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Striking Back
keith758
What do you think of the remarks by Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo regarding striking back at fundamentalist Muslim terrorists? Mr. Tancredo was asked about his response to a terrorist attack on the United States using nuclear weapons, and he said that he would consider it appropriate that such an attack would result in the bombing of "Islamic Holy sites." I say, GO TOM!
I think it's time to let them, Muslim Terrorists, know that there will be a response which will hit them where it hurts.
Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice. Barry Goldwater
Stonie
Tancredo was implying that we nuke Mecca.
I'm not down with that.
Surgical strikes, fine. Nuclear strikes? Umm, no thanks.
savage4presiden
I have no problem with it. I heard somewhere that a poll was taken by muslims and the results were that 84% disagreed with using terrorism and 16% supported terrorism. That's a hell of a lot of terrorists, or wannabe terrorists out there. I think we should bomb thost muslimists back to the stone age.
Stonie, I agree; sugical strikes not nuclear. Although I would have no problem using prolonged surgical strikes.
I guess that as long as the Islamo-Fascists have no problem attacking us with nuclear weapons, I'd have no problem retaliating in kind. I hope that it never comes to that, but I advocate making known the consequences.
Hitting Mecca with a nuke is friggin' pointless, even if we get nuked. Talk about a sure-fire way to turn all non-violent Muslims into violent ones... You do know that Islam is the world's most popular religion, right?
Emotionally Fragile
Originally posted by Stonie
You do know that Islam is the world's most popular religion, right?
That's if you count each Christian sect as its own religion.
Hail hail the gang's all here, when the going gets tough I know my friends will still be there. - Drop Kick Murphys, "The Gang's all Here"
Talk about a sure-fire way to turn all non-violent Muslims into violent ones...
There's not much keeping them from going that route now, anyway.
Though some in the media have characterized Cong. Tancredo's remarks as supporting a nuclear strike on Mecca, he never implied that the U.S. nuke Mecca. He mentioned "tak[ing] out their holy sites." He said "[y]eah" to a follow-up question clarifying whether he was "talking about bombing Mecca." You could bomb Mecca with conventional weapons. You could take out holy sites with conventional weapons. The host had given Cong. Tancredo a hypothetical situation of Islamic terrorists exploding nuclear devices in six (6), seven (7) or eight (8) U.S. cities. If such an attack upon the United States seemed imminent, I would not have a problem with a threat being made by the president to use conventional weapons against Mecca if that attack occurred. Further, if that hypothetical did occur and millions upon millions of Americans were dead, I certainly would not have a problem with attacking Mecca with conventional weapons if such a threat had been given.
Here is a link to Cong. Tancredo's comments: http://www.540wfla.com/timages/page/...nts_071405.mp3 .
Originally posted by keith758
If Cong. Tancredo were elected president, the threat from Islamic terrorists within this country would be greatly reduced. As president, Tancredo would secure and enforce our borders; deport illegal aliens, both those who enter the country illegally and those who overstay their right to be in the U.S.; and place greater restrictions on legal immigration from Islamic countries.
Several of the Islamic terrorist who killed over three thousand (3,000) Americans on September 11, 2001, were illegal aliens by virtue of having overstayed their visas. Why were they still in this country on September 11, 2001? Why hadn't they been deported prior to September 11, 2001?
Thank you for your support of Cong, Tancredo. He truly cares about the security of our nation.
Originally posted by savage4presiden
I agree with both you and Stonie about using surgical strikes, instead of nuclear strikes.
It might be a good idea for some to go to Michael Savage's website and view the beheading by Islam terrorists of Nick Berg, as well as all the other beheading videos on the website. It is an excellent reminder of the enemy this nation faces.
Let's see if the United Kingdom gets serious about reforming its immigration policy with regard to Islamic immigrants.
Soleal, it is apathy and trying to make the world love us that is killing us. The terrorists know, and feel safe in the knowledge that we won't strike them where it will truly hurt them. Our culture is so worried "offending" other's that we forget about ourselves at a cost to ourselves. Also, I'm tired of hearing that the "Majority of Muslims are Peace loving people." If so, where is their condemnation of the terrorists that are, in fact, killing innocent Muslim men, women and children on a daily basis? Or, is that our fault, also?
Originally posted by raider
Nuke or not, I feel that religious sites of any religion need to be left out of targeting coordinates.
Also, I'm tired of hearing that the "Majority of Muslims are Peace loving people." If so, where is their condemnation of the terrorists that are, in fact, killing innocent Muslim men, women and children on a daily basis? Or, is that our fault, also?
In WWII the Japanese went to great pains to prove their loayalty to the U.S. They started their own, all Japanese, battalion in the Army. That battalion, or regiment (I don't know) sustained the highest casualty rates in WWII. Where is the muslim battalion over in Iraq? There was a recent poll that showed that 86% of muslims do not support terrorism (that means they don't condem it either) and 14% of muslims do support terrorism. 14% is a hell of a lot of terrorists when you consider they number in the millions.
I don't think muslimists will play by your rules. In light of the fact that 14% of muslims are terrorist sympathizers, I think we should consider bombing mecca as a serious alternative. We should also force, by threats or any other means, muslims in America to hand over their terrorists. How can we allow them to keep them hidden in their own mosques? Michael Savage's said yesterday that we should intern all illegal muslim immigrants. That seems like a common sense measure to protect ourselves. Of course we all know that our politicians know better than us.
Band of Brother
Hi people.
As a Brit whose country is now under siege (as is our American cousins) I think we have to fight fire with fire.
The Met dealt with a suspected Muslim fundamentalist today by shooting him five times in the head.
That's a pretty good way to deter would-be fanatics.
Already the civil liberties groups are jumping all over our brave law enforcement agencies for "being trigger-happy."
Where would we be as free, tolerant and liberal societies without the defence that the majority take for granted?
There are mosques in this country that preach hatred and the destruction of Western society. They also exist in New York and have been identified as hotbeds of hatred by credible American writers.
mosetti
In WWII the Japanese went to great pains to prove their loayalty to the U.S. They started their own, all Japanese, battalion in the Army. That battalion, or regiment (I don't know) sustained the highest casualty rates in WWII.
You are referring to the 442nd Infantry Regiment. After being rounded up into camps to "protect the US from espionage", they were allowed to form an all American-Japanese regiment within the Army. These Japanese Americans did not volunteer becasue they wanted to prove thier loyalty to America, they joined because they WERE Americans. They did not recieve the highest amount of casualties in the war, I think that honor belongs to the 29th Infantry Division (Bloody Bucket). They were the most decorated unit in American Military history. In under two years in combat, members of the 442nd received over 18,000 individual decoarations including one Medal of Honor, 53 Distinguished Service Crosses, 588 Silver Stars, 5,200 Bronze Star Medals, 9,486 Purple Hearts, and eight Presidential Unit Citations (the nation's top award for combat units).
Fortunately the US Army does not have segregated military units and there are many muslims that have volunteered for service.
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The Simple Life. After reading a pretty funny article previewing this show the other week, I thought I'd give it a look. It sounded funny. And it was, kinda. I mean, I know they've probably spent a lot of time editing this show to make Paris and Nicole seem stupid, but they wouldn't have been able to do it if the raw material wasn't there. However after 45 minutes of it (including a 15 minute break where I went outside and hung laundry on the line) I couldn't take any more. Those two really seem to barely have a brain cell between them. It was getting excruciating. I don't think I can face watching it again.
Lost in Translation. Funny, poignant, full of mesmerising Blade Runner-esque scenery. Bill Murray looking older than ever before (make-up, or does he really look like that now?) Great soundtrack. Terrific movie, very enjoyable.
Motorola E365 phone. This new phone is getting irritating. Possibly it's mostly that I'm so used to the Nokia-style user interface on phones, but there's also stuff I simply can't seem to do on this phone. I can't get it to display no background — it only lets you choose between various garish inbuilt wallpaper images or a photo of your choosing. After copying all the numbers from the SIM card into the phone, I couldn't wipe them all from the SIM so they wouldn't show up twice on the list — had to put the SIM back in the old Nokia to do it. I can't label some numbers as "fax" or "work" or "home" without adding that to the name — and the name is limited to only 16 characters. There is no way of making the ring start off quietly and get louder. I can't even look at the smegging time on demand — it only seems to show it when the phone has been idle for a minute or two. This is all beginning to annoy me far too much, and I've rung up the phone company and am arranging to return it in favour of something else.
Its gets better, the sequel to that "show" apparently will have the two of them on a road trip. Wonder if they know how to drive or if it'll be by limo.
Yeah I don't think Motorola ever had a clue with mobile phone manufacturing. When you go for a new, odd-ball type of phone plan (usually with a cheap price) you often miss out on the good phones (ie the Nokias).
But one way around the ridiculous background would be to install a 'photo' of a black or white screen, and tell it to use that.
I too read that article and thought it might be worth checking out. It definitely wasn't. Utter utter trash. I honestly can't believe that people are that stupid, but I guess when you've never had to do anything for yourself… Look what how you end up.
My partner's first phone was a Motorola and it had the most dreadful difficult menu but it looked nice, for its time. My present Ericsson is nearly two years old and it is my fourth Ericsson and it seems to do everything that you mention. Nearly time for a new one though and it will probably be a Sony Ericsson. Every complaint I have had about the older ones has been rectified on the next model and this one I cannnot really find fault with.
want a plain background? click one with the camera stupid!
wanna see the time ? get a friggin' watch!what are you,a pansy for not wearing a watch even?
All nokia users seem to have lost brainpower.Cant even adjust to a different menu ! all right , go buy a nokia camera phone for twice that price!sheesh…you're a baby!


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Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Pastures around Nestucca Bay support six subspecies of geese, including the world's smallest population of Semidi Islands Aleutian Cackling Geese, a subspecies of the Aleutian Cackling Goose, and the only coastal wintering population of dusky Canada geese. The Aleutian Cackling Goose was once endangered, owing to the introduction of arctic foxes to their Alaska nesting islands by fur trappers. Their populations were severely reduced by this change in the ecosystem. Fox removal and other management efforts have increased the number of birds from 800 in 1962 to 75,000 in 2004. The species was removed from the endangered species list in 2001.
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Yahoo News 360
Should we be telling kids the truth about Santa?
Mike Bebernes
·Senior Editor
24 December 2021, 1:52 pm ·6 min read
"The 360" shows you diverse perspectives on the day's top stories and debates.
Another Christmas season means another year of parents wrestling with the conundrum of what to tell their children about Santa Claus.
While in some respects he is similar to other fantastical creatures like fairies or mermaids, Santa is distinct because adults go to great lengths to convince children that there is a literal being that lives in the North Pole and travels the world in a magical sleigh every year. This isn't just a choice for individual families, it's a society-wide campaign. The U.S. Postal Service collects letters to Santa. America's aerospace defense command tracks his path through the skies. Even Apple's digital assistant Siri won't give a straight answer to the question "Is Santa real?"
As long as the modern myth of Santa has existed, adults have been trying to find out how it might be affecting children. The first known psychological study of kids' views on Santa was conducted more than a century ago, in 1895, and academic research on the topic continues today. It's revealed some remarkable things; for example, the age when children stop believing is relatively consistent — about 8 years old. The effort parents put into promoting the myth really does seem to influence how deeply their kids believe, but the discovery that Santa isn't real may be harder on parents than on their kids.
Sadly, no definitive answer has emerged to the big question: Are we harming our kids by lying to them about Santa?
Why there's debate
The case for debunking the Santa legend typically centers around the belief that it's wrong to lie to children, even about something as positive as the magic of Christmas. Advocates for telling the truth say kids' trust in their parents can be irrevocably damaged when they inevitably realize they've been misled. There is also criticism concerning the lessons that belief in Santa teaches, like the idea that good behavior is only worthwhile if there's a reward.
But many child development experts say there's little evidence that children experience any lasting harm from the revelation that Santa isn't real. Others argue that the Santa myth, beyond just being a lot of fun, can even benefit a child's development by stoking imaginative thinking, providing chances to use deductive reasoning and showing them the merits of generosity.
A number of experts argue that there can also be a middle ground, in which parents emphasize the magic of Santa but avoid perpetuating the idea that he's an actual person living in the North Pole. Some say the best strategy is for kids to take the lead and for adults to serve as guides as their concept of Santa evolves over the years until they eventually come to the truth themselves.
Lies about Santa teach children they can't trust their parents
"[Children] are curious about the world, want to know about it, and trust their parents to provide them with accurate information. When we tell them the Santa Claus lie, we betray that trust." — David Kyle Johnson, philosophy professor, to Popular Science
Decades of research have shown no lasting harmful effects from the Santa myth
"There is no scientific evidence that finding out the truth about Santa causes children any distress or makes them doubt whether their parents are trustworthy. Some kids don't even tell their parents that they've figured it out — they understand that even parents get joy out of the Santa myth, and so children sometimes let their parents hold on to the holiday magic for a few more years." — Vanessa LoBue, Psychology Today
Santa teaches kids a perverse lesson about the sources and reasons for generosity
"Believing in the big man in the red suit is not our friend when it comes to discipline. But he could be something better — not a threat but an idea to help stoke our children's imagination and empathy. If Santa exists, we can leave the goodwill to him. But if Santa is something we all create together, then it's up to each of us to be Santa to each other." — Matt Beard, The Guardian
Kids benefit enormously from the Santa legend
"Research in the field of developmental psychology suggests that such fantastical beliefs are not actually harmful, but are associated with a number of positive developmental outcomes — from exercising the 'counterfactual reasoning skills' needed for human innovation to boosting emotional development." — Kristen Dunfield, Salon
Santa is fun, but he belongs in the category of other imaginary beings
"We should continue to share stories of Santa as part of the Christmas tradition, just keep him in the same place as Clifford and Barney, Elsa and Anna, Spider-Man and Scooby-Doo: in our imaginations." — Judi Ketteler, NBC News
Keep Santa, but get rid of the concept of naughty and nice
"In Santa's eyes, you're either 'naughty' or 'nice.' This doesn't capture the complexity of humans, what they're really like. You're not either naughty or nice, you're embarking on this journey of life, through the challenges, making mistakes, trying your best with the skills and brain development, the upbringing, the temperament you have." — Chazz Lewis, early childhood educator, to Slate
The Santa myth can be very hurtful to poor children
"Kids from low-income families learn early on that life is cruel and unfair. … Hoping that Santa will bring you something — anything — for Christmas may be the one sliver of hope you have in an otherwise bleak holiday season. But seeing that Santa gave other kids half the toy store while he may have skipped your house completely only reinforces your feelings of being 'less than' other kids." — Bobbi Dempsey, USA Today
Parents should support children as their beliefs about Santa evolve over time
"I sincerely believe you don't have to lie. Your child's concept of 'Santa' will mature as they do. If your position is to help guide them through the developmental stages of Santa, of understanding that love and kindness are their own special magic, and that magic looks different at different stages of life, you aren't deceiving them at all." — Kristene Geering, child development expert, to PopSugar
Children don't think about fantasy and reality in the same way adults do
"Young children have this ability to know that something is mythical, but yet experience it vividly at the same time. They recognize that fantasy and reality are different worlds, but they think the border between them might be porous. Even when kids in some sense believe in Santa Claus, they recognize that he's in this separate category." — Alison Gopnik, psychologist, to the New York Times
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Butuan City, Philippines is among the 15 winning cities of the 2021-2022 Global Mayors Challenge announced by Bloomberg Philanthropies Tuesday (Jan 18).
2 pro-farmer party-list members shot dead in Sorsogon
Amid the election gun-ban, two unidentified men gunned down husband and wife farmers Silvestre Fortades Jr. and Rose Marie Galias on January 15 in Barcelona, Sorsogon, says human rights organization Karapatan Sorsogon. Fortades and Galias were members of Sorsogon's chapter of Anakpawis (Toiling Masses) Party-list.
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to the pleasaunce in Sāvatthī.
Is your reverence indeed Aŋgulimāla?
and my mother a Manṭāṇi.
 These verses, of - I think - later date, include a repetition of Pilinda Vaccha's verses from Theragāthā p. 2.
The verses ascribed to Aŋgulimāla are at Thag. 806 ff.


Because making progress on sustainability‐related challenges will require organizational change for most organizations, understanding sustainability dynamic capabilities is of utmost importance. In this theoretical paper, we aim to identify the microfoundations of such sustainability dynamic capabilities on the one hand but, consistent with recent work in this research stream, we do so in a way that is sensitive to the dynamism of the organizational environment. We propose that the microfoundations of sustainability dynamic capabilities will take different forms in different contexts. We contrast moderately dynamic contexts characterized by frequent yet relatively predictable change with highly dynamic contexts in which changes are rapid and not predictable. Achieving sustainability in these different types of contexts poses different types of challenges, relies on different forms of employee behaviors, and is consequently enabled by different individual‐level characteristics and different organizational practices and processes. Our paper calls for a more serious consideration of context in investigating how employees' behaviors can affect sustainability at the organizational level, and outlines the implications for organizational policy and practice. We explore directions for future interdisciplinary research on sustainability that focuses on individuals and their interactions while also taking the environment within which organizations operate into account.


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May 9, 2019	By Voices of NY
Source: Gay City News
Ritchie Torres Sets Sights on an 'Historic Race'
Council member Ritchie Torres at City Hall (Photo by Matt Tracy via Gay City News)
Six years after becoming the first openly gay official elected to office in the Bronx, City Council member Ritchie Torres has his eye on Congress. If elected to outgoing Rep. José Serrano's seat, he would become the "first openly LGBTQ black or Latinx person to be elected to Congress and the lone LGBTQ member of the New York City congressional delegation," writes reporter Matt Tracy.
"It's an historic race," Torres said during a May 7 interview with Gay City News. "I'm black, I'm Latino, I'm LGBT. I'm a millennial. I'm a child of the Bronx. My values and beliefs are shaped by who I am and where I come from. It's true of most people but it's true of me especially."
Although Torres, 31, has yet to formally declare his candidacy, he said multiple times during this interview that he is "running for Congress." He outlined his priorities moving forward, reflected on his work in the City Council, and opened up about the looming congressional race that is already shaping up to consist of a crowded Democratic primary field. Assemblymember Michael Blake and homophobic Councilmember Ruben Diaz, Sr., have both announced bids for the seat, while Bronx State Senator Gustavo Rivera, among others, has admitted interest.
Torres cites his fight for affordable housing and ending poverty in making his bid for Congress.
"I've come to recognize that the policies in housing and health care are largely set at the federal level," Torres said. "If you're a progressive problem solver who is on a mission to fight poverty in New York City, the impact can only be at the federal level. That's why I'm running for Congress."
Go to Gay City News for the full interview, which includes Torres' reflections on how running for public office as a gay man has changed since 2013 and what he has accomplished in the City Council when it comes to LGBTQ and other issues.
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December 19, 2005 Issue
BUSH: INDICTABLE CO-CONSPIRATOR?
By Our Readers and Elizabeth de la Vega
"The White House Criminal Conspiracy" [Nov. 14] by Elizabeth de la Vega is by far the best compilation of the case for the impeachment of George W. Bush I've seen. I can only hope that our legislators read it and act on it. De la Vega is to be commended.
PAUL S. MUSE
Elgin, Ill.
Elizabeth de la Vega's article should be required reading by all members of Congress and the mainstream media.
RON BARKBY
Fort Worth, Tex.
Elizabeth de la Vega must be smoking crack. If you have to run such articles to sell the magazine to your core audience, great, but if they believe it they must be retarded.
ANDRE YANEZ
Gahanna, Ohio
My 20-year-old son, a reservist with the National Guard, is currently serving in Baghdad. Counselor de la Vega confirms what my professional criminal justice experience and education have led me to believe–that is, there are reasons beyond measure to accuse this cabal of crimes under our laws.
People are inclined to think I am against this war because my son is in it. They could not be more wrong. My son is a soldier, and I am proud of him and his commitment. However, my commitment is to value his life, as well as all our soldiers' lives, and my country. Taking this country to war based on fabricated evidence, forged documents and illegitimate intelligence is worthy of careful examination. Our country is on a slippery slope. I hope we can catch it before it falls and the rule of law as we knew it in America is gone forever.
TERESA DAWSON
Military Families Speak Out/Ohio
I fear that as a prosecutor, Elizabeth de la Vega may have "undercharged" the defendants. This was not just some "third rate" attempt to criminally affect a national election (though they're guilty of that, too), or some underhanded money laundering of legitimate defense funds to finance illegal military escapades (though, again…). They said we should fear "mushroom clouds…in forty-five minutes." (Read it again.) This is called "terrorism"–in the form of a bomb threat.
P. KEESHAN
Fayetteville, NY
Another charge can be added to the case for impeachment. The United Nations was formed to protect the world against aggressive warfare. The United States led the development of the UN and was a principal signer of the UN Charter. Section VI of the Constitution states that treaties the United States signs are the law of the land. By ordering US forces to attack Iraq contrary to the expressed agreement of the Security Council, George W. Bush violated the UN Charter and, therefore, the laws of the United States.
FRANCIS J. DURGIN
Valdosta, Ga.
So tell me, Ms. de la Vega, what can I do? What can we do? And don't just say something tepid like write to your local government official/representative/senator/governor. They are part of the problem, all holding on to their own jobs with vice grips, forgetting that they should be representing us. So I ask you–no, I beg you–to please reveal how we can take back our hijacked nation, a nation that not too long ago was highly regarded as the best place to live on earth but now no doubt is viewed by our global neighbors as a dangerous, reckless country.
STEPHANIE APRIGLIANO-KIYAK
Lopez Island, Wash.
Elizabeth de la Vega's writing on the White House conspiracy is simple, direct, brilliant and stunning. She outlines the case against the President, for conspiracy and fraud, with such clarity that her conclusion is inescapable: We must pursue this case not as a matter of politics but as a matter of law.
The probability that the Republican Congress will consider impeachment is zero. Are there legal barriers to a class-action lawsuit, charging conspiracy and fraud, brought on behalf of the citizens of the United States? Or on behalf of more than 2,000 American families who have suffered the violent death of a loved one in the chaos of Iraq?
R.W. BEHAN
Elizabeth de la Vega's description of "The White House Criminal Conspiracy" is a useful technical exercise, but neither Pat Roberts's Senate Select Committee nor the Gonzales Justice Department nor the House Judiciary Committee will even permit such a discussion.
My question is, Couldn't a broad conspiracy and fraud case be made in other jurisdictions? Didn't the President or Vice President ever end up somewhere in the country where a state or county prosecutor could lodge charges of fraud and conspiracy under state law? After all, when they sought to defraud the nation collectively, weren't they also defrauding each of the states?
The attempt by Elizabeth de la Vega to fit the Bush/Cheney duplicity into a traditional fraud framework fails because sufficient information was available at the time, including in the pages of The Nation, to debunk all the Administration claims about Iraq's nuclear capability and intentions, as well as the alleged ties to Al Qaeda. Fraud claims cannot stand up when the allegedly defrauded can educate themselves to the truth with minimal investigation. Although Bush/Cheney deserve condemnation in the court of public opinion, the idea that their misrepresentations and misinformation is actionable in a courtroom is specious. The real issue is an uneducated, easily cowed public and the failure of Congress, particularly Democrats, to exercise their powers and duties. A government so easily hijacked needs reform. A public so easily fooled needs to look at itself rather than looking for excuses in the perfidy of its leaders.
RICHARD E. STECK
DE LA VEGA REPLIES
Los Gatos, Calif.
I thank all the readers who wrote in about my article. Richard Steck's letter is well-written and, in many respects, factually correct. It is true, for example, that information that called into question many of the Administration's claims was publicly available before the invasion of Iraq. But it is not true that "fraud claims cannot stand up when those who are allegedly defrauded can educate themselves to the truth with minimal investigation." The law of fraud is, in fact, quite to the contrary.
The focus of proof in a fraud case, and most criminal cases for that matter, is on the actions of those who are charged with the crime, not the state of mind of those who were targeted. What must be proved is that a defendant intentionally set about to deceive through outright lies, half-truths, misrepresentation or statements made with reckless indifference to the truth. Once that conduct is proved, it doesn't matter legally whether anyone was actually defrauded. Obviously, then, if it turns out that people are defrauded, it matters not that they could have avoided being fooled by exercising greater due diligence. As the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit once noted, "It is immaterial whether only the most gullible would have been deceived by the techniques involved. [The law of fraud] protects the naïve as well as the worldly-wise and the former are more in need of protection than the latter."
Ultimately, Steck's position–that we should simply all blame ourselves, end of story–is more of a worldview than a statement of the law. The principle of caveat emptor, or buyer beware, has never been incorporated in the law of fraud. Nor should it be. In virtually any fraud case it could be argued that a more savvy or diligent person would not have been fooled. In the Enron case, for example, one could argue that information showing that the Enron company was a house of cards ready to topple was publicly available long before fall 2001, when the company fell apart. But a defendant arguing, "Yeah, I lied, but the problems you're in are your own fault, because you should not have believed me" is a little like a guy saying, "Yeah, I aimed the gun at my neighbor and pulled the trigger, but he should have gotten out of the way more quickly."
There have been, and continue to be, failures on the part of Congress. They are inexcusable, but they do not provide a legal–or moral–excuse for the crime committed by the Administration in misleading this country into war.
ELIZABETH DE LA VEGA
AT THE WHEEL OF HER OLDSMOBILE
After a ten-year lapse in my longtime Nation subscription (my mother re-upped me as a birthday gift), I was delighted to discover, in my very first issue, Alexander Cockburn's "The Virtues of Gas Guzzling" ["Beat the Devil," Oct. 31]. I'd been feeling pretty bad about my 1970 Olds 88, which came standard with a 455 V-8. My old car is not thought much of by the limousine liberals hereabouts, but hell, I got the thing from my radical political mentor back in '82. As he was killed the same year in his then fairly big Toyota pickup, my Olds has much sentimental value. For years I babied it: new interior, new paint, about 9,000 new parts, care in washing and waxing, etc. Still, guilt set in, and I largely ceased to take care of it, or even drive it.
I feel renewed, however, and ready to get back at it, having read Cockburn's take on gas guzzling. No need for me, or liberal friends with SUVs, to worry, according to Alexander. Imagine my relief, not to mention surprise, in discovering that oil wells have been and always will be at peak production (M. King Hubbert notwithstanding, since he was apparently a conspirator), based on Dr. Gold's theory, and that CO2 emissions contribute nothing to greenhouse warming, based mostly on Cockburn's beliefs. In short, I can tool up and down Mulholland Drive, guilt-free in my '70 Olds, blowing smoke out my tailpipe the whole way.
C. JACOBY
A YEN FOR CHINA
Michael T. Klare's "Revving Up the China Threat" [Oct. 24], trenchant though it is, unintentionally flattered the Bush Gang by giving them credit for a more rational approach to China policy than they are capable of. What Klare does not mention, I suspect because it is too familiar a filter even to be perceptible, is the double whammy that this pack of Republicans believe Reagan "won" the cold war by stepping up the arms race (and therefore we can work the same magic on China with the same approach) and that China has–notwithstanding its burgeoning capitalist economy–a Communist government. This all means that China comes in for an especially cynical version of realpolitik with this bunch: Like the Soviet Union, they think, China is after no less than the utter subjugation to its ideology of the rest of the world. It does not seem to have occurred to the Bush Gang that the economic debt we are allowing ourselves to get into with China has much more potential danger than its military buildup.
WES SANDERS
WOMAN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE
Santa Monica, Calif.
I was very interested to read Andrew Rice's "Why Is Africa Still Poor?" [Oct. 24]. But I was dismayed that there was no reference to women or gender issues. On a continent that is still primarily agricultural, and where most estimates suggest that three-fourths of African women are directly involved in the production of crops, primarily food for their families, the issue of women's role in African economies should be at the center of any discussion about poverty alleviation. The chicken-or-the-egg conundrum raised by Rice–is governance bad because the nations are poor, or are they poor because of bad government?–applies equally to women. As I concluded in my book Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique, "I believe that poverty in Mozambique can only be ended by focusing on women and the work they do. Only when women are fully integrated into economic and agricultural planning, into the schools and workplaces, and into the government at all levels of elected and appointed officials can poverty begin to be alleviated." It will not be easy, and efforts must be made on all fronts simultaneously to improve governments and economies, but without women those efforts are doomed.
KATHLEEN SHELDON
DUST OFF THE THUMB SCREWS
Sun Lakes, Ariz.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has called the Geneva Conventions "quaint." As a result the Bush Administration has resorted to torture. Given this criterion, isn't it logical that Scooter Libby should be tortured until he provides full disclosure of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame?
KIT MILLER
Elizabeth de la VegaElizabeth de la Vega is a former federal prosecutor with more than twenty years of experience. During her tenure, she was a member of the Organized Crime Strike Force and Chief of the San Jose Branch of the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California. Her pieces have appeared in The Nation, the Los Angeles Times and Salon. She writes regularly for Tomdispatch.


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Since starting the zombie code kill blog, a post on TDD has been on my to do list, but I found it to be a difficult topic to write on. This is because it is difficult to treat the topic in a fair and balanced way while keeping it short enough to remain an interesting read. After a while I included a short summary in my 10 Agile tips post under the tip "Practice TDD, but not before you understand what it really is and the purposes of both schools" where I give a cautious recommendation for practicing Test Driven Development.
The truth is, despite having been around for decades, TDD is still loved and hated in almost equal measure throughout the development community with countless people still swearing it is overrated or flawed. DHH's recent blog post, TDD is dead. Long live testing has become the controversial post of the month, starting a war of words on Twitter and the wider WWW, and I'd like to take the opportunity now to expand a little on my own thoughts as well as point you to some other good posts and resources on the topic.
For me practicing TDD in a rails environment is much harder than when I work on my OSS libraries. There are many reasons why TDD in Rails is just a bit harder than it could be but that's a big, separate subject.
At the company I work at, unit testing was introduced years ago but not used that much until after teams got converted into Scrum teams and were encouraged to start doing TDD. I have seen a variety of attitudes to it and even amongst the advocates much disagreement about which techniques are better. We have a number of enterprise applications, and the one I have mainly worked with over the last year is a million lines of .NET code, about 800 database tables, 2000 stored procedures and more than 100 gigs of data. A couple of years ago, we had more Q.A. testers than developers working on it. The amount of manual regression testing on it was ridiculous and unsustainable. Live releases were just once every 3 months, and usually followed by an emergency fix despite all of the countless hours of Q.A. testing that were done.
TDD has been one technique that has helped to right some of the wrongs of the past. We now do live releases every 2 or 3 weeks, we have approximately two developers per Q.A. tester, and our rate of change is at least twice that of before. Our code coverage has been steadily increasing month on month along with the ratio of automated to manual testing. Our time to market for new high priority changes is a fraction of what it was in the old days.
However, there is clearly still a long way to go and I don't think we have gotten everything right. If I was to do the last year over again, I would have spent more time working on integration tests and a little less time working on unit tests. I wouldn't have spent time unit testing internal details and would have worked more on outside in testing. In Roy Osherove's talk "Where do you start with legacy code?" he states Integration First. This is from a man best known for his book The Art of Unit Testing. You have to be pragmatic. Knowing that the system works as a whole is more important than knowing that some small units of functionality are working correctly. Ideally you want tests for all of your units as well as all of your higher level components and how the work together. But in the real world all you can do is improve little by little. Recently I have been influenced by Ian Cooper's TDD where did it all go wrong talk and would encourage anyone who is finding TDD isn't working for them to watch it.
So, in summary, despite the title and opening statement of DHH's post being sensationalist, I agree with some of the points he makes. Some of the pro TDD rhetoric over the years has gotten a little silly. Calling a fellow professional "unprofessional" for their choice of one particular development/testing technique over another strikes me as a little, hypocritically unprofessional.
DHH has given Test Driven Development a good go and if he finds other practices are work better for his company then I can certainly respect that.
TDD is a practice that doesn't come with a quick return on investment. It takes time to get to the stage where all your developers are skilled enough, and more importantly where your code base is clean enough, to be as or more productive developing solutions in a test first manner than just banging out the production code. Much like pair programming, and refactoring to SOLID, there is plenty of value to be found in the TDD practice, but you don't necessarily want to do it 100% of the time.
Having said all of that, I can understand the frustrations of many developers because, by and large, sloppy practices are still far too prevalent in our industry. Even zombie code!
I was going to leave this picture as the conclusion to this post, but I'm going to be a little more explicit and talk a little about empiricism. Assess the risk of API changes, the skill of your development team, the attitude of your team towards TDD, how testable your existing code currently is and how many (if any) unit tests you have. How much would you need to refactor your existing code in order to be unit test friendly? How longer does your application need to be around for? Is it throwaway? What are the other automated testing options? Which is cheaper? Which are faster? By how much? What is the cost of manual testing and how much would you save by automating that work? How much would it cost to give TDD a try for a few weeks to see how it goes? If you're already practicing it, is it working for you? If not, why not? Only once you have answered these questions can you really tell whether TDD is right for your company.
Justin Searls on the failures of Introduction to TDD.
Osherove: Where do you start with legacy code?
Great point of view, as it is very important not being dogmatic these days.
TDD is not a religion and should be treated as a pragmatic experience, you may probably replace it, but it's not wrong if you don't.


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What's Happening With Coding Bootcamp Programs Around The Country?
COURSE REPORT JUST RELEASED THEIR 2017 CODING BOOTCAMP STATS
Course Report is an organization that tracks and analyzes the North American coding bootcamp industry. Today they published their 2017 North American Market Report and we've had a chance to take a quick spin through the stats. Since this is our thing, it's of course endlessly fascinating to us to study what's going on in our industry. But while some of the stats are "inside baseball" of interest mainly to us accelerated learning program nerds, we thought there were some interesting highlights.
One stat that jumped out to us was the average program length statistic. The average coding bootcamp length jumped in one year from 12.9 weeks to 14.1. That's a pretty meaningful jump in just one year. Of course, we plow along with a 24 week program, so we've always been advocates of longer, deeper programs. Nice to see the industry may be moving in our direction!
Course Report includes a nice infographic in their report which we are including below. Click it to expand and take a look at all the stats.
Overall, the trend lines seem to be healthy but possibly market saturation is starting to slow the rate of growth in new schools and new locations. The total number of new programs was not up greatly this year when balanced against closures. Plus, in the last week Kaplan announced they were closing Dev Bootcamp, one of the pioneer coding bootcamp programs, which means another five locations closing above and beyond those reported by Course Report.
Expected graduate numbers are up substantially at 51.6% growth from 2016 to 2017 to a total of 22, 814. That's as compared to an estimate of 79,650 undergraduate computer science grads in 2016. That suggests that coding bootcamps taken as a whole are making a meaningful contribution to starting to close the gap between supply and demand of professional software developers in North America. That's assuming reasonably comparable placement rates for both types of students which are numbers not available from Course Report.
One last stat that we always look at when we get the new Course Report analysis is tuition rates around the country. If you look at Course Reports reported average program cost and divide by the length of the average program, you get an average weekly tuition cost of $815.46 nationally. At NSS, our weekly tuition cost is $495.83, or about 60% of the national average. We're stoked that we continue to be able to offer our students everything we offer in terms of program length and depth, range of technology options, and deep community relationships at such low cost.


Just a follow up on this homebrew: Austin Homebrew's American Red Ale, mini-mash method. It turned out pretty good (maybe it will get even better). It's less muddy than my picture makes is seem, but not very red (certainly not as crimson as the copy of The Crimson Petal and the White upon which it sits). A definite Cascade hop flavor comes through, although much subtler than in so many American pale ales. But this isn't a pale, it's a red ale.
I might have liked a touch more malt flavor, but this is really more of an easy drinker, a good warm weather beer at that. It seems to appeal to "civilian" beer drinkers, though hop heads might find it a little dull. No idea how much of a difference mini-mash makes versus extract + specialty grain.
For my sixth brew, I took a chance on all grain, more or less. I'll try to post soon.
I've been really busy at work and home, so not much posting recently, and maybe a light load in the future.
Here's a piece from the Center from American Progress (a left-wing think tank) about environmentally friendly brewing practices at New Belgium, Brooklyn Brewery, and others. A lot of this we beer geeks have heard already, but I didn't know, for example, that Brooklyn pays farmers to pick up their spent grain to feed to their livestock.
Two IPAs from unexpected parts: Quebec and Sweden. Accordingly, both are on the pricey side.
Dieu du Ciel Corne du Diable: The devil's horn. It's in the style of "la cote ouest de l'Amerique du Nord," and it tastes it. Pretty golden amber with lacy head, it smells of Cascade dry hopping. Medium-to-full in body and lightly carbonated. Malty, hoppy (though nothing ridiculous), grapefruit and pine. Tingles the ribs afterwards.
Nils Oscar India Pale Ale: A classier label, I think, although possibly a bit dull. This one also claims a US influence, with "American Amarillo hops to give the exotic aroma of tropical fruit." It seems lighter in color and in body (I didn't drink them side by side), and fizzier. It is in fact vaguely fruity tasting (not citrusy, as I tend to think of Amarillos), and maybe spicy/earthy. No IPA hop blast, but it's pleasant. What semi-spoils it for me is the finish, which is dry and in fact chalky. The effects of a less than fresh bottle? I don't know. I don't regret that it isn't an American-style hop bomb, although others may, but it loses points for the powder.
For me, this is now two winners from Dieu du Ciel.
Just in time for the warm weather, my Brewhouse Honey Blonde, modified for five gallon rather than six, and with WLP008 yeast rather than the enclosed Cooper's.
It turned out good. Orange-tinged, slightly hazy (though more clear than my picture lets on). It has what I consider to be more of a soda pop carbonation -- plenty of what feel like bigger bubbles -- which is more appropriate for this style. The honey flavor is actually buried underneath what I think are yeast flavors. I probably should have used a cleaner yeast; then again, I kind of like this taste. Without it, it might be kind of a boring beer.
So thumb's up on the easy to make, but pricey, Brewhouse Honey Blonde.
For diehard NFL fans who intend to spend all weekend watching the draft (I would be one but the weather supposed to be great): the Mel Kiper Drinking Game.
3) Anytime a general manager says Mel Kiper has never worn a jock strap take a drink.
The "jock strap" debate was over the Colts taking Trev Alberts over Trent Dilfer in 1994. On hindsight, I'm not sure who was right. Alberts had his career ruined by injury, Dilfer kind of sucked (the Colts seemed better with Jim Harbough), but then piggybacked his way to a Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Kurt Warner went undrafted that year, so I suppose no one knew what they were talking about.
I noticed that Beerjanglin' gushed over this foray into big beer from Ellicottville Brewing Company (EBC), so I figured I'd give it a try. Pantius Droppus is an Imperial Pale Ale -- not an Imperial IPA. I wondered what that distinction meant, and then recalled that I didn't even like EBC's grapefruit rind pale ale. So would this be just more of a bad thing? In addition, it's claim of a "robust Cascade dry hop" made me think I knew what I was getting into, nothing particularly original.
But then there's the sour, enough so that I wondered whether my bottle had gone bad. It turns out, others have noted the sour notes as well, so I'll assume it's intentional. Here's the thing: I have yet to "appreciate" sour beers, but I like Pantius Droppus a good deal. The sourness isn't overwhelming, but stands on top of other aspects of the beer: citrus and sweet-leaning malts, slight grapefruit bitterness underneath. The high alcohol doesn't comes through. It still leans more to sipper than gulper, but isn't oppressively heavy.
About $7.50 a bomber for 22 ounces of 11.5% ABV isn't a bad price at all, and I greatly appreciate the uniqueness of Pantius Droppus, a beer that Biggus Dickus would have loved.
This is my fifth batch of homebrew, although I haven't tasted my fourth batch yet (maybe tomorrow; I'm pretty patient). My first partial mash, using a kit from Austin Homebrew.
1 oz. Cascade (7.5%) each at 60, 15, 5.
The grains smelled like Grape Nuts flakes.
The AHS instructions specified using a stockpot (and large grain bag) for the partial mash, but I used a 4-gallon cooler (and grain bag). I figured this would hold the heat better, but (a) I forgot to pour hot water into the cooler ahead of time to raise the internal temperature, and (b) the grains and strike water (two gallons) barely filled half the cooler. So I lost more heat than I think I should have, finishing the 45 minute mash rest just below 150 degrees. But I don't know if that's a big problem with a mini-mash. My OG was 1.057 instead of the expected 1.053, but I don't trust my gravity readings that closely.
The whole thing has smelled strongly of Cascades from the first day until bottling day (today). That's the "American" part, but I wonder if AHS adjusts its recipes for AA, with 7.5% is on the high side for Cascades. Windsor yeast is known to leave a fairly high FG, which is part of the reason this isn't an APA, I guess. The yeast was slow to get going, which worried me a bit. Last known gravity was 1.020 (expected 1.014), but my hydrometer broke so I didn't get a bottling day measurement.
Four weeks in primary, no secondary, and now it will be three weeks in the bottle before I crack one. I do like this mini-mash procedure and look forward to using it more, probably with more grains and less extract. Possibly I could try an all-grain half batch, but my weak electric stove limits my ability to boil too much wort.
This beer's claim to fame is that Bill Clinton tried it and liked it so much he asked the brewery to send a few growlers to the White House. Clintons successor drank so much alcohol as a young man that he lost his privilege by the time became President. Somewhat predictably, this has lead some to think there's a rule that the President should never drink. And all this after Obama was accused of disliking beer, and drinking anti-union beer, and lord knows what else.
Ubu was (is?) the name of a chocolate labrador retriever. The beer is described as a strong ale (7% ABV), which I think is a fairly open style. It's dark -- slightly ruby -- and comes across as a bit stout-like, but not of the dry, highly roasted variety. There's chocolate malt evident and a slight sweetness that doesn't stay around too long. Medium-bodied. Ubu is an easy-drinker, a session ale despite the ABV. Tasty, if somewhat nondescript.
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Rocawear (stylized Roc-A-Wear) is an American Clothing Brand founded in 1999 by Roc-A-Fella Records co-founders Damon Dash and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. The brand has had annual sales of $700 million. Rocawear expanded through licensing to sell affordable clothes for children and juniors; socks and sandals; leather, suede, and fur outerwear; handbags and belts; lounge wear; big and tall; headwear; jewelry; and sunglasses; as well as co-branded product with Pro-Keds, State Property, and Team Roc.

R&B singer Ciara signed to be the new face of Rocawear in 2007 for the 'I Will Not Lose' campaign. Chris Brown, Memphis rap collective Three 6 Mafia, radio personality Ebro Darden, Toccara and Rich Boy were amongst the other celebrities who were part of the campaign.

In March 2007, Jay-Z sold the rights to the Rocawear brand to Iconix Brand Group for $204 million. Jay-Z retained his stake in the company and continued to oversee the marketing, licensing, and product development. In May 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sought out Jay-Z's testimony in relation to possible security law violations made by Iconix.

In March 2009, Rocawear launched its first social networking site, offering style news, music, fashion, and cultural connections.

In August 2011, Jay-Z confirmed via Twitter that Rocawear had partnered with Pharrell Williams' clothing label, Billionaire Boys Club.

In 2012, Rocawear was a €490 million clothing business.

In November 2018, Jay-Z successfully halted a $204 million lawsuit between Roc Nation and Iconix over the lack of black arbitrators in the US.

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A new technique of farm run by scientists from Harper Adams University, in the village of Edgmond in the U.K., about 5 tons of spring barley has been harvested from the world's first robotically tended farm. Everything from start to finish — including sowing, fertilizing, collecting samples and harvesting — has been done by autonomous vehicles on the farm, according to the researchers.
The crew after this development considers that robotic technology could advance harvests in agriculture, which is necessary if the world's growing population is to be provided in coming years.
The researchers tackled this problem by using commercially available agriculture machines and open-source software that is used to guide hobbyists' drones.
The scientists pay for several small-size agricultural machines, including a tractor and a combine, a machine for harvesting grain crops. They then fitted the machines with actuators, electronics and robotic technology that would allow them to control the machines without the presence of a human operator.
Martin Abell, Gill's collaborator an industrial agricultural company that are partners with the university, clarified that the system follows a certain route with pre-programmed stops to perform certain actions.
Abell said the researchers struggled to make the machines follow a straight line, which initially resulted in quite a lot of crop damage. But, the scientists think they will be able to fix the problem in the coming years and will eventually achieve better yields than a conventionally maintained farm of the same size could produce.
To monitor the field and take samples of the plants, the researchers developed special grippers attached to drones. As the slug flies above the field, the grippers can cut off some samples and transport them to the researchers.
The scientists said that the robotic technology could enable future farmers to more precisely distribute fertilizers and herbicides, but could also lead to improvements in soil quality. Presently, to accomplish all the required tasks in a reasonable amount of time, farmers rely on very large and heavy machines. In the future, they could use flocks of smaller robotic tractors and harvesters, the researchers said.
The farmer would, for example, be able to apply fertilizer only to the plants that are doing poorly and wouldn't waste it on those that don't need it, the researchers explained.
The Harper Adams team plans to use the robotically harvested spring barley to make a limited batch of "hands-free" beer that will be distributed to the project's partners as a token of thanks.
In the upcoming years, they want to concentrate on improving the precision of the procedures and quantify the effects of the robotic technology on the yields.


For non-technical business leaders and corporate strategists, IT can be a source of much frustration. In many companies, the relationship between IT departments and business leaders is like a troubled marriage—miscommunication is rife, leaving executives struggling to improve the situation. This course is intended to help organizations develop a language shared by managers from various backgrounds and areas of expertise, so they can work together efficiently and productively, propelling the company toward future success.
Do you feel as though everything regarding IT takes too long and costs too much? Do you lack the language and instincts to make good decisions regarding IT? Is your company falling behind the competition in your use of technology?
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This IT management course will help you optimize your role in the use of essential technology for competitive advantage.
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This program is designed for line managers and corporate strategists who want a better handle on their role in IT oversight and management. The material is especially relevant for non-technical managers with IT responsibilities. In turn, IT managers will gain a better perspective on how to work productively with the company's senior executives. In fact, we strongly encourage participants to attend this program in tandem or as teams of IT and non-IT managers. Away from the habitual patterns of everyday work, colleagues learn to collaborate in ways they've never thought possible.
George Westerman is a Principal Research Scientist with the MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy. His research and teaching focus on digital technology leadership and innovation. He serves as a Board member for the Technology Business Management Council, Co-Chair of the annual MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Awards, and faculty director for the MIT Sloan course Essential IT for the Non-IT Executive.
George has contributed to publications such as Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. He is co-author of three award-winning books. The most recent, Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation was named a top ten book of 2014 by Business Digest and silver medalist in the 2015 Axiom Business Book Awards. The prior book, The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value was named the #1 book of the year in its field. His research and writing have won numerous other awards.
Prior to joining the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2002, George earned a doctorate from Harvard Business School, and gained more than thirteen years of experience in product development and technology management roles. He regularly conducts keynote presentations and senior executive workshops with companies around the world.
In this article George Westerman discusses why digital transformation is more of a leadership challenge than a technical one.
Not all businesses are born digital. If your company needs to articulate and implement a forward-thinking digital strategy, listen to this webinar with MIT Sloan's Jeane Ross.
In this webinar, George Westerman, MIT Sloan senior research scientist and author of the recent Wall Street Journal article, "IT Is From Venus, Non-IT Is From Mars," demonstrates how transparency can help to establish trust between business executives and IT leaders.
Here's what digital transformation really means — and how to tell whether your organization is on the right path.
George Westerman explains why effective leadership is a vital part of any company's digital transformation.
Want to learn from the best of the best about digital transformation? MIT researcherGeorge Westermanhas done extensive homework for you.
The MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award honors executives who lead their organizations to deliver exemplary levels of business value through innovative use of IT.
Enterprises today are increasingly embracing the goal of digital transformation but becoming a true digital leader is a complex and difficult challenge.
While many businesses focus on technical aspects of changing their business, such as installing new systems, signing up to cloud software and shifting the function of IT within the business itself, these efforts can fail if not executed correctly.
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Issue 8 2/99
FolkWorld Live Review
Altan rocking around
in October '98 in Germany
By Michael Moll
In Germany, you often find old factories and industrial halls that are used these days as culture clubs and discos. The Getaway in Solingen is one of those; it's that kind of place that looks really dirty and shabby when it is lighted - but in the dark clubby lights it is one of the coolest places you can imagine. Surely, it is not the usual place to experience a renowned Irish trad band...
It was a stormy evening with heavy rain, when I arrived that November night at the Getaway. The doors had not yet opened so quite a big crowd gathered under the roof in front of the disco to wait to see one of Ireland's finest: Altan. The concert finally started around 9 p.m., with the Getaway being packed. "Please welcome on stage Virgin recording artists Altan" - and there they came to the mikes standing directly above the all-standing crowd. Altan started with a set of sparkling fast tunes, and the audience was directly taken away and honoured the band with sheers and huge applause. "Let's rock" - Ciaran Tourish gave the motto for this evening's gig. It was obvious that Altan were not too used to play in discos, playing in front of a big standing audience - but it seemed that they enjoyed the difference. For a bigger part of the audience it seemed also to be a difference to see Irish traditional music - the average age was lower than at 'usual' folk music concerts of Germany, with many students in the audience. Shortly before, Altan had played in the Alte Oper (old opera) in Frankfurt - what a contrast: The one day one of the most prestigious classical venues in Germany with a stiffer atmosphere; the next day a cool disco in a former factory with a youth audience - it could not be more different. Though Altan seemed to be in the beginning a bit unsure how the concert would develop, they soon started to carry a relaxed and happy quality party atmosphere over the place.
Altan seem to be at the moment again in top shape - the twin fiddling of Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Ciaran Tourish was tremendous. Dermot Byrne, the only sitting musician, looked first a bit confused to sit there playing his accordeon eye-in-eye with the standing audience. The string instrumentalists, Ciaran Curran and Dáithí Sproule, stood at both sides of the melody instrumentalists in a little distance to them - a very professional stage appearance focussing the attention on the other three musicians. Altan proved this evening once again that they are still Ireland's Number One Traditional Band, and that no recording deal to a major label can move them away from their very roots of music. It's been good to see Altan again on tour in Germany - they had not been here the last few years; and it's been even better that the audience floated in to see them; I have not seen a folk concert more crowded this year! Come back soon!!!
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MINNEAPOLIS: For the second year in a row, PowerObjects will be sponsoring the Field Service USA 2019 conference in Palm Desert, California from April 23-26, 2019.
Field-service professionals and thought leaders from around the world will gather to learn about Internet of Things (IoT) concepts, Artificial Intelligence, and the latest field-service industry trends.
Bill Kern, Field Service Practice Director at PowerObjects, will be presenting a session on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. The presentation will educate attendees on how to leverage IoT and AI to produce real-time alerts for field technicians.
PowerObjects is a leader in delivering Microsoft Business Applications for Field Service organizations. We work closely with Microsoft to ensure these companies realize true value with their Dynamics 365 experience, said Kern. Our speaking session under the Service Parts Management Track on Wednesday afternoon will share our knowledge on how IoT, AI, and Connected Field Service can ensure your technicians bring the right part to the job, increasing first time fix rates and organizational efficiencies, he added.
PowerObjects will also be co-hosting the Bier Garten Party on Tuesday, April 23 at 600PM PDT where conference attendees will experience gemutlichkeit (the German word for the feeling of warmth and good cheer) as they travel to an authentic Bavarian beer hall for food, fun, and, of course, plenty of craft beer.
Learn more about Field Service USA and join the PowerObjects team April 23-26.