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Is it really possible Tom Wright doesn't know why Americans ask him about hell?
He's so swift in his judgements about America (what has gotten into him lately?) - and now Americans - as though he is completely clueless about why. Any American teenager who has studied American history or American literature for five minutes knows the answer.
We - even now, even after all this time - we are the children of the Pilgrims. We are the children of the Puritans. We are the children of New England. While the religious fervor of our Puritan founders may have waned, our need to know whether we are in the "elect" has not diminished. Americans have inherited the examined life of our Puritan mothers and fathers, we consistently and constantly examine our lives to know if we are in the elect, secularized though it may be now. Why do we put all our bad news on public cable systems and broadcast them all over the world - we must confess our sins, that we might not be doomed but in fact be saved. We examine our life privately as individuals and publicly as a nation - will we be saved?
In fact, this element of our culture may be one of the most significant differences between America and England. They have stamped out the memory of their own Puritan history (and with good reason), but we have not. Our Puritan history was tempered by southern Jeffersonianism, just as strong and significant in shaping the American culture - that is, we can start again, we can return to the Garden, we can remake ourselves and start all over again, the New Adam.
American culture is founded on a hybrid of Puritan Jonathon Edwards and Enlightened Thomas Jefferson and what is surprising is that for all our learning, all our immigration of other cultures and creeds, still - after all these years, the force of our Puritan founders still runs deep like a river through our cultural life all the way to this day when Rob Bell dares to call the question.
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In the comments below, James writes, "We should not have engaged the issue of hell, as a Christian community, as we did. There was something very wrong about this debate."
That is true, the reaction to the publicity for the publication of Rob Bell's new book illustrated that again, this issue runs deep, but not just in our religious life, but also in the public sphere. Mercy seems to be missing from the shelves. The "rush to judgment" was swift, and there seems to have been little time in the rush to consider why Rob Bell hit a nerve.
Bishop Wright appears to take the tack of "why all the fuss?" He sadly dismisses the question, but not without issuing his own judgement in the process. Why are Americans so concerned about hell (and why perhaps Bell did write his book)?
What I find fascinating about any kind of "damnation" - be it religious or secular - is that it continues to be such a force in our political and cultural landscape today. It comes from both the religious and political left and the right, the differences being not that there is no damnation, but what criteria is identified to justify being condemned. Wright is naive if he thinks he can just sweep away the question with the wave of theological hand, dismissing those childish Americans with their preoccupation about hell.
This is so deeply, deeply embedded into the American character that to dismiss it with a pontificating wave is just quite simply incredulous. It would be one thing if Bishop Wright had never been to the United States or spent his entire career locked up in a tower, but the fact remains he has come across the pond on many occasions and since he might fashion himself inclined to care about justice issues he might want to consider digging deeper and ask the question Why rather than shut down the conversation as being irrelevant.
Of course it's relevant - the concern with the environment is one thing, but another quite frankly is the entire issue of race and slavery. America to this day is haunted by its slave-owning past. Whatever the Dream might posses for new generations, there is still this ghost of slavery that permeates our national life even to this day.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s genius, for example, was to appeal to the dream of something more, but he still appealed to the dream inherited by our Puritan ancestors - the Dream of the Promised Land. But if we are not deemed worthy to walk into the Promised Land, it is then inferred we are condemned. And that shame, that sentence of condemnation continues to haunt our society. Dr. King appealed to the spiritual implications that if we did nothing to change our society to one where "one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers" we too would be like those horrific racists who blemished this land with their sin. The implication is that if we do not do this, if we do not partake in the Dream of the Promised Land, we are doomed. If there is no hell - secular or religious, then why work so hard to change the world in which we live?
Are we progressing toward some secular "New Adam" as Jefferson may have dreamed, a natural new aristocracy of the great - Americans do seem to continue to look for the perfect man, the perfect leader and if one is lacking, that too is broadcast from the housetops. But at the same time, it is not still the Promised Land that we journey toward, knowing too that if we don't make it, if we are found with "sin the camp" we expose it for all the world to see on CNN or in The New York Times so that we might be found worthy and be saved.
Oliver Cromwell then finally became a despot king of sorts himself). But in America, we temper our secular Puritan fervor with a native optimism so clearly articulated in recent years by Ronald Reagan. That optimism tempers the searing and often cranky eye of judgment that we experience in our harsh assessments of our cultural experience. But that optimism was severely tested by 9/11.
Is 9/11- that one act - done more to shift the landscape of American society than any other single event in modern American history? Was it not catastrophic? Did it in many ways reveal that Jonathon Edwards' warnings are ingrained - or were ingrained - into the conscience of a nation even if we don't remember why:
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. - From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The implication is there, if we can't seem to grasp why we are so worried - not just for the safety of our nation, but our own corporate salvation. 9/11 was like a visible picture of hell in real time, one that we all who witnessed that day in person or in television, yes, in real time will never forget. The questions that are raised from it - are we safe, are good, are we blessed, are we saved are not so easily answered. From the recent "economic downturn" it appears that many thought there was no longer any sort of interior moral compass to compel people to do good and thus apparently shut their eyes turned revered financial institutions into Darwinist casinos banked by the indebtedness of the naive and the stupid. Will those bankers go to hell? Will the debtors go to hell? Why should they worry if there is no hell? If there is no hell, is there no justice? And if there is no justice, then what compels us to do good?
I wonder if the characteristic American optimism is in some ways based on the inherited certainty of hope that this country is indeed "in the elect," that it is "the Promised Land," the "City on the Hill," and that if you can make it here, you will not be "some loathsome insect over the fire," but be redeemed. You are free here to do good. We sing of that great land in our national hymns and we believe. But what if all is not well? And what if there is no hell, after all - then does that mean there is no Promised Land after all? If there is no hell and everyone gets to go, then why do we work so hard?
Again, these ideas are couched in the religious terms of the New England settlers, but they are translated today into secular American thought. The Puritan investment into the American culture runs deep, but it is not without consequences. They may have passed on their robust commitment to work and a future hope, but that commitment also carries forward to the ashes of 9/11 and reveals the fear of judgment from that day, that it all was just a dream after all and judgement is upon us, or worse, Hitchins is right. There is no God.
And so we turn to N.T. Wright for an answer.


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"Peabody Decades" explores UGA archives' vast collection
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Twice-monthly screenings to showcase TV, radio shows from 1940s and beyond
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Athens, Georgia – The George Foster Peabody Awards and the Peabody Collection at the University of Georgia will launch The Peabody Decades, a unique historical review compiled from the archives' prodigious store of television and radio programs, with two screenings in September.
"Our series uses the Peabody Awards Collection, the largest broadcasting archives in the Southeast, to tell stories about radio, television and history," said archivist Mary L. Miller. "The Peabody Collection is like a giant time capsule. The Archive houses not just Peabody Award winners from more than 70 years, but just about everything that has ever been entered in the competition.
Each screening features clips chosen by a UGA undergraduate, who has also curated an exhibit about the period. The September screenings, titled America in the 1940s: More than the Home Front, use children's programs, news stories, and public service programming from throughout the decade to paint a fuller picture of the World War II era.
The September 10 screening will feature a 1948 installment of NBC's Meet the Press, with original host and series creator, Martha Rountree (cq); a clip from the classic children's series Howdy Doody; excerpts from some forgotten shows from that decade, such as Mr. I. Magination, and The Black Robe, an early courtroom drama; and more.
The second September screening, on the 24th, will showcase The Tuskegee Airmen, a Peabody Award-winning made-for-TV movie about the black aviators who overcame racism to become the "Fighting 99th," the first squadron of African-American fighter pilots in World War II. Laurence Fishburne, Andre Braugher and Cuba Gooding, Jr. head the cast.
All screenings will be presented in the auditorium at the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library at 300 Hull Street in Athens. They are free and open to the general public as well as UGA students, faculty and staff. There will be event parking in UGA's Hull Street deck.
All screenings will begin at 7:00 p.m. Each multi-clip screening will be followed by dialogue between a student curator and a graduate of the Grady College of Journalism from the decade being showcased. Single-show screenings will be followed by a discussion led by a UGA professor. The multi-clip events will offer decade-themed refreshments from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m.
September sets the pattern for the entire screening series. Each month will address a different decade – the 1950s in October, the '60s in November, etc. The 1950s potpourri night will include episodes or excerpts from Edward R. Murrow's See It Now, The Ed Sullivan Show, and the early sitcom Mr. Peepers. The single program night for the '50s will feature Requiem for a Heavyweight, the original live-TV version of Rod Serling's celebrated drama, starring Jack Palance as an aging boxer on the ropes.
The complete schedule will be announced at a later date. With the exception of December, the Peabody Decades series will proceed chronologically, twice monthly, through the spring of 2014.
The Peabody Awards, the oldest in broadcasting, are considered among the most prestigious and selective prizes in electronic media. The awards recognize excellence and meritorious work by radio and television stations, networks, webcasters, producing organizations and individuals. The 16-member Peabody Board is a distinguished panel of television critics, industry practitioners and experts in culture and the arts. Selection is made by the Board following review by special screening committees of UGA faculty, students, and staff. For more information regarding the Peabody Awards program, visit peabodyawards.com.
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Brandi Chastain had some words for the U.S. Women's soccer team that did not sit well with goal keeper Hope Solo. Chastain criticized defender Rachel Buehler for giving the ball away, noting it was something Buehler would have to work on. Not too incendiary, but following the women's 3-0 victory over Colombia, Solo let loose, defending her teammate on Twitter.
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I switched to my Winter Logo on December 12. It's now March 12. I changed the logo back yesterday. Even though they're predicting snow this weekend, We're in spring now and 3 months is a nice round number.
Over winter:
I rode 56 of 57 work days.
I took The Dreaded Bus one day that I was sick (I should have stayed home) and didn't use my bike that day.
I rode a total of 7 one-way bus-free trips over winter.
I missed one day of work (took one real sick day)
I rode a total of 478 miles.
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The coldest temperature I rode in this winter was 1°F on January 24th.
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I switched to my Winter Logo on December 12. It's now March 12. I changed the logo back yesterday. Even though they're predicting snow this weekend, We're in spring now and 3 months is a nice round number.
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Greetings from St Louis. I am a regular bike commuter, but I'm afraid I drove my car to work a few times this winter. However I never drove it on account of the weather; I only drive when there's something I have to do before or after work that requires a car in some way, like picking up 80lbs of dog food at the pet store. I average about 240 miles per month of commuting. My dry-weather bike is a mid-80's vintage Fuji 10-speed with a Brooks saddle; my wet-and-snow bike is a '70s or early '80s Motobecane Nomade 10-speed with fenders.
People think I'm odd when I ride to work in 8-10 inches of snow, but to me it's about the most fun you can have outdoors in St Loser. People pay $$ to fly to Colorado and ski, but the effect is about the same as riding around Forest Park in the snow.
Nice blog.
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I agree that snow biking can be fun, and it was the first few times. I'm definitely ready for spring now.
I had to drive a lot this winter, but I'm lucky that the way the bus schedule and bus stops are set up that it lends itself well to multi-modal commuting. I can get anywhere I need to go in practically any weather between using my bike and the bus.
Thanks for the comment!
- March 12, 2008 11:29 AM
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You gonna hit the Localcycling hammerfest tonight?
- March 12, 2008 1:27 PM
- Noah said...
I'm definitely not ready for that ride yet, but thanks for the invite. I think I'll stick to the other ride. the Monday one. The turtle paced one.
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Night Stand for iPad transforms your iPad in a multifunctional and visually appealing Alarm Clock waking you with your own music. It includes worldwide weather forecast with full screen video loops and image slide shows.
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By: Peter Morris
Abstract: This article provides an overview of ECO
I remember when I first heard about Bold for Delphi, I didn't really know what it was so I
emailed BoldSoft to ask. Either Jonas or Jesper sent me a document they had just written
explaining it. The document went on to describe blind men encountering an elephant, each
one feeling a different part of the animal and assuming it was something different (a tree,
snake, etc). Well, that made it as clear as mud, so I promise not to mention blind men or
elephants from this point onwards.
This article will give an overview of the abilities of ECO but will not describe how to use
them, it is meant only to explain what ECO is so that you may decide for yourself if you
would like to investigate further. This article will not explain UML. If you are not
familiar with some very basic concepts such as Classes and Associations then I recommend
you do a small amount of preparatory reading on that subject first.
A very brief way to summarise ECO is to say that it is an application framework, by this I
mean that it helps you to build applications quickly. Delphi itself is allows you to
create applications quickly, so what is so different about ECO?
Delphi provides lots of tools for creating nice looking applications, especially when
additionally using third party extensions, but when it comes to the business layer there is
still a lot of work to do. Probably everyone knows that it is bad practise to mix your GUI
code in with your business logic, yet many people still do it. People who do not mix their
presentation and business logic either have to do a lot of manual work creating database
tables, stored procedures, etc; or have previously spent a lot of time writing their own
library to map objects to a database.
Forgetting for a minute all of the nice additional services of ECO, you could say that this
essentially is what ECO does for you. ECO allows you to define your business layers as a
collection of associated classes. These classes remain completely separate from any GUI
code, and may even be compiled into their own re-usable .net assembly, making it easy to
reuse the business logic for multiple user interfaces (WinForms, WebServices, Web
Applications, Import / Export routines).
Instead of selecting data from tables, and inserting new rows into tables, you now work
purely with objects. For example
insert into
Customer (Name, Telephone)
('Air Software Ltd','+44 (0)121 243 6689');
NewCustomer := Customer.Create(EcoSpace);
NewCustomer.Name := 'Air Software Ltd';
NewCustomer.Telephone := '+44 (0)121 243 6689';
Customer newCustomer = new Customer(EcoSpace);
newCustomer.Name = "Air Software Ltd";
newCustomer.Telephone = "+44 (0)121 243 6689";
To create a related object is just as simple.
AlternateTelephoneNumber := TelephoneNumber.Create(EcoSpace);
AlternateTelephoneNumber.Name := 'Home number';
AlternateTelephoneNumber.Number := '+44 (0)121 999 9999';
TelephoneNumber alternateTelephoneNumber = new TelephoneNumber(EcoSpace);
alternateTelephoneNumber.Name := "Home number";
alternateTelephoneNumber.Number = "+44 (0)121 999 9999";
The above examples show how to manipulate your data as "Business objects" rather than as
data, but why would you want to do this? Probably the main reason for taking the OOP
approach is the ability to use Polymorphism.
In the above example I used "ContactDetails.Add()" to add the alternate telephone number.
You may assume that this is merely a list of telephone numbers, but why should it be? Take
a look at the following UML diagram.
In this diagram you can see that a Customer has zero or many ContactDetails.
ContactDetails has only a single attribute, "Name", it is also an abstract class so
instances of ContactDetails may not be created. From ContactDetails I have descended an
EmailAddress class that has an "Address" attribute, and a TelephoneNumber class that has a
"Number" attribute, I have also modelled a FaxNumber class which is a type of
TelephoneNumber. This allows me to record various types of contact information for a
customer, and group them all together under the generic name of "ContactDetails".
Of course objects may also have virtual methods, which is probably one of the most powerful
features of OOP. By using object inheritance it is possible to modify the default
behaviour of our objects.
The above example is not meant to be a real-life one, there are reasons why I wouldn't take
this exact approach that aren't really relevant to this article. The purpose of the above
model is to demonstrate polymorphic behaviour.
In the model you will see that we can enter a list of computers on our network.
Periodically these computers check what tasks they have to perform. To do this they do the
ExecuteScheduledEvents will do the following
A ScheduledEvent has one or more tasks, these tasks may belong to zero or many
ScheduledActions so are easily reusable. The Scheduled event will simply call
Action.Execute() on each action in its list. This list of actions is ordered, so the order
of the actions is predictable.
What is not predictable from the context of the ScheduledEvent is exactly what
Action.Execute() will do. All ScheduledEvent has is a list of object instances which it
knows have a certain abstract class as their base type, concrete descendant classes
determine the action action performed. A ScheduledEvent may do something like this
Having code execution within your business model really does introduce a lot of power to
your application. The addition of introducing OOP and polymorphism allows you to
additionally model your business classes in a more abstract way, which is always a good way
of planning for future enhancements.
The EcoSpace is an in-memory object cache of your object instances. The EcoSpace does not
start by loading all of your database into memory, instead it employs lazy-fetch techniques
that I will describe later.
The EcoSpace is your application's way of managing instances of your business classes.
EcoSpaces do not belong in a .net assembly along with your business classes, instead you
should have an EcoSpace within your application. At design-time you are able to tell the
EcoSpace which package(s) it will be working with, ECO determines the list of available
packages by searching the current project + used assemblies for UML packages containing
your modelled classes.
ECO does not use the term "Database" for a very good reason. You don't have to save your
objects to a database. For example, there is an XML persistence component that allows you
to persist your object instances to disk, another "persistence mapper" will update your
data to a remote ECO powered application using remoting, or you could allow your
application to connect directly to the database and use a BDP or SQL persistence mapper.
NOTE: XML persistence should not be used in released software, it is
for testing only
Once you have specified which classes the EcoSpace will be managing, and also configured
your persistence settings, it is now possible to generate your database schema. Using the
default settings it is possible to create your database with the single click of a button;
all of the tables and columns required to store data about your class instances are
generated instantly.
Alternatively you have two more persistence options
My favourite feature of ECO persistence mapping is without doubt the database evolution
support. When you later revise your model structure + update your application you will
also need to modify the structure of your database. It is rarely acceptable to wipe your
database clean and regenerate because there may be data help within it. This is where
database evolution comes in. Database evolution modifies your database schema
without losing your data, database evolution can handle the following changes to
your model.
An example of renaming a class "Preson" to "Person", renaming an attribute "FristName" to
"FirstName" within the same table, and then moving an attribute "DateOfBirth" from a
descendant class into Person would produce steps something like this
Of course moving an attribute up the class tree has no code implications in your source
code, because Employee objects still have a DateOfBirth attribute due to inheritance.
ECO can create your database structure, it can map its objects to your existing database
structure, it can evolve your database structure (even if it was not created by ECO), and
can even reverse engineer your current database structure into business classes.
Additionally it is possible to persist your objects to non-database storages by
implementing your own PersistenceMapper component.
Once an object instance has been fetched from the persistence storage its values are cached
within the EcoSpace. Whenever you modify the attribute values (properties) the cache is
updated. Even if your object instance in source-code goes out of scope and is subsequently
garbage collected, ECO will hold a cache of its attribute values in memory. The next time
you retrieve your object instance using this EcoSpace, the EcoSpace will return an object
based on this cache rather than requiring a persistence request.
As I mentioned earlier, ECO does not start its life by fetching all of your objects from
the database, although by looking at the following source code you would be forgiven for
believing it did.
Assume that only "MyCustomer" is currently loaded
for ContactDetails in MyCustomer.ContactDetails do
ContactDetails.Name := ContactDetails.Name + '!';
foreach(ContactDetails contactDetails in MyCustomer.ContactDetails)
contactDetails.Name += "!";
So, if only MyCustomer is loaded, how is it that you don't have to explicitly tell ECO to
load all of the objects in the ContactDetails association?
ECO holds a cache of object instances plus their properties. Whenever you read or write a
property of one of these object instances the read/write is actually passed through to the
EcoSpace cache. This approach has a number of benefits, a few of them are
In the example code above an attempt is made to read MyCustomer.ContactDetails.
Multi-links are not fetched with objects when they are retrieved from the persistence
storage, so the EcoSpace requests a list of object identifiers from the persistence storage
service. As you then access each ContactDetails instance within MyCustomer.ContactDetails
again the EcoSpace will issue a request to the persistence storage service to retrieve that
NOTE: If you are going to loop through a known list of objects it is
possible to instruct ECO to pre-load those objects in advance as economically as
Some of your modelled classes may have attributes that are expensive to retrieve. A binary
attribute holding a passport photo could be considered expensive, both to transfer over the
network and to hold in memory. It would be unwise to retrieve such an attribute every time
you loaded a Person object for example, because in most situations your software will
probably be working with a Person in ways that do not require anybody to look at their
ECO allows you to mark attributes in your classes as Delay-fetch. When an object instance
is retrieved from the persistence storage any attributes identified in this way are not
retrieved. Only when you try to access the value of the attribute will ECO issue a request
to the persistence storage service to retrieve it. This approach allows you to keep memory
and network usage down.
NOTE: It is currently not possible to unload an individual attribute,
however, it is possible to discard an object instance's cache so that its values are
reloaded when next accessed
Some people refer to the OCL as "SQL for objects", which isn't a bad comparison. OCL is
used throughout ECO applications, both in your business model, and also on your forms /
WebForms, and in your source code too.
This overview article will not describe OCL in any great detail, the language is too large,
but I will describe some common uses for OCL and also explain what the OCL expression I
have used means. For more information on OCL you should consider reading through Anthony
Richardson's excellent article (originally written for Bold for Delphi) here
Within the model itself there are a number of places in which OCL may be used.
It is possible to add a list of name/expression elements to any class within your model.
ECO does nothing with this list internally, but it is possible to use this constraint list
to ensure object validity. For example, a class implementing a hire period may have the
following two constraints
I always use such constraints in my model. I am able to enable or disable the Save button
on my WinForms depending on whether or not all of the constraints of the current object
have been met or not, or I can use the ASP .net ValidationSummary to display messages about
broken constraints on the current object and prohibit saving.
Whenever new rules are required, I update the constraints in my model and redistribute it.
I don't need to recompile my WinForm app or my website project, and the exact same rules
are applied to both interfaces.
Dataset programmers are familiar with calculated fields. Derived attributes/associations
are similar except for a few important points
NOTE: It is not only possible to calculate derived attributes /
associations' values using OCL, you may also calculate them by implementing certain methods
in your class
Take a look at the following UML diagram.
This is a real-life example of an ECO model actually in use. I used this structure on www.HowToDoThings.com. I have indicated all
derived attributes / associations by colouring them red (associations) or a nice pink
colour (attributes).
This UML structure is used to categorise articles on my website. According to the diagram,
articles on my website can belong to a single SubCategory. A subcategory must have exactly
one parent, which is a BaseCategory, this enables a Subcategory to be parented either by
another SubCategory or a MainCategory (which has no parent because it is a root category).
SubCategory has an attribute named "ArticleCount", which is an Integer. The OCL for this
attribute is
"articles" is a member of SubCategory, it is a one-to-many association linking a
SubCategory to multiple articles. The expression "articles->size" tells ECO that we want
to know how many articles there are, note that this does not load the articles into the ECO
space. Adding a new article, deleting an article, or moving an article to a new
SubCategory will automatically mark the cached result of this OCL invalid.
A huge benefit of having these "calculated fields" actually within the model comes from now
being able to use these attributes in OCL as well. Looking further down the SubCategory
class you will see an attribute named "TotalArticleCount". Where ArticleCount shows the
number of articles in this category, TotalArticleCount will show the number of articles
belonging to this SubCategory and the total number of articles of any SubCategory
beneath this point. This is achieved with the following, very simple, OCL expression
articleCount + subCategories.totalArticleCount->sum
This expression is so simple because it uses a clever recursion trick.
The "TotalArticleCount" of each of the subcategories does exactly the same, it returns the
number of articles it owns directly + the sum of all "TotalArticleCount" attributes of its
child SubCategories. This recursion continues until eventually you reach the leaf nodes in
the structure and there are no more SubCategories, at this point the expression
"subCategories" returns nil, and therefore the result is calculated as
articleCount + (zero)
Derivation expressions are an easy way of overriding an expression of an inherited
OCL-derived attribute or association. Against each class it is possible to enter a list of
name/expression pair values identifying which member you want to override, and its new OCL.
In an application I wrote recently I had a model in which different users manage many
"things". There were many different types of "things" within the model, the
"InterestedParties" for each depended on what the "thing" was and what state it was
currently in (live, pending, cancelled). Any user of the system could send a
message/request to a relevant user by seeing who its InterestedParties were. An example
would have been the User class itself.
NOTE: "Administrator" is the class name, "allInstances" is an OCL
operation on a class to retrieve all instances.
This is a very powerful approach because I have the full power of OCL to determine would
should be available to deal with queries/requests relating to an object.
It is also possible to execute OCL statements within your source code using the OCL
service. This technique is useful for
obtaining references to objects, or for evaluating the result of a complex expression
that would otherwise require
many lines of code.
This section will be very brief. I merely want to reassure people that normally use
Dataset and grids etc that they do not suddenly need to start depending completely on
writing source-code.
ECO handles are components that may be dropped onto your WinForm/WebForm at design time.
These components provide access to the "ECO world". For example, the ExpressionHandle
allows you to enter an expression such as "Customer.allInstances", this expression
retrieves all Customer object instances.
These handles support standard .net databinding, so it is now possible to databind visual
controls to the handle to allow the user to edit the attributes of the objects. From a
user's point of view there is no difference between editing ECO objects and rows from a
The EcoSpace provides multiple services that provide you with some additional features.
Some of these services are very simple, some of them are very powerful. The EcoSpace will
return an instance of a particular type when requested.
PS := EcoSpace.GetEcoService( typeof(IPersistenceService) ) as IPersistenceService;
ps = (IPersistenceService) EcoSpace.GetEcoService( typeof(IPersistenceService) );
Some of these services are summarised below.
The persistence service allows you do perform the following actions
The dirty list service tracks all modified (dirty) objects. You can obtain a list of
all dirty objects in the EcoSpace using this service.
This service provides the developer with the ability to work with all instances of a
particular class, it performs the
following actions
This service allows you to obtain the unique ID of a particular object instance, or to
object an object instance from the EcoSpace based on its unique ID.
This service allows you to execute OCL statements from within your source code and retrieve
the result. It also allows you to optionally subscribe to the OCL statement so that you
receive a notification when any of the elements in the expression change. This service can
also be useful for retrieving objects from the persistence service. See the article Two functions to evaluate
OCL on www.HowToDoThings.com.
The state service merely provides the ability to determine whether a particular object
instance is modified or not.
The undo service allows you to programmatically start a named "undo block". Whenever an
object instance is modified, the EcoSpace will automatically store its old value in the
active UndoBlock (if there is one). It is then possible at a later point to undo your
changes by reversing the changes in the undo block, it is also possible to then redo those
The undo service also provides in-memory object change transactions. This is basically
identical to the undo service, except you do only use StartTransaction(),
CommitTransaction(), or RollbackTransaction() rather than having to work with named undo
Have you ever seen the WayBack machine? This is a
website that spiders other sites, whenever the site changes the new pages are cached,
enabling you to look at a website at any given date.
This is similar to the version service in ECO. In ECO you can identify a class as being
versioned. Each time modifications are persisted they are saved as a new version of the
object. Whenever you request that object ECO will return the latest version. Using OCL it
is possible to navigate through objects and associations at any given date and time, so it
is possible to see historical data.
The version service provides information about versioned classes such as
As you can see, ECO is not UML, and is so much more than an object persistence framework.
There is quite a lot of information in this article about ECO, yet I suspect that there is
probably a lot I have missed out, for example, I haven't explained the following
The latter is covered in an excellent article by Roland Kossow here. I may write follow
up articles on the first two at a later date.
Hopefully this article has given you some idea of "What" ECO is, as opposed to "how" to use
it. I also hope that it has been successful in arousing your interest in this excellent
development tool, and you will consider looking into the "how" part a little more.
There are various people in the borland.public.delphi.modeldrivenarchitecutre.eco newsgroup
willing to help you with any questions you may have, and also a dedicated ECO
section on www.HowToDoThings.com.
Peter Morris has been developing model-driven applications since his introduction to Bold
for Delphi (ECO's predecessor) back in 2001. He is the managing director of Air Software Ltd, a company that provides bespoke
software solutions and consultancy services to various industries.
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Swedish scholar Dr. Barbro Klein will visit Bethany College as the 2012 Pearson Distinguished Professor of Swedish Studies. Klein is a professor emerita of ethnology at Stockholm University and a director emerita and permanent fellow at the Swedish
Collegium for Advanced Study. She received her doctorate in folklore studies and anthropology at Indiana University and has taught at numerous institutions, including the University of California at Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Bergen in Norway.
Klein has written extensively on oral narration, rituals, museum displays, and other forms of expressive culture in complex multi-ethnic settings, primarily in the United States and Northern Europe. Her work and publications involve folkloristics, ethnology, anthropology, and museology.
While at Bethany, Klein taught Folklore and Everyday Life, which studied the importance and meaning of folklore in our everyday lives, both in North America and in Sweden. Students collected their own examples of folklore and explored oral narratives, such as personal experience stories, anecdotes, and legends, and their surprising linkages to ancient myths and structures; festivals and rituals; and visual folk art, especially linkages between folk art and individual life stories.
Klein's public presentations included Laughing in Niono, Mali: On African Dilemmas, Dala Painting, Sweden and Swedish America: The Cultural History of Heritage Making, On the Humanities and on Being Human in a Globalized World, and Reforming Women: Swedish Folklife Studies and North American Anthropology, circa 1900.


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This comment added October 30. I just heard from a friend of mine who is a Dr. who is now retired. He informed me that D-ribose is the "D" in DNA! This means any disease that is caused by damaged genes or damaged DNA, any disease caused by enzyme imbalances, or lack of oxygen to cells, lack of one cell passing on nutrients to the next cell, all would be helped by D-ribose.
(Not an advertisement. I am not selling any product. I am offering help to research a product before you put it into your body, which is what we should all do with everything, including food and medicine
and herbs and supplements)
WHAT IF...D-Ribose is the treatment for Fibromyalgia as much as insulin is the treatment for diabetes?
So many people have been writing to me asking for more information about the Fibromyalgia treatment that has changed my life, my daughter's, and now my sister, mother and even my mother's doctor is trying it. I thought I would post it here and just lead people to this site, and others could lead their friends here as well.
Some of you will be scratching your head wondering how I could have posted about how much pain I was in and how tired I was in the last post, and here I am raving about relief from Fibromyalgia... well let me explain. My pain and fatigue is from my lupus and other health problems, and if I had to suffer the fibromyalgia symptoms on top of the other pain I am having now, I think I would be in serious condition, unable to even roll over alone, so I am thankful for whatever relief I am given, and I think if a person only had fibro, their relief would improve their quality of life, and joy immensely.
Ribose even made my depression disappear completely until I got this lupus flare-up again, which makes me wonder if my depression was caused by my brain not getting enough oxygen and nutrients. I had returned to the person that I knew and loved many years ago, and realized that my personality had not changed permanently, that the many personality changes were ONLY due to exhaustion and pain.
D-Ribose (or also called ribose) is a substance that is already in our bodies that helps the cells individually receive oxygen and nutrients. It even lowers high blood sugar, because the sugar is fed to the cells to be turned into energy, instead of just sitting in the blood.
The only bad side affect is that you get a little bit hungry, because your body is using the food for energy instead of having it just sit in your stomach and turn to fat. That can be solved by snacking wisely or just drinking water instead of snacking.
The only drug interaction is insulin and diabetes medicine, which you will be able to lower (with supervision of course).
I told my Dr. about it, and she had never heard of it, because they don't learn about natural treatments unless they study them on their own time, but she was so excited to have SOMETHING safe and inexpensive to offer her many fibro patients, but not only those patients, ribose is known to help at least 10 other illnesses, such as any disease that causes weakness or has symptoms that affect the whole system, like CFS, fibro, Lyme disease, gulf war syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, COPD, heart failure, Epstein Barre syndrome, auto immune diseases.
If a lot of people with Fibromyalgia keep getting the results I have read about and experienced, that would mean that one cause of Fibromyalgia is an inability of the body to get oxygen and nutrients directly to the cells. Without that, your get weakness and muscle pain, and even the heart doesn't get enough oxygen or nutrients. Without your cells getting fed, nothing works well.
The place I first heard about it was in a newsletter I get called "End Fatigue" from http://www.endfatigue.com/ . The author of the newsletter is a medical Dr. who wrote a book called "From Fatigued to Fantastic" by Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum. If your library has that book, my daughter urges that everyone get it. I guess he is who discovered the need for D-ribose in people with any chronic illness that causes exhaustion; and he did the research that showed that people with those chronic illnesses or the elderly do not have enough ribose in their bodies.
I have read of many people going off their oxygen, and being able to lower their diabetes medicine with guidance of their Dr. and both those things happened to me. Also, when I do overdo or get ill with my other serious health problems, this helps me recover much faster than before. This has improved my heart failure so much it amazes me. In July I was literally dying. I now have a new lease on life, even though I still struggle with lupus. I think the longer I am on ribose, the more my body will heal. I think the Lord has helped me find my miracle. I know different things work for different people, but I am thanking Heaven for finding something that even takes away 1/4 of all my suffering.
Here is a page that discusses FM and CFS and Ribose, with additional articles at the bottom. http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm/id/7539 It is not a prescription, so your Dr. will not know about it, but mine was very eager to hear more because there is so little that helps fibro.
As you search, you will often see VERY EXPENSIVE brands, and from what I have studied, it is no different than the other brands. You can get it in chewables or in powder or in capsules.
There's a small booklet called "The health Benefits of Ribose" by Paul Addis Ph.d...Very good description of D-Ribose in the book review under the picture of the book. http://tinyurl.com/5ut3wa . It says that ribose is necessary for literally thousands of functions in the body, so if we don't have enough, that would explain the dozens of symptoms we experience.
I have found that if you try to buy it locally, it is so very expensive, $30-150 dollars, so I buy mine at http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Bioenergy-Ribose-Pure-D-Ribose-100-Capsules for $12.99 a bottle, which has 1.5 months supply in it. That site also has the cheapest shipping I have found in 10 years of buying things online, and that site even lets you pay from your paypal account. All supplements there are 50-85% off, and I have never found cheaper shipping anywhere, $4.99 no matter how much you buy!
I am still continuing to enjoy fibro-free hours with my D-ribose, but when I forget to take it, wow, I am back flat on my back like I was 2 months ago.
PLEASE consider giving it a try...pray about it if you need to. Its completely natural, I have listed the side effects or drug interactions. Research it for yourself...always the wise thing to do.


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To Celebrate the 5 Year Anniversary of Samantha Kidd Humorous Mystery Series by Diane Vallere Great Escapes Book Tours is hosting #Samanthapalooza!
Cozy Mystery 1st in Series
Polyester Press (June 5, 2012)
Paperback: 274 pages ISBN-13: 978-0984965304
E-Book ASIN: B0088IEQPQ
Meet Samantha Kidd.
Ex-buyer turned trend specialist turns amateur sleuth! She designed her future with couture precision, but finding the fashion director's corpse on day one leaves her hanging by a thread. And when the killer fabricates evidence that puts the cops on her hemline, even a chance run-in with hot shoe designer Nick Taylor can't keep her life from unraveling. She trades high fashion for dirty laundry and reveals a cast of designers out for blood. Now her job, her love life, and her future are put on hold as she tries to expose a diabolical designer before getting marked down for murder.
Samantha Kidd is trying to leave the rat race and go home again. She ends up almost homeless, without a confirmable job and meeting a couple of men from her past who become quite necessary to her future. This leaves plenty of time for her to investigate a murder and figure out the dirty details about a killer fashion competition.This is a fast paced cozy. Something is ALWAYS happening, often to Samantha Kidd.
She has no way of knowing who to trust, why Patrick offered her a job without anyone else in the store knowing about her, and what brings Nick Taylor to her community.
Any wrong move could prove deadly to Samantha and what is left of her dreams.
Buyer, Beware: A Samantha Kidd Humorous Mystery
Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series
Polyester Press (March 5, 2013)
Paperback: 258 pages ISBN-13: 978-1939197016
E-Book ASIN: B00BPD587G
Samantha Kidd: Bag Lady?
Out-of-work fashion expert turned amateur sleuth Samantha Kidd is strapped. But when the buyer of handbags for a hot new retailer turns up dead and Samantha is recruited for the job, the opportunity comes with a caveat: she's expected to find some answers. With shoe designer Nick Taylor off in Italy, she turns to a sexy stranger for help (with humorous results!). But as the walls close around her like a snug satin lining,
Samantha must get a handle on the mystery or risk being caught in the killer's clutches.
I read the previous book in the series before this one, so I was familiar with Samantha Kidd's troubles. I appreciated how she developed in this second novel. Her relationship with shoe designer Nick Taylor is still on a bumpy path, with him being out of the country making it more difficult. Add in a "bad boy" who is oh-so-attractive as well as being a shoulder for Sam to literally cry on, and she isn't sure how she should be feeling. She is trying so hard to straighten out both her career and her personal life. At least she has Logan.
The book starts with Samantha and her only local friend, Eddie, planning a robbery, a heist. How legal or ill chosen this caper is, we can not be sure. You know something has to go wrong. Eddie is certain it will take more than two to pull it off. The brother-sister duo he chooses would not be Samantha's first choice.
Who knew the fashion industry was so cut throat on so many levels! From fake merchandise to the administrative offices of two top stores, to the factories in Italy, there is deception and corruption everywhere! When the top buyer for a new store is murdered, there are so many motives to sort through.
A well written cozy with characters you care about and worry about and so many twists and turns that you won't see who is coming until you are hit over the head with the solution.
Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series
Polyester Press (December 3, 2013)
Paperback: 266 pages ISBN-13: 978-0984965342
E-Book ASIN: B00H03A1MW
Former fashion buyer Samantha Kidd is in over her head
With no job prospects on the horizon, former fashion buyer Samantha Kidd convinces boyfriend and shoe designer Nick Taylor to give her a job in his showroom, but when a collection of vintage Hollywood costumes comes to town, it brings a hat box full of hype. Close friend Eddie is in charge of the exhibit and calls on Samantha for help, but all too soon hype turns to homicide. Brimming with good intentions, she loops in the cops, but after one too many cloche calls, she's knee-deep in mystery. If she can tear the lid off the investigation, it might mean a feather in her fedora. And if she can't? She might get capped.
Some Like It Haute: A Samantha Kidd Humorous Mystery
Cozy Mystery 4th in Series
Polyester Press (January 6, 2015)
Paperback: 248 pages ISBN-13: 978-1939197108
E-Book ASIN: B00RME4N6O
If you can't stand the heat, get off the runway.
Fashion expert turned amateur sleuth Samantha Kidd is in the hot seat. After agreeing to help her ex-boyfriend's former girlfriend with a runway show, her post-break-up life turns explosive. She recruits Dante, a smokin' hot photographer, to turn up the heat on the investigation (and help her get over Nick), but even the third degree won't expose an angry arsonist. With a crash course in sizzle, Samantha's curiosity leads her into another inferno, and this time she either faces the fire or gets burned.
Grand Theft Retro: A Samantha Kidd Humorous Mystery
Cozy Mystery 5th in Series
Polyester Press (May 17, 2016)
Paperback: 228 pages ISBN-13: 978-1939197269
E-Book ASIN: B01E1UHPV6
Samantha Kidd is about to go retro.
When Samantha Kidd's job at Retrofit Magazine leads her into the fashionable archives of seventies style, she's prepared to report on patchwork velvet and platform shoes, but she never expected to uncover the theft of a major collection of samples from runway shows that took place before disco died. When the guilty party threatens Samantha's family and friends, her priority shift into protection mode. The investigation heats up faster than fondue over sterno, and all too soon Samantha learns that while beat goes on, there's no guarantee that she'll go on with it.
Pearls Gone Wild: A Samantha Kidd Humorous Mystery
Cozy Mystery 6th in Series
Polyester Press; 6 edition (December 31, 2016)
Paperback: 218 pages ISBN-13: 978-1939197283
E-Book ASIN: B01MD0U8XS
Amateur sleuth Samantha Kidd's life is finally on track. It's her normally cultured friend Cat whose life has lost its luster: eight months pregnant and abandoned by her husband the week before Christmas. She ropes Samantha into helping at her boutique, but a string of jewelry thefts threatens her business. And when Cat's husband is found strangled with pearls inside the shop, the last thing she's concerned with is profit. Samantha tries to get a bead on the killer, but when the suspects all clam up, she's left tangled in knots. Add in an unexpected proposal, a flirtatious friend, and a brand new detective, and this is bound to be Samantha's wildest adventure yet.
Cement Stilettos: A Samantha Kidd Humorous Mystery Cozy Mystery 7th in Series Polyester Press (June 13, 2017) Print Length: 255 pages ASIN: B06ZY1B1TR
Forget the cannoli. Take the shoes!
I'm a former fashion buyer turned mystery writer, trading fashion accessories for accessories to murder. I was bit by the mystery bug as a kid reading Trixie Belden, Connie Blair, and The Three Investigators. Now I'm writing three series: the Style & Error Mysteries, the Mad for Mod Mysteries, and the Material Witness Mysteries.
The Costume Shop mysteries debuted with A DISGUISE TO DIE FOR, which introduces Margo Tamblyn, costume shop owner, who helps solve a murder after one of her clients is found dead at his own costume party (dressed as Sherlock!). MASKING FOR TROUBLE, the second in the series, will be out in October 2017.
The Material Witness mysteries feature Polyester Monroe, who inherits the fabric shop where she was born. Books include SUEDE TO REST and CRUSHED VELVET . The third, SILK STALKINGS, was just released.
The Style & Error Series features former fashion buyer turned amateur sleuth Samantha Kidd. Books in that series include DESIGNER DIRTY LAUNDRY ; BUYER, BEWARE ; THE BRIM REAPER ; SOME LIKE IT HAUTE, GRAND THEFT RETRO, and Pearls Gone Wild.
(A short story, "Just Kidding ," tells the story of how Samantha first met shoe designer Nick Taylor).
(A short story, "Just Kidding ," tells the story of how Samantha first met shoe designer Nick Taylor).
The Madison Night Mysteries feature a modern day interior decorator who specializes in midcentury design (studying Doris Day movies to get the look right). Books are PILLOW STALK ,THAT TOUCH OF INK , and WITH VICS YOU GET EGGROLL . A prequel novella, "Midnight Ice," can be found in OTHER PEOPLE'S BAGGAGE .Author Links Webpage: http://www.dianevallere.com/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/DianeVallereAuthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dianevallere
GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4739022.Diane_Vallere
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If you have an Eye-Fi SD Card and an iPad, you can ditch Apple's iPad Camera Connection kit right now. Just use the app ShutterSnitch, which sends the photos on your Eye-Fi directly to your iPad (and iPhone).
It's a sorta roundabout way of getting things done, but it works. You'll need an Eye-Fi SD card, the ShutterSnitch app, a router (or mifi), and oh, an iPad and a camera. The router is needed because sadly, your iPad can't create its own Wi-Fi network.
Basically, you need to fix up a few settings in the Eye-Fi card and then you're off and snapping straight to the iPad. Other than beaming pictures straight to your iPad, you can create visual and audible alerts that'll warn you if something is awry (shutter speed, iso, etc. it's fully customizable). You'll even get basic editing and exporting functionality.
One annoying thing is that the iPad replaces whatever device you had as the wireless destination of your Eye-Fi. But hey, to be able to get pictures onto your iPad with no wires, no plastic white squares and little hassle? Worth it. Works with iPhone too. $7.99 [Eye-Fi, iTunes]


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Check out the research article by Stam and Loopfor some examples
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/ ... f/qtEG.pdf
I just more or less finished the actual subdivision and smoothing code, and its available at
which is at the point where it compiles fine, and I'm fairly sure its implemented more or less correctly. However, I haven't yet run a single test!
I wrote the code only to deal with 1 subdivision level at the time because;
- Its a lot simpler. Doing different things with triangles and ngons really makes it hard to do anything else.
- If its working with multires, then some sculpting is probably going on at each subdivision level, making a recursive implementation acceptable.
- It could be expended upon later, when the basic stuff is working. It should be possible without recursion.
Right now I'm digging through the code in subsurf_ccg, which is enormous. Since everything is pretty much undocumented, its a painstaking procedure.
I'm not even confident I will have the time to finish it.
If anyone feels like helping me out with this I would really appreciate it.


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|Biosequences .. Software .. Molbio soft .. Network News .. FTP
FRONTIERS IN CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A conference on state-of-the-art carbohydrate research, particularly practical polysaccharide research May 10-12, 1994 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Sponsored by: The Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research and The Department of Food Science Purdue University The Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research announces its fourth international conference, Frontiers in Carbohydrate Research 4. This 2.5 day conference is for industrial, governmental, and academic scientists, managers of technology, and students. Like previous conferences, it will focus on the molecular basis of practical functional properties of polysaccharides and new and potential applications. Topics will be presented by leaders and innovators in carbohydrate research. TECHNICAL PROGRAM (PRELIMINARY) ------------------------------- Marvin M. Schreiber, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Encapsulation of Herbicides in a Starch Matrix Utilizing a Twin-screw Extrusion Process W.E. Rochefort, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, Rheological Investigation of the Sol-Gel Transition in Semi-rigid Polyelectrolytes Ladislav Petrus, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Molybdic Acid-catalyzed Epimerization of Aldoses: A Simple Route from Abundant to Rare Aldoses Kinam Park, Dept. of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, Purdue University, Polysaccharide Hydrogels for Controlled Drug Delivery Ganesan Narsimhan, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Kinetics of Adsorption of Globular Proteins at Air-Water Interfaces Rick P. Millane, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Structures, Interactions, and Dynamics of Some Plant Polysaccharides Scott A. Lee, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Toledo, Spectroscopic Studies of the Physical Properties of Polysaccharide Films Jay-lin Jane, Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, Structures of Starch Granules Michael J. Gidley, Unilever Research, Colworth Laboratory, Structural Organization in Starch Polymers, Enzyme- resistant Material, and Granules Thomas M. Eads, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Cross Relaxation Spectroscopy and NMR Imaging of Dilute Polysaccharides with Solid-like Domains Jonathan S. Dordick, Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Iowa, Chemoenzymatic Approaches to Synthesis of Sugar-based Polymers and Gels John A. Cuculo, Dept. of Textile Chemistry, North Carolina State University, An NMR Study of the Mechanism of Dissolution of Cellulose in the NH3/NH4SCN Solvent System R. Chandrasekaran, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Molecular Modeling of Substituted Polysaccharides Nicholas C. Carpita, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Biosynthesis of Beta-glucan in Cell Culture Costas G. Biliaderis, Dept. of Food Science & Technology, Aristotelean University, Thessaloniki, Greece, Cereal Arabinoxylans: New Insights Into Structure and Properties John A. Bohn and James N. BeMiller, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Pseudopolysaccharide Analogs of Beta-glucans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION Registration ------------ The registration deadline is April 19, 1994. You may register by completing the Registration Form printed on this brochure. Banquet tickets are available for guests of participants and student registrants. A vegetarian option is provided for the banquet. Housing ------- A block of rooms has been set aside at the University Inn. You may make reservations by calling the hotel at (317) 463- 5511. The Purdue rate is $55 per night for double occupancy and $10 per night for each additional person. You will receive this special rate by mentioning Frontiers in Carbohydrate Research 4 when making your reservation. Schedule -------- The conference will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10 and conclude at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 12. All sessions will be held in Smith Hall on the Purdue campus. Transportation will be provided to and from the University Inn before and after each daily session. Those with cars may obtain a temporary permit for parking on the campus, if we know in advance that one is needed. There will be a banquet as part of the conference on Tuesday, May 10. The registration form should indicate any special dietary requirements and/or extra tickets required for guests ($15). Coffee, tea, juices, and rolls will be available before the morning sessions. Lunches are not included. Time ---- Purdue University is on Eastern Standard Time throughout the calendar year. Travel ------ Travel to Purdue is possible by car, Greyhound-Trailways bus lines, AMTRAK, and airplane. The campus and the University Inn is accessible from Interstate I-65, U.S. Highway 52, and Indiana highways 25, 26, 38, 43, and 231. West Lafayette is 65 miles northwest of Indianapolis and 120 miles southeast of Chicago. Commuter airlines* run to the Purdue University Airport. You may choose to fly to the Indianapolis International Airport and travel to Purdue via airport shuttle or rental car. Driving time on I-65 is about 80 minutes. Lafayette United Limo (317-497-3828) offers a convenient shuttle schedule and charges $16 one-way, $27 round-trip per person directly to the University Inn. If notified, the University Inn van will meet flights at the Purdue University Airport. *American Eagle (800) 433-7300 from Chicago O'Hare and Northwest Airlink (800) 225-2525 from Detroit Refund Policy ------------- Registrations may be canceled and the prepaid fee refunded at no cost to the registrant provided notification is received in writing or by telephone (followed by written notification) on or before April 26, 1994. Cancellations after that date and "no shows" will be charged the full fee. A substitute from the original registrant's company may attend the seminar. Purdue University is not responsible for any expenses incurred due to cancellation. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION -------------------------- About Program write or call: James N. BeMiller The Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research Purdue University 1160 Smith Hall West Lafayette, IN 47907-1160 (317) 494-5684 Fax (317) 494-7953 e-mail: wccr at foodsci.purdue.edu About Registration write or call: John Wellman Division of Conferences Purdue University 1586 Stewart Center, Room 116 West Lafayette, IN 47907-1586 (317) 494-0243 or (800) 359-2968 Fax (317) 494-0567 e-mail: jmwellman at cea.purdue.edu __________________________________________ THIS PROGRAM IS A CONTINUING EDUCATION ACTIVITY OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY __________________________________________ An Equal Access/Equal Opportunity University ---------------------------REGISTRATION FORM------------------------------------ Division of Conferences Purdue University 1586 Stewart Center, Room 116 West Lafayette, IN 47907-1586 Frontiers in Carbohydrate Research 4 May 10-12, 1994 Purdue University REGISTRATION MAIL TO: Continuing Education Business Office Purdue University 1586 Stewart Center, Room 110 West Lafayette, IN 47907-1586 Fax: 317-494-0567 I plan to attend Frontiers in Carbohydrate Research 4, May 10-12, 1994. 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Two more bodies were discovered overnight after a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in eastern Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a town's downtown centre. The confirmed death toll is now three, and is expected to rise further.
Fires were preventing rescuers from reaching part of the 73-car train, and billowing black smoke could still be seen long after it derailed. The eruptions early on Saturday morning sent residents of Lac-Megantic scrambling through the streets under the intense heat of towering fireballs and a red glow that illuminated the night sky. A fire chief likened the charred scene to a war zone.
Quebec provincial police lieutenant Michel Brunet said on Sunday there are more dead among the missing. Police have refused to give any estimate of people unaccounted for because police were having difficulty getting a fixed number.
"We know there will be more deaths," Mr. Brunet said.
The multiple blasts came over a span of several hours in the town of 6,000, which is about 155 miles (250 kilometers) east of Montreal and about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of the Maine border. About 30 buildings were destroyed after tanker cars laden with oil caught fire.
The derailment caused several tanker rail cars to explode in the downtown, a popular area packed with bars that often bustles on summer weekend nights. Police said the first explosion tore through the town shortly after 1 a.m. local time. The fire then spread to several homes.
Mr. Brunet said he couldn't say where the bodies were found exactly because the families have not been notified.
The head of the train's operator, Rail World Inc., said the train was parked uphill of the community, but it's believed the brakes were properly applied.
Myrian Marotte, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Red Cross in Lac-Megantic, said on Sunday there are about 2,000 evacuees and said 163 stayed at their operations center overnight.
"There are those are still looking for loved ones," Ms. Marotte said.
Ms. Marotte said many of the evacuees are staying with family and friends. "Some people have lost everything," she said.
Lines of tall trees in the area looked like giant standing matchsticks, blackened from bottom to tip. Witnesses said the eruptions sent many shook residents out of their slumber and sent them darting through the streets.
Patrons gathered by a nearby bar were sent running for their lives after the thunderous crash and wall of fire blazed through the early morning sky.
Firefighters and rescue workers from several neighboring municipalities, including Sherbrooke and Saint-Georges-de-Beauce, were called in to help deal with the disaster. Firefighters from northern Maine were also deployed to the Quebec town, according to a spokesman at the sheriff's office in Franklin County.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced he is heading to the down Sunday.
The train, reportedly heading toward Maine, belongs to Montreal Maine & Atlantic. According to the railroad's website, the company owns more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) of track serving Maine, Vermont, Quebec and New Brunswick.
Last week a train carrying petroleum products derailed in Calgary, Alberta, when a flood-damaged bridge sagged toward the still-swollen Bow River. The derailed rail cars were removed without spilling their cargo.
The Quebec accident was likely to have an impact across the border. In Maine, environmentalists and state officials had previously raised concerns about the threat of an accident and a spill from railroad tank cars carrying crude oil across the state.
The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway carried nearly 3 million barrels of oil across Maine last year. Each tank car holds some 30,000 gallons (113,600 liters) of oil.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has begun developing protection plans for the areas where the trains travel, spokeswoman Samantha Warren said recently.


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Donations down for Dane Dances
Group doesn't want to turn down volume on free events
MADISON, Wis. — Dane Dances, a non-profit community dance party, is hoping for more financial support so it doesn't have to turn down the volume on the free Friday night events.
The group is in its 13th year of bringing people together on the Monona Terrace rooftop. However, it's not easy to keep the grooving going when donations are down.
Mandy Meloy brought her entire family to Dane Dances for some free Friday night fun.
"Look at the weather, look at the people, look at the view," Meloy said. "I mean, what a great event, having free music in downtown. You just don't get better."
This season's director Tierra Terrell is the youngest board member and wants to see the young adult crowd frequent Dane Dances more often. For Terrell, the event is about showcasing diversity. She says there's something about good music and dancing that brings people of all ages and backgrounds together.
"It really gets everyone loosened up, and everybody's just having fun, mingling, talking, and you really see the unity. It's really great," Terrell said.
All of the free fun comes at a price for the Dane Dances board. The organization doesn't ask the thousands of people who come out to the events to pay admission. With that, the board relies on donations to be able to pay the entertainment and keep the dancing free for everyone.
"We still have an obligation to make sure we keep all nights free," Dane Dances president Alphonso Cooper said, "and to make sure that all of the bands and the Monona Terrace and everybody gets paid."
Terrell added, "We know it's $10,000 per night, and there are five nights this year because there are five nights in August, so we're just trying to reach that."
People are already coming out in big numbers this summer. Dane Dances brought out 5,200 people on their first Friday event in 2012 and average about 4,000 a night. Board members hope with so many coming out, more people will show their support with contributions and keep the dancing alive.
"It's a great city, and it's great community, and a great county to be a part of," Cooper explained. "We believe in the people of Dane County, that the business and the people themselves will support what we're trying to do, and each year, they manage to support us."
If you would like to give to Dane Dances, go to www.danedances.org. The organization started a new program this year called, "Friends of Dane Dances," to encourage donors.


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Horse almost takes out I'll Have Another during training
Derby, Preakness champ prepares for Belmont race
A loose horse nearly slammed into Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another during training Thursday at Belmont Park, trainer Doug O'Neill said.
I'll Have Another, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, was walking a few feet from the outside rail when another horse threw his rider and came "screaming up the outside rail" the same way I'll Have Another was walking, O'Neill said.
O'Neill said the horse went between the rail and I'll Have Another, and that exercise rider Jonny Garcia told him the horse grazed his boot. The trainer feared a collision was imminent.
O'Neill says he's seen accidents like that, and "they are ugly." He says his stomach is "still a little twisted" and he doesn't want to think about what nearly happened.
I'll Have Another will attempt to become the first Triple Crown winner in 34 years at the Belmont Stakes on June 9.