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Where Does the CIOBy CIOinsight
Roundtable: Defining the Ethical CIO
The Ethical CIO
Recent ethical lapses by trusted leaders in public and private life have dominated the headlines this summer. Rising distrust in the integrity of business, political and religious institutions has contributed to a collapse in consumer confidence and public trust. The technology world has not been immune. New surveys by Gartner show billions were wasted on technology projects that didn't work, failed quality tests or simply weren't needed in the first place. Nike's CEO, Phil Knight, grumbling about a major tech meltdown that caused his company millions in lost profits last year, was quoted as saying, "This is all we got for our $400 million?"
To get a better idea of what the current debate over business world accountability means for CIOs, CIO Insight Executive Editor Marcia Stepanek recently convened a roundtable of seven expertscorporate IT executives who grapple with financial pressures, corporate CFOs who impose them, and IT leadership and ethics experts who see inherent conflicts in the CIO's role between doing the right thing and the push for corporate profitsto discuss the tough choices they face in their daily business lives. Corporate culture is key, they agree, but there was disagreement over how much CIOs shouldor cando to help their firms operate ethically, especially in an economic downturn and in an increasingly global marketplace. What follows is an edited transcript of their remarks.
CIO Insight: What's gone wrong with business today?
|Stuart Robbins Executive director of the CIO Collective, a nonprofit association of CIOs and a managing partner of KMERA Corp.
ROBBINS: Corporations are created to make money. But if that is the No. 1 objective, and all other objectives are secondary to the goal of profit, then you have an implicit and explicit statement that everything else will be subjugated to that higher goal. Later, it's easy to criticize. But we all wanted those higher share prices. I don't think that should be the number-one goal, but that often sets everything else downstream.
|Usha Sekar CEO of CRIA Technologies Inc., a maker of outsourcing management software, former CIO of Fujitsu PC and former IT Director of Compaq Computer Corp.
SEKAR: Speaking as a CEO of a company, making money is the goal, but it is not making money without any constraints. The issue is, do you know those constraints, and do you live within those, or do you choose to flout them? I think the expectation is for the shareholders, the number-one focus for most companies, and that you do not cheat your shareholders. I think that is a kind of high-level expectation. Shareholder value has to be within certain guidelines and parameters, and it is important that those parameters are known. And if you choose to deviate, that must be communicated.
ROBBINS: There are rules. Revenue recognition issues have been around for many years and have been the subject of a great deal of inquiry long before WorldCom and Enron. But it's a constant battle for balance, and IT is very much in the center of things because company technologists need to automate whatever the process is.
|John Burke CFO of New World Business Ventures Group, consultants and advisors for small and medium businesses.
BURKE: There are also a lot of time pressures. If you're financially desperate to make a sale, then people become blinded. Say it's a potential quality issue. You need to be loud and clear. The other issue that's out there is a balance issue; being 90 percent of the way there, is it okay to ship? Maybe being 90 percent of the way there isn't okay. You start to have quality problems with the auto industry, for example. Maybe it saves them a couple of dollars per car. Well, if they've got 15 or 20 deaths over a 10-year life cycle, I'm not sure they've made the right decision there. On the other hand, sometimes getting the products out is the right thing to do.
You always try to do full disclosure for whomever is making the decisions. If you're at a decision point, you need to tell them you have these concerns about a product or a transaction, and it needs to go all the way to the top. That's why the keeper of the ethics in an organization can't just be one person. All of the executives and managers in a company have to have an ethical point of view and be in sync with it.
Safeguarding the Data
Safeguarding the Data
Let's talk about information technology. Do you believe CIOs have a particular obligation in this regard?
SEKAR: I think the issue that CIOs and people in technology face today is how to determine their roles as guardians and keepers of data. What data gets recorded? A lot of the time, actions get recorded, but the policy that drives those actions are hidden from any of the views of most of the people who are in charge of simply looking at the data or guaranteeing it.
|Bart Bolton Former CIO at Digital Equipment Corp., and an IT leadership facilitator for the Society for Information Management and various IT organizations.
BOLTON: Technology gives you a new capability to do something illegal. Go back and look at who's been making the initial profits on the Internet. It has been the pornographers, right? And you better believe that criminal organizations are some of the first users and adopters of this technology. They certainly were with the telegraph. It was about getting the results of the horse race to the guy before the bets were closed. Now, what is wireless going to do to us? What is a GPS system going to do?
ROBBINS: Technology systems, I believe, are mirrors of the organizations and the people who built these systems. Often, we may point to the mirror and say the mirror is the problem. But in the end, we're the ones who need to address the issue because it's essentially a people problem and not a systems problem.
Well, let's say if a CIO, the keeper and distributor of a company's data, notices quite by accident that the data itself is corrupt, or has reason to suspect fraud on the part of the CFO. Does the CIO have an obligation to speak out, or should there be companywide policies drawn up to spell things out?
ROBBINS: One of the big conundrums is the quarterly reporting of financial data. All of us in IT know that a good project takes far longer than three months to roll out. They're often nine-month cycles, they're often 18-month cycles. In fact, product development can take 36 months. How do you gauge accurately the health of a corporation when, in fact, you've got these 90-day cycles and at least for the last month in that cycle, there's a lot of reporting and summarization, and two weeks after the quarter you've got a lot to do? So you lose about half of the quarter just gathering this metric, which I believe is a false metric. But that metric, false or otherwise, has just driven a great deal of policy and adjustment in IT. It causes IT people to focus on a metric that doesn't reflect the health of the corporation and triggers a lot of problems.
|Mike Mccracken President of Tatum CFO Partners LLP, a national partnership of career CFOs that provides CFO services to companies.
McCRACKEN: I think some of this comes down, perhaps, to a redefinition of the CIO's role, a redefinition of who you report to. Where the CIO reports does have a bearing on the ethical aspects of business and who is accountable. If the CIO is, in fact, only expected to be the keeper of the data and is not responsible all the way through the financial reporting aspect of it, then there's a different level of built-in responsibility that's left up to the CFO. Is the CIO reporting through the CFO? Should he or she be? Should you have a check and balance?
A discussion of ethics could become a discussion of internal controls, as they have a very strong bearing on what the financial results will actually be. Is the correct data being accumulated? Who's making the final call as to how it all gets reported and what information is shared?
ROBBINS: Mike, are you saying that if the CIO is reporting to the CFO, there's less of a check and balance than if the IT organization were an independent function?
McCRACKEN: Absolutely.
|Malka Treuhaft CIO of the Centre Group, the insurance-based finance arm of the Worldwide Zurich Financial Services Group.
TREUHAFT: I disagree. I really do not think the question of ethics in an organization should have anything to do with whom you report to. I think that at the end of the day it's about every individual and how honest they are about what they do and what they're asked to do. I mean, I don't care if I report to the chairman, the CFO or the COO, I think that if somebody asks me a question and says, "What are your thoughts on this, what are the final results on that, what are the finances on this," I should be able to come forth with the same result regardless of who that individual is. On the other hand, if there's a discomfort in doing that, then there's an integral problem in the organization because then people don't feel comfortable being honest, and I think that's the true crux of the whole issue.
Where Does the CIO
Where Does the CIO Fit?
Then what, exactly, is the CIO's responsibility within the context of the organization?
BOLTON: I think the CIO has a responsibility to speak up, because he or she represents the use of technology. That's an overall role that they carry, a responsibility. They have got to look and say, "Well, if we adapt this new technology, what openings or opportunities to do wrong things might it have?" That's assuming that the corporation understands what its values and ethics really are.
I mean, when you see it's wrong, you've got to speak up. But that can only happen in a company where it's okay to do that. There are an awful lot of companies where you just tell the emperor his clothes look pretty good. Is that unethical? We see that all the time. That's not just the CIO, by the way. There's a lot of that in the large organization.
|Helen Nissenbaum Ethics professor at New York University and cofounder of the Ethics and Information Technology Journal.
NISSENBAUM: You might, as CIO, sort of throw up your hands and say, "It's not my fault, I'm a hired gun. I'm only doing what I was told to do." But the CIO must also understand how certain technological choices can embed different kinds of value structures. A CIO with integrity should be able to stand up to the CFO and all the other top brass in a company and argue for certain technological choices as opposed to others.
Would it be ethical, then, to stand up to a vendor who is selling bad or buggy software?
ROBBINS: It is unethical to misrepresent your product.
BOLTON: Absolutely.
ROBBINS: And that's the distinction. If the product that is going out, a 1.0 product or a bug-fixed shipment, and you explain very clearly to the customer what they are getting, this is at the heart of revenue recognition, and the customer accepts what they are taking from you, then that's a fair exchange.
I found it fascinating that across industries in the late days before the Y2K rollover, everyone was so forthcoming with customers and partners and suppliers regarding every aspect of flaws because there was no litigation risk and because, in fact, we were being encouraged toward full disclosure. Now, though, we're back to thinking that bugs are only bugs if a customer finds one. During Y2K, we had a real opportunity to become more forthcoming as technologists and as an industry to what technology can and cannot do, but we didn't take that opportunity to continue that frank exchange, and I find that disappointing.
The Spy Game
The Spy Game
In our August 2001 issue, we referred to a poll by TR Cutler Inc. that said 55 percent of manufacturing companies with fewer than 1,000 employees spied on rivals using technology, and of those, 75 percent reported industrial spying for competitive analysis, including using the Web and posing as a potential customer to glean pricing and other data. How far is too far?
ROBBINS: Whether you're snooping on your employees or whether you're snooping on your competitors, how far you will go is a conversation about the culture of that company. And if your company is sick, it's going to go too far.
NISSENBAUM: What's difficult about this privacy problem is that there isn't yet a lot of agreement about what is right and what is wrong. We grew up with a norm that came out of an environment where certain physical monitoring was possible, and now we have technology that enables us to do a lot more. And what many of us said is, "Well, where do we draw the line? Is this right or wrong?" What often happens is that people may abhor certain behaviors out in the world, but then they would say in a business, "Oh, well, yes, it's fine to monitor your employees because, after all, you own the business, you own the property, you own the computers," and so forth. But what if you put video surveillance cameras in the bathroom, is that all right? Suddenly, some people will step back and say, "Well, maybe not, maybe there is a limit." So part of what we have to do is figure out that yes, technology can enable us to do all these things, but what's right? And then we need to figure out how to get people to do the right thing.
BOLTON: One of the things I've witnessed over the last nine years of doing IT leadership training is that there are some people who, after they finish nine months in the program, turn around and leave their companies. It's because, for the first time, they understood what their own personal values are, and they realize they don't mesh with the company they work for. And so I'm taken by this subject of ethics. I think it comes down to two people working together, whether it's you or a vendor, say, over a question over lousy software. Are the two parties trustworthy?
You take the word trust and you have different levels of that. I may trust you with loaning you a buck, but I may not loan you my car, and I probably won't give you a blank check. And then you can get into questions such as, is it all right to take company property home? Well, if it's a paper clip or a piece of paper, it may be okay. Well, can I walk off with a PC? Maybe not. And there are questions of what I should do on the job. Should I try to tap into a rival's wireless network if I have the opportunity to do so? Ethics is a subject of gray areas, and of choices.
Is there an ethical standard here?
BOLTON: I don't think there is one. I think it is a variant of one's individual personal values, and those values are set in growing up and the environment we live in. If you look at the personal values in the U.S., they're all over the map, but if you take some kind of a generalization of what they might be in the U.S. and then go to some other countries, the values are quite different. Simple things like bribery are quite acceptable in certain countries, but not here.
TREUHAFT: The entire topic of ethics, to me, is very removed from whether you're a CIO or not. There have been noted examples of people in companies who are stealing each other's customers, pulling information from each other, so on and so forth, but it goes down to the basics. If that's something you feel comfortable as a person doing, then it doesn't matter how many rules and regulations and policies and enforcement and security items you put in place in the companyif a person feels comfortable doing that, they're going to do that.
I strongly believe that the conversation and topic of ethics goes beyond IT, and it is a core, intrinsic characteristic that people have or don't have. And I believe that there's a lot of education that has to be in this area overall. Just based on the fact that I speak my mind and don't, you know, get pushed around on things that I believe are right, I have seen things change.
NISSENBAUM: Perhaps there are good people out there and evil people who weren't trained properly and so on. But I still want to come back to the notion that we're very lucky when we deal with people who are going to be ethical because that's the way they've been raised. Still, though, there are two things to think about. One is there are hard ethical problems, and even if you have the best intentions in the world, you may wind up doing the wrong thing. And there we need training, we need discussions like this one to continue because I think with the privacy cases, it's a hard new problem that society is facing, and we don't actually know the answers yet.
There are very few ethical theories that demand that people sacrifice themselves, to perform what are known as acts of supererogation. You've got ethical duties, but few people expect you to lose your life in order to save someone else. Heroes do that, but it's not everyone's ethical duty to do that. So the culture of the organization makes a difference because if the culture is bad, then it requires the individual to be a hero simply to do the right thing. You can't expect everybody to be a whistle-blower. If you have culture in an organization that requires someone to be a whistle-blower just to do the right thing, then your organization is sick.
The problem, I think, is that we live in a business culture that says if you're ethical, you're a chump, that you have to go for your own self-interest at all costs. And if being ethical is in your own self-interest, yeah, sure, go for it. Do it as a sales pitch. It's a good marketing tool. But if it doesn't improve your lot as a business, then being ethical is stupid.
TREUHAFT: I agree. Those decisions have to be made at a business level across the company, like what kind of privacy issues you want to have and enforce within your company. It's not necessarily on the shoulders of the CIO to say one way or the other. It's the CIO's role to enforce that policy and to perhaps bring up the options of what they can put on the table and then to communicate that down throughout the hierarchy.
McCRACKEN: I echo what you're saying. None of us would say that we are not ethical people, however you define it. But I think that this whole notion gets into the expectation of the user who is actually going to rely on whatever information is sent out eventually by an organization. And is it ethically created and distributed, frankly, from the investor's standpoint?
I'm hearing some disagreements. Some of you think ethics is a purely personal matter; others say a company's leadership needs to create an ethical culture that would, in turn guide and inform one's ethical behavior on the job. Some say it's the CIO's job to speak up; others say it's the job of the top brass. Who's right?
BOLTON: I think ethics needs to be the responsibility of the CIO, as technology changes and can impact the way we do business or the way we make decisions or the way we deal with other people. I think it is the CIO's responsibility to educate others on the impact of a particular technology. If you go back and look at before we even had the Internet, if you go back and look at central processing versus distributed processing and what would it mean, why all of a sudden there were a lot of people into the business who weren't there before
TREUHAFT: I agree with you 100 percent that the CIO and the people in IT have to participate. But I just keep hearing in this conversation that you have to make tough decisions and that you might find yourself in a situation where you might make the wrong ethical move even if you're a very straight person. And I have to tell you, we've all had to make very hard decisions in our careers and we've all been in situations where everything wasn't 100 percent black and white. But if you're naturally a person who's going to agree to do the right thing and be honest about it, then you tend to move in the right direction. That's what I have found.
BOLTON: Look at a company that operates under unethical standards, and I'd be willing to bet they've never had a discussion of what their values as an organization are. And I think that is the responsibility of the leadership of those organizations, including the CIO, considering that the CIO is one of the leadersand not just because he or she is the CIO. Companies that are ethical, I would bet, have a firm understanding from the top through most of the organization of what the organizational values of that enterprise are. They are very explicit, they understand them, they spend a lot of time talking about them, they educate people, especially new employees, and it gets reinforced by all of the C'sCEOs, CFOs, CIOs, all of them.
SEKAR: I think that technology is not going to generate or drive ethical behavior, and that CIOs can only help a company monitor and review actions to see if they're ethical or not.
CIOs and Outsourcing
CIOs and Outsourcing
What about companies to which work is being outsourced? What's the role of the CIO within the context of the extended enterpriseand can contract language help?
SEKAR: Mostly, it's a data tracking challenge. You can't simply impose cultural and behavioral norms only through contracts, because they're driven at the highest level of the organization. The people who execute the contracts are, typically, people at the lowest levels. It becomes, therefore, incumbent on IT to make those who execute contracts aware, day-to- day, of any changes in contracts or customer demands and expectations. IT has a role in that it can help a company monitor and track behaviors of partners, vendors and outsourcers, so the company knows if rules are being followed. Information, delivered in real time, gives people a chance to take action if that is their choice.
But not everything is on an intuitive level. For example, we had this huge restructuring charge that we took, and then we did a whole bunch of projects under restructuring. But there were a lot of issues because people were charging things to restructuring that did not really belong to restructuring. IT projects, for example, that supported the restructuring were okay. IT projects that did not support restructuring should not have been includedbut some were.
It became an issue of communicating clearly what is a restructuring charge and what should not be a restructuring charge, what capital can be brought under IT and what cannot. And once we were able to communicate that, it became a lot easierbut because communication was manual for quite a whilesome accountability got lost. The issue with WorldCom was an issue, I believe, of capital and expense reporting. WorldCom made a policy change. Was that policy change communicated and was it approved?
BURKE: I agree that all the executives in a business have to be responsible for the ethics in the business, but the CIO has an additional responsibility because technology governs so much of how we do things and what we can actually do. He or she needs to be cognizant of what the organization's ethical goals are and how technology impacts that and can help to maintain those standards.
Society, Ethics and Technology
By Morton Winston and Ralph Edelbach
Wadsworth Publishing, 2000
The Principles of Information Ethics
By Richard W. Severson
M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1997
Computers, Ethics & Social Values
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Prentice Hall Inc., 1995
Ethical Decision Making and Information Technology
By Ernest A. Kallman and John P. Grillo
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He said that in view of the growing number of infected elderly people and the rising death toll it was almost certain that further measures would have to be taken in the coming days.
The prime minister said the health ministry would have to trace and test people faster, but noted that no government could win the battle against the coronavirus without public support, solidarity and cooperation.
"I can make no promises, since I have no idea how this pandemic will evolve, the only light at the end of the tunnel is a vaccine," Mr. Babiš concluded.
Weather forecast10/25/2020
Monday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between 9 and 13 degrees Celsius.
Letnany field hospital ready to take in patients10/25/2020
The army has finished work on a field hospital in Letnany on the outskirts of Prague.
The field hospital, with a capacity of 500 beds, was designed to treat less acute cases and patients on their way to recovery so that other hospitals can focus on serious cases of Covid infection and essential care.
According to Health Minister Roman Prymula the hospital will start taking in patients when hospitals around the country reach their capacity limit, which is likely to happen around November 10.
Health minister: coronavirus measures may have to be tightened early next week10/25/2020
Heath Minister Roman Prymula has warned that if the number of infected continues to grow at the start of next week, indicating that the current measures are not working, it will be essential to take the restrictions further.
Speaking on Czech Television, Mr. Prymula said that the decisive data would be that released on Tuesday morning and he or his successor would have to take respective action.
He said one possibility was to order employers to put staff on home office, since many people were still going to work daily, compared to the situation in the spring when employers introduced home office of their own volition.
Health minister says he is ready to resign as soon as successor is found10/25/2020
Health Minister Roman Prymula says he is ready to resign as soon as there is a successor for the post.
Speaking on Czech Television, Mr. Prymula said he felt he had done no wrong in attending a private meeting in a closed restaurant, but did not want the affair to be misused by those denying the severity of the epidemic.
He said he would offer his successor whatever assistance was needed and wanted to remain part of the team fighting the virus.
He denied having any political ambitions and said the coronavirus epidemic in the Czech Republic had become a political issue ahead of next year's parliamentary elections.
Euro: company owned by health minister's daughter received subsidy for sanitizers10/25/2020
The Medimun company, which is controlled by the daughter of Health Minister Roman Prymula, received a subsidy of more than 650,000 crowns from the Business and Innovation for Competitiveness Operational Program in August this year, according to the Euro.cz news site .
The money was reportedly intended to buy technology for the production of sanitizers.
Euro.cz writes that up until that time the company suffered losses and showed little activity.
Neither the health minister nor his daughter have commented on the matter.
Coronavirus numbers hit new weekend record10/25/2020
The Czech Republic registered 12,472 new Covid-19 infections on Saturday, a record weekend figure.
154,000 people are currently fighting the infection, and the death toll now stands at 2077.
Over 5,300 people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, 772 of them in a serious condition.
Prime Minister Andrej Babis has called on the nation to pull together to overcome the crisis, adding that the state of emergency which was put in place for a month will have to be extended due to the severity of the epidemic.
He called on employers to allow home office wherever possible.
Czech coronavirus death toll in past week second highest in the world10/25/2020
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the Czech Republic has doubled in the past two weeks, according to Czech Health Ministry data.
While on October 10 the country registered 1014 deaths per 100,000 people on March 24 it was 2047.
Figures for the past week place the Czech Republic second in the world, after Andorra, in the number of corona-related deaths per capita, the New York Times writes.
The number of overall deaths since the start of the pandemic in March rank the Czech Republic 46th in the number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
Weather forecast10/24/2020
Sunday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 13 and 17 degrees Celsius.
Brussels assesses compliance with recommendations in EU audit on Babiš10/24/2020
Brussels has sent Prague a new assessment pertaining to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš's possible conflict of interest.
According to the news site Neovlivní.cz, the European Commission remains convinced that this is so, despite Czech officials'attempts to refute that claim.
The current report now assesses the Czech Republic's compliance with the recommendations made and whether they are sufficient, according to a source familiar with the document Neovlivni writes.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution in June saying it is inadmissible for the Czech prime minister to partake in decisions on EU funds, while continuing to exert control over the multi-billion crown Agrofert conglomerate he founded, despite having placed it into trust funds.
It concluded that the only solution is for the prime minister to sell his business interests, stop receiving any public subsidies including EU funds, or step down from office.
The Czech prime minister maintains that he has no conflict of interest and fully complies with the Czech conflict of interest law.


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Investors Give More Money to Asian Hedge Funds
In 2013, hedge-fund assets are expected to increase 11%, according to one estimate. Deutsche Bank's Harvey Twomey talks to the WSJ's Jake Lee about why investors are looking to Asia when they invest with hedge funds.
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A lot of superhero comic books operate on the principle that their readers will identify passionately with freaky misfits—which won't be a surprise if you've been to any comic-book conventions. In the pages of these comics, the bizarre abilities that get you jeered in straight society make you a hero—someone with the power to save the world that shuns you. Nowhere is this theme more explicit than in Marvel's X-Men comics, which take off from the idea that evolution has produced a class of special people. They might be telepaths or shape-shifters; they might raise storms or punch holes through things with their eyes. But they've all embraced the label "mutants," which is like gays embracing the label "queers." And like gay people, they're fighting for their right to be who they are instead of being forced to blend in. If the mutants in this universe are lucky, they get whisked away at an early age by Professor Xavier. He takes them to his mutant academy, where they learn to use their powers responsibly—and where they can bask in the glow of mutant fellowship. Say it loud: Mutant and Proud.
The first X-Men (1999), directed by Bryan Singer, was surprisingly decent. It was a shade stodgy in spots—it didn't have the grand-opera charge of the first Batman (1989). But it was rooted in that agony of other-ness, and it had gravitas. The bigger fight, it turned out, was not against the humans but the lunatic fringe of the mutant class—against Magneto (Ian McKellen), the most powerful mutant of all, and his sidekick, a slinky metamorph called Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos). These two were tired of being mistreated by humans; they wanted to dominate them, maybe even wipe them out. It fell to Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and his band of raging moderates to keep Magneto in line, and their triumph atop the Statue of Liberty implied that humans and mutants might one day happily coexist: Give us your poor, your weird, your fire-hurling, your life-sucking …
The X-Men are back in the busier, funnier, and more involving sequel X2: X-Men United (20th Century Fox)—in which the perils of being an outsider are even more dire. The big new baddie is not a mutant: He's a military guy named Stryker, who's like a fanatical Cold Warrior. Played by the great Scottish actor Brian Cox, Stryker wants to wipe out the mutant race. He already has Magneto as a prisoner in a fantastic, no-metal cage (a walking supermagnet has a way with metal), and his sights are set on Professor X and the mutant kids in the academy. He also has a working model of the professor's planetariumlike machine called Cerebro, which can put Xavier in telepathic touch with every living creature on the planet: You can see how this could be turned into a weapon of mass mutant destruction.
Things are no happier for the mutants on the domestic-drama front. Hugh Jackman's sideburned Wolverine, with his retractable adamantium talons, is still peering balefully into his fog-shrouded past. Anna Paquin's tremulous Rogue, the post-pubescent mutant who kisses the boys and inadvertently sucks the life out of them, has an earnest would-be lover in the frost-bearing Iceman (Shawn Ashmore)—but how do they do it? In the film's wittiest and most suggestive scene, Iceman "comes out" as a mutant to his mutantphobic family: His parents question his choices ("Have you tried not being a mutant?") and take turns blaming each other while his little brother calls the police.
The movie has a spectacular new wild card in Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), a blue-skinned German teleporter with hooves, pointy ears, and stigmata. Before he joins the X-Men and begins to pose religious questions about the higher purpose of mutants, he launches a tornadolike attack on the White House, materializing and dematerializing in a cackling dervish blur. It's too bad that not all the returning mutants are as lively. Cyclops (James Marsden), who's on the dull side of a romantic triangle, has become a stick-in-the-mud while those sleek hottie mutants, Storm (Halle Berry) and the disappointingly no-cool-nicknamed Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), have new 'dos (platinum blond and red, respectively) but not, alas, new personalities.
What makes the architecture of X2 so much more fascinating than that of its predecessor is that Xavier's and Magneto's teams are on the same side now. But is the enemy of my enemy my friend? That's one of the movie's big teases. You get a clue which way it's heading from a scene in which Magneto meets one of X's students, who's played by the hero of last year's Tadpole, Aaron Stanford. Unlike the more temperate mutants, this teenage fire-wielder—known as Pyro—is just a little too in love with his power to singe. The other junior X-Men, Rogue and Iceman, are always having to muzzle his anti-human impulses, but Magneto purrs that the lad is a "god among insects."
McKellen plays Magneto as royally bored, the major questions of his existence having long been settled. In the movie's most elegant action scene, he insouciantly pulls the iron out of the blood of a hapless guard, then sails imperiously out of his cell on something like an iron carpet. The bit is even more glorious than Hannibal Lecter's escape in Silence of the Lambs (1991)—and McKellen's Magneto actually fits my conception of Lecter more than Anthony Hopkins does. He and Romijn-Stamos' polymorphous (and perverse) Mystique make a marvelous tag team: She gets a charge out of turning into women and men, and Lord knows what he's into. They're a much more likable pair than Stewart, who somehow seems more priggish here than as Jean-Luc Picard, and his dull sidekick, Jean.
Singer, who directed The Usual Suspects (1995), packs a mean comic-book frame, but he's not a comic-book director: The tone is stately, deliberate, "adult." He makes major strides in the action scenes, but he's still a little cerebral for my taste. There's a terrific kung-fu-with-talons fight between Wolverine and a new, improved adamantium-infused mutant played by Kelly Hu, but it doesn't have a rabble-rousing "button." And the big Cerebro climax doesn't end with the oomph! you'd get from a more vulgar thriller director. But the movie is in a different league from the standard Hollywood comic-book blockbuster. It's never as simple as good versus evil: The three male titans—X, Magneto, and Stryker—are each convinced his way is right, and Singer turns the movie into an epic chess match. Only here the knights shoot lightning bolts, and the queens raise storms.
My chief complaint is that these mutants are a little—well, vanilla. I wish the X-Men had a touch of kinkiness to go with their weird abilities. As it stands, they're like Eagle Scouts with merit badges in telekinesis and energy-sucking and flash-freezing. I guess that's the difference between comic books and hundred-million-dollar movies, which are pitched at the mainstream straights. The real deviants we save for indie movies and late-night cable.


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DOVER — A public hearing will take place tonight for county commissioners to present the proposed $54,800,198 operating budget for calendar year 2013 to members of the Strafford County Delegation.
The budget is an increase of 2.462 percent over the current 2012 operating budget; however, commissioners said during a recent meeting they are comfortable that the figure still comes in under tax caps for both Dover and Rochester.
On Tuesday, Commissioner Chairman George Maglaras said this is once again a "no frills" budget from the county with no big surprises included.
"We've brought the budget in under Dover's and Rochester's tax cap, which was important to do," he said.
The budget includes properly funding the county attorney's office, an office thought to be vulnerable to losing experienced attorneys to private practice, other counties or the defense bar. Salaries in that office have gone unaddressed over recent years and funding in the budget is intended to resolve that issue.
Restored funding for the supervised family visitation program, a long-running program that was cut from the budget in 2010, is also included in the proposed budget, as is a tentative agreement with union-represented employees and an equivalent agreement with non-union represented employees.
The family visitation program will be at no cost to taxpayers as it will be 100 percent offset by grant revenues sought through judges, service providers, and county prosecutors who applied for a federal grant to "replicate and expand" the program.
Maglaras said while there have been a few requests from residents for copies of the budget, things have been pretty quiet surrounding the document.
"We'll wait and see what the public has to say," he said.
The hearing will begin at 7 p.m. in courtroom 2 at the Strafford County Complex on County Farm Road.
A snow date for the hearing is scheduled is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 6 at the same time.


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Morenci city council heard plenty of response to a proposed rebuild of two parking lots, and few very of them supported the project.
Facing a Feb. 22 deadline for submission of an application for grant money, council will meet in another special session at 8 a.m. Thursday to make a final decision about the proposal.
Scott Merillat of Associated Engineers reviewed five proposals with various parking layouts. Each call for additional curbing and each include small concrete "islands" for shrubs, trees or other plantings.
Merillat expressed concerns about the narrow width of Baker and Orchard streets. Police chief Larry Weeks also talked about safety issues on the narrow streets and wondered if one-way traffic would be needed if the streets were curbed but not widened.
Mayor Keith Pennington noted that if the city obtained the grant, 80 percent of each dollar spent would come through the grant. This, he said, might make encourage council to overcome some obstacles, such as widening Baker Street.
He said his main concern for the rebuild would be to create traffic patterns that are safe for both drivers and pedestrians.
"I want everybody to be thinking that there are solutions beyond what's here now," he said.
Concerns were expressed about reducing the area of the parking lot that the fire department uses for training and maintenance; about the closure of a private drive north of city hall; about the difficulty for trucks to make deliveries at the back doors of businesses; about the addition of sidewalks behind businesses;
About a plan to have parking spaces up against the back of businesses; about the difficulty of maintaining green areas; about the lack of parking spaces for election days; about green space along the back of businesses; about trees and shrubs blocking vision for drivers; about the possibility of people throwing trash inside the proposed Dumpster containment areas, and other concerns.
Concern about snow removal was mentioned, but city superintendent Barney Vanderpool responded by saying that his crew could work around anything.
Planning commission member Brenda Spiess was one of few people in the audience of 25 people who appreciated the open spaces and addition of greenery to the parking area.
"If we're going to attract new businesses to Morenci and keep our downtown vibrant, aesthetics are very important," she said. "Right now, this is an eyesore out here and it could be welcoming."
Colleen Leddy suggested starting with the assumption that it's important to incorporate beautification and then work toward making it happen.
Jacob Barnes, the city's zoning administrator, also agreed that greenery is an important aspect for attracting businesses and customers.
Mayor Pennington thanked the audience for their attendance.
"You have raised very valid concerns," he said, but added that he doesn't want to allow the funding opportunity to pass by.
"We've never seen this kind of grant before," he said.
City administrator/clerk Renée Schroeder said it's very rare to find a grant opportunity that would address parking areas.


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It does, technically. It's packed away and turned into the "password", "verify", and "login" commands, just modified for ease of use due to the nature of the server code being built directly into the game.
also, I should note that DoomSeeker also allows you to add custom crawl websites. I wonder if you could use it to crawl mb.srb2.org ...
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I would like to highly recommend a site for wadseeker and recommend for users that use Doomseeker to spread the word of it as soon as possible.
For the past few months I've been taking a lot of interest in Megaman 8-bit Deathmatch, a Zandronum mod that is usually said alongside SRB2 as "Doom mods" by random silly Youtubers. This mod uses Doomseeker highly as it's the only way to get access to the mod's servers. The most common form of hosting servers in MM8BDM, is TSPG Painkiller. This site is a repository for doom mods and has recently been getting double the activity as it has came back up after taking down their servers and moving to Canada from the U.S. Long story short, 8BDM players use this site to not only upload mods on there, but to make fully dedicated servers through TSPG's IRC channel on Zandronum's community IRC.
I could ask if SRB2 could also get support on this (especially since the TSPG mods are easily contactable I hear), but I don't think it might work, period. However, the wad repository is my main point. I highly wish that as many people, modders, and users as possible, to start uploading SRB2 content on allfearthesentinel via this part of the site:
http://allfearthesentinel.net/upload (NOTE: You will need to make an account in order to do this by the way, and if there is a wad that you would not like to have on there, you need to request to ban this mod from the site so wadseeker can't find it at all.)
I really want to spread this as far as I, and any other modders can throughout SRB2 to start using this site and recommending Doomseeker as much as possible, with this, accessing the master server will be easier than ever, and more importantly this can weaken the issue of downloading mods in SRB2, especially for my case, since hosting mods that I can't submit to submissions, but have everyone play publicly, is just... impossible to get traction on (while I have recently started using goo.gl links in my server names, they haven't given a lot of traction that I wish I could get hosting stuff like this.), especially so that even hosting mods no matter what the size on the MB, can prevent newcomers from being discouraged that they don't really know where to download them. Also, it'd be nice this is used more often so my shitty internet doesn't get eaten by random users downloading Boss Mayhem while we're in Egg Gauntlet.
People have to manually add that site tho, because SRB2 does not support custom urls for servers to redirect clients to, a repository of every wad uploaded to the MB would work better IMO.
EDIT : To elaborate on this, allfearthesentinel is used exclusively by servers hosted on TSPG because Zandronum allows servers to specify custom repository urls to redirect clients to them to download files required before joining, and doom.dogsoft.net has been down for maintenance for like 3 weeks now, If SRB2 gets the abilitiy to specify custom repository urls and gets it's own repository for every wad uploaded to the MB, maybe we can use it on Doomseeker and not worry about having to waste lot of time searching for a single addon.
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I'm also talking a repository for unreleasable mods as well, I can't tell you how frustrating it is to get people to download Port Pack Remastered: a 100MB+ mod via server download or designated links in the server name.
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Apple on Monday updated the MacBook Air with Intel's fouth generation Core processors, code named Haswell. Macworld Lab has the new MacBook Air and the results are interesting, to say the least--the 2012 and 2013 13-inch models received the same overall system performance score in Speedmark 8, but individual tests tell a different story.
There are four standard models of the MacBook Air, but all four share many of the same internal parts. Each MacBook Air comes with a 1.3GHz dual-core fourth generation Core i5 processor, capable of reaching speeds of 2.6GHz using Turbo Boost. Not mentioned in the marketing materials is that Hyper-Threading is supported on these i5 processors, allowing multi-threaded applications to address four virtual processing cores on these dual core systems. All of the standard MacBook Airs ship with 4GB of 1600MHz LPDDR memory and use Intel's new HD Graphics 5000 integrated graphics.
As you'd expect, the new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs' performance was practically identical. Just one Speedmark point separated the 13-inch and 11-inch models and the individual test results between them were similarly similar.
The new 11-inch MacBook Air was 9 percent faster overall than last year's 11-inch 1.7GHz Core i5 Ivy Bridge model. The individual application tests (listed at the end of this story) show that many results were very close, with seven tests (including Photoshop and Aperture) within 3 percent of each other. The biggest differences were in graphics and storage tests. The Intel HD Graphics 5000 in the new system pushed 24 percent more frames per second in Cinebench's Open GL test and produced an 8 percent higher frame rate in Portal 2. The faster flash storage in the new MacBook Air lived up to the hype, transferring 6GB of files and folders 51 percent faster than last year's Air. We ran Black Magic's Disk Speed Test on the two systems and found the read speeds for the new 11-inch model were 667.7 MBps, versus 141.1 MBps on the 2012 11-inch Air's 64GB of flash storage. Write speeds on the new 11-inch model hit 726.8 MBps, compared to 393.7 MBps on the 2012 Air.
Comparing the 13-inch models, the new 1.3GHz Core i5 Haswell model and last year's 1.8GHz Ivy Bridge model got identical overall Speedmark scores, but that belies the true back and forth battle that the individual test results show. The older system was faster in eight of the 15 tests, including our iMovie export, which was 34 percent faster on the older 13-inch. The new 13-inch model was faster in seven of the tests, with 30 percent faster frame rates in Cinebench's Open GL test and a 28 percent faster file copy result.
Matching up the new 13-inch MacBook Air with the current 13-inch 2.6GHz core i5 dual core Ivy Bridge Retina MacBook Pro, the Pro earned a 14 percent faster Speedmark score. In the individual application tests, the Retina MacBook Pro was faster across the board--with the exception of graphics and storage speeds. The new 13-inch MacBook Air's Intel HD Graphics 5000 was 31 percent faster in the Cinebench OpenGL test and 14 percent faster in Portal 2 than the Intel Graphics 4000 in the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The new Air was also 24 percent faster in our file copy test.


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CBS Sports Network's Critically Acclaimed All-Female Weekly Sports Show
"We Need to Talk" to Air on Saturday, Dec. 27 on CBS at 1:00 PM, ET
CBS Sports' critically acclaimed all-female weekly sports show, WE NEED TO TALK, will air a year-end special on the CBS Television Network on Saturday, Dec. 27 (1:00 PM, ET). CBS Sports made television history with WE NEED TO TALK when it launched in September on CBS Sports Network. The year-end special will mark the broadcast debut of the show.
"The launch of WE NEED TO TALK was a very proud moment for CBS Sports," said David Berson, President, CBS Sports. "We could not be more pleased with the quality of the show and the hard work of all the women in front of and behind the camera. The response to the show has been extremely positive, and we are excited to showcase the year-end special of WE NEED TO TALK to a broader audience."
Each week, WE NEED TO TALK features a rotating panel of esteemed women panelists from within the CBS Corporation and beyond sharing their knowledge, opinions and unique perspectives, discussing all the hot topics and the latest news from across the sports landscape.
The WE NEED TO TALK team is comprised of members of CBS Sports' deep roster of talented female journalists, including Lesley Visser, Amy Trask, Tracy Wolfson, Dana Jacobson and Allie LaForce, combined with some of the most prominent women in the sports world, including Andrea Kremer, Laila Ali, Lisa Leslie, Dara Torres, Swin Cash, Summer Sanders and Katrina Adams.
WE NEED TO TALK is led by Emmy Award-winning Coordinating Producers Emilie Deutsch and Suzanne Smith, the only woman currently producing or directing NFL games. Amy Salmanson and Julie Keryc produce with Smith directing.


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New exhibitions to open at Crystal Bridges Museum
Institution makes major acquisition
Two temporary exhibitions will open concurrently at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on Saturday. Both focus on light as a source of inspiration for works of art and architecture.
"See the Light: The Luminist Tradition in American Art" traces the importance of light for American artists from the 19th century through today.
The exhibition also features a major new acquisition to Crystal Bridges' permanent collection. "Moshe Safdie: The Path to Crystal Bridges" showcases the masterful use of light in architectural design by Crystal Bridges architect Moshe Safdie.
There is no fee to view the exhibits and no advance tickets are required.
Members of the museum will get to see the unveiling of a new acquisition on Friday.
The painting, "No. 210/No. 211 (Orange)" by Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, has been in a private collection since the 1960s and has previously been exhibited publicly only twice.
"This is a masterful painting," said Crystal Bridges Executive Director Don Bacigalupi. "The palette of colors is remarkably vibrant and intense. The work absolutely radiates and draws you into it."
The painting will be on display to the public on Saturday.
Get more information about the museum by clicking here.


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Meyler chased down George Boyd's long ball to grab his side's second goal moments after captain Curtis Davies had given the hosts a 68th-minute lead.
And the former Black Cats midfielder celebrated by pretending to head-butt the corner flag in a tongue-in-cheek reference to his controversial clash with Newcastle boss Alan Pardew last week.
Bruce said: "In the way he has conducted and handled himself this week David has been a model for me.
"David took it on the chin and accepted the apology
He didn't roll on the floor and he didn't go and bleat in the newspapers.
"He's had two horrible injuries and he's a former Sunderland player
He's chased something you would not expect him to get to but his determination and attitude has made him a firm favourite here."
Bruce's men confirmed their last four Wembley clash with Sheffield United when Matty Fryatt capitalised on an horrendous back-pass blunder by Lee Cattermole to net the Tigers' third goal in the 75th minute.
Bruce added: "Managers, coaches and players come and go but the people you have got to be happy for is the supporters
It is quite remarkable that 1930 is the last time we were in a semi-final.
"I've said all along that it's sad that the FA Cup has lost a bit of the magic for whatever reason, but when you reach this stage it becomes exciting."
Bruce, who began his managerial career with an abridged spell at the Bramall Lane in 1998, added: "Sheffield United gave me my chance in management a long, long time ago.
"I'm delighted for everyone
I've seen the scenes at Bramall Lane today and now we've got a big Yorkshire derby to look forward to at Wembley, which will be a magnificent occasion for everyone."
Sunderland boss Gus Poyet said he had no excuses after witnessing a dismal performance from his side just one week after their battling Capital One Cup defeat to Manchester City at Wembley.
Poyet made six changes to his starting line-up and watched the Black Cats struggle to create any chances of note before Hull's late burst saw them sink without trace.
Poyet said: "We didn't create enough but I'm not going to try to find any excuses.
"The players who played today were not good enough and that is simple - in the 50-50s, in the diving, in dealing with the referee when he panicked for 10 minutes - in not recovering well and not creating one chance."
But Poyet refused to pin any blame on Cattermole who was arguably at fault in the move which led to Meyler's second even before his back-pass howler.
Poyet added: "If you hide and you're not in the game and do nothing to take a risk, then for sure you're not going to make any (mistakes).
"That's the bad side of football - the ones that take responsibility and the ones that care, they are the ones who are in the position to make the mistakes - that's football."
Source : PA
Source: PA