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Saturday night's Elitch Gardens "Media Welcoming Party" at the outset of the Democratic National Convention looked to be a grand spectacle, with rides galore, rock-climbing walls (see a video of a young woman in cuffed jeans—a respectable journo, no doubt—scaling it as fireworks blast off in the Denver night air), and malt beverages courtesy of Molson Coors.
The headline sponsor was the Denver Newspaper Agency, which manages the business operations of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, but the DNC Host Committee helped organize the party, and its list of corporate sponsors bedecked an entire wall. Many a delegate and politician attended the media bash as well, raising the peripatetic question (given who is funding the parties they attend and with whom they're rubbing shoulders) of how heartily journalists should partake of the convention's slew of festivities.
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The first big party of the Democratic National Convention kicked off Saturday eve, and it was a megafest: Thousands of journalists, delegates, locals and assorted gawkers assembled for the welcoming party at Elitch Gardens, unofficially known as the media party.
While the giant Ferris wheel swirled and the Tilt-A-Whirl twirled, local media and political folks like Ken Salazar, Elbra Wedgeworth, Bertha Lynn (not working, in jeans and accompanied by her husband, Larry Naves), Craig Silverman — even former Republican Gov. Bill Owens — came to hear the Flobots, Railbenders and Debajo del Agua.
Flobots, eh? Though journalists joshing at political conventions with the people they're covering is old hat—the 1908 Denver DNC hosted an Elitch Garden party for a mixed bag of delegates and media folks too—it's worth pointing out how cavalier the mentions of such shoulder rubbing have been. Denver lawyer and major DNC fundraiser Steve Farber sipped a beer at Elitch, calling himself "just another party crasher." A local artist painted a portrait of the presumptive Democratic nominee on site (with proceeds to benefit the DNC host committee, of course). Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter was in attendance and looking for his kids. Denver DA Craig Silverman was carrying around a huge bag of stuffed animals he'd won. What sightings! But never fear—when spotted, Perlmutter was asked what he was most looking forward to in the coming week. Don't say that Politico doesn't do its job. (Apparently, it's poker with Ben Affleck.)
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This post explores a slightly unusual design choice for some key data structures at PathEngine.
More specifically, it's about polygon mesh data structures (in C++), and follows on from a previous post about polygon meshes 'in the style of std::vector'.
One of the consequences of a vector-like approach is that mesh elements can be referenced by index, and then accessing elements by index means we can break stuff apart.
It's a story of violated object oriented programming principles, broken encapsulation, and unsafe code, but the code we end up with is then more functional and a lot more fun to work with!
Measure Memory Allocation Cost, by Eliminating It
Over the years, I've learnt to be suspicious of any dynamic allocation in performance critical code, and moving allocations back up the call stack can often yield significant speedups.
But I'm guilty of being a little religious about this, on some occasions, and this hasn't always been for the best.
Dynamic allocation helps a lot with writing flexible and robust code. Changing code to remove dynamic allocations can make the code more complicated, brittle, and harder to maintain, and sometimes generalised memory allocation is really just the best tool for the job.
The first rule of optimisation is to measure. In this post I show how to measure when and where dynamic allocation is actually a significant overhead (and a worthwhile optimisation target), in a simple platform independent way.
(Sample code is in C++ but the core idea is straightforward and can be applied in other languages.)
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So I wanted to look up some local travel info, the other day.
There's a detailed PDF file available with exactly the information I need, but my smart-phone really struggles with this heavy-weight PDF.
Luckily, it turns out to be easy to pre-render the PDF to a big old jpeg and view this image with my phone's built-in image viewer.
This is so straightforward and convenient, I might as well share the details for the process here.
Vector Meshes
I remember that when the STL came out, vectors were quite a surprising new way to approach dynamic arrays. In this post we'll look at some of the implications of applying the vector 'paradigm' to a more involved data structure, the dynamic mesh.
We do a load of mesh processing at PathEngine, both during content-processing and at SDK run-time.
Sometimes this involves modifying the mesh, and we need dynamic mesh data structures to support this.
We started out using a traditional pointer-based, 'list-like' mesh data structure, but switched to a 'vector-like' approach, based on contiguous buffers, and from iterators to direct indexing..
Vector Hosted Lists
Vectors are great when adding or removing elements at the end of a sequence, but not so hot when deleting elements at arbitrary positions.
If that's a requirement, you might find yourself reaching for a pointer-based list.
Not so fast!
Memory locality is important, contiguous buffers are a really good thing, and a standard vector will often out-perform pointer-based lists even where you perform non-contiguous, list-style modifications such as arbitrary element deletion.
And we can 'host' a list within a vector to get the advantages of a contiguous buffer at the same time as 0(1) complexity for these kinds of manipulations.
Atomic Cross-Chain Exchange
Cryptocurrencies are great for decentralised payments. Once you have bitcoin you can pay arbitrary destinations without the need to trust in, or get the approval of, any third party.
But what about if you want to exchange your bitcoin for something else, say another cryptocurrency?
This normally means registering with a third party exchange service, and trusting that third party service not to lose your funds during the exchange. It's not ideal, and doesn't really fit with the whole decentralised thing!
It turns out that proper atomic exchange between two cryptocurrencies isn't fundamentally hard, as long as you have the right building blocks, and this is something that I think should then be standardised across different cryptocurrencies.
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In PathEngine, we do a lot of stuff on the surfaces of ground meshes.
One example is tracking the ground position for a moving agent, which is implemented as traversal along a 2D line through a mesh.
When coding stuff like this the need to check and handle special case conditions like vertex crossings, or traversal exactly along an edge, can add a lot of complexity.
In this post I talk about a technique we use in PathEngine, based on an infinitesimally offset mesh model, to eliminate these kinds of special case conditions and simplify our mesh based geometry.
Fast Resettable Flag Vector
Another custom container post for my Vectors and Vector Based Containers series.
In this post I'll look at an alternative implementation of the humble bit vector, designed specifically for optimising zero fill operations.
It's not a new technique, and not particularly complicated to implement, but it's not completely obvious, and it's something that gave us some noticeable speedups when applied to PathEngine so I think it's worth sharing here.
Fast Blockchain Scanning
(Another post about bitcoin RPC from Python.)
For certain bitcoin applications you'll need to perform some kind of processing on all of the transactions coming through on the bitcoin block chain. In a bitcoin wallet application, for example, you need to check each new transaction to identify any outputs which are spendable by the wallet, and add the corresponding amounts to the wallet balance.
In this post we'll look at how to do this with bitcoin RPC calls.
Theres one obvious way to achieve this, but the obvious approach requires a full transaction index, and also works out to be quite inefficient. I'll show you a less obvious, and more efficient way to do this, without the transaction index requirement.
Bitcoin RPC from Python
The reference bitcoin client includes a powerful API and RPC interface.
In this post I show you how to call into this from Python (which is something that turns out to be almost trivially easy to set up).
Python can work well as a kind of (overpowered) scripting language for automating complicated tasks through the bitcoin reference client, but this is also a great way to get started out if you're interested in writing more involved software that works with bitcoin transactions or the bitcoin blockchain.
Custom Vector Allocation
(Number 6 in a series of posts about Vectors and Vector based containers.)
A few posts back I talked about the idea of 'rolling your own' STL-style vector class, based on my experiences with this at PathEngine.
In that original post and these two follow-ups I talked about the general approach and also some specific performance tweaks that actually helped in practice for our vector use cases.
I haven't talked about custom memory allocation yet, however. This is something that's been cited in a number of places as a key reason for switching away from std::vector so I'll come back now and look at the approach we took for this (which is pretty simple, but nonstandard, and also pre C++11), and assess some of the implications of using this kind of non-standard approach.
I approach this from the point of view of a custom vector implementation, but I'll be talking about some issues with memory customisation that also apply more generally.
Zero Initialisation for Classes
(Number 5 in a series of posts about Vectors and Vector based containers.)
This is a response to comments on a previous post, roll your own vector, and has also been rewritten and updated fairly significantly since first posted.
In roll your own vector I talked about a change we made to the initialisation semantics for PathEngine's custom vector class. In my first followup post I looked more closely at possibilities for replacing resize() with reserve() (which can avoid the initialisation issue in many cases), but so far I'm been concentrating pretty much exclusively on zero initialisation for built-in types. In this post I come back to look at the issue of initialisation semantics for class element types.
Avoid resize()?
(Number 4 in a series of posts about Vectors and Vector based containers.)
This post is essentially a response to feedback to this previous post.
In that post I talked about a change we made to the initialisation semantics for PathEngine's custom vector class, and described a specific use case where this can make a difference, with that use case involving calls to the vector resize() method.
In the comments for that post, Herb Sutter says:
Thomas, I think the point is that "reserve + push_back/emplace_back" is the recommended style and the one people do use. Really resize() is not used often in the code I've seen; you use resize() only when you want that many extra default-constructed elements, since that's what it's for.
In this post I'll be looking into our use case in a bit more detail, and in particular whether or not a resize() call is actually required.
Roll-Your-Own Vector
(Third in a series of posts about Vectors and Vector based containers.)
STL vectors offer a great combination of dynamically resizing convenience and low level contiguous buffer accessing performance, but std::vector is not the only option, and custom implementations of this container can sometimes be a better fit for your specific requirements.
Efficient Vectors of Vectors
(Second in a series of posts about Vectors and Vector based containers.)
STL style vectors are convenient because they hide the details of internal buffer management, and present a simplified interface, but sometimes convenience can be a trap!
In my previous post I touched briefly on STL vectors with non-simple element types, and mentioned the 'vector of vectors' construct in particular as a specific source of memory woes.
In this post I'll talk about this construct in more detail, explain a bit about why there is an issue, and go on to suggest a fairly straightforward alternative for many situations.
Using STL Vectors
(First in a series of posts about Vectors and Vector based containers.)
STL style vectors are a pretty useful construct.
I remember coming to C++ (and the STL) from a background in lower level programming, and finding STL vectors a bit surprising, with the idea of amortized constant time complexity and so on.
And then it was actually something of a minor revolution just to be able to set up a contiguous data buffer, without any significant programming effort, and without knowing the maximum required buffer size in advance.
Before we had C++ and the STL I remember a common source of errors being dynamically generated data overflowing fixed buffers, which is something we just don't see any more, thanks in no small part to the humble vector (and brethren).
But convenience can come at a cost, and there's some stuff you need to be careful about when applying STL vectors in performance critical situations.
In this post I'll discuss the main ways in which STL style vectors are applied in PathEngine, and look at some of the key performance and memory points coming out of this.


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CGR: 'Generally Better To Sell'
"Times are bleak for county nursing homes."
The sentence is the first under the conclusions and recommendations section of a Centers for Governmental Research study on The Future of County Nursing Homes in New York State.
The report goes on to say virtually all county homes in New York state are losing money, with county subsidies increasing as a result. Additionally, it acknowledges county nursing homes have provided valuable services to residents throughout the state for many years.
CGR also found that while several counties across New York state have recently decided to sell their county-owned nursing homes, are in the process of selling or are thinking about selling their homes, just over half of the 33 counties owning homes at the beginning of 2013 are not certain they will sell. Nearly a third of the counties seem to be content with the current realities of the homes and do not wish to sell.
"County homes have many significant strengths and attributes, and have provided needed long-term care services to many 'hard-to-place' county residents, regardless of their financial situations, many of whom in all likelihood would not have been served by other for-profit or nonprofit homes," the CGR report states.
It also concludes that in recent sales of county nursing homes, evidence suggests that generally low-income and other 'safety net' individuals have not 'fallen through the cracks' or been forced to go outside the community for nursing home services.
However, the report also concludes reimbursement levels are far below the actual cost of services; few county homes can afford to continue to conduct business as they have in the past; much of the operating deficit is attributable to high costs of benefits; and the future of IGT payments is uncertain, among other points.
"To effectively address a number of the issues raised by this study, parallel and complementary actions will need to be taken at both state and county levels," the CGR report states.
It goes on to give a number of findings and recommendations for each level. The report encourages each county to engage in a careful due diligence process of examining a range of options concerning the future of its home. Additionally, it finds that "it is generally better for a county to sell its nursing home then to either close it or continue to lose significant amounts of taxpayer money, as long as it is able to sell to a responsible buyer meeting various criteria and expectations important to the county."
Ron Johnson, Democratic candidate for county executive and a businessman who has a background in adult homes, expressed his frustration on the situation specifically regarding the Chautauqua County Home.
"From day one, I've said that I don't believe the numbers; that the County Home can be financially sustainable, and that we need to make a business decision on that, not a political one, which we seem to be doing," he said. "What's frustrating is, because I've been in this business all my life, it would be like if we had a hot-button political issue having to due with fighter pilots, and I want (for example) a simple answer on why we don't treat them better, or something. Vince would be frustrated, like I am (now), because he would know that there is no simple answer to that, that the answer is nuanced and it's incredibly complex.
"To me, the County Home is a small part of the things that are going on in the county, and it's a very small problem, because I think it's a problem that can be fixed. By this becoming a problem, that frustrates me, because I think we're taking the eye off the ball. It's kind of like we took our eye off the ball when we were worrying whether there's 25 legislators or 19, or whether they should pay me $85,000 or $109,000. Who cares? We've got some serious problems that we've got to address and fix. The County Home has been a political football, and they've got to stop doing it," Johnson continued. "We've got to be more aware of the continuum of care, we've got to get a better process. The county has got to support assisted living in the community. We have to include our labor force in our decision-making processes. And, we have to continue to give the amazing care they give at the County Home, for those residents and their families."
His opponent in the county executive race, Republican Vince Horrigan – who is also currently a county legislator – has voted in favor of selling the Chautauqua County Home several times.
"This report clearly validates that we are not unique here in Chautauqua County," Horrigan said. "It is time to accept the fact that nursing homes should not be run by government. Eight counties are in the process of privatizing their government nursing homes and five more are actively considering privatization as the right way forward. The only sustainable business model for nursing homes without taxpayer subsidy is found in the private sector. When you sell your home you move out and never go back.
"The County Home 'selling' process is different," he continued. "No one will be moving out unless they want to. Substantial private investment will create new jobs through the opportunity to create new assisted living options on the campus. Existing employees who pass a background check will be offered employment and will continue to take care of the same residents. The Chautauqua County Home will turn from a property tax consumer to a property tax supplier. Taxpayers will get property tax relief. The County Home will become sustainable through a proven business model which right now is successfully caring for over 800 Chautauqua County skilled nursing residents – over 70 percent on Medicaid. I understand why change creates uncertainty and fear. But we are at a critical time where we can seize the opportunity of private investment to create a sustainable nursing home with new modalities of care, job growth, and lower property taxes."
Current County Executive Greg Edwards said he is very happy the CGR report was completed, published and reviewed across the state.
"Here are the professionals who studied the marketplace from end-to-end in New York state, looking at the 33 county homes, comparing them, and their analysis was consistent: County homes are unsustainable," Edwards said. "I'm thrilled that we have such an excellent offer on the table for us to consider in Chautauqua County, where we can expand the service, keep the jobs, keep the people paid at similar rates, with the only modification being that they will not be a part of the New York state Defined Benefit Program. We find ourselves in an excellent spot in Chautauqua County, because as more and more county homes come up for and are sold, there will be less and less market for them. Clearly, now is the best time for us to have such a good company looking at our County Home, and helping the legislature do their due diligence that they do constantly to reach a sale on the County Home."
Over the last year, the Chautauqua County Legislature has heard from three parties interested in the Chautauqua County Home.
In October 2012, William (Avi) Rothner of Altitude Health Systems, presented his offer of $16.5 million to the Chautauqua County Legislature. In February of this year, the legislature voted against selling the home to Rothner, but expressed it would be interested in selling the home to a different buyer.
Edwards announced in August of this year that Richard Platschek of 10836 Temple Realty LLC and Chautauqua Restorative and Nursing Center LLC had offered $16.5 million cash with a $1.65 million good faith deposit to the county. Although the legislature was scheduled to meet with Platschek, the meeting was called off after the deposit was not made.
The latest group expressing interest in purchasing the Chautauqua County Home was introduced to the legislature during its regularly scheduled August meeting. Martin and Edward Farbenblum and Shannon Cayea of VestraCare made a presentation during the meeting, but were barred by Legislative Chairman Jay Gould, R-Ashville, from taking questions. The group expressed they would be interested in returning to answer questions from the legislature, but according to Gould, so far no such meeting has been scheduled.


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c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In the story of Jesus, Pontius Pilate is little more than a footnote, his 15 minutes of fame stemming from a cameo appearance in the Easter drama when he sentences the son of God to die on the cross _ a decision that forms the crux of Christian belief that Jesus died on the cross for the sins of humanity. His role in Jesus' death is nearly all that can be certain about this Roman governor of Judea. Still, Pilate's image has been endlessly re-fashioned in the centuries since that fateful encounter with Jesus. From the penitent Christian convert of medieval legend to the saint of the African Coptic tradition to the biblical boogeyman of the 20th century, his image has constantly shifted.


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Whether you agree politically with Obamacare or not, if you have holdings in the insurance sector you need to keep a vigilant watch on some companies because of the latest move by the government to force insurers to cover unpaid patients, even if they suffer a loss as a result.
This is a move by the administration to deflect responsibility for the fiasco to insurance companies because of people losing their coverage as a result of the law, according to Forbes.
How it's going down is the health plans that were held by some consumers got canceled, and now they have no health care heading into 2014. The White House has decided to use extreme pressure, communicating to insurers that it wants them to provide insurance to those that have lost it, no matter what the consequences are.
On the surface this is made to look voluntary, but the language of the 'new' regulations of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it may move health plans currently qualified off of the exchanges in 2014 if they don't comply with the "request" of the government.
Unpaid premiums is the biggest issue, with other considerations being refilling prescriptions that were covered under prior plans, and to act as if out-of-network providers are in-network in order to "ensure continuity of care." What that really means is including the more costly insurers in the plans. Unpaid premiums are the biggest thing to watch, and the issue that will have by far the biggest negative impact on companies.
It's interesting to see these insurers potentially eating the consequences of a health plan they backed and wanted.
Companies Most Affected
Based upon the number of uninsured eligible people who qualify for exchanges, here are the top 5 insurance companies that will be affected by the situation: Aetna (NYSE:AET), Humana (NYSE:HUM), Cigna (NYSE:CI), Molina (NYSE:MOH) and WellPoint (WLP).
The challenge with all of these and other insurers for investors, is there is no way of knowing the depth of the effect on them if they go along with this idea.
If they do, there isn't a reliable way of projecting how many people would sign up for the plans. All one can do is understand, based upon the order of the companies listed above, the exposure they have to this new situation.
Assuming the insurance companies give in to the demands, investors at least can see among these companies the probable order of the impact.
The Companies
Aetna has come out and said it won't reinstate insurance plans that have been canceled, nor will it extend them. It is the largest insurance company so far to say it won't do so. It is the third-largest insurer in the U.S. One report says the company will give people until Jan. 8 to pay their premiums.
Overall Aetna offers plans in 16 states, which covers approximately 30% of the exchange marketplace. For the long haul, Aetna said it should add customers in close to 15% of the exchange marketplaces.
If Humana experiences a significant number of new Obamacare customers under the proposed parameters of the HHS, it could be hit very hard because of it experienced a weak third quarter as a result of higher costs. Earnings in the latest quarter fell 14%, making it vulnerable if it accepts the "request" of the White House.
Cigna said it has a new team in place that is trained to deal with issues related to new enrollees after January 1, 2014.
According to Molina Healthcare Chief Executive Officer J. Mario Molina, his major concern is having at least some information in the company's database so that if there are some people that get medical services performed, it will at least have something to go on.
If people don't show up in the database, it would be a nightmare to figure out, as it will be with all the insurance companies.
Finally, Wellpoint should do fairly well in this scenario, as will Molina, because of the significant exposure to Medicaid for the two companies, which has experienced the most sign ups under Obamacare to this day. Expectations are Medicaid enrollment will continue to grow.
The two companies shouldn't have near the potential fallout its competitors may have with the new expectations from the HHS.
What May Help the Insurers
Interestingly, what may help the insurers under these difficult circumstances could be the failure of the federal exchange, which has had relatively few of those projected to sign up, do so. That could limit the effect of the unofficial policy of HHS. That's not a given, but it could be a factor.
If they eat a lot of the costs because of being forced to accept customers that haven't paid a premium, the only reprieve may be the poor performance of the exchange itself.
The problem for investors is it adds one more element into an already volatile and complex situation; one which may cause them to pause until things become more clear.
In the short term though, this could have a potentially dramatic impact on some insurers in this quarter and the first quarter of 2014.
If the White House continues to take heat from the terrible implementation of the exchange and young people don't sign up for healthcare, it could take even more drastic steps that could have a negative effect on the insurance industry.
There is long-term potential in the industry, but much of it lacks clarity, and will depend upon how much exposure there is to Obamacare and what type of exposure it is.
Another factor is all of the companies mentioned in the article, with the exception of Molina, have done very well over the last 12 months. With the added pressures from the Obamacare debacle, there is a strong possibility these stocks could pull back if things get worst before they get better.
This pressure from HHS is just the type of negative catalyst that could drag them down. Over the longer term, if the administration and HHS continue to change the game if the system remains dysfunctional, it'll make it harder to project the future performances of the company.
As for the pressure from HHS, some are spinning it as a suggestion, but the fact that it threatens companies with the removal of qualified health plans from the exchanges if they don't comply with their request, makes it at its core an unofficial law. This isn't a true request, it is an order. Investors need to keep that in mind as they make decisions on companies with significant exposure to Obamacare.
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The Ute Indians of Colorado in the Twentieth Century
This comparative history of the Southern Ute and Mountain Ute peoples demonstrates how two culturally and historically related tribes, living side by side in southwestern Colorado, have taken very different paths in the modern era. Historian Richard K. Young makes a unique contribution to twentieth-century American Indian studies in his exploration of Colorado s two remaining tribes divergent responses to federal Indian policies and changing economic and social conditions since passage of the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934.
This book, which includes a review of the Utes precontact and nineteenth-century history, is based on primary research in U. S. and tribal documents, interviews with tribal members, and the few available secondary sources. By examining the Ute experience, Young highlights the dilemmas faced by all tribes with respect to economic development, energy and water resources, cultural identity and adaptation, spiritual life, tribal politics, and the struggle for tribal self-determination.
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text: Everything evolves. In the case of Bluetooth headsets, they've moved beyond the business travel accessories of the mid-2000s into a widespread technology bringing stereo music to millions. Mono Bluetooth headsets are still out there, though, and they're still indispensible if you make a lot of calls while walking or driving. In this list, we spotlight three different kinds of Bluetooth headsets: classic mono models for talking; stereo earphones designed for exercise; and over-the-ear wireless headphones (the latter two also handle calls). If you're primarily interested in listening to music, though, check out our list of the Best Wireless Headphones, and if you're looking for a wireless speaker (which often have built-in speakerphone functionality), check out the Best Wireless Speakers. Picking the right Bluetooth headset might seem simple, but it actually comes with a challenge that's unique to all headphones, and, well, anything that needs to be placed in your ear: It's tough (and not completely sanitary) to try products out before plunking down the cash for them. But a major component of a headset's success depends on how it fits and feels—and that varies widely from person to person, or even from ear to ear. Other important factors include sound quality, design, style, battery life, and extra features. We've come up with eight points you should consider when shopping for your next Bluetooth headset: 1. Mono vs. StereoStereo headsets aren't just for listening to music. They also make calls, often quite well. So if you're thinking about a pair of wireless headphones to rock out to, you may not need a separate mono Bluetooth headset. All of the stereo headsets in our list also make calls. That said, stereo headsets are usually bigger and heavier than mono headsets, and while an over-the-ear pair of headphones may be great at listening to calls, the outbound noise cancellation abilities of their microphones may not be up to heavy street noise. 2. Call QualityCall quality is an issue in both directions; one headset might sound full and crisp in the earpiece, but then transmit a thin, computerized-sounding version of your voice to the person you're talking to. If call quality is the most important consideration for you, you'll want to check out the Editors' Choice Plantronics Voyager 5200. 3. Noise CancellationNoise suppression is tough to measure from your end of the call, as it's what the other party hears that's important. How well you can be heard when you're in a speeding car with the windows down, or in the middle of a noisy conference room, can quickly separate the good performers from the bad. Headsets with two or three mics usually perform the best, as there's at least one mic dedicated to detecting ambient noise, which the headset can then cancel out using adaptive digital signal processing algorithms. We test noise cancellation performance in every one of our Bluetooth headset reviews. 4. Battery LifeA guiding principle with mono headsets: If you don't want to charge, go large. Some of the bulkier, less fashionable headsets like the Plantronics M55 can last for more than 10 hours on a single charge; the more expensive Voyager 5200 (no svelte elf, itself) lasts about six hours. But watch out! There are some real turkeys out there, such as Jabra's Stone line, which can't even eke out two hours of talk time, so keep an eye on our test results. 5. ComfortThis is a very personal choice. The best in-ear headsets have a range of fit styles—for instance, several different sizes of eartips, plus an option for an over-the-ear hook in case headsets always fall out of your ear. 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text: college Michigan colleges struggle when students drop out, keep aid By The Associated Press • Feb 17, 2013 Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Michigan colleges are stuck with a bill worth millions of dollars when students with federal grants drop out but keep the cash.The Detroit Free Press says Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn likely will raise tuition, partly to repay $4.1 million to the federal government. Spokesman Gary Erwin says two-year colleges have been hit "particularly hard." Stateside: Gender neutral housing at universities By Stateside Staff • Feb 14, 2013 Wikimedia Commons Listen Listening... / 18:51 Universities across the country are opening up campus housing to transgender students and it's happening right here in Michigan. The University of Michigan housing has announced it will set aside a block of gender neutral rooms for transgender and gender non-conforming students in the fall of 2013, as a part of the gender inclusive living experience. We speak with Amy Navvab, a student at the University of Michigan and Chair of the Open Housing Initiative, and Amanda Hobson, Residential Coordinator at Ohio University where gender neutral housing is already available to students. Listen to the interview above. In move to Dartmouth, UM provost calls tuition increases 'unsustainable' By Mark Brush • Nov 30, 2012 Dartmouth College It was announced yesterday that University of Michigan provost Phil Hanlon will become the next president of Dartmouth College starting July 1, 2013. Hanlon, 57, is a graduate of Dartmouth and will become the college's 18th president. In a New York Times piece, Hanlon indicated that university funding, in its current form, is reaching a breaking point: Dr. Hanlon, who will be the 10th Dartmouth graduate to become its president, said he expected to focus closely on the college's cost structure and finances. "The historic funding model for higher ed is close to unsustainable," he said. "We can't continue superinflationary tuition increases." Stateside: Paying off a degree of debt By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Nov 27, 2012 user TheKuLeR / Wikimedia Commons Listen Listening... / 18:09 Graduating from college brings with it many things - four years of academic achievement, a degree, and for some... substantial financial debt. Continuing our student debt conversation we spoke today with Detroit Free Press financial columnist Susan Tompor. Pam Fowler, Executive Director of Financial Aid at the University of Michigan, also joing us. According to Tompor, one of the primary reasons students fall so deeply into debt is their failure to record the money they borrow. Update: investigation dropped into alleged hate crime By Kate Wells • Sep 27, 2012 Natalie Kolb / Image used with permission of The State News Update: September 27, 2012 1:15 pm The Ingham county prosecutor won't press any charges in the alleged assault and hate crime involving MSU student Zachary Tennen - and Tennen's family supports that call. EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — No charges will be brought following an investigation into an assault on a Michigan State University student who claimed he was punched and had his jaw broken because he's Jewish, a prosecutor said Thursday. 50 years of friendship across continents, poverty, and war By Kate Wells • Sep 14, 2012 Photo courtesy of Jackie Ladwein This next story is about an epic friendship between a white, 76-year-old Grand Rapids teacher, and the driven Liberian boy she inspired 50 years ago when she was a young Peace Corps volunteer. Their bond has survived hunger, poverty, and a brutal civil war. And it's created ripples across Liberia, leading to the country's first school for social workers . Now, it's reuniting both friends back here in Michigan. Too much emphasis on a four-year degree, says Michigan Governor By Rick Pluta • Sep 13, 2012 Governor Snyder's office / State of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said Michigan and the rest of the country lost sight of the value of vocational training as young people were encouraged to get four-year college degrees. The governor spoke today at a business conference in Grand Rapids, the West Michigan Policy Forum. He said too many students have been pushed toward getting four-year college degrees when vocational education or community college might have made more sense. "And so we sorta messed up over the past 20 or 30 years, 40 years. We've lost the focus on how important those roles are," said Snyder. The governor said the result is thousands of jobs in skilled trades go unfilled while people are looking for work. "How dumb was that? I mean, if you stop and think about it. So we did supply on one chart, demand on another chart, and when everyone knows we need to have one chart where we bring supply and demand together, and create talent, and connect it," said Snyder. Snyder says he intends to convene a summit of educators and employers early next year to get a better sense of where the demand for jobs is strongest – and use that information to help re-design Michigan's education system. The governor has also called for stronger integration of pre-school through post-high school education. Oakland University, professors reach 3-year deal By The Associated Press • Aug 31, 2012 Oakland University ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) - Oakland University in suburban Detroit and its professors have reached a three-year proposed tentative contract agreement. The agreement was announced early Friday in a posting on the website of the 700-member Oakland University chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Details of the proposed agreement are expected to be made public later. It's expected to include pay increases, merit pay adjustments and changes to benefits. Classes begin Tuesday at the school. Voting to ratify the contract likely will take place in a few weeks. In 2009, professors at the school went on strike for a week starting the day classes were expected to begin before a tentative contract agreement was reached. EMU and professors' union reach tentative 3-year contract agreement By Mark Brush • Aug 17, 2012 flickr user krossbow / http://michrad.io/1LXrdJM Eastern Michigan University officials announced today they've reached a tentative agreement with the union representing EMU faculty members.The current contract with the union was set to expire at midnight on August 31. EMU students start classes on Wednesday, September 5. EMU officials say the contract "provides for salary increases of 2 percent per year for each year of the contract, as well as changes to health care plans." Michigan's graduates cope with mounting student loan debt By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jul 27, 2012 Lam Thuy Vo / NPR Students at Michigan's five largest universities sought more loans to pay for college, according to a Detroit Free Press database. These students will join recent graduates around the country whose outstanding private and federal education debts have topped $1 trillion, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. According to the data, as of 2010, students in Michigan have the 11th highest average debt of any state. More young Michiganders are getting college degrees By Steve Carmody • Jul 12, 2012 Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio A new report shows a growing percentage of Michigan young people have college degrees. But one expert says the state must do more to keep those graduates from leaving the state. Michigan State University hikes tuition 3.5% By Steve Carmody • Jun 22, 2012 Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio It's going to cost the average Michigan State University student $210 more to attend the fall semester. The MSU Trustees today approved a 3.5 percent tuition increase for next year. The increase will be slightly higher for out-of-state students. Lou Anna Simon is president of MSU. She says no one wants to raise college tuition. "There are stories about students who are definitely in debt at a higher level than they should be," Simon told the MSU Board of Trustees before the vote. Other Michigan public colleges and universities also approved tuition hikes this week, including the University of Michigan and Michigan Tech. Michigan court district ranks No. 1 in lawsuits filed against student loan defaulters By Michigan Radio Newsroom • May 16, 2012 Wikimedia Commons Federal data show that a federal court district in Michigan ranks number one in the country for the number of federal lawsuits filed against individuals who default on their student loans. Relative to population size, defaulters in the Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit) were prosecuted at a rate about 10 times the national average during March 2012. The Central District of California (Los Angeles) came in second, and the Northern District of New York came in third. Out of the 279 suits filed in March, 57 were filed in the Eastern District of Michigan, 140 in the Central District of California and 13 in the Northern District of New York. The report, published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, compared the total number of civil filings per month since March 2007. The number remained relatively stable (between 200 and 250) until Spring 2009, when it dipped slightly, bottoming out at 168 in December of that year. The number then rose substantially to 598 in April 2011 before declining again towards the early 2009 average. The Eastern District of Michigan's leadership in per capita student debt lawsuits is nothing new. The court topped the ranks five years ago and came in second last year, according to the TRAC report. The Institute for College Access & Success, a non-profit research and policy organization, reported that 60 percent of 2010 Michigan graduates carried student debt, owing an average of $25,675 — the 11th highest average in the nation. - Suzanne Jacobs, Michigan Radio Newsroom A pitch for graduating students - following your passion is key By Mercedes Mejia • May 8, 2012 Mercedes Mejia / Michigan Radio It's graduation season across the country, and students are deciding what they want to do with their lives. Seventy-one-year-old Ernie Caviani is a piano tuner and technician. He says following your passion is key. Listen Listening... / 3:41 Michigan Radio producer Mercedes Mejia has this audio postcard. Commentary: College for all? By Jack Lessenberry • May 3, 2012 It's hard to see the future. If you had been around during the Cretaceous Period, sixty-five million years ago, it would have been obvious that the world belonged to the huge and magnificent dinosaurs which dominated the planet. Nobody would have paid much attention to the little rat-like things called mammals scurrying around the forest floors. But in the end, they would inherit the earth. U of M leads effort to integrate "arts practices" at research universities By Jennifer Guerra • Mar 25, 2012 Dani Davis The University of Michigan is leading an effort to get the arts to play a bigger role at research universities. Reading, writing, and "making" are the skills Theresa Reid wants to see emphasized in higher education. EMU to offer new degree in Jewish Studies By Jennifer Guerra • Feb 23, 2012 Eastern Michigan University students who want to immerse themselves in Jewish history and culture will now be able to get credit for it; the school now offers a minor in Jewish Studies. Marty Shichtman is director of Jewish Studies at EMU. He says classes will range from the history of Judaism to the Holocaust to the state of Israel and the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict: University of Michigan students holding bone marrow registry drive tomorrow By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Feb 15, 2012 AndrewH324 / Flickr University of Michigan students are harnessing the power of Facebook to promote a bone marrow registry drive to take place tomorrow at the Michigan Union. A Michigan student who recently became ill with a severe bone marrow disease could potentially find the bone marrow donor he needs at tomorrow's event. Daniel Lee, a junior at the University of Michigan was diagnosed with aplastic anemia just over a month ago. His condition means his bone marrow no longer produces enough blood cells and he needs an emergency bone marrow transplant. University of Michigan junior, Jessica Kaltz began planning the bone marrow drive several months ago. She organized the event in partnership with her sorority, Sigma Kappa, and DKMS, a non-profit organization that recruits bone marrow donors. Kaltz, who says she was unaware one of her classmates might benefit when she came up with the idea, says, "It's amazing to see how many people care when you put a face to the cause." MSU expanding reach of medical research By Steve Carmody • Feb 7, 2012 user JohnE777 / Flickr Michigan State University's Human Medicine program is expanding its research facilities far away from East Lansing. Last month, MSU announced its buying the old Grand Rapids Press building. This week, developers say they hope to turn an old newspaper building in Flint into a home for MSU medical researchers. Aron Sousa is an associate dean at the MSU College of Human Medicine. He says expansions in Grand Rapids and Flint, as well as Midland and Traverse City, reflect the communities' needs. "Both the college [of Human Medicine] and the university want to be more active across the state. We're the land grant school for the state of Michigan. We take that mission and that history seriously," says Sousa. MSU is ending some medical programs in Kalamazoo and Saginaw, to make way for new medical schools at Western and Central Michigan Universities. Wayne State toughens admissions standards By Sarah Cwiek • Feb 1, 2012 Wayne State University is changing its admissions standards and retention policies in an effort to boost graduation rates. Wayne State used to admit students automatically based on a minimum gradepoint average or test scores. Crowd gathers in Ann Arbor to hear President Obama speak By Mark Brush & Jennifer Guerra • Jan 27, 2012 Update 12:56 p.m. President Barack Obama was at the campus of the University of Michigan today, where he laid out his plan for how to make higher education more affordable. "Shared responsibility" was a big theme in President Obama's speech. Mr. Obama called on states to make higher education funding a higher priority in their state; on Congress to extend tuition tax credits, and double the number of work study jobs available; on colleges and universities to do what they need to do to keep costs down. "So from now on I'm telling Congress: We should steer federal campus-based aid to those colleges that keep tuition affordable, provide good value, serve their students well. We are putting colleges on notice. You can't assume that you'll just jack up tuition every year. If you can't stop tuition from going up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down." Mr. Obama also introduced a new, $1 billion Race to the Top competition to reward states that come up bigger, more systemic ways to reduce college costs: "We're telling the states: If you can find new ways of bringing down the cost of college and make it easier for more students to graduate, we'll help you do it. We will give you additional federal support, if you are doing a good job of making sure that all of you aren't loaded up with debt when you graduate from college." The President also wants to create a "report card" of sorts for colleges and universities, so that parents and students better understand how a school is doing, how affordable it is, how well its students are going. And while the roughly 4,000 students in the crowd cheered at Mr. Obama's overall college affordability proposal, not everyone is on board with it. As Tamar Lewin from the New York Times reports, the President's proposal has "raised hackles in higher-education circles": "When we hear things like a shift in federal aid, it causes our antennas to go straight up," said Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education. "Anything that smacks of price controls is of great concern on many levels, especially at a time when states are cutting their budgets — and if the effect of this is to limit tuition, what else would you call it but price controls?" Ms. Broad said that she and university presidents across the nation shared the president's commitment to affordable higher education, but that it was not so easy to keep tuition down at a time when institutions must also absorb state budget cuts, increase enrollment and bolster financial aid for the growing number of families who need it. The President delivered his remarks to roughly 4,000 people, mostly students, at the Al Glick Field House on U of M's campus. 9:20 a.m. The stage is up, and the crowd is gathering to hear President Obama deliver remarks at 9:35 a.m. at the Al Glick Field House at the University of Michigan. You can listen to his speech by clicking our "listen live" link above. Michigan Radio's Jennifer Guerra is at the event and will bring us details of the event later today. Mr. Obama's speech is part of a nationwide tour where he is adding details to plans he outlined in his State of the Union speech. Today, standing in front of a sign that reads "An America Built to Last," Obama will talk about his ideas for keeping college education affordable. This morning, the White House released a "blueprint" for his plan. We'll post more on those ideas soon. At University of Michigan today, Obama to lay out ideas for keeping college affordable By Mark Brush • Jan 27, 2012 White House In the last two decades, the cost of attending one year of college in a four-year institution has gone from an average of $7,602 in 1990-1991, to an average of $21,189 in 2009-2010. And for Michigan's 15 public universities, tuition and fees for in-state undergraduates have more than doubled in the last ten years - going from an average of $5,056 in 2001-2002 to an average of $10,551 in 2011-2012 The public universities in Michigan, as in many states, have been adjusting to big cuts in state funding. In her "Open Letter to President Obama" last month, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman called Michigan "ground zero" for higher education funding cuts: Republican state lawmakers propose reductions in Michigan university boards By Michigan Radio Newsroom & Allison Lyons • Jan 3, 2012 Some Republican state lawmakers are questioning whether each state university in Michigan needs its own board of trustees. State Rep. Bill Rogers is sponsoring a proposal to evaluate the need for separate boards. Rogers said it's part of an effort to make college education less expensive and more efficient. Mike Boulus, the executive director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan, said having separate boards allows universities to make quick decisions. Big Ten & Pac 12 reach deal to expand partnership By Steve Carmody • Dec 28, 2011 (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio) Michigan State and the University of Michigan will be playing more west coast teams in the future. A deal announced Wednesday could mean the Big Ten will wield more power in the increasingly competitive world of college athletics. Other college sports conferences have added schools in recent years to make themselves more competitive. The Big Ten is effectively adding another entire conference. Adrian College to improve gender equity in sports By The Associated Press • Sep 17, 2011 Flickr/go mustangs Adrian College has agreed to changes after federal investigators found the small, liberal arts school has discriminated against female student athletes. The Detroit Free Press reports Saturday that the U.S. Department of Education cited the southern Michigan school for 11 violations of gender-equity rules. Among the changes the school must make: add at least one more women's sport, build a women's locker room in its multipurpose stadium and increase pay for coaches of women's sports. School spokeswoman Jennifer Compton says the school "has maintained the highest commitment to equality and respect for gender equity" during its 152-year history. She says the college believes it offers "a quality higher educational experience to all students." The agreement caps a three-year investigation into Title IX violations at the school. Court agrees to reconsider affirmative action ruling By Rick Pluta & Mark Brush • Sep 9, 2011 Update 6:18 p.m. Here's a copy of the court order. 5:42 p.m. The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider a decision to strike down Michigan's ban on race- and gender-based affirmative action in university admissions. A panel of the court ruled in July that the affirmative action ban violated equal protection rights in the U.S. Constitution. The new hearing will take place before more than a dozen judges that make up the entire sixth circuit appeals court based in Cincinnati. Michigan voters approved the amendment to the state constitution in 2006. The amendment was challenged in federal court by several civil rights groups. Oral arguments and a decision in the case are not expected before next year. Here's an excerpt from a press release from Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette: On July 1, 2011, a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit issued a 2-1 decision that declared Michigan's constitutional ban on racial preferences in public education unconstitutional on the grounds it allegedly violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Schuette appealed the ruling through a formal request for rehearing en banc with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. A rehearing en banc involves presenting the case to the full court of the 6th Circuit for review. This process is reserved when new decisions conflict with previous rulings, and for questions of "exceptional importance" (Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure - 35). MCRI was approved by a 58% majority of Michigan voters in November, 2006. The day after the measure was approved, several organizations filed suit to invalidate MCRI. The measure was previously upheld in December 2006 when a separate three judge panel from the 6th Circuit issued a preliminary ruling that unanimously concluded the measure passed Constitutional muster. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative will remain in force pending a final decision by the court. 5:21 p.m. The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to reconsider a decision to strike down Michigan's ban on race- and gender-based affirmative action in university admissions. Report: Michigan students pay about half the "sticker price" of tuition By Laura Weber • Aug 30, 2011 The Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan A coalition of Michigan's public university officials says college is still affordable, despite tuition hikes. A report from the Presidents Council says need-based financial aid is on the rise, and universities are covering more student costs. Michael Boulous is executive director of the Presidents Council. "The bottom line is aid is available if you have need. College still is affordable, and we don't want that to be a discouraging piece in attending any post-secondary institution." Boulous says a college education is more important than ever for workers in Michigan. "The number of jobs for workers with high school diplomas is shrinking rapidly," says Boulous. "In many cases, entire industries that employed these workers are vanishing. Unemployment for people who have gone to college is half the rate it is for those who have only a high school diploma." The report says merit-based scholarships have decreased slightly over the past few years. But the report says need-based financial aid has nearly doubled in that time. The Presidents Council says the average student pays about $4,800 in tuition at a public university. Housing and books can add about $9,000 to that price tag. School officials say about two-thirds of students qualify for financial aid. Judge signs injunction, orders CMU faculty back to work By Mark Brush • Aug 22, 2011 Update: 5:08 p.m. The Central Michigan University Faculty Association plans to comply with Judge Duthie's order. From their press release: Laura Frey, CMU Faculty Association President said, "We will obey the court order and return to work tomorrow. But this does not end the issue. The faculty remains strong and committed to securing a fair and equitable contract for members." CMU faculty strike, picketers confront president By Mark Brush • Aug 22, 2011 CMU The Central Michigan University Faculty Association declared a strike on the first day of classes today. Members of the Faculty Association and those supporting the union formed picket lines around the campus today. Reporter David Jesse described the scene on the CMU Campus for the Detroit Free Press: Central Michigan University faculty strike By Vincent Duffy & Mark Brush • Aug 21, 2011 CMU Faculty reports and the student newspaper say CMU faculty went on strike tonight. The faculty say the administration did not bargain in good faith. The move comes one day before classes are scheduled to start tomorrow. CMU officials call the faculty strike an illegal work stoppage. They say students should report for the first day of classes tomorrow. The university says it will seek a court injunction tomorrow to stop the strike. CMU's 439 fixed term faculty and 591 graduate assistants will still hold classes as scheduled. Michigan Radio will have more on the story Monday as it develops. Update 9:40 p.m. Here's the University's statement: Central Michigan University is disappointed that members of the CMU Faculty Association have voted to engage in an illegal work stoppage. This action creates an unfair disruption to the start of the academic year for CMU's students. CMU students should report for classes Monday and staff should report for work. CMU's 439 fixed term faculty and 591 graduate assistants will still hold classes as scheduled. The impact of the FA's action places an unfair burden on students who want to graduate in a timely fashion, pursue graduate school or launch successful careers. As such, CMU will request a court injunction Monday to get the faculty back in the classroom. CMU remains committed to working with the FA toward a contract that is fair and equitable to all parties. CMU and the FA have both petitioned for fact finding, which is the appropriate process to follow in coming to terms on a collective bargaining agreement. The Detroit Free Press reports the strike came after a week of concentrated negotiations: The move tops a weeklong, last-ditch effort to come to some sort of agreement between the more than 600 members of the union and the school. The union voted on Monday to authorize the bargaining team to take any job related actions, including a strike. After that vote, the two sides sat down at the bargaining table every day last week, but made little to no progress on the big issues separating them, such as pay and benefits. Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2 3 next › last »