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Yet Maple Leaf Stadium wasn't far removed from its glory days. Under Jack Kent Cooke's ownership during the 1950s, the Maple Leafs were one of the best draws in minor league ball, with stronger attendance figures than at least two major league clubs. In addition to the competitive team that won four International League pennants between 1954 and 1960, fans were drawn by an endless stream of promotions. As Louis Cauz noted in his book Baseball's Back in Town, "every night seemed like New Year's Eve. There were fireworks displays and fan appreciation days. Music blared whenever there was a lull on the field and fans left the park with ponies, baseballs, bats, caps and long chunks of salami." Not to mention car giveaways, leggy actresses and milking contests.
Plans for Maple Leaf Stadium began when club officials saw attendance drop at the team's Hanlan's Point home during the mid-1920s. Despite a winning team, delays ferrying ticketholders on and off the island discouraged fans. Team president Lol Solman found a solution nearby, where the Toronto Harbour Commission had reclaimed seven acres of land at Bathurst and Fleet from the lake. Designed by the architectural firm of Chapman and Oxley, who were also responsible for nearby structures such as the Crosse and Blackwell Building (now OMNI television), Palais Royale, the Princes' Gates and the Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion, Maple Leaf Stadium only took five months to build.
Despite drizzle and temperatures barely above zero, over 14,000 fans witnessed Mayor Thomas Foster toss the first pitch on April 29, 1926. By the bottom of the ninth inning, fans were preparing to head home when the Maple Leafs, who were trailing the Reading Keystones 5-0, suddenly tied the game. Extra innings were few: a bunt by Toronto third baseman Del Capes in the tenth inning allowed outfielder Herman Layne to score. The victory was the first of many for the Maple Leafs that year: the team brought the International League pennant home to the stadium fans affectionately referred to as "Fleet Street Flats."
By the 1960s, the stadium was viewed as a decaying relic unsuited for a step up in the baseball world. Though many baseball officials and sportswriters declared that Toronto was ready for the major leagues, Cooke repeatedly failed in attempts to lure new or moving franchises. Frustration mounted among fans; as Star sports columnist Milt Dunnell wrote in 1967, "Toronto regarded itself as a big league town. It refused to buy the minor league product any longer." Both attendance and Cooke's interest in the team declined. After Cooke sold his remaining shares in 1964, the owners who followed him struggled with disinterested fans, advertisers leery of promotions with little return, mounting municipal tax bills and battles with the stadium landlord, Toronto Harbour Commission.
The demise of Maple Leaf Stadium was swift. Despite interest from the likes of hockey Maple Leafs co-owner Harold Ballard, a month after the 1967 season ended the team was sold to interests who moved the franchise to Louisville, Kentucky. Demolition took place over the first half of 1968, which the Toronto Harbour Commission claimed was necessary due to fears that children who snuck into the decaying stadium would injure themselves. When the site was redeveloped for housing, one of the new streets was named Stadium Road in honour of the old ballpark.
Additional material from Baseball's Back in Town by Louis Cauz (Toronto: Controlled Media Corporation, 1977) and the October 17, 1967 edition of the Toronto Star. Photo of Maple Leaf Stadium, circa 1950s, from the City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 843.

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This outstanding scenic boat trip is possibly one that is not immediately associated with New Zealand, but if you're travelling in the vicinity of the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park during your New Zealand vacation, it's a trip not to be missed.
With the Tasman Glacier receding over the last few years, a 5km long glacial lake has formed at the terminal face. At fairly regular intervals, large chunks of ice carve off the terminal face and float as icebergs down the entire length of the lake.
From a distance the icebergs look quite small against the backdrop of the Southern Alps, but once up close to them and realising that 90% of their bulk is under water, their true dimensions become quite astonishing.
The scenic boat trip to view the icebergs begins at The Hermitage Hotel with a short bus transfer to the carpark nearby the glacial lake. From there it is a 20 minute flat walk along a gravel pathway to the floating pontoon where the cruise boat is moored. With everyone aboard, the boat gently cruises around the icebergs and, being small and agile, is able to get within touching of the ice. Care is taken not to nudge the icebergs as they can roll over unexpectedly. Newly carved icebergs are the most turquoise blue, but they turn brilliant white within a few hours. Depending on wind conditions, a newly carved iceberg can float the length of the lake in a single day.
After ample time to visit several icebergs, the boat speeds up the lake to the terminal face. Here the sheer gravelly ice wall of the Tasman Glacier is stunningly majestic. It looms high above the boat, quite intimidating, but because of the risk of an unexpected ice carving off the terminal face, the boat keeps a respectful distance.
Photo opportunities abound during this trip. The majestic snow-capped Southern Alps provide the most dramatic backdrop. As well there are outstanding views down the Tasman Valley towards stunning Lake Pukaki.
Each scenic boat takes 10 people and there are a maximum of 4 boats on the lake at any one time. Wear comfortable walking shoes, sunglasses are an absolute must and, depending on the weather, wear warm layers of wind and rainproof clothing. A cosy beanie hat is also recommended. At the pontoon, before boarding the boat, a secure bin is available to stow personal belongings not required for the trip i.e. day packs etc. Allow 3 hours and be aware that the trip doesn't operate during the winter when the lake is frozen! During the summer reservations are essential as space is limited.
This is an outstanding trip, on the gentle side of "adventure", with plenty of opportunities to get the most amazing photos. The remote alpine scenery is out of this world. It's definitely worth including in your New Zealand self drive road trip.


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Despite its open source roots, OpenLogic has taken a decisively commercial step forward this week by announcing the platform-agnostic CloudSwing, a "fully flexible" Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud solution offering cost-tracking and customization options of technology stacks.
Aiming to capitalize on the flexibility advantages of the cloud computing model, OpenLogic CloudSwing will offer a "customizable array" of infrastructure, languages, and technology stacks. This shopping cart of options will, hopes OpenLogic, give developers the flexibility they need to choose the best platforms for all cloud deployments.
Working hard to try and validate "first offering of its kind" claims, CloudSwing says that this is the only PaaS solution with built-in cost management tools to help users understand and manage their cloud costs across multiple clouds.
According to the company's website, "Most enterprises use a variety of languages and technology stacks, so they need the ability to configure cloud platforms exactly to their specifications. Supporting multiple Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) options, including Amazon and Rackspace, CloudSwing provides pre-built stacks for Java, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript with platforms based on Rails, Tomcat, LAMP, node.js, and nginx."
For enterprises and developers, CloudSwing aims to enable "complete customization" of technology stacks, including the ability to blend open source with proprietary software. CloudSwing users can pick versions of components, add new open-source components, add custom code or third-party commercial code, or create their own technology stacks from scratch.
CloudSwing will also offer cost management functionality as well as enterprise monitoring and support for cloud deployments. Using the New Relic web application performance tool for application monitoring, CloudSwing goes beyond the server- or instance-level monitoring.
"To successfully leverage PaaS solutions, enterprises require the flexibility to choose and customize their technology platform. They also require a unified approach to managing the costs and operations of applications across multiple clouds," said Kim Weins, senior vice president of marketing at OpenLogic. "CloudSwing eliminates these barriers, by enabling enterprises and developers to customize a stack from open-source and proprietary components and providing enterprise-level management features for managing costs and operations."


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Donatella's: Neapolitan Pizza That May Please the Purist and Everyone Else
184 Eighth Avenue, New York NY 10011 ; map); 212-493-5150
Pizza Style: Neapolitan
The skinny: Straight-up fine pizza. A hearty "Recommend!"
Oven Type: Wood-fired
Price: Individual pies, $12 to $20
By Nick Solares and Adam Kuban | In opening a Neapolitan pizzeria in the U.S. these days, it's become de rigueur to import an oven from Naples, make a lot of noise about said oven, and enumerate your bona fides to the press. Perhaps no one in recent memory has gone as far as restaurateur Donatella Arpaia.
If you've been following Slice, you know that she didn't just import a prefab oven from Italy but hired one of Napoli's best oven-crafters, Stefano Ferrara, to assemble the raw materials on site. Supervising that work and the oven specs was none other than renowned third-generation pizza-maker and instructor Enzo Coccia of Naples's Pizzeria La Notizia. When the oven was finished and cured, Arpaia and staff followed Coccia back to Italy for an intensive three-month crash course in pizza-making.
All this was well and good and pointed toward a promising result, but as always, the proof is in the eating. While a three-month course is longer than those that many aspiring Neapolitan pizzaioli go through, we wondered if it would still be enough to impart the elements of an art that serious pizza-makers spend their lifetime perfecting.
Add to that the fact that, even though Ms. Arpaia herself went through the training, we suspect you're not going to see her at the make table day-in, day-out slinging pies. Would all the exactitude and expense translate into pizza bliss?
Nick Solares and I visited yesterday during lunch to find out. Nick, what do you say?—AK
I flipped over a slice of Donatella's pizza and what I saw underneath, emblazoned on the crust in a charred outline was a heart shape. It pretty much sums up how I feel about the pizza here: I love it.
That love affair could happily begin and end with the Margherita, the simplest and most elemental of the pies we tried but one that ultimately proved to be the most satisfying of the bunch.
The dough is supple, creamy and soft. It does have some crunch—a delicate crispness on the cornicione—and the bottom of the pies get a burnishing that resembles its ancient cousin, the naan bread, with a corresponding snap. But the pie is mostly floppy—not in a doughy, flabby way but in a wispy, light and airy manner. I have never had a pie so ethereally tender.
The toppings are also perfect: the sweet, vibrant San Marzanos in perfect proportion to the milky mozzarella that dots the surface in little pools. The cheese is heated just to the point of melting without weeping its water out. This is in fact one of the driest Neapolitan style pies that I have had.
The synergy is completed by the anointment of olive oil,which adds a slickness to the pie, the herbaceous notes from the basil and the saltiness from the dusting of Parmigiano-Reggiano.
If pizza is perfect food, this might just be the perfect pizza.
I should add here that neither Donatella herself nor her chef de cuisine, Jarett Appell, were making the pizzas when we visited yesterday, and they were still amazing.
I was less enraptured by the Enzo, named, obviously, for Mr. Coccia. The crust was as commendable as on the Margherita but the bitterness from the broccoli rabe and the overwhelming smokiness of the mozzarella dominated the palate, leaving little room for the sausage to register.
I am not generally a fan of roughage-strewn pizza, but I have to say that I quite liked the Donatella with its patchwork of sweet little tomatoes and stracciatella under a leafy canopy of arugula.
But the Capellacio was absolutely extraordinary. That perfect dough is topped with mozzarella and baked. As soon as it emerges from the oven it is covered in a thick layer of charred and marinated mushrooms (oyster mushrooms when we visited, but mushroom types may change based on availability) and a snowfall of Pecorino.
The mushrooms are so hearty and meaty that even the most ardent carnivore (me, for example) will not miss the lack of swine or bovine on this pie.
The pies at Donatellla are mostly inspired. And while they remain true to the Neapolitan model, they offer something a little different than the average pie of the breed. The pies are thinner, less puffy (but with no less life) and far drier. They will appeal, I think, not only to the purist but to those who did not think they cared for the form.
As it stands now, Donatella's serves up my favorite pizza in NYC. Let's hope they can maintain the standard — it is, after all, early days for the venture. But what a start. —NS
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EXETER — Glen Wiswell scored four goals, including the game winner in overtime, as the St. Thomas Aquinas High School boys hockey team was a 6-5 winner over Exeter in holiday tournament action in Exeter.
T.J. Boulanger and Garrett Palmer also scored for St. Thomas (2-0), while Ty Turgeon assisted on two goals. Zane Angelopoulos made 27 saves.
St. Thomas plays Winnacunnet today.
Manchester Central 4, Spaulding 3 (SO)
MANCHESTER — The Spaulding boys hockey team lost to Manchester Central, 4-3, in a shootout Friday in the Manchester Christmas Tournament at the JFK Coliseum.
The Red Raiders went 1-2 in the tournament, losing Thursday by forfeit when the bus company made the decision it wasn't safe to make the trip during the snowstorm that dropped 14 inches on Rochester.
Brent Phillips had a goal and two assists for Spaulding, while Brendan Colson and Brian Chick also scored. Chick's goal with two minutes to play tied thre game at 3-all.
Central won the shootout, 2-1. Phillips scored the Red Raiders' goal. Derek Scott made 30 saves.
Spaulding returns to regular-season action Wednesday at Oyster River.
Noble/Wells 10, Pembroke/Campbell 4
ROCHESTER — The Noble/Wells hockey team was a 10-4 winner over Pembroke/Campbell in the Doucette Memorial Hockey Tournament on Friday night.
Mik Ricker scored four goals for Noble/Wells, which will play Somersworth/Coe-Brown in the championship tonight. Chullainn Kelly scored twice for Noble/Wells.
Spaulding 65,
Oyster River 56
DURHAM — Dominic Paradis scored 26 points to lead the Spaulding boys basketball team to a 65-56 win over Oyster River at the Bobcat Invitational Basketball Tournament on Friday night.
Nick MacGregor scored 13 for the Red Raiders, who play Timberlane today. For Oyster River, Nick Lazar scored 19 points, Anthony Shea added 15 and Jake Smith scored 10. Oyster River plays again on Sunday against Portsmouth.
Newmarket 66,
Stevens 38
NEWMARKET — The Newmarket boys basketball team cruised past Stevens at its own holiday tournament on Friday night in Newmarket.
Christian Hawkins scored 22 points with eight rebounds to lead Newmarket. Josh Eisfeller scored 17 with seven rebounds, Zach Jarosz scored 10 with five rebounds and Peter Carlson added six points with nine rebounds.
Newmarket plays Raymond today.
Marshwood 47,
Cheverus 39
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — The Marshwood boys basketball team held off a late rally by Cheverus (3-3) in Western Maine Class A action on Friday night.
Danny Veino scored 14 points and Brady Innes scored 10 for Marshwood (2-4) as Jack Letellier hit a key 3-pointer during crunch time.
Marshwood is at Massabesic on Wednesday.
Coe-Brown 57,
Sleepy Hollow 39
KEENE — The Coe-Brown Northwood Academy boys basketball team was a 57-39 winner over Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., in the Keene State holiday tournament on Friday.
Chris Laurion scored 16 points with seven rebounds for the Bears, while Beau Pingree scored 13 and Erik Rolser scored 10 with four steals. Andrew Langdon scored eight points.
Coe-Brown plays Saunders, N.Y., tonight.
Cheverus 57,
Marshwood 33
PORTLAND, Maine — The Marshwood girls basketball team lost at Cheverus in Class A action Friday, 57-33.
The Hawks (1-5) were led by Megan McLean with nine points and Sasha Vassova with eight.
Marshwood hosts Massabesic Wednesday. Cheverus is 6-0.
Oyster River 47, Timberlane 46
DURHAM — The Oyster River girls basketball team was a 47-46 winner over Timberlane in the Bobcat Invitational Basketball Tournament on Friday night.
Claire McCarthy scored 12 points, Jenny Mistretta scored nine and Megan Comeau scored eight for the Bobcats, which will play in the finals on Sunday.
Farmington 52, Nute 40
FARMINGTON — The Farmington girls basketball team was a 52-40 winner over rival Nute at the Mike Lee Holiday Basketball Bash on Friday night.
McKenzie Lloyd scored 21 points to lead Farmington. Kelsey Gregoire added eight points and Shannon Cardinal pulled down 11 boards.
For Nute, Kelsey Taatjes scored 14 points and Alissa Mitchell scored 13.
Westbrook 43, Noble 32
NORTH BERWICK, Maine — The Noble girls basketball team fell 43-32 against Westbrook (3-3) in Western Maine Class A action on Friday.
Chandler Waterman scored 11 points to lead Noble (0-7) and Amber Kelly scored nine.
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Finding the right childcare for your family can take time. At the OCDSB we offer before and after school childcare for children in Kindergarten to Grade 6. Registered Early Child Educators and Early Learning Assistants lead this program and offers our students a seamless day of learning at one location. Structured and non-structured activities offer children opportunities to learn through play. Activities will include quiet reading time, gross motor opportunities in the gym and outside plus open play within the classroom. Your child will be in familiar surroundings with staff and friends they have been with during the day.
The Extended Day Program operates from 7 a.m. to the start of school and from the end of school until 6 p.m. Parents may register their child for the morning, afternoon, or for both. The program will run on all instructional teaching days and be available for select professional activity days. Registration for Extended Day Programs on non-instructional days and holidays (select days at the Christmas Break, March Break and summer) is also available and will be done by separate registration, identifying the chosen locations offered for each break. Typically reduced locations across the district are selected for break periods.
Any OCDSB school with Kindergarten will offer an Extended Day Program, before and after school, subject to sufficient enrollment. There are two ways an extended program can be offered. The Board can run its own program or an eligible child care operator can enter into an agreement with the Board to offer programming on the Board's behalf. Please see the details provided under the "Third Party Operators" title listed on the left hand menu for more information.
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View of the Child: All students are competent, capable of complex thinking, curious and rich in potential. Environments and experiences allow students to exercise choice and responds to individual abilities and interests.
Positive Interactions: Programs support students in making connections with their peers and staff in structured and unstructured interactions as well as provide opportunities for students to engage in independent activities. All students, including students with differing abilities feel valued, connected to others, and are able to make positive contributions to the group, community and natural world.
Developmentally Responsive: All students are able to participate fully in ways that are most comfortable for them. Programs support physical and mental health and wellness, and are rooted in an understanding of child development and the broader contexts within which this development is happening (e.g. local, social, cultural, economic).
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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
The Energy Saver feature of Gentarkin's custom KNC Titan firmware was something that we wanted to try out in the 1.0.2 version and we tried to do it, but there was a bug that was causing the process to continue for days without finishing. With the release of the new 1.0.4 version of the custom firmware the issue in the Energy Saver feature has been resolved and we were finally able to finish a complete run on a single Titan Cube in less than 24 hours. On the image above you can see the stock settings of a fully functioning Titan Cube with all cores at 325 MHz with -0.0366V set for each core. The total power usage with these "default" settings is about 347 W and with the PSU power efficiency taken into account it makes it at about 384 Watts with a highly efficient PSU at 92% efficiency, with a less efficient PSU at lets say 85% the power usage will be higher at the wall and the final savings should be more.
The idea of the Energy Saver feature is to find the optimal lowest operating voltage of each core automatically and test to ensure the miner can run stable at these settings. As a result you get lower power consumption (lower energy bill) and less heat generated by the components, so in theory you should be able to extend the life of your mining hardware as well. All is done automatically and in the end you just need to confirm the settings that are being suggested. Our results for the fully functioning cube set at 325 MHz after the Energy Saver feature was over was an optimized voltage for all four cores at -0.0732V with a slight reduction of operating temperatures of the DCDC power modules. The more important thing is the reduction of the power usage, the actual consumed power by the device went down from about 347W to about 317W or about 30 Watts down, and a total of about 32 Watts lower power consumption at the wall. It may not seem that much, but this is close to about 10% and if you get 30 Watts lower power usage per cube and have a lot of cubes the number and power savings can get quite big. One more reason for users of KNC Titan Scrypt ASIC miners to get Gentarkin's Custom Titan Firmware.
– Visit the official website for GenTarkin's Custom KNC Titan Firmware for more info…
GenTarkin's custom modified KNC Titan Scrypt ASIC firmware has been updated to version 1.0.4 with the update focusing on fixing issues that may cause the Energy Saver function to get stuck and never finish optimizing the power usage of the mining cubes attached to the controller. The modified firmware provides users with better and more functional interface and more importantly a more safer to use and better performing miner. This very useful extra functionality provided by GenTarkin's Custom KNC Titan Firmware comes at a price, you need to purchase a full license for the modified firmware that is currently sold at $75 USD for the controller and if you have an additional devices you can purchase extra licenses for $35 USD each for each controller (key for activation only), not for each cube.
We have been using the previous release 1.0.2 for some time already and are really happy with it, though when we wanted to test the Energy Saver feature we apparently got trapped in a loop taking days and the optimization process not finishing. So hopefully we would be able to finish our testing of the automated functionality intended for reducing the power consumption of KNC Titan miners with the new 1.0.4 version of GenTarkin's Custom KNC Titan Firmware. So stay tuned for our report on our experience and results using the extra Energy Saver feature with the new release in a couple of days. Other than the issue with the Energy Saver feature looping for days without finishing the process we are very pleased with the modified firmware as compared to the latest official firmware for the Titan miners. So we would advice all KNC Titan ASIC owners still using the official firmware to check out the latest GenTarkin's Custom KNC Titan Firmware.
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The KnCminer Titan Scrypt ASIC is still probably the fastest and most power efficient miner for Scrypt coins out there, but at the same time it is also one of the most problematic one to use and run. There are hardware issues resulting in dying cores and problems with the DCDC power modules, the software is also far from perfect, even though there are modifications over the last official firmware such as GenTarkin's Custom KNC Titan Scrypt ASIC Firmware, there is still more to be desired. One of the things that is quite annoying is that the Load Balance pool strategy in the official Firmware 2.0 for the Titan is not working, so you are essentially left only with the Failover option.
Even if you run just one Titan cube you are still getting quite significant hashrate and while this is fine if you are mining for high-difficulty coins such as Litecoin for example, it is not for low difficulty coins that may have just a couple of MHS total network hashrate. Throwing your full KnC Titan hashrate at a coin with low difficulty and total network hashrate will simply increase the difficulty in very short period of time (depending on the difficulty adjustment algorithm of the coin) making it pointless to be mined. What you would want to have for low difficulty Scrypt crypto coins is to be able to split your Titan hashrate between multiple cons on a single multipool or between multiple mining pools in order to maximize your mining profit without bumping the difficulty to a level making it unprofitable for a given coin to be mined.
GenTarkin's custom firmware has implemented support for the alternative Balance strategy in the web interface, though it is essentially something supported by the bfgminer as an alternative to the Load Balance pool strategy. Considering that the Load Balance strategy is not working properly and you cannot dedicate lets say 10% to one coin, 30% for another and the remaining 60% to a third one, you might at least try the equal spreading of hshrate that the Balance strategy should provide. The Balance strategy should split the hashrate in equal parts between the multiple defined pools, so if you have 4 pools the total KnC Titan hashrate should be equally split between them with about 25% for each. The Balance pool strategy works just fine not only on the custom GenTarkin firmware, but also on the stock Titan 2.0 firmware as both rely on the bfgminer 5.1.0 and the miner provides the actual functionality, you just need to configure it.
"pools": [
"url": "hash-to-coins.com:4444",
"user": "titan.1",
"pass": "d=512"
"url": "hash-to-coins.com:4444",
"user": "titan.2",
"pass": "d=512"
"url": "hash-to-coins.com:4444",
"user": "titan.3",
"pass": "d=512"
"url": "hash-to-coins.com:4444",
"user": "titan.4",
"pass": "d=512"
"scrypt-n": 10,
"balance": true
With the stock firmware you will have to go to the Manual edit mode and edit the pool configuration file by hand, what you need to essentially do is add the option
"balance": true at the end of the configuration file to tell bfgminer to use the Balance pool strategy. Above is an example configuration file with four different coins and Balance pool strategy that should equally split the total hashrate to about 25% for each of the coins. GenTakin's latest custom firmware adds support for the Balance strategy in the Normal edit mode as well, making it a bit easier for users, but the end result is the same. As we have said already, the Balance pool strategy will work just fine with the latest official Titan 2.0 firmware, so you can try it even without a modified firmware. However custom firmwares such as GenTarkin's add a lot of other and more useful features than just making some of the things that do not work properly in the official firmware more user friendly.


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theboywarrior wrote:Homeschoolers unite! Let me officially welcome you to CC!
AK_Brickster wrote:I was homeschooled also, but have since graduated college. Something about homeschooling and Legos... I wonder what the connection is? Maybe that our parents valued educational toys more than the public school crowd? Would be interesting to research that a bit.
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Haha! Yes, actually! However, with many rural communities, homeschooling IS the only option for some people. In my case, my parents just wanted me to have a more conservative education and it didn't have anything to do with proximity to public schools (there was an elementary and HS just up the street from our house, actually).Knight Man wrote:Is there even Public Schools in the Cold North (Alaska)? ~KnightMan~
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Meanwhile, Raymond James (RJF) said Tuesday the independent firm of Private Wealth Management at Heathrow, in Lake Mary, Fla., recently affiliated with it. The group, formerly affiliated with LPL Financial (LPLA), includes three advisors and has some $310 million in client assets.
"Fusion Family Wealth offers its clients an innovative business model," said Dynasty President & CEO Shirl Penney, in a statement. "Over the years, [its leader Jonathan Blau] has built a substantial network of accounting and legal professionals and has successfully collaborated with a wide center of influence in building his business. Now, more opportunities will present themselves to Fusion Wealth as independent advisors and they will be able to deliver a wider solution set to clients."
In addition to Blau, an ex-senior vice president with UBS who is now the group's CEO and president, Fusion Family Wealth includes three other advisors and one associate: Harvey Radler, Jeffrey Blick, Joel Bodner and James Cloudman.
"Fusion Family Wealth was formed for a simple reason: We recognized that clients expect a high level of professional care aligned with the highest legal fiduciary standard. As an SEC-registered firm, we are able to fuse these two concepts together," said Blau, in a press release.
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This article with the oh so clever title of "'Joy of Cooking' or 'Joy of Obesity'?" describes a study that hilariously mischaracterizes the evolution of everybody's favorite cookbook. Researchers have found that some recipes now have higher calorie counts and that's why Americans are OMG SO FAT:
Published as a letter Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the report examined 18 classic recipes found in seven editions of the book from 1936 to 2006. It found that calorie counts for 14 of the recipes have ballooned by an average of 928 calories, or 44%, per recipe. And serving sizes have grown as well.
When we talk about obesity, people like to plant the source of the issue on away-from-home dining," said Brian Wansink, the study's co-author and director of Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab. "But that raised the thought in my mind: Is that really the source of things?. . . . What has happened in what we've been doing in our own homes over the years?"
I'm gonna state up front that the main reason I'm blogging this is that it's an excuse share the pictures that are behind the cut, so I'll try to cut to the chase. Still, about this study and that quote: gender is not mentioned in this article, but I can't help but be suspicious of this study as contributing to the "blame the moms" aspect of our culture. I'm actually fairly impressed that no one in the article explicitly mentions women (perhaps "impressed" is not the right word), but the phrase "what we've been doing in our own homes" sets off alarm bells for me, as it's used so often as a prelude to returning to the glory days of when women didn't have pesky things like careers and hobbies that would interfere with cooking the most nutritiously correct meals ever seen on earth. And, as the book's original cover shows, the intended audience was clearly women: holy women being attacked by monsters.
Now, about those recipes. They had to pick recipes that were present in each of the published editions, so they ended up being American classics: the article lists beef stroganoff, waffles, macaroni and cheese, goulash, Spanish rice, brownies, sugar cookies, and apple pie. I'm not trying to universalize my own eating habits here, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of these, to quote Obesity Propaganda Cookie Monster, a sometimes food? I know the phrase is "American as apple pie," but how often do you actually bake an apple pie? I just can't work up much excitement that a list of foods that were basically already vehicles for enjoying some fat and/or sugar may now contain more fat or sugar. This is not to demonize fat and sugar–far from it!–but just to point out that these may be staple recipes, but that doesn't mean they're staple foods. And the idea that the serving sizes have embiggened, honestly, who uses the serving size guidelines who is not already on a diet? I mean, if that beef stroganoff is yummy but way richer than you remember Grandma making it, probably you won't want quite as much of it as you did at Grandma's house.
Happily, the book's editor exhibits some sense about the whole thing: "It's such a tiny number of recipes. It's really a non-event," she said. Anyone who has a copy of the Joy of Cooking knows that it is massive, so 14 recipes — especially 14 recipes that have been in circulation since 1931 — cannot possibly be representative. To wax nostalgic over how 1931 brownies used less butter (perhaps because of that little thing called the Great Depression, maybe?) is to construct a fantasy world where people were never fat but never went hungry, and when all food nourished all bodies the same way.
Now for the real meat (ha) of the post. I had the great fortune to inherit my parents' old copy of the Joy of Cooking a few months ago. It's in pretty good shape, considering it's been in continuous use for at least 40 years, but sadly I don't know exactly which edition it is, because it had to be rebound, and some of the front matter is missing. FJ and volcanista and I concluded that it's either from the 40s or early 60s, but I'm not positive which. It seems to be the 1964 edition (thanks, Katia!) Whenever it was published, in the spirit of drawing wild conclusions from unrepresentative samples, I'd like to share with you some helpful tips from the glorious, pre-OBESITY EPIDEMIC BOOGA BOOGA, Joy of Cooking. (Warning: this post gets picture-heavy behind the cut.)
First, something we've all wondered from time to time: how to skin a squirrel.
Gray squirrels are the preferred ones; red squirrels are small and quite gamey in flavor. There are, proverbially, many ways to skin a squirrel, but some hunters claim the following one is the quickest and the cleanest. It needs a sharp knife.
To skin, cut the tail bone through from beneath, but take care not to cut through the skin of the tail. Hold the tail as shown [below] and then cut the skin the width of the back, as shown in the dotted lines. Turn the squirrel over on its back and step on the base of the tail. Hold the hind legs in one hand and pull steadily and slowly […] until the skin has worked itself over the front legs and head. While holding the squirrel in the same position, pull the remaining skin from the hind legs. Proceed then as for Rabbit, cutting off the head and the feet and removing the internal organs, plus two small glands found in the small of the back and under each foreleg, between the ribs and the shoulders.
Some of you may have skinned squirrels before. This is why you are fat.
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Never forget to remove the musk glands from your peccary!
Some useful information about marrow. You can totally substitute marrow for brains in your favorite recipes.
Finally, some old favorites, sure to bring back memories of your younger, pre-obesity days.
Who wants chicken farce? It's cool your family calls it forcemeat.
Nothing says "well-liked" like head cheese. Make sure to brush the calf's teeth after you quarter its head.
And for those of you with birthdays coming up, I know what you want! Birthday Bread Horse is way less fattening than baby donuts.
For fancy occasions, consider making gallinule! "To use the entrails after cooking, sieve or chop the intestines and flambe them briefly in cognac. Mix with pan drippings and spread on a crouton OR OVER THE BIRD AS A GLAZE before serving" (emphasis added).
The point of all this, of course, is that cultural traditions are malleable, and nostalgia for a golden era of the past papers over the fact that our grandparents lived in a complex and untamable world, just as we do. For every 14 recipes in the Joy of Cooking that indicate we're all going to die of heart attacks from making our mac and cheese too cheesy, we can find 14 recipes that suggest that our grandparents subsisted on brains and bread horses. For cooking to truly be a joy, you've gotta like what you'll end up with. Go ahead, fatten up those brownies if that's what you like. I'll slow-roast you some wild boar.


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- Jan 7, 2008 3:40 am UTC
In a recent article, renowned virtual reality guru Jaron Lanier criticizes the community-driven software development process of the open-source movement, asserting that the model isn't conducive to radical innovation. Lanier believes that the scientific community should shun the open approach and not follow in the footsteps of Linux.
Lanier is a noted critic of Internet collectivism, and one can look at his previously stated positions in order to gain a better understanding of his opinions about open-source software. In a 2006 essay titled "Digital Maoism," Lanier condemned Wikipedia as a "fetish site for foolish collectivism" and cautioned against what he perceived as descent into mob mentality. The basis for Lanier's concerns about Internet collectivism, which he elucidated in an article for TIME magazine later that year, seem to extend from the observation that collectivization has a dehumanizing effect that erodes moral autonomy and reduces individuals to the lowest common denominator of the group.
Like most people who have had close encounters with idiocy on the 'Net, I can certainly sympathize with many of his concerns. In the article, Lanier points out that anonymity tends to foster abusive attitudes and that a collective of anonymous people can easily become a brutish gang. The correlation between anonymity and abrasiveness, especially in the presence of an audience, is quite apparent on the Internet (we may even be treated to a demonstration in the discussion thread for this article). Lanier doesn't directly address the issue of how collectives magnify the effect, but I think the reasons are pretty obvious: in a collective, participants mutually reinforce each others' behaviors.
The open-source software community certainly exhibits some of the negative traits of collectivism. For instance, there is a very strong tendency to erect personality cults around strong leaders whose opinions are then given undue weight. There are also many cases where certain groups or factions of the open-source software community have resorted to nasty personal attacks and other inappropriate mob-like behavior in response to a perceived threat. I can also recall several notable instances where irrational group consensus led to adoption of poor practices and technologies to the detriment of innovation. One example of this is CORBA, which was adopted with way too much enthusiasm on the Linux platform despite serious deficiencies and has now been almost completely purged.
Although there is evidence of counterproductive groupthink in the open-source community, that doesn't really invalidate the viability of the community-driven development model. Obviously, corporations that make closed-source software are also collectives and are just as susceptible to the same exact negative tendencies. Universities and the scientific community in and of itself also represent certain kinds of collectives. I don't think it is possible to operate or innovate in complete isolation. Conventional development and community-driven development both ultimately have to entail collectives of some kind, the difference is just that community-driven development is infinitely more inclusive and transparent.
I was somewhat puzzled by some of the examples and anecdotes that Lanier uses to support his claim that open source software is detrimental to innovation. Lanier describes how conflicts with Symbolics over the source code relating to MIT LISP machine development inspired Richard Stallman, the founder of GNU, to pursue development of an open-source operating system. The general gist of the story is known to most open-source enthusiasts, but Lanier's interpretation is somewhat unconventional. "[Richard] would instigate a free version of an ascendant, if rather dull, program: the Unix operating system," Lanier wrote in his article. "I was intrigued but sad. I thought that code was important in more ways than politics can ever be. If politically correct code was going to amount to endless replays of dull stuff like Unix instead of bold projects like the LISP Machine, what was the point?"
The point, which Lanier apparently misses, was to create technology that was practical and useful while also empowering users by granting them the freedom to study, modify, and redistribute source code. The ability to freely reuse existing components promotes innovation by enabling independent developers to focus on adding new features and experimenting with new ideas rather than having to start from the ground floor or simply accept the limitations inherent in software that they cannot modify.
Lanier's attempt to cite the cloning of UNIX as an example of open-source anti-innovation is absurd because commercial, closed-source software companies were creating proprietary UNIX clones at the same exact time. Lanier is trying to build an argument against open source on the basis of something that isn't exclusive to open source. Although only tangentially related, I think it is also worth noting that the LISP Machine failed, in part, because it didn't provide many technical advantages over mainstream UNIX workstations that offered superior software portability. UNIX was a practical platform then, and the modern incarnations are practical platforms now.
I was also somewhat puzzled by the specific examples of closed-source innovation that Lanier chose to defend his argument. He considers products like Adobe Flash and the Apple iPhone to be paragons of proprietary innovation. Lanier fails to note that many important components in both of those products are built with open-source software. Adobe opened the source code of its Flash ECMAScript implementation and at the heart of the iPhone is Apple's Mac OS X operating system which leverages BSD and a kernel derived from the open source Mach kernel.
Using Mach and BSD for Mac OS X, and then using Mac OS X as the basis for the iPhone's OS made it easier for Apple to focus on developing the user interface and other features that make the iPhone innovative. In that respect, open-source software serves as a compelling enabler of Apple's innovation by providing a robust and flexible foundation that Apple could adapt to serve its purposes.
Many companies are building innovative new technologies on top of a foundation of open source software. TiVo and the Amazon Kindle, for instance, are both examples of innovative proprietary products that are Linux-based, while the Chumby and the Neo1973 are examples of innovative open-source products that are Linux-based.
In the end, Lanier really doesn't provide any compelling evidence to support his claim that adoption of community-driven processes hinders creativity. His fear that innovation in the scientific community will stagnate as a result of adopting open-source methodologies seems largely unfounded. There is a growing body of evidence—based on actual studies rather than mere speculation—that the community-driven model is, in reality, more productive and more conducive to innovation.
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Being High Again & Hi ANTICO!
Yesterday We went to the High Art Museum again. Today We went to see the works of two artists: Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine and John Marlin's watercolors: A Medium for Modernism. Both were very good and very different from each other.
Radcliffe Bailey worked with paint and sculpture to bring out the his black heritage.
This scupture was there, except the head all these are piano keys. I lifted this off Google.
John Marlin was a well traveled and versed man who ran around with people like Georgia O'Keefe and her husband – something about their carefree lifestyle reminds me of the Great Gatsby that hardly noticed the people around them struggling for survival.
The above was there is named something like Sun and the Brooklyn Bridge. I lifted this also from Google.
In the visiting exhibits at the High Museum you are not allowed to take photos. The permanent exhibits you can, which I helped myself to. Here are some random samplings:
If you think there is one too many of me, then you will love the below art. Click on it and you will see hundreds of me. You will see the last thing a fly saw just before I swatted it.
There was an elderly dignified lady studying a painting by Nellie Mae Rowe. I couldn't help myself. I walked up to her and said I went to visit Nellie Mae one time at her house in Vinnings. At first the lady looked perturbed that I jumped in her face but as she listened and she was amazed. I told her Nellie Mae lived in a shack by the railroad tracks in Vinnings, and a friend of mine, Sandy Hicks was ran over at that same RR crossing by Nellie's house. I told the lady she had little dolls and notes to God hanging in the trees in her yard and any other trash people threw from their cars she molded it into art and had it dangling all over in her yard. I told her Nellie Mae took me inside to show me her house. In it was a room that was a shrine to Martin Luther King. Another room was dedicated to Jesus, and framed pictures of John F. Kennedy were in just about every room. I told her Nellie Mae also has some dolls she made that was on display in a case, but I they are not there now. After I said all I could think of she looked at me very sincerely and thanked me for sharing that with her and said she had drove through Vinnings many times back in the early 70s and probably noticed that house and wished she had done as I did, dropped in pay a visit.
The below four folk-art pictures are by Nellie Mae Rowe:
And of course look out any window and see the magnificent Building Art by Atlanta:
After the High we went to ANTICO PIZZA on Hemphill, near Northside Drive. We had heard a lot of good things about ANTICO NOPOLENTANA Pizza, about how good it is. And it is good, it just about rolls off the crust as you lift it to take a bite. We read a lot of reviews about the restaurant and found out that it didn't have much seating for dining in; they don't sell alcoholic beverages but you are welcome to bring your own in, but you can't bring your own soft drinks; the counter staff, order taker and cashier were always very rude…. which just wasn't true; they were very nice and accommodating.
Remember we read it was very hard to get a seat during the lunch? We timed the arrival of our visit alightly after 2pm. There were several tables empty. By the way, the tables are long that several parties could sit at.
The place is very original, eccentric, and interesting. It also has good pizza. However, there are some non-francised pizza eateries within a short distance of our house that is just as good.
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Live, Learn, Grow: Stevens to Build Smart House That Teaches Homeowners to Live Greener
A team of students representing nearly every academic discipline at Stevens is joining forces to build "Ecohabit", an intelligent, energy-efficient and sustainable home.
The project is part of the Solar Decathlon, a biannual competition hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy in which 20 university teams from around the globe compete to design, build and operate the most energy-efficient solar home within budget and building limits. In 2011, the first year that Stevens competed, Stevens' "Empowerhouse" won awards in two categories – affordability and hot water – and is now home to a working mother of three in an inner-city neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
This year's entry – created by more than five dozen students with expertise in engineering, design, architecture and computer science – will not only demonstrate that solar power is an affordable and reliable home energy source, but will also teach its inhabitants to live more sustainably. Each component of the house features intelligence, which contributes to the home's efficiency, affordability and sustainability.
"All of the houses in the competition are zero net-energy, but Ecohabit stands out because it is a 'smart house' that gives the occupants total control of their home," said Alexis Moore, a computer science major. "Our desire is for the homeowner to learn how to become friendlier with the environment. The systems all work together to make suggestions to help the occupants make adjustments in their lifestyles and live greener."
Solar power is of course one important aspect of the house, working to both conserve and produce energy. Ecohabit's roof will be constructed with an incredibly new technology – DOW POWERHOUSE™ solar shingles – which were donated by team corporate sponsor Dow Chemical Company. The shingles include a fully integrated photovoltaic (PV) system that converts all of the sun's rays into electricity to power the house.
"Ecohabit will be the only house in the competition with solar shingles instead of solar panels," said Tim Weeks, an electrical engineering major. "They are much smaller and less obtrusive than solar panels, which will give us an aesthetic advantage over the competition."
Another cutting-edge feature is the "phase-change materials," or PCMs, which will be built into the interior walls of the house. The PCMs absorb, store and ultimately release heat, enabling the house to harness the sun's energy during the day and release it into the house at night to maintain a constant temperature.
The house also includes a rainwater harvesting system which collects 100 percent of the rainfall and uses it irrigate and hydrate a "green roof" and "green wall" – which are covered in real plants, flowers and vegetation native to Southern California – as well as a regular outdoor garden. The green roof and green wall will act as extra insulation, storing heat and even reducing pollution and serving as a soundproof barrier.
"What is unique about Ecohabit's rainwater harvesting system is that all of the components – from the collection tank to the plumbing system to green wall, green roof and garden – are integrated together," said Erin Hopson, a civil engineering major. "First rain drains onto the green roof to bring water and nutrients to those plants, and then any excess gets pumped into the green wall, and finally to the garden."
And virtually everything about the HVAC system is innovative.
One technology, the condensate misting system, reduces energy usage by collecting condensate to use for cooling.
"Usually, all of the cold condensation that builds up on air conditioner pipes is just dumped," said Spencer English, a mechanical engineering major. "We're storing that condensate and will spray it onto the outdoor unit of the HVAC system to keep it cool, which increases the load capability and energy efficiency."
There is also the desiccant system which uses a special humidity-absorbing material to control the humidity level, ensuring maximum comfort while using very little energy. Typically, energy-sucking air conditioners are used to lower humidity.
"Air conditioning takes up a lot of electricity," said Dan Tipaldo, an electrical engineering major. "The desiccant system is a low energy system to remove humidity and let the air conditioner focus on cooling."
The heating system also includes a recirculating heat pump which transfers heat from the ambient air into the hot water heater.
"On a sunny day, the pump saves a lot of energy," said English. "The sun is basically a constant source of energy for the hot water heater."
This innovation also preserves water resources by ensuring the water is already warm when you turn on the faucet to take a shower or wash your hands.
"Instead of turning on the faucet and waiting for the water to get warm, you hit a button to start recirculating hot water through the plumbing system," said English. "The button changes color to notify you when there is hot water ready at the tap."
What's more, special sensors in the bathroom will know when someone walks in and automatically turn on the pump. The house will then alert the user when the water is warm and ready for use.
But perhaps the most innovative technological advancement in Ecohabit is what makes it "smart" – the central control system which will receive data from sensors located throughout the house, adjust certain systems to ensure the most energy-efficient usage, and even provide feedback to inhabitants on important factors like weather patterns, temperature, occupancy levels and power usage so they can learn to live more sustainably.
The system begins with custom sensors in every outlet which will collect a constant stream of data on temperature, humidity, light intensity and other environmental elements. Through a low-power wireless communications protocol, the data will be aggregated by a central monitor, which will dispense it in such a way as to help inhabitants make smart and sustainable decisions and maintain an energy-efficient lifestyle.
The monitor will provide a complete understanding of how much energy is being used by a certain appliance or system at a certain time of day in a certain area of the house. Based on the data, it will make recommendations to the occupant on actions they should take – "lower the thermostat;" "turn the air conditioner off;" "flip off the lights in the bedroom."
It even collects local weather data to alert the occupant of coming temperature changes – i.e. "it will be 80 degrees in one hour; turn the air conditioner on low."
And the occupant can make adjustments directly at the monitor, or from anywhere in the house using smart phone connected to the wireless system.
"The information we will collect will be incredibly granular," said Assaf Kipnis, a cybersecurity major. "You'll be able to tell how much power is being used by every single appliance and system."
"There are companies out there that make certain solitary functions of a house intelligent, but it is rare to find a house where all of the smart functions are integrated and controlled by the same central system," added Maunil Sanghavi, a computer science major.
In addition to utilizing energy-efficient technologies, the unique layout of Ecohabit also makes it an optimal space for sustainable living. The unique L-shape creates as spacious as possible a house for the small size requirements of the Solar Decathlon competition – under 1,000 square feet – and a modular furniture system and a "flex" room that can serve as an office or a second bedroom will allow occupants to reconfigure the rooms as their needs change.
Ecohabit also utilizes the outdoors in a variety of ways. Exterior glass walls will fold open to both provide natural ventilation and an expanded living space, and two large covered decks also extend the interior space.
"Our biggest design challenge is making the roof big enough for the solar shingles," said John Ivanoff, a product architecture major. "Our roof will be very expansive – we call it a massive 'wing' – and it juts out past the core of the house. We are using the areas under those sections of the roof as small outdoor decks or porches that serve as an extension of the living room or as a barbeque area. It's perfect for Southern California weather, because those outdoor spaces can be used all year long."
Ivanoff said the architecture and design team is extremely focused on improving the marketability, usability and consumer appeal of the house.
"We want this to be somewhere people can actually see themselves living and fitting in and calling home," he said.
All in all, Ecohabit redefines the traditional relationship between the home and its occupants, allowing both to learn from one another and ultimately creating a more sustainable, energy-efficient way of life. With all of the energy and water savings made possible by the vast array of advanced technologies embedded into the infrastructure, Ecohabit is also an incredibly affordable living space with utility bills that will hardly compare to the average home.
Following months of designing and planning, construction of Ecohabit is now underway on a construction site in the parking lot of Stevens' Griffith Building along the Hudson River, overlooking the New York City skyline. After being shipped to Irvine, Cali. for the Solar Decathlon in October 2013, the house will eventually become home to a deserving war veteran in Southern California.


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Despite being a phenomenon across the Western world these past three years, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic didn't make its way to Japanese shores until last Tuesday.
We here at Kotaku have already showed you the Japanese theme songs, but that doesn't answer the real question on everyone's minds: What do the ponies sound like in Japanese?
Well, we've put together a little video to satisfy your curiosity.
The Japanese version of Friendship is Magic brings a score of popular voice actresses into the roles of the ponies. Twilight Sparkle is played by Miyuki Sawashiro (Fujiko Mine in Lupin III, Kira Kosuke in Btooom! ). Fluttershy is in turn voiced by Emiri Kato (Kyubey in Madoka Magica, Mayoi Hachikuji in Bakemonogatari).
The rest of the "mane six" are played by the cast of anime Milky Holmes with Rainbow Dash played by Izumi Kitta, Apple Jack by Sora Tokui, Rarity by Mikoi Sasaki, and Pinky Pie by Suzuko Mimori—who also sings the theme song.
And for those fans of everyone's favorite sisterly deity duo, Nightmare Moon and Princess Celestia are played by Takako Honda (Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider series) and Kikuko Inoue (Belldandy in Oh My Goddess!; The Boss, Sunny, and Rose in the Metal Gear series) respectively.
Check out the video above to see Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Apple Jack, Rarity, Pinky Pie, Nightmare Moon, and Princess Celestia in all their Japanese glory.
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic airs every Tuesday at 7:30AM on TV Tokyo in Japan.
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While the (bring your own device) phenomenon has been over-hyped by vendors and the trade media alike, its usability benefits for individuals has (if anything) been overshadowed by a glut of companies now lining up to proffer forth yet another generation of "write once — run anywhere" solutions.
Latest in line to produce a cross-platform development framework of this ilk is Motorola with its RhoMobile "true HTML5" approach. The suite combines three of the firm's existing technologies to produce a means of synchronizing data and therefore providing operational applications that function in either a connected or disconnected environment.
Combining the features of RhoElements, RhoConnect, and RhoStudio into one solution, RhoMobile Suite is positioned as means of enabling developers to build secure enterprise-grade business applications with a consumer-style look and feel across "virtually any OS, device and screen size," says the company.
Motorola further states that RhoMobile applications are able to support enterprise-class mobile operating systems including Windows Mobile, Windows CE, and Blackberry OS. Consumer grade operating systems including Android, Apple iOS, Symbian, and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 are also supported. This, in theory, allows customers and independent software vendors to go to market at the same time with multiple platforms instead of staggering releases for different applications.
RhoElements enables both hybrid (connected) as well as native (disconnected) HTML5 applications so a developer can build once and run on multiple operating systems and devices while connected or disconnected. Since RhoElements is based on HTML and HTML5, developers are provided with a format to allow applications to look and feel the way the developers/designers prefer.
"RhoConnect is the first of a new category of mobile application integration servers that handles the details of connecting to enterprise backend applications by integrating into multiple systems and managing and determining the amount of data synchronization required. RhoConnect allows developers to connect their data source — using any framework — to their device, anywhere, anytime. The server is efficiently designed for performance, scale and evolving technologies," said the company.
Joining this group of technologies is RhoStudio, an Eclipse plug-in designed to allow developers to use a single computer to quickly develop off-platform RhoElements applications and RhoConnect adapters for delivering a complete RhoMobile Suite solution.