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BANGKOK: Thailand's junta-picked national assembly on Thursday chose coup leader General Prayut Chan-O-Cha as prime minister in a one-horse race that entrenched the military's hold on power.
Prayut, who ousted an elected government in a bloodless coup on May 22, was backed by 191 members of the 197-strong assembly, with three abstentions and three voters absent.
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His appointment must be approved by King Bhumibol Adulyadej although royal endorsement is seen as a formality.
The move by the top general to shed his uniform and take the premiership is seen as cementing the military's control of the politically turbulent nation.
The junta has ruled out holding new elections before around October 2015, despite appeals from the United States and the European Union for a return to democracy.
Prayut, who is due to retire as army chief in September, is seen as a staunch opponent of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose overthrow in an earlier coup in 2006 triggered Thailand's long-running political crisis.
Thaksin, the elder brother of Yingluck, fled Thailand in 2008 to avoid prison for a corruption conviction.
The army rulers say they want to reform Thailand to end years of political turbulence and street violence, but critics see the takeover as an attempt to wipe out Thaksin's influence.
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1. Yesterday, protests were held across the globe in solidarity with Russian LGBT activists.
The protests were organized by the gay rights organization All Out. "Today's success is just the beginning. The movement has gone global and I am thrilled to see governments around the world pledge to take our message of love directly to president Putin at the G20 meetings this week." said Andre Banks, Executive Director of All Out.
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CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) fornisce soluzioni e software di gestione informatica che aiutano i propri clienti a gestire e garantire ambienti IT complessi per sostenere l'agilità aziendale delle società informatiche. I clienti di CA Technologies sono organizzazioni che sfruttano il suo software e le sue soluzioni SaaS per accellerare l'innovazione, trasformare le infrastrutture e garantire la sicurezza dei dati e delle identità, dai data center al cloud. Per ulteriori informazioni, visitare CA Technologies sul sito www.ca.com.
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|November 1, 2013 05:45 PM EDT
Mobile apps for the enterprise can offer significant value on their own, but when integrated together into a network (network centric operations) with many other applications, the IoT (internet of things) and other data collection technologies, this network of applications can offer exponentially greater visibility and value to an organization. The challenge is to understand how to use this plethora of data for the purpose of good operational decision-making. Modern military strategies offer some useful insights for us.
USAF Colonel John Boyd is credited with the concept of the OODA loop. The OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide and Act) is a concept originally applied to combat operation processes. Today it is also applied to commercial operations and learning processes where significant value has been realized.
According to Boyd, decision making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe=>orient=>decide=>act. An entity (whether an individual or an organization) that can process this decision making cycle quickly, observing and reacting to unfolding events more rapidly than an opponent, can thereby "get inside" a competitor's decision cycle and gain the advantage.
In the business world, OODA loop is an emerging concept for making decisions and managing fast changing field services, projects and mobile operations. Today the ability to observe events from afar benefits from mobile technologies and connected devices such as:
- Wireless networks
- IoT
- Mobile data collection solutions (mobile inspection forms, barcode scanners, RFID, GPS, etc.)
- Mobile field services applications
- Mobile business intelligence applications
- Enterprise asset management solutions
- Plant maintenance systems
- Mobile CRM
- GPS location tracking technologies
- etc.
Mobile data collection and the IoT supply the data that enables a field services or plant manager to observe from afar.
The next step in the OODA loop is orientation. The manager needs to be oriented as to what the data means, and how it impacts the mission.
Decide - now that you have the necessary data and you understand what it means, you must make a good data-driven-decision.
Act - take action without delay based upon all the data you have received, its business meaning and the decision you have made.
The "loop" refers to the fact that this is a continuous process. The loop or cycle never stops. Each time you complete a cycle in the OODA loop you observe, orient, decide and act again based upon the results you see from the prior cycle. If the results are positive, you can continue down that path and improve it. If the results are negative, you quickly adjust and review the results again. It is a fast moving process of trial, error and adjustment until you get the results you want. Not dissimilar to the agile programming methodology.
The OODA loop is particularly useful in environments that are chaotic and unpredictable. In these working environments, decision making is often very difficult and without appropriate training paralysis in decision-making results and nothing gets done. The OODA loop is a decision making process that is well suited for helping people make decisions and acting in situations where there is no existing road map to follow. The military has effectively utilized the OODA loop decision making processes in the chaos of battle found in air combat, tank warfare and daily in Special Forces operations. There is a lot to be learned from these experiences in decision-making.
In a world where nearly 40 percent of the workforce is mobile, companies must learn and implement these concepts in order to successfully manage mobile operations and services from afar. To be successful implementing and integrating the OODA loop and Network Centric Operational concepts into your field services operations requires the following:
- Data collection systems and processes.
- Real time knowledge of the location of your mobile workforce, assets and inventories.
- Real time knowledge of the capabilities and expertise of your mobile workforce.
- Real time status and progress updates of the tasks, work assignments and schedules of the mobile workforce.
- Real time knowledge of the location of all inventory, equipment, tools and other assets required to complete specific tasks.
- Work order management system that assigns, schedules and dispatches specific assignments to specific members of your mobile workforce.
- Business intelligence software applications for analyzing data collected in the field.
All of the items listed above help provide the real time visibility into your field operations that is required in aNetworked Field Services organization practicing OODA loop management decision making.
One of the remaining challenges, however, with the systems listed above is that humans quickly become overwhelmed by large volumes of data. Complexity can become an inhibitor to the practice of OODA. It is not enough to have real time visibility into massive volumes of data, as one must be able to orient and understand what the data means and how it will impact the mission. Business intelligence software, context aware and artificial intelligence capabilities all fit in here.
Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant
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***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Sweet potatoes show promise in Columbia Basin
Sweet potatoes might prove to be a sweet crop for Columbia Basin growers.
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Sweet potatoes might prove to be a sweet crop for Columbia Basin growers.
The crop did surprisingly well in 2011 and 2012 trials near Pasco, Wash., producing yields comparable to those in Louisiana and California, the top sweet potato-producing states.
"After plants got established and started growing, they really grew fast," Washington State University Extension entomologist Tim Waters said during a recent presentation at the Hermiston Farm Fair.
Sweet potatoes were produced and sold in the Columbia Basin until a labor shortage triggered by World War II ended the crop's run. Now would be an ideal time to bring the crop back because interest is high for products such as sweet potato fries.
Lamb Weston recently built a multi-million dollar plant in Louisiana strictly to process sweet potatoes, and processing lines here are capable of handling the crop, said Don Horneck, the Oregon State University Extension agent.
"There certainly is demand," he told the Capital Press newspaper (http://bit.ly/11rWldW ).
Because few broadleaf herbicides are registered for the crop, and because sweet potatoes need high humidity to excel, it's not a given that Northwest growers will be able to produce bountiful harvests.
Horneck estimated growers need to average 15 tons an acre or more to generate a profit.
In two years of trials near Pasco, Waters said he was getting upward of 15 tons to an acre in well-irrigated sites. In one instance, at high irrigation levels, the crop yielded 24.5 tons to an acre, well above yields in Louisiana and California.
Yields fell to as low as 5 tons to an acre in plots that received minimal water, Waters said.
"If you do grow sweet potatoes, don't let them get dry," Waters said.
Waters, who also tried growing sweet potatoes near Moses Lake, Wash., said the warmer sandy soils near Pasco produced far better yields, as did pushing back harvest dates.
"The later you can push the harvest, as long as you have warm weather, the yields keep going up," Waters said.
Information from: Capital Press, http://www.capitalpress.com/
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