've thought about everything that you need to organize.
For instance:
- Do you need dedicated team space?
- Does the team need a budget against which team members book time or other costs?
- Do team members have access to all of the hardware and software needed to do the job?
- Do you need to set up a shared area for storing files and documents?
If possible, make sure that everything is in place before your people start working together.
4. Establish Ways of Working
With a new team, you can't make any assumptions about the processes that the team will use to meet its objectives. Instead, you need guidelines in place that explain how the team will work together.
Here are some areas to consider:
- How acceptable is it to be late to meetings? Do these always start on time, or do you wait for latecomers? How are meetings structured? Is an agenda sent out in advance of the meeting, and, if so, how far in advance will it be sent?
- Are team members copied into all email correspondence? Or only into correspondence about certain things?
- Are team members expected to be "always available" or is it accepted that people will have times when they can't be contacted?
- Who is involved in making decisions, and how are they made? Who is told about these decisions?
Once you've agreed how your people will work together, add this to your Team Charter.
5. Adopt the Right Leadership Style
Overall authority for your cross-functional team will probably lie with senior managers, sponsors, or a steering group. However, the team will likely be expected to make day-to-day decisions without their input, so you (or someone on the team) will need to lead the team towards its objectives.
As the team's leader, you'll probably be leading equals as you won't have direct authority over many of your team members. So, you'll need to use a more persuasive leadership style, rather than a controlling approach, to help them set their priorities. Often, this involves functioning as a coach, helping people make their own decisions and solve their own problems, rather than as a traditional manager who issues orders and distributes tasks.
With this in mind, try to involve everyone in making decisions – our article on Organizing Team Decision-Making shows you how to do this.
Also, establish your credentials early on, so that you can gain respect from your team.
6. Negotiate and Communicate
Naturally, there will be times where team members have priorities that conflict with their day-to-day roles, and you may sometimes need to seek advice from your sponsor or steering group to take things forward.
However, you can often avoid issues by first negotiating a solution that works well for everyone. (Tools such as the Influence Model and Win-Win Negotiation will help you do this.)
It's also important that you communicate effectively with everyone affected by your cross-functional team, including your people's day-to-day managers – stakeholder analysis will help you identify who these key people are.
You may find that having a Steering Group is helpful. This gives you an opportunity to report the same information to key stakeholders at the same time. Working with a steering group can help you build consensus and wider support for your team's decisions, and you'll get help resolving issues along the way.
Key Points
A cross-functional team is a team made up of people from different functions or departments in an organization.
These types of teams are useful when you need to bring together expertise to solve an issue, or to explore potential solutions. However, setting up a cross-functional team can sometimes bring difficulties.
You can overcome these challenges by setting objectives early on, and by getting your team, and key managers, to agree to them.
You also need to establish the processes that your team will use, and use the right leadership style.
It's also vital to have good negotiation skills and to communicate effectively with key stakeholders.


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When it arrives to animation, China wishes to acquire the subsequent Japan.
Long envious of its Asian neighbor's achievement with anime, China is nurturing homegrown cartoonists and animators and encouraging them to create films of the own. using the blessing using the country's Ministry of Culture, provinces and municipalities are staging contests, festivals and conferences, all aimed at getting homegrown expertise much more protection — and some badly required attention inside the worldwide stage.
The holy grail is theatrical, tv and especially residence enjoyment distribution contracts within your United States that carried out a essential part in assisting anime break away from its native Japan and arrive to be considered a real worldwide phenomenon within your earlier 2000s.
Leading the demand may be the village of Guiyang, money of Guizhou province in southwest China. because 2007, the village have been staging an yearly Asian Youth Animation and Comics Contest, which this twelve weeks attracted jurists, speakers, panelists with one another with other participants from much greater than 26 nations and regions, such since the United States.
Speaking all through the festival's opening ceremonies, Gao Zheng, deputy director common for that chinese language courses Ministry of Culture's division of heritage Industry, stated the comic and animation industry is mainly a essential element of China's heritage industry, which could be "one with one of the most essential components for that prosperous progress of interpersonal heritage within your industry financial environment."
Translation: cartoons are among China's superb financial hopes for that future.
Jerzy Moszkowicz, director using the Children's technique center in Poznan, Poland, named the AYACC among one of the most essential occasions "on the world map of animation meetings and festivals" merely on account of its concentrate on chinese language courses animation, a expertise swimming pool that remains to be pretty a complete great offer untapped by Westerners.
"It is mainly a opportunity to uncover youthful talent," he said, "and produces an extremely broad forum for that swap of viewpoint and ideas."
"We make an effort to invite well-known animators and cartoon performers [to our conference] to inspire the youthful people," stated Liuyi Wang, common secretary using the AYACC, who additional the fact that conference's concentrate is on nurturing and encouraging youthful expertise and assisting this expertise obtain exposure.
This year's guest checklist integrated best animators and cartoonists from all greater compared to world, such as Mark Walsh, a supervising animator and director at Pixar Animation Studios.
Wang is convinced chinese language courses animation can arrive to be just about every tad as huge as Japan's anime business, a multimillion-dollar industry that at one point, within your earlier 2000s, was the fastest-growing segment within your then-burgeoning digital video disc sellthrough business, in accordance with some January 2003 tale in Japan Inc. magazine.
"First of all, China consists of a substantial possible domestic industry for animation and its merchandised products," Wang said. "In addition, the emerging chinese language courses animation industry is targeting the worldwide market, not just the domestic market."
Wang stated it "it will hold some time" for China to develop, create and industry animation with universal appeal, but he believes eventually the country's animators will prove capable of executing so, especially if they are able to uncover the ropes by method of partnerships and co-productions, ideally with U.S. collaborators and distribution partners.
"The United States and China have established extremely powerful set and business relationships," Wang said. "Each country shares the benefits of those relationships. Now may be the time for China to provide heritage products, especially animation, for that United States, merely because we think much more and much more American individuals can recognize China a complete great offer better by method of chinese language courses culture. This may be the intent we may locate the channels in America to distribute chinese language courses animation within your country."
Wang noted that already, American animation is getting progressively favored in China. "So we wish chinese language courses animation also may be welcomed in the American people," he said. "Exchange and cooperation of animation films and functions will hold out a superb part in constructing up our heritage and enjoyment industry."
The explosive progress of Japan's anime set was fueled, no much lower than in part, in the country's wealthy tradition with comics and print cartoons, or "manga" — which since the 1950s has arrive to be an progressively essential element of Japan's publishing industry.
Wang is hoping new media, and new composed content distribution platforms, will do for chinese language courses animation what manga do for anime.
"Now, much more and much more chinese language courses individuals would rather look at graphic books and comics, and we have several huge publishing homes which could be now publishing and releasing cartoon mags and books," he said. "But the huge breakthrough for chinese language courses animation and cartoons may possibly be realized by new media.
"Within one year, it is anticipated that China might have much greater than 100 million consumers of iPhones with one another with other 3G cellular phones. They will need advantage of the iPhone as well as the apple ipad to take satisfaction in animation and cartoons. They will alter the conventional method of reading."
Already, Guiyang's work to construct a powerful and vibrant chinese language courses animation industry has caught the eye of other people within your country. among them are provincial leaders in Guangdong, China's richest province, who are preparing to construct a $1 billion "animation city," complete with studios, evaluation and progress labs, a production center, an training and instruction center, a copyright buying and selling center as well as "animation-themed apartments" capable of real estate as a complete great offer as 8,000 people.
Guangdong is previously the world's largest production center for toys, and boasts China's greatest GDP. Guangdong Animation village may be situated within your village of Conghua, which could be residence to 13 universities and colleges.
Guiyang, meanwhile, also is ratcheting up its endeavours on behalf of chinese language courses animation. all through this year's AYACC, organizers announced ideas to arranged up an Asian-Pacific Animation & Comics swap within your Xiaohe area of the city. The center will consist of exhibition space, a library, a museum, and animation studios — as well like a lasting residence for that convention.


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Design 1552 - American Venus
This 67' sightseeing vessel was built by Paasch Marine Services of Erie, Pennsylvania. She is built of aluminum and was launched in 1960. She was designed for American Boat Line of Clayton New York (Thousand Islands region).
Installed power is twin G.M. 8V71 diesels generating 268hp each for a maximum speed of 15 knots. She is designed to carry 224 passengers.
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Last week we honored our outgoing board members and recognized our Advisory Board MVP volunteers at an end of the year party. Following BCE tradition, recipients were given a "tiny trophy" symbolizing their hard work and dedication, as well as the creative and practical spirit of the BCE organization.
Outgoing BCE President Angela Dubovsky also awarded Kelly and Dave Tillman the Distinguished Service Award for their many years of dedication to BCE. Not only have the Tillmans donated generously to BCE, but Kelly also served on the BCE Board of Directors. And we certainly can't forget the famous Tillman auction parties that have been a popular fundraising item.
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Time for another wedding post, over 1 year since I got married! One of the most stressful things for me was picking out my wedding stationary. I kept going back and forth between making my own and buying invitations from a company. But the kind that I wanted would have cost us roughly 1 billion dollars.
So finally I collected inspiration from invitations I liked, created my own template using Adobe InDesign, found a local printer, and got started. I ended up with a multi-step process that, when all put together, looked amazing and professional. Granted, it took a long time, but if you have endless patience and some audio books, you'll end up with awesome invites for a FRACTION of the cost.
P.S. If people are interested, I can provide my indesign template fo frizzles
So here is the full bundle. I had:
- The invitation
- The accommodations
- RSVP card with envelope
- Reception information card
- Belly band with monogram square
- Envelope with liner that matched the belly band
I spent hours just looking for fonts! After awhile, your brain goes all woozy and they all look the same, but I eventually found a modern, blocky one called Corbert, and a legible script called You're Invited. Together, they made an elegant but fun combination. I added colored borders to make them pop and establish the color scheme.
Just like with the fans, I used scrapbook paper to create the belly bands and envelope liners. By doing this, I ended up with a variety of colors and prints, and I got to pick which one went to which person. For the older generation, a simple, elegant shiny paper was used:
Really fun, cool people got fun colors:
You could easily just buy one pattern but I'm an overacheiver who can't make up her mind.
Kevin and I spent a long Saturday spread out in my office, him trying to format the printer to print addresses on the front of the envelopes, and me measuring, cutting, and gluing inserts into the envelopes after he had printed on them. I ordered the envelopes I think from PaperandMore.com, which was very affordable. I got a template online for the insert, traced it onto the craft paper, and cut it using a paper cutter and scissors for the rounded edge. I used tape runners to attach.
And to create a cohesive look, I reused the fonts, colors, and designs for other paper products for my wedding:
This is a crappy photo of the template I made for our photobooth pictures.
This was the cover of our program, including the adorbs cartoon I made of Kevin and I. It also graced our:
Hashtag signs, because of course we did.
I used the layered paper technique multiple times as well,
And had our monogram lit on the wall behind us the whole night!
It was a wonderful night, and everything was so damn cohesive and impressive, if I may toot my own horn 🙂 People were amazed at all the work that went into everything, because nothing was purchased, I had my hands in everything.
Eventually I will post about the yarn balls that we made as centerpieces:
But I am waiting until I can re-use them for an awesome project I have planned. So it will be a double post!


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PERTH AMBOY — Cleared of wrongdoing, Board of Education members expressed pleasure that they will have a chance to present their cases in public to further refute allegations raised by an administrator desperate to keep her $177,000 job.
Baseless ethics complaints brought by Superintendent of Schools Janine Walker Caffrey against Board of Education members were dismissed Tuesday by the state School Ethics Commission but Board President Samuel Lebreault, Vice President Kenneth Puccio and Israel Varela, Milady Tejeda and Obdulia Gonzalez have also won a right to go before a state administrative law judge to disprove some of the charges.
The school board members faced an array of bogus accusations after they moved to get rid of Caffrey when they discovered her anti-public education agenda could hurt children and taxpayers in the city.
Caffrey, who on Saturday was placed on paid administrative leave and told that her contract will not be renewed by the school board, sought to have the state School Ethics Commission cloud the issues that led to her being fired. A Star-Ledger article erroneously reported that the commission said innocent board members violated ethics act in dealing with superintendent, but authorities confirmed that no such assertion was made.
"A finding of probable cause is not an adjudication on the merits," according to a School Ethics Commission spokesperson, who noted that each of the opinions allowing members to make their cases public clearly includes that statement. "Some of these decisions declared that the board members were 'not guilty' of doing wrong but everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Many of the complaints were frivolous and most were dismissed but some board members wanted to refute accusations in public."
On Sept. 12, a state administrative law judge ruled that the board acted properly in its second vote to remove Caffrey. The commission passed no judgment in its opinion other than to allow board members to defend themselves against the charges filed by Caffrey and Alvaro Cores, who lost his job as principal of Herbert Richardson Elementary School after he allowed alcoholic beverage to be sold on school grounds.
One complaint that will be aired in public suggests it is unethical for Varela to have lunch with his wife, based on a new policy Caffrey instituted forbidding board members to enter school buildings without her permission.
Varela's wife has worked as a teacher for 32 years and the couple has been married for 24 years, so he has had a long-standing practice of joining her for lunch at the Dr. Herbert N. Richardson School.
"I was in the Marine Corps when my wife got her job," Varela said. "It's disgraceful to make fun of me and my family. I'm only a board member for three years."
Cores, who accused board members who fired him of waging a smear campaign also filed a lawsuit against the taxpayer, claiming his firing violated of state law even though he allegedly purchased bottles of coquito from Hector Muniz.
That story conflicts with the account of another school secretary, Susan Nieves, who filed her own whistle-blower lawsuit against the district, Caffrey, Cores and others because she was reprimanded, suspended and then transferred to another school after she reported the illegal coquito sales.
While Caffrey has been able to persuade Education Commissioner Chris Cerf to interfere with the local elected officials' decisions twice, it is unlikely that she will return to the job now.
Although Perth Amboy is a district that gets most of its funding from the state instead of local property taxpayers, Caffrey strongly supports the political agenda shared by Mayor Wilda Diaz, Chris Christie and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, which would privatize education, use tuition vouchers to put public money in private and parochial schools, and cut benefits and job security for teachers.
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The rights, responsibilities, and limitations of academic freedom apply to the use of College computing resources. The use of College computing resources, like the use of any other College-provided assets, property, or services, is subject to the requirements and standards of legal and ethical behavior, as they evolve over time, within the College community. Legitimate use of a computer, computer system, phone device, or network does not extend to whatever is technically possible. Limitations built into computer operating systems and networks are not the sole restrictions on what is permissible. Users must abide by all applicable restrictions, whether or not they are built into the operating system or network and whether or not they can be circumvented by technical means.
All users of College computing resources must:
- Comply with all federal, New York, and other applicable laws, including the laws of jurisdictions other than New York from which a user obtains access to College computing resources, all applicable College rules and policies, and all applicable contracts and licenses between the College and a third party relating to College computing resources. Such laws, rules, and policies include, but are not limited to, the following: libel, defamation, privacy, copyright, trademark, obscenity, and child pornography laws; the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which prohibit hacking and similar activities; the Digital Millennium Copyright Act governing, among other things, digital rights management and certain copyright infringement within and outside the United States; the Higher Education Opportunity Act, which mandates that higher education institutions develop and implement a written plan to effectively combat unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials by users of the institution's network; the College's student and employee handbooks; and the College's Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing, Sexual Harassment, And Employee Code of Conduct policies. Users who engage in electronic communications with persons in other states or countries or on other systems or networks should be aware that they may also be subject to the laws of those other states and countries and the rules and policies of those other systems and networks, and may be exposed to viruses and other network-disrupting software or programs. Users are responsible for ascertaining, understanding, and complying with the laws, rules, policies, contracts, and licenses applicable to their particular uses.
- Use only those computing resources that they are authorized to use and use them only in the manner and to the extent authorized. Ability to access computing resources does not per se imply authorization to do so. Users are responsible for ascertaining what authorizations are necessary and for obtaining them before proceeding. Accounts and passwords may not, under any circumstances, be shared with, or used by, persons other than those to whom they have been assigned by the College. For more information, see the College's Computer Passwords and Purchasing policies.
- Respect the privacy of other users and their accounts, regardless of whether those accounts are securely protected. Again, ability to access other persons' accounts does not, by itself, imply authorization to do so. Users are responsible for ascertaining what authorizations are necessary and for obtaining them before proceeding.
- Limit bandwidth use so as not to consume an unreasonable amount of resources or to interfere unreasonably with the activity of other users. While bandwidth is generally assumed to be infinite, it is not. Although no specific limits have been established for bandwidth, disk space, CPU time, or other applications on or uses of College computing resources, the College may require users of those resources to limit or refrain from specific uses, as determined by the Office of Integrated Information Technology Services, taking into account relevant facts and circumstances.
- Refrain from using computing resources for personal commercial purposes or for personal financial or other gain. Personal use of College computing resources for other purposes is permitted only when it is incidental, does not consume a significant amount of those resources, does not interfere with the performance of the user's job or other College responsibilities, and is otherwise in compliance with this policy. Further limits may be imposed by the Office of Integrated Information Technology Services from time to time upon personal use in accordance with normal supervisory procedures.Refrain from using College trademarks and logos without authorization to do so. Authorization to use College trademarks and logos may be granted only by the Office of Marketing and Communications. For more information, see the College's Posting policy.
Google Apps Acceptable Use Policy
In addition to the above rules, the College's use of Google Services requires each user to abide by the Google Apps Acceptable Use Policy, which states, in part, that:
You agree not to, and not to allow third parties or your end users to, use the Services:
- to generate or facilitate unsolicited bulk commercial email;
- to violate, or encourage the violation of, the legal rights of others;
- for any unlawful, invasive, infringing, defamatory, or fraudulent purpose;
- to intentionally distribute viruses, worms, Trojan horses, corrupted files, hoaxes, or other items of a destructive or deceptive nature;
- to interfere with the use of the Services, or the equipment used to provide the Services, by customers, authorized resellers, or other authorized users;
- to alter, disable, interfere with, or circumvent any aspect of the Services;
- to test or reverse-engineer the Services in order to find limitations, vulnerabilities or evade filtering capabilities;
Your failure to comply with the foregoing may result in suspension or termination, or both, of your right to use Google Services.
A full copy of the Google Apps Acceptable Use policy is available at:
This policy applies to all users of College computing resources, whether affiliated with the College or not, and to all uses of those resources, whether on campus or from remote locations.
This policy also applies to all forms of social media, such as Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and other sites created or accessed by College users.
This policy is designed to protect the safety and individual rights of Utica College employees, safeguard the College from legal action, and provide an environment where the College network is safe and reliable.
Procedures for complying with this policy are outlined in the policy statement, above. Additional information can be found in the document titled Guidelines for Responsible Use of College Computing.
Users who violate this policy may be denied access to College computing resources and may be subject to other penalties and disciplinary action, both within and outside the College. Violations will normally be handled through the College disciplinary procedures applicable to the relevant user. For example, alleged violations by students will normally be investigated, and any penalties or other discipline will normally be imposed, through the disciplinary system administered by the Office of Student Affairs. However, the College may temporarily suspend or block access to an account, prior to the initiation or completion of such procedures, when it reasonably appears necessary to do so in order to protect the integrity, security, or functionality of College computing resources or to protect the College from liability or reputational harm. The College may also refer suspected violations of applicable law to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
Security and Privacy
The College employs various measures to protect the security of computing resources and users' accounts. Users should be aware, however, that the College cannot guarantee such security. Users should therefore engage in prudent computing practices by establishing robust access restrictions for their accounts, guarding their passwords, and changing them regularly. For more information, see the College's Computer Passwords policy.
Users should also be aware that their use of College computing resources is not completely private. While the College does not routinely monitor individual usage of its computing resources, the normal operation and maintenance of the College's computing resources require the backup and caching of data and communications, logging of activity, the monitoring of general usage patterns the scanning of systems and network ports for anomalies and vulnerabilities, and other such activities that are necessary for the provision of service and network integrity. Subject to applicable law and contractual arrangements, the College may also specifically monitor the activity and accounts of individual users of College computing resources, including individual login sessions and communications, without notice, in any of the following situations:
- The user has given permission or has voluntarily made them accessible to the public, for example by posting to a publicly accessible webpage or providing publicly accessible network services.
- It reasonably appears necessary to do so to protect the integrity, security, or functionality of the College or other College-related computing resources or to protect the College from liability or reputational harm.
- There is a reasonable basis to believe that the user has violated, or is violating, this policy.
- An account appears to be engaged in unusual or unusually excessive activity, as indicated by the monitoring of general activity and usage patterns.
- It is otherwise required or permitted by law.
Any such individual monitoring, other than the specified in paragraph (a) above, that is required by law or necessary to respond to perceived emergency situations, must be authorized in advance by the Office of Legal Affairs.
The College, in its discretion, may disclose the results of any such general or individual monitoring, including the contents and records of individual communications, to appropriate College personnel or law enforcement agencies and may use those results in appropriate College disciplinary proceedings. Communications made by means of College computing resources are also generally subject to New York's Freedom of Information Law to the same extent as they would be if made on paper.
It is the responsibility of the Office of Integrated Information Technology Services to update this document and properly notify the College community of changes to this policy.
Violations of the policy should be reported to the Information Security Officer, who will refer issues to the appropriate office or agency.
Enforcement of Utica College policies is the responsibility of the office or offices listed in the "Resources/Questions" section of each policy. The responsible office will contact the appropriate authority regarding faculty or staff members, students, vendors, or visitors who violate policies.
Utica College acknowledges that College policies may not anticipate every possible issue that may arise. The College therefore reserves the right to make reasonable and relevant decisions regarding the enforcement of this policy. All such decisions must be approved by an officer of the College (i.e. President, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Executive Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer, Vice President for Financial Affairs, or Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel).
For more information, contact the Information Secority Officer:
James Farr
(315) 223-2386
(315) 223-2386
Use of College computing resources is also the subject to the College's Code of Student Conduct, the College's policy on Academic Misconduct, and all other generally applicable College policies.
Please note that other Utica College policies may apply or be related to this policy. To search for related policies, use the Keyword Search function of the online policy manual.
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Witches, vampires werewolves and zombies have been done to death.
So, this year why not show everyone how incredibly 'on-it' you are by donning one of these zeitgeist-surfing costumes?
If you do, Tweet us your pictures. We'll be making a compendium of the best….
Walter White and Jesse Pinkman
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, Breaking Bad will have flashed across your radar at some point. And rightly so. The show essentially documents the fall of Malcolm in the Middle's dad into a life of hard drugs and grizzly crime (well, there's a bit more to it than that).
Bro-up for this one for optimum effect, and don haz-mat suits, gas masks and rubber gloves.
You could even carry a few baggies of rock salt for added authenticity, which will also ensure an adrenaline-fuelled night if you're going anywhere with a strict door policy.
Royal Baby
Regardless of your feelings about the monarchy, the escapades of Wills and Kate are second-to-none when it comes to media frenzies, and the arrival of Royal Baby earlier this year was no exception.
Simply get a baby's bonnet and stick a silver (or more likely, stainless steel) spoon in your mouth, and voila! You're this year's most talked about personality.
Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus
Picture: Gemma Batten
These two have been making the news all year long.
Firstly, saccharine pop-princess-turned-nasty-girl Miley Cyrus made the headlines for hacking her hair off and getting 'nekkid', then Robin Thicke rolled up in a maelstrom of alleged sexism, hashtags and mind-bendingly irritating tunes. So, no-one was really that surprised when the two paired up to create a cataclysmic ruckus at the VMAs in August.
So frightful was the whole affair that bookies reckon Miley Cyrus is set to be this year's most popular Halloween costume. Jump on the bandwagon with a foam finger, vomit-coloured hotpants and a 90s girlband hairstyle.
For the full effect, get your other half into a black and white stripy get-up (use masking or electrical tape to create the effect on a regular suit), then spend the evening shoving your tongues in people's faces and publicly humping each other.
Lady Gaga: Applause
As you would expect of someone that makes a living strutting around in slices of bacon, shooting flames out of their mammaries and waxing lyrical about self-acceptance, folk were rather intrigued by the Ga's triumphant comeback single 'Applause' this year, and of course its corresponding look.
Turns out that look simply involves shoving your face into a pile of flour and then having a bit of fun with some food colouring.
Minecraft is basically a super-advanced computer version of Lego, where players build constructions out of 3D cubes. But forget shonky towers and questionably-shaped vehicles; die-hard players have created some truly astonishing works of art within this online realm. You needn't spend anywhere near as long fashioning a fitting tribute, though.
Just get a box, splash some paint around in a vaguely square-like pattern, and you're good to go.
Candy Crush
For the uninitiated, Candy Crush is an online puzzle game that involves moving sweets around a garishly-coloured screen and levelling up until you find yourself stuck for days on a particular level.
Then the game involves a great deal of swearing and deep, personal reflection as you forsake relationships, personal hygiene and far more than one 69p 'booster' payment in a bid to conquer the candy. No wonder a UK rehab centre has started a programme for addicts.
This costume can be interpreted in several ways: either get a bunch of friends together to mimic a selection of the candies (block colours and stripes, for example), or freestyle it yourself with multi-colours, or even by taping packets of sweets to your person (probably best stay away from kids with this one, mind).
Alternatively, take a packet of sweets and a hammer to the party and sit in the corner smashing individual candy pieces into smithereens as you hallucinate jelly beans and lollipops.
North West
The world drew a collective breath when it was announced that Kanye 'Greatest rock star in the world' West and reality TV person Kim Kardashian had procreated, and it all-but asphyxiated when they announced the name of their offspring: North West – a name that no doubt screams glamorous chic in the States but over here only evokes images of drunken hen parties on dodgy rollercoasters in Blackpool.
Nonetheless, you too could make like the child least likely to have a normal upbringing by fashioning a large arrow from card, then attaching it to your person in a – wait for it – north western direction. Dopeness!
Horse Head
Spotted all over the web, this meme is basically nothing more than a person wearing a plastic horse head mask. Said to have gained popularity after a Chicago Blackhawk's player (some kind of American sport ball to you and I) was snapped wearing a similar version, this is the ultimate no-effort costume du jour.
Alternatively, tape a microwaveable lasagne to yourself (or maybe just the packaging), and hey presto, you're the horse meat scandal.


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Knots are the unit of measurement that describes the speed of boats and airplanes. One knot is equal to roughly 1.151 miles per hour. With this conversion factor, 18 knots is equal to roughly 20.718 miles per hour.Continue Reading
One knot is equal to a nautical mile per hour. The term "knot" comes from a historical practice of using a tool known as a "chip log" to calculate a ship's speed. Sailors threw this tool into the water behind ships as they sailed, allowing a knotted rope to unwind freely. After a set amount of time, they would rewind the tool and count the number of knots that unwound.Learn more about Measurements


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OFFICE OF CONSUMER COUNSEL v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITY CONTROL et al., SC 18747
Judicial District of New Britain
Utilities; Declaratory Judgment; Whether General Statutes § 16-259a Limits the Time Period Within Which a Public Utility Company, which has Issued an Inaccurate Bill to a Customer, may Collect on Corrected Bill. In May of 2009, the office of consumer counsel (OCC) petitioned the department of public utility control (DPUC) for a declaratory ruling concerning its interpretation of General Statutes § 16-259a, the "billing statute." Section 16-259a provides that no public utility company that "inaccurately bills a retail customer for service may bill or otherwise hold the customer financially liable for more than one year after the customer receives such service." The statute further provides that the company shall establish a payment plan that prorates the customer's arrearages "over a period of time that is no shorter than the period for which the customer is being held financially liable" and that "no payment charged to a customer under such plan shall exceed fifty per cent of the average amount that the company charged such customer for each billing period over the previous twelve month period for services received during that period." The OCC claimed that in decisions prior to 2008, the DPUC properly interpreted the billing statute as a consumer protection statute that allows public utility companies, which have billed customers inaccurately, to bill customers accurately and collect on corrected bills only within the time period specified in the billing statute, which is one year after a customer receives the service. The OCC further claimed that in decisions starting in 2008, the DPUC departed from its prior rulings and improperly construed the billing statute in a manner more favorable to public utility companies by interpreting it as providing a time limitation for discovering billing mistakes and for notifying customers of billing mistakes, but not as providing a time limitation for collecting on a corrected bill. In the present action, the DPUC issued a declaratory judgment that the billing statute prohibits a public utility company from billing or holding a customer financially liable after one year from the date of service but does not prohibit recovery or receipt of payments after that period. The OCC appealed the decision to the Superior Court. The trial court affirmed the DPUC's decision, finding that its interpretation of the statute made sense of the statutory language and captured its legislative intent. The trial court further found that the OCC's interpretation was not workable because, in cases of long periods of mistaken under-billing, a public utility company would be unduly restricted in recovering the amount due because of the payment plan parameters that the billing statute also provides. The OCC challenges this decision.


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happy 6 months to this amazing little family
From a very early age we tell our children -- you are smart, you are kind, you are enough. We want them to know their value, acceptance and beauty isn't based on their outward appearance. We want our offspring to believe that he/she is beautiful because of who he is, not because of what she does or what he looks like. Yet do we give ourselves the same freedom? 50 does not look like 25. At 25 we were thin, we were wrinkle free, we were confident. The words we have said to our children over the last 25 years, do we believe ourselves? I want to. I want to get past the images plastered on magazines and billboards, telling me that I don't measure up. I want to be confidant in the woman I have become, not pine for the girl I used to be.
This year when my college friends and I started making plans for our 25th reunion, I started thinking about all of this, how wonderful each one of my friends is. How accomplished each is, how each one of them has given her life for others and how beautiful that makes her to me. All of us is as unique as possible but we share so many commonalities. Our time together is limited, but priceless. We look forward to it every year and work our yearly schedules around trying our best to make the reunion a priority. This year when I suggested we do a portrait I got a lot of argument -- all the usual--"I am not thin enough or pretty enough". I tried to explain why I thought it was so important, why I wanted it so badly, and how I so wanted them all to be as passionate about it as me -- as you can imagine, no one was as passionate about a portrait at 50 as I was, but they did love me enough to give in. We had a blast, learning poses, setting up, meeting walkers in the park, the whole process was fun. That night, I knew I was going to love this project. Now as I have uploaded and edited these images, I am tearful with the joy it makes me feel. These ladies are beautiful! I am so thankful that they were willing to be vulnerable and let me promote their beauty and keep the editing to a minimum { no wrinkles, flaws or belly rolls were removed in the post production of this project}. I hope you all see the beauty that I do, and know that you are also Beautiful. You are smart, you are kind, you are enough.
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OMFG, Check out Miley Cyrus' engagement ring!
In case you don't live/ breathe
/stalk Miley Cyrus like we do, you may have not heard that the "Party in the USA" singer is engaged, y'all! And while we've been basking right along with girl's "new fiancé'" glow (and enjoying picking out wedding dresses for her), we've been dying to see the real pièce de résistance: the engagement ring! Like, on her actual hand.
Miley, who's working on an "a very adult and sexy" new album (YAAAAY!) recently hopped off the plane in LAX with a dream and a... WOAH, a full-on view of her new STUNNING new ring. (I'm not just saying this because Miley are friends... in my mind. That ring is LEGIT. Also, if we're being technical, Miley hopped on a plane to go see Liam.) After this glimpse of this gem we're noddin' our head like "yeah!" in utter agreement that Liam Hemsworth is a total keeper for life. It is clear he did not go to Jared.
What? Oh THIS thing?
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James Lankford of Oklahoma to Seek Coburn's Senate Seat
Coburn Is Leaving the Senate at Year's End as He Battles Cancer
Republican Rep. James Lankford of Oklahoma on Monday became the first candidate to jump into the race to serve out the last two years of GOP Sen. Tom Coburn's term.
Mr. Coburn, who is battling a recurrence of cancer, said Thursday that he would leave the Senate when the current session of Congress concludes at year-end, two years before his second term ends. A primary for the seat will be held June 24, with a potential runoff Aug. 26, ahead of the Nov. 4 general election. A Democrat is considered unlikely to mount a serious...


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The Series 3800 Intercom System is engineered to solve the problem of communicating in high-noise environments with a mobile vehicle platform. Fire apparatus, rescue vehicles, ambulances, command and control vehicles, airline deicers and paint stripers are just a few applications that can benefit from the Series 3800 system.
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As always every Wednesday, here are our weekly picks of the best (and free) deals on the App Store for this week.
Happy downloading!
Mailings Lite
If you send large amounts of personalised e-mail messages to a number of people, then Mailings Lite can help you both send and keep track of these. You can use it for newsletters, marketing campaigns and so on and the app has plenty of features in to help you do this, such as HTML support, attachments, a variety of built-in templates and automated setup. The Lite version doesn't allow any adjustment of the settings, so unfortunately you're stuck with the ones that the developers prescribe but if you need these, then the full version is priced at just $24.99.
€ 11.99 – free
Developer: Limit Point LLC
App Store link: Mailings Lite
There are certainly no shortages of task managers on the App Store but Activity tries to eliminate most of the clutter seen in other applications. You can filter your tasks by date and show which ones are either starred or overdue and your tasks can also be sorted into groups and colour-coded. Activity also integrates with Lion's built-in autosave feature and has a really nice, simple interface.
€ 0.79 – free
Developer: Leonardo Chiantini
App Store link: Activity
Significator for iTunes
Significator is a great little way to control iTunes straight from your menu bar. You can play and pause tracks and select new songs without having to go into iTunes first and the interface is based on the Music app on the iPhone, making it easy to find the song you want to listen to even if you have an enormous iTunes library.
€ 1.59 – free
Developer: Ilija Tovilo
App Store link: Significator for iTunes
Sip is a great little colour picker tools for developers and designers that allows you to select any colour on your desktop for use in your favourite code editor. The app supports a wide range of colour formats, including HEX, CMYK and Generic RGB and stores all your recently picked colours in a history file for easy access. There are also a range of system-wide OS X shortcuts built into the app for easy and quick access.
€ 2.99 – free
Developer: Rui Aureliano
App Store link: Sip
Snappy allows you to capture an area of your screen by using the default shortcut ⇧⌘2 and pin it above all windows, meaning that it is constantly visible. This is great if you need to remember something or if you are trying to compare two things (for example documents) without having to flick between two windows constantly. The app features built-in sharing with Pinterest and you can e-mail and print all snapshots directly from the Snappy app.
€ 1.59 – free
Developer: Nextwave Digital
App Store link: SnappyApp
Oh, and one more thing…
Although not strictly free, this is probably one of the best deals you are going to get on the App Store for quite some time. ForkLift is a complete and elegant FTP/SFTP client which has stuck to the OS X design principles and supports a wide range of volumes, including WebDAV, Amazon S3, iDisk, SMB and so on. The interface is resembles that of Finder and there are plenty of features built-in to help you manage your website and files. ForkLift has a perfect 5-star rating so go ahead and grab it whilst it's hot (and cheap).
$ 29.99 – $0.99
Developer: BinaryNights
App Store link: ForkLift


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< Report Four >
Bethlehem – Reconciliation & Return
"No More"
Mad man, bruised heart
Runs from grave to grave
Slams into walls, checkpoints,
Concrete barriers,
Refugee from Galilee:
An army, a lethal legion,
High-tech handcuffs, American guns,
Creatures of habit and fear
Occupying mad man's soul.
"I am not afraid of this legion."
Exorcist believes, risks, invites
Mad man out of the grave lands –
To touch, to feel, to see,
To eat, to care, to shake
Off the mad occupation!
Organize friends, break bread,
Gather popular committees,
Stop walls,
Insist on boycotts, return to villages,
Respect everybody, respect all,
Love, love, love,
Sit when bulldozers roar to destroy,
Build now, build, build.
"You are shaking off the occupation!"
Mind clears, heart heals
So it can break right now
And grow strong,
Occupied no more.
--Dave Grishaw-Jones
June 1, 2008, Palestine
Mark 5:1-20
Birthday Reflections from Bethlehem
June 2, 2008
June 2, celebrating my birthday in Bethlehem! Like all of our days, full of contradictions and intensely powerful experiences. Started out in Jerusalem heading to Bethlehem – long way around – our tour guide says we can't go through the checkpoint on the most direct route. Did I mention that Israel and Palestine are full of barriers – real tangible walls like the Separation Wall – and intangible walls – fear and prejudice. On the road, I ask our guide to explain the permit system again; seven days here, I still can't keep it straight. Israeli Palestinians have Israeli citizenship; and like all Israelis, cannot travel in the West Bank, Zones A and B. (Except the 450,000 settlers who live in the West Bank, they travel around, but on settler only streets). So, Palestinians in Israel cannot visit their family members in the West Bank. East Jerusalem Palestinians need a permit to get into West Bank; but West Bank Palestinians cannot come into Jerusalem or Israel except with a permit, and authorities only rarely give permits. Still not sure I understand it; except the system seems designed to limit Palestinians in as many ways as possible. Maybe I am getting it?
Morning at the Wi'am Center. Once again, I am in awe, in a land that has been under Occupation for decades, we meet men and women who still talk about hope. The Center is an inspiration – we hear how the Center is working to teach conflict resolution skills, to offer classes and community support for children suffering from the trauma of living under Israeli occupation, to offer training to women. Our host talks about how mediation here is different than in other places. The occupation and the incredible barriers used to try to destroy Palestinian communities may stem from a political motivation –but the economic effects have devastating consequences for the family and community structures.
We head out to Manger Square for a tour of the Church of the Nativity and a visit to the Peace Center. Bethlehem isn't the only town in the West Bank where Christian and Muslims live and work together – but certainly it's the most well known. Again and again, we see Palestinian Christians and Muslims sharing community. The relatively peaceful co-existence in the Palestinian towns is a stark contrast to the settlements that have spread out over many mountain tops, in which Israeli settlers live in isolated communities. Time and time again, I hear Palestinians say "we can live together, and have been doing so for hundreds of years" and ask "why can't they (Israelis)?"
Later, we are walking through Dheisheh Refugee camp. By now, the Nakba story is familiar – but hearing it from the Palestinians in the camp is heartbreaking. "We were forced out of our homes often by force. We thought we would go back in a few days, or weeks. Sixty years, and for us there is no right to return." Suheir, our host's wife, was born in the camp, and has lived there all her life, now her children also have grown up in the camp. Later, we meet her mother-in-law Fatma who was forced out of her home in 1948. She relays her story of Nakba: "We saw what was happening in a village close by and we took the keys to our homes and left. We thought it would only be for a short time until things returned to normal." Suheir and Naji describe life in the camp, the horrific period in 2002 when the camp was under curfew for 45 days. Fatma tells us how important the right of return is to her, even now, she says she would live without anything if she was given the chance to go back to her village.
I keep asking myself, how can we have three generations of refugees – and no real solution in sight? How can you live at Dheisheh, in the shadows of a large (and illegal) settlement and just a short distance from the homes and villages you were forced to leave, and maintain hope?
Much of what I had learned about Israel and Palestine was distorted by a false view that Israel was right and that Palestinians were wrong. But, Israeli children were not told about the Nakba until recently; we heard somewhat conflicting stories, but even teaching about the Green Line is new. The US, and other members of the international community, have all said that the settlements are wrong, illegal. Still, while Israel was talking "peace" it was steadily building up the settlements in the West Bank. The Separation Wall seems to be more about taking land from the West Bank and less about security. Much of the nonviolent protests by Palestinians and the international community has been and is being met with brutal and unrelenting force. And, I have been overwhelmed by the hospitality and kindness I have received in Jerusalem and in the West Bank. "It is complicated," is the refrain I hear from Palestinians, from Israelis.
As I head off to bed – across the street from the refugee camp – I replay the anger and frustrations of the Palestinians we have heard in these past few days and am amazed that they find some way to hold on to hope – that the world will see what has happened to them and that they are not a forgotten people. I am in awe of the courage and resilience I see at every turn. I am no less in awe of the Israelis we have met who have spoken out about the human rights abuses we have seen with courage. It cannot be easy to speak out against the home demolitions, the Separation Wall, the military protection for the illegal settlements; but there are many who do. It takes courage to be on the front line – and be willing to speak out and perhaps be arrested for helping Palestinians secure access to their lands, but Rabbi Ascherman assures us he can and has. I hear the New Profile member's challenge "There is more than one Israeli voice – one view. Don't accept what's happening in Israel without questioning it."
What an incredible birthday; what an incredible new beginning in understanding the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
--Paula Roderick
"Brief Moments of Entire Lifetimes"
June 2, 2008
Our final stop of today was the Dheisheh refugee camp. This was a truly powerful experience. We were met with a tight-knit community that receives what few services it does from the UN and provides the rest itself on a volunteer basis. The community leaders we met are secular, political, socialist, and can easily navigate between anger at their constant state of dispossession to humbling warmth and hospitality. We were given harrowing firsthand accounts of Israeli occupation, brutality and insensitivity. We even heard from a survivor of the Nakba.
In fact, we were talked to so much that I felt brief moments of panic, as though the Occupation had descended upon me as some sort of immaterial weight, and I felt something like claustrophobia. I needed to get up and leave, see a different room from the one in which we spent a total of some three hours being lectured about refugees' suffering. I needed a different message, any message. I resisted this feeling, and these moments passed quickly when I focused on the speaker's humanity and individuality even within this massive stream of experiences of the occupied. On some level, perhaps, I saw a glimpse of what life under the Occupation is like. I cannot imagine what it means for my brief moments to stretch out across entire lifetimes. On the other hand, I felt more like I was in a world where problems can be solved instead of normalized into constant fatalistic struggle when I was able to access the human behind the refugee. I do not think they would claim to be anything more than human, they just want to make sure we Americans know their stories since we never hear about them in the US.
The real tragedy of the Occupation is less the suffering alone and more that this suffering is imposed on human beings - who smile warmly, yell at their sons, tease their spouses and mothers, weep discreetly about the frustrations of the day. In other words, the Occupation and the Refugee crisis as political issues are something I can engage upon on an intellectual level and for which I can try to think of solutions and imagine my role in them. But when I see a human refugee, suffering in his or her own unique way from the Occupation, but also maintaining a humanity independent of the Occupation, then I can relate to and identify with the problem, and use this as my motivation for any role I might play in a solution.
We heard from no less than six speakers today, and to some degree it is difficult to differentiate between them. As I already mentioned, the constant and often repetitive discourse of suffering under the Occupation merged into a sometimes overwhelming stream but a few common themes emerged. First of all, every single person we talked to insisted that their vision for the region would be a single democratic state for all its people. All at some point or another emphasized that Jews would be welcome in this state, and some went on to say that the enemy was Zionism and colonialism, not Judaism. They all assured us that the resistance would end if the Occupation were to end and these other conditions met. Maybe this is true, or maybe, as I'm sure some might say, they were just telling us what we wanted to hear. But at some point, after hearing this from Palestinian after Palestinian, it becomes increasingly difficult to declare them all liars in order to justify a paranoid xenophobic conviction that everyone's out to kill us, to which we seem to have become all too attached.
It's hard for me to think of us in this delegation as a resource to these disenfranchised Palestinians, and I feel extremely self conscious about using any of their resources. But they host us so well. Our stay at the Phoenix Center in Dheisheh was evidence that they have accommodations specifically for this kind of delegation. Hopefully we can live up to the hospitality we receive from the destitute, and give back to them by giving them a voice in a world that is not listening.
--Yotam Amit
A longer version of Yotam's piece was originally posted here.
"Mother of God"
They beat my children, she cries,
Fire in her eyes, her voice throwing sparks.
I don't see any moment in my life
Without suffering.
I can't breathe good.
She's breathing fire.
I spend three hours, waiting in the sun,
At checkpoints; huge dogs, baring teeth,
Sniff me up and down, my children,
They watch.
I am a human being, she says
And she says it again, I am a human being.
Can you imagine my children's problems?
I am a refugee. All I think about.
It is no life.
She walks on shards of glass
Through unlit alleys –
And her children too.
I need a safe place for my children.
Why does Herod still rage
After Mary's children
In Bethlehem?
--Dave Grishaw-Jones
June 2, Dheisheh Refugee Camp, near Bethlehem in Palestine
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Woolworths and Tennis Australia join forces to feed fresh talent
As one of Australia's biggest everyday brands, Woolworths wanted to find a way to demonstrate their commitment to providing fresh food to all Australians, creating stronger connections with communities around the country.AU
We had bold ambitions to make a major impact in the minds of all Aussies, so they knew that when it came to value and freshness in summer, Woolworths was the brand to turn to.
Woollies had been broadcast partner of the iconic Australian Open Tennis in 2014, and in 2015 we recommended they really step up to the service line and own the tennis relationship.
The Australian Open is an anchor of the Australian summer calendar, with close to 20 sponsors. In this first year as an on-ground sponsor we had to ensure we created a unique, own-able territory in order to stand out amongst the clutter.
The primary brand goal was to increase Woollies credentials as the Fresh Food People. We needed to do this through tennis in a unique, relevant and scalable way across both the on-ground and broadcast components of the partnership. So began Woolworths and Tennis Australia's Summer of Tennis!
Rather than take the obvious route of focusing on the players, we turned our attention to the fans - both aspiring tennis players and die-hard supporters, with a particular focus on families and kids.
Understanding the ultimate goal for parents is to have healthy and happy kids, we focused on both the talented ball kids and the family fun the Aussie Open offers.
We brought our brand positioning to life through a strategy of 'Feeding Fresh Talent'. This strategy came to life in two key ways - the Woolworths Fresh Food Fair and a sponsorship of the Australian Woolworths Ball Kids at all the Australian Open Series events.
With only three weeks to devise and activate a best-in-class partnership, we set to work creating a relevant and natural alignment to ensure our partnership on-ground and in media were as impactful and meaningful as possible.
Firstly, we created a space that allowed us to showcase all elements of a healthy lifestyle, as well as giving families their own space to unwind amidst the hustle and bustle of the Aussie Open crowds.
The Woolworths Fresh Food Fair was an activation site on ground that became the ultimate destination for families across the tournament. Families could watch the tennis on the giant screen whilst relaxing in the beanbags and the toddlers could play with the Disney activations.
Older kids and adults could test their ball skills at the Ball Kid activations and meet real Ball Kids! The Woolworths Kiosk provided hot and cold beverages, freshly made sandwiches and salads – and the very popular "WW Kids Lunchbox" (considered the best value at the Open).
In order to showcase the range of fresh produce at the Woollies Inspiration marquee, Channel Seven's very own Fast Ed cooked up delicious dishes – with four cooking demonstrations daily, featuring fresh produce and exclusive products, sampling the days hero produce/products.
A Seven Producer and Director would visit the Woolworths' Fresh Food Fair every morning and record a 'live' cross, featuring what was happening at the site that day, with the segment aired within the next few hours.
With something new happening daily – whether it was the amazing fresh recipes, Tennis Legends (Lindsay Davenport, Alisha Mollik, and Henri Leconte) or even our own Woollies farmers visiting the site, we were able to create best-in-class, on- site/in- broadcast content across the tournament period.
Our partnership with Tennis Australia also allowed us to also become the official sponsors of the Ball Kids. Traditionally the Aussie Open Series and the Ball Kid programmes all operate independently, on a state by state basis, however our sponsorship provided much-needed investment, allowing this program to be driven nationally.
Another important task we had was to establish the partnership and encourage kids to test their skills and sign up for future tournaments.
To drive interest, we ran a series of Ball Kid activations at the Woolworths Fresh Food Fair. We showcased their intense training and skills, encouraging kids to test their abilities through skills-based activations (i.e. Speed Roll and Drop Serve). Ball Kid training sessions with tennis legend Henri Leconte were hugely entertaining on-site and then used as a scalable content piece through our Network Seven broadcast partnership. We heroed the Ball Kids by showcasing their family stories and the Woolworths Ball Kid Awards, featuring them in our content series and official TVC's.
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"Am more positive about the brand" - 23% higher than study average
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"Am more likely to find out more" – 10% higher than study average
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Across the Summer of Tennis (Dec to Feb) Woolworths saw an average 2.9% increase in weekly sales, a significant number for the grocery category.
All this in only three weeks! This marked an impressive activation absolutely delivering on a cut-through strategy for Woolworths to make their mark in a hugely cluttered environment.
Our team efforts created a never seen before family friendly zone in the heart of the Aussie Open, providing parents and kids with great fresh food, family fun and a focus on the fresh talent of the Ball Kids.
In partnership with the Aussie Open and Network Seven, Woolworths has become an integral part of every family's summer of tennis.


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The activities of GTIF 2013, its Strategic Partners, and its participating organizations will ensure a strong foundation for the next generation of intellectual property licensing and technology transfer service for the betterment of mankind.
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The Licensing Executives Society International(LESI), a global association of 32 national and regional societies, each composed of individuals who have an interest in the transfer of technology or licensing of intellectual property rights, is pleased to announce that the second annual inaugural Global Technology Impact Forum(GTIF) will take place January 21-22, 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. The GTIF Website now contains the 2013 event agenda and the public attendee registration is now open and available online.
The GTIF is established as one of the largest gathering of the world's leading non-governmental organizations addressing the promotion of intellectual property licensing and technology transfer for the betterment of mankind.
GTIF Founder and LESI Immediate-Past President, James E. Malackowski of Ocean Tomo, LLC, explained "the second annual GTIF will continue the tradition of a unique problem-solving and networking forum for participating organizations to act collaboratively over the course of the following year in tandem with each organization's distinct, yet interconnected, mission."
At last year's inaugural GTIF event, over 25 global organizations participated, who in turn, represented three interest groups – Intellectual Property Protection & Harmonization, Trade & Economic Development, and Technology Transfer & Standards. These included our Strategic Partners, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
GTIF 2013 will provide unique board-to-board networking and collaboration opportunities to move forward a consensus agenda addressing major intellectual property licensing and technology transfer concerns.
Institutional participation in the LESI Global Technology Impact Forum 2013 is by invitation only. The public, individuals, and the media may register to observe the proceedings. The agenda for GTIF 2013 is online at: http://www.gtiforum.org/gtif2013/2013-agenda/
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The activities of GTIF 2013, its Strategic Partners, and its participating organizations will ensure a strong foundation for the next generation of intellectual property licensing and technology transfer service for the betterment of mankind.
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Gosh mornings are busy. So much to do, yet so little time. How are we supposed to make time for the most important meal of the day – breakfast? Well I have a solution right here for you my friends – Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks.
Breakfast, is just that – breaking the fast. Our bodies have just been starved for 6-7 hours (I'm being optimistic here), whilst we sleep. Eating a good breakfast helps kick our bodies into GO. If you are anything like me, I need a kick start in the morning!
That's where these yummy Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks can help.
Packed full of good-for-you, slow release energy oats, one of these bars will keep you going until lunchtime. And, because it's the morning and let's face it eating anything can be a struggle, I threw in crunchy walnuts and chewy, slightly tart cranberries.
Yes there's a squiggle of rich, dark chocolate on top of these beauties – it's breakfast people, we need all the
caffeine flavour we can get!!
The beauty of these flavour and texture packed bars is that you make them ahead.
Imagine this? It's Sunday afternoon, you spend 15 minutes in the kitchen, whipping up a batch of these Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks and you have breakfast and snacks for the whole week.
Am I the only one who gets that mid afternoon dip around 3-4pm?
Thought not!
These bars also make a great mid afternoon snack and stop you grabbing for that chocolate bar/doughnut/cookie. We all know these give us an instant feel good sugar hit, only to slump in hunger again half an hour later. Why not wrap an extra one of these, in baking parchment and take it to work? It'll keep those hunger pangs away until dinner time.
You can certainly mix up the fruit and nut element. Dried apricots with almonds, or dried figs with pecan nuts. Really the possibilities are endless, I would keep the weights the same, as the flapjack needs to hold together.
I have deliberately not used the word 'healthy' for these Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks, as I am aware of the sugar/butter content. I am not a nutritionist, although I would rather pop one of these bars into my daughter's hand as she heads off for college, than have her grab a muffin or doughnut from a coffee shop!
Recipe: Make 16 Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks
250g/10oz Unsalted Butter
100g/4oz Golden Syrup (light corn syrup)
125g/5oz Light Brown Sugar
325g/11.5oz Rolled Oats (not quick cook) I use Waitrose essential oats
150g/5oz Dried Cranberries
100g/4oz Chopped Walnuts
50g/2oz Dark Chocolate (70% cocoa is ideal)
Method: Preheat the oven to 180/165C fan oven.
Grease and line a 8″ x 11″ – 20cm x 28cm swiss roll tin/shallow baking tin, with butter and baking parchment.
Into a large bowl add the golden syrup.
Into a medium saucepan add the butter and sugar. Warm over a medium heat, stirring until melted.
Pour the melted butter/sugar mixture into the bowl containing the golden syrup. Stir continuously until combined.
Stir until all the oats, walnuts and cranberries are thoroughly coated in the melted butter/sugar.
Tip the mixture into the lined tin.
Place the tin into the oven and bake for 20 minutes until golden brown.
Remove the tin from the oven and allow the Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks to cool in the tin. The flapjacks will be very soft at this stage, but will harden on cooling.
Using a sharp knife cut down the centre of the flapjacks. Then cut across the middle. Cut each quarter in half again. The flapjacks will still be slight soft.
Leave the flapjacks on the baking parchment to continue cooling and setting.
Once the Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks are completely cooled they can be drizzled with chocolate.
Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt in a heatproof bowl, in the microwave, using 30 second bursts. Stir well and when the chocolate is nearly melted keep stirring and the inherent heat will melt any solid pieces left.
You can use a teaspoon to drizzle the chocolate over the flapjacks or pour the chocolate into a disposable icing bag, snip the corner off and pipe the chocolate onto the flapjacks.
Allow the chocolate to set and then store in a tin.
These Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks are perfect anytime of day, but they are especially handy to have, when time for breakfast disappears in the morning. Just grab one and eat on the go!
An added bonus, which does rely on checking the packaging, is that oats are gluten free. So even more people can enjoy a delicious, easy breakfast.
Do your work colleagues miss breakfast? Try making these Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks and taking them to work. You may just make someone smile!
If you enjoyed these Cranberry Walnut Flapjacks then try these:
Oat Topped Lemon Shortbread Bars
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