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Andrew's Blog tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-531206 2009-09-02T19:05:44-07:00 Bridging the gap between legal and IT TypePad AndrewCohenhttps://feedburner.google.com EMC to Acquire Kazeon Systems, Inc. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341fb74153ef0120a59980cc970c 2009-09-02T19:05:44-07:00 2009-09-02T19:16:58-07:00 EMC today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Kazeon. I'll have the honor of running the Kazeon business, which will be placed under the EMC SourceOne brand, and will be part of EMC's Information Governance strategy. To... Andrew Cohen

EMC today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Kazeon.  I'll have the honor of running the Kazeon business, which will be placed under  the EMC SourceOne brand, and will be part of EMC's Information Governance strategy.

To say that Kazeon is a differentiated technology is an understatement.  Kazeon has built a scalable, but fast to deploy software that allows for the indexing, collection, analysis and review of content from across the enterprise, allowing customers to bring eDiscovery in-house, and advance their longer term information governance strategies. Other players in this market have pieces of this puzzle, or collections of products that they call "end to end" solutions, but in fact are hard to deploy, integrate and maintain. Only Kazeon offers true "end to end" in-house eDiscovery in an integrated architecture and fast to deploy appliance model.

eDiscovery is one of the most acute information governance pain points for organizations because:  eDiscovery is mandatory, it is risky, and it is being done today in reactive and wildly expensive ways.  The economics are simple - the less automation, the more an organization over-collects (by manually collecting whole backup tapes and whole disk drives - rather than collecting only the information that is relevant).  The larger the collection, the more information that is sent to outside parties for processing and charge-by-the-hour legal review, and in turn, the more money that is spent.  It makes no sense to spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars on a single case, and when the case is over, to have nothing to show for it - that money will need to be spent anew when the next lawsuit or investigation hits.

Kazeon doesn't just solve the in-house eDiscovery problem, it advances information governance in a tangible way, by federating the collection of metadata - allowing customers to do in-house eDiscovery and apply other policies, and take other actions, on content that is "in the wild" - in fileshares, desktops, Sharepoint and other places across the enterprise.

When I was a law firm attorney – a long time ago;) – I handled a case for a gas company, and I remember one of my witnesses making the comment that natural gas in a controlled state is the safest most efficient energy source in the world, but in an uncontrolled state, it explodes.  So too with information. When we have ways to apply policy to information – to gain insight into it, take action upon it based on its value, to govern it - information is one of the most critical assets of an organization, as or more important that any other asset, other than the people within an enterprise.  However, when information is left to pile up with no controls, policies or management, it can turn into a costly liability - like natural gas in an uncontrolled state...

Information governance remains an elusive goal at essentially every organization in the world.  The reason is that information is getting created faster than individual human beings, or even existing systems, can possibly organize it.  Many companies, large and small, have promised to deliver on the vision of true information governance – most by asking customers to put all their information in a single monolithic repository or single monolithic indexing platform.  In theory, this could work, but in the real world doing this can take years, it is costly, and involves the creation of duplicative infrastructures.

<o:p></o:p>EMC's SourceOne strategy, with the addition of Kazeon, is different and simple.  We are taking a practical and modular approach.  Rather than asking customers to put everything in one repository, we provide them with building blocks that allow them to quickly deploy a solution to solve an immediate problem, save money and advance the longer term information governance strategy – "enterprise strategy, digestible pieces".

<o:p></o:p>EMC is already the leader in information storage, and as a result, we're already managing the world's most sensitive and important information.  We're taking Kazeon and integrating it tightly to EMC storage, making it one of the most mature, secure and scalable solutions on the market.  Moreover, EMC is first to the market with the modular but integrated combination of archive technologies, records management technologies and Kazeon's unique fast to deploy index in place technologies.  We now have the ability to apply policy to, and conduct in-house eDiscovery on, electronically stored information (ESI) both within and outside managed repositories ("in the wild").  No one else can do this in the same way, and the value to customers is tremendous.

<o:p></o:p>More to come, but for now I'll just say how excited we are about what EMC can do for our customers with Kazeon, and the other stable of EMC and SourceOne offerings.

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2009/09/emc-to-acquire-kazeon-systems-inc.html SourceOne - In-House eDiscovery and Governance In and Out of the Archive tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341fb74153ef011570854f73970c 2009-06-28T06:29:20-07:00 2009-06-28T07:06:58-07:00 As a Fortune 200 company that is the world's leader in information storage and management, one of the largest software companies in the world, as well as a leader in information security, EMC has a differentiated ability to solve the... Andrew Cohen

As a Fortune 200 company that is the world's leader in information storage and management, one of the largest software companies in the world, as well as a leader in information security, EMC has a differentiated ability to solve the eDiscovery challenge. The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) reflects the reality that the eDiscovery challenge is, at its core, all about "Information Management" - how is the organization managing its (especially) unstructured content, and what policies are in place and being enforced, if any, in the first place? Then, when a new eDiscovery case hits - what processes and tools does it have, if any, to automate an otherwise reactive and expensive eDiscovery process, especially for collection, hold, analysis and review?

With EMC SourceOne, EMC is delivering a differentiated family of solutions to the marketplace - that allows organizations not only scalable enterprise archiving (and eDiscovery within the archive), but also fast to deploy appliances for in-house eDiscovery functionality to index 100s of types of content outside managed archives - "in the wild" - (for example on desktops, file shares, sharepoint, and many other content types). Once the index is created, robust eDiscovery functionality can be applied to the underlying content (for forensically sound collection, hold, analysis, and review) to drive significant cost out of the process, provide insight into huge volumes of information that was otherwise growing without being leveraged, as well as the ability to apply policy for classification, retention, deletion, privacy and security of the content.

EMC is already the company that the best organizations in the world trust to manage their information assets. Now, EMC's ability to securely and at massive scale deliver the above functionality - BOTH within and outside of archives and BOTH for proactive policies and for in-house eDiscovery - is differentiated and unique.

For more information, please see the following link: SourceOne Discovery Collector

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2009/06/sourceone-inhouse-ediscovery-and-governance-in-and-out-of-the-archive.html Video Interview Discussing eDiscovery, Compliance and SourceOne tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65042777 2009-04-03T09:48:03-07:00 2009-04-03T09:48:03-07:00 The attached link is a brief interview of me discussing eDiscovery challenges that customers are facing, and how SourceOne can address those challenges. Download SourceOne-Andy Andrew Cohen

The attached link is a brief interview of me discussing eDiscovery challenges that customers are facing, and how SourceOne can address those challenges.

Download SourceOne-Andy

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2009/04/video-interview-discussing-ediscovery-compliance-and-sourceone.htmlhttp://andrewsblog.emc.com/files/sourceone-andy-1.wmv How are we going to fund compliance? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57940209 2008-11-03T06:16:50-08:00 2008-11-03T06:16:50-08:00 With the roiling of the financial markets, the almost unprecedented incursion of government into the marketplace, and with a strong consensus that there has been too little regulation in the past decade, one thing is certain - government investigations, lawsuits... Andrew Cohen

With the roiling of the financial markets, the almost unprecedented incursion of government into the marketplace, and with a strong consensus that there has been too little regulation in the past decade, one thing is certain - government investigations, lawsuits and new regulations are on the rise. At a macro level, many fiscally conservative people worry that too much regulation will stifle investment and innovation. When you take it down a level, the businesses and other organizations that are subject to regulation - and the people within those orgs responsible for meeting the requirements - wonder how this is going to be funded, especially in recessionary times.

The answer to this challenge is that compliance solutions need to a business case justification; a showing that the solution will - in the real world - save the company money.

If this sounds like tired high tech marketing, please keep reading; it is not. The reason that there is money to be saved through the deployment of the right compliance solutions is that current approaches to some of the key information compliance challenges are today wildly inefficient. Specifically, organizations fail to properly manage their electronic files, they don't enforce their retention/deletion policies, and they respond to eDiscovery in reactive and expensive ways.

Every single organization in the world - and I've been to a lot of them;) - needs to (i) classify emails and files, (ii) delete the junk, and (iii) bring eDiscovery in-house. These are not trivial problems. Human beings are in the best position to classify their own emails, IMs, files and other content that they create, but there's so much of it, that they simply don't or won't.

EMC offers an indexing solution from StoredIQ that is closely integrated to EMC's market leading infrastructure. The solution can be rolled into a data center and it can index terabyes of information a day. Once the index is created, there are 2 critical use cases that we see customers attacking. First, the indexing appliance is purpose built for eDiscovery, and a allows the customers to bring eDsicovery in-house. Putting the tools in the hands of the IT, Security, Compliance, and/or Legal departments to do their own focused collections, litigation holds, and exports means less content is pushed through the eDiscovery process. Rather than collecting and preserving huge volumes by media type - tapes of drives - (much of which is definitively irrelevant), more focused collections and preservations are made. Less is processed and reviewed on the back end, and money is saved. The current processes are so inefficient (due to risk aversion) that there is a strong business case justification for this type of solution.

The second use case that we see is use of the indexing appliance to gain insight into emails and files that reside "in the wild" - on file shares, psts, desktops, SharePoint and so on. Without this type of solution, organizations are saving all their files (despite that fact that many of them do not have any value) because they cannot classify the important content and separate it from the junk. The goal of these projects is what I call defensible deletion (or to delete the junk).  The idea is simple. With no insight into files on files systems and other places, organizations have no way to separate the needles from the haystacks. With insight into those files and the ability to "remediate" the subset of important content (ie. copy and collect it or move it) into more controlled environments, the organization can reduce the risk of applying automatic purge policies to the rest of it. There is clearly a risk to deleting content, but there's also a risk to saving everything. A reasonable, risk adjusted process for defensible deletion, like in-house eDiscovery, creates a strong business case justification for the solution (you save money through better management of the content.)

For many years, the belief has been that with better search technology, all content could be saved because we'd have more and more efficient ways to find it. In the compliance and information governance context, search is not nearly enough. You must also be able to "take action" upon the identified content (ie move it to a more efficient or appropriate place, copy and collect it - such as for litigation hold, delete it, change the security controls on it, and so on.) For more information about EMC's eDiscovery solution,including a 10 minute on line demo, please go to EMC eDiscovery Solution.

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2008/11/how-are-we-going-to-fund-compliance.html Bringing eDiscovery In-House For Dummies tag:typepad.com,2003:post-53546418 2008-07-31T06:39:50-07:00 2008-07-31T06:39:50-07:00 Jake Frazier -- who is a senior member of my compliance practice, as well as having an extensive background in the eDiscovery space (Sedona Conference, EDRM, executive experience at a number of eDiscovery firms, etc.) -- has recently published "Bringing... Andrew Cohen

Jake Frazier -- who is a senior member of my compliance practice, as well as having an extensive background in the eDiscovery space (Sedona Conference, EDRM, executive experience at a number of eDiscovery firms, etc.) -- has recently published "Bringing eDiscovery In-House for Dummies". This is a great piece of collateral and it can be downloaded at eDiscovery for Dummies Download.

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2008/07/bringing-edisco.html Step 2, Step 1 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52370858 2008-07-18T12:49:27-07:00 2008-07-18T12:49:27-07:00 If you're reading this blog, you may already be familiar with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (www.EDRM.net), which is a one page eDiscovery process model. It is becoming a widely adopted standard for displaying and articulating the steps of the... Andrew Cohen

If you're reading this blog, you may already be familiar with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (www.EDRM.net), which is a one page eDiscovery process model. It is becoming a widely adopted standard for displaying and articulating the steps of the eDiscovery process, beginning on the far left hand side of the model with "Information Management" (the current state of how an organization is, or is not, managing its electronic information), and then as you move from left to right, the model reflects the various steps of the eDiscovery process ("identification, collection, preservation, analysis," etc.)

When organizations consider how they want to address eDiscovery, they often determine that they should start with better information management. It is logical to "clean up" the IT environment, set logical policies, and get control over information, as a proactive way to attack at its core the challenge of eDiscovery. I think of this as a "step 1, step 2" approach - step 1 involves efforts to bring information under policy management in a proactive way (including with archiving and content management), and in step 2, aspects of the eDiscovery process are moved in-house and made more efficient and repeatable.

EDRM Model - Step 1, Step 2, or Step 2, Step 1?

In fact, what I often see in the marketplace is that many organizations are proceeding "step 2, step 1" or attacking both steps simultaneously. The reason has everything to do with the speed of deployment and the time to value of a chosen solution. An archiving project that takes months to implement may well provide a significant return on investment, but that return will occur in the future. Moreover, most eDiscovery involves the collection and preservation of historic content. If that historic content does not reside in the newly built repository (or if it is not migrated in), then relief for ongoing eDiscovery challenges will not only wait for the new repository to be built, but also for additional years after it is deployed, as content gets populated in the repository over time.

It is for this very reason that EMC is delivering "plug and play" solutions in the eDiscovery space. The EMC Solution for eDiscovery Collection includes a StoredIQ appliance that can be deployed in hours, and that indexes terabyes a day. That appliance is bundled with EMC's infrastructure (such as Centera storage for litigation hold and Documentum for content and records management), as well as EMC services. The result is that the solution can begin to provide immediate step 2 relief, AND importantly, it can be leveraged to identify critical record content that resides in file shares, desktops and other unmanaged locations, and then move or duplicate such content into managed repositories as part of an efficient step 1 strategy for proactive information management. Demo of EMC Solution for eDiscovery Collection

In sum, over the last several years, I have seen the launch of many grand compliance projects, but the ones that are most successful typically involve 'an enterprise strategy broken into digestible pieces' where the digestible pieces are scoped in a focused way and involve deployments of process and technology that lead to a very fast and measurable return on investment because they fix acute information management challenges. The eDiscovery business process remains so broken that, for many organizations, it makes sense to prioritize projects that enable 'in-house eDiscovery' even before (or at the same time as) the larger IT clean up projects are addressed.

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2008/07/step-2-step-1.html What is GRC, and how are information policies set? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-51276110 2008-06-12T18:33:56-07:00 2008-06-12T18:33:56-07:00 The phrase "Governance, Risk and Compliance" or "GRC" is a common catch phrase with corporate customers, analysts, technology vendors and consultants. It is often used in the context of organizational struggles to meet legal obligations associated with information management. But... Andrew Cohen

The phrase "Governance, Risk and Compliance" or "GRC" is a common catch phrase with corporate customers, analysts, technology vendors and consultants. It is often used in the context of organizational struggles to meet legal obligations associated with information management. But what does GRC really mean?

"GRC" is a complicated concept because it encompasses such a broad scope. Take just the "C" in GRC. Compliance can involve everything from the rules for electing members of a corporate board of directors, to how executive compensation is derived and reported, to financial audits, to integrity training, to data collection and preservation for lawsuits, to protection of the environment, and much more. Many analysts, vendors and customers (across disparate functions such as Legal, Finance, HR, Compliance and IT) struggle to define what they mean by "compliance". Indeed, different groups within the same organization may define it in completely different ways.

Similarly, the term "GRC" has some historic baggage because of the way the term has been used by vendors and analysts. For example, some analysts apply the term "GRC" to refer exclusively to workflow tools that track compliance with the Sarbanes Oxley law, others use "GRC" to mean only those products that monitor and log IT system activities, and so on. This article seeks to clarify the meaning of GRC as it relates to information management, because once understood, "GRC" captures a powerful reality about how organizations set information policies.

GRC: The Process of Setting Information Policies

GRC is a way of understanding how organizations, and departments within them, assess risks, determine priorities, allocate assets and investments, and ultimately set policy. It is helpful to start by breaking down and defining the elements of GRC.

Governance is the act or process of setting policy for an organization.

Compliance is the act or process of adhering to those policies and being able to prove it.

Risk management is a disciplined way to address uncertainty, to allocate resources, and to balance risk and opportunity based on organizational goals and tolerance for risk.

The set of activities reflected in the term "GRC" is typically implemented by a management team with a charter to set policy ("governance"), assess risk and determine priorities (because there will never be enough resources to do everything, risk cannot be eliminated and it must be embraced to achieve business goals) ("risk"), and to ensure the organization's policies are understood, followed and enforced ("compliance").

"Corporate governance" refers to the way that public corporations are run. It typically includes "governance structures" that set the policies (such as a Board of Directors to represent the interests of shareholders, and executive committees to set the strategy and run the business). It often also includes a mission statement and supporting ethics training and communications to set a cultural tone (so that employees within the corporation will be more likely to act within the policies even when they don't know precisely what all the policies say). Since information is so critical to every organization, GRC processes are often applied at the corporate level to seek to maximize the value of information, and minimize its costs and risks. Many organizations have begun setting up cross-functional committees of executives (often the General Counsel, Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and others) who are tasked with assessing key security, compliance and information management opportunities and challenges. These compliance committees often assess a range of information management choices, triage based on which categories information are the most critical and the most sensitive, and then sponsor information management and protection projects based on business priorities, and return on investment ("ROI") justifications.

For example, a "Corporate GRC" process may lead to a policy decision that the personally identifiable information ("PII") of a company's customers – such as names, addresses, account numbers, social security numbers and the like – must be segregated, securely managed, and that certain statutory obligations to protect such information must be met or exceeded. This policy decision might be driven by a combination of legal requirements, the desire to reduce public relations risk, the opportunity and differentiation created by offering privacy protections to customers that are superior to the competition, and an organizational desire to do the right thing.

The IT department typically has responsibility to implement many of the information policies set through corporate GRC processes. IT also has its own charter to properly manage the information infrastructure. In the example above, a set of "IT GRC" policies and supporting processes might be applied to help implement the "Corporate GRC" policy. Thus, a corporate policy ("secure the PII and meet or exceed applicable regulatory requirements"), results in a series of IT implementation policies (e.g. "access to customer systems and applications containing PII will be strictly limited, multifactor authentication will be required, PII content will be automatically encrypted", and so on).

Conclusion

Despite some of the confusion about the meaning of GRC, it is a powerful concept because it captures and summarizes a reality about how organizations set priorities, manage risks, allocate assets and set policy, including information management policy. The term GRC is best understood when each of its elements is broken down (G, R, and C), when the domain to which a policy is being applied is articulated (e.g. information), and where there is an understanding of the organizational context (e.g. "corporate", "IT" or other company department).

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2008/06/what-is-grc-and.html EMC Solution for eDiscovery Collection tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50288682 2008-05-22T18:43:35-07:00 2008-05-22T18:43:35-07:00 During the last week, EMC formally launched the Solution for eDiscovery Collection. The Solution combines the StoredIQ indexing appliance with EMC's compliance infrastructure. The technology is finally mature enough to really deliver a return on investment; it really works. The... Andrew Cohen

During the last week, EMC formally launched the Solution for eDiscovery Collection. The Solution combines the StoredIQ indexing appliance with EMC's compliance infrastructure. The technology is finally mature enough to really deliver a return on investment; it really works. The following is a link to a 10 minute demo of the solution. If you're spending too much on eDiscovery, and/or if you're at all interested in "bringing eDiscovery in house" I recommend you spend a few minutes and view it: EMC Solution for eDiscovery Collection Demo. EMC will also conduct free proof of concepts (POCs), where you can use the solution on your own data sets to test for yourself how well it works.

The StoredIQ indexing appliance is rolled into a data center, pointed at servers, and almost immediately it will index terabytes of content a day, thus allowing Legal to "ping" the index for robust searching, and providing IT with tremendous insight into the content of the information that they are managing (without impacting users of the content).

The solution can greatly reduce the costs of eDiscovery by making files share, emails and other content subject to efficient search and "quick peek" early case assessment, collection with chain of custody, de-duplication, Rule 26 "topology reporting", secure litigation hold on Centera, records remediation on to Documentum, and export of potentially relevant content in common formats such as Concordance Load Files. The core value proposition is simple - rather than reactively paying third parties each time there is a new case to collect all content by media type (e.g. backup tapes and hard drives), you can leverage repeatable processes and in-house tools to collect content intelligently, de-duplicate it, and send less outside for processing and attorney review; the less you send out, the less money you spend on eDiscovery.

I note that to balance efficiency and functionality, the solution allows for full text indexing of the files, emails and other content on servers, or alternatively, a "Thindex" of only certain metadata (such as creation dates, and custodians). Think of the following analogy: compare the files, emails and other content on the servers at your organization to Federal Express envelopes; a "Thindex" would index only the labels of the FedEx envelopes, and the full text index would index the labels as well as all of the contents within the FedX envelope. I note that today, IT and Legal have neither - they might know the total volume of FedEx envelopes that they have (most large enterprises have 100s of millions or billions of such files), but it is as if each envelope has no label, nor does IT have any visibility into the contents of those envelopes. It is no wonder that traditionally the eDiscovery process has been so broken and inefficient - you blindly collect huge volumes and then pay expensive attorney hourly rates to sort it out on the back end. That will change. (This insightful analogy was recently described to me by Keith Zoellner.)

For more information, please see the launch materials on EMC.com: EMC Solution for eDiscovery Collection Launch Materials

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2008/05/emc-ediscovery.html Information Compliance tag:typepad.com,2003:post-49358758 2008-05-03T07:55:20-07:00 2008-05-03T07:55:20-07:00 I am going to begin a series of posts dealing with "Information Compliance" (aka "Governance Risk and Compliance - GRC"). To kick it off, I'm attaching a storyboard that shows, with pictures, some of the challenges that organizations face in... Andrew Cohen

I am going to begin a series of posts dealing with "Information Compliance" (aka "Governance Risk and Compliance - GRC").

To kick it off, I'm attaching a storyboard that shows, with pictures, some of the challenges that organizations face in putting policy management discipline around their information so that they can achieve the three (3) core goals of information management - reduce cost, reduce risk, and extract value from organizational information.

http://andrewsblog.typepad.com/Compliance_Series.pdf

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2008/05/information-com.html Faux eDiscovery tag:typepad.com,2003:post-46887760 2008-03-11T11:40:01-07:00 2008-03-11T11:40:01-07:00 The following is a new article, entitled "Avoiding Faux eDiscovery" recently published by Jim Shook and myself. Jim is an attorney, eDiscovery expert and member of Sedona Conference. Download faux_e_discovery.pdf Andrew Cohen

The following is a new article, entitled "Avoiding Faux eDiscovery" recently published by Jim Shook and myself. Jim is an attorney, eDiscovery expert and member of Sedona Conference.

Download faux_e_discovery.pdf

 https://andrewsblog.typepad.com/andrew/2008/03/faux-ediscovery.html


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Barnsley 0 Doncaster Rovers 0
Saturday, 9th November 2013 at Oakwell, Barnsley
Skybet League Championship
Referee – Mr Kevin Friend
Attendance – 11,843 (1,925 visitors)
It was raining and cold at Oakwell as this 'derby' game began. The Rovers made three changes to their line-up for this game.
Suk-Young Yun was out with an injured foot so Paul Quinn came in at right back and Reece Wabara moved to the left back position. Theo Robinson and Dean Furman came in for James Coppinger and David Cotterill, who both dropped to the bench.
Barnsley made one change, Jim O'Brien replacing the injured Jacob Mellis.
A minute's silence was perfectly observed for Remembrance Day before the start of the match.
News also broke as the game kicked off that John Ryan had resigned from the Rovers Board and consequently from his position as Chairman. As the news permeated through to the Rovers fans there were refrains of 'There's only one John Ryan'.
The teams spent the first ten minutes cagily sussing out their opponents.
Then an in-swinging corner from Kennedy for the home team was headed wide at the far post by M'Voto, who was roundly booed by the Rovers fans every time he touched the ball.
Five minutes later and Duffy for the Rovers placed a good free kick to the far post where Khumalo headed wide.
A corner to the Rovers followed shortly after but came to nothing.
Then, in the 19th minute, as O'Grady broke into the Rovers penalty area from the left Khumalo and Pedersen collapsed in a heap in the middle.
Penalty said the referee. O'Grady stepped up to take the kick and hit a low ball to Turnbull's right. Guessing right the keeper dived to push the ball away and his defenders cleared.
Cheers of relief came from the Rovers fans in the Stand behind that Turnbull's goal.
Minutes later and Perkins, for the home side, hit a fierce drive from 25 yards but put it straight at Turnbull, who easily pouched it.
In the 26th minute, a free kick on the Rovers right was headed wide of the far post by Khumalo.
Past the half hour and McCourt had a go from 25yards to the left of goal but put well wide of the far post.
At the other end the Rovers won a corner but nothing came from it.
O'Grady, for Barnsley, had a shot blocked and Duffy suffered the same fate at the other end.
In the 39th minute Duffy had a shot from the right of the area but was just wide of the near post.
Then a low cross from Wiseman on the Barnsley right went across the face of Rovers goal without anybody getting a touch.
As the break came up McCourt went on a mazy run through the Rovers defence but fired straight at Turnbull from the edge of the area.
Rovers had done well having had a fair percentage of the play.
Half Time – Barnsley 0 Doncaster Rovers 0
At half time John Ryan went to take a seat with the Rovers fans, who welcomed him with the biggest cheer of the game so far.
Rovers came storming out after the break and kept Barnsley penned in their own area for fully five minutes but couldn't make much impression on the Barnsley defence.
Duffy had a shot deflected for a corner but Barnsley hit back and, following a free kick, McCourt had a shot at goal but Turnbull dived to his right and pushed the ball away.
A good move by Rovers led to Wellens firing wide from 25 yards.
Just before the hour Kennedy crossed to the middle but Pedersen couldn't quite get to it.
At the Barnsley end Robinson tried from 35 yards but put it over the bar.
Past the hour and the home team pressed hard and pushed the Rovers back on defence but they were kept at bay.
A good run on the Barnsley right by Perkins in the 73rd minute brought a corner for the home team but M'Voto headed wide from 15yards.
Then O'Grady from 25 yards had his shot saved by Turnbull.
There were odd moments of relief for the Rovers defence but the home team came back repeatedly but couldn't get a clear sight of goal.
As the ninety minutes came up some good play out of defence gave Wellens the chance to try and curl a shot into the top corner of the Barnsley net but he put it wide.
O'Grady then headed well wide and Cywka followed suit to bring the match to a close.
A point apiece probably suited nobody but it extended Barnsley's unbeaten run to four games with a third successive draw and it halted the Rovers run of three successive defeats.
Full Time – Barnsley 0 Doncaster Rovers 0
Teams – Barnsley – Jack Butland, Scott Wiseman, Jean-Yves M'Voto, Martin Cranie ©, Tom Kennedy; Jim O'Brien, David Fox, David Perkins, Paddy McCourt; Marcus Pedersen, Chris O'Grady
Subs used – Stephen Dawson for Fox 66mins; Jason Scotland for Pedersen 76 mins; Tomasz Cywka for O'Brien 87 mins;
Subs not used – Bobby Hassell, Lewin Nyatanga, Chris Dagnall, Kelvin Etuhu
Cautions – Cranie 53 mins;
Rovers – Ross Turnbull; Paul Quinn, Bongani Khumalo, Luke McCullough, Reece Wabara; Mark Duffy, Richie Wellens ©, Paul Keegan, Dean Furman; Theo Robinson, Chris Brown
Subs used – David Cotterill for Robinson 63 mins; James Coppinger for Duffy 80 mins;
Subs not used – Billy Paynter, Liam Wakefield, Marc de Val, Alex Peterson, Jon Maxted gk
Cautions – Furman 69 mins; Wellens 86 mins.

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Instead of complying with the recommendations for reforms BCCI has chosen to indulge in leveling allegations of "prejudice" the last resort of a dissatisfied and disgruntled litigant. The practice of slinging mud after losing litigation should be discouraged.
In a statement issued here today Mehmood Abdi, Deputy President of Rajasthan cricket Associations (RCA) has said that BCCI is behaving as if it is a state unto itself and above the law. Who wouldn't remember the circumstances in which the judicial intervention was necessitated i.e when the cricket body failed to take remedial steps to set its own house in order? The matter of betting and other malpractices, involving the son-in-law of the then President BCCI are still fresh in the collective memory of the nation. On the Issue of reforms in BCCI all concerned, including BCCI, was fully heard by the apex court in detailed hearings running into months. Not only that the Supreme Court appointed Justice Lodha Committee too gave ample opportunity to BCCI to put up its case before it and upon hearing all concerned Justice Lodha Committee filed its recommendation.
The matter is subjudice and the hon'ble Suprme Court would take appropriate view on the review petition of BCCI said Mehmood Abdi.Mehmood Abdi
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The first-ever day-night multi-day final in the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) inter-district Colvin Shield was a resounding success.
Played at the RCA Academy ground under lights with pink ball, the Nagaur came back in fine fashion to beat Bikaner by six wickets.
In a match with varying fortunes throughout in the end it was the youthful exhuberance of India's under-19 star Mahipal Lomror (70 n.o.: 109b, 9x4) that shone brightly under the lights.
Braving inclement weather Lomror led the way for Nagaur Bulls and battled conditions very well.
This was the first time that a pink ball had been used in a match in Rajasthan. As has been the case throughout the experiment with pink ball, bowlers had a field day as wickets fell at regular intervals during the four-day contest.
The matches started at 2.45 pm everyday during the final and attracted much interest throughout.
Bikaner Hawks batted first and were bowled out for 246, but then hit back to shoot out Nagaur Bulls for 189 thereby gaining a lead of 57 runs. But in the second innings, Hawks could not press home the advantage as they were bowled out in just 47.4 overs for 180.
In the end, Bulls batted sensibly after struggling at 39 for two at one stage. Nikhil Doru (39) and wicket-keeper Chetan Bist (47) added 63 runs for the third wicket. Thereafter, it was a Lomror show all the way. Lomror showed how much he has gained by training under legendary former Indian captain Rahul Dravid.
Lomror held his nerves brilliantly as he added 127 runs for the fifth wicket with Vijay Meena (50 n.o.: 96b, 5x4).
Lomror's effort earned him the Man of the match award.
Brief Scores
Bikaner Hawks 246 in 73.1 overs & 180 in 47.4 overs lost to Nagaur Bulls 189 in 59.3 overs & 238-4 in 66.4 overs (Mahipal Lomror 70 n.o., Vijay Meena 50 n.o., Chetan Bist 47, Nikhil Doru 39; Kanhaya Swami 2-26)-by six wickets
Other Prizes
Man of final: Mahipal Lomror
Man of the Series: Rajesh Bishnoi Junior
Best bowler: Gajendra Singh
Best batsman: Ashok Budhania
RCA is all set to host the four days final of its premiere tournament Colvin Shield under lights with pink ball from 12th to 15th July, 2016.
Hony. Secretary of the RCA Sumendra Tiwari announced the same in the press conference held at RCA Academy on 09th July,2016. The match will be played at the RCA Academy ground in lights, this will be the first Pink Ball match which will be witnessed live by the cricket lovers of the Pink City.
Tiwari also said that the balls especially ordered from Merut for the match. During the final match the cricketers will be wearing white kits and the sight screen will also be white. Four days D/N final match will be played at 2.45 pm from 12th to 15th July,2016 everyday. Rules of the days matches will be applicable for the match.
During match days especially sitting arrangements for media persons and spectators will be arranged by RCA.
RCA Vice President Amin Pathan, Executive Secretary R.S. Nandhu, Joint Secretary Vinod Sahran, Nirpjeet Singh, Secretary DCA Sikar Subhash Joshi & Secretary DCA Ajmer Gunjan Sharma also felicitated the conference with their presence.


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Jashpur [Chhattisgarh], Apr. 8 (ANI): A minor was first raped by her father's friend and then gang-raped by three other men on the same day in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh almost a month ago, police said.
All the accused were arrested within eight hours after an FIR was registered on Friday, a police official said.
According to the police, the incident that took place on March 12 came to light after the minor girl suffered from an infection.
The victim's father demanded capital punishment for all the accused persons.(ANI)


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A Massive week of soccer ahead with the Champions League last 16 ties being played midweek and some mouthwatering clashes in prospect. All eyes will be on Parkhead on Tuesday and many Celtic fans will be surely be lumping on at 3/1 as their beloved team tackles Juventus. That's not a bad price as the Bhoys' home form commands respect, nevertheless the Turin giants are still worthy favourites. Meanwhile, the following night Man Utd fans may also be giving serious consideration to the 4/1 on offer for their team to claim a famous victory at the Santiago Bernabeu against the mighty Real Madrid. We're giving away free bets for these games on our Facebook page, so make sure you are following the PG online, folks.
The PG QUAD Right, quickly into our weekend selections and we start in the Premiership where we have taken a NORWICH (13/10) win at Carrow Road where they host Fulham, who very seldom impress on their travels – so we expect Chris Houghton's team to land the spoils in this one. BOLTON (1/1) badly need a win on the board and can get it against Burnley at the Reebok in the Championship while BRIGHTON (1/1) can return to winning ways by beating Hull at home in the live game on Saturday evening. We head to the SPL to make up our weekend quad and have opted for a DUNDEE UTD (11/10) win at Tannadice against Hearts; they can follow up that impressive Rangers demolition job last Saturday lunchtime in the Scottish Cup to make new boss Jackie McNamara's good start a dream one.
The PG XXX TRIXIE We start the draw treble in the Premiership. Relegation-haunted QPR travel to Wales to take on slick Swansea and we get the feeling that while surely only wins now will do for Harry's Hoops against any team outside the top four, they are destined to grind out another draw. BIRMINGHAM travel to Charlton in the Championsip in what's a mid-table clash. But both are looking fearfully over their shoulders and a point could be enough for both these clubs as they try and put distance between themselves and the relegation zone. Hovering outside those relegation places are punch-drunk WOLVES who might just have to settle for a point at home to DERBY.
The PG GOALRUSH For the second week running just the nine from 12 last week, so an improvement needed and we suggest both teams to score in the following games: Bristol City v Nottingham Forest; Sheffield Wednesday v Derby; Brighton v Hull; Doncaster v Wasall; Bradford v Gillingham; and finishing with Oldham v MK Dons.
The PG Fivehit We finish the weekend soccer with our odds-on Fivehit and again we're going back to the Championship for most of them. BLACKBURN (10/11) are making a late bid for a play-off place and can boost their chances with a win over Ipswich at Ewood Park. Leaders CARDIFF (10/11) can keep their winning run going with victory at Huddersfield. LEICESTER (8/11) can keep up the pace with a win at lowly Peterborough. COVENTRY (5/6) have been in great form of late and a win over Yeovil could propel them into play-off contention. We head back to the Premiership to make the Fivehit up and ARSENAL (4/5) can surely get a pre-Champions League fillip with a win at faltering Sunderland.
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Last year's onion season saw Golden West Produce packing and shipping from its brand new facility in the Parma, ID, and this year the company has expanded that operation to include double automated bagging and an increased buffer hopper capacity, along with additional upgrades and enlargements.
Golden West, previously located in Nyssa, OR, was among the harder hit Treasure Valley onion operations during winter 2017's destructive snow and ice storms. The company moved to the Idaho side of the Snake River, broke ground and was packing from a new operation within months.
Marketed through ProSource, the Golden West onions are coming in "on par with what we expected," ProSource President Corey Griswold said in late August.
He said, "Our onion crop is on schedule with sizing and projected yields looking to be on par with our historical average. We have enjoyed long, hot days with exceptional heat units, and expect quality to be top notch for the storage crop."
Noting that the Golden West/ProSource goal is "to get maximum efficiency," Griswold explained the facility upgrades that have taken place for this new season.
Among the 2018 changes are the increased buffer hopper capacity from 12 bunkers to 16. Each bunker holds approximately 13 tons of graded and sized product to be sent to a variety of packaging machines. The overall automated bagging capacity has been doubled to four Eqraft machines, all supplied by Volm.
Carton capacity has been increased by 50 percent, going from two to three automatic lines. Also a Tolsma-Grisnich binning and bin dumping line has been added as well as a temporary ventilated storage bay "to more efficiently pack product to order and on demand."
The Volm consumer packing line has been expanded to double capacity, with an integrated automated master baler. And the operation installed a wicketed 10-pound machine for additional speed, fully integrated the machine into the consumer line.
A fifth Volm weigher has been installed to handle large product more efficiently, and it is paired with the onion stickering and carton/RPC/auto bagger line. Also, there is 50 percent more automated stacking/palletizing with a third Symach palletizer that accommodates the new Volm weigher and consumer line.
An additional 40,000 square feet of refrigerated cold storage space has been built on site with capacity for more 17.5 million pounds of onions for late season packing.
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Diane Flynn Keith is Back! For over 20 years, Diane Flynn Keith lived and wrote about homeschooling. From her best-selling book, Carschooling, to her
For over 20 years, Diane Flynn Keith lived and wrote about homeschooling. From her best-selling book, Carschooling, to her Homefires website, and her newsletters and talks, Diane gave and gave to our community. When she announced her retirement in 2013, we felt we were losing a valuable voice.
Well, Diane couldn't stay away. GHF's thrilled that she has come out of retirement with her new newsletter, "News & Resources with Awesome Sauce" and upcoming talks.
Diane graciously shared her story with us. You can read it below and on our website.
Did you ever have the feeling deep in your heart that you were supposed to be doing something other than what you spent most of your time doing? That was my experience in the fall of 2013. For two decades, I had been helping homeschool parents but the mentoring had given way to product development that required mass marketing to sustain. What had begun as a heartfelt desire to assist others had become an insatiable business that devoured my time and interfered with making heart-to-heart connections with the people I wanted to serve. So I stopped. I announced my retirement from over twenty years of producing a daily newsletter, developing products, and hosting live events for homeschoolers.
At first, I was relieved by the decision. But regardless of having fewer time constraints, something was missing and I needed to get to the heart of it. (Continue reading.)
Are your kids curious about geography? Nicole Linn shares some of her favorite books and apps, designed to inspire greater learning.
GHF has gathered together the favorite books, resources, games, and aids as recommended by our members and GHF Online instructors. Check out our growing selection at our Amazon Store.
As part of GHF's education and advocacy efforts, we work with professionals in the gifted and twice-exceptional community to share their experience and information on our GHF Blog.
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"Beyond Special Ed: Autism and the Benefits of Home-based Education," by Erin Gayton, Ph.D. of the Autism Society of Washington.
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There has been asparagus in Britain since the Romans, although it is not known if they introduced it to the British diet. It is a naturally occurring plant, and distant relatives of what we eat now still thrive in the wild.
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By looking at Pernell McPhee's expressions, it wasn't easy to detect his troubles.
His leg stayed in bandages because of knee and groin issues. He couldn't win his battles at the line of scrimmage to get pressure on opposing quarterbacks. But his smile never disappeared.
After getting 6 sacks as a rookie a year ago as a reserve defensive end, this was supposed to be a breakout for McPhee, who won the starting job.
The Ravens rushed out to win nine of their first 11 games, but each week McPhee faced the questions about his lackluster play. He voiced disappointment in himself, but never lashed out. Understanding his physical and personal battles, however, put his travails into clearer focus.
"I had a couple of losses early this year, dealing with my sister, my dad, cousin," McPhee said of their deaths. "It was just like I was home when I came back in. Guys put smiles on my face. That's the most important thing when you got guys who love you besides just football. They love you off the field and try to help you out the best way they can."
Coach John Harbaugh held him out for a month as he missed five games. McPhee said at the time he could play, creating an awkward situation where the player and coach disagreed publicly. Looking back, McPhee agrees it was the best decision.
"Hands down because now I'm healthier and I got a chance to help the team out on 3rd-and-long and come out and show some of them pass rushing skills I got," he said of being used almost exclusively in pass situations.
That he did. McPhee returned in December, getting his first full sack in a Week 15 loss to the Denver Broncos.
Going into the Super Bowl vs. the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 3, McPhee has been replaced in the starting lineup by Arthur Jones, who had a career-high 4.5 sacks in his third season.
"Coach is doing a good job with how he rotates me in as far as certain packages. That's keeping me fresh, keeping me healthy," McPhee said. "I just got this routine I'm sticking with and it's just helping me out a lot."
McPhee has played a major role in the Ravens' last two playoff games. He sacked Peyton Manning late in the third quarter, forcing a fumble that was recovered by Paul Kruger at the Broncos' 37. Five plays later, Ray Rice ran in the ball from 1 yard out to tie the score at 28 in what eventually became a 38-35 double-overtime victory.
With Tom Brady trying to lead the New England Patriots to a fourth-quarter comeback in the AFC championship last week, McPhee deflected a pass that was intercepted by Dannell Ellerbe to seal a 28-13 victory.
"This guy plays with a lot of injuries. He's one of the toughest people that I've ever been around in my life. And then now, at the end of the year, he had these two huge plays in these two huge games that really made the difference. It's just so rewarding," Harbaugh said. "And as a teacher, as a coach, that's what makes it for you. … When you see these guys fight through that and have that kind of success, that's everything."
McPhee never doubted his ability to bounce back.
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College of Music graduate students John Lindsey and Nicole Vogel have been invited to perform a scene from Carmen at the National Opera Association National Convention in San Antonio, Texas on January 6. Together with music director Christopher Zemliauskas, this scene will also be performed on the opera scenes program Tuesday, December 7 in the Music Theatre.
In addition, CU Opera's production of Our Town (pictured above) was awarded Third Prize in the NOA Opera Production Competition. CU will be recognized and receive an award at the national convention final brunch in San Antonio.
Congratulations to the CU Opera Program, director Leigh Holman, conductors Nicholas Carthy and Christopher Zemliauskas, set designer Bruce Bergner, costume designer Tom Robbins, and lighting designer Jane Spencer!


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Today we have the pleasure to interview the lovely Liz Russell of Living Life Confidently on her experience as an Australian on a Canadian Working Holiday Visa. We've tailored our interview questions on the most pressing questions for anyone who may be considering jetting out to Canada on a Working Holiday Visa.
1. What made you want to take advantage of the Canadian Working Holiday visa?
My husband and I had a holiday in the US in late 2013. We decided to take a few days in Canada and popped over the border to Toronto before heading on to New York.
We immediately felt a connection with the place. Although it was brief, we really enjoyed our time there. When we returned home we discussed the idea of a Canadian working holiday to experience more of what Canada has to offer.
2. Where were you living before you moved? What did life feel like for you at that point?
At the time we were living in Brisbane, Australia. We were newly married and had bought a lovely home. On paper, our life looked like it was all sorted. But in reality, we were feeling in a bit of a rut with our careers and this flowed onto our general enjoyment of life.
We realised we were fast approaching the age limit for applying for a Candian working holiday visa. It was a now or never situation. So, not long after returning home from our holiday, we went ahead and started the application process.
3. Why did you choose a Canadian work holiday visa?
It was important for us to continue to earn money to pay for our travels. This was in part to continue to meet our financial responsibilities with our home and to enjoy the trip to the full.
The visa we got allowed us to work as much or as little as we wanted, and this was great flexibility to have.
Given our earlier experiences, Canada was our first choice.
4. What was the Canadian Working Holiday Visa application process like?
The Canadian government offers Australians aged 18-30 a 2-year working holiday visa. The application process required multiple forms of proof of identity, a police check, information on employment history and family.
It was straightforward to apply – it was a process of collecting the required information and submitting it.
We were issued our Candian Working Holiday visas shortly after completing our application form.
Then it was time to plan our arrival and start our Canadian adventure!
5. How many passports do you have currently?
An Australian passport only.
6. Did you have a plan once you got there? eg: housing, jobs lined up, etc
Before arriving, we had ideas about how we would approach our life in Canada.
A friend had lived in Calgary a few years earlier and had spoken highly of it. We thought why not start there. Our plan was to find a place to lease, then get jobs in our profession, then take mini-holidays to visit other parts of the country.
That was our plan, however, it turned out a little differently.
Prior to leaving Australia, we booked our first 5 nights of accommodation through Airbnb, booking a private room in someone's apartment. We thought it would be handy to have a local contact to ask questions and understand how things worked once we arrived.
Within our first 5 days, we managed to get a social insurance number (SIN), cell phones, bank account and signed a three-month lease on a lovely one-bedroom apartment with views to downtown Calgary.
We also spent a lot of time sleeping during the day as we recovered from jet lag and adjusting to a vastly different time zone. However, as we wanted to immerse ourselves into our new life in Canada we made sure we had a very productive first few days.
7. What was the cost of living like in comparison to where you were living prior?
The exchange rate between Canada and Australia is comparable. Some things seemed as if they cost less, such as groceries, while others seemed a bit higher like rent.
The minimum wage is lower in Canada, but overall, I think it works out even as day-to-day costs are less.
8. What were your favorite things about living in Canada on your Working Holiday Visa?
The people and the natural environment.
We found the stereotype about Canadians to be true – they are friendly, polite and kind. We made some wonderful friends who we still keep in contact with. And I know if we ever travel there again we would have a place to stay and someone to share some Tim Horton's donuts with.
Of course, the scenery and landscape are stunning! We just don't have mountain ranges like that in Australia.
We travelled from the west coast to the east coast in our time there. From surfing in Tofino in October (it was pretty cold!) to travelling across the countryside in Summer for work, to braving the bitter cold of eastern Canada in winter, we saw so much, and loved all of it! The Canadian Working Holiday visa is flexible enough to allow you to really get the most out of your stay.
9. How was life as an immigrant/Expat on a Canadian Working Holiday Visa?
Our plan was to get full-time jobs in our profession. My husband works in sales and was able to secure many interviews and job offers. I had a different experience though. My background is human resources, and I was not successful in gaining an interview for any role. I applied for jobs at my level of experience and below it. It seems my Australian experience did not translate to Canadian HR roles. I appreciate local knowledge of labor laws is important, so I was understanding that this may be a barrier.
This made us rethink our approach. We decided to go for casual jobs and work through the summer from Calgary, then figure out what to do for winter later on. This is a common approach for people on a Canadian Working Holiday.
We got jobs at the Calgary Stampede, the greatest outdoor show on earth. We both worked in food stands serving ice cream. Our bosses loved us and asked if we would travel with them to the next exhibition in Edmonton. We jumped at the chance to do something we would never ordinarily do in our usual life back home.
In the end, we travelled during the summer to Edmonton, Regina and Saskatoon. I don't think we would have seen these cities if not for the work we were doing taking us there.
After completing the summer carnival season, we returned to our apartment in Calgary and thought about whether we would stay on or choose another adventure as part of our Canadian Working Holiday.
Our desire to see more of the countryside won over, and so we packed up our possessions into the car we had bought, and travelled for the next two months, camping or staying in cheap accommodation around Alberta and British Columbia.
While we were travelling we went to various career days for ski resorts looking to fill their remaining vacancies for the ski season. This proved to be a challenge. Being able to find both a job and a place to live in a ski town was difficult. Either the job was there, but no accommodation or we could find accommodation but no job.
Eventually, we found both in the beautiful little mountain town of Jasper in Alberta.
We worked in Jasper for a few months in the winter. We took the opportunity to hone our snowboarding and skiing skills. Life there was great. However, after a few months, we realised we were longing to return home and back to our secure and stable life.
We resigned from our jobs, then took a train across the Canadian countryside to arrive in Toronto three days later. From there we hired a car and travelled through Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and on to Nova Scotia.
I have a friend who lives in Halifax, NS. We met a few years prior when she was on a working holiday in Australia and we worked together. We stayed with my friend for a week, before driving back to Toronto for the final night of our Canadian Working Holiday adventure. From there we flew to New York and had a couple of weeks in the US before returning to Australia.
While the Canada working holiday did not pan out how we originally thought, we left with a wealth of experiences and saw so much of the countryside, far more than we could have imagined.
10. How long did you live there? Would you have stayed longer if you could?
All up we were there for 9 months. Although the Canadian Working Holiday Visa was for longer we were ready to come home and start 'adulting' again.
It was an incredible adventure, and I cherish the experience.
Even though at times some things seemed hard, like finding a place to stay and work in winter, we look back on our time there with fond memories.
11. What advice would you give anyone considering a move abroad?
Do it! Take a chance, live your life! We only have one, might as well make the most of it. The Canadian Working Holiday was the adventure of a lifetime.
If we have the chance to live overseas again we will definitely go for it.
Who knows – maybe we will meet you there!
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Careering: Verbing Careers
With people's careers lasting longer than most companies' lifespan.
Relying on a company for life seems more like an illusion than reality.
With most generation Y changing job more than 5 times in their twenties
and switching 5 careers (such as developer, project manager, accountant)
The word 'career' is as outdated as the newspaper's 'classifieds'
That's why I like the term Careering, it makes it a verb & an action.
It something that you do, rather than something that you have.
So smart careering is to work to acquire new skill in-order to reach your next dream job.
You can take some careering actions:
- Find a project to under take
- Find opportunities to present your projects
- Join & participate in a professional association (PMI, Toastmasters, AMA)
- Volunteering
- Become a hobbypreneur
- Reading & commenting on blogs or any non-facebook social network
- Start a blogs or a podcast
- Go to conferences & meet people.
- Switch jobs or roles in your department or company
- Take on different responsibilities
- Learn to delegate
- Take classes & get a certificate
- . . .
There so many ways to improving your skill & network that will broaden you & you careers
I'm not advocating to job hop, but to find & get opportunities … to create options for your future.
What careering steps are you going to take?
Please don't just watching TV or gaming, I tried that & it just doesn't really help.
Switching Time with Soft Side of IT
I have decided switch my focus & restart previous blog: Soft Side of IT.
As much as I love this topic, in general & google there are less interest in this topic than information technology. So I am going take a hiatus from this blog.
Also I have been working in IT all these years & I'm currently in a large implementation project. I want to document some lessons learned & usage of technologies.
This is a careering move as well, as I see this blog somehow go down in google ranking every week, my old blog remain in the first page. I just want to make sure people will be able to see my post, when anyone google me.
I still know in my heart that teaching and leading are intertwined & the importance of improving teaching skills. That's why I know eventually I will come back to this blog.
Thank you all for reading & support,
Happy with New Year's Goals
Happy 2010!
How's everyone's first week?
Do you have resolution or goals for 2010?
Both resolutions & goals seems similar, but I just found it's better to defining goals.
After trying resolution for a few year getting no where; Last year was just health & a blog; both were accomplish.
This year I am going to attempt more than last year. After my last 2 post with a year in review & my next decade goals, I have developed goals for 2010.
By writing it down, I am committing to reach these goals:
- Certified as a PMP: Always been a goal
- Take the GMAT: For my MBA goal
- Go to SXSW: Ever since I heard Malcolm Gladwell's talk at SXSW, I always wanted to go.
- Get a Mentor: I just need careering advices
- Developing 1 iPhone App: Learn more about the mobile applications
- Maintaining Health & Exercising 2-3 Times/Week: Just because …
What are your 2010 goals?
Make sure to:
– Write down your goals
– Keep it somewhere
(it's in my iGoogle)
When you write goals down, you will find out what you are really willing commit to.
My 2009 Look Back
After listening to the December episode of 20/30 vision & their recommendation, so I decided to do my own "a year in review".
Honestly, this was a simple year with simple goal to focus on health, keeping up with the blog.
This is my look back on my accomplishment:
– Health (Nutrition & Exercising)
– Regularly Blog
– Lead in a team
– Taking over role/responsibilities
– Experiencing large project with management of constant changes
– Finally completing the PM continue education Certificate
– Taking my first real vacation in my years of working (for the sake of relaxing) =)
Lessons learned:
We have a choice in our decision
It's not what you think, we have have unconscious choice during life such as: deciding to listen, pay attention, taking action …
Teaching/Mentoring well can make all the difference
I found using my teaching skill, I was able to help coworker on learning a new system in 1-2 days & keep on seeing productivity improving. Then I compare with people (me included) whom had to learn by themselves & the impact in productivity & confidence.
If you don't ask … you don't get
During november, my boss stated there will be no vacations for the first half of 2010 due to the big push for the project go-live (unless it was already approved); at least that was everyone's interpretations. Although I really wanted a week for SXSW in March … so I asked … and I got approved. Sometimes our assumption/interpretation can be just wrong, that's why we need to ask.
The difference commitments can make
Going to the gym regular can be tricky … and sometimes down right hard; Not Committing vs Committing to health makes a real difference.
Teaching gains respect, especially when you leading them in the future
After training the people I lead in my area, I found more respect & commitment to the task I requested to accomplish from people that are younger & older than me.
My biggest surprise was the power of teaching & mentoring. I always enjoy it & I do it to help others to waste less time on things than I did. The surprise came when I saw benefits on the teacher side in the business world. I was also surprised at there is such a un-relatedness between teaching & training. (after going in so many training sessions)
This exercise was fun! This post is definitely one that I'm going to revisit.
I am definitely recommending people doing a year-in-review for themselves, it quite refreshing!
How to Recover from a Loss of Will?
From my last post, we showed impact when someone lost the will to learn.
Problem: Once will is lost, you have unconscienceously given up … you are then just waiting for failure to hit.
Question: How to can you avoid such failures?
Here is a 3 simple step answer:
1st Step: Identify/Admit you have given up & imagine the outcome
Once you identify the problem, then we will be able to foresee coming train wreck
2nd Step: Then you decide between these 3 choices
- Continue in Limbo: Decide to put No change
Completely Give Up: Give up and do something else
OR pass it on to others
Climb Back Up: Determine what you need to do breath life back to your project/job
3rd Step: Take those action
If you stay in a losing situations, it will just eventually blow-up. So the 2nd step is the key point to make us take control of such losing situations. Once a decision is made, a momentum will grow towards motivation to take action.
I had experience this so many times, and this is the most effective way that I have found to recover motivation toward a project/job/business.
The Importance of the Will to Learn at Work
After reading Water Cooler Wisdom's post on ability to learn a few days ago; My interpretation of what was the important skill wasn't the ability to learn, but it is the willingness to learn.
We are all trained on the ability to learn for 12 years in grade school, plus the extra few year in university in learning a specialization; But what differentiate people in school & work is the willingness to learn.
At my full-time, I notice on days I'm willing to learn & improve, I would take the initiative solve issues & push to learn how things work. While on days like the day I had today, I was on semi-autopilot in front of the computer, such as doing spreadsheet work, doing some system/issue checking & e-mails … . The good thing, because if I'm able to recognize this is happening, I'm able to reverse this.
At my part-time teaching job a few weeks ago, I had a new student that did really bad at multiplying 6, 7 & 8. What I find was that she kind of given up on it when she gave no effort in answering question and just said "I hates math".
Do you see yourself doing something similar? (I did)
This hit home today, I find myself doing something similar. I wasn't putting as much more effort & I said to myself that I hated doing a particular task.
For kids or grown-up, the will to learn can really make a difference in work & self improvement.
Vision, Mission … Why Bother?
In an in-class assignment, we were ask to make a vision & a mission statement for our life or career.
I was always confused about the difference between vision & mission statement … so we were taught the difference were:
Vision = External purpose
Mission = Internal purpose
Honestly, I could never under stand what's the point of it. The company ones usually just seem long & generic most of the time.
On the contrary, It was an interesting exercise; We had to consider what's important to us & what our life/career meant to us. It put a spotlight on what my direction in life.
This is mine (for now):
- Vision: To show the power of teaching with leadership throughout my careers
- Mission: To improve work-life & leadership through teaching
After the exercise, now I do appreciate mission statement & vision; Especially the process of creating it. It really get you think in a bigger strategic way.
For anyone who want to figure out their career path or bored about their life; I suggest you should try creating a vision & mission statement, you might just be surprise what you find out.


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federal government (FG) bans Registration of Sim cards in open places, it's now illegal for a telecommunication operators to register any sim card in an open place else will attract a fee. All Registrations should be carried out in a controlled office.
It came to our notice that three persons were arrested in Abuja for registering Sim card in an open place. Salisu Abdu, Head of Enforcement Unit at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), said;
"Government through the commission had issued a directive to all telecom operators since November to stop their agents from registering SIM cards under umbrellas and in kiosks effective from February 1, 2017." "SIM registration should only be done in a controlled environment- a permanent building with logos and structures of the operators in place - with identities of the agents doing the registration." "We came up with this so we will be able to trace where SIM cards are registered to stem the tide of rising crimes, especially kidnapping and militancy"
Also He said that a fee of N5million will be billed on network operator who goes again there order.


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Thursday, February 19, 2015
Milani Fierce Foil Swatches
I didn't have the time or attention span to swatch each of the colors individually; fortunately, they paired up with each other nicely. My first duo is the very spring/Easter-appropriate combination of Rome, a lilac, and Capri, a pink. I used two coats of each. I know these are called "foil" but I'd classify them as microflakie shimmers; they're not especially metallic-looking, and that's part of my criteria for foil finishes. The flakies in Rome have a gold tone, while the ones in Capri look coppery.
The next pair would be good for St. Patrick's Day: Milan, a gold, and Florence, a warm green. Again I used two coats of each color. Milan was very blingy, to the point where I had trouble getting my camera to focus properly. Florence looked sort of dull by comparison; it had some golden microflakies in it, but not nearly enough to stand up to Milan. I added topcoat to Florence thinking making it shinier would help, but I don't think that worked.
I'm not sure what holiday the final duo would fit; New Year's Eve, maybe? Some winter one, for sure. It's Sardinia (spelled as Sardina on the label on my bottle), a pearly white, and Venice, a royal blue. There are a fair few golden flakies packed into Sardinia; perhaps it would have made a better pair with Milan. Venice looks much more fine-grained by comparison; it has purpley pink microflakies. Sardinia was less opaque than the others; I used three coats of it, while Venice was two like the rest of the collection.
Because it was a bit more sheer, I tried Sardinia as a topper on the four less-blingy shades. Left to right: Capri, Rome, Venice, and Florence—all two coats plus one of Sardinia.
I used some of the time I saved by not doing full hand swatches to do some dotted nail art with Rome, Venice, and Florence. I used OPI matte topcoat to give the shimmers a different look.
There isn't a bad polish in this bunch. Milan is not a great color for me personally, but the finish is fabulous; I hope they'll do a silver or pewter like this in a future collection. Sardinia would be my top pick if I could have only one; it's wearable on its own and also fun to use as a topper for layering.
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all of them are gorgeous but I love this purple so very much :)ReplyDelete
So odd that they would call this foils!! I really like Rome and Capri, and I love how bright and sparkly Milan is!ReplyDelete
Great collection! Venice is really beautiful.ReplyDelete
They are really pretty and sweet!ReplyDelete
Blue and green are my picks :)ReplyDelete
I like the the dotticure you did. I've never bought this brand, nothing has ever stood out for me. Lovely swatches!ReplyDelete
Oh wow, I really llike these :-DReplyDelete
Gorgeous color combinations! Now I'll have to start keeping an eye out for these in stores :)ReplyDelete
The new new Milani bottles have the color on the top of the cap!!ReplyDelete
Hmm I got the green but now I think I should have gotten the gold instead. That gold has been calling to me since I saw swatches.ReplyDelete
nice colors,although i wouldn't call these polishes a foil ;)ReplyDelete
i prefer new bottles, i'm simple woman - give me squared or rounded bottle and i'm happy :D
I like all of them! :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for reading and commenting! I greatly appreciate knowing I'm not just talking to myself here. :)


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All 08/09 snowsports clothing, hats and gloves are now reduced by a huge 50%. So if you want to get hold of some half price outerwear and accessories get along to TSA Manchester or any of The Snowboard Asylum snowslope stores. It's the perfect time to make the most of these big savings.
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Well it's time for the first giveaway for the 2009/10 season and up for grabs we have the all new Bataleon Evil Twin. These snowboards have only just touched down in the UK and you could win one by simply becoming a fan of The Snowboard Asylum on Facebook. That's right, no entry form, postal vote, phone in or online question, just simply become a fan. What's more not only will you gain entry to this great competition but you will get access to exclusive promotion, news and competitions we run exclusively for TSA Facebook fans.
The Evil Twin is one of our fastest selling snowboards each year and there is so much justified hype around Bataleon at the moment, if you want the chance to get your mitts on one you know what you have to do.
A random fan will be selected at 12 noon on the 14th of August 2009, if you are already a fan you will be automatically included in the draw.
Here is the all important link to our fan page and good luck.