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Given the amount of industry noise about native video and scripted animations, you'd be forgiven if you had never heard of the new microdata specification included in HTML5.
Similar to outside efforts like Microformats, HTML5's microdata offers a way of extend HTML by adding custom vocabularies to your pages.
The easiest way to understand it is to consider a common use case. Let's say you want list details about a business on your page — the name, address, telephone number and so on. To do that you'll need to use some vocabulary in addition to HTML, since there is no
<business> tag.
Using microdata, you can create your own custom name/value pairs to define a vocabulary that describes a business listing.
When a search engine spider comes along, it will know that not only is your data a business listing, but it can discover the address, the phone number, or even the precise geo-coordinates if you want to include them.
Given that HTML5 is still a draft at this point, why bother?
Actually, despite its lack of publicity and HTML5's still-incomplete status, microdata is already being used by Google, which has started adding information gleaned from microdata markup to its search result snippets.
Microdata is useful today, but what about Microformats or more complex tools like RDFa? The answer is that all three will work (and Google, in most cases, understands all of them).
In the end, the differences between the three are primarily in the syntax, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. But given that the Microdata specification will very likely become an official recommended web standard as part of HTML5, it seems the most future-proof of the three options.
So how do we add Microdata to a web page? Consider the following basic HTML markup, which might be used to describe my local coffee shop:

Hendershot's Coffee Bar

1560 Oglethorpe Ave, Athens, GA

This markup gets the basic information on the page and humans can read it, but search engine spiders aren't going to get much out of it. While it's true that even Google says you should design for humans first and robots second, we can improve this code without making it any less human readable.
To rewrite this business listing using HTML5's microdata syntax, we would do something like this:

Hendershot's Coffee Bar

 1560 Oglethorpe Ave, Athens, GA.

The Microdata markup adds a couple attributes you may not have seen before,
itemtype and
itemprop. The first is essentially just a top level marker, it tells the search engine spider that you're about to define something in the following nested tags. The
itemtype attribute tells the spider what you're defining — in this case, an organization.
The rest of the markup should look pretty familiar if you've used Microformats. The main change is the
itemprop attribute (short for item property) to define what each element is. Because our address is all one paragraph, we've added some span tags to define each element of the address separately — street address, locality and so on. If we wanted, we could add other properties like a phone number (
itemprop="tel"), a URL (
itemprop="url") or even geodata (
So where did we get these
itemprop vocabularies from? Well, as the URL in the
itemtype attribute indicates, they come from data-vocabulary.org. Of course you can make up your own itemprop syntax, but if you want search engine spiders to understand your microdata, you're going to have to document what you're doing. Since the definitions at data-vocabulary.org cover a number of common use cases — events, organizations, people, products, recipes, reviews — it makes a good starting point.
Microformats and RDFa
So how does Microdata fit with Microformats and RDFa? Well, the WHAT-WG, which helps to develop the HTML5 spec, decided the flame wars provoked by the debate over whether to use Microformats or RDFa lacked sufficient vehemence, so they added a third definition of their own.
Actually, the reasoning seems to have been something like this: Microformats are a really good idea, but essentially a hack. Because Microformats rely only on the
class and
rel attributes, writing parsers to read them is complicated.
At the same time, RDFa was designed to work with the now-defunct XHTML 2.0 spec. Although RDFa is being ported to work with HTML5, it can be overly complex for many use cases. RDFa is a bit like asking what time it is and having someone tell you how to build a watch. Yes, RDFa can do the same things HTML5 microdata and Microformats do (and more), but if the history of the web teaches us a lesson, it's that simpler solutions almost always win.
Further Reading
Before you dive into microdata, be sure to check out all the options. Google has a nice overview on adding microdata to your page, and offers examples using all three markup syntaxes. Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into HTML5 also devotes a chapter to microdata with more detail on how microdata parsers read your markup.
Also, keep in mind that it isn't just search engines that stand to benefit from microdata on your pages. The HTML5 spec also defines a set of DOM APIs for web browsers to read and manipulate microdata on your pages. At the moment, no browser supports the API, but most probably will eventually.
The more information you can give the web, the more it can do with that information. Eventually, search engines could use microdata to find your friends on the web (like XRD and WebFinger) and browsers could use it to connect you with those friends no matter what flavor-of-the-month social site they might be using.
See Also:
- Using Microformats in HTML5
- Where on the Web Is HTML5?
- Add Semantic Value to Your Pages With HTML 5
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Born Oct. 14, 1942 in Wabash County, she was the daughter of Frank and Mary Sophia Renicker Frantz. On Jan. 7, 1961 at the North Manchester United Methodist Church, she was married to Lonnie French, and he survives.
She attended the West Eel River Church near Silver Lake. She enjoyed landscaping, gardening, and being outdoors.
Survivors include two children, Tyanna Barefoot, Port Lavaca, Texas; and Dane Alonzo French, Houston, Texas; three sisters, Doris Shambarger, North Manchester; Eileen Sampson, Fort Myers, Fla.; and Virginia Skiles, Flora, Ind.; one brother, Joe Frantaz, Laketon. A proud grandmother, she is survived by two grandchildren serving in the United States Air Force: Thorton Barefoot, serving Midwest City, Okla.; and Ember Miller and husband Steven, both serving in Colorado Springs, Colo., in addition to two other grandchildren, Brandi French and Tyler French, both of Port Lavaca, Texas and four great grandchildren. Becky also leaves behind many special friends including Marietta Steele, and Phyllis Venhecamp, both of North Manchester and her special canine companion, Tanzy, a miniature black schnauzer.
A memorial gathering and benefit will be held at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at West Eel River Church near Silver Lake.
McClain Funeral Home of Denver, Indiana has been entrusted with arrangements. The online guestbook can be signed at www.mcclainfh.com.


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Walken returns to Shakespeare theater
Played Hamlet at American Shakespeare Theatre in 1982
STRATFORD -- It was three decades ago that Christopher Walken was on the stage of the American Shakespeare Theatre playing the part of Hamlet alongside Anne Baxter, Fred Gwynne and Chris Sarandon.
On Sunday, Walken returned to the shuttered theater, crawling through nearly every nook and cranny of the place.
"To be back here is a thrill," he said after accepting a plaque from town Councilman Matt Catalano, a longtime advocate of getting the theater running again.
"Sometimes, I forgot my cue, and I had to run upstairs from my dressing room downstairs," said Walken, who lives in Wilton. "This theater should be used, it's a great place. And it's closer than New Haven."
The Oscar-winning actor, with about a dozen town officials, reporters and theater supporters tagging behind, clamored high and low, visiting long-darkened rooms that might not have seen the glow of a light bulb in years.
One windowless room, unknown to the audience, was used by performers after a show to relax, perhaps with a glass of wine.
"It was like a little nightclub," he said.
Walken's 1982 Hamlet turned out to be the final season for the Shakespeare theater. For a few years after that, it was used for the occasional play by other production companies, but for all intents and purposes, the Shakespeare theater died when the curtain dropped after the final act on Sept. 5, 1982.
The Shakespeare theater had its first full season in 1955, and its stage that year was graced by such blockbuster stars as Roddy McDowall, Jack Palance, Jerry Stiller, Christopher Plummer and Raymond Massey.
Seemingly every big-name movie and television luminary appeared on the Stratford stage to play Shakespeare between 1955 and 1982: Katharine Hepburn, Fritz Weaver, Jessica Tandy, Richard Basehart, Hal Holbrook, Kim Hunter, Mariette Hartley, Cyril Ritchard, Barbara Baxley, Frank Converse, Brian Bedford, Jill Clayburgh, Jane Alexander, the list goes on.
Even Jan Miner, perhaps best known for playing Madge in the Palmolive dish detergent commercials, appeared during the 1966 season. The plays during the Shakespeare theater's glory years would attract high school groups from as far away as Kansas.
After his tour of the theater Sunday, Walken spoke to a sold-out crowd of 250 at the former downtown Stratford movie theater, now called the Scottish Rite Theatre.
The event raised more than $6,000 for the ongoing effort to make dramatic productions a reality again on the storied stage. Frank Rizzo, the theater critic for the Hartford Courant, provided the questions.
Although Walken's 100-plus films have grossed about $1.8 billion, there were lean times in his early years, largely spent on and off Broadway, and inside TV studios.
"I was on unemployment a lot," Walken said of those down-and-out days, adding it was his dancing ability that, if he was lucky, gave him an edge over other audition hopefuls.
For example, he landed a part in a 1969 touring production of "West Side Story," where he met his wife, the former Georgianne Thon. She also danced in the troupe.
"George," as he calls her, was sitting in the front row, and she would occasionally help Walken recall some of the more obscure events of their long-ago past.
"I grew up in a part of Astoria, Queens, where a lot of kids learned how to dance," he said. "It was just something that we all did. A lot of cops came from Queens, too, and I suspect that there are quite a few retired policemen who are pretty good tap dancers."
Early on, Walken's career took an odd turn. For one summer, he worked as a lion tamer's assistant.
"I went and got the job," he said. "There weren't that many applicants. There was one old lioness. She was like a friendly dog. A nice big, old lion. I would wave my whip around and say `Up! Sheba, up!' and she would roar. And that was it."
Walken, with his self-deprecating sense of humor, was quick to admit that more than a few of his film credits were clunkers. The most famous of those was "Heaven's Gate."
"When we were doing `The Deer Hunter,' we knew it was going to be something special," he said. "But, you know, we had the same feeling when we were filming `Heaven's Gate.' "
So how did Christopher Walken, whose film career was at full boil in 1982, find himself on the Shakespeare theater stage playing Hamlet?
To answer that question, you'd have to turn the clock back to 1966 when he was on Broadway playing the part of King Philip in "The Lion in Winter."
After one of the shows, he was having a long conversation with stage actress Helen Menken, who is perhaps best known as Humphrey Bogart's first wife.
"The story that he just told us backstage was that she told him that `You have to go to Stratford. I think you should be part of it.' " said Mark Graham, communications director for the Stratford Center for the Arts.
"Helen died of a heart attack on his shoulder that night, and 16 years later, he took her advice."
On Jan. 8, television and film actor Ed Asner also paid a visit to the Shakespeare theater where he acted in 1959.
Now on unsteady feet, Asner had a more limited tour of the building than did Walken on Sunday. But like Walken, he regaled the audience with stories of his early days.
Graham and Catalano said other American Shakespeare Theatre alumni may also visit soon.
Patrons of the Shakespeare theater might recall that Menken's life-size bust was in the lobby because Menken bankrolled that portion of the building.
At Walken's request, the bust was set up on the stage to his left when he was being interviewed by Rizzo. As a sold-out crowd applauded, Walken kissed her on the forehead.
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Born: March 31, 1943, in Queens, N.Y.
Academy Award: 1978 Best Supporting Actor, "The Deer Hunter"
MTV Music Video Award: 2001, "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim
Screen Actors Guild: 2002, Best Supporting Actor, "Catch Me if You Can"
Obie (Off-Broadway) Awards: "Kid Champion," 1975, and "The Seagull," 1981
Will Award: 1995, for his contributions to the classical theater
Has appeared in more than 100 major motion pictures since 1966, including "View to a Kill" (1985), "The Dogs of War" (1981) and "The Prophecy" (1995)


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ALUMNI LETTERS: Foundation president appreciates donation
To the editor,
With your help, I would like to thank the Class of 2012 for its donation to the Peabody Community Foundation on behalf of the HUB. The students had a sizeable amount of money left in their class fund after they graduated and made the decision to return it to the community in the form of a donation to the foundation earmarked for the HUB.
The students' donation also encouraged others to donate enough to begin an endowment for the HUB. It is great that they saw the impact that the HUB had on their class and saw it as a plus to the future of the community.
Dr. Dale Hague, founder of the HUB and one of the original board members of the Peabody Community Foundation, had a dream of having an endowment fund. The generous donation by this group of graduates will continue to help an organization that has meant so much to them during their teenage years.
So let me say thank you very much and good luck to all of the Class of 2012 in your travels through life.
Also, because your donation was timely it was matched first, dollar-for-dollar, by another donor and a second time by the Grow II program of the Foundation, thus tripling your contribution.
Thank you again from the HUB and the Peabody Community Foundation for being willing to give back to our community.
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American Cancer Society Bark for Life in Shreveport
- Betty Virginia Park
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Additional Information
A canine event to fight cancer.
7:30 am Registration Starts
8:00 am Opening Ceremonies
9:30 am Costume Contest $5 Per Entrant
**Sponsored by Barkus & Meoux**
11:30 am Closing Ceremonies
The American Cancer Society Bark For Life honors the caregiving qualities of canine companions and is a noncompetitive walk event for dogs and their owners to raise funds and awareness in the fight against cancer.
By supporting Bark For Life, you help the American Cancer Society save lives and help us move closer to a world with less cancer and more birthdays.
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Venue: Custom Catering Center, Blacksburg
Organizations: Blacksburg Sports Club
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Event Types: Food, Sports, Speaking Engagements
Cost: $11.00
The Blacksburg Sports Club presents their weekly Buffet Luncheon with Virginia Tech Women's Basketball Coach Kenny Brooks at Custom Catering Center on Wednesday, October 3, 2018.
Both members and non-members are welcome to attend the luncheons. Lunch is $11.00 per person and includes a drink. The lunch service begins at 11:30 am.
The complete program, with lunch, runs from noon until 1:00 PM; therefore, one may enjoy the entire program during lunch hour. The program features speakers from the Virginia Tech and Blacksburg High School Athletic Departments, with an occasional "outside" speaker, inform and entertain our membership.
The Blacksburg Sports Club is the New River Valley's home for supporting local varsity athletic programs primarily those of Blacksburg High School and Virginia Tech. We provide a setting for fellowship and education around a sports theme. We participate in and sponsor various fund-raising events to generate additional support for the athletic programs at Blacksburg High School and Virginia Tech.
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April 06, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Anyone can identify a problem. The challenge is finding the solutions.
This spring, the UCLA Anderson Forecast accepted that challenge and, in turn, challenged a cross-section of prominent leaders from the worlds of business, politics, academics and public policy to not only identify the significant problems facing the City of Los Angeles, but to offer solutions to the serious issues facing the citizens of L.A.
As Forecast Director Edward Leamer wrote in the preface to a published collection of essays distributed at the most recent UCLA Anderson Forecasting Conference where Mayor Antonio Villaraigoso provided the keynote address, "… we cast the net widely, asking Angelenos representing every facet of life to offer their solutions in two-page op-ed pieces. We didn't want to hear a litany of problems. We wanted the solutions. What can our local and state government do? What can our businesses and our schools do? What can our families do? What can we as individuals do?"
"And what if we all worked together?"
In all, more than three dozen essays from forty different authors were collected. The authors included Blair H. Taylor ('90), president and CEO, Los Angeles Urban League; Julia A. Stewart, President & CEO, IHOP Corporation (and member of the UCLA Anderson Board of Visitors) and Daniel J.B. Mitchell, Ho-Su Wu Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management and UCLA School of Public Affairs.
The topics ranged from the obvious – traffic, education, affordable housing – to less obvious, but equally essential and intriguing areas of concern such as graffiti, volunteerism and building "green." The essays are honest and though-provoking.
Most importantly, the essays provide a literary diving board from which we can leap into the deep end of issues facing the Los Angeles community and begin a dialogue. As Prof. Leamer wrote, "... a half-day to discuss these solutions is not going to miraculously solve all our problems. The conversation must go on."
With that in mind, UCLA Anderson presents the essays as a living, evolving document and will periodically post additional solutions. "If you have a great idea," Prof. Leamer adds, "or a half-baked idea, please make a visit and post it (here). It could make a difference."
About UCLA Anderson Forecast
UCLA Anderson Forecast is one of the most widely watched and often-cited economic outlooks for California and the nation and was unique in predicting both the seriousness of the early-1990s downturn in California and the strength of the state's rebound since 1993. More recently, the Forecast was credited as the first major U.S. economic forecasting group to declare the recession of 2001. Visit UCLA Anderson Forecast on the Web at http://uclaforecast.com.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the very best business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty are ranked #1 in "Intellectual Capital" by BusinessWeek and are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,600 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 35,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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With the development of electricity and motors, lightweight railroad lines were developed to run between urban areas in Michigan and other states. These lines were know as "interurbans". Interurban trains were usually one car or a car with a trailer or two. The first car was motorized and the trailer was without power. Both were heated with coal stoves. They primarily transported passengers, allowing city dwellers to easily access their rural surroundings, and rural residents to enjoy the social and cultural happenings in the city. Some trains also transported freight or were used for delivery of farm products to the cities.
The Detroit United Railroad, or the D.U.R., began service from Detroit to Farmington, MI in 1901. The main junction was at Grand River Ave. and Orchard Lake Rd. A power plant was built by the Detroit and Northwestern Railway in 1899, and a car barn across the street. Passengers could transfer to the Orchard Lake Route north to Pontiac, or could stay on and continue through town to Northville.
In Troy, MI, the electric powered rail cars of the Flint Division of the D.U.R. provided a critical commercial and recreational linkage. Food and products needed in downtown Detroit could conveniently be transported from farms in the Big Beaver/Troy Corners area. The interurban ran through the city along Livernois Rd. and continued north to Rochester and Flint.
The D.U.R. became a victim of the depression in the 1930's and the growing popularity of the automobile. It laid a foundation for the connection between communities that exists today.


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Decision Tuesday continues.
Former Rice forward David Chadwick plans to transfer to Valparaiso, coach Bryce Drew announced. Chadwick must sit out next season, per NCAA rules, and will have two years of eligibility remaining.
Chadwick said earlier this month he was leaving to seek more playing time at another school.
"David is going to be a great addition to our university and basketball program," Drew said. "He is a very skilled player who carries a 3.5 GPA. We are looking forward to having his work ethic and determination as part of our practices next season."
Chadwick, a 6-9 sophomore, averaged 1.5 points and 0.9 rebounds in seven minutes during 30 games last season for the Owls.
Earlier Tuesday, former Owls point guard Dylan Ennis announced he will transfer to Villanova.
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Activity 1: Recreating a Personal Childhood
Activity 2: Hoover and U.S. History
Some useful works include: Suzanne Hilton, The World of Young Herbert Hoover (New York: Walker and Company, 1987); Susan Clinton, Encyclopedia of American Presidents: Herbert Hoover (Chicago: Children's Press, 1988); Richard Norton Smith, An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover (Worland, Wyo.: High Plains Publishing Company, Inc., 1984); and Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure, 1874-1920 (London: Hollis and Carter, 1952). When essays are completed, have students discuss and edit them in small groups. If essays are of sufficiently good quality, have the class present them to the school library for use by subsequent classes that will be studying U.S. history.
Activity 3: Citizenship and the Local Community
Next, have students construct a survey that will help them to understand what their community regards as good citizenship and what aspects of the community's history may have led to those values. They might consider using such questions as: What attributes of character do good citizens share? What kinds of activities that benefit the community do good citizens take part in? After the questions have been agreed on by the class, have each student survey three people teachers, parents, neighbors, local business people. When the surveys are completed, have students work in groups of three to discuss and tally responses. A final tally should then be compiled and presented to the class. Conduct a discussion based on the results of the survey. Finally, ask the class as a whole to develop a definition of good citizenship and list ways in which they could act as good citizens in their own community.


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Posted on November 13, 2012
Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-N.C., has introduced a resolution declaring that should the president use offensive military force without authorization of an act of Congress, "it is the sense of Congress" that such an act would be "an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor."
Specifically, Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution reserves for Congress alone the power to declare war, a restriction that has been sorely tested in recent years, including Obama's authorization of military force in Libya.
In an exclusive WND column, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo claims that Jones introduced his House Concurrent Resolution 107 in response to startling recent comments from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
"This week it was Secretary of Defense Panetta's declaration before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he and President Obama look not to the Congress for authorization to bomb Syria but to NATO and the United Nations," Tancredo writes. "This led to Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., introducing an official resolution calling for impeachment should Obama take offensive action based on Panetta's policy statement, because it would violate the Constitution."
In response to questions from Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., over who determines the proper and legal use of the U.S. military, Panetta said, "Our goal would be to seek international permission and we would … come to the Congress and inform you and determine how best to approach this, whether or not we would want to get permission from the Congress – I think those are issues we would have to discuss as we decide what to do here."
"Well, I'm almost breathless about that," Sessions responded, "because what I heard you say is, 'We're going to seek international approval, and then we'll come and tell the Congress what we might do, and we might seek congressional approval.' And I just want to say to you that's a big [deal]."
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Today I started a part time job at the ligfietsgarage in Groningen, helping with making Mango velomobiles.
I had planned to cycle there, but as it was snowing this morning so I decided to take my folding bike on the train instead. This is not as effective as you might think. It shortened the cycle to 22 km instead of 63 km (13.5 miles vs. 39 miles), but the folding bike goes at half the speed and waiting around for the train meant it took over an hour each way - longer than cycling the lot would have done. I'm hoping for better weather next Tuesday. Perhaps at some point I'll be able to afford my own velomobile and be both out of the weather and faster.
The video is from last Friday morning when it wasn't snowing and I cycled up to have a chat. Note the wonderful cycle paths almost the entire way, on which your speed isn't restricted by anything but your fitness. It's reminiscent of riding on a velodrome (the ultimate segregated cycle facility for those who want to cycle at speed). On a good day I can do it in less than an hour in each direction. With a tailwind it can be very quick indeed. However, there are also those bad days when there is a strong headwind in both directions.
There are also other posts about commuters, The Assen-Groningen Route, directness and featuring recumbents. A few months back I made a video about a journey in the opposite direction from Assen.
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- LadySheila said...
Hello, Mr. Hembrow,
Could you please let me know the name of the Dutch-style lock with which you referred at one of your other sites, "David Hembrow, basketmaker," I believe. You had made a reference about your English 3-speed, and about the lock being on the rear. Thank you so much! I love bicycles, and baskets, and unfortunately, you don't see that here much in the USA. (though I am trying to change that) Looking forward to your responce.
- 12 February 2009 at 16:10
- David Hembrow said...
I think perhaps you mean this page. Not the same bike as this post is about (if you want to know more, please email me).
- 12 February 2009 at 17:10
- Bob - the Daily Cyclist said...
I only use the train for commuting if it is pulling into the station as I am riding passed at the same time or I am tired.
My route home from work runs parallel with the train line. Most of the time I ride the 6 miles along the line and try to ride fast enough that I reach the station I would get off before the train arrives there, thus beating it.
This adds to the fun.
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When these young men enlisted, there was a general belief that the United states would not become involved in the war in Europe, and little thought that diplomatic and economic problems with Japan would ever result in war. Eventually legislation was passed which prohibited members of the same family from serving on the same ship.
1. Why might brothers hope to be assigned to the same ship? If they had known what was to come, do you think they would still have tried to serve on the same ship?
2. How many families had three sons on board? How many of those sons survived?
3. What else can you learn from this chart?
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As the Internet has grown, the number of available IPv4 addresses has slowly been exhausted. To accommodate the growing number of Internet users, a new Internet Protocol was required.
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Still holding out right now on a purchase as ideally I would like to get a ride on each. However, if anyone can comment on these 2 kites (9m) in the following areas:
I weigh 185 like to be really powered and looking for the best freeride, surf, and powered hooked in kiteloops. desired windrange kite 18-33kts. and don't want a 7m I hate to work the kite and usually fly bigger kite than most in high wind, i just go shorter lines.
1.Low end power which one is better?
2.kite loops that give a fast nice down wind tug so your landing fast down wind and kite reaches apex fast.
3. stable at high end with turbulent wind and kite remains solid, i have read a lot that caution kites do very well with this type of condition so how about the element.....the thin leading edge concerns me I guess.
4. Upwind which is better.
5. reaction to steering, which one is faster!
6. which one has more power in the turn.
7. overall jump performance and hangtime.
Again just asking a comparison between the Caution spitfire 9m and Switch element 9m.


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- Introduction to Hubble
- The Current Science Instruments
- Mission Operations and Observations
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- Technical Overview
Introduction to Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a cooperative program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to operate a space-based observatory for the benefit of the international astronomical community. HST is an observatory first envisioned in the 1940s, designed and built in the 1970s and 80s, and operational since the 1990. Since its preliminary inception, HST was designed to be a different type of mission for NASA -- a long-term, space-based observatory. To accomplish this goal and protect the spacecraft against instrument and equipment failures, NASA planned on regular servicing missions. Hubble has special grapple fixtures, 76 handholds, and is stabilized in all three axes. HST is a 2.4-meter reflecting telescope, which was deployed in low-Earth orbit (600 kilometers) by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery (STS-31) on 25 April 1990.
Responsibility for conducting and coordinating the science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope rests with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus in Baltimore, Maryland. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA).
HST's current complement of science instruments includes three cameras, two spectrographs, and fine guidance sensors (primarily used for accurate pointing, but also for astrometric observations). Because of HST's location above the Earth's atmosphere, these science instruments can produce high-resolution images of astronomical objects. Ground-based telescopes are limited in their resolution by the Earth's atmosphere, which causes a variable distortion in the images. Hubble can observe ultraviolet radiation, which is blocked by the atmosphere and therefore unavailable to ground-based telescopes. In the infrared portion of the spectrum, the Earth's atmosphere adds a great deal of background, which is absent in Hubble observations.
When originally planned in the early 1970s, the Large Space Telescope program called for return to Earth, refurbishment, and re-launch every 5 years, with on-orbit servicing every 2.5 years. Hardware lifetime and reliability requirements were based on that 2.5-year interval between servicing missions. In the late 70s, contamination and structural loading concerns associated with return to Earth aboard the shuttle eliminated the concept of ground return from the program. NASA decided that on-orbit servicing might be adequate to maintain HST for its 15-year design life. A three-year cycle of on-orbit servicing was adopted. HST servicing missions in December 1993, February 1997, December 1999, March 2002 and May 2009 were enormous successes and validated the concept of on-orbit servicing of Hubble.
The years since the launch of HST in 1990 have been momentous, with the discovery of spherical aberration in its main mirror and the search for a practical solution. The STS-61 (Endeavour) mission of December 1993 corrected the effects of spherical aberration and fully restored the functionality of HST. Since then, servicing missions have regularly provided opportunities to repair aging and failed equipment as well as incorporate new technologies in the telescope, especially in the Science Instruments that are the heart of its operations.
See OPO's Hubble Primer for more information about HST.
The Current Science Instruments
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
A spectrograph spreads out the light gathered by a telescope so that it can be analyzed to determine such properties of celestial objects as chemical composition and abundances, temperature, radial velocity, rotational velocity, and magnetic fields. The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) can study these objects across a spectral range from the UV (115 nanometers) through the visible red and the near-IR (1000 nanometers).
STIS uses three detectors: a cesium iodide photocathode Multi-Anode Microchannel Array (MAMA) for 115 to 170 nm, a cesium telluride MAMA for 165 to 310 nm, and a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) for 165 to 1000 nm. All three detectors have a 1024 X 1024 pixel format. The field of view for each MAMA is 25 X 25 arc-seconds, and the field of view of the CCD is 52 X 52 arc-seconds.
The main advance in STIS is its capability for two-dimensional rather than one-dimensional spectroscopy. For example, it is possible to record the spectrum of many locations in a galaxy simultaneously, rather than observing one location at a time. STIS can also record a broader span of wavelengths in the spectrum of a star at one time. As a result, STIS is much more efficient at obtaining scientific data than the earlier HST spectrographs.
A power supply in STIS failed in August 2004, rendering it inoperable. During the servicing mission in 2009, astronauts successfully repaired the STIS by removing the circuit card containing the failed power supply and replacing it with a new card. Since STIS was not designed for in-orbit repair of internal electronics, this task was a substantial challenge for the astronaut crew.
Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer
The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is an HST instrument providing the capability for infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of astronomical targets. NICMOS detects light with wavelengths between 0.8 and 2.5 microns - longer than the human-eye limit.
The sensitive HgCdTe arrays that comprise the infrared detectors in NICMOS must operate at very cold temperatures. After its deployment, NICMOS kept its detectors cold inside a cryogenic dewar (a thermally insulated container much like a thermos bottle) containing frozen nitrogen ice. NICMOS is HST's first cryogenic instrument.
The frozen nitrogen ice cryogen in NICMOS was exhausted in early 1999, rendering the Instrument inoperable at that time. An alternate means of cooling the NICMOS was developed and installed in the March 2002 servicing mission. This device uses a mechanical cooler to cool the detectors to the low temperatures necessary for operations. The technology for this cooler was not available when the instrument was originally designed, but fortunately became available in time to support the reactivation of the instrument.
Since late 2008, the NICMOS Cooling System (NCS) has experienced difficulties maintaining the instrument's nominal scientific operating state, in which the detectors are maintained at ~ 77K. Repeated restart attempts have demonstrated that it is not possible to restart the NCS in a cold state immediately following safing events. The main culprit for the problems is believed to be water ice in the primary (circulator) loop of the NCS. An inefficient approach to this problem would be to put the NCS through a several-month warm-up/cooldown cycle and hope that there is an opportunity for science prior to the next payload safing event.
The only feasible path towards satisfactory operation of NICMOS is to remove the putative water by venting the existing contaminated Ne coolant and replacing it with a fresh charge, which is available onboard but has never actually been used on-orbit. Based on the Cycle 18 proposal review results, STScI and Goddard HST Project, with the concurrence of NASA Headquarters, have decided that NICMOS will not be available for science in Cycle 18. A decision on the availability of NICMOS beyond Cycle 18 has not yet been made and awaits further discussion.
Advanced Camera for Surveys
The ACS is a camera designed to provide HST with a deep, wide-field survey capability from the visible to near-IR, imaging from the near-UV to the near-IR with the point-spread function critically sampled at 6300 Å, and solar blind far-UV imaging. The primary design goal of the ACS Wide-Field Channel is to achieve a factor of 10 improvement in discovery efficiency, compared to WFPC2, where discovery efficiency is defined as the product of imaging area and instrument throughput. These gains are a direct result of improved technology since the HST was launched in 1990. The Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) used as detectors in the ACS, are more sensitive than those of the late 80s and early 90s, and also have many more pixels, capturing more of the sky in each exposure. The wide field camera in the ACS is a 16 megapixel camera.
The ACS was installed during the March 2002 servicing mission. As a result of the improved sensitivity it instantly became the most heavily used Hubble instrument. It has been used for surveys of varying breadths and depths, as well as for detailed studies of specific objects. The ACS worked well until January 2007, at which time a failure in the electronics for the CCDs occurred and has prevented use of those detectors. Engineers and astronauts then developed an approach to remove and replace the failed electronics, which was carried out during the 2009 servicing mission. As with the STIS repair, the ACS repair was challenging, since the instrument was not designed originally with this type of repair in mind.
Fine Guidance Sensors
The Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS), in addition to being an integral part of the HST Pointing Control System (PCS), provide HST observers with the capability of precision astrometry and milliarcsecond resolution over a wide range of magnitudes (3 < V < 16.8). Its two observing modes - Position Mode and Transfer Mode - have been used to determine the parallax and proper motion of astrometric targets to a precision of 0.2 mas, and to detect duplicity or structure around targets as close as 8 mas (visual orbits can be determined for binaries as close as 12 mas).
Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) is a fourth-generation instrument that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the 2009 servicing mission. COS is designed to perform high sensitivity, moderate- and low-resolution spectroscopy of astronomical objects in the 115-320 nm wavelength range. It significantly enhances the spectroscopic capabilities of HST at ultraviolet wavelengths, and provides observers with unparalleled opportunities for observing faint sources of ultraviolet light. The primary science objectives of the COS are the study of the origins of large scale structure in the Universe, the formation and evolution of galaxies, the origin of stellar and planetary systems, and the cold interstellar medium.
The COS achieves its improved sensitivity through advanced detectors and optical fabrication techniques. At UV wavelengths even the best mirrors do not reflect all light incident upon them. Previous spectrographs have required multiple (5 or more) reflections in order to display the spectrum on the detector. A substantial portion of the COS improvement in sensitivity is due to an optical design that requires only a single reflection inside the instrument, reducing the losses due to imperfect reflectivity. This design is possible only with advanced techniques for fabrication, which were not available when earlier generations of HST spectrographs were designed.
COS has a far-UV and near-UV channel that use different detectors: two side-by-side 16384 x 1024 pixel Cross-Delay Line Microchannel Plates (MCPs) for the far-UV, 115 to 205 nm, and a 1024x1024 pixel cesium telluride MAMA for the near-UV,170 to 320 nm. The far-UV detector is similar to detectors flown on the FUSE spacecraft, and takes advantage of improved technology over the past decade. The near-UV detector is a spare STIS detector.
Wide Field Camera 3
The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) is also a fourth generation instrument that was installed during the 2009 servicing mission. Equipped with state-of-the-art detectors and optics, WFC3 provides wide-field imaging with continuous spectral coverage from the ultraviolet into the infrared, dramatically increasing both the survey power and the panchromatic science capabilities of HST.
The WFC3 has two camera channels: the UVIS channel that operates in the ultraviolet and visible bands (from about 200 to 1000 nm), and the IR channel that operates in the infrared (from 900 to 1700 nm). The performance of the two channels was designed to complement the performance of the ACS. The UVIS channel provides the largest field of view and best sensitivity of any ultraviolet camera HST has had. This is feasible as a result of continued improvement in the performance of Charge Coupled Devices designed for astronomical use. The IR channel on WFC3 represents a major improvement on the capabilities of the NICMOS, primarily as a result of the availability of much larger detectors, 1 megapixel in the WFC3/IR vs. 0.06 megapixels for the NICMOS. In addition, modern IR detectors like that in the WFC3 have benefited from improvements over the last decade in design and fabrication.
Mission Operations and Observations:
Although HST operates around the clock, not all of its time is spent observing. Each orbit lasts about 95 minutes, with time allocated for housekeeping functions and for observations. "Housekeeping" functions includes turning the telescope to acquire a new target, switching communications antennas and data transmission modes, receiving command loads and downlinking data, calibrating the instruments and similar activities. On average, the telescope spends about 50% of the time observing astronomical targets. About 50% of the time the view to celestial targets is blocked by the Earth, and that time is used to carry out these support functions.
Each year the STScI solicits ideas for scientific programs from the worldwide astronomical community. All astronomers are free to submit proposals for observations. Typically, 700-1200 proposals are submitted each year. A series of panels, involving roughly 100 astronomers from around the world, are convened to recommend which of the proposals to carry out over the next year. There is only sufficient time in a year to schedule about 1/5 of the proposals that are submitted, so the competition for Hubble observing time is tight.
After proposals are chosen, the observers submit detailed observation plans. The STScI uses these to develop a yearlong observing plan, spreading the observations evenly throughout the period and taking into account scientific reasons that may require some observations to be at a specific time. This long-range plan incorporates calibrations and engineering activities, as well as the scientific observations. This plan is then used as the basis for detailed scheduling of the telescope, which is done one week at a time. Each event is translated into a series of commands to be sent to the onboard computers. Computer loads are uplinked several times a day to keep the telescope operating efficiently.
When possible, two scientific instruments are used simultaneously to observe adjacent target regions of the sky. For example, while a spectrograph is focused on a chosen star or nebula, a camera can image a sky region offset slightly from the main viewing target. During observations the Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) track their respective guide stars to keep the telescope pointed steadily at the right target.
Engineering and scientific data from HST, as well as uplinked operational commands, are transmitted through the Tracking Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system and its companion ground station at White Sands, New Mexico. Up to 24 hours of commands can be stored in the onboard computers. Data can be broadcast from HST to the ground stations immediately or stored on a solid-state recorder and downlinked later.
The observer on the ground can examine the "raw" images and other data within a few minutes for a quick-look analysis. Within 24 hours, GSFC formats the data for delivery to the STScI. STScI is responsible for calibrating the data and providing them to the astronomer who requested the observations. The astronomer has a year to analyze the data from the proposed program, draw conclusions, and publish the results. After one year the data become accessible to all astronomers. The STScI maintains an archive of all data taken by HST. This archive has become an important research tool in itself. Astronomers regularly check the archive to determine whether data in it can be used for a new problem they are working on. Frequently they find that there are HST data relevant for their research, and they can then download these data free of charge.
Hubble has proven to be an enormously successful program, providing new insight into the mysteries of the Universe.
Previously Flown Instruments:
- Wide Field Planetary Camera
- Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
- Faint Object Spectrograph
- Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
- Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
- Faint Object Camera
- High Speed Photometer
Wide Field/Planetary Camera
The Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC1) was used from April 1990 to November 1993, to obtain high resolution images of astronomical objects over a relatively wide field of view and a broad range of wavelengths (1150 to 11,000 Angstroms).
Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
The original Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC1) was replaced by WFPC2 on the STS-61 shuttle mission in December 1993. WFPC2 was a spare instrument developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at the time of HST launch. It consisted of four cameras. The relay mirrors in WFPC2 were spherically aberrated in just the right way to correct for the spherically aberrated primary mirror of the observatory. (HST's primary mirror is 2 microns too flat at the edge, so the corrective optics within WFPC2 were too high by that same amount.). The "heart'' of WFPC2 consisted of an L-shaped trio of wide-field sensors and a smaller, high resolution ("planetary") camera tucked in the square's remaining corner.
WFPC2 was removed in the May 2009 servicing mission and replaced by the Wide-Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
Faint Object Spectrograph
A spectrograph spreads out the light gathered by a telescope so that it can be analyzed to determine such properties of celestial objects as chemical composition and abundances, temperature, radial velocity, rotational velocity, and magnetic fields. The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was one of the original instruments on Hubble; it was replaced by NICMOS during the second servicing mission in 1997. The FOS examined fainter objects than the High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS), and could study these objects across a much wider spectral range -- from the UV (1150 Angstroms) through the visible red and the near-IR (8000 Angstroms).
The FOS used two 512-element Digicon sensors (light intensifiers). The "blue" tube was sensitive from 1150 to 5500 Angstroms (UV to yellow). The "red" tube was sensitive from 1800 to 8000 Angstroms (longer UV through red). Light entered the FOS through any of 11 different apertures from 0.1 to about 1.0 arc-seconds in diameter. There were also two occulting devices to block out light from the center of an object while allowing the light from just outside the center to pass on through. This could allow analysis of the shells of gas around red giant stars of the faint galaxies around a quasar.
The FOS had two modes of operation: low resolution and high resolution. At low resolution, it could reach 26th magnitude in one hour with a resolving power of 250. At high resolution, the FOS could reach only 22nd magnitude in an hour (before noise becomes a problem), but the resolving power was increased to 1300.
Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) was one of the original instruments on Hubble; it failed in 1997, shortly before being replaced by STIS during the second servicing mission. As a spectrograph, HRS also separated incoming light into its spectral components so that the composition, temperature, motion, and other chemical and physical properties of the objects could be analyzed. The HRS contrasted with the FOS in that it concentrated entirely on UV spectroscopy and traded the extremely faint objects for the ability to analyze very fine spectral detail. Like the FOS, the HRS used two 521-channel Digicon electronic light detectors, but the detectors of the HRS were deliberately blind to visible light. One tube was sensitive from 1050 to 1700 Angstroms; while the other was sensitive from 1150 to 3200 Angstroms.
The HRS also had three resolution modes: low, medium, and high. "Low resolution" for the HRS was 2000 -- higher than the best resolution available on the FOS. Examining a feature at 1200 Angstroms, the HRS could resolve detail of 0.6 Angstroms and could examine objects down to 19th magnitude. At medium resolution of 20,000; that same spectral feature at 1200 Angstroms could be seen in detail down to 0.06 Angstroms, but the object would have to be brighter than 16th magnitude to be studied. High resolution for the HRS was 100,000, allowing a spectral line at 1200 Angstroms to be resolved down to 0.012 Angstroms. However, "high resolution" could be applied only to objects of 14th magnitude or brighter. The HRS could also discriminate between variations in light from objects as rapid as 100 milliseconds apart.
Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
COSTAR was not a science instrument; it was a corrective optics package that displaced the High Speed Photometer during the first servicing mission to HST. COSTAR was designed to optically correct the effects of the primary mirror's aberration for the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS), and the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS). All the other instruments that have been installed since HST's initial deployment, have been designed with their own corrective optics. When all of the first-generation instruments were replaced by other instruments, COSTAR was no longer be needed and was removed from Hubble during the 2009 servicing mission.
Faint Object Camera
The Faint Object Camera (FOC) was built by the European Space Agency as one of the original science instruments on Hubble. It was replaced by ACS during the servicing mission in 2002.
There were two complete detector systems for the FOC. Each used an image intensifier tube to produced an image on a phosphor screen that is 100,000 times brighter than the light received. This phosphor image was then scanned by a sensitive electron-bombarded silicon (EBS) television camera. This system was so sensitive that objects brighter than 21st magnitude had to be dimmed by the camera's filter systems to avoid saturating the detectors. Even with a broad-band filter, the brightest object that could be accurately measured was 20th magnitude.
The FOC offered three different focal ratios: f/48, f/96, and f/288 on a standard television picture format. The f/48 image measured 22 X 22 arc-seconds and yielded a resolution (pixel size) of 0.043 arc-seconds. The f/96 mode provided an image of 11 X 11 arc-seconds on each side and a resolution of 0.022 arc-seconds. The f/288 field of view was 3.6 X 3.6 arc-seconds square, with resolution down to 0.0072 arc-seconds.
High Speed Photometer
The High Speed Photometer (HSP) was one of the four original axial instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The HSP was designed to make very rapid photometric observations of astrophysical sources in a variety of filters and passbands from the near ultraviolet to the visible. The HSP was removed from HST during the first servicing mission in December, 1993.
Technical Overview
For more complete technical information about HST and its instruments, see the HST Primer.
Updated: 06/21/2010


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