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Editor's note: This is the second part of a three-part interview. Part I can be found here.
An Interview with Political Analyst Roland Benedikter
Summary of Part I
Technology is emerging as a social and political force in its own right. Although predicted years ago by scientists like Roland Benedikter and James Giordano, the rapidity of technological evolution has caught governments off guard and slow to recognize and deal with the changing social and political landscapes, while militaries and the private sector (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo etc.) have embraced it mainly through investment in artificial intelligence, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI's) and neurotechnology, further augmenting the speed of change. In parallel with these developments there is a risk that artificial intelligence may soon surpass human intelligence and become a potential threat to humanity. This risk is taken very seriously by many influential leaders ranging from Bill Gates and Elon Musk to Steven Hawking; all of whom have spoken out about it publically. Movements to "enhance" the human body and mind by integrating computational and cybernetic components into a unified being — a technoid being — in order to overcome the present human condition are springing up around the world. Last but not least, a "Transhumanist Political Party" has been established in the United States with its founder, Zoltan Istvan, considering a run for the presidency in 2016.
Roland Benedikter is the co-author of two Pentagon and U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff White Papers concerning the future of Neurotechnology and the Ethics of Neurowarfare (2013 and 2014), several books about global strategic matters (two of those on Xi Jinping's China) and of the upcoming book "Neuroscience and Neuroethics: Impacting Human Futures" (in cooperation with James Giordano, Springer New York) which will be published in 2015. He has co-authored the commentary Neuroculture: How to keep ethical pace with the current 'deep' transformations through neurotechnology? for "The Leftist Review" with James Giordano in March 2012. Katja Siepmann and Annabella McIntosh conducted the interview.
With this in mind, the international media posed the question: What if a U.S. presidential candidate for 2016 were a transhumanist, wanting to become a cyborg? [1] Would the predominantly religious Americans tolerate such a candidacy?
A good question. Istvan responded to this with an ingenious manifesto[2] in which he explains why a transhumanist should run for the U.S. presidency, even if it is unrealistic, at least for the near term. The political agenda of the Transhumanist Party of the USA is primarily threefold, as Istvan presents it: 1) To provide scientists and technologists with the means to overcome human aging and mortality within 15-20 years – an aim which, according to Istvan, a growing number of scientists regard as realistic; 2) to create a "cultural mentality" in the U.S. that assumes that: to "accept and produce radical technology" is in the best interest of Americans and humanity "as a species"; and 3) to protect citizens from the misuse of technology and to explain the planetary dangers implied by the transition to a "transhumanist era." The latter goal of course alludes to the NSA scandal, which alarmed the general public and even led Republican Senator Rand Paul to sue the government for violating the U.S. constitution. A move which in some ways, according to Istvan, is in accordance with the third goal of the Transhumanist Party. All this suggests that the Transhumanist political movement is looking to the traditional parties to collect some votes out of their membership not only in Silicon Valley, but beyond. It's a serious endeavour with rather traditional plays and strategies.
However, is the third goal not rendered absurd by the first two goals?
To a certain extent, maybe. Who will define the limits and the terms of protection when "radical technology" is the aim? This is just one of the potential contradictions to be found in transhumanism and therefore in Istvan's election program. However, it shouldn't be overvalued at this point since the party is in its first steps.
How is this to be evaluated?
The most ambitious aim of the Transhumanist Party is to overcome ageing and, ultimately, death in the next 15-20 years. I consider this period of time not quite realistic. Overcoming death will stay out of reach for the time being, even though progress towards the extension of life could indeed be made rather quickly. From a political view it seems more important that Istvan's party tries to create a mindset in American society which views radical technologies and science as the best solution to basically each and every challenge of the 21st century. This could translate something that can already be found as a fundamental conviction in Silicon Valley (and the likes in other countries), into a concrete political platform and therefore have a nation-wide impact. In the same way as the U.S. has a Green Party, which is hardly institutionally present but does have an influence on parts of the Democratic Party, and therefore is at least a mediating factor of influence on U.S. domestic policy, the technophiles could now play a role and maybe gain increasing influence on the big popular parties of the U.S., as technology is said to be "non-ideological" and is in principle viewed positively by conservatives and liberals alike.
Is technology really "non-ideological"?
It is of course not "true" that technology is "non-ideological", and Istvan and the transhumanists know that well. It has ideological implications, as it outlines a very particular conception of the technologization – and probably even cyborgization – of humanity as the only meaningful pathway to the future, or at least by far the most suitable. That might even be a more fundamental and radical – and, depending of its future use, also more discriminatory – ideology than those of the left and the right, as it is not only directed at social adjustment but also directly touches the future of the human body, and thus of human nature and the human being itself.
So how should the political programme of the Transhumanist Party be judged?
Istvan could be right in asserting, as he does, that "certainly (politicians) are gonna have to consider it. Transhumanism is here to stay. In the next ten years everyone is gonna be forced to deal with how we deal with Artificial Intelligence, everyone is gonna be forced to deal with longevity as people live longer, everyone is gonna be forced to deal with some of the biotics, the chip implants and the mind uploading. These are very difficult bioethial questions… and every government is gonna have their policies for."[3] He is also without doubt correct in claiming that "society will be greatly changed by radical science and technology in the next 5-15 years. Most people are unaware how significant these changes could be. For example, we might all be getting brain implants soon, or using driverless cars, or having personal drones follow us around and do our shopping for us. Things like anonymity in the social media age, gender roles, exoskeleton suits for unfit people, ectogenesis, and the promise of immersive virtual reality could significantly change the way society views itself."[4] While this is accurate, my skepticism is toward the proposed "transhumanist" answers. Should we simply and unconditionally embrace the trend towards universal technology and its global substitution of the difference of historic cultures, as Istvan and his party followers in essence, propose, or are more cautious and multi-level approaches the safer and better way? Should we as fast as possible get rid of the human being as we know it, or is it necessary to get to know ourselves better before we make irreversible decisions? In the end, humanity has just begun to explore itself. Here is the chance for the more traditional big popular parties like the Democrats and the Republicans to move toward more broadly pondered and shared views. If nothing else, it's their strength to forge great compromises involving as many people from different strata of society as possible.
Does Istvan succeed, as he aspires, to "present transhumanism in the media in noncontroversial ways that emphasize health, wellbeing, democracy, and the upholding of humanitarian values"[5] in order to get as many votes as he can and get global attention?
It's too early to judge this, but certainly the goals of the Transhumanist Party are controversial. Again, there are many contradictions in Istvan's discourse. For example, the concept of "transhumanism" according to Istvan himself means "… beyond human. In this way, transhumanism aims to leave behind the problems and bickering the human race has been engaged in for millennia, especially ethnic, racial, gender, and cultural divisions. The language of transhumanism is science — and that language and cultural framework is universal."[6] That means that Istvan's concept of "transhumanism" as such, is to go beyond human, and thus it per definitionem excludes the "upholding of humanitarian values" since it actively aims at overcoming their basis which is being "human". Or, as another interpretation, Istvan wants to suggest that "humanitarian" nowadays means "beyond human", which is a quite dangerous combination in times of new martyrs that are springing up in the age of fundamentalist religious politics. So if Istvan claims the Transhumanist Party "to be a bridge to a scientific and tech-dominated future, regardless what the species may eventually become,"[7] this is a profoundly ambiguous statement. It suggests that transhumanism is going to take care of something that in the end doesn't matter: to be human (in the accepted sense, including the ethics tied to this discourse), since regardless what the species may become, technology is the answer, independent of other considerations. These contradictions cannot just be taken as if they wouldn't matter, since they could point to a deeper, fundamental contradiction in transhumanist reasoning that we have to explore.[8]
This ambiguity is also found in the so-called "three laws" of transhumanism that Istvan outlined in his recent book "The Tranhumanist Wager"[9], that allegedly inspire the political agenda of the Transhumanist Party.
Exactly. As you know, these three laws are, according to Istvan:
- A transhumanist must safeguard one's own existence above all else.
- A transhumanist must strive to achieve omnipotence as expediently as possible — so long as one's actions do not conflict with the First Law.
- A transhumanist must safeguard value in the universe — so long as one's actions do not conflict with the First and Second Laws.[10]
Concepts like "omnipotence" stemming from the USA with a global aspiration and outreach are not so very popular these days in most other countries. Yet the three laws' values are very clear: first comes the individual, then "value in the universe", i.e. first the ego, and only then communitarian and social values. This is clearly an egoistic agenda that is in contradiction with the essence of politics, which is to forge a social contract and dialogue between many, in the ideal sense all social actors. Politics is by its very nature about community, not about individuals.
But on the other hand…?
On the other hand, Istvan and the transhumanists are right in asserting that "if energetically adopted, these deceptively simple maxims ultimately compel the individual to pursue a technologically enhanced and extended life. [Transhumanists] have come to see the choice to accept or reject these principles as something far more fundamental than the choice between liberal or conservative principles."[11] Istvan is right that the decisions made necessary by the new "body inversive" technologies will be crucial for the future, more than most economic, political or military issues, since they touch the core of being human. The discussion is, how the related questions should be properly addressed by not simply dismissing humanism and the democratic culture and society created by it since the founding of the USA in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789 for the sake of radical technological individualism (or, as Istvan calls it, "Teleological Egocentric Functionalism"[12]). In contrast, James Giordano and John Shook have proposed a set of principles to guide the use of emerging biotechnologies that I believe to be more realistically oriented toward humanist values, and more soundly focused upon how such technologies should be ethically leveraged to sustain the relationships of individuals-in-community.[13] Giordano and I have also produced considerations about this issue (together with John Shook and others)[14], and our upcoming new book will also be dedicated to the related challenge which is not a merely theoretical one, but one with strong practical anthropological implications.[15]
The Transhumanist Party's two other goals are…
… as Istvan states, to "challenge other major political candidates, like Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush: How shall America handle coming 'designer baby' technology? If robotic hearts can wipe out heart disease, should governments allocate many billions of dollars to it (since heart disease is the #1 killer in many countries, including America)? Will there be a global arms race for militaries around the world to develop a superintelligent Artificial Intelligence?"[16] Second, and this is of particular importance, the goal of the politization of transhumanism is "to unite the transhumanists, singularitarians, cyborgists, biohackers (grinders), cryonicists, roboticists, longevity advocates, futurists, and all tech and science-minded groups and people out there under one banner. Currently, many pro-technology and science people don't get along with one another… The transhumanism movement is becoming so popular, that it must try to find common ground and a single optimistic vision of the future, irrespective of differences in politics, age, and ideologies."[17] That means that there is the practical ambition to indeed build a transnational, global political movement beyond cultural and civilizational borders.
You and James Giordano stated years ago that there would be a trend of transhumanism towards politics, and that this trend could prove to be more important on the medium and long term than many still think, independent of the destiny of the Transhumanist Party of the USA in the immediate future.
Yes. Independent of persons and fashions, the trend toward an increase in crucial questions at the interface between technology and the human body seems to be inherent to the present stage of evolution of our civilization: of the present phase of human development. With or without the "Transhumanist Party", and independent of its further path, questions at the interface of humanism and transhumanism are going to be at the center of the political, social and cultural debate of the coming years. The healthcare sector has been a forerunner to a certain extent, including its recent politization in the Obama era, but the spectrum of influence and effects is rapidly broadening. We believe that if there were no "Transhumanist Party", the issues would nevertheless come up through the ethical deliberations and decisions that will unavoidably have to be made in the face of the new options fostered by the interactions of technology, the human body, individual and collective consciousness, artificial intelligence and the self-image of the human being.[18]
This trend seems to be the more radical, the more the combined size and outreach of the politicization of "transhumanism" on a global level is considered.
Right. To think that the politization of transhumanist thinking and ideals will be confined to the world's most important technology-driven nation, the U.S., would be a miscalculation. The Transhumanist Party is gaining traction also in other parts of the Western world – mainly in Europe so far. Among them are the Tranhumanist Party of the UK[19], the Transhumanist Party of Germany[20] (Transhumanistische Partei Deutschland) and others, all currently in the process of foundation. In all these nations, the Transhumanist Party websites are online, and their members are preparing for the next elections – in the UK, for example, for the general elections of May 7th, 2015.[21] Apparently, these parties are being founded in an internationally (at least partially) concerted action.[22] Interestingly, there is a response through the founding of new "Humanist" political parties in some places, for example, in Germany the Humanist Party of Germany (Partei der Humanisten Deutschlands)[23]. This is a development that hasn't yet received enough attention by political analysis.
Some worry that the Transhumanist political movement could become a new "Internationale" – like the Communist was. Do these parties want to overcome national souvereignities (as the "Internationale" did) in order to establish a global technological order?
I don't think this is the appropriate approach. This isn't in principle about class struggle, even if it could be involved in some way or another, for example by creating different "classes" of who gets access to certain options and who doesn't. It would be a misunderstanding to interpret the current transformation of the "transhumanist" movement into a (probable) international alliance of national political parties through the viewpoints of the 20th century. This is something different, and it has to be approached with new concepts and instruments.
Some fear that this could engender a new war of worldviews – in this case about the further self-concept of the human being embattled between humanists and transhumanists.
At the moment, I am not really worried about this. It might rather be a dialogue between different concepts of what the human body, and with it human consciousness,human nature, the human being and its self-concept(s) in general can and should become in the coming decades. If this will be the case, it will certainly be a very important discussion at the core of our evolving notions of progress and of the public image in technologically advanced societies in more general terms, given that the technological means to alter the human body undoubtedly are increasing with every year. In any case, there are signals that some of the "humanist parties", for example the German one, want to go in the direction of dialogue, not confrontation.[24] I see similar signs from the side of moderate transhumanists. The larger these movements grow by organizing themselves politically, the more they will necessarily shift to a position of inner compromise, and thus to the center: to more centrist and moderate positions. At least this would be the "natural" process as we know it.
Editor's note: Part III, the final part of this interview, will be published in two weeks.
About the interviewee:
Roland Benedikter, Dr. Dr. Dr., is Research Scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Trustee of the Toynbee Prize Foundation Boston, Senior Research Scholar of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Washington DC and Full member of the Club of Rome. Previously, he was a Long-term Visiting Scholar / Research Affiliate 2009-13 at the Europe Center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, and Full Academic Fellow 2008-12 of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Washington DC. He has written for Foreign Affairs, Harvard International Review and Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, and is author of books about global strategic issues (among them two on Xi Jinping's China), co-author of two Pentagon and U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff White Papers and of Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker's Report to the Club of Rome 2003 titled "Limits to Privatization. How To Avoid Too Much Of A Good Thing". Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com
About the interviewers
Katja Siepmann, MA, is a socio-political analyst, Senior Research Fellow of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Washington D.C., Member of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Lecturer at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Cultural Sciences of the European University Frankfurt/Oder and has written for Foreign Affairs, Harvard International Review and Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs.
Annabella McIntosh is a freelance political writer based in Berlin, Germany.
[1] M. Biederbeck: Wird der nächste US-Präsident ein Cyborg sein? In: Wired Germany, https://www.wired.de/collection/latest/der-spitzenkandidat-der-transhumanistischen-partei-usa-blast-zum-wahlkampf.
[2] Z. Istvan: Should A Transhumanist Run For US-President? In: The Huffington Post, October 6, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zoltan-istvan/should-a-transhumanist-be_b_5949688.html?utm_hp_ref=politics.
[3] D. Wood: Q&A with Zoltan Istvan, Transhumanist Party candidate for the US president, 11.01.2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk4olY4qIjg.
[4] J. Hewitt: An Interview with Zoltan Istvan, leader of the Transhumanist Party and 2016 presidential contender. In: Extremetech, October 31, 2014, http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/192385-an-interview-with-zoltan-istvan-leader-of-the-transhumanist-party-and-2016-presidential-contender.
[5] Z. Istvan: Strategies for Growing the Transhumanist Movement. In: Psychology Today, March 14, 2015, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-transhumanist-philosopher/201503/strategies-growing-the-transhumanism-movement.
[6] J. Hewitt, loc cit.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Cf. J. Bartlett: Meet the Transhumanist Party: «Want to live forever? Vote for me». Jamie Bartlett meets Zoltan Istvan, the man behind a political movement in America that wants to make us all more than human. The Telegraph, December 23, 2014, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11310031/Meet-the-Transhumanist-Party-Want-to-live-forever-Vote-for-me.html.
[9] Z. Istvan: The Transhumanist Wager, Futurity Imagine Media 2013, http://www.transhumanistwager.com/ sowie http://www.amazon.de/The-Transhumanist-Wager-Zoltan-Istvan/dp/0988616114.
[10] J. Hewitt, loc cit.
[11] Ibid.
[12] Teleological Egocentric Functionalism (TEF): http://www.transhumanistwager.com/ThePhilosophy.html.
[13] J. R. Shook, J. Giordano: A principled, cosmopolitan neuroethics: Considerations for international relevance. In: Philosophy, Ethic, ands Humanities in Medicine 9 (1); (2014), http://www.peh-med.com.
[14] J. Giordano, R. Benedikter, J. Shook and E. Lanzilao: Advancing Neuroscience on the 21st-Century Stage: The Need for and a Proposed Structure of an Internationally Relevant Neuroethics. In: Ethics in Biology, Engeneering and Medicine: An International Journal, Volume 4, 2013, Issue 4, pp. 211-229; and J. Giordano, R. Benedikter, P. J. Rossi: Addressing the Quantitative and Qualitative: A View to Complementarity – From the Synaptic to the Social. In: Open Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue: Quantitation and Qualitation, Volume 3, No. 4A, Fall 2013 (November), http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojpp.2013.34A001.
[15] R. Benedikter and J. Giordano: Neuroscience and Neuroethics: Impacting Human Futures, Springer New York 2015 (forthcoming).
[16] Z. Istvan: Strategies for Growing the Transhumanist Movement, loc cit.
[17] Ibid.
[18] J. Giordano, R. Benedikter: An early – and necessary – flight of the Owl of Minerva: Neuroscience, neurotechnology, human socio-cultural boundaries, and the importance of neuroethics. In: Journal of Evolution and Technology 22(1): 14-25 (2012).
[19] Transhumanist Party UK: http://www.transhumanistparty.org.uk/.
[20] Transhumanistische Partei Deutschland: http://transhumanistische-partei.de.
[21] G. Volpicelli: Transhumanists Are Writing Their Own Manifesto For The UK General Election. In. Motherboard, January 14, 2015, http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-transhumanist-manifesto-for-the-uk-general-election.
[22] Transhumanist Party Global Europe: http://transhumanistpartyglobal.org/europe/.
[23] Partei der Humanisten Deutschlands: https://parteiderhumanisten.de.
[24] Partei der Humanisten Deutschlands: Die Transhumanistische Partei der USA – ein Partner für die Zukunft?, 2. Dezember 2014, https://parteiderhumanisten.de/die-transhumanistische-partei-der-usa-ein-partner-fuer-die-zukunft/.


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I think even more concerning than the straightforward QOF targets (though I definitely have my concerns regarding them) are the raft of additional targets that are around. Prescribing targets can cause patients to change medication year after year, where concordance is threatened as broad categories of drugs are treated as interchangeable and patients aren't allowed to be individuals as side effects are belittled. I'm particularly concerned about the focus on referrals and admissions. With very little evidence base these initiatives seem to be based on the fact that there is a variety of frequency of referrals, therefore this should be equalised and of course, it should be equalised down the way. Less referrals = good doctor. No consideration is given to the patient demographics, the reasons for referral, any specialist interests the GP may have (which may actually lead to an increase in referrals in that speciality), the availability of other services (for example the dearth of a prompt physiotherapy service leading to a rise in musculoskeletal referrals). I am keen to practice medicine that is evidence based for the patients I care for, but in these areas there is unclear evidence and so to use the evidence based guise of QOF and DESs to affect clinical judgement to cut costs is irksome at best, and dangerous at worst. I do not like consulting with a politician on my shoulder, particularly when it comes to emergency admissions. It is also interesting to compare this year's focus on decreasing referrals and admissions to the focus several years ago on reviewing all cancer diagnoses – the outcome of most of these was to suggest that we should have been referring more often and earlier.


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Summary: Chile has a longstanding love of free markets — far more than anyone else in the region. And while this trait is one of the reasons clean energy investors have flocked to the country in the past, it has also led to losses, misapplied capital, and missed opportunities for growth. Investors are now thinking twice, as there seems to be inadequate support to allow for a coherent investment framework to take place.
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Pike admits Vic health system under pressure
Latest figures on the Victorian public hospital system show elective surgery waiting lists and hospital admissions have increased.
Health Minister Bronwyn Pike has admitted to holding back the release of the figures.
The Hospital Services Report for the December quarter shows overall admissions up by 3 per cent compared with the previous year, and the number of people treated in emergency departments up by 1 per cent.
The elective surgery waiting list has increased by more than 1,000 compared with December 2002, and the number of people waiting more than 12 hours in emergency before being admitted to a ward is up by around 250.
Ms Pike says the system is under enormous pressure.
"This reflects raw numbers increasing of course, 60,000 additional patients, but we are tracking in a reasonable way," she said.
She has admitted to holding back the release of the figures until after the nurses dispute and the Budget, a move the Opposition says shows the Government is unable to handle the health system.
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G-Cloud 'will be a complete game-changer'
Programme director Denise McDonagh explains how G-Cloud is reducing costs, enabling agility and driving change across government
With plans underway for the third iteration of the G-Cloud programme to 'go live' in less than two months time, it's easy to forget that the programme has yet to even celebrate its first birthday.
Although G-Cloud is still young, its ambitions are huge, according to Denise McDonagh who has led the programme since previous director Chris Chant stood down in April 2012. Its key aim is to create a market populated by a wide variety of suppliers and services, thus helping the government to "break away from the usual suspects that used to deliver IT into government", she says.
Amid the current period of austerity, the programme is partly about reducing cost. However, according to McDonagh, its remit goes far beyond that. "This isn't just a cost reduction exercise. It's about improving services to our customer base", she says. "It also fits into the growth agenda."
Despite some initial concerns over security accreditation, the programme is now receiving international attention. According to McDonagh, "last night we spoke to the Americans, this morning we spoke to the Australians, we've got the Poles coming in this week, the Sardinians want to come and speak to us, I'm going to speak over in Brussels. We have so much interest from around Europe- and wider- in terms of what we're doing and the fact it's quite innovative."
One of the key objectives of the programme was to get SMEs engaged in bidding for government IT contracts, and McDonagh says, "70-odd percent of our suppliers are SMEs and a number of the sales we've done through cloud are with SMEs."
McDonagh plays down fears that SMEs cannot necessarily compete with the larger suppliers. She says, "I think they can compete, and I think they've probably got an advantage over the big boys because they can be far leaner in their pricing, they can be far more competitive, and they can be a lot more agile in how they deliver services.
"And sometimes you've probably got an advantage if you're a smaller organisation because you don't have the bureaucracy that some of the big players have to go through."
McDonagh says that the G-Cloud framework is already being "used as a benchmark for other suppliers. So, for example, we've heard instances where a department goes to a supplier, asks for a service, they check on the CloudStore, see the price on offer is too much, go back to the supplier, tell them how cheaply they can get it, and that supplier goes down and makes it that price."
G-Cloud III and CloudStore
According to McDonagh, the new iteration of the programme, dubbed G-Cloud III, will see a number of alterations based on customer feedback. She admits that "we have a particular challenge around CloudStore, which is a kind of marketplace and the store front for suppliers. We've recently conducted a survey of all our suppliers...and the big thing coming out of that was that the CloudStore needed significant improvement."
McDonagh says this is "really constructive criticism", adding, "We have started the next round of improvements on the CloudStore, based on customer feedback. I'm not sure when the next version will be ready but we've taken on board all the comments."
Once the changes are in place, she is clear that the baton will then pass over to the suppliers. McDonagh says, "Once that [G-Cloud III] goes out, suppliers should then have a better opportunity to display their wares and make sure they look attractive to customers.
"I can understand the challenge but I also think there's a bit of an onus on the suppliers as well, albeit if we give them the mechanism to do it in terms of an improved CloudStore."
New services for G-Cloud III
One of the key changes for G-Cloud III will be the inclusion of new services alongside the expansion of existing ones. McDonagh points out that there are certain services where demand outstrips supply in terms of number of suppliers, such as NHSmail.
She says, although "We do have secure e-mail services on the cloud...we don't have enough to drive a proper competition." In response, the team is working with NHSmail through supplier group Intellect to stimulate the market and encourage more suppliers to come forwards to deliver those types of services.
In addition, McDonagh says, she is regularly asked for "things like service integration and systems integration services because one of the big issues as we move into a more disaggregated world is how do we do service and systems integration.
"We have some of those services on the framework now under specialist cloud services, but we need more to make sure that competition and innovation is maintained...I need to ensure that I've got the right types of services. For me that's the important thing."
McDonagh says she is confident that G-Cloud will deliver on its aim to achieve savings of £120m a year by 2015 and account for 50% of new central government ICT spend on public cloud computing services.
However, as she points out, "there is a definition to be made of what is really new spend. The majority of IT spend is already locked in a number of SI (system integration) contracts...the new spend is different from that."
McDonagh says the new spend target will be achieved, but not until 2015 "because a number of our big contracts don't end until 2015 or 2016."
There are a number of difficulties comparing cloud contracts with other government IT contracts, according to McDonagh, including for example the fact that "cloud contracts tend to be shorter one or two year contracts compared to five to ten year contracts with SIs...so you can't just do a crude comparison."
Culture change
"The key thing for us is about how we encourage government to buy cloud services and that, as in any IT-enabled programme, is about a culture change. That's always the difficult part.
"We have some very clear evidence about the savings buyers can make, but the majority of central government is sitting with a lot of legacy IT. It's about how you break that up and move it into the cloud. And it's a difficult thing to do, especially when you're dealing with some very business-critical applications."
The programme, by its very nature, challenges traditional IT suppliers. McDonagh is unafraid of this aspect of the job. She acknowledges that "many of our system integrators (SI) are beginning to provide cloud services, and they can see the direction we're moving in" but admits, "when we're talking to them about current contracts, it is difficult for them to want to change their cash cow...so I think there's some resistance from some pockets of our big suppliers on wholesale moving into the cloud environment."
"Big SIs, like any other organisation, have people on both sides of the fence. To be fair to them, there are some that have been proactive in terms of trying to get to a cloud-based solution for government."
According to McDonagh, propagation is "the big thing for us." Although this includes the use of blogging, social media and the usual sorts of e-mail communication, it also means the various events, referred to as 'camps', that the team uses to target specific sections of the supplier and buyer community. There are BuyCamps, AccreditCamps and SupplyCamps, where people can learn how to get onto the framework, or buy from the framework.
On top of that work, McDonagh says that the G-Cloud programme is starting to target BuyCamps for government departments. "We go into a government department, talk to their procurement people, and say 'this is what G-Cloud is all about, this is how it can help you, and these are the things you need to think about'."
McDonagh admits that for some, culture change is difficult. "If people have been used to doing the same thing for the past 10 to 15 years, to get them to think in a different way means we can't just go in and tell them what to do. It's about showing them the benefits and building up an evidence base of how it's worked so far."
Central government and beyond
McDonagh is optimistic that, despite the difficulties, culture change can and will happen. She says, "Most big government departments, and certainly all government departments on the CIO delivery board, have bought services from the cloud. The Home Office itself [of which McDonagh is IT director] is going down that route, so we're taking our own medicine."
Interest in G-Cloud is far from being confined to central government, however. According to McDonagh there has been huge interest, and a strong degree of take-up, from local government, and devolved legislatures. There has also been interest from surprising sources, she says, such as the Bank of England, charities, and offshoots of local authorities, not to mention huge spenders such as the NHS.
McDonagh says that CloudStore currently offers 27 CESG-accredited services, and roughly 60 services are currently going through the accreditation process. She says that this should not hold back public sector buy-in, however, because "not every service needs to be accredited.
"For the ones that do need to be accredited...the process itself is fairly quick. The challenge is that we've had so many new entrants to government who have never really done that sort of security stuff before. We've had a huge learning curve with them in going through the process sand trying to teach them."
McDonagh admits that issues around accreditation may have caused some glitches at the beginning, but she says "people are beginning to learn a lot more, and services are starting to get put through the process more quickly."
Indeed, according to McDonagh, "if you want a service off the cloud, and it hasn't had pan-government accreditation, you can accredit it yourself.
"People just don't like to hear that because it takes away an excuse. They can ask us to push their service up the queue [of services to be accredited]...so it shouldn't be a barrier at all."
McDonagh is clear that she believes G-Cloud will be truly revolutionary. She points to the fact that the government's chief procurement officer Bill Crothers mentioned G-Cloud as a framework that is "delivering significant change" and "a model of success". She says, "I believe that this will be a complete game-changer for government.
"We have a lot of conversations with people around local government, police, the NHS, education, who are all really keen to get on this journey. A lot of them are at the stage where they're doing the visioning, the 'art of the possible'. We've even got some organisations looking to go completely cloud. So there's as whole pent-up thing being released out there where people are beginning to change their mindsets."
Central government, McDonagh admits, is "sometimes a little slower to change. But I certainly do think that this will be a game-changer. Because it will change the way we procure the services we need and it will, if people use it properly, reduce our dependency on the oligopoly and reduce our costs significantly, allowing us to be far more agile."
The Future of G-Cloud
McDonagh says that a measure of success of the programme will be "hitting the targets obviously, and the uptake in sales going through cloud."
But the height of achievement for G-Cloud, she insists, "will be when people see cloud as just 'business as usual'. It's when there's no second thought about buying a cloud service...you only don't buy it in a specific, unique, different situation. When I hear people starting to talk about a cloud first policy, I get really excited about that."


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When most people talk or write about Forex, they are referring to the spot forex(See below). However, there are three different type of currency investing markets that you should be aware of:
The Spot Currency Market
The spot market (also known as cash currency market) is the current or actual price of a currency at that moment in time. It is the price at which you will get a currency for immediate delivery. Every time you go to a bank to exchange your Japanese yen for Canadian dollars, you are engaging in the spot currency market. For the spot forex trader, it is the price in which you contact your forex broker either by phone or through his trading platform and ask for the price you wish to trade a particular currency.
Most retail forex traders deal in the spot currency market which is the forex market. With the advent of new technology, transactions of this kind are normally concluded in seconds but the normal delivery time for spot forex contracts is two days with the exception of the Canadian dollar which is one day.
The Forwards Currency Market
A more complicated currency market is the forwards currency market. Forward trading is different from spot trading in that you must take into account the interest rate differences ,otherwise called the interest rate differential, between the countries currencies you are trading in. For example, when dealing with the currency pair GBP/USD (Great Britain Pound against the USA dollar), you must take into account the interest rate differences between Britain and the USA. If the interest rate in Britain is 5% and the interest rate in the USA is 3%, the interest rate differential is 2%.
A forward currency contract attempts to calculate the fair value of two currencies taking into account the interest rates of the two countries in the future. The future rate or the forward rate is normally 3 days to 3 years, but most such contracts are under 6 months. The forward rate is calculated as
Before you get your calculator out, note that the determination of the forward price is not a prediction of a future exchange rate but is merely a tool to allow parties to fix a rate in the future. Currency forwards are the domain of large financial institutions and corporations.
Currency Swaps
A currency swap is a combination of a spot currency trade and a forward contract. This type of contract is also very complicated and involves multinationals trying to get better rates in their trading activities.
For example, a car manufacturer in the USA makes a deal in Europe but believes it will get better interest rates in the USA because of better relationships in the USA. The manufacturer borrows funds in the USA over the next 5 years.
The USA manufacturer then makes a deal with European banks to trade it's future dollar interest rate liability to the USA banks in Euros. As such the European bank agrees to pay the car manufacturer enough dollars to service it's dollar loan and in return, the car manufacturer agrees to make payments to the European bank in Euros.


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March 15 Newsletter
St. John Vianney Catholic School
501 N. Water Avenue; Gallatin, TN 37066; 615-230-7048; www.saintjohnvianney.org
Believing that each child is a gift from God to be cherished, guided,
and protected, the mission of St. John Vianney Catholic School is to
assist families and the Church in their responsibility of forming
educated Christians who lovingly serve God in this life, so as to be
with Him forever in the next
March 15 through March 28, 2017
Letter from the Principal:
Dear SJV Families:
Fourth quarter began on Monday, which means your child's third quarter report card is coming home today in the Wednesday folder. Please sign and return it, and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child's teacher. We want to end the year with a strong fourth quarter of learning!
Even though weather has turned a bit wintry, Spring Break is nearly here! I hope you and your families have a wonderful week together, resting and enjoying time together, and will return to school safely on March 27. April has much in store for us at SJV with ITBS testing, the Barnes & Noble Bookfair, Culver's Spirit Night, and the SJV Wildcat 5K, all in the first week of the month!
Lastly, thanks to funds raised at the 4th annual Tee Off for Technology Golf Tournament, the technology available for your students to use in the classroom has grown yet again! A mobile laptop cart with 18 laptop computers has arrived, and teachers will begin using it after Spring Break. We are blessed by the many gifts we have here at SJV, and thank all of you who were involved in the golf tournament in any way!
God bless,
Jennifer McCormick
3/16: SJV Spirit Night at Panera Bread – 4 to 8 pm
Mass (PK-8)
3/17: Teacher In-service; no school for students
3/20: SJV Night at the Nashville Predators Game
3/20 – 3/24: Spring Break
3/28: Mass (5-8)
3/29: Kindergarten & 8th grade Cap and Gown Pictures
3rd Grade Field Trip
Wildcat Wednesday
3/30: Mass (PK-8)
3/31: TADS Application Deadline for Tuition Assistance
4/3: Spring Uniforms Begin
Barnes & Noble Bookfair all week
ITBS Testing Begins
4/4: Mass (5-8)
SJV Choir performs at Barnes & Noble – 4:30 pm
Culver's Spirit Night 5-8 pm
4/6: SJV Forensics Team performs at Barnes & Noble – time TBA
4/8: Fourth Annual SJV Wildcat 5K – 8am
DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR FINANCIAL AID FOR 2017-2018 IS APPROACHING FAST! The deadline to apply for financial aid is March 31, 2017, and families who wish to be considered must have submitted an application/enrollment contract to the school, as well as a tuition assistance application through TADS.com. If you have questions, please call the school office.
Volunteers Needed for SJV Wildcat 5K: The 4th annual SJV Wildcat 5K is just around the corner, and volunteers are needed to help with this event! There are opportunities prior to the race here at school, as well as the day of the race at Gallatin Civic Center/Triple Creek Park. Sign-ups are now open at the following link: http://signup.com/go/hLkqoF Thank you in advance for your help!
RUNNERS & WALKERS STILL WELCOME!: It's not too late to sign up for the SJV Wildcat 5K Run/Walk on April 8! Forms are available in the school office, and online signups are available at http://www.active.com/gallatin-tn/running/distance-running-races/sjv-wildcat-5k-2017?int=
With race distances for all ages, and walkers welcome at the 5K, this is a great event for the whole family!
Congratulations to Ryan Miller. Ryan will be receiving a "Distinguished Service Award" from Fairvue Plantation In recognition of exemplary service in his community, working with Gallatin Cares and CAP (Children Are People) organizations. We are very proud of him and his drive to help others. Way to go Wildcat!
Choir (1-8) – Wednesday, March 29th from 3:30 – 4:30 pm and Friday, March 31st during recess.
Junior Service Council (1-4): (2nd Tuesday of the Month) April 11th from 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Student Service Council (5-8) – Council meets twice a month during middle school recess
Junior Science Olympiad (1-5): (1st and 3rd Tue of each month) April 4th from 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Volleyball Practice (4-6): Monday and Wednesday from 3:30 – 5:00 pm
KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS If you shop at Kroger and have a Kroger Plus Card, you can support SJV with every purchase you make. Simply sign up at https://www.kroger.com/communityrewards and designate SJV using code 89457. Kroger will donate a percentage of your purchase to SJV, at no cost to you. During the last cycle (9-1-2016 to 11-30-2016), SJV had 50 households participate, which generated a donation from Kroger to SJV in the amount of $694.45.
CIA (Community in Action):
Thank you to the 5th grade class for their wonderful presentation at the March CIA meeting. Great job guys! We covered a lot of information, so if you weren't able to attend we have attached minutes from our meeting for you to review.
Our next CIA meeting is Monday, April 10th at 3:30 pm with a presentation by our Pre-K students to get the meeting started. Additionally, Mrs. Schaefer will be providing babysitting for students and their siblings while the meeting is in progress. All SJV families are welcome and encouraged to attend to find out what's going on with our CIA activities and fundraisers this year and earn an hour of volunteer time! Meetings never last more than one hour and are a great way to find out about school events and get to know other families. See you there!
SJV Spirit Day at PANERA BREAD – GALLATIN. SJV will be having a spirit night on Thursday, March 16 at Panera Bread in Gallatin, so mark your calendar and save the date! A flyer with more information will be sent home as the event draws closer.
SJV NIGHT AT NASHVILLE PREDATORS GAME is Monday, March 20th
Come watch the Nashville Predators vs. Arizona Coyotes at Bridgestone Arena @7pm
-Lower Bowl seats for $63.50 and Upper Bow seats for $38.50, including all fees
-Every ticket sold includes a $5 return to SJV
Promo Code "SJV"
St. John Vianney Church Summer Fun!
Totus Tuus, a summer youth program, is being held at St. John Vianney Church June 25-30, 2017. For grade school students (grades 1-6) the program runs Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. For junior high and high school youth (grade 7-12) the program runs Sunday-Thursday from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
Totus Tuus combines catechesis and having FUN! The youthfulness and energy of the teaching team is contagious. Come out and join us! Cost is $20 per student or $60 per family. Registration forms will be available in the church and school office beginning in March.
Camp JPII 2017. Our summer camp program, Camp JPII 2017, is now open for registration!
Camp JPII offers summer fun for kids age 5-18 the weeks of June 5-9th, June 12-16th, June 19-23rd, and June 26-30th. Camps run Monday-Friday in two sessions: 9:00 a.m. – noon and 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Before care, after care, and meal plans are also available as well as the Pick Four Discount for those who sign up for four half-day camps.
New camps this year include Dance Camp, Track Camp, several art camps including Clay Creations, Making the Ordinary Extraordinary, and DIY Design Painting, Rock and Roll History, Model United Nations and Debating, and Ready…Set….Go Algebra. With 40 camps to choose from, there is something available for every age and every interest!
Interested parents and campers should check out the camp brochure and online registration at: http://jp2hs.org/campus-life/extra-curricular-programs/camp-jpii/. Please direct any questions to Mr. Paul Saboe, Camp JPII Director, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Register Now for Father Ryan's 2016 Summer Camps.
Father Ryan is offering a wide range of sports, drama and art programs on their campus at their 2016 Summer Camps for rising K through 12th graders, and registration is now open. Visit online at www.fatherryan.org/camps and make your summer plans today.
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Our dog Kash, a Border Collie-Aussie mix was not a easy dog to raise as a puppy!
Kash Flow, our Border Collie-Aussie mix dog is a very good, loyal, smart, and lovable dog! He wasn't always that way. From the first day, he was a challenge. He was also smart.
I always thought I had a way with dogs. All of my dogs had been exceptional, smart, behaved well, and totally loyal to me. Kash was different. He is not wired the same as most dogs.
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Border Collie-Aussie mix dogs in my opinion is probably one of the smartest dog on the planet. Of course, your dog maybe the smartest in your world. All dogs can be great companions if treated correctly.
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Bors is a robot that integrates with GitHub pull requests. Basically, instead of clicking the merge button, privileged users leave a comment (bors r+). It queues up the pull requests and tests them in a staging branch. If the staging branch passes, it gets pushed over the top of master.
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This way, master branch always passes CI. If a pull request (or combination of mutually incompatible pull requests) breaks the build, it never gets to master. If it gets to master, it already passed the test suite.
This isn't a replacement for CI runners like Travis CI; it's basically a wrapper on top of it. It actually just pushes to the staging branch and waits for GitHub Status Notifications (GH status is the closest thing I know of to a universal CI protocol).
I'm already using it to develop itself. I'm in the process of moving stuff off of an older Rust-based version of the same concept (contrary to what /r/rust might want you to think, Rust is really not a good choice for non-CPU-bound web apps, and this is about as non-CPU-bound as you can get; it spends most of its time waiting for your test suite to run).
p.s. I would very much appreciate some amount of code review, since this is my first Elixir project. You might also be interested in using it...
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- head of cauliflower, cleaned and cut up into small pieces
- 1
- head of broccoli, cleaned and cup up into small pieces
- 2 7oz can(s)
- pitted sliced black olives (you can use green if you wish)
- 1 8oz can(s)
- of mushrooms. i use freshly chopped ones...about 3
- 1 10 oz box
- frozen peas, uncooked
- 1 small
- onion grated (i chop mine up in the food processor)
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- mozzarella cheese, shredded
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- 1 Tbsp
- garlic powder ( i chop one garlic clove up when i am chopping up the onions in the food processor instead of using the powder)
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- salt
- 1 tsp
- pepper
- 1/2 tsp
- each of dry mustard, sweet basil, oregano and paprika
- 1 c
- apple cider vinegar or red wine vinegar or vinegar of your choice.
- 1 1/2 c
- vegetable oil
- 1 Tbsp
- honey
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Charles Krauthammer: Republican Party doesn't need an ideological shift
Christian 24-7 Murray, UTNov. 15, 2012 8:15 p.m.
Have you ever read Charles' Bio? You should. The guy is amazing and freakishly brilliant.
I hope the republican leadership is reading and listening to him. If he were a top adviser, they would have the next election in the bag.
As for liberals, go ahead and rail against him. You have great reason to fear him. He just makes too much sense.
Joe Moe Logan, UTNov. 12, 2012 2:13 p.m.
It's amazing to me that despite how rigid and shrill a vocal minority of conservative voices have been in recent years, this presidential election was still decided by 1%, and Republicans still control the House (which, historically and intentionally is the most reflective of the current mood of the country). This tells me that this article is probably more correct than not.
jsf Centerville, UTNov. 12, 2012 2:02 p.m.
In this past election only about 51% of those eligible to vote actually voted. Obama one the popular vote by about two to three million votes. The electoral college could have been as close as 333,000 votes in four states. Neither party has a mandate. Republican conservatism is as popular as democrat liberalism's big government. The school room is divided.
Wally West SLC, UTNov. 11, 2012 3:30 p.m.
@ Eric Samuelsen 9:55 a.m. Nov. 11, 2012
This Libertarian (me) agrees with you. It would seem IMO that they prefer style over substance.
If the GOP decides to *evolve* My advice is an upgrade over the last 2 "populists" they trotted as VP Candidates. ROFL!
one old man Ogden, UTNov. 11, 2012 11:32 a.m.
10cc that was a great post. Thank you.
Eric Samuelsen Provo, UTNov. 11, 2012 9:55 a.m.
Speaking as a liberal Democrat, this is the most cheering column I've read in a long time. "We don't have to change, we just need to express ourselves more artfully." Awesome.
Hutterite American Fork, UTNov. 11, 2012 9:51 a.m.
The nation is changing, charlie. If you stubbornly refuse to see it, you can watch your relevance, and that of the republican party, fall away.
The Real Maverick Orem, UTNov. 11, 2012 9:40 a.m.
Ha ha ha.
Krauthammer? When has he been right about anything???
Just a week or so ago he was predicting a Romney win... In a landslide!
Ha ha ha, if you want to know how to NOT run your Presidency, election campaign, or political party, just do whatever Krauthammer suggests. He is literally, wrong, 99 percent of the time.
If he says that the GOP doesn't need to change then PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE my fellow conservative friends, believe the opposite. The GOP needs to change. It needs to. This no compromise, alienate everyone but well to do Christian white males, tough guy attitude needs to go if the GOP hopes to gain anything politically anytime soon.
Furry1993 Ogden, UTNov. 11, 2012 9:10 a.m.
Krauthammer is, once again, showing that he doesn't have a clue.
10CC Bountiful, UTNov. 11, 2012 8:43 a.m.
The GOP's "don't be a 47% leech" message doesn't resonate well with many, and I'm not sure trotting our Rubio or Ted Cruz will be enough to stem the demographic shift for Republicans.
I was a 47 percenter when I was in college, was a single parent and took advantage of several programs that allowed me to be a good parent and achieve an education. I've made far, far more in wages than I would have otherwise, and I consider my taxes today to be not just repaying society for its investment in me, but investing in the future as others follow the path I travelled. (I understand those options are drying up.)
There's no room in the conservative mindset for this type of story, so they'll go on characterizing those who would do greater things with their lives as leeches, if government programs are involved.
Krauthammer and conservatives have no idea what to do with this ideological shift, as more group-oriented cultures grow in our nation. If they want to put their heads in the sand, it's fine by this Democrat.
higv Dietrich, IDNov. 11, 2012 8:34 a.m.
I know people that didn't think some candidates liked people of there race Mitt because of nationality. We need to be for legal immigration as they are hard workers trying to make a better life. Illegal immigrants is what we are against. Moving to the center, favoring gay mariage and abortion all that does is alienate your main voice. as no conservative third party will dominate.
Shaun Sandy, UTNov. 11, 2012 8:21 a.m.
What do republicans really want? It isn't smaller government. Ron Paul was by far the most consertive candidate and was kicked to the curb.
Salsa Libre Provo, UTNov. 11, 2012 1:22 a.m.
Krauthammer is, again, irrelevant. His belief that Republicans need not adjust to a changing world runs counter to the notion of making the Republican Party an important force in the areea of political ideas. He is truly the reactionary voice in the wilderness.
If you want a reasonable and rational path going forward, read the writings of Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan, Michael Gerson or David Frum. Krauthammer appeals to the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. That wing is essentially devoid of ideas and is essentially dead!


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