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Developers that embed structured data in their Web pages can choose among a number of languages such as RDFa [RDFA-CORE], Microformats [MICROFORMATS] and Microdata [MICRODATA]. Each of these structured data languages, while incompatible at the syntax level, can be easily mapped to RDF. JSON has proven to be a highly useful object serialization and messaging format. In an attempt to harmonize the representation of Linked Data in JSON, this specification outlines a common JSON representation format for Linked Data that can be used to represent objects specified via RDFa, Microformats and Microdata.
This document is merely a public working draft of a potential specification. It has no official standing of any kind and does not represent the support or consensus of any standards organisation.
This document is an experimental work in progress.
This document is a detailed specification for a serialization of JSON for Linked data. The document is primarily intended for the following audiences:
To understand this specification you must first be familiar with JSON, which is detailed in [RFC4627] and [RDF-CONCEPTS].
There are a number of ways that one may participate in the development of this specification:
The following section outlines the design goals and rationale behind the JSON-LD markup language.
A number of design considerations were explored during the creation of this markup language:
Establishing a mechanism to map JSON values to IRIs will help in the mapping of JSON objects to RDF. This does not mean that JSON-LD must be restrictive in declaring a set of terms, rather, experimentation and innovation should be supported as part of the core design of JSON-LD. There are, however, a number of very small design criterial that can ensure that developers will generate good RDF data that will create value for the greater semantic web community and JSON/REST-based Web Services community.
We will be using the following JSON object as the example for this section:
{ "a": "Person", "name": "Manu Sporny", "homepage": "http://manu.sporny.org/" }
A default context is used in RDFa to allow developers to use keywords as aliases for IRIs. So, for instance, the keyword name above could refer to the IRI http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name. The semantic web, just like the document-based web, uses IRIs for unambiguous identification. The idea is that these terms mean something, which you will eventually want to query. The semantic web specifies this via Vocabulary Documents. The IRI http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ specifies a Vocabulary Document, and name is a term in that vocabulary. Paste the two items together and you have an unambiguous identifier for a term.
Developers, and machines, would be able to use this IRI (plugging it directly into a web browser, for instance) to go to the term and get a definition of what the term means. Much like we can use WordNet today to see the definition of words in the English language. Machines need the same sort of dictionary of terms, and URIs provide a way to ensure that these terms are unambiguous.
Non-prefixed terms should have term mappings declared in the default context so that they may be expanded later.
If a set of terms, like Person, name, and homepage, are pre-defined in the default context, and that context is used to resolve the names in JSON objects, machines could automatically expand the terms to something meaningful and unambiguous, like this:
{ "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type": "<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person>", "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name": "Manu Sporny", "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage": "<http://manu.sporny.org>" }
In order to differentiate between plain text and IRIs, the < and > are used around IRIs.
Doing this would mean that JSON would start to become unambiguously machine-readable, play well with the semantic web, and basic markup wouldn't be that much more complex than basic JSON markup. A win, all around.
Developers would also benefit by allowing other vocabularies to be used automatically with their JSON API. There are over 200 Vocabulary Documents that are available for use on the Web today. Some of these vocabularies are:
A JSON-LD Web Service could define these as prefixes in their default context beside the terms that are already defined. Using this feature, developers could also express markup like this:
{ "rdf:type": "<foaf:Person>", "foaf:name": "Manu Sporny", "foaf:homepage": "<http://manu.sporny.org/>", "sioc:avatar": "<http://twitter.com/account/profile_image/manusporny>" }
Developers can also specify their own Vocabulary documents by modifying the
default context in-line using the
# character, like so:
{ "#": { "myvocab": "http://example.org/myvocab#" }, "a": "<foaf:Person>", "foaf:name": "Manu Sporny", "foaf:homepage": "<http://manu.sporny.org/>", "sioc:avatar": "<http://twitter.com/account/profile_image/manusporny>", "myvocab:credits": 500 }
Think of the
# character as a "hashtable",
which maps one
string to another string. In the example above, the
string is replaced with "
http://example.org/myvocab#" when it
is detected above. In the example above, "
myvocab:credits" would
expand to "
This mechanism is a short-hand for RDF, and if defined, will give developers an unambiguous way to map any JSON value to RDF.
JSON-LD strives to ensure that developers don't have to change the JSON that is going into and being returned from their Web applications. A JSON-LD aware Web Service may define a default context. For example, the following default context could apply to all incoming Web Service calls previously accepting only JSON data:
{ "#": { "#vocab": "http://example.org/default-vocab#", "#base": "http://example.org/baseurl/", "xsd": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#", "dc": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/", "foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/", "sioc": "http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#", "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#", "geo": "http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#", "vcard": "http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#", "cal": "http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ical#", "doap": "http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#", "Person": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person", "name": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name", "homepage": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage" } }
#vocab string is a special keyword that states
that any term that doesn't resolve to a term or a prefix should be
appended to the
#vocab IRI. This is done to ensure that
terms can be transformed to an IRI at all times.
#base string is a special keyword that states
that any relative IRI must be appended to the string specified by
The JSON-LD markup examples below demonstrate how JSON-LD can be used to express semantic data marked up in other languages such as RDFa, Microformats, and Microdata. These sections are merely provided as proof that JSON-LD is very flexible in what it can express across different Linked Data approaches.
The following example describes three people with their respective names and homepages.

 Bob

 Eve

 Manu

An example JSON-LD implementation is described below, however, there are other ways to mark-up this information such that the context is not repeated.
[ { "#": { "foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" }, "@": "_:bnode1", "a": "foaf:Person", "foaf:homepage": "<http://example.com/bob/>", "foaf:name": "Bob" }, { "#": { "foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" }, "@": "_:bnode2", "a": "foaf:Person", "foaf:homepage": "<http://example.com/eve/>", "foaf:name": "Eve" }, { "#": { "foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" }, "@": "_:bnode3", "a": "foaf:Person", "foaf:homepage": "<http://example.com/manu/>", "foaf:name": "Manu" } ]
The following example uses a simple Microformats hCard example to express how the Microformat is represented in JSON-LD.

 Tantek Çelik

The representation of the hCard expresses the Microformat terms in the
context and uses them directly for the
url and
properties. Also note that the Microformat to JSON-LD processor has
generated the proper URL type for
{ "#": { "vcard": "http://microformats.org/profile/hcard#vcard" "url": "http://microformats.org/profile/hcard#url" "fn": "http://microformats.org/profile/hcard#fn" }, "@": "_:bnode1", "a": "vcard", "url": "<http://tantek.com/>", "fn": "Tantek Çelik" }
The Microdata example below expresses book information as a Microdata Work item.

Title

Just a Geek

By

Wil Wheaton

Format

 <link itemprop="http://purl.org/dc/terms/type" href="http://purl.oreilly.com/product-types/BOOK"> Print

 <link itemprop="http://purl.org/dc/terms/type" href="http://purl.oreilly.com/product-types/EBOOK"> Ebook

Note that the JSON-LD representation of the Microdata information stays true to the desires of the Microdata community to avoid contexts and instead refer to items by their full IRI.
[ { "@": "<http://purl.oreilly.com/works/45U8QJGZSQKDH8N>", "a": "http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work", "http://purl.org/dc/terms/title": "Just a Geek", "http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator": "Whil Wheaton", "http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#realization": ["<http://purl.oreilly.com/products/9780596007683.BOOK>", "<http://purl.oreilly.com/products/9780596802189.EBOOK>"] }, { "@": "<http://purl.oreilly.com/products/9780596007683.BOOK>", "a": "<http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Expression>", "http://purl.org/dc/terms/type": "<http://purl.oreilly.com/product-types/BOOK>" }, { "@": "<http://purl.oreilly.com/products/9780596802189.EBOOK>", "a": "http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Expression", "http://purl.org/dc/terms/type": "<http://purl.oreilly.com/product-types/EBOOK>" } ]
The processing algorithm described in this section is provided in order to demonstrate how one might implement a JSON-LD processor. Conformant implementations are only required to produce the same type and number of triples during the output process and are not required to implement the algorithm exactly as described.
The Processing Algorithm is a work in progress, there are still major bugs in the algorithm and it's difficult to follow. It's provided only to very early implementers to give them an idea of how to implement a processor.
# key.
# - Used to set the active context.
#base - Used to set the base IRI for all object IRIs affected
by the active context.
#vocab - Used to set the base IRI for all property IRIs
affected by the active context.
#types - Used to specify type coercion.
< and
> - Used to express IRIs in
JSON values.
: - The separator for CURIEs when used in JSON keys or
JSON values.
@ - Sets the active subjects.
a - Used to set the rdf:type of the active subjects.
\ - Used as an escape character to escape all the special
tokens and keywords.
^^ - Used to express the data type for Typed Literals.
The algorithm below is designed for streaming (SAX-based) implementations. Implementers will find that non-streaming (document-based) implementations will be much easier to implement as full access to the JSON object model eliminates some of the steps that are necessary for streaming implementations. A conforming JSON-LD processor must implement a processing algorithm that results in the same default graph that the following algorithm generates:
# key is found, the processor
merges each key-value pair in the local context into the
active context, overwriting
any duplicate values in the active context.
Process each object in the list of unprocessed items,
starting at Step 2.2.
@ key is found, the
processor sets the active subject to the value after
Object Processing has been performed.
a key is found, set the active property
@, or
a is found, set the
active property by performing
Property Processing on the key.
JSON-LD is designed to ensure that most Linked Data concepts can be marked up in a way that is simple to understand and author by Web developers. In many cases, Javascript objects can become Linked Data with the simple addition of a context. Since RDF is also an important sub-community of the Linked Data movement, it is important that all RDF concepts are well-represented in this specification. This section details how each RDF concept can be expressed in JSON-LD.
The current specification relies on microsyntaxes to express things like IRIs, typed literals and CURIEs. There is a small amount of debate on whether or not to use full-blown JSON objects containing things like "value" and "datatype". The original authors of the JSON-LD specification feel that microsyntaxes allow a much simpler, less error-prone structure in the JSON-LD objects. Proponents of the verbose mechanism assert that there would be less chance of data markup issues concerning proper escaping and that the objects, while more verbose, would be easier to work with within JavaScript environments. Feedback on this issue would be appreciated.
Expressing IRIs are fundamental to Linked Data as that is how most subjects
and many objects are identified. IRIs can be expressed by wrapping a
text string with the
< and
> characters.
{ ... "foaf:homepage": "<http://manu.sporny.org>", ... }
The example above would set the object to an IRI with the value of
As a general rule, all CURIEs and IRIs may be wrapped in
> characters. This is to ensure that there is a simple,
consistent rule that can be followed when authoring JSON-LD data. There
are, however, several instances where angle brackets may be omitted,
without introducing ambiguity, to ease authoring burden. These instances
< and
characters are only mandatory when IRIs are specified as values in the
JSON key-value pairs.
To further illustrate, the following example omissions of the
< and
> characters are allowed:
{ ... "@": "<http://manu.sporny.org/about#manu>", // CURIE/IRI when specifying the subject can be minimized. "@": "http://manu.sporny.org/about#manu", ... "a": "<foaf:Person>", // CURIE/IRI when specifying the type of an object can be minimized. "a": "foaf:Person", ... "<foaf:homepage>": "<http://manu.sporny.org>", // CURIE/IRI when specifying a property can be minimized. "foaf:homepage": "<http://manu.sporny.org>", ... }
At all other times, CURIEs and IRIs must be wrapped with the
< and
> characters.
A subject is declared using the
@ key. The subject is the
first piece of information needed by the JSON-LD processor in order to
create the (subject, predicate, object) tuple, also known as a triple.
{ ... "@": "<http://example.org/people#joebob>", ... }
The example above would set the subject to the IRI
Note that subject do not need to be wrapped in angle brackets. The following example is valid JSON-LD markup:
{ ... "@": "http://example.org/people#joebob", ... }
The type of a particular subject can be specified using the
key. Specifying the type in this way will generate a triple of the form
(subject, type, type-url).
{ ... "@": "<http://example.org/people#joebob>", "a": "<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person>", ... }
The example above would generate the following triple (in N-Triples notation):
<http://example.org/people#joebob> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> .
Note that the type IRI does not need to be wrapped in angle brackets. The following example is valid JSON-LD markup:
{ ... "@": "http://example.org/people#joebob", "a": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person", ... }
Regular text strings are called "plain literals" in RDF and are easily expressed using regular JSON strings.
"foaf:name": "Mark Birbeck",
JSON-LD attempts to make sure that it is easy to express triples in other
languages while simultaneously ensuring that hefty data structures
aren't required to accomplish simple language markup. When the
@ symbol is used in a literal, the JSON-LD processor tags
the literal text with the language tag that follows the
"foaf:name": "花澄@ja",
The example above would generate a plain literal for 花澄 and
associate the
ja language tag with the triple that is
generated. Languages must be expressed in [BCP47] format.
Literals may also be typed in JSON-LD by using the
sequence at the end of the text string.
"dc:modified": "2010-05-29T14:17:39+02:00^^xsd:dateTime",
The example above would generate an object with the value of
2010-05-29T14:17:39+02:00 and the datatype of
A JSON-LD author can express multiple triples in a compact way by using arrays. If a subject has multiple values for the same property, the author may express each property as an array.
"@": "<http://example.org/people#joebob>",
"foaf:nick": ["stu", "groknar", "radface"],
The markup shown above would generate the following triples:
<http://example.org/people#joebob> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/nick> "stu" . <http://example.org/people#joebob> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/nick> "groknar" . <http://example.org/people#joebob> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/nick> "radface" .
Multiple typed literals are expressed very much in the same way as multiple properties:
"@": "<http://example.org/articles/8>",
"dcterms:modified": ["2010-05-29T14:17:39+02:00^^xsd:dateTime", "2010-05-30T09:21:28-04:00^^xsd:dateTime"],
The markup shown above would generate the following triples:
<http://example.org/articles/8> <http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified> "2010-05-29T14:17:39+02:00"^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime . <http://example.org/articles/8> <http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified> "2010-05-30T09:21:28-04:00"^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime .
At times, it becomes necessary to be able to express information without
being able to specify the subject. Typically, this is where blank nodes come
into play. In JSON-LD, blank node identifiers are automatically created if a
subject is not specified using the
@ key. However, authors may
name blank nodes by using the special
_ CURIE prefix.
"@": "_:foo",
The example above would set the subject to
_:foo, which can
then be used later on in the JSON-LD markup to refer back to the
named blank node.
JSON-LD has a number of features that provide functionality above and beyond the core functionality provided by RDF. The following sections outline the features that are specific to JSON-LD.
Special characters in property values must be escaped in order to not be interpreted as CURIEs, IRIs, language tags, or TypedLiterals.
The special characters that need to be escaped in property values are:
< (at the beginning of a string),
> (at the end of a string),
"example:code": "\\<foobar\\^\\^2\\>",
Since JSON is capable of expressing typed information such as decimals, integers and boolean values, JSON-LD utilizes that information to create Typed Literals.
{ ... // This value is automatically converted to having a type of xsd:decimal "measure:cups": 5.3, // This value is automatically converted to having a type of xsd:integer "chem:protons": 12, // This value is automatically converted to having a type of xsd:boolean "sensor:active": true, ... }
JSON-LD supports the coercion of types to ensure that the zero-edit goal of JSON-LD can be accomplished. Type coercion allows someone deploying JSON-LD to coerce and incoming or outgoing types to the proper RDF type based on a mapping of type IRIs to RDF types. Using type conversion, one may convert simple JSON data to properly typed RDF data.
The example below demonstrates how a JSON-LD author can coerce values to plain literals, typed literals and IRIs.
{ "#": { "rdf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#", "xsd": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#", "name": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name", "age": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/age", "homepage": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage", "#types": { "name": "rdf:PlainLiteral", "age": "xsd:integer", "homepage": "xsd:anyURI", } }, "name": "<John Smith>", "age": "41", "homepage": "http://example.org/home/" }
The example above would generate the following triples:
_:bnode1 <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "<John Smith>" . _:bnode1 <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/age> "41"^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer . _:bnode1 <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage> <http://example.org/home/> .
The nature of Web programming allows one to use basic technologies, such as JSON-LD, across a variety of systems and environments. This section attempts to describe some of those environments and the way in which JSON-LD can be integrated in order to help alleviate certain development headaches.
Databases such as CouchDB and MongoDB allow the creation of schema-less data stores. RDF is a type of schema-less data model and thus lends itself to databases such as CouchDB and MongoDB. Both of these databases can use JSON-LD as their storage format. The group needs feedback from CouchDB and MongoDB experts regarding the usefulness of JSON-LD in those environments.
There are a few advanced concepts where it is not clear whether or not the JSON-LD specification is going to support the complexity necessary to support each concept. The entire section on Advanced Concepts should be taken with a grain of salt; it is merely a list of possibilities where all of the benefits and drawbacks have not been explored.
One of the more powerful features of RDFa 1.1 Core is the ability to specify a collection of prefixes and terms that can be re-used by a processor to simplfy markup. JSON-LD provides a similar mechanism called Vocabulary Profiles, which is the inclusion of a context external to the JSON-LD document.
The example below demonstrates how one may specify an external Vocabulary
Profile. Assume the following profile exists at this imaginary URL:
{ "#": { "xsd": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#", "name": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name", "age": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/age", "homepage": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage", "#types": { "age": "xsd:integer", "homepage": "xsd:anyURI", } } }
The profile listed above can be used in the following way:
{ "#": { "#profile": "http://example.org/profiles/contacts" }, "name": "John Smith", "age": "41", "homepage": "http://example.org/home/" }
The example above would generate the following triples:
_:bnode1 <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "John Smith" . _:bnode1 <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/age> "41"^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer . _:bnode1 <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage> <http://example.org/home/> .
When serializing an RDF graph that contains two or more sections of the graph which are entirely disjoint, one must use an array to express the graph as two graphs. This may not be acceptable to some authors, who would rather express the information as one graph. Since, by definition, disjoint graphs require there to be two top-level objects, JSON-LD utilizes a mechanism that allows disjoint graphs to be expressed using a single graph.
Assume the following RDF graph:
<http://example.org/people#john> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> . <http://example.org/people#jane> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> .
Since the two subjects are entirely disjoint with one another, it is impossible to express the RDF graph above using a single JSON-LD associative array.
In JSON-LD, one can use the subject to express disjoint graphs as a single graph:
{ "#": { "foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" }, "@": [ { "@": "<http://example.org/people#john>", "a": "foaf:Person" }, { "@": "<http://example.org/people#jane>", "a": "foaf:Person" } ] }
This API provides a clean mechanism that enables developers to convert JSON-LD data into a format that is easier to work with in various programming languages.
interface JSONLDParser {
object toObject (in DOMString jsonld, in object map, in optional object? options, in optional
JSONLDParserCallback? callback);
RDFGraph toRDFGraph (in DOMString jsonld, in optional
JSONLDParserCallback? callback);
is returned.
|The JSON-LD string to parse into the return object.
|The map from IRIs to attribute names for the resulting object. Any
term mapping that is not mentioned in the map will not be available in the
resulting object. You may map
rdf:type using the
a key or the
rdf:type IRI. You may map the
subject by using the
@ key.
|An associative-array of processing options to enable or disable when
processing the JSON-LD string. A conforming JSON-LD processor must support
the following options:
|A callback that is called whenever a processing error occurs on the given JSON-LD string.
null if there are any errors, or if the RDFa API is not
available for use.
|The JSON-LD string to parse into the RDFGraph.
|A callback that is called whenever a processing error occurs on the given JSON-LD string.
The JSONLDParserCallback is called whenever a processing error occurs on input data.
[NoInterfaceObject Callback]
interface JSONLDParserCallback {
void error (in DOMString error);
The following example demonstrates how to convert JSON-LD to a JSON object that is directly usable in a programming environment:
// retrieve JSON-LD from a Web Service var jsonldString = fetchPerson(); // This map, usually defined once per script, defines how to map incoming // JSON-LD to JavaScript objects var myMap = { "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name" : "name", "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/age" : "age", "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage" : "homepage" }; // Map the JSON-LD to a language-native object var person = jsonld.toObject(jsonldString, myMap); // Use the language-native object alert(person.name + " is " + person.age + " years old. " + "Their homepage is: " + person.homepage);
A JSON-LD Serializer is also available to map a language-native object to JSON-LD.
interface JSONLDSerializer {
DOMString normalize (in object obj);
|An associative array of key-value pairs that should be converted to a JSON-LD string. It is assumed that a map already exists for the data.
This algorithm is very rough, untested, and probably contains many bugs. Use at your own risk. It will change in the coming months.
The JSON-LD normalization algorithm is as follows:
# key and preserve it as the
transformation map while running this algorithm.
var myObj = { "#" : { "xsd" : "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#", "name" : "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name", "age" : "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/age", "homepage" : "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage", "#types": { "age" : "xsd:nonNegativeInteger", "homepage" : "xsd:anyURI" } }, "name" : "Joe Jackson", "age" : 42, "homepage" : "http://example.org/people/joe" }; // Map the language-native object to JSON-LD var jsonldText = jsonld.normalize(myObj);
After the code in the example above has executed, the jsonldText value will be (line-breaks added for readability):
{"<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/age>":"42^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#nonNegativeInteger>", "<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage>":"<http://example.org/people/joe>", "<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name>":"Joe Jackson"}
The editor would like to thank Mark Birbeck, who provided a great deal of the rationale and reasoning behind the JSON-LD work via his work on RDFj, Dave Longley who reviewed and provided feedback on the overall specification and contexts, and Ian Davis, who created RDF/JSON. Thanks also to Bradley P. Allen and Richard Cyganiak for their input on the specification.


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Learning and Leadership
2015-16 Noteboom Governance Center Grants
Congratulations to our 2015-2016 grant recipients!
Nine orchestras have been selected by the League of American Orchestras to receive
2015-16 Noteboom Governance Center Grants for Board Development. The grants provide financial support to orchestra boards to strengthen their governance practice.
The 2015-16 grant recipients are:
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra
Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra
Idaho State-Civic Symphony
New West Symphony
Plano Symphony Orchestra
South Bend Symphony Orchestra
Texarkana Symphony Orchestra
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
The Noteboom Governance Center was created in recognition of former League Board Chair Lowell Noteboom, honoring his longstanding commitment to improving governance practice in American orchestras. The Center is supported by leadership gifts from Richard and Kay Fredericks Cisek, The Clinton Family Fund, Marcia and John Goldman, and the Sargent Family Foundation.
Additional support is provided by generous grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Hearst Foundation, Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Achieving Impact: Funders' New Expectations
Raising New Money
Today's Philanthropy
Your "Underwater" Endowment
Achieving Impact: Funders' New Expectations
Today's funding landscape requires us to artfully and effectively communicate our impact in new and meaningful ways. To attract the funders of tomorrow, we will need to speak to the issues that are important to a new generation, and demonstrate how we address community needs.
You will learn: 1) an overview of the current climate in fundraising and "hot" funding topics; 2) information directly from new funders about what does, or would, draw them to our industry; 3) what orchestras can do to remain essential to their communities and relevant to funders.
Liz S. Alsina, program associate, performing arts, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Janet Brown, president and CEO, Grantmakers in the Arts; Lauren Nesholm, representative, Nesholm Family Foundation, and board member, Seattle Symphony; Heather Noonan, vice president for advocacy, League of American Orchestras
Raising New Money
We all work hard to demonstrate our larger public value and build the confidence of those that invest in us over time, and funding our work with new dollars is urgent. Opportunities like community and state-based grants and social media fundraising platforms are just a few of the ways this session will help you increase your bottom line.
Dianne Debicella, senior program director, fiscal sponsorship, Fractured Atlas
Emma E. Dunch, president, Dunch Arts, LLC
Cathy Maciariello, principal, HieroResources LLC
Stephanie Pereira, director, art program, Kickstarter
Randall Rosenbaum, executive director, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Today's Philanthropy
Charitable giving makes up the largest percentage of the total income that supports orchestras - more than any other single revenue source. Fundamental shifts in the economy and civic participation are changing the way grant makers exercise their charitable/philanthropic impulse. How must orchestras adapt their fundraising strategies to fit into funders' tolerance for risk-taking, increased expectations for civic impact, and other new criteria?
Chris Abele, president and CEO, Argosy Foundation; chairman, board of directors, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Wayne Brown, director, music and opera, National Endowment for the Arts; Paul Hogle, executive vice president, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Sponsored by CCS Fundraising
Your "Underwater" Endowment: What to Do?
Orchestras are faced with new challenges in the management of endowments in this era of declining endowment values, "underwater endowments", and new regulations. This session will focus on the information and tools you need to have.
View the PowerPoint for this Presentation!
Learning Online opportunities are made possible by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MetLife Foundation, The Hearst Foundation, Inc., and National Endowment for the Arts, and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Free, Live Webinar: Artists from Abroad Grand Re-Opening! Overview of Visa and Tax Essentials
In conjunction with the relaunch of the improved Artists from Abroad website, the League will be holding a free webinar for members on June 21, 2012 with immigration and tax experts Jonathan Ginsburg and Robyn Guilliams. We'll walk you through the new features of the site and Jonathan and Robyn will share their top tips for approaching the visa and tax procedures – for anyone who is unfamiliar with the newly revised site or how to engage foreign guest artists, this will be a great way to get started and also ask the experts some of your burning questions.
Date: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Time: 2 –3 pm (Eastern)
Free to League members; this is a live webinar – register here .
2012 OMFP Fellows
Beyond Breakeven 2.0
With Susan Nelson
Susan's presentation explores the alignment of your orchestra's current financial health with the ability to make smart strategic decisions going forward. She also introduces the outline of new resources that will be available later this spring.
View Jesse Rosen's Midwinter Managers Meeting speech, Reflections on the Field.
View Susan's presentation from Conference 2011.
For more Learning Online resources visit americanorchestras.org
Help the League keep the learning opportunities coming for you and your orchestra – donate now!
Organizational Planning
Driving Innovation: A Roadmap for Practical Implementation
Changing the System: A Strategic Approach to Making a Difference
Beyond Breakeven: Why Capitalization Matters
Beyond Breakeven 2.0
Business Planning 101
Dynamic Planning in a Changing Environment
Building the Capacity of Capacity Builders
Understanding the Sustainability Formula
Evaluating Organizational Capacity of Policy and Advocacy Organization
Driving Innovation: a Roadmap for Practical Implementation
What does it mean for a symphony orchestra to innovate? Jeff DeGraff, a leading innovation guru, shared his bold perspective. You can also view the PowerPoint presentation from this session.
Jeff DeGraff, author, Innovation You: The Book, executive director, Innovatrium Institute for Innovation, managing partner, Competing Values Company
Changing the System: A Strategic Approach to Making a Difference
While orchestras deliver programs that make a real difference to their audiences; ultimately having a true, lasting impact on the wider community often requires systemic changes to the culture; affecting resources and expectations of community partners and funders. Successful change agents share how strategic alliances, smart planning, and political heft can convert great community programs into enduring civic resources.
Gigi Antoni, president/CEO, Big Thought; Elizabeth Merritt, founding director, Center for the Future of Museums, American Association of Museums; Heather Noonan, vice president for advocacy, League of American Orchestras; Dalouge Smith, president and CEO, San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory
Beyond Breakeven: Why Capitalization Matters
The warning signals have been there for years: persistent deficits, less-than-packed houses, concerned patrons and funders questioning continued support, communities in transition asking more of us than we ably deliver, and too many concerts amidst changing and shrinking demand.
Despite great sacrifices from musicians and staffs and stepped up giving from boards and volunteers, too many orchestras --not all, for sure --- but far too many, are in critical condition. We can and must act -- first, by speaking openly and frankly about our challenges, and next by looking deeply at how we operate. Getting Beyond Break Even by Susan Nelson provides new insights and tools that can lead not only to sustainability but to vitality.
Beyond Breakeven 2.0
In Beyond Breakeven: Why Capitalization Matters, Susan Nelson, principal from Technical Development Corporation (TDC), introduced new attention to how the alignment of financial strength and risk with strategy should drive organizational decision-making. This video presentation, Beyond Breakeven 2.0 from the 2012 Mid-Winter Managers Meeting plenary, further explores these themes, diving more deeply into the idea of how you can create an integrated organizational and financial strategy that responds to current realities in our sector.
Beyond Breakeven 2.0, by Susan Nelson
Reflections on the Field, Jesse Rosen's Mid-Winter Managers Meeting speech
Business Planning 101
A TCC Webinar
In this webinar, TCC Group Partner Shelly Kessler and Senior Consultant Nadia Gomes explore the key components of a mission-driven business plan. You will learn how to clarify the definition and purpose of your mission-based business planning; discuss the keys to success and pitfalls to avoid in developing this plan; and explore an overview of the components of a mission-based business plan for nonprofits.
Free to League members! Register here.
Dynamic Planning in a Changing Environment
A TCC Webinar
Wherever you look, there are more demands and fewer resources. So, how do you approach planning? In today's economy, a dynamic strategic plan can help a nonprofit clarify objectives, focus on its core mission, and adapt to change. In this webinar, TCC Group Partner and Director of Nonprofit Services Shelly Kessler explains how the best planning processes are those that are fluid and flexible, take in new information, and apply new learning.
Free to League members! Register here.
Building the Capacity of Capacity Builders
A TCC Resource
At the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations 2012 National Conference, Paul Connolly discusses capacity-building ecosystems with Kit Gillem, Program Director at the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, and Fred Ali, President and CEO of the Weingart Foundation. Readers will learn some of the following learning objectives in this power-point presentation: Obtain practical advice on how to support capacity builders' efforts to enhance their program quality and business models; Learn about research methods for assessing nonprofit capacity-building needs and services; and Learn about effective strategies for funders to build the capacity of capacity-building organizations.
Free to League members! Register here.
Understanding the Sustainability Formula
A TCC Resource
Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Pete York discusses his new research paper which explains how nonprofits can remain resilient in challenging economic times.
Free to League members! Register here.
Evaluating Organizational Capacity of Policy and Advocacy Organization
A TCC Resource
Advocacy as a strategy for the nonprofit sector has become increasingly widespread. Foundations are looking to fund more of this type of work; nonprofits are learning how to harness its power toward better achieving their mission; and both are trying to better understand how to evaluate success. As the strategy of advocacy has grown, organizations have learned important advocacy skills. But, what does it mean to be an effective advocacy organization? What capacities are important for putting into practice advocacy strategies? How can organizations (and funders) ensure they have the capacity for doing advocacy work? Barbara Masters, Astrid Hendricks, and Jared Raynor briefly examine some of these issues.
Free to League members! Register here
TCC's mission is to develop strategies and programs that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, and corporate citizenship programs to achieve social impact.
For more information and resources from TCC Group, please visit their website.
Learning Online opportunities are made possible by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MetLife Foundation, The Hearst Foundation, Inc., and National Endowment for the Arts, and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
National Alliance for Audition Support
The League of American Orchestras is thrilled to be part of the launch of the National Alliance for Audition Support, an initiative that began with a discussion at a Diversity Forum convened by the League of American Orchestras and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2015.
The Alliance is an unprecedented national initiative to increase diversity in American orchestras. It will do so by offering Black and Latinx musicians a customized combination of mentoring, audition preparation, financial support, and audition previews.
The NAAS is made up of The Sphinx Organization, the lead program and fiscal administrator for the Alliance; the New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy; and the League of American Orchestras, representing 700 orchestras. A group of Black and Latinx professional musicians will be thought leaders, guides, and advisors for the Alliance. The NAAS is supported by a four-year grant of $1.8M from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as well as contributions from orchestras across the U.S. The Alliance is also grateful to the American Federation of Musicians, the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians, and the Regional Orchestra Players Association for their participation and support.
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Resources for Diversity in Repertoire
Center for Black Music Research
The only organization of its kind, it exists to illuminate the significant role that black music plays in world culture by serving as a nexus for all who value black music, by promoting scholarly thought and knowledge about black music, and by providing a safe haven for the materials and information that document the black music experience across Africa and the diaspora.
Composer Diversity Database
Composer Rob Deemer launched this database, created with the help of students at SUNY Fredonia. It's in spreadsheet format and can be accessed by anyone. The idea is for conductors, performers, and others to use it to research and create more diverse concert programs.
Composer's Equity Project
Chamber Music America's database includes women, gender non-conforming, and ALAANA composers (composers who identify as African/Black, Latinx, Asian/South Asian, Arab/Middle Eastern, and Native American).
Latin Orchestral Music
This online catalog contains over 9,000 original orchestral works by over 1,600 composers from 24 countries and territories of Latin America and the Caribbean, and serves as a bridge between the music and the composers or publishers.
Music by Black Composers, a Project of the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation
Its mission is to inspire Black students to begin and continue instrumental training, make the music of Black composers available to everyone, and help to change the face of classical music through greater diversity.
Repertoire Database by the Women's Philharmonic
Online resources that include a 283-entry list of works by women composers; repertoire suggestions for mostly historic composers, with information about how to obtain music and links to audio files; and orchestral scores by women of African descent.
The Orchestra Beyond Recession
With David Nygren
As part of the governance vlog series from the League, governance expert David Nygren describes the "new normal" for many organizations operating in an environment of restraint and diminished resources. He examines what this means for orchestras in terms of vision, artistic products, investments, relevancy and staffing and identifies some important board opportunities in such an environment.
For more governance resources, visit the League's Governance Center
Help the League keep the learning opportunities coming for you and your orchestra – donate now!
This Video is made possible by a generous grant from MetLife Foundation.
Additional support for the League's online learning programs is made possible by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Hearst Foundation, Inc., and National Endowment for the Arts, and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
NEA Funding Information
- Achieving Impact: Funders' New Expectations
- Raising New Money
- Today's Philanthropy
- Your "Underwater" Endowment
Learning Online opportunities are made possible by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MetLife Foundation, The Hearst Foundation, Inc., and National Endowment for the Arts, and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.


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Instructions for Reentry into a Graduate Program
Application for graduate reentry (return to active status) for the College of Education & Human Development is necessary if a student qualifies as a "reentry" student. A reentry student is one who has been enrolled at Georgia State University and who meets at least one of the following criteria:
- has not registered for courses at Georgia State during any of the previous three semesters;
- has not registered for six or more credit hours for the current and the preceding two semesters (Continuous Enrollment Policy);
- has been on scholastic suspension after an absence of one calendar year;
- has been on scholastic exclusion after an absence of five or more years.
Complete the Graduate Reentry Application and submit along with a $25.00 application fee. You must also submit official transcripts for any and all coursework taken since last registering at Georgia State, prior to the reentry deadline.
Deadlines for Reentry Applications:
- Fall – June 1
- Spring – November 1
- Summer – April 1
Your application will be reviewed by your program's academic department. The department must approve all reentry applications and may deny reentry because of a student's previous academic performance or progress in the program, or the length of time not enrolled.
Students missing the university deadlines for re-entry must contact the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions directly.
If Your Reentry Application is Accepted:
Reentering students are subject to the regulations of the Graduate Catalog and the degree program current at the time of reentry. Once accepted, you are eligible to enroll for the reentry semester you applied for.
Reentry students who are accepted but do not attend the semester in which they were admitted must contact the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions at email@example.com to attend the succeeding semester. Put the words "Reentry delay" in the subject line of the email.


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Personally speaking, who doesn't love our mothers? Even if we get to hate them there is still space in our hearts that tells us to always understand them. To always remember every single thing they do just to make us happy, satisfied and as if there's nothing that we could ever ask for more. Moms are always right there beside us. When we get to walk while remembering how they guided us in our first baby steps. When we are looking at the bathroom mirror thinking of how patient they demonstrated the proper tooth brushing. When we wake up every morning reading the first word that catches our eyes while reminiscing the moments they became our "first teacher". Indeed, our moms are willing to do anything for we are their children and they have to take care of us until the end.
We show our love to our moms differently. In fact I am not the type who always tell "I love you, Mom!" when I'm about to leave home. But that doesn't mean that I don't love her literally. I can still express my love but, let's say, in a more different way than the usual.
I admit I have this big fear of losing my mom physically. That one day will come, I suppose, and no one could ever stop it. That is why if we still have the time to hang out, have the longest chitchat and sell the most exclusive joke with our moms, then let's take that as an opportunity for we will thank time someday for allowing us to do it.
Moms aren't there for ever but all the good things they do for us will always stay forever.
My name is Laurence and I heart and salute all the moms in the universe! 😘
PHOTO: Me and my mom during my toddler days! 😉


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Yes I've played.
Yes I've played.
Very nice
the walking dead
very nice
something 乱入
New usmc with green uniform which join your group have clock dynamic。
Great work.
Hey guys.Do you know something about GEM 2.5???
I think you can download the .rar and try again.
But you see most guys have no problems like you said.
This season is over now.
wirecutter on the desk……
Can you tell me the name of the entity?
where the plate from?
If the bus explored……
Are you sure??:D
Can play Vietcong campaign??
So that means the process of the mod is coming to an end???
on the desk,press tab.
Put a pliers "in" the radio inventory then move out what appears next.
I think you can press "backspace" to slow the game speed.
Tomorrow is 9.18
Haha , so great.
I remember I left some crates in the 1st bunker.
More than 2 years……
why some comments were deleted?
Move your mouse to right side of the bunker you can see the mouse become 'eye'.Then take a clock dynamic into its inventory.
Hi everyone.Did anyone of you guys had finished all missions?
You mean MOW:CH skins?Why you want to add USSR and Germany skins in pacific mod?


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Ever notice how anyone who tries to defend Waterworld won't come out and say it was a great movie just not as bad as history remembers? Director Kevin Reynolds lets himself in for further faint praise with his new Tristan & Isolde, a period romance that's dry, straightforward, inoffensive and thoroughly unremarkable. It's a real Kevin Reynolds movie, full of men who wear long, musty robes while standing near large bodies of water. And the women who love them. And the strategically placed shafts of light that prevent their taut, entwined carcasses from disappearing into a morass of shadows and mud.
Ancient British legendry with just a hint of the WB, the movie revisits the oft-retold tale of Cornwall knight Tristan (James Franco), the angry orphan whose resistance of the Irish seems to meet an early end when he's felled in battle. After a hasty burial at sea, his still-viable body is found and nursed back to health by the doting Isolde (Sophia Myles), a tempting slice of Irish royalty in disguise. But their mutual passion is snuffed out by Isolde's enforced marriage to Tristan's uncle, Marke (Rufus Sewell), the leader who's been chosen to unite the fractious English tribes under a common banner. Jealousies fester, clandestine trysts are trysted and Franco gets to spend a lot of time favoring the horizon with that pained, distracted look he's been riding to no particular repute.
For a while, the movie is admirable in its resistance of megaplex histrionics. (The sword strikes are blessedly free of thundering bass-drum samples.) But the leaden pacing and the lack of compelling performances eventually make even the most hardened ren-fair geeks in the house tune out. By the time the aggrieved parties take up arms to decide the fate of love and comradeship on two shores, you'll be mentally reviewing your laundry plans. Not to mention ruing the irony that so many healthy young chaps are losing their lives to bring order to a land that, 14 centuries later, the Sex Pistols are just going to bust up all over again.


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Explaining The Importance Of Wedding Colors To My Beloved
It Really Ties The Room Together
Once Upon A Time...
When I was planning my wedding, like many brides, I tried to get the groom as involved as possible. However, every time I asked for his opinion, he would usually answer by questioning the purpose of everything from flowers to suits to weddings themselves. Not very helpful.
Choosing a color scheme may seem trivial, but any bride knows that the color palate ties all aspects of the decorations together. In response to my groom's lackluster opinion of the topic, I penned the following response to prove my point.
Check Out The Man's Perspective
A Message To My Groom
To My Betrothed,
I understand that planning a wedding can be dull and uninteresting, especially for such a great mind like yourself. However, your input is not only appreciated, but vital in many circumstances. Like you, I'd much rather spend my time playing beer pong and constructing aquariums for plastic fish, but alas somebody has to do the planning, and if I'm going down I'm taking you with me. Isn't that what marriage is all about?
Let's start with the issue of wedding colors, since that's what is on your mind these days. You claim that you do not care one way or another, but yet you keep vocalizing your ideas/shooting down every other combination—except one. Let's get something straight; Syracuse Orange and Carolina Blue are just not going to happen. Like an owl in the night, you need to release that from your mind and move on (I have no idea what that metaphor means, but it sure sounds pleasant).
Your input is imperative on this particular issue because you refuse to wear a tuxedo. I'm on your side, a tux is far too stuffy and dressy for an afternoon spring wedding of two Good-Time Gals like you and I (sorry for calling you a gal, Good-Time Persons doesn't have the same ring to it). However, this decision opened up an entire world of which I'm not fully familiar: men's suits. I grew up in a household full of military uniforms and golf polos, so unless you want me to pick some fantastic color combination based on Andy Cohen's wardrobe on Watch What Happens Live, then we're out of my area of expertise.
He Always Looks Good
Pink Is A Manly Color
I'm not asking you to choose the colors of flowers or tablecloths (I shudder to think that I have to make these decisions); I'm asking you to choose a suit/tie color so that I can coordinate the <potentially awful> bridesmaids' attire. I don't think that's unreasonable.
In spite of my cold-hearted, anti-girly exterior, I have a deep love for the color pink (if you didn't know that, you need to check out my prom photo and act like you knew). If you leave things up to me, I am very likely to try to put that gorgeous body and man-beard into a ruffled pink leisure suit (isn't that what all the kids are wearing these days?), not out of spite, but out of ignorance. Since you've worn a suit once or twice, I shall continue to defer to you…whether you like it or not. Now, let's play nice shall we?
Saying "yeah, sure" to you was probably one of the best decisions I made on the day you proposed (although that sandwich I ordered later is a close second), and I'm all about making the next 9 months as fun and painless as possible. You are free to vent/discuss any hiccups or nightmares we encounter along the way on your blog, but don't expect me to sit by silently. It's like Oprah once said, "a solid relationship is built on open communication and the occasional public eye roll."
Ok, I'm sure Oprah never said that, but her name really adds credibility to the BS I like to spew every once in awhile.
With Eternal Love and Devotion,
The Bride
Are Theme Weddings Terrific Or Tacky?
© 2011 Megavitamin
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WiiWare -- the perfect complement to Nintendo's own Virtual Console service. And the ideal avenue from which smaller development studios can distribute their retail-unfriendly games. Titles like Defend Your Castle, already a fully playable web-browser experience and something of an Internet sensation. The premise couldn't be cruder or simpler. Villagers run at your castle and you must protect it by any means necessary. Usually, 'any means necessary' equates to picking the villagers up and tossing them skyward, from where they will come crashing back down to the ground again. Done. We know -- seems ridiculously shallow, but there's much more to initially meets the eye where Defend Your Castle is concerned for its a WiiWare project that reveals its depth both as time passes and as multiple players jump in and out of the experience.
Bear in mind the Defend Your Castle arrives to WiiWare on the cheap -- 500 WIi Points or $5, to be precise, which puts it firmly on the lower end of the price scale compared to many of other currently available titles. What you get for your money is most certainly not just a quick and dirty port of Internet game, although, admittedly, the two share certain fundamentals in common. Using your Wii remote, you control an on onscreen reticule (which looks like a bread tie) and by pressing and holding A or B you can pick villagers up and throw them into the air before they can reach your castle and do any harm. The game starts out deceptively slow and you will be able to advance through a half dozen stages with ease, hurling stick-figure characters upward and to their untimely demise.
As the levels progress, however, the difficulty increases and the title begins to come into its own. For starters, more and more villagers frequent the static gameplay screen, always depicting the enemies from the left and your castle on the far right. With one or two villagers at a time, no problem, but the task of safeguarding your domain is quickly transformed into an altogether different beast when dozens of foes roll in from the west. You'll need to be quick on the flinging if you hope to advance and suddenly the pace of the experience turns frantic and fun. Now, add in different enemy types, from those who roll exploding cap gun circles to those who wield popsicle sticks designed to crash through your castle door -- you'll need to be strategic about your defenses, taking care of the most dangerous characters before they can do any damage.
The list goes on with different enemy types and greater speeds. In heroic mode, an option from the beginning, you be stormed by hordes of enemies from beginning to end, and as a result you must be blazing fast on the draw, flinging characters and exploding cap guns (for starters) at lightning speeds. Thankfully, developer XGen Studios has included the option for seamless jump-in (and out) multiplayer experiences, up to four gamers. The result can border on disorienting, but it's also pretty amazing to see four reticules separately zipping around the screen tossing characters about and shooting down objects when applicable. It reminds us of old-school games which lived and died by displays of twitch-finger skill and the points amassed by the best of the best.
As you earn more points, you'll be able to buy necessary upgrades -- fortify your castle, add archers and wizards, and more, in order to give yourself an advantage over the attacking armies. The pit of conversion, another upgrade, enables you to pick up foes, drop them in a paint bucket, and convert them to your team. There's a lot to it and it all goes on forever -- the stages themselves are in infinite supply and merely increase in difficulty each time you win. If nothing else, the sheer level of replay value is impressive. At the same time, there's really no getting past the point that the challenges are redundant. You grab, you fling, you shoot, and you do them all at breakneck speeds, but the experience never really changes.
Defend Your Castle for WiiWare has seen some welcomed upgrades over its Internet-released predecessor. The visuals are much more stylized, not to mention designed for progressive-scan display. Paper cut-out clouds float by in the backdrop. Scribbled stick figures run by in the foreground. The characters boast realistic-ish (how realistic can we get?) physics and intentionally crude animation. The game is meant to look like it was created in a classroom and believe it or not there's a certain charm to the style.
The Verdict
Defend Your Castle is a fun WiiWare game and a perfect example of what the service can bring to Wii owners. Namely, seemingly shallow pick-up-and-play experiences with hidden depth. XGen Studios' project features only a handful of basic play mechanics -- primarily, the ability to grab villagers and toss them around -- but it's frantic, occasionally strategic, and fun, particularly as a multiplayer game. It's also a deal at only 500 Wii Points. The big problem is that you will inevitably tire of the single challenge, even with the bells and whistles surrounding it. And, of course, there's the fact that a similar experience can be had for free on your Internet browser.


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I will share the content to write in the presentation but i need the one who can make it for me.
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I am starting a new automotive detailing business and looking for someone to create a simple and professional logo which will be used on our square space website. the business name is JL DETAILING and our tagline is "Where clean isn't enough" Thank you.
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Ken Ghosh has dismissed rumours that he is at odds with Shahid Kapoor and Genelia D'Souza as "imaginative".
The Bollywood director said that together the trio were an "awesome threesome" who have "a blast" on set.
"It's amazing how imaginative people can get," Ghosh said, "Now they are saying that Shahid is upset with me and the whole world because Priyanka is not the heroine opposite him."
"First there were rumours around the film's title being Yahoo, and then came the entire so-called controversy around Jiah being replaced with Genelia and now Priyanka Chopra."
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- Variable- 2-5 days per week, 4-8 hours per day, 12+ hours per week
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The Shenandoah Valley Soil & Water Conservation District is seeking summer interns to assist with office and field work between May and August 2018. The interns will assist SVSWCD staff with coordination and implementation of a variety of conservation work, including but not limited to: site visits, field work, review of implementation of various conservation projects and computer/office work.
The unpaid internships require a minimum commitment of 12 hours a week. Commitments of larger blocks of time (6+ hours/day) will allow for more varied experiences with more time in the field. Applicants must be enrolled undergraduate or graduate students at the time of internship. Upon successful completion of internship the student may be eligible for an intern scholarship from the SVSWCD. The internship schedule is flexible, but typically aligns with the office hours of 8:00 am – 4:30 pm Monday-Friday. The proposed start date of the internship is May 21, 2018 and the proposed end date is August 10, 2018. These dates are flexible as school schedules vary and will affect availability. Applicants may be contacted to schedule an interview for the position. Selected applicants will be required to complete federal background paperwork. Non US citizens may be required to complete additional background paperwork and may need to provide other documentation such as their VISA.
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SAN RAMON, Calif. and COLUMBUS, Miss., Dec. 01, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heritage Academy chose Startup Genius to provide an exciting opportunity to students through their innovative "GPS for your ideas" program. Heritage Academy is the very first high school in Mississippi to leverage this new technology and community as they encourage their students to think as innovative entrepreneurs with the potential resources available to help. Within a few days' time, students can take an idea and quickly connect with virtual industry advisors, potential recruiting college professors, and other experts to understand how to pursue their ideas further.
Heritage Academy, an independent college preparatory school in Columbus, Mississippi, recognizing the shifting need to better prepare their students for the future as Innovators and Entrepreneurs, licensed the Startup Genius platform through Pitsco Education, a global STEM solution provider to education in the market. To kick things off, students jumped into a Startup Genius Innovation Challenge consisting of a five-day ideation competition where students developed their ideas using Industry and University of Iowa provided STEM Innovator Roadmaps and real-time secure confidential advice and feedback from industry advisors, college professors and angel investors in preparation before crowd funding and/or hiring freelancers to develop their products or services all within Startup Genius.
In an effort to recruit and connect with the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs, colleges and universities including Mississippi State University, Pittsburg State University, Mississippi University for Women and others provided virtual advisors and judges that selected the winners of the cash prize awards totaling $1,000.
"Students of Heritage Academy can align their interests and passions to solve problems within industry while preparing for innovation and gig-economies which by 2020 is expected to be 43% of the American workforce," said Dan Benveniste, Founder/CEO Startup Genius Inc.
"As mainstream education struggles to connect 'academic standards' to the future Innovation and Gig Economies we jumped at the opportunity to offer Heritage students the advantage of being a Startup Genius themselves in preparation for this new world," said Dr. Greg Carlyle, Headmaster, Heritage Academy, Columbus, Mississippi.
"Heritage Academy students have been given this wonderful opportunity to learn how to start and grow successful companies. It is my goal to create a culture where entrepreneurship is fostered. It is exciting to see the successes these students will experience, both now and in the future," said Dawn Dawkins-Instructor of Entrepreneurship and STEM Education, Heritage Academy.
Following a two-stage judging process, the Top 10 submissions went on to compete for the cash prize awards and Heritage Academy is proud to announce the following Startup Genius Innovation Challenge winners:
Our top three winning teams will be presented with their cash prize awards during a program at Heritage Academy, beginning at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, December 5, 2017. Scheduled to be on hand are Startup Genius Founder and CEO Dan Benveniste, Todd Smith of Smith Ventures, Tim Cannell of Pitsco Education, Chris Crawford of Applied Software, Leslie Flynn and Dawn Bowlus of The University of Iowa STEM Innovator, Sydney Anselmi from Pittsburg State University, along with city and business leaders from Columbus, Mississippi.
"Heritage Academy is an amazing place that is driving their students actively toward and ahead of the future market place. Heritage students are developing the skills that will not be outsourced or automated away." - Todd Smith, Founder and President of Smith Ventures.
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Bayer Corporation has announced the Environmental Protection Agency has approved the federal registration of the strobilurin fungicide Gem fungicide for use on citrus.
Gem is a broad-spectrum foliar fungicide that provides outstanding control of damaging diseases that attack citrus fruit and leaves — including alternaria, greasy spot, melanose and scab.
"Gem protects citrus groves against infection from several destructive fungal diseases," says Jimmy Johnson, market manager for Bayer. "The excellent preventive activity and unique locked-in properties of Gem provide long residual control on treated crops — up to 21 days — while having positive effects on fruit quality and yield."
Gem exhibits unique redistribution properties within citrus trees.
"The locked-in activity of Gem offers a high affinity with the plant surface, which means the fungicide is absorbed by the waxy layer and redistributed and redeposited in the citrus fruit and leaves," Johnson explains.
Gem is essentially "locked-in" to the plant's surface; therefore, it provides long-lasting, weather-protected disease control in citrus.
"Gem also demonstrates excellent rainfastness, resulting in longer residual control than other citrus fungicides," says Johnson. "The unique features of Gem offer added advantages over key competitive compounds and provide superior control of several diseases in citrus," Johnson explains.
Gem controls disease by interfering with respiration in plant pathogenic fungi, and it is a potent inhibitor of spore germination and mycelial growth. Gem can be applied to citrus groves via ground or aerial spray applications.
For all citrus diseases use rates of Gem are low, four to eight ounces per acre, but should not exceed more than 32 ounces per acre per season.
"Gem has a high level of activity against many fungal pathogens across various crops and it is particularly effective against powdery mildews and scabs, as well as leaf and fruit spots," Johnson says. "Bayer is pleased to bring this new, highly effective fungicide to the citrus market."
Best known for its flagship product, Bayer Aspirin, Bayer produces a broad range of health care, life sciences and chemical products that help diagnose and treat diseases, purify water, preserve local landmarks, protect crops, advance automobile safety and durability and improve people's lives.
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If you've ever tried to learn a foreign language, you will sympathize with Sedaris. Lost in the wilds of French grammar and vocabulary, he stumbles around trying to find his way.
Interspersed with his language struggles, are glimpses of his family. As a child growing up in the south, being 'different', trying to find his way, he spins it all into gold for the reader.


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Three Months Highlights
- ZIM well above industry average in EBIT margins for the three months ended June 30 , 2016
- ZIM continues to record good performance compared to the industry. First half, June 30 2016 results are in the top of the shipping industry
- ZIM has recorded an increase of 6.9% in carried TEU's compared to Q1 2016
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. (ZIM), one of the world's leading container shipping carriers , yesterday announced financial results for the three month period ended June 30, 2016.
ZIM had reached an agreement with its creditors for rescheduling of payments in a total amount of approximately US$ 115 million, during a period of up to 12 month starting on September 30, 2016. With this agreement in place the company maintains its financial stability and will continue to develop its growth plan. Reaching this agreement is another proof of the confidence and trust that the creditors have in the company.
ZIM carried 617,000 TEU's in Q2 2016, a 6.9% increase compared to Q1 2016, which is above market average growth for same period.
ZIM's strategy and new organizational structure enables the company to react fast to market changes and to operate an efficient and reliable network of lines and services, focusing on select trades where the company have competitive advantage.
The company continues to invest in customer service excellence and on-time delivery to customers, developing and introducing new cutting-edge, digital customer service systems to further improve our customer interface.
Rafi Danieli, ZIM's President and CEO, said: "The very challenging market situation impacts the industry as a whole. Our strategic business plan, focusing on select markets where the company has a competitive advantage, is keeping ZIM in the top of the industry in terms of EBIT margins. The company keeps investing in customer service excellence and on-time delivery to our customers, as evident in a recent first place ranking awarded to ZIM in a schedule reliability performance report. We have increased our carried TEU in Q2 over Q1 by about 7%, which shows the trust of our customers in the company. Our fast reaction to market changes, and cost efficiency programs, aims at allowing ZIM to cope with the challenges faced by the industry".
Financial and Operating Highlights
The first half of 2016 was characterized by historically low freight rates. The average freight rate per TEU carried was $903 in the first half of 2016, reflecting a 24.8% decrease compared to the respective period last year. As a result of significantly lower freight rates, total revenues in the quarter decreased by 19.8% to $611.8 million, compared with $762.9 million in the same period last year.
Financial Highlights for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2016
- Adjusted EBIT was negative $40.5 million, compared to positive $49.8 million for the second quarter of 2015
- Adjusted EBITDA was negative $15.9 million, compared to positive $74.2 million for the second quarter of 2015
- Operating cash flow was positive $17.6 million, compared to positive $86.0 million for the second quarter of 2015
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Friends University, a Christian University of Quaker heritage, equips students to honor God and serve others by integrating their intellectual, spiritual and professional lives.
As searchers and learners, we support curiosity and research, and assign great value to diversity of experience. As people who value such diversity and openness, we approach new situations and people with good will and humility. We believe in equity and in the dignity of all people.
As a community, we accept and cherish our responsibility to care for one another in our learning and working relationships. We understand that a part of that care must be to become better stewards of what we have been given. We take care of the future as if we already are there.
Friends' Cabinet pictured from left to right: Ken Faffler, Vice President of Enrollment Management; Dr. Carole Obermeyer, Vice President of Student Affairs; Dr. Guy Chmieleski, Campus Pastor and Dean of Campus Ministries; Dr. Amy Bragg Carey, President; Dr. Jasper Lesage, Vice President of Academic Affairs; Marsha Bewersdorf, Vice President of Finance; Kelley Williams, Vice President of Administration


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First, I want to say THANK YOU to the outpouring of support, encouragement and thought provoking ideas shared with me on my last post in comments, Facebook chats and in person hugs. You guys are the greatest.
Now for the topic at hand. This morning I was sitting on the couch, browsing Facebook, etc for an hour or two after I got out of bed. I was ignoring the growing growl in my tummy. I do this quite often…..
I get immobilized…stuck…I know what I should eat and I know what I want to eat and I just can't move and commit. It isn't laziness, I am truly immobilized, like I'm paralyzed…looking towards the kitchen…..just…ugh…stuck.
This is often why I don't eat until I'm starving, which leads to either poor choices or making good choices but overeating, or BOTH.
I happened to be texting with a good friend this morning and was sharing these thoughts with her.
Friend: I get it. What do you have that you should eat?
Me: Eggs, Orange, Milk.
Me: I want Cinnamon Toast Crunch 🙁 I can't have it though, because I have 5 grains for the day and we're having chicken fried rice for dinner..which normally takes up 3…so thats 2 left for the day and I'm going out for lunch.
Me: My hungry inner child is asking for cereal, popcorn, sandwiches and potatoes!
Friend: Have apples with cinnamon sprinkled on them, crunchy cinnamon taste.
Me: Hmm, that sounds good, I'll get up and do that plus eggs.
Friend: I get stuck on food a lot, too!
Friend: How are the apples?
Me: Yummmmmmmmm 🙂
I guess one of the ways to have this not happen is to have a bunch of foods around that are all good choices that I like…right? Why is that so hard? Does anyone else relate to this?
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BC: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.." Jeremiah 29:11 We have been blessed.
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2: Our tour of Superstition Farms
5: Alex's 5th Birthday on Super Bowl Sunday; he sure likes his new math book!
6: new seasons in life- Baby Max and Legos
7: We started taking care of Max in February... he is a joy and we love having him around. Jack and Alex also really enjoy Legos now, and of course, computer time... Here they are at the Eastside Explorers Valentine's Day party.
9: Eastside Explorers field trip to the Police Air Support Unit at Deer Valley Airport.... the kids got to check out helicopters, planes, K-9 dogs and more...
12: Alexander: builder helper little brother big brother
14: Alex's bedroom makeover, complete with Walters
15: Arizona Fish & Game Expo at Ben Avery
17: biking: serious family fun
18: Women's Bible Study: Galations,
19: Eastside Explorers Easter Egg Hunt
20: Family vacation: The Westin La Paloma, Tucson
22: dinner at Oregano's
24: Ya-Ya taught Alex how to play Mexican Train | When we got home from Tucson, Alex made a replica of the resort and pool... | Ya-Ya taught Alex how to play Mexican train
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