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Working conditions and practices of food handlers influence the quality of fresh-cut lettuce salads.
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Practical recommendations to improve the efficacy of the washing + sanitizing steps were described.
The main aim of the present work was to study the influence of working conditions and practices of food handlers on physico-chemical and microbiological quality of fresh-cut lettuce salads produced in a catering unit. Twenty one visits were performed, checking all steps from lettuce reception until fresh-cut lettuce salad preparation.
Even though the catering unit has implemented an HACCP plan, some non-conformities were detected on personal hygiene practices of the food handlers that should be corrected. Regarding green salad preparation two sanitizing treatments, diluted solutions of acetic acid (vinegar) and chlorine-based tablets, were applied. However, the former treatment should not be used because it did not guarantee food safety of the final product. On the other hand, the recommendations of chlorine-based tablets' supplier must be followed strictly. Regarding chlorine species, only free chlorine was detected. Furthermore, no free chlorine and chloramines were detected in the final product.
In conclusion, this work allowed us to establish several practical recommendations to improve the efficacy of the washing + sanitizing steps followed on the preparation of fresh-cut lettuce salads.
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JAKARTA, July 31 (JDN.id) – The Social Security Administration Body for Employment, or BPJS Ketenagakerjaan, is committed to protect Indonesian athletes who will participate in the upcoming Asian Games.
The agency signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Indonesia's Olympic Committee (KOI) on Friday last week. The MOU states that athletes will be given occupational accident and death insurances, which aims to improve their psychology.
"By giving (them) occupational accident and death insurances, athletes can focus on the preparation through intensive training to reach optimum achievements," said Agus Susanto, director of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan.
Chairman of KOI Erick Thohir said that by giving Indonesian athletes life protection in the form of insurance, BPJS Ketenagakerjaan has improved the appreciation of their presence.
"Thanks to BPJS Ketenagakerjaan because these athletes must have added-value. This cooperation aims to prosper our athletes," Thohir said during the signing ceremony.


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Workers' Voice
From the very beginning, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has understood the importance of workers having a voice.
It is why our Workers' Welfare team regularly visits and interacts with our workers. It is why we formed the workers' welfare forum as a mechanism for raising concerns directly to employers via elected representatives. It is why we introduced a dedicated grievance hotline to deal with issues that are not resolved elsewhere. Finally, it is why we work with trade unions and external monitors, to catch any issues that might not reach us directly.
Communication is key to ensuring workers have a positive work experience in Qatar.
Workers' welfare forums
In line with our standards, we have mandated that every contractor or sub-contractor commits, prior to tendering, to the establishment of workers' welfare forums for each of their accommodation sites. This commitment includes the appointment of project welfare officers on all stadium sites and welfare officers at workers' accommodation sites.
By April 2019, 112 workers' welfare forums were in operation, representing just over 21,100 workers.
The workers' welfare forums provide a safe environment in which to raise a wide range of issues, including accommodation, food, transport and health & safety. These forums include worker representatives for each nationality present at the accommodation site, as well as representatives of those workers' contractor or contractors.
'I feel privileged to represent my fellow workers. This is an opportunity to improve as a team leader and encourage my colleagues to improve communication around issues that really matter.'
Mukesh Giri, Challenger Trading and Contracting elected representative, Al Janoub Stadium.
Towards the end of 2017, the workers for all of our stadiums began the process of voting for their new representatives. A selection of hopeful candidates put their names forward for the honour of a place on the forum. Whether emboldened by previous experiences or inspired by their colleagues standing for election, workers on all of our projects participated in this democratic process, ensuring that they are heard.
Programme welfare forum
When matters are not resolved by our workers' welfare forums, they are escalated to the programme welfare forum. It is also where matters of particular concern relating to existing or potential employee relations issues can be discussed. In addition, this forum offers and identifies possible solutions and strategies on unresolved matters relating to non-compliance with our Workers' Welfare Standards, either on construction sites or at accommodation sites.
Grievance hotline
In 2017, we introduced a dedicated workers' grievance hotline. This anonymous hotline offers workers the opportunity to raise issues – directly and confidentially – related to accommodation, recruitment and working conditions with members of our Workers' Welfare team. The hotline has been popular with workers and further awareness sessions are currently being carried out to ensure all workers know about the service.
These awareness sessions have led to a change in the types of issues raised as the workers gain confidence in the impact the platform can have. More than 330 grievances have been raised, with 287 already resolved.
In an additional attempt to encourage in-depth reporting of grievances, the Workers' Welfare team partnered with the Qatar Behavioural Insights Unit (QBIU) to carry out a behavioural experiment with selected workers' welfare forums. The QBIU was created by the SC to draw on behavioural economics and psychology using low-cost, applied policy instruments. Their work begins with specific workers' welfare forums, and will then be rolled out to a wider group of worker representatives based on the rate of success and the lessons learned.
Communication with external parties
We encourage openness and honesty in our dialogue. When we signed a cooperation agreement with the Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) we actively encouraged discussions and interaction between one of the world's largest trade unions and the workforce building stadiums for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.
Impactt Ltd. – our independent external monitor – has a team of field researchers who use unrestricted access to our sites to hear directly from the men and women on the ground who are bringing our stadiums to life. "Worker first" is Impactt's motto – a philosophy we also embrace.
Real stories
In October 2017, the SC oversaw workers' welfare forum elections at worker accommodation sites in Al Shahaniya and Labour City, and at the Challenger Trading & Contracting accommodation site.
Ramu Dishahani, a 49-year-old pipe fitter from Nepal, spoke about his pride at being elected and representing his colleagues who worked on Al Janoub Stadium. Beside him was Firdos Islam from India, a 40-year-old who also worked on Al Janoub Stadium.
From 8 AM until 3 PM, the workers cast their votes for the colleagues who would represent them in the Workers' Welfare Forum. Almost 1,000 people gathered for the results.
"I'm very proud," said Ramu when the result came in. "It's important that we can talk about any issues we feel are important. I have never experienced this kind of opportunity at previous jobs."
The success of this democratic process demonstrated that workers believe the issues they face will be dealt with by colleagues who care. It also highlights their trust that the workers' welfare forums elevate issues of importance that are ultimately dealt with by the contractor and the SC.
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Following a 20-year career in environmental technology development and validation, his current work focuses on financial innovation and risk analytics for industrial renewal and green growth. Specific interests include:
Our partners are economic development organizations in the US, Europe and Asia, investors, and industry groups.
Prof. Adriaens is past-President of the Association of Environmental Science and Engineering Professors (AEESP), a member-by-eminence of the American Academy of Environmental Engineering (AAEE), and Member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Applied Sciences, where he was recognized for bridging engineering and entrepreneurship in academia and practice. He is appointed as a Finnish Distinguished Professor, focused on the design of Multi-Asset Investment Funds for Industrial Renewal, in collaboration with the Research Institute for the Finnish Economy, institutional investors and policymakers. This recognition was the result of his contributions as a top-5% global cleantech expert.
He is co-founder and CEO of Equarius Risk Analytics LLC (www.equariusrisk.com), a financial technology firm addressing equity and portfolio risk and performance issues related to ESG investments. As CEO at The KeyStone Compact Group (www.keystonecompact.com), a global business analytics and asset advisory company, he leads a team focused on proprietary analytical tools for economic developers, business incubators, and long-term investors. As co-Founder of the Global CleanTech Cluster Association (GCCA; www.globalcleantech.org), a Swiss-based foundation serving 56 economic development clusters in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, representing 10,000 companies and $3.5 bn. under management, he focuses on catalyzing global value system development and investment.


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Yaw dynamics and tail fin design for small, horizontal-axis wind turbines
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Small, horizontal-axis wind turbines typically use a 'free yaw' arrangement with a tail fin to keep the turbine rotor pointing into the wind. Through simulation and experimentation, this research project aims to improve our understanding of the flow of air in the vicinity of the tail fin and the effect of different tail fin sizes, shapes and configurations. The outcomes of this research will assist future engineers to create more effective tail fin designs, meaning small wind turbines can generate more power more of the time.
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The sweet little girl, Penny Black 4152K Peppermint Polly, was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink on Copic XPress It cardstock. She was then colored with Copic Markers and I cut out her body, scarf, and flower. Before trimming the frame, I restamped her onto Tiara White Cardstock. Next I cut on the frame and inked the center portion with Pumice Stone Distress Ink. I also stamped Penny Black 40-054 Sweet Home in Pumice Stone Distress Ink. The outer frame and Polly were adhered and mounted using Pop Dots. Sentiment by Penny Black, 30-032 Enjoy Life.
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Most of our friends are busy travelling to places(I know I just came back from Delhi after a month, but that's different), going on a date, getting a job, broadcasting their live stream on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Enjoying life as they should and here we are, chatting over Whatsapp about trivial issues that we have.
I miss the old days. I know you don't want to remember them because of some bad memories but I can never forget those good old times. I just want to re-live those moments not to change anything but to feel young again, to be little less worried and a little more happy.
Dear Reader,
Wash your hands with soap before touching your face. Stay indoors. Isolate. Stay safe.
As much as we hate this life, for things don't go as we want them to. I have faith in fate, in us. I have faith that one day we'll look back to these days and pat ourselves on the back proudly, for having made it through our bad times.
Good and bad are comparative terms much like temperature. Super hot/cold now, won't stay the same forever. You know the science and you know what I mean.
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Our six recreation centers located throughout St. Louis County offer a variety of programs and activities for people of all ages and abilities. From pools in the summer to keep you cool from the St. Louis heat, to ice rinks to keep you active in the winter, our recreation centers help provide our community with opportunities to stay active and healthy all year long.
- Affton Community Center (south county)
- Greensfelder Recreation Complex (west county)
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The 28th edition of the charity fundraising programme broadcast by TV3 and Catalunya Radio will be on Sunday 15 December and will look at rare diseases, which affect half a million people in Catalonia.
The rare diseases are a very broad and diverse group. There are between 6,000 and 8,000 of them, mostly genetic, and their common denominator is their low incidence: each affects at most five people out of every 10,000. Between 6% and 8% of the population has a rare disease, with 30 million in Europe, 3 million in Spain and about half a million in Catalonia. While the number of patients with each disease is low, altogether they make up a very large group. They are thus a large minority.
Many of these diseases are serious, chronic and disabling, and very often they are not diagnosed because of their complexity and lack of knowledge of their existence. Fifty per cent of them are apparent at birth and have a poor prognosis, with 35% of patients not surviving the first year of life and 22% not reaching the age of 15 years. When patients are diagnosed, 40% of them have no treatment or, if they do, it is inadequate. These difficulties lead to a very high health, social and economic impact: one person in five has chronic pain, one in three loses autonomy, and one in two suffers from motor, sensory or intellectual disability.
Accordion to the experts, having tests to make a diagnosis and the availability of efficient, safe treatments are two of the most urgent goals of research into rare diseases, and the funds raised by La Marató 2019 will help to boost. Moreover, the programme and the awareness-raising campaign that precedes it will give visibility to a very numerous group of diseases that are of low incidence and of great clinical complexity.
This is the second time that La Marató de TV3 y Catalunya Ràdio has dedicated its publicity effort to encouraging research into rare diseases.
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I don't know about you but I'm tired of the small business statistics, according to Small Business Administration research, that report, only half of new businesses survive for the first five years and only one-third of new businesses are able to survive for 10 years.
Knowing what steps one would take to solve problems when they occur, because they will occur, can go a long way toward saving your company. While any unforeseen situation can cause for a nightmare, one important factor to question all business owners should ask themselves is, do I have a solid financial footing in place? Regardless of how the business fares out, it should not make your personal financial matters worse.
Negative cash flow can push successful businesses into tailspins, with profit driven efforts rapidly changing to panic and insecurity. If done properly, business owners should be able to detect problems brewing months away and develop uniquely designed strategic solutions. Unfortunately, many business owners don't have solund processes inplace to predict, revenue, expenses, and cash flows.
Let's make note of 4 key ways to examine and maintain a positive cash flow:
As with any business, planning is essential. It's no secret that small business owners have a lot to do. The financial implications of business ownership are extensive, yet critical to a company's success. However, starting your own business could be the ticket to the personal autonomy and financial independence you've always wanted.
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Outplacement for Companies
At NVR, we have deep experience in the business of outplacement. And having successfully assisted both large and small companies with this often traumatic and difficult task, we recognize that three separate constituencies must be considered. For the outcome to be favorable, proper planning must address the needs of each of these constituencies.
Your Human Resources and Management Teams
Our outplacement experts will be at your site before the notification event to prepare your Human Resources and management teams in the use of time-tested, best practice techniques for managing the discussions with each impacted employee. We will also be on-site during the day of notification, assisting your teams with a specific set of protocols to guide the events of the day — process steps which we will have designed together, and which will be tailored to your particular company's culture and environment. We will work alongside you and your key staff throughout the day of dismissal, offering practical advice to help ease the transition for everyone involved and, importantly, to anticipate and prevent any unwelcome surprises.
The Displaced Employee
Our help for your displaced employees begins immediately after they have been notified of the change to their employment status. We have found that meeting with displaced employees at this crucial time provides an important first step in helping them redirect their mindset to the future. We do our work with the highest degree of professionalism, but also with a substantial measure of compassion. Beginning with that first meeting, and continuing through a series of one-on-one career coaching sessions at our offices, each outplaced employee gets the benefit of our extensive experience helping those in similar circumstances to:
- Get past the shock of the event
- Proceed through a discovery process around their greatest strengths and work or vocational passions
- Choose a field or career pursuit aligned with those strengths and passions
- Conduct an effective job search to include resume creation, interview preparation, and all the associated steps to transition successfully
Your Remaining Workforce
This final constituency, often ignored or overlooked during the outplacement event, has its own unique set of needs which should be considered. We work with your leadership team to develop a communication strategy which ensures that your workforce will understand the actions taken and the rationale behind those actions, and will recognize the assistance the company is providing to their friends and (former) work associates. We find that such communications serve to protect employee morale during what can be a difficult and uncertain time. These communications also help to protect the company's reputation with the community, customers, and suppliers.


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For an employee or a permanent service provider, here are the two methods to purchase a parking authorization:
1) Authorization purchase via the EPFL Campus app (smartphone)
Download the EPFL Campus app (iOS or Android). If you already have it, you'll need to update it as from January 1. Follow the procedure in the reservation and payment manual.
2) Authorization purchase via myCAMIPRO (computer)
Connect to the purchasing website (compulsory Gaspar login). Follow the instructions on the website.
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After making her way up the Giorgio Armani corporate ladder from merchandiser to vp of merchandising in just seven short years, Monica Tran decided to leave it all behind for her own venture. While at Armani, Tran specialized in knits, and in her spare time made her nieces and nephews sweaters of her own design. As family, friends and acquaintances began to express how much they liked her knit creations, Tran realized she was onto something. Thus, Trust Fund Baby was born.
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1. Krijn de Groot
I am Krijn de Groot, third-year Future Planet Studies student with a major in earth sciences.Through my education, I am particularly aware of the importance and relevance o fsustainable development. I strongly believe that the university should have an exemplary role regarding sustainability. Therefore, I think there should be a place where experts, from different universities and knowledge institutes, can share their knowledge on sustainability.In this way, new (academic) connections might arise. Besides, experts can inspire one another and the students of the universities with their insights and thoughts. Moreover, I realize the importance of quality of education, which might be endangered with the transition to English education. The Science Park should be an open and sustainable faculty, where quality of education plays a central role. If I were to be elected, I will try more than my best to make the Science Park this faculty!
2. Willemijn Beks
Onderwijskwaliteit is LIEF.
Hi there everyone! My name is Feline Lindeboom and I've been a student at our lovely Science Park since 2014; initially of the interdisciplinary bachelor program Bèta-Gamma, but lately I've grown to become a real Mathematics student as well. A main purpose of our political system is to represent everyone and to me this is something that seems to be forgotten in Dutch politics lately. If I get elected for the for the Faculty Student Council, I intend to commit myself to participation from all layers of society – in this case the faculty – and thereby for broadly-based decisions. Furthermore I believe that my vision from both the program
3. Feline Lindeboom
Hi there everyone! My name is Feline Lindeboom and I've been a student at our lovely Science Park since 2014; initially of the interdisciplinary bachelor program Bèta-Gamma, but lately I've grown to become a real Mathematics student as well. A main purpose of our political system is to represent everyone and to me this is something that seems to be forgotten in Dutch politics lately. If I get elected for the for the Faculty Student Council, I intend to commit myself to participation from all layers of society – in this case the faculty – and thereby for broadly-based decisions. Furthermore I believe that my vision from both the program of Bèta-Gamma as well as the Mathematics program can be an interesting addition to mainly topics concerning the organization of education at the FNWI. To conclude: in general I am a happy student and I find it a pleasure to walk around and study at Science Park. However, it is always time for change and I see it as a privilege to guide these changes on behalf of the FNWI-students in a critical yet constructive manner.
4. Casper van Eijden
LIEF in your own way
I am Casper van Eijden and I am a first year student bèta-gamma. In this interdisciplinairy study on Science Park I learned about a lot of disciplines. I learned that all disciplines have their own strong aspects and that is why I think it is important that everyone get the time to follow the courses that he/she wants to follow. Also, I think it is essential that the opinion and the experience of students should be used when decisions are made. For many subjects, the input of students can be more used when decisions are made and I would like to improve this.
5. Nina Wagenaar
Studying is more than getting a degree
Dear reader, I am Nina, second year in Future Planet Studies with a major in Artificial Intelligente. I'm broadly interested and I've noticed that I'm not the only one. That's why I believe that students have to get the freedom to enrich their education with extracurricular activities. If a student decides to plan their study differently than what is normal, that shouldn't limit them in their choices of masters degrees. Every decision that is taken about education should bear the quality of education in mind. This is the most important if courses decide to teach in English instead of Dutch. Decisions must be taken as decentral ad possible. Courses can decide best for themselves.
6. Martijn Brehm
Decentralisation is my beLIEF.
Hi, my name is Martijn and I'm currently enrolled in the second year of the Bachelor Informatica. Just like everyone else, during my programme I've encountered things that could be improved: a professor whose courses are way too chaotic, a chronic shortage of places to study, an unequal distribution of workload between courses. I think many of the problems that we encounter as students are rooted in centralised decisions in which students play no roll. That's why I believe that, if students will be heard, and when we get the chance to do something about our problems, the quality of educations can be drastically improved. I hope to be able to commit myself to this cause in the coming year."
7. Simon Wittkamp
Connecting to improve
My name is Simon Wittkamp and I am a third year student in mathematics. As a member of the board of studies of mathematics, I noticed that studies are bound by certain rules which are imposed from above. This is not ideal. Programme directors and board of studies know what is best for their study, so they should be free to make more decisions of their own. This is one of the things I want to commit myself to if I am elected for the faculty student council. Also, I want to make sure the relations between the studies and student associations are preserved and, if possible, even improved. Another thing I find important is that the student council is visible and approachable for the students. The student council should always be available to students who have suggestions or complaints, so we can make our faculty even better.
8. Yoshua Maas
Better qualitative and structured education.
Hello, I am Yoshua, an AI student in his first year, The FNWI is a big faculty and therefore a very diverse one, especially with the amount of different studies available. However, the quality of education should not suffer because of its size, but this still happens. To prevent this, I believe management should be more decentralised. Centrally made decisions have led to many unforeseen consequences, doing the quality of education no good. Apart from that, I also find it important that there are cetrain forms of consistency within the faculty. It should be clear in which language a course is taught, in which language an assignment should be handed in or in whicht language exam questions should be answered. Above all this lectures in incomprehensible English should be prevented.
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L'OpenDATA à la portée de tous, avec SPIP
la présentation de Cedric Morin aux RMLL 2013
#spip #opendata #rmll #présentation #mashup #json #yaml #xml
#SPIP loves #Open_Data
L'ouverture des données et leur réutilisation citoyenne nécessite des compétences techniques (...) SPIP permet de s'affranchir des obstacles techniques pour publier et diffuser sur Internet.
Sa dernière version SPIP 3.0 permet aujourd'hui d'utiliser le Web comme base de données
une chouette présentation de cerdic sur la boucle DATA, avec des exemples de #cartographie, #YAML, #XML (beurk)…
It's easy to forget that XML started out as a simplification process, trimming SGML into a more manageable and more parseable specification. Once XML reached a broad audience, of course, new specifications piled on top of it to create an ever-growing stack.
That stack, despite solving many problems, brings two new issues: it's bulky, and there are a lot of problems that even that bulk can't solve.
Two proposals at last week's Balisage markup conference examined different approaches to working outside of the stack, though both were clearly capable of working with that stack when appropriate.
John Cowan presented on MicroXML, a project that started with a blog post from James Clark and has since grown to be a W3C Community Group. Cowan has been maintaining the Editor's Draft of MicroXML, as well as creating a parser library for it, MicroLark. Uche Ogbuji, also chair of the W3C Community Group, has written a series of articles (1 2) about it.
Cowan's talk was a broad overview of practical progress on a subject that had once been controversial. Even in the early days of XML 1.0, there were plenty of people who thought that it was still too large a subset of SGML, and the Common XML I edited was one effort to describe how practitioners typically used less than the XML made available. The subset discussion has come up repeatedly, with a proposal from Tim Bray and others over the years. In an age where JSON has replaced many data-centric uses of XML, there is less pressure to emphasize programming needs (data types, for example), but still demand for simplifying to a cleaner document model.
MicroXML is both a syntax — compatible with XML 1.0 — and a model, kept as absolutely simple as possible. In many ways, they're trying to make syntax decisions based on their impact on the model.
Ideally, Cowan said, the model would just be element nodes (with attribute maps) containing other element nodes and content. That focus on a clean model means, for example, that while you can declare XML namespaces in MicroXML, the namespace declarations are just attributes. The model doesn't reflect namespace URIs, and applications have to do that processing. Similarly, whitespace handling is simplified, and attributes become a simple unordered map of key names to values. The syntax allows comments, but they are discarded in the model. Processing instructions remain a question, because they would complicate the model substantially, but the XML declaration and CDATA sections would go. Empty element tags are in, for now …
Some of the pieces that raised controversy with questions were the current proposal to limit element and attribute names to the ASCII character set, and the demise of processing instructions. I mostly heard cheers for the end of draconian error handling, though there were memories of the bug compatibility wars of an earlier age reminding the audience that it could in fact be worse, or weirder.
There may be, as Cowan noted "no consensus on a single conversion path" to or from JSON, but MicroXML takes some steps in that direction, suggesting that JSONML should be able to support round-tripping of the MicroXML model, and JSONx could work for JSON to XML.
While I suspect that MicroXML has a bright future ahead of it in the document space, it seems unlikely to take much territory back from JSON in the data space. MicroXML doesn't seem to be aiming at JSON at all, however.
Very few programmers want to think about overlapping data structures. In most computing cases — bad pointers? — overlapping data structures are a complex mess. However, they're extremely common in human communications. LMNL (Layered Markup and Annotation Language), itself a decade-long conversation that has suffered badly from decaying links, has always been an outsider in the normally hierarchical markup conversation. There may be conflicts between XML trees and JSON maps, but both of those become uncomfortable when they have to represent an overlapped structure.
Wendell Piez examined the challenges of processing overlapping markup — LMNL — with tools that expect XML's neat hierarchies. Obviously, feeding this
[source [date}1915{][title}The Housekeeper{]]
[name}Robert Frost{]
[dates}1874-1963{]] }
[s}[l [n}144{n]}He manages to keep the upper hand{l]
[l [n}145{n]}On his own farm.{s] [s}He's boss.{s] [s}But as to hens:{l]
[l [n}146{n]}We fence our flowers in and the hens range.{l]{s]
into an XML parser would just produce error messages, even if those tags were angle brackets. Piez compiles that into XML, which represents the content separately from the specified ranges. It is, of course, not close to pretty, but it is processable. At the show, he demonstrated using this to create an annotated HTML format as well as a format that handles overlap gracefully: graphics, using SVG (or here as a PNG if your browser doesn't like SVG).
Should you be paying attention to LMNL? If your main information concerns fit in neat hierarchies or clean boxes, probably not. If your challenges include representing human conversations, or other data forms where overlap happens, you may find these components critical, even though making them work with existing toolsets is difficult.
When XML exploded onto the scene, it ignited visions of magical communications, simplified document storage, and a whole new wave of application capabilities. Reality has proved calmer, with competition from JSON and other formats tackling a wide variety of problems, while the biggest of the big data problems have such volume that adding markup seems likely to create new problems.
However, at the in-progress Balisage conference, it's clear that markup remains really good at solving a middle category of problems, where its richer structures can shine without creating headaches of volume or complication. In the past, Balisage often focused on hard problems most people didn't yet have, but this year's program tackles challenges that more developers are encountering as their projects grow in complexity.
JSON gave programmers much of what they wanted: a simple format for shuttling (and sometimes storing) loosely structured data. Its simpler toolset, freed of a heritage of document formats and schemas, let programmers think less about information formats and more about the content of what they were sending.
Developers using XML, however, have found themselves cut off from that data flow, spending a lot of time creating ad hoc toolsets for consuming and creating JSON in otherwise XML-centric toolchains. That experience is leading toward experiments with more formal JSON integration in XQuery and XSLT — and raising some difficult questions about XML itself.
XML and JSON look at data through different lenses. XML is a tree structure of elements, attributes, and content, while JSON is arrays, objects, and values. Element order matters by default in XML, while JSON is far less ordered and contains many more anonymous structures. A paper by Mary Holstege focused primarily on possibilities type introspection in XQuery, but her talk also ventured into how that might help address the challenges presented by the different types in JSON.
Eric van der Vlist, while recognizing that XSLT 3.0 is taking some steps to integrate JSON, reported on broader visions of an XML/JSON "chimera", though he hoped to come up with something more elegant than the legendary but impractical creature. After his talk, he also posted some broader reflections on a data model better able to accomodate both XML and JSON expectations.
Jonathan Robie reflected on the growing importance of JSON (and his own initial reluctance to take it seriously) as semi-structured data takes over the many tasks it can solve easily. He described XML as shining at handling complex documents and the XML toolset as excellent support for a "hub format," but also thought that the XML toolchain needs something like JSON. He compared the proposed XSLT 3.0 features for handling maps with JSONiq, and agreed with Holstege and van der Vlist that different expectations about the importance of order created the largest mismatches.
Hans-Jurgen Rennau had probably the most optimistic take, describing a Unified Document Language – not a markup syntax, but a model that could accomodate varied approaches to representing data. His proposal did include concrete syntax for representing this model in XML documents, as well as a description of alternate markup styles that help represent the model beyond XML.
I don't expect that any of these proposals, even when and if they are widely implemented, will immediately grab the attention of people happily using JSON. In the short term they will serve primarily as bridges for data, helping XML and JSON systems co-exist. In the longer term, however, they may serve as bridges between the cultures of the two formats. Both approaches have their limitations. XML is cumbersome in many cases, while JSON is less pleasantly capable of representing ordered document structures.
JSON freed web developers to create much more complex applications with data formats that feel less complicated. As developers grow more and more ambitious, however, they may find themselves moving back into complex situations where the XML toolkit looks more capable of handling information without the overhead of vast quantities of custom code. If that toolkit supports their existing formats, mixing and matching should be easier.
Markup and data types are themselves metadata, providing information about the data they encapsulate, but Balisage and its predecessor conferences have often focused on metadata structures at higher levels — the Semantic Web, RDF, Topic Maps, and OWL. So far, this year's talks have been cautious about making big metadata promises.
Kurt Cagle gave the only talk on a subject that once seemed to dominate the conference, ontologies and tools for managing them. His metadata stack was large, and changing near the end of the work to include SPARQL over HTTP. If Semantic Web technologies can settle into the small and focused groove Cagle described, it seems like they might find a comfortable niche in web infrastructure rather than attempting to conquer it.
Diane Kennedy discussed the PRISM Source Vocabulary, an effort similar in its focus on applying technology to solve a set of problems for a particularly difficult context. The technology in the talk was unsurprising, but the social context was difficult, describing a missionary effort, to bring metadata ideas from a very "content first" crowd to magazines, a very "design first" crowd. Multiple delivery platforms, notably the iPad, have made design first communities more willing to consider at least a subset of metadata and markup technology.
While designers are historically a difficult crowd to sell semantic markup, programmers have been a skeptical audience about the value of markup — especially when "you got your markup in my programming language." There are, of course, many programmers attending and speaking at Balisage, but the boundaries between people who care primarily about the data and those who care primarily about the processing are a unique and ever-changing combination of blurry and (cutting) sharp.
A number of speakers described themselves as "not programmers" and their work as "not programming" despite the data processing work they were clearly doing. Ari Nordstrom opened his talk on moving as much coding as possible to XML by discussing his differences with the C# culture he works with. In another talk, Yves Marcous said "I am not a programmer" only to be told by the audience immediately "Yes, you are!"
XML's document-centric approach to the world seems to drive people toward declarative and functional programming styles. That is partly a side-effect of looking at so many documents that it becomes convenient to turn programs into documents, an angle that is very hard to explain to those outside the document circle. However, the strong tendencies toward functional programming emerge, I suspect, from the headaches of processing markup in "traditional" object-oriented or imperative programming. The Document Object Model, long the most-criticized aspect of JavaScript, exemplifies this mismatch (compounded by a mismatch between Java and JavaScript object models, of course). As jQuery and many other developers know, navigating a document tree through declarative CSS selectors is much easier.
Jorge Luis Williams and David Cramer, both of Rackspace, found a different target for a declarative approach, mixing documentation into their code for validating RESTful services. The divide between REST and other web service approaches isn't quite the same as the declarative / imperative divide, but I still felt a natural complement between the validation approach they were using and the underlying services they were testing.
A series of talks Tuesday afternoon poked and prodded at how markup could provide services to programming languages, exploring the boundaries between them. Economist Matthew McCormick discussed a system that provided documentation and structure to libraries of mathematical functions written in a variety of programming languages. Markup served as glue between the libraries, describing common functionality. David Lee wanted a toolset that would let him extract documentation from code — not just the classic JavaDoc extraction, but compilers reporting much of their internal information about variables in a processable markup format.
Norm Walsh started in different territory, discussing the challenges of creating compact non-markup formats for XML vocabularies, but wound up in a similar place. Attempting to shift a vocabulary from an XML format to a C-like syntax introduces dissonance even as it reduces verbosity. After noting the unusual success of the RELAX NG compact syntax and the simplicity that made it possible, he showed some of his own work on creating a compact syntax for XProc, declared it flawed, and showed a shift toward more programming-like approaches that eased some of the mismatch.
If you're a programmer reading this, you may be wondering why these boundaries should matter to you. These frontiers tend to get explored from the markup side, and it's possible that this work doesn't solve a problem for you now. As conference chair Tommie Usdin put it in her welcome, however, Balisage is a place to "be exposed to some things that matter to other people but not to you — or at least not to you right now."
In a recent interview, Anna von Veh, a consultant at Say Books, and Mike McNamara, managing director at Araman Consulting Ltd & Outsell-Gilbane UK Affiliate, talked about the role of XML, the state of ebook design, and the tech-driven future of the publishing industry.
McNamara and von Veh will expand on these ideas in their presentation at TOC Frankfurt next week.
Our interview follows.
Mike McNamara: There are many benefits to be gained from implementing XML in a production workflow. However, it really depends on what the publisher wants to do. For example, journal publishers probably want to reuse their content in a number of different ways for differing products and specific target markets. XML can deliver this flexibility and reusability.
A UK Legal publisher I worked with wanted to enrich its online content deliverables to its clients. The publisher added more metadata to its XML content, allowing its new search environment to deliver more accurate and focused results to clients. A fiction book publisher, on the other hand, might want to produce simple ebooks from original Microsoft Word source files and might not see any real business or technical benefit to using XML (however, I do think this will change in the future). A simple XHTML-to-ebook process might be a better option for this type of publisher.
Anna von Veh: The very term "XML" can cause many people to run for the hills, so it's sometimes helpful to look at it differently. Do publishers want to ensure that their content is searchable and reusable for a variety of formats, in a variety of ways, for a variety of devices and even for devices that haven't yet been invented? Do they want to be able to deliver customized content to customers? If so, XML — and I include XHTML in this — is the way.
There are a number of issues. One is the value of putting legacy content into XML to make it more usable, discoverable and valuable to the publisher. The second is incorporating XML into the workflow for the front list. And then, of course, there is the question of when to incorporate XML into the workflow — at the authoring stage, editing, typesetting, post-final, etc.
While the format-centered model that most publishers are familiar with produces beautiful products, it is not one that is likely to flourish in the new world of digital publishing. Digital requires a much more rapid, flexible and agile response. Using XML, though, doesn't mean that design or creativity is dead. The hope is that it will help automate work that is being done manually over and over again, and allow publishers the freedom to focus on great ideas and creative use of their content.
Mike McNamara: I don't believe there is one "best" way. Again, it's down to what is the best way that suits that particular publisher. "XML first," "XML last" and "XML in the middle" all have their own costs, implementation requirements and benefits. I tend to favor the XML-first option, as I believe it delivers more benefits for the publisher. Though it would probably introduce more change for an organization than the other options (XML last and XML in the middle).
Anna von Veh: If you're a large publishing company with a bigger budget and lots of legacy content, then you might want to move to a full content management system (CMS) with an XML-first workflow. But a smaller publisher may want to focus on a digital-friendly Word and InDesign workflow that makes "XML last" easier. However, incorporating XML early into the workflow certainly has benefits. The challenges revolve around changing how you think about producing, editing and designing content and managing the change process.
Mike McNamara: XML is a very future-proof method for ensuring long-term protection of content. It is the format chosen by many digital archives and national libraries. True, JSON has become very popular of late, but it is mainly used today for API development, financial transactions, and messaging — and by web developers. I think JSON has a long way to go before it supplants XML — as we know and use it today — as a structured content format for use in publishing.
Mike McNamara: No, it's still developing. More thought needs to be put into adding value to the content before it gets to the ebook. Take travel guides, for example. If I want a travel book to use in the field, say on a hiking holiday, I don't want to have to carry the print product. I want the same content reconfigured as an ebook with a GPS/Wi-Fi environment added to use on my smartphone, with everything referenced from the same map that I saw in the print version.
Publishers need to get smarter with the data they have, and then deliver it in the different ways that users need.
Anna von Veh: Many current ebooks are conversions from printed books, either scanned from the printed copy or converted from PDFs. These ebooks weren't designed or planned as ebooks, and in addition, quality control was lacking after they'd been made into ebooks — and these are very bad advertisements for ebook design. Many new ebooks (i.e. those in the front list) are much better designed. However, most are still based on the idea of the print book.
A key thing is to focus on is the fact that a screen is not contained in the same way that a printed book is, and that it is an entirely different format (see Peter Meyers' great A New Kind of Book blog, and upcoming "Breaking the Page" book). I think of ebook design as being much more akin to website design, which is why I advocate hiring web designers. I like the idea of starting with the web and going to print from there. It seems right for the digital age. Also, I think anyone working in book production today — both editors and designers — should learn some web skills. Hand coding simple EPUBs is a good way to practice, and it is relevant, too.
Mike McNamara: More and more content will continue to be published online. Many reference publishers are already looking to add more value to content through metadata. This would allow clients to find the right content for their immediate context via sophisticated search engines. Some publishers already allow clients to build their own licensed versions of publications from the publishers' content repositories, with automatic updates being applied as and when needed.
Consequently, publishers will continue to move toward having even smaller, more focused chunks of XML data, allowing easy assembly into virtual publications. These will all be available to download and read on multiple devices, focusing on smartphones and tablets.
The combination of smarter XML (with multimedia information), smarter search engines and smarter reading devices will define how content is created and delivered over the coming years.
Anna von Veh: In answer to the first part of the question, it depends on what we understand "digital publishing" to mean. I like to think of it as the process of publishing — i.e. the workflow itself rather than the format. In terms of the process, yes, I think the web will have a big role to play (see PressBooks), but once again, it depends on how open publishers are to change.
Much will depend, too, on exactly who the publishers are in the next five years. I think it is highly likely that tech startups will make up a large piece of the publishing pie, though they may be bought up by larger publishers and tech companies. Some of the big vendors that hold much of the current knowledge of digital publishing (and therefore, perhaps, power) may move into publishing. There are also the smaller indie and self publishers that aren't hampered so much by legacy issues. On the other hand, big publishers have financial muscle and experience in content creation, design and editorial. It's an exciting time.
As for the format, I wouldn't bet against the web there, either. I'm a fan of the web in general (my favorite ebook reader is the browser-based Ibis Reader). In mainstream publishing, a lot of educational content is migrating to the web and learning management systems (LMS).
Even if books become URLs, what is needed is a cheap and easy print-on-demand (POD) home printer and bookbinder, or print "ATM," like the Espresso Book Machine. There are many situations where printed books are still required, not the least of which are countries in poorer parts of the world where the web is a luxury. Arthur Attwell's startup Paperight is a great POD idea designed for developing countries, and it also provides publishers with income. Mobile phones, too, are gaining ground in developing countries, and they're being used for a variety of innovative businesses. Smartphones could well become the main way to read content all over the world, whether that content is contained in ebooks, website books, or other forms.
But this just looks at the technology side of things. People bond emotionally with books and stories, with the authors who create them, and with other readers who share their interests. Potentially, connections could be built between readers and the editors and designers who shape the books. In this digitally connected but often physically separated world, all these connections are becoming both easier and more important, irrespective of what form the content takes or where it lives.
This interview was edited and condensed.
Photo on home and category pages: XML_logo by Jmh2o, on Wikimedia Commons
I just posted an interview with "Website Architecture and Design with XML" instructor Bob Boiko over on O'Reilly Answers. Much of the piece deals with the nuts and bolts of XML, but Boiko also discussed the relationship between content creators, designers, and programmers. I thought his response worth sharing here as well.
Bob Boiko: The lines blurred a long time ago. It's been more than 20 years since I sat in my first software development team meeting with artists, writers, programmers, and managers all trying to figure out how to talk with each other. They continue to struggle today.
The language of business value and information structure is a great candidate for the common tongue we're looking for. Everyone on a team should be able to say why they are doing this project and what part they play. That's business value.
More specifically, in the center of a project you'll find the information that the project collects, stores and delivers. Designers need to understand the structure of that information in order to present it. Content creators need to understand it to originate or edit it. Programmers need to understand it to build the machinery that moves it from place to place.
The lines that need to blur are not at the center of the design, coder, or programming disciplines, but rather where they meet. And where they meet is in the information.
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I've got no problem with the teachers packing rods and heaters but in all fairness the parents should have the final say because it is their kids who have the potential to face death or injury because of this program.
AOC burning brightly, for the time being at least
AOC is currently the flavor of the month, in demand because she is a loose cannon who can stir the pot and is a very colorful character.
But she's also alienating a lot of her fellow Democrats in the process by hogging all the headlines and sucking all the air out of the room.
Remember David Hogg? it wasn't so long ago that he was a media darling, the flavor of the month.
Now you rarely hear him mentioned
The Right Wing Militias at the Border justified?
- There has been a lot of talk on social media forums regarding the various right-wing militias mobilizing to head to Texas and confront the migrant Caravan currently winding its way North.
While proponents of such claim such a presence is necessary to prevent murders, robberies and rapes by a hungry and desperate invading Force others question the need for such an operation considering the President Donald J Trump is sending upward of 15k trained and equipped battle ready troops to take on this Caravan.
The question arises, is this "patriotism" or merely adventurism by white males of the right-wing persuasion who have time on their hands.
One way to look at it, copied from an OP spied on a social media forum.
"And you're saying Reg that Donald J Trump's small army of active duty combat trained military are not going to be able to handle a couple of handful of broke and hungry and unarmed largely women and children and prevent them from going on robbery and murder and rape rampages throughout Texas.
Well that explains why we're getting our butts kicked in Afghanistan I guess.
Maybe these right-wing militias should consider service over there too if they are the "Patriots" they claim to be.
Oh, but that's different you say, those people in Afghanistan shoot back."
Needless to say this OP does not necessarily represent the Viewpoint of this page.
It is merely offered for educational purposes and presents one point of view on this issue.
Film is coming back in a big way, but is it right for you? A Carl Denham commentary
Carl Denham's "Advanced Techniques for the Universal Selfie" part two
Today we have Carl Denham back on the Lifestyles Desk with another installment of his informal series we're now tagging "Advanced Techniques for the Universal Selfie".
Today Carl offers various exciting and proven techniques to help the four eyed "Selfie" addict avoid those ugly reflections that often ruin their mugs.
Here's Carl.
If there's one thing that makes your average photographer eat their liver it's being tasked with photographing an individual who wears glasses.
Any time you have bright strongly sourced light, you have to consider the real possibility that the light source be reflected in the lenses of the eyewear worn by your subject (or yourself) and back to your camera or smart phone.
Pretty ugly.
If this is a problem for highly skilled professional photographers it's a nightmare for the committed "Selfie" addict, with multiple thousands of otherwise excellent efforts ruined every day.
As with everything in life when we have a problem in order to find a solution we must first understand that problem.
As this graphic demonstrates, it's all a question of angles. Light follows a completely predictable path from source to subject to camera lens just like a ball follows a completely predictable path on the pool table when you ride the nine.
And it is that predictability that allows the professional photographer to avoid the bugaboo of glare by simple adjustments in the relationship between light source, subject and camera.
Now I say "simple". Simple perhaps for the professional photographer who has control over all the elements of his shooting environment.
But not so simple for the "Selfie" King and Queen who often has no control at all and may be dealing with drunken if not outright hostile friends.
So let's explore the options.
The most obvious solution is for the subject (be it you or others) is to remove the offending glasses.
That might be fine for somebody who alternates between contacts and analog glasses but maybe not for others.
Very often if somebody wears glasses full time that eyewear can be as much a part of their visual identity as the nose on their face.
Very often when asked to remove the glasses ( the subject be someone else or yourself) no one will be happy with the picture because it's not going to look like the person as the world has come to know them.
That applies even when the person is ourselves.
So we reject that option out of hand.
The second option is to rearrange the relationship between the subject, the light source and the camera.
As we see in the accompanying photographs this can be quite an effective technique when it comes to avoiding reflections from eyewear. But this option is not without problems of it's own.
It can be a royal pain to move cameras and lights around, especially if the setup revolves around more than one light source.
And arranging lights to avoid reflections may not give you the results you would like.
And of course if you're shooting film which more of us are doing these days you won't have the instant feedback of digital so you won't even know if your adjustments are effective for days or weeks.
And finally this is time consuming and with the slap 'n' tickle nature of the "Selfie" time is not your friend here.
There is a another option that is much quicker, a trick the pros often use. Simply tilt the glasses on the head so the lenses are angled downwards.
Properly done the reflections will not hit the camera lens.
But still not the ideal solution as the glasses can easily look askew.
So what's left?
What will work for us, quick and dirty and with minimal effort?
Perhaps the Bible can provide some inspiration:
"If your eye offend thee pluck it out."
Now one saying we should pluck out eyes, but we CAN "pluck out" the lenses of eyewear thus remove the offending elements.
A procedure easily accomplished by some thumb pressure properly applied.
And as we see in this comparison photograph of Dorothy the Plastic Head, removing the lenses from our eyewear is an extremely effective method to avoid glare and reflections.
In fact without the lenses glare and reflections are impossible.
But like they say there's no free lunch.
If you remove the lenses from your "real" glasses you may not be able to put them back.
Therefore I do not recommend that.
What I DO recommend is that all four-eyed "Selfie" addicts invest in one or more "burner" frames and remove the lenses from them.
For about $7 currently the "Selfie" addict should be able to find frames that match their own more or less.
I found serviceable frames two for $14 at Amazon.
I found several more at Zanni even cheaper and now carry a variety in my standard "Selfie" kit, always available and close at hand and thus always loaded for bear.
One final advantage of lens less frames, without the distortion of interceding glass, the eyes can really pop and as the Bible said:
"Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness."
So it is when the "eyes have it" with "Selfies" too.
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Sexual Adventurism and the Young Men of Today
Statistics from credible sources prove that between two and ten percent of reported rape are false.
The fact that up to 10% of all reported rapes are false is not an insignificant number to the youngsters who are among those 10%.
Reasonable people might put these numbers in perspective this way.
If 2% to 10% of the inmates on death row were innocent when they will put to death society probably would not be so cavalier and dismissive about throwing that number around (unless a member of the base of Donald J Trump of course).
And that aside.
We're not just talking about rape when we are talking about the danger of alledged predatory women making false reports of a sexual nature.
We are talking the whole range of accusations of a sexual nature that can destroy a person's life.
Brett Kavanaugh was never accused of rape for example but had he not been a man of influence, had he been Joe Lunch Bucket, the charge of attempted rape without evidence would have been enough to ruin his life even if he never saw the inside of a court of law.
Those who discount the reality that false charges exist in such numbers are comfortable with trading the lives of a certain number of young men if it means the realization of a larger goal.
We see this same concept in military adventurism.
Military leaders routinely accept the fact that a certain number of warriors and civilians are going to die in order to realize military objectives both large and small.
I believe the term is "collateral damage".
Maybe that's fine in the military but is it necessary in civilian life to sacrifice a percentage of our youngsters for the "greater good"?
Maybe Society will ultimately accept that ruining the lives of up to 10% of our young men is fair compensation for a system where charges of sexual inappropriateness require no evidence before we find the individual guilty.
Society may make that judgement reasonable people may say it's not necessary to ruin those lives at all.
Reasonable people may say we CAN punish the guilty AND agree that does not preclude young men from taking the reasonable precautions necessary to protect themselves from the false charges that credible sources claim are generated by anywhere from 2% to 10% of the female population bringing those charges.
What the men and women of reason would say is that we should teach our youth to vet the people (male or female) they allow into their lives and/or interact with in a potentially explosive sexual situation.
Prior to the easy availability of birth control and abortion our young people were taught by loving parents to look beyond their hormones and to be proactive what it came to protecting themselves from individuals that had the potential to be a destructive force in their lives.
It was an easy lesson to teach back then since unwanted pregnancies with life destroying effects would be the price of failure.
It is not so easy today when there is no longer the stigma nor condemnation to having children out of wedlock nor to terminating a pregnancy should should the baby be unwanted.
But it is a lesson that can still be taught.
If young men were taught to choose the people in their lives carefully, let their heads and not their hormones rule their actions when interacting with the opposite sex and to document their interactions to the extent that technology and Common Sense allows then both young men and young women can live their lives to a ripe old age and never fear that false charges from their past will bring the sounds of Jack Boots on their doorstep.
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full title · Fallen Angels
author · Walter Dean Myers
type of work · Novel
genre · Coming-of-age story; historical fiction; war fiction
language · English
time and place written · 1988; Jersey City, New Jersey.
date of first publication · 1988
publisher · Scholastic Inc.
narrator · Richie Perry, a young African-American soldier in the Vietnam War
point of view · Richie tells the story in the first person, giving us immediate, intimate access to his thoughts and feelings as the action unfolds.
tone · Richie speaks with immediacy and poignancy, baring his innermost fears and thoughts. He filters the action of the novel through the medium of these emotions and ideas.
tense · Past
setting (time) · Several months in 1967 and 1968
setting (place) · Vietnam
protagonist · Richie Perry
major conflict · Richie struggles to come to terms with the grim reality of war, which contradicts the myths about war that he believed going into it.
rising action · Richie's enlistment in the army to escape a bleak future; the misplacement of Richie's medical file, and his resulting assignment to Vietnam; Richie's burgeoning friendship with Peewee, Jenkins, and Johnson; the soldiers' journey to their camp near Chu Lai.
climax · Richie's success in drafting a truthful letter to his brother that discusses honestly the unromantic and gruesome nature of combat.
falling action · The poorly planned mission on which the squad is sent; Peewee and Richie's separation from the rest of the squad; Peewee and Richie's quick thinking to save the lives of Monaco and the rest of the squad; Peewee's and Richie's getting wounded in the battle.
themes · The loss of innocence; the unromantic reality of war; the moral ambiguity of war
motifs · Race; friendship; heroism
symbols · Richie's letters home; the lost dog tags; war movies
foreshadowing · The army's failure to process Richie's medical file properly hints that Richie will not receive a medical discharge and will have to fight; the army's bureaucratic mix-up at the airport in Osaka previews the general chaos of war and the ineffectiveness of trying to control that chaos.


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The First Pennsylvania Constitution was created August 1776.
The Coat of Arms on the Flag of Pennsylvania was created in 1778.
The Flag was created in 1799.
In 1906 the Blue back ground called "the color of old Glory" was set as a standard blue color.
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Celebrity Big Brother 2018: Meghan Markle's sister Samantha 'still in talks' for line-up?
MEGHAN MARKLE'S half-sister Samantha was rumoured to be appearing on Celebrity Big Brother 2018 it was reported, and now it has been claimed Samantha is "still in talks" to appear.
Following on from the Royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May, Channel 5 bosses were said to be keen for Samantha to appear on the reality show.
Up to now, 53-year-old Samantha has been outspoken about the royal couple, despite not attending the wedding or having spoken to Meghan in years.
With several media appearances and clashes with Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain, it was claimed Celebrity Big Brother producers were hoping she has more to say once inside the house.
Despite not appearing during the launch night, it has been claimed Samantha is still "in talks" to join the line-up.
Producers have been in touch with Samantha, but swore her to secrecy
Following former adult movie star Stormy Daniels pulling out of the house, there is now a place for one more on the Channel 5 show.
A source has reportedly told The Sun that there have been "tentative discussions" to draft Samantha in.
They said: "Producers have been in touch with Samantha, but swore her to secrecy.
"She has been telling people she won't be going into the Big Brother house – and has tweeted as much."
They added: "Big Brother bosses know that her opinions on Meghan would be as big a storyline as Stormy's thoughts on Donald Trump. It would be a huge ratings winner."
It was previously reported that Samantha is "high on the list of priority" for CBB, with a source telling the Daily Star: "The theme for this summer's CBB series is understood to be 'Scandal' so Sam is ideal for this."
Celebrity Big Brother 2018: Meghan Markle's sister Samantha 'still in talks' for line-up?
For the TV role, Samantha would have to fly from Florida, US to spend just under six weeks in the TV studio in Elstree.
Earlier this year, Samantha published a book titled The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister, with Piers slamming her as a "vulture" during a heated GMB interview.
He exclaimed: "There's no bigger media vulture than you. You've been trashing her for two years you little vulture."
Samantha then attempted to explain her reason behind the title, saying: "I'm sure Piers, your inquiring minds would like to know why it was that.
"You can't judge a book by its cover or by its title. I wanted a book with opposite content. People just want to look at the negatives."
Meghan's father Thomas Markle failed to attend the wedding and walk her down the aisle, pulling out after his deal with the paparazzi was exposed in the press.
Piers added: "It seems to me that her father, your father, has let her down. Doing a deal with the paparazzi knowing that they'd [Harry and Meghan] be horrified."
Will Samantha appear on the show to create major fireworks?
Express.co.uk contacted Celebrity Big Brother reps earlier this month for comment.
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Athletics Launches Fifth Third Arena Renovation Website
The University of Cincinnati Department of Athletics has launched a website for the upcoming Fifth Third Arena Renovation titled OurHouse2018.com.
The website, created in conjunction with the University's Office of Creative Services, was developed to provide Bearcats fans current and up-to-date information on the arena construction project which is already underway.
Four 18-seat baseline suites have been built on the sixth floor of the arena and will be ready for the fast approaching 2016-17 campaign. Full construction will begin in March 2017 with the new arena making its debut for 2018-19 season.
OurHouse2018.com features an updated fly-through of the arena renovations, new renderings and information for those interested in purchasing tickets, premium seating or making a donation to the $87-million privately-funded project.
Season tickets are selling at a record pace for the 2016-17 men's basketball campaign and are available through the athletics ticket office by calling 1-877-CATS-TIX or visiting GoBearcats.com/tickets. Packages start at $125 or $6.58 per game. Season-ticket holders for the receive a 68 percent savings over single-game ticket prices and will receive priority seating opportunities for the 2018-19 return to Fifth Third Arena.
- $87 million privately-funded renovation of Fifth Third Arena.
- Full construction begins in March 2017.
- Opening in Fall 2018.
- 360-degree concourses on two levels and permanent lower level bowl with new chair back seating.
- Open entrance plaza with centralized ticket and guest services.
- New HD scoreboard, ribbon boards, sound system & LED lighting to enhance game experience.
- New upper-level concourse with its own fan amenities.
- New restrooms and concessions.
- Premium seating options, including a courtside club, arena club, concourse club, luxury suites, loge seating, Bearcats Lounge, wine bar and super suites.
- New classroom space with e-learning capabilities.
- New locker rooms.
- Renovation of the building facade.
- December 31, 2016: Deadline to make gifts for 5X Priority Points Bonus.
- March 2, 2016: Final regular-season game in existing Fifth Third Arena.
- August 15, 2017: Season ticket renewal deadline for 2017-18 season in off-campus arena.
- December 31, 2017: Deadline to make gifts for 2X Priority Points Bonus.


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First North Korea tested another nuke, then, perhaps as a way to show they're not completely nuts, allowed one of the U.S. journalists detained in Pyongyang to phone home. The journalist, Laura Ling (who is the sister of Lisa Ling, formerly of The View), was detained along with another woman while committing "hostile acts" on the wrong side of the China-North Korea border. The pair face as much as 10 years in the dreaded labor camps of North Korea. The Washington Post reports that allowing the phone call is a signal that Kim Jong Il may use the case of the journalists as a negotiating chip to pull his country away from the brink of war--a tactic often used by the reckless, oppressive nation. "Because the American reporters can be used as the trigger for bilateral dialogue with the United States, the North is not likely to mistreat them," an expert said. But how long will the global community follow the same pattern that allows North Korea to continue its erratic behavior?
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Salone del Mobile aside, there were much to explore and enjoy on the high streets of Milan during Milan Design Week 2019. Tour some of the best design events in this city with Iko In…
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INAX and Kartell at Milan Design Week 2019: What's Hot?
INAX's New Collections
Poised forglobal expansion, INAX unveiled two new INAX bathroom collections for the global market at Milan Design Week 2019. The new collections will be launching in selective markets starting from May 2019. The special exhibition offered visitors a first-hand experience of product designs reflecting INAX's design values and signature elements, which convey Japanese aesthetics in a contemporary style. These were represented in the new S600 LINE and S400 LINE bathroom collections, eight variations of INAX's CERAFINE™ ultra-thin wash basins, which were inspired by Japan's waterscapes and created specifically for the exhibition, a tile lounge that displays the variety of colors and textures of tiles, along with 3 inspirational brand movies showcased throughout the installation at the SuperStudio venue between April 8-14, 2019.
KARTELL's Glamorous Anniversary
Kartell celebrated its 70th anniversary and there were many heartwarming exhibits by this famed furniture brand at the recent Milan Design Week. A significant milestone for the brand, this year's event gave visitors an in-depth look of Kartell and its heritage. At the start of Salone, one of the key highlights was the "Art Side of Kartell" exhibition which showcased the relationship between art and Kartell. At Salone, the brand revealed their projects alongside Philippe Starck.


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