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MINNEAPOLIS - The Red Sox showed their faith in Mike Aviles to play shortstop when they traded Marco Scutaro to the Rockies in January.
They reaffirmed that decision in March by naming Aviles the starter and sending defensively gifted Jose Iglesias back to the minor leagues.
Another booster shot of belief came earlier this month when Aviles was picked to replace an injured Jacoby Ellsbury as the leadoff hitter.
Now comes the reward. Aviles helped the Red Sox to an 11-2 victory against the Minnesota Twins Tuesday night, collecting two doubles, a home run, and two RBIs. He also scored three runs and had a sacrifice bunt.
Once a utility player with the lowly Royals, Aviles has become an important piece for the Sox. Since Ellsbury went down with a shoulder injury, Aviles is hitting .395 with a .425 OBP over nine games.
"It feels good to have somebody have some confidence in me,'' Aviles said. "I know the type of player I am. I'm not saying I'm great; I'm not saying that I'm terrible. I'm in the middle. I know what I can and can't do.''
Aviles doubled and scored in the first inning, belted a long solo home run in the fourth, and had an RBI double in the fifth.
"We lose an All-Star center fielder and leadoff hitter and Mike has picked up the slack,'' Dustin Pedroia said. "He's been unbelievable. He's aggressive. I like the damage that he does, the extra base hits. And he can run, too. He does a lot of things that help us.''
Aviles led off for 15 games with the Royals last season with poor results, as he hit .203. He blamed it on taking too many pitches in an attempt to become a textbook leadoff hitter.
When Ellsbury was injured, manager Bobby Valentine told Aviles to stay aggressive and not to change his style.
"I go up there trying to be aggressive until I recognize the pitch is going to be a ball. Then I'll just let it go,'' Aviles said. "If I go up there trying to take balls, then I find myself behind more often. I try and stay aggressive in the zone and try and get on base as much as possible.''
Said Valentine: "Michael's been a godsend with Jacoby going down and all the questions surrounding our squad, to fill that void as seamlessly as he has with outstanding at-bats, production, and playing great defense . . . He's a good player.''
That's two straight victories to start their seven-game road trip. The Sox finished with 18 hits, six of them doubles, in support of Josh Beckett (2-2), who pitched six solid innings.
David Ortiz was 2 for 4 with a walk, a home run, and three RBIs. He is hitting .444. Adrian Gonzalez had three hits and also drove in two.
The Red Sox have scored 17 runs on 30 hits, 12 of them for extra bases, in the first two games of the series.
"You've got to take off at some point,'' Ortiz said.
The Sox knocked Twins starter Nick Blackburn out of the game after three innings.
Aviles started the game with a double and scored on a single by Ryan Sweeney.
Blackburn (0-2) got an out when Pedroia grounded into a fielder's choice. But singles by Gonzalez, Ortiz, and Kevin Youkilis along with a groundout by Cody Ross scored two more runs.
Gonzalez drew a walk to start the third and scored on a long home run to right field by Ortiz.
Aviles lined a home run a few feet inside the foul pole in left field against Matt Maloney in the fourth, his third of the season. Sweeney doubled and scored on a single by Gonzalez.
The Sox added three more runs in the fifth. Marlon Byrd led off with a single and scored on a double by Aviles to the gap in left. Pedroia followed with a two-out RBI double off the video board in right center. A double by Gonzalez scored Pedroia and made it 10-1.
Beckett allowed two runs on five hits in six innings. That after throwing 37 pitches in an eventful first inning.
With one out and a runner on first, Beckett walked Joe Mauer, Josh Willingham, and Justin Morneau to force in a run. He was ahead of Mauer 1 and 2, Willingham 0 and 2, and Morneau 0 and 2 before losing them.
Beckett thought he had Willingham and Morneau struck out and didn't get calls.
Beckett did strike out Ryan Doumit on three pitches with the bases loaded before getting Danny Valencia to ground to third.
As Beckett left the field, he started gesturing and yelling at umpire Adrian Johnson, who said something in return. Pedroia ushered back Beckett back to the dugout.
"He got a little frustrated, possibly, but it really turned up his competitive fluids,'' said Valentine. "He wasn't going to be denied the victory. This was a game he really wanted.''
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The Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF) on July 14 issued the first comprehensive, independent assessment of sustainable remediation — a movement to encourage environmental cleanups that minimize carbon emissions, conserve fossil fuels, and still remove potentially dangerous contaminants from soil and water.
The Sustainable Remediation Forum White Paper is being published in a special summer 2009 issue of Remediation Journal.
"For the first time, scientists, regulators, and responsible parties are questioning whether a cleanup that releases tons of carbon emissions into the air in order to remove a few hundred pounds of contaminants in the soil provides a net environmental benefit to the public," said New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. "It's crucial that 21st century environmental cleanups burn less fuel, emit less greenhouse gas, and still protect human health and the environment."
Getting rid of contamination and preparing affected land for reuse requires substantial energy, water, and other natural resources. It also may involve excavation and disposal of polluted soil and groundwater, installation and operation of large pumps, treatment vessels and other equipment, and possible discharge of carcinogens, greenhouse gases, and other harmful materials into the environment.
"SURF's mission is to make every phase of every cleanup more sustainable," said David E. Ellis, Ph.D., a geochemist and the group's founder. "This white paper represents a cohesive, collaborative effort to find better ways of restoring contaminated sites."
Besides summarizing the status of sustainable remediation programs in the United States and elsewhere, the SURF White Paper:
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Before you get totally excited, please note that there are definitely some limitations on this video. You do the best you can when you are in a crowded stadium, trying to enjoy the show, dodging people's heads, etc. My suggestion is that if you feel the need to criticize my camera work, please feel free to go to hundreds of shows a year and do a better job at reporting and reviewing them 🙂
But now – get totally excited. Radiohead RULE! They put on a show that for lack of a better term was "insanely incredible and mind blowing."
Get ready to check out a ridiculous light show while Thom Yorke and company perform "Myoxmatosis" (including the alternate lyrics on the last verse that appear only in the lyric booklet of 'Hail to the Thief,' but do not on the studio version). Thom's dancing, the lights, the song… WOW!
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A federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt cited two reasons for dismissing the obstruction of Congress charge against David Rainey, who was BP's vice president of exploration for the Gulf. First, Engelhardt said the indictment failed to allege that Rainey knew of the pending congressional investigation he was charged with obstructing.
"Because it is an essential element of this crime that the defendant knew of this inquiry and investigation, the indictment must allege such knowledge. It does not," the judge wrote in his 44-page ruling. "Even construing the allegations strongly in the government's favor, it is simply impossible to ascertain from the indictment whether this essential element was presented to and found by the grand jury."
The judge also ruled that the obstruction count must be dismissed because it wasn't clear that it applied to subcommittee investigations like the one at the center of the indictment.
"Although subcommittees exist in both houses of Congress, the statute does not contain the word 'subcommittee.' Thus, the defendant argues that the court should not enlarge the statute to include subcommittees,'" Engelhardt wrote.
U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass, who led a House subcommittee's investigation of the oil spill, urged the Justice Department to appeal the judge's ruling.
"This was a congressional investigation, plain and simple, and this kind of narrow and off-the wall interpretation of how Congress investigates wrongdoing is deeply troubling," Markey said in a statement.
Rainey still faces one count of making false statements to law-enforcement agents, but the obstruction count was the backbone of the case against him.
One of Rainey's lawyers declined to comment on the ruling. A Justice Department spokesman said prosecutors were reviewing the decision but declined to comment on it.
The indictment claims Rainey failed to disclose information about the estimated rate that oil was spewing from BP's blown-out Macondo well during a May 4, 2010, congressional briefing. It also claims Rainey responded to a letter from a subcommittee chairman, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., with false and misleading information about flow-rate estimates.
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I am the salaried citizen in India. I work in so called "glamorous" IT or in other sectors like manufacturing or even government enterprises. I am, perhaps the most law abiding class of citizen in the whole country, yet most tax laws are made to target me, while criminals, gangsters, politicians stay conveniently outside, usually forming the laws, for me, the law abiding salaried citizen.
I, the salaried citizen pay the taxes expected out of me. In fact, they are deducted at source. The Income Tax, which is the single largest direct tax to the kitty. About 35 million of the population (via) thats about 3.4 percent (some say it is just 2 percent) of this country of a billion pay income tax. The rest, well, they dont pay any income tax. I subsidise them. Dont they earn money? Oh yes, they do, but they are not taxed. Lets keep it simple. Theres also something known as tax evasion - I do tax planning and the honourable finance minister and tax officials try and curb this as much as possible, since there is little they can do about tax evasion.
I, the salaried citizen, earns white money. For most of the rest black money rules. The difference is that the laws pretend black money doesnt exist - like the dark lord in a popular series - the money that must not be counted. There is an entire parallel economy here which is not recognized anywhere and with a nudge and a wink you can convert any transaction into black. I cannot do it since my money goes directly into a bank and if I withdraw my own money, more than 50K, there are chances that the taxman will take a second look at me. The rich have hawala, the richer have Swiss banks and then some gold and real estate, farm land etc.
I, the salaried citizen also in most cases, pay most of the service tax, the value added tax and the central excise too; directly or indirectly it all hits me. In some cases, I pay it in full since my grocer passes it on in entirety to me or in some cases, I pay more than it since the pharmaceutical shop charges all taxes and "extra" local taxes that I have to pay - or else he wont give my medicines.
I, the salaried citizen. If I take the service of any accountant - even to straighten out my taxes, lawyer, doctor or any self employed professional, chances are that I will pay him his share of service tax and income tax depending on how much of it he shares with the taxman. Every tax levied on the end user is ultimately paid by me.
I, the salaried citizen. I cannot even convert myself to a firm, like many well off individuals do. If I called Salaried Citizen Corporation Limited, I would be well off from almost the next day. All I need to do is show a loss on my income, which is quite easy, with the services of some of the above worthies, even after paying their service tax.
I, the salaried citizen. I belong to no caste, no formation, too fragmented to form a vote bank for anybody and never riot. Therefore, I am not targeted by any politician for any votes and therefore know that this tax system will never change. And there are some people who want to remind me of my responsibility. Thanks!
Sunday, June 24, 2007
I, Salaried class
I am the salaried citizen in India. I work in so called "glamorous" IT or in other sectors like manufacturing or even government enterprises. I am, perhaps the most law abiding class of citizen in the whole country, yet most tax laws are made to target me, while criminals, gangsters, politicians stay conveniently outside, usually forming the laws, for me, the law abiding salaried citizen.
16 comments:
- ggop said...
Thanks for this informative post - the stats are depressing. I poked around out of curiosity and 40% of the US population pays no income tax according to taxfoundation.org.
- 10:14 PM, June 24, 2007
- Vinod Khare said...
Yes, the condition of the salaried class is really pathetic. To top it all, the bank interest rates, which is the only means of investment and moreover social security for any salaried citizen is forever at the mercy of the finance ministry.
- 3:08 AM, June 25, 2007
- Kavi said...
Well, well, as usual incisive and deep. i just finished watching Sivaji ! And could here the echoes !!
Well, well, so is the case with the salaried class !
- 9:46 AM, June 25, 2007
- Dev said...
Great article, picked the thoughts right out of my head as of every salaried person. I guess when the finance minister says he wants to widen the tax net he means within the salaried class. It can be pretty frustrating to see your ration shop owner who earns a multiple of your salary not pay a paise or the rich farmer sitting in his AC house with electricity you paid for.
- 3:21 PM, June 25, 2007
- Sudipta Chatterjee said...
Very well written... but do we have a choice when we vote?
- 3:35 AM, June 26, 2007
- Aparna said...
Ditto to everything you say...couldn't have put it better....it is so damn frustrating sometimes to fund reforms with your money through the taxes and then being ignored when it comes to reforms....
- 12:33 PM, June 26, 2007
But what happened to the maanga?
- 2:06 PM, June 26, 2007
- B. Ramana said...
One thing the salaried Indian can do while he is getting screwed by the State is to enjoy the screwing. As I say in my blog, use a vibrating condom while it still lasts! ;-)
Seriously now, I like your blog. Only it is injurious to health to take India too seriously.
Its dysfunctionality is tolerable only with a heavy dash of humor and scotch.
- 6:10 PM, June 26, 2007
- Sriram said...
Brilliant post...our (the salaried class) conditions are really pitiable but what can we do but lament when we are just 3% of the population...even if we vote against such tax structure, we won't stand a chance against the rest 97%.
- 12:10 PM, June 28, 2007
- usha said...
u said it!!
- 9:50 AM, June 29, 2007
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- 5:53 PM, July 05, 2007
- Amit Kumar said...
All the more incentive for entrepreneurship - to convert to a tax saving (read evading) company.
- 5:32 PM, July 31, 2007
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- Daniela said...
Interesting post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting. I'll likely be coming back to your blog. Keep up great writing.
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Salaried class has very little option is Tax are deducted at source. Post 2008, salary increase might not happen like those florishing days of 2003 to 2007 period, hence it might get difficult.
- 9:31 AM, March 27, 2010


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I didn't grow up thinking I was a princess. I didn't wear frilly dresses. I didn't have a sweet melodic voice. I built houses with LEGOs, drove Hot Wheels around and around the family room, and climbed every tree I could find. I was not a girly girl. But if there was one thing I had in common with many of my female friends growing up, it was that I fell in love with the tale of Beauty and the Beast.
Beastly, by Alex Flinn, is a book that was written for the Tomboy in me. This present-day retelling of Beauty and the Beast takes place in New York City and is told from the Beast's point of view. Kyle Kingsley is the extremely good-looking son of a famous television journalist. His life is the stuff of dreams: he has a beautiful girlfriend, gets good grades, and is the most popular guy in school. Growing up privileged and spoiled has turned Kyle into a very mean person. But one day he messes with the wrong person—she happens to be a witch. He finds himself disfigured and having only two years to find true love or remain his beastly self.
Kyle has become a creature so fearsome and hideous that he tries to shut himself away from society. At first he tries to hide his appearance. This works for a few days because his dad is so busy and the housekeeper is only around during the day. But eventually his dad wants him to come out of his room and is, needless to say, shocked by what has happened to Kyle. Kyle's dad decides that he will tell the school that Kyle has mono and take Kyle to the best doctors in the world to be transformed back. After all, throwing money at a problem has always worked for him, so why should this be any different?
Eventually giving up any hope of finding a solution to the problem, Kyle's dad decides it's time for him to go back to work. He leaves Kyle with his credit card and Kyle sets up his own apartment far away from his dad. To keep himself from getting too lonely, he brings along the housekeeper and hires a blind tutor. He's now prepared to live out the rest of his life in seclusion.
But this is only half the story—the Beast's story. Where does Beauty come in? It turns out Kyle did one small kindness in his life. He gave the corsage his prom date refused to wear to the shy girl taking the tickets at the door. Her name is Lindy, and she's our Beauty.
Lindy lives a very different life. She's poor and always taking care of her dad in between his drug binges. One night, the Beast catches Lindy's dad breaking into his greenhouse full of roses and scares him off. To save himself from being arrested, Lindy's dad promises a trade: the drugs he dropped in the greenhouse for his daughter. The Beast is desperate for company and agrees, thinking this might be his one shot at love and breaking the curse. Lindy is apprehensive and downright terrified. Wouldn't you be, too? Will the Beast break the curse? Will Beauty even care to see the Beast as he was before? When given the chance to escape, will Beauty take it?
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The World Instructor Training Schools (W.I.T.S.) was invited to testify before the Health and Government Operations Committee of the Maryland General Assembly on Feb. 24, 2010, in support of the Personal Trainer Act HB 747.
HB 747, introduced by Delegate Robert A. Costa, would establish two standard levels for the training and scope of practice for personal trainers in Maryland. It is the first bill of its kind in Maryland and across the United States. In addition to requiring licensure for personal trainers, HB 747 elevates the standards for programs that educate and train personal fitness trainers by requiring that the programs be offered by organizations approved by the American Council on Education (ACE) for content and the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET) or the Institute of Credentialing Excellence (ICE—formerly known as NOCA) for educational process.
Jay Del Vecchio, CEO and president of W.I.T.S., was invited to testify at the hearing by Costa. During the hearing, Del Vecchio discussed the lack of standards in the education and preparation of personal trainers and the danger that this lack of standards poses to industry credibility. Of specific concern was the lack of practical training and competence testing in most personal training certifications. In addition, Del Vecchio called for standards in the continuing education and recertification for personal trainers and recommended IACET as the sole program for approving continuing education units (CEUs) to help unclutter the industry and ensure consistent standards. He explained that the industry's attempt at self-regulation with National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) has failed itself and has led to the "possible" need for government involvement.
Dr. Amy Hyams, an IACET commissioner, also testified at the hearing in support of HB 747. Dr. Hyams discussed the history of IACET as an approved organization from the U.S. Department of Education and its role in improving the quality of continuing education organizations and programs for other health occupations. Dr. Hyams also is a consultant for W.I.T.S and other educational organizations.
W.I.T.S., a National Council for Continuing Education and Training (NCCET) sustaining partner, is spearheading the development of a coalition in Maryland to begin discussions on drafting this legislative initiative. Del Vecchio says it is imperative to get in front of the legislative process for what is best for the industry. W.I.T.S. has retained a professional government affairs firm to assist in ally development and to work together towards a comprehensive plan for the upcoming interim. The group will convene at the DCAC Fitness event Aug. 4-8 in Alexandria, VA, for an open forum about how to grow this grassroots coalition nationally and how to become active in the legislative process. As part of this effort, Del Vecchio and Dr. Hyams are "hitting the road" to visit other cities, informing fitness industry professionals nationwide about the issues of quality education and standards in training, IACET and legislative issues. The goal is transparency and open dialogue to drive our profession to a true health occupation classification. To date, the U.S. Labor Department classifies trainers under "personal service" occupations, which are similar to a limo driver or a barber.
"We can and should do better," Del Vecchio says. New Jersey, Georgia and Massachusetts have their own bills pending, and W.I.T.S. has been reaching out to representatives in those states as well.
To view a video and documents on this topic, contact, Jay Del Vecchio at email@example.com. A complete copy of Maryland HB 747 can be found at http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0747f.pdf
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Scott is Dr Dobb's contributing editor and Chief Methodologist for Agile and Lean at IBM Rational.
Over the past several years, certification has been a raging debate within the agile community and the issue isn't black and white, regardless of what some of the debaters may want you to believe. Certification has, unfortunately, been muddied by the profit motive, although this problem isn't unique to the agile community. It has also been harmed by a lack of separation between those defining the certification, those delivering certification-oriented services, and those running validation activities (in the few cases where such exist). In this article, I'll discuss the pros and cons of certification in general, share results from a recent survey exploring the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) scheme (I'm being exceptionally polite using the term "scheme"), discuss CSM as a concept, and suggest potential remedies for both the "certified" and the certifiers.
On the benefit side, effective certification programs motivate people to improve their knowledge base, to improve their skill sets, and to continue maintaining both. Respectable certifications, or more accurately a collection of respectable certifications that address a wide range of topics within IT, could even provide a common baseline upon which people's CVs could be compared. Smart organizations do far more than consider people's certifications when considering them for employment, but the reality remains that many organizations look for certain certifications to filter candidates.
There are many challenges associated with certifications. First, they are completely inaccurate at rating people. Sally can have certification X and be absolutely brilliant at certain X-related things; whereas John can have the same certification and be completely inept at those things. Second, certification can be a form of discrimination. In the late 1990s, James Bach and Luke Hohmann wrote a brilliant article on this topic, pointing out several ways certifications support discrimination. For example, if you don't have a certain level of certification an organization won't consider hiring you, regardless of your actual skill level. They are also concerned about the discrimination aspects of how the certification body decides who is in the club and who isn't. For example, my understanding is that to become a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), you need to have five other existing CSTs support you in your certification efforts. The positive spin is that it helps to ensure the level of quality amongst the CST community, but it's clearly a way to keep unwanted people out of the club.
The point is that there is a range of opinions regarding certification, I've just covered the tip of the iceberg here, and in the hot links section at the end of this article, I've included some interesting references. Although I respect both sides of this debate, I personally lean towards certification as long as it's done "right." For me, "right" means that people must have to invest significant effort to earn the certification, they must have a minimum of related experience, they must show a level of knowledge and/or expertise that has been validated in a defined manner by an independent body, and they must continue investing effort to remain certified.
Survey Says…
To be clear, I must point out that for years I have been a vocal and outspoken critic of the CSM certification scheme, having written about it for Dr. Dobb' and in my blog on IBM developerWorks. I have also criticized it in various talks at international conferences, in particular in my "Agile by the Numbers" and "Reality over Rhetoric" presentations, where I summarize findings from my various surveys over the years. Instead of presenting yet another diatribe against the CSM scheme, I thought instead would find a way for the agile community itself to weigh in on this issue. So naturally, I ran a new survey.
The 2010 Scrum Certification survey ran during the last half of October and first week of November, 2010. I spent several weeks designing it, with feedback from several researchers with backgrounds in IT and in survey design. I had run a previous survey on this topic during the summer of 2010, and unfortunately, had allowed some bias to creep into its design, so I was highly motivated not to let that happen again. The survey was announced on my Twitter feed, on the Agile Alliance discussion list on LinkedIn, and on my personal mailing list. Of the 325 respondents, 171 respondents had the CSM but did not have the CST (most of the CSTs are also CSMs), and henceforth, shall simply be referred to as CSM respondents. 13 respondents were CSTs, which I believe is about 10 percent of the overall CST community; 38 had some other form of non-CSM Scrum certification (many of the CSMs had more than just the CSM); and 123 respondents had no Scrum certification at all.
As I said, yet another diatribe against the CSM scheme would be of little value. However, seeing what CSMs think of the CSM scheme would be interesting. To be clear, to "earn" the CSM designation you must attend a two- or three-day course taught by a CST and then take an online test. For several years, there was no test involved to become a CSM; then for a few months you had to take and pass the test in order to become a CSM; now my understanding is that you need to attend the course and take the test, but the mark you receive doesn't affect whether you are allowed to call yourself a CSM. As Jon Kern has blogged (see Hot Links section), the CSM designation is little more than a "participation trophy" in practice.
One of the survey questions explored why someone would take the CSM course. In particular, 60 percent of CSM respondents indicated that they took course to learn about agile and 46 percent said the considered getting the CSM designation as simply a bonus of attending the course. Furthermore, 27 percent believed it would improve their "hireability" and 15 percent said it was required for their job. Interestingly, the Scrum Alliance, the organization responsible for the CSM scheme, doesn't publish this sort of information.
But do the people who have "earned" the CSM designation respect it? Apparently, many don't. Another question explored whether people with the CSM designation actually promoted the fact, either by including it on their email signature, their business card, through word of mouth or other mechanisms. According to the survey, 27 percent of the CSM respondents indicated that they didn't promote the fact they were a CSM at all, 37 percent indicated that they seldom did so, and 18 percent indicated that they sometimes did so. This to me indicates that there's a general level of embarrassment amongst people with the CSM designation regarding it, and rightfully so seeing as it's so easy to "earn."
The survey also included a free-form text question, which asked people what they thought of the CSM scheme. The comments from CSM respondents varied, as they did for other types of respondents; but in general, they were more negative than positive. Some representative comments are:
- Certification tells me someone knows the language. Calling them a Master is wrong — it should be something like Scrum Foundation Certificate, not Master. I've seen a number of newly-minted CSMs who seem to think that they truly are mastered, and become dogmatic about their approach.
- I don't put much stock in it. It was easy enough to get if you have experience doing Scrum for a good period of time. I did it mostly for resume/hiring purposes as many job postings say "CSM is a plus" or "required."
- I find the CSM to be almost completely devoid of value. I don't think it proves competency, much less basic comprehension. As a result, I think the designation has done significant harm to the advancement of certifications for a valuable purpose in our industry.
- I hire Scrum Masters, User Story Specialists, and Agile Coaches. I would not hire anyone who was not a CSM or CSPO as a minimum because it tells me that the candidate values Scrum enough to invest in it or to convince their employer to invest in them. I know exactly what the qualification really is, but like passing a driving test it means that the candidate will then start to learn by doing, having achieved an entry level qualification.
- I think the current CSM is not a real certification. All that is required for certification is to attend a two-day course. You should be required to take a test to validate your competency.
For the sake of transparency, all of these comments are posted online anonymously (see Hot Links section), as are the survey results in general. I invite you to look at the details and decide for yourself what CSMs think about the CSM scheme. As an aside, at the Agile 2007 conference in Washington D.C., I made a casual comment at a networking event (that's an agile conference euphemism for drinking session) that my dog Luke could become a CSM if it wasn't for the fact that I'm too cheap to send him on the course. This observation went viral, and over the next few months, several CSTs privately informed me that an unwritten rule was put in place that house pets couldn't become CSMs. A few years later, the test/quiz was put in place, which to Luke Hohmann's and James Bach's point, would have the side effect of discriminating against all dogs around the world (smile).


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Platini unhappy with Valcke
UEFA president Michel Platini has revealed his displeasure at FIFA chief Jerome Valcke going public with his plans for a winter World Cup in Qatar in 2022.
Valcke, FIFA's secretary general, caused a storm when he told a French radio station the tournament would not be held in June or July due to the fierce desert heat.
FIFA distanced itself from his comments, insisting Valcke was stating a personal view and no decision had yet been taken, but FIFA president Sepp Blatter himself said two months ago that moves were afoot to reschedule the 2022 tournament and that it "can only be November-December and not in January-February".
Platini criticised Valcke's latest comments, telling French newspaper L'Equipe: "When the executive committee was held in early October, it was decided to launch a major consultation of all football and no decision would be taken before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
"It was also agreed not to talk about this before then.
"I do not see why it is discussed publicly. Two months ago Blatter spoke about it. Now it's Valcke. This is supposed to be a decision for the executive committee of FIFA. But maybe the executive committee doesn't matter.
"If the decision has already been taken, then it does not even need to meet, except for those people who enjoy chatting."
Platini has always backed a winter World Cup and is the only FIFA member to have confirmed he voted for Qatar, but said that was his "personal opinion" and added: "We have to consult the entire football family before making a decision."
Meanwhile, Everton boss Roberto Martinez claims players would find it difficult to cope with a World Cup slap in the middle of their domestic club season.
He said: "I can't see how a player's mentality would be fine for going into a season, then starting the World Cup and then coming back and picking up where they left it. I find it very difficult to find a way that would work.
"It happens in some South American countries where you've got two parts of the season and the performances of the teams are very, very different. I can't see that working, at all.
"I think that would affect the performances of the team and therefore affect the competition as a whole."
Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis believes there would be strong resistance in England to any switch.
Pulis said: "I think there's a long way (to go); I don't think this country would sit back idly and allow that to happen."
Hull's manager Steve Bruce admitted it was "impossible" to play in the summer in Qatar.
He said: "Something has to be done because to try and play in that summer will not just be impossible for players but even supporters who are going to be watching in that humidity.
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The National Day of Mourning is observed annually in Canada on April 28 to honour those who have lost their lives while working on the job. The purpose of the National Day of Mourning is two-fold … to remember and honour those lives lost or injured and to renew the commitment to improving health and safety in the workplace … to prevent further deaths, injuries and diseases from work.
Every year workers, families, employers, communities and others come together at ceremonies held around the province and the country to remember those who have lost their lives to work-related incidents or occupational disease, and to renew their commitment to creating safe workplaces. Since its inception, the observance has spread to over 80 countries around the world, but is known in most other countries as the Workers' Memorial Day.
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A new insurance policy unveiled by Minnesota Life includes a unique Income Protection Agreement (IPA) that lets the policyholder decide when and how death benefits will be paid.
In a conventional life insurance scenario, beneficiaries named in the policy receive the full death benefit. How the benefit is paid is determined by the beneficiary.
Minnesota Life has introduced a new indexed universal life product, dubbed Omega Builder IUL. It includes an IPA with "a feature that allows policy owners to arrange for the death benefit to be paid as an irrevocable settlement option in a combination of installment payments and lump sum payouts," the company said in a Feb. 20 release.
The IPA enables the policy owner to make choices about how the death benefit is distributed. It could, for example, be used to establish a steady stream of income with payments made at regular intervals to the beneficiary. "The policy owner has an opportunity to generate more cash value while he or she is alive," Ben Roth, national sales vice president for Minnesota Life, said in the release.
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Looking Forward in Pittsburgh
by Caroline Abels
By reaching out to young and old, by involving its community in both music and the activities that make it happen, the Pittsburgh Symphony builds for the future.
More than a decade ago Helge Wehmeier, then CEO of Bayer Corporation, the Pittsburgh-based pharmaceutical giant, began noticing that the people he saw at Pittsburgh Symphony concerts were nowhere near the age of his teenage daughters. As a devoted member of the orchestra's board of directors, Wehmeier was concerned for the organization. And as a passionate music lover, he wondered what the dearth of young people in Heinz Hall suggested about the future of classical music in America. "The audience was much older than in other cities, especially cities in Europe," Wehmeier, a native of Germany, recalls. "I thought, 'Where are our future listeners going to come from? Where is the audience of the future?'"
Being in a position to influence the direction of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Wehmeier threw those questions back at the orchestra's newly formed Education and Outreach Department in 1993. According to Suzanne Perrino, the department's director, Wehmeier simply suggested that the staff get into the mind of a teenager--that it create a program his daughters would respond to. The charge was not necessarily to get Wehmeier's children liking Bach and Bart—k, but to get more youth from the Pittsburgh region interested in an art form they might otherwise steer clear of.
The result was Bayer Audience of the Future, a program specifically designed to give high-school students hands-on experience in creating and producing an orchestral concert. It was launched in the 1995-96 season with a five-year commitment from Bayer, and the company renewed its support for another five-year period in 2000-01. Audience of the Future--which pairs a student-produced Pittsburgh Symphony performance with a more traditional "side-by-side" concert involving 70 student musicians and an equal number from the professional orchestra--has now exposed nearly 20,000 teenagers to the orchestral concert experience. And it's one of three programs recognized this year in the second round of MetLife Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement, administered by the American Symphony Orchestra League.
Audience of the Future participants plan a real performance for real people each year in Heinz Hall. Over the course of five visits to the hall they work with orchestra staff to choose repertoire, create promotional materials, design the program booklet, figure out the technical setup, set ticket prices, and sell tickets. Everything the staff does for subscription concerts the students do for "their" concert, and they come away from the experience understanding every major aspect of producing a classical music event.
In its breadth of innovation, and as part of a holistic approach to community involvement, the student-produced concert resembles two other, newer Pittsburgh Symphony programs, one in early childhood education and one in music and wellness. These initiatives demonstrate the orchestra's awareness of the need to adapt educational strategies to a changing world--and to do so even during financially tough times. Gideon Toeplitz, managing director from 1987 until May of this year, notes that despite the organization's deficit position (about $2 million as of mid-June) it is "very clear that our investment in education and outreach must continue, because stopping now would be a huge mistake. It's our future."
Behind the Footlights
Pittsburgh Symphony Sales Manager Melissa Trifaro says that Audience of the Future participants, in planning and promoting an event that is not always viewed by the public as accessible, "hit upon the same challenges we do." And the students' status as symphonic "outsiders" may in fact give them additional insights: "They realize, for example, that [many] people out there have a certain view of classical music that makes them not like it."
This past season, a core group of 56 high schoolers participated in creating the May 22 concert--seven kids each from eight schools. The orchestra asked for four students who were involved in some sort of musical activity at school, and three who participated in other activities. The kids were then split into groups that oversaw repertoire, promotion, and operations. Each month during the spring semester they met at Heinz Hall to brainstorm ideas and talk with orchestra staff about how to get things done.
The first time the program was implemented, says Perrino, "everybody was extremely nervous about letting high-school kids pick their own repertoire. We thought they'd want Smashing Pumpkins, Rusted Root, Nine Inch Nails." But each year the groups have chosen classical favorites--The Four Seasons, Appalachian Spring, John Williams--after hearing a range of pieces from the orchestral repertoire. This year's group chose Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Dvoràk's Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 1.
As the repertoire group were busy making their selections, the operations group were learning how the hall functioned technically. The promotions group created fliers to distribute at school and determined what the target market for the concert would be. As part of their preparation they took a field trip to Bayer headquarters for a presentation by the company's vice president of marketing, and met on-air personalities at WQED, a local public radio and television broadcaster.
The students presenting this year's concert gathered for one last time in early May. In an upper rehearsal room at Heinz Hall the repertoire group discussed the program notes and how the pre-concert lecture should unfold: Should they just talk about the pieces, or should musical excerpts be played? In the green room, orchestra staff explained to the operations group what a "manager on duty" does on concert nights, and what happens in the "front of house." Near the bar in the grand tier, a marketing professional could be heard asking the promotions group whether anyone needed more tickets to sell, and students from one school critiqued their own marketing efforts, noting that they should have advertised earlier to get more people in the house. All three groups then came together to report on their activities. Operations got the biggest laugh: "All I have to say," remarked one member of that group, "is that the concert can't happen without us."
The concert came off without a hitch, attracting 1,800 students, parents, teachers, and townspeople from various communities.
Although the Pittsburgh Symphony hasn't interviewed parents about Audience of the Future and its effect on their kids, some teachers have told the orchestra that students jockey to get into the program and talk about the experience amongst themselves. In an e-mail to the orchestra last winter, one teacher noted that the mother of a certain participant "reports that her son now only listens to classical music at home and in the car." He also said his students got "very upset if a scheduling conflict prohibits our participation in a monthly Audience of the Future meeting."
As Perrino sees it, the program affects far more students than the number of actual hands-on participants would suggest. "It's ironic," she says, "that having 1,000 kids in the audience [for a student matinee] doesn't make much of an impact," whereas gathering a few dozen kids for a more integrated experience can send waves of interest in classical music through an entire student body. Trifaro notes that even if Audience of the Future participants are "not interested in working in the orchestra world, the things they learn are transferable to corporate America." And Cecilia Cicco, a music teacher at Deer Lakes High School, points out that participants come to realize they don't have to be a musician to be in the music profession, or that they can be a business major in college and still be involved with an orchestra after they graduate.
Music for Body and Soul
In 1999, a few years after Audience of the Future took off, a violist in the Pittsburgh Symphony was diagnosed with breast cancer. At the time, Penny Anderson-Brill didn't know her ordeal would lead to a whole new way of bringing the Pittsburgh Symphony into people's lives. But since then she has made the orchestra's budding Music and Wellness program a major focus of her life.
As she endured three operations, including a mastectomy, and four rounds of chemotherapy, Anderson-Brill came to rely on music as a way to ease her emotions and the strain on her family. Among her favorite works were Bach's St. Matthew Passion, chants by Benedictine monks, and Brian Eno's Ambient 1 Music for Airports. She also listened to the Chieftains and Pink Floyd, and before chemotherapy sessions she listened to the male chorus Chanticleer.
Anderson-Brill, now 54, even made music a focus of surgery. Listening to music before the surgery put her into a relaxed state, while listening during the surgery decreased the amount of anesthesia and pain medications she required. After surgery, she said, listening to music on headphones helped lessen her recovery time by offering a calming environment within the hospital.
Although Anderson-Brill used other forms of unconventional treatments during this time--keeping a journal, self-hypnosis, guided imagery--she was heartened to find that music, her life's calling, could be a major tool in helping save her life. "The music provided a sense of, 'I can handle this.' It kept me focused and really helped me make decisions."
Her own experience led her to begin playing live music in Pittsburgh hospitals affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, such as Magee-Women's Hospital and Montefiore Hospital. In addition to playing for patients in their rooms, she has played in waiting rooms to calm people who are about to consult with doctors or receive tests. On the orchestra's European tour this past April, she and violist Paul Silver played for children in the tracheotomy unit of a London hospital.
The six Pittsburgh Symphony musicians who have so far volunteered for the Music and Wellness program make sure to have music therapists in the hospital room when they play. Perrino says the orchestra would not recommend having the musicians play without such a health professional being on hand to guide the overall direction of the experience. Anderson-Brill speaks regularly to community groups about using music to ease stress and manage pain. And she has worked closely with Dr. Bruce Rabin, medical director of the Healthy Lifestyles Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, to encourage the hiring of music therapists within the UPMC hospital system.
In tapping into the healing power of music in this way, the orchestra is fostering the kind of activity that recently received strong endorsement from the National Endowment for the Arts. On July 1 the NEA issued a report summarizing the findings of a symposium it had recently hosted in partnership with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, which brought 40 experts in medicine, the arts, social services, media, business, and government together to develop a strategic plan for advancing cultural programming in healthcare. The NEA's press release noted that "a concept paper detailing the current state of the arts in healthcare provided the basis for discussion," and that "the resulting strategic plan will form the blueprint for future progress." It also quoted NEA Chairman Dana Gioia. "The arts have an extraordinary ability to enhance our lives, to help us heal and to bring us comfort in times of great stress," he said. "We must reconnect the arts with the actual human existence that Americans lead, the journeys we take in life, which lead us through hospitals, to hospices, to the end of life."
Anderson-Brill says that musicians who want to help patients should be equipped with a diverse musical vocabulary so they can play a patient's favorite pieces. If someone has grown up with a certain kind of music, say that of the Big Band era, "that might be the kind of music they want to hear. A musician [in this situation] needs to have a big enough range of repertoire so they can play something familiar, so that the patient can open up and feel comfortable and not hear something that actually causes more stress."
One of Anderson-Brill's dreams is to see a local music and wellness center that would train musicians to play for people in hospitals. Part of her role in this new program is teaching a handful of her orchestra colleagues what's required of them in health-care situations. The Pittsburgh Symphony has a number of jazz musicians, she says, who could easily engage in the kind of impromptu sessions that help people in hospitals. "Potentially they could teach other musicians to improvise. But we have to organize them, and motivate them to do it."
Beyond the "Mozart Effect"
Improvisation is also called for in the Early Childhood Education program, in which Pittsburgh Symphony musicians visit classrooms in day-care centers serving children from six months to five years old. The players interact with the children in spontaneous, fun ways that require them to be highly flexible with what they play. They follow the lead of the child, noticing what he or she responds to and building on it.
Perrino says the Early Childhood Program, launched in the spring of 2001, has opened some musicians up to the unfamiliar territory of playing for very young children, which can be daunting. "If you ask musicians 'Do you want a kindergarten class or grades three to five, they'll most often take the older kids," she says. In 2000, before the program was launched, the orchestra hosted a national conference exploring the effects of music on very young children (from birth to age three). At that time the "Mozart Effect" was being touted as a way to make babies "smarter"; the State of Georgia was even requiring hospitals to send new moms home with a classical music CD or cassette. But the Pittsburgh Symphony wanted more information on the "Mozart Effect" before it embraced such techniques.
"People kept telling us that early childhood was an area of expansion," Perrino says. "But rather than record all Mozart symphonies and pass them out to new mothers, we wanted to see if the 'Mozart Effect' had any legs."
It didn't, according to participants in the symposium, which attracted a number of scientists, educators, and musicians from around the country. One study reported that the practice of giving CDs to new mothers was indirectly discouraging the moms from singing to their infants, something that hurt the natural bonding process between mother and child. "The mothers found it was much easier to throw in a video rather than sing and dance with their kids," Perrino says. "That natural bonding was secondary."
Now that a handful of Pittsburgh Symphony musicians have been playing for toddlers for the past couple of years, the orchestra hopes to gather information related to their experiences and publish conclusions of its own. "We feel that we're just beginning to understand where we belong in this early-childhood music arena," says Perrino. "There are a lot of barriers and challenges. It's not like working in a school setting where everything's structured and there's a curriculum. You're really starting from scratch."
Unlike Audience of the Future, the Music and Wellness and Early Childhood Education programs rely heavily on musician initiative. And the orchestra has established what it believes is an effective way of encouraging participation in these and other outreach endeavors. Every musician contractually gets ten weeks of vacation a year, but earns an additional week by agreeing to participate in eight two-and-a-half-hour educational or outreach services. Last year 92 out of 99 musicians opted to take part in this unusual service-exchange arrangement. "I think we are unique with the eleventh-week program," says Toeplitz. "It puts us into the community five or six hundred times more than otherwise, in places where a full orchestra cannot go." Adds Perrino, "I think we're really lucky to have so many musicians who are willing to trust us and go into these settings."
As she sees it, for any orchestra seeking to start innovative outreach or education programs from scratch, the watchword is patience. Each organization must determine what its community needs, build a pilot, work in the trenches for a while, and then see what impact the program can have on the music industry or the city.
"If people want to see immediate results, they may not be happy," Perrino says. "You have to do a lot of research. But in the end, you're building strong links to potential audiences. The ultimate goal is to create access for people of every age to connect."
Caroline Abels is the cultural arts reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.


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Dissatisfied with the answers Apple provided earlier this month regarding iOS privacy practices, a Congressional committee has requested Apple send a representative to Capitol Hill to explain in person.
Apple needed to provide more detailed information as to what the company is doing to protect user privacy on its mobile devices, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. G.J. Butterfield, ranking member of Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, wrote in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on March 14. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce originally sent a letter to Apple February 15 asking about iOS privacy practices. The representatives said Cook's response on March 2 was insufficient.
The letter was sent shortly after a system administrator discovered that social networking app "Path" was uploading information from users' address books to its servers without permission or knowledge from the user. Path, and other apps that behaved similarly, no longer take data without permission, and Apple updated the iOS developer guidelines to require apps to ask for permission first before accessing the addressbook on the device.
Cook's five-page letter did "not answer a number of questions we raised about the company's efforts to protect the privacy and security of its mobile device users," Waxman and Butterfield wrote.
The original letter asked whether "Apple's iOS developer policies and practices may fall short when it comes to protecting the information of iPhone users and their contacts." Apple claimed its guidelines tells developers to obtain permission for all sensitive data. On the compliance front, a team of employees randomly audit apps in the App Store and reject any apps that violate the privacy policies, the letter said.
Apple said it had an "unwavering commitment" to giving customers "clear and transparent notice, choice and control over their personal information."
The latest letter raised additional concerns about iOS apps having access to photos stored on the mobile device as well as tools provided by Apple that could potentially track user behavior online.
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WATCH: The Bhutanese Wildlife Conservation Division offers their sincere "thanks" to Gregory Mountain Products for their kind donation of 50 backpacks in support of the ranger's mission of protecting their country's wildlife.
In the battle protecting wild tigers from extinction, rangers risk their lives to stop poachers from killing the world's last remaining tigers. But when tiger parts--pelts, bones, teeth, even whiskers--can be sold for huge sums on the black market, hunting is alluringly profitable and hard to stop.
IFAW works with rangers, conservationists and politicians to ensure we can fight the poachers both on the ground and through legal sanction, focusing on range states: India, Russia and China. Our work includes:
- Helping tiger range countries implement both their National Tiger Action Plans and the new priorities outlined in the Global Tiger Recovery Programme, adopted by national leaders at the international tiger summit in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2010.
- In Russia, we successfully lobbied to increase the fine for tiger poaching from US $50 to US $20,000. Now we're trying to make possession of all tiger parts illegal.
- Training and outfitting wildlife rangers on the front lines of tiger protection in key range countries including India and Russia.
- Launching the Guardians of the Wild initiative, in partnership with Wildlife Trust of India, to equip and train more than 7,000 wildlife guards, a third of India's anti-poaching force working in protected tiger habitats. With the project expanding to Bhutan and Nepal, we are now providing equipment and training to rangers in remote, high-altitude wildlife reserves in the southern Himalayas.
- Supporting the most effective anti-poaching ranger team in the Russian Far East. This innovative team is patrolling the border area with China by jeep and boat, on foot, and even by air using a motorized glider, the first of its kind in Russia. The Khasan rangers undertake at least 12-18 patrols each month, at all hours of the day and night, resulting in more than 100 arrests, violation orders, criminal court cases and seizures of illegal equipment and firearms each year. [extrapolated from July-Dec 2010 Final Report from Khasan project]
- Promoting cross-border cooperation by conducting bilateral trainings between Russian and Indian rangers, who share best practices about tiger conservation under the 2005 Tiger Watch Programme.
- Patrolling the forests in Hunchun, China, an area totaling more than 800 square kilometers, to remove nearly 2,800 deadly snares left to kill Amur tigers, leopards and their prey. (In 2013, efforts resulted in the arrest of two poachers as well.)
- Initiating anti-snare and electrocution prevention activities in central India.
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