text:
Stay up-to-date with new technologies and innovations by joining one of our thirteen topical Focus Groups. Use the form below to sign-up for the Focus Group(s) relevant to your interests. Ctrl + Click will allow you to select multiple Focus Groups.
Utilities - Sign Up for a Focus Area
Consultants & Other Parties Interested In Innovation
Subscribe to our newsletters and you'll receive timely information about everything going on with WRF Innovation, including research updates, upcoming webcasts and events, information on technology spotlights and featured facilities, and more!
Consultants - Subscribe to Our Newsletters
Join WRF TechLink and discover new technologies and research needs; connect with others with similar needs, technology interests, and desired expertise; and collaborate on research and technology ideas, proposals, projects, demonstrations, and implementation.
Request access to WRF TechLink by emailing us the following information: First Name, Last Name, Title, Email, Company/Organization, Address, City, State, Zip, and Country.


text:
●Sexy & Shiny Design: Special Zinc alloy connectors highlights the unique and fashion in you.
●Tangle-Free: 3.3ft USB cord has 4000+ bends test ensuring a longer lifespan than ordinary cables.Great companion of your car, powerbank, and cell phone.
Extra Durability: High temperature resistance and corrosion resistant. Reinforced stress points are more durable than ordinary cables.
●High Speed: Up to 7% faster than standard cables,480Mbps in data transmission via USB 2.0, compatible with Samsung, LG , Android smart phones and more.
●What You Get: Anypro 3ft tangle-free cable, a pouch, 12 months warranty and friendly, lifetime -technical support.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Products > Lenses
There are no products matching your filter criteria.Please change your filters to see more product.
1,5 Megapixel
2 Megapixel
3 Megapixel
5 Megapixel
9 Megapixel
10 Megapixel
12 Megapixel
23 Megapixel
1" Lens
3 CCD Lens
Fish Eye
Line Scan Lens
S - Mount (board)
Telecentric Lens
SWIR Lenses
Enter your email address for Vision Light Tech news,special offers and product announcements.
Concept & realisation Rosegaar.nl


text:
Request a Call Back
Generic Cialis
Generic Levitra
Kamagra Oral Jelly
Generic Zyban
Generic Propecia
Generic Amoxil
- About Us
- Objective
- Medications Quality
- Medications Facts
- Disclosure
samrx.com – An Active Online Pharmacy Store For All Your Health Concerns
samrx.com is an online drug store that deals in superior quality generic, over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medications like generic Levitra, kamagra, generic Viagra, tadapox etc. This pharmacy has contributed for betterment of the pharmaceutical industry by entering the online world for selling drugs. This also allows samrx.com to serve a broader customer-segment with clients from all around the world. Ensuring customer satisfaction and affordability is amongst the primary aims of our pharmacy. We also ensure timely delivery of ordered products with necessary precautions and desire to educate our customers.
We take pleasure in being a part of this reputed organization and serving patients from various corners of the earth by catering them with quality medications according to their healthcare needs. We only supply medications, which have ingredients that are approved by the drug regulatory bodies, such as the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and the WHO (World Health Organization).
samrx.com understands the significance of customer information and its protection, thus we give utmost importance to them by employing sophisticated techniques like difficult-to-breach mechanism to feed, processing and storing data in an encrypted format. This ensures customer safety and no unauthorized person can get his hands on such crucial data. Generic Viagra is the best buy on our website.
samrx.com – being a reliable and prominent online pharmacy firm – focuses on providing high quality drugs at relatively lower cost and concurrently ensuring customers' satisfaction. We constantly try to mold our business in such a way that it becomes oriented towards customer's interest. In the same course, we exhibit a wide range of medicines to meet various healthcare requirements of customers, specific to health issues like men and women's sexual health, hair loss, obesity, allergy, bacterial infections and many more.
As mentioned earlier, Customer Satisfaction and Customer Data Safety are amongst our prime objectives. For any relevant queries and concerns, we suggest our clients to get in touch with our Customer Support Team, which is available at your service round-the-clock. This helps us to serve our patrons better and guarantee satisfaction in regards with services.
We strive in the best way possible to meet our primary objectives that are mentioned above and thus we have set-up a user-friendly web interface for our customers to navigate through our site and place order with great ease and comfort. Furthermore, to educate our customers with relevant healthcare topics, we have integrated a 'Blog' section on samrx.com, where updates are done regularly.
In the spectrum of online pharmacies, samrx.com has gained a significant stance owing to the practice of selling only high-quality medications, which are approved by the prominent medicinal drug regulatory agencies, such as the FDA and WHO. This alone speaks of the safety and quality of medications available in our website. However, to further emphasize on the quality of medications, we always buy them from licensed and renowned pharmaceutical corporations that work in advanced scientific pharmaceutical set-ups. We, furthermore, analyze that medical products here are pretty safe in use and to ensure this point we have our in-house team who inspect every medicine-pack that are stocked.
We deal exclusively in quality generic medicines such as Generic Viagra, Kamagra, Generic Cialis, Tadapox, Sildenafil Citrate, Generic Zanaflex, Generic Zyban, Generic Propecia, Generic Allegra, Generic Amoxil, etc. The aforementioned generic drugs are easily available at our website, that too at relatively reasonable rates.
When it comes to packaging and shipping, samrx.com uses advanced tools and techniques to ensure hygienic and sophisticated service. Medicines are packed in a secured way, which protects the quality of the medicine even when it is in transportation. This ensures that the medicine reaches the buyer in optimum quality state.
samrx.com is a genuine online pharmacy that distributes standard generic therapeutic drugs. Consumers are generally skeptical in regards with efficacy and quality of generic medications, but it should be understood that these generic drugs are as effective as their respective branded counterparts and here are some of the reasons –
The chemical compositions of these generic medicines, including type and quantity of ingredients mixed, are absolutely as same as the respective branded medicines.
The active ingredients in Generic Medicines are approved by medical bodies, like the FDA and WHO; hence, they are regarded as safe for the consumption.
Particularly, the FDA has set rules for generic medicines and every manufacturer of such generic versions should abide by these regulations before the medicine is even marked safe for distribution and use.
Generic medicines are same in terms of efficacy, promptitude, usage instructions, effect-longevity, side effects, precautions, warnings, etc., in comparison with branded ones. Generic Viagra is our best selling product till now.
samrx.com is an online drugs store, which caters high-class medicines to buyers around the globe. Contents uploaded on our site are purely for informational and referral purpose. The data on this website should not be substituted for personalized instructions from a certified doctor or any other healthcare professional. One should not consider the descriptions for self-treatment, curing health issues, prevention of issues, etc. We always recommend seeing a doctor first who can suggest appropriate medicine and suitable dosages.
Customers should take the responsibility for any advantages, adversities, side effects, complications and augmented results that are developed after use of any medicine bought from samrx.com. We do not take any responsibility for any sort of outcomes of the medicine in any-which ways. The reason for lower cost of the medicine is that we buy medicines in bulk and thus we can maintain our margins lower, but we never compromise on the quality of the healthcare product.
Why Trust samrx.com?
Legitimacy and certified business – Unlike other web pharmacies that operate without following any strict rules and regulations, samrx.com is a legitimate healthcare website that strictly follows standard business protocols and guidelines laid by the authorized drug regulatory agencies.
The FDA-approved medications – We offer people the kind of satisfaction they get when they receive authentic generic and branded medicines. Our strict policy is to cater FDA-approved drugs only.
Protection from online infringements – We protect every bit of private information of the clients to safeguard them from online frauds and violations.
High quality generic drugs at low price – We offer best quality service and generic drugs like kamagra, silagra, generic Viagra at some surprisingly competitive price.
Quick and efficient delivery – samrx.com provides quick and efficient delivery of the ordered products with all the necessary precautionary measures.
Branded v/s Generic Medicine
In simple words, a generic medicine is a copy of a brand-name drug, which has absolutely same ingredient, dosage, potency, route of administration, usage instructions, drug reactions, precautionary measures, and safety as the original branded medicine.
For instance, a generic drug used for male impotency is Sildenafil Citrate. A brand name for Sildenafil Citrate is Viagra, while Generic Viagra, Kamagra, Suhagra, Penegra and Zenegra are the generic versions. A generic medicine works exactly as same as the branded counterpart and it is often cheaper than the brand-name version. Generics can be used effectively and safely, as the FDA also approves them.
Factually, a generic drug is cheaper because the Pharmacy Corporations need not require to spend money on the developing and marketing the drug. When an organization introduces the drug to the market, the company has already afforded considerable money on clinical research, development, promotion and marketing of the drug.
Why To Buy Generic Viagra Online From samrx.com?
With increasing incidental rate of impotency, millions of men search for various generic medical products to improve their sexual function. We suggest people to buy Generic Viagra online from our website because we provide genuine and FDA-approved generic ED drugs. We offer generic medicines at some real pocket-friendly price than the branded counterpart. Also generic Viagra is available in various forms like generic Viagra soft tabs, oral jelly and softgel capsule. Consequently, we provide special offers with certain terms and conditions. We specialize in following offers –
Amazing discounts on bulk purchase of generic viagra
Free express and regular shipping
Money back guarantee (if not satisfied with service or product – conditions applied)
Samrx Updates
Reasons To Buy Generic Medications At Online Pharmacy
September 21, 2015
Everyone wants to shop without getting out from their sofa couch. So technology has brought a great way to do shopping without stepping out, online pharmacy. You can make use of the web drug store to get your orders at your doorstep. What more reasons you can look forward to buy generic medication at online Read More
Smoking Causes Long-Standing Effects on Physical Activity
August 18, 2015
If you are a chronic smoker and unable to reap the benefits of exercise, then you should blame yourself for smoking. Smoking is responsible for innumerable health hazards. Prolonged smoking causes long-standing effects on physical activity or exercise.Copyright © 2016 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other Read More
Silagra – A Promising Approach To Impotence
August 10, 2015
Impotence, a debilitating sexual disorder, has created a lot of negative impact on millions of men, across the world. A medical condition that has greatly hampered many lives and relationships. However, there is always a ray hope for impotent men and this time it's Silagra, an anti-impotent medicine, which has proved to be a promising Read More
Customer Reviews
Texas, United States
Though I was a bit nervous before ordering it because many negative thoughts were creeping in my mind. But to my surprise, I received my order within the expected date.
Utah, United States
Hi! I'm Mark and I was searching for a good internet medical store to buy generic viagra, because I'm a victim of impotence. Fortunately, I came across this website that provided me genuine generic products at some expected price. Thanks to generic Viagra and samrx too.
Many thanks to samrx for making my sexual life happening again.
I am an online parasite. I always prefer buying things through internet, regardless of what I want. After buying generic viagra from so many online websites, I reckon samrx.com is one of the best stores. It offered me surprising discounts on certain medicines, especially on generic Viagra.
Purchased so many generic medicines from samrx and I must say it's the best online store to buy generic medications. I got best offers on kamagra, silagra and generic Viagra. My wife also like lovegra from this website.


text:
Alert fatigue is a problem for many doctors and nurses . . . This has created concerns that more urgent alerts might get overlooked, which could put patients at risk.
Rockville, MD (PRWEB) March 30, 2013
A significant benefit of EMR software systems is the ability to send automated alerts that notify physicians about information such as a patient's lab results. But a new article on the CTS Medical Software Blog questions whether these alerts improve patient care or actually put them at greater risk. Written by Sheldon Needle, President of CTS, which is a leading publisher of medical software reviews and evaluation tools, "EMR / EHR Alerts and Crying Wolf" asks whether the routine use of EMR alerts is causing doctors to overlook the urgent notifications.
In his article, Needle, a medical industry consultant with over 30 years of experience evaluating software, poses several thought-provoking questions that physicians and medical practice managers should ask about their current EMR / EHR alert system. To reinforce his concerns, Needle also cites a recent report that states, due to "alert fatigue," 30% of doctors had failed to notice important test results that were sent to them via EMR alerts.
"Alert fatigue is a problem for many doctors and nurses who say that frequent EMR notifications have almost become an unhelpful 'noise,'" Needle states. "This has created concerns that more urgent alerts might get overlooked, which could put patients at risk. Fortunately, electronic health records systems are getting smarter which means that healthcare professionals and their patients don't have to be victims of an EHR system that cries wolf."
Medical practices that are considering new EMR / EHR software can read Needle's full editorial here. Visitors are also invited to download CTS' free Medical Software Selection Kit.
Established in 1983 by Sheldon Needle, CTS was the first company to perform hands-on, independent evaluations of software for the middle market. Since then CTS has helped over 23,000 companies select new software and technology. Today, CTS offers software reviews, ratings, evaluation tools and expert advice that help physicians and other healthcare professionals select medical practice management software. The company's recourses are also widely used by consultants and software resellers to assist their clients during the software selection process.
A former CFO, consultant and software designer, Sheldon Needle has authored or co-authored more than 20 books on software selection and has contributed articles to major publications, including the Journal of Accountancy and Nation's Business. CTS was the very first company to do hands-on, independent evaluations of software for the middle market. Sheldon speaks with business owners and managers every day about construction software selection and makes personalized recommendations based on their needs and budget. He is widely known and respected throughout the business software community for his independence, integrity and software selection expertise.


text:
Shannon is a young aspiring writer – fifteen years old – from Pinawa MB, with hopes to make a career in writing. She competed in a national spelling bee at the age of twelve, and this along with her love of reading ignited a passion for writing. Since then, Shannon has been published in three anthologies of short stories, and one of poetry. Recently, she completed a novel-length manuscript in historical fiction based on the life of Helen of Troy, following her tragic life from childhood to death. She has also met the National Novel Writing Month challenge twice (writing 50,000 words in one month). Now, Shannon continues to write short stories, and has begun work on a second novel, while still wondering what to do with the first. Shannon is very grateful for any tips or advice from more experienced writers!
Published Work:
"The Death of Revenge", Formation, Polar Expressions Publishing, 2010
"Ribbon of Angels", The Iron Horse, Polar Expressions Publishing, 2011
"Cataclysm", Inkspots, Polar Expressions Publishing, 2011
"Elements of Canada", The Calling, Polar Expressions Publishing, 2011


text:
Tweet Adder crashes all the time, this is no big news. But there is a way to stop Tweet Adder from crashing. As the full automation of the follow / unfollow process has disappeared from Tweet Adder 4.0, you have to do it manually but everytime you want to follow a couple of users, you get crashes and crashes again. To prevent Tweet Adder from crashing, there is really simple solution, one just had to think about it.
Another crash on Tweet Adder
The problem comes from the loading of the user's photos (which is not really useful by the way as I don't use the photo as a criteria for my targeting), you just need to go in the Settings then tick the box « Load Twitter profile images ». And that's it!
You can now continue spamming people as before. Just kidding, but do not forget to use Tweet Adder carefully to target precise people and not to send random follow request. It's not good for your credibility and you will not get the expected results. So your Tweet Adder is crashing everytime you use it? Just watch the video
Tweet Adder crashed ? You are not alone
Tutorial / How to stop Tweet Adder from crashing


text:
What's the Mememing of This: Students post memes of PSAT questions
October 28, 2015
Students nationwide risked getting their PSAT scores cancelled by posting memes and jokes based on the test questions on social media moments after completing the test.
On Wednesday, October 14, 3.5 million high school students across the nation sat in their seats and prepared to take the PSAT. PSAT stands for Preliminary SAT, which is considered a shorter, practice SAT.
The test is four hours long, and covers reading, writing, and math. Before students take this test, they are required to sign a contract stating, "You may not discuss the contents of the test with anyone else, or share them through any means, including, but not limited to, emails, text messages, and the Internet until after score reports have been distributed."
As soon as students completed the test and headed off for lunch, they began to post about all the content, calling it "2015 PSAT Memes."
Within an hour of the end of the test, there were over a hundred thousand tweets about the test.
"We appreciate that students share their experiences on social media, [but] as part of their test experience, they have acknowledged that they will not share specific test content." said CollegeBoard spokesman Zach Goldberg to Washington Post.
Later that day, social media accounts dedicated to spreading the memes began to pop up, like the Twitter account @PSATof2015, which only tweeted jokes related to the test.
"I don't think I would be affected for participating in the memes, it relates more to the names mentioned in the PSAT, it doesn't answer any specific questions," Ryanna Henson, a sophomore who took the test, said.
After #PSAT became a worldwide trending topic on twitter, the College Board took notice and encouraged students to "tweet responsibly." They even replied to a student and said, "Glad you had fun w/ the test, but we ask students not to share test content, Please delete this tweet. #NoOffenseBey"
Summer Winn, Ann Richards Testing Coordinator agrees with the college board. "Their scores could be cancelled. If I heard about certain people [posting], I would have to do something."
Since 2003, PSAT jokes have been all over social media, and although the jokes have started to die down, there is no sign of it stopping next year.
"The College Board is aware of it, and they can't stop it, but I don't think they're offended at this point," Henson said. "Memes can't educate people, but they're entertaining."


text:
The more Sony Pictures data keeps leaking, the more my moral compass spins like a weather vane in a hurricane.
What just a week ago seemed such a clear-cut case of doing what my instincts have told me to do at every other moment of my career is now making me increasingly queasy. It's getting harder for me to report on the contents of Sony's leak without wondering whether I'm somehow complicit with these nefarious hackers by relaying the details of seemingly every pilfered terabyte.
Salaries. Budgets. Scripts. Aliases. On the one hand, I'm drawn to discovering what I'm not supposed to ever know, like the warm conviviality Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal enjoy. On the other hand, I'm repelled by the circumstances by which this opportunity has come to pass.
Let's get real: The hackers are playing the press as pawns. Journalists are essentially doing their bidding by taking the choicest data excerpts and waving them around for the world to see, maximizing their visibility.
No doubt Sony sees the press right now like a zombie mob from "The Walking Dead," mindlessly staggering from one carcass to another to consume parts of what the hackers already killed.
From the beginning, Variety has not shied away from reporting on what has emerged from the data to date. That isn't to say absolutely everything that pops up will be duly noted in our publication — personally identifiable information about execs, for instance, would be one no-no.
But my mounting misgivings have forced me to explain to myself what all this reporting is really about. While I found a lot to question about the rationales, ultimately I've arrived at an uneasy peace with why the leaks just can't be ignored.
When ethical boundaries get murky, it's only natural to grab for some sense of precedent. The one that comes to mind for me is a relatively recent example: the celebrity nude photo leak in October that besmirched the good names of everyone from Jennifer Lawrence to Ariana Grande.
These young women clearly had their privacy invaded. There was a lot of justifiable hand-wringing in the press about the plight of these women, but why is there none of that for the corporations? Their privacy has been invaded as well, albeit in a different way.
Nude photos weren't hacked at Sony, but it's interesting that while nudity is deservedly considered to be crossing the line, financial records aren't accorded a measure of respect as well. Rest assured that SPE chairman Michael Lynton would probably rather you see his private parts than the company's movie budgets.
The difference between nude celebrity photos and the leaked Sony data, respectable media outlets will argue, is only the latter is "newsworthy." But what does that really mean?
Perhaps "newsworthy" is as simple for some publications as "if readers are interested in it, then it is newsworthy." For others, "newsworthy" conveys some vague sense of the material being important.
Edward Snowden surely qualified for the latter notion: He shared with the press information he stole because he felt it was vital for a democracy to get a fuller understanding of how its government operated. The ends justified the means, some would argue.
But Sony is not a government; conflating the imperatives behind covering a government and a corporation feels like a false equivalence to me. Both are sizable institutions, but am I, as a journalist, entitled to see every last spreadsheet a private company has even if they were stolen just because I report on Sony the way, say, Glenn Greenwald reports on Snowden? Were it not for the example the Snowden affair set, I'm not so sure the press would have leapt on the data from the Sony leak as zealously as it did.
In the absence of upholding a healthy democracy, what is the justification of our coverage here? We can cite the executives mentioned in these leaks as "public figures" who merit any and all scrutiny, but again, false equivalence: We can take extraordinary means to uncover something about President Obama, but doing the same for the CEO of a corporation who isn't suspected of any malfeasance—that's different. We've seen the leaks unearth instances of questionable judgment and poor taste, but no actual misconduct.
For some publications, I suspect publishing the leaks really amounts to little more than thinly veiled schadenfreude. Because Sony is a powerful entity, the pretense can be floated that exposing the data has some importance. But really, the press loves a great narrative just as much as a movie studio, and here we're just casting Sony in the villainous role of the greedy capitalist machine getting what it deserves. There's no true need to expose every aspect of its inner workings, but because Sony isn't as sympathetic a character as say, selfie-snapping ingénues, no one is going to mind if the press appropriates the stolen data.
Let's entertain some hypotheticals here; adjusting the optics brings the larger issue into focus. What if instead of Sony, it was your favorite charity organization or advocacy group that had its documents leaked? Would journalists descend on that data with equal fervor or give them a pass?
Better yet, let's take hacking out of the equation altogether: What if suspected hacker North Korea bombed Culver City? Can I sift through the rubble for Sony executives' hard drives?
Outlandish as that sounds, it's also strange that because the nature of the Sony attack was virtual instead of physical, it's fair game to scavenge for data. Trust me, when Sony gets the clean-up bill from the hacking, the distinction between a physical and virtual attack may not seem arbitrary.
Perhaps all data is not created equal; some information rises to the level of truly newsworthy while others do not. Even there, moral clarity feels hard to come by. Serving up gossipy tidbits like what aliases Sony-affiliated celebrities use when they check into hotels might seem more deplorable than divulging actual financial records because the latter smacks of more substantive journalism. But don't be so sure. If the information being shared reveals to its partners or competitors something that can harm Sony's business, gossip may be less pernicious.
Of course, it's not my job to help Sony's business. Which gets at what I also think is really motivating the current coverage: In an industry where public relations attempts to control the flow of information with a very heavy hand, there's something very liberating about watching that hand get blown to smithereens by the Sony hack. But that doesn't make exploiting that destruction right.
There are those publications who have aggregated news of the data dug up by others instead of doing it themselves. While the distinction shouldn't make much of a difference, this is where the impossibility of steering clear of this story comes in. Were a publication to report on the fact of the Sony hack and merely allude broadly to the data that has been disclosed, a tiptoe dance around the data itself begins. To convey the enormity of what Sony had stolen with any degree of specificity is to feel the quicksand pull of what's so awfully hard to avoid here.
What's particularly problematic is that even were a publication to abstain from publishing leaked material, dozens of others will do so regardless. Unfortunately, the data is in the public domain for all to consume. That in turn propels a news cycle from which a publication that stands apart risks looking out of the loop. Should information from a leak force someone like Rudin to make a public apology, how do you report on the apology without citing what he is apologizing for?
But what makes partaking of the Sony data truly unavoidable is that publishing content from the hack isn't materially different what business journalists do every day. For instance, what if instead of sharing Pascal's salary from a purloined document, a trusted source discloses that information to me on the phone?
Either way, information that I am not supposed to know has been transmitted to me; should I draw a red line around information that is typed on a computer as opposed to communicated verbally? Should I draw another red line around information when it comes in too great a volume, as it did in the form of the hack?
Journalism is, in some sense, permissible thievery. We occasionally catch wind of what our subjects would rather us not know, and we don't hesitate to report it if it contributes to an understanding of what we're writing about. But the way it came to light in this instance makes me wish this never happened.
Every reporter has fantasized about stumbling upon a treasure trove of secret documents. So when a story such as Sony is spread in front of us in all its unprecedented scope, it's instinctive for us to pounce. But this time around, acting on that reflex just doesn't feel right…even though it isn't wrong.


text:
Review: Jazz Winnipeg's Listening Party with DJ Hunnicutt @ Half Pints Brewing
I enjoy being a solo concert-goer. Concerts, shows and events aren't social situations for me, so it's rare for me to feel uncomfortable alone. However tonight, I wished I'd brought someone with me.
Here's what happened:
I walked into Half Pints Brewing, which is a small, well-lit bar in an area of town that feels deserted. A very friendly, bubbly woman greeted me at the door and took my ticket (Jodie?).
Then I moseyed over to the bar and asked for an orange juice, which seemed to stump the bartender because my ticket included one free beer. She found me a non-alcoholic drink and I meandered over to a long couch and asked if I could sit down.
A nice woman said the rest of their party hadn't shown up yet and offered me one of the stools next to the couch instead. The group introduced themselves to me as "Nopht", "Greepek" and "Mmsalp", or at least that's what I heard because I'm horrible with names.
While I was in the washroom, a man from Half Pints Brewing spoke to the crowd about Half Pints and their connection to Jazz Winnipeg and explained the different types of beer they were offering that night. Then Michael Falk from Jazz Winnipeg introduced DJ Hunnicutt and he started the listening party.
He told us a bit about his love of Jazz and how he was looking forward to spinning some records for us because he couldn't spin them in clubs anymore due to the unpopularity of the genre.
He discovered Jazz through Hip Hop samples and played A Tribe Called Quest's "Excursions" followed by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messenger's "A Chant For Bu". Then he asked us what Jazz and Hip Hop have in common. He went into a bit of music history and then concluded that both genres were started by marginalized people making music with what they could find.
I love music history and I was totally interested in what he was saying, but it was at this point I realized my priorities were completely off. This is what I think the priorities were of those around me:
- Socialize with friends
- Drink beer
- Listen to Jazz during lull in conversations
These were my priorities:
- Listen and learn more about Jazz
- Introduce myself to Michael Falk from Jazz Winnipeg
See that? Conflicting priorities right there…
DJ Hunnicutt went on to play selections from Freddie Hubbard and The Jack DeJohnette Complex, describing why both artists and songs were important to him and the crowd talked.
He played Gregory Porter, who I'm very interested in seeing in concert at The Burt on June 22, and the crowd talked.
He played Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Andy Bey and a song from Jimmy Scott that "makes you want to sit down with a box of Kleenex and examine your life choices" and the crowd talked.
They talked so much, that at one point, a woman Shazam'd the Andy Bey song because her group didn't catch the name of it due to all the talking. There was also a Pokemon Go announcement between songs which I didn't understand because I don't play the game and was too busy trying to listen to Jazz.
On the drive home I thought maybe I'm too hard core for my own good. Maybe I should have tried harder to be "normal" and brought someone with me. But realistically, I would have been irritated that I had to make polite conversation when all I really wanted to do was listen to Jazz; which I couldn't really hear anyway.
So maybe this wasn't the event for me. I got the impression though, that everyone else really enjoyed it.
If you're interested, Jazz Winnipeg will be holding another listening party next month at a different venue. Check their website (www.jazzwinnipeg.com) for more details!
"Listening" not required. 😉
Good night!
TicketMOMster is a Rock and Jazz-loving Mom; single-handedly keeping Ticketmaster alive in Winnipeg. Follow her musical journey here: www.facebook.com/TicketMOMs


text:
Reuzel' Grooming Tonic creates a long-lasting but natural feeling hold. Perfect for blow-drying and all types of thermal styling, grooming tonic is ideal when volume or texture is desired.
Thermal styling
Ideal for volume and lift
Wet look
How to use
Dispense into the palm of the hand, rub hands together and apply to damp hair. Comb through for even distribution and proceed to style. Reactivate by wetting hair with our hair tonic or water
More from Reuzel


text:
When you combine over 50 years of quick-on-your-feet experience with a large and still growing footprint of distributors, growers, and purchasers, there's no need, no pipeline problem we can't solve. For us this isn't a job, it's a mission. And we do it better than anyone. So bring it on. We do whatever it takes.
For five decades we've been building relationships through consistent and steady partnership. It's how business should work.
A huge part of our day-to-day operations involves talking. So we don't mince words. We say what we mean and mean what we say.
Our network and experience make us masters of the produce pipeline. We keep it flowing because we know it from every angle.
From growing patterns and natural particulars to logistical data, we use deep-well knowledge to guide our decisions and solutions.
For the last 12 years, David has played an active role in the buying and selling of fresh produce from coast-to-coast. As President and CEO, David works with the board and the executive management team to establish long and short-term goals, operating plans and strategic leadership. A University of Michigan grad, David currently lives in Chicago's West Loop with his wife and daughter. Together, they enjoy traveling and enjoying Chicago's fantastic restaurant scene.
Jeff brings a unique skill set to The Ruby Company including generating growth strategies and identifying ways to add value across our challenging supply chain. With a hand in just about every corner of the business, he provides invaluable strategic oversight. Jeff is a graduate from the University of Iowa and currently resides in a suburb of Chicago with his wife and three kids. Jeff enjoys spending time with the fam, working out, learning from weird and unique podcasts.
Josh comes to The Ruby Company with significant experience in the foodservice industry including consulting, agency, global manufacturing, and broadline distribution. At Ruby, Josh is responsible for corporate strategy formulation and execution across various sectors of the business, forming new business and strategic partnerships, corporate marketing, business development and operations. Josh graduated from the Eli Broad School of Business at Michigan State University and lives in Chicago's West Loop with his girlfriend and their dog. In his free time, Josh enjoys working out, dining out, craft cocktails, and traveling the globe.
After nine years with the business, Mike has his finger on The Ruby Company pulse. Today Mike focuses on developing strategic partnerships with packing sheds, growers, and shippers. Mike ensures that we have the best quality produce to ship and that we can support our customers' needs every day, with every order. Mike also plays a vital role in the sales and operations of our Sweet Mama Watermelons. A graduate of Concordia University with degrees in management and marketing, he now lives with his wife and daughter in a suburb of Chicago.
Adam manages value-added services and customized vendor and distributor partnerships. Not content to simply stare at a computer screen, he also puts his 15 years with the business to work, maintaining a key sales position focused on selling potatoes, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, melons, and international veg. A graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in Agri-Business, focusing on finance, Adam lives in Chicago with his wife and his daughter. An avid golfer, he enjoys traveling the country in search of the next best course.


text:
REVEALED: The 10 most played Prince tracks of the 21st century
The music world is still in mourning over the loss of Prince, who died last week at the age of 57.
And while the world remembers the superstar for everything that made him great, we want to know which songs you have been playing since the tragic news broke.
As a tribute to the artist, music licensing company PPL has released its official list of his most played songs, since the year 2000.
Featuring 10 songs, the chart was created using official UK airplay data.
1. 1999, released in 1982
Most Popular
2. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, released in 1994
3. Kiss, released in 1986
4. When Doves Cry, released in 1984
5. Raspberry Beret, released in 1985
6. Little Red Corvette, released in 1983
7. Purple Rain, released in 1984
8. Diamonds And Pearls, released in 1991
9. U Got The Look, released in 1987
10. Let's Go Crazy, released in 1984


text: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:06:28AM -0500, Sean Boudreau wrote: > security/PAM uses /usr/bin/install during the install > phase rather than the pkgsrc version. Is there a > better way to address this other than patching the > configure script? No, not really. I would recomment against using security/PAM anyway. Joerg


text:
Those of you who have been looking for the popular social Odnoklassniki iPhone app have been met with a shock in recent days. Odnoklassniki for iPhone has been removed from the App Store and it looks like there is no indication on if it will return.
We have had a look for the app ourselves but cannot find it. A few months ago, the app was live and available to download for free – we even told you about this here in a previous article when we suggested that it would be a great idea for an Odnoklassniki iPhone app in English to be available.
Just for further confirmation, we captured this cache page of the app on iTunes before it was removed, so this is a change that has only just happened recently.
So far, Apple hasn't given an explanation as to why Odnoklassniki is no longer available on the app store. We have already been contacted by our own readers too who are wondering what has happened to the app and why it has suddently been removed.
Is this a social app that you were using or were looking for, before it was removed by Apple? Let us know if you have any observations to share on this story. We'll update you if we hear from Apple regarding the removal.
*Identifying Monetised Links - outgoing links that we monetise are marked with an '*' symbol.


text:
The 7 Secrets of Highly Effective Retrospectives
Retrospectives are the core of agility. And yet they are the scrum ceremony that is most frequently skipped. Many teams like the idea of the retrospective but find them boring, or worse ineffective.
This talk aims to re-energize retrospective facilitators and participants. Starting with the basics: "what's a retrospective and how do you run one?", this talk reveals 7 secrets that lead to more engaging, more effective retrospectives.
You'll learn:
* The best way to ensure your retrospectives lead to real change
* The "pledge" everyone on your team should take before participating
* How to know who to include in each retrospective
* The single most important thing you can do to keep your team engaged during the retro
* And much, much more!
Outline/Structure of the Talk
Warmup (5 minutes) - warmup exercise around auctioning off a $20 bill. gets the audience engaged and leads to people thinking about how they would do better if they were to participate again (i.e., a retrospective on the intro).
Intro to retrospectives (5 min) - why retrospect? why are they so important? how do you run one? This portion of the talk covers the 5 phases of a good retrospective (Set the Stage, Gather data, Generate Insights, Deciding What to Do, and Closing the Retro). The idea is to ensure the audience has a common set of knowledge on the topic, before diving into the meat of the talk.
The 7 "Secrets" (30 min) -
Secret #1 - How to encourage followup by using Circles and Soup
Secret #2 - How to level the playing field if you have a distributed retrospective
Secret #3 - "Alternative" retrospectives (continuous retros, personal retros, & futurespectives)
Secret #4 - Thinking of retrospective action items as experiments
Secret #5 - Focus on one thing at a time
Secret #6 - The value of running appreciation exercises
Secret #7 - The Retrospective Prime Directive
Closing (5 min) - Q&A
Learning Outcome
People new to retrospectives will come away with a good foundation on the topic. More experienced participants will come away with some new ideas on how to "level-up" their retrospectives. Everyone will walk away with a deeper understanding of why retrospectives are so important and hopefully will re-energize them to start innovating more on their retrospective practices.
Target Audience
Scrum Masters and Agile Team Members who want to level up their retrospective abilities
I've given this talk on many occasions. Here are a few public links:
Agile Indy 2016 - http://agileindy.org/conference/
DC Scrum User Group - http://www.meetup.com/DC-Scrum/events/228807928/
NYC Scrum Userg Group - http://www.meetup.com/DC-Scrum/events/228807928/?gj=ro2_e&rv=ro2_e&_af=event&_af_eid=228807928&https=off
Agile NOVA Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/agilenova/events/228750941/
DC Area Scaled Agilists Meetup - http://www.agiletrailblazers.com/-temporary-slug-834f076a-5ff3-4b12-a073-24eda6da3359?hs_preview=pOrrUOwL-4097378512
schedule Submitted 6 years ago
People who liked this proposal, also liked:
Johanna Rothman - Becoming an Agile Leader, Regardless of Your RoleJohanna RothmanPragmatic ManagerRothman Consulting Group, Inc
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Agile is about the ability to inspect and adapt to change. Can we become adaptable agile leaders? You don't need to change your title. You might not need to change where you sit in the organization. You will need to change your mindset to have the courage to lead.
Johanna will discuss how you can develop an agile mindset, seeing and living the "art of the possible." We'll discuss how your mindset influences your change artistry tools, and maybe even what you call yourself. We'll see how to learn from small successes and continue to make progress, as you change yourself and your organization. You can start your change by changing your mindset to be one of change artistry and leadership.
Fadi Stephan - Fostering Self-organizing TeamsFadi StephanTechnology Consultant, Agile Coach and TrainerKaizenko
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
One of the 12 principles of the Agile manifesto states that "The best architecture, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams." Why is that? and what exactly are self-organizing teams? How does a team become self-organizing? Teams that have always been used to command and control cannot suddenly become self-organizing overnight. Come to this session to learn what self-organizing really means. Understand the attributes of a self-organizing team and some of the challenges you face in getting your team there. Understand how to find the right balance between team learning and team empowerment vs. control? Leave with techniques to help you build and foster high performing self-organizing teams.
George Paci / David W Kane - CardUnit: A Unit Testing SimulationGeorge PaciSr. DevOps EngineerMAXIMUSDavid W KaneSolution ArchitectGeneral Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
It can be difficult for developers to find the motivation to write automated unit tests. This workshop introduces a simulation that can demonstrate the value of automated unit tests to identify and localize defects. In the simulation, participants will play the roles of programs and tests. We will discuss barriers to creating and maintaining unit tests, and how this simulation addresses those barriers.
Theme: Games for Learning, Code and Test
(We have not published slides for this workshop. "Slides" link below is to representative slides from other presentations.)
Dan Neumann - Improve Your Team: Explore Cognitive BiasDan NeumannSr. Agile CoachAgileThought
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Many team challenges can be tracked back to cognitive biases: our judgement gets anchored, we think we're better than we are, and we are our own favorite reference point. And even though we're encouraged to "think outside the box," there are conditions where we have a bias against creativity. If that's not a recipe for a tough team environment, I don't know what is.
Improve your game by learning about bias! You'll leave this session with strategies for identifying and mitigating bias on your team.
Shawn Faunce - The Awkward Teenager of Testing: Exploratory TestingShawn FaunceSr. Lead TechnologistBooz Allen Hamilton
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
We think we understand that awkward teenager.
Many experienced testers will claim exploratory testing expertise, but too few have ever written an exploratory testing charter, and even fewer have applied a heuristic in that charter. We think we understand exploratory testing just as we think we understand teenagers, because "we have been there". However the reality is that many of the words currently used in exploratory testing are foreign to us and we feel awkward about our lack of knowledge. The goal of this talk is to give people experience writing and executing exploratory testing charters, creating mind maps, and applying exploratory testing heuristics.
The talk is intended to introduce people to the exploratory testing techniques described by Elisabeth Hendrickson in her book Explore It! with some added material from the work of Cem Kaner and James Bach.
Matthieu Cornillon - OKRs and Agile: Achieving HarmonyMatthieu CornillonAmplify
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
In October, 2015, my company was sold by their parent and taken on by a new investor. We lost somewhere around half of our staff, but we still had 15 years of legacy tech to maintain while simultaneously finding a new path to profitability. Morale was extremely low across the engineering organization. Leaders from engineering gathered in a board room with executive management to figure out next steps.
What started in that board room evolved into our current use of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to provide a middle tier of guidance between company vision and sprint planning. We have also adopted a new tool to clarify the mission of particular teams within the organization. In this talk, I'll go over what we did and what we've learned. Most importantly, I'll go over the critical approaches necessary to ensure that you continue to follow Agile values and principles while looking at longer-term horizons like quarters and years.
While much of this was accelerated by our company's sale, it is not just about turning around a company. The thinking, which continues from what I shared in my Agile DC 2015 talk, "The Myth of Fixed Scope: Why Goals Matter", is for anyone who is looking to deepen their adoption of Agile and Scrum.
Craeg K Strong - Behavior Driven Development WorkshopCraeg K StrongCTOSavant Financial Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Ariel Partners
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Behavior Driven Development / Acceptance Test Driven Development (BDD/ATDD) is a new, exciting approach to developing software that has been shown to reduce rework and increase customer satisfaction. While other testing tools focus primarily on "are we building the thing right?", BDD tools such as Cucumber and SpecFlow attack the problem of software directly at its source: "are we building the right thing?" By retaining all the benefits of automated unit testing, while extending them upstream to cover requirements, we cut the Gordian knot of risk and complexity to unleash hyper-productivity.
Why is BDD so effective?
- As a form of Test driven design, BDD helps produce frugal, effective and testable software.
- As a development tool, BDD frameworks like SpecFlow provide many convenience functions and are pre-integrated with powerful libraries like Nunit and selenium to make writing tests a snap.
- As a collaboration tool, BDD helps ensure the "three amigos" (tester, analyst and developer) sync up – ahead of time.
- As a facilitation technique, BDD enables product owners to efficiently provide the team with concrete examples that clarify the true intent of a user story and define the boundaries.
- As a reporting tool, BDD captures functional coverage, mapping features to their acceptance criteria to their test results, in an attractive hierarchical presentation.
Want functional documentation? How about documentation that is guaranteed to be correct, because every feature maps to its test results? Witness the holy grail of traceability – executable specifications.
We will spend a few minutes talking about the context and pre-requisites, so attendees have an idea of where BDD fits in, and what type of investment they are signing their teams up for. We will see that in return for a modest amount of investment in tools and training, very significant benefits can be realized, and the benefits compound over time.
This workshop then dives right in to Gherkin, the structured English language technique used to capture BDD specifications. We will spend the better part of the session learning the tricks and techniques that make for robust and maintainable gherkin specifications. We will review and critique lots of examples, both good and bad.
We will review several examples of reports generated from BDD tools, to provide context and to immediately highlight the bottom line business value that makes an investment in BDD so worthwhile.
Come and learn why Behavior driven design is taking the software world by storm!
David W Kane / Deepak Srinivasan - "Hitting the Target" - Business Value in Mission-Focused OrganizationsDavid W KaneSolution ArchitectGeneral Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)Deepak SrinivasanTechnical Director Health Research ProgramsSRA International Inc.
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
In the simplest of terms, software development decisions for commercial organizations can be reduced to a calculation of whether the cost of developing the software will be outweighed by the estimated revenue generated or costs saved by the software. However, as Mark Schwartz points out in his book, "The Art of Business Value Paperback" this simple explanation is insufficient for commercial organizations, and not applicable for government and other non-commercial organizations for whom the impact of software isn't primarily measured in terms of revenue.
In this session participants will experience a simulation that has been created to explore these question of how to make decisions about investments to deliver mission and business value by examining the impact of these decisions on the performance of organizations in changing environments.
Brian Sjoberg - Let's Sharpen Your Agile Ax, It's Story Splitting TimeBrian SjobergAgile CoachExcella Consulting
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Do you want to write great User Stories that provide the vehicle for conversation and confirmation that we build the right thing? Do you struggle with splitting stories so that they still provide business value but can be accomplished within a fraction of your iteration and be potentially shippable to production? We will do a quick refresher on User Story formatting to include Acceptance Criteria. Then we will dive into learning techniques for splitting stories in this interactive workshop.
Andy Bacon - The Super Agile SatchelAndy BaconAgile Consultant and CoachInnovireo LLC
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Experience Report
Are you a Scrum Master that has a strong affinity to sticky notes, dry erase markers, and other tools of Agile facilitation? Are you tired of seeing the same old blue painters tape on every kanban board? Want to learn some new facilitation techniques that you can use in retrospectives or to build awesome information radiators with your team?
If so, join me for my session on the Super Agile Satchel.
During the session, I'll briefly talk about how the satchel came to be and its awesome contents. Then we'll jump right in to actual examples of information radiators that I created with the tools the satchel contains. I'll discuss why choosing the right materials, colors, and sizes are critical to facilitation and creating information radiators that draw attention, are maintainable, and focus the team on what's truly important.
Jim Damato - Business Agility - Being the Bigger Dog in a Dog Eat Dog World (Even for a Chihuahua!)Jim DamatoTransformation AdvisorScrum Inc
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Business is tough. If your market is any good, other companies want your revenue and market share. A lot comes your way that's beyond your control, so how do you stay competitive in a dog eat dog world? You strive for Business Agility.
Business Agility is about being able to sense, create and respond to change, quickly and confidently. Every organization has the bravado to think they do, but few actually can. Think about these local companies who are:
- At the top end of the market being threatened by a newer, faster rival.
- Experiencing a market shift threatening half their revenue.
- Subject to whims of powerful regulation.
- New in an emerging market and need to stay ahead of the major players.
Major change can come from all angles, whether from competitors, regulators or market shifts. Companies need to be able to execute not just at the execution level, not just as the portfolio level, but at the business level, so they can handle the change or better yet, BE the change.
Business Agility isn't about how big you are, it's about survival of the fittest. Whether you are a small business or a publicly traded company, be the bigger dog.
Mathias Eifert - Don't assume you're creating value – prove it!Mathias EifertAgile Pragmatist and Managing ConsultantExcella
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Does your organization find it hard to determine "the right thing" to build? You are not alone – studies show that even in very high performing organizations only 10-35% of initial ideas actually generate business value. Agile development should make it easier to obtain early customer feedback, but in most organizations Agile approaches are limited to software development teams with little connection to the rest of the business. In addition, Agile methods by themselves offer few guidelines on how to translate organizational goals and customer needs into the backlog's content and relative priorities in the first place. As a result, there is a significant, but often underappreciated risk that Agile teams end up very efficiently building "the wrong thing right."
In this session, we explore how Lean Discovery and experimentation can expand the scope of Agile's "inspect and adapt" feedback loops to systematically identify and validate critical assumptions about our product's value proposition. Based on the Lean Startup and Lean UX approach to product development as a series of hypotheses about customers' behaviors and value perceptions, we discuss ways to derive testable assumptions from organizational goals to enable validated learning. Finally, we explore the implications of this approach on project planning and budgeting to support increased business agility.
Paul Boos - Mind Meld: Why Pair Programming WorksPaul BoosIT Executive CoachExcella
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
So why does pair programming (or any form of pairing really) work? Well rather than tell you why, let's experience it!
This is a simple 3 round exercise that you can do with your teams and managers to demonstrate the benefits of pairing. It will show the linkage between having a shared mental model through collaboration and ease of integrating the resulting work.
Matt Barcomb - Improve decisions using a value-focused prioritization frameworkMatt BarcombPrincipal ConsultantTackboom Shift
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Does prioritizing your development portfolio seem unclear or mired in politics? Ever feel like the decisions for what gets worked on when are somewhere between arbitrary and emotional? Ever get tired of providing cost estimates for work of uncertain value?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, this session is for you! Matt Barcomb will open with introductory concepts about shifting from a cost focus to a value focus for development work. Next, providing business value for user stories will be debunked. Then, a collaborative framework for prioritization, Benefit Mapping, will be discussed. Finally, Matt will end with ways to simplify the cost evaluation of work and risk.
Trent Hone - DevOps Darwinism: Advancing our Art through Safe-to-Fail ExperimentationTrent HoneExcella
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Static designs and monolithic structures are brittle and prone to failure. How can we progress beyond them? By understanding the nature of our challenges and applying the right tools at the right time. This talk will describe how to use evolutionary principles to foster changes in your architecture and infrastructure so that you can create antifragile systems.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spoke to these ideas in "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder." Join us as we describe how we can:
- Move beyond planning for known failure modes and instead develop antifragile systems that are safe-to-fail in unanticipated ways.
- Leverage the Cynefin framework and its 5 sense-making domains to better frame problems and drive action.
- Employ microservice architectures to make the variability of our environments work for us, not against us.
- Gain knowledge more rapidly through multiple parallel experiments.
Amber King / Jesse Huth - Forming Self-Selected Teams: How to Create Happy, Empowered, and Effective TeamsAmber KingSr. Manager & Head of Product OperationsCapital One LabsJesse HuthSr. Agile Program ManagerOpower
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
How do you create excited, engaged, happy, and effective teams? Start them off right by letting your engineers choose their own teams and projects! Through a proven technique called self-selection, Opower was able to turn a tribe of 40 engineers, many of whom were unexcited about continuing to work on the same old products, into six high-performing teams with engineers who were excited to embark on a new adventure, acquire new skills, and ship awesome code.
In this session we will cover the self-selection process: what it is, generating buy-in & excitement, preparing your teams, running a self-selection event, dealing with concerns throughout the process, and measuring the success of your process. This talk is for anyone who wants to create better teams including Agile Coaches, Release Train Engineers, Program Managers, individual contributors, and other organizational change leaders.
Thomas Cagley - Storytelling: Developing the Big Picture for Agile EffortsThomas CagleyAgile Practice ManagerDavid Consulting Group
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Agile reminds us that the focus of any set of requirements needs to be on an outcome rather than a collection of whats and whos. Storytelling is a powerful tool to elevate even the most diehard requirements analyst from a discussion of individual requirements to a discussion of outcomes. Outcomes are the big picture that acts as an anchor for whole efforts and which is continuously broken down into more and more detailed backlogs. The onion metaphor that is popularly used in agile planning (Cohn's Planning Onion) can be used to describe the evolution of backlogs. Building an initial backlog is much like peeling through the layers of an onion to get to the core. There are many mechanisms for developing and maintaining the detailed backlogs, including asking, observing, showing and all sorts of hybrids. Using the onion metaphor, techniques for developing and splitting user stories are the second layer of the onion. However, before getting to the center of the backlog evolution onion, composed of features, epics, and user stories, we need to understand the big picture.
Provide an overview of storytelling in a business context and a lean change canvas framework.
The room will be broken into teams (aisles will be used if auditorium seating). Each team will be seeded with a common product change scenario. Based on the scenario the teams will be asked to tell the story of the change and capture the story on a small change canvas. The exercise and session will culminate in by sharing ideas and lessons learned.
(Note the longer workshop would break the changing canvas into epics and stories)
Marie Dingess - Using Visuals to Master the ART of SAFe/Release PlanningMarie DingessAgile CoachCapital One
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
A well-facilitated large-scale Planning event (such as a SAFe PI Planning) can leave you feeling energized and more confident in your team and your direction. Poorly facilitated events have the adverse effect and can leave you feeling like you've just been run over by a Mack Truck.
There is not a lot of guidance from SAFe on how to facilitate this critical event from their website, other than an example agenda and program board. This session will focus on how information radiators and other visual tools can make a tremendous difference in increasing engagement and collaboration amongst teams in order to orchestrate a thoughtful plan with high confidence.
We will show battle-tested ways on how visuals are critical to...
- increase collaboration across teams
- reinforce development practices & standards
- track team progress through the day
- highlight dependencies
- increase the confidence vote
- motivate teams to strive for success
Participants will leave this session with some visual tools and tips they can immediately put to use in their designing their next PI Planning or ANY large-scale planning event.
"There is no magic in SAFe… except for maybe PI Planning" - SAFe authors
Andrea Goulet - Vulnerability: The Key To Successful Agile AdoptionAndrea GouletCEOCorgibytes, LLC
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Software development culture has been dominated by the hero. Rock stars, ninjas, and 10Xers have been the center of attention, giving the skewed perception that great software is the result of a single amazing developer. But this couldn't be further from the truth.
In this talk, Andrea Goulet, the CEO of Corgibytes, will share her experiences using vulnerability and empathy as drivers for Agile adoption and culture building.
Jason Tice - "Let's Be Awesome": Practices, Frameworks and Games to Improve Customer CollaborationJason TiceVice PresidentWorld Wide Technology
schedule 6 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
The agile manifesto challenges us to favor customer collaboration more than contract negotiation, but what does that really mean and how do you actually do that? Join us to experience a "fun" ideation framework that teams can use to engage in dialogue with their customers to determine what needs of the team / customer relationship are most important at the present time and then as a group decide on practices to support the highest priority needs. As the ideation framework is completed, teams and their customers will be challenged to work together and achieve consensus on a limited number of priorities since we all know what happens when we try to make EVERYTHING a priority. "Let's Be Awesome" concludes with teams establishing and agreeing upon working agreements to build an "awesome" relationship between customer and team. In this hands-on and highly interactive workshop, participants will have a chance to learn how to use the "Let's Be Awesome" framework and cards to facilitate a team / customer ideation session focused on establishing the foundation for a strong relationship; an opportunity to learn, review and discuss many agile practices supportive of effective team / customer collaboration; and a chance to experience a "MarketPlace of Ideas" where they can exchange recommended patterns and practices for customer collaboration from others also attending the workshop.


text:
I believe that everyone has a purpose in life. I wasn't sure about mine, but had a feeling it was something special. It did not occur to me until I was hit by a big pick-up truck (while walking across the street) and basically "walked away" with a few contusions and bruises - mind you I'm petite (5', 100 lbs) and the truck had damaged. During my recovery, I sat still and asked myself and God - what IS my life purpose?
I started my journey a few years ago, wanting to have a truly fullfilling life. I always saw the glass of life being "half-full" and always optimistic. I knew I wanted to help others, but wasn't sure how. I was always available to "listen" when someone needed to talk or be that "positive" voice saying "hey, it's going to be alright" and believe in you and your dreams. As I continued to listen for the answer, I began to improve my lifestyle by reciting/listening to daily affirmations, meditating, eating healthier, exercising and improving my personal development and it hit me - I need to help others realize that they can live a joyful and fullfilled life - so I became a life coach!
I received my training and certification through the World Coaching Institute as a Certified Professional Coach and Certified Life Coach.


text:
Thousands of Local 34 members have participated in
conversations about our new contract!
Across campus we have been having informal contract education caucuses. These meetings, usually during a lunch hour, are a great way to get to know our contract.
If you'd like to attend a caucus, please reach out to the Local 34 committee person in your department, or call the union office at (203) 624-5161.
News of the Local 33 victories continues to reverberate!
Thousands of people have liked and shared the news on Facebook, and articles have been published in dozens of outlets across the country. Here are just a few highlights:
Yale graduate students vote to form a union
Washington Post (February 24, 2017)
Graduate Students Push for Unions at More Private Colleges
Wall Street Journal (February 24, 2017)
Graduate Students Vote To Unionize At Yale University
Associated Press (February 24, 2017)
Yale Graduate Student Teachers Vote In Favor Of Union
Law360 (February 24, 2017)
Graduate Students in 6 Departments at Yale Vote to Unionize
Chronicle of Higher Education (February 24, 2017)
Yale Grad Students Unionize
Insider Higher Ed (February 24, 2017)
Meanwhile, Local 33 Chair Aaron Greenberg from Political Science wrote a piece in the Yale Daily News about the next steps for Local 33. Take a minute to read and share it on Facebook!
Let's keep winning!


text:
Brescia University's Alumni Association is now accepting orders for boneless, smoked hams. These 7 to 9 pound hams are $35 for a whole ham and $20 for a half ham. For an additional $5, you can have your ham sliced.
Hams must be ordered by December 12th. The hams will be smoked the morning of December 17th and can be picked up between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Alumni Hall (115 West 7th Street).
To place your order for a delicious ham, contact Jason Cox, Director of Alumni Relations, at (270) 686-2111 or [email protected].
All proceeds benefit the Brescia University Alumni Association.


text:
Communications Division
In September of 1931, two years before Radio Car Communications would go into effect Commissioner Gaither would approach the Board of Estimates with this idea, here's a Sun paper Article talking about the plans
Baltimore sun paper 27 September 1931
by Avery M'Bee
Quick communication with far-flung forces always has been a most pressing police problem. When the Baltimore Police Department a decade ago pioneered the all-around call system of box lights, it was thought that the final word had been spoken; lights at police boxes flashed, and within a few minutes patrolman on every beat were listening to instructions from headquarters. At that time the Baltimore Police Department or proud hosts to numerous official visitors who studied the system with admiration and return to their cities convinced that the police millennium had been reached. Another of the city's "Famous First" had appeared and almost every city and village in the country adopted the idea.
But the millennium had not been reached. Because the criminal is among our most progressive citizens, police officials have come to realize that the second now is just as important in emergencies as the minute was when they led the way with the citywide call box recall lights. The last word now is radio communication with a squadron of fast patrol cars always on the alert and fully prepared to handle any emergency. It was not given the Baltimore to develop this system upon the foundation she had laid, but police Commissioner Charles D Gaither is making a definitive move to obtain this ultra modern method of split-second communication, which he believes will discourage criminal activity because of its ability to pick up a trail almost immediately. The Commissioner has petitioned the board of estimates for funds with which to equip a fleet of cars and to install and headquarters a shortwave broadcasting set. Accounts of the work of the radio equipped squad cars and other cities are nothing short of marvelous. Stories of told of stolen cards recovered before their motors are really warm, of criminals caught in the very act, of holdups frustrated rather than a then.
If there is one element that stands out more remarkably than any other in successful crimes in the last few years, it is time. Your modern Fallon has developed a sense of timing that has given him a tremendous advantage, and he is used the latest products of science in making his getaway. He robs or murders coldly, with full realization that so many minutes remain before police can be notified and can pick up his trail. The most successful crimes have been the boldest yet not necessarily the most reckless. Sneak thievery pays small dividends and safe braking is tedious. Broad daylight a crowded street to furnish plenty of confusion, a fat payroll and a get-away well planned is the favorite set up of the modern malefactor.
But time is the outstanding hope of success. The holdup man now must reckon with a precision which police believed to be well-nigh impossible. He must break through a mobile line all while information about him is being spread even as he is trying to penetrate the cordon. Buffalo recently instituted the radio equipment patrol cars, the writer interviewed police Commissioner Austin Roches, who declared that amazing reports come to him every day of the works of his radio squad.
Among the first cases to be handled on the inaugural day of the Buffalo system was that of a wife beater. It is recounted that the woman, badly mauled and mangled to reach a telephone remove the Hulk and call for police the telephone operator pass the information along to headquarters, immediately it was placed on the air. The nearest radio car turned quickly into the alley behind the house just in time to see the man descending a fire escape. Alarmed because his wife had called into the telephone, he had abandoned the assault to make good his escape. The radio squad was waiting for him when his foot touched the bottom step.
"I could cite numerous cases of this kind." Said Commissioner Roches. "They seem a little hard to believe, it is not difficult to understand how things of this sort happen. It must be remembered that are only delay in action is dependent upon the information we receive from the scene of the crime. At this extension the radio broadcast operator is "cut in" on all information. In any instant every patrol car in the city has the information" another incident of buffaloes and all Grove date was one of a housebreaking a neighbor made a report to headquarters and through the loudspeaker and the cars came these instructions, "squad car number three go to blank Street; man was seen entering store." The car was less than a block from the address at the time. The driver slid to the curb while the others jumped from the car quickly covering all exits, they closed in and had corner deceived almost before he had time to begin his work. Every day, according to Commissioner Roches automobiles are reported stolen, their license number passed on to the radio squad cars and the culprit arrested before they have gone a dozen blocks. From Detroit and Chicago come reports of holdup men attacked before they even have time to start their getaway – taken with their loot and in the presence of those who witnessed the crime. "Take some of our own outstanding crimes, for instance." Said Commissioner Gaither. "What chance with the Norse murders have had to scatter as they did? Suppose we had had the city covered with radio cars at that time. At the first tipoff of the nearest car would have been on its way at full speed to the scene, while all others would have increased their patrol rate and would have been on the alert for the bandits automobile. We would have been able to pour additional information into the cars as a came into us, while they were on the lookout for the bandits. As it happened, we round up that gang in time, but at what cost? "The same thing would have applied to the killing murders. The sunny born holdup and many other cases of murder and banditry that have stirred Baltimore. How quickly could we have frustrated the North Avenue bank holdups? One can well imagine how expeditiously the police could act on an automatic alarm if we were able to reach instantly a car load of armed men who are sure to be patrolling a short distance from the scene."
"Arab men have done some remarkable work in apprehending criminals after staring crimes." Mr. Gaither continued "in the cases mentioned only the highest praise is their lot. But think of the time and manpower the money that was spent in clearing up those cases! "I truly believe that the city would save a great deal of money with radio cars. More important than that, I think the criminals would be restrained by the knowledge that such a powerful weapon is being used against them."
"Our old Pioneer all around system is is good as it ever was. It is by no means out of date, for there are many things it can do now that are entirely out of the line of the radio quipped automobile. It is necessary for us to keep in constant touch with our patrolman: to give them information and instruction. It would work in splendid playing with the newer idea. But we need some means of swift communication with the force that can act on the second – that can meet an emergency when it arises and yet take care of routine duties as well." – "One of our troubles now an emergency cases is that we cannot coordinate our efforts as we would like to. In case of a holdup or murder, armed men get the information over and all around and, not being sure how well the matter is being covered. They hurried to the scene from all directions. Being pulled from their beats when they might do more good to stay on them. In such cases everyone available is rushed to the scene. Often, when I get the information, I go myself not being sure that someone with power of direction is present to handle the matter."
"With radio cars week could be assured that the scene is covered in a matter of minutes; that other cars are on the lookout, and we would use all around to put all police eyes on the watch in their own belly wicks and thus any malefactor" Observation of the radio car system and other cities has shown not that it uses lies only in emergencies but that the cars can cover a multitude of routine duties door in the course of their patrol. Of course, their most conspicuous service has been in holdups, murders, robberies, riots and in recovering stolen cars, but they frequently are used to transmit important information in a hurry. To investigate complaints that would not interfere with their patrol and to serve as an additional link between headquarters and a patrolman on foot.
In other cities where the radio patrol cars are in use the services being extended greatly outside the corporate limits. State, county and neighboring town police are equipping their prow cars with radio to pick up broadcast from the larger centers. Buffalo for instance, sends out its information now to a dozen villages and to the state troopers on patrol of county roads. In this way and outer cordon is wrong and the evildoer has one more threat to face. The practice generally followed by police using the radio equipment automobiles is to divide the city and to tangent beats. Each car works in its outer circle until it receives instructions to follow up a happening within these bounds. If a crime has been committed. The other cars continue on their beats and faster time. Leaving the machine on the beat to rush to the spot and pick up the trail at the scene of the crime.
buffaloes Commissioner had some interesting remarks in this connection on the criminal and his getaway: "it's almost impossible for men who committed a crime to proceed circumspectly while making a break" said he "involuntarily they put on speed, whether a foot or on wheels. Ordinarily a policeman thinks little of a car traveling above the legal rate" – summary drivers are a hurry. But in one of our motor squads has information about a felony just committed, it is immediately suspicious of any unusual haste. "In the swirl of traffic or in the crowds on the sidewalks the man in a hurry makes himself conspicuous immediately and he is some some quietly subject to close scrutiny. Our ability to disseminate information as soon as we get it right's guilt on the speeding car or hasty feet." An intermediate step between the all round call system and the radio equipped squad car was taken some time ago by the Baltimore Police Department when installed telephone typewriter in all of its police stations and at headquarters. With this method of inter-communication between all police concentration points, and operator at any point can post all districts immediately on happenings of unusual interests. The operator assisted the typewriter and writes out the information he has on hand. At the same instant the characters form on the sheet in front of him, they appear on typewriters in all the police stations. In this way follow-up data and corrections can be forwarded to all points at once, while replies or quarries are possible, since an operator at any receiving point may sit at his typewriter and convert his machine into ascending instrument
Telephone typewriter idea is being applied throughout the country and many officials believe that eventually the police of the entire country will be linked by this method. New York State is just completed a network by which all police departments in the state and all state police barracks are interlinked by the telephone typewriter. Plans also are being made to connect the system to those of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This compares with the old custom of sending telegrams helter-skelter by hit or miss means, without the ability to provide full descriptions or follow-up information. Baltimore now has an efficient inter-district line of communication and the best possible means of reaching its foot patrol. Commissioner Gaither now is seeking the ultimate in communication a flying squadron instantly informed and ready to act on anything that may occur
March 4, 1933
Station Locations
|601 East Fayette Street
|500 East Baltimore Street
|5710 Eastern Avenue
|1620 Edison Highway
|1900 Argonne Drive
|2201 West Coldspring Lane
|5217 Reisterstown Road
|1034 North Mount Street
|424 Font Hill Avenue
|10 Cherry Hill Road
Police IDs
- First digit is district, second character is shift, third is sector and fourth is post. 6A32 would be a Northwest midnight unit in sector 3 on post 2 and 2C23 would be Southeast evening unit in sector 2 on post 3.
- Lieutenants are 09 and Sergeants are 10, 20, etc., 91 and 92 are wagons and 99 is desk. So, 2C23's Sergeant would be 2C20 and his Lieutenant 2C09. If a unit gets a warrant confirmation from 2C99, then 2C91 or 2C92 would do the transport. 200 would be the district Major.
- Flex and District Ops units are numbered differently. They are numbered for each district as *1** and *2**. Northwest be something like 6117 or 6234. Again any number ending in 0 is a Sergeant and 09 a Lieutenant. Any numbers over *3** are Citywide units.
- 58xx is Crime Lab
- 84xx is Accident Investigation Unit
- 64xx is Homicide
- 65xx is Violent Crimes Task Force
- 76xx-78xx is Tactical (including Marine, EVU and Canine)
- 7620-7625 is Foxtrot
- 7811-7812 is EVU
- 93xx is Parking Control
- 95xx is Traffic Enforcement Section (civilians that direct traffic and write tickets)
- 96xx is Baltimore City Sheriff
- 97xx is Housing Authority of Baltimore City Police
- 98xx is Baltimore City Sheriff
- 99xx is Baltimore City Public Schools Police
10 Codes
All 10 codes, signals and dispositstion codes used by the Baltimore Police Department are also used by the following agencies: Housing Authority of Baltimore Police, Baltimore City Sheriff, Baltimore School Police, Public Works Traffic Enforcement Section (TES), Parking Control.
- 10-1 signal check
- 10-2 signal good
- 10-3 signal poor
- 10-4 acknowledgement/yes/okay
- 10-5 no aknowledgement
- 10-6 standby
- 10-7 out of service
- 10-8 in service
- 10-9 repeat last tranmission
- 10-11 meet me at ______
- 10-12 no units available
- 10-14 non emergency prisoner transport
- 10-15 emergency prisoner transport
- 10-16 backup request
- 10-17 phone station
- 10-18 go to district station
- 10-19 call ______
- 10-20 location
- 10-22 disregard
- 10-23 arrived on scene
- 10-25 stopping suspicious vehicle
- 10-26 switch to citywide channel (talkgroup)
- 10-27 drivers liscenes info request
- 10-28 request vehicle registration information
- 10-29 check criminal records
- 10-30 wanted (person or vehicle)
- 10-31 crime in progress
- 10-32 sufficient units on scene
- 10-33 emergency
- 10-34 civil disturbance
- 10-35 major crime alert
- 10-36 description
- 10-37 request tow
- 10-38 request ambulance
- 10-39 police vehicle disabled
- 10-40 request crime lab
- 10-41 request impound truck
- 10-42 request animal shelter
- 10-43A traffic signal out
- 10-43B traffic signal red out
- 10-43C traffic signal not changing
- 10-43D traffic sign down
- 10-44 request permission to ______
- 10-45 permission denied
- 10-46 permission granted
- 10-47 negative
- 10-48 affirmative
- 10-50 helicopter landing
- 10-90 looting
- 10-91 shooting
- 10-92 continued looting
- 10-93 continued shooting
Signal codes
- Signal 13 officer needs assistance (urgent)
- Signal 30 property damage accident
- Signal 31 personal injury accident
- Signal 32 accident with fatality
- Signal 34 departmental accident
- Signal 35 departmental accident with injury
- Signal 36 departmental accident with fatality
- Signal 40 Fire Department Needs Assistance
Disposition codes
- Adam No – Unfounded
- Baker No – No Such Address
- Charlie No – Unable to locate complainant
- David No – No Police Services Needed
- Edward No – Gone on Arrival
- Frank No – Abated
- Xray No – Report number needed
- Xray Yes – Domestic related and report number needed
- Zebra No – False Alarm
911 How It Works
By Public Affairs Office
Thursday, July 16, 2009; 8:14 am
"Baltimore Police 911. What are you reporting?"
Here are some tips for calling 911. Reading these now may help you when an actual emergency occurs.
- Remain calm
- Be prepared to verify phone number and location
- Be brief · Answer all questions
- Do not hang up
- Be prepared to give descriptions and license numbers
Remember: Answering questions does NOT delay the dispatch of assistance. A dispatcher is sending help your way while the Call Taker takes additional information from you. The more pertinent information you give us, the safer everyone will be.
About 911 hang-ups: Our policy is to respond to ALL 911 hang up calls. If you change your mind about needing assistance, stay on the line and explain that to your 911 Call Taker. Otherwise, an officer will be dispatched to your location to ensure that you are safe. Playing on the phone puts those who do need immediate help in danger and puts you in danger of being prosecuted for making a false report. It is a simple matter of explining to your call taker, you misdialed, or changed your mind.
1. Stay calm. Speak clearly. Emergency units (police, fire or ambulance) rely on the information you give to get to you as soon as possible and to be able to help you.
2. Give your address and phone number. Many 911 systems automatically display your address, but most cellular phones do not. Your address is vital information. We cannot help you if we don't know where you are.
3. Quickly and briefly describe your problem. As soon as we know what you need, we will know who (police, ambulance, fire) to send to help you. Get to the point as soon as possible.
4. Describe yourself. Tell the 911 Call Taker where you are and what you look like, including what you are wearing. We want officers/medics/firefighters who are arriving on scene to know who they need to contact and for police we need to be able to tell them that you are not the suspect.
5. Listen to the 911. Call Taker, answer their questions and follow their instructions. Remain on the line until the 911 Call Taker says it is okay for you to hang up.
6. Remain calm. And Again remember Your Call Taker, will have a lot of questions, but they will learn quickly in the early stages of your call who you need, and that unit (fire/police/medic) is on the way, as the call taker is briefing them on the situation. Don't become upset thinking help isn't on the way until after all the questions are answered, help is on its way. The reason more questions are being asked, is to determine what if any other units are needed. Will medics be needed, will additional police be needed, in the case of a fire, will it be a multiple alarm fire, etc. Often callers will become upset with their call taker; there is no need in doing this, the call takers wants nothing more than to assist you, and to have a positive outcome on your call. So he or she will have a lot of questions of you. The more calmly you answer those questions, the more likely we are to have a positive outcome to your 911 Call.
Radio communications system designed by Lieutenant William Taylor, standing left in the background
Massive antennae on the roof of the Police Headquarters building 1955
Sergeant LeRoy H. Williams
LeRoy H. Williams, born June 25, 1920, E.O.D. 1946, Retired L.O.D 1976, Passed away on March 17, 1990. He was assigned to the Northeast District, the old Headquarters building, and then Communication when they built the new building. When Major Norton retired he was in charge of Communication Division for a long time. He retired from Communication as a Lieutenant.
His son Paul J. Williams followed in his father's foot steps serving 20+ years with the Baltimore Police Department.
Sergeant Nelson Herman has 35 years of service with BPD, 28 years in the Communications Division
|Photo Courtesy Sgt. William Gordon
Captain Kenny Anderson pointing gun at Sergeant Gordon the photographer as Sergeant Herman encourages him to shoot.
|Photo Courtesy Sgt. William Gordon
Captain Kenny Anderson working diligently on a report
|Photo Courtesy Sgt. William Gordon
Captain Kenny Anderson still working diligently on a report aided by Sergeant Herman and Spencer
|Photo Courtesy Sgt. William Gordon
|Photo Courtesy Sgt. William Gordon
|Photo courtesy Det. Lou Trimper
|Photo courtesy Det. Lou Trimper
|Photo courtesy Det. Lou Trimper
|Photo courtesy Det. Lou Trimper
|Photo courtesy Det. Lou Trimper
|Photo courtesy Det. Lou Trimper
|Photo courtesy Det. Lou Trimper
|Photo courtesy Det. Lou Trimper


text:
A brand new serial from USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Sykes!
When Ian saves Lissa from a terrible first date, he discovers that they share a sizzling physical connection. Unwilling to draw the seemingly innocent young woman into his world of violence and espionage, Ian tries to keeps his distance. But when the blonde bombshell asks him to introduce her to BDSM, all bets are off.
Ian vows to protect her from his secret life, but Lissa quickly becomes involved in the danger that surrounds him. What neither of them realize is her secrets might put them both in greater peril than Ian ever imagined.
Note: This is the first 20,000 word installment in a set of serialized novellas. TARGET has a cliffhanger ending.
My Review:


text:
a skeleton for goliath project
login website with wechat account by scanning qrcode with phone
a collection of simple demos of Webpack
Simple real-time multiplayer phaser game example which uses node and websockets.
Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
Integration of React + Webpack + Rails to build Universal (Isomorphic) Apps


text:
"Elemental Partners has a keen sense for engaging groups to draw upon their strengths and recognize the natural abilities they possess as positive change agents."
~ Allison Neswood, Colorado Center on Law & Policy, Health Equity Advocacy Steering Committee
We assist organizations in establishing and maintaining the right conditions for people to cultivate a healthy, harmonious and prosperous workplace.
"The Beloved Community" is a term that was first coined one hundred years ago by the philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce, and was popularized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King's vision of the beloved community was that all forms of discrimination, bigotry and prejudice will be replaced by an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood.
At Elemental Partners, we endeavor to assist our clients in building and maintaining a strong, unified and beloved community, which we believe is key to an organization's success. Elemental Partners assists clients in developing and sustaining great teams by providing training and tools through the following:
- Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution (read more)
- Understanding Diverse Group and Interpersonal Dynamics (read more)
- Determining a Common Philosophy and Strategic Direction (read more)
- Cultural and Racial Healing (read more)
- Building the Beloved Community (read more)
Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution
An organization's success hinges on its capacity to build teams to communicate well. We facilitate processes and structures that allow for smoother communication and fewer misunderstandings. We incorporate exercises to increase awareness of body language and power in group and interpersonal dynamics in a way that affirms differing views.
Understanding Diverse Group and Interpersonal Dynamics
Using the Five Elements of Organizational Success system, Elemental Partners provides methods for analyzing teams and workgroups to clarify roles and responsibilities based on the inherent strengths and gifts of individual members. Our approach fosters effective and mutually-supportive teams.
Determining a Common Philosophy and Strategic Direction
Establshing a common set of premises is essential to assuring productive alignment with an organization's purpose and direction. Alignment leads to consistent messaging to staff, stakeholders, investors and the general public. "Charting Your Course" allows groups to establish a common vision and identity in order to attain their goals.
Cultural and Racial Healing
A key component in strengthening diversity and inclusion in an organization is building capacity to facilitate racial and cultural transformation among individuals. While an organization may have all of the right policies and procedures in place, if the people don't truly feel that it is the right thing to do, nothing will change. We facilitate respectful and workplace-appropriate opportunities for this type of transformation to occur .
Building the Beloved Community
This series of interactive processes strives to create a deeper understanding of clients, community, and how individuals work together effectively. Based on Hawaiian storytelling traditions, groups will seek to understand the complexities and similarities they all have while creating new ways to build alliances.


text:
The Rocket
Billiebean's Interactive Exploration and Learning Adventure Story.
Billiebean's Interactive Exploration and Learning Adventure Story.
Get a pre-mission briefing from Robbie Robotz to learn how to successfully navigate through the story and get hints on what to do when you see Robbie's hand.
Get a close up view of Mission Control and discover what happens as the rocket launches before it's scheduled launch time.
Discover what Billiebean loves the most in the whole world and what she is determined to do to make it happen.
Help Billiebean build her very own rocket. Once you get to the "Help Billiebean build her rocket" page, you'll know where each stage of the rocket belongs.
Depending how adventurous you are, you can launch the rocket and get to outer space.
Find all the planets in the Solar System and don't forget to look for the Milky Way Galaxy.
Prepare the rocket for re-entering the Earth's atmosphere by following the instructions.
Help Billiebean safely land the rocket. By the time you help Billiebean land the rocket you will know how to fly a rocket.


text:
Book Cricket
You don't have much of a control over the cricket game in Chhota Bheem Book Cricket. Players won't probably like that about this game. All you can do is to lay back in your seat and watch the game. Click on play mark to start flipping the pages and than click once more to stop and see how many runs you scored. 2 means 2 runs, 4 means 4, 6 is 6 and 8 is calculated as only 3 runs. If you get 0 you're out. Yet you can choose your favorite team (Australia, West Indie and so on...), customize the number of overs (5,7,10), you're even engaged in flipping a coin (heads or tail). If you win a toss you can choose bat or ball. Not much of a fun I'd say or is it?
Share this game: