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SEPIA SATURDAY is a weekly meme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs. All that is required is for contributors to post an old image (it doesn't have to be in sepia) and provide a few words in explanation. If you could provide a link back to the Sepia Saturday Blog and visit as many of the other contributors as you can, it would also be appreciated. Each week the call for contributions incorporates an old archive image and many people like to use this as a theme for their weekly posts. You will need to use your imaginations to identify you own theme from the provided image, and you can always choose to abandon any theme and just post an image that is special to you. Once you have published your Sepia Saturday post, add a link to that post to the Linky List published each week and leave a comment to let everyone know you are joining in.
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SEPIA SATURDAY 100 : 12 November 2011
45 comments:
- Brett Payne said...
I've had to get mine in early due to pressure of work, but it's a monster of a double article, worthy of the centennial celebration, I hope.
- 9 November 2011 at 09:21
- Kristin said...
I finished mine and couldn't wait any longer to post a collage of 100 photos of my father. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1911.
- 9 November 2011 at 20:44
- tony said...
Happy Birthday to us!
- 9 November 2011 at 21:18
- Sean Bentley said...
I'm going to be on the road on over the weekend, so I posted a tad early. Congratulations on the birthday, Alan!
- 10 November 2011 at 00:06
- Kat Mortensen said...
I'm early! (Will wonders never cease?) Have my sister-in-law coming for a visit this weekend. Family, eh! Hope you enjoy my post.
Kat - 10 November 2011 at 18:09
- Postcardy said...
I have a double connection to the 100 theme with a "Century of Progress" and 100 images.
- 10 November 2011 at 23:23
- Marilyn & Jeff said...
I am in with a 100th birthday celebration.
Thank you so much for Sepia Saturday Alan, and to everyone for such interesting posts. - 10 November 2011 at 23:25
- Alan Burnett said...
For me, a special couple to mark a special anniversary
- 10 November 2011 at 23:57
I too have a 100th birthday celebration for the 100th blogiversary celebration! I hope you enjoy my post and I hope I do her life justice in my story telling.
- 11 November 2011 at 05:10
- Kat Mortensen said...
New information has come to light, but I need your help!
- 11 November 2011 at 14:25
- Christine H. said...
Happy 100th. My post took me on an unexpected journey.
- 11 November 2011 at 15:45
- Martin said...
Congratulations, Alan and Kat. I hope this one meets the mark.
- 11 November 2011 at 16:25
- Little Nell said...
Happy one hundredth. I couldn't miss the opportunity to link it to this special day 11/11/11. Here's to many more.
- 11 November 2011 at 16:32
- Linda said...
Congratulations on 100 Sepia Saturdays.
- 11 November 2011 at 17:05
- DougVernX said...
Congratulations on 100 Sepia Saturdays. I certainly have a grand post to celebrate this accomplishment!
- 11 November 2011 at 20:29
- Mike Brubaker said...
I've something appropriate for the weekend but not for the number 100, yet. Cheers and huzzahs all around for Alan and Kat, and the many friends of Sepia Saturday.
- 11 November 2011 at 22:58
- Mike Brubaker said...
Sorry for the last recursive link. The second one is correct for temposenzatempo.blogspot.com
- 11 November 2011 at 23:13
- jennyfreckles said...
Congratulations on an inspired idea. I read them but don't usually join in so I've dug deep and found a timely tribute.
- 11 November 2011 at 23:16
- Liz Stratton said...
Congratulations on 100 Sepia Saturdays. Every one is truly inspirational.
- 12 November 2011 at 00:49
- Howard said...
happy 100th!
- 12 November 2011 at 01:08
- Unknown said...
A very impressive 100 Sepia Saturday to you and all the participants. Great joy
QMM - 12 November 2011 at 03:15
- mary said...
I took a risk on this one. It is haunting me.
- 12 November 2011 at 05:40
- Nancy said...
Hooray for 100! Great job, Alan and Kat. With so many followers I wondered if there would be 100 participants this week (though I know it would have taken me weeks to look at all the posts). Thanks for keeping it going, Alan.
- 12 November 2011 at 07:09
- H said...
My first time, but I think I'll be back for more!
- 12 November 2011 at 07:13
- Bruno Laliberté said...
There I am!!
with something different for the 100th,
as I'm talking to you instead.
HUGZ - 12 November 2011 at 08:11
- The bike shed said...
Well done on your centenary - my offering over at the bike shed
- 12 November 2011 at 08:58
- Jinksy said...
I feel 100 today - does that count? LOL
- 12 November 2011 at 09:18
- The Silver Fox said...
Congratulations! I finally did a new SS post m'self!
- 12 November 2011 at 10:47
- Kat Mortensen said...
I'll try and visit everyone over the next few days!
@ Jinksy - Never! 2x my age is 100; does that count?
Kat - 12 November 2011 at 13:10
- Sheila @ A Postcard a Day said...
Happy 100th! I just about found a tie-in. I couldn't opt out this week of all weeks.
- 12 November 2011 at 14:01
- Janice said...
Wow, 100! Impressive!
- 12 November 2011 at 15:26
- Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy said...
Yay!!! 100 weeks; thanks so much for thinking this up and keeping it going. I have been here since Feb. and think that I've done around 30 posts or so.
You guys are all great, and I am so happy to be a part of this wonderful group of friends.
Kathy M. - 12 November 2011 at 16:17
Not on theme this week, but wanted to get something up, more photo albums :)
- 12 November 2011 at 16:51
- North County Film Club said...
Congratulations on the 100th. Quite an accomplishment. Thanks for sticking to it for so long. I haven't posted in a while but my sister, Nancy Javier(Ladies of the Grove), has been faithfully posting for the last several months. I never miss reading Sepia Saturday and I feel as if I know all of you and that we're friends. I hope you never get tired of this, Alan.
Barbara - 12 November 2011 at 17:47
- Unknown said...
Well not on Theme, but I didnt want to miss out on being a part of this.
- 12 November 2011 at 18:27
Better late than never... again. Congratulations everyone on your fab contributions to Alan's 100h SS post. Look forward to the next 100, and cheers for your support, lovely peeps :-) Jo
- 12 November 2011 at 18:33
- viridian said...
I am participating for the first time, though I have dropped in before.
- 12 November 2011 at 18:39
- Tattered and Lost said...
Vacation and bandwidth issues have kept me away.
My post for the 100th anniversary is about what the world was on the verge of 100 years ago. We seem to be at the same place again. History just keeps repeating itself. - 12 November 2011 at 19:17
- Unknown said...
Sepia Saturday, an inspired idea. I'm too young, in Blogging terms, to recall its beginnings, but in the short time I've been involved I've come to appreciate what a wonderful tool it is for the exchange of the interesting. And, also for meeting some very articulate and imaginative people, some of whom are proving to be a lesson in how to tell a simple story and make it worth reading.
Thank you Alan, and thank you Kat. - 12 November 2011 at 21:07
- dakotaboo said...
I think I first started following Sepia Saturday somewhere in the 50's, so it's really great to see it reach 100. Keep up the great work. Alas I wasn't able to theme this week but have shared something nevertheless.
- 12 November 2011 at 22:52
- The Silver Fox said...
@Dakotaboo: You had internet in the 1950s? Wow, I'm impressed! ;-)
- 12 November 2011 at 23:47
- Nana Jo said...
I'm a wee bit late, but I'm up.
- 13 November 2011 at 09:16
At the Century of Progress there was a Midway building called the TEMPLE of PHRENOLOGY. It seems to have been located next to Ripley's Believe-it-or-not, a trained flea show, and a 2-headed baby...also near the Black Forrest Village. Is there a postcard of this? Many thanks, Mahl
- 15 November 2011 at 14:34
- Julie Goucher said...
A late contribution just added. Congratulations on the success of your meme!
- 18 November 2011 at 16:43
- GadgetSponge.com said...
Hated to miss last week for the big milestone. Just wanted to drop a line and congratulate you on the landmark post and thank you for the fun it is every Saturday. Keep up the great work!
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Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn't recorded on video, in which he didn't resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet. Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team's members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
This is the story of 9/11, brought to you by the media which told you the hard truths about JFKand incubator babies and mobile production facilities and the rescue of Jessica Lynch.
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Much of the movement happened in the past few months of 2012, as large investors, including hedge funds, pulled money out of Apple and, in some cases, poured it into Google, in order to maintain exposure to the large-capitalization technology sector, according to Colin Gillis, senior technology analyst and director of research at BGC Financial.
"As Apple started selling off, Google started taking off," Gillis says in a phone interview. "If you're an investor and you want exposure to large-cap tech stocks, there aren't that many places you can go."
The Apple sell-off is being driven in part by growing concerns about whether products like the iPhone and the iPad — devices that Apple is only incrementally improving — can continue to power revenue and profit growth, or whether Apple needs new, breakthrough products. After all, during his legendary career, Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs radically disrupted several markets with iconic products like the iPod and iTunes, and the iPhone and iPad, which set the standard for tech innovation. Current Apple CEO Tim Cook has yet to introduce a truly breakthrough new product of his own.
(MORE: Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs?)
"Tim Cook keeps alluding to the company's great product pipeline, but there's been an innovation vacuum for a couple of quarters," says Gillis. "I'm not going to say the story is over — let's give it one more year — but we're certainly in a period of incrementalism with Apple."
Scott Kessler, head of technology research at S&P Capital IQ, also raised the issue of incrementalism in Apple's product cycle. "There are some well-founded concerns about the company's ability to innovate, especially in light of Steve Jobs' passing," Kessler says in a phone interview. "It's not just about the next big thing, but the next big category. People have been looking for new products and new categories for some time, but they haven't seen them."
It doesn't help that Apple has experienced several quarters of slowing growth, which has further spooked investors. Last quarter, Apple generated profit of $13.1 billion, but that was flat compared with the year-ago period — the company's lowest rate of profit growth in a decade. Google, by contrast, continues to report solid growth thanks to its dominant search engine and online advertising business. Last quarter, net income increased 13% on revenue of $14.42 billion, a 36% increase over one year ago. Google has now jumped ahead of Apple as the most widely held long technology hedge-fund position, according to Goldman Sachs' new Hedge Fund Trend Monitor report, which analyzed 725 hedge funds with $1.3 trillion in gross assets.
(MORE: How Google's Chief Innovator Sergey Brin Is Making Science Fiction Real)
In short, Apple expectations are returning to earth. "Apple has had a tremendous run from 2001 until the end of last year," says Kessler. "People want the company to invent a new category. In the past, they've done that so frequently and successfully that when they don't seem to do it as much or as profoundly, questions arise."
Meanwhile, Google is hot. For example, Google's new Chromebook Pixel laptop is garnering positive reviews. ("Thank you, Google. For obsoleting my MacBook," as one CNET writer put it.) And the company's Google Glass wearable computing project — high-tech Internet-connected specs — is generating the sort of buzz usually reserved for Apple products. The futuristic eyewear will be available to consumers by the end of 2013, just in time for the holiday shopping season, according to several reports. Here's the latest official Google Glass video:
The Google buzz has been further amplified by chatter about the tech giant's massive, 42-acre (17 hectare) expansion to its Googleplex headquarters at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. That's a convenient location, because it's right next door to NASA's Moffett airfield, where Google executives keep no fewer than six private planes, including a 757, a 767 and several Gulfstream jets, according to a report last year from NBC Bay Area. (Cash-flush Apple also has an ambitious new headquarters due in 2016 under development.)
"Google is getting a lot of attention and a lot of kudos for taking risks and trying something new," says Kessler. "While Apple is reducing screen size [see the iPad Mini], Google is introducing a whole new product with wearable technology, which reinforces the perception that it's being innovative."
(MORE: Why Is Apple CEO Tim Cook Sitting Next to Michelle Obama?)
As for Apple, it's telling that Cook has been on something of a p.r. tour in recent months, appearing on the cover of Bloomberg BusinessWeek and showing up for a rare on-camera interview with Brian Williams of NBC News. In an apparent attempt to burnish the company's image, Cook recently announced plans to spend at least $100 million to "do one of our existing Mac lines in the Unites States." (To put that into perspective, Apple made over $50 billion in profit over the past 12 months.) And earlier this month, Cook sat with First Lady Michelle Obama during President Obama's State of the Union address.
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I've made my first novel, Ventus, available as a free download, as well as excerpts from two of the Virga books. I am looking forward to putting up a number of short stories in the near future.
To celebrate the August, 2007 publication of Queen of Candesce, I decided to re-release my first novel as an eBook. You can download it from this page. Ventus was first published by Tor Books in 2000, and and you can still buy it; to everyone who would just like to sample my work, I hope you enjoy this version.
I've released this book under a Creative Commons license, which means you can read it and distribute it freely, but not make derivative works or sell it.
I've made large tracts of these two Virga books available. If you want to find out what the Virga universe is all about, you can check it out here:
In spring 2005, the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts of National Defense Canada (that is to say, the army) hired me to write a dramatized future military scenario. The book-length work, Crisis in Zefra, was set in a mythical African city-state, about 20 years in the future, and concerned a group of Canadian peacekeepers who are trying to ready the city for its first democratic vote while fighting an insurgency. The project ran to 27,000 words and was published by the army as a bound paperback book.
If you'd like to read Crisis in Zefra, you can download it in PDF form.
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I just received word from Audible.com that our followup to Metatropolis, Metatropolis: Cascadia has won the 2012 Audie Award for Best Original Production!
The Audies have been awarded annually by the Audio Publisher's Association since 1996. The gala award ceremony for this year's awards was held last night.
Metatropolis: Cascadia is a collection of novella-length works, written by myself, Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Tobias S. Buckell, Elizabeth Bear and Ken Scholes, and set in the world of Metatropolis. It embraces and extends the ideas of the first anthology, and in its audiobook incarnation, the stories were read by cast members from Star Trek.
So, if you've been thinking lately that you want to listen to an award-winning story of mine that's read in a particularly gonzo faux-Russian accent by Jonathon Frakes, Cascadia is the best place to go.
Jay, Mary, Toby, Bear, and Ken: thank you, and congratulations.
June 5 at the New York Historical Society
Nominated again! This time it's for Metatropolis: Cascadia, the second audiobook project set in the near-future world of the Cities. This volume features stories by me, Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Scholes, and Toby Buckell. You might remember that the first Metatropolis was nominated for a Hugo Award, so this continues the tradition and it's pretty exciting!
Here's the full roster of nominees under the Best Original Work category:
This is a pretty solid lineup. What really scares me is that we're up against one of the idols of my youth, Stanislaw Lem, whose Solaris has been made into movies at least twice, and stands the test of time as a true classic of SF. Yikes.
The gala and awards ceremony will be held on June 5. I've got it on my calendar and will be crossing my fingers and toes.
I'm a member of the Association of Professional Futurists with my own consultancy, and am also currently Chair of the Canadian node of the Millennium Project, a private/public foresight consultancy active in 50 nations. As well, I am an award-winning author with ten published novels translated into as many languages. I write, give talks, and conduct workshops on numerous topics related to the future, including:
For a complete bio, go here. To contact me, email karl at kschroeder dot com
I use Science Fiction to communicate the results of actual futures studies. Some of my recent research relates to how we'll govern ourselves in the future. I've worked with a few clients on this and published some results.
Here are two examples--and you can read the first for free:
The Canadian army commissioned me to write Crisis in Urlia, a fictionalized study of the future of military command-and-control. You can download a PDF of the book here:
For the "optimistic Science Fiction" anthology Hieroglyph, I wrote "Degrees of Freedom," set in Haida Gwaii. "Degrees of Freedom" is about an attempt to develop new governing systems by Canadian First Nations people.
I'm continuing to research this exciting area and would be happy to share my findings.
"Science fiction at its best."
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"Lean and hugely engaging ... and highly recommended."
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(Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce are combined in Cities of the Air)
"An adventure-filled tale of sword
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"With Queen of Candesce, [Schroeder] has achieved a clockwork balance of deftly paced adventure and humour, set against an intriguing and unique vision of humanity's far future.
--The Globe and Mail
"[Pirate Sun] is fun in the same league as the best SF ever has had to offer, fully as exciting and full of cool science as work from the golden age of SF, but with characterization and plot layering equal to the scrutiny of critical appraisers."
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"A grand flying-pirate-ship-chases-and-escapes-and-meetings-with-monsters adventure, and it ends not with a debate or a seminar but with a gigantic zero-gee battle around Candesce, a climactic unmasking and showdown, just desserts, and other satisfying stuff."


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The Gambling Impact and Behavior Study investigates the gambling behavior and attitudes of adults and youth in America, and also estimates the effects of gambling facilities on a variety of local economic and social indicators. Respondents were randomly selected by a national random-digit dial (RDD) through a stratified design by state lottery status and distances to major casino. The study includes three independent, unlinkable data files. The adult and youth questionnaire (Parts 1 and 2) covered areas such as demographic information, geographic region, gambling behavior and attitudes, motivations for gambling, gambling history, a problem-gambling diagnostic assessment, gambling treatment experience, family/marital status and issues, income and financial information, criminal activity, mental and general health, and substance use. Areas of substance abuse examined were the use of alcohol, marijuana, hashish, cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, stimulants, tranquilizers, amphetamines, and speed. The Community Database (Part 3) included the following: geographic locators (latitude, longitude), availability of gaming facilities, gaming spending estimates, employment patterns by industry, unemployment, bankruptcy, personal income, private and public earnings, government expenditures, income maintenance/AFDC, and vital statistics.
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Data were collected and prepared for release by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.
Three survey methodologies were used for the adult sample. Telephone interviews were conducted for all but 14 respondents who chose to participate via mail-in questionnaire. Face-to-face interviews were conducted for adult patrons of gambling facilities. The in-person and mail-in questionnaires contained most, but not all, of the questions from the telephone interview.
The youth questionnaire is identical to the telephone survey administered to adults with one exception. Section D (the Diagnostic Screen for gambling disorders) was administered to all youths who reported any lifetime gambling behavior, rather than, as with adults, only that subset of gamblers who reported dollar losses above certain limits.
The data for the community database includes two variables for latitude and longitude (INTPTLAT and INTPTLNG) which will produce a warning when used in SPSS due to their lengths.
In reporting on gambling activities, respondents were asked to include gambling within the United States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, and to exclude gambling in other territories, on ships, cruises, or ferries, as well as other venues on international waters.
The sample for the adult telephone interviews was derived using a national random-digit dial (RDD) design stratified by state lottery status, and distances to a major casino. The distribution of age and sex of the respondent was controlled using the Troldahl-Carter-Bryant method. For the adult patron survey, a random sample of gambling facilities was drawn from two western states, three Mississippi River states, and three northeastern states. An average of 25 interviews per facility at 21 facilities was achieved. The youth sample was drawn from two lists of telephone numbers: List 1 consisted of 5,000 targeted households with youths aged 12-17, while List 2 consisted of 32,000 RDD numbers targeted at all households. The youth sample was also stratified by state lottery status. The community database consisted of 100 communities, which were selected using a simple random sampling without replacement procedure, from among "designated places" as defined by the United States Census Bureau, with populations of 10,000 or more. The community database contains information on the years 1980-1996. The community sample was stratified by distance to major casino and presence of legal gambling.
The universe consists of the civilian household population of the United States aged 16 and older. The telephone subuniverse consisted of those living in households with at least one working telephone line. The universe for the community database is biased toward smaller census designated places with populations of 10,000 or more.
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- Schema.org is a collaboration, in the spirit of sitemaps.org, between Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex to make it easier for webmasters to provide us with data so that we may better direct users to their sites.
- Schema.org is not a formal standards body. Schema.org is simply a site where we document the schemas that several major search engines will support.
- Schema.org is a collaboration between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Yandex - large search engines who will use this marked-up data from web pages. Other sites - not necessarily search engines - might later join.
Q: How does schema.org relate to Facebook Open Graph?
Facebook Open Graph serves its purpose well, but it doesn't provide the detailed information search engines need to improve the user experience. A single web page may have many components, and it may talk about more than one thing. If search engines understand the various components of a page, we can improve our presentation of the data. Even if you mark up your content using the Facebook Open Graph protocol, schema.org provides a mechanism for providing more detail about particular entities on the page.
For example, a page about a band could include any or all of the following:
- A list of albums
- A price for each album
- A list of songs for each album, along with a link to hear samples of each song
- A list of upcoming shows
- Bios of the band members
Q: What's coming next? How will schema.org evolve?
Schema.org is a work in progress which will keep evolving over the next many years. We expect the evolution to come from two major sources.
- As we identify new kinds of structured data that we can use to provide better search results, we will extend schema.org to cover these.
- We strongly encourage schema developers to develop and evangelize their schemas. As these gain traction, we will incorporate them into schema.org.
Q: Who is managing schema.org on an ongoing basis? Can other websites join schema.org as partners and help decide what new schemas to support?
The day to day operations of Schema.org, including decisions regarding the schema, are handled by a steering group, which includes representatives of the founding companies and other experts. See the about schema.org page for more details on how to get involved.
Q: Is schema.org available in multiple languages? When is that coming? What languages is the markup available in?
Schema.org markup can be used on web pages written in any language. The site is currently available in English only, but we plan to translate to other languages soon. The markup, like HTML, is in English.
Q: How do I mark up my site using this schema?
Take a look at the getting started guide for an overview on microdata and schema.org. Or go to the schemas page to start looking at specific item types.
Q: Why should I add markup? What will I get out of it? How will the data be used?
Search engines are using on-page markup in a variety of ways. These projects help you to surface your content more clearly or more prominently in search results. Not every type of information in schema.org will be surfaced in search results — you can refer to each company's documentation to find specific uses — but over time you can expect that more data will be used in more ways. In addition, since the markup is publicly accessible from your web pages, other organizations may find interesting new ways to make use of it as well.
Q: This is too much work. Why can't you just extract this data automatically?
Automated data extraction is great when it works, but it can be error prone because different sites can represent the same information in so many different ways. Markup provides a consistent way for computers to understand the data on a page, and helps search engines display information usefully in search results.
Q: I have already added markup in some other format (i.e. microformats, RDFa, data-vocabulary.org, etc). Do I need to change anything on my site?
If you are already publishing structured data markup and it is already being used by Google, Microsoft, Yandex or Yahoo!, the markup format will generally continue to be supported. Changing to the new markup format could be helpful over time because you will be switching to a standard that is accepted across several companies, but you don't have to do it.
Q: My website contains content that is of a type that is unsupported. Are you going to add that type? How do I mark it up in the meantime?
If you publish content of an unsupported type, you have three options:
- Do nothing (don't mark up the content in any way). However, before you decide to do this, check to see if any of the types supported by schema.org - such as reviews, comments, images, or breadcrumbs - are relevant.
- Use a less-specific markup type. For example, schema.org has no "Professor" type. However, if you have a directory of professors in your university department, you could use the "person" type to mark up the information for every professor in the directory.
- If you are feeling ambitious, use the schema.org extension system to define a new type.
Q: Do I have to mark up every property?
It is fine to mark up only some properties of an item - markup is not an all-or-nothing choice. However, marking up as much content as possible helps search engines use your information to present your page to users in the most useful way. As a general rule, you should mark up only the content that is visible to people who visit the web page and not content in hidden div's or other hidden page elements.
Q: Why microdata? Why not RDFa or microformats?
Focusing on microdata seemed like a pragmatic decision at the time. For some time now we have been supporting multiple syntaxes, specifically including RDFa and JSON-LD. There are certain things that are much harder in Microdata, like mixing vocabularies, or inverting the direction of a property relationship. We are also adding code examples in all of these formats.
Q: Why don't you support other vocabularies such as FOAF, SKOS, etc?
In creating schema.org, one of our goals was to create a single place where webmasters could go to figure out how to mark up their content, with reasonable syntax and style consistency across types. This way, webmasters only need to learn one thing rather than having to understand different, often overlapping vocabularies. A lot of the vocabulary on schema.org was inspired by earlier work like Microformats, FOAF, OpenCyc, etc. Many terms in schema.org came through collaborations, and we acknowledge these on the schema.org site rather than by making our markup more complex. See also our external enumerations mechanism for handling enumerated lists of entities.
Q: Where can I give feedback, report bugs, etc.?
Please use our feedback form.
Q: Where did you get that great domain name?
We have the generosity of the OpenDomain project to thank for our domain name. Thanks!
Q: Under what terms can we reuse this documentation (and schemas, examples, software)?
As noted in our terms of service document, schema.org schemas are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (version 3.0). These terms also apply to the supporting documentation on this site and on our blog, as well as to the markup examples used in this site. The software used for our site is also available for opensource reuse under an Apache 2 license. If you have feedback on these terms please get in touch.
Should we write 'https://schema.org'
or 'http://schema.org'
in our markup?
There is a general trend towards using 'https'
more widely, and you can already write 'https://schema.org'
in your structured data.
We have migrated the schema.org site itself towards using https:
as the default version of the site and our preferred form in examples.
However 'http://schema.org' -based URLs in structured data markup will remain widely understood for the foreseeable future and there should
be no urgency about migrating existing data. This is a lengthy way of saying that both 'https://schema.org'
and 'http://schema.org'
are fine.


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By KIMBERLY HEFLING
AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Handing out dismal grades, the Nation's Report Card says America's high school seniors lack critical math and reading skills for an increasingly competitive global economy.
Only about one-quarter are performing proficiently or better in math and just 4 in 10 in reading. And they're not improving, the report says, reinforcing concerns that large numbers of today's students are unprepared for either college or the workplace.
Scores on the 2013 exam in both subjects were little changed from 2009, when the National Assessment of Educational Progress was last given to 12th-graders. The new results, released Wednesday, come from a representative sample of 92,000 public and private school students.
The report follows the just-released and seemingly more encouraging research that U.S. high school graduation rates in 2012 reached 80 percent, a record.
One possible explanation is that lower-performing students who in the past would have dropped out of school are now remaining in the sampling of students who take the exam, said John Easton, acting commissioner of the Education's Department's National Center for Education Statistics.
Wednesday's results are likely to embolden supporters of the Common Core standards that are being rolled out in 44 states and the District of Columbia. Designed to develop critical thinking skills, they spell out what math and English skills students should master at each grade.
There have been political storms in many states over the standards, which were pushed by governors who were concerned about the skill levels of their high school graduates. Opponents say the standards have a federalist bent and are untested.
Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and a former governor of West Virginia, said the new national results speak to a "desperate need for the aggressive implementation" of the standards.
In reading, the 38 percent share of students performing at or above the proficient level was lower than when the assessment was first given in 1992, when it was 40 percent. Scores have remained similar since 1994.
Past comparisons in math date only to 2005. Scores had increased from 2005 to 2009.
Student participants' responses to a survey about their educational experiences offered some clues about their performance.
Among the findings:
_Students who reported rarely or never discussing reading interpretations in class averaged lower scores than those who had such discussions daily or almost daily.
_An overwhelming majority reported that reading was enjoyable. Students who strongly disagreed with that idea had scores much lower than those who strongly agreed.
_Math scores were higher, on average, for students who took calculus and lowest for students who had not taken a math course beyond Algebra I.
_Math scores were higher for students who reported math was their favorite subject, believed it would help them in the future or thought their class was engaging.
Even as 12th-grade scores have stagnated, fourth- and eighth-grade students have made slow but steady progress on the exam since the early 1990s; most progress has come in math.
Michael Petrilli, executive vice president at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, said it's unclear why younger students are doing better while high school seniors are not.
"This is one of the great mysteries of education today is why are we not seeing the same improvements at the 12th-grade level as the fourth- and eighth-grade level," Petrilli said.
One speculation is that high school seniors simply aren't motivated when they take this exam. More ominously, another thought is that students are taking watered-down classes and "all we've done is put them in courses with bigger titles," said Mark Schneider, the vice president at the American Institutes for Research. He is the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics.
At all levels, there continue to be racial disparities.
Among high school seniors, white and Asian students scored higher on average in the recent results in both reading and math than black, Hispanic and American Indian students. Asian students scored higher than white students in math but did not do significantly better in reading. As in past years, male students did better than female students in math, but females outperformed males in reading.
The new results did not include global comparisons, but U.S. students historically do poorly on international assessments compared to many foreign peers.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan noted that despite the good news related to graduation rates and scores in younger grades, high school achievement has been flat in recent years.
"We must reject educational stagnation in our high schools, and as a nation we must do better for all students, especially for African-American and Latino students," Duncan said in a statement.
Community colleges and four-year institutions have been trying to improve their remedial education programs, given that only about one-quarter of students who take remedial classes end up graduating.
It's estimated that more than one-third of all college students, and more than one-half in community colleges, need some remedial help, according to research from the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University.
In addition to the national scores released Wednesday, 13 states voluntarily participated at a greater level and had scores reported.


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