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BRADDOCK, Pa.—Movie director George Romero, the master of zombie kitsch, made his first films in the pitted and rusting landscape around this fabled steel town back in the 1960s and '70s. It was fantasy then. But today, Braddock truly is the land of the living dead.
U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Steel Works chugs on, as it has since 1875, but it's a sprawling corrugated-metal relic of its former self. Its parking lot is almost empty at midday, and it employs several hundred workers rather than the more than 10,000 who labored here at its peak. The rest of Braddock, meanwhile, is a ragged reminder of the nearly forgotten era when western Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley rolled a century's worth of steel for gleaming new American cities and factories.
This area used to be legendary for hard work; its progeny includes iron-tough football heroes such as Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, and Joe Montana.
Today, Braddock is a black hole of apathy where the gravitational pull of despair is often too powerful to resist. Unemployment is chronically in the double digits, not so much because of displaced steelworkers—most of those jobs disappeared in the 1980s—but because of their children and grandchildren. These are the second and third generations of a lost tribe.
"We have manufacturing companies who say to us, 'I don't want to look at those people. They're not used to showing up and coming to work anymore,' " says Stefani Pashman, head of the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board in Pittsburgh. Unemployment counselors talk about the difficulties of teaching "soft skills"—such as simply showing up on time for an interview and wearing something nicer than a stained T-shirt. "The perception of these people as workers," says David Coplan, director of the Mon Valley Providers Council, "is that they're damaged goods."
It's easy to write off the Mon Valley left-behinds as an old story limited to the specific woes of the steel industry. But in many ways, the people here are part of a much broader trend toward long-term unemployment in America. As in Braddock, and now a slew of communities laid low by the housing bubble and bust, the phenomenon can feed on itself and create a vicious cycle of disappearing jobs, declining incomes, higher foreclosures, and more layoffs.
In Stockton, Calif., a community of left-behinds has materialized in the wreckage of the mortgage meltdown. Just as European immigrants once streamed into the Mon Valley, descendants of California's agricultural workers found jobs during the housing boom in home construction for middle-class families who worked an hour or two away in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now, a confluence of bad news has not only cost many of them their jobs but also plunged them underwater on their mortgages. Stockton's jobless rate is 15.4 percent, fifth highest of any metropolitan area. Even though the city is only an hour's drive from Silicon Valley, its inhabitants, like those of western Pennsylvania, are becoming damaged goods.
"We have a large population in their teens or 20s with relatively low levels of education," says Jeff Michael, a labor expert at the University of the Pacific (Stockton). "It's a huge problem: a whole generation of young people who are going to find difficult employment prospects."
When Lee Farkas's mortgage company collapsed and he went to prison, Ocala, Fla., lost 1,200 jobs.
Ocala, Fla., is yet another place where growth exploded during the housing bubble and then, almost as abruptly, imploded. As recently as 2007, the Santa Monica-based Milken Institute, which tracks job growth in metro areas, labeled Ocala the nation's "best-performing city" for job creation. Riding on the debt-fueled housing bubble and a rising flow of sun-seeking retirees, Ocala enjoyed a flowering of construction companies and the cottage industries that fed them: metal fabrication, electronics, plastics. Ocala now has one of the highest rates of long-term unemployment—defined as 27 weeks or longer—in the country: 11 percent of its workers are officially unemployed, and almost as many more are either underemployed or have dropped out of the job market. More than 80 percent of the officially unemployed have been out of work for more than six months.
Adding felonious insult to injury, one of the entrepreneurs who stoked the city's torrid growth was Lee Farkas, who opened one of the nation's largest mortgage-processing facilities for Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae. Farkas was recently sentenced to 30 years for fraud. When his company collapsed in 2009, 1,200 jobs disappeared overnight.
"We had a perfect storm, too," says Pete Tesch, CEO of the Ocala/Marion County Economic Development Corp. "It's going to be a long time before we build houses again." He laments, "There is not an abundance of high-skilled or high-wage jobs, and these individuals with low to moderate educational levels and skills—where can they go?" In a recent study, the University of Central Florida projected that Ocala will face double-digit unemployment until at least 2016.
This article appears in the November 19, 2011 edition of National Journal Magazine.

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James Overbo enters his seventh season as a member of the Crusader track and field coaching staff, and his second as Associate Head Coach in 2014, working primarily with the jumpers, as well as the javelin throwers.
Overbo's jumpers have experienced plenty of success during his time with the Crusaders, highlighted by the performance of Jarrett Mickens. Overbo coached Mickens as he was a four-time All-Horizon League honoree and earned Most Outstanding Field Performer honors at the 2011 HL Indoor Championships. Mickens, who seven times earned HL Male Field Athlete of the Week honors while being coached by Overbo, broke school records in both the long and triple jump indoors and the long jump outdoors, surpassing 35-year-old records in all three events.
During his time at Valpo, Overbo has also coached Julian Smith in the long jump and Steve Schubert in the triple jump as they broke into the Crusaders' indoor all-time top-fives in the respective events. Schubert also ranks among Valpo's all-time top-five outdoors in the triple jump as well. On the women's side, Overbo mentored Kelley Freeman in 2011 as she posted marks among the top-three in Crusader history both indoors and outdoors in the pole vault.
Overbo has also produced a pair of conference champions in the javelin throw. Brett Maynard (2009) and Vince Liuzzo (2010) both claimed Horizon League crowns in the javelin under Overbo's guidance.
Overbo came to Valparaiso from McNeese State University, where he competed in the pole vault for the Cowboys' track and field squad for four years. He has also served as an assistant coach at the Lone Star Pole Vault Club.
A native of Austin, Texas, Overbo earned a bachelor's degree of general studies with a concentration in health promotion from McNeese State in 2008. Overbo has earned his USATF Level 1 Certification, as well as certification as an official. He also owns his USATF Level 2 Certification in the jumps and throws and is also a USTFCCCA Certified Jumps Specialist.


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I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, and you might want to be sitting down for this, but when your money is no longer with you, it is with someone else. Oh yeah, they don't call it dirty money for nothing. It no longer likes your meager, substandard, peanut butter and jelly eating lifestyle. It is living it up with someone who can provide it with the standard of living it knows it deserves - champagne wishes and caviar dreams, rather than PBR hangovers and tuna fish sandwiches.
Deny it all you want, the GOP is trying to keep us in a recession. "Nonsense," you say, "why would anyone want to keep us in a recession?" I'm glad you asked. It's trickle up economics. When the middle and lower classes are relegated to a place where they find it increasingly difficult to hold on to their money because they are unemployed, or because Unions are shut down and can't defend worker's rights, or because of any number of other outcomes connected with financially related policies of the GOP, the super-wealthy benefit.
While money isn't magic, it is remarkably buoyant and has a tendency to float to the top if the middle and lower classes aren't able to, literally, hold on to it for dear life. At that point, it is like shooting fish in a barrel for Momma and Daddy Warbucks. Maybe that's a bad metaphor.... um, it's like bobbing for dollars for the absurdly financially stable? Well, you get the picture. They are stuffing their pockets, purses, bank accounts (on and off-shore), and probably even their mattresses (some of those folk are... well, eccentric) with your money (cue the cheesy 70s porn music). And your money is loving the change of scenery (not to mention it no longer has to listen to you going on and on about how it doesn't do for you what it used to do for you).
The role of the travel agent in this indecent little tale is being played by the GOP... technically, it is more like they are being played, like puppets (which is a whole different level of dirty). They are being played by wealthy corporations and the abundantly rich. These corporations and high net-worth individuals (HNWIs) own the GOP as well as an unfortunately large chunk of what used to be a system of government of, for and by the people. That's why they want a double dip recession. Yes, it also would give them something to throw at the man who was Commander in Chief when his forces took down our nation's most diabolical enemy in decades as he runs for what is likely to be a second term in office, but the real strength of doing it is making money for HNWIs.
As it turns out, they can make plenty of money with a democratic President in place as long as the recession continues. Having a Republican President is just icing on the cake. Just check out Capgemini and Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management's "World Wealth Report 2011" and you'll see how true it is. While the rest of us were lucky if our income stayed stable, let alone increased any, the HNWIs of the world thrived growing more than 10% last year alone and experiencing growth during the previous years of recession even when there was a democratic President. Let none of us believe that we are equally sharing the burden of the recession. We are not.
You want your money back? Stop sitting around moping about how it left you. Tell it you want it back. That you are sorry for ignoring it. That you won't let Big Corporations and HNWIs jerk it around any more. If you have to pick a fight with the people who took it, so be it. Tell it that you really do value it. Tell it by voting out the GOP. Tell it by insisting on laws that protect the middle and lower classes and their money rather than ones that play into the hand of the super rich. Tell it you care by investing it in companies that give back to the community and to those in need. Because I can tell you this, until we stand up for it and for the middle and lower classes,our money is going to be sleeping at our wealthy "friends" home and sooner or later it will get so comfortable that it may never come home.
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Entitlement is the thistle taking over the garden of the American dream. It simply will not die…and the more space it's given, the more space it takes.What nobly began as the "unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," has turned into the unalienable right to not be uncomfortable, impoverished, or relatively poor.Now, I don't wish anyone to be uncomfortable. I sincerely don't. But there's a tremendous difference between wanting everyone to be comfortable (which com … [Read more...]
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The Metropolitan Opera: Gotterdammerung
Program, Musical
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met's new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfriedthe star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts.
Cast: Deborah Voigt, Gary Lehman
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Directed by: Robert Lepage, James Levine
Written by: Richard Wagner
Running time: 6hr 25min
Opens: Feb 11, 2012 Limited
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|29 Mar 2007
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|8 Nov 2006
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|21 Jun 2000
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|Adriana Ardeleanu, Jean Paoli, Stephen Mooney, Suryanarayanan Raman, Rajesh Jha, Prakash Sikchi
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|Microsoft Corporation
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This application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/599,813, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.
The following patent applications are related to the present application, are assigned to the assignee of this patent application, and are expressly incorporated by reference herein:
This invention relates to authoring extensible markup language (XML) documents using dynamic hypertext markup language (DHTML)
Extensible markup language (XML) is increasingly becoming the preferred format for transferring data. XML is a tag-based hierarchical language that is extremely rich in terms of the data that it can be used to represent. For example, XML can be used to represent data spanning the spectrum from semi-structured data (such as one would find in a word processing document) to generally structured data (such as that which is contained in a table). XML is well-suited for many types of communication including business-to-business and client-to-server communication.
Given the breadth of data that can be represented by XML, challenges arise when one wishes to provide a user interface to the data that a user can use to manipulate the data or the structure that contains the data. The classical approach to the user interface problem, outside of the XML environment, has been to use different UI technologies for different types of data (e.g. document, tabular data). This approach is clearly not the best when, with XML, it is more likely that a user will encounter and wish to interact with data that is both structured and unstructured. There have been some attempts at solving the problem of enabling a user to manipulate an XML document, but to date, they are extremely inflexible and do not appreciate the full power behind XML and XSL-T, the latter being a transformation that could be used to transform XML into Dynamic HTML or is DHTML. For more information on XML, XSLT and XSD, the reader is referred to the following documents which are the work of, and available from the W3C (World Wide Web consortium): XML Schema Part 0: Primer, Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0, XML Schema Part 1: Structures, and XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0.
Consider, for example,
Consider, for example, an email message that might have several fields, i.e. "subject", "to", and the like. Each of these fields might be represented in XML as to tags. For example, the "subject" field might be represented as an XML tag "subj". XSL-T creates an engine that attempts to match a current node to various templates, selects one, and may find within that template mode nodes to match. The XSL-T that transforms the XML representation of the email might include a template that matches the "subj" tag. The template would then list the string that is associated with the "subj" tag, but might place the word "Subject:" before the string in the DHTML that is ultimately displayed for the user. This is but a very simple example of the transformation process that can take place using XSL-T. XSL-T can also be used to add information to the information that is represented in an XML document. For example, various headings or other information can be added using XSL-T, with the accompanying data underneath the heading coming from the XML document. Essentially, then, XSL-T provides an extremely robust and flexible way of transforming the data that is described by the XML into a DHTML presentation. One manifestation of XSL-T is that the resultant DHTML structure may bear little resemblance to the corresponding XML tree structure that contains the data that is used by the XSLT to provide the DHTML.
The transition from XML to DHTML is then accomplished through XSL-T. This is generally a one way transition in which data that is described in XML is transformed into a presentation format for the user. Preserving the user experience of being able to interact with the data through its presentation format (e.g. DHTML) is crucial. While the transformation from XML to DHTML is fairly straightforward, there has been no clear transformation that would be the inverse of this transformation (i.e. transforming DHTML to XML) in a manner that is flexible and appreciates the full power of XSL-T. That is, while there are simple solutions to this problem, the robust nature of XSL-T and the differences in the corresponding XML and DHTML trees make it extremely difficult to attempt inverse transformation solutions.
There are solutions that enable a user to enter data in a DHTML document which is then copied back to the XML document. These solutions do not, however, enable a user to change the structure of the XML tree that represents the data. Additionally, there are solutions that are hardcoded solutions that can enable some manipulation of the XML tree given a DHTML modification, but the hardcoded nature of the solutions make them very specific to the data and XML tags with which they are used. For example, one of the XSL-T templates might include a hardcoded solution that allows a user to make structural changes to a table, such as adding a new row. This hardcoded solution is then only usable in connection with the table for which it was specifically defined. If a developer wishes to use the hardcoded solution for a different table, they must physically alter the programmatic solution to specifically apply to their situation. There are solutions which enable authorship of arbitrary XML through user-friendly views, but not through DHTML and XSL-T. Exemplary products include Arbortext's Adept Editor, SoftQuad's XMetal, INRIA's Thot, and FrameMaker's Framemaker for SGML.
Accordingly, this invention arose out of concerns associated with providing user interfaces that enable a user to manipulate a DHTML document with the manipulations being transferred back to the XML tree that represents the data of the DHTML presentation in a flexible, repeatable manner.
Methods and systems of authoring XML using DHTML views are described. Various user interfaces can be automatically or semi-automatically provided in a DHTML view that enable a user to interact with a DHTML view and change values (e.g. text or properties) of an associated DHTML tree. Value changes are translated to modifications of an associated XML structure. A transformation, e.g. an XSL-T, is applied to the modified XML structure which then changes the DHTML view to reflect the user's interaction. The interfaces, some of which are termed "in document" interfaces, permit a user to interact with a DHTML view and have value modifications automatically made to a corresponding XML document that describes data that is associated with the DHTML view. Presentation of the various "in document" interfaces takes place by considering not only an XML schema (of which the XML document is an instance), but an XSL-T (XSLT transformation) that was utilized to transform the XML document into the DHTML view.
In addition, the notion of a crystal is introduced and is used to map changes in a DHTML view directly back to a corresponding XML document. A crystal, in a basic form, includes one or more behaviors and associated XSL-T. In the illustrated example, a behavior is implemented as binary code that is associated with or attached to DHTML tags that are generated by the XSL-T. The crystals are used to transform XML into the DHTML views. The behaviors of a crystal are defined to be data-shape specific or dependent, with the data shape being defined by the XML document. The behavior is not necessarily dependent upon any schema, data or tags. Because of its data-shape dependent nature, crystals can be packaged for reuse with various XML documents which have no relation to one another other than a shape that is defined by the XML.
Behaviors can be attached to DHTML tags that are generated by the XSL-T. The behaviors ensure that user interactions with the DHTML view are mapped directly back to the XML document. In this way, the XML document can be authored to reflect the changes that are made to the DHTML view by the user.
Methods and systems of authoring XML using DHTML views are described. In one implementation, various user interfaces can be automatically or semi-automatically provided in a DHTML view that then enable a user to interact with a DHTML view and change values (e.g. text or properties) of an associated DHTML tree. Value changes are translated to modifications of an associated XML structure. A transformation, e.g. an XSL-T, is applied to the modified XML structure which then changes the DHTML view to reflect the user's interaction. The interfaces, some of which are termed "in document" interfaces, permit a user to interact with a DHTML view and have those interactions reflected in a corresponding XML document that describes data that is associated with the DHTML view. These modifications can be made regardless of the complexity of the XSL-T that was utilized to transform the XML into the DHTML. Presentation of the various in document interfaces takes place by considering not only an XML schema (of which the XML document is an instance), but an XSL-T (XSLT transformation) that was utilized to transform the XML document into the DHTML view.
In another implementation, the notion of a crystal is introduced. A crystal, in a basic form, includes one or more behaviors and associated XSL-T. The crystals are used to transform XML into the DHTML views. The behaviors of a crystal are defined to be data-shape specific or dependent, with the data shape being defined by the XML document. The behavior is not necessarily dependent upon any schema, data or tags. Because of its data-shape dependent nature, crystals can be packaged for reuse with various XML documents which have no relation to one another other than a shape that is defined by the XML. In the described implementation, behaviors are attached to the DHTML tags that are generated by the XSL-T. The behaviors ensure that user interactions with the DHTML view are mapped directly back to the XML document. In this way, the XML document can be authored to reflect the changes that are made to the DHTML view by the user. Because crystals are data shape-dependent and not schema dependent, as the shape is defined by the XML document, they can be used for authoring fragments of XML belonging to different schemas; those fragments simply share the same shape.
In this document, the following terminology will be used:
Exemplary Computing Environment
The embodiment described just below can be employed in connection with various computer systems. A computer system, for purposes of this document, can be considered as any computing device that includes some type of processor, i.e. a microprocessor, and some type of operating system. Thus, a computer system can be construed to include, without limitation, traditional desktop computers, more powerful servers, various hand-held devices such as cell phones, pocket-held computer devices and the like.
Computer 130 further includes a hard disk drive 144 for reading from and writing to a hard disk (not shown), a magnetic disk drive 146 for reading from and writing to a removable magnetic disk 148, and an optical disk drive 150 for reading from or writing to a removable optical disk 152 such as a CD ROM or other optical media. The hard disk drive 144, magnetic disk drive 146, and optical disk drive 150 are connected to the bus 136 by an SCSI interface 154 or some other appropriate interface. The drives and their associated computer-readable media provide nonvolatile storage of computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules and other data for computer 130. Although the exemplary environment described herein employs a hard disk, a removable magnetic disk 148 and a removable optical disk 152, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that other types of computer-readable media which can store data that is accessible by a computer, such as magnetic cassettes, flash memory cards, digital video disks, random access memories (RAMs), read only memories (ROMs), and the like, may also be used in the exemplary operating environment.
A number of program modules may be stored on the hard disk 144, magnetic disk 148, optical disk 152, ROM 138, or RAM 140, including an operating system 158, one or more application programs 160, other program modules 162, and program data 164. A user may enter commands and information into computer 130 through input devices such as a keyboard 166 and a pointing device 168. Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, or the like. These and other input devices are connected to the processing unit 132 through an interface 170 that is coupled to the bus 136. A monitor 172 or other type of display device is also connected to the bus 136 via an interface, such as a video adapter 174. In addition to the monitor, personal computers typically include other peripheral output devices (not shown) such as speakers and printers.
Computer 130 commonly operates in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 176. The remote computer 176 may be another personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to computer 130, although only a memory storage device 178 has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, computer 130 is connected to the local network 180 through a network interface or adapter 184. When used in a WAN networking environment, computer 130 typically includes a modem 186 or other means for establishing communications over the wide area network 182, such as the Internet. The modem 186, which may be internal or external, is connected to the bus 136 via a serial port interface 156. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the personal computer 130, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing a communications link between the computers may be used.
Generally, the data processors of computer 130 are programmed by means of instructions stored at different times in the various computer-readable storage media of the computer. Programs and operating systems are typically distributed, for example, on floppy disks or CD-ROMs. From there, they are installed or loaded into the secondary memory of a computer. At execution, they are loaded at least partially into the computer's primary electronic memory. The invention described herein includes these and other various types of computer-readable is storage media when such media contain instructions or programs for implementing the steps described below in conjunction with a microprocessor or other data processor. The invention also includes the computer itself when programmed according to the methods and techniques described below.
For purposes of illustration, programs and other executable program components such as the operating system are illustrated herein as discrete blocks, although it is recognized that such programs and components reside at various times in different storage components of the computer, and are executed by the data processor(s) of the computer.
Exemplary Implementation
The inventive methods and systems discussed below are configured for use in connection with an implementation, aspects of which are described in the documents incorporated by reference above. That implementation essentially provides a single application program having a single navigable window that can be navigated to multiple different functionalities that are provided by the application program. The functionalities are extensible and can be extended via a network such as the Internet.
Use of Schema and XSL-T to Generate a User Interface
When a user interacts with a DHTML document for the purpose of changing, in some way, the document through either manipulation of one or more of its values or properties, it is important that those manipulations be made, in a consistent manner, to the XML document that describes the structure of the data behind the DHTML document. In order to manipulate the XML document that describes the structure of the data behind the DHTML, there needs to be a way to transform user interactions in the DHTML to changes in the XML document. This is the problem of finding an inverse of the transformation function that is provided by the XSL-T.
In one implementation, the described embodiment addresses this problem by automatically (or semi-automatically, with some hint given by the application developer) generating an appropriate user interface (UI) within the DHTML document that allows the user to manipulate or interact with the DHTML document. The presentation of the UI takes into account not only the XML schema, but also the XSL-T transformations that were utilized to provide the DHTML. This represents a significant departure from other XML authoring solutions that look only to the XML schema to determine what can and cannot be added to an XML document. The UIs thus allow user interaction with the DHTML view (e.g. adding and/or deleting structure) to be directly transferred back to the XML document.
There are many various potential types of UIs that can be presented to a user to enable them to interact with a document. Some examples include, without limitation, context blocks which are automatically added to a window based upon the user's context. Context blocks are discussed in more detail in the Application entitled "Task Sensitive Methods And Systems For Displaying Command Sets", incorporated by reference above. Other forms of UIs can include so-called widgets which are decorations within a document itself that allow a user to interact with the document. For example, if a document contains a table, there can be additional adornments around the table on which a user can click to add or delete a row or column, or to move items around within the column. Another type of UI is an accelerator which allows interaction through the keyboard. For example, if you press "Control-L" some type of predefined action is implemented.
In this described embodiment, a decision process is undertaken that decides which UIs to present to a user and when to present them. That is, there are potentially a number of different UI choices that can be made depending on what a user is doing in a particular document and where they are in the document. An inventive approach is to utilize a number of different parameters and based upon analysis of the parameters make a decision on which UI to present to a user so that they can interact with the DHTML view. In the described embodiment, the following parameters can be used:
In the XSL-T file, there are certain constructs that can be suggestive of certain structures in the resultant DHTML. For example, the XSL-T file may include a "xsl:for-each" construct (i.e. for each customer, take a certain action). This construct is suggestive of a repetitive structure in the DHTML, such as a table or a paragraph. That is, if there are a number of customers, then repeating a certain action would repetitively define a certain type of structure. By considering these XSL-T constructs, certain UI types can be identified that can be displayed for the user.
An example is table editing. For example, if expenses are optional, according to the schema, initially there may be no expenses in a table. The XSL-T would have a "for-each" construct to render each expense, but since there are none in the XML doe, nothing is displayed. The UI should in this case produce a context block for adding an expense.
Once the first expense is created, by re-applying the XSLT transformation, a table is now viewable. At this point, based on the XSL-T hint that there is a "for-each" associated with an expense, and the schema information that multiple expenses can be added, a decision is made to not show the "Add expense" as a context block, but to add an appropriate in-doc UI that would now take over the functionality of adding additional expenses as new rows to the table.
When addressing the problem of which UI to display for the user to enable interaction with a document, it is desirable to keep the overall appearance that is presented to the user as uncluttered as possible. For example, many different context blocks could be presented to user, each with its own engagable buttons that can be engaged by a user for interacting with the DHTML view. This is not desirable though because it can potentially clutter the context block area. It would be more ideal to have "in document" UIs (e.g. widget UIs) within a document that are specific to the document itself and which allow a user to interact with the document. An "in document" UI is a UI that appears within a portion of the document and enables user interaction with a portion of the document. Consider, for example, a Word document that contains an embedded drawing. When the user clicks on the embedded drawing, the drawing can appear within a frame that contains one or more buttons that can be clicked on to manipulate the drawing, e.g. a rotate button to rotate the drawing. The buttons that are associated with the is embedded drawing are considered as "in document" UIs.
In order to provide these types of UIs, the described embodiment examines the XSL-T file to identify which UI candidates are more suited to have their functionalities provided by "in document" UIs.
For example, if the schema specifies that multiple expenses are allowed, and the XSL-T has a "for-each" construct for expenses, by looking at the first element introduced by the XSL-T after an expense is matched, it could determine what kind of helpful UI to add. If an DHTML TABLE is created, then it should be adorned with table-editing widgets, but if there is SPAN, for example, then create a context block, and not an in-doe UT.
That is, the above-described context blocks are not "in document" because they are provided within a pane that is disposed adjacent a document area within which a user can work on a document. One goal of the described embodiment is to identify UIs, based upon the analysis discussed below, that are the best candidates for incorporation as "in document" UIs that specifically adorn document portions and permit user interaction with the document itself.
Consider that, without taking into account the XSL-T in the analysis of which UIs to present to a user, the only UIs that could be presented would not be in-document UIs. The context blocks are the most generic UI constructs in the present example. But if we know that we have a table created in DHTML, then the context blocks can be replaced by in-doc constructs. By inspecting the XSL-T we can find out what DHTML construct is created by the XSLT transformation. That is, without consideration of the XSL-T, only generic UIs, e.g. the context block UIs, would likely be generated. For example, if a user is working within a DHTML document that contains a table, a context block can be provided that enables the user, through manipulation of various "out of document" UIs to manipulate the table, e.g. adding a row, column and the like. By considering the XSL-T, the UI that is produced can be refined and the context blocks, or at least a portion of the functionality that is provided by the context blocks, can be replaced with other types of in document UIs. The XSL-T is thus used for refinement of the UIs.
Manipulation of XML Structures Using Crystals
Recall that one of the benefits of XML is the richness with which data can be described. XML, by its very nature, can provide a wide variety of variations of data. Because of this, UI solutions for interacting with data (displayed in DHTML using XSL-T) have been hardcoded and specific to individual schemas. This is a manifestation of the ease with which hardcoded solutions can be provided through XSL-T.
In one described embodiment, the notion of a crystal is introduced to enable interactions with a DHTML view to be directly mapped back to the XML file or tree. Advantageously, the crystals are configured to work on various data shapes, independent of the XML schemas. This means that when the data has a particular shape, as defined by the XML tree that contains the data, specific crystals that are configured for that particular shape can be used to render the DHTML and also ensure that user interactions with the DHTML view are directly mapped back to the XML tree. The crystals do not care about the specific data that is provided by the data shape, nor the schema or tags that are used to contain the data.
Consider, for example,
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In the purchase order example, assume that the user adds a new product to the DHTML view table by clicking on "add product" button 411 which adds a new row to table 410. In this example, when the new product is added, the behavior or binary code maps the modification back to the XML tree and incorporates the modification by making a structural change to the XML tree. In this specific example, the structural change would include adding a branch to the XML tree to represent the newly-added product. This added branch is shown as the dashed branch on the "Products" XML tree.
Consider the second XML tree 412 shown directly below the Products AML tree. That tree is an "Addresses" XML tree and is associated with addresses that might appear in an address book. This data is extremely different from the data that is associated with the Products XML tree. In fact, there is no relation at all between the data. Notice, however, that the Addresses XML tree has the same shape as the XML tree appearing directly above it. In the described embodiment, a similar crystal can be used to render a DHTML address book that contains entries for a name, street and zip code. The crystal would likely contain slightly different XSL-T for labeling purposes, but can contain the same exact behavior that was utilized in the above example to manipulate the structure of the Products XML tree. To this extent, a user interface button 411 is provided on the Address table and includes the same behavior as the user interface button associated with the Products table. Thus, when a user adds an entry to their address book, the behavior, or binary code, that is associated with the DHTML "Address" tag would ensure that any changes made to the DHTML view are mapped directly back to the corresponding XML document.
The crystals can advantageously be prepackaged software containers that include the behaviors that are specific to the shape of the data and not necessarily dependent upon the schema or specific data that may be contained by an XML document. This approach is very well suited to handling complex XSLT transformations which naturally flow from the robustness that XSL-T provides. By incorporating and associating behaviors in the DHTML tree, problems associated with handling complex XSLT transformations insofar as XML authoring is concerned are solved. This approach is extremely flexible and is not tied to any one schema or specific data, as were the solutions in the past. This approach also provides the application developer with the ability to develop complex XSL-T, without worrying about how the underlying XML is going to be manipulated responsive to a user manipulating the DHTML document. Further, because the approach utilizes crystals having behaviors that are specific to data shape and not specific to schema or data, the crystals are reusable across any XML documents that have shapes that correspond to the shapes for which the various crystals were designed.
The above approach is very flexible and can be conveniently used by application developers to provide applications. Assume that an independent software vendor (ISV) develops applications for end users and he wants to construct a purchase order. The ISV can select an appropriate XML schema for the purchase order which would then define the types of tags that the purchase order can contain. The ISV would need to write the appropriate XSL-T that could present the purchase order in DHTML in a ISV-defined manner. Perhaps the ISV wants to make the purchase order specific to a particular company. The XSL-T provides a way for the ISV to do this. That is, each ISV may wish to present their data differently in a way that is specific to the ISV. Thus, while they each may use the same schema, there will be many different instances of the schema each of which can be potentially very different from the others. One goal of the crystal-based implementation discussed above, is that it should be very easy for ISVs to develop applications based on XML. Accordingly, when the ISV writes their XSL-T, they can incorporate various behaviors that are provided by multiple different crystals. These crystals are predefined so that the ISV need not worry about defining them. They can simply select the crystals that are appropriate for their shape of data, and incorporate them with XSL-T. Now, when the XML is transformed into DHTML, user interactions with the DHTML view can be mapped to the underlying XML document.
Although the invention has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological steps, it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or steps described. Rather, the specific features and steps are disclosed as preferred forms of implementing the claimed invention.
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Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. It has been five weeks since my last review of a music-based custom-controller-enhanced rhythm game, and I made the grave error of betting on the wrong horse.
Not that Guitar Hero 3 is a bad game, mind you. Neversoft, in retrospect, simply lacked a certain perspectiveâ"the same perspective I lacked back when I claimed that GH3 was the best thing since girls. Harmonix, original developer of the Guitar Hero series, knows the genre inside and out, and, perhaps more importantly, they knew what it would take to kill off their own creation.
And how did they do that? Itâ's simple, really. All they had to do was spend years setting up the battlefield according to their own rules, hide a few aces up a few sleeves, up the ante without telling anyone, â"kindlyâ" let the opponent move first, and then bring to bear a user experience that dwarfs the competition like the Sunsphere dwarfs that cheap plastic disco ball I have hanging from my rearview mirror. Neversoft certainly didnâ't bring a knife to a gunfight, but Harmonixâ's counterattack ranks somewhere in the â"tactical nuclear strikeâ" range.
Rock Band, to grossly oversimplify, is vast in ways that usually are reserved for games that target that guy from South Park who hacked World of Warcraft. From the fully functional character-creation system onward, the gameâ's simple premise gives way to a depth that draws you in and leaves you with a strange feeling of kinship toward fantasy-football fanatics and those people who spend hours wondering what they should wear to Karaoke Night.
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(By creating World Tour modeâ"an addition to the genre unparalleled in extending game-playâ"Rock Band also serves the unintended purpose of measuring the character of its players. Bad friends, no matter how much they dislike you, will still come to your house and play your fancy new game. They might even call you at all hours of the night to see if you want to play. Good friends, however, will realize that you just spent $170 on molded plastic and a DVD and will actually bring their own food.)
Donâ't believe what you read, then (unless youâ're reading me or, in some cases, my cohorts): Rock Band is no simple exercise in hand-eye coordination and rock-music memorization any more than playing the drums is about synchronized stick-waving. Rock Band is about a more socially-acceptable form of what generations of Poindexters sitting by themselves in the back of high school cafeterias with Dungeons & Dragons books or Magic: the Gathering cards or Dance Dance Revolution whatevers have known about for years: near-total fantasy immersion. Just because your magic guy or girl from Pretend Land happens to be a Level 12 Jon Bon Jovi doesnâ't make you exempt. Between your Rock Bands, your text-messaging mp3-playing cell phones, and your tech-supported computer-driven e-mail-centric MySpace-surfing-when-the-boss-isnâ't-looking workplaces, youâ're all nerds now in one way or another, and weâ"uh, they, YOU SHUT UP I SAID THEYâ"have assumed control.
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"Really quick and easy donuts made from ingredients you probably already have. My 3 year old loves these because he can have them whenever he wants. There's hardly any waiting time. Use any topping you want. Our favorite is powdered sugar!"
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2 tablespoons
white vinegar
3/8 cup
2 tablespoons
1/2 cup
white sugar
1/2 teaspoon
vanilla extract
2 cups
sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon
baking soda
1/4 teaspoon
1 quart
oil for deep frying
1/2 cup
confectioners' sugar for dusting
I rated this 5 for taste but it turned out so well because I followed the others' recommendation to only add 1/2 cup milk. Doing it that way, it turned out PERFECT. I lightly wet my fingers before working with the dough and did dropped donut holes instead of traditional donuts. Keep in mind that the holes will about double in size when they expand in the oil! We topped with cinnamon/sugar, powdered sugar, or chocolate syrup. Will definitely make these again!
This was the first recipe that has ever made me angry. Even after taking tips from previous reviews, the dough still wasn't rollable. I did 1/2 c milk with 1 tbsp vinegar and added more than a cup of additional flour. After that I let it sit for 20 minutes in the bowl. It was so sticky that rolling it out & cutting it into doughnuts wasn't even an option. I was able to roll them in my hands to make holes, which worked out just fine. All in all the taste was pretty good(even after adding a lot of extra flour). I would look elsewhere before trying this recipe again.
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This was an absolutely delicious recipe. I made donut holes and they came out so light and fluffy! At first I was confused about the comments but then I realized that allrecipies actially made a modification to the milk amount and this is why the comments didn't make sense any more. I made this recipe with one little modification, I used cider vinegar instead of white and it came out perfect! Oh and by the way...3/8 cup of milk equals 6 tablespoons of milk. Enjoy!
I think the milk amount should be halved. This recipe is the one my grandmother, mother, and I have used for years, but mine takes the same amount of milk and vinegar, but DOUBLE the amount of everything else. Just use half the amount of milk and vinegar listed in this recipe and they will turn out fine. I have make this "half batch" of about 18 doughnuts many times.
Milk ingredient updated by the allrecipes staff on 1/66/2008.
You can substitute plain yogurt for the milk/vinegar mixture - makes it easier, and they come out tastier (in my opinion).
WOW!! I used the recipe conversion and made only a 9 serving recipe and it turned out awesome. We used a 1/4 cup of buttermilk because that is essentially what the milk and vinegar are.. and we used a small cookie scoop and dropped straight into the oil. My 3 year old had a blast rolling them in powdered sugar. oh yeah and once it is converted it calls for a half an egg.. we used egg substitute that I had laying around from my parents visit. lol. Worked like a charm.
This recipe is very simple, quick, and tasty, and makes a perfect basic cake doughnut recipe. The dough doesn't have much flavor on its own, so for myself I would season them with cinnamon, citrus, vanilla, etc. If you roll each doughnut quickly in flour before frying you'll get a nice, crispy exterior.
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The F1 season concludes at Abu Dhabi this weekend with an unprecedented four drivers vying to become world champion.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso holds a slim eight-point lead over Webber on the drivers' table with Webber's team-mate Sebastian Vettel a further seven points adrift.
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I would steer clear of any of these Chinese manufactured bikes or quads. A neighbor of mine was bragging one day because he bought 2 quads and 2 dirt bikes for about what I spent on one quad. I told him that you get what you pay for and he disagreed. Over the last 8 months I have had to fabricate and rebuild components for these because he can't get the OEM parts for them. He is constantly complaining how much it is costing him to keep them running. His argument is that because he didn't pay as much for his he shouldn't have to pay as much to have them repaired. I tried to explain to him that shop rates are shop rates no matter what he paid for the bike. I don't think he would recommend these bikes/quads to anyone. Mike.
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I wouldn't recommend buying anything that came out of China. I too have had experience with Chinese tools that turned out to be pure junk. I've even hurt myself a few times when they broke, which really pissed me off and I would imagine almost every Chinese tool builder's ears were burning cause I was calling them every name I could think of. I also had a friend that bought a little Chinese quad thinkin he was getting a good deal. He's had to rebuild **** near everything on it and has wound up with more money in it now than he would have had in buying a good American built machine. I'm very leery of anything that has a Made in China tag on it. Whatever happened to the days when American people bought American products made by American workers in American factories to support the American economy...maybe it's just me but I sure as **** see something wrong with this picture!At Home
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06-07-2008, 06:13 AM #23Junior Member
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Someone mentioned something about China is a non engineer copying nation, rice ox-cart.....
Do you know people in china make around $150 US dollar a month? This is the reason why china product is low quality. Surplus of labor and unskilled labor.
The country is more advance than you think. Go there and see it for yourself before you make racist comments. Don't worry, if you don't speak Chinese, they can speak English. Or maybe you're offended they copy your language too.
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Lots of good stuff made in China by skilled craftsmen too. I have a toaster story about shopping quality and the priciest isnt always the best. The first post says it all, I bought a cheap piece of junk. What do you expect was a good answer. Americans made some junk too. Wernt afraid to stick it to the customers rear when they had the chance. I dont blame China.
its more our own fault for excepting all the crap on the market. turning every thing into expendable. its cheaper to buy a new weed eater than have the one you have fixed. so thats what every one dose and it just keeps the flow of cr ap flowing as we go along with it. the more we buy junk, the more they think its ok and keep making it. we need quality options but have to be willing to pay for quality. if we stop buying cr ap, they will stop making it. supply and demand. every one wants cheap, so they get and accept cr ap.thanks for the help
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Back to ATVs, my son's friends have two chink ATVs and have rode them to death with no real troubles at all. So my wife got him one and it has been going well for a year now.
Would I rather have American? you bet...But, Polaris $2300.00 Sunl $600.00 you do the math.
The R&D story doesn't cut it for me on miniature copies of full size models.Jeff
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The worst part about chinese junk is that the manufaturers are largely anonymous. If you could call and complain, they wouldn't give a **** anyhow since we are anonymouse to them too, they would just smile and nod. I go out of my way to NOT buy chinese. If i can't get it american made i'll look at something made in another country. Ultimately the fault lies with our own corrupt or stupid politicians and our own cheapness and ignorance.Dynasty 200 DX
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you kind of know what to expect when you buy something made in China, but
what fries me is when you buy something like a supposedly high end Ingersoll Rand die grinder and it has a sticker on it ( after getting it out of the box) that states "Made in China by Ingersoll Rand" and has two of the tinyest most worthless collet wrenches you will ever see.
At least if you get a China Atv with a China brand, you expect it to be Chinese and Chinese qualityJeff
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Chinese products = junk for the most part. Like my Grandfather used to say "When you buy quality you only cry once." It's sad to see companies that make high quality products getting put out of business by this Chinese garbage so I buy American whenever possible.


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