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Canadian Media Merger Creates High Market Power and Runs Against Concentration Trends Elsewhere
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- voxpopuli said...
I think this issue for Bell likely goes beyond basic TV audience figures. With the advent of 4G services, I presume Bell would also like control of the impending mobile launch of Astral's HBO Go service... keeping it away from Rogers et al.
What are your thoughts, Professor?
Not sure if this falls under the remit of the CTRC, but perhaps Bell would have been better served selling peripheral stations in Vancouver/Ottawa before initiating merger proceedings with Astral.
- September 5, 2012 at 10:22 AM
- Robert G. Picard said...
There is no doubt that it will allow Bell to integrate further in the content distribution business. It will bring distinct business advantages to it, but not to consumers or the market as a whole
- September 10, 2012 at 4:09 AM
- Ruby Walters said...
Interesting, thanks for the information. I am curious to see if/how this will affect employees at places like the bell - north york sheridan mall.
- January 15, 2013 at 6:29 PM


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A memorial service will be held Saturday September 28 for community activist, artist and curator Cecil Fergerson . Fergerson died Wednesday September 18, in West Los Angeles, according to family members, who said he was admitted to the hospital last month for pneumonia. He was 82 years old.
Fergerson came to Los Angeles from Oklahoma with his parents in 1938. The family settled in Watts, where Fergerson would eventually be known for his art gallery at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee. Before that however, the advocate for minority artists in Los Angeles had very little interest in art.
"Art really wasn't fascinating to me because you'd walk around there and all you'd see was all these portraits of white folks," he said during an interview with Karen Anne Mason for "African-American Artists of Los Angeles" oral history project sponsored by UCLA in in the early '90s.
In fact, his interest could have developed more from a financial standpoint than a creative one. Fergerson began his career as a maintenance man at a museum in Los Angeles after high school graduation. He eventually got promoted to museum helper, moving and installing art work.
He became interested in art then, studying the displays at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where he worked and reading extensively about the subject. During the "African American Artists" interview Fergerson revealed that it was the Watts Riots in 1965 that really inspired him to get involved in tying together a desire for activism and a newly found love for art. He began asking himself, he said, how he could help make a difference after the riots.
He started the Black Arts Council with a partner, Claude Booker who also worked at LACMA. The council wanted more Black involvement in the museum's programming and they wanted a Black curator. While waiting for LACMA to respond, pair decided to take matters into their own hands.
"Well, Claude Booker and I, since we had this expertise at the County Art Museum of doing the shows in a certain kind of way, we thought that we would create a museum space inside a gymnasium," Fergerson told Mason.
"So we went to the Junior Chamber of Commerce and got them to purchase some modules for us, have some modules built, which means they were just four-by-eight-foot walls that you could put together in different kinds of configurations that we designed…"
They began organizing art tours and exhibitions and cultural programs for the Watts Summer Festival. The Council approached LACMA again about involving the city's Black art scene in the museum. LACMA officials agreed in 1969 to a three evening lecture series focusing on Black artists, and a Black art exhibition.
Fergerso, who became curator, left LACMA in 1985 and devoted himself full time to Los Angeles' Black Art community. He would now be curator for his own, the William Grant Still Community Arts Center and his namesake gallery, the Cecil Fergerson Gallery at WLAC. Fergerson is survived by his wife, five children, nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. WLCAC is located at 10950 S. Central Ave.
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After Lolo Jones tweeted a picture of what she considered a paltry paycheck for her bobsledding efforts, members of the U.S. bobsled organization lashed out at the controversial runner-turned-bobsledder calling her "snobby," according to a report by USA Today.
"It wasn't taken very well," Olympic gold medalist Steven Holcomb told the newspaper. "People were really kind of insulted. You just made $741, more than most athletes in the sport. So what are you complaining about?"
"The way it came across to a lot of the athletes here was kind of snobby because she's one of the most well-known athletes in the world and she's making pretty good money in endorsements (as a two-time Olympic hurdler). And to basically turn around and slap us in the face because you didn't make any money this year in bobsledding while taking money from other's athletes? She slapped pretty much every athlete in the U.S. federation in the face. That was the general consensus."
Jones, who was also known to be not well-liked by her track and field teammates (see this awkward interview), released a statement through Red Bull apologizing.
But as of Tuesday morning, she had not taken down the offending video from her social media accounts.
I'm going to be short on my rent this month... https://t.co/dae79siq03
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But she did add that she was hoping to illuminate the issue of Olympians not being paid well.
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New Haven, CT - The Yale men's squash team (9-1, 4-0) takes on Harvard this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Brady Squash Center in the biggest contest of the season. A win over their archrival (5-0 in Ivy play) would give the Bulldogs at least a share of the Ivy League title.
The Elis still have to play at Brown (0-5) next Tuesday. Yale is currently ranked No. 2 in the country, trailing only Trinity, while Harvard is ranked right behind the Bulldogs at No.3.
Saturday will also feature a matchup of two of the best players in collegiate squash when Julian Illingsworth of Yale (No.2 in the nation), takes on No. 4 Will Broadbent of Harvard.
"It is a huge day for us, we haven't faced Harvard with the Ivy title on the line in 14 years," said Yale head coach Dave Talbott. "This means a lot for the program, which has reached its peak. We owe a lot of that to our eight seniors, which is the largest class I've ever had. Julian is a slight favorite at the one spot [against Harvard], but I've never seen more evenly matched opponents from No. 2 through 9. You can't pick a winner in any of them, which is unusual."


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Two weeks ago, my (one and only) fitting pair of maternity jeans started to slowly rip right next to the back pocket. It looked totally fine when they were off me, but the rip was pretty obvious when they were on me. I had hoped to make it to capri-pants season without having to purchase another pair of jeans, but in this case - with my unmentionables peeking through - I went and bought a new pair.
Once again properly attired, I started to think about what I'd do with the old pair. I remembered seeing a tutorial on messy jean-patching on some blog somewhere (of course I can't find the link now) and figured I'd give it a try. Basically, you sew a patch behind the rip and sew some crazy zig-zags to attach it. Messy and fun.
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It was quick and easy AND it gave my pants new life! I'm pretty pleased with myself. I now sort of wish I had used a differently-colored thread so the mending would be more visible. Maybe next time...


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Thursday, February 7
Good morning, TexMessagers! Will the loss of Saturday mail affect you?
- The U.S. Postal Service's plan to end Saturday mail delivery has a powerful ally in a key Texas congressman.
- Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, the new chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing the post office, strongly supports the postal service's plan to stop Saturday mail service beginning this August—though it will continue delivering packages—hoping to address its massive deficit.
- The Postmaster General, Patrick Donahoe, made the announcement Wednesday morning, saying the move would provide $2 billion in annual savings for the agency.
- "The move today by the Postal Service to end Saturday delivery is a step in the right direction," Farenthold said. "This $2 billion a year savings will ensure that taxpayers are not left footing the bill in the future."
- The USPS's decision goes along with what many in congress have previously proposed. The Senate passed legislation last April to address postal budget issues, including axing Saturday mail delivery. A similar bill failed to pass in the House.The $2 billion in savings will not fully address the agency's fiscal troubles. Last year, the USPS reported a $15.9 billion deficit. The majority of that deficit was an $11.9 billion shortfall in the agency's retiree health care plan.
These numbers are deceptive. In 2011, the USPS defaulted on its retiree health care payments, and that cost was added to 2012's budget, doubling the $11.9 billion figure.
Further, the retiree health care system for the USPS is unlike any other government agency. In 2006, congress passed legislation mandating that the agency pre-fund all retiree health care plans. The agency must set aside $5.5 billion every year into the fund until it reaches $55 billion.
Changing customer demands have created additional challenges for the USPS, with fewer letters, but an increase in packages. Businesses' increasing reliance on the internet explains both trends. The Post Office reported a 14 percent increase in package volume from 2010 to 2012. From a 2006 peak, it has seen a more than 25 percent decline in mail.
Not everyone in Washington has supported cutting back on mail delivery. Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee overseeing the USPS, said he prefers a plan that stops the pre-funding requirements.
"The elimination of Saturday mail delivery will have a negative impact on thousands of businesses across the nation that are operating on a six day schedule," Lynch said. "This could be a damaging policy change in a fragile economy."
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★ Oldest man in Congress, Ralph Hall, is newest member of Twitter
★ Cornyn dismisses White House justification for killing Americans as 'legal fluff packaged for the media'
★ Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says she's 'very pleased' to join Houston-based Bracewell Giuliani
★ Cornyn 'plays ball' with Democrats to gain passage of his SAFER Act to aid rape victims
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★ Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on "No Child Left Behind" and state flexibility waivers at 10 am.
★ Outgoing Secretary of Defense will testify on the Benghazi attacks before the Senate Armed Services Committee at 10 am.
★ Senate Intelligence Committee holds a hearing on the nomination of John Brennan as CIA Director at 2 pm.
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★ Feb. 12 President Obama's State of the Union Address
★ Feb. 12 Senate Armed Services Committee hears testimony from US military representatives on the impact of sequestration
★ Feb. 13 Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on comprehensive immigration reform
★ Feb. 13 House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing titled, "A new perspective on threats to homeland"
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In the antique centres this sort of thing is priced at £30-50, perhaps more with the butterfly. Nice one Rose.
For your first Scottish paperweight, I think you did very well. It's quite pretty.
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Radical environmentalists are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to heavily regulate or ban hydraulic fracturing (also known as "fracking"), the process employed to extract shale oil and natural gas from underground sources, which could undermine a thriving part of the post-recession economy.
The fracking boom has been one of the success stories in an otherwise tepid American economy, which is still trying to recover five years after a deep recession. Just last month Bloomberg Businessweek covered a recent study by IHS CERA that showed the significant economic benefits of fracking.
"In 2012, the energy boom supported 2.1 million jobs, added almost $75 billion in federal and state revenues, contributed $283 billion to the gross domestic product and lifted household income by more than $1,200," noted Bloomberg Businessweek. "The competitive advantage for U.S. manufacturers from lower fuel prices will raise industrial production by 3.5 percent by the end of the decade, said the report from CERA, which provides business advice for energy companies."
The Wall Street Journal noted last week that the United States is "overtaking Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas," producing the "equivalent of about 22 million barrels a day of oil, natural gas and related fuels in July" compared to the 21.8 million barrels produced by our former Cold War foe.


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Salad: Watching Your Weight: Macaroni Salad
Here's the recipe for Low(er) Caloried Macaroni Salad
8 oz. elbow macaroni, 1/8 t. salt (for cooking pasta), 1/2 c. reduced calorie mayo, 1 T. red wine vinegar, 1 t. dijon mustard (I added 1 T.), 1/2 t. garlic salt, 1 c. chopped celery, 1/3 c. red onion (I used white, because it's what I had on hand), 2 T. fresh parsley (I didn't add this, but....it was on the recipe card), 1/4 t. salt, 1/8 t. pepper. Cook macaroni, drain and toss with ingredients. Chill overnight.
150 calories per serving, 8 servings.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Latinos were once unfamiliar to more than half of all Americans, but a new poll indicates that two-thirds of those surveyed now say they have at least some contact with Latinos where they live, work or shop.
The Museo del Barrio, dedicated to the work of Latino artists, opened Saturday in New York City.
Sixty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday say they have some or a lot of contact with Latinos. That's up 15 points from 1990.
"The jump in contact is a result of the growing number of Latinos and their growing presence in all 50 states," said CNN polling director Keating Holland. "But familiarity is not the same as knowledge."
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that roughly six in 10 U.S. Latinos were born in the United States. Watch how Latinos are gaining clout »
"But nearly half of people we questioned said they assume that Latinos who they have never met are immigrants, and one in five believe they are illegal immigrants," added Holland.
That may be one reason why nearly nine in 10 surveyed believe that census workers should ask people whether they are in the country legally when they go door to door next April. Full poll results (PDF)
According to the poll, 57 percent of all Americans say that Latinos face a lot or some discrimination that hurts their chances to get good jobs. That's down nine points from two decades ago, but is slightly higher than the 53 percent who now feel that way about job discrimination against African-Americans.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted October 16-18, with 1,038 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
CNN deputy political director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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Philadelphia Information Locator Service
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Fair Housing Commission[Record group 60-102-1]
Agency home page.
- Alternative/Former Names
- City Housing Rent Commission;
Fair Rent Committee
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- Administrative Subunits
- See Commission on Human Relations
- Agency History
- Acting upon citizens' complaints after the relaxation of federal rent controls in 1947, City Council passed a Rent Control Ordinance, approved on 13 August 1947. This ordinance established a City Housing Rent Commission, and included (1) provisions supplementary to the federal law regarding evictions, and (2) a stand-by rent control program. Federal controls subsequently expired in 1953 and Council adopted a series of ordinances, one each in 1953, 1954, 1955, and 1956, which, in effect, amended the 1947 ordinance so as to provide for actual rent regulation by the City Housing Rent Commission.
The 1953 and 1954 rent control ordinances were respectively declared unconstitutional by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. By appealing these decisions, the City bought time to pass a new ordinance which would address the concerns of the court. Upon approval of the ordinance by the Mayor, the appeals were then dropped.
In 1957, the City Housing Rent Commission was replaced by the Mayor's Fair Rent Committee. This, in turn, was replaced by the Fair Housing Commission, established by Council Ordinance approved 8 February 1962. On 1 June 1993, the staff of the Fair Housing Commission was merged into that of the Commission of Human Relations.
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60-102-1.2 Fair Housing Committee. Annual Reports (1957-1958)
60-102-1.3 City Housing Rent Commission/ Fair Rent Committee. Files (1952-1959)
60-102-1.4 Fair Housing Commission. Annual Reports (1963-1965, 1967)
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I list below all topic groups, which I have done according to subjects, which they handle. You can return to this topic group by using this menu and the link Table of topic groups on the top of the each page.
|Table of topic groups > Front page of help pages > Help pages > 3. Help for TM WML menu
I have read a book Inside WAP (a Finnish book), Pekka Niskanen, a worker of Acta Systems Oy (IT Press, 2000).
The book handle WML 1.1, WMLScript 1.1, basic Perl encoding, some Java-servlets and WAP Servers. Pekka Niskanen lists all elements and attributes. The attribute and element list in pages 413-415 has some errors. It is not done exactly according to the WML 1.1 DTD and it is partial invalid. The book is however an excellent book for Finnish web designers to learn how to create WML-documents.Acta Systems Oy, IT Press, Wap Forum (WML 1.1).
This help page handles primary WML 1.2 and the TM WML plugins menu is based on the wml12.dtd. Also used terms are primary from the official DTD-file. The menu includes all WML 1.2 elements and attributes. I have made new source codes including also WML 2.0 tags. In the new source codes I have marked WML 1.2+which elements or attributes are only in the WML 1.2 or newer specifications (in the previous versions I marked them just WML 1.2). When I have put WML 1.2, they concern automatic also WML 1.1 but not WML 2.0.
In WML 1.2 core attributes
id and
class can be used to every
element. WML 2.0 has also
style and
title as core attributes. The attribute
style is not at all used in WML 1.2. The attribute
title is used in WML 1.2 only with some elements. Because it is not in WML 1.2 a core attribute, I list it as a possible implied attribute, but I don't list other core attributes as possible implied attributes. All core attributes including the attribute
title have a separate button. In all cases I have added all
required attributes as default attributes - you can't miss them!
The TM WML menu doesn't include elements, which are used in
the Push technique and Push Proxy
Gateway. Pekka Niskanen doesn't handle this matter
thoroughly. He gives one example, where is used two other
XML-based languages, which use as root elements
(it comes from words Push Access Protocol) and
rdf:RDF. They have TM WAPPush menu an
it has its own help page. Also the TM WMLScript menu has a separate help page.
Because WML and Push languages are based on
XML, the encoding should fulfil XML
requirements. All tags must have the termination, either
the termination tag or
/ at the end of the empty
elements (for example

). Tag names are
case-sensitive. In WML all element names and attributes must be
in lower case letters, but values can have also upper case
characters. In XML-documents all attributes should be quoted.
WML resembles HTML - in fact it is like a special
XHTML for WAP devices. The basic metaphor in WML is a
pack of cards. The whole documents is the pack
and individual cards are like sub-pages (in the official DTD-file
the whole document is called as a deck). In fact in
this matter it is close the first DTD for HTML by
Dan Connolly from 1992, where the document was
divided into pieces with
SECTION elements.
title attribute of the card is like the
TITLE element in HTML. The whole deck
wml) can have certain common attributes to all
card elements by using the
The deck can have an optional
head-element like
HTML (in the HTML
HEAD is a required element), which
can have
meta or
access elements. The
only required attribute to the element
meta is
content, but because it needs always another
attributes, I don't list it alone.
WML use as basic block-level elements
p and
pre (WML 1.2). WML has most used text layout
elements (for example
b). Note, that
and other text layout elements are are marked in the DTD as
%Flow (in HTML they are defined as
inline). %Flow in wml12.dtd means not the same as in
HTML-documents because according to wml12.dtd text layout
elements can be surround tables. The
table element
is not a pure block-level element even if some user agents create
line breaks before or after tables. I recommend however to use
text layout elements like inline-level elements in HTML and use
p as the parent-element of
WML doesn't have list elements. Simple list presentations can create with tables. Form elements don't work exactly at the same way as in HTML (I handle them later in this help file).
WML user agents support images, which should be in special format (WBMP = Wireless BitM ap Picture) even if some WML user agents also support GIF and JPG images. It is also possible to use built-in icons or icon, which are down loaded permanent into the device. Pekka Niskanen lists 175 icons.
Hyper links work in some matters at the same way as in HTML-documents (look at the button A(nchors)). Because the document is divided into sub-documents, WML has special linking elements and attributes, which are classified in buttons Timer, Events, Go and Tasks.
Event elements work a little bit same way as event handlers in JavaScript. In addition WML has WMLScript, but not all WML capable mobile phones support it. That's why it is not very reasonable to use it today. Most applications can do without it. In principle to be WAP-compliant, WMLScript must be supported.
WMLScript is however quite easy. WML and WML script are
tightly integrated to each others, because the are designed to
work together (WMLScript is not an additional extension to WML
like JavaScript to HTML). Predefined functions use much the same
kind of names as WML attributes and elements, which make the same
task. Look at following pair, which can be used in order to
control browsing:
<prev /> -
newcontent (attribute)
- WMLBrowser.newContent().
Instead or ordinary WML documents or individual cards, links and forms can call CGI-applications or WMLScripts. Scripts are referred like HTML-documents by using relative or absolute paths. The function call must have also the name of the function (as if it is an anchor) and an optional parameter list like href="/myscript.wmls#myfunction('mystring1','mystring2')".
This system is also used inside WMLScripts, if a function is called from another WMLScript (it is possible to call all functions, which have the keyword extern). It is possible to shorten the function name inside functions by using keywords use url like in this example:
// the shortening code
use url myScript http://www.some_server/~some_user/WMLScripts/myscript.wmls
// later on the script after shortening
function someFunction() {
var a = myScript#myfunction();
It is possible to restrict to use certain addresses. This can
be done either by using in WML the
access element
(used inside the element
head) or in WMLScript
keywords use access. I both cases must define either
path or both of them. Both WML
and WMLScript can transmit meta information.
Pekka Niskanen writes, that WMLScript base on JavaScript and
ECMAScript. In my mind it also borrow some features
from Java or Perl, because it can use libraries. When Pekka
Niskanen wrote his book, WML Script had following standard
libraries: Lang, Float,
String, URL, WMLBrowser
and Dialog, which must be available when calling
functions. Also some other libraries are available like
Debug, which is useful in testing scripts. Like Java
script is always in external text files, which
use the
*.wmls extension like
I list all keywords and functions of standard libraries in an additional module. I explain in the help file shortly WMLScript functions. I would be pleased, if someone could help me to create proper explanations. Please, send me your proposals to me with an e-mail (add to beginning of the e-mailaddress my name, Tapio Markula, separated with a comma).
It is possible to create simple forms (special form elements
are in the button Fields - in the DTD is written
about Card Fields). WML doesn't have a gathering
form element like HTML, which has the element
because in WML in most cases forms use
do and
go elements. The element
go can use
also by simple linking instead of anchor elements (
anchor). The element
do with the
label creates in both cases a button or an
activation text (usually with borders).
Do resemble
BUTTON HTML-element. If the
element is used other form elements (card fields) are inside
p or
pre tags. Compared to HTML the
actual form is then divided into two pieces and the
card element itself works like the
element in HTML.
It is possible to organize form elements with
fieldset and
optiongroup elements. Some
WML browsers doesn't support the
fieldset element,
but you can get clearer code, if you use it.
In WML can use variables, which are common to WMLScripts.
WMLScript can read and write WML variables. WML can transform
variables in order to the handle them in WMLScript functions and
WMLScript returns the final variable values back to the
Go and some event elements (like
refresh) can have variables with the
setvar element, which can set and initialize
variables. In most cases variables are used with form elements.
The element
postfield is especially designed to use
with form elements, to transfer the variable information. It is
used inside the element
go, which can have many
postfield elements.
Some examples how to use form elements in order to transfer information:
option (inside the element
with the
onpick attribute
(no variable information)
go (commonly inside the
do element)
(with variable information)
(with variable information)
WML with WMLScript encoding resemble for example
JSP, ASP, PHP3 and Perl
encoding. Compared to JSP (I was in a course to know something
about it) it seems to be easier. Functions (or methods) are
always used from external files. The result can be used like
among ordinary text just using variable signs ($) -
for example Perl use the sign before the variable name (in the
WMLScript the variable declaration use the var keyword
like JavaScript). It doesn't need for example
...?> or
<% ...%>. Below is an
example of how to use variables with a form elements.

<go href="/myscript.wmls#myfunction('answer',$(integer)"

<input format="*N" name="integer" title="Integer:">

WML has many strict element orders, which are defined in the DTD-file like in W3C HTML recommendations. Below is an example of a valid and well-formed WML-document:
<?xml version="1.0"?>Hello paragraphs!
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.2//EN"
<wml class="root">
<card class="card" id="card1" title="The order">
<onevent type="onenterforward">
<go href="error.wml" />
<timer value="100" />
<do class="button" type="accept" label="Forward">
<go href="#card2" />
If the

cardor
templateelement has the
oneventelement, it must be first. If the
cardelement has the
timerelement, it must be after the
oneventelement and before all
do,
por
pretags.

por
premust be as the parent element to all other elements, which don't require
doas their parent. Some elements can or must be nested (then those three elements are as ancestor elements to some other elements). Remember the correct element order also, when you create forms and tables!

In this
cardinside the element
dothe attribute value
Forward
creates a button text
to go to the second card (card2).
<card class="card" id="card2" title="A table example">

	Here is the second card, which has a table!
The element
tablemust be inside the
According to the DTD also text layout elements can work as parent elements.
Nested tables are not allowed!
Go to the next card!

<card class="card" id="card3" title="A form example">
<do type="accept" label="Go to test">
<go method="post" href="/test.pl">
<postfield name="test" value="$(test)" />

<select iname="test" ivalue="1">
<option value="Swim">
<option value="Bike">
<option value="Run">

Test this page with a system DTD-file and a style sheet in a new window, if you have a WML-capable user agent (look at WML-capable user agents and tool kits). I have tested the functionality of this example WML-document with Opera 4.02 and Opera 5.01.W3C.
WML 1.2 doesn't support CSS, but in principle it
would be easy to develop WAP CSS profile. Core attributes
id and
class could be used also in WML
creating CSS-rules. Future versions of WML might support CSS.
If the presentation of WML elements is defined with standard and necessary proprietary CSS, the WML-browser doesn't need two rendering engines. CSS could define both the basic layout and special layout, where the author writes his own CSS-rules. Opera 4.x is example of this kind of solution, because it define the presentation of WML-documents primary with a CSS configuration file (wml.css); If the whole presentation is defined with CSS, a little bit more proprietary CSS is needed than Opera Software has used.
It is however very reasonable to use CSS in sites, which should be converted into WML. The optional situations is that normal web pages are designed according to the ideals of XHTML 1.0 Strict. You might ask why, if WAP doesn't support CSS? Here is some answers:

Here is a paragraph with line breaks,

which are valid also to WML-document.

WAP browsers would not tolerate this text as ordinary HTML.

I don't however recommend to make sites according to HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0 Strict, if the purpose is to get some level reasonable presentation to old web browsers. I use in normal text documents either HTML 4.01 transitional or XHTML 1.0 Transitional document type. It is easy to check with HTML-Kit, if XHTML is valid (because of HTML-compatibility) and well-formed (because of XML-compatibility).
Note. Remember to use *.html
extension in XHTML files, because IE 5.0 Win interprets with
*.xml extension XHTML as XML. This means that attributes and
elements lose their common tasks. Remember also, that XML
documents need always XML style sheets (for
<?xml-stylesheet href="xml-sheet.css"
type="text/css"?>) in order to get the presentation
(remember that non-XML browsers can't use this declaration and
they need
link or
style elements).
Without style sheets IE displays just the source code. If the
defined style sheet is not found, the text has no formatting - it
is like a text file with word wrapping. I don't know, how IE 4.5
or IE 5.0 behaves, but I presume, that IE 4.5 MAC would behave
like MS IE Win 5.0.
It is not possible to get proper presentation to XML document to MS IE 5.0 Win by using standard style sheet languages. IE 5.0 supports proprietary XSLT and future versions of MS IE need conversion from the proprietary XSLT into real XSLT , which is made according to W3C recommendation (11/1999). The CSS-implementation has too much missing properties in order to create proper structures to XML-documents with CSS. Maybe IE 5.5 gives the possibility to create fine XML-document by using XSLT and CSS, if the company just not have too tight time schedule and it doesn't try to bee too "innovative" creating new proprietary extensions to web pages. At least Opera 4.x, Opera 5.0 and Netscape 6.x can create quite good presentations to XML-documents only with CSS (indeed CSS2 has some missing form implementations, which will be added to CSS3.W3C: HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access, XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0.
WAP servers make conversions between HTML and WML. Because WML can't have errors, it is recommended to create valid HTML or rather valid and well-formed XHTML-documents. Using XSLT it could be in some cases easy to make conversions between different XML-based languages like WML and XHTML. This document is an example of valid and well-formed XHTML document, which might be relative easy converted with Perl (and in principle also with XSLT) to WML (nested list elements might create some problems).
WAP Servers use primary Perl and Java-servlets into automatic generating of web pages. Then you should learn to use at least another of them. Pekka Niskanen doesn't handle XSLT and I don't know yet the possibilities of XSLT in WAP servers. Some WML resources handle document, which are made with another XML-language than WML. The most reasonable in many cases is XSLT. My fried said, that it is also possible to use other CGI-techniques like php3 and asp.
In my mind all kinds of conversions are problematic. Hard automatic conversions mean certainly loss of information. I doubt that the final document is always readable. Especially form elements create much headache to create proper conversion between XHTML and WML. Because nested tables are not allowed in WML, the document structure of XHTML documents should be as simple as possible. Nested lists create problems. Instead of nested list elements, it could be better to use tables to create the first level list presentation. Inside a table cell can use an ordinary list. At this way can create some kind of two level list presentations, which can be converted into WML without serious problems. If the basic XHTML document is simple enough, the conversion is possible without great loss of information.
In theory it is possible to use the
attribute in server side conversions. This could be used to
maintain conversions in both directions
class="card"> =>
class="card"> =>
class="card">. The
class attribute is
intended just to this purpose according an e-mail, which I got
from a designer of WAP-systems:
The class attribute is intended solely to assist with server-side transformations, so you can use it if it is helpful, but there's no standard processing defined for it.
The problem is that class names should be defined so, that the element name can't be mixed to anything. I put class-attributes to the example page in order to demonstrate how to use class-attributes in possible conversations. Different attributes are still problematic.
Because structures of forms are today so different in XHTML and WML, when both documents have forms, they are reasonable to tailor to both document types and include them into the main documents.
In theory it could be the possibility to create third language, which cover all XHTML and WML elements and attributes. Then final documents are always converted either to XHTML or WML.
The next version of WML, WML 2.0 base on primary XHTML Basic™ and special WML 1.2 elements and attributes, which are added through a namespace, which use the prefix
wml (for example
wml:card). XHTML Basic base on the Modularization of
XHTML™, where XHTML is divided into smaller pieces, so called modules. WML 2.0 has for example all ordinary form control elements and it supports style sheets related attributes and elements. In addition of complete modules, WML 2.0 has some fragments from modules, which don't belong to XHTML Basic (for example from the Legacy Module) in order to get better backward compatibility. Because WML 2.0 supports CSS, most presentational fragments (for example the element
U) are in principle unnecessary. I have made both WML 1.2 and WML 2.0 tables.
Because new version of WML has been made, the main question is, how much is reasonable to write WML 1.0-1.2 documents?
Before WML 1.2 WAP devices have used HDML (Handheld Device M arkup Language), which Phone.com supports. WML and WML base partially on HDML. WML is intended to replace HDML. HDML is not an XML-based languages, because it doesn't fulfil XML-requirements as you can see from this example HDML-document (this is from the submission of W3C):
<HDML version=2.0> <DISPLAY> <ACTION TYPE=ACCEPT TASK=GOSUB DEST="#subact" RECEIVE="var1;var2">var1 = $(var1)

var2 = $(var2)
<DISPLAY NAME=subact> <ACTION TYPE=ACCEPT TASK=RETURN RETVALS="abc;xyz">Return abc;xyz
Instead to the element
card is used the element
DISPLAY. I don't know, if transformation between
HDML and XHTML will be easier than WML and XHTML. I some
districts it might be reasonable to use HDML. Some WAP Servers
can automatic make conversions between them even if HDML is not a
XML-based language.
Resembling language is also CHTML
(Compact Hyper Text Markup Language), which is SGML-based language. In fact it is just a collection of HTML 2.0 - HTML 4.0 elements and attributes. WML 2.0 (without special WML-extensions) is quite close it. If WML 2.0 special elements (for example
wml:do) and CHTML obsolete elements (for example
LISTING) is not used browsers, which support CHTML or WML 2.0 should be able to read both document types (so-called empty elements must mark so, that there is a space between the termination, for example
).
All elements, which have termination tags can be used by enclosing them into a selection even if the button hint is Insert.... The result is however different concerning line breaks. I give some recommendations, how to use buttons:
option and
select. If you use them by enclosing into a
selection, you might need to add or remove a line break.
fieldset and
optgroup. If you use them by clicking a button, you
get an additional line break.
p by enclosing a text
into a selection, the end-tag is in the same row as the end of
the text. It can be used however in both ways and the result is
a (the same anchor element as
in HTML) and
td (the element
tr create
line breaks).
I have listed all keyword values, which are listed in the book
INSIDE WAP. They don't consist all possible values to the
meta and
input. Information about some attribute
content="max-age=?" http-equiv="Cache-Control"
the value is in seconds.
value-attribute inside the
timer element is in 1/10 seconds.
align-attribute inside the
element is a list of keywords without spaces (like
align="LCR". They should be set as much as columns.
The first keyword refer to the first column and so on.
title attribute to anchor elements and the
label attribute to the element
do is
recommended to be maximum six characters.
format attribute of the
input are:
six numbers+
three numbers+
any character.
If you try to test WAP-documents with common xml user agents
and you are not connected to the Internet, you require a local
DTD-file. The the DTD-declaration should be similar to
<!DOCTYPE wml SYSTEM "wml.dtd"> instead of
<!DOCTYPE wml PUCLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.2//EN"
If you have installed MS IE 5.x, HTML-Kit with MS IE as the internal rendering engine (or MS IE 5.0 alone) can work as XML-encoding validator to check, that the code is well-formed. MS IE is that it informs about the place of encoding error and it is easy to fix encoding errors by using MS IE 5.0. Indeed it is easier to test the well-formedness (and optional also the used DTD) with a special XML-validator plug-ins, because then it is not necessary to use the preview.
Without using a style sheet (in this case CSS file) you can see the source code (test TestWml0.wml with MS IE 5.x - note, that links to test pages open always into another window). Using a style sheet you can see the text at some level formed (test TestWml.wml with MS IE 5.x). But you can't test the functionality of WML-documents with MS IE, because MS IE 5.0 doesn't give proper presentation to WML-elements and linking elements don't work.
Opera 4.x has experimental support for WML which lets users surf WAP sites directly from their desk tops.
Opera 4.x displays the element
do quite the same
way as Nokia WAP Toolkit 1.2 and the elements
select +
option like a HTML-browser. In
WML is not defined how user agent should render them. Even if it
render them differently as some mobile phones, it gives them
proper presentations because user agents have great freedoms.
Opera 4.x does have however some difficulties. It displayed the WML-document without my own style sheet (TestWml0.wml), but it crashed when I tried to select the next card or it doesn't go to the next card.
This matter is however easy to fix, because Opera use a
CSS-file as the configuration file to define, how to render
WML-elements except the elements
select +
option, which Opera renders always at the same way
as in HTML. Find the file
wml.css from the root
directory of Opera 4.x. The element
do is poorly
defined in the CSS-file. Opera 4.x does have also some other
matters, which it doesn't display properly. If you edit the
CSS-file at the following way, it gives proper presentation to
almost all WML-elements (if you test the effect, you must restart
/* Edit the following rule in the wml.css so that it looks out following: */
do {/* I recommend to use a width-value.*/
border: outset 2px black;display:block;margin:auto;width:50%
/* Add following CSS: */
strong, b {font-weight:bold;}/* If you want that Opera renders align-attributes like a real WML-browsers, they must be defined with CSS at this way. */
i, em {font-style: italic ;}
u {text-decoration: underline ;}
big {font-size:larger}
table {display: table;}
tr {display: table-row }
td {display: table-cell }
pre {white-space: pre}
p, p[align="left"]{text-align:left} /* If you want that Opera render the text as left-aligned, which is the recommendation as default. value in WML. */
/* You can add also more CSS rules, if you want more exact presentation, for example these rules: */
/* It is however impossible to define text-align to tables at this way, if table cells have different alignment values */
/* The need of additional rules depends on which attributes you use in WML-documents. */
You can alternative download wml.css,
which I have edited ready for you. Replace with that file the
original configuration file. I have made some changes, which you
can set back (original setting are inside CSS-comments (/*
... */) and I have informed, what properties I have
altered). Or download Opera 5.x, which has completely new
wml.css file (if you have used Opera 4.x Opera 5.0
doesn't use the CSS-file of Opera 4.x, because the new file is in
an another directory). You can also edit the CSS-file of Opera
5.0, if you don't like the default style (it is in the
sub-directory Styles of Opera 5.0). If you are not
sure, don't do anything, because the configuration file use
advanced features of CSS2 and it has some proprietary
Opera 4.x shows as default everything as 20px (you can however
change the value). I added to the class
code special
color to get better explanations. Look at TestWml.wml and use 70% zooming. Shrink then
the window about 95x65, you can see the document like in some
mobile phone of Nokia (Nokia Toolkit 1.2 emulate
this window size). Adjusting the size of the window, you can
emulate some other mobile WAP phones.
Opera doesn't render images but the alt-text. You can alter
the configuration file to show instead of it the file name or
both the file name and the alt-text (exchange from
img:before { content: attr(alt);...} to
img:before { content: attr(src);...} or
img:before { content: attr(alt) " - " attr(src);...}
- the hyphen and spaces are to separate attributes from each
others). You can also affect to the presentation of the
alternative contents.
The disadvantage of Opera 4.x is that it doesn't show, where is the encoding error (it just says "XML-parsing failed", if there is encoding errors). This is fixed in Opera 5.x, which tells, in which row and after which charcter the page has the first error or where the error causes a mismatching syntax. When you fix the first error, if you reload the page, it shows the possible next error and so on. You don't need anymore another application (like MS IE 5.x) to check the syntax (I don't know, if Netscape 6.x displays encoding errors). Opera 5.x can today get free as ad-sponsored (it has advertisements) version (I you don't want to see advertisements, you must pay the registration fee, which is 39$). Because it can render both (X)HTML and WML documents it is quite useful testing both document types. I doesn't however support WMLScript.
Some tool kits and WML-capable user agents (I can add more, if someone wants to give the address) and necessary additional components:
Most of those applications need also some Java application from Sun and Perl support. Most of them work in Windows 95/98 but at least Nokia WAP Server needs Windows NT 4 or 2000. I hope that I could find somewhere an address to a WAP-server, which works in other platforms. Send e-mail if you know them.


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- Reviews
- Ingredients
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Usage & FaqsSimply spray and wipe clean.
COMMON QUESTIONSQ. Can I use the Countertop Spray on countertops made from granite, marble or quartz?A. Our Countertop Spray is safe to use on most stone surfaces, provided the stone surface has been sealed. We do not recommend using this product on unsealed natural stone.Q. Can I use the Countertop Spray on wood surfaces?A. When used as directed, our Countertop Spray is safe to use on wood surfaces sealed with polyurethane, varnish, or shellac. When dealing with painted wood surfaces or wood furniture with surfaces that could have a compromised seal, such as antique wood furniture, we would recommend to first test the Countertop Spray in an inconspicuous spot to make sure there is no adverse effect before using the product.Q. Will your Countertop Spray disinfect?A. No. Our Countertop Spray will not disinfect. The Countertop Spray is a very effective cleaner and offers excellent soil and dirt removal, but it does not offer the anti-bacterial benefits of products containing chlorine bleach. When disposed, products containing chlorine bleach are harder on the environment and their fumes also pose a potential health risk to consumers. There also is a growing body of evidence that points to the formation of resistant "super organisms" due consumer overuse of anti-bacterial products.Q. What is the difference between your Countertop Spray and All-Purpose Cleaner formulas?A. The products are very similar with a couple of differences. Our Countertop Spray is in a handy pre-diluted formula; whereas we require our All-Purpose Cleaner to be diluted prior to use. Our Countertop Spray also contains an added ingredient called vegetable protein extract which is a natural odor neutralizer that is not found in our All-Purpose Cleaner.


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Raspberry Pi
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RPi Config - Excellent source of info relating to under-the-hood tweaks.
RPi vcgencmd usage - Overview of firmware command vcgencmd. Template:Article summary end
Article Preface
This article is not meant to be an exhaustive setup guide and assumes that the reader has setup an Arch system before. Arch newbies are encouraged to read the Beginners' Guide if unsure how to preform standard tasks such as creating users, managing the system, etc.
Installing Arch Linux ARM
See the archlinuxarm documentation.
Install the needed packages:
pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-firmware alsa-lib alsa-plugins
Optionally adjust the default volume using `alsamixer` and ensure that the sole source "PCM" is not muted (denoted by double MM if muted).
Select an audio source for output:
amixer cset numid=3 x
Where 'x' corresponds to:
- 0 for Auto
- 1 for Analog out
- 3 for HDMI
Caveats for HDMI Audio
Some applications require a setting in
/boot/config.txt to force audio over HDMI:
Onboard Hardware Sensors
Temperatures sensors for the board itself are including as part of the raspberrypi-firmware-tools package. The RPi offers a sensor on the BCM2835 SoC (CPU/GPU):
/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp temp=49.8'C
Alternatively, simply read from the filesystem:
% cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp 49768
Four different voltages can be monitored via
/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd as well:
% /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_volts <id>
- core for core voltage
- sdram_c for sdram Core voltage
- sdram_i for sdram I/O voltage
- sdram_p for sdram PHY voltage
Lightweight Monitoring Suite
MonitorixAUR has specific support for the RPi since v3.2.0. Screenshots available [here].
The RPi can be overclocked by editing
/boot/config.txt, for example:
arm_freq=800 arm_freq_min=100 core_freq=300 core_freq_min=75 sdram_freq=400 over_voltage=0
The optional xxx_min lines define the min usage of their respective settings. When the system is not under load, the values will drop down to those specified. Consult the Overclocking article on elinux for additional options and examples.
A reboot is needed for new settings to take effect.
Users may query the current frequency of the CPU via this command:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
Serial Console
Edit the default /boot/cmdline.txt
Change loglevel to 5 to see boot messages
Change speed from 115200 to 38400
console=ttyAMA0,38400 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,38400
Start getty service
systemctl start getty@ttyAMA0
Enable on boot
systemctl enable email@example.com
Creating the proper service link:
ln -s /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service /firstname.lastname@example.com
Then connect :)
screen /dev/ttyUSB0 38400
pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev
Adjustments are likely required to correct proper overscan/underscan and are easily achieved in
boot/config.txt in which many tweaks are set. To fix, simply uncomment the corresponding lines and setup per the commented instructions:
# uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console # goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border #overscan_left=16 overscan_right=8 overscan_top=-16 overscan_bottom=-16
Users wishing to use the analog video out should consult this config file which contains options for non-NTSC outputs.
A reboot is needed for new settings to take effect.


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Edgewood District Veterans (EDV) Organization:
Purpose and Mission
After eight years, the Edgewood District Veterans, comprised of U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Air Force (Vietnam) veterans has grown in numbers and commitments.Today, there are 80 members, of which, 60 are active members. The group dedicates themselves to schedule and work annual fundraiser activities such as Golf Tournaments, Dances, Raffles, and sale of Spaghetti Dinners. The monies from these activities go toward the purchase of Thanksgiving food baskets, winter coats for children, school supplies, college Scholarships, and a general fund to use for unexpected costs and donations.Some accomplishments attributed to EDV include erecting a monument to honor all school district veterans who served during the Vietnam Era, 1959-1975; the renaming of Cenizo Park Elementary School to Roy Cisneros Elementary to honor the late USMC Sergeant awarded the Navy Cross and the Texas Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously. EDV also collaborated with Prairie View A&M University and the Edgewood Independent School District to assist with volunteers and trainers for their Take A Stand and Mentoring Programs.
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Whenever anyone asks me if they should self-publish, I always tell them no. There are numerous reasons why this is true, the all-encompassing one being a learning curve.
I believe that getting published is something you earn, not something you buy. Searching for an agent and an editor, getting rejected, learning about the business, understanding the importance of structure, rewriting, and editing---all of that helps writers grow. Plunking down 400 bucks for a POD press is like giving a ten-year-old a Driver's License. Things worthwhile in life should be difficult to acheive.
But there are exceptions. Sandy Tooley is one of them.
Sandy began her own publishing company, Full Moon Publishing, and she works harder than most writers who are published through the big houses. Her books are attractive, professional, and damn good reads.
I caught up with Sandy at a recent event, and asked her about what it takes to be successully self-published. Newbie writers take note--this is a far cry from Xlibris, and proof that there are no quick-fixes to making it in publishing.
JA: Tell us a little about your books.
SANDY: I combine mystery with paranormal, fantasy, a little sci-fi, and sometimes horror. My Sam Casey series features a Native American detective who can hear the dead speak. My Chase Dagger series (written as Lee Driver) features a hottie male detective assisted by an 18-year-old shapeshifter. She can shift into a hawk or wolf. Shapeshifting is part of Native American mythology.
JA: Why did you create Full Moon Publishing?
SANDY: Fifteen years ago agents weren't too comfortable with cross-genre plots. I was told to pick one--mystery or fantasy--but don't combine them. I couldn't pick, didn't want to pick. After doing the query letter two-step for five years and rewriting my first book three times, I started researching self-publishing. In order to write my kind of book it was evident to me I would have to publish it myself.
JA: What are the differences between starting your own publishing company, and using a POD press like PublishAmerica or I-Universe?
SANDY: For starters, the first is the true self-publisher. A writer who goes with a POD publisher pays a set-up fee but that is as far as his monetary investment toward the publishing phase goes. The writer who owns his own publishing company obtains a business license, purchases a block of ISBN numbers, obtains a Library of Congress number for each book, decides which printer to use, what type of design to put on the cover, whether the book will be a hardcover, trade paperback, or mass market paperback, and determines whether to use a distributor, order fulfillment house, or handle his own stocking, orders, and invoicing. He basically is a small business and operates as a small business whether he is producing widgets or books.
JA: What are some of the challenges of running your own press?
SANDY: Getting the books into the stores and promoting the titles are the two challenges. A couple years ago Ingram, who is one of the major wholesalers to bookstores, decided to cut out most of the small press accounts. A small press had to have a certain minimum amount of sales to Ingram to be in their system. Many of the large chains order only through Ingram and if your book isn't in their system, you won't find it in their stores. A small press usually means small press run. I have a 3,000 press run on hardcovers so it is logical that I am not going to have a $250,000 marketing budget. I have to be careful where I spend my dollars, what ads to place, what mailings to conduct. I knew early on that I wasn't going to be able to travel the country to promote my books so I focused most of my marketing efforts toward libraries.
JA: How much of your time do you spend writing vs. publishing and promotion?
SANDY: I use an order fulfillment house so I don't receive the orders nor do I process them or chase people for unpaid bills. They handle it all. Months before a new title comes out I do a lot of work getting my mailing lists targeted, ads produced, postcards mailed. I try to keep my publishing expenses separate from my author expenses (conferences, travel) so I haven't quit my day job. I work three to four days a week at a retail store. If I could take that 32 hours and donate it to writing, I'd get a lot more books written. Unfortunately, I spend more time at my part-time job than I do publishing, writing, or promoting.
JA: Your books are very attractive, on a par with the major publishing houses. How do you handle layout and cover art?
SANDY: When I was researching self-publishing, I visited bookstores, checking out the display books, determining what motivated me to pick up a book. Was it the color? The design? The title? I knew I was going to publish hardcovers so I focused on dust jackets, the layout, how the plot was described on the inside flaps. I also knew I was going to write a series so I wanted one constant on the jacket that would tell people this was a book in the Sam Casey or Chase Dagger series. Enter my graphic designer in Santa Fe, NM. He chose a medicine bundle for the Casey series and a dagger for the Chase Dagger series.
While I looked at books that attracted me, I also looked at books that didn't thrill me, trying to determine if the color was unappealing or the cover art too graphic, not graphic enough. Just by looking at the cover the reader should know a book is a mystery, not a travel guide.
JA: How do you go about getting reviewed?
SANDY: Connie Shelton has a great book titled, Publish Your Own Novel. She had a list of the major and secondary reviewers. Some of the major reviewers only review hardcovers, which also helped in my decision to publish hardcovers. Also, Connie stressed the importance of getting the review copy into the major reviewers hands at least four months prior to publication date. This is probably one of the major mistakes made by publishers. They fail to adhere to submission deadlines. There are many great secondary reviewers who only want the finished copy. I usually do a 100-200 print run of POD trade paperbacks of the new hardover which I send out to reviewers and independent mystery bookstores.
JA: Why do you publish under two names?
SANDY: Another suggestion Connie made in her book was to use a fictitious editor name because authors don't usually send out their own review copies to the major reviewers, nor should correspondence to Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and other vendors come from the author. And there are one or two of the major reviewers, mainly large newspapers, who will not review a self-published book.
JA: Have you ever thought of giving up the press and going the traditional publishing route?
SANDY: I keep making a plus and minus list. On the one hand it would have to be enough of an advance so I can quit my day job. The one book a year is a tough pace to keep if you still work 32-40 hours a week. I know some people do it and I'd love to know how (must only be men), between the cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, laundry...and I don't even have kids to take care of. On the other hand, I own all the rights to my books. I have sold the audiobook rights and large print rights. There are writers I love who have been cut by their publishers. It's frightening knowing if those great writers can't survive the budget cuts, how would a newbie fare?
JA: What's next for S.D. and Lee?
SANDY: I need my head examined for starters. I'm working on the fourth book in the Sam Casey and the Chase Dagger series plus I'm working on a new young adult mystery series, all simultaneously. Being a gemini, I keep thinking I can split myself into two or three people and still keep my sanity. I am entertaining the idea, though, of sending out my young adult mystery to a traditional publisher.
JA: Thanks, Sandy!
If anyone has more questions, contact Sandy through her website, www.sdtooley.com. And be sure to pick up her books to see how to do self-publishing the right way.
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Sentara, other systems to share patient information
Comprehensive electronic health records help maintain a complete picture of a patient's health. When primary care, specialists and hospital-based providers have access to a patient's entire medical history – from specific episodes of care to medications and chronic condition management plans - there is less duplication, time saved and ultimately lower cost in the delivery of care.
For patients in Hampton Roads, Va., secure access and information flow will soon be even more comprehensive. With four major health systems – Sentara, Bon Secours, Chesapeake General Hospital and Riverside Regional Health System - utilizing the same Epic EMR system, providers across the region will have a secure and seamless way to share important patient health information.
According to Kristen Clickner, vice president of Sentara Information Systems, Epic EMRs cover about 65 percent of patients across the country. Sentara has long exchanged patient health information with Epic and other providers from all over.
In addition to sharing information among Epic providers, Sentara has also been working to more seamlessly share data with the VA hospital and the Department of Defense - because all of this connectivity leads to better patient care.
While the sharing of data will help with patient care, patients ultimately have to give permission for access and there are safeguards in place to protect personal health information.


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February 05, 2014
Contact: Sammy Parks
Phone Number: (713) 693-3329
Brownsville Man Sentenced On Federal Drug Charges
Today, Senior U.S. District Judge Hilda G. Tagle sentenced Juarez to 31 months in federal prison. In handing down the sentence, Ruben Gonzalez-Cavazos aka Mume, also pleaded guilty in relation to the conspiracy and was sentenced to 47 months in federal prison and assessed a $15,000 fine on Feb. 3, 2014. Co-defendant Francisco Javier Maya, 35, went to trial last week in Brownsville and was convicted on all counts. He will be sentenced on May 13, 2014. Adolfo Lozano-Luna aka Chefero, 35, and Alberto Martinez aka El Diablo, 50, also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced at a later date.
Evidence at Maya's trial placed all five men in a conspiracy involving a 1,000 pound marijuana load, which was forcibly hijacked from them by unknown individuals on Dec. 11, 2012. One month later, Juarez was injured after an improvised explosive (IED) detonated at his residence in Brownsville. In sentencing Juarez today, Judge Tagle discussed the bombing incident and noted that at least he and his family still have their lives.
Evidence also linked Juarez, Gonzalez-Cavazos and Maya to other marijuana loads during the conspiracy. Maya's role in the drug trafficking organization was to provide drivers for tractor trailers to drive marijuana loads to locations to include Houston and Taylor. Maya, Juarez and Gonzalez-Cavazos would share in the profits of each successful marijuana load.
At the direction of Juarez, Maya provided bank account numbers associated with him and Gonzalez-Cavazos to Juarez in order to deposit drug profits. Juarez then made deposits stemming from narcotics proceeds from a successful marijuana load delivered to Taylor in November 2012. Evidence was presented at Maya's trial that a $6,000 deposit was made into an account associated with Maya on Nov. 28, 2012, while another $6,500 was deposited into an account associated with Gonzalez-Cavazos on the same day.
The jury last week also heard that Maya was a follower of the Santeria religion. The jury saw photos of Maya's residence in Mission, Texas, which depicted numerous images of what was considered to be altars showing glasses of alcohol, knives, a machete, kettles, feathers and substances that appeared to be blood. Testimony also included descriptions of two rituals involving the sacrifice of animals.
In December 2012, Maya had a Santeria priest, known as a "Padrino," perform rituals with the organization to "bless" a 1,000 pound marijuana load that was destined for Houston. After meeting with the Padrino, Maya, Gonzalez-Cavazos and Juarez decided the marijuana load should remain in the Rio Grande Valley. The next day, a second ritual, attended by all five defendants, was performed and the 1,000 pounds of marijuana was to be transported to Houston. However, the marijuana was stolen from the group by unknown individuals that evening. After the theft and subsequent IED detonation, law enforcement was able to piece together the events and conspirators involved in this drug trafficking organization.The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Brownsville Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Angel Castro and Jody Young.


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Police Investigating Shooting at Varsity Place Apartments Near UT Tyler
For the second time in less than a week, Tyler Police are working a crime scene at the Varsity Place Apartments located directly across the street of the University of Texas at Tyler.
Tyler Police Department Public information officer Don Martin says investigators are looking for a person who was shot by an apartment resident around 9:30a.m. Friday.
Martin says the 19-year-old who shot the person told officers he had prior contact with the shooting victim and felt threatened and thought he was going to be robbed when the shooting victim returned to the apartment and displayed a handgun.
The apartment resident also had a gun and shot the victim once in the upper torso before he fled the complex.
Police do believe the shooting is drug related and are questioning the apartment resident, but at this time no arrest have been made and police are contacting area hospitals to find out if a shooting victim is being treated.
Police were called to the complex early Tuesday morning to investigate an assault and robbery. Police are investigating todays shooting to see if there may be a connection to the assault and robbery earlier this week.
About four weeks prior, police were called to Cambridge Apartments, also near Varsity Place and UT Tyler, for a shooting that left two people seriously injured.
We will update with more information as it becomes available.


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Lime Curd
Makes about 1 cup
Note: Lime transforms an English classic into a fresh California version.
Finely grated zest of one lime
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
1/3 cup sugar
2 large eggs
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1. Whisk the zest, juice, sugar and eggs together until well-blended.
2. Warm a small heavy saucepan over low heat. Add butter and allow to melt. Whisk in lime mixture and raise heat to medium; cook, stirring constantly, for 5 to 7 minutes or until the mixture is quite thick, like pudding.
3. If needed to remove any curdled egg, push mixture through a mesh strainer (not too fine, or you'll remove the zest). Transfer the lime curd to a bowl or jam jar. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing directly onto the surface to prevent a skin from forming. Let cool, then refrigerate. Use within a week.
— Linda Wyner, owner, Pans on Fire!, Pleasanton


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Return of the Internet Vulgarian
If there is one takeaway from Vanity Fair's long profile of sordid FarmVille pimp Mark Pincus, it's that obnoxiously flaunting your funding and coarser instincts like a blowhard is threatening to come back into fashion, just like in 2000.
Pincus really likes his employees to feel the $250 million his videogames company Zynga reportedly raised in its last round:
On a recent evening in New York, Zynga threw an event at Deitch Projects, in SoHo, that felt like a party from 1999, with waiters passing out croissants on platters strewn with faux million-dollar bills... Photographs of Zynga employees' dogs were wheatpasted to the walls.
Meanwhile, Pincus put his heedless hustle on display for writer Vanessa Grigoriadis, explaining his wacky idea for the "Disaster Channel... with feeds from war-torn areas, like a Chechen helmet cam"; how he's "definitely friends" with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Zuckerberg apparently didn't comment); and how he demanded his wife—"the second we met"—consent to naming their then-hypothetical future daughters Carmen and Georgia.
Of course, Pincus does have his defenders, like NYU videogame professor Eric Zimmerman, who said of Zynga's games:
Millions of flies can't be wrong-if they're buzzing around shit, they're getting something from it.


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Pad Kee Mao.
Three magic words that can make me skip around in circles. Easily my favourite Thai food, I'm pretty much the informal PKM taster of the city. In fact, there are so many joints that dish up a killer PKM that I've hardly felt the need for attempting a recreation at home.
Until today. We had this hankering for chef-fin' it out. We wanted to be the masters of our own Pad Kee Mao destiny. For some reason, hitting Typhoon or Thin Pan just did not seem enough. So, we embarked on this PKM journey. It was our first time working with those crazy wide rice noodles. When we first saw this dense package in the refrigerated section of Uwajimaya, we weren't quite sure if that was what we wanted - where were the ribbons or pieces of noodles? This just looked like a giant brick! Well, guess we'd have to figure it out. We loaded up on thai basil, a slew of vegetables and sauces and got to work! :)
The insanely delicious drunken noodles is a multi-step dish - with a fascinating assortment of sauces and spice - tamari, soy sauce, oyster sauce, white soy sauce (or fish sauce), red chillies, thai bird chillies, the list goes on!
So, we have to talk about our pitfalls upfront here. For some bizarre reason, we decided to try some additional seasoning here and went for a spoon of chili bean paste. *bad* idea. Don't even try it. I mean, this might work well with other szechuan dishes, but it is not a thai flavour by any means. And the bean bits add a weird flavour to drunken noodles. So, don't do it. Don't.
(Which is why I've excluded it from the recipe.)
Servings: 4
7-8 oz wide rice noodles (sen-yai)
1/2 cup firm tofu - cubed
3 cloves garlic - finely chopped
1 small onion - sliced long
3 T white rice vinegar
3 T white soy sauce (See-yew Khaaw)
4 T palm sugar
3 T lime juice
2 T tamari
4-5 T vegetarian oyster sauce
2 T ground dried red chillies
2 green jalapenos - finely chopped
1 small thai chilli - chopped (Prik Kee Nuu Suan)
7-8 broccoli florets
7-8 cauliflower florets
2 small carrots - sliced
1 tomato - cut into eighths
1 baby bok choy - chopped
1 cup fresh thai basil leaves
2 T peanut oil
1/2 cup egg whites
Soak sen-yai noodles in water for 15 mins. Place soaking sen-yai noodles on the stove and bring to very slow boil, removing the sen-yai noodles while they are still firm (after about 10 minutes). Drain with cold water and set aside.
Spray the tofu chunks with oil spray and stick them under a broiler till browned.
Blanch the broccoli, cauliflower and carrots in a pot of boiling water for 3-4 minutes till al dente.
Heat the oil in a wok and saute the garlic till it starts to brown.
Throw in the onions along with the jalapenos and saute briefly.
Add the scrambled egg whites and saute a bit longer.
Now throw in the rice vinegar, dried chillies, lime juice, sugar and white soy sauce
Turn the heat to high and let the sauce thicken.
Once the sauce reduces, add the thai basil leaves along with bok choy, oyster sauce and tamari.
Saute for a couple more minutes before adding the blanched vegetables.
Add the cooked noodles and tofu and saute for 4-5 minutes on medium heat. Keep tossing the ingredients to mix the sauce completely with the noodles and vegetables.
Top with the tomatoes and cilantro before serving. Maybe even garnish with sliced green onions or chopped garlic or jalapenos.
*mediocre*. Firstly, we killed the drunken high by adding that damn chili bean paste. That was a serious mistake. It'll never happen again! But the main issue here was that we're so damn stuffed from the flu that plagued us for the past week that our sense of smell is still on vacation. And that in turn is still greatly hampering our taste buds. *grr*. Even a nice dose of spicy thai chillies couldn't quite fix it! Another thing we did, as odd as it may sound - we used too many vegetables! Next time around, we're only going with broccoli and some carrots, no cauliflower - that's a bit of an overkill in our PKM.
So, we didn't end up being the Iron Chef of PKM. We barely got drunk on our noodles! But we learned our lessons. And the PKM flame burns bright now - we're itching to try it again :)


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Latino Journalists' Group Blasts Fox News Over Undocumented Immigrant Smear
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The National Association of Hispanic Journalists has condemned Fox News for smearing the American children of undocumented immigrants as "Children of the Corn." In a post on the association's website, NAHJ president Hugo Balta wrote that the segment was not only "disappointing" but that there "were many things wrong" with it.
In a September 19 segment on Fox News' Special Report, guest host Chris Wallace discussed new data from Los Angeles County officials showing that an "estimated 100,000 children of 60,000 undocumented parents receive aid" in the county. The total aid is projected to cost about $650 million by year's end.
During the segment, several graphics bearing the image of a man appearing to vault over a border fence lined with barbed wire flashed on-screen. Text accompanying the graphic read "Children of the Corn" and "Alien Nation."
In his post criticizing the segment, Balta stated:
There were many things wrong with this segment, beginning with the use of the derogatory term "illegal immigrant" and undocumented in the same breath as if these terms are interchangeable -- of course they're not. That inaccuracy was compounded by the use of a graphic that read "Children of the Corn". There have been many speculations as to what this meant -- but one thing is certain it invoked a negative image.
Balta further stated that NAHJ has reached out to Fox "in an effort to get a better understanding of how this segment, riddled with basic misinformation and disdainful images made air." He then asked which journalists had allowed such a derogatory segment to appear on air, writing, "Experience has shown that most likely none were representative of the Latino community."
After noting the economic impact of the Latino community, Balta concluded: "Stick to the facts."
As The Huffington Post noted, NAHJ has campaigned against the media's use of the term "illegal immigrant" for years. In an October 2012 op-ed for Fox News Latino arguing that "human beings are not illegal," Balta wrote that the term, along with "illegal aliens" and "illegals," are "demeaning titles" that "are not only inaccurate and disrespectful, but a propaganda tool used to dehumanize a group of people and instill fear in the general population in order to establish policy."
Fox News has a long history of inflammatory attacks on immigrants. In fact, a Media Matters analysis of Fox News prime-time coverage found that, between November 2012 and February 2013, hosts and guests repeatedly used anti-immigrant terms to discuss immigrants.
In May 2012, Fox News host Geraldo Rivera called on media to stop using dehumanizing terms for undocumented immigrants. He told Media Matters at the time that he had made his opposition to such phrases "very, very clear" to Fox employees "from top to bottom," but stopped short of any further direct criticism of the network.
Fox News hosts however have defended and continue to use such slurs even though they have acknowledged that the "language of dealing with Latinos has to be changed."
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