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The Return of Goku (孫悟空の逆襲 Son Goku no Gyakushuu, lit. "Son Goku's Counterattack") is the sixth episode of the Commander Red Saga and the sixty-third episode in the Dragon Ball series. The episode first aired on May 20, 1987.
Mercenary Tao returns to the Sacred Land of Korin to find the missing Dragon Ball. Upa, who is still angry over his father's murder, attacks Tao, but Tao dodges and strangles Upa for information on the Dragon Ball. Upa refuses, so Tao throws him at the Korin Tower, but Goku and the Flying Nimbus save him. Then, Goku and Tao have a rematch, and Goku dominates the battle. Goku effortlessly fights with Mercenary Tao, kicking him in the stomach and hurting him in the process, sending him flying, and kicking him to the ground. As he pops out of the ground, Tao gets mad at Goku that his second suit was torn off and tells how difficult it is going to be to find another decent tailor. Goku tells him that he should worry about his fighting, not his looks. Tao then launches a Dodon Ray, which at Goku blocks with his hands. When Mercenary Tao learns that Goku's strength increased while in the Korin Tower, he climbs up there himself to become stronger. Until then, Goku and Upa decides to wait for him to come back.
"You! You killed my father!"
"Now listen to me very carefully! Where are you hiding the Dragon Ball!?"
"Speak up savage! I can't understand what you're saying! The orange shiny ball! You have it! Where is it!?"
"If you want the pain to stop. Talk!"
"If you won't co-operate, then we have further to discuss!"
"You! You are alive!"
"Yes, I believe in you Goku."
"Don't you ever hurt my friend again!"
"Whatever you call it! You hurt people, and I'm going to stop you!"
"That's right! Come and get me!"
"That's the second you've destroyed! Do you have any idea how difficult it's going to be to find another decent tailor!?"
"You dare question my abilities!? Well, then taste my Dodon Ray!"
"It's impossible. No one has ever withstood my attack."
"Ha ha ha ha ha! Don't worry boy! I'm just take a little off the top!"
"I don't need a weapon to defeat you."
"Don't be such a fool! You're just a child! Why do you want these stupid things so badly anyway!?"
"You should be greatful for these last few moments of peace before I take what little life you've lived! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Uh?"
- There is a Dragon Ball Z episode with the same name.
- Goku got a part of his hair cut off when Tao was using a sword against him. It seemed to grow back by the end of the episode, despite Vegeta's claim later on that a full-blooded Saiyan's hair does not grow an inch from the day the Saiyan is born.
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I went back to my wonderful time in Aix-en-Provence. I can still see everything as clearly as if I were there. As students my friends and I did not have much money, but we learned to enjoy French food, art, travel, etc. on our meager budgets. One thing that I learned about was how the French consider lunch and dinner to be special times for relaxing and savoring their meals. I eventually learned to enjoy a two hour lunch! It took me a while...but I did it. We Americans have a busy busy mindset. It takes time to unlearn that mindset. (I did have to relearn my American ways when I returned home and became a high school teacher. That school bell rang every forty-two minutes! And there were no more two hour lunches.)
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So, let me just start this by saying… I was robbed. Completely and utterly robbed.
I love my team mates, I've made friends for life in this sport, I've made enemies, i've been involved in politics, I've had very happy memories, and I've taken many downs alongside many ups. I love football, and I love my team mates.
Most of the time. I was robbed.
Now, we train hard, we work hard, the core of the team have an amazing bond, and there's a group of a dozen or so of us who dedicate ourselves to football above just about anything else. I have a connection and a relationship with them like nobody else.
But there's one time when I loathe them. I loathe them and everything they stand for. I was robbed.
This time comes just around Christmas every year. A time when peace and goodwill resonates around 99% of the world's population. A time when people rejoice in giving and receiving gifts, a time when smiles prevail and all is right with the world, when robins sit atop every snow covered post box, every child wears mittens to build wonky snowmen, and a time when a jolly fat man visits every child in the world.
It's fair to say there was no jolly fat man in my house this year. I was robbed.
Fantasy football is not a game, it's a life experience, and on Christmas eve, as I had the NFL offices on speed dial to insist that the games were replayed, and the Police on the other line as I tried to register the rape, pillage and general destruction I'd fallen victim to, I held my head in my hands and I sobbed.
Why? Two words – Arian. Foster. The guy who had taken me all the way, the guy who I'd taken in the First round of the draft, and the guy who had been healthy all year long. That guy. That guy who was predicted to net me 25+ points, and brought home… 2. Now, had he been injured I'd be sympathetic. Had he been performing poorly and was pulled, I could have lived with that. But he wasn't. He was taken out of the game for… wait for it… an irregular heartbeat. Yes, you heard me right. His heart wasn't beating the same as everyone else's. Now listen up you Texan trainers, did it not occur to you that this is a guy with virtually zero body fat, a guy with more muscle than the average prize bull, a guy honed to athletic perfection, and in the top 1% of sports athletes in the world? Take that under consideration and is it any wonder that his heartbeat wasn't the same as your average American couch potato? I mean, come on! Seriously! The guy's black, that means his heartbeat just has rythym – the pasty college interns probably don't know a funky beat when they hear it! Hang on, is that racist? Let me clarify that I know plenty of white guys with rythym, like…. well… like…erm…
And equally, I know black guys with no rythym like Joe Stickings. I mean, that guy dances more like a white guy than any black fella I know. He got a chance to prove me wrong on TV, but failed miserably, waving his arms around and relying on his "peachy bum" to do the talking.
So, Arian Foster let me down, but so did just about everyone else on my team! Colin Kaepernick was unspectacular, Stevan Ridley didn't deliver. And in fact I could go on about my team, but let's be honest, in the cold light of day you need to take a deep breath and admit… Casey just got lucky. That bum didn't deserve it, it's my title, I was top of the table, I was the number 1 seed, I should have won it. I was robbed!
Breathe…. Breathe… 1…2…3…4…
Ok, i'm calm. For now. Congratulations Casey – I had to type it because I couldn't physically say it between my firmly gritted teeth. There's always next year. I said that last year too, when I finished second…again. So depressing.
Still, the end of the fantasy season does bring one reward, the Gladiators Pre-season is soon to be upon us. It's the time of year when I realise how unfit I've got over the winter, as I tried desperately to rehab an ankle injury from the last game of the 2012 season. So, new year, new me – back running as I try to prepare for the season. Not far, but little and often… Running a mile a day for the first couple of weeks, and then i'll start ratcheting up the pace and the distance. As I've said to some, I'm aiming for a 5K by March. I know others have been working hard through the off season, in the gym and losing weight. Kudos to them, I'm late to the party, but I'm working to get better. What are you doing to get ready?


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold futures recouped on Wednesday some of what they lost in a trio of downbeat sessions, then extended gains in electronic trading following minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve 's June meeting.
Gold for August delivery US:GCQ4 rose $7.80, or 0.6%, to settle at $1,324.30 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices for the metals had tallied a loss of more than $14 an ounce, or 1.1%, over the past three sessions.
Minutes from the Fed's last meeting were released after regular metals trading on Comex ended Wednesday. In electronic trading less than a half hour after the release, August gold traded at $1,325.70.
September silver US:SIU4 climbed 5.5 cents, or 0.3%, to end at $21.07 an ounce for the regular Comex session.
Minutes from the June meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's policy-making group, showed officials decided to end the central bank's asset purchase program in October if the economy stays on track.
Fed officials also agreed that the rate of interest on excess reserves would plan a "central role" in moving rates higher when the time comes.
"No one expected to hear anything new, and [it] looks like the Fed said nothing new," said Vedant Mimani, lead portfolio manager of the Atyant Capital Global Opportunities Fund.
"The asset purchase program is in process of being wound down. The Fed just put a possible end date on it. If not October, it would have been November," he said. "Moreover, the Fed's words are conditional .... Looks like the market is also saying 'okay, let's also wait and see what happens'."
Elsewhere in metals trading, October platinum US:PLV4 gained $10.40, or 0.7%, to $1,506.90 an ounce, while September palladium US:PAU4 shed 20 cents to $872.70 an ounce. High-grade copper for September delivery US:HGU4 closed down nearly a penny at $3.25 a pound.
Shares of gold and silver miners climbed in afternoon dealings, with the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index XAU, +0.68% up 1.7% — adding to a hefty year-to-date gain of more than 20%. Shares of the SPDR Gold Trust GLD, +0.59% tacked on 0.2%.
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National Ballet of Canada
by Kate Snedeker
December 1 , 2010 7pm -- Four Seasons Centre, Toronto, Ontario
It's that time of year again! On Saturday, dancing mice, snowflakes, cute sheep and even a sugar plum fairy invaded the Four Seasons Centre to welcome the holiday season with James Kudelka's "The Nutcracker". The lush sets enveloped the stage in a warm Russian glow, providing a perfect backdrop for the lovely dancing.
The story begins on Christmas Eve in cozy stable somewhere in snow-covered 19th century Russia. Marie and Misha, and Peter the stable boy are preparing for the holiday party, which becomes a rollicking event led by crazy Uncle Nikolai. Marie receives a special Nutcracker from Uncle Nikolai, but Misha tries to steal it. After the party, the two siblings are tucked safely into bed, where they enter a dreamland full of dancing snowflakes, giant rats, and a real-life Nutcracker Prince who looks very much like Peter (!).
Loquasto's Russian influenced set and costume designs are the stars of this production, creating a perfect fantasy world for the Christmas Eve adventures. On the choreographic side, we are treated to the best of Kudelka's inventions, as he twirls snowflakes, flowers, unicorns and even dancing cooks across the stage. The marzipan shepherdess is re-imagined as a sheep-shepherdess with a flock of adorable little National Ballet School lambs, and the flowers are led in their dance by flitting bumblebee, brought to buzzing life by a wonderful Tina Pereira. When it comes to filling the stage with colorful choreographic tableaus, Kudelka is without peer. His Snow Queen-Icicle pas de trois is also a wonder of intricate, weaving steps. Yet, at other times he seems oblivious to Tchaikovsky's score. This is most obvious in the un-inspired pas de deux for the Sugar Plum Fairy and The Nutcracker Prince/Peter where the choreography fails to make any use of the glorious musical crescendos.
Anastasia Komienkova and Joel Exposito were delightful as Marie and Misha, but the two male leads really stole the show. There are few early Christmas present better than a full evening of Zdenek Konvalina, and no better ballet to show off his many talents than "The Nutcracker". He brought a perfect kindly, good-looking youthfulness to the role of Peter, and just the right white-tights elegance to the Nutcracker Prince. Impressive in the frequent turning steps, Konvalina also was a supportive partner for his Sugar Plum Fairy, Bridgett Zehr. Looking beautiful in her glittering tutu, Zehr seemed brittle in her first solo. While the steps were technically spot-on, the performance lacked warmth or lushness. Zehr did, however, warm up in the pas de deux, the chance to share the stage with Konvalina - her on and off stage partner -bringing added depth to her dancing.
The other standout of the evening was Piotr Stanczyk, who came alive as the slightly crazy Uncle Nikolai. He created a lively, colorful character, matching acting finesse with technical brilliance. Kudelka's Uncle Nikolai dances far more than most equivalent Nutcracker characters, and Stancyzk turned like a top, out-spinning even Konvalina. His turns in second were perfectly centered, made all the more dramatic by his swirling red coat. Here's to hoping he gets a chance to show off his stunning technical feats in Don Quixote, and/or in the longer-term future, the turning solo in Etudes.
Xiao Nan Yu was appropriately icy as the Snow Queen, though her two cavaliers seemed to stretched to their limits by the complicated partnering. The corps sparkled in the snowflake section, but at other times looked to be in need of more rehearsal (or tired from the recent Triple Bill/Cinderella performances). The Spanish Chocolate divertissement, in particular, was sloppy, and the Arabian Coffee divertissement lacked any real sensuality or spark. However, one had to feel for the two male dancers. Arabian-themed divertissements seem to bring out the worst in male costumes, but Loquasto's striped codpiece – chest baring - rear-end clinging creations are particularly cringe inducing.
David Briskin conducted the NBoC Orchestra.
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Today we are finally able to bring you the full specs for the November 12th release of the four-disc extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring, which does not include any of the extras from the two-disc set that will be released in August.
Discs One and Two will contain the new 208-minute cut of the film in addition to:
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The regular four-disc set will retail for $39.98, while the special Gift Set with the National Geographic DVD and the cool Sideshow Weta bookends will set you back $79.98.
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How to Flirt As a Teen Boy
Flirting with a girl may come naturally for some, but it can prove to be difficult for others - especially for those who do not know how to begin a conversation with a girl. However, do not give up hope. Here are a few tips to keep in mind the next time you see a girl you like and you want to flirt with her.
1Compliment her. Look for something cordial and positive about her to comment on when you are ready to approach her. Be genuine with your compliments and make your conversation nonchalant, fun and witty at the same time. You will probably catch a smile or giggle from her. Compliment that she has pretty hair or that she looks nice.
2Smile and relax. Be yourself. Your body language reflects how you feel. Being relaxed will show you are confident and amiable. Otherwise, you may appear awkward, or worse, look like someone to avoid.
3Show her respect. Show respect for her even as you are flirting-- that way she will not take your remarks the wrong way. Don't be scared to let her know you enjoy her company and want to get to know her.
4Tease her a little bit. This is an innocent way to see if she will respond to more flirtatious behavior from you. Think of other things about her that you can compliment, such as her appearance, her dress style, her weird purse or the color of her eyes. Try to comment in such a way that you catch her interest and also make her laugh.
5Be confident! Go up and talk to her! Don't be shy; girls love it when you just talk to them. Confidence is a quality almost every girl wants in a boy, so even if you are insecure, you should try your best not to let it show. Talk to her, make her laugh, tell her a funny story, or just have a simple conversation.
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- Look her in the eyes when talking to her and smile.
- Take precaution that your flirting is not making her uneasy. Look for her body language or cues to see if she is taking to your flirting or if she is wishing you to back off. If she appears to enjoy it, you are doing a fine job. If not, apologize and practice some more with your flirting.
- Be genuinely interested in her and what she is interested in.
- Have fun, and good luck.
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Hey everyone I am new to the forum and I am trying to design and build a crib for my first kid :) I am using the 3-in-1 plans from rockler but I didnt want to use bolts, but was wanting to use a heavy-duty bedrail hanger. my issue is that to use the spacing to fit the crib, and then to widen it for the full bed I will have to put two sets of hangers on the headboard and footboard.
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BERGAVIT®, a new ingredient developed by BIONAP, is a powder obtained by extracting the main flavonoids contained in bergamot juice. According to legend, Christopher Columbus took this fruit from the Hispanic town of Berga (hence the origin of the name "bergamot") and it arrived in Italy at the end of fifteenth century where it found the best growing conditions in a narrow strip of coast in Calabria (Italy). Even now bergamot juice is used in folk medicine in these regions to support healthy plasmatic lipid levels.
BERGAVIT® can benefit cardiovascular health by promoting a normal plasmatic lipid pattern, improving the HDL/LDL ratio and sdLDL profile.
BERGAVIT® can be used in dietary supplements and functional foods (powder or liquid) as an adjuvant in keeping healthy plasmatic lipid levels.
In the last years, several in vivo and clinical trials have proven the beneficial effects of bergamot flavonoids intake in keeping healthy lipid levels (1-4). Results obtained in these studies showed that bergamot flavonoids are able to reduce and control plasmatic "bad lipid" levels (total cholesterol, LDL and tryglicerides) and to increase "good" HDL levels. Recently, BERGAVIT® effects on CVDs (Cardiovascular Disease) Risk factors were evaluated in a new clinical trial on 80 subjects treated with150 mg of bergamot juice flavonoids (from BERGAVIT® ingredient), once a day for 6 months (4). In this study, biochemical analyses of plasmatic lipid pattern by the Food and Drug Administration-approved diagnostic tool for lipoprotein subfranction testing and eco-color-Doppler examination of carotid arteries (cIMT) were carried out on each subjects. Results showed that BERGAVIT® supplementation was able to reduce the cIMT of 25% and significantly improve the atherogenic lipid pattern through the decrease of dangerous small dense LDL (up to 67%, red area) and the increase of large LDL (up to 20%, yellow area) (see Fig 1).
Fig.1 Modification of lipoprotein profile (sdLDL) before and after 6 months of BERGAVIT® supplementation.
1. Miceli N, et al., Hypolipidemic Effects of Citrus bergamia Risso et Poiteau Juice in Rats Fed a Hypercholesterolemic Diet. J Agric Food Chem 55: 10671–10677 (2007).
2. Trovato A, et al., Citrus bergamia Risso & Poiteau Juice Protects against Renal Injury of Diet-induced Hypercholesterolemia in Rats. Phytother Res 24: 514–519 (2010).
3. Bernadet-García O, et al., Update on Uses and Properties of Citrus Flavonoids: New Findings in Anticancer, Cardiovascular, and Anti-inflammatory Activity.J Agric Food Chem 56, 6185–6205 (2008).
4. Toth et al. Bergamot Reduces Plasma Lipids, Atherogenic Small Dense LDL and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Subjects with Moderate Hypercholesterolemia: a 6 Months Prospective Study Front Pharmacol 6:299 (2016).


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"Heidi Klum's Romantic Villa"
Heidi Klum's perfect California mansion is for sale and featured this week on the Top 10 homes spotlight at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.
Heidi Klum first became an international star with her 1998 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover and the inside pages of provocative bikini beach poses. With that introduction to her charms, Klum catapulted herself to celebrity status through a 13-year career with Victoria's Secret as a favorite angel, then as producer and host of "Project Runway" and "Germany's Next Topmodel," and now in her second season as a judge on "America's Got Talent." In addition, she has been working the deal with activewear company New Balance, for which she designs a line of athletic apparel, branded HKNB that is sold exclusively on Amazon. Heidi recently signed a contract for 20 episodes of a new show on Lifetime, "Seriously Funny Kids." The powerhouse German-American dual citizenship hottie, now at age 41 and mother of four, shows no signs of slowing down. She can now list her professional achievements as super model, business mogul, actress, television producer and host, fashion designer, artist, talent judge and with her keen business sense, is now venturing into restoring and selling real estate.
Purchased in 2010 as a foreclosure for $14.2 million, Heidi's 12,000-square-foot, Tuscan-style villa in Brentwood Estates sits on 8.4 lush acres with views to the Pacific Ocean. With its total privacy and ambiance that seems miles away from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles, Klum fell in love with the property at first sight. A few of the home's features include long-established gardens, a library bookcase from Napoleon's country house, and a formal dining room with paneling from a Paris hotel. Since it had been empty for two years, Heidi immediately started restoring doors, windows and thresholds; a process that took several months. After that, she added an additional master bath, affording a his and hers, and placed the tub for views of the ocean. She also designed her dream closets and added smart home technology. Now with eight bedrooms and ten baths, the home also has formal rooms, library, eat-in chef's kitchen, butler's pantry, family room, home office, media room, yoga room and temperature-controlled wine cellar with tasting room.
Outside is the infinity-edge pool and spa, a koi pond, formal rose garden added by Klum, fountains, gazebos, golf putting green and driving range, hiking trails, a children's playhouse and slide and the charm of secret gardens. Since downsizing to another property, Klum has decided to put her home on the currently hot Los Angeles market.
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My favorite hot-weather style element is the dress. An outfit that, being all one piece, doesn't actually require any putting together in order to look put-together. Versatile, too - the ability to change a look based on which wrap, bag, or jewels one assembles on a particular day.
As the sales floors of brick and mortar retailers fill up with fall pieces, all across the web e-tailers still have plenty of summery dresses...deeply discounted, ripe for the picking.
Either buy now and pack them away for next year, or add tights, boots, and a cashmere for a fall look. Above, links to some of my favorite finds - some of the most seasonless pieces I encountered.


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Concerned over excessive office supply costs from a single vendor, a major insurance company hired Stroz Friedberg to conduct an internal investigation into a long-term employee. Stroz Friedberg's preliminary covert investigation of the suspected employee and subsequent due diligence of the vendor revealed that the vendor was a non-existent company formed by the employee to issue false invoices to the insurance company for office supplies. The findings were stunning: Not only did the "vendor" share the employee's home address, but all of the invoice payments had been handed directly to the employee himself who claimed that the account would be better served with his personal interface. We determined that, over a six-year period, more than $3.6 million in supplies had been billed and paid for, but never delivered.
Stroz Friedberg analyzed invoices, checks, delivery records, and storage capacity relating to the investigation and compared the company's financial documents, including checks payable to the vendor. Additionally, Stroz Friedberg was able to trace the money paid to the employee/vendor to multiple foreign-based bank accounts controlled by the employee. Stroz Friedberg's investigation included over 40 interviews; forensic analysis of the hard drive of the employee's work computer, server, and backup tapes; the review of previous internal and external audits of the company; and a field investigation in the foreign country where the employee previously resided and where four bank accounts and several homes were identified as being controlled or owned by the employee.
In addition to submitting an internal report providing recommendations on financial controls and physical security safeguards, Stroz Friedberg assisted the client in preparing a referral of the matter to federal authorities for prosecution. The employee pled guilty and received a substantial prison sentence.


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Darva Conger and Rick Rockwell reunited for the first time since their ill-fated marriage on TV's Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire.
To the TV viewer, the reunion on CNN's Larry King Live might have seemed more like a late-night phone call that ex lovers often make to see how it all went wrong and what went wrong.
Conger, a 35-year-old former ER nurse, married Rockwell, a 44-year-old comedian and entrepreneur, on the Fox television show in February 2000. Within weeks, she had the union annulled and said repeatedly in TV interviews that she wanted her privacy back. Then she took off her clothes for Playboy magazine.
Anger Still Surrounds Couple
Rockwell still appeared angered and hurt by Conger's reasons for taking the marriage vows with him.
"I don't understand how somebody could go on a show like that …there is nothing ambiguous about the title of the show," he said.
Conger said that when she became a Millionaire contestant, she thought the network had already arranged for another contestant to marry Rockwell.
"It was a dumb thing to do," Conger said.
Conger, claimed she was speaking to someone else when delivering her soliloquy about wanting to marry Rockwell. She also denied Rockwell's accusations that she lifted parts of the soliloquy from another contestant. "I was talking from my heart to someone else," she said.
Rockwell and King put Conger on the spot many times about her appearances on talk shows and her vilification of Rockwell once the media frenzy began.
Throwing More Heat on Their Fire
Both were still vying for media attention, while lamenting the media frenzy that surrounded them when they returned from their honeymoon last year. Conger was hocking her new Web site, Darvahouse.com, and Rockwell was publicizing his new book, What Was I Thinking?
Both Conger and Rockwell said they have "moved on" but still displayed moments of bitterness.
"I don't blame him [Rockwell] or hold him responsible for what I went through," Conger said. "I put myself in that position and I was less kind than I should have been. I should never have married you and I am so sorry I put myself in that position."
"Is this an apology?" King asked.
"Yes," Darva said.
One of the things Rockwell said he learned was that, "You can't possibly know about anyone in two hours doing a television show."
Their now annulled marriage sparked a sparked a national outcry. Women's organizations protested and Conger and Rockwell were both vilified in the press. Both of them also ran to the talk shows and tried to tell their story and, admittedly, spin it in their favor.
Conger posed for Playboy because she says she could not get another job.
As for Rockwell, he toured the country on a comedy tour he called "The Annulment Tour." "I expected only good things from the marriage," Rockwell said. "Now that I have some perspective on this I can empathize with Darva. It was a whirlwind. I used the pinata analogy. You are like a pinata and the media is at the birthday party and you are the pinata and they whack you with this stick and the next reporter has to hit you harder or they get nothing."


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Toni Morrison's slim new novel, Love, may seem, at first glance, to fit within a group of books one could crudely call Morrison Lite, not requiring any heavy lifting from the reader like her masterpieces, Beloved and Song of Solomon. But the appearance is deceptive. A distillation of many of her earlier themes, notably the theft of girlhood and wars over times now gone, Love is a rich parable about the damaging past as a demagogue ruling the present. And as with a number of her books, the story is passed from one character to another and gathers details and clarity as it is seen from one angle, then the next. Like a multifaceted stone, this intimate tale of seven women and one man is cut to refract the light as each of its characters sees it, turning their eyes round a reflecting center.
That center, the late Bill Cosey, the owner of a once-popular black beach resort in the South, is the most prominent ghost in the novel, and as such he can seem empty like glass, idealized by memory like the moonlight on his hotel's Sooker Bay. In other lights, he is cold, foolish or corrupt. But like other Morrison ghosts, Bill Cosey represents that damaging past. In the novel's present, his child bride, Heed, and granddaughter, Christine, the only survivors of a much-romanticized past, are in a bitter struggle over ownership of his property, symbolized by a will written on an old hotel menu. When a streetwise and homeless young woman named Junior Viviane comes to their home to work for Heed (and, Junior quickly realizes, to help Heed secure control of the estate), memories are set free and a final battle is put into motion. In the course of this battle, the stories of all of Cosey's women emerge, as well as a picture of a community of women that seems helpless, contentious and hateful.
Heed (her full name is Heed the Night), Cosey's tenacious widow from the wrong side of the tracks, calls him "Papa" and prefers to remember him as the "wonderful man" who "picked her out of all he could have chosen. Knowing she had no schooling, no abilities, no proper raising…" Christine, Heed's childhood friend, is a three-time runaway,a refugee from marriage and the Black Power movement. She sees herself as "the one left behind, Miss Second Best" and views Cosey as her betrayer. The two are caught in a fight to the death.
Love opens with a Morrison overture, weaving strains of the novel's poetry into a mysterious beckoning into the story and the company of the ever-present ghost. This prologue is titled "Love"–one of the rare occasions in the book when the word is actually used. The narrator, slyly named only L., grabs her victims by the eyeballs with one of the author's startling first sentences: "The women's legs are spread wide open, so I hum."
L. is herself a ghost, who explains that she is "an old woman embarrassed by the world," and romances us into the 1940s, when "Cosey's Hotel and Resort was the best and best-known vacation spot for colored folk on the East Coast." The hotel, where L. was the well-loved cook, bragged of names from a glamorous past–Lil Green, Fatha Hines, Jimmy Lunceford–and the perfection of places long gone; it "had more handsome single men per square foot than anyplace outside of Atlanta or even Chicago." Despite the hyperbole, the easy living 1940s milieu at the heart of the book feels lived down to the lemon cake, and the good times feel like familiar kitchen-table stories.


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(Fairfield, CT) – The Sacred Heart Men's Fencing team is the #9 ranked team in the nation on the first College Fencing 360 Coaches Poll of the season, announced January 18. This marks the first time the program has cracked the top ten, making it as far as #11 last year.
The Pioneers have been off since December 3, when they pulled off their greatest ever victory, a 14-13 win over national powerhouse Penn State. All-Americans Justin Dion and Marty Williams and team captain Stuart Holmes led the Pioneers on the day. Dion helped lead the epee squad to a 25-18 performance. Williams went 11-4 to pace the saber squad. Holmes won 5-1 in foil to clinch the victory.
The Women's Fencing team is ranked #16 in the College Fencing 360 Coaches Poll, marking the first time both the men and the women received votes in the same poll.
Sacred Heart returns to action Saturday at the Philadelphia Invitational at the University of Pennsylvania, who currently is ranked #6 in the nation. The Pioneers are looking to build upon an 11-2 record that includes wins over Haverford, MIT, Brown, Brandeis, Vassar, North Carolina, and NYU among others.


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The warm colours of autumn can provide a spectacular backdrop for your wedding, with the leaves on the trees bursting with color and the orange and red hues from an Autumn sunset will make for some stunning photographs. Be sure to look up the time for sunset and plan your wedding carefully around that so that you make the most of the day!
Choose a theme that matches the time of year, go for a woodland rustic country style with teal, duck egg blue and natural browns and coppers.
Decide on a venue where you can capture the essence of the season and its natural beauty, some great ideas for an autumn wedding are a vineyard, farm or botanical garden.
The weather will be turning cooler so choose a fur wrap, stole or shawl to cover your shoulders so that you don't get cold, or you can go for longer sleeves on your dress.
Choose your bridesmaid dresses by selecting from colors that you naturally see occurring in the fall season – go for burgundy, apricot, mustard yellow, dark greens and warm browns, they will really help to reflect the beauty of Autumn..
There are also some stunning flowers that you can match into your theme, it would be better to consider flowers that are in season as these are likely to be less expensive – such as holly, amaryllis, daphne, iris, winter jasmine and cotoneaster. You can also include dark green leaves, or red berries to finish off your bouquets.
Design a leaf logo or pattern that you can include in your invitations, place name cards, wedding favors and bomboniere gift ideas – this is a really nice way to add a touch of the season's theme into your stationery and decorations.


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The coolest thing about Apple iPhone is that you can find tons of applications that can work on this phone. One such application that we found to be interesting is the lie detector application. There are many lie detector applications available for the iPhone.
The lie detector is one of the most used investigative technologies by the police to find out if the criminals are lying or not. It is however, not a fool-proof way to determine if the person is truly lying or not and is not accepted by the law. When a lie detector is used, the criminal is asked many questions to check if the answers given by him are true or false; however, a thick-skinned criminal can easily manipulate the machine to give wrong results. In most cases, a lie detector is pretty useful to find out if a person is lying because the device is able to track changes in blood pressure, heart beat and changes in skin sensitivity that can trigger when a person is telling a lie. It is an undeniable fact that the lie detector has helped in solving many criminal cases all over the world since several decades.
Now, you can make use of a lie detector on your iPhone to checkout if the person you are talking to is lying or not. Some of the lie detector applications that you can download on your iPhone are Lie Detector App, Agile Lie Detector and iPolyGraph. These applications dwell on the same principle that is used by CIA and FBI for lie detection. The applications examine the stress pattern of the person who is going through a lie detection test to find out if the person is telling the truth or not.
Lie detector applications can be downloaded as trial version. If you like it, you can make the full use of the application after you buy the full version of the application. In most of the lie detector applications you will see a lie-meter or a lie-graph that will show some changes whenever a person lies.
Some of these applications may require you to place a finger on a sensor and start answering the questions, some other applications may require training to understand the voice of any person in order to show whether the person is lying or not when lie detection questions are asked. These applications do not give you accurate result but as mentioned before, you can give it a try to check if your spouse or any of your friend is lying to your or not.
In order to get satisfying results, one should get rid of background noises that are audible. The person on whom you want to try the lie detector application should be at least one or two feet or as per the directions set by the application. This way you can use lie detector application and find out if you know people for real.


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Leo Burnett, Delhi, wins Aerens Gold Souk account
NEW DELHI: Leo Burnett Delhi has announced that it has bagged the Aerens Gold Souk account.
An official release informs that the agency won the account in a competitive multi-agency pitch. The other agencies in the fray were O&M, Lowe, Contract, Capital, Percept and Mudra. This is Leo Burnett Delhi's fifth new business win in the last four months, following the acquisition of Atlas Cycles, National Geographic Channel, Zee News and a project on energy sharing across South Asia.
Aerens Gold Souk president GS Pillai said, "We chose Leo Burnett Delhi over the other agencies for several reasons. Our decision was based on Leo Burnett's understanding and grasp of the concept of the souk, the way they developed the strategic direction, and finally the sincerity, commitment and interest shown by each member of the Leo Burnett team."
Leo Burnett Delhi's vice president Ali Imran added, "We are very excited about being given the opportunity to work with Aerens Gold Souk. The gold souk is a revolutionary concept and will definitely be a landmark in Indian retail. It is both a privilege and a challenge to be a part of the brand-building process, and we are looking forward to working with the client and making it a success."


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Preliminary, unaudited results
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 28, 2015 – American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) today reported fourth-quarter 2014 earnings, prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), of $191 million or $0.39 per share, compared with $346 million or $0.71 per share in fourth-quarter 2013. Operating earnings (GAAP earnings excluding special items) for fourth-quarter 2014 were $232 million or $0.48 per share, compared with fourth-quarter 2013 operating earnings of $296 million or $0.60 per share.
GAAP earnings for year-end 2014 were $1.634 billion or $3.34 per share, compared with $1.480 billion or $3.04 per share in 2013. Operating earnings for 2014 were $1.675 billion or $3.43 per share, compared with $1.573 billion or $3.23 per share in 2013.
The difference in fourth-quarter 2014 GAAP and operating earnings, as well as year-end 2014 GAAP and operating earnings, was primarily due to the termination of a long-term coal contract.
A full reconciliation of 2014 and 2013 GAAP earnings with operating earnings for the quarter and year-to-date is included in tables at the end of this news release.
"Our solid performance in 2014 reinforces the viability of our earnings growth strategy. Our focus on infrastructure investments in our core, regulated operations, including our transmission business, and on identifying sustainable process improvements, has delivered value for our shareholders. AEP was in the top five best-performing utility stocks for 2014, and our shareholders received a total shareholder return of 35 percent, exceeding both the S&P 500 Electric Utilities Index total return of 31 percent and the S&P 500 total return of nearly 14 percent. We also increased our dividend by 6 percent on an annual basis," said Nicholas K. Akins, AEP chairman, president and chief executive officer.
"Our transmission business continues to thrive, and its contribution to 2014 earnings exceeded our expectations by 2 cents at 31 cents per share. In the past 12 months, AEP Transmission Holding Co.'s net plant assets grew by approximately $1.1 billion to $2.7 billion, an increase of 65 percent.
"We also benefited from successful regulatory proceedings in several states and strong off-system sales margins. The reliable performance of our generation fleet during colder than normal temperatures in 2014 gave us the ability to advance spending from future years into 2014. Those shifts, combined with our initiatives to put in place sustainable process improvements, will help us manage the revenue challenges presented by the Ohio deregulation transition and the 2016-2017 PJM capacity market results," Akins said.
"We saw positive overall load growth for the fifth consecutive quarter and experienced commercial sales increases for the year for the first time since 2008. Residential sales growth also increased year-over-year, which is consistent with the economic improvement in the states where we operate. Although the significant growth that we've seen from shale gas operations may be impacted by declining oil prices, other parts of our diversified industrial base should benefit from lower fuel prices.
"Our strong financial performance wouldn't be possible without the diligence and commitment of all AEP employees to safety, environmental stewardship and process improvement. They completed a third consecutive year with no fatalities, kept the lights on during the extreme cold last winter and embraced our process improvement and cost containment initiatives. I'm confident that their ingenuity and dedication to our customers will enable us to continue to deliver on our growth strategy," Akins said.
Management reaffirmed its 2015 operating earnings guidance range of $3.40 to $3.60 per share. In providing operating earnings guidance, there could be differences between operating earnings and GAAP earnings for matters such as, but not limited to, impairments or changes in accounting principles. AEP management is not able to estimate the impact, if any, on GAAP earnings of these items. Therefore, AEP is not able to provide a corresponding GAAP equivalent for earnings guidance.
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Operating earnings from Vertically Integrated Utilities for fourth-quarter 2014 and the year decreased compared with the same periods in 2013 by $56 million and $32 million, respectively. This reflects the impact of planned incremental spending, including the shifting of costs from future years (primarily plant maintenance and forestry expenses), as well as the impact of a fuel recovery disallowance in Kentucky. These items were offset by the continuing impact of favorable rate decisions and margins from off-system sales.
Operating earnings from AEP Transmission Holdco for fourth-quarter 2014 and the year increased compared with the same periods in 2013 by $10 million and $71 million, respectively, largely due to increased transmission-related investment.
Operating earnings from Generation & Marketing for fourth-quarter 2014 decreased $19 million compared with the same period in 2013, but increased $68 million for the year. The increase for the year was mainly from strong fleet performance and favorable power prices.
Operating earnings from AEP River Operations for fourth-quarter 2014 and the year increased compared with the same periods in 2013 by $8 million and $37 million, respectively, primarily due to improvements in barge freight demand.
Operating earnings from All Other for fourth-quarter 2014 and the year decreased compared with the same periods in 2013 by $6 million and $40 million, respectively. The decrease for the year was largely because of the prior-period impact of increased interest income associated with a favorable court decision related to U.K. windfall profit taxes.
Retail and FERC Margins – Retail and FERC margins for fourth-quarter 2014 and the year were $26 million and $212 million higher, respectively, than for the same periods in 2013. Retail margins benefited from the continuing impact of favorable rate decisions, partially offset by regulatory provisions.
Off-System Sale – Margins from off-system sales for fourth-quarter 2014 and the year were $2 million and $123 million higher, respectively, than for the same periods in 2013, mainly due to strong generation performance and higher market prices, partially offset by higher margin sharing with customers.
Transmission Revenue – Transmission revenue was $5 million higher in fourth-quarter 2014 and $22 million higher for the year compared with the same periods in 2013, largely because of increased investment in the PJM Interconnection and Southwest Power Pool regions.
Retail and FERC Margins – Retail and FERC margins for fourth-quarter 2014 and the year were $67 million and $236 million higher, respectively, than for the same periods in 2013, due to load growth in the Ohio and Texas service territories as well as the continuing impact of increased investment and favorable rate decisions.
Transmission Revenue – Transmission revenues for fourth-quarter 2014 and the year were $12 million and $71 million higher, respectively, than for the same periods in the prior year, primarily from increased transmission revenues from Ohio customers who switched to alternative Competitive Retail Electric Service providers and increased transmission investment.
Generation & Marketing – Generation & Marketing margins decreased $5 million in fourth-quarter 2014 compared with the same period in the prior year, but increased $117 million for the year compared with the same period in 2013, mainly due to strong fleet performance and favorable power prices.
The following expense categories within the Vertically Integrated Utilities segment had significant fluctuations in 2014 compared with 2013 (dollars in millions):
Operations and Maintenance expenses in fourth-quarter 2014 and the year for the Vertically Integrated Utilities segment were $75 million and $264 million higher, respectively, compared with the same periods in 2013, largely driven by planned incremental spending, including shifting costs from future years primarily in the generation and wires functions, as well as increased employee-related expenses.
Depreciation and Amortization expenses for the fourth-quarter 2014 and the year for the Vertically Integrated Utilities segment increased by $21 million and $91 million, respectively, compared with the same periods in 2013, largely due to increases in the depreciable base.
The following expense categories within the Transmission & Distribution Utilities segment had significant fluctuations in 2014 compared with 2013 (dollars in millions):
Operations and Maintenance expenses in fourth-quarter 2014 and the year for the Transmission & Distribution Utilities segment increased by $70 million and $271 million, respectively, compared with the same periods in 2013, largely due to increases in transmission expenses recovered dollar-for-dollar in rate recovery riders/trackers, as well as planned incremental spending including shifting costs from future years and increases in employee-related expenses.
Depreciation and Amortization expenses in fourth-quarter 2014 and the year for the Transmission & Distribution Utilities segment increased by $17 million and $67 million, respectively, compared with the same periods in 2013, mainly because of increases in amortization related to Ohio and Texas securitizations and increases in the depreciable base.
American Electric Power's quarterly conference call with financial analysts and investors will be broadcast live over the Internet at 9 a.m. EST today at http://www.aep.com/webcasts. The webcast will include audio of the conference call and visuals of charts and graphics referred to by AEP management during the call. The charts and graphics will be available for download at http://www.aep.com/webcasts. The call will be archived on http://www.aep.com/webcasts for those unable to listen during the live webcast. Archived calls also are available as podcasts.
American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, delivering electricity to more than 5.3 million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation's largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. AEP also owns the nation's largest electricity transmission system, a more than 40,000-mile network that includes more 765-kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission systems combined. AEP's transmission system directly or indirectly serves about 10 percent of the electricity demand in the Eastern Interconnection, the interconnected transmission system that covers 38 eastern and central U.S. states and eastern Canada, and approximately 11 percent of the electricity demand in ERCOT, the transmission system that covers much of Texas. AEP's utility units operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). AEP's headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.
AEP's earnings are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States and represent the company's earnings as reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company's operating earnings, or GAAP earnings adjusted for certain items as described in the news release and charts, provide another representation of the company's performance. AEP uses operating earnings as the primary performance measurement when communicating with analysts and investors regarding its earnings outlook and results. The company also uses operating earnings data internally to measure performance against budget and to report to AEP's Board of Directors.
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David E. Bowen, 73, of Malvern passed away Wednesday, April 1, 2015. He was born February 26, 1942 to the late Edgar and Sylvia Turner Bowen in Malvern. David worked for Baroid & Almond Asphalt and was a United States Navy Veteran serving during Vietnam. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and spending time with this family. He was a member of the B & B Hunting Club.
David is survived by his loving wife, Connie Bowen; daughters, Dana (Rick) Ross and Deanna Outlaw; son, Randy (Marie) Bowen; brothers, Preston Bowen and Dewayne (Jamie) Bowen; sisters, Lucille Morrison, Zella (Bub) Felty and Joyce (Carol) Wetherington; grandchildren, Rodger (Gerica) Shackelford, Justin (Ashley) Shackelford, Lenzey (Brett) Crow, Taylor Ross, Chesley Bowen, Kaylee Bowen, Katie Frederickson, and Michael Frederickson; nine great-grandchildren, Kaydence, Kali, Braxton, Hunter, Isabella, Mylee, Bentley, Laiken, and Mason; and numerous nieces and nephews.
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"We want your brain" as the KM equivalent anyone?
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"Failure Laundering"
A colleague of mine slipped this marvellous expression into a conversation today: "failure laundering". It was in the context of an intiative that hadn't delivered and had gone very quiet, but instead of being formally closed it got bundled up into a new initiative. That way it wasn't seen as having failed, but merely reincarnated. Some 'change' management programmes can go on for years like this.
Another observation I rather like on this theme is "we never kill projects, we just wound them severely".
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Is an intranet the last resort of the dis-connected?
An interesting discussion going on in AOK about people'#s preferences for seeking information.
John Maloney wrote:
> I found a reference in Rob Cross's book, "The Hidden Power of Social
> Networks." People are FIVE TIMES more likely to turn to a colleague
> for knowledge than any portal, Intranet, system or Website. That is
> not a tendency, or even twice or three times as likely, it is five-
> times!
I replied: "Although I agree with the spirit of what you're saying about the need to
support the people-to-people side of organisations, I wonder if you're over-extrapolating from the evidence? Cross cites Tom Allen's work from 1977 (see e.g. page 2). The implications are limited about the technology and habits at the time. Cross goes on to say "Our own research and that of many others also continues to emphasize the point that who you know has a great deal to
do with what you come to know over time." I therefore can't find any data presented by Cross on the impact of portals or intranets per se. This isn't to say that it's no longer true that people prefer asking somebody else, only that I'd like to see a more recent study to support it."
"Secondly, just because in '77 people had that habit, it doesn't mean it isn't changing - or that there's resistance to change. People are lazy. Rooting through a paper filing cabinet is much harder than asking Nellie (as the archetypical colleague). Searching Google, now it exists, may be easier than asking Nellie. Older generations may have an ingrained expectation that databases rarely have the right answer; teenagers seem to assume Google can answer everything. If you wanted to know film times at the local cinema, would you ask Nellie first or use the net?"
"Thirdly, Allen's study was of scientists and engineers. This may not map onto business situations. One reason why portals are attractive is if they reduce internal service costs. You may not want your world-class expert answering the phone all day for routine queries, no matter how much the caller may prefer that mode. You want to keep them free for the
high-value, non-routine calls that are ideal for people-people interactions. Each query has a cost, but asking Nellie doesn't expose the requester to that cost. Would you be 5 times as likely to call a premium rate helpdesk if the alternative was to get the answer from a portal for
free? Organisations need to manage this."
Dennis Pearce, from Lexmark, then added:
"in addition to his "five times" result, Allen also found that the engineers he surveyed got their knowledge from the sources that were easiest and most familiar to them, not the ones that were most reliable or accurate, even when they themselves were aware of this. In other words, they
knowingly sacrificed accuracy for expediency." [my emphasis]
"I find this to be a much more interesting finding than the "five times" result, and one that seems (in my mind) to be more likely to be still true today. People have jobs to do, and sometimes you have to make do with the info you've got, given the time constraints you're under. Those who are developing new KM technologies are going to have to keep in mind that it's not just "better," but "faster and easier" that will be the big selling points. And it's a challenge to create something that's faster and easier than the way we've always done things."
Quite right - its so easy to forget that making something quicker doesn't just save time, it can also completely change how people work. When electrical appliances for cleaning first became popular (e.g. vacuum cleaners), commentators foresaw the liberation of the housewife. In reality, it just upped expectations of how clean a house should be.
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Monday, August 23, 2004
Real Work, Necessary Friction, Optional Chaos
Philip Armour in The business of software rejects the notion of estimting software by effort and advocates looking at the social component instead. WHat he has to say has implications way beyond the software industry though. He makes a good case for why putting pressure on teams can exponentially increase the cost fo the final deliverable.
Traditional estimating tools aren't effective, he argues. Lines of Code, for example, is inaccurate because in reality it's non-linear (1000 people can't do 1 line each). Indeed adding people can just create further delay (as set out in the classic "The Mythical Man-Month"). Armour attributes total project time to:
1) "the time it takes to factor our knowledge into an executable product" - this is what things like 'lines of code' measure.
2) Know-we-don't-Know situatuations where exploration required. Spiral (iterative) methodologies acknowledge that not everything we do goes into the end product, but instead goes into creating knowledge to make the product. i.e. fillling the knowledge gaps to the point where you've learned how to make it. Armour calls this "necessary friction".
3) "Optional Chaos" is co-ordination overhead, bickering and stress-induced chaos. Anything that does NOT disclose knowledge.
1) is a function on Know-We-Know and Know-we-Don't-Know factors
2) is a function of don't-know-what-we-don't-know, team capability and experience, team size and 'pressure', but the variability in the impact of this low.
3) is a function of team size and 'pressure' and highly variable in impact.
"When we attempt to accelerate projects, we introduce a high lelvel of [optional chaos]. High-stress projects put pressure on people to make quick, sometimes unvalidated decisions" [whose impact can then be catastophic].
Adding more people: "large numbers of people...increases the levels of both communication and mis-communication." More people means less equally distributed knowledge, so more chance for mis-understanding, and more time spent sharing knowledge that already 'known' rather than tackling learning gaps.
Outside of software, the implications are very similar: if you want a deliverable quickly, be aware that doublign the team size is unlikely to reduce the time to delivery that much, and in fact may make the deliverable cost far more than double. As a project manager, Armour offers a useful set of questions about how your team is spending its time. I particularly like that it clearly sets out that "knowledge work" is both 1 & 2, and that pressure just amplifies what takes most of the fun out of being a knowledge worker. Not the pressure per-se, but the side-effects it creates.
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Mapping Collaboration Maturity
TechUpdate - ZDNet article:
* "Procurement of collaboration technology and services is not well managed and is introduced without centralized guidance (e.g., business units subscribing to Web conferencing providers; end users using public IM networks; departments using teamware).
* Effective collaboration requires behavior change on the part of users as well as examination of information sharing and process structures. Collaboration strategies are less successful when not aligned with human capital management (HCM; e.g., rewards, incentives) and knowledge management efforts to improve performance and innovation. "
Presents a 'maturity model' of collaboration that emphasises the human angle too. ALso sounds a dire warning that if not controlled, overlapping systems will put significant stress on users. Lets hope IT and leadership can get it right this time. Otherwise yet again we spend $millions on technology and change that doesn't work and 'collaboraration' will be dismissed as the last failed fad.
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"The Board of Directors of Eskom has taken a decision to grant Chief Financial Officer, Mr Anoj Singh, special leave pending an investigation," Eskom said in a statement.
It said Calib Cassim, a chartered accountant with 15 years' service at Eskom, would serve as interim chief financial officer.
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown said the board's decision to grant Singh special leave would facilitate a probe into Eskom's affairs.
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