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In the free-wheeling world of social media, where people chat in nano-seconds, finding your authentic voice is a challenge. Learn how to you engage with your chosen tribe.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) assistant commissioner, Tim Morris, has moved to allay fears the government’s metadata reforms will involve around-the-clock surveillance of citizens.
7 global trends for public sector managers to create high-profile digital programs and anticipate citizens' needs.
Success lies in starting small with your big data projects.
Professional networks worldwide are being led by a growing demand for mobile communications, as more businesses, consumers and industries leverage anywhere, anytime connectivity.
Australia and New Zealand’s digital narrative is moving from the sidelines to centre stage. Digital disruption will impact all levels of government, finance, manufacturing, retail or education, says analyst Gartner.
You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
Top Fortune 500 companies have limitations in their technology choices that must be adhered to, and Ajax has brought needed functionality to Web applications that are now replacing legacy Visual Basic applications, and doing it while being compatible across operating systems. Using Firefox to run Web applications inter...
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CIO.com: What is the one thing you would tell a CIO who is considering scripting languages?
Dice: Scripting languages are the expanding frontier of programmer productivity and they are the first technologies to expand into whatever new niches appear in IT. They're the best way to future-proof your efforts without sacrificing new opportunities.
Of all the scripting languages, Perl offers the biggest installed base of applications, of code, of integrated systems, of skilled programmers. It has the lowest defect rate of any open-source software product. It is ported to essentially every hardware architecture and operating systems, from embedded control systems ...
Looking for more on Perl? Start here: You Used Perl to Write WHAT?!
Hobbs: First and foremost, scripting (dynamic) languages are here to stay. Dynamic languages better support an adaptive/iterative development model, and so are of increasing importance in the fast changing IT landscape of the early 21st century. They provide an excellent complement and often a better outright replaceme...
Holden: Don't discount scripting languages in general or Python in particular because of a lack of explicit typing or assumptions of poor performance. Requiring the declaration of types only catches a minor set of potential bugs that are easily discovered by typical unit testing. As for performance, Python might just s...
And on the off-chance something is not fast enough, you have the option to go back and rewriting it in C/C++ (or in Java or any .Net language if you use Jython or IronPython) as needed, allowing you to still benefit from Python's high level of productivity.
Scripting languages in general and Python in particular can offer massive increases in productivity with little or no negative effects on eventual system performance. Where performance gains are required extensions can be crafted in compiled languages if necessary.
To get started with Python technically, see You Used Python to Write What?! by Martin Aspelli, and Python Upgrades Readied for 2008.
Lam: Dynamic languages offer better productivity in many cases. Future programs will be written using a mix of static and dynamic typed languages. Use each language where it is best suited: dynamic languages to define DSLs, and static languages where you want to leverage the power of a strong type system for things lik...
For more on Ruby's technical plusses-and-minusses, see You Used Ruby to Write What?! by Zed Shaw and Hal Fulton's Why Ruby on Rails Succeeded.
Pall: Dynamic languages improve productivity and reduce complexity leading to simpler less error-prone solutions. PHP has a large, helpful, intelligent community that offers a mature product, without too many surprises.
Also see: PHP's Enterprise Strengths and Weaknesses.
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TOTTENHAM midfielder Dele Alli plays the holding role with his girlfriend in Ibiza - after his team's title hopes hit the rocks.
The England star, 21, embraced lingerie model Ruby Mae, 22, during a break in Spain with teammates Michel Vorm and Kieran Trippier.
They took their away trip hours after Spurs’ defeat to London rivals West Ham on Friday night.
Dele’s sizzling form this season has seen him scoop a second PFA Young Player of the Year Award.
Organizing a group-bought gift for someone special can be a gigantic hassle. Enter Shareagift–which leverages social networking, online payments, and gift-suggestion algorithms–to sweeten the whole deal.
The system is, as many great ideas often are, essentially very simple at its core. By taking the collaborative gift-buying system online–as a generic model so you can select any gift, and form a group of whatever size you want–Shareagift is trying to take much of the pain out of the process. Instead of crafting individ...
There’s even a touch of gamification because the gift total progress is shown as a growing pie chart, with a list of which invitees have already contributed, and invitees can upload photos and messages to the site–ostensibly to act as a heartfelt journal which can be given to the gift recipient along with the gift, but...
Founder Justine Angelli (also CEO of Absolute Technology Portfolio, a venture capital incubator) spoke to Fast Company about the launch: “The site pretty much does as it says on the box: It’s a website that lets groups of friends or acquaintances buy gifts together.” According to Angelli, it’s the “only site of its kin...
The system is viral by nature, because once a gift organizer uploads their contact list from an email provider, Shareagift organizes it, allowing you to simply tick the relevant recipients, who then learn of the service and the gift opportunity at the same time. Plus, unlike other group-pooling funding systems (like Ki...
ARSENAL and Manchester United face an increasingly uphill battle to land Atletico Madrid's highly-rated midfielder Koke.
The 21-year-old schemer has been a mainstay of the team this season for Atleti, who have received plaudits for their excellent performances in La Liga and the Champions League.
Manchester United have been credited with having the strongest interest in Koke, who has been dubbed the 'next Xavi'.
More significantly, United's current crop of midfielders have failed to hit the heights so far this season, with David Moyes ready to make reinforcements in that department in January.
And reports surfacing in Spain suggest that Pep Guardiola is an admirer of the 21-year-old and is keen to bring him to the Allianz Arena.
However, it is thought Bayern are currently unwilling to meet Koke's £16 million release clause.
Bayern are already well covered on the midfield front, so it will be intriguing to see whether they do step up their interest come January.
Dr. Alip together with Dr. Dolores M. Torres, senior management adviser of CARD Bank, Flordeliza L. Sarmiento, managing director of CARD MRI, and some management committee members of CARD MRI with CARD Bank and CARD MBA staff in Iloilo on January 16, 2019.
SAN PABLO CITY – A total of 3,175 scholarship slots will be provided by the four major institutions of CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI) namely CARD, Inc., CARD Bank, CARD MRI Rizal Bank, and CARD SME Bank, to its microfinance clients and their dependents this academic year 2019-2020.
Microfinance clients of these institutions who are at least three years in membership until May 2019 with 100% repayment rate and 90% attendance rate during weekly center meetings may have themselves or their children take the national qualifying exam on February 9, 2019. The scholarship slots are also available for th...
“Education is one the social development efforts CARD MRI values for more than three decades now. With access to education, our fight to end extreme poverty in the Philippines would be made possible,” said Flordeliza L. Sarmiento, managing director of CARD MRI.
Prior to taking the exam, an accomplished application form must be filled out, which can be secured in any CARD offices nationwide. The exam will run for one hour only. Designated testing areas are already posted in CARD’s respective offices nationwide.
CARD MRI has scholarship slots for high school, senior high school, and college. The senior high school slots, however, are only allotted for students who will enroll at CARD-MRI Development Institute (CMDI) in Bay, Laguna and Tagum, Davao davao del Norte campuses. All the slots are open for the children of CARD client...
Qualified high school scholars will receive P3,000 yearly, senior high school scholars at CMDI will receive P17,500 per year, while college scholars will receive P12,000 per year. Every scholar will receive a financial support for maximum of four years.
The One Family, One Graduate program was launched by CARD MRI in 2016 to ensure that for every family the CARD major institutions serve at least one will graduate from college.
In 2015, CARD MRI through its then training center the CARD-MRI Development Institute (CMDI), was granted by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to operate as secondary and tertiary institution.
CMDI established campuses in Tagum City, Davao del Norte and Bay, Laguna to provide quality education to deserving students. High School and Senior High School scholars are encouraged to enroll I the two campuses as more scholarship opportunities for college education from CARD MRI await them in the college.
“We are planning to open more campuses in the coming years to accommodate more students and promote microfinance and development-related courses,” said Sarmiento.
As of December 2018, CARD MRI has supported 12,465 scholars nationwide where 4,816 already graduated in college.
The pace of movement toward a new East-West arms agreement quickened from crawl to trot over the past week. What had seemed only possible now seems virtually certain. Moscow was still denying when we went to press that Mikhail Gorbachev will come to New York in September, but it will no longer be surprising if he does.
Add to the above that United States President Ronald Reagan made a speech on East-West relations on Wednesday in which he did not once call the Soviet Union an ``evil empire'' or ``the source of all evil'' in the world.
The President said we would have to continue to judge the Soviet Union ``as it has been and as it is, not by what we would hope it to be.'' It was the friendliest speech Mr. Reagan has yet delivered about the Soviets.
The quickening of movement toward an agreement on arms control came in two parts. In West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl agreed, under certain conditions, to waive modernization of Bonn's 72 aging Pershing 1A intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
In Washington, the White House sliced back its proposals for verification procedures under the proposed new treaty which would eliminate worldwide all intermediate-range nuclear missiles belonging to both superpowers.
Both the Pershing 1A's and the verification issue have been stumbling blocks to arms control.
The Soviets had wanted to include West German missiles in their negotiations with the US. The West Germans had objected to having other people bargain away their defenses.
The old Pershing 1A's will become obsolete unless modernized. By giving up the rights to modernization, Dr. Kohl has taken a long step toward clearing away this issue as a hurdle.
The idea of putting tough verification provisions into any treaty always seemed a good one in Washington, so long as no agreement was on the horizon.
But by last week, Washington had realized that while it would love to have American inspectors roaming through Soviet factories on short notice, it would not like to have an equal number of Soviet inspectors doing the same thing at American arms factories.
So now the US is proposing the kind of verification it is willing to tolerate at home, which means much reduced rights of inspection.
In other words, the maneuvering over the arms control treaty has reached the point where both sides are discarding unacceptable demands and falling back on nearer-to-final positions.
This marks the homestretch part of the arms-control process.
Of course it could be blocked again by something as serious as the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, which spoiled SALT II when that treaty had been signed but not yet ratified. In this case, it seems quite unlikely that Soviet leader Gorbachev is going to allow anything like that to happen again.
More plausible now is that the arms control treaty will lead into a general relaxation in East-West relations.
Are the Soviets thinking in that direction?
A hint that they are came in nine full pages of promotion advertising by the Soviet government in the Wall Street Journal. Moscow was certainly inviting American business and industry to begin thinking about possible investment opportunities in the Soviet Union.
This need not be surprising. The Soviets have obviously noticed as well as anyone else that China has been making long strides toward becoming a more modern economic society by entering into joint ventures with Western business and industry.
There is little reason to doubt that Mr. Gorbachev himself has come to realize that unless Moscow regains earlier relations with the West, the time might come when China would be more advanced than the Soviet Union.
It is obvious that he is consciously wooing both Western Europe and the US.
How far this will go depends, of course, on what price he is willing to pay for a general reconciliation with the Western world.
A new grandmother catches a glimpse of what parenting looks like today.
I recently cleared my calendar for nearly a month, deleting it all: work, meetings, appointments, dinners, movies, and even workouts at the gym. It felt at once liberating and luxurious, and a little bit scary. I had done this a few times before, twice for much longer times when our sons were born and once for a sad, o...
This would be a happy time. Our son and daughter-in-law had arranged to bring their first-born across the country for two separate two-week visits. They would both have work; could I take care of Jack? "He's really active for a one-year-old!" warned our son. "You forget I raised you and your brother at the same time," ...
Grandparental leave, I thought, and I leapt at the chance.
My desires and feelings about the way I should raise children and be a mother suddenly seemed to place me at sharp, and unnecessary, odds with the women's movement, whose campaigns to offer women the chance for stronger and more independent lives were, along with the civil rights movements, the most important social de...
A torrent of response followed. The mailman delivered bins and bins of typed or handwritten heartfelt letters, an image that now rings as quaint compared with the barrage of easy, instant digital responses. I was embraced or vilified, quietly and publicly, more or less equally, by both sides.
Time marches along, but witness the response to recent articles around the theme of "Can women have it all?" The topic fans a firestorm. In fundamental ways, the debates are familiar: women, work, children, dads, time, balance. But it also seems to me that the emphasis has changed. It used to focus more on "What does t...
Much now said and done, I do not regret a moment I spent raising our children. Not a moment. Well, OK, there was a learning curve and there were those times; I have sometimes regretted missing a professional career with a clean trajectory and recognized milestones. Instead, I cobbled together an eclectic (and interesti...
So, that history established, you can imagine that I was very interested to time-travel and try out modern life with children. Here's what I learned, in three parts: the sociologically interesting, the surprising, and the highly improved.
Dads. I should have seen this one coming. There was no missing the appearance of more young dads with kids at the playgrounds, in the grocery stores, on mid-day outings, or the announcements of paternal leave and dads' support groups over the last generation. But old habits die hard, and when I was laying in supplies f...
My first reaction was: a misstep by me. My second reaction was: He's a good dad. Later, I even indulged the idea that maybe something about our sons' own upbringing had rubbed off on them. My husband, a writer, has primarily worked from home. He saw, heard, and, to a much greater degree than most fathers of our generat...
Language. One of the things I love about my academic training in linguistics is that knowing about language often pops up as something useful or revealing. Here's what took me by surprise in this case as I strolled around our neighborhood: Moms and babysitters and nannies, who used to push strollers in pairs and chat b...
I don't want to make too much of this; after all, how much of babies' or small children's time is spent in the company of an adult who is in phantom conversation? Nonetheless, it is something to notice. One way of taking a walk with a baby is akin to turning on the TV or background music—it provides relief for the care...
Technology. A quick catalogue of support, gear, and technology for daily life with kids. Please try to remember or imagine the day without the riches of Internet, recording systems, DVD players, or videos-on-demand (although there was a balcony level crying room for babies-and-parents at our local theater, which has si...
The accumulation of changes is staggering. I found that once I had mastered the array of snaps, levers, buttons, straps, and assembly routines, the total effect made for a much easier and more versatile texture of everyday life with children. My personal favorite is improved diaper effectiveness. I can imagine how digi...
Two final lessons learned. The first was trivial but fun: I didn't need to worry about missing the gym classes. Tending a one-year-old is a total-body workout and bonus weight-loss program. It builds strong biceps and quads, and it melts away 2 pounds per week. Guaranteed.
The second was delightful: Occasionally in life, the chance to experience something essential and exquisite comes along. For me, this time with Jack was one of them. Time stopped and everything else was eclipsed.
Deborah Fallows is a Fellow at New America. She is the author of Dreaming in Chinese and co-author with James Fallows of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America.
NAIROBI, Kenya – An Associated Press investigation has found mounting evidence that many ordinary cops in Kenya are killing unarmed terror suspects, shakedown victims and even children — spreading fear, breeding corruption and complicating efforts to deal with terrorism.
Although death squads have long been known to operate in Kenya, more than a dozen interviews with victims, police, lawyers, activists and analysts suggest a big share of the violence is also being carried out by ordinary beat cops. Evidence examined by AP suggests they are almost never punished.
"The broader picture here is one of utter impunity," said Leslie Lefkow, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Africa Division. She said she fears that extrajudicial killings will only worsen.
Dry bulk stocks gain ground Tuesday as shipping rates strengthen following a prolonged period of declines.
Diana Shipping has been broadcasting its bearish outlook to any who will listen; here's a look into how that outlook has influenced Diana's business strategy, from the company president himself.
Diana Shipping is a dull company, relative to its peers in the dry-bulk ocean transport business. And that's a good thing.
Shipping company executives -- including many of the Dry Bulk ilk -- used their annual New York conference to commiserate, and hunt for funding.
Dry Bulk stocks jump on optimism stirred up by surprising gains in durable-goods orders.
A conference in New York this week brings together an A-list crowd of shipping company execs -- and the bankers who hope to sell them.
Dry bulk shares fall sharply on indications that recent optimism of a rebound is perhaps unfounded, including a drop in shipping futures and commodities prices.

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