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A Family Watery Wonderland at the Dells

Slip and slide your way to the Water Park Capital of the World for a vacation full of action-packed entertainment.

The Wisconsin Dells has long been a favorite Midwestern family destination, filled with kitschy attractions and a fudge shop on every corner. It’s still that, but now it’s also the undisputed water park king of the world.

The Dells’—and the world’s—first indoor water park opened at the Polynesian Resort Hotel & Suites in 1989. Today, the Dells is home to the largest concentration of indoor water parks (20), the longest indoor leisure river (Kalahari Resort’s Zambezi River), the biggest outdoor water park (Noah’s Ark Water Park) and is the U.S. resort with the most square footage of indoor water parks (counting the three water parks at the Wilderness Resort, which total 250,000 square feet).

The Tommy Bartlett Show

Getting wet and eating fudge are only two reasons to head to the Dells, about 50 miles north of Madison, Wis. My family of veteran Dells-goers—it’s a tradition that started in 1956 when my parents spent their honeymoon there—has plenty of favorites, including, sadly, one that won’t be around this summer: the Tommy Bartlett Ski, Stage & Sky Show.

A Dells staple for 55 years, the Tommy Bartlett show will omit the best act—a classic water-ski and daredevils-on-water show—after torrential June 2008 rains caused a wall in the man-made Lake Delton to collapse, and the lake to drain into the nearby Wisconsin River.

While engineers figure out how to rebuild the lake wall, the Bartlett company has expanded its stage show of on-land daredevils, contortionists and other circus-type acts to fill the entire 90 minutes. The sky show, a laser-light routine, is part of the 8:30 p.m. performance. Experts expect the lake to be repaired and refilled in time for the 2009 season and promise that they’ll be back to mount a ski show in 2009—but only if enough visitors pay to see the stage and sky show this year.

“The show will go on—on shore,” says Bartlett spokeswoman Andrea Novotny, adding, “We want to be here another 55 years.”

Rest of the Best

Most of the Dells was unaffected by the lake disaster and subsequent flood, including another Bartlett operation called the Exploratory. We discovered this treasure quite by accident. As we headed out of town after a visit years ago, we saw a sign for Robot World and couldn’t resist. Now called the Tommy Bartlett Exploratory, it still has all the great hands-on science stuff that always keeps my kids enthralled for hours. Details are at General admission is $11.50, $9.20 for seniors 65 and over, and free for children ages 5 and under.

Another family favorite, the Original Wisconsin Ducks, are a good way to see a feature of the Dells that isn’t often promoted in travel stories or marketing documents: its incredible natural beauty. The Dells is nestled alongside the Wisconsin River, which is bounded by soaring sandstone cliffs. While the tour guides tell entertaining tales of Native American lore, a ride in one of these amphibious relics from World War II is fun in itself. You jolt along a rugged trail through the wilderness, then slide into the river for a leisurely float. The route used to include a dip into Lake Delton, but that five-minute portion of the trip has been re-routed, including a drive by the broken lake wall, until the lake is repaired and refilled.

On those sultry summer days at the Dells, there’s no place my family would rather be than Noah’s Ark water park. The place boasts 47 water slides (several of which accommodate inner tubes big enough for families of four), two huge wave pools, two endless rivers, four children’s play areas and an activity pool, along with amusement rides, mini-golf and an arcade. (I have managed to hide that last bit from my children. Who wants to stand around an arcade when you could be outside splashing in the water? My son, of course.) The Web site offers an all-day pass for visitors 48 inches and taller for $29.69 or $26.39 for those ages 55 and over, and children 47 inches and shorter. Children ages 2 and under are free. (For more information on Dells activities, read our article on family thrills and relaxation.)

Head Indoors

While it’s nice to be outdoors during the warm July and August months, the summer season is short in Wisconsin. So it makes perfect sense that much of the Dells water fun happens indoors.

At the Dells, one water park is more massive than the next and each year brings the opening of yet another expansion, or cooler slide. It can be tough to figure out which one is right for your family.

When the kids were little, I hated huge water parks. I’m usually not a Nervous Nellie mom, but water parks can be so crowded and frenetic that unless my husband was along so we could divide and conquer, I worried constantly that one child would slip under the water while I was holding up the other. The key to my peace of mind was either going to parks with kids of roughly the same age who liked to do roughly the same things so I could hover nearby and keep an eye on all of them at once, or taking along another adult to be in charge of one age group while I herded the other.

Before heading to the Dells, spend plenty of time on the resort Web sites, poring over the water park amenities and maps to determine whether it’s a place that will work for your family. If you have a little one that needs constant watching, choose one of the smaller water parks. If the older kids insist on a big park, look for one with a splash area that is centrally located so the older kids can touch base regularly. Check whether the slides have height requirements and look for ones that accommodate two- or four-person inner tubes if you have a child likely to need some hand-holding. Many resorts provide life jackets for little ones for free or a small fee.

Dells Deals

The Wisconsin Dells is a model of entrepreneurial spirit. Although you can increasingly find the big chain names here—there’s a Starbucks and a Dells-themed McDonald’s—the majority of the resorts, hotels, fudge shops, restaurants and attractions still are individually owned and operated, sometimes by the third or fourth generation of the founding family. And these entrepreneurs understand about cross promotion. Any time you’re checking out, look for a stack of coupons next to the register. Chances are good you’ll find one that offers a buy-one, get-one-free deal for breakfast or a few bucks off a ride on the Ducks.

And never go to the Dells without first checking the Web site, It lists deals, offers hints on how to save money and provides direct links to virtually all of the hotels, restaurants and attractions at the Dells. (For more information on Dells hotels and restaurants, read our article on family lodging and dining.)

Finally, consider a trip now. As the Dells tries to recover from the Lake Delton disaster, businesses are offering an array of half-price deals to lure customers back to the No. 1 tourist attraction in Wisconsin.

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Happy Tuesday and oh my goodness, today is my 100th blog post! I can't believe I am at 100, it seems like just yesterday that I started this little blog when in all actuality I have been going strong since the beginning of November. I had no idea when I first started writing that this blog would bring me so much joy and introduce me to so many wonderful people. The blogging community is welcoming, encouraging and beyond friendly and I have met some fabulous bloggers along the way. Thank you, my readers for reading and giving me the motivation to keep writing even on the days when I don't think I have anything left to say. Your positive feedback and loyalty is so inspiring and so appreciated. Thank you 100 times over, you are the reason I write.

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When Trent’s founding president, Tom Symons, visited my third-year public history course last summer he shared an anecdote about instructions he once gave to famed Canadian architect Ron Thom. Symons recalled that back in the early 1960s he told Thom that before any new buildings at Trent were designed, Thom needed to first take six months to consult with the students, faculty, and the wider community in order to better understand their a values, visions, and expectations.

As incredible as this sounds, these instructions can be taken as an example of Symons’ commitment to fostering “governance through consensus building” at Trent University, an ideal that has historically distinguished Trent from other Canadian universities.

Fast forward 50 years and many have accused more recent Trent administrations of abandoning these principles in favour of a more authoritarian, top-down approach to governance.

This cannot be said, however, of the process to develop the university’s recently released foodservice Request for Proposals (RFP). In this case, Trent administrators and faculty chose to adhere to, as former Trent vice-president Dennis Smith calls it, “the time consuming, sometimes repetitive,” process of consultative planning. Members of the Foodservice Review Committee deserve credit for helping revive the ethos of community collaboration and consensus building at this university in regards to a major policy decision.

The RFP process is one which the Trent administration could have easily botched. With university coming to the end of its frustrating 15-year contract with Aramark Canada, how simple, dare I say cost-efficient, would it have been to simply revise the old RFP and put out a tender for another stable, low risk, long term contract? Thankfully, this was not the chosen path. Instead, the Foodservice Review Committee launched a process that succeeded in involving students and community members in the decision making process.

In addition to sitting both college and TCSA student representatives amongst its membership the review committee also sought input from the wider student population by holding open forums, information and tabling sessions throughout the planning phase of the project. While not always well attended, these sessions were well-publicized and productive as community members were encouraged to share their own foodservice visions for Trent.

Furthermore, the process saw the creation of two exceptional student-led research documents, the Trent Central Student Association’s Raw Deal document and OPIRG Peterborough’s Food Policy Proposal, both of which were given significant weight in the RFP discussions. Speaking with review committee member and former TCSA executive Tessa Nasca, she noted that not only were those documents given consideration during the planning of the RFP, they were also distributed to the prospective bidders as a way of familiarizing themselves with the expectations of Trent students.

In addition, the review committee seemed to be aware of the sheer magnitude of the Trent community’s desire for change in the foodservice arrangement. The recent report by consultant Mark Murdoch indicates that there was real interest shown by the committee in investigating the feasibility of an ‘in house’ model, a desire brought up time and time again by students during the consultations.

Unfortunately, as indicated by Murdoch’s report, Trent is not currently in the financial situation to pursue this model. Nonetheless, this option was given serious consideration, coupled with the fact that the university has wisely opted not to shackle themselves into another longterm contract— the RFP sets the contract term at five years, plus possible extensions— means that the ‘in house’ model may well become a viable alternative sometime in the not-so-distant future.

Was the process perfect? No. The initial third-party report prepared by Toronto-based consultancy firm fsStrategy drew a barrage of well-deserved criticism from student groups: first for being needlessly withheld by the administration, then for inaccuracies in its portrayal of Trent’s current foodservice situation (a fact which might explain why it was withheld in the first place). Following this criticism, however, the committee chose not to shrink away from the spotlight and instead responded by reaching out to the community. Furthermore, it chose to commission a second consultancy report, from a different firm, which provided analysis and recommendations more in line with the expectations of the Trent community.

There is no way to predict whether the upcoming contract will give students and community members everything that they want from their foodservice. However, it is clear that the RFP represents a significant step forward in terms of embodying the values that Trent students see both in themselves and in their university. While only time will tell whether the contract will be considered a success, the RFP process was conducted in a way that reinforces the ideas of collaboration and consensus building envisaged by Tom Symons in 1964. Given that it’s almost 50 years later, this should be taken as a victory in and of itself.


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A Night At The Movies

Movie nights at home are a huge part of what we like to do when it's cold outside. Nothing beats, snugging on the sofa under a blanket with the whole family. Warm popcorn and lots of lovely snacks to share. Spending some chill out time and winding down together.

Gracewell are a care home provider, and believe that every single one of their residents – and families – have individual needs for both their level of care and for the life they want to live. Movie nights are a regular event at one of their many care homes where Gracewell actively encourage residents’ families to attend.

Gracewell sent us a lovely pack of the new Jurassic world DVD, retro sweets, snacks and popcorn. Everything me needed for a movie night in. I was a huge fan of Jurassic park so I was really looking forward the watching Jurassic world. I always found dinosaurs really fascinating. I loved the adaptation of the modified Indominus Rex, he was a clever fellow.

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Selenified: An Open Source Testing Framework For the Real World

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Selenified: An Open Source Testing Framework For the Real World

So you’ve decided to adopt Selenium as your automated testing tool, great! Now where to start?
Browser automation libraries like Selenium are great foundational tools for building functional test suites, but as many automation teams often realize, there’s often a significant investment in time and resources required to get the most out of them. This is because there’s quite a gap between Selenium and the functionality required to make it a comprehensive testing tool for your application. Features such as verification, reporting and simplified execution can go a long way towards helping organizations get the most value out of automated testing and building a framework is an excellent way to bridge this gap.

In this talk, we’ll discuss the importance of testing frameworks, as well as automated testing best practices and then give an introduction to Selenified. Selenified is a Java-based open source testing framework that builds on Selenium’s core functionality to provide a more robust tool which can be used to test all levels of your stack, including browser, services and back end. It also incorporates some excellent reporting and CI capabilities.

We’ll show a hands-on demo, as well as write a few tests in order to get a good look at its features.

Hammid is a Consultant and Senior QA Engineer at Coveros with a strong focus on automation. He brings over a decade of experience in software quality and has worked with a broad spectrum of organizations over his career. Hammid is a strong advocate for leveraging software engineering practices and tools in test automation.

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A rich heritage and tasty culture.

So you've been to Cancun, or Tijuana. That's fine, but next time try Mexico – the real one, found only when you get away from the slummy border towns and touristy beach resorts. A single trip can hardly do the country justice – it has mountains, beaches, desert canyons, jungles, laid-back hacienda towns, pyramids. Easy to love (and hate), Mexico City is the nonstop capital, with Spanish plazas built over Aztec pyramids and leafy bohemian hoods like Coyoacán, where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived. The second city, Guadalajara (seven hours north), is the lively home of tequila and the mariachi. The area in between is filled with lovely colonial-era "silver towns" like Guanajuato, gringo-burg San Miguel de Allende, and Pátzcuaro (mesmerizing during the all-night cemetery festival at the Day of the Dead). Southwest of Mexico City, artsy Oaxaca City is a colonial wonder amidst valleys and pre-Hispanic towns, where dishes come soaked in the chocolate mole sauce. Over on the Caribbean, Cozumel and Playa del Carmen are better than Cancun, but they get cruise-ship visitors too; farther south are the beachside Mayan ruins at quieter Tulum, while inland you can climb the famous Mayan pyramids at Chichen Itza and take in street-music fairs every weekend in gorgeous Mérida. Dangling south of California, Baja gets many visitors to the jock-ridden bar scene of Cabo, but the Sea of Cortez – especially near quiet La Paz – is more tranquil.

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This Kenworth T680 daycab uses lithium-ion batteries to power a dual-rotor electric motor, driving the rear tandem axle through a 4-speed automated transmission. The batteries are recharged by the fuel cell – in this case hydrogen – to provide sufficient range for a full day in regional haul applications with zero emissions.

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Monette Mouthpieces? Best place to start?

Discussion in 'Mouthpieces / Mutes / Other' started by bobmiller1969, Oct 27, 2018.

  1. TrentAustin

    TrentAustin Fortissimo User

    Oct 28, 2003
    KC MO

    Call us anytime as we can either help you towards improving your experience with a stock piece or whip you up something custom as well!

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  2. rowuk

    rowuk Moderator Staff Member

    Jun 18, 2006
    Actually, gold plated rims feel bigger. I believe this is because the gold is softer, gets microscratches that hold moisture.

    All respect to Trent that has built a great business up from scratch. I still feel that every serious brass player needs to try the Monette mouthpieces for an extended period. There is simply too much to learn and pitch center is not a gimmick. I have no commercial interests.
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  3. chiefgearhead

    chiefgearhead Pianissimo User

    May 30, 2017
    Santa Cruz Mountains, CA
    I switched to a Monette mouthpiece about a year in to my return to the trumpet. I’d been playing a Schilke 14A on my soprano bugle and tried several different “vintage” mouthpieces that were in my trumpet case, a couple different Benges (3c, 5c, CG) and even a Dennis Wick and Bach mouthpiece.

    After taking a lesson from a friend and very talented trumpet player who has played Monette mouthpieces for years I called BJ at Monette, told him about my ability level and goals, and at his suggestion ordered a B6S1 Classic Resonance. My lead trumpet player in the big band said he noticed an overall improvement in my playing immediately, and after playing my Monette ordered a lead piece for himself.

    That was about a year ago and I’ve happily settled in to my equipment. With my new Adams F2 flugelhorn I’m playing a Monette 375 Prana.

    It’s hard for me to imagine something more subjective than a mouthpiece, and there’s no real way to test drive a Monette. I’m also under no illusions that they’re the only solution out there, but I love mine.

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  4. Bflatman

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    Nov 27, 2008
    Manchester, England
    I am of the opinion that we should not routinely change mouthpiece, it is of course ok to use more than one but to play a mouthpiece for just a short while and move on to another in an attempt to discover the very best mouthpiece is a folly.

    I know this is neither your intention nor your desire, I simply say it to put the expense on a quality mouthpiece in perspective.

    The mouthpiece is where we generate the tone that the instrument then modifies. As such in my opinion it is as important as the instrument itself, and yet we are happy to spend 1000 or 2000 or 3000 dollars or more on an instrument and yet we baulk at spending more than 100 dollars on a mouthpiece.

    A bad mouthpiece inhibits us from developing a good tone, an instrument no matter how much we spend on it is incapable of repairing the damage that a crappy mouthpiece does to our tone.

    A bad mouthpiece will not linger in our music cases for long, a great mouthpiece will outlive an instrument.

    Dont be scared of spending big on a mouthpiece if it solves your tone issues and improves your play.

    We seek perfection and to reject a mouthpiece simply on cost grounds may force us to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
  5. bobmiller1969

    bobmiller1969 Pianissimo User

    Dec 13, 2008
    Mays Landing, New Jersey
    Thank you all for your great advice and feedback. I am indeed trying to avoid the sometimes unavoidable mouthpiece safari, but at the same time, I'm a firm believer that the same mouthpiece doesn't necessarily work for every horn. I feel like I'm really close to getting each of my horns situated with a setup that works well for each of them, and I'm at the fine tuning stage.

    The horn that has been giving me the most trouble is the Martin. After a lot of thinking it's not the horn or the mouthpiece, I've pretty much narrowed it down to being a sympathetic vibration from a loose brace somewhere on the horn, so my next move is getting that straightened out.

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How to Improve Trust within your Department after a Major Project Fail

How to Improve Trust within your Department after a Major Project Fail

In today’s pressure-cooker of a business world, the ability to handle constant change is the difference between success and failure.  When situations are uncertain and risky for people and organisations, trust issues bubble to the surface, often unbeknownst to leaders.

Trust bears a close, inverse relationship with risk.   The higher the stakes, the less likely people will trust the situation.  Without trust, social groups become dysfunctional and start to break down.  People become unwilling to cooperate resulting in slow decision-making, a lack of accountability, self-interested behaviours and difficulties meeting deadlines.

A typical example of a high stakes scenario is after a failed initiative.  Ironically, this is the time when there is a greater need for work groups to pull together to pick up the pieces and start again.  Yet, what often happens is that it rapidly reduces employee confidence in leadership to successfully execute future projects, making it much harder to get new projects up and running.

Often, the aborted initiative results in three types of polarisation.  One – employees lose faith in leaders and two, employees lose respect and trust towards the particular department responsible and, three employess lose faith with the overall organisation as a whole.  Sadly, this is the time when high trust within and out a department is sorely needed to improve the situation but it often falls by the wayside as leaders are too busy fixing the mess, rather than the emotional fallout.

Whenever a major transformation project fails, it costs the organisation millions, not only in hard dollars but also in lost productivity and missed opportunities.  But where organisations often fail to count the cost is that organisations are social systems.  Ignoring how people feel about the situation can be the most costly of all.

Take the example of a large Australian publicly listed company that had a spectacular IT transformation fail.  It’s the standard story of a company that grew by acquisitions, while poorly merging lots of different IT systems.  Until one day the spaghetti mess of competing platforms became too slow and unruly to work with, frustrating employees and customers alike, while leaving the company at an awkward and vulnerable competitive disadvantage.  In comes a new IT transformation project to usher in the goodness of systems integration and the beauty of speed.  Except it didn’t.

The result is every other department thinks IT is a joke, while each day they bumble along with a hodgepodge of disjointed systems.  Mirroring the IT system itself, the IT department feels misunderstood and becomes isolated from other departments, unable to integrate and be accepted by its peers.

Fixing Trust at the Source

IT leadership need to rapidly restore trust and confidence in its abilities both in its department and outside of it.  Typically, after a major project fail, the CIO gets fired or walks away from the mess.  Then, a new CIO comes in only to be replaced with another one, a short time after.  Management shakeups contribute to the uncertainty of the situation perpetuating the vicious cycle of distrust among employees.

In the end, a new, fresh CIO has to fix trust within the IT department itself, before trust can be bridged across other departments.  This is no easy task when low trust in the department is showing up as sniping across teams, a low sense of morale and a sombre atmosphere that scares away any new talented employees.  But it can often be easier if a new IT leader comes in with no previous trust legacy and capabilitiy issues.  The main step to fix the deteriorating trust situation is by starting with IT leaders who are worried about their job and go into self-protection mode  – refusing to share information with team members or allowing them to work with other managers.  Improving trust behaviours with IT managers and ensuring they can be trusted by employees is critical.

Let’s take a look at four important steps that the new CIO has to do first before she can build trust with other IT leaders.

1. Start by being Trustworthy

Our ability to commit to change is based on our belief that we can trust the leader to do the right thing by us and not make us vulnerable to risk.  A CIO can only build trust, if they are trusted themselves.  Often, a fresh CIO can improve trust faster than a legacy employee who is often suspected as not having the capability to fix an issue so deep and pervasive.  But the first three months are critical, for the new CIO.  According to the book, The First 90 Days, new leaders need to build relationships even before they start work with critical people to their role (both vertically and horizontally).  Then, once they are in their job the quickest way to build trust is to focus on four key areas:

  1. Picking a small project that employees want to see done and successfully completing it and promoting that it’s finished successfully.
  2. Specifying their Intention – At the start of a meeting, presentation or important face-to-face discussion, the reason why the meeting has been called needs to be mentioned.  This quickly establishes trust in new relationships.
  3. Be honest – Be upfront if you’re not knowledgeable about the content and need advice.  Let others know you seek their expertise in the matter.  This is a powerful method that avoids your behaviour being misinterpreted or misconstrued by others.
  4. Show interest and concern – Demonstrate that you want to learn more about people and support them in their success.

2. Own up to Mistakes

Trust is the precursor to change.  Once the CIO is trusted (or clearly demonstrating positive intentions) she then needs to bond employees in their department together first, before extending trust to the organisation as a whole.  Often, the CIO will ignore why the initiative was cancelled or just blame their predecessor for the mess.  But this ignores every IT staff member who worked on the project and at some level felt like they personally failed.  Most employees will be suffering from sunk cost bias, a thinking trap that causes people to think irrationally.  Sunk cost bias occurs when employees can’t let go of a project because they have invested so much time and effort into it.

Fessing up to the failures of the past and being honest about how the company stuffed up needs to be discussed first before everyone can be redirected to a rosy future (for more information see How to Communicate a Changing Vision to your Team).

Instead of seeing the setback as a negative event, the CIO has the opportunity to reframe the IT project fail, so that employees view the stumbling block as a way to refine their approach and improve their outcomes.  This is a perfect time to highlight the learning opportunities and keep the team focused forward, so that everyone can see that their time wasn’t wasted reducing the effects of sunk cost bias.

3. Create Bonds of Trust

Additionally, the CIO needs to unite the department by providing the meaning behind the work through linking the job to be done to a higher purpose (such as helping customers).

People feel greater trust and empathy toward people who are similar to themselves and are part of the same social circles.  The only way to do this is through creating a shared identity through clearly aligning everyone to the company purpose that’s ideally defined by a genuine commitment to the social good.  Purpose is what a company stands for and creates value for employees, customers and society.

A clear sense of purpose, values and mission connect everyone together through being able to collectively see the meaning of their work.  It’s how you get a diverse and unhappy group of people aligned.  It makes sense because we’re more likely to trust a company if we can see evidence of consistent action and behaviour that indicates good intent.

Re-connecting the department to the company purpose and even the department’s purpose, helps downtrodden IT employees to see how they play a pivotal role in reaching company goals and the optimal functioning of the organisation.  This will help the IT workforce feel proud of their contribution and realign them to delivering on both company and IT goals.

It’s important that the new CIO communicates in meetings and in all other written communication the greater purpose of the organisation and the new vision for the IT department.  By providing everyone with more of a stakeholder understanding of the business, rather than a separate, silo oriented mentality, IT employees will understand how everything is interconnected.  This perspective will help them see how they can make the IT department great again and how they can build trust with other departments.

4. Aligning IT Leaders’ behaviours

Once a foundation of trust has been created, the CIO can then work on other IT leaders to begin more deeply cascading trust among all levels within the IT department.  The CIO, together with the CEO, is responsible for creating a stronger sense of unity and identity.   In addition to having a clear company purpose, this involves clearly specifying the types of behaviours that are needed to make the IT department great again, while denouncing those behaviours that will keep trust levels stuck.

It’s important that the CIO, backed by the CEO, emphasises the values of subordination of individual interests to those of the group.  In other words, supporting one another, fair process and decision making, transparent and timely communication.  Competitive and self-interested behaviours that hurt the organisation need to be outrightly penalised and rejected.

As mentioned previously, when trust is low managers pull back and act in a low trust and suspicious manner creating a vicious cycle of distrust.

Employees want to trust their managers, but a lack of transparent communication, inconsistent behaviours and constant change reduces it.

Providing leaders and employees training in how to be trusted and how to trust others, goes a long way to creating a cohesive group that helps employees cope with change, and failure, to succeed in today’s world.  After all, a lot of IT projects fall over and IT employees need to see failure as an important opportunity to learn and improve their resilience to change.  A training workshop, such as Managing the Trust Decision is a great place to start.

Often, when low trust is hard to budge it’s often the organisation’s systems that are contributing to the issue such as incentives and rewards that actually penalise collaboration.  If the CIO leader finds that IT managers are resistant to increasing trust because the risks to delivering on their personal responsibilities are too high, then it’s time to have an open discussion on what’s blocking collaboration and trust.  Deep rooted trust issues, often need to be uncovered by an external and impartial facilitator.  The Delivering Leadership Results through Collaboration helps identify opportunities to improve alignment of thinking.

Leading the Way

Improving trust within a department that has had a critical strategic and execution error, need not be the end of the world.  All it needs is a strong and confident leader who is willing to focus on trust, the emotional, submerged issue that is really holding the IT department, and the organisation back.

High-trust leaders are effectively integrators who deeply understand why the organisation exists (purpose), the required behaviours (values) and the obligations to stakeholders needed to achieve the company vision.  They work to align and integrate all stakeholder interests, through ensuring that departmental leaders understand each other’s perspectives.  They make decisions that are fair and take all stakeholders into account, while also outlining clear expectations.  At the same time, they demonstrate to their own department employees that they care, rather than displaying self-interested and competitive behaviours.

Next week, we will look at the next critical step for the CIO – improving the reputation of the shamed IT department through building trust with the executive team.  Stay tuned.

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The objective of this study is to assess the intraoperative and postoperative complications encountered in patients undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) by analysing 3000 consecutive cases.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

First Thirty Down

Last weekend my friends and I celebrated the first 30th birthday party among us! We're all turning 30 this year (eek!) Here are some shots from Jessica's birthday celebration!

We started out the morning with a waffle, bacon, and fruit breakfast, yum!

Then we visited some really cool birds!

Of course there had to be presents, and 30 mini cupcakes with 30 candles!

Then we toured an awesome brewery, had a delicious dinner, and partied the evening away!

 The next morning we all met for a lovely brunch!

Thanks for sharing your 30th with us Jess! Happy Birthday!

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(VARESE, 21 - 25 AUGUST 2006)

Your Most Reverend Excellency,

I am pleased to convey the cordial greeting of the Supreme Pontiff to you, to the organizers and to the participants in the 57th National Liturgical Week to be held in Varese on the theme: "Let us celebrate Jesus Christ, the hope of the world". This annual event constitutes a preparatory phase of the upcoming Ecclesial Congress of the Italian Church which will take place in Verona and will be an opportunity for a wise renewal of our pastoral responsibility at the service of the Gospel.

Reflecting on the significance of the Liturgical Celebration as a source of hope for all means focusing attention on the event of the death and Resurrection of Christ, the basis of our hope.

The Apostle Peter says: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled and unfading" (I Pt 1: 3-4).

Yes, the Risen One is the source of our hope, and every Celebration imbues in the human heart that mystery of hope fulfilled in Christ.

The theme of your Convention is therefore evocative, because it indicates how, through the Liturgical Celebration, the human being inserted into the Paschal Mystery is transfigured by the Risen One.

Prayer then opens our lives to God's plan and encourages us to become docile instruments in his hands, to change our way of life and, consequently, the history of our environment.

Thus, the Liturgical Celebration embraces various aspects of life: the world of emotions and relationships, shared frailty and weaknesses, the experience of work and rest, ever proclaiming the primacy of God's love.

In his First Encyclical Letter, Deus Caritas Est, the Holy Father Benedict XVI writes: "In the Church's Liturgy, in her prayer, in the living community of believers, we experience the love of God, we perceive his presence and we thus learn to recognize that presence in our daily lives" (n. 17).

The experience of God's goodness in the Liturgy becomes a renewal of the gift of hope. By freeing the human heart of its daily apprehensions, the Liturgical Celebration gives new trust; the moment of celebration communicates the joy of hoping in a better world, of living in the Church, of being loved by God and of reciprocating his love, of being forgiven and saved.

For this reason, believers should be helped to understand that in order to preserve, revive, witness to and communicate this hope, they must return to celebrating and contemplating Jesus, the Risen One.

His Holiness hopes that through its moments of reflection and prayer the 57th National Liturgical Week in Varese will emphasize that Christian hope is nourished by the celebrative action - which is an action of God -, an action that immerses us continuously in the Pasch of Christ, source of every hope.

As he assures you of his prayers for the total success of the Meeting, the Supreme Pontiff invokes upon all who are attending it the motherly protection of Santa Maria del Monte (St Mary of the Mount) and imparts a special Apostolic Blessing to you, venerable Brother, to Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, Archbishop of Milan, to the speakers and the participants.

As I add my personal greeting and good wishes, I take this occasion to confirm that I remain,

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New Orleans Panel Begins Releasing Recovery Proposals

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11 - The commission devising a blueprint to reconstruct the city proposed today a complete reorganization of the troubled school system, the elimination of a 76-mile shipping channel that was a prime cause of flooding after Hurricane Katrina, and the formation of a recovery corporation that would have the power to buy and sell property for redevelopment.

At other public meetings this week, the commission also plans to call on the city to create an economic development corporation fashioned after the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which New York created to oversee the downtown rebuilding effort after Sept. 11, 2001.

"We believe the devastation is so great that you need a single independent organization to help coordinate with all the entities involved," Doug Ahlers, a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard who has been working with the commission's economic development committee, said today.

The corporation, whose members would be appointed by the president, the governor and the mayor, would serve as a "one stop shop," Mr. Ahlers said, that would help businesses on any number of fronts, from negotiating the permit process to finding workers through training programs.

The commission's economic development committee will not officially release its report until next week, but has scheduled a series of public meetings leading up to the release. The sweeping seven-part report is being issued by the Bring Back New Orleans Commission, which Mayor C. Ray Nagin established in September to plan the rebuilding.

Because the state and federal governments will have large voices in the process, many proposals may run into opposition, but the plan represents the city's first comprehensive effort to put itself back together.

The most controversial proposal, reported on Sunday by The New York Times, would have allowed residents to return soon to all sections of the city but within a year would close those neighborhoods that did not achieve a critical mass of residents. A leader of the commission, Joseph C. Canizaro, said Tuesday that members had modified that proposal over the last two days and now believed that no one should be allowed back into the most damaged neighborhoods until June. City services will probably be more readily available then, Mr. Canizaro said, and the extra time will allow the city to identify who wants to return and set up planning teams for each neighborhood. "My concern," he said, "is for people who have the money and we let fix up a place and then they find themselves sitting all by themselves without any neighbors around."

That neighborhood proposal was expected to be discussed at the meeting today, which was attended by hundreds.

Under the proposed plan, by Aug. 20 the city should begin the neighborhood reconstruction and should begin acquiring property for public projects like expanding parks. Some low-lying neighborhoods may become parks or marshland if they do not attract enough housing development.

One measure of whether a neighborhood will succeed will be whether it has enough residents to justify a high school and two primary schools.

An essential element, Mr. Canizaro said, is forming the Crescent City Recovery Corporation, through which federal funds would flow. The corporation would have the power to buy and sell property for redevelopment, including the use of eminent domain, and could issue bonds. Board members of the recovery corporation, to number seven to 15 under the plan, would be appointed by the president, the governor, the mayor and the City Council.

"If we don't get a reconstruction authority in place right away, we won't have a chance with implementation," Mr. Canizaro said.

To create such an agency, however, the city needs to amend its charter, he and others said.

Among the other recommendations expected to be presented this week, several members said the commission report will also advocate building a 53-mile light-rail system crisscrossing the city, connecting neighborhoods with the airport, downtown and other commercial centers. That system would be in addition to a separate heavy-rail system that would link New Orleans with Baton Rouge and the rest of the Gulf Coast.

The light-rail system, estimated to cost $3 billion, is intended to help spark redevelopment in areas of the city that were flooded.

Toward that end, the commission's plan calls on the city to enlist developers to build at least four communities of 1,000 or more houses at stops along the proposed light-rail lines.

A new jazz district downtown will also be proposed in the old Storyville section, north of the French Quarter. The idea is being championed by the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, a member of the commission and the co-chairman of its culture committee.

And the commission's economic development committee will also recommend that New Orleans borrow a second idea from New York: The city should ask the federal government for permission to raise tax-exempt bonds to rebuild tattered businesses just as New York was given permission to grant "Liberty Bonds," which are exempt from federal taxes, to rebuild Lower Manhattan after Sept. 11, said Bill Hines, the managing partner at Jones Walker, a leading New Orleans-based corporate law firm.

As of midday on Tuesday, members of the commission and city workers were frantically cobbling together the components of a plan remarkable for breadth and scope. The commission was created to draw up a master plan to remake a city that suffered what was widely described as the worst urban disaster in the country's history.

The floodwater that covered 80 percent of the city caused half its houses to sit in four feet or more of foul, murky water for weeks, according to a draft of the final report, and it destroyed much of the public works in the city.

The commission missed the Dec. 31 deadline that Mr. Nagin imposed. Members said releasing an overview of its plans this week should give the White House time to digest a blueprint certain to cost billions in federal dollars before President Bush delivers his State of the Union address on Jan. 20.

That assumes that Mr. Nagin formally adopts the commission's recommendations.

Some proposals, like the light-rail system, have been floated for years and are likely to be greeted with skepticism in Washington.

"We might be a little bit late, but we've tried to make this an inclusive process, and we've all been doing the best we can," the co-chairwoman of the commission, Barbara Major, said. "I'm always conscious of the fact that everybody that sits on that commission is also struggling to put their life back together."

Ms. Major has been living in temporary housing in Texas since the storm, a five-hour drive from New Orleans.

The commission early on created seven committees led by commission members with scores of volunteers as staff members. The seven areas are urban planning, education, culture, health and social services, infrastructure, government effectiveness and economic development.

Each will present the details of its plan over the next several days.

"There was a time I didn't know if this process would work, but it has," W. Anthony Patton, a member of the commission, said. "I'm feeling very good about things."

To improve a school system that has long ranked as one of the worst in the nation, the commission has endorsed a plan that breaks the district into clusters of 8 to 14 schools that will function as semiautonomous units, said Scott S. Cowen, chairman of the commission's education committee and president of Tulane University.

Before the hurricane, the district operated about 120 schools.

The networks of schools would have the freedom to determine everything from the length of school days to critical curriculum choices and teachers.

Now that public and private schools are beginning to reopen, a lack of livable housing is the main impediment to people returning. The commission will call on the city to return quickly to the market the thousands of blighted houses in a legal limbo because of tax and ownership problems.

The federal government will be asked to pay the $12 billion cost of compensating homeowners who lost their houses.

By rehabilitating abandoned houses in sections with little or no flooding or demolishing them and building anew, the commission estimates that the city could house an additional 37,000 people.

The plan calls on the authorities to close the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a shortcut from the river to the coast that slices through a corner of the city. Known as Mr. Go, the byway cost $92 million to construct and was heralded as a critical economic driver when it opened to great fanfare in the 1960's.

It was also a major source of the water that flooded the eastern, predominantly black half of New Orleans when the storm surge roared up from the Gulf Coast.

Officials at the Port of New Orleans have defended the byway as a critical segment of the regional shipping industry. But local officials have reached a consensus that it should be closed. For years, it has been little used, and it serves as a conduit for destructive saltwater into freshwater wetlands.

"There are no easy decisions here," Ms. Major said. "So whatever decisions are made, I can guarantee there will be some people who are unhappy."


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In these galleries, James takes us through seasonal and age related changes in coloration of many Strawn cultivars. High summer in England, sometimes only two to three weeks long, provides the most dramatic colors of all, often not seen in other climates. None of the images have been color enhanced or color adjusted.

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'Laura Strawn'

One of only two white creations from Kirk, but what a white! This hybrid produces huge white blooms of a unique shape. They open exceptionally wide with very broad, wax-like petals. These are then set off beautifully by the equally impressive golden centre. When viewed from a distance the flowers sit like a flotilla of pure white ocean liners. Stunning!

At the height of summer, first day flowers open with a gorgeous hint of peach, particularly noticeable at the base of each petal. Although this is a large variety, in comparison with other large whites it has a modest spread.

Unfortunately this is a little known variety, which already seems to be in danger of being lost to cultivation. It is free flowering and simply must be preserved for the future, though care will have to be taken to grow it only from rhizome as it sets masses of viable seed.

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