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Q: Linking error: Undefined Symbols, lots of them (cpp cross compiling) I get to the very last linking command (the actual executable is being linked) but i get a BUNCH of undefined symbols (and they're in cpp and look so scary to me, a simple c programmer)
--its probably something simple but i cant get what im supposed to put as linker (its using gcc here...? is that appropriate? g++ told me too many input files lol) (ld returns much of the same)
anyway its ridiculous, i am completely stuck
thankyou for your help!
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/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.0  -arch armv6 -pipe -std=c99 -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -fasm-blocks  -Wreturn-type -Wunused-variable -fmessage-length=0 -fvisibility=hidden -miphoneos-version-min=2.0 -gdwarf-2 -mthumb -miphoneos-version-min=2.0 -I../include -isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.2.sdk -O0  -arch armv6 -pipe -std=c99 -gdwarf-2 -mthumb -I../include -L../libs -L../../libs -isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.0.sdk -L/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS3.0.sdk/usr/lib  -o mutella  -L/usr/local/lib uilocalsocket.o gnumarkedfiles.o uitextmode.o sha1.o sha1thread.o gnuwordhash.o gnulogcentre.o asyncdns.o gnuwebcache.o uiterminal.o uiremote.o asyncproxysocket.o messages.o lineinput.o rcobject.o event.o term_help.o mprintf.o readline4fix.o asyncfile.o tstring.o dir.o inifile.o property.o byteorder.o mui.o gnusearch.o mthread_unix.o asyncsocket.o controller.o preferences.o packet.o gnuupload.o gnusock.o gnushare.o gnunode.o gnuhash.o gnudownload.o gnudirector.o gnucache.o conversions.o common.o main.o  -lpthread -lreadline -lcurses  -lpoll -lz
Undefined symbols:
  "std::__throw_bad_alloc()", referenced from:
      __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::_List_node<MUILSocketCommunicate*> >::allocate(unsigned long, void const*)in uilocalsocket.o
      __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<SMarkedFile>::allocate(unsigned long, void const*)in gnumarkedfiles.o
      __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::_List_node<long> >::allocate(unsigned long, void const*)in gnumarkedfiles.o
      __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::_Rb_tree_node<TString<char> > >::allocate(unsigned long, void const*)in gnumarkedfiles.o
      __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::_Rb_tree_node<long> >::allocate(unsigned long, void const*)in gnumarkedfiles.o
      __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::_Rb_tree_node<std::pair<long const, MFileSizeClass> > >::allocate(unsigned long, void const*)in gnumarkedfiles.o

A: Seems you are trying to link C++ code with a C (gcc) linker call. That'll not include the appropriate libraries which is just what you are seeing. Try g++ instead of gcc (or throw out the C++ code/libraries).

A: Add -lstdc++ or use g++ for linking.


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Hackerspaces in OpenStreetMap - I made this auto-updating map of all the Hackerspaces in OSM.
As a professional programmer, I have learned many things. I'm putting things online so others can learn from them.
GStreamer media framework for linux.
Language links, incl. machine translation etc.
Food recipes (including Rory Pizza).
One of my side projects is a Celtic Knot Creator - Software to make Celtic Patterns.
Kindle Maps - More maps and ebook stuff.


This is basically the original vertical spell cast window. I got tired of looking for a new one, so I modded it on my own.
It's exactly the same as the one in AYA UI VERSION 8.51 for TBS, except the the 10 spellgem.
Thanks very much for creating this spell window. It's significantly better than the horizontal spell window and the cheesy looking other vertical window option we had for this UI. However, I'm having the same problem as a few of the other users in that my spell icons are blacked out. I spent a few hours playing around with the UI and its to no avail. Basically, the spell icons work when you use the 8.51 UI version, but do not work when you use the most recent version (11.21.07). I use the same icons as provided by the ayaui. I was wondering if you might be able to look into this. Thanx!
Thanks for this, the only problem I see are my icons are black, does anyone else have this problem.
hmmm. I've no idea why your icons are black. i didn't change anything except to add the new spellgem and move the 2 inventory and spellbook parts down 31 pixels.
What spellgem icons are you using?
Got same issue pugi.... anyone have a clue?
Yay !!! Thanks Lonate !! DLed and working perfectly !!
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GI Show - The Last of Us Part II State of Play, Minecraft Dungeons, and Monster Train
by Andy McNamara on May 28, 2020 at 12:32 PM
On this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, we discuss The Last of Us Part II's recent State of Play where we finally see some uninterrupted gameplay, and we cover the recent reviews of Minecraft Dungeons and Monster Train. Of course, we end this week's show with a fun community segment full of emails and games. So please join me, Alex Stadnik, Jeff Cork, and Dan "The Jacket" Tack for another great show.
We continue to do this show from our homes as we hunker down in quarantine, so please forgive us for any audio or video hiccups as we deliver content outside the studio.
Thanks for listening! Please make sure to leave feedback below, share the episode if you enjoyed it, and follow me @therealandymc to let me know what you think.
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Isa Bulnes-Shaw
is The Frida's Volunteer Coordinator. A former Box-Office Manager, grant-writing intern, and volunteer extraordinaire for the theater, she's been deeply involved with the cinema since 2019. A life-long fan of movies and the arts, she is especially passionate about animation and cartoons, Isa has experience curating a local film festival, writing for the El Don newspaper, and served as head writer and editor a popular fan-made visual novel based on an award-winning cartoon. A graduate in Psychology from Cal State Long Beach with a double minor in American Studies and Art History with a passion for disco, social justice, and animals-- well, she's got a whole lot goin' on in that noggin' of hers.
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Frida After Dark: November 2019
Though October is dead and gone, there's no need to despair! The thrills and chills never stop at The Frida Cinema thanks to our most spook-tacular series, Frida After Dark! A dedicated celebration of all things cult classic and crowd-pleasing, weekend nights every month bring you all the bizarre mind-benders, macabre slashers, and zombie gore you crave all year-round.
Little Monsters (2019)
November 1st, 2nd, & 3rd
Stop me if you've heard this one before: a failed musician, a children's television host, and a kindergarten teacher and her students walk onto a zombie-infested farm…
No? Well, you're in luck! Abe Forsyth's Little Monsters is just the kind of oddball delight we love to screen here at the Frida. And no, this isn't the 1989 kids movie starring Howie Mandel as a horned trash-ghoul living under a tween Fred Savage's bed (though that would be a good fit as well.) Forsyth's film is a brand new, international co-production between the US, the UK, and Australia starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o, who's steadily becoming a queen of the horror genre.
With a film that's been dubbed "Zombieland meets Kindergarten Cop", it's hard not to be intrigued. If you're a fan of gore, rom-coms, and black comedy, this film is a triple threat! The Hulu original follows the lovely teacher Miss Caroline (Nyong'o) and Dave (Alexander England), a failed musician on the rebound, as they take a group of kindergarteners on a field trip to a nearby farm – a simple task made dire when flesh-eating zombies escape from a nearby government test facility. Surviving a zombie invasion is already stressful enough without a gaggle of children, so it's up to Caroline and the others to keep the kids (and themselves) from becoming zombie-chow with, hopefully, as little trauma as possible. Even the biggest of zombie lovers can admit that the latest apocalypse flicks can be pretty predictable, which is why Little Monsters is such a treat. It not only surprises but leaves the cockles of your heart just a little more full and your frown turned upside down.
Another month brings another stellar production of Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the original interactive midnight movie! We're always delighted to host the very talented and dedicated K.A.O.S. shadow cast as they turn Friday nights up with their lip-syncs, sexy costumes, and performances that bring you right into the exhilarating world of Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.
Rocky Horror is a mish-mash of campy science-fiction, brilliant songs, cheesy wordplay, and unapologetic sexuality that just might awaken something in you. Along with being fun and wild, these screenings are about community and the freedom to be yourself! Costumes are always deeply encouraged, so put on the best Transylvanian duds you've got and bring along your friends for an awesome night out.
Don't forget to bring cash to buy your prop bags before the show! For just a few bucks, you can have plenty of ammo to throw, while also supporting K.A.O.S. in helping improve their costumes and stage gear. If you're a Rocky virgin, don't get hot and flustered! Check out this classic guide for what to expect when going all the way with us at midnight.
Special note: last month's encore October performance was completely sold out, thanks to all of our fang-tastic party guests' support and continuing Rocky spirit! If you missed it and are feeling the withdrawal creep in, make sure to get your tickets early and join us over at the Frankenstein place!
The Room (2003)
Right after cleaning up all the confetti and popcorn from Rocky, we're making a mess all over again with our monthly interactive screening of The Room — an absolute masterpiece of failure.
Unlike Rocky Horror, The Room is not a musical. Instead, it is a film so terrible in every conceivable way, it's hard to believe even while watching it. Perhaps that's simply the genius of the enigmatic Tommy Wiseau: director, writer, actor, producer, casting director, etcetera, etcetera.
Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) works as a successful banker in stock-footage San Francisco with his fiancee, Lisa (not Tommy Wiseau). Despite their engagement, Lisa is unhappy in her relationship and seduces Johnny's best friend Mark (Greg Sister). Despite the simple premise, there's several dozen unrelated subplots that make things far more entertaining and worthy of a monthly cult classic celebration.
Think you know how bad it is? You don't! It's much worse, and live screenings are all the better for it! There's truly nothing like being in a theater full of strangers, bonded together by the same bizarre dialogue and pelting each other with plastic spoons. So what are you waiting for? Grab a football and make a date for Saturday, November 9th — just make sure to close the front door on your way out.
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)
November 22nd
Didn't get your zombie fill for the month? Good news! Picking right back up with the blood and guts after our monthly interactive screenings is Jorge Grau's cult classic, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue. Presented by our dear friends over at Horrible Imaginings (responsible for the yearly summer genre film festival and the newest October short film showcase), we're celebrating the underrated horror flick's all-new, glorious 4K restoration!
Grau's take on the living dead genre is not to be confused with an installment in the iconic Living Dead series. Aside from its original Spanish title, No profanar el sueño de los muertos, the film has also been released under more than 15 titles internationally, including Let Sleeping Corpses Lie and Don't Open the Window.
Regardless of what you call it, it has a clear, compelling premise. A vacation to Manchester goes wrong for the young George and Edna, who find themselves in the midst of a murder investigation. The trip goes far beyond inconvenience and into a fight for survival when a new pesticide alternative device's ultrasonic radiation resurrects the dead. Soon the couple (as well as the police) are in a race through the surplus supply of crypts, morgues, and graveyards surrounding them to get out with their guts intact.With campy yet solid practical effects and a funky 70s soundtrack to boot, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue is the perfect opportunity to see a classic undead flick in all its magnificence.
Santa Sangre (1989)
November 29th, 30th and December 1st
This year, Alejandro Jodorowsky's provocative odyssey of blasphemy turns 30! So of course, we're wrapping up November and bleeding into December with Santa Sangre's all-new 4K restoration that presents every hauntingly beautiful frame crystal-clear.
How would one describe Santa Sangre? Jodorowsky's drama-thriller-slasher plays like a Buñuel remake of the entire Psycho tetralogy with the ambiance of Tod Browning's Freaks and is truly the stuff of Freud's dreams.
The film follows the life of Fenix, a young man born and raised as a performer in a macabre Mexican circus. The son of an adulterous knife-thrower and cult-leader aerialist, the boy's life is filled with violence and misery, which comes to a head with the bloody loss of his mother's arms. As the years go by, the two become partners in act and in crime and grow far too close, leading Fenix to lose himself to her in more ways than one.
Though a Mexican and Italian co-production, Santa Sangre is in English, with the dubbed audio and slightly off lip movements only adding to the film's ensnaring eeriness and unsettling aura. It's definitely a film not to be spoiled beforehand, so come see a marvel of avant-garde filmmaking for yourself on the big screen — if you're not faint of heart, that is!
As 2019 wraps up, there's only one more Frida After Dark left before the decade ends! Check in next month for a whole new line-up of too-hot-for-daytime screenings. Stay tuned, and see you then!


Adebayo Onibokun is a specialist in hospitality business and the managing director of L&B Hotel located at No. 20, Fayoka, street, Vulcanizer bus stop Egbeda , Akowonjo Lagos .
In the news, is his 3 days celebration to mark the first year anniversary of L & B hotel in December.
The hospitality guru plans to storm the environment with A-class artist like Sir Shina Peters, Atawewe, Mega 99, 9ice, St.Janet and Small Doctor.
In a chat with Onibokun, he said " the event will be packaged by Metronews Event and K&K Multicom Ltd".
However, Onibokun reveals that he wants to change the face of hospitality business in Lagos and Nigeria at large.
Meanwhile, media partners for this events are : Goldmyne TV, Metronews Nigeria, Hip TV, Naijahottestgist, The City Pulse, Shybellmedia, The Elites, Akede Agbaye, Porscheclassy Media, Society Herald, Global News, City Rovers etc.
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The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc. (JAMA; Chairman: Itaru Koeda) will hold the 38th Tokyo Motor Show - Commercial & Barrier-free Vehicles - (2004) at the Makuhari Messe (Nippon Convention Center) in Makuhari, Chiba for 6 days, from Tuesday, November 2 to Sunday, November 7. The theme is "Vehicles for people. Vehicles as partner."
Press Day will be held on Tuesday, November 2. Special Guest Day and Trade Day will be held on the afternoon of the same day. General Public Days will run from Wednesday, November 3 (national holiday) to Sunday, November 7 (5 days). Hours are from 10:00 to 18:00.
Trade Day is part of efforts to improve services for business people. It brings more of a "trade show" aspect to the Tokyo Motor Show by allowing business people to view the show for free from 12:00 to 18:00 on Tuesday, November 2 (same as the Special Guest Day).
This is the third commercial vehicles show among the Tokyo Motor Shows. In the fall of 1999, the Tokyo Motor Show was split into "Passenger Cars & Motorcycles show" and "Commercial Vehicles show," with each show held on alternate years. The 34th Tokyo Motor Show which was held in the fall of 2000 was the first to specialize in commercial vehicles, commercial vehicle bodies and related parts. This year the show's subtitle was changed to "Commercial & Barrier-free Vehicles" to better reflect the show's content: the latest models and technologies of "working" and "welfare" vehicles that support and enrich people's lives. At the same time, the organizer has tried to better meet the needs of visitors by planning a variety of "audience-participation" and "hands-on" events to make the show appealing to everyone from kids to business people.
This year's show will have exhibits from 111 companies, 1 government and 1 organization from 6 countries. It will use Halls 1-8 of the International Exhibition Hall (West, Center, East) at the Makuhari Messe. Total floor space is 24,465 m², roughly on par with the 36th Tokyo Motor Show - Commercial Vehicles - (2002).
This year's show will have 217 vehicles on display (104 commercial vehicles, 41commercial vehicle bodies, 58 barrier-free vehicles, 14 others), of which 35 are World Premieres and 17 Japan Premieres. The previous commercial vehicles show (the 36th show in 2002) had 224 vehicles on display, including 27 World Premieres and 9 Japan Premieres. The Parts Division will have 16 World Premieres and 17 Japan Premieres.
Below is an outline of the major special events scheduled for the show.
This is always a popular event at the commercial vehicles show. Visitors have the opportunity to ride in a wide range of trucks, buses and barrier-free vehicles. Test-rides will take place on a special 1km test course outside the exhibition halls. Access to and from the course is by shuttle bus.
This zone contains vehicles that you ordinarily never get to touch, let alone get on: pump and ladder trucks, police motorcycles and a variety of four- and two-wheel vehicles that "transport," "build," "protect" and do things that regular passenger cars cannot.
Barrier-free Vehicles Park offers an opportunity to learn about barrier-free vehicles and how they improve lives. It features test-rides of senior cars and wheelchairs, exhibits and demonstrations of barrier-free vehicles and peripheral equipment, and a talk show on stage.
Truck Stalls Market is a new restaurant and shopping zone that uses unique truck stalls. It features kebabs, Ghana curry and a variety of ethnic foods together with a selection of souvenirs and gifts.
Covering a total of 10 highly-relevant topics on the relationship between vehicles and society (environment, safety, logistics, taxation etc.), the symposium is held every day of the General Public Days, providing the automotive industry with an opportunity to actively explain its ideas and programs.
A truck provides a temporary stage for a variety of audience-participation, hands-on entertainment events, including the Traffic Moral Savers "Anzenger" Show, a traffic safety educational attraction that was popular at the 37th Tokyo Motor Show, and exhibits of an earthquake simulator and a patrol car made possible with the cooperation of Chiba Prefecture and the Chiba Prefectural Police.
For the first time ever, the Central Passageway that runs through the exhibition halls (West, Center and East Halls) has been widened from 9 meters to 12 meters and lined with benches and greenery so that it serves as a rest space and creates a more visitor-friendly environment. "Priority Seats," which were well-received at the 36th Tokyo Motor Show - Commercial Vehicles - (2002), have been expanded from 390 to 600 seats.
For the first time ever at a commercial vehicles show there will be an "Infant / Child Care Center" on the 2nd floor of the Central Mall to provide babysitting and other family services. Also, as part of an effort to make the facilities more barrier-free, there is a new elevator that provides direct access from the 2nd floor of the Central Mall to the Center Hall exhibition space (installed in March). Finally, thanks to the cooperation of the Chiba Convention Bureau and International Center, volunteers will be on hand to assist visitors in wheelchairs.
The afternoon of Press Day is set aside as "Trade Day," an opportunity for business people to view the show and talk with exhibitors in a more relaxed and un-crowded environment.


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East Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy and Society
Tentative Autumn 2009 Schedule
EAST ASIA WORKSHOP: POLITICS, ECONOMY & SOCIETY
Autumn 2009 Workshop Schedule
"Incubating Innovation or Cultivating Corruption? The Developmental State and Life Sciences in Asia"
Professor Cheol-Sung Lee
Sociology, University of Chicago
(special Monday session)
"A New Religious Ecology in Crystallization: The Wane of Indigenous Religions and the Rise of Protestant Christianity in the Reform-era China"
Yanfei Sun
Nov. 3
"Rumor and secret space: the Tianjin Massacre"
Xiaoli Tian
Nov. 6 (Special Session)
"Socialism is Great!": From Rocket Factory Girl to International Media
Lijia Zhang
Lijia Zhang is a factory-worker-turned writer, journalist, social commentator and TV talk show host. Her articles have appeared in many international publications, including The Independent, The Observer, The Newstatesman, Far Eastern Economic Review, South China Morning Post, Japan Times, Newsweek, Asian Wall Street Journal and New York Times. She is a recipient of the prestigious International Writers' Programe at University of Iowa in 2009. She is a regular speaker on the BBC, Channel 4, CNN and National Public Radio in America.
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Saul Thomas
Anthropology, University of Chicago
Professor Yue Zhang
Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
The workshop meets on alternative Tuesdays 4:00-5:40pm at Pick Lounge, 5828 South University Avenue. Papers or abstracts are typically available on our website http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/eastasia/. Questions and comments should be directly addressed to the coordinator Jean Yen-chun Lin at jeanlin@uchicago.edu.
Faculty Sponsors
Dali Yang, political science, daliyang@uchicago.edu, Cheol-Sung Lee, sociology, chslee@uchicago.edu, (on leave) Dingxin Zhao, sociology, dzhao@uchicago.edu


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New mobile bus to bring lung cancer screenings to east Tennessee, north Georgia
CT Mobile Imaging X-Ray
CHI Memorial Chest and Lung Cancer Center is set to launch a new bus in the fall that will travel to distant areas to provide lung cancer screenings to local populations.
CHI Memorial Chest and Lung Cancer Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee is constructing a new bus designed to screen patients for signs of lung cancer, as part of its Breathe Easy program.
The new vehicle will replace a prototype launched two years ago that has since averaged approximately 100 low-dose CT screenings per month throughout all counties in east Tennessee and north Georgia within 90 miles of CHI Memorial. This includes underserved rural areas where rates of lung cancer cases tend to be higher, according to Dr. Rob Headrick.
"The advantage of having a patient in a screening program is that you are likely to diagnose the tumor when it is small and in an early stage when the treatment is simpler and the long-term prognosis is excellent," Headrick, thoracic surgeon at CHI Memorial Chest and Lung Cancer Center, told HCB News. "The country's challenge has been getting someone to enroll in a screening program, especially when they feel good and are likely completely unaware of their risk as well as the benefits of being in a screening program. This mobile program was designed as a way to travel to those who are most at risk, not only providing that educational component but also making it very easy for those to get screened."
The prototype began operating in early 2018 and screened 548 patients in 104 sites during the 10 months it was available that year, the findings of which were recorded as part of a study on the bus' efficiency.
The mean age for patients who boarded was 62 years old, with a mean smoking pack years of 41. Screenings revealed significant pulmonary findings in 51 patients. This included five cases of lung cancer, four of which were early stage. It also found non-pulmonary conditions in 152 individuals screened, with moderate to severe coronary artery disease being the most common and found in 101 patients.
The built-from-scratch design includes independent power, climate control, patient comfort, drivability, a portable CT scanner in the front, and a registration and shared decision-making area in the back. Operating it is a cross-trained team of a driver, a CT technician, a program director, a nurse practitioner, and a physician.
The bus can conduct screenings at places of employment, restaurants churches and other public venues. Patients board for 10 to 15 minutes to be scanned, depending on whether they are preregistered or a walk-up. After undergoing their scan, a physician on the bus will review the films directly with the patients. If no physician is present, images are sent wirelessly for immediate, same-day interpretation. Smoking cessation options are also provided, when appropriate. While insurance payments are collected when appropriate, screenings are offered for free to individuals who do not have insurance or cannot afford the $150 price. Patients only need to meet certain National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines.
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When we say "strategic," what's the next word that comes to mind? If it's "planning," you're like many of our clients. And for many foundation staff and board members, dread is the feeling that follows.
In consulting with foundations around the Northwest and across the country, we have worked with leaders who are seeing strategy in a new way — as an ongoing practice rather than a discrete planning chore and an opportunity to mobilize continuous curiosity, experiment and learn, and even have some fun. Our new guide contains 10 activities that can help you get there, too.
We're calling it DIY Strategy Improvements.
Strategy improvements because these activities can help you reflect on and improve your strategy as it is now as well as lay the essential groundwork for developing a more detailed roadmap for the future.
Strengthen the relationship between espoused goals and values on one hand and actual activities on the other.
Practice strategy review on an ongoing basis instead of as a periodic ordeal.
Create an environment of authentic conversations with and among stakeholders.
Manage the inherent tensions between competing strategies in your organization.
Starting with a blank slate, what are some values that would spark ideas for your foundation?
We want to walk our talk when it comes to this guide, approaching it as a tool that evolves as we go and adapts to feedback and changing opportunities. The guide is free. Please use it and tell us how and what thoughts you might have for making it better. We would also love to hear any ideas you have for helping foundations sharpen their strategy in general. We're grateful to both the Satterberg Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their support at different stages of developing this material, and to various clients with whom we have test-driven and refined these activities.
Every organization has strategy. Isn't it worthwhile to have a practice for keeping it real with continuous improvements?
Jan Jaffe and Mark Sedway are senior partners with The Giving Practice, Philanthropy Northwest's national consulting team. They can be reached at jjaffe@philanthropynw.org and msedway@philanthropynw.org.


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The artistic fruit of their 63-year marriage is on view in "Harry Callahan: Eleanor," an exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Until Callahan's death in 1999, she was his most constant and compliant subject, posing for countless portraits, figure studies and nudes.
The earliest image in the exhibition is "Detroit," a black-and-white, shadow-dappled portrait made in 1941, the year Callahan attended an Ansel Adams workshop and realized his calling. The most recent is "Tokyo," a 1983 color print made on one of their frequent foreign sojourns: it shows Eleanor asleep, wrapped in blankets in a hotel bed.
About two-thirds of the photographs were in a 1984 traveling show titled "Eleanor and Barbara"; purchased by the collector Nicholas Pritzker, these have been on loan to the High since 2001. Most of the additional images — some from other collections and many from the estate — have never been exhibited, including a family album that holds many early, unpublished pictures.
Her body, from breasts to feet, is shown in a foreshortened close-up, as she sprawls languidly on a rumpled bed; in the corner you see the very edge of her hand, with one red-varnished pinky, and her wedding ring.
As Mrs. Callahan has often recounted, it was a photograph that brought the couple together. In 1933 she was a 17-year-old secretary at Chrysler Motors in Detroit, where he worked in the parts department and was about to enter Michigan State University. One day her cousin's boyfriend turned up badly scratched after a game of grass hockey, and showed her a snapshot of the player responsible. As she tells it, she exclaimed, "Oh, he's good-looking — I'd like to meet him!" and her friend duly set them up.
Actually, Callahan began making pictures after he left college, they married and he returned to Chrysler, where he joined the company camera club. That changed their lives.
In 1941, after the workshop with Adams, Callahan decided to pursue a life in art — a radical move in his blue-collar environment. He began taking time off to make pictures. In 1945 the couple tried living in New York, where he visited Alfred Stieglitz, before settling in Chicago. The next year in that city Laszlo Moholy-Nagy invited him to teach photography part time at the Institute of Design, and the Callahans joined the modernist avant-garde.
Chicago is where the bulk of the Eleanor photographs were made, but Mrs. Callahan kept working. While her husband was out photographing skyscrapers and pedestrians, she would be at her desk as an executive secretarial assistant for the founder of Kemper Insurance, and later with other companies.
Callahan was famously mute when it came to explicating his photographs, and Mrs. Callahan is no different. Yet when fixed in the coolly minimalist eye of his camera, she assumed a dizzying range of identities. When she is lounging naked, in a forest or at home, her curves may suggest an abstract volume or a 19th-century odalisque. Standing in an overcoat on a city street or alongside trees, she can resemble a stern Soviet worker or an impish sprite.
In one series, she floats with unbound hair in Lake Michigan, rising like a water nymph. Callahan was a master of the multiple exposure; in many shots his wife's body is layered with branches or water, so that she seems to meld with nature itself.
When Barbara was born in 1950, she was quickly incorporated into the family calling. Her father's first photograph of her, "Barbara, Chicago" (1950), shows only the top of her head swaddled in a white blanket, as if crowning from her mother's womb. In other early images, she and Eleanor play or nap together. She has an early memory of her father handing her a Brownie camera, hoping to see the world through her eyes.
From age 2, she began posing with her mother for the so-called "formal" snapshots, shot in and around Chicago with a tripod-mounted 8-by-10 view camera. He shot many on weekends in the deserted downtown, their tiny figures looking Giacometti-esque in the urban void.
Now living with her husband and children in Atlanta, near her mother, Barbara Callahan Hollinger remembers those sessions as excruciatingly boring. "He did not do these things quickly," she said.
"Harry Callahan: Eleanor" continues through Dec. 9 at the High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta; high.org.


Hello to our dear Top Dog Community, it's been a while!
I know many of you have been waiting in anticipation for the Summer Shakespeare at Mona Vale. However, life got a bit complicated and time consuming in recent months. I knew this year's Shakespeare was going to be one step too far. So it is with great regret that I have to say that Top Dog won't be putting on a Summer Shakespeare in February 2019 but we'll be back 2020 with something big, I promise. Plus we are planning for a winter show.


We review the GeForce GTX 680 in 3-way SLI. Over the next few pages we'll tell you a bit about multi-GPU gaming, the challenges, the requirements and of course a nice tasty benchmark session. We'll have a peek at temperatures and power consumption of the GeForce GTX 680 cards in 3x SLI mode to monitor it's generated performance and look at its handicaps.


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The Rolls-Royce Merlin Aircraft Engine: P-51 Mustang Power Defeated the Luftwaffe
The North American P-51 Mustang was the best fighter airplane in World War II. It became available to the U.S. fighter command as a potent package in enough time to tilt the air war with Germany in the Allies' favor. I wrote about the justly-famous P-51 in a previous post (July 6, 2016). That post can be found in my home page archives. In it, I referred to the Merlin V-12 power plant which, when finally coupled with the great airframe platform from California-based North American Aviation, turned a decent performer into an iconic fighting airplane.
While "Rolls-Royce" on this engine clearly denotes an English heritage, the same can, surprisingly, be said of the P-51 itself. Designed and built by North American Aviation in Los Angeles, California, the airplane's genesis actually emanated from England. The P-51 began as a specification provided to North American by the British Purchasing Commission early in 1940. Incredibly, the first prototype appeared on September 9, 1940, a mere 102 days after the contract with North American was signed. The NA-73X airframe first flew on October 26, 1940.
Originally designed for the British Allison V-1710 engine, the Mustang prototypes demonstrated disappointing performance at altitudes above 15,000 feet. The B-17 and B-24 bombers of the Eighth U.S. Air Force typically cruised over 20,000 feet on their bombing missions into Germany from bases in England. During the Battle of Britain in mid-1940, the German Luftwaffe was already flying their front-line fighter, the Messerschmidt 109. The Me 109 and the Focke-Wulf 190 would both prove to be a significant threat to Allied bombers in the skies over Germany throughout the war. Despite Britain's just-in-time introduction in 1940 of their own top-line fighter, the Supermarine Spitfire, the Me 109 still had advantages over it and the older Hawker Hurricane by way of its firepower and its fuel-injected engine. The Messerschmidt had, in addition to 50 caliber machine guns, a 20 mm cannon firing through the spinner of its propeller. That deadly weapon coupled with the much longer firing-burst capability of its guns gave the Me 109 a significant advantage. The Hurricane and the Spitfire had carbureted engines with a typical float-chamber in the fuel system which caused the airplanes to hesitate when abruptly put into an evasive dive maneuver. The fuel-injected 109s had no such problem and could easily overtake their prey on the way down.
The major problem faced by the U.S. Eighth Air Force bomber command by 1942 was the vulnerability of its B-17 and B-24 heavy bombers after leaving their bases in the English countryside and entering German air space. The B-17 "Flying Fortress" was aptly named given the eventual array of thirteen 50 caliber machine guns in eight strategic locations around the aircraft. Early in the war, it was believed that bomber formations of aircraft with that degree of armament would be quite capable of protecting themselves from German fighter interceptors who came up to meet them over German territory. That assumption quickly proved very erroneous as losses mounted.
The solution? Provide fighter escorts for the bombers. Prior to the introduction of the P-51 in late 1943, that assignment was handed to fighter wings typically flying the Republic Aviation P-47 Thunderbolt. The P-47 had two major problems. To begin with, the airplane had a short fuel-limited range which forced it to turn back and abandon its escort duties soon after entering German airspace. That, of course, was precisely when the bomber formations would most likely encounter German fighter resistance. Besides, the chunky P-47 suffered severe disadvantages in aerial combat with the more agile and faster Me 109 and Focke-Wulf 190 German fighters. Bomber losses were severe from the combination of aerial flak guns and German interceptors, culminating in the disastrous bombing raid on Regensburg, Germany, where sixty bombers were lost in one day – some 600 men.
Enter the P-51 Mustang in late 1943 whose horsepower, speed, agility, and high-altitude performance provided a palpable advantage over German counterparts thanks to its supercharged Merlin engine which had replaced the original Allison V17-10 powerplant. With the airplane's inherently large fuel capacity and an added pair of drop-tanks beneath its wings, the P-51 could go all the way to the target and back with the "heavies." The bomber crews fondly referred to the Mustang escorts as their "little friends."
Most of the eventual Mustang production of some 15,000 planes was powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin built under license by the Packard Motor Car company in Detroit. The Merlin engine was also widely used in other notable wartime aircraft including England's top fighter, the Spitfire. Nothing in the air during the war could match the powerfully effective Merlin/Mustang combination, however.
I recently watched a wartime documentary on the momentous effort to design and ramp up production of the Merlin engine in England during the early phases of WW II. This was a huge wartime effort on the part of the English who faced the possible invasion of their country and the subjugation of Europe at the hand of Hitler's Germany. The film was totally enlightening and engrossing – so many history and social lessons to be derived from the can-do spirit of the English.
My wife and I recently saw the movie, The Darkest Hour, which portrayed Winston Churchill's lonely desperation in 1939/1940 as the destiny of England and, indeed, all of Europe became increasingly problematic. Fact is always stranger and more dramatic than fiction, and this fine movie drives home the point. So much hung in the balance, a balance which finally tilted favorably to the Allies on the knife-edge of numerous pivotal decisions and efforts. The Merlin engine and the P-51 Mustang airframe from North American Aviation were two of those very decisive factors which ultimately doomed Hitler – especially as combined together in the final P-51 designs. In 1945, many of Germany's major cities had been reduced to rubble by Allied bombers based in England which, thanks to the Mustangs and their intrepid pilots, could now reach their targets.
I will close by calling upon a recollection from my earlier post on the iconic P-51 Mustang when the Collings Foundation brought their Wings of Freedom touring air show to nearby Moffett Field. My two young grandsons and I stood close by on the tarmac as their P-51, Betty Jane, prepared to fly.
Firing-Up the Big Merlin-Packard Engine of Betty Jane
As my grandsons and I stood outside the roped area, a mere 50 feet from Betty Jane, the pilot fired up the big Packard-built twelve-cylinder engine sporting a large, four-bladed propeller. The pilot yelled "clear" from the cockpit, the big prop started to turn, and the engine came to life after belching smoke and the usual series of backfires. The engine sounded a throaty roar as Betty Jane moved out toward the taxi-way. My grandsons held their ears…I did not and drank it all in. In my mind's eye, I could imagine the emotions of a pilot on the flight line at Leiston, England, bringing that big engine to life en-route to yet another bomber escort mission over Germany in 1944/45. Despite the huge war effort and all the backing provided by the allies for combat flight operations, out there on the flight line, as the engine coughed, sputtered, roared to life, and the canopy closed, it was one man in one machine – very far from home. The pilot was about to face the uncertainties of weather, navigation, and his enemy counterparts who would be out there, somewhere, waiting for him and the opportunity to shoot him and his machine out of the sky.
For me, it is difficult to conjure up a more daring and exhilarating human experience than that encountered by those flyers in World War II. For them at the time, there surely seemed nothing "romantic" about the deadly task they faced – only a sense of high adventure and "what the hell, I hope I come back from this one!" I have read the late-life accounts of some who flew Mustangs against the German Luftwaffe and lived to tell about it. Despite some surely ugly recollections of killing and death which stubbornly remain, time dulls many of the sharp edges – as it always does – for these men. These flyers are revered by the public for their courage, daring, and skill during wartime, and that is appropriate. Despite old age and the challenges of settling down after flying, these warriors possess indelible and precious memories of that time in their young lives when they and their machines defied the great odds stacked against them. Those who flew the P-51 Mustang, to a man, relate their admiration of and gratitude to the airplane that saw them through.
Posted in General History, Relections on Life, Technology	| Tagged B-17, Battle of Britain, Churchill, England, Flying Fortress, Focke-Wulf 190, Germany, Luftwaffe, Me 109, Merlin engine, Messerschmidt, North American Aviation, P-51 Mustang, Rolls-Royce, Spitfire, WWII	| Leave a reply
Toyland, Toyland – Little Girl and Boy Land….Wishfully, Forever!
Posted on March 7, 2015 by Alan
The $50 gift certificate from Talbot's Toyland in San Mateo, California had been burning a hole in my "pocket" for several months – reminiscent of my boyhood enthusiasms. A gift from my daughter Ginny's family, I just redeemed it for a 1/72 scale, Corgi die-cast WWII British Spitfire airplane – and a beautiful little model she is!
This is the airplane that saved England in WWII by winning the Battle of Britain in the skies overhead. I knew about all of that, but a recent PBS documentary really drove home to me just how heroic and crucial the aerial combat over England at the opening of the war was in deterring Hitler's Luftwaffe from devastating the country.
A Senior Citizen Lost in a Toy Store?
Yes, a toy store like Talbot's can still thrill a seventy-four year old guy with its offerings. I have been a customer of Talbot's in downtown San Mateo since 1955, the year it first opened its doors – in the very same location! I was fifteen years old, living a few miles from the downtown and still building model airplanes, buying plastic kits from Talbot's and more substantial models from the venerable Hobby Haven several blocks across town. Now, sixty years later, Hobby Haven has long-since disappeared, but the greatly-expanded Talbot's continues today as THE place in the entire region to shop for electric trains, RC airplanes and cars, educational toys, bikes, and everything else in between.
Things ARE changing, however. Many old-timers are no longer with us. As we disappear, so does the demand for airplanes that we knew so well from our youth, replaced in the young's affections by space-age toys and conveyances from the post Star Wars era. I knew this to be true after noticing a relatively slow turnover of the "warbird" stock in the brilliantly illuminated display cases at Talbot's. The long-term, friendly, and knowledgeable staff at Talbot's confirmed that business in WWII aircraft has slowed considerably. My little Spitfire model had been on display for at least a few months, it seems, begging for an old-timer to come along, take it home, and lavish it with affection! I decided to be that "hero," equally because I love the model's graceful lines, its beautifully crafted detail, and because it is so historically relevant to the great history of WWII.
I have many personal accounts sitting on my bookshelves from the men who flew such aircraft in the war; their stories project unparalleled drama and adventure in a time and setting which can never be repeated. Unlike today's trend toward automated drone warfare, these men actually climbed into a cold cockpit on some far away airfield, fired-up their coughing, belching engines, and taxied off to today's mission and, often, into oblivion. Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson, one of America's greatest aces flying the storied P-51 Mustang fighter expressed it succinctly, yet poignantly, in his fine book:
"Staying alive was no simple thing in the skies over Europe in the spring of 1944. A lot of men couldn't. It was a bad thing to dwell on if you were a fighter pilot, and so we told ourselves we were dead men and lived for the moment with no thought of the future at all. It wasn't too difficult. Lots of us had no future and everyone knew it."
Today's allure for youngsters involves Star Wars style spacecraft dripping with laser cannons and chock full of presumed, computer-based systems! That modern allure and fascination seems no match for the real-life drama of the "stick and rudder" men wearing leather helmets who flew their machines in both World Wars – no match, at least, for us old-timers. Those men survived to fly yet another day thanks only to their unconventional courage and skill at maneuvering to get the enemy's "tail" within the line of fire of their machine guns, all the while insuring that another of the enemy was not closing in on their tail. Skill, daring, and "just plain luck" were each factors in the survival equation. But that was then, and today belongs to the young, though I cannot help but wonder if, in their old-age, today's youngsters will view their boyhood passions in the same dramatic human light as we do. Perhaps so.
For me, this post is a collage of mixed messages: The wonder still present for all ages and interests, and both sexes (Talbot's has a great doll department) in a really fine toy store; the fleeting vision over passing time of the receding culture which so influenced our childhood; our changing attitudes and outlooks; and, finally, the joy of still encountering a surviving link to our fondest personal memories and recollections. Talbot's sixty year tenure and enduring influence in downtown San Mateo represents an uncommon, present-day reminder of who we were and what life was like, many years ago. I will think of all this whenever I gaze at my latest gem from Talbot's.
Posted in General History, Human Nature, Relections on Life	| Tagged Bud Anderson, Corgi, die cast, England, fighter pilot, Luftwaffe, model airplanes, P-51 Mustang, San Mateo, Spitfire, Talbot's Toyland, toys, WWII	| Leave a reply