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Procter & Gamble CIO Javier Polit, a rare appointment from outside P&G, is retooling the consumer goods giant’s innovation.
From securing IoT to retraining IT talent to finding new revenue streams, CIOs have more than their share of concerns keeping them up at night.
CIOs need to be more well-rounded than simply wearing the mantle of "logical" or "creative." They should be good at both, but also dedicated to developing a comprehensive innovation agenda.
AXA XL is using artificial intelligence software to help reduce its risk consultants' workload, the latest example of an enterprise adopting software that can help it do more with less.
As you explore the art of the possible around the lazy economy, here are three implications and recommendations for senior IT leaders.
Companies are increasingly looking to IT to develop new products and services. Here’s how to transform your IT organization into an innovation engine.
Tech teams need to lose the grunt work, go on a dev diet, and exercise more strategic thinking.
Blockchain is helping the supermarket chain track the provenance of its food products, but knowing your supply chain inside out is the key to making the most of the technology.
CIOs looking to leverage service providers for disruptive solutions must change how they select, contract with, and manage those partners.
Innovation remains one of the key drivers of digital transformation, but today's initiatives may be smaller and more targeted.
Multi-cloud strategies targeted at driving innovation, complemented by containers, Kubernetes and serverless computing, lead the cloud computing trends for 2019.
A majority of California voters support the national health overhaul law, even though only a quarter of them expect the law to personally benefit themselves or their families, according to a Field Poll released today.
The poll, considered the first major state-level survey on the issue, found that 52 percent of respondents support the new health law compared with 38 percent who said they oppose it.
Those results show Californians are generally more supportive of the health law compared with the country as a whole. In a national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation last month, 41 percent said they held favorable views of the law while 44 percent had a negative opinion of the health law. Fourteen percent were und...
"California is a blue state and it has a high rate of uninsurance. It's not completely surprising but pleasantly surprising to see that's reflected in a poll of Californians about what their support is for the bill," said Gerald Kominski, associate director for the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. "This same pol...
The Field Poll interviewed 1,522 registered voters by phone between April 7 and April 27. The survey's margin of error is plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo said California's Democratic majority combined with the state's ethnic diversity tilts the balance in support of the new law. White non-Hispanics were evenly divided about the new law, but the state's major ethnic subgroups supported it 2-1, he said.
There's also a clear division between partly lines with 73 percent of Democrats expressing support and 74 percent of Republicans saying they're opposed to the law.
Despite the overall support, only 25 percent said they expected their own health care or that of their family to be better off as a result of the new law. They identified low-income people, the uninsured, children and young adults as those most likely to benefit from the law.
Some 69 percent feared their taxes will increase and 51 percent said they expected to pay more for health care, the poll found.
Some 40 percent of those surveyed described themselves as not very knowledgeable about the details of the new law. People of Chinese, Korean and Latino descent reported lower levels of knowledge about the law than other ethnic groups.
Carmela Castellano-Garcia, chief executive officer of the California Primary Care Association, acknowledged the new law is complicated and still requires additional regulations to clarify it.
"Given the ethnic diversity of the clientele serviced by community health clinics, we think it's really important we play a role in educating our own patient population about the benefits of health reform coming down the line," she said.
The poll can be found at www.field.com/fieldpollonline.
"I have always been in some kind of IT," the 78-year-old said during an interview with CRN. "Ever since 1966, when I went to work for Bank of America. It's been an interesting career."
Strohl's son, Matt General, currently Entisys360's CTO, was named COO and will take over financial operations for the company. Her stepson, Michael Strohl, is CEO.
"She has made many significant contributions to our success, not the least of which is overseeing the finances as we built Entisys360 into the company it is today," Michael Strohl said in a statement. "She leaves Entisys360 with a tremendous legacy and some very big shoes to fill, and we wish her all the best in her re...
Elizabeth Strohl's father nurtured in her a love of math when she was a child, and she graduated with a degree in social science and a minor in math from San Francisco State University in the 1960s.
"I've always been good at math and I’ve always enjoyed it, but I had very little guidance about what to do with my interest," she said.
After her friend recommended computer programming, she signed up for a course at San Jose State College. In the class she learned Fortran, got good grades and was offered jobs at PacBell and Bank of America. She chose Bank of America.
"We called it systems and equipment research," she said. "That was the name of the department. The term 'IT' was nowhere around. I was in applications development. There was also a group called system programming. All of those things fall under current-day IT."
The bank had one of the first IBM 360 computers, she said. She and the other programmers were developing applications for stock transfers, on-demand deposit accounting, savings accounts, business accounting and payroll.
"We would go talk to the users," she said. "We would develop code. We would handwrite code. We would then send our coding sheets to keypunch operators, who would keypunch it. In those days, the computer resources were so rare that it was frequently a week before we got a turnaround of our first run of our code."
Strohl said there were fewer leadership opportunities for women back then, so much so that Bank of America was forced by a court order in the 1970s to open up more management positions to females.
"I was a second-level manager and I was quickly promoted to vice president, probably in 1975, or 1976, and so I was a vice president for six years and then I was promoted to senior vice president," she said. "It happened at a time when Bank of America was really trying to promote women. Now there are a lot of women sen...
However, in the technology field itself, whether at Bank of America in the 1960s and 1970s, or other companies she later worked for, including Visa and Citibank, she said there was always a strong female presence. Beginning in the 1960s, at least half of the workforce in technology was comprised of women, she said.
"I think there’s some discussion that, yes, it was clerical. You were coding. It was not deemed to be a career field for men," she said. "Something happened that changed things in the '80s and I'm not sure what it was. I'm also very involved with AAUW [the American Association of University Women] and the topic of wome...
By 1988, Strohl, was busy working two jobs, as a full-time consultant and then on the weekends she did the books for Entisys Solutions. In the 1990s, the company started reselling Citrix Systems. She then worked full-time at the family business, which was eventually renamed Entisys360 in April 2016.
"Through the years, we've grown and grown and now we’re over a $100 million company," she said. "I think we were fortunate to be an early adopter of the Citrix platform and followed on with VMware. It wasn't until later that we started selling a lot of hardware. We are still selling hardware and doing a lot of consulti...
In retirement, she hopes to encourage young women to stay involved in math and science, like her father encouraged her.
"My current focus is talking to parents of preteen girls. If they're interested in any of the STEM subjects, they should encourage them to follow that," she said. "They may have loved math or science in grammar school, they start maturing and they just totally get turned off. I'm not sure of the reason why, but they ne...
Strohl said she still loves to tinker with programming and used Microsoft Access to write business apps a few years ago to help in her CFO role.
"Those first three years I spent coding and doing business analysis were probably the most fun part of my career," she said. "I don't know why I like things like that, but I do. It's solving different problems and getting computers to make things happen at a much faster speed than human beings can do it. I love math. I...
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1. What's in the Tefillin?
There are many laws and requirements regarding the making of tefillin, and it takes many years of training to qualify the scribes and craftsmen who make them. What follows is a basic description.
A set includes two tefillin—one for the head and one for the arm. Each consists of three main components: the scrolls, the box, and the strap.
In the arm tefillin, the four passages are written on a single scroll. In the head tefillin, they're on four separate scrolls.
The scrolls are inserted into boxes made of leather that has been painstakingly pressed into the tefillin's perfectly smooth planes and precise geometrical shape, and painted black.
The upper part of the tefillin box is a perfect cube; the lower part is a flatter box that is wider than the upper part. On one side, the lower part extends further than the other sides and has a slit through which the tefillin strap is threaded.
The hand tefillin has one large compartment, in which a single scroll inscribed with the four portions is inserted. The head tefillin has four compartments, for its four scrolls, and has a raised Hebrew letter shin on each side.
The straps are made of leather painted black on one side. They are threaded through the lower part of the boxes and knotted.
The head tefillin has a large, fixed loop to fit the head. The hand tefillin has a smaller, adjustable loop to tie on the upper arm.
A brief treatise on the significance of this important Mitzvah, including some basic laws, prayers and diagrams.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Food and Drug Administration is endorsing the use of a safety device for bottles of children's medicines that contain liquid acetaminophen or Tylenol. The device is already on many, though not all, of those products.
The little plastic device called a flow restrictor fits into the neck of a medicine bottle. Video from the Centers for Disease Control shows how it can prevent poisoning in children. With the device in place, only six percent of children were able to empty a bottle when the safety cap was not locked.
"It prevents liquid pouring directly out of the bottle. Generally, you would need to use something like a syringe in order to pull the medicine out of the bottle," said Dr. Adam Algren, a poison specialist at Children's Mercy Hospital.
In 2011, manufacturers started putting the devices in bottles of liquid medicine containing acetaminophen to prevent poisonings that can result in liver failure and death. Now, the FDA is finally endorsing that use, but not mandating it.
"It has a potential to make a difference. But again, there are lot of different products out there, so unless this becomes a standard across all products, there are certainly going to continue to be accidental overdoses," said Dr. Algren.
He adds that flow restrictors should be looked at for other liquid medicines, too, not just those containing acetaminophen.
Parents should be aware that some flow restrictors work better than others. Consumer Reports found the type of restrictor found in store brands from Dollar General and Family Dollar performed better than the flow restrictor on Tylenol products.
Dr. Algren says to prevent poisonings, take these other steps: Keep the childproof cap secure. Keep the medicine locked up. Teach your children that medicine is not candy.
Inside The Mind Of A Financial Criminal : Planet Money On today's Planet Money, we get the inside scoop on the Crazy Eddie scam of the 70's and 80's from Sam Antar, Crazy Eddie's CFO.
A Crazy Eddie stock certificate: evidence in one of the largest securities fraud of all time.
Before Bernie Madoff, there was the Antar family. In the seventies and eighties, the family ran a popular electronics chain, Crazy Eddie, which was known for its frenetic commercials and low prices. The business was crooked from the start, but the fraud got more serious when the family took the company public in the 19...
Today one of the masterminds of the fraud, Eddie's cousin Sam Antar, explains how they did it and why it worked for so long. Antar now lectures about white collar fraud and says it's a brutal crime.
Bonus: Crazy Eddie wants you to beat the heat.
Download the podcast; or subscribe. Intro music: LL Cool J's "I Can't Live Without My Radio." Find us: Twitter/ Facebook/ Flickr.
Remember, that's not Crazy Eddie. It's radio announcer Jerry Carroll, who had no part in the scam.
Seniors are set to get a raise!
RICHMOND, Va - Recently the Social Security Administration announced a 2.8% raise starting in 2019 for those receiving benefits. Today financial expert JB Bryan joined us live in the studio to talk about what that means for seniors and if its enough.
By Brendan O'Reilly - posted Friday, 25 November 2016 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
Last week the NSW Government announced new measures to protect Aboriginal languages. In the context of seeking to preserve part of Australia's threatened native culture, the measures superficially come across as a potentially great idea.
According to its Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Leslie Williams, NSW will become the first state in Australia to introduce landmark legislation to protect traditional Aboriginal languages and establish an Aboriginal Languages Centre to support community-led revival efforts. The NSW Government will develop a bill that...
"Aboriginal people have told us language is indivisible from their identity and we have listened – the cultural inheritance of our Aboriginal communities is too precious to be lost," Mrs Williams said. "Two hundred years ago there were 35 Aboriginal languages and about 100 dialects spoken. Today, all Aboriginal languag...
All the rhetoric on this subject coming from the Minister hides that the NSW Government's new measures amount in reality to little more than a load of pious platitudes and unrealistic twaddle. Worse still, because the rhetoric actually denies reality, it may actually divert policy away from areas, where progress could ...
What is wrong with all this rhetoric is that, firstly, you can't legislate the revival of a language so that the proposed legislation will make not one iota of difference. Lack of legal protection is not a material contributor to the continuing decline of Aboriginal languages in NSW in the twenty-first century. Secondl...
The experts tell usthat (historically) the biggest problem in protecting Australian Aboriginal languages was that there were so many of them (and lots of dialects), each spoken by a relatively small number of geographically isolated communities. Of the Indigenous languages that existed in the 20th century, nearly all a...
According to the New York Times, of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say that nearly half are in danger of extinction and are likely to disappear in this century. Indigenous tongues are being overwhelmed by the dominant language at school, in the marketplace and on television. Research...
In Australia additional causes of Indigenous language decline include that, in all but remote areas, the great majority of Aboriginal people are marrying a non-Aboriginal partner, which is not conducive to a native language being spoken in the home. In remote areas the prevalence of social problems in many communities ...
It should be a matter of broad concern that, in Australia, we risk losing (as a living tongue) all our remaining native languages. Given the billions the Government spends (with limited effect in many cases) on Aboriginal affairs, a good case can be made for making a greater effort to preserve Indigenous languages. Geo...
Assistant Professor Jesse Miller is leading the charge in creating classes that bring students’ learning to the next level by taking students outside the classroom. He found that incorporating experiential learning into his course “Communication Literacy for Business” worked perfectly, even though it was his first time...
Jesse’s goal was to teach students how to write with a purpose and to communicate effectively and efficiently. But simply showing them how to write a business letter wasn’t going to cut it; he wanted students to actually do something with their writing. “I approached [some] organizations and asked them if they had some...
For the culminating project, the students presented their proposals to representatives of the organizations; the organizations then selected the best proposals and provided feedback. This collaboration also facilitated relationships between the students and the organizations, with one student even being hired to work o...
Jesse will be teaching this course again in the spring and will bring the success of this model to future classrooms and students. To find out how you can bring the success of experiential learning to your classroom, go to http://www.buffalo.edu/eln/faculty/funding.html to learn more or to apply for course infusion fun...
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It's a hangover remedy. It's a Christmas-season family tradition. It's a breakfast soup. It's a giveaway on where your family comes from—red or white. It can also be an acquired taste, so if you're going to try the tripe and hominy soup best to try it at Tania's 33. The Barrio Hollywood restaurant makes delicious food ...
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From the start, then, Rudd defined himself as a revolutionary, a leader of the SDS “Action/Faction,” that was devoted to smashing the state, to overturning the government and even to defeating liberal enemies like “peace candidates” Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy. Columbia’s then-Vice President David Truman call...
After the Columbia strike, when seeking to up the ante, Rudd and his comrades transformed SDS into the group first known as The Weathermen, and later, as The Weather Underground. Unlike his comrade Bill Ayers, who is both unrepentant and who distorts and lies about the Weathermen’s goals and activities, Rudd is reflect...
Back then, Rudd, Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn favored “the necessity for violence in order to end the war and also to make revolution.” They were fighting “a revolutionary war from within the United States,” Rudd explains. When successful, the Weathermen would then build a new revolutionary army staffed by young...
To achieve these ends they adopted “armed struggle,” as the only way to achieve their revolutionary goals. Instead of a loose organization of campus chapters, they now built a “highly centralized, clandestine revolutionary party,” modeled, Rudd admits, on the strategy and organization of the Communists. A showdown came...
Their goal was to build “the American arm of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.” Rudd led events like the Chicago “Days of Rage,” in which hard-line Weather cadre fought the police. Rudd would recruit others saying, “The pigs have to be wiped out. We’re going to fight violence with violence and wipe out Ch...
Their attempts at guerrilla warfare ended with the 1970 New York City town house bombing, which Rudd and Ayers and Dohrn all approved. Rudd is honest about its intent, emphasizing how the bomb they built was meant to kill hundreds of GIs and their dates at a Fort Dix dance. It was, he now knows, a “fantasy of revolutio...
Rudd went into exile, slowly became disillusioned, turned himself in and surfaced publicly in 1977. He ends the book with the 2008 SDS reunion at Columbia University. Seeing his old comrades he finds himself still a man of the Left. Even while facing up to the delusions of his revolutionary youth, he still believes the...
Despite Rudd’s failure to re-evaluate his left-wing politics, he shatters the romantic myth of the Weather Underground, exposing them as a dangerous group committed to terrorism.
Paul Walker was awarded his Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt at his memorial service.
It’s been less than two weeks since actor Paul Walker died in a horrific car accident that claimed his life along with another friend who was driving the Porsche Carrera at the time of the crash.
Walker was a beloved figure with all of his co-stars and friends from in and around Hollywood, as well as some good friends he made in the mixed martial arts community as an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and huge fan of the UFC.
When he passed away, Walker was already a brown belt studying under instructor and mentor Ricardo ‘Franjinha’ Miller at the Paragon Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy in California. Following the news of his tragic death, Miller decided to honor Walker’s memory by giving the actor his black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu posthum...

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