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Have you heard about this guy Obama? Wrote a book about his brilliant but absentee father? Ran for office promising hope and change? No, no, not the leader of the free world. Not that guy. Meet Malik Obama. He's Barack's older-by-three-years brother; he's sure he can save the people of Kenya, if only they'd let him; and he wants you to know that he's the one true heir to the Obama name
Being an American President's sibling is complicated enough without the press forever reminding everyone that you're merely his half brother—and on this mercilessly hot day in Kenya, that is what's bothering Abon'go Malik Obama. Peering across the big desk in his small office, he makes it clear that he is piqued. "Everyone's referring to us as half, quarter…step, things like that," he says, displeased even by the taste of those words. "I think that's like weights and measures. This didn't even occur to us until he became president, until he gained prominence. And now we're sort of like celebrities.
"But this is a streak of ignorance," he adds. "Here in Africa we don't think of each other as 'half' this or that. In an extended family, someone is your brother even if he is just in your clan. So I…am Obama."
It is just before the rainy season, and Malik, a politician like his younger brother, is in the final hours of the race to be the governor of the southwestern county of Siaya.
Malik has taken a page from American campaigning in that, during this last, long sprint of the race, he has made it his task to be seen absolutely everywhere—just seen—and he isn't even whistle-stopping to give speeches. He is covering ground along the dusty stripes that pass for roads here, and shining his famous name one more time upon his people. Malik's campaign slogan, fittingly, is "Obama Here, Obama There."
But today is a legal day of rest for all "aspirants," as Kenyans refer to their candidates. Malik is at the world headquarters of one of his life's grand endeavors, the Barack H. Obama Foundation—named for his father, he assures me, not his brother. Far from resting, he's performing his tour de force of a man with things to do, conferring via cell phone with his campaign manager, shuffling notes, seeing to things—all in the hope of working to cure what he sees as "a society of the filthy rich and the dirt poor."
To my surprise, there are no other Western journalists, no other Western people, anywhere around to observe Barack Obama's brother. That may be because the last time national elections were held, five years ago, political mistrust and sheer tribal rage led to the deaths—often by hacking—of more than 1,000 and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of luckier people. No one knows if a slaughter will happen again this time. So it's just me here, one potentially stupid guy. Malik seems utterly baffled to see me.
At 55, Malik is six feet two and hale. He stands with the slight stoop of an older man, a man of burdens. His walking pace is stately but also dutiful-seeming, as though he's reluctantly climbing onstage to receive an award for something.
"My voice has given up," he intones, to start. "There is dust all over the place here."
You might have heard Malik's name in late May, when the IRS scandal hit and the abnormally happy folks at Fox & Friends took the opportunity to rip into his charity. Indeed, there are some shady-seeming details—namely, that as of 2011 the foundation wasn't registered in the States as a nonprofit group but for years had been presenting itself as one, and that when it did apply for tax-empt status, it was approved quickly and retroactively. The heavy implication was that the American Obama had had a role in this, a charge that bordered on the ridiculous.
During a phase of their lives, Malik and Barack Obama were close. Over a span of fourteen years, on and off, Malik worked Stateside, mostly as an accountant, for Lockheed, Fannie Mae, and the American Red Cross. Being in the U.S. allowed Malik to spend some real time with his brother—even if history, geography, and who-knows-what-other would eventually fray that bond. In the day, Malik says, the two were even best men at each other's weddings.
Ask Malik how often he and his brother talk nowadays and he boasts that it's about once a year, as though that's proof of their intimate bond. "Of course we're close!" Malik says, just a bit too loudly. "I'm the one who brought him here to Kogelo in 1988! I thought it was important for him to come home and see from whence his family came—you know, his roots."
Malik Obama would like you to understand that he's a Man Who Knows People, and in his dwindling hours as an aspirant, he goes right ahead and makes an argument for nepotism—or, if not direct nepotism, then the benefits of fortuitous associations. His overt offer to his county's voters is that, as a man who walks through doors, he might bring some desperately needed funding to Siaya. After all, if your rivals accuse you of trading off your family name, this is the only course. To embrace it as a strength.
"You know, when my brother was elected president of the United States," Malik says, "electricity came here to Kogelo in three days flat. This road that you see was commissioned in three days flat. That electrical transformer you see out the window? Days! There is paved road all the way up to our home, piped water all the way to our home. The whole neighborhood has water. So the resources are there; it's just a matter of how to allocate them. And it's not a matter of 'Obama'—but in this case, it was!"
Although the American president grew up under the more benevolent sun of Hawaii, inevitably his admirers and detractors will always remember his Kenyan connection. And that part of his story played out, will always play out, right here, in Siaya, the Obamas' ancestral home. This has become an old chestnut of our political discourse and late-night comedy, yet no one attends to the particulars.
No one peers too closely at the younger Barack's mind-bendingly vast family tree, one whose branches are multiplied not only by the Kenyan sense of "extended family" but also by the vexing math of polygamy. (Malik himself has anywhere between three and twelve wives, depending on what newspaper you favor; he also tells me that it is taboo in his Muslim beliefs to count his children.) Few tourists ever come to Siaya, where more than one person jokingly offers to show me "where Barack Obama was born." Even the 408-page Lonely Planet book Kenya, quite literally the book on Kenya, never once mentions Siaya by name.
The Obama homeland is not the Kenya in your mind. It is not "safari Kenya." There are no breathtaking vistas to showcase wildlife's more elegant violence; you are never in danger of slamming your car into a gazelle, cheetah, or water buffalo. This is the bush, neither meadowed nor lush, a greedy muddle of dust and shrubbed mountains, and the thousands who are stuck here forever.
Kogelo, the town nearest to the foundation, is sometimes referred to as "a village on the shores of Lake Victoria." But, oh, the hollow comedy of that phrase. You could live your entire life here, as many do, and never see Lake Victoria. By the same measure, you might never see your own town center—which, here, usually means a meager row of six-by-ten-foot corrugated tin shacks advertising themselves as electronics stores, churches, hotels, pubs, petrol stations that also sell school uniforms and church gowns, and mystery huts marked only by signs that read "Jesus Is Lord Traders, Best Prices!" The most reliable proofs that this place even exists in a modern world are the ubiquitous Coca-Cola logos, which have been punished into tatters by the heat, like everything else.
The Barack H. Obama Foundation seems untouched by the poverty of the rest of the district. There is a small grouping of faded orange houses and the airy gazebo with its rose-colored tin roof, and on each of the entry gates is a plaque emblazoned with initials. On one, "AMO" signifies the founder, Abon'go Malik Obama; the other bears a "BHO," for the lost father whose memory is the place's spiritual source. This is the picture postcard of Siaya one would send to someone who is never coming to visit Siaya. The foundation's mission, Malik says, is to provide: for widows, for those who need footbridges, for people in Siaya who just want the little things, such as clean water and the extravagance of electrical power—and that's everyone.
The two brothers, raised a world apart, share a desire to serve, which at first holds the promise of illumination. But over the course of our conversations, Malik's and mine, there's always something vague, or at least dimly lit, about his real motives. One moment, he'll tell you that his role stems from duty to his countrymen. Other times, his younger brother becomes the catalyst for Malik's return to Kenya five years ago. "If my brother could be elected president of the United States," he says, "why can't I do something for my people? Or"—here he dramatically raises his tone to pull you in—"for mankind?"
At times, ostensibly referring to qualities of leadership, Malik will declare, "It's all in the genes!" And once in a while, when he hits his stride, you can hear his brother's music in his speech. "During these elections, many people came to me and suggested—insisted!—that I run for president," he says. "The name I have is not small. And it's not just the biggest name: The nature of it has opened up the frontiers! With an Obama as president of the United States of America, it has brought to life the visions, the aspirations, the embodiment of the Founding Fathers. In their document, everything now has come to fruition and has become fully realized."
But just as often, he lapses into a clunky, rhetorical Esperanto: "I followed the character-building qualities passed down by my dad. 'You are the best, yes!' he would say. 'But you still come down here and mingle! You can dine with kings, then come home. Keep your head in the sky, but your feet on the ground. Fly with the eagles, but also walk with the turtles!' " This is exactly when my American eyes involuntarily squint and I realize that soaring oratory isn't necessarily a genetic trait.
No surprise, then, that in Malik's campaign platform, you could never hear a tagline as swift and lyrical as "Hope and Change." Instead he serves up "poverty eradication, infrastructure, and industrialization." Industrialization is a uniquely Malikian flourish, pure bravado, going a pledge too far. He has even boasted to one newspaper that he'd like to bring a McDonald's to Siaya. But there will be a McDonald's on the moon before there is one here.
**Back in 2008, **despite the success of Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama conveyed a rather parentless aura of cool. On the stump, he never seemed to mention even having had a father. He came from nowhere and everywhere, as if sui generis. (Which, politically, near enough, he was.) But Malik refers constantly to his father, and how his father would want things, and how the foundation, the charity, and his personal mission are all about his father, and "should my father ever come back," he says, "I'd like to hear a sigh of relief: Yes!"
The elder Barack left Nairobi when Malik was a year old to attend the University of Hawaii—where he fathered his namesake—and then Harvard. Starting with his return to Kenya in 1964, as Malik tells it, the family "lived in a house made of glass, and were on top!" But eventually the old man alienated, or became alienated by, the government he served as a "senior economist" and entered into a life whose main features seem to have been deep drinking and automobile accidents, the latter of which killed him in 1982.
Malik's own biography, Barack Obama Sr.: The Rise and Life of a True African Scholar, hits the perfect non-ironic note about his father. "His passion was education, honesty, and perfection. He had lofty ideals and was generous and kind. He had his shortcomings, as is natural for all of us," he writes.
For Malik, his father is a man to be revered and invoked at every turn. And he would have you believe that he is, if not the embodiment of the original Barack, then the legitimate fulfillment of him. In the States, for instance, Malik was merely an accountant; here, like his father before him, he is "an economist."
In the primal calculus of patriarchy, Malik has been cheated. He is the firstborn, but fate has cast him in a much smaller role, scarcely a cameo. It doesn't matter what Malik wants: His only choices are to bask in his younger brother's glow or to languish in his shadow. So he takes a middle way, offering himself as a leader on his side of the planet—the non-Western Obama franchise. He simultaneously argues that Barack is the source of his power and that Barack is irrelevant to it.
"For my campaign symbol, I have chosen the Sun!" Malik suddenly says, quite happily. "I want light during the day, and I want light at night. Providing electrical power is essential. This vision is very dear to my heart."
One correction: Barack Obama is the Sun of the family, no matter the year of his birth. There's just no denying that. On Malik's best day, he might reflect a little light onto his own realm. So if anything, he's moonlight—a middleman of light—but unfortunately, moonlight won't make the maize grow.
So the fraternal relationship between Malik and Barack, what there was of it, now seems fractured. In the dedication of Malik's owntome, of the twenty-three people specifically listed (along with everyone who is "making this world a better place"), President Obama's name is not included. The late Muammar Qaddafi gets an unexplained tip of the hat—but not Barack.
"At the end of the day," Malik says expansively, "I want someone to remember Malik for the bridge that he built, to remember Malik for the town hall, to remember Malik for the well he dug. I want something for my legacy. I have a name. I can walk into the White House whenever I want to."
He seems to catch himself, remembering his audience, and goes modest: "Of course, I have to make an appointment. Then the man is not there. No one is home!"
On his way to a grandiose theory of what has happened to the Obamas, Malik simply refuses to be a bit player, and sometimes seems to circumvent his brother entirely. He earnestly claims that while Washington is the capital of America, Siaya is now "the capital of the world," the source of it all—of the family God chose to bring equality to the human race. Whatever comes next, Barack H. Obama II isn't necessarily the center of that plan.
"This is not even about him anymore," Malik says, as usual avoiding his brother's name. "It's an act of God! Each of us will make a difference in somebody's life."
Here, very much to my surprise, Malik issues a curt and conclusive "Thank you," as if he has just finished a speech and I am applauding my heart out. But neither of those things has happened. In the awkward pause that follows, now he's got nowhere to go. He's trapped behind his desk, and I'm just not rushing to move. Still, he's been generous with his thoughts—so I do the polite thing and muster up a bit of finishing small talk. I make a dumb joke about the White House never taking my calls, and Malik booms after me, "Keep trying! Keep hope!"
Election day dawns at 3 a.m., with tribal songs in the streets, but on a more practical level, people are already starting to line up at the polling stations. On the Citizen TV news network, the specter of violence is hanging over everything. The star anchor has taken to lyrical appeals: "If you feel like slaughtering something, slaughter chickens. If you feel like burning something, burn wood."
By midmorning, the heat is absolute. Boys stroll among the crowds, peddling bottles of water by the hundreds. In the tectonically slow queue, voters chug down their water and hurl the plastic bottles into the dirt of the field without even watching them tumble away; Kenya is a place where people still litter with gusto.
Everyone is adrenalized, including me. I can't get out of my head a story I heard from Steve Omondi, the 30-year-old Kenyan who's acting as my driver, translator, and all-around fir. During the last election, Steve wasn't shuttling journalists around. "I was driving lorries filled with bodies—with corpses," he says blankly. "It was…it was very bad. One woman wouldn't let go of a parcel she was carrying. This was her husband's head. The only part of him she could carry."
On this day, I don't even have the distraction of watching Malik vote. His campaign staff has declared that I don't have the "right credentials"—which in Siaya could mean absolutely anything—and denied me entry to his polling station. So, banished to Kisumu, the nearest city, I wander the streets.
It's surprising that most people seem only vaguely aware of Malik's gubernatorial bid. Many voters I've asked aren't even sure who he is. It certainly doesn't help that he is running as an independent. "He isn't even running with the Independent party," one student complains to me. "He's running as an independent person. How do you expect to be anywhere like that?"
To my astonishment, the people who have heard of Malik regard him coolly. Fred Odianga, 27, quietly allows that Malik is "a respected man," then, like everyone else, adds that he has "known him for five years."
That's the exact, repeated phrase from everybody—"known him for five years"—and it sounds like a simple enough fact, until it becomes clear that this is meant to be a gentle rebuke to Malik. Five years is a very short time to be in Siaya and not nearly enough time to truly be of it.
Some are more explicit. A guy I meet named Peter Odhiambo moves quickly past "Everyone has known Malik for five years" to get to "Within this region, we have people who have been politicians for quite a long time. Those are the fathers of this region. So you can't just come in here from somewhere else and say you should get something!"
It's a cruel irony that Malik sees himself, or paints himself, as a prodigal son who has returned in triumph to his familial home yet is regarded as a newcomer, even an interloper.
Imagine the absurd symmetry of it: In the States, Barack Obama is mistrusted by a few last jungle-soldier-like holdouts as a virtual Kenyan. Malik's identity as an actual Kenyan has been tainted by too many years in the States. That's right: _Malik's got a Birther problem. _This family just can't catch a break.
About Malik's long-range plan to run for president of Kenya, voters are merciless. I ask an official election observer what she thinks of his odds—say, even in ten years. She draws a quick breath and says, "Pffhhftthh. In a pipe dream, maybe. Maybe that's 'the audacity of hope'!"
Night comes quietly. Roughly 86 percent of the country's 14.3 million registered voters have waited, commonly seven or eight hours, in the queues. No mobs gather; no Kikuyu cross a border, wielding machetes to liberate the arms of their Luo enemies.
The day, of course, won't be without its bad beats. Malik will pull 2,792 votes, give or take, but that will still comprise only 1 percentage point of the total. Everyone has known that outcome for weeks—except, perhaps, Malik.
Two days after the election, Malik breaks our appointment to meet again, his private secretary suddenly claiming that her boss has "gone away" to "Nairobi." Soon she stops picking up my calls, then switches off her phone entirely. Malik has done the same. Maybe he just can't face the sheer totality of his loss and needs a change of scenery.
Still, I decide to haul all the way out to the foundation anyway. Why not? I can document the empty pink gazebo. And yet, upon my arrival, who should be in his office, sitting so very still, but the Great Man himself?
As I pop my head into his doorway, Malik emits an awkward little cough. We both now understand that I must pretend I never heard his many brush-offs—we have a new social contract—but he really commits. "Ha-ha!" he almost speaks, hollowly. "Where did you disappear to?"
Malik asks to have one more moment of privacy, _ahem_s again, then plods into the hallway and sits near me in a flimsy plastic chair. I take this as a blaring signal that he wants my presence to be hallway-brief, not office-long. I am officially passing through. Malik seems tired, if not a little stunned by the demise of his campaign.
"So…I am number three," he finally says philosophically, breathing deep and summing up the poll results. "The people have spoken. I do not entirely agree with their choice—but the people have spoken."
He dictates a brief postmortem about the election. "There were no similarities between my brother's campaign and mine," he reminds me. "I ran as an independent on meager resources. He had a war chest. But I would do nothing differently. I'm just excited that I gave it my best shot—and I had my father in mind. I was holding the fort! I was here, to stand up for my family on this side of the world."
Talk of the defeat always seems to find its way back to Malik's lack of funds. "One aspirant had a helicopter," he says, widening his eyes at the sheer temerity of it. "But I am an economist. I know I must live within my means!"
Most of all, Malik is stung by the voters' "interloper" remarks. If he's a carpetbagger, that's news to him.
"Bullshit!" he says immediately upon hearing these accusations. "That's bullshit. The other politicians don't even live here. They're in Nairobi—they live in Nairobi! I have an investment here."
He's also not thrilled with other press he's been getting lately: namely, that his newest wife was a high-school student whose mother strongly objected to the marriage. Granted, these allegations were published in the pulp-fiction Daily Mail in the U.K., along with a rather promiscuous, unsourced claim that much of Malik's foundation monies come from "Muslim connections in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Sudan, and Yemen."
"That story about the woman is bullshit, too," he says, still managing to sound stately. "That woman and I talk. I sent her some money. She wants to come back! But, look: You can also read in a newspaper that I'm 'the richest man in Kenya'—based on this recreation center!"
I ask if he's had any word from Washington. "It's not a priority to talk to him anytime soon," Malik says flatly. "The whole campaign, he didn't give me a call."
Despite the frosty mention of his American brother, I ask if he has plans to go to Washington. "Maybe tomorrow!" he says brightly. "I just come and go. Just the other day I was in India."
Make no mistake. Here is not a man who is broken or has just watched his political future vanish. He has every intention of running for governor again in five years. And those plans for the presidency? He doesn't hesitate: "Definitely!"
As a man who is welcomed into the offices of the mighty, he says he feels worst for the people who are "stuck here." And he hopes people know him for the good he has done, will do, if only as Malik: the wells, those "homes for widows," and the many bridges he has had built. These are his legacy.
Yet when I finally return to the States and get in touch with all sorts of people, any attempts at documenting Malik's acts of charity will fall short. All those houses for widows, those bridges to walk on, and that well for the primary school will become objects of real mystery and uncertainty. E-mails and calls to Malik about how last year's budget, a reported $250,000, was allocated—and, for that matter, in which countries it was raised—will go unanswered. Even in Kenya, the name of his foundation elicits a good bit of confusion. Of the nonprofits I called about Malik, none seem to know what the foundation does, or is, or _gets. _Malik himself seems to have gone to ground. For all I know, he might be hunkered down in Kogelo, or in India again, or even in an outer office of the West Wing, trying to get access. There is only radio silence.
But on that afternoon back in Siaya, before the rains come, Malik is still a public man. He rises with dignity out of his little plastic chair. In our last moments together, almost as an afterthought, he asks if I've seen the room across the hall. I have not. Malik seems even more statesman-like than usual. "It's the Exhibition Room," he says very proudly. "This is the Exhibition Room."
After speaking the phrase a third time in an almost reverential whisper_—"the Exhibition Room!"—_he pushes the door open slowly, to sharpen the drama.
Inside is a completely empty room with a red floor. It looks like a Stanley Kubrick set rendered in miniature. There are no books or even a chair. There are only the photographs on the walls, a shrine to Malik and his connections. To a man who has never stolen power, but has borrowed a little from time to time.
There are many shots of Malik with his brother, naturally: at Barack's wedding, and in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, park. There is Malik with his father. There's his father, pensive and alone, in a 1950s black-and-white studio-quality head shot.
There are a handful of photos, of different situations, showing Malik with Qaddafi. "Me and my friend," he says cryptically, padding out the door. In a clumsy attempt to be polite, I say something consoling about the dictator's gruesome end.
"It's a part of life!" Malik calls over his shoulder. He emits a sad little chuckle, then vanishes for the final time into his office.
I spend a few minutes in the room alone. Staring at the walls, taking pictures of the pictures. While he's back on the phone, dealing with the chaos of the future, it occurs to me that the Exhibition Room is the architectural version of Malik Obama's public life: itself an aspirant, showing all the glories of the predictable past, uncluttered by everything except the famous people he has known, and has felt the glow of.
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UPDATE (3:30 p.m.) It's a prank by Jimmy Kimmel
Over in Sochi, while Olympians have gotten accustomed to their lodging and have gotten friendly with the neighbors, there are still some problems.
Like a possible wolf that's walking around one of the dorms in Sochi. The video was captured by American luger Kate Hansen, who spotted the big canid walking around her dorm.


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Monday, May 29, 2006
An RDF Revelation
I've read the W3C RDF Primer before; several times, I think. The first thing that struck me this time was a simple fact I know I'd read before but that I'd forgotten--that an object can be a either a URIref or a literal (a URI referencing a definition elsewhere, or a string containing a human-readable value). This means the strict machine-readable definitions of things RDF strives to achieve is potentially only half there--only the predicate (relationship between the subject and object) is expected to be a reference to a presumably shared source. I assume this option exists for ease of use. Certainly building up an infrastructure that allows for all values to be referenced rather than declared represents unreasonable startup time. This sort of thing is better done in an evolutionary fashion rather than forcing it to happen at the start; a reasonable decision on the part of RDF.
RDF contains some other constructs to make things easier, for example, blank nodes to group a set of nodes (or, in the words of the primer, provide "the necessary connectivity"). Blank nodes are a further feature that allow lack of formal identification of entities. The primer discusses a case using a blank node to describe a person, rather than relying on a URI such as an email address as an identifier for that person. A convenient feature, certainly, but also a step away from the formal structures envisioned in Semantic Web Nirvana.
So now I'm looking at the whole XML vs. RDF discussion much more as a continuum rather than opposing philosophical perspectives. The general tenor of RDF is that it expects everything to be declared in an extremely formal manner. But there are reasonable exceptions to that model, and RDF seems to make them. I'd argue now that both RDF and XML represent practical compromises. Both strive for interoperability in their own way. It's just a question of degree whether one expects a metadata creator to check existing vocabularies, sources, and models for individual concepts (RDF-ish) or for representing entire resources (XML-ish). I see the value of RDF for use in unpredictable environments. Yet I'm still not convinced our library applications are ready for it yet. The reality is that libraries are still for the most part sharing metadata in highly controlled environments where some human semantic understanding is present in the chain somewhere (even in big aggregations like OAIster). (Of course, if we had more machine-understandable data, that human step would be less essential...)
I'm a big champion of two-way sharing of metadata between library sources and the "outside world." I just don't think the applications that can make use of RDF metadata for this purpose are yet mature enough to make it worth the extra development time on my end. And, again, the reality is that it really would take significant extra development time for me. The metadata standards libraries use are overwhelmingly XML-based rather than RDF-based. XML tools are much more mature than RDF tools. I fully understand the power of the RDF vision. But this is one area I just can't be the one pushing the envelope to get there.
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Hmm, I'm not sure I understand the idea of an 'XML vs RDF debate'. Although I'm fairly new to both XML and RDF.
I mean, isn't the most common way to encode RDF _as_ XML? XML is a transmission/encoding format, which a variety of metadata vocabularies ( can be encoded in (as well as a variety of other structured data, not just metadata vocabularies!). RDF is a metadata vocabulary (of a certain generalized type, meant to accomplish certain fairly ambitious goals in a machine environment) which can be encoded in various ways, XML being one of them.
I don't understand the idea of an XML vs. RDF debate. It sounds to me like talking about a "DC vs. XML debate", which wouldn't make any more sense. Can anyone point me to this debate being engaged in online, so I can understand what the debate is about?
RDF seems awfully useful to me. I suspect that it will continue to catch on, and eventually be a well adopted standard. I hope that the library world continues to get more engaged in RDF, to help it develop, and to not be left behind if/when it does reach the tipping point. But we certainly shouldn't put all our eggs in one basket.
Either way, XML is obviously here to stay, RDF or no. RDF will typically be expressed in RDF.
Am I missing something?
Just discovered your blog, great blog, thanks.
PS: I probably should have called RDF a 'metadata language' rather than 'vocabulary'. Somewhat more accurate. Consensus terminology for talking about these things isn't quite there.
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I agree with you it's not necessarily an either/or thing. RDF definitely has an XML serialization available for use.
But in the library world, we tend to record metadata (and other stuff) in XML using XML languages defined by XML DTDs and/or W3C XML Schemas (RelaxNG hasn't caught on too much in the library world yet). We don't tend to use RDF semantics because in general (waaaaay oversimiplifying here, calm down everyone) library types don't see the extra work to move to RDF with the greater degree of explicitness it entails as worth the investment. XML with W3C XML Schema lets us do some interesting stuff. RDF in XML (or any other encoding of RDF) would let us do more, but we're not sure if taking the leap will pay off.
Isn't there a DTD and/or W3 Schema for RDF as serialized/encoded in XML?
But I see what you're saying that RDF hasn't caught on in the library world.
Still seems to me like "to use RDF or not" is a better description than "RDF or XML".


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Devyn Absher, a 2013 graduate of Oregon High School, will be attending Augustana this fall and plans on being a member of Coach Mark Beinborn's Viking basketball program.
The 5' 6" Absher won three varsity letters in basketball, 2 at OHS and 1 at Ashton-Franklin Center.
As a senior at Oregon, she averaged 7.0 points and 4.1 rebounds and shot 43 percent from the field for
Coach Kristy Eckardt's Lady Hawks. She earned all-area honorable mention from Sauk Valley Media.
In volleyball, Absher earned three varsity letters, multiple team MVP awards and first team All-Big Northern Conference West honors as a senior. Her coach at Oregon was Christy Sitze.
In track & field, coached by Lynn Ahlgrim, Oregon, Absher earned 2 varsity letters after earning 2 at AFC.
She was also the Lady Hawks' Most Outstanding performer for two years and served as a team captain as a senior.
Absher joins a Viking program that has compiled a 512-452 record in 39 seasons of intercollegiate competition.
Augustana has won five CCIW championships and made seven NCAA Division III and four AIAW tournament appearances.
The 2013-14 season will be Beinborn's second as the Vikings' head coach.


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Hello, which one should i choose. hd2900 with 1 gb ddr4 or 8800gtx
i play on 1900x1200 resolution so would be hd2900 with 1gb better choose? thanks
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AMD Windows Catalyst 7.8 will have some nice performance improvements for the HD 2900 series, so I still would recommend buying the AMD card.
The next highend card will be a dual RV670 board, I'm wondering about the power it needs.
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Im hoping AMD will release a 65nm R600 based card in Q4 to compete with G90. Should drop power consumption a bit and hopefully there will be a cut down high mid-end part(like the X1950pro)
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I live in Germany.
The HD 2900 XT is a bit more expensive than the 8800 GTS (~ 325 € since launch), yes, but without AA/AF it is even faster than the 8800 GTX. And with AA/AF, performance is nearly the same (it has improved a lot with the recent driver updates). And the 1 GB version of the Radeon HD 2900 XT that the thread opener can get is known to be faster than the normal one.
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AMDs Radeon HD 2900 XT is not overprized
in my country 8800 (the cheaper model) costs 80% of average monthly earnings. the GTX one costs ~150% - 250% of monthly average pay.
2900XT costs ~90% of average monthly pay. or more.
i earn 60% of average monthly pay. how's that?
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AMDs Radeon HD 2900 XT is not overprized. I would buy the AMD one. Why? 'Cause I'm an AMD/ATI-Fan, never had problems (outside the fglrx driver) and Made in Germany > Made in China.
If you're running Linux only, you'll have to wait two or more months before you buy the AMD card, because we can't say when it will be supported by fglrx at the moment.
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older generation cards are much more cost-effective and perform just as good with HD video. (i can watch hd with no problems on x1300 card).
there's no point running after newest gfx cards, because they're overpriced right now.
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Originally posted by slava View PostHello, which one should i choose. hd2900 with 1 gb ddr4 or 8800gtx
i play on 1900x1200 resolution so would be hd2900 with 1gb better choose? thanks
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With the current state of the drivers under Linux one can only recommend Nvidia (actually, not-recommend ATI, which only leaves Nvidia).
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The lesson of this story is to tell the truth and not lie. The illustrations in the book were very neat. My favorite part was when Nancy, Bess and George were acting very rich. I liked this part because they were speaking in a funny accent. This book is part of a series called Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew. It is very similar to the books in the series because it has the same characters. I wonder what it was like in Nancy`s school.
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Because we have ordered items via mail order catalogs in the past, they come now en mass, particularly from specialty houses. I counted twelve in one day's mail, including Martha Stewart, what I call "flufoo coffee," fruit baskets, travel clothes—you imagine it and there is a catalog for it. We brought this upon ourselves of course, which makes it especially important that I deposit them in the recycle bin.
Judy looks through most of them, and still orders from a few, but eventually all go into that conscious salving recycle receptacle that is supposed to help save a few trees somewhere, with apologies, of course, to timber growers, pulpwood cutters and haulers, and paper makers. See—you can't do, or not do, anything anymore without offending or hurting someone.
Anyway, this catalog business runs deeper than slick marketing. The first catalog measured and weighed a good deal more than its modern imitators. It advertised the goods of Montgomery Ward, founded in 1881 and the first mail-order business that catered to rural customers who could not visit retail stores conveniently.
Sears, Roebuck entered the market before the end of the century. Considered together, the catalogs of these two mail-order houses proved as revolutionary as Tom Paine's Common Sense or Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. Here's why:
In the 1880s, isolated farmers found themselves squeezed by falling prices for what they produced, rising prices for what they purchased, and, in their perception, merciless sources of credit in banks and insurance companies. When they grew more to earn more, prices dropped and they earned less. But the payments on land, improvements, and implements remained, and became relentless.
Those marvelous "Monkey Ward" and "Sears" catalogs offered a respite. A good many rural youths got their elementary education in anatomy, especially female anatomy, staring at images of models dressed in underwear. Mothers saw desirable kitchen appliances or house wares, fathers' tools that would make their work easier—if they could afford them. Someone must have the money to order them. Why not me?
Why not, indeed. So the farmers formed a People's Party, and while it never won a presidency, most of its platform planks eventually made it into law when Republicans or Democrats, or both, adopted them. Much of the legislative packages of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson had their origins in the Populist Party, which was inspired partially by those pesky, troublesome, mail-order catalogs.
When I was a boy, after the catalogs had been around awhile they were taken to the outhouse, and not for reading. I tried that exactly once, and it is a variety of recycling that I do NOT recommend.
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Hi, my name is Aaron and I'm a uni student in the UK. I've done a medium amount of travelling, but hope to do a lot more in the future! My personal favourite destination is Germany.
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This year's Survivor Series is in the books, further cementing its position as the second-longest tenured pay-per-view that the WWE offers, debuting only two-and-a-half years after the inaugural WrestleMania. This isn't No Mercy or even In Your House; this is one of the most esteemed and entrenched events that the WWE rolls out amidst the ever-evolving list of pay-per-view offerings.
So why did this year's card play out like an afterthought?
One of the vaunted qualities of the way WWE does its business, noted especially by wrestlers that have competed both for and against Vince McMahon, is its foresight and pre-planning when it comes to storylines. Like Santa Claus returning home in the wee hours of December 25th, tired but ready to get to work, the end of WrestleMania reportedly heralds the preparation for the following year's headline show. Nowhere has this been more recently evident than the year-long build-up between The Rock and John Cena.
Survivor Series 2012, however, saw Cena enter the main event with only a scant two-week build-up to his Triple Threat match with CM Punk and Ryback, plus it was a match he wasn't supposed to be in as it was a match that was not even supposed to be on the line-up.
Within one week, the main event of Survivor Series went from a surprising and truly intriguing elimination tag team match between Team Punk and Team Foley (featuring Ryback), effectively taking a WWE Championship match off the table (not to mention the WWE Tag Team Championship and Intercontinental Championship as well, with the title holders also acting as team members), to a sudden shift in direction, awkwardly removing Punk and Ryback from the Survivor Series elimination match and creating the Triple Threat match with Cena added in.
This was not the result of carefully crafted booking -- this was knee-jerk shuffling.
There was only one logical storytelling reason to transplant Punk from a non-title tag match into a championship defense, and that would have been to crown a new champion. Otherwise, everything that was accomplished at the hands of Punk, Heyman, and his new partners-in-crime could have been done with the match that was originally booked anyway.
To clarify, I don't think it would have been necessarily logical (nor a good idea) to have Punk lose on day 364, just that the sudden and inexplicable change in the main event would have at least been made explicable if he lost the belt as a result. Instead, after Hell in a Cell, we're given back-to-back PPVs with almost exactly the same purpose, but more importantly with almost exactly the same ending. Punk is about to lose the title, but holds on to it through nefarious means.
It's here that the relevancy of Survivor Series comes into question. Why use this storied event as a means to deliver such a non-descript ending, when this conclusion would have played out in the context of any generic pay-per-view? When it was announced during a 2010 WWE conference call that Survivor Series was not going to continue due to the irrelevancy of the format to the current landscape, it seemed that a major point was being ignored: the WWE is itself in control of what is relevant to its own programming.
As important as championships are, the less often they are defended the more meaningful the matches will be.
That's what Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, King of the Ring, and other such events can (and used to) offer: a respite from the constant match-ups that feature, on the majority, the same collection of wrestlers facing off against one another month after month. That's what Team Punk vs. Team Foley was going to give us, and then, a week later, it was back to business as usual.
Part of the rationale being bandied about in fan discussion is that the WWE realized their short-sightedness in not having Punk defend his title at Survivor Series as violating the mandate of having the championship defended once every 30 days.
This is, however, nonsensical. Punk could have participated in the Survivor Series match and defended the title on Raw, Smackdown, Main Event, or even NXT. Paul Heyman could have found a legal loophole and challenged the 30-day clause. Punk could have let it expire as a protest. The point is, there are creative opportunities that arise through exploiting this stipulation which, let's not forget, is not a true mandated competitive necessity but is a plot point and can be modified accordingly.
Instead, the change in booking really took the wind out of the sails of one of the most intriguing Survivor Series matches in a long time. These tilts are usually advertised as "Traditional," referring to the original concept of Survivor Series which had nothing to do with defending titles and everything to do with getting a gang of like-minded people together to fight for nothing but pride in victory.
If it's not going to fulfil that purpose any more, then maybe it is irrelevant and its time is up. I hope not, but then, it's not up to me.
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WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is considering giving permission to seven movie and television filming companies to use unmanned aircraft for aerial photography, a potentially significant step that could lead to greater relaxation of the agency's ban on commercial use of drones.
The companies that have filed petitions to receive exemptions are Aerial MOB LLC, Astraeus Aerial, Flying-Cam Inc., HeliVideo Productions LLC, Pictorvision Inc., Vortex Aerial, and Snaproll Media LLC, the FAA said in a statement. To receive the exemptions, the companies must show their drone operations won't harm safety, and would be in the public interest.
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FAA officials caution that rushing to gain the economic and other benefits of drones could put manned aircraft at risk. U.S. skies have more aircraft and more varied types of aircraft and aircraft operations than anywhere else in the world, and integrating their operations with unmanned aircraft is a complex business, they say.
Ben Gielow, general counsel for the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a trade association for the commercial drone industry, said he's pleased the FAA is considering the petitions. But he said if the agency "is only going to grant permission on a limited, case-by-case basis, then this doesn't really open up the skies for anyone who wants to fly."
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Hermantown opened the game with a score only 27 seconds into the match. Junior Nate Pionk struck, assisted by Ryan Kero. Gunnar Olson scored the equalizer for Luverne midway through the period on a power play, but Tanner Kimball regained the lead for Hermantown late in the first period, giving the Hawks the 2-1 advantage going into the first intermssion.
Cole Koepke scored another Hermantown goal just short of four minutes into the middle period, but Luverne's Gunnar Olson would take advantage of another power play to cut the Hawks lead to 3-2. Hermantown senior Luke Jacques found the net just short of the 13 minute mark to wrap up scoring for the second period with the Hawks holding the 4-2 lead.
Kyle Amundson found the net for the Hawks only 42 seconds into the final period, which would give Hermantown the 5-2 lead that they would hold on to for 11 minutes. Luverne's Andrew Verhey scored at the 11:54 mark, cutting the Hermantown lead once again. The Cardinals pulled their goalie to get another skater on the ice late in the period, but Nate Pionk had other plans. Pionk scored an empty-net goal to close out the game with a final of 6-3.
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Loews confirmed Thursday it plans to move the wild cats to Orange County Animal Services Center. Cat lovers, who protested the end of the hotels' trap-neuter-release program earlier this year, decried Loews' decision as "hypocritical and heartless." The hotels advertise themselves as pet-friendly accommodations for guests with animals, but a policy issued this week to people who work at the hotel prohibits the feeding or handling of wild animals.


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A few weeks ago, I was traveling through north Louisiana to a conference. As we neared Lake Providence, I couldn't help but notice hundreds of parked rail cars.
Not long after that, I saw large numbers of shipping containers stacked in an open field in Memphis. (Memphis has an intermodal hub in which those containers can be moved from rail cars to trucks.)
This time last year, freight rates were through the stratosphere. Shipping containers were hard to come by. West Coast ports were so congested ships were having to wait weeks for their turn at the loading docks.
As long as the global economy was rocketing along on steroids, few in business gave much thought to exorbitant freight rates. Most business executives just wrote it off as the normal cost of doing business and passed the costs on to the consumer.
A handful of individuals questioned whether it was such a good idea to be spending so much money moving materials, such as cotton, from the West Coast to the Far East and back when we had a perfectly good textile industry in the United States.
The retail establishment – the Macy's, the Dillards, the Wal-Marts, the Targets – turned a deaf ear. Their attitude, in general, seemed to be: Don't bother us, we're making money here."
Now, no one is making money, and companies that were reporting high profits a year ago are reportedly on the edge of bankruptcy. And, while much of the blame can be laid at the feet of the housing and financial sectors, the current recession might not be as severe if this country hadn't abandoned so much of its manufacturing.
I receive newsletters published by experts in world trade. Mostly they criticize anyone who dares to question whether free, unfettered and largely unregulated trade is such a good idea. One of their arguments: If everyone will just open their borders and allow trade to flow freely, we'll soon work our way out of this global recession.
That's what happened with the Multi-Fiber Arrangement that sprang from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Over 10 years, the United States phased out its import quotas and textile and apparel products, and the U.S. textile industry is now a shadow of its former self.
If the United States could count on others to develop industries where they have an economic advantage and not use predatory pricing that would be one thing. But, too often, countries such as China have poured billions of dollars into industries where they had no such advantage unless you count dollar-a-day labor.
The result has been Chinese companies pushing American and other companies out of markets where they had enjoyed comparative advantages for decades but could not compete with the Chinese government. As a result, U.S. companies have reduced employment by nearly 4 million jobs in the last year, including the 663,000 that were lost in March.
U.S. cotton farmers, meanwhile, have not been able to replace their domestic market with exports because the Chinese government subsidizes its cotton farmers to the equivalent of 80 cents per pound.
If free trade advocates want to advance their policies, they need to be pushing for governments to clamp down on predatory trading practices such as those that have led to hundreds of thousands of job losses here and elsewhere. Either that or we should all be learning to speak Chinese.
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It has been a while since I last picked up my laptop and wrote a blog post, and I do feel rusty whilst doing so. In honest truth it was the very last thing on my mind. Over the past few months I faced a series of unfortunate events mostly involving my university status. I don't wish to delve into it too much as lamenting about what could have been doesn't really aid the situation. I have retuned to Manchester for good whilst waving goodbye finally to Istanbul. As dismayed as I am by the sudden turn of events, I don't believe I've returned empty handed from my experience; even though one of my degrees was discontinued I still have a degree in psychology, I have been blessed to have formed lifelong friendships with some of the most awesome people I have ever met, and lastly I feel I truly came out of my shell over the course of my abroad experience. Living alone in a unfamiliar city meant that I had to work many things out for myself in result making me a self reliant, resilient person. I don't have many regrets about my decision to study abroad and I'm ready for the next chapter of my life.
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The holidays are here! One fun aspect of the holidays is the Christmas carols. No matter how hard you try to be a Grinch, you know at some point in the month of December, you will catch yourself singing along to a song! One that we all seem to know by heart is "The 12 Days of Christmas". Since Allheart is kicking off a sale for the next 12 days with 12 items for sale at $12.12, it got me thinking. Where does the song come from?
Well, it turns out there is a lot of controversy on the subject. Some say it was a song designed to teach children about the Christian faith, with each line representing a tenet to remember. Others suggest the origins are political. But I'd rather take a lighter look at the song and what each gift might have symbolized during the time period in which the song was written. I have no idea why a partridge would be sitting in a pear tree! There are a many thoughts on what each element of the song mean, so I am going to tackle just a few of these.
A Partridge in a Pear Tree
First, it turns out partridges do sit in pear trees in England! Go figure! But the pear tree itself is also important. The pear often represents fertility, while the tree shows up in a Christmas tradition where a maiden walks backwards around a pear tree three times and then looks up to the branches where she will see the image of her future husband.
Two Turtle Doves
Doves are seen throughout history as a symbol of love and devotion. This may come from the fact that they mate for life. What a romantic gesture from "my true love".
Four Calling (Colly) Birds
It turns out after all these years we have been singing the song wrong! It's actually Four COLLY birds! Colly birds are actually blackbirds. And in the 18th century, whence this song was written, blackbirds were considered a delicacy. Remember the song, "Sing a Song of Six Pence"? Well, there were 24 blackbirds baked in a pie. Quite the status symbol back in the day!
Five Golden Rings
Once again, this probably doesn't represent what you think it does! The five golden rings are meant to represent the 5 golden rings on a pheasant's neck. Again with the birds! Pheasants were another sign of high society in the 18th century however, so hopefully our singer had a big appetite!
Six Geese A-Laying
Throughout much of history Geese have been seen as protectors. In Egypt, it was believed that a mummy's soul rose up in the form of a goose with a human head. In Rome, geese honked to warn the Romans that the barbarians were nearing.
Seven Swans a-Swimming
Like with the geese, swans have a long history in mythology. Their ability to both swim and fly made many feel they had a connection to both the natural world and the supernatural. They are also a sign of royalty.
Eight Maids A-Milking
This verse refers to the sustenance provided by milk. In the Middle Ages, milk turned into cheese or butter was very important in the Winter months. Another interesting aspect of this line is "a-milking'. If a man asked a girl in the 18th century to "go a-milking" it was meant either as a marriage proposal, or a lurid invitation to intimacy. For the sake of a children's' song, let's say this time the former was meant!
Nine Drummers Drumming
The nine drummers drumming could reference a few things, but my favorite option is that musicians often serenaded towns all night long during the Christmas season in
Ten Pipers Piping
In France, in the 18th century, a bagpipe of sorts, called a Musette was a popular instrument. It was a beautifully crafted and often played at 12th Night celebrations.
Eleven Ladies Dancing
Again, the 12th Night celebrations often included dances. These dances were called caroles, which is eventually where we get the term Christmas Carol!
12 Lords A-Leaping
Leaping was also part of 18th century celebrations. Leaping dances were supposed to be good luck for corn crops, because the height of the leap was said to determine the height of the corn. Lords a-leaping is also believed to refer to Morris dancers that would perform in elaborate costumes between food courses at Christmas feasts.
All in all, it sounds to me like our singer was asked on a wonderful date to a 12th Night feast! It certainly would have been quite a night!
Now don't forget to check out the Allheart 12 Days of Christmas sale! Perhaps you can create your own version of the song for a nurse in your life!


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(1) LeAnn Penn, Miss Trumbull County Fair winner.
(2) Victoria Meade, Miss Trumbull County Fair 1st runner up.
(8) LeAnn Penn reacts to winning Miss Trumbull County Fair 2013.
(5) Madonna Chism-Pinkard, WFMJ community relations director, announces the Miss Trumbull County Fair pageant.
(3) Ashley Wolanzyk, Miss Trumbull County Fair 2nd runner up.
(7) From left, Kayla Agnew, LeAnn Penn, Megan Adams, and Ashley Wolanzyk compete in the Miss Trumbull County Fair pageant.
(6) LeAnn Penn reacts as she is crowned Miss Trumbull County Fair 2013.
(4) From left, Ashley Wolanzyk, 2nd runner up; Victoria Meade, 1st runner up; and LeAnn Penn, Miss Trumbull County Fair 2013.
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Amber Dietz, 18, of Southington tries to convince her 4 month old Guernsey cow, Farrari, to drink from a bucket of water at the Trumbull County Fair.
(4) Stephen Burbach, 14, of West Southington races his brother, Mikey, 7, to pass the time in the rain at the Trumbull County Fair.
(1) Tatum Sheets, 16, practices walking Ally, a 3 month old Brown Swiss calf in preparation for an event.
(5) Tyler Watts, 19, of Southington shows his 252 lb. Hampshire pig, at the pig show in the Trumbull County Fair. Pigs were judged on muscle tone, shape, and movement. Watts's pig placed second in it's category.
(3) Zac Logan, 13 of Farmville waits out the rain by laying on his 3 year-old Holsten cow, Carly.
(2) A few people brave the weather at the Trumbull County Fair.


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The four lessons in this unit build toward a student understanding of each component of the energy budget formula - and how the contribution of each component changes due to location and time of year. In order, the four lessons consist of: deriving... (View More) the formula for Earth's energy budget, analyzing data from NASA's CERES instrument, learning to code using the RStudio program, and using RStudio to explore and evaluate the energy budgets of specific locations and seasons. The unit includes a pre/post test; each lesson follows the 5E model and contains worksheets with answer keys. (View Less)
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This activity is a short engineering design challenge to be completed by individual students or small teams. A real-world problem is presented, designing buildings for hurricane-prone areas, but in a simulated way that works in a classroom, after... (View More) school club, or informal education setting. Students are given simple materials and design requirements, and must plan and build a tower as tall as possible that will hold up a tennis ball while resisting the force of wind from a fan. After the towers are built, the group comes together to test them. If there is time after testing, which can be observational or framed as a contest between teams, students can redesign their towers to improve their performance, or simply discuss what worked well and what didn't in their designs. (View Less)
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Since the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has risen from ~280ppm (parts per million by volume) to ~390ppm in 2010. The rate of increase for the last decade (2001-2010) has been 2.04ppm/yr, more than double the rate... (View More) for the 1960's. Most scientists agree that human actions are the primary cause of the increase, the rise in Earth's average temperature since the mid-1900's and recent climate change. In this problem-based learning activity, learners develop a carbon mitigation strategy to address climate change issues. This module was developed to be used in the Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) courses for middle and high school teachers and is also available to teachers to adapt for general classroom use. (View Less)
Learners will rotate through three stations where they investigate probes and rovers to learn how they are built, learn about the propulsion, navigation, controls and daily handling of spacecraft, gather, and analyze data from multiple sources on... (View More) the internet, understand how rovers communicate with Earth. The lesson uses the 5E instructional model and includes: TEKS Details (Texas Standards alignment), Essential Question, Science Notebook, Vocabulary Definitions for Students, Vocabulary Definitions for Teachers, two Vocabulary Cards, a Vocabulary Toolbox and four workstation handouts. This is lesson 9 of the Mars Rover Celebration Unit, a six week long curriculum. (View Less)
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This online, facilitated course is designed for middle-school educators wishing to teach global climate change. The course uses a problem-solving approach and interdisciplinary STEM methodology to engage middle-school students and help them... (View More) understand the causes and effects of climate change, the differences between climate and weather, and how actions and nature affect the environment. Educators access the course by enrolling and paying a course fee; the course syllabus is available online. (View Less)
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In this problem-based learning unit, learners explore the possibilities of sustainable energy, and engage in a project to provide electricity for their city using alternative energy sources. Instructions to access NASA data are provided along with... (View More) additional resources and activities. This module was developed to be used in the Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) courses for middle and high school teachers and is also available to teachers to adapt for general classroom use. (View Less)
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Temperature increases associated with global climate change have led to concerns that infectious diseases common in warmer tropical and subtropical climates may become more common in warming middle altitudes. In this problem-based learning module,... (View More) learners investigate the connections between disease and climate change. Additional resources and activities are also provided. This module was developed to be used in the Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) courses for middle and high school teachers and is also available to teachers to adapt for general classroom use. (View Less)
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WBC 14U team on a roll
- Written by Don Mann
The Woodinville Baseball Club 14-and-under team made quick work of the Eastside Huskies Wednesday at Big Finn Park, winning 10-0 in five innings as Micah Hamilton threw a two-hit shutout and Connor Wytko homered and doubled.
The win was Woodinville's third straight and evened its season record at 11-11 after a slow start.
"The kids are starting to figure it out," first year head coach Michael Hass said. "Our bats are heating up and we're scoring lots of runs lately. It's good to see."
Woodinville figured out Eastside's starter early. A first inning one-out walk by Simon Day was followed by consecutive clean singles by Hamilton, Cody Claughton, Chase Winkler and Dylan Axelson before Wytko doubled over the center fielder's head. One out later Jordan DeBoer and Danny Gregory followed with two more singles as Woodinville put six early runs on the board behind seven hits.
It was more than Hamilton would need as the sophomore-to-be put five zeros on the board, striking out six and walking four. He also hit two batters.
Wytko belted an opposite-field homer well over the right-field fence in the third inning to make it 8-0, his second round-tripper of the season. Winkler went three-for-three, though the baseball gods smiled upon him when his infield popup went untouched for a single. He now carries a team-leading .405 batting average, followed by Hamilton at .365 and Claughton at .349.


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Monday February 24, 2014 at the Sunnyside Law & Justice Center
Regular meeting.
Call to order - Roll call.
6:30 p.m.
Invocation – Bob North.
Pledge of allegiance.
Employee recognition – Shirley Stredwick.
I.Unscheduled appearances by citizens.
(Note – Citizens are advised that they must limit their remarks to the Council to three (3) minutes and that items presented may be referred by the Council to staff for review and/or additional information for presentation to the Council at a future Council meeting.)
II. Consent agenda
A. Minutes
Approve minutes of the Feb. 10 Regular Meeting.
B. Claim Vouchers
Approve claim vouchers 81951 through 82032 and wire transfers as listed for the period ending Feb. 24, in the amount of $266,556.
C. Payroll Vouchers
Approve payroll and vendor vouchers 117879 through 117904, payroll direct deposits 23586 through 23683 and payroll vendor ACH 1749 through 1763 in the amount of $319,814 dated Feb. 14.
D. Gang Intervention Agreement - FIRME Outreach
Consider resolution approving an agreement with FIRME Outreach for gang intervention services.
E. Gang Intervention Agreement - MERIT Resource Services
Consider resolution approving an agreement with MERIT Resource Services for gang intervention services.
F. Interlocal Jail Agreement - County of Kittitas
Consider approving a resolution authorizing an interlocal jail agreement with the County of Kittitas.
G. Local Agency Standard Consultant Agreement - Downtown Revitalization
Consider resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute Local Agency Standard Consultant Agreement for the Sixth Street and Edison Avenue Improvements, Phase I.
H. Local Agency Standard Consultant Agreement - Sixth Street Improvements
Consider resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute Local Agency Standard Consultant Agreement for the Sixth Street Improvements (Decatur Avenue to North Avenue).
III. Active Agenda
A. Presentation
Receive presentation by Mr. Doug Garrison regarding bicycle helmets.
B. Award of Sixth Street and Edison Avenue Improvement Project
Consider resolution accepting bid and authorizing the execution of an agreement for construction of the Sixth Street and Edison Avenue Improvement Project with Culbert Construction, Inc.
C. Collective Bargaining Agreement - IAFF, Local No. 3542
Consider resolution approving Collective Bargaining Agreement with IAFF, Local No. 3542.
IV. Items from council members
A. Mayors Appointment(s) for Boards and Commissions
B. Reports from Council Subcommittees:
1) Community Development - Broersma, Guerrero Martin
2) Finance and Administrative Services - Hancock, Hicks, Martin
3) Public Safety - Broersma, Hicks, Raines (no report)
4) Public Works - Guerrero, Hancock, Raines (no report)
C. Council Request Status Report
D. Other reports, announcements and/or questions by Council.
E. Upcoming Council Meetings:
1) Workshop Meeting - Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. - CANCELLED
2) Special Meeting - Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m.
3) Regular Meeting - Monday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m.
V. Items from city manager and department heads
VI. Executive Session - 15 minutes
Discuss pending litigation per RCW 42.30.110(i).
VII. Adjourn
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Larry Gross taught art at Concordia University, Portland for 30 years. He has designed stained glass and liturgical furnishings for churches in Oregon and Washington. The artwork in this exhibit explores how faith and art interact through images that illustrate scripture and, in more recent works, juxtapose pictures of earth and the universe. He also enjoys the interplay of word and image through titles that sometimes evoke multiple interpretations. Mr. Gross has received the Oregon Art Educator of the year award, the Sacred Art Society award in visual art and an Artist in Residence award from Trinity Lutheran Church, Portland.
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