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14:58:13 <RRSAgent> RRSAgent has joined #rdf-wg 14:58:13 <RRSAgent> logging to http://www.w3.org/2012/04/18-rdf-wg-irc 14:59:03 <davidwood> Zakim, who is here? 14:59:03 <Zakim> sorry, davidwood, I don't know what conference this is 14:59:04 <Zakim> On IRC I see RRSAgent, Zakim, mischat, Guus, gavinc, ScottB, MacTed, danbri, davidwood, manu, NickH, manu1, yvesr_, trackbot, sandro, ericP 14:59:11 <davidwood> Zakim, this will be RDF 14:59:11 <Zakim> ok, davidwood, I see SW_RDFWG()11:00AM already started 14:59:23 <davidwood> Zakim, who is here? 14:59:23 <Zakim> On the phone I see Guus, davidwood 14:59:24 <Zakim> On IRC I see RRSAgent, Zakim, mischat, Guus, gavinc, ScottB, MacTed, danbri, davidwood, manu, NickH, manu1, yvesr_, trackbot, sandro, ericP 15:00:30 <ScottB> Zakim, Tony is temporarily me 15:00:31 <Zakim> +ScottB; got it 15:00:40 <Zakim> +OpenLink_Software 15:00:50 <MacTed> Zakim, OpenLink_Software is temporarily me 15:00:50 <Zakim> +MacTed; got it 15:00:53 <MacTed> Zakim, mute me 15:00:53 <Zakim> MacTed should now be muted 15:00:59 <Zakim> +EricP 15:01:04 <Zakim> +Sandro 15:01:52 <ScottB> scribe: Scott 15:01:59 <zwu2> zwu2 has joined #rdf-wg 15:02:02 <AlexHall> AlexHall has joined #rdf-wg 15:02:04 <zwu2> zakim, code? 15:02:04 <Zakim> the conference code is 73394 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:firstname.lastname@example.com), zwu2 15:02:11 <Zakim> +gavinc 15:02:42 <Zakim> + +1.650.265.aaaa 15:02:45 <tbaker> tbaker has joined #rdf-wg 15:02:54 <zwu2> zakim, +1.650.265.aaaa is me 15:02:55 <Zakim> +zwu2; got it 15:02:57 <zwu2> zakim, mute me 15:02:57 <Zakim> zwu2 should now be muted 15:03:02 <Zakim> +??P21 15:03:08 <Zakim> +Tom_Baker (was ??P21) 15:03:48 <mischat> mischat has joined #rdf-wg 15:04:15 <MacTed> Zakim, unmute me 15:04:15 <Zakim> MacTed should no longer be muted 15:04:20 <Zakim> + +1.443.212.aabb 15:04:21 <mischat> mischat has joined #rdf-wg 15:04:32 <AlexHall> zakim, aabb is me 15:04:32 <Zakim> +AlexHall; got it 15:05:33 <Guus> zakim, who is here? 15:05:52 <Zakim> On the phone I see Guus, davidwood, ScottB, MacTed, EricP, Sandro, gavinc, zwu2 (muted), Tom_Baker, AlexHall 15:05:59 <Zakim> On IRC I see mischat, tbaker, AlexHall, zwu2, RRSAgent, Zakim, Guus, gavinc, ScottB, MacTed, danbri, davidwood, manu, NickH, manu1, yvesr_, trackbot, sandro, ericP 15:06:40 <ScottB> Topic: Meeting Minutes from April 11 15:06:49 <tbaker> +1 accept minutes 15:06:53 <ScottB> Proposed: accept minutes 15:07:14 <ScottB> Resolution: accept the minutes from last week. 15:07:28 <ScottB> Topic: action items 15:07:52 <ScottB> Guus: Gavin do you want to record a new issue. 15:08:00 <ScottB> Gavin: I'd like to but can't 15:08:18 <ScottB> Topic: Turtle LC 15:08:41 <Zakim> +??P27 15:08:43 <ScottB> Guus: Gavin can you comment 15:08:56 <Souri> Souri has joined #rdf-wg 15:09:02 <ScottB> Gavin: I should be able to get the remainder of the minutes in my the next conference 15:09:18 <ScottB> Guus: Just editorial comments no major new issues. 15:09:30 <gavinc> application/n-triples vs. application/ntriples 15:09:38 <ScottB> Gavin: Do we want a dash or comma in the media types? 15:10:08 <pfps> pfps has joined #rdf-wg 15:10:16 <ScottB> Guus: no dash you mean. that's 12.1 15:10:36 <ScottB> Gavin: The dashes are used like segment markers. 15:10:53 <ScottB> … not able to find languages that had dashes 15:11:15 <ScottB> … we don't believe any application uses slash n-triples at the moment. 15:11:28 <ScottB> Guus: My intuition -- leave out the dash. 15:11:46 <ScottB> Guus: Sandro can you comment. 15:11:48 <MacTed> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html 15:11:54 <gavinc> example with dash: audio/x-ms-wma application/x-gzip video/x-ms-wmv 15:12:03 <ScottB> Sandro: Maybe a dash is used like a space. 15:12:15 <gavinc> application/x-font-ttf 15:12:24 <sandro> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/index.html 15:12:31 <ScottB> Gavin: there is no code that uses an n-triples media type. 15:12:47 <ScottB> Guus: what will be easiest to remember. 15:13:00 <ScottB> Sandro: how do we write it in the spec. 15:13:12 <ScottB> Gavin: We write it with a dash. 15:13:20 <Zakim> +??P31 15:13:32 <ScottB> Sandro: we call it n hyphen triple 15:13:37 <pfps> zakim, ??P31 is me 15:13:37 <Zakim> +pfps; got it 15:13:56 <sandro> cwm -n-triples 15:13:57 <ScottB> Gavin: others use it without a dash. use it on the command line. 15:14:00 <sandro> cwm --n-triples 15:14:01 <gavinc> cwm -ntriples 15:14:21 <PatH> PatH has joined #rdf-wg 15:14:33 <PatH> Sorry Im late. 15:14:38 <ScottB> Sandro: Should use two dashes if more than one char. 15:14:51 <davidwood> +1 15:14:52 <gavinc> +0 15:14:52 <Souri> +1 15:14:55 <sandro> +1 dash (mildly) 15:14:59 <MacTed> +1 15:15:02 <ScottB> Guus: type a plus one you are in favor of the dash. 15:15:06 <ericP> +1 to — 15:15:10 <gavinc> heh 15:15:26 <Zakim> +PatH 15:15:35 <sandro> +1 to ‐ 15:16:02 <gavinc> Entity 'dash' not defined ;) 15:16:04 <sandro> love some of these mime types, like: vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.drawingml.diagramLayout+xml 15:16:31 <MacTed> firstname.lastname@example.com :-) 15:16:41 <gavinc> RESOLVED: Use application/n-triples for content type of N-Triples 15:18:50 <ericP> ACTION: ericP to send mail to ietf-types to request the media type application/n-triples 15:18:51 <trackbot> Created ACTION-163 - Send mail to ietf-types to request the media type application/n-triples [on Eric Prud'hommeaux - due 2012-04-25]. 15:18:52 <ScottB> Guus: Part one has been covered before. 15:19:12 <ScottB> … plan for a new draft next week. 15:19:20 <ScottB> Gavin: another week would be nice. 15:19:59 <MacTed> ( mimetype hyphen appears likely acceptable -- http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/remote-printing ) 15:20:05 <ScottB> Guus: We recorded a new data 2 may for the new draft to be available 15:20:16 <ScottB> s/data/date 15:20:44 <ScottB> Topic: Named graph semantics 15:21:31 <PatH> whre is that new use case mentioned? 15:21:49 <ScottB> Guus: Ask to write UC Europeana to use case page. 15:22:17 <ScottB> Sandro: I want to understand use cases as a coder. Discussion on this? 15:22:37 <ScottB> Guus: I'll ask one of the authors to join the telecom. 15:22:49 <ScottB> Sandro: ask him to write it first. 15:23:02 <ScottB> … in something a coder can understand. 15:23:18 <ScottB> Guus: It's an enormous amount of data. 15:23:32 <ScottB> … maybe you can ask him a few questions on the list. 15:23:36 <ScottB> Sandro: ok 15:24:14 <ScottB> Guus: They have issues. Art work described by multiple organizations. 15:24:43 <ScottB> subtopic: RDF with Contexts 15:24:59 <sandro> http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/RDFwithContexts 15:25:00 <ScottB> Guus: Thanks to Pat for the wiki page. 15:25:14 <ScottB> … We should start with QA 15:25:22 <ScottB> … session 15:25:29 <davidwood> +1 to PatH for writing this up 15:26:11 <ScottB> Pat: the generalization if of something not necessarily a graph. Deliberately don't restrict the form of that document. 15:26:15 <gavinc> +1000 allowing it to be empty 15:26:30 <davidwood> +1 to allowing empties 15:26:48 <ScottB> … agree on the meaning of the IRIs without specifying what that meaning is. 15:27:02 <sandro> q+ 15:27:18 <Guus> ack sandro 15:27:50 <ScottB> Sandro: when will two colleagues publishing about the same thing use IRI's in different ways. 15:28:18 <ScottB> Pat: Data from different sources should be in diff contexts ( some have this perspective) 15:28:41 <ScottB> Sandro: There is a global hypotheses, 15:28:54 <MacTed> q+ 15:28:59 <ScottB> Pat: RDF now accepts the global hypothesis. 15:29:26 <davidwood> Accepting a local hypothesis makes *no statement* about the global hypothesis. 15:29:27 <ScottB> Sandro: If the global hypothesis holds you don't need this. 15:29:42 <ScottB> Pat: Still very useful to put one context under another. 15:30:03 <ScottB> … recording this context more can be added. 15:30:28 <ScottB> … one URI can mean progressively finer things as people add to it. 15:30:43 <MacTed> q+ to say the global hypothesis has been disproven already... the challenge is dealing with data that is presented as if it were valid 15:30:48 <ScottB> … even in the global hypothesis things can work this way. 15:30:55 <ScottB> Sandro: an example: 15:31:09 <ScottB> s/example:/example? 15:31:38 <Guus> q? 15:31:54 <ScottB> Pat: You might rely on a more restrictive meaning accidentally. 15:31:59 <davidwood> q+ to provide other examples of violation of the global hypothesis 15:32:27 <ScottB> … easier to use the same term with some restriction. 15:32:42 <sandro> q? 15:32:53 <Guus> ack MacTed 15:32:53 <Zakim> MacTed, you wanted to say the global hypothesis has been disproven already... the challenge is dealing with data that is presented as if it were valid 15:33:09 <ScottB> Ted: the global hypothesis is the ideal but most are not living by it. Local is the way things are. 15:33:57 <ScottB> … it has been disproven. Giving up is appropriate. Lots of data is produced based on it. we have to deal with it. 15:34:05 <ericP> i'm not sure why I use terms like foaf:name if they mean different things to different people 15:34:09 <ericP> what's the point of RDF anyways? 15:34:24 <ScottB> Sandro: The same URI is supposed to mean something different for the two us? 15:34:50 <ScottB> Ted: We may both be wrong. This is the case with owl:sambas. 15:34:51 <sandro> q> 15:34:52 <sandro> q? 15:35:11 <ScottB> s/owl:sambas/owl:sameas 15:35:15 <Guus> ack davidwood 15:35:15 <Zakim> davidwood, you wanted to provide other examples of violation of the global hypothesis 15:35:16 <pfps> how is owl:sameAs broken??? 15:35:23 <ScottB> david: I agree with Ted: 15:35:23 <sandro> sandro: The way to get the genie back in the bottle is Running Code. We'll get there some day. 15:35:58 <Guus> I think the poinnt ewas not that owl:sameAs is broken, just the way it is used 15:36:09 <ScottB> … Data from the data web shoved into a triple store. Using these I use some and pretend others don't exist. 15:36:34 <ScottB> … you're overriding data that you choose. 15:36:46 <Guus> q+ 15:36:48 <ScottB> Sandro: Give an example: 15:36:54 <ericP> q? 15:36:57 <Guus> q+ to give an example 15:37:29 <ScottB> David: Import from DBpedia. RDF label in a dozen langs. I strip some or all and replace while reusing the rest of the triples. 15:38:02 <ScottB> Sandro: Global, when you see rdf: label you know what it meant. 15:38:21 <ScottB> Sandro: Would the new label to be true? 15:38:40 <ScottB> David: I think so. I'm gong to make it up or do what I want. 15:38:57 <ScottB> Sandro: That doesn't mean you disagree with the use of the word. 15:39:19 <ScottB> Pat: I think you are right but how do you tell the difference. 15:39:40 <ericP> q+ to ask how we bridge from conventional RDF to a local hypothesis RDF 15:39:43 <ScottB> Sandro: You can handle all in the first possiblity. 15:40:03 <davidwood> What do you mean by "God"? 15:40:45 <ScottB> Pat: You are presenting an extreme local view. 15:41:00 <ScottB> Sandro: how can there be a middle ground? 15:41:21 <Guus> ack EricP 15:41:21 <Zakim> ericP, you wanted to ask how we bridge from conventional RDF to a local hypothesis RDF 15:41:38 <sandro> sandro: Any time you think you belong on the same island, then you could both use the same URI in the global-hypothesis world. 15:41:41 <ScottB> Eric: What mechanism will allow me to merge rdf graphs. 15:42:10 <ScottB> … how would localities agree on how subjects or predicates mean the same thing. 15:42:40 <ScottB> … once the locality is introduced does it require more rigor to make the query. 15:43:27 <ScottB> Pat: A context must be agreed on for a given group. 15:43:53 <ScottB> Sandro: If a larger group -- do they add another context URI. 15:44:15 <sandro> q? 15:44:28 <ScottB> Ted: There's a lot of data out there without context. 15:44:50 <Guus> q- 15:45:02 <ScottB> … we'll have to deal with the fact that it is produced in one context and used in another. 15:45:10 <ScottB> … The assumption is a dirty merge. 15:45:37 <sandro> q+ to say people can be wrong, people can be talking about different points in time, people can be talking about imagined universes, yes. But we can't just give up on the global hypothesis. 15:45:40 <ScottB> … global does not work because we don't have a clean, solid reference of what that is. 15:45:51 <davidwood> ..and the dirty merge is a feature, not a bug. It is critical to the flexibility of RDF. 15:46:08 <ScottB> Pat: If people pretend it does. It will go on as before. 15:46:40 <Guus> q? 15:46:40 <ScottB> … choice can be made to put them into contexts. Just put inheritance tags in place. 15:46:48 <Guus> ack sandro 15:46:49 <Zakim> sandro, you wanted to say people can be wrong, people can be talking about different points in time, people can be talking about imagined universes, yes. But we can't just give 15:46:49 <Zakim> ... up on the global hypothesis. 15:47:31 <ScottB> Sandro: Anybody who wants to merge with someone else's data has to have a special agreement. 15:48:00 <ScottB> Pat: Tell the world that they have to be careful, so they can check to see if their data is consistant. 15:49:16 <ScottB> Sandro: Vocabularies can allow mix of 14 different properties. 15:50:10 <ScottB> Pat: a Large ontology has used this successfully. You don't get exponential explosions. They resolved ambiguities by introducing contexts. 15:50:58 <ScottB> … they introduced a relationship of covering. 15:51:27 <ScottB> … these things have something in common as defined by a top context. 15:51:55 <ScottB> Sandro: Theres a super property coving the different senses. 15:52:35 <ScottB> Pat: A change in context shifts vocabulary meaning. 15:52:38 <ScottB> S 15:53:04 <ScottB> Sandro: that makes a lot of sense from an NLP perspective. 15:53:28 <pfps> I'm still having a hard time figuring out just why contexts should become part of RDF. 15:53:33 <ScottB> … concerned about what it means in publishing RDF graphs, because you don't know the vocabulary. 15:53:49 <Zakim> -gavinc 15:54:02 <ScottB> Pat: It should be used in a context that changes meaning intended. 15:54:25 <ScottB> Sandro: a little can be done in existing OWL. 15:54:49 <Guus> q? 15:55:08 <ScottB> … a person has a bunch of properties. A person is a professor, there is new meaning. OWL reasoning understands that. 15:55:53 <ScottB> Pat: You can do things like age changes. 15:56:20 <ScottB> Sandro: I'm concerned about vocabularies changing meanings arbitrarily. 15:56:36 <ericP> +1 to "Hieronymus Bosch" description 15:57:02 <ScottB> Ted: Meanings are going to shift regardless. 15:57:56 <ScottB> Ted: AAA means this is going to happen. 15:58:53 <Zakim> +??P26 15:59:01 <pfps> zakim, ??p26 is me 15:59:01 <Zakim> +pfps; got it 15:59:16 <ScottB> Eric: Introducing of islands of data that I don't trust. No force will stop people from stopping RDF used as now. 16:00:13 <ScottB> … semantics entails new use cans but the complexity doesn't motivate use. 16:00:24 <Guus> q? 16:00:41 <ScottB> … I don't seem context as being marketable. 16:00:53 <ScottB> Pat: It's just one new RDF relation. 16:01:28 <ScottB> Sandro: Everyone in a given group could give a context. 16:01:51 <ScottB> Eric: Adding contexts gets too complicated. 16:02:24 <Guus> Pat: more than 1 context probably means union (not intersection) 16:02:45 <ScottB> … many people want to share terms, there is a transitive connection. Two predicates written by different people and a third connects them. 16:03:50 <ScottB> Ted: A wrong word meaning can be wrapped. Code can swap it out. 16:04:28 <ScottB> Sandro: this doesn't solve change over time by itself. 16:05:22 <ScottB> Pat: Change over time can be described as an updating of a concept. The old terminology continues in use but is updated. 16:05:25 <Zakim> -zwu2 16:05:41 <ScottB> … all you have to do is invent a context and insert old stuff. 16:06:20 <ScottB> Sandro: How is this different from changing the URI to point to new data. 16:06:59 <sandro> zakim, who is here? 16:06:59 <Zakim> On the phone I see Guus, davidwood, ScottB, MacTed, EricP, Sandro, Tom_Baker, AlexHall, ??P27, pfps, PatH, pfps.a 16:07:01 <Zakim> On IRC I see PatH, pfps, Souri, mischat, tbaker, AlexHall, RRSAgent, Zakim, Guus, gavinc, ScottB, MacTed, danbri, davidwood, manu, NickH, manu1, yvesr_, trackbot, sandro, ericP 16:07:14 <ScottB> Eric: If the graph is sealed, a snapshot is in order. 16:07:32 <ScottB> … we 16:07:59 <Guus> q? 16:08:15 <ScottB> Pat: No one is saying you have to stop what you are doing. 16:08:29 <ScottB> … mends some things that are currently broken. 16:09:08 <Guus> q+ 16:09:11 <ScottB> Sandro: If you want to say that two graphs can be merged using this context. It means it can't be done otherwise. 16:09:32 <ScottB> … seems like it can't be otherwise. 16:10:01 <ScottB> Pat: the current RDF semantics are the default. 16:10:38 <ScottB> … if you assert in the context, you are being careful. Otherwise URI's are just URI's. 16:11:24 <ScottB> Eric: What it does is it takes the private, illegal formats are being brought into a set of rules where they are. 16:11:27 <sandro> sandro: IF it's stated clearly enough that rdf:inherits is a way to OPT OUT of the global hypothesis, then I think this is an okay experment, and harmless. 16:11:29 <ScottB> ... legal. 16:12:07 <ScottB> Pat: It lets inferior uses into the public. 16:12:10 <sandro> sandro: So this is a sort of Amnesty proposal. 16:13:08 <ScottB> Sandro: I'm ok with this as long as RDF inheritance as a way to opt out is clear. 16:14:17 <sandro> sandro: So this doesn't really solve the owl:sameAs problem..... 16:14:20 <ScottB> … (correction) the default is a way to opt out of the RDF inheritance. 16:14:52 <ScottB> David: what should the default be. 16:15:25 <ScottB> Sandro: the namespace document needs to opt in. 16:15:50 <ScottB> Eric: updating the namespace documents is onerous. 16:16:20 <ScottB> David: there will still be unintentional differences. 16:17:26 <Zakim> -??P27 16:17:27 <ScottB> Zakim, who is here 16:17:27 <Zakim> ScottB, you need to end that query with '?' 16:17:35 <Zakim> -davidwood 16:17:37 <Zakim> -PatH 16:17:38 <sandro> sandro: (switching sides) There's a strong case to be made that people who really mean their RDF, and really read the ontology documentaiton, might opt into that. 16:17:39 <Zakim> -MacTed 16:17:43 <Zakim> -EricP 16:17:44 <Zakim> -Sandro 16:17:45 <Zakim> -AlexHall 16:17:47 <AlexHall> AlexHall has left #rdf-wg 16:18:06 <davidwood> I don't think *anyone* doesn't mean their RDF. 16:18:15 <MacTed> and then... the ontology on which they based their RDF gets redefined. 16:18:22 <MacTed> uh oh! 16:18:30 <davidwood> Some people just make bad RDF - by my (or others) definition. 16:19:07 <ScottB> rrsagent, generate the minutes 16:19:07 <RRSAgent> I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/04/18-rdf-wg-minutes.html ScottB 16:21:20 <ScottB> rrsagent, publish the minutes 16:21:20 <RRSAgent> I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/04/18-rdf-wg-minutes.html ScottB 16:25:00 <ScottB> rrsagent, make logs public # SPECIAL MARKER FOR CHATSYNC. 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ANADIGICS' WiMAX 4G Power Amplifier Drives Evolution
ANADIGICS Inc. launched one of the first mobile WiMAX 4G power amplifiers (PA) developed for use in the 3.4 to 3.6 GHz spectrum adopted by broadband wireless service providers in Europe and South America. ANADIGICS, a developer of RF power amplifier technology for high speed data communications, has differentiated the new AWM6433 by optimizing it for mobile WiMAX applications through the delivery of exceptional linearity and efficiency across all output power levels.
ANADIGICS offers manufacturers a complete family of WiMAX PAs that support subscriber products developed for the 2.3 to 2.4 GHz (South Korea and Malaysia), 2.5 to 2.7 GHz (US, Taiwan, Russia and Japan) and 3.4 to 3.6 GHz frequency bands. These PAs ensure outstanding mobile performance in USB dongles, data cards, smartphones and notebooks that address the growing WiMAX market. According to a report from Juniper Research, which analyzed over 30 countries, the mobile WiMAX 802.16e market will grow to $23 B by 2013, with subscriber levels predicted to reach over 80 million over the same time frame.
ANADIGICS' AWM6433 supports both the IEEE 802.16d-2004 and 802.16e-2005 standards, enabling the design of equipment for use during the transition from fixed-point to mobile technologies. Facilitated by ANADIGICS' WiMAX PAs, this migration is expected to enable a rapid expansion of the customer base for existing networks.
The AWM6433 leverages ANADIGICS' RF capabilities to exceed 20 percent operating efficiency at +24 dBm output power, when powered by a 3.3 V supply, while also meeting ETSI-recommended spectrum mask limits. The AWM6433 is designed to provide an increase in the maximum linear output power with an increase in the supply voltage up to 4.2 V; a feature that supports 4G systems that require slightly higher subscriber transmit power levels.
The AWM6433 has the same package footprint and pinout as other products in ANADIGICS' WiMAX PA family to ensure simplified designs and ease of manufacturability for OEMs. ANADIGICS currently offers the AWM6430 and AWM6432, 6 V devices that operate in the 3.4 to 3.6 GHz frequency band, and the AWM6422 and AWM6423, 3.3 V mobile devices that operate in the 2.5 GHz band.
Glenn Eswein, Director of Product Marketing for ANADIGICS, states, "The AWM6433 is one of the first power amplifiers available for mobile WiMAX in the 3.5 GHz spectrum, and will power an evolution from fixed-point systems, currently based on the 802.16d standard, to 802.16e mobile platforms.
Joe Cozzarelli, Director of ANADIGICS' Wireless Infrastructure and WiMAX Product Development, adds, "The AWM6433 exhibits high power efficiency not only at the maximum output power levels, but also at lower output power levels. This efficiency translates to substantially increased battery life for consumer applications where the usage model includes a wide range of transmit powers."
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In a unanimous decision Jan. 22, the Hood River County Board of Commissioners voted to adopt a "footprint" ordinance limiting the size of commercial buildings in the county's Urban Growth Area (UGA) to 50,000 square feet.
After more than two hours of public testimony, the board adopted the city's footprint ordinance while recommending that five issues pertaining to the ordinance be addressed by the city. Those are:
Whether the ordinance should be revised to specifically address retail outlets only, since including all commercial structures could preclude other large scale businesses such as hotels and tech centers.
Further defining "building" since the uniform building code currently defines one long structure with an internal fire wall as two separate buildings.
Addressing whether there should be an allowance for variances in the building size limitation so that exceptions could be made.
Addressing a potential "loophole" in the ordinance as it applies to buildings already in existence. In the city's ordinance, adopted in October, existing buildings of any size would be allowed to expand by 10 percent, but only up to the 50,000 square foot limit for those currently less than that size. Buildings currently greater than 50,000 square feet would be allowed the full 10 percent expansion.
Consideration of an idea floated by Mayor Paul Cummings referred to as an "overlay" plan, which could create different size restrictions for different parts of the city -- and, potentially, for the UGA.
The city and county staff will now meet jointly to address the five issues and come up with recommendations on them, according County Commission Chair John Arens. That process will not affect the implementation of the footprint ordinance in the UGA, which takes effect in 30 days.
Public testimony at Tuesday's meeting weighed heavily in favor of the county adopting the ordinance. City officials, including Cindy Walbridge, planning director, and Mayor Cummings gave background on how they arrived at the footprint ordinance and urged the county to pass it -- even if, as Cummings said, it still required some "tweaking."
Cummings said the city originally came up with the 50,000 square foot number "arbitrarily," but as the staff began researching the issue early last year, it "turned out it was an appropriate figure."
Jurgen Hess, chair of the City of Hood River Planning Commission, expanded on Cummings' comments.
"We looked at various buildings" around the area, "varying from 35,000 to 72,000 square feet," he said. "We felt `50' was an appropriate number given scale, livability and compatibility issues." He said the city planners felt that "not having this footprint ordinance would lead to a decrease in smaller businesses and a decrease in diversity."
Several people urged the county to follow protocol established under the Urban Growth Area Management Agreement, which calls for the county to adopt land-use ordinances for the UGA that are similar to the city's -- and that any revisions to the ordinance be made by the city and resubmitted to the county.
"What ends up as the county ordinance should mirror the city ordinance," said Bill Lyons, chair of the Hood River County Planning Commission, in a statement. Lyons was unable to attend Tuesday's meeting but sent a statement from the Planning Commission recommending adoption of the ordinance. "If anyone is going to tinker with the language of the city ordinance, it should be the city," he said.
Themes echoed over and over as proponents for the ordinance spoke were the appropriate scale of future development for Hood River's size, encouraging economic development and preserving the city's character.
Stu Watson, representing the grassroots Citizens for Responsible Growth (CRG), read from a list of other cities that have adopted similar footprint ordinances. They ranged from Ashland, Ore., with a 45,000 square-foot ordinance, to San Francisco, which is considering adopting a 50,000 square foot code.
"We are not alone in considering something like this," he said.
Larry Visser, who owns the property at 175 Country Club Road where the proposed Super Wal-Mart would be located, urged the county to "reject the ordinance or send it back." (The application for the Super Wal-Mart was filed in December and the 185,000 square foot retail store would not be affected by this ordinance.)
"If this is showing vision for the city, I'll show you a nightmare," Visser said. "I bet if you took a poll, county citizens would be very opposed to this big box ordinance and the way it's been formed."
But those citizens were absent Tuesday night. Only three people spoke against the county adopting the ordinance.
Members of CRG, which formed last fall to support the footprint ordinance and oppose "big box" structures in the city and county, hailed the 5-0 vote by the county commissioners as "responsible" and "visionary."
"I'm pleased about the outcome, and what I'm really pleased about is the county and city coming together and starting to have a dialogue," said Judie Hanel, co-chair of CRG.
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WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Despite the fact that English isn't his first language, winger Anton Zlobin came up with a fitting phrase after Saturday night's game.
"We're going to have a short memory," Zlobin said.
Short indeed.
Forgetting all about being blown out less than 24 hours earlier, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins routed the Providence Bruins 6-1 in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals at the Mohegan Sun Arena.
The best-of-7 series, which is tied at a game apiece, shifts to Providence for the next three games starting Wednesday.
"When you're at home, you kind of want to go out there and give your best effort," defenseman Brian Dumoulin said. "I felt like tonight, we did that."
A night after being victimized by a quick-strike Providence offense that scored three goals in a minute, the Penguins unleashed a lightning strike of their own Saturday, scoring three times in the final 4:02 of the second period to take a 4-1 lead.
Zlobin and Dumoulin had three points apiece. Tom Kostopoulos, Chuck Kobasew, Simon Despres and Brendan Mikkelson all had two-point nights.
"The power play was recovering pucks and shooting the puck. It was really good to see," Dumoulin said. "It gave the team a lot of momentum. We were kind of riding the emotion. The crowd was great right from the drop of the puck. You could really feel the energy."
Saturday's game was a 180-degree turnaround from Game 1 pretty much from the drop of the puck. The first period was scoreless, but the Penguins established a forecheck, buzzed around the Providence net a few times and killed a pair of penalties.
The teams traded goals in the first 12 minutes of the second period. First, Penguins amateur tryout Conor Sheary scored his first pro playoff goal on the rebound of a Spencer Machacek shot at 5:41. Then Providence's Justin Florek finished off a spinning, backhand pass from former Penguins winger Nick Johnson on the power play at 11:25.
Shortly thereafter, the Penguins took over.
A blocked Dumoulin shot from the right point rattled around the left faceoff circle until Nick Drazenovic settled it down and Zlobin ripped it top corner past unsuspecting goalie Niklas Svedberg at 15:58.
The Penguins then cashed in on two power plays. Svedberg kicked the rebound of a Mikkelson shot from the right point all the way out past the left faceoff dot where Zlobin collected it, shot and scored at 16:44. Kobasew then tipped in a waist-high Despres wrist shot from the right point at the right post to make it 4-1 with 52.1 seconds left in the period.
"Sometimes you get that momentum and guys can capitalize," coach John Hynes said. "It was fortunate that we were able to do that tonight."
The Penguins turned the game from a comfortable victory to a bona fide blowout with two goals in the third period. Kostopoulos scored from a bad-angle on the power play at 4:26 and Dumoulin beat relief goalie Malcolm Subban cleanly from the slot at 10:29.
The P-Bruins did not handle being routed as politely as the Penguins did the night before.
There were nine 10-minute misconduct penalties handed out in a contentious third period. During one dust-up early in the period, Subban skated out to the blue line and seemed to challenge Penguins goalie Peter Mannino to a fight. Mannino stayed in his crease, laughing to himself, and the situation didn't escalate.
"Our response was good," Hynes said. "We like our team toughness and our toughness depth also."


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Police Using Apple iOS Tracking Data For Forensics 208
Several readers have sent in follow-up articles to Wednesday's news that iPhone location data was being tracked and stored. First, it seems Android shares a similar problem, though the file containing the location data is "only accessible on devices that have been rooted and opened up to installation of unsigned apps." Developer Magnus Eriksson has created an app to flush this data. Next: the iPhone tracking file is not new, just in a different place than it used to be. Reader overThruster then points out a CNet story indicating that law enforcement has been aware of this file for some time, and has used it in a forensics context. This story is a growing concern for Apple, particularly now that Senator Al Franken (PDF) and Rep. Ed Markey (PDF) have both written letters to Steve Jobs demanding details about the location tracking. Finally, PCMag explains how to view the location data present on your iPhone, should you so desire.


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The Florida Launch (3-1) had a tight 15-12 win over the Chesapeake Bayhawks (1-3) after losing their nine goal lead in the third quarter. Attackman Casey Powell was instrumental in helping the Launch's victory with a seven-point game. With the seven points on the night, the MLL veteran moves back into first place for All-Time points scored with 428, unseating Boston's Ryan Boyle who took the crown from Powell in the middle of 2013.
The game started out quick with a Chesapeake goal from Steven Brooks at the 11:28 mark. After nearly six and a half minutes of no scoring from either sides, Florida's Garrett Thul and Kieran McArdle put two quick ones in the back of the net giving the Launch their first ever lead on the road. However, Brendan Mundorf answered for the Bayhawks less than two minutes later to tie the game at the end of the first quarter at 2-2.
Florida took advantage of the second quarter notching five goals to Chesapeake's two. The Launch started the quarter off quick with a goal from McArdle again at the 13:52 mark off a feed from Casey Powell. Powell assisted Kevin Crowley a minute later to put Florida ahead 4-2. Chesapeake answered almost 3 minutes later with an unassisted goal from Steven Brooks. Florida answered with two more of their own from rookies Chris LaPierre and McArdle. Peet Poillon answered with a goal of his own at the 3:25 mark to bring the score within two only to have Powell score a minute and a half later ending the third quarter with Florida up 7-4.
Florida came back out after halftime and ran away with the quarter. Scoring six unanswered goals in the third quarter, the Launch kept Chesapeake scoreless for over 17 minutes. McArdle, Crowley, Kevin Cunningham, and Josh Amidon had one goal each while Thul contributed two goals to the Florida scoring streak. Powell's assist on Thul's goal puts him first in the league for most career points at 429. Mundorf broke the drought for Chesapeake at a minute and a half left in the third which then carried the Bayhawks into the fourth.
While the third quarter was dominated by the Launch, Chesapeake took the reins in the fourth and went on a six goal streak to bring them back from a 13-4 deficit. Ben Rubeor started the quarter off with two goals less than two minutes apart. Jesse Bernhardt then ran the ball down from the denfensive end and found the back of the net for his second goal of the season. Matt Mackrides scored the last goal of Chesapeake's run. McArdle broke the Bayhawks streak with 2:31 left in the game. Brooks, who had been quiet since the first half scored a huge two-point goal off an assist from Drew Westervelt to put the Bayhawks back in the game with 1:43 to go. Florida however, wasn't about to let Brooks' goal go unanswered and Mario Ventiquattro scored the last goal of the game with 45 seconds left making the final 15-12.
Powell and McArdle dominated the game with a combined total of 13 points. Powell had one goal and six assists while McArdle had five goals and one assist. Brett Queener made 19 saves on 30 shots for Florida while Kip Turner had 10 saves on 25 shots for Chesapeake. Chris Mattes won 15 of the 29 faceoffs taken.
Both teams have Memorial Day weekend off. The teams will return to action the following week. Chesapeake will return on Saturday, May 31
st when they host the Ohio Machine at 7pm. The game can be found on CBS Sports Network. Florida will be traveling to Rochester for a 1pm game that will air on ESPN3 as well as regional channels as they try to improve to 4-1.
Game Notes
-Casey Powell surpassed Ryan Boyle (BOS) for most career points at 428 and was awarded Coca-Cola Player of the Game honors
-This was the first road win for the Florida Launch
-McArdle scored 5 goals for the Launch in only his second game in the league
-Florida went on a seven goal scoring streak only to be answered by a six goal scoring streak from Chesapeake


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Home | Remodelling and the National Agreements | A - Z
Amongst the contractual changes introduced by the National Agreement is that teachers should not be required routinely to undertake administrative and clerical tasks. This enables teachers to focus on the teaching and learning and not duties which do not require the exercise of a teacher's professional judgement and skills.
Schools were required to carry out the transfer of all routine administrative and clerical duties away from teachers. The agreement was clear that routine could include infrequent tasks (eg annual reports). The agreement recognised that some tasks require a mixture of administrative support and a teacher's professional judgement. This could include pupil reports which are likely to require a teacher's input to create but administrative support to format and produce.
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Meridian, Miss. The Meridian City Council approved a weapons ordinance
Tuesday night.
Mississippi's clarified open carry law will not apply on city- owned property, including buildings, parks, ballfields and recreational facilities.
"For the safety of citizens, for the safety of our team here with the city, we just thought it was the right and proper thing to do," said Mayor Percy Bland.
And despite the recent controversy over gun laws, this ordinance applies to anyone with any weapon, whether or not you have a permit.
And some citizens say they believe that right shouldn't be taken away.
"Yes, you should be able to carry it if you've got the permit," said Carol Samuels of Meridian. "That's my opinion, if you've got the permit to carry it. But as far as no permit? I'm totally against it. It's not going to do nothing but bring crime here to Meridian."
Some say this ordinance makes them feel more reassured.
"When I do notice 'no weapons allowed', that makes me feel like I don't have to be so on alert," said Shundrick Scott of Meridian.
But others believe criminals won't follow the laws, and they need protection.
"If you don't have your gun, what can you do?" said Antonio Sanders of Meridian. "Can't do nothing but just get bullets flown at you; you're on the ground, everybody hollering. So I feel like you should just have a weapon everywhere you go. I don't care if you're at church, you should have a weapon."
And some citizens believe the locations specified in the ordinance should be altered.
"I don't think anybody belongs in city hall with a gun on them, but if they're a licensed firearms carrier who wants to go to their child's baseball game and feel more protected having a gun on their side, and the state has given them a permit saying they're prepared to do so, I don't think that's a problem because we've had shootings at a lot of different places lately," said Matthew Nicholson of Meridian.
This ordinance goes into effect immediately. If you are found to have any type of weapon in these areas, you will be asked to leave.


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AMD Fields Roadrunner
It subscribes to the open standards of the Facebook-inspired Open Compute Project (OCP)
By: Maureen O'Gara
Jan. 21, 2013 08:15 AM
AMD is within two months or so or productizing Roadrunner, a system conceived on a turkey sandwich napkin over lunch in New York City to suit the needs of giant financial services companies like Fidelity and Goldman Sachs, which are working with AMD to spec it out and are currently evaluating it.
It subscribes to the open standards of the Facebook-inspired Open Compute Project (OCP), which gives it wider berth than just Wall Street high-frequency trading.
Its configurations can be easily adapted or right-sized to suit the cloud, HPC, even storage and is one of the first 3.0 dual-socket platforms for Open Compute general IT.
Imagine it being used by the oil and gas crowd, pharma, media and mega data centers like, maybe, Facebook's.
AMD describes it as "a radical rethinking of the server motherboard that offers substantial gains in computing flexibility, efficiency and operating cost by simplifying motherboard design with a single base product to address multiple enterprise workloads."
It's optimized is to eliminate features typically over-provisioned in traditional server offerings, a hallmark of the OCP.
Roadrunner's Targeted Configurations
AMD says it's the first-ever modular motherboard with add-in cards to optimize it for specific workloads, a completely new type of server that brings the same power, space and footprint efficiencies enjoyed by mega data centers like Facebook, Google and Amazon to everyone.
God knows poor AMD could use the kind of juice it's talking about.
The widgetry is based on the new Opteron 6300 chip. AMD's Fiorano chipset and a 16-inch x 16.5-inch two-socket motherboard now officially called the Open 3.0.
It'll fit in a 1U, 1.5U, 2U and 3U using standard power supplies as defined by the Open Compute standard but is not limited to the 21-inches that OPC's Open Rack described. It can still go into 19-inch racks. Think 2Us for the cloud, 1Us for HPC, 3Us for storage.
AMD is sampling pre-production boards and expects production units by the end of the quarter. Quanta and Tyan are working on making the boards and Avnet and Penguin Computing signed up as system integrators.
The vanity-free widgetry should work with the same management software as OCP systems like Intel's like-minded Decathlete.
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While we love everything Linux at LXF HQ, occasionally we get an
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rise of Ubuntu and Fedora and our related coverage has led to lots
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In the early days of Linux distros, you had to rely on third-party
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As distros have become more and more sophisticated, such
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GParted is one of the tools we'd single out as being particularly
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Among the veritable treasure horde of Parted Magic, you'll find
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Parted Magic follows this vein, giving you a simple interface to
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A lot of people have been chattering about the improvements Windows
7 brings for Windows users, but how does it compare to Ubuntu in
real-world tests? We put Ubuntu 8.10, Windows Vista and Windows 7
through their paces in both 32-bit and 64-bit tests to see just how
well Ubuntu faces the new contender. And, just for luck, we threw in
a few tests using Jaunty Jackalope with ext4.
# Firefox 3.1 pushed back
Following a status meeting, the Firefox devteam has opted to delay
the third beta of Firefox 3.1 due to 18 outstanding bugs. Some
niggles with the JavaScript engine still remain, and the team can't
guarantee that the final release will appear in Q1 2009 as
originally planned.
# PS3 + Ubuntu = awesome retro gaming
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ps3-ubu ... tro-gaming
Gizmodo has a guide to installing Ubuntu 8.10 on the Sony PS3. Why,
you ask? Well, with a bit of time and elbow grease, you can set up
your machine to emulate the classic consoles of yesteryear such as
the Super NES. Ubuntu is mentioned as being better than Yellow Dog
for this task because setting up the wireless PS3 controller is a
# Moblin 2 comes to life
Intel's Linux-based netbook OS, Moblin, is starting to take shape
with the first alpha release. Based around Xfce, Moblin aims to
unify the clump of Linux distros currently shipping on netbooks, and
is working pretty nicely on the Acer Aspire One and Dell Mini 9. Eee
901 users will have to do without WiFi support for now.
4. This month on the forum
After great times with previous versions of Ubuntu, Heiowge was
hugely disappointed with 8.10, aka the Intrepid Ibex. Taskbar bugs,
sound problems and other glitches forced him to investigate Fedora
10 which he enjoyed much more. Other forum regulars noted their woes
with the Ibex; Lok1950 suggested that perhaps the Ubuntu team "puts
new stuff into the mix" in the summer, and it "takes until the
spring release to clear things up". Let's see how 9.04 fares... [1]
Captain Tux pointed to a news story that has been doing the rounds
over the last few weeks. In short: a woman bought a Dell machine
with Ubuntu Linux, then complained that she couldn't take her online
classes. Some forumers noted that it's still quite hard to get a
machine with Ubuntu from Dell -- you have to look around the site
for a while. [2]
[1] http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php? ... pic&t=9365
[2] http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php? ... pic&t=9391
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said the word 'freedom'? Pit your wits against these 10 questions,
which gradually increase in difficulty, and tot up your results at
the end!
1. What is Linus Torvalds's mother tongue?
A) Finnish
B) Swedish
C) Esperanto
2. What does GPL stand for?
A) GNU Public License
B) General Public License
C) GPL Public License
3. Which distro has been running for longest?
A) Yggdrasil
B) Debian
C) Slackware
4. To which CPU architecture was the Linux kernel first ported?
A) Motorola 68K
C) Alpha
5. What is the directory /lost+found used for?
A) Files moved from /tmp after a cleanup
B) Files that have no user and group ID attached
C) Files retrieved after a fsck disk check
6. How would you output a text file and insert 'FOO' at the start of
each line?
A) insert file.txt FOO
B) cat file.txt | sed s/^/FOO/
C) cat file.txt | sed s/$/FOO/
7. What is the name of the kernel patchset maintained by Andrew
A) mm tree
B) am patches
C) morton devbranch
8. How would you use 'du' to get the total size of two files?
A) du -c file1 file2
B) du --full file1 file2
C) du -a file1 file2
9. Mandriva Community Manager Adam Williamson recently moved to
which company?
A) Novell
B) Canonical
C) Red Hat
10. Which Magic SysRq Key operation sends SIGTERM to all processes
except for init?
A) t
B) e
C) i
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1 - B: Torvalds was born in Finland, but in a Swedish-speaking area
2 - B: Hence why it's often called the 'GNU GPL'
3 - C: Yggdrasil started before Slack, but is no longer running
4 - A: See http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/linus.html
6 - B: Using '$' as in answer C tacks the text on to the end
10 - B: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
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WARRENSBURG, MO (April 9, 2011) – The University of Central Missouri's Gamma Epsilon Delta chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association/Lambda Alpha Epsilon recently claimed its 10th consecutive Sweepstakes Award as the top criminal justice chapter in the nation at the 75th annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The annual competition consists of academic testing in the areas of criminal law, juvenile justice, corrections, police management and LAE Knowledge, physical agility, crime scene investigation for teams and firearms competition for individuals and teams.
The 2012 conference involved more than 350 national members. The UCM chapter earned 24 trophies. According to Roger Pennel, chapter advisor, "almost 80 percent (23 of the 29) of the participants received awards. We have never been a team where one person or one event carries the entire team."
"The success in the academic areas has been improving. Of course, almost every other team is improving, but they haven't caught us yet.," said Team Coach Gregg Etter.
Pennel added, "Once again, this year's trophies were well spread out among the six regions and among a number of chapters within each region. Our two major competitors this year were from Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo., and Evangel University, Springfield, Mo. The three best teams in the country are within a 100-mile radius of Warrensburg."
Maj. Richard Gillespie, firearms team coach, said, "The firearms team knew pretty well that they would provide a needed cushion. It was even more comforting that they announced the firearms winners at the first of the presentations."
He further indicated that "their performance overall was superb, since we were in a 'rebuilding year.' You always lose your good shooters, but there is someone waiting in line to take their place."
There was a good balance between the academic and the firearms, with the team winning ten trophies in both areas. In the academic areas, UCM performed very well in corrections and LAE knowledge. Awards in the lower division were earned by Ian McCann, second place for both corrections and LAE knowledge; Ryan Kanoy, first place for corrections; and Levi Osborn, third place for corrections. In the upper division, Kirra Soper received first place for criminal law and second place for corrections, and Thomas Bruning received second place for LAE knowledge. In the professional division, Charlie Pappert earned third place in criminal law and second place in LAE Knowledge; and Pennel earned first place in LAE Knowledge.
The sole chapter winner in the physical agility competition was Therman Scott, third place, in the male 36 and over.
UCM earned five of the nine individual firearms trophies. The lower division, second place was earned by McCann. Two upper division members were awarded with second place going to Sean Camey and third place going to Greg Towe. In the professional division first place went to Gillespie and second place Pappert. Gillespie's score was the high score for the competition, so he also received the Top Gun Award as the best shooter.
The UCM Firearms Teams received five of the nine team awards. The first place lower division team consisted of Bethany Grygar, Kanoy and McCann and the third place team, Tim Fink, Colby Harrison and David Rhodenbaugh. The upper Division first place team consisted of Camey, Greg Towe and Bryan Van Fleet with the third place team bringing, Caroline Burk, James Johnson and Charlie Meyer together. According to Gillespie, the third place team did very well. Two of the lower division members had to shoot in the upper division since the third member was upper division. He indicated that "they performed very well against the upper division shooters." The third place professional team included Gillespie, Pappert and Etter.
Pennel, as president of Region 3, was awarded the Plaque for the Outstanding Region of the conference.
Erica Lehmuth received a first place scholarship for $400 for the Graduate Division.
Two members received recognition for academic papers submitted to the annual Paper Competition. Both Sam Gahr and Natasha Sheldon received recognition for their second place papers. Gahr competed as lower division and Sheldon as a graduate student. Each received a second place certificate and a monetary award of $100.
The Region 3 Conference will be sponsored by the local chapter in Warrensburg Oct. 19-21, 2012. The 2013 National Conference is planned for Valley Forge, Pa.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. – Citing more than three decades of research and several cases of prisoner abuse in Cuba, Iraq and elsewhere, renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo told a standing-room-only Trout Auditorium Tuesday night that people have the capacity to be good or evil, depending on their surroundings, the actions of their peers, and the direction of authorities.
"When you give people absolute power, in a situation where there's minimal surveillance from the top down … you can predict that the outcome is going to be abuse of power," said Zimbardo, the emeritus professor of psychology and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research of Terrorism at Stanford University. He was speaking in the Spielman Memorial Lecture Series at Bucknell.
As many as 1,100 attended in Trout and campus simulcast locations.
Zimbardo's lecture, titled "The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil," based on his new book of the same title, recounted his classic research on the abuse of "prisoners" in the Stanford Prison Experiment and how that study and others inform us on the situations that led to the infamous abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Human capacity for evil
Zimbardo's work addresses the "human capacity for evil" as a product of our social institutions and how situations affect the choices we make "for good or evil." Understanding this, he said, can help provide a model for reorganizing our institutions to avoid these bad situations and for resisting "negative situational forces" as individuals.
In cases like Abu Ghraib, Zimbardo said, we have made the mistake of blaming individuals, or the "few bad apples," instead of the situation and the leaders who created it, or the "bad barrel-makers."
Zimbardo was a young social psychologist in 1971 when he achieved recognition for his now famous Stanford Prison Experiment conducted in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
Acting out roles
In that experiment, Zimbardo assigned students to be guards or prisoners. The students quickly began acting out their roles and the planned two-week experiment had to be halted after six days when the student guards became sadistic and brutal, and the student prisoners became too stressed.
Zimbardo ended his lecture at Bucknell on a positive note, saying that his research has shown him that we all can be "everyday heroes" by recognizing bad situations and speaking out against them, as one soldier did in Abu Ghraib when he shared photos of the abuse with investigators.
"Let's oppose the power of evil systems and support those that respect personal dignity, justice, and peace," Zimbardo said.
Spielman Lectureship
The Spielman Memorial Lectureship at Bucknell was established by the relatives, colleagues, students, and friends of Professor Ralph Spielman in memory of his service to the University from 1958 until his death in 1978. The lectureship emphasizes "Frontiers in Social Science" by bringing to campus at least every second year a lecturer to describe promising attempts to interpret and open new fields in social science.
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As you know, I'm "eating down the pantry" this month to save money and be a better steward of what we have. Every day I'm blogging how we're eating and cooking as a family. And I do mean "we." My four oldest children are responsible to be chief cook one night a week.
You can read through my past week and how the challenge has gone for us here.
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1. use strong encryption
2. don't use algorithms recommended by NSA such as AES
3. use cascading encryption, if one algorithm is broken, you are still safe
4. use TOR
5. use encrypted mail services such as tormail.org and the upcoming startmail.com
6. don't use IE, Chrome, Safari. Use FF, Opera, Srware Iron
7. don't use services provided by Google, FB, MS and other big players, there are open source alternatives like identi.ca for social networking
8. use search engines such as startpage.com and ixquick.com which is google with privacy added
9. keep in mind that Windows and Os X most likely have backdoors and Linux and BSDs can have have subtle backdoors
10. don't rely on SSL or TLS, they can obtain certificates and MTM you
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This game is so fun! Because of specific level design (rather than randomized levels), I was worried about the replay value - but with unlockable characters and powerups, as well as gems to collect, it is definitely worthwhile going back over played levels again. This is a winner for sure.
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Originally published on April 27, 2012 2:07 pm
Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri, of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he's trying to understand why. His research suggests that it has less to do with how the robot looks, than how it makes fish feel.


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New iMac Announced 1146
Steve Jobs is terrific at just that, Creating Desire. This is no surprise to us, for sure, but nothing drives it home as much as sitting in the audience and watching him speak. I could tell you how wonderful an orator he is, and how groovy his products are, but I really want to hear what the Slashdot user communtiy has to say about that. I want to talk about what Apple is doing technically.
First: The new iMac is very attractive. It's cool, it's neat. It will be a very popular machine. It's got a good price/feature spectrum and it looks like a pretty decent machine for the consumer. It isn't, in the end, a machine for the linux die-hard, but that's okay. It's slick, it ships with a bunch of very decent apps to manage your digital media. I want one, it's a cool machine. I don't know what I'd do with it (which is the problem), but it's cool looking. It's not particularly a good deal, I mean, you can pick up 200$ 15" tft displays at Fry's and lets get real, the G4 (Excepting the velocity engine stuff) isn't that fast of a chip at any available speed compared to the x86 world. But boy, this is one slick machine. But we know that already from the previous story. I do worry about it overheating, as I did flash back to the cube's cracking problems a bit.
Second: Photoshop for OS X will be coming out "soon". That was the big news. They had a very impressive working demo, I hope to learn more tomorrow on the expo floor.
Third: iPhoto is a decent cataloging program, and one designed to be used easily and generate more revenue streams for apple in the form of booklets and print costs. But it looks very polished and useful.
Superdrive: You'll see the superdrive in the new imac finally, which is nice. Note that this is not the superdrive that everyone remembers from the 80s' :-)
That's about all. The keynote was terrific, but in the end, not so outstanding. I'll post pictures soon. I'm sure a lot of /. regulars will be doing the same. More Tomorrow!


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Tyler Consolidated and Paden City High School softball teams are finding some difficulties getting their games in between the raindrops, snow flakes, and cold temperatures, but both managed to get at least one game in last week.
The Lady Knights fell to Wirt County at home on March 15, 10-1. Jasmine Moore took the loss in the pitcher's position with two strikeouts and one walk. Offensively, Shandi Long singled; Alex Bubenchik hit two singles and scored the run; and Electra Livingston collected the one RBI.
The Lady 'Cats took the nod over the Lady Hornets of Hundred on March 20 at home, 14-4. Loy got the win in the circle with three strike outs and five walks. Myah Charkawi and Loy each singled and drove in two RBI's apiece while Kayla Hizer doubled in the effort.
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By Emily Flitter
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Last summer it was packed with beachgoers, a parking lot where New Yorkers stashed their cars, applied sunscreen and dragged lawn chairs, coolers and umbrellas across the blacktop toward the shore.
Today it's an enormous waste collection site half a mile long and a quarter-mile wide, piled high with debris from the flooding caused by storm Sandy.
Twisted steel, waterlogged wood, broken furniture and countless mattresses fill a parking lot that normally serves one of New York's most popular ocean beaches.
Hundreds of trucks come and go around the clock bringing material collected from the streets of the Far Rockaways and Breezy Point, where water from Sandy's storm surge tore apart homes and buildings. Residents are still digging out.
The temporary garbage dump at Jacob Riis Park in Queens is one of several sites around the city being used this way. The size of the dump reflects the enormity of the damage caused by the storm. The debris just keeps coming.
"Our mission is to clear the right of way - sidewalk to sidewalk," said Fred Strickland, the resident engineer from the Army Corps of Engineers, which is helping the New York Department of Sanitation with the cleanup.
Strickland said his collectors are making constant rounds of the hardest-hit neighborhoods, going back for more debris as homeowners clean out flood-damaged homes.
Strickland expects his assignment, paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to take four months.
"I'll probably get to see the ball drop in Times Square this year," said Strickland, who is from California.
Strickland works out of a high-tech trailer parked on the edge of the dump. Inside are maps of the New York area, tasks and reminders scribbled onto whiteboards, and several computers. He says by Saturday he expects to have a thousand vehicles and roughly four thousand people working on the cleanup.
The debris hauled to the site by the Army Corps is being combed over by workers for the Environmental Protection Agency, then trucked over to Staten Island, put on a barge and floated up the Hudson river to a landfill near Albany.
At the site, the EPA workers don full-body suits and gas masks and then scramble through the piles of debris to pick out hazardous materials like aerosol cans and electrical appliances.
Other EPA workers test the air for a range of hazards including bacteria, viruses and fungal agents, hazardous fumes, and lead paint. Workers on the site are drawing on experiences from Hurricane Katrina and the devastating tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, over a year ago.
The Army Corps said it has hauled 4,500 tons to Jacob Riis already; the sanitation department, which is also using the site, said it has cycled through ten times that amount.
Instead of sending debris upstate via barge, the sanitation department has been moving it to landfills out of state, including one in Pennsylvania. Citywide, the department said it has collected a quarter of a million tons of debris.
"It's historic, the amount of tonnage," said Joe Hickey, assistant sanitation chief at the department. He added that if the debris piles were to be lined up end to end they would stretch for two miles.
Though the flow of debris from the streets has slowed a little, the cleanup job is far from over. Strickland said New York City officials have determined that around 350 homes in the city are beyond salvation, including 80 in Breezy Point alone.
If all goes according to plan, the city will condemn the houses and demolish them, and Strickland's team will help haul away the rubble.
Once the debris is gone, Hickey said the sanitation department will bring in street sweepers and other machines to scrub away the last traces of the dump.
"When the Department of Sanitation gets done with this, if you didn't know already that this is used the way it's been used, you would never know," he said.
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Armstrong A. Stambaugh Jr., World War II naval veteran, Harvard Business School instructor, oil company executive, restaurant executive and a loving and beloved man, died peacefully of respiratory failure on Jan. 27 near his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Mr. Stambaugh, who was known as Stam to family and friends, was born on Nov. 1, 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the University School in Shaker Heights, Ohio where he participated in varsity football, swimming and track, and graduated cum laude in 1938. He entered Dartmouth College, was business manager of the school's humor publication, the Jack-O-Lantern, and earned a BA in 1942. During World War II, Stam served as a lieutenant, junior grade in the U.S. Navy on the aircraft carrier Kitkun Bay, where he earned a Unit Citation for combat action. His war experience was a defining phase in his life. He was especially proud of being part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which has been called by some "the greatest naval battle in history." He wrote eloquently about his naval experience in his contribution to the book Dartmouth at War. There, he observed that his story "deserves retelling if only to impress upon my children, grandchildren and now great grandchildren the fact that life as they know it has not always been honey and roses and that my generation has had to put its life on the line to preserve what they have today."
After the war Stam earned an MBA at Harvard Business School, where he went on to serve as a research assistant and instructor of business administration from 1946 to 1948. He then joined Gulf Oil Corporation, where he worked until 1966, retiring as vice president in charge of the eastern marketing division. He then took a position with the Howard Johnson Company, ultimately rising to executive vice-president and director. He left the Howard Johnson Company in 1981 to start and operate two family restaurants in the Boston suburbs. After his retirement in 1989, he and his wife split their time between Weston, Vineyard Haven and Scottsdale, Ariz.
Among Mr. Stambaugh's many volunteer positions were director of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, trustee of Old Sturbridge Village, member of the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn at Dartmouth College, and member of the Board of Governors of the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club. An avid golfer, he was a member of Paradise Valley Country Club in Arizonia, Pine Valley Golf Club in New Jersey, and Kittansett, Weston Golf Club and the Edgartown Golf Club, in Massachusetts.
Stam was married to Janet Turley Marting from 1943 to 1958. In 1972, he married Aagot (Ricki) Hinrichsen Cain. Ricki preceded Stam in death on Jan. 16, 2013. He is survived by his brother, Russell J. Stambaugh; three daughters: Susan Beaton and her husband Roy, Sally Huber and her husband Michael, and Elizabeth Warr and her husband Michael. Also surviving him are two grandchildren: Lauren Ewing and Hunt Huber and his wife Carrie; three stepchildren: John Cain, Carolyn Ware and her husband Catesby, and David Cain and his wife Janet; step-grandchildren: Wendy Cain, John Cain and his wife Sarah, Leslie Cain, Catherine Kilduff and her husband Patrick, Nickolas Cain, Erika Cain, Adeline Cain and Monica Cain; a great grandson; three step-great-grandchildren; and four nieces and nephews.


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When is a Game Out of Reach?Posted by rtmsf on April 14th, 2008
If you'll allow us the liberty of jumping back two weekends ago to the Final Four, specifically the Kansas-UNC game, we'll present you with the following call by the venerable Mr. Cash himself, Billy Packer:
Of course, Packer was swiftly excoriated for this comment by the public and blogosphere at large for being a crotchety old bastard who hates everyone and wants you to die national commentator whose arrogant, smug disposition is unsurpassed (third try – this is hard) knowledgable yet polarizing media figure who sometimes takes indefensible :-) positions as a product of his stubbornness.
The question we had at the time, and the question we still want to consider is this – is calling a game over when one team is leading by 26 points with 27:30 remaining in the game defensible? Packer's statement sure looked stupid when UNC got the margin down to 54-50 with approximately ten minutes to go in the game. But UNC didn't complete the comeback (losing by eighteen) and it's quite difficult to find examples in the college game of really good teams (such as Kansas) blowing immense leads and still losing the game. The only one we can think of in recent history was Maryland's blown 22-point lead in the first half over Duke at the 2001 Final Four (Duke won 95-84), and that Terp team absolutely could not get the Devils out of their heads (recall the Miracle Minute at College Park that season).
Even Carolina Fans Hate Packer
Therefore from a qualitative standpoint, Packer was probably right. The energy that a team like UNC would have had to expend to not only erase the 26-point deficit but also take the lead and win the game down the stretch would have been mindboggling. While good teams come back from 20-point deficits to win games a fair amount of the time, it rarely happens against other good teams. If you hadn't noticed, Kansas was a pretty good team this year. UNC, as good as they were, was not going to come back and win that game. They just weren't.
What about from a quantitative perspective? In a piece published at slate.com the week prior to the 2008 Tourney, Bill James (the original sabre-metrician) noted that he has a trusty heuristic that he uses for college hoops games to make a determination on whether the lead is large enough to "call it." Too bad Packer didn't talk to this guy beforehand. Here's his formula:
- Take the number of points one team is ahead.
- Subtract three.
- Add a half-point if the team that is ahead has the ball, and subtract a half-point if the other team has the ball. (Numbers less than zero become zero.)
- Square that.
- If the result is greater than the number of seconds left in the game, the lead is safe.
Plugging the UNC-Kansas lead when Packer made his statement into James' handy little calculator, we find that a 26-point lead with 27:32 remaining in the game is only 33% safe, which effectively means that the lead is absolutely and completely safe for the next 11.7 minutes of the game. To be clear, it doesn't mean that Kansas had a one-third chance of winning – it means that KU was one-third of the way (statistically speaking) from holding an insurmountable lead at that point in the game.
Sorry Billy, You Jumped the Gun
So what would have been a truly insurmountable lead at that juncture, thereby making Packer look utterly brilliant (ok, difficult, we know)? According to James, it would have taken a 44-point lead to justify Packer (or anyone) calling the game over with that much time left. This seems rather high, considering that we only remember one thirty-point comeback in our lifetime (Mardi Gras Miracle), but them's the numbers. As for us, we stand by the hard-and-fast rule of thirty points at any moment in the game. We'll give odds on that number the rest of our lives and become a rich man doing it.


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Which is translated "is my name, I am the spider's bane".
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Sting was an Elvish knife that was probably made in Gondolin in the First Age. Its maker and original bearer are unknown.
In The Hobbit, Thorin and Company found Sting in a Troll-hoard along with the other Elvish blades Glamdring and Orcrist (which went to Gandalf and Thorin Oakenshield, respectively). Although it was just a dagger by the standard of Men or Elves, it made an excellent sword for a Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins used the weapon for the remainder of the quest. In The Hobbit, Bilbo used it to keep Gollum at bay under the Misty Mountains. Later, Bilbo gave it the name Sting, after killing a Giant Spider in Mirkwood.
In The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo gave Sting to his nephew, Frodo Baggins, just before the Fellowship of the Ring set off from Rivendell. Fear of Sting helped Frodo to tame Gollum (temporarily). It also helped Frodo and Samwise Gamgee escape from Shelob's lair, and Sam used it to seriously wound Shelob in combat. After the defeat of Sauron at the end of the Third Age, it remained with Sam. He may have taken it with him to the Undying Lands, or it may have remained as an heirloom of the House of Gardener.
Special Properties
Sting had the (apparently) magic ability to detect the presence of Orcs in its vicinity. When Orcs were nearby, it glowed blue, as it did when the Fellowship encountered Orcs in the mines of Moria. Sting also glowed in the presence of the giant spider descendants of Ungoliant, such as the spiders of Mirkwood in The Hobbit and Shelob in The Two Towers.
Sting also performed better than ordinary weapons in combat and against odd materials; it cut through the webs of giant spiders easily, whereas the blade that Sam brought from the Barrow Downs failed to cut through Shelob's webs.
Portrayal in Adaptions
In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, Sting is leaf-shaped. Upon its crossguard are engraved the Sindarin words:
Maegnas aen estar nin dagnir in yngyl im
Which is translated "Maegnas is my name, I am the spider's bane".
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PGA Foundation pledges $170,000 to UH Manoa AthleticsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Director of Communications
"On behalf of the 260 members and apprentices from Aloha Section of PGA, it is our privilege to partner with Castle Resorts & Hotels and the UH Foundation to provide $50,000 towards scholarships for the UH Mānoa Men's and Women's golf program. PGA looks forward in developing this partnership with UH Mānoa Athletics as they recruit marque student-athletes to their program," said Jim Haugh, Aloha PGA Section Executive Director/CEO.
The Aloha Section PGA Foundation has the mission of developing and promoting interest in the game of golf while enhancing the lives of those that participate. Core values such as honesty, respect, integrity, courtesy and perseverance are reinforced through foundation programs.
"Partnerships with groups like the Aloha Section PGA Foundation are key to our ability to offer much needed scholarships to attract and retain stellar athletes," said Jim Donovan, UH Mānoa Athletics Director. "We thank them for their generosity and are looking forward to nurturing the golf champions of tomorrow."
PHOTO CAPTION:Joining in the 2/5/09 check presentation ceremony at Stan Sheriff Center is from L-R: UH Wahine golf coach Lori Castillo, President Aloha Section PGA Matt Hall, Executive Director/CEO Aloha Section PGA Jim Haugh, UH Mānoa Athletics Director Jim Donovan, President Castle Resorts Alan Mattson and Head Professional Oahu Country Club Andrew Feldmann


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In an era where NFL players want to wear less and less gear, Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware has no choice but to wear more.
According to Charean Williams of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Ware will be adding a shoulder harness to his total equipment ensemble on Sunday against the Redskins. Earlier in the week, Ware had said he will not be adding a harness to the brace protecting a hyperextended elbow.
On Friday, Ware explained that the harness is necessary to prevent the shoulder from popping out of joint again.
Still, he's listed as probable on the final injury report, even though he hasn't practiced all week. That said, Ware's availability likely will be limited.
"I think we're going to have to watch how many plays we give him, pick our spots and play our other players," defensive coordinator Rob Ryan said. "We've got good payers here so we're going to play them. There's only one DeMarcus Ware. There's only one Sean Lee, but we've had to function without Sean. Now, sometimes we've had to function without DeMarcus. I mean these are two of the premier guys in football. Nobody's got them except us, but we're fortunate to have them and when we don't, we have to move on. We'll do the best we can. I know DeMarcus will play his heart out when he's out there, and we'll just see how much he's able to give us."
If Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is healthy, the Cowboys will need whatever they can get from Ware, and maybe even a little more. Otherwise, Ware won't have to worry about wearing a harness again.