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DANVILLE — Shelter-in-place orders were lifted just before noon Wednesday for two schools after police and firefighters investigated reports of a natural gas odor.
John F. Baldwin Elementary School and Charlotte Wood Middle School, both on Brookside Drive, were given the order around 11 a.m. Wednesday, according to San Ramon Valley Fire District spokeswoman Kimberly French.
The odor was originally reported about 10:44 a.m. by a caller on Lehigh Valley Circle, about three blocks from both campuses. Firefighters and sheriff's deputies searched the area but could not find any leak; PG&E workers were continuing to investigate in the area, French said.
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Amazon has acknowledged that it's behind the 116,700-square-foot data center no longer under construction on the banks of the Columbia River in Boardman, Oregon.
After construction began on the $135m facility last year, a local paper pegged Amazon as the tenant. But only now, as weeds pop up around the unfinished facility, has the web giant confirmed its ownership. The data center is officially owned by an outfit dubbed Vadata, but speaking with Information Week, Amazon acknowledged that Vadata is a legal entity that belongs to Amazon.
In a statement, the company told The Reg much the same thing. "We continuously evaluate the requirements for our infrastructure capacity and are judicious in our investment decisions," a spokeswoman said. "While we are continually adding resources to support our customers, we don't disclose specific locations for security reasons and don't comment on rumors and speculation."
That said, Amazon has previously disclosed data centers in Ashburn, Virginia; Dallas/Fort Worth; Los Angeles; Miami; Newark, New Jersey; Palo Alto, California; Seattle; St. Louis; Amsterdam; Dublin; Frankfurt; London; Hong Kong; and Tokyo. And for what it's worth, our request was forwarded to the spokeswoman who oversees Amazon Web Services, the company's so-called compute cloud.
In November last year, according to local sources, the Boardman, Oregon facility carried a price tag upwards of $135m - $35m for construction and more than $100m for computing equipment. But like Google and Microsoft, Amazon is apparently slowing the expansion of its data center empire.
The Boardman Chamber of Commerce tells Info Week that construction has halted on Amazon's data center until sometime next year, citing, yes, poor economic conditions.
But as the Boardman site sits idle, Amazon has purchased a 110,000 square foot property in North Virginia, according to Data Center Knowledge. Like the neighboring North Carolina - where Apple is building its $1bn behemoth - Virginia recently passed new laws meant to lure data-center-building web giants.
Some have also speculated that Amazon is focusing efforts on Virginia in an effort to backing its fledgling AWS Federal offering, a service tailored to hosting government apps and infrastructure in the proverbial cloud.
It so happens that federal CIO Vivek Kundra is slated to make some sort of cloudy announcement tomorrow at NASA's Ames Air Force. But Ames is just down the road from another cloud-obsessed web giant. You know the one.
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Yesterday LambdaUX and Imendio finally release the first version of the OpenGroupware.org GroupDAV Evolution connector. It has been developed in the project Noodle and we started developing it around 23 November and this was the roadmap for it. Anders from Imendio invest some intensive hacking time in the connector to finally deliver a very nice first version (for the time and limitations he has found) whith the results that you can see in this screenshots tutorial (1 MB). You can also take a look to Anders final report. Finally, the connector is a GroupDAV connector, so if your GroupWare server implements GroupDAV, it could be a cake to connect Evolution to it.
Helge Hess, from OpenGroupware.org, has helped us a lot. Now thinking about the future, Anders and me aren't sure about how many time we will have to mantain the connector and finish it, but we will try to help. For mainstream, we need to wait first to Evolution 2.2 release before we can start pushing the software in distributions.
I hope I can get some of the code developed, for example the account creation (camel provider and EPlugin), for the Evolution Planner backend. Noodle project also includes the integration with Evolution for the PDA world. The time for Planner<->OpenGroupware<->Evolution<->PDA is near today.


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As the world around us continues to change, there is one absolute truth: that Jesus Christ sacrificed himself and was raised to forgive our sins and grant us eternal life. It is only through the Holy Scriptures that God reveals both this truth and His plan for us. At Green Bay Trinity, we are privileged to share God's Word with our students every day.
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California Fault: Searching for the Spirit of a State Along the San Andreas
Random House Publishing Group, Jun 15, 1997 - Travel - 417 pages
"DELIGHTFULLY ECLECTIC . . . Move over, Alexis de Tocqueville. When Thurston Clarke makes the UFO-earthquake connection halfway through Fault, he elevates himself to the first rank of America's social observers."
--Los Angeles Times
California has always symbolized the good life, but social problems and natural disasters have tarnished the image of the Golden State. To find out what happened to the California Dream, Clarke sets off on a remarkable journey down the San Andreas fault searching for earthquakes and good news. From the "sensitive" whose headaches predict earthquakes with uncanny precision to a determined dreamer at the Salton Sea who hopes someday to build a blue-collar resort along the abandoned shores, Clarke introduces us to a memorable cast of eccentrics, asking each the provocative question: What is it like living in a place that--no matter how beautiful--might suddenly, while you opened the cereal, combed your hair, or bathed the baby, strike you dead?
"VIVID AND CONTINUALLY SURPRISING . . . The author has an unerring ability to search out exactly the right despoiler, utopian, or local eccentric to illuminate the history and character of each stop along the way."
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As phones and mobile devices get smaller and smarter all at once, the nature of electronic music production and audio production is changing dramatically. Even more groundbreaking is Apple's iPhone. As many of you know, I'm a big fan of the iPhone (I don't leave home without mine). And now I'm an even bigger fan, as more and more apps are being developed for the iPhone that are geared towards music production, writing, and recording. Here are 5 seemingly random super-cool apps to get your iPhone rocking.
1) Studio Devil – The makers of the Virtual Guitar Amp tube modeling plug-ins have teamed up with Quixonic to create an authentic tube amp modeling app for the iPhone. (coming soon)
2) Quixpin DJ – Yeah, so Quixonic makes a few — this one's a true DJ app that allows you to mix and beatmatch music without all the heavy equipment, and then output a stereo mix to use at parties, or even cue and beat match songs while another is playing. ($1.99)
3) Noise.io Pro Synth – by Amidio, has a deep learning curve, but gives you countless waveforms and processing tools to create your own sounds. Custom sequencer and effects processor make this one an awesome mobile instrument and production tool. ($14.99)
4) VoiceBand – so this isn't really a pro app, but it is pretty cool stuff. Using your voice, this app plays a real sampled instrument that files what you sing. Control 10 virtual instruments at once using only your voice. ($2.99)
5) Xewton Music Studio – this is a complete music production studio in the palm of your hand. Full 128-track sequencer, 21 pro-quality sampled instruments, realtime effects, sustain, reverb, eq and more. Track settings include tempo and time signature, measure level copy/paste, delete, repeat, transpose, MIDI import and export…. This one is pretty wicked. ($14.99)


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"Kids-You can't beat 'em", was one of the first logos in 1983, when President Reagan proclaimed April to be the first National Child Abuse Prevention Month. I love the dual meaning of this statement. We can't be physically aggressive with kids. But equally as important, is the message that there is special value in children. Thirty years later, we continue to promote the value of our children and their families, as well as the fact that every member of the community has a responsibility to help prevent child abuse and neglect.
If you would like information on how to get involved in promoting the value of children and families, give us a call on the Family Support Line, at 877-695-7996 or via email at email@example.com.
Preventing child abuse and neglect can sound like an overwhelming task, but it really comes down to some basic things that we all can do to help strengthen families. Research shows that there are five protective factors that help strengthen families. These factors act like buffers to stress and increase the health and well-being of children and families.
The Protective Factors are:
Concrete Supports for Parents
Social Connections and Emotional Competence
Parental Resilience
Knowledge of Parenting and of Child/Youth Development
Nurturing and Attachment
Denver Human Services did a great campaign this year for April's Child Abuse Prevention Month that makes it easy to remember the protective factors. It is entitled 5 Ways to Keep Families Stable, Help Kids Thrive and Uphold a Strong Community:
1.) Call for Help!
2.) Surround Yourselves with Friends and Family
3.) Be a Bounce Back Family
4.) Become a Parenting Ace
5.) Help Children Express Themselves
Concrete Supports for Parents, also known as supports for basic needs, is the first protective factor that needs to be addressed. Families need to have their basic needs meet before they can focus on the other factors that will strengthen them. Find these concrete supports for your own family and help other families locate them as well. You can locate these supports within your community in a variety of ways, including local non-profits (such as the Family Support Line at Families First), faith based communities and social service agencies. These groups and agencies will partner with parents to help identify and access resources in the community such as food, clothing, housing, quality childcare, health and dental care, social-emotional services, and variety of other resources.
Another factor is Social Connections and Emotional Competence. This boils down to surrounding yourself and your children with friends and family. It is very important for both adults and children to have Social Connections. When adults have social connections they are modeling for the children around them how to interact with others and their world. The same is true for emotional competence, when we as grown-ups work on our own emotional health; we are modeling emotional wellness for our children. If you do not have supportive friends and family, consider neighbors, spiritual groups, the local child/parent play group, or your child's school. There are a variety of places to find connections for yourself and your child. If you or another adult you know does not have a support system, consider joining a Parent Support Group. Families First offers Circle of Parents ® Support groups and can also connect you with other support groups across the state.
Parental Resilience is the ability to cope with stresses, both the day-to-day stresses, as well as the occasional crisis. This is sometimes described as being a "bounce back" person or family. Are you able to bounce back when things get tough? The other two Protective Factors we had mentioned, Concrete Support and Social Connections, can both help to increase a person's resilience. Having someone that can help you talk through a stress increases the chance a person will bounce back from the stress.
The protective factor, Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development is becoming informed as a parent about ways to communicate with your child, set rules and expectations, and provide safe opportunities that promote independence. These things need to be done while taking the child's current development into consideration. Healthy child development and effective parenting are connected. If you would like to learn more about effective parenting or child development consider attending a parenting class or support group.
The final protective factor is Nurturing and Attachment, last, but not least by any means! In fact, most times this is the first factor listed due to the importance of nurturing and attachment. A child's early experience of being loved and cared for by a safe, reliable adult has an effect on all aspects of their life. It will determine how they treat others and how they allow others to treat them as they grow into adulthood. Nurturing and attachment are crucial not just when a child is young, but throughout their lives. This can set the stage for the other factors to develop.
These five factors are not only good for the parent-child relationship, but they help to decrease stress on an individual level, as well as a community level. If individuals are less stressed, then their relationships will be less stressed, which will produce a less stressed community as a whole. Pick one factor and work on fine-tuning it to increase your protection against stress. Don't know where to find the resources, social supports, parenting classes? Need someone to listen when you are stressed or a place to Brainstorm ideas? Call Families First at 877-695-7996 or email us at email@example.com. We would love to help you tackle a protective factor!
We also have a Spanish Family Support Line at 866-527-3264 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Check us out on Facebook at Families First Colorado. The Family Support Line offers parenting tips, resources and information only and does not serve as legal or mental health advice. We believe you are the paramount person to decide what is best for your family. Comments provided by non-Families First individuals are not the opinion of Families First.


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22. Int. Cordial Cup 2019Jun 7, 2019 :: The Cordial Cup is the best supported youth football tournament in Europe. Over 3000 players in 164 teams compete for the coveted trophy.
More than 3,000 players in 164 teams compete from 07th - 10th june 2019 for the coveted trophy. Top European clubs like Bayern Munich, Spartak Moscow or Bayer Leverkusen have all played in Kitzbuehel.
Watch all the games on the football Pitches in Kitzbuehel and Reith. Almost 400 games and over two days, the tournament winner of each age group will be determined. Together with the trainer, teams (support staff) and associates over 6,000 visitors come to the region of Kitzbuehel.
Young footballers look forward to participate in the Cordial Cup as it is one of the most prestigious tournaments in Europe. Teams play from around the world to qualify in qualifying tournaments, which are held over the year in countries including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovenia and France.
The Cordial Cup guarantees top quality football at its finest. Annually about 10,000 spectators are attracted to the games as well as local soccer fans and guests as are international soccer celebrities and talent scouts. Stars such as Matthias Sammer, Roy Makaay, Didi Constantini are inquiring about the tournament and the current developments at the junior level
The Cordial Cup is for teams ages U 11 (= E-Youth), U 13 (D) and U 15 (C) years old. In 2010 they started the Girl's Cordial Cup and has grown dramatically with the expansion of girls' soccer.
Cordial Cup - The tournament for the future- Young Talented World Stars
More than one of the top stars of today's international clubs laced up his soccer shoes at the international Cordial Cup: For instance a young talent named Sami Khedira was cheered on at the tender age of 11 years when he triumphed at the Cordial Cup and won the award for best player of the tournament. Today the tall midfielder plays under the command of Jose Mourinho with the Spanish stars of Real Madrid. Tranquillo Barnetta, a known Swiss football talent, won the U15 Cordial Cup and could also lift the "Best Player trophy." Today the Swiss national team player can look back on commitments and achievements at Schalke 04, Bayer Leverkusen and top Swiss clubs.
Regular guests at the Cordial Cup are among others:
- FC Bayern München
- Borussia Dortmund
- Juventus Turin
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen
- 1. FC Nürnberg
- VfB Stuttgart
- FC Red Bull Salzburg
- Luton Town FC
- FC Basel
- Grasshoppers Club Zürich
- Red Bull Salzburg
- Borussia Mönchengladbach
- Feyenoord Rotterdam
- Hamburger SV
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- FC Luton Town
- Johannesburg Wanderers
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Senior Center site in Old Town will be remade
City Hall officials are considering options for the Old Town land where the Park City Senior Center sits and progress toward making decisions about the site could be made during the summer.
The municipal government will include the Woodside Avenue site as long-range plans are developed for a section of the northern reaches of Old Town. Jonathan Weidenhamer, the economic development manager at City Hall, said by the middle of April officials want to hire a project manager for the site. By the end of July, he said, details will emerge about the plans and timeline. In a report late in 2012, City Hall said work could start as early as the spring of 2014.
The Park City Senior Center occupies an important location as ideas are considered for that section of Old Town. Weidenhamer said some of the ideas include tearing down or relocating the building itself and then redeveloping the site with a housing project intended for people of multiple generations. There is also an idea to build a senior citizen and community center at a nearby site along Park Avenue. That site is widely known as the location of a building that once served as a fire station. It is now under City Hall's control.
"I think it's a reinvestment in what I would call authentic community fabric," Weidenhamer said.
The ideas are being considered as part of a broader discussion about the area along lower Park Avenue and toward Park City Mountain Resort. There are ambitious ideas to remake that section of Park City through public and private investment. Weidenhamer said work at the site of the Park City Senior Center would be paid for through property-tax increments.
The efforts come as Park City is becoming a graying community. The people who moved to the city decades ago are retired or are reaching retirement age. Retirees, meanwhile, have been moving to Park City as well. There has been some concern that Park City does not offer a range of services or housing options for senior citizens.
The programs of the Park City Senior Center will need to be relocated during any upcoming development work. Officials have offered the possibility of moving the programs to the third floor of the Park City Library and Education Center during the work.
Paul Wisniewski, a member of the Park City Senior Center, praised City Hall for being "very helpful and cooperative" as the discussions are ongoing. He said the inconvenience of relocating during the work will be temporary.
"They're looking out for our best interests," he said.
Members of the Park City Senior Center meet on Mondays and Thursdays for exercise classes, to work on jigsaw puzzles and play bridge, the card game canasta and pool.
Wisniewski said the group wonders whether the temporary space in the Library and Education Center will be large enough. He said there are also worries about the space being upstairs at the Library and Education Center even with the facility's elevator.
"We're a little concerned we're going to be cramped," he said.
Wisniewski, who lives at Deer Mountain and has lived in the area for 10 years, also said the Park City Senior Center has a nice kitchen while one will need to be built for the group at the Library and Education Center. His association with the Park City Senior Center started 15 years ago, during visits to Park City.
He said the group wants to be involved as the temporary space at the Library and Education Center is designed. He said talks have not started about a new facility.
"They seek our input and they listen to what we say," Wisniewski said.
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King's Crown names road honoring late United Park City Mines president
A group of people that appeared to largely represent Park City's development and real estate industries joined family members of the late United Park City Mines President Hank Rothwell on Wednesday as a road was named in his honor. It was a tribute to a key figure in the great growth battles of the 1990s.


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Over the summer Akin stated that rape caused a woman's body to "shut that whole thing down" and prevent conception, with the logical conclusion that there's little need for "Plan B" birth control or abortion for rape victims. In the national backlash that followed, members of Akin's own party said that he should drop out of the senate race (while presumably remaining in the House).
The article described this response of Akin's wife Lulli:
The pressure and attacks clearly reinforced Akin's sense of mission. For the family of the lawmaker known for dressing in colonial garb at Fourth of July parties, the attacks also increased their identification with Revolutionary America. Lulli Akin said that efforts to push her husband out of the race threaten to replace elections "by the people and for the people" with "tyranny, a top-down approach." She added, "Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance through the party and make all the decisions—it's just like 1776 in that way."It does seem audacious for Lulli Akin to invoke "rape" when that was precisely the issue that got her husband in trouble, and then to tie it to "free enterprise" and whether the national party would give money to her husband's campaign.
She cited colonists who "rose up and said, 'Not in my home, you don't come and rape my daughters and my…wife. But that is where we are again. There has been a freedom of elections, not tyranny of selections since way back. Why are we going to roll over and let them steamroll us, be it Democrats or Republicans or whomever?" Obama and Mitt Romney "both seem to be embodying" a British monarch, "with all the tactics that they've been revealing" toward her husband, Lulli Akin said. "Are they that dissimilar?" she asked. "Are they really dissimilar? They say with their mouths 'free enterprise'—but, really, how free?"
Asked about comparisons of his plight to revolutionary Americans, Todd Akin called it "a little more grandiose than the way I would say it."
But what about Akin's claim that a threat to "rape my daughters…in my home" was why American colonists "rose up" in the American Revolution? That has no historical basis. In 1768-69 Boston's Whigs published occasional complaints about soldiers treating women poorly, but those involved theft or disrespect in the street. No soldier was charged with rape. No soldiers were quartered in people's homes. The long lists of grievances put out by colonists which culminated in the Declaration of Independence mention "Murders" but not rape.
I suspect this belief, which is not Akin's alone, is an outgrowth of the common misinterpretation of the Quartering Act: that the royal government forced individual householders to host soldiers in peacetime. That didn't happen. The Quartering Act required colonies to provide barracks and supplies for royal troops. If the enlisted men had been in individual homes instead of barracks, the main result would have been even more desertions.
Rape and sexual abuse have happened in virtually all known wars, and Americans did complain of rape by British troops before the end of 1776. British officers even joked about the topic. There are also allegations of American soldiers raping a Loyalist woman in a 1777 raid on Staten Island.
But those documented complaints came after the war had started and the Continental Congress had voted for independence. They weren't why the colonists had risen up. Picturing rape as a cause of the American Revolution turns a political dispute into a fictional melodrama and mixes up metaphorical propaganda like the cartoon above with actual events. It blurs the real history, just like seeing both "Obama and Mitt Romney" as George III.


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After producing aircrafts and automobiles with aluminum, manufacturers test the fracture toughness with a 8801 system with Fracture Toughness software.
Best practices for addressing the challenges of testing rebar to global standards that specify mechanical properties and testing requirements.
ASTM C1550 requirements create new challenges for testing flexural toughness of fiber reinforced concrete including a larger specimen size and required stiffness.
ASTM C1609-10 specifies how to determine the peak strength of fiber reinforced concrete as well as the residual strength after a crack is created.
The SATEC Series 300DX system and flex fixture can create flexure tests to determine the strength of concrete for slabs and pavements.
An Industrial Series 600 DX Hydraulic testing machine with ASTM C880 specifications can test the flexural strength of dimension stone according to industry standards.
ASTM C99 specifies a method to determine the modulus of rupture for dimension stone, such as granite, marble, limestone, and sandstone.
Wood's structural use as load bearing beams in various construction applications requires stringent flexural testing
A 4 point flexure fixture used with a deflectometer follows ASTM D6272 in finding the flexure properties of plastics and electrical insulating materials.
To evaluate flexure properties of reinforced and unreinforced plastics.
To determine the ductility and effectiveness of the weld and weld process, a dual space DX or HDX load frame with a bend fixture follows testing requirements.
Industrial Series KPX, DX, and HDX models with a W-6810 fixture create a guided bend test to determine the ductility of a material in accordance with ASTM E290.
While observing ASTM F2606, use a three-point bend fixture and an element to minimize friction in testing the flexibility of balloon expandable vascular stents.
After orthopedic reconstructive surgery, metallic bone plates need to help the bone heal while supporting the bone segments, and flexural fatigue testing is needed.
Learn how you can use a universal testing system to evaluate the texture and crunchiness of cereal using a universal testing machine.
To follow EN 14509 , the shear strength and shear modulus of Roofing and Cladding Sandwich panels can be tested with a 5900 series machine.
Hypodermic needles can be flex tested with a micro bend fixture and a BioBath or BioBox, if needed, to predict the performance of the gauge and material.
Fiber-reinforced composites used in the aerospace, automotive, and energy industries should undergo flexural testing to determine material strength and flexibility.
ISO 16402 tests the performance of acrylic resin cements under static and cyclic loading to determine the flexural fatigue and quasi-static bend.
To follow ISO 178, produce flexure tests of plastics with a three-point or four-point loading flexure feature and a direct strain measurement device.
ISO 20795-1 and 20795-2 determine standards for denture-base polymers and orthodontic-base polymers to anticipate the long-term performance.
ISO 6872 lists the requirements for dental ceramics and methods for strength testing, which can be performed with a Universal Testing Machine or an ElectroPuls.
The ElectroPuls tests strong metals created from sintered powder metal carbides for machine tools with compression, fatigue, tension, and flexure.
Orthopedic micro-implants used to treat bone problems and soft tissue injuries need to be tested in simulated loading conditions to prevent failure.
Solar cell manufacturers create mechanical tests to evaluate thin films and substrates to improve energy output, quality, and reliability as well as minimizing cost.
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Instron's Bath and Submersible Pneumatic Grips can assist in in-vitro testing of soft tissues and biomaterials, which are fragile and require low force measurements.
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A portion of the Cavalier Marching Band gives some impromptu entertainment to the tailgaters prior to the UVA football team's game last Saturday against Georgia Tech. There, at Scott Stadium the unranked Cavs surprised the 12th-ranked Yellow Jackets with a 24-21 victory before a Homecoming crowd, some of whom rushed the field as the home team ran out the clock to win. The Cavaliers are home again tomorrow the 22nd of October with a 3:30pm game against NC State.
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He is originally from small town west Texas but eventually made his way to beautiful Austin and we are sure glad he did. Blair has already proven to be a valuable team member providing the level of customer service you've come to expect from ACK.
Blair received his BS Degree in Environmental Science from Abilene Christian University and after graduating moved to Western Wyoming for a couple of years. He has worked in the outdoor educational industry and also did some wildlife research for a consulting firm. While living in Wyoming, fly-fishing became his hobby, spending the majority of his free time floating rivers and fishing streams. He has also guided for two different organizations, which took him all over the United States backpacking, paddling and sailing — he's quite the outdoorsman!
We'd also like to use this opportunity to congratulate Blair as he recently got married and is currently off enjoying his honeymoon. Welcome aboard Kyle…err, Blair!


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Contex A/S is bringing innovation to the wide format scanning market with several new products and updates that feature never-before-seen technology. Among the new entries is the SD3600 wide format scanner series, which comes with patented CIS scanning technology for enhanced image quality of scanned technical drawings and maps. Contex also upgraded its Nextimage scanning and image enhancement software, which now includes first-to-market accounting features and multi-page file functionality.
Creating great excitement in the wide format market is Contex's newest powerhouse, the HD Ultra, a 36- and 42-inch wide format scanner with CCD technology. In addition to exceptional speed and productivity, this scanner offers superior image quality and versatility. The market has responded positively to the HD Ultra; the reseller channel, customers, and the company's team of scanning solutions experts have all offered rave reviews.
HD Ultra Raises the Bar
The HD Ultra is designed for various industries – including reprographics and copy shops, engineering, GIS professionals, architecture and construction companies, utilities, manufacturing, and government — that archive and preserve various types of documents, images, and drawings. The wide format scanner helps these users to work more efficiently and to collaborate better with clients and colleagues.
The HD Ultra offers the most efficient way for users to scan, copy, file, and preserve wide format images, drawings, documents, and records. The scanner's innovative paper-handling is a first in the large format imaging market. SnapSize, Contex's new automatic size detection software, registers any standard-size document as it is fed into the scanner, then automatically optimizes the scanner's setup for that particular document. This feature saves valuable time and ensures a clean, accurate scan.
Intelligent automatic camera calibration, programmable one-touch buttons, and easy network connectivity are among the features that separate the HD Ultra from the competition. Other productivity features include the new FlexFeed, right-side document loading that is easier and faster than center-loading. Additionally, new funnel-shaped feeding simplifies scanning curled originals, and removable paper return guides eliminate the need for rewinding paper.
"The HD Ultra delivers significant productivity gains, with faster overall scan speeds and fewer re-scans due to misfeeds. Our customers will appreciate the overall image quality, FlexFeed capability, and scalability of this new scanner," comments Richard Gigl, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, National / Azon Equipment, a U.S.-based distributor of Contex scanning solutions.
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Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times noted over the weekend that the U.S. Olympic track star "made a lot of plays" as a slot receiver during last week's three-day minicamp.
Demps barely contributed last season, but new coach Lovie Smith is determined to find a use for the former University of Florida running back.
"He is definitely the fastest guy in the NFL, and you see that quickness," said Smith. "We have to find a way to use that speed. He has good hands even though he dropped a long one."
Acquired last April in a trade that shipped LeGarrette Blount to the New England Patriots, Demps appeared in just two games before suffering a pulled groin in October.
The 5-foot-7 jitterbug also brings potential firepower as a return man, but Demps likely is done in Tampa if he doesn't emerge as a factor in the coming months.
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Screenwriting bloggers don't talk about the blogosphere. They talk about the scribosphere. (It's the screenwriting sub-blogosphere.) Kathy Sierra's harassment hasn't been all over the blogosphere. It's been all over a blogosphere. Everybody in the Web tech blogosphere knows about it. Nobody in the scribosphere does. Nobody who blogs on Myspace about their dates and their clothes knows about it either.
Neither the blogosphere nor the scribosphere are spheres at all. They're networks. The metaphor is very precisely wrong. A sphere is a three-dimensional surface with all points equidistant from the center. Equidistance from the center is a very, very inappropriate feature for a metaphor for blog networks. They look more like nerve clusters.
Each specific "blogosphere" clusters around specific high-profile bloggers, and closeness or distance to these central bloggers makes for relevance or irrelevance within that particular alleged "sphere". Just as every Rails blogger knows who DHH is, every screenwriting blogger knows who Unk is. Every Myspace blogger into dance music in the state of New Mexico knows who John S. and Grant are. But to the average reader of this particular blog, all those names, except DHH, probably mean nothing.
We tend to think of the Web tech blogosphere as "the" blogosphere because Web technology people are nowhere near as deep and insightful as we like to think we are. We were here first, so our blogosphere is the blogosphere. Right? Myspace bloggers aren't real bloggers. Screenwriting bloggers aren't real bloggers. I Can Has Cheezburger? isn't a real blog.
There isn't one blogosphere. They are very many. And none of them are spherical.
The inappropriateness of the spherical metaphor intensifies when you consider the fractal, recursive nature of blogospheres. The Web technology blogosphere includes the Rails blogosphere, the Java blogosphere, the PHP blogosphere; large parts of the Perl blogosphere, the Python blogosphere, and the Smalltalk blogosphere; as well as markup language blogospheres and the Flash blogosphere; and large areas of the design, usability, marketing, management, entrepeneurialism, investment, and advertizing blogospheres as well.
It's pretty difficult to model this recursivity accurately with spheres. It's very easy with nerve clusters. Just picture the human brain.
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{"identifier": "oai:DeinDienst.de:00001", "date": "2012-10-10", "counter": 0, "LogEc": 0, "IFABC": 1, "RobotsCounter": 0, "RobotsLogEc": 0, "RobotsIFABC": 0},
{"identifier": "oai:DeinDienst.de:00001", "date": "2012-10-10", "counter": 0, "LogEc": 0, "IFABC": 1, "RobotsCounter": 0, "RobotsLogEc": 0, "RobotsIFABC": 0},
{"identifier": "oai:DeinDienst.de:00037", "date": "2012-10-11", "counter": 0, "LogEc": 0, "IFABC": 1, "RobotsCounter": 0, "RobotsLogEc": 0, "RobotsIFABC": 0},
{"identifier": "oai:DeinDienst.de:00037", "date": "2012-10-11", "counter": 0, "LogEc": 0, "IFABC": 1, "RobotsCounter": 0, "RobotsLogEc": 0, "RobotsIFABC": 0},
Source: Email Julika, 31.10.2012
Source: Email Julika, 31.10.2012
= API for Value Added Services =
= API for Value Added Services =
Revision as of 09:45, 14 January 2013
The German Open Access Statistics (OA-S) project intends to provide a framework and infrastructure that enables OJS users to establish alternative usage statistics for Open Access content and build value added services on top of such statistics.
This specification describes the use cases, requirements and implementation recommendations for the integration of OA-S into OJS.
The basic idea of OA-S can be described as a co-operation of two institutions:
- The *data provider* (in this case operators of OJS installations) tracks access to documents (in our case article and issue galleys, abstracts and supplementary files).
- Access data will then be made available through a protected OAI interface and harvested by the OAS *service provider*.
- The service provider will clean the raw data and produce aggregate metrics based on the COUNTER standard. At a later stage LocEc and IFABC statistics may also be supported.
- The data provider retrieves metrics from the service provider on a daily basis and stores them in OJS.
These metrics can then be used in different ways in OJS:
- They can be displayed to the editors, authors and readers.
- They can be used in search for ranking.
- Editors could produce statistics reports.
- We could provide a "most viewed article" feature.
- We could implement a feature that displays "other (more viewed) articles of the same author".
- We could display "similar (more viewed) articles" on an article's page.
We'll use the terms "data provider" and "service provider" from here on without further explanation. "Data provider" and "OJS user" can be used synonymously. We use the term "end user" to refer to users accessing an OJS site.
Data Extraction and Storage
The OAI message contains the following usage event data:
- usage event timestamp
- administration section
- HTTP status code
- downloaded document size
- actual document size
- document format (MIME type)
- URI of the service (e.g. OJS journal URL)
- referent section
- document URL
- optional: one or more unique document IDs (e.g. DOI, URN, etc.)
- referring entity section
- HTTP referrer (if available)
- optional: additional identifiers of the referring entity (e.g. DOI, ...) if available
- requester section
- hashed + salted IP
- hashed C class
- hostname of the requesting entity (if available), truncated to the second level domain
- optional: classification
- internal: Usage events due to internal requirements, e.g. automated integrity checks, availability checks, etc.
- administrative: Usage events that happen due to administrative decisions, e.g. for quality assurance.
- institutional: Usage events triggered from within the institution running the service for which usage events are being collected.
- optional: hashed session ID or session
- HTTP user agent (if available)
- service type section (omitted, only for relevant for link resolvers)
These data items will be used for the following purposes:
- IP address and timestamp are used to recognize double downloads as defined by the COUNTER standard. Such "double clicks" will be counted as a single usage event.
- The C class of the IP address will furthermore be used to recognize robots and exclude their usage from the statistics.
- The file information (url, name, document id, url parameters, etc.) are used to uniquely identify the document which has been accessed.
- The HTTP status code will used as only successful access may be counted.
- The size of the document is used to identify full downloads (e.g. 95% of the file downloaded). Partial or aborted downloads will not be counted as usage event.
- The HTTP user agent will be used to identify robots and to remove their usage from the statistics.
- The referrer information is used to analyze how users found the service and can be used to improve the service (potential sources: search engines, organizational web portal).
OA-S provides sample code for DSpace log extraction. The same code is also provided via SVN.
Salt Management Interface
Data Transformation
Privacy Protection
We assume that many OJS providers using the OA-S extension will be liable to German privacy laws. While OJS users will have to evaluated their legal situation on a per-case basis and we cannot guarantee in any way that OJS conforms to all legal requirements in individual cases, we provide basic technical infrastructure that may make it easier for OJS users to comply with German privacy law.
The OA-S project commissioned two legal case studies with respect to German privacy law: one describes the legal context of OA-S application at University Stuttgart, the other focuses more generally on OA-S users, especially project members. The first report has been done during an earlier phase of the OA-S project when privacy-enhancing measures, like the use of a SALT for IP hashing, were not yet specified. The second report is more recent. It assumes an enhanced privacy infrastructure, i.e. the use of a SALT to pseudonimize IP addresses. We therefore base our implementation recommendations on the results of the second report.
The report recommends that data providers liable to German privacy law implement the following infrastructure:
- All personal data must be pseudonymized immediately (within a few minutes) after being stored. This can be achieved by hashing IP addresses with a secret salt. The salt must have a length of at least 128 bits and must be cryptographically secure. The salt must be renewed about once a month and may not be known to the OA-S service provider. The salt will be distributed through a central agent to all data providers. A single salt can be used for all data providers if they do not share pseudonimized data. Pseudonimized data must be immediately transferred to the service provider and thereafter deleted by the data provider, i.e. every five minutes.
- Data providers have to provide the means for end users to deny data collection ("opt-out"). The cited report comes to the conclusion that an active "opt-in" of end users is not necessary if data will be reliably pseudonymized. It recommends an "opt-out" button which, if clicked, could result in a temporary cookie being set in the end user's browser. Whenever such a cookie is present, usage data may not be collected. The report recommends against setting a permanent cookie as this may now or in the future require active "opt-in" on the part of the end user. Alternatively the user's IP address could be blacklisted while using the service, i.e. entered into a table and all data from that IP would then not be stored. The blacklist entry would have to be deleted after the user session expires.
- Data providers have to inform end users about their right to opt out of data collection before they start using the service. They also have to inform the end user that opting out of the service will result in a temporary cookie being set in their browsers. This information must be available not only once when the user starts using the service but permanently, e.g. through a link.
- Data providers will have to implement further organizational measures (registration of data processing organizations, reporting data usage to end users on demand)
OAI interface
NB: The specification and implementation of the OA-S OAI interface are not part of the project phase OA-S I. We collect unstructured material for use in later project phases.
- OA-S provides a validator service for the data provider OAI interface.
- We use HTTP Basic authentication to protect the OAI end point (see email Julika, 31.10.2012)
- A protocol to confirm successful reception of raw data has not yet been implemented (see email Julika, 31.10.2012)
Retrieving metrics from the Service Provider
NB: The specification and implementation of the OA-S statistics retrieval interface are not part of the project phase OA-S I. We collect unstructured material for use in later project phases.
The JSON retrieved from OA-S looks something like this:
{ "from": "2012-10-01", "to": "2012-10-30", "entrydef": ["identifier", "date", "counter", "LogEc", "IFABC", "RobotsCounter", "RobotsLogEc", "RobotsIFABC"], "entries": [ {"identifier": "oai:DeinDienst.de:00001", "date": "2012-10-10", "counter": 0, "LogEc": 0, "IFABC": 1, "RobotsCounter": 0, "RobotsLogEc": 0, "RobotsIFABC": 0}, {"identifier": "oai:DeinDienst.de:00037", "date": "2012-10-11", "counter": 0, "LogEc": 0, "IFABC": 1, "RobotsCounter": 0, "RobotsLogEc": 0, "RobotsIFABC": 0}, ... }
Source: Email Julika, 31.10.2012


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Assuming as well that everyone is healthy and in good form, here is my best starting eleven for the Americans.
Goalkeeper: Tim Howard
The competition between the sticks for the US is the best they have. Tim Howard and Brad Guzan are both very capable of defending the goal. While Guzan has been in excellent form as of late, and absolutely deserves a starting spot, I'm going with the "If it isn't broke, don't fix it" strategy.
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Right-back: Timmy Chandler | Centre-back: Omar Gonzalez | Centre-back: Matt Besler | Left-back: Fabian Johnson
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Gonzalez and Besler did a fantastic job against Mexico at the Estádio Azteca earlier in qualification, and up to this point have been the best pairing in central defence as far as I've seen. I think their partnership should be given the opportunity to flourish. Both are talented defenders and can match up physically with top forwards.
At right and left back I have Timmy Chandler and Fabian Johnson, respectively. Both are young, quick and can help in attack as well.
While Steve Cherundelo may have a slight advantage defending compared to Chandler, Timmy more than makes up for it with his athletic ability. The same goes for Johnson on the left. Fabian Johnson has recently been deployed as a left-winger in attack, but has been unimpressive and I feel he is best as a defender.
As with the centre-back pairing, these two fullbacks will continue to grow and develop.
One knock against this bac-kline is their lack of experience. The more matches they get, and the more matches they get as a unit, the better they will be in Brazil.
Right-wing: Landon Donovan | Centre-midfielder: Michael Bradley | Centre-midfielder: Jermaine Jones | Left-wing: Brek Shea
Michael Bradley is the rock of the US national team, and someday will be captain of the squad. Jones gets the other centre-midfield position because of his edge and leadership he brings. His experience in Europe no doubt helps, and he is almost always one of the better performers on the pitch each match.
Even though Landon Donovan is not currently one of Jürgen Klinsmann's first choices, I believe he will earn his spot back and continue to lead the squad.
His performance is vital to the US and he has the ability to orchestrate the attack. The team has performed adequately without him and his return will be an added boost.
Brek Shea is the wildcard. When he's on, his size and speed are difficult to deal with and can create a lot of opportunities down the left side. I strongly considered putting Eddie Johnson or Hércules Gómez at left-mid because of Shea's inconsistency, but I feel that with another year under his belt in the English Premier League with Stoke City, Shea will be the best choice on the left.
Centre-forward: Clint Dempsey | Striker: Jozy Altidore
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Jozy Altidore has cemented himself as the first choice Striker after his last few performances against Germany in a friendly, and against Jamaica in qualifying. The goals are now coming, and he also possesses great strength and has ideal size. After his last season at AZ Alkmaar, he is currently oozing confidence, and hopefully that confidence and form will continue on to next season and next summer.
The key to the United States performing well and advancing past the group stages at next summer's World Cup will be Klinsmann finding the right group of players to have on the pitch. If all are healthy and playing well, I definitely think this is his best choice for starting eleven by the time the 2014 World Cup comes around.
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Bloomfield raced to a 26-17 lead in the first quarter of the 1971 season opener, so Blue Knight coach Ed Nardi gave Ernie Blue 'the signal' at the break between quarters. Blue had already scored nine of Southington's 17 points against the fast-breaking Bloomfield squad, but the first year Southington coach gave his senior captain the go ahead.
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Six years earlier, Greg O'Connell set a single game scoring record for his 36 point effort. As the 1960s came to a close, Tom Leahy matched that varsity effort. But in the first game of his senior season, Blue had shattered the former measure with a 45-point barrage in Southington's opening day loss.
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Some say that Ernie Blue is the reason why Southington is called the Blue Knights.
"He could score from just about anywhere," Nardi said about his former all-state scorer. "He had extraordinary moves inside. He had a good outside shot, and he was very hard to handle. After that first game he saw a lot special defenses to contain him, but he was such a prolific scorer. We didn't have a very good record that year, but he was outstanding."
Blue was never left unguarded for the rest of the season, but that didn't seem to slow Southington's top gun. He averaged 22.6 points per game as a senior. He became the second Southington scorer to eclipse the 1,000 points barrier against Rockville with five games remaining. He pushed past Michanczyk as the program's top scorer and finished his career with 1,155 points. Blue remains the only Blue Knight to score more than 1,100 points.
"He was very outstanding. If you look at that time, he really stood out," said Nardi. "I don't know exactly how many 1,000 point scorers we've had in Southington, but we didn't have many. It was my first year and we didn't have a very good season, so a lot of things sort of fell on his shoulders. He handled it well, and he was very tough to contain."
Southington had fallen a long way from their heydays of the 1950s by the time that Blue arrived in town as a freshman at Kennedy Junior High School in January, 1969. A local housing boom was already transforming the quiet, blue collar town into a community with one of the largest high schools in the state when Blue arrived at the high school the following year.
It had been 20 years since Ray Michanczyk became Southington's first 1,000 point scorer during his four-year career in the 1950s, but Blue eclipsed his mark in just three seasons. Since his graduation, Southington has returned to a four-year high school program, but nobody has been able to beat his mark in 30 years.
Blue seemed almost embarrassed at long-standing record. "I feel good about it, but I've held it long enough," he said. "I wish somebody would break it because I love the school and I love the sport. Okay. I held it this long. Now somebody else can take it, and I wish that I can be there to see it. I want to be there, and I want to shake their hand."
It seems almost impossible to believe that Blue had not scored a single point in an organized game by the time he landed at Kennedy Junior High School in the middle of his freshman season. It seems even more unlikely that a 5 foot, 8 inch player could wrestle big men as a sophomore power forward, but the high-jumping Blue scored 180 points in his first year with the Blue Knights.
In the off-season, he grew two inches, gained a few pounds, and worked on his game until dark on the courts at Plantsville Elementary School. All that work paid off in his junior year. Blue exploded with 424 points (22.3 points per game) to lead the conference in scoring, and that year still ranks sixth all-time for Southington scorers.
"In between my sophomore and junior years, I was focused on learning a jump shot," he said. "I wanted to have a 15-foot jumper that would work like a lay-up. As soon as I got that jump shot, I figured that I could take on anybody. If they were my size, they were in trouble."
It was no fluke. As a senior, he scored 451 points, and that still ranks fourth on the list of Southington's single season performances. His 45-point performance in the opener still holds the record for the top single game performance of any Blue Knight, and his 43-point effort against Plainville in mid-February ranks on the all-time list.
Blue credits his coaching for the sudden rise to the top.
"I doubt that anyone else can claim that they had four hall of fame coaches in high school," he said. "There was Walt Lozoski and Dom D'Angelo in my sophomore and junior years. Then, I was blessed to have Ed Nardi and Dick Lorenzo as coaches in my senior year, and they are all hall of famers. Then, I was blessed to continue on at college with John Salerno and Bob Ruderman—both Southington guys—and they were both New England Basketball Hall of Fame coaches. I think I was pretty good, but I was blessed to have the opportunity to play under those guys in that atmosphere and those circumstances."
Whatever the reason, Blue was far from finished when he graduated Southington High School. He continued at Mattatuck Community College (now known as Naugatuck Valley Community College) where he managed to score over 400 points in both seasons under Salerno and Ruderman.
Blue scored 428 points in his freshman year and 449 points in his final season at the two-year
The Blue Knight; After 3 decades Ernie Blue remains the measuring stick for Southington scorers
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Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History(2012-11-29)
The sixth Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) will be held at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC on April 26-27, 2013. Sponsored by the Department of History and Politics at Converse with support from the Goodall Environmental Studies Center at Wofford College, the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South at Mississippi State University, and Agricultural History, the Forum's goal is to provide a welcoming and collegial environment for graduate students and established scholars to present new material that pushes the boundaries of agricultural, rural, and environmental history.
Dr. Kathryn Newfont, chair of the Regional Studies Department at Mars Hill College and author of Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina, will present a keynote address entitled "Exploring the Fruitful Intersection of Oral History and Environmental History." Other conference activities will include a field trip to a sustainable farming operation and a reading by environmental writer John Lane (author of My Paddle to the Sea).
The organizers intend this event to be a place for scholars of all ranks to try out innovative ideas in an informal, supportive, and constructive setting. Toward that end, we ask that participants plan on attending all sessions to generate quality discussion for all presenters (the sessions will be non-concurrent). Work on all geographic locations and time periods is welcome.
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Four Roses first introduced a limited edition small batch bourbon a good 4 or so years ago. At that time the distillery called this product "Mariage" (one "r") because it started as a marriage of 2 different bourbons from the distillery's ten bourbon recipes.
In speaking with Four Roses Master Distiller, Jim Rutledge, in early 2011 (videos here), he informed me that the term "Mariage" was often mispronounced by the buying public. Consumers were confusing the term with a the wine term, meritage. In addition, the name was limiting for the distillery due to the common meaning of marrying just two components. Jim was interested in creating a small batch blend that didn't constrain him to only two whiskeys.
For the 2010 release, Four Roses chose to stick with simplicity, calling the bourbon the "Limited Edition Small Batch". The name has stuck since. The 2012 edition is a blend of a 17 & 11 year old OBSV, 12 year old OBSK, and a 12 year old OESK.
For clarification, the "B" in the designation refers to the distillery's higher rye (35%) bourbon while "E" is the lower rye (20%) version. Even at 20%, that's a great deal more rye content than the average bourbon whiskey on the market. Venturing a guess, I'd say average is closer to the low teens in terms of percentages. In addition, the "V" in the recipe refers to the distillery's fruitier, creamier yeast strain. "K" refers to a spicier strain of yeast. These four whiskeys were "mingled" (as Jim refers to it) together to create a harmonious blend. The results are something truly epic.
Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch Bourbon (2012), 55.7% abv (111.4Proof), $70/bottle
Color: Medium Amber/Copper/Burnt Orange
Nose: Cinnamon, allspice, candied orange, brandied cherries, maple fudge, and heaps of vanilla. So full of bright wood spice tamed by sweet, soft fruit.
Palate: Vanilla cream, maple, and toffee on the palate with prickles of cinnamon and chili heat. Bitter orange, grapefruit, and cherry add a layer of fruitiness. Well structured, and layered flavors unfold with each sip.
Finish: Wood and spices bring on warmth while the fruit and vanilla notes linger long.
Overall: Four Roses has managed to create one of the great bourbons of all time with the 2012 Limited Edition Small Batch. I can't think of a more complex and satisfying pour of whiskey for 2012 than this one. It's amazing that in a time when the Pappy and the Antique Collection products seem to gain all of the press, a whiskey of this stature can still be found on shelves. What I enjoy so much about Four Roses is that it tastes like………Four Roses. There's nothing else quite like it. The wood never dominates and these whiskeys amaze you with both their finesse and their power. At 55.1% alcohol, I had little trouble sipping this neat. A splash of water tones down the heat, ramps up the fruit, and makes for a completely different (yet not less satisfying) sip. Well done Four Roses – my shoe-in American Whiskey of the Year.
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There's more to this 15-metre long 'caterpillar sound sculpture' than meets the eye...it's made a welcome comeback at the Alice Desert Festival street parade.
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Despite a few hiccups with a buckled wheel and one exploding tyre, the musical caterpillar made its grand comeback at yesterdays Alice Desert Festival street parade.
First seen in the 2010 parade, this amazing mobile sound sculpture hasn't been seen much around Alice Springs since then.
But this year, its been well utilised with kids from the Centralian Senior College learning a suprrising range of skills, not least of which is drumming.
Mark Gooley, one of the artists-in-residence on the project, says students learnt everything from angle-grinding to painting.
"We had a big range of kids, kids who have never done any metal work before, kids who have never drummed before...it's let them get involved in a big range of things that they wouldn't normally do," he says.
"I've been helping putting it together, painting the caterpillar, doing some grinding...stuff," says Year 10 student Alarika Clarisa.
"It was a bit scary at the start, but then I got the hang of it," she says.
Shontal Klose and Svetlana Bunic from rhythm education unit 'Ba-Boom!' have been working with the kids for six weeks, teaching them an arrangement on West African drums, which was then transferred to a range of 'instruments' including old chlorine drums, wheel hubs and fire extinguishers.
But the 'thongaphones' were the standout for Shontal.
"They're pvc pipes, different lengths and different diameters and they're all tuned to each other, so the way they're cut and the diameters create the tuning, and we use these big rubber instruments that sort of look very fat thongs and the kids strike those and they create a beautiful full sound," she says.
"Rythm is very infectious," adds Svet.
"Through working on the drums in the classroom and then taking all that information and applying it [to the Yeperenye], it's been really quite a joyful experience."
"I'm really happy to see it back on the road, I think it's awesome," says builder and designer Dan Murphy.
"I love the way that it takes so many people to make it work, a lot of different people have to come together and work as a team...and it doesn't matter how many skills you've got, everyone can be involved."
Helping to push the caterpillar along the mall was Alice Springs custodian Andrew Stevens, who points to the East MacDonnell Ranges visible from the council lawns and says his grandfather told him the story of the Yeperenye.
Andrew is from the same clan as well known Alice Springs custodian, Doris Stuart, who Dan says he worked closely with from the very beginning of the project.
"One of the things [Doris] likes to say about it is [that] the yeperenyes, they come out in all different colours, they've all got a different pattern on them...but they all work together, just like [Doris] wants the Arerndte people, and white people and everyone who lives in Alice Springs all to work together with respect and harmony."
The caterpillar was certainly a huge hit with onlookers, with plenty of tourists taking the opportunity to get their photo snapped with it at the end of the parade.
Local nurse, Nizy Varghese, brought her mum to see the parade.
"My mum jas just come from India and she's just seeing Alice Springs for the first time and she's really enjoying it," she says.
"The caterpillar is one of those main things that's always related with Aboriginal dreamings and things like that...it's great, it's really nice."
See the caterpillar next to the Big Top at Snow Kenna Park throughout the Alice Desert Festival.
(Support for the project included the Centre for Appropriate Technology, Tangentyere Council, Australia Council, Arts NT and the Hidden Valley community centre.)
See more great photos from the Alice Springs Festival, Street Parade


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10 April 2009
blocking the DiggBar in Habari
Challenged by RandyWalker and inspired by John Gruber's post about blocking the DiggBar, I whipped up a quick plugin to do just that for Habari.
After all, why should all the other blog engines have all the fun?
But I'm getting ahead of myself. The DiggBar is a new feature that adds lots of great features to pages and sites linked on Digg. And to do so, it shortens the URL (to one starting with http://digg.com/) and loads the target in a frame.
In a frame?! I thought we were done with frames half a decade ago.
There are myriad reasons why this is a bad thing, and not all of them involve Digg stealing revenue, and other sites have covered it better, but in short, it's a bad thing.
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GRADE 550 m, 22 A1
From Cape Town travel on the N1 through Du Toits Kloof and take the righthand turn-off for Rawsonville. After some distance turn left to Goudini continuing with a bridge over the N1 and proceed past the Goudini Spa. After a few kilometres turn left onto the farm marked Breeland (Lee & Jones). Proceed down the twin tracks for 100 metres then take a right towards wine cellars. At the cellars take a small road down to the left that leads for about 5 kilometres across vineyards to the home of owners Mortimer and Louise Lee (tel 023 344 3127). Proceed on a track past the farmhouse for 50 metres with a normal car, else 2 kilometres with a high clearance vehicle. Walk to the head of the valley. The huge red wall will come into view high on the left. Head up the gorge for 2 to 3 hours, including the ascent of a 20m waterfall, to reach the wall.
Pitch 1 (25m 20)
Clamber up the obvious pillar in the middle of the main (right hand) wall. Belay atop this pillar. Head up to an overhang, traverse a few metres and break through the overhang. Head up and then traverse right to belay. Pitch 2 (25m 17)
Head round the corner to the right then up an easy recess and up onto vegetated easy ground.
Pitch 3 (35m 12)
Scramble up and to the left to belay at a small tree at the base of an obvious flaky recess.
Pitch 4 (25m 19)
Climb the delicate recess and then out right around an overhang and up to a stance.
Pitch 5 (25m 16)
Traverse out right then up an obvious break to reach a roof. Traverse back left under the roof then up to a stance.
Pitch 6 (30m 12)
Head out left along the rising ledge system then up a little to belay.
Pitch 7 (25m 16)
Head on up blocky ground then out right around a corner to a belay ledge.
Pitch 8 (25m 21, A1)
From the right end of the ledge head up to reach the huge razor flake. Gingerly head up this to get to the roof above then traverse left to break through the overhang and up to a stance.
Pitch 9 (30m, 19)
Head up then follow the fault line as it leans right.
Pitch 10 (40m, 20)
Head up until forced out to the right. Traverse spectacularly on hard orange rock then up to a good sleeping ledge. From the sleeping ledge clamber around to the left to gain a higher ledge system at the base of a overhanging recess.
Pitch 11 (35m, 20 A1)
Mostly free and on excellent rock climb the recess upwards and outwards using micro nuts for aid where the crack squeezes out. Break right to reach a hanging stance on bolts.
Pitch 12 (30m, 22 A1)
Climb directly up to the huge overhanging bulge and use the hand crack to climb spectacularly out and over to easier vertical ground. Head up to a hanging stance.
Pitch 13 (30m, 22 A1)
Head up to climb the improbable outward leaning orange face to the left. Gain the recess and get up to a handrail. Head spectacularly out left and awkwardly get onto a ledge over and up to the left. Ascend difficult ground to belay much higher on a large ledge. Pitch 14 (35m, 22 A1) Crawl to the left of the ledge then up the yet-again outward leaning orange face to the left (do not get led right by gear high up on the grey face – a nasty place!). Climb the orange face and proceed through assorted overhangs to reach easy ground. Reach a belay halfway up the pillar ahead.
Pitch 15 (25m, 19)
Climb the pillar then up steep ground until getting up to a stance on a sloping ledge.
Pitch 16 (10m, 19)
Traverse right around a corner and then up to a stance.
Pitch 17 (40m, 18)
Climb directly up to a thin flake taking care not to drop it onto the belay. Trend right and up through mixed ground to reach a stance on a ledge.
Pitch 18 (25m, 19)
Head into the recess above then out left onto the face. Head up and leftwards to gain a vertical crack. Continue up to a stance on a small ledge.
Pitch 19 (35m, 22)
Climb up and right on easy ground. Ascend the recess for some distance, pull out and over a huge chockstone, head out left onto a slightly outward-leaning orange face using underclings, then up through some small overhangs. At a large bulging overhang ahead use a hand-sized jam crack to overcome it. Head up the bottomless chimney/recess to finish spectacularly on the rim a long way out from the base of the wall.
Head down to the right over easy terrain to reach a col with huge boulders. Here head down to the right to reach the small trees on the ridge far ahead. From these trees hug the extreme left side of the ridge and head down the other side of it (without falling over the precipice below). A steep and tricky slope regains the ascent gorge. An alternative longer (15km) but easier walk-off is to go left at the col to eventually gain a path down a very pretty valley that leads to Junction Pool. At Junction Pool turn right on the track to get to the top of Bains Kloof Pass. Both descents require 4 to 5 hours.
OPENING PARTY David Davies, Hilton Davies, Matthew Sim – 9 November 2002.


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Remember this earlier post?
I recently watched a few Laurel&Hardy shorts and in one of them I recognized the shots that Dick used as reference for the animation of Zigzag stepping on the tack. The short is called "Angora Love".
You might want to search for "Die nächtliche Ziegenwäsche". There is a clip that has the shots that Dick used around the 8:50 mark.


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The Shin Megami Tensei RPG series began in Japan in 1992 on Super Famicom. Neither this game nor its sequel was published in North America. In 2004 Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne was the first SMT game in North America, although "III" was removed from the PlayStation 2 title. The SMT series later spun-off several sub-series, including Persona, Devil Summoner, Devil Survivor, Digital Devil Saga, and the standalone Strange Journey. This new RPG is considered the fourth in the Shin Megami Tensei mainline series.
A World to Discover, A Mystery to UncoverThe life of a Samurai is fraught with peril. Players must leave the safety of the kingdom in order to defend it from the invading demons. There the story unfolds as they become involved in a fierce battle between God and demons. Shin Megami Tensei IV is a single player experience. Demon Collection and FusionThe core mechanic of the Shin Megami Tensei series returns with more than 400 demons to recruit, collect, and fuse together. Players will constantly be challenged with balancing the strengths of their demons to ultimately excel in battle.Choices and ConsequencesThroughout the player's journey, they must choose their own path. The choices will affect them, other NPCs, and the overall outcome of the story. Branching story paths require careful consideration since the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado and the post-apocalyptic remnants of Tokyo hang in the balance. Pressing the Combat AdvantageThe Press Turn system requires strategic thinking for every battle. Pinpointing an enemy's weakness will provide a vital extra turn for players to exploit. But there are dangers as well...reckless attacks against demons cause players to lose their turns and give the enemy an opening to strike back. An All-Star Development TeamA decade in the making, the development team boasts the creative talent of staff from such well-known games and series as Persona, SMT: Nocturne, Devil Summoner, Trauma Center, SMT: Strange Journey, Digital Devil Saga, and Soul Hackers.
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