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Thanks Jay!
I'd like to also announce that I wrote up a nice ExtJS 4.1 beta demo using SilkJS. It can be viewed and downloaded at http://github.com/mschwartz/SilkJS-extjs4.
To whet peoples' appetite, here's the server side code:
The code implements a "schema" which is a noSQL-like or Ext Model-like database table definition. The Server_action() method implements the entire CRUD operations for Web Service requests via Ajax from the client. The listUsers "method" generates JSON suitable for use by Ext's data stores and paging toolbars.Code:SQL = new MySQL(); SQL.connect(); Schema.add({ name: 'Users', fields: [ { name: 'userId', type: 'int', autoIncrement: true, defaultValue: 0 }, { name: 'username', type: 'varchar', size: 64, header: 'User Name', width: 128, autoExpand: true, editable: true }, { name: 'password', type: 'varchar', size: 64, header: 'Password', serverOnly: true, editable: true }, { name: 'email', type: 'varchar', size: 128, header: 'E-Mail Address', width: 128, editable: true }, { name: 'phone', type: 'varchar', size: 128, header: 'Phone Number', width: 128, editable: true }, { name: 'created', type: 'int', defaultValue: function() { return parseInt(new Date().getTime() / 1000, 10); }, header: 'Created', width: 150, format: 'DateTime', editable: false } ], primaryKey: 'userId', indexes: [ 'username', 'email' ] }); mysql.close(); delete SQL; function Server_action() { switch (req.data.method) { case 'listUsers': Json.success(Schema.list('Users', {}, function(o) { o = Schema.clean('Users', o); })); case 'editUser': var example = Json.decode(req.data.example); example.userId = example.userId || 0; Schema.putOne('Users', example); Json.success(); case 'deleteUsers': var examples = Json.decode(req.data.examples); forEach(examples, function(example) { Schema.remove('Users',example); }); Json.success(); } }
Json.success() takes an object, adds "success: true" to it, and sends it JSON encoded to the client. Schema.list() generates an object of the form:
The store on the client side would have totalProperty: 'count', root: 'list'.Code:{ count: n, list: items }
The Schema.list() method takes three arguments:
* Name of the Schema
* An "example" object
* An optional callback that is called for each record of the result
In the code above, the callback calls Schema.clean(o) which removes any sensitive fields from the record, particularly the password field (which we don't want to send over the network!); that field being marked "serverOnly: true" in the schema.
The "example" object is a partial (example) record describing the records that should be returned from the database by Schema.list(). In this case, the empty object {} tells Schema.list() to return all records. If the example were { username: '%jay%' }, Schema.list() would return records with usernames LIKE '%jay%' (containing "jay"). The example can be as simple or complex as your logic demands. For example, { username: '%jay%', email: '[email protected]' } would return all records with username LIKE '%jay%' and with Jay's email address.
Many of the Schema class methods take an example object. Note the Schema.putOne() takes the name of the schema (table) and an example. If the example object is partial (contains only some of the table's fields), the remaining fields will be filled in with defaultValue from the schema definition. Schema.putOne() will add a new record to the database if userId (primary key, auto increment) is 0, or overwrite an existing record if userId is non-zero. Thus the one Server_action() method does both create and update of the CRUD operations.
One more thing I love to rave about the Schema implementation is that it is SQL free and dynamic. By SQL free, I mean that the SQL queries are dynamically generated under the hood, based upon the example objects passed in (and the schema definition). By dynamic I mean that if you edit the schema definition (passed to Schema.add), all the "ALTER TABLE" queries required to make the database table match the schema definition are automatically generated and executed. So if you add a field, the field is added to the table in the database; if you delete a field, it's deleted from the database; if you rename a field, it's renamed in the database, etc.
How slick is it? Let's see what it takes to implement a "change password" method:
Schema.findOne() just happens to return us a record which also happens to be a (fulL) example!Code:var o = Schema.findOne({ username: 'jay' }); if (o) { o.password = 'newpassword'; Schema.putOne(o); }
How about logging in a user?
Code:if (Schema.findOne({ username: req.data.username, password: req.data.password })) { // log him in! }
Just thought I'd share a screen shot of a SilkJS based application I've spent about 20 hours on (so far).
Very nice! I see you are in JSmag again!
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Very interesting project. Do you have anything that describes how silk compares to node?
For starters, there's not a single asynchronous type mechanism in SilkJS or its libraries. For HTTP serving, the server is pre-fork model, not evented.
I call it a "swiss army knife" because you can basically use it as a command shell for just about any purpose aside from HTTP serving. It is something like PHP or Perl, an interpreter you run from the command line, but the language is obviously JavaScript. Like those other languages, SilkJS provides a rich set of functions to interface to the operating system (file system, processes, sockets, etc.) and to other interesting libraries (MySQL client, SSH2 client, GD2 graphics library, and so on).
You can write a WWW server in PHP or Perl and run it from the command line, if you like. The HTTP server for SilkJS is just that - a WWW server written in JavaScript. The beauty of it is the lightweight design - there's very little to have to learn about the internal workings of the compiled C++ program (silkjs binary).
You invoke it something like this:
silkjs path/to/somefile.js
SilkJS simply loads somefile.js compiles it, runs it, and calls a main() function in the script. The run phase is where your require() or include() and other global object initialization takes place. Any additional arguments on the silkjs command line are passed to main() as arguments; the WWW server main() function just includes any additional files on the command line, allowing you to extend the WWW server.
The WWW server is blazingly fast. It's roughly as fast as Apache at serving static content, much faster than Apache + PHP (like 30x faster), faster than lighthttp, and many times faster than NodeJS for WWW applications. It's even faster than NodeJS for running console type applications - a fellow installed both NodeJS and SilkJS, ran some program he wrote for NodeJS in a loop 1000 times, and SilkJS was about 25% faster.
The HTTP server was designed especially for RIA implementations. The number of clients that can be accessing your server at one time is limited to the number of requests/second the server can do. Working with PHP, I find many simple Ajax type requests (like to send JSON for a grid/store) can take 50ms to 100ms if you use some PHP framework like Zend. Working with SilkJS, those requests are 1ms to 5ms, depending on how complex your server-side business logic is
The HTTP server serves static files, like HTML, CSS, JavaScripts, images, etc. If the file has a .jst extension, the file is loaded, compiled, and executed (JST is a JSP-like syntax). JST can be used to generate RSS, XML, dynamic CSS, HTML, or whatever your creativity allows. If the file has a .md extension, then the file is loaded and run through Showdown (a markdown interpreter) and output. Extending the server to handle additional file types is trivial (markdown took me about 10 minutes to add).
As I mentioned, the HTTP server is meant for RIA. The idea is you hit some .jst file that generates the <link> and <script> tags and HTML markup for your page, delivers the images and other static content, then handles all the Ajax requests for the app as well.
If you have specific questions, feel free to ask.
For those of you interested in CoffeeScript, SilkJS now fully supports it.
You can make CoffeeScript pages. These are files with .coffee file extensions in the server's documentRoot. The server loads, compiles, and caches these upon request. If the file is changed on disk, it is recached.
You can also extend the server with CoffeeScript. Both include() and require() will load and compile a file/module if one exists with either .js or .coffee file extensions.
More details here:
SilkJS now compiles, caches, and serves LessCSS files (files with .less extension).
It also features UglifyJS for JavaScript minification.
More like these to come.


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RSBS Special Correspondent and Podcast paragon, Mr. Johanna Mahmud reports:
The Battle of Juan Pierre and How the Marlins Won the War
It's obvious what has to happen, but too many heads, egos, and wangs are involved.
Everyone has a soft spot for J.P. , but the rift between Ozzie Guillen and Kenny Williams has us watching a veteran limp to the end of his career like Ol Yeller. You have a GM and manager pillow fighting when they could be on the same page about the players they have.
Our memories of Juan Pierre are warm and fuzzy, but, statistically speaking in weighted OBP and WAR, he's the third worst player in baseball (after Chone Figgins and Raul Ibanez) and should be cut. He makes outs, gets picked off, drops fly balls, kills his team every day, but he's a sweetheart and everyone loves Juan.
I feel sorry for Dayan.
I'm starting the Dayan Viciedo camp right now. We'll have stables, a petting zoo and a FUN MIRROR.
Kenny is insisting that Ozzie isn't ready to bring up Viciedo because he can't handle the rookie. Huh? How much worse can he be than Juan Pierre? The issue is what do you do with the finality of the career of Pierre? Guillen's loyalty to J.P. is getting out of hand. (This happens every season with Williams and Guillen.)
Viciedo is killing it in the minors and the blizzard of Oz and Kenny are screwing the Sox out of being better because of a sophomoric squabble that seems to have no end.
The locker room is getting torn apart because you have two players that should be benched, but only one of them can be cut because of the contract situation. If Adam Dunn was hitting, the Pierre issue would be muted.
This mess won't be settled until the Oz man is managing the Marlins next year.
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"For every minute spent in organising, an hour is earned"
As an SEO, or in any industry where time is spent earning value for your clients, the ability to manage time effectively is a skill that needs to be learnt. I think this is particularly true for anyone, at any level, within search marketing and that mainly holds true because there are normally several activities that needed to be done yesterday.
A well thought out and constructed timeline can help with project management but if you are the account manager of numerous clients a certain amount of overlapping is bound to inevitable. Clients are not the only thing that requires your time and attention during a normal day at the office, reading and keeping up to date with news, strategies, studies and methods is essential. Add to this the constant stream of information pouring through Twitter and now Google + and you are faced with a persistent fight against your urges to check whether you have missed anything in the last minute.
One time management method that I have been trying recently with great success (if I do say so) is the Pomodoro technique (available for free download). There used to be occasions where I would come home from work and even though I knew I had worked hard all day I would still think "What have I actually done?" Speaking to a few other SEOs the feeling of 'treading water' is quite a common emotion. Alas, no more. As the creator of the Pomodoro technique Francesco Cirillo states:
"If we try to measure ourselves against the passage of time, we feel inadequate, oppressed, enslaved, defeated, more and more with every second that goes by."
The aim of the Pomodoro Technique is to provide a simple process for improving
Productivity which is able to do the following:
- Alleviate anxiety linked to becoming
- Enhance focus and concentration by cutting down on interruptions
- Increase awareness of your decisions
- Boost motivation and keep it constant
- Bolster the determination to achieve your goals
- Refine the estimation process, both in qualitative and quantitative terms
- Improve your work or study process
- Strengthen your determination to keep on applying yourself in the face of complex situations
The process underlying the Pomodoro Technique consists of five stages:
|At the start of the day
|To decide on the day's activities
|Throughout the day
|To gather raw data on the effort expended and other
|At the end of the day
|To compile an archive of daily observations
|At the end of the day
|To transform raw data into information
|At the end of the day
|To present the information in a format that facilitates
When you arrive at your desk you should look over your emails and timelines and see what tasks need to be done today. You should then scale these tasks by priority and importance of completion. One of the great things of the Pomodoro technique is that it also factors in internal and external interruptions as these can't be avoided. Whether this is an urgent email from the client, an issue with web develop/designer/programmer or a phone call. Unexpected tasks that come up sporadically during the day can be classified under 'Unplanned & Urgent Activities'
So how does it work exactly?
The traditional Pomodoro is 30 minutes long and this is broken down into 25 minutes of work plus a 5-minute break. When you start your Pomodoro you need to fully commit to finishing it and focus on the task at hand. It is surprising how much you can get done in this small space of time and you will soon realise just how rare it is to get 25 minutes of undistracted and devoted time on one task.
If you manage to finish a task with some time left over, it is recommended you go back over your work, looking for mistakes or areas to improve. This is an seen as an opportunity to "overlearn".
What to do during the 3-5 minute break?
During the small break it is recommended not to:
- Start talking about work-related issues with a colleague
- Composing important emails
- Make imperative phone calls
All of these activities can lead to being distracted for more than the scheduled 3-5 minute break and will also not provide the break you need. I use this time to run through my Twitter feed or Google + and any articles that catch my eye I 'BOOKMARK' for a later Pomodoro.
After 4 Pomodoro's you are advised to take a longer break, this can be determined by you.
Working through Pomodoro's
If you follow the method step by step then you need to keep on working, Pomodoro after Pomodoro, until the task at hand is finished. You then move on to the next priority task.
Dealing with Distractions
If you working withthrough a Pomodoro and you suddenly realise you need to do something, either client or personal, try not to follow your instincts and do it but quickly classifythe importance and priority of the task and then add them to a document/spreadsheet titled Unplanned & Urgent. These can then be dealt with at a later point in time.
"You can't start concentrating until you've stopped getting distracted"
My Personal Adaptions
Some tasks can take around 6+ Pomodoro's to finish and if you know this is going to be the case then I prefer to complete a large chunk of the task and then go on to the next task, coming back to the original task at hand a few more Pomodoro's later. This is because I find when I return with a fresh mind I can be analytical and can judge my own work which makes it easier to pick out any mistakes.
I also find it helpful knowing I can break down larger tasks into small manageable chunks.
Exceptions to the Rule
There may be a few caveats to the success of the Pomodoro time management technique. Caveats might be:
- Whether you are In house or at an Agency
- The size of your agency – smaller agencies with less people often have more clients to look after and often activities which might be passed down the levels can't be
I understand that the nature of a task can also determine how effective you find the Pomodoro technique but the point I am trying to make is that a 25 minute slot of pure focus can be more productive than 50 minutes of work with distractions. I don't need to support this claim with science but I will (it's not a research paper I admit…)
"What science tells us, though, is that not only does multitasking make our work 50% less valuable; it takes 50% longer to finish."
For anyone that has got the time, this is an interesting article which surrounds 8 things people should know about concentrating.
Helpful Tool
For everyone that has a iPhone out there you can download a simple app to replicate the windup pomodoro. It is available here
Anyway….. happy tomatoes!
*BIG nudge to Ciaran Oliver who introduced me to the Pomodoro Technique, show him some groupie love, you know you want to…


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A man has been arrested on forcible touching charges, accused of groping women in Times Square while dressed as a character from a popular children's movie.
Patrol officers in plainclothes observed 44-year-old Jose Vasquez, who was dressed as the famous animated cowboy Woody from "Toy Story," grabbing the buttocks of two women while they posed for a picture with him, according to police.
Vasquez was charged with two counts of forcible touching and sex abuse. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.
The women did not file a complaint, police said.
This is the second incident in less than a year in which a person in costume allegedly harassed a visitor in Times Square. Last April, a man dressed as Cookie Monster was arrested after he allegedly pushed a toddler, apparently angry that the child's mother didn't give him a tip.
The costumed characters in Times Square are considered street performers protected by the First Amendment and are currently not regulated.
The Times Square Alliance said in a statement Thursday: "This is the latest in a long series of disturbing incidents that reinforce our belief that these costume characters must be licensed and regulated. We are looking forward to working with the new administration and City Council to come up with an equitable and effective regulatory solution."


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A Rescue in Less Than 3 Minutes
Linemen Leonard Person and Kenny Simmons did it faster than anyone.
Leonard Person and Kenny Simmons, line workers from Tri-County EMC in Dudley and Pee Dee EMC in Wadesboro, respectively, were crowned Pole Top Rescue champions in November at a statewide competition in Raleigh.
The competition among the state's electric cooperatives takes place every two years. This year's had two categories based on the type of fall restraints used by the competitors. Both categories used 100 percent fall protection, but there were differences in how the competitors were secured to the pole. One group secured themselves in the traditional way with a lifeline and life hook, while the other group used personal fall restraints that protect from falls during the ascent and descent.
Leonard Person, a three-time Pole Top Rescue champion, won the category with the new restraints that wrap around the pole, and set a new record, completing the "rescue" in 1:33.80, topping the previous record by more than 26 seconds. Simmons won first prize in the traditional category with a time of 1:36.74. They beat 21 other champions, each of whom won the event at their own cooperative earlier in the year when some 600 line workers participated.
In the Pole Top Rescue simulation, line workers place an emergency radio call, don climbing gear, scale 20 feet up a utility pole, rig a rope, lower a 105-pound mannequin and begin CPR.
The second and third place competitors using the new fall protection were Brantley Lawrence of Pitt & Greene EMC (Farmville) in a time of 1:37.02 and Chris Griffin of Union Power (Monroe) in a time of 1:57.62. Rounding out second and third place for the traditional life line and life hook category were Jason Worley of French Broad EMC (Marshall) in a time of 1:41.65 and Freddy White of Four County EMC (Burgaw) in a time of 2:02.80.
| 2012 Pole Top Rescue Competition Scoreboard
(in alphabetical order by co-op)
|Name of Contestant
|Electric Cooperative
| Time
|Matthew Byrum
|Albemarle EMC, Hertford
|Ben Hurley
|Blue Ridge EMC, Lenoir
|Chuck Nance
|Brunswick EMC, Shallotte
|Richard Augustson
|Cape Hatteras Electric Buxton
|Jonathan Long
|Carteret-Craven Electric, Newport
|Harris Morrison
|Central EMC, Sanford
|Chad Bryant
|Edgecombe-Martin County EMC, Tarboro
|Shay Reed
|EnergyUnited, Statesville
|Freddy White
|Four County EMC, Burgaw
|Jason Worley
|French Broad EMC, Marshall
|Jarrod Norris
|Jones-Onslow EMC, Jacksonville
|Mike Jones
|Lumbee River EMC, Red Springs
|Kenny Simmons
|Pee Dee EMC, Wadesboro
|Brent Talley
|Piedmont EMC, Hillsborough
|Brantley Lawrence
|Pitt & Greene EMC, Farmville
|Danny Lee
|Randolph EMC, Asheboro
|James Taylor
|Roanoke Electric, Ahoskie
|Timothy Williams
|South River EMC, Dunn
|Justin Collins
|Surry-Yadkin EMC, Dobson
|Matthew Neal
|Tideland EMC, Pantego
|Leonard Person
|Tri-County EMC, Dudley
|Chris Griffin
|Union Power, Monroe
|Cory Lawrence
|Wake Electric, Wake Forest
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T20 cricket has taken of in a big way in India and across the world. The IPL 2010 which was one of the biggest T20 tournaments this year saw Chennai Super Kings beating Mumbai Indians to lift the trophy.
However, Chennai Super Kings along with Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore now has to take part in the Champions League T20 2010 where champions from several countries will compete against each other for a prize money.
The Airtel Champions League T20 consists of 10 teams. Apart from the 3 IPL T20 teams the CL T20 2010 also has Warriors, Victorian Bushrangers, Wayamba Elevens, Central Stags, Highveld Lions, South Australian Redbacks and Guyana.
Airtel Champions League T20 will be played in South Africa starting on 10 September at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, with the final being played at the same venue on 26th September.
Are you gearing to watch the Champions League T20 matches? Well, if you don't have a TV, no problem, you can watch all the Champions League T20 2010 matches live online using high quality streaming links.
If you do not have access to a TV you can watch all the CL T20 2010 Matches live online using high quality stream links. You can watch all cricket matches live online at Crictime.com or also catch up on live cricket matches streaming at Cricfire.com. User channels for the live cricket matches are also available at sites like Ustream.tv and Justin.tv, you can search either of these sites to find live cricket streams uploaded by users.


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When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. The military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus.
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text: I love the time when I can just sit and knit. Early in the morning or often late at night. All is quiet and the house is calm. There is time to sit and be still while keeping my hands busy. It takes me a long time to finish my knitting projects, but I do eventually finish. I always have a project tucked away in my knitting bag. I have a long list of projects "to do" and I am satisfied with my plans. If I could do everything I want to do right now, then what would I have to look forward to? I do not want to have everything done "right now." Anticipation and planning. Hoping and waiting. Dreaming. It's a good thing, this exercise in patience, right?


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How Saying Yes to Your Kids for a Day Will Rock Their World
Do your kids feel like you say no to them all the time?
Are you willing to take a risk?
Then it's time for a Yes Day!
A Yes Day is when you let your kids call the shots and you get to say Yes! to (almost) everything.
In this article I'll explain how to set up a Yes Day that everyone in the family will enjoy.
Why Have a Yes Day?
It's fun to say "yes" for a whole day. A Yes Day is a special day once a year when the answer to every question is "yes." How often does that happen?
It's fun for kids because they have to think about what they want and then make requests. And it's fun for parents because, really, who likes to say "no" all the time?


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Paris by the light of day on Sunday did not disappoint. It is by far the most magnificent city I've ever seen. The beautiful sights are simply endless and grand entrances are the norm.
Imagine living here!
I was surprised to see snow in Paris on Sunday, but by afternoon it had turned to rain and I was on my way to Nantes with Stéphane Lacrampe as my host and guide. That night I stayed at his house, which is conveniently located very close to the railway station. It's currently being renovated and will be very nice when it's complete. He even has a funky courtyard-style back yard full of fruit trees!
On Monday morning we headed for the Obeo office on Stéphane's motor scooter. That was fun! Of course no pilgrimage to France is complete without a trip to a cathedral, so we stopped by the Cathedral of Nantes. Coincidentally, two weeks ago I finished reading the book "Pillars of the Earth" that Karsten Thoms bought for me on my previous trip to Lünen---a most excellent book---so I have developed a special appreciation for the architecture of a cathedral. It simply boggles the mind that such structures could be built without all the modern technology we have available today.
It's a real testament to the persistence of human nature and the creativity of the human mind to see such wondrous things. I've always had a particular fondness of colorful glass.
I suppose its hubris to compare the things we collectively create at Eclipse to such marvels, but if you consider the staggering complexity and number of people involved, it's not completely unreasonable.
Visiting Obeo was much like visiting itemis last month; so many happy friendly people excited to be working together on cool technology. Here they are all gathered for coffee and pastries in a new office space that they're currently setting up. Do you recognize any faces?
I spent much of the day with Jonathan Musset and Cédric Brun learning about what they're doing in open source as well as about some of their Acceleo technology; Cédric gave me that box of chocolates he promised long ago! Obeo has very cool traceability support in their products that I'd love to see for EMF's generator. E.g., you would be able to click on a structural feature and it would show you all the Java things generated from that feature. They've also have been doing some really cool work on a model for describing forms. I encouraged them to write a project proposal so we can reach out to all the interested parties; that conversation is now well underway.
Like the itemis founders, the Obeo founders are refreshingly open minded and forward thinking. They were recently featured in this French paper:
We talked quite a bit too about how to promote modeling in France and how to get the French modeling community more integrated with the modeling community abroad. The German community has been a little more well-integrated I think. Language barriers are an unfortunate fact of life.
On Monday night I stayed at Etienne Juliot's house. It was very sociable. I tried to read a picture book for his daughter, but we seemed to disagree on the words. She would insist, for example, that an apple is really a pomme and was not impressed by the fact that I seemed to be making up new words on the fly. She was too cute.
We had to get up at 4:30 so we could catch the 5:30 train to Paris; yet another sleep deprived night. I was warned that a rush hour ride on the Paris Metro would be an "experience" and it certainly was. How many French people can you cram into a subway car? MD Day was held at that the Arche de la Défense which was totally spectacular. Check out this view of the Arc de Triomphe from under La Grande Arche.
Look what you can do with a little zoom and a lot of mega pixels.
The turnout at MD Day was very large, approximately 260 people I believe. That's Stéphane in the front left.
All the talks, except mine, were in French so I just hung out all day to chat with people. Jean Bezivin was there chatting with Patric Albert of ILOG, one of IBM's most recent acquisitions, so we discussed a bit of the interesting things ILOG is considering doing in open source at Eclipse. I also ran into Olivier Moises again, so we had more time to chat about Wazaabi and how it relates to the Presentation Modeling Framework proposal that's currently under discussion. He introduced me to Cédric Vidal of ProxiAD who has been working on a simple style-sheet approach to transforming models in his spare time; that immediately made me think about how useful what he's doing would be for e4. I encouraged him to get involved.
Meanwhile, Etienne was manning the Obeo booth where he demonstrated their technology to a steady stream of visitors.
One of the highlights for me was when Steve Sfartz introduced me to Jean-Marc Prieur who spent almost an hour providing a personalized demonstration of Microsoft graphical DSL tools in action.
It was very interesting to see this technology in action and it was extremely nice that I had the time to ask many detailed technical questions. The graphical DSL technology is based on a CMOF-like meta model; Jean-Marc explained that he considers it far simpler than MOF. I say it's CMOF-like because associations are first class objects and, at least by default, association classes (or link classes) are generated much like what I blogged about for modeling associations with Ecore. In addition to the domain meta model, there is also a model for describing the desired graphical editing support and of course the two are mapped to bind the domain onto the desired graphical editor. It's also possible to specify the desired XML serialization; though I'm not sure XMI is supported. Their UML technology is built on this stack. All in all, it's very much like GMF though with significantly more end-user polish.
We also talked about Oslo, Microsoft's more recent textual DSL effort. While the graphical DSL effort is primarily focused on code generation, graphical editing, and XML serialization, the textual DSL project has a different domain meta model, i.e., MSchema, and is primarily focused on runtimes, reflection, and textual serialization. You can compare the graphical DSL project to generated EMF augmented by GMF; as far as I understand it, the domain meta model exists only at development time, not at runtime, so there is no MOF-like reflection support. You can compare the textual DSL technology to Xtext (i.e., MGrammar), Ecore (i.e., MSchema), and EObject (i.e., MGraph). So while at Eclipse we provide Ecore as the common standards-based meta model (i.e., OMG EMOF) to support both graphical and textual DSLs and hence provide model-based reflection for all domain models, at Microsoft there are two different technologies to cover these two aspects.
My stupid modeling talk at the end of the day was very well received. People even cheered when I described XML as a poor excuse for human readable syntax that was designed primarily with machine- not human-readability in mind and that has so much appeal largely because lazy developers can avoid writing lexers and parsers. The message that UML is not equal to modeling was also well received. It's of course particularly gratifying to be preaching to the converted! It was a very long day so I was happy to head back to the hotel. When I checked my email, Dave informed me that the EMF book is finally done! It will be in warehouses on Dec 24th, so order your copy now before they all sell out!!
The next day, I had time for a little more sight seeing. Who would have thought we'd find a Canadian pub in Paris?
The Notre-Dame Cathedral was magnificent.
There were a great many amazing fountains.
Occasionally the old and the new stood together in sharp contrast.
Larry and I had a great dinner with a bottle of very fine French wine to end our day and our trip. In the morning it was time to head for home, where there was 10 cm of snow to greet us. Oh well, the girls certainly gave us a warm welcome home, even if the weather didn't.
Friday, November 28, 2008
2 comments:
- Donald Smith said...
I love Paris. It is very much the Milwaukee of Europe.
- Don
- November 28, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Hi Ed,
Eh cool pictures of Paris :)
I finally found the time to publish the source code of EMF Styling, the stylesheet approach to transforming models that I demoed to you at MD Day 2008 ;)
Here is the EMF Styling project page
Kind regards,
- November 30, 2008 at 4:38 PM
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James said the fan fell from the stands into the tunnel where the visiting team leaves the field.


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Rob Reiner's new movie "Flipped" is set in the era when his father Carl Reiner was ruling CBS as the creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
But Reiner chose to feature the NBC western Bonanza when showing a television onscreen in his movie.
No snub intended, Rob Reiner insists he didn't want to be too obvious with a nod to his father by showing his show.
"I thought that would be a little distracting to a certain audience," Reiner said at a press event for the film.
Besides, "Bonanza" also represented a massive cultural shift in America that came with NBC pushing color programming right about the time his love story, due out Aug. 6, was set. "'Bonanza' came out in color in 1963 and everyone watched it," said Reiner. "We needed the color."
Reiner assures us his father totally understands. And he did manage to get an homage to the "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in the movie that careful observers will catch. The fictional house in "Flipped" is on Bonnie Meadow Lane.
"On the 'Dick Van Dyke Show' they lived at 148 Bonnie Meadow Road. And in real life growing up in New Rochelle, New York, we lived at 48 Bonnie Meadow Road," said Reiner. "That's my little nod to my life."
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Rob Reiner's new movie "Flipped" is set in the era when his father Carl Reiner was ruling CBS as the creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show."


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EFT Helps Small Clubs Prosper
Small clubs. Customer service. Know your members. Intimacy of space. The personal touch. EFT. Does EFT seem out of place? It shouldn't. Read on.
The small club or gym atmosphere of the past decade has capitalized on its inherent advantages mentioned above. The one area where the "little guys" have lagged behind the "big guys" has been in the area of collecting membership fees. It is fairly common to have monthly losses of 10 to 12 percent on membership dues. Couple this factor - loss meaning money not collected - with a long-known statistic that more than 20 percent of invoiced dues do not get paid within 30 days, and one realizes the absolute need for stabilization of the monthly fees base in small clubs.
It is conceivable - in fact, predictable -that the average small club (10,000 square feet, 1,200 members, monthly fee $35, 60 percent of members on monthly pay) is losing between $30,000 and $90,000 per year in cash flow from poor billing and collection methods. In other words, in an attempt to be overly "customer friendly" by billing in-house, these clubs have committed the First Deadly Sin of Business - not arranging for timely and ethical collection of members' fees.
For most clubs, this represents the difference between operating predictably profitably or "just getting by" in business. What it means for their customers is that the club is not able to capitalize new equipment when needed, nor to make necessary renovations to stay current in the competitive marketplace. What it means for staff is no money for wage increases or incentives. What it means to owners is no cushion. Said more bluntly, it means a business always operating in survival, and we all know that a survival-based business operating in a highly cyclical industry spells certain disaster. As the old sage said: "It's not a question of IF you're going out of business, it's a question of WHEN."
Enter EFT. Greater ease of payment for the customer. Immediate collection of fees due to the club, at lower cost to both the club, and ultimately, the customer. Fewer losses and delinquencies. Enhanced cash flow. Ability to have additional funds for expansion of member services, purchase of new equipment and raises/incentives to employees. Stabilization of your business guaranteed.
One more thought: Get to the phone NOW. Call your bank, software provider and/or billing receivables company today. Get on the EFT train. Stop suffering. Enjoy prosperity in your club.
- Michael Scott Scudder is an international consultant and training workshop leader who can be contacted at (505) 751-4236; [email protected]; or www.michaelscottscudder.com.
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StairMaster Acquires Quinton
KIRKLAND, Wash. - Stair-Master has purchased Quin-ton Fitness. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Perhaps best known for its steppers, StairMaster has unveiled a new strategy to offer a full range of aerobic and strength products for commercial customers worldwide. With its established treadmill line, Quinton fits into this strategy well.
Quinton's fitness and medical treadmill support personnel will be incorporated into StairMaster's organization in Kirkland. Quinton's treadmill manufacturing will remain in its facility in Bothell, Wash.


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Fleeing the Earth
As a fan of Michigan sports and especially University of Michigan football, I can't help but experience an inordinate amount of glee in the problems currently roiling the Ohio State football program. You can say I'm a bad person for feeling this way but if you ask a Buckeyes fan, I'm sure they'll admit to feeling the same way when Gary Moeller was forced out as the coach at Michigan. Sure, you'd like to be able to beat a team on their own terms but when they've got your number, it's a little satisfying to see the person responsible for that get the boot.
And it's not just football. With the Tigers playing in the same division as the Indians and the Indians currently whipping everyone's butts, it's just one more reason to dislike Ohio. But maybe I should be a little more empathetic and feel sorry for Ohio. After all, there must be some truth to this graphic:
So, Ohio, I'm going to go easy on you. You've had a rough year with LeBron leaving town and Tressel's sweater vests hiding a growing laundry list of sins. But when the dust settles and Tressel gets forced out, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't going to have a drink to celebrate. Same goes for when the Indians come back to earth.


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Throughout Scotland, not just in the Highlands, summer signals the onset of the Highland Games, from the smallest village get-togethers to the Giant Cowal Highland Gathering in Dunoon, which draws a crowd of 10,000. Urbanites might blanch at the idea of al fresco Scottish country dancing, but with dog trials, tractors, fudge stalls and more cute animals than you could toss a caber at, the Highland Games are a guaranteed paradise for kids.
It's thought that the games originated in the eleventh century as a means of selecting soldiers through trials of strength and endurance. These events were formalized in the nineteenth century, partly as a result of Queen Victoria's romantic attachment to Highland culture: a culture that had in reality been brutally extinguished following the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden.
The military origins of the games are recalled in displays of muscle-power by bulky bekilted local men, from tossing the caber (ie tree trunk) to hurling hammers and stones, and pitching bales of straw over a raised pole. Music and dance are also integral to the games, with pipe bands and small girls – kitted out in waistcoats, kilts and long woolly socks - performing reels and sword dances. You might also see showjumping, as well as sheepdogs being put through their paces, while the agricultural shows feature prize animals, from sleek ponies with intricate bows tied in their manes and tails to curly-horned rams.
Highland Games are held from May to September – the big gatherings include Braemar (www.braemargathering.org) and Cowal (www.cowalgathering.com).
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text: I installed Precision Mapping v7 in my Win. 7 64 bit OS and it works fine however, PMap Server v7 does not, it won't load. No surprise there but wonder if upgrading to Precision Mapping v9 along with PMap Server v9 will make it happy. Has anyone sucessfully loaded this combination in a 64 bit OS?


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The First Lady of France is bringing her je ne sais quoi to Woody Allen's newest film.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who has already built a successful career as a singer and supermodel, will add actress to her resume when Allen's Jazz-Age period piece, "Paris in Midnight," hits theaters.
Bruni-Sarkozy shot several scenes this week around the Pantheon in the City of Light with co-star Owen Wilson, according to People.
U.S. & World
Allen first pitched the role to her last year and then met with her and French President Nicholas Sarkozy to iron out the details of the shoot.
She officially took on the role last November. In the film, which also features Wilson, Marion Cotillard and Adrian Brody, Bruni-Sarkozy will play a director of a Paris museum.
Though she's not trained as an actor, she said she couldn't pass up the chance to work with one the great directors of contemporary cinema.
"I go into everything blindly, or I'd never do anything at all," she said in an interview on France's Canal+ network. "I am not an actress at all. Maybe I'll be completely hopeless, but I can't miss an opportunity like this one in my life. When I'm a grandmother, I'd like to be able to say I made a film with Woody Allen."


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|iScroll implementation using Aria Templates
AT core team member
|18 June 2013 07:55
The main use case for 'iScroll' is arised from the inability to scroll content inside a fixed width/height element when used with mobile webkit (on iPhone, iPad, Android). This situation prevents any web-app to have a position:absolute header and/or footer and a scrolling central area for contents.
The entire HTML document is scrolled regardless of any CSS you might have in place to achieve otherwise. Because many native mobile applications are designed with a fixed navigation bar at the top of the screen and a fixed toolbar or tab bar at the bottom of the screen, this lack of fixed content support in the WebKit browsers is really quite a problem.
Getting iScroll Into Your Project
Head on over to the iScroll homepage and download the source. Download iScroll 4 and Unzip the file download and grab the iscroll-lite.js file. [As we are using only the basic scrolling functionality, this is all we are going to need]. Drop the file into your desired directory. Then you can use the following way to invoke the iScroll class in your html file.
<script type="text/javascript">
When you call .iscroll() the library will find the parent element and make the content scrollable. This method will also return an instance of the iScroll class. If the method is called again it will refresh the content. This is convenient in case you modify the content dynamically (iScroll allows to detech DOM changes automatically).
The library dispatches an event name onScrollEnd when the scroll action is completed. In touch screen devices this library adds momentum. This means that the content will continue moving for a short time after the touchend event.
Implementation using Aria Templates
The controller js handles code for iScroll implementation. Sample code is shown below:
The tpl contains the following lines
<div id="wrapper">
Another sample AT implementation is shown below:
When we create a new iScroll object, we have the option to pass in a second parameter as a JavaScript configuration object. The configuration options available include:
function scroll() {
hScroll and vScroll control the horizontal and vertical scrolling (if you hadn't guessed) and by setting either one to false, you can disable them
altogether. By default, these are both set to true, so if your content exceeds the wrapper, the user will have the ability to scroll to it.
hScrollbar and vScrollbar these are the options to show and hide the black scrollbar that fades-in and fades-out when scrolling.
The fixedScrollbar option is the control for how the scrollbar acts when it reaches the end of your scrollable container. By default it is set to false so that when it reaches the end, it shrinks down. When set to true, it remains a fixed height.
fadeScrollbar is set to true by default, but if you would prefer to have the scrollbar just dissapear rather than fade, set this to false.
hideScrollbar is set to true by default, but if you want the scrollbar to remain on the page, set this to false. The scrollbar will now not fade out when the user stops scrolling.
bounce is to set the 'elastic banding' when the user scrolls beyond the content. By default this is set to true. Personally I have found that when using iScroll within a big application, setting this to false has saved a lot of loading time.
momentum controls the inertia of the scrolling. By default it is set to true, but if you want a more controlled scrolling area, set this to false. This is another one of those options that you might want to turn off in big applications as it seems to eat up resources.
lockDirection locks down the scrolling to one axis only. So you can either scroll up and down or left and right at any one time. This is set to true by default, but if you want to allow the user to scroll in either direction at anytime, set it to false.
iScroll lets you zoom in and out. By setting the zoom option to true the scroller reacts to pinch/zoom gestures
newScroll = new iScroll(currentPageId, {snap: true,momentum: false,hScrollbar: false,vScrollbar: false });
The snap feature locks the scroller to predefined positions. This can be used to create fancy carousels.
You can now customize the scrollbars appearance with a bunch of CSS. To apply a class to the scrollbars you just need to pass the scrollbarClass option:
myScroll = new iScroll('wrapper', { scrollbarClass: 'myScrollbar' });.
Mastering the Refresh method:
var t = this;
So if unsure call the refresh inside a timeout.
Public Method:
iScroll has some public methods you can access any time to interact with the scroller. The most important of all is refresh, it must be called each time the content inside the scroller changes.
Public methods are accessed thank to the global variable used to instantiate the iScroll. In the examples I used myScroll, so you can access all the methods
with: myScroll.name_of_the_function(parameters).
Custom Scrollbars:
You can now customize the scrollbars appearance with a bunch of CSS. To apply a class to the scrollbars you just need to pass the scrollbarClass option:
myScroll = new iScroll('wrapper', { scrollbarClass: 'myScrollbar' });
.myScrollbarV {
To completely destroy the iScroll and free some (a lot of) memory, call the destroy() method.
Best way to destroy an iScroll:
(This post was last modified: 19 June 2013 13:50 by renjurichard.)
|10 July 2013 11:46
As the iScroll implementation takes only li as snapshot, is there any option to include other elements or elements based on class selectors
M Hussain


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Nor Cal Fish Report
Amador filling with water, trout
Lake Amador - Ione, CA (Amador County)
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Lake has risen five feet since fall rains began. A plant 1,200 pounds of trout goes in Thursday. Corner of the dam is the hot spot. Bank anglers are doing better than those in boats. (209) 274-4739
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Nor Cal Fish Reports Reportsfor Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
Lake Almanor: Almanor between seasons
Lake Amador: Amador to get trout plants
Anderson Reservoir: Finesse working at Anderson
Lake Berryessa: Berryessa good for bass
Bullards Bar Reservoir: Bullards bass biting
Calero Lake: Go early to Calero
Lake Camanche: Bass best at Camanche
Caples Lake: Caples Marina closes
Lake Chabot: Chabot bass bite steady
Clear Lake: Busy Clear Lake fishing well
Collins Lake: Collins gets first trout of fall
Contra Loma Reservoir: Contra Loma slow
Convict Lake: Big trout at Convict
Coyote Lake: Small bass biting at Coytore
Del Valle Lake: Del Valle cooling, dropping
Heenan Lake : Two weeks left to fish Heenan
Indian Creek Reservoir: Indian Creek cutts biting
June Lake Loop: Changes taking hold in June Loop
Los Vaqueros Reservoir: Trout, striper bite improving
Mammoth Lakes : Mammoth Lakes peaking
Lake Mendocino: Shad thick at Mendo
Lake Oroville: Big bass numbers at Oroville
Pyramid Lake: Big cutts biting at Pyramid
Quarry Lakes: Quarry Lakes still slow
San Luis Reservoir: San Luis bait bite underway
San Pablo Reservoir: Family Day Saturday at San Pablo
Santa Margarita Lake: Decent prospects at Santa Margarita
Shadow Cliffs Reservoir: Shadow Cliffs cats biting
Shasta Lake: Everything working at Shasta
Lake Sonoma: Trout, bass slow at Sonoma
Klamath River - Upper - CA: Late salmon in Happy Camp
Klamath River - Upper - CA: Upper Klamath a challenge
Napa River: Napa River holding stripers
McCloud River: McCloud in fine form
Sacramento River: Salmon trickling through Colusa
Sacramento River: Salmon move past Chico, Red Bluff
Smith River: Salmon in Smith River
Trinity River: Trinity filling with salmon, steelies
Sacramento Delta: Plenty of action in Antioch
: Salmon action steady in Benicia
Discovery Bay: Stripers in Disco Bay
Sacramento Delta: Black bass biting in Franks Tract
Sacramento Delta: Freeport salmon intercepted
Sacramento Delta: Pittsburg anglers hit Broad Slough
Sacramento Delta: Salmon, stripers in Rio Vista
Sacramento Delta: Stockton waterways weed choked
Sacramento Delta: Quality largemouth in Tracy
: Bonito biting in Santa Cruz
: Cod, bonito biting in Monterey
: Mackerel in Pacifica
: Some salmon, bonito and WSB near HMB
: SF Bay halibut bite spreads
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Campaign Exceeds Goal with $10.8 Million Gift: Gerard and Lilo Leeds Fund The National Academy for Excellent Teaching at TC
With a $10.8 million gift, the Campaign for Teachers College has surpassed its $140 million goal and continues. The gift, the largest in TC's history, is from Gerard and Lilo Leeds for The National Academy for Excellent Teaching at TC. The Academy will provide professional development to teachers and principals in secondary schools in New York and across America serving predominantly high need, underserved and underperforming students.
The Leeds chose to partner with TC on this Academy because they see professional development for high school teachers as a major part of the solution for improving education. With its commitment to involve all teachers in the participating schools, the Academy will build five-year partnerships with each participating school by blending the best of on-site and online professional development, strengthened by school-based coaching. The goal is to improve the student achievement of entire schools.
The Academy brings together TC faculty from many disciplines and engages them with teachers, principals and superintendents. The curriculum, which is focused on quality teaching as the key to increasing school achievement, will help to improve secondary schools in New York City and across America in significant and measurable ways. The vision and passion of the Leeds are the catalysts for making this change happen.
"We are very impressed with the faculty of Teachers College, and their vision of the Academy," said the Leeds. "Our aim is to support secondary education because it doesn't get much emphasis. If we help to make it possible for every child to have a great education, then we will have made a contribution to our nation."
Using New York City as its initial base of operation, the Academy will work with 105 public high schools in its first six years.
"Through the Leeds grant, Teachers College will have an unprecedented opportunity to redesign professional development for our nation. Today it is too often only a grab bag of individual courses and day-long experiences for teachers and administrators with no lasting impact on schools," said Arthur Levine, President of Teachers College, who is on sabbatical. "Our goal is to transform professional development so that the focus shifts from the random to the purposeful,from theindividual teacher to the whole school, from an emphasis on teaching to student learning and achievement, and from the immediate to the long term. With a growing number of teachers being hired without pre-service education, particularly in our most hard-pressed schools, the importance of professional developmenttakes on a new urgencyasan essential tool for teacher education and school improvement."
Throughout those first six years, the Academy will invite leaders of other universities and schools of education to observe and study the program and to encourage replication across the nation. During the fourth year, the Academy will begin to work with schools in other states.
"The Academy will be an example of true partnerships. In addition to the work with teachers and principals, we will build a sense of community within each high school, then throughout their regions and finally reach out to share what we've learned here in NYC with schools in other states," said Acting President Darlyne Bailey. "The teachers in this program will have a national network of other teachers, coaches and experts to support them in the years to come."
The Academy provides a program of professional development to high-need secondary schools combining summer institutes, school year workshops, on-site coaching, and online communications tools and resources aimed at raising student achievement. Two-week summer institutes will offer intensive, interactive knowledge and skill building sessions on developing literacy across the curriculum, academic content, pedagogy, and the learning context of under-performing and under-served secondary level students. All teachers will spend two summers working in the institutes.
The curriculum, which is currently being designed and developed by the Curriculum Development Committee headed by Jacqueline Ancess, Co-Director of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching (NCREST), and Ruth Vinz, Director of the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET), will address teachers' knowledge base in content and how they teach to underserved high school students, focusing always on quality teaching as the key to increasing student achievement.
There are not many programs that take on intensive partnerships with urban high schools, especially high needs schools. "This model, which we have been shaping since the fall of 2001, is responsive to the expertise of the teachers, principals and other school staff within the urban high school context," said Vinz, who is the Enid and Lester Morse Professor in Teacher Education at TC. "With input from many TC faculty members, we also thought about the strengths and the expertise that could be used and developed at TC."
Though the program will start in New York City, it will be developed into a nationally scaleable model that will help children everywhere. "We are working to create bonds with practitioners so that there are strong professional communities within and across the content areas in high schools. The Academy is particularly important because literacy is the gateway to educational opportunity, social and economic mobility, which constitutes -'the American Dream,'" Ancess said. "It aims to increase the access of children currently denied so they too can partake in fruits of what our democracy represents and promises."
The Leeds, who came to the United States as refugees from Hitler's Germany, have always been passionate about education and learning. After receiving a good educational foundation in Europe, they continued to study here, both earning bachelors and master's degrees. In 1971, they started CMP Publications with The Electronic Buyer's News. They then created Electronic Engineering Times. Their company evolved into one of the largest high-technology media companies, CMP Media, Inc. By 1988, the Leeds appointed one of their sons to take over the business. In 1999, CMP Media was sold to a British Company, United News Media.
"We had a wonderful education in this country which enabled us to start our own publishing company," said Mrs. Leeds. "Now we have founded the Institute for Student Achievement, a not-for-profit organization that works with schools to prevent children from dropping out of high school. We were lucky to be able to sell our company and devote our funds to teacher education."
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Human rights lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against the United Nations on Wednesday to seek compensation for Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic they blame on U.N. peacekeepers.
The decision to file the suit in New York comes after the United Nations said earlier this year that it would not pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation claimed by cholera victims in impoverished Haiti.
The cholera epidemic there has killed more than 8,300 people and sickened more than 650,000 since October 2010.
"Haiti today has the worst cholera epidemic in the world," said Miami attorney Ira Kurzban, who announced the lawsuit at a joint news conference with the human rights groups Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH).
"Before these events, Haiti did not know of cholera for 100 years. Cholera was brought to Haiti by U.N. troops," Kurzban said.
The IJDH said the plaintiffs are asking the court to certify the case as a class action, which would allow the victims to represent and obtain relief for the hundreds of thousands Haitians and Haitian-Americans affected by the epidemic.
The lawyers filed the suit in the U.S. District Court in New York's Southern District, seeking $2.2 billion for the Haitian government to eradicate cholera along with unspecified damages for as many as 679,000 victims for personal injury, wrongful death, emotional distress, and loss of use of property and natural resources.
The lawsuit filed on behalf of Haitians and Haitian-Americans maintains that the cholera was introduced by U.N. troops brought to Haiti from Nepal, "a country in which cholera is endemic and where a surge in infections had just been reported."
The troops were stationed near a tributary of the Artibonite River and discharged raw sewage that carried a strain of cholera into Haiti, sparking the epidemic, the lawsuit said.
"The U.N. knew or should have known that its reckless sanitation and waste disposal practices posed a high risk of harm to the population, and that it consciously disregarded that risk, triggering an explosive epidemic," the civil rights groups said in a joint press release.
Asked to comment on the suit, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said: "We don't discuss claims brought against the U.N."
The United Nations was working on the ground in Haiti to provide assistance to those affected, he added. It was committed to do all it can do "to help the people of Haiti overcome the cholera epidemic," Haq said.
U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said in Geneva on Tuesday that Haiti's cholera victims should be compensated, though she did not say who should compensate them.
"I still stand by the call ... of those who suffered as a result of that cholera be provided with compensation," she said.
An independent panel, appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to study the epidemic, issued a 2011 report that did not determine conclusively how the cholera was introduced to Haiti.
However, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said evidence strongly suggested U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal were the source.
Cholera is an infection that causes severe diarrhea and can lead to dehydration and death. It occurs in places with poor sanitation.
In November 2011, the Boston-based IJDH filed a petition at U.N. headquarters in New York seeking a minimum of $100,000 for the families or next-of-kin of each person killed by cholera and at least $50,000 for each victim who suffered illness or injury from cholera.
Ban launched a $2.2 billion initiative in December 2012 to stamp out cholera over the next decade in Haiti.
Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said in February that the world body advised representatives of the cholera victims that "the claims are not receivable pursuant to Section 29 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities."
The IJDH said at the time it was disappointed by the U.N. decision and would pursue the case in court.
Under Section 29 the United Nations is required to make provisions for "appropriate modes of settlement" of private law disputes to which the world body is a party, or disputes involving a U.N. official who enjoys diplomatic immunity.
It was not immediately clear how the issue of diplomatic immunity for the United Nations would impact the lawsuit.
Kurzban said the lawsuit seeks to clean up the waterways and sanitation systems in Haiti. "Cholera is treatable, easily treatable, if the country has clean water and sanitation.
"We feel the U.N. has an obligation to clean up the mess that they made."
(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Additional reporting by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Mike Collett-White, David Adams and Christopher Wilson)


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Album Description
With these instrumental and electronic songs we try to explore new areas, darker, more nocturnal, to complement the sounds created to represent the day in that album and so, as always, communicate and enhance communication. Sunlight showed melancholy but upbeat melodies, guitars and programming closer to pop music and arrangements created from pictures. Here are more restrained atmosphere, less bright, in which a single note or entry of a new instrument transforms the speech and makes the compositions do not already have an enclosed structure. Are now histories and get, or so it tries, to unite under the same title several ideas, different "songs". We had a sunny day to stroll through the park. Now, we have a cold night hiding behind all those streetlights.
Influences... Aphex Twin, Social Network, come to house after a hard day of work, Boards of Canada, concrete music, rain after the window, Autechre, winter's weather, Kaurismaki, Sakamoto with Fennesz, quiet pianos, Sigur Ros, digital clocks, coffe and cigars, Hyperballad, replicants, dark side of the moon...
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