This article walks web developers through the basics of cross-origin resource sharing in HTML5.

A midst the rising obesity epidemic there seems to be one city doing it right:

Boulder, Colorado. 

Boulder claims the lowest obesity rate in the nation: 12.4% compared to 27.1% nationally. 

You must be thinking, of course Boulder.

Its a city overpopulated with health nuts and triathletes, where the 300 plus days of sunshine and average 65 degree weather make it hard not to exercise.

Additionally, Boulder residents are generally highly educated with a keen awareness of the elements of a healthy lifestyle. 

But there’s something less obvious that sets Boulder apart: their prominent local food movement. 

Boulderites consume a high percentage of locally grown food in restaurants, schools, and homes. The government puts great emphasis on sustainable, organic, and locally grown agriculture. In fact, they are on track to having 20% of leased open-space lands in organic food production by 2020.

Is locally grown food feasible in a more urban industrialized city? 

New York City’s Gotham Greens is proving so with their innovative urban farm that utilizes the hydroponic technique. They are able to harvest 200 tons of organic, non-GMO produce a year without the use of soil. 

As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, urban farms like Gotham Greens may be the future of food production. In U.S. cities we may see a growth of local, healthy food and maybe Boulder, Colorado will no longer be such an anomaly.  

Mount Everest claimed sixteen new victims in its deadliest ever day last week. 

At least observers can take comfort in the fact that the climbers seized a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity…

Oh, wait. For the sixteen Sherpa guides who perished, it was just another day on the job. 

Native to Nepal, members of the Sherpa ethnic group have long worked as guides for Westerners looking to scale the world’s highest peak. Sherpa guides usually make around $5000 USD per climbing season, many times greater than Nepal’s $230 per capita annual income. 

However, there is a dark side to this relatively lucrative profession: danger. Between 2004 and 2014, Sherpa guides experienced a death rate of more than 4,000 per 100,000 full time workers. In contrast, the most dangerous American job (lumberjack) had a death rate of just under 128 per 100,000. Even guides who survive can suffer climbing-related disabilities. 

In response to this latest disaster, Sherpa guides are threatening to boycott the mountain for the rest of the climbing season.

Their motivation for this action includes both economic demands as well as respect for their dead colleagues.

The Nepalese government is scrambling to end the walkout, fearing millions in lost revenue, and has already made some concessions. However, this does not necessarily mean it will be business as usual on Everest. In the words of guide Migma Sherpa,

“How can we walk through the same path where [our friends] have died?” 

 

Match Education (www.matcheducation.org) operates an elementary, middle, and high school in Boston for inner city students, and run an urban education tutoring program in Illinois in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools and the University of Chicago.

We’re looking for seniors who either

- want to spend a year working closely with students in Boston while training to be a teacher or

- want to spend a year in Boston or Chicago working closely with students before heading off to grad school or another career

Our teacher training program was recently recognized by US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for its innovation. Program participants receive training on how to become highly effective first-year teachers (there is a near 100% placement rate in high performing urban schools). In addition, teacher residents receive housing and a living stipend while completing their Master’s.

The teacher residency is only available in Boston, but we have tutoring opportunities (for folks just looking to do an urban education gap year) available in both Chicago and Boston.

Below are some links with additional information:

Match Education's "About Us" page

Our Graduate School of Education

Info on our 1-Year Tutoring Program

Info on previous program participants

You can contact the recruiting team directly at Recruiting@MatchEducation.org

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Google has started a new series of videos titled Google Design Minutes http://depot.ly/w9zpA

BMW Logo design by WhiteDesign http://depot.ly/w9wqC  http://ow.ly/i/5mcjT

CleverStack, a modular way to create your Angular & Node web apps http://depot.ly/w4ZY2

And the coding behind @Flickr’s new Hybrid Signed-Out Homepage http://depot.ly/w9sSf  via @Joe19G27

6 Blogs that Make Hiring Technical Help a Breeze http://depot.ly/w9rIc  via @lkr

4 Heartfelt Marketing Campaigns That Made A Difference http://depot.ly/w4ZP8  @justcreative

Flickr got a new website https://www.flickr.com

Coding a Toggle-Based FAQ Page with CSS3 and jQuery http://ow.ly/w4Zkq

Build a Dribbble Portfolio Grid With Flexboxgrid and Jribbble http://depot.ly/w4u3M  *Handy tutorial

Understanding Vector Shapes in Illustrator http://depot.ly/w1ggu

Gamification: How to Raise the Bar on Blog Production http://depot.ly/w1fgC

Big Data Isn’t Just For Big Businesses Anymore http://depot.ly/w1fSY  *Good read via @EntMagazine

Nice read by @jeffgoins: It’s Time to Get Intentional About Blogging http://depot.ly/w1eTN

Managing Multiple Drafts Easily In Jekyll http://depot.ly/vYLKS

A Guide to Optimising Photoshop Performance >> http://depot.ly/vS3Bw

Want more? No problem! Keep track of all our tweets by following us @DesignerDepot

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The White House Climate Data Initiative

Eric Letvin
Director, Disaster and Failure Studies
National Security Council

3:00pm Tuesday, 29 April 2014, ITE 456, UMBC

Delivering on the commitment in the President’s Climate Action Plan, the White House recently launched the Climate Data Initiative — a broad effort to leverage the Federal Government’s extensive, freely- available climate-relevant data resources to advance awareness of and preparedness for climate change impacts. This effort will help give communities across America the information and tools they need to plan for current and future climate impacts. Data from NOAA, NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of Defense, and other Federal agencies was recently launched on climate.data.gov. Data and innovation challenges issued by public, private, nonprofit, and other organizations can help catalyze new, data-driven solutions that help communities understand and build resilience to climate change. NOAA and NASA recently announced an innovation challenge calling on researchers and developers to create data-driven simulations to help plan for the future and to educate the public about the vulnerability of their own communities to sea level rise and flood events.

Mr. Eric Letvin PE, Esq, is the Director of Hazard Mitigation and Risk Reduction Policy within the National Security Council in the Executive Office of the President. He coordinates the development and effective delivery of mitigation capabilities identified in the National Preparedness Goal, such as threat and hazard identification, risk and disaster resilience assessment, planning, and long-term vulnerability reduction.

When at NIST, Mr. Letvin is the Disaster and Failure Studies Program Director within NIST’s Engineering Laboratory. Mr. Letvin provides national coordination for conducting field data collection studies. He is also responsible for creating and maintaining a repository related to hazard events (earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, windstorms, community-scale fires in the wildland-urban interface, structural fires, storm surge, flood, tsunami) and human-made hazards (accidental, criminal, or terrorist), the performance of the built environment during hazard events, associated emergency response and evacuation procedures.

Before coming to NIST, Mr. Letvin was Leader of Infrastructure Research and Resiliency in the Homeland Security Group of URS. He has participated in numerous post-disaster studies including the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, and Hurricanes Opal, Ike and Katrina. He has assessed over 200 buildings for risk from terrorist threats and natural disasters.

Mr. Letvin holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in environmental engineering from Syracuse University and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland. He has taught many courses on risk assessments and protection of infrastructure for FEMA/DHS and made related presentations throughout the world over the last ten years.

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.

So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons.

Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own…

In case of emergency, fake glass

Royal imposter

Lego my business model

Can you relate to these situations? Please share your funny stories and comments below…

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Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, visiting artist at UMBC, has been named recipient of the 2014 Thomas Nast Award. The Overseas Press Club of America presents this prestigious award for excellence in cartoons about international affairs.

Click here to read the judges’ citation and view KAL’s cartoons.