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Recent activity – including the acquisitions of SuccessFactors by SAP and Rypple by Salesforce – is pumping new energy into web-based HR software in the HCM market. Things are clearly heating up in this sector, and investors have taken note. In the last two weeks, VC funds have been flowing into the human resources software market, with large investments in SmartRecruiters and iCIMS. As such, 2012 shows much promise for the continued expansion of HR solutions into the Cloud, as well as further integration of social media functionality into HR applications.
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Over the years, SuccessFactors added analytics and reporting capabilities to their product, in part through the acquisition of Inform Business Impact (previously InfoHRM) in early 2010. "The ability to create some telling analytics will set one vendor ahead, because that's what it's going to take to give HR a seat at the table," says independent HR technology consultant Tiffani Murray. With SAP's vast resources and experience delivering hard data in the ERP space, there's a great opportunity here to further develop an HR analytics tool the market craves. If SAP is successful, we might expect to see more acquisitions at the intersection of HR and analytics in 2012.
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Your ability to identify and track trends in your retention rates, boosts in productivity, and benchmark performance will set your HR department apart from your competitors. And though HR has never had a problem with gathering data, HR software is recently making great strides in delivering technology that allows them to use that data. Analytics and Reporting Tools like eThority's Workforce Analytics 5.0 (acquired by Equifax and integrated into their TALX business unit last October) will continue to drive innovation in HR software.
As legacy vendors continue their age-old ERP battle, and as innovative companies like Salesforce continue to dazzle, the moves made by these (rather different) business management providers have certainly set the stage for an exciting 2012. Customers and analysts alike would be wise to pay attention to continued movement in the market in the coming months.
For further reading, check out the full analysis and forecast on my HR blog at: http://blog.softwareadvice.com/articles/hr/the-hr-software-round-up-setting-the-stage-for-2012-1011912/. Have your own thoughts? Join the discussion, and leave a comment.
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- Should SAP + SuccessFactors Worry Salesforce.com? (informationweek.com)
- Salesforce.com Acquires Rypple for Push Into Cloud HR Software (pcworld.com)
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CenturyLink has announced that application server solutions from GENBAND are now available as part of CenturyLink's Networx contracts. The General Services Administration (GSA)'s Networx program includes the largest telecommunications contract vehicles ever awarded by the federal government. CenturyLink recently secured an extension through spring 2020 of its offerings available to federal government agencies via GSA's Networx Universal and Enterprise contracts. GENBAND's EXPERiUS™ Application...
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"delaPlex is a software development company. We do team-based outsourcing development," explained Mark Rivers, COO and Co-founder of delaPlex Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of our lives. Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with embedded artificial intelligence, wh...
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"We work in the area of Big Data analytics and Big Data analytics is a very crowded space - you have Hadoop, ETL, warehousing, visualization and there's a lot of effort trying to get these tools to talk to each other," explained Mukund Deshpande, head of the Analytics practice at Accelerite, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann returns to 'DevOps at Cloud Expo 2016' as Conference Chair The @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo will take place on November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. "DevOps is set to be one of the most profound disruptions to hit IT in decades," said Andi Mann. "It is a natural extension of cloud computing, and I have seen both firsthand and in independent research the fantastic results DevOps delivers. So I am excited t...
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The cloud promises new levels of agility and cost-savings for Big Data, data warehousing and analytics. But it's challenging to understand all the options – from IaaS and PaaS to newer services like HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service). In her session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Hannah Smalltree, a director at Cazena, provided an educational overview of emerging "as-a-service" options for Big Data in the cloud. This is critical background for IT and data profession...
Jun. 30, 2016 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 565
Connected devices and the industrial internet are growing exponentially every year with Cisco expecting 50 billion devices to be in operation by 2020. In this period of growth, location-based insights are becoming invaluable to many businesses as they adopt new connected technologies. Knowing when and where these devices connect from is critical for a number of scenarios in supply chain management, disaster management, emergency response, M2M, location marketing and more. In his session at @Th...
Jun. 30, 2016 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,393
In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain. Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life sett...
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IoT is rapidly changing the way enterprises are using data to improve business decision-making. In order to derive business value, organizations must unlock insights from the data gathered and then act on these. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, and Peter Shashkin, Head of Development Department at EastBanc Technologies, discussed how one organization leveraged IoT, cloud technology and data analysis to improve customer experiences and effi...
Jun. 30, 2016 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 680
Basho Technologies has announced the latest release of Basho Riak TS, version 1.3. Riak TS is an enterprise-grade NoSQL database optimized for Internet of Things (IoT). The open source version enables developers to download the software for free and use it in production as well as make contributions to the code and develop applications around Riak TS. Enhancements to Riak TS make it quick, easy and cost-effective to spin up an instance to test new ideas and build IoT applications. In addition to...
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An elaborate "piracy" phishing operation is targeting U.S. Internet providers and subscribers. Scammers are using the name of anti-piracy tracking company IP-Echelon and rightsholders such as Lionsgate, to send fake DMCA notices and settlement demands to ISPs. U.S. law enforcement has been notified and is currently investigating the matter.
Researchers Crack 'Social DRM' EBook Watermarks
Researchers have released a report dissecting the BooXtream 'Social DRM' eBook watermarking system. Inspired by publisher Verso who refused to remove the DRM from an Aaron Swartz book, the Institute for Biblio-Immunology responded by tearing down the privacy-busting system.


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Colorado U.S. Olympic Team Members
The United States Olympic Team has several Colorado athletes representing.
The United States Olympic Team has several Colorado athletes representing.
When J.K. Rowling first revealed there was an American version of Howgarts, Harry Potter fans west of the Atlantic Ocean collectively freaked out. We too get our own school of witchcraft and wizardry?! Yep, and now we know a ton of new details about the school's history, houses, and founder.
Blake Shelton's new single "She's Got a Way with Words" has the singer bitter at an ex, but the video shows no remorse.
Where can you go in Grand Junction to buy or rent movies on a budget? For those short on cash, $2 pretty much represents the ceiling one can pay for a movie. Can you find a newer movie for purchase or rent anywhere in the valley for that price? Absolutely!
The chrome buffalo standing in the Wells Fargo courtyard on the corner of 4th and Main St. in downtown Grand Junction is one of Colorado's "oddities and attractions."
At least three suicide bombers set off explosions at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 28 and injuring 60.
I know it's summer already, but that doesn't mean the local Grand Junction tanning salons are seeing any less business. I actually tan, because it's the only way I can deal with my farmer's tan. I'm on the river and outside so often, that I'll get tan everywhere other than where my shirt (or life vest) is, and it really bothers me.
Western Colorado residents are asked to come together Thursday night, June 30, for a candlelight vigil at St. Mary's hospital in support of the victim of last week's rollover accident. Kent Ryser was seriously injured following the accident on the highway between Steamboat Springs and Grand Junction.
Mikkail Jamal Shaw, who plead guilty to robbing Scotty McCreery and his friends in 2014, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
If you would like to get out and explore Western Colorado's great outdoors, the Mesa County Central Library has the materials you need, available for checkout.


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PROVO Cats may have nine lives, but dogs are pretty resilient, too.
Case in point: Dex, a police-trained dog owned by the Utah County Sheriff's Department, suffered a serious fall last week in the line of duty.
Dex took quite a tumble but is expected to rebound quickly after taking some time off to, well, lick his wounds.
"We expect that he'll be headed back to work . . . but he's going to be out of action for a while," said sheriff's deputy Cory Wride, who has handled the Belgian Malinois for eight months.
On Wednesday, Dex and his deputy partner answered a call to help parole officers locate and apprehend a person who was considered by police to be armed and dangerous.
The pair were sent to look in an abandoned home in Provo where the suspect had allegedly fled, although he was later arrested at a nearby family residence.
As officers searched the ground level for the suspect, Wride said they came upon a crawl space that appeared to have been recently opened.
With his gifted nose and smaller stature, Dex was the obvious choice to explore the attic.
Unsuccessful in finding anything, the 7-year-old dog started back toward the opening when the ceiling began to collapse around him.
Though he tried to maneuver through the wreckage, the floor gave way before Dex could make it back. The dog dropped 11 feet to the hard concrete floor of a garage below.
"He came down awkward and landed on the side of his mouth," Wride remembered. "He was pretty vocal about his pain, but when I got over to him he seemed to calm down."
Dex sustained a fracture to one canine tooth and six fractures to his left front leg. His injuries required two surgeries. He now has 10 screws, two plates and 24 staples in his elbow.
"Dex has been a real trooper about all of this," said Wride's wife, Nannette.
After spending a few days at an Orem pet hospital, Dex returned home to Wride's Spanish Fork home. That arrangement is typical of K-9 dogs, who receive years of training.
However, the dogs' first priority is always the safety of their human counterparts, Wride said.
"He's invaluable," Wride said. "If it wasn't for Dex, one of us would have had to go up into that crawl space."
Utah County Sheriff Sgt. Dennis Harris said Dex won't be allowed to return to duty for at least 12 more weeks. Wride's wife said the couple's children dote on the dog."I realized how close we were the other night when he got hurt," Wride said. "I probably shouldn't use this analogy, but it was like having a child fall through the ceiling."
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Reading many comments in the past couple of days about the slaughter in Orlando (and really, is there a more accurate word?) has brought to mind many issues. I agree that there needs to be a long, hard look at sensible gun regulation. It's WAY past time. The Republicans need to accep this and stop obstructing even reasonable proposals. But equally, the Democrats need to acknowledge that gun laws will not stop evil people, and that a big problem both in the US and elsewhere is the vile nature of radical Islamic terrorism. President Obama cannot even seem to say the words. Today, a terrible story has arrived from France, very close to where I used to work. about 50 km west of central Paris, a "French citizen" decided that he would add his little bit to jihad by killing two police officers. So, Larossi Abbala went to the Yvelines home of two married officers (Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42 and Jessiva Schneider, 35), waited outside, stabbed the husband, entered the home, killed the wife. All the while, the couple's three year old son sat, terrified, behind the killer as he broadcast his cartoonishly evil thoughts through YouTube and Twitter. The brave leaders of ISIS immediately praised this "soldier" for killing an unarmed man and woman in front of their terrified child. http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2016/06/14/01016-20160614ARTFIG00119-attaque-assaillant-enquete-les-faits-connus-sur-le-meurtre-de-deux-policiers.php?redirect_premium Like Orlando, news reports reveal that this killer was 'known to authorities.' Why, if these guys are "known to authorities," are they walking around? How do they obtain weapons? We can talk about 'free' college, or net neutrality, or any other government goodie. But a government that cannot fulfil its most basic responsibility - protecting people from predators - does not deserve to have even an ounce more responsibility given to it. Shockingly, idiots in Paris today (in addition to damaging Hopital Necker-Enfants malades, the leading children's hospitla in France) were marching chanting "tout le monde deteste la police" as these events unfolded. To add to the irony, among the worst of the violence occurred in front of the Hotel des Invalides - a historical hospital and retirement home for soldiers wounded defending France. The news are (again, like Orlando) quick to point out that the murderer was a citizen; I wonder - if asked, would this guy say he was French? Would Omar Mateen consider himself an American? A nation is more than a place to live and make money. What happened in Orlando Saturday and Paris today is not about "angry young men with easy access to guns." Not completely. There are lots of angry young men. Our leadership needs to find the courage to say out loud what is happening.
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
If You Cannot Say it, You Cannot Do it
Reading many comments in the past couple of days about the slaughter in Orlando (and really, is there a more accurate word?) has brought to mind many issues. I agree that there needs to be a long, hard look at sensible gun regulation. It's WAY past time. The Republicans need to accep this and stop obstructing even reasonable proposals. But equally, the Democrats need to acknowledge that gun laws will not stop evil people, and that a big problem both in the US and elsewhere is the vile nature of radical Islamic terrorism. President Obama cannot even seem to say the words. Today, a terrible story has arrived from France, very close to where I used to work. about 50 km west of central Paris, a "French citizen" decided that he would add his little bit to jihad by killing two police officers. So, Larossi Abbala went to the Yvelines home of two married officers (Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42 and Jessiva Schneider, 35), waited outside, stabbed the husband, entered the home, killed the wife. All the while, the couple's three year old son sat, terrified, behind the killer as he broadcast his cartoonishly evil thoughts through YouTube and Twitter. The brave leaders of ISIS immediately praised this "soldier" for killing an unarmed man and woman in front of their terrified child. http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2016/06/14/01016-20160614ARTFIG00119-attaque-assaillant-enquete-les-faits-connus-sur-le-meurtre-de-deux-policiers.php?redirect_premium Like Orlando, news reports reveal that this killer was 'known to authorities.' Why, if these guys are "known to authorities," are they walking around? How do they obtain weapons? We can talk about 'free' college, or net neutrality, or any other government goodie. But a government that cannot fulfil its most basic responsibility - protecting people from predators - does not deserve to have even an ounce more responsibility given to it. Shockingly, idiots in Paris today (in addition to damaging Hopital Necker-Enfants malades, the leading children's hospitla in France) were marching chanting "tout le monde deteste la police" as these events unfolded. To add to the irony, among the worst of the violence occurred in front of the Hotel des Invalides - a historical hospital and retirement home for soldiers wounded defending France. The news are (again, like Orlando) quick to point out that the murderer was a citizen; I wonder - if asked, would this guy say he was French? Would Omar Mateen consider himself an American? A nation is more than a place to live and make money. What happened in Orlando Saturday and Paris today is not about "angry young men with easy access to guns." Not completely. There are lots of angry young men. Our leadership needs to find the courage to say out loud what is happening.
Labels: Magnanville; Orlando; ISIS
Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Pack Your Bags (eh!)
Just read that Lena Dunham, the "star" of the cable show "Girls" has joined the celebrity short bus that doubles as a political bandwagon by threatening to leave the US if Donald Trump is elected.
Quoting the very modestly talented, but very foul-mouthed actress:
I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will, I know a lovely place in Vancouver and I can get my work done from there.
I've written about Dunham before, but suffice it to say, I've seen her show; I've seen her forays into pop politics before.
It's hard to say which underwhelms me more.
But when I read this latest eructation, I was genuinely conflicted.
On the one hand, as a native-born Canadian, I would not wish Lena Dunham on the land of my birth. Additionally, I have relatives in Vancouver, and they do not deserve this sort of punishment.
On the other hand, as a current American, I see the up-side here.
- Hillary Clinton not in power
- One less middling, big-mouthed, self-indulgent millenial taking up space here in California
- Four years of President Oompa Loompa
- We owe them for Justin Beiber.
That looks like a win-win-win-win to me. That's a DOUBLE win-win.
So with apologies to my former mates, the Canadian half of my family, and my uncle Bob specifically, I am all in to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
Labels: Donald Trump; Lena Dunham
Monday, 25 April 2016
Red, White, and Blue Monday
News feed today listing events of this day (25th April) in history headlined the 40th anniversary of the famous "American Flag" incident. It was 40 years ago to the day that Chicago Cubs' CF Rick Monday intervened when two individuals jumped the outfield fence at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and tried to set the American flag on fire.
Monday, who had spent time in the US Marine Corps Reserves, saw a man and his (believe it or not, 11-year old) son trying to burn the flag for reasons that have never been made clear, raced in and saved the day. The miscreants received a $60 trespassing fine and probation. Monday kept (and still, apparently has) the flag following the legal proceedings.
Rick Monday is the answer to the trivia question "Who was the first player ever chosen in the baseball amateur draft (1965)." Though not a great player, he had a decent career, highlighted by the "Blue Monday" home run off Montreal ace Steve Rodgers in 1981, ending the Expos' sole post-season appearance and propelling the Dodgers, ultimately to the World Series' title.
But the former Athletic, Cub, and Dodger outfielder is probably best remembered for the play he made in shallow left field in April 40 years ago.
Labels: Rick Monday; baseball
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
The Left Glove Finally Comes Off
The US presidential election is coming into the home-stretch. Much of the fun and games has been on the Republican side, as New York real estate mogul and pitchman Donald Trump has sucked up much of the oxygen with his quixotic bid for the nomination.
On the Democratic side, it's been until recently a fairly staid affair - former New York senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the heavy favourite and presumptive nominee. She had some token opposition from ex-Maryland governor Martin O'Malley, former senator Jim Webb, and current space cadet Lincoln Chaffee (hint: running on a platform that promises to bring the metric system to the US is generally not a good jumping-off point.)
O'Malley got burnt quickly, in part because of all of the violence ginned up by the so-called "Black Lives Matter" movement, who pointed to his time as the leader of Baltimore. Webb flamed out because, well, frankly a somewhat conservative southerner belongs in the Democratic Party when a blended bass fish belong in a chocolate milkshake.
It looked more a coronation than a contest, and the only speed bump for Herself was current Vermont senator Bernard Sanders. And Sanders seemed too timid to actually hit Mrs Clinton on any of the various weak spots she presents.
Her fast and loose (and if we are being honest, stupid) use of an email server essentially located in her suburban NY closet to send high clearance documents was off the table. Her mistakes in handling the emerging crisis in the middle east were not mentioned. And even her possibly most vulnerable exposure - her cozy relationship with the big Wall Street banks was only talked about by Sanders in the hushest of tones.
I suspect that Sanders had no real fantasies about actually getting the nomination, and thus his real purpose to be in the primaries was to (a) try to make the Democrats actually talk about issues that the Democratic Party pretends to care about and (b) to provide a sparring partner for Hillary Clinton.
Well, fast forward to April 2016.
Things are seldom what they seem.
There is an old aphorism about just what a dog would do if it actually caught the cars it chased. Mr Sanders seems to be intent on forcing the issue.
Tuesday, the voters in New York go to the polls, and the race is far, far too close for comfort for the imperious senator for Goldman-Sachs. She still leads Sanders by a comfortable margin in the delegate count, which is not to add the so-called "super delegates" - party apparatchiks who are not bound by such inconveniences as the voters - who are overwhelmingly siding with Hillary.
So recently, the gloves have, as they say, come off. At least the left glove.
And Mrs Clinton and, more to the point, her supporters, are crying foul.
As Senator Sanders has drawn closer, he and his backers are beginning to point out what has been obvious to most of us all along - that Hillary Clinton's putative fight "for the rest of us" against malign, powerful interests has more than a whiff of insincerity.
This past week, the Clinton Campaign held two fundraisers here in California - hosted by A-List actor George Clooney - in which donors, er, supporters, ponied up tens of thousands of dollars a plate to break bread with him and, of course, Hillary. I suspect not one of those sitting down to nosh was a 'little guy.'
Sanders backers gathered at the street and tossed dollar bills at Hillary's motorcade as it passed, ostensibly calling attention to just how coin-operated she is. And that's being kind, since the money being thrown folded.
MSNBC to the rescue; a meme is making rounds on the web that this is some sort of misogynist act, and that those tossing dollars at her motorcade are insinuating that Hillary is in fact, some sort of pole dancer.
I had not thought of that, and I suspect, neither had the protesters, a fair number of whom were women.
And there is an equally shrill objection to calling Mrs Clinton a corporate "whore."
Now, the term "whore" is impolitic to be sure. But calling a politician who takes big money donations a corporate whore is hardly novel. Mitt Romney was accused famously of "whoring out Big Bird" in 2012.
If calling someone a "whore" is beyond the pale (and if we are being honest, it's at the least nasty and unbecoming), that Hillary Clinton is a women should not innoculate her against an attack that probably could be traced to Pericles and his whoring Athens out to toga merchants.
I am surely not a liberal, and I am far, far from a Democrat, and thus I don't have a particular dog in this fight (note: a metaphor, not an attack on Mrs Clinton's appearance, so no need to comment.) But I do take a certain schadenfrueude watching Mrs Clinton's flying monkeys squawk about how unfair it is for Sanders to talk about her cozy Wall Street relationship, or how hypocritical it is for Bernie Sanders to fly to the Vatican (with a massive carbon footprint) to talk about climate change.
|I'll Get You, My Pretties! And Your Little Dog, TOO!
I suspect that Hillary Clinton is still going to win the Democratic Party nomination. I suspect that she is going to go on and defeat Donald Trump (or whomever Republicans, Inc. put in his place).
But these lame, whiny, entitled defences she offers are a bad omen.
We've spent nearly eight years where virtually any complaint about President Obama is painted as a racist attack, no matter how valid. Four (or God forbid, eight) years where it is impossible to criticise the president lest one be called a misogynist ain't good for the country. For a free society to function, it is necessary that the leadership be open to opposition and not react like an 8 year old screeching about "fairness."
Put simply, Mrs Clinton - if you want to be in the big chair, put on your big girl pantsuit.
Criticism goes with the job, I am afraid. Even for a ruler with an army of flying monkeys.
Labels: #Campaign; #Hillary; #Bernie
Friday, 15 April 2016
Oh, (no) Canada!
The 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs kicked off last night, which to a Toronto Maple Leafs' fan can only one thing.
It's time to start watching the Blue Jays next season of mediocrity.
The Leafs have not won the Cup since 1967 - the year my mother and father were married, and three years before I came to the world only a few blocks away Toronto General Hospital. Even better, the team has not even made the finals in that span.
I live in San Jose, California these days, and cheer for the Sharks these days. Of course, the Sharks differ from the Leafs in that they get to round two of the playoffs before choking, rather than skipping the playoffs altogether.
This year, it's not just Maple Leaf fans who are shut out.
For the first time since 1970, no team from Canada has qualified for the playoffs. Not once will a playoff puck be dropped in a Canadian city this year.
Granted, more than two thirds of the teams now play in the US, and the population of Canada is roughly 10 per cent of its huge neighbour to the south. Canadian players still comprise the bulk of the guys who lace up each game, however.
But even that is changing - the 2015-2016 season is the first time in the 98 years of the NHL, less than half of the players are Canadian. According to TSN, 50.2% of the roster spots are made up of non-Canadian-born players.
Americans are the next-largest group (about 25%), but even their numbers have eroded slightly, with Swedes and Russians picking up the slack.
Oh well; here is a flashback to 1992, when the Blue Jays took the World Series.
|"For we got your World Series trophy. And we might not be giving it back...."
Monday, 21 March 2016
The Smell of Fear
Sunday marked the official first day of spring on the calendar here in the northern hemisphere. It's also the beginning of Easter Week. Typically it's a time of hope. Of rebirth.
2016 is also an election year in the US, and this fall, Americans will elect a new president following eight decidedly mixed years under the Obama administration. We have spent the last few years living abroad in France, so this will be our first election here for a couple of cycles.
I would say that spring, 2016 is a time not of hope, but rather one of fear. There is a lot of fear in the air. A lot of recrimination. A lot of anger.
Much of the fear and anger is swirling around Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Some of the noise of course comes from his likely opponents in the fall on the Democratic party side; this is of course not surprising. What is more unexpected has been the tone of the attacks, which have been less about policy differences between the Democrats and Republicans, and have instead focused on how Donald Trump is an existential threat to American values themselves; how Donald Trump is unfit to be president. Indeed, on how Mr Trump is practically the verbum caro factum of racist, xenophobic, misogynistic ideas that previously have been confined to the darkest corners of the political zoo.
Equally surprising, these cries have been joined from an increasingly panicked chorus from Trump's fellow Republicans.
Things have gotten even uglier, with "protestors" who have begun to show in numbers and strength at Trump rallies with a thinly-veiled agenda simply to make it impossible for him to speak.
Let me state in advance that
- I voted for Mr Obama eight years ago during a similar time of chaos and fear, in part because he promised to be something of a uniter who would try to end the foreign wars
- I am not a supporter or fan of Donald Trump, who I think at the least lacks practical experience to be president (CEO of the country is not an entry-level job), and who has thus not articulated any sort of specific, workable plan
That said, looking at screaming protestors on the one hand who make it impossible for Trump to speak, and on the other, to the increasingly ridiculous, paranoid attacks on him and his supporters from the Democrats and Republicans, I'm left more with a set of questions rather than serious thoughts.
Trump's campaign was first greeted with incredulity and jokes - the New York Daily News ran cover stories with Trump caricatured in clown makeup, and his candidacy was mostly covered as a sort of running joke.
Which it was.
Well, the joke thus far has been on the leadership of the crumbling Republican party, who now face the real challenge of whether to accept the likelihood that Trump will be their party banner carrier in November or to continue the quixotic battle to unite behind Ted Cruz or John Kasich as the only two opponents left on the battlefield.
The current Republican leadership have only themselves to blame - the party fielded a pretty poor group of warmed-over candidates (Jeb Bush?), for years have said that tax cuts are the solution to every problem, have more or less ignored the problem of illegal immigration - which has been terrific for their big businesses backers - while talking tough about the border, and have supported a disastrous policy of invade the world/invite the world that has squandered billions of dollars on hopeless foreign wars.
Reince Priebus deserves Donald Trump.
In the end, it looks like it is going to be Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton; Hillary's backers, having survived the scare of Bernard Sanders, are turning their focus now on Trump.
Now, Trump has made some pretty risible claims about Mexican immigrants (whatever one thinks about illegal immigration, the idea that the bulk of illegals in the US are drug mules or rapists is simply ridiculous); his plans to look at a ban of ALL immigration from Islamic countries is poorly considered. His signature proposal to build a wall along the border is not practical.
But I suggest that if one looks at the facts, the anger and vitriol against Trump is misguided.
Mrs Clinton says she wants at the centre of her campaign to help the middle class and to level the economic playing field. Inequality is the root of all evils.
Mrs Clinton has late in life, apparently, discovered religion.
Donald Trump may not be the terrific businessman he clains, but I would ask, for the past 25 years, has it been Donald Trump who, first in the White House, then the Senate, who helped shape public policies that led to the 2008 financial crisis? Was Donald Trump the Senator from New York who was taking millions of dollars from Wall Street firms?
Who is to blame for the alleged inequality in our system?
Donald Trump is attacked because he says impolitic things about Muslims, and wants to ban them. He's an Islamophobic bigot.
OK. Which person - Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton - voted to support the war in Iraq?
Trump doesn't like refugees, and would block their entry.
OK. Who - Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State - helped topple the government in Egypt, helped foment the civil war in Syria, and supported the efforts to overthrow Muamar Gaddafi? Was it Donald Trump who read (and foolishly) believed stories about liberal-minded revolutionaries in the Arab Spring, believed to be "liberal" for the incredibly shallow reason that they used Twitter and Facebook?
Donald Trump may speak poorly of refugees; Hillary Clinton through her policy choices creates refugees.
The popular press - most recently this weekend, the Los Angeles Times - have run editorials that claim Trump is unfit to be president. He may be. The Times think so, because of the tone of his words.
I suggest that because of the record of her choices, Hillary Clinton is unfit for public service. Period.
Trump says ugly things. Clinton votes for to make them happen.
One of the most horrible images I've experienced is the infamous photo of little Alan Kurdi, a tiny three year old boy who lost his life on a Turkish beach in September, 2015. It's a horrifying image. A haunting one. A lifeless little body in a red tee shirt and tiny sneakers.
Donald Trump's words did not kill that little boy. Hillary Clinton and Samantha Powers and other people in the US State department who pushed the Arab Spring lie on the world, I'm less convinced. Hillary, at the time describing the US intervention in Libya, quipped "We came, we saw he (Gaddafi) died."
Whatever Donald Trump's shortcomings, one simply must think of this incredibly shallow, callow statement alongside the images of little Alan Kurdi and ask is it Donald Trump who is unfit to be president?
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
People, Get Ready
|But There's a Warning Sign on the Road Ahead....
Donald Trump, the quixotic leading contender for the Republican Party easily took the Wolverine State. But the real interest was on the Democratic side, where upstart Bernie Sanders topped rival Hillary Clinton, who had lead in polls by upwards of 20% prior to the actual vote.
Mrs Clinton still has a large lead, the support of her party leadership, a huge number of 'super delegates," and, most importantly in Democratic primaries, the overwhelming support of black voters.
Without the support of blacks, it is impossible for a Democrat to win his party's nomination, let alone the general election. This fact and this fact alone point to an eventual victory for the Senator from New York.
Hillary's failure to take Michigan has to be seen as a gathering storm for the Democratic Party. I'm reminded of the famous poem of Thomas Hardy about the sinking of the Titanic, entitled The Convergence of the Twain.
Well: while was fashioning
This creature of cleaving wing,
The imminent will that stirs and urges everything
Prepared a sinister mate
For her — so gaily great
A shape of ice, for the time
far and dissociate.
And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue
In shadowy silent distance
grew the Iceberg too.
Alien they seemed to be;
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history
These are voters who are less likely to overlook Mrs Clinton's cozy, Wall Street relations, her flip-flopping on the trans-Pacific trade agreement, or her casual flexibility on the Keystone Pipeline.
Mrs Clinton won all three in 2008, but eventually, she lost the race to Barack Obama. President Obama won all three states.
The popular press, the Democratic Party, and even the Republicans themselves have gone from laughing about Donald Trump to a mixture of fear and hostility. Trump right now seems very likely to get the nomination.
There is a very real possibility that Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton's iceberg.
Trump's messages are resonating with down-market, blue collar voters who used to be the core of the Democratic party. And therein lies the threat to the good ship Clinton.
Much has been made over the months of how Trump is insulting Latinos and turning of Muslims. This may be true. Recently, a lot of noise was made when David Duke, the former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan "endorsed" Trump, and Trump fumbled in repudiating Duke with sufficient speed.
There has been a lot of ink spilt writing about the growth of Latino power at the ballot box, but the simple fact is, Latinos punch way below their weight in federal elections. For one, despite their numbers as the second largest ethnic group in the US, because many are immigrants, they are not eligible to vote. Latinos make up nearly 20% of the population, but less than 10% of the electorate.
Second, and more important, Latinos are heavily concentrated in states like California, Texas, and New York. These states are all "safe" states - California and New York solidly blue; Texas, reliably red. In the states of Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, and Pennsylvania - the big "swing" states - they are not 5% of the voting population in any one.
The Democrats' maths count in their column Michigan and Pennsylvania, and Ohio is perhaps the swing state. Latino voters are likely to make up less than two per cent of the vote in each. Their vote is unlikely to have any significant impact.
Which brings us back to last night. Hillary Clinton failed to connect with Michiganders. It was close, but her exposed weakness with blue collar white voters should scare Democrats, and Trump's appeal should not be treated as a punchline for elitist jokes about the uneducated.
This is not to say that Donald Trump is going to win the nomination of his party -or- the general election. But the unsinkable Hillary Clinton is showing signs of leaks.
Thursday, 3 March 2016
You. Are. A. Programmer.
Last night before bed, I took our dog out for a walk. As I do almost every night. I wish I had the card above, for I surely would have been a winner. Now that Donald Trump is looking more and more like he is going to be the Republican nominee to run for Oompa Loompa in Chief, winning is important. Winning a lot.
Anyhow, as we made our way down the street, I came across a "hipster" who ticked most of the boxes above.
Note, I live in San Francisco, California, in the neighbourhood locally called "South Beach." It - along with perhaps the Mission District - is close to the epi-centre of local hipsterism. I'm surrounded by earnest young adults, the sort who frequent the notorious "Google Buses" and work for companies like Yo dot Com (motto: Twitter? Pffffft. 140 characters is too many).
Ridiculous, oversized-glasses? Check. Ill-fitting "slim fit" pants? Check. Tee shirt sporting a product that has been defunct longer than the guy wearing it has been alive, trying too hard to be "ironic?" Check. Backpack with company logo prominently displayed? Check.
What caught my attention was not his cadre of hipster tokens alerting the other members of the tribe that he belongs, but his earnest attempt to chat up the girl he was with.
About his work as a "coder."
Maybe I am getting old, but when did boasting about how you "code" (when did "code" become a verb?) become a strategy to attract the attention of women? Add to the mix, he mentioned how his *mom* put him on the path to computer nirvana by signing him up for computer camp back in the early '00s.
That is the sort of thing that we would try to obscure from social interactions, right after not bragging about our comic book collection abd before our dedication to our level 8 druid in Dungeons and Dragons.
So this guy "codes" all day (and apparently, well into the night - it was 10.30 PM), fuelled by Red Bull in his skinny jeans and Tab tee. He was (as many of these hipsters do) describing his thrilling life "disrupting the paradigm in the cloud," or something like that.
Some advice:
Dude; you don't "code." You are a programmer. You write computer programmes. At least until your job finds itself in the way of Infosys consultants.
You have a degree in computer "science." An old friend commented once that any discipline that has to put the word "science" in its title probably isn't. Chemists typically discuss their degrees in "chemistry," not "chemical science." Adding "science" is the sort of bullshit neologism that years ago magically transformed garbage men into sanitation engineers faster than you could say Ed Norton.
There is nothing wrong with programming. It's a useful, often productive job.
But please.
Backpacks are for college students. Wearing a faux vintage tee shirt doesn't make you Indiana Jones.
Put on your big boy pants and grow up.
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Friday, 29 January 2016
I Saw a Ship a Sailing, Part 3
Almost three years ago, I learnt of the news that a friend (Ben C) from my days in college had been diagnosed with a brain tumour; the tumour was operable, thankfully, and he underwent a successful surgery in May 2013.
Six months later, as Ben celebrated birthday number 44, the news was good and looking better. Ben was preparing to take his kids to skate in, of all places, Fenway Park in Boston (the field was being prepared for the annual "Winter Classic" outdoor hockey match).
Today, heard that Ben has taken a bit of a turn, though he is still battling. The tumour has returned, and he has faced some rough seas.
More than 25 years ago, Ben and I were on the baseball team at Dartmouth; Ben was a better player than I was. In addition, he sang in the Dartmouth Aires, an a capella singing troop that has over the years, performed in many famous locations. There is footage of the group singing at Fenway before a Red Sox game, and for the US President, so it goes without saying, that Ben is a better singer than I am as well; my voice is tolerated by my little boy.
Above it all, Ben is a really nice guy, so in addition to being a better ballplayer and singer than I am, most importantly, he's a nicer person as well.
It's a bit of a cliche, but in this case, Ben is the sort of person we all should wish to be.
I know he's a Democrat, and I can overlook that. He's a Red Sox fan, which really tests the limits.
But he's also a fighter, a father, and a friend.
I don't like to talk a lot about religion, but here I will make an exception. I happen to believe in God, so each day I set aside a moment to say a prayer for Ben and his family. He (and they) deserve a break. For those of you who also are believers, I ask you to set aside a moment and say a prayer for these lovely people.
I also know that many do not believe in God, so for those who don't, think a positive thought. And set aside some time to do something kind for someone else, and do it because, if Ben were there, he would.
Ben's family have set up a GoFundMe web site here to help defray the costs of the battle. Like all battles, this is not a solo affair.
Please consider to go and support Ben's family and Ben in his war.
I am looking forward to pointing out the standings this October to Ben, when Toronto tops Boston again.
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Fluctuat Nec Mergitur
|Wave-Tossed but Not Sunk
The use of social media has many side effects. Allows us to stay in touch with friends and family far away. Archives our memories . Provides us with fora for arguing about trivia like the theme on holiday coffee cups.
The Facebook "robot" picks posts from the past to remind of moments. From time to time, I will receive a suggestion about a memory from two or three of five years ago.
Saturday morning when I woke, as I was drinking my coffee (from a mug my son got as a gift during a class trip to San Diego, not the controversial, plain, red, paper cup) I received a suggestion about a memory one year ago.
I was a bit sad to get the suggestion - an image from one year ago, returning on a Friday night from work, to our apartment in Paris. Some tulips, and then out for dinner at a nearby neighbourhood restaurant.
Probably not unlike one of the venues that witnessed so much bloodshed the day before.
Just one year ago, yet seemingly an eternity.
No Charlie Hebdo shooting.
No murders at Hypercasher.
No massacre across Paris.
None of these things had happened yet; but the wheels were likely already well in motion. The ball had been dropped into the top of the little mousetrap, and it was simply a matter of time - borrowed time - before the events unfolded.
I've been thinking of Paris and France a lot over the past four days, as I suspect many have. I'm not French by birth, but we spent a couple of years living in Paris, and we think of the city as a sort of second home. Many friends were left behind (thankfully, all are safe).
I reflect on long, summer evenings (France sits much further north than most Americans realise, so dusk in July comes after 10 PM). Walking with my family to the many small restaurants for dinner, or a picnic with a bottle of rose by the Seine. Popping in to the boulangerie for a baguette de tradition or on the odd occasion, to Dalloyau across the street for some macarons. Taking my little boy to school, strolling past the Haussmann buildings along the Parc Monceau or floating a little sailboat in the Grand Bassin at the Jardin du Luxembourg. Exploring a six hundred year old church.
Americans have a very complicated relationship with France generally, but ours (my family's) is quite simple, actually. France for two years was home, and thus what has happened has certainly had an effect.
I wonder, what is likely to change in Paris following these terrible events? The Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, has cautioned that there may be similar terrible days to come. Of course, it would be irresponsible to state otherwise. The French have a system called vigipirate to alert residents to dangers - initiated in 1978, two and a half decades before 9/11 and the US Department of Homeland Security.
Parisians will likely be more alert, more vigilant to potential threats. But murderous acts of terrorism like this are sadly, not new.
I've remained connected to French social media since returning to the US this summer, and glimmers of defiance mixed with desire to normalcy are apparent. French journalist Antoine Leiris today published an open letter to ISIS, responding to the murder of his wife and the mother of his year and a half old son:
Je n'ai d'ailleurs pas plus de temps à vous consacrer, je dois rejoindre Melvil qui se réveille de sa sieste. Il a 17 mois à peine, il va manger son goûter comme tous les jours, puis nous allons jouer comme tous les jours et toute sa vie ce petit garçon vous fera l'affront d'être heureux et libre.
(I have no more time to waste on you. I have to join Melvil [the little boy] who is waking from his nap. He is just 17 months old; he is going to eat his snack, like always. Then, we are going to play. Like always. And for all of his life, this little boy will offend you with his happiness and his freedom)The French have contributed enormously to the culture of the world - through food, and wine, and art, and architecture, and science. France is the land of Descartes and Rousseau and Voltaire. The Louvre, the Eiffer Tower, the Notre Dame Cathedral.
But more than anything, the French have given to the world a joy of living. I suspect that no bomb from a seventh century savage is a match for that.
And thus, like little Melvil, I believe that the people in Paris will have their meal. Like every day. Many will go enjoy the park. Like every day. Still others will have a glass of wine with friends. Like always.
Today, there is a call across various media and other outlets for a movement called "tous a bistro." (everyone to the restaurant). The expressed goal is for people to leave their fears in the cupboard at home, go down the street to the corner restaurant, and sit for a meal with family and friends.
What could be a more French reaction than that?
Fluctuat nec mergitur.
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The Texas Supreme Court's recent decision in Coyote Lake Ranch v. City of Lubbock can be seen as a predictable evolution in the court's approach to groundwater and the need to access this resource in a fair and reasonable manner, says Anthony Cavender at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
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One of the most prevalent complaints by associates and recent law school graduates is the lack of meaningful mentoring by more seasoned attorneys. Gary Gansle, leader of Squire Patton Boggs LLP's Northern California employment law practice, offers several tips as a light that can help junior attorneys start down the right path in their career development.
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The proposed changes to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Eagle Act permitting program are likely to be welcomed by applicants. However, the amendments would introduce some uncertainty for holders of long-term permits, say Keith Garner and Khyati DalaI at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
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With more than 400 provisions, spate of legal challenges already under way
WASHINGTON – Legal challenges will continue even after the Supreme Court's landmark decision Thursday upholding the Obama administration's signature health care law.
Roman Catholics are challenging a birth control mandate. Mining companies already have filed multiple suits over black-lung benefits made easier under the law. Conservatives are in court fighting an advisory committee once denounced as a "death panel."
"You'll definitely see more litigation once these new provisions take effect," said Karen Harned, the executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business' Small Business Legal Center.
The small business federation filed one of the initial lawsuits challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which remains a target-rich environment for litigators. The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision essentially dealt with the big picture, preserving the overall law but leaving unexamined for now most of its roughly 450 individual provisions. Many of these provisions haven't yet taken effect, making them more difficult, though not impossible, to challenge. Generally, courts are more willing to entertain a lawsuit against a legal provision that has already been applied.
One active provision, for instance, prohibits physician-owned hospitals from billing Medicare for self-referrals if the hospital expands. This cramps the intentions of the 20-bed Texas Spine and Joint Hospital in the town of Tyler, one of roughly 300 physician-owned hospitals in the country. The Texas hospital administrators hope to expand, but the health care law holds them back.
"Its sole rationale is to prohibit a class of U.S. citizens, physicians, from owning a legal business for the improper purpose of protecting non-physicians-owned hospitals from competition," Houston-based attorney Lindsey Birdsong argued in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the hospital in Tyler and the Physician Hospitals of America.
More recently, the University of Notre Dame joined other Catholic organizations in a barrage of lawsuits challenging the law's requirement that most employers cover preventive health services – including contraception – as part of their insurance policies. Though the Obama administration modified this policy somewhat under pressure, the Catholic schools and dioceses argue that their religious liberties are still infringed.
"The right to such (contraceptive) services does not force the University of Notre Dame to violate its own conscience by making it provide, pay for and/or facilitate those services to others, contrary to its sincerely held religious beliefs," the university's attorneys declare in their opening brief.
Emily Hardman, an attorney and spokeswoman for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, noted Friday that 23 lawsuits have been filed against the so-called contraception mandate. She predicted "it's likely" that other suits will be filed citing religious-liberty grounds.
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Beyond its individual provisions, the health care law will inspire lawsuits indirectly as a result of the Supreme Court's reasoning in the health care ruling.
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