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Charlie Wiggins: Pioneer of Race Car Driving
Charlie Wiggins was born in 1897 in Evansville, Indiana. He spent his youth shining shoes on in front of a car repair shop. Eventually he was given a job in the garage. He eventually became an apprentice. In 1917, he became chief mechanic.
After moving to Indianapolis in 1922, Wiggins started his own garage and began building his own racecar with salvaged junkyard parts. He wanted to race in the Indianapolis 500 in the car he dubbed "the Wiggins Special," but the color of his skin made him ineligible to compete.
Wiggins and other African-American drivers decided to form their own racing league, "Gold and Glory Sweepstakes", an annual 100-mile race for black drivers on a one-mile dirt track at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The first race, in 1924, drew a crowd of 12,000 and was the largest sporting event held for African Americans up to that point. Over the next 10 years, Wiggins would win three Gold and Glory Sweepstake championships. His notoriety as a mechanic and racer and his bold actions against segregation in auto racing caused the KKK to target him.
During the 1936 running of the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, Wiggins lost a leg in a 13-car crash. He made himself a wooden leg and for the next 40 years continued to build and repair built cars while training other drivers and mechanics. He also continued to advocate for African-American participation in motor racing until his death in Indianapolis in 1979 at the age of 82.
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C.R. Patterson Auto Company; 1st Black Owned Auto Company
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Born into slavery on a West Virginia plantation in April 1833, C.R. Patterson escaped to Ohio in 1862. Patterson obtained employment as a blacksmith for the Greenfield carriage-building business Dines and Simpson. Patterson eventually partnered with J.P. Lowe, a local carriage manufacturer who happened to be white.
When Lowe died, Patterson took over the business and renamed it the "C.R. Patterson & Sons Company." Patterson sold 28 types of horse-drawn vehicles and employed over a dozen workers. Before his death in 1910, he experimented with the manufacture of gas-powered "horseless carriages." The C.R. Patterson Auto Company is believed to be the first and only African American owned and founded auto company.
Patterson's son, Frederick, transitioned the company over to auto manufacturing with the development and debut of the Patterson-Greenfield car in 1915. Selling price was $850. It featured a four-cylinder Continental engine and was comparable to the contemporary Ford Model T. Estimates of the Patterson-Greenfield car production vary. It is likely that no more than 150 vehicles were built.
Unable to compete with Ford's manufacturing capability, C.R. Patterson & Sons began production of truck, bus and other utility vehicle bodies installed on chassis from major auto manufacturers such as Ford and General Motors. The company's school bus bodies became sought after as Midwestern school districts began to move from horse-drawn to internal-combustion-fired transportation by 1920. Around 1920, the company reorganized as the Greenfield Bus Body Company but the Great Depression resulted in the decline of the company. The company closed its doors in 1939.
While no Patterson-Greenfield automobiles are known to have survived, rare examples of C.R. Patterson & Sons carriages and buggies can still be found in museums across the Midwest.
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Albert Cleage: Founder The Shrine of The Black Madonna
Rev. Albert B. Cleage 1911-2000 (later changed his name to Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman) was a theologian, nationalist, civil rights leader and father. He was a major influence on Detroit politics and black nationalism. He established the Central United Church of Christ in Detroit in 1956.
Cleage had become disenchanted with the white hierarchy of his denomination. Though he had served in integrated church settings; it seemed disheartening to him because he felt that he continued to witness racism and unfair treatment.
In 1970, shortly after the unveiling of an 18-foot painting of a Black Madonna in his church, the name was changed to Shrine of the Black Madonna and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church denomination was created. The church also maintained the Shrine of The Black Madonna Cultural Center. It was a hub of progressive, African-centered, religious, cultural and political activity. He contended, that Christ and many of his disciples were African in origin and suggested that Europeans had captured and twisted Christianity to assist in their enslaving Africans. He argued strongly for African American control of their own fate.
Albert Cleage in front of Shrine of The Black Madonna in Detroit
Cleage did not believe in integration for blacks. He felt that it was important for blacks to obtain and maintain an economic, political, and social environment independently. He founded the City-wide Citizens Action Committee to support black businesses. He also promoted the education of black children by black teachers.
In the 1970s, Cleage expanded the church to Atlanta and Houston. Cleage was also very active in politics. Though he ran for office several times, he never won. However, his candidacies and advocacy led to the creation of the Black Slate, an organization that was instrumental in electing Detroit's first Black mayor, Coleman Young, as well as other political officials. Cleage was also very instrumental as part of the 1960's Black Power Movement. He authored 2 books, "The Black Messiah" and "Black Christian Nationalism."
Growing up in Detroit, The Shrine Of The Black Madonna Cultural Center was an icon in Black community. But I was not fully aware of its origins or impact. I'm wondering if any of the Black Mail blog readers are familiar with Albert Cleage?
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Dr. Charles H. Wright: Physician With A Passion for African American History
Dr. Charles Howard Wright (1918 – 2002) was an African-American physician. He founded the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, MI. Wright practiced both general medicine as well as obstetrics and gynecology. Wright became motivated to preserve African American history after visiting a memorial to Danish World War II heroes in Denmark. Visiting this memorial, convinced him that African Americans needed a place and platform to preserve and teach about African American history, life and culture.
In 1965, in partnership with a racially diverse group of 33 individuals, Wright opened the International Afro-American Museum on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, MI (pictured above). The next year he also began a traveling exhibit of African History which toured the state in a converted mobile home.
In 1978, the City of Detroit agreed to lease space to Wright for land in the Midtown area of Detroit. Groundbreaking took place in 1985 and the museum was named the "Museum of African American History". The museum was expanded in 1997 and in 1998 it was renamed, "The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History". The museum is described as, "the world's largest institution dedicated to the African American experience." The museum is home to over 35,000 artifacts and archival materials.
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1963 Walk To Freedom: 1st Time "I Have A Dream Speech" Shared By MLK
Left to right: Walter Reuther, Benjamin McFall, James Del Rio, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rev. C.L. Franklin. Behind Franklin is Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh.
Two months before the "March On Washington" was held, there was The "Walk To Freedom" on June 23, 1963. Held in Detroit, it was the largest ever civil rights demonstration in the country at the time. It was estimated that approximately 125,000 people marched down Woodward Avenue in Detroit.
It was also the first time that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous, "I Have A Dream Speech". National and state leaders who marched along with Reverend King included United Auto Workers president Walter Reuther, former Michigan governor John B. Swainson, and Detroit mayor Jerome Cavanagh.
The march ended at Cobo Hall where Dr. King was cheered by thousands of supporters when he stated that segregation needed to end. Dr. King believed that it was the responsibility of African Americans to take part in peaceful demonstrations like the Walk to Freedom, which he called, "one of the most wonderful things that has happened in America."
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WGPR/Channel 62 – 1st African American Owned TV Station In The U.S.
In 1961, Dr. William V. Banks, took a lead role when the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons bought WQTI 107.5 and renamed it WGPR. He changed the format to R & B, gospel and soul music to make it more appealing to African American Detroiters. In 1975, he would do the same thing in the television industry by launching Channel 62. Bank's purchase made WGPR the first television station ever to be wholly owned by African Americans.
The station created an opportunity for African-Americans in front of and behind the cameras. At that time not only were there no black-owned television stations, but there weren't a lot of black people working in television. One TV-62's signature shows was, "The Scene"; a dance show featuring African Americans. "The Scene was on air from 1975-1987".
In 1995, WGPR-TV was sold to CBS. CBS changed the tv station name to WWJ-TV and targeted its programming for a general audience.
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Geraldine Bledsoe Ford: 1st African American Woman To Be Elected As A Judge
Born in 1928, Geraldine Bledsoe-Ford was the first African-American to be elected as a judge in the United States. She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. In 1966, she scored a surprising upset victory to become a judge on the Detroit Recorders Court. Ford's qualifications swept the election and she led the ticket repeatedly for the following 33 years. After a court reorganization, she served another year as a Circuit Court Judge, before retiring in 1999.
She spent much of her career hearing criminal cases. On the bench she was known as "Mean Geraldine" to unprepared attorneys and those to whom she issued tough prison sentences. However, Judge Ford also had a softer side; serving as a mentor to many aspiring lawyers. Her daughter, Deborah Geraldine Bledsoe-Ford also served as a judge in Detroit as well.
Geraldine Bledsoe-Ford died in 2003.
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"Who Said That?": Test Your Knowledge
I love thought provoking quotes! So I really enjoyed this quiz! Test your knowledge to see how you do identifying which civil rights icon was the first to utter some of the quotes that are now famous today!
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http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/connect/quizzes/famous-quotes-black-history/
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Wednesday Poll: Thoughts on Verizon's 4G LTE Network?
All the talk today has been about Verizon's 4G LTE network that will go live starting Sunday, December 5th in 38 major cities (press release) and we just want to know your thoughts on it. There have been numerous articles written throughout the tech world suggesting that all of the "4G" networks across the country aren't true 4G, but for us, that hasn't lessened our excitement over it. We just can't wait to see the speeds on the new set of Android devices that we're expecting some time in 2011 and could care less what the network is called.
But what about you? Is the "4G" tag bothering you like it seems to be to so many others? Are you just excited to see the new devices that will dominate our lives with ridiculous speeds? Should we call it something else? Let us know in the comments!
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Q: Organizing Java projects I'm a junior developer and recently started working for a very small office where they do a lot of in-house development. I have never worked in a project that involved more than one developer or were as big and complex as these ones.
The problem is that they don't use all the tools available (version control, automated building, continuous integration, etc) to their full extent: mainly a project is one big project in eclipse/netbeans using cvs for version control and everything checked in (including library jars), they started using branching for the first time when I started doing branches for small tasks and merging them back. As the projects get bigger and more complex, problems start to arise with dependencies, project structure tied to an IDE, building can be a PITA sometimes, etc. It's hectic at best.
What I want is to set up a development environment where most of these problems will go away and I will save time and effort. I would like to set up projects in a manner independent of IDE used using version control (I'm leaning towards SVN right now), avoid dependency messes and automate building as much as possible.
I know that there are multiple approaches and tools for this and do not want to see a holy war started, I would really appreciate practical recommendations based on experience and what you have found to be useful when facing similar problems. All projects are Java projects and range from web applications to "generic" ones, and I use Eclipse most of the time, but also use Netbeans if needed. Thanks in advance.

A: Our development stack (team of 10+ developers)

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*Eclipse IDE with M2Eclipse and Subclipse/Subversive

*Subversion for source control, some developers also use TortoiseSVN where Subclipse fails

*Maven 2 for project configuration (dependencies, build plugins) and release mgmt (automatic tagging of releases)

*Hudson for Continuous Integration (creates also snapshot releases with source attachments and reports)

*Archiva for artifact repository (multiple repositories, e.g. releases and snapshots are separated)

*Sonar for code quality tracking (e.g. hotspots, coverage, coding guidelines adherence)

*JIRA for bug tracking

*Confluence for developer wiki and communication of tech docs with other departments

*Docbook for manuals (integrated into build)

*JMeter for stress testing and long-term performance monitoring

*Selenium/WebDriver for automated browser integration tests

*Jetty, Tomcat, Weblogic and Websphere as test environments for web apps. Products are deployed every night and automated tests are run on distributed Hudsons.

*Mailinglist with all developers for announcements, general info mails

*Daily stand up meetings where everbody tells about what he's currently doing

This setup is considered standard for our company as many departments are using those tools and there is a lot of experience and community support for those.
You are absolutely right about trying to automate as much as possible. If your collegues start to see the benefits when aspects of the development phases are automated, they will be encouraged to improve on their own. Of course, every new technology gimmick ("tool") is a new burden and has to be managed and maintained. This is where the effort is moved. You save time e.g. when maven automatically performs your releases, but you will waste time on managing maven itself. My experience is that every time I introduced a new tool (one of the aboves), it takes time to be adopted and cared about, but in the end it will bring advantages to the whole team when real value is experienced - esp. in times of stress when the tools take over much of the work you would have to do manually.

A: A fine, admirable instinct.  Kudos to you.
Part of your problem might not be solved using tools.  I'd say that source code management needs some work, because it doesn't sound like branching, tagging, and merging is done properly.  You'll need some training and communication to solve that.
I haven't used CVS myself, so I can't say how well it supports those practices.  I will point out that Subversion and Git would be better choices.  At worst, you should be reading the Subversion "red bean" book to get some generic advice on how to manage source code.
Personally, I'm not a Maven fan.  I believe it's too heavyweight, especially when compared to Ant and Ivy.  I'd say that using those with Cruise Control could be the solution to a lot of your problems.
You didn't mention unit testing.  Start building TestNG and Fit tests into your build cycle.
Look into IntelliJ - I think its  a better IDE than either Eclipse or NetBeans, but that's just me.
Best of luck.

A: Maven is great, however, it can have a fair bit of a learning curve, and it requires that the project fits a very specific file structure. If you have a big legacy project, it may be difficult to mavenize it. In that case, Ant+Ivy would do the same without the stringent requirements that maven has.
For build automation, Hudson is beyond awesome. I've used a couple different systems, but that is unquestionably the easiest to get set up and administer.

A: You seem to be almost exactly in the point where the place I worked at was when I started there 1,5 years ago, only difference being that you've started toying with branches which is actually something we still don't do at my work but more about that later on in this answer.
Anyway, you're listing a very good set of tools which can help a small company and those work really nicely as subtopics so without further ado,
Version control systems
Most commonly small companies currently use CVS or SVN and there's nothing bad in that, in fact I'd be really worried if no version control was really used at all. However you have to use version control right, just having one won't make your life easier. We currently use CVS and are looking into Mercurial, but we've found that the following works as a good set of conventions when working with CVS (and I'd suspect SVN too):

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*Have separate users for all commiters. It's beyond valuable to know who commited what.

*Don't allow empty commit messages. In fact if possible, configure the repository to reject any commits without comments and/or default comment. Initial commit for FooBarizer is better than Empty log message

*Use tags to mark milestones, prototypes, alphas, betas, release candidates and final versions. Don't use tags for experimental work or as footnotes/Post-It notes.

*Don't use branches since they really don't work if you're continuing on developing the application. This is mainly because in CVS and SVN branching just doesn't work as expected and it becomes an exercise in futility to maintain any more than two living branches ( head and any secondary branch ) over time.

Always remember that for the software company the source code is your source of income and contains all your business value, so treat it that way. Also if you have extra 70 minutes, I really recommend that you watch through this talk Linus Thorvalds gave at Google about git and (d)VCS in general, it's really insightful.
Automated builds and Continuous Integration environments
These are about the same actually. Daily builds is a PR joke and has little no resemblance to the state of the actual software beyond some very rudimentary "Does it compile?" issues. You can compile a lot of awful code noise that doesn't do anything, keeping the software quality up has nothing to do with getting the code to compile.
On the other hand unit tests is a great way to maintain software quality and I can with a bit of personal pride say that rigorous unit testing helps even the worst of the programmers to improve a lot and catch stupid errors. In fact there has so far only been a total of three bugs that code I have written has reached production environments and I'd say that in 18 months that's a pretty damn good achievement. In our new production code we usually have a instruction code coverage of +80%, mostly +90% and in one special case reaching all the way to 98%. This part is very lively field and you're better of Googling for the following: TDD, BDD, unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests, xUnit, mock objects.
That's a bit of a lengthy preface, I know. The actual meat for all the above is this: If you want to have automated builds, have them occur every time someone commits and make sure there's a constantly increasing and improving amount of unit tests for production code. Have the continuous integration system of your choice (we use Hudson CI) run all the unit tests related to project and only accept builds if all the tests pass. Do not make any compromises! If unit tests show that the software is broken, fix the software.
Additionally, Continuous Integration systems aren't just for compiling code but instead they should be used for tracking the state of the software project's metrics. For Hudson CI I can recommend all these plugins:

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*Checkstyle - Checks if the actual source code is written in a way you define. Big part of writing maintainable code is to use common conventions.

*Cobertura - Code coverage metrics, very useful to see how the coverage develops over time. Also keeping in line with the "source is God" mentality, allows you to discard builds if coverage falls below a certain level.

*Task Scanner - Simple but sweet: Scans for specific tags such as BUG, TODO, NOTE etc. in your code and creates a list from them for everyone to read. Simple way to track short notes or known bugs which needs fixing or whatever you can come up with.

Project structure and Dependency Management
This is a controversial one. Basically everyone agrees that having an unified structure is great but since there's several camps with different requirements, habits and views to issue they tend to disagree. For example Maven people really believe that there's only one way - the Maven way - to do things and that's it while Ivy supporters believe that the project structure shouldn't be hammered down your throat by external parties, only the dependencies need to be managed properly and in an unified manner. Just that it's not left unclear, our company simply loves Ivy.
So since we don't use project structure imposed by external parties, I'm going to tell you a bit about how we got into what we got into our current project structure.
In the beginning we used individual projects for actual software and related tests (usually named Product and Product_TEST). This is very close to what you have, one huge directory for everything with the dependencies as JARs directly included in the directory. What we did was that we checked out both projects from CVS and then linked the actual project to the test software project in Eclipse as runtime dependency. A bit clunky but it worked.
We soon came to realize that these extra steps are completely useless since by using Ant - by the way, you can invoke Ant tasks directly in Hudson - we could tell the JAR/WAR building step to ignore everything by either file name (say, everything that ends with Test or TestCase) or by source folder. Pretty soon we converted our software project to use a simple structure two root folders, src and test. We haven't looked back ever since. The only debate we currently have is if we should allow for a third folder called spikes to exist in our standard project structure and that's not a very heated debate at all.
This has worked tremendously well and doesn't require any additional support or plugins from any of IDEs out there which is a great plus - number two reason we didn't choose Maven was seeing how M2Eclipse basically took over Eclipse. And since you must be wondering, number one reason for rejecting Maven was the clunkiness of Maven itself, endless amount of lengthy XML declarations for configuration and the related learning curve was considered a too big cost as to what we would get from using it.
Rather interestingly later on commiting to Ivy instead of Maven has allowed us to a smooth shift to do some Grails development which uses folder and class names as conventions for just about everything when structuring the web application.
Also a final note about Maven, while it claims to promote convention over configuration, if you don't want to do things exactly the way the Maven's structure says you should do things, you're in a world of pain for the aforementioned reasons. Certainly that's an expected side effect of having conventions but no convention shouldn't be final, there always has to be at least some room for changes, bending the rules or choosing the appropriate from a certain set.
In short, my opinion is that Maven is a bazooka, you work in a house and you ultimate goal is to have it bug free. Each of these are good on it's own and work even if you pick any two of them, but the three together just doesn't work.
Final words
As long as you have less than 10 code-centric people, you have all the flexibility needed to do the important decisions. When you go beyond that, you have to live with whatever choices you've made, no matter how good or bad they are. Don't just believe things you hear on the Internet, sit down and test everything rigorously - heck, our senior tech guy even wrote his bachelor's thesis about Java web frameworks just to figure out which one we should use - and really figure out what you really need. Don't commit to anything just because you may need some of the functionality it provides in distant future, pick those things that has the lowest possible negative impact to the whole company. Being the 10th person hired to the company I work at I can undersign everything in this paragraph with my own blood, we currently have 16+ people working and changing certain conventions would actually be a bit scary at this point.

A: I recommend to use Maven for building your projects. Using Maven brigns value to the project, because:

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*Maven promotes convention over configuration what equals a good project structure

*thanks Maven plugins eases generating projects for IDE's (Eclipse, Netbeans, Idea)

*handles all dependecies and complete build lifecycle

*faciliates projects modularization (via mulitimodule projects)

*helps with releases/versions burden

*improve code quality - easy integration with continous integration servers and lot of code quality plugins

A: Maven can be a bit daunting given its initial learning curve, but it would nicely address many of your concerns.  I also recommend you take a look at Git for version control.

A: For project and repository management, I use trac with subversion.

A: Here's what i'm using right now, but i will probably switch a few parts (see the end of this post).
Eclipse as IDE with a few plugins : JADClipse (to decompile .class on the fly, pretty useful), DBViewer for a quick access to database through Eclipse, WTP (Web Tools Platform) integrated into Eclipse for running Tomcat 6 as a developement web server (pretty fast), Mylyn (linked with JIRA bug-tracker).
I'm too wondering about "IDE independant projects", right now we are all sticked on Eclipse - Eclipse project files (.project, .classpath, .settings) are even commited in the CVS repository (in order to have a project fully ready once checked out) - but with Netbeans, supported by Sun and running faster and faster with each release (and each new JRE version), the question isn't closed.
CVS for storing projects, with nearly no branches (only for patches).
I'm working on environment production with Oracle SGBDR but I'm using HSQLDB on my developement computer to make test and build and development process way faster (with the help of the open-source DDLUtils tool to ease database creation and data injections). Otherwise i use SQLWorkbench for quick BD tasks (including schemas comparison) or the Oracle (free) SQLDeveloper for some Oracle specific tasks (like investating sessions locks and so on).
Tests are only JUnit tests (either simple unit test cases or more complex test cases (nearly "integrations" ones), nearly always runing on HSQLDB to run faster.
My build system is Ant (launched from Eclipse) for various small tasks (uploading a war on a remote server for example) and (mainly) Maven 2 for :

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*the build process

*the publishing of the released artefacts

*the publishing of the project's web site (including reports)

*launching tests campaigns (launched every night)

The continuous integration front-end is Luntbuild, and the front-end for the Maven repository is Archiva.
All this works. But I'm pretty disappointed by a few elements of this ecosystem.
Mainly Maven, it's just too time-consuming and i have a lot of griefs versus this tool. Conflicts dependencies resolution is a joke. Lot of XML lines in every POM.xml, redundant in every project (even with the help of a few POM roots). Plugins are way too inconsistent, buggy, and it's really difficult to find clear documentation explaining what has to be configured, and so on.
So i'm wondering about switching from Maven to ANT+Ivy. For what i've seen so far, it's seems pretty cool (there are various Conflict manager for the conflicts dependencies resolutions and you can even write your own conflict manager), there is no need to have an additionnal tool installed and configured (as ANT is running natively under Eclipse, whereas Maven needs a separate plugin - i've tried the 3 Mavens plugins by the way, and have found all the three of them buggy).
However Maven 3 is on its way, i'll give it a try but i don't expect it to be fundamentaly different from Maven 2.
Hudson would seem a better choice than Luntbuild, too, but this part won't be changed for the now.
And Subversion will probably replace CVS in a near future (even if i nearly don't have any trouble with CVS).

A: Lots of good advice here.  I have just a few additions:
I think that, unlike the rest, an IDE is a personal tool, and each developer should have some freedom to select the one that works best for him.  (For example, many love Eclipse, while I ditched it for NetBeans because Maven integration was, uh, problematic in Eclipse.)
I thought I was going to hate Maven, but now I get along with it fairly well.  The main problem I have these days is finding out where the conventions are documented.
I would advise introducing tools one at a time.  If you try to mechanize all aspects of software development at a by-hand shop in one stroke, there will likely be massive resistance.  Make your business case and get agreement on one good common tool, or just get permission to set it up for your use but in a commonly-accessible way and let people see what it does for you.  After a few of these, people will develop a habit of wondering how aspect X could be automated, so additional tools should be easier to introduce.

A: The single most best thing you can do without disrupting other people and their way of working is setting up hudson to watch the CVS repository for each of your project.  Just doing that will give a central place to see cvs commit messages.
Next step is getting these projects to compile under Hudson. For Eclipse this typically means either switching to ant or - as we did - use ant4eclipse to model the existing eclipse build process. Not easy but very worthwhile. Remember to send out mails when the build breaks - this is extremely important.  Ant4eclipse requires team project sets - introducing them in your organization Will make your colleagues happy the next time they need to set up a fresh workspace.
When you have a situation where your stuff builds properly whenever somebody commits changes then consider making that automatically built code the code to actually go to the customer.  As it was built on the build server and not on a developers machine, you know that you can reproduce the build.  That is invaluable in a "hey fix this ancient version" situation.

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Evolving Generations is a photo essay that documents how technology is gradually influencing young women on the tiny island of Bali, Indonesia. Culture is changing over time as more and more technology is introduced into everyday life.
The amount of work that Balinese women do in their life and the circumstances they have endured throughout history is nothing short of inspiring. In Bali, women's roles are genuinely important to the community and culture as a whole. They have come a long way in finding their sense of place, but they are still expected to be mothers and are held responsible for maintaining family rituals. Most women take pride in these expectations; however, many are striving for more.
Rituals have been consistent throughout Bali's history, but the culture shifted with the arrival of technology in the early 2000's. More women are breaking from these unique rituals and are reaching for new goals that – pre-technology – had not been attainable. Mothers are business owners and managers, women are staying out past midnight, and many of them are even entertainers. All of this would have given the family a bad name in the past. But because technology has reached this new generation, Balinese women feel more empowered to explore and follow new paths in life, though they still hold onto the cultural rituals and mystic beliefs of their homeland.
Young girls sit and watch their friends dance for the opening of the Calonarang, a four hour long theatrical play about the posing forces of white and black magic.
Traditional Bali dancers are taught at a young age and are expected to continue and pass down the knowledge to their children.
Desk, 70, sits in her shop and makes bantens, a ceremonial offering bowl, to sell to people who do not know how or do not have time to make the banten.
Nyoman cooks a traditional rice dish with a sweet potato she holds in her hands. Every mother and grandmother wake up at 5 or 6 o'clock every morning to make rice and give their offerings to the gods, thanking them for the trees, the air, food, and good health.
Nyoman, age described as "grandmother", looks for guava fruit in her back yard. It is said that guava helps cure dengue fever.
At a cremation, or funeral, women carry these handmade offerings and baskets for many blocks to the location where the body of a loved one will be cremated. Making these offerings for ceremonies is a huge role in a Balinese woman's life.
Women sit and morn at the cremation.
Nyoman makes 70 banten every day for the following morning's offerings to the gods. Each color petal represents a direction, North, South, East, West, and Center.
Ika Arcana makes a living by singing in Bali. By being a late night entertainer the village used to look down on the parents of Ika, but times are slowly changing. Although it is harder for women to step out, she says it is necessary for women to break out and do what they love.
Diah Rahayu has been surfing since she was 12. Her father didn't want her to surf, so she went to her uncle who taught her how. She went against all odds and conquered what she wanted and loved. She is now sponsored by Rip Curl Asia.
Gung Diah gets permission from her parents, who are also artist, to fire dance and branch out from the traditional Balinese ways of life.
An audiences watches Gung spin fire as they sit and eat at their hotel.
Gung Diah blows out her fire torch after her show.
Manager, Nova Hafaz, of the Laughing Buda (bottom left) and mother of two breaks the rules of what is considered appropriate for a mother in the Balinese culture. Staying out past midnight is considered disrespectful, as well as managing a bar. She is proud of what she does and her husband and children support her. She said its hard to break the mold, but it is important for her to be a successful woman. She still gives offerings in the morning.
Full time dj, DJ Kiara, is a 23 year old Instagram icon in Bali and doesn't start her sets until 2am at times. She has moved past the stigmas of the older generation and is living a life she dreamt up and worked hard for. She does not now how to make the banten offering, but will buy them at the store to continue the tradition.
DJ Kiara's last song of the night at Vi Ai Pi in Kuta, Bali.


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How George Soros Destroyed the Democratic Party
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
It was the end of the big year with three zeroes. The first X-Men movie had broken box office records. You couldn't set foot in a supermarket without listening to Brittney Spears caterwauling, "Oops, I Did It Again." And Republicans and Democrats had total control of both chambers of legislatures in the same amount of states. That was the way it was back in the distant days of the year 2000.
In 2016, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states. That's up from 16 in 2000.
What happened to the big donkey? Among other things, the Democrats decided to sell their base and their soul to a very bad billionaire and they got a very bad deal for both.
It was 2004. The poncho was the hottest fashion trend, there were 5 million new cases of AIDS and a former Nazi collaborator had bought the Democrat Party using the spare change in his sofa cushions.
And gone to war against the will of the people. This was what he modestly called his own "Soros Doctrine".
"It is the central focus of my life," George Soros declared. It was "a matter of life and death." He vowed that he would become poor if it meant defeating the President of the United States.
Instead of going to the poorhouse, he threw in at least $15 million, all the spare change in the billionaire's sofa cushions, dedicated to beating President Bush.
In his best lisping James Bond villain accent, Soros strode into the National Press Club and declared that he had "an important message to deliver to the American Public before the election" that was contained in a pamphlet and a book that he waved in front of the camera. Despite his "I expect you to die, Mr. Bond" voice, the international villain's delivery was underwhelming. He couldn't have sold brownies to potheads at four in the morning. He couldn't even sell Bush-bashing to a roomful of left-wing reporters.
But he could certainly fund those who would. And that's exactly what he did.
Money poured into the fringe organizations of the left like MoveOn, which had moved on from a petition site to a PAC. In 2004, Soros was its biggest donor. He didn't manage to bring down Bush, but he helped buy the Democratic Party as a toy for his yowling dorm room of left-wing activists to play with.
Soros hasn't had a great track record at buying presidential elections. The official $25 million he poured into this one bought him his worst defeat since 2004. But his money did transform the Democrat Party.
And killed it.
Next year the Democracy Alliance was born. A muddy river of cash from Soros and his pals flowed into the organizations of the left. Soros had helped turn Howard Dean, a Vermont politician once as obscure as this cycle's radical Vermont Socialist, into a contender and a national figure. Dean didn't get the nomination, but he did get to remake the DNC. Podesta's Center for American Progress swung the Democrats even further to the left. And it would be Podesta who helped bring Hillary down.
The Democrats became a radical left-wing organization and unviable as a national political party. The Party of Jefferson had become the Party of Soros. And only one of those was up on Mount Rushmore.
Obama's wins concealed the scale and scope of the disaster. Then the party woke up after Obama to realize that it had lost its old bases in the South and the Rust Belt. The left had hollowed it out and transformed it into a party of coastal urban elites, angry college crybullies and minority coalitions.
Republicans control twice as many state legislative chambers as the Democrats. They boast 25 trifectas , controlling both legislative chambers and the governor's mansion. Trifectas had gone from being something that wasn't seen much outside of a few hard red states like Texas to covering much of the South, the Midwest and the West.
The Democrats have a solid lock on the West Coast and a narrow corridor of the Northeast, and little else. The vast majority of the country's legislatures are in Republican hands. The Democrat Governor's Association has a membership in the teens. In former strongholds like Arkansas, Dems are going extinct. The party has gone from holding national legislative majorities to becoming a marginal movement.
And the Democrats don't intend to change course. The way is being cleared for Keith Ellison, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus with an ugly racist past, to head the DNC. Pelosi will oversee the disaster in the House. And Obama will remain the party's highest profile national figure.
There could hardly be a clearer signal that the left intends to retain its donkey herding rights. Soros and his ilk have paid for the reins. That is why Pelosi, with her access to donors, will retain her position.
The left had recreated the Democrat Party and marginalized it. Much of this disaster had been funded with Soros money. Like many a theatrical villain, the old monster had been undone by his own hubris. Had Soros aided the Democrats without trying to control them, he would have gained a seat at the table in a national party. Instead he spent a fortune destroying the very thing he was trying to control.
George Soros saw America in terms of its centers of economic and political power. He didn't care about the vast stretches of small towns and villages, of the more modest cities that he might fly over in his jet but never visit, and the people who lived in them. Like so many globalists who believe that borders shouldn't exist because the luxury hotels and airports they pass through are interchangeable, the parts of America that mattered to him were in the glittering left-wing bubble inhabited by his fellow elitists.
Trump's victory, like Brexit, came because the left had left the white working class behind. Its vision of the future as glamorous multicultural city states was overturned in a single night. The idea that Soros had committed so much power and wealth to was of a struggle between populist nationalists and responsible internationalists. But, in a great irony, Bush was hardly the nationalist that Soros believed. Instead Soros spent a great deal of time and wealth to unintentionally elect a populist nationalist.
Leftists used Soros money to focus on their own identity politics obsessions leaving the Dems with little ability to interact with white working class voters. The Ivy and urban leftists who made up the core of the left had come to exist in a narrow world with little room for anything and anyone else.
Soros turned over the Democrats to political fanatics least likely to be able to recognize their own errors. His protégés repeated the great self-destruction of the Soviet Union on a more limited scale
Soros fed a political polarization while assuming, wrongly, that the centers of power mattered, and their outskirts did not. He was proven wrong in both the United States of America and in the United Kingdom. He had made many gambles that paid off. But his biggest gamble took everything with it.
"I don't believe in standing in the way of an avalanche," Soros complained of the Republican wave in 2010.
But he has been trying to do just that. And failing.
"There should be consequences for the outrageous statements and proposals that we've regularly heard from candidates Trump and Cruz," Soros threatened this time around. He predicted a Hillary landslide.
He was wrong.
As Soros plowed more money into the left, its escalating radicalism alienated more of the country. Each "avalanche" was a reaction to the abuses of his radicals. It wasn't Trump or Cruz who suffered the consequences. It wasn't even his own leftists. Rather it was the conservative and eventually the moderate wings of the Democrat party who were swept away by his left-wing avalanches.
The left did not mourn the mass destruction of the moderates. Instead it celebrated the growing purity of the Democrats as a movement of the hard left. It did not notice or care that it was no longer a political force outside a limited number of cities. It anticipated that voters would have no choice but to choose it over the "extremist" Republicans.
It proved to be very, very wrong.
George Soros spent a fortune to turn a national party favorable to the left into an organization that has difficulty appealing to anyone not on the left. He wanted to control a country he did not understand. And, as the left so often does, he achieved his goals and in doing so destroyed them.

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Outdoors: Texan creates lifelike electronic fishing lure
(via Caller.com)
Electronic fishing lures grunt, croak, pulse and vibrate, while others illuminate or emit a blinking red light, because you know fish can't resist a blinking red light.
I've tried a few of these, just for grins. Rarely do they deliver fully on their marketing promise to catch more fish when traditional methods fail. Some even boast greater success than live bait can deliver.
In the right hands, there is little doubt these lures can catch more than gullible buyers. And I'm sure anyone could get lucky with about the same regularity they would enjoy with traditional baits.
But do the lights and sounds catch more fish compared to their low-tech counterparts? And are they worth the price?
I believe many of these gimmicky products are geared toward wannabe anglers and novices whose early angling attempts either came up empty or just didn't deliver enough to excite them. Without actually saying so, most pitches aimed at selling these novelty lures suggest quick and easy success without the usual effort.
I recall the first time I recognized the silliness of a TV commercial's pitch for a better lure. It was the Banjo Minnow, which the spokesman said fish were biologically compelled to strike.
The beauty of this pitch is that it's true. Fish, indeed, are biologically programmed by instinct to eat for survival. And to a fish, food is anything of a certain size swimming within its habitat, or, in some cases, hovering above it.
For predator fish, which generally are favored by anglers, a meal doesn't even need to look like an aquatic organism. We proved that years ago by hooking a jalapeño and tossing it into a school of redfish. A fly fishing buddy once caught a fish using a cigarette filter.
And who hasn't heard about all manner of bling and other inanimate objects discovered inside a fish's stomach?
Experienced anglers simply smile and shake their heads. They've learned to catch fish through practice and experience. Many skilled anglers learned by mimicking the methods of a parent or other adult, who achieved their expertise the old fashioned way.
But shortcuts are very appealing. And so is fishing, or rather catching. This is particularly true for youths with short attention spans and no adults around to teach them. So these techno-lures that keep appearing on the market might have a place in tackle boxes.
The latest attempt to sell us on a better fishing lure comes from the mind of a graduate of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Kanz Kayfan, who now is a licensed professional counselor intern in Dallas, has created a self-propelled fishing lure that swims for up to three hours on a single USB charge.
I admit the appearance and swimming motion of this robotic lure are very lifelike.
Kayfan said his education at A&M-Corpus Christi resulted in a master's degree along with what he refers to as a "world-embracing vision." He embraced this vision while fishing local waters, which combined to provide inspiration for his invention. He calls it the Animated Lure.
Last year Kayfan launched a $21,000 funding campaign on Kickstarter, which allowed him to raise $22,041, thanks, in part, to a $10,000 donation from a single anonymous investor. In all, he has received donations from 130 backers through the online site for startups.
Currently, he is perfecting a prototype of the lure and is seeking a patent. Kayfan and two business partners also are developing a way to alter the appearance of their lure with interchangeable skins to provide variety and versatility.
They explored manufacturers in Texas and overseas and now are negotiating with one in Malaysia. Kayfan said a distributor in the Netherlands, where laws restrict the use of some natural and artificial fish baits, has contacted him.
He tells me that for now they are concentrating on a freshwater lure, though Kayfan said his design could be easily altered for saltwater use. The power source for the lure comes from the float it is attached to by a plastic-wrapped wire that resembles traditional monofilament fishing line.
They have tested the strength of this tether by applying up to 25 pounds of tension, to be sure it would withstand the pull of a fish that weighs 5-10 pounds, Kayfan said. So far, they have not allowed a real fish to engulf the lure, though it has attracted the attention of several fish during tests.
Kayfan said he doesn't envision anglers casting the current design very far. He believes the device itself would withstand the rigors of repeated surface impacts, but he said the float is a bit heavy for casting.
They anticipate the lure will be available at tackle shops within several months, or at least for sale online. You can order one now for $25.
Kayfan said he hopes his Animated Lure recruits youths and families into fishing and ultimately encourages more folks to connect with nature.


Plans for a major extension to Westfield London to make space for a John Lewis department store and propel the centre to the top of the European ranking by floorspace have been given the nod.
Developer Westfield has been granted permission by Hammersmith and Fulham Council to add 828,850 sq ft to the centre, which will include 665,662 sq ft of retail and new space for catering, leisure and residential use.
John Lewis will take the bulk of the retail space to open a four-storey department store at the scheme, its first in West London.
With the extra space, Westfield London will become the largest shopping centre in Europe when the overall works are completed. Construction will get underway next year, with a completion date of Christmas 2017.
Westfield director of development Duncan Bower said: "We are delighted that councillors at Hammersmith and Fulham Council recognised the benefits that our £1bn expansion will bring to White City; in the form of 7,800 jobs, new housing and an even greater range of shops and leisure facilities, including the first John Lewis in west London.
Retailers could create special aisles for mums and interactive digital displays for men as they react to changing shopping habits.
John Lewis is to mark its 150th anniversary with a series of activities including an interactive exhibition charting its history, a TV ad, and collaborations with brands.


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Photography by Anthony Isaac
Premiere – King Cardinal's "Long Goodbye" is an Anthem for Restless Souls
Tiara Stephan January 27, 2020 Music
"Get me out of this town," Brennan Mackey belts in King Cardinal's new single, "Long Goodbye." The song expresses a near-universal feeling of longing for freedom and change, sure to resonate with anyone who has dreams of spreading their wings and pursuing what's out in the wider world. The soulful, gospel-inspired single is the next to come from King Cardinal as the five-piece band has focused on releasing stand-alone songs over the past year.
Not to worry King Cardinal fans, Mackey wants to let you know he isn't going anywhere. "I do have to tell people when they hear the song, I'm not moving out of Denver," he explained. However, he's definitely familiar with the feelings he sings about, breaking out of the finance world in Chicago, moving back home to Rochester, New York, for a stint and finally ending up here in Denver. During his time in Rochester, Mackey got reacquainted with his home, armed with the perspective of someone who had experienced life outside of a small town. The time he spent there, seeing people from his adolescence, lent him the perspective he needed to write a song like "Long Goodbye." He explained how this experience inspired him.
"I was kind of writing about a friend who lives back home. I just was putting myself in this place of somebody who's never really left. I left our hometown, which, I feel like I did that for a little while, came home and I was kind of like, 'Whoa.' I could see what was gonna happen if I stayed there. Things were kind of, like, staying the same. It would get really old, real fast."
The creation of the single involved puzzle-piecing different elements together, Mackey providing the written lyrics and the band launching into recording instrumentation experimentally and without much discussion. A few Denver musicians also aided in the creation, Mark Anderson of former Paper Bird fame lending his studio to help King Cardinal record a few of those puzzle pieces. Listen closely and you'll also hear Sarah Anderson on the backing vocals, while Eric Luba contributed his talent on the Wurlitzer keyboard. The result is a rich and poignant record that hearkens back to the blue-eyed soul of the early '70s.
Mackey knows that this is a departure from the music people have come to expect from King Cardinal, but hopes people see it as a positive foray into new territory. "I hope it doesn't alienate anybody," he expressed. "I think that like, thematically, it's kind of specific, but I think it's broad enough that a lot of people have felt that emotion, feeling stuck somewhere and kind of spinning your wheels."
All photography by Anthony Isaac. Check out the exclusive release of the single above.
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Tiara is a recent graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Staff Writer for the Music Desk at 303 Magazine. If she's not dancing (if you can call it that) at a concert, she can very frequently be found drinking copious amounts of English Breakfast Tea, talking about how incredulous dictionaries are, watching Saturday Night Live sketches, eating pho, and daydreaming about traveling the world. Follow her on Instagram at @tiara.stephan to keep up with her various escapades.


Moon Township, Pa. – President Donald Trump told western Pennsylvania voters Saturday night that his new tariffs were saving the steel industry and urged them to send a Republican to the House so he can keep delivering those kinds of results.
The president lent his weight to Republican Rick Saccone in the final days of a surprisingly competitive special election outside Pittsburgh that could reverberate nationally ahead of the November midterm elections.
But, the president warned, "we can only do that if we elect people who are going to back our agenda," repeatedly urging his backers to support Saccone and stave off an upset by Democrat Conor Lamb in a district the president won by 20 percentage points over Hillary Clinton.
Democrats need to flip 24 GOP-held seats to claim a House majority. A victory in such a Republican-leaning district would boost their hopes and renew GOP concerns of a bad November.
Lamb, a 33-year-old Marine veteran and former prosecutor, has positioned himself as more representative of the district than Saccone, a 60-year-old state lawmaker. Lamb touts his resume and declares that he wouldn't vote for Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi as party leader. He also avoids criticizing Trump.
While Trump was ostensibly in Pennsylvania for Saccone, the rally was as much about the president as it was an underperforming congressional candidate. The president repeatedly reminisced about his election, when Pennsylvania helped put him over the top after decades of landing in the Democrats' column.
He also made sure the workers in this industrial-heavy region see the new steel tariffs as "my baby," even as Lamb and Saccone have endorsed the move. Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District has an estimated 17,000 steelworkers and almost 90,000 voters from union households.
"Not all of our friends on Wall Street love it, but we love it," Trump said of the tariffs. He added that Lamb's party leadership opposes his protectionist policy. He sidestepped the fact that most of his own party's leaders oppose tariffs, as well.
Trump's appearance was part of a White House push to help Saccone avoid a once-unlikely defeat. National GOP forces could exceed $10 million in spending on the race, and Saturday was the president's second recent visit to the area. But Trump risked another embarrassing defeat after backing Republican Roy Moore in last December's Alabama Senate election, only to watch Moore lose a seat his party had held since 1997.
The Pennsylvania special election is to replace Republican Rep. Tim Murphy, who resigned last year amid revelations of an extramarital affair in which the anti-abortion lawmaker urged his mistress to get an abortion when he thought she was pregnant.
Murphy, an eight-term congressman who had union support, never had a close election and had no Democratic challenger in his last two elections. But Saccone has struggled with his own fundraising, is a union foe and hasn't run as aggressive a campaign as Lamb, prompting criticism from Republicans in Washington who quietly concede Lamb is a stronger candidate.
Trump acknowledged those dynamics, noting talk of Lamb as a handsome candidate. But he said he thinks he's better looking, and added that Saccone "is handsome," too.
For his part, Saccone was thrilled to have the president's help.


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Q: proper way to ask for permission to change TV channels If you want to change your TV channel to another one, would you say, "Can I change the channel?" or "Can I change channels?" or anything else?

A: If you're negotiating with others who are watching to TV, other options would be—

May I change the channel?

That's slightly more polite than "can I".

Would you mind if I changed the channel?

That's even more polite, acknowledging that others might be a bit attached to the current program.

A: I guess you could informally say something like this:

Are you watching this? Do you mind if I change the channel?

I think it's also possible to use "Can I...?" as you posted in your question.


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BOMBSHELL: IRS Has Active Contract For MILLIONS With Company HHS FIRED Over Botched Healthcare.gov
rpollock Reporter
Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched work on Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million IT contract for its new Obamacare tax program.
CGI is a $10.5 billion Montreal-based company that has forever been etched into the public's mind as the company behind the bungled Obamacare main website.
After facing a year of embarrassing failures, federal officials finally pulled the plug on the company and terminated CGI's contract in January 2014.
Yet on Aug. 11, seven months later, IRS officials signed a new contract with CGI to provide "critical functions" and "management support" for its Obamacare tax program, according to the Federal Procurement Data System, a federal government procurement database.
The IRS contract is worth $4.46 million, according to the FPDS data. The contract expires Aug. 15, 2015.
Prior to terminating CGI's contract, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Congress, "I am as frustrated and angry as anyone with the flawed launch of HealthCare.gov." She called the CGI-designed website a "debacle."
A joint Senate Finance and Judiciary Committee staff report in June 2014 found that Turning Point Global Solutions, hired by HHS to review CGI's performance on Healthcare.gov, reported they found 21,000 lines of defective software code inserted by CGI.
Scott Amey, the general counsel for the non-profit Project on Government Oversight, which reviews government contracting, examined the IRS contract with CGI.
"CGI was the poster child for government failure," he told The Daily Caller. "I am shocked that the IRS has turned around and is using them for Obamacare IT work."
Washington was not the only city that has been fed up with CGI on healthcare.
Last year, CGI was fired by the liberal states of Vermont and Massachusetts for failing to deliver on their Obamacare websites.
The Obamacare health website in Massachusetts never worked, despite the state paying $170 million to CGI.
Massachusetts, the state that pioneered government healthcare through its Romneycare health insurance program in 2006, could only enroll 31,000 people in 2014. Most enrollments were through paper applications.
And in Vermont, state officials pulled the plug on CGI after its system failed to work for 10 months. Vermont had paid $66.7 million to CGI. The state imposed a $5 million penalty on the company for shoddy work.
CGI's 2014 annual report says nothing about the disastrous rollout of online healthcare websites in the United States.
Curiously, CGI features its online health work in Helsinki, London, Alberta, Saskatchewan and for the New York State of Mental Health, but says nothing about its ruined rollout of Obamacare web sites.
In Canada, CGI's parent company, Montreal-based CGI Group, was just as deficient.
Ontario health officials fired CGI after it failed to deliver a flagship provincial online health registry.
About 7 million Obamacare policyholders and about 20 million Americans who don't have healthcare coverage will depend this year on the proper IRS processing of their 2014 income tax returns.
Improper processing of health information could cause some Americans to receive smaller tax refunds, or even pay more out-of-pocket for their government-issued healthcare policies.
A September 2013 audit by the IRS inspector general criticized the tax agency's software and computer systems aimed to process Obamacare tax return forms.
Michael E. McKenney, the acting deputy inspector general, found many problems with the IRS software, including lax security and fraud controls.
Government auditors found "Many of the vulnerabilities in information systems can be traced to software flaws and misconfigurations of system components."
The IRS did not reply to numerous inquiries to the agency about the CGI contract.
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Try to find an actual person to handle your letter to. Who are they, and what electricity do they really have to allow you to? May they only pass your problem along? How should you handle them? Are they in a position that is senior or functionary? To them according to their location talk. Make an effort to discover what dispositions and morals the audience has about your matter.
What arguments may develop between you and your reader? How can you present a pleasantly that is counterargument? may have with all the matter. Do they have restricted funds to deliver? Are they immediately affected by the topic? How much time do they've to take into account your record? Look at the sort of data your discussion to be asked will be needed within by your viewer.
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Study this issue. Characters that are effective influential contain data and factual data that helps the positioning. Be sure to contemplate numerous factors-of-view. Do not only study your part; note the counter impression and details. Use judgement details, statistics, and historical evidence to aid your claim. Do not turn out and say one other side is mistaken; rather, be respectful why your location is stronger while you clarify and deserves notice. Advertisement Part 2 of 4: Formatting the Page Use block format. Enterprise letters possess a format that is particular. The style wont swing another or your reader one way, when completed properly.
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Nevertheless, if completed improperly, you will be reflected badly on by the formatting along with it may be tossed by your viewer away. Start with utilizing single-spaced stop sentences,. Left justify each paragraph; to put it differently, do not indent the paragraph as you would in an essay or writing. Keep a line between each part. Utilize usually, a normal font Occasions Roman or Arial. Tackle the letterhead correctly. By typing your address while in the top start left corner.
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Don't set your brand – only kind the street address, condition, location, and zipcode. You may even add a telephone number and an e-mail, each on lines that are distinct. The address continues on the proper side should you are now living in England. Skip a line. Type the time. Spell the month's name out supply year and the date. Omit a line.
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June 4, 2013 Give You The label and address of the recipient. Look for a person that is certain to send your letter to. Bypass aline. Start the page using a salutation. Exercise that is acknowledged would be to start with the term Dear followed by the individual's name. Be sure to enter the title appropriately when you sort it. The brand must match the title inside the address. the help essay While approaching the person, utilize their subject (Mr./Ms./Dr./etc) and lastname. Consult with her as Ms.
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Generally follow this by way of a colon, if you are uncertain what a woman's inclination is. Keep aline between your salutation and the first passage. Dear Dr. Brown: Shut the letter having a concluding declaration. When selecting a closing record, look at the tone of your essay. Some factors, like thank-you, are quite normal, while others, like sincerely, are friendlier. Decide if a welcoming or formal ending is warranted by your page. While the subsequent terms are not, it doesn't matter what you decide on, the first phrase must be capitalized. Follow the closing record having a comma.
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Choose Respectfully yours, for something more formal. Seriously, Kind regards, thank-you, or Yours certainly, are normal for proper business e mails. Greatest, sincerely, or Possess A evening that is pleasant, are friendly and not much less informal. Omit 4 traces afterwards to go away room for that signature before typing your title. Thanks, Ad Part 3 of 4: Publishing the Letter Be not prolix. Powerful words need to be polite and temporary. This kind of letter is seldom read by busy people in the event the tone is not nice or if it's over a typical page. Don't be excessively wordy.
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Make an effort to use, clean that is apparent sentences. Refrain from delivering and digressing unnecessary data, stories, and asides. Avoid excessively long sentences. Ensure that you use, declarative sentences that are powerful. Your writing ought to be easy, and succinct, to the level to examine. Do not create your paragraphs too long. Do not cram so much info inside that you simply eliminate your viewer, stray from your principal stage, or produce your point hard to understand. Adhere to the related information, once you start a fresh thought and change lines.
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State your main stage inside the first couple sentences. Begin with an agreeable opening sentence, then get right to the idea. Express your need (that is, most of your level) within the first two paragraphs. This paragraph might just be 2-4 paragraphs. Emphasize the value of your request in the part that is second. Within this part, describe need or your concern. You're not offering points, assistance, or specific reasons nevertheless; instead, you are completely conveying the parameters of your problem or demand your location, and just why it's crucial enough to warrant motion. Make sure to preserve it reasonable, polite, and truthful.
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Prevent terminology that is very mental, do not demand action, or be obnoxious for business or the individual you other factors or are writing to. Help your demand next lines. Another few paragraphs must justify your place by giving particulars and history data. Ensure they are truthful, sensible, realistic, functional, and appropriate. Don't base your appeal only on religion, sensations, or particular dreams. Don't bore the audience having a long history; reach the purpose properly and quickly. There are certainly a several distinct strategies you can hire to achieve this: Cite statistics and details to attract your readeris reason.
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Make sure that you are with them honestly, and your data and truth is from reliable, revered solutions and not acquiring them out-of wording. Offer professionals to the topic who support your situation or argue using the other side. These authorities must be respected within their fields and start to become qualified to have an impression about them. Why your demand should be granted provide a reason. Showing someone they have to do something is not a very powerful powerful technique, but trying to explain to them you think something should be performed might help adjust their brain. Reveal just why it requires to change and the existing circumstance. Provide specifics, specifications, and disadvantages to your situation and request. Discuss past initiatives related to any action's lack, or your request.
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Supply types of testimonies that connect with your place. Consider any other evidence it is possible to provide as to the reasons your situation concerns. Just remember to restrict what you include inside your sentences. Condition your situation and situation simply. Do, although don't enter surplus aspect include all of the vital details. Pick specialists just the many applicable statistics, and testimonies. Attract one other side.
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One critical to helpful persuasion would be to tackle the opposing area. You would like to anticipate questions any counterarguments, or concerns your viewers may have so you can tackle them in your letter. Locate floor that is popular together with the resistance, or present service that is solid for your own position. Ensure that you freely confess distinctions between your location and the opposite side. Don't try to disguise them; your disagreement weakens. Alternatively, pressure shared issues, encounters, and prices with the opposite area. Avoid statements that are judgmental. That sets too much emotion into your notice and lessens your sensible attraction.
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Being judgmental and very negative may deter one other side. By restating your demand close the letter. Restate opinion or your demand by the end. This is actually the passage where you could advise a solution or calltoaction. Notify the viewer that you will follow up with this correspondence mail, by phone, or in-person. Make an effort to conclusion using a strong phrase that will help to convince your reader to at least notice issues more obviously from your viewpoint, or to be working for you. Provide your personal answers or help. Agree to compromise, or fulfill in the middle. Display what you are prepared to do to deal with the problem or have already performed.
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Ad Part 4 of 4: Putting on the Ultimate Touches Look for mistakes. Misspelled phrases and inadequate syntax provide a first impact that is poor. You want the viewer to concentrate on your request as well as your tips, not the errors within your page. Before sending it reread the letter numerous occasions. See the notification loudly to listen to how it seems. If desired, have someone check your publishing for punctuation (or utilize your spell checker in the application). 16 Sign with your personal signature.
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If the letter is being mailed by you rather than giving an e mail, then you certainly should sign the page. Your correspondence is equally personalized and authenticates by this. 17 If needed copy other important people in a notification. Deliver them a replica, if you will find other folks while in the organization or at another business that require to see the letter. This implies printing and giving more than one notice, with unique signatures. 18 Retain a duplicate yourself. Keep a correspondence for your own documents, together with who you sent it to and once you directed the letter. Write notes on your follow up efforts until the subject is settled.
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Tips Give specifics. Please be as comprehensive as possible inside your reason. We include it into articles that can help a large number of people, revise it for precision and clarity, and will get your detailed info. Do not say: Eat fats. Do claim: Include fats with some nutritional value to the foods you presently eat. Attempt mayonnaise, butter, avocado, and coconut oil. Tips Stay on theme. Take care not to include haphazard info that has no showing on the situation athand. Alternatively, stick with the applicable details and become easy.
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Use the facts to become descriptive. Use bullet-points in your paragraph that is middle provided that you have a very obvious set of steps, activities, or suggestions. Target your points towards the kind of organization or bureau. A non profit may consider differently from the corporation that is key. Write in standard written English type. This is simply not media that is social or a text; this is a conventional letter. Emoticons and shorthand can get you ignored. Like they owe you anything and demand items don't treat the audience. While keeping the letter professional and welcoming rather, tell them.