I like new Flyout control that has been introduced in Windows 8.1 but I think Placement property should be improved since I cannot show a Flyout at the bottom-left or bottom-right of a button (like logged menu Flyout in Windows).
I think Placement should be splitted in HorizontalPlacement (Left, Center, Right) and VerticalPlacement (Top, Bottom) to have more flexibility.
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On April 30, Kate Jackson had the enterprise high.
At?The Next Women?European Pitch event in central London, Kate was one of several female entrepreneurs pitching her startup to a board of investors. Dressed in jeans and Converse, Kate?s was the evening?s final pitch. But everything about it-the crisp delivery, no-nonsense business plan, and energy that kept her walking on air-let us all know who?d won before the scores came back.
?We signed a partnership deal with Time Out London just before this,? Kate said halfway through. ?So forgive me if I?m still jumping up and down.?
?We? is?TableCrowd-a ?meet and eat? startup launched in 2011 that has developed a swift presence in London?s Tech City. It connects strangers over a tried-and-true pastime-eating. New users log in via their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or email accounts, then make a profile and browse tables that other users have already established.?Created in house using Ruby on Rails,?Mongo DB, redis and elasticsearch,?TableCrowd?s technology invites relevant diners from its database and automatically updates each booking size based on who joins each table.
Users can invite you to join their tables, and vice versa. Diners can also join ?crowds? ranging from ?Escape the City? (a?group?for lawyers, bankers and such seeking new careers) to ?Hungry Romantics? (described?as an ?alternative?to online dating, speed dating events or hitting the bars and clubs in the quest to meet new people?).
Is it a ?find friends? site for adults? A dating site disguised as the former? Kate says TableCrowd?s whatever diners make of it, and that they determine how TableCrowd can best fulfill their social needs on personal or professional levels.
?There?s a big opportunity right now,? Kate insists. ?There is an increased need to form new business, platonic and romantic relationships caused by changing social factors, including:
1. Increase in career changes; a job for life is now a thing of the past (the average worker now has 10 jobs in a lifetime).
2. Increase in romantic relationships; a partner for life is a thing of the past (marriages are down, divorces are up).
3. Increase in population mobility for work or personal choice.?
This, Kate says, is where TableCrowd fills a market gap. It?s a platform that turns online connections into real life relationships. In this globalized era of more divorces, transnational careers, and personal mobility, many adults-especially in urban areas-don?t settle for traditional social scenes anymore.
?Networking has done a full circle,? says Kate. ?Pre-2004 (before MySpace and Facebook), the world was predominantly offline. Today, around 32 million people in the UK now have an online profile. The trend we?re seeing now is online communities moving towards offline activities for their members.?
These members are willing to meet new people, but don?t have time to meet potential new dates or friends with no shared interests or connection. The chance to wine and dine over shared passions in groups erases pressure to perform one-on-one, and gives more room to spark a genuine platonic or romantic connection.
?When meeting new people, it?s good to have a focus and some ice breakers to put people at ease,? explains Kate. ?Dining out does just that. You have the combination of the food, restaurant and ambiance as the first level of conversation, which allows people to become comfortable with each other before the conversation goes deeper.?
TableCrowd diners-myself included-can vouch that the camaraderie created by food, plus dining with those who share similar interests, fosters new connections. One diner, Mindy, joined her first table on a colleague?s recommendation. New to London, she?s found TableCrowd to be a powerful tool for knowing who to meet and where to dine throughout the UK Capital.
After initially attending her first dinner to review TableCrowd, Phee Young, PR exec at Racepoint Group UK, became a regular diner herself. The food, she says, is good-but conversation?s always better.
?To be honest, the one thing I took away from the event was this: [the ability] to network with people who had the same goal as me ?to network and talk about our passions,? says Young. ?There wasn?t anybody at the event that I did not want to speak to; there were journalists, PRs, founders, bloggers. I?ve taken some valuable contacts away from that event and reconnected with someone who I had worked with for LLB. I also secured an opportunity for one of my clients; without [TableCrowd], that potentially might not have happened.?
Even beyond dating sites, TableCrowd?s not the first network to take social offline. Post-911, New Yorker Scott Heiferman had his ideas about social shaken. Previously convinced that knowing his neighbors was unimportant in the online age, he spoke with so many following the Twin Tower collapse that he asked himself a question: ?Could we use the internet to get off the internet ? and grow local communities??
His idea evolved into?Meetup-a global facilitator of social groups based on shared interests that?s now 10 million strong. From new moms to urban-dwelling hikers, users select personal interests, then receive emails from Meetup with local suggestions for groups they might enjoy. They meet like-minded strangers online, then connect in person.
Like Heiferman, Kate eschews the idea that the Internet creates false intimacy, or that those who go online can?t turn passive connections into personal relationships.
?Last week, I was speaking to a top level executive who acknowledged that he hadn?t met a high percentage of his 500+ Linkedin connections and [that] doing so would probably unlock many opportunities,? she explains. ?He was planning to put some money behind the bar and invite them all for a drink!
?With online social networking, you can?t be passive or you simply have no presence! Cut to the chase and use a site like TableCrowd to get offline quickly!?
?I believe that [social networks] provide an expansive set of opportunities that people previously didn?t have,? adds Stephen Jackson, TableCrowd co-founder and brother of Kate. ?They facilitate networking and relationships where geography was previously a boundary, regardless of whether this is internationally or merely when someone may not be able to escape their home or work.
?Opening or maintaining these relationships then leads to strengthening through face-to-face meeting, whether for friendship, dating, business or any combination. TableCrowd makes those next steps easier.?
The Time Out partnership will take TableCrowd to new heights in London, as will their recent website re-launch using responsive design. Their technology?s enabled in 3,000 UK restaurants, and Kate told me exclusively that a Cape Town company?s keen to take the concept there. But she and Stephen aim to perfect their formula locally before taking the idea abroad-although some issues can?t be avoided.
?[At one dinner], one of the diners felt another was holding too much of the conversation and made his thoughts known in no uncertain terms,? Stephen laughs. ?There have been a few others who didn?t really want to go home and failed to turn up for work the next morning, but generally it?s all good fun.
?We?d also love to help bill splitting get slicker-but even with close friends, there are sometimes issues here!?
Image: Thinkstock
Source: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/30/why-startups-are-taking-social-networking-offline/
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South Florida's economy is improving, but not fast enough to stem hunger and food insecurity in the region, a new study shows.
A total 17 percent of South Florida residents ? or 949,910 people ? go hungry or lack components to make nutritious meals. Children are among the hardest hit. More than 24 percent of children in the area, or 296,600, lack proper nutrition, according to the updated study by nonprofit food-bank Feeding America.
Worse yet, programs that aim to help the area's hungry remain short of cash, food and other resources to fill the need, executives from Feeding South Florida and other local groups concede.
"We have more and more people stopping by for help," said Terrence Smalley, an executive with The Pantry of Broward, a food bank that helps seniors on low, fixed incomes and grandparents raising their grandchildren. The nonprofit launched five years ago to serve "the forgotten generation" and now feeds more than 900 people every month, handing out about 24,000 pounds of food monthly.
Feeding America conducted its annual study with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and The Nielsen Company to quantify food insecurity and related costs by county and congressional district nationwide.
The report found that South Florida's four counties ? Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Monroe ? need $445 million per year to provide 154 million meals for residents who now lack proper nutrition.
Just 71 percent of those "food insecure" residents now qualify based on their income for food stamps and other federal nutrition programs, while 29 percent do not qualify and rely solely on food banks, nonprofits and other local groups for help, the study found.
Palm Beach County has the highest portion of food-insecure individuals who do not qualify for food stamps and other federal nutrition programs: 39 percent. Broward has the highest percentage of children lacking nutrition who do not qualify for the federal programs: 39 percent, the report said.
The 2013 tally shows little change in South Florida from last year, when 938,211 residents were considered food insecure. That's despite economic growth and more jobs in the area. The unemployment rate for Broward, for example, dropped to 5.7 percent this May, down from 7.4 percent a year earlier.
Indeed, Florida as a whole continues to face some of the country's most acute problems with food insecurity. The state is fifth-worst among the 50 states in food security. One in four children in Florida lack proper nutrition, compared with one in five children nationwide, the research found.
To help meet the need, Feeding South Florida, the local affiliate of Feeding America, last year handed out about 30 million pounds of food. But the nonprofit would like to distribute at least 50 million pounds yearly to serve more people, according to Paco Velez, chief executive of the Pembroke Park-based group.
"It's really about engaging the community ? individuals, companies, everyone ? and raising awareness that there are nearly 1 million people in our area struggling to put food on the table. We can help feed them and help lift them from poverty," said Velez. "With increased help from the community, we can put a dent in these numbers."
dhemlock@sunsentinel.com, 305-810-5009
Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-south-florida-hungry-20130630,0,6625995.story?track=rss
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ? Challenging African youth to seize a "moment of great promise," President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the future of the young and growing continent still rests in ailing South African leader Nelson Mandela's vision for equality and opportunity. Seeking to carve out his own piece of that legacy, Obama unveiled an ambitious initiative to double electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa, vowing to bring "light where there is darkness."
The president's address at the University of Cape Town capped an emotionally charged day in this picturesque coastal city, including a solemn visit to the Robben Island prison where Mandela was confined for 18 of his 27 years in captivity. Obama stood stoically with his family in Mandela's cramped cell and peered across the lime quarry where Mandela toiled each day, causing the damage to his lungs that led to his latest hospital stint.
"Nelson Mandela showed us that one man's courage can move the world," Obama said during his evening speech at the university. He was flanked by a diverse array of students, underscoring Mandela's vision for a unified "rainbow nation" for the country once led by a white racist government.
In the flagship address of his weeklong trip to Africa, Obama outlined a U.S. policy toward the continent that focuses on increasing the region's ability to support itself economically, politically and militarily. Harkening back to a prominent theme from his 2009 speech in Ghana ? Obama's only other trip to Africa as president ? he said Africans must take much of the responsibility for achieving that goal, although he pledged American assistance.
"Ultimately I believe Africans should make up their own minds about what serves African interests," he said. "We trust your judgment, the judgment of ordinary people. We believe that when you control your destiny, if you got a handle on your governments, then governments will promote freedom and opportunity, because that will serve you."
Obama's address came nearly 50 years after Robert F. Kennedy delivered his famous speech at the same university. Kennedy's speech, delivered soon after Mandela was sentenced to life in prison, called on young people to launch a fight against injustice, creating ripples of hope that would "build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Much has changed in South Africa since Kennedy addressed the nation. The apartheid regime crumbled under intense internal and external pressure. Mandela was elected as his country's first black president following his release from prison. And South Africa has rapidly become continent's economic and political powerhouse.
But Obama said that progress, in South Africa and elsewhere on the continent, rests on a "fragile foundation." In order to solidify the gains, Obama called on Africans to focus on three priorities: expanding opportunity, promoting democracy and supporting peace.
A cornerstone of Obama's efforts to expand opportunity is the new "Power Africa" initiative unveiled ahead of his speech. The venture is supported by $7 billion in U.S. investment and $9 billion from the private sector, and will seek to bring electricity to at least 20 million new households and commercial entities in an initial set of six countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania.
The White House did not set a specific deadline for achieving that goal, but Obama advisers said it could happen within a decade. However, the first round of contributions still fall well short of the $300 billion the International Energy Agency says would be required to achieve universal electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.
Obama opened his speech with deeply personal remarks about Mandela, tracing the anti-apartheid icon's influence on his own political activism to his young daughters. He said that standing in Mandela's cell alongside Malia and Sasha made the experience all the more poignant, reflecting on the distinction he shares with Mandela in being his country's first black president.
"Seeing them stand within the walls that once surrounded Nelson Mandela, I knew this was an experience they would never forget," he said. "I knew they now appreciated a little bit more that Madiba and other had made for freedom," Obama added, referring to Mandela by his clan name.
Obama arrived in Cape Town Sunday from Johannesburg, where he met privately with members of Mandela's family and spoke with the former president's wife. In keeping with the family's wishes, Obama did not visit Mandela in the hospital.
On a sunny winter day in the Southern Hemisphere, Obama and his family flew by helicopter to Robben Island, the prison that epitomized the struggle of Mandela and his contemporaries against apartheid rule. The Obamas were led through the island by Ahmed Kathrada, an 83-year-old former prisoner who was held alongside Mandela and had also given Obama a tour of the jail when he visited as a U.S. senator in 2006.
The Obamas solemnly peered across the bright white lime quarry where Mandela worked each day. They spent 20 minutes inside the tiny cell where Mandela spent nearly two decades of his life, all the while inspiring the anti-apartheid movement on mainland South Africa.
Before closing their visit, Obama and wife Michelle stoically entered a prison courtyard, the president's hand on the small of the first lady's back, to sign a guestbook.
"On behalf of our family we're deeply humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down injustice and refused to yield," Obama wrote. "The world is grateful for the heroes of Robben Island, who remind us that no shackles or cells can match the strength of the human spirit."
The president also stopped Sunday at a health center overseen by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a visit aimed at highlighting the impact of a U.S.-funded program to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS. The President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, was started by George W. Bush and continued by Obama.
Obama praised Tutu's work in an emotional meeting in which Tutu said Africans are praying that Obama will be a success and a leader for peace, particularly in the Middle East. Many of their aides were brought to tears as the two men embraced in a hug.
The White House said the U.S. will spend about $4.2 billion on PEPFAR funding this year, money that has been used to increase the number of people receiving life-saving anti-retroviral drugs and to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus.
Bush, who has stayed active on Africa issues since leaving office, was scheduled to be in Tanzania Monday, the same day Obama arrives in the East African nation. The White House did not rule out the possibility of a meeting between the two presidents.
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Associated Press writer Nedra Pickler contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-asserts-mandelas-values-africas-future-193946648.html
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Ok, I'm coming from Lua and L?VE and want to get into Mobile Game Development. I'm 13 years old and have made a game. I'd like to port this game over to Android:?http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=34307
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I know, the game might be kind of meh, but I'd still like to port it over. Maybe not?release it, but just mess around with Mobile Game development.
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The problem is, I can't find a way to get started with Android Game Development on YouTube/Vimeo/DailyMotion/anything like that. I don't like reading books for those sorts of things. TheNewBoston's tutorials are outdated. Maybe if someone could help me find a tutorial?
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I don't really like Java, but I can't find anything else to use with Android. Python+Kivy didn't work because I didn't like Kivy. L?VE-Android is kind of a lost cause, ActionScript+CitrusEngine didn't work because of lack of docs on ActionScript+Software+Docs on CE. C/C++ sucks IMO(I don't like it), and Ruby is kind of meh. If I had to I'd use Ruby, but what I really want is to use?Lua.
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I love Lua! It's awesome!! CoronaSDK looks good, but I couldn't find?any tutorials on it!! Like, at ALL!! Corona seems to be the way to go, so I have a few questions on it:
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1) It is?PURE PURE PURE PURE?PURE?PURE?PURE?PURE 100% code, right?
2) I can publish to Android + iOS, right?
3) I can make good games with the free version, right?
4) I can?integrate?GameCenter/ScoreLoop/OpenFeint and Facebook/Twitter/Google+, right?
5) A 13 year old could do this, right? 
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Also, I hear (if you are a serious developer) the $500 a year fee for the CoronaSDK is?WAYYY worth it. Is this right?
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So yeah, if I get money from some apps that I made I'd like to make iOS apps, and make money from that. Then if I get money from that I'll get a paid version of Corona and make more apps
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Also, now I have questions about Google Play that I couldn't find the answer to!
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I hear it's $25(or ?17 for me(I'm from Ireland)) to publish an app to Google Play. Is this per-app or per-year or per-month or what? I know iOS is ?100 a year, which is insane(unless you have the money). I own a Mac(I own several), so I can do iOS development No problem! 
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So yeah, thanks for reading. Please don't take a rage-fit at me if some questions here are stupid. I'm new to Mobile Game Development and really want to get my hands dirty! Thanks!
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Source: http://www.gamedev.net/topic/644923-android-game-development/
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Ever wanted to watch the industrial process of making rice into puffed rice cereal as it happened in the early 1900s? What if we told you it was really violent and scary-looking? Well, Dave Arnold is finally taking his brainchild spawned in 2005 to Kickstarter for a real (mobile) launch.
The idea for the Museum of Food and Drink has been around for awhile, but now that Arnold and friends have this scary, super rare rice-puffer machine, they want to take it on a pop-up museum tour through New York (and beyond!) to demonstrate how your favorite college wake-and-bake foods were made. They just need a few spare funds first.
The ultimate goal is to build an interactive, brick-and-mortar Museum of Food and Drink, which looks awesome in the mockups, and in the Kickstarter video below, Anita Lo, Brooks Headley, David Chang, Wylie Dufresne, and Mario Batali all jump on board to show their support for the project. You can check out the Museum?s Kickstarter campaign here.
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Source: http://www.thebraiser.com/museum-of-food-and-drink-kickstarter/
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LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Temperatures in Death Valley ? the legendary hottest place on Earth ? at least tied a record Sunday as a heat wave brought triple-digit highs across the West.
The National Weather Service's thermometer recorded a peak temperature of 128 degrees in Death Valley National Park, which ties the record for the hottest June day anywhere in the country.
However, the Los Angeles Times reports that the National Park Service thermometer ? 200 yards away ? recorded a temperature of 129.9, which shatters the record for June.
In Las Vegas, the mercury shot up to 117 degrees on Sunday to tie the city's record high and to cause more discomfort for residents and tourists in the sprawling desert city.
Since record-keeping began in Las Vegas in 1937, the only other times the temperature reached 117 degrees were on July 19, 2005, and July 24, 1942, according to the National Weather Service.
Death Valley's the record high of 134 degrees set nearly a century ago on July 10, 1913, stands as the planet's highest recorded temperature.
Triple-digit heat struck again elsewhere in Southern California, while metropolitan Phoenix saw just a slight drop in temperatures after experiencing record-breaking heat Saturday.
Six half-marathon runners in Southern California were hospitalized Sunday for heat-related illnesses. A day earlier, paramedics responding to a Nevada home without air conditioning found an elderly man dead.
Runners in the Southern California race who required medical attention were extremely dehydrated, and some experienced cramps, Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said. Several other runners were evaluated along the route but weren't taken to the hospital, she said.
Paramedics were deployed along the 13.1-mile race, and buses with air conditioning were provided for runners to cool off. The event was supposed to be a marathon, but it was downgraded due to low turnout last year.
Hikers, bikers and dog walkers were scarce on typically busy trails in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles. At midday, two women and a panting German shepherd huddled in a rare sliver of shade along a fire road before striking out in the hot sun.
Atop San Vicente Peak, cyclist Jeff Disbrow, 49, of Santa Monica was clad in black and lathered in sweat as he took a break and refilled his water bottle.
"It's not the best day to be out here ? unless you want to suffer," he said. "It's like Arizona."
In Utah, a record 105-degree heat caused an interstate on-ramp to buckle in Salt Lake City, and hampered firefighters in their battle against three wildfires. The Interstate 215 on-ramp had to be closed for four hours Saturday night after a short section of it expanded, Utah Department of Transportation spokesman John Gleason said.
The section looked like a pothole before it was repaved, he said. No problems were reported, and traffic was rerouted around the closed lane.
Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Larry Nunez said the city hasn't seen any deaths that were classified as heat-related, but emergency workers have gotten 98 heat-related calls within the metro area since Friday morning.
The 119-degree high in Phoenix on Saturday marked the fourth-hottest day in metro Phoenix since authorities started keeping temperature records more than 110 years ago. The high temperature for the metro area hit 115 on Sunday.
Temperatures could drop slightly in Phoenix within the coming days as monsoon storms are expected to make their way through the state. Such storms could bring cloud cover but could produce more humidity and possibly contribute to dust storms.
Several Southern California communities set same-day record highs Saturday including Palm Springs, where the mercury peaked at 122 degrees. In Northern California, Redding reported a high of 110, Sacramento had 107 while Fresno saw 109.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/death-valley-temps-least-tie-record-034246832.html
