Denver Mayor Michael Hancock?s call for more affordable housing in Denver (2 letters)

With a rail car behind him, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock delivers his State of the City address at the Forney Museum of Transportation on July 15. (Cyrus McCrimmon,The Denver Post)

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It is exciting that Denver Mayor Michael Hancock highlighted the need for affordable housing during his state of the city address last Monday. While some Denver residents are doing well, other face more difficult times. According to the most recent census data, 10 percent of families living in Denver earn less than $15,000 a year and half of the residents living in Denver are renters.

Denver?s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance is a great start in the endeavor to provide affordable housing. Without it, many families would not be able to purchase homes. But Denver residents need more. Working families need an ordinance that goes further and includes both affordable rental and for-sale units.

We?re so fortunate to have a mayor who has ?the audacity to believe that anyone who wants to live in the city should not be forced out because of costs.? Hopefully we?ll see the comprehensive policies that will make that belief a reality.

Amanda Gonzalez, Denver

The writer is a policy analyst and staff attorney for FRESC: Good Jobs, Strong Communities.

This letter was published in the July 22 edition.

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According to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, it is up to businesses, banks and non-profits to solve the problem of less affordable housing projects by building more affordable housing projects. Really? How about Hancock?s office partnering with these entities to educate low-income citizens on how to open their own businesses, to teach basic business principles of hiring, creating jobs and making a profit so people can then afford to live where they want?

Citizens of Denver not only want to see fewer low-income housing projects, but most do not want to live in or near them. Why do we continue to hear from government officials that the solution to these kinds of ?low-income problems? is more ?low-income solutions?? When will we elect men and women who tout civic answers that are grounded in individual initiative and business acumen instead of LBJ?s old, tired ?War on Poverty??

Daniel M. Byram, Golden

This letter was published in the July 22 edition.

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Apple Took Three Days to Tell Developers About a Site Hack

For three days now, anyone trying to access Apple's members-only developer page has been greeted with the following message:?

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And on Sunday, the company finally explained why: Their developer site was the target of a hack that may have compromised the security of some development site users' names, email addresses, and mailing addresses. And while the company says that any sensitive information taken is safely encrypted, some developers with accounts at the site have reported unauthorized, and repeated, password reset requests. Here's Apple's full message on the security breach:?

We?ll be back soon.

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers? names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we?re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.

If your program membership was set to expire during this period, it has been extended and your app will remain on the App Store. If you have any other concerns about your account, please?contact us.

Thank you for your patience.

The extended site outage comes at a bad time for many developers, who, among other things, can't access a beta version of iOS 7 (or, for that matter, discuss their work related to it on the developer forums). Users are also shut out from downloads, help guides, membership renewal, and the ability to update expired certificates. ?And while that's bad enough, many developers now are wondering why the company took so long to notify them of the security breach. The company, for its part, is emphasizing that no customer data, including credit cards, were compromised, and said that they waited to alert developers about the hack so that they could look into what, exactly, was compromised first. So far, as TechCrunch reports, there haven't been any reports of developer accounts being used maliciously, which is one of the few bits of good news here for developers who use the site for their jobs. On the other hand, there's no word on when the company expects to have the site back online.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/apple-took-three-days-tell-developers-hack-000744987.html

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Musician's Union Threatens Spotify Boycott...

Atoms For Peace aren?t the only ones taking a stance against Spotify. In fact, thousands of angry British musicians are aligning themselves with Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich. More from the Guardian UK:

The Musicians? Union, which has more than 30,000 members throughout the industry, said it was pushing for a collective pay agreement modelled on the royalties paid by BBC and commercial radio stations. Spotify pays artists as little as 0.4p per stream, which means that a song that had a million plays would earn its performer just ?4,000.

By contrast a three-minute song played on Radio 2 generates ?59.73 for the songwriters and another similar sum to be split between the label and the performing artists. This 50/50 split is being advocated by the union, although the remuneration itself would be significantly more modest.

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Aurora, Newtown survivors honor theater victims

AURORA, Colo. (AP) ? Survivors of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut were among those gathered Friday in a suburban Denver park to honor those killed in the massacre at an Aurora movie theater a year after the attack.

Vigil participants read a list of names of those killed in recent gun violence around the nation and talked about the pain of losing loved ones as they called for strict federal gun control laws.

"Why wait any longer?" asked Carlee Soto, whose sister was killed at the elementary school rampage in Newtown, Conn. "The time for change is now."

The scene was somber, even as gun rights activists stood silently nearby at a counterrally holding signs to rebut the appeals for firearms restrictions.

"We want the families of the victims to know that we are sorry for their loss," said Alicia Perez, a Colorado organizer with Gun Rights Across America.

Perez went on to say that gun rights supporters simply felt compelled to oppose calls for new gun laws, which they see as an infringement on Second Amendment rights.

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was a sponsor of Friday's tribute rally. Perez's group criticized the association, saying its members were using tragedy for political gain.

Shortly before the survivors' vigil, a gun rights activist at the counterrally tried to move into position behind the lectern with a signs that read "No More Names." Rob Blancken also had a sign that said, "Tell billionaire Mayor Bloomberg to stay the hell out of Colorado." He was eventually instructed to move by an armed state parks ranger.

The victims' advocates, meanwhile, kept up their calls for tighter restrictions on gun sales and for universal background checks.

"I think that Coloradans get it, that something must change," said Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex was killed in the theater.

Colorado has been the only state outside the East Coast to ratchet back gun rights in reaction to mass shootings, and a federal push for new restrictions failed in Congress.

Stephen Barton, who was wounded in the Aurora shooting, said, "You shouldn't wait until it affects you to start caring about it."

"I never thought I would ever be affected by gun violence personally," he added.

Mayors Against Illegal Guns said participants will read the names of about 2,500 people who have been killed by gunfire since Dec. 14, when a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The Aurora rally came almost a year to the day after 12 people were killed and 70 others were wounded, some paralyzed, in a July 20, 2012, attack at a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises."

The victims' names will be read until 12:38 a.m. Saturday, the moment that the shootings began in the theater last year.

Remembrance events planned continued Saturday included an early morning memorial service and a host of volunteer civic works, music, arts and even meditation. Aurora officials say they wanted to promote healing one year to the day after a gunman plunged the Denver suburb into anguish.

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Associated Press writer Thomas Peipert contributed to this report.

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GPS Could Track Hurricanes' Winds?

The way radio signals from GPS satellites bounce around during storms can now help scientists deduce wind speeds in hurricanes, insights that could help better predict the severity of the storms and where they might be headed.

Orbiting thousands of miles above Earth, global positioning satellite (GPS) networks constantly beam radio signals at the ground that reveal both where each satellite is and when the message was sent. These satellites thus serve as points that GPS receivers can refer to in order to calculate their own position.

Radio waves can bounce off surfaces much like how visible light reflects off mirrors. Approximately 60 percent of the radio signals from GPS satellites reflect off bodies of water such as the ocean and back at the sky. However, unlike mirrors, the surface of the ocean is rarely calm and flat ? wind blowing over bodies of water generates waves.

"Imagine you blow on a hot bowl of soup," said researcher Stephen Katzberg, a research engineer at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. "The harder you blow, the bigger the waves are in the bowl."?

When GPS signals ricochet off a wave, the rough surface of the water distorts the reflection by scattering the signals in a variety of directions. By analyzing this distortion, Katzberg and his fellow researchers can reason how rough the water is and thus how strong the wind is blowing.

"The GPS system for navigation contains all the elements of remote sensing. You just need to look at it the right way," Katzberg told LiveScience.

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Currently, scientists measure hurricane wind speeds by dropping a tube packed with scientific instruments into storms. These packages, called dropsondes, are strapped to small parachutes, jettisoned from airplanes and gather data as they fall. Each device measures pressure, humidity and temperature in addition to wind speed.

The storm-hunting airplanes of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), nicknamed Hurricane Hunters, typically drop about 20 single-use dropsondes, each costing about $750, into each storm. The new GPS-based method of measuring wind speed could provide a far more extensive view of a storm's wind speeds for a much lower cost. [In Images: NASA's Hurricane Hunters]

The GPS-based system involves GPS receiver chips located in aircraft. A computer compares radio waves coming directly from satellites above with reflected signals from the sea below and calculates an approximate wind speed with accuracy that's within 11 mph (18 km/h). For comparison, the wind speed of a midrange, Category 3 hurricane is about 123 mph (200 km/h).

Since the dropsondes are expensive, they are released in a spread-out pattern, and meteorologists need to use some guesswork to fill in the gaps. In comparison, the GPS-based method can constantly gather data about the wind below.

"You were already going to have these GPS systems onboard, so why not get additional information about the environment around you," Katzberg said.

Complementary systems

The GPS-based technique does have drawbacks, Katzberg cautioned. For instance, dropsondes currently provide wind speed measurements that are 10 times more precise than those from GPS. In addition, since the GPS-based method requires large bodies of water to work, it cannot be used over land. Moreover, in cases where the ocean's surface is choppy without any wind, such as the eye of a stormhurricane, Katzberg said other tools are needed to get an accurate wind speed measurement.

"The GPS technique, while useful as it has been shown to be, has practical limits as well," Katzberg said.

The ultimate goal of this GPS-based method is not to replace dropsondes, but to add a much broader view of wind speeds to the data the dropsondes provide. As GPS satellites improve, "wind speed detection by GPS can ultimately approach dropsonde accuracy, but the two measure mostly different things," Katzberg said.

The new system is currently getting tested during flights on Hurricane Hunters. It may also be implemented on satellites in the future, Katzberg said ?? in 2016, NASA plans to launch a system of small satellites called the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) to measure reflected GPS satellite signals from low orbit to monitor storm wind speeds from space.

Radio waves from other kinds of satellites might help too, Katzberg said, including reflections of powerful satellite broadcasts from DirecTV and Sirius XM Radio.

"Those signals are extremely powerful and easy to detect," Katzberg said. "These satellites cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, but our system only costs a few hundred. We're taking advantage of the expensive infrastructure that's already there."

Katzberg and his colleagues Jason Dunion and George Ganoe detailed their findings online June 1 in the journal Radio Science.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gps-could-track-hurricanes-winds-154109979.html

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Cheap, Sustainable, Delicious: Tomato-Peach Gazpacho

No matter your stance or beliefs on the causes of global warming, there is clear scientific evidence the planet is getting hotter. And even if you?re a holdout (which at this point just seems stubborn and silly) and insist that global warming is a myth, you?re not going to want to fire up your oven or stove this week. The heat index in New York City will reach 110? Fahrenheit today. If that?s not enough evidence of planetary temperature uptick, then, well, God help you.

The plus side to this kind of heat is the effect it has on my mid-summer garden. The tomatoes love it. They have started to ripen quickly from the excess sun and are ready to be devoured along with the peaches that hang heavy on the tree. If tomato-peach is a combination that raises your eyebrows, then just remember the old mantra: If it grows together, it goes together.

When the fruits of the garden are at their peak, there?s no need to manipulate them too much. A perfectly ripe tomato or peach is a feat no chef can improve upon. Cold summer soups are one of the greatest culinary tricks for ?cooking? such perfect produce. They are the simplest meal to make, requiring only a blender, and pop with unexpected flavor. Have fun whizzing up your own concoctions like cucumber and zucchini or radish and buttermilk, or this little number I like to call Greenspacho.

Or brave the heat and get to your garden or farmers market to pick (or pick up) some tomatoes and peaches. The sweet of the peach and the tang of the tomato are a perfect balancing act and are not only delicious, but also keep you away from the stove.

Stay cool.

Tomato-Peach Gazpacho

Serves 6 as a first course

2 pounds ripe tomatoes, chopped

1 1/2 pounds ripe peaches, pitted and chopped

1/2 cup chopped white onion, finely chopped

3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

3/4 teaspoon ground cumin

Fine sea salt freshly ground black pepper

Tiny basil leaves for garnish

Toss 1/2 cup of the tomato and 1/2 cup of the peach in a bowl with 2 tablespoons of the onion, 1 tablespoon of the oil, and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

Puree the remaining tomato, peach, in a blender with the cumin, the remaining 2 tablespoons oil, 1 1/4 teaspoons salt, and 3/4 teaspoon pepper until it is very smooth, then chill the soup until it?s cold.

Serve the soup with the chopped tomato mixture and tiny basil leaves.

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Apple sends iWork for iCloud beta invitations to everyday users

Apple was quick to invite developers to the iWork for iCloud beta in the aftermath of WWDC, but us commoners have had to settle for watching from afar. The company is quickly opening things up, however -- it just started sending out beta invitations to ordinary iCloud users, including some Engadget readers. While this isn't likely to represent Apple's promised public beta, it's clear that we're now much closer to the day when everyone can give the web-based iWork a try.

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