The motto of the United States Air Force Academy is "Integrity First, Service Before Self, Excellence in All We Do." I accepted that motto many decades ago as a cadet and have adhered to it ever since – including my tenure as the delegate-elected Chairman of the UTGOP.
In 2014, when the Utah Legislature enacted SB54, a signature path to the primary election ballot was created. Since that time, a small but vocal faction within the UTGOP has opposed the signature path, and has pushed to punish candidates who collect signatures. This small faction has forced multiple lawsuits and appeals in an effort to eliminate the signature path. All have failed. During the second lawsuit, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that it is the candidate – not the Party – who has the option to select the signature path.
My term as Chairman has been overwhelmed by the dispute over SB54 and the optional path it allows. The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit found this statute Constitutional, and the United States Supreme Court found that the 10th Circuit Court's finding did not merit review.
Over a year ago, about the time that the 10th Circuit ruled that SB54 passed Constitutional muster, a small group within the Party's State Central Committee ("SCC") pushed through a bylaw they felt would set the ground work for yet another costly and divisive lawsuit over SB54. This bylaw was in direct conflict with the already declared Constitutional state law, SB54, and would have stripped the party membership of some (but not all) GOP candidates who collected signatures. The bylaw was ostensibly designed to create a new legal standoff with the hope of launching another lawsuit.
Whether flying F-15s, training young fighter pilots or leading the members of our party, I have consistently placed "Service Before Self." In this instance, I asked myself the simple question: "What is best for our candidates, our party and our state?" I consulted the State Elections Office, legal counsel, as well as the Utah Senate and House Caucuses. It was unanimously determined the new bylaw was not in compliance with state law. Furthermore, it was believed the new bylaw could result in the State Elections Office decertifying the 2018 GOP candidates, as well as removing the designated Party affiliation from the November general election ballot.
While serving in the Air Force, I never followed, nor would have followed, an illegal order. I would not, and will not, do so now. The UTGOP's governing documents provide for the nullification of illegal language. As such, I chose not to incorporate those changes, nor to forward them to the State Elections Office knowing the tremendous risk involved to our candidates.
Where are we now? Three and one-half months ago, the faction within the Party that has refused to accept SB54, created a committee to conduct an "investigation" into my refusal to submit the illegal bylaw. Upon completion of their investigation, the committee denied me an opportunity to preview their report and prepare a response. Instead, at 9:30AM, Saturday, March 16th – 30 minutes prior to the meeting where their verdict and sentencing would be rendered – I was provided a copy of their 39 page report.
During the meeting, several motions were made to allow me time to read and respond to the investigative committee's report. All were denied. The committee pushed the SCC to adopt all findings and sanctions without debate and/or deliberation. They also voted to lower the threshold for the SCC to oust me as Party Chair from 60% of the entire 187 member body to only 27 people! The ramifications of such an action will cause immeasurable detriment to the Party going forward.
These reckless actions are done despite this faction's knowledge that SB54 enjoys overwhelming support among Republicans throughout the State – the very same Republicans they were elected to represent: YOU!
I ask all members of the UTGOP, at this time, to unite and elect leadership that will uphold the Rule of Law. The same Rule of Law that our Party espouses. The choice is clear: unity and order versus anarchy and division. Now is the time for choosing.
As for me, I will continue to let the Academy's simple motto guide my life, "Integrity First, Service Before Self, Excellence in All We Do." Please join me.
I believe that anyone who wishes to run as a candidate should be allowed to do so, however, if someone wishes to have an "R" beside his or her name, he or she should first be vetted by the body of the Republican Party of Utah, in other words, the delegates.
If someone does not get the nod of the party, he or she can run as an independent, but the delegates should determine who gets the nomination at convention.
While I believe that Chairman Anderson's motives are honorable, I also believe that he has caved to the pressures of outsiders. We, the delegates, represent the Republican Party.


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Q: Vue.js - how to fill an array while using v-for I'm working in a routes project in Vue2. I won't explain the details to make this question as simple as possible.
I'm using a v-for to iterate through an array.
Each iterated object needs to be added to an array which I'm going to send to another component in my template.
It's a complex JSON. I'm on a leaflet map.
I need to join each point's coordinate with a polyline. The <l-polyline> component is expecting an array of coordinates (each coordinate is an array of 2 values).
So, my take is to put each object.coordinate into an array as I iterate over the first list. Then that array is going to be passed as a parameter to the polyline component in the template. How do I do that?
<div :key="i" v-for="(route, i) in jsonResult.routesList">
    <div :key="j" v-for="(stop, j) in route.stopsList">
        <l-marker :lat-lng="latLng(stop.lat, stop.long)" />
        // the problem is here because I'm only getting one object (stop) and I need the whole list of stops to get their coordinates
        <l-polyline :lat-lngs="latLng(stop.lat, stop.long)"></l-polyline>
    </div>
</div>

My JSON looks more or less like this:
The <l-polyline> object expects an array like this to draw the lines:
    [
      [20.567934, -103.366844],
      [19.54006, -99.1879349],
      [25.54193, -100.947906],
      [25.7970467, -100.59623]
    ]

The routes list (jsonResult.routesList in the code)
"routesList": [
    {
      "stopsList": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "seq": 1,
          "start": "2019-09-10T09:32:23",
          "end": "2019-09-10T10:17:23",
          "lat": 20.567934,
          "long": -103.366844,
        },
        {
          "id": 2,
          "seq": 2,
          "start": "2019-09-10T09:32:23",
          "end": "2019-09-10T10:17:23",
          "lat": 20.587934,
          "long": -104.386844,
        }
      ],

    },
    //another route
    {
      "stopsList": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "seq": 1,
          "start": "2019-09-10T09:32:23",
          "end": "2019-09-10T10:17:23",
          "lat": 20.567934,
          "long": -103.366844,
        },
        {
          "id": 2,
          "seq": 2,
          "start": "2019-09-10T09:32:23",
          "end": "2019-09-10T10:17:23",
          "lat": 20.587934,
          "long": -104.386844,
        }
      ],
    },

A: I think the problem is in the way that your using your <div>, when you say:
<div :key="j" v-for="(stop, j) in route.stopsList">
        <l-marker :lat-lng="latLng(stop.lat, stop.long)" />
        // the problem is here because I'm only getting one object (stop) and I need the whole list of stops to get their coordinates
        <l-polyline :lat-lngs="latLng(stop.lat, stop.long)"></l-polyline>
</div>

In the v-for you were passing each individual element from the stopList to the <l-polyline> component. I think the correct approach would be to pass the whole stopList to the component, and then format it accordingly (iterating over the stopList array is done inside the <l-polylist> component.
<div :key="i" v-for="(route, i) in jsonResult.routesList">
      <div :key="j" v-for="(stop, j) in route.stopsList">
        <l-marker :lat-lng="latLng(stop.lat, stop.long)" />

      <l-polyline :lat-lngs="route.stopsList.map(x=>[x.lat,x.long])"></l-polyline>
</div>
</div>

Of course this is not an optimal approach, but it will solve your problem, a better way would be using something based on the idea of Dawid Zbiński and use a computed property. I hope this helps

A: You should use a method in order to compute the array of coordinates you want to pass to the other component.
// Vue component file
methods: {

  /*
   * Converts the stopsList array to an array of coordinates.
   * Example of returned value:
   *   [
   *     [ 23.1234, 21.2322 ],
   *     [ 21.1242, 24.2333 ],
   *   ]
   */
  getStopsCoordinates(stops) {
    return stops.map(stop => [ stop.lat, stop.long ]);
  }
}

You can then use the getStopsCoordinates method when you're passing the stops coordinates of all stops, like so:
<div :key="i" v-for="(route, i) in jsonResult.routesList">
    <div :key="j" v-for="(stop, j) in route.stopsList">
        <l-marker :lat-lng="latLng(stop.lat, stop.long)" />
        // the problem is here because I'm only getting one object (stop) and I need the whole list of stops to get their coordinates
        <l-polyline :lat-lngs="getStopsCoordinates(route.stopsList)"></l-polyline>
    </div>
</div>

Although it should work, it's not an optimal solution, as the list is converted each time in the second v-for and it's probably not needed. There's multiple ways on how this can be optimised, but without the measurements etc. I'd probably go with a getter for routesList.
// Vue component file
getters: {

  /* Returns routesList where each route has property stopsCoordinates */
  routesListWithStopsCoordinates() {
    return this.jsonResult.routesList.map(route => {
      route.stopsCoordinates = this.getStopsCoordinates(route.stopsList);
      return route;
    })
  }
},

methods: {

  /* Already explained above */
  getStopsCoordinates(stops) {
    return stops.map(stop => [ stop.lat, stop.long ]);
  }
}

Then in your template you can do something like this:
<div :key="i" v-for="(route, i) in jsonResult.routesList">
    <div :key="j" v-for="(stop, j) in route.stopsList">
        <l-marker :lat-lng="latLng(stop.lat, stop.long)" />
        // the problem is here because I'm only getting one object (stop) and I need the whole list of stops to get their coordinates
        <l-polyline :lat-lngs="route.stopsCoordinates"></l-polyline>
    </div>
</div>

Hope it works.

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DAVID R. STONER, M. D. A physician and surgeon whose attainments have brought him a large practice and reputation in Western Kansas is Dr. David R. Stoner of Ellis. He has been in active practice in that part of Kansas for the past fifteen years and he has been a Kansan since early boyhood.
Doctor Stoner was born in Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1880. The Stoners came originally from Germany but have been Americans since colonial times. The Doctor's father, Abram L. Stoner, was born in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, in 1845, grew up and married there, was a carpenter and cabinet maker by trade, and in 1885 came to Kansas, locating at Basehor in Leavenworth County, which town was named for Mrs. Stoner's brothers, Reuben and Ephraim Basehor. Ephraim Basehor, who is still living there, was an old Government trader between St. Louis and Salt Lake City before the days of railroads. For two years Abram L. Stoner followed farming near Basehor and then moved to Quinter, Kansas, buying a relinquishment on 160 acres, proving up on it and making that his home the rest of his life. He died in 1909. He was a republican and a member of the Lutheran Church. During the Civil war he was in the Pennsylvania Home Guards. The wife of Abram L. Stoner was Jane Basehor, born at Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, in 1847. She died at Quinter, Kansas, in 1898. Their children were: Catherine, who died at Quinter in 1900, wife of William McElroy; Isabel, who died at Quinter in 1906, wife of F. M. Carder; James, who enlisted in Company I of the Twenty-First Kansas Infantry during the Spanish-American war in 1898, was sent to Chickamauga, Georgia, to a training camp, and was taken ill and died while on a furlough home; Edgar E. was a farmer and died at Quinter in 1890.
Doctor Stoner, the youngest of the family, was educated in the public schools of Quinter, and for three years taught in one or two of the country districts of Gove County. He then entered the University Medical College of Kansas City, Missouri, and after the full four years' course graduated M. D. in 1905. In 1916 he took post-graduate work in Rush Medical College at Chicago. He began practice in 1905 at Quinter and from there moved to Ellis in September, 1918, and has his offices in the Erbert Building. For the past thirteen years he has been district surgeon for the Union Pacific Railway Company, has served as health officer of Gove County, and has affiliations with the Tri-County and State Medical societies and the American Medical Association.
Doctor Stoner is a republican and for a number of years was chairman of the Republican County Central Committee of Gove County. He is now a member of the Advisory Board of the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Norton, and for several years was clerk of the Board of Education at Quinter. He is affiliated with Quinter Lodge of Masons.
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I Vitelloni: cinema piccolo at the San Francisco Chronicle building
januari 15, 2014 cinemapiccoloI Vitelloni: cinema piccolo, impact hub, off the grid, San Francisco, san francisco chronicle building, the world's smallest cinema Een reactie plaatsen
We are invited by the Impact Hub for their Holiday Block Party at the San Francisco Chronicle building.
A day after our bad luck at the Another Hole In The Head Film Festival, we get a second chance. The Impact Hub Bay Area in San Francisco invites us for a Holiday Bloc Party in the old San Francisco Chronicle building. They host the sold-out event together with the San Francisco School of Digital Film Making, Indiegogo, Yahoo, Intersection, TechShop, 5M and many others. San Francisco is a world centre for technology and new ways of working, and this event is yet another example.
The San Francisco Chronicle building is located just around the corner of Union Square. We leave early to counter possible challenges caused by the heavy traffic. In the event, we do encounter a challenge but it's not the traffic. The only door that enables us to drive the cinema inside does not open. Quite problematic given that we have already unstrapped the cinema with all but one cable on a busy road.
Luckily, there is an inner courtyard where Off the Grid is hosting a Food Truck market especially for the event. We wanted to get in touch with them before, because they are happening in San Francisco. They organise several events weekly and enable a lot of food trucks to cook on a daily basis. The options vary from Japanese hamburgers and Korean sandwiches to gourmet crème brûlée.
As it's just around the corner, we decide to drive there with the cinema strapped with just one cable. The traffic is heavy and there are seven fire trucks around the corner, so we don't want to waste time. With hindsight, this is not the safest bet. The cinema almost rolls off the pick-up truck, which would be pretty messy in a city like San Francisco with its steep roads. Luckily, we discover it just in time to hold it back. Once we set up the cinema it becomes clear that it's a perfect match with Off the Grid.
The party starts to bustle and the line for the cinema is growing. Our film Nachtblind does not have any subtitles, but that does not matter to most people. They love it. Two women even make up their own English lines for the film, which is pretty hilarious as everyone can hear their laughter from the outside. Nachtblind by Nena van Driel is the most successful film of the night. Overall it's a great night, and we are feeling confident about all the events that are yet to come.
The world's smallest cinema at the Impact Hub Block party at the San Francisco Chronicle building.
I Vitelloni: cinema piccolo at the Block Party at the San Francisco Chronicle building
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december 20, 2013 cinemapiccoloanother hole in the head, cinema piccolo, San Francisco, smallest cinema, the world's smallest cinema Een reactie plaatsen
Another Hole In The Head film festival. Our first festival.
Very exciting. It's December, it's the Another Hole In The Head film festival, and it's the world premiere of Face, Taka Arai and Norith Soth's found footage film about a Halloween frat party gone horribly, horribly wrong. This footage is leaked police evidence you are not supposed to watch. It reveals a chain reaction of the most appalling acts ever committed by college kids in American history.
So what caused the gruesome aftermath at the Delta Chi Kappa Sorority house on the night of October 31, 2012? The world's smallest cinema definitely wants to find out.
That's why it's even more exciting that the SF Indiefest has invited us to have our first showcase right there in the theater. SF Indiefest is a year-round, non-profit organization that has been operating since 1998 in the San Francisco area. They present three annual festivals: the SF Independent Film Festival, the SF Documentary Festival and Another Hole In The Head, which is now in its 10th year. Obviously we are very happy to be part of such an authentic film festival, with three full weeks of independent horror, sci-fi and fantasy films – 54 feature films and 27 short films in total.
It's the perfect way to launch the world's smallest cinema in the United States. All we have to do is get the cinema to the New People's theater in time for the premiere. What could possibly go wrong?
A lot, as it turns out.
First showcases and preparations always take more time than you expect and there are always plenty of surprises. This is no exception. First of all, getting the cinema onto the newly-rented pick-up is more difficult than we anticipate. I manage to strain my back pushing the yellow car onto the truck.
My back is aching but we are finally in the truck and on the move – and then we hit the San Francisco traffic. We are stuck. For a very long time.
We finally arrive at the theater 30 minutes before the premiere, physically incapacitated and with too little time to set up shop. We have to cancel the event.
What a disappointment. Luckily, George and Hiromi are very understanding, but having to cancel is just not our cup of tea.
First set up of the world's smallest cinema
First screening in the USA of the world's smallest cinema. It is running!
The world's smallest cinema at Another Hole In The Head film festival in San Francisco.
The world's smallest cinema arrives in California
december 12, 2013 cinemapiccolocinemapiccolo, Hollywood, I Vitelloni, smallest cinema, the world's smallest cinema Een reactie plaatsen
To get it from Amsterdam to Hollywood. Step 1.
Would that not be awesome? To drive the world's smallest cinema all the way to Hollywood without customs, without transport agencies, without difficult paperwork and with just a lot of fun? Unfortunately, we all know that that is not possible. The last couple of weeks have been as exciting as they have been stressful. The idea of bringing the world's smallest cinema to Hollywood seems like pure logic to us, so the decision was made. No external funding, no plan, no anything, just a big YES.
However, how do we get it there with the limited funds that we have or rather the funds that we have not? The first challenge is that Piaggio Ape cars are not being exported to the USA and that they are not approved for the road. For this reason it is quite difficult to export the world's smallest cinema, as it is a vehicle but not an approved vehicle. A bit of brainstorming in our local pub provided us with a solution: we will take the engine out so that it will no longer be 'a vehicle'. Solved. Now we just need to ship it as an object. Luckily, this is easier as we found someone to share a container with. The only question is whether US customs will consider it to be a vehicle.
Tring, tring, we receive a phone call: 'your container is being held back and tomorrow they will send it to another location for thorough inspection. The costs of this transport and the inspection are yours. We will be in touch tomorrow'. Okay, our venture is over and we can pack our stuff and fly back to Amsterdam. At least that is what we think… The following day we receive another phone call: 'they have decided to clear the container anyway, we can deliver it in three days'. What a relief. We have taken the engine out, so we have to find new means for transportation in the US. We choose the most American solution that we could find: driving it around by pick-up truck. Everyone seems to have one here.
On the day of arrival the truck driver is hours late, but once he gets here our frowns turn upside down. What a pleasure to open a container and see that the cinema is there, in one piece. Two patrons of I Vitelloni: cinema piccolo joined me to help to unload the car from the container and on to the pick-up truck. Our enthusiasm prevented us from doing the proper research on the pick-up, as the cinema sticks out 3 feet from the back of the truck. We do not care. Our first destination: San Francisco. From this city we will move our way up to Hollywood. We have been in talks with several wonderful and interesting events, so we cannot wait for our first screening!
The cinema is being delivered
The world's smallest cinema arrives
I Vitelloni: cinema piccolo is ready for the road
Cinema Piccolo on the road
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The world's smallest cinema is going to Hollywood!
december 6, 2013 cinemapiccoloCalifornia, Facebook, Hollywood, I Vitelloni: cinema piccolo, Instagram, Los Angeles, Maarten van der Weijden, San Francisco, the world's smallest cinema, Twitter, United States Een reactie plaatsen
The news is out. The last couple of months we have been working hard to make something special happen. From the start we knew that the world's smallest cinema belongs in Hollywood. We encountered some challenges, but we are pleased to announce that the cinema is on its way by ship and will arrive in California soon. We will travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles to visit a number of people and places with a special connection to film. We are very excited and are looking forward to this adventure. We hope to discover great things about the past and future of film. Please spread the word and follow our Facebook Page, Instagram and Twitter for regular updates!


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Calm down Tuchel haters, Dortmund overachieved by reaching the Champions League Quarterfinals
Constructive criticism is one thing, but calling for the manager's head is completely out of place.
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On Wednesday, Dortmund lost 3-1 in Monaco. That meant that they had crashed out of the Champions League Quarterfinals with a 6-3 aggregate defeat over two legs.
Sure, it was disappointing, but some of the reaction to BVB's exit from the CL has been quite over the top. Much of that reaction has been in the form of abuse hurled at Thomas Tuchel.
Yes, there are some legitimate complaints to have with Tuchel after the defeats. He probably picked the wrong starting lineups in both matches. Sven Bender's inclusion didn't work in the first leg, but Tuchel recognized that and switched things up at halftime. In the second leg, Erik Durm was the ill-advised starter who got yanked early on.
Those are fair criticisms of Thomas Tuchel, but some are using them as fuel to say that Tuchel should lose his job? That's preposterous.
For starters, Monaco are a better team than Dortmund. They have been all season. They're in first place in a French league that is stronger than you think. They've been the best offensive team in all of Europe this season, and have impressively scored 3 goals in every single knockout game they've played up until this point.
Compare this to a Dortmund side that hasn't even come close to competing for the title, in a Bundesliga that is weaker than you probably think. While Monaco have been a model of consistency, Dortmund have had embarrassing results like losses to Darmstadt, Berlin, and a poor Bayer Leverkusen team. Such is life when you lose multiple key players in the summer and replace them with promising youngsters. They're growing pains.
And then of course there were the injuries affecting both sides. Monaco were only without Djibril Sidibe, while Dortmund were without Marc Bartra, Marco Reus (for the 1st leg), Andre Schurrle, and Mario Gotze.
This meant that BVB had to start Matthias Ginter, a player who is simply not good enough to play this deep into the Champions League.
Then there were the refereeing decisions. I'm not one who likes to blame the refs, but they were atrocious in the quarterfinals. And not just in the Dortmund-Monaco matches either.
And of course, there was the emotional toll still hitting Dortmund's players after the bombing attack before the first leg. It's been discussed a lot, but surely the poor starts in both legs had as much to do with that, as they might have had to do with questionable starting lineups. It was impossible to stay focused under those conditions.
Marc Bartra being available could have made a world of difference, especially considering the way he had been playing recently. But it appears that no one in Europe is capable of stopping the likes of Kylian Mbappe right now.
But with or without Bartra, it should be recognized by Dortmund fans that the better team won. This Monaco team is a team for the ages, and it's a shame that they will probably be broken up in the transfer market this summer. But don't be shocked if they win it all before they split this summer.
Dortmund meanwhile are still a very young team with a very bright future. And they've got a very young coach who, despite what you may be feeling after the quarterfinals, also has a very bright future.
He managed to guide Dortmund to this point, when they could've easily crashed out of the competition earlier.
So let's give Thomas Tuchel a break, and let's get behind our manager. Yes you can criticize him, but don't try and claim that a Champions League Quarterfinal exit means he should lose his job.


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Is The United Nations Fulfilling Biblical Prophecy? – Good News Journal
Is The United Nations Fulfilling Biblical Prophecy?
On December 21, 2017, the UN united as one to stand against one city on the planet: Jerusalem. Twenty-five centuries earlier, the prophet Zechariah wrote these words from the Lord, "I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle" (Zech. 14:2) Did the UN just move us one step closer to fulfilling this ancient prophecy?
Before answering this question, let's look at the events on the ground. First, the UN once again distinguished itself for hypocrisy by targeting Israel for its criticism – specifically, America's support of Israel – while remaining silent on so many issues of world importance.
What has the UN been doing during the horrific war in Syria? Where has the UN been during the attempted genocide of Christians in the Middle East? Decades earlier, what did the UN have to say about Tiananmen Square in China or Saddam Hussein's chemical warfare against the Kurds? Yet when America recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the UN is an uproar.
As I noted previously, groups like UNWatch.org have documented the UN's consistent policy of singling out Israel for rebuke and condemnation while virtually ignoring atrocities committed on a mass scale by other nations, including Israel's neighbors.
To give one case in point, during the UN General Assembly's 61st session (2006-2007), "the time spent by ambassadors on enacting the 22nd anti-Israel resolution of the year was time not spent on passing a single resolution on Sudan's genocide in Darfur." So, while Sudanese Christians were being slaughtered en masse by Muslim soldiers and gangs, the UN General Assembly spent its time enacting 22 anti-Israel resolutions.
Second, in anticipation of the UN vote, the United States handled things exactly as it should have: with a strong word of rebuke and warning. After all, different international leaders did not simply called President Trump and say, "We strongly differ with your recognition of Jerusalem." Instead, in the most public forum available, 128 nations stood together to condemn America for doing was what right and righteous, declaring our decision "null and void."
Nikki Haley's words to the UN before the vote said it all: "To its shame, the United Nations has long been a hostile place for the state of Israel. Both the current and the previous Secretary-Generals have objected to the UN's disproportionate focus on Israel. It's a wrong that undermines the credibility of this institution, and that in turn is harmful for the entire world."
Then, after articulating all the good our country does around the world, along with its support for the UN, she rebuked the UN for disrespecting America, saying, "The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation. We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution to the United Nations, and so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit."
And finally: "America will put our embassy in Jerusalem. That is what the American people want us to do and it is the right thing to do. This vote will make a difference in how Americans look at the UN. And this vote will be remembered." Here, here, Ambassador Haley!
Third, the 7 nations that stood with Israel and America today are a most unusual group, consisting of Guatemala, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Togo, and Palau. Honestly, now, how many of us heard of some of these countries before? And how many of us could locate some of them on the map?
But what of the matter of ancient prophecy? Is there a connection between the UN's vote and the Bible?
I would say yes, for at least three reasons: 1) The vote confirms international hostility towards a Jewish Jerusalem. 2) The vote reminds us that the biblical authors were inspired when predicting that an end-time coalition of nations would come against a Jewish Jerusalem. 3) The vote tells us that, just as Scripture indicates, the city of Jerusalem alone is the whole world's business (see Zech 12:3).
Of course, this does not set a time frame for a united attack on a Jewish Jerusalem, and we don't know if "all nations" (in the words of Zechariah) means every nation on earth or simply a worldwide coalition.
But, after watching the last 2,500 years of history, coupled with the UN's anti-Jerusalem vote this week, it's hard to read the Bible and think that the writers just guessed things right. What are the chances of that?
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Q: How does SV solver treat multiple relationship operators in the same constraint? I came across a constraint which was behaving weirdly (illustrated below) :
class A;
  rand bit[3:0] a,b,c,d;

  constraint c_abcd{
      2<a<b<c<d<20;
  }
endclass : A

I know that this is not the right way to specify that constraint and that we need to split it up into multiple constraints. But I expected it to give an error. Instead, it runs without any error and I could see different values for a,b,c,d being generated.
These numbers initially seem to be random, but I guess the system verilog solver behaves in a predictable manner to tackle these constraints.
So can you explain how this is solved? When I randomize with the above constraint, I get the following output :
a = 1101;
b = 0101;
c = 0111;
d = 1100;

Thank You

A: It turns out the constraint expression you have written evaluates true for any values of a,b,c, and d. Which is equivalent to having no constraint at all.
Since your expression evaluates from left to right, it is the same as writing ((((2<a)<b)<c)<d)<20. The result of the outer most set of ()'s will be either 1'b0 or 1'b1 for any combination of values, and that result is always less than 20.


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using System.Text;
using System.ComponentModel;
using XenAPI;
using XenAdmin.Network;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;

namespace XenAdmin.Commands
{
    internal class ResumeVMOnHostToolStripMenuItem : VMOperationToolStripMenuItem
    {
        public ResumeVMOnHostToolStripMenuItem()
            : base(new ResumeVMOnHostCommand2(), false, vm_operations.resume_on)
        {
        }

        public ResumeVMOnHostToolStripMenuItem(IMainWindow mainWindow, IEnumerable<SelectedItem> selection, bool inContextMenu)
            : base(new ResumeVMOnHostCommand2(mainWindow, selection), inContextMenu, vm_operations.resume_on)
        {
        }

        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]
        [Browsable(false)]
        public new Command Command
        {
            get
            {
                return base.Command;
            }
        }

        private class ResumeVMOnHostCommand2 : Command
        {
            public ResumeVMOnHostCommand2()
            {
            }

            public ResumeVMOnHostCommand2(IMainWindow mainWindow, IEnumerable<SelectedItem> selection)
                : base(mainWindow, selection)
            {
            }

            private bool CanExecute(SelectedItem selection)
            {
                VM vm = selection.XenObject as VM;

                if (vm != null && !vm.is_a_template && !vm.Locked)
                {
                    if (vm.allowed_operations != null && vm.allowed_operations.Contains(vm_operations.suspend))
                    {
                        return false;
                    }

                    if (vm.allowed_operations != null && vm.allowed_operations.Contains(vm_operations.resume) && EnabledTargetExists(selection.HostAncestor, selection.Connection))
                    {
                        // CA-19215: "Resume on" option present and enabled for VM on standalone host.
                        return selection.Connection != null && selection.Connection.Cache.HostCount > 1;
                    }
                }
                return false;
            }

            protected override bool CanExecuteCore(SelectedItemCollection selection)
            {
                if (!selection.AllItemsAre<VM>())
                {
                    return false;
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                IXenConnection connection = null;

                bool atLeaseOneCanExecute = false;
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                    VM vm = (VM)item.XenObject;

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                    if (connection != null && vm.Connection != connection)
                    {
                        return false;
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                    if (CanExecute(item))
                    {
                        atLeaseOneCanExecute = true;
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            {
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                    return host.enabled;

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                {
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                return false;
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            public override string MenuText
            {
                get
                {
                    return Messages.MAINWINDOW_RESUME_ON_HOST;
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Bizzare scenes at Elland Road where Marcelo Bielsa instructed his players to let Villa score.
Many pundits predicted that Sunday's meeting between Leeds United and Aston Villa would be a low-key affair with the end of season play offs looming ahead
Leeds went into the game knowing any hope of automatic promotion had realistically disappeared with Sheffield United's win the previous evening. Aston Villa's place in the play-offs was already secured and they were widely expected to rest several of their key players.
However, this is the Championship, where any prediction should be made with caution. What followed was a dramatic, incident packed 90 minutes played at an unrelenting pace. Both teams produced a performance full of commitment with Leeds dominating possession, but lacking a cutting edge, and the visitors always posed a threat through the likes of John McGinn and Jack Grealish.
The game however, will long be remembered for what happened in the 72nd minute, when Villa's Jonathan Kodja went down injured. Villa's players stopped, anticipating Leeds would knock the ball out of play in order for Kodja to get treatment. Instead, Tyler Roberts played the ball down the line for Mateusz Klich to cut in and fire past the Villa keeper Ged Steer. Mayhem then reigned, with confrontations and accusations between players and staff all over the pitch and side-line. In the immediate aftermath of the goal, beleaguered referee Stuart Attwell sent off Villa's El Ghazi, a decision which has since been rescinded, with Patrick Bamford receiving a two match ban after the FA reviewed the incident.
After 5 minutes of arm waving and finger pointing, Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa instructed his players to allow Villa to score an uncontested goal immediately from the re-start, with Albert Adomah given the task of scoring the strangest of goals. Leeds centre half Pontus Jansson did not appear to agree with his manager's decision and almost intervened to tackle Adomah, but the striker managed to evade the challenge and slotted past a motionless Casilla in the Leeds goal.
The remainder of the game saw Leeds pressing, with Steer making a fine save from Hernandez in the 95th minute. Leeds were unable to find the winner, but will be encouraged that they produced a much more assured performance than in recent weeks. Villa's impressive unbeaten run continues, and they will probably be seen by many as the form team going into the play-offs. This bizarre game will live long in the memory, and has whetted the appetite at the prospect of the two teams meeting in the play-offs.
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Medvedev thinks that Zelensky does not need 'any peace treaty'
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council added that Ukrainian President will continue to beg the West for weapons and money and imitate concern for Ukrainians
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev
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MOSCOW, May 3. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky does not need any peaceful settlement, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev asserted.
"Zelensky does not need any peace treaty. For him, peace is the end," he said on his Telegram channel.
According to him, this end would be "either a quick one - from the Nazis who will hang him for a deal with Russians, or a slower one, from his competition who will attain his dismissal as the president who lost a war." He pointed out that Zelensky's retinue confirms this saying that "there will be no peace treaty."
"That is why Zelensky in the future will keep begging the West for money and weapons, trying to prove he is still in the game, that he is the hope of the liberal world, that he is the last stronghold of European democracy which a bear in a cotton-padded jacket wants to tear apart," Medvedev said.
He added that at the same time, Zelensky would "imitate concern for Ukrainians, periodically positioning them as a human shield against the Bandera followers."
Additionally, according to the deputy chairman, the Ukrainian president will continue "to send hired killers to Russian journalists, positioning himself as a tough exterminator, spawn criminal fake news about Russia's military operation using unfortunate citizens as expendable material while posing unshaved before cameras and talk nonsense with eyes shining from stimulators."
"There is no other way for Zelensky to remain in office. That is, if the office itself remains," Medvedev concluded.
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Ukraine: Restraint Needed by Both Sides
Government Should Respect Right to Peaceful Protest
Several hundred protesters gather at Independence Square in central Kiev on November 30, 2013.
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(Moscow) – Ukrainian authorities should refrain from excessive force against demonstrators, and protesters should refrain from acts of violence as the civil unrest continues.
"The police seem to have shown restraint yesterday in some cases, but last week's police brutality is still fresh in everyone's mind," said Yulia Gorbunova, Ukraine researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Both sides should exercise restraint – the police should respect the right to peaceful protest and the protesters should reject violence."
In the early hours of December 11, 2013, the police dismantled several barricades built by protesters that were blocking the streets leading to Independence Square and government buildings. The police also attempted to enter city hall, which opposition activists have occupied for over a week. Protesters tried to prevent the police from dismantling the barricades and entering city hall. Several people on both sides were reported injured in the ensuing clashes.
Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that the police arrived at Independence Square at around 1:30 a.m. and read aloud a court ruling requiring protesters to remove all objects blocking pedestrian walks and roads. More riot police and internal troops arrived and moved in on the protesters. Clashes with police at Independence Square and adjacent streets continued for most of the night, witnesses said.
One witness told Human Rights Watch that he saw police hitting protesters with their hands, including those who were not engaging in acts of violence, and pushing them with shields. An activist who was there told Human Rights Watch that he saw police spraying protesters with teargas. He also said he saw police use their hands to hit protesters who were blocking the police from dismantling barricades. The witnesses said they did not see police use truncheons.
A third witness told Human Rights Watch that he saw riot police grabbing people from the crowd at random and dragging them into police vans parked nearby.
Ten police officers were injured in the clashes, according to published Interior Ministry statements. Thirty protesters were injured, according to media reports. Eight activists were detained and charged with minor hooliganism, media reports said.
The United Nations Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms stipulate that the police are expected to use discretion in crowd control tactics to ensure a proportionate response to any threat of violence, and to avoid exacerbating the situation. The rights to peaceful assembly and expression are protected under human rights treaties by which Ukraine is bound, including the European Convention on Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Marches and rallies, largely peaceful, started in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities on November 21, when tens of thousands of people took to the streets following the government's unexpected decision to suspend preparations for a European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement. The political and trade deal was considered an important step toward Ukraine's integration with the EU. On November 30 and December 1, the authorities used excessive force to disperse protesters, injuring dozens.
Following the clashes early on December 11, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said the police had not used any force against the demonstrators that night and gave assurances that authorities will not use force to disperse peaceful protesters.
"As more and more people join the protest in Kiev, it is essential for police to use restraint and for protesters not to resort to violence," Gorbunova said. "The authorities have opened an investigation into last week's excessive use of force by police, and they need to hold those responsible to account."
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← 2013 – Blog in the rear view
Hierarchy redux →
Hierarchy works
Posted on 20 January, 2014 by Rick
There has been a lot of excitement about Zappos new hierarchy free, self-organising, boss-less organisation. The holocracy, as it's known, is all very zeitgeisty. My Twitter timeline is full of articles about smashing corporate hierarchies and getting rid of executives. Last year, Gary Hamel, described in Fortune magazine as 'the world's leading expert on business strategy', told the CIPD conference that "management is a busted flush" and organisations should be getting rid of their managers. And, of course, everyone knows that Generation Blah don't like hierarchy. Executives, reporting lines, procedures, organisation charts – all that stuff is just so square, daddio.
At what looks like the other extreme of management philosophy, Amazon has gone for a neo Taylorist model with high control over workers at all levels in the organisation. It's not very trendy and, on the whole, my Twitter timeline doesn't like Amazon.
But, of course, Amazon owns Zappos. Under one corporate roof, what looks like a social experiment is taking place. Two rival philosophies of management are being tested out. As Jon Evans of TechCrunch remarked:
It's strange to think that Zappos, with its communal-family culture, is a wholly owned subsidiary of a ruthlessly efficient machine. Amazon's treatment of its employees recently caused Business Insider–a Jeff Bezos investee–to warn: "Brutal Conditions In Amazon's Warehouses Threaten To Ruin The Company's Image."
It seems to me that Amazon and Zappos are microcosms of two potential futures of work. On the one hand, you have breathtaking inequality, "peak jobs," and the bifurcation of the population into a diminishing elite of skilled/tech/finance workers, and a growing mass of low-quality and/or part-time jobs increasingly threatened by technology and international competition.
And then there's the Zappos future. Its take-home pay still isn't spectacular; but it's a future where companies genuinely try to create a social fabric–and safety net–woven from excellent benefits, a thriving culture, a strong community, and the encouragement of entrepeneurs, on the theory that these rewards will eventually redound to companies and their executives. It says a lot about today's America that this sounds almost impossibly idealistic and starry-eyed. But Tony Hsieh is betting $350 million of his own money on it, and he's been right once or twice before.
Andrew Hill at the FT was less optimistic:
Zappos is owned outright by Amazon, which Jeff Bezos runs with old-fashioned micromanaging ruthlessness. He allows the shoe retailer a long leash, but what will happen when Holacracy clashes with Bezocracy?
Look a bit more closely, though, and the 'death of hierarchy' claims are overblown. Here's Steve Denning at Forbes:
The first nonsense in this discussion is the notion that holacracy is non-hierachical. Holacracy, a management practice developed by the entrepreneur, Brian Robertson, in his firm Ternary Software and introduced to the world in a 2007 article, puts a lot of emphasis on consensual, democratic decision-making and getting everyone's opinion. At the same time, holacracy is explicitly and strongly hierarchical. If you read the introductory article or the Holacracy Constitution 4.0 (2013), you will see that holacracy is hierarchy on steroids: the hierarchy is spelled out in more detail than in any conventional organization you have ever seen.
Basically, in holacracy, there is a hierarchy of circles, which are to be run according to detailed democratic procedures. At the same time, each circle operates within the hierarchy. Each higher circle tells its lower circle (or circles), what its purpose is and what is expected of it. It can do anything to the lower circle—change it, re-staff it, abolish it—if it doesn't perform according to the higher circle's expectations.
The second misunderstanding in the media is the notion that in holacracy there are no managers. In a holacracy, there may be no one with the title of "manager", but there are "roles" that are, in every respect except the title, "managers".
The fact that this "project manager role" isn't called a Project Manager doesn't mean that there are no managers. Nor does the fact that the accountabilities of the role can be changed in accordance of the governing rules of the circle make him or her any less of a manager in the normal sense of that word.
This was the killer line, though:
In holacracy, each circle must meet the purpose as defined by its higher circle.
Sounds a bit scary doesn't it? Surely I can't be the only one thinking 'Nine Circles of Hell'!
Joking aside, though, none of this should really surprise us. When there are owners to be satisfied, be they shareholders of private equity firms, there must be bosses and a chain of command. Likewise, if public services are democratically accountable, someone has to report back to the elected representatives and they have to have a way of transmitting their wished to the organisation. If you remove all aspects of control, you eventually reach the point where you don't have an organisation at all.
Years ago, in an online discussion, I said that I had a libertarian heart but an authoritarian head. I was only half joking. I have a natural aversion to hierarchy, stays, bureaucracy, procedures and the like. But I also know them to be necessary.
I think Bob Sutton may have a similar view of the world. His recent research on hierarchy has led him to some conclusions he doesn't like.
I have always despised hierarchies in my heart, but this research taught me that they are good and necessary – of course some are good and others are bad, but spreading and sustaining excellence depends on having an effective pecking order.
I still feel a bit ambivalent about it, but the evidence is overwhelming.
Poor Bob. He hates hierarchy so he really doesn't want to believe this stuff but he can't ignore his own research findings. He continues:
Hierarchy is inevitable. As our Stanford colleagues Deb Gruenfeld and Lara Tiedens show in their detailed review of research on hierarchy, although the forms it takes vary wildly, it is impossible to find groups or organizations where all members have roughly equal status and power. Whether researchers study people, dogs, or baboons, hierarchies are evident after just minutes of observation. And when strangers meet for the first time, a hierarchy of leaders and followers begins to emerge immediately. This rapid development of pecking orders is seen, for example, in groups of college students who meet in psychology experiments and when strangers start chatting on the street corner – leaders, followers, and other signs of status differences nearly always emerge (along with more subtle roles such as "joker," "hero," and even "scapegoat").
Gruenfeld and Tiedens conclude: "When scholars attempt to find an organization that is not characterized by hierarchy, they cannot."
Organizations and people need hierarchy. While there is no doubt that some hierarchies are better designed than others, an interesting test is what happens when there is little or no consensus about who has more — and less — power. Gruenfeld and Tiedens describe a series of studies showing that when such agreement is absent (so the nature of the formal or informal pecking order is not clear), members become less committed to their groups, less productive and effective, dysfunctional competition for status emerge, and coordination and cooperation suffer.
This second point is interesting. Removing hierarchy can lead to competition between competing groups. People jostle to create a new hierarchy with themselves at the top. I have worked in organisations during interregnums. They are strange places. The barons do as they please, as they did in medieval Europe when kings were weak. The hierarchies they create are often more dysfunctional than the top down ones they replaced.
For this reason, I liked the comments Bob Sutton quotes from Twitter's Chris Fry:
His core argument, however, is that a well-managed hierarchy is among the most effective weapons for getting rid of the friction, incompetence, and politics that plague bad organisations.
A strong hierarchy will rein in the barons and stop them beating up the peasants.
All organisations, even the smallest, have a certain amount of hierarchy. When the organisation grows, it needs to formalise that hierarchy. Some organisations choose to give employees a lot of autonomy within that hierarchy, others don't. Whatever they do, though, they all have bosses, reporting lines, rules and procedures. You can't run an organisation without them.
All that boring old management stuff is what makes organisations work. The World Management Survey, probably the biggest and longest study of organisations in the world, found a high correlation between productivity and routine management practices like setting targets, monitoring performance and providing incentives. This HBR paper Does Management Really Work? summarises some of its findings.
That may be OK for run-of-the-mill organisations but what about more innovative companies? The same, I'm afraid. It's those middle managers, the 'suits', who turn the ideas into reality. As Wharton's Ethan Mollick found, in the beautifully titled study People and Process, Suits and Innovators:
[V]ariation among middle managers has a particularly large impact on firm performance, much larger than that of those individuals who are assigned innovative roles.
[I]t is the individuals who fill the role of middle managers – the "suits" – rather than the creative innovators that best explain variation in firm performance.
The results also show that middle managers are necessary to facilitate firm performance in creative, innovative, and knowledge-intensive industries.
Even in creative organisations you need hierarchy and boring old middle managers.
It is the ability to organise effectively on a large scale, says Ha Joon Chang, that differentiates the rich from the poor economies. It is organisation that makes us prosperous.
What makes the poor countries poor is not the lack of raw individual entrepreneurial energy, which they in fact have in abundance. The point is that what really makes rich countries rich is the ability to channel the individual entrepreneurial energy into collective entrepreneurship.
If effective entrepreneurship ever was a purely individual thing, it has stopped being so at least for the last century. The collective ability to build and manage effective organisations and institutions is now far more important than the drives or even the talents of a nation's individual members in determining its prosperity.
And to organise, you need some form of hierarchy.
Perhaps the last word should go to one of the commenters on Bob Sutton's piece. I know next to nothing about gaming but I understand exactly what's going on here:
I learned about leadership and hierarchy from gaming. In order to kill the biggest boss monster in the quickest way, you had to go as a group. However if no one researched the boss monster's weakness, planned a strategy, recruited the optimal group, set the schedule, and then explained it 30 times to each person that doesn't listen, the boss monster would be happy to kill every single person in 2 bites.
Some sort of hierarchy and organisation is essential to get things done. Without them, 'the boss monster', in his various forms, will get you. The idea of a hierarchy free, boss free organisation is nonsense. Fashionable, zeitgeisty nonsense but still nonsense.
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Anthony Allinson says:
This is excellent and a nice balance between the over use of hierarchy and the need ensure accountability.
I tire of the cultish and overly simplistic, "it's dead", angle.
Different and evolving certainly. Dead, certainly not.
I have ordered my team to read this on pain of death.
perrytimms says:
Thanks as ever Rick for a brilliant post. I agree with huge swathes of this and like you I am head pro / heart anti hierarchies.
You are also so right that the hype genie is out of the bottle and people are now all jumping on the latest bandwagon that is holocratic set ups with "no" managers.
Before we kill the idea of something different stone cold dead let's look at some of the stifling, lumbering practices that appear to come out of hierarchical structures. Slow decisons; petty power games and diminished responsibilities to solve problems are often the reasons many dislike hierarchies. That is without the ego and megalomania fuelled acts of people who lead in those hierarchical fiefdoms.
There is a lot wrong with hierarchies and yet like you though, the answers are not some version of workplace anarchy and self organised teams as a total U turn on workplace structures.
Something needs to be done to move to a more conducive hierarchy where order and efficiency ensue whilst individual abilities and belonging make that efficiency even more impactful.
People can hide in hierarchies. People can be malevolent in hierarchies and people may perform to only a percentage of their ability due to a limited delivery "jobsworth" mentality. A holocracy is not the answer everywhere but a little more workplace democracy, open dialogue and involvement will help. Most hierarchies do not naturally appear to help this.
I wonder whether the answers lie in some form of reconstruction/reconstitution of the hierarchy. Maybe we do this by "patching new lines of code" to upgrade the operating system – or we uninstall completely and start again?
Love this post. Well researched as ever and something that has really got me thinking. I suspect this one will go on, polarised views, people not getting it etc. So let's sort the drivel and guff from what really matters.
Hi (erarchy) Ho silver lining!
Mil says:
Reblogged this on http://error451.me and commented:
I'm one of the Zeitgeisty nonsense guys: http://blinkingti.me/2014/01/01/we-cant-afford-this-government-we-must-afford-holacracy/ – but Rick provides an excellent corrective to the latter's excesses. (Even mine!!!)
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Peter Mendham says:
Even after your excellent article, I'm not totally convinced about the need for hierarchical structures to dominate organisations. I'm also not sure about the use of the term. A hierarchy is a useful structure for categorising and organising information, and so it is very easy to see hierarchies everywhere. In my experience it is possible to organise a group of people, working together, using "coordinators". Effectively, for a particular purpose or task, the "coordinator" is the "boss" (and there is a transient hiearchy) but there is no power relationship, other than for a particular task. I know nothing about organisational theory, so I'm sure this is old hat. My point is that, unless we are specifically discussing an organisation dominated by a single hiearchical organisational structure, I don't think an analysis of the way people interact that identifies hiearchies tells us anything at all.
Just because there aren't any (really? none?) examples of efficient organisations without single dominant hierarchy does not mean that it's impossible. There are plenty of examples in nature of optimal self-organisation without hierarchy (e.g. emergent behaviour in ants, wasps; flocking, schoaling etc.) which operate through consistent and distributed rules. I think there is plenty of scope for these kinds of mechanisms to be applied to organistions, but it would be quite a scary thing to try out.
How can you get through an article on the breakdown of hierachies without mentioning Valve? Both the workload balancing and remuneration mechanisms at Valve are also a pretty good examples of self-organisation applied to a corporate environment. At Valve there is still hiearchy, there is one (albeit quite flat) organisational hiearchy, plus lots of transient hiearchies. But, importantly to me at least, the way these hiearchies are used and applied is different. The key thing is that by changing the relationship between an organisation and hiearchies, you can change how much a member of that organisation engages and feels valued. Surely that leads to a more efficient, and more enjoyable, work environment?
Patrick hughes says:
20 January, 2014 at 1:25 pm
Yet another FCR post that provokes thought…how do you find the time?
On the substance, I have no additional sources to quote; simply the evidence – such as it is – from my own experience of large public sector delivery agencies ( Jobcentreplus and its predecessor, the Employment Service ) over a 30 year career.
My feeling is that it's not an either/or world ( as in your head/heart ..) but rather a continuing balancing act between hierarchies on the one hand; and personal creativity and discretion or judgement on the other. In Govt I observe that most Ministers of both political persuasions express loathing of the "bureaucracy" whilst through their actions requiring its existence.
For what it's worth here are three points that have struck me over the years:
– the demand for personalised public services delivered by front line staff encouraged to use their judgement is strong and growing which undermines the need for management and supervisory structures;
– the standards expected of public services in their behaviours and accountability are remorselessly high which reinforces the need for those very same management structures to maintain quality through consistency;
– effective organisations need to respond to calls for changes in remit ( general elections; mergers and acquisitions etc ) and to emergencies, which requires both enabled delivery staff and a resourceful hierarchy.
It is I believe one of the abiding responsibilities of senior leaders in organisations to be aware of these tensions and contradictions, and to manage them in contaxt both for the present and the future.
Joe Booth says:
Have you come across 'Requisite Organisation' by Elliott Jaques'? He is proscriptive about hierarchy but offers better analysis and insights into why it is necessary and how it best works than any other author I have read. He went on to develop a theory that human capability is expressed at different levels which match the hierarchical levels he posits. Fascinating ideas which appear to be valid in experience.
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Olivier Compagne says:
25 January, 2014 at 12:53 am
Hi, I work with Holacracy everyday and I've witnessed how many misconceptions there has been around what Holacracy is and how it works—and this blog post includes several… Holacracy is a specific system with specific rules, not just a category of "flat organizations". And it's certainly not anti-hierarchy. More in this blog post: "Holacracy Is Not What You Think" https://medium.com/about-holacracy/67144c3adf8
Liam Barrington-Bush (@hackofalltrades) says:
While I very much agree about the shortcomings of Holacracy, and the ways in which its claims about being non-hierarchical are vastly exaggerated, I don't think the conclusions you draw are fair ones… here's why:
There's a particular lens that tends to equate hierarchy with leadership… I would argue that the latter (while closely related to hierarchy in a hierarchically structured organisations) isn't necessarily problematic, but the former is.
This lens, can see a group of neighbours discussing a planning permission application, and see that one of them is talking a lot more about the details of the application process, while the others listen, and decides: 'a hierarchy has emerged.' Maybe it has, maybe it hasn't though.
It may be that the the person talking a lot has spent time in local govt, and thus understands a particular level of detail of the planning application process, but when it comes to community mobilisation around a new Tesco, or about the logistics of knocking on doors, others step up and fill take the lead.
(It may also be soft hierarchy/ego playing out, but knowing that often takes considerable time).
The difference in these situations is considerable. If I'm a part of a group, I want to know that when something I know I'm good at, care about, and have experience with pops-up, that I'll be able to 'take the reins,' or at least be an active part of the conversation. If an issue arises in the same process where I am relatively inexperienced, I will be quite happy to pass my autonomy along to others who I have (hopefully) spent time building relationships with and trust the perspectives and intentions of. I would argue that what I'm describing is a form of emergent leadership, but not of hierarchy, because, even if I'm the person who steps up on a particular area I know and understand, this does not give me the right to tell others what to do.
This is where relationship building is so important, and is far more complex when it happens in a hierarchical organisation, for the simple reason that it is a lot harder to really trust and open up to someone who has the power to fire or discipline you, but not you, them.
If you start from a strong attempt at equality (this tends to require a) an absence of formal hierarchy, b) a challenging of soft hierarchy, and c) an understanding and collective addressing of power and privilege), it makes people more comfortable to both step into moments of leadership, and to trust that others are better suited to lead than they are in other moments.
The framing of the 'hierarchy works' lens is also looking at group organising through a particular measure: that equally capitalist and communist emphasis on 'efficiency.' Particularly in the short-term. More democratic processes take more time, and thus are written off as inefficient in most companies and many other orgs. But this is the short-termism of both markets and politics that ignores the long-term costs of institutions where people don't feel they have any autonomy to find their own best ways of doing things; low morale to active sabotage being some obvious ones.
Management theory that assumes group dynamics are controlled by those at the top of a pyramid though, are only putting their heads in the sand to the messier and far more complex nature of organisational culture, emergent change, and the theory-practice gap that becomes strongest when people aren't a part of the decisions that affect them (even if that does mean deferring to a trusted other much of the time).
Underpinning a belief in hierarchy is a deeply paternalistic view of staff… and with it, most people; they need to be told what to do and how to do it. This view is usually hidden from the public view of most management theory that came after Taylorism (at least he was honest about it), but remains in the subtext.
A relationship-focused approach to group dynamics is definitely harder than hierarchy, in that it requires all of us to act like adults (the very opposite of what traditional management encourages… and thus produces). But if we assume that is a permanent barrier, rather than an obstacle to be collectively overcome, the best we can hope for is, as Margaret Wheatley put it in 1992: "a treadmill of frantic efforts that end up destroying our individual and collective vitality."
I believe we can do better.
@hackofalltrades
William Powell (@LeadrshpAdvisor) says:
No matter what manifestos, constitutions, by-laws or fairy tales are written by whomever deems them appropriate, there is one fact that remains…every organization will have a vertical component, no matter how flat. If nothing more than for responsibility allocation.
A front line employee isn't expected (or often skilled) to develop vision and strategy for the organization. In the same way, the CEO wouldn't be making quality use of his/her time answer customer calls when the organization needs direction.
This pendulum swing in business seems to only be magnified by the internet/social media. Something works at a company and so everyone takes the explanation from those involved as face-value gospel. It may have been their intention, but there are natural functional roles that are required to make business work. How those roles are expressed have a ton of latitude, but their existence remains the same no matter how it's positioned.
Much of this is semantics creating a false distinctions. Little substance. Business is evolving and there are some definite shifts taking place. A move to be more human-centric is gaining speed and it is a necessary renaissance. It doesn't change the fundamentals of business, however.
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Peter Holliday says:
I think this comment says it all – Its called The Holacracy ! And what's with all the misunderstandings about "No hierarchies", some people need to go back and actually read Holacracy properly !!!! i get tied of talking to people that say this over and over again without a real understanding of how it works…..sighhhhhhhh! If its not a classic control dominator hierarchy it must be flat……. no no no. refer to Olivier's comments and links http://www.holacracy.org/ and actually read this time. 🙂


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NAT Fraser was cleared of his wife's murder recently after serving eight years of a 25-year minimum term – but now faces a new trial.
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JAILED businessman Nat Fraser has been formally accused of the murder of his wife Arlene for the second time.
Crownprosecutors served an indictment on Fraser, who is currently remanded in custody, ordering him to appear at the High Court in Glasgow on October 3.
They will set out to prove that Fraser, 52, embarked on a plot with others unknown to murder his wife after she consulted a solicitor in Elgin with a view to divorcing him and seeking a financial settlement.
Two months ago Fraser was cleared of his wife's murder after serving eight years of a 25-year minimum term imposed in 2003.
Three judges quashed Fraser's conviction but ruled he must stand trial again over the killing of 33-year-old Arlene 13 years ago.
Fraser was convicted after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh of murdering his estranged wife, whose body has never been found.
Despite his acquittal Lord Hamilton, the Lord Justice General, and Lords Reed and Carloway ruled Fraser should remain behind bars until a new trial is set.
Prosecutors had applied to the Appeal Court in Edinburgh for permission to put him on trial again after the UK Supreme Court ruled in May that he had suffered a miscarriage of justice - meaning his conviction had to be quashed.
The Supreme Court remitted the case to the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland to quash the conviction and consider the issue of new proceedings.
And on June 17 at the High Court in Edinburgh, sitting as the Court of Appeal, appeal judges granted the Crown's motion for a retrial.
The new charges allege that between April 28, 1998 - the day Arlene vanished from her Elgin home - and May 7, 1998, that Fraser assaulted Arlene by compressing her neck and strangling her. Or that by other means unknown to the prosecutor Fraser assaulted the mother-of-two assault and murdered her.
It is further alleged that between April 28, 1998 and May 28, 1998, at an unknown location Fraser burned and dismembered his wife's body, removed her teeth, jewellery and other personal effects tending to identify her and disposed of her remains.
Fraser is also accused of removing a sum of money, items of child's clothing and a coat from the family home at 2 Smith Street, New Elgin, on April 28, 1998, and that on May 7, 1998 he placed Arlene's wedding ring, engagement ring and eternity ring in the house.
The Crown also further allege that between April 30, 1998 and May 4, 1998, at Wester Hillside Farm, near Elgin, and Williamson's Scrap Yard in the town that Fraser caused a car to be returned to Wester Hillside Farm and had farmer Hector Dick dispose it by setting it on fire, crushing it and taking it to Williamson's for scrap to prevent police from recovering the vehicle.
It is alleged that in the weeks before Fraser had organised the surreptitious purchase of a motor car with a boot.
And that on April 27, 1998, the night before his wife disappeared, Fraser visited Wester Hillside and with the help Hector Dick, bought the car, registration number B231 PDY, from Kevin Ritchie and hid it on the farm.
The Arlene Fraser mystery prompted the biggest ever investigation mounted by Grampian Police.
She vanished from her home in New Elgin, Moray on April 28, 1998, shortly after waving her two children off to school.
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