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MilBlog Conference 2010: A message from General David H. Petraeus, USA
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Thanks military.com for a great wrap up of the milblog conference, where we took *ahem* top honors for the US Navy Military Blog.
Enter General David H. Petraeus (video below)
And by *we*, the Naval Institute doesn't mean us, we mean the collective community of the bloggers that give us their insight, time and devotion to discussing the Navy in an independent forum. Equally important are those of you who comment and shape the conversation.
Not paid, not influenced (except for the voting part :)).
In similar great news, friend of the Naval Institute, Maj. Norman Hatch, USMC (Ret.) took not only one, but two standing ovations from the crowd. Additionally, the group YouServed captured more great video and chronicles the conference.
Us old media, MSM folks at the Naval Institute are honored to be a part of this group of families, friends and members of the US Armed Forces.
BTW: According to the kind General; he's a force to be reckoned with on Guitar Hero.
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Incentivization in the Acquisition ProcessPosted: November 19, 2014 Filed under: SBA Issues and Legislative Initiatives Leave a comment »
A group of 31 procurement experts recently shared their thoughts about defense acquisition reform, in a report published at the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs website.
They identified four emerging themes abut acquisition, issues which I believe expand across the board to other federal agencies.
The first theme was about the incentivization of the acquisition workforce. Basically, if we want a better acquisition process, we need to measure better things. A true statement if there ever was one.
The core concept behind this is something that goes back to the dawn of observation, and that is what you observe, what you measure, is what's going to be paid attention to. While that seems simplistic, failure to analyze the effect of that phenomenon is what gets us into terrible trouble.
Here is a simple example of how this works: Say I have a problem with a piece of equipment, like my TV, computer or phone. I call up the help desk and tell the operator about the problem.
One of the metrics used to evaluate that operator is how long they're on the phone with me. Three minutes, let's say, is the standard. Any calls that are three minutes or less, great. But if my problem is more complicated to explain or solve, now I begin to screw up the metrics.
People want to help their customers, but they also want to do what it takes to show they're doing a good job. In this case, there is a conflict between those two things. That operator is going to want to get me off the phone as close to three minutes as possible. But then I'm not going to be a happy customer.
I believe so strongly in the power of this measurement concept that I created a unique methodology for TAPE called Behavior-Based Performance Metrics Methodology (BBPMM)®. With BBPMM®, we empower our help desk operators to refer more complicated calls to technical experts. You reduce the average time involved because the expert is better equipped to deal with the problem more quickly, and the caller gets specialized help for their problem – both lead to satisfied customers.
The issue in acquisitions is that there is nothing that incentivizes an acquisition expert (contracting officer) to shut down a problem acquisition. There is no measurement for that. In fact, the only measurement is on completion of the acquisition – getting to a final signed contract.
With a complicated procurement that requires a lot of information, sometimes you need to pull back and start all over again, but then that screws up the metrics. It's this kind of problem people are facing in defense and across the board in the procurement sector.
Here is a direct example of how this works in practice: There's a procurement we've been working on for 18 months, and we had expected the RFP would come out earlier in 2014. It did not. But it's entered into the formal process by which a draft of the final RFP will be issued.
Last week we found out that the review would happen a year later than we had been estimating. It's obvious they're overestimating to make sure the RFP comes in on time, so they don't screw up their metrics. They know that more bids could come along they hadn't accounted for, or any number of other factors that could delay the process by six months.
Understanding how the acquisition workforce responds to the metrics by which they're measured is an issue that has to be looked at much more closely than it has up until now.
Defense Acquisition Reform – Four Emerging ThemesPosted: November 13, 2014 Filed under: SBA Issues and Legislative Initiatives Leave a comment »
U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Carl Levin (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) recently released a bipartisan report, Defense Acquisition Reform: Where Do We Go From Here? A Compendium of Views by Leading Experts. You can download the report from the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs website.
In the opening of the document, they summarize the sentiments of the experts – 31 current and former officials in the procurement world – and identify four themes. I believe these four themes have applicability for acquisition across the federal government.
#1 – Incentivization of the acquisition workforce
This is not about the traditional incentives that we use like giving people more money. Yes, there are opportunities for bonuses for federal employees, but this is a more subtle problem that goes back to a key principle we've talked about before, which is that people pay attention to the metrics by which they're measured.
If we want a better acquisition process, we need to measure better things.
#2 Attracting and training a qualified acquisition workforce
We talked recently about the interplay between education, certification and experience, and this is the same problem. At the government they're concerned about experience, because it translates directly into better acquisition actions and service.
On the other hand, there are places you can get education and certification in acquisition activity, including one sponsored by the Department of Defense, along with other agency programs such as the VA Acquisition Academy.
Fundamentally the biggest problem is do you want certifications, experience, and/or (and what is the trade-off) education?
In the case of an acquisition workforce, you have to be aware that you're not likely to get, for example, an expert in jet airplanes, let alone war planes, to become your contracting officer, even though you're going to wind up spending literally billions of dollars to create those airplanes.
#3 Realism in program requirements and budgets
I completely agree that this is a big problem across the board. All too often, the requirements are inadequately specified, which means that as soon as you actually start a project, you're kept busy figuring out what you really need, as compared to what the RFP said you'd need. And every time you get into that kind of mode, costs expand exponentially.
#4 – The role of the service chiefs in the acquisition process
This is more of an organizational issue, pointing out that better acquisition procedure is not just a procurement problem; it is an operational problem and a procurement problem. That means the joint chiefs of staff have to be involved in the procurement process, and with improving the procurement process.
We'll take a deeper look at some of these themes in upcoming blog posts. Stay tuned!
Employee Engagement After the Information Revolution: Did Our World Turn Upside Down?Posted: November 5, 2014 Filed under: Stages of Growth Comments Off
A little while ago I met Irit Oz and Ron Hirshfeld, two amazing folks who were in the US to bring their concept of employee engagement and the information revolution to fruition.
At my company, we are on the cusp between small, and thinking about being "not small" pretty soon now (this "launch point" is one of my passions in the small business community). We are working with a strategic planner to write the story of our business, as a pathway to bringing out our true goals as entrepreneurs and as a business.
Preserving employee and company culture is one of the hardest things about this stage of growth, which is why our strategic planner introduced us to Irit and Ron, and why I invited them to present their concepts here for your reading and reaction.
Did Our World Turn Upside Down?
A guest post by Irit Oz and Ron Hirshfeld.
Do you sometimes feel that you are holding your business intact with your bare hands? Do you set goals that seem reasonable to you and find yourself pushing your target dates or compromising on scope continuously? Do you feel sometimes that getting things done, the way you want them, is almost an impossible task? Did you ever get to a point that you've asked yourself, "Did our world turned upside down?"
If you have, you are not very far off. Our world did turn upside down is some way. Sounds crazy? Let's look at the facts.
It is common knowledge that in the last 10 years we went through a revolution which most experts call "The Information Revolution." Did you ever stop and think, how did that revolution impacted me and my business?
Revolution is a very strong word, and it is used to describe extremely impactful events. If we look at the revolutions that we had in the last few hundred years, we can understand why.
Each revolution has profoundly changed our way of living. The agriculture revolution has enabled 90% of human kind that used to work in agriculture to change profession, while the industrial revolution brought us comfort that we didn't know before and triggered more than 50% of the population in our world to move from rural to urban areas.
For most people over 30, we probably don't need to elaborate too much regarding the technological revolution. If we just take five minutes to think how we grew up without internet, cellphone, GPS, automatic windows, microwave, etc., we would finish these five minutes extremely grateful.
What was the impact of the revolution that we went through over the last 10 years? The Information Revolution?
One thing that most people are aware of, is that it brought us to a state where almost every knowledge that we want, we can have within seconds in the palm of our hand.
It doesn't matter if you are a cook who is looking for a good recipe, a traveler who is searching for cheap flights, a software engineer who is looking for a particular way to implement an application, a lawyer who is searching for a specific legal case, or, God forbid, a terrorist who is looking to prepare a bomb. You can find everything you need very quickly using your computer, your tablet, or your cell phone.
That was not the situation 10 years ago. Ten years ago the teachers in school were the source of information, the managers in the organizations were the ones to teach you how to do your job, and the leaders in your country were the ones letting you know what the hell was going on.
Today, on the other hand, teenagers can learn what ever they are interested in from the comfort of their home, any employee can learn how to do their job from experts around the world, and any one of us can, very easily, check the facts that politicians are telling us.
If you look at the situations in organizations today, the information is no longer flowing from top-down. The people who are dealing with customers, production, inventory, programing, etc. are the ones holding the important knowledge.
If knowledge used to flow almost exclusively from top-down, it is now coming mostly bottom-up. This seems very trivial when we look at the facts, yet let's take a moment to absorb this critical and astonishing concept. If the flow of information has reversed, what does it mean about the role of management? Can we keep doing the same things and succeed? As the great Albert Einstein said: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
If we are no longer the source of information for our employees, how can we get them engaged? If they have the knowledge, do we know how to retrieve it from them in order to make wise and knowledgeable decisions? Did we adjust the way we conduct business to support the new reality?
If we hadn't, wouldn't that be a disaster? Wouldn't that be something very noticeable, something that would possibly threaten our survival, something that would make us feel as if our world has turned upside down?
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An Open House is Not Just For Real EstatePosted: October 28, 2014 Filed under: Capture Management Comments Off
Whether at a brick-and-mortar location or an off-site venue, open house events are used throughout various industries to showcase a business's products and services to current and potential customers. This is especially true when competing for a complex government contract, which often requires the formation of a team in order to maximize capabilities, past performance, and resources.
In this situation, quickly branding the team is critical. An open house allows you to showcase your team's potential to the customer, the competition, and future employees. Time is always the critical variable – it's short and just gets shorter! Digital communication is the proven trend but sometimes it's not enough. Sometimes you need to get close and personal.
In planning an open house, you'll want to consider the following questions:
- How will you promote your open house (e.g., social media, mailed invitations, phone calls)?
- Why would someone want to come to your open house (what's in it for them)?
- Where is the best venue for your open house (proximity to desired audience, parking, catering options, room size)?
- What will you include in your program (e.g., formal speeches, ribbon cutting ceremony, demonstrations, educational presentations)?
- What is the best time of day for your event (lunch crowd, after work crowd, or both)?
- What refreshments will you serve?
- How will you follow up with the people who attend your open house (e.g., registration table to capture contact information)?
For Team Strong Point Research | Division of TAPE (Team SPR/TAPE), our upcoming open house event provides an excellent opportunity to introduce our team: AMTIS, Inc.; ASI Government; CGI Federal; Project XYZ; and SIGMATECH, Inc. to the Orlando, FL community.
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The Interplay Between Education, Certification and ExperiencePosted: October 23, 2014 Filed under: Capture Management Comments Off
When contractors are responding to a federal RFP (Request for Proposal), there will be specific requirements for the staff who will be involved in the contract. These may be a level of education, e.g., college degree or post-graduate degree; certification, e.g., Microsoft certification for certain kinds of networking equipment; or experience with similar tasks in a similar environment.
A person can have no education and no certification, but be experienced enough to do a good job. Increasingly, however, RFPs require education and certification. This affects the federal contractor in two ways:
First, this situation will tend to favor the incumbent who already has people doing the job. Second, it tends to be more costly because you've had to invest in both education and certification for your people, rather than just time on the job getting experience. Someone with more education will also demand a higher salary.
Most companies in the industry do provide some kind of educational reimbursement, and a cost-offset for taking one of these certification tests. In order to be reimbursed, TAPE and most other companies require people to pass the certification or to get a particular level of grade with their educational degree. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Sometimes RFPs allow for a trade-off between education and experience. For example, if a college degree is required, an associate's degree would be acceptable if coupled with two or four years of experience. For someone with six or eight years of experience, the entire educational requirement might be waived.
(Note that it's far more rare for there to be a trade-off for certification. Presumably because it should be easy – though costly – for someone with experience to pass a certification test.)
Personally, if I were looking for the safest path, I'd want someone who was certified and had experience. The certification tells me an independent authority has tested them on the knowledge base required for the job, and the experience tells me they can handle situations that no one can predict.
I wish I could say I have some vast solution for this problem, but I don't. There is an offset – a clear trade off between education, certification and experience. I know we'll continue to wrestle with this topic with RFPs and otherwise.
One thing you may want to point out to a contracting officer is that if there are no trade-offs for experience, and if the certification and educational requirements are very specific, it can have potential anti-competitive effects.
Is it fair, for example, for an agency to require only agency-specific air traffic management certification and education? Wouldn't FAA certification be sufficient, and possibly identical?
Two Key Questions for Federal ContractorsPosted: October 15, 2014 Filed under: Capture Management Comments Off
Between now and December, there is going to be a lot of vacant time before federal agencies get their budgets settled and begin to look at contract actions again. Now is the time to be planting seeds and be understanding what's coming down the pipe.
Here are two key things you want to know about your government customers:
What keeps them up at night?
Remember the last time you engaged your customers in a conversation that wasn't about the work in your current contract? It could be about baseball (just please don't ask me about my Nationals), football, a TV show, or a photo on their desk. The point is to open up a dialogue so you can build a relationship.
You want to boost your rapport to the point where you can find out what they're most worried about. What are their concerns? What keeps them up at night?
If they're standoffish or don't really want to talk, just come back to it later, or catch them when they're sitting with a fresh cup of coffee. Emphasize the reason you're asking, which is to make sure you're doing everything you can to help.
Also point out that if you know what's on their plate now and in the future, you can help with the advanced planning for anything you should be thinking about together.
Whatever your customer is worried about is an opportunity for you to do something to help them – either a new piece of work, or to improve the work you're already doing. Either scenario will cement your relationship and increase your value to them.
How are they evaluated?
What is the top metric on your customer's job description performance requirement list, i.e., what's the number one thing that their boss is evaluating them on?
Do you know that? How can you find out? Obviously, that's an important issue to that person, but it's also crucial for you as a federal contractor.
Zig Ziglar said that you can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. When you know how your customer is being evaluated, you can make them successful. The more successful you can make them, the more successful you will be.
Capitalizing on Year-End SuccessPosted: October 9, 2014 Filed under: Finding Customers Comments Off
The federal fiscal year closed on September 30th, a time when many federal contractors were out hunting for business (or waiting by the side of the road like a vulture). As Eileen Kent explained in her guest post, it's likely you were doing a little of both. However, whether you were wonderfully successful with your year-end tactics or not, the issue now is what do you do next?
Here's an example of how to capitalize on a success. On September 30th, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, someone from a federal agency called a member of our senior leadership team to say, "I've got a little money I need to put in your task order, how can I do that?" By 9:30 p.m. I was signing the contract papers.
While this certainly proves that when they want to, the government can move pretty fast, what it shows even more is that relationship building works in federal contracting. Yes, we had all the right things in place to make this happen – there was a vehicle, we had a task order, we're going to fill the jobs, we'll start the work.
That is the task execution part. That is essentially what the government is paying us for. But I guarantee we weren't the only company this agency could have approached. The difference is that we had done our homework up to this point.
We did good work for our client, we kept in touch, and we consistently built our relationship. We didn't know they had this extra money, in fact, no one we knew was involved, but our customer must have spoken highly enough of us to their colleagues that at the 11th hour they came to us and – sight unseen – gave us the work.
When the contracting officer sent over the fully-executed and counter-signed contract, he copied several people in the agency to say it was done. Some of them actually wrote back – using Reply All – to thank the contracting officer.
We might have stopped there, satisfied with the new order, but that's not how relationship building works. So here's what I did next: I replied directly to each one of them with the simple message, "Thank you for your confidence in our company."
In a month or two, we'll reach out to them again and continue building these new relationships.
That is what this blog is really about. These simple things. Task execution. Responsiveness. Acknowledging other people. It's about showing somebody that you're willing to go a few extra steps. That you value their personal contribution to your activity.
At the end of the day, our customers noticed our commitment to our relationship, leading them to recommend us as someone their colleagues could trust to hand over this bunch of money they had to spend before year end.
"Yeah, these guys will do the job for you."
Truth be told, that's the only advertisement that counts. The one that comes from your customers.
In Capture Management for Federal Contracting, Some Say Experience-SchmeriencePosted: September 24, 2014 Filed under: Capture Management Comments Off
I talked to a friend of mine the other day who has been building his small business doing something we did a lot of early on at TAPE. We call that phase of our company history "Rent-a-Bill," where we did capture management and proposal management for other people.
Fast forward to today, and it was my friend who has filled that role for us, becoming the piece of the puzzle we needed for our own proposal development.
We were discussing his strategy for this capture and proposal work. Instead of hiring a bunch of experienced folks, such as retirees or long-time industry veterans who really understand the ins and outs of federal contracting, he's been going another route.
For the same dollars it would cost to hire one experienced person, he explained, he can bring on two or even three recent college graduates. Instead of spending the dollars, he spends his time to train them. He knows they may make lots of mistakes and step on some toes, but in the meantime, some of what they build will stick – and they can get around to twice as many places.
It's certainly an interesting concept. And while I'm sure all of us grey-bearded folks are shuddering, times are changing. While long-timers know lots of people and have good relationships in place, with modern technology, thought leadership platforms like blogs, and sites like LinkedIn, it's possible to build relationships and trust with people without actually knowing them.
If you're willing to take the time to train your newbies on all the ins and outs and details about how to be compliant, put together a capture plan, and the other pieces that lead to success in government contracting, you may be surprised and delighted. While it's true that some of the actions they take will not fly, some may be innovative technological ideas that those of us with grey hair wouldn't see.
My friend says he's having a lot of success. It's an interesting solution to the age-old problem of how to keep costs down, and still cover all the bases of where you want to go to get more work.
What do you think?
In Federal Sales, Are You A Hunter or a Vulture?Posted: September 17, 2014 Filed under: Finding Customers, Getting Started Comments Off
This is a guest post by Eileen Kent, The Federal Sales Sherpa
A federal sales hunter scans the landscape daily with his own eyes and locates where the most potential for healthy-sized opportunities appear.
The hunter has been trained by other hunters to seize the moment when an opportunity arises.
The hunter approaches the client on a regular basis, and, when the ideal opportunity presents itself, the hunter "captures it" with a closing mechanism like a GSA Schedule, small business preference, or partner. No one ever heard about the opportunity coming, and never found out when the deal was closed and delivered.
We can only see it after-the-fact in the contract data – exactly how the hunter quickly captured the deal.
A federal sales vulture sits on the sidelines and waits for a lucky opportunity to come out on the public websites like fedbizops.gov.
But, by the time the opportunity "dies," there's nothing left in profits but a few scraps – and a lot of other angry vultures still fighting with you for the leftovers.
Look, we all have a little "hunter" and a little "vulture" in us.
A note from Bill:
This is sort of like being a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll (yes, I did like Donnie and Marie), and by the way, both strategies need to be applied judiciously. The hunter lands more of what they go after, because the capture is good, and the customer is ready. But, the vulture can get some tasty scraps in these days of LPTA. At TAPE we do have a scanning process (by vehicle, not FedBizOpps), where we look for the following:
- Know the function absolutely cold, with good past performance.
- Make sure the labor hours are specified. If they want you to guess or figure it out, you're not going to win.
- Write a good, highly compliant response. Check everything to make sure there are no issues, this is critical because…
- Price that baby low, low, low. Profitable, but low.
Many years ago, I asked a big company, one respected for really doing good capture work, how they treated year end. They were candid, and said they like 2/3 of the work to be captured, but 1/3 will be over the transom, with good past performance, nearest customer neighbor, low price. They won a lot of them (well, great proposal shops can write to anything), and it fueled growth.
Our hunter side has found out from the client that the deal is "coming out soon" and then we want to sit tight like the vulture…… waiting …. waiting…waiting for it to be posted.
But it is advised that while you're waiting for the postings at fedbizops.gov and end-of-year spending, that you still could be a hunter by continuing to scan the landscape and talk to all of your clients about opportunities now – and in the future. If the opportunity has not hit the streets yet, you may still be able to do something to get them to make it a set-aside or to use a contract vehicle with little competition.
And in the coming year, you want to change your tactics to be more like a hunter all the time….or hire a hunter to comb the landscape, get to your customers in the field, and close the deals quickly and quietly.
For more information about having a federal sales action plan built for you so you can focus on the "hunt," contact Eileen Kent at 312-636-5381 or visit http://federalsalessherpa.com/.
This post originally appeared at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140812023632-5572608-in-federal-sales-are-you-a-hunter-or-a-vulture and was adapted and reprinted with permission.
Want Free Business Development? Get Involved!Posted: August 27, 2014 Filed under: Finding Customers, Getting Started Comments Off
When TAPE was first founded, my wife (CEO/President Louisa Jaffe) and I were sitting around with not much to do because we were just getting started. So we volunteered with the local chapter of AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) to lead their small business program. We were a small business ourselves, so this made logical sense.
Now it did take a little time, to find speakers for the various small business programs, and coordinate to make sure everything went well. But in return, we got incredible business development opportunities.
First of all, we were able to reach out to actual potential customers, and other folks in the local government community, to invite them as speakers. These were no cold calls, but we were still making valuable connections!
Second of all, we always got two free passes to attend the events. That meant one of us could be in the small business program, while the other could be with the "big boys" in the other room – a free networking opportunity.
More than 10 years later, and hardly with much spare time to sit around, we're still getting involved and we're still making important connections through those efforts. Louisa, for example, is on the board of the Army Women's Foundation where she meets all sorts of retired army women now working in the contracting industry.
Down here in Orlando where I'm working with a company we acquired last year, I have been volunteering for a source selection improvement group – an industry/government partner group looking at problems in the source selection process.
This has given me the chance to meet a bunch of people I would have never met otherwise – contracting officers and other companies doing business in the same realm as our Orlando division – and work together to solve problems that affect us all.
These are two very good things, and all it costs is some time.
So get involved – there are government panels, committees putting on networking events, and many other options. You'll be immersed into the contracting community and as you've heard me say many times:
There is business to be found through building relationships.


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Online Portal Provides Graphics Developers Access to a Comprehensive Set of Khronos OpenGL ES, OpenVG and Other Development Resources, Collaborative Support, Tools and Early Hardware Access to Wide Range of Mali GPU-Enabled Development Platforms CAMBRIDGE, England--(Business Wire)-- ARM (LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMH) today announced at ARM TechCon³, Santa Clara, Calif., the launch of the ARM® Mali Developer Center - a comprehensive suite of resources for graphics and embedded applications developers working with the Khronos OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0, OpenVG 1.0 and 1.1, as well as other APIs. Accessing these resources as members of the Mali ecosystem will enable developers targeting Mali graphics processing unit (GPU) platforms to bring best-in-class content to market. With 24 hardware licensees including Broadcom, LG Electronics, Mediatek, ST-Ericsson and STMicroelectronics, Mali technology is the most widely-licensed GPU architecture in the world. With the proliferation of Mali technology-powered silicon from the world`s foremost silicon suppliers, the online Mali Developer Center will help speed the development and delivery of compelling graphics and multimedia experiences for the broad range of applications based on the Mali architecture. Developers and middleware providers within the expanding Mali ecosystem are working closely with ARM and its OEM and silicon Partners to reduce the time-to-market and total cost of bringing advanced graphics content to a wide variety of digital devices, from feature phones and smartphones, through to netbooks, game consoles, personal navigation devices, automotive dashboards, set-top boxes and digital TVs. The Mali Developer Center encourages innovation and is set to be the catalyst for the proliferation of high-quality content and applications to meet demands for the next generation of devices. Developers are provided with early access to advanced Mali hardware, enabling compelling graphics content to run across multiple OEM platforms and through an ever-wider array of high performance consumer devices ahead of market availability. "Getting devices with cutting edge user experiences and high-end graphics content to market is often delayed by late changes in OEM specifications, affecting the characteristics and functionality of the target platform," said Fredrik Ademar, CTO, TAT. "The Mali Developer Center will have a great positive impact in allowing us to develop advanced graphics solutions, taking full benefit of the Mali architecture ahead of the availability of a device to the wider market." "The Mali Developer Center will act as a catalyst for the development of next-generation user interfaces, gaming, browsing and navigation," said Lance Howarth, general manager, ARM Media Processing Division. "With developers crying out for better access to OpenGL ES and OpenVG resources for some time, we see the Mali Developer Center becoming an effective hub for accelerated development of highly advanced graphics. Allowing access to the complete Mali graphics stack and the ARM Mali ecosystem, the portal will advance innovation, drive down development costs and reduce time to market, making next-generation graphics a reality." "The Mali Developer Center heralds a step change in graphics development," said Min-Ho Ahn, VP of engineering, Digital Aria. "Even for companies such as Digital Aria with expertise in embedded graphics, developing stunning 3D User Interfaces with a dynamic look and feel in full HD resolution is a challenging task. Thanks to the combination of the advanced performance of Mali GPUs and the invaluable resources and support provided via the Mali Developer Center portal, we will be able to develop software more cost-effectively and reduce time-to-market." "ST-Ericsson is strongly committed to enable next-generation user experiences for mobile devices. As a key member of the Mali community, we will work closely with ARM and the Mali ecosystem to deliver advanced graphic capabilities in our platforms and accelerate innovation," said Teppo Hemia, head of 3G Multimedia Business Unit, ST-Ericsson. "By providing developers with easier access to tools, hardware and other resources, the Mali Developer Center will drive innovation to the benefit of the whole ecosystem." The online portal will enable graphics and embedded applications developers, as well as middleware providers, to access to a comprehensive range of support levels and free tools, information resources, hardware and a community forum to speed pre-integration into Mali GPU-based platforms. This will significantly reduce development costs and shorten time to market of cutting-edge graphics on any device with a screen. 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Venezuela orders closure of 34 radio stationsto rein in to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins.
to cause (a person) to slow down or cease some activity; - to rein in is used commonly of superiors in a chain of command, ordering a subordinate to moderate or cease some activity deemed excessive.
See also: Rein Rein the country's media.
"They will have to cease transmission once they have received the order from Conatel," said Diosdado Cabello Diosdado Cabello Rondón (born April 15, 1963) is a Venezuelan politician. He was appointed Vice President by President Hugo Chávez on January 13, 2002, replacing Adina Bastidas. , who is also minister of public works public works
Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public.
Noun 1. in President Hugo Chavez's leftist left·ism also Left·ism
1. The ideology of the political left.
2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left.
left government.
Cabello said the closures were due to the stations' failures to meet legal operating requirements, and warned that more closures may follow.
"These are the first 34 decisions that we have taken," he said.
The stations broadcast in Caracas and various cities in the country's interior.
Among the best known is CNB CNB Czech National Bank
CNB Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia
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CNB Citizens National Bank
CNB Croatian National Bank
CNB Chloronitrobenzene
CNB Corresponsales No Bancarios (Spanish, Colombia) , which airs in Caracas and nearby Valencia, and is part of national network that has been critical of the Venezuelan president.
Other stations had virtually ceased broadcasting.
Last month Conatel launched a survey of radio broadcasters, asking outfits to present documentation showing the validity of their licenses.
An estimated 240 radio broadcasters have come under pressure during Chavez' time in office.
Cabello defended Friday's move. "This is about legitimate authority of the government to manage the radio spectrum," he said.
"We are only implementing what the law says... when we took the decision to democratize de·moc·ra·tize
tr.v. de·moc·ra·tized, de·moc·ra·tiz·ing, de·moc·ra·tiz·es
To make democratic.
de·moc the radiowaves we were serious, we needed to do it and we needed to do it now."
Cabello had earlier accused 27 families of holding "privileged ownership" of 32 percent of the radio broadcast industry.
Some 45 television stations are also said to be in the firing line.
The Venezuelan Chamber of Radio Broadcasters described the decision as a "enormous violation."
Ahead of Friday's announcement Chavez came under fire from Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, for "censorship" and "abuse of power."
Chavez supporters argue that the measures limiting broadcasting rights for radio and television will lead to a significant "democratization de·moc·ra·tize
tr.v. de·moc·ra·tized, de·moc·ra·tiz·ing, de·moc·ra·tiz·es
To make democratic.
de·moc " of the media, which has been controlled by a handful of owners.
The president said the government is developing eight new laws New Laws: see Las Casas, Bartolomé de. or reforms of existing laws that will have an impact on the media, including one that establishes a new set of "media crimes" punishable with prison sentences.
Human Rights Watch said the measures would "reduce the ability of government critics to voice their opinions and will seriously limit freedom of expression in Venezuela."
Information minister Blanca Eekhout said the proposals were "absolutely vital" to regulate the "enormous power" of the media.
Critics believe the move is part of Chavez's payback to the media owners, whom he reportedly never forgave for·gave
Past tense of forgive.
the past tense of forgive
forgave forgive for backing a failed coup against him in 2002.
The government refused to renew the license of RCTV RCTV Radio Caracas Televisión (Venezuelan TV channel) (Radio Caracas Television), the country's oldest and most popular television network, in May 2007 because of its news coverage critical of Chavez. Although off the air, RCTV continues to be seen in Venezuela from Miami via cable and satellite systems.
Until now media companies and executives have been subjected to administrative penalties for running foul of the government, but if the proposed changes are adopted they could face criminal charges in the future.
"This is part of a strategy by a government with a military bent that sees communication as a strategic objective that needs to be neutralized," said a manager of a local media outlet who spoke recently on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
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Hi folks. I did a search on the intel site for driver updates and there was an update available which I installed.As well as the intel HD graphics driver,it also installed something called "intel SDK for openCL CPU only runtime package" in program and features.I can't find a clear explanation for what this does.It was only the driver I was wanting.Can this be uninstalled or is this needed?Any help is much appreciated.
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"Can this be uninstalled or is this needed?"
The short answers to those questions are 'yes' and 'no'.
The files are for the use of developers of OpenCL applications on Intel Architecture. You'll have no use for them.
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Hi FE So uninstalling it will have no effect on the driver it installed with?
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Nader's courteous treatment was in contrast to the violent scenes that have flooded YouTube since the controversial June 2009 elections. It marks a change of strategy for a government more secure in its ability to confront unrest. Sensitive to embarrassing past videos showing security forces and regime loyalists beating up demonstrators or passers-by, shooting into crowds, or using an official car to run over a demonstrator, they have dedicated more bodies to policing and adopted a high-tech approach to shutting down mobile telephones and the Internet, the opposition's main method of communicating.
"Mobile phone networks and how they connect is one of the IRGC's key priorities because it's one of the key tools for opponents of the regime for coordinating their actions," said Nicola Pedde, the director of the Rome-based Institute for Global Studies, and a frequent visitor to Iran. "Now, a stay in Tehran is Soviet-like, there are people that are constantly accompanying you everywhere."
Although the Islamic Republic has one of the highest online populations, and cell phone usage reaches to the most isolated hamlets, the government has done little to improve its intelligence services' connectivity and information sharing, or to extend its street surveillance capability. Traffic cameras are not fitted with face-recognition software, nor are they linked into an electronic grid that would allow intelligence officers to follow a suspect's progress through the streets, experts say.
In 2007, a human rights activist in Tehran acquired from a disgruntled former employee the raw feed from several traffic cameras showing a women's rights protest being repressed in central Tehran, and posted it on YouTube. Protesters have now identified where the traffic cameras are and take care to come to protests disguised with bandannas or sunglasses.
After a prison stint on an unrelated charge, the same human rights activist commented that "the intel people are so stupid, straight from the shahrestanha (provinces). The guy sitting opposite me didn't care whether I'm Muslim or not, a worshipper of Satan or Hossein. He only cared about how he could get money out of me, how he could use my file to his advantage to buy a car or house for himself."
Shoddy file-keeping and non-compartmentalization at the intelligence ministry were corroborated by a Dubai-based activist detained during the summer in one of the post-election demonstrations.
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2-20-05- Months before they became teammates at East Central University, the lives of Joseph Tusan and Dennis Scales crossed. Ultimately, their fates would cross as well.
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redshirt freshmen became friends.
It was during a celebration after their team's victory over a conference rival that both young men and their friends got into an argument with a group of strangers that eventually turned deadly.
A member of that group -- Ammon Dean Reich -- is to be formally
arraigned Tuesday on one count of first-degree murder and 32 counts
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The case grew from a weekend traffic fatality into a highly publicized state murder investigation with racial overtones that's drawn the attention of the FBI and the NAACP.
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The Ambulance Service is calling on all road users to exercise caution as winter conditions take a grip, adding to the already present difficulties caused by longer periods of darkness.
A spokesperson said: "NIAS crews attend too many incidents where they look into the wreckage of a car to see worlds that will be shattered when news of the incident reaches other family members.
"They are also aware, at these times, that they are family men and women themselves and whilst tending to the needs of the injured or dying, their thoughts will soon turn to their own friends and relatives who just as easily could be involved in a similar incident."
Emergency crews attended 4,513 incidents in the past 12 months.
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The Liberals say Tory Leader Tim Hudak's million jobs plan is mathematically impossible as projected jobs were counted eight times over.
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Finance Minister Charles Sousa Saturday told reporters the Progressive Conservative's calculations are off by as much as 96 per cent or 780,698 jobs.
"We went through his proposal and the supporting documents and the conclusions the Hudak's PCs reached are flat-out wrong and ridiculous," he said in a new release.
The Liberals went over all the Tory job creation initiatives, ranging from an employer tax cut to ending wind and solar subsidies, and concluded projected jobs were counted eight times over.
"His math is so far off, the only debate we need have is if he's dishonest or incompetent," Sousa stated.
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Critics have countered that Liberal math can't be trusted, pointing to the fact that the Grits said scrapping and relocating two gas plants would only cost about $230 million when it ended up costing up to $1.1 billion over 20 years.
The Tories said in a release it isn't the first time the Liberals have deliberately misrepresented their data.
The Progressive Conservatives cited a CBC story in the 2011 election campaign where the Liberals got caught in a leaked campaign conference call for making up a "$14 billion hole" in the Ontario PC plan.
"The $14-billion hole is basically just our excuse to say that (Hudak) is going to go after health care and education, because that's the main message we want to drive," McGuinty strategist Alicia Johnston was quoted in the CBC piece as saying on Sept. 4, 2011.
Hudak has not only promised to create one millions jobs over eight years, he has committed to killing 100,000 public sector jobs.
Among other things, the Liberals accuse the Tories of using person-years of employment as actual jobs created.
The Liberals say the PC suggestion that a one percentage point corporate tax cut equals 42,800 person-years over 10 years actually only equals 4,280 permanent jobs.
Sousa said the PC promise to create 84,800 jobs by reducing red tape is greatly inflated.
"They take a total number of 10,600 and treat it like an annual number, again counting each eight times," according to Sousa's supporting documents.
The Liberals further criticized the Hudak Tories for claiming that three different economists signed off on his job creation plans when "none of them did."
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Lily Allen has combined her two favourite things – t'internet and slagging people off – to re-ignite her feud with Katy Perry.
The pair have been at each other's throats since Katy called the gobby Londoner fat.
Now our Lil' who called the lady-loving Yank "crass", is threatening to post her rival's mobile number on the web.
Writing on her Facebook page, Lily said: "I have Katy Perry's number, someone did me a favour.I'm just waiting for her to open her mouth one more time then it hits Facebook."
Lily also joined two groups on the networking site.
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Young Money star Nicki Minaj showed she is down to have some fun on Valentine's Day by releasing steamy photos of herself donning a bikini, high heels and posing in erotic positions.
Nicki treated her fans to a special V-Day treat with the new shots.
Lord Jesus, Nicki Minaj is on fire. The "American Idol" judge has made a lot of fellas happy this Valentine's Day by sharing some sizzling bikini pics from her tropical getaway. Fresh off her "Freaks" collaboration with French Montana, the sexpot flaunts her bangin' body and big booty while dropping it low in a greenbikini, white stilettos, and floppy hat. "Happy #VagDay boyz… #JerkResponsibly," teased Nicki, who incited a riot on Twitter after posting the hot pics. (Rap-Up)
Her unexpected goodies come just a day after fans heard her adult-oriented verse off French Montana's new "Freaks" record.
"Met this little girl by the name of Onika," Minaj raps referring to her government tag. "Way my body shake, all the boys want to freak her — I took him to the crib, to kill him with it/Put my legs behind my head, I hit the ceiling with it/When I put it in his mouth, I couldn't believe it/He looked me in my eyes and said he want to…" ("Freaks")
Back in early 2011, Nicki revealed she had no boyfriend attached to her and was interested in dating.
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