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IT reform efforts at 20 agencies stuck in neutral or heading in reverse
Jason Miller@jmillerWFED
Agency progress in reforming the management and oversight of information technology has stalled.
The fourth version of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard released June 13 by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee showed the overall scores of 20 of 24 agencies stayed the same or dropped since December.
Of the four agencies that received better grades, the U.S. Agency for International Development earned the first-ever "A" grade on version 4.0 of...
Of the four agencies that received better grades, the U.S. Agency for International Development earned the first-ever "A" grade on version 4.0 of the FITARA scorecard, which Federal News Radio obtained.
"The FITARA Scorecard 4.0 demonstrates both continued progress as well as frustrating disregard for FITARA reform principles," Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), ranking member of the subcommittee on Government Operations and a co-author of FITARA, said in his opening statement. "On the latest scorecard, four agencies had letter grades that improved, five dropped a letter grade, and 15 stayed the same. This represents a fraction of the progress included in the last scorecard where 12 agencies improved, but marginal gains will become more difficult as agency letter grades increase."
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Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed FITARA into law in in late 2014, and agencies developed and the Office of Management and Budget approved implementation plans by summer 2015. Lawmakers released the first scorecard in November 2015 and said while the scores weren't good, they expected improvements.
After two more scorecards showing real progress, agencies seem to have hit a wall over the last six months.
Along with USAID, only three other agencies–the departments of Housing and Urban Development, State and Transportation–improved their overall grades. At the same time, 15 agencies received the same grades as last time.
The departments of Commerce and Veterans Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency and the General Services Administration received the next highest grades of "B+," while the departments of Homeland Security and Justice joined HUD in receiving a "B-."
"Most agencies have taken steps to improve the management of IT acquisitions and operations by implementing key FITARA initiatives, including data center consolidation, efforts to increase transparency via OMB's IT Dashboard, incremental development, and management of software licenses; and they have continued to address recommendations we have made over the past several years," according to David Powner's, the Government Accountability Office's director of IT management issues, opening statement. "However, additional improvements are needed, and further efforts by OMB and federal agencies to implement our previous recommendations would better position them to fully implement FITARA. To help ensure that these efforts succeed, OMB's and agencies' continued implementation of FITARA is essential. In addition, we will continue to monitor agencies' implementation of our previous recommendations."
The Defense Department is the only agency to receive a "F" grade, while five others, including the Department of Health and Human Services, whose chief information officer Beth Killoran is expected to testify at the hearing on June 13, received a "D" grade.
Killoran told the committee that HHS is making progress in implementing FITARA through cross-agency collaboration and dedication. She said she expects HHS to fully implement the law by the end of 2017.
"Under this fundamental premise, we have employed a proactive strategy to address programmatic risk; promote transparency; establish clear lines of authority, foster innovative and incremental development; leverage cloud technology; and, invest in our IT workforce," Killoran wrote in her testimony. "As a result, HHS has accomplished the majority of the goals we outlined within our FITARA Implementation Plan—ahead of schedule in many instances. Of the 39 individual actions and milestones outlined in the plan, HHS met 34 in the areas of budget formulation, budget execution, acquisition, and organization and workforce."
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Killoran said she delegated to the operating division CIOs authority to make IT investment decisions based on a financial threshold. She will tell the committee that during quarterly meetings, she reviews those decisions.
But she also meets regularly with the chief financial officer during the budget and investment review process to further analyze IT investments and address FITARA objectives.
"This process clarifies IT management authorities and accountability at all levels of the department. The clearer delineation and alignment of IT-related efforts in program management, finance, acquisition and human resources has resulted in improved IT decision-making which better account for cost, benefit and risk," Killoran said in her written testimony. "The purpose of our budget review is to discuss with each of the OpDiv CIOs their IT budget priorities, current risks, alignment to agency priorities and status of their IT investments for the budget year under discussion. Each meeting results with the CFO and CIO jointly deciding whether to approve, modify or reject the IT budget; the final outcome is an IT budget statement issued by the CFO and CIO submitted with the HHS budget submission to OMB."
One result of this effort is HHS increasing its overall spending on cybersecurity to 4 percent of the IT budget from 1 percent.
Despite the progress Killoran highlighted, GAO and the committee still gave HHS three "Fs", two "Ds" and one "B" on the scorecard.
And maybe most telling is GAO and the committee say Killoran still doesn't report directly to the HHS secretary or deputy secretary.
In fact, 11 other agencies—12 overall—still do not have the correct reporting structure as required by FITARA, the same amount from the December grading period.
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Agencies received the most "A" grades in the use of incremental development or agile methodology for software. Meanwhile, 10 agencies received "F" grades for their data center optimization efforts.
"FITARA required agencies to submit multi-year strategies to achieve the consolidation and optimization of their data centers no later than the end of fiscal year 2016. Among other things, this strategy was to include such information as data center consolidation and optimization metrics, and year-by-year calculations of investments and cost savings through October 1, 2018," Powner's testimony stated. "As of April 2017, only 7 of the 23 agencies that submitted their strategic plans—the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, and Housing and Urban Development; the General Services Administration; the National Science Foundation; and the Office of Personnel Management—had addressed all five elements required by the OMB memorandum implementing FITARA. The remaining 16 agencies either partially met or did not meet the requirements. For example, most agencies partially met or did not meet the requirements to provide information related to data center closures and cost savings metrics. The Department of Defense did not submit a plan and was rated as not meeting any of the requirements."
Jason Miller is executive editor of Federal News Network and directs news coverage on the people, policy and programs of the federal government.
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Green Direct's solar project will be located in south-central Washington. The solar project is expected to come on line in 2021 and customers will begin taking delivery of renewable energy at that time.
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Q: std::list predicate call to function: Error C3867 function call missing argument list I am using std::list's predicate to update the list based on predicate. But calling in the OnInitDialog() throws compilation error. My code is as follows:
The below is .h:
class CDlgWindow : public CDialog
{
   private:
      bool single_digit (const int &value);
      int _days;
}

The below is .cpp:
    CDlgWindow::CDlgWindow(CWnd* pParent, CString strInfo, int days) //ctor
    {
       _days = days;
      //_strInfo = strInfo
    }
    bool CDlgWindow::single_digit(const int& value)
    {
       return (value >= _days);
    }
    BOOL CDlgWindow::OnInitDialog()
    {
       CDialog::OnInitDialog();
       CenterWindow();
       .
       .
       .
       int numArr[] = {10,20,30,40};
       int size = sizeof(numArr)/sizeof(numArr[0]);
       std::list<int> numList (numArr, numArr+size);
       numList.remove_if(single_digit); //Error C3867 here!
       .
       .
    }

Complete error message:
Error C3867 function call missing argument list, use '&CDlgWindow::single_digit' to create a pointer to member.
I am trying to understand the functors concept. As I checked in C++11, we have lambdas for easier implementation. Please guide me to understand more on this issue. Thanks!

A: std::list's remove_if member needs a unary predicate (p) that operates on values (v). The expression p(v) must be valid. Which it isn't if p is a non-static class member (see repro).
There are two options:

*

*Make the predicate (single_digit) a static class member:
class CDlgWindow : public CDialog
{
   private:
      static bool single_digit (const int &value);
   // ...
}

*Make the predicate a free function:
bool single_digit(int const& value) {
    static int days_ = ...;
    return (value >= days_);
}

If you go with option 1 you will have to make _days static as well, since a static member function cannot access non-static instance data. If _days is a compile-time constant, make sure to mark it const as well. That'll open up some compiler optimizations.
This is all hoping that things haven't significantly changed between C++98 and C++11. It's hard to find a C++98 compiler to verify this.

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Home Business Brewing beer a dream job for Marlborough businessman
Marlborough Business
Brewing beer a dream job for Marlborough businessman
By Jeff Theodore, Contributing Writer
MARLBOROUGH – As a child, Dave Richardson would drift to sleep and enter a world where dreams took him on countless flights.
"I was either a bird or Superman," he recalls of his dreams. "I just remember that after I woke up, I would have this sense of confidence that I could do whatever I put my mind to."
Those fantasy episodes inspired Richardson to name his first business Flying Dreams Brewery, which has a Marlborough Taproom at 277 Main St.
Richardson initially opened a brewery location in Worcester in 2015 but it has since closed due to circumstances beyond his control, Richardson says. The Marlborough taproom, which opened in 2018, features a menu of almost 40 craft beers with names such as Dreaming of Summer Farmhouse Ale and Nightmare After Christmas Stout.
According to the Brewer's Association, there are more than 8,760 craft breweries nationally. Flying Dreams is one of about 210 craft breweries in Massachusetts while California, where Richardson earned his master's degree in brewery science at the University of California-Davis, has the most breweries of any state with 958.
"What sets my brewery apart from others is that we do many styles of beer," Richardson says. "Some breweries try to do the same but don't necessarily get there. People often ask what's our best beer, but I tell them, 'If you try our Pilsner beers, you're going to like them and want another one.' Likewise, if they drink a Stout, they're going to think they're fantastic."
Richardson says a lot of hard work goes into perfecting his line of beers.
"Running a good brewery requires a lot of patience, experience and study," he says. "I work with a lot of ingredients, different yeast strings and organisms. There's a ton that goes into keeping everything consistent."
His advice to prospective brewmasters is that, "If you don't like cleaning, don't do it."
"That's at least 80 percent of the job," he says. "You have to clean the inside of the tank, the kettle or the floor and clean hoses or lines. Everything needs to be spic and span. Otherwise, there can be infections, or the beer will taste sour and that's a waste of money and time."
The 2,500-square-foot Marlborough brewery has enough space to seat about 125 people inside and another 48 people outside. It is closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but open on Thursdays and Fridays from 4 to 9 p.m., on Saturdays from 2 to 9 p.m. and on Sundays from 2 to 8 p.m.
Patrons can opt to bring their own food or order delivery and takeout. Contactless curbside pickup is available upon request, but guests must call in advance to place orders.
Richardson says he's anxious to get his business back on good footing because the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll.
"We want to remind people that we are here and to come out and try our amazing, award-winning beer," he says.
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package org.apache.hadoop.fs.http.client;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.test.TestDirHelper;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;

import java.io.File;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;

@RunWith(value = Parameterized.class)
public class TestHttpFSFileSystemLocalFileSystem extends BaseTestHttpFSWith {

  private static String PATH_PREFIX;

  static {
    new TestDirHelper();
    String prefix =
        System.getProperty("test.build.dir", "target/test-dir") + "/local";
    File file = new File(prefix);
    file.mkdirs();
    PATH_PREFIX = file.getAbsolutePath();
  }

  public TestHttpFSFileSystemLocalFileSystem(Operation operation) {
    super(operation);
  }

  @Override
  protected Path getProxiedFSTestDir() {
    return addPrefix(new Path(TestDirHelper.getTestDir().getAbsolutePath()));
  }

  @Override
  protected String getProxiedFSURI() {
    return "file:///";
  }

  @Override
  protected Configuration getProxiedFSConf() {
    Configuration conf = new Configuration(false);
    conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY,
        getProxiedFSURI());
    return conf;
  }

  protected Path addPrefix(Path path) {
    URI uri = path.toUri();
    try {
      if (uri.getAuthority() != null) {
        uri = new URI(uri.getScheme(), uri.getAuthority(),
            PATH_PREFIX + uri.getPath());
      } else {
        if (uri.getPath().startsWith("/")) {
          uri = new URI(PATH_PREFIX + uri.getPath());
        }
      }
    } catch (URISyntaxException ex) {
      throw new RuntimeException("It should not happen: " + ex.toString(), ex);
    }
    return new Path(uri);
  }

}

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Black carbon and other light-absorbing particles in snow of central North America
Doherty, S. J., C. Dang, D. A. Hegg, R. Zhang, & S. G. Warren
Abstract - Vertical profiles of light-absorbing particles in seasonal snow were sampled from 67 North American sites. Over 500 snow samples and 55 soil samples from these sites were optically analyzed for spectrally resolved visible light absorption. The optical measurements were used to estimate black carbon (BC) mixing ratios in snow (inline image), contributions to absorption by BC and non-BC particles, and the absorption Ångström exponent of particles in snow and local soil. Sites in Canada tended to have the lowest BC mixing ratios (typically ~5–35 ng g−1), with somewhat higher inline image in the Pacific Northwest (typically ~5–40 ng g−1) and Intramountain Northwest (typically 10–50 ng g−1). The Northern U.S. Plains sites were the dirtiest, with inline image typically ~15–70 ng g−1 and multiple sample layers with >100 ng g−1 BC in snow. Snow water samples were also chemically analyzed for standard anions, selected carbohydrates, and various elements. The chemical and optical data were input to a Positive Matrix Factorization analysis of the sources of particulate light absorption. These were soil, biomass/biofuel burning, and fossil fuel pollution. Comparable analyses have been conducted for the Arctic and North China, providing a broad, internally consistent data set. As in North China, soil is a significant contributor to snow particulate light absorption in the Great Plains. We also examine the concentrations and sources of snow particulate light absorption across a latitudinal transect from the northern U.S. Great Plains to Arctic Canada by combining the current data with our earlier Arctic survey.
Doherty, S. J., C. Dang, D. A. Hegg, R. Zhang, & S. G. Warren (2014) Black carbon and other light-absorbing particles in snow of central North America, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES 199(22):12807-12831.
Pollutants (SLCPs):
absorption arctic ecosystem carbon light absorption
Pollutants (SLCP)


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require 'spree/core'

module Spree
  module Hub
  end
end

require 'spree/hub/client'
require 'spree/hub/engine'
require 'spree/hub/responder'

require 'spree/hub/handler/base'
require 'spree/hub/handler/add_product_handler'
require 'spree/hub/handler/update_product_handler'

require 'spree/hub/handler/set_inventory_handler'

require 'spree/hub/handler/add_shipment_handler'
require 'spree/hub/handler/update_shipment_handler'


Discussion in 'Other ESET Home Products' started by Bakker, Jun 30, 2008.
When VMWare server is installed on a server, or workstation, the Remote Administrator Server/Console reports the wrong MAC address for that client.
Instead of reporting the MAC address for the "Ethernet Adapter for <LAN connection name here>" it reports the MAC address for "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1".
As a result i have a whole bunch of computers reporting the wrong MAC address. It's not an issue but i thought i'd report it anway.