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The United States has historically offered unparalleled economic opportunity to successive generations of immigrants and their children, poised to play an increasing role in the U.S. economy. But the lasting impact of job loss and slower growth over the next decade will translate into fewer opportunities for workers—and immigrants may prove the most vulnerable.
This report describes the range of policies available to improve immigrants' economic integration through language acquisition, especially those focused on getting immigrants into jobs or moving into higher-paying jobs. It assesses promising models and practices from Europe and North America.
This important MPI report challenges the conventional wisdom about the immigrant workforce, using a sophisticated new method of analysis that permits deeper examination of how workers – immigrant and native-born – fare by economic sector, the skill level of their jobs, and educational attainment.
Despite conventional wisdom that the U.S. immigrant workforce is shaped like an hourglass—wide at the top and the bottom but narrow in the middle— in reality immigrants are more evenly dispersed across the skills spectrum. This report shows that the fastest growth in immigrant employment since 2000 has occurred in middle-skilled jobs.
Slightly more than 2.1 million unauthorized immigrant youth and young adults could be eligible to apply for legal status under the 2010 DREAM Act, though historical trends indicate that perhaps fewer than 40 percent would obtain legal status because of a variety of limitations. This policy brief offers detailed estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries.
This briefing focuses on migrants higher rates of on-the-job injuries.
This report examines the funding formula used to distribute Workforce Investment Act Title II federal funds for adult education, literacy, and English as a Second Language instruction, and argues that the formula fails to account for the size and needs of adults with limited English proficiency.
This exploratory study provides an unprecedented assessment of the "brain-waste" phenomenon in the United States—a serious waste of human capital resulting from the unemployment or underemployment of highly skilled college-educated immigrants.


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Survey: CIOs Put Out Help-Wanted Sign for Business-Savvy IT ProfessionalsBy Allan Alter Print
Hiring will increase for programmers, systems developers, project managers and business analysts who really understand business.
Our first two findings presented evidence that IT organizations are growing. But where will the growth come? Our latest finding covers the hiring outlook for 18 different IT positions, and finds that the demand for new systems and infrastructure is leading to more hiring for IT professionals who can build them. But today, this requires business as well as technical know-how, a combination of skills IT executives expect will be difficult to find.
For more data and analysis, see CIO Insight 's Research Center blog at go.cioinsight.com/researchcentral
Finding 3: CIOs are looking for business-savvy technologists to build new systems.
Large and midsize companies are ramping up hiring in programming and systems development; also in demand are professionals in project management, business-process redesign, business analysis and systems integration. The message to IT professionals is clear: A need exists in the U.S. for talented technicians who can be businesspeople, too, especially if they can function in a global economy.
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Yesterday Patrick took a look at the Mini-That-Never-Was, the Mini Spiritual. Conceived as the original clean-sheet design for a new Mini, it never left the concept stage. I'm happy for that, and I'm happy that we got the sporty, fun Mini instead. But many cars are better than their initial concepts.
Usually, the production version of a car tones down everything you loved about an original concept. Big wheels and chunky tires? Gone. A crazy-sounding engine? Gone. Lime-green nylon seats? Gone. Although maybe those should stay gone.
Every so often, though, the production car is better than the concept. The Lexus LF-A follows that line of thinking perfectly. We were originally shown an aluminum-bodied monstrosity with no face, beautifully exemplified here, by the second concept Lexus was showing around:
And what we got instead was this carbon fiber beauty:
A few slight tweaks, but it makes a world of difference.
So what car are you happy for because it looks nothing like its concept? Let us know in the comments below!
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UMES recognizes Founders' Day with convocation
PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (Sept. 9, 2013)The University of Maryland Eastern Shore observes its 127th Founders' Day with a convocation and commencement for 26 doctorate candidates in the school's physical therapy program.
The students, 22 of whom are from Maryland and seven of which hail from the Eastern Shore, will don traditional caps and gowns Sept. 12 at 10 a.m. to receive the Doctor of Physical Therapy degree after three years of study. Graduates then have one more hurdle to clear-passing the national licensing exam. UMES has an envious record of producing graduates who earn the credential on the first try, said Dr. Raymond L. Blakely, the program's founder and chair. Following licensure, they will enter the healthcare field as physical therapists in hospitals, senior care facilities and the private sector with home health providers.
Dr. Juliette B. Bell, the university's 15th leader, will give the Founders' Day address. The UMES Wind Ensemble, and Concert and Gospel choirs will perform. During the ceremony, Dr. Leon Copeland of Salisbury will receive the Faculty Emeriti award.
Copeland retired from the university a year ago after a 35-year career in the Department of Technology, where he most recently served as chair in addition to professor. He is being recognized for his individual achievements and leadership. During his tenure, the Department of Technology earned accreditation with the American Council for Construction Education for the school's Construction Management program and the National Association for Accreditation of Teacher Education for the Technology Education program. He established off-campus programs in Construction Management Technology at the Universities at Shady Grove in Montgomery County and in Career and Technology Education at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Among others, Copeland was successful in securing a $1.2 million grant in 1999 from the National Science Foundation to administer the Technology Education Leadership Project and from the State of Maryland to develop a state-wide Career and Technology Education Certification curriculum for occupational teachers in Maryland.
Copeland received many awards over his career in education. He is married to Mary Copeland, who was also a career educator with Wicomico County public schools, retiring after 30 years as an elementary school teacher.
Following convocation, wreath laying and birthday cake cutting ceremonies ensue. Home Depot will also present a check for $10,000 representing the school's award in their campus improvement grant contest-Retool Your School.
Founders' Week events are free and open to the public. Seating, however, for convocation is limited. For more information, call 410-651-6669 or visit www.umes.edu.
Gail Stephens, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580, email@example.com.


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I am trying to compile the sample on your site, using the NVIDIA 2.2 sdk and Visual studio 2005.
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The deadline for the current Friday Challenge — You're the Editor — is 6 AM Eastern time on the morning of Friday, 7 October 2011... less than twenty-four hours away.
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It gets to the core of the problem
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Thank you for the Solutions. My classes enjoyed the clapped technique as we explored asanas that also release emotions. Most students commented that they enjoyed the class because they felt better!


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
La Boétie poses one of the thorniest problems in political philosophy: why the suffering majority obey the orders of the ruling few:
For the present I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him.[3] Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common that one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke, not constrained by a greater multitude than they, but simply, it would seem, delighted and charmed by the name of one man alone whose power they need not fear, for he is evidently the one person whose qualities they cannot admire because of his inhumanity and brutality toward them. A weakness characteristic of human kind is that we often have to obey force; we have to make concessions; we ourselves cannot always be the stronger. Therefore, when a nation is constrained by the fortune of war to serve a single clique, as happened when the city of Athens served the thirty Tyrants, one should not be amazed that the nation obeys, but simply be grieved by the situation; or rather, instead of being amazed or saddened, consider patiently the evil and look forward hopefully toward a happier future.
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Boétie's answer to this question is thoughtful and detailed. The country and system one is born under is accepted without question as normal; only a very few are born with the faculty to question the justice and necessity of the rule of the few; most are content to remain cowardly and submissive under tyranny; ordinary people are trained to adore their leaders; a select few who cooperate with the ruler are rewarded well for their services; others accept their servility because they wish to acquire wealth under the tyrant's rule. In 1549 Boétie was content to "consider patiently the evil and look forward hopefully toward a happier future" when this would no longer be the case.


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HAMPTON — For Christopher Flood, the hardest part was getting his mother's permission. Which is never easy when the words "death waiver" are involved.
"She was like, 'Uh … are you sure you want to do this?'" he said. "I told her, it's really not as bad as it looks."
Let's face it, rugby can look pretty … well, brutal. The bumper sticker says it all: "Give Blood, Play Rugby." In some respects, it's football without the pads. But there are those, Flood included, who play both sports and consider football more dangerous.
Flood is in his first year with the Hampton Heat, a team comprised mostly of Hampton High students but not affiliated with the school. The Heat plays in the Peninsula Rugby Foundation, which also includes Kecoughtan, Denbigh, Heritage, Bethel, and Warville (a combination of Warwick and Menchville). They play mostly on Saturday mornings before family, friends, and rugby enthusiasts.
While Flood faced a challenge convincing his mother, Daunte Wilson found it pretty easy. In fact, his mother, Shari, is the coach. "Coach Mamma," they call her. The roster includes football players, former wrestlers, band members, a boxer, and those who pretty much do nothing else.
"I like the fact that it doesn't discriminate," Shari Wilson said. "You've got the little guys, the big guys, the skinny guys, the tall guys, the fat guys, the athletic guys. They're all able to come together and play without everyone looking the same."
So how did Shari Wilson — mother of three, wife of former Crabber and Tennessee lineman James Wilson — become the coach of a sport she previously knew nothing about? It started when Daunte got interested. But because Hampton didn't have a team, he played over at Kecoughtan.
Shari decided they should have a team at Hampton, and with the help of the Internet she did exhaustive research. Daunte became her lead recruiter around the school. Paul Travis, who had played at Kecoughtan last spring, joined the Heat and became captain.
On March 10, Hampton played its first game and beat Heritage 24-17. That was the first of four wins against Peninsula teams — the lone loss came last week to Kecoughtan. Another highlight was the Cherry Blossom Tournament at Fort Washington, Md. The lone predominantly African-American team, the Heat finished first in its group.
The Heat finished the regular season 4-2 in their conference with losses to Kecoughtan and Denbigh. The playoffs begin May 5.
Yes, things get pretty physical. In the first game, Wilson got hit above the left eye and the skin split open. Blood poured down his face.
"So I got it taped up and I kept playing through it," he said. "Rugby has a different mentality. In football, if that had happened, you'd be out the whole game. Rugby? You tape it up and keep playing."
A collision last spring left Travis with a severe concussion and a concerned mother. He convinced her to let him keep playing. This season, his worst injury is a black eye — two, in fact, at the same time.
At 5-foot-6 and 150 pounds, Greg "Bubba" Lopez is one of the team's smaller players. The worse he had so far is a black eye.
"Not at all," he said when asked if his size puts him at a disadvantage. "I still do damage."
A novice, Shari Wilson enlisted the help of Geoff Maw, a native of New Zealand who has both played and coached rugby. He meets with the team two or three times a week.
"They're an exceptional group," he said. "When I first came out, I taught them the basics and a little bit of the principles of the game. When I left, almost every one of them came up to me to shake my hand personally. I've never been around such a grateful group of well-behaved kids in my whole life.
"They're like little sponges. Everything you teach them, they do. I laid out a program for them to follow. They did. And as a result, they've been very successful."
Though the Virginia High School League does not recognize rugby and has doesn't appear headed that way, the sport is gaining popularity in the state. The web site for Rugby Virginia, the governing body, lists 17 high school rugby clubs the Old Dominion.
Here's something that might surprise you: Hampton also has a girls' team. They play seven to a side (the boys play 15s) and were undefeated going into Saturday's match. Coach Natasha Graham's team includes a cheerleader, the Homecoming queen, a junior varsity basketball player, and a track athlete.
Graham grew up a football fanatic in Oklahoma, where her dad is a former Sooner player. She came to realize two things: Girls can't play college football, and cheerleaders get to watch the games from the sideline for free. So she picked up the pom-poms.
She and Shari Wilson watch the Crabbers' football games together, and they decided to start a rugby program together. The girls went undefeated in their first season.
And for those who say girls can't get down and dirty?
"They can, and they love it," Graham said. "You know, girls get just as frustrated and angry as men do, probably more so. The only problem is, they don't have a sport where they can hit people and feel better. Rugby allows us to do that."
Quite well.
"They're mean," Flood said of the girls. "When we first saw them out there, we couldn't believe it. They're mean."
One of her players is a 14-year-old freshman named Maria Silguero, who is 5-foot-2 and goes by the nickname "Giggles." Not exactly what you'd expect in a rugby player.
"They see me as being fragile or too girly to play a sport that involves physical contact," she said. "It really does surprise them, and it surprise me that although they know me they still can't see me doing a sport like rugby."
It's been an experience she already cherishes.
"We all have a lot of bruises and stories to tell," she said..
So how dangerous is it? Well, it's a contact sport with no pads. That includes no head gear, unless you count the few who wear a scrum cap — which was actually designed to protect the ears.
Concussions are a very real risk. According to a University of North Carolina study, 25 percent of all rugby injuries are to the head. Roughly one-fifth of those are concussions.
But there are those, including Flood and Daunte Wilson, who will tell you that football is a more dangerous sport. The helmet can provide a false sense of security.
"The equipment gives people the impression they can do anything," Wilson said. "Out here, people realize, I don't have pads."
A couple of rule difference also factor in. One, in rugby, a player can only be hit when he/she has the ball. And two, the ball cannot be thrown forward, which limits blind-side hits.
"Rugby is a barbaric sport played by gentlemen," Maw said.
It's also catching on.
"Honestly, when we had signups, it was the video and the music they had that caught my attention," Lopez said. "But I love it now. If you go to my house, everything I have is rugby. That's all I talk about at school. It's part of me now."
HAMPTON — For Christopher Flood, the hardest part was getting his mother's permission. Which is never easy when the words "death waiver" are involved.


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How Can The Atlantic Give Us 5,000 Words on Prison Life Without Interviewing Prisoners?
From Mother Jones/ by Shane Bauer
As someone who writes about prisons, and who two spent years behind bars, I devour nearly everything written about it, especially the long-form stuff. So I was excited when I saw that The Atlantic's latest issue had a major story called "How Gangs Took Over Prison."
Then I read it. Anyone who has ever survived anything traumatic—domestic abuse, rape, torture, war—knows the particular jolt that happens in the body when someone makes light of that thing that you once thought could destroy you. I am a former prisoner—I was held captive in Iran from 2009-2011—and a survivor of solitary confinement. In my experience as a reporter who writes about prisons, it is surprisingly rare that I come across people outside of the prison system who justify long-term solitary confinement. Even within the world of prison administrators many are against it. The last two times I've attended the American Correctional Association conferences, there have been large, well attended symposiums on the need to curb the use of isolation.
Graeme Wood, the writer of the Atlantic story, gives a different impression of the practice. He visits Pelican Bay State prison, which probably has more people in solitary confinement for longer periods than any other prison in the world. He goes to the Security Housing Unit, or SHU, where people are kept in solitary confinement or, as he gently puts it, are "living without cellmates." When he enters, he says it's "like walking into a sacred space" where the silence is "sepulchral." The hallways "radiate" and the prisoners are celled in the "branches of (a) snowflake." Beautiful.
It's difficult to understand why Wood does not find it worth mentioning that the cells in those snowflakes are each 7×11 feet and windowless. Men literally spend decades in those cells, alone. I've been to Pelican Bay, and wrote a story about it in 2012. I met a man there who hadn't seen a tree in 12 years. Wood tells us categorically that everyone there is a hard-core gang member. This is what the California Department of Corrections consistently claims, but if Wood did a little digging, he would find that number of the prisoners locked away in the SHU are jailhouse lawyers. (more…)


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A Beautiful sunny morning in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. 47 women will take the start today.
After rain last night course is in best shape of the week - dust is down, trail feels not as slippery - at least in the open, but the rain will have made the rocky sections in the dark under the trees a bit slippery. Beautiful sunny day, around 20C, bit of a breeze.
See our preview from earlier in the week.
The #1 rider Sabine Spitz broke her collarbone in training and will not start.
Women will do 6 full laps of the course - no start loop.
The lead moto driver knows the course well: has driven every race in Masters and these Worlds - except for the one he raced in. For that one he drove the race before, raced his race and then got back on the moto for the next race.
Canada has a large sqaud: Emily Batty, Catharine Pendrel (Canada), Andréanne Pichette, Sandra Walter, Mikaela Kofman
Lap 1
Up the first climb Katrin Leumann (Switzerland) leads Eva Lechner (Italy), Tanja Zakelj (Slovenia), Kathrin Stirnemann (Switzerland), Julie Bresset (France) all just a long long line
Sandra walter and Amdanda sin were involved in a crash at the start.
1/2 way round and it is Lechner and Leumann leading
Catharine Pendrel (Canada) sitting 14th, Emily Batty 18th,
No real seperation yet, still a long line of riders.
Pendrel has gone down but gets back up quickly
Bressett now in the lead followed by Eva Lechner (Italy), Maja Wloszczowska (Poland) Tanja Zakelj (Slovenia) Katerina Nash (Czech Republic) Esther Süss (Switzerland) and they have asmall gap over chasers
Lap 2
6:48 am ET
Heading out: Bresset, Lechner, Wloszczowska, Zakelj, Nash and Engen
Next group is at 20s
Irina Kalentieva (Russian Federation), Kathrin Stirnemann (Switzerland),
Lea Davison (United States of America), Pendrel 10th at 30s
Batty 17th at 42s
Kofman 26th
Pichette 29th
Sin 32nd
Walter 41st
1/2 way round 655 am ET
Bresset, , Wloszczowska, Lechner, Engen,Nash, and Zakelj
7 Irina Kalentieva at 6s, 8 Stirnemann 11s
9 Esther Süss (Switzerland) 20s
Pendrel 10th at 27
Batty 16th at 48s
Lechner goes down HARD! on the logs with just over a km to go to the finishline
She is up but her day is done.....
Lap 3
7:04 am
Bresset, Wloszczowska and Zakelj now have a 6s lap on Irina Kalentieva and Engen
Nash 6th at 13s
Suss 7th at 16s
Stirnemann 8th at 17s
Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa (Norway) 9th at 43
Davison 10th 43s
Pendrel 11th at 46s
Batty 15th at 1:18
Kofman 21st at 1:57
Sin 27th
Walter has had a mechanical
7:14 am ET
1/2 way round the 3rd lap and Bresset leading Wloszczowska by 1 s. Engen at 2s, Zakelj 3s and Suss on her wheel, Kalentieva 6th at 5s
7th and 7th are Nash and Stirnemann at 14s
Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa (Norway) 9th at 25s
Davison 10th at 36s
Pendrel 11th at 48s
Batty 15th at 1:20
7:19 am
Wloszczowska and Zakelj have dropped Bresset
Wloszczowska leading and Zakelj has crashed hard while chasing
Lap 4 start 7:22 am ET
Wloszczowska leading Breset by 4s. Suss 3rd at 16s, 4 Kalentieva 18s
Engen 5th at 26s
Stirnemann 6th at 41s
Pendrel has crashed again in the Treehouse and sitting 15th at 2:04 back
7:31 am - Half way round and Wloszczowska leading Bresset by 1s
Suss 3rd at 29s
Kalentieva 4th at 32s
Engen 5th at 44s
Zakelj 6th at 50s
Davison 10th at 1:35
Batty 16th at 2:45
Pendrel 17th at 2:48
Lap 5 start - 2 to go
7:38 am
Bresset leading Wloszczowska
Suss 3rd at 35s, Kalentieva 4th at 36s
Engen 5th at 1m
Zakelj 6th at 1:01
Dahle Flesja 7th at 1:34
Davison 9th at 2:08
Batty 16th at 3:23
Pendrel 19th at 3:47
1/2 way round 7:47 am ET
Still Bresset and Wloszczowska battling it out in front
Kalentieva 3rd at 23s
Suss 4th at 29s
Zakelj 5th at 59s
Engen 6th at 1m
Dahle Flesja 7th at 1:47
Batty 17th at 3:56
Pendrel 19th at 4:34
7:55 am
Wloszczowska attacks just B4 Treehouse and has a small gap at the bottom
Lap 6 - LAST LAP
Still Bresset and Wloszczowska as they head out for the last lap
Suss back into 3rd at 25s, Kalentieva 4th at 34s
5th Tanja Zakelj 59s
6 Engen
7 Stirnemann
8 Dahle Flesjaa
9 Davison
10 Lechner
8:05 am ET - 1/2 way round
Bresset and Wloszczowska still together
Suss 3rd at 27s
Kalentieva 4th at 41s
5th Tanja Zakelj 1:04
1 Km to go and Bresset at the front
Bresset has opened a gap as they go through TreeHouse rocks
Bresset Wins and repeats as World Champ
1 Julie Bresset (France) 1:42:54
2 Maja Wloszczowska (Poland) at 0:05
3 Esther Süss (Switzerland) 1:06
4 Irina Kalentieva (Russian Federation) 1:29
5 Tanja Zakelj (Slovenia) 2:03
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Have you ever been at a meeting about a community issue and heard the statement, "We don't need some outsider coming in and telling us what to do"? I know I have. This phrase points to a common challenge I see when working in rural communities—balancing the value of community input with expert knowledge in community design.
Too often community projects favor one of these approaches over the other; the design team who drops in for a week with the solution to a town's traffic woes (i.e. roundabout) or the community workshop that recycles the same, old idea for its downtown's redevelopment (i.e. more parking). So, how do we move off of this dynamic towards a more effective model? By recognizing the best of what both sides bring to the equation and designing a process that leverages both strengths.
Let's talk about what community members offer to the design process. Local people know their town best. Their insights will inform a project in many ways from identifying community values to brainstorming and prioritizing possible actions. Research shows us that many minds lead to better results. So, the greater the diversity of people contributing to solving a problem, the more creative and effective are the solutions. This is particularly true for more complex issues that community design addresses like downtown revitalization or growth management. In addition, community members need to own the outcomes of a design process if those outcomes are going to be effectively implemented. There is no better way to ensure ownership than to be part of shaping the solutions.
When citizens are effectively engaged in a design process then designers and planners can be their most effective too; facilitating a process that synthesizes local experience and wisdom with design principles and technical expertise. Designers can help people uncover their common interests and work towards practical, creative solutions that build on local character and assets.
At the Orton Family Foundation we use an approach called Heart & Soul Community Planning, which strives to put community wisdom first in projects and uses design and planning professionals to help make the most of this valuable asset. This balance is also at the heart of CIRD's approach to rural design, which is why Orton is excited to partner with Project for Public Spaces and the other CommunityMatters organizations on this program.
So, what can you do to help find this balance in your own community's rural design project? Here are three easy ways to make it happen:
1.) Listen first. Community design projects need to begin with listening to what people value about their town and what concerns they have. This input will help frame the design issue with greater specificity, lead to new insights and ground it in the experience of a particular place.
For instance, if you are looking at how to make a town more walkable, first ask people what they love about their town and how they experience it. This information will provide you with information about walkability and it also may point to some other underlying issues that design could address. We've found the use of personal story particularly effective for uncovering what people really care about in their towns.
2.) Ask powerful questions. Spend time crafting the questions you ask of the community so that people can give you thoughtful answers. A powerful question will foster reflective discussion, surface people's assumptions and prompt creative thinking. As an example, consider the difference between the following two questions:
What improvements would you like to see downtown to make it more walkable? Generates a personal laundry list of ideas How might we make downtown more walkable for people of all ages? Prompts people to generate ideas that respond to the different needs of community members
3.) Create feedback loops. Make sure to have multiple opportunities for people to review your progress and provide feedback along the way. These loops will inform people of possible solutions to the design challenge, help refine ideas to fit the local context, and ensure a transparent community process.
Feedback loops can be created through in-person meetings like a large community forum or a pop-up open house, online portals such as MindMixer or Engaging Plans, or targeted conversations with key stakeholders or groups in town.
These three strategies bring the best of both sides to the table by allowing the community to define the design issue and the designer to respond to that challenge based on the specifics of a particular place. We look forward to the selection of this year's CIRD workshop hosts (to be announced in early June) where we'll work to achieve this balance in four rural communities across the US.
—————- This update was cross-posted from the CIRD blog at rural-design.org. Click here to see the original post.


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"Red Fred in the Shed": Using a Compass
Think of the rhyme "Red Fred in the Shed" to remember how to use a compass. As you perform the steps below, remember the following.
- Move your body—not the compass.
- Think of the red magnetic needle as "red Fred."
- Think of the orienting arrow as the "shed."
- To use the compass to follow a specific bearing, put "red Fred in the shed." For example, if you want to travel at a bearing of 240°, follow these steps.
- Turn the azimuth ring until the 240° mark is lined up with the direction-of-travel arrow.
- Keep the compass level as you point the direction-of-travel arrow directly away from your waist.
- Keeping the compass in the same position with your body, turn your body until the red needle lines up inside the orienting arrow (think of it as putting "red Fred in the shed"). You now are facing a bearing of 240°.
- Move in the same direction that the direction-of-travel arrow points. Be sure to keep red Fred in the shed as you go.


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Living Together in a Haunted House
By Stephen Minister, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
"I am going to say some things that will make you uncomfortable. If you haven't been made uncomfortable, you haven't really had a cross-cultural experience." Thus began my class's conversation with Raymundo Sánchez Barraza on a cool January morning in the mountains of Chiapas. Raymundo's intention was not to scandalize us for his own amusement, but simply to share with us a glimpse of what the world looks like from the perspective of indigenous communities in southern Mexico. He quite rightly saw that for us, a group from Augustana College, to take this perspective seriously would mean the discomfort of having some of our beliefs, values, and practices called into question. To truly engage another perspective we had to risk the discomfort of having ours challenged. Of course, we need not leave our own country to experience this sort of discomfort as even here we encounter a variety of perspectives, religious and otherwise. In honor of Reformation Day, which of course is also Halloween, I would like to reflect a bit on the important role that being uncomfortable, unsettled, and even haunted plays in genuine engagement with others.
This may seem an unlikely topic for a philosopher as my discipline has long been concerned with ontology, that is, the attempt to determine what things really exist and what they are like. Is there a God and if so what is God like? Do humans have souls and what would it mean if we do? Why is there something rather than nothing? Recently, though, thinkers like Jacques Derrida and John Caputo have suggested that our answers to such questions should always be troubled by a "hauntology." We should be haunted, they suggest, by the diversity of answers people give to these questions, by the existence of a plurality of perspectives, by disagreement among thoughtful, sincere people. We should be haunted by the thought that had we been born at a different time or in a different society, then our beliefs would likely be quite different, that others' beliefs which seem so strange to us might have been our own. For, once we realize this — genuinely, internally realizing it — must we not give up the complacent assumption that our beliefs must be right, that of course they are better than other beliefs? Must we not always be a little spooked by the perpetual possibility that we may be wrong? The point of such a hauntology is not to engender a skepticism that would reject all beliefs, nor a relativism that would reduce all beliefs to mere opinion, nor even an agnosticism that would withhold belief pending further evidence. We can't help but have beliefs and act on these beliefs. Hauntology simply reminds us that they are not quite as settled or as obvious as we sometimes take them to be. We must still give voice to our convictions, but alongside the voice of our convictions we should hear others' voices, perhaps even a "still, small voice," raising questions, doubts, "but what-ifs?"
The history of philosophy is largely a history of trying to quiet these doubts and thus overcome the discomfort they cause by proving, once-and-for-all, that "we" are right. With this in mind, the twentieth century Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas says, "The best thing about philosophy is that it fails." Philosophy, of course, has the reputation of never really getting anywhere. Twenty-five hundred years of asking the same questions and we have yet to come up with any answers that aren't contentious. Rather than seeing this as an embarrassing defect, Levinas suggests that we see this as philosophy's virtue. For when we think we have once-and-for-all final answers, when all the ghosts and other mysteries have been banished and we stand in the clear light of pure truth, then we cease conversing with others, we stop really listening to those who continue to disagree with us. Indeed, at that moment we can only regard those who disagree with us as ignorant, irrational, or dishonest. One need look no further than contemporary political discourse to see this dynamic at work. By contrast, the failure of philosophy, the abandonment of claims to definitive, final answers, heralds the recognition that we always need to return again to the work of attempting to articulate our views and listening to the views of others.
Hence, the failure of philosophy and the inescapability of hauntology, of being-haunted, need not drive us away from rational inquiry, but instead should drive us into conversation. They allow us to think of "reason" not as a noun, as something I possess and use to prove that I am right, but as a verb, as the honest, open reason-giving that we do with each other. As God says to Isaiah, "Come now, let us reason together." On this model, reasoned argumentation is about jointly digging deeper into our beliefs and values, rather than digging in our heels. Rational discourse need not be the expression of pompous self-righteousness, but can instead be the practice of vulnerability, trying to express ourselves clearly and honestly so as to open ourselves to the responses of others. Such reasoning may not always reach agreement, but it may allow us to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of others even amidst our disagreements. To my mind, learning to reason in this way is a vital component of a liberal arts education. Being liberally educated is not about memorizing a bunch of information or being able to ace multiple choice exams. It is about learning how to be unsettled, uncertain, and haunted, and then cultivating the critical, creative, and cooperative thinking skills to move forward together. Are any skills more useful in an irreducibly pluralistic society and increasingly interconnected world?
Of course, the possibility for productive conversation across the boundaries of geography, religion, and philosophical perspective is not new. History provides many such cases. Take, for example, the work of Thomas Aquinas, which has been so significant for subsequent Christian thought. While working from the Christian Scriptures, his theology was also powerfully influenced by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, the Jewish thinker Mosheh ben Maimon, and the Islamic scholar Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina. Christian theology as a Greco-Judeo-Islamo-Biblical hybrid? Uncomfortable yet? So let conversations across perspectives continue, but with neither the complacent pretense of a shallow multiculturalism that pretends to affirm all differences while dismissing whatever is unsettling, nor the apathy of a comfortable relativism that rejects the possibility of cooperative inquiry. Instead, let us proceed with honesty, humility, and — what both of these ultimately require — courage. For the house we share is haunted. Proceeding in this way will sometimes be uncomfortable. But as Raymundo reminded my class, if we haven't been made uncomfortable, then we haven't really listened to each other.


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See how the weather-predicting groundhog spends his time, along with the 'Inner Circle' of top-hatted helpers who handle his travel and well being
Punxsutawney Phil is set to make his famous groundhog forecast early Sunday, and in a winter like this one, more folks than usual may be hoping he doesn't see his shadow.
A series of arctic blasts has hit the Plains, Midwest and Northeast this winter, plunging temperatures well below zero for extended periods. Even the South hasn't escaped the cold: In the past week, Atlanta was paralyzed by ice and snow that left thousands of motorists stranded on highways and more than 10,000 children stuck in schools overnight.
And a new series of storms is sweeping east with more snow for the Midwest and beyond. Chicago has already had more than four feet this season – more than the past two winters combined. And Detroit got a record 39 inches last month.
Now the groundhog is set to poke his head out at 7:20 a.m. ET at Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. The legend is that if he sees his shadow, there'll be six more weeks of cold weather, but if he doesn't, spring will come early.
The weather.com forecast for Sunday in Punxsutawney is for snow and rain showers with a high of about 36 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club expects about 20,000 people on hand for the event, executive director Katie Donald told The Associated Press. This is the first year that Groundhog Day coincides with the Super Bowl.
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A close up view of Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during last year's Groundhog Day celebration in Punxsutawney, Pa.


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Did you catch Bill Keller's piece in the New York Times yesterday? Called "Just the ticket," it's a pretty compelling case for replacing Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton for second-to-the-top job when this year's presidential election rolls around. Now, we love Biden's faux pas and f-bombs as much as anyone, but–hello!–how could we not jump on this bandwagon? So, without further ado, here's our top 5 reasons why we'd love to see a Clinton-Obama—I mean, Obama-Clinton—ticket.
5. She's ambitious. And she owns it. She wasn't content to wrap up her time as first lady and demurely step aside. In a ballsy move, she ran for NY Senator. In a ballsier one, she ran for president–and nearly nabbed the nom. When so many of us feel our ambition is something shameful, something we should apologize for or even deny, Hillary puts it front and center. She's taken her lumps for it, but ultimately, she's proven that a woman can be both ambitious and liked. Which brings me to number 4.
4. We like her. I mean, we really like her. According to Gallup (by way of Keller):
Hillary is the most admired woman in America for the 10th year in a row, laps ahead of, in order, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Condeleezza Rice; her approval rating of 64 percent is the highest of any political figure in the country.
An ambitious woman is something to be admired?! I mean, the whole George Washington/cherry tree thing is cute and everything, but how's that–ambition and likability are not mutually exclusive–for a lesson in the history books?
3. She's strong enough to cry. Almost four years ago exactly, during a campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Clinton became emotional when answering a question from an audience member about how she's able to deal with the madness of a presidential campaign–and it was in her answer, when speaking of how much she cares about the country, that she got choked up. Again, she took flak for it, but there's another, monstrously important message in this for the rest of us: tears are not a sign of weakness. They're often, as Elizabeth Lesser has told us, a sign that our heart is truly engaged. I personally know that to be the case for me, and I love to imagine what the world–not to mention the freaking workplace!–would be like if everyone understood that. Being emotionally invested is a strength; Clinton understands that. And yet…
2. She's not afraid to laugh at herself. At one of the most humbling moments in her career–when she bowed out of the race and gave her support to Obama–the type of moment when some, um, lesser people might be reduced to temper tantrum (You're not gonna have Richard Nixon to kick around no more! anyone?), she was strong enough to crack a joke–and not just any joke–one that poked fun at herself: thanking her supporters, whom she referred to collectively as the sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits.
1. She is the total package. She has the skills and the experience, the–as Keller puts it–E.Q. as well as the I.Q. She's already made enough of a mark that when someone describes something as Clintonian, it's as likely they're referring to her as it is her husband, who is, you know, a former president. She handled herself impossibly well during one of the most impossible (and public!) humiliations imaginable–and, rather than opt for obscurity, held her head high and soldiered on, right into one of the most visible positions in the world. And what a tenure: as Secretary of State, she's smoothly handled her share of dramatic world events. As Keller writes:
She would bring to this year's campaign a missing warmth and some of the voltage that has dissipated as Obama moved from campaigning to governing. What excites is not just the prospect of having a woman a heartbeat–and four years–away from the presidency, although she certainly embodies the aspirations of many women. It's the possibility that the first woman at the top would have qualifications so manifest that her first-ness was a secondary consideration.
And what a first that would be.


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February 1, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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That was my original question before I started looking, and since then I've discovered there actually are plenty of new options out there for cross platform development catering for all of the above platforms.
A Brief History of Desktop UI Toolkits
In the 1980's the problem of a cross platform desktop user interface was for the most part solved by the X Window system, known as X11, (1984-) along with one of the first widget toolkits, Motif (1989-), which was built on top of X11. Back then, the dominant platforms used by business were Microsoft Windows and the various flavours of Unix, like Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM's AIX etc (later Linux came along and maintained full support for X11 and Motif). Developers who wanted to target multiple platforms such as these had this option of developing one codebase, usually written in C/C++, using X11 and/or Motif. The UI code for the most part could remain the same and the application just needed to be recompiled with the provided X11 libraries.
Since then Motif has pretty much faded into the background and been replaced with newer widget toolkits, still built on top of X11, including Qt (1991-), wxWidgets (1992-) and GTK+ (1998-). These now run on many different platforms and bindings are available for many, many languages, including for their native C or C++.
These three free open source toolkits have been successful for the desktop application case but looking towards mobile and tablet platforms, these toolkits don't currently have the support there to take them into the future.
Native language: C++
Platforms: iOS (unofficial), Windows, Mac, Linux.
Probably the C++ based Qt widget toolkit is the most well established way of writing desktop cross platform applications. Smartphone support isn't really there yet, but there is an unofficial port to iOS. Linux's KDE desktop environment is written with the Qt toolkit. Many significant apps have been developed with Qt, including Autodesk Maya, VLC media player, Mathematica, Virtual Box and Skype. Qt is now owned by Nokia (although is still open source), and there was a release of a new version recently (Qt 4.8).
Native language: C
Platforms: HTML5 (unofficial), Windows, Mac, Linux.
The C-based GTK+ widget toolkit is also a very well established way of writing cross platform desktop apps. Smartphone support isn't there, but there is an unofficial port to HTML5. GTK+ powers Chromium on Linux, the open source forerunner to Google's Chrome browser. The GNOME desktop environment is written with the GTK+ toolkit. The other notable app written with GTK+ is the one that launched the toolkit itself, GIMP, an open source bitmap image editor.
Native language: C++
Platforms: iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux.
A C++ native mode toolkit that provides a thin abstraction to a platform's native widgets. It was originally developed as a desktop GUI toolkit in the same vein as GTK+ and Qt and support for iOS is still beta. There are a number of notable apps developed with wxWidgets including BitTorrent, Audacity, TortoiseCVS and RapidSVN.
Java and Silverlight
Sun's Java Swing UI Library (1997-) and Microsoft's Silverlight (2007-) were both attempts at "write once, run anywhere" (WORA) technology that provided a rich user interface library. Although technically successful, they failed in their attempt to become the ubiquitous technology that everyone uses to develop UIs. They both attempted to replace the 'native' look of apps developed on a particular platform and instead impose their own look and feel based on graphical primitives, which although being more powerful for developers, users on the whole didn't like.
As Johannes Fahrenkrug discusses here, people actually want to run Windows apps that look like Windows apps, and run MacOS apps that look like MacOS apps. To be fair, the Java Swing UI has actually undergone a lot of advances since it was first released and can now generate apps that do look perfectly native on all desktop platforms. The problem may be however that people's original experience of early Swing apps having a slow and inconsistent UI might have put them off using other Java apps and so contributed to its demise.
In the case of Microsoft's Silverlight and WPF, although not officially dead yet, they are now taking a back seat to newer technologies that were released by Microsoft at the September 2011 Build conference; Windows 8 allow developers to create new style 'Metro' applications by using either web technology (HTML5/JavaScript/CSS) or a traditional language - C#, VB.NET or C/C++ paired up with XAML for describing the UI. There's more detail about this topic on StackOverflow here for those interested.
The Rise of Web Applications and the App Store
The two big changes since the desktop UI toolkit days has been the rise of browser-based web applications and more recently the rise of downloadable apps running on smartphones and tablets such as Apple's iOS (powering the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad devices) along with Google's Android (powering a vast array of different smartphones and tablets from many hardware vendors). Google's recent Chrome OS also deserves a mention for creating an OS around the browser itself. These new class of devices offer a quick method of downloading, paying for and installing apps (often with just one click) and appear in the easy to use 'App Store' on iOS and 'Android Marketplace' on Android.
Microsoft is getting in on the App Store action a little late with its 'Windows Store' for Windows 8, which will be appearing some time in 2012. Its thought by Hal Berenson (a former Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft) that the upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS will be based on the same technology as Windows 8 and hence will unify the development platform for Microsoft's desktop, tablet and smartphone operating systems. This will likely be announced some time in 2012, probably at the same time Microsoft launches the 'Windows Store'. This will mean Windows 8's new 'Metro' style apps on the Windows Store will run on phones, desktops and tablets - something that neither Apple nor Google can lay claim to, just yet. Add in the possibility of an XBox update which adds support for running Metro apps, and you have a huge carrot which will make the unified Windows 8 platform very attractive to both application and game developers.
Choosing Your Platform - Desktop, Web or Mobile Application?
When choosing your platform, if you need full access the underlying file system, or access to hardware devices like serial ports, microphones, webcams, etc, then you may be better off staying with a desktop application. If you need platform independence on top of this then you can go with one of the traditional widget library technologies like wxWidgets, GTK+ or Qt to provide a full cross platform UI solution.
The main advantage of the browser app however, and its a massive one, is that its everwhere and supported by every device, so if HTML5 takes off, then it could become the defacto standard for developing apps of any kind, desktop or not. As Jeff Atwood discusses in his seminal blog post All Programming is Web Programming; "the web is the most efficient, most pervasive, most immediate distribution network for software ever created - its almost completely frictionless". As Atwood mentions, more and more users gravitate towards preferring to run their apps inside the browser, on smartphones and on tablets where things 'just work' and there's generally nowhere near as much friction caused by the traditional desktop software setup and update process.
A third option available now is the cross platform mobile development SDK as detailed below (Mono, Appcelerator Titanium, Rhodes, PhoneGap, MoSync, Moai, Corona SDK and JUCE). Smartphone and tablet based applications are taking off, and these SDKs allow you to write once and run on any of these new class of devices, as well as in some cases also being able to run on the traditional desktop. These would seem to offer some of the 'power' of the desktop in terms of native code execution speed and access to hardware functionality, along with the enourmous 'frictionless' benefit that you get when publishing to an app store, where installing an app is literally a one click operation.
Native language: C#
Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, Browser (e.g. via ASP.NET WebForms or MVC).
Cost: Windows, Mac & Linux: free. Android and iOS: from US$399 each. Free trial available.
License: LGPL/GPL/X11 combination. Commercial license available.
Source: Mono for Windows/Mac/Linux is open source. Mono for iOS/Android is closed source.
The C# based Mono cross platform library allows apps to be built using purely C#. However this is not strictly a cross platform UI library, since each supported platform has its own different set of Mono C# UI libaries, each with their own capabilities. The idea is that you build your software using the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern, so that the Model and Controller components (both written in C#) can be shared across all platforms without any changes. Only the View component needs to be re-written for each platform (again, in C#). Mono targets both mobile and desktop apps, however if you are just looking at developing a desktop application, then Mono probably isn't a big improvement over GTK+ or Qt, after all a well written C++ Library (with a Model and Controller component for example) will enjoy the same capability to be shared across more than one platform if you use Qt or GTK+ and then you wouldn't need a different UI library on each platform to create your view. There are several advantages that Mono has over Qt or GTK+ however - firstly in leveraging a team's existing knowledge (and codebase) of C# which is a popular language. Secondly, being able to target iOS, Android and the browser. Lastly, via Mono's .NET CLR implementation (Common Language Runtime), code is compiled into modules of bytecode, which are binary compatible across all the supported platforms.
There is also an open source library for Mono called MonoGame which lets you port with minimal effort XNA based games (which originally target the .NET platform and run only on Windows Mobile, Windows and XBox) to any of the Mono platforms such as MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android.
Appcelerator Titanium
Native language: JavaScript, Python and Ruby
Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux.
Cost: Community Edition is free. Indie Edition (extra APIs, help, support): US$499 per year.
License: Apache Public License v2
Source: Open source
An open-source solution which allows you to use web development languages (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Python and Ruby) to build mobile and desktop apps. App data can be stored in the cloud or on the device, and apps can take full advantage of hardware, particularly camera and video camera capability. Appcelerator apps go through a complex compilation and optimization process which result in it creating apps that look, feel, and perform just like native apps, because you are using native UI components... so an iPhone app developed with Titanium will actually feel like an iPhone app. They also offer an API repository marketplace to buy and sell code to extend Titanium. One of the downloadable components allows you to develop your app using an MVC (Model View Controller) pattern. There is an active developer community Q&A site for Titanium developers which is similar in usage to StackOverflow.
Native language: Ruby
Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry.
Cost: Free
License: MIT License
Source: Open source
Rhodes is an open source, Ruby-based framework that allows the development of native apps for a wide range of smartphone devices and operating systems. The framework lets you write your code once and use it to quickly build apps for every major smartphone. Apps can take full advantage of available hardware, including GPS and camera, as well as location data. Rhodes enforces a strict MVC (Model View Controller) pattern on your apps. Views are written in HTML5 while Controllers and Models are written in Ruby.
Native language: HTML5/JavaScript
Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian, Palm.
Cost: Free
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
Source: Open source
PhoneGap is an open source framework that helps you develop apps for smartphones using web development languages such as JavaScript and HTML5. It also allows for access to hardware features including GPS/location data, accelerometer, camera, sound and more. PhoneGap lets you take a web app, run it in a UIWebView, and through javascript you can access iPhone features such as the camera an accelerometer. This means that it won't necessarily have the look and feel of a native app (like the other cross platform SDKs listed here). The idea is that you develop your web app like you normally do, and then use PhoneGap to 'bridge the gap' to the phone, and give you access to phone's hardware, that traditionally you couldn't access from a web-only app.
Native language: C++
Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian.
Cost: Free for Indie developers. From €199 (Euros) per year for Enterprise developers.
License: GPL v2. Commercial license available.
Source: Open source
Native language: Lua
Platforms: iOS, Android, Chrome Web Store, Windows, Mac, Linux.
Cost: Free
License: Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0 (CPAL)
Source: Open source
Although intended to be a mobile game development SDK, I think it deserves a mention here due to its unique scripted approach to cross platform development. Games developed with Moai run on iOS and Android as well as the Chrome Web Store, Windows, Mac and Linux. Designed to be programmed with the Lua scripting language, Moai is designed for experienced game developers who wish to use Lua for mobile development. The Moai framework itself is written in C++ and is intended to be called from the Lua scripting language, but can also be called from any other language supported by the host platform. The Lua script is run as interpreted byte code, but since very few Lua instructions are processed among all the input handling, this means that rendering, animation, collision detection, and physics math runs natively. Moai's physics engine for example is the Box2D open source C++ library. Moai is free and open source, however to build apps for iOS devices you'll need the iOS SDK and the Xcode IDE (presumably running on MacOS) and be a member of the Apple iOS developer program (US$99/year). To build apps for Android you'll need the Android SDK, the Eclipse IDE and an Android device.
Corona SDK
Native language: Lua
Platforms: iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Nook Color.
Cost: US$199/year for Android. US$199/year for iOS. $349/year for all platforms. Free trial available.
License: Commercial, price as above.
Source: Closed source
A similar toolkit to Moai in that its primarily aimed at game developers, and apps are written with the Lua scripting language. Corona SDK was developed by two former Adobe mobile engineers and has been in development since 2007. It features a proprietary OpenGL-ES rendering engine, which allows for full hardware acceleration of graphics, including sprites that animate at full GPU speed. The Corona physics engine is built around Box2D as with Moai. Its free to try Corona and run your apps in a simulator on your desktop computer, but to build an app and publish it to an App Store, you'll need to pay a yearly subscription fee (of either US$199 per year for Android or iOS or the premium subscription of US$349 for all platforms). Your apps are built "in the cloud" on Corona's server. Note that if you are developing for iOS you'll still need to pay the yearly Apple iOS developer program fee which is currently US$99. There seems to be extensive documentation available for Corona and an active developer community forum. There has been a recent push to promote Corona for use not only for developing games but also for general apps and also interactive ebooks.
Native language: C++
Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android (Note that Android support is a work in progress).
Cost: Free for GPL license. Commercial license from £399 (UK pounds) per product.
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Big East Afternoon Five: Leap Day EditionPosted by mlemaire on February 29th, 2012
- We got off to a late start today so let's make it a good one. Score this one in the "You have got to be kidding me!" category, but Connecticut's loss to Providence last night was a debacle that perfectly sums up its season. The Huskies shot 46% from the field, led by as many as 14 in the second half, and still let the lowly Friars climb back into the game and eventually win. Most are now saying that this team doesn't belong in the NCAA Tournament and they really don't. You can't lose nine of your last 13 games in the regular season and still expect the Tournament Committee to look favorably upon you, and you can't play a must-win game against the worst team in your conference and blow a late lead to lose. Blaming this on interim coach George Blaney is a cop-out, though. Blaney may be too passive and he may not lead the team with the iron fist of Jim Calhoun, but Blaney is not responsible for letting one of the conference's least efficient offensive teams go on a 26-5 run in the middle of the second half. UConn fans can scapegoat whomever they want, but this failure is on the players, plain and simple.
- The difference between UConn and West Virginia — who routed its inferior opponent, DePaul, in a must-win game at home — is leadership. UConn is a team full of talented underclassmen. West Virginia is a team that will only go as far as their two excellent seniors, Kevin Jones and Truck Bryant, who combined for 50 points last night in what was their final home game as Mountaineers, take them. Bob Huggins' team has also been in a bit of a tailspin down the stretch, but if they can beat South Florida in Tampa this weekend, they may still be able to play their way into the NCAA Tournament.
- Looking ahead to tonight, the team with the best chance to impress the Tournament Committee is Cincinnati. The Bearcats play their final home game against No. 8 Marquette, a team that has been winning but hasn't been dominating. The Golden Eagles are not the same team on the road as they are at home, and for Mick Cronin's bunch, a win over a Top 10 team would likely cement their place in the NCAA Tournament heading into the Big East Tournament next week. The obvious matchup to watch will be the red-hot Jae Crowder squaring off with Cincinnati's Yancy Gates who will be playing in his final home game.
- Allow me to take a minute to step away from bubble implications and talk about one player who is out of the spotlight thanks to his team's unexpected struggles, and that is Pittsburgh do-it-all senior Nasir Robinson. Reading this article about Robinson's season, it shouldn't take long for you to love this guy. A 6'5″ power forward, Robinson doesn't have a future in the NBA and his senior season has been a disappointment, but still he says he won't make any excuses and all he does is talk about how he wants to help his teammates. The Panthers have had plenty of gritty players exactly like Robinson who make the most out of their limited potential (Brad Wanamaker immediately comes to mind) and that is a testament to coach Jamie Dixon's talent evaluation and coaching. This is why Robinson deserves some stand-alone recognition. He will be forgotten soon enough, but for now, let's give the guy some love for an excellent career and leadership values he should be proud of.
- There will be a lot of mixed emotions in South Bend Friday night when Notre Dame seniors Scott Martin and Tim Abromaitis put on their uniforms for what might be the last time. Both players have petitioned the NCAA for a rare sixth year of eligibility but it seems unlikely that either will have their request granted. Of course Abromaitis will be in uniform but won't play as he recovers from his torn ACL. There should be plenty of cheers from the Fighting Irish faithful, especially for Abromaitis, but there will also be a lot of people looking at him in uniform and wondering what could have been.


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Friday, February 08, 2013
I take your gold and now I give it away
Back links to my post Are top musicians sharing the financial pain? continue to prompt hate mail from within the music industry. Elsewhere it is reported that Valery Gergiev has been 'defrauded by aides' of more than $8 million. Not a single soul has remarked on the irony of how in these financially challenged times a conductor can amass that amount of money in the first place.
My headline is sung by Brünnhilde in the last act of Götterdämmerung and the header image is remixed from Wieland Wagner's 1966 Bayreuth production of Das Rheingold. Any copyrighted material on these pages is included as "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). This post is also available via Facebook and Twitter. V1.1
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- Philip Amos said...
I think it's a bit worse than that. Gergiev is very good at taking care of his own interests, so if aides could nick $8 million without his noticing pronto, methinks his net worth is a damn sight more! Add together his basic salaries from his various posts, recording royalties, guest appearances, investments of all this...$50 million? $100 million?
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- Unknown said...
Is that really an image from Siegfried? Looks more like Rhinegold, given the array of characters shown - which is all the more appropriate for this post.
- 12:03 am
- Pliable said...
Unknown, you are quite correct and that was my error - now corrected, thanks.
The provenance of that Rheingold production shot may interest some readers. It was scanned in from the libretto of the original Philips LP release of Karl Böhm's live Bayreuth Ring recorded in 1966/7.
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Hey guys, i need some comfirmation about networking programming.
I learnt win32 api programming and i think im comfortable enuf to move on to someting advanced, i wish to try out Networking now.
I have a web server which im working on with right, uses PHP scripting and mySQL server database.
Can i write a program to connect to my server and retrieve information / insert new database things ?
Can i write a program to connect to my robot ? i know this sounds funny but im learning robotic and maybe i could connect to my bot and get information about what he is looking ( via the cam u know ) or get the temperature blah blah
Is this what networking is all about, what other uses can i do for networking?


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Halle & Gabriel: Hot fighting heat
I"m not saying it has to be Mischa & Cisco but all this gorgessity concentrated in one couple??? Doesn"t seem fair, though the grow-er vs show-er argument could be the Goddess"s way of evening things out. Have a look at Halle and Gabriel on Sunday in Malibu, gathering with other celebrities to protest a natural gas facility that they say does not meet clean air requirements and could be considered a terrorist target because the safety of our celebrities is, of course, paramount. Great to see Pierce Brosnan and Daryl Hannah and all these famous people so involved but it"s hard to be moved by the convenience of their environmental caring when a gas guzzling SUV continues to be the Hollywood vehicle of choice and please…something tells me George Clooney is in the minority of those who have modified vehicles that run on eco-friendly fuel. I spent most of the day yesterday getting the sh-t scared out of me by a new book called Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot - the climate change crisis, human contribution to it, and of course, the consequence of inaction. Put it this way - standing on a dock a few yards away from your million dollar mansion and getting photographed in the process isn"t quite cutting it, especially when saving our planet can take a backseat to privacy. But then again, avoiding the attentions of an obsequious fan in the first class cabin on a commercial flight is definitely more important than breathing clean air, right? And they all look so pretty fighting for their rights, right? And what"s a half ass attempt compared to a hot ass publicity shot? Love, love, love. Source


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I sort of feel like I need to start over, again, next week. Only gone for 3 days but the house feels like chaos. Maybe I can achieve organized chaos this weekend. Regardless, here are a few of my top handmade and vintage favorites. I'm playing around with the right layout for these, which do you prefer? Something like this grid type layout or the circular cutouts? I'd love to know!
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why oh why did you show me those earrings. this is bad. very bad. i want them! and i was trying to save and be good. :)ReplyDelete
Hi. Found you via Manhattan Nest. I kind of like the grid layout for these kind of images. You really hit a nerve with the signage letters. Love them!ReplyDelete
I love the circular layout xReplyDelete
Must have those earrings....... MUST. HAVE. THEM.ReplyDelete
Wow, I want every single thing of this post! Great great! And I would definately vote for the grid!ReplyDelete
My vote's for the grid.ReplyDelete
I feel like everything gets displayed better.
Love the roundup.
I prefer it this way, I think.ReplyDelete
ok that's it...i think etsy should hire you as their official curatorReplyDelete
This question has nothing to do with your post- although that chair is rad! I am wondering how you guys like your couch. I am in search of a new (affordable) one because the one we have is looking pretty beat up, not to mention the fabric on it isn't kid friendly. I guess what I want to know from you is;ReplyDelete
is yours comfy?
kid friendly/easy to clean?
made well? how is it holding up?
We have a 2.5 year old, so we need something that can withstand his destructive ways!
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Beautiful pictures!ReplyDelete
grid layout, definitely!ReplyDelete
beautiful chair!ReplyDelete
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|Production system, consisting of four chamber furnaces for moving the load during heat treatment along with a three-stage heat exchanger to optimize energy efficiency
In face of rising energy prices and stricter environmental regulations there is increasing demand for heat treatment plants with greater energy efficiency.
Depending on the furnace size and the process there is always a certain amount of potential energy which can be recovered from the waste heat and re-used. This is especially true for large furnace systems or long process times which allow for huge energy savings that the additional investment has a short pay-back time. The thermal energy from finished charges can also be used to pre-heat cold charges which is also an efficient way of saving energy.
The following examples outline engineering alternatives for heat recovery:Heat Exchangers
The principle of the counterflow heat exchanger is to use the hot exhaust gas coming from the furnace to pre-heat the cold fresh air channelled into the furnace. In many cases, there is no need anymore for a separate fresh air preheating unit. Such a system is recommended if the process requires continuous air exchange in the furnace chamber, such as when tempering silicone, or during drying processes that are covered by the EN 1539 industrial standard.Recuperator Burners
Large gas-heated heat-treatment furnaces are especially advantageous for the installation of recuperator burners. Recuperator burners also use hot exhaust gas; to pre-heat the combustion air. Depending on the furnace model and the process, substantial energy savings of as much as 25% can be realized by using recuperator burners so that there is a short pay-back time for the additional purchase costs.Heat Transfer Chambers
Heat transfer chambers, which can also be described as cooling/heating chambers, offer two enormous advantages. For one, they help save energy, and for another, using a heat transfer chamber increases productivity.
The load is removed from the furnace while it is still hot and placed in the heat transfer chamber. The chamber also has room for a new, cold charge. Circulating the air cools the hot charge and, at the same time, preheats the cold charge before it is put into the furnace. Consequently, the furnace heating does not have to provide the thermal energy and through-put capacity of the furnace is increased of the same time.
The above systems for enhancing energy efficiency are only a few examples of technical alternatives. We would be happy to advise you on whether an additional heat recovery module would also be a sensible add-on to your furnace or system.


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- Den @ Balt (-3.5). I'm still bullish on Balt and I'm still cowish on Den, as it were. Den has overachieved so far and while they may in fact not be bad, I just don't think they're undefeated-good. Denver's #3 ranked rush defense (yards against) will get beat up this week. Ray Rice is turning into one of the better players in the league, somewhat quietly.
- Hou @ Buff (+3.5). Interesting thought – though Houston opted out of the T.O. sweepstakes immediately this past off-season, what if they would have picked him up for this year? I wonder what he'd be like on a team where he would clearly be the #2 guy, like he would have been in Houston behind Andre Johnson. He probably would have been quite good – and would have made the Texans offense harder to defend. He also could have brought unwelcome distractions to the team and a coach facing a must-go-to-the-playoffs-or-I'm-canned year.
- Cleve @ Chic (-13.5). The Cleve is horrendous. Even though Chic has been playing poorly lately, this game won't be close. I read the other day that former Cleve GM Phil Savage was ripping on Mangini and the Browns present front office for the moves they've made – noting essentially that they've undone what he and Romeo Crennel built. From 2005-2008 with Crennel, they had records of 6-10, 4-12, 10-6, 4-12. Sorry Phil, nothing had been built. What does Phil Savage gain from this? Perhaps he's still just trying to…savage his reputation.
- Sea @ Dal (-9.5). The Cowboys have the #2 offense in the NFL (yards per game). They also have the #22 defense. Tough team to figure out. Seattle's O-Line problems have essentially rendered rookie sensation TE John Carlson useless. He's staying in for extra help protecting Hasselbeck on most plays. If they can figure out a way to set this guy loose and still protect Hasselbeck somewhat, they could be good again. For some reason, and it may be a dumb reason, I smell upset here.
- StL @ Det (-3.5). This game may set the record for fewest viewers (none in Michigan because it will be blacked out and 8 in StL because they didn't get the digital converter and Fox is the only station that sort of comes in).
- SF @ Indy (-11.5). A little scary that Michael Crabtree can come in after holding out for half the season and have 5 catches for 56 yards in his debut. His freakish talent coupled with the fact that Vernon Davis is finally living up to his potential might end up having the biggest impact on the 49ers sluggish running game. Outside of one huge game by Frank Gore, it's been weak. The Colts quality defense may have their hands full this week.
- Mia @ NYJ (-3.5). I know how Ricky Williams would respond to this question: is there anything you'd recommend Coach Ryan do to help him settle down a bit?
- NYG @ Phil (-2.5). It would be funny to listen to a "discussion" between an Eagles fan and a Giants fan re this game. Both would certainly employ the East Coast Shot Clock: on the east coast, you have 4 seconds to say what you want to say before being interrupted. It's a manner of conversing quite a bit different than the plodding midwestern discussions where possibly too much listening takes place.
- Oak @ SD (-16.5). Funny, I saw a KC upset of SD last week and expected lots of talk this week about how Norv Turner would suddenly be THE coach on the hot seat. Didn't happen. San Diego may win this game by 40, seriously.
- Jax @ Tenn (-2.5). Vince Young will finally get the start. Nice that Jeff Fisher tried keep secret which QB he'd be playing this week so that Jax would have to prepare for 2 QBs. While Jax is no superpower, Fisher doing this at 0-6 after getting blown out 59-0 is the equivalent of Bob Ueker, a lifetime .200 hitter, refusing to share any hitting tips during his playing days. That said, Tenn may in fact win here.
- Car @ AZ (-9.5). I think it would be really fun to spend some quality time on some Carolina Panthers blogs and websites just about now. How can Delhomme remain the starter? And how insulting is it to the other QBs that John Fox explains his decision by saying Jake gives the team the best chance to win. (Especially when one back-up is the more than capable AJ Feeley.) This is a good example of a contract interfering with a coach's judgment. Had Delhomme not signed that huge deal earlier this year, I wouldn't imagine he'd still be the guy with his 56.5 QB rating and league-leading 13 picks.
- MN @ GB (-2.5). It will be hard for me to boo Brett Favre. I used to love Favre and I still value what he did for this organization. But when this love is crossed with my greater love for the Packers as a team and my hatred for the Vikings, Favre loses out. So I will boo. I don't see this game playing out like many experts seem to (Favre rising to the occasion having a monster day, Vikings prevailing). I don't see that at all. I see Favre having a more non-descript type game, a big game from Aaron Rodgers (because CB Antoine Winfield will likely be out) and a quality RB duel between Grant/Adrian Peterson. I also believe the boos will be louder than the cheers. Packers win 27-17.
- Atl @ NO (-9.5). Big spread facing an Atlanta team that isn't bad, though they got handled last week by the Cowboys. I think now about the headache I've had all week (I would say the whole headache thing is the worst symptom of H1N1 – it's like being hungover constantly), and how this is what it must feel like for any defensive coordinator about to play the Saints. They run well and pass well. They have athletes all over the place. They have a fantastic QB and a coach who knows what he's doing. Atlanta may keep it tight for a half or so, then NO goes nuts.
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RayMidge Says:
October 30, 2009 at 5:33 pm |
"East Coast Shot clock" . . . hilarious. In my family you can't get cut off, we just all talk at the same time.
My random call of the week for Vikes-Pack is that Brandon Jackson will make a few impact plays . . . maybe on a screen. I loved how McCarthy started to work him in last week and I think he has been very good when he's had chances, he is a little more elusive than Grant (who isn't?) and he runs tough. I'm not giving up on grant, but I don't think he has been good enough to be the exclusive guy. Jackson has shown flashes and I hope they move mroe towards the 2 back system that so many other teams use successfully.
Kozak Says:
October 30, 2009 at 8:08 pm |
The key will be can the O line protect Rodgers, or will he be running for his life the entire game again?
Joe Says:
November 2, 2009 at 5:45 pm |
Would have been nice if they had run a screen


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Why would the World's Greatest Detective need to do endorsements? He's rich, right?
Not after, as The Warp Zone points out here, appropriating billion of dollars of cutting edge military-grade prototypes for personal crime-fighting use, he isn't. And watching Batman become a spoke-vigilante for McDonald's and Coke Zero is pretty damn funny.


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'Fargo' actress Allison Tolman fires back after "fat" comments
The Houston star takes to Twitter to make her point.
There are a few things you may not know about Allison Tolman, the actress who plays Deputy Molly Solverson in the hit show 'Fargo' on FX.
First: She grew up in Sugar Land and graduated from Clements High School in 2000.
Second: She doesn't take flak. Case in point, after being told repeatedly that she is fat by people on the Internet, the actress took to Twitter for some #realtalk.
The actress posted a picture on her Twitter account of a coat that looks similar to the one she's been wearing on screen, with a message saying "I'm not fat." Tolman added that she appears larger because she's been wearing the "GIANT" coat "FOR 8 WEEKS ON YOUR TELEVISION." (The caps were all hers. It's worth noting that the original posts use a few, um, colorful words, for which she Tweeted out a sarcastic apology later.)
About 20 minutes later, Tolman continues by posting another message, this time demanding people stop defining a woman by her size. She adds that she's average sized while other actresses on television are "TINY" (in all caps.)
It seems Tolman was on a roll. Nearly two hours later, she hops back on Twitter to address someone who Tweeted at her. The 'Fargo' star said she would prefer it if her weight wasn't a topic of conversation, not unlike how male actors are treated.
Sadly, this isn't the first time a celebrity's weight has been called into question. Take a look at the gallery above to see which Hollywood (and reality) stars have been called fat -- and how some of them took matters in their own hands.