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The promise of XML
Joab Jackson
Feb 04, 2005
Agencies make headway on tagging data but still need description tools
For the Navy, the Extensible Mark- up Language provided a possible way to meet its FORCEnet objectives. FORCEnet is the Navy's forward-looking architectural framework that intertwines sensors, command and control software, platforms and weapons into a common network.
Information sharing is nothing new. But while sharing data via the Web on a point-to-point basis has long been established, the challenge for the Navy'and other agencies'is designing systems that can share data on the fly, on an ad hoc basis. An application has to make its data available for numerous other applications'even those not foreseen by developers.
That is the promise of XML. In December 2003, the Office of Na- val Research piloted the Joint Expeditionary Warfare Logistics System (JEWLS), a decision-support system that uses Web services to provide logistics information to command and control applications.
A light protocol
'Ten years ago, we probably would have used a CORBA-based solution,' said Adam Sandman, a senior manager of technology for Sapient Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., which has worked with the Navy on the project. Sandman was referring to the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, an older method of sharing software functions across a network.
The problem with CORBA is that it does not work well in battlefield environments, Sandman said. It requires too much configuration and gobbles too many computer resources.
'CORBA is a very heavy protocol. It is very chatty. XML is a light protocol,' Sandman said. 'With something like CORBA, the technology in the programming of the system was coupled with how it was communicated over the network. XML decouples the systems aspect of the communications format. If some data gets lost it doesn't impact the remainder of the transaction.'
As a pilot, JEWLS has been tremendously successful; about a dozen Marine Corps and Navy units have used it. It touches eight Corps systems and 14 Navy systems. It was used in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, as well as in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
'When users want to pull logistics information on the [battlefield operations] map, it evokes a Web services call that connects back to the Web server on our system, and pulls the appropriate information for the map,' Sandman said.
Despite all the buzzwords'and buzz'surrounding the acronym, XML is a surprisingly simple concept. As its name suggests, Extensible Markup Language is a format for annotating data so that it can be exchanged across disparate systems.
To think of what XML could do, think of how the Web changed life as we know it. HTML, the format for the Web, is a derivation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language, an older format for sharing electronic documents. HTML works so well because of its simplicity.
Before the Web, widespread document sharing across many platforms was a tricky process. First, there was a problem of getting two computers to talk to each other. Then, enough bandwidth had to be secured to transport the documents. With the Internet, TCP/IP provided the basic underlying protocol to connect all machines, and HTML let the document designer mark up a plain set of data so it could be displayed by the user's browser.
HTML is, however, only de- signed for displaying data in a browser. XML expands the markup notion to exchanging data across different networked systems.
HTML contains only a set number of tags, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. XML lets users create their own tags, which means they can annotate however they see fit. A supplier can tag the price of a particular item, which the seller's computer can recognize, assuming they both share the same language, or schema.
But XML's flexibility is also its Achilles' heel. 'That XML is just a syntax is both good and bad,' said Ken Sall, an XML specialist for the consulting firm SiloSmashers Inc. of Fairfax, Va.
'It is easy to construct your own vocabulary. Whether my language and your language will be interoperable depends on a lot of things,' Sall said. The same words may have multiple meanings. 'If you don't have a way to specify what you really mean, there is no way to tell.'
As agencies embark on XML projects and devise their own languages, or taxonomies, to describe their data, they must soon take the next step'defining the relationship between the languages. Such work is essential for data sharing across systems. And while mapping one agency's language to another's is easy work, the true challenge is describing the language so that a computer can interpret it without human intervention.
'Obviously what we need is se- mantic interoperability if we are to communicate effectively,' said Brand Niemann, an Environmental Protection Agency computer scientist and co-chairman of the Federal Semantic Interoperability Working Group. 'Really, we're trying to get to [where data is] machine-processable, so we need to have no ambiguity in the meaning of the terms.'
How much is XML already be- ing used in government? Al- though agencies are using XML, they are only beginning to realize the full flexibility of having data encoded in XML.
Some successes
For the past two years, Sall has compiled a report on the use of XML in government. The latest one was published in November, highlighting 12 federal programs that use XML.
Some of the programs include:
The Justice Department is developing a wide-ranging XML framework that would let Justice agencies share information with public-safety communities. Called the Global Justice Information Sharing initiative, the framework has already been used in over 50 law enforcement and legal-related projects, both at the federal as well as the state level.
NASA, along with the Air Force Research Laboratory, is defining a set of terms that describe the hardware, mission and development lifecycle of air and spacecraft.
The IRS is developing a set of terms for reusing e-training content, called the Sharable Content Object Reference Model.
The General Services Administration is developing an acquisition language for the Integrated Acquisition Environment, a Quicksilver e-government initiative to standardize procurement systems.
All these programs have their own standardized XML vocabularies, but the vocabularies may not synchronize with one another. Terms such as 'incident,' 'event,' 'resource' and 'asset' all have different meanings to different communities. As the systems mature and agencies look for additional uses of the data, experts say using a shared language will become essential.
Some agencies are taking the first step toward a larger reconciliation of these vocabularies'namely by developing a location where federal schemas can be placed and easily located. A schema describes the structure of an XML document, including terms that de-scribe each element in that document. A program manager could make use of a schema, or elements within a schema, instead of developing one from scratch.
One such attempt is the Defense Department's Metadata Registry and Clearinghouse, which provides a repository for Defense agencies, civilian agencies and other governmental bodies to publish schemas. The Core.gov repository of government-generated software components also can accept schemas.
Another pilot to build a dedicated XML registry is being undertaken by Starbourne Communications Design.
At its own expense, the Berkeley, Calif., company will collect schemas from both the FirstGov Web site and the Global Justice XML Data Model and Data Dictionary and then make them available through a portal, said Rex Brooks, founder and president of Starbourne.
Eventually, the collected schemas could be used as the basis for developing a federal dictionary of descriptive XML terms.
After the company builds this 'derived registry,' as Brooks called it, it will look into the feasibility of using the results to start a federal glossary of government XML terms.
The results could also be used to construct an ontology, or a description of how the elements of an agency fit together. Search engines would then be able to locate agency material more easily.
'This is just the beginning of the list of things that might be useful when analyzing how the government uses XML,' Brooks said. 'We don't know what we will find, but it's worth the exercise.'
Industry observers note that federal registries could be difficult to use, which might prevent program managers from adopting existing vocabularies.
Others doubt the ability of all government agencies to adopt a singular vocabulary that details every element in the federal environment.
As a result, more work has been done recently in figuring out ways to bridge different vocabularies.
'Even those who are working very hard to become semantically interoperable with XML tags and vocabulary are bumping up against one another, asking how to become interoperable,' Niemann said. 'You begin to realize you can't do enough standardization that way.'
In other words, agencies need a level of logical organization one step above the basic taxonomies that give a name to each element within an agency's data sets. That would be an ontology.
With such an ontology, advocates say that computers could examine one another's data sets and know where to place them into their own systems.
Fortunately, the developers of XML and HTML are working on what they call the semantic Web, which 'deals with the meaning of information,' Niemann said.
Once all the elements within a data set are tagged, the next task is to give computers the instructions for how to interpret the tags within a larger context, to infer relationships that are not explicit.
To this end, XML developers have created new technologies such as the Resource Description Framework, which provides a metadata platform for describing objects, and the Web Ontology Language, which goes by the acronym OWL and gives developers tools for describing relationships among elements.
Using these tools, one can apply a layered approach to describing data, Niemann said, adding that he borrowed the concept from Michael Daconta, the metadata coordinator for the Homeland Security Department.
Layer cake
The top level is the ontology, the middle layer is the metadata, and the bottom layer is the content. Each layer has an associated standard. For the content layer, an agency can use XML. For the metadata, RDF can be used, and OWL can describe the ontology layer.
How would the semantic Web play out on a practical level? Agency webmasters could add agency vocabularies, or constructs, of meaningful terms to mark up Web pages, making them easy to make sense of by search engines and other Web services that might incorporate the data.
The constructs also could be used to annotate material in databases, making it more easily accessible to appropriate users. Other users could include other machines. By making use of these rules of logic, other systems could draw data of interest as needed, as part of a service-oriented architecture that may span different agencies or programs.
As technologies such as OWL and RDF continue to evolve, agencies will find more ways to share data and bring more intelligence to the field of data sharing.
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August 16, 2001
Edward Felten speaksPrinceton's Edward Felten finally described in public how he bypassed the copy-protection methods created by the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).
You probably know the backstory, but here's a brief overview just in case. The SDMI is a consortium of 200+ music and technology companies. Last September it offered a reward of up to $10,000 to anyone who could bypass its experimental copy protection schemes on a music CD in less than a month. Felten and his team broke five of the six in three weeks. They refused the prize money so that they would be free to publish their methods and results.
Felten planned to present his team's work at a Pittsburgh conference in April, but cancelled his talk when a lawyer from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) wrote him a threatening letter. The RIAA later said that the letter was not a threat to sue. However, since the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibits bypassing copy-protection on copyrighted works, even for academic purposes, Felten worried about liability. The recent arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov has proved that Felten's fears were justified. In June, Felten asked a U.S. District Court to declare that he has a First Amendment right to give his presentation, and to overturn the parts of the DMCA that would stop him, but the court has not yet ruled. In its motion to dismiss Felten's lawsuit, the RIAA repeated its insistence that it was not Felten's legal adversary. With that assurance, Felten agreed to give his presentation last night at the Usenix Security Symposium, in Washington, D.C.
Felten has said he will continue to press his lawsuit even after he presents his paper. In my view he is right to do so. Sklyarov is being prosecuted even though Adobe has dropped its complaint against him. Even if the RIAA doesn't file a legal complaint against Felten, a zealous prosecutor could still prosecute him. In that sense, he needs a court to defang the DMCA and affirm his First Amendment right to describe his research in public. However, a court disinclined to examine the merits of his claim could decide that it is moot now that he has given his presentation.
Lessons from the SDMI Challenge, by Felten and others
(Links to PDF text, Ogg Vorbis audio, and RealVideo)Usenix Security Symposium
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/SDMI home page
http://sdmi.org/The SDMI challenge (September 2000)
("So here's the invitation: Attack the proposed technologies. Crack them.")RIAA home page
http://www.riaa.org/The EFF page on Felten v. RIAA
http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/Good pages on the DMCA
From the EFF, http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/
From Anti-DMCA, http://www.anti-dmca.org/----------
Public Library of Science deadline imminent
If you're reading this, then you probably know about the Public Library of Science (PLoS), one of the boldest recent FOS initiatives. It all started with a March 23 letter to the editor of _Science Magazine_ signed by Richard Roberts, Harold Varmus, and eight others. The gist of the letter was to call on biomedical journals to put their contents online, free of charge, in public archives, within six months of print publication. The call has since been widened to all scientific and scholarly journals. Roberts, Varmus, et al. also called on scientists to sign a pledge not to "publish in, edit or review for, or personally subscribe to" journals that do not heed the call. The web list of signers now includes more than 26,000 scientists from 170 countries.
Quoting the PLoS FAQ: "No institution that asks for our money and voluntary contributions of work and intellectual property has a right to take these for granted."
The deadline for journals to comply and pledgers to act is September 1. If you want to add weight to the PLoS call on journals, there is still time to sign the web pledge. If you want to coordinate your action with research and library colleagues, now is the time to talk to them. If you want to write up this story for a journal covering your discipline, now is a good time to start.
Start to watch your favorite news sources and scholarly journals for responses to the pledge, the deadline, and the action of pledgers. I imagine this story will be covered fairly well in the scientific and mainstream press. But I also imagine that there will be many small, telling episodes that never make the bigger news outlets, including individual struggles with conscience by pledgers. If you learn of any details not being covered elsewhere, or if you have thoughts on the PLoS initiative, I hope you'll post them to our discussion forum.
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http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/Original letter to the editor of _Science Magazine_, March 23, 2001
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5512/2318aWeb version of PLoS Open Letter (shorter than the _Science Magazine_ version)
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosLetter.htmList of journals meeting PLoS conditions
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosFAQ.htm#faq3Sign the PLoS petition
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/cgi-bin/plosSign.plFOS discussion forum
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Psychologists adjust
In June the American Psychological Association (APA) revised its policy on posting articles to the internet. Authors may post unreviewed preprints to the web provided they label them as unreviewed. The APA warns authors that some journals will regard this as prior publication and will refuse to consider them. It does not condemn or discourage this practice by journals, but at least it has dropped the explicit endorsement contained in previous policy statement.
Authors of articles accepted for publication in APA journals may post electronic versions to their personal or institutional websites, but not to third-party repositories, and may do so as soon as the articles are accepted. This is a liberalization of the previous policy, which held that authors could not put reviewed post-prints online until three years after print publication. Authors may not create the digital version of an article by scanning the print version from an APA journal. (Thanks to Christopher Green's 8/12 posting to the September98-Forum for details on the APA's previous policy.)
APA policy on posting articles to the internet
http://www.apa.org/journals/posting.html* Postscript. What positions do the major professional societies in your discipline take on these questions? If you can find online policy statements and send me the URLs, I'll collect them on a web page.
* PPS. Since scholars can have FOS as soon as they decide to have it, it's heartening to see professional associations take steps in the direction of having it. The APA is ahead of most scholars and even more publishers in its willingness to see scholarship free and online in some form. On the other hand, it is still endorsing unnecessary impediments to FOS. This is only a problem if you want to follow the professional associations and not lead them. Bottom line: you needn't wait for publishers and you needn't wait for professional associations. You can make an individual or institutional archive for unreviewed preprints at any time. You and colleagues can create new free online peer-reviewed journals at any time. If you serve on the editorial board for an existing print journal, you and your board colleagues can move the journal to the web at any time, divorcing your current publisher if necessary. (For an inspiring example, see the _Journal of Logic Programming_ story in our May 11 issue.)
Do it yourself
* Sun has released the second edition of its Digital Library Tool Kit. This is the first upgrade in the tool kit since 1998. The title may be misleading: this is not software but a document of advice and instruction. It can be downloaded free of charge.
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/digitaltoolkit.html* The Scout Report has released the Scout Portal Toolkit. If you want to assemble an online collection of academic content and focus on the content, download this free software.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/research/SPT/main.html* Make your own e-books from your desktop publisher. New software allows you to export QuarkXPress documents to Microsoft Reader e-book format. The software is free for downloading.
Share your thoughts
* Mark Jordan of Simon Fraser University and Dave Kisly of the British Columbia Electronic Library Network are conducting a survey on how libraries handle electronic serials. They would like no more than one reply per library. If you represent a library, share your thoughts before the September 30 deadline.
http://www.targetinform.com/eserials/* The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative seeks your comments on the first draft of its library application profile.
http://dublincore.org/documents/library-application-profile/* Gerry McKiernan is looking for examples of Library Knowledge Bases to add to his web-based registry.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm* The Open eBook Forum is calling for all eBook stakeholders (e.g. readers, publishers, librarians, vendors) to contribute "any need, want or wish that a participant determines should be reviewed by others to facilitate an effective and efficient ePublishing industry."
http://www.openebook.org/requirements/* The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) wants your comments on its plan to streamline access to technical reports. It proposes to enhance its search engine hit links with digital object identifiers (DOIs) that resolve to the copies of the reports in the agencies that created them. This will enable users to link directly to free versions of the documents. By contrast, downloading the same documents from NTIS is not free. (So what's the catch?) Comments will be accepted until September 13.
New on the net
* The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) home page has moved from Los Alamos servers to Cornell University. Note the new URL.
http://www.openarchives.org/* Imagine a work of web art which makes your browser window into an abstract map of Dewey Decimal space. As you move your cursor around, you mouse over Dewey numbers embedded in an ever-changing 3D grid of active links to real web pages. If you click, you'll open a new window to the page your mouse is then highlighting, although you will almost always be surprised what this page turns out to be. It's cool and confusing at the same time. You'll hope this not the future of online information cataloging, but you'll hope it influences that future. It's Babel by Simon Biggs. (You'll need Shockwave installed.)
http://www.babel.uk.net/* Cornell's Engineering and Computer Science Library created Sticker Shock, a text and image slide show on the serials crisis.
http://www.englib.cornell.edu/displays/stickershock/default.html* The National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council) have launched a web site on intellectual property topics, especially those that arise in the scholarship and research. It contains a library of valuable papers, a discussion forum, and a newsletter.
http://ip.nationalacademies.org* Yahoo is now offering free online course management tools, which will make it a competitor with WebCT, Blackboard, and other priced vendors. This is a good deal for academics. But two provisos: (1) you might prefer MIT's free online course management tools, which have the advantage of open source, and (2) Yahoo has recently started charging for services it originally offered free of charge.
Yahoo Education
http://education.yahoo.com/MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative
In other publications
* In their September issue, the editors of _Smart Business_, name Sigma-Aldrich as #20 among the Smart Business 50. These are companies that make exceptional use of the internet. Sigma-Aldrich sells chemicals, but won this distinction because it provides useful, voluminous, and free information about its chemicals. The result is a free online content provider as much as a for-profit chemical vendor.
Smart Business story on Sigma-Aldrich (scroll down to #20)
http://www.zdnet.com/smartbusinessmag/stories/all/0,6605,2799242-6,00.htmlSigma-Aldrich home page
http://www.sigma-aldrich.com/saws.nsf* In the August 15 _DigiNews_, Daniel Greenstein and Gerald George describe the Digital Library Federation (DLF) project to develop a standard of minimum digital fidelity when digitizing printed texts. A higher standard will enhance the interoperability of different archives but exclude more legacy data. The DLF will soon post its proposed standard to its web site for discussion and approval.
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-4.html#featured* In the same issue of _DigiNews_, David Holdsworth and Paul Wheatley argue for emulation as a method of digital preservation. Emulation goes beyond preserving a data file to recreating the digital environment in which the file can be viewed or executed.
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-4.html#feature2* In the August 14 issue of the _Chronicle of Higher Education_ Goldie Blumenstyk tells how the Cal State University System used its large size to bargain for more advantageous terms with netLibrary. Normally e-books purchased from netLibrary may be read read or "borrowed" by only one library patron at a time. Under the new contract, about half of Cal State's e-books from netLibrary may be borrowed by an unlimited number of readers at once, and Cal State pays no more for this arrangement. The Cal State director of e-book projects who negotiated the deal is named Evan Reader.
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001081401t.htm* In the August 13 _Content Exchange_ Ethan Casey reports on how the _Chronicle of Higher Education_ uses the web to supplement its print publication.
http://www.content-exchange.com/cx/html/newsletter/3-6/oe3-6.htm* In the August 10 _Chronicle of Higher Education_, Andrea Foster describes the disagreement between David Touretzky and Michael Shamos, both on the CS faculty at Carnegie Mellon. Touretzky is a leading critic of the DMCA and publicizes source code for bypassing encryption on DVDs and ebooks. Shamos is a computer scientist, former IP lawyer, and former teacher of Touretzky, who believes that Touretzky's actions unlawfully undermine e-commerce. The two were expert witnesses on the opposite sides of the DeCSS case and may face each other again in the Edward Felten case.
http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i48/48a04501.htm* In the July 24 issue of _Time Magazine_, Katherine Bonamici asks how libraries will far in the digital age if they must make ongoing payments in order to retain the rights to the e-books they "buy". Both publishers and libraries are waiting for a study by the Copyright Office on just this question --which was due last fall.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,168798,00.html* The Duke University Digital Library Initiatives Task Group recently put its report online. The group was charged to develop a 3-5 year vision statement for digital library initiatives and to suggest strategies to achieve the vision.
http://www.lib.duke.edu/dli/* Sam Vaknin has posted a review of the DOI-EB to his growing collection of articles on digital content. The DOI-EB is an initiative to apply digital object identifiers (DOIs) to e-books (EB's). His review also functions as a useful introduction to DOIs.
http://www.trendsiters.com/article1022.html* Human Rights Watch reports that China has further tightened controls over the internet. It calls on corporate sponsors of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to use their influence to improve freedom of expression in China.
Report summary
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/08/china-0801.htmFull report
Following up
* On June 22, the DC Court of Appeals awarded billions of dollars' worth of radio spectrum to NextWave Telecom, Inc. NextWave made the highest bid for them, but when it defaulted on its payments, the FCC took the spectrum licenses back. The court ruled that the licenses still belonged to NextWave, which was going through bankruptcy at the time of the default. On August 6, the FCC decided to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court. This is only FOS-related because if NextWave wins, it will diminish the proceeds from the spectrum auction, and hence undermine the very attractive Digital Promise Project (DPP). The DPP is a proposal to set aside $18 billion from the spectrum auction for digital media and digital content to improve American education. This is a tough one. On the one hand, I want to see fairness for debtors in bankruptcy; on the other, I want to see the DPP fully funded.
Christopher Stern, U.S. Govt Will Appeal NextWave Case To Supreme Court
http://www.washtech.com/news/telecom/11690-1.htmlNextWave v. FCC (June 22 decision, U.S. Court of Appeals)
http://search.cadc.uscourts.gov/P:/opinions/200106/00%2D1402b.txtThe Digital Promise Project
http://www.digitalpromise.org/* Our July 3 issue described the precarious fate of PubScience after the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), a trade association of for-profit publishers, lobbied Congress to stop government subsidies for free online scholarship. The SIIA even persuaded a House appropriations subcommittee to cut funding for PubScience and adopt the SIIA's rationale as its own. Now, however, the Senate has rejected the House measure and restored PubScience funding in its own recent spending bill. Next month the House and Senate must agree on a final version of the bill.
Andrea Foster, Senate Bill Offers Tacit Approval of Scholarly Web Portal Scorned by House
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XU.S. energy companies should report information on waste water from hydraulic fracturing or fracking to help federal agencies reduce the risk of earthq2uakes like those that have hit the Youngstown area in the last year.
"We do need help from industry," said Marcia McNutt, director of the U.S. Geological Survey.
"There is not good public information on the amount of water being pumped and the rate at which it's pumped," she told Bloomberg News.
Some states including Ohio require that volumes of wastes being injected are reported, and some drillers voluntarily provide such data, USGS officials said.
The agency has no authority to impose additional reporting requirements.
Less than 1 percent of injection wells trigger earthquakes, McNutt told a congressional committee.
Getting more information would help reduce the quake risk in a year or two, McNutt said.
"It's a very solvable problem," she said on Thursday. "You either have to put the holes in a different place or pump it at a different rate."
The Youngstown quakes have been linked to an injection well in Youngstown Township that was volntarily closed on Dec. 30. A dozen quakes have been linked to the well.
Chesapeake Energy Corp,the Oklahoma-based firm is the No. 1 driller in Ohio.
Rig Count Interactive Map by Baker Hughes, an energy services company.
Shale Sheet Fracking, a Youngstown Vindicator blog.
National Geographic's The Great Shale Rush.
The Ohio Environmental Council, a statewide eco-group based in Columbus.
Earthjustice, a national eco-group.
People's Oil and Gas Collaborative-Ohio, a grass-roots group in Northeast Ohio.
Concerned Citizens of Medina County, a grass-roots group.
No Frack Ohio, a Columbus-based grass-roots group.
Fracking: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat by ProPublica, an online journalism site.
Pipeline, blog from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Marcellus shale drilling.
Allegheny Front, environmental public radio for Western Pennsylvania.


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Intangible Capital And Wages: An Analysis Of Wage Gaps Across Occupations And Genders In Czech Republic, Finland And Norway
This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using comparative data from three European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. The analysis is undertaken in two steps. First, the authors explore the wage differentials and the underlying sources for two occupation groups: innovation and non-innovation workers. In a second step, this analysis is broken down by gender. They apply a decomposition method based on unconditional quantile regression techniques to examine the factors underlying the wage gaps observed along the whole wage distribution. The use of comparative cross-country data and a more elaborated wage decomposition method provides important new insights.


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Kinect for Xbox 360
Pocket-lintMicrosoft Kinect first burst on to the scene as Project Natal over a year ago. Then, we had the high profile announcement at this year's E3 in Los Angeles, and now on 4 November 2010 it goes on sale in the US, and just 6 days later (10 November) it goes on sale in the UK. Is it the dawn of a new era of gaming? Or merely a gimmick that will see Christmas dreams dashed? Read on to find out.
Okay stop. You're not entirely sure whether or not you really want an accessory for your games console that will make you lie on the floor in your lounge. You're also not really sure whether you want a console that makes you shout at your TV either.
It's okay, we hear you. But before we get to the bit about the theoretical possibilities, the bit about the actual experience, or the bit where you have to contort your body in more ways than you would probably like, we have to make sure you are aware of what could be the ultimate deal breaker. You see Kinect, for all its excitement, for all its uncertainty, and for all its "magic", has one major flaw: you need a big lounge.
Now for Americans reading this, we don't see this being a problem. We've been in many houses across your fine land and we have yet to see a lounge, or should we say "family room", that wouldn't take the Kinect. Your rooms are big, you'll be fine. For Brits and Europeans however, you could find that the small flat or cute Victorian cottage that you are so fond of just isn't big enough.
To work properly, and effectively, you'll need to be able to stand between 1.8m (6ft) and 2.4m (8ft) from the Kinect sensor. That sensor needs to be placed either below or above your TV, and you can say goodbye to the coffee table.
We suspect for most people 6ft won't be a problem, however 8ft probably will be. You might have a big room, but don't forget you've got to take into account the depth of your sofa and possibly your TV stand meaning that your lounge needs to be at least 12-15ft wide if you are going to have plenty of space to play.
For us, in our quaint Victorian cottage, we were on the limits of what was possible without moving the sofa - something we ended up doing when it came to testing some of the more energetic games like Ubisoft's Your Shape, Fighters Uncaged, and Microsoft's Kinect Adventures. Now that we've got the Kinect's space requirements out of the way, what of the actual accessory itself?
Out of the box and Kinect is a largish glossy black bar sat on a motorised stand that sports three circles on the front. There are no buttons, no power switches, only the words "Xbox 360" on the front to tell you that it's something to do with your console.
Out the back is a long cable that - depending on which Xbox 360 you have - connects in different ways. The good news is that it's long enough that your Xbox 360 can still be buried in your Home Cinema rack with the Kinect sensor on top standing proud.
If you've recently upgraded or bought the newer Xbox 360 S (Slim) then you can connect the Kinect device straight into a USB socket and be done with it. The cable offers enough power and it's really as simple as connecting one cable. If, however, you have an older model then you'll also need to find a plug socket from which to power it. All the cables you need come in the box and it's basically a dedicated splitter cable that is all very straightforward to install, with plenty of diagrams in the Quick Start guide to show you what to do.
Rather confusingly the manual constantly refers to an install DVD that you've got to put in, but just ignore it. Opt for the latest "must install" update to the Xbox system and you don't need that disc.
So you've connected the system, turned on your console and are ready to "become the controller". First you've got to do some calibration tests that run through a quick set-up checking for ambient sound in your house, your height, and whether you've got enough room in your house (see above). It is simple, easy to do, and once that's done you are off and ready to get playing.
If you're still pondering as to what Kinect actually is or does here's a quick recap. Using a series of different sensors, the Kinect accessory maps your body allowing it to know where you are in the room (specifically in front of it). Using that information it can then relay your exact location, down to where your arms are for example, back to the game you are playing and in turn let you become the controller. In reality that means when it comes to steering a car you don't need to hold a controller or a steering wheel, just pretend that you are with Kinect doing the rest.
As you can imagine there are plenty of possibilities, some of which are already in place in the 19 launch games for Kinect in the UK. Most are exercise-based with Ubisoft's Your Shape being one of the better titles available (check out our separate review in due course).
But it's not just movement that the Kinect accessory can track and monitor, but audio as well and that means you can bark orders at your games console like you are Jean Luc Picard on the Starship Enterprise; saying "Xbox Achievements", for example, opens the achievement tab so you can see what you've achieved.
The audio can be used in the Xbox Live environment to play movies, watch trailers and access other elements of the Xbox 360 dashboard as long as you are within the Kinect Hub, whilst in-game it will also help you complete certain tasks.
Within that Kinect Hub are, of course, a number of elements, but don't expect everything. In a strange move, you can't ditch your controller completely. Kinect will control the Zune Hub - both movies and music, Sky Player, last.fm and Video Kinect - a video chat service launched alongside the new accessory that you'll need Xbox Live Gold membership to run. You can't, however, go surfing for games in the Marketplace, access Twitter, or Facebook.
That might come as a surprise to you, having signed up for a hands-free "Minority Report" styled computing experience. Yes, your controller will still have to be by your side. Even once you're in the Kinect hub it's still not a completely controller free experience and you'll still be prompted to used the controller from time-to-time - annoying.
When you do get to use your hands or your voice, it's all systems go. We had no problem with the system recognising us physically, or recognising our voice commands. For audio you've just got to remember to say "Xbox" first, while visually you've got to remember to stand, or sit, in front of the sensor depending on what you're doing - most games expect you to stand.
But let's face it, you aren't buying Kinect so you can slouch on your sofa barking orders at the Zune hub, because you are too lazy to move your finger through a selection of menus via a d-pad. The voice commands are a nice touch, but they aren't a killer feature and certainly not the main reason to spend £129.99 on the accessory.
What is worth the £129.99 is the potential you get for playing games without the controller. As we've said, there are 19 games at launch and these include an array of different titles, albeit mostly sport focused. If you like the idea of dancing in your living room you'll have plenty to choose from, while first person shooter fans will be disappointed - there aren't any for launch.
In testing the Kinect we've played seven games in the last week: Your Shape Fitness Evolved, Dance Central, Fighters Uncaged, Kinectimals, Kinect Sports, Kinect Joyride, and Kinect Adventures. Prior to that we've played Sonic and Harry Potter at different events and we've based our Kinect review on the experience rather than a particular game.
Games cost the usual price of a video game (around £35) and you'll get Kinect Adventures in the box to get you started.
As you might expect, Kinect Adventures is designed to help you show off your new toy to your mates and it's basically a series of mini games. Here you can play single player or if you can stand back from your TV far enough, two players against or working with each other. This is fun gaming rather than Gears of War 3 and sees you completing different challenges to progress through the game.
Virtually every one of these challenges will ensure that you are jumping around your living room and the whole experience is a bit like playing dodgeball, where you have to dive, duck, and dodge your way out of trouble to score points to win. Overall it is not a bad game, and easy to dip into rather than actually having a plot.
What is most impressive though is that the gameplay is incredibly responsive and incredibly intuitive, meaning kids and parents are likely to be able to get in on the action without having to learn or master complicated button and movement presses, as they do with Sony's PlayStation Move. That doesn't mean to say that this is better than the Move, just that it is a very different control mechanism and therefore different games are going to work and not work with Kinect.
Kinect Adventures is just the start however, and other games are already showing what's possible. Kinect JoyRide shows Mario Kart style racing, while Kinect Sports brings boxing, running, bowling and volleyball to the mix in the same way Wii Sports did when that first launched.
Other titles we've tested, and worth a mention, are Your Shape Fitness Evolved and Fighters Uncaged both from Ubisoft. Both show the health and exercise benefits of the system with the former, while being incredibly dull from a gaming point of view (it's not a game) is actually incredibly useful in helping you do some exercise in your home. The latter gives you an impressive workout as you punch, kick and jump your way to victory.
For the kids there is Kinectimals - a cute lion cub (amongst others) that lives inside your TV which you can get to perform tricks. Lie down on your sofa and the creature will copy you. Sit up and it will too. If you've got young kids, they will absolutely love it.
It's incredibly early days for the Kinect (yes we know at the time of writing it's not actually out in the UK), but already the games available show the potential of what is in store for the new motion tracking accessory on your Xbox 360.
Any doubts you have about the technology are unfounded. We've had no problem with the set-up and control functionality of the Kinect in our home, with the experience coming across to some we've shown as "magical".
However, there are two key factors you have to accept before you dive head first into this new gaming experience. The first is the question we started with: do you have a big enough lounge in which to play? As we found we weren't able to benefit from all the features without moving our sofa - without moving our sofa we could only play Kinect Adventures one player rather than two.
The second is that if you do have a big enough lounge you will have to agree to making a fool of yourself in your home, either strutting your stuff in Dance Central, punching and kicking your way to fitness in Your Shape Fitness Evolved, or lying on the floor getting a cat to mimic you on screen? And that's before you decide to run the 100m in Kinect Sports.
If the answer is yes to both of those, then we can't see anything stopping you from getting Kinect for the Xbox 360. You really will love it.
It sounds cliche, but Kinect really is a truly revolutionary way of interacting with your games console (it's far better than Sony's EyeToy), and we are really looking forward to seeing what games come next. Star Wars with its force push looks really interesting.
Kinect shows that the future of gaming can be without buttons, as long as you've got a big enough lounge to enjoy it in.
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RNC Chairman: Fewer Debates Will Strengthen Our Party
"I think a traveling circus of debates is insanity in this party," Priebus told about 200 delegates. "We're proposing to have fewer than 10, and this time around, we're going to pick the moderators."
Priebus is proposing to hold just 10 debates for the would-be GOP nominees in 2016, compared with the 27 held ahead of the 2012 race in which former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was eventually selected as the party's nominee.
The chairman also touted a key victory this week in a hard-fought Florida congressional race that is seen as a possible bellwether of November midterm election. Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a special election Tuesday that largely turned on President Barack Obama's health care law.
"By the way, people still hate Obamacare, and that helped," he said to laughter.
Republicans are trying to catch up to the high-tech operations that Democrats used to elect Obama in both 2008 and 2012. Priebus said the GOP has an office in the San Francisco Bay Area city of San Mateo that is building a $35 million data platform to help candidates.
He said he is trying to convert the party from one that showed up "for five months once every four years," into one that works year-round and can invest in competitive governor's races and congressional races in every state.
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Todd Haley interviewing for Cardinals head-coaching job
Former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley is interviewing with the Arizona Cardinals for their head-coaching job, according to a league source.
Haley is formerly a coordinator with Arizona and is thought of very highly by ownership. He was the Cardinals' offensive coordinator when they made a Super Bowl run in 2008.
The Cardinals also have interviewed Mike McCoy and Ray Horton and have an interview scheduled this week with Jay Gruden.


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So I bought a new SUV for the wife and I have now inherited our 2010 ford focus. I have always just packed my boards into my SUV, but now that I have a car that can only accommodate my short boards I am looking into surf racks. I found some nice surf racks from Thule for under 100 bucks, but it sounds like I will need to purchase a Thule base rak that the surf racks clip onto.
Can anyone give me some advice on solid, cheap surf racks for economy cars. How easy are the installs and what is the over all damage? I can get by with a soft rack, but they damage your paint and if I make runs up to the washout or down to Florida I don't want the soft top flip flopping in the wind on the highway.
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GAHANNA (AP) -- There were few clues left that the ramshackle garage was ever anything more. Too few, at least, to stir doubts among city officials when they signed the papers to scrape away the brick walls and the mess of crumpled beer cans, piping and yellowed books inside.
The city of Gahanna bought the property because officials wanted to level the vacant and dilapidated home that the garage served. They knew of no reason to save either, Service Director Dottie Franey said -- they didn't know that a man had seen the clues, researched the garage and found that it was a schoolhouse from the 1860s.
"I ran in and I told them what I knew," said Tom Gregory, 48, who
teaches speech and television at Gahanna Lincoln High School but has a penchant for history. "It was close."
A week before the bricks were to tumble, officials agreed to keep the bulldozers from the garage until Gregory could raise money to have it moved from its site on Route 62 near the Gahanna YMCA.
After raising $60,000 in recent months, Gregory is close to his $80,000 goal. Within a few weeks, crews will pick apart the bricks and shuttle them to be reassembled at Middle School South in the Gahanna-Jefferson district.
"It has siding on it and it has a garage door and all kinds of other things going on that way, but the basic bricks are OK," said Jack Erwin, a Gahanna Historical Society board member. "And, yes, it can be restored."
A local architect offered to help restore the building, using an 1899 photo of the site. Workers will remove the garage door and replace the missing belfry, and Gregory plans to use the site as a museum, to teach students about a simpler time.
High-school students who study architecture also will observe and help as crews restore the schoolhouse.
"I want kids to be able to experience history," Gregory said, "I want them to be able to touch it and feel it."
The schoolhouse is a relic of the community's rural history, built when Gahanna was a town of 5,000 flanked by smaller townships, Erwin said. If children wanted to go to school in the months when it was too cold to farm, families would build single-room structures and pay a teacher to hold class.
They would have learned the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. If they wanted to continue, they could attend high school in Columbus and college at Ohio State University.
In his research, Gregory found that this school was built on a farm owned by German immigrants, the ancestors of 88-year-old Norma Jean Gorsuch, whose mother attended the school with 10 other students.
"They used to hold barn dances in there," Gorsuch said, remembering the wooden floorboards, which have since disappeared. In her mother's time, most of the students came from the same few families. As in other schools then, all students up to eighth grade learned together.
Around 1927, Gorsuch's uncle built a house next door and converted the school to a garage. Eventually, both buildings fell into disrepair. The school's floor is now padded with debris. Only the bricks, slate roof, and parts of the roof and windows are original.
Gregory tried to buy the property years ago, but he said the owner wanted nearly $1 million -- out of his range.
The one-room school is worse off than the handful of others left in Gahanna, Erwin said, most of which are on private property. But it can be saved, unlike those sacrificed for development.
The tales of those lost schools, Gregory said, help explain why he has been tireless in his work to save one tattered trace of history.
"There's not a lot left right now," Gregory said. "We have to save what we have."


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Wed March 6th
Heavy bench @ 80%
Close gripped it tonight.
200lbs 2x6 (goal was 2x5 wooh!)
Moved my grip just a hair wider.Instead of pinky length from the ring,now its thumbs from smooth.And i paused these hos good tonight.
Single arm dumbell overheads.Disapointing 60lbs 2x8
Dumbell bench.Lots of pausing,30lbs 5x15.Next time 35lbs 5x20
Cable and band tricep work,cable curls,rotators and abs.I saw something on EliteFTS about curling for no other reason then to strengthen the tendons.Good enough for me! Said he rows 405,so curling 155 was no prob.Except he never curled before. (Just looked for it but cant find it)
So heres some highlights.
Saw a very normal dude in his 50s curling dumbells in the squat rack.You just have to have a mirror! It took a little while but once i stopped facing the mirror while squatting,i cant go back now.Anyway this guy then goes and does cable pushdowns,no biggie.Then he changes from a curved handle to a straight handle.Woah man! You must be a pro!
Also there was this queefing queer doing his circuit of who knows how many movements.When he gets off my bench i take it over,with no objections
Earlier today i got a little heated on the old facebooks.Sigh.
Train hard everyone!
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Bill Gates proves that no matter how rich or successful you are, there's always room for more learning and improvement. In a light, insightful post written on his LinkedIn profile, Gates offers the three things he believes to have learned from Warren Buffet over the years. He speaks endearingly about Buffet — with whom he's on a first-name basis, a privilege we've arguably not yet been afforded — with a relaxed and playful tone that allows his humility to shine through. Gates breaks the three lessons down for us:
1. The first thing Gates outlines has to do, unsurprisingly, with investing. But interestingly enough, Microsoft Corp's (NASDAQ:MSFT) former CEO contends that what he learned first and foremost from Buffet is that, it's not just about investing. Gates instead highlights Buffet's "whole framework for business thinking" — a much more powerful way of considering investments. He explains that Buffet uses the analogy of a moat to help make big decisions, saying, "He talks about looking for a company's moat—its competitive advantage—and whether the moat is shrinking or growing. He says a shareholder has to act as if he owns the entire business, looking at the future profit stream and deciding what it's worth. And you have to be willing to ignore the market rather than follow it, because you want to take advantage of the market's mistakes—the companies that have been underpriced." Gates continues on to keep the post light and casual, even admitting that he was reluctant to initially meet Buffet at a dinner his mother put together for the two, although his opinions have since changed.


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Christie Jobs Record Attacked as Growth Trails Neighbors
Terrence Dopp and Elise YoungNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who toppled Democrat Jon Corzine in 2009 as voters grew weary of the state's economic slump, may be on the wrong end of the same issue as he seeks a second term in November.
Jobs have emerged as a potential weakness for Christie, who is enjoying record popularity for his handling of Hurricane Sandy and is a possible 2016 presidential candidate. While 87 percent of New Jersey voters approved of his storm-recovery efforts in an April 10 Rutgers-Eagleton poll, only 42 percent were positive about his handling of employment and the economy.
New Jersey has added 127,800 nongovernment positions since Christie took office, 51 percent of those lost in the recession that began in December 2007. In Pennsylvania, 69 percent of the jobs have been recovered, while New York has regained more than it shed. New Jersey's failure to keep up with its neighbors has Christie defending his job-creation policies, which include tax cuts and less business regulation.
"In 2009, reality was still very raw from the economic disaster and any incumbent who was up for election was at risk and Chris Christie very successfully exploited that," said David Redlawsk, director of the Eagleton poll. "The irony is that there is still a general sense that the economy is weak and taxes continue to be too high. If there's any place that at the moment he appears vulnerable, it would be there."
Wider Margin
When Christie took office in January 2010, the jobless rate was 9.7 percent, more than double the 4.6 percent level at the start of the 18-month recession. At the time, New Jersey unemployment was 0.1 percentage point below the national level.
Since then, the U.S. rate has fallen by 2.2 percentage points, to 7.6 percent in March, while New Jersey's has fallen 0.7 percentage point to 9 percent. New York has 8.4 percent unemployment and Pennsylvania, 8.1 percent. New Jersey's rate dropped by 0.3 percentage point last month, to its lowest since May 2009.
The biggest growth under Christie has occurred in professional and business services, education and health services, trade, transportation and utilities and leisure and hospitality, according to state data. Manufacturing jobs declined, along with information and financial activities.
Low Paying
"The broad pattern or net change suggests that we do have a problem with the quality of jobs or mix that is added," said James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. "We've added a lot of jobs in health services, retail and leisure and hospitality, which tend to be below-average paying."
Data from the U.S. Labor Department show employment dropping or stagnating for some of New Jersey's highest-paying occupations, and rising for some positions that pay much less.
In May 2010, 130,650 New Jersey residents were employed in the area that includes computer programmers, systems analysts and software engineers, for an annual mean pay of $85,570, according to the data. In May 2012, the figure was down 4.5 percent as median pay rose to $88,020.
Management jobs, such as chief executives, are New Jersey's highest-paid, with $132,420 mean compensation in 2012. Their ranks grew just 0.2 percent from 2010, to 196,140.
Food Service
During the same period, employment grew and pay dropped in retail food service, the statistical area with the lowest compensation. In 2010, mean pay was $23,540 for the 265,890 employed. In 2012, the mean was $200 less as employment swelled 3 percent, to 273,710.
"The highest-paying jobs are the ones you really need the economy running on all cylinders to add," said Neil Klein, who helps oversee $1.2 billion of fixed income at Carret Asset Management in New York. "It's going to take some time to recover."
State Senator Barbara Buono, Christie's challenger, says the recovery isn't happening quickly enough. She has accused Christie of using Sandy to detract from New Jersey's economic problems. The governor has called Buono a "Corzine Democrat' who has supported raising taxes that he said kill jobs.
''This is the primary issue the people of New Jersey care about, and the governor has to be held accountable,'' said Buono, 59, a lawyer from Metuchen. ''If I had his record on the economy and the recovery, I'd want to always talk about Sandy.''
Tax Cut
Christie, 50, was on the defensive this month for backing Rutgers President Robert Barchi after disclosures that the state school's former men's basketball coach abused his players. This week, he renewed calls for a 10 percent tax cut that Democrats have blocked, saying it will ''pour gasoline on the fire'" of the recovery.
Buono voted for 154 tax increases during more than two decades in the legislature that cost the state $9 billion and drove away businesses, said Kevin Roberts, a spokesman for Christie's campaign. New Jersey was the second-lowest rated in the Washington-based Tax Foundation's 2013 business tax-climate index, which ranks the 50 U.S. states based on how welcoming their tax law is to businesses.
In an April 17 Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll, Christie had a 63 percent approval rating. While that's down from 70 percent in February, he has support from a majority of Democratic and independent voters, as well as Republicans.
"The fact of the matter is that New Jersey is making progress and everyone but Senator Buono feels that," the governor said yesterday after meeting with business owners in Long Branch, a shore town hit hard by Sandy.
'Positive Blip'
Unemployed New Jersey resident John R. Fugazzie, 57, of River Edge, said Christie is "spinning a positive blip" about his jobs record that he isn't buying. Unemployment is a "big issue" for Christie, he said.
Fugazzie was jobless in 2011 when he founded Neighbors-Helping-Neighbors USA Inc., a volunteer jobs-search group. Three months later, he was hired as national director of dairy and frozen food for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the Montvale, New Jersey-based grocery-store operator. His $125,000-a-year position, though, was eliminated in October 2012, and now, beyond his own job search, he's coaching fellow unemployed to consider taking multiple part-time positions.
State Ranking
New Jersey was one of seven states whose economy shrank in 2011. It ranked 47th in terms of growth in its gross domestic product, according to U.S. Commerce Department statistics.
"I do question how someone who is leading a state with the 47th worst economic growth can be considered to take a national office," Fugazzie said. "To do what? To fix the national story?"
The jobs market is a bit less bleak for Bill Kline, 59, of Lyndhurst, who found what he called enjoyable work managing wine and spirits for Fairway Market in Woodland Park, New Jersey. The job came after four years of mostly volunteer tasks for non-profit groups, during which he couldn't find a paid position that required his master of business administration's qualification. Kline's income, less than $40,000 for a 40-hour week, is a third of what he was earning at technology companies, he said.
"When the governor talks about growing jobs, he's talking about green industries and construction jobs," Kline said. "I don't really see him trying to attract business to New Jersey that would be something to employ me. I applaud his efforts but it seems like the places I would work, the Mercks and the Pfizers, are leaving."


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Pasture animals other than horses First, our baby camel, Clyde. He is 7 months old. Also you can see the alpacas in the background. http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...1122091227.jpg http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...122091227a.jpg Next, our newest llama, Dolly. We jsut recently got her, and the whole family is pretty excited that she will actually come up to us and be friendly, unlike our other one. We think she may be pregnant from our other llama. http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...122091229a.jpg Eeyore, our donkey. http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...1122091230.jpg Finally, Sugar, our mule. Sired by Eeyore and my favorite horse, Summer Breeze. She will be three in June, when she will start her training. http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...1122091307.jpg http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...1122091308.jpg |
Also. I promise it isn't really as messy as Eeyore's picture makes it look, we just recently had a party-type thing out there for my aunt. And by the way, I am located in Indiana if anybody was wondering. |
A camel!!! Dang! If you don't mind me asking, how much was he, and where did you get him? Are going to train him for riding? Do you have to have a special license to own one? |
I'm thinking he was around $2000, but I can't remember. We got him at an exotic animal auction, and yes we plan on riding him because he came with camel tack. Also, no we don't have a license. |
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I love eeyore! (I love donkeys and mules..) Beautiful . . . Herd?... :D |
I don't even know what to call them anymore..It started out with one day me randomlly asking my aunt to buy a horse, she said yes [we didnt have a barn or fence or anything like that] and I thought she was joking. Then I starting leasing a wonderful mare for 4-H and that Christmas my aunt bought a horse for herself, then we put up fence and a barn and all that stuff, then when they brought him, another one came with him [my aunt bought the same persons mare] and then we just kept adding on. So now we have 4 pastures, 2 barns, 60 acres of fields planted with hay [we started with none] along with all the equipment to cut and bale it--the first year we walked the fields planting it by hand, and 4 horses, 3 ponies, 2 llamas, 2 alpacas, 1 donkey, 1 mule, 1 camel, about a billion barn cats, and 4 ostriches, |
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lol you guys have a zoo! now all you need is a zebra and a hippo and youll be set lol. Maybe a lion or a crocodile. |
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