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RDS Project, a leading engineering and contracting firm, offers build solutions for a broad range of construction and engineering projects. RDS works with clients across sectors, developing state-of-the-art infrastructure, deploying modern technology and practices. With steady growth, the company's legacy disjointed applications couldn't maintain business momentum. With help of Aurigo Software Technologies, RDS Project deployed Microsoft® Dynamics™ AX 2009 along with Aurigo's product, BRIX (now Masterworks) to administer all the projects nationwide, automate and streamline the existing business processes, instill globally adopted best practices and sustain long term growth. The rare combination not only makes it easier for the team to work more efficiently but also reduced the total cost of ownership by saving money and controls project costs. In addition, centralized audits will increase controls and thus accountability across the organization.
RDS Project Ltd is a leading contractor, with industry experience of over 50 years and a portfolio of exclusive housing, IT and infrastructure projects. This Delhi based company started as a small and unregistered company in early 60s and grew phenomenally. It was incorporated into a public limited company in 1992. Its diverse industrial construction includes industrial buildings, roads and highways, dams, bridges, marine works, housing complexes as well as in real estate development. The company even received a prestigious award called '50 Years Experience in Construction' from the Chief Minister of Kerala.
The company has pan-India presence with corporate office in Delhi and multiple regional offices in Agra, Cochin, Port Blair, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram. To be an active player in infrastructure development projects in the country, the company has acquired a fleet of earth moving, road and airfield construction equipment and utility plants. The annual turnover of the company in fiscal 2010-11 was U.S.$ 50 million (INR 220 crore).
RDS Project manages an array of projects across the country. The legacy system it used to manage these consisted of accounting ERP Tally 9.0 for financial accounting and Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets for lead and data management. The business dealt with hundreds of vendors and contractors encompassing a range of activities. All these were tracked each month on Excel spreadsheets. With offices and job sites spread around the country, managing contracts and financials such as purchase orders, material delivered or remaining, fund transfers or funds utilized, minimum balance, inventory and assets was a nightmare.
Information stored in separate Excel sheets by multiple users lacked standard formats. Financial data and other details from site offices of different projects were emailed to the head office each week. Collating all the financial information for final review was not only a mammoth task but also resulted in decisions based on obsolete information.
Operations at RDS Project are project-centric and geographically spread. Legacy applications were inadequate to serve complex processes. Lack of real-time project information, standard systems and centralized controls resulted in inefficiencies, poor collaboration and delayed communication.
The company recognized the need of a robust yet flexible solution that offers the advantage of a construction management solution integrated with a complete ERP suite.
The IT team at RDS Project observed the gravity of the situation and explored the ERP solutions specifically suited for the construction industry. The goal was to get a 360-degree solution to construction as well as enterprise resource planning processes. It considered Oracle and Microsoft products. "Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 offered integration capabilities and a lower total cost of ownership," states Mayank Goyal.
The organization also looked around for skilled implementation partner. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Aurigo Software Technologies was chosen as the implementation partner because of its extensive experience in real estate and construction industry. "After a certain point, all standard ERP platforms are more or less the same; the key is finding a good implementation partner. We were confident that Aurigo would help customize the solution to meet our business requirements, as well as, ensure hand holding during the critical phases of implementation," says Mayank Goyal, Director, RDS Project Ltd.
Aurigo addressed all the challenges listed by RDS Project by offering a seamless integration of technology, i.e. Dynamics AX with Aurigo's Masterworks 2009. The implementation started in October 2009. The suite of applications was deployed for four server licenses, eight Dynamics AX user licenses and nine MASTERWORKS licenses. It was deployed at the RDS head office in Delhi, regional offices in Chennai, Port Blair, Gurgaon and multiple site offices. Modules deployed include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Inventory Management.
Tight integration of Microsoft Dynamics AX with MASTERWORKS offered RDS Project an ERP with a construction management solution. In-depth workflows mirrored business processes. Automated processes delivered complete visibility and transparency. "At present, all the solution customization is complete. The solution is currently being deployment in phases across various projects in India. The suite of construction-specific and ERP solution should offer comprehensive 360-degree view of all the projects across multiple sites and geographies," states Mayank Goyal. "With control over day-to-day construction activities, the solution will unify the entire project lifecycle and provides complete visibility into all aspects of the project."
The solution automates 25 project-specific reports such as batching plant, crusher utilization reports, material receipt note, for each cost center. The management can review and analyze performance based on these reports.
Integration with MASTERWORKS allows pulling information from vendor master, issue work order to contractors and sub-contractors with automatic generation of purchase order and generation of daily progress reports (DPRs). Likewise, materials issued and balance on site, assets and inventory across locations is available. Work allocated against work done, cost and labor involved, material purchased etc. are itemized each day. The solution confirms the actual quantities against the task complete. All the projects are simultaneously defined thus providing a single platform for the complete data access.
Invoices are generated in Dynamics AX and approved in MASTERWORKS. Also, advance or balance payment is effectively tracked.
Integration with Microsoft Project synchronizes project data and provides the detailed information required to manage project resources effectively. It assists project managers in developing plans, assigning resources from multiple locations to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads. Similarly, integration with Microsoft SharePoint Server adds project related events, creates tasks, assigns it to users with due date and synchronizes with Microsoft Outlook calendar.
With new system, project management and construction processes are standardized. The integrated applications unify all aspects of business.
An increase in efficiency allows the same set of employees to effectively manage more projects. The management exercises complete control simultaneously across all projects.
Also, the company is able to meet statutory reports and financial compliance far more quickly and accurately. "Our accounts team is able to retrieve information far more quickly. This means we are able to close our balance sheet 25 percent faster, saving 30-45 days in the process," says Mayank.
RDS Project's operations are project-centric. The solution allows comparison of cost incurred and revenue earned for each project budget in real time. Also, payments and purchases are centralized which bring down costs considerably.
And, the company believes greater accountability will be delivered with centralized audits.
The management team has access to updated information in real-time. They can track each project's progress and access project progress each day. "We are hopeful that this system will enable us to take informed business decisions and align resources," says Mayank Goyal, Director, RDS Project Ltd.
With integrated construction project management, receiving, billing and a host of other operations, there is an increased visibility for all managers across the company. "With greater visibility we can take corrective measures in time to reduce project overruns. For high investment, large infrastructure projects, this will result in lower construction and operation costs," states Mayank Goyal.
Completion of projects before the due date results in boosting the image of the organization and adds new clients. The solution not only controls the project execution and controls costs but also reduces waste, identifies anomalies at the job site and initiates immediate corrective actions.
The ERP solution tracks items from receipt to issue, to tracking its storage and transport. It provides complete automation of the material inventory and consumption process. "We work with large quantities and expensive equipments. The value of assets and inventory at a time can be of a sizeable amount," explains Mayank Goyal. "With unified view of all the sites, fixtures, equipments and others assets; we can judiciously move these to in-demand locations. Thus, eliminating the need for high inventory and equipment at multiple locations which in turn reduces costs. Systematic usage and traceability significantly frees the capital for the company.
"Post complete deployment of MASTERWORKS and Dynamics AX, RDS Project is hopeful of managing complex job sites while significantly improving the customer service," concludes Mayank Goyal. "We have seen initial results and expect to recover our investments within a short period.
Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of integrated, adaptable business management solutions that enables you and your people to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics works like familiar Microsoft software such as Microsoft Office, which means less of a learning curve for your people, so they can get up and running quickly and focus on what's most important. And because it is from Microsoft, it easily works with the systems that your company already has implemented. By automating and streamlining financial, customer relationship, and supply chain processes, Microsoft Dynamics brings together people, processes, and technologies, increasing the productivity and effectiveness of your business, and helping you drive business success.
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Aurigo is a leading business consulting, software product, technology services and outsourcing company. It delivers innovative products, solutions and services that provide comprehensive value to its customers. Aurigo's business and technology solutions cater to Infrastructure Owners, Contract Firms, Power Plants, Ports, and Education. Aurigo's offerings help enterprises in business process re-engineering, methodology implementation, IT infrastructure management and functional resource augmentation.
Aurigo is a private equity funded Delaware corporation with offices in New York and Phoenix (United States) and Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore (India). Its products are available both directly and through a select partner network in the United States, Canada, Middle East, Africa, Asia and India
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- Calories54
- Carbohydrates14 g (5%)
- Sodium1 mg (0%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Monounsaturated Fat0 g
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Next generation tools for linguistic research in grammatical treebanks
This research will develop, in conjunction with an existing community of researchers, a software environment for carrying out experimental research in corpus linguistics. The outcome will be a computer program to assist linguists in carrying out scientific experiments on parsed corpora - databases of sentences of naturally occurring speech and writing for which a grammatical tree analysis has been produced.
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When my daughter Leah was born in 1996 I knew that I would wear her. Baby wearing was new to Salt Lake City, Utah and people always stopped and stared as I passed by. Even more people stopped to look when my husband Aaron carried little Leah in the sling. We loved slinging her! I…Continue reading
Back wearing, also known as Back Carrying, seems to elicit both interest and a little bit of fear from baby wearing parents. While Back Carrying is one of the most liberating types of carries–it enables you to be hands free and keep the baby safely from whatever you are doing–it seems to be one of…Continue reading
When I began to write this article, I started where I always do—with the research. I was searching for the definitive study on inward facing versus outward facing positioning for infants in babywearing devices. I wanted to find the perfect comparison to demonstrate the various physiological and psychological benefits of one over the other. However,…Continue reading
Parent-infant bonding is probably one of the most over-looked and under-assessed aspects of early infant health care visits. It is not that providers are disinterested in this important process. Rather, there are so many topics to cover during those early visits and an extensive infant exam needs to be conducted. This means that certain issues…Continue reading
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Dr. Charles Price, pediatric orthopedist at the Winnie and Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and director of the International Hip Dysplasia Institute, has reported a direct connection between incorrect swaddling and hip dysplasia. "Swaddling an infant has many positive effects such calming a crying baby and soothing pain in infants. Unfortunately many parents are taught…Continue reading
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Today, children are more knowledgeable than any generation in history. Even so, there are many things in the adult world children do not understand. It is important for children to understand addiction and mind control at an early age.
Gambling is an addictive form of entertainment — gambling is putting hard earned money at risk.
Even though gambling revenue in 2012 was $34 billion plus casino operators and politicians can no longer wait for gamblers to visit the casino — they are in the process of putting gambling on every computer and cell phone in the country. Every child in the country will have gambling at their fingertips.
It's time for adults to teach children about mind control and gambling addiction at an early age. If children understand debits, credits and balancing the books they will grow into adult hood with a secure financial future.
Protect the children from teenage gambling addiction.
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stone walling for some reason.
This source (MX 53) is a Mexican businessman with interests in Guatemala
>>What is Sandra Torres de Colom's relationship to the drug
>>Particularly which Mexican cartels?
This is not clear from my sources. Thats to say, there are many
rumors, everyone thinks she is deeply involved in laundering cartel
money through the banrual relationship, and with Portillo, who
reportedly is taking in Q1MM daily.
>>Does she have real presidential ambitions?
Most of the educated population believe that this was the plan from
the beginning, that she would eventually become president after her
husband. I am told that in cabinet meetings, she is present, and
is the person who allows each participant to speak, and controls
what is said. Colom keeps his mouth shut. It is also said that de
Colom has even planned to take Portillo as her Vice Pres.
>>How seriously is she pushing this land reform bill? Has she
>>off it?
Seems she has not backed off of the reform bill.
>>Signs of the land-owning class mobilizing? What forces within
>>military can they count on? what forces can Colom count on?
Not sure about classes mobilizing. There are certain supporting
elements of the Military that will support the classes. However,
the military seem to be in fear of making any movements without
clear proof of wrongdoing, as they do not want a repeat of what
happened in Honduras. They have not been able to acquire any such
evidence to date.
Check out this website which has interviews that openly discuss
some of these issues:
>>What has the US been doing to make sure shit doesn't hit the fan?
>>At a recent dinner hosted by the US amb, Colom was reportedly
>>to rein his wife in. What's happened since?
No knowledge of US intervention.
Additional information:
My contact's father is a friend of the Colom's, but his father is
careful not to fall off the fence for fear of losing face either
He is also going to send me some of the mails he has received that
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Dear Dish-It: My Brother Is More Popular Than Me
Lonely asks: I feel like no one likes me. On Kidzworld, I have less than 30 friends, while my brother has over 100. At school I'm invisible, and my brother's so popular. All the girls like him and he has a girlfriend. But when I tried to ask a girl out, she laughed in my face. The friends I do have think I'm really fun and cool to hang out with, but I don't have many. My brother is a jerk, too. Whenever his friends are around, he completely ignores me, but people still like him. Why? I feel so alone. Back to Article
^-^ It's okay. First off, you have friends who truly seem to like you for simply being YOU. If your brother's the jerk you say he is -not that he is... than those girls don't truly like him, they like his image. big difference.
My brothers like that, he's way more popular than me and we're usually so close but when all of his friends are round he always asks me where my friends are and embarrasses me in font of his mates and frankly I'd rather be ignored
I will be your friend. You sound super cool, unlike your brother. Add me!
I'll be your friend! Just click my username and click add. I always accept! &heart;
I'll be your friend! Just add me since I don't know your username.
Making million friends is not a miracle... Miracle is one real friend
Making million friends is not a miracle....a miracle is having one friend who stands up to the million who r against u !
dont worry just try ur best to be noticable and if i was about ur age and went to the same school i would be ur friend
You sound like a friend I have. His twin is always more popular, more athletic, gets all the girls. Thing is, his twins a real jerk. Sometimes brothers can be mean. It stinks sometimes but don't be mean to other people to be popular. Just be yourself. Don't try to be like your brother.


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You used to be able to go there and see ALL demos, PSOne games, PSP games, etc.
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This from The Atlantic.
Category Archives: philosophy of science
Hayek and the "Use of Knowledge in Society"
Here is an advance listing of the forthcoming volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences masterly edited by my chum Byron Kaldis. My contribution: Hayek and the "Use of Knowledge in Society"
Jack Smart
Here's an obituary by the ever excellent Jane O'Grady.
Philosophy and physics
The conversation continues . . .
Allow me to quote Nietzsche (although I know that will be considered by some to be in bad taste): "As the circle of science grows larger, it touches paradox at more places." Physicists expand the circle, and philosophers help clear up the paradoxes. May both camps flourish.
Philosophy is "dead" editorial
From The Guardian – here as well.
Science, the Market and Iterative Knowledge
The second paper co-authored with Dave Hardwick has now been published in Studies in Emergent Order:
Abstract: In a recent paper (Hardwick & Marsh, in press) we examine the recent tensions between the two broadly successful spontaneous orders, namely the Market and Science. We argued for an epistemic pluralism, the view that freedom and liberty (indeed the very concept of liberalism and civil society) exists at the nexus of a manifold of spontaneous forces, and that no single epistemic system should dominate. We also briefly introduced the concept of "iterative" knowledge to characterize the essentially dynamic nature of scientific knowledge. Herein lies a tension. The Market (and perhaps the prevailing culture at large) sees scientific knowledge in cumulative terms, that is, progressing to a conclusion in a linear fashion. This relatively static understanding of medical science as it relates to pharmaceutical studies can have a corrosive effect on the practice of medicine and ultimately, we believe, on the proper functioning of the market itself. In this paper we examine this tension in much closer detail by focusing upon the demands of the market, specifically the pharmaceutical industry, and the science upon which it is based. In other words, we expound upon a clash of epistemic value – one (science) that sees knowledge as essentially iterative (dynamic yet tentative) and the other (the Market) that harvests conclusive scientific knowledge (ostensibly as a fixed and firm commodity) functional to its own interests. Clinical Trials that are sharply focused with precisely determined deliverables often manifest this tension in the sharpest of relief. As a means of recovering drug development and testing costs, conclusive assessment is required to avoid creating serious financial problems for the companies themselves not to mention issues in the public interest.
The Trouble with Scientism: Why history and the humanities are also a form of knowledge.
Philip Kitcher, prominent philosopher of science in The New Republic:
The problem with scientism—which is of course not the same thing as science—is owed to a number of sources, and they deserve critical scrutiny. The enthusiasm for natural scientific imperialism rests on five observations. First, there is the sense that the humanities and social sciences are doomed to deliver a seemingly directionless sequence of theories and explanations, with no promise of additive progress. Second, there is the contrasting record of extraordinary success in some areas of natural science. Third, there is the explicit articulation of technique and method in the natural sciences, which fosters the conviction that natural scientists are able to acquire and combine evidence in particularly rigorous ways. Fourth, there is the perception that humanists and social scientists are only able to reason cogently when they confine themselves to conclusions of limited generality: insofar as they aim at significant—general—conclusions, their methods and their evidence are unrigorous. Finally, there is the commonplace perception that the humanities and social sciences have been dominated, for long periods of their histories, by spectacularly false theories, grand doctrines that enjoy enormous popularity until fashion changes, as their glaring shortcomings are disclosed.
Human social behavior arises, in a complex social context, from the psychological dispositions of individuals. Those psychological dispositions are themselves shaped not only by underlying genotypes, but also by the social and cultural environments in which people develop. Cultural transmission occurs in many animal species, but never to the extent or to the degree to which it is found in Homo sapiens. Human culture, moreover, is not obviously reducible to a complex system of processes in which single individuals affect others. Rigorous mathematical studies of gene-cultural coevolution reveal that when natural selection combines with cultural transmission, the outcomes reached may differ from those that would have been produced by natural selection acting alone, and that the cultural processes involved can be sustained under natural selection. Whether this happens in a wide variety of areas of human culture and domains or is relatively rare is something nobody can yet determine. But culture appears to be at some level autonomous and in some sense irreducible, and this is what scientism cannot grasp.


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Data Center Consolidation:
Strengthened Oversight Needed to Achieve Cost Savings Goal
GAO-13-378: Published: Apr 23, 2013. Publicly Released: May 14, 2013.
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What GAO Found
The 24 agencies participating in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) made progress towards the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) goal to close 40 percent, or 1,253 of the 3,133 total federal data centers, by the end of 2015, but OMB has not measured agencies' progress against its other goal of $3 billion in cost savings by the end of 2015. Agencies closed 420 data centers by the end of December 2012, and have plans to close an additional 548 to reach 968 by December 2015--285 closures short of OMB's goal. OMB has not determined agencies' progress against its cost savings goal because, according to OMB staff, the agency has not determined a consistent and repeatable method for tracking cost savings. This lack of information makes it uncertain whether the $3 billion in savings is achievable by the end of 2015. Until OMB begins tracking and reporting on performance measures such as cost savings, it will be limited in its ability to oversee agencies' progress against key initiative goals. Additionally, extending the horizon for realizing planned cost savings could provide OMB and data center consolidation stakeholders with input and information on the benefits of consolidation beyond OMB's initial goal.
Pursuant to OMB direction, three organizations--the Data Center Consolidation Task Force, the General Services Administration (GSA) Program Management Office, and OMB--are responsible for federal data center consolidation oversight activities; while most activities are being performed, several weaknesses exist. Specifically,
- While the Data Center Consolidation Task Force has established several initiatives to assist agencies in their consolidation efforts, such as holding monthly meetings to facilitate communication among agencies, it has not adequately overseen its peer review process for improving the quality of agencies' consolidation plans. For example, the Task Force did not provide agencies with guidance for conducting peer reviews and did not provide oversight to ensure that all agencies exchanged plans.
- The GSA Program Management Office has collected agencies' quarterly data center closure updates and made the information publically available on an electronic dashboard for tracking consolidation progress, but it has not fully performed other oversight activities, such as conducting analyses of agencies' inventories and plans.
- OMB has implemented several initiatives to track agencies' consolidation progress, such as establishing requirements for agencies to update their plans and inventories yearly and to report quarterly on their consolidation progress. However, the agency has not approved the plans on the basis of their completeness or reported on progress against its goal of $3 billion in cost savings.
The weaknesses in oversight of the data center consolidation initiative are due, in part, to OMB not ensuring that assigned responsibilities are being executed. Improved oversight could better position OMB to assess progress against its cost savings goal and minimize agencies risk of not realizing anticipated cost savings.
Why GAO Did This Study
In 2010, as focal point for information technology management across the government, OMBs Federal Chief Information Officer launched the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiativean effort to consolidate the growing number of federal data centers. In July 2011 and July 2012, GAO evaluated 24 agencies progress and reported that nearly all of the agencies had not completed a data center inventory or consolidation plan and recommended that they do so.
As requested, GAO reviewed federal agencies continuing efforts to consolidate their data centers. This report (1) evaluates agencies' reported progress against OMBs planned consolidation and cost savings goals and (2) assesses the extent to which the oversight organizations put in place by OMB for the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative are adequately performing oversight of agencies' efforts to meet these goals. GAO assessed agencies progress against OMBs goals, analyzed the execution of oversight roles and responsibilities, and interviewed OMB, GSA, and Data Center Consolidation Task Force officials about their efforts to oversee agencies consolidation efforts.
What GAO Recommends
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Open
Comments: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agreed with, and has begun to take steps to address, this recommendation. Specifically, since May 2013, OMB has tracked and reported on data center consolidation cost savings on a quarterly basis. In addition, in May 2014, OMB issued a memorandum that included set of 11 data center consolidation optimization metrics established by the Data Center Consolidation Task Force, including metrics related to data center energy, labor, and storage, among other things. However, as of August 2014, OMB had not yet begun to track and report on these metrics. We will continue to evaluate OMB's progress in implementing this recommendation.
Recommendation: To better ensure that Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) achieves expected cost savings and to improve executive-level oversight of the initiative, the Director of OMB should direct the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) to track and annually report on key data center consolidation performance measures, such as the size of data centers being closed and cost savings to date.
Agency Affected: Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget
Status: Open
Comments: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agreed with, and has begun to take steps to address, this recommendation. Specifically, OMB stated that it would reevaluate the time frame for the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative's cost savings goal as the initiative proceeds and generates cost savings. In August 2014, we found that agencies had collectively reported data center consolidation cost savings totaling approximately $1.1 billion between fiscal years 2011 and 2013, and were planning slightly more than $4 billion in additional savings and avoidances by the end of fiscal year 2017. We noted that the extent of cost savings and avoidances being reported by agencies beyond fiscal year 2015 further highlighted the importance of OMB continuing to track and report on such savings beyond the time frame of its initial goal. However, OMB had not yet reevaluated the time frames for the initiative's cost saving goal. We will continue to evaluate OMB's progress in implementing this recommendation.
Recommendation: To better ensure that FDCCI achieves expected cost savings and to improve executive-level oversight of the initiative, the Director of OMB should direct the Federal CIO to extend the time frame for achieving cost savings related to data center consolidation beyond the current 2015 horizon, to allow time to meet the initiative's planned cost savings goal.
Agency Affected: Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget
Status: Open
Comments: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agreed with, and has begun to take steps to address, this recommendation. Specifically, in August 2014, the Data Center Consolidation Task Force (Task Force) Charter was updated to formalize the responsibilities of OMB and the Task Force. For example, the updated charter states that the Task Force is responsible for identifying policy and implementation issues that could negatively impact agencies' abilities to meet their data center consolidation goals and coordinating communication and knowledge sharing among agencies. In addition, the charter describes OMB's responsibilities for collecting agencies' core data center metrics quarterly and, in conjunction with the Task Force, disseminating data related to key performance indicators. However, as of August 2014, OMB and the Task Force had not yet begun to disseminate data related to the core data center metrics. We will continue to evaluate OMB's progress in implementing this recommendation.
Recommendation: To better ensure that FDCCI achieves expected cost savings and to improve executive-level oversight of the initiative, the Director of OMB should direct the Federal CIO to establish a mechanism to ensure that the established responsibilities of designated data center consolidation oversight organizations are fully executed, including responsibility for the documentation and oversight of the peer review process, the review of agencies' updated consolidation inventories and plans, and approval of updated consolidation plans.
Agency Affected: Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget
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Dec 22, 2014
Federal Subcontracting:
Further Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Pass-through ContractsGAO-15-200: Published: Dec 22, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 22, 2014.
Dec 18, 2014
Electronic Submissions in Federal Procurement:
Implementation by the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of the Interior's Bureau of ReclamationGAO-15-253R: Published: Dec 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 18, 2014.
Dec 17, 2014
State and Local Governments' Fiscal Outlook:
2014 UpdateGAO-15-224SP: Published: Dec 17, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 17, 2014.
Dec 11, 2014
Federal Subcontracting:
Linking Small Business Subcontractors to Prime Contracts Is Not Feasible Using Current SystemsGAO-15-116: Published: Dec 11, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 11, 2014.
Dec 3, 2014
Federal Data Transparency:
Effective Implementation of the DATA Act Would Help Address Government-wide Management Challenges and Improve OversightGAO-15-241T: Published: Dec 3, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 3, 2014.
Nov 14, 2014
2013 Government Shutdown:
Three Departments Reported Varying Degrees of Impacts on Operations, Grants, and ContractsGAO-15-86: Published: Oct 15, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 14, 2014.
Nov 13, 2014
Program Evaluation:
Some Agencies Reported that Networking, Hiring, and Involving Program Staff Help Build CapacityGAO-15-25: Published: Nov 13, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 13, 2014.
Nov 12, 2014
Federal Real Property:
Strategic Focus Needed to Help Manage Vast and Diverse Warehouse PortfolioGAO-15-41: Published: Nov 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 12, 2014.
Oct 31, 2014
Government Efficiency and Effectiveness:
Inconsistent Definitions and Information Limit the Usefulness of Federal Program InventoriesGAO-15-83: Published: Oct 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 31, 2014.
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Federal Real Property:
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The end of the year is always fun for me when it comes to the race for holds, and the guys getting them. The names that appear on the leaderboard for the last 14 days of games looks like a Dateline special of guys who were abandoned by their actual parents, and just appeared in the majors. For instance, of the top-20 Hold garnerers [Jay's Note: garnerees? garnerererers? gonorrhea? Eh, let's just go with garnerers…] over those same last two weeks, only three are in the top-20 for the year (Clippard, Cecil and Watson). On a side note, these are guys for you in dynasty leagues and deeper keeper leagues to pay attention to…. wink-wink. That right there echoes the fact of something, oh I don't know, two weeks ago, where you should just stream the hell out of RP down the stretch to maximize everything. And by everything, I mean appearance, grooming techniques, hell, it'll probably allow you to take better pictures to update your Tinder account. Maximize is the name, and maximizing was the game. You see that boat in the distance?… That's me sailing off into the sunset telling you au revoir, and that I told ya so. I don't make this stuff up, there are years and years of stats and performance charts that are readily available on the Google machine to prove my point. So with that tangent concluded, here is the last bullpen/hold chart of the year, basically showing you who wins. Sort of. If winning holds is an actual award, that is.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Tony Watson
Let's break this down like Murray Chass would want it. Felix Hernandez has the 2nd best ERA in the AL, fourth most Ks, and 14 wins. When his team needed a win more than anything, so Grey (me) could possibly collect on a preseason bet he foolishly made for the Mariners to win the World Series, Felix choked up 8 ER in 4 2/3 IP, raising his ERA to 2.34. Felix has the 2nd best xFIP, 3rd best WAR for a pitcher and 8th best K-rate, but since we're doing this as Murray would've wanted it, "What the flip is xFIP and I fought in Dubya Dubya Two and F-Her doesn't know anything about WAR! Now stop with the Pollyanna chicken crap!" Did F-Her just lose the Cy Young award? He did if all the voters are subjected to a fifteen minute wait in a post office line with Mr. Chass. "Mr. Chass, did you print out an email to snail mail it?" "I don't trust the internet!" Did the Mariners just lose all hope at the playoffs? F-Her, you effed me. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Ah, the stretch run and the second to last Holds post of the year. If your not streaming RP at this point to your advantage, I don't know what else to tell you but to give me your password, and just get ready for Sunday fundays. It's not Sunday is it? Because I can't talk about it with it around, because it slowly consumes me, then beats me, steals all my money, and makes me feel like that time at the water park. Sorry, sidetracked on terrible memories. So Drew Storen has popped up and taken the reigns until Soriano figures out why seven ate nine. I have heard that people are questioning why Tyler Clippard isn't in there trying to win one for the skipper. It's easy, but has multiple levels to it. First, you don't take your best reliever out of the key spot, and that's setting up and clinching the game for you. Rhis is documented by Clippard dominating in appearances with the lead over the last 30 days. The second is– Storen, who will be awfully expensive next year, while pitching effective, is basically being showcased and used to keep Rafael Soriano from getting his guaranteed 15 million doll hairs next year. You heard me: 15 million. Which becomes guaranteed at 120 games finished, he currentlly sits at 104. The moon landing, JFK, and keeping Rafi Soriano from getting duckets. Conspiracy theories or truth, all I can do is type it… hold on, Oliver Stone is on the phone. Stick around for some snippets of relief pitching lore and a flashy chart made from unicorn tears…
Please, blog, may I have some more?The problem you're having with your innings limit is everyone's problem with just five weeks to go. The combative strategy against this is to use a familiar SP option for streaming, but this time, use it for RP. The concept is sound, and is an effective method for leagues without limits, kinda like doctors without borders, but with mitts and jerseys. So here's how it goes: find the guys you're streaming on your roster for SP, but instead, find an effective middle reliever or two or three. Get greedy, as they help in groups, kinda like the non-anime version of Voltron. These RP stream guys don't have to be elite names, as most of them are going to be owned already, but if they aren't, lets start there. You wanna focus on guys that have a K-rate above 10, which cuts the available guys you want in half. Next, pay attention to their opponent and their teams record… both important. Guys on contenders get used more frequently in better situations. Lastly, and this is important, as soon as they pitch, dump them and pick up a guy who hasn't pitched that day or the day before to maximize your usable stats. I don't care how well they did in the game you streamed them in. He pitched? Now he's is gone. Forget about em. Pretty simple. No? I'll draw it in crayon, but put on this helmet so we don't have any liability issues. (If you pick the right guys that is.) Stick around for some pretty charts and tidbits of fantasy goodness…
Please, blog, may I have some more?If there was a NBA Jam version for relievers, it would go to the Royals bullpen. They are the hottest team since sliced pimento loaf, and as of this typing, are finding themselves tops in the AL Central. I have said it before and I will say it again– play the hot hand until it slaps you where it shouldn't. They are led recently and not recently, as in all year, by Wade Davis. Davis, on the year, has been just stellar: 6-2 K rate over 13 and has allowed only 5 ER all year. That my friends is about as robust as the McRib sandwich being not not real rib meat. Over the last two weeks Davis has lead the world in Holds with 7. His subtle sidekick has been a nice mix of Jason Frasor and Kelvin Herrera, both garnering fantasy value in their own way. Frasor notching 2 wins in relief and Herrera grabbing 4 holds for himself… both guys also have the same ERA as Davis during the last 2 weeks. It's zero, so stop with the guesses. Ride the lightning here as the Royale's w/o cheese are scorching the universe like a bikini waxing store. Stay tuned for more middle relief haps and slaps.
Please, blog, may I have some more?It's way too quiet in here… I need a sniper to take out a closer or something. Maybe a team of trained Labrador assassins [Jay's Note: Everyone knows that Labradoodle assassins are better.], no one would expect that. The "Seeing Eyes of Terror" would be their name. Speaking of which, I want to concentrate this week on the under-ratedness of Huston Street. The trade that helps him, the new ballpark that allows his team to actually score runs, and the ability to be that close to Mike Trout. So we are going to venture back through time and space, steal some plutonium from some Libyans, and go back to stats for 2012 to the present day. Confused? Good, me too. So, since 2012, Huston St. is top-10 in saves (86), tops in save % with only 4 BS in 3 years, at a 95.3% clip. And he also has had a resurgence in K Rate to push it over 9 K/9, but for a better perspective, he K's batters at a 26.5% rate. Hold on, I'm not done yet. He is also one of only four RP with a K rate of over 9 and a walk rate under 2.1. Add all that up, and I love Street for this year, and next year well he will probably be over-drafted based on this post alone. Catch you all on the flip-flip, meaning comments.
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Please, blog, may I have some more?Ahh, I remember the Midway, it was fun it was like an air show but instead of crashes there were bullets. I was just informed by Jay that statement is both wrong and wrong. Moving on as graceful as Martha Graham. So I was actually thankful for a few days off, unhappy I didn't make the all-star team, but I'm told that poor vocabulary and lack of knowledge of the home row keys are not determining stats that merit all-stardom. Holds are fun, I don't care what you say, if that makes me a loser for rooting for a fake stat, then I'm a loser. This guys help your team though even if you don't play in a Holds or NSVH league. I am being serious. I am the Will I am Tell of the loogy business. Let's check out my four up and four down for the closers in the second half, and stay around after that for some set-up news and blues.
Please, blog, may I have some more?I know bad raps can make a career… I mean Shaq made his secondary career off of them, but Joel Peralta is really getting one. Everyone loves change, and the whole shiny new toy factor associated with bullpens, but I'm here to learn you something about guys that have been drafted, dropped, and then added and dropped twice over this year. The Tampa Bay bullpen, and starters for that matter, are just bad this year. But, in the last 30 days, Peralta has lowered his ERA by 3-and-half runs. That's not exactly easy, especially on a team 15-plus games below .500. Also, he has more K's, same ERA, and more Holds than the now more-coveted Jake McGee during the last 30 days. Better pitcher all year, McGee, better lately? Peralta (but he burned us, so we give him the finger). Just me giving my two cents. I mean fluctuation, and "oooh that guy looks good in macrame shorts" are a blinding factor for rostering fringe bullpen guys. Stick around for some cool bullet points shaped like baseballs… neat.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Everyone knows about the top prospects getting called up. The Singleton's, Tavares', and Springer's get all the pub, as they should. Hitters that actually hit the ball only need to be successful 3 out of 10 times, and they are considered fantastic… even all-stars. Now a pitcher gets 3 out of 10 wins, he's a bum of the highest order, like a bum that can't play an instrument, but has a puppy for sympathy change. We all know that guy. So the rookie RP getting called up around this time may stick with their respective teams, and they may not. The three in particular I am referring to are Cam Bedrosian, Shae Simmons and Corey Knebel. Bedrosian's numbers in the minors are crazy unimaginable, and he could find himself in a great situation once he gains the trust of the bullpen-opath in Scoiscia. The latter two are prolly not really factors, just yet as Simmons is blocked by the current GOAT at the position, and Knebel, albeit the first 2013 draft pick to make the majors, is going to be a bit-player until next year unfold's. I just wanted to point out that bullpen only-guys that get promoted need some love, it's not like they smell like that musically challenged, puppy wielding guy from previous. These adds are more of a deeper league or keeper league adds now, though I have speculated on Bedrosian in a 16-teamer with a deeper bench.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Lots of haps going on in the end-game of fake baseball this week. Matt Lindstrom fell down and sprained his crown. Surgery has already happened, so if you're stuck in traffic, or your league has weekly adds instead of daily, Ronald Belisario looks like the dude. In case your looking for alterior adds, Daniel Webb looks like he will get some looks, as Belisario isn't a spring chicken, nor proven commodity. So add willingly if space allows. Also in Oakland, where nothing ever survives, or lives there permanently, according to Jay(Wrong) [Ed. Note– I was wrong. Bail Bondsman flourish there…], they finally got smart, used their shoe phone, and called in the option that may have been the right choice all along. Sean Doolittle is the shiny new toy, until the new shiny toy comes around or he breaks. I love me some Doolittle. If there was a wagon that hosted bands on it, I would be a groupie I guess. He has the K rate, the arsenal, but gets the whole "he is a lefty" shenanigans. So look past his Loogyness and just dig on the beard and 12-plus K rate, or if that doesn't do it for ya, the 30/1 K/BB ratio. Or if that doesn't get ya… well, err… that was my last detail, sorry. Enjoy the tidbits of straight sizzurp laced knowledge that Stephen Hawking would even Ctl+Alt+Esc.
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- January 10, 2013 at 1:08 pm
By the way, interesting take on the right to bear weapons in Pravda.ru ( Drudge Report), " Americans, never give up your guns", by Stanislav Meshin. We are living in an upside down world nowadays when the call for individual freedom comes from the east. Maybe we shouldn´t say Pravda in a derogatory way any more.
- January 10, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Late again, His Arrogance is. (big thanks to the commenter who called him that the other day. Perfect name!)
- January 10, 2013 at 1:47 pm
Probably out parting the Red Sea or something else miraculous.
- January 10, 2013 at 2:12 pm
pooping rainbows
- January 10, 2013 at 6:37 pm
…while wearing his cowboy hat and bronco-busting unicorns.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/slideshow/President-Obama-in-Texas-48444.php- January 11, 2013 at 9:30 am
"All hat, no cattle"
- January 11, 2013 at 1:54 pm
"All hat, no cattle" – Anne Lieberman
Well, there's Michelle…
And, he DOES seem to be good at driving sheep to their doom, does he not?
- January 10, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Timmy Geithner one of the best ever according to Obama I want whatever
the dolts at the Whitehouse are smoking. Tim's ready for a break I ask from
what? Talk about delusional we are truly doomed.- January 10, 2013 at 2:04 pm
Maybe Geithner needs a break so he'll have time to master the new version of TurboTax.
- January 10, 2013 at 4:10 pm
I am lmao.. the current pic on Drudge's main page has the BFF's on it, and if you look at Mr.O, it's like looking at Alfred E. Newman ! (What.. Me Worry?)
- January 10, 2013 at 4:45 pm
When I saw Drudge's photo my first thought about Obama was some thing else, but since this is a mostly family friendly site I won't say. Alfred E. Newman works just as well.
Good call.
- January 10, 2013 at 5:02 pm
His look is one that suggests he let loose a rabid pitbull loose on the Repubs in Congress.
I haven't given up on the sense of duty and patriotism that Repubs (and some Dems) in Congress have toward our financial future.
To do so would be to admit utter defeat and destruction.


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NEW YORK, Aug 22, (Agencies): Bebel Gilberto isn't just about bossa nova. The Rio de Janeiro-raised musician — the daughter of renowned singer and guitarist Joao Gilberto and singer and composer Miucha, — describes her music simply as the "Bebel Sound," an eclectic mix of Brazilian rhythms, soul and electronic music. "It's music that is easy to listen to. It's music that soothes you, that inspires you. Some of my music is good for dancing, and I definitely will say that is good recipe for a date," Gilberto, 48, said during an interview in a New York City Brazilian restaurant. Her album "Tudo," released Tuesday, includes 12 songs in Portuguese, English and even some French.
The eclectic mix is understandable. The New York-born musician grew up steeped in bossa nova and US pop rock. Her first album, "Tanto Tempo," was released in 2000, positioning her as an internationally recognized artist. She followed with "Bebel Gilberto" (2004,) "Momento" (2007) and "All in One" (2009).


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