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Media Patent necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 86 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Workmate is a Range of Equipment including Concrete Cutters, Compaction Plates, Alloy Ramps, Bobcat Tyres, Flashing Lights etc. We currently advertise a range of workmate equipment on our website which is http://www.machinerywholesalers.com.au and then go to used equipment and then to sort by make model a to z and then items per pages unlimited. When you scroll down to workmate products towards the end you willsee the products that we sell. We need a new logo design and then a dedicated website for which we already hold the url. There will be ongoing work for some months.This is a Media Patent brand who have over 230 sites to build all to do with the earthmoving and road construction industry. At present the logo isof a mans head with a hard hat on and this can be emailed by sending a query to firstname.lastname@example.com. Wealso need the logo to have the following variables eg. 1.Workmate 2. Workmate AG 3. Workmate AIR 4. Workmate SAFETY 5. Workmate ONSITE. 6. Workmate ATTACHMENTS. 7. Workmate COMPACTION
We have a lot of work coming up so and this is our first time on 99 Designs and we would like to take with us on the journey an excellent designer. So in summary the Workmate Logo needs to remain the same for all logos with the extra word whether AIR or AG etc should be slightly smaller and in different font. Dont hesitate to email for more info.
Road Construction General Hire and Civil Construction industries as well as Tyre Shops Contractors, Builders Electricians Plumbers and most building and construction trades.
We need something that will become brand recognizable.
Workmate and then the different brands to attach so the workmate must be easily recognizable.
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To celebrate this year's July 4th, I have invited my good friend Harry Soo at Slap Yo Daddy BBQ to share an all-American burger recipe with us.
Harry also came from Penang, Malaysia, and is currently the top 10 BBQ Pitmaster in the United States.
His barbeques are truly legendary and the BEST I have ever tasted.
Please take a few minutes to read through the guest post below as Harry shares his secret techniques for perfect, juicy, and delicious burgers.
If you wish to impress your guests on Wednesday, try this burger slider recipe, as this is how the pro does it.
Let's indulge in Slap Yo Daddy BBQ cabernet and gorgonzola burger sliders.
Several years ago, I was pleasantly surprised to run across Bee Yinn's recipes and Rasa Malaysia website while looking for authentic Malaysian recipes.
As another transplanted immigrant from the tropical island of Penang just off the Malaysian peninsular, I've embraced America as my new home by learning to love and cook a wide variety of American comfort foods while living in Texas and now California.
It was love at first barbecue bite for me when I tasted BBQ brisket while attending Texas Tech U in the mid-1980's.
In 2008, I made my first foray into competition BBQ after a co-worker suggested I enter a contest after being inspired by the 2008 movie The Bucket List starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freemen.
Long story short, in four years, I've become one of the top-ranked BBQ pitmasters in America having won 20+ grand championships, California and Arizona Team of the Year, and numerous national awards.
I've also appeared on a reality TV show called TLC's BBQ Pitmasters Season One in 2010.
In that show, I was the underdog team from California pitted against six other BBQ teams, including two world champions, from Texas, Georgia, and Virginia.
In the Season Finale episode 8, Slap Yo Daddy BBQ surprised the nation by defeating all the teams in the show including two BBQ World Champions in the winner-take-all Rib Throwdown in Texas.
Bee Yinn and I enjoy collaborating on recipe ideas and for the July 4th Independence Day Holiday, she asked me to suggest my favorite thing to cook on July 4th.
That's easy because the quintessential food that most Americans cook on Independence Day holiday are burgers.
There are literally hundreds of burger variations which embrace the cosmopolitan nature of the American people and various diverse ethnic heritages.
There are also many different types of meat and seafood that can be stuffed between two hamburger buns.
My favorite burger is a simple classic cheeseburger with some twists that makes it extra special to share with loved ones.
Let me start with the beef patty.
I prefer to use organic beef which has a high fat content of at least 20% because fat imbues the burger with flavor.
For the cheese, I like to use a veined Italian Gorgonzola which belongs to the blue cheese family of Gorgonzola, Roquefort, and Stilton.
Gorgonzola is also wonderful when melted into sauces and used to thicken stews.
It's quite strong so a little crumbled Gorgonzola on your burger goes a long way.
When you have cheese, which is one of the great discoveries of humankind, you'll need to have a wine pairing since cheese and wine are one of the oldest foods, 5,000 years BCE and 6,000 years BCE, respectively.
For the wine, I like to use a Cab (from the small grape variety of Cabernet Sauvignon) which has a deep color and flavor that pairs well with beef.
Instead of drinking the wine with my burger, I like to caramelize sliced onions with the wine and enjoy my burger with a good ale or beer.
My philosophy is to keep my cheeseburger intentionally simple so you can taste the magical combination of beef, strong cheese, and hint of wine in the onions.
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
What to do with Leftovers? Roast Chicken Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette
This is the very first recipe of a new series I'm starting here on Chocolate Shavings. "What do with Leftovers" will bring you some fun and easy ideas to effectively use leftovers and turn them into dishes that will feel new. If your kitchen is anything like mine, there is often a plethora of foods to sample... which usually means a lot of leftovers! Roast chicken is a very common leftover in our house. Let's face it, no matter how moist and flavourful the chicken was straight out of the oven, once it's been in the fridge overnight it tends to get a little dry. Using chicken in a well balanced salad really gives it a new life. The key is to thinly shred the chicken and to make sure there is enough dressing on the chicken itself. This salad is, of course, very versatile. All the ingredients used here meld wonderfully with chicken, but don't hesitate to use any other leftovers you might have in the fridge. I've made this with soft crumbled goat cheese, toasted almonds, mandarin oranges, and baby spinach leaves...
Roast Chicken Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette
Serves 2
1 Roasted chicken breast, discarding the skin
1 cup of chopped romaine lettuce
1/2 avocado, sliced
6 cherry tomatoes, sliced
1 mini mozarella ball, sliced
1/2 yellow bell pepper, finely diced
6 caper berries
3 basil leaves, coarsely torn
A few Parmesan shavings
Shallot Dressing:
3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar
1 good squirt of lemon
1 tablespoon of very finely diced shallots
A good pinch of salt and pepper
In a small bowl, whisk all the ingredients
Add all the salad ingredients to your serving bowl. Right before serving, add the dressing and mix well. Enjoy!
Posted by Chocolate Shavings at 9:05 PM
Labels: Main Dishes
6 comments:
- Luv'n Spoonfuls said...
Love all the tips for using the left over chicken, and can't wait to try the shallot dressing...sounds delicious! The pictures make me want to grab a fork, right now! Thanks for a lovely post and photos.
- July 11, 2011 at 7:26 PM
- Cynthia said...
Now that's my kind of salad.
- July 11, 2011 at 9:53 PM
- grub said...
i think this is a great way to use leftover roast chicken!
- July 12, 2011 at 7:22 AM
- Juanita said...
Your photo looks good enough to eat. GREAT styling!
- July 12, 2011 at 8:07 AM
- Claudie said...
That is one beautiful salad :)
- July 12, 2011 at 10:37 PM
Must be delicious! Love this shallot vinaigrette.
- July 18, 2011 at 11:58 AM
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Haiti decrees ordinance to protect rare mangroves
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has taken a rare step to protect the endangered mangrove forests along its coastline, the Caribbean nation's government announced Thursday.
The move could complicate U.S. efforts to build a port in a bay that contains a rare marine and mangrove-forest ecosystem east of the northern city of Cap-Haitien.
The administration of Haitian President Michel Martelly said in a statement Thursday that the decree approved by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday will ban construction, fishing and hunting in mangrove forests. People will be forbidden from cutting, selling or otherwise making use of the trees.
Environmental problems abound in Haiti. Only 2 percent of the country still has trees because of decades of deforestation, mostly caused by the longtime common practice of chopping down trees to make charcoal as an inexpensive source of fuel.
The U.S. government has allocated $170 million to build a port and a power plant to serve the recently constructed Caracol Industrial Park, a $300-million facility that is the United States' biggest investment in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake.
An environmental impact study has been commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development before port construction can begin. In a written statement, agency spokeswoman Anna-Maija Mattila-Litvak declined to comment on the possible impact Haiti's latest move could have on port plans until the environmental study has been completed. She said she did not have information about when the impact report would be finished.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report last month that the Caracol industrial park, the power plant and port are "interdependent" and that all of them must be constructed for the others to succeed. The same study also said that USAID needed to fill a vacant post for a port engineer, who will oversee port planning and construction.
In the meantime, another port in nearby Cap-Haitien doesn't have the infrastructure to support Caracol, so supplies for the industrial park are now being shipped out of the neighboring Dominican Republic. The park's main tenant, the South Korean manufacturing firm Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd., has already moved in and has begun work making T-shirts.


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DETROIT - In 2012, the Michigan Department of Transportation Metro Region spent more than $500,000 on graffiti removal. More than $150,000 was spent on I-94 in the city of Detroit.
MDOT spokesman Rob Morosi said the public needs to know about the challenge graffiti poses to the state.
"It's a problem all over the region and it is something we really wanted to bring attention to," Morosi said.
MDOT says removing graffiti requires more manpower hours, equipment and materials than simply removing a sign or banner from an overpass fence. In order for crews to safely remove the graffiti, lanes of traffic must be closed, hindering traffic and requiring unnecessary delays to motorists.
MDOT's Rob Morosi said the money going to graffiti removal could be put to better uses elsewhere.
"This is money that could be spent doing better things for the city, better things for the region. We could improve a roadway. We could improve an overpass with this money," Morosi said.
MDOT estimates that the costs for graffiti removal could be used to resurface six miles of one lane on an asphalt road.
Related: Vandals hit Novi overpasses with graffiti
MDOT is asking that if you see taggers spraying graffiti on bridges and overpasses that you alert authorities.
For more information on how MDOT handles graffiti go here.
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#1 Theater, Dance & Music Event More than 3,300 opera fans gathered at the Lyric Opera for the opening-night performance of Verdi's Otello in 2013. Afterwards, some 550 guests attended a lavish dinner dance at the Chicago Hilton. The 2014 event will celebrate the Lyric's 60th anniversary and will have a new format. The opening night will be held September 27, but there will be no opera ball. A separate gala and concert will be held in November, and will feature major stars of the opera. Next: September 27 and November 1, 2014
Photo: Jaclyn Simpson Photography
#2 Theater, Dance & Music Event The 2013 event kicked off with a performance of Verdi's classics at the Symphony Center for 2,000 guests; for the first time, there was an open bar. The ensuing ball for 700 patrons was held at the nearby Palmer House Hilton, eliminating the need for trolleys. The gala raised around $1.2 million. Next: September 20, 2014
Photo: Todd Rosenberg
#3 Theater, Dance & Music Event (up from #5) With western-theme decor from Event Creative—and a high-octane performance from Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band—the event drew some 600 guests. The live auction had unique prizes donated by the company's actors, and the event raised $1.2 million. The highly prestigious event always has famous attendees from the renowned theater's company. Next: May 2, 2015
Photo: Nick Jamison for Event Creative
#4 Theater, Dance & Music Event (up from #6) The event lures world-famous musicians and has an impressive fund-raising take. With 800 guests, the 2013 event featured a performance from renowned pianist Lang Lang and raked in $1.2 million. This year's summertime function will include a performance from popular classical artist Joshua Bell. Next: July 26, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Ravinia Festival Gala
#5 Theater, Dance & Music Event (up from #8) This year's event was boosted by some star power. Kristin Chenoweth was the featured performer at the gala, which raised more than $1 million and had 600 guests. The gala had a "Dream" theme that played out in fog spilling over the dance floor and centerpieces lit up with fairy lights from Kehoe Designs. There were also specialty "Dream-Sicle" cocktails at the bar. Next: May 16, 2015
Photo: John Reilly Photography
#6 Theater, Dance & Music Event The springtime event had the theme "We All Speak Dance." It featured a performance at the Auditorium Theatre, followed by a dinner dance at the Hilton Chicago. Some 700 guests attended, and the event raised $1.1 million. An always-popular perk: guests get to hit the dance floor with the nimble members of the famous ballet company. Next: April 17, 2015
Photo: Dan Rest
#7 Theater, Dance & Music Event (up from #12) The event is nearly unparalleled in its level of creativity and innovation. This year, the surrealistic evening drew 750 guests. Snacks were served via drones and a carousel of Weber grills, and a series of experiences that guests could purchase on site included a "Bearthday Party" on stage with a bear and a clown. Next: Winter 2015
Photo: Barry Brecheisen for BizBash
#8 Theater, Dance & Music Event (up from #11) The Chicago Dancing Festival started as a one-day affair and now offers several days of free programming in various venues. The 2013 event emphasized local dance companies and featured diverse dance styles ranging from ballet to classical Indian. Next: August 20-23, 2014
#9 Theater, Dance & Music Event Held at its home at Navy Pier, the gala for the Tony award-winning theater company honors a major civic player each year. This year's gala presented an award to the Boeing Company and raised around $1.1 million. It drew 500 guests and had decor inspired by a magical forest. Next: June 2015
Photo: Michael Litchfield
#10 Theater, Dance & Music Event This year's gala honored legendary ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and raised more than $770,000 (compared to $1.1 million in 2013). The evening also offered a sneak peek at the dance theater's collaboration with comedy troupe Second City. Next: Spring 2015
Photo: Jennifer Girard
#11 Theater, Dance & Music Event After the buzz of major headline star Stephen Colbert in 2013, this year's event was somewhat smaller. With the theme "A Celestial Evening," the blue-hued gathering took place at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago and had sponsors such as BMO Harris Bank and ComEd. It drew 400 guests, raised $725,000 (compared to $1 million in 2013), and featured ensemble member Joey Slotnick as the M.C. Next: March 7, 2015
Photo: Robert Carl
#12 Theater, Dance & Music Event Raising funds for the company for L.G.B.T. youth, the ball had a "Gayme Show" theme this year and took place for the first time at Macy's on State Street. There were live game-show-style challenges, entertainment, and an award presentation. The event drew nearly 500 guests and raised more than $80,000. Next: Spring, 2015
Photo: Timmy Samuel
#13 Theater, Dance & Music Event This year's industry event took place at the Swissotel Chicago and honored Michelle Boone, commissioner of the City of Chicago, and theater director Gary Griffin. Raising funds to support area companies, the evening had sponsors such as ABC 7, Alphawood Foundation, and Ariel Investments. Next: June 2015
Photo: Kimmy Noonen
#1 Festival The festival drew a record-breaking 100,000 music fans per day to Grant Park last year with about 130 acts. And to attract top ticket holders, a new Platinum Pass granted unprecedented perks like an open bar and elevated viewing areas. This year's event will feature headliners such as Eminem, Outkast, and Kings of Leon. Next: August 1-3, 2014
#2 Festival Founded in 2006, the increasingly popular event draws an average of 18,000 fans per day and—with weekend passes going for $120 a pop—is appreciated as one of the more affordable major music fests. This year's event will offer performances from Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kendrick Lamar, and more. Next: July 18-20, 2014
#3 Festival Chicago Gourmet, produced by the Illinois Restaurant Association and presented by Bon Appétit, is arguably the city's most prestigious food and wine event. There were more big-name chefs than ever in 2013—a total of 175 participated—and there was also more food. This year, Chicago Gourmet introduced a new quarterly event called "Beyond Gourmet: The Dinner Series," which is designed to showcase the city's culinary landscape. The fest sees an average of 6,000 guests per day. Next: September 26-28, 2014
Photo: David Ditzler
#4 Festival There was good news for Chicago's signature food festival last year: the fest was profitable for the first time since 2007, generating $272,000. Attendance also increased with 1.5 million guests compared to 1.2 million in 2012. This year, headliners for the nightly concerts include Janelle Monae, and a new "Made in Chicago" pop-up shop will offer goods from non-food artisans. Next: July 9-13, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of the City of Chicago
#5 Festival (up from #6) In 2013 the event relocated from Grant Park—which, some guests complained, had subpar acoustics—and set up shop in Millennium Park. Last year's fest also had Friday-afternoon concerts, which had not been offered since 1997, and estimated attendance was 125,000. Next: August 28-31, 2014
#6 Festival (up from #5) The summertime tradition was significantly scaled down in 2013 due to federal budget cuts. Gone were the beloved Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds—but they will return this year. Some 1.7 million spectators took in the event last year, but attendance is typically closer to two million. Next: August 16-17, 2014
#7 Festival Held in mid-June, this year's event featured performances from Carolina Chocolate Drops, Otis Taylor Band, and more. It's the world's largest free blues festival and typically draws more than 500,000 fans throughout its three-day run. Sponsors include Pepsi and Bud Lite. Next: June 2015
Photo: Paul Natkin
#8 Festival The outdoor classical-music festival celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. It kicked off with a "Tchaikovsky Extravaganza" in June and will run through mid-August with Millennium Park concerts highlighting Mozart, Berlioz, and other composers. The season will also offer performances in various Chicago neighborhoods. Next: Summer 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Grant Park Music Festival
#9 Festival (up from #11) Presented by The Chicago Tribune, the festival is the Midwest's largest free, outdoor literary event. This year, the book fair celebrated its 30th anniversary with more than 200 authors, performers, and presenters. There was also a "Good Eating" stage with culinary demos from highly regarded chefs such as Lidia Bastianich. Next: June 2015
Photo: Glenn Kaupert
#10 Festival The largest weekend street fair in the Midwest usually draws 100,000 guests. Occupying six city blocks, last year's fest offered three stages with entertainment from bands like Wilson Phillips. At this year's iteration, nearly 300 vendors will offer food, arts, and crafts; the 40-plus musical performers will include Neon Trees and Karmin. Next: August 9-10, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Northhalsted Market Days
#11 Festival The largest annual outdoor dancing series in the United States is held in Grant Park's Spirit of Music Garden. It offers free dance classes on a 100-percent-recyled, open-air dance floor, and classes cover styles ranging from swing to waltzing. Chicago SummerDance sees some 1,200 participants gather at each session; this year, 44 bands will perform. Next: June 27-September 14, 2014
Photo: Patrick L. Pyszka/City of Chicago
#1 Art & Architecture Event The event is North America's largest design exposition and conference for commercial interiors. Held at the sprawling Merchandise Mart, it draws more than 40,000 architecture and design professionals. The 700 exhibitors showcase innovative goods for a range of vertical markets, including healthcare and government. This year's event had an expanded award program, Next: June 15-17, 2015
Photo: Courtesy of NeoCon
#2 Art & Architecture Event (up from #3) In 2013, the International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art featured works from 125 leading art galleries from 36 international cities. The four-day event, held on Navy Pier, drew 30,000 visitors. The highly stylish exhibition is designed by star architect Jeanne Gang and has a splashy opening-night party to benefit the Museum of Contemporary Art. Next: September 18-21, 2014
Photo: Paul Audia
#3 Art & Architecture Event Sculptural Objects and Functional Art is Chicago's longest continuously running art fair. The event, which typically attracts 30,000 visitors, was purchased by Urban Expositions last year. The show management company plans to develop a new art-and-design-fair division, which will have SOFA as its flagship. Connect, a student-design exhibition and competition, was new to the event in 2013. Next: October 31-November 2, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of SOFA
#4 Art & Architecture Event Dubbed "Beauty and the Feast," last year's showcase of tabletop design included detailed vignettes from prominent architects, artists, and interior designers. The three-day event includes an opening cocktail party that draws 1,000 guests; there's also a popular public viewing, a tasting event, and a glamorous closing-night gala. Proceeds from Dining by Design benefit the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Next: November 6-8, 2014
#5 Art & Architecture Event Billed as one of the country's top art fairs, the event includes a garden walk, a children's corner, and a music stage. It typically draws 40,000 art lovers to Old Town and showcases works from about 250 artists who specialize in everything from mixed media to drawing, painting, and print making. Next: June 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Old Town Art Fair
#6 Art & Architecture Event In 2013, the edgy event took place at the museum's warehouse for the first time and had a factory theme that saw servers ironing out paninis and serving soup out of giant (clean) trash cans. This year's event will celebrate the new "David Bowie" Is exhibition. The event drew 500 guests and raised $900,000. Next: September 20, 2014
Photo: Alain Milotti
#7 Art & Architecture Event The museum's largest annual fund-raiser always corresponds with the opening of a major exhibition. This year's June affair celebrates the currently running Magritte exhibition, dubbed "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary." The evening includes dinner, cocktails, and exhibition viewing throughout the evening. Next: June 2015
Photo: Cheri Eisenberg
#8 Art & Architecture Event The 58th iteration of the prestigious award ceremony last took place at Navy Pier in October 2013. With big-name sponsors such as Benjamin Moore and Gensler, the evening presented awards in categories such as "Divine Detail" and "Sustainability" in front of an audience of 800 industry professionals. Next: Fall 2014
Photo: R25 Productions
#9 Art & Architecture Event Held during NeoCon at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago, the black-tie gala honored the winners of two highly prestigious industry awards: the 41st annual Interior Design Competition and the 22nd annual Will Ching Design Competition. The splashy affair draws interior designers and design manufacturers from around the world. Next: June 2015
Photo: Courtesy of International Interior Design Associates
#10 Art & Architecture Event The Illinois Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council hosts this highly regarded industry function, which honors eco-minded business leaders, government officials, and building practitioners. Held in May, this year's event took place at the Museum of Broadcast Communications and doled out Emerald Awards to companies such as Walgreens. It drew 460 guests and had a new V.I.P. reception before the award ceremony. Next: Spring 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Limelight
#1 Trade Show & Convention Running since 1901, the event is the largest and longest-running auto show in America. It spans 1.3 million square feet of McCormick Place and showcases nearly 1,000 vehicles. The show also includes events such as the massive First Look for Charity bash, which draws 10,000 guests the night before the show opens. Next: February 14-22, 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Chicago Auto Show
#2 Trade Show & Convention Now in its 95th year, the show is co-located with the International Wine, Spirits & Beer event. This year's iteration, held in May, saw gains in major categories, including registration and number of exhibiting companies. Known as the most comprehensive trade show for the food service industry, the event draws more than 63,000 attendees. Next: May 16-19, 2015
Photo: Oscar Einzig
#3 Trade Show & Convention Showcasing consumer lifestyle and product trends, the massive housewares marketplace has four show-within-a-show expos with themes such as "Dine and Design" and "Modern and Well." The convention features more than 2,000 exhibitors and draws some 60,000 home-goods professionals. Next: March 7-10, 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Holstein Housewares
#4 Trade Show & Convention (up from #5) Spotlighting the worlds of comics, anime, movies, television, toys, and more, the show features hundreds of exhibitors—and its attendance is steadily rising. When it began in 2010, it drew 27,000 attendees; by 2013 it had 470,000. And this year, the buzzy event drew 67,000 fans. Next: April 24-26, 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo
#5 Trade Show & Convention (up from #6) Owned and produced by the salon professionals of Cosmetologists Chicago, the show has been running for 90 years. More than 55,000 industry professionals gathered at this year's event, which featured runway shows, trend panels, educational sessions, and parties. Tourism agency Choose Chicago announced that the show's impact on the local economy was more than $116 million. Next: March 21-23, 2015
Photo: Babak for America's Beauty Show
#6 Trade Show & Convention Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, the annual meeting will include a centennial celebration and showcase when it returns to McCormick Place. On the show floor, nearly 700 exhibitors showcase new technology for a range of subdivisions. The typical attendance is around 50,000. Next: November 30-December 5, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Radiological Society of North America
#7 Trade Show & Convention Organizers say that this year's show was the biggest ever. It drew 16,000 qualified industry professionals (compared to 15,000 last year) and there was a four percent increase in total square footage sold. The event had 650 exhibitors—equating to three acres— of candy, snack, and gourmet products. Next: May 19-21, 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Sweets & Snacks Expo
#8 Trade Show & Convention One of the graphic communications industry's foremost trade shows, the event explores print, online, and mobile realms. The event is co-located with the Converting & Package Printing Expo, so it offers two buyer audiences at one show. The 2013 event had attendance of 24,695, which was up 22 percent from 2012. Next: September 28-October 1, 2014
#9 Trade Show & Convention Geared toward families, the event is held over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. It has about 200 exhibitors and offers fun attractions such as scuba diving in a heated pool and a "Huck Finn" catch-and-release pond for kids. This year, there was also a meet and greet with a Duck Dynasty star. The attendance in 2014 was about 54,000. Next: January 15-19, 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Chicago Boat, Sports & R.V. Show
#10 Trade Show & Convention (new to the list) The seven-day celebration of innovative technology is growing fast. It began in Chicago in 2011 with 2,000 attendees; by 2013, the event drew 8,479 unique attendees. Microsoft is the presenting sponsor of this year's event, which is expected to draw 15,000 attendees. It will feature more than 150 exhibitors and more than 100 speakers. Next: June 26-28, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of TechWeek Chicago
#1 Benefit The prestigious ball, which serves as a model fund-raiser for other society chapters, raised around $3.3 million this year—up substantially from $2.1 million in 2013. Held at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, the night featured a live performance from country singer Keith Urban and had whimsical style ideas such as cocktails served from a lemonade stand. Next: April 25, 2015
Photo: Adam Novak Photography
#2 Benefit This year's late-summer bash will have a Great Gatsby theme and will take place in a massive parking lot at the University of Illinois—Chicago. Some 3,500 guests turned out to last year's Willy Wonka-theme event, marking a record attendance. A benefit for the Gateway Green, the ball is one of Chicago's best-known benefits and is particularly popular among the young-philanthropist crowd. Next: September 13, 2014
Photo: Dwayne Kuan
#3 Benefit The massive gathering, held at McCormick Place, traditionally draws 2,000 guests. Smokey Robinson performed at last year's event, which raised a record $3.8 million. Mayor Rahm Emanuel was among the evening's big-name guests. Next: December 13, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
#4 Benefit In 2013, the 52nd annual dinner raised $1.9 million and drew guests including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Governor Pat Quinn, and Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. Now in its 53rd year, the event typically draws around 1,700 guests. Next: November 9, 2014
Photo: Powell Photography
#5 Benefit The glitzy night at the museum raked in more than $2 million last year and had unusual auction prizes: one guest bid $10,000 to drink out of the Stanley Cup. The evening also featured a surprise performance by Buddy Guy and drew nearly 900 guests. Next: October 11, 2014
Photo: J.B. Spector
#6 Benefit (up from #7) The well-known gala raises funds for the charity founded by Chicago's beloved former first lady Maggie Daley. Including a performance from local teens, the 2013 event drew 900 guests to Navy Pier and raised more than $2 million. Attendees included former Mayor Richard M. Daley, board chair Mellody Hobson, and Hobson's husband, filmmaker George Lucas. Next: September 23, 2014
Photo: Rick Aguilar Studios
#7 Benefit (up from #8) This year, the event became the first gala to take place in a tent on Soldier Field. Comedian Seth Meyers was the headline act, and the event raised $1.4 million (up from $1.3 in 2013). It also drew a substantially bigger crowd this year: while 840 guests attended in 2013, the 2014 iteration saw 940 guests. Next: May 2015
Photo: Alyssa Eisenstein
#8 Benefit Dubbed "A Fair to Remember: Chicago, 1893," last year's event let guests tour the temporary exhibition "Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the World's Fair." The gala drew 700 guests, raised $2.1 million, and had an inventive decor scheme that featured hanging Ferris wheels. This year's fall event will have a "Caribbean Rhythms" theme. Next: October 25, 2014
#9 Benefit (up from #10) This year's event had a Goldfish theme and featured a performance from Broadway star Susan Egan, who sang to a sea lion during the live animal show. With a tighter, more streamlined program this year, the event drew 800 guests and raised a record-breaking $1.67 million. Next: June, 2015
Photo: Eva Ho
#10 Benefit (up from #13) Chicago sports legend Mike Ditka served as M.C. at this year's gala, which was held over Mother's Day weekend at the Hilton Chicago. Chaired by Rita Hayworth's daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Kahn, the event drew 940 guests and raised a record-breaking $1.7 million (up from $1.5 million last year). Next: May 9, 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Alzheimer's Association
#11 Benefit (up from #15) With the theme "Ignite," this year's event at Navy Pier drew some 850 guests representing Chicago's business, medical, and social communities. To underscore the heart-health theme, guests had a healthy dinner of roasted cod with fig salad. In 2013, the association's big benefit raised more than $1.7 million—this year, it broke records by raising an impressive $2.6 million. Next: April 11, 2015
Photo: Courtesy of American Heart Association
#12 Benefit At this year's event, authors Doris Kearns Goodwin, Larry McMurty, and Veronica Roth will be honored. In 2013, honorees were Isabel Allende and Michael Lewis, and the event raised more than $1.5 million. Also noteworthy: the event drew a record-breaking 750 guests. Next: October 22, 2014
#13 Benefit With a "Wild at Heart" theme, the 2013 gala raised more than $1 million for the Chicago institution. More than 900 guests attended, and there was a surprise performance from KC and the Sunshine Band. This year's event will have a quirky "Monkey Business" theme and will offer mobile bidding via cell phones. Next: July 11, 2014
Photo: AJ Kane
#14 Benefit More than 600 guests once again attended the museum's black-tie event, which raised more than $1.52 million. With the theme "Abundant Nature," the stylish fete featured decor from Event Creative. Tables were decked with prop firefly jars and yellow tulips, and Calihan Catering served a local, seasonal dinner. Next: May 2015
Photo: Timothy Musho Photography
#15 Benefit The black-tie gala celebrates its 56th year on December 6 at the Hilton Chicago. This year's upbeat theme is "Big Dreams Bright Futures." Last year's event saw 1,000 guests—up from 900 in 2012—and it celebrated the $2 million raised throughout the year. Next: December 6, 2014
Photo: Sebastian Kowalski
#16 Benefit With the theme "Fire and Ice," this year's springtime bash took place at the Chicago Marriott and featured a keynote address from Dr. Ian Smith. Some 850 tickets to the event were sold, and the event netted more than $900,000. Next: Fall 2014
Photo: John Martin-Eatinger
#17 Benefit With the whimsical theme "An Evening in the Emerald City," this year's gala drew 900 guests and raised more than $575,000. During cocktail hour, guests posed with actors dressed as Dorothy, Glinda, and other characters from the classic tale; a costumed Ronald McDonald also roamed around. Next: March 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Ronald McDonald Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana
#18 Benefit The late-January fund-raiser took place at the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park. The evening drew 900 guests—up substantially from 750 last year—and included a special tribute to the late chef Jean Banchet. With a glitzy St. Tropez theme, the event netted a record-breaking $550,000. Next: January 2015
Photo: Galdones Photography/CFF
#19 Benefit The event typically draws a crowd of 800 guests, who represent business, community, and civic leaders from Chicago. With an "Into the Wild" theme, last year's gala at Navy Pier drew more than 700 guests and raised more than $1 million. This year's event had a "Some Enchanted Evening" theme. Next: June 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Friends of Prentice Gala
#20 Benefit With more than 650 guests in attendance, the 2013 event had an "Infinite Horizons" theme and decor in night-sky hues. It raised more than $1 million. This year's event will have a "Starry Night" theme, and the evening will feature cocktails, dinner, and stargazing on the planetarium's lakeside patio. Next: September 13, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Adler Planetarium
#21 Benefit This year, the ball celebrated its 80th anniversary with an evening that included cocktails, dinner, dancing, and the opportunity for guests to pose for photos with a monkey. The "Around the Whirl in 80 Years" theme translated to decor that featured air balloons decking tables. The event drew 625 guests and raised $1.5 million. Next: April, 2015
Photo: Kelly Tone
#22 Benefit The 65th anniversary Woman's Board Summer Ball took place at Navy Pier's Grand Ballroom this year. It drew more than 500 guests, and it raised $1.3 million. Nine of the organization's past presidents served as co-chairs this year. Next: May 2015
#23 Benefit The posh summertime event draws the who's who of North Shore socialites and Chicago business leaders. This year's black-tie affair included a cocktail reception on the garden's Esplanade and dinner under a tent in the pavilion. HMR Designs' summery decor included peonies and a green-and-white color palette. Next: June 2015
Photo: Robin Carlson
#24 Benefit Held at the Peninsula, the 2013 event drew more than 300 guests and raised more than $500,000. It offered entertainment from DJ Chris Cater, and the live-auction prizes included earrings from Harry Winston. Next: October 25, 2014
#1 Fashion & Retail Event Major players in the fashion industry have attended the 80-year-old fashion show, including designer Jason Wu and J. Crew creative director Jenna Lyons. This year's event honored Chicago-based artist Nick Cave, who's famous for his abstract Sound Suit sculptures. In addition to an award presentation and runway show featuring student looks, the night included a cocktail reception in Millennium Park. Next: Spring 2015
#2 Fashion & Retail Event Chicago's fashion week includes runway shows in Millennium Park and other locales. There are also citywide affairs including trunk shows and in-store parties. In 2013, the event included new pop-up shops in the park. Next: October 2014
#3 Fashion & Retail Event Held each season and open to trade only, StyleMax takes place at the Merchandise Mart and displays women's apparel and accessories from more than 2,000 lines. The show also showcases kids' fashion, sporty clothing, and maternity wear. Next: August 9-11, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of StyleMax
#4 Fashion & Retail Event A highlight on the calendars of local socialites, the prestigious fashion show highlights local retailers; it also has a unique competition segment that lets guests act as judges. Fashion industry bigwigs such as Monique L'huiller and Wes Gordon have attended, and retailers including Neiman Marcus have sponsored. This year's event will return to the Hilton Chicago. Next: September 19, 2014
Photo: Justin Barbin
#5 Fashion & Retail Event (up from #6) With a headline performance from Jason Derulo, this year's event will include an hour-long fashion show featuring fall fashions; an after-party will take place on the Harris Theater rooftop in Millennium Park. The event will once again benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana. In the past, headliners have included Sheryl Crow and Cee-Lo Green. Next: August 8, 2014
Photo: Adam Bettcher for Macy's
#6 Fashion & Retail Event The charitable show displayed fall and winter trends to a crowd of 2,500 this year. Held at the massive Grossinger Auto Complex, the event had a "Super Sonic" theme in 2013 and offered restaurant tastings, spa services, and an after-party at Japonais. Reality TV star Kristin Cavallari hosted. Next: Fall 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Akira's Fall Fashion Show
#7 Fashion & Retail Event Held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, the event draws more than 1,300 guests. It includes a champagne reception, a raffle, a luncheon, and a designer fashion show. This year's function will feature Allison Rosati of NBC 5 news as its anchor. Sponsors include Revel Global Events and Pepsi. Next: November 2, 2014
Photo: John Giesecke
#8 Fashion & Retail Event This year, the longstanding Chicago tradition celebrates its 88th anniversary. It is billed as the longest continuously running charitable fashion show in the country. With the theme "Imagine," the event will take place at a new venue: Morgan Manufacturing. The Woman's Board has pledged to raise $500,000 for technology that will help treat brain tumors. Next: October 2, 2014
#1 Sports Event A record 39,115 runners finished the 2013 race—up from 37,475 in 2012. Two million spectators were on hand to cheer on the athletes. Due to the Boston Marathon bombings, event organizers implemented heightened security measures for last year's Bank of America-sponsored event. Next: October 12, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Bank of America Chicago Marathon
#2 Sports Event The event is one of the richest horse races in the world: reportedly, it was the first such event to offer a $1 million purse. The high-end function draws horses, trainers, and jockeys from across the globe. Some 32,000 guests attend annually, and the race is broadcast on national TV. Next: August 16, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Arlington Million
#3 Sports Event Sponsored by Bank of America, it's the word's largest 8K road race and is now in its 35th year. The fun, quirky spirit is underscored by runners dressed in costumes, including green tutus and sparkly leprechaun hats. This year, the event had 30,000 runners and culminated with a post-race party in Millennium Park. Next: March 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle 8K
#4 Sports Event About 30 miles of Lake Shore Drive are closed off to car traffic on the morning of the sporty event, which raises funds for the Active Transportation Alliance. This year, 20,000 cyclists pedaled the clear stretch of Chicago's iconic road. Next: May 2014
Photo: Courtesy of MB Financial Bank Bike the Drive
#5 Sports Event In 2014, the race took place on Mother's Day and included a 10K timed run, a 5K timed run, a 5K walk, and a one-mile fun walk. The event typically draws around 7,600 participants, who don pink in honor of the event's cause. This year's event included performances, family-friendly activities, and a survivors' parade. Next: May 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
#6 Sports Event One of the country's largest triathlons, the summertime function draws 7,000 athletes and is presented by Toyota. In 2013, the event saw some changes: it introduced a new competition called the "Chicagoland Tri Series," and there was also a new team challenge. There will be more changes this year, including a 10K SuperSprint bike that lets participants use Chicago's bike-sharing system Divvy. Next: August 24, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Life Time
#7 Sports Event In 2013, the event set a record by raising $400,000 by the time the race stepped off. Additionally, its sponsorship dollars more than doubled from 2012. Performer CeCe Peniston appeared at the post-race festivities. This year's event kicks off at Arvey Field in Grant Park. Next: September 14, 2014
Photo: Dan Paterno
#8 Sports Event Kicking off at 1 a.m., Chicago's largest nighttime biking event sets off from Buckingham Fountain and wends through a dozen neighborhoods. The noncompetitive event lures 8,000 cyclists, and participants are encouraged to add light-up trimmings to their helmets. This year's theme was "Light Up the Night," and all participants received glow-in-the-dark shirts and necklaces. Next: June 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Special Events Management
#9 Sports Event More than 7,300 people plunged into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan to raise funds for the Special Olympics this year. The chilly event, which is presented by Geico, has plunges in 20 locations throughout Chicagoland. It raised more than $2 million this year, which is more than the $1.7 million raised in 2013. Next: Winter 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Law Enforcement Torch Run's Polar Plunge
#10 Sports Event With a 333-mile route, the summery affair is the world's longest annual freshwater race. In 2013, the competition saw 301 boats and 2,472 crew members racing to Mackinac Island. The event, which was founded in 1898, has a glitzy pedigree: Participation is by invite from the Chicago Yacht Club, and Veuve Clicquot is the presenting sponsor. Next: July 19, 2014
Photo: MISTE Photography
#11 Sports Event Held at Montrose Harbor, the animal-friendly event draws around 6,000 runners and walkers—and their pooches. The funds raised benefit the organization's life-saving programs for pets, and the day includes an 8K run and a 4K walk, and fun attractions include a "canine carnival." Next: June 2015
Photo: Claire Demos
#1 Parade & Holiday Event The event is the oldest and largest African-American parade in the country; it's also the second-largest annual parade in the nation. The festive happening typically draws 1.8 million spectators and 350 floats and is broadcast on national TV, where it's viewed by 26 million people. The picnic draws around 150,000 guests. Next: August 9, 2014
Photo: Vince Walker
#2 Parade & Holiday Event The nation's largest nighttime holiday celebration centers on a grand tree-lighting parade down Michigan Avenue. The family-friendly affair features Minnie and Mickey Mouse as the grand marshals and has included concerts from artists such as Debbie Gibson. The spirited affair lures one million locals and tourists and ends with a fireworks display over the Chicago River. Next: November 22, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association
#3 Parade & Holiday Event (up from #4) Now in its 81st year, this holiday event is presented by the Chicago Festival Association. The holiday event features giant helium balloons, floats, marching bands, equestrian units, and celebrities. In 2013, it had 400,000 on-street spectators and was broadcast on national TV to an audience of 3.91 million viewers. Next: November 27, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Chicago Festival Association
#4 Parade & Holiday Event The upbeat, rainbow-hued event drew a record crowd of one million last year, which marked quite a leap from the 850,000 attendees in 2012. This year's June 21 event featured entertainment from Jennifer Hudson, Mya, Betty Who, and more. Next: June 2015
Photo: Courtesy of ChicagoPride.com
#5 Parade & Holiday Event (up from #6) The event is best known for the ceremonial dyeing-green of the Chicago River. The feat employs 45 pounds of vegetable dye, and the event also includes a festive parade celebrating Irish culture. This year's grand marshal was president and C.E.O. of the Chicago Blackhawks John F. McDonough. The procession takes place every year on the Saturday before St. Patrick's Day, and around 400,000 spectators make it out. Next: March 14, 2015
Photo: Dean Battaglia
#6 Parade & Holiday Event Inspired by a German village, the holiday event brings wooden huts, roasted nuts, a Santa house, and a giant Advent calendar to Daley Plaza. Vendors offer handcrafted ornaments, cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest, and more. Last year's event had its first-ever Christkind—a fairylike character who doled out gifts to children. Next: November 25-December 24, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Chriskindlmarket
#7 Parade & Holiday Event A tradition since 1870, the somber event is one of the largest Memorial Day parades in the nation. This year, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth served as the grand marshal. Each year, the event includes a wreath-laying ceremony on Daley Plaza. Next: May 25, 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Memorial Day Parade
#8 Parade & Holiday Event One of the country's largest celebrations of Hispanic culture, the event draws more than 150,000 spectators. With mariachi bands, floats, and dancing in the street, the parade's end destination is Festival de la Villita. The three-day fest in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood offers carnival rides, vendors, and kids' entertainment. Next: September 14, 2014
#9 Parade & Holiday Event Now in its 36nd year, the celebration of Puerto Rican culture features Latin entertainers, craft vendors, and carnival rides. Proceeding down Division Avenue to Humboldt Park, the colorful event features some 75 floats and draws around 100,000 spectators. Next: June 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Puerto Rican People's Parade
#10 Parade & Holiday Event Celebrating Christopher Columbus's historic journey to America, the event is produced by the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans. The happening includes a special mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii and a wreath-laying ceremony in Arrigo Park. The parade sees about 150 floats, bands, and marching units and travels down Columbus Drive. Next: October 13, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Columbus Day Parade
#11 Parade & Holiday Event One of Chicago's biggest charitable traditions, the heartwarming parade sees around 70,000 motorcyclists collecting donations for underprivileged children. Many of the cyclists wear Santa suits and deck their motorcycles with ornaments. Next: December 7, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Chicagoland Toys for Tots Motorcycle Parade
#12 Parade & Holiday Event Held the night before New Year's Eve, the massive bash at Union Station draws around 2,000 young professionals. Sponsors have included Ariel Investments and Edelman, and proceeds benefit HighSight. The event celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2013. Next: December 30, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Eve of the Eve
#13 Parade & Holiday Event Last year's event took place for the first time at Union Station, and featured over-the-top confections from 29 pastry chefs and confectioners. More than 1,200 guests attended the decadent bash, and the event raised $135,000. Next: December 4, 2014
Photo: Courtesy of AIDS Foundation of Chicago
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The size of the U.S. corn, cotton and soybean crops declined from last month, while peanut and rice crops got bigger, according to USDA's Sept. 12 Crop Production report. Meanwhile drought continues to hurt yield potential for Midwest soybeans, while corn yields have fallen to the lowest level in 17 years. USDA also raised its estimate of world cotton ending stocks by 2 million bales and projected record soybean yields for Mississippi and Arkansas.
Cotton production is forecast at 17.1 million bales, down 3 percent from last month, but up 10 percent from last year. Yield is expected to average 786 pounds per harvested acre, down 4 pounds from last year. Upland cotton production is forecast at 16.5 million bales, up 12 percent from 2011. Pima cotton production, forecast at 657,000 bales, is down 23 percent from last year.
According to USDA, estimated cotton yields declined from last month in four U.S. states, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Estimated yield was higher than last month in 10 states including Florida, which reported an increase of 194 pounds, from 857 pounds to 1,051 pounds.
According to USDA's Sept. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, domestic cotton mill use is unchanged from last month, but exports are slightly lower due to lower U.S. production and a reduction in total world imports. Ending stocks are estimated at 5.3 million bales, equivalent to 35 percent of total use.
USDA increased the estimate of world cotton ending stocks by nearly 2 million bales and are now projected at 76.5 million bales. Projected world stocks include 35.5 million bales for China.
Corn production is forecast at 10.7 billion bushels, down less than 1 percent from the August forecast and down 13 percent from 2011. This represents the lowest production in the United States since 2006. Based on conditions as of Sept. 1, yields are expected to average 122.8 bushels per acre, down 0.6 bushel from the August forecast and 24.4 bushels below the 2011 average. If realized, this will be the lowest average yield since 1995.
Corn ending stocks for 2012-13 are projected 83 million bushels higher at 733 million.
Soybean production is forecast at 2.63 billion bushels, down 2 percent from August and down 14 percent from last year. Based on Sept. 1 conditions, yields are expected to average 35.3 bushels per acre, down 0.8 bushel from last month and down 6.2 bushels from last year.
Compared with last month, yield forecasts are lower or unchanged across the Great Plains and most of the Corn Belt as lingering drought conditions continued to hamper yield expectations.
It's a different story elsewhere, however, as USDA projects record soybean yields for Mississippi, 41 bushels, Arkansas, 39 bushels and North Carolina, 34 bushels.
Soybean ending stocks are projected at 130 million bushels, down 15 million from last month.
Rice production is forecast at 196 million hundredweight, up 3 percent from August and up 6 percent from last year. Average yield is forecast at a record high 7,334 pounds per acre, up 138 pounds from August and up 267 pounds from last year. Record high yields are also forecast in Louisiana and Texas.
Harvest was under way by Sept. 2 in all rice-producing states except California, with 42 percent of U.S. acreage harvested.
Global rice production is projected at a near record 464.2 million tons, up 1 million tons from last month, primarily due to larger expected crops in China, the Philippines, EU-27 and the United States. Global ending stocks for 2012-13 are projected at 102.2 million tons, up 400,000 tons from last month, but down 3.5 million from the previous year.
Peanut production is forecast at 5.92 billion pounds, up 12 percent from August and up 63 percent from last year. Average yield for the United States is forecast at a record high 3,714 pounds per acre, up 152 pounds from August and up 401 pounds from last year.
Planted area is estimated at a record high in South Carolina. If realized, harvested area will be a record high in South Carolina, Florida, and Mississippi. Record high yields are expected in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Texas. The largest yield increases from last year are expected in Oklahoma and Texas, where drought conditions last year significantly reduced crop potential. Harvest was underway by the end of August in Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi.


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In order to support WMU's vision to be learner centered, discovery driven, and globally engaged, the University Libraries' Information Literacy program seeks to foster information literacy for all students, faculty, and staff.
What is information literacy?
Information literacy is the set of integrated abilities encompassing:
- effective and reflective discovery of information
- the understanding of how information is produced and valued
- the use of information in creating new knowledge
- participating ethically in communities of learning
- Integrate information literacy into overall university curricula through scaffolding of information literacy across courses within departments; pedagogical support of faculty; and development and promotion of asynchronous online instruction materials.
- Target information literacy interventions for:
- General Education courses
- Baccalaureate Writing courses
- Major/Minor required courses
- Graduate and research-intensive courses
- Integrate information literacy into the forthcoming General Education program
- Assess the impact of the Libraries' information literacy program
- Increase visibility and outreach of Libraries' information literacy program and services for students, faculty, and staff
Actions for 2015-2016
- Integrate information literacy into course curriculum for all English 1050 "Thought and Writing" course sections [goals 1, 2]
- Examine the current model of teaching HSV 3650 "Information Literacy in the Health Sciences" course and explore sustainable alternatives [goal 1]
- Develop Assessment Plan for Libraries' Information Literacy program in line with University Libraries' Strategic and Assessment Plans [goal 4]
- Continue librarian membership on the Ad Hoc Committee on General Education [goal 3]
- Create, update, maintain, and promote online information literacy instruction materials for use in courses [goals 1, 5]
- Market information literacy instruction interventions to faculty who teach baccalaureate writing courses [goals 2, 5]
What's next?
Instructors, if you would like to know how to incorporate information literacy into your class, go to our Teaching and Consultation page. You may also choose to directly schedule a research instruction session.
For more information about what the Libraries hope students are able to do when they become information literate, see our Information Literacy Core Competencies page.
Also, take a look at our ResearchPath online tutorial and our Library Research Support Guide page for instructions on how to do many common library research tasks.


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Investors in the euro should tread with caution, Geoffrey Yu, FX strategist at UBS told CNBC on Friday, warning that concerns over political stability in some of the euro zone's biggest countries could send the currency sharply lower again.
"One really strong point of complacency that the market has had over the last few weeks is to wait until the last minute before pricing in political woes. Now, that's really starting to impact the euro," Geoffrey Yu, FX strategist at UBS, told CNBC on Friday.
The single currency has fallen to a six-week low against the dollar, falling to $1.3166 on Thursday, far below a 15-month peak of $1.3711 seen at the start of February. The decline came as euro zone purchasing managers' data (PMI) released on Thursday showed a downturn in the region's economic activity and investor concerns over Italian elections this weekend rattled confidence.
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Crying is certainly an option. One used extensively by a lot of ISV as well (with limited success). What would be really cool is if you could have an external stylesheets that the desktop environment can affect, that your users can style with accessibility features, color schemes and basically whatever people want. So one would need a highly extensive support for external CSS stylesheets in SVG. One that goes a little beyond what SVG standard offers because SVG doesn't allow styling of things like "transform" element which would be very useful for number of things.
At this point it's probably very clear that is exactly what I did today.
QtSvg in 4.2 will have full support for external CSS stylesheets. That support includes all svg properties and attributes that we use.
So lets create a very simple application that loads its UI from a SVG file and lets one style it by editing an external CSS file. The SVG file that we come up is here. We add a style, that looks like this and we're well on our way. Now we add logic to our application. In this case we'll render gears as in the ever famous GLX example, but we'll do it 2D vector style. So our application looks like this: . Neat.
K, but it's pretty gray, so lets change it. First of all we'll add
#viewport {
to make sure our background is white. Then we'll change gradient on our controls by adjusting stop-color and stop-opacity properties. Then we'll change the font on our "Gears" sign. Add a wider stroke to the control container and change the stroke on our view. Final stylesheet is here. Suddenly our application looks completely different and we haven't changed one line of code. In fact we haven't really touched the application at all but it looks like this:
Magic. Let me create a bullet points with exact description of how this works:
- Artist creates a gui in SVG
- Developer does logic in his/hers favorite language
- Application loads the SVG and does selective rendering (as described in the last blog)
- ----- magic -----
- Flexible, good looking, accessible, scalable application.
But lets continue. Now lets say this application has rather small controls and some of our friends have problems clicking on some elements and reading the text. So changing colors is not what we want, we would like to make it easier to read and click on elements. It's all vector graphics, so could be zoom the whole interface? Yes! We'll add
#wholeapp {
transform: scale(2,2);
to our stylesheet to zoom whole application and make it look like this:
Notice that because it's vector graphics you don't get artifacts you'd normally get when zooming. One can (as in the example before) extend the borders, zoom only certain elements... Well, basically rearrange everything.
The things we can do with this are pretty amazing and I've been playing with it for the last two hours and it's a little scarry how much fun it is to change the complete look and feel of an application this way. Especially the amount of things that can be changed while keeping the application still behaving more-less like the initial version, is amazing. I hope people will have a lot of fun with this.


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<sandro> Present: Bart,Benedikt_Kaempgen,Bernadette_Hyland,Biplav_Srivastava,Boris_Villazón-Terrazas,Dave_Reynolds,Hadley_Beeman,James_McKinney,John_Erickson,Martín_Álvarez,Michael_Pendleton,Phil_Archer,Sandro_Hawke,Ted_Thibodeau,Yigal_Arens 15:00:55 <RRSAgent> RRSAgent has joined #gld 15:00:55 <RRSAgent> logging to http://www.w3.org/2013/01/17-gld-irc 15:00:59 <Zakim> Zakim has joined #gld 15:01:29 <DaveReynolds> DaveReynolds has joined #gld 15:01:41 <HadleyBeeman> zakim, this is gld 15:01:41 <Zakim> ok, HadleyBeeman; that matches T&S_GLDWG()10:00AM 15:01:47 <Zakim> +??P39 15:01:48 <HadleyBeeman> zakim, who is here? 15:01:48 <Zakim> On the phone I see HadleyBeeman, +22.214.171.124.aaaa, ??P39 15:01:48 <Zakim> On IRC I see DaveReynolds, Zakim, RRSAgent, PhilA, boris, martin_, HadleyBeeman, olyerickson, bhyland, TallTed, danbri, trackbot, sandro 15:02:04 <Zakim> +[IPcaller] 15:02:08 <olyerickson> zakim, who is on the phone? 15:02:08 <Zakim> On the phone I see HadleyBeeman, +22.214.171.124.aaaa, ??P39, [IPcaller] 15:02:14 <DaveReynolds> zakim, IPcaller is me 15:02:14 <Zakim> +DaveReynolds; got it 15:02:24 <boris> zakim,code? 15:02:25 <Zakim> the conference code is 45394 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:firstname.lastname@example.com), boris 15:02:36 <Zakim> +Sandro 15:02:36 <olyerickson> zakim, who is on the phone? 15:02:37 <Zakim> On the phone I see HadleyBeeman, +18.104.22.168.aaaa, ??P39, DaveReynolds, Sandro 15:02:51 <bhyland> dialing in, apologies... 15:02:55 <Zakim> + +34.91.334.aabb 15:02:57 <olyerickson> zakim, I am ??P39. 15:02:57 <Zakim> +olyerickson; got it 15:02:57 <HadleyBeeman> zakim, aaaa is biplav 15:02:59 <Zakim> +biplav; got it 15:03:00 <Biplav> Biplav has joined #gld 15:03:13 <olyerickson> zakim, mute me. 15:03:14 <Zakim> olyerickson should now be muted 15:03:14 <Zakim> - +34.91.334.aabb 15:03:21 <Zakim> +davidwood 15:03:28 <bhyland> zakim, davidwood is me 15:03:28 <Zakim> +bhyland; got it 15:04:01 <Zakim> + +34.91.334.aacc 15:04:10 <boris> zakim, aacc is me 15:04:10 <Zakim> +boris; got it 15:04:16 <boris> zakim, mute me 15:04:16 <Zakim> boris should now be muted 15:04:31 <Zakim> -boris 15:04:43 <HadleyBeeman> zakim, who is speaking? 15:04:53 <Zakim> HadleyBeeman, listening for 10 seconds I heard sound from the following: bhyland (89%) 15:05:24 <Zakim> -biplav 15:05:25 <Zakim> +??P46 15:05:29 <martin_> zakim, P46 is me 15:05:29 <Zakim> sorry, martin_, I do not recognize a party named 'P46' 15:05:40 <martin_> zakim, ??P46 is me 15:05:40 <Zakim> +martin_; got it 15:06:01 <Zakim> +OpenLink_Software 15:06:09 <martin_> zakim, mute me 15:06:09 <Zakim> martin_ should now be muted 15:06:20 <TallTed> Zakim, OpenLink_Software is temporarily me 15:06:20 <Zakim> +TallTed; got it 15:06:21 <TallTed> Zakim, mute me 15:06:21 <Zakim> TallTed should now be muted 15:06:40 <bhyland> Agenda: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/Meetings:Telecon20130117 15:07:01 <sandro> scribe: sandro 15:07:11 <bhyland> zakim, who is on the call? 15:07:11 <Zakim> On the phone I see HadleyBeeman, olyerickson (muted), DaveReynolds, Sandro, bhyland, martin_ (muted), TallTed (muted) 15:07:20 <olyerickson> (says...) 15:07:30 <TallTed> TallTed has changed the topic to: Govt Linked Data WG - http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/ - Agenda: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/Meetings:Telecon20130117 15:07:40 <martin_> zakim, unmute me 15:07:40 <Zakim> martin_ should no longer be muted 15:07:52 <martin_> zakim, mute me 15:07:52 <Zakim> martin_ should now be muted 15:08:05 <sandro> (martin alvarez) 15:08:32 <sandro> bern: we could do tracker or talk about w3 15:09:03 <Zakim> + +184.108.40.206.aadd 15:09:12 <Zakim> +??P61 15:09:12 <james> james has joined #gld 15:09:15 <Zakim> +??P62 15:09:18 <PhilA> zakim, ??P62 is me 15:09:18 <Zakim> +PhilA; got it 15:09:21 <sandro> sandro: I'm not willing to partiticpate in this w3 discussion 15:09:26 <olyerickson> bhyland: proposes "Discuss visibility of W3C in Open Government Data landscape" 15:09:50 <sandro> hadley: is this official thing? or informal? 15:09:51 <Zakim> +Mike_Pendleton 15:10:03 <Mike_Pendleton> Mike_Pendleton has joined #gld 15:10:13 <HadleyBeeman> I'm just curious about whether/how this fits within our charter. 15:10:23 <HadleyBeeman> (Or if this is an off-the-record chat) 15:10:34 <sandro> bern: I could air my concern and people can tell me it's not a problem 15:10:43 <Biplav> Biplav has joined #gld 15:10:43 <sandro> sandro: is this the same as at tpac? #15:10:46 <HadleyBeeman> scribe: Hadleybeeman #15:10:50 <sandro> HadleyBeeman, I'll keep scribing, it's fine. #15:10:58 <sandro> scribe: sandro 15:10:58 <HadleyBeeman> Go for it, sandro. Thanks!! 15:11:32 <sandro> bern: GLD was set up with an expectation of participation from data.gov.uk and John Sheridan 15:12:18 <sandro> bern: I went to a conference at US NIST -- which is the org responsible for broadly data stewardship related to measurement -- and there wasn't any presence of the W3 there. Audience of 400-500 people. 15:12:20 <PhilA> q+ to interrupt this 15:12:28 <sandro> bern: we're not so visible, from what I can tell. 15:12:40 <sandro> bern: are we visible in the UK, in Spain, etc? 15:12:45 <PhilA> q- 15:13:08 <sandro> PhilA: +1 sandro I don't think this an appropriate use of the group's time. we have open issues, vocabs, etc. 15:13:18 <bhyland> PhilA 15:13:27 <sandro> PhilA: I'm happy to talk about what's going on, but it's not for this meeting. 15:13:59 <sandro> bern: I'll take this to elsewhere, then. 15:14:09 <bhyland> q? 15:14:10 <olyerickson> Was this the NIST conference? http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/cloudbdworkshop.cfm 15:14:14 <sandro> bern: anyone else? 15:14:29 <sandro> bern: yes, olyerickson that was it. 15:14:34 <bhyland> Proposal to accept minutes from last week: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2012-12-20 15:14:56 <sandro> topic: Admin 15:15:07 <bhyland> Minutes from last week: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2013-01-10 15:15:25 <DaveReynolds> +1 15:15:37 <Mike_Pendleton> +1 15:15:44 <sandro> RESOLVED: accept minutes from last week http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2013-01-10 15:15:49 <HadleyBeeman> +1 15:15:55 <sandro> Zakim, who is on the call? 15:15:55 <Zakim> On the phone I see HadleyBeeman, olyerickson (muted), DaveReynolds, Sandro, bhyland, martin_ (muted), TallTed (muted), +188.8.131.52.aadd, james, PhilA, Mike_Pendleton 15:16:05 <sandro> topic: next F2F 15:16:14 <sandro> bern: no update on dublin meeting 15:16:59 <sandro> action: bhyland set up f2f wiki page 15:16:59 <trackbot> Created ACTION-85 - Set up f2f wiki page [on Bernadette Hyland - due 2013-01-24]. 15:17:06 <bhyland> topic: Review of "Raised" Issues <sandro> Summary: The group went through many of the ISSUES that had been left in the RAISED state and decided whether to move them to OPEN, CLOSED, or in a few cases leave them as RAISED. 15:17:06 <trackbot> Error finding 'Tracker'. You can review and register nicknames at <http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/users>. 15:17:06 <bhyland> 1. Open items, see http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/open 15:18:04 <sandro> zakim, aadd is biplav 15:18:04 <Zakim> +biplav; got it 15:18:39 <bhyland> zakim, who is on the call? 15:18:39 <Zakim> On the phone I see HadleyBeeman, olyerickson (muted), DaveReynolds, Sandro, bhyland, martin_ (muted), TallTed (muted), biplav, james, PhilA, Mike_Pendleton 15:18:49 <sandro> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/raised?sort=product 15:19:10 <sandro> sandro: let's sort by the Product column, so they are grouped that way. <sandro> subtopic: RAISED ISSUES concerning Best Practices Document 15:19:19 <sandro> subsubtopic: ISSUE-28 -- Is a vocabulary 5-star? 15:19:19 <trackbot> ISSUE-28 -- Is a vocabulary 5-star? -- raised 15:19:19 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/28 15:19:44 <sandro> bern: Any guesses what Michael was thinking? 15:20:35 <sandro> sandro: I see it's coming from a Vatant post. 15:21:01 <sandro> sandro: Is this stuff in the current best practices doc? 15:21:06 <sandro> bern: it's not now, but it would be good to add. 15:21:28 <sandro> bern: examples would be good. 15:21:48 <DaveReynolds> q+ 15:22:18 <sandro> sandro: maybe close this and action bern to add a draft to bp 15:22:35 <sandro> DaveReynolds: bernard's post covers stuff we're already doing in our vocabs 15:23:08 <sandro> action: bhyland to pub guidance in bp checklist guided by http://blog.hubjects.com/2012/02/is-your-linked-data-vocabulary-5-star_9588.html 15:23:08 <trackbot> Created ACTION-86 - Pub guidance in bp checklist guided by http://blog.hubjects.com/2012/02/is-your-linked-data-vocabulary-5-star_9588.html [on Bernadette Hyland - due 2013-01-24]. 15:23:30 <sandro> PROPOSED: close issue-28 given action-86 15:23:33 <Yigal> Yigal has joined #gld 15:23:34 <TallTed> +1 15:23:34 <DaveReynolds> +1 15:23:39 <sandro> RESOLVED: close issue-28 given action-86 15:23:39 <bhyland> Next: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/15 15:23:55 <sandro> close issue-28 15:23:56 <trackbot> Closed ISSUE-28 Is a vocabulary 5-star?. <sandro> subsubtopic: ISSUE-15 -- GLD life cycle 15:24:31 <sandro> issue-15? 15:24:31 <trackbot> ISSUE-15 -- GLD life cycle -- raised 15:24:31 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/15 15:24:36 <Zakim> +[IPcaller] 15:24:37 <TallTed> trackbot, associate action-86 with issue-28 15:24:37 <trackbot> ACTION-86 (Pub guidance in bp checklist guided by http://blog.hubjects.com/2012/02/is-your-linked-data-vocabulary-5-star_9588.html) associated with ISSUE-28. 15:24:50 <Yigal> zakim, IPcaller is me 15:24:50 <Zakim> +Yigal; got it 15:24:54 <sandro> bern: Boris and I can still work on this. 15:25:44 <bhyland> Next: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/16 15:25:46 <sandro> action: bhyland to include life cycle information into bp (from issue-15) 15:25:46 <trackbot> Created ACTION-87 - Include life cycle information into bp (from issue-15) [on Bernadette Hyland - due 2013-01-24]. 15:25:53 <sandro> action: boris to include life cycle information into bp (from issue-15) 15:25:53 <trackbot> Created ACTION-88 - Include life cycle information into bp (from issue-15) [on Boris Villazón-Terrazas - due 2013-01-24]. 15:26:17 <sandro> RESOLVED: close issue-15 based on action-87 and action-88 15:26:22 <sandro> close issue-15 15:26:22 <trackbot> Closed ISSUE-15 GLD life cycle. 15:26:37 <TallTed> trackbot, associate action-87 with issue-15 15:26:37 <trackbot> ACTION-87 (Include life cycle information into bp (from issue-15)) associated with ISSUE-15. 15:26:39 <sandro> subsubtopic: ISSUE-16 -- Re-usable sections or other GLD documents 15:26:41 <TallTed> trackbot, associate action-88 with issue-15 15:26:41 <trackbot> ACTION-88 (Include life cycle information into bp (from issue-15)) associated with ISSUE-15. 15:26:47 <sandro> issue-16? 15:26:47 <trackbot> ISSUE-16 -- Re-usable sections or other GLD documents -- raised 15:26:47 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/16 15:27:26 <sandro> bern: I'd call this a topical mapping of the various things in vocab docs and best practices. we need consistent review of deliverbales so they don't contradict each other. 15:27:46 <sandro> bern: much of bp was initially a cut-and-paste, and we don't want to the same info in two locations. 15:28:02 <sandro> bern: I think we can just close this -- the review cycle will already take care of this. 15:28:10 <HadleyBeeman> +1 to this being a part of the editorial process 15:28:17 <sandro> proposed: close issue-16 it's part of normal process 15:28:22 <bhyland> Next: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/12 15:28:30 <sandro> RESOLVED: close issue-16 it's part of normal process 15:28:35 <sandro> close issue-16 15:28:35 <trackbot> Closed ISSUE-16 Re-usable sections or other GLD documents. 15:29:04 <olyerickson> zakim, unmute me. 15:29:04 <Zakim> olyerickson should no longer be muted <sandro> subtopic: RAISED ISSUES concerning dcat 15:29:21 <sandro> subsubtopic: ISSUE-12 -- What values to use to describe formats of dcat:Distribution? 15:29:23 <sandro> issue=12? 15:29:26 <sandro> issue-12? 15:29:26 <trackbot> ISSUE-12 -- What values to use to describe formats of dcat:Distribution? -- raised 15:29:26 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/12 15:29:32 <olyerickson> Most recent update from Fadi was http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/Dcat_examples 15:29:49 <sandro> DaveReynolds? 15:30:04 <sandro> DaveReynolds: not involved in dcat enough to comment 15:30:43 <sandro> olyerickson: This is about whether there should be some suggested formats. There was much back-and-forth in email. Most recent was a set of examples that fadi put into wiki. 15:31:28 <sandro> olyerickson: I don't have a problem with this, but I don't see clear consensus yet. 15:31:32 <PhilA> q+ 15:31:55 <DaveReynolds> +1 to move to Open 15:31:59 <sandro> bern: shall we mark it OPEN and action someone to review the status 15:32:01 <sandro> +1 15:32:06 <bhyland> +1 15:32:10 <TallTed> yes -- mark issue open, push proposed resolution through email, schedule vote on proposal for future calll... 15:32:11 <DaveReynolds> -0 to creating action since we need someone to take the action :) 15:32:22 <sandro> heh 15:32:29 <bhyland> @DaveR, we'll get to that … ;-) 15:32:39 <sandro> olyerickson: ISSUE doesn't have a proposal, it's just a question. 15:32:52 <sandro> bern: olyerickson do you understand what Fadi was looking for? 15:33:20 <sandro> open issue-12 15:34:43 <sandro> bern: I'll talk to Fadi about dcat issues, for a future meeting 15:35:46 <bhyland> Next: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/30 15:36:00 <sandro> okay, all DCAT RAISED issues now OPEN. #15:36:12 <sandro> topic: data cube RAISED issues 15:37:01 <sandro> DaveReynolds: let's scan them one by one, so we only open the ones we're going to put time into. 15:37:04 <PhilA> q- <sandro> subtopic: RAISED ISSUES concerning cube 15:37:16 <sandro> subsubtopic: ISSUE-30 -- Declaring relations between cubes 15:37:16 <trackbot> ISSUE-30 -- Declaring relations between cubes -- raised 15:37:16 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/30 15:38:13 <sandro> DaveReynolds: discussed in email this past week. one cube might be a summary of another cube. 15:38:41 <sandro> ... benedikt said something, ... I'm concerned this may be too complex for this WG. Let's leave this RAISED for now. 15:38:55 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-31 -- Supporting aggregation for other than SKOS hierarchies 15:38:55 <trackbot> ISSUE-31 -- Supporting aggregation for other than SKOS hierarchies -- raised 15:38:55 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/31 15:38:58 <sandro> ... it may be beyond the bandwidth of this WG 15:39:24 <sandro> bhyland: so leaving it as RAISED means it's kind of on our to-do list if we have time. 15:39:48 <sandro> DaveReynolds: let's open issue-31 and take care of it. 15:40:09 <sandro> DaveReynolds: eg goegraphic relationships 15:40:27 <sandro> open issue-31 15:41:00 <TallTed> "by ..."? 15:41:22 <sandro> action: DaveReynolds to propose solutions for issue-31 - due 4 weeks 15:41:22 <trackbot> Error finding 'DaveReynolds'. You can review and register nicknames at <http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/users>. 15:41:33 <sandro> action: Dave to propose solutions for issue-31 - due 4 weeks 15:41:33 <trackbot> Created ACTION-89 - propose solutions for issue-31 [on Dave Reynolds - due 2013-02-14]. 15:41:37 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-39 -- Data Cube: Allow skos:Collections as value of qb:codeList 15:41:37 <trackbot> ISSUE-39 -- Data Cube: Allow skos:Collections as value of qb:codeList -- raised 15:41:37 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/39 15:42:41 <sandro> DaveReynolds: This has also been discussed recently. Probably not out of scope. But I think it has to be richard moving this forward. 15:43:19 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-37 -- Align Data Cube with SDMX 2.1 15:43:19 <trackbot> ISSUE-37 -- Align Data Cube with SDMX 2.1 -- raised 15:43:19 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/37 15:44:09 <sandro> DaveReynolds: Richard is also better placed to comment on this. I'm not familiar with the changes in SDMX 2.1. Someone needs to review and figure out if this is a feasible amount of work. 15:44:26 <sandro> bern: I'd like to put it on the nice-to-have someday list. 15:45:01 <sandro> bern: there's more low-hanging-fruit. 15:45:01 <BenediktKaempgen> BenediktKaempgen has joined #gld 15:45:18 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-34 -- Clarify or drop qb:subslice ? 15:45:18 <trackbot> ISSUE-34 -- Clarify or drop qb:subslice ? -- raised 15:45:18 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/34 15:45:35 <Zakim> +??P33 15:45:37 <sandro> DaveReynolds: The question is whether SDMX has changed in ways that make it simpler, better -- and maybe that would make our job easier. 15:45:51 <BenediktKaempgen> zakim, who is here? 15:45:51 <Zakim> On the phone I see HadleyBeeman, olyerickson, DaveReynolds, Sandro, bhyland, martin_ (muted), TallTed (muted), biplav, james, PhilA, Mike_Pendleton, Yigal, ??P33 15:45:55 <Zakim> On IRC I see BenediktKaempgen, Yigal, Biplav, Mike_Pendleton, james, DaveReynolds, Zakim, RRSAgent, PhilA, martin_, HadleyBeeman, olyerickson, bhyland, TallTed, danbri, trackbot, 15:45:55 <Zakim> ... sandro 15:46:07 <BenediktKaempgen> zakim, ??P33 is BenediktKaempgen 15:46:07 <Zakim> +BenediktKaempgen; got it 15:46:24 <sandro> sandro: maybe we should use POSTPONED status instead of leaving it RAISED? 15:46:41 <sandro> DaveReynolds: Not yet -- let's have some review first. 15:47:34 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-34 -- Clarify or drop qb:subslice ? 15:47:34 <trackbot> ISSUE-34 -- Clarify or drop qb:subslice ? -- raised 15:47:34 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/34 15:48:05 <sandro> action: Dave make a proposal on issue-34 -- due 4 weeks 15:48:05 <trackbot> Created ACTION-90 - Make a proposal on issue-34 -- due 4 weeks [on Dave Reynolds - due 2013-01-24]. 15:48:07 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-33 -- Collections of observations and well-formedness of slices 15:48:08 <trackbot> ISSUE-33 -- Collections of observations and well-formedness of slices -- raised 15:48:08 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/33 15:48:47 <sandro> action: Dave propose solution to issue-33 -- due 4 weeks 15:48:47 <trackbot> Created ACTION-91 - Propose solution to issue-33 -- due 4 weeks [on Dave Reynolds - due 2013-01-24]. 15:49:33 <olyerickson> Clarify "using it?" 15:49:53 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-32 -- Relationship to ISO19156 - Observations & Measurements? 15:49:53 <trackbot> ISSUE-32 -- Relationship to ISO19156 - Observations & Measurements? -- raised 15:49:53 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/32 15:49:53 <olyerickson> There are bioinformatics projects inthe US using it 15:49:58 <olyerickson> (Cube) 15:50:19 <bhyland> q? 15:50:25 <bhyland> ack DaveReynolds 15:50:45 <sandro> DaveReynolds: since the issue was raised, we now understand how to do this. there's NOT a one-size-fits-all. 15:50:59 <sandro> DaveReynolds: so we need an informal clarifyin appendix. 15:52:21 <sandro> action: Dave draft an informal appendix to clarify Relationship to ISO19156 - Observations & Measurements? re issue-32 - due 4 weeks 15:52:21 <trackbot> Created ACTION-92 - draft an informal appendix to clarify Relationship to ISO19156 - Observations & Measurements? re issue-32 [on Dave Reynolds - due 2013-02-14]. 15:52:36 <sandro> dav: this ISO std stands out with particular need here 15:52:47 <sandro> dav: don't want to have to relate to every other std 15:52:48 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-29 -- Criteria for well-formedness 15:52:48 <trackbot> ISSUE-29 -- Criteria for well-formedness -- raised 15:52:48 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/29 15:54:05 <BartvanLeeuwen> BartvanLeeuwen has joined #gld 15:54:20 <PhilA> Might that be a QB Profile?? 15:54:32 <sandro> DaveReynolds: This is a bigger one. The cube allows a lot of flexibility. To make it robust and consumable, we need some device in the spec for conformance. We have to address this somehow, but it'll be hard. 15:54:50 <sandro> action: dave come up with a proposal on issue-29 - due 6 weeks 15:54:50 <trackbot> Created ACTION-93 - come up with a proposal on issue-29 [on Dave Reynolds - due 2013-02-28]. 15:54:59 <sandro> PhilA: Is this a Cube Profile? 15:55:23 <Zakim> +??P13 15:55:30 <BartvanLeeuwen> Zakim, ??p13 is me 15:55:30 <Zakim> +BartvanLeeuwen; got it 15:55:35 <sandro> DaveReynolds: Maybe. It's diffferent in that cube has an abbreviated syntax. That makes it more like SDMX, but requires custom inference to understand it. 15:55:47 <sandro> dav: in spirit it's a profile, but with more machinery. #15:56:05 <bhyland> Topic: ORG Vocab "Raised" tracker items 15:56:45 <sandro> subtopic: RAISED ISSUES concerning RegOrg 15:56:49 <bhyland> Change of plans ... 15:56:57 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-46 -- Should GLD vocabularies define conceptual models too? 15:56:57 <trackbot> ISSUE-46 -- Should GLD vocabularies define conceptual models too? -- raised 15:56:57 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/46 15:57:20 <sandro> bern: this was raised by cygri... anyone know? 15:58:10 <sandro> PhilA: ADMS and RegOrg come from a world where people use conceptual models, not just RDF. Then the conceptual models get translated to RDF. Richard asked if that two-stage model is necessary in this group. 15:58:26 <sandro> phil: in the fpwd this has happened. we don't mention anything but RDF, I think. 15:58:42 <sandro> phil: So I think for regorg at least this has been resolved. 15:59:07 <sandro> phil: I think it can be closed, but we should check with richard. 15:59:24 <sandro> phil: conformance statement says you COULD use XML or something, but 'prefers' RDF. 16:00:01 <sandro> action: phil to check with richard on whether issue-46 can be closed, as already taken care of by regorg fpwd 16:00:02 <trackbot> Created ACTION-94 - Check with richard on whether issue-46 can be closed, as already taken care of by regorg fpwd [on Phil Archer - due 2013-01-24]. 16:00:03 <bhyland> subsubtopic: ISSUE-41 -- use of skos:altLabel or dcterms:alternative 16:00:03 <trackbot> ISSUE-41 -- use of skos:altLabel or dcterms:alternative -- raised 16:00:03 <trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/41 16:00:31 <sandro> phil: I think this is a dave question, since it comes from Org. 16:01:08 <bhyland> +1 16:01:16 <sandro> phil: regorg differs from org here. 16:01:58 <sandro> dav: you had some examples with things with multiple names in the same jurisdiction, so can't use prefLable. 16:02:03 <sandro> phil: yes. 16:02:30 <sandro> bern: given popularity of skos, I'd say use prefLabel 16:02:47 <sandro> phil: there are cases where an org has mult lables in one lang. 16:02:56 <sandro> phil: might have two names with same standing. 16:03:07 <Zakim> -biplav 16:04:05 <sandro> down to 18 raised issues. good job folks 16:04:10 <bhyland> q? 16:04:20 <sandro> bern: thanks everyone, sorry for going overtime. 16:04:32 <Zakim> -DaveReynolds 16:04:39 <BartvanLeeuwen> thx 16:04:40 <BenediktKaempgen> bye, thanks 16:04:43 <olyerickson> olyerickson has left #gld 16:04:43 <Zakim> -TallTed 16:04:44 <Zakim> -james 16:04:45 <Yigal> Yigal has left #gld 16:04:45 <Zakim> -olyerickson 16:04:45 <Zakim> -bhyland 16:04:45 <Zakim> -HadleyBeeman 16:04:46 <Zakim> -BenediktKaempgen 16:04:51 <bhyland> Thank you all, very productive call re: deliverables 16:04:53 <Zakim> -PhilA 16:04:53 <Zakim> -Yigal 16:04:56 <olyerickson> olyerickson has joined #gld 16:04:58 <Zakim> -BartvanLeeuwen 16:05:00 <Zakim> -Sandro 16:05:09 <james> james has left #gld 16:05:34 <Zakim> -Mike_Pendleton 16:08:18 <DaveReynolds> DaveReynolds has left #gld 16:35:01 <Zakim> disconnecting the lone participant, martin_, in T&S_GLDWG()10:00AM 16:35:02 <Zakim> T&S_GLDWG()10:00AM has ended 16:35:02 <Zakim> Attendees were HadleyBeeman, +184.108.40.206.aaaa, DaveReynolds, Sandro, +34.91.334.aabb, olyerickson, biplav, bhyland, +34.91.334.aacc, boris, martin_, TallTed, +22.214.171.124.aadd, 16:35:02 <Zakim> ... 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Do you hear that relaxation? Do you feel it? I'm at sock camp. And I'm in heaven.
We arrived a day early to Port Ludlow. This is the view that welcomed us.
We arrived a day early to Port Ludlow. This is the view that welcomed us.
Thursday, before camp began, we drove to Port Townsend. Just a perfectly wonderful town on the water. We started out at the Hudson Point Cafe.
And with the bacon cheddar waffle, well we really didn't want to leave.
Let's not forget the crab cakes. Yummy.
But we left the food for the yarn shops.
And then the cupcake shop.
And then, the fun really begins!!!
Happy Sock Camping!!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits
P.S. Small victory. Four yarn stores. Zero yarn purchases. But um... one sock camp store...well.. come back to see the purchases!


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Another blurb today about Phegley on milb.com:
Under the Radar
It's probably safe to say 25-year-old Josh Phegley probably did not enter the season on many fantasy owners' radars. The White Sox's 2009 first-rounder hadn't distinguished himself in parts of four Minor League seasons, and last year with Triple-A Charlotte hit just .266/.306/.373 in 102 games. But something's clicked for the Indiana University product this year. Through 33 games, he's been on fire for the Knights, hitting .333/.393/.659, already having set a career high in home runs last Thursday with his10th of the year.
With Chicago's primary catcher, Tyler Flowers, hitting .195 in the bigs, it's possible the team's No. 15 prospect will get an extended look. And with just six qualified catchers in the American League boasting an OPS of .700 or better, AL-only owners could find themselves getting a useful jolt of offense at the position from the apparently late-blooming Phegley.
March 16, 2005 - Another happy Sox fan joins the party!
July 6, 2012 - 7 years later he's still part of it...
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