Make-A-Wish dream nearly a reality for Monroe City family - WGEM ...

MONROE CITY, Mo. (WGEM) -- One Missouri family is hoping to make their's daughter's dream come true.

Three year-old Madilynn St. Clair is terminally ill and has endured several heart surgeries.

Her family says she has spent most of her life in a hospital and her favorite refuge is the hospital's garden.

So, her family, along with Make-A-Wish Foundation and many other local ogranizations worked together today to build Madilynn a garden complete with a fountain, pond and swing set at their home.

Her father says he can't wait for his daughter to see the finished garden.

"Estatic! It seems like everytime we leave the hospital whether it is 12 days or 2 days she more excited and energenic at the house here being at home in her surroundings than in the hospital so I am hoping this is going to brighten her up a little bit," said Kenny St. Clair.?

St. Clair says his daughter should be home sometime next week.

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Wiggins becomes first Brit to win Tour de France

Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France after dominating the race.

By Samuel Petrequin,?Associated Press Sports Writer / July 22, 2012

Sky Procycling rider and leader's yellow jersey Bradley Wiggins of Britain celebrates on the finish line after the final 20th stage of the 99th Tour de France cycling race between Rambouillet and Paris July 22.

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Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the?Tour?de?France?by safely protecting the yellow jersey during Sunday's final processional ride into Paris - and even helping Sky teammate Mark Cavendish earn his fourth straight sprint victory on the Champs-Elysees.

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Wiggins secured his win with a dominating performance in Saturday's final time trial to extend his already commanding lead. Fellow Briton and Sky teammate Christopher Froome finished second, 3 minutes, 21 seconds behind overall. Vincenzo Nibali of Italy finished third, 6:19 off the pace.

The last time two riders from the same nation finished first and second in the?Tour?was in 1984, when Frenchman Laurent Fignon defeated Bernard Hinault.

Cavendish claimed his 23rd?Tour?stage win and third this year. He also became the first reigning world champion to win on the Champs-Elysees.

As expected, Wiggins repaid Cavendish for his efforts earlier in the race and led the Sky train in the final kilometer of the 120-kilometer stage before leaving his place to Edvald Boasson Hagen, who delivered a perfect lead-out for Cavendish.

Cavendish accelerated coming out of the final corner, never looked back and raised four fingers as he crossed the line.

The seven stage wins was a record haul for British riders in the?Tour, beating the previous record of six stage wins in 2009 ? when all were won by Cavendish.

This time the victories were divided up between Cavendish (3), Wiggins (2), David Millar (1) and Froome (1).

Wiggins and his teammates were at the font of the pack as it arrived on the streets of Paris for eight laps of a 6.5-kilometer circuit on the Champs-Elysees.

Veteran rider George Hincapie, competing in his 17th consecutive and final?Tour, led the peloton onto the prestigious avenue alongside fellow American Chris Horner.

With Sky determined to help Cavendish secure a fourth consecutive win in Paris, Horner and Hincapie were immediately reined in. Several other riders tried to break away but the peloton was not ready to give them any slack as the race passed some of the capital's most iconic monuments such as the Louvre museum, the Eiffel tower and the Place?de?la Concorde.

Six riders including Jens Voigt of Germany finally escaped from the back with 30 kilometers to go. They had a maximum lead of 30 seconds but were progressively reeled in as Liquigas and Sky organized the chase.

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Business agility, fighter pilot style ? Cloud Computing News

In the late 1950s, John Boyd had a standing bet with any pilot who arrived at the Air Force Fighter Weapons School outside Las Vegas: meet Boyd, a school instructor, in the air at 30,000 feet, get on Boyd?s ?six,? and in forty seconds or less, Boyd would turn the tables on you. For a cocky fighter pilot, the challenge was irresistible. Many tried, but Boyd never lost the bet.

The repeatability of the whole exercise surprised nobody more than Boyd himself. Why did he always win? Was it just natural ability or was it a skill that could be taught to others? He spent the remainder of his life answering those questions and in the process, he created an analytic framework for thinking about the nature of adversarial conflict and answered the question, ?What is agility??

These days, agility is all the rage in business discussions, particularly in information technology circles, but our understanding of the word is shallow. Consequently, we have little idea how we might increase it systematically. We?re left with a vague notion that agile companies are somehow ?faster? than others, and the sense that fast is good. Boyd can help us break through the mental logjam.

The OODA loop

After years of thinking about the nature of conflict, Boyd finally arrived at a model for how humans engage in any activity, his famed OODA Loop. The OODA Loop describes how to make decisions and act on them using a four-stage model: Observation, Orientation (perhaps better labeled Interpretation), Decision, and Action.

The OODA Loop applies both to individuals and organizations.

At the individual level, you might observe the reaction of both a customer and your boss during a new product planning discussion. You would orient on that information (interpret it) using your previous work experience and the opinion of an external market analyst.

At the organizational level, observations might be conducted with focus groups and market research surveys. Orientations might then be conducted by a strategy group, taking into account the corporate skill set, product position, and market competition.

The decision and action steps could be small (develop a feature enhancement) or large (create a new business unit). The OODA Loop works equally well for each of these situations at the appropriate scale.

Agility, OODA loop style

If Boyd had only gone that far, we might never be studying the OODA Loop today. On the surface, the OODA Loop is a simple, codified decision-making process, like many before it. Boyd?s genius lay in thinking about what happens when you push the OODA Loop to the max. Boyd identified two important characteristics of how the OODA Loop operates in the real world:

• Tempo: In an aerial dogfight, a fighter pilot has to make decisions in fractions of a second. But Boyd noticed that there is a huge advantage in making decisions even faster than your adversary. With increased tempo, the adversary is kept in a position of always reacting to whatever you did previously, just as you start to do something new.
• Fast Transients: Boyd also saw that agility is composed of more than rapid decision-making. During a dogfight, Boyd found that wild, unexpected maneuvers (?fast transients?) could disorient his adversaries. When you act outside the standard set of expected responses, your adversary is surprised and left wondering what you might be trying to do. This slows him down and causes him to question his strategy and tactics.

To consistently win the fight, you need to create a fast-changing, unpredictable environment for your adversary. Just as your adversary thinks he understands what you are doing, you want to change the environment in an unpredictable way. The result is to sow confusion and disorder within his own decision-making process.

This is particularly true if your adversary is an organization rather than a single individual. Confronted with a rapidly-changing, unpredictable environment, a large organization will start infighting, as multiple individuals generate conflicting orientations, decisions, and actions, even from the identical observations. Consequently, the adversary?s OODA Loop will operate at an even slower tempo as he tries to resolve the internal conflicts. This, in turn, compounds your advantage. Ultimately, infighting can lead to the adversary?s complete self-destruction as his OODA Loop ?locks up? and he cannot react to the environment any longer. He?s paralyzed and you fully control the situation.

Organizational implementation

So, decide quickly, execute quickly and whenever possible do something unexpected. That?s simple enough, but your success or failure will still depend on your implementation of these ideas. Remember that your adversary is reading this article, too, so you?ll want to create the fastest OODA loops possible and eliminate as much internal conflict possible. How can you best accomplish this? There are two critical steps that you need to take:

• Small Loops: First, create small OODA loops. As you might expect, the more people involved with any of the processing steps in the OODA Loop, the slower the loop will operate. Throw 50 people into a room to analyze your market research data, and you?re bound to create an argument. If you reduce the number to five people, you?ll likely end up with a smaller argument and a quicker resolution. Reduce the number to one and you?ll have no argument, but you?ll increase the possibility of interpretation mistakes.

  Thus, decentralize your decision-making and execution with smaller teams, each going after smaller objectives. Some of those teams will misfire and fail, but many won?t, and by using smaller teams, you increase the organizational tempo. Further, with more teams, you?ll generate more unexpected ideas (fast transients), leading to greater confusion of your adversary.

• Communication of High-Level Intent: With a shift toward distributed decision-making, you risk chaos. To prevent that from happening, structure the organization with two levels. A small team at the top needs to make broad, strategic decisions and then communicate that high level intent to execution teams that in turn drive the tactics for how to realize those objectives.

  For instance, the decision to invest broadly into a new market must be made at a high level since it will require a significant amount of organizational resources, but the details for exactly how the resources will be allocated and what projects will be run needs to be pushed down the organization. Many organizations do this today, but most have far too many levels of hierarchy in the middle, increasing the bureaucracy and diluting the results.

Boyd has given us one of the most powerful analytic frameworks for understanding adversarial combat. Whether you?re a fighter pilot, a CEO, or an IT manager, you can apply the OODA Loop to your work. You?ll move faster and win more often.

Dave Roberts is SVP of Strategy and Evangelism at ServiceMesh. He blogs here, and tweets as @sandhillstrat.

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There are a number of things every carport owner wants. Obviously they want the building to look good, to perform the job it was bought for and they want it to last for a long, long time. Now the best way to achieve all those goals is to build your carport with steel. Yes it will increase the value of your home and yes it can be constructed in a relatively short period of time but all this is only possible when you use the strong but pliable material, steel.

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Using Antidiscrimination Law to Protect Domestic Violence Victims

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July 20, 2012

Using Antidiscrimination Law to Protect Domestic Violence Victims

Belinda Smith (Sydney) & Tashina Orchiston (law student - Sydney) have just posted on SSRN their article (forthcoming Australian Journal of Labour Law) Domestic Violence Victims at Work: A Role for Anti-Discrimination Law?.? The downloadable article is an earlier version of the article that will be published this October.? Here's the abstract:

For victims of domestic violence it is increasingly recognised that financial security is critical to their safety and ability to escape a violent relationship. The majority of victims of domestic violence are engaged in paid work, but are often reluctant to disclose their status. This reluctance can persist even when the worker needs some workplace flexibility in order to navigate the criminal justice system, make housing and/or financial arrangements or access support services. Two possible reasons for non-disclosure are: a fear that the widespread negative attitudes about victims of domestic violence will impair relationships with their colleagues and managers; and a belief that they have no rights to workplace flexibility or adjustments to deal with their circumstances. In this paper we explore whether federal anti-discrimination laws could be used to address these twin concerns and promote normative and behavioural change. By recognising ?victims of domestic violence? as a vulnerable group warranting protection against discrimination in the workplace, anti-discrimination laws could empower these workers to disclose their status and even expect reasonable adjustments to enable them to maintain their employment.

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