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|January 6, 2010 04:00 AM EST
Today's CIO organizations face a complex array of challenges in managing the Business Platform (the group of applications and services that implement the Business Value Chain (BVC)).
The business expects technology innovation as a business differentiator, demands application portfolio stability, requires change requests to be handled promptly, experiences growth rates that are often unpredictable and exponential, and exerts continuous pressure to reduce product time to market.
Complicating this, these challenges are being made to IT with reduced investment support from the business. At the same time, the very business model of IT is changing—how applications, content, information, and infrastructure are delivered.
Technology alone can provide moments of competitive advantage, but they are not sustainable in isolation. The competition also has access to the latest technology and will catch up sooner or later (usually sooner). The creation of sustainable competitive advantages has long been promised by IT, though few organizations can actually claim they've accomplished this goal.
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
To create a sustainable competitive IT strategy requires that the IT organization be structured to provide IT services that are uniquely qualified in meeting business needs. To accomplish this, business strategy cannot be decoupled from IT optimization. In fact, the act of linking business and IT together is the very source for generating sustainable competitive advantage.
The goal of strategic differentiation is to make valuable business execution processes exceedingly difficult to replicate[1]. For each optimized process that is created and chained with other optimized processes, competitive replication becomes more difficult. Consider a competitor that duplicates each of four processes with 90% effectiveness. The competitor would only be able to replicate (.90)4 = 65.6% of the overall process, which leaves the innovator with significant protection from copy cats.
Since the primary source of competitive advantage lies with the combination of what the business is doing and how it is accomplished, the relationship between the two will have to be strengthened to take advantage of it.
Enabling the Real Time Enterprise
A Real Time Enterprise (RTE) enables the business to react to business events as they happen in real-time. Traditionally organizations have been forced to be passive or reactive to business events. Reporting on operations was traditionally executed on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly schedule. By the time management learned about events that had taken place, the opportunity to influence them had long passed. In the late 1990s, it was practical to start the practice of tapping real-time feeds of information on operations, which provided greater insight allowing the organization to react faster.
Leading firms have already accepted that technology platforms need to evolve to support RTE operations. Many are already in the process of transforming to improve the long-term competitive position of business. The ability to deliver information and processing power anytime, anywhere, as the business needs it is critical to this strategy. This logical platform to clearly define capabilities of service agility, optimize transaction IT unit costs, and dynamic execution control is needed to lead the way. This platform can be conceptually described with the following attributes.
· Coalesce cross-client experience, decision support, and just-in-time fulfilment with real-time execution and information availability.
· Deliver "service when needed, as needed" based on the business' explicit service requirements.
· The ability to implement new, unique products or differentiated capabilities in a timely manner for purposes of competitive advantage and operational control.
· Leverage and reuse common component services (both business and infrastructure) for productivity, efficiency, and competitive advantage.
· Provide the necessary plumbing—rich user experience, dynamic execution environment, intelligent mediation platforms, real-time data frameworks, optimal system footprints, dynamic network coordination, automated orchestration, and tooling to enable autonomic management, monitoring, and reporting.
When the platform design is right, the organization will be able to clearly address the following.
· How to become more flexible and responsive to the dynamic needs of the business.
· How to simplify and reduce the complexity of the IT environment.
· How to get more value out of project and operational IT spending—both systems and people.
· How to reduce costs while delivering improved service.
· How to eliminate dedicated silos of data, systems, and infrastructure as they currently exist.
· How to reduce the time it takes to build and deploy new business services.
· How to implement and sustain predictable qualities of service.
The closer an organization can get to these ideals, the more competitive it is. Unfortunately, this potential value is overlooked in the rush to get systems operational. Reaching the goal requires a shift in thinking and planning that includes the use of dynamically shared infrastructure capable of responding to business demand in real-time. Current IT deployment practices produce unchecked organic growth that results in missed opportunities and erodes shareholder value. Fundamentally there is a lack of standards promoting a healthy business IT platform and underlying infrastructure supply. With no boundaries to keep development groups grounded, each leg of the business is left to its own devices in promoting its needs, with no attention to the health of the whole. A more holistic strategy is needed. Here are four areas to concentrate on, to begin the process of laying a more sound foundation.
· Align: Business and IT
· Decision: Business Platform Management Discipline
· Insight: Operational Management
· Control: Dynamic Resources When Needed, As Needed
Align: Business and IT
IT supply is part of an economic model where demand is driven by the business. The traditional approach to IT delivery is to organize around silos of infrastructure, such as compute, storage, and network. This leaves the business to its own devices to cobble together resources for its purposes, which creates long lead times for deployment and rigid systems that are slow in responding to business events.
To be business demand driven, an understanding of the BVC and its sub-components must be documented to determine how the business operates. Each business sub-component has unique service requirements exhibiting specific workload characteristics that must be placed into context. Once understood, it's possible to organize the datacenter to provide optimized infrastructure, which is tailored to the workload characteristics of each business sub-component.
The IT supply must be responsive to the service requirements of the business, and therefore should be organized to deliver to those requirements in the form of tailored platforms optimized to operate on the particular types of workloads run by each line of business. Most businesses have multiple service requirements and therefore multiple workload types. Fortunately the workload types are not infinite; they are in fact discrete in number and allow for the use of repeatable design templates and configurations. This means a great deal of flexibility in IT supply, which can be characterized as a Fit-for-Purpose RTI. Fit-for-Purpose in that the infrastructure is optimized for the workload characteristics; RTI in that resources are dynamically applied and retrieved as needed, when needed.
Decision: Business Platform Management Discipline
A sound and practical approach to portfolio and product management is needed that promotes the development of a business IT platform that is fully aligned with business goals. A simple point-in-time snapshot is not sufficient, as by the time the technology catches up, the business has evolved and the platform is out of date.
The basic concepts are to learn how to adapt IT to the business environment and how to map the Business Value Chain (BVC) and align the Digital Supply Chain (DSC) with the business and revenue generation. This mapping realizes the notion that the DSC is the analog of the BVC, as it manifests most actions on the behalf of the business. This map can be used to identify new functions to automate and where redundant systems can be eliminated to create a digital ecosystem that is in balance with the business (in contrast to the current model where IT growth frequently outstrips business growth, even as functionality lags behind). This is accomplished through the idea of treating business IT platform decisions like an investment portfolio and managing this portfolio in a manner similar to how operations would treat a manufacturing plant.
Insight: Operational Management
Numerous areas of IT infrastructure operational management are often largely neglected due to the complexity of establishing a robust process in a siloed model. Because no one is responsible for the overall infrastructure, holistic opportunities are often overlooked or considered too difficult to execute because of red tape. Candidate areas for improvement include the following.
Real-Time Management: In the rush to meet deadlines most organizations go with what they already know. In doing so, they replicate existing problems. A rigid infrastructure where applications are tightly bound to the machines where they run or server instances running on specified pieces of hardware is very restrictive and generally not highly responsive to the business. Virtual Machines (VMs) provide some coarse flexibility, but there are many virtualization strategies that provide greater flexibility such as application service brokers or virtual operating environments that work in combination with VMs. Virtualization deployment without a real-time management strategy can rapidly compound datacenter challenges.
IT Physics: A common mistake is the misconception that the physical server location doesn't affect performance within a datacenter. Over time, as systems grow organically, additional feature functionality is introduced, and disparate systems are integrated, the resulting data flow can result in spaghetti-like transactions that span the entire breadth of a datacenter, and sometimes multiple datacenters. Employing a strategy that includes datacenter physics can result in significant reductions in network contention combined and improved performance—in essence optimizing the ability of highly collaborative functions to communicate more efficiently.
Holistic Monitoring: A holistic monitoring strategy can save significant costs. By having insight into everything from the power/thermal profile of the environment, cabling, hardware, middleware, application, and transaction monitoring in a correlated end-to-end view allows engineering teams to rapidly and proactively identify problems. Most organizations perform monitoring in tiers of silos. This requires significant team coordination, brings up issues of teams hiding root causes of issues, and generally makes correlating events very difficult due to lack of integration. Once this approach is inculcated into the environment, a virtuous spiral of effective change can permeate all aspects of the datacenter, creating sustained improvement and effectiveness.
Control: Dynamic Resources When Needed, As Needed
Running IT like an on-demand Cloud utility has strong implications for the need to change the typical enterprise IT operational model. The datacenter has traditionally been treated as both an infinite resource and a black box cost sink that has little correlation to business revenue or growth. The operational model of a utility is different by definition. Utilities have defined capacity that must be managed, and users must pay for levels of service. Utilities must accommodate demand, and while there are times when this cannot be accomplished (e.g., brown outs), priorities apply based on policies.
Policy-driven dynamic management of supply to meet demand in real-time is the vision for the IT utility. This cannot happen overnight, but the technologies and practices mentioned in previous sections pave the way. Focused executive sponsorship, alignment of business and IT, delineated roles and organizational changes that include new ways to view compensation are all required to realize the utility vision.
The migration toward managing IT as a utility should be guided by the following goals.
· Responsiveness
o Become more flexible and responsive to the dynamic needs of the business.
o Reduce the time it takes to build and deploy new business services.
· Reduce Complexity
o Eliminate dedicated silos of data, systems, and infrastructure as they exist today, making it possible to meet changing business demand dynamically.
· Better Economics
o Get more value out of project and operational IT expenditures in both systems and personnel.
o Reduce costs while delivering improved service that can be measured.
o Implement and sustain predictable qualities of service that the business can rely on.
The Current State Alignment Map and desired Future State Design Map are the foundation to the creation of a transformation program built to evolve to the Strategy-Driven Target Architecture. Keep in mind that any change management program that looks to drive sustainable competitive advantages can't be executed against blindly for extended periods of time. The business environment is a fluid one. The Future State direction of the business platform is a moving target and must be continually evaluated for changes in reaction to business events. Therefore a cyclical process of improving and revising the Future State Design must be undertaken to keep it relevant.
When the business IT platform is managed from the top-down in a holistic manner, it can become a true business enabler and sustainable competitive advantage. A long history of mediocre IT results has made the business skeptical of new ideas and approaches. However, correcting the situation will require a bold approach. Trust needs to be re-established to bridge the credibility gap via a process of creating small inroads with the business, proving value, and then expanding scope of the business IT platform transformation process. This incremental approach will give IT the needed credibility to effect positive change and keeping in sync with the business to support the needed changes.
[1] Michael Porter, "What is Strategy?" Harvard Business Review, Nov‐Dec 1996, p 61 (Reprint 96608).
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Non-Racing Hobbies: Working on cars, working out, online racing, computers, and webdesign.
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Full Name: Garett D. Goodwin
Hometown: Three Oaks, MI
Birthdate: September 20th, 1994
Racing Since: 2002
Hobbies: Working on race cars and Online Racing, and Hunting
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Favorite NASCAR Driver: Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Sr.
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Garett Goodwin started his racing career when he was 7 years old. He started racing open wheeled go-karts. In 2002, he finished 7th place in the MRP Motorsports championship in the JR Sportsman class. In 2003, He finished 8th in the MRP Motorsports in the JR sportsman class. In 2004, He finished 6th in the championship at MRP Motorsports. In the 2005 season, Garett finished with 4 second place finishes and won the 2005 Most Improved JR driver and he finished 3rd in the points.
In 2006, He started racing a 1/2 scale stock car called a Super Cup car. The first race ever in a stock car Garett won by a nose on the first night out at Grundy County Speedway in Morris, Ill. He aslo had a win at Jackson Speedway in Jackson, Mi. Garett turned out to have at the end of the year, 3 first place finishes, and 5 seconds and 7 thirds. He also finished 4th place in the CSR SuperCup Series.
In 2007, Turned out to be a great year for Garett. He had 16 wins out of 27 starts. 8 second place finishes, 1 third place finish, 2 fifth place finishes. At the end of 2007 season, Garett got his first championship at Grundy County Speedway. Garett also finished 3rd in points at the CSR supercup series. He also finished 2nd in points at the Burris Circle Tour.
Garett started his racing career in Legends Cars in 2008 and had a great year! Ended the season with 9 wins and a Championship. Ended the season at Grundy with a 7 win streak. Garett has back to back championships at Grundy County Speedway and hes trying to make it another championship to make it three in a row.
The 2009 season for Garett turned out to be another terrific year for him and the #29 machine. Garett mainly raced at two to three tracks near his home town and was very successful with 8 wins and many finishes in the top 5 and top 10. Labor day weekend, Garett and the Hansen Motorsports crew took a journey out west to race a three day event in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. Garett ended the weekend winning the Rocky Mountain Classic weekend championship for the Young Lions class. With 2 overall championship titles, Grundy County Speedway Young Lions & Young Lions Michigan State Championship, and for finishing 5th in the nation in the Young Lions class out of 227 drivers for only racing 35 races instead of the 40 to 50 races the rest of the drivers have completed. Garett also finished 2nd in the Young Lions Raceceiver National Tour series being a race and 62 points away from the championship. For just being the 2nd year in the Legends circuit for the young Goodwin driver out of Three Oaks, Michigan.
The 2010 race season was a great year for Garett and his #29 Legends Car for his first year moving into the Pro Division. Garett's race season ended up to be limited due to health issues towards the middle of the season. His health didn't stop him from racing hard at every event he showed up too. Garett was able to pull two feature wins, 10 top fives, and 13 top ten finishes out of the 13 races he completed. He ended up finishing the 3rd place position in the Illiana Motor Speedway points standings.
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After a season in the Truck, Garett moved to the Super Late Model series for the 2012 season. Competing in only 11 of the 20 schedule races at Illiana Motor Speedway, Garett finished 17th in the championship standings out of 62 drivers. When the season was complete, the crew examined the car for the next years season and discovered that the car had been bent before the 2012 season started.
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High intensity interval training, otherwise known as HIIT, has become an incredibly popular part of working out for people who want to push themselves to go harder. It involves doing short bursts of intense workouts with only short recovery periods. For example, someone who was running would sprint for 30 seconds, jog for 20, and then continue running normally for 3. These short intervals push the body harder, but they don't completely exhaust the body like sprinting for several minutes at a time would. What's especially great about this is the fact that it can be incorporated into all different types of workouts, not just running or walking.
Should You do HIIT?
Do you want to lose weight, get toned, or just see yourself get more physically fit? Whatever your goals are, HIIT is something that can help you achieve them. This is why professional trainers and even athletes have started to incorporate interval training into their everyday routines. However, if you want to know how HIIT is going to help you in particular, take a look at the advantages listed below. You'll learn how it can help you in various aspects of your health and why it can prove to be well worth taking advantage of during your next workout.
Fat Burning
When you do a HIIT workout instead of a traditional workout, you will burn more fat in the 24-hours after you're finished. This is because the intense bursts of energy put your body into overdrive and ramp up the rate at which you burn fat. Just take a look at one study done by The University of Western Ontario, which tested 10 men and 10 women doing various types of workouts, including HIIT. It found that those who did interval training burned more fat than those who did not. These participants weren't even doing heavy weights or tough exercises, they were simply doing 4-6 sprints of 30 seconds during a 60 minute walk on an inclined treadmill.
Maintaining Muscle
HIIT can help prevent muscle loss that would otherwise be experienced when doing traditional cardio workouts. This motivates fat loss as well, so you'll be toning your body more effectively rather than seeing weight loss without the tone.
Higher Metabolism
In addition to burning fat for a good 24-hours after the interval workout, you'll experience an increase with your metabolism. This is because HIIT encourages human growth hormone production in your body, which increases the rate at which you burn calories and helps slow down the aging process.
How Often to do HIIT?
If you're new to working out, then it's important not to push yourself too hard. If you do, you could put too much strain on your heart and you may end up hurting yourself as well. Try incorporating it just one day per week until you start working out more often, that way your heart will be conditioned and ready for more. Once you're ready to push yourself harder, do interval training two or three times per week. If you feel like you're strong enough to go further, then you can do HIIIT four to even seven times per week! Just remember to start slow when doing HIIT with different workouts, as you might not be conditioned for intervals in a different exercise.
Any Tips for Success?
- The last thing you should do is push yourself too hard. It's important to give yourself a break in between interval training so your muscles can relax.
- Quality matters, so don't push yourself to do more intervals than you're comfortable with. Take your time!
- Set goals so you know what you're working towards, otherwise you could end up getting comfortable with where you're at.
- Don't get stuck with the number on the scale. Keep going based on how you feel, which will likely be better and better with each passing week.
HIIT is challenging for everyone, especially beginners. However, if you're willing to work hard and challenge yourself, it can pay off with quick results. From inches off of your waist line to just feeling more energized, you'll likely want to stick with HIIT because it's so incredibly beneficial. What are you waiting for? If you want to try it out, then get started today! You don't need any special machines to do it, so it's free and easy to get started with.


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If you're a recent graduate, it's possible that the initial bliss felt in the moment of walking across that stage has started to fade as you're beginning to think more seriously about paying off your student loans. The average Class of 2016 grad is carrying $37,172 in student debt, according to an analysis by higher education and financial aid expert, Mark Kantrowitz. With this number at an all time high, how are young people supposed to manage moving out, searching for a job, and repaying their loans? Besides working overtime and carefully budgeting for those monthly payments, there are several programs that exist to help get your student loans paid off, without you actually paying for them.
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If you follow education policy at all, you have likely heard a significant amount of talk about the "$10,000 degree," a bachelor's program that would only cost a student $10,000. Not $10,000 a semester or per year, but an entire bachelor's degree for just $10,000.
The idea of a degree with a price tag one-fifth the cost of the average public, in-state college degree likely sounds appealing. After all, tuition for public universities is rising about 8 percent each year, according to a recent study by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. Earning a college education is more expensive than ever, while financial aid continues to shrink. But as the saying goes, "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," and the $10,000 degree is no exception.
Student loan debt is over $1 trillion in the United States and is now the second leading source of household debt, recently surpassing credit card debt. The Department of Education and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau worked together this summer to try to address the ever-pressing problem of student debt. They released a Financial Aid Shopping Sheet that they hope colleges and universities will adopt.
The study and the resulting Shopping Sheet aim to help students "know before they owe." The underlying problem is that students and parents commit to schools without understanding exactly how much they will be given, paying, and borrowing. College and universities present their financial aid letters in whatever form they please, often using inconsistent terms, making it nearly impossible to compare different financial letters side-by-side. The Financial Aid Shopping Sheet is a great way to solve that issue by standardizing the way the information is presented.
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The level of student debt has grown by 56 percent since the end of 2007, and averages $23,300 per borrower, with 10 percent owing more than $54,000 and 3 percent owing more than $100,000. The real trouble with this type of debt, aside from the fact that it can't be discharged, is that the federal government does very little to ensure the likelihood of repayment.
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26 December 2008
Lucienne: When I was Miss Goody Two-Shoes, I wondered how a person who has stolen someone else's husband could be so blasé and conceited about it.
My father would probably have a heart attack if he found out what I'm doing. Since mum died, 10 years ago, I know he has dated – but he has never brought a woman home…he's that strait-laced.
It's an addiction – I cannot live with him, but I cannot live without him. We work in the same building, for different companies, so I was fated to meet him.
People accuse mistresses of breaking up marriages; I've actually sellotaped his. He was on the verge of leaving his wife before he met me; she nags and her cooking consists of opening tins and packets. I persuaded him to stay; it suits me better like this.
I have made my own arrangements for the festive period – but I will cancel them if he manages to shake her off for an hour or two.
Katie: Most people picture a mistress as a predator with figure-hugging clothes and perfect make-up. I'm not – but his wife is.
When I'm with him, I feel like a teenager again; he says I'm like a breath of fresh air after her speciousness; to her, a broken manicured fingernail is a tragedy.
Too much is at stake for both of us to go public. But I know I have been his only "other woman" for the last 16 years, because I've had him followed by a private detective several times.
They will be having a family meal at a hotel with the rest of her stuck-up family. Me? I'm having snack soup and beans on toast. Who cares?
Maria: He is old enough to be my… uncle. Still, I regret is not being able to flaunt him.
Meeting him was a Sliding Doors meets Benny Hill moment. I had treated my friend's twins to an outing. They were careening towards the ice-cream compartment of the supermarket and they bumped into him, making him drop a six-pack carton of eggs. "Double trouble!" he said. I stuttered that they weren't my sons. He said that blushing suits me.
Talk about audacity and duplicity – he was with his wife the next time I saw him there. I was simultaneously spooked, intrigued, and turned on to realise they were following me; she didn't even notice. He dexterously palmed his business card into my jacket pocket, and I followed through. This was three years ago. He has spoiled me for other men; those of my age-group seem so childish now. They don't have his manners, charisma, and gentleness. So I sort of understand why this "imperfect gentleman" cannot be mine these days.
Carmen: "The Other Woman" is his wife. I come first in everything, except in his will. But otherwise I'm well looked after – after all, I have to look nice for him, don't I?
At his insistence, I have told my best friend about him, just in case something happens to me and he won't be in a position to know. If anything happened to him, I'd know soon enough, because… just because.
As a child I'd always imagined that at my age (30 last birthday) I'd be settled down with six kids, as my mum was. But, frankly, I'm enjoying almost being almost married without being manacled to a husband.
On my birthday (which I share with one of his kids), on Valentine's Day, and at Christmas, I feel wretched. He always makes up for it, though. I went into this with my eyes wide open but I resent it nonetheless.
I never berate him for not calling, and I am not always available when he wants to meet me. This keeps him keen. He'd be astonished to learn I cry for him most nights. My biological clock is ticking merrily away, and this really hits me when all my siblings come to our house for the Christmas meal, with their kids.
I know his wife. We were in the same class at school.
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Is the server running OpenSSH? The typical reason for this is that the client is trying public-key authentication first and there are more than 5 keys in the client. I believe OpenSSH has a default limit of 6 authentication attempts, and since it treats each attempted key as a failed authentication, after trying the 6th key it will fail the authentication without moving on to the next method (password).
There are various ways to solve this:
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Crab Cakes
Crab Cakes; Jumbo Lump crab meat, sweet and succulent. Crispy Crab Cakes, baked, grilled or pan seared then paired with a Special Creamy Sauce that will knock your socks off.
1 1/2 pounds of jumbo lump Crab meat (go to blog: Selecting Crab Meat for Crab Cakes)
2 Tbsp. cream cheese (chive & onion spread)
2 Tbsp. Yogurt (plain non-fat)
3 green onions (diced)
1 tsp. Lemon juice
1 yellow mini bell pepper (diced)
1 orange mini bell pepper (diced)
2 eggs lightly beaten with a pinch of sea salt
1 1/2 cup Panko bread crumbs
1/2 cup crushed corn flakes (optional)
2 Tbsp. Coconut oil or Rice Bran oil
1/2 tsp. of Dill Weed
1/2 tsp. of Chili powder (mild)
1/4 tsp. of Cayenne pepper (optional)
1/4 tsp. of Garlic powder
1/2 tsp. paprika (smoked paprika optional)
My Special Creamy Sauce (optional)
2 Avocados (medium)
2 Roma tomatoes (large)
4 sprigs of Cilantro
1 Tbsp. Honey Dijon (fat free)
1/2 tsp. of garlic and parsley salt
1/2 tsp. of Lime juice
1/2 tsp. of onion powder
Chef Ann Notes:
- Selecting the perfect Crab meat is paramount for this recipe! You can start at the ocean or the nearest seafood market, but be ready to spend a little more. This Crab Cake recipe I have created for you is so worth the money, and believe me; you will not find a better crab cake in North America! 😉
- Look for the Jumbo Lump Crab and not the imitation crab meat that you see at the local market. Be sure to drain any excess water before you prepare your crab cakes. look for shells or particles and discard.
- Try to keep the lumps as they are, when you mix and fold in all your ingredients to form your crab cakes
- Also keep in mind your option, to turn up the heat and use more spice. This will of course depend upon whom you are cooking for. The amount of cayenne pepper that I add to this recipe makes it very mild.
- Regarding the cream cheese I choose, "chive & onion spread" it works perfect, but you may substitute for plain cream cheese or yogurt.
- Rinse all produce in cold water and pat dry before using
- Check crab meat for shells, and discard before you begin this recipe
- Do not shred crab meat, keep it lumped as possible for this recipe
- Do not refrigerate the 2 tablespoons of cream cheese (set aside until ready to use)
- I recommend that you line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, if you choose to bake your crab cakes
Preparation before cooking
- Preheat oven at 375 degrees if you choose to bake crab cakes
- Line cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside until you are ready to use
- In a large bowl, add Panko crumbs, crushed corn flakes and paprika; set aside until ready to use
- In another large mixing bowl, combine the first 8 ingredients, starting with the lump crab meat and all of your five seasonings
- Try to keep your crab meat in lumps, as much as possible
- Mix lightly with your hands or a wooden spoon or spatula, blend gently for about thirty seconds
- Now you are ready to form crab cakes; spoon two to three heaping tablespoons into the palm of your hand, begin to form the shape of a small or medium size burger
- You want each crab cake to fit the palm of your hand, 1/4 of an inch thick
- Place each perfect formed crab cake into your mixture of crumbs and coat both sides, then place them on the parchment lined cookie sheet or a large plate and cover with plastic wrap
- Now transfer to your refrigerator and allow them to chill for 30-40 minutes. Please Note; This process will help crab cakes to hold shape and not fall apart or crumble while cooking.
- You may also chill over night, and cook the next day
- While cakes are chilling; this is a great time to start your special sauce, check out preparation for "Special Creamy Sauce"
- When you remove crab cakes from the refrigerator, let them rest for five minutes before baking, grilling or pan searing
Preparation "Special Creamy Sauce"
- Place all of your ingredients into a blender or food processor on medium high until your mixture is smooth and creamy
- Now pour your sauce into a bowl, cover with a lid or plastic wrap and refrigerate
- Remove special sauce from refrigerator fifteen minutes before serving
Preparation while cooking (Baking)
- Place crab cakes in oven for ten to twelve minutes
- You want cakes to be crisp and golden brown
- If crab cakes are not crispy or golden brown, give them a few more minutes to brown
- Watch them carefully, because you do not want them to over cook or dry out!
Preparation for (Grilling)
- Cook for 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until you have a nice crispy golden finish, then remove from grill
Cooking (Pan Seared)
- In a large skillet, add your oil and bring to a medium high temperature. Please Note; I recommend using cast iron cookware when pan searing, stainless steel is always my second choice
- Place as many crab cakes as you like, but be sure to leave a little space between each cake
- Allow them to cook for 2 to 3 minutes each side, you want a nice golden color before turning them over
- Make sure that your cakes have a nice crisp golden color before removing from the pan / skillet
- Place them on a paper towel to drain off any excess oil and you are now ready to serve up some spectacular Crab Cakes
Buon Appetito
Preparation time: 30-40 minutes
Cooking time: 10-12 minutes for
(Baking) 4-6 minutes for (Grilling) and 6 minutes for (Pan Searing)
Total time: 30-37 minutes
baking/ 29-31 minutes grilling and 31
minutes if pan searing
Servings: 4 and makes 6-8 crab cakes
- Aioli, tarter and cocktail sauce are all acceptable condiments for these luscious crab cakes
- As for my "Special Creamy Sauce" this puts the icing on the crab cake! So Give it a go and tell me what you think?
Until next time, Buon Appetito
Helpful information
Selecting Crab Meat for Crab Cakes | Rice Bran Oil | What is lump crab | huffingtonpost.com – imitation crab meat what is it?


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Editor's Note: Too often we forget that the largest part of the global economy is made up of small to medium-sized businesses, and their research challenges (and internal resources) can be very different from larger companies with extensive insight organizations, although even those firms are feeling the need to do more with less and develop "cheaper, faster, good enough" solutions to a variety of insights needs. This trend has helped many new suppliers enter the marketplace in the last few years with many of the "DIY"-type companies becoming major companies in their own rights due to the demand for access to their solutions.
This trend is so prevalent that last year I conducted a webinar for SMBs on How to conduct market research like a pro for (almost) free where I explored some of the solutions available to budget-conscious companies to conduct great research:
In today's post business blogger, Megan Ritter plays on a variation of this theme by exploring how SMBs, especially those in the e-commerce sector, can develop a budget for conducting market research in 2015, even if that budget is minimal. It's a great "Business 101" post and serves as a great reminder that every company can now benefit from great market research regardless of budget size.
Market research tends to get the short end of the stick when it comes to budget planning. In fact, it is usually the first item that gets cut when there are limitations on time or finances (or both). After all, it's not as necessary as something like web hosting or credit card processing, but then again, you do need to understand your audience, their desires, their pain points, and their general online behavior in order to make sure that your company will profit and grow.
Market Research's Place In Your E-commerce Marketing Budget
There's a lot to be said for the value of market research, and the positive role it can play for your e-commerce business. Which is why it should be considered an integral part of your budget, not an afterthought. And there are plenty of ways to accomplish your market research goals that are relatively cost-effective.
Working With A Market Research Firm Versus Doing It In-House
There are plenty of market research tools that range from social media monitoring software like Radian6 or Spiral16 to survey apps such as SurveyMonkey available these days – and the internet can essentially be considered a giant focus group, in a way (but then again segmenting populations, gathering information, and analyzing the resulting data can take a significant amount of time and effort.
Granted, a market research firm can perform this work for you – but if you have the time or human resources to do the job in-house, it could be worth the effort. And after all, perhaps no one knows what questions to ask better than your own team!
Use Your Existing Resources
Furthermore, your current customers, your employees or coworkers, and even your friends and family might be the best source of information if you have an existing business – or even potential customers if you have your main demographic already established. Set up interviews or send out a survey to see what they think about your business, competitors in your vertical, and any other information you wish to know.
Keep in mind that you don't necessarily need to be in the same room or even the same country as your interviewees – there's plenty of technology that will help you hold market research interviews remotely at everyone's convenience.
Maximizing The Value Of Your Market Research Dollar
Every business owner wants to make the most out of their budget, and here's how you can do it (at least in regard to market research). Start by determining the end goals of the process:
- What do you want to learn about your target audience?
- Where do they interact online?
- How they discover and recommend products?
- What are their pain points and how can you improve their lives?
- Do you need to discover who the prospective customers for your idea or concept are, and how they interact with brands and make purchasing decisions?
Knowing what questions you want to answer is the most important part of getting the most of your market research efforts – and potentially generating capital that help improve all aspects of your business in the future.
Syndicated Research Or A Custom Project?
Sometimes, the work has already been done for you by a market research firm or a similar company. For instance, if your demographic is fairly well established and you know what questions you're looking to answer, you may be able to purchase white papers, reports, or other documentation – which frees up time and resources on your side. After all, you don't necessarily have to re-invent the wheel.
On the other hand, you may have unique targets or other goals that simply require a custom project – which also doesn't necessarily need to be incredibly expensive.
Understand What You Need To Learn
In the end, knowing what you want out of any given marketing endeavor – but perhaps it is especially important in the market research realm. Planning out the questions you want to ask – and the answers you want to uncover is the first step towards success. And remembering that you can almost always factor it into your budget is the second – market research shouldn't be the first item to cut. It's vital in the long run!


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Field Trip 3
Topic: Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs in the Northern Calcareous Alps
Date: Friday 3 June 2016
Field trip leaders: Dr Kurt Decker & Dr Philipp Strauss
Itinerary: Grossau quarry - Hohe Wand view-point - Gaaden quarry - smaller outcrops (to be determined)
Field trip description
The excursion addresses the characterization of the physical structures, which contribute to the properties of fractured carbonate reservoir rocks. In such rocks most of the effective porosity and permeability is carried by tectonically formed fractures and faults of various type, origin and scale. Reservoir characterization therefore requires quantitative data on structures ranging from centimetre-scale fractures to faults with kilometres length.
Fracture scales ranging over several orders of magnitude pose a serious challenge to quantitative structural analyses and reservoir characterization. The main objective of the field excursion is therefore to discuss structural geology techniques which allow for the characterization of rock volumes with dimensions which are comparable to hydrocarbon reservoirs, and the translation of structural models into reservoir models. Both objectives require the analysis of outcrops with up to several hundreds of metres size. The analysis therefore has to find a trade-off between the detailedness of structural mapping and the objective to characterize large rock volumes.
The visited reservoirs the trade-off resulted in the distinction between the so-called 'fractured matrix', which is assessed by a semi-quantitative classification scheme rather than exact measurements of small-scale fractures, and 'faults', which are analysed with highest possible accuracy. The 'fractured matrix' contains small-scale (centimetre to metre-sized) fractures and joints of various types, but it is otherwise undeformed. Fractures of the 'fractured matrix' show no offset at the outcrop observation scale. 'Faults', in contrast, are planar structures offsetting the rock. An important feature that distinguishes 'faults' from fractures in the matrix is the formation of fault rock (e.g., cataclasite) with a porosity/permeability that differs from the fractured matrix, and the existence of damage zones at the transition to the undeformed rock which show higher porosity/permeability than both, fault rocks and fractured matrix.
The excursion will provide ample possibilities to put hands on all types of structures and rocks, which characterize a fractured and faulted carbonate reservoir, and discuss appropriate structural modelling techniques that lead to a better understanding of reservoir properties.
|Stop 1
|Kaltenleutgeben Quarry – Tectonics and Stratigraphy, analogue of Dolostone drilled below the Miocene fill of the Vienna Basin, introduction to Petroleum System and producing reservoirs
|Stop 2
|Gaaden Quarry – Poro/Perm properties of fractured Dolostone, Faults and Fault Rocks
|Stop 3
|Grossau Quarry – Fractured and faulted Dolostone reservoir, large-scale patterns of faults and fracture corridors


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Definition of Go-slow
1. Noun. A form of protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problem from their employers.
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Definition of Go-slow
1. Noun. (U.K.) a period of time spent in an unusually slow fashion. ¹
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1. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"Therefore, go slow. Do not lay down stringent rules Go slow. as to personal conduct. The time for that has gone by. You can successfully lead, ..."
2. Dick's Recitations and Readings by William Brisbane Dick (1881)
"GO SLOW. From Baldwin's Monthly. When you a pair of bright eyes meet, That make your heart in rapture beat; When one voice seems to you more sweet Than any ..."
3. Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States by Anne Newport Royall (1826)
"Sometimes he would mutter to himself, sometimes go slow, and then put his horses to their best speed, as if he would outride the noise, or by that means ..."
4. What Shall Our Boys Do for a Living ? by Charles Frederick Wingate (1898)
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Carlisle v University of Victoria. [2009] BCHRTD No. 352
The complainant is a man with HIV/AIDS who applied three times to law school at the University of Victoria. He filed three human rights complaints; the first two were settled, the third (and present) one was dismissed by the Tribunal.
In 2003, Carlisle's first law school application was rejected because UVIC refused to waive its requirement for an LSAT score. UVIC settled his subsequent human rights complaint in 2004; it allowed Carlisle to reapply without an LSAT score on condition that he provided medical documentation establishing his medical inability to write the LSAT. In exchange, Carlisle agreed to drop the complaint.
In 2004, Carlisle's second law school application was rejected because UVIC determined that Carlisle had failed to comply with the conditions set forth in the settlement agreement. UVIC settled his second human rights complaint in 2004; it allowed Carlisle to audit a course at UBC in 2005. In exchange, Carlisle agreed to drop the complaint and never to pursue it in the future.
In 2005, Carlisle's third law school application was rejected. This time he applied through the special access program. In response, Carlisle filed his third complaint of discrimination on the basis of disability against the University.
The Tribunal reports that "the substance of Mr. Carlisle's complaint is that UVIC's special access program imposes identical academic standards as those required for all law school applicants, does not relax those requirements for prospective students with health conditions which affect their ability to attain those standards, and does not consider non-academic accomplishments in addition to, or instead of, academic ones" (para 52).
UVIC provided evidence to the contrary. The Tribunal found that:
"The qualifications of special access applicants are compared only against other applicants in that category, not against applicants in other categories. In each case, UVIC looks for "substantial evidence of potential success in law school" first by considering the applicant's GPA and LSAT score, and then by considering occupational achievements, community , public service and cultural activities a, and letters of reference. " (para 56)
UVIC provided the following stats: the 15 successful applicants, six of whom had medical issues, had three years of post-secondary education and much higher GPA's and LSAT scores than Carlisle.
1) Does the complaint have reasonable prospect of success?
1) No
1) "On a consideration of all the material before me on this application, I conclude that Mr. Carlisle has no reasonable prospect of success of establishing his assertions about UVIC's processes and standards are well-founded, and thus his complaint has no reasonable prospect of success. " (59)
2) "The material before me suggests that, far from denying Mr. Carlisle admission because of his disability, his disability was the only basis for UIC to consider his application at all. When it did so, it compared him to other special access applicants, on criteria which she does not suggest are arbitrary or irrelevant, and determined that others were better qualified for the limited number of available places. For this reason, as well, I find that Mr. Carlisle's complaint has no reasonable prospect of success." (67)
[1] Other issues were raised, but this is the one relevant to this forum. Amongst those were applications to dismiss on the basis that 1) the Tribunal lacked jurisdiction to hear complaints previously settled at the University 2) the proceeding would not further the purposes of the code and 3) the complaint filed for improper motives or made in bad faith. The Tribunal rejected these arguments 1) because the complaint was not attempting to re-litigate previous complaints that had been settled; 2) because the 2004 settlements had not dealt with the underlying issues of discrimination and 3) because the factual inaccuracies of Mr. Carlisle do not amount to bad faith.


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Friday, February 08, 2008
The original drawing
Wood, bolts, nuts
Now: 1 1/2 x 14
This is the beginning of another Man sculpture. I have had the idea for a while. I want to do several different versions and play around with the ideas I started working with in earlier sculptures. In Hang, (see below) I was trying to show the figure from the inside as well as the outside - at the same time. I posed him upside-down and bound to the wood backing to elude to the idea that we all tie ourselves up with things and are bound in some way. I was feeling trapped at the time I created Hang. I no longer feel trapped, but I am still interested in the way we hold our selves back from things - purposefully or not...
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text: Page ContentOn March 26, 2004, Justice Lynn Ratushny of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved a $50 million settlement of a class action brought against the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. arising out of the decision by Ford of Canada, in 1999, to eliminate the distinction between Mercury dealers and Ford dealers. Prior to the change, Ford cars were generally sold only by "Ford dealers"; and Mercury cars only by "Mercury dealers". In the fall of 1999, all dealers began selling the same vehicles. Dealerships which had been selling Ford cars commenced a class action, seeking a declaration that this change was a breach of the Dealer Sales and Service Agreement, which required that a market study be done before any "additional dealers" were appointed within 15 kilometres. The class action was certified on an appeal to the Divisional Court in May 2000. The trial of the action was adjourned just before commencement in May 2003, and the parties spent the next six months negotiating a resolution of the claim, including a claim for damages for all class members. The agreement ultimately reached provided for all dealers in the class to receive a payment to compensate them for the reduction in the value of the goodwill of their businesses, calculated on the basis of their sales volume prior to the change. In addition, dealers who are in particularly egregious situations by virtue of their proximity to other dealers are given access to funds to be used for the purpose of reducing the total number of dealerships. Any member of the class that wishes to pursue its own claim is entitled to opt out. A total of $50 million was paid by Ford of Canada into funds available for these purposes. The representative plaintiffs were represented by Peter Doody and Larry Elliot of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.


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We wanted the criminal injustices perpetrated by the Bush administration to be recognized and prosecuted. That was judged to be too politically expensive and was quickly forgotten. If we did that, Obama would have a difficult time getting his other major policy goals accomplished.
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My research focuses in empirical work in various areas of Operations Management, including Service Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Retail. In my research I have worked in collaboration with big box retail chains in the U.S. and Latin America, tech firms in te retail industry, a network of U.S. hospitals (Kaiser Permanente), and Chile's central procurement office (ChileCompra).
I am currently Associate Editor for Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. I am also co-director of the Institute of Complex Engineering Systems.
I teach undergraduate and MBA classes in Statistics and Operations Management at the University of Chile. As a visiting professor at Stanford and Columbia I have taught a doctoral course in empirical methods in Management Science. Prior to my current appointment I was Associate Professor at Columbia Business School, teaching MBA, MSc and PhD courses.
I have a PhD in Operations Management and M.A. in Statistics from The Wharton School in 2007. I did my undergraduate in Industrial Engineering at the University of Chile.


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Before you start installing Tectia Server for IBM z/OS, make sure the following requirements are met:
- File system requirements
Write access to the
/optdirectory is required during the installation.
- User account requirements for installing the server
The user account installing the product must have an OMVS segment, UID 0 and RACF SPECIAL privilege.
- User account requirements for running the server
The user account running the server must have an OMVS segment and the UID 0.
If the
BPX.DAEMON FACILITYclass profile is defined, the user must have read access to it.
- Requirements for user accounts to support access via Tectia Server
Required: An OMVS segment
Optional: A home directory. It is required if public key user authentication is used or if the account requires user-specific configuration, for example, environment variables for the file transfer subsystem.
- Requirements for user accounts that run Tectia client programs
Required: An OMVS segment
Optional: A home directory. It is required if public key user authentication is used or if the account requires user-specific configuration, for example, profiles for remote hosts.
- Library requirements
The Tectia SSH Assistant application requires the Rexx runtime or Rexx alternate libraries to execute. The Rexx Alternate Library SEAGALT (for example,
IBM.REXX.SEAGALT, etc.), which is shipped as part of z/OS since version 1.9, may be used to satisfy this requirement. SEAGALT must be available in the linklist or in a STEPLIB allocated to your TSO session.
- Permissions for storing keys in SAF
If the server host key or the user keys are going to be stored in the System Authorization Facility (SAF), additional permissions are required.
The following additional requirements will be handled during the installation with Tectia SSH Assistant:
The Tectia SSH Assistant ISPF application uses the extattr command to make the server program,
/opt/tectia/sbin/sshd2, program-controlled. To issue the command, the user account running the setup must have read access to the
It is recommended that a user account,
SSHD2, is created for running Tectia Server for IBM z/OS.
CEE.SCEERUN2libraries must be available in
LNKLST, and
CEE.SCEERUN2must be program-controlled.
The server must be allowed to listen to port 22 (or other configured Secure Shell port).


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Yesterday Steve Browne, who is one of the big men in HR, literally and figuratively, published the Carnival of HR: Make HR better edition. I had written this post for that carnival, HR would be better if: Seven step to improve self-esteem, but I must have submitted the wrong link. Therefore in reading this carnival please include my post if you have not already read it.
Steve's theme was "how can we make HR better." He got an outpouring of opinions because, if nothing else, everyone in HR has an opinion on how we can improve HR. He received 48 submissions! There are some excellent posts here from some excellent writers, many I have read and others are new to me. I am still wading through the posts myself.
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Geronimo Cardano (1501 or 1506-1576), Renaissance philosopher, mathematician and physician. After his studies in Pavia, Cardano taught at the universities of Padua and Milan, before going to Rome from 1534 upon Filippo Archinto's mediation, where he held lectures in geometry, arithmetics and astronomy.
In his main piece, "Ars Magna" (Nuremberg 1545), he published his mathematical formula for the solution of cubic equations (Cardano formula), which made him particularly famous.
Alongside mathematics, Geronimo Cardano also dealt intensively with philosophical issues. In this field he represented a natural-philosophical approach, which he, as opposed to his contemporary Paracelsus, reserved for the educated upper class, while he wanted to see the masses lead by the strict rules of state and church ("De subtilitate", Basel 1547).
Geronimo Cardano's works, mathematical, medical and philosophical, were published in ten volumes in 1663 Lyon.


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Rosalind was first introduced to me as Mary Mae Ward on General Hospital. It was the mid-1990's and I was on the cusp of an even more awkward venture into high school. Soap operas were my pop culture outlet of choice at the time. As such an unmovable presence, her age and locs an aspiration, quite ethereal as a wake up call that there is life beyond adolescence, Cash became a presence I looked forward to seeing and discovering in other film and television projects. Luckily, she has had an incredible career with a variety of appearances. In Tales From The Hood, she was the gatekeeper of purgatory. In From A Whisper To A Scream, she was an intimidating magic tyrant. Heroes, villains, deans of colleges, Cash as a character actor gave her the ability to be a chameleon and a believable one in each of her roles. I was sad to hear of her passing when it was initially announced. I even remember the wonderful tribute General Hospital did for her.
I'm not good at playing stereotypes. I don't ingratiate myself to the powers-that-be as some nice, Negro, colored, abiding person. You cannot depend on me to be that Negro that you have come to know and love, that you're used to. -Rosalind Cash
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He is a household name in the entertainment industry but he has always said broadcasting remains his biggest passion. Patrick Doyle, popular producer and broadcaster, recently told Daily Sun that Nigeria is yet to have a film industry.
He is a household name in the entertainment industry but he has always said broadcasting remains his biggest passion. Patrick Doyle, popular producer and broadcaster, recently told Daily Sun that Nigeria is yet to have a film industry.
He reasons that until real professionals take over the movie sector, Nigeria cannot boast of a self sustaining motion picture industry. He also spoke on his life as a family man, a Christian and a man of the screen.
I write most of my materials be it films or TV drama. However, my wife is also good at writing too. I dont consider myself a good writer. Although I write, I usually find the scriptory, physical part of writing tedious, I wish I could verbalise my thoughts.
I dont need to be inspired to write. Some people romanticise about writing, saying that they are inspired whenever the sun rises and so on. That is nonsense, I write when I have to write or when I have a deadline to meet.
TV dramas/movies where featured
I ought to have a good sense of history but I have never bothered to record those things, sometimes I dont even buy the movies, I have probably not seen three quarters of the movies I have participated in. I always describe myself first and foremost as a broadcaster, every other thing follows.
Second marriage, after spouses death
I met my wife. One doesnt meet a person in a dream. We met in the course of work, I was involved in a drama, Jaded Options when we met. I have a fantastic wife, Im basically a home person.
The attraction
I am not very eloquent about things like that.
Late wife a sickler? How much of her did you miss?
It is not for public consumption. Hummh! What I miss or dont miss Its too private to be discussed. When you live with a person for 10 years please forget it. I would not gain anything from that and no one is going to get any inspiration from that.
Actor and broadcaster
I have an abiding passion for broadcasting and production. As for film or movies, I just do it because I can do it. We dont have a film industry in this country, we have a video trade. An industry is a systematic production process from conception to consumption with the requisite division of labour. But in a situation where you have some people in Idumota taking the roles of writer, director, marketer, distributor and have no regard for division of labour, then there is no industry.
I am not interested in whether the remuneration is good or bad. I do it because I am bored. Usually, the locations are in Enugu and so it means a short break for me.
What habits did you pick from your father?
I wish I could tell you much about my father but I cant. He died five months before I was born, my father was Itsekiri and my mum is Efik. We don t count children in Africa, it is my father who can be certain about the figures. On my part, I have four children .
I attended Our Lady of Apostles Private School, Yaba, before proceeding to Saint Finbarrs College, Akoka.
For me, I was already learning a trade I know best, and I know I havent done badly at all. I never wanted to become the godson of anyone but I admired people like the late Martins Okoh and Marius Ugadah. Unlike what obtains nowadays, there was a healthy form of professional rivalry in those days. Practitioners skills in broadcasting were greatly admired and everyone looked up to them for inspiration.
View on celebrities
First of all, I dont like the way the word celebrity is used here, no normal human being would say he doesnt like recognition but I have learnt to take Nigerian type of recognition with a pinch of salt. Nigerians have a penchant for recognising all sorts of personalities. There are some people who are criminals but who are called celebrities. I would rather not be recognised than fall among fraudsters that are being recognised. So I would, therefore, like to be anonymous.
It is nice but I am my best judge. I am the best person to judge myself, I am satisfied with the quality of work I have churned out. I am self-motivated and I take a lot of pains to do my work. As for awards, such things dont bother me, I have one - the best TV presenter at the first edition of THEMA.
What is your day like?
I dont have a typical day, I wake up and take the children to school, as you can see, the office is near the house. I was lucky to get a place near the house. I am a TV person; I just do what I want. I could edit, shoot or make appointment for marketing. That is what I have been doing for the 24 years.
Was it a lazy alternative?
It was a natural progression. I had the talent, I was good in public speaking, it was either I became a lawyer or a broadcaster. Broadcasting presented itself first. That opportunity was in Voice of Nigeria (VON) as a continuity announcer when I was 20 years old. My mother who had just retired from NBL told me to see someone there. The auditioning went well and the rest is history as they say.
First day at work
No! It was where to be, it was exciting, and my contemporaries at that time were John Momoh, Mannie Onumonu, Bisi Olatilo and Osaze Iyamu.
What dream did you nurse then?
I had already entered into my dream.
Owning a TV station
Setting up a station? No! I didnt think of that then. I just wanted a job to meet my needs. A job that would pay bills. Recently, I nursed the idea of setting up a radio station; because TV is highly capital intensive.
Anyone who tries to do anything else deludes himself. It has to be entertainment, it doesnt necessarily have to be 24 hours of music and it does not have to be chatty too. My radio station would strike a balance between a talk station and entertainment. That has been difficult for many FM stations. It is a paradox for government stations, while the privately owned come in and copy government stations.
Are you saying they are doing a bad job at the moment?
Well, Cool FM is it. But again I quarrel with their extreme Americanization of their speech patterns. They should drop the American accent. Apart from that they have been unassailable.
Location of the radio station
Lagos is not getting any better in terms of living standards. It is congested, it doesnt look like it would get better soon. Calabar is more like it. It is an emerging market with a free market zone, any sensitive investor should be headed for Calabar now.
Past experience
I have really gone round, I used to present Real Estate This Week which was pure business. I also started a live show Friday Nite Live, that set the tone for entertainment talkshows in the country. I wrote and produced a TV soap, Jaded Options. Then I presented an AM show, Morning Ride. In other words I have done practically everything, news, entertainment, business, drama and documentaries.
Born again
There is a point in your life when you take stock, when you decide whether to go on or make a U-turn. I got to that point in 1987, I wasnt impressed with where I was in every area of my life. Like a very sensible person, I had to seek an alternative. That was Jesus. I could have been a 419 kingpin, a drug addict, I was lucky that Jesus presented himself to me as an option.
So you were a bad boy?
I would surprise you to say old things have passed away, I did everything that young boys used to do. I was rascally, that is all I can say. I cant remember the rest, I am now a member of Pastoral Care, Household of God.
Do you think you can be a good pastor?
Every Christian parent is a pastor- they are the first pastor the child sees, I have been called to be a king and a priest.
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This is a great piece of history, which is dear to our hearts as people and very much appreciated.
Many thanks to the people who worked hard in the past and those who are still making efforts to keep the institution.
The labour is obviouly worth it. We are proud of you all.
A lot still to be done, with the motivation of the champions of this course, others will follow as well to maintain the institution
May God continue to keep the edifice for development of future generations to the glory of God and the benefits of our fatherland.


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Breast milk is the natural food for babies. Babies need only breast milk for the first six months. At six months, babies will show signs that they are ready for solid foods. It is important to watch for these signs, introduce solids when ready and continue to breastfeed for up to two years and beyond.
Introducing Solid Food
Your baby is ready to start solid foods at six months. By six months, babies need extra iron and other nutrients from solid food for healthy growth and development. Solid foods also provide a variety of flavours and textures for your baby.
Watch for signs that your baby is ready for solid foods. Starting solid foods too early or too late can cause problems for your baby. Your baby is ready for solids when she:
- Holds her head up
- Sits up in a high chair
- Opens her mouth wide when you offer a spoon
- Turns her face away when she doesn't want the food
- Closes her lips over the spoon
- Keeps food in her mouth and swallows it instead of pushing it out.
Make sure your baby shows all these signs of readiness before you start solid foods.
Your baby may not accept new foods right away. If your baby shows you that they do not want to keep trying a new food by turning their head away, stop feeding them that food. Try it again another day. Keep feeding time pleasant. Do not pressure your baby to eat.
Baby's First Foods
Iron-rich foods should be baby's first foods. Iron-rich foods for babies include: iron fortified infant cereal, beef, pork, chicken, turkey, eggs (yolk and white), tofu, and legumes such as beans, lentils, and chickpeas.
Feeding Tips for Starting Solids
- After your baby is eating a few iron-rich foods, offer other foods like vegetables, fruit, yogurt, cheese and whole grains. Continue giving iron-rich food every day while offering new foods.
- Start a new food when baby is happy and hungry. Sit him up straight in his high chair and pull him up to the table to be included in family meals.
- Help your baby learn to eat a variety of textures. Offer soft textures such as lumpy, and tender-cooked and finely minced, pureed, mashed or ground.
- Offer finger foods when your baby reaches for food or wants to feed himself. Some finger foods are pieces of soft-cooked vegetables and fruits, grated cheese, bread crusts or toasts, finely minced, ground or mashed cooked meat, poultry and deboned fish. Expect a mess! Babies learn about their food by touching it and eating with their hands.
Let Your Baby Decide How Much to Eat
Your baby will let you know when he is hungry and full. Pay attention to his signs. Never pressure your baby to eat or stop feeding him when he still wants more.
Signs your baby is hungry also known as hunger cues:
- Opens mouth when offered food on a spoon
- Leans towards food or spoon
- Shows interest in eating
Signs your baby is full
- Pushes spoon with food away
- Keeps mouth closed
- Turns head away
- Spits food out
Food Allergies and Your Baby
Common food allergens are eggs, milk, mustard, peanuts, seafood, sesame, soy, sulphites, tree nuts and wheat. You can introduce common food allergens as part of your baby's first foods at six months. There is no evidence that the order in which foods are introduced to a baby affects their risk of developing a food allergy. When you introduce a common food allergen for the first time, only offer one per day and wait two days before introducing another food allergen. Watch for signs of an allergic reaction in those two days. Signs of an allergic reaction are rash, vomiting, diarrhea or breathing problems. Stop feeding a food if you notice any of these symptoms.
Once you know your baby can eat a common food allergen, feed it regularly to your baby to maintain his tolerance to the food. Talk to your health care provider if there is a family history of food allergy and you are concerned about introducing food to your baby.


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