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Exactness is a pixel perfect regression testing tool for Elementary based applications. Exactness works by playing back a recording of an interaction with the application, saving images from that playback, and comparing the images to the set of "known to be correct" images. Returning a non-zero return value when it detects images mismatches and creates "error.html", a file that includes the list of tests failed, including the base images, the new images, and a visual "diff" of the images. Exactness also fails in case the tests themselves exit with a non-zero return value, e.g segfault. = Modes of operation = Exactness has four modes of operation, three of which are essential for normal operation, and the fourth is helpful in some cases, and in general, just pretty. == List of Modes == # record (-r, --record): record a test macro. # init (-i, --init): run the test macro and take images of the state. # play (-p, --play): run the test macro, take images of the state, and compare against the base images (took with init). # simulation (-s, --simulation): run the test macro, showing the process on screen. = The List file = The list file contains a list of tests to actually run. The file format is: <test name> <test command> <test name> has to be one word (no spaces), there are no restrictions on the command. The command is executed using "system", so you can set environment variables and generally do whatever you'd like. Empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored. Example line: box ./elm_edje_player tests/box.edj = Using exactness = For the rest of this section we'll assume the name of the list file is "tests.txt". == Recording == The first thing to do when running exactness on a new test is generating the recording file, this is done but running with "-r". New recordings overwrite old existing recordings so it's always a good idea to backup recordings you are happy with. In order to record for a test list run: exactness -r tests.txt Just interact with the application in any way you'd like (it's better to have short interactions as tests run in real time, so running the tests will be as slow as your recording). Press F2 to mark an image taking opportunity (as many times you'd like), this will cause "init" and "play" mode to take images for comparison. Please refer to the "Limitations" section below to read more about image taking opportunities. Running this will create the "base dir" (see command line options for more info about how to change it) and populate it with one recording file per test. == Init == After having a recording file for a test you can go on with capturing the base images. Those images are assumed to be "correct". You should update them when this assumption is no longer valid (e.g fixed a bug, updated a test). Run: exactness -i tests.txt This will look for recording files in the "base dir", run them, take images of the application, and put them in "dest-dir/orig". == Play == This is the most common mode of execution. This should be run on a regular basis, for example in a CI system. Run: exactness -p tests.txt This will look for recording files in the "base dir", run them, take images of the application, put them in "dest-dir/current", and compare them against the images in "dest-dir/orig". This will fail (and return a non-zero return value) if any of the tests return a non-zero return value, or if any of the images in the "current" dir don't match the ones in "orig" dir. Detecting a failure is the most important role of exactness, so the return value is very important. Additionally, an error.html file will be created in the "current" dir, listing the issues in a human-readable form. == Simulation == This mode is a show off and a debug mode. Very useful with the "-v" (verbose) option that shows the mouse cursor on the canvas and outputs information to console. Run: exactness -s tests.txt or for verbose mode: exactness -v -s tests.txt This does nothing other than run the tests to screen. No images are taken, and no report is generated. == Command line options == * -b, --base-dir: The location of the recording files. * -d, --dest-dir: The location of the base dir for the images (orig/current will be appended). * -w, --wrap: Use a custom command to launch the tests with, e.g valgrind. * -j, --jobs: Number of jobs to run in parallel. Very useful when running in init and play mode. * -r, --record: record mode. * -p, --play: play mode. * -i, --init: init mode. * -s, --simulation: simulation mode. * -v, --verbose: Show cursor location and output extra information to console. * -h, --help: Help, and information about more boring options. = Limitations = * Animations are very time-specific, you can't really take snapshots of applications that have animations. * Exactness is very susceptible to theme/scale/etc. changes, so make sure to replicate the full environment. * Only works with Elementary applications. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REST IS POSSIBLY OUTDATED exactness is a software package aimed to automate Elementary testing after updating elm code. The testing process is composed of running widget test, cycling through API functions, and screenshot are taken on each stage of test. (on user request with F2 key). Next, these screenshots are compared with screenshots of widget test done before the code update. When exactness detects difference in screenshot comparison, it means widget layout was changed. Unexpected layout changes may reveal that something is broken in the new implementation. Testing with exactness composed of the following stages: First, you need to compose a tests (text) file as follows: Each line begins with test name second field is test-command and [optional] params. Any line starting with '#' is a comment (ignored): # This is a comment line TestName1 TestCmd [param1] [param2] Any name/parameter with space, precede space with double backslash (\\) Example: pager_slide elementary_test --test-win-only pager\\ slide In this example test name is "pager" The application is "elementary_test" with two parameters: --test-win-only pager\\ slide ("pager slide" compose singe parameter, note the \\) By default, exactness runs through test file and commits all tests specified. To run selected tests add test name as param to exactness. More on this later. Later, you run exactness with the tests file as parameter. 1. Test Recording. Done once and exactness user most likely does not need to do this. A set of pre-recorded tests already resides under 'data/recording' folder. To record a test just issue the command: exactness -r [-b BaseDir] TestsFile Example: exactness -r TestFileName The record file will be produced in the current-working-directory for each line in the test file. Name of '.rec' file determined according to test name: From example on top we have: pager_slide.rec To save your recordings in any other directory, pass the directory-name as base-dir: exactness -r -b /home/username/my_recordings TestFile As test runs you may press F2 at any point to set a screenshot. (screenshot produced in 'play' stage, set timing of screenshot here) However, don't do this while animation is ongoing or you get inconsistent PNG output each time test played. NOTE: You may change screenshot key from F2 to any other key with TSUITE_SHOT_KEY env var. After recording a new test you may use 'simulate' option to play test with no effect to output files. Simulate option lets you to examine a test-play on-screen without actually producing output PNG file. To do this just run: exactness -s [-b BaseDir] TestFile Example: exactness -s TestFile This will play all tests specified in TestFile taking '.rec' files in cwd. use the -b option to tell exactness to locate '.rec' files elsewhere. 2. Test Initiation. The final stage of testing process is based on PNG image comparison of original screenshots with current screenshots produced after code change. To start you need to produce original screenshot set before code change. To do that just issue the command: exactness -i [-b BaseDir] TestFile This command will play the tests from TestFile and place PNG files under 'orig' folders created in current-working-directory. You need to do this just once. exactness -i TestFile (locate '.rec' files in cwd) This will produce PNG files such orig/pager_slide_1.png By default exactness looks for '.rec' files in current-working-directory Use -b DirName to ask exactness to locate the '.rec' files in a specific location. Example: exactness -i -b ${prefix}/share/exactness/recordings TestFile (locate '.rec' in "${prefix}/share/exactness/recordings") 3. Test playing, producing current state PNG files and comparison files (4). After doing Test Initiation (2) and updating elementary code, you may run tests for current state of elm: exactness -p [-b BaseDir] [-d DestDir] TestFile Omitting DestDir param will cause exactness place all PNG files under (default) folder named 'current'. Note that comparing PNG files (4) is also done upon completion of play. This will produce comp_*.png files in your DestDir. You may put record-files at specific folder with -b (base dir) argument. Example: exactness -p -b ${prefix}/share/exactness/recordings TestFile Play '.rec' files at "${prefix}/share/exactness/recordings" Write resulting PNG files at cwd/current (default) dir along with comp_*.png files. 4. Comparing PNG files. This is the final stage of testing in which we compare output before code update and after the update. Following 'play' action, matching PNG files from 'orig' and 'current' folder are compared. When all comparisons done you get final report of (N) files did not match. In case difference was found, you may look at comp_*.png files in DestDir. 5. fail_if(expr) macro: You may use fail_if(expr); macro to verify variable value on-the-fly. For example, if your code contains: char *p; ... fail_if(p == NULL); In case (p == NULL), a "fail_TestName.txt" file is crated current working directory with a comment specifying the expr/line failed. fail_*.txt files are produced only for when expr fails when running. When tests completed, the user gets notification message if any tests failed. In such case, please review the fail_*.txt files. 6. Running selected tests. To run selected tests add test name as param to exactness. Use this option to run selected tests without modifying your test file. Usage: /opt/e17/bin/exactness -s TestsFile TestName1 [TestName2] [...] TestName param has to match test name given in tests file (1st field) 7. To view exactness help issue the command: exactness --help or exactness -h


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The Freelancers Union New York-based freelancers in various fields, including the arts, can purchase insurance at group rates through this organization. There's no cost to join, but you must provide proof that you worked 20 hours per week for the last eight weeks, or earned at least $10,000 in the last six months. A forum feature on their website allows you to get recommendations from other freelancers for doctors specific to the plan you choose.
Fractured Atlas This national arts service organization provides specialized health care plans (as of last December, Dance Theatre Workshop suggests this organization as air alternative to the health care services they provide, whose enrollment has closed). Their Quick Start Guide to Healthcare is a database of programs that provide discounted health insurance for artists and is organized by state. The user-friendly guide breaks down each program, providing the cost per month, a short summary, and further resources. Joining FA does mean paying a fee (about 20 cents per day), so factor the cost of membership into the health care plan you are considering.
America's Health Insurance Resource Center This Actors' Fund service operates similarly to Fractured Atlas (see above). On their web site, click on your home state. The relevant organizations that provide discounted health insurance for artists are summarized and linked directly.
The mission is to get every artist in the United States health insurance coverage. Created by The Actors Fund with a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts and sustained by grants from The Commonwealth Fund and Leveraging Investments in Creativity, the AHIRC website is a free, unbiased, information resources. Its only interest is to promote healthy artists with full access to health care. Information you will find includes: Where to go on the Internet to compare costs of private plans; Organizations that offer association plans to artists and self-employed persons; Government-subsidized programs in your area.
Harkness Center for Dance Injuries The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at the Hospital for Joint Diseases offers many subsidized and free services for the dance community including clinics staffed by orthopedists and dance physical therapists; state-of-the art research and rehabilitation technology and free injury prevention screenings and lectures.
The Dancers Resource The Actors Fund Launched in the summer of 2007, The Dancers' Resource has been created in response to the unique situation dancers face due to the physically demanding nature of their work, coupled with the significant financial challenges of earning a living in dance. Founded by Actors Fund Vice President Bebe Neuwirth, The Dancers' Resource comes out of her personal experience from having hip replacement surgery after several years of physical therapy, arthroscopic surgery and excruciating pain and the emotional stress of not being able to dance and not wanting people to know about her condition. Recognizing that the situations faced by injured dancers are all-encompassing in terms of both life and career, the program was started to create a support system that addresses the needs of dancers.


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The financial flip-flop of Egypt's revolutionary government, first requesting and then declining a $3 billion dollar IMF loan, highlights Egypt's hard choices at this point in the revolution, but is a good sign, says Eric Walberg
It is no secret that Egypt has put all its faith in the US and Western international institutions since the days of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, contracting a huge foreign debt, a process that was increasingly corrupt, despite being careful watched over by those very agencies. This debt is financed by foreign banks, and must be repaid in dollars — with interest. If much of the money they create and then "lend" is siphoned off into Swiss bank accounts, that is Egypt's problem. No one is trying to charge the people who gave Mubarak or his henchmen their money and then let them re-deposit it with them, but it takes two to tango.
Whether or not a fraction of it actually helps the Ahmeds in the meantime, it is the Egyptian people who are held responsible for it all and must comply with IMF "adjustment programmes", involving privatisation, deregulation, regressive taxation, an end to subsidies to the poor, and much more unpleasant "tough love".
Egypt's revolution momentarily shattered the complacency of this devilish scenario. The explosion under the weight of the grinding poverty the system produced caught the Western bankers and political leaders by surprise and they hurried to embrace the revolution and co-opt it when they realised it was inevitable. This culminated in the IMF's offer of the loan to cover the yawning gap in Egypt's first post-revolution budget, which will double the lowest salaries, improve social services and introduce a progressive income tax.
This unusual gesture of generosity by the IMF (a low interest rate and supposedly no strings attached) was really intended to keep Egypt from straying from the orthodox monetary fold, as other countries have done in the past in similar situations. It was enthusiastically supported by Egypt's elite, largely trained at US universities in the arcana of monetary theory. "Otherwise, Egypt was about to be considered in default," Hani Genena, senior economist at Pharos Holding for Investments told Al-Ahram Weekly. This is precisely what countries such as Russia, Argentina and Ecuador have done in the past.
The Higher Council of the Armed Forces, Egypt's de facto ruler, was not impressed with assurances that the loans were "without conditions", and General Sameh Sadeq told the government to cancel the loan, with its "five conditions that totally went against the principles of national sovereignty" which would "burden future generations". Finance Minister Samir Radwan complied and hastily negotiated funds from Qatar and Saudi Arabia (countries with their own agendas for Egypt's revolution) to plug the remaining hole. The spurned lover, the IMF, and its sidekick the World Bank, were not pleased. The latter said it would have to "review" its financial plans for Egypt.
As news of the loan tiff was breaking, US Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and John Kerry visited Cairo to offer their gift to the revolution: a bill in Congress to create "economic assistance funds" for Egypt and Tunisia. Recall McCain's presidential campaign slogan to "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran!", and his and Lieberman's militant support of Israel. If anything, their visit merely confirmed to Egypt's military leaders the need to keep the IMF and its henchmen at bay.
Another visitor to Cairo last week was Mahatir Mohamed, who turned Malaysia into an economic powerhouse after extricating it from its colonial past. When his "tiger" economy was subverted by speculators in 1997, he stopped the run on the Malaysian currency and stabilised the economy without going to the IMF cap in hand, and Malaysia survived the crisis much better than the other "Asian tigers" who bowed to IMF pressure. "Malaysians refused the IMF and World Bank's assistance because we wanted our economic decisions to be independent," he told reports in Cairo this week proudly — music to Field Marshall Mohamed Tantawi's ears.
In fact, many observers are convinced the army's decision was in response to the same popular anger and national pride that allowed Mahatir to successfully defy the bankers in his day. "I felt a surge of pride when I heard the loan was rejected," University of Cairo employee Mohamed Shaban told the Weekly. Egyptians intuitively understand Mayer Rothschild's principle: "Give me control of a nation's currency and I care not who makes her laws." Egypt's military leaders understand this too.
The process of petitioning the grudging financial centres of Zurich and London to recover at best a tiny fraction of the stolen billions that were stashed abroad and thus are responsible for an outsize part of Egypt's foreign debt will take decades and yield precious little besides huge legal costs, as the experience of the Philippines and Indonesia shows.
Egypt indeed could consider defaulting on what is called in financial jargon an "odious debt", referring to the national debt incurred by a regime for purposes that do not serve the best interests of the nation. The US did this to tear up Iraq's debt in 2003. Ecuador did it in 2009. The latter (unlike the US in Iraq) even in compliance with international law. Greek citizens have already formed an Audit Committee to establish which parts of the national debt are "odious" or otherwise illegitimate.
But such a radical step would bring the collective wrath of the powerful world financial elite down on Egypt and is not an easy option. There is no longer a Soviet Union to turn to, as there was in the time of Nasser, when he dared defy the empire.
But neither is there any need to leave Egypt's budgetary financing up to an elite of world bankers. Once a government realises that money is just a convention, something that it can use responsibly to grease the wheels of the economy, to generate employment and incomes, using the nation's wealth for the people, it can responsibly create what money it needs, keeping a careful eye on what will increase production and wealth without putting too much pressure on prices. Taxation returns this money that the government in effect "loaned" to itself interest-free.
Michael Hudson, president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends and adviser to the Russian, Japanese and Icelandic governments, told the Weekly Egypt has a "much broader choice" than Western governments in pursuing an independent financial and economic reform, as it still has nationally-owned commercial banks. It could set up a Recovery Fund for the Revolution without any need to borrow from anyone, using Egypt's millions of unemployed — a force that can move mountains — as collateral, to create jobs which will automatically repay the money the government creates in new income and more tax revenue.
The plan to bring Toshka back to life by redistributing land to peasants and providing them with start-up capital is a perfect example of what must be done. There is no reason to "borrow" this money, especially from other countries, and worse yet to pay them interest. After all, investment in the country's future is a risk that should be equally share by both the giver and taker of loans, in compliance with sharia law.
Hudson's associates at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, the Levy Economics Institute, and the Center for Full Employment and Equity are now preparing a report for the Asian Development Bank on alternative monetary and fiscal policies to promote full employment and price stability without relying on IMF/WB funding.
Eric Walberg writes for Al-Ahram Weekly http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/ You can reach him at http://ericwalberg.com/ His Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games is available at http://claritypress.com/Walberg.html


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Purim Revisited (and Revised)
Persia became Iran and Haman became the nuclear nuisance whose name is so hard to pronounce. But nothing seems to have really changed as regards the threat to Jewry posed by its enemies.
In the spirit of the season let us revisit Persia and Purim in the light of what is being done in our day regarding Iran. Let us try to imagine what would have happened then if Mordechai and Esther would have acted like Netanyahu and Obama.
Scene One: An appeal is made to representatives of all the 127 provinces ruled by Achashveirosh which form the United Nations of their era. No action is taken to halt Haman's planned violation of human rights and Haman is invited to address the world body on his favorite theme that the Jews must be destroyed.
Scene Two: Having failed to arouse the world, the Jews decide to independently apply sanctions against Haman and his cohorts by boycotting their businesses and refusing to use their oil. The sanctions fail to achieve their goal because there are enough anti-Semites buying their oil and otherwise supporting them.
Scene Three: The head of the Self-Defense Committee of the Jewish community in Shushan declares a "state of emergency" and mobilizes Jewish soldiers for possible preemptive military action. Every day the Jewish newspapers throughout the kingdom carry endless discussions by politicians and generals as to whether to attack or to continue with diplomatic efforts, but no one mentions the role of G-d.
Scene Four: After realizing that appeals to the world's conscience, sanctions and military action, will not save them, the Jews respond to the call of Queen Esther to gather in fasting, repentance and prayer to help her succeed in one last diplomatic effort of an appeal to the king.
Scene Five: Jews who have hitherto put their trust in the world community and their own self-defense capability now turn to Heaven for help. Their return is rewarded with a miracle as their enemies are vanquished and Haman is hung on the gallows he prepared for Mordechai.
"Thus, G-d, may all Your enemies be destroyed."
Happy Purim!


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Amid promising signs of a negotiated end to the long-running dispute over Iran's nuclear program, the counter-effort to derail a resolution is heating up, as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his neocon backers hype a "threat" from non-existent Iranian ICBMs, as Gareth Porter reported for Inter Press Service.
By Gareth Porter
In an effort to provoke opposition in U.S. political circles to a nuclear deal with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has returned to exploiting an old claim that Iran is building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could hit the United States.
The Netanyahu claim takes advantage of the extreme position that has been taken on the issue by Pentagon and Air Force intelligence organizations but goes even further.
In an Oct. 1 interview with Bob Schieffer of CBS News, Netanyahu said Iranians are "building ICBMs to reach the American mainland within a few years". And in an interview with Charlie Rose a week later, he said the Iranians "are developing ICBMs not for us, but for you." Netanyahu added, "The American intelligence agency knows as well as we do that Iran is developing ICBMs."
Independent specialists on the issue say, however, that no evidence supports Netanyahu's claim.
Michael Elleman of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, the author of an authoritative study on Iran's missile program, told IPS, "I've seen no evidence of Iranian ICBM development, let alone a capability." Elleman said Iran would need to test a missile at least a half dozen, and more likely a dozen times, before it would have an operational capability for an ICBM.
Thus far, however, Iran has not even displayed, much less tested, a larger version of its existing space launch vehicle that would be a necessary step toward an ICBM, according to David Wright, co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Iran has only tested a space launch vehicle that can put a very small satellite into orbit, Wright told IPS. "The fact that it's not happening suggests something is holding them back," said Wright. "Clearly we're not seeing them moving very fast in that direction."
The highly politicized nature of U.S. intelligence assessments on the Iranian ballistic missile program has given Netanyahu the opportunity to make the claims of an incipient Iranian ICBM without fear of being called out. Pentagon and industry interests pushing the idea of an Iranian ICBM threat to get support for spending on a missile defense system have long had a deep impact on intelligence assessments of the issue.
Netanyahu actually began warning of Iranian ICBMs targeting the United States 15 years ago, after a commission on foreign ballistic missile threats led by Donald Rumsfeld had warned in mid-1998 that Iran and North Korea "could" threaten the United States with ICBMs within five years.
The Rumsfeld Commission, which was organized to pressure the Bill Clinton administration to approve a national missile defense system, arrived at its five-year timeline by inviting the four major military contractors to suggest how Iran might conceivably succeed in testing an ICBM. It also rejected the normal practice in threat assessment of distinguishing between what was theoretically possible and what was likely.
Since 2001, the U.S. intelligence community has been saying that Iran "could" have the capability to test an ICBM by sometime between 2012 and 2015, if it was given enough foreign meaning Russian assistance. But it was generally recognized that the Russian government was unlikely to assist Iran in building an ICBM.
And as the report on the issue published by the National Intelligence Council in December 2001 explained, "We judge that countries are much less likely to test as early as the hypothetical 'could' dates than they are by our projected 'likely' dates." In other words, "could" actually meant "is unlikely to". But that fact was never covered in news articles, so it remained unknown except among a few policy wonks.
By 2009, it had become obvious to most of the intelligence community that the 2015 date could no longer be defended, even with the misleading "could" formulation. A National Intelligence Estimate that year, which was never made public, reportedly said Iran couldn't achieve such a capability until sometime between 2015 and 2020.
Intelligence organizations connected with the Pentagon and the Air Force, however, never gave up the 2015 date. The Air Force's National Air and Space intelligence Center and the Defense Intelligence Agency published a paper that repeated the mantra: "With sufficient foreign assistance, Iran could probably develop and test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the United States by 2015."
In April 2010, the Pentagon quoted that statement word for word in a report to Congress.
When Netanyahu wanted to turn the heat up on the Iran nuclear issue in February 2012, his close allies cited that military estimate in support of an even more extreme claim. Strategic affairs minister Moshe Yaalon said Iran was developing a missile with a 6,000-mile range, which would allow it to reach the east coast of the United States.
Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz went even further. "We estimate," he said, "that in two or three years they will have the first ICBMs that can reach the east coast of America." Steinitz said the Israeli assessment was in line with the assessment of the Pentagon. But even the military estimate doesn't say that Iran would have such an ICBM. It said only that Iran could test an ICBM, which would still leave Iran several years away from having an operational ICBM.
In July 2013, the Air Force National Air and Space intelligence Centre, DIA and Office of Naval Intelligence issued a new report on "Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat" that states flatly, "Iran could develop and test an ICBM capable of reaching the United States by 2015." That language omitted any reference to foreign assistance, which had always been a key element in the formula that had been adopted to satisfy missile defense interests.
But those interests were obviously pressing for even stronger language. Missile defense advocates have been pressing Congress to approve a missile defense site on the East Coast, making an Iranian ICBM threat even more important politically.
Iran, meanwhile, has said it is not interested in ICBMs at all. Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in April 2010 that Iran "has no plans to build such a missile."
And Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Aerospace Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has guided Iran's missile program for decades, said in 2011 that Iran had no intention of producing missile with ranges beyond 2,000 km. Iran was only interested in missiles that targeted U.S. bases in the region, Hajizadeh said.
Iran had a good strategic reason for its disinterest in an ICBM, according to a team of U.S. and Russian specialists who analyzed the Iranian missile program in May 2009. Iran would have to use rocket motor clusters, the U.S.-Russian team observed, and longer-range missiles based on that technology would have to be launched from above ground.
It would take days to prepare for launch and hours to fuel all of which would be clearly visible to spy satellites, according to the team.
Gareth Porter, an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy, received the UK-based Gellhorn Prize for journalism for 2011 for articles on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. [Link to the original article: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/10/israeli-claim-of-iranian-icbm-exploits-biased-u-s-intel/ ]


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IT And Innovation: A Natural Combination
Contrary to popular perception, the IT department personifies innovation with its relentless focus on improvement. IT should promote this culture of innovation throughout the company.
October 28, 2013
Innovation has become the top watchword in corporate America, with companies trying to outdo each other by creating the "next, best" product or service. Hardly an organization exists that does not tout its ability to innovate. Even individual business professionals are marketing themselves as innovative: A quick glance on LinkedIn and other professional networks reveals the remarkable increase in the use of the words innovation or innovative in professionals' descriptions of themselves.
Certainly, the emphasis on innovation is for the most part welcome. What confuses the issue, however, is the constant invocation of the term because it dilutes the power of real cutting-edge work. If indeed every company and every individual is innovative, then what does the word mean? And how can one separate the wheat from the chaff?
In order to get to a sensible place, it's worth exploring what makes something innovative and what simply doesn't allow for that claim. Let's dispense with the easier subject, namely what innovation is not. Simply put, "doing your job" is not innovation.
Companies that release products and services that mimic the ones they have already had in market or that have fixed processes are, despite their rhetoric, not on the bleeding edge. Also, innovation and money-making should not be considered synonymous. Organizations that find new ways to make "ordinary" things or ones that always raise the quality bar can don the innovative mantle, but in my experience, they make up a small percentage.
So what is innovation? Dictionary definition aside, innovation is about the simultaneity of quality, speed, and originality as they manifest themselves in some usable set of artifacts. The combination of intellectual capital -- technical depth plus the constant application of newly acquired knowledge -- and process improvement is crucial here. Crucial too is the scientific method, relentless process of hypothesis, testing, correction, and improvement. All of this needs to be underpinned by a sense of urgency -- a relentless speed of trial, error, and production.
Now, I don't know about you, but to me all of this sounds like the fundamental basis of a great IT department -- the part of the organization I have always thought of as the most innovative despite the common perception of IT as a static, reaction-bound organization that forces the organization into inertia.
[IT pros also are often seen by other departments as power mongers. Read why it's time to squash this stereotype for good in "Debunking The IT Control Freak Myth."]
In the best of cases, I see quite the opposite: IT is one of the few organizations that proactively works with customers (internal and external) every day and has a clear focus on empowering end users. From this focus comes a need to embrace change and reduce "time to value," both necessary factors in the creation of a milieu of innovation. IT goes further- it puts its money where its mouth is by enshrining this customer-commitment with a set of SLAs by which it binds itself to real outcomes in clearly measurable time frames and doses.
This proactivity and speed, buttressed by a clear view of quality is the sine qua non of a culture of innovation: a relentless process of doing, testing, assessing, and improving. The IT department is one of a few of the organization that has incorporated this process into its very being.
Some examples of an IT-led innovative approach include many organizations' commitment to continuous efficiency improvements through the application of bleeding-edge technology, the clear and open access many employees have to corporate data for decision-support, the speed of wireless and mobile-enabled work, and the deployment of lightweight cloud-based applications for all manner of productivity improvements.
As a non-IT person, I feel lucky to be the beneficiary of what I call "good IT." For those people that work in organizations in which IT isn't at its best, I urge you to make your voice heard so that IT is enabled to help you.
From what I've seen, when companies can leverage this IT culture and model in the service of their product and services development arms, they are innovative. When they don't, they typically languish.
So, as against the grain as it might sound, IT and innovation are facets of the same gem. If you believe it, then make your voice heard by exporting IT's innovative practices to the rest of the organization and by inculcating in your colleagues the culture of constant testing, questioning, tinkering, and improving. IT has a lot to teach the rest of the organization.
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2013 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America are pleased to announce the 2013 Nebula Awards nominees (presented 2014), the nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Best Novel
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
Fire with Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
Hild, Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Red: First Light, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island)
A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper)
Best Novella
''Wakulla Springs,'' Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10/2/13)
''The Weight of the Sunrise,'' Vylar Kaftan (Asimov's 2/13)
''Annabel Lee," Nancy Kress (New Under the Sun)
''Burning Girls,'' Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6/19/13)
''Trial of the Century,'' Lawrence M. Schoen (lawrencemschoen.com, 8/13; World Jumping)
Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)
Best Novelette
''Paranormal Romance,'' Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed 6/13)
''The Waiting Stars,'' Aliette de Bodard (The Other Half of the Sky)
''They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass,'' Alaya Dawn Johnson(Asimov's 1/13)
''Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters,'' Henry Lien (Asimov's 12/13)
''The Litigation Master and the Monkey King,'' Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/13)
''In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,'' Sarah Pinsker (Strange Horizons 7/1 – 7/8/13)
Best Short Story
''The Sounds of Old Earth,'' Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed 1/13)
''Selkie Stories Are for Losers,'' Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons 1/7/13
''Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer,'' Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
''If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love,'' Rachel Swirsky (Apex 3/13)
''Alive, Alive Oh,'' Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Lightspeed 6/13)
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Doctor Who: ''The Day of the Doctor'' (Nick Hurran, director; Steven Moffat, writer) (BBC Wales)
Europa Report (Sebastián Cordero, director; Philip Gelatt, writer) (Start Motion Pictures)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, director; Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón, writers) (Warner Bros.)
Her (Spike Jonze, director; Spike Jonze, writer) (Warner Bros.)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, director; Simon Beaufoy & Michael deBruyn, writers) (Lionsgate)
Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, director; Travis Beacham & Guillermo del Toro, writers) (Warner Bros.)
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Indigo)
When We Wake, Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; Little, Brown)
Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
Hero, Alethea Kontis (Harcourt)
September Girls, Bennett Madison (Harper Teen)
A Corner of White, Jaclyn Moriarty (Levine)
Damon Knight Grand Master Award: Samuel R. Delany
Special Guest: Frank M. Robinson
About the Nebula Awards
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. Voting will open to SFWA Active members on March 1, and close on March 30. More information is available from http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/how-to-vote/.
About the Nebula Awards Weekend
The 49th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend will be held May 15-18th, 2014, in San Jose at the San Jose Marriott. The Awards Ceremony will be hosted by Toastmaster Ellen Klages. Borderland Books will host the mass autograph session from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 16th at the San Jose Marriott. This autograph session is open to the public and books by the authors in attendance will be available for purchase. Attending memberships, and more information about the Nebula Awards Weekend, are available at http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/. Membership rates increase on March 1. The Weekend is open to non-SFWA members.
About SFWA
Founded in 1965 by the late Damon Knight, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America brings together the most successful and daring writers of speculative fiction throughout the world.
Since its inception, SFWA® has grown in numbers and influence until it is now widely recognized as one of the most effective non-profit writers' organizations in existence, boasting a membership of approximately 2,000 science fiction and fantasy writers as well as artists, editors and allied professionals. Each year the organization presents the prestigious Nebula Awards® for the year's best literary and dramatic works of speculative fiction.
Media: For information on obtaining press passes, interviews with nominees, or questions about the event itself, please contact SFWA's Communications Manager, Jaym Gates, at [email protected].