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The Settlement Project Is Now Self-Sustaining
Yinon Cohen and Neve Gordon show that Israel's West Bank settlement project reached a new milestone.
Yinon Cohen
Updated 07.14.17 2:18AM ET / Published 11.13.12 11:00AM ET
Over the weekend, Haaretz reported that President Obama asked Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to forestall his push for non-member observer status at the United Nations. Abbas's spokesperson said the Palestinian Authority President would go ahead with the bid anyway, in part because of Israel's continued settlement expansion in the West Bank. Abbas has a point; indeed, he is, in some respects, already too late. While in the past Jewish immigration from Israel to the Occupied Territories was necessary to guarantee the success of Israel's settlement project, in the future natural population growth among settlers suffices to sustain Israeli expansionism in the West Bank. This has been accomplished in large part by moving ultra-orthodox Jews, whose fertility rate is exceptionally high, to the Occupied Territories. Israel's demographic intervention, in other words, is giving birth to one Jewish-Palestinian state.
With the help of graphic designer Michal Vexler, we've created an infographic to illustrate the demographic changes informing Israel's settlement project and its transformation into a self-propagating "success" story—another nail driven into the coffin of any lingering hope for a two-state peace between Palestinians and Israelis.


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The Heliodorus Column
Most Vaisnavas refer to Krishna as having appeared 5,000 years ago and generally credit Vedic civilization and Vaisnavism with great antiquity. But what hard, empirical proof do we have for this assertion? Certainly some archeological or other evidence must exist to confirm or deny these claims. Herein, we shall survey the most prominent archeological discoveries that clearly demonstrate the antiquity of Krishna worship and Vaisnavism.
First of all, detailed historical evidence of Vedic civilization is not that easy to come by, since the Vedic culture itself seems to have not valued the keeping of histories. In his book Traditional India, O. L. Chavarria-Aguilar writes of Indians: "A more unhistorical people would be difficult to find." Vedic civilization believed in recording the eternal and infinite. The ephemeral details of daily life (so much the concern of contemporary people) need not be recorded, since they had so little bearing on the larger, more significant goals of human life. Leisure time was to be used for self-realization, cultural pursuits, and worship of God–not rehashing current events or the past. Therefore, practically no histories, according to the Western concept of history, exist today about ancient India, because none were written.
Into this vacuum of historical data on India's past stepped the European scholars during the last several hundred years, and it is interesting to note how they first dealt with what they found. Religious scholars were especially shocked to observe the remarkable similarities between the lives and philosophies of Krishna and Jesus Christ. As a defensive reflex they automatically assumed that Indians must have come across Christianity in the early centuries after Christ's ministry and had assimilated much of it into their own religious tradition. This slant on Vaisnavism was called "the borrowing theory" and gained many adherents in the West. Concerning this viewpoint, Hemchandra Raycaudhuri in his book Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaisnava Sect writes, "The appearance in India of a religion of Bhakti [devotion] was, in the opinion of several eminent Western scholars, an event of purely Christian origin. Christianity, according to these scholars, exercised an influence of greater or less account on the worship and story of Krishna."
In 1762 in Rome, P. Georgi was the first Western scholar to propound this theory. In his Alphabetum Tibetanum he wrote that "Krishnu" is only a "corruption of the name of the Saviour; the deeds correspond wonderfully with the name, though they have been impiously and cunningly polluted by most wicked imposters." The extreme fanaticism of Georgi's position was soon repudiated by other Western scholars. Even pro-Christian researchers admitted that the name Krishna existed before the birth of Jesus, but they still maintained that the life of Krishna and the philosophy of Vaisnavism had undergone major transformations because of Christian influence.
In his monograph Uber die Krishnajanmasthami, Albrecht Weber pointed out the many and striking similarities between the birth stories of Krishna and Jesus. The following quote from his work notes many of these similarities:
Take, for example the statement of the Vishnu Purana that Nanda, the foster-father of Krishna, at the time of the latter's birth, went with his pregnant wife Yasoda to Mathura to pay taxes (cf. Luke II, 4, 5) or the pictorial representation of the birth of Krishna in the cowstall or shepherd's hut, that corresponds to the manger, and of the shepherds, shepherdesses, the ox and the ass that stand round the woman as she sleeps peacefully on her couch without fear of danger. Then the stories of the persecutions of Kamsa, of the massacre of the innocents, of the passage across the river (Christophorus), of the wonderful deeds of the child, of the healing-virtue of the water in which he was washed, etc., etc. Whether the accounts given in the Jaimini Bharata of the raising to life by Krishna of the dead son of Duhsala, of the cure of Kubja, of her pouring a vessel of ointment over him, of the power of his look to take away sin, and other subjects of the kind came to India in the same connection with the birth-day festival may remain an open question.
Weber even contended that the whole Vedic system of avatars, or incarnations of God, was "borrowed" from the "Incarnation of Jesus Christ."
Dr. F. Lorinser translated the Bhagavad-gita and compared it scrupulously to the New Testament. He concluded, writes Raychaudhari, "that the author of the Hindu poem knew and used the Gospels and Christian Fathers." According to Lorinser, continues Raychaudhari, the similarities were "not single and obscure, but numerous and clear …" There was no doubt in Lorinser's mind that the Bhagavat-gita had been largely "borrowed" from the New Testament.
Other Western scholars disputed the borrowing theory. Sir William Jones' studies found Krishna to be one of the more ancient gods of India, who Vaisnavas asserted was "distinct from all the Avatars, who had only [a]…portion of his divinity …" In his fascinating and provocative work, On the Gods Of Greece, Italy, And India, Sir William Jones writes that "in the principal Sanskrit dictionary, compiled about two thousand years ago, Krishna, Vasudeva, Govinda, and other names of the Shepherd God, are intermixed with epithets of Narayana, or the Divine Spirit." Following in the direction of Sir Jones' research, Edward Moore even went so far as to say that the popular Greek myths had some basis in real life and could be traced ultimately to India. However, solid proof for either side escaped their grasp, and the scholars theorized and debated the issue back and forth. Literary evidence did exist in India to prove that Vaisnavism predated Christianity, but this evidence was brushed under the rug and given little credence until a Western literary source decided the issue once and for all.
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Megasthenes
The most important and earliest non-Indian literary record of ancient India is found in the book, Indica, written by Megasthenes. Sometime in the third century BC, Meghastenes journeyed to India. The King of Taxila had appointed him ambassador to the royal court at Pataliputra of the great Vaisnava monarch, Chandragupta. Evidently while there, Megasthenes wrote extensively on what he heard and saw. Unfortunately, none of Megasthenes' original book survived the ravages of time. However, through Megasthenes' early Greek and Roman commentators, like Arrian, Diodorus, and Strabo, fragments of his original work are available to us today, as well as Megasthenes' general message. Dr. Hein reports that Megasthenes "described Mathura as a place of great regional importance and suggested that it was then, as now, a center of Krishna worship."
Christian Lassen was the first Western scholar to bring Megasthenes into the debate on the "borrowing theory." He noted that Megasthenes wrote of Krishna under the pseudonym of Heracles and that "Heracles", or Krishna, was worshipped as God in the area through which the Yamuna River flows.
A respected Indologist, Richard Garbe, agreed with Lassen's analysis and called the testimony of Megasthenes indisputable. Soon, scholars like Alan Dahlquist, who had formerly supported the "borrowing theory," changed their minds and admitted, in Dahlquist's words, that Garbe had "exploded Weber's theory once and for all." The life of Krishna and the religion of Vaisnavism had not been influenced by Christianity, but had appeared autonomously on Indian soil and was already well-established by at least the third century BC.
With Megasthenes' proof in hand, the credibility of Indian literary sources became enhanced. The great grammarian and author of the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali, who lived in the second century BC, wrote that Krishna had slain the tyrant Kamsa in the far distant past. Raychaudhari tells us the exact words were "chirahate Kamse' which means that Kamsa's death occurred at a very remote time." In the fifth century BC, the greatest Sanskrit grammarian, Panini, mentions that Vaisnavism "was even in the fifth century BC a religion of Bhakti," writes Raychaudhari. The Artha-shastra of Kautila, from the fourth century BC, also refers several times to Krishna, while the Baudhayana Dharma Sutra of the same century gives twelve different names for Krishna, including popular ones like Keshava, Govinda, and Damodara.
Since Krishna is mentioned in the pre-Buddhistic Chandogya Upanishad we must conclude that Krishna lived before Gautama Buddha (563?-?483 BC). The scriptures of the Jains push Krishna's life back farther still. Raychaudhari writes, "Jaina tradition makes Krishna a contemporary of Arishtanemi… who is the immediate predecessor of Parsvanatha…. As Parsvanatha flourished about 817 B.C., Krishna must have lived long before the closing years of the ninth Century B.C." Of course, the Srimad Bhagavatam and Mahabharata themselves place Krishna's life at about 3000 BC. Still, whatever the exact dates of Krishna's earthly appearance and disappearance, because of the abundance of evidence of Krishna's antiquity, The Cambridge History of India definitely states that Krishna worship predates Christianity by many centuries.
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Let us now turn our attention to the earliest archeological discoveries regarding Krishna's antiquity. By far the most important discovery was made by the indefatigable General Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1877. During an archeological survey of Beshnagar in central India, he noted an ornamental column. The shape of the column caused Cunningham to attribute it erroneously to the period of the Gupta Dynasty (AD 300-550). Thirty-two years later, however, a Mr. Lake felt he saw some lettering on the lower part of the column in an area where pilgrims customarily smeared it with a lead, vermilion paint. When the thick, red paint was removed, Lake's hunch was proven correct.
Dr. J. H. Marshall, who accompanied Mr. Lake on this investigation, was thrilled at the find's significance. In the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1909, he described his conclusions. Cunningham had dated the column far too late and could little have dreamt of the value of the record which he just missed discovering…. A glance at the few letters exposed was all that was needed to show that the Column was many centuries earlier than the Gupta era. This was, indeed, a surprise to me, but a far greater one was in store when the opening lines of the inscription came to be read.
The following transliteration and translation of this ancient Brahmi inscription was published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London: JRAS, Pub., 1909, pp. 1053-54.
1) Devadevasa Va [sude]vasa Garudadhvajo ayam 2) karito i[a] Heliodorena bhaga- 3) vatena Diyasa putrena Takhasilakena 4) Yonadatena agatena maharajasa 5) Amtalikitasa upa[m]ta samkasam-rano 6) Kasiput[r]asa [Bh]agabhadrasa tratarasa 7) vasena [chatu]dasena rajena vadhamanasa
"This Garuda-column of Vasudeva (Visnu), the god of gods, was erected here by Heliodorus, a worshipper of Visnu, the son of Dion, and an inhabitant of Taxila, who came as Greek ambassador from the Great King Antialkidas to King Kasiputra Bhagabhadra, the Savior, then reigning prosperously in the fourteenth year of his kingship."
The column had been erected in BC 113 by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador to India. He, like Megasthenes, hailed from Taxila in the Bactrian region of northwest India, which had been conquered by Alexander the Great in BC 325. By Heliodorus' time Taxila covered much of present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Punjab. Taxila's king, Antialkidas, had sent Heliodorus to the court of King Bhagabhadra, but while Megasthenes had only written about Krishna and Vaisnavism, Heliodorus had found them so attractive that he had adopted the practice of Vaisnavism for his own spiritual advancement!
Heliodorus' Column recognized Vasudeva, or Krishna, as the "God of gods."
1) Trini amutapadani‹[su] anuthitani 2) nayamti svaga damo chago apramado
"Three immortal precepts (footsteps)… when practiced lead to heaven‹self-restraint, charity, consciousness."
From this inscription it is clear Heliodorus was a Vaisnava, a devotee of Visnu.
Raychaudhuri maintains that Heliodorus most probably was already acquainted with Vaisnavism in Taxila, even before he went to India proper, since, "It was at that city that Janamejaya heard from Vaishampayana the famous story of the Kurus and the Pandus [the Mahabharata]." Furthermore, Raychaudhuri then suggests, "Heliodorus of Taxila actually heard and utilized the teaching of the great Epic, " since we know from Panini that the Epic was "well known to the people of Gandhara [Taxila]" long before the time of the Greek ambassador.
In any case, by BC 113 Heliodorus publicly acknowledged in the most conspicuous way that he held Vasudeva, or Krishna to be the "Gods of all gods." He also had written on his column's inscription that "Three immortal precepts when practiced lead to heaven–self-restraint, charity, and conscientiousness." These three virtues appear in the exact same order in the Mahabharata, which makes Professor Kunja Govinda Swami of Calcutta University conclude that Heliodorus "was well acquainted with the texts dealing with the Bhagavat [Vaisnava] religion." Raychaudhuri concurs that "there was some close connection between the teaching of the Mahabharata and that of the Besnagar Inscription," proving that Heliodorus was a knowledgeable devotee of Vaisnavism.
The Heliodorus Column also struck down the myth that the Vedic religion never condoned the conversion of non-Indians to its fold. While this exclusionary tendency has been manifest here and there in India (although much less so in Vaisnavism), the Islamic historian, Abu Raihan Alberuni, maintains that it was not practiced until sometime after the Muslim incursions into India, which started around AD 674. Alberuni went to India to study in AD 1017 and published his findings in his book Indica (not to be confused with Megasthenes' work of the same title). He concluded that the violent conflicts and forced conversions of Indians into Muslims made Indians adopt an exclusionary policy, more out of self-defense than religious principle. He discovered that, for many centuries prior to the Muslim invasions, there was no bar to conversions, and the Heliodorus Column certainly attests to this fact.
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"Carol's Second Act" serves up Christmas episode
By John W. Kennedy
Here's the latest dispatch from the crossroads of faith and media:
A Christmas Carol. Christmas episodes used to be a staple of network sitcoms but seem much less common these days. Since Carol Second Act is pretty much an ode the art of the traditional sitcom, it's nice to see the show which stars Patricia Heaton (of the true sitcom classic Everybody Loves Raymond) as Dr. Carol Kenney, an AARP-eligible intern at Loyola Memorial Hospital – a sort of flipside of Doogie Howser, MD (another classic sitcom). Anyway, in the Christmas episode, Carol is planning a Christmas celebration while her adult daughter Jenny (Ashley Tisdale) plans a secret first date with Dr. Daniel Kutcher (Jean-Luc Bilodeau), an egotistical-but-idealistic young physician who is part of Carol's intern group.
The Christmas episode of Carol's Second Act airs tomorrow (Thursday, Dec. 12) at 9:30 PM ET. It's a fine, promising show and part of a sitcom bloc that includes two current classics (Young Sheldon at 8:00 PM ET and Mom at 9:00 PM ET) and one clinker (The Unicorn at 8:30 PM ET). BTW, regarding that 8:30 PM slot. CBS would do well to move the excellent Bob Hearts Abishola into the time period. That would give CBS a solid two-hour bloc of funny, heartfelt sitcoms. Just a thought.
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Michel Euler/Associated Press The runway at the fall 2009 Chanel show.
Raining this morning. Umbrellas up at the entrance to the Grand Palais. Gift bags of "Dragon" red nail lacquer and lip gloss, but smaller this season. A scuffle among the photographers when Kate Moss arrives leads to a crash into the black and white set and the removal of a piece of plastic siding. Karl Lagerfeld selects from all the Chanel motifs the ruffled white collar seen on Coco Chanel in a famous photograph. He drills down on this flourish, adding white petal cuffs and big boutonnieres (all removable), and gives a solid foundation of impeccable tailoring with almost invisible geometric seams in the black tweed jackets.
Ian Langsdon/EPA One of Karl Lagerfeld's creations for the fall 2009 Chanel collection.
Following his white (and black and white) couture show in January, Lagerfeld shifted to predominantly black for fall ready-to-wear. The lines were lean and briskly modern, and the models conspicuously more covered up this time, with shiny black tights and many high Lagerfeldian collars. Beau Brummell gave him the starting point—hence the variations on neat, close-fitting jackets. Easily overlooked were some sensational slim, long-sleeved black day dresses with a dropped waist and a deep v-neck.
As a counter to all the serious black, Lagerfeld went almost babyish with knits—in sugary pinks and greens, with leg warmers and floppy bows. Lara Stone, in a pink sweater dress with a fringed stole collar, seemed to realize she looked like a large adorable doll—she broke into a smile that said, "I know, I know, don't kill me"—as she toted a molded clear plastic bag that contained makeup and a quilted pink clutch. It was the sort of packaging you'd find in the doll section of a toy store, with Barbie's beauty tools laid out for all to see. Lagerfeld's other new bag, a rectangle in tufted and corded natural linen, is appropriately called the "mattress bag." If you get tired, you can rest your head on it, I suppose.
See more of the fall 2009 Chanel collection here.
Cathy thank you for the coverage. . .though you do not sound too impressed with the Chanel collection or perhaps Im infering incorrectly but when you go into "eye witness mode" usually the collection left you cold.
Enough of my $2 psychoanalytical observations. . .onto Chanel. . .classic chanel.no suprises there.not as interesting or fun as the spring collection.
On a recent episode of Project Runway Canada, Iman chastised one designer for not listening to the directive by designing an evening dress when the challenge clearly stated day to evening dress. With ruffled feathers, the designer Genevieve shot back: "I would wear it!" Iman, the ever lovely but, equally loud responded: "You would wear it, fine, but would your customer wear it!" Silence. Stella McCartney did it, Sonia Rykiel did it & now, Karl Lagerfeld did it; they designed dresses they would wear … unless you're a groupie & not the main attraction; that wasn't a part o' the challenge.
The mattress bag would have been mighty useful at the show.
Beyond that, I loved it…..what's not to love? And I thought the day dresses were lovely (not the ones with the deep v's, well….I've had this discussion already before).
That said, methinks his muse is Lindsey Lohan. Someone who can look like a modern day Barbie Doll and a vamp at the same time. But she does Chanel justice. She's beautiful. But definitely takes me out of the Chanel line-up.
That's okay. The only thing I want is to be able to see the Comme des Garcons collection up close and personal. When you wrote about the details of the clothes that took actually touching them to know what was going on I believe I turned a shade of green.
So, that's what I want to do….go to Rei Kawakubo's studio and see first hand what these clothes are all about. Then I'd wear Haider Ackermann (or Dries Van Noten) to the after party.
There's not much to say about KL's Chanel besides the fact that it's a miracle that a designer is able to cope with the burden of Coco's legacy and still keep the brand alive, young and kicking for what… 30/40 years?
His constant adds, especially to accessories and to the (de) construction of the brand's iconic jackets, are as brilliant as it gets.
And voilà a man, KL, who was born to inherit the treasure of a woman, CC… both of them carrying and promoting the image and concept of eccentricity as the ultimate "comfort zone" in this world.
Cause, honestly, only shy and fragile people dress the way he does and I love how he communicates thru disguise.
PS: Will Chanel have a mensline?
well. so much for seeing things in black and white.
This is certainly refreshing! The details are exactly what has been missing these past few years. This is feminine and interesting.
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli certainly kept their jobs cause the collection they "designed" is Valentino TO THE BONES, including the usual rollercoaster moments.
A beautiful sparkle here (#27), a (green) faux pas there (#16) and, go figure, a gorilla in couture somewhere over the rainbow (#29).
Competent, stylishly anachronistic and boring, REALLY boring.
It's a good thing some of these accessories are removable as they are quite ridiculous, though nothing so much as the pink knit doll ensemble you referenced. I actually liked many of the separates,and the long lines, but too often I feel that Karl Lagerfeld ridicules women with an outfit or two every season. At the very least, the Times piece about Beth Ditto shows him to be without manners.
A. Neto, that was an interesting comment on Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel and eccentricity, ;-) … I haven't looked at the clothes yet. Mr. Lagerfeld has been at the helm of Chanel for some 30 years now, hasn't he? Gosh, he's such a work horse, that Mr. Lagerfeld, he does three lines and like nine or ten collections, plus, a year?
I loved this collection! Karl doing what he does best the cuts on most of those garments was out of control. I love the way he manages to use what seemed like 1950's 60's style dressmaking and made it look so modern.
This collection will def. make my "psuedo top ten" list!
I must say I have been really disappointed by the three collections Karl Lagerfeld designed this season. For someone who is responsible for created fashion history, (his recent Chanel Haute Couture show was a manager fashion moment in every way and hands down the best of the season…. Genius!), and is capable of pushing forward through any time, because he's been there and done that; he gave women, retailer and fashion junkies nothing to rave about in these tough times. The collection weren't the worst of the season because he has a great team behind him and can design collection in his sleep, but as you often say "they lacked joy" and that specialness Comme des Garcon had. Although Mr. Lagerfeld pooh poohs all the talk about the state of the worlds economy, it seems to have made cracks in he protective bumble. Here's to hoping the world and Mr. Lagerfeld breath new air in time for the spring collections.
Taking a close look at Yves Saint Laurent, you know, this is an interesting collection, and actually, it does look like Mr. Pilati's best work to date … there's the obvious nods to Yves Saint Laurent, but there is a unique voice here. It's actually quite good, exceeding even that adjective 'solid,' and deserves an honorable mention.
Top five so far in no particular order, Chanel couture, Francisco Costa's Calvin Klein, Raf Simon's Jil Sander, Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garcon, and Miuccia Prada's Prada … not just the top five, but the real standouts that just blew the rest of the field away.
The Catholic guilt thing, you know, has given us a lot of interesting art and artists, Madonna, James Joyce, etc. I think Britney Spears was described as Madonna without the Catholic guilt, and was rather boring because of that fact … just mentioning as a humorous aside.
RC, we all know what average people think when confronted with the image both Coco and Karl forged for themselves.
People see them as freaks, scary creatures.
However, what have they devoted their lives to?
This eccentricity is probably what appeals to Chanel's ever growing younger clientele.
Form Vs./+ content… right E.Frantz!?
A Netto maybe we can say Monsters rather than Freaks. What do you think? On this Chanel collection I can only say that when I need a pink knit lampshade to wear to a drag ball I will surely know where to go. Horrid. I'm also still laughing at the wonderful post above by Dwayne Moholitny saying that Karl Lagerfeld is designing the clothes he wants to wear. So true.
Thanks for your coverage, Ms.Horyn!
I think the collection was Ok, even though the pieces were different from other Chanel collections, some of the ideas seemed to be the same.
There is only so much someone can create out of tweed and black and white. Maybe if he tried to exapand the collection into new materials and colors, the collection may be a bit more varied. Mr.Lagerfeld has done a wonderful job at keep the black/white legacy going, but he made need to move inot a newer ground. I would give the collection a 7 out of ten. I LOVED the pants in the collection. Thanks again Ms.Horyn.
Watching those designers at Valentino is so embarassing… They are the wrong people in wrong place at wrong time.
Really agree with you on the Chanel show. The opeing black suits and dresses were phenomenally subtle and storng. They were like a capsule couture collection. The discipline of accenting them only with with dark green stone took the simplicity to another level.
Once can see the work of the petiti mains on the cuffs of the green pantsm and the green/grey tweed suits are extraordinary. They are a fresh take on the classic suit. I don't rememeber Karl using such a dark green for the suits in the past. But even if he has, they are a great comment on the moment since they look like shredded money and at the same time they are money in the bank for Chanel. Has Karl gone green???
All I could think of was 'CHANEL BARBIE!!!!' Must get one for my niece…..
I've only seen two pics from the McQueen show and I'm disturbed and excited….I'm about to wade in ( where are those damn Pradas when I need them?) and I don't know what will happen. I think I'll need someone to hold my hand.
P.S. Off-topic, but….I just went to a show by a female comic doing some sort of '60s retro drag and I swear to Karl, she had on that brown striped Machu Picchu Givenchy couture thing from last winter;- Big hat, boots and all! Everyone went into hysterics when they saw it….It's funny how the context of something changes depending on what stage it's on.


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A: Look at this example here: https://robotask.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8977#p8977
It creates the XML you want.
Save the text of the task to a file and use menu Task->Import to import the task into RoboTask.
Also you can simply copy task text and paste it into the task list.

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What is the function of Friends of BIS?
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In college, every practice is filmed and not a single drill escapes the video camera lens. This leads to some embarrassing and even hilarious moments in the meeting rooms where players and coaches go through the practice video together. However, these film sessions offer an important time for personal evaluation, where you can quietly observe yourself performing and take mental notes.
A couple of years into my college playing experience, I grew tired of watching practice film and seeing my body look stiff as I ran around in drills. I admitted to myself that I was more of a weight room athlete who has was strong as an ox in the gym with a 440 pound bench press and a 685 pound squat, but not very flexible or fluid on the field. I wanted to improve my performance and get more playing time, and it was clear that I had to address this deficiency to get there.
I decided to get unconventional with my training that summer to improve my flexibility and agility. A star teammate of mine, Mike Davis, achieved a black belt in Tae Kwon Do at local dojo called Secrease's Tae Kwon Do. Mike would do the splits on the field during stretches, and I knew it was his martial arts training that enabled his body to do that. I called Secrease's as soon as my spring semester ended and signed up for eight weeks of summer classes.
Oh man, the pain. At the start of my classes that summer, the instructors would stretch me for nearly 45 minutes. Some of the work they did to me, like seating me into an archaic wooden machine that cranked my legs into near splits, felt like torture. My body was soaked in sweat before I even performed any kicks, blocks or punches. The results turned out to be incredible.
I broke into the regular playing rotation for the first time that season.
All these years later, a lot of young athletes are still training conventionally like I initially did in college, which is predominantly one-dimensional weight lifting focused on bench press, squats and sprints. I call this work one-dimensional because the body is only moving and getting stronger in one fixed direction and that is not how the body actually moves in sport. This kind of training is also one-dimensional in that it doesn't address flexibility, coordination, balance, or integrate the overall human movement system made up of a myriad of smaller muscles that span from the core outward.
Greg Roskopf, MS, a biomechanics consultant who has worked with athletes from the Denver Broncos, the Denver Nuggets, and the Utah Jazz explains, "Conventional weight training isolates muscle groups, but it doesn't teach the muscle groups you're isolating to work with others." Human athletic performance requires a completely integrated and balanced muscular system.
I didn't need any of the self-defense moves I learned in Tae Kwon Do and I honestly can't imagine how I would successfully land a flying roundhouse kick in a street fight. Yoga provides all of the flexibility benefits plus builds integrated body and core (abdominal) strength.
The core conditioning of an athlete is fundamental to athletic performance. As an example, athletes in one study who underwent 9 weeks of core training program improved their vertical take off velocity and vertical jump. Typically, you would expect this result from 9 weeks of leg strength training.
Develops the ability to center and control emotional responses.
From Lebron James, to Vernon Davis of the San Francisco 49ers to Ryan Giggs of Manchester United, many elite performing athletes incorporate a dedicated yoga practice into their yearly training regimen. It is cheap to try out a class and Yoga studios are not hard to find. This kind of workout is likely going to be a welcome break from the regular sport specific training your child engages in each week. Try a class with them in the next week and let me know how it goes.
Sent your article on to my son-in-law who is coaching my grandson's football team. Erika goes to yoga, so perhaps she can teach Mike a few moves to integrate into the team's practice.
Hi Phyllis, sounds like a great idea. Several NFL teams have incorporated Yoga moves into their weekly practice routines.


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David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, right, watches former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Hearings great for cable news, less so for broadcast
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Nancy Grace joining Fox Nation streaming service
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Roman Sushchenko, a Ukrainian journalist who spent three years in a Russian prison on spying charges, speaks to reporters to described how he would create paintings of cathedrals and other scenes as a way of surviving his imprisonment at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. The Association of Polish Journalists is exhibiting reproductions of his works. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Ukrainian journalist painted to 'keep alive' in Russian jail
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Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks at the "G20 Investment Summit - German Business and the CwA Countries 2019" on the sidelines of a Compact with Africa (CwA) in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 19, 2019. (John MacDougall/Pool via AP)
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OKEECHOBEE — Forest Service Duty Officer Carla Richards was born and raised in Columbus, Ind., where she attended Bethel Holiness Christian High School with her two brothers and three sisters. When she was growing up, she dreamed of becoming an attorney and majored in secretarial science with legal emphasis. She said her favorite subject was business law, and her most memorable college moment was giving an oral presentation on euthanasia. Her first job was as a receptionist at a legal aid office, and her least favorite work experience has been as a fast food worker. She explained, she didn't mind the work or the people, but standing for long hours was very hard on her body. She said she ended up in the Forest Service because she likes taking care of people and her community.
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Raised by a single mother, her parents and grandparents were the biggest influence in her life. Her grandmother was very domestic and taught her granddaughter everything she knows.
In her spare time, she likes to crochet, cross stitch, read, cook and bake. She said she loves spending long weekends camping with her husband, and spending time with friends and family is very important to her.
"The perfect weekend is packing up the travel trailer and taking off with Gary. Our goal is to visit every state park in Florida. Our last trip was a hoot, mind you I can't swim, but I had a close encounter on an inner tube with a manatee on the Ichetucknee River. I got separated from my friends and family but had the best story to tell. The manatee was curious about me and I was afraid the darn thing would flip my tube," she said.
"Thanks to e-Harmony, the Florida Forest Service has an exceptional dispatcher who has worked in Okeechobee County for almost seven years," says Melissa Yunas wildlife mitigation specialist. Mrs. Richards met her husband through an online dating website over twelve years ago. She fell in love and moved over 1,000 miles to be with Gary, a deacon with the Port St. Lucie Church of Christ and a mechanical breakdown inspector who also grows hydroponic lettuce. The Richards have three children and one cat. Mrs. Richards explains she gave birth to two children and chose the third.
Mrs. Richards loves to take care of others by sharing her baked goods and hosting potluck dinners for family, friends and church members. During the holidays, she invites those that are alone, that don't have family in the area to join her family for dinner.
The Forestry Firefighters call her Mama Bear. "If I sent you to the fire, in my mind, it's my responsibility to bring you home safely," Carla explains. "Every 30 minutes we need to hear from the Incident Commander on suppression efforts and find out if additional resources are needed. If the Forest Rangers don't answer via radio, then I'll light up their cell phones in two seconds making sure they're alright." Even though she has never physically been to a wildfire, she is an essential member to the overall suppression of the wildfire. Forestry dispatchers are the first line of communication when someone has a wildfire. Mrs. Richards gathers vitally important information that can aid Forestry Firefighters in forming an early understanding of what they will be facing upon arrival.
Her favorite part of the job is knowing that she is assisting in the protection of her community. "If I can dispatch the Forestry Firefighters to the right location quickly then maybe I can save a home from burning." If you have an emergency, always call 911. The city/county 911 dispatchers coordinate with the Florida Forest Service's dispatchers to mobilize first responders to the emergency, like a wildfire, she explains.
Melissa Yunas Forest Service wildlife mitigation specialist contributed to this article.


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Bishop Tasked With Investigating Child Sex Abuse, Accused Of Child Sexual Abuse Himself
A Catholic bishop who was tasked by Pope Francis to investigate child sex abuse by clergy in Buffalo, New York, has himself been accused of the sexual abuse of a child, according to an attorney for the alleged victim.
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, the longtime head of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Brooklyn, New York has been accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old altar boy in the 1970s.
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Press TV reports: The attorney informed Catholic officials in Jersey City, New Jersey, that he is preparing a lawsuit on behalf of a client who says he was molested by Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio in the mid-1970s, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press, which reported the accusation on Thursday.
In the letter sent Monday to the church's archdiocese in Newark, New Jersey, attorney Mitchell Garabedian said 56-year-old Mark Matzek alleges he was repeatedly abused by DiMarzio and a second priest, the late Reverend Albert Mark, when he was an altar boy at St. Nicholas Church and a student at St. Nicholas School.
Garabedian told the AP he plans to file the lawsuit on Matzek's behalf next month, after New Jersey opens a two-year "look back" period in which sex abuse victims will be permitted to file lawsuits without regard to the statute of limitations, which typically limits the amount of time in which an alleged victim may file suit.
DiMarzio, who was a parish priest in Jersey City in the mid-1970s, said there is no truth to the accusation.
"I am just learning about this allegation," he said in a statement Tuesday to The Associated Press. "In my nearly 50-year ministry as a priest, I have never engaged in unlawful or inappropriate behavior and I emphatically deny this allegation. I am confident I will be fully vindicated."
Last month, Pope Francis appointed DiMarzio to investigate the church's diocese in Buffalo, New York, where Bishop Richard Malone has come under fire for his handling of a growing clergy abuse scandal that has roiled the diocese and prompted calls for his resignation.
"The investigation of the diocese of Buffalo by Bishop DiMarzio is tainted because of these allegations," Garabedian said in an interview with the AP. "There needs to be a truly neutral investigator to determine whether Bishop Malone should resign," adding that the investigation should be led by a law enforcement agency.
The Catholic Church is in the midst of a major crisis of confidence in the United States and around the world, with multiple revelations of sexual assault and abuse committed by priests over the course of decades, mostly targeting children
Since the first high-profile abuse allegations against Catholic priests emerged in 2002 in Boston, many similar cases have rocked the Church.
The credibility of the Catholic Church hierarchy sank in 2018 after new reports of old sexual abuse and cover-up were uncovered in the US, Chile and elsewhere and implicated Pope Francis himself.
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Adah Price describes her first morning in the Congo, the day after she arrives in Africa. The sun rises very early, around 6 am, because the Congo is so close to the equator. There's a constant sense of a process going on: birds cooing, fires burning, etc.—but it all amounts to "ashes to ashes." Nathan's church is at one end of the village, while the Price house is at the other end. Most of the houses in the village are tiny, with a thin, thatched roof. Adah finds it impossible to take her eyes off the villagers.
The women of the village, Adah notes, wear skirts when they work in the field or run errands. Their skirts are long and beautiful, with bright colors. Adah notes that her siblings and parents all have their own opinions of the village, which they present verbally. Only Adah is silent—Adah keeps all her opinions to herself.
Adah is the most introspective and thoughtful member of the Price family. Because she's a little standoffish and lonely (partly because of her medical issues), she has a great deal of time to think about her community and her surroundings.
Adah already hates her father the most of all the Prices—the rest of them still feel that they at least ought to love and submit to him. The term "Our Father" is an ironic one here. In Christianity, it's used to refer to God, but Adah uses it to draw attention to her father's arrogance and self-satisfied attitude: as far as Nathan is concerned, he is "God" of his family.
Adah considers her "condition," which has left her so different from Leah, despite the fact that they're technically identical twins. Adah imagines herself and Leah competing for oxygen and nutrition while they were in the womb. Leah won this competition, and Adah has had hemiplegia ever since. This condition leaves Adah with poor circulation and limited mobility—her arms and legs are weak. Adah can't speak well, so she almost never does. She imagines how Nathan reacted when she developed hemiplegia as a baby: he probably claimed that it was "God's will," and took Adah's silence as a sign that his other children were chattering too loudly.
This is an important section because it shows us the differences between Leah and Adah, who are supposedly identical in every way. Adah's blood condition has left her quieter and more introverted than her sister. It's interesting that external factors like a disease can end up having such an important effect on someone's personality. Adah's hemiplegia has also alienated her from Nathan: Nathan shows no sympathy for his daughter's condition, and because he trusts "God's will," doesn't seem to have any desire to help her.
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Q: Simple example to illustrate writing an abstraction layer in C++ I have just rudimentary knowledge in C++. I am trying to implement Hardware Abstraction Layer(HAL) in C++. Say suppose I want to implement this class called Data. Based on the platform the data can be sent wired or wireless.
class Data() {

public Data() {

//create random data

}

public sendData() {

// send data

}

public platform_action1() {

// do some platform specific action
}

}
// My HAL
    int HAL() {

    Data myData;

    myData.platform_action1();
    myData.sendData();

    return 0;
    }

Now if I have two platforms wired and wireless, how do I extend this class and organize my files so that HAL() is unchanged.
Also I do not want dynamic binding i.e using keyword 'virtual'.
In my case the platform is known at compile time.
// I DO NOT want to do this :) ...
int HAL() {
Data* data = new WiredData();
data.sendData();

data = new WirelessData();

data.sendData();

}

In my case the platform is known at compile time.
Coming from C world this is as simple task as filling in the platform specific function pointers.
Take for example 'thread' class in Boost C++ API. The class automatically spawns threads by calling either Windows thread API or Linux thread API based on the platform. This way my HAL is truly platform independent.

*

*thanks
Kris

A: This is more of a design question than an actual C++ question, but the term you are looking for is polymorphism. You can take your Data class and create two classes that inherit from it WiredData and `WirelessData, this would enable you to do something like this:
Data data1 = new WiredData();
Data data2 = new WirelessData();

data1.sendData();
data2.sendData();

polymorphism comes into play when you call sendData() on the data1 and data2 objects, the compiler will call the sendData() method for each specific subtype even though they are declared to be of type Data

A:
Coming from C world this is as simple task as filling in the platform specific function pointers.

It's pretty much the same in C++.  You can make the Data class's sendData() function virtual (prefix the virtual keyword to the signature), then derive Wired and Wireless implementation classes that specifies appropriate sendData() functionality.  You then have some kind of if statement where you decide which one to use, and keep a Data* variable to the Wired or Wireless object as needed... when you call pointer->sendData(), it will invoke the corresponding implementation.  This is all really basic - you should do a couple introductory C++ tutorials online, or grab a book.  There are other stackoverflow questions listing recommended training material.
Edit: an outline as per the request in your comment below.
class Wrapper
{
    Data* p_;
  public:
    void sendData()
    {
        if (not p_)
            p_ = ... ? new Wired() : new Wireless();
        p_->sendData();
    }
}

A: Why not put the definitions for the members that change into files called :-
Data_Windows.cpp and Data_Unix.cpp (for example) and then use your build system to only include the relevent file in your build on that platform? Or am I missing something here...?

A: Can we do this using PIMPL(Private Implementation) approach? This is what I am thinking ...

// In Data.h

class PlatformDataProcess;                    // forward declaration of Pimpl

class Data
{
public:
   Data (const IPC& ipc); // process IPC
   ~Data();

   Data( const Data &rhs );   // undefined for simplicity
   Data& operator=( Data );

   void  process_ipc();

private:
   PlatformDataProcess *pimpl_;              // the Pimpl
};

// In Wired.cpp

#include "Data.h"

class PlatformDataProcess
{
public:
   void SendData()  {// send data on wired}

};

// In Data.cpp

Data::Data()  :  pimpl_( new PlatformDataProcess() )
{
}

Data::~Data()
{
   delete  pimpl_;
}

void   Data::SendData()
{
   pimpl_->SendData();      // do some private work
}

int HAL() {

  // receive IPC

  Data* data = new Data(ipc);
  data->SendData();

}

So all the user needs to do is supply the platform specific file like wired.cpp .


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Home Sectors TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION Graphene Flagship spin-off INBRAIN raises investment of over €14m
Graphene Flagship spin-off INBRAIN raises investment of over €14m
by Guest post, Jose A. Garrido
Graphene Flagship spin-off INBRAIN Neuroelectronics develops intelligent graphene-based neural implants for personalised therapies in brain disorders.
INBRAIN
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics is a spin-off company of Graphene Flagship partners the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and ICREA, Spain. It was established in 2019, at the intersection between MedTech, DeepTech and Digital Health, with a mission to decode brain signals to devise medical solutions for patients with epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders. The company designs small implantable brain intelligent systems, with the ability to interpret brain signals with unprecedented high fidelity, producing a therapeutic response adapted to the clinical condition of each specific patient.
In June 2020, INBRAIN received a first-seed investment from a syndicate of investors led by Asabys Partners (through Sabadell-Asabys Health Innovation Investment) and Alta Life Sciences, including the Institut Català de Finances (ICF), Finaves (IESE Business School) and BStartUp.
The company has now announced a €14.35 million Series A investment, one of the biggest rounds in the Spanish MedTech industry, co-led by Asabys Partners and Alta Life Sciences, and joined by Vsquared Ventures, a DeepTech-focused early-stage venture capitalist based in Munich; TruVenturo GmbH, Germany's most successful tech and life science company builders; and CDTI, at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. The financing round also counts on the follow-on investment from ICF Venture Tech II, investment fund from the ICF.
This investment will allow INBRAIN to bring their technology to humans for the first time, built around an innovative nanoscale graphene electrode, and to consolidate the safety of the material as the potential new standard of care in neurotechnology.
According to a 2010 study commissioned by the European Brain Council, the cost of brain disorders in Europe alone is approximately €800 billion per year, with more than one-third of the population affected. Around 30% of patients with a neuronal disease are resistant to pharmacological treatment and do not have an effective therapy. The high incidence of brain-related diseases worldwide, and their huge social cost, call for greater investments in basic research in this field, with the aim of developing new and more efficient therapeutic and diagnostic tools.
Existing brain interfaces are based on metals such as platinum and iridium, which impose significant restrictions in terms of miniaturisation and signal resolution, and therefore cause considerable side effects. For this reason, there is a 50% rejection rate in candidate patients. Graphene Flagship spin-off INBRAIN Neuroelectronics uses a disruptive technology based on graphene which will overcome the current limitations of metal-based neural interfaces.
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics is bringing a complete technological transformation to the treatment of neurological diseases. Its brain implantable intelligent systems are based on graphene electrodes, which allow miniaturisation to nanoscale fabrication, with the potential to reach single-neuron resolution. The extraordinary properties of graphene ̶ which is light, biocompatible, flexible and extremely conductive ̶ are harnessed in much smaller devices that are safer to implant and can be programmed, upgraded and recharged wirelessly.
Driven by artificial intelligence, the implant can learn from the brain of each specific patient and trigger adaptive responses to deliver personalised neurological therapy. In addition, the use of big data management will permit remote monitoring of the device and data processing.
The technology has already been validated in both in vitro and in vivo, and biocompatibility and toxicity tests have been successful. Studies on large animals have been completed and the investment will bring the technology to human patients, in collaboration with key neurosurgical and neurological groups in Europe.
Cinzia Spinato, Graphene Flagship Business Developer for
INBRAIN team
The INBRAIN team
Biomedical Applications, says: "Graphene Flagship spin-off INBRAIN is leading the way in the field of graphene-based implantable brain devices, and I hope that this success will raise the interest of new stakeholders and corporates towards the opportunities graphene offers in the healthcare domain. I remember when INBRAIN was born, and it is impressive how they have grown so fast: transforming a laboratory technology into a product – an outstanding milestone. This investment will be fundamental to speed up the development of graphene-based medical devices, which will be tested on patients much earlier than everyone expected."
Kari Hjelt, Graphene Flagship Head of Innovation, says: "This substantial investment exemplifies the growing interest and ever-expanding opportunities to exploit graphene and layered materials in the biomedical domain. Due to its unique properties, graphene has the potential to transform this application area. The Graphene Flagship has chosen biomedical applications as a focus area for commercialisation, and continues to support efforts to foster new innovations – from research to the factory floor, now and into the future."
- The author, Jose A. Garrido, is Chief Scientific Officer at INBRAIN and researcher at Graphene Flagship partners ICN2 and ICREA.
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Why IT is in Jeopardy
Change is the only constant, which IT professionals know all too well. However, as technology changes, their departments must too. Some IT departments are in trouble, big trouble if they don't do something fast. We explain a few reasons why.
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Some IT departments are struggling to prove their relevance as the pace of change continues to accelerate. On one hand, they're responsible for their own predicament and on the other hand they're not.
IT has been the master of change. On the other hand, what department wants to be responsible for its own its own demise? IT as a function isn't dead and it's not going to be dead any time soon. However, IT is changing for good. Here's why:
IT overpromised and under-delivered
Lines of business no longer want to wait for IT. They can't. The competitive pressures are just too great to ignore. But, when something goes wrong with their tech purchases, who do they call? IT.
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"IT is in jeopardy because of the agreements or promises they've made to the business," said David Caldwell, senior IT solutions consultant at Kaiser Permanente. "You can't deliver on time, you can't deliver what you promised and you can't deliver reliable systems."
What the business really wants is a dependable, enabling service that delivers what it promises.
Business expectations are too high
IT can't be successful if the business leadership is viewing IT as a cost rather than an investment, which seems a bit strange, given the fact that today's companies depend on technology for survival. Nevertheless, some businesses still have legacy cultural issues to overcome, one of which is realizing how value in their company is actually produced in this day and age.
Worse, even C-level information and technology executives may not be viewed as equals among business leaders, so they're left out of important meetings. Rather than having a partnership between IT and the business, the business may tell IT what it wants when without understanding the entire scope of the problem and how difficult or complex the solution to the problem may be.
"They don't consider that IT leadership can help you decide how you're going to strategically differentiate your business," said Caldwell. "If you don't let them in, you're missing out on a lot of valuable input."
David Caldwell
A related issue is budget. If IT isn't given enough budget to be successful, who can pin failures on IT? Yet, over the past couple of decades IT has been told to do more with less to the point where the model itself breaks down.
IT has enabled its own demise
IT had a specific role to play before the cloud, SaaS and Shadow IT were fashionable. They were the keepers of hardware, software and networks.
"IT brought the wave of innovation in, [and yet,] IT is under the same assault of things they were the perpetrators of," said Greg Arnette, CTO at cloud information archiving company, Sonian. "IT is going through a metamorphosis that reduces the need to have as many in IT as in previous history."
The adoption of cloud architectures and SaaS were fueled by the economic downturn of 2008 and 2009 which forced companies to view IT in terms of operating expenses rather than capital expenses.
"It was a perfect storm," said Arnette. "Shadow IT was driven by business unit managers frustrated with their IT departments [so they] used their credit cards to sign up for Salesforce.com or go buy ZenDesk or any of these popular SaaS apps that have become the new back office systems for most companies."
Never mind who purchased what with which purchasing method -- purchase order or credit card -- when things go wrong, it's IT's job is to fix it. That's one way to provide the business with services, but probably not the model IT had in mind.
The CIO/CTO role is changing
There are plenty of CIOs and CTOs, but some of them are being moved into new roles such as Chief Data Officer, Chief Analytics Officer or Chief Innovation Officer. Whether these roles are a reflection of The Brave New World or whether they're ultimately too narrow is a debatable point.
"It's not such a focus on information. It's now analytics, data wrangling and a focus on innovation as a key way IT can help customers do more," said Arnette. "I think that's where IT will come back, but it won't be the same type of IT department."
Indeed. Traditional hardware and enterprise software management are being usurped by IaaS and SaaS alternatives. It's true that a lot of companies have hybrid strategies that combine their own systems with virtualized equivalents and that some companies are managing all of their own technology, but the economics of the virtual world (when managed responsibly) are too attractive to ignore over the long term.
Caldwell will be explaining what IT and business leaders need to know about IT's evolution at Interop ITX. His session, entitled, "Leading Your IT Team from Chao to Competence" will take place Thursday, May 18 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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5/4/2017 | 10:03:56 AM
IT Threats
First and foremost, the challenge for the IT ecosystem is hacking. The level of hacking has reached a different level altogether. Recent events such as yahoo hack and other major intrusions suggest that the IT sector is in for some serious business of protecting the ecosystem.
ron.cleaver,
4/26/2017 | 9:07:49 AM
Is this news?
I've been reading this same story in various forms since about 1970. Do you really think C-level executives don't get it?