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FAA is working with its inspector base to ward off minor compliance issues that could be addressed directly with companies before enforcement actions are taken, says FAA Flight Standards Service Director John Allen.
Speaking Feb. 29 before the Aircraft Charter Safety Foundation's annual Air Charter Safety Symposium, Allen says he is "trying to change a culture within the Flight Standards Service." This includes changing the enforcement policy to encourage inspectors to first work out minor issues with operators when possible rather than immediately jumping to an enforcement action, he says, adding this can instead become a "nurturing" exercise.
The change comes as the number of enforcements has been mounting. "We got so many enforcements out there," Allen says, that it becomes more difficult to focus on the serious issues. By reducing the number of minor enforcements, it will free up FAA resources to concentrate on areas of higher risk.
Allen stresses that this change is not an attempt by the agency to befriend the industry. "We are not friends," he concedes. But he also says that the Flight Standards mission has changed to "assure the safety, while enabling the adventure, commerce and service of aviation."
He believes that the mission of enabling aviation is critical, he says, because if the agency doesn't foster growth of the industry, then it could whither. "Then what do we got? Nothing," he says.
The change in approach to enforcement is one of a number of actions the agency is undertaking to better target its resources. The agency is continuing to increase its reliance upon and improve its management of the designee program. Allen notes this effort has raised some concerns among inspectors who are worried that this keeps them from "going out and touching metal." But he says more oversight of designees will leverage their capabilities – and they will still be able to perform hands-on inspections where most needed.
FAA is also eyeing the growth of safety management systems (SMS) as another means to balance resources. Companies with SMS can demonstrate that they are doing the best they can to implement best safety practices. Agency officials can then focus on operations that have higher risk, he says.
"We just can't be everywhere all of the time. We recognize that," Allen says. Staffing already is tight, and FAA has to prepare for more possible cuts in 2013. "There are cracks showing already," he notes.


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The health of our nation is worse than previously thought and declining more rapidly than most experts predicted. Our industry is making progress and changing lives but not quickly enough or with enough impact to change the course of the nation's collective health.
Better biomechanics, user-friendly interfaces on equipment and simpler training techniques are useful but will take us only so far in improving the health of people today and in the future.
Only the total integration of health, wellness and disease management will make a meaningful difference. Poor lifestyles are symptomatic of over-programmed lives, longer working hours, increased stress and factors inevitable in our culture. As a fitness industry, we cannot change people's work stressors, fix family relationships, change their work environment and monitor their eating habits.
The industry must work towards a cohesive model that improves an individual's health. We must share important information between every party that has an interest in an individual's long-term health. This includes fitness professionals, dieticians, physical therapists, life coaches and physicians. In essence, it includes anyone who has an interest in the well-being of their client or patient.
Our current system is so fragmented that the parties concerned with a person's health rarely have a coordinated plan to help that person become healthier. Do your fitness trainers know what protocols and exercises were prescribed by a physician and executed by a physical therapist for a given client? Does your health club's computerized tracking and logging system show when a member's health or lifestyle status changes as a result of a physician's exam? If a group exercise instructor notices a change in a member's heart rate recovery, energy levels or other physical symptoms, do they share this with that member's primary care practitioner? With few exceptions, the answer to these questions is no.
A truly integrated approach to wellness can only work by using technology as a facilitator. There are too many moving parts and no ecosystem among practitioners to access and, more importantly, act on a client's health care status, which is always changing based on age, stressors and lifestyle factors. Companies must create systems that allow health care and fitness professionals to gain instant access to information, share that information, then act responsibly on that information. This ambitious undertaking will take the cooperation of competing companies. The process will also take years, not months, and significant human capital.
The following are some ideas on what will work, subject to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and other laws:
A Web-based portal where client/patient information is accessible by all parties with their client's permission.
The ability for practitioners to instantly access important information from their counterparts and provide relevant updates immediately.
Real-time outbound e-mails and text messages that alert any practitioner to changes in the health or lifestyle status of a shared patient or client.
Online standard reporting forms that provide a seamless system of action for each practitioner according to their scope of practice.
This system will be sophisticated and must include cooperation from all levels of practitioners. The system also needs to be simple to use and work on a common technology platform. This may represent possibly the most significant undertaking we've yet to see in our industry, but the alternative is not acceptable.
Gregory Florez is CEO of FitAdvisor Health Coaching Services and First Fitness Inc., which was rated as the No. 1 health coaching online training service by The Wall Street Journal. Florez can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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text: Mark Hahn wrote: > this is utterly pointless, since we seem to disagree on axioms: Not really. We disagree on basic definitions. Axioms are accepted "truths". > correct code conforms to the standard; it is buggy if it depends > on undefined (outside-the-standard) behavior. We agree on this. > the platform is the ABI, not the distribution. if you believe that > the ABI doesn't cover enough, talk to the organization that manages it. We disagree on this. This is not an axiom. RH9 is the prototypical case which changed the ABI in an incompatible manner with an existing functional ABI. At this point, the platform became the distribution, as commercial vendors target platforms (specifically RH) with the largest installed base. If the linux platform were truly distribution independent, then it would not matter what it was compiled for, and frankly vendors would not need to QA against multiple distributions, as they would have the ABI. Unfortunately this is not how it works. I would like it to work like this. It would be great if the LSB would in fact require certification, and that the application vendors would be required to code to certification levels (been arguing this for years). Not likely to happen, but it would be nice. > productionworthiness (PW) is behavioral stability, not some vendor's > assertion about "support". It is *long term* behavioural, driver, and interface stability. Changing an ABI midway through (4k stacks) is *not* behavioral stability. You have no real reason to expect a code to work correctly when you alter one of the critical underlying structures that it relies upon. Many drivers rested on 8k kernel stacks, it was in the ABI as a (defacto) standard. RHEL3 did not (properly so) change its underlying kernel structures in such a way to render some portions of the system unworkable. RHEL4 is not likely to change its underlying kernel structures in such a way to render some portions of the system unworkable. FC-x is likely to (and has) changed its underlying kernel structures. > there is no data to suggest that a "supported" configuration > is actually more stable - support is a matter of CYA and risk aversion. > (not the actual risk; PW is the actual risk (well, inverse of it).) May in fact be less stable, though the likelihood is that it is more conservative (makes support easier) so the implication is more stable. The fact is that the supported configurations are fundamentally averse to changing the underlying internals. This is not the case in FC-x (nor should it be given its purpose). > Fedora has normal release management, with pre-release testing > as well as post-release updates. the pre-release testing is > also known as "beta-testing". So you have pre-release testing as "beta-testing" but you deny that "proving ground" is beta-testing? Seems to be same side of a coin here. Having a normal release management does not a production quality system make. It is most definitely one of the requirements for such a system, but it does not, in and of itself, make the OS a production class OS. A reasonable definition of production class OS will likely incorporate inherent stability of the underlying structures of the system, and a guarantee that they will not change for some fixed interval. Production specifically implies a repetitive behavior, specifically for HPC, a cycle shop. If the next incompatible change in FC-x renders your IB drivers unworkable for your cluster, does that in fact make the OS that you have installed on the system production ready or not? If you have to continuously chase hacks/patches/etc to keep your system operational after every upgrade, does that make your system production ready? > > -- > > the existence of commercial products which specify RH-whatever vX.Y > does not magically turn FC into a beta-test. if you redefine words > that way, you might as well call all of SunOS a beta for Solaris. Er... you are the only one who indicated this, so if you want to argue this, I would suggest you contact the person who generated this idea (that commercial products dependent upon RH make FC a beta test) who can be found at hahn _at_ physics _dot_ mcmaster _dot_ ca. I said "My customers care about running on distributions (whoops, there we go with that word again) on which their apps are supported. I am not aware of active support for FC-x for applications from commercial program providers. If I am incorrect about this, please let me know (seriously, as FC-3++ looks to be pretty good)." Prior to this I said "It is by Redhat's definition, a rolling beta (proving ground)." The two are specifically independent ideas. I know of few commercially supported applications that will accept support calls from FC-x running users. Note: Debian has very little in the way of commercial support (none from the distributer). It is most definitely not a beta. You can use the beta version in unstable. This is analogous to Fedora. What makes FC a beta is that Redhat specifically is note that, and is using Fedora as a "proving ground" (c.f. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=proving+ground ) as in "It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products." (from http://fedora.redhat.com/ ) From the reference.com site "prov·ing ground (prvng) n. A place for testing new devices, weapons, or theories." Would you call a system that is defined by its maker to be a proving ground to be a production environment (e.g. stable, unchanging) ? > the customer needs to evaluate how fragile a commercial product is: > how well it conforms to the ABI. NVidia is a great example of > an attractive product which is inherently fragile since NVidia > chooses to hide trade secrets in a binary-only, kernel-mode driver > which (by definition and example) depends on undefined behavior. > VMWare is another good (flawed) example. Hmmm. I hear this argument time and again from people about the closed source nature of nVidia's drivers. nVidia does not (as far as I know) own all the intellectual property in their driver, and they do not have the right to give that IP away via GPL or any other mechanism. The fundamental flaw in the arguments against the nVidia driver are an inherent presumtion that nVidia is hiding trade secrets in order to make its life better and get end user lock-in. The behavior it (the driver) depends upon has been built into the kernel, and when that behavior suddenly changed, nVidia wasnt the only driver affected. Many open source drivers were impacted. Are you going to argue that this makes them (the open source drivers) inherently fragile? This is a natural extension and simple application of your argument. This is a weak argument at best, and some of its fundamental premises are fatally flawed. If nVidia owned all the IP in everything they released, and chose simply to release binary only drivers, that would be a completely different case. Unfortunately, a fair amount of the IP in OpenGL and other related standards is owned by companies that have no interest in open source other than demolishing it. SGI sold off most of its IP in OpenGL to some other outfit. > "supported configuration" is nothing more or less than a way to > "download" support costs to the platform vendor (PV). it's a lever, > acting on the customer as a pivot, to force the PV to avoid changes > of any sort, since its impossible to tell what internals the proprietary > product depends on. Uh.... I think we disagree again. A supported configuration is something that a customer, an end user, a developer should have a reasonable and fighting chance of having it work right. This means that the internals that are exposed to developers will no change (including driver developers). This means that end users and customers have a reasonable expectation that their configuration on the supported list should work, and the onus is on the platform vendor (nice to see you switched to the definition of platform that I was using BTW) to make it work without breaking other stuff. > drastistically > similarly, SOP in the Fibrechannel world is to provide only negative > definitions of support (nothing but HP disks in HP SANs.) this can be > seen as a flaw in standard-defining, since Ethernet provides a fairly > decent counterexample where interoperability is the norm because > products need to conform, not "qualify". A standard is only useful if people pay attention to it, and engineer/design/build to it. Standards are very useful to developers, in that if they code in a particular manner that adheres to the standard, they have a fighting chance of developing something that will work. If the standard suddenly changes on them, and their stuff breaks, who do they turn to? If the target is moving, how much time/effort will they expend to chase it? In some cases (development tools) it makes sense to chase some specific moving targets (though it costs time/effort and therefore real money). In other cases it makes sense to wait for stable releases where things will not change, so your customers/end users can get your stuff and make it work, because you have a fighting chance at making it work. Greg's company (and the folks at the Portland Group) have to chase these targets... many of their customers are there (I'd bet that a small fraction of their collective total customer base are using the development tools to generate commercial code, most are using the tools for their research/development tasks). Yeah, there are significant interoperability problems in things like SAN and what-not-else. These are unfortunate. This is part of the reason why I try to avoid such things (I don't like vendors locking me in, and I know my customers don't like being locked in, so I don't waste my companies time trying to figure out how to do this). Don't assume that a companies / end users misapplication of a standard, hijacking of a standard, or abuse of a standard somehow makes all standards bad. They are not. Standards are sometimes the only lever you have in a commercial closed source context... demanding that a company adhere to what it claims to sell is sometimes a necessary path. Interoperability means that when people interpret the standards, that all parties agree on the definitions, and that they guarantee that their products will in fact conform to the standard, and that there will be tests of the standard compliance, and out of compliant systems will be adjusted to be in-compliance, and that interoperability with other standards will be guaranteed. This is why IDE, SCSI, and Ethernet work so well. This is why some others do not. IB is likely to work quite well going forward. This is why the SAMBA folks are chasing a moving target, as the CIFS "standard" is a moving one (just go ahead and update that XP with a SAMBA server around .... grrrrr). I like and use FC-x, we run FC-2 and FC-3 on various machines (AMD64, my laptop as part of a triple boot, and x86). I make sure our software runs on this, we compile and test on FC as well as for others (RH/Centos, SuSE, looking at Ubuntu/Debian) . I am happy that our binary packages seem to work nicely across multiple distributions (though we usually bring the source along to be sure), and our large systems are built from source, so they should work (as long as the underlying technology works). Our software works at a high level, and depends upon lower level bits. I don't see the effect of the OS changes as much as the tool/hardware vendors do, though every now and then something breaks a driver. But, and this is the critical point for us, if our software breaks at our customers site, we own the fixes, it is our job to make them happen. More importantly, if something breaks in the chain of software (whether we own it or not), we try to help, as it is critical to make sure that failure modes are understood, and problems are resolved. We have been and will be helping our customers resolve problems with third party software, commercial and otherwise. If our target platform were moving, so that the C compiler structures were changing, and we had to rebuild time and time again with each OS update, I would wait until we saw this settle out. Otherwise we are spinning our wheels, as each change is more work, and in the end, it should converge to a final state. It is the final state that is worth targetting (for us, for others such as PathScale, they have to follow what their customers use). The issue in FC-x is that it is open to internals changing. I think this is a good thing. It is doing what it was intended to do, and I like seeing the directions I need to worry about going forward. I will not likely deploy this as an OS for a cluster customer without the customer understanding exactly what they are getting, and making sure they understand what is needed to support this. If they really want a cheap RH, they can get Centos/Tao. If they want internal structural stability, and support from commercial vendors for their commercial codes, they will have to run something that the commercial vendors will support. PathScale and possibly the Portland group (and I am going to guess Etnus and a few others) do or will likely support it. LSTC, MSC, Accelrys, Tripos, Oracle, ... will likely not (though it will probably run fine with no issues). -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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Archer, the colorful slab serif.
Sweet but not saccharine, earnest but not grave, Archer is designed to hit just the right notes of forthrightness, credibility, and charm.
Slab serifs have been evolving for two hundred years, yet the category continues to be dominated by two basic styles: Antiques and Geometrics. Antiques arise out of the same nineteenth-century tradition that produced the Modern and Scotch styles: at heart, they're text faces, and they feature all of the qualities needed to thrive at small sizes. (Antiques customarily have the traditional 'two-storey' forms of a and g, and a capital R that ends in a flourish.) Our Ziggurat typeface is an example of the Antique style in full flower, capturing the best of what the style has to offer: it's warm, comforting, and persuasive. But this coziness comes at the expense of modernity, and in the wrong context even the best Antique can feel old-fashioned, musty, and irrelevant.
The Geometric is a twentieth-century riposte to the Antique. Informed by the same kind of rationalist thinking that inspired the great sans serifs of the Bauhaus, Geometrics abandon traditional forms in favor of mathematical strategies. A Geometric's O is circular rather than elliptical, and its forms shed their residual contrast between thicks and thins. Geometrics usually apply this same rationalism to the woollier parts of the alphabet, replacing the alphabet's beaks and tails and ball terminals with a program of matching serifs. While these faces can sometimes be bracingly modern, they're often monotonous, and many Geometrics suffer from an astringent sting that makes them difficult to use and unwelcome to read.
When Martha Stewart Living asked us to develop a new typeface for the magazine, it seemed that a slab serif could answer much of the brief. A slab could be personable, straightforward, and credible, though it would take special effort to also make it pretty, hard-working, and frank. Archer would have to answer some formidable typographic demands, since Living is an almanac of lists, recipes, charts, diagrams, tables, calendars, and glossaries. To make the typeface frank — direct, but not brusque — we introduced subtle cues from the world of typewriter faces, which combine the ordinariness of Antiques with the modern practicality of Geometrics. We restored the vanished 'ball terminals' to the lowercase, and uncharacteristically applied these gestures to the capitals as well, in order to yield a font that's friendly without being silly, and attractive without being flashy. The result is a typeface that's well-mannered, easy to work with, and inviting to read.
Archer ScreenSmart: High-Performance Webfonts
Archer ScreenSmart is an adaptation of the family specifically engineered for the screen, and available for use on the web through Cloud.typography. To ensure outstanding rendering on screen at sizes as small as nine pixels, we carefully adjusted the fonts' fit, color, and proportions, and orchestrated their progression of weights so that each style is distinctly different from its neighbors. Like all ScreenSmart fonts, Archer ScreenSmart is equipped with a set of detailed instructions called "hints," which tell its outlines how to adapt themselves to pixel grids at different point sizes, to ensure that the fonts always retain both their legibility and their personality.


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Now that the holidays are past and we don't need to stock as many champagnes and digestives, I'm building up my liquor cabinet again, in hopes of expanding my drinks repertoire. One drink I'm eager to master is the Singapore Sling, but most recipes I've seen call for both Cherry Heering and Benedictine, which we don't normally have on hand.
Still haven't bought the Benedictine, but I did get a bottle of Heering. I have to say, I almost like it just on its own. It has a lot of depth of flavor and character aside from being just sweet cherry. I googled around for recipes that use it, and found this one, for a cherry cobbler.
Cherry Cobbler
- 1½ oz. gin
- 2 Tsp. (1 oz.) Cherry Heering
- 2 Tsp. (1 oz.) Crème de Cassis
- 2 Tsp. (1 oz.) lemon juice
- 1½ Tsp. (¾ oz.) sugar syrup
Technique: Combine the liquors, lemon juice and sugar syrup with ice; shake well. Strain over ice and decorate with a lemon slice and cherry.
Man, is it just me, or is that way too sweet? Two ounces of sweet to an ounce and a half of strong! And doesn't a cobbler require muddled fruit, or am I thinking of a different class of drinks?
When I actually mixed this, I used these proportions:
Cherry Cobbler
- 1½ oz. gin
- ½ oz. Cherry Heering
- ½ oz. Crème de Cassis
- 1 oz. lemon juice
- ½ oz. sugar syrup
And even that was too sweet.
My second iteration went pretty far in the other direction:
Cherry Cobbler II
- 2 oz. gin
- ¾ oz. lemon juice
- ¼ oz. Cherry Heering
- ¼ oz. Crème de Cassis
Too dry. Next up, I'll probably try this:
Cherry Cobbler III
- 2 oz. gin
- ½ oz. lemon
- ½ oz. Heering
- ½ oz. Cassis
In trying this stuff out, though, I came across another recipe using Cherry Heering, and this is one that we liked very much, but that story will have to wait for the next Mixology Monday, coming up in a few days.


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How to Find a CTO
One of the most common requests I get from portfolio companies and entrepreneurs goes along the lines of:
- "How and where can I find a CTO/tech co-founder/key developer?"
This is invariably followed by:
- "How do I go about selecting and assessing candidates?"
Whilst this post will be primarily aimed at companies where software forms an integral part of the business, there are some answers to these questions that relate to any type of early stage company.
Personal Experience
Before looking at these questions it's probably a good idea to tell you a bit about my background and experience of recruiting.
My passion for computers was ignited, in the 70's, at school. It occurs to me, writing this post, that I was always the first person to get the latest electronic calculators: Indeed I still have the ones in this photo. These cheap calculators were bought with money scrapped together from milk rounds, newspaper runs, plus growing and selling fruit and vegetables to the village shop.
The flames really took hold when I got my hands on the electronic analog computer in the physics lab at school. I can vividly recall the excitement of quickly programming traffic lights using a few op-amps and a plug-board. Did you know that computing was once done non-digitally? If not, might want to read this short article on Analog vs Digital computers and this for a more detailed history on analog computing.
Now I'd have loved to have bought a PC in those days but frankly I could not afford one until the Sinclair ZX Spectrums came out in later years. Anyway in my country backwoods world, Apples were things you sold to the village store. With the ZX, I really started having fun especially with the graphics. This was enhanced by programming on mainframes at university, and in industry during vacations. The problem was that to get any decent time on the university mainframe meant staying in the faculty at party time, when nobody else was using it.
In industry it was like: "What do you mean you want to write a program? The computer is for running the payroll". Having got over that objection, with the help of more senior colleagues, I was still appalled that we had not plotting or graphics capability: Graphs had to be done by writing characters on a line printer. This in a company with 30,000 employees! So I took the opportunity, at an event, to make a case directly to the CEO. A few weeks later we had a PC: At the cost of embarrassing and no doubt pissing-off the Technical Director! But now we had some graphics capability the visualize the simulated motion of the physical products myself and colleagues were designing for manufacture.
Later as a co-founder and CTO of a software company, I got to pursue further my developed passion for solving problems and creating tools using programming. It is true to say that I was never the most brilliant coder: Programming for me was and remains a means to an end. But I will contend that I was extremely good at solving difficult technical problems and creating easy-to-use, albeit technically complex products, using programming.
By the time I was CEO, we had a sizeable development team deployed on four products: One of which I had been chief architect for and another one which I had pretty much written from scratch. But all these products were a team effort, built by hiring great people. As lead on recruitment I discovered a further passion for interviewing, assessing and recruiting people.
Oh yes, and finally, a few years ago I started a small specialist executive search project which taught me a whole lot more about how to connect with and find talented people.
- What do you really expect your CTO to do?
- What kind of CTO do you require? Details at this paperbut in outline do you want:
- CTO as "Infrastructure Manager"
- CTO as "Big Thinker""
- CTO as "Technology Visionary and Operations Manager"
- CTO as "External-facing Technologist"
- How much would you be prepared to pay your ideal hire, above that of an acceptable hire?
- What are your intentions with regard to shares and options?
Recruitment Tips:
With regard to CTO's, assuming you don't have one already: Always consider hiring a lead developer and then if they have the chops, promote them to CTO. When recruiting lead developers and potential CTOs you, of course, want somebody who is a team player and is potentially a good manager and leader.
You also want somebody who is ambitious. But be wary of ambitious people who are ambitious for themselves and not for the company. You are likely to be a stepping stone to their next job; soon after you have begun to see the fruits of your investment in them. As put by Andy Grove, ex-CEO of Intel:
- The right kind of ambition is: Ambition for the company's success with the executive's own success only coming as a by-product of the company's victory
- The wrong kind of ambition is ambition for the executive's personal success regardless of the company's outcome.
- You can read more on that topic here at the blog of Ben Horowitz.
I am very much in agreement with Paul Graham about hiring good people for any role in start-ups and about developers in particular. He says that you need to hire "someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they, pass right through professional and, cross over into obsessive."
Now I completely agree with this: Of all the really great hires and colleagues that I have worked with, I can't think of a single one who was not somewhat obsessive-compulsive. Not to the extent of having a disorder you understand, but somebody who was incredibly meticulous, tending towards perfectionist and often completely wrapped up in solving a problem, completing a task and shipping on time.
Paul Graham expands on hiring programmers, as follows:
"For programmers we had three additional tests. Was the person genuinely smart? If so, could they actually get things done? And finally, since a few good hackers have unbearable personalities, could we stand to have them around? That last test filters out surprisingly few people. We could bear any amount of nerdiness if someone was truly smart. What we couldn't stand were people with a lot of attitude. But most of those weren't truly smart, so our third test was largely a restatement of the first. When nerds are unbearable it's usually because they're trying too hard to seem smart. But the smarter they are, the less pressure they feel to act smart. So as a rule you can recognize genuinely smart people by their ability to say things like "I don't know," "Maybe you're right," and "I don't understand x well enough."
That resonates much with my own experience. I would also add that, in my view, really smart people have a large dose of humility. This means they are not worried about asking questions, or for help, when other clever or political people might be too proud or arrogant to do so. Smart people recognise their limitations, seek help and then learn and grow as a result. If you are interested in more wise words from Paul Graham on startups here is a link to the full article.
Here is another interesting post on how to recognise a good developer where positive and negative indicators are cited. Positive indications are programming projects outside work and before university whilst negative signs are learning new technologies only on courses and a lack of passion.
In the case where you are looking for a CTO co-founder, or indeed any co-founder, the following two articles are interesting.
- The first one is written by an entrepreneur turned seed investor
- Whilst the second gives a more legal perspective.
My last personal tip is as follows:
- Don't be afraid of recruiting a great person with the minimum necessary skill set over a person, who you may have doubts about, but who has an impressive skill set.
Some of the best hires I ever made where with passionate, determined, relatively unskilled team players who learned new skills on the job, and no doubt at home. They invariably became more effective than those with better qualifications and an apparently impressive CV. They quickly acquired new skills. Notably the ones the company needed rather than a skill they wanted on their CV.
Now what about resources for finding people? Beyond the conventional means, here is a list of ideas that will cost only a small amount of cash or nothing at all, except for your time:
- Search on LinkedIn and indeed place adverts there
- Post a job on Crunchboard
- Check out Twitter lists: I keep one of geeks here
- Open source developers: You can check out their work after all! You will need to look in several places.
- There are several cofounder sites out there. It's a big problem and nobody has yet cracked it so most are not much use unless you are in Silicon Valley. However these two are better than most, plus there is a raft of answers now appearing on Quora on other sites:
- Also freelancers: Some are freelancing in the hope of hitting upon a great permanent opportunity and you can always hire them for a project first to check them out before making a bigger commitment:
- One suggestion is Guru which puts you in touch with freelance developers
- Another useful UK freelancer site is Peopleperhour
- vworker is an amazing site for engaging with freelancers and spotting tech talent
- Engage in developer meetups: Again these take time and some intelligent searching but check out
- This list is a far from being exhaustive and, no doubt, I will have missed some gems. What can you suggest to add to this list?
Since I wrote this post, this related answer on Quora, has attempted to survey the various resources you might look at.
What are you own experiences of recruiting and trying to recruit?
I'd love to hear from you and so would other readers.
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15 Responses to "How to Find a CTO"
A really interesting read! Quite a number of us at developer meetups discuss this exact topic constantly. "How do you get a good developer/tech lead/CTO?". This industry is far to creative to set some sort of bar exam (e.g. for Lawyers) or a medical certificate (for GPs) so having the knack to hiring good talent will see your company in good stead.
Martijn (@java7developer – twitter)
An excellent post Colin with some useful tips for the future. I shall follow your twitter list.
Like the post Colin. Some resources in their I didn't know about (Guru) and I like the idea of hiring a lead programmer first.
Good post Colin.
On the question of what makes a good leader, there are five basic criteria that I use:
1. Structure: Has the person views on how a team should be structured and run; there are many models each with pros and cons. All have their industry champions therefore it doesn't really matter which model, as long as the person has a view on how it should be and has adopted a style that suits them with a proven ability to execute it.
2. Motivation & Communication: Does the person have the ability to clearly communicate ideas and motivate others to help achieve them? Standing up in front of a team and trying to motivate them with something like, 'our goal is to produce 100,000 widgets this year' generally doesn't do it. Look for evidence of how they motivate people. My personal view on this is that a good leader has to be able to help their team members to achieve their goals in life while helping the company achieve its goals; the trick is to align both.
3. Heavenly Perspective: Do they know what is happening in your business sector? Who are the competitors and what is their vision? What are their views on technology evolutions and business developments in their sector? What is their vision for the future?
4. Earthly Perspective: Does the person understand what it takes to get the job done. Using software development as an example, get them to describe each step of the product development cycle from requirement gathering through to user acceptance and maintenance. Ask them to explain the processes that they would implement.
5. Knowledge: Has the person experience in the some or all of the tasks that their team members will have to carry out. With knowledge and past experience comes efficiency as the leader can point out pitfalls and steer their team wide of them. Look for evidence of hands on experience.
Finding and attracting someone with the strength and depth to ticks all these boxes is easier said than done. If you already have someone who ticks some of these boxes, then find someone who complements them. When you bring them together then be very clear in establishing reporting structures and boundaries of responsibilities to avoid politics.
All good fun.
Dary McGovern
Managing Director
Where do I find the best ASP.NET freelance developers in UK?…
Try a LinkedIn search if your network is great: Being in the SE I can find several people fitting that specification. I have also blogged about other resources that could be useful such as guru here: https://colinhayhurst.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/findi…
The best thing i've read is that you should never employ anyone who you think is as good as you, they should be far better.
I couldn't agree more with this. Generally I've found that when interviewing people i tend to compare them against myself ( somewhat egotistically maybe ) and as such I've not really seen their real potential. I've had to change this fault and consider what they can do for the business and now I do this I'm finding much better people.
I think it good to think "How can this person help grow my business" rather than "How can this person do this job".
A small tip:
One thing to try on twitter is to use their search feature http://search.twitter.com – do a keyword search and use the location field. This way you can find key people in your surrounding area.
Great post BTW Colin.
[…] Here is a great article by a friend with way more experience in the field that many people you'll talk with. Has some really good linking articles too; including some online resources for legal and equity considerations. […]
Thanks for a great post Colin. As someone new to the recruitment game, i suddenly now know how much I don't know! great insights in the comments too.
Looks like I have some reading to do!
Great post! Lots to digest and a bit loads interesting links to follow – a good distraction for when I need a break from working 😉
Following on from the Paul Graham quote, I really liked the short book: "Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent"
Also, the point about "Don't be afraid of recruiting a great person with the minimum necessary skill set", .. I heard it expressed recently in the form of something like 'hire for attitude rather than skill as it's much easier to teach people new skills than change their attitudes'. I wish I'd had heard it put so pithily earlier in my career.
Keep the posts coming Colin!


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Vigilantes de la extrema derecha tomaron barrios de RomaZatopek 23 Mar 2011 02:11 GMT (translated by Zatopek)
El European Roma Rights Centre, Amnistía Internacional y Human Rights First enviaron una carta [PDF] instando a las autoridades húngaras para intervenir y proteger a los residentes romaníes de Gyöngyöspata de la intimidación y el acoso que han sido objeto por parte de la organización parapolicial, Szebb Jövőért Polgárőr Egyesület (Asociación de la Guardia Civil para un futuro mejor), desde el 1 de marzo.Las patrullas de Szebb Jövőért Polgárőr han sido apoyados por el partido politico de extrema derecha Jobbik, que organizó una marcha de miles de personas a través del pueblo con uniforme militar negro, el 6 de marzo. De acuerdo al seguimiento de la ERRC, hubo al menos 48 ataques contra la población romaní en Hungría entre 2008 y 2010, lo que resultó en al menos nueve muertes. La presencia de grupos paramilitares contra la población gitana en los barrios de Roma se suma a las crecientes tensiones entre las etnias y los combustibles un clima de violencia.
now!, kill the drug pusher and pimp
aristokrnk anarkst 23.Mar.2011 02:28
shutdown the heroin resupply and the uncle sam subsidized welfare demise of inncocents ....stop catering to illiterate addict who wants a weapon or else,,!
Kill the Drug pushers and Pimps!
billybobirreleventthe3rd 23.Mar.2011 02:31
Renter's Revolt!, Disempower the Feudal Land lord!
Amnesty International -add your voice against these abuses
Nico 24.Mar.2011 10:43
Here's the link to Amnesty's action campaign to let the legitimate Hungarian 'authorities' know you won't agree with this harrassment of innocent families.
"Community Policing" rears it's ugly head "again."
Sophie 28.Mar.2011 03:21
"Community Policing" rears it's ugly head "again."
I have a doubt
Octavio 29.Mar.2011 21:10
I would like to know the reason of this harassment. I read the text but i didn´t find any explanation.
I have a doubt
Octavio 29.Mar.2011 21:13
I would like to know the reason of this harassment. I read the text but i didn´t find any explanation.
Reason For Harassment
Sophie 31.Mar.2011 15:37
There's always a 'reason' for harassment. That doesn't mean it's a good or justifiable one!
Wrong spanish translation
flow 08.Apr.2011 09:39
This translation is better but still wrong.
Playbook cases 23.Apr.2011 19:42
That is absolute madness, how did the authorities let these people get away with this. What I have just read reminds me of a film called NewJack city, where a gang of drug pushers take over an apartment block and see the drugs to the residents
These Vivilantes Must be Purged
Anonymous 28.Apr.2011 09:32
These vigilantes must be 'purged' from the face of the earth, where ever they exist, and so must the American police-ideology that created them, 'globally.' There has been 'no' point in history when such groups have 'not' become death-squads. That's why they are called 'lynch-mobs' historically. Look at groups such as the "Regulators" for your answer. There is no other choice than to get-rid of them all-together. They should be harassed at work, when they go shopping, or doing their laundry, by their neighbors, and in their homes. They should be driven from their homes and their employment and then denied emergency services to the homeless, such as food, clothing and shelter, as this 'is' what they do to others, both individually and as a group.
POGROM - Wiki
Anonymous 28.Apr.2011 10:11
Such actions by vigilante groups are called "POGROMS" historically:
Kill the Vigilantes!!! Kill them All!!!
Anonymous 02.May.2011 12:36
Kill the Vigilantes. Kill them all, with rocks, sticks, broken bottles or with your bare hands. Whatever weapons are available, kill them!!!
Listen the other side as well
A Hungarian 04.May.2011 15:09
Your opinion is obviously formed by the distorted point of view of the international press. In many villages and city neighborhoods in Hungary there are several Romani families who are in constant clash with majority culture. They usually have very large families, don't work, aren't educated enough, live on welfare and when they steal the property of law-abiding citizens, those citizens are told by their own government that they should just turn the other cheek and that Roma people only steal because otherwise they would starve (did I mention that the Roma get generous sums of money, basically their whole living is financed by taxpayers? Still we just have to let them take what we buy with the 50% of our salary that's left after taxes?)
diego 07.Jun.2011 03:53
creo que hay varios errores, seguramente palabras mal traducidas.
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I think there are a few things that need point out here, the main one is; neither side in this case is right. Neither the community vigilantes or the Roma, but we do need a solution to this problem, because Roma in X country is not just X's problem, it is European problem mainly. Issues with Roma people exist all over Europe to the countries I have been to and I have seen it first hand account. These problems of course, are because of the lack of integration in society, this is why they turn to crime, drugs, etc etc etc. Their children do not have the same chances as others in school and the adults cannot get a job because nobody employs them, regardless of school certificates or grades they are virtually undesirables in many, if not every country I have been to. Again, due to the lack of integration, they are then turned away by society. Common stereotypes then evolve in the media as 'troublesome people' etc, they become misrepresented. You should definatley check out this article: http://euobserver.com/881/28737 (about Roma education policies) and http://euobserver.com/851/113796 about Bulgarian protests
impune Gypsies
A Pole 23.Oct.2011 16:57
Hey, Hungarians, you are not alone. These mafia guys think they will go unopunished because they enjoy support of those leftist idiots. Why does no one stand up for the intimidated Hungarians, eh? Here in Poland Gypsies commit plenty of fraud and rthe prosecution do nothing because they are afraid of their mafias. Take care and hold on, Hungarians. We are with you!
They are not the bad guys here....
A Hungarian 01.Nov.2011 00:33
I just wanted to point out that the situation is nearly unbearable in that region because of the brutal attacks carried out by the Gypsies. The so called vigilantes protect the real Hungarian citizens who work for the society (including the gypsies who do not work). Moreover on the basis of the article 48 attacks were carried out against the Romanis.... Come on.... The number of the attacks carried out BY the Romanis is at least 30! times more..... ( http://kuruc.info/r/35/44764/) - (Who knows Hungarian, but the number is understandable for everyone)
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Pathetic Racist Hungarian Apologists
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You support these slow witted jack booted thugs , strutting around and pretending the master race is Hungarians.


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Family: Pickup driver pleaded with assailants for mercy
A Michigan man is in critical condition after being severely beaten by an angry mob in Detroit. The man hit a young boy. When he pulled over to check on him, he was attacked by a group of men. The boy who was hit is expected to recover. VPC
DETROIT -- The children of a man attacked after his pickup struck a 10-year-old boy said Friday that Steve Utash pleaded with his attackers, repeatedly telling them he was sorry as they beat him unconscious on an east-side Detroit street earlier this week.
"To have that happen to you, I can't even imagine," said daughter Mandi Emerick at a news briefing Friday. "They beat him for a little while and let him go and then came back. I don't understand the aggression or why they were so angry at him."
While Utash was being beaten, someone from that group stole his belongings from his truck—including his phone and wallet, according to daughter Felicia Utash.
"We want justice," his son Joe Utash said. "What if that was your dad?"
EARLIER: Driver beaten by crowd after hitting boy clings to life
Police said Utash, 54, a tree trimmer from Roseville, Mich., was attacked on Wednesday by a group of men after he stopped to aid the boy, who had stepped into traffic and was hit by Utash's pickup. The boy, David Harris, is recovering from his injuries at a Detroit hospital.
Utash remains hospitalized in critical condition at St. John Hospital and Medical Center with multiple head injuries. Police continue to investigate, but no arrests have been made.
In a statement Friday, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and City Council President Brenda Jones decried the "senseless vigilante style attack" and called for witnesses to come forward. On social media, Duggan stressed peace.
"This week a group of young men showed who they were when they beat Steve Utash. Let us show who we are in our response. #calm #compassion," the mayor tweeted from his Twitter account Friday afternoon.
Utash's children said they are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from the community, including donations of thousands of dollars via a Go Fund Me webpage to help pay for their father's medical bills. They remain at his bedside, hoping he awakens from his medically induced coma.
Joe Utash said his shy and kind-spirited father has driven that Detroit street nearly every day for the past 17 years.
"He's never been in any trouble his entire life," Joe Utash said. "He always helped everyone in need. They said he was saying, 'Sorry, sorry.' Why would you do that to him? He stopped. He tried to help. To see him be surrounded by all of those people and to see all those people coming after him, it's completely unfair."


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Say it ain't so, Joe! Well sad but true it is. The year was 1978 and 2000AD was into its second year of publication. With the unwanted aid of some added writers (so he'd be sure to meet the deadlines) Pat Mills was writing Judge Dredd's first real epic storyline The Cursed Earth Saga.
While cynics note its similiarity to the just filmed Damnation Alley (a bad film based on a very decent Roger Zelazny novella) Dredd did dinosaur themeparks fifteen years before Jurassic Park. Unfortunately some corporations took exception to some of the characters who were incorporated into the storyline.
Rather than try the satirist's legal free speech aid the Parody Defense (which might or might not be valid in Britain as all the cases I've heard testing it were in the USA) 2000AD's publisher Fleetway caved and settled out of court by promising never to reprint them. They also ran an apology strip with Spikes and Dredd praising Green Giant canned food but we were spared seeing them eating in Macdonalds and Burger Kings run by heroes rather than the fascist dictators they had encountered enroute.
The upshot of which is these epsodes haven't been seen since 1978 which is a shame as there's some nice Mike McMahon and Brian Bolland artwork in them and fill in writers T.B. Grover (aka John Wagner) and Jack Adrian (aka Chris Lowder stories were clever and nasty. Thanks to Gareth for identifying the writers behind the psuedonyms. T.B. Grover wrote the Burger Wars episodes in Progs 71 and 72 with art by Mike McMahon while Jack Adrian scripted the Green Giant and friends in Progs 77 and 78 with Brian Bolland doing the art.
Having acquired a scanner on May 13 '98 I decided to share a few pictures from these seldom seen issues. To avoid violating 2000AD's fair usage copyright rules no more than 30% of each episode has been scanned. The black and white pages were scanned in grayscale as black & white scanning couldn't handle the shadings.
Like a closer look at Prog 72's cover? Like a closer look at Prog 77's cover?The banned Dredd ran in Progs 71, 72, 77 & 78. As you see 72 and 77 had Dredd covers while both 71 and 78 were Ant Wars covers.
If you'd like to see complete synopses of the stories these are from The Complete Judge Dredd #7 with all names changed to protect corporate copyright.
Click here for the legal synopses to Progs 71-72
Click here for the legal synopses to Progs 77-78
If you would rather see some of the unedited comics then
Prog 71 Scans - Burger Wars part 1
Prog 72 Scans - Burger Wars part 2
Prog 77 Scans - Mascotmania part 1
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Cyber café is the place where gamers meet. It is often dark to create an atmosphere that we would only know each other through gaming.Individuals gather around a professional gamer like ants working around a cake. The atmosphere thickens as it devours the attention of gamers within the cyber café. Below are some Internet Cafes found here in Los Angeles, California.
La Cyber Cafe
Planet Cyber - Computer Repair, Internet Cafe, Web Design
Cyber City LAN Center
Cafe Skai
A & S Internet Cafe
Aztec Books & Internet Cafe
Vermont PC Repair
Showbiz Stores & Cafe
Sunbucks Internet Cafe
Vermont PC Repair
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212 pier
Blu Elefant Cafe
Paper or Plastik Cafe
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Capital One 360 Café
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Javista Organic Coffee Bar
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Coffee Fix
Cyber City LAN Center 2.0
WEBCOMPUTER LA Center
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Schulzie's Bread Pudding & Coffee
AphroGraphics Graphic Design & Printing Services
Ebar - Nordstrom Santa Monica
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Computer 1 + Service
Groundwork Coffee Co.
Travel Entertainment iPads - Rentals
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Ebar - Nordstrom Topanga
Espresso Bar - Nordstrom South Bay Galleria
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Ebar - Nordstrom Santa Anita
IGZ Internet GamerZ Cyber Cafe
Ebar - Nordstrom Los Cerritos Center
Espresso Bar - Nordstrom Brea Mall
Espresso Bar - Nordstrom MainPlace/Santa Ana
Espresso Bar - Nordstrom Montclair Plaza
Ebar - Nordstrom South Coast Plaza
C & C Internet Cafe
C&C Internet Cafe
Hope Cyber Cafe
Lax Internet Cafe & Restaurant
The Rumor Mill
Internet Cafe
Koffee Groundz
Tully's Coffee
Honey Badger Cafe
Massimo's Mudspot
For more Gaming Centers in Los Angeles, California click here:http://us.wowcity.com/losangeles/?what=Internet+Cafe
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ONLY THE YOUNG, our feature documentary debut, has been accepted to premiere at the prestigious documentary film festival HOT DOCS in Toronto in early May. We are incredibly excited, as well as nervous because the movie isn't finished and time is short!
We have extremely talented professionals working tirelessly to finish the sound mix, color correct, and transfer of the film, as well as create art work for it. They believe in OTY so much they're all working on deferred pay. And that's where we need your help: this campaign is our way to fulfill that promise to our collaborator friends.
For us the specific music in our film is very important, and unfortunately not cheap. We fell in love with some pretty old obscure soul tracks that make up the soundtrack to our film. There isn't any other music that would be as fitting for a coming of age film. The music addresses heartbreak and a struggle with relationships. So with your help we can fully own our own film by the time we premiere in Toronto.
The production of OTY has been a testament to the indie approach to movie-making. Without any funding, we made countless trips up to Canyon Country out of love for our subjects: Skye, Garrison and Kevin, who are three of the wisest, most soulful and hilarious high schoolers you will ever meet. We tried our best to capture their real and personal moments, but with a composed visual aesthetic more commonly seen in narrative films.
Please help us across the finish line. And please join our community as we screen at other festivals around the country and, with a great amount of luck, hopefully a cineplex near you!
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- "An unqualified hit. Of the past decade's many fine films on skateboarders and international skateboarding culture, Only the Young stands out as the most human and affecting." Variety
- "One of the freshest and most assured debuts in recent memory." Cinema Scope
- "Stunning." Huffington Post
- "A major feature debut. Beautifully shot and affectionate without turning cute or coddling, it's the best possible kind of crowdpleaser." Filmmaker Magazine
- "Truly cinematic. Only the Young captures small moments that seem too good to be true yet too genuine to be staged or scripted, with an exceptional lyricism not found in most fiction features." RogerEbert.com
- "Sublime." Reverse Shot
- "After only one viewing, I'm ready to file Only The Young in the all-time coming-of-age canon." Hammer to Nail
- "An extraordinary discovery to add to the year's 'best of' list." Ripping Reality
And David Wilson the founder of TRUE/FALSE wrote the summary:
"Garrison and Kevin are best friends. They skate every day and explore the underpasses and abandoned homes of their Southern California desert idyll. But everything changes when Garrison discovers the opposite sex. Only the Young powerfully summons up an evanescent moment: that potent stew of teenage urgency, boredom, and young love that adults misconstrue as aimless wandering. It will lure you in with sugar-sweet shots of abandoned mini-golf courses and an infectiously expectation-defying score, but it sets its hooks by working both with and against the performative veneer of teen life that is universal. Even the film's wide-eyed Christian youth, unsure quite how to rebel, still know they need to. This is the kind of film you'll want to hold close to your chest for days, revisiting its tender love for its subjects. Only the Young isn't jealous of youth, it is youth."
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Movies are expensive! And out of the kindness of their hearts, amazing professionals are giving us great deals because they love our film. Your contributions will go towards paying for:
Color Correction - $1,500
Sound Design/Mix - $1,500
Hard Drive - $550
Music Rights Purchase (this is our biggest item: the soul music that we don't yet own, which is so essential to our movie!) - $7,700
Original Music Composition - $800
HDCAM + Transfer Fee - $1,050
Promotional Materials (Poster Printing + Website + Buttons, etc.) - $820
Kickstarter Incentive Fulfillment - $1,650
Our 11"x17" poster featuring James P. Gannon's original painting
Trailer for THOMPSON - Sundance 2010 & SXSW 2010 - Winner (Grand Jury Prize)
Skye's best friend Sam will draw a super rad portrait of you
An example of Elizabeth's cousin's metal work
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- THOMPSON - Sundance 2010 & SXSW 2010 - Winner (Grand Jury Prize)
Elizabeth Mims
- THOMPSON (producer) - Sundance 2010 & SXSW 2010 - Winner (Grand Jury Prize)
Derek Waters
- DRUNK HISTORY - Sundance 2010 - Winner (Best American Short)
Associate Producers
Yoko Okumura
- GEORGE AND YOKO - St.Louis International 2010
- UNTITLED KATIE COURIC DOCUMENTARY (2013) by Stephanie Soechtig
Sean Rourke Meehan
Josh Polon
- THE DO-DECA-PENTATHLON by Jay and Mark Duplass - Fox Searchlight, SXSW 2012
- KEVIN by Jay Duplass - SXSW 2011, WHOLPHIN 2012
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Mixer - Bill Meadows
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The HPAC Engineering Design Awards are intended to honor outstanding examples of innovative HVAC building technologies being applied in new construction and retrofit applications.
Design engineers will be recognized for their work to create systems that are energy-efficient, provide outstanding comfort and indoor-air quality, and offer the most advanced yet easy-to-use control systems.
Projects submitted should include evidence of verified energy efficiency or cost savings, and contacts including the installing contractor and the building owner or manager. Also, information on any certifications (such as LEED) the building has earned or is pursuing should be included.
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Who's the Bigger Disappointment, Ryan Braun or Alex Rodriguez? — Sports Survey of the Day
The two biggest names to come out of the latest MLB steroid scandal are Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez. Which one is the bigger disappointment?
Ryan Braun, who escaped a 2012 steroid scandal on a technicality, is done for the remainder of the 2013 season after this latest breaking news. Braun, just 29 years old, has—or maybe had—a very promising career ahead of him. Will this follow him forever?
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As families pledge to eat healthier this year, Milwaukee-based Palermo's Pizza unveils a pair of flavorful pizzas -- Primo Thin Garden and Chicken Fajita.
Primo Thin Garden pizza is a good source of fiber with 4g per serving, providing consumers a new option that engages the palate – not the waistline. The crispy, all-natural, multi-grain crust is topped with a robust tomato sauce and is covered with a blend of 100 percent real mozzarella (part-skim), Parmesan and Romano cheeses. This garden features fire-roasted red and green bell peppers, fire-roasted onions, sliced black olives and broccoli, all topped with Italian spices.
Bringing the taste of the Southwest to the kitchen table, Primo Thin Chicken Fajita pizza is all-natural with an ultra-thin crust topped with zesty Mexicali sauce, mozzarella (part skim) and Monterrey Jack cheeses, grilled white meat chicken tossed with a blend of Southwest spices, fire-roasted green bell peppers and fire-roasted onions. The pizza is finished with cool sour cream sauce dollops.
"At Palermo's we understand the importance of providing a nutritious family meal that everyone at the table will enjoy, including health-conscious consumers," says Giacomo Fallucca, president and CEO. "Our Primo Thin Garden and Chicken Fajita varieties deliver fresh, restaurant-quality ingredients with as few as 250 calories per serving."
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According to an analysis conducted by Anand Lal Shimpi of tech site AnandTech, Apple has released a new iteration of the iPad 2 hardware that positively impacts the battery life of the tablet. Dubbed the "iPad 2,4" based on the three previous versions of the tablet, Apple has shifted from a 45-nanometer, dual-core A5 processor to a 32-nanometer version of the chip. Approximately 40 percent smaller than the 45-nanometer chip, the 32-nanometer version is also the same chip that's being used within the most recent version of the Apple TV according to Chipworks. The performance of the chip is identical to the previous 45-nanometer version, but the alteration in design decreases power consumption in addition to running slightly cooler than the previous version.
Specific to battery life, AnandTech's tests indicate that users of the "iPad 2,4" will potentially get an extra two hours of battery life if they are primarily using it for Web surfing, watching movies or playing games. The iPad 2 already gets "up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music," according to Apple's site.
Shimpi stated "The gains themselves are significant. We measured a 15% increase in our web browsing battery life, a nearly 30% increase in gaming battery life and an 18% increase in video playback battery life. Although Apple hasn't revised its battery life specs, the iPad 2,4 definitely lasts longer on a single charge than the original iPad 2."
Attempting to locate one of the new "iPad 2,4" models may be difficult for the moment as Apple likely has a significant amount of existing iPad 2 tablets to sell. However, Shimpi mentioned that the improved model is preloaded with iOS 5.1 while older iPad 2 models will have iOS 5.0.1 or older. In addition, new iPad 2 owners can purchase an inexpensive iOS application called GeekBench that specifies the version number. While the 45-nanometer dual-core processor is also being used within the iPhone 4S, it's possible that upgrading the iPad 2 to the 32-nanometer version is an indicator that Apple will shift to the same processor for the next iPhone.


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Unani, in simple terms, is an ancient medicine system of holistic and natural healing. If medicine is studied on the whole, we'll come to know that natural systems are highly complex. The phrase 'one at a time' goes well with the systems of natural medication too. This alternative system of medicine utilizes a holistic set of principles, which help a practitioner to turn a diagnosis into a treatment process. Usually associated with Islam, Unani literally means 'Greek'.
Talking strictly about Unani Medicine, this system has two basic aspects or principles - the life force or 'thymos' and the four vital essences or 'humors'. In any ailment, the thymos and the humors are expected to be affected in different ways, like its probable to have very little or too much thymos in the body, or in some part of the body. Mostly affected by emotions, thymos can also be influenced by age or disease.
However, the most frequent problems are related with the humors such as, complaints that may occur due to excessive humors in the body or some part of the body, or very little humor. Sometimes, humor could be degraded by a poison or an insidious micro-organism. Humors are generally influenced somewhat by the thymos and progressively by the intake like food and drink, and by external influences, for example environment.
Unani treatment by and large entails some dietary approaches, however in nearly all cases includes Herbal Medicine. Honey serves as the base for most of the medicines since it is believed to have healing properties. Unani Medicine also utilizes real pearls and metals as per the target ailment. In general, treatment is made by working on specific body reflexes or by massage. At times, in cases of musculoskeletal problems (like arthritis, back pain); treatment is also done by manipulation or by the use of cold, heat or suction cups.
In rare cases like serious diseases, treatment may involve puncturing of certain reflex points, during which some blood appears. The main objective of Unani system is that the medicine must always be gentle and safe, and that's what was believed by Hippocrates. Centuries of experience and practice, has established that Unani medicine is not only gentle and safe, but also extremely effective in healing numerous acute and chronic diseases.
The history of Unani system of medicine is traced back to ancient Greece. During that time, two schools of medicine were present in Greece, the older one of which believed in treating the disease, according to the symptoms exhibited. It confirmed the fact that an illness must be dealt with one organ and should be treated separately, strictly based on the symptoms.
Herbal Therapeutics Unani Herbal Therapeutics is an ancient system which asserts the benefits of herbs. Herbs have many properties which help in curing diseases. Moreover, they possess other constituents like resins, gum, sugar, vitamins, inorganic salts and many vegetable substances. These components act as built-in antidotes and safeguard the body from any ill effects of the herb itself.
Unani Principles Unani system of medicine is an exhaustive segment in the realm of Indian medicine system. It was compiled centuries back by Hippocrates, the great scholar. However, with time it was enriched by a number of his successors, due to which it has achieved the status of a science. Therefore, like any other scientific system it is governed buy a number of principles ad concepts.
Unani Therapies The Unani system of medicine makes use of a number of things for treating a patient. It believes in a holistic approach of healing. As a result, it incorporates various therapies for healing not only the disease but also focus on the overall health condition of the patient. For internal healing it utilizes herbal medicines, which are prepared from natural objects.


text: Hi. Trent Piepho schrieb: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Hartmut Hackmann wrote: >>> On Sunday 11 March 2007 09:40, Trent Piepho wrote: >>>> In dvb-pll, the frequency offset, which is the IF frequency the tuner will >>>> output at, is set to 36.213333 MHz. It looks like this code was written >>>> about two years ago by Patrick as part of the reverse engineered cxusb >>>> driver. >>>> >>>> In saa7134-dvb, there is some totally different code from programming >>>> fmd1216 tuners, and it uses an IF frequency of 36.13 MHz. >>>> >>>> So, why the difference? > > After looking at dvb-pll some more, I'm pretty sure the difference between > the saa7134 and the dvb-pll IF frequency is that the dvb-pll version has > 1/2 the step size added in, so the result will be rounded correctly. > > I think that should be done is adjust the IF values in in the dvb-pll > config structs to NOT include step-size/2 for rounding. Just use the IF > frequency. This is how most of the PLL definitions are already. The code > which calculates the divisor should be changed to round to the nearest > integer, rather than round down. > Jep >> I wrote the code in saa7134-dvb. The FMD1216 has an integrated SAW filter >> for DVB-T, the data sheet says 36.13MHz. This is strange because the >> data sheet also recommends a tuning step size of 167 kHz (4 MHz / 24), >> so it should be 36.167MHz.... > > Maybe the person who picked the SAW filter and the person who recommended > the step size should have talked to each other... > >> When i started writing it, there was no dvb-pll module. And the reason >> why i didn't move to dvb-pll yet is that this module has no means to >> control the RF AGC. Philips recommends different setting for analog and >> DVB-T. > > dvb-pll can do this now. These are the notes I've made about converting > fmd1216 to use dvb-pll wrt the saa7134 driver. > ok that's new > saa7134 driver > > tda10046 demod, driver supports IF 36.13 Mhz (used here) or 36.17 MHz > SAA7134_BOARD_MD7134 Medion 7134 > SAA7134_BOARD_ASUS_EUROPA2_HYBRID Asus Europa2 OEM > > tuner_ops.init = philips_fmd1216_tuner_init > tuner_ops.sleep = philips_fmd1216_tuner_sleep > tuner_ops.set_params = philips_fmd1216_tuner_set_params > > philips_fmd1216_tuner_init() just sends { 0x0b, 0xdc, 0x9c, 0xa0 } to the > tuner. It could be replaced with the dvb-pll version, which will have > the same effect. > I will have a look > philips_fmd1216_tuner_set_params() does not use dvb_pll_configure(), but is > totally different code. I've looked through it, and it will end up sending > almost the same data to the tuner. The only difference is that dvb-pll > uses a IF frequency of 36.213333 MHz while the code in saa7134 uses 36.13 > MHz. In this case, I think dvb-pll is wrong. It looks like the 26.213 MHz > value was written by Patrick Boettcher in 2005 when he wrote the cxusb > driver. Actually, what I think now is that the dvb-pll value is offset by > stepsize/2 for rounding, since dvb-pll rounds down while saa7143 rounds to > nearest. I should make a patch to fix rounding in dvb-pll. > > philips_fmd1216_tuner_sleep() is buggy! The _first_ time it is called > after _module loading_ it will send {0x0b, 0xdc, 0x9c, 0x60} and then > {0x0b, 0xdc, 0x86, 0x54} to the tuner. The first sequence sets AGC to > analog mode (IMHO, the v4l tuner driver should do this for tuner init, > but it doesn't). The second sequence just tunes to some random frequency > for no apparent reason. Neither actually turns the tuner off! > AFIK the v4l tuner driver can't do this since init is called only one at module initialization. Maybe the sequence is overdone but the intention is: - set up RF AGC - set the PLL to a valid frequency. I was told that this is important. - turn on the tda9887. This is invisible on the I2C bus in DVB mode. I am not aware that the tuner actually has a sleep mode. I used the sleep call be cause it simply was there. > After the first time it is called, philips_fmd1216_tuner_sleep() will just > send {0x0b, 0xdc, 0x86, 0x54} twice! The array the sequence is in > shouldn't be static, or there should just be two static arrays for each > sequence. IMHO, using static locals that are not const is almost always > wrong in the kernel. > Thats right, it is a bug. > I think this could be replaced with the dvb-pll sleep function, if a > sleep sequence was added to dvb_pll_fmd1216me. We should send {0x9d, > 0x60}, which will turn the tuner off and set the AGC back to the analog > recommended value. > Hm, the sequence is incomplete.. Do you have more information about the PLL chip? I will be happy to remove the tuning code from saa7134-dvb as soon as dvb-pll fulfills the needs - and things look like we are close to this. Are you aware that there is also the td1316? Hartmut


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VIDEO: GameTime: Kidd to Milwaukee
Given what was done and how it happened, Larry Drew – freshly minted former head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks – would be within his rights to take a few parting shots at the team's co-owners who abruptly fired him and the fellow who lobbied for Drew's job while his warm rump still was in the seat.
It surely would feel good, after the wringer through which he was put in a span of 72 hours last weekend, to vent in the direction of Marc Lasry and Wes Edens, the co-owners, and Jason Kidd, the Bucks' new coach thanks to his friendship with Lasry.
Of course, that might somehow gum up the delivery of the checks Drew will continue to receive — $5 million due to him for the final two years of his coaching contract. Here at Hang Time HQ, we know fired head coaches who wound up inviting the mailmen to their daughters' weddings, based on the friendships they struck up loitering by the mailbox each month, awaiting the checks owed them. Nothing to gain in making those a day late or a dollar short.
The fact is, Drew handled the ham-handed firing-and-hiring with the same grace he showed in enduring the Bucks' 15-67 plunge to the NBA's basement last season. Milwaukee swapped its "Fear The Dear" bumper stickers from a few years back for a "We Don't Tank But We Sure Do Stank" motto en route to another seat at the lottery.
Sure, he was the coach, but injuries, flaws in a roster with 11 new faces, underperformances by the likes of O.J. Mayo, Gary Neal and Ersan Ilyasova, and Larry Sanders' misdeeds conspired to drag down Milwaukee's results. Besides, a few more victories would have cost the Bucks the No. 2 spot and thus Jabari Parker, their ready-to-go cornerstone draftee.
Anyway, Drew issued a statement through the Bucks Thursday and kept it classy:
"I would like to thank Senator Herb Kohl and [general manager] John Hammond for giving me the opportunity to coach the Milwaukee Bucks this past season. Although my tenure was brief, it will forever be memorable.
"Thank you to all of the great Bucks fans for your love and support, you truly are some of the best fans in the NBA.
"My swift termination did come as a surprise to me, but I accept new owners Wesley Edens' and Marc Lasry's decision that they've made. I wish the entire Bucks organization and the great city of Milwaukee nothing but the best in the future."


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I was just monkeying around (no pun intended ) with my Wookiee army. I've had one of my SPs all decked out in the stuff he comes with and brandishing the banana gun. For variety, I've had the second without the helmet or shin guards and wielding a bloody Gungan spear from one of the EI accessory sets.Since I got two of the new heavy gunners, I've been trying to decide what to do with them. I immediately took the pleather thing off one; I'll keep it on the other. The naked one is currently holding one of the Wook shield thingies that came with the #43. Anyway, I just stuck the extra helmet I have on the gunner with leather and it looks fantastic! It really goes with his color scheme; matches his gold braid ties. I'd like to get an extra SP armor piece to clothe my nekkid gunner, though. I just tried it on him, and it looks sweet.I'm lovin' my Wookiee army.
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text: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Mike Eggleston wrote: > That does help, thanks. Currently I am seeing 10000 units of work > completeing in ~300 seconds on a single cpu box with the multi-threaded > app. That works to ~33 work units per second. For my app I would like to Multi-threaded app? Task swapping between lots of threads adds significant kernel overhead. You'd much rather work in completely serial fashion through the work units and avoid the overhead. Forking is expensive, context switches and so forth are expensive. > see 10000 units complete in ~20 seconds or 500 units/sec. If the amount Well, in principle you can achieve this on 10 Base -- that is about 500 KB/sec of bandwidth required by the master to deliver the data and retrieve results, out of about a MB/sec of theoretical bandwidth. I'm pretty sure you're safely within the practical latency limits as well -- the 1000 Byte packet should be no problem as it is close to the MTU and hence bandwidth dominated; the small data packet might well be latency dominated but you should be OK. > of work is consistent on each node that would mean ~15 nodes? So if on > 15 nodes each node processed 667 units, would that amount of network > traffic saturate the cluster's lan such that in the end it would have > been better to stay on a single (or smp) box? I "think" you'll be able to scale to fifteen or sixteen nodes. Right now you're working about 30,000 microseconds per task. Your packet exchange "should" take on the order of 1000 microseconds on 10BT (feel free to correct this estimate, anyway) -- roughly one microsecond per byte, although of course you do NOT send it a byte at a time to achieve this but all at once in a single packet. 10 base is slow enought that you can probably neglect TCP and PVM overhead relative to the physical network time. The additional overhead required by the communications will slow down your task completion rate so it is less than 33/second (maybe you'll get 28-30) but that should still provide you with a generous amount of parallel speedup. > > I have seen the time required to process 10000 units to reach 2200-2400 > seconds, or 4.5 units per second. > > There is no barrier within the 10000 units, but all 10000 must complete > before the next round of 10000 are worked. On a previous attempt using > pvm I implemented a round-robin deal where the head sends a unit to > A, then B, then C, and so on. The first node that returned its results > received the next unit. The head continued down the list of units until > reaching the bottom. At the bottom loop to the top and look for any > lingering units that have not received results, sending those units to > waiting nodes. In this way I could deal with nodes of different speeds > and even nodes that crashed as not every node would crash at the same > time. > > Oh, and I do mean 10baseT as a 10Mb/s network. I can go 100Mb/s if I > needed. Things that can mess up the "simple" estimate of (say) 30 task units/second sustained include overhead and networking inefficiencies. A lot of them might end up connected to your cycle -- you really want the master node to be idle when each node tries to send its last result back and and collects its next unit. You also definitely want an ethernet switch, not a hub, as collisions in 10BT can significantly attenuate real world bandwidth. At that point, you have to face the economics of 10 vs 100. 100base cards cost $10-50 each, and even a rotten card like a cheapo RTL8139 (what you're likely to get for $10) will in principle outperform any 10base card. A sixteen port fast ethernet switch costs what, $80? $100? Again, less than $10/port -- little enough that I have one in my house for my personal LAN. So for an investment of $320 to maybe $700, your nodes could all be on switched 100BT. Suddenly, your bandwidth would be about 10 MB/sec (you only need 0.5 MB/sec) and the time to send your packets would be down in the 100-200 microsecond range. The probability of collision would be greatly reduced, and the time that such a collision would affect traffic ditto. You could also at least consider scaling up BEYOND just 16 nodes. Either way you're going to want to try to keep task distribution and execution as smooth and synchronous as possible. But I >>think<< you could scale out as far as 15-16 nodes on 10BT with at least positive gain (maybe or maybe not reaching your design goal), and am pretty sure you could reach your design goal with 100BT. You're coming fairly close to saturating 10Base with your data stream, and 10Base cards (especially ISA cards, which I HOPE are not involved!) aren't really stellar performers and tend to require a lot of systems resources as they function (i.e. the may not support any sort of DMA and may require the full attention of the CPU/kernel while sending or receiving a stream). rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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It's time to have an honest talk about "uncertainty" — the B.S. complaint by Wall Street and corporations that they don't know what's going to happening in Washington; don't, therefore, know what to do; and are sitting on their hands and cash rather than (take your pick) expanding, hiring, investing.
Look, for example, at this story by John Melloy at CNBC.com about the latest from David Kostin at Goldman Sachs. In talking about the fiscal cliff, Kostin is quoted as saying, "We believe the uncertainty is greater this year than it was 12 months ago." Because of that, he urges investors to get out of equities before the fiscal cliff hits, could hit, might be settled, or…well…Kostin/Goldman Sachs doesn't really know, that is, they/it are "uncertain."
First, as Melloy relates in his story, Kostin's analysis of the situation is right on the mark. Investors that think that economic rationality will rule the day as the fiscal cliff gets ever closer could be very surprised and lose money as policies are put in place or allowed to happen that are different than what they expect. As Kostin notes, last August's cliff-hanger fight over the debt ceiling should convince anyone who's watching what's happening now that there's no guarantee a deal will be cut, a rational agreement will be reached or the Democrats and Republicans, House and Senate, and Congress and the White House have the ability to deal with tax, spending, debt and deficit issues in a timely manner.
But to bemoan the uncertainty as immobilizing and make it into its own issue is disingenuous if not completely deceitful. It's time to call it what it really is: Wall Street Whining.
Here's why.
1. When isn't there uncertainty facing Wall Street about what's going to happen? Whether it's weather, Geo-political, economic or political, uncertainty is one of the most basic elements of capitalism and free enterprise.
2. In fact, it's one of the first things you learn on your first day in Econ 101: Uncertainty — that is, the lack of perfect information — is one of the things that drives markets. If everyone knew…or assumed…the same thing, there wouldn't be different investment strategies, alternatives, funds or trading. Everyone would want to buy or sell the same things for the same price. In other words, for all the complaints about it, without uncertainty Wall Street wouldn't exist.
3. For all its whining, Wall Street doesn't really want certainty unless it's a guarantee that what it wants will happen. Would it feel better if a decision were made on Capital Hill right now that the Bush/Obama tax cuts will expire on January 1 and that the sequester spending cuts won't be changed, that is, if the uncertainty were completely taken out of the system?
If it can't get certainty that what it wants will happen, Wall Street seems to be happy to work with the notion that what it wants might happen. In other words, in the current situation, uncertainty about the fiscal cliff could actually be far preferable to certainty.
4. Much of the uncertainty about the current situation has been caused by Wall Street itself because it doesn't want most of the fiscal cliff policies to go into effect. If Wall Street was willing to let all of the spending and taxing changes happen, it could know four-plus months in advance about the future and, therefore, completely eliminate all of the fiscal cliff-related uncertainty.
The fact that Wall Street isn't doing this tells you all you need to know about the charge of "uncertainty": Its a phony issue that should be dismissed out-of-hand.


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