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The influence of ambulatory blood pressure profile on global and regional functions of the left and the right ventricles in orderly treated hypertensive patients.
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BACKGROUND: The association between nondipping profile and adverse cardiovascular outcome is still controversial. Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI), a new and useful addition to standard echocardiographic imaging techniques, permits a quantitative assessment of both global and regional function and timing of myocardial velocities. In this study, we aimed to assess whether a reduced nocturnal fall in blood pressure (BP) in orderly treated hypertensive patients with satisfactory BP control is related to more prominent structural and functional alterations of the ventricles. METHOD AND RESULTS: Sixty-nine hypertensive patients with adequate BP control were divided into two groups with respect to ambulatory BP profiles as dippers and nondippers. In addition to conventional echocardiographic parameters, in septal and lateral segments of left ventricle and free wall of right ventricle, peak systolic velocity (Sm), early (Em), and late (Am) diastolic velocities, isovolumic contraction time (ICTm), isovolumic relaxation time (IRTm), and ejection times (ETm) were measured, and modified myocardial performance index (MPIm) was calculated. Left ventricular (LV) and atrial dimensions, ejection fraction, transmitral early to late diastolic flow ratio, LV mass index, and LV hypertrophy ratio did not differ between groups. Both regional and mean LV Sm, Em/Am, MPIm and right ventricular Sm and MPIm were similar in both groups. CONCLUSION: In treated hypertensive patients with satisfactory BP control, there was no significant difference in cardiac structural and functional abnormalities among dipper and nondipper subjects.
Gulizar Sokmen; Abdullah Sokmen; Ekrem Aksu; Sedat Koroglu; Arif Suner; Cemal Tuncer
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Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2008-02-12
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Title:  Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)     Volume:  25     ISSN:  0742-2822     ISO Abbreviation:  Echocardiography     Publication Date:  2008 May
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Created Date:  2008-05-02     Completed Date:  2008-09-19     Revised Date:  -
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Nlm Unique ID:  8511187     Medline TA:  Echocardiography     Country:  United States
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  465-72     Citation Subset:  IM
Cardiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
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Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory*
Chi-Square Distribution
Circadian Rhythm
Echocardiography, Doppler*
Hypertension / drug therapy,  physiopathology,  ultrasonography*
Middle Aged
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology,  ultrasonography*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / physiopathology,  ultrasonography*

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An Epidemiological Survey of Feline Hemoplasma Infection in Japan.

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Hemoplasma (hemotropic mycoplasma) often causes hemolytic anemia in infected cats, especially those with immune suppression. An updated nationwide epidemiological survey of feline hemoplasmosis was conducted in Japan. Blood samples were collected from 1,770 outdoor-accessing cats from March to October 2008. The infections were molecularly detected by PCR analyses, which are able to distinguish Mycoplasma haemofelis (Mhf), 'Candidatus M. haemominutum' (CMhm), and 'Candidatus M. turicensis' (CMt) infections. Of the 1,770 cats, 468 cases (26.4%) revealed a single- or co-infection of feline hemoplasmas [Mhf alone, 42 cases (2.4%); CMhm alone, 280 cases (15.8%); CMt alone, 48 cases (2.7%); Mhf+CMhm, 28 cases (1.6%); Mhf+CMt, 6 cases (0.3%); CMhm+CMt, 50 cases (2.8%); Mhf+CMhm+CMt, 14 cases (0.8%)]. In addition, male gender, middle to old age, history of fight wounds, and feline immunodeficiency virus infection were shown to be risk factors for hemoplasma infection. Close attention must be paid to the acute onset of disease in feline practice because a prevalence of hemoplasma infection was detected even in clinically healthy cats.

Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University.

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John Round is a socio-economic geographer whose main research interest is concerned with how people/households develop tactics to cope with marginality in all its forms. His PhD examined how senior citizens survive in the Russian far north east city of Magadan in the face of extreme economic marginalization and hostile climatic conditions.  After this he researched the experiences of middle aged men in St Petersburg in relation to changing notions of work in the early post-Soviet period. From this he developed an interested in informal economic practices as a coping tactic to economic exclusion and this led to a large scale project, funded by the ESRC, exploring the nature and role of the informal economy in Moscow and Kyiv concluding that informality is an integral part of the post-Soviet everyday.

John’s research is influenced by the work of Lefebvre in relation to (non)theories of the everyday and state/society relationships and de Certeau with regard to the construction, and difference between, the strategies and tactics of everyday life. He is currently working on a major long-term project, supported by the Open Society Foundation, to explore the everyday experiences of labour migrants in Moscow and Kazan from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. This project, undertaken alongside Dr Irina Kuznetsova from Kazan Federal University and Professor Sergei Sergei Ryazantsev, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, examines the problems labour migrants face in Russia and the impact of migration on those remaining at ‘home’. It is particularly interested in how migrants access social welfare, such as health services; the precarious nature of their employment; problems with registration and housing and interactions with the state.

He is currently spending most of his time at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics in Moscow, where he is part of the Faculty of Sociology and the Centre of Advanced Studies. He recently completed a five month fellowship at the University of Hokkaido and will be undertaking a fellowship in 2014 at the University of Helsinki.

PhD Geography ‘The Social Costs of Transition. A Case Study of Magadan Oblast’ (University of Birmingham, Geography) 2003

MSc World Space Economy (University of Birmingham, Geography) 1998

BA Geography (University of Liverpool) 1995

John joined the school in 2007 as a Lecturer in Human Geography and became a Senior Lecturer in 2010.  Since 2011 he has spent most of his time as an Associate Professor at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He has also spent five months at the University of Hokkaido as a senior visiting research fellow during 2012 and will undertake a similar position at the University of Helsinki during 2014.

Previous to moving to the University of Birmingham he held a similar post, and an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship, at the University of Leicester. Prior to this he completed a PhD in 2003 entitled ‘The social costs of Transition: A case study of Magadan Oblast’, in the University of Birmingham’s School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. This followed an MSc in Human Geography in 1998, from the same school, and a BA in Human Geography from the University of Liverpool in 1995.

While currently spending most of his time in Moscow John contributes to the following modules in GEES;

Berlin Field Trip

GM333 Post-Socialist Transformation: Moscow

GM406 Critical Globalisations

Postgraduate supervision

John has contributed to the supervision of the following students;

Rebecca Morris (2009) ‘Bloody geographies: relating, connecting, giving and caring in blood. Donation and transfusion’

Paul Richardson (2010) The Southern Kuril Islands and their Role in Defining and Contesting Contemporary Russian Identity

Katsiaryna Padvalkava (2012) ‘The challenges of retirement in Belarus’

Arshad Isakjee (2013) ‘Under The Microscope: Identity, Politics and Governance of Young Muslims in Birmingham’

Darren Roberts (completing revisions, 2013) ‘Analysing the reciprocal relationships between music, place, and power: an examination of local music practices in Birmingham, UK’

Current PhD students

Thom Davies (to be submitted 2013) ‘Social Fallout: marginalized communities and state-society relations in post-Chernobyl Ukraine’

Olga Verbilovich (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) ‘The construction of disability in Russia’

Ivan Klimov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) ‘The experience of higher education in Russia’

My main research areas are currently;

‘The everyday experiences of Central Asian Migrants in Russia’ (supported by the Open Society Foundation). This research looks at the everyday experiences of labour migrants from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan employ in Moscow and Kazan. This includes the formal/informal nature of their work, their exploitation by enterprises and the state and the entrepreneurial behavior that some migrants develop. It also looks at how migrants organize themselves through informal networks and more formal diaspora organizations in order to find work and to provide protection. Furthermore, it examines the role of remittances and the economic impact of the migration on the donor countries.

‘Entrepreneurship in Russia: motivations, barriers and opportunities’. This project looks at the current experiences of entrepreneurs in Russia, looking at motivations for entrepreneurship, the challenges they face and their tactics to negate them, the benefits of such economic behavior and their future goals. Particular emphasis is given to such activities within the creative economy sphere and the creation of new economic spaces within Moscow. The research to date has shown that places within Moscow that appear to stimulate creative economic activity are exclusionary due to extremely high prices. Russia’s high levels of informality (such as cash in hand work, corruption etc.) provides many challenges to entrepreneurs thus the project looks at how they provide barriers to enterprise growth and state attempts to combat the issue. The research also has a comparative regional element as it examines the above issues in Moscow, which was the lowest ranked city in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Survey in Russia, and Tatarstan which was one of the highest ranked regions.

‘The nature of ‘political’ protest in Russia’. This research examines the nature of the current protests in Moscow, and why protests are not occurring in other Russian cities. It reveals that often the motivation for protest is concerned more with the urban and economic environment for those who could be classed as ‘middle class’ rather than broader notions of social justice. For example, there is frustration that they cannot buy property in Moscow due to the extremely high prices or they cannot set up their own enterprises due to the city’s high levels of informality. This marginalisation from the urban in Moscow leads to great frustration as it is Russia’s only city that can offer an international style lifestyle to this group

The above projects are alongside my long running interest in the coping tactics of households in Russia. This explores the practices that people employ to cope with economic and social marginalisation; how they approach state/society interactions; the nature of corruption and rent-seeking in everyday life; access to health care and education and the nature of (non)protest in Russia.

Other activities

International Editor for The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Academic Lead for International Laboratory for Comparative Urban Studies:  Kazan Federal University

I am currently acting as an international expert on the ‘Пересматривая социальную политику на постсоветском пространстве: идеологии, акторы и культуры’ (Revision of Social Policy in Post-Soviet Space: ideologies, actors and cultures) seminar series run by the Saratov Centre for Social Policy and Gender Research, 2010 – 2013. The aim of this course is to support the teaching development of young Russian academics, especially in the context of research led teaching. Part of this role also includes running classes on publishing in English language journals.

I am a member of the ESRC’s peer review council. I also fulfil similar roles for the Russian Federal government’s humanities research fund and for the Ministry of Science for the government of Kazakhstan.

I am the International Academic Advisor for the EU Centre VOICES at Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University.

I am the academic lead for the CARUS (Central Asia to Russia migration) migration network which brings together Russian academics, policy makers and NGOs working on labour migration issues.

Williams, C., Round, J. and Rodgers, P. (2013) The role of informal economies in the post-Soviet world: the end of transition? Routledge, Oxford.

Дж. Раунда и И.Б. Кузнецовой-Моренко (Под ред) (2013) Новые вызовы городского развития: глобальное и локальное. Коллективная монография. Под ред.. - Казань: Издательство Казанского университета.

Prokrovsky, N. and Round, J. (Eds.) (2011) Virtualization of inter-university and academic communication: Methods, structure, communities, Higher School of Economics Publishing House, Moscow.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Round, J. (2013) Transformações urbanas de Moscou: Em direção a uma cidade do mundo pós-soviético. In Veloso, S, Erthal Abdenur, A. and Esteves, P. (Eds.) As Cidades e os BRICS, Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas, Rio de Janeiro.

Round, J. and Kuznetsova, I. (2013, forthcoming) Russia’s move towards protest: why now and challenges for the future. Social Movement Studies.

Kuznetsova, I. and Round, J. (2013, forthcoming) Communities and Social Work in Russia: The role of religious welfare provision in everyday life in Russia’s Tatarstan region. International social work.

Round, J. and Williams, C. (2012) Coping with the social costs of ‘transition’: everyday life in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine. In White, S. and Moore, C. (Eds.). Post-Soviet Politics. Sage Publications, London.

Williams, C., Nadin, S., Rodgers, P. and Round, J. (2012) Rethinking the nature of community economies: some lessons from post-Soviet Ukraine. Community Development journal 47 (2): 216-231.

Round, J. (2012) Russia’s forgotten middle-aged men. In Salmenniemi, S. (Ed.) Rethinking Class in Russia. Ashgate, London. pp. 241 – 257.

Williams, C., Round, J. and Rodgers, P. (2011) Explaining the normality of informal employment in Ukraine: A product of exit or exclusion? American Journal of Economics and Sociology.

Williams, C. and Round J (2011) Beyond competing theories of the hidden economy: Some lessons from Moscow. Journal of Economic Studies 38(2): 171–185.

Round, J., Williams, C. and Rodgers, P. (2010) The Role of Domestic Food Production in Everyday Life in post-Soviet Ukraine. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Vol. 100, No. 5, pp. 1197 – 1211.

Раунд, Дж. Уильямс, K, and Роджерс, П. (2010) Повседневные тактики и пространства власти в повседневной жизни: роль неформальных экономик в постсоветской Украине и аспекты социальной политики. Журнал исследований социальной политики. Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 405 – 424.

Williams, C. and Round, J. (2010) Explaining Participation in Undeclared Work. European Societies. Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 391 – 418.

Round, J. and Williams, C. (2010) Coping with the social costs of ‘transition’: everyday life in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine. European Urban and Regional Studies. Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 183 –196.

Moran, D. and Round, J. (2010) “A Riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”: Teaching post-socialist transformation to UK students in Moscow. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 265 – 282.

Williams, C. and Round, J. (2010) ‘Spatial variations in the character of off-the-books entrepreneurship: some lessons from a study of contrasting districts of Moscow’. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 287 – 300.

Round, J. (2009) The boundaries between informal and formal work. Beyond Current Horizons: Work and Employment.  Report written for Futurelab and the Department for Children, Schools and Families.  Available at http://www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk/the-boundaries-between-informal-and-formal-work/

Williams, C. and Round, J. (2009) Explaining participation in off-the-books entrepreneurship in Ukraine: a gendered evaluation. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal.  Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 497 – 513.

Round, J. and Rodgers, P. (2009) ‘The Problems of Corruption in Post-Soviet Ukraine’s Higher Education Sector’. International Journal of Sociology, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 80 – 95.

Williams, C., Round, J. and Rodgers, P. (2009) Evaluating the Motives of Informal Entrepreneurs: Some Lessons From Ukraine. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp 59 – 71.

Round, J. (2009) Transitional economies. In Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (Eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, Oxford. pp. 355 – 360.

Williams, C. and Round, J. (2008) 'The Prevalence and Impacts of 'Envelope Wages' in East-Central Europe', Journal of East-West Business, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 299 – 323.

Round, J., Williams, C and Rodgers, P. (2008) Everyday Tactics and Spaces of Power: the role of informal economies in post-Soviet Ukraine. Social and Cultural Geography, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 171 – 185.

Round, J., Williams, C. and Rodgers, P. (2008) Corruption in the post-Soviet workplace: the experiences of recent graduates in post-Soviet Ukraine. Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 149 – 166.

Williams, C. Round. J. and Rodgers, P. (2008) Explaining the off-the-books enterprise culture of Ukraine. International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Small Business. Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.

Williams, C. and Round, J. (2008) Gender variations in the nature of undeclared work: evidence from Ukraine. Sociological Research Online, Vol. 13, No. 4. <http://www.socresonline.org.uk/13/4/7.html>

Round, J. (2008) ‘Surviving the Gulag: the social and cultural legacies of Stalin’s forced labour system’. In Boren, T. (Ed.) Kring Beringia: Expeditioner Och Folk. Svenska Sällskapet För Anthropologi Och Geografi (Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography), Stockholm. pp. 42 – 64.

Round, J. (2008) The importance of place in everyday life in post-Soviet Russia.  In Kay, R. (Ed.) Trans-National Issues, Local Concerns and Meanings of Post-Socialism: Insights from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond. University Press of America, Lanham.  pp. 125 – 140.

Round. J. (2008) The economic marginalisation of post-Soviet Russia’s elderly population and the failure of state ageing policy.  In Goodman, R and Harper, S. Ageing in Asia: Asia's Position in the New Global Demography. Routledge, Oxford. pp 68 – 84 (reprint of Oxford Development Studies article).

Williams, C. and Round, J. (2008) A critical evaluation of romantic depictions of the informal economy.  Review of Social Economy. Vol. 66, No. 5, pp 297 – 323.

Rodgers, P., Round. J. And Williams, C. (2008) Workplace crime and the informal economy in Ukraine: employee and employer perspectives. International Journal of Social Economics. Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 666 – 678.

Williams, C. and Round, J. (2008) Re-theorising the nature of informal employment: some lessons from Ukraine.  International Sociology, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 367 – 388.

Round. J. (2008) Demographic Transformations. In Daniels, P., M. Bradshaw., D. Shaw. and J. Sidaway (Eds.) An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century. Prentice Hall, London.


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DEFINITION: The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a concept for an integrated network of telecommunications carriers that would facilitate the use of IP (Internet Protocol) for packet communications in all known forms over wireless or landline. Examples of such communications include traditional telephony, fax, e-mail, Internet access, Web services, Voice over IP (VoIP), instant messaging (IM), videoconference  …
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How (and How Often) Should Utilization Rates be Measured?
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Accelerating Network Convergence in Complex Data Centers
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WHITE PAPER: Explore this resource to learn how IT pros are adopting skills and lessons learned in streamlining operations through resource consolidation and convergence using converged infrastructure in order to converge network resources. Read on to learn more.
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Benefits of Infrastructure and Network Convergence with FCoE
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WHITE PAPER: Access this game-changing resource to discover how your organization can benefit from adopting converged networks.
Posted: 03 Mar 2014 | Published: 31 Jan 2014

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Beyond Converged Networks: Driving User Productivity through Unified
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WHITE PAPER: Unified communications and collaboration strategies can help organizations deliver a user experience that brings together communications and collaboration silos across and beyond traditional business boundaries. This webcast explains it for you.
Posted: 28 Nov 2013 | Published: 01 Apr 2007

Simplify the Data Center Network and Optimize Operations with LAN and SAN Convergence
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WHITE PAPER: In this informative white paper, explore the challenges in maintaining costs of virtualized data center operations, and unveil the benefits of converging local area network (LAN) and storage area network (SAN) to keep up with today's evolving needs.
Posted: 12 Nov 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

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Power of Convergence
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WHITE PAPER: Access this brief resource for vital information regarding how converged infrastructures can help make, instead of break, your business.
Posted: 17 Oct 2013 | Published: 17 Oct 2013

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Market Share Analysis: Data Center Hardware Integrated Systems
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WHITE PAPER: This report offers insight into the growing integrated systems market, revealing opportunities for IT pros seeking to take advantage of this growing trend.
Posted: 09 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

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Converging the Datacenter Infrastructure: Why, How, So What?
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WHITE PAPER: This critical study offers insight into how 5 companies excelled after implementing converged infrastructure systems, greatly improving the outlook for their data centers.
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Removing Organizational Barriers for Leveraging Technology Convergence
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WHITE PAPER: This resource discusses the convergence trend in IT and common organizational barriers to its use. Gain access to strategies and recommendations for converging your network infrastructure today.
Posted: 18 Oct 2012 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

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Using Converged Network Adapters for FCoE Network Unification
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WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive source to learn how your organization can streamline your data center beyond virtualization with converged network adapters.
Posted: 14 Sep 2012 | Published: 10 Sep 2012

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Turning Cost Centers Into Dynamic Technology Assets
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WHITE PAPER: This resource explores how consolidating your data center assets can help lower overall IT costs while successfully managing risks. Discover the top benefits of consolidation.
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Cisco Unified Communications: New Deployment Models for Communications and Collaboration
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WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper examines the differences between the options and show you how Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions give you the flexibility to determine the best option for your business.
Posted: 27 Jul 2011 | Published: 27 Jul 2011

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Opportunities and Challenges with the Convergence of Data Center Networks
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WHITE PAPER: Juniper, which continues to be actively involved in both the DCB and FCoE standards setting efforts, has released its first generation of convergence products, and is fully committed to continuing the development of standards and products that will eventually make a fully converged data center network a reality.
Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

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Solutions to the Infrastructure Gap: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of First-Generation Network Technologies
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WHITE PAPER: With the increase in demand for Internet applications, organizations are struggling to find the performance they require in their networks without increasing costs. This paper examines the benefits and detriments of Bonding, Load-Balancing, and MPLS network technologies.
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HP Converged Infrastructure: Unleash your potential
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WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how HP's expertise and technology leadership can help you transform your infrastructure—at your pace—by engineering your IT resources to work better together.
Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

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CDW Services: Unified Communications
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WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn what CDW Corporation has to offer your organization in terms of unified communication solutions.
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Overcoming Single Provider MPLS Limitations
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WHITE PAPER: In this paper, Frost & Sullivan reviews the limitations associated with taking a single-provider approach to MPLS networks and its impact on the enterprise. They then examine Virtela's Global Service Fabric multicarrier network approach and how it overcomes these limitations to provide a best-of-breed global MPLS network solution.
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Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments
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WHITE PAPER: This paper will look at what new tools are available from CA to enhance and manage enterprise IT infrastructure. These tools are designed for multivendor, multiplatform environments and are used to simplify infrastructure management.
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Is Your Network Ready for VoIP?
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WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP's viability, regardless of which vendor's IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.
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Eight Strategies for First Rate Customer Service
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WHITE PAPER: This paper provides eight strategies for creating a relationship with your customers that will keep them coming back.
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Cisco Systems, Inc.

Optimized Metro Aggregation Network for Triple Play Services
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WHITE PAPER: Learn how the convergence of voice, video and data ("Triple Play") together with relaxed regulatory control have forced service providers to shift towards a combined offering of voice, video, and data service improving their position in the market
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Change is Good: New Business Models for Converging Communications
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WHITE PAPER: Converged voice, data, and video communications must be designed to integrate with business processes. Read this paper that details how a tailored outsourcing solution is the answer.
Posted: 30 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

Your Guide to Troubleshooting VoIP
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WHITE PAPER: Having the right tools and metrics and knowing how to use them is critical to the creation and health of your VoIP network. Read this white paper that provides all the information you will need to have a smooth VoIP transition.
Posted: 08 Oct 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

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Service Providers' Competitive Response: The Why and How of Network, Services and Business Transformation
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WHITE PAPER: The telecom market will transform into an IP-based world, where the strategy for growth has to take into account media and Internet convergence. This paper presents a strategy to succeed in today's environment and anticipate tomorrow...
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Managing DNS Services for Greater Network Security and Availability
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WHITE PAPER: Learn how to manage your DNS services for greater network security and availability.
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Presentation Transcript: How to Deploy and Manage a Superior IP Voice Network
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PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Learn how BroadSoft and AudioCodes have tackled the critical concerns making it possible for carriers of all sizes to be a success in delivering and managing a superior, cost effective IP voice network that is simple to deploy.
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Deploying a Wireless LAN
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Benchmarking Your Internal IT Costs: Building Your IT Infrastructure Service Baseline
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Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Replacing Your Legacy ITSM Suite
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Make Optimizing Business Services Less Art, More Science
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Demand More from Data Center Management Services
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Preparation for Negotiating Software Sourcing Strategy
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Yen weakens through 80.00 on speculation of BOJ QE expansion
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UK GDP aided by the London Olympics ripped to the upside printing at 1.0% versus . 0.6% forecast, fueling a rally in sterling that sent the pair through the 1.6100 barrier in early European trade. Despite the anticipation of strong results due to the inadvertent leak by Prime Minister Cameron yesterday in Parliament, todayâ€™s data was even better than expected as growth increased at the fastest pace since Q3 of 2007.

The UK GDP gains were led by strong consumer spending and on gains in Industrial Production which posted an increase of 1.1%. Construction however contracted sharply falling 2.5% on teh quarter.

Although the data was spectacular, the underlying growth stripping out the effects of the Jubilee and the Olympics was estimated to be a much more modest 0.3%. Some analysts has speculated that the latest quarterly results may cause the BOE to suspend its asset purchase program, but we believe that policymakers will look through the one off events and focus on the core 0.3% number which remains below trend.

In Japan speculation that the BOJ will increase its QE program helped to propel USDJPY through the 80.00 level. The NIkkei newspaper reported that the BOJ may consider expanding its asset purchase program by 10 trillion yen to 90 trillion yen at its next meeting at the end of this month.

The news sparked a rally in USDJPY which has been comatose for the past 48 hours, pushing the pair to 80.20 as its nascent uptrend continued. We have long argued that the only sustainable way for Japanese officials to weaken the yen would be to offset the massive QE program of the Fed with one of their own.

Up to now Japanese authorities have been reluctant to use the full force of monetary policy to impact exchange rates, but the latest economic data which has shown massive deterioration in the export sector, must have convinced them that some action was necessary. While 10 trillion yen which is approximately 125 Billion dollars, is considerably smaller than the size of Fedâ€™s program, it is nevertheless a meaningful commitment and will likely provide further impetus for USDJPY rally.

In North America today the focus will be jobless claims, durable goods and pending homes. After a series of beats, US economic data has started to wobble and therefore todayâ€™s reports could prove critical to the continuation of the risk trade. If numbers show that demand remains relatively robust high beta currencies should extend their gains while USDJPY will have 80.50 in its sights as the day proceeds

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TL;DR – advice to ignore, but implications to heed

Hanging out with teenagers can be an enlightening experience.

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Last week, I participated in a panel discussion convened by MediaSmarts, “Canada’s centre for digital and media literacy” and a repository of fabulous resources for teachers, parents and kids. The teenagers present from across Canada asked really smart questions, many of which betrayed both deep scepticism of marketers and consumption-driven culture, and highly-developed social consciousness.

In exhorting them to pursue these passions, one of my panelist colleagues, Susan Krashinsky, the media reporter for the Globe and Mail, recommended that they sometimes ignore the “TL;DR” instructions that accompany social media posts referring to in-depth features or reports.

Although I’ve been on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for a couple of years, I apparently follow the wrong people, because until Susan mentioned it, I’d never come across the abbreviation, which is essentially a warning to the short-of-time (or intellectually lazy). It signifies “too long; don’t read.”

(Luckily for Dickens, Tolstoy and Proust, this now frequently-dispensed advice is a recent phenomenon.)

Susan’s point about the need to invest time and attention in informing oneself (beyond what’s available on Twitter posts and entertainment sites) is an important one.

But the attitude — and information overload reality behind it — that’s expressed in the “too long; don’t read” acronym is also important for anyone seeking to raise the profile of critical issues to consider. Many people no longer have the time or patience to wade through long-winded or densely-written material in search of the gems that might eventually, with effort, be on offer. If we want to influence people with our crafted arguments, it helps to be able to get to the point quickly, and deliver a clear thesis, compelling support, effective counter statement and convincing conclusion as concisely as possible.

Newspaper op ed pages and online blogs give you a platform to persuade, but they don’t guarantee that readers will stick with you just because what you’re writing about is important.

This is a lesson that both scholars and social justice advocates need to learn.

A few days before the panel discussion, I had the opportunity to support members of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) in exploring how they can make better use of social media platforms to share their great work.

For almost four decades, CRIAW has been publishing rigorous research on critically important issues. I so appreciate their indispensable work, and have cited their studies and relied on their resources many, many times.  Given the complexity of the topics they’re exploring, and the in-depth nature of their analyses, it’s not surprising that many of the documents they produce are lengthy. But in today’s communications environment, I worry that when even the “short version” of a “fact sheet” on violence against women is 14 pages long, it’s more likely to fall into the “TL;DR” abyss.

In addition to encouraging teenagers to ignore the “too long; don’t read” advice, those of use producing knowledge and disseminating resources can help bridge the gap by making an effort to write a bit shorter.

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Girls fuel outrage and inspiration

I don’t often shout back at the TV, despite the vast volume of material it broadcasts that I find vile or banal. But last week I couldn’t help myself.

The object of my fury wasn’t Fox News or Sun TV, it wasn’t some retrograde beauty pageant, exploitive reality show, or a crime drama featuring a multitude of victimized women (respecting the fleeting nature of life, I avoid those.)

Instead, my outburst was precipitated by two words uttered by Peter Mansbridge.

CBC’s The National had just finished airing Anna Maria Tremonti’s interview with the inspirational Malala Yousafzai about her campaign for girls’ education — initially in Pakistan, but now around the world.

When Mansbridge re-appeared on the screen, he innocuously referred to this campaign as “her cause”, and I found myself shouting at the TV through tears:

“It’s not just HER cause, it’s the WORLD’S cause!”

Of course, what I meant was, it SHOULD be the world’s cause. And I want everyone to be as outraged as I am about the colossal cost and profound unfairness of failing to educate, support the equality of, and benefit from the gifts and contributions of millions of girls.

Then today, I came across this 2-minute video from the UN

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I was not put on this earth to be invisible.

I was not born to be denied.

I was not given life only to belong to someone else. I belong to me.

I have a voice & I will use it. I have dreams unforgettable.

I have a name and it is not anonymous or insignificant or unworthy or waiting any more to be called.

Some day, they will say: this was the moment when the world woke up to my potential.

This is the moment I was allowed to be astonishing.

This is the moment when my rising no longer scares you.

This is the moment when being a girl became my strength, my sanctuary, not my pain.

This is the moment when the world sees that I am held back by every problem and I am key to all solutions.

We so need to help make them right. And one of the ways we can do that in North America, where so many of us are extraordinarily privileged in a multitude of ways — not the least of which is to have access to decades of exceptionally good education — is to speak up ourselves.

We should be ashamed not to. Like living in a democracy and having the capacity to vote, our educational attainment — the knowledge and credibility it gives us — cannot be taken for granted.

Not as long as we share the planet with 250 million girls for whom those rights are denied.

What might you speak up about? Where? And when? Who might you help educate or enlighten by exercising your voice? By making the best possible use of your privilege?

And what would those girls, denied such basic rights, say about women who have such access to education and the means to communicate their knowledge more broadly, but fail to take advantage of it?

Your engagement is critical to the difference that Informed Opinions is making.

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Canada’s anthem back in the hot seat

Jian Ghomeshi calls it common sense. But will the government listen?

Restore Our Anthem

Last week, some of Canada’s most notable women (including Informed Opinions Honorary Patrons, Senator Nancy Ruth and the Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell) launched a formidable campaign advocating that gender-neutral lyrics be restored to Canada’s national anthem. Since then, all sorts of media heavyweights — including the host of CBC’s Q — have championed the cause. And no wonder.

Restore Our Anthem uses a powerful two-minute video to remind Canadians that the original lyrics to O Canada didn’t exclude women, and there’s no reason the ones we sing in 2013 should either. The site includes a comprehensive list of FAQs and timeline of the anthem’s history, and brilliantly showcases the absurdity of hanging on to the outdated words. It even features a user-friendly politician-locator that makes it easy for supporters to write to their elected representatives.

The call for restoring our anthem likely sounds familiar. In July, Informed Opinions launched its own campaign demanding the same change be made to O Canada’s lyrics. Our short, emotionally charged video and accompanying written pieces received overwhelmingly positive support from women and men across the country. But we’re still waiting.

As the momentum behind Restore Our Anthem continues to build, we hope the small change necessary to re-establish a gender inclusive national anthem will follow. Let’s commemorate the 100th anniversary of the initial revisions to O Canada with another change — one that reflects our country’s reality.

To learn more about the campaign, or to add your voice to the growing chorus of Canadians demanding equality, click here.

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Warning: this post contains an unabashed product endorsement.

It’s the one thing I try not to leave home without: Cocoa Camino Mint chocolate.

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Screen shot from LaSiembra’s home pagBut there I was in downtown Toronto during a February snowstorm in serious need of a mid-afternoon energy re-boot. Coffee’s not an option for me, and since I discovered Camino’s particularly addictive combination of dark chocolate and mint crunch, I’m no longer even interested in trying alternative confections. (I have, when desperate, but they just don’t compare.)

But there I was, stranded in the middle of a snowstorm in Toronto without my stash. So I googled Camino and, landing on their website, was gratified to note that they’re based in Ottawa, just a ten minute stroll from my home. Unfortunately, their locator search function wasn’t working, so I emailed them instead, confessing to my unabashed fandom, asking where I could buy my fix, and suggesting we should talk.

Because, I explained, Informed Opinions serves a growing audience of highly intelligent, socially progressive, chocolate-craving women who are becoming more influential all the time. The likelihood of them sharing my affinity for fair trade, organic, flavanoid-boosting, caffeine-injecting morsels of mouth-watering goodness, the production of which supports 39,500 family farmers, seemed pretty high.

Six months, several delightful conversations (and about 3 dozen high quality chocolate bars) later (I limit myself to four small squares a day, but it adds up), I’m thrilled to announce that participants in all of Informed Opinions programming in the coming months will be treated to their own mid-workshop energy boost, courtesy of Camino. This in-kind contribution to the project is a recognition of our shared aims of building vibrant, sustainable communities.

Word cloud generated from more than 100 op eds written by Informed Ops "grads" and posted on our website.

Word cloud generated from more than 100 op eds written by Informed Ops “grads” and posted on our website.

Although the more than 800 women who’ve now participated in our workshops are extremely diverse, professionally and personally, it’s clear from the issues that they address in the media commentary they do coming out of our training that their values reflect many of those articulated by Camino.  It’s no coincidence that after “women” and “Canada”, the most prominent words are that appear in the op eds written by our grads include “community” and “public”.

Now all I have to do is find a safe place to store the chocolate bars that Camino is supplying to Informed Opinions for its workshop participants in Fredericton, Calgary, Toronto, Winnipeg — and maybe a city near you? (so that they don’t disappear under mysterious, if predictable circumstances!)

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Women on boards to counter “affirmative action plan for men”?

Constance Sugiyama, a respected mergers and acquisition lawyer and honorary patron of Informed Opinions, serves on a number of boards, and is one of thousands of Canadian women qualified to do so.

Constance Sugiyama, a respected mergers and acquisition lawyer and honorary patron of Informed Opinions, serves on a number of boards, and is one of thousands of Canadian women qualified to do so and capable of making a significant contribution.

The following op ed was published in the Ottawa Citizen 23 September 2013.

Here’s an interesting contradiction: the business mantra “What gets measured gets done” is universally understood as an effective way to monitor many aspects of performance.

And yet when it’s suggested the maxim be applied to measuring the representation of women on corporate boards, suddenly the value of quantification becomes tainted by the apparently dreaded concepts of gender quotas.

This may explain why the Ontario Securities Commission is taking such a restrained approach to attempting to address Canada’s embarrassingly poor performance in pursuit of greater diversity on private sector boards.

In June, the OSC released a consultation paper inviting submissions on its exceptionally reasonable proposal to require public companies to start reporting the number of women on their boards and the efforts they’re making to increase their representation.

Why is this important?

Because a raft of business research published by prestigious business schools and management consulting agencies has made it clear: when competent women are included at the executive level, and on boards of big companies, it leads to better decisions. (And given Canada’s lamentable standing on the World Economic Forum’s competitiveness and innovation rankings — 14th and 25th respectively — we could clearly use the talent boost.)

Some companies acted on this intelligence years ago, and as a result, have realized competitiveness and profitability gains. Meanwhile banks — forced to embrace greater diversity by federal regulators — have now become vocal advocates.

Ed Clark, president and CEO of TD Bank Group, commented publicly on the perils of failing to draw on a larger pool of candidates last year. He rhetorically questioned how he could attract the best people possible and build a better bank if he excluded all women, visible minorities, gay, lesbian and transgendered people, restricting himself to less than 30 per cent of the population.

And yet 43 per cent of the largest publicly traded Canadian companies listed on the TSC still have zero female directors on their boards. Another 28 per cent have exactly one woman, meaning less than one-third have made any serious attempt to benefit from expanding their search to include the other half of the population. Currently, only 14.5 per cent of public company directors in Canada are women.

Investors, are you paying attention?

In fact, shareholder activist Carl Icahn — not your typical feminist advocate — made this point in a roundabout way a few years ago on his blog. He argued that the old boys’ network approach to recruiting board members from the least threatening guys in one’s network was leading to the “survival of the un-fittest.”

The truth is, board appointments have been effectively implementing a de facto affirmative action program for straight, white men of a certain age and class for decades. More than 90 per cent of men serving on FTSE 100 company boards were waved into their positions without even undergoing an interview. So, far from reflecting the kind of meritocracy that might be threatened by quotas, the current system is more likely to entrench mediocrity and group think.

The OSC might address this by extending the tracking beyond the boards to include the nominating committees that work to populate them.

This would not only increase the committees’ ability to identify a wider variety of qualified candidates, but also make it more likely that some of those selected would reflect the more diverse skills, experiences and perspectives desired.

Another critical step would be to insist that corporate boards adopt term limits for service.

Already accepted as best practice in the non-profit sector, limits would ensure renewal and permit companies to better adapt to the rapidly changing global economy. (A recent survey conducted by leadership recruitment firm Korn Ferry determined that more corporate directors in Canada have passed their 71st birthdays than are female.)

Many governments around the world have taken a much more interventionist approach to increasing board diversity.

Some have even adopted gender quotas. In Italy and France, companies and directors failing to meet government targets for female membership (30 per cent and 40 per cent respectively) face fines and risk having their board elections nullified.

Belgium has dictated that all new appointments must be women until companies reach the 30 per cent target, while Norwegian companies achieved the imposed 40 per cent quota in 2009, only seven years after it was introduced.

So Canadian corporate laggards should be on their knees in gratitude that the OSC is being so cautious.

Its approach seeks merely to boost transparency and encourage companies to work harder to get the best talent onto their boards by expanding their recruitment pool to include women.

On the other hand, the Commission is also welcoming public input. Many individuals and organizations are preparing convincing arguments as to why the incremental gains achieved by the previous go-slow approach are folly in the context of a 21st-century globally competitive business environment.

Let’s hope their voices provoke a more robust response.

Shari Graydon is the founder of Informed Opinions, which trains expert women to share their ideas and analyses through the media.

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Changing lives through media commentary

“You really have to write that!”

This enthusiastic exhortation — often exclaimed simultaneously by a chorus of voices — is a common refrain in the commentary writing workshops we lead. Although I’m clear about the benefits provided by the tips and strategies we teach, I’m also keenly aware of how much additional value participants derive from sharing their ideas with a room full of other women — women who invariably reinforce how important what they have to say is, and how eagerly it will be consumed by others.

Justice Studies professor Michelle Stewart advocating for Nigerian students on CBC's Power & Politics.

So I wasn’t the only one thrilled to see Justice Studies professor Michelle Stewart being interviewed on CBC’s Power & Politics program last week. Earlier this spring in a workshop at the University of Regina everyone in the room was moved by the plight of the two students whose desperate situation she described.

Last week she published an op ed in the Ottawa Citizen (also picked up by the Edmonton Journal) laying out the situation faced by Victoria Ordu and Favour Amadi, two Nigerian students facing deportation for the crime of having worked briefly off campus while attending the University of Regina. You can read more about the unnecessarily punitive government response and buck passing in Michelle’s piece, or watch her calmly and decisively advocate for the students on the CBC link above.

Will the resulting media and public attention garnered for the situation by Michelle and her colleagues (including URegina President, Vianne Timmons, who has written to the prime minister) shame the government into acting?

Stay tuned…

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2 words to make your writing more accessible

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Let’s say you have a graduate degree and/or 20 years of experience in your field, and you’re used to speaking or writing for people who are similarly well-informed. Chances are you sometimes find it difficult to translate your knowledge into sentences that engage a lay audience.

But whether you’re writing a newspaper commentary, or speaking into a broadcaster’s microphone, the ability to phrase concepts and issues in ways that the average person can understand is a great asset.

In our writing workshops, we often encourage expert participants to try running a sample of their text through the Gunning Fog Index. The index measures the readability of English writing, estimating the years of formal education somebody needs to understand a text on first reading.

It’s a very useful tool. But here’s another, simpler and more practical approach: When you sit down to put words to the page, start with

“Hi Mom” (or Dad, or Sis)*.

Unless your relative happens to have his or her own PhD in the field, the act of targeting your communication to a real life audience member will force you to find much less formal and more colloquial language.

This advice comes courtesy of the folks at Podium Coaching, and I’m justifying the gratuitous hippo pic because it was the most interesting image that popped up in my google search of “mom”.

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Expert status less important than insightful context

I have no legal training or experience in the sex trade. No one would ever mistake me as a candidate for the corner office of a large corporation. I am not a celebrity and have never been pregnant.

And yet in recent months, major daily newspapers have published my commentary about:

Two of the three op eds were not even my ideas, but written in response to emails from newspaper editors looking for someone to weigh in on the topics.

Was I the most authoritative person to offer commentary and analysis? Clearly not. But I’m a writer who knows how to find and assimilate authoritative information, and enliven it with attitude and accessible context. And I’m a woman whose life experience in related areas influenced my perceptions and ideas about the issues.

At dinner parties and book club meetings, many of the women I know regularly offer interesting and thoughtful insights on issues of the day, regardless of how relevant their day-job is to the topic at hand.

We should feel equally empowered to massage our insights into commentary that adds to the public discourse – even if we’re not “the best person”.

Last week, Kate Heartfield, a volunteer mentor-editor with both Informed Opinions and the US-based Op Ed Project, who also holds down a demanding day-job as Acting Editorial Page Editor with the Ottawa Citizen (while raising children and writing fiction in her spare time), tweeted her need for more submissions.  Then she emailed me to say that all the ones in her pipeline happened to be by men.

For the record, this is probably the case at most newspapers across the country, almost all the time. And it’s why Informed Opinions exists. Because in a world full of complex, intractable, social, economic and environmental problems, we need a rich diversity of analyses reflecting as broad an array of perspectives as possible.

The good news ending to this particular story is that in response to my own email encouraging Informed Opinions’ grads to submit to Kate, Equal Voice executive director, Nancy Peckford wrote and had published a great piece on female premiers, my own op ed about Kate Middleton’s “bravery” ran the day after, and my colleague Ashley piqued interest in her proposed commentary on the abuse of internships. Three other Ottawa-area grads also emailed to say that, thanks to the reminder and incentive, they would be pitching Kate soon.

I hope they do. Because my piece, published in the Ottawa Citizen, the Montreal Gazette and the Calgary Herald, was the only female voice on each of the pages where it appeared.

What if I hadn’t bothered? What if you don’t?

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“Get me rewrite!” – a truly inclusive O Canada

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The positive responses to our video campaign in pursuit of a more inclusive O Canada are still outpacing the cranky ignorant ones, and among the most inspiring was an email I received from Toronto poet and physician, Ron Charach. He turned his attention to not only eliminating the sexism of our anthem’s lyrics, but also paying tribute to Canada’s first peoples and immigrants.

I think the merits of his rewrite are worth considering:

O Canada, our home on sacred land,
True patriot love, in all of us command,
With glowing hearts we see thee rise
The true north strong and free,
From far and wide thy children come
To stand on guard for thee!
Come, build a land,
Glorious and free,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

In the meantime, a version of the op ed that the Montreal Gazette commissioned from me last week has now been published by papers in Vancouver and Saskatoon, and the video we posted a week ago is continuing to attract viewers.

Appreciating that the current government isn’t likely to revisit this issue, having rescinded its promise in the 2010 throne speech to do so within 24 hours of making it, we still think the debate is an important one. And it helps to build a broad vocal constituency for such a change in advance of political action, rather than cave to the close-minded minority afterwards.

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Official sexism brought to you by Canada’s national anthem

Clara Hughes, one of Canada’s most decorated Olympians ever (in two sports no less) deserves to be included in the lyrics of her national anthem.

The following op ed, commissioned by the Montreal Gazette, also appears in  today’s Saskatoon Star Phoenix.

It’s like poking a hornet’s nest: Dare to suggest that the words to the English version of our national anthem should be altered to include the 50 per cent of the population they currently leave out, and you’re guaranteed to provoke an angry reaction of stinging attacks.

The puzzling part is: Why?

Unlike the hornets, whose lives may be imperilled by the poke, replacing the reference to “sons” in O Canada with a gender-neutral term threatens no one.

This week, Informed Opinions, the small social enterprise that I lead, addressed the topic in a modest campaign. And by modest I mean our team of two part-timers created an 80-second video using photos of awesome Canadian women accompanied by the music to O Canada. We respectfully argued that our anthem should reflect this country’s worldwide reputation for equality and women’s able service in a multitude of leadership capacities.

We uploaded the video onto our site and social-media platforms, and emailed it to our contacts list. Then, despite the fact that it features still shots of professors, politicians and soldiers (instead of moving footage of crazy cats or naked celebrities), we watched the viewings climb.

Encouragingly, alongside the cries of outrage, we also received enthusiastic emails, retweets and likes from hundreds of men and women who share our consternation over the resistance to restoring our national anthem to its original gender-neutrality. (Yes, original, and I’ll get to that. Those who complain that a change would mess with our cultural heritage need to know: It’s already been messed with. Twice. And astonishingly, we survived!)

The naysayers responding to our initiative are dramatically fewer in number than the supporters, and they have yet to mount a coherent argument to bolster their case for the status quo. “You are taking the gender thing too far!” one exclaimed. “Is this really holding women back?” demanded another. “What’s next, MAN-hole covers?!” slammed a third. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never considered the iron discs covering sewer access points a national symbol. On the other hand, if the things were invented today, they probably wouldn’t be called manhole covers. Because — and personally, I appreciate this — human beings, and the societies we inhabit, continue to evolve. Over the years that evolution has included an increasingly sophisticated, not to mention research-supported, understanding of the power language has to shape our perceptions and attitudes.

Consider what reliably occurs when your kid says, “There’s a rabbit on the front lawn.” You don’t picture a raccoon. If you quote Robert Browning — “Man’s reach must exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” — to a roomful of people, and ask them what image popped into their head, it’s not going to feature a woman. Trust me; I’ve tried this.

Human beings are literal creatures. We understand that words have precise meanings. That’s why those on opposing sides of the abortion debate define themselves as “pro-choice” and “anti-abortion,” not “pro-abortion” and “anti-choice.” And it’s why “alderman” and “stewardess” have helpfully been replaced with “councillor” and “flight attendant,” in recognition that, in the 21st century, the people in these jobs are commonly of both sexes.

Even most 5-year-olds are not confused by the exclusivity of “sons.” When the daughter of a friend came home a few years ago asking why O Canada referred to boys but not girls, my friend was not reassured by the school principal’s response to her query about replacing the unfortunate lyrics. “We sing the official version,” she was told, making it clear: sexism is official.

That needs to change.

The decision made in 1914 to replace “Thy dost in us command” with “In all thy sons command” to honour the men going to war on Canada’s behalf was well-intentioned, but it no longer makes sense. Canadian women have been serving in active combat roles for decades, and some of them return home in body bags as a result. They too deserve to be honoured by their national anthem.

I agree that the existing lyrics are problematic in other respects, ignoring both Canada’s significant aboriginal heritage and its immigrant-enriched citizenry. But these might also be easily fixed. We don’t suffer from a shortage of brilliant writers. Indeed, one of the emails I received this week was from Ron Charach, a Toronto-based poet whose proposed revisions artfully address all of the above.

That’s why Informed Opinions, a non-profit project working to bridge the gender gap in public discourse, is challenging equality-minded Canadians to express their support for an anthem that better reflects our values.

Shari Graydon is an author, social entrepreneur and the founder of Informed Opinions (

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