It's been exactly two years since I last attended HYPE's Regional Forum in London (hosted, then too, by Fujitsu). Looking back at my impressions from the visit in 2015, I realize quite a few things have changed. And all for the better.
For example, the opening exercise called "hopes and fears of the innovation manager" generated deeper insights. Similarly, the mix of companies was more varied, as were the questions during the Q&A. Finally, HYPE's "Inspire" platform was now the preferred (virtual) space to continue the conversation, create campaigns around topics of interest, and share useful materials and presentations.
So which big ideas were circulated this year? Read on to find out.
Back in 2015, the London Forum's attendees shared a variety of (perfectly legitimate) hopes. On the one hand, the managers in the room were eager to see the cultural shift finally happen, for the term "innovation management" to be used correctly, and for organizations to have long-term perspective. On the other hand, they were preoccupied with gathering more and better data on innovation projects and well as with making more resources available for innovation. Fast-forward to 2017 and the desire for cultural change remains, as does the hope that failure stops being stigmatized. Instead of just worrying about the fate of the label, attendees this year hoped "innovation management" becomes a real umbrella for best practice. Moreover, managers voiced the need for NPD processes to be professionalized, for innovation to happen on auto-pilot and for more cross-industry learning to take place. Most importantly, however, this year attendees hoped their organization would start moving in sync with customers, decision-makers, competitors, suppliers and other stakeholders; in other words that ecosystem thinking is embraced.
In terms of "anxieties", 2015 was marked by the fear that staff reject innovation. Specifically, that employees stop contributing early on (drop off quickly when results fail to show) or (even worse) that campaign managers "go rogue". Other fears involved KPIs working against the business (flawed measures) and the inability to become an ambidextrous organization (where incremental and radical innovation capabilities co-exist). While some of these "anxieties" were gone in 2017, others had quickly replaced them. For example, staff disillusionment was overtaken by the inability to scale and, more generally, innovation fatigue. The fear of unsupportive campaign managers was now an even larger fear of innovation not being given a fair chance. Finally, the KPI issue had become a more general issue of growth failing to be quantified. New concerns this year involved enthusiasm reaching a plateau, innovation remaining a silver-bullet function (instead of the normal way of doing things) and other priorities getting in the way of innovation.
Another key discussion point at the London Forum was the open innovation journey. Should organizations think in terms of dichotomies? – e.g., Open or closed, product or service oriented, applying a technology-push or market-pull strategy etc. Or are things more nuanced and fluid than that?
In reality, no organisation is ever at the far end (see white paper). That is, no organization is perfectly closed or perfectly open in its approach to innovation. Instead, all organizations move, with varying speed, along a continuum.
According to management research, each organization typically starts by seeing its products as inherently valuable. As it matures, it recognises that value can only be judged by the customer. Eventually, it will routinely engage in co-creation with the customer(s) and evolve with them. Otherwise put, the organization will migrate from simpler forms of collaboration such as supplier alliances/partnerships and portfolios (perfectly suited for product-logic), to more sophisticated arrangements such as networks and even ecosystems (better suited for service-logic/ orientation). In these latter case, organizations will also witness new and interesting phenomena like: shared governance models, less strict IP regimes, role fluidity, resource pooling etc.
In light of such continuums, innovation managers must consider the reference points (the extremes) and periodically assess where they are in relation to them.
What options for collaboration are there? And how should organizations pick?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of these options? For example: is in-licensing IP better than donating IP? Or how do corporate incubators fair against doing research with a university? And can these modes even be meaningfully compared?
What types of open innovation partners are there? What is the role of each?
How do the "institutions" (rules and norms of collaboration) enable or constrain innovation and how to recognise them? For example, how does organizational culture affect innovation and collaboration? What about national laws or general beliefs of the customers?
I guess we will have to wait for the next Forum to get some answers.


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"Slash" Goes The Horror! Time For The Bloody "Splat-acular" '80's!
By johnrieber on February 15, 2015 • ( 1 )
Some of the greatest horror films of all time were made in the '70's: "The Exorcist" and "Carrie" were mainstream blockbusters, while low-budget shockers like "Last House On The Left" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" showed audiences a raw, stark look at the real-life psychopaths around us.
Meet The "Scream Queen!"
Jamie Lee Curtis became America's "Scream Queen" thanks to the classic horror film "Halloween", which signaled a move form supernatural horror to bloody, horrific slasher film.
"Halloween" was a perfect blend of fantastical evil played out in an everyday world.
In the 80's, this bloody genre exploded with massive hits like "Friday The 13th" and "Nightmare On Elm Street", which mixed evil killers with a gloosy 80's look. Here is one of my favorite examples, starring Jamie Lee Curtis:
It was a decade of ever-increasing carnage and blood, with the most popular films always targeting teens who made the mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, usually while having sex…
Here are a few of the more interesting examples of this era, beginning with a movie that ushered in the "splat-facular 80's" with a plot that paid serious "homage" to "Halloween":
Sorority House Massacre!
A brand new blu-ray has bought back this 80's slasher fest with this great tagline:
"A Slash Course In Absolute Terror!"
In the 70's classic "Halloween", a young boy murders his entire family, except for his sister. He escapes the mental asylum to kill her as well. In this 80's film, a little girl's brother kills the whole family except for his sister. He is committed, she grows up, and eventually goes to college, where she joins a sorority.
Yes, that's a SERIOUS "homage" to "Halloween" alright!
Here is the classic plot twist: because of her traumatic past, she blocks out the fact that the sorority house was her childhood "death house!"
Of course, once her brother senses that she is back in the house, he escapes to kill her too!
So away we go: sexy negligee clad sorority sisters, crazy killers on the loose….it was a popular trend that latest a decade!
Another popular slasher film from the 80's included a star from the scariest film ever made!
Hell Night!
Welcome back Linda Blair, you've been missed since the days of "The Exorcist"! Check out the trailer:
It's a classic 80's horror plot: four college pledges spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier!
This one had the honor of starring Linda Blair, who hadn't had much of a career since "The Exorcist" shocked America a decade earlier…
Horrific Holidays!
There were films that covered every holiday and special occasion, like these classic 80's slashers:
This 1981 Canadian slasher classic was directed by J. Lee Thompson, best known for making 1962′s "Cape Fear"!
The film was advertised with the marketing campaign "six of the most bizarre murders you will ever see". The series of deaths include, death by shish kebab, death by weight lifting and death via a scarf and motorcycle chain!
The film is worth recommending on the overwrought climactic birthday sequence along along with the many twists and turns.
Here's a less-known cult classic from that era:
Curtains!
"Behind every curtain, someone is waiting…something is watching."
This 1983 horror gem was long forgotten, but a new blu-ray release with tons of extras brings it out from behind the curtain…
An unbalanced Atress crashes a "casting" session that a big Director is holding at his secluded mansion. Yes, he's got a bevy of hot young actresses camping out at his mansion – except someoine begins butchering them all.
That was the trend in the 80's – lots of sex and nudity followed by bloody retribution…
"Curtains" had a troubled production history, which gets a good recounting in new commentaries and featurettes on the blu-ray release.
And here are two twin Sisters who are keeping the 80's style of horror alive!
Hail The Soska Sisters!
If you don't know Jen and Sylvia Soska, you are missing out on two twin sisters who are directing films that keep the "slashing 80's" alive!
The recent "See No Evil 2" is just their latest example, but read all about there here:
https://johnrieber.com/2014/10/17/see-no-evil-2-the-soska-sisters-strike-blood-again-great-halloween-horror/
And of course, never forget the one, the only:
Read all about the legendary scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis by clicking on my link here:
https://johnrieber.com/2014/10/21/jamie-lee-curtis-a-scream-queens-terror-trilogy-great-halloween-horror/
Let me know what your favorite 80's horror film is – leave a comment!
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We always hear from people approaching their 50's telling that their memory starts to fade away. They say that they have difficulties in recalling names even people they meet regularly. But then, this can also be found in younger people who were having difficulties dealing with stress and sleep deprivation.
Maintaining our physical body plays a big part in having a healthy memory. If our body is healthy and strong, our brain will also be healthy. Our brains thrive on oxygen, and the most productive way to help transport oxygen to the brain cells is through regular physical exercise. Any form of exercise that can gently raise your heart rate and leave you feeling slightly out of breath is a great way.
Aim to perform some physical exercise for about twenty minutes a day. Simple activity like taking a walk, climbing the stairs instead of the elevator and even window shopping are also good alternatives.
Our diet plays a great part in helping to keep our memory in full working order. Foods that are rich in the antioxidant vitamins A, C and E have been shown to aid memory. These vitamins are found in richly colored fruit and vegetables, such as berries, bananas, red peppers, spinach, celery and oranges. They help to keep up chemicals in the body known as free radicals, which can cause cell damage in the brain. Nutritional supplements containing antioxidants and vitamins can help transport oxygen to the brain cells. Does this not seem familiar? Juice Plus products (Garden, Orchard and Vineyard blends) that come from natural food extracts containing these essential nutrients are processed into capsules, chewables and powder form.
Fish oil, such as salmon, contains folic acid and several essential fatty acids particularly omega-3 oils, are vital for maintaining a healthy brain and nervous system.
We are what we thank about, so train ourselves not to affirm any negatives. If we tell that we are slowly losing our memory to someone, we are confirming that condition and will be stored in our sub-conscious mind. And when our conscious mind ask for the information about the name of a certain people, the sub-conscious mind will retrieve the information that you are losing your mind and cannot recall that name.
To check the results of our improving the health of our memory is to put it into work. Just like the muscles, if we don't put our brain into work, the brain tends to lose its power of storing and recalling data if we don't put it into action.
There are some simple games and activities that can help boost our memory if we do them regularly. One of the examples that I am doing is to recall from my memory the name of each person in our church that I will come across. Another one is giving names of the 52 deck cards and recalling the names you assigned them. Also, solving the Rubik's Cube is known to be good in putting our brain into action.
There are more games that you can play to make our brain into action.


San Francisco's Financial District in many ways reminds us of a commuter college campus.
During the week it is comprised primarily of one population and on the weekend a completely different one.
For those of you who lived in college towns or cities that house them, during the week the majority of the population on campus are commuters which greatly swells the numbers of students attending.
On the weekend the population primarily dwindles down to those who stay in the dorms.
Sometimes they almost look like a ghost town. Or a library. Very quiet.
Unless its football season, then Saturdays are robust.
Having spent years in or near San Francisco, during the week the streets are swarming with business people but on the weekend it seems to team with tourists and shoppers.
Sometimes when people think of San Francisco, they don't see the Financial District as a neighborhood but it actually is.
According to the team at areavibes.com, a group that helps you find the best places to live in America, San Francisco's Financial District has a population of 6,974.
The weekends are certainly quiet and if you're into quiet weekends filled with shoppers and tourists, a one bedroom, one bath apartment goes for $1,099,000.
Anyway, there actually is a population with neighbors there.
So what is the neighborhood like?
The Financial District serves as San Francisco's main central business district.
It is home to the city's largest concentration of corporate headquarters, law firms, insurance companies, real estate firms, savings and loan banks, and other financial institutions. All six San Francisco Fortune 500 companies including McKesson, Wells Fargo, PG&E, Gap, Charles Schwab, and Salesforce.com are located in the district.
The city's tallest buildings, including 555 California Street and the Transamerica Pyramid, and many other tall buildings, such as 101 California Street and 345 California Street are located there. Montgomery Street (sometimes called "Wall Street of the West") is the traditional heart of the district.
One of the more famous Hotels there is the Hilton.
Since the 1980s, restrictions on high-rise construction have shifted new development to the adjacent South of Market area surrounding the Transbay Transit Center.
The neighborhood is sometimes called the South Financial District by real estate developers.
Adjacent to the Financial District to the west is the Union Square shopping district. To the northwest is Chinatown, and to the north is North Beach and Jackson Square. To the east lies the Embarcadero waterfront and the Ferry Building. To the south lies Market Street and the South of Market district.
There are several shopping malls in the area, including the Crocker Galleria, the Embarcadero Center, the Ferry Building Marketplace, and the Rincon Center complex. Parks and plazas located there include Sue Biermann Park; Justin Herman Plaza, which is the current location of the city's New Year's festivities, and Transamerica Redwood Park.
The Union Square Shopping Center is wonderful, especially if you like an endless choice of affordable cuisine from all over the world including your typical franchise styled dining. We've enjoyed that a ton too.
So if you resided there, fantastic Chinese food is in walking distance. We should know since we've spent many weekends booking a hotel and hanging around downtown San Francisco just for the fun of it.
The nickname "FiDi" is occasionally employed, though we don't know anyone who actually refers to it by that.
Most likely a Real Estate Agent thing.
References to South of Market as SoMa, now that we have frequently heard.
Most of the people we know and ourselves included simply refer to it as Downtown San Francisco.
Several consulates are located in the financial district. Countries with consulates in the Financial District include France, Brazil, Guatemala, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Ireland, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
On January 17, 2019 abc7news.com reported, "Third-wave coffee purveyor Blue Bottle Coffee is continuing its rapid expansion with its latest San Francisco outpost, now open at 168 2nd St. in the FiDi.
Hey, there is that description FiDi again. Perhaps it's more commonly used than we thought.
So who is Blue Bottle Coffee?
Why don't we have a cup of coffee and visit their home at bluebottlecoffee.com. They educate with a fascinating historical story. "The apocryphal tale goes like this: In the late 1600s, the Turkish army swept across much of Eastern and Central Europe, arriving at Vienna in 1683. Besieged and desperate, the Viennese needed an emissary who could cross Turkish lines to get a message to nearby Polish troops. Franz George Kolshitsky, who spoke Turkish and Arabic, took on the assignment disguised in Turkish uniform. After many perilous close calls, Kolshitsky completed his valiant deed, delivering news of the Poles' imminent rescue to Vienna.
Now that is a first for us. Haven't heard a coffee story quite like that one before.
Originally founded in Oakland, California, Blue Bottle has been rapidly expanding its operations since being acquired by international food distributor Nestle in 2017.
It now has locations throughout the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Miami, Boston and Japan.
Here was also their original concept that helped propelled their success. They will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to their guests, so they may enjoy coffee at peak flavor. They will only use the finest, most delicious, and responsibly sourced beans.
Sounds like a nice motto to produce and drink coffee by.
They certainly have added flavor to FiDi.
Hey, did we finally use that abbreviation ourselves?
Weekend or weekday, the San Francisco Financial District has so much to offer. We really love to sit at a sidewalk coffee café or restaurant and just people watch.
From great cuisines in the Embarcadero Center to unbelievable nearby authentic Chinese Restaurants in Chinatown and now for an exceptional coffee experience, this neighborhood is one of San Francisco's most vibrant.


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Italian Deputy PM Slams Liberal Hollywood Hypocrites On Immigration!
by kaley 3 years ago 3 years ago
Italy's Deputy PM Matteo Salvini ripped actor Richard Gere for calling on Europe to let in North African migrants. Salvini said,
"Given that this generous millionaire is voicing concern for the fate of the Open Arms migrants, we thank him: he can take back to Hollywood, on his private plane, all the people aboard and support them in his villas. Thank you Richard!"
Turns out Americans aren't the only ones sick of Hollywood liberal hypocrisy!
Check out the awesome responses Salvini telling Gere to let immigrants into his mansion if he really cares about them is getting on Twitter:
Italian Deputy PM Matteo Salvini to Actor Richard Gere: "Given that this generous millionaire is voicing concern for the fate of the Open Arms migrants, we thank him: he can take back to Hollywood, on his private plane, all the people aboard and support them in his villas."
— DailyTruthReport (@DailyTruthRpt) August 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1160663991473102848
Salvini on Richard Gere: "As the generous millionaire airs his demands about the fate of the Open Arms immigrants, we thank him: he will be able to bring everyone in his private jet to Hollywood and keep them in his villas."
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/1160914763783630849
Richard Gere had previously appeared in a video delivering supplies to migrants (but of course, not taking them back with him!)
Bloomberg has more to say about Salvini's harsh words for Gere:
Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini suggested Richard Gere fly 160 migrants stranded off the Italian coast back to Hollywood on his "private jet" after the actor made a plea to European leaders to find a port for the ship.
Gere joined representatives from the non-governmental organization Open Arms at a press conference on the Italian island of Lampedusa to appeal to take in the ship. Salvini has refused to allow the vessel into Italian waters, the latest episode highlighting Europe's divisions over immigration.
"As the generous millionaire airs his demands about the fate of the Open Arms immigrants, we thank him: he will be able to bring everyone in his private jet to Hollywood and keep them in his villas," Salvini said in a statement after Gere's press conference.Salvini has made a flagship policy of refusing to allow the migrant vessels, coming mostly from nearby North Africa, to enter Italian waters. Now in the first steps of a months-long electoral campaign, Salvini is likely to double down on the anti-immigrant rhetoric that's made him Italy's most popular politician for now.
The Western Journal also said:
When it comes to illegal immigration, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini feels the same way as many Americans.
According to The Independent, in response to actor Richard Gere saying that North African migrants should be permitted into Europe, Salvini said: "Given that this generous millionaire is voicing concern for the fate of the Open Arms migrants, we thank him: he can take back to Hollywood, on his private plane, all the people aboard and support them in his villas. Thank you Richard!"
Salvini, who also serves as Italy's interior minister, took issue with remarks Gere made from the Mediterranean Sea, where he was delivering food and water to stranded refugees, The Independent reported.
Gere, as is the case with many Hollywood stars who are used to performing like drama queens, said politics must be pushed aside and that "demonizing people has to stop everywhere on the planet, and it will stop if we say stop."
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Spectrum Industries, Inc., Chippewa Falls, a Wisconsin based manufacturer, is proud to announce the introduction of the Flex Active Table. Designed with collaboration in mind, teachers can easily move these tables around to create the perfect working environment.
From active learning environments to meeting rooms, the Flex Active Table can meet the needs of any collaboration layout, while ADA compliant seating allows you to engage any user in any environment. The locking casters provide quick and easy room reconfiguration and storage capabilities. Tables are available in 48, 60 and 72 inch wide versions, along with 24 or 30 depths to fit into any space. The optional Modesty Panel, available in coordinating laminate or metal finish, provides privacy and design appeal.
Multiple size options and the choice to add a power module and wire management kit help make this the perfect solution for any space.
The Flex Active Table comes with a variety of quick power options. The Cove Power Module allows for a quick connect from each table. The Easy Power Connection allows each table to join, allowing only one final cord to plug in and power all tables.
The Flex Active Table is built with the same care and attention to details as the rest of Spectrum's product line. Scratch and impact-resistant high-pressure laminate worksurface is made to last while durable powder coated steel legs add strength and a contemporary look. A worksurface brace is incorporated into every table to minimize flexing over time.
The Flex Active Table can be ordered in our Spectrum Expressions line of laminate and metal colors which are designed to match our furniture to your room décor. The metal colors provide a tough, wear-resistant finish to metal parts. The laminates covers all worksurfaces and the matching vinyl edge trim provides the appearance of elegant custom built furniture. The Flex Active Tables is also offered in a white dry erase laminate finish.
Spectrum Industries is proud that the Flex Active Tables are designed, assembled, and shipped from our factory in Chippewa Falls, WI. It is warranted to be free of all defects in materials and workmanship for 10 years.


Snow City is one of Singapore's first permanent and largest indoor snow playground. This family-centred attraction hub receives an average patronage of about 250, 000 visitors from around the world. It consists of a snow chamber that provides a unique sub-zero experience as low as -5 Celsius with snow professionals that help to create a fun and magical time. Slide down 60 metre-long slides, 3-storey high slopes, and come face to face with ice sculpted creatures such as the mammoth, velociraptor, styracosaurus, criorhynchus, T-rex, and more!


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Aviva Canada Inc. is a Canadian property and casualty insurance company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the UK-based Aviva plc. It provides home, personal, automobile, recreational vehicle, group and business insurance to more than three million customers.

History

Aviva Canada came to fruition as a result of multiple acquisitions and rebranding, including the rebranding of Pilot Insurance Company and Scottish & York Insurance Co. Ltd.  Effective June 1, 2006 Aviva policyholders in Quebec who drive hybrid vehicles received a 10% discount.

In March 2007, Aviva Canada began to offer "hole-in-one insurance" to organizations that sponsor golf tournaments across Canada. The Hole-in-One insurance product allows tournament organizers to offer a cash (or equivalent) prize to anyone who makes a hole-in-one on one of the par 3 holes. The product is coupled with an online quoting tool that can provide a quote in less than 15 seconds for insurance limits from C$5,000 to C$50,000.

In 2008, the company announced that these companies will now operate as Aviva Pilot and Aviva Scottish & York. Other companies in the Aviva Canada group of companies include: Elite Insurance Company (also known as Aviva Elite), Traders General Insurance Company (also known as Aviva Traders) and S&Y Insurance Company. The company also has financial ownership of insurance intermediaries including Ontario Insurance Service Limited (OIS), Insurance Agent Service Inc. and Wayfarer Insurance Brokers Limited. In April 2009, Aviva Canada announced its agreement to acquire the business of National Home Warranty Group of Companies.

On 26 February 2014, the company announced that it would be relocating its headquarters to a new 12-storey office building located in Downtown Markham. The building was slated to be completed in June 2017.

In June 2013, Aviva Canada was faced with one of the costliest natural disasters in Canadian history:  "days of torrential rain inundated the city of Calgary, Alberta, and surrounding areas. The Bow and Elbow Rivers overflowed their banks, causing the evacuation of 26 neighborhoods and 100,000 people. Four died, and a state of emergency was declared in 32 communities." Insurable damages amounted to more than $1.7 billion.

On January 21, 2016, the company announced the acquisition of RBC General Insurance Company, for CAD$582 million.

Partnerships
Since 2015, Aviva Canada has been a partner of Tennis Canada and sponsor of the Rogers Cup tournament.

In 2017, Aviva Canada formed a partnership with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) to launch Toronto Raptors Insurance and Toronto Maple Leafs Insurance which covers home and auto insurance.

Products and services
Aviva Canada offers Standard Insurance products such as Vehicle Insurance and Property insurance.  Aviva insurance offer auto, home, travel, and recreational insurance, as well as commercial property, liability, and fleet insurance. Aviva is known for its excellent customer service and innovative insurance solutions, such as usage-based insurance and telematics. The company also offers Non-Standard Insurance products such as Equine/Horse Insurance, Hole-in-One, and Prize Indemnity.

Awards and recognition
 2017 - Red Cross – Partners in Humanity Award
 2018 - CPRS ACE Award – Government Relations Campaign of the Year: Aviva Fight Fraud Report
 2019 - CPRS ACE Award – Government Relations Campaign of the Year: Project Bumper
 2019 - CPRS National Award: Undistracted Driving Campaign
 2019 - IMCA Showcase Award – Media Relations Campaign of the Year: Project Bumper
 2019 - Insurance Business Canada Awards – Best Advertising Campaign of the Year: Ovation

References

External links

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Financial services companies established in 1999
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Canadian companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Ontario
Companies based in Markham, Ontario

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National Immunization Strategies (NIS) Guidelines
Written by	Johanna FIHMAN
WHO and partners have worked together to develop a framework to support countries in strategy development. The National Immunization Strategy (NIS) guidelines, published in August 2021 build on the experience of comprehensive multiyear plans (cMYPs), and call for:
Greater integration of immunization with other health interventions, national planning cycles and UHC target setting
An increased focus on long-term goals with intermediary objectives and key strategies needed to achieve them
Country ownership with inclusive design processes, as well as tailored approaches that take account of local and national context
A negotiation process with Ministry of Health and Finance leading to an agreed financial envelopeto fund key strategic priorities; and
Increasing reliance on domestic sources of funding.
The NIS focuses on a strategic period of 5 years and defines:
The immunization vision to be achieved over the long term (generally 10 years).
Specific objectives to be achieved at the end of the strategic period (5 years). These are the intermediate outcomes along the way to achieving the vision.
Priority strategies, consisting of a costed set of interventions to achieve the objectives, as well as the measures to mitigate against risks associated with the selected interventions.
The NIS guidelines are available on the WHO website: https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/vaccine-access/planning-and-financing/nis
NIS Guidelines: a step-by-step guide for country stakeholders on how to develop an NIS
NIS FAQs: further details, including definitions of key concepts and terms
NIS Annexes: supporting documents, including templates and country examples
NIS Costing Approach (NIS.COST): Developed by UNICEF, a Google sheet application to support the estimation of NIS resource requirements: NIS.COST — ImmunizationEconomics.org
Annual Operational Planning (AOP) guidelines: guidance and tools to support the transition from the NIS into actionable tasks at https://immunizationeconomics.org/unicef-national-planning-and-budgeting
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States will push for new U.N. sanctions against Iran later this year if President Barack Obama's effort to improve relations fails to stop Tehran from pursuing its nuclear program.
But plans for a fourth round of international sanctions will remain on hold at least until after Iran's presidential elections in June, diplomats said.
There are hopes in Washington and other Western capitals that a moderate will win the Iranian election and seize upon President Barack Obama's recent offer of new diplomatic engagement with the Islamic Republic.
Iran's nuclear policy is controlled by its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, not the president. But a victory for conservatives — Iranian officials reacted coolly to Obama's videotaped offer and vowed to continue their uranium enrichment program — could lower the chances of success of Obama's new strategy.
Washington and other Western nations suspect Iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons, as does Israel. But Tehran insists its nuclear program is geared solely to generating electricity and boosting its oil exports.
More important than the outcome of the Iranian election, analysts say, is the question of how long Israel will be willing to wait to see if the U.S. approach is working before taking a decision on whether to attack Iran's nuclear sites.
Mark Fitzpatrick, a former U.S. State Department official and nonproliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said Iran will not have much time after its elections to change gears on the nuclear front.
Israel's new leader appeared to confirm that assessment in an interview with a U.S. magazine.
Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osiraq in 1981 and has suggested it was prepared to do the same in Iran.
Obama's shift from his predecessor's policy of isolating Tehran has backing from Britain, France and Germany. These countries are helping to spearhead efforts to persuade Iran to freeze its enrichment program in compliance with five Security Council resolutions.
Russia and China have also welcomed the overture.
"Now is not the time to be rushing for more sanctions ... Now is the time to be backing the American outreach that is a once-in-a-generation opportunity," British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said this week.
The United States severed ties with Iran in 1980 after militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held diplomats and officials hostage. Ties between the two countries remained on ice for years, through former President George W. Bush's administration.
In one sign of change, Washington and Tehran have already resumed some tentative contacts. This week U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke met briefly with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzadeh on the sidelines of a meeting on Afghanistan in The Hague.
At the same time analysts and diplomats said the Obama administration would be realistic about its chances of a breakthrough on the Iranian problem and was aware that Iran may use talks to buy time to complete its nuclear program.
Work on a new U.N. sanctions resolution would likely commence later this year if Iran continues enriching uranium, the analysts and diplomats said, but the focus at the moment will be on engagement, not punishment.
Iran's progress in developing it's nuclear capability is also likely to provide a limit to Western patience.
The prospect that Russia and China, both of which have vetoes in the Security Council, will support new sanctions also hovers over the Iranian issue. Moscow and Beijing reluctantly backed three rounds of U.N. sanctions but watered them down.


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China Warns US: We're Ready To Fight If Needed And Russia Has Our Back
If not a veiled threat, it's at a minimum a reminder to the U.S. that China is far from alone in its military capacity.
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Beijing should be ready to "let the US pay a cost it cannot stand if it intervenes in the South China Sea dispute by force," an editorial in a Chinese state-run paper warned on Tuesday — less than a week before the International Court at The Hague (ICH) is set to rule on a territorial disagreement between China and the Philippines.
"China hopes disputes can be resolved by talks," wrote the Global Times, "but it must be prepared for any military confrontation. This is common sense in international relations."
The dispute is over an island chain in the South China Sea, the Spratlys, and the maritime rights to the waters surrounding them. At the heart of the issue is sovereignty, with both China and the Philippines claiming territorial control.
In June of 2015, China announced that the artificial island chain it had been constructing in the South China Sea — in disregard of territorial claims by other Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam, Taiwan, and Malaysia — would be completed within days. In the year that's followed, the country has built military buildings, ports, and airstrips on the connected atolls.
A portion of the disputed area in the South China Sea.
In October of last year, the U.S. sent the first of what would become a considerable number of warships — and, eventually, even an aircraft carrier — into the South China Sea as a direct challenge to China's claims in the region.
As pretext for involvement in what's a wholly Southeast Asian affair, the U.S. has continuously claimed its allies in the region — notably India and the Philippines, itself — are concerned over China's bold territorial assertions.
As Forbes recently wrote:
"While it is still unclear which way the ICH will rule, one thing is clear: China's aggressive standing in the South China Sea disputes has spooked its neighbors."
But China has made it clear it sees such U.S. involvement as military provocation.
"The South China Sea dispute has been greatly complicated after heavy US intervention," the Global Times editorial states. "Washington…wants to send a signal by flexing its muscles. As the biggest powerhouse in the region, it awaits China's obedience."
Accordingly, China's Maritime Safety Administration announced Monday it would be conducting military exercises in the waters of the South China Sea from July 5 to July 11 — the day before the ICH is set to make its ruling in the case brought before it by the Philippines.
"The drills are a very symbolic expression of China's resolve," Zhu Feng, dean of the Institute of International Affairs at Nanjing University, told TIME. "It is definitely also responding to the recent American warships patrolling in the South China Sea."
Complicating the situation further is the fact that China, claiming the ICH has no authority to rule on territorial disputes, has repeatedly stated it has no intention of abiding by the tribunal's ruling.
This inconvenience appears to be something the Pentagon is choosing to ignore, however, as evidenced by recent statements made by spokesperson Peter Cook and reported by Reuters:
"'We've pointed to the diplomatic route for resolving these issues…they should be resolved peacefully,' he said, adding the ruling from The Hague would provide an opportunity for this.'"
Wishful thinking, it seems, on the part of United States.
But there's another, perhaps even more troubling facet of this entanglement that merits consideration. And, in point of fact, was not-so-subtly addressed in a recent article by another of China's state-run publications, thePeople's Daily.
And that facet can be encapsulated in a single word: Russia.
"China and Russia vowed to strengthen global strategic stability," reports the Daily, "in a joint statement signed by Chinese President Xi Jingping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on June 25 during Putin's visit to Beijing."
Additionally, the Daily points out that "China and Russia have held six joint naval exercises since 2005" and that, for the 2016 maneuvers, "it is very likely that the South China Sea Fleet will take its turn as the main power, and the location might be near the South China Sea."
And considering the NATO summit in Warsaw is only days away from approving the deployment of four battalions along the Russian border in Eastern Europe — and amid ongoing and increasingly dangerous confrontations between the U.S. and Russia in Syria — it might do Washington, D.C., well to take China's "reminder" to heart.
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On these pages, I would like to define the scope of the project, or perhaps where I would like to see it go. Eventually, I would like to have some sort of key input and output to a screen. What this means at this point is a little unclear. It could be interfacing a regular keyboard or maybe a HEX pad and the display could be LCD, serial to another computer or maybe like the old days and send it to a TV. Because this is a "Let's go herding cats" project, I want to leave things open ended and free flowing.
My intentions of this page is to use it as a scratch pad and check list of where the project is going, went or plans to go. I know this may drive some of the more organized folks out there crazy, but my wife has never ever accused me of being an orderly and organized person. So I apologize now if you have trouble following my ramblings.
OK, with that out of the way, where do I start and where do I go with this adventure? The first thing I need to do is get the processor working and verify that it is doing what it is supposed to be doing. I think Quinn from blondihacks took a great approach to the problem and I think for now I am going to follow her lead. That is not to say I am going to plagiarize all of her work, but I am sure I will copy some of it. I hope Quinn finds the old adage, imitation is the finest form of flattery. Quinn, if you are reading this let me know the answer to that question.
Create a clock circuit that will provide both a clock for regular operation, and a push button to single step the processor.
I will need to build some sort of display that will show me the address and data values on the processor bus. This will allow me to verify what the processor is sending out on the address bus and what data the ROM is sending out.
I will need a method of providing a ROM to the processor for its initial JMP vector and some program code. I have a parallel port driven circuit that I have found on the Internet, but no software to drive it. I am a bit of a Linux fan, so I would like to demonstrate how to access and use the parallel port via Linux using the parapin library and Code::Blocks IDE.
I think that is enough to get started with, then later decide what to do next. If you read through that short list above, you will see why the project is like herdng cats to me. I have to accomplish some goals before I can really complete another. But hey, it's not where your going, it's all about how you get there right???


On Friday 26th January 2018, ERP hosted the Perez family from Epi-Use Argentina, whose visit among other things was to donate shoes from the All Walks of Life Project and clothes to the orphans at the Bothlokwa Bja Ngwana Safe Centre and have a firsthand experience of ERP's interventions in the Dinokeng Game Reserve and the adjacent community of Kekana Gardens area.
The Perez family were accompanied by the ERP staff, some members from EPI-USE (Pretoria) and G3G (part of Groupelephant.com) as they set off for Kekana Gardens in the morning. First stop for them was the Pfaranani Skills Training Centre that ERP currently manages in the community. They were taken for a tour of the centre and were also given orientation and background of the community by South African National Civic Organisation's (SANCO) Chairperson for Ward 73. What was put into context were the social challenges faced by the community and how ERP is working towards resolving some of these challenges through the different interventions we are currently running. G3G was also able to hand over to SANCO 20 pairs of adult shoes that they donated to the community. These have been earmarked for the old age home.
After the tour of the training centre, we headed to Bothlokwa Bja Ngwana Safe Centre, where the Perez family met with the management of the centre, and were also able to handover the shoes and clothes to about 20 children that were present at the time. Those who were absent had their gifts kept for them, and the management at the centre agreed that all the clothes would be distributed when all the children are present. It was heartwarming to also see the Perez's young daughter helping with the handing over of the shoes and interacting with the other children at the centre. ERP brought along 30 Colgate oral hygiene kits which were distributed to all the children present.
Having spent time at the centre, we then proceeded to go through to the Seikhokotlelo Old Age Home where the Perez family got time to interact with the management there as they were taken on a tour around the place. Some of the most pressing needs faced by the home were discussed, including the fact that the inspector from the Department of Social Development had come through and asked the centre to shut down because of minor technical requirements. To this end, the EPI-USE and G3G staff present resolved that they would be willing to assist the centre where ever they can, through internally fundraising in order to meet these needs, thereby further adding value to their mantra of Going Beyond Corporate Purpose. The last task of the day was taking the Perez family into Dinokeng Game Reserve. This was not only for their game drive, but also aided in showing the direct nexus existing between the conservation of Elephants and Rhinos through the alleviation of poverty for People and communities living next to game reserves, which essentially is the ERP mission.
A special thank you goes out to the Perez family for making time to come through and personally share with the Kekana Gardens community. We also extend our heartfelt thank you to the EPI-USE and G3G members of staff that came through for the day.


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Are code reviews necessary for junior developers?
I've worked at two companies, who each had a different methodology when it came to code reviews:
In the first company, a code review was conducted by the team leaders and was required after the completion of every module.
However, in the second company, team leaders weren't required to conduct any code reviews, and just checked for functionality and design issues.
So I am confused. Is the code review process really needed? If it is, why? And if it isn't, why not?
code-reviews junior-programmer
If senior developers tell junior developers to do things in a certain way, there is frequently a very good reason.... – user1249 Oct 22 '10 at 8:42
@Tilsan The Fighter: It's good that you're asking questions - inquisitive is, or should be, a programmer's feat - but please make them understandable and easy to read. – gablin Oct 22 '10 at 9:01
@Thorbjorn - That's only true if the senior developers are senior because of skill and not because of duration. I've seen plenty of bad code and design by senior engineers – KallDrexx Apr 26 '11 at 19:37
There might be a good reason, and it's good to find out that reason, but you shouldn't trust their advice blindly just because of their title and X years experience. I've asked the senior engineer here why he made a lot of bad code and all I've gotten was a shrug with a "I don't know". There are enough bad engineers out there to make me realize not to put any trust in just a title. – KallDrexx Apr 26 '11 at 19:49
+1 KallDrexx - that's what I've found too. I've often had a "senior" developer not know why you shouldn't just stick everything into a static class, or know anything about testing, or know any proper design patterns.. "Senior" typically refers to tenure and not skill from what I can tell. – Wayne Molina Aug 16 '11 at 14:15
I personally think that every piece of code should go through a code review, it doesn't matter if you are junior or senior developer.
Why? For starters your title doesn't state anything about how you develop, and a senior developer could learn something from the junior. At our company we shift around so one of the other members of the team review your code...mostly we are teamed a "junior" and a senior together, so all the stuff that doesn't get said on a daily basis can be caught in a follow up. If the senior doesn't like the junior code he should listen to why the junior did as he did and look at it and see if that's a feasible solution that might be used in the future...it's a matter of getting wiser no matter who you are.
One important thing about code review is not being too nice, if you are being a nice guy you'll just allow more and more messy code to evolve in the system. Just as yesterday I started reworking a complete application that a former employed juniordeveloper wrote, and my god that code could have needed a review before he left.
I don't see why it should be the teamleader only doing reviews but it requires a person that's not affraid of picking a "fight" over a piece of poorly developed code, and it has to be a person that cares about how the code should be. Not all companies hire people that actually care about what they do, and those bad eggs should IMO not be allowed to do code reviews as they are likely just to shrug their shoulders and say "OK" to bad code.
cyberzed
Actaully, there is a point in not only having the teamleader doing code review. Even a less experienced developer should be able to follow the code. :) – Guffa Oct 22 '10 at 9:01
Team leads should have their code reviewed too, as often junior developers can learn valuable techniques or at least see how "good" code is supposed to look. And just because you're a team lead doesn't mean you can't make a mistake. – TMN Oct 22 '10 at 13:19
@TMN, I can't agree more. Team leads aren't always picked because of their skills or experience; sometimes they're all that's left after a mass exodus (which has happened several times where I work), or a large layoff. Everyone's code should undergo review, regardless of experience, status, or title. – bedwyr Oct 22 '10 at 15:49
@TMN Too right. The title "senior developer" does not mean "incapable of making mistakes" or "incapable of improving". If it does, that's not the kind of senior developer I want on my team. – Brandon DuRette Oct 25 '10 at 17:49
I'm very experienced and good at what I do. I make mistakes, many of which have been caught by code review. – David Thornley Apr 26 '11 at 17:46
Basically code review is needed for all programmers regardless of experience. It is the Quality Control of software development, and one of the reasons Open Source can be of very high quality.
EDIT: The reason is that a code reviewer today is in exactly the same role as a maintainer later. If the code doesn't make sense to him today, it will not make sense later either, making bugs more expensive to fix. Hence, MAKE it understandable today while the developer still remembers the code. Also the reviewer may see bugs or omissions that the developer missed.
Unfortunately very few wants to do it, but seen from a business point of view it should be mandatory.
@ Mr.Thorbjorn Ravn Andersen: Can u please specify what are the advantages and disadvantage of Code Review Process? – Sankar Ganesh Oct 22 '10 at 8:44
you might be interested in this code review proposal. It would be nice if we can get the ball rolling on this. – greatwolf Jan 13 '11 at 10:46
@Victor, an interesting approach and I wish you good luck. – user1249 Apr 26 '11 at 19:44
@Sankar Ganesh: there's a free book about code review that discusses advantages and disadvantages: smartbear.com/best-kept-secrets-of-peer-code-review – Joeri Sebrechts Aug 16 '11 at 13:43
I work in a place where code review is now a requirement but was not as little as 3 years ago. It has made a huge improvement in in our code and in the ability of others to maintain the code later. Even senior, very experienced developers make mistakes which can easily and quietly be fixed in code review before QA finds them or worse before the customer finds them. Further at least one person other than the orginal developer is familar with the code.
Often when an organization tries something new to it, as we did with code review, there is much resistance to change. I have seen almost none of that (we were estatic to get a formal QA department too.) with code review. It pretty much takes only one or two reviews to see the value.
I have found new techniques I had not considered both in doing a code review of someone else's work or in having my code reviewed. We have found competence problems with new hires relatively quickly by having code reviews and more importantly by how they responded to the code review. We have learned what things that seem perfectly clear right now in the thick of programming that section that will not be clear in maintenance. This is invaluable. It may be that the only thing needed is a comment as to why something was done. We have found some fundamental misunderstandings about our database design that needed to be corrected for a report to actually have the correct information.
Often what I have seen in a code review is that, by the very act of explaining something to someone else, the developer will have a lightbulb turn on in his head and realize that there is a bug the reviewer didn't see.
And boy can code review identify those cowboy programmers who won't follow any standard or use mandated tools and whose code will be nigh onto unmaintainable by anyone else. And it can force them to get with the program or get out too.
The people most resistant to code review are often the people the organization most needs to get rid of because they know in their hearts their code can't pass a code review.
"We have found competence problems with new hires relatively quickly by having code reviews and more importantly by how they responded to the code review" - This is a very important benefit (and I agree, how they respond tells more than the mistakes they make). – Stephen C. Steel Oct 26 '10 at 3:04
+1 for capturing the why's – user1249 Dec 5 '10 at 12:43
Agile guy would say: "You don't need a code review, just do pair programming and write good tests" :)
Ilia K.
And switch pairs often and recognize that the team, not any individual, owns the code. – Don Roby Oct 22 '10 at 15:29
Agile guy is wrong. Code should be reviewed by a mind which is independent to the mind(s) which created it. (It's very easy for a pair of programmers to talk each other down a blind alley without realising it!) – Peter Boughton Oct 22 '10 at 20:36
Pair programming is continuous code review. – user1249 Oct 26 '10 at 6:17
@Peter: Agile guy also re-pairs promiscuously, and practices common code ownership, so over a span of time (days to weeks), most of the rest of the team have reviewed the code the original pair wrote. Agile guy has an answer to everything. Some people think Agile guy is a total smartass. – Tom Anderson Oct 26 '10 at 18:04
Pair programming fixes the main problem with code reviews -- they occur much too late. I hate going to code review to see that the developer has spent a week redeveloping a library algorithm or data structure. – kevin cline Aug 16 '11 at 18:28
Code review is a good way of spreading knowlege and good practice through a team. In my experience it is a good idea to make sure all code gets reviewed, and try to vary who reviews what code.
In my current team everyones' code is reviewed equally, and both programmer and reviewer have to be satisifed with the code before it can be released. This applies just as much to senior developers being reviewed by more junior developers, a junior developer reviewing another, or other senior developers reviewing each other. If the reviewer is inexperienced or does not feel comfortable reviewing any particular piece of code then they will team up with another developer (and maybe also the original developer) to do the review as a group.
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Yep, code review is as much quality control as it is knowledge sharing. Everybody can learn from a good code review. The reviwer and the reviewee. – Guillaume Oct 22 '10 at 14:46
My company is similar to that of flamingpenguin. Every check-in is reviewed by another developer. Rank has nothing to do with who reviews what. It's a peer-to-peer process. The requirement is that all code is reviewed. Parent-child style code reviews only serve to drive away the 'A' developers, leaving a 'B' team lead reviewing 'C' juniors. The best a parent-child style team can hope for is mediocre code. If they are lucky. – Jim In Texas Aug 20 '11 at 0:15
I've been in the business for more than 20 years, working for software companies and for different businesses and none of these places had a code review process. However, I can understand and appreciate the benefits of having one. Essentially, as I understand them, they should be used to ensure adherence to standards, which should be followed in order for others to be able to more easily maintain the code in the future. Code readability might also be checked in a review process as this too will ensure that maintenance can effectively work with the code.
Currently, I work in a small shop where I am the single developer. Occasionally we have brought in contractors to help with the backlog. At least one or two of those contractors have written code that didn't necessarily meet mine or the companies' standards, but it did work well and was at least somewhat understandable. When I pointed this issue out to management, they didn't care, they just wanted to know if it did what we paid them to do. So, I guess it just depends on the company, and whether or not clean, easy to maintain code is the desired product, or if they just want something that works well for the money.
Obviously as a developer, and one who has to maintain code, I would like to work with clean code that follows a standard of some sort, but I dont always have that luxury, so I make the best of it and deal with what I have, even if it means sometimes having to re-write some code in my own standard.
Code reviews can identify defects earlier in the software lifecycle when issues are easier (and cheaper) to fix. At SmartBear we have developed a peer code review tool and have also done a lot of research into how to make code reviews effective. Based on data from our customers, defects found in code review are 8-12X cheaper to find and fix than defects found in QA. The cost savings alone makes code review worth it, but there is more value than just that. Code review is an excellent way for everyone on the team to learn and improve as software developers.
There are some traps that can cause code reviews to become less effective, and it seems like your organization is caught in one of them. Make the code review about the code, not the people. Titles mean nothing in a code review. Appeals to authority (you must do it my way because I'm the team lead) do more harm than good. Teach instead. Senior engineers should explain why it should be done their way, not just demand that it is. If you're having a hard time explaining a concept, it's a learning experience for you too. Both of you will be better developers for the effort you put in.
Brandon DuRette
do you have an official article discussing the 8-12 times cheaper? We are discussing this internally. – user1249 Oct 26 '10 at 6:21
@Thorbjørn - We do: goo.gl/7dMf. This comes from our book on code review, which you (and anyone else) can have for free: codereviewbook.com – Brandon DuRette Oct 26 '10 at 11:15
I think code reviewing ALL CODE is overkill. The amount of time it takes to review all code could be better spent elsewhere. Alterntivley I think critical code and or particularly complex pieces need code review but certainly not every line of code.
Gratzy
I couldn't disagree more. Every line of code should go through at least 2x reviews... the original developer should review absolutely every line-change prior to commiting them, and at least one other developer should perform a peer-review as follow-up. Very rarely does code make it through a review without at least 1 good question being raised; peer reviews also increase awareness between team-members of what--and how--others are completing their assignments. – STW Oct 22 '10 at 15:47
@Gratzy -- I absolutely swear by it; normally it adds ~%10 to the dev-cycle; a small investment for how much we catch early on. – STW Oct 22 '10 at 16:01
@Gratzy -- simply because we're not perfect. Our team has grown significantly, and we have some turnover (mostly contractors). In the past when we back off on the review policy problems creep back in nearly immediately. The review process is simply a critical step in maintaining an effective team and producing a quality product. Reviewing all code isn't difficult; especially if you have a couple senior devs who are very good at finding uneeded code. Most duplicate code originates from developers who do well, but just aren't aware of an existing approach. – STW Oct 22 '10 at 18:36
I'm with STW on this - fixing problems caught during review is much cheaper than trying to debug/maintain code later because it wasn't thought to be critical. Also, code reviews only take time if the code is bad - good code is quick and easy to read! – Peter Boughton Oct 22 '10 at 20:41
Of course they shouldn't, but that doesn't mean they aren't! (How many teams have perfect developers?) What lines of code do you not review? How do you make the decision whether a particular change in a particular file should be reviewed or not? – Peter Boughton Oct 22 '10 at 21:22
In my opinion, code that is going to be used by a company, whether it was written by a Junior or Senior developer, should always be reviewed. Why? Because what if the code had several bugs? And what if, during the time this code was being used, the program crashed? To stop these things from happening, all code should be reviewed before use.
But what about those companies that don't review code? They're probably the companies that have lots of tech problems and lots of, as they tell consumers, "crashes" ;-).
So let me answer all of your questions:
Yes the Review Process is necessary.
Why? Because of the reasons I stated above.
Code Review: The Code Review process must be a vital one for all, I will explain who are all get benefits due to conduction of code review as well as what are the benefits they are getting.
1. Benefits Obtained By the Company Due to the Conduction of Code Review: If frequent code review is conducted, then the company can get the final products in much better optimized way which help them to get branded name in their market and also help company to get or improve their current CMMI level.
2. Benefits to Team Leader Due to the Conduction of Code Review: As we all know a teacher can easily identify the mistakes, because they are reviewing the answers of their students more frequently, so they can get an idea , in which areas there may be possible for wrong things. similarly the team leader also knows what are the things goes wrong in this areas. How can we rectify those.And also Help the team Leader to grab the news ideas from the junior developer too.
3. Benefits to The Junior Developer Due to the Conduction of Code Review: Junior Developer can easily grab the ideas about Code review Process, also they are able to get what is the coding standard, For Instance: to create API in a proper way, they will learn the standardization of the coding which may help them in future specially when they are become in Higher level post.
So My Conclusion is Code review is a Very Very Vital Process for all[even for team Member too], since code Reviewing helps us to correct our careless mistakes in our code,because we are all human beings, so we cannot predict that we never do careless mistakes in code.
Sankar Ganesh
What is the difference with interfering with your ideas before checking in your code(review) or afterwards due to a bug, getting too clever/difficult to understand, or not following accepted standard practices? Is it your ego?
You can't disreguard the merits of code review or anything else just because it is being implemented poorly by a less qualified team member you don't respect. Code Review isn't some highly complex process that only a few super programmers are capable of grasping. I'm not sure there are many programmers or professional writers who are capable or have the time to self-edit.
Have you ever returned to a line of code a few months later and wondered what was I thinking? There would be a better chance of catching it with a code review. You just caught it and you're only slightly better than the programmer you were awhile ago - I hope.
JeffO
IMO a code review should be essential for all developers, but only when the people doing the review are competent themselves. In the past I've had code rejected in a review because, I kid you not, I followed SOLID, did some Dependency Injection and had the code organized into namespaces and folders according to the logical design, and included a small suite of unit tests to verify the code. The code was rejected as "too complicated" and I was told to use one class that smushed everything together and remove the tests because it wasn't how the company wrote code.
A code review like that is worthless, but a code review with a competent team can often illuminate something about the design (e.g. Why you should do X and Y but not Z) or indicate an actual flaw (e.g. Doing X will cause Y to fail for incorrect reasons).
Wayne Molina
Of course Code Review isn't needed. Then again, neither are tests, continuous integration, source control, customer involvement, profiling, static analysis, decent hardware, one-click builds, bug tracking, the list goes on.
Along with Code Reviews, the things I mention above are tools that help ensure software quality. With a combination of skill, luck, time and determination; you can deliver quality software without any of this stuff, but it's more likely that you won't.
In your scenario, there is nothing to be confused about. Not every organisation indulges in every best practice. They may disagree with it, it may conflict with a different best practice that they do implement, or they may consider that the overhead of implementing it is too great for them at this point in time. Depending on their circumstances, they may be correct in doing so, or they may be making a false economy. For some tools, (e.g. source control) the payback/effort ratio is so good that using it is a no-brainer; for others it's less clear.
There is no doubt that code review is a practice that introduces a significant overhead. Because of this, organisations will seek to minimise that overhead, either by not doing it at all, or by only doing it in certain situations (e.g. for a junior team member, or a particularly hairy change). It is not always obvious that it pays back more (in catching bugs, reducing technical debt or sharing knowledge) than it costs. Most of that payback is difficult to quantify, whereas its very easy to count the number of man-hours your organisation spends doing reviews. The easiest bit to quantify (reduced bug count) is easy to attribute to other factors (e.g. "of course it has fewer bugs, it's more mature").
We make online football game in Turkey. A lot of users and game masters helps us on functionality. Also they give comments on needed features. So I think, if you have a lot of users, functionality tests can be done for helping or getting badges. Collobration of developers, game masters and users with forums, support teams and private test environments create a social project.
Sure code reviews and sharing experiences between development team is needed but if it's not critical you don't have to force yourself.
emremp
I think that how verbose 2nd party inspection is depends on your lifecycle, whether you're more agile, or more waterfall in your processes. I think it's reasonable to do high level designs/inspections, as well as more detail level design inspections. I think it's also good to involve several members of a team to inspect.
Tim Claason
They're absolutely necessary since they have little experience.
pacoespinoza
without an explanation, this answer may become useless in case if someone else posts an opposite opinion. For example, if someone posts a claim like "They're absolutely unnecessary since they have little experience", how would this answer help reader to pick of two opposing opinions? Consider editing it into a better shape – gnat Apr 2 '13 at 11:27
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For Trump, barring Bloomberg News is a mistake
Commentary: Business-focused wire service has been fair to the president
Tim Hearden | Dec 06, 2019
I've previously written in this space that for all his bluster, I think President Donald Trump actually loves the media. He gives more impromptu press conferences and even one-on-one interviews than any other president has in my lifetime.
But that doesn't stop him from using a fight with the media to make a point, which he did recently by announcing he would bar the wire service we use – Bloomberg News – from receiving credentials to his rallies and other campaign-related events.
Related: Trump ties Brazil, Argentina steel tariffs to U.S. farm woes
The move followed the wire service's announcement in an internal memo that it would not do investigative pieces on its owner, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, or other Democratic presidential candidates but would continue to investigate Trump as a government leader currently in office.
Bloomberg News will aggregate or publish other outlets' investigative work on the candidate and his competitors if the wire service considers the reports credible.
The decision has been met with criticism by some in the news industry, including long-time media critic Howard Kurtz, who called it "a major misfire that satisfies no one," according to the media watchdog website Mediaite.
In his memo, Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait said the news service has a "tradition of not investigating Mike (and his family and foundation) and we will extend the same policy to his rivals in the Democratic primaries." He said the policy toward Michael Bloomberg – and Trump – will be re-evaluated if Bloomberg earns the nomination.
One can argue the merits of Bloomberg News' decisions, both to initiate the policy and to announce it publicly. But in my view, barring the wire service from campaign events is a mistake.
For one thing, it's not as if Bloomberg News specializes in doing biting investigative pieces on the family members of politicians. They're a very good business-focused wire service that seems much more at home examining the ramifications of trade negotiations with China than worrying over whether Trump once had an affair with Stormy Daniels.
And that brings me to my second point: In the year and a half that I've been managing Western Farm Press' website, at least, Bloomberg News has been fair to Trump – more so than some other major news services.
As an example, one need only compare coverage of Trump's reinstating tariffs on steel and aluminum from Argentina and Brazil. In a pejorative-laden article, a major competing wire service sighed that the move was "another example of his mercurial approach to trade policy" which is "sapping economic growth."
For their part, nine contributing Bloomberg reporters explained the origins of the policies, detailed the South American countries' relationships with China, and provided context by noting that linking tariffs to Federal Reserve action on currency manipulation could mark a new phase in Trump's trade agenda.
Voters keep saying they yearn for campaigns based on issues rather than mudslinging. Bloomberg News, for one, is sticking to the issues. Trump should count his blessings and let them in.


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A beautiful sunny Autumn day, perfect, as the ladies from my embroidery class discovered, to get together and have a 'play day'. The goal was to produce some fabrics that we could use as interesting backgrounds for embroidery. It was such fun to work together and then anticipation of unwrapping the bundles the next day. Stimulated by our embroidery class, the ladies were in reflection mode -What worked? what didn't and why? what I will do next time?
All we needed was some fabric - natural fibres, preferably wool or silk or maybe some linen or cotton soaked in diluted soy milk. Plant matter - eucalypt leaves were a good start but we were prepared to try anything, maybe some scrap metal, a large pot dedicated to the dyeing process and a heat source. A hot plate outside and some old aluminium pots proved ideal for the job.
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Q: Is there a way to know if a website is in development mode or production mode in Django? In Django, Because when in development and production mode, the settings.py file has to be so much different
For example
Development:
DEBUG = true
...
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
...
EMAIL_PAGE_DOMAIN = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000'

Production:
DEBUG = false
...
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['example.com']
...
EMAIL_PAGE_DOMAIN = 'https://example.com'

I don't know if there is a condition to check if the app is in development mode or production mode so that I don't hard-code it. The code should change automatically based on its mode.
I imagine something like this
if in_Development_Mode() == true:
   #code for devopmenet
else:
   #code for production

A: Yes there is:
from django.conf import settings

if settings.DEBUG==True:
   #code for development
else:
   #code for production

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/settings/#using-settings-in-python-code

A: You can use os.getcwd()
If the current working directory is not the local directory then the website is in production
if 'C:\\Users\\UserName' in os.getcwd():
    DEBUG = True else:
    DEBUG = False

A: Another way to validate this using the os.getcwd() is to check for the production application folder.
if os.getcwd() == '/app':
    DEBUG = False # Set to false when in production
else:
    DEBUG = True # Set to true when not in production

Can use this for future reference as it can come in handy.

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Summary The (1) htk_read_header, (2) alaw_init, (3) ulaw_init, (4) pcm_init, (5) float32_init, and (6) sds_read_header functions in libsndfile 1.0.20 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted audio file.
description An integer overflow in libsndfile while processing certain PAF files has been fixed. CVE-2011-2696 has been assigned to this issue. Additionally an divide by zero (CVE-2009-4835) has been fixed.
description An integer overflow in libsndfile while processing certain PAF files has been fixed. CVE-2011-2696 has been assigned to this issue. Additionally an divide by zero error (CVE-2009-4835) has been fixed.
description An integer overflow in libsndfile while processing certain PAF files has been fixed. CVE-2011-2696 has been assigned to this issue. Additionally a divide by zero error (CVE-2009-4835) has been fixed.
description A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in libsndfile : The (1) htk_read_header, (2) alaw_init, (3) ulaw_init, (4) pcm_init, (5) float32_init, and (6) sds_read_header functions in libsndfile 1.0.20 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted audio file (CVE-2009-4835). Packages for 2008.0 and 2009.0 are provided as of the Extended Maintenance Program. Please visit this link to learn more: http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?cPath=149&products_id=4 90 The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
statement Red Hat does not consider this issue to be a security flaw. The libsndfile library is not used outside of client applications, where crashes are not considered to be security flaws.


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When I was asked to write about Peter Pan, I was strapped with what perspective to take, as I wear many (bad) hats in this show. Should I talk about the adaptation, the choreography, the roles I play, or the growth of the show over the years? After asking these questions it became clear that that versatility was precisely the thing to discuss: the many hats that everyone in this show demonstrates as artists, and the unique rehearsal process that comes with that versatility. Just like any creative team on a new musical, we have a director, writers, a choreographer, a music director, a fight director, a composer and performers- but this ensemble in many ways are each a little bit of all of these roles.
It's not exactly "rehearsal etiquette" for an actor to give a note about the direction, or the music director to offer up a piece of choreography, or the fight director to request a line change, or a producer to write a song for the finale. But in our rehearsal hall, ideas are being offered up in all fields of work, regardless of one's role in the production. In many other instances, this would call for chaos, hurt feelings, toes being stepped on and egos being bruised, but this has never been the case with Peter Pan. There is a shared vision for this show amongst the creative team; a vision that is strong and clear and has grown with this ensemble for years. With that vision comes an absolute trust— trust that any idea that is offered up is to support our mutual goal to create a magical show, and if an idea is voiced, it's worth listening to because we all trust that the note is being given in light of that vision and always comes from a place of support. One of Severn Thompson's strengths as a director is creating a comfortable and playful work environment for her team, and fully trusting that her actors will make strong choices that serve the story we all wish our audiences to hear.
Now all this is not to say that the people in their creative roles are not individually responsible for their wonderful work. Each leader of every creative element directs with specificity, and each have a clear vision for their aspect of story telling (be it music directing a crunchy harmony or choreographing a seamless fight sequence) but there's a wonderful acknowledgement in the room of the cast's creative ability and there is an open heartedness to explore that creativity. I think that's where the magic element comes in.
I often take for granted the uniqueness of this show and it's ensemble. Really, I feel I owe it all to friendship. It's been a highlight of my life creating a show with my friends. Some old friends from theatre school and some new friends I've grown close to in Neverland. This show and it's process is demonstrative of love, friendship, support and trust. It's the ultimate room to play in, to fail in, to voice opinions in, to let guards down in, to cry unabashedly in, to laugh uncontrollably in, to feel—in those moments of unity with each other and the audience— that we're flying, and that this show and it's journey will never ever finish, will never ever cease to be magical, and will never ever land.
Soulpepper, one of Canada's largest urban theatres, is an artist-centred company that celebrates the stories that move us and the artists who tell them. Soulpepper presents vital Canadian interpretations of the classics, and commissions, translates, and develops new work, creating a home for a diverse array of artistic expression across disciplines.


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Aaron v. Mansell, 854 So.2d.96 (2003).
Facts: Client hired Attorney. Client, now acting pro se, sues Attorney for legal malpractice and slander. Attorney filed an answer and denied both of Client's allegations. Attorney cross-filed for summary judgment. Client filed a request for oral argument for evidentiary hearing, a motion for declaratory judgment or in the alternative a trial by jury. Court denies client's cross-motion for summary judgment. Client did not file an appeal; instead he filed a "motion/request to file out-of-time appeal." He asserted that the clerk's office did not mail his copy of the entry of judgment. The court entered summary judgment in favor of Attorney. Client now appeals.
Issue: Whether the trial court correctly entered summary judgment against Client?
Ruling: Yes. The court dismissed Client's appeal because Client did not provide an affidavit or other notarized statement that shows the date he sent his notice of appeal in the mail. The certificate of service for the notice of appeal is not dated. It is referenced to "this day." Therefore the court cannot determine which date he deposited his notice of appeal.
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