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Posted By: Lauren Hutchens March 8, 2017
Alignment Healthcare ("Alignment"), a population health management company, announced that Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, has agreed to make a $115 million growth investment in the company. The financing will enable Alignment to accelerate expansion of its operations, bringing the power of Alignment's unique care delivery model to more patients across the country.
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"We are proud to welcome Warburg Pincus as our partner and look forward to leveraging their deep expertise and network of relationships in the health care sector. Together with General Atlantic, we believe we have the two best health care financial partners in the world," said John Kao, president and CEO of Alignment Healthcare. "This partnership will provide Alignment with growth capital to explore new strategic partnerships and acquisitions that will support our continued rapid growth."
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'''Unit tests for grit.format.policy_templates.writers.android_policy_writer'''

import os
import sys
if __name__ == '__main__':
  sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '../../../..'))

import unittest
from xml.dom import minidom

from grit.format.policy_templates.writers import writer_unittest_common
from grit.format.policy_templates.writers import android_policy_writer

class AndroidPolicyWriterUnittest(writer_unittest_common.WriterUnittestCommon):
  '''Unit tests to test assumptions in Android Policy Writer'''

  def testPolicyWithoutItems(self):
    # Test an example policy without items.
    policy = {
      'name': '_policy_name',
      'caption': '_policy_caption',
      'desc': 'This is a long policy caption. More than one sentence '
              'in a single line because it is very important.\nIgnore this.'
    }
    writer = android_policy_writer.GetWriter({})
    writer.Init()
    writer.BeginTemplate()
    writer.WritePolicy(policy)
    self.assertEquals(
        writer._resources.toxml(),
        '<resources>'
          '<string name="_policy_nameTitle">_policy_caption</string>'
          '<string name="_policy_nameDesc">This is a long policy caption. More '
              'than one sentence in a single line because it is very important.'
          '</string>'
        '</resources>')

  def testPolicyWithItems(self):
    # Test an example policy without items.
    policy = {
      'name': '_policy_name',
      'caption': '_policy_caption',
      'desc': '_policy_desc_first.\n_ignored_policy_desc',
      'items': [
        {
          'caption':'_caption1',
          'value':'_value1',
        },
        {
          'caption':'_caption2',
          'value':'_value2',
        }
      ]
    }
    writer = android_policy_writer.GetWriter({})
    writer.Init()
    writer.BeginTemplate()
    writer.WritePolicy(policy)
    self.assertEquals(
        writer._resources.toxml(),
        '<resources>'
          '<string name="_policy_nameTitle">_policy_caption</string>'
          '<string name="_policy_nameDesc">_policy_desc_first.</string>'
          '<string-array name="_policy_nameEntries">'
            '<item>_caption1</item>'
            '<item>_caption2</item>'
          '</string-array>'
          '<string-array name="_policy_nameValues">'
            '<item>_value1</item>'
            '<item>_value2</item>'
          '</string-array>'
        '</resources>')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

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End of the Two-State Solution
Listen to Chris Katulka's interview with Soeren Kern about this article (begins @ 2:03).
U.S. President Donald Trump recently announced he will not insist on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "I thought for a while the two-state looked like it may be the easier of the two. But honestly, if Bibi and if the Palestinians—if Israel and the Palestinians are happy, I'm happy with the one they like the best," Trump said, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by his nickname.
The two-state solution—a Palestinian state existing side by side with an Israeli state—has been a pillar of American policy in the Middle East for decades, going all the way back to the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
Although the foreign-policy establishment quickly criticized Trump, supporters countered that the never-ending Arab-Israeli conflict is proof that it is high time for a new approach. Still others claimed Trump's openness to a one-state solution was a tactic to pressure the Palestinians to accept a deal on two states.
In any event, the two-state solution has failed for a number of reasons, all of which have their origin in Islamic doctrine. For example, the Palestinian leadership is divided between Fatah, which dominates the West Bank, and Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. Hamas, far from acknowledging Israel's right to exist, is irrevocably dedicated to its destruction.
The Hamas Charter is unambiguous: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." The charter further states, "Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement." And again, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
The Hamas Charter is based on the foundational Islamic doctrine that once Islam has conquered a land or territory, it must remain under Muslim dominion forever. According to Islamic law, even if Muslims lose control over a land or territory once occupied—as is the case with Israel, Spain, Portugal, and parts of Italy—they are obligated to return and reestablish Islamic rule there.
In other words, the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is essentially theological, not political, even though the two-state solution rests on the supposition that the conflict is political, not theological.
Islamic doctrine also explains why Palestinians steadfastly refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, a key Israeli demand. Addressing the UN General Assembly in September 2009, Netanyahu challenged Palestinian leaders: "We ask the Palestinians to finally do what they have refused to do for 62 years: Say yes to a Jewish state. Just as we are asked to recognize a nation-state for the Palestinian people, the Palestinians must be asked to recognize the nation-state of the Jewish people." In the words of one analyst, "For the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is to declare their surrender."
Another reason the two-state solution has failed is because Palestinian leaders have brainwashed an entire generation of young Palestinians into believing they should harbor a visceral hatred of Jews. This situation makes peaceful coexistence virtually impossible.
For example, Palestinian clergy, media, and school textbooks are notorious for promoting the narrative that Jews are less than human and for fostering a cult of martyrdom that glorifies killing them.
The alternative to the two-state solution is the one-state solution, which involves Israel formally annexing the West Bank and absorbing millions of Palestinians into Israel. Like the two-state solution, the one-state solution also has problems. Trump's openness to pursuing a new approach to the Middle East, however, is a long overdue breath of fresh air for those who are concerned about the future of Israel.
Soeren Kern is a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank based in New York City.
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Q: displaying different classes in a table from one jsp file I'm making a small application and I have a few classes that have nothing in common (Product, Country, Customer etc) and my goal is to have a jsp file that can display in an html table the object (or list of object it's given) because I currently have a jsp file for every class (products.jsp, country.jsp etc).
I've been thinking about this the whole day and I can't figure how to do it.
Any suggestion ?
edit: trying to be a bit more clear and specific:
I have a "target" argument that contains the type of data that the user want to visualize ("product", "country" etc). The servlet will then load in a variable a list of Products/countries etc and send it to the jsp.
I want that jsp file to display whatever he just received in a table.
The question is how can I do that ? Currently my jsp fileS are doing it "manually" using the getters of each type of object, how can I make that generic ?

A: I'm not sure I understand correctly the problem, anyway these are my suggestions.
If you decide the column of the table, then you can create a wrapper object having an attribute for each field of the table, and "transform" each different object you have (Product, Country...) into this wrapper and then create a list of these wrapper object to show in the table.
Otherwise put all the objects as they are in a list and then do as much if as needed to display the information in the table.
I would choose the first way.

A: After a while I found a solution to my problem.
I implemented the following method to a class all of my data classes inherit from.
public ArrayList<Pair<String, String>> toPairs() {

    ArrayList<Pair<String, String>> list = new ArrayList<Pair<String, String>>();
    try {
        Class<?> objClass = this.getClass();
        Field[] fields = objClass.getDeclaredFields();
        for(Field field : fields) {
            field.setAccessible(true);
            String value = field.get(this).toString();
            String name = field.getName();

            Pair<String, String> pair = new Pair<String, String>(name, value);
            list.add(pair);
        }
        return list;
    } catch(Exception e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        return null;
    }
}

It's probably not the most effective way to do it but it's how I ended up making it.
My servlet gets the data from the database and puts everything in Pair (from this answer). In the end, I pass a list of list of Pairs to my jsp file.

    <c:forEach items="${data}" var="lpair" varStatus="loop">
        <c:if test="${loop.first}">

                <c:forEach items="${lpair}" var="pair">
                    ${pair.getL()}
                </c:forEach>

        </c:if>

            <c:forEach items="${lpair}" var="pair">
                ${pair.getR()}
            </c:forEach>

    </c:forEach>

An example to understand it easily : if I want to display the countries the servlet will get them from the database and make each country a list of pairs, a Country object will become something like that :
"id":"*someid"
"short":"USA"
"name":"United States of America"

So the jsp file receive a list of countries that are stocked in lists themselves hence the double foreach.
This is my first attempt at an answer (even if it's my own question) so I hope it's understandable.
Sorry for the possible languages mistake, English is not my mother tongue.

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Q: Setting default histtype in matplotlib? Is there a way to configure the default argument for histtype of matplotlib's hist() function? The default behavior is to make bar-chart type histograms, which I basically never want to look at, since it is horrible for comparing multiple distributions that have significant overlap.
In case it's somehow relevant, the default behavior I would like to attain is to have histtype='step'.

A: Thank you for prompting me to look at this, as I much prefer 'step' style histograms too! I solved this problem by going into the matplotlib source code. I use anaconda, so it was located in anaconda/lib/site-packages/python2.7/matplotlib.
To change the histogram style I edited two of the files. Assuming that the current directory is matplotlib/, then open up axes/_axes.py and locate the hist() function there (it's on line 5690 on my machine, matplotlib version 1.5.1). You should see the histtype argument there. Change this to 'step'.
Now open up pyplot.py and again locate the hist() function and make the same change to the histtype argument (line 2943 in version 1.5.1 and on my machine). There is a comment about not editing this function, but I only found this to be an issue when I didn't also edit axes/_axes.py as well.
This worked for me! Another alternative would be just to write a wrapper around hist() yourself that changes the default argument.


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Kik Messenger Saved From the Verge of Shutdown
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Kik almost went to the verge of shutting down because of its lawsuit with the SEC. A buyout from MediaLab saved it.
On Oct. 13, Canadian social media and messaging app Kik revealed it's "here to stay." This was an apparent reversal from what the company's CEO, Ted Livingston, said in a blog post — that it was considering shutting down.
It became clear just five days later why it was "here to stay." A Santa Monica-based holding company, MediaLab, had signed an agreement with Kik Interactive to buy its Kik messaging platform.
From angel investment to $100M ICO
Back in 2009, a group of students from the University of Waterloo in Canada came together to create new technologies for use on smartphones. In October 2010, Kik Interactive was launched, reaching a million users in under 15 days. The company demonstrated that Twitter could be a powerful tool to run a marketing campaign, as the social media was the chief catalyst.
While developing the project, the students had received $4.7 million in angel investment. In just over a year, on March 7, 2011, the company raised $8 million in a Series A investment round. The expansion efforts continued, and in April 2013, the company managed to raise another $19.5 million in Series B funding, with Foundation Capital being the lead investor.
The messenger started to gain global traction, and the need for rapid expansion continued. It raised $38.3 million in a Series C round of funding. Kik got a major break in fundraising in August 2015, when it received a $50 million investment from Chinese internet giant Tencent, the parent company of Chinese messaging service WeChat. With this investment, the company gained the prestigious "unicorn" status.
However, in 2017, Kik decided to not go through the traditional route of raising funds through venture capitalists, instead opting for an in-trend option, an initial coin offering (ICO). The company managed to raise $100 million from more than 10,000 participants in 117 countries. Alina Kiselevich, a communication analyst at Enigma Securities, told Cointelegraph:
"Looking back at the crypto-world of 2017 it is impossible to say that Kik's move wasn't a shot worth taking, considering the financial weather for the company back then and the 'challenges' in late 2016 and early 2017, prior to the ICO. Only the future resolution with SEC will show the real definition of the current situation, helping the community understand if Kik had to stick to the traditional VCs in case it would turn out to be a disaster or if it was a well-thought out plan."
Kik vs. the SEC
However, due to the sheer volume of illegal ICOs taking place in 2017, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) began to intervene in the crypto space, which meant increased scrutiny for Kik. The first subpoena was issued by the SEC in January 2018, followed by eight more in the following five months.
The primary complaint the SEC had against Kik was that the firm had been involved in the sale of unregistered securities. Ever since the subpoena was opened, Kik had been fighting an uphill battle with the SEC. The SEC painted a picture of Kik Interactive Inc. being a cash-strapped company on its last legs. The ICO, according to the regulators, was the last attempt to save the company from certain failure.
Kik's ICO for the Kin (KIN) token took place over two weeks, from Sept 12 to Sept 26, 2017 and was one of the most successful ICOs ever. It raised 168,732 ETH, or around $50 million from 10,026 individuals spread across 116 countries. An additional $50 million was raised from institutional investors. However, it fell short of its fundraising target of $125 million.
According to the SEC, Kik had potentially violated Sections 5(a) and 5(c) of the 1933 Securities Act, which prohibit the sale of securities that are not registered with the commission. Kik was aggressive in its refute to these claims, stating that "Kin is exempt from the federal securities laws" because it "possesses all the characteristics of a currency like Bitcoin and Ether," which the commission has deemed not to be securities.
Price of Kin since the investigation began. Source: Coin360.com
Since the SEC allegations in June 2018, the price of the Kin token has dropped by 71%. Many in the crypto space came out in support of Kik and Livingston. Anthony Pompliano (aka Pomp), founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, hosted Livingston on his "Off the Chain" podcast on May 30. Empathizing with the troubled CEO, Pomp said, "I think that there are a lot of people who are paying attention to what you guys are doing, and frankly cheering for you guys to help get some clarity."
Regarding Kik's ICO, Robin Meijer, an online marketing strategist at Netherlands-based crypto brokerage firm Bitcoin Meester, alleged that Kik knew it was in a legal grey area, telling Cointelegraph:
"I think KIK knew it wasn't legal. Every country has its own legislation about ICO's now but I think they could have foreseen that this wouldn't end well, even if they launched it before there were any clear regulations. Since early 2018 governments and financial institutions have done their best at trying to regulate ICO's. KIK launched its ICO in 2017 when the regulations were almost non-existent. I feel like KIK is being used as an example for other ICO's."
To raise both awareness and money, Livingston launched the Defend Crypto fund. The fund was taken over by the Blockchain Association, a collective of advocates involved with the blockchain industry. The Defend Crypto fund has raised $5 million to fight the charges brought by the SEC and an additional $1.6 million strictly allocated to non-Kik initiatives. David Pring-Mill a consultant for tech startups and the director of Hyperloop Advanced Research Partnership, told Cointelegrpah:
"Kik Interactive had its back against the wall. They were competing against Facebook, a company that verges on monopoly status when it comes to digital interactions. And Kik was trying to do something similar, albeit with a more defined target market. ICOs can facilitate the same purpose as IPOs but without the paperwork, safeguards, transparency, and oversight. Kik is objecting to the SEC's framing of the matter but I think that the agency was right to go after this."
MediaLab buys Kik Messenger
It seemed that the desperate efforts to raise funds to fight off the case from the SEC were falling short, and the financial troubles put Kik at risk of losing its business and numerous employees their jobs.
On Sept. 24, the company's CEO revealed that it would be shutting down the Kik app, reducing its staff to 19 people and focusing on the development of the Kin token. Even with an 80% reduction of its staff, Livingston was adamant about fighting tooth and nail with the SEC. He estimated that the closure of the platform would drop its burn rate by 85% and the resources would be directed to the SEC trial.
Related: KIK Closes Messenger and Lays Off Staff to Continue SEC Lawsuit Fight
However, those austerity measures never materialized, as on Oct. 14, Kik announced that it was "here to stay" and confirmed on Oct. 18 that MediaLab will be the new owner of Kik, potentially giving hope to the platform's userbase and employees. Santa Monica-based MediaLab, which also owns the messaging app Whisper and music sharing platform DatPiff, took up the task of maintaining and improving the Kik Messenger app.
The blog post for the announcement said that MediaLab saw "something truly special" with Kik, adding that they both are "non-conformists". MediaLab has plans to improve the Kik messenger, starting with taking suggestions from the community. Although prior to the audience suggestions, it had some ideas on how to improve the app. It wants to make "the app faster, more reliable, & less buggy," as well as eradicate spam bots.
Now, Livingston will be running his team with a sole focus on cryptocurrencies. However, the MediaLab team will be in close partnership with Livingston's team to further expand on Kin's integration.
Even though some of the company's financial troubles are solved, the legal vows still continue. The new plans to fight the SEC haven't been revealed by either of the companies. The plans for a new monetization model have not been revealed yet. Kik has struggled with traditional advertising, and even declined a potential deal because the business model of the proposed acquirer was to collect and sell data. When asked about MediaLab's motives behind buying Kik, Alina of Enigma security told Cointelegraph:
"The fact that they did not state anything or mentioned the lawsuit now, might tell us two things: either MediaLabs only buys out the app for the further development and leaves the financial problems to the ex-leadership, or they buy out everything completely, adopting each and every aspect of the company. For now it is hard to tell which route the new leadership will follow as it completely depends on the terms of the LOI between the parties, which for now have not been disclosed."
Cointelegraph has reached out Livingston and his team, but they declined to comment on this matter.
Source: cointelegraph.com
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New Zealand Defence Force: The civilianisation project
Part 2: The timing, pace, and progress of the civilianisation project
Part 3: The results of the civilianisation project
Part 4: Our conclusions
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New Zealand Defence Force: The civilianisation project.
In this Part, we look at:
the timing and pace of the civilianisation project; and
how NZDF carried out the civilianisation project.
Summary of our findings
Before it knew how many military staff it required from 2015, NZDF told the Minister of Defence that it would civilianise 1400 positions. Later, NZDF also identified that it had too many military staff in some ranks and trades. From June 2011, through the civilianisation project, NZDF began discharging surplus military staff and converted some military positions to civilian positions. Despite internal concerns about timing, NZDF decided that the advantages of immediately starting the civilianisation project outweighed the disadvantages.
Since December 2011, NZDF has relied on attrition and contracts finishing to re-designate military positions as civilian positions. In the first stage of the civilianisation project, NZDF discharged 303 staff and is to discharge two more. Eighty-seven of the discharged staff have been appointed to civilian positions.
Discharging military staff and the manner in which they were discharged have caused problems for NZDF. Some staff consider that NZDF breached its moral contract with them. NZDF's leaders did not foresee this.
Timing and pace of the civilianisation project
Choosing to proceed quickly
NZDF weighed up the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to project timing. It considered delaying the civilianisation project so that:
analysis could be completed of how best to use military and civilian staff; and
all or most of the changes could happen at the same time, which would mean the civilianisation project could be completed in one stage, rather than three.
The advantages of immediate action were that NZDF would be able to:
save money quickly;
meet external expectations for progress on the civilianisation project; and
signal clearly to staff that major change was happening.
We saw evidence of concern expressed by senior NZDF staff in 2011 about the decision to progress quickly.
The three Services were clearly concerned about how quickly the number of military staff would be reduced. The Army said that:
Army remains concerned that their reductions are going to significantly impact on their ability to sustain operations if they reduce too much of the military out of the back end before growing the front end. 65% of officers who fill single or small group operational missions come from the back end.3
The Navy said that the size of its military workforce was in line with what the Force Structure Project (see paragraphs 2.13-14) said it should be, and that being forced to reduce the number of military staff increased the risk of not having enough staff to put ships to sea.4
The Air Force wanted a more detailed review of the technical trades before any decisions were made about which positions could be civilianised.
In another example of concern about the pace of the civilianisation project, an NZDF planning document stated that:
In some instances we may not have sufficient time which means we may have to cut corners to realise the benefits to the allocated timeframe. Some things we may not be able to do to manage change and we may have to do the bare minimum rather than the full niceties of change.
Despite the concerns about quick implementation, NZDF decided that the advantages of immediately starting the civilianisation project outweighed the disadvantages.
Incomplete information about numbers of military staff needed from 2015
In September 2010, when NZDF told Cabinet through the Minister of Defence that it would civilianise 1400 military positions, it had already started – but not completed – the Force Structure Project. This project was to work out the number of military staff required to deliver NZDF outputs for the years 2015-2035.
The Force Structure Project was carried out in stages. An important stage of the project was to work out the number of Personnel Required in Uniform (PRU). The PRU number was decided at some time between December 2010 and March 2011. There were differing interpretations within NZDF of what the PRU number meant. Some NZDF documents describe it as the maximum number of personnel required in uniform to sustain future operations. Another describes it as a minimum number. Others describe it as an interim result, with more analysis needed.
The PRU number showed that, from 2015, NZDF would require 10,054 military staff to do its job properly. This meant that NZDF needed more military staff overall than it had before the civilianisation project started. Converting 1400 military positions to civilian positions would have left NZDF with 1618 fewer military staff than it required to properly fulfil its role from 2015.
The Force Structure Project continued after the first stage of the civilianisation project was completed.
How the civilianisation project was carried out
The main actions in the first stage of the civilianisation project (between December 2010 and December 2011) were:
identifying which military positions would:
be re-designated as civilian positions;
be disestablished; or
remain military; and
in ranks and trades that were identified as having surplus military staff, reviewing staff files to identify those individuals who were no longer required;
notifying affected staff;
applying a right-of-reply (appeal) process that allowed military staff to present their case as to why they should not be discharged; and
discharging staff.
The civilianisation project was a significant challenge for NZDF. Most of the policy and processes needed to implement the civilianisation project had to be developed from scratch. Job descriptions for more than 320 civilian positions had to be prepared. More than 3000 applications for the civilian positions had to be processed. Personnel records for more than 2400 military staff had to be reviewed and decisions made as to which staff were no longer required in uniform. The NZDF Human Resources team prepared a scoring system to decide which staff should be discharged. The system was heavily weighted towards assessing how a person had performed and their future potential.
All this work had to be carried out on top of existing workloads. Also, the human resources function, which had a pivotal role in the civilianisation project, was being downsized. The NZDF Human Resources team had to be supplemented by contracted personnel to help with this work.
Identifying military positions that could be converted to civilian positions
Senior military staff in the Army, Navy, and Air Force were responsible for identifying which positions:
could be changed to civilian positions;5
should remain as military positions; and
could be disestablished.
This identification was expected to be carried out between 17 December 2010 and 26 January 2011.
A moderation review by the head offices of the Army, Navy, and Air Force was planned. NZDF allowed one week for each Service to moderate its results.
After this review, 262 military positions were chosen to be converted to civilian positions.
Identifying those staff who were no longer required for military service
NZDF considered that it might want to keep in military service some of those people whose positions were chosen for civilianisation.
The Force Structure Project had showed that some ranks and trades had surplus military staff. NZDF focused on these surplus military staff when considering which people were no longer required for military service.
To ensure that NZDF kept better-performing staff, special boards reviewed the files of 2483 military staff. Their role was to identify military staff (from the ranks and trades with surplus military staff) who were to be discharged, transferred between Services, or assigned to other duties in different trades.
The special boards used rules written by NZDF and the three Services. The boards looked at performance history documents to work out which military staff to retain.
The review criteria were:
performance, including future potential;
ability to be deployed, including medical and fitness history and readiness for operational service;6 and
commitment to service, including how willing staff members were to be posted, how willing they were to take part in enhancing their professional military skills, and how willing they were to maintain requirements to be deployed.
The review boards scored staff using the criteria, awarding most marks for performance and potential. This was to ensure that NZDF kept the staff who it considered to be most valuable. In brief, NZDF sought to ensure that discharged staff were those who had not performed as well and had less potential than their peers.
Notifying affected staff
In late June 2011, 315 military staff received letters saying that they had been identified for discharge.
The template for the letters was developed by a working group that included representatives from the three Services and staff from NZDF Headquarters. The template letter was sent to senior staff who were required to use it to inform those to be discharged. The letters told recipients how they were rated against the criteria used to assess whether a military staff member should be discharged. The most controversial part of the letters was that describing the rating of the person's commitment to service as low, moderate, or high (see paragraph 2.28). Some military staff with many years of service found it hurtful to be told that they lacked commitment.
An NZDF internal document quotes Navy staff as saying that:
[We] tried to reword the letters when we got them as we were shocked at their obviously controversial and unfeeling tone. We were told in no uncertain terms that we were not to alter the 'template' and only add the individual specific information. How is it that the authors could miss the fact that these letters were incredibly poorly written?
We have discussed the drafting of these letters with staff at NZDF Headquarters. Their view reflects that expressed in the extract from the document quoted in paragraph 2.32, that the Service Chiefs were able to include individual specific information. The instructions with the template letter that was sent to the Services stated that only information relating to criteria in which an individual did not get the maximum rating was to be used. Any other information was not to be included.
Letters sent by the three Services showed distinct variations in the level of detail that was included. For example, a letter from one Service to a person who was to be discharged, said that his level of performance and future potential was considered to be less than those of his peers and this is why he had been identified as a person to be discharged. There was no mention of commitment to service. Letters from the other Services contained much more specific information about why a person was considered unsuitable to be retained in military service and how the person had shown a lack of commitment to service.
An NZDF document listing the lessons learned from the appeal process stated that the "letters, in some cases, were telling good people they were bad".7
The distress of those receiving these letters was evident in many of the appeals in response to the letters. The appeals did not provide any further information to contest the discharge. Instead, the appeals expressed anger and frustration at the way staff had been treated.
In the first stage, letters were sent to 315 staff. However, before the appeal process began, two people were removed from the list of staff to be discharged. Of 64 appeals, eight were upheld.
Overall outcome
A total of 303 staff were discharged. Two more are yet to be discharged. Affected staff had two options:
apply for a civilian job in NZDF, and, if successful, be discharged with up to two years' pay protection; or
be discharged and receive a redundancy payment.
In the end, 87 military staff were appointed to civilian positions, while 218 were, or are going to be, discharged with a redundancy payment.
NZDF counted 477 fewer military staff on the basis that 305 were (or are to be) discharged and a further 172 left between 1 March and 31 December 2011 because their contracts were not renewed or they had resigned. All were counted in the civilianisation project's total because they were military staff from the ranks and trades that had surplus military staff. Other people who left for these reasons from other parts of NZDF were not counted towards this total. We did not agree with NZDF's calculation of the overall outcome (see paragraphs 3.8-3.13, and Figure 1).
The process created 262 civilian jobs. NZDF has informed us that, as of 30 November 2012, five civilian positions have since been disestablished after a further review. Of the remaining 257 civilian positions that were created, 178 have been filled with permanent staff. Five positions have been filled using fixed-term contracts since the positions are being further reviewed. Eight positions have been temporarily filled with military staff. Sixty-six positions are currently vacant.
Moral contract and increased attrition
Military staff are not employed. They are "in service". They cannot negotiate a contract and the Chief of Defence Force prescribes conditions of service with only a few limitations.8 Military staff must swear an oath of allegiance and obey all lawful orders. They cannot strike and are subject to military justice. In return for this unqualified commitment to serve, NZDF acknowledges a "moral contract", which can be described as an expectation that senior leaders will look after the interests of the rank and file.
There was a serious problem caused by the way in which the civilianisation project was carried out. Staff saw NZDF leaders as having breached the moral contract because they felt that their loyalty and commitment to NZDF was not reciprocated. We consider this to be one of the causes of the increase in attrition throughout NZDF's Regular Force.
Despite planning papers that show NZDF leaders knew of some risks to staff morale and performance, senior NZDF staff told us that they had not fully appreciated the effect that the civilianisation project would have on NZDF culture. An NZDF internal briefing paper said that:
The uncertainty of tenure resulting from the many change programmes, and civilianisation in particular, has therefore seriously challenged the traditional culture of an NZDF that develops and supports its people. The negative impact of perceptions of leadership, lower morale and higher propensity of an individual's intent to leave has been greater than expected.
In January 2011, NZDF recognised that the civilianisation project could increase attrition and that this would affect how it did its work. NZDF used a quarterly survey of staff as its main mechanism to monitor morale and attrition.9 Because of the speed of the civilianisation project, by the time the results of the quarterly survey were available, there was little time for NZDF to take effective action to moderate the effect of civilianisation. We saw no evidence that action was taken until after the first stage of the civilianisation project was complete.
Now, NZDF has a focus on rebuilding morale and restoring trust among military staff. NZDF has said publicly that it is considering ways to achieve this, including increasing pay (which has occurred), paying more visible attention to staff welfare, and making greater efforts to ensure that senior NZDF staff engage directly with military staff.
3: New Zealand Defence Force internal document.
5: The New Zealand Defence Force describes this as Civilianisation of Military Positions (CoMP).
6: Before staff can be considered as ready for deployment on operations, several measures are used to assess whether they can be deployed.
7: The New Zealand Defence Force has a system to review projects or operations and identify mistakes or shortcomings. This is called the "after action report" or "lessons learned".
8: For example, the Chief of Defence Force must take into account civilian pay rates, the need to be fair, and the need to recruit and retain competent people.
9: The survey is called the OAtS (ongoing attitudes) survey. The survey measures factors such as morale, commitment, and military belonging. The survey has been running for nine years.
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Shlohmo: "I don't think it's a very easily digestible record"
May 15, 2015 May 15, 2015 Jack Colquhoun
Henry Laufer is Shlohmo. LA local, musician, founder of music collective // brand Wedidit – which includes RL Grime, Ryan Hemsworth, Groundislava, D33J, Nick Melons, Juj, 2KWTVR, SUS BOY and Purple – and above all else, all round nice dude to talk to. I had the pleasure of talking to Henry just after the announcement of his WEDIDIT AUS//NZ tour alongside Purple, D33J and Nick Melons, and following the release of his huge new album Dark Red just over a month ago. The music, the critics, the shows, the fam and future – we talked about it all. Here's what he had to say.
Henry, dude – you've been killing it lately –
Ah thank you man.
– You just wrapped your US tour last week, your European tour is coming up and you've just announced a massive Australia // New Zealand tour – how does it feel at the moment?
It's feeling very busy.
The schedule for today is a different one. While I'm in LA – nothing. I have basically a week off in between the LA show and when I have to go to Europe so I'm just in LA. Like today, me and Nick Melons, and RL Grime, and D33J are about to go to our studio to meet up with Jacques Greene who's just come into town, and we'll probably just not do anything and watch Vine videos and Worldstar together.
That sounds like a very chill day. When Burial came out you were quoted as saying "You don't have to like it, just listen to it." Since Dark Red has come out, has anyone directly told you that they don't like it? It's got to be your most popular release since Fuck You All The Time.
Mm yeah it's funny – I've actually seen… I think all the people like it and then all the critics hate it, has been what I've seen. I think all the bigger critics like you know, all the whack ones, all the sneakdiss internet boys. But you know, it's interesting, I don't think it's a very easily digestible record, so I wasn't expecting critics to love it necessarily. I was expecting the critics to line up with the people's opinion and it looks like it didn't – which was interesting to say the least.
Do you think that because of this big change in the sound of your music, your fanbase has changed? Is the crowd at your shows the same or different to what it was?
The crowd I think is exactly the same which is really cool. Um, I don't know if it'll be exactly the same next time. You know what I'm saying? I don't really realise what I'm doing when I'm making shit, so it's not like I'm like, "Oh this is a weird sound, this is a crazy different sound, this is gonna turn a lot of people away", you know what I mean? It's like, for me it was a very natural progression. I wasn't making anything that I was like, "This is a new sound for me," so when people say that it's kind of like, "Okay I see what you're saying, the influences are maybe different, but for me, it's coming from the same place as the other ones." All that said, coming to see a show and watching me playing the fucking band and playing guitar, it doesn't matter what the music actually sounds like. People are going to associate that with rock music. You know what I mean? And now, it's funny, you know five years ago I couldn't get people to fuckin' take me seriously with a laptop and now I can't fuckin' make people take me seriously without a laptop! People are now… Five years later, DJ's are so much more digestible than a band play the exact same music that someone would play as a DJ. That's not to say that this music is "DJ playable", because it's very not, but I don't think my other music was either. And yet somehow, the laptop made people be like, "Oh it's electronic music, it's okay it's going to be weird." But now, this is too weird, a band is too weird. The classical structure of a band is too strange for new kids, it's weird.
In using a band for your live sets do you hope that will stretch out the crowd's musical tastes and think beyond what electronic music can be?
I mean, shit, I think that's all that anyone could hope for! I don't think that that was necessarily ever my intention, of anything. I try not to think about anybody when I'm making music. Releasing it is just something that's a part of the game, but when I'm making it, you know, I'm not thinking about how it's going to impact or make people think differently about something or whatever. But if anything, if it can provide a service for dumb kids to like different kinds of music, then that's awesome.
Do you think that using the band is something that you'll continue with? How do you find performing with a band compared to doing a set on the decks?
Oh it's a totally different experience. It's not even really comparable, I think. I mean, especially after this, but I always looked at DJing as not being serious. Even when I was playing shows before, I knew that it wasn't as serious as it could be. There's no pressure, it's not a challenge to go up in front of people and press play on songs and mixing is not an issue, you know what I mean? Like people pretend like DJing is hard, it's fucking not. Playing music; it can be difficult, DJing can not. So it's definitely made me look at that differently, but that said, I still am a DJ at other times. Like, I still DJ with records, I think people can be both. But also, I make a lot of varied electronic music at the same time that I haven't shown anyone that has no band and playability, there's no musicality there. There's a lot of stuff that I've been making that's just fuckin', a drum machine. So I can't even say what's going to happen next. I always say, "It's going to get even weirder," and it usually does, so we'll just fuckin' see about it.
That's a sick way to play it. With playing your shows as the three piece, you're playing all your own material. But can people expect that at any point you might jump on the decks, or are you making a point of not doing that on this tour?
I think we might be doing some afterparties or something, but I'm pretty sure that all the the shows are booked right now are all band – where I will be recreating the majority of the new record as well as some older cuts – but everything will be full band yeah. Full band is just me, a drummer and D33J on guitar and synth and shit.
Sick, sick. You've been in Australia super recently, just in October for the Listen Out tour, what do you like about Australia that keeps bringing you back to play?
Honestly, it's like the easiest fuckin' place to tour ever. I love Australia. The food is so good everywhere, you guys got real good coffee, and traveling is so easy. Flying is so easy in Australia compared to the States. But yeah, definitely what keeps me coming back is the shows are really good. Australian kids have this thing where they know how far away they are. They know how rare it is to get people that they fuck with to come through, so it's always a very appreciative crowd. Way less faded, even in big cities people are really hyped, which is always a good feeling!
Dude, we're so keen to have you again.
Yeah no, 100%
I was just going to ask about Wedidit as well. You started Wedidit when you were 16/17 – you've just released this mega successful album, so I wanted to know where that 16 year old you thought you'd be now?
Honestly, I do not fucking know. Like, I was planning on… I went to art school, I was doing painting and drawing and print-making and graphic design and that type of shit. I knew I always wanted to like create a brand, I thought I'd probably be doing that. I didn't know that music would be my focus at all. Literally, at all. I would have never guessed that, that music would have a part in it. I would've seen myself running a similar brand to Wedidit but maybe without me doing the music making. Somehow that hobby took a bigger course or something, I don't know it just became the main focus.
You guys all work with a similar image, a similar aesthetic, but all your music is really different. Do you think each of you brings something different to each other's music?
Totally. I mean, I think we all make music very separately, with very different mentalities and purposes with the music. I think what I make really makes me happy, and what RL makes genuinely makes him happy. You know what I mean? And I think what's tight about it is the overlying general person and aesthetic of all the people that we're involved with are all the same. We're all cliché, but we're all times on the same clock in a sense. They're my kinfolk. Someone that makes maybe what people would consider a more similar type of music to me, I would maybe not like them as a person, and not fuck with them. And somehow, we're all able to make very polar and different music and somehow, like you said, it matches under this umbrella of the Wedidit dynasty.
WEDIDIT COLLECTIVE (photo via TheFader)
And how important do you think the evolution of that dynasty has been in your success as a musician?
Very. I think they go hand in hand. Both have been a very slow process. Like a very slow, uphill thing. First it was me bringing Wedidit along with me, as my career took off or whatever you want to call it, but then it sort of became this symbiotic thing with everyone contributing equally, and all the fans finding out about everybody. And Wedidit is now, it's like above everything, above all of us. Without that, none of us would have our careers at where they're at.
You boys are all just a big group of best friends, so does it make it hard to stay close to your best friends when you're all spread over the world just killing it?
Haha, nah. Like the last month was the best thing. It's interesting being on a bus for five weeks with the same six friends – 'cause I can't get sick of them because everyone's just fucking ridiculously funny and not fucking with each other. Everyone genuinely cares about each other. We're not just some dudes on a bus. It's interesting, I think that we can all not see each other for a while, and the international homies too – like you can not see them again for like two or three months and you see them again, and it's the same exact shit.
What are you planning after the tours? You've got so many that it's hard to see the horizon but what's happening after that?
Just literally after all the fucking touring is done, I'm just gonna sit back at home and make a bunch more stuff. I wanna get more serious with the manufacturing of our merch and stuff, and Wedidit – we're all just working so hard on our separate things, and Wedidit is the central passion project of all of ours that we just do because it's necessary and when we have time off all our other shit. But I think it's time that we really figured out our shit and made it as real as it is to the rest of the world.
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TGen economic-impact study finds rapid return on state investment
The Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has parlayed investment from the State of Arizona into a 2008 direct annual economic impact of $44.5 million, a new study reports. That sum more than doubles the direct impact that a similar study found in 2006.
According to the independent study, TGen's total annual economic impact in 2008 was $77.4 million. Tripp Umbach, which conducted the analysis for TGen, projects a 2025 total economic impact–including the productivity of spinoff firms and other commercialization activities–of $321.3 million. Under that forecast, in 2025 TGen operations and commercialization of TGen-led research would be responsible for 4,116 direct and indirect jobs in Arizona.
"Our previous analysis showed that your organization provided a significant return on investment to the Arizona economy and future returns were anticipated to be even more dramatic," wrote Paul Umbach, Tripp Umbach's president and CEO, in a letter prefacing the report. "As a result of your better than expected performance over the past two years our projected impact numbers for 2015 and 2025 are also significantly stronger."
Since fiscal year 2003, the Arizona Legislature has annually steered $5.5 million to TGen from the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission's Health Research Fund to cover administrative costs such as personnel, equipment, supplies, and travel. That funding gives TGen an important competitive advantage, since the National Institutes of Health and other national funders almost never award grants to institutions solely for operational costs.
Tripp Umbach calculated that the return on the state's investment from TGen's operations rose from $3.95 for every dollar invested in 2006 to $8.09 in 2008.
The study also found that the combination of TGen operations and the commercialization of TGen research generated direct and indirect tax revenue of $5.7 million for the state–already a greater amount than the state's annual investment. By 2025, that figure could reach $27.4 million.
"Bioscience was never intended to be the sole component that would change the economy in Arizona," said Jeffrey Trent, TGen's president and research director, in the Arizona Republic. "But I think it is an important knowledge-based pillar that the state has invested in, and I think if it continues to invest, it is likely to have an economic impact."
The Tripp Umbach report stated that TGen's emphasis on establishing collaborations at the national and international levels–such as its strategic alliance with the Michigan-based Van Andel Research Institute and its contract to provide expertise to the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg–were important contributors to the institute's achievements.
"Strong collaboration with other organizations and strong support from the State of Arizona has allowed TGen to grow faster and more dynamically than any other research institute in the United States," the report stated.
According to the Phoenix Business Journal, TGen's net income more than doubled from 2007 to 2008, to $1.9 million. That rapid growth will allow it to make significant investments in workforce, said Tess Burleson, TGen's chief operating officer. She told GenomeWeb Daily News that the institute would be hiring around 35 new staff to its current roster of 300.
"It will be about 80 percent research investigation, about evenly divided between computational biology and wet labs, with really only about a fifth of the positions coming in the area of administrative project management," Dr. Trent said in GenomeWeb Daily News.
Burleson said that TGen will also be sustaining its commercialization efforts. The nonprofit institute has spun out or licensed its technology to seven companies, with two more deals in progress. "We're actually looking at potentially a 10th and an 11th on the horizon, Burleson said in GenomeWeb Daily News.
The most recent such deal is a licensing agreement with Casework Genetics, a forensics firm that will use technology developed at TGen and the University of California at Los Angeles to identify the DNA of individuals within complex sample mixtures.
"TGen to Boost Workforce to Support Commercialization Activities," GenomeWeb Daily News, 10/08/2009
"Economic benefits of TGen more than doubled in 2 years," Arizona Republic, 09/30/2009
"Total TGen impact could hit $321M by 2025," Phoenix Business Journal, 09/29/2009
"TGen provides Arizona with $77 million in annual economic impact; $321 million predicted by 2025–new study shows," TGen news release, 09/29/2009
"Energizing Arizona's Biomedical Future | 2009: Positive Economic Benefits of TGen on the State of Arizona," Tripp Umbach, 09/17/2009


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Едвард Луис Северсон III (; Еванстон, 23. децембар 1964) познатији под именом Еди Ведер, је певач и један од тројице гитариста гранџ бенда Pearl Jam из Сијетла. Био је у бенду од почетка 1990. године заједно са гитаристима Стоуном Гросардом и Мајком Мекридијем и басистом Џефом Ејментом. У бенду је остао до данас, као и остали од наведених. Са бендом је снимио 9 албума. Он је 2007. године снимио и соло албум за потребе филма -{Into the Wild}-, где је послужио као саундтрек. Ведер је био рангиран као 23. у магазину -{Hit Parader}- на њиховој листи за 100 најбољих вокала хеви метала. Написао је већину текстова за песме бенда, а један број песама је и сам компоновао. Осим што ради у Pearl Jam-у од оснивања, он је био и члан бенда -{Temple of the Dog}-, а снимио је и соло албум. Магазин Ролинг стоун сврстао га је у листи 100 најбољих водећих певача свих времена на седмом месту.

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My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler () is a 2007 German comedy-drama film directed by Dani Levy.

The setting is World War II, around New Year's of 1944. The film tells the story of Adolf Hitler and his preparation for a big New Year's speech. Hitler is too depressed to speak, so a Jewish acting coach is called in to tutor him.

The premiere was held on 9 January 2007 in Essen. Wide German release followed on 11 January and Swiss and Austrian releases on 18 and 19 January, respectively. It was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival.

Plot
Professor Adolf Grünbaum, a Jewish renowned actor, introduces the story as the narrator. He wants to tell people his story, which he says may never appear in a history book.

Grünbaum is imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp with his wife and four children. In the meantime, Adolf Hitler lives in the New Reich Chancellery in bombed-out Berlin. The German propaganda machine around Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels is preparing a mass event in Berlin's Lustgarten for New Year's Day 1944 to give the war-weary Germans new motivation. Hitler however himself is weak and confused. Grünbaum is thus released from the concentration camp to get Hitler back in shape, and to motivate him and support him as a teacher. After an initial rejection, Hitler increasingly trusts his mentor and reveals personal feelings and childhood memories to him. Grünbaum is engaged in internal conflict and repeatedly considers killing Hitler; paradoxically, he even thwarted an attempted murder of Hitler and reminded his wife that the Führer was also a victim of his childhood.

During Grünbaum's meetings with Hitler, the two are observed and wiretapped by numerous leaders. Together with the Minister of the Interior and Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Goebbels plans an assassination attempt on Hitler, which is to take place during the New Year's address, as part of a "staged reality". A bomb is to be placed under Hitler's lectern and the blame placed on Grünbaum, who is now close to Hitler. This attack is intended to strengthen the hatred of the Jews in the German people and thus contribute to the success of the war.

On the day of the speech, Hitler becomes so hoarse that he loses his voice. On Hitler's route through Berlin from the Reich Chancellery to the Lustgarten, destroyed buildings are reconstructed using panel-shaped wooden structures, so as to portray an undamaged Berlin in the film Goebbels has planned for the occasion. Grünbaum, standing under the podium, is coerced into giving the speech while Hitler ad-libs and gesticulates. Grünbaum deviates from the planned text and begins mocking Hitler before he is shot, while Hitler flees the lectern just before the bomb explodes.

Fatally injured, Grünbaum predicts that the war will soon be over and that the Führer will eventually take his own life. He notes that in a hundred years, actors will still be writing about Hitler and actors will portray him, because people will want to understand the atrocities of the Nazi regime.

Cast
 Helge Schneider as Adolf Hitler
 Ulrich Mühe as Adolf Grünbaum
 Sylvester Groth as Joseph Goebbels
 Adriana Altaras as Elsa Grünbaum
 Stefan Kurt as Albert Speer
 Ulrich Noethen as Heinrich Himmler
 Lambert Hamel as Obergruppenführer Rattenhuber
 Udo Kroschwald as Martin Bormann
 Torsten Michaelis as SS-Wachmann Moltke
 Axel Werner as Erich Kempka

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2007 films
2007 comedy-drama films
German comedy-drama films
2000s German-language films
Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler
Cultural depictions of Joseph Goebbels
Films set in Berlin
Films set in the 1940s
Films directed by Dani Levy
Cultural depictions of Heinrich Himmler
Cultural depictions of Albert Speer
2000s German films


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An abstract movie about the relentless cycle of life, including growth and decay, and wonder and awe. This film explores the idea that contemporary urban cityscapes are replacing the natural environment, for example skyscrapers and buildings have taken the place of mountains, and that man has been very successful in taming nature, for good and bad. Woven into this are imaginary images suggesting that there may be more to reality than what is perceived through our senses. The question in the film is what is true? What can we believe? What lies behind what we see? In this way, Emanations: A Visual Poem, relates to the theme: We are all in this together.