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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
What does a mobile phone virtualization software company like Open Kernel Labs have in common with a small green iguana? Pretty much everything, as it turns out.

 Previously a software release codename, "iguana" would prove to be the perfect corporate mascot for OK Labs. Today, Iggy Wanna plays a starring role in the company's branding efforts, building and engaging its community through on- and offline social media.

 Though small in size, OK Labs develops technology that operates in over 300 million mobile handsets all over the world. Like its parent, the well-traveled Iggy has racked up some serious frequent flier miles in the two years since his introduction. From Boston to Berlin and back, Iggy has been captured on film: drinking a pint in an Irish pub, rubbing elbows at an OK Labs meet-up in Sydney, hanging out in the booth at an Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, and everywhere else in between.

 Founded in 2006, OK Labs develops open-source virtualization software for mobile devices, consumer electronics, and embedded systems. Virtualization extends the capabilities of isolation, portability, security, and hardware efficiency—typically associated with the server and PC markets—to mobile phones. OKL4 technology allows handset OEMs and semiconductor suppliers to incorporate the next must-have features into new mobile device designs, faster and cheaper.

 OK Labs was spun out of the National Information and Communications Technology Research Centre in Australia. The Chicago-based company's employee base of 40 people includes a team of executives and a sales and marketing group in Chicago, as well as a research and development group in Australia.

 OK Labs software is designed into the mobile solutions upon which it runs. This means the company must connect with and educate embedded systems developers on the front end of the product development cycle.

 So when OK Lab's vice president of marketing, Marti Konstant, joined the company, she had a very clear goal: To build a 1,000-member community of embedded system developers with which to engage, influence, and build the OK brand…within one year.

 "Our software is deployed in mobile phones—HTC, Motorola, and Samsung, to name a few," says Konstant. "However, the genesis of our company depends on engineers researching us online and learning about what we bring to market.

 "As the head of marketing, I needed to understand the behavior of these key influencers," she continues. "How do they use technology? What sources do they tap to get product information when designing a handset?"

 A Google search led Konstant to a prospective vendor…but a partnership was not to be. "After further research, we determined they were more focused on technical community development systems and platforms than on community development strategy," she notes.

 Fortunately for OK Labs, the vendor referred her onto Cerado, which offers mobile and Web-based solutions and services to help organizations better understand and engage with their customer communities. It proved to be a perfect match.

 "When I first met the Cerado team, I knew instantly that these guys had the creative savvy to do what I needed," Konstant recalls. "In addition, they had experience with complex firms like Accenture and Xerox, so I was confident that they possessed the right pedigree to tackle our situation."

 The first strategy session between Cerado and OK Labs was held in Chicago in late 2007. The purpose was to conduct an internal audit of what OK Labs had done to date to build a community. Cerado's approach in helping OK develop a social media strategy was to engage the 3 Ls: listen, learn, and leverage.

 During that first meeting, Cerado took a careful inventory of OK's existing internal assets. To get the right input from the right players, Konstant made sure every group within OK was represented at the two-day meeting, from engineers to the CEO.

 After the session, Cerado presented OK Labs with a list of 25 recommendations, based on leveraging those internal assets that best represented the company. One of the suggestions was to inject social objects into the marketing mix and make them viral. And thus, Iggy Wanna was born.

 Iggy portrayed OK Labs as an emerging growth company with a large footprint. "Since we traveled all over the world, it just made sense to adopt a little mascot like Iggy that we could take along with us and photograph," says Konstant. "Iggy is a playful guy who likes to experience the world. He represents a serious product like ours in a fun, organic way."

 Another Cerado recommendation in the world of social objects was the introduction of the tagline, "I operate in Privileged Mode" in bold white letters on black t-shirts. Privileged mode is a technology term pertaining directly to the software OK develops; It also works beautifully as a t-shirt slogan. The tees quickly became the OK Labs signature uniform at trade shows and meet-ups.

 Taking the t-shirts one step further, OK ran a blog contest where members of the community could win a free shirt if they guessed what one of the executives ate for breakfast—a great example of OK branding itself by engaging its community in a fun, collaborative way.

 At Cerado's suggestion, OK has videotaped many of its employees wearing the tees and doing outrageous things, like discussing the benefits of the company's flagship product OKL4…while talking to and feeding an alpaca.

 The shock value of these zany acts is high, and certainly not what one would expect from a shy engineer type. Aussie accents contribute to the interest factor in a big way.

 OK has also introduced "GeekTV" where engineers provide informative tutorials on topics like, "What is Paravirtualization?" The company's CTO, Gernot Heiser, is a colorful personality who often lends his opinions to the segment.

 In addition to social objects, OK Labs also posts an active company blog with over 10 employees participating in the discussion. Heiser is one of the company's most prolific bloggers, and like Iggy, travels all over the world. There's a section on the website called "Where in the World is Gernot?" where people can literally track his travels at any point in time. Again, a simple effort on OK Labs' part to connect with its community in a fresh, informative manner.

 Another way OK stays connected to its community is by sending out alerts to subscribers on a regular basis. Alerts are opt-in and include information on company news, upcoming Webinars, and blogs.

 There's also an OKL4 Developer's Mailing List for which researchers and developers can sign up. Alerts offers immediate answers to pressing developer questions about the company's products. It's a place where developers can share knowledge about issues such as work-arounds, as well as learn tips and tricks in an open environment.

 What Cerado has encouraged OK Labs to do is to push the envelope in brand new ways, creating opportunities to meet up (both on and offline) in an authentic way. By validating OK's existing internal assets and turning them into virtual objects, OK has developed a hugely successful social media strategy. The company achieved its goal of creating a 1000-member online community two months earlier than projected.

 Simple and inexpensive, OK's social media efforts have been heartily embraced from the top down, fueling their success. Iggy and other initiatives have humanized the high-tech company, and in spite of the down market, have resulted in innovation and profitability.

 Note: To learn more about OK Labs, visit www.oklabs.com. For more information on Cerado, go to www.cerado.com.


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Oh Mighty Wing
Is that Jeff with Trent?
The Greatest of All Time
I was thinking it was Drew?
S&M Collector
That is Drew...not Jeff.
This is Jeff, before the haircut, #199:
Yeah, but a lot of good this photo does me. i can not use this one, for it will not enhance the authenticity of my creation. Come on people! Work with me.
I was thinking I could use the one from the Nashville mini-swamp gathering at Tanya's (remember that night, Candice?), but he still wouldn't match.
Let's all work together to find one that matches. Trent, scan your creation and get me one.
12 Monkeys
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Lazy idiot
Tick tock
That is Drew...not Jeff.
This is Jeff, before the haircut, #199:
50,000 Miles Later
"Chilluns" is what I think she was looking for.
What is the difference?

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WATCH: Roundtable discussion part 1
The roundtable guests
- Richard Strathakis: Shelby Township Supervisor who promised parents during a demonstration at a local gas station that he would work to rid the township of K2.
- Bill Miskokomon: organized Saturday's protest after he pled with gas station owners to quit selling K2.
- Kelly Oscarson: Manager of the Mobil Mart gas station, who's owner has taken a strong stance against selling K2.
- Carol Mastroianni: Executive Director, Birmingham Bloomfield Community Coalition.
- Mark Hackel: Macomb County Executive, former county sheriff.
Live on Local 4 News Morning, they'll be taking your questions and discussing what's being done to control this K2 epidemic.
We're taking your questions all day long
To submit your questions for the K2 Roundtable, head over to our Local 4 Facebook page.
Continuing coverage
Tune in to Local 4 News throughout the day for special coverage on Fighting the K2 Epidemic. Local 4 Defenders are teaming up with Dr. Frank McGeorge and Ruth to the Rescue to expose who's selling K2 to kids. Ruth will have experts standing by in the Local 4 phone bank to provide answers to your questions. Meanwhile, Dr. McGeorge will reveal what's really in K2, and why it's so harmful. All this and more on Local 4 News Morning, Local 4 News at Noon, and Local 4 News at 4, 5, 6 and 11.
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While Lynda Flower was creating her own totem pole, Al Banfield was sculpting a head at the other end of the table.
"I always wanted to do sculptures," said Banfield, "but I didn't think I could do this."
Like other students taking pottery classes at the Hammond Street Senior Center in Bangor, Banfield successfully created his first pottery "masterpiece."
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The class of five was sitting around a large table working and chatting. But the conversation was about much more than clay projects. They were talking about their kids and grandkids. Vacations and moving. Living with their adult children. Everyday life.
They all had something in common and were forming friendships around the pottery table.
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When you open a PDF document in Acrobat/Reader you may encounter the following dialog:
You may want to disable this dialog from appearing as it can effect your productivity if it appears for every document you open.
Accessibility tools like screen readers are used to read the contents of PDF files displayed in Acrobat/Reader. Screen readers rely on the documents tags to read the contents of the document. This dialog appears when Acrobat/Reader detects that screen reader software is installed and informs the user that the document has no tags (and therefore cannot be read by any screen reader). The dialog is used to then create tags for the document so that it is accessible.
Windows itself has screen readers installed by default in certain versions and these may be activated causing this dialog to appear. We have also received reports that other non-Accessibility software and device drivers cause this dialog to appear, as the software and drivers incorrectly use some system flags usually reserved for Accessibility tools.
We are working with Accessibility software vendors to find a more reliable way of registering such software to ensure Adobe Acrobat/Reader correctly detect it. The goal is to avoid Accessibility functionality being launched in Acrobat/Reader due to the mis-use of the system flags by non-Accessibility software.
In the meantime you can use one of the workarounds below to avoid this issue.
You can prevent this dialog from appearing in a number of different ways:
1. Always use the default settings and create tags for the document
In this case you should just select the option "Always use the settings from the Reading preferences (Do not show this dialog again)". The options defined in the Acrobat/Reader Preferences under the Reading section will be used to create tags for each PDF file (that do not already contain tags) opened in Acrobat/Reader.
2. Disable the confirmation dialog in the Preferences
You can also disable this "Readung untagged document" dialog in the Reading Preferences by un-checking the option Edit > Preferences > Reading > "Confirm before tagging documents". This option writes the following registry key which could also be used for enterprise deployments:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Accessibility]
You can also disable the Accessibility Setup-Assistant dialog using the following registry key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Accessibility]
3.Remove the Accessibility plugins from Acrobat/Reader
If you do not require any accessibility features in Acrobat/Reader and you have not been successful disabling the dialog using the methods above, then you can always close Acrobat/Reader and remove the Accessibility.api and ReadOutLoud.api from the plugins folder. You should keep a copy of these plugins in another folder as a backup. When you restart Acrobat/Reader it should no longer display this dialog.
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Western Digital and Seagate: 320GB Grudge Matchby Gary Key on 7/27/2006 2:00 AM EST
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patentman - Monday, July 31, 2006 - linkTo avoid superparamagnetism, engineers have been increasing the coercivity, the field size required to write a bit, of the disc media. These fields are limited by the magnetic materials making up the write head that will soon effectively limit drive sizes utilizing longitudinal recording. Although additional capacities are still achievable, the drive industry will be moving to perpendicular recording technology shortly as longitudinal recording has basically hit the proverbial brick wall after being utilized for nearly 50 years."
I wrote a pretty detailed post on the anandtech forums about this a while back. You can check it out http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid...">here" (I used to post under the nickname "klaviernista"). Considering I examined and issued a lot fo the patents that are the basis of seagate's perpendicular technology, I think I am more than qualified to speak on the matter.
Oh, and for the record, the "soft" magent under layer is never truly "written to" during the reocrind gprocess. The soft magnetic underlayer is made of a material that has magnetic domains which rotate easily in response to an external magentic field. When the write field goes across any given point in the medium, it induces the field in the corresponding point on the soft magentic underlayer to rotate perpendicular to the medium. The article is correct in saying that the result is a substantial increase in write field intensity, but neglects to mention that the fields of the soft magnetic underlayer to not remain oriented perpendicular to the media surface after the write field from the magentic head is removed, whereas the fields in the magentic recording layer do remain oriented perpendicular to the media surface.
The whole point of usuing a soft magnetic underlayer is to allow magnetic materials with very high coercivity to be used as the recoprding layer. Why do you need a very high coercivity recording layer in high density recordng media? See the post I linked to above and read the discussed about "intergranular exchange coupling." Reply
jackylman - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkIn the pulldown menu, accoustics -> acoustics Reply
SonicIce - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkEven with an extra platter to lug around, the Western Digital was quieter and cooler! Reply
madfly - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkif you want to have the seagate hard drive cross shipped where they send you a replacement and you return the defective one back to them they charge $25, considering the hard drive cost $99, that there is a ripoff. I had this happen to me with a 250GB HD that I bought last year, so I'll be spending my money with one of the others unless the deal is ridiculous. Reply
Mana211 - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkSPCR uses 1 meter (aka 1000mm or 200 times your stated distance) to measure SPL.
"Each drive is measured for SPL one meter away from the top of the hard drive. Hard drive noise tends to be directional, the loudest position being directly over the top. SPL readings typically drop by 2~3 dBA/1m when measured from the side of the drive. The drive is placed on a soft foam to ensure that no vibration noise is produced during testing."
The there is an entire category of sounds you hear at 5mm that wouldn't be noticable from outside a case.
Take this quote from SPCR: "Consider the distance of Hardware.fr's recording microphone: 5cm from the HDD. This is a serious problem. There's no way the decibel reading can be accurate due to boundary effects. It's the same problem at storagereview.com -- not even relative differences are necessarily correct due to compression effects; the close proximity impacts every measurement similarly, reducing differences."
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article631-page1.htm...">http://www.silentpcreview.com/article631-page1.htm... shows that the new audio recordings (not to be confused with the SPL Dba numbers) will use two recording distances:
* One meter so that "nominal" volume, audibility, and sound character can be judged.
* One foot (or 30 cm if you will) to capture all the details from even the quietest noise sources. Reply
tuteja1986 - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkWestern digital for me since i want a quiet and cool drive. Reply
crydee - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkThe WD400YR and WD500YS seem very close to performance with the Raptor, but I can't find the WD400YR on pricewatch on newegg also I read about the WD drivers having a high rate of doa? Reply
AdamK47 3DS - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkThe Seagate drive has a performance advantage with the two 160GB platters. Anandtech is still ignoring the advantages of higher platter densities. Why is that? Platter density is one of the features I look at when purchasing a new drive. It's a good indication of performance when compared to another drive of the same total capacity. You have two 320GB drives reviewed with different number of platters and yet there is no mention of this other than the table. It's very odd. Reply
evilharp - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkCheck your "price bot" settings. Currently you list the following deals for a "Western Digital Caviar® SE16"
AnandTech Deals
Western Digital Caviar® SE16
>Buy.com $2,235.99
>Business Computing Network $2,157.78
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I followed the Business Computing Network link (simply due to the crazy price) and it is for a 20 unit bulk purchase.
Booty - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkOn the last page it should be listed that the WD has a 3 year warranty for retail and 1 year for OEM - you have them switched. Reply
Wesley Fink - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkActually, as strange as it sounds, Gary is correct on the WD warranty. You can check it out for yourself at http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp">http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp. OEM (bulk) drives carry a 3-year warranty and retail drives carry one year with an option to add 2 more years (to 3 total) for $14.95. Enterprise drives like Raptor carry a 5-year warranty. Reply
Wesley Fink - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkCorrected. Reply
archcommus - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - link
Speaking of performance, the drive in our IPEAK tests was at times near the bottom of the group and usually trailed the Seagate 320GB drive except in the game play, general business, and applications were heavy read requests were prevalent.
I'm guessing it should be "...where heavy read requests were prevalent." Just a heads up. Reply
Wesley Fink - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkTypo fixed. Reply
Zaitsev - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkNice article, Gary. I enjoyed the background info on the two companies.
A quick question: Is it possible the str of the Seagate is higher because of a higher areal density due to having only two platters vs. the WD's three? Or have I overlooked something and need to go to sleep :)
AkumaX - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkNice article. We win either way!!! I'd rather go with Seagate though because I've had to RMA too many WD's in the past few years.
Does anyone know of an app that measures HDD throughput (as in MB/s, read/write or both) in realtime? Reply
Calin - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkI found strange how big a difference is in some bencmarks between one drive and the other (losing or winning). Anyway, each drive looks good value for money Reply
Googer - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkHDTACH
PerformanceTest 6.0 (PassMark Software)
PC Pitstop @ PC Pitstop.com (requires internet explorer)
Googer - Thursday, July 27, 2006 - linkhttp://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?req...">http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?req... Reply
AkumaX - Saturday, July 29, 2006 - linkSorry, HDTach is a benchmark. I'm looking for something that actually tells me how my hard drive is doing at the moment Reply


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Apple's Swift and What it Means for Developers and Usersby Brandon Chester on 6/11/2014 8:00 AM EST
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maxiniu - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkExcept for the Unicode variable names (which is nice, but not extremely important), all the features heralded in this article exist in C# for years. Needless to say, when writing Windows Phone apps, you can use C#... Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkWell, and the syntax uses semicolons (which is a good thing, as it also improves readability) Reply
DERSS - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkSemicolons, even though are not a requirement, are allowed on Swift, so if anyone wants to use them, it is possible. Reply
rkcth - Friday, June 13, 2014 - linkThank goodness. I hate languages where you can't use semicolons, it leads to strange errors sometimes and reduces readability in my opinion though even allowing no semi-colons is a bad thing in my opinion. For example a really long SQL query where you might be concatenating multiple strings can get messy if you don't break it into multiple lines, but then because its a new line the language may misinterpret the code. I'm not a huge fan of non-semi colon languages for this reason. C# is the best designed language I have used and I've used a LOT of languages (last I had counted I was close to 25). With that said this sounds like a nice improvement over objective c. My biggest beef with programming on Macs though is the way the HOME, END, Page Up, Page Down, shift and control work. I use those keys in various combinations to copy and paste lines of code very rapidly without thinking about it. When I get on a mac it slows me way down and there appears to be no way to do many very powerful keyboard based selection commands that I take for granted on Windows. It slowed me down so much that I actually gave up writing an app I was making a while back and sold the mac mini I was coding it on. When you get used to programming at a certain speed it makes it tough to take that change. I wish you could develop iphone apps on windows and still use apple's tools, but I understand why they don't support that. Reply
ex2bot - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI hope you're not proposing that Apple users / developers solve the problem of imperfect development tools by switching to Windows. Cause that would be control freakish (freakery?), right. :) Reply
name99 - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkTrue except for the single MOST important point --- Swift interoperates with the Objective C runtime and Objective C semantics, and C# does not...
Look, Swift is not MEANT to change the world of programming as we know it. It is APPLE's solution to APPLE DEVELOPERs' problems. Complaining that it doesn't solve your problems, or that something else would be nicer (even though it doesn't actually solve Apple's problems), or that is has no new concepts ALL kinda miss the point. Reply
vFunct - Friday, June 13, 2014 - linkToo bad C# is a slow-as-hell byte code interpreted language like Java, instead of an actual compiled language like C/C++/Objective-C. Reply
rkcth - Friday, June 13, 2014 - linkC# is not slow at all, its insanely fast, and due to the abundant and high quality libraries included, you can actually develop much more complex solutions easily, and refactor them to much bigger picture optimizations where needed. Reply
winterspan - Friday, June 13, 2014 - linkThis is completely incorrect. C# uses byte code (MSIL) but it is not interpreted; it has a very performant JIT compiler.
The runtime safety (like bounds checking arrays and garbage collection) is a very small CPU overhead, although a bit more in memory.
Given proper technique, C# applications can run 95+% the speed of C++. Similarly, you can also use pointers and disable bounds checking for the routines that need to be even more optimized.
Also, Microsoft recently released a new compiler that allows the code to be compiled to native code instead of MSIL.
Finally, one of the most popular gaming frameworks on iOS is Unity, and one of the most popular cross platform mobile development frameworks is Xamarin, and both solutions create incredibly fast iOS games and applications. Reply
V900 - Monday, June 16, 2014 - linkDon't forget, that when developing WindowsPhone apps in C# you don't need to worry about pesky issues like monetization or marketshare either!
Unlike Apple, that like a true control freak, insists on dragging their developers through the problems of dealing with a huge market of potentially paying customers, Microsoft has made a truly developer friendly platform, with an potential market so small that monetization is Impossible.
That leaves developers free to spend all their time doing what they do best: Developing! Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkApple fail;
Apple fail;
Excuse me, but the solution to multiple duplicate goto statements appearing consecutively is.... a new programming language? Smoke what? Good grief these guys... Reply
DanShockley - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkWhere did you find the straw to build that man? That must take talent! Reply
Akrovah - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkHow do you figure that's a straw man? He is referencing the specific cause of the SSL failure being consecutive goto statements without braketing. Without the brakets defining the scope of the if statement the second statement is no longer affected by the if, and is thus executed no mater what.
Apple's solution to this seems to be to explicitly force braket use in thier new programming language. Reply
WaltFrench - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkThe language has been in design for almost 4 years. While brackets were perhaps optional until the SSL bug was discovered, the idea that the SSL bug was "solved" by inventing a new language is absurd.
(Further, nobody seems to expect that Swift, which was designed as described above, to be a nice wrapper around Apple libraries and common OSX/iOS practices, will be used for OSS.) Reply
ex2bot - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkOne would hope that with Microsoft's massive R&D budget over the years, they'd have the best development tools. I understand you were trying to be funny, but Swift aims to fix a lot of Objective C's shortcomings. Should they have adopted an established language? Perhaps, but I think the idea of being able to mix Swift and Objective-C was a big deal to Apple to help ease the transition, not to mention Swift's similarity to Objective-C. Just offering a new language with more modern structures wouldn't guarantee adoption by developers. Reply
xakor - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkHmmm, yes it turns out that they do. Visual Studio is arguably the most solid development environment out there and F# is years ahead of where the likes of Swift can hope to be in 5 years. Likewise for C# over Java. You have to go for a language in the ML family to get anything better than F# and incidentally MSR has been supporting researchers on the development of Haskell for quite a number of years.
Also, miTLS is a verified implementation of the TLS protocol implemented in F# through F7 (foundation behind the F* programming language).
As opposed to Swift, F# is free and open source as well as target Windows/Linux/iOS/OS X/Android/JavaScript(see WebSharper).
Google and Apple's offering in term of Software Development stack doesn't even touch Microsoft's/Xamarin. Reply
dmunsie - Friday, June 13, 2014 - link"Visual Studio is arguably the most solid development environment out there"
Having worked with both Xcode and Visual Studio, I have to say that there is definitely room for improvement for both of them. I've never have been as frustrated with an IDE as I have been with VS. Just the simple things, like using a dark theme for the text editor were a massive pain (yes, I know this has been addressed in recent releases -- but this has been a standard feature everywhere else for *decades* now). And the crashes I've had under Xcode rival only iTunes for most epic, IMO. At least restarting Xcode after a crash is super fast...
I think that most people that claim that VS is the most solid development environment out there haven't been looking at the alternatives that are around lately. The other IDEs have gained a ton of functionality over the past 10 or so years. Xcode has just as good code completion (IMO) as VS, which was always one of the hallmarks there. And clang/llvm have in a very short time become some of the best compilers/optimizers available -- free or not.
Unfortunately, though, it really doesn't matter -- Windows developers have to use VS, Mac/iOS developers have to use Xcode and Android developers (mostly) have to use Android Studio. It doesn't matter if Xcode is better or if VS is better or whatever -- you can't (easily) develop for Windows with Xcode or for iOS with VS, so it ultimately doesn't matter. The default IDE for a platform is going to be the primary way to develop apps for that platform. Reply
WaltFrench - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI think it's fair to say that Swift was invented to make developing for Apple more approachable, as it lacks the strange-looking Obj-C message-passing orientation, and more productive, as the language design is less tedious and the playground instant-feedback will be very helpful.
These are both good objectives, and no doubt they'll be achieved. But there's no reason to think that Apple had OTHER goals, such as using Swift for non-Apple situations, and its high specificity to Mac/iOS situations is a reminder that generic languages, and languages designed for Microsoft environments, by definition would be less useful. Reply
V900 - Monday, June 16, 2014 - linkPROTIP: Don't comment on stuff you don't have a whiff of a clue about. It only makes you look very stupid.
Reading this article and summing it up as: "Apple comes up with dumb solution to gotofail issue" is kinda like reading a book about the Apollo program, and summing it up as: "Guy plants flag in new and unusual place!" Reply
c3p - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI'm not sure about the enforced brackets. Sure it solves a problem, but it might make the code less readable and thus decreasing quality.
Compare to variable name "m_pifoo" , for member variable foo which is a pointer to an integer. Sure you know what the member is and you immediately see if you accidentially add it to a short, but overall it's a bad idea.
Everything else looks good (";" should have died years ago) Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkThe semicolon means we're not whitespace-dependent... Don't ever wish it away -_- Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkIt works very well for Matlab: you don't need to put a semicolon at the end. If you don't the result of the statment is simply output to the command line. If you want a statement to stretch multiple lines you have to explicitly tell so by adding "..." at the end of the line. I really like it: no harm is done by forgetting a semicolon, yet no white-space dependence exists. Reply
DERSS - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkThe cases where some languages allow omission of figure brackets for "if" statements are less readable as I always try to understand where the command actually ends. Reply
grahaman27 - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkThe semicolon is useful for syntactical clarity. I do not see the argument against the semi colon as being valid. Is there really that much frustration with missing semi colons, and is it really worth it. Any programmer with any experience knows to put a semi colon at the end. Reply
xakor - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkc3p is correct, semicolon is only a notion of familiarity, people familiar with any language in the ML family have dropped the semicolon and never looked back. That is, if you have an expression-based language as opposed to statements-based which is another solid flaw in Swift's design. Reply
bji - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI disagree about semicolon. It makes certain complex multi-line expressions easier to read. And it's so easy and automatic. Kind of line typing a period at the end of a sentence. Or is that too hard for lazy programmers too? Reply
leomoty - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI kinda lost the interest in reading this article after "they are calling Type Inference". Type inference is well known and widely spread among the programming languages. I agree with maxiniu, most of these features are on C#, and even, if you wanna code for iOS you could always use Xamarin's MonoTouch. Reply
elsumidero - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI smiled at "Apple has included a feature they are calling Type Inference" and I started laughing at
"One of the most powerful features of Swift is something Apple is calling Generics".
As other people commented here, all those features are already present in current languages like C# since years ago. They are now revolutionary just because Apple is selling them? Come on! Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkYeah I didn't know we got an Apple Press Release Center on Anandtech. I thought only AMD had bought that as of now? Reply
DERSS - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkNo one has said they are revolutionary or were absent in other languages. So, what was your point again? Reply
ArmanUV - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkWhen you say "One of the most powerful features of Swift is something Apple is calling Generics", it implies that Apple is introducing this new exclusive feature, even though generics are a common feature of many other programming languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming)...
It is almost like saying "One of the most powerful features of Swift is something Apple is calling Functions"! Reply
Deelron - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkNo, it it states it's a powerful new feature that didn't exist before, which it absolutely is. It's no different then saying "this <car type> features a powerful new engine <that's more powerful then the previous one but came on a different model before>." Reply
tdlf - Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - linkExcept Apple never said any of this. This is a poorly-written article. All Apple ever said was that they're including Generics in Swift. They never even used the word, "introduced." Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkYeah.. I also hoped to find something intersting here. Sure it's better than that language which starts with "C" and ends with "obol".. but not much more. Reply
kushiku - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkElimination of semi-colons, Type Inference, String commutation - aren't all these already present in Python. Generics? Oh come on...so many languages have that feature
Atleast from the features mentioned in the article...I don't find anything new woth revolutionary
Its just old wine in new bottle...fancy names and a brand called Apple Reply
Brandon Chester - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI think people are misunderstanding the point of this. Swift is only for people who program in ObjC, it's not intended to attract people who program in other languages because that would involve locking into Apple's platform. Your way of thinking puts Apple in a damned if they do, damned if they don't scenario. If ObjC stays the way it is it gets even more stagnant which hurts Apple developers and users. If Apple tries to remedy issues by creating something like Swift then people complain that they're all just features from other languages. Reply
elsumidero - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI think that no one have a problem with Apple launching a new language, the problem is how the article is written. With phrases like "One of the most powerful features of Swift is something Apple is calling Generics".
Apple and EVERYONE is calling it Generics. Apple did not invented Generics, there were Generics before Swift. But writing the article in this way it may suggest to the reader that Apple invented all those features that were already present in many of other existing programming languages. Reply
Arbee - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkYeah, Apple didn't invent any of this naming, and they didn't claim to. It was a known thing for years that Objective C was increasingly out of sync with modern programming conveniences (Ars Technica in particular was sounding that alarm early) and this fixes it in a pretty clean way. There was a rumor at WWDC that it'll be open sourced as part of the next LLVM major release too, which would be terrific.
BTW, this article misses one of the significant points about Swift: it can also be used as a batch/scripting language complete with the traditional #!/bin/swift or whatever header, and Xcode's Playground feature uses it in that mode to provide the sort of immediate-response environment that all of us who learned programming in the 1980s on BASIC for granted. Except on steroids: no 1980s BASIC would graph the value of a variable over time for you, or show the actual picture file that you just loaded. Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkGiven the .NET roots of PowerShell, I wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft quickly build the equivalent features for PowerShell. Reply
ex2bot - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkSomehow, I don't think Apple developers will be able to take advantage of PowerShell. :) Reply
kushiku - Saturday, June 14, 2014 - link@Brandon Chester This is what exactly I meant Reply
twotwotwo - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkPosts about new phones look at them in the context of other phones. This misses a lot of the context of the language, some of which goes back decades (type inference: ML, 1970s) and is gratefully acknowledged by Swift's lead creator (http://www.nondot.org/sabre/).
You're not into other languages and this is not a programming site, which is all fine, but I guess researching what others say or maybe running drafts by folks who *do* geek out on this stuff might help avoid accidentally taunting the commenting hordes. Reply
jmmx - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkNo one claims that Apple invented any of these features. They have, however, put them together in their own way which may or may not be creative or useful - certainly not useful to those who eschew Apple programming.
This does not change the fact that it is a positive advancement for those who do program for iOS.
Additionally, the naysayers have forgotten 2 things:
1 - the interactive environment, and
2 - it runs literally 10x faster than Python Reply
DERSS - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkPython is incredibly slow language, it is totally different league.
And, again, no one ever called Swift "revolutionary". Reply
Daniel Egger - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkPython is anything but slow. In fact I've written scientific Python software that smoked C++ software even without converting selected functions to C and it took only a fraction of the time to write it.
The only problem Python has is the global interpreter lock which makes utilizing multiple CPU cores very annoying and tricky and may or may not be reason why Apple claims there's 10 fold improvement in select cases.
I'd rather they created a Python LLVM frontend than inventing yet another language. Iff they decide to opensource the compiler I might have another look otherwise Swift for me personally is a dead fish in the water... Reply
jameskatt - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkSure, this feature is in Python. But Python runs 10 times slower than Swift. Reply
tdlf - Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - linkI developed exclusively in C# for 7 years. What's new about Swift that this article didn't touch on:
Swift can be used as a system level language and, based on my own tests, it's faster than C and C++. Having a type safe, modern language that you could develop an OS in is a big deal in my opinion. Whether Apple opens the spec remains to be seen, but if they do, it will be a valuable contribution to the development community. Reply
Arnulf - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkROTFL at that goto example ... Usage of goto in high level languages is generally frowned upon nowadays (and has been for quite some time).
It's bad enough that Apple admits their programmers are inept lamers who are too thick to use other language constructs to work around goto statements, but what makes it even worse is to use this particular example to make that point and then try to spin it into something positive, while complaining about another statement termination method (the semi-colon) that this "new" language does away with.
This entire piece reeks horribly of Apple fanboism and really isn't something I ever expected to see on AT. Reply
Mondozai - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkYour comment managed to check every negative stereotype about a passive aggressive fanboy on the internet(including the obsessive accusation that everyone else is).
But it is hilarious, so please continue. Reply
ex2bot - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkFunny thing about that is that a lot of these programmers bounce around tech firms. If they're good enough for Apple, they probably either a) came from Microsoft and/or Google, or b) they'll be moving on to Microsoft and/or Google.
Also, let's be honest, it's a bit of a game, isn't it? I don't know if you develop for Apple or not, but I'm guessing you have a strong affiliation for one of the other tech giants, Msoft or Ggle. And you're reading and commenting on an article that's likely intended for Apple developers. What's the name of that game? What is it?
Is it SATAN!?
Damn you, autocorrect!! I mean, is it Fanboyism??
Now, isn't that special? :) Reply
jameskatt - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkGo to still exists in Visual Basic. Reply
dugbug - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI am at a loss and disappointed in the comments that toy with 'apple fail' and C# nonsense. If you just want more anandtech reviews of power supplies use the filter. Fanboying your language so you can be first to throw a zinger misses the point of this language.
In the meantime, the language was built by the LLVM/CLANG guy, and should be taken seriously. Its claim to fame is the ability to program similar to scripting languages, but be compiled and type-safe for performance. Syntactic sugar is culled from several languages, including C#. This is stated as much.
I hope to see more detailed review of this language as its not often a major tech player starts one. We had Java from Sun, C# from MS, 'Go' from google, and now swift from Apple. Reply
Duraz0rz - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkShould be taken seriously by who? If you're an iOS developer, then sure, you should take it seriously. Otherwise, there's no point in Swift as other languages are more mature, have a large ecosystem to draw from, and aren't locked down to a particular platform. Reply
jameskatt - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkThe whole point of Swift is to serve Apple's developers - no one else. Other languages simply don't play a role or can do as well as Swift since Swift is part of Apple's whole development system and other languages would need a lot of work, time and politics and committees just to get the changes Apple wants. Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkYou're mistaking author credibility with good ideas. Instead of this pointless new language, the author could've written (or taken an existing) Python LLVM backend, extended it with Generics and whatever iOS-specific and OSX-specific APIs were needed, and called it a day. No need to reinvent the wheel. Reply
Mondozai - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkAs others have said, there is a lot more to swift. You're basing your comment on a singel article, and a pretty incomplete one at that.
Swift can be a lot faster on specific tasks than other languages, as well as the interactivity.
There's tons more technical details in the guide. I haven't finished it yet, but you should do your research before spouting nonsense about a language which you know little to nothing about. A single AT article isn't good enough. Reply
Ktracho - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkWhat would be helpful is a pointer to an article that explains the motivation of Swift, and why it couldn't be done as an evolution of Objective C/C++ or as a command line option when invoking the compiler (as in something like "-objc-2014"). Asking everyone to download the handbook and read it to answer this question is not very helpful. I'm sure Apple had to document in writing what the justification for developing a new language was, so it shouldn't be hard for them to share what some of these points are to make it easy for others to write this type of article about Swift. Reply
ex2bot - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkCough, WWDC Keynote.
/Cough Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkIt isn't the language that's fast... It's the best-practices and the method of deployment (precompiled, JIT or interpreted).
I don't need to know about Swift to see its objectives. They're clearly stated -- basically a scripting language with some muscle behind it. Which is why a compiled form of the most common scripting language with iOS-specific extensions added would fit.
The top-level syntactical sugar doesn't affect (much of) what can be done with a language, so reinventing the wheel is a valid complaint no matter the motivation. Reply
ex2bot - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI'm not a big expert on it, but I don't think that's right. It's not a scripting language, it's a modification of Objective-C, a general purpose language. Someone wrote that you could mix in BASH scripting (I didn't know that). You can also write code that mixes Swift and Objective-C. But it's not just a scripting lg. Reply
DERSS - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkYou might want to read the documentation. There is a lot more than just Generics that differ Swift from Python. It makes no sense to drag the baggage of Python. Reply
uhuznaa - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkSwift is totally irrelevant if you're not coding for OS X or iOS. Apple isn't trying to establish a new programming language here (Swift has basically nothing to offer you couldn't have easier and better supported with other languages), Apple is just trying to offer an alternative to Objective-C to code for OS X and iOS. If you do that, you have more options now. If you don't, nothing has changed.
C++ and other languages aren't really suited to an environment that grew out of NeXTStep, that in turn was developed with Objective-C. If you don't need to work with the Cocoa frameworks and everything else around that, you'd be an idiot to use Swift. But if you do, Swift looks like a more modern and less baroque alternative to Objective-C. Reply
Arbee - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkActually, there was a rumor at WWDC that Swift will be included in the next LLVM major release, under the same UIUC/BSD license as the rest of LLVM and Clang. And Swift is entirely usable for non-NeXTStep scenarios, just as C# has found use far outside of Windows. Reply
uhuznaa - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkYes, it may be "usable" elsewhere then, but still not much more than a novelty. There's no shortage of interesting programming languages and as far as these go Swift is even not very much interesting.
Another thing when it comes to Apple and programming languages: In addition to AppleScript you can now use JavaScript in OS X Yosemite to automate UI apps. This too is totally uninteresting in general terms. It's really big news though if you happen to have a need to automate Mac apps because you can finally stop fighting one of the worst programming languages ever invented (AppleScript is about the opposite of Perl: It's very easy to read and very, very hard to write). Reply
MartenKL - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkHere is to hoping Visual Studio gets a C# compiler for iOS (and a playground emulator of course). I agree with most comments, both positive and negative but why let? const is so well established. Reply
et20 - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkBecause const is the opposite of established, it's actually widely ignored.
It's better to have let because it's shorter than const but the same length as var. Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI see your name is ET, which would explain the extraterrestrial understanding of "const." It's widely used. Reply
et20 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkAnd you are profoundly human in your attack towards the messenger and denial of reality.
Const is widely known and rarely used.
#define is used for constants at least an order of magnitude more often than const.
In languages without preprocessor almost all uses of const are as substitutes for #define.
The usage of const in imperative languages is laughably small compared to the usage of let in functional languages. Reply
eanazag - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkThe real news here is that I can now program in emojii. Woohoo! Reply
ex2bot - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI can see sooo many problems with using bananas and winky faces as variable names!
VAR :) = just chillin' yo Reply
uhuznaa - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkThere's more to Unicode than just emojii. Everybody outside the US knows that. Reply
RamarC - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkGOTO for exception handling??? hopefully that's a BAD example and not par for the course. Reply
name99 - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkJesus. NOTHING brings out the bikeshedders faster than a new language.
When I read this thread, there were 59 comments of which I'd rate about THREE as providing useful information rather than moronic whining.
Well done, AnandTech! Probably a new record. Reply
iwod - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkI think people are missing the point here.
Swift is Apple's attempt to being a new, and modern Programming Languages that offers *interoperability* with Objective-C. Reply
ArmanUV - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkWow that article was way worse than what I expect from AnandTech. Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkWe're always looking to improve our future articles. Was there anything in particular that you didn't care for? Or were expecting (for a mid-length article) that wasn't in this article? Reply
et20 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkIt was a somewhat positive article about Apple.
How dare you? Reply
mkozakewich - Tuesday, June 17, 2014 - linkThese seem like small generic aesthetic changes that don't require more than a couple lines of commentary. What are the real differences in this language? Reply
Spoony - Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - linkWorth noting that the lead developer of Swift at Apple has publicly said many times that he tried to take the parts he thought were good from many other languages and blend them together. Rust, C#, Obj-C, Python, and more. That it is a pragmatic and modern language for Apple and their developers to use.
So of course it takes pieces of other languages. Of course it is good at some things and bad at some others. It isn't a revolutionary thing for the world, it's just evolutionary for one ecosystem. Taken in that context, Swift seems pretty decent to me. Some of the funky unfinished constructs and compiler bugs aside... apparently it is effectively in "beta" at this point. Reply


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With an election looming in Canada, there are many important issues to consider. For the GLBT community the re-election of the Progressive Conservatives is particularly problematic. The PC's have made it clear that it considers some bodies particularly diseased through the passing of legislation which bans the donation of organs and blood from gay men that are sexually active. According to the CBC, "the donor will be excluded if they have had sex with a man in the last five years."
Not only is this decision discriminatory, it further jeopardizes the lives of those who are desperately awaiting new organs. So entrenched is the homophobia that the government is will to overlook the health of the population. Canadian Blood services which recently ran a blood drive reported that "900,000 donations a year [are needed] to meet hospital demand in Canada. Last year there was a 2% growth in demand for blood and blood products – the largest in ten years."
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Kim Kardashian Makes A Significant Fashion Score With The Cover Of CR Fashion Book
Is this really happening? After all of this time, and all of Anna Wintour's reported efforts — discouraging Kanye West from attending the Met Ball with Kim on his arm, refusing to deign to Yeezus' request that North's official unveiling come by way of a Vogue cover — is Kim Kardashian finally finding herself embraced, or at least tolerated, by the fashion industry's inner circle?
Considering the sex tape/reality TV star landed the newest cover of Carine Roitfeld's biannual editorial tome CR Fashion Book, all signs point to … maybe. Carine famously fell out with Wintour in 2010, which resulted in her ousting from the editor-in-chief position at Vogue Paris, so to suggest that Kim has at long last ingratiated herself with the Vogue crowd would be a bit of a stretch. Still, the photos, shot while Kim was almost nine months pregnant, are nothing to shrug at — they were art-directed by close Kanye (and Carine) compadre Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy, and who worked the camera but Karl Lagerfeld himself? Not bad, Kim, not bad. Kanye's infamous Tweet, forever memorialized on this holy grail of T-shirts, is starting to make that much more sense.
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As Dave Bell drove on the gravel road stretching across vast blueberry barrens being harvested in Columbia recently, he noted how the industry has changed over the decades.
The back roads leading to the blueberry barrens used to be clogged with traffic during the blueberry harvest, recalled Bell, general manager of Cherryfield Foods, when the industry relied heavily on temporary laborers to rake blueberries by hand.
As he drove across the company's lands, however, the most traffic was generated by tractors with mechanical harvesting equipment driving from one area to another.
Laborers — particularly migrant workers — raking by hand are still an important factor in the state's blueberry harvest, although their numbers continue to diminish.
There are various reasons for the shift to increased mechanization, including the reluctance of local residents to do the work, the difficulty in obtaining and using migrant laborers, and the benefits of mechanical harvesting.
Between 1,300 and 1,800 migrant workers have been employed in the blueberry harvest in Washington County this year, estimated Jorge Acero, Maine's migrant and seasonal farmworkers advocate. The exact number of migrant workers is difficult to ascertain, he said, because of the way agencies classify and count the workers depending on whether they are working in the fields or in processing plants. Some companies already have concluded harvesting operations while others are wrapping up.
What is clear, however, is the number of migrant workers employed in the blueberry industry is in decline. The state Department of Labor operates a center for rakers in Columbia annually. The center, set up in the Columbia municipal building, which was open this year from Aug. 4-19, is staffed by employees and volunteers representing various agencies and nonprofits that provide services to migrant workers.
The number of migrant workers using the center has been in steady decline the past 10 years, according to figures provided by the Maine Migrant Health Program, which provides a mobile health clinic at the site. The center served about 1,600 people in 2004, 1,265 in 2010. This year officials estimate the number at 900.
Those figures appear to be borne out by the experience of others in the industry. For example, the Passamaquoddy Wild Blueberry Co., based in Columbia Falls, employed about 510 rakers this season. In 2000, the figure was more than 800, according to an official for the company, which has tapped members of the Micmac Tribe in Canada for migrant labor in the past.
"We just can't get them," said Grace Falzarano, the company's bookkeeper. "What used to be a tradition is going by the wayside."
Dave Whitney has employed about 30 migrant workers this season. A year ago, he hired 70.
"In the past, it has been difficult to get enough hand rakers," acknowledged Whitney, who has other businesses in addition to blueberry operations.
Whitney has a niche business using laborers raking by hand to harvest other people's blueberry lands. In fact, he is doing more of that this year, Whitney said.
However, Whitney Blueberries has steadily invested in improving its blueberry barrens to make them more suitable for harvesting by tractors. About 50-60 percent of the company's land has been leveled.
Whitney's company bought its first mechanical harvester last year. "That's working out extremely well for us," he said. The equipment eliminated the need to hire about 10-12 laborers to rake blueberries by hand.
Wild blueberries were Maine's No. 2 cash crop in 2011-12, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Washington County is the leading producer. The state's wild blueberry harvest averages about 86 million pounds per year. Prices averaged 75 cents per pound in 2012 for revenue of $69 million, according to USDA statistics.
The trend toward mechanization in the blueberry industry began in the 1970s when oil prices spiked, according to Bell, who was executive director of the Maine Wild Blueberry Commission for nearly 20 years before going to work for Cherryfield Foods earlier this year. Oil was used to burn blueberry barrens to control their growth and manage weeds. When oil prices jumped, however, the industry quickly studied whether it could use mechanical means — mowing — to prune blueberry bushes. The use of mechanized equipment also has led to owners of blueberry barrens improving their lands by removing rocks and leveling fields — improvements that make the terrain more suitable for tractors.
There are a number of reasons for the increasing shift toward mechanization, noted people who were interviewed for this article.
Mechanical harvesting is efficient, Bell noted. It is faster and helps preserve fruit quality, mainly because contractors work through the night, harvesting cooler, firmer blueberries, which hold up better.
Between 97 and 99 percent of Cherryfield's crop is now harvested by machines, according to Bell.
"It's a hell of a job getting (migrant workers) here," said Ed Hennessey, another grower, and there are numerous bureaucratic hurdles farmers have to jump through. "The paperwork is mind boggling," he added. The last time he employed migrant workers was about four or five years ago when he hired four.
"It isn't just hiring people that's difficult," Whitney explained. "It's lots and lots of regulations." Managing and housing migrant workers, as well as risk, regulations and other factors "point to it becoming more and more difficult to employ people in laborious conditions," Whitney said.
Many people will argue growers don't pay enough, according to Whitney; that's why they can't get enough rakers. "That's not true," he said. His rakers averaged nearly $20 an hour this season.
Workers raking blueberries by hand typically are paid piece rate wages by the box. A good raker can earn more than $300 per day, Acero said.
One of the region's biggest employers of migrant workers for the blueberry harvest is Jasper Wyman & Son. Wyman, which employed about 400 plus migrant workers this season, Acero said; about half are rakers and the other half work at the company's plants or facilities. Wyman has a processing facility in Deblois adjacent to a larger residential compound for migrant workers.
Ed Flanagan, president and CEO of Jasper Wyman & Son, declined to be interviewed although he noted he has discussed the company's position on migrant labor policy with the news media in the past and has granted access to its migrant labor camp.
President Barack Obama and Congress "have made a royal mess out of it," he said via email. Wyman's has lobbied in the past in favor of a bill that would allow more seasonal workers for agriculture and provide a pathway to citizenship, Flanagan said.
The blueberry harvest attracts the largest number of migrant and seasonal workers in Maine, according to Acero. The other harvest that draws the greatest number of migrant workers is broccoli, although it is much smaller. Growers in Aroostook County in the area of Caribou, Limestone and Presque Isle hire about 250 migrant laborers starting in late April through late October with the peak harvest in late July.
Some apple growers in Androscoggin, Kennebec, Oxford and Franklin counties also hire migrant workers for harvesting; Acero estimated the number at less than 50. Other than that, vegetable growers hire an average of about two workers per farm.
Some migrant workers may move on from one harvest to another, and some may find work making Christmas wreaths in the early fall.
The culture has changed, observed Bell and Whitney.
Whitney began getting acquainted with raking blueberries for his grandfather when he was 6-years-old. By the time he was 12-years-old, he was raking every day — all day — during the harvest. "And other kids were, too," he said, youths and college students. Families did it together.
"People don't want to do that any more," said Whitney, who began turning to migrant workers in the late 1990s. "There's probably various reasons why, and I don't try to figure that out. You just can't rely on hiring people to rake locally. They don't want to do it."
"People used to cobble together a living," said Bell, by doing seasonal work. That might be raking blueberries in August, 'tipping' (gathering evergreen branches) or making wreaths in the fall, or working in the fishing or forest products industries.
"But that's changed," Bell said.
Ultimately, for growers it's about increasing efficiency and controlling costs, according to Whitney.
"In the end, a farmer is trying to make money," Whitney said, "and it is extraordinarily difficult to make money in any business, and the blueberry business is no different. Costs keep increasing. New or changing regulations — increasingly stringent, not less stringent — require compliance. You work every little angle to become more efficient."


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Hercules Wimbledon's women's cross country runners finished their League season strongly taking fourth place in the final Max Sports Surrey Ladies League meeting at Denbies Vineyard, Dorking.
They were led in by marathon-running mum Claire Grima who was ninth in 36 minutes, 40 seconds. Amy Aronson was 16th in 37:52, Lisa Crow 26th in 38:49, Emma Henderson 24th in 40:04, and Francesca Clarke 67th in 42:15.
Best of the youngsters at Dorking was Zoe Illis who was eighth in the combined U15/U17 race in 16:38.
Hercules Wimbledon newcomer Theo Ettiene produced another outstanding run at an open indoor meeting at Crystal Palace when he won his 60m race in 7.00secs.
It was the third fastest time recorded by a UK under 17-year-old this season.
It improved on his previous best of 7.16 set at Crystal Palace last month.
He finished ahead of Hercules Wimbledon clubmate RichardAgyapong who also clocked a personal best of 7.09.
This weekend, Hercules Wimbledon's cross country runners compete in the South of England Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields, north London, on Saturday, while the club's track and field athletes are in action in the Surrey indoor championships at Sutton Arena on Saturday and Sunday.
Hercules Wimbledon's track and field training sessions take place at Wimbledon Park athletics stadium on Tuesday and Thursday evenings starting at 6.30pm and Sunday mornings at 10.30am. Further details from coaching coordinator Maurice Sharp on 020 8337 8707.
Hercules Wimbledon Athletic Club hold mid-week road running training sessions for marathon, cross country and road runners from Lauriston Cottage, 6a Southside, Wimbledon Common, at the junction with Lauriston Road, every Wednesday evening from 7pm. Contact Pete Mulholland for more details.


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Ikmaaluddin: Shaykh Saduq has narrated from his father and Ibne Walid together from Himyari from Yaqtini from Salih bin Muhammad from Hani Tammar that Imam Ja'far Sadiq (a.s.) said:
"There will be occultation for the Master of this Affair [Mahdi]. During this those who remain attached to their religion will be like those who rub their hands on a thorny branch. Then he gestured and said: There is occultation for the Master of this Affair [Mahdi] and every person is duty-bound to fear Allah and remain attached to his religion."
[The Promised Mahdi, Allamah Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi, Biharul Anwar, Volume 13 (Old Edition)/Volumes 51-52-53 (New Edition)]
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Veterans from across the south west who braved sub-zero temperatures during the Second World War were being honoured by Russia at a presentation ceremony in Trowbridge today to recognise their bravery during the conflict.
The Russian Embassy invited residents who had already received the Arctic Convoy Star medal from the Ministry of Defence to come along to a presentation ceremony at County Hall on Friday, August 29, and receive the Medal of Ushakov.
A representative of the Russian Embassy - Alexander Kramarenko, Minister-Counsellor - said paid tribute to the men.
Described by wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill as 'the worst journey in the world', the Arctic Convoy ships of the Royal and Merchant navies made repeated perilous journeys to ensure vital supplies of both arms and food supplies reached Russian shores.
Many lost their lives to the Axis aircraft, ships and submarines but their efforts are widely recognised as helping Russia's war effort and helping to significantly shorten the Second World War.
It has taken over 70 years for their heroic efforts to receive proper recognition.
The Medal of Ushakov is awarded to soldiers and sailors for bravery and courage displayed while risking their lives to defend the Russian Federation.


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Turbine Hall, Johannesburg
What started out in the late 1920s as a power station has been transformed into a contemporary function venue known as Turbine Hall, run by the Forum Company. Located in Johannesburg's Newtown Cultural Precinct, the building's refurbishment included equipping it with modern conveniences while preserving its historical architecture. more
Light from Africa
As well as serving a functional purpose, the art of pottery is rooted in the culture of many South Africans. Working with clay is a way to express our heritage, identity and creativity. It's also a way to stimulate healing and confidence, which is why the Light from Africa Foundation in Cape Town runs a programme of pottery lessons and clay therapy for orphaned and vulnerable children. more
Nightlife in Braamfontein, Johannesburg
Home to the University of the Witwatersrand, multinational companies and a number of creative professional and recreational projects, Braamfontein also has an eclectic mix of nightlife that includes trendy hangouts, sophisticated bars and innovative eateries to serve its diverse population. more
Adler Museum of Medicine, Johannesburg
Count your modern medical blessings when you encounter historic medical memorabilia at the Adler Museum of Medicine. From bleeding and cupping equipment and a 19th century amputation set to electrical apparatus favoured by Queen Victoria to ease her rheumatism, this quirky museum provides a fascinating peek into our unhealthy past. more
Touring Cape Town's art galleries
A Cape Town art tour will take you through the city's mix of historic art institutions and its trendy, edgy, art and design studios. From Kloof Street to Khayelitsha, you'll find artists and galleries that express the multiple identities that make-up cosmopolitan Cape Town. more
Art Deco architecture
Signs of Art Deco architecture are scattered across South Africa's major cities like sand in a desert. Wander through most downtown areas and be delighted by stepped forms, chevron patterns and sweeping curves. In Johannesburg alone there are over 100 buildings in the style, many of them national monuments. more
The Boardwalk Casino and Entertainment World
The Boardwalk Casino is slightly different from your average casino complex: the theme is the quintessential elegance and romance of the Victorian regency; the setting is designed to conjure up scenes reminiscent of a bygone era; the ambience and décor reflect a laid back atmosphere. more
Casinos in South Africa
South African casinos, including several large entertainment complexes, can be found countrywide. These entertainment destinations are typically designed around a specific theme and include a large range of activities for the whole family. Many are also geared towards business tourism, providing hotels and conferencing facilities as well. more
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Death of Euel T. Drake
23 March 1944 — Rengershausen, Germany
Euel T. Drake (*1922, Lacon/ Alabama) was a member of the 452nd Bomb group (squadron 730) during world war II. On March 22 1944 they got the order to attack an allied oil raffinery in Brunswick, Germany. Their plane "Duchess of Fubar" took of in Norwich/ England. 3o minutes west of Brunswick their were attacked by 20 Focke-Wulf FW 190 and 3 Messerschmitt Bf 109. The plane were hit severley around 11:30 am. Drake, gunner in the ball turret was hit by a 20mm and injured heavily. According to his crew members the gunfire obviously jammed the turret so that the door was blocked. When the attack was over the crew got no answer from Sgt. Drake. The plane sunk rapidly to the ground and 8 of the 10 crew members bailed out of the plane. Drake was left in the turret, another injured soldier (Sgt. Morris F. Weltzien) bailed out injured but died. He was found without having opened his parachute. The 8 survivors got arrested by the german army; Euel T. Drake was buried on March 23 1944 on the municipal cemetery of Rengershausen.
Source: accident report# 3551, April 24 1944, Headquarters Army Air Force Washington
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Running out at Twickenham will be an emotional moment for Trowbridge fly-half Lloyd Davis, four years after doctors told him he would never play again.
The 26-year-old suffered 40 per cent burns in 2010 after an industrial accident at the Trojan Engineering steelworks in Hilperton. He still plays in leggings to cover the burns to his legs, but after two years out of the team he has been instrumental in leading them to the final.
He said: "It was a strange feeling at the end of the semi-final, it was very, very tense. We were fighting to the end for any scraps we could get, so there was an outpouring of emotion for a couple of different reasons.
"In hospital there was one surgeon from New Zealand who was into his rugby who believed I would pull through, but 90 per cent of the doctors said I would be mad to go back.
"I felt very guilty that my team had got relegated and I wasn't there at the time to help them, so I promised when I would be back we would get back where we belong."
After an extensive rehabilitation programme he returned to the pitch in 2011.
He said: "It hurts, but so does rugby, so you just have to deal with it. Rugby is what brought me through it. I had a troubled time in hospital one night when I was losing the ambition to keep fighting the pain.
"They asked me what I do and I told them I play rugby, and they said if something's hurting too much just think of it as a training session rather than rehab for your leg. You have to focus on something that matters, and I just kept that same focus."
While Sunday's game will be the biggest of his career, it won't be Davis' first taste of Twickenham, having played there for Trowbridge Under-9s against Sherborne.
He said: "I think I am the only one left from that team now, so it will be great to go back. We only played to the dead ball line, so it will be good to use up all of the pitch. We won that convincingly, and I scored two tries, which hasn't happened for a while now.
"I am Welsh so I tend to go to watch games at the Millennium Stadium, but Twickenham will still be a great experience."
His father Henry was unable to make the Guildford match, but will be bringing the whole family from south Wales to watch the game.
Lloyd said: "I rang my dad straight after the game and he was chuffed to bits; he is an old Trowbridge coach, so he was thrilled for all the boys involved.
"I'm also bringing my partner Gemma and my 10-month-old son Lucas, so hopefully I'll get a picture with him at Twickenham.
Having just bought his first house in Southwick he is well aware of the effect the game has had on the town, and the growing support for the team.
He said: "It's nice to be a part of something to put Trowbridge on the map. It gets a lot of stick but there are some great things going on here."


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This article was published 13/1/2012 (2045 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Free Press polled agents for quarterbacks around the CFL to compile a list of the top earners. The league does not have salary disclosure and all numbers are approximate:
Anthony Calvillo, Montreal: $400,000 (maximum salary)
Ricky Ray, Toronto: $400,000 (maximum salary)
Henry Burris, Hamilton: $300,000 (maximum salary)
Darian Durant, Saskatchewan: $300,000 (maximum salary)
Drew Tate, Calgary: $300,000 (maximum salary) ($200,000 base)
Steven Jyles, Edmonton: $250,000 (maximum salary) ($125,000 base, $75,000 signing bonus)
Travis Lulay, B.C.: $250,000 (maximum salary)


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What is the funniest book you've ever read?
Does anyone enjoy reading books that make you laugh a lot? Sometimes I like to read novels that are just funny, fast, and entertaining. I'll call it a my literary junk food category. However, I'm interested in the subset "comical, humorous" which might include novels such as The Fuck Up by Arthur Nersesian or The Comedy Writer by Peter Farrelly, just as the subset "horror" might include a number of Stephen King novels.
Thus, for the Category: "Literary Junk Food/Comical" what is your number one pick?
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