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When in the region of Drama, it is worth visiting the Aggitis cave (also called Maaras Cave), located NE of the capital, close to Prosotsani, on the south foot of Falakro mountain where the freezing Aggitis river springs from the depths of the mountain. It is the largest in length and volume cave in Greece and it is a river cave, the only one existing in Greece! The cave is an elongated natural pipe which is almost the only draining path for the waters collected in the closed basin of Kato Nevrokopi.
It was first explored by speleologists Yannis and Anna Petrocheilou of the Hellenic Speleological Society (H.S.S.) in 1952 but it wasn't until 1978 that French and Greek speleologists managed to explore it in a depth of 500 meters. Their theory, based on several natural phenomena, was that Aggitis river passes through a cave. To prove this theory, they decided to dive into the river springs. In 7m. depth, they found a passage to the cave. A great chamber was discovered reaching 500 m length. Its roof is full of stalactites, some of which have a diameter of 2m. and touch the surface of the water. Their colors are amazing, due to the existence of minerals such as manganese, iron, copper etc. Nowadays, 8.5 km have been explored and only 2.5 are accessible to visitors.You can enter the cave from the artificial entrance that has been opened and walk for 500 m. Stalactites of various forms, sizes and colors decorate the cave. As for stalagmites, their number is very limited because of the continuous flow of the river.
Visit the "Wheel chamber" and admire the amazing technical accomplishment of the local popular mechanics dating back to the 19th century. A rotatable waterjet pushed the water to a channel, specially constructed for this purpose, which led the water in the plain in order to irrigate the tobacco crops of the region. Excavations in the Cave and the surrounding area began in 1992 and have brought to light stone tools and bones of prehistoric animals (rhinoceros, megakeros (giant deer) and mammoth). Some of them are exhibited in Drama's Museum.
"Acropolis hall" is also impressive. It is the biggest hall ever discovered in a Greek cave (120m long, 65m wide and 45m high). Its size, decoration and the river flowing along it, creating underground banks and rocky formations, composing a really eerie atmosphere that will definitely take your breath away!
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For further information please contact the Aggitis Cave information desk: +3025220- 60460.
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Aldi is warning its customers about a 'fraudulent' voucher that is being circulated online.
The supermarket chain issued a statement on its Facebook page saying that the offer of an £85 voucher is a 'hoax' and is 'being fully investigated'.
Aldi's warning, which was posted at around 3pm yesterday (Monday), read:
"ALERT: We have been notified that there is a hoax £85 Aldi voucher being circulated online.
"Please be aware that this voucher is fraudulent and cannot be redeemed in our stores. Aldi UK will never ask you to share your personal details via a website to redeem a genuine voucher offer.
"This hoax is currently being fully investigated. Thank you, Aldi UK."

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Absolute measurement together with the EIB 741 evaluation unit
In highly dynamic measuring tasks, such as on test stands, counting errors can occur in the subsequent electronics when using incremental encoders. These are often caused by excessive speeds or vibrations. The absolute length gauges of the HEIDENHAIN-ACANTO series avoid these counting errors by continuously determining the absolute position value for each request, without needing a reference run.
The diagnostics continually check the current state of the encoder and report it via the respective valuation numbers. Should there be an error in the formation of the position value, an alarm bit is transmitted via the interface. A simple check of the state of the length gauge is then possible together with the diagnostic interface of the EnDat 2.2 protocol. This alarm and diagnostic function in particular is important for securing the process capability of the system in advance. In addition, HEIDENHAIN-ACANTO length gauges feature a sliding guide system with ceramic bushing—the best solution for fulfilling the contrary demands of sturdiness and repeatability. A ball-bush guide gives better repeatability, but is more sensitive to contamination and less sturdy than a sliding guide with ceramic bushing.
In combination with the EIB 741 evaluation unit, a position value can be requested every 100 µs. Per channel the EIB 741 can typically store 250,000 data records as well as transmit approx. 1.2 MB of data in streaming mode over the Ethernet interface. The provided C++ and LabView drivers simplify integration in the machine system. As an alternative, as evaluation units you can use the ND 2100G GAGE-CHEK for up to eight encoders.
ACANTO highlights
|Absolute measurement
|No counting errors at high speeds or vibrations
|Sturdy design
|Ceramic plain bush guide, up to IP 67
|Pluggable assembly
EIB 741 highlights
|Highly dynamic
|One data record every 100 µs
|High data transfer rate
|Internal memory for up to 250,000 measured values per channel, as well as approx. 1.2 MB data flow rate over Ethernet in streaming mode
Products used in this application
|3 m EnDat 2.2 cable with radial outlet
|EIB 741 evaluation unit with measured-value memory
|Recommended accessories
|Driver for C
|Driver for LabView


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"Treaties formalize the relationship between the Crown and First Nations groups. These agreements were signed between 1781 and 1930."
During Treaty Recognition Week, we acknowledge the many treaties that the Canadian Government signed with the First Peoples of this land.
The York Catholic District School Board acknowledges Treaty Recognition Week. We recognize that our Indigenous Peoples were the original occupants of the land. As we continue to walk together with our Indigenous communities, we acknowledge the traditional territory upon which we gather.
During Treaty Recognition Week (November 7-11) our school communities will be participating in reflection and prayer dedicated to our indigenous peoples as we use our growing awareness of the unique gifts wisdom to take steps towards reconciliation. In addition to that, school communities are encouraged to celebrate the richness of this community and the impact they have made Canadian history and our way of life.
YCDSB Land Acknowledgement
We gratefully acknowledge that our school rests on land that was the traditional territory of the Chippewas of Georgina Island. During Treaty Recognition Week, we acknowledge the many Treaties that the Canadian Government signed with the First Peoples of this land.
These treaties mean that all people in Canada, all of us, are Treaty people. We have an obligation to ensure that the Treaties signed be honoured. We celebrate the many contributions made by our First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people to the development of our nations and to our society.
In particular, the Chippewas of Georgina Island offered assistance to the first European travelers to this territory, and shared their knowledge for survival in what was at times a harsh climate. The Chippewa of Georgina Island entered the Upper Canada Treaties and the Williams Treaties from 1781-1862 and in 1923.
We journey in relationship with the Indigenous People of this land, a relationship with our neighbours based on honour and deep respect.


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This book claims to "familiarize Web designers with ins and outs of JavaScript and then move on to advanced tool for adding really useful interactivity to a Web site as quickly and easily as possible."
I am coming more from a development background but my JavaScript was quite rough, so I liked that this book does not assume that you know CSS selectors and DOM structures by heart.
The book exclusively uses jQuery, which is used in almost every example. Other libraries are mentioned on page 170 but it would have been nice to see some comparisons between how something is done in jQuery versus one of the other popular libraries.
Other than that, the book gives a nice short introduction about the history of JavaScript and inspirational advice for budding web developers.
I think the title is a bit vague, it should mention somehow that it exclusively uses jQuery. Other than that it seems like a good book for designers branching out into development.


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Every Sunday, 11:00 a - 12:30 p, Room: Worship Center
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Worship with us on Sundays at 9:30a and 11:00a.
Can't make it to church? Watch the live stream! You can also find us on your Roku and GoogleTV with the Cottonwood Creek App. It shows various videos as well as live streaming. Search for "cottonwood creek church" on your Roku or GoogleTV to watch Cottonwood Creek online.


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No seats, no stage, no intermission, no escape; how one renegade British stage troupe and its wild production of Macbeth might just save theater.
Author JENNA SCHERER
I HAD TO PRESS MYSELF flat against the wall to keep the hotel clerk from kicking me. He and a guest — a glamorous woman in a traveling coat — were wrestling on the reception desk, fighting over a set of room keys. I probably had no business being back there in the first place, but nobody had tried to stop me — or, if they had, I hadn't noticed. I was too busy thinking about the sinister man i'd encountered a few minutes earlier, washing his hands in a bathtub. A little later, I found myself wandering through a cemetery, fairly confident that the shapes looming in the darkness were just statues — until one of them moved. It was a man, a hulking figure wearing an apron, fumbling in the soil.
This may sound like a dream brought on by bad seafood, but it's not. It's Sleep No More: a show that takes your preconceptions about what a night at the theater should entail and completely shatters them. The work of pioneering British company Punchdrunk, Sleep No More is a sprawling, immersive performance piece that's part Shakespeare, part vintage Hitchcock and part live-action video game.
The show takes place in a renovated warehouse in New York's Chelsea district. It's a disconcertingly large venue, spread out over six floors and more than 100 rooms. Audience members — if that's what you can call them — are invited not only to watch the events unfolding in the make-believe McKittrick Hotel, but also to throw themselves right into the thick of it all.
Here's how it works: Upon entering the set, you are led through a dimly lit maze into a Prohibition-era bar, complete with a lounge singer crooning the standards. After a drink or two, a nattily dressed but nonetheless ominous man hands you a white beaked mask, which you're required to wear for the duration of the show. From there, you're ushered into an elevator, whose operator gives you the lowdown: no talking, don't touch the actors, head back to the bar if you need a break. The elevator lurches to a halt and he adds, "Fortune favors the bold." The door opens to a misty darkness. Showtime.
The story loosely follows the plotline of Macbeth, Shakespeare's twisted tragedy, with a bit of Hitchcock's Rebecca thrown in. But that's all I can tell you for sure, because the rest is up to you. No two playgoers' experiences are ever the same. You may spend the evening wandering deserted rooms, picking through letters, photographs and bits of macabre detritus. You may choose to follow a specific character all evening, chasing him from floor to floor, or to abandon that character for another one halfway through. You'll be privy to very intimate moments. If you're lucky, you might even get yanked into a secret room by one of the characters for a private tête-à-tête. The point is, it's up to you. You shape your own narrative according to where you go and what you do. It's an entertaining, surprising and invigorating experience.
Punchdrunk has been putting on shows like this since 2000, when a 22-year-old drama school graduate named Felix Barrett first founded the company. Its specialty is adapting dark, reality-bending tales, ranging from Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death to Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade, and the troupe stages its work in derelict tunnels and abandoned buildings, with the only constant being that the audience is flung headlong into the action. The shows sell out wherever they go, and the response has been so positive as to appear, at times, a bit unhinged. "All I can say is 'WOW.' I don't believe that I've ever experienced anything remotely like this," gushed a woman on a Broadway World discussion forum. "I can't stop thinking about it."
THE PAST DECADE or so has not been kind to traditional stage productions. People are too busy poking, tweeting and texting to sit still in a theater for two hours. The public demands brevity, interactivity or at the very least a pair of 3-D goggles. The form has tried to update itself, but with the exception of a few brilliant outliers (The Book of Mormon, for instance), Broadway seems to have resigned itself to its fate. Attendance is down, ticket prices are up and there's little relief on the horizon.
Punchdrunk, on the other hand, flourishes, owing its success in part to the fact that it anticipated the tastes of a public saturated with media and bogged down by the demands of the digital age. Its shows provide the engagement of social networking, the visceral jolt of a Hollywood thriller, the blood-lurch of an amusement park ride. "Our whole desire is to put an audience at the heart of the action," Barrett says. "You're completely empowered to make any decision you want to. It's the opposite state to conventional theater: that amazing danger that's inherent within giving the audience a choice."
Conceived and directed by Barrett and choreographer Maxine Doyle, the New York production of Sleep No More represents Punchdrunk's most ambitious effort to date. The show opened in 2003 as a modest 10-person production in a former Victorian school in London. Six years later, an expanded version came to another shuttered schoolhouse, this one in Brookline, Mass. Produced with Harvard Square's highbrow American Repertory Theater, it was Punchdrunk's first show outside the U.K.
Since Sleep No More hit New York, it's been looking poised to make the leap from cult phenomenon to full-on sensation — in part because of its blockbuster production values and in part because, well, this is New York. "We always wanted to do a show in New York," Barrett says. "It's such a vibrant, passionate theater city. We were really excited about that audience and how they might hurl themselves into the work."
YOU COULD ARGUE that the biggest star of Sleep No More's New York run is the venue. Barrett is drawn to spaces that reinforce the mood of a piece, and the warehouse on West 27th Street could have been purpose-built for his needs. "I only saw it for an hour, but I knew it was the right place. It was love at first sight," he says. "It's got that feeling of excess and decay, perfect for the power-hungry, obsessive elements of the storyline."
Another important element of Barrett's productions is music. The film noir soundtracks of the 1940s and the gilded tunes of the swing era were an early inspiration for this show, and, other than the occasional gasp, groan or muttered verse, their eerie strains are pretty much the only sound you'll hear.
Punchdrunk aims for a physical, sensory style closer to interpretive dance than to scripted theater. Rather than expressing anguish or desire through words, performers crawl up walls, clamber onto furniture, wrestle on pool tables or suddenly take off at a dead run.
Sleep No More plays with all the senses: Lady Macduff's neglected apartment smells like rotting food, and the air in the graveyard is tangibly cool and damp. You're invited to rifle through drawers, steal a discarded piece of candy, pick up the phone to see if there's anyone on the other end (sometimes there is). Barrett's approach to theater means no lazing around or stepping back. The harder you work at Sleep No More, the more you'll get out of it. "We fight against passive obedience, the formulaic sitting there quietly in a theater seat that only stimulates your brain," he says. "If the body is stimulated as well, if you have to actually make decisions and have ownership, the repercussions fall on your shoulders."
Some people balk at this kind of participation, but most throw themselves into the experience. A few go a little overboard. Conor Doyle, who plays several roles and is also the show's assistant choreographer, once saw a woman attempt to stop a character giving another a glass of poison. "She'd completely forgotten that it was a show and it was fake," he says. "She cared about the character in that moment. She genuinely wanted to save her." Barrett, for his part, recalls a night when a man made for an open coffin, lay down inside it and slept through the entire show.
"People have done some really amazing things. I look at them and I think, Wow, you're doing that right now! OK," says Tori Sparks, who plays Lady Macbeth. "It's hard for a lot of people, to just be shot off into the dark and left to their own devices. I think that your reaction is very telling of who you are as a person."
PUNCHDRUNK ISN'T THE only company intent on demolishing traditional boundaries between audience and actor. The trend's epicenter is in the U.K., where experimental outfits like Il Pixo Rosso, Belt Up Theatre and Shunt employ gimmicks such as video goggles, Victorian parlor games and wild goose chases beneath London Bridge. In the U.S., the American Repertory Theater's The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, is performed on and around a sweaty dance floor.
Few, though, have generated the kind of enthusiasm that's greeted Sleep No More. Celebs including Trey Parker, Kevin Spacey and Amy Adams have slipped behind the mask. The show has seen its run extended over and over since opening in March, and continues to sell out. There are online communities devoted to it, whose members, in an attempt to get to the heart of the show's narrative, spend hours piecing together the fragments of their experiences.
While Barrett is quick to point out that Punchdrunk's productions aren't meant to supersede the traditional model of stage, actors and viewers in seats — "Conventional theater has its place, and I love it," he says — he does seem intent on further deconstructing the form. This fall will see the launch of Punchdrunk Travel: Participants arrive at an airport, collect plane tickets and a bundle from a locker, and fly off to a mystery venue for three days. "As soon as you leave the airport, you're inside the show," he says. "It's going to be completely global."
Of course, secrecy being paramount to Punchdrunk's mystique, Barrett is loath to divulge any details on his forthcoming travel agency or the inevitable follow-up to Sleep No More — though he and his company are most assuredly up to something. "I can't tell you when or where," he says. "But it's coming."
Boston-based drama critic JENNA SCHERER has to remind herself not to follow random strangers around actual hotels.
The single most amazing theatrical event I have ever witnessed!


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Baggio Husidic scored in first half stoppage time, and Peter Lowry added one in the second half as the Chicago Fire defeated the Houston Dynamo 2-0 at Toyota Park on Saturday night.
The Fire went ahead in stoppage time of the first half when Chicago defender Tim Ward ripped a 22-yard shot at Houston goalkeeper Pat Onstad, who made the save but could not control the rebound. Husidic beat two Houston defenders to the rebound to head the ball in from close range for his first career MLS goal.
Outshot 12-2 in the first half and without midfielder Geoff Cameron, who suffered a right knee injury and left the game in the 30th minute, Houston came out better in the second half, and forward Brian Mullan came close to equalizing in the 49th minute. Dynamo midfielder Brad Davis found Mullan streaking into the box with a ball from the left flank, and Mullan hit a hard shot toward net, but Chicago goalkeeper Andrew Dykstra came off his line and made himself big to make the initial stop. The ball then deflected off of Mullan and rolled toward Chicago's net, but Fire defender Krzysztof Krol was alert to the situation and cleared the ball out for a corner.
The Dynamo had another good chance to tie the game in the 57th minute, when Houston defender Mike Chabala hit a fantastic cross toward fellow defender Andrew Hainault at the back post. Despite having a free header, Hainault -- who was up the field for a Houston corner kick -- saw his shot saved by Dykstra, who got to his feet in time to stop Dominic Oduro's follow-up header.
Lowry doubled the Fire's advantage in the 67th minute. The goal came courtesy of winger Patrick Nyarko, who collected a Marco Pappa switch on the right flank, dribbled toward the end line and fired a cross toward the near post. Lowry made a hard, charging run toward the ball, sticking his chest out like a sprinter crossing the finish line to deflect it past Onstad at the near post. Lowry also scored the first goal of his MLS career against the Dynamo last year.
Lowry's goal ratcheted up the tension on the field, and things got ugly in the 81st minute. Ward committed a foul on a 50-50 header on the right side of the field, and a bit of a scrum ensued, resulting in a yellow card for Fire forward Collins John and a second yellow card for Houston midfielder Danny Cruz, who came on in the 69th minute.
Chicago did not hold its man advantage for long though, as Krol received a straight red only two minutes after Cruz was ejected. The Polish defender was sent to the showers for headbutting Houston forward Luis Ángel Landín, who picked up a yellow card for fouling Krol.
The result puts an end to the Dynamo's unbeaten record at Toyota Park. Houston had gone 3-0-1 in their previous four matches against the Fire in Bridgeview. It also ended a five-game Houston winning streak against Chicago.
Houston Dynamo (2-2-1) vs. Chicago Fire (2-2-1)
April 24, 2010 –- Toyota Park, Bridgeview, IL
Scoring Summary:
CHI -- Baggio Husidic 1 (unassisted) 48+
CHI -- Peter Lowry 1 (Patrick Nyarko 3) 67
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Andrew Hainault (Danny Cruz 70), Eddie Robinson, Bobby Boswell, Mike Chabala, Corey Ashe (Luis Angel Landin 62), Lovel Palmer, Geoff Cameron (Adrian Serioux 30), Brad Davis, Brian Mullan, Dominic Oduro.
Substitutes Not Used: Tally Hall, Ryan Cochrane, Francisco Navas Cobo, Craig Waibel
Chicago Fire -- Andrew Dykstra, Tim Ward, Wilman Conde, C.J. Brown, Krzysztof Krol, Patrick Nyarko, Peter Lowry, Marco Pappa (Deris Umanzor 90), Baggio Husidic, Justin Mapp (Mike Banner 74), Brian McBride (Collins John 62).
Substitutes Not Used: Sean Johnson, Corben Bone, Stefan Dimitrov, Kwame Watson-Siriboe.
Misconduct Summary:
CHI -- Peter Lowry (caution; Persistent Infringement) 55
HOU -- Mike Chabala (caution; Intentional Handball) 58
HOU -- Adrian Serioux (caution; Tactical Foul) 65
HOU -- Danny Cruz (caution; Reckless Tackle) 79
CHI -- Collins John (caution; Game Disrepute) 81
HOU -- Danny Cruz (ejection; Second Caution) 82
HOU -- Luis Landín (caution; Reckless Tackle) 84
CHI -- Krzysztof Krol (ejection; Violent Conduct) 84
CHI -- Mike Banner (caution; Delayed Restart) 88
Referee: Ricardo Salazar
Referee's Assistants: Adam Wienckowski; Peter Manikowski
4th official: Chris Penso
Attendance: 11,312
Weather: Cloudy and 53 degrees
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial


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During his bachelor life Sush used to cook breakfast every weekends and when he calls me on weekends I often ask him what he had for breakfast. Most of the time his answer was poha. I used to wonder what this poha was and was under the impression that it was something special and I never asked him what it was …
Months passed by and after our marriage one day he wanted to cook poha for me and I was hopefully waiting to taste this wonderful recipe. Finally poha was ready and when I tasted all my anticipation and imaginations crushed . It was the modified version of AVILU UPMAV my grandmother used to make !!!
Poha (Avil or Rice flakes) -250gms
Onion -2
Green chillies 4-5
Turmeric powder (a pinch)
Mustard seeds
Mustard seeds
Redchillies 3-4
peanuts 4-5 tablespoon
Curry leaves (few)
In a colander take poha and soak poha in water . Drain the water completely.
In a pan sputter mustard seeds and add redchillies. Add chopped onions to this pan and saute till onions turn pink and then add chopped green chillies and curry leaves to it. Finally add soaked poha , turmeric powder and salt. Cover the pan and cook for 3-4 minutes.Turn off the fire and garnish with peanuts.


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A white summer dress made famous in the iconic Tennis Girl poster of the 1970s has fetched £15,500 (€19,500) at auction.
The unique handmade dress with lace trim was made famous in a photograph taken by the late Martin Elliott featuring his then-girlfriend Fiona Butler.
Fieldings Auctioneers, which offered the dress today as a part of a lot which included the tennis racquet from the image, confirmed the dress had smashed its £2,000 estimate.
The then 18-year-old Ms Butler was immortalised in a cheeky pose walking away from the camera, with her right hand grasping a tennis racquet and the left resting on her backside.
Behind the camera was unknown commercial photographer Mr Elliott who sold the image licence to be re-printed in the 1977 Athena poster.
It went on to sell more than two million copies worldwide.
The identity of the female model was unknown until Ms Butler – who later married to become Mrs Walker, came forward a few years ago.
Before the auction in Stourbridge in the West Midlands, Nick Davies, director at Fieldings, said he expected the memorable dress, photographed on a Birmingham University tennis court in 1976, to have wide appeal.
The lot went under the gavel on the day of the Wimbledon ladies' singles final.
Mrs Walker's pose has been imitated by many over the years including pop star Kylie Minogue, comedians Frank Skinner and Ricky Gervais, as well as ITV1's Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden, who was photographed in her tennis whites last month.
The dress was made by Ms Butler's friend Carol Knotts, who said: "I've had the dress tucked away in a cupboard for all those years. It's a little piece of tennis history and I hope someone might find it an interesting novelty item to buy."
Mr Elliott, who made his name off the back of the picture's global success, split with his girlfriend three years after taking the shot.
Although Mrs Walker, now 55 and living in Worcestershire, was never paid for the photo, Mr Elliott always said "I looked after her" – he died in 2010.
The dress and tennis racquet went under the hammer along with two copies of the iconic poster.


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Today's soundtrack post is dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs. This is a classic by his favorite singer, Bob Dylan: Mr. Tambourine Man, from his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home one.
Not much else can be said about the iconic Minnesotan singer. He's in a category of his own, having defined an entire generation, including Jobs himself.
Steve admired many musicians, like the Beatles or Ella Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald even performed in his 30th birthday), but Dylan was his absolute favorite by far. He used to play Dylan's songs on his guitar, and talk about the meaning of the lyrics with his friends. He even dated Joan Baez during the late 1970s and early 1980s (Baez had a relationship with Dylan during the 60s. She also helped to bring Dylan into national fame when she invited him to perform together at the Newport Folk Festival. This played a big part on Steve's fascination about Joan).
I had a hard time picking a favorite for this post. I wanted to post a few but, ultimately, I picked this one for the lyrics. Especially this section:
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it.
I hope there are iPods wherever you are, Señor Jobs. [Spotify, Amazon, iTunes]


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These are the October 18, 2019 winning numbers for Pick 3 Evening. To stay up to date with the latest lottery information, download our mobile app.
In 1973, the citizens of Maine voted yes to approve a statewide referendum introducing a Maine Lottery. The next year, on June 27, 1974, ticket sales began for a weekly draw game called "Play Me."
Since its first drawing in 1974, the ME Lottery has paid out over $2.2 billion in prizes to lottery players, $335 million in sales commissions to retailers, and has transferred over $1.24 billion to the the Maine State Government's General Fund. These funds are then used by the Maine Legislature to benefit Maine citizens, including general purpose aid to local schools, colleges, health services, and additional state programs.
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Mitch Gaylord (b. 1961) was the number one ranked gymnast in 1983 and 1984, and represented the U.S.A. in the 1984 Olympics. He led the U.S. team to a gold victory and was the first American Gymnast to receive a perfect 10.
Gaylord was twice featured in Muppet Magazine, interviewed by Kermit in issue 10, in a gymnastics piece, and by Janice in issue 15, promoting his starring role in the 1986 film American Anthem.
Gaylord was a stunt double for Chris O'Donnel in Batman Forever, has appeared as himself on Hollywood Squares and Night of 100 Stars II, was a contestant on American Gladiators, and guest starred in the 1991 television revival of Dragnet.


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Installation view of "Left Coast: California Political Art" with artworks by Futurefarmers, Precita Eyes Mural Collective, Andrew Schoultz, and Rigo 23.
Left Coast: California Political Art includes artworks from the 1980s to the present that focus on the spirit of protest and resistance, which has come to be synonymous with the West Coast in recent years. The title of the exhibition takes its name from a playful moniker for the left-wing politics associated with California, a place that curator and art historian Peter Selz has referred to as "America's edge." By exploring how the roles of these artists cross into the realm of activism, the show brings to the fore timely political tensions and social movements that are unfolding across the country. The exhibition will feature sculptures, drawings, paintings, video and prints by several contemporary artists currently working in California, as well as newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Andrew Schoultz, the Bay Area-based mural collective Precita Eyes Mural Collective, and the international artist collective Futurefarmers, founded by San Francisco artist Amy Franceschini. Also included in the presentation are works by artists Judith F. Baca, Evan Bissell, Libby Black, Enrique Chagoya, Bruce Conner, Estudio Teddy Cruz with Fonna Forman, Jennifer Moon, PERSIA and DADDIE$ PLA$TIK, Lari Pittman, Rigo 23, Favianna Rodriguez, Martin Wong, and Imin Yeh. This exhibition is curated by Nadiah Fellah, the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow. - See more at: http://centerforthehumanities.org/program/left-coast-california-political-art#sthash.GOHr5XU5.dpuf Read more
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I recently represented ASTC on the scientific advisory board of a large media group that held its annual retreat in the pristine Colorado wilderness. Gathered together were leading scientific researchers, innovators, captains of industry, technology-based investors and philanthropists, artists, and science communicators.
In a relaxed venue, this diverse group explored the science issues that are most vexing in our world today and the topics only just visible on the edges of the horizon. The group examined, as well, the constantly changing ways in which the public obtains (and retains) science information now and in the foreseeable future.
In this, my first opportunity to participate in the annual event, I offered information about how science centers and museums engage our communities in science and educate and inspire our youth. As the discussion proceeded, I could see the illuminating "light bulbs of understanding" in the room about the many ways in which science centers and museums can integrate with other forms of science learning to excite audiences. I, too, came away with intriguing new ideas about blended approaches to science learning.
But one message emerged perhaps most clearly in all of the discussions. While these many approaches to science learning may at times appear unpredictable or maybe even chaotic, today's growing "Wikipedia culture" is generally comfortable with this fluidity. Our field does remarkably well in capturing this dynamic as we design our science center and museum activities.
As if there were any doubts that the simplest and most unpredictable of tools have the potential to yield the greatest impact, I attempted to dazzle my colleagues at the retreat by concluding my presentation with a brief discussion of the two-minute video of the "quantum levitation" demonstration by Tel Aviv University researchers at the 2011 ASTC Annual Conference in Baltimore this past October. This video received an astounding 5 million views in its first week on YouTube and was subsequently featured in international media (providing excellent publicity for ASTC, I might add.)
I was taken by the fact that so many in the group were already familiar with this arcane area of physics. Why? Because, as it turns out, nearly 90% of the august attendees at this event in the beautiful Colorado mountains had already seen the YouTube video themselves!


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Anthony Williams is author of the bookC++ Concurrency in Action and of the just::thread C++0x thread library. He can be contacted at [email protected].
Imagine for a moment a spreadsheet. Some of the cells have values in, but others have formulae which determine the value, possibly based on other cell values. Some are simple calculations such as the sum of a range of cells, while others are more complex and perform intricate calculations involving many other cell values in a multitude of ways. Naturally, the cells that are used in a formula may themselves contain formulae, in which case the spreadsheet calculation engine has to ensure that they are calculated first. If it turns out that the formula in A1 depends on the value of B27 which in turn depends on A1 then you have a circular reference and the answer is undefined.
Dataflow variables are like spreadsheet cells. They may be simplevalues, or the result of complex calculations involving other variables, but they can only be set once. Any calculation that needs the value of a variable that has not been set must block until the value has been set. This makes dataflow variables ideal for concurrency -- the implementation can take care of all the synchronization internally; all you need to do is reference the variables where they are needed and ensure that there are no loops in your logic. Remember the spreadsheet -- if a cell needs its own value to resolve its formula then you have an undefined value. The same happens with dataflow variables, though you'll likely get a hung program.
Using Dataflow Variables
Dataflow variables are available for multiple languages, including Oz, Ruby and Groovy. Also, because of their write-once property, code that uses them is very similar in structure to code written in a Functional language such as Erlang or Haskell. Let's take a look at a few examples, then look at one way of implementing them in C++.
int main() { DataFlow<int> x,y,z; z.task([&](){return x.get()+y.get();}); y=99; x=123; std::cout<<"z="<<z.get()<<std::endl; }
This simple example declares three dataflow variables which store integers. It then specifies that z is the result of a task, passing in a lambda function that calculates the sum of x and y as that task. The it sets the values of x and y explicitly, before printing the value of z, which is now available since x and y have been set.
Okay, how about something a bit more complex? Listing 2 shows the use of dataflow variables to calculate the mean and standard deviation of a set of data:
double standard_deviation(std::vector<double> const& values,double mean) { double const variance= std::accumulate(values.begin(),values.end(),0.0, [=](double prev,double x){return prev+(x-mean)*(x-mean);})/values.size(); return sqrt(variance); } double calculate_mean(std::vector<double> const& values) { return std::accumulate(values.begin(),values.end(),0.0)/values.size(); } int main() { DataFlow<std::vector<double> > data; DataFlow<double> sd,mean; sd.task([&](){return standard_deviation(data.get(),mean.get());}); mean.task([&](){return calculate_mean(data.get());}); data=get_data(); std::cout<<"standard deviation="<<sd.get()<<", mean="<<mean.get()<<std::endl; }
In this case, both the mean and standard deviation depend on the data, but the standard deviation also depends on the mean. The implementation ensures that all the dependencies are ordered correctly, so when you wait for the standard deviation value by calling sd.get() then the implementation ensures that the task to calculate the standard deviation has run. Since this in turn calls mean.get(), the implementation will also ensure that the task to calculate the mean has been run too.


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Obviously you need to spend some time orienting yourself to your code and tools, but wouldnt it be good to spend more time adding new value to your applications? In Visual Studio 11 weve focused on giving you back more time by streamlining your development experience. Through thoughtful reduction in user interface complexity, and by the introduction of new experience patterns that simplify common workflows
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The evolving role of the CIO involves IT and security responsibilities
Technology executives focus on elevating information security in the enterprise.
SHAWN PARTRIDGE CONTINUALLY nudges his staff and his superiors at Rockford Construction in Grand Rapids,Mich., to view information security-and IT in general-as a means to bring about positive changes for an industry beset by economic woes.
"Until I came here, IT was a support mechanism," says Partridge, whose company has no CIO. "It was seen as a cost center only."
Since Partridge, vice president of IT, implemented Web portals to make site management easier, employees "used to running projects with a walkietalkie and a pad of paper" are not only embracing the new technology but are helping him evangelize the importance of good security habits. "We implement different levels of access" for foremen, customers, and others with a stake in a project, Partridge says.
As threats to corporate data grow, putting organizations' reputation and revenue on the line, many CIOs and IT executives view information security with appropriate urgency. They're working to elevate security in the enterprise by expanding their roles and responsibilities, teaming up with CISOs or by occupying dual roles-leading both IT and information security efforts.
For its part, the American Red Cross initially created and filled its CISO spot about six years ago, says Mark Weischedel, CIO at the Washington, D.C.-based emergency response organization. Since then, the CISO's responsibilities have changed substantially.
"In the beginning it was all about policy and strategy," says Weischedel, who reports to the organization's CEO. "The CISO position was very highly leveraged, and the capabilities were very limited. Since then, we have added more technical depth, plus we are pushing out more [to the CISO] in terms of [security] policy, compliance, education and awareness."
He adds that a steady stream of attacks has elevated information security's importance across the organization. "They are an everyday occurrence, but unless you are immersed [in information security], you won't understand the risk enough to develop an effective level of controls" with which to respond to them, he says.
Suzanne Hall, named to the CISO post in October, says that the placement of the CISO and CIO within the Red Cross' hierarchy weighed heavily in her decision to accept the job. She reports to Weischedel.
"Mark and I had conversations about this during the recruitment process," says Hall, who most recently served as CIO at Lerner Enterprises, a real estate development company based in Rockville, Md., that also owns the Washington Nationals baseball team.
"I felt very confident that there was a strong synergy between the CISO and the CIO here, and I know that the CIO has a seat at the table with the CEO."
The Red Cross has what Weischedel describes as "well-established audit functions" among various groups within the organization, each a check and balance on the other. Among other positions, the Red Cross has a chief of audit, a chief of investigations and an ombudsman-any or all of whom may touch issues related to information security.
Security is so deeply woven into the fabric of the organization that "there is a natural partnership and affinity between the things our CISO does and the other parts of the Red Cross," he says.
Missed Opportunity
Organizations continue to put security on the back burner as they dive into virtualization.
The sluggish adoption of security controls in virtualized environments illustrates how security remains an afterthought in many organizations, says Scott Crawford, research director at Enterprise Management Associates.
In an EMA survey of more than 600 enterprises worldwide, only 17 percent of respondents use detective controls to monitor hypervisor security. Just 26 percent use controls to prevent potential or detected hypervisor threats.
"IT has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to integrate security into a new technology in its earliest stages of deployment, yet what this data suggests is that IT-and the business-is missing the opportunity," Crawford says.
In the absence of significant numbers of proven threats, businesses are still weighing the need to integrate security directly into virtualization initiatives, he says. "Unfortunately, this means that even with new and emerging technology, we may be back to business as usual for dealing with threats after the fact, despite the security lessons so painfully learned over the last decade."
The Red Cross and other large, established organizations have the breadth and the resources to rearrange responsibilities as business demands and the threat landscape shift. Unfortunately, plenty of other organizations continue to view information security as a technical afterthought. That bias is reflected in how infosecurity managers' duties are viewed by others within the organization.
In many cases, "we are still seeing IT focused on the primary objectives of the business-delivering services, maintaining network availability," says Scott Crawford, research director of the security and riskmanagement practice at Enterprise Management Associates, an IT consulting firm in Boulder, Colo.
Security's role in addressing "risk management is often an afterthought,which is discouraging," he says. Crawford, former CISO at the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, says that rocky relationships between line-ofbusiness personnel and security managers continue in many organizations.
"The business people-and even some in IT- tend to see security staff as being in the business of saying no-'No, you cannot pursue this line of business because it is too great a security risk,'" says Crawford. Until management takes the view that information security touches the business at every level, clashes are likely to continue, he adds.
In order to persuade others in the C-suite to give appropriate weight to information security, savvy CIOs frequently take pains to work closely with employees outside of IT. Education is of paramount importance in that effort, says Tim Johns, the CIO and head of IT security at Georgia Urology.
"In the clinical environment, change is never a good thing," says Johns. "A lot of folks have worked here for a long time, so when you come in and say, 'You need to change your password,' they say, 'But I like my password-it's my daughter's wedding [date]!'" You have to sell them on the reasons why they need to change their password. You tell them, no, we're not being attacked, but I am trying to prevent that from happening.
"I like to say that I have 28 bosses," he adds. Johns reports to the CEO and the managing partner, to say nothing of the two dozen-plus physicians with whom he and his staff work every day. Although he says GU's CEO thought Johns "went a little overboard" when he expanded GU's security policy from three pages to 37, some explanations about the necessity for HIPAA compliance and other regulations helped the CEO understand precisely why Johns was implementing a host of new procedures and rules.
And just as business people need to elevate security considerations, security people need to prioritize learning about their companies and the type of security risks that could harm them, says the Red Cross' Hall.
"Traditionally, CISOs have not had that business focus," she says. "As a profession, CISOs must work as a group to help build that skills set. It's a model we must continue to develop."
At retail giant Target, recent changes to top management's responsibilities around security reflect a push to elevate some infosecurity matters to a new level of business criticality.
Over the last couple of years, "we made the decision to treat corporate compliance, fraud prevention and other areas primarily as business risks, then as technical challenges," says Tony Heredia, vice president of corporate risk and responsibility at the Minneapolis-based company.
Target's size and scope drove the changes. Given the array of industries the company straddles- retail, financial services, health care-the company found itself "pulled in recent years in different directions around regulations, from PCI to HIPAA to GLBA,"Heredia says. "We needed to find a way to address all of these risks."
Thus some issues related to security standards and governance now live in his group's purview, while Beth Jacob, Target's CIO and a peer of Target's general counsel-to whom Heredia reports-continues to oversee the technical aspects of the company's information security strategies.
As an example, Heredia points to ongoing efforts to shape employees' security-related behavior, such as educating them about why keeping passwordcovered sticky notes on or near their computers is a bad idea. While this task had once been handled by those on the technical side of the house, it's now considered part of standards, governance, training and enforcement, all of which Heredia and his staff ultimately oversee.
In shifting duties around, "we took our time," he adds, noting that technical and organizational changes designed to address new ways of managing risk have been phased in over the last two years.
Top 10 Priorities
Every year, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) conducts a survey of state CIOs to identify their top policy and technology issues. Here are the results for 2009:
1. Consolidation
2. Shared services
3. Budget and cost control
4. Security
5. Electronic records management/digital preservation/e-discovery
6. ERP strategy
7. Green IT
8. Transparency
9. Health information technology
10. Governance
1. Virtualization
2. Document/content/email management
3. Legacy application modernization and upgrade (ERP)
4. Networking, voice and data communications, unified communications
5. Web 2.0
6. Green IT technologies
7. Identity and access management
8. Geospatial analysis and geographic information systems
9. Business intelligence and analytics apps
10. Mobile workforce enablement
"Security has been a high priority and will continue to be. States are relatively open environments simply because of the nature of their business and it can be problematic."
--DOUG ROBINSON, NASCIO executive director
Given that each organization needs to consider myriad factors-from its size to the regulations it faces to its security or IT head count-Enterprise Management's Crawford suggests that it's often best when security personnel report directly to the CEO rather than to the CIO.
"You don't want to have the person who is supposed to be keeping tabs on doing the right thing reporting to the group they are supposed to be keeping tabs on," he says.
At Rockford Construction, Partridge reports to the vice president of operations, who reports to the executive VP, who reports to the CEO. He is optimistic that his influence will grow over time.
"Management is still trying to figure out where I really fit into the organization," he says. "It would be good to have IT and information security in a more strategic, less reactive arrangement."
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Global Health Innovation's Mission of Caring for Moms and Babies with HIV
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I could pack this article with statistics: approximately 23 million people live with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 16 million children under the age of 18 have been orphaned by AIDS in Africa alone. Each day, 6,000 people in Africa die from AIDS.
There are more. Countless statistics that signify how little medical care there is for babies born—or even suspected to be born—with HIV. Numbers that lump every HIV positive mother into a group with a label that names the malady, but skims over the reality of what life is like to be sick, poor, and overlooked.
We could—and should—also talk about medical procedures, blood draws and how testing a baby for HIV requires a DNA test. We should talk about how the technology that Global Health Innovations (GHI) developed, along with its partner Ontarget, to log, track and treat mothers and babies who test positive for HIV, is as sophisticated and complex as the population it caters to is poor and underprivileged.
And we could talk about how email, cell phones that ping off of towers in London to reach mud huts in rural Africa, and labs built at the request of the Centers for Disease Control all factor into the good work done by an organization that calls the Northland home.
Instead, I want to tell you how Brad Gautney, PNP, MPH, made me cry.
He got a phone call one day from Malawi, with news that there was a baby girl with no mother and no father. An astute partner of Gautney's suspected the baby was HIV positive, but there was no way to test her in the rural area in which she was born.
Gautney immediately boarded a flight and flew there, and traveled two hours after he deplaned to reach the baby. He drew blood and flew to Nairobi, where the blood was tested. Gautney flew back home that very same night. That's when the phone call came.
The tests confirmed that she was HIV positive.
This happened five years ago. Today, Gautney sees her—now a "spunky, beautiful, spoiled little girl,"–whenever he visits that village. She's one of his son's closest friends when they see each other, he says, and he's reminded each time he picks her up and twirls her around, that GHI, the organization he founded and serves as president of, is rooted not only in medicine, but in compassion and love.
"There is an epidemic across the way," says Gautney. "Our organization is making an unbelievable impact. We're saving lives, and we're giving kids the opportunity to have a normal childhood.
We don't just test, or hand out medicine," he says. "These kids remind me that what we do is real. Everyone we treat is someone's daughter or son. Their lives matter. That's why we do what we do."
Gautney's journey began with a college internship in Haiti. He quickly saw that there were no services or options for HIV positive patients. Babies weren't touched or held because of fear over the dangers of HIV and AIDS. That broke his heart, he says.
"Knowing that those babies would not ever get to experience the power of human touch," he says, "put in my heart what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I'm blessed to do this," he says.
From 2002 to 2006, Gautney and his family lived in rural Haiti. He ran a clinic, a school and a nutrition program. After four years, he knew there had to be a better way to make more of a difference. He returned to the states and to school, and earned two masters degrees: one in public health, the other as a pediatric nurse practitioner.
Eventually Gautney turned over his work in Haiti to a partner, and now, with GHI, focuses on needs in Africa. In addition to providing solutions and intervention that impact the lives of HIV positive moms and babies, Gautney and his team provide medical care for children living in orphanages, and for children rescued from slavery.
It's not easy work, and it takes a toll not only practically, but emotionally. There are logistical roadblocks, like lack of transportation and medical care, as well as cultural issues. Gautney says one of the most important things he does is educating people about GHI's work.
"Faith is why I do this," he says, "but it's bigger than just me. I'm sustained by my most amazing wife, Monica, who is really the foundation of everything I do. And Julie Dougherty, RN, is our HIT System Director. She's in the trenches, making contact and building incredible relationships with the workers we have on the ground. She truly makes a difference in the lives of these people."
If there could be one thing that I want everyone to know," says Gautney, "it would be that every kid, no matter where they live, should have the chance to be loved. Every little girl and little boy should know how it feels to be normal and healthy. That's my wish," he says.
To learn more about GHI or to donate, visit GlobalHealthInnovations.org.


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Antigravity details Batter Tracker below:
The Battery Tracker is a small Bluetooth Device (2.75" x 2" x 0.5" thick) which you attach to your Car Battery's Terminal Clamps.... quick, and simple installation. You then download the App onto your Phone or Tablet (Apple and Android compatible). The App will then give you the Real Time Voltage, as well as show a graphical representation of your Voltage History over the past 31 days at two minute intervals directly to your phone. Additionally the Battery Tracker does a Cranking Test, which will show your voltage drop on a Start attempt, and it also has a Charging system Test to test your charging systems output to ensure your alternator is charging.
I understand that some may say "well that's sort of lame.... who needs to see their Voltage when the Car has a Voltage indicator...". Well, it should be understood that it's Bluetooth, so the data is transferred to your phone if you are within 30 ft of the car or even if you walk by the car it will put the data on your phone in the App, it will even ALERT you if the battery voltage is low and needs a charge. So it's an effective way to better understand how fast your battery is draining and to know the Voltage even if you are not IN the Car, You can use it as a real time voltmeter for the car, or use it to see if a new accessory is over-discharging the car fast. There are quite a few uses in Automobiles and other application for monitoring a 12v battery.
1- The Battery Tracker will allow you to monitor the level and speed of Parasitic Draws on your vehicles battery and see how fast the battery is discharging over a period of time. For example if your car is in storage during the week, or for months you can see with the Historical voltage graph how fast your car is losing its voltage. The Graph in the app shows the battery at 13.2v on January 1st, but when you check January 21st you can see you lost .5v during 3 weeks. Or say you just want to make sure the voltage hasn't dropped too far since you haven't driven it in a few weeks.... well that data is automatically transferred to your phone if you walked within 30 ft of the car. You can even use it as a real time voltage tester for the Car. It shows real time and historical data which can provide a lot of information actually....
2- If your Battery is getting low on energy and needs a Charge you can set the Battery Tracker to send you an Alert BEFORE you come back to a dead battery and a car that wont start. This allows you to be alerted to put your Battery on a Charger before its dead. This can work great for companies with Fleets, or for persons with multiple Cars that dont get driven often.
3- You can monitor your Vehicle Charge level over the span of 31 days. The historical graph will actually show each start attempt and then also show when you are driving since you will see the Voltage go up as the Alternator is charging. You will see if the voltage is spiking above 15v which is not good for batteries.
4- You can also see each Start the car has done over 31 days and if it was driven because the Voltage data will show the start attempt and voltage drop... then your voltage reading goes immediately higher for the time the car is driving and the alternator is charging the car.... . So you can catch the fact that the Maid, was driving your Car when you were away on Vacation!
5- You can also verify if your Vehicles charging system is working, and at what Voltage your Alternator is charging the battery during driving. This could be useful to home mechanics to verify charging, and also eliminate the charging system as a potential cause of a non-charging battery problem.
6- For Racers and Track day enthusiasts it can give data on the batterys state of charge, and alternators output during time on the track. Additionally for Total Loss Systems it can document the voltage decline while in operation.
7- For tuners they can be looking at the phone to see where the battery is at while the tuning is going on. Some tunings take a long time and can drain a small Lithium or Lead Battery before its done.
Here's a video of it.


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I've had the chance to interview a few people lately. It's just getting started, my calendar includes 3 interviews this week.
There are 2 parts to the interviews I give. In the first part, I like to talk about general interest in what's going on in our field. In the second part, I ask people to code for me.
First Part: Passion
I ask about tech news websites that the applicant is using, if any. I ask about blogs that are read. I ask about RSS feeds that are reviewed.
I also like to ask "what's going on right now in the industry? what's the buzz?"
Another one I've been using: "what's the next programming language you want to learn?"
I've been wanting to ask about portfolio. If you have been programming for a few years, I'd like to think you could show me something you've done. If we expect artists to bring a portfolio of their work, can't we expect the same from programmers?
Personally, I've got 3 webapps up and running that I'd like to show and talk about. The thing you see in my glittering eyes and my wide smile is passion. I'm looking for that in others.
Second Part: Skills
At this point of the interview, I probably already made my opinion.
But I'd like to see some code too.
At first, I thought I would ask people to code: group_by. This is something I coded myself a few times, in Ruby for fun and in Javascript for practical purposes. However, I realized that it was not something I'd like to code under pressure. I decided to water it down.
What I used for the last 2 interviews was: any or all. Let's just say that the results were not… productive. The problem with 'any or all' is that you either get it or you don't. I needed better resolution.
One of the problems is that function pointers are just not part of the repertoire of most of the programmers I know. Thank you Javaschools!
I decided to change my approach. I decided to combine bullet-in-the-brain-easy programming with elephant-in-the-room function pointer enlightenment.
Here is the coding test I came up with. I'd like to get some honest opinions. Also, feel free to use it for your own interviews.
*** If you want to have a go at the test, everything that follows could be considered a SPOILER. (Thanks Fred) ***
Now, I believe there are 3 outcomes out of the questions in this test.
- brute-force code all 3 questions (worst)
- brute-force code all 3 questions but realize that there's something wrong (better)
- abstract away the act of summing from what is being summed up (best)
I'm going for reactions, insights and skills.
I want to believe that I don't have to resort to FizzBuzz.
I submit my own answers. I spare you the inner private class magic that would be required in Java.


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