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It's a Small World: Exhibit & Artist Signing
It's a Small World: Exhibit & Artist Signing
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Timed with the release of illustrator Joey Chou's latest children's book from Disney Press, a select group of talent will contribute work paying homage to this beloved and enduring theme of global peace. The book features Chou's illustrations interpreting the Sherman Brothers classic song written for the popular Disney park attraction.
This is an all-ages event. Exhibiting artists in attendance including Joey Chou who will be on hand signing copies of the new release.
Opening Reception Highlights
Raffle Entry Details: Get a free raffle ticket when you purchase a copy of the new book in person at tonight's reception. Additional tickets available for $2. Winners must be present to claim prizes.
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Chris Turnham | Landmarks Around the World | Limited Edition Signed & Numbered | $60
Sebastien Mesnard | L'Accordéoniste | $20
Griselda Sastrawinata | Children of the World | $45
Exhibiting Artists Include:
Joey Chou
Lorelay Bové
Patrick Awa
Brittney Lee
Becky Dreistadt
Patrick Hruby
Michelle Romo
Eric Diaz
Michael Fleming
Grace Lee
Brendan Wenzel
Justin Parpan
Israel Sanchez
Seb Mesnard
Griselda Sastrawinata
Rad Sechrist
Nellie Le
Pete Oswald
Mark Sperber
Winnie Ho
Christian Robinson
Victoria Ying
Ryan Kramer
Alex Chechik
Kevin Chan
Sean Sullivan
Ryuku Uratsuji
Chris Turnham
Josh Parpan
Jesse Tise
Elizabeth Ito
Jing Wei
Ben Butcher
Brigette Barrager
Chris Sasaki
Claire Keane
Oliver Akuin
Edward Juan
Linda Kim
Jackie Huang
Patrick Raines
Eren Blanquet
Drake Brodahl
Christina Song
Olga Stern
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Oswego, N.Y./Great Lakes Seaway Trail - War of 1812 and Revolutionary War shipwrecks, rum runners, a National Weather Service forensic meteorologist, and the new Great Lakes-wide Boaters Forecast are all on the October 5 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Blue Byway Seminar agenda at SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY. Presenters at the 9:00am-1:00pm program co-sponsored by the Great Lakes Seaway Trail and New York Sea Grant include: · Christopher Nicholson, who designed, built and piloted the RPV (remotely-piloted vehicle) for the National Geographic Society film of the schooners Hamilton and Scourge that sank in Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. Nicholson, President of Deep Sea Systems International, Cataumet, MA, has provided technical assistance and engineering services for the exploration of the WWII battleship Arizona, the H.M.S. Breadalbane, and famed freighter Edmund Fitzgerald. · National Weather Service Forecaster and forensic meteorologist Robert Hamilton speaking on historic weather conditions on Lake Ontario that influenced the wreck of the 22-gun British warship HMS Ontario during the Revolutionary War. · New York Sea Grant Coastal Recreation and Tourism Specialist Dave White will provide an update on the Great Lakes Observing System Boaters Forecasting tool that is now available throughout the Great Lakes region · A guest describing Two Tank Tips for great diving destinations on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, and · A speaker on Prohibition-era rum running. Preregistration by October 1, 2013 is $10 at www.seawaytrail.com/dive; late registration and admission at the door is $15 as space allows. For more information, call 315-646-1000 x203. The October 5 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Blue Byway Seminar is part of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Underwater Series of maritime heritage and history programs. The Great Lakes Seaway Trail is a 518-mile National Scenic Byway that offers unique land and water travel opportunities along Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River. Learn more at http://www.seawaytrail.com/.
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Cut data down to size
With today's extreme data growth rates, adding disk-based protection is no longer an option but a requisite. Data reduction can help ease growth pains by paring down the data that goes to disk. There are many products with data-reduction capabilities available, but the technologies they use vary widely.
- Arun Taneja, Taneja Group
Data-reduction technologies are emerging as key components of data protection products. By reducing the amount of data stored, you can cut storage costs and gain greater backup efficiency.
Whether your company is big or small, you've likely seen your digital data grow at an alarming rate. Cheaper storage arrays and the emergence of cost- and capacity-efficient SATA drives have helped relieve the pressure, but just throwing disk at the problem isn't a long-term solution. Storage management costs are generally proportional to the amount of data managed. Reducing the amount of data that needs to be stored and managed is one big way to reduce storage costs.
Squeezing the air out of data
Data compression has been around since the 1970s when a couple of computer scientists developed the Lempel-Ziv (LZ) algorithm. But with the advent of other technologies in the past five years, "compression" has taken on a more generic--and sometimes confusing--definition.
Broadly speaking, compression means modifying data in such a way that the information remains intact, but occupies a smaller amount of storage. Technologies such as data deduplication, single instancing, commonality factoring and data coalescence can also achieve this goal.
|Comparison of different data-reduction approaches
|Click here for a comprehensive comparison of different data-reduction approaches (PDF).
Lempel and Ziv created an algorithm that compares each incoming piece of data with the most recent data stored to determine if the new data is unique or has changed only slightly from the previously stored data. If it's changed slightly, the new data is replaced with a token representing that data. Comparing each new piece of data with all the data that had come in before is computationally prohibitive, so the LZ algorithm uses only a small amount of historical data. Compression ratios are therefore limited, with typical backup data yielding about 2:1 compression. Most tape drives and tape libraries have this compression capability built in.
Beyond LZ
Many of the traditional data-reduction technologies have significant limitations, including:
- LZ and its variants offer limited compression by comparing only incoming data to a small amount of existing data.
- Compression ratios vary depending on data type.
- Current systems look only at commonality within one system. Global enterprises often have hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of servers with vast amounts of data duplication across systems.
- Hash-based commonality factoring
- Pattern recognition
- A hybrid approach combining the two methods
- Byte-level delta differencing using versioning
Hash-based commonality factoring
Hash-based commonality factoring is the dominant capacity-optimization technology today, and it's used in products such as Avamar Technologies Inc.'s Axion, Data Domain Inc.'s DD400 Enterprise Series that uses Global Compression Technology, EMC Corp.'s Centera and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co.'s Reference Information Storage System (RISS). A hash is the result of applying an algorithm to some data to derive a unique number. It's extremely unlikely that any two files would produce the same hash result.
Hashes were originally created to ensure file authenticity. If the file and its hash were transmitted to another location, one could ensure authenticity by recalculating the received file's hash on the remote side and matching it to the transmitted hash. Today, hashes are used for capacity optimization in a slightly different way. Basically, each file (or subset of a file, called a chunk) is converted into a hash. Then, on the basis of a hash comparison, the same file or chunk is never stored again. Because complete files (or chunks) are much larger than their hash, comparison between hashes is much easier computationally than comparing complete files for duplication. The hash approach can work company-wide because a specific file will create the same hash, regardless of where it resides. A file can always be addressed by its hash, no matter where it resides geographically or on what system it resides on. There are no path names or file names.
EMC's Centera uses the MD5 hash standard to handle data archiving, whereas Avamar applies SHA160 hashing to a variable-sized file chunk (and fixed-chunk-sized for databases) for its backup and restore product. Data Domain uses hash technology for its backup/restore product, but the firm is tight-lipped about which method it uses. HP's RISS, an archival platform, also uses SHA160 and allows users to choose between complete files or fixed- or variable-sized chunks.
Some design tradeoffs must be made with all hashing solutions, such as chunk size. Smaller chunk sizes produce more commonality, but require larger indexes and more compute power. EMC Centera chose the file size rather than a chunk as the basic element for hashing; therefore, it eliminates duplication only at the file level. This keeps the system simple and the searches fast, but it doesn't achieve capacity-optimization levels as high as the Avamar system, for example.
Another consideration is whether to use fixed- or variable-sized chunks. Fixed-sized chunks are easier to handle, but suffer from the "slide" syndrome where all chunks after the location of a new byte would be different and require new hashes, even though that data is unchanged. Variable-sized chunks can understand the slide effect and create only one new chunk to reflect the change. Databases have more structured formats with well-defined and often fixed-length fields, so many data-reduction products use a fixed-chunk approach.
|Pros and cons of various data-reduction technologies
Pattern recognition
A new data-reduction method based on pattern recognition was introduced by Diligent Technologies Corp., a Framingham, MA-based virtual tape library (VTL) vendor. With pattern recognition, the incoming data is reviewed to see if it matches similar data received in the past. If the new data is similar, the precise difference is identified and only the unique bytes are stored. The algorithms used are sophisticated and the result is superior, at least in terms of indexing. The biggest benefit is that the size of the index, even for large repositories, is so small that even inexpensive servers can be used as the data-reduction engine. For instance, a 1 petabyte (PB) repository requires only a 4GB index, which can easily be held in the cache of a small server. A chunk-based hashing methodology would require a 20GB cache for a 10TB repository. The index efficiency, at least conceptually (and if it resides in cache), results in a performance improvement, all else being equal.
Hybrid solutions
Sepaton Inc., Marlborough, MA, recently added a data-reduction option to its VTL products called ContentAware Delta-Stor, which is software that uses a mix of several technologies. Before it does any capacity optimization, the system studies the incoming data within the context of all meta data associated with it (file name, file type, owner, backup software that produced it, new or old file, etc.). Based on this and previously received meta data, it intelligently separates what is likely new data from existing data. It then categorizes the data into two primary compressor streams: Data Comparator and Data Discrimination. The Data Comparator stream applies a light hash algorithm to confirm equality, while Data Discrimination conducts a detailed byte-level comparison and stores only unique bytes. The ContentAware database is at the core of this approach and demonstrates how content-awareness can reduce the amount of computation required to isolate and store only unique pieces of data. With this system, data reduction is performed after the backup has completed.
Byte-level delta differencing
ExaGrid Systems Inc., a Westborough, MA-based vendor of grid-based data protection products, uses the reliable versioning method to reduce the amount of backup data. It recognizes that a backup stream is simply a modified version of what was received before, does a byte-level comparison and stores only unique bytes. Considering that most recoveries require the latest version of the data, the most recent file is kept intact and delta differencing is applied to recover older versions. All new data will have new meta data (file name, author, etc.) and will be kept as a complete unit. If it's later modified, delta differencing would come into play.
It's important to note that this technique won't achieve any data reduction for reference information. This type of data comprises objects that are fixed and will undergo no further change, such as satellite images, seismic datasets and radiological images.
Key considerations
There are many other questions to consider when deciding whether a data-reduction product is right for your organization. These include:
Where's data reduction performed? Data reduction can occur in three places: the application server, inline in front of the backup server and after uncompressed backup data is stored on disk. Data reduction at the application server takes compute cycles from application processing and may impact application performance. But the backups are highly efficient and network traffic is drastically reduced. The overall throughput may be impacted and you can't use your existing backup software--your backup and restore procedures have to change significantly--but the overall payoff can be excellent. Avamar's Axion and HP's RISS are the only two products on the market that fall into this category.
Data Domain and Diligent offer inline solutions with an appliance that sits in front of the backup server, intercepts the data stream and performs data reduction. These vendors use different data-reduction methods, but the placement of their appliances is in-band; both require additional disk space beyond the size of the reduced data.
Sepaton's S2100-ES2 with DeltaStor performs backups at full speed, unimpeded by the data-reduction engine. In the background, the capacity-optimization engine takes over and creates new "virtual cartridges" that replace those containing the original data. Disk space is released and the process repeats itself. This approach requires more disk capacity than other techniques, but delivers the best backup speed. ExaGrid's InfiniteFiler is also in this category.
When is data reduction performed? Avamar, Data Domain and Diligent do their data reduction whenever a backup happens. Backup isn't complete until the data reduction is finished; overall throughput is largely determined by the efficiency of the data-reduction engine. With ExaGrid and Sepaton, the backup speed is limited only by the normal efficiencies of the backup infrastructure. All capacity optimization happens after the fact, and the speed of data reduction can be throttled via policy to ensure backups always enjoy a higher priority.
How is data reconstructed? Because files are often broken down into blocks or chunks and stored only once, the integrity of the software that constructs an object from these smaller elements is critical. So it's imperative that the meta data required to construct a file is highly available. The design of the file system that reconstructs files or databases is just as important as the data-reduction algorithm.
What level of data integrity is achieved? The possibility of two files producing the same hash value is extremely remote, but if that's unacceptable, you need to look past hash-based solutions. Also ask vendors to explain if data grooming occurs in the background to ensure data integrity and recoverability.
What about performance? If backup speed is a critical issue, you should examine the throughput speeds of inline products to ensure they're adequate. You may be better off with a product that performs data reduction after backups are complete.
How scalable is the product, and what happens if a single appliance maxes out? The scalability of data-reduction products varies considerably. Avamar uses the redundant array of independent nodes (RAIN) architecture to scale; Diligent uses clustering; ExaGrid, HP RISS and Sepaton use grid principles to grow their appliances to larger capacities; and Data Domain uses a single-appliance concept. Management may be a concern as well, as the system grows to multiple appliances.
How big is the index? If data commonality checks are done in memory, the size of the index matters. With a small index like Diligent's, all searches can be done on a single server, which improves performance. If a product requires the index to be large or distributed, how it coordinates the parts may be an issue.
Is the degree of data reduction acceptable? In general, you should expect data reductions of 10:1 to 25:1. Most data-reduction products also offer hardware compression, which could add an extra 1.6:1 to 3:1, depending on the type of data. All together, the effective data reductions can easily be in the 20:1 to 30:1 range, assuming at least a few months' worth of data is kept on disk. Backup procedures also have an impact. If you do daily fulls, expect huge data reductions; for weekly fulls/daily incrementals, the rate is more modest.
An evolving technology
Data protection is undergoing a sea change with the number and type of products hitting the market at an unprecedented level. Given the extreme data growth rates, adding disk-based data protection is no longer an option. But picking the right technology has never been more difficult. The fundamentals of data reduction should provide enough knowledge to ask the right questions and seek straight answers from vendors.


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Yesterday, hard-line conservative Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, endorsed John McCain. Hagee said that McCain "is a man of principle, [who] does not stand boldly on both sides of any issue." McCain, who had been courting the endorsement for over a year, said that he was "very honored by Pastor John Hagee's endorsement."
Demonstrating how wildly out of the American religious and political mainstream Hagee's views are, McCain's acceptance of Hagee's endorsement was condemned today by conservative William Donohue, president of the Catholic League. Calling Hagee a "bigot," Donahue said the right-wing pastor has waged "an unrelenting war against the Catholic Church" by "calling it 'The Great Whore,' an 'apostate church,' the 'anti-Christ,' and a 'false cult system.'"
Hagee holds many other radical beliefs. In a 2006 address to CUFI, Hagee declared:
The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan for both Israel and the West… a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.
Speaking to the 2007 AIPAC conference, Hagee compared supporters of a two-state solution in the Middle East to Nazis. Hagee also echoed right-wing Israeli politician Binyamin Netanyahu, telling the audience that "Iran is Germany and Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler."
Paging Tim Russert: Someone should ask John McCain if, unlike Hagee, he supports a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, and whether he believes that a military strike against Iran would "fulfill God's plan for…a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation" as Hagee does.
UPDATE: Faith in Public Life has more.
UPDATE II: Hagee's tv show, "John Hagee Today," is also broadcast on Cornerstone Television. In 1999, McCain wrote to the FCC on behalf of campaign contributor Lowell "Bud" Paxson, urging a deal that would have made $17.5 million for Cornerstone.


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Use case: Access all details of personnel at company via a 'company building polygon centroid' for instance, by simply clicking on the point feature.


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Bush Medicine Leaves, 2009
Acrylic on linen
90 x 120 cm
This work represents the leaves of the Kurrajong tree used in the Utopia region to treat a variety of ailments. The women collect the leaves, dry and mix them with Kangaroo fat, in order to extract the plant's medicinal qualities. The significance of the Kurrajong tree and the part it plays in healing is celebrated in the Women's Awelye ceremonies.
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February 24, 2020Trade
President Trump has reached a deal with Canada and Mexico to restructure the North American Free Trade Agreement, hoping a new trilateral accord will reinvigorate the U.S. manufacturing sector.
January 8, 2020International Law
The extradition process enables governments to bring fugitives abroad to justice, but it can be fraught with political tension, even when a treaty is in place.
October 22, 2019Mexico
Violence continues to rage in Mexico more than a decade after former President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown on drug cartels.
September 27, 2019China
The Chinese Communist Party faces a host of pressing domestic and international policy challenges as it transitions to a new generation of leaders.
July 22, 2019United Kingdom
Brexit supporters argue that the EU threatens sovereignty and stifles growth, while opponents counter that EU membership strengthens trade, investment, and the UK's standing in the world.
April 29, 2019Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many of the world's longest-ruling heads of state, but civil society and regional blocs may be slowing the trend of extending presidential terms in some areas.
April 9, 2019International Organizations
Since its founding in 1944, the World Bank has evolved from a lender focused on European reconstruction to the preeminent international institution for economic development and poverty reduction.
March 28, 2019Israel
President Trump's reversal of half-century-old U.S. policy will in practice change little in the strategic territory occupied by Israel, but it could have far-reaching diplomatic reverberations.
August 28, 2018United States
The United States and other Western countries are reevaluating their foreign investment regulations amid an uptick in Chinese interest in strategic sectors.
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The ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) is a shock proof non-flexible thermoplastic. It is commonly used in the design and engineering industry by professionals and non-professional people as well.
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The Punisher (Arcade) review
"Spawned from the calamity came The Punisher, forever replacing our blue-collar "everyday hero" with a hell-bent, vengeance-seeking vigilante. This antihero is not out fighting for the common good; he's fighting against the vile criminals that took away his family, utilizing any means necessary to do so. Should a few distressed damsels be rescued and precious ecosystems be saved in the process, then that's okay too. It's just not the primary concern here; igniting gun-toting gangsters with a flamethrower before hurling a steel harpoon through their abdomens is of greater importance to this man. Even the costume reeks of bad attitude: a dark blue spandex suit, skull design across the chest clinging to his ripped brawny frame, massive calf muscles bulging out of white leather boots. This man isn't a superhero at all -- he's just one hundred percent badass."
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The Tribecca Charcoal Baby Bedding can is a great gender neutral option for a contemporary nursery! The Tribecca Charcoal two-piece set includes a crib sheet and skirt. The three-piece set includes bumper, sheet and skirt. The bumper is made from white pique with solid gray ties and cording, and is slip covered for easy cleaning.
The sheet is made from a gray sketch fabric and the 17 in. tailored skirt is made from a slate polka dot. You can make it a 4-piece set by adding the crib blanket, also made from the slate polka dot fabric with a flannel backing. You can also choose to add optional monogramming for your baby bedding, which is available in your choice of font and color. Please allow 1-3 weeks extra production time if monogramming your bumper.
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Wet forecast for monster trucks/Daytona 500
Wet few days, then another hard freeze next weekend
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A very crazy weather pattern has gripped Florida over the past few weeks with wild temperature swings and the constant transition from rain to sun. Time to pour salt on the wound -- it's about to get even wilder!
Monster truck mania has gripped Jacksonville, but so has the rainy weather for the next few days. If you are headed to the truck show, this is what you need to know:
Saturday will be mostly dry with only a slight chance of showers through the early afternoon. High temperatures should punch through the low 80s under mostly sunny skies. However, don't let the sun fool you. You need to prepare for rain!
An upper-level disturbance is forecast to move across our region after 6pm Saturday. Models are having a hard time resolving the timing at which it will move through. At this time, we are calling for a 60% chance of rain/storms to push through as the Monster Jam is in progress. The rains may be brief but could be enough to wreck the show and send Grave Digger into the hanger.
However, this will be a one-two punch for the events happening across the state. The same disturbance/front that will bring rain to Jacksonville will slip off to our south just in time for the Daytona 500 on Sunday. If the forecast is correct, it'll be the second year in a row that rain has disrupted the Daytona race.
Mostly cloudy to overcast skies will rule the forecast for Daytona on Sunday with a 50 percent chance of showers for both the early morning hours and again in the late afternoon. Umbrellas will almost certainly be needed at some point during the day on Sunday. As for us here in Jacksonville, things should remain mostly dry under mostly sunny skies with temperatures in the mid 70s.
Now for the big weather makers:
Monday is shaping up to be extremely wet for some of us---especially our viewers in southeast Georgia where rainfall accumulations are being projected between two to four inches though Monday.
As for Jacksonville, rainfall rates will be less -- averaging 1/2 inch to 1 inch of accumulations on Monday. The models are beginning to back off the deluge a little bit but at this point, we are fairly certain Monday will be wet for many of us with temperatures in the mid 70s.
Things remain relatively dry and warm for us through Friday but then the bottom falls out once again.
Heading into next weekend, it is becoming more and more likely of a significant, plant killing, pipe bursting freeze to the likes of what we observed last week; if not a little colder. It's too far away to give specifics at this time but this part of the forecast definitely warrants your attention.
If models are accurate, we'll have high temperatures for an extended period of time only in the low 50s with overnight lows into the low 20s for many of us and sub-freezing temperatures at the coast.
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This is one possible form of a semantic web browser.
It works on Firefox and Camino, may be bugs on other platforms. No no-portable features were knowingly used. Patches for other platforms are welcome.
The browser browses things, not documents. Of course some thing are documents, but the browser considers them first as things, and then as documents.
Other browsers have tended to focus on a document at a time, or work by amassing a large static database of RDF from all known sources and then browsing it.
This browser works in a web of documents. This is partly in order to scale: to operate in an unbounded space without having to manage with more than a certain finite memory. It is partly in order to develop the links we need in this space.
When Google came to the web, it seemed to make the links less necessary, because one could ask Google instead of tracing the links to find something. Tracing the links, that is, through remembered pages, relevant pages, trusted pages, using one's instinct and the indications left by authors to find the goal. However, the links are still important. In fact, Google requires the links to work at all. And not just any old links: links patiently and carefully made by thoughtful authors, automated or most often human, for the benefit of inquiring readers.
Now we are making the semantic web, and we have the Google experience, and we tend to start by making a huge index: we are tempted to start with the Google index and ignore the links. But we are missing the links. Apart from the FOAF world, much semantic web data is isolated from other webs of data, even though connections could be made. We need to make the links across systems. This browser is designed to use these links, and hence encourage their creation.
Documents have content which describe things. They are in the browser a special sort of object.
The use of a URI to denote something is an invitation to look it up. This is the hypertext link in the Semantic Web. If the URI we use to identify something is formed from adding a hash and a local identifier to the URI of a document, then the reference is to the thing in the document with that local identifier. This is the simplest breadcrumbs protocol.
A breadcrumbs protocol is convention by which information is left to allow another to follow. When the information provider follows the convention on the breadcrumbs to leave, and an information seeker follows the convention on what links to follow, then the protocol that the seeker will be able to solve certain sorts of problem.
There are other forms, such as the FOAF link. The FOAF link is a breadcrumbs protocol as follows. Document ?d1 makes a reference the thing identified as ?x in document ?d2 when:
?d1 log:says { ?y foaf:sha1sum ?s. ?y rdfs:seeAlso ?d2}.
?d2 log:says { ?x foaf:mbox_sha1sum ?s }.
or the same with foaf:mbox (email address) instead of foaf:mbox_sha1sum (cryptographic hash of email address). If the information provider of ?d1 leaves that information. The seeker, having read d1, and wanting information about ?y (1) looks up the document found under rdfs:seeAlso, and (2) finds in d2 reference to something which has the same foaf:mbox_sh1sum value, and infers that it is the same thing. The protocol assumes that only one person (or entity) has a given email address, and hence checksum of email address.
This is clearly more complicated than the simple link! The tabular can do both. Links which could be followed are represented by blue dots. The smushing by mailbox is handled when the properties are declared as owl:InverseFunctionalProperty.
Many RDF visualizers have represented the data as circle-and-arrow diagrams. This gives you a feel for how a small number of things connect. It allows you to see clustering when a large number of things are related by the same properties, such as in Foafnaut or How/Why diagrams we have made at W3C. Circles and arrows are very intuitive and useful when trying to understand something. However, it isn't a way to look at data with many nodes and many different properties. It isn't used in applications we think of as handling data, such as personal financial management, music management, calendar management programs, for example. In these cases one uses tables or matrices. These are the densest way of comparing objects of the same class (strictly, which are likely to share common properties). mSpace is an example of a table-based semantic web browser. These table-based systems, though, tend to operate on a given set of data, and don't naturally allow browsing.
Outline mode is extremely common and clearly natural for tree-oriented data. People are typically very comfortable in a tree-like environment. In fact, much data in the world has been organized into trees, and the web is composed of overlapping trees with local roots all over the place. This suggests that in fact a tree-oriented browser will feel natural even though the world is actually a web. In early hypertext, Peter Brown's Guide system was an outliner, and the Gopher system was a presented as tree (not in outline mode) though in fact a web.
The outline browser is quite straightforward. Most of the design decisions are around how to represent options to load data, and whether to load it automatically - many variations are possible. There are questions as to whether to express links in bother directions, and whether to suppress links which are reverse versions of a link displayed at a higher level.
One meme of RDF ethos is that the direction one choses for a given property is arbitrary: it doesn't matter whether one defines "parent" or "child", "employee" or "employer". This philosophy (from the Enquire design of 1980) is that one should not favor one way over another. On the other hand, also one should not encourage people having to declare both a property and its inverse, which would simply double the number of definitions out there, and give one more axis of arbitrary variation in the way information is expressed. Therefore, the design is to make the system treat forward and backward links equivalently. The outliner therefore displays links in both directions. (it should sort them so obverse and reverse appear together).
The outline is therefore redundant, in that whenever an object is expanded more than one deep, for outer link will also be found as a "dual" inner link in the opposite direction. (e.g. Sam: father Joe: [ is father of: Sam].) That isn't necessarily a problem. An interesting operation is "inversion", in which everything which the outer link is removed, and replaced by its inner dual link, and all the information which was outside the original link is removed in favor of its dual inside the inside the dual of the original link. This is called refocusing in the user manual. It brings the selected branch to be a new root.
The outline mode
(to be continued)
The code uses the RDF browser written by Jim Ley, without which the activation energy for the project would not have been reached at all.
Tim Berners-Lee hacked together the original program in spare time around the end of 2005.
Ruth Dhanaraj improved the whole program in many ways, including coding the asynchronous source management module (sources.js), January-Febrary 2006.


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I had another thirty something birthday a couple of weeks ago and I went out for a nice family meal. I wore a new dress, new makeup and styled my hair with a new super tool that even I can use!! I felt really good so I thought I'd share the details with you!
I got this gorgeous dress from Yuki Tokyo. I went down to the shop on Great Portland Street in London and tried on loads of dresses. I left with four (!) dresses but I think this one is my fave. It's super flattering, you can cinch it in at the waist with the simple back tie and the fabric and cut feels gorgeous. It's also fully lined. I think it's amazing value at £65.
As you have probably noticed, I really went for it with the fake tan! I never ever sunbathe (for fear of wrinkles and worse) and I am naturally as white as a lily, but I do love to be brown. Lauren's Way is my favourite fake tan ever! It gives instant colour and then develops into a natural looking, long lasting tan. Love it!! You don't have to go as brown as I did it here – this is two coats of the lotion!!
As for makeup I used a mixture of Priori, Estee Lauder, and Max Factor.
Priori Coffeeberry Perfecting Minerals foundation is my latest discovery. I absolutely love it! It is amazing because it is completely natural, has anti-ageing properties with the highest natural free-radical protection and contains SPF 25 and UVA 10.
On top of this, it feels moisturising and nourishing and seriously beautifies my skin. I feel like I've been airbrushed when I have it on and unlike other mineral foundations, it doesn't sit in my lines, it softens them. Fabbie!! For the eco-conscious, the packaging is made from 100% bio-degradable plant plastics and is environmentally safe. What more could you want?! I am pretty bowled over!
I use the Perfecting Foundation 3 and the Coffeeberry Sunkissed which is a gorgeous natural looking bronzer.
From Estee Lauder I wore the Platinums eyeshadow duo, the liquid eyeliner in Graphite and the Pure Colour mositurising lipstick in Pink Seduction (08). Not to forget the beautiful Metallic Sage nail polish.
On my lashes I used Max Factor's False lash Effect Fusion Mascara. The hair was super exciting!! I am completely rubbish at hair. I often think that I go to so much effort on makeup, tan and the whole shebang, only to have a big messy unstyled mop on the top!
However, I recently discovered a new hair tools brand called Enrapture that promises to make amazing hair accessible to hair fools just like me. I have to say I was sceptical even when they performed a miracle 10 minute transformation on me at the press day, because it's one thing when a professional does it, but a totally different story when I start fumbling around. But I have to give it to them… I think they have cracked it! I managed to create these curls all by myself! Please excuse all the photos but I'm very proud!!
I used the Enrapture Totem Styler, which has three independent heat zones, to create this look. I have to admit that the heat zone lark is a bit technical for me so I left them all on setting 3! It definitely did the job! You can however create different curls by playing with these I gather!! I have used it loads now and really love it.
So there you have it! I don't think I've missed anything, apart from my boots which you can't really see, but they are from Topshop in case you were wondering. I pretty much wear them every day!!
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Liebherr-Hausgeräte: Communication as a factor of success
Packaging refrigerators is one of the most challenging tasks from an ergonomic perspective. Liebherr-Hausgeräte Ochsenhausen GmbH has optimised its packaging area and relies on areas of expertise within the Group. The main successes from restructuring are the improved quality of packaging, reduction in costs and less strain on the employees.
In Ochsenhausen, the packaging process was carried out manually until now. For the health of the employees and to optimise the quality of the process, introducing a load relief system was therefore beneficial. Precision automated fitting of the boxes rules out human error during packaging and the products are well protected for transportation.
Observing existing structure of building
Building specifications and restrictions limit the freedom to plan the packaging line. The space was very tight and the roof structure had to be taken account of owing to the girders in some areas that restricted the lift of the gantry unit. "But we deal with this kind of thing on a daily basis. And automation solutions don't arise from a vacuum", explains Thomas Mattern, head of development at Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH. The problem of the low ceiling height for the gantry units was resolved with a double telescopic design. This makes the requisite lift possible with a significantly lower construction height.
High cycle rate – greater diversity
The varied output of the production lines in Ochsenhausen also necessitated a flexible system to package the different refrigerators respectively. "The facilities met our expectations completely" explains Benjamin Maucher, project manager at Liebherr-Hausgeräte Ochsenhausen GmbH.
With the high production output of 4,500 refrigerators per day, the site plays no small role in world-wide production. "The demands on availability were particularly high", Thomas Mattern reports. "Since we have an active production line here, there is no margin for error because a refrigerator comes every twelve seconds. If something fails, the whole production comes to a halt."
Collaboration incorporating all areas of design
Owing to the great diversity, there is automatically a need for different box sizes that have to be ready and made available quickly. "A gantry solution therefore seemed the way to go. The initial ideas were all developed internally in the production planning team and were then compared with the suppliers. Without the suppliers' expertise and the good communication that we had with each other, we would never have been able to achieve it", Benjamin Maucher describes.
As a general contractor, Liebherr supplies the complete programme, consisting of in-house components and those from specialised partners.
Clean interfaces
The success of the project is down to the operationally effective interfaces: On one hand, it is the people that accompany the development and implementation process. On the other, it is the harmoniously operating systems of the participating partners. Benjamin Maucher is very satisfied with the result: "Communication between both parties was excellent. As project manager, it was also important to me to have Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH one central contact as this simplifies communication significantly. With this solution, we found a cost effective way to invest in the health of our employees."


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Hi everyone!
So this month I was invited to be Guest Designer at More Than Words challenge blog for they monthly challenge
This is the inspiration board with the word to be used , which is CELEBRATE, as well as the creative challenge to be included, which is BLING
This challenge is open ONLY for layouts, canvases and art pages and you MUST include both the word (Celebrate) and the creative challenge (Bling) in order to win some amazing prizes
This is what I came up with ...
"Celebrate Love"
This is an inverted canvas, in that I have used the back of the canvas as my base.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday that his country wants a growing relationship with China, but that its investments must be scrutinized from a national security perspective.
Ottawa has indicated it will exclude Chinese telecommunication equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from helping build a secure government communications network because of possible security risks, and is also in the midst of reviewing a controversial $15.1 billion Chinese bid for Canadian oil and gas explorer Nexen Inc.
"We will ensure as a government that we have not only a growing relationship with China but a relationship with China that is in Canada's best interests," Harper told reporters on a visit to Dakar, Senegal.
"And of course ... there's a national security dimension to this relationship, in fact to all our activities, that we take very seriously," he added.
"The relationship with China is important, but at the same time it's complex. It's complex because the Chinese obviously have very different ... economic and political systems, and that's why some of these particular transactions raise concerns," he said.
Harper is to fly to Democratic Republic of Congo later on Friday to attend the Francophonie summit, uniting dozens of heads of state from French-speaking nations.
The Canadian government this week extended its review of CNOOC's bid for Nexen by 30 days, shortly after invoking a national security exemption that would allow it to block Huawei from its telecoms deal.
The extension, while expected, comes amid a growing furor over alleged Chinese espionage in North America. Many Canadians also fear that a successful bid by the Chinese state-owned oil company could spark a wave of mega takeovers of Canadian energy producers by foreign enterprises.
The oil sands of the Western Canadian province of Alberta are the world's third-largest proven oil reserve. By some estimates, Canada requires more than C$600 billion ($614 billion) of energy investments in the next decade, and much of it will have to come from outside the country.
Nexen's own portfolio includes operations in the oil sands, shale assets in the province of British Columbia and projects in other parts of the world.
CNOOC's proposal, launched in July, carries a higher price tag than any other foreign takeover bid attempted by a Chinese company. The proposed deal is being reviewed under the Investment Canada Act that allows the government to examine whether a deal is of "net benefit" to the country.
The government last blocked a foreign takeover deal in 2010 when it stunned markets by preventing Australia's BHP Billiton Ltd.
(Reporting by Joe Penney in Dakar and Euan Rocha in Toronto; Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by David Lewis and Vicki Allen)


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It's official: Sookie St. James will not be appearing in Netflix's "Gilmore Girls" revival. Or at least she's pretty sure she won't be.
"I don't think I am," Melissa McCarthy told E!'s Marc Malkin while promoting her new movie, "The Boss," after he asked if she is returning to Stars Hollow. "I didn't actually get asked to do it. But I think they thought I was busy, and then by the time it did come up, then I actually was."
While that is some pretty unfortunate news for big fans of the show and of Sookie, we can at least rest easy knowing that McCarthy fully supports the revival, and even plans to watch it.
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"I'm actually thrilled that it's happening," McCarthy said. "I loved that show, and I think the fans for that show are super loyal and great and I will watch every single one of them."
So would she step back into Sookie's kitchen if the revival were to continue on for more than one season?
"I want to cook again. I want to put salt and then stir," she jokes. "That was seven years of my life and it was really great. I was proud of that show."
Even though Sookie will be sadly absent, we can console ourselves with the fact that the "Gilmore Girls" revival will still be packed with stars from the series, including Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Scott Patterson, Yanic Truesdale, Matt Czuchry, Jared Padalecki, Kelly Bishop, Milo Ventimiglia, Liza Weil, Liz Torres, Jackson Douglas, Sally Struthers, Michael Winters, Emily Kuroda, Vanessa Marano, Danny Strong, David Sutcliffe, Keiko Agena, and Sean Gunn.
The revival, which still has no official title or release date, will consist of four 90-minute episodes each named after a season. It will be set in present day, eight years after the series finale, and will cover one whole year in the lives of Rory, Lorelai, and their fellow residents in Stars Hollow.
You can see McCarthy in "The Boss" when it opens in theaters on April 8.
PHOTOS: "Gilmore Girls" Revival: Everything We Know (So Far)
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article by LAURA BURKE | The Associated Press
Face physical, mental abuse, non-consensual ECT
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - Mentally ill patients suffer from severe abuse at psychiatric hospitals and so-called healing centers in Ghana, with many chained to trees and even denied water, a human rights group said Tuesday.
Some 1,000 residents live in squalid, overcrowded quarters in Ghana's three psychiatric hospitals, according to Human Rights Watch. Patients face physical and verbal abuse, and some are given electroshock therapy without their consent, said the group's report.
The abuse is even worse in healing centers known as "prayer camps," which lack government oversight, it said.
Thousands of mentally disabled people in the West African nation are sent to the camps, usually by their family members to be "cured" by self-proclaimed prophets through miracles, prayer and fasting. In most prayer camps, residents are only allowed to leave when the prophet deems them healed.
At the Mount Horeb Prayer Camp earlier this year, about 120 of the 135 residents there were chained either to trees or to the walls inside cell-like rooms 24 hours a day, sometimes for months at a time, Human Rights Watch said. Most of the chains measured only two yards (meters) long.
"People had to bathe, defecate, urinate, change sanitary towels, eat, and sleep on the spot where they were chained," the group reported.
Medi Ssengooba, Finberg fellow at Human Rights Watch and one of the report's authors, urged Ghana's government to end abuses against people with mental disabilities.
"The conditions in which many people with mental disabilities live in Ghana are inhuman and degrading," Ssengooba said.
Ssengooba said researchers were disappointed to find the level of human rights abuse against the mentally ill in Ghana, which is one of the most progressive countries in Africa in terms of good governance and leadership.
Ghana's 2012 Mental Health Act went into effect in June and allows people with disabilities to challenge their detention in psychiatric hospitals. But the law does not apply to the prayer camps operating outside of government control. Many families send their mentally ill family members to prayer camps because there are very few mental health providers in Ghana and almost all of them are concentrated near Accra, the capital.
Ghana ministry of health spokesman Daniel Osman said the government is making an effort to decentralize so that every regional hospital has a psychiatric unit.
Besides the three psychiatric institutions around Accra, Ssengooba said there are only four private facilities in the country and they are expensive. And in many rural areas, people equate mental illness with demonic possession, and only think there is a spiritual cure, Ssengooba said.
Yet many mentally ill people face bondage, near starvation, and an inability to challenge their confinement at the camps.
One man with a mental disability at Mount Horeb Prayer Camp told Human Rights Watch he was chained for one year without any treatment. He said: "I want to go home, but they don't discharge me and they don't give me any reason."
Doris Appiah, the treasurer of the Mental Health Society of Ghana, said advocates aren't asking the government to close the camps but instead to monitor them.
Appiah, 57, was a medical student in her early 20s when she was committed to a mental hospital with severe depression. After escaping from the hospital, her family put her in a prayer camp near the town of Kumasi, north of Accra, hoping for a quick fix.
She stayed in prayer camps for five years, and was tied to a tree with rope. She is now an advocate for mentally ill people in Ghana.
"People are sick and they are not blamed for being sick, but you are mentally ill and it's your fault. And we hear it over and over again. People say mentally ill people are a liability and we are a menace to society," she said. "When you have mental illness you are considered sub-human, and that is the truth. You are carried places and things are done to you."
She said minimum standards at prayer camps need to be set by the government, and people in Ghana need to be educated about the causes of mental illness.
"Whether you are in chains or not, being mentally ill is like being incarcerated," Appiah said.
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