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disresnrding the genera] impressions of mobility, and determining every individual question upon a rigorous estimate of the utility it might appear to involve, would be, to give an additional force to the causes by which our judgments are most apt to be perverted, and iTiiirely to abrogate the authority of those Gênerai rules by which alone men are comraunly enabled to judge of their own conduct with any tolerable impartiality. If we were :o dismiss altogether from our consideration those authoritative maxims, which have been wnrtioned by the general approbation of mankind, and to regulate our conduct entirely by i view of the good and the evil that promises to be the consequence of every particular iciion, there is reason to fear, not only that inclination might occasionally slip a false weight into the scale, but that many of the most important consequences of our actions might be overlooked. Those actions are bad, according to Mr. Bentham, that produce more evil than good: But actions are performed by individuals; and all the good may be to the individual, and all the evil to the community. There are innumerable cases, in which the idvantages to be gained, by the commission of a crime are incalculably greater (looking only to this -world) than the evils to which it may expose the criminal. This holds in almost every instance where unlawful passions may be gratified with very little risk of detection. A mere calculation of utilities would never prevent such actions; and the truth undoubtedly is. that the greater part of men an; only withheld from committing them by those general impressions of morality, which :t is the object of Mr. Bentham's system to supersede. Even admitting, what might well be denied, that, in all cases, the utility of the individual is inseparably connected with that of society, it will not be disputed, at least, that this connection is of a nature not very striking or obvious, and that it may frequently be overlooked by an individual deliberating on the consequences of his projected actions. It is in aid of this oversight, of this omission, "! this partiality, that we refer to the Gênerai rate of morality; rules, which have been suggested by a larger observation, and a longer eiperience, than any individual can dream of prt'tPiiding to, and which have been accommodated, by the joint action of our sympathies with delinquents and with sufferers, to the »ctual condition of human fortitude and infirmity. If they be founded on utility, it is rm an utility that cannot always be discovered; ind that can never be correctly estimated, in deliberating upon a particular measure, or with a view to a specific course of conduct: It is on an utility that does not discover itself till it is accumulated; and only becomes apparent after a large collection of examples hare been embodied in proof of it. Such summaries of utility, such records of uniform observation, we conceive to be the General rules of Morality, by which, and by which »tone, legislators or individuals can be safely directed in determining on the propriety of any course of conduct. They are observa
tions taken in the calm, by which we must be guided in the darkness and the terror of the tempest ; they are beacons and strongholds erected in the day of peace, round w hich we must rally, and to which we must betake ourselves, in the hour of contest and alarm.
For these reasons, and for others wrucn our limits will not now permit us to hint at, we are of opinion, that the old established morality of mankind ought upon no account to give place to a bold and rigid investigation into the utility of any particular act, or any course of action that may be made the subject of deliberation; and that the safest anil the shortest way to the good which we all desire, is the beaten highway of morality, which was formed at first by the experience of good and of evil.
But our objections do not apply merely to the foundation of Mr. Bentham's new system of morality: We think the plan and execution of the superstructure itself defective in many particulars. Even if we could be persuaded that it would be wiser in general to follow the dictates of utility than the impressions of moral duty, we should still say that the system contained in these volumes does noteñable us to adopt that substitute: and that it really presents us with no means of measuring or comparing utilities. After perusing M. Dumont's eloquent observations on the incalculable benefits which his author's discoveries were to confer on the science of legislation, and on the genius and good fortune by which he had been enabled to reduce morality to the precision of a science, by fixing a precise standard for the good and evil of our lives, we proceeded with the perusal of Mr. Bentham's endless tables arid divisions, with a mixture of impatience, expectation, and disappointment. Now that we have finished our task, the latter sentiment alone remains; for we perceive very clearly that M. Dumont's Zealand partiality have imposed upon his natural sagacity, and that Mr. Bentham has just left the science of morality in the same imperfect condition in which it was left by his predecessors. The whole of Mr. Bentham's catalogues and distinctions tend merely to point out the Number of the causes that produce our happiness от misery, but by no means to ascertain their relative Magnitude or force; and the only effect of their introduction into the science of morality seems to be, to embarrass a popular subject with a technical nomenclature, and to perplex familiar truths with an unnecessary intricacy of arrangement.
Of the justice of this remark any one may satisfy himself, by turning back to the tables and classifications which we have exhibited in the former part of this analysis, and trying if he can find there any rules for estimating the comparative value of pleasures and pains, that are not perfectly familiar to the most uninstrocted of the species. In the table of simple pleasures, for instance, what satisfaction can it afford to find the pleasure of riches set down as a distinct genus from the pleasure of power, and the pleasure of the senses— unless some scale were annexed by which the respective value of these several pleasures might be ascertained! If a man is balancing between the pain of privation and the pain of shame, how is he relieved by merely finding these arranged under separate titles 1 or, in either case, will it give him any information, to be told that the value of a pain or pleasure depends upon its intensity, its duration, or its certainty Î If a legislator is desirous to learn what degree of punishment is suitable to a particular offence, will he be greatly edified to read that the same punishment may be more or less severe according to the temperament, the intelligence, the rank, or the fortune of the delinquent; and that the circumstances that influence sensibility, though commonly reckoned to be only nine, may fairly be set down at fifteen t Is there any thing, in short, in this whole book, that realises the triumphant Introduction of the editor, or that can enable us in any one instance to decide upon the relative magnitude of an evil, otherwise than by a reference to the common feelings of mankind? It is Irue, we are perfectly persuaded, that by the help of these feelings, we can form a pretty correct judgment in most cases that occur; but Mr. Bentham is not persuaded of this ; and insists upon our renouncing all faith in so incorrect a standard, while he promises to furnish us with another that is liable to no sort of inaccuracy. This promise we do not think he has in any degree fulfilled; because he has given us no rule by which the intensity of any pain or pleasure can be determined; and furnished us with no instrument by which we may take the altitude of enjoyment, or fathom the depths of pain. It is no apology for having made this promise, that its fulfilment -was evidently impossible.
In multiplying these distinctions and divisions which form the basis of his system, Mr. Bentham appears to us to bear less resemblance to a philosopher of the present times, than to one of the old scholastic doctors, who substituted classification for reasoning, and looked upon the ten categories as the most useful of all human inventions. Their distinctions were generally real, as well as his, and could not have been made without the misapplication of much labour and ingenuity: But it is now generally admitted that they are of no use whatever, either for the promotion of truth, or the detection of error; and that they only serve to point out differences that cannot be overlooked, or need not be remembered. There are many differences and many points of resemblance in all actions, and in all substances, that are absolutely indifferent in any serious reasoning that may be entered into with regard to them; and though much industry and much acuteness maybe displayed in finding them out, the discovery is just as unprofitable to science, as the enumeration of the adverbs in the creed, or the dissyllables in the decalogue, would be to theology. The «rreater number of Mr. Bentham's distinctions, however, are liable to objection, because they state, uncieran intricate and technical arrangement, those facts and circumstances only that
are necessarily familiar to all mankind, and cannot possibly be forgotten on any оссаяса where it is of importance to remember them. If bad laws have been enacted, it certainly ¿ not from having forgotten that the gooa •:•: society is the ultimate object of all law, uthat it is absurd to repress one evil by the creation of a greater. Legislators have ИА bewildered themselves in tne choice of mrx.í. but they have never so grossly mistaken the ends of their institution, as to need to be reminded of these obvious and elemeiiür, truths.
If there be any part of Mr. Bentham's classification that might be supposed to anist m in appreciating the comparative value <; pleasures and pains, it must certainly be Ls enumeration of the circumstances that anVi the sensibility of individuals. Eren if iei» table were to fulfil all that it promise*, bowever, it would still leave the system rcirámentally deficient, as it does not enable ш а compare the relative amount of anv two fissures or pains, to individuals in tht sam •:.:• cumstances. In its particular applicator. however, it is truly no less defective: f« though we are told that temperament, intelligence, &c. should vary the degree of ршшЬment or reward, we are not told to what eiv :. or in what proportions, it should be varied by these circumstances. Till this be done, however, it is evident that the elements ot .V: Bentham's moral arilhmetic have no detenunate value; and that it would be pertrf-т impossible to work any practical problem ¡j legislation by the help of them. It is scarct> necessary to add, that even if this were '<••-• complished. and the cognisance of all ihe* particulars distinctly enjoined by the law Ik only effect would be, to introduce a puer. .5 ana fantastic complexity into our system-: jurisprudence, and to encumber judicial procedure with a multitude of frivolous or impracticable observances. The circumstance in consideration of which Mr. Bentham wou. I have the laws vary the punishment, are » numerous and so indefinite, that it wonld inquire a vast deal more labour to акегм their existence in any particular case, than :•> establish the principal offence. The first л Temperament; and in a case of flagging ** suppose Mr. Bentham would remit a few lashes to a sanguine and irritable delinquen;. and lay a few additional stripes on a |tilo.matic or pituitous one. Bat how is the ¡чт.perament to be given in evidence? or are ¡1 judges to aggravate or alleviate a puniihmetii upon a mere inspection of the prisoner'.* complexion. Another circumstance that slimiU affect the pain, is the offender's firmnf» ^ mind ; and another his strength of nnderetanii; ing. How is a court to take cognisance • these qualities? or in what degree are they:1 affect their proceedings? If we are to a !ra:: such considerations into our law at all. ¡И ought to be carried a great deal farther than Mr. Bentham has indicated ; and it should « expressed in the statutes, what alienation ot punishment should be awarded to a culpn: on account of his wife's pregnancy, of ta»
colour of hie children's hair. We cannot help thinkingthat theundistinguishinggrossness of our actual practice is better than such foppery. We fix a punishment which is calculated for tie common, average condition of those to whom it is to be applied: and, in almost all caws, we leave with the judge a discretionary power of accommodating it to any peculiarities that may seem to require an exception. After all, this is the most plausible part of Mr. Benton's arrangements.
In what he has said of the false notions which legislators have frequently followed in preference to the polar light or utility, we think we discover a good deal of inaccuracy, and some little want of candour. Mr. Bentham must certainly be conscious that no one erer pretended that the -mere antiquity of a law was a sufficient reason for retaining it, in ipite of its evident inutility: But when the utility of parting with it is doubtful, its antiqnity may fairly be urged as affording a preramption m its favour, and as a reason for being cautious at least in the removal of what must be incorporated with so many other institutions. We plead the antiquity of our Constitution as an additional reason for not yielding it up to innovators: but nobody ever thought, we believe, of advancing this plea in ropport of the statutes against Witchcraft. In the «me way, we think, there is more wit than reason in ascribing the errors of many legislators to their being misled by a metaphor. The metaphor, we are inclined to think, has Ancrai]y arisen from the principle or practice to which Mr. Bentham would give effect independent of it. The law of England respects the sanctity of a free citizen's dwelling so much, as to yield it some privilege ; and there/wf an Enghshman'shouse is called his Castle. The piety or superstition of some nations has determined that a criminal cannot be arrested in i place of worship. This is the whole fact: the usage is neither explained nor convicted "i absurdity, by saying that such people call a church the House of God. If it were the bouse of God, does Mr. Bentham conceive that it ought to be a sanctuary for criminals? In what is said of the Fictions of law, there if ranch of the same misapprehension. Men neither are, nor ever were, misguided by Ihese fictions ; but the fictions are merely certain quaint and striking methods of expressing » rale that has been adopted in an apprehension of its utility. To deter men fiom committing treason, their offspring is associated to a certain extent in their punishment. The motive and object of this law is plain enough; and calling the effect "Corruption of blood," *¡H neither aggravate nor hide its injustice. When it is said that the heir is the same perwn with, the deceased, it is but a pithy way of intimating that he is bound in all the obligations, and entitled to all the rights of his predecessor. That the King never dies, is 'i;dy another phrase for expressing that the office is never vacant; and that he is every »here, ie tree, if it be lawful to say that a person can act by deputy. In all these oband in many that are scattered
through the subsequent part of his book. Mr. Bentham seems to forget that there is such a. thing as common sense in the world; and to take it for granted, that if there be an opening in the letter of the law for folly, misapprehension, or abuse, its ministers will eagerly lake advantage of it, arid throw the whole frame of society into disorder and wretchedness. A very slight observation of the actual business of life might have taught him. that expediency may, for the most part, be readily and certainly discovered by those who are interested in finding it; and that in a certain stage of civilisation there is generated such a quantity of intelligence and good sense, as to disarm absurd institutions of their power to do mischief, and to administer defective laws into a system of practical equity. This indeed is the grand corrective which remedies all the errors of legislators, and retrenches all that is pernicious in prejudice. It makes us independent of technical systems, and indifferent to speculative irregularities; and he who could increase its quantity, or confirm its power¡ would do more service to mankind than all the philosophers that ever speculated on the means of their reformation.
In the following chapter we meet with a perplexity which, though very ingeniously produced, appears to us to be wholly gratuitous. Mr. Bentham for a long time can see no distinction between Civil and Criminal jurisprudence; and insists upon it, that rights and crimes necessarily and virtually imply each other. If I have a right to get your horse, it is only because it would be a crime for you to keep him from me; and if it be a crime for me to take your horse, it is only because you have a right to keep him. This we think is very pretty reasoning: But the distinction between the civil and the criminal law is not the less substantial and apparent. The civil law is that which directs and enjoins—the criminal law is that which Punishes. This is enough for the legislator; and for those who are to obey him. It is a curious inquiry. no doubt, how far all rights may be considered as the counterpart of crimes; and whether every regulation of the civil code necessarily implies a delict in the event of its violation. On this head there is room for a good deal of speculation; but in our opinion Mr. Bentham pushes the principle much too far. There seems to be nothing gained, for instance, either in the way of clearness or consistency, by arranging under the head of criminal law, those cases of refusal to fulfil contracts, or to perform obligations, for which no other punishment is or ought to be provided, but a compulsory fulfilment or performance. This is merely following out the injunction of the civil code, and cannot, either in law or in logic, be correctly regarded as a punishment. The . proper practical test of a crime, is where, over ¡ and above the restitution of the violated right (where that is possible), the violator is subjected to a direct pain, in order to deter from the repetition of such offences.
In passing to the code of criminal law, Mi. Bentham does not forget the necessity of classifying and dividing, Delicts, according to him, are either, 1. Private, or against one or a few individ uals; 2. Reflective, or against the delinquent himself; 3. Semipublic, or against some particular class or description of persons; and, finally, Public, or against the whole community. Private delicts, again, relate either to the person, the property, the reputation or the condition; and they are distributed into complex and simple, principal and accessory, positive and negative, &c. &c. The chief evil of a crime is the alarm which it excites in the community; and the degree of this alarm, Mr. Bentham assumes, depends upon eight circumstances, the particular situation of the delinquent, his motives, his notoriety, his character, the difficulties or facilities of the attempt, &c. But here again, we see no sense in the enumeration; the plain fact being, that the alarm is increased by every thing which renders it probable that such acts may be frequently repeated. In one case, and one of considerable atrocity, there is no alarm at all; because the only beings who can be affected by it, are incapable of fear or suspicion—this is the case of infanticide: and Mr. Bentham ingeniously observes, that it is probably owing to this circumstance that the laws of many nations have been so extremely indifferent on that subject. In modern Europe, however, he conceives that they are barbarously severe. In the case of certain crimes against the community, such as misgovernment of all kinds, the danger again is always infinitely greater than the alarm. The remedies which law has provided against the mischief of crimes, Mr. Bentham says, are of four orders; preventive—repressive—compensatory—or simply penal. Upon the subject of compensation or satisfaction, Mr. Bentham is most copious and most original; and under the title of satisfaction in honour, he presents us with a very calm, acute, and judicious inquiry into the effects of duelling; which he represents as the only remedy which the impolicy or impotence of our legislators has left for such offences. We do not think, however, that the same good sense prevails in what he subjoins, as to the means that might be employed to punish insults and attacks upon the honour of individuals. According to the enormity of the offence,
he is for making the delinquent pronounce a discourse of humiliation, either standing, or on his knees, before the offended party, and clothed in emblematical robes, with a mask of a characteristic nature on his head, &c. There possibly may be countries where such contrivances might answer; but, with us, they would not only be ineffectual, but ridiculous. In the choice of punishments, Mr. Bentham wishes legislators to recollect, that punishment is itself an evil; and that it consists of five parts;–the evil of restraint—the evil of suffering—the evil of apprehension—the evil of groundless persecution—and the evils that extend to the innocent connections of the delinquent. For these reasons, he is anxious that no punishment should be inflicted without a real cause, or without being likely to influence the will; or where other remedies might have been employed; or in cases where the crime produces less evil than the punishment. These admonitions are all very proper, and, we dare say, sincere; but we cannot think that they are in any way recommended by their novelty. In the section upon the indirect means of preventing crimes, there is a great deal of genius and strong reasoning; though there are manythings set down in too rash and peremptory a manner, and some that are supported with a degree of flippancy not very suitable to the occasion. The five main sources of offence he thinks are, want of occupation, the angry passions, the passion of the sexes, the love .."intoxication, and the love of gain; As society advances, all these lose a goos deal of their mischievous tendency, excepting the last; against which, of course, the legislature should be more vigilant than ever. In the gradual predominance of the avaricious passions over all the rest, however, Mr. Ben: tham sees many topics of consolation; and concludes this part of his work with declaring, that it should be the great object of the criminal law to reduce all offences to that species which can be completely atoned for and repaired by payment of a sum of money. It is a part of his system, which we have so; gotten to mention, that persons so injured should in all cases be entitled to reparation out of the public purse.
(Januarp, 1804.) Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid, D. D. F.R.S., Edinburgh, late Professor of
Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. By Dugald STEwART,
R.S. Edinburgh:
Read at different Meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 8vo. pp. 225. Edinburgh
and London: 1803.
ni correct observation, and the admirable selfcommand by which he has confined himself lo tile clear statement of the facts he has collected: But then Mr. Stewart immediately follows up this observation with a warm encomium on the inductive philosophy of Lord Hacon. and a copious and eloquent exposition of the vast advantage that may be expected from applying to the science of Mind those sound rules of experimental philosophy that have undoubtedly guided us to all the splendid improvements in modern physics. From t¡10 time indeed that Mr. Hume published his treatise of human nature, down to the latest {peculations of Condorcet and Mr. Stewart himself, we have observed this to be a favourite topic with all metaphysical writers; and that those who have differed in almost every tiling else, have agreed in magnifying the importance of such inquiries, and in predicting the approach of some striking improvement in the manner of conducting them.
Now. in these speculations we cannot help suspecting that those philosophers have been misled in a considerable degree by a false analogy ; and that their zeal for the promotion of their favourite studies has led them to form expectations somewhat sanguine and extravagant, both as to their substantial utility and a? to the possibility of their ultimate improvement, la reality, it does not appear to us that any great advancement in the knowledge of the operations of mind is to be expected from any improvement in the plan of investigation; or that the condition of mankind is Ukely to derive any great benefit from the cultivation of this interesting but abstracted
Inductive philosophy, or that which proceeds upon me careful observation of facts, may be applied to two different classes of phenomena. The first are those that can be made the subject of proper Experiment: where the substances are actually in our power, and the judgment and artifice of the mquirer can be effectually employed to arrange and combine them in such a way as to disclose their most hidden properties and relation?. The other class of phenomena are thoee that occur in substances that are placed altogether beyond our reach; the order and succession of which we are generally unable to control; and ae to which we can do little more than collect and record the laws by which they appear to be governed. Those substances are not the subject of Experiment, but of Observation; and the knowledge we may obtain, by carefully watching their variations, is of a kind that does not directly increase the power which we might otherwise have had over them. It seems evident, however, that it is principally in the former of thi-se departments, or the strict experimental philosophy, that those splendid improvements have been made, which have erected so vast atrophy to the prospective genius of Bacon. Tht.- astronomy of Sir Isaac Newton is no exception to this general remark: All that mere Uhscrcalion could do to determine the movements of the heavenly bodies, had been ac
complished by the star-gazers who preceded him; and the law of gravitation, which he afterwards applied to the planetary system, was first calculated and ascertained by experiments performed upon substances which were entirely at his disposal.
It will scarcely be denied, either, that it is almost exclusively lo this department of proper Experiment, that Lord Bacon has directed the attention of his followeis. His fundamental maxim is, that knowledge is power; and the great problem which he constantly aims at resolving is, in what manner the nature of any substance or quality may, by experiment, be so detected and ascertained as to enable us to manage it at our pleasure. The greater part of the Novum Oreanvm accordingly is taken up with rules and examples for contriving and conducting experiments; and the chief advantage which he seems to have expected from the progress of those inquiries, appears to be centered in the enlargement of man's dominion over the material universe which he inhabits. To the mere Observer, therefore, his laws of philosophising, except where they are prohibitory laws, have but little application ; and to such an inquirer, the rewards of his philosophy scarcely appear to have been promised. It is evident indeed that no direct utility can result from the most accurate observation of occurrences which we cannot control ; and that for the uses to which such observations may afterwards be turned, we are indebted not so much to the observer, as to the person who discovered the application. It also appears to be pretty evident that in the art of observation itself, no very great or fundamental improvement can be expected. Vigilance and attention are all that can ever be required in an observer; and though a talent for methodical arrangement may facilitate to others the study of the fact» that have been collected, it does not appear how our actual knowledge of those facts can be increased by any new method of describing them. Facts that we are unable to modify or direct, in short, can only be the objects of observation; and observation can only inform us that they exist, and that their succession appears to be governed by certain general laws.
In the proper Experimental philosophy, every acquisition of knowledge is an increase of power; because the knowledge is necessarily derived from some intentional disposition of materials which we may always command in the same manner. In the philosophy of observation, it is merely a gratification of our curiosity. By experiment, too. we generally acquire a pretty correct knowledge of the causes of the phenomena we produce: as we ourselves have distributed and arranged the circumstances upon which they depend; while, in matters of mere observation, the assignment of causes must always be in a good degree conjectural, inasmuch as we have no means of separating the preceding phenomena, or deciding otherwise than by analogy, to which of them the succeeding event is to be attributed.


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Welcome to the December 2015 issue of "RiskIntegral" - an occasional newsletter about the analysis and management of risk, mainly in projects, by Risk Integration Management Pty Ltd (RIMPL). Given the topicality of Innovation and Agility being promoted by our new Prime Minister, in this issue our feature article is about applying risk analysis to innovative projects, especially involving IT.
The newsletter concludes with some news of our activities.
Source: www.mymanagementguide.com
A number of trends have been emerging in IT projects and projects with strong IT content
• Mobile phone usage for collaboration is becoming increasingly dominant. In 2014, mobile internet usage exceeded PC internet usage for the first time. Project Management (PM) and other collaboration software need to be optimised for mobile integration).
• Agile PM methodology continues to gain popularity in IT projects due to its cost-effectiveness, reliance on self-organising teams and recognition of human nature in its design, as described later in the article.
• Risk Management (RM) is becoming more of a focus for IT Project Managers for several reasons:
Ο With the growth of Agile methodology, RM competence is becoming more desirable;
Ο The need to improve ability to identify potential scope, budget or team threats; and
Ο As we have seen through the media, the incidence and severity of cyber security problems have continued to increase.
A couple of methodologies that depend on MCM have been developed in fields with strong IT involvement:
1. NASA's Joint Confidence Limits (JCL)
After years of serious time and cost overruns to its projects, NASA developed a methodology to produce realistic forecasts of time and cost outcomes for its projects named "Joint Confidence Limits". Use of the methodology since August 2012 is mandatory for all projects exceeding $250m. It requires that an integrated cost and schedule risk analysis be performed using a detailed resourced schedule with significant cost and time impact risks events mapped into it and that funding for the project will only be approved for submissions proposing 70% probability levels of both budget and schedule (70% Joint Confidence Limits). This approach is extremely close to RIMPL's IRA methodology
Recently the US Congress, which has over the years made withering criticism of NASA's blown budgets and date forecasts, congratulated NASA on the accuracy of its estimating for the top 10 projects they were submitting for ongoing funding approval – overall their actual costs were at 1% under budget. This was stated by Congress to be "a marked improvement".
2. Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM)
SCRAM is a process for reviewing a project to identify issues and threats to the schedule. It combines Root Cause Analysis to find the causes of schedule problems and Parametric and Monte Carlo Modelling to forecast outcomes. Developed with the Australian Department of Defence and Australian and US Software consultants, it handles projects with significant software development content. SCRAM incorporates the Schedule Risk Analysis component of IRA.
SCRAM is being used to good effect on a number of major Australian Defence sector projects, to identify delay drivers and improve their schedule performance. These projects usually include significant levels of innovation.
Conventional projects follow what is referred to as the "Waterfall Model", in which design is followed sequentially by procurement, construction and commissioning. This is appropriate where design, once committed, is hard and expensive to alter. Initially this approach was applied to IT projects, as shown in the following schematic.
Source: "Waterfall Model of System Development" by Peter Kemp / Paul Smith
It was found inappropriate for software development where requirements could change frequently and rapidly and where the environment into which the project deliverables were to be delivered might also be changing quickly.
Under waterfall, it was time-consuming and expensive to "go back up the waterfall" to change the requirements and design and then re-perform the code-writing and testing.
Agile methodology was developed to produce the software in "potentially shippable code" modules, written, tested and documented, during rigidly time-boxed "Sprints" (usually 2 weeks long). Instead of scope being fixed and time and cost being variable, scope becomes the variable, with time fixed. An Agile project consists of a series of Sprints, assessed at the initiating stage of the project and reviewed and revised during the subsequent sprints. In each sprint, a series of "storylines" are coded by the programmers, with each storyline covering a required part of the project scope. The scope is initially defined in the planning for the sprints, then update throughout the sprints. The approach can be understood from the following diagram.
The team created to perform the Sprints is multi-disciplinary, including programmers, testers, business representatives and a specialist in facilitating sprints. There are many other details beyond the scope of this article.
From a Risk perspective though, how can the uncertainty of how long the project will take and how much it will cost be modelled?
RIMPL has modelled an Agile software development project in which the quality and productivity of the sprint team is assumed to be high, but in which there is a corresponding threat that the productivity and quality of the programmers may not be as high as assumed due to market competition, resulting in slower writing of code and a higher error rate in the code (known as "Technical Debt"). This threat can be treated by paying a premium for proven, high quality programmers who have been previously personally employed or assessed by trusted associates of the team.
The impact of this treated threat on the Agile project is to increase the cost of the project (due to paying higher rates for quality programmers), increase the number of sprints required to complete the project and increase the effort required to validate and test the code (because they treatment is very unlikely to be 100% effective).
The probability and impact of the threat and the effectiveness and cost of the treatment determine the treated impact on the project. By engaging with Agile Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and evaluating scenarios varying these threat and treatment parameters, the project owner can forecast the outcomes of such projects with significantly improved confidence, based on time and cost risk outputs such as are represented in the Agile project simulation outputs below.
This approach can also be used with hybrid projects (part Agile, part waterfall) such as projects involving implementing Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software and hardware plus web interface development using Agile.
Since our last RIMPL Newsletter in mid-2015 the following activities have kept us active in our core business:
• An IRA for Santos GLNG project on an expansion of their upstream Coal Seam Gas fields in the Wandoan area of central Queensland;
• Undergoing a tender process culminating in RIMPL's recent appointment to two panels by the Australian Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development (DIRD):
Ο A panel to review and assess cost contingencies for infrastructure projects being submitted to the Australian Government for funding;
Ο A panel to provide theory and policy advice on contingency estimation (probabilistic / quantitative risk analysis)
• We have entered agreements to perform further IRAs early in 2016:
Ο A natural gas and condensate plant in PNG;
Ο A bankable feasibility study for a new gold and copper mine in the Philippines
We have also been continuing to provide project planning and forensic scheduling advisory services for manufacturing and commercial building companies:
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PS Another question surfaced about whether people should have two twitter accounts - one for business and one for more personal tweets. I thought that might fit into this post but it is a different topic so it deserves its own page.
Tips, tricks, thoughts and stories from a fundraiser who is in the trenches, raising money and changing the world.
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PS Another question surfaced about whether people should have two twitter accounts - one for business and one for more personal tweets. I thought that might fit into this post but it is a different topic so it deserves its own page.
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It's true that most of us are still figuring this whole thing out and I want to thank you for sharing these thoughts and want to thank AFP Toronto for providing a platform for conference tweets this year.ReplyDelete
Because of geography, I can't go to everything, but I love following along in the conversation at events I can't be at. I think one aspect we need to think about when we're tweeting, is whether the tweet has value for your twitter personal brand and whether what you have to say adds value to someone who might not be there. So, if possible, link to a slide or a source, tell me a great insight, let me hear about a new presenter's name that I might not encounter otherwise.
Another conference I was at had limited wifi access and it was a bit disappointing - I hope organizers will keep that in mind when planning events as twitter becomes a bigger part of the experience.
Christina @GPtekkie
A number of good considerations there Kimberley. Thank you, and for mentioning us as early adopters.ReplyDelete
It *is* an issue of permission at this stage, until it becomes so common that it passes unnoticed. I try always to ask a speaker's permission to photograph and video them, especially since I usually share those items with other fundraisers online.
With Twitter I tend not to ask permission if I know the speaker has a Twitter profile, but perhaps I should. I assume that, since I'll be quoting their Twitter name, they'll find out soon enough.
I think the Twitter 'back channel' is a fabulous new kind of resource, not least for those unable to be present at the event, but also by facilitating the creation of curated content - summaries of the presentation, feedback from those there, plus links to other resources quoted - books, videos, sound clips; and a sense of being there - live video or still shots of the speaker and delegates in action.
But then I'm somewhat biased ;)
Thank you Christina and Howard,ReplyDelete
The importance of wifi in confernece venues is an excellent point Christina.
Like both of you I really like what Howard refers to as the Twitter 'backchannel'. I wonder though, do you think when people are keen to share the experience with the world they are actually getting the most out of the learning opportunity? I'm starting to think less is a little bit more in this regard, especially now that more people are tweeting. Thoughts...
good post and food for thought KM. It's true, things have come a long way since the heady days of 2009 in the twitter world... lol... and here are a number of things you touch on, as do Howard and Christina that are all worthy topics themselves.ReplyDelete
I tweet, like I am. If i hear something in a conference or online or in a meeting and I think it has value to people who follow me, like IRL, I share it.
People have said to me time and time again -" wow - you sound exactly how i would expect you to sound and talk" - what is personal? what is professional? i think of myself as professionally personal. All the same person. I am barely different as a person to my professional colleagues as i am to my personal friends (baring a few little differences).
Twitter is another channel in our universe that we can use to reach out and touch someone(s) and most people that i know who use it that way love that we can sit in on a conference half way around the world, make friends with like minded people who live in different countries and share jokes and stories with people who care.
The rules of social engagement are the same every where, treat people as you would want to be treated and don't be a jackass (unless of course you are one).
I really adore people with proper etiquette. For me they have the best education.ReplyDelete
Proper Etiquette should be to anything you do as this is of the basis that you are educated.ReplyDelete
I agree 100% to adding value. Everyone could all use some Twitter Etiquette essentials since we're engaging with real people with real things to talk about.ReplyDelete


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Even if you watched the Golf Channel coverage, you may not have picked up on how wild Korda's final round--and really her entire weekend--really was. Due to time constraints (no preempting a Phil-Tiger showdown, ladies!), the tv coverage picked up late on the back 9. So we missed seeing Korda birdie 3 of her 1st 8 holes on Sunday to get to -7 for the week, bouncing back in a big way from her 2 bogeys over her final 5 holes Saturday that had cut her 3rd-round lead to 1 over Hee Kyung Seo (who also started hot Sunday with 2 birdies in her 1st 6 holes), So Yeon Ryu, and Nikki Campbell. But if Korda had trouble maintaining her lead on moving day, the pressures of the final round--and the difficulties of Royal Melbourne--made the previous day's struggles seem like a walk in the park. Even as the JLPGA's Campbell was imploding with her 2nd double on the front, world #1 Ya Ni Tseng was reeling from her 2nd huge number of the week--a triple on the 4th to go with her snowman on the 7th back on Friday--and Ryu was struggling to get her game into gear exactly one Sunday after she had opened the door for Christel Boeljon to take the LET season-opener, disaster struck the American teenager, as she followed up a double bogey on 9 with a bogey on the 10th. All of a sudden, Korda was trailing Seo by 1. Yet she turned around and birdied the 11th right after Seo bogeyed it, retaking the lead for the moment.
But the rest of the field responded to Korda's troubles at the turn like sharks sensing blood in the water. Earlier in the day, Caroline Hedwall (69) and Anna Nordqvist (68) had shown the way, turning in 2 of the most impressive rounds of the week to move from T25 after 54 holes to T12 and T10, respectively. It was too little, too late for them, but not for players like Ryu, who birdied the 12th and 13th to draw even with her playing partner Seo at -4; Tseng, who birdied 3 in a row midway through the back to claw her way back to -2; Stacy Lewis, who had made 3 birdies between the 7th and 12th to get to -3 and was looking for more from 5 groups ahead of Korda and Campbell; Brittany Lincicome, who like Korda had birdied 3 of her 1st 8 holes, like Korda had cooled off midway through her round, and like Korda had bounced back with a birdie (this one to get to -3 with only the 18th left to play from 3 groups ahead of Korda); and Julieta Granada, who made her 4th birdie of the day on the 15th to get back to -3 from 4 groups ahead of Korda's.
At first, Korda responded to this onslaught with equanimity, parring the 12th and 13th to maintain her 1-shot lead on Seo and Ryu. But then she bogeyed her next 3 holes in a row to drop all the way back to -2. Fortunately for her, others ran into trouble, too, on the back. Jenny Shin, whose bogey-free 33 on the front had lifted her to -2 for the week, could only manage 1 more birdie on the back that was offset by her bogey on the par-5 12th. Katie Futcher, who had fought her way to -3 by the turn, doubled the 12th and bogeyed the 14th to drop out of contention. Tseng's run--and hopes for her 3rd-straight Women's Australian Open title--ended with consecutive bogeys on 15 and 16. And 1st Lewis, then Granada, and then Lincicome failed to find another birdie and ended their weeks at -3. Even Seo and Ryu, reprising their duel at the 2011 U.S. Women's Open, were trading pars back and forth as the tv coverage Americans were allowed to see finally kicked in. Even when Korda took advantage of her length, almost hitting the par-5 17th in 2 and making a gutsy up-and-down to fight back to -3, it seemed like a nice consolation prize at the time, like a mental toughness award for a teenager who needed more experience in contention to really learn how to win.
But all of a sudden 1st Seo and then Ryu missed tricky little par saves on the 18th, 3-putting to fall back to -3. And Korda found herself with a medium-length putt to win the tournament outright. When she missed it, the LPGA had its 1st 6-way playoff since--well, since the final round of Q-School! In the playoff, Seo, Ryu, and Lincicome drew lots to put them in the 1st threesome, while Lewis, Granada, and Korda ended up in the 2nd. Everyone else in the playoff had at least one LPGA win under their belts and several were major winners. Down the stretch in regulation, the tournament had had a major-like feel, as not only the Ryu-Seo duel but also the Lewis-Tseng duel from last season kept coming to my mind. And on the 1st playoff hole, Lincicome reminded us all of her dramatic win at the 2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship--although sticking a wedge as she did on the 18th at Royal Melbourne was a little less impressive than what she did on the 18th at Mission Hills. But the golf gods were not on Lincicome's side yesterday, as her well-struck 5-footer did what looked like a 330 and ended up coming right back at her. A few minutes later it was Lewis's turn to putt for the win, after her approach skidded right past the flag and ended up about 10 feet past the hole, but she couldn't convert it, either. Lincicome had another great chance the 2nd time around, but this time she couldn't even hit the hole. It was starting to look like a battle of attrition when Ryu became the 1st to leave the playoff with a bogey her 2nd go-around (and 3rd in her last 4 tries on the 18th, going back to Saturday) and nobody in the final threesome could get their approaches within 20 feet. But that's when lightning struck. As Korda put it afterwards,
I was thinking really clearly. I had one concept in my head...I was really calm. I knew what the putt did because I'd had it before and it did not move. I was a little higher up and more to the right. I knew the line and I knew the speed. All I had to do was just hit it. It started breaking. I thought, "Oh my goodness no, don't lip out, don't break too early." I don't even know what side of the hole it hit. I was overwhelmed by everything.
In the end, only Granada had a chance to extend the playoff, but she couldn't do it. So Korda becomes the 3rd-youngest player to win a full-length LPGA event, the LPGA's rookie class of 2011 takes its 2nd victory in a row in 2012, and only Phil's stirring victory at Pebble Beach could possibly have overshadowed this finish. But it can't hide how much some of the LPGA's best struggled at Royal Melbourne: Ji-Yai Shin was +2, Suzann Pettersen +5, Morgan Pressel and Angela Stanford +7, Brittany Lang +9, Cristie Kerr +12, and Karrie Webb +13, while the likes of Inbee Park, Sun Young Yoo, and Sophie Gustafson missed the cut.
Looks like a lot of players will welcome the much-friendlier confines at Siam Country Club, where Pettersen and Ai Miyazato both have won with tournament-record scores of -21 in recent years. This week's Honda LPGA Thailand is the season opener for Na Yeon Choi, Paula Creamer, Shanshan Feng, Natalie Gulbis, Maria Hjorth, In-Kyung Kim, Catriona Matthew, Ai-sama, Mika Miyazato, Se Ri Pak, Momoko Ueda, Michelle Wie, and Amy Yang--plus we'll get to see how Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn, the top 2 amateurs in the world not named Lydia Ko, stack up against the best of the LPGA. Here's hoping Tseng recovers from her stomach bug soon. I have a feeling it's going to be a very competitive season!


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These cute mitts combine a variety of winter motifs and are perfect for this time of year! Knit in a versatile sport weight alpaca and wool blend, these knit up surprisingly quick. This pattern uses three colors of yarn, though you can combine as many colors as you'd like if you're feeling adventurous!
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As health spokesman for the Green Party, I know that France and Germany, along with most countries in western Europe, spend significantly more of their income on health care than the United Kingdom – 20 per cent more in Germany and 25 per cent more in France. Increasing Britain's spending on health to western European levels would see an investment of £20 billion in the NHS, yet the Conservatives are planning savings of £20 billion.
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Syracuse, NY -- It was fitting that the 1,000 or so college lacrosse fans who entered the Carrier Dome on a sunny Saturday morning exited on a gray, sleety Saturday afternoon. There was some pretty miserable offensive lacrosse played in the interim.
"We expected a lot of mistakes today, especially with this being the first scrimmage," John Galloway, the senior All-America goalie on the Syracuse University lacrosse team, said after the Orange fell to Hofstra 6-5 and rebounded to defeat Le Moyne 10-5. "I think we learned a ton from today. Those mistakes are going to happen. We need to watch the film tomorrow morning and adjust."
Galloway is correct. To expect SU, even with its seven preseason All-Americans and expectations of competing for a third national championship in four years, to hit the field in midseason form was unrealistic. Still, it was as sloppy inside the Dome as it was outside afterward.
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Desko was concerned enough with what he saw during the Hofstra game to huddle with Le Moyne coach Dan Sheehan and request that each team keep its starters playing through three quarters before turning to the reserves.
"We wanted to get some movement, some flow," Desko said.
There was precious little of that in the first game. Galloway offered that it was due in part to team's confinement mostly to its new indoor practice facility at Manley, which is great but well short of a full field. Desko also pointed out that Hofstra had the advantage of playing Le Moyne in the first game, an 8-5 victory in which the Division II Dolphins outshot the Pride and controlled much of the action but fell because it hit several pipes.
"We talked all week about how we were really going to have to get a brisk warmup," Desko said, "because we were going to be playing against a team that had already played a game and had things going."
Yet, Hofstra was ahead 2-0 before the Orange blinked, winning all three first-quarter faceoffs and controlling long stretches of play with deliberate possessions.
"I think the guys learned a lot in the first game," Desko said. "Hofstra was very patient and disciplined offensively. They tried to turn it into a 6-on-6 game, and a lot of teams will try to play us that way. And when we got the ball we wanted to make something happen right away."
The result was a lot of turnovers, many of them unforced.
"It was a little bit shaky," senior midfielder Jovan Miller said, "just because we're trying to get into a rhythm offensively. Coach really pounded into our heads we have to value the ball more and take better shots."
Miller, one of SU's few bright spots offensively the entire day, sparked a three-goal flurry early in the second quarter that knotted the score at 3, but Desko turned to his bench at the half while Hofstra coach Seth Tierney kept in senior stars Jay Card and Jamie Lincoln well into the fourth. Each scored a second-half goal vs. SU's reserves, as the Pride prevailed despite late scores from Orange true freshman midfielders Jake Bratek (Jamesville-DeWitt) and Scott Loy.
"I was surprised to see them out there," Galloway said of the Hofstra stars, "but you know what? Sometimes those teams are just trying to work out their offenses. I understand that."
Syracuse seemed to gather itself and played better against the Dolphins, with Miller scoring three times to lead the way. Most of the goals came from SU's first midfield line, as Le Moyne's entirely new starting close defense was stingy and sophomore goalie Jeff White was sharp following off-season knee surgery.
"Having him back and healthy is very comforting to me," Sheehan said. "I thought against Hofstra our intensity was really good. We doubled them up in shots. Defensively, I think our close defense played very well all day. The effort was absolutely outstanding."
It was from beginning to end for all three teams. The finer points, on offense anyway, were missing.
"Every time a new year starts," Miller said, "regardless of how familiar you are with everybody, there is still a feeling out process. It was shaky at times."
Notes: True freshmen who played in addition to Bratek and Loy and thus ended their redshirt potential were attackmen Billy Ward, Derek Maltz and Pat Powderly; faceoff specialists Chris Daddio and Ricky Buhr; longstick middie Taylor Morgan; and middies Drew Jenkins and John Fitzgerald. . . . SU used a three-player rotation at the faceoff X with its first team of Daddio, Jeremy Thompson and Josh Knight.


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by Jeffrey J. Michaels
Imagination: A gift shared
There are times I pine for the world that was. A strange nostalgia sweeps over me and I do not understand the why of it all. I feel deeply that I should be living in another age, another part of the world, or as a completely different personality. Past life memories? Perhaps.
Perhaps it is due to the story I just read, the one that compelled me to remain awake deep into the early morning hours despite a tiring day. I ignored my chores and canceled my plans to get out and exercise. Okay, it doesn't have to be that compelling to get me to ignore exercise or delay taking the garbage out, but you get my point. You have been there before. I hope.
These modern days, it is not so common a thing to be captivated by mere words. The images conjured from ink and paper. The weaving of phrases and rhythmic parsing of paragraphs into a swelling tale of emotional risk and reward. The catch in one's throat when realizing, in the final pages, where the story leads. Have you wept at the conclusion of a book? While reading, have you laughed out loud in the midst of strangers on a train or plane? Have you felt joy and fear for a character that exists only in images – spells cast through language and into your thoughts…through imagination?
Are We Alone?
Do other creatures tell stories to one another? I have found no evidence of this, and the general conclusion is that there is no such phenomenon clearly attributable to cetaceans or primates beyond Homo sapiens. This does not rule it out, of course. It could be that the stories they tell are incomprehensible to humanity, that we simply do not perceive their manner. Or perhaps the noble silverback gorillas or ocean-going dolphins do not deem us worthy audiences to learn of their great histories or deep genetic memories.
Do other creatures even have imagination? Is this a singular gift we alone, we Homo sapiens, we storytellers, have been allowed through a creator or by evolutionary action? Can you imagine a life on earth without being able to use your imagination? A life with no stories, no books, no songs, or no cinema with its fantastic, flickering images holding visual memories from the dawn of photography and film? Can you pause for a moment and IMAGINE how blessed we actually are to possess this sense, this perceptive capability?
A Generous Passion
Writers and storytellers create entire worlds, entire societies, entire scenarios, dramatic and comedic, that seek and invite others to enter within and gain experiences they may never have. Space travel, time travel, global travel, emotional travel, journeys through figurative and literal landscapes that are mirrors of our own reality. Then we proceed to step out and share our words with the rest of our species, to give back and spread our stories in our communities, local and global.
We share our personal gifts of perception and emotion for a variety of reasons, true. Some for profit, some for fame, some for posterity. But each crafter of a tale, each weaver of words, each spell caster of fictional events and historical occurrences is ultimately a generous gift giver to our often anonymous readers who bear witness to the imagined activities we record.
As such, we authors stand in a long line of tribal odd-fellows. Like shamans, or medicine men and women, we are the strange member of the community who stays awake and watches the skies and observes the stars. We are the moon gazers who offer myth and legend to explain and carry lessons for the benefit of the whole village, for the survival of the coming generations, perhaps, but also to pass the time around the fires, whether wood, coal, or electronic.
A United Community
No matter what form the light that keeps the dark away, the stories impel the tribe to remain close together. We are stronger together. Or they may tell us of those who went off on their own, whether by choice or by tragic accident, separated from their familiar surroundings and friends, and how they used their bravery and wits to not only survive, but flourish and ultimately return to the world.
The teller of the tale is completed by those who are practical, who accomplish the tasks that allow for daily life to continue. The hearers of the tales perpetuate the current societies by building houses, farming foods we consume, and transporting goods for the tribe to enjoy. They are the audience, the ones who need and desire the words we weave. We are united by the images conjured and perceived.
And when we ourselves are touched by a story, a book or film, we feel that rush of jealousy, admiration, wonder, and desire to increase our own ability. We reach for the goal of having a similar effect on others. As authors and creatives, we may strive for new, superior techniques that separate our tale from the past and make us unique, yet we are the culmination of our art only for the generation we exist within. The ones that follow, those that may read our words long after we have exited the planet, will build on the works and styles and patterns, and craft their own, birthing relatable tales for the society they live in. Just as we do. Just as our predecessors have done.
A Universal Connection
We are storytellers, and we are connected to the universe by the state of imagination, that strange gift of creative energy. We can say thank you to those who went before us, those we know of and those we know existed but who remain forever anonymous in the mists of wood-fire smoke and time. And we can look forward, imagining and encouraging those who will take up the torch after we're gone, the story-tellers of the future who will give back to their communities with the words they weave, who will guide and entertain and educate those future generations we will never know.
Jeffrey J. Michaels is a Gemini. As such he is deeply involved in whatever interests him at the moment. His describes his book A Day at the Beach and Other Brief Diversions as "metaphyictional," combining fantasy and humor with metaphysical elements. He is currently polishing a sweeping fantasy series of interconnected tales collectively known as The Mystical Histories. It is varied enough that he says he may even finish most of the stories. In his real life he is a well-respected creative and spiritual consultant. He does not like to talk about his award winning horror story. www.jeffreyjmichaels.com


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A Royal Navy spokesman at the scene has just said the bombs are usually about 10 metres long and this oneis deeply embedded into the seabed with just its tail showing.
Today is the team's second attempt to do a recce. They say they want to excavate around the bomb but the tide is too high and is likely they do excavation work tomorrow when the tide is expected to be lower.
Royal Navy divers are inHarwich assessing whether a German V2 rocket found in the harbour is still dangerous. The World War II rocket was reported by members of Harwich YachtClub. It's partially submerged about 200 metres out to sea.
The remains of a German V2 rocket have been discovered at Harwich in Essex.
Military explosives experts have been called to the scene and are considering whether to carry out a controlled explosion.
V2 rockets caused serious loss of life and substantial damage to towns and cities during WW2.


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Here I am in the garden laughing
an old woman with heavy breasts
and a nicely mapped face
how did this happen
well that's who I wanted to be
at last a woman
in the old style sitting
stout thighs apart under
a big skirt grandchild sliding
on off my lap a pleasant
summer perspiration
that's my old man across the yard
he's talking to the meter reader
he's telling him the world's sad story
how electricity is oil or uranium
and so forth I tell my grandson
run over to your grandpa ask him
to sit beside me for a minute I
am suddenly exhausted by my desire
to kiss his sweet explaining lips
--- Grace Paley
Grace Paley's Here
I should have posted this poem the day after I posted Gary Soto's Oranges. These two poems are perfect bookends, the beginning and ending, the alpha and omega in the life cycle of love. Whereas Oranges reminds us of that early love teaches the art of sacrificing for another person, Here is the culmination of a lifetime of sacrifices, of the grand and small acts we undertake and commit to memory as part of loving another person as much, if not more, than we love ourselves. From time-to-time I consider some of our clichés and common phrases; this can be a lucrative process. Consider the phrase "know by heart." It technically means to know something completely and wholly, no fuzziness or vagaries. You've got it and you've got it good. But why bring the heart into this definition? The figurative language is enticing and apropos in this case. It transforms our hearts into a stunningly powerful vault. To know something this completely is not to commit it solely to memory, but to commit it to your heart. It will be safe there, it will not stray or vanish. Even if your heart is to break, the things you know will still be contained amongst those broken pieces.
In Here, Grace Paley gives us an old woman and man, a couple who, in many ways, know each other by heart. The woman knows that her old man is "talking to the meter reader / he's telling him the world's sad story." How many times do you think she's heard or overheard him telling this story? Would it be fair to say she knows this story by heart? Of course. Would it also be fair to say that he knows her stories by heart? You betcha. When we commit something or someone to our hearts, the places and moments where we are confronted with the unexpected are worth savoring. This poem takes us into one of those scenes.
The poem begins with a painfully honest description and accompanying question. The woman describes herself as having "heavy breasts / and a nicely mapped face." The aging and weight of age are apparent in this description. Even if her face is "nicely mapped" that's like saying her feet are comfortably blistered or her muscles are pleasantly cramped. From this description she leads us to a question and immediate answer: "how did this happen / well that's who I wanted to be." In the course of five lines Grace Paley moves the reader in and out of deep issues and troublesome questions. She arrives at a positive scene that is emblematic of the woman's quest to find the joy in her aging, joy in the homestretch of life.
It is summer, she has a grandchild on her lap, and her husband is chitchatting with the meter reader. In the normalcy of the moment, she feels a sweet sensation: frenzied, youthful love storming inside her. She knows this feeling by heart, and still it is slightly different with each passing day. The knowledge of living another day has a conspicuous impact on our capacity to love and be loved. It is almost as if the intangibles we gain daily are slightly turning the dial and although we'll still hear music it'll always be a different station. Grace Paley's speaker in this poem has lived a full enough life that she has known many things by heart. The amazing thing about her and this poem is that she has lived this complete life, a point that Paley makes through images and diction, and yet she is still surprised by living. Not only is she surprised, but she's surprised by herself. Hearing her old man drone on about something ridiculous, she sends her grandson to retrieve him. She is "suddenly exhausted" by her "desire / to kiss his sweet explaining lips."
To close my discussion on why Here and Oranges are complimentary poems, let's focus on some of the ways these poems play off of each other. The use of adjectives in both poems is stellar. In Here, the last line requires both "sweet" and "explaining" in order for the whole poem to work. Oranges hinges on similar descriptions, such as the boy being "cold, and weighted down / with two oranges in my jacket." The adjectives and descriptions in both of these poems are far from complicated, with Soto and Paley doing their darnedest to eliminate anything that would make these poems esoteric. Comparing the boy and "his girl" from Oranges with the woman and her "old man" from Here, I get the eerie feeling that they could be the same people with a shared lifetime lived between the two poems. The poems are written by two different poets about two different couples in two different times. I'm obviously imposing my own fascinations upon these poems in claiming any kinship between them, but the world of poetry is rife with possibilities, especially when looking at poems you know by heart.


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Ask Noel: Retirement village payment options explained
Much has been written about figuring out how much money will be needed in retirement, but much less about the fact that increasing life expectancies mean the probability of living with a disability in later years is growing.
In some cases, retirees can find themselves locked into a retirement village contract that leaves them with insufficient funds to change where they live when their needs change.
Last month, retirement and aged care provider Aveo announced they will now be providing three payment options: the current contract, "Aveo Way", plus two alternatives – "Certainty" and "Essentials".
The options don't change how much you pay upfront or what you pay while you live in the village. And for all three, there is a deferred management fee (DMF) of 35% (25% in new villages). Furthermore, there's no sharing in capital gain (or loss), and the operator covers refurbishment costs and selling fees.
So what's different? Aveo Way and Essentials are all about how long you will live in the village and how quickly you want your money back when you leave. Certainty is about what happens if you choose to move from one village to another, or to a residential aged care facility – a transaction that often has people screaming about a "double DMF".
So what exactly is a double DMF?
Let's say you move into an Aveo village, paying $500,000 on entry. The value of that unit in five years' time may be $550,000, but your exit entitlement is $325,000.
If you move to an aged care facility that has a market price of $550,000, typically you would pay the $325,000 from the sale of your unit, and a daily payment at an annual interest rate of 5.96% on the $225,000 remaining, a cost of $13,410 a year. Many people cannot meet this cost from their cash flow, and so they choose to have their daily payment deducted from their lump sum.
If you wanted instead to move from village A to village B it may not be possible unless you could dip into your investments for the additional $225,000. And if you did, some or all of that could be lost on exit.
Under the original Aveo Way contract, the DMF is 35% after 3 years (25% in new villages), there is a 6-month move-in guarantee and a 6-month guaranteed buyback. Under the new Essentials contract the DMF is 35% after 5 years (25% in new villages), the move-in guarantee is shorter, at just 3 months, and the guaranteed buyback takes longer, at 12 months. Both of these leave you at risk of the double DMF scenario.
Under the Certainty contract, the DMF, move-in guarantee and guaranteed buyback are all the same as the Aveo Way contract, but if you choose to leave the village to move to another Aveo village, one of their Freedom villages, or an Aveo Residential Aged Care Facility, you can swap your unit for a similar-priced unit, apartment or aged care bed without being charged again.
Aveo's Certainty option would enable you to pay the $325,000 for the $550,000 unit or aged care bed. It's not free – the cost for this option is $2,000/year – but compared with the alternative cost this may be a bargain. The options are limited to Aveo-operated establishments, so if you want to leave Aveo to go to another operator the Certainty contract isn't going to help you. But Aveo do have over 90 villages and residential aged care facilities in their portfolio, so there are potentially a lot of options.
Aged Care Guru Rachel Lane suggests crunching the numbers on retirement villages, remembering to break it down into the ingoing, ongoing and outgoing costs - simply comparing what you pay upfront will ignore most of the key information. Seeking advice from a specialist adviser will ensure you understand the implications for your pension and potentially rent assistance too, your ability to fund your new lifestyle and what position you would be in if you needed to access home care or transition to residential aged care.
- Noel Whittaker is the author of Making Money Made Simple and numerous other books on personal finance. email@example.com