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Jerusalem has always been the crossroads between different races and worlds. In a very small space are concentrated the Wailing Wall, the Omar Mosque and the Holy Sepulchre which are the most important sacred sites of the three principal monotheistic religions. Jews, Arabs, Muslims, Christians all live together however maintaining their own identities.
Jerusalem has been involved in many battles, but has always retained its own identity. It is a city with low houses and narrow streets, along with ancient realities living side by side.
For many people, Jerusalem is considered the Eternal city – so the centre of the Universe. Rising from undulating hills with deep valley, it is a metropolis geographically divided but at the same time spiritually united; Jerusalem possesses the capability of touching the spirit and ignite the imagination.
Jerusalem falls into three areas. The Jewish West is a busy and modern city, where the government is (called the Knesset). East Jerusalem is largely Arab and contains mosques, low sandstone houses and fascinating sites like the Mount of Olives. At the heart of Jerusalem is the Old city (which some parts are dated of 3000 years old).
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One correction, with your permission: Al Aksa (not Omar, Omar is not a mosque) mosque is NOT most important sacred for Islam. It's 3rd after Mecca & Medinah in Saudi Arabia.
wowow - bravo Gloria...nice photos and nice stories - great memories. i am happy to be part of it.
Very interesting page with great pics and useful tips! Just walking along the narrow alleys must be an adventure itself!
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Mobile engagement is meaningful connectedness that organizations and brands create with and among their customers, prospects and employees using ever-present mobile phones and tablets. How present? More than a billion people own at least one mobile device. Smart phones now outsell cell phones. An estimated 375 million tablets will be sold in 2016, bringing to 760 million the total number of tablets that will be in use then. Clearly, if you seek meaningful engagement with your audience, you'll be doing much of it via mobile device.
The word "mobile" describes not only the devices but also the lifestyle of the majority of your audiences. The ability to engage with your audience via their mobile device—wherever they happen to be—is critical. As you'll see, it also becomes a game-changing opportunity for you.
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As your audience spends more time and does more things on mobile devices, many of the traditional methods of interacting with them will no longer be viable. Worse still, these outdated tools could be liabilities to organizations and brands that wait to make the transition to mobile in step with their audiences.
Mobile is changing everything, including the ways we stay in touch with what customers, prospects and community members are thinking. Consider the image you convey if you use a paper survey, for example, with someone accustomed to swiping a touch screen countless times a day: definitely not a meaningful way to engage with your audience.
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A mobile survey can create a meaningful mobile engagement for your customers, prospects or employees who appreciate being asked for their input. Using a mobile device makes getting this feedback convenient for them, but also allows you to solicit this feedback at opportune times. Namely, with mobile surveys, you can ask for input while people interact with your brand, while they're at your event, or while employees are in a company meeting, training or retreat.
Imagine the quality of information you'll get from an event attendee who gives you that feedback during the event. Employees in a mandatory training workshop can provide instant feedback about the quality of the trainer and can even be quizzed about what they've learned. When respondents are finished taking the mobile survey or quiz, their input is uploaded instantly, allowing you to see, analyze and make decisions in real-time.
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Mobile survey results are uploaded instantly, to a password-protected page you can use to monitor, analyze and make real-time decisions. Event organizers use this access to in-the-moment guest feedback to gauge the event's effectiveness at meeting participant expectations. If a problem is revealed, organizers can make on-the-fly corrections, leveraging mobile engagement to not only improve their customers' current experience, but also to improve future events.
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Sales managers deploy mobile engagement throughout the sales channel using mobile surveys, questionnaires, quizzes and checklists. In a guided selling approach, sales reps use results from a quick and informal mobile survey to propose solutions that fit the specific needs the individual customer or prospect just identified. Mobile surveys and checklists can be used to evaluate the effectiveness and comprehension of a new rollout or promotion. During training, mobile surveys can instantly and easily quantify the knowledge of sales teams, resellers and retailers about product offering as well as provide competitive insights.
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One of the hallmarks of mobile engagement is creating a compelling reason for your audience wants to interact with your brand. Put yourself in your audience's shoes: what would it take for you to do what you'll be asking of them? Keep these rules of thumb in mind as you contemplate an engagement with prospects, customers or employees using a mobile survey:
- Entice them with a contest! Everyone likes the thought of winning something. Think of what would motivate your audience, and create a contest or sweepstakes that will compel them, with a prize they'll perceive as valuable. It's a great investment into the data you need.
- Tell them why you're asking for what you're asking. They'll appreciate being asked when they know how their information is going to be used.
- Use short, well-worded questions. A few, easy to read through questions, we short, well-worded answers are ideal to get the narrowly defined information any one survey should attempt to collect. And remember, you can combine question types, too. So use easy-to-answer multiple-choice questions when you can, and only ask open-ended ones where you really need qualitative information you can't reduce to a few choices.
- Consider the situation in which you'll be asking for someone to complete the survey. Busy, noisy exhibition space? Keep it very short. Captive audience at the end of a training session? You can elaborate more, but still don't want to use more than 8 – 10 questions. Changing your mobile survey is as simple as it was to create it, so you can make sure your engagement efforts are appropriate for the time and place.


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Statistics from the publishers association show that German ebook sales have stabilized, with prices dropping year over year, and print sales are up.
In Germany: Ebooks Less Than 10% of Market, Tolino Grows
Ronald Schild, CEO at Germany's MVB, discusses developments in German ebook sales — which still command just a single digit market share — and the Tolino ebook platform.
Print Continues to Outsell Digital During First Half of 2014
New numbers from Nielsen Books & Consumer show that ebook sales were outsold by both hardcovers and paperbacks in the first half of 2014.
Oceano Moves Into Ebooks, Mines Smaller Spanish Markets
Oceano, one of the largest Spanish-language publishers, has finally launched a line of ebook titles out of its Mexico subsidiary aimed at Latin America.
At Orion Party, Publisher Praises E-sales to 179 Countries
At the UK Orion Author Party, 95-year-old Lord Weidenfeld's presence contrasted with the news that the Hachette Group sold more than 70m ebooks last year.
BookBub Ebook Deals Site Closes in on 1.5 Million Subscribers
With the simple concept of alerting readers to a curated list of discounted ebooks, Bookbub has attracted nearly 1.5 million users in just a year.
Has UK E-Book Adoption Reached a Plateau?
The UK has seen a slight slowdown in e-book sales growth over the last year. Does this mean e-books have reached a plateau among readers? Michael Bhaskar examines the situation.
SURVEY: When Will E-Book Sales Overtake Print Sales?
Do you feel the same way about e-book sales that you did five years ago? When will digital overtake print?
Why Have US Trade Pubs Largely Balked at D2C E-bookselling?
The big US trade publishers have largely opted out of selling direct-to-consumer. Why? Fear of disintermediating the booksellers seems moot at this point.
D2C E-bookselling Means Being Relevant, Accessible, Honest
For publishers to make the best use of D2C e-bookselling opportunities they need to have an authentic relationship with their readers, says Sweden's Publit.


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The blue wildebeest
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The blue wildebeest or brindled gnu Connochaetes taurinus taurinus differs from the migratory white-bearded wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi of the Serengeti Plains of Tanzania.
There are five subspecies of wildebeest in Africa but the golden wildebeest is only a coat colour variation of the blue wildebeest and should be called a golden blue wildebeest. The brindled wildebeest group was first described scientifically as Antelopa gnou in 1788 by Zimmermann. The blue wildebeest was originally thought to be a separate species when Burchell described it as Antilope taurina in 1824, based on a specimen that had been shot near Klein Heuningvlei north-west of Kuruman in the Northern Cape province. Because Antelope only occurs in India the genus was renamed Connochaetes by Lichtenstein in 1812. Early travellers gave it the local name of kgogong. Fossil wildebeest are known from the early Pleistocene in Africa some 2,5 million years ago.
The coat colour of the blue wildebeest is silvery grey, sometimes with a brown tint. Under certain light conditions a blue wildebeest appears to be bluish-grey, hence its common name. The forequarters are heavy, with humped shoulders and deep necks that contrast with the slender legs. The head is massive and elongated and the chin has a distinct, long, black beard. The dark, brownish bars that occur over the neck and shoulders and extend to the middle of the back create the brindled appearance. There is a mane of long, black hair and a long black whisk at the tip of the tail. The juveniles and adult cows are browner and have more russet foreheads than the adult bulls. The young calves are fawn in colour over all but some with black faces are known.
The shoulder height of an adult bull is around 1,4 m and that of a cow 1,3 m. The body weights are 250 kg and 183 kg respectively. Both sexes have smooth horns, which sweep outward and slightly downward before rising upward to end in tips that point inward. However, the horns are heavier in the bulls than in the cows. The blue wildebeest has pedal (interdigital) glands on the front feet and large pre-orbital glands on the face.
The blue wildebeest occurs in two geographic regions that are widely separated, from south-western Kenya to northern Mozambique, and again from south-western Zambia to southern Africa. In South Africa, it was historically confined to areas north of the Orange River but has now been introduced widely in bushveld regions.
The blue wildebeest prefers savanna woodlands, and shade and water are vital. They migrate seasonally in the dry season when occurring on large areas to find better grazing, as do the white-bearded wildebeest on the Serengeti Plains, and follow recent rainfall in response to the sound of thunder. There is a habitat separation from the black wildebeest Connochaetes gnou because the latter prefers open, moist, bunch-grass areas. The blue wildebeest never moves far from cover and water and often selects old lands and heavily grazed grasslands with a poor veldt condition index, while the black wildebeest prefers taller stands of grass. The blue wildebeest also avoids rocky grasslands and southerly aspects, while the black wildebeest prefers less rocky northerly aspects.
The blue wildebeest is a grazer of short, lawn-like grasslands. It selects fresh green sprouts after veldt fires and rarely eats grasses that are more than 150 mm tall, but the grass selection changes seasonally with availability. Nevertheless, browse forms 13 per cent of the diet. When feeding, a blue wildebeest is selective of plant parts. Where available in high-rainfall years in arid regions the blue wildebeest will eat large volumes of moisture-rich tsamma melons Citrullus lanatus.
Population characteristics
The blue wildebeest is gregarious and herds of thousands of animals can gather when migrating. The usual breeding herd consists of 20 to 30 females and their young, but in the Kruger National Park it is 13 animals. Territorial bulls occur and bachelor herds also form. The territorial bulls retain their territories throughout the year unless drought forces them away, while the bachelor herds remain on the fringes of the population. A territorial bull goes down on his knees to mark his territory by rubbing the tar-smelling secretions of the pre-orbital glands onto bushes, tree trunks or the ground. The pedal glands are used to demarcate areas where grazing has recently occurred and to help individuals to follow each other when moving about. During cool weather, the blue wildebeest is active for the entire day, but it is usually less active at night except on moonlit nights. It is water dependent and drinks nine litres of water per day at any time of the day, but especially in the morning, and prefers natural waterholes.
Both sexes become sexually mature when 16 months old but a bull will only breed once it has become territorial. The sex ratio in the wild is around 1.5 adult cows per adult bull. Mating occurs from April to June in the Lowveld but it is bimodal in KwaZulu-Natal. Oestrus synchronization is possible and may be influenced by the lunar cycle. The gestation period lasts 250 days, the calf weighs 16 to 22 kg at birth and runs with its mother within a few minutes of birth. It starts to nibble at grass when it is two weeks old, but only weans when it is eight months old. The horn buds appear when a calf is three months old and the horns remain straight for the first eight months of life before starting to curve outwards. A blue wildebeest population can increase rapidly but in the Kruger Park with its large carnivores the mean population growth rate is 13,4 per cent. During periods of high rainfall the grass sward can become so rank that it allows lions to kill blue wildebeest with ease. The life-span is around 18 years.
Management and utilisation
The blue wildebeest should not be stocked in the same area as rare tall-grass grazers, such as the roan and sable antelope, because it destroys their preferred habitat. It will cross-breed with an adult black wildebeest bull when there is no adult blue wildebeest bull in the population, or where there is only a single adult bull of either type. For extensive production, a sex ratio of 10 adult cows per adult bull is recommended. The blue wildebeest does not require electrified fencing.
Capture and transportation
The blue wildebeest can be captured en masse in capture bomas with the aid of a herding helicopter. Adults can also be immobilised chemically with 4 to 5 mg of M-99 in combination with 100 mg azaperone and 8 to 10 mg of M-5050 as an antidote. When using A3080, a dose of 5 mg in combination with 20 mg of azaperone is recommended. Short-term tranquillisation requires 10 to 20 mg of haloperidol for an adult bull, 10 mg for an adult cow, 5 mg for a juvenile and 2 to 5 mg for a calf, while the long-term tranquillisation of adults requires 100 to 150 mg of perphenazine enanthate.
Bulls should be transported in individual crates under tranquillisation, while family groups of cows and young can be transported in mass crates with 0,9 m2 of floor space per animal and seven to eight animals per crate. In all cases the horns should be piped. An individual crate for a blue wildebeest should be 1,9 m long x 0,7 m wide x 1,8 m high.
Temporary captivity
When keeping blue wildebeest in temporary captivity, aggressive adult bulls and cows should be kept in individual pens while young animals can be kept with non-aggressive cows.
Stocking density
A crude stocking density is 0.5 Large Animal Units per blue wildebeest (2 blue wildebeest per Large Animal Unit) but a more refined stocking density is 1 Grazer Unit per blue wildebeest (1 blue wildebeest per Grazer Unit) and 1.21 Browser Units per blue wildebeest (0.83 blue wildebeest per Browser Unit).
Meat and live sales
Blue wildebeest meat is higher (22,28 per cent) in crude protein and lower (1,06 per cent) in lipid than beef and is being exported. The dressed carcass yields 104 to 157 kg of meat. The mean weight of an animal in a population is 180 kg and the mean live sale price of R2 907 per blue wildebeest in 2011 translates into R16.15 per kg. The mean live sale price of R2 156 per blue wildebeest in 2012, a reduction of some 28 per cent over that in 2011, translates into a low meat price of R11.98 per kg. The record price is R29 000.
Trophy hunting
Although being hunted as a trophy animal there is no sign of a loss of trophy quality over time in South Africa. Trophy-sized animals can be judged on the basis of the horn curve span relative to the length of the ears.
Rowland Ward: Minimum horn length: 28,500 inches (72,390 cm); longest on record: 34,250 inches (86,995 cm) collected by L de Villiers in 2003, although there are uncertain reports of a trophy of 36,000 inches (91,440 cm) possibly collected in Musina.
Safari Club International: Minimum horn points: 70; best on record: 94,750 points and collected by B Hennings in 1983.
South African Method: Minimum horn length: 28,000 inches (71,120 cm); longest on record: 31,875 inches (80,963 cm) and collected by S C J Botha in 1982.
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Full Marx for Mullahs: A Reflection on Social Control in Islam
Kershaw, Dr. Roger, Contemporary Review
Part II
IN Part I of this essay, published last month, the assets of Islam as a disciplining or controlling faith were explored. It cannot be too much stressed that Islam's strength, from a contemporary Western perspective, is partly relative to our own modern experience, which has seen a decline of control by Christianity. But paradoxically, Islamic doctrine depicts Christianity, with or without Jewish partnership, as an ever-present threat to Islam. This threat is directly countered by Islamist militancy. But regimes (and others) who value a Western connection and need to demonstrate their distance from 'fundamentalism', may direct a form of Islamic propaganda at (rather than against) the West. This was the theme on which Part I concluded. I suggested that the shaping or control of Western attitudes towards Islam amounts to a distinct, and fifth, form of 'control' in and by Islam.
Conceivably this analysis is influenced by the thoughts of a lamented colleague, Dennis Duncanson (1917-98), on communist 'psy-war' in Southeast Asia. By this he meant the mental penetration and subversion of the liberal democracies through appeals to latent international values and assumptions of segments of their citizenry: 'don't be beastly to the natives' and 'they are democratic nationalists like us'. Or, most recently from the mouth of Britain's 'First Lady' (not Her Majesty the Queen), and with reference to Islam, 'the suicide bombers deserve our compassion because they have lost hope'. (Would it not be more to the point to say that they have lost control: to the orchestrators of terror, most notoriously the agents of HAMAS under their own mentor, 'spiritual leader' Sheikh Ahmad Yassin?) Mrs. Blair's passion for compassion should not be wasted on suicide bombers.
Islamic penetration is distinct in kind from the Marxist-Leninist form only in so far as Islam is not monolithic and many of those Muslims who seek to persuade us are themselves genuine moderates, more self-deceived than deceiving about the aggressive potential of their religion today and the military thrust of the Muslim empire of yore. These publicists are reasonably comparable with the 'fellow-travellers' and Vietcong-sympathizers of the democratic Left during the Cold War. The line that revolutions have spontaneous economic causes or seek national liberation is a diversion reminiscent of the Cold War: for the motivating doctrine of Islam today substitute the mobilizing ideology of Marxism-Leninism of yesteryear! In either context, of course, the actions of world-revolutionary elites count as a response to the evils of the capitalist and liberal West, not as a calculating cause of conflict.
A Benign Discourse?
The notion of Islam as a moderate religion and largely benign international force finds one highly persuasive non-Muslim advocate in Fred Halliday of the L.S.E. My latest exposure to his perspectives took place at the admirable lecture at London University on 15th April, where he shared the platform with the American Steven Simon of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Halliday's most salient argument portrayed Islam as a religious code for diverse, at root political or 'real-world', concerns such as 'the environment' and 'globalization'. Religion cannot explain political behaviour. At most, understanding the religious tradition can provide enhanced insight into the politics... but only to the extent (it seemed to turn out) that the international practice of Islam defies its own precepts of umma (one family, undivided by nation-states), jihad (war against Unbelievers) and Dar-ul-Islam (a world community or 'House', at peace with itself, at war with all the rest). The exceptions prove the rule!
The objection which springs urgently to mind is that religion does seem to be the primary driving force of Osama bin Laden and his band. (Steven Simon at the same event spoke of their 'cosmic war against the enemies of God', and the impossibility of compromise where radicals become convinced that their mentors' commands are 'the Word of God'. …


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Building a Sturdier Euro
The euro's original design created lopsided incentives for its weakest members.
Today, European heads of state and government meet in Brussels to decide on fresh steps to strengthen the European economic and monetary union. Yet with governmental gatherings in the Belgian capital now a near-weekly occurrence, people could be forgiven for wondering if they should care.
They should, for the European project is about to undertake a major step toward renewal and deepening. The planet's largest economic area—facing a stark choice between decline and renewal, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world—will choose to go forward, hopefully with big ambitions.
To outside observers, particularly those operating in financial markets, Europe can move in mind-numbingly complex ways. Yet the goal of the summit is simple: to give fresh impetus to the institutional reforms Europe has set in motion over the past three years with the aim of returning the Continent to strong, balanced and sustainable growth.
It would be a misconception to think of this exercise as part of the crisis-management that dominated the early months of the sovereign-debt crisis, which is now thankfully receding. With the fire-fighting mostly over, we are now rebuilding a sturdier edifice from the foundations up.
Riddled with design flaws, the euro zone came close to collapse a mere decade after its launch. Our goal should not be to give it another two or three years; the new monetary union should withstand future economic shocks, survive legal challenges, win over the people and endure for many decades.
This is not an undertaking that will be completed overnight, or by merely fine-tuning existing arrangements. To make monetary union crisis-resistant, we need deeper economic and political integration, which means strengthening our existing institutions, creating new ones when needed and reinforcing their legitimacy, if necessary, via a reform of the European treaties.
Germany has been at the forefront of this ambition. It was the first to suggest establishing a permanent European safety net for states, setting up a European bank supervisor, granting the economic and monetary affairs commissioner new powers, directly electing the European Commission's president, and putting the restoration of competitiveness at the center of the efforts under way in the members states to rejuvenate our economies, to name just a few ideas.
Skeptics have at times painted such proposals as attempts to postpone the resolution of the crisis. This is at best unfair and at worst disingenuous. We must be ambitious. But we also need to be realistic in our priorities, meticulous in our work, and to follow a clear sequential order, beginning with the completion and implementation of the reforms we have already started, from Basel III to the revamped fiscal rules.
One of the euro zone's original design flaws was the lopsided incentives it introduced. Its launch heralded a sharp fall in the financing costs of even its weakest members. Flush with cheap money and the illusory wealth brought by speculative bubbles, many governments raised spending in the upturn and neglected competitiveness. Consumers, surprised by falling interest rates and seemingly ever-rising salaries, piled in on debt. In the downturn, a toothless stability pact failed to prevent an explosion of budget deficits and public debt. So as we repair the edifice, we need to be careful about restoring and maintaining balanced incentives.
Institutional and structural reforms, improved competitiveness and a powerful European bank supervisor with clear responsibilities must be the focal points of our ambitions and of our attention. Merely creating new funds or budgets will not tackle the challenges that lie ahead for the EU. We shall not waste our efforts on small-scale or preliminary schemes, but strive for a genuine step forward. Patching things over and over would merely create new sources of moral hazard.
Moral hazard is not benign. Setting the wrong incentives would mean stabbing reformist governments in the back. By suggesting that uncompetitive economic structures can endure, we would buoy the populists, scapegoat-seekers and illusion-peddlers who lurk at the fringes of our political landscapes. By discouraging reform, we would not solve Europe's imbalances but make them permanent.
This brings me to another misconception: that the crisis was caused by a lack of solidarity. Solidarity is a noble idea and among the underlying principles of the European Union. It has been very much on display as euro zone member states have stepped in to support those that had lost access to markets.
Solidarity always goes hand and hand with solidity. Because solidarity on its own can also be an empty promise. In their generosity, European welfare systems are unparalleled, both in the world and in history. If we want to maintain such a level of protection in a rapidly changing world, we must ask ourselves where the wealth to sustain it will come from.
Not from a euro-zone budget, the printing press or eurobonds. All of our economies, not just a few, will have to generate this wealth, and they can only do so if they adapt to the rigors of a hyper-competitive world economy. Prosperity is not a God-granted right—it must be earned.
The good news is that the reforms are working, as confirmed by several studies. In a recent analysis by Berenberg Bank and the Lisbon Council, Holger Schmieding wrote that if the euro zone "stays on the reform path, it could eventually emerge from the crisis as the most dynamic of the major Western economies."
The crisis is an opportunity. Harnessing it is not easy. It requires boldness, sacrifice, realism and much patience. In many ways, reforming the euro zone is as complex and ambitious an undertaking as creating it in the first place. Now is not the time to go down the path of least resistance.
Mr. Schäuble is finance minister of Germany.


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creepy weird pix of Angels Live host Bill Macdonald canoodling with what looks to be a very, very young girl turned up on a site called HALOS HEAVEN this week:
(OK, the blurring is probably unnecessary)
Not good for Billy Mac. Or at least it appears that way.
More details and photos after the jump.
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While Joe Saunders and Howie Kendrick panthered their way to lead the Angels to a thrilling Opening Day win, Bill MacDonald scored on his own near the Carl's Jr. on the first-base side of Angel Stadium.
My buddy caught this action while he got up to get some food - around the time that Howie hit his HR.
This is bad.
Well, at least Billy Mac saved on the kid's meal. (I kid.)
Macdonald has been doing SoCal sports TV for some time, and I've got plenty of friends who know him. And everyone has said to me over the years that he's a great guy.
From what I've learned, the girl is of age, in fact she's in her 20s. And the Angels already know that Macdonald, who is 50 and divorced, is dating her.
So Chris Hansen can back up the truck.
I also have an email out to Macdonald for his take on the relationship. Have yet to hear back.


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It's probably fair to say – in the nicest possible way – that many people working in IT are control freaks.
Not that they are hatching plans for world domination from the server room, or even that they want everyone running round at their beck and call. Not at all, but people in IT naturally have a strong need to be in control of things that fall within their sphere of influence. They need to know that if they run script X then the result will be Y, every time.
Christine Sexton, director of corporate information and computing services for the University of Sheffield, poked fun at these controlling tendencies during a panel debate at Computing's recent Enterprise Mobility Summit 2014.
"My network is wonderful, if only people would stop using it," she joked, describing an abortive attempt by the university IT department to block Skype a few years ago. Skype happened to be the primary channel for students to communicate with lecturers and to phone relatives (increasing numbers of students are foreign nationals), but these considerations came a distant second to the loss of control it represented.
Eventually it became apparent that trying to defend the status quo, in this case legacy infrastructure that was not designed for prevailing data flows, was a hiding to nothing, only delaying the inevitable and alienating students and colleagues in the process.
Enterprise mobility presents a particular dilemma for controlling technicians. First they love that smartphone in their pocket and all that it can do. They love how fast the technology is developing, getting thinner and lighter and more powerful with every passing month. They love the apps that let them do pretty much anything at the swipe of a screen. But at the same time they fear the consequences now that everyone can do the same thing.
And not without reason, because the issue goes beyond who buys what. No one blames the guy who ordered the stationery when someone runs with scissors, trips and does himself a mischief.
But if someone does something daft on their smartphone and puts customers' data or the company's reputation on the line then it's the IT department that can expect a sharp rap on the door.
Therefore, while others may excited about expanding the company's reach with new apps and flexible working, the IT professional can be forgiven for thinking it is all going a bit too fast.
The centre cannot hold
But as with the Skype case a degree of pragmatism is needed. From the internet to virtualisation to cloud to distributed computing, slowly but surely IT is becoming more decentralised and the old moated castle models of enterprise architecture can no longer apply.
During a major research programme Computing asked 325 IT decision makers about their policy towards mobile devices, where they lie on the spectrum between "hold on" at one extreme and "let go" at the other.
The results are enough to make a control freak weep. While three years ago 80 per cent would have put themselves in the hold on camp, that number has dropped to 70 per cent today with the expectation that in three years' time only a half will describe their mobile policy in terms of holding on (figure 1).
And there's nowhere to hide. Across all sectors, even in the most regulated like finance and the public sector, CIOs everywhere are bowing to the inevitable (figure 2).
However, this does not mean that security issues have gone away. Far from it. Rather, responsibility for security of the devices is being devolved from IT to other departments and individuals (the survey showed BYOD to be the strategy most likely to be in place in three years' time).
"The business is now controlling a lot more of what goes on," said a mobility and access architect, in the banking sector.
However, others warned against going too far too fast.
"The heightened security issues and risk issues that have hit the press in the last 12 months have definitely moved the needle more towards IT holding on," said a mobility manager at a pharmaceuticals firm.
So the slow decentralisation of control of mobile devices proceeds as a two-steps-forward-one-step-back kind of process. While most CIOs acknowledge its inevitability, they are determined not just to let go before they can be sure sensitive corporate data is protected.
Holding on while letting go
Policy is moving away from protecting the device and on to the data and applications stored on it, and CIOs are looking to software such as MDM and MAM (mobile device/application management), encryption, authentication and data governance techniques to ensure data does not fall into the wrong hands even if a device goes missing.
But the MDM and MAM markets are still immature (with the exception of BlackBerry's BES) and many CIOs will be reluctant to make stake their company's (and their own) reputation on an unsuitable solution.
"Small vendors do one or two of these [MDM services]," said BlueCat Networks CTO Andrew Wertkin at the Summit. "But nobody does end to end. I think that shows that there's something fundamentally wrong with the market definition of MDM".
An alternative to remotely controlling the device (MDM) or the applications (MAM) is the thin client/virtual desktop approach where sensitive data is not stored on the device at all.
The head of IT at a gaming firm was not prepared to take a gamble with MDM or MAM when liability for any loss will still fall on his department.
"You've got these alternatives: one, you use an MDM or MAM solution; or two, you provide applications that give access to the data. We've taken the second route because we're saying I don't give a monkey's what is on their device and if it's their device, and if I've got no visibility of it, I've got no liability for it…We have a sandboxed app and we put the Citrix client on, so it's just a thin client end point…"
Others saw an opportunity to build out on what was already in place.
"We have had thin access for many years. Once people got used to it was very well received. For us it was for security but also to allow access to large amounts of users," said the mobility and access architect of a bank.
"The MDM and MAM piece seems to be quite an isolated offering, more for quite specific tasks. You don't roll out MDM to everybody – you would have too much control of their devices," he added, indicating that there is such a thing as too much control.
Thirty five per cent of the respondents said they have thin client/desktop virtualisation in place, with a further 16 per cent planning a roll out in the next 12 months. Interestingly for a technology that is generally associated with large organisations, the size profile was no different from the sample average. VDI may have a significant future in the BYOD world we are entering now.
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READING — Mayor Vaughn D. Spencer said he doesn't want to be remembered as the man who was mayor when the Pagoda tumbled down Mount Penn into City Park.
But among the myriad financial problems the city faces is the fact that a section of the retaining wall supporting the foundation of the city landmark has collapsed, and more of the wall is in danger of crumbling.
If the wall goes, the Pagoda could be next.
"It's a serious problem because that is the foundation wall and a large piece of it is gone," Spencer said. "Once you get that kind of erosion going, it's hard to stop."
Public Works Director Charles M. Jones said he doesn't think a wall collapse would necessarily endanger the foundation of the Pagoda.
"I don't believe it has any direct effect on the Pagoda," Jones added. "The (Pagoda) building is set back from the wall.
"I don't know what the foundation of the Pagoda looks like underground, but to have a building of that size standing for 100 years, I would think it is substantial."
Spencer said city crews have cordoned off the area to prevent tourists from stumbling into a hole where ground has sunk at the top of the wall. The problem now is to find out exactly how much work is needed to repair the wall and halt its incessant erosion.
"The retaining walls were just stacked stones; they didn't have any cement in them," said Cindy L. Kauffman, who manages the Pagoda for the nonprofit Reading Pagoda Foundation.
"These retaining walls are over 100 years old, and this one has been showing its age," Kauffman said. "The hard rain we've had over the past year has made it a lot weaker."
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Kauffman said that when restoration work was done at the Pagoda in 2008-09, the retaining walls were not included in the project. Kauffman also stressed that the retaining wall supports the Pagoda foundation but is not part of the foundation.
"It's not the actual foundation of the Pagoda; it's the retaining wall in front of it," she said. "If it's let go for a long time, it could affect the foundation of the Pagoda.
"In the restoration of 2008-09, engineers told the city the wall was in serious condition and something needed to be done, and nothing has been done," Kauffman said. "It's not something that has to be done tomorrow, but there has to be some plan put in place so it is addressed in the near future."
Jones said the retaining wall was included in the original list of repairs for the 2008-09 renovation project, but that list was pared down as costs steadily rose. Despite the efforts at cost controls, the final project eventually went from $1.1 million at the start to $1.39 million at the end of 2008 to the final price of $1.5 million.
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Jones said city staff did an initial assessment of the collapse of a corner section of the retaining wall, estimated as a 12-by-20-foot hole, and came up with a $250,000 initial estimate. The city has since asked a local engineering firm to do a study of the retaining wall and provide options for repairs and a more exact price estimate.
"At this point it could be lower, or it could be higher," Jones said. "We expect to hear from them in about two weeks."
City staff are exploring ways to raise the funds for the repairs. In the meantime, Jones said he's confident the rest of the retaining wall will remain intact for the time being.
"I don't believe it's in imminent danger of collapsing," Jones said. "It's been in that condition for a few years. We may lose a few more rocks that will fall down."
The bottom line is that the wall has to be fixed, he said.
"If we lost the whole wall, if nothing's done to stabilize what's left, it could erode back to the Pagoda," he said.
Dan Kelly is a staff writer for the Reading Eagle
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