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The IT community's burgeoning interest in anything XML has spilled over to SQL Server 2000, which ships with XML capability. Developers are using SQL Server 2000's XML features to write queries that use the FOR XML clause to return results in XML format, to query SQL Server through HTTP, and to program in XML's XPath query language. (For an overview of SQL Server 2000's XML features, see Bob Beauchemin, "The XML Files," September 2000.) In this article, I show you how to engage one of these XML features—SQL Server 2000's FOR XML clause—to produce a well-formed XML document that another system can easily read and process. The FOR XML clause, which you use in a T-SQL SELECT statement, lets you write a SQL query that returns XML directly from the SQL Server query engine. Without the FOR XML clause, you must parse the query results through an XML parser or generate XML in a custom application.
Using T-SQL to Produce XML
Let's walk through an example that shows how to create an order document for Northwind Traders, a catalog company that uses the Internet to market international products. To produce a single, comprehensive order form that Northwind's automated warehouse system can print, I query SQL Server's sample Northwind database for the applicable information. The sample database contains customer and contact information for a stick-on address label; the name, product number, and quantity of each item in the order for a bill of lading; and the shipper name for a shipping label that tells warehouse employees where to stage the package for pickup. I decide to use XML for this project because XML provides a widely adopted and supported document format. I also like the fact that XML describes the information in the document instead of depending on the information's place in a fixed-format document such as a delimited text file.
To get XML results from SQL Server, I simply have to append a FOR XML clause to a standard SELECT statement. Listing 1 shows a T-SQL query that uses the keywords FOR XML AUTO. The FOR XML AUTO mode, which I must specify, tells SQL Server to return the results in the simple nested XML tree that Figure 1 shows. (I produced Figure 1's results by using SQL Server XML Support in Microsoft Internet Information Server—IIS).
Figure 1 reveals even more compelling information. The screen shows that SQL Server's query engine based its XML document nesting on the SELECT statement's columns. The resulting XML document also shows how the SQL Server query engine elected to join the tables. Although Figure 1 displays a valid XML result, I seek a different outcome. I want to rearrange the element hierarchy because I need elements only for the order header, the order number and shipper, and the line-item detail. Notice how Figure 1's result groups the header information. The "c" at the beginning of the header element comes from the "c" alias for the Customers table in the query, the "o" for the alias for the Orders table, and so on. In the Northwind tables, the Order level includes the shipper, and the quantity ordered applies to each product line item. But to make the XML result easier to manipulate, I decide to flatten out some of the hierarchies. In the result I want, the customer name, address, and contact comprise the first element; the order ID and the shipping company name form the second element; and the quantity ordered and product name constitute the third element.
To gain more control over the format of the resulting XML document, I can use the FOR XML clause in EXPLICIT mode. FOR XML EXPLICIT lets you specify exactly how you want information nested in the XML tree. To use FOR XML EXPLICIT to force the hierarchy of the resulting row set, I must format my query by using structured column names and UNION operators. SQL Server 2000 documentation calls this specific row set format a universal table, which is an effective way to visualize the structure of a FOR XML EXPLICIT query. With this table, you can institute the tag to identify the hierarchy levels of the XML result, set up the parent-child relationships between the levels, and establish the structured column names, as Table 1 shows. The first two columns in Table 1, TAG and PARENT, define the parent-child relationships among the elements of my result set. (The tag value is literally the row level in the hierarchy, and the parent value is the tag of that row's parent row.) To conserve space, I have included a limited XML result in Table 1's universal table.
Listing 2 shows the FOR XML EXPLICIT query that forces the XML result into the format I want. I construct the query in three parts that I connect with UNION ALL clauses. The query's first SELECT statement constructs the hierarchy's first element. I establish the relative column order according to my sample universal table model and specify the column names by using the element!tagnumber!attribute!directive format. You can see that Customer is the first hierarchy element. I include the CustomerID attribute to form links among the three hierarchy levels, but I use the HIDE directive to conceal the CustomerID attribute because I don't want to include the customer ID in the XML result. I add other customer information for the mailing label at the first level. Customer has no parent, so I assign the parent column a value of NULL.
Order is the hierarchy's second element, so I use the second SELECT statement to retrieve the order data. Because customer (first level) is the parent of the Order element, and Order is the second element, I assign the tag column a value of 2 and the parent column a value of 1. I include the customer columns again along with OrderID because in the SELECT statement, I join the Customers table with the Orders table. To retrieve all the data I need for the Order element of my XML result, I join the Orders table to the Customers table and the Shippers table to the Orders table. The final SELECT statement, which I write for the third level of the hierarchy, incorporates the order line-item details for my result. I assign the tag a value of 3 and the parent column a value of 2, in keeping with the hierarchy of this data set.
The final part of the query is the ORDER BY clause. In the ORDER BY clause, SQL Server uses the structured column names that I devised when I was developing the universal table to structure my query. When a FOR XML query is in EXPLICIT mode, the ORDER BY clause is very important for structuring the query results because the ORDER BY clause sets up the hierarchy of Customer, Order, and Order Detail. When I include the ORDER BY clause, the query returns the hierarchy of customer-order-order detail for a single order. Without the ORDER BY clause, the query returns a list of all the customers' data first, followed by a list of all order-level data, then finally a list of all the order details. Notice that I must place the HIDE directive again in the Customer!1!CustomerID column because I used that directive for CustomerID in the first SELECT statement. Omitting the HIDE directive produces the error message Invalid column name 'Customer!1!CustomerID'. Figure 2 shows the results of the FOR XML EXPLICIT query in Listing 2.
Using FOR XML EXPLICIT in a Real-World Application
So far, I've shown you how to query SQL Server by using the FOR XML clause and how to control the format of results by using EXPLICIT mode. I produced these sample results in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) by running the utility Configure SQL Server XML Support in IIS from the SQL Server program group in the Start menu. SQL Server XML Support in IIS lets me use HTTP to query SQL Server 2000 and format XML into customer-friendly HTML, which applies XML style sheets in Extensible Style Language (XSL). Some development teams I've worked with also use SQL Server's XML support with Visual Basic (VB) components by using the ADO Stream object and employing XSL to format results for browser applications. To make the results I've shown you in this article customer-friendly, let's explore how to extract the XML result from SQL Server by using a stored procedure that a VB application executes.
XML provides the foundation for Internet communications between business systems—for example, between Northwind's corporate database and warehouse system. So let's examine how SQL Server 2000 can help you prepare a document for entry into a transport mechanism that automates a business transaction. You can use a transport mechanism such as Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 to set up workflows and document transformations that handle the processing of documents similar to the XML orders document I describe in this article. (For more information about BizTalk Server, see http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk.) All I need to do is feed BizTalk Server a well-formed XML stream along with information about the data's origin and destination. Because SQL Server 2000 can produce the XML stream, I can query SQL Server from a component that sends the stream straight to a product like BizTalk Server, which in turn processes the stream according to the workflows and transformations I've predefined. Thanks to the XML support in SQL Server 2000, I don't need to do any XML-specific programming beyond writing the FOR XML EXPLICIT query to produce the XML order document that I send to BizTalk Server.
Let's look at a simple example of preparing an XML document for processing. Because I've already built a query that returns order information as an XML document, my next step is to add a solution for processing the orders in the XML document. When SQL Server has inserted the order into Northwind's database, I can assume that the order is ready to be fulfilled. Then, my objective is to transmit the order to Northwind's central warehouse facility, where a bill of lading and a shipping label print out and where employees pull items off the shelves, package them for shipping, and stage the packages for shipper pickup. To fulfill an order, I set up a BizTalk Server at the corporate sales facility (which also houses Northwind's database server) and a BizTalk Server at the warehouse, because the only connection between the sales office and the warehouse is the Internet. The BizTalk Server at the warehouse interacts with the warehouse system to print the shipping-related documents, adjust inventory, and transmit order-fulfillment information back to the corporate sales office through HTTP.
The FOR XML EXPLICIT query example that Listing 2 shows produces all the information that the warehouse needs to fulfill an order. However, I need to modify the query to produce an XML document for one order. The modification is necessary because I plan to place new orders in BizTalk Server one at a time, the same way the salespeople enter orders in the Northwind database. I prefer to use stored procedures for data access because their execution plans are cached, and I can easily execute stored procedures from a VB application through remote procedure calls (RPCs) by using ADO Command objects. So I write stored procedure p_xmlorder, which produces the XML result that Listing 3 shows. I use the customer ID and order ID as input parameters for the stored procedure, and because the FOR XML EXPLICIT query uses UNIONs to link the three levels of the XML order hierarchy, I need to apply the search criteria in each of the individual SELECT statements. The stored procedure returns the customer name, address, and contact name; the order number and the shipper for the order ID parameter I provided (different orders for one customer might have different shippers); and the list of products in the order. Figure 3, page 68, shows the result of stored procedure p_xmlorder for the customer ID ALFKI and order number 10643.
Now that I've written a stored procedure to produce a well-formed XML document for an order, I need to write an application to send the order on its way to the warehouse for fulfillment. I can complete this step from a VB application that uses ADO to call the stored procedure and that loads the resulting XML in an ADO Stream object. I can then pass the XML in the Stream object to BizTalk Server by using the BizTalk Interchange.Submit method call with the name of the BizTalk Server channel to execute for this document. (The server channel is a named workflow that BizTalk Server executes when you submit the order.) The Interchange.Submit method call identifies the channel and the XML order in the ADO Stream object named adoOutStr. Listing 4, page 68, shows the VB code for retrieving the XML order document and sending it to BizTalk Server.
VB produces the XML results in a stream, so I use an ADO Stream object to store the XML. The ADO Command object functions in the standard way to execute a parameterized stored procedure, with the following exceptions. The Command object uses the .Properties property to direct the XML results to the Stream object, whose adExecuteStream option you set in the .Execute method to specify a stream output. A typical ADO Recordset doesn't require these properties and options. The Command object executes the stored procedure efficiently as an RPC in SQL Server as well. The remaining code calls the BizTalk COM interface to execute a BizTalk channel (called "Order Fulfillment Channel" for this example) that I defined to accept order documents and route them to the warehouse. I designed this standard VB .exe application to run on the same computer that runs BizTalk Server. In a production system, I would write this as a COM+ component to work in a distributed application so that I could take advantage of COM+'s manageability and scalability benefits.
Interesting Possibilities
SQL Server 2000's XML support opens up many interesting possibilities for developing solutions that require data in XML format. This article shows how to use the FOR XML clause to retrieve results as XML documents and how to use the FOR XML clause in EXPLICIT mode. With the help of the FOR XML clause, you can produce a well-formed XML document and forward it to another application in two fairly simple steps. Even better, you can accomplish this feat by using familiar programming techniques and avoid having to write a lot of XML-specific code.


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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone may celebrate the childlike wonder and unadulterated joy of magic. It may profess the power of awe and possibility. But its true motives are simple and pure: make the audience laugh by almost any means necessary. Those means are usually along the lines of the silly, slightly demented, biting, and occasionally dark humor that may not share the story's values, but they get consistent comedy out of a charming albeit slightly conventional premise. Working from Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley's sharp script with great performances from its cast, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a trick we know, but it's one performed well.
Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) are childhood friends who took their love of magic all the way to Las Vegas, and became huge stars with their own theater at Bally's Casino. Behind the scenes, Burt and Anton have grown to despise each other, which mostly stems from Burt's vanity. The self-centered magician can't even be bothered to remember the name of his assistant, Jane (Olivia Wilde). Burt's world begins falling apart when his ticket sales plunge and audiences begin flocking to disturbing street magician, Steve Gray (Jim Carrey). Reduced to working retirement homes, Burt must eventually rediscover his love of magic.
The story is as familiar as a card trick: a selfish person learns the value of humility. Goldstein and Daley don't mess with the formula, and instead they move to take full advantage of their novel setting and colorful characters. The structure keeps forcing them back to making sure they hit the emotional beats, and Carell can always be counted on to deliver the warmth we've come to expect from all of his characters. The film also gives him the space to embrace the broad comedy, which is what makes the film run. Carell doesn't overplay Burt as much as he allows his fake tan and slightly-off delivery to charm the audience. It's an inherently outlandish character, and there's no need for two actors to devour the scenery.
Instead, he leaves the scenery-chewing to co-star Carrey, who is wisely utilized in a supporting turn. Playing a parody of David Blaine and Criss Angel—the "trickless magicians" Chris Rock lampooned in his stand-up special Never Scared—Carrey gleefully plays into the kind of over-the-top character that catapulted him to stardom back in the early 1990s. Gray is a calmer, more centered Fire Marshall Bill. Without strong comic co-stars like Carell, Buscemi, Wilde, as well as Alan Arkin as Rance Holloway—the man who inspired Burt to pursue magic—Carrey would walk away with the movie. Instead, director Don Scardino makes sure we never lose sight of Burt's emotional arc even though it's a familiar journey.
If it all comes back to getting the most laughs possible, then it's not so bad that the story takes a back seat to the humor. Perhaps Goldstein and Daley are just on my comic wavelength, but I was laughing hard throughout the movie. It's difficult to say the picture shares its sentiment of celebrating the joy of sweet, innocent magic when the script is contains jokes like calling Gray's act "Brain Rapist" or showing Burt's rote, joyless process of bedding women. We don't go to magic shows expecting to feel emotionally connected to the performers. We go to be entertained, and by that measure, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a delightful bit of hocus pocus.
Rating: B
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Camp Calendar: A Fan's Do's 'n' don't's
If you plan on attending any of the sessions at Saint Vincent, there are certain things you need to know (and some others that will just make it more fun)
Sunday, July 25, 2010
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Kickoff: Camp opens for all players Friday when they must report and take their annual run test. A roster of 80 players is expected to report, provided the No. 1 and No. 2 draft picks, center Maurkice Pouncey and linebacker Jason Worilds, sign their contracts by then. They are their only unsigned players.
Where: Saint Vincent College, Route 30, Latrobe, the Steelers' 45th summer at the school which has undergone many changes to its campus the past few years, including roads in, out and around.
Getting there: From Pittsburgh, take the Parkway East to the Monroeville interchange on the Turnpike. Go east to the Irwin exchange (No. 67). Take Route 30 East about 17 miles to the entrance to Saint Vincent College and follow the signs. ... From Route 70, exit at New Stanton and take 119 North to Route 30, then head east. From Harrisburg and points East, take the Turnpike to exit 91, Donegal. Turn left onto PA Route 31 East, 1/4 mile to left turn at PA Route 711 North, 14 miles to left turn at U.S. Route 30 West, 10 miles to right turn at Saint Vincent. ... From Erie and points North, take I-79 South to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, head east and follow directions from Pittsburgh. ... By air, the Westmoreland County Airport is across Route 30 from the campus. ... By rail, Amtrak (800-872-7245) offers passenger service with stops in Latrobe.
Parking: There's plenty of free parking at designated areas near the Steelers' practice fields.
Practices: They are open free to the public only in the afternoon, normally between 2:55 and 5. All practices are scheduled at Saint Vincent College, except for one night practice, Aug 6 at Latrobe Stadium at 7 p.m. There may be no public practice Aug. 7 because there are plans for players to attend Dick LeBeau's induction that day into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Weather and unforeseen circumstances can alter the schedule and those changes will be noted on Post-Gazette.com. The first open practice is Saturday, the last one open to the public Aug. 18, with the team breaking camp Aug. 20.
Getting around: Campus opens to fans 90 minutes before the start of an open practice. There are restricted areas. An information booth is near the field, and campus security can answer questions.
Where to watch: The Steelers practice on four fields situated in a natural amphitheater. Fans can watch from the hillsides or along a fence that rings the practice fields. There is bleacher seating at three-year-old Chuck Noll Field that overlooks the main practice areas. Also, there are handicap accessible areas.
What to bring: Blanket, lawn chair, binoculars, sunglasses, I pod, sunblock, food, kids, soft drinks, water, snacks, still camera, friends, pen, autograph book, Terrible Towel.
Refreshments: There are snack bars outside, and at the college's indoor facility. Fans also can bring in refreshments.
Souvenirs: A Steelers merchandise trailer inside the Steelers Experience on the hill above the practice fields will sell just about anything you want. Various souvenirs, merchandise and exclusive training camp items are also sold on campus and at the college bookstore. And, of course, they can supply you with all those Super Bowl t-shirts and hats.
Banned: Alcohol, drugs, whistles, nudity (unless tastefully done), video cameras (taking video on cell phones is discouraged but hard to stop), profanity, stalkers, graffiti, pets, pests, Baltimore Ravens scouts, hovering helicopters and hot-air balloons, Santonio Holmes and Bob Ligashesky.
To get autographs, photos: The Steelers do not hold an official Photo Day as they did for many years, but they will sign autographs 15 minutes before their night practice at Latrobe Stadium. Unlike other teams such as the Baltimore Ravens, they do not limit autographs to certain age groups. The best time for photos or autographs is after practice on campus. Some players will ask fans to wait until after they shower. Players and coaches normally are cooperative, but at times they have bad days or were just chewed out by a coach and don't want to be bothered, so be a little understanding. And it helps if you know the name of the player you ask for an autograph.
Steelers Experience: Even if you're not a Steeler, you can pretend to be one -- punt, pass, kick, and be timed in the 40-yard dash. Kids of all ages can test their skills or just try the various exercises at the Steelers Experience. You can run, kick, throw, catch, visit a mock locker room, get your photo taken looking like a Steeler and get your face painted as if it's game day and you want to attract the TV cameras. Try your hands at interactive games and activities. Experience will be open -- and free -- when the Steelers practice in the afternoon at St. Vincent College. Hours are 1:30 p.m. until one hour after practice ends on the baseball field above the football fields on days the Steelers practice.
Information: Steelers offices at UPMC Sports Performance Complex (412-432-7800) and at Saint Vincent College (724-539-8515).
Where to stay: Among the motels and hotels within a 15-mile radius of Latrobe: In Latrobe is the Wingate Inn, 724-539-0400. Near Greensburg are the Four Points Sheraton, 724-836-6060; Hampton Inn, 724-838-8800; Comfort Inn, 724-838-7070; Knights Inn, 724-836-7100; Super 8, 724-838-8080, and the Inn at Mountain View, 724-691-0570. There are several hotels in the Ligonier area as well.
Camp Calendar
Afternoon workouts generally run from 2:55-5 p.m. The campus opens to fans at 1:30 p.m. only on days when there is a 2:55 practice. Please remember that weather could cause practice to be canceled without notice. The schedule is subject to change.
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So have you seen that statistic about what fashion magazines do to the female brain? Apparently it takes just three minutes of looking at the sculpted bodies (too often sculpted by bulimia and chain smoking, I fear) of the models that stride, flounce, and pirouette through their pages to make 70 per cent of women "depressed, guilty, and ashamed."
Okay, so maybe we should be depressed about our weight -- if only guilt were likely to help us do anything about it. But it's not just on body image that women's magazines are totally out of touch with reality. Our actual lives have approximately zero chance of being accessorized with $1,000 handbags and impulse weekend trips to Paris.
Does it inspire or discourage us, this regular immersion of ourselves in a beautiful but strangely disturbing alternate reality? We know it's only an aspirational world, but we can't help letting its imaginary standards bleed over into our real one. Haven't we all spent more than we could afford on some beautiful object that called out to us from those pages, promising to transform our lives? (I'm thinking of a particular Coach purse in my past...)
But it's on relationships that the magazines seem most out of touch. We all gawk at the Cosmo covers at the checkout. Honestly, "First, Take Off His Pants"? The advice is absurd, but the cumulative effect, in an Overton window sort of way, has to be moving our real-life expectations in a Cosmo direction -- in other words, in the opposite direction from reality and common sense.
So I was quite surprised when Ashley Crouch called to interview me about The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After for Verily magazine's teaser issue. How amazing! Apparently somebody was starting a really different kind of women's magazine, where the relationships editor was ready to take Jane Austen's insights -- the very essence of realism and common sense -- seriously.
It turned out I already knew another one of the young women involved with the launch, and I eagerly attended the Verily editors' presentation at a women writer's group in Washington, D.C. The more I learned about Verily, the more it fascinated.
The venture began when a group of young women navigating careers and relationships -- "a diverse group hailing from all over the country and working in everything from fashion to medicine to philanthropy and relationships" -- decided that the standard women's magazines were completely out of touch with their lives and their understanding of themselves as women. Then, instead of only complaining, they decided to do something.
This is not, putting it very mildly, a frumpy group of women. The two co-founders who hatched the original idea over a Manhattan brunch are style editor Janet Sahm, who has worked at Elle and is one of those amazingly thin gorgeous people, and publisher Kara Eschbach, who worked for a Credit Suisse equity fund and is putting up the money for the launch. Their whole team seems to be as comfortable in front of the camera as behind a computer monitor; the story they tell with pictures is really engaging.
And the teaser issue they've put together is just extraordinary. Verily has just launched, and it's every kind of gorgeous you want a woman's magazine to be. It's got all the regular things -- the beautiful clothes, the makeup tips, the fabulous locations, the cool objects. (Sneakers made from yacht sails and lined with cashmere, anyone?) But the tone of the whole magazine is so different, and unbelievably refreshing.
After a lifetime of love-hate relationships with women's magazines, it's incredibly relaxing to find one that you can just love. The "From Runway to Realway" feature does exactly what you want -- picking out the new designs that have some application to real life and showing what actual women who are not runway models can do with them (a true public service!). The lipsticks in the "after" pictures are at prices that will seem reasonable even to serious penny-pinchers. The relationship advice tackles real-life issues, from how to make a long-distance relationship work, to how to handle post-marital disillusionment, and it's realistic and pro-active. And the longer features are just great -- my favorite was, "Love Is Stronger than Death," by a woman whose father has cancer.
You're not going to see Verily at the grocery store checkout any time soon. You have to subscribe to read the online version (after the teaser issue) or -- my choice! -- to get it in the mail. I'll be feasting my fill on the eye candy in each issue and then dropping my copy onto the top of one of those waiting room pilesand feeling like I'm changing the world for the better, just a little bit.


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Early in September I was travelling again. This trip was to Kazakhstan, which had not originally been intended, since the place in Central Asia I was determined to visit was Uzbekistan, with the splendours of Samarkand and Bukhara. But that visa proved difficult to get, and I decided to try Kazakhstan initially instead, having read up on it in the guidebook to the region that I had borrowed from a friend. I then managed to buy an updated version, and found that the area had developed considerably, with much better access to places of tourist interest.
Kazakhstan certainly lived up to expectations, and more. We went through Delhi, where I realized how wise Mahinda Rajapaksa had been to appoint as our High Commissioner the archaeologist Sudharshan Seneviratne. He was a product of Jawaharlal Nehru University, and had excellent contacts, which he knew how to use. But the damage that had been done during the previous years when, not our High Commissioner, but the Ministry in Colombo had ignored Indian concerns, ran deep and I fear that the Indians were by now as keen as the West that Mahinda Rajapaksa should go.
After a night in Delhi we flew to Almaty, and found a hotel opposite a thriving market through which we could walk to the city centre. That first evening we were lucky to see, and hear, a service in Zenkov Cathedral, an imposing building dating from, albeit early 20th century, Tsarist times. Next morning, after a quick look at the much more recent Central Mosque, we went to the grand Independence Monument where a host of army cadets obviously found us more exotic than the sights they had been brought to see, and wanted lots of photographs. The same happened in the Ethnography section of the National Museum, where a party of small children, and their teachers, focused on us rather than the exhibits. Read the rest of this entry »


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Photo Gallery | CERT Disaster Preparedness Drill!
Saturday, October 13, 2012 ~ Capital Area CERT 2012 Regional Training Exercise was held in the Elk Grove Promenade Mall (Hwy99 & Grantline Road, Elk Grove, California). Participants ranged over 300, including 150 Ameri Corp Volunteers, hosted by Cosumnes Fire Department and sponsored by Cosumnes Fire Dept/Elk Grove-Galt PD, Sac City Fire, Folsom Fire, West Sac Fire, Sac Metro, Sacramento Regional Citizen Corps Council.
The mission of Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains basic disaster response skills ~
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The Law Enforcement Chaplaincy-Sacramento (LEC-S), as First Responders, participated as a team, numbering 28 Chaplains training in this CERT Disaster Preparedness which is equipping LEC-S to become Certified Level Three Members who will be called at anytime to serve in aiding victims in the midst of any disaster. As training continues, all Chaplains within Law Enforcement Chaplaincy-Sacramento will be Level 3 Certified CERT responders.
The LEC-S First Responders/Chaplains "are called out by officers to attend to our community, such as to attend family members, classmates, neighbors and co-workers when they have been victimized, suffered serious injury, or have been traumatized by the death of a loved one." Source: LEC-S.
Thank you, First Responders, LEC-S – our community's need for you grows closer to our hearts every minute, as you are on-call to support our community – you are there 24-7-365, as volunteers, whose greatest mission is to support all who are victims…given any crisis.
Of note, as a member of your neighborhood during a disaster, "using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members (you) (Level 1–with your training at this drill) can assist others in your neighborhood or workplace during a disaster until professional responders have arrived.
CERT members are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community." Source: Website, CERT.
Through CERT, our community is given an opportunity to come together, as we realize we need to know how to take care of ourselves, our family, our neighbors, and our community. This is a time to stand up, be counted and make a commitment to be informed, trained and 'be there.' We, as a whole, will save lives…including our own!
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Screenings drop year-on-year but receipts for exporters increase; Pierre Pinaud's On Air [pictured] was the most viewed film.
The third edition of the online film festival MyFrenchFilmFestival.com — which ran Jan 17-Feb 17 this year, generated some 750,000 screenings against 1.3m in 2012, co-organisers Unifrance have revealed.
The festival line-up featuring a selection of recent French features and shorts was available on the dedicated MyFrenchFilmFestival.com site as well as on 20 partner platforms.
Unifrance said the drop in viewings was due solely to less hits from China following a change in management at Chinese partner Youku which had resulted in less visibility for the festival on the platform this year.
China remained nonetheless the leading country in terms of viewings – with 375,000 screenings versus 1m in 2012. Other key viewing territories were Poland (120,000), Russia (61,000), Mexico (41,000) and Brazil (39,000).
Unifrance said that while overall screenings were down, paid for viewings had tripled to 38,000 in the pay-on-demand territories. The festival is free to view in China, Latin America, Russia and Poland.
It added that the increase in receipts was due in large part to increased partnerships with pay-on-demand platforms including iTunes in 50 territories, GoodMovies in Germany, Curzon on Demand in the UK and Vudu in the US.
The most viewed films Pierre Pinaud's Karin Viard-starring tragicomedy On Air (85,242), Guillaume Brac's short A World Without Women (83,830), Jean-Marc Moutout's anti-capitalist tale Early One Morning (57,523), Franck Dion's short Edmond was a Donkey (52,047) and Thierry Binisti's Middle East drama A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (49,354).
The festival ran four competitions: a Public Prize, the International Directors Prize, an International Press Prize and the Social Networks Award.
Binisti's A Bottle in the Gaza Sea won the Public Prize, based on some 30,000 votes.
The International Directors Prize, decided by Emanuele Crialese, Lucrecia Martel, Wang Xiaoshuai and Michel Hazanavicius, went to Christian Rouaud's documentary Leader-Sheep.
The Press Prize – awarded by critics from publications such as the UK's Sight and Sound and Spain's La Vanguardia – went to Moussa Touré's The Pirogue.
On Air and Yann Le Quellec's short Beauty and the Beat shared the Social Networks Prize.
The next edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival.com will run Jan 17-Feb 17, 2014.


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Papering the problem: Project H2o's a go
In September, when the City of Charlottesville and the Albemarle County Service Authority ordered all car washes to close, the news seemed to many restaurant owners like a shot fired over the bow.
It's no secret that restaurants use a lot of water, and when word came that nearby Richmond might require its eating establishments to close several days a week, Charlottesville restaurateurs decided they didn't need any more hints.
Rather than sitting around waiting for eat-onomic disaster, some clever owners of Dish's favorite industry got together to form "Project H20," a collective of environment-oriented restaurateurs bent on self-regulation.
Participating restaurants include Oxo, Blue Light Grill, Rapture, Starr Hill, Mudhouse, Orbit, The Ivy Inn, and Wild Greens. Also jumping on the bandwagon are Farmington, Boar's Head, and Keswick country clubs, as well as UVA's catering service.
Dish dropped in for the meeting upstairs at the Mudhouse on Monday, September 30, to hear how the plans of the participating businesses are developing.
About 45 people showed up, including Jim Palmborg, public utilities manager for the city, City Councilor Kevin Lynch, and representatives from Virginia Linen.
The conference table was covered with an array of plastic plates, ranging from clear to opaque to faux china. The mood was serious.
"Project H20 wants to do everything possible to keep our restaurants open and profitable," explains Alice Kim, co-owner of Oxo restaurant on Water Street.
The fear, Kim says, is that if restaurants' response to the drought isn't universal, some will end up suffering more than others. If a customer is served a meal on fine china at one downtown establishment, she wonders, will they feel slighted when they're served on a plastic plate at another? Or will they be grateful the restaurant is making an effort to conserve?
"We want to show en masse we're doing this to help the community," she says, "not to rip you off."
If all restaurants follow the guidelines devised by Project H20 which include serving only bottled water, supplying hand sanitizer in customer bathrooms, using disposable plates, and not offering refills on fountain drinks– no restaurant will be cutting too little or too much, and each will know exactly what other restaurants are doing.
"We don't feel that the ambience will be compromised," says Kim. "The service, food, glasses– everything else will be the same," she promises.
The group hoped to have restaurants and other food-related businesses signed up by Friday, October 4. Cardboard plaques will be displayed in the windows of participating establishments so conservation minded patrons will know where to go.
Lunch with comrades
Lunch may soon be the opiate of the masses, at least if Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar has its way. The newest (and only) teahouse in Charlottesville launched its "Communist Lunch" last week, promising "food for the working class" on flyers posted all around downtown.
For the eminently affordable price of $5, patrons may select from four options: Indian dal and rice with raita and flatbread, Morrocan tagine on basmati with plum chutney and flatbread; herb roasted vegetable sandwich with avocado aoli and cheddar; and mixed salad with rice noodles and green tea vinaigrette.
Served Tuesday to Friday, from 11am to 2pm, the Communist Lunch adds a whole new dimension to lunchtime dining at the east end of the Downtown Mall. And best of all, bourgeois or prol, everyone will get the same service.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- David Wright homered in his return to the Mets lineup, Daniel Murphy had three hits and Daisuke Matsuzaka earned his second straight victory in New York's 6-4 win over the Philadelphia Phillies 6-4 Friday night.
Eric Young Jr. singled, doubled and drove in a run for the Mets, who have won four of seven.
Darin Ruf doubled and drove in a pair of runs for Philadelphia, which has lost four of seven.
LaTroy Hawkins pitched a scoreless ninth for his 11th save in 14 opportunities. Hawkins got some help when a retreating Juan Lagares made a leaping, one-handed catch in front of the wall in center to rob Ruf of extra bases leading off the inning.
The Mets jumped on Cole Hamels for three runs in the first. After Young led off with a bloop double that bounded off the glove of diving right fielder John Mayberry Jr. and Murphy singled, Wright homered in his first at-bat since being placed on the disabled list Aug. 3 with a strained right hamstring.
The homer moved Wright past Mike Piazza into second on the club's career list with 221 homers. Darryl Strawberry is No. 1 with 252.
New York added lone runs in the third and fourth on RBI singles by Andrew Brown and Young, respectively, before the Phillies scored four times in the bottom of the fourth to pull within 5-4. Ruf did the bulk of the damage with a two-run double. Hamels also drove in a run with a groundout to first.
But the Mets got an insurance run in the seventh on Josh Satin's RBI groundout.
Matsuzaka (2-3) pitched six innings, allowing four runs on four hits with six strikeouts and three walks.
Hamels (8-14) lost for the first time since July 26. The left-hander entered Friday 4-0 with a 2.18 ERA in the nine starts since his last defeat. But he left after seven subpar innings, giving up six runs on 10 hits with eight strikeouts and no walks.
NOTES: Wright's homer was his 18th at Citizens Bank Park, matching his total at Atlanta's Turner Field for the most in road ballparks. . Besides Wright, the Mets activated Wilfredo Tovar before Friday's game. Tovar hit .263 with four homers and 36 RBIs in 133 games with Double-A Binghamton this season. . Young stole his 40th base of the season and MLB-leading 24th since the All-Star break. . The series continues at Saturday night when New York right-hander Dillon Gee (11-10, 3.47 ERA) faces Phillies right-hander Tyler Cloyd (2-5, 5.06).


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The Exiled Prince
Dragon Age II: The Exiled Prince DLC bugs patched, Sebastian accessible again
If you nabbed yourself a BioWare Signature Edition of Dragon Age II, you were probably a trifle upset by the bugs plaguing the bonus quest line and companion included therein. Happily, this has been fixed – but only for PC users.
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Dragon Age II trailer is go for launch
EA's released the launch trailer for Dragon Age II as the BioWare RPG releases in the US today. You can watch it below, via GT. The publisher's also confirmed the release of the The Exiled Prince, the first DLC for the game, available from PSN, Xbox Live and PC.May want to keep an eye out […]
Dragon Age 2 trailer introduces The Exiled Prince
Don't ask me why BioWare has stuck Dragon Age II DLC up on the console networks a week before release – you can't play it. But this trailer for The Exiled Prince maybe explains why I rushed off to buy it anyway.
First Dragon Age II DLC, The Exiled Prince, announced
EA's announced the first piece of DLC for Dragon Age II, known as "The Exiled Prince".


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AccessoryFest 2010: Ladybug Picnic Mittens
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These mittens take their name from the Sesame Street counting sketch about a ladybug picnic. You know you know it. Don't remember it? Click the link. I dare you. Here, I'll share it again. You'll be singing that goofy song for the rest of the day.
(You're welcome.)
Oh, come on, it's not so annoying, is it? I think it's kind of cute! Elizabeth Mitchell does a wonderful rendition of it on one of her children's albums.
Once I got the idea to knit some ladybugs, it bounced around in my head just as relentlessly as that silly song will in yours. I swatched them on a white background on the way to Washington, D. C. a few weeks ago, but the dark floats really showed through. Unfortunately, I did not have any other appropriate yarn with me so the idea had to kick around my head for a few more days before I could actually do anything about it!
I made this pair of mittens for JulieFrick, who claims to be incapable of stranded knitting. I don't believe it. Have you seen her knitting? It is categorically not the work of the knitting skill-challenged. Nevertheless, I thought the lady needed a pair of stranded mitts because I know she's never going to make herself any!!
Pattern: Ladybug Picnic Mittens (Ravelry link)
Yarn: Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport in Limestone, Red Fox, and Pepper
Needles: US 0 (2.0 mm) and US 1 (2.5 mm)
I tried so hard to get this pattern to come out with only twelve ladybugs – like in the song – but in order to maintain uniform tension, the adult sizes required fifteen ladybugs. I made sure that the child-size mitten, the XS, only has twelve. After all, why call them Ladybug Picnic Mittens if there were not twelve ladybugs? That's the entire point of the song! The mittens feature a picot cuff and red and black braid at the cuff, a peasant thumb, and a rounded top. The ladybugs are knitted into the mitten; however, the bugs' spots and feet are duplicate stitched on afterwards.
I am especially pleased with the palm side. I did not really want to put ladybugs on the inside, but I needed a way to carry the yarn across. I love this effect. I might see about using the stitch pattern in other designs.
Now that the Fricknits family is outfitted with stranded knitwear, they can start shoveling out from under all that snow!


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Imaging is probably the single most important scientific tool. Without our ability to look at things both big and small, we would be effectively crippled. Every graph you see in a scientific paper is a form of imaging—you create a picture of the data in order to get a better intuitive understanding of the trends. In all forms of imaging, the resolution—how close two features can be before they become indistinguishable—clashes with our desire for detail.
In optics, the resolution limit is set by diffraction. Lenses have a limited size, and the light waves from the thing we want to image are chopped off at the edges of the lens. The act of chopping the waves distorts the electromagnetic field, resulting in an unavoidable blurring. So a point source appears as a disc, and two point sources that are too close together also appear as a disc. Seeing what is inside that disc is a game that is, I think, very rewarding.
That view of the diffraction limit, though, is driven by classical optics, and we live in a quantum world. In recent work published in Physical Review Letters, a Chinese research group has shown how to use quantum statistics to increase the resolution of an imaging system. In many ways, the imaging technique is similar to something we've reported earlier: stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM). In STORM, the dyes that add contrast are manipulated so that, on average, only one dye molecule emits light within a particular time span. By doing that, each dye molecule's location can be determined with an accuracy much higher than the diffraction limit, and the resulting map of dye molecules is used to construct the image. Think of this as mapping New York City by pinpointing all the street lights.
The diffraction limit is still there in STORM, but because light is emitted one photon at a time—very much a quantum effect—the diffraction caused by the collecting lens becomes largely irrelevant.
Following up on this approach, the latest research makes use of the statistics of single photon emitters to image the emitter itself. What do I mean by statistics? To understand the statistics, think of a single molecule. In an unexcited state, it will not emit any photons. If we shine a light on it to excite it, it will eventually emit a single photon. The molecule also, on average, spends a certain amount of time in the excited state before it emits.
I will see that my detector clicks at random intervals with an average spacing determined by the molecule's properties. So as long as my detector is fast enough at counting, I should be able to measure the statistics of a single molecule.
The problem is that it is very hard to tell if you are looking at a single molecule or a small group of them. The detector will provide the same click no matter if it sees one photon or multiple photons. You can eliminate this possibility, though—a partially reflective mirror can be placed in the path of the light beam and a pair of detectors look for light reflected from and transmitted by the mirror. If there is just one molecule emitting single photons, then the two detectors will never click at the same time (the photon is either transmitted or reflected) while multiple molecules emit multiple photons, which can set off both detectors at the same time.
That's the theory anyway. In a real experiment, there is a smooth variation from something that really is just a single molecule emitting single photons to something that is definitely not. The time resolution of the detectors and other experimental factors all play a role in smoothing out what should be a sharp transition.
One experimental factor is that two molecules can't occupy the same space at the same time. And this is exactly what the current research makes use of to produce an image.
Consider the case where we have two molecules separated by a couple of nanometers. We place our collecting lens right over the top of one of the molecules. In doing so, we maximize the chance of collecting the photons emitted by one molecule but not the other. For instance, it might be that we can collect half the photons emitted by one molecule, but only a quarter emitted by the second. The statistics of simultaneous clicks from our two detectors will be weighted by this factor: half the time, it looks like we have a single molecule and half the time it doesn't. If we then scan our lens around, we map out the statistics of the two emitters, which provides not just their location but also a sort of "shape" of the emitter.
But it's not really a shape, as these spatially dependent statistics represent more than the separation between the two molecules; they map the internal layout of the molecule as well. Think of the part of the molecule that is emitting light. To emit light, an electron has to wiggle back and forth, but the directions that it is allowed to wiggle are given by the internal structure of the molecule. So the statistics also tell us which direction the electrons are allowed to wiggle, and that tells us about the internal structure of the molecule. Figuring out all of this and demonstrating it was a very clever piece of work.
I have to say that I'm not so sure how much further this can be taken. In the case of pairs of molecules—the researchers only imaged a pair of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, which are a good substitute for dye molecules—the situation is clear. At some point, though, you'll have enough molecules to swamp the detectors, washing out all spatial variation. This means that this technique will give you more information than, say, STORM, but is still subject to the same limitations as STORM (you have to be very sparing about how much dye you put on your sample). Still, it's a very clever idea and will find its place in the pantheon of imaging techniques.
Physical Review Letters, 2013: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.153901


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As we've discussed previously, one of the big victories from the 2012 Elections is that Democrats will have a larger, more progressive Senate majority in the 113th Congress. In order to turn that majority into progressive accomplishments over the next two years, we will need to do a few key things. For example, reforming the filibuster is absolutely critical, as we will discuss in a future post. Making sure the Obama Administration steps up its judicial appointments while Democrats control the Senate is very important. And, of course, continuing to support our Senators when they do right and pressuring them when they need to do better is key.
Another important element in making sure the Democrat's Senate majority will be productive will be decided over the next few weeks as the Senate Democratic leadership hands out committee assignments. Senate committees are important because they serve as filters of what issues do and do not make it onto the Senate agenda, and because they have oversight and investigative powers, including the power to hold hearings and issue subpoenas. While most Committee members will stay the same in the new Senate, new Senators will get assignments, retiring Senators will need to be replaced, and there will some changes in Committee leaders. These changes opens up the opportunity for one very important assignment and are expected to lead to other positive changes.
Warren to the Senate Banking Committee?
Short of re-electing President Obama, perhaps the most exciting victory for progressives in the 2012 elections was Elizabeth Warren winning a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts by defeating GOP Sen. Scott Brown. Senator-elect Warren, of course, is the Harvard law professor who has spent much of her career fighting for the types of banking, financial, and bankruptcy law reforms that are critical to strengthening our economy and our middle class. Perhaps most notably, Ms. Warren was the driving force behind the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is charged with cracking down on unscrupulous financial services companies by enforcing a wide array of consumer protections.
It would be wonderful to have Senator Warren bring her expertise, experience, and passion for fighting for progressive values to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over, among other things, banks and other financial institutions, deposit insurance, federal monetary policy, and money and credit. Just imagine having Senator Warren helping to craft legislation regulating Wall Street, having oversight powers over agencies charged with regulating banks, and getting to question witnesses at Committee hearings.
There will be two seats open on the Banking Committee in the new Congress, and Ms. Warren appears likely to get one of them. Leading Democrats on the Committee, such as Jack Reed (D-RI) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) have made statements supportive of Senator Warren joining them, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has announced that she does not intend to seek a seat on that Committee. Wall Street and big banks, however, are lobbying furiously behind the scenes to try to keep Warren off the Committee.
To help get Senator Warren on the Banking Committee, please sign this petition and call Senator Harry Reid (202-224-3542) and urge him to give the seat to this well-qualified, progressive advocate for the middle class and sensible financial reform.
Patty Murray (D-WA) to head Senate Budget Committee
In another piece of good Senate news, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) will be taking the helm of the Senate Budget Committee, as the current chair, centrist Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) is retiring. Senator Murray has long been a progressive supporter of protecting Social Security and Medicare from conservative attempts at privatization. Perhaps even more importantly, Senator Murray has significant experience over the past few years of dealing with, and refusing to accede to, unreasonable demands of Republicans in the endless loop of budget deficit negotiations that have taken place over the past two years. For example, as the Washington Post recently reported:
Her perspective is born in part from the last tough task Reid handed her, chairing last year's bipartisan "supercommittee," a 12-member panel that tried, but ultimately failed, to come up with a major deficit reduction package acceptable to both parties.
Murray spent long hours behind closed doors with House and Senate Republicans and emerged convinced the GOP was offering only damaging proposals to cut health, education and environmental programs without agreeing to ask the wealthy to pay more in taxes.
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In the crunch of final negotiations over a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling last summer, it was Murray who nixed the idea of exposing veterans benefits to automatic domestic and military spending cuts that would result if Congress does not reach a more targeted deficit-reduction deal by the end of this month.
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It was Murray, too, who had counseled Democrats in April 2011 to reject a last-minute demand by House Republicans to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood in a spending bill designed to avoid a government shutdown.
More recently, Ms. Murray has been urging Democrats for months to be willing to go over the so-called "fiscal cliff" rather than to give in to unreasonable Republican proposals. We're hopeful that, as Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Murray will be able to continue to play a key role in ensuring that any budget deals focus on funding critical needs, protecting earned benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security, increasing revenue, and cutting spending in a balanced manner.
Tom Carper (D-DE) likely to head Homeland Security Committee
A third piece of good Senate Committee news it that, with Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) finally getting out of the Senate, the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which oversees what has been a gradual undermining of civil liberties over the past decade, will be chaired by the more reasonable Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.). While Senator Carper is not exactly known for being a staunch advocate for civil liberties, he has compiled a far better record than Senator Lieberman's in recent years. For example, the ACLU's 2009-2010 legislator ratings were 93% for Carper, and only 57% for Lieberman. Similarly, in a 2007 vote to give habeas corpus rights to people detained by the US – Carper voted yes, Lieberman voted no. And in the December 2011, votes on the National Defense Authorization Act, which included some disturbing provisions regarding the indefinite detention of individuals under the guise of the "war on terror," Senator Carper voted to remove requirement of military detention of Al-Qaeda suspects and associated forces, prohibit military detention without trial of US citizens, and prohibit military detention without trial of individuals captured in the US, and voted against a proposal to allow for further military detention even if an individual had received a trial. Senator Lieberman took the opposite position on all four of those votes. So, here's hoping that the Senate Homeland Security Committee will be more interested in securing, rather than trampling, our civil liberties in 2013.
Bernie Sanders likely to head Senate Veteran's Committee
With Senator Murray taking the helm at the Budget Committee, her seat as Chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee will be open. And it is expected to be filled by Senator Bernie Sanders, who has long been a strong advocate on veteran's issues. As an article in the Marine Corp Times explains:
Sanders, who refers to himself as a socialist, has been among the lawmakers pushing the hardest to expand the reach of veterans' programs, especially health care. He also has strongly opposed budget-cutting initiatives to trim or cap military benefits. For example, he opposes a proposal to save money by changing how cost-of-living adjustments are calculated for Social Security, military retirement and veterans' disability benefits, because it would slightly reduce annual increases.
Sanders, who never served in the military, also has been a strong advocate for providing better help and benefits for National Guard and reserve members returning from mobilization. He has proposed a big expansion, with the federal government fully making up for any income lost during deployments because of differences between military and private-sector salaries.


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|Apr 16, 2014
Excitons observed in action for the first time
|(Nanowerk News) A quasiparticle called an exciton responsible for the transfer of energy within devices such as solar cells, LEDs, and semiconductor circuits has been understood theoretically for decades. But exciton movement within materials has never been directly observed.
|Now scientists at MIT and the City College of New York have achieved that feat, imaging excitons motions directly. This could enable research leading to significant advances in electronics, they say, as well as a better understanding of natural energy-transfer processes, such as photosynthesis.
|The research is described this week in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper co-authored by MIT postdocs Gleb Akselrod and Parag Deotare, professors Vladimir Bulovic and Marc Baldo, and four others.
|Diagram of an exciton within a tetracene crystal, used in these experiments, shows the line across which data was collected. That data, plotted below as a function of both position (horizontal axis) and time (vertical axis) provides the most detailed information ever obtained on how excitons move through the material. (Illustration courtesy of the researchers)
|This is the first direct observation of exciton diffusion processes, Bulovic says, showing that crystal structure can dramatically affect the diffusion process.
|Excitons are at the heart of devices that are relevant to modern technology, Akselrod explains: The particles determine how energy moves at the nanoscale. The efficiency of devices such as photovoltaics and LEDs depends on how well excitons move within the material, he adds.
|An exciton, which travels through matter as though it were a particle, pairs an electron, which carries a negative charge, with a place where an electron has been removed, known as a hole. Overall, it has a neutral charge, but it can carry energy. For example, in a solar cell, an incoming photon may strike an electron, kicking it to a higher energy level. That higher energy is propagated through the material as an exciton: The particles themselves dont move, but the boosted energy gets passed along from one to another.
|While it was previously possible to determine how fast, on average, excitons could move between two points, we really didnt have any information about how they got there, Akselrod says. Such information is essential to understanding which aspects of a materials structure for example, the degree of molecular order or disorder might facilitate or slow that motion.
|People always assumed certain behavior of the excitons, Deotare says. Now, using this new technique which combines optical microscopy with the use of particular organic compounds that make the energy of excitons visible we can directly say what kind of behavior the excitons were moving around with. This advance provided the researchers with the ability to observe which of two possible kinds of hopping motion was actually taking place.
|This allows us to see new things, Deotare says, making it possible to demonstrate that the nanoscale structure of a material determines how quickly excitons get trapped as they move through it.
|For some applications, such as LEDs, Deotare says, it is desirable to maximize this trapping, so that energy is not lost to leakage; for other uses, such as solar cells, it is essential to minimize the trapping. The new technique should allow researchers to determine which factors are most important in increasing or decreasing this trapping.
|We showed how energy flow is impeded by disorder, which is the defining characteristic of most materials for low-cost solar cells and LEDs, Baldo says.
|While these experiments were carried out using a material called tetracene a well-studied archetype of a molecular crystal the researchers say that the method should be applicable to almost any crystalline or thin-film material. They expect it to be widely adopted by researchers in academia and industry.
|Its a very simple technique, once people learn about it, Akselrod says, and the equipment required is not that expensive.
|Exciton diffusion is also a basic mechanism underlying photosynthesis: Plants absorb energy from photons, and this energy is transferred by excitons to areas where it can be stored in chemical form for later use in supporting the plants metabolism. The new method might provide an additional tool for studying some aspects of this process, the team says.
|David Lidzey, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Sheffield who was not involved in this work, calls the research a really impressive demonstration of a direct measurement of the diffusion of triplet excitons and their eventual trapping. He adds, Exciton diffusion and transport are important processes in solar-cell devices, so understanding what limits these may well help the design of better materials, or the development of better ways to process materials so that energy losses during exciton migration are limited.
|Source: By David L. Chandler, MIT
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Fans of the Back To The Future trilogy kicked off the largest BTTF-only reunion in California last weekend at the site of the Lone/Twin Pines Mall with a reenactment of the pivotal Libyan Nationalist shootout. Cue the Huey Lewis.
After a minute of introduction you can see (spoiler alert) Doc get shot and Marty McFly jump into the DeLorean on his journey into the past. There's even a VeeDub in pursuit!


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A Catholic Family from Mexico
Like many Catholic families with roots in other nations, the Ibarras' funeral customs combined their faith heritage with
culturally-rich ceremonies facing death head-on. When Maria Ibarra, a widowed mother of four, died of a heart attack, family,
church and community swung into action to provide a meaningful funeral.
Maria and three of her four children were active at St. Polycarp Church, only six blocks from the Ibarra family home. Father Nelson buried Maria's husband, Carlos, only three years earlier and had become like a member of the Ibarra family. He had visited Maria and her children in the hospital just four days before she died, administering the Church's Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. Maria told Father Nelson and her children, "Estoy listo para ir donde Dios" ("I am ready now to go to God.")
Maria's funeral was a real community event, not because so many people attended but because the services reflected her faith and her ethnic heritage. Two ladies from St. Polycarp's bereavement committee visited Maria's home the afternoon of her death. They brought food that had been prepared by others in the parish, of course, but the real reason for their visit was to remind Maria's family that their church community wanted to walk with them through the difficult days ahead. They helped Maria's children select music and scripture readings for the funeral mass and they talked about the Vigil service that would be held at the funeral home the night before the funeral mass.
Calling hours (sometimes called a visitation or viewing) were held on Tuesday afternoon and evening after Maria's Sunday afternoon death. At 7pm, Sister Hortensia, the pastoral care associate at St. Polycarp led the family and friends in a brief Vigil service that included prayers, scripture readings, and an opportunity for anyone present to share a favorite memory of Maria; about 15 people spoke of her life, her faith, her love of family, and her secret tamale recipe that no one had ever been able to imitate!
Maria's funeral liturgy (funeral mass) on Wednesday morning reflected the richness of Maria's life. Robert, Maria's oldest grandson who was a soloist in his college choir sang Ave Maria and Be Not Afraid, two of Maria's favorite songs. Maria's own siblings took turns reading the scriptures from the Old Testament and St. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians. And in honor of Maria's native language and the large number of participants with greater familiarity with Spanish, each text was read first in English by one of Maria's sisters and then read in Spanish by one of her brothers. Maria's beloved choir in which she had sung for more than 20 years sang at the funeral mass.
A few of Maria's friends who were not Catholic wondered how they would fit in, and were most intrigued by the custom of waiting outside the church until Father Nelson arrived at the door for the "Reception of the Body." Father Nelson greeted the family and friends with the familiar words, "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all," and the people responded, "And also with you." After the casket was sprinkled with holy water, the funeral directors helped Maria's daughters and sons place the pall, a large white linen drape, over their mother's casket. Sue, one of Maria's neighbors said that though she had never attended a Catholic funeral before, she found Maria's funeral mass to be an incredible spiritual experience and reported that she left feeling comforted in her sadness and closer to God.
Maria was buried next to her beloved husband in the local Catholic cemetery following a brief service at the graveside called the Rite of Committal. Father Nelson shared a verse from the Bible and led the people in several prayers. After the concluding prayer, the choir from St. Polycarp led the family and friends in singing one of Maria's favorite hymns, Amazing Grace.
For Maria's family, the ceremonies in which they participated did not end with her burial. Eight months later on November 2, the family joined with several other families in their neighborhood to observe Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. After attending a street festival in Los Banos, their city's Mexican district, the Ibarras gathered at the cemetery and placed traditional yellow marigolds on the graves of Maria and Carlos. Two weeks later, St. Polycarp held its annual memorial mass on Sunday afternoon, and the entire local Ibarra clan was there-to remember Maria and her legacy in their family.
After the memorial mass, Maria and Carlos' oldest daughter, Christina said, "I think I can face the holidays now. I'm sure not 'over' their deaths yet, but this has helped me remember what a history they gave us-love, hard work, family, and faith."
While the Ibarra family represents common themes in Mexican heritage and Catholic belief for acknowledging death, it is by no means the only way. The following resources will be helpful to you as you continue to learn about these customs.
- Brandes, S. (2007). Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Champlin, J. M. (1990). Through Death to Life: Preparing to Celebrate the Funeral Mass. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press.
- Davis, K. J. (2006). Dead Reckoning or Reckoning with the Dead: Hispanic Catholic Funeral Customs. Liturgy, 21 (1), 21-27.
- Order of Christian Funerals (Study Edition) (1990). Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications.
- Rutherford, R. & Barr, T. (1990). The Death of a Christian: The Order of Christian Funerals. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.


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S.A. 'shot doctor' helped diagnose Lin's ills
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If anyone can explain how Jeremy Lin went from an end-of-the-bench afterthought to the brink of stardom in the NBA, there is a reputation waiting to be established.
David "D.J." Jones, athletic director, P.E. teacher and boys and girls basketball coach at Buckner Fanning Christian School in the northwest suburbs of San Antonio, has a better idea than most.
He is the shot doctor who helped cure Lin's jumper.
In addition to his many and varied functions at the school, Jones runs a shooting school he calls "Shooting for Success." He combines teaching the basics of a fundamentally sound jump shot with the core values to which he also is committed.
Jones played 13 seasons of pro ball, including a short stint with the Harlem Globetrotters before a 12-year career in Heidelburg, Germany, where he played against a teenaged sensation named Dirk Nowitzki. Through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, he was known as one of the best long-range shooters in Europe. He holds the German League record with 12 3-pointers in a game in which he scored 61 points.
It was a phone call from Lin's agent, San Antonio-based Roger Montgomery, in the weeks before the 2010 draft that brought Jones together with Lin, the Harvard grad who has made such a dramatic impact through his first two weeks as a regular in Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni's playing rotation.
Lin showed up at Jones' gym, and within minutes, D.J. — he jokes that the nickname stood for "deadly jumper" — had diagnosed the flaws in his form.
"It really wasn't a bad shot, but he had the ball more to the side of his head, instead of up and in the middle of his forehead. Plus, he didn't have the ball on his fingertips. I knew I could help him.
"I break anyone's shot down to the lowest level and build it back up. I can usually figure out anyone's shot in less than a minute."
Not all shooters make the sort of improvement Lin achieved. His quick ascent was aided by his willingness to trust the corrections Jones offered.
"I think it helped that Roger had told him there was a 44-year-old guy who could outshoot him," said Jones, chuckling. "I told him the adjustments I wanted him to make and asked him to open his mind, not to worry about the ball going in. I told him if he would just focus on what I told him, the shots would start going in."
It didn't happen overnight, and not soon enough to induce an NBA team to take a chance on Lin at first. But Lin shot well enough in a workout for the Mavericks to earn an invite to a minicamp that led to a spot on their summer league team.
It was a Las Vegas Summer League game against John Wall, the Wizards' No. 1 overall draft pick, that got him a spot in the Warriors' training camp. In 28 minutes, he made 6 of 12 shots, scored 13 points and helped limit Wall to 4-for-19 shooting.
He phoned Jones after that game. "He said, 'D.J., thank you. I thought about you every time I made a shot against John,'" Jones said.
Jones hasn't spoken with Lin since the point guard's breakout landed him on the cover of "Sports Illustrated." But he intends to be at the AT&T Center on March 9 when the Knicks play the Spurs.
"Of course, I think what he has done is great," Jones said. "Everyone loves what he's doing. I haven't tried to contact him because I'm pretty sure he's extremely busy.
"Who knows? Basketball was so good to me, I just wanted to give back to others who love the game. Maybe someday he will want to give back in the same way."


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Sunday 13th June
to host a lovely afternoon of messing about in books! Bring your tomes for swapping, sharing, and general book related chit chat.
Anyone wanting to bring donations for the library more than welcome, any I can't fit in the suitcase I shall happily take to a charity shop on your behalf!
Hopefully see lots of you there!
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Not sure what about this I like best: Webber making the mistaken Anchorman reference at the 22-second mark, the nearly 10 seconds of awkward silence until he corrects himself, or the minute-plus the rest the broadcast crew then spends laughing at him. It's a hard one.
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1. Meeting called to order.
2. Roll call.
3. Approval of Minutes.
4. John Porter, Extension Agent, Agriculture and Natural Resources, WVU Kanawha County Extension Service, to speak about: • The Kanawha Urban Agriculture Alliance - a membership group we have formed consisting of community gardeners and urban gardeners/farmers, • Development of a property on the West Side to be an urban farm accelerator with leasable space and an educational component, • The SAGE program - a collaboration with the Charleston Area Alliance. It is a training/incubator project for small scale urban agriculture. Participants have been growing produce and selling it at the market, and • Recent urban agriculture ordinances in Charleston.
5. Carl Chadband, Chief Operating Officer, and Dr. Michelle Foster, CEO to speak on the Kanawha Institute for Social Research and Action, Inc. (KISRA) growing jobs project.
6. Other business.
7. Adjournment.