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LOS ANGELES — To combat its infamous traffic, Los Angeles has built subways and light-rail lines. It has widened highways and added carpool, toll and bus-only lanes. But the roads have remained stubbornly clogged, creating a drag on commerce and the quality of life that has persisted here for generations.
Now, in the latest ambitious and costly assault on gridlock, Los Angeles has synchronized every one of its 4,500 traffic signals across 469 square miles — the first major metropolis in the world to do so, officials said — raising the almost fantastical prospect, in theory, of driving Western Avenue from the Hollywood Hills to the San Pedro waterfront without stopping once.
But with the number of cars on the road here continuing to rise (and almost 7 million commuters already on the road each day at rush hour in the metro area), even the system's boosters admit that it may not be enough to prevent gridlock from growing worse.
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Built up over 30 years at a cost of $400 million and completed only several weeks ago, the Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control system, as it is officially known, offers Los Angeles one of the world's most comprehensive systems for mitigating traffic.
The system uses magnetic sensors in the road that measure the flow of traffic, hundreds of cameras and a centralized computer system that makes constant adjustments to keep cars moving as smoothly as possible. The city's Transportation Department says the average speed of traffic across the city is 16 percent faster under the system, with delays at major intersections down 12 percent.
Without sy.chronization, it takes an average of 20 minutes to drive five miles on Los Angeles streets; with synchronization, it has fallen to 17.2 minutes, the city says. And the average speed on the city's streets is now 17.3 mph, up from 15 mph without synchronized lights.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who pledged to complete the system in his 2005 campaign, now presents it as a significant accomplishment as his two terms come to an end in June. He argued that the system would also cut carbon emissions by reducing the number of times cars stop and start.
"I am proud that we are the first big city in the world to synchronize all of our traffic signals," Villaraigosa said in an email. "By synchronizing our traffic signals, we spend less time waiting, less time polluting."
James E. Moore II, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Southern California, said it was "the first U.S. deployment" of such a sophisticated system.
But in the long term, Moore said, any traffic-synchronization system — no matter how technologically advanced or comprehensive — is unlikely to keep gridlock at bay.
"If we reduce average travel time in Los Angeles by 20 percent, then we will see more people traveling," Moore said. "It's money well spent, but part of the benefit is not speed."
Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) synchronized many of its signals in the mid-2000s, and major crossings are linked to a control room on the 38th floor of downtown's Seattle Municipal Tower. But the network is less extensive than Los Angeles'.
Second and Fourth Avenues are commonly timed to give drivers a succession of green lights. But the lights are predominantly of fixed duration. In Seattle the lengths are calibrated to allow time for crowds of pedestrians to cross, and it's common for walkers and turning drivers to hinder each other.
At Mercer Street, which was just rebuilt as a two-way boulevard, SDOT intends to install a new adaptive signal system this year that will read the numbers of incoming cars, and adjust the length of green and red lights in real time, said signal operations manager Brian Kemper.
Studies will be done this year to look at adaptive signal improvements citywide, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced in March.
Other cities have chased to keep up with Los Angeles. The Southern California metropolis has remained at the forefront, with a system that is not only more widespread but also faster and more autonomous than most others.
The magnetic sensors in the road at every intersection send real-time updates about the traffic flow through fiber-optic cables to a bunker beneath downtown Los Angeles, where Edward Yu runs the network. The computer system, which runs software the city itself developed, analyzes the data and automatically makes second-by-second adjustments, adapting to changing conditions and using a trove of past data to predict where traffic could snarl, all without human involvement.
Long Beach and Gilroy, Calif., have already adopted the Los Angeles software, and Washington — the only city in the country that had worse traffic congestion than Los Angeles last year, according to the Texas A&M report — has considered buying it as well, Yu said.
"One intersection affects the entire network, so our system is very dynamic, constantly responding to demands of traffic," Yu said. "But it takes a lot of infrastructure to do what we do. Other cities have similar operations. Ours is just very comprehensive."
In concert with toll and carpool lanes, as well as other initiatives like changeable signs warning of road closings, traffic-light synchronization saves $1.3 billion in fuel and time per year, according to David Schrank, co-author of the Texas A&M report.
When buses are running behind schedule, the network automatically extends green lights in bus-only lanes. (When buses are running on time, they have to endure red lights along with everyone else.) When roads are closed for special events, like the Oscars or a presidential visit, light patterns direct cars to other streets, though that does not always solve the problem. President Obama's visit here in August 2010, for example, forced the closing of a major thoroughfare, unleashing gridlock on the entire west side of the city.
The magnetic sensors pick up most bicycles as well. Pedestrians are tougher to record, but they are also accounted for. Walk lights are extended automatically in some cases — outside Staples Center after Lakers games, or in Jewish neighborhoods on Saturdays — even if no one pushes the walk button.
Still, many residents have not yet noticed the city's efforts to ease gridlock. Moore said that to really reduce road congestion, cities must start charging commuters to drive on the busiest corridors and freeways, which, controversially, began recently on one freeway in the area.
"Traffic really just defines your possibilities at any given time," said Jeremy Fuller, 29, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was born and raised here. "I think it's gotten worse since I was a kid. As the city continues to grow in population, and the infrastructure doesn't grow, it's just always going to get worse."
Seattle Time transportation reporter Mike Lindblom contributed to this report.


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During his participation in the Youth Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Pope Francis called upon young people to honor their grandparents. It seemed like a simple request, but it was one that hit home for me personally. Perhaps I identified with it because I am newly retired, but I would like to think it was due to the importance of his message.
You see, his comment - "relationships and dialogue between generations is a treasure to be preserved and strengthened'' - are words we can all live by, including us in Northeast Pennsylvania.
Respect for the elderly is one of the nicest attributes we possess in this region. Larger and more transient areas in which my wife, Tina, and I have lived do not possess the same respect for older generations. Families there are not as closely tied together and youngsters are not as involved with their grandparents or even their great-grandparents, as we are here.
Perhaps this regional characteristic of inter-generational respect stems from the fact that Northeast Pennsylvania still maintains much of its immigrant characteristics. It may also be because the mean age of NEPA is older than the majority of the rest of the country or perhaps it is because - as the pope suggested - religion often does bring generations together.
Having lived in many cities and regions of the country prior to moving here, my wife and I were fascinated by the region's close family ties. This characteristic manifested itself in many observable ways: Weekly or bi-weekly family dinners, family celebrations, vacations involving multiple generations, and recreational and educational activities often involve children, parents and grandchildren.
There is an assumption among many people who have lived here for generations that everyone has large and proximate families. During our first Thanksgiving in NEPA, for example, our new friends simply assumed we would spend time with our family for this traditional holiday. We were a bit lonely that day as our closest friends and family members lived thousands miles of way. Even though this community is wonderfully hospitable no Thanksgiving dinner invitation was forthcoming. It dawned on us a few days later that this was not a slight in any way. Our new friends simply assumed we would be spending Thanksgiving dinner with family.
The pope's words and those of so many other people who laud the personal and community benefits of intergenerational dialogue and close relationships are institutionalized here. One of the latest ways we are enhancing respect for our elders is through "Generation 2 Generation." This local volunteer group is interested in spawning closeness among the generations outside of the traditional family.
This informal association is the brainchild of Eric Lee and Joe Devizia, and Mahmoud Fahmy. Together, they plan and hold meetings, social gatherings and essay contests that are designed to stimulate conversations and learning among the young and the old.
The annual "Generation 2 Generation" dance includes octogenarians and college students, which is loved by everyone in attendance. The essay contest produces much more than some very thoughtful writings by high school students about what they have learned from their grandparents. It also stimulates some very thoughtful reflection upon what the young can learn from the elderly about what is truly important in life. And yes, it also suggests how the old can occasionally learn from the young.
To live in a region where our elders are respected and revered is a treasure we should not take lightly. As our country's population ages more, much larger communities will be looking for new ways to initiate intergenerational dialogue and to better integrate the young and the old. We in NEPA will be seen as a role model for cities and states predominately populated by "young people." Let's hope they can learn by our example.
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The resolution of the Committee on Sanctions of the UN Security Council (passed in 2009) points to the involvement of Karachi-based businessman Arif Qasmani, LeT and al-Qaeda in the Samjhauta blasts but this was suppressed in the investigation by the NIA, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said at a press conference at the party headquarters.
Joshi said that there was also evidence to show that SIMI was involved in the blasts, and so were David Headley and his third wife Faiza Outalha but the NIA ignored it. These facts destroy the case in NIA chargesheet and confirms the evil intent of the political establishment, he said.
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Scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) are instruments that measure properties of surfaces. They include atomic force microscopes (AFMs) and scanning tunnelling microscopes (STMs). In their first applications, SPMs were used mainly for measuring 3D surface topography and, although they can now be used to measure many other surface properties, that is still their primary application. SPMs are the most powerful tools of our time for surface metrology, measuring surface features whose dimensions range from interatomic spacing to a tenth of a millimeter.
The main feature that all SPMs have in common is that the measurements are performed with a sharp probe operating in the near field, that is, scanning over the surface while maintaining a very close spacing to the surface. These instruments, specifically STMs, were the first to produce real-space images of atomic arrangements on flat surfaces. SPMs are now most commonly used to perform very precise, three-dimensional measurements on the Ångstrom-to-micrometer scale.
Table 1. Comparison and the characteristics of common microscopes.
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Until the 1980s, researchers had relied upon other instruments for imaging and measuring the morphology of surfaces. Now in existence for over two decades, SPMs are the newest entry into the surface metrology field. As opposed to optical microscopes and electron microscopes (SEMs, TEMs), SPMs measure surfaces in all three dimensions: X, Y, and Z. Like SEMs, SPMs image and measure the surface of the sample. X and Y topographic resolution for most SPMs, including AFM, is typically 2 to 10 nanometers (STM resolution can be as good as 0.1nm). Z resolution is about 0.1nm for a well-designed AFM or STM.
Optical microscopes and SPMs are the easiest to use, with little or no sample preparation and no vacuum required. Optical microscopes and SEMs can have larger fields of view, but SPMs provide the highest magnifications and resolution in 3D. Furthermore only SPMs work on most samples with minimal sample preparation.
The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) was the first SPM technology and was recognized as having atomic resolution capability in 1981.
STM, in fact, still provides the best resolution available (Figure 1). The STM uses the tunneling current between tip and sample to image the sample surface. Unfortunately, there are some limitations, the most significant of which is that the surface of the sample must be conductors or semiconductors. This limits the materials that can be studied.
Figure 1. STM image showing single-atom defect in iodine adsorbate lattice on platinum. 2.5nm scan.
This limitation led to the invention in 1986 of the first atomic force microscope. The first commercially available AFM, the Digital Instruments NanoScope® was introduced in 1989. Like the STM, the AFM also uses a very sharp tip to probe and map the morphology of a surface. However, in AFM there is no requirement to measure a current between tip and sample. In this case, the tip is at the end of a micro-fabricated cantilever with a low spring constant. In contact mode AFM, the first AFM technique, the tip-sample force is held fixed by maintaining a constant and very low deflection of the cantilever, pushing the tip against the sample. This force can be in the range of interatomic forces in solids.
Next, we describe the basics of AFM, including how the vertical motion of the tip is detected and transformed into topographic data.
The basic AFM is relatively simple in concept (Figure 2a). Its closest predecessor is the stylus profiler.
Figure 2. (a) Simplified diagram of a generic AFM. Photos show examples of (b) MultiMode SPM, (c) Dimension 3100 SPM, and (d) fully automated robotic Dimension X3D system for semiconductor applications.
AFM technology uses sharper probes and lower forces than stylus profilers to provide higher resolution information without sample damage. A generic AFM comprises the following components:
• Scanning System
• Probe
• Probe Motion Sensor
• Controller Electronics
• Noise Isolation
• Computer
The most fundamental component of the AFM and the heart of the microscope is the scanner. Depending on the individual design, the scanner may scan (move) the sample (Figure 2b, MultiMode™ SPM) if the sample is small enough, or it may scan the probe over a larger sample (Figure 2c, Dimension™ 3100 SPM).
To accomplish the precision required, a piezoelectric tube scanner is typically used in order to provide sub-Ångstrom motion control.
Another key component in the system is the probe. As mentioned above, the probe can be stationary and the sample can be scanned under it or the probe can be scanned over the sample. With today's sophisticated technology, tip/cantilever assemblies that make up the probe (Figure 3) can be mass-produced with consistently shaped, very sharp tips. These tips are integrated into the end of cantilevers, which have a wide range of properties designed for a variety of applications.
Figure 3. SEM micrograph of an etched single-crystal silicon AFM tip and tip/cantilever assembly
This unit senses the force between the probe and the sample and provides a correction signal to the Z portion of the piezoelectric scanner (Figure 2a) to keep the force constant. The most common design for this function is called the optical beam deflection system, which is the lowest noise, most stable, and most versatile system available. This design uses a laser beam shining onto and reflecting off the back of the cantilever and onto a segmented photodiode to measure the probe motion.
This unit provides interfacing between the computer, the scanning system and the probe motion sensor. It supplies the voltages that control the piezoelectric scanner, accepts the signal from the probe motion sensor and contains the feedback control electronics for keeping the force between sample and tip constant.
To achieve the highest resolution, the microscope must be isolated from noise in its surroundings. There are very effective, yet simple systems for isolating AFM from floor vibrations and from acoustic, electrical and optical noise sources.
Finally, scanning probe microscopy and AFM would not be feasible without the availability of powerful, high-speed PCs to drive the system and to process, display, and analyse the wealth of data produced.
In its short lifetime, SPMs has already added many variations to the fundamental scanning tunnelling theme. Once the AFM overcame the severe application limit of STM (the sample conductivity requirement), the variety of techniques and the range of applications began to mushroom. Although topographic mapping is still the dominant application for AFM (Figure 4), commercially available SPMs now provide some or all of the following techniques:
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM) measures topography using the tunneling current between the probe tip and a conductive sample surface.
Figure 4. Detailed topography of three defects – two protrusions and a depression – in a phase-shift photolithography mask. A cross section measures the smaller of the two protrusions (A) ~140nm across in the plane of the image. The depression defect (B) measures less than 6nm deep. 1.5μm scan.
Contact Mode AFM measures topography with the probe perpetually in contact with the sample.
TappingMode AFM (patented) measures topography by lightly tapping the surface with an oscillating probe tip. Eliminates shear forces (present in contact mode). TappingMode is now the scanning mode of choice for most applications, particularly for softer surfaces like polymers.
Non-contact Mode AFM measures topography by sensing Van der Waals attraction between surface and probe tip.
It is less stable than either contact or TappingMode.
LiftMode (patented) is a two-pass technique that separately measures topography and another selected property (magnetic force, electric force, etc.) using topographic information to track the probe tip at a constant distance above the surface.
PhaseImaging (patented) maps surface composition based on differences in local mechanical or adhesive properties of the sample.
Lateral Force Microscopy (LFM) maps frictional forces between the probe tip and the sample surface. The tip can be functionalized with chemical species for chemical force microscopy.
Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) maps magnetic force gradient and distribution above the sample surface using LiftMode (Figure 5).
Figure 5. AFM (a) and LiftMode MFM (b) images of pole tip region on magnetoresistive (MR) read/write head used in computer hard drives. MFM image shows domain structure and MR sensor that cannot be seen in the AFM topography. 12μm scan.
Force Modulation (patented) maps relative stiffness of surface features.
Electric Force Microscopy (EFM) maps electric field gradient and distribution above the sample surface using LiftMode.
Surface Potential Imaging is one of the few AFM techniques that makes quantifiable maps of a quantity other than surface topography. Using LiftMode, it maps the distribution of surface electric potential of the sample. Recent applications include corrosion studies of alloys.
Electrochemical SPM maps topographic changes in-situ as induced by electrochemical reactions in electrolyte solutions simultaneously with electrochemical cell potential control (e.g. voltammetry). Can be performed with AFM or STM.
Scanning Electrochemical Potential Microscopy (SECPM) (patented) is in-situ imaging or potential mapping of the electrode surface by measuring the potential difference between the potentiometric probe and the sample immersed in an electrolyte solution or a polar liquid (Figure 6).
Figure 6. Scanning electrochemical potential microscope (SECPM).
Scanning Capacitance Microscopy (SCM) and Scanning Spreading Resistance Microscopy (SSRM) both map 2D carrier (dopant) concentration profiles in semiconductor materials.
Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) maps surface temperature distribution.
Tunneling AFM and Conductive AFM measure tip-sample current for characterization of electrical conductivity and evaluation of thin film integrity.
TRmode maps lateral forces and force gradients. Interleaves with TappingMode for complementary lateral and vertical characterization (Figure 7).
Figure 7. TRmode is a technique that uses torsional oscillations of an AFM probe.
Nanoindenting measures mechanical properties and wear characteristics (hardness, adhesion, durability) of thin films, polymers, etc. (e.g. dielectrics, DLC).
These techniques are being applied to a wide array of application areas, from biology to semiconductors, from data storage devices to polymers, and from integrated optics to measurement of forces between particles and surfaces. Other applications include MEMS fabrication, paints and coatings, metals/alloys/platings, plastics/polymers, biomaterials, biotechnology, food and food packaging, optics/optical films, optical disks, ceramics, thin films, liquid crystals, cosmetics, and geological and environmental studies.
In addition, AFM systems have already been developed for highly specific applications, including automated robotic systems for handling semiconductor wafers (Figure 2d). They have also been developed with analysis routines designed for specific applications such as CD and DVD bump/pit measurements, as well as pole tip recession measurements for data storage read/write head manufacturing. These applications continue to expand.
AFM applications are carried out in a variety of environments. AFM can be operated in ambient air, in vacuum, and in liquids (Figure 8). Biological measurements, in particular, are often carried out in-vitro in liquids. Electrochemical experiments are performed in liquid cells, allowing atomic-scale observation of electrochemical processes. In some cases, surface cleaning studies are done at atmospheric pressure in the controlled environment of a dry glove box.
Figure 8. Condensed deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has been proposed as a gene delivery mechanism for biotechnology applications. Here, unfixed molecules were imaged in salt solution. 20μm scan.
Recent new products include heating systems for biological and polymer applications up to 250°C (Figure 9), complete with sophisticated sample and environmental sensing. Systems are also now available for controlling the gaseous environment of the sample under study (Figures 10a and b).
Figure 9. Successive phase images of poly(hexacyclodimethyl)siloxane at (a) 85ºC and (b) 90ºC. Heating induces formation of liquid islands within the amorphous polymers (a), which convert into arrays of small dots on additional heating (b). 10μm scans.
Figure 10a. The Atmospheric Hood for the MultiMode SPM allows control of the gaseous imaging environment to vary humidity or image under inert gases.
Figure 10b. The EnviroScope offers high vacuum, heating, electrochemical cell potential control, and purged gas environment.
New hardware and software have extended the utility of high-end SPM systems beyond measurement and characterization to include nanomanipulation and nanolithography.
Examples of in-plane and out-of-plane nanomanipulation are shown in Figures 11a and 11b. An example of point-and-click nanolithography is seen in Figure 11c.
Figure 11a. AFM in-plane nanomanipulation uses the AFM probe to image, manipulate nanometer-scale objects (carbon nanotubes), and image again to see the results.
Figure 11b. AFM out-of-plane nanomanipulation uses the AFM probe to image, pull a single biomolecule out of the plane of the sample while measuring the unfolding of the molecule, and image again to see the results (in this case, the removal of one molecule from an array).
Figure 11c. AFM nanolithography.
New controllers and electronics (e.g., the NanoScope IV and IVa SPM controllers) have been designed to enhance performance relative to traditional designs. Some of the recent developments in AFM technology include:
The latest generation of SPMs offer combinations of environmental controls, including vacuum and high temperature (Figure 12).
Figure 12. Poly-sbs at room temperature in air (a) and at 180°C in 10-5 Torr pressure (b). Images captured with the Enviroscope (Figure 10b).
AFM systems now provide higher data density to allow zooming into the finest details, even on large scans. This provides the resolution required to characterize sidewalls on such samples as DVD bumps/pits and semiconductors. It also allows observation and measurement of nanoscale details on large scans — without the need to spend additional time re-scanning the sample with a smaller scan area (Figure 13).
Figure 13. TappingMode+ height image and zoom of a copolymer. The square image is a zoom into the boxed area in the original rectangular image. This detail is revealed by simply zooming in with software and without the need for time-consuming, repetitive smaller scans. Without this higher resolution scanning, the zoomed image would not have the pixel resolution required to view nanoscale details. 10μm x 1.24μm scan and 1μm x 1μm zoom.
Controlling the quality factor, or Q, of the oscillating AFM probe allows better control of the forces between tip and sample and improves the sensitivity of measurements such as with PhaseImaging and MFM (Figure 14).
Figure 14. Images of the same area on magnetic recording tape scanned with and without Q-control. Phase detection MFM images and average cross-section measurements of the probe phase shift illustrate nearly 4x enhanced signal-to-noise ratio for the Q-controlled image. 15μm scans.
Scanning tunneling microscopy produced dramatic images of atomic lattices and atomic force microscopy broadened the technology to non-conductive surfaces. Development of atomic force microscopes has allowed scientists and engineers to see structure and detail with unprecedented resolution and without the need for rigorous sample preparation. Several advances have further extended this technique's utility to a wide range of applications.
TappingMode permits imaging of soft materials without damage to the sample and LiftMode allows separate but simultaneous imaging of topography and other parameters, such as magnetic or electric forces, without cross-contamination.
PhaseImaging has opened up the capability for mapping of surface compositional variations. New scanning and measurement technologies have expanded the range of measurements and thus further increased the utility of AFM for a broad variety of applications.
These developments have taken AFM, in a few short years, from a laboratory curiosity to one of the most powerful, flexible, and widely used technologies for surface characterization.
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U.S. Army soldiers, airmen and Marines, as well as members of the Botswana Defense Force, race to the finish line at Thebephatshwa Air Base in the Republic of Botswana, Aug. 12. The relay race was the first event of the Southern Accord 2012 Olympics. SA12 is a joint, combined exercise bringing together U.S. military forces and BDF to enhance military capabilities and interoperability through humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping operations, and aeromedical evacuation. (Photo by Army Sgt. Charlie Helmholt)
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A 63-year-old man is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy.
Henry Sills of Goldsboro is facing charges in both Wayne and Pender counties.
In Wayne County, Sills is charged with four counts of statutory sexual offense. His bond is $800,000.
Deputies say the victim lives in Pender County, and they were tipped off by authorities there and by the victim's mother. Deputies say the crimes happened when the 14 year old was visiting Sills in Wayne County.
In Pender County, Sills is facing two counts of statutory sex offense and two counts of indecent liberties with a minor.


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Impact Soundworks has announced the release of Sitar Nation: Classical Instruments of India, a new sample library for Kontakt.
Sitar Nation: Classical Instruments of India is a comprehensive collection of four traditional Indian instruments, sampled extensively with numerous velocity layers, round-robins, articulations and mic positions. Instruments recorded include a hand-crafted, gourdless sitar that was custom-made from seven-year old seasoned wood, a tampura (accompaniment instrument), tabla and baya (hand percussion.)
The library features:
- All the crucial playing techniques of the sitar, tampura, tabla and baya, performed by expert players to allow for realistic sequences and MIDI performances
- Three mic positions - room, close and ambient.
- An entire folder of special FX patches, using both offline and realtime processing within Kontakt to achieve entirely new sounds.
- Patch programming makes full use of Kontakt's capabilities - performance enhancing scripts (legato, humanization), sound manipulation, intuitive mapping, etc.
- A variety of tabla and baya MIDI grooves compatible with any sequencer at any tempo.
- Unlocked, 24 bit / 44.1khz audio content that can be loaded into any sampler or sequencer.
Priced at $119, Sitar Nation is available as a direct download via the Impact Soundworks web site.


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As it mentioned in "Build your own CAB" blog post series when you are rolling on Passive View design pattern it's not possible to take advantages of Data Binding. It is not so clear for me as I want it be. So, could any one of you guys show any samples where Data Binding is possible in Supervising Controller pattern and analogue of this sample in Passive View? Let say it is .NET 4 WinForms app.
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Alice Berg, of Othello, died on January 16, 2011. Alice was born on February 25, 1911 in Russell, North Dakota to Norris and Alma Marsh.
She taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in North Dakota prior to marrying Hubert Berg on July 19, 1932. Hubert and Alice farmed most of their lives living in North Dakota, Oregon and Washington. She was a 50-plus year resident of Othello moving here in 1958 when she and Hubert purchased a farm NE of Othello. They were founding members of Paradise Lutheran Church in Othello. Alice was a church organist for most of her life, including for Paradise Lutheran, until her eyesight failed.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Hubert Berg, in 1983 and daughter, Shirley Bartholomew, of DeQueen, Arkansas in 2008. She is survived by sons Lawrence Berg of Warden and Allen Berg of Othello, daughter, Joyce Fielding of Spokane, and sister, Izetta Krenz of Minot, North Dakota. Also surviving Alice are 19 grandchildren, 42 great grandchildren, and 13 great-great grandchildren.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMThe UT Arlington Wind Ensemble presents a preview of its upcoming performance at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio. Conducted by Dr. Douglas Stotter, the UTA Wind Symphony is one of just three college/university bands to be invited to perform at this prestigious event. On the program are works by Gustav Holst, Bernanrd Rands, Joel Puckett, and Michael Daugherty.


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We present Gestalt, a development environment designed to support the process of applying machine learning. While traditional programming environments focus on source code, we explicitly support both code and data. Gestalt allows developers to implement a classification pipeline, analyze data as it moves through that pipeline, and easily transition between implementation and analysis. An experiment shows this significantly improves the ability of developers to find and fix bugs in machine learning systems. Our discussion of Gestalt and our experimental observations provide new insight into general-purpose support for the machine learning process.
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My task for last Saturday's segment on WGBH's own A Celtic Sojourn radio program was to discuss the history of beverages in Ireland, as well as contemporary iterations of Irish cuisine.
There are harder things in life than that.
Brian O'Donovan, the program's gracious and welcoming host, punctuated our segment with recordings about colcannon (a recipe wrapped inside a song), whiskey (seeming much like the devil), and the Irish version of moonshine called poitín (courtesy of Christy Moore).
In between the music, Brian and I talked about things like the history of Irish whiskey as a medicinal elixir, the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork paying homage to Julia Child, and the very clever work-arounds that distillers of long-outlawed poitín invented to keep their moonshine production clear of law enforcement's prying eyes.
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When she pulled up to the radio station, this time, she was in a beautiful tour bus with her name on the side!
She must be doing something right!
Candy has always been exceptionally nice as well. Anytime I've ever needed anything from her she's been quick to get me what I need. If I need promotional material, CD's to give away on the air, etc. Come to think of it, every single person that I've dealt with from Candy's record label, her band mates, her manager, to Candy herself has been very easy to work with.
Candy puts on a high energy show & is amazing live in concert. I've seen her perform several times & she never disappoints!
Songwriting, singing, touring, recording, being a wife & a mother, a business woman, or even a friend, Candy can do it all!
"Candy Coburn is one of those artists that seemingly has it all. She can sing like nobody's business, is a heavily sought-after performer for her high-energy shoe, and well, she's pretty easy to look at, as well. On her current disc, she puts it all together for quite the collection....
...But, then again, Coburn is full of power – and talent, from start to finish. So, watch out world, 2012 could very well be her year!"
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"Don't Walk Away" by CANDY COBURN
Candy Coburn's "Don't Walk Away" provides a welcome grown-up single about a pleading lover telling her mate that waking away isn't the way to go. Coburn's vocal is sincere and seems autobiographical as she sings this pleading number in a vocal style and sound reminiscent of SugarLand's Jennifer Nettles, yet all her own. Don't just walk away from "Don't Walk Away."
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"Having the opportunity to use my book as a vehicle to share advice to others not only through my eyes but through the eyes of so many other pioneering women was truly humbling," continued Fisher, whose own mother, Reba Fisher, contributed to a section of the book about raising your child to be a success. "So many pioneering women helped us put a unique spin on the book and for that, I'm very thankful."
Those women include, actress Ashley Judd, Coca-Cola marketing executive Bea Perez, LPGA tour player Jill McGill, Wellpoint CEO and Indianapolis resident Angela Braly, musician Candy Coburn, ESPN on ABC reporter Jamie Little, and NHRA Funny Car drag racer Ashley Force Hood.
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Hi All. Thought id say hi to all you Cyclone fans. Im from SW Iowa and a big fan of Iowa State. My family has alot of history at the school. Im hoping my daughter will go to school there in a couple of years. As a family we try to make a couple of football games and a cople of baskettball game a year, and we never miss a game that is on TV. But being down here near fusker land they sometimes dont show them. Im looking forward to this weekends 100years of cyclone b-ball and seeing some of ISU best and of coarse Jonny Orr. Hope to see yaa there. Go CYCLONES.
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Nedrick - that new sig is creepy...
This is a great board for all things ISU as well as other topics!! Just make sure you dont criticize ISU (dont ever mention the fact that Ellis Hobbs doesnt mention ISU on TV intros) or some of the villagers will show up at you post with torches and pitchforks...
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Nedrick - that new sig is creepy...
I gotta agree... that floating chizik head scares the bejeezus out of me. I'm going to have nightmares of it floating around and sneezing on me.
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I gotta agree... that floating chizik head scares the bejeezus out of me. I'm going to have nightmares of it floating around and sneezing on me.
Looks like this. Sorry Chiz
Cool...Go Cyclones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Welcome! The more the merrier (although sometimes off topic and bitter - but aren't we all sometimes) :)
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Welcome aboard, stranger!!!
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Looks like this. Sorry Chiz
OK... OK... I'll go back to the drawing board (pun intended) and try to find a less creepy version of Chiz.
...How's this version? (I like it better personally.) Thanks for "encouraging" me to find a better pic!
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The prosecutor in the case of the Florida man charged with shooting Trayvon Martin wants to know definitively if he plans to seek immunity under the state's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law.
State attorney Bernie de la Rionda is presenting a motion to the judge Tuesday during what will likely be the final lengthy hearing prior to George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial in June.
Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty
Defense attorney Mark O'Mara told Judge Debra Nelson in March that he didn't need two weeks she'd set aside this month for an immunity hearing. But De la Rionda wants clarity on O'Mara's intentions ahead of the June 10 trial date.
O'Mara also wants the court to unseal the amount of a civil settlement Martin's parents received from Zimmerman's homeowner's association.
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Hello -
Just installed ZimbraBES connector & we seem to have issues on wireless activation.
1) Running Zimbra NE 5.0.2 on Linux RHE 4.0
2) Widows 2003 SP2 Server running BES 188.8.131.52
3) Installed CDO, Outlook 2003 SP3
Everything looks okay, but the Event Viewer on the BES shows:
MailboxManager::SubsystemInitialize - MAPILogonEx (0x80040111) &
BlackBerry Messaging Agent BES Agent 1 failed to start. Error code 5302
Per my research, this usually refers to the Send As access rights when using Exchange Server (hence make changes to AD).
On Zimbra, the profile I created is an Administrator Account, what else do I need to do?
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Robert M. Greathouse
Robert M. Greathouse lived in the SW ¼ NE ¼ Section 36, T6N R15W at the mouth of Cadron Creek on the Conway-Faulkner County line.
In late April, 1834, cholera prevailed among a removal party of Cherokees camped at the mouth of Cadron. They had gone up about three weeks earlier aboard the Thomas Yeatman, but low water would not allow them to go farther than Cadron, about 33 miles above Little Rock. From thirty to forty had died. Dr. Roberts, of Conway County, one of the attending physicians, contracted the disease and died, and Dr. Fulton of Little Rock was reported as near death.
Source: Arkansas Advocate, April 25, 1834.
In November, 1834, G. W. Featherstonhaugh reached Greathouse's, having followed the road from Jackson near the Missouri border to Cadron. "The road from Memphis to the Indian Reservations, on the branches of the Arkansas, comes in here," Featherstonhaugh wrote.
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Meet with the Master Gardeners at the library and find answers to your gardening questions. The Master Gardeners will have various stations set up with answers to a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to: composting, fertilizers, plants, bugs, soil, tools, and gardening tips. Learn how you could become a Master Gardener. Stay as little or as long as you like. Don't miss this opportunity to get your gardening questions answered.Findlay-Hancock County Public Library
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Mandy Greer, known for her large, distinctive outdoor art installations using crochet and other weaving techniques, has a solo show of installations and photos at Seattle's Roq La Rue.
In one corner of a Belltown gallery, a glamorous red bird admires itself in the multiple reflections of a vanity-table mirror. Jagged, glittering forks of lightning shoot out from the mirror's center. The bird's elegant beak is made from the same papier-mâché base and fabric cover as the "coral" pieces you find among its feathers.
Across the room, the mirrored walls of the "Honey Moon" chamber fracture your image as you enter a 10-foot-tall jewelry box. Its centerpiece is an enormous chandelier adorned with innumerable tiny talismans: keys, chains, bells, buttons and brooches. They represent so many things to Seattle fiber artist Mandy Greer, whose installations and photography are on view at Roq La Rue for a final week.
The pieces — from her grandmother's jewelry collection, junk boxes purchased on eBay, other random finds — are melded through her familiar crochet and beading techniques.
"Fake gold jewelry is so gaudy, but it represents pure substance," says Greer. "It was a struggle at first — is this going to be hideous?"
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Quite the opposite.
Looking at every large-scale work of Greer's, you're taken aback by its inventiveness and old-fashioned beauty. The works allow you to be unself-consciously awed by art. And there's still much to ponder.
Take the title of the show: "Honey and Lightning." It looks at, in Greer's words, "the mercurial nature of human desire."
"Both substances have literary, mythical and archetypal references to the occurrence and evolution of desire and its fading."
The other installation room in the show, the "Cherry Tree Root" chamber, contains the ugliest castoffs in Greer's fabric collection, entwined with bits of her husband's hair and molded with latex paint and dirt dug from underneath the couple's home. Standing inside of the chamber of ropelike "roots" is to be engulfed in a different kind of romance — feeling the grounding effect of the stability that comes long after the shock of love at first sight fades.
Greer's husband, Paul Margolis, appears in several of the staged photographs that accompany the installations. Looking like a wild-eyed Norse god, he's covered in dirt and gold — a bit of dark-blue eye shadow framing his face — and running free in the woods.
In other photos, Greer's friends appear in handmade headdresses. One is dressed as Demeter (the goddess of agriculture), pomegranate in hand, waiting for her daughter Persephone's arrival to signify spring.
All of the photo images have been created by flipping each photo and creating a mirror image of it at one or two points, using Photoshop. This brings out details among the surprising symmetry. There are recurring templelike shapes, spider faces, antlers, vulvas and crosses.
Making the photos "is really pleasurable, because it's an image I'm really familiar with before I do anything to it," says Greer, who has done site-specific outdoor fiber installations around the region as well as pieces for Seattle's Book-It Repertory Theatre and Degenerate Art Ensemble.
"When they're opened up, it's like a butterfly. Lots of times [the photo] will be [flipped on] a part of an image where there's a mess of squiggling crochet, and when it's mirror-imaged it becomes ordered. The coral becomes almost like a wallpaper pattern.
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Quite frankly, I'm surprised that it's taken me this long to write about the Eurovision song contest; of course, it's only been now that news has been coming in on Eurovision news. All right, now there's actually two pieces of news I need to inform you of.
But, first things first, Black Sabbath guitarist/only constant member Tony Iommi has written a song for this year's Armenian representatives to the Eurovision contest Dorians. The song is a "rock balled" called "Lonely Planet." Iommi has been fascinated with Armenia since at least 1988, when he performed a concert in benefit of the Spitak earthquake of 1988.
When asked why one of the founding fathers of heavy metal has gotten involved in that most MOR of contests, Iommi said: "I first said, 'Oh God, I don't know' – it seemed really strange, me doing a Eurovision song. I don't usually do that. But I said, 'I've got a rock ballad; I'll send it over'. The thing is, I've always thought, 'Oh no, not the Eurovision,' and here I am in it now."
Iommi will not perform at the concert, but he will release the Black Sabbath album "13," which will be the first album Black Sabbath has recorded with Ozzy Osbourne since 1978. The album will be released in June.
But, I know what you're thinking, who'll represent the UK in this contest? Well, it's been confirmed that Bonnie Tyler, singer of such hits as "It's a Heartache," "Total Eclipse of the Heart", and "Holding Out for a Hero," will represent the UK this year.
The song is entitled "Believe in Me", and was written by Lauren Christy, Christopher Braide, and Desmond Child, who, it should be added, has worked with Tyler throughout her career, and has also written the Ricky Martin hits "Livin' La Vida Loca" and "She Bangs."
Quoth Bonnie Tyler: "I promise to give this everything that I've got for the UK! I am truly honoured and delighted to be able to represent my country at Eurovision, and especially with such a fabulous song."
The UK was represented by Engelbert Humperdinck at Eurovision in 2012 with the veteran crooner finishing second last and scoring just 12 points. Other artists to represent the UK in recent years include Scooch, Andy Abraham, Jade Ewan and boyband Blue.
The semifinals of this year's Eurovision contest kicks off on May 14 in Malmö, Sweden.


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This Norton Critical Edition is the only one-volume edition that presents the full range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works-Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of the Tub-but also substantial poetic and political writings. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations and a detailed introduction. "Contexts" reprints a generous selection of contemporary materials, including letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings. "Criticism"is divided into two sections: "1745-1940" presents assessments by Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, F. R. Leavis, and Andre Breton. "After 1940 and By Subject" presents recent critical analyses organized around A Tale of the Tub, The Poems, Politics (England and Ireland), and Gulliver's Travels.
Table of Contents
|p. ix
|p. xi
|A Note on the Texts
|p. xxix
|Early Satires and Political Writings (1704-1711)
|p. 1
|A Tale of a Tub (1704)
|p. 4
|The Battel of the Books
|p. 95
|The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
|p. 113
|An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1708, 1711)
|p. 135
|The Examiner, No. 16. November 23, 1710
|p. 146
|A Short Character of his Excellency Thomas Earl of Wharton (1710)
|p. 151
|Parodies, Hoaxes, and Sottisiers (1703-1745)
|p. 157
|A Meditation upon a Broom-stick (1703, 1710)
|p. 159
|Predictions for the Year 1708 (1708)
|p. 160
|The Accomplishment Of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions (1708)
|p. 167
|A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. (1709)
|p. 169
|The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Elliston (1722)
|p. 174
|From A Compleat Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1738)
|p. 177
|Directions to Servants (1745)
|p. 195
|Writings on Ireland (1707-1737)
|p. 233
|The Story of the Injured Lady. The Answer to the Injured Lady (1707, 1746)
|p. 235
|Sermon: Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland (1715, 1762)
|p. 242
|A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately entered into Holy Orders (1720)
|p. 251
|A Letter to a Young Lady, On Her Marriage (1723, 1727)
|p. 264
|The Drapier's Letters I (1724)
|p. 271
|The Drapier's Letters IV (1724)
|p. 278
|A Short View of the State of Ireland (1728)
|p. 289
|A Modest Proposal (1729)
|p. 295
|A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars (1737)
|p. 303
|Gulliver's Travels (1726)
|p. 311
|p. 503
|Verses Wrote on a Lady's Ivory Table-Book (1698, 1711)
|p. 505
|The humble Petition of Frances Harris (1701, 1711)
|p. 506
|Baucis and Philemon (1706, 1709)
|p. 509
|A Description of the Morning (1709)
|p. 514
|A Description of a City Shower (1710)
|p. 515
|Cadenus and Vanessa (1713?, 1726)
|p. 517
|The Author upon Himself (1714, 1735)
|p. 537
|Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Doctor Sheridan (1718, 1732)
|p. 540
|Stella's Birth-Day (1719, 1728)
|p. 542
|Phyllis: or, the Progress of Love (1719, 1728)
|p. 543
|The Progress of Beauty (1719, 1728)
|p. 546
|The Progress of Poetry (1720, 1728)
|p. 549
|To Stella, visiting me in my Sickness (1720, 1728)
|p. 551
|To Stella, who collected and transcribed his Poems (1720?, 1728)
|p. 554
|Stella's Birth-Day (1721, 1728)
|p. 558
|To Stella, On her Birth-Day (1722, 1766)
|p. 560
|A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a late Famous General (1722, 1764)
|p. 561
|The Progress of Marriage (1722, 1765)
|p. 562
|Stella's Birth-Day. A great Bottle of Wine, long buried, being that Day dug up (1723, 1728)
|p. 566
|Stella at Wood-Park (1723, 1735)
|p. 569
|To Stella (1724, 1765)
|p. 572
|Prometheus (1724)
|p. 574
|Stella's Birth-Day (1725, 1728)
|p. 577
|On Wood the Iron-monger (1725, 1735)
|p. 579
|A Receipt to Restore Stella's Youth (1725, 1735)
|p. 581
|Stella's Birth-Day (1727, 1728)
|p. 583
|Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged (1726?, 1735)
|p. 586
|Holyhead. Sept. 25. 1727 (1727, 1882)
|p. 587
|Ireland (1728, 1882)
|p. 588
|Directions for Making a Birth-Day Song (1729, 1765)
|p. 590
|A Dialogue between an eminent Lawyer and Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's (1729, 1755)
|p. 597
|Traulus (1730)
|p. 599
|The Lady's Dressing-Room (1730, 1732)
|p. 603
|A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed (1731, 1734)
|p. 607
|Strephon and Chloe (1731, 1734)
|p. 610
|Cassinus and Peter (1731, 1734)
|p. 618
|To Mr. Gay (1731, 1735)
|p. 621
|Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. (1731-32, 1739)
|p. 626
|To a Lady (1728?, 1733)
|p. 639
|On Poetry: A Rapsody (1733)
|p. 646
|The Yahoo's Overthrow (1734, 1765)
|p. 658
|The Legion Club (1736)
|p. 661
|p. 667
|From the Journal to Stella
|p. 669
|Letter VI
|p. 669
|Letter XXXII
|p. 674
|Swift to Alexander Pope. Sept. 29, 1725.
|p. 676
|Novr 26, 1725
|p. 677
|Swift to Charles Wogan, July-2 Aug., 1732
|p. 679
|Swift to William Pulteney, Dublin May 12, 1735
|p. 683
|Of Mean and Great Figures (?, 1765)
|p. 685
|The Family of Swift (?, 1765)
|p. 688
|On the Death of Mrs. Johnson [Stella] (1728)
|p. 694
|Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)
|p. 700
|Some Thoughts on Free-thinking (?, 1767)
|p. 707
|Thoughts on Religion (?, 1765)
|p. 709
|Observations upon The Tale of a Tub
|p. 712
|Poems on Gulliver's Travels
|p. 718
|p. 725
|Obituary of Swift
|p. 727
|On A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels
|p. 727
|Life of Swift
|p. 728
|On Gulliver's Travels
|p. 739
|On Gulliver's Travels and Swift's Last Days
|p. 741
|On Swift's Celia
|p. 742
|On Swift, Georgian Ireland, and Stella
|p. 743
|After 1940 and by Subject
|p. 748
|The Irony of Swift
|p. 748
|Swift and Black Humor
|p. 758
|A Tale of a Tub
|The Tale and the Book
|p. 759
|Text, 'Text,' and Swift's A Tale of a Tub
|p. 762
|The Battle of the Books
|p. 777
|The Poems
|Feminism and the Augustans
|p. 784
|On Swift's Poems
|p. 795
|Politics (England and Ireland)
|Swift's Politics
|p. 803
|Swift and Protestant Ireland
|p. 820
|Gulliver's Travels
|Politics vs. Literature
|p. 835
|The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas
|p. 848
|Utopia and 'the Thing which is not'
|p. 856
|Swift's "I" Narrators
|p. 874
|Jonathan Swift: A Chronology
|p. 891
|Selected Bibliography
|p. 897
|Art Credits
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|The Catholic Social Tradition
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|Catholic Social Action
|p. 32
|What Holds This All Together?
|p. 32
|What Does This Mean for You?
|p. 36
|The Vocation of Social Catholicism
|p. 40
|If You Were a Slave, Would You Be against Slavery?
|p. 47
|Living the Call in Community
|p. 48
|Some Questions for Consideration
|p. 51
|About New Things
|p. 53
|Thomas Aquinas: A Foundation of Catholic Social Thought
|p. 53
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|p. 60
|Social Justice and Rerum Novarum
|p. 73
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|p. 74
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|Integral Human Development
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|Some Questions for Consideration
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|p. 147
|A Call to Action
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|The Moral Voice from Latin America
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|The Blood of the Martyrs
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|Justice in the World
|p. 171
|Evangelization and Justice
|p. 179
|Some Questions for Consideration
|p. 181
|Human Work on God's Earth
|p. 184
|On Human Work
|p. 185
|A Catholic Environmental Ethic
|p. 198
|Migration/Immigration in Catholic Thought
|p. 207
|Some Questions for Consideration
|p. 210
|Solidarity and Justice
|p. 212
|Racism and Catholic Moral Thought
|p. 226
|Capital Punishment and Catholic Moral Thought
|p. 234
|The Consistent Ethic of Life
|p. 235
|Some Questions for Consideration
|p. 237
|Creating a Culture of Peace
|p. 239
|Centesimus Annus
|p. 240
|Catholic Thought on War and Peace
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|Some Questions for Consideration
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Mean Street: Chrysler — Our Long Nightmare Has Begun
It's classic mission creep — and President Obama should stop before it's too late.
On top of the $4.5 billion committed to Chrysler, the Fiat deal was originally supposed to require another $3 billion, but now the president is putting up $6 billion.
In less than two years, Chrysler has been passed along from the Germans to some New York "money men" and now to the Italians. But for President Obama, Chrysler is an "American icon", a "storied" national asset. So what's an extra $3 billion?
The president won't feel the same way a year from now — but by then it really will be too late. Detroit may be his Vietnam.
An extreme analogy? Perhaps. But it may not be far off.
In March 1966, LBJ promised America "There is not, and will not be, a mindless escalation" in Vietnam. Within a year, troop levels had more than doubled and his Presidency was destroyed.
Did you watch the president's press conference on Chrysler? It had an unhappy, foreboding air. No standing American president should be opining that the Chrysler-Fiat alliance has a "strong chance of success" or urging Americans to buy Dodge minivans.
These promises are beneath the president's office. And they set Obama up to throw good money after bad.
It's not like the president and the taxpayers are backing a business that's on the cusp of greatness. Chrysler is bankrupt for a reason — in fact, lots of reasons from sub-scale production to a dependence on poor credit customers to a lousy product line-up.
Last night, after being accused by several Mean Street readers of not knowing enough about Chrysler's line-up, I did more research in Consumer Reports. It was even worse than I thought.
Here was CR: "Many Chrysler vehicles rank at the bottom of our ratings in their categories and none currently meet our requirements for being recommended. Even most newer models have been mediocre in our tests."
How will the president compel Americans to buy these cars? Especially in the two years it takes for Chrysler to churn out any Fiat originated product?
This isn't to just dump on Chrysler or its long-suffering employees who will suffer even more, regardless of how Chapter 11 plays out.
Rather it's to point out that President Obama is not living up to his own words. The president demands that Americans make "hard choices" and "sacrifices". He says that "we simply cannot keep this company afloat on an endless supply of tax dollars."
Nice words. But that's exactly what he's doing. Why get yourself involved in a byzantine, drawn-out bailout of a failed company — that has failed three times in three decades? If the president cannot make the "hard choice" about Chrysler now, how will he make it a year from now after he's gotten so enmeshed in the company and its fate?
My sense is that Obama knows he is in too deep. In fact — and this is pure speculation — I believe that's why he is so angry with the "small group of speculators" that drove Chrysler into Chapter 11.
The president wanted the Chrysler problem to go away quickly and resume his presidency. And now it won't just go away.
Next up will be General Motors and that will be even stickier.
And so the inevitable future before us: The site visits to Detroit, the negotiations with Congress, the protests from unhappy dealers and every little spat between the UAW and Fiat will soak up more and more of the president's time and the taxpayer's money.
And it just won't end. In fact, with Chrysler filing for Chapter 11, we're only at the beginning of our long, nationalized nightmare.


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Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap published — 30 November 2009
I'm glad that the Mobile Web for Social Development Interest Group I have been co-chairing eventually published its mobile Web for social development roadmap, its most important deliverable.
This is finalizing 16 months of hard work and discussions. We hope now to receive comments from different groups including the Web Accessibility Initiative, the W3C Internationalization Working Group, Mobile Web Best Practices, Voice Browser, but also from the community working in the field (NGOs, development agencies, etc.).
I believe this document is an important milestone in the path to extend the frontier of the Web in developing regions. It is the first document published by W3C that investigate the potential of the Web and mobile technologies in the Social Development domain, and identifies technology (and other) gaps to be bridged in the future by W3C, the Web Foundation and others.
It is also in my opinion a useful resource for those in the field willing to mainstream mobile technologies in their project. Having discussed with and visited different organizations deploying mobile content and applications in the field, I have come to realized that many of them have a vision of how ICT can help achieving their own goals/impact, but are missing an overview of the available technology landscape. They are usually moving from the vision to the tools directly: looking at what they can find on the market, and using it. I think that it is critical to add an intermediary step, before moving to the tools, to look at the specific needs, profile and requirements of the targeted end-users, the objective of the application, and the complete life-cycle of the project before choosing a particular (set of) technology(ies). The MW4D roadmap hopes to fill this gap, helping organizations to understand the technology landscape and informing them on the critical factors to consider before choosing one specific option.
Obviously, this is only a first step. They are lots of directions to explore. For instance, the document does not investigate specific application fields, and it would be interesting to understand the specificities of each domain (health, government, education, etc.), to identify patterns or information needs that are relevant to these domains, and how to address them. The current roadmap also focuses on using mobile phones to access content, but not to author or deliver content. If mobile phones are really the "computer for Africa", it is critical to investigate how these devices could become an authoring platform, or a delivery platform (e.g. hosting a web server to deliver content and share information with surrounding clients).
This are only a few examples of potential future items for our group. The group just got an extension till the end of February 2010 to build a new charter, and define its future. Note that the MW4D IG is a public Interest Group, and does not require W3C membership to participate. See details on how to join the MW4D IG.
Therefore, I encourage everybody interested in this topic to join the group, the mailing-list and the bi-monthly teleconferences to participate in the work on this future new charter.
I also encourage everyone to read the published MW4D roadmap and provide feedback!Stephane
The Pythia casts mobileOK spells — 18 November 2009
Web authoring tools ease publication process. Simplicity comes with some loss of control over the generated content. There is hardly anything an authoring tool user may do to improve her content when the W3C mobileOK Checker reports that pop-up windows should not be used. So what?! I do not have any of these pop-up links in my content!
The underlying theme can be updated, but this approach works up to a point when e.g. the post would best be split into multiple pages when delivered on mobile devices. Authoring tools that do not provide content adaptation mechanisms need to be extended to be able to serve mobile-friendly content to mobile devices.
I have been working on an open-source suite of tools written in PHP lately, named mobileOK Pythia, designed to help generate mobileOK content and more generically speaking to help adapt content to fit the properties of the requesting device. Here is a short overview of the outcome of this work. More information (including crucial information about the choice of Pythia as a name ;)) can be found in the documentation of mobileOK Pythia.
This work is part of the MobiWeb 2.0 project supported by the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7).
Plug-ins for WordPress and Joomla!
From a user's point of view, the visual and hopefully useful outcome of this work is the creation of the mobileOK Pythia plug-ins for WordPress and Joomla! that make it possible to generate mobileOK content with these tools.
The plug-ins feature:
- Device identification: based on WURFL, an open-source DDR published as an XML file, and accessed through a standard DDR Simple API interface.
- Content adaptation to fit the properties of the requesting device in terms of e.g. screen size, script support, page size limit.
- Theme switching: possibility to switch to a more mobile-friendly theme when the requesting device is identified as mobile.
- POWDER: a machine-readable mobileOK claim for the Web site can be automatically created and served using a POWDER document. The POWDER document is made discoverable through the addition of a
LinkHTTP header field as decribed in the POWDER Primer.
- W3C mobileOK Checker link: a link to the W3C mobileOK Checker is added next to the authoring input form to be able to assert the mobile-friendliness of the created content while it is being written.
- mobileOK theme: a mobileOK template may be installed with the plug-in.
The development of a third plug-in for Moodle has started but it is still work in progress.
There exist other plug-ins that provide similar functionality (see for instance WordPress Mobile Plugin, WordPress Mobile Pack, Mobilebot 1.0 or WAFL: Mobile Content Adaptation). mobileOK Pythia separates tool-specific functionalities from tool-agnostic libraries to ease porting to other tools. In particular, the plug-ins wrap the same extensible libraries:
- AskPythia to identify and retrieve the properties of the requesting device.
- TransPythia to adapt content based on the properties of the requesting device.
AskPythia is an open-source conforming implementation of the Device Description Repository Simple API in PHP. It is not a DDR but a wrapper to existing DDRs.
AskPythia ships with an implementation on top of the WURFL database that maps WURFL capabilities to properties defined in the Device Description Repository Core Vocabulary standard. Support for other DDRs is welcome!
Check AskPythia's documentation for more information.
TransPythia is a transcoding library that adapts content (HTML, CSS, images) based on the capabilities of the requesting device. The library ships with a set of transcoding actions that are particularly adapted to mobile devices and that may be extended as needed.
Main transformations are:
- Images conversion and adaptation: adapts images to match the requesting device's list of supported image formats and to fit the screen size. Removes images that cannot be converted or that are still too big for mobile consumption after conversion.
- Pagination: a generic pagination algorithm that may be used to paginate HTML pages or HTML fragments when the requesting device is identified as a mobile device.
- Tables linearization: to remove nested tables and linearize tables when the requesting device does not support them.
Check TransPythia's documentation for more information.
If you would like to comment, contribute, report bugs or simply tell us what you think, you are very welcome! Feel free to send an email to the email@example.com mailing-list (with public archives).
W3C Cheatsheet for developers — 5 November 2009
I've been working over the past few weeks on a nifty little tool that summarizes a number of W3C technologies, including the Mobile Web Best Practices, in a mobile-friendly format, called the W3C Cheatsheet.
See my post in the W3C blog to learn more about it, and send your feedback!
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