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For years, security and operations pros have loathed being involved in a compliance effort. And for good reason—compliance is long and tedious and pulls you away from the “real work” of securing your cloud environments.
Join us for this webcast to learn how to incorporate automation to alleviate the hard work of compliance testing and produce automated results that will satisfy Ops and GRC.
The demand for security professionals who analyze cloud risk and security has never been greater! Traditional approaches are no longer as effective and require new cloud security tools and technologies to become more productive. In order to build secure applications faster, security and compliance measures must be enforced at the speed of scale. Automation is essential for Modern IT organizations.
The future looks bright for DevOps as new Cloud Security platforms, automation, and self-service tools fill the gaps to overcome key challenges and bottlenecks, delivering Continuous Compliance.
The ability to provision and update infrastructure using APIs also allows flexible and programmatic control of our security choices. These decisions will ultimately help protect intellectual data, content, applications, systems and networks ‘in’ the cloud.
In this webcast, John Martinez will lead a deep dive discussion and provide a live demonstration of how to improve security awareness between IT, Dev, and Ops teams, as well as provide some real-world (code) examples on how to bring security into your application delivery model to reduce risks with DevOps integration and security and compliance automation.
John Martinez, Principal Solutions Architect for Evident.io, has in-depth experience guiding development teams on AWS and other cloud platforms. He assists them in streamlining creation of cloud applications, optimizing AWS resource usage, and ensures that their AWS infrastructures are properly protected. John specializes in DevOps, automation and continuous solutions, and contributed to the creation of the CIS Foundations Benchmark for AWS Security.
Recently the Center for Internet Security (CIS) published the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, the first ever set of security configuration best practices for Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the first that CIS has issued for an individual cloud service provider.
These industry-accepted best practices go beyond the high-level security guidance already available by providing AWS users with clear, step-by-step implementation and assessment procedures.
CIS Benchmarks have been the de facto standard for prescriptive, industry-accepted best practices for securely configuring traditional IT components. The release of the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark into this existing ecosystem marks one of many milestones for the maturation of the cloud and its suitability for sensitive and regulated workloads.
Adam Montville is the Sr. Director for Security Controls and Automation at The Center for Internet Security (CIS).
Tim Sandage is a Senior Risk & Compliance Strategist for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Tim Prendergast, CEO and co-foundeder of Evident.io who also led technology teams at Adobe, Ingenuity, Ticketmaster, and McAfee.
These top ten were put together by AWS security practitioners with over a decade of combined experience securing large AWS deployments.
Attendees will discover how most of these best practices are very easy to implement and go a very long way to ensuring your success on AWS.
Join Evident.io's John Robel, Principal Solutions Architect, and 2nd Watch's Kevin Dillon, Solution Architect, for a review of the Top Ten AWS Security Best Practices.
John Robel is a Principle Solutions Architect for Evident.io with over 20 years experience, and his previous role was as a Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS where he managed customer relationships with some of the largest AWS enterprise customers like Netflix and Adobe. John is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and has been both Cisco Certified as a Network Associate and ITIL Foundation certified.
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Increasingly, security and risk (S&R) professionals must be able to securely migrate workloads to cloud providers like AWS.
However, properly securing IaaS platforms involves much more than simply migrating physical servers to virtual instances.
Today's dev teams are building cloud-native applications using IaaS services and APIs into which host-based security tools and network scanners have little to no visibility.
To successfully defend IaaS infrastructure, S&R pros need to understand the security implications of Infrastructure as Code and and the importance of protecting the IaaS console and management plane.
We’re now seeing a new “marriage” of SecOps and DevOps that is creating a whole new mentality for driving innovation inside and outside of organizations.
DevOps and security teams are now actively collaborating as peers, rather than in the traditional requester/approver relationship, and making a seat at the table for security professionals.
DevSecOps is propelling forward-thinking organizations by doing something simple - fostering collaboration of seemingly contradictory teams to align their disparate goals into a singular effort.
Watch this recorded webcast to learn how leading DevSecOps organizations are bringing operations, engineering and security together to harmoniously detect security problems sooner, respond faster, and protect resources more effectively.
As organizations move more deeply into continuous development and deployment modalities, the importance of implementing continuous security behaviors becomes non-negotiable. Cloud environments undergo dramatic changes during deployments, auto-scaling events, and through natural growth. While static data center environments were simple enough to be evaluated by humans, the dynamic nature of cloud environments are too complex to adequately secure without automation. Your operational tools deliver continuous monitoring and alerting — why doesn’t your security suite?
Join DevOps.com Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel, Andrew Storms, Vice President of Security Services at New Context, and Evident.io cofounder and CEO Tim Prendergast as they discuss why DevOps shops need to automate key functions in order to ensure their Cloud Infrastructure Security.
There is no single path to a DevOps approach that works for every organization, but there are fundamental principles and techniques used by the DevOps elite that can be applied to improve security operations and efficiency in the cloud.
This webcast summarizes the results of a new SANS survey that examines organizational use of public and private clouds and seeks to determine their best practices in securing content that traverses through both ecosystems.
Security incident disclosures and vulnerability warnings are being released at an alarming rate, posing a major challenge for Security & Risk (S&R) Professionals. Additionally, firms that adopt virtualized and public cloud infrastructure like AWS are quickly finding that their traditional vulnerability management solutions and processes were not designed for these dynamic, elastic, and API-services centric architectures. An April, 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. report entitled “Market Overview: Vulnerability Management” stated that the vulnerability management technology space has evolved and will help " S&R Pros repair their strained or broken processes and move past low-impact checkbox scanning to proactive, risk-based assessments."
* The state of vulnerability management and why Forrester recently said "security and risk pros can't keep up with the tsunami of vulnerabilities."
Learn how to leverage AWS capabilities better to operate more securely and safely in the cloud.
In a recent talk at AWS Pop-up Loft in San Francisco, John Martinez highlights the top 10 security best practices compiled from both AWS and Security practitioners over several years protecting large-scale AWS deployments.
You will come away with actionable steps that you can implement right away to help ensure your success on AWS… and discover most of these controls are very easy to implement.
Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Officer at IT Harvest, sits down with Tim Prendergast, CEO and co-founder of Evident.io, to talk public cloud security and compliance and why an automated DevOps style approach is now required to keep up with the velocity of change in public cloud deployments.
DevOps and Compliance are two very different worlds. If your company is going to achieve attestation or certification, it's usually the DevOps side of the house that has to give in.
-how to use DevOps and automation to your advantage in an audit.
AWS Identity and Access Management is an great feature for providing access to AWS resources - but how do you manage those rights well?
What do you do when you are woken up from sleep for a security incident in your AWS environment? In this session John Robel, Principal Solutions Architect at Evident.io, will discuss the unique challenges to responding to security incidents, how to leverage AWS support and share advice on where to get help.
You run a web business on AWS and you have a need to perform payment processing due to your specific business requirements. Whether you are selling subscriptions or shipping goods, there are both easy and hard ways to manage payments in a PCI compliant way.
In this video you will learn techniques and controls to address 12 key areas in PCI on AWS without making your life more difficult than necessary.
The Evident.io BrightTalk channel provides the latest trends, insights, and best practices for securing and achieving compliance for AWS-based cloud deployments. Evident.io provides continuous security monitoring and threat management for AWS environments. Evident Security Platform continuously assesses risk levels and vulnerabilities across your entire AWS footprint and provides expert remediation guidance – all manageable from a single dashboard. Built on AWS APIs, ESP is agent-less and can be deployed to even the most complex environments in minutes.


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union would not let me connect to their web server from S. Korea.
reason you bring this up here instead of with the SSA?
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text: Ayreheart's first video has been released. "Taste of Lightning" is an original composition by lutenist Ronn McFarlane. In addition to being the first video for the group, this is also the first audio recording for the group with lead singer Brian Kay. A studio recording of "Taste of Lightning" will be included on Ayreheart's upcoming album of all-original music.

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You should get your hands on a set of Debian Sarge or Sid CD's. All the dependencies will be available on the CD's. If you can't download the CD's, you can buy them from someplace like debianvendor.org. Use the command "apt-cdrom add" to add each CD to the sources.list file. Then you can use "apt-get install kde" and you will be prompted for the CD's needed to resolve dependencies.
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can you tell me what CD images I need to download? because I don't have enough money to purchase a pre-burned CD set.
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I've decided to forget about using a GUI and am now concentrating on installing MySQL.
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Dr. Jeff Tarrant is a licensed psychologist and board certified in neurofeedback. He is the founder and CEO of the NeuroMeditation Institute (NMI), LLC and provides certification training for NMI therapist and instructors. He is the author of the book, “Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain.” Dr. Tarrant is the Chief Science Officer for StoryUp VR where he is involved in research and development of therapeutic virtual reality programs. Dr. Tarrant’s research focuses on exploring brainwave changes that occur as a result of contemplative practices, virtual reality, and entheogenic medicines.
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Glen Orchard will be celebrating Halloween on Wednesday October 31st with pumpkin carving and a parade. Please send your child’s costume to school in a bag with all parts labelled with your child’s name so that we can get everything home for the big night! Please do NOT wear your costume to school. We will help children get ready in the afternoon. This helps avoid food spills and incidents at recess that could affect the costume.
Pumpkin carving with take place during second block as a whole school. If you have any child friendly carving tools to send, please put your name on them and send them in your child’s agenda.
We recommend saving sweet treats as snacks for home. Should you choose to send a treat to school, it is so important to read the label to ensure that it is NUT FREE and PEANUT FREE.
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James Devereaux wrote: “I ran into an old actor friend of mine recently, who, when I asked him how it was going, replied; “I’m not doing it anymore”, and that he had turned the temporary contract of his day job into a permanent one. Following this admission, he blew out on his lips, scrunched-up his face, and shrugged as if to say; “I’ve made my decision, it’s gone now”. Whenever I hear someone has quit, I still get slightly shocked, although by now I shouldn’t. I suppose it’s because I know he will now move out of my social orbit and into something more normal, this is especially true since his new job has got nothing whatsoever to do with art. I also know that the questions of his life will change radically, and the obsession with which those of us who remain chase our goals, will probably begin to seem incomprehensible to him. Crucially, by leaving the stage as it were, my friend has severed the bond which exists between actors, and which exists despite the ultra-competitive nature of the life. What is this bond? It is the bond of shared experience, those experiences which are unique to acting but common to all actors, and while those experiences will at least reside in memory, we all know that the ex-actor is no longer part of the hunt.
All the actors I’ve known who had purely cynical motives, have failed. All of them. It’s easy to enter the arena, not so easy to stay there. The industrial model of art is false. It cannot be approached as a salaried 9 to 5 job, because it is not that – the actor is not allowed to settle into a cosy routine, for the actor is constantly being asked new questions. In order to find the resilience to constantly face upto those new questions, the actor must pursue goals which are higher than simply making money; he must have longe range aesthetic, technical and philisophical goals, goals which energize him, lift him, help him get back up off the canvas one more time. The mundane goal of paying bills will not nourish him through lean times, through confusing and frightening times, and will not help him overcome the grinding resistence to his work (which all actors face) – in short, he may decide that the tumult of an actor’s life is not worth the hassle, that there are easier ways of paying his rent, and because he doesn’t have those higher goals, he is unable to resist the soothing lure of security, and so turns his back on his art.
“Thank you for your article James!
This profession is not for every one and it is certainly not for those looking for “cosy routines”.
Routine, in my opinion, should NOT be an option or any kind of goal for an actor, or any artist really. If an artist doesn’t choose discipline for brave, at times innocent, “new born” eyes towards life itself, she/he becomes a cynic. I don’t mean that an artist should not ever exercise critical eye towards a circumstance or life condition, but in order to create new, one must be willing to let go of established and look for new within and outside of ourselves.
“Cosy routines” hardly have brought much interesting or important art to the world!
Acting means creating new life and one cannot create life, nor be inspired by anything life affirming, with cynical motives. Yes, sure, one can create out of emotional states of anger and desperation (but those emotions still have within themselves a strong wish of changing the circumstance and a braveness of feeling them, experiencing the emotion) where as cynicism means turning a way from life itself, letting go of hope, saying no to the experience itself, which (and this all actors should know) makes uninteresting stories… or end of a story altogether… lack of an objective….in this case an end to an acting “career”.
Cynical attitude and inspiration (inspiration being the blessed state that an actor must find braveness and a pleasure to live in on daily basis) cannot live in the same house. By “house” I mean your instrument, your whole being.
Being an actor means to be a “professional human being”. It means finding daily inspiration about life, without excuses. This is a very life-affirming profession! Being successful, happy “professional human being” who has the ability, courage and stamina to explore and express all colors of the human condition. To be an actor, one must love the art of acting and understand and keep in mind that this is a profession of calling.
Acting is also a profession of joy. Even when the character is suffering, a part of the actor’s creative being will be enjoying the ride, the creation!
Learning to empower oneself as a creator in any job situation, and being inspired to love all aspects of the actor’s creative process is crucial for the actor’s personal feeling of success and happiness.
I also call for and enjoy working with those actors who want to expand their ability for empathy, widen their emotional and physical range, and find organic ways to achieve character transformation, these being some of the key elements to great acting. Even tough we don’t do brain surgery, we can make a difference of some sort in the world and do what I call “soul surgery”. It is my great hope that we can increase empathy in the world by telling the stories and sharing the visceral experience of the characters we play.
I don’t believe that some one with a true nature of an actor, will never “successfully” quit. One might take break on auditioning or take a vacation after a long run of a stage play, but if someone is an actor, a true creator of this kind, he/she will always look to create in one way or another, otherwise one would find oneself to be miserable!
Of course, I am very happy for those who discovered that acting just wasn’t their greatest passion, and therefore a necessity for them. It is probably a good idea to do something else, if you have an option! One should only choose this profession, acting, if this is what brings you the greatest happiness and makes sense for your life. Otherwise dear people, by all means do something else! Life is full of possibilities! So many more important professions are awaiting, many things to get done in this world! I truly mean this and am not writing this with any sarcasm.
I think what actors often mean when they say that they want to “quit” is that they want to quit desperately running after “the dream”. This in my opinion can be a good thing. I know many actors who, after “quitting”, started booking much more acting work, because they now had let go of that nasty, desperate energy and neediness of being accepted by every one in the business and “booking that job” and had now grounded themselves to their own special artistic individuality and started nourishing and enjoying their creativeness in a more creative way. In other words instead of trying to impress someone they started enjoying expressing themselves! They got to a place where they felt more whole as a human being and had accepted that whether they booked acting work or not, they had value as a human being. They did, in most cases, return to enjoying and having acting careers. They might also have found other kind of creative work to support them financially so they could enjoy the acting when they did it.
In acting, the real dream is always already here, with every role we are working on. One of the biggest paybacks for actors is that we get to live in the imaginary circumstances on daily basis. We get to experience the many lives and life experiences we never otherwise would, and we get to embrace and nourish empathy and story telling. If acting is seen this way, why would any one want to quit? Unless it is your bliss to be doing something more important in the world, and then please do! If we all were actors, the world would not get much done!
Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.
In our fast-moving film, television, and theater industry, we actors are continually asked for “quick results.” We must be emotionally available, learn our lines rapidly, and fill our characters with the objectives and desires of a multilayered human being—all without much preparation time. Now more than ever, the deciding factor in a successful audition or performance is the actor’s ability to call upon focused inspiration at a moment’s notice. After all, inspiration leads to real, organic, surprising, fresh performances. How is such focused inspiration readily achieved? It was Michael Chekhov’s lifelong endeavor to answer this question.Chekhov was a world-renowned early-20th-century Russian actor, nephew to the famed playwright Anton. He was a true chameleon, mesmerizing audiences by making consistently bold choices and disappearing into fully fleshed-out, unique characters. Chekhov was openly praised by Konstantin Stanislavsky as his most brilliant student and was highly respected by Group Theatre luminaries such as Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, and Harold Clurman. He developed his ideas on acting in such influential books as “To the Actor” and became the acting coach of many Hollywood stars of his day. The technique he eventually developed has been praised by Jack Nicholson, Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Depp, and Clint Eastwood, to name a few.Although most acting techniques search for gateways to the actor’s inspiration, no other technique seems to have “inspired acting” at its center. Chekhov proved that inspiration is not something vague that we need to wait for; rather, we can coax and invite it in. Thanks to his well-documented psychophysical exercises, this inspiration is available to us today.
For me, probably the biggest difference between Chekhov’s technique and other techniques lies in the almost immediate effect it has on the actor’s imagination and physicality. There is very little talking or intellectualizing; the focus is on the actual doing and experiencing “on your feet” right away. Through different psychophysical exercises, actors quickly start developing a sensation of inspiration and learn to trust their own artistic individuality. All the while, they are also discovering ways to bypass mental acting blocks and preconditioned ideas of themselves, other people, or acting in general.
Using a holistic approach, the Chekhov technique emphasizes synergy between the body, imagination, emotions, and intellect. It also treats the actor as an artist, supporting the most valuable, vulnerable area in the actor: his or her creative individuality. In the Chekhov technique, this creative area, from which all artistic impulses rise, is located in the center of the chest. It is also the area where we feel the uplifting and expansive sensations of love and empathy, which both have a large role in Chekhov’s teachings. By simply acknowledging this artistic center and opening it, inspiration begins inside us.
The new direction came so quickly that there was no time for preparation. The camera was rolling, and I stood stupefied, knowing that the light was disappearing and we might only have this one take to “get it right.” I was filled with rage and confusion. What an unreasonable request! The only way I knew that I could give an inspired performance, find unwavering focus, and create such specificity of form as “one tear from the left eye” organically in the moment was to call upon what I had learnt in my Michael Chekhov technique training.
I focused upon the sensation of falling downward in the center of my chest, allowing the energetic movement of confusion and rage to transform into despair that flooded through me like a tsunami. As soon as I accepted the sensation in my body, it strengthened. I imagined that the flood could be released only through my left eye. I was filled with images and sensations that grew throughout the scene. The tear came from the left eye, but I didn’t even notice it, as inspiration had already taken over! Lesson learned: Everything is possible if I know how and where to focus to invite inspiration.
What draws me to the Chekhov technique is not only its ability to empower and inspire actors, but also the help it offers in the creation of nuanced, multileveled characters. Nowhere is this technique more vital and more helpful than in the confusing marketplace of today, where an actor is continually asked to “just be yourself.” But isn’t it the transformation, the “becoming someone else,” where all the fun and the art of acting is?
According to Chekhov, “the actor must divorce his own personality and mannerism from those of the character, and give himself over completely to the will, feelings, habits, and appearance of the character.” Chekhov advises the actor to let go of his or her own ego so that the character’s ego can take over. He says that if the character is trapped inside the actor, it will always be imprisoned within the actor’s mannerisms—and character ends up being limited by the actor’s personality. He talks about characters having “a will of their own.” So, according to Chekhov, we should never attempt to be “just ourselves” when acting, but rather we should, via our imagination, “cross the threshold” into an artistic realm—transforming first into an actor who is capable of anything, and then transforming into character.
As a Michael Chekhov actor, you would never enter an audition as “yourself.” You would cross the threshold into your artistic realm, where you are free of your inner critic and any cynicism, doubt, or ego-based fears. This part of the technique serves well as a starting point for all creative work (as well as a tool for actors who get anxious in auditions or experience stage fright). From here, all the choices that you make can become those of your character. The energetic charge in your actions, the “how” with which you do things (the quality of your movements), becomes the presence that articulates your inner emotional life and your current circumstances. You are no longer just you—you have become an artist and a creator of character.
Although the techniques that Chekhov left us are precise and well-proven, he was never didactic. For him, many acting techniques offered great value: “Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when…we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination, and courageous experimentation.” These words are so typical of the humble yet brilliant teacher who showed so many of us the path to inspiration.
Marjo-Riikka Makela is a director, master teacher, acting coach, and professional actor. She is the artistic director and acting and audition coach at the Chekhov Studio International in Los Angeles. She is a company member of The Actors’ Gang and has extensive stage credits in Europe. Her favorite roles in the U.S. include Medea under the direction of David Bridel, Yelena in “Uncle Vanya” at the Classic Stage Company in NYC, and her work with Sarah Kane and Andrei Malaev-Babel at the Stanislavsky Theatre Studio in Washington, D.C. She will be conducting the intensive “The Michael Chekhov Technique: An Alternative to the Method” at Back Stage’s trade show Actorfest LA on Sat., Nov. 5.
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How annoying is it to have your ankle bitten by a screen or storm door that closes too fast? Not only is it annoying, but it can really hurt! Why put up with a screen door hydraulic closer that no longer works well when you can fix or replace it in a few minutes.
Today I’ve partnered with National Hardware to show you an Easy Fix for a Screen/Storm Door Closer and save the skin on your heels.
It is possible that your screen/storm door closer just needs to have the tension adjusted. Locate the tension adjustment screw on the end of the door closer. Turn the screw clockwise to tighten and make the door close slower. Turn the screw counter-clockwise to loosen and make the door close faster.
If the door closer continues to not operate smoothly (or the door closer is unsightly), you may need to replace it.
Close the door completely. Press up to remove the pin from the bracket and release the door closer barrel. If the pin is under too much tension, open the door an inch and slide the open clip against the barrel and try again.
Remove the pin from the door side bracket. The barrel can now be completely removed.
Loosen the screws from the bracket on the screen door to remove the bracket.
Loosen the screws from the door jamb bracket and remove.
Attach the new bracket to the door jamb with provided screws.
Slide hold open clip up against the closer barrel.
Insert the pin into the closer barrel and the jamb bracket.
Install new bracket onto screen door. Keep screws slightly loose.
Slip the other pin into the barrel and the bracket.
Slide the bracket away from the barrel until there is no slack. Tighten screws on the bracket.
Your new screen door closer is installed. Time to test the door.
Make any adjustments necessary to the tension screw.
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Home security and automation technology is moving at a tremendous pace. And, as the famous jazz musician Duke Ellington used to sing ‘Things ain’t what they used to be’. Our installers know that and that’s why so many of them are joining the Eldes Academy to bring their knowledge of home security and automation technology up to date.
Giedrius is a professional installer who has experienced the Academy at first hand — and he is now using his knowledge to help other installers and customers as an Eldes Customer Support Engineer.
Entry to the Academy is free and provides a three-day full course. One day of the course introduces Eldes products and includes general information on home security and automation technology. The other two days are for small groups of up to six people with practical demonstrations of installations. Installers work with Eldes Utility software on configuration and try some practical home automation scenarios.
The team must have been impressed by the interest and product knowledge Giedrius demonstrated when he called because, in November, he received a call from the Customer Support Manager offering him a job on the team as Customer Support Engineer.
This dual role as installer and Customer Support Engineer makes multi-tasking the biggest challenge in his career, but Giedrius believes it’s only a matter of time before he adjusts to the pace and moves to the next level.
If you are considering boosting your career as an Eldes-certified installer, the type of practical experience and knowledge that Giedrius’ gained at the Eldes Academy could prove invaluable. Home automation and security is a fast-growing market with great opportunities for the right people.
Currently, the Academy is only available in Lithuania, but we would be happy to extend this important service to other countries if there is sufficient demand. If you are based in another country and would like to join the Academy, please complete the registration form belo so we can gauge the interest.

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President Tyler led the effort to bring Texas into the union.
An aspiring author from my writing class has submitted this ‘flash fiction’ story.
In 1840, William Henry Harrison ran one of the first image based, grassroots Presidential campaigns.
There were 8 Presidents after Andrew Jackson and the start of Civil War 24 years later. None were able to prevent that war. Martin Van Buren was the first of those 8 Presidents.
Andrew Jackson was called a ‘Jackass’, which later became the donkey symbol of the Democratic Party.
Does Our View of Presidents Change Over Time?
Quincy Adams had a 70-year career in public service - his Presidency was the least important of his roles.
Three 20th century Presidents with similarities in their domestic accomplishments. Can you guess who they were?


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Volunteer at 50% of the events and home games.
Be benchmarked for level of practice.
Attend practice at least once every 60 days to remain benchmarked.
Volunteer at 1 event and 1 home game per 6 months.
Can hold a Board of Director position if associate requirements are met.
Can play in games (with FRMDL, only if the roster does not have enough game eligible active skaters and upon captain/coach assessment).
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Volunteer at 50% of event and home games per 6 months.

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Terrible deal. Cap will be $100 million by the time he becomes a UFA and he'll be looking for 20 million +. Dumb deal for one of the league's best.
"I can't believe that one guy on Hockeybuzz knew more than me"
Your a riot.....so they should have paid him more now because the cap will go up later? Go inside for a bit you've been out in the sun too long.
Did they ever teach reading comprehension when you were in school? Of course the agents love this. They are beyond happy. Dubas is the one that missed the boat here. Why not go 8 year max? They lock him up for 5 years which brings him straight to UFA. They either give him 20+ on his next deal or he walks.
You’re a riot.....so they should have paid him more now because the cap will go up later? Go inside for a bit you've been out in the sun too long.
You don’t know anything about what went down, how the parties all feel, not what the future holds.
Touche.....now go get out of the sun Officer Smith of the Grammar Police, I'm worried about you.
It's a terrible deal all around. Terrible. Remember Ovechkin's deal? People thought it was insane at the time and now it's a huge bargain for the Caps. With the US TV deal coming up and expansion, profits will rise significantly over the next 5 years. Matthews is one the league's best offensive players. To give him anything short of the maximum number of years is crazy.
My response: you’re still one of the pooptiest and most ignorant posters on this site.
I won’t judge this beyond it being good value AAV wise until I see the Marner signing.
Love when people result to insult because they have a different point of view. Sounds a lot like our current POTUS.
Pretty sure most agree with me here. You’re inflammatory and not very insightful with your posts.
I am not expert in this area (kinda like everyone else on here...), but is the general rule of thumb not that the longer the deal the higher then AAV, due to tying him up into possible free agent years? So, $11.63M would be something closer to $13M. They have just signed Tavares to $11M per and have Marner and Kapanen to sign still. If they plan to keep this team together (as Dubas has insisted he would), then they can't just sign everybody to max. term at max. dollars. That much is obvious.
I'd say that if Dubas made an error, it was in signing Nylander the prima donna, daddy's-boy instead of collecting assets while making him someone else's problem.
Still, I was expecting at least 7-8 years to keep him locked up.
Yes. Stating that a 5 year term for one of the best players in the game is not a good deal is very inflammatory.
It’s not a bad deal. More term equals more money.
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I started my work-at-home business for three reasons: I wanted to stay home with my kids; I wanted an outlet to express myself; and I wanted to bring in some money and supplement my husband's income. Chances are you opened your small business for many of the same reasons.
While I love the work that I do, one thing I don't love is the behind-the-scenes work like maintaining my books, paying taxes, and working with an accountant.
Sure, you could outsource your bookkeeping, but if your business doesn't have complicated financials, you can learn basic bookkeeping and save yourself hundreds of dollars a year.
My Own Business beginner course. My Own Business offers a free online course that explains the basics of accounting as well as bookkeeping. The site also has video interviews with accounting experts. After you complete the session, you can take a quiz to see how much you learned.
While this course isn't as interactive as some may like, it is full of basic knowledge and is a great place to start if you have limited accounting and bookkeeping knowledge.
Take a Bean Counter's course. While My Own Business provides bookkeeping basics, Bean Counter's So You Want to Learn Bookkeeping online course is much more in-depth.
This course also gives you several short quizzes to make sure you are learning and retaining the information.
Easy Bookeepping Basics by Alex Borders. If you prefer to learn by reading a book, try Alex Borders' Easy Bookkeeping Basics: Let Me Take You By The Hand Step-By-Step To Start a Home Based Bookkeeping Business . This book takes you through the basics of bookkeeping as well as how to start your own bookkeeping business, if you're so inclined.
It is available on Kindle for $2.99.
Full-ChargeBookkeeping by Nick J. DeCandia, CPA. According to DeCandia, Full-Charge Bookkeeping is being able to handle all of the small business bookkeeping tasks with little to no supervision. This book is in-depth, so if you have a financially complicated small business, this book should take you through all the possible bookkeeping scenarios that may arise. If you have a less complicated situation, you should be able to pick and choose the information that pertains to your business.
This book is $7.95 on Kindle and $14.45 in paperback.
Bookkeepers' Boot Camp by Angie Mohr. You know you have to maintain the books, but beyond tax purposes, why should you care about bookkeeping? Mohr answers that question in Bookkeepers'Boot Camp. In addition to teaching basic bookkeeping, Mohr also teaches how to create a successful business that will stay in business for years.
This book is currently $9.99 on Kindle or $16.13 in paperback.
While bookkeeping may overwhelm you now, with a bit of study and exploring using great resources, you should be able to keep your own books.
What is your favorite bookkeeping resource?

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Mensagem: These two verbal combinations will overlap in meaning in at least one of their multiple senses, particularly that of "having, showing or otherwise developing an interest in or liking for (something/someone)." As far as interchangeability, you may state that either "X goes for music in a big way" or "X goes in for music..." and never have to regret it.
You may go for sports or go in for it, right? Has one form in any way superseded the other?


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Before we decided to get one of Huntington Beach apartments, there are some things we need to pay attention to and consider. As we all know, renting an apartment is not a complicated process as well as the process of buying a home, however we need to consider several things in order to get a place to stay that is consistent with what we expect, including location, facilities, until the rental price offered.
The most important thing before deciding to get a particular apartment is we have to do it slowly and carefully. We should not decide to take the apartment with a heart condition in a hurry because the results cannot be in line with expectations and is certainly going to bring us to a prolonged feeling disappointed.
Here are some things that we must consider before deciding to get Huntington Beach apartments. First, leasing - this is a document that will be signed by both parties either owner or tenant that outlines several points related to lease transactions are conducted. Before signing a contract, make sure we examine the contents of the contract carefully so that we do not find any hidden words that can hurt us as tenants.
Make sure there are some things in the contract, including the length of the lease term, rental rates, up to what would be obtained if one of the parties to cancel the lease agreement before time expires. Learn also how much additional cost we have to pay and scope. Secondly, the additional cost - this is the cost of a wider scope, including utility costs that we have to pay as pool maintenance, parking fees, up to the tax.
The amount of such additional costs will definitely be very different from one apartment to another. For that, make sure we know the amount of additional costs before signing the contract so that we will not excited when faced with an additional bill every month.
Third, the rental agreement - a rental agreement which is usually different from the lease is renewed automatically after 1 month stay in the apartment. There are two types of lease agreements that we will get the long term and short term lease is a lease that we can choose according to need.
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Loona is a masterpiece of modern Punjabi poetry. A verse-play, published in 1965, Loona is based on the legend of Puran Bhagat. King of Sialkot marries a young girl Loona. She falls for his son (from 1st wife) Puran who is of her age.
He declines her advances; she complains abt him; he’s punished (hands/feet amputated and thrown into a well). A guru rescues him; he gets well and becomes a Bhagat. Years later, Loona still childless comes to “the Bhagat”. The truth comes out; she admits her mistake; he forgives them and wishes a child, Rasalu. That’s how the legend of Puran Bhagar has been told in Punjab for nearly two thousand years.
But that’s not how Shiv tells is. For Shiv, it’s the legend of Loona: a girl of lower caste, married against her wishes, falls in love with a man of her age. So what? he asks and retells the legend and makes it about Loona, not the prince-turned-bhagat. A masterpiece at the age of 28! That’s called a great poet. Below is the selections from Loona sung by Bhupinder & Mitali.
Listen them or read the complete book here. It is something you simply cannot miss.


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Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: / She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgressions. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! / For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? / Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? / For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.
...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.
If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; / And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath the same sap for kind that the Arm of the tree hath, and it all comes from the same root. So though there be more venom in some gross, crying sins, than in some others; yet there is no sin but hath the same sap, and the same venom, for the kind, that every sin hath, that the worst sin hath.
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
Now there is naught but a vast black triangle having the apex downwards, and in the centre of the black triangle is the face of Typhon, the Lord of the Tempest, and he crieth aloud: Despair! Despair! For thou mayest deceive the Virgin, and thou mayest cajole the Mother; but what wilt thou say unto the ancient Whore that is throned in Eternity? For if she will not, there is neither force nor cunning, nor any wit, that may prevail upon her. Thou canst not woo her with love, for she is love. And she hath all, and hath no need of thee. And thou canst not woo her with gold, for all the Kings and captains of the earth, and all the gods of heaven, have showered their gold upon her. Thus hath she all, and hath no need of thee. And thou canst not woo her with knowledge, for knowledge is the thing that she hath spurned. She hath it all, and hath no need of thee. And thou canst not woo her with wit, for her Lord is Wit. She hath it all, and hath no need of thee. Despair! Despair! Nor canst thou cling to her knees and ask for pity; nor canst thou cling to her heart and ask for love; nor canst thou put thine arms about her neck, and ask for understanding; for thou hast all these, and they avail thee not. Despair! Despair! Then I took the Flaming Sword, and I let it loose against Typhon, so that his head was cloven asunder, and the black triangle dissolved in lightnings.


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What type of cards can I enroll in Purchase Alerts?
You can enroll most Visa credit and debit cards. For debit cards, Purchase Alerts are not available for purchases that require you enter a PIN number. You can enroll your card if you’re sharing an account; the primary account holder on the card designates the Purchase Alert settings. Purchase Alerts are available for business credit cards as well.


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NOVEMBER 2018 BLOG: MY 45 YEAR ANNIVERSARY: "Forty five years ago I began my daily practice of yoga. Two years later I added to it tai chi. Then I blended the two together into a single disciplne, which is still unique today. What a blessing tai chi yoga has been these 45 years. Each morning since then I have started my day with its uplifting, soothing movements, synchronized breathing, and gentle relaxation. Each night since I have wound down the same way. This year I celebrate those 45 years - how tai chi yoga is an integral part of my life, how it eases pain, comforts sorrows, and reenergizes an aging body - even after recovering from 3 major surgeries in the past four years. May it do the same for you ."
ABOUT TAI CHI YOGA: I am blessed to have peace of mind, flexibility, memory, energy, and balance. At 6' 3" I am still fairly thin. My hair is still naturally brown - except for a few strands of silver that have started to appear at the temples. Even though I am 70, most of my friends say I look like I am in my forties. And I feel younger than that. Why? Tai Chi Yoga.
When I do Tai Chi Yoga, I feel like I do while taking a shower. I feel myself unwinding and floating at the same time. I feel clearer in thought and wiser in mind. I sense more from the inside instead of the outside. I feel closer to others, nature, and God. It is the best part of my day.
Tai Chi Yoga is a healing and meditative art form that I innovated in 1977 by blending tai chi and hatha yoga. Tai Chi Yoga is about doing; not achieving. No matter our age, size, or shape, we derive healing benefits by performing to our own level of flexibility and enjoyment; not by trying to push beyond what is comfortable for our body.
Tai chi is an ancient form of martial arts - considered the most passive of the martial arts. Its prevailing philosophy is "yield and overcome". Tai chi has its origins in China. Today it is the most widely practiced exercise form in the world. Tai chi is a series of circular, bent-knee, one-legged balancing movements done in rhythm with one's stomach breathing. It resembles ballet in slow-motion. Tai chi is also considered the physical practice of Taoism, an ancient Chinese spiritual philosophy.
Hatha yoga is an ancient form of gentle stretching combined with deep breathing and reflective relaxation. Its slow movements consist of forward stretches, backward stretches, spinal twists, balances, and inverted positions. One's stomach breathing initiates movement into and out of a stretch. Yoga has its origins in India.
Proper stomach breathing is essential to Tai Chi Yoga as well as everyday life. For example when we watch a baby breath, its stomach naturally inflates outward when inhaling and deflates inward when exhaling - like a balloon being filled and emptied of air. The absence of proper stomach breathing while performing Tai Chi Yoga greatly diminishes its benefits. The absence of proper stomach breathing in everyday life contributes to shallow upper chest breathing which deprives the body of sufficient life-giving oxygen it needs to fight aging.
My Tai Chi Yoga routines are structured accordingly: (1) a seated breathing exercise; (2) standing yoga movements; (3) tai chi movements; (4) reclining relaxation; (5) seated and reclining yoga movements; and (6) reclining relaxation and/or kneeling meditation. I have found that the blending of tai chi and yoga into a single art form creates more profound benefits to the body, mind, and spirit than the practice of either discipline alone. It is like 1 + 1 = 3.
You can see examples of my Tai Chi Yoga by clicking on the "John's YouTube Videos" link on the home page.
The benefits of Tai Chi Yoga are infinite. It affects the body, mind, and spirit like water nurturing a flower bud. It produces a glow that comes from the inside; a smile that starts from the heart. Its daily practice improves concentration and memory. It prolongs youthful suppleness and condition. It restores grace of movement and balance. It generates energy within us. It enhances our inner awareness. It helps us feel our own spirit. And by sensing our own spirit, we can then sense Heaven's Spirit within us.
Henry David Thoreau once said, "Heaven is beneath our feet as well as above our head". As we progress with Tai Chi Yoga, we come to feel the Spirit flowing within our body. And when we have received the gift of the Holy Ghost, the daily practice of Tai Chi Yoga enables us to more profoundly feel that presence in our heart and soul.


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Open: DYK: Have you ever paid through the nose?
Open: DYK: Do you have a frog in your throat?
DYK: Do you have a frog in your throat?
Open: DYK: Have you ever worn your heart on your sleeve?
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Please use the contact us tab to find out current availability and waitlist options for our classes!
We accept children to our wait list at any time. However, we reserve the right to fill openings in the way that best suits our program. Priority may be given to siblings of enrolled students, part time students who can fill the other ‘part’ of an enrolled part time student’s hours, and students who fit well with the ages of already enrolled students. Please note, a spot on the wait list does not guarantee a spot will be available when needed or guarantee enrollment if a spot should become available!
We encourage expecting families to add their infants to the wait list as soon as they know their infant will need care. When added to the wait list, families must give us an anticipated start date. If we do not anticipate having an opening near that date, you may still be added to the wait list if you like in case a spot becomes available. Families of infants on the wait list must pay the enrollment fee when a spot near their expected start date becomes available. If the infant’s start date requires us to hold the spot open for more than 2 weeks parents may be asked to pay an additional fee to hold the spot. When the infant begins attendance, half of the enrollment fee will be applied to the first week of tuition. If the child does not attend the fee will not be refunded. The remaining portion of the fee will be applied to tuition for the last week your child attends if you provide 2 weeks notice.
When we have a preschool opening, waitlisted families will be notified and will have 48 hours to respond and arrange an interview. Once families have been notified they have been accepted, they have another 48 hours to accept the position and pay the enrollment fee. When we have an opening, we ask that all families pay an enrollment fee equivalent to two weeks tuition for each child expected to enroll. If the children begin attending within the arranged time after paying the enrollment fee, half of the fee will be applied to the first week of tuition. The remaining portion of the fee will be applied to tuition for the last week your child attends if you provide 2 weeks notice. If the child does not begin attending at the arranged time, the opening may go to another student and the enrollment fee will not be refunded.
Please note: Additional enrollment fees and end of enrollment notice may be required for part-week students, part-day students, and students requiring Pre-K or school-age transport, as these spots are harder to fill when a student leaves. This will be based on your child’s schedule and tuition rate.
Tuition rates are subject to change. Families will be given a minimum of 30 days notice of any tuition changes.


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PARIS (Reuters) - Rioters set fire to a bank and ransacked stores on Paris’s Champs Elysees avenue on Saturday, in a new flare-up of violence as France’s yellow vest protests against President Emmanuel Macron and his pro-business reforms entered a fourth month.
“I want us to very precisely analyze things and as quickly as possible take strong, complementary decisions so this doesn’t happen again,” he told ministers.
“They decided, perhaps as a swansong, to come attack - and I use their words - Paris,” Castaner said, adding that more than 1,400 police officers were mobilized.


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Provides access to bookmark methods and properties.
Bookmarks in an ArcGIS Pro project are associated and managed with the map for which they were created. They are referenced using the listBookmarks method on the Map object. If you want to search all bookmarks within a project, you must iterate through all the maps. Bookmarks can be used to update the display for a MapFrame object on a page layout using the zoomToBookmark method.
Despite the fact that a bookmark is associated with a specific map, a bookmark can be used on map frames that are displaying different maps. Bookmarks created using a 2D map can be used with 3D maps and the other way around. It is at the time of bookmark creation that the available Camera object properties are set based on the type of map. If a 2D bookmark is used for either a local or global map viewing mode, then the result will be a planimetric view of the area of interest. If a 3D bookmark is used with a 2D map frame type, the 3D camera properties are approximated to provide a planimetric extent.
There are a couple of scenarios where a bookmark's thumbnail image will need to be updated. First, bookmarks imported from map (.mxd), globe (.3dd), or scene (.sxd) documents don't automatically have their thumbnails updated due to a performance hit—it could take a long time for the application to automate this process because each bookmark area of interest would need to be generated and layers fully drawn before a thumbnail could be created. Second, the data in a map, for example, a basemap, may get changed and you may want the thumbnails to get updated appropriately. The updateThumbnail method provides a solution for these two scenarios. The hasThumbnail property allows you to determine which bookmarks may have been imported and don't currently have a thumbnail image.
If True, a thumbnail image is associated with a bookmark.
The Map that the bookmark is associated with.
Updates a bookmark's thumbnail image.
Updates a bookmark's thumbnail image. To determine if a thumbnail exists for a bookmark, check the hasThumbnail property.
The following script will update a map frame's area of interest by zooming to each bookmark that belongs to a map named Yosemite National Park and export the result to individual PDF documents.
The following script will iterate through all the bookmarks in a project and update the thumbnail image if it is missing.


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This project management plan is majorly concerned primarily with the first two steps which are defining the project; the project objective is broken down into a series of manageable steps called tasks and designing the project process; this work is performed by the project manager and is presented in the GANTT chart where the tasks are displayed in more detail (Hamilton, 2004). Besides, for this project, the stakeholders will actually deliver the project. The final step of developing the project management process is a continual reappraisal of the way in which tasks are planned for and implemented; this is an ongoing process that begins once the first task is underway.
Hamilton, A. (2004). Handbook of Project Management Procedures. TTL Publishing Ltd.
Ireland, L.R. (2006). Project Management. McGraw-Hill Professional.
Kemp, S. (2004). Project Management Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide. New York: McGraw-Hill Company.
Kendrick, T. (2010). The Project Management Toolkit, 2nd Ed. New York: American Management Association.
Project management is increasingly becoming a popular and preferred way of contending with inter-organizational ventures that are out of the ordinary. hen the functions of a project require the involvement of specialized personnel and skill sets which may not be readily represented from within the company to the fullest extent demanded, it may be appropriate to organize a project team. This might be comprised of current employees and temporary hires with specialized and pertinent skills. In either event, project management requires a competent and strong project leader.
Gray, C.F. & Larson, E.W. (2005).Project management the managerial process. McGraw-Hill.
United States District Court (2013). Case NO. 12-45390 Complain for Breach of Contact. Western District of Washington at Seattle.
Change management is very critical in project management and must be covered in this set of three articles.
#2: The rest of the students are not interested in academic careers, however, you feel it is important that they receive a theoretical knowledge of the subject matter. What five essential theoretical lessons would you share with your students that you feel are the most important in assuring professional success as a project manager?
Contino, D.S. (2004). What's your projects ROI? Nursing Management, 35(2), 39-40.
Imam, M.H., & Dhillon, J.S. (1989). Project management in telecommunications - a case study. AACE International Transactions,, E.8.1-E.8.1.
Quayle, M. (1999). Project management in European aerospace plc: A case study. Industrial Management + Data Systems, 99(5), 221-226.
Reed, R.E. (1996). ROI for management. AACE International Transactions,, PRF51-PRF53.
Chen, S.-J., & Lin, L. (2002). A project task coordination model for team organization in concurrent engineering. Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications, 10(3), 187-203.
AT&T is a leader in communication technology that connects people all over the world. Just as their customers and business depend on them and their services to remain connected, AT&T depends on the internal resources they have particularly project and program managers so that they can remain as the best service providers. Huawei is a Chinese Telecom giant that deals with products such as fixed-line communications, optical transmission, mobile communications, data communications as well as mobile terminals and handsets. Huawei technologies saw the need for the inclusion of project management for the tools and techniques so that it ensures the strategies proved effective, efficient and profitable. This paper looks at AT&T and Huawei and the steps they took when it came to the improvement of their portfolio management process within the corporation.
Expansion of sales to specific geographical areas.
Major goal of executing projects is to achieve a strategic plan. However, many projects have been met with failures because of lack of integration of effective project management model in the project lifecycle.
Providing the discipline to ensure that the formulated strategy has specific objectives for shareholders and customers, an explicit customer value proposition, the critical internal processes for creating and delivering the value proposition, and aligned human resources, information technology, and organization culture. (Lagace, M. February 2, 2004. PP. 2).
Guerrera, F. (March 12, 2009). Welch Condemns Share Price Focus. Financial Times. PP.
Crawford, J., Leonard, L.N.K., & Jones, K. (2011). The human resources influence in shaping it competence. Industrial Management + Data Systems, 111(2), 164-183.
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A project is a variety of jobs that relate and point towards a critical solution. For a project to function successfully, money, time, resources, and personnel is required. Project management often dictates control of resources together with planning the intended project and designating resources in areas where they are needed. Before the start of a project, the management decides upon which organizational structure will be effected to see the running of the project. The three basic organizational structures for project management include pure, matrix and functional project. Every organization should evaluate these three organizational structures and decide on one which best suits them. The organization is set for the success journey after identifying the organizational structure (Daft, 2011).
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The adage that, “Whenever you want to do something, you have to do something else first” is especially relevant for project management since even straightforward and simple projects typically involve performing several preliminary steps. This also means that larger, complex project usually involve several smaller subprojects, and these must be carefully managed together with other ongoing organizational projects. In sum, multiple project management represents a challenging enterprise, but there are some steps that project managers can take to help facilitate the process. The purpose of this paper is to provide a definition of the best practices and applicable methodologies for multiple project management together with a summary of the research and important findings concerning these requirements in the conclusion.
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Although desirable, it is quite difficult to start with a dictionary definition of project management, mainly because of the complexity involved in the process, a complexity impossible to cover with a simple two-line definition. Hence, it is probably best to describe the process, underlining thus the main characteristics of project management.
A company's strategic perspective may, perhaps, be amply resumed to two strategic concepts around which everything else revolves: objectives and projects. Any company will start building its analysis around a series of drivers and objectives that the company may have for the next few years. These objectives need to be only a couple, because we may assume that if the company had 15 objectives for the next years, its resources will be too split and it will not be bale to fulfill any of them efficiently.
• What are some of the characteristics that differentiate projects from other functions carried out in the daily operations of an organization? List some examples of work considered to be a project and work not considered to be a project.
The main trait and attribute that differentiates projects and non-projects is the duration of the event in question. Events that are ongoing in perpetuity are not projects. Projects, instead, are tasks/jobs (or collections of the same) that has a definite start point and end point as well as a budgetary estimate and a depicting/listing of the resources needed for the project. The project is planned, commence and then evaluated whereas operations tasks are normal daily tasks that do not generally halt unless there is a business need or reason for it (PMBOK, 2013).
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Visit www.itweek.co.uk/News/11329438 to see the string of news stories related to Project Libra. Identify some of the sources of the problems the project faces.
Project Libra exemplifies several attributes of failed projects the most notable of which is the breakdown in project team, Fujitsu Services (ICL) system integrator and enterprise software vendors. Most evident of a filed project management structure is the ballooning size of payments made during the project with literally nothing to show for it.
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How well the client's value was understood.
All sheets must be accounted for and either closed off or re-scheduled before the new 'work to' list is formed. The maintenance superintendent checks all sheets to ensure quality of the system. Defects are entered into the system by the operations personnel who monitor the operation of all equipment or are usually the first point of contact for other personnel. The technician who rectifies a defect is responsible for issuing and completing the defect job sheet. Checks are made to ensure the same information on the job sheet is entered into the computer. Finally, regular reviews of the planned maintenance task are conducted to ensure their relevance (Allen 2003).
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PINCE2 is used in both the public and the private sector. It is mainly used in the UK by the government, but the method is successfully applied internationally also. PINCE2 is useful because it focuses on business justification, it supports a well established organization structure for the project management team, it provides a product-based planning approach.
The method also focuses on segmenting the project into several stages that can be easier managed and controlled. Users find this method to be quite flexible. This means that the method can be applied to different levels of the project.
PINCE2 offers two qualification levels: PINCE2 Foundation, and PINCE2 Practitioner. But the advantages of PINCE2 go further than that, including: increased control of resources, the ability required for managing business and project risk with increased efficiency.
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The use of Gantt charts for enabling interprocess integration and knowledge management in the A&D industry is a best practice for also managing process-intensive projects (Singh, Keil, Kasi, 2009). These include the development of new computer systems and advanced technologies where the project needs to capture the knowledge to fulfill its objectives. Project management's core set of tools therefore needs to be focused on how to augment and strengthen project performance while also capturing process and product knowledge critical to its success (Besner, Hobbs, 2006). The combining of Gantt charts, progress reports, change requests and the use of kick-off meetings to set objectives is critical in this regard.
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The author offers detailed information concerning what might be expected by the company as they endeavor to complete a contract. The author also explains the risks associated with certain contracts.
Usually, this may happen when the client changes some of his initial requirements and part of the modules need to be changed. In these cases, the resource allocation mechanism is a fundamental instrument of the organizing function.
The directing and control functions of management somehow are connected when it comes to project management. The reason for this is that the directing function provides the necessary supervision for the tasks to be performed, while the control functions ensures the necessary feedback system, which evaluates the performance results and feeds this back into the directing phase for changes.
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Q2. The chance of risk events occurring and their respective costs increasingly change over the project life cycle. What is the significance of this phenomenon to a project manager?
Therefore, it is recommended to thoroughly evaluate the company's culture in order to determine how the company in case usually influences the project management culture. Based on this evaluation, project managers can develop successful strategies (Sharma, 2010).
The approach of companies towards training programs is an important factor that must be taken into consideration. Some companies prefer to rely on the experience and knowledge of their project managers. However, this does not suffice in order to develop successful projects. It is also necessary to invest in training programs for these project managers, because this improves their skills and determines the success of the projects they are involved in. Therefore, it is important to include this in the company's culture.
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Rather, the issue needs to be seen from all angles to truly evaluate the needs and responses to these risks as they are identified.
Reggae concert using the information contained in this case description.
Threats will include drunken or otherwise inebriated fans, accidental fires (especially from electricity or smoking). Also, acts of God such as weather disasters must be factored in.
b. As noted in the scenario, the capacity of the stadium is 8000. Similar sized concert data were referenced in preparation for that given year in the United States. Deaths should considered to give an adequate barometer for preparation for a worst case scenario (Upton, 2004) .
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Insurance companies enjoy large profit margins in the insurance industry. A reason for these margins would be the project management ability of firm employees to effectively management risk. Project management tools enable managers to effectively manage inherent risk with project implementation and management.
This focus on the key success steps associated with a project is an effective way to concentrate on the most critical problems, rather than focus on every possible potential problem. In addition, while some would say that it is better to prepare for the worst and think of every possible problem, this in itself can be a waste of resources and can reduce the amount of focus on the most important potential problems.
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Like things information technology management, business intelligence typically implemented form a "project" --, a special kind organizational arrangement set specific things a specific period time, opposed a regular ongoing part organizational structure.
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The GANTT chart presented below is a representation of the work plan for a landscaping assignment. The chart presentation gives a schedule of work targeting completion of a specific project Wysocki, 2009.
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Therefore, benchmarking is a critical step for firms wanting to compete globally. Because each marketplace environment differs, companies need to research competitor firms in their industry that are already firmly entrenched in the desired environment. Benchmarking is never done once and then cast aside; benchmarking becomes an ongoing process that enables organizations to gauge their progress and tweak procedures that may improve their performance. Benchmarking usually compares firms to industry leaders, too, because those leaders are the standard by which competing firms hope to achieve or usurp.
3. What problems might arise from empowering employees? What are some of the hurdles that managers must overcome in empowering employees? What can organizations do to address these issues?
Project Title: Opening of Branch Store in La Jolla CA.
The main store is located in Del Mar and is the only store that serves the entire community plus the extra population that comes in to shop here from surrounding towns and neighborhoods. The long distance that the clients have to cover has been a concern for both the clients and the management as well. It is from this point of consideration that the management should venture into opening another branch in La Jolla so that it can help shorten the agony of clients having to travel long distance to source for the fresh produce from the main store.
The main objective is to reduce the time wastage for the clients between their homes and the point where they can source for the products of the company.
The baggage handling system (BHS) project is in motion. Initially, our company Boeing Airport Equipment Automated Systems, Inc. (BAE) stipulated that no change requests should be accepted. However, it is proving impossible to ignore the influx of change requests from major stakeholders, namely the airlines.
As project manager, I have determined that our policy regarding change requests should itself be changed, from a public relations standpoint. We cannot risk further isolating core stakeholders, for risk that the entire project fall apart later due to technical, design, conceptual, or implementation flaws that might arise. It is my duty as project manager to attend to the change requests, and I believe that BAE could learn a great deal from reading and responding to those requests. We shall do so in a systematic and organized manner.
"Part IV: Monitoring and Controlling the Project"
This case study demonstrates how a project manager spends a busy day in her office by overseeing the routine activities and discussing the ongoing project with her fellow managers and lower-end staff. achel is the project manager of a large information systems project. She is responsible to supervise the job responsibilities and the progress of project activities and report them to her boss on daily basis.
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All three projects are feasible from a financial standpoint because they all offer a decent return. The breakeven point for all three projects is greater than one year and less than two years. The largest return is to be found on the project with the highest risk associated with it; which is not surprising. Although the risk of completing this project on time is high. The product life is forecasted to be 7 years for this product. Furthermore, the project has already been mostly funded. Although the current expenditures could be considered a sunk cost, it is close to completion.
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What is the difference between a task dependency and a task constraint?
The difference between a task dependency and a task constraint is apparent in the time. A task dependency connects two tasks by suggesting that one task will start comparative to another task, whereas a task constraint places the connection directly to a time rather than base it off the time when another task begins (Marmel and Muir, 2007).
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The project I was involved in is in the IT industry. It involved a team of five individuals: a project manager, three developers and a tester. The final deliverable was the completion of a module of the larger application, namely a model that involved several calculations in Excel and the development of a set of charts and graphics. All human resources were involved at the time of development. Other resources included computers and software applications that were necessary in the process.
One of the ways that a project manager could use the data described in the article to keep the project on track is by prioritizing the respective components of the project. The prioritization aspect of Microsoft Project is important for when "projects are tight and fewer resources are available" (obb). Additionally, it is possible to make sure that the resources devoted to one project do not overlap with those of another by using software such as Mariner. Lastly, Mariner's approval system is vital to the ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget because it provides a means of getting permission to implement certain elements of a project.
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It is in this manner where we can say that too much control is counter-productive. For instance, in case a problem in one of the controls occurs, chances are, more attention will be given to that control leaving the others with less attention. This may lead to confusion and may result to slow productivity of both the project manager as well as the progress of the project. However, if we are to replace the different controls (since they all have similar purpose which is to provide a general method of carrying out the process) with proper standards and guidelines, project management will become easier. This is because the project manager will just need to concentrate on one general set of procedures for every activity related to the project.


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