The Strange Case of the Courts, a Car, and the 1910 Batting Title

Ty Cobb and Napoleon Lajoie were fighting for the 1910 American League batting title right down to the end of the season. Who won was under dispute, and it landed the St. Louis Browns in court. Gietschier looks at the case files involving the Browns manager who was fired over accusations that he tried to let Lajoie win the title—and a new car

Opportunity of a Lifetime 2.0: Multigenerational Family Philanthropy

More than ever before, giving families are working to involve multiple generations in their philanthropy.According to the National Center for Family Philanthropy's Trends in Family Philanthropy Study, nearly 3 in 5 U.S. family foundations engage younger family members in the foundation — and more than 40 percent say they expect to add to or increase the number of younger-generation family members on their boards in the near future.This issue brief was written with this emergent trend in mind and to help families understand how to best involve multiple generations in their work.In it, you'll find information about:why you should involve the entire family in your giving,strategies for incorporating younger generations into your foundation's work,common challenges and expert approaches,tips for on boarding new generations into your foundation, andsuggestions for next generation family members who are getting involved in their families' philanthropy.As the title of this paper suggests, this passages paper is the second edition of "Opportunity of a Lifetime." The original paper, "Opportunity of a Lifetime: Young Adults in Family Philanthropy," written by Alison Goldberg (herself a Gen X family philanthropist) was published in 2002. A lot has changed in 15 years, so we decided to take another look at the best practices, technology, benefits, challenges, and opportunities for next generation engagement. This paper builds on and updates the work of the original to offer new voices and insights

Investigation of C++ Constructor Fail Features

In C++, a constructor is a special function that must be invoked when an object is created. Its objective is to initialize a new object to a valid state before any processing occurs using the object. Constructors appear to have some poorly designed features, due to many reasons such as the condition, which requires that the class constructor’s name must be the same as the class name. These features are explored so that some cautions can be taken when building any C++ compiler. In addition any future modification to the C++ language or the design of any new object-oriented language can avoid these features. The handlers for some of these features are suggested

Open Government Architecture: The evolution of De Jure Standards, Consortium Standards, and Open Source Software

Conducted for the Treasury Board of Québec, this study seeks to present recent contributions to the evolution, within an enterprise architecture context, of de jure and de facto standards by various actors in the milieu, industrial consortia, and international standardization committees active in open source software. In order to be able to achieve its goals of delivering services to citizens and society, the Government of Québec must integrate its computer systems to create a service oriented open architecture. Following in the footsteps of various other governments and the European Community, such an integration will require elaboration of an interoperability framework, i.e. a structured set of de jure standards, de facto standards, specifications, and policies allowing computer systems to interoperate. Thus, we recommend that the Government of Québec: Pursue its endeavours to elaborate an interoperability framework for its computer systems that is based on open de jure and de facto standards. This framework should not only reflect the criteria enumerated in this study and apply to internal computer systems, but it should also extend to Web services supplied to organizations outside of the government. This framework should explicitly prioritize open source de jure and de facto standards and include a policy covering free software. The interoperability framework should initially draw on that of the state of Massachusetts. In the medium term, is should be as comprehensive as that of the British government. Integrate this interoperability framework into its enterprise architecture. Publish this interoperability framework with its enterprise architecture. Specify this interoperability framework in its calls for tenders. Elaborate a policy of compliance with this framework for all new applications.

C++ é inadequado para ensinar OO

Num curso superior de Informática não deve haver preocupação em ensinar a última novidade tecnológica, mas antes os fundamentos que permitam aos diplomados uma capacidade para aprender continuamente. No ensino da programação orientada ao objecto (POO) é importante utilizar-se uma linguagem com suporte coerente dos conceitos fundamentais do paradigma, sem características que entrem em contradição com o modelo central, sob pena da linguagem se tornar um obstáculo à aprendizagem. Neste artigo argumenta-se precisamente que C++ é um obstáculo à aprendizagem da POO. Muitos alunos acreditam que aprender C++ lhes dará todas as competências na área da programação de que necessitarão no futuro. Esta visão errada tem como consequência que poderão ficar pior preparados para se adaptarem às mudanças a que a informática está sujeita. C++ foi criado tendo em vista a compatibilidade com o C, pelo que todas as decisões de concepção do C++ estiveram dependentes das características, boas ou más, da linguagem anterior. Só este facto já permite questionar se tudo o que o C++ oferece será coerente, sobretudo se se considerar que o próprio C, por vezes classificado de “linguagem assembly estruturada”, dá suporte a vários paradigmas da programação. Na verdade C++ não é uma linguagem orientada ao objecto (LOO), mas uma linguagem multiparadigma, dotada dum suporte imperfeito dos conceitos da OO, misturados com conceitos oriundos de modelos de programação mais antigos. A seguir alude-se a alguns dos principais aspectos técnicos em que C++ apresenta imperfeições no suporte à POO. São feitas comparações com algumas das LOOs mais importantes, sobretudo Eiffel e Java

Alien Registration- Lajoie, Pierre (Lewiston, Androscoggin County)

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Estelle specification of XTP : analysis of data propagation within XTP

Originated and motivated from an observation from Dr. William Atwood from Concordia University Canada, it was proposed that the ESTELLE code be improved by making use of a slight deviation from ESTELLE into the C language by making use of 'Qualifying Comments' in ESTELLE. Such comments allowed the specification of C constructs, namely pointer references, that are not a defined type for ESTELLE. Further enhancements gave birth to a generation of the ESTELLE specification, where most of the data manipulation C operations had been taken out of the XTP protocol, and consolidated into a set of highly efficient and frequently executed parts of code. These 'code beans' are referred to as 'primitives' and make full usage of the C language. The thrust of this report is to review and document the topology of the most recent ESTELLE specification of the XTP protocol, propose improvements if such are possible, and finally compare the performance of both the ESTELLE specification and the SANDIA C++ specification of XTP

Observed Surface Breakage due to Strike-Slip Faulting

This paper presents observations from field studies and physical model tests to investigate the response of soil deposits to strike-slip bedrock faulting. The study is relevant to developing mitigation technique against fault-induced damage in structures located near potentially active faults. Observations of ground rupture patterns in alluvial materials following the 1992 Landers earthquake are presented. Particularly important are the observations of significant deformation away from the main trace, the width of the shear zone, and the effects of the surficial geology on the fault expression. Preliminary results from small-scale model tests simulating strike-slip rupture are also presented. The tests results confirm that the width of the shear zone depends primarily on the ductility and height of the soil deposit. These studies provide insight regarding ground deformation patterns in the soil overlying strike-slip faulting

Qu'est-ce que l'anthropologie du droit?

[À l'origine dans / Was originally part of : CRDP - Droit et nouveaux rapports sociaux