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Salem SDA Academy Coach Charged with Sex Crimes against Girls
By Andria Seo April 4, 2016 No Comments
Article from KGW
Donald Ernest Mansell, 37, a former boy's basketball coach at the private Livingstone Adventist Academy, has been arrested and charged with three counts of third-degree sexual abuse.
Mansell, who did not return calls seeking comment, turned himself in to authorities March 24 and was released the same day on a $15,000 bond. A warrant was filed for his arrest Nov. 5, 2015. The criminal investigation of Mansell's conduct by the Marion County Sheriff's office began in May 2014.
Sheriff's deputies didn't try to arrest Mansell because they were unaware there was a warrant out for his arrest, said Lt. Chris Baldridge, a sheriff's department spokesman.
"In this case we failed to follow up with the prosecutor and did not know the warrant had been issued. We are in the process now of reviewing our procedure to ensure this type of mistake does not happen again," Baldridge wrote in an email.
The office manager at Livingstone Adventist Academy, a K-12 Seventh-day Adventist school on Fruitland Road NE, said Wednesday that Mansell had been the school's director of financial operations, athletic director and boy's basketball coach.
Mansell is the son-in-law of Marion County Circuit Court Judge Vance Day. In a 2009 civil suit, Mansell retained Michael Dye as his attorney — the same attorney Day hired for his misconduct hearings in January. Day was investigated and tried by the Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability for ethical violations from the bench. The commission unanimously recommended Day be removed from his judgeship. His case is now before the Oregon Supreme Court, which oversees judicial discipline.
Baldridge, the sheriff's department spokesman, said Mansell's relationship to Day did not affect the investigation.
For the charges relating to Livingstone, Mansell has hired Jeffrey M. Jones, of Jones & Maison. The firm did not return calls seeking comment. The Oregon Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, which runs Livingstone, declined to comment on the allegations.
Circuit Court documents detail the allegations against Mansell. He is accused of sexually abusing two girls who were students at Livingstone, one in 2010 and 2011, another in 2013 and 2014. An investigator's report from the sheriff's office lists a third girl as a potential victim.
"We believe there may be more victims of sexual abuse or harassment during Mansell's tenure at the high school," said Chris Best, an attorney representing one of the victims.
The investigator's report says the initial police report stems from an incident where one 16-year-old victim asked to speak about her grades with Livingstone faculty and Mansell volunteered to talk with her. They met in his office with the door closed.
The report says he allegedly began asking the victim sexual questions and solicited sex from her. The victim started surreptitiously recording audio of the conversation on her iPod, which has subsequently been given to the police.
The victim, according to the report, emailed the audio recording to the principal, Trevor Kendall, who forwarded it to Carol McLeod, the school's associate superintendent. McLeod then reported it to the sheriff's office. Mansell was placed on administrative leave.
Detectives have seized Mansell's office computer, and are continuing the investigation. Mansell is scheduled to be arraigned on April 7.
This case is very similar to cases that Crew Janci attorneys have pursued in the past, including cases involving abuse at Milo Academy and abuse by Les Bovee at the Veneta Seventh Day Adventist Church.
If you or someone you care about was sexually abused in the context of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and you would like advice from an attorney about the rights and options for victims of child sexual abuse, please contact Crew Janci LLP today for a free, confidential consultation at 1-888-407-0224 or by using our private online form. We will treat you with discretion and respect.
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About Andria Seo
Andria Seo is an Associate Attorney at Crew Janci LLP. Andria is a graduate of the New York University School of Law. During law school, she worked with the National Center for Youth Law, the Legal Aid Society, and the NYCLU. Prior to joining the team at Crew Janci LLP, Andria advocated for vulnerable children and their families as a staff attorney at Partnership for Children's Rights, a nonprofit based in New York City. Andria also previously worked assisting in the representation of victims of a terrorist attack in civil suits. Andria moved to Portland in 2016 and joined Crew Janci LLP in 2017. She is admitted to practice in Oregon and New York
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FEI Selected BCE for Archive S...
20.03.2017 |	International Unternehmen | Autor: _der.
FEI Selected BCE for Archive Solutions
BCE will set up a complete management solution
Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE) has been selected by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), the world governing body of Equestrian sport, for the ingest, management and distribution of its archives.
The FEI is the governing body for all international events in the Olympic sports of Jumping, Dressage and Eventing, as well as the non-Olympic sports of Driving, Endurance, Vaulting and Reining. It also governs all international competitions for Para-Equestrian Dressage and Para-Driving.
Holding many thousands of hours of video from competitions across the world, going back some 30 years, the FEI was looking for a partner who would be able to digitise this dormant content, manage its legacy and upcoming assets and facilitate distribution among stakeholders.
"This project follows the strategy of our company by ensuring the perfect digitisation of their archives and at the same time enhancing content exchange thanks to a solid platform," commented Frederic Fievez, Projects Development Manager at BCE. To do so, BCE will set up a complete management solution in its new headquarters in Luxembourg. This PaaS (Platform as a Service) will be built around three layers:
The ingest platform to ensure the digitisation of the remaining archives as well as new footage.
The Media asset management system, including the MediaArchive Director (EVS) will manage the content, generate optimal metadata as well as user info, ensure media transcoding and delivery.
The distribution platform using BCE's file based delivery system, Movie2Me to receive the files from the FEI and distribute it worldwide.
FEI Marketing Director Ralph Straus said, "With this new solution the FEI and our stakeholders will be able to easily search online and exploit content from the most prestigious competitions, with some content from as far back as the 70's. We're very pleased to be able to open up and fully utilise such an amazing archive of Equestrian sport and we are looking forward to working with BCE to make this happen."
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7TH GRADERS HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED THEIR ROUGH DRAFT APPOINTMENTS WITH ME. LET ME KNOW ASAP IF THE TIME DOES NOT WORK.
Science: We had to push our test back to Tuesday. We will do a final review on Monday.
Reading: We are reading our anthology. Ask them how they liked the artichoke! The book report for 4th quarter is Old Yeller. There are three sections with three deadlines. Deadline 2 is MONDAY, APRIL 29. As soon as one part is completed, there is a quiz to take.
English: Research rough drafts are due the 23-26. Final papers are due Monday, May 6.
Social Studies: The class is finishing up Chapter 3. We will probably have our test next Tuesday. Chapter 4 looks at settlers coming into Kansas and the events that led to "Bleeding Kansas".


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Q: Drawing terms of sum in a plot tikz (don't know how to write mathematical expressions on this forum). I am trying to plot the following function
\begin{align*}
       f : [0,1] &\longrightarrow \RE, \\
              x  &\mapsto \begin{cases} x, &x \in \{ 0,1\}\\ s_k, &\text{for } x \in (s_{k - 1}, s_k] \end{cases}
   \end{align*}

In Tikz. Here is what i have so far:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
axis x line=middle, axis y line=middle,
ymin=0, ymax=1, ytick={0,0.25,...,0.75}, ylabel=$f(x)$,
xmin = 0,xmax=1, xtick={0,0.25,...,0.75}, xlabel=$x$,
legend pos=north west,legend style={draw=none}
]
\addplot[domain=0:0.5]{0.5};
\addplot[domain=0.5:0.75]{0.75};
\addplot[domain=0.75:0.875]{0.825};
%\addplot[domain=0:0.5]{0.5};
\end{axis}

Ideally, i would write it the following way in code:
var s = 0;

for i = 1, i <= 10, i++ {
    s' = s;
    s += 2^{-i};
    \addplot[domain=s':s]{s}
}

And this way i would get the desired Result. But i don't know how to convert that to Tikz...
Any help would be welcome!

A: An altenative without pgfmath code
\documentclass[tikz, border=1cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.18}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
axis lines=center,
xmin=0, xmax=1,
ymin=0, ymax=1,
xlabel=$x$, ylabel=$f(x)$,
xtick distance=0.25, ytick distance=0.25,
enlargelimits=0.1,
]
\foreach \i in {1,...,10}
\addplot[domain={1-2^(-\i+1)}:{1-2^-\i}]{1-2^(-\i)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

A: You can use your pseudo-coded loop in PGFPlots as well.
Instead of \foreach from PGF/TikZ you will need to use \pgfplotsforeachungrouped or \pgfplotsinvokeforeach because PGFPlots doesn't immediatly process its plots.
Code
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.18}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
axis x line=middle, axis y line=middle,
ymin=0, ymax=1, ytick={0,0.25,...,0.75}, ylabel=$f(x)$,
xmin = 0,xmax=1, xtick={0,0.25,...,0.75}, xlabel=$x$,
legend pos=north west,legend style={draw=none}
]
\pgfmathsetmacro\domainEnd{0}                      % s = 0
\pgfplotsforeachungrouped \i in {1, ..., 10}{
  \let\domainStart\domainEnd                       % s' = s
  \pgfmathsetmacro\domainEnd{\domainStart+2^(-\i)} % s += 2^{-i}
  \addplot[domain=\domainStart:\domainEnd] {\domainEnd};
}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Output

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New School Montessori parents are invited to attend a 2-hour presentation about positive discipline for children.
The event will be held in the Growing Room. Childcare for TNSM-aged children will be provided.
RSVP to Jeff Groh by July 27.
On Sunday, Aug 12th TNSM will be bringing in a talented presenter for our New School parents to hear about a new program we are implementing at TNSM. "Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom".
Positive Discipline is based on the work of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikus, both contemporaries of Maria Montessori, and is designed to teach adults how to create an environment where young people learn to become responsible, respectful and resourceful members of their communities. Based on the best selling Positive Discipline books by Dr. Jane Nelsen, it teaches important social and life skills in a manner that is deeply respectful and encouraging for both children and adults.
All teaching staff will be participating in two full-day workshops on Aug. 13th and 14th. Parents are invited (and strongly encouraged) to attend the Parent Education night on Aug. 12th in the Growing Room from 6:00 to 8:00. We will provide childcare.
Not only will this workshop be a wonderful introduction to how TNSM approaches positive culture building within the classroom, but it will help build a bridge between home and school concerning conflict resolution techniques that many parents will find helpful.
For preprimary students who have not attended TNSM before, we are offering 2 days of orientation for them to grow more familiar with the routines and rhythms of their new Montessori classrooms. Students are required to attend both days. Following their orientation, their next day of school is Wednesday, August 22 when school begins.
You are welcome to enter the classroom as early as 8:30 with your child. We ask that you spend 10 to 15 minutes doing a work with your child before teachers begin their orientation with students around 8:45.
On Monday, August 20 parents are to stay for a parent orientation in the Growing Room at 8:45 a.m. It will be over on or before 9:15 a.m.


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Karl Wagner , "Donor support of opposition parties in Namibia: How foreign support for parties effects democracy in a new democracy," Namibia Digital Repository, accessed April 23, 2019, http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/items/show/198.


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The Sydney St. John Mysteries by Cary Osborne
Oklahoma Winds
The Sydney St. John Mysteries Book 1
by Cary Osborne
In Oklahoma, spring brings storms raging across the American prairie, too often spawning tornadoes that lash the land. But this spring Sydney St. John finds herself fighting for her life against another danger, one from the past. When her intern's body is discovered in the archives processing room, everyone wants to believe the girl's death was an accident or a horrible mistake. But Sydney sets out to discover whether the cruel murder of today resulted from another crime committed nearly seventy years earlier, searching for clues as only an archivist can. Her search leads her to another danger, different, in the person of Ben Bartlett, grandson of the creator of the very collection at the center of the mystery. Is he to be her lover? Or her murderer?
OKLAHOMA WINDS is an engrossing thriller that reveals the inexorable links present-day events (and crimes) always have to the past. We are forever connected to the history that brought us to where we are now, and unraveling the tangled truths of that history can shed a brilliant light on who we have become. Yes, OKLAHOMA WINDS is a murder mystery, and a fascinating one. But it's also a testament to the power of the past over our lives. Having had some experience with research librarians and archivists, I've always known they were some of the most brilliant (yet unsung) detectives among us . . . and the protagonist of OKLAHOMA WINDS is long-overdue proof of that. Sydney St. John does for archivists what Indiana Jones did for archaeologists -- and I can't wait to see what mysteries she'll tackle next!
--Brad Denton, author of Blackburn and Sergeant Chip
Oklohoma Winter: Black Ice
Oklahoma, the state that ranks second as most dangerous in the U.S. when it comes to weather. Too often, the wind comes sweeping down the plain, with a vengeance. In winter, black ice glides onto the roads, barely seen, and when the wheels of a vehicle run onto it, a driver had best beware.
It's winter in Oklahoma, and Sydney St. John finds murder among the papers of the Filmore County Historical Archives. The collection is that of Carl Blair, rancher, politician, father, and husband, who ruled his land and his family without the need for compassion, or love. Although gone these many years, his grandchildren and Lawrence, his only surviving son, still suffer from his cruelty and heavy hand. It's Sydney who must untangle the web that begins with racism and murder. Ben Bartlett her lover, still living in California, is helpless to save her from natural disasters and festering family hatred.
Saving Souls
Sydney St. John, still living and working in Gansel, Oklahoma, hopes to never be involved in a murder investigation again. She plans on being content with organizing the historical documents in the Filmore County Historical Archives. But when Patrick O'Kelley, preaching to no one on the corner opposite the archives in twenty-degree weather, is found murdered, her curiosity once again gets the better of her.
The facts she discovers lead her to hidden gold, oil rights, and Edward Capeheart O'Kelley, the man who shot Bob Ford, Jesse James's killer. What does the murder in the late 1800s have to do with Patrick O'Kelley's death in the 21st century?
Cary Osborne has been writing for more than two decades, delving into many genres including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror, and romance. Having once been told that there aren't enough generalists in the world, and having an interest in many worldly aspects, makes it difficult to settle into a single mold. Ancient history, being one of those interests, she uses her studies in the subjects and backgrounds for her stories, both long and short.
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Love Oklahoma's cover! It is so cool to read about cold cases.
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Unless you can get to Lake Erie, or one of its tributaries, or fish south of Columbus(warmer water), it's a little early to really start getting into the fish.
Although this is one of the best times of the year to catch your personal best, you'll work hard for it as April fishing in northeast Ohio can prove tricky. Fluctuating weather, rising stream levels, gusty winds, or maybe even a late snow squall can turn a promising week into one of frustration. Just remember, better days are ahead.
And the best fishing will show up this summer on Lake Erie, where the 2015 walleye hatch will provide 19-26-inch fish in good numbers. There will still be a lot of "shorts" this summer, though, as the 2017 and 2018 hatches will be biting, but will not be of legal size limit.
The Division of Wildlife is expecting a good perch fishing season, if you head west or east. While walleye migrate throughout Lake Erie, perch are more territorial. In the central basin, the recent hatches haven't been good, and the catch-rate is expected to be down from Huron to Fairport Harbor. But, the hatches east of Fairport Harbor, or west of Huron, have been better and the outlook is for a productive perch fishing season in the east and west basins.
As for the fishing locally so far this spring, I've been out three times already this month, hitting up the Rocky River twice in an attempt to catch steelhead, and this past week got the boat out for its maiden 2019 voyage in what was more of a test run to make sure everything worked right.
That doesn't count the pond fishing and the one-hour excursion on the Tuscarawas River, So all told, I've been out a handful of times this spring, and with very little success.
My Rocky River trips were fun in the sense that I got to get out, but 41-degree water and a leak in the right foot of my waders took the edge off the thrill of the potential of hooking into a silver bullet. While I got skunked on both trips to the Lake Erie tributary for steelhead (I did catch a smallmouth bass), what made it even more frustrating was that on the first trip, the guy fishing next to me caught two fish. I was all prepared with typical steelhead gear, a nice noodle rod and eggs sacks under a float, hooked to a hair jig. The setup has caught many a steelhead in northeast Ohio rivers each spring and fall, but what seemed to work on this day was a jig tipped with a white crappie tube. On any other fishing trip I'd have a dozen of such baits at my disposal, but not this time.
When I went back a week later with the jig and crappie tube, it wasn't the bait of the day, and I never did figure out the pattern.
In the pond at my house, the crappie are starting to feed, and a jar of Gulp minnows comes in handy for such excursions. They're good to keep in the tackle box for when you run out of the real thing, or when curly tails and tubes don't seem to work.
This past Wednesday, I put the boat in at Portage Lakes, and the good news is that the new trolling motor battery performed well and the motor started. However, the side-imaging on my fish finder didn't work, but I believe that's just a settings issue. As for the fishing, it was slow, but I did manage a largemouth bass on a crankbait and a crappie on a Gulp minnow. It was cold and windy, and the water temperature was 54 degrees.
There are fishing opportunities out there, though. The walleye run continues on the Maumee and Sandusky Rivers for those who want to do some wading, or shore fishing, and there are still steelhead in the Lake Erie tributaries from Vermilion to Conneaut. Smallies will also start moving into the rivers from Lake Erie, while the bronze back action on northeast Ohio inland streams will heat up soon as well.
Don't forget the upcoming turkey season, and mushroom hunting.


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Crum Fun: Captain Webber
Crum Fun.
The summer of 1977 was unforgettable. At least for a teenager who was embarking on his life sentence. All the talk was of Paisleys rerun of the 1974 strike This time things would be different. There was not the same mood or drive in '77. It was not unexpected for 4 o clock knock as the security forces took a different line and many of the suspected paramilitaries should spend a while in the Crum that year. Up to June that year a grand total of 1000 men wandered (handcuffed) through the Crum's doors. I went to C wing where I had stayed for a while in 1974. This was totally different. Special category status had been stopped in 1976. And now the boot was on the other foot. C wing used to be loyalist, now it was mixed; republican and loyalist. There was an arrangement between the two factions. Day in; day out. Day out was out in the morning for a wash. Out for hour in yard in the afternoon. And an hour later in the evening, either TV room or the yard. The rest had the 24 hour lock up.
The longest day of my stay started off with loyalists on a day in. We could hear the usual cacophony of noise outside on the landings as the republicans went about their day out. However there was a change in the atmosphere. Something was different. I had a penthouse suite in the east side of C wing overlooking the C wing dining hall. (Now gone if you visit the Crum. ) Things started to get lashed out of the windows onto the rec room roof. We were used to mystery parcels but this was different. Amazing just how much contraband there was. The new steel doors were totally unlike the old doors I recalled from my stint in 1974. Once the door flap was down you only had the thinnest of a slit between door and frame to look out. I was kneeling looking out and could see no prisoners or the usual screws. Instead I spied an army uniform.
The army belonged outside on the external walls. Definitely something was up. The shouting started. This was a major search not the usual turnover. We became aware that people were being taken from their cells. Doors clanged, keys jangled. Cat calling started to reduce. Soon our turn came. 'You 3. down to the toilets'. That way' . I walked out onto the landing. The place was a mess on the 1s (bottom floor). Army uniforms and then surprisingly I seen a detective from the A squad. One army guy had a black Labrador on a lead which was running about with tail wagging as if on a great adventure.
It turned out that all the loyalists were in one toilet at the end of the wing while all republicans were taken to the toilet at the other end. And so started a long day. At first it was a change to routine so there was a buzz and a laugh. As the day dragged on tempers would begin to shorten and the fun mood died off. Of course there was no chairs
Of course, that amount of men (maybe 30?) for that length of time, and in a very small space the inevitable would have to take place. Taking a piss was easy enough but soon someone needed a carp. (He was dyslexic). Nerves, plus poor food and little exercise made for poor digestion. Of course the poor bonzo who needed to go would have the worst guts in the wing. Did I mention the toilets themselves had no doors? So with a captive audience this poor sod had to answer the call of nature. And oh no, it couldn't be a gentle plop and splash, more a squish and squirt. There was an instant fight to get nearest to the only window. Any amount of cursing could not reduce the aroma. An argument started as to whether the guy had dysentery. Some discussed punching a screw and getting taken to the boards. Anywhere but here. We started asking who this guy's cell mates where. We commiserated with them.
The wrecking continued outside. We wondered when, or if, we would get back to our cells. Soon we were allowed back. The cell was a mess. It was as if a giant took hold of the cell and shook it. The beds had been taken apart literally. The mattresses were on the floor, the sheets flung around the cell. Food was strewn on the floor, clothes were scattered, books tossed all over the place. It took us some time to get a semblance of order back.
And so order and routine came back slowly. Nothing of import was found. Sometime after I left the Crum, to go to the Kesh, a news report said a bomb had gone off in a cell in C wing?
Captain Webber.
Felon Setting-An Updated Analysis-How AAD are being set up to Protect the Process: Jamie Bryson
Felon Setting
An increasing theme running throughout this murder investigation is blame being attributed to 'AAD'. A group of less than five low level hoods who apparently were responsible for such a professional 'hit', in conjunction with former IRA members. The thought that experienced IRA gunmen would need the assistance of a couple of low level hoods is almost beyond the realms of fantasy.
AAD entered into the plot with a statement- threatening revenge for the murder of Jock Davison. Unless AAD are complete imbeciles- which they aren't if they carried out such a professional hit as the one on McGuigan- then there is no rhyme nor reason for them to issue such a statement. Someone needs to explain if they did, why they did.
Then we had the PSNI today blaming IRA members for being involved but maliciously blaming AAD as an organisation, and making clear they were a seperate entity from the IRA, so as to conveniently give Sinn Fein angles of deniability and thus providing the DUP with a way out- namely that the IRA didn't 'sanction' the operation.
And then came the Sinn Fein statement. They too jumped on the AAD bandwagon.
This is a malicious and contrived case of felon setting, all to protect the political process and ensure that Sinn Fein and the DUP can't proceed propping up institutions that have been on life support for quite some time.
It just doesn't add up, the PSNI know AAD couldn't have carried out the hit, Sinn Fein know it and the dogs on the street know it- yet all are keen to firstly build this low level group of petty criminals up into some major criminal outfit, and secondly to fix the blame on them for carrying out a murder that could bring down the peace process, if it was found out who really planned it, ordered it and carried it out.
The PSNI are showing a callous disregard for human life. There is every chance that some low level petty criminal will end up dead- all because of these dangerous games of felon setting, designed to protect the political process.
It is beyond doubt that some innocent player in all this, probably connected to AAD, will be made the scapegoat for all of this and they will either be buried along with any political ramifications that could have arisen or they will be locked away for a long time having been fitted up for soemthing they did not do.
This all leaves us in strange position. The DUP need NAMA to go away and Sinn Fein need this murder to go away- and there lies the basis for the mutual veto on progress, a veto that if overcome will lay the basis for the continuation of the Assembly.
Buried underneath could well be the bodies of innocent people who were built up, blamed and sacrificed- all to 'protect the process'!
Smoke and Mirrors: The IRA Murder of Kevin McGuigan: Jamie Bryson
Smoke and Mirrors: The IRA Murder of Kevin McGuigan
The murder of Kevin McGuigan has brought into the public consciousness the very real problems with Policing and justice in Northern Ireland.
Policing decisions, statements and arrests have to be carefully weighted between pursuing justice and protecting the fragile political process.
Sinn Fein have already warned it would be 'unhelpful' to suggest IRA involvement. They made similar statements following the Columbia three, Robert McCartney & Paul Quinn murders- and the Northern Bank robbery. No one believed them then, and no one believes them now.
The majority of those arrested as part of the PSNI murder investigation are members of Sinn Fein. All are IRA members.
Shankill Bomber Sean Kelly, whose life licence appears to be made of Teflon, is a Sinn Fein member and helped with Gerry Kelly's election campaign.
The man charged today with possesion of a firearm, Patrick Fitzpatrick, is a member of Sinn Fein.
One of those who is widely believed to have been the gunman- Sean Clinton from Short Strand- is a Sinn Fein member and is still in police custody.
The PSNI have today admitted what everyone knew a week ago- IRA members were involved- but in typical 'protect the process' style, the PSNI have added the caveat that 'it was not sanctioned at command level'.
This is a ludicrous statement, how would the PSNI assess if it was issued at a command level when we are expected to believe the IRA do not exist? Did they make the assessment of a non-existent command structure and decide they couldn't find any evidence the very same non-existent structure had sanctioned the murder?
Or are the PSNI accepting that some resemblance of the old IRA command structure still exists? Given the murder was ordered by what would have been the Belfast Brigade staff, does this mean that the PSNI are just simply keeping up appearances by letting on 'they have gone away'? The PSNI assessment leads to questions around exactly what command structure they assessed?
Sinn Fein could not stop this murder, it was happening whether they liked it or not, so instead of actually falling out with the hardliners- they will pretend in political and security circles, that they are furious.
In reality Sinn Fein accepted the reality of the situation and will now manipulate it to present a 'serious situation' to the British government and claim that 'big players' could go dissident. This will be Sinn Fein's latest leverage when it comes to extracting concessions.
Of course Peter Robinson threatened consequences if the IRA were found to be involved. Much like the DUP's partner in government, Sinn Fein, no one really pays much attention to the threats or denials anymore- it is usually just a tissue of lies designed to mislead and cover the tracks of their associates- in Sinn Fein's case their terrorist assosicates, in Peter Robinsons his higher class of white collar criminal assosicates. Fine bedfellows in OFMDFM.
"Who Would Take Us Back"?-Jamie Bryson
"Who Would Take Us Back"?
Wednesday nights murder of Kevin McGuigan was a reminder of the continued capability of the IRA to carry out murderous acts.
The PSNI attempts to steer blame away from the IRA, and the monotonous warnings coming from Sinn Fein of how 'unhelpful' it would be to blame the IRA was only outdone by Peter Robinson's veiled threat to the institutions.
Peter Robinson is never collapsing the institutions, not least because he has given an undertaking to be gone by the end of September, but furthermore one only has to look at the big storm he created over the OTR scandal- before meekly crawling down without having any of his 'demands' met.
And one looks back aghast at the embarrassment of the graduated response, which has become little more than a running joke.
If truth be told Peter Robinson is probably rather pleased his partners in Government have taken the heat of him for a few days.
There is no doubt in anyone's mind who was behind the murder of Kevin McGuigan. Who carried it out is not known, but who planned it, organised it and ordered it is blatantly obvious.
The media have carried stories about the Belfast Brigade meetings days after Jock Davison's murder, attended by old militants such as former Ardoyne and Belfast Brigade commanders. It was they, old pals of Jock Davison, who have their fingerprints all over Wednesday nights murder.
Let's not forget the incident on the 13th of July, a video circulated of Gerry Kelly- IRA royalty- being verbally abused by Dee Fennell, a man viewed as an idiot by PIRA men.
The participation of Fennell was irrelevant, apart from the amusement of imagining Gerry Kelly musing to himself that a few years ago he would have simply blown Dee Fennell's head off, but in this new political theatre he had to smile and just laugh at Fennell.
What was intriguing in that video was the intervention of Eddie Copeland, the former OC of the Ardoyne IRA and a man I have been repeatedly told by North Belfast loyalists is 'close' and who is getting 'closer' to the dissidents.
Wednesdays murder could set of an interesting chain of events- what is being said publicly by Sinn Fein is irrelevant, it is what is being said on the quiet 'walk and talks' that is important.
Did Sinn Fein accept that the IRA had to hit back and simply made the conspirators aware that they would have to keep up appearances and condemn whatever action took place?
Or did the Belfast Brigade militants just plough on ahead? If it is the latter then it is not beyond the realms of imagination to believe that the militants will be infuriated by the condemnation coming from Sinn Fein.
If I was a betting man I would think it was pretty safe to assume that senior Sinn Fein members knew of the plans to strike back and deep down people like Bobby Storey, Gerry Kelly and Alex Maskey are still the same old people they always were. They may publicly condemn the killing, but privately they will be happy enough.
The IRA are settling old scores. It is unlikely that they will turn their guns on the Unionist community at this stage- but surely the fact they maintain the capability is a threat in itself, is it not?
Recent events play into the narrative that the peace process is really an appeasement process- a concession meter that must be fed or else we might go back to the 'bad old days'.
Who would take us back, I often ask, I think that question was answered by the two masked gunmen with automatic rifles on Wednesday night- two masked gunmen acting on the orders PIRA Belfast Brigade Staff leadership.
25 After 21: Primo
25 after 21.
England were playing Germany in a World Cup semi-final. Turin Italy 4th July 1990. England had a half decent team for a change. Platt, Lineker, Waddle, Pearce. A solid team. But it was Gazza the clown prince. The flawed genius, him that was daft as a brush that would live long in my memory. I had just been released from my life sentence. Terrorist. Paramilitary. Killer. Some of the repeatable terms I have been called through my life. Now I was embarking on a new chapter in my life. And here I was in someone's house watching this great match on a huge colour TV. Sort of engrossed in the match but making pleasant conversation with our hosts. It's hard to image that this memory is over 25 years old and coincides with my release. It prompted a mini stocktake. What has happened to me in those speeding years? Is it really a quarter of a century?
I've never been in trouble since my release . Quiet the contrary. I worked every day since release and at times had two jobs. I've been a volunteer again, this time helping with children, the homeless and those with addictions. I've lost two friends through suicide. I was married quickly, maybe too quickly, which ended in a messy divorce. But I did have a great son and two young people who make me proud when they call me dad. There was lots of new friends and travel. Amazing new places, new customs, languages and food. Meeting people of every describable culture, religion and beliefs. I've been watching events around the world unfold, the Gulf wars, Ebola, 9/11, economic collapse, the rise of the internet, the '95 ceasefires , the GFA in '98. I went to the Somme twice. But the most moving place still has to be Auschwitz. A place where hate and blind prejudice saw one group of people try to destroy another group of people in the most horrible way possible.
The highs and lows have been intense but there had been a never ending chain of funerals of both family and friends from Compound 21. I chatted many times with Billy Mitchell, Gusty and Davy Irvine but sadly, all too quickly, I would be walking behind their coffins. The Gannet, Shakey, Swanner, Freddie S, Tommy the Burgermeister, Grouty, Frankie, and many more, all gone.
I lost a doting mother that travelled week in, week out, without fail to that place just outside of Lisburn. I lost an aunt, then another. I watch my elderly father, a hard working man all his life, come to terms with old age, illness and the loss of his wife of over 50 years. I meet and talk with the enemy – Provo ex-prisoners . Lifers. Finally seeing at close quarters, the people we regarded as the ultimate enemy.
I meet victims and their relatives. I speak to many young people from "both sides"- about where violence can lead. I ask them to think first and make up their own minds. The gutter press print the twisted truth and hurt my family. I've been sent to Coventry in certain jobs when people find out what I did as a teenager. I have been barred from jobs once the great and the good find out what I am- someone who was involved in "The Troubles"- like thousands of others in those mad days. I have been humbled and amazed by ordinary people who have accepted me as I am now. I try to copy their forgiveness and understanding. I have never taken an illegal drug in my life. I feel like weeping when I see the damage wreaked by drugs and alcohol in so many young people.
I Have shaken hands with both the First and Deputy Ministers. I have met the President of Ireland. I visit Dublin. Enemy capital at one time.
And now the 7th decade of my life rushes on. I thank God that I have my freedom, my health and that we live in relative peace. I do think of my victims and their families and the devastation inflicted on them. But I also recall all too well the dark days of the early '70s and what was done to friends. I think we live in a good place with some bad people. Of all sorts and types. I still see some of the men from Compound 21. Nearly all have settled down, raised families, have jobs– and all the worries of free people. Paying bills, the children's welfare –grandchildren too, too much weight being put on— is my job safe, etc.
I really felt for Gazza that night. If England had won, he had been booked twice and was going to miss the final. I heard him speak recently about the course his life has taken since that night. We don't have much in common except maybe one thing. We'll both remember 1990 as a life changing year.
Loyalists To Kick Up A Sorm-ont: Dr. John Coulter
Loyalists to kick up a Stormont! Welfare reform must happen
Young dissident loyalists will spark a bloody Irish Civil War if politicians cannot agree a package which saves Stormont.
While London and Dublin quite rightly point out that older loyalists from the mainstream terror gangs no longer have the appetite for violence, the lust to get the guns out again is coming from hardline Prods who were only crapping their nappies when ceasefires and the Good Friday Agreement emerged in the 1990s.
It was only a decade ago I interviewed a senior mainstream loyalist who in 2005 issued the chilling warning – bomb first, talk later!
During this year's contentious marching season, photos have appeared of masked loyalists with 'weapons', issuing threats against police officers and Parades Commission members.
Politicians would be wrong to dismiss such photos as publicity stunts by 'two men and a dog' outfits, which are purely designed to 'up the ante'.
Such crap appeared in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement from a group calling itself the 'Black Friday Brigade Strategic Army Command'.
It claimed: "We pledge ourselves to repel with absolute resolution any endeavour by this tyrannical Assembly to impose its laws upon us. At every turn we will thwart its attempts to execute its policies." After this, it was never heard off again.
But the rising tension in the loyalist community should not be dismissed as merely working class Prods pissed off that they are not gaining as much benefit cash as their nationalist counterparts.
If these young Turks who are supposedly buying weapons using cash from the sale of drugs decide to implement their agenda, it will make the notorious Glenanne Gang from the 1970s and 1980s seem like a Sunday School picnic.
This gang, which allegedly included members of the British security forces, was blamed for some of the worst sectarian slaughter of the conflict, including the Monaghan and Dublin car bombs which murdered over 30 people.
Speaking to a loyalist close to the leadership of the Young Turks, he chillingly warned: "Older loyalists who would have been in control during the Troubles are coming under pressure from middle class Protestants to get the guns back out again. They don't want to.
"The problem is that these younger loyalists have not the same respect for evangelical clerics as the older generation.
"The Christian faith had a much bigger sway then than Protestantism today, which is more pluralist. There is not the same conscience among a section of the Protestant community about killing."
During the Paisleyite era, a number of loyalist paramilitaries were formed, such as Ulster Protestant Volunteers, Ulster Third Force and Ulster Resistance. Apart from prancing about loyalist roads and streets, they didn't bomb or shoot like their counterparts in the Provos or INLA.
The Christian conscience of 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' always kicked in at some point. The source close to the new loyalist leadership indicated that IRA gunmen and bombers could always seek absolution from priests when they killed.
This could be compared to a scene from the blockbuster 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley', in which a Catholic priest hears the confessions of IRA members before they attack the Tans. No such confession facility exists within the Protestant faith.
I first came across this embryo Protestant jihadist thinking in the 1990s when I interviewed an Orange Chaplain for my masters degree in politics.
Granted anonymity, he said: "The reality of this Protestant 'jihad' is that it should not be bound by Man's laws, especially if those laws are contrary to the inspired Word of God as outlined in Holy Scriptures."
Calling for Stormont to be axed is idiotic. The Assembly is the stop-gap in the dam, which if removed, will unleash the dogs of war from inside the loyalist community.
Attacks on Protestant activists within the Alliance Party demonstrate there is just as much hatred for liberal Protestantism within the ranks of these Young Turks as there is for republicanism and the Irish republic.
One section of these Young Turks favours attacks on dissident republicans; the other wants a Glenanne Gang-style blitz on the South.
The only solution to cool the tempers of the tooled-up young Turks is for Sinn Féin and the DUP to make the Assembly work – and that means making welfare reform work.
August 4, 2015________________
This article appeared in the August 3, 2015 edition of the Irish Daily Star.
From the Archives-A Poem by Finbarr O'Farrell
This poem by Finbarr O'Farrell first appeared in a Workers Party publication in the late 1980′s. Christy Moore, along with many other celebrities,from Ireland and further afield pledged their allegiance to the Irish cause at the time. Moore in particular was vociferous in his support of the "Republican Struggle"-without perhaps pausing to ponder what the human cost was. It may have interfered with his celebruty status.
Pulp: Finbarr O'Farrell


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Blended Learning, Community, Online Courses, Student Engagement, School Community, Technology in Higher Ed
Higher Education Goes Digital, Deepening Student Engagement
The current generation of digitally savvy students have been passively trained by years of social media, e-commerce and online entertainment to expect a high-level user experience in all their digital interactions, with no exception for their educational institutions.
In higher education, there are two categories relevant to digital transformation. The first relates to engagement, where what is known about a student is utilized to deliver relevant communications at the right time, in the right manner. Ideally that can be done across a number of channels, depending on the context, including chatbots, text messages, emails, mobile apps and more. The second category enables the first: a foundation of data where student information—gleaned through website clicks and visits, academic performance tracking as well as other sources—can be used to determine how and when that communication should occur.
A recent Forbes Insights executive brief, "Rising to the Challenge: Digital Transformation and Student Engagement in Higher Education," sponsored by Pitney Bowes, touches on both categories and outlines practical examples of their application to improve the student experience.
Many educational institutions are now turning to customer experience firms to map the student journey and life cycle. That allows them to zero in on the moments when they can support student needs digitally by providing relevant information, and therefore deepen engagement. (Read More...)
Tagged: Student Engagement, Student Success, Online classes, Distance learning
Career Services, Career Counseling, Collaboration, Community, Mentoring, Outcomes, Student Success
The best career advice from this year's graduation speeches
This year's headline-grabbing commencement speeches have been high on thinly veiled critiques of the Trump administration and big on dire warnings about the state of American democracy.
Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson cautioned graduates at Virginia Military Institute about the end of American democracy if Americans don't "confront the crisis of ethics and integrity in our society and among our leaders." Michael Bloomberg talked at Rice University of the threat from "our own willingness to tolerate dishonesty in service of party and in pursuit of power." And 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, raising a Russian ushanka hat as part of a Yale University tradition, said Sunday that "we're living through a full-fledged crisis in our democracy," telling students "to stay vigilant, to neither close our eyes, nor numb our hearts or throw up our hands."
But not all of this year's graduation speeches are quite so political or cautionary. A few — though not many — seemed to remember that they were speaking before a group of people who were about to embark upon life as adults who will have to navigate the politics of the workplace, the complexities of new relationships and the decisions of adult life. (Oprah Winfrey to USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism graduates: "Invest in a quality mattress. Your back will thank you later.")
Here, some of the best advice offered by this year's commencement speakers so far that graduates — or anyone — can apply to their work and careers:
Oprah Winfrey, chair and CEO of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism at the University of Southern California
Winfrey, whose past speeches have drawn speculation that she might be planning a run for president — a rumor she has squashed — got plenty of attention for her calls for graduates to vote in her speech at USC on May 11. But after offering a litany of practical wisdom ("Eat a good breakfast," she said. "Pay your bills on time. Recycle.") she also added some clear advice for graduates' time in the workplace.
"The number one lesson I can offer you where your work is concerned," said the media titan, "is this: Become so skilled, so vigilant, so flat-out fantastic at what you do, that your talent cannot be dismissed."
She also countered the typical "do what you love" advice that fill so many graduation speeches with something else. "You need to know this: Your job is not always going to fulfill you," she said. "There will be some days that you just might be bored. Other days you may not feel like going to work at all. Go anyway, and remember that your job is not who you are. It's just what you are doing on the way to who you will become. With every remedial chore, every boss who takes credit for your ideas — that is going to happen — look for the lessons, because the lessons are always there." (Read More...)
Tagged: Cost of Education, Career Advising, Post-College Jobs, Networking, Community, Mentoring, Women Leaders
Community, Outcomes, Student Engagement, Student Success, Advising
More Frequent, Intensive Advising Cranks up Student Engagement
When Georgia State University added 42 academic advisers, it cost the institution an additional $2 million each year. However, reported Tim Renick, vice president for enrollment management and student success, the investment paid for itself, "because the increased retention rate meant more revenue for the school." Graduation rates there grew by more than 20 percentage points in just over a decade, including among students of color; now Black and Hispanic students graduate at rates comparable to or higher than those of White students.
Georgia State's story features in a new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, as an example worth the attention of two-year schools. "If community colleges want to increase student engagement, one place to start is by examining the foundation of academic advising," said Evelyn Waiwaiole, executive director of the center.
To put data behind the impact of advising on retention and engagement, the center surveyed about 180,000 students at 297 colleges around the country. The survey was issued in paper form in the spring semester during class to students enrolled in randomly selected credit-bearing courses. (A parallel survey was given to 9,577 faculty at 86 colleges.) The final report, "Show Me the Way: The Power of Advising in Community Colleges," found that overall, students who get more time in advising with more in-depth discussions during their advising sessions are more engaged in community college.
Yet, the survey also found that the content of those advising sessions varies widely among students. While a majority of students (62 percent of first-termers and 78 percent of returning students) do meet with an adviser, most of those sessions are focused on figuring out what classes they need to take for their educational goals. While two-thirds (65 percent) also said advisers helped them create academic plans, just over half (53 percent) were also able to discuss their commitments outside of school. And most (65 percent) didn't discuss scheduling for a follow-up advising session. (Read More...)
Tagged: Student Engagement, Student Success, Career Advising, Academic Advising
Blended Learning, Community, Collaboration, Technology in Higher Ed
How Generation Z Is Shaping The Change In Education
By Sieve Kozinsky
Generation Z has officially entered college. And just as the Millennials before them, this generation is disrupting the way learning happens in higher education. But these differences go beyond just a greater dependence on technology. Gen Z-ers tend to embrace social learning environments, where they can be hands-on and directly involved in the learning process. They expect on-demand services that are available at any time and with low barriers to access. And they tend to be more career-focused earlier on in their college careers.
A study done by Barnes and Noble College shows that today's students refuse to be passive learners. They aren't interested in simply showing up for class, sitting through a lecture, and taking notes that they'll memorize for an exam later on. Instead, they expect to be fully engaged and to be a part of the learning process themselves.
In fact, Gen Z students tend to thrive when they are given the opportunity to have a fully immersive educational experience and they even enjoy the challenges of being a part of it. For instance, 51% of surveyed students said they learn best by doing while only 12% said they learn through listening. These same students also mentioned they tend to enjoy class discussions and interactive classroom environments over the traditional dissemination teaching method. (Read More...)
Tagged: Community, Technology, Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Community, Collaboration, Online Courses
Building Community in Online Courses
Authored by Dr. Kathleen Stone, Western Governors University
In November, I presented at the AAACE annual conference on research I completed as part of an Ed.D in Higher Education and Adult Learning. My research explored how adult online students at a small rural community college described a sense of school community when completing online courses. I wanted to understand their perceptions of the presence of a sense of school community and what aspects they felt could contribute to successful completion of online courses. From this small qualitative case study, I found students did not perceive a sense of school community, yet they felt having a greater sense of school community would help them successfully complete online courses. What is school community and why look at this factor when exploring online course completion rates?
A sense of community in an online environment includes two distinct aspects: classroom community and school community. A sense of community in the online classroom has been the focus of much research in distance learning (Childress & Spurgin, 2009; Rovai, Wighting, & Lucking, 2004). However, less attention and research has been given to the culture and climate that makes up a school community in the online environment (Childress & Spurgin, 2009; Rovai, Wighting, & Liu, 2005). School community has two dimensions: social community and learning community. A school's social community involves "spirit, cohesion, trust, safety, trade, interdependence, and a sense of belonging" (Rovai et al., 2004, p. 267). A school's learning community consists of the feelings of learning community members regarding the degree to which they share group norms and values and the extent to which their educational goals and expectations are satisfied by group membership (Rovai et al., 2004, p. 267). (Read More...)
Tagged: Community, Student Engagement, Relationships
Community, Education Policy, Student Engagement, Student Success, Technology in Higher Ed
Unlocking educational silos yields a wealth of data to help students succeed
Authored by Nelson Williams
Silicon Angle
Colleges, universities and other centers of higher education collect a lot of information about their students. That data then disappears into legacy systems and custom applications. Breaking those silos can bring out the real power of that data and enable institutions to take intelligent action to guide students through their educational journey, according to Jeff Ralyea, senior vice president and general manager of cloud at Ellucian Inc.
"Ellucian has a sole focus on higher education. It's really the only industry we serve," Ralyea said, during the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C.
Ralyea spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and John Walls (@JohnWalls21), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE's mobile live-streaming studio, about the importance of unlocking data and using insights. (* Disclosure below.)
Guiding students to data-driven success
Ellucian comes to educational organizations from an enterprise software perspective. It finds its bread and butter in the student systems, although the company does serve other areas. In particular, Ellucian runs systems that help students achieve success. Registration and recruitment make up just two examples for a suite of software that helps drive this outcome, Ralyea explained.
Likewise, unlocking the data in higher education is a really big deal. Systems that have lived on campus for decades hold all sorts of information about students. To tap this well, Ellucian built a platform, Ethos, that uses a new data model that sits above all the original systems. Then, they set this platform to run "role-based analytics" to discover new insights about the students, Ralyea stated. (Read More...)
Tagged: Community, Student Data, Big Data in Education
Community, Collaboration, Non-Profit Organizations
Community engagement and collaborations can strengthen the bottom line of nonprofits
Coming Together from a Place of Strength, Not Weakness
Nonprofits are facing increased pressure to develop new and more efficient ways to deliver on their missions. Thoughtful and unconventional collaborations can strengthen the bottom line of nonprofits while delivering added value to their communities.
Authored by Carrie Fox
In January, Leadership Montgomery, a small but influential nonprofit leadership center in Maryland, unveiled its new strategic plan, complete with a new mission, vision, and way of talking about the organization's community impact.
This shift followed a time of deep reflection for the organization. For nearly 30 years, Leadership Montgomery had brought together private, public, and nonprofit professionals through leadership trainings and service activities that broaden perspectives and build connections for community improvement. But with a new CEO at the helm, it was time for a step back to move forward—to reframe tired language and re-examine the organization's role and relevance within the community.
Leadership Montgomery timed the unveiling of its new strategic plan so that it coincided with the announcement of a major expansion of its programming—via the addition of another small but influential nonprofit called the Corporate Volunteer Council of Montgomery County (CVC). CVC trains businesses on how to build effective volunteer and charitable programs, and it too had been going through a time of reflection; its board wondered how it would or could scale CVC's model to more effectively interlace with the region's business and community leaders.
"The needs of our county have evolved," said Leadership Montgomery's new CEO during the public announcement. "As I've listened to what our members, our graduates, and our partners desire in leadership programming, I've realized without hesitation that with CVC, we can deliver more for those whom we support, and we can pull our community closer together in the process." (Read more...)
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We also know that great teachers, good study habits, and the right environment are important combinations to completing college. Now an associate professor at Dartmouth College, Janice M. McCabe, demonstrates through new research, another vital factor determining a student's academic success that most of us tend to overlook: who they hang out with. "Surveying a range of different kinds of college friendships, Connecting in College details the fascinatingly complex ways students' social and academic lives intertwine and how students attempt to balance the two in their pursuit of straight As, good times, or both."
The book was featured recently in a National Public Radio story titled – How College Friendships May Affect Student Success. It is a useful story that is worth considering from the point of view of college parents and families. The story reminds us to think about how these friendships might affect the path to graduation.
According to NPR, "Her conclusion? "It's important to realize that friends can have academic as well as social benefits." And the type of network you have matters a lot. McCabe found that college students' networks fell into three basic types.
"Tight-knitters" had a single cluster of friends who all knew each other and did seemingly everything together. They often described those friends as like "home" or like "family." Their social network resembles a ball of yarn."
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Prepare for Business School over Summer
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Authored by Delete Smith-Barrow of U.S. News
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The Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University requires students to take preprogram online courses in accounting and statistics. Starting this summer at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, incoming students can participate in a workshop that covers networking and other topics. A number of programs offer similar preparation courses, which can take as little as a few hours or as long as a few days to complete.
Every program has its nuances, but the goal is generally the same: to ready students, many of whom have been out of school for a few years, for a rigorous academic experience.
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Authored by Laura Geller
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Social networks play a positive role in the hiring process. But what can these useful connections tell us about performance on the job? Does the advantage of knowing someone carry over once an individual joins a firm? Adina Sterling has been asking these questions since transitioning from engineer to academic nearly a decade ago. Sterling had spent five years with Procter & Gamble's global baby care and beauty care R&D teams before leaving to pursue a Ph.D. in organization and management. She joined the faculty of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business as an assistant professor in the fall of 2015. Read More...
Tagged: Career Advising, Career Counseling, Professional Networks, Community


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Why Oracle's Cloud Is Not State of the Art Charting Your Future With Oracle
In the latest episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR's Dan Woods spoke with Laird Popkin, who most recently served as CTO of the Hearst Transportation Group, which is a group of B2B companies that provide data and data services related to cars, trucks, and airplanes. Popkin previously worked at Kaplan and also helped to create a company for large-scale peer-to-peer data synchronization called Pando. Their conversation explored two main concepts for CTOs, CEOs, or CIOs trying to reconstruct their data platforms: DevOps and DataOps.
Listen to the podcast or read an edited version of their conversation below:
* 5:35 – How Popkin implemented DevOps successfully
* 15:30 – How to break down silos
* 21:30 – The challenges of DataOps
Woods: If you look at what DevOps has accomplished, there are two levels that you have to talk about. One is the cultural and one is the process level. And the process level was all about taking the separation from the operations team and the separation from the developer team and bringing those together so that you had one team looking from the beginning of the process all the way to the end, and then the part that was all about process focused on automation, streamlining it, and providing new tooling and new levels of automation. The cultural part of it was looking at the whole system from the perspective of the end user and what experience they were having. You would prioritize whatever you were doing to make sure that their end user happiness was optimized. The idea is that the most advanced DevOps situations I've seen is when somebody can press a button and the entire system is rebuilt from the source code repositories all the way to being deployed in production. What do you feel is the right way to define DevOps?
Popkin: I see DevOps as a transformation around culture. And that's supported by a transformation around process and how people work together. All of that is enabled by tooling. The end goal is that you can operate without fear and blame, you can move fast and at low risk. So it's an interesting dynamic, where you can actually get stuff done faster, cheaper, and higher quality, when traditionally the argument is you only have two of those. But if you do it right, there's no magic to it, it's just that if you invest across the whole spectrum, the technology enables better processes, the better processes enables the better culture, and so they accelerate each other. The first business unit I focused on inside Hearst Transportation was a command and control, top down organization, where the technology processes were all very manual. Whenever we did a new version of software, the release process involved manually building stuff, manually copying stuff, manually editing config files, and so on. So every release was very scary and high-risk. Because everything was very fragile and high-risk, they did it very infrequently. You had small numbers of huge, scary releases. Because of the fear, before any release there was a meeting, and if you can picture a bunch of people playing chicken, all looking at each other seeing who would flinch or was the release okay to go out. And so they'd have that meeting and then over the next day, they'd do all the work to get prepped for the release and before that, there was probably a two-week QA cycle. And then afterwards, they would do the release but the release was a big, long manual process and then afterwards they'd spend a day manually testing everything to make sure it still worked afterwards. The whole release process was terrifying and incredibly labor-intensive.
Woods: And infrequent.
Popkin: And very infrequent so the product velocity was vanishingly small because to build a feature was super expensive, to push the feature out was very hard, and so on. I couldn't even say what the release cycle was. By the end, a year later, everything was completely automated with test coverage, for example. And so my success story there was somebody in customer service got a dealer call that the software was acting a little funny in a very old version of IE, the developer was in an open plan space where he was maybe five feet away from the customer service person, he heard that they were talking about a problem and said, "Oh wait, I forgot to test blah blah blah, ancient version of IE in my JavaScript." He was embarrassed, added that to the test coverage scripts, fixed his bug in the software, committed it, which automatically triggered a build, did a Docker deploy to the test environment, ran the test coverage, passed the test coverage and they pushed it out and it was six minutes from the phone call to the fix in production and it wasn't an emergency. Continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevOps enabled that.
Woods: Well, this is exactly what we try to cover on the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast, which is how you make transitions to higher states of operational quality and performance. At a high level, can you talk us through the steps you went through to introduce that, from starting from scratch and then getting to that end state that you just described?
Popkin: So the process I used at that company was that I split the dev team into two teams, track one and track two. And track one kept the current stuff working, bugs fixed, and so on, because you couldn't ignore that completely. And track two was—we actually looked at could we incrementally get there through going from .net X to Y, et cetera, and ended up deciding that it was more efficient to do a ground-up rewrite.
Woods: Did you rewrite the services as well or were those services wrapped inside of and stayed .net?
Popkin: Great question. The application was HTML frontend, C# service side, and the new version was NodeJS service side, Angular frontend. And we rewrote both. And the reason we picked NodeJS and Angular was Angular is super popular and there was a lot of community support for it. But a big part was that way everything's JavaScript everywhere, which meant that I could have developers across the whole stack. So we used MongoDB, which is essentially JavaScript storage, you could think of it that way. No JS on the service side, Angular on the client side, and so therefore any developer could work on the entire stack so I didn't have to have a DBA team, a C# service side team, and a JavaScript client side team. It eliminated all the friction.
Woods: That broke the silos between dev and ops?
Popkin: Yes, exactly. One of the disciplines we had was that I collapsed everything together in a couple of silos. One was there was no such thing as database versus service side versus client side. If an engineer took a story to own, they owned the whole stack, all the way through. And that included tests. I eliminated the QA department because of the handoff. Instead I made all the developers responsible for writing their own test code or pairing up with another developer because it was often healthy to have somebody else write test code, because that way you catch assumptions. That really reduced a lot of the friction. To force the issue, we worked on a weekly sprint cycle so every week was sprint demo, delivery, push to production every week.
Woods: You were basically able to build a bit of the whole pipeline and then a bit of the new software and then eventually the whole software?
Popkin: Exactly, I'm a big believer in a tracer bullet. Rather than working on a little bit of service side code, I picked one use case all the way through database, server, client.
Woods: And then all the tooling that needed support.
Popkin: Yes, which meant automated builds and we used CircleCI, Docker, Amazon's ECS, which is their elastic container service, and these days I would use Kubernetes. We brought in a couple of smart guys to help us get a lot of those decisions made and a lot of that set up. We spent the first couple of weeks getting people to wrap their head around the tech stack and getting automated build working. Most of that heavy lifting was by some smart consultants who were deeply experienced in that arena. But everything was paired. They never went off and did stuff on their own and handed us the results. And with the two teams that I talked about, every week I rotated people back and forth. Nobody was on the maintenance team forever. They might be on a maintenance team for one week and then the next week they'd be on the new code, new product team. What you don't want to have is some guy to think, "Oh, I've been relegated to maintenance mode," and therefore they're doomed. And an interesting thing happened over the course of a couple months of ping-ponging back and forth all the time. Some people loved the new world and some people liked the old world. People sorted themselves out so I ended up having a self-selected maintenance versus new product team based on the engineers' feeling comfortable and picking what they wanted to do.
Woods: If you start thinking about all the goodness of that DevOps, you get the breaking down of the silos, creating one unified team, dramatically increasing automation, thinking about the end result and what's the effect on the end user and using that to prioritize the work that you do. Now we're entering a world in which people are realizing that they have the same sort of problem in these data pipelines that they create and the data pipelines never were designed with your application in mind. It's a messy environment. But there's another aspect to DataOps that I think is important and that is, you've got not only the pipeline but you've also got the fact that what's going through the pipeline is actually valuable information that needs to be governed and protected. And the governance and protection of that also has to be included in the entire DataOps. There's not CircleCI for the DataOps world yet but what you want underneath are components that can be automated and respond to declarative automation so that you don't have to be constantly having 10 DBAs running around changing databases all the time in order to keep up with your stuff. What's your experience of what people are calling DataOps?
Popkin: There are definitely a couple of levels to it. One is that there's the software that's doing the data work, so the data science code that's doing modeling and cluster analysis. But then there's also the data flowing through that platform and so you have to think about both levels. So what's the lifecycle of my data science software, which in my experience, at most companies that's not very mature. I will say that data science can be amazing but it's not consistently in source code control, there's not always versioning. You have this maturity that's been in place for a while and around data science, a lot of times what you end up with is brilliant data scientists have stuff on their computer that they run. And there may be a copy somewhere else that's deployed operationally but a lot of times it'll be just on a box in the data science team that's not really managed operationally in the same way as an external-facing thing. They're sort of a little less managed. And so you need to manage lifecycle around the data science and ETL and so on and code but then there's also the flow of the data through all that code. And that's not something that software development teams usually think about unless you're building something like a content management system. You don't press a button in the DataOps and then you're done. The metaphor is you've got an airplane in flight and you don't get to just stop the airplane and swap the engine. You have to figure out how do you put the new engine in there but leave the old engine running because the data's got to be flowing. In some sense, it's a bit like how do I keep a cluster of 100 servers running when I've got new versions of software getting rolled out and deployed out and how do I keep the versions working together so that my application is running consistently?
Woods: So the challenge of what doing DataOps is doing, namely how do you break the silos, how do you increase automation, how do you get a bunch more people working together, is a much broader problem because there are so many more people and systems involved.
Popkin: In the data world, yes, there are more silos because you've got, for example, data science and/or analytics and they use a completely different set of tools and they view the world completely differently from the operational people. What I see is that the data scientists come up with algorithms, they'll validate them internally, but then they'll hand the algorithms over to a completely different team to re-implement in a different language in order to deploy and operationalize, and there are huge friction costs there.
Woods: Have you run into a situation in which there was a very large data lake or data warehouse, that then had to have a pretty broad and distributed set of governance over it in order to allow people in a controlled manner to get access and inspect data?
Popkin: For sure. One of the real challenges I've run into is that you want to have a data lake for people to noodle around and try stuff easily. Like if you're a data science team or analytics team and you want to get weather data and play around with it in combination with other stuff. That can't turn into a three-month long ETL process. It's got to be super easy because you're just trying ideas around and you want to have an idea on Monday, try it on Tuesday and decide if it's a good idea or bad idea on Tuesday, not put in a queue for an ETL team to do next quarter, right?
But at the same time, if you've got core data that you're delivering to your customers, like what's the valuation of a car that insurance companies can use for determining insurance pricing or the bank's going to use for lease valuations, you really have to have absolute lockdown governance around that data because the business impact of getting that wrong is very high. You have to have a data lake and have it be very fluid for some purposes but have the refined output product absolutely reliable and locked down. You have to be careful to maintain that, and I found it was very helpful to put a lot governance around access control and process but also building QA into the tooling. If a vendor changes their file format or they had a problem operationally or what have you and all of a sudden I'm getting a bunch of zeroes and I should have been getting dollar values, I want to know that in minutes, not because some report looks a little funny two weeks later. Getting that early warning, even though it requires a little bit of effort to build these sort of assertions in, it's not that hard and the value's huge.
Woods: How would you go about doing the same thing with a DataOps environment that you did when you implemented DevOps?
Popkin: It's a lot of the similar concepts—that you want to have continuous integration, automation, for example, if a data scientist tweaks an algorithm and does a commit into source code, that can automatically build, deploy, and run through tests just like application code. Obviously some of the details are different, like you want to have test sample data sets to run on and validation around outputs and that sort of thing. But all the principles around source code control and test validations and automation and release process and so on are very similar. And then again, using things like Lambda certainly makes it a lot easier too because it eliminates a lot of the heavy lifting.
Woods: What advice would you have for people who are thinking about trying to understand what DataOps is and trying to find their own ways to put it to work and see if it works?
Popkin: I'm a big believer in automating everything possible just because the end result is such a friction reducer. Obviously, if I'm noodling around on my laptop, just sort of trying stuff out, I'm not going to worry about automating everything. But once I'm doing kind of a real project, it's worth having some test code, it's worth having automated builds and deploys. Once you've done a couple of them, it's very little extra work. If you do a little testing over obvious stuff that's very, very easy to write, you still catch problems much earlier than if you didn't do that. And then if you can align the data science and the operational environments and tooling, that's a huge friction reducer because I've been at several companies where data science or analytics would work in tools like R and then the operational or the product people would have to go recode it all in Java or C# or something and that could take six months or a year before it actually works. That was super expensive and introduced a lot of bugs and took a long time to work through.
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Author: Dan Woods
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