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Richard H. "Dick" Rickard, 73, formerly of 57 E. Main St., Mohawk, passed away on Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare in New Hartford.
Richard H. "Dick" Rickard, 73, formerly of 57 E. Main St., Mohawk, passed away on Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare in New Hartford.
Dick was born in Albany on Sept. 3, 1938. He was the son of the late Vera Rickard. He was educated in Mohawk and worked in the Herkimer County Highway Department as a semi-truck driver until his retirement. He also drove school bus. On Nov. 25, 1987, he married the former Debbie Maury in Mohawk. Dick was a member of the Mohawk Fire Department, the Mohawk Exempt Firemen and was also an avid bowler.
Dick is survived by his wife, Debbie; his children, Rebecca Dygert, of Millers Mills, Shelly Smith and her husband, Bryan, of Mohawk, Katherine and her husband, Sam Bianchi, of Mohawk, Glenn and his wife, Missy, of Williamstown, W.Va., and Steven, of Fort Pierce, Fla.; brother, Walter and his wife, Janet Hartwick, of Mohawk; sister, Joan and her husband, David Miner, of Mohawk; mother-in-law, Eleanor Dutcher; an aunt, Betty Herringshaw; brothers-in-law, Eugene Tucker, of Mohawk, and David Maury, of Richfield Springs; a sister-in-law, Linda and her husband, Rodney Coyle, of New Hampshire; and step sisters, Sara and Verna. He also leaves 11 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by a grandson, Cody Rickard, in 1999; his brother, Raymond Rickard; his sister, Eleanor Tucker; a son-in-law, Gary Dygert; and Kuddles, his cat.
Friends are invited to a graveside service on Saturday, July 7, 2012, at 10 a.m. in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Herkimer. Ken Palmer, chaplin of the Mohawk Fire Department, will officiate. In keeping with Dick's wishes, there are no calling hours, and memorial contributions may be made to the Herkimer County Humane Society.
Arrangements are with the Whiter - Hendrix Funeral Home, Inc., 100 Otsego St., Ilion.
Online condolences may be sent by going to www.whiter-hendrix.com.
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From the January 17, 2005 issue: How not to squander political capital.
Jan 17, 2005, Vol. 10, No. 17 • By IRWIN M. STELZER
A good case can be made, of course, for continued government supervision of the private investment of funds destined to support retirees. After all, a society unwilling to tolerate an army of penurious retirees--and politically unable to do so even if it were inclined to let retirees fall where they may--is in a sense the insurer of last resort. Insurers impose limits on the behavior against which they will insure. So the proposed changes in the system will not really create an army of investors freed from dependence on the state. Nor will the reforms in any economically meaningful sense increase returns on investment. Returns will rise only if the risk to which funds are exposed also rises. "Higher returns are not a free lunch," warn economists at Goldman Sachs; "workers would take on more risk." Risk-adjusted returns will remain unchanged. Private accounts allow their holders to earn more, but only by risking more--unless the government is prepared to cover any losses incurred by the private investors.
It is true, of course, that the return on investment in stocks has been higher over the long run than has the return earned by the Social Security Trust Fund. But it is far from certain that the 7 percent historically earned on stocks is a sure clue to what the future holds. Indeed, with share prices selling at higher multiples than in the past, it is not an unreasonable guess that earnings will be closer to 5 percent. A bit of arithmetic: A portfolio invested 50 percent in stocks earning 5 percent, and 50 percent in bonds earning a real return of, say, 2 percent, will have an average yield of 3.5 percent. Deduct 1 percent for management fees (Larry Lindsey thinks this wildly overstates the cost), and retirees will net 2.5 percent, not much of a gain over what the Trust Fund now earns. Never have so many spilt so much ink over so little, or at least so it seems.
PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT, personal retirement accounts really have little to do with the solvency problem, a point made clear by Comptroller General David Walker, who commented last month, "The creation of private accounts for Social Security will not deal with the solvency and sustainability of the Social Security Trust Fund." Which is why Lindsey, a supporter of the president in this and other matters, says that individual accounts in the absence of other changes "will not fly in the bond market." These private accounts, then, are more what BusinessWeek calls a "values issue" than a fiscal one.
Then there is the nasty question of what are called transition costs, variously estimated at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion, as funds previously headed into the system are diverted to private accounts, while outlays continue at currently planned levels. No one can deny that the president has a point: If returns can be raised sufficiently by switching some funds to private accounts, it should be easy to finance the transition costs to a new, more productive system. Borrowing in order to fund larger reductions in costs is common in the private sector, where businesses often borrow money to pay for investments or organizational changes that will lower future costs by more than the cost associated with the new borrowing. Michael Milken understood that, which was why he was able to arrange financing for predators and sharks who took over fat-laden companies, then lowered their operating costs, repaying loans out of the savings, with something left over to reward the predators.
But the government is already running a substantial deficit, and neither the president nor the Congress has yet demonstrated the cost-cutting devotion that enabled Milken's takeover artists to persuade lenders to accept their IOUs. It is not impossible that lenders would see $2-$5 trillion as too much to swallow, at least at current interest rates. The result might then be higher interest rates, renewed pressure on the dollar, and other unforeseeable and unpleasant consequences. I say "might" because many experts, among them Lindsey and R. Glenn Hubbard, two of Bush's favorite economists, contend that the increased debt can be financed without seriously upsetting financial markets. Lindsey believes that the combination of personal accounts and a switch away from wage indexing will be "rewarded by the bond market." And Hubbard feels the markets will acknowledge that a diversion of funds to personal accounts is "akin to prepaying part of a mortgage."
But in the end no one can be sure of the effect of hitting the markets for a few odd trillion more in borrowing. We can, however, be sure that there is a risk in doing so, making it reasonable to ask whether that risk is worth taking to achieve what seem like the minimal gains in freedom and earnings that might flow from individual retirement accounts.
Fortunately, now that the time pressure has been relaxed a bit by the president, we can explore better ways of accomplishing his goals. President Bush is right to want individuals to have personal accounts, but these could supplement Social Security, rather than supplant a part of it, thereby avoiding the transition-cost problem. So more power to the administration's efforts to devise tax-advantaged schemes to encourage personal saving, schemes that do not require any diversion of funds now destined to finance Social Security. And with the Social Security safety net intact, individuals could be left free to invest these added savings in any way they choose--safely, in order to add a bit to retirement income, or daringly, in the hope of striking it rich.
The president is right, too, to want to consider a reduction in benefits as part of any reform package. And replacing wage-based indexing with something related to the inflation rate might be the right thing to do. But it is not the only possibility: Surely, extending the retirement age to reflect current longevity expectations should also be on the table. But in any case, we should keep our word, unmodified, to those who have long been part of the current system, and confine reductions in benefits to new or relatively recent entrants into the workforce.
Where the president and his team might benefit most from further reflection is in the financing of Social Security. The current system of levying a 12.4 percent payroll tax gives us the worst of all possible worlds. First, it is a tax on jobs--payroll taxes make it more costly for employers to hire, and less attractive for workers to work. These taxes raise employers' cost of hiring by 6.2 percent, and reduce the employees' incentive to work by cutting their take-home pay.
Worse still, the system is regressive. Only salaries up to $87,900 (in 2004) are taxed, meaning that Wall Street mega-earners pay no more than their secretaries. This regressivity is ameliorated by the fact that most high earners continue working after the date at which they receive retirement benefits, and those benefits are taxed at the high rates that apply to all of the income earned by these older but unretired workers. Still, not the fairest of systems.
A truly radical reformer would consider alternatives to the job-destroying payroll tax system. After all, why tax a good thing, like jobs, rather than the many bad things that currently go untaxed? Two leap to mind: pollution and imported oil. Surely a reduction in the payroll tax, funded by a tax on either of those two items, would do more to stimulate economic growth, and to reduce the regressive character of the Social Security finance system, than would any of the reforms now being considered.
Which brings me to my final suggestion. The president is keen to reform the tax system and has announced a bipartisan commission that will report to him July 31 on how that might best be done. The question of how to finance the nation's retirement program is equally taxing, if I might be forgiven a pun, and is not unrelated to the broader question of tax reform. Why not charge the new commission with the responsibility of integrating reforms for the tax and Social Security systems? These reforms could take into consideration the fact that the world has changed since FDR first introduced the Social Security safety net; that the increase in wealth since the days of the New Deal inevitably changes the role to be played by government-funded retirement benefits from near-total provision to a supplement to other incomes; that the payroll tax is an impediment to more rapid economic and job growth; and that experience has taught that it is no bad thing to rely on each new generation to fund the retirement of older ones, since newer generations are richer than their predecessors.
With an appropriate mandate, this commission could make available to the president a more carefully considered set of proposals than he now has before him, and provide the basis for greater bipartisan support. And with luck, those of us who fear that the president has not been as radical as he might have been had he been willing to abandon the payroll tax, might carry the day.
Not incidentally, this pause that might refresh would leave President Bush free to devote that portion of the time and political capital that he is able to spend on domestic affairs to getting his judicial appointments approved, and to begin focusing his attention on the health care system. According to Goldman Sachs's economic team, "Medicare is the much bigger problem. It accounts for more than four-fifths of the projected increase in entitlement spending in coming decades, and its costs--unlike those of Social Security--are largely immune to an increase in retirement age. Indeed, the recently enacted Medicare prescription drug benefit by itself is projected to cause a bigger spending increase than the entire Social Security system!"
Now there's a problem worth tackling in order to bring the deficit under control, while plans for reforming Social Security are, shall we say, refined.
Irwin M. Stelzer is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute, and a columnist for the Sunday Times (London).


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Bonathan, CJ; (2011) How do patients understand chronic orofacial pain? Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
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M. Patricia Smith (born circa 1952) is the Solicitor of the United States Department of Labor, the department's chief law interpreter-enforcer and third-ranking official. She was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the Solicitor of Labor on April 20, 2009. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 4, 2010, assumed her duties on March 1, 2010, and had her swearing-in ceremony on April 23, 2010. As Solicitor of Labor, Smith oversees over 450 attorneys across the country and more than 180 Federal labor laws and implementing regulations that cover about 125 million workers. As of January 16, 2014 she has been acting United States Deputy Secretary of Labor.[1] Her successor, as Deputy Secretary of Labor Christopher P. Lu was confirmed on April 1, 2014.
Smith previously was the New York State Commissioner of Labor. She was appointed in 2007 by Governor Eliot Spitzer and continued in the administration of Governor David Paterson. As New York State's Commissioner of Labor, Smith managed a staff of nearly 4,000 employees and a budget of $11 billion. She was also in charge of the New York State's Misclassification task force and Co-Chair of the Governors Economic Security Sub Cabinet.
Early life and education[edit]
She graduated cum laude, from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. in 1974 and from New York University School of Law, with honors, in 1977.
Professional career[edit]
Smith has spent her entire career in public service. She served for twenty years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Labor Bureau of the office of the New York State Attorney General initially as a section chief (1987–93), then as Deputy Bureau Chief (1993–99) and ultimately as the Bureau Chief (1999–2007). During her later years in charge of the Labor Bureau she developed a system of active government labor law enforcement that became a model for other Attorneys General and enforcement agencies. Prior to that Smith spent ten years at federally funded legal services programs in Connecticut and Indiana, starting as a Staff Attorney and ending as Assistant Litigation Director. In her legal services work, Smith represented unemployment claimants, minimum wage workers, workers in federal job training programs and job seekers.
While at the New York State Attorney General's office, Smith argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court including a pivotal case in which the Supreme Court signaled that the courts had gone too far in overturning various state laws based on claims that they "relate to" employee benefit plans that are regulated by federal law.[2] New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers Ins. Co., 514 U.S. 645 (1995). See Smith, M.: "ERISA Preemption and State Insurance Regulation of Healthcare Arrangements" BNA Books Retrieved on May 27, 2009
Nomination to the Labor Department[edit]
President Barack Obama nominated Smith to be solicitor, which is the third-highest-ranking person in the Labor Department, on April 20, 2009. Smith's nomination had been held up in the Senate because of Republican opposition stemming from statements she made to the Senate's HELP Committee in May 2009 about New York's Wage Watch program, which New York's Labor Commission had launched to find companies not paying proper wages. Smith told senators that state officials had developed the program, but documents later showed that a union and a public interest entity also had been involved. Smith also characterized the program as an educational one, but Republicans complained that documents revealed that it actually was an enforcement program.[3]
After waiting for more than nine months, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on Smith's nomination. The Senate voted 60-32 on February 1, 2010 for cloture on Smith's nomination.[4]
Republicans had noted that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had filed for cloture vote before then Senator-elect Scott Brown was seated.[5] Brown's predecessor, appointed Democratic Sen. Paul G. Kirk, voted in favor of cloture and also in favor of the nomination.[6][7]
The Senate confirmed Smith in a 60-37 vote on February 4, 2010.
- ^ "Acting Deputy Secretary of Labor and Solicitor of Labor". Office of the Secretary. U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ^ In Travelers the Supreme Court explained that If "relate to" were taken to extend to the furthest stretch of its indeterminacy, then for all practical purposes pre-emption would never run its course, for "[r]eally, universally, relations stop nowhere," H. James, Roderick Hudson xli (New York ed., World's Classics 1980). But that, of course, would be to read Congress's words of limitation as mere sham, and to read the presumption against pre-emption out of the law whenever Congress speaks to the matter with generality. That said, we have to recognize that our prior attempt to construe the phrase 'relate to' does not give us much help drawing the line here. 514 U.S. at 655.
- ^ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2009/10/labor_nominee_still_faces_gop.html
- ^ http://spectator.org/blog/2010/01/28/reid-files-cloture-on-controve
- ^ http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/01/reid-schedules-vote-controversial-labor-nominee-brown-arrives/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics+%2528Text+-+Politics%2529
- ^ http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00017
- ^ http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00018
- Solicitor brochure (pdf)
- Office of the Solicitor of Labor
- USDOL Biography page for M. Patricia Smith
- Swearing in remarks by Secretary Solis
- Washington Post Head Count Tracking Obama's Appointments
- Smith, M.: Statement of M. Patricia Smith. Nominee for Solicitor of Department of Labor May 7, 2009 Retrieved on May 27, 2009
- State Labor Chief Picked for Federal Job (3/20/09 NY Times)
- Official bio from the New York Department of Labor website
- The Spitzer Team (1/1/07 NY Times)
- Spitzer Names New Chief of Labor Bureau Retrieved on May 27, 2009
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- Ex-Google Hacker Taking On The World's Spy Agencies (Wired) — profile of the security expert working on protecting reporters.
- Meet Google's Security Princess (Elle) — would have preferred to see her story in Wired. Much is good here, but this is pithy and strong: "If you have ambitions to create technology for the whole world, you need to represent the whole world, and the whole world is not just white men."
- snabb switch — open source Linux userspace executable for making network appliances. Processes millions of ethernet packets per second per core. Suitable for ISPs. Speaks natively to Ethernet hardware, Hypervisors, and the Linux kernel. You can program it with LuaJIT extensions to do anything you want.
- Anti-Patterns in Python Programming — gold.
"Python" entries
Four short links: 10 July 2014
Journalism Security, Inclusive Technology, Network Magic, and Python Anti-Patterns
Open teaching stacks help us teach at scale
Use teaching stacks to drive growth.
Elliott Hauser is CEO of Trinket, a startup focused on creating open sourced teaching materials. He is also a Python instructor at UNC Chapel Hill.
Well-developed tools for teaching are crucial to the spread of open source software and programming languages. Stacks like those used by the Young Coders Tutorial and Mozilla Software Carpentry are having national and international impact by enabling more people to teach more often.
The spread of tech depends on teaching
Software won't replace teachers. But teachers need great software for teaching. The success and growth of technical communities are largely dependent on the availability of teaching stacks appropriate to teaching their technologies. Resources like try git or interactivepython.org not only help students on their own but also equip instructors to teach these topics without also having to discover the best tools for doing so. In that way, they play the same function as open source Web stacks: getting us up and running quickly with time-tested and community-backed tools. Thank goodness I don't need to write a database just to write a website; I can use open source software instead. As an instructor teaching others to code websites, what's the equivalent tool set? That's what I mean by Teaching Stack: a collection of open tools that help individual instructors teach technology at scale.
Elements of a great teaching stack
Here are some of the major components of a teaching stack for a hands-on technology course:
Theming in Kivy
Adding consistency to Kivy's Python UI tools
Kivy has a wonderful set of built-in widgets that can be extended in numerous ways. They have very useful behaviors, but their look and feel may not integrate well with your App or the platforms you are targeting. Kivy doesn't support theming out of the box right now, but if you poke around enough, there are a range of options you can use to customize the default look of widgets without having to define your own inherited versions of them.
I'll first introduce you to Kivy's image atlases, which are less mysterious than they sound, and are important groundwork for understanding theming in Kivy. Then you'll learn two different ways to do manual theming in Kivy, with an eye to future automation.
Introducing Atlases
To understand theming, you must first understand atlases. An atlas is essentially a collection of distinct images combined into a single image file for loading efficiency. A JSON file describes the location of the separate images inside that master image file so that Kivy can access them directly. If you've ever worked with CSS sprites, you know exactly what I'm talking about. If you haven't, the following example should explain everything.
5 ways developers win with PaaS
Powering your app with open source and OpenShift
As a software developer, you are no doubt familiar with the process of abstracting away unnecessary detail in code — imagine if that same principle were applied to application hosting. Say hello to Platform as a Service (PaaS), which enables you to host your applications in the cloud without having to worry about the logistics, leaving you to focus on your code. This post will discuss five ways in which PaaS benefits software developers, using the open source OpenShift PaaS by Red Hat as an example.
No More Tedious Config Tasks
Most of us don't become developers to do system administration, but when you are running your own infrastructure you end up doing exactly that. A PaaS can take that pain away by handling pesky config and important security updates for you. As a bonus, it makes your sys admin happy too by allowing you to provision your own environment for that killer new app idea you want to tinker with, rather than nagging them for root access on a new VM.
On OpenShift, it goes like this: let's say you decide you want to test an idea for a Java app, using Tomcat and PostgreSQL (yes, we could argue about the merits of those choices, but work with me here). You can spin that up with a one-line terminal command:
rhc app create myawesomeapp tomcat-7 postgresql-9.2 -s
That -s on the end is telling the platform to make the app auto-scaling, which I will elaborate on later; yes, that's all it takes. RHC (Red Hat Cloud) is just a Ruby Gem wrapping calls to the OpenShift REST API. You could also use the OpenShift web console or an IDE plugin to do this, or call the API directly if that's how you roll. The key technologies in play here are just plain old Git and SSH — there's nothing proprietary.
Simplifying Django
Lightweight Django by example
The following comes to you from Julia Elman and Mark Lavin. Julia is a a hybrid designer/developer who has been working her brand of web skills since 2002; and Mark is the Development Director at Caktus Consulting Group in Carrboro, NC where he builds scalable web applications with Django. Together, they are working on Lightweight Django, a book due out later this year that explores bringing Django into modern web practices.
Despite Django's popularity and maturity, some developers believe that it is an outdated web framework made primarily for "content-heavy" applications. Since the majority of modern web applications and services tend not to be rich in their content, this reputation leaves Django seeming like a less than optimal choice as a web framework.
Let's take a moment to look at Django from the ground up and get a better idea of where the framework stands in today's web development practices.
Plain and Simple Django
A web framework's primary purpose is to help to generate the core architecture for an application and reuse it on other projects. Django was built on this foundation to rapidly create web applications. At its core, Django is primarily a Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) application framework that provides HTTP request utilities for extracting and returning meaningful HTTP responses. It handles various services with these utilities by generating things like URL routing, cookie handling, parsing form data and file uploads.
Also, when it comes to building those responses Django provides a dynamic template engine. Right out of the box, you are provided with a long list of filters and tags to create dynamic and extensible templates for a rich web application building experience.
By only using these specific pieces, you easily see how you can build a plain and simple micro-framework application inside a Django project.
We do know that there are some readers who may enjoy creating or adding their own utilities and libraries. We are not trying to take away from this experience, but show that using something like Django allows for fewer distractions. For example, instead of having to decide between Jinja2, Mako, Genshi, Cheetah, etc, you can simply use the existing template language while you focus on building out other parts. Fewer decisions up front make for a more enjoyable application building process.
Four short links: 28 February 2014
Minecraft+Pi+Python, Science Torrents, Web App Performance Measurement, and Streaming Data
- Programming Minecraft Pi with Python — an early draft, but shows promise for kids. (via Raspberry Pi)
- Terasaur — BitTorrent for mad-large files, making it easy for datasets to be saved and exchanged.
- Bucky — Open-source tool to measure the performance of your web app directly from your users' browsers. Nifty graph.
- Zoe Keating's Streaming Payouts — actual data on a real musician's distribution and revenues through various channels. Hint: streaming is tragicomically low-paying. (via Andy Baio)
Four short links: 31 January 2014
Mobile Libraries, Python Idioms, Graphics Book, and Declining Returns on Aging Link Bait
- Bolts — Facebook's library of small, low-level utility classes in iOS and Android.
- Python Idioms (PDF) — useful cheatsheet.
- Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book — Markdown source in github. Notable for elegance and instructive for those learning to optimise. Coder soul food.
- About Link Bait (Anil Dash) — excellent consideration of Upworthy's distinctive click-provoking headlines, but my eye was caught by we often don't sound like 2012 Upworthy anymore. Because those tricks are starting to dilute click rates. from Upworthy's editor-at-large. Attention is a scarce resource, and our brains are very good at filtering.
IPython: A unified environment for interactive data analysis
It has roots in academic scientific computing, but has features that appeal to many data scientists
As I noted in a recent post on reproducing data projects, notebooks have become popular tools for maintaining, sharing, and replicating long data science workflows. Much of that is due to the popularity of IPython1. In development since 2001, IPython grew out of the scientific computing community and has slowly added features that appeal to data scientists.
Roots in academic scientific computing
As IPython creator Fernando Perez noted in his "historical retrospective", exploratory analysis in a scientific setting requires a solid interactive environment. After years of development IPython has become a great tool for interacting with data. IPython also addresses other important pain points for scientists – reproducibility and collaboration – issues that are equally important to data scientists working in industry.
IPython is more than just Python
With an interactive widget architecture that's 100% language-agnostic, these days IPython is used by many other programming language communities2, including Julia, Haskell, F#, Ruby, Go, and Scala. If you're a data scientist who likes to mix-and-match languages, you can create, maintain, and share multi-language data projects in IPython:
Code Carabiners: Essential Protection Tools for Safe Programming
Assertions, regression tests, and version control
Programming any non-trivial piece of software feels like rock climbing up the side of a mountain. The larger and more complex the software, the higher the peak.
You can't make it to the top in one fell swoop, so you need to take careful steps, anchor your harnesses for safety, and set up camp to rest. Each time you start coding on your project, your sole goal is to make some progress up that mountain. You might struggle a bit to get set up at first, but once you get going, progress will be fast as you get the basic cases working. That's the fun part; you're in flow and slinging out dozens of lines of code at a time, climbing up that mountain step by steady step. You feel energized.
However, as you keep climbing, it will get harder and harder to write each subsequent line. When you run your program on larger data sets or with real user inputs, errors arise from rare edge cases that you didn't plan for, and soon enough, that conceptually elegant design in your head gives way to a tangled mess of patches and bug fixes. Your software starts getting brittle and collapsing under its own weight.
Four short links: 10 December 2013
Flexible Data, Google's Bottery, GPU Assist Deep Learning, and Open Sourcing
- ArangoDB — open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient sql-like query language or JavaScript extensions.
- Google's Seven Robotics Companies (IEEE) — The seven companies are capable of creating technologies needed to build a mobile, dexterous robot. Mr. Rubin said he was pursuing additional acquisitions. Rundown of those seven companies.
- Hebel (Github) — GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python.
- What We Learned Open Sourcing — my eye was caught by the way they offered APIs to closed source code, found and solved performance problems, then open sourced the fixed code.


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Obama has proposed some vague and insufficient ideas on which he places no emphasis and expends no political capital. Particularly since his second inaugural address, he has strongly defended the government in its current configuration while conceding the need for only "modest" reforms that are never urgent. This is not a "plan," it is an inside joke, made with a reassuring wink and nod to the Democratic base. It is the functional equivalent of no plan at all. A tree falling unheard in the forest makes no sound — particularly when there is no tree to start with.
The irresponsibility of this approach is so astounding that it does raise moral issues. Such complacency during Obama's second term will make gradual adjustments in entitlement programs more difficult. It will put tremendous pressure on nonentitlement federal spending, including programs for the young and poor. It will eventually undermine economic growth and leave the government with less flexibility to deal with future downturns or national emergencies.
Ideologically driven indifference to science or mathematics is common and predictable. But it does not change the level of the oceans — or of the red-ink sea.


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Aberdeen winger Ryan Fraser has been named young player of the month in the Scottish Premier League.
The 18-year-old received the Clydesdale Bank award after helping the Dons finish September unbeaten.
They drew with St Mirren, Inverness Caley Thistle and Motherwell before beating Hibernian in the SPL.
Fraser was rested for the League Cup win over Dunfermline Athletic, with manager Craig Brown wishing to protect the product of the club's youth policy.
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Peavey Plaza, the public space at 11th and Nicollet, is many things. It's a landmark of modernist design and the gateway to Orchestra Hall. It's a beloved public space and a magnet for unsavory activities.
It's also a space that could not be built today, as it doesn't comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. For this reason and others, Peavey Plaza is due for a renovation. The city has unveiled a plan for the future of the space that is designed to be more accessible.
"[It] honors the past, while equipping the plaza with features it needs to accommodate the uses of the 21st century," said City Council Member Lisa Goodman (7th Ward).
Originally built in 1974 based on a design by M. Paul Friedberg, Peavey Plaza is best known for its sunken plaza with built-in terraced seating and an elaborate cascading fountain. The fountain is generally dry these days, and many of the materials used in the plaza's construction are starting to break down. Its deteriorating condition landed it on the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota's list of the most endangered historical places in 2008. In order to save Peavey, something needed to be done. But many preservationists are saying that the city's plan for Peavey goes too far and eliminates too much of the plaza's original design.
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The new design from landscape architecture firm oslund.and.associates reimagines Peavey Plaza as a more functional space that can be programmed with more events. While the new vision pays homage to the original design, it would also radically change it and remove some of its iconic elements.
In the new plan, gone are the water sculpture at the corner of 12th and Nicollet and many of the plaza's more private corners. The depth of the recessed area would be reduced. A "sound garden" leading to the entrance of Orchestra Hall would respond to movements through it with lights and sound based on the performance inside the building. A permanent stage and green wall would be built into the southern end, and amenities like bathrooms, a concession stand and power hookups are also included. Of course, as per the public's input, water features remain a key component.
"The design takes its cues from what is here, but it actually organizes it into three specific rooms," says lead designer Tom Oslund. "One, the street room. The second, the performance room, which has the water basin and a series of seating areas and the third the garden or game room, which is on the lower level."
The new design features a lower basin with a reflecting pool filled with a quarter inch of water and animated water jets. The system is designed so that the water can be quickly and sustainably drained for events, unlike the current fountain, which flushes 112,000 gallons of water into the sewers every time it is drained.
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At the public unveiling of the redesign plan on Oct. 19, the new water features were singled out as the element people liked best.
However, many aspects have drawn criticism. A group calling itself the Supporters of Peavey Plaza, which includes members of preservation organizations such as Preserve Minneapolis and The Cultural Landscape Foundation, released a statement expressing their disappointment with both the plan and the process through which it was developed.
Several members of the group attended the Oct. 19 open house to restate their issues with the design.
"I am not happy with the plan just from a design standpoint," said Meg Arnosti, a landscape architect and Supporter of Peavey Plaza member who spoke out against the redesign at the public unveiling. "But also I'm not happy with the fact that a lot of a lot of us never got to see the plan until right now, and all of a sudden it's being presented as a fait accompli, which I think is poor considering that it's public money and I think there should have been more input or request for all sorts of ideas, rather than just giving it one designer and having a small group control the process."
Charles Birnbaum, founder of the Cultural Landscape Foundation and member of the original team selected to develop proposals for the Peavey Plaza, wrote an editorial for The Huffington Post slamming the design process and accused Orchestra Hall's management of hijacking the development process.
Both the city and Orchestra Hall disagree.
"This process has been as transparent as any process that I've been involved in, starting with the very public selection of the landscape architect last November," said CPED director Chuck Lutz. "Two hundred people at the convention center listened in as our city review committee decided that it was Oslund that would be the one to move forward. It's one thing not to like the design, but it's another thing not to like the process. I've seen these issues co-mingled, so I'm not sure which is the issue."
While the Minnesota Orchestra did organize a group of representatives from businesses, neighbors and community organizations to provide input on the redesign, its management also cites the transparency of the process and denies it had undue influence on the design process.
"The group was never intended to be a decision-making body," said Gwen Pappas, public relations director for the Minnesota Orchestra. "They were there to offer input but it would be the city's review panel that would make the final decision. Which I think is appropriate, because it is city property."
The Peavey Plaza redesign has plenty of vocal supporters as well.
"From what I've seen, I think they have incorporated all the things I'm interested in. Definitely the accessibility for the disabled," said Sydna Cheever, who attended the public unveiling. "It looks very nice. The water fountains are very important. I see where the stage is going to be and I think that might work too. They've put a lot of thought it. I'm for it."
Two City Council committees have approved the design and voted to send the redesign plan to the full council on Nov. 4. The plan is estimated to cost between $8–$10 million, $2 million of which has been obtained through state bonding funds. The rest of the funds are expected to come from private donors. Once approved, the redesign is expected to be complete by late 2013.
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FORTWORTH More information has arisen in the background of 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who was given a controversial probation sentence in a drunken driving crash that killed four in June.
Investigators said Couch was driving a pickup truck between 68 and 70 miles-per-hour in a 40 mph zone. The four who died were standing on the side of the road outside their vehicle. Nine others were hurt.
A judge ordered Couch to 10 years probation and a year's worth of in-house treatment at a California rehabilitation center after his attorneys argued he was a victim of affluenza and his parentssubstituted money fordiscipline.
Judge Jean Boyd could have sentenced Couch to 20 years behind bars.
Tuesday, the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office released a statement in which they revealed they are working to put the teen behind bars on two intoxication assault cases from the deadly June crash.
During his recent trial, the 16-year-old admitted his guilt in four cases of intoxication manslaughter and two cases of intoxication assault, read a statement from District Attorney Joe Shannon. There has been no verdict formally entered in the two intoxication assault cases. Every case deserves a verdict. The District Attorney s Office is asking the court to incarcerate the teen on the two intoxication assault case.
Psychologist Dr. G. Dick Miller testified that Couch's parents gave him freedoms no young person should have. He called Couch a product of affluenza, where his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences.
He said Couch got whatever he wanted. As an example, Miller said Couch's parents gave no punishment after police ticketed the then-15-year-old when he was found in a parked pickup with a passed out, undressed 14-year-old girl.
Miller also pointed out that Couch was allowed to drive at 13. He said the teen was emotionally flat and needed years of therapy.
Couch had access to a 4,000-square foot house on Burleson Retta Road. The home, where he often stayed alone, is listed in Tarrant County property records in his mother's name. The house is virtually unfurnished, but was available for him to party, unsupervised.
The accident took place less than a half mile from his home. Couch had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood, as well as Valium.
Tammy Overton, who lives a few doors away from Couch's house, said she was surprised that a 16 year old lived alone in the large house. But, her main concern over the case still lies in the fact that Couch received probation instead of jail time. Overton is a professional truck driver who knows the punishment she would face if she was behind the wheel during a deadly drunken driving crash.
I would lose my whole livelihood, she said. I would have the rest of my life taken away from me because I would be in jail. But, there were four people that lost their lives in that accident. There were four people who lost their lives and they don't get their lives back.
Couch's parents had their own brushes with the law.
Dating back to 1989, Fred Couch, Ethan's father, shows up 23 times in Johnson County police records. Included in the records are charges of criminal mischief, theft by check and assault. The cases were dismissed.
Tonya Couch, divorced from Ethan's father in 2007, was charged with reckless driving in 2003.


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- Running Time: 7:37 minutes.
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