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Gun Owners Of America Chief Defends George Zimmerman: Trayvon Martin Was 'Assailant'
Larry Pratt, the executive director of Second Amendment group Gun Owners of America, offered a rare defense of the man who killed Trayvon Martin, saying George Zimmerman was acting in self defense when he shot the Florida teen. As the facts of the case have emerged, everyone from President Obama to RIck Santorum and Rep. Allen West (R-FL) have condemned the killing.
But appearing on Current TV's "The Young Turks" with Cenk Uygur Friday, Pratt said Zimmerman and the police acted properly. "Martin passed from becoming a victim to becoming an aggressor" during an alleged altercation, he said. Pratt's said his view of the facts are based on a single eye witness interviewed by an Orlando news station. "[Martin] should have run away," Pratt explained, saying Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" laws are irrelevant, because "we're talking about fighting off an assailant."
"Once Martin had neutralized the threat, that's when he should have taken off to get out of there. He doubled down, and he started to really beat the tar out of the guy," Pratt said. Martin "gave up his rights," Pratt added.
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Billboard: Adele dominates another year with '21'
NEW YORK (AP) — It's another year and another Adele domination on the music charts: The British singer is Billboard's top artist of 2012.
Billboard said Friday that Adele is the year's biggest artist and her diamond "21" album, released in February 2011, is this year's top album. Adele earned both prizes last year.
The year's top three songs are Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and fun.'s "We Are Young," respectively.
Adele is also the top female artist. Drake is the top male artist, One Direction is the top new artist and Maroon 5 is the year's top group.
Billboard said Drake, Taylor Swift, fun. and Don Omar are the top acts in the R&B/hip-hop, country, rock and Latin fields, respectively.
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"it was straightforward and accurate"
women need to stop playing the victim and stepping up for themselves they need to discover who they are before they act on what they want
"Very good information for ALL women"
I wanted to get this for my teen daughter who has friends marrying for all the dumb reasons mentioned in this book. I found good information for MYSELF. This is a must read for all women.
The things that we women NEED to hear but don't always WANT to hear. Schlessinger provides tough love and cuts straight to the point.
Tremendously refreshing.
This book is very enlightening. Will have a positive effect on my life ;-) Liked it very much and do recommend it.
"First 30 minutes"
Not what I expected.
I thought it would be full of advice and tips on how to improve self-awareness. So far it's just a woman critizing and belittling other women.
"Too bad it's abridged."
Yes, however, it's abridged so it served as a teaser that encouraged me to pick up the book and read it. An unabridged version isn't currently available as an audio.
She bullet pointed her lessons and found extremely appropriate stories to illustrate them.
This is alot like her radio show but its' more like a greatest hits. It's better than her radio show at points because she doesn't have to tease out the questions and there's no rambling from the callers.
It was an excellent use of my time.
The recording was only an hour and a half. That's shorter than her radio show, that's ridiculous.
"Patronising tone not for everyone"
Some good thoughts but not sure most people would feel included. For the women stuck in their relationship, not sure what to do.
I love this book and will listen to it over and over till it sticks! She is frank, intelligent, breaking down so much bullcrap we build around us and work out of!
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The Vadhiyahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-81215022220478800762011-03-03T17:07:48.597-08:002011-03-03T17:07:48.597-08:00One of my mom's cousins once told me that peop...One of my mom's cousins once told me that people in China may have started shortening their names to two characters to obscure their family connections. The fear was of being arrested purely for having a last name and middle character similar to that of a known criminal. Since the middle character of one's name is the common character amonst siblings, it can suggest that family relationship. To proactively stop criminal activities, the police would arrest any known siblings as well.

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That is simply fiction...kosmoshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-74546372547916689432011-02-28T12:20:21.606-08:002011-02-28T12:20:21.606-08:00One of my mom's cousins once told me that peop...One of my mom's cousins once told me that people in China may have started shortening their names to two characters to obscure their family connections. The fear was of being arrested purely for having a last name and middle character similar to that of a known criminal. Since the middle character of one's name is the common character amonst siblings, it can suggest that family relationship. To proactively stop criminal activities, the police would arrest any known siblings as well.

I'm saying middle character in this case, but I think it can also be the 3rd character that is common amongst siblings. Not sure how that works. Anyhow, has anyone else heard this explanation?FrankLhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-74492329083978730282011-01-24T15:00:05.903-08:002011-01-24T15:00:05.903-08:00Jujube is right, of course. But this is a discussi...Jujube is right, of course. But this is a discussion about just one piece of the sound system of Chinese -- the phonetics of the syllable. Tones are another part of it. For those interested in tones, there is plenty of ink spilled in my book about tones, and some blog entries, like the previous one to this.Deb Fallowshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-4299932810078566192011-01-24T14:13:18.256-08:002011-01-24T14:13:18.256-08:00Where is the the discussion about tones here? Chin...Where is the the discussion about tones here? Chinese syllables DON'T sound the same to native Chinese speakers because they are trained to hear distinctions in tones.jujubehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-27055642361453775962011-01-24T13:38:15.630-08:002011-01-24T13:38:15.630-08:00I think Tingkun55 has exactly understood the point...I think Tingkun55 has exactly understood the point and tone here.

Now, I actually will turn this back to Deb!JMF-Atlantichttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-70857685383897727112011-01-23T22:41:21.504-08:002011-01-23T22:41:21.504-08:00p.s. As for Rush Limbaugh, we don't have to wo...p.s. As for Rush Limbaugh, we don't have to worry about him-- we can always sic Amy Chua on him!Tingkun55http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-23751799363462357772011-01-23T17:58:49.527-08:002011-01-23T17:58:49.527-08:00Dear Shintzer, As someone who is also ethnically C...Dear Shintzer, As someone who is also ethnically Chinese, I have also been subject to the same taunts. But clearly Deborah is being ironic -- her heading is the equivalent of saying, say, "Why Sarah Palin is right about using targets on her website"-- the statement assumes the opposite of what it seems to claim. BHTingkun55http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-49575488744936024862011-01-23T11:50:47.186-08:002011-01-23T11:50:47.186-08:00Don't get me wrong, I didn't think she was...Don't get me wrong, I didn't think she was in favor of Limbaugh's intent. I just would have been more comfortable had there been more acknowledgment of it and the really hurtful nature of that type of racist ridicule. It's not only something I experienced as a child. I still experience it today, like when a guy yelled ching-chong noises at me from a car on a street in Los Angeles, in broad daylight. After dark, fueled by alcohol -- that's the beginning of a hate crime.

Most stereotypes are grounded in some truth. Blacks in the rural south probably did grow and eat watermelons. But we don't write a historical treatise on watermelon-consuming habits to show that a racist wielder of the stereotype is partially correct.

Deborah's point was interesting and worth making. But to Asian Americans, ching-chong noises are synonymous with racism, and it's jarring for me to read something that doesn't make more note of that. Well-educated white Americans are not aware of the ubiquity of the behavior, because it's not something you'd ever think of doing email@example.com://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-14175787391139367442011-01-23T10:54:30.527-08:002011-01-23T10:54:30.527-08:00I really won't try to hijack my wife's (gr...I really won't try to hijack my wife's (great) site. But since I live more in the world of politics than she does, let me address the Shintzer and John G points. OF COURSE Limbaugh's tone and approach were offensive. OF COURSE he is a vehicle for hatred and incivility, as he has been about minorities for a very long time -- in a stretch from Donovan McNabb to Barack Obama to, now, Hu Jintao.

When Deb said in her original item that she had gotten to her conclusion by a different path from Limbaugh's, she obviously was making the point that in this case a linguistic analysis took you to the destination that Limbaugh had come to from his simple closed-mindedness. I'm sure she didn't think she had to pound the point home with a mallet! But for the record, I know from long experience that OF COURSE she's not in favor of intent like Limbaugh's. She was assuming that would be obvious.

Now I will bow out! But defense of one's spouse is a powerful instinct.JMF-Atlantichttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-73577129701477730052011-01-23T10:20:11.560-08:002011-01-23T10:20:11.560-08:00You may be right linguistically. But as someone wh...You may be right linguistically. But as someone who was cruelly teased with "ching chong" noises as a child, it pained me to see you offer a rational explanation for Limbaugh without acknowledging the racist history of this very type of taunt. As John G said, Limbaugh's intent was not good. Like so many other ignoramuses, he ridicules the language in order to underscore that Asians are "the other."email@example.com://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-7507011697850639502011-01-23T07:03:53.213-08:002011-01-23T07:03:53.213-08:00I think one of the reasons Limbaugh was so offensi...I think one of the reasons Limbaugh was so offensive was his tone. He wasn't just making the "Ching Chong" sounds, he was making them in a threatening, angry tone, and he kept at it for a long time.John Ghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-24147441606160153892011-01-22T21:03:39.095-08:002011-01-22T21:03:39.095-08:00Well, I suppose with a fewer number of syllables a...Well, I suppose with a fewer number of syllables and an equal number of meanings to convey, more weight is put on each syllable—a circumstance which is partly compensated by the tones. Voice recognition would therefore depend a lot on tone recognition—rendering it a steep challenge to both non-native speakers and non-native speaking computers.

The ability for Chinese speakers to differentiate English words also leads to confusion, of course. My mother, who worked for years in Sterling Library at Yale, once told me about a visiting scholar in the 1980s who confided in her about her distress about her American roommate. This woman told her that her roommate said she ate a lot of greens because she was "dying." Upon reflection, my mother realized that the woman had mistaken "dieting" for "dying" and corrected her. The poor woman had been in fear for weeks that she was going to have a corpse on her hands! (Although of course, as we all know, dieting and dying do share some similarities!).

Another question: Did you ever figure out when one changes from being called "Young (surname)" to "Old (surname)"? Is there a gender difference here? Does it depend on marital status?

And thank you Jim for answering the Supreme Court guest question. I'm sorry that you have decided to take a break from blogging for awhile—my morning coffee just won't be the same!

BenTingkun55http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-46303522479087362012011-01-22T14:18:25.815-08:002011-01-22T14:18:25.815-08:00Chinese names are really different from Western na...Chinese names are really different from Western names. For starters, 85% of the population share the same 100 family names. How many people named Wang do you know? We know lots!
As for first names, most names are not "names" as we know them, like Ben or Jim or Susan. They are words or phrases already in use in the language, more like Apple, or Rain. During the Cultural Revolution, loyal names became all the rage, phrases like Yonghong (forever red) or Jiango (build the country).
You often hear people called by their full name, like "Hello, Huang Ben.") That practice helps reduce the confusion.
Knowing all this, how would you answer your own #3?Deb Fallowshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-74186915842302052282011-01-22T14:12:16.415-08:002011-01-22T14:12:16.415-08:00Weighing in from the other side of the household: ...Weighing in from the other side of the household:
 - Very good question by tsingher! One of the virtues of Ms. Dreaming in Chinese is that she is able to say things that would seem, I dunno, "pushy" if they came from Rush etc but that, from her, I feel obliged to comply with. She seemed to have that effect in Chinese too - -I think she describes in her book the heroic moment when, in Chinese, she convinced a Shanghai cab driver than he had to give us a 100 RMB refund!

- To Tingkun55, good questions, and I look forward to what Deb can say about them. On the last item, au contraire! Stephen Breyer was there.JMF-Atlantichttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-21264126487176200542011-01-22T13:15:14.096-08:002011-01-22T13:15:14.096-08:00Some questions/comments 1) If Chinese has so few s...Some questions/comments
1) If Chinese has so few syllables, why the post-49 trend in China to give babies two-syllable instead of three-syllable names? Given China's burgeoning population, doesn't this lead to more kids having the same name?
2) A corollary to this is: Do Chinese schoolteachers have any easier time with their roll sheets than, say, Russian teachers? (I believe that Russian teachers aren't required to memorize their students' patroynymics).
3) What are the implications of this for voice-recognition software?
Ben Huang
p.s. I usually correspond with Jim, so it's a delight to have the chance to correspond with you as well....(oh, and a question for Jim...Why aren't Supreme Court Justices invited to White House dinners?)Tingkun55http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-757434129106282043.post-85800501232482070152011-01-22T12:00:34.600-08:002011-01-22T12:00:34.600-08:00Why is it so much less offensive to hear you say i...Why is it so much less offensive to hear you say it than to hear Rush say it?tsingherhttp://email@example.com


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The penultimate Mike! Who will it be? Who?
I'll give you a hint: he's fantastic. And sensational. And friendly. And probably obvious, now.
68. Mike Wieringo
Mike Wieringo (or just Ringo, as many call him) is a great artist. Call him cartoony if you want, but he's got an energetic, clean style that has all the right hints of Parobeck, Kirby, and Romita Jr. in it, to name a few.
If I could find that awesome self-portrait I've seen of his, I would put it up here, but the internet is hiding it from me. Bah.
I first encountered his work on The Flash with Mark Waid, where he illustrated one of my favorite issues of any comic ever (and which I see will be appearing in a Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told volume!):
After that, I think I saw him on Sensational Spider-Man with his buddy Todd DeZago:
He'd later reteam with DeZago on creator-owned series Tellos, a fantasy story with an anthropomorphic tiger. Why? Because anthropomorphic tigers are grrrrrrrrreat!
It's a shame Ringo never sticks around for very long on a title. Flash, Sensational Spidey, Friendly Neighborhood Spidey, Adventures of Superman… the man's always on the move.
His longest run is probably his greatest, and that's his stint on Fantastic Four with Mark Waid. It's the best FF run since Lee and Kirby. Jemas tried to kill it before it was over, but the fans stepped up and told him what for.
I love Mike's art. I do. I just wish I had a better ability to describe good art so I could tell you how damn awesome it is. Er… smooth lines! Dynamism! I dunno. It's good, darn it! Buy the upcoming Spidey/FF mini! Jeff Parker's writing it, so you know it'll be awesome.
Meanwhile, you can visit Ringo's website, where he has a blog with a new sketch or drawing every entry, like the one at the top of this post. You can also check out his forum here at CBR.
How about you? How would you describe the awesomeness of Mike Wieringo?
I just wish I had a better ability to describe good art so I could tell you how damn awesome it is.
Try this. He has a magnificent gift for design, for pacing, for everything a comic-book artist needs to make a page work as a unit — AND he has the caricaturist's knack for conveying an enormously wide range of emotion and characterization in facial expression without over-drawing or cross-hatching it to death. He has all the best characteristics of manga artists, with none of the cliches. He works constantly at improving.
And all of this craft and hard work is very nearly invisible, he is always working in service of the story. His pages are never self-conscious, show-offy pin-ups like a lot of other Hot Artists are guilty of producing. He has the best kind of humility and team-player attitude when it comes to comics work, at least as far as anyone can tell from looking at his pages. It's all about the READING experience, not the visual experience, when it's a Wieringo job. His pages look like somebody crossed CC Beck with Jack Kirby, and added Eisner's style of facial expression. They're amazing. Those qualities made him the best FF artist in decades. Certainly he's one of the top five guys working in mainstream comics today just in terms of sheer craft.
…how's that?
When I first heard of 'Ringo he was doing Untold Tales Of Spider-Man which I think looked awful, I hated the way he drew spidey (though that sensational cover is great). But he really is a great artist, his work on Superman was frikkin great.
'Ringo never worked on Untold Tales. You're thinking of Pat Oliffe.
Ringo rocks, man. No doubt. His sketchblog demands daily (or at least weekdaily) viewing, and his comics are a joy to behold.
That Zoo Crew sketch is a little too serious looking- like some horrible Alex Ross reimagining of Capt. Carrot and Co.- which is odd because 'Ringos art is usually so fun and joy-filled. I'm looking forward to his Spidey/FF.
I really think he drew the best Flash since Carmine Infantino. It's certainly the definitive version of Wally West in the role.
Oh Snap! Did you just call out Waid/Ringo as being better than Byrne on FF? That's a pretty ballsy statement.
But a true one.
The art may have been better, but definitely not the writing.
It's just a big statement to make, and honestly not one that I've ever heard before. I mean, Malice/Invisible Woman? That great Doom solo issue? The Trial of Reed? It's an amazing run, and I don't know that any run, Waid/Ringo just one example, is close to it in terms of scope and virtuosity.
Walt Simonson's FF is much better than either Byrne's or Waidringo's.
Wieringo's style is just too cartoony for my taste. He's better suited to drawing Astroboy than the FF.
I like his art better now that it's turned less cartoony and more like Chris Sprouse's style.
Oh yeah. Who the heck would want a cartoony style in a comic book?
My only beef with Ringo's style is the big eyes. He does fall into that manga cliche, and it really pulls me out of a story fast.
But that's all.
I actually met 'Ringo once at a con, where I got him to autograph a Fantastic Four issue he'd drawn. He struck me as a really nice guy.
I think the first comment said it all. I will say I met Mike at a con and he did a sketch of Sue Richards (because he draws my favorite Sue Richards) and could not have been nicer if he was sainted. I will always always always treasure the sketch he gave me, free of charge. The first sketch I've ever gotten btw.
Actually it was the week that FF was coming out and the new team was debuting so before it hit stands I got to get Waid, 'Ringo and Kessel sketches and autographs. DeZago was there too and he and 'Ringo signed Tellos trades for me. All four were not just nice but considerate of fans. And even IF 'Ringo's art was as bad as art could be (which it isn't, it's some of the best, imo) I'd still love him for his character.
RIP Ringo, you are as you always were, a legend!
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On the web, feeds are machine-readable summaries of content, usually arranged in reverse chronological order. Most feeds have traditionally been used to syndicate blog content in the popular RSS or Atom XML-based formats. Once published by a site, the content can be read through user-friendly aggregators, or transformed and interpreted by networked software products.
Syndicated feeds have been consumed in this way since 1999. However, in recent years, web users have also been consuming content in a more social way, through sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. These sites operate by allowing people to mark other users as "friends" and aggregating friends' activities through unified dashboards. Rather than subscribing to a single content stream, users of these sites subscribe to individual people, expecting to see everything they create, upload, and share.
An activity stream (also sometimes called a lifestream) is the collection of all the activities a person undertakes on a particular site. As web users rely more and more on activity streams for information consumption, it makes sense to be able to syndicate and subscribe to activity stream data. But since RSS and Atom don't support social metadata, a new format is needed to syndicate social activity.
Enter Activity Streams, an evolving standard that extends Atom for expressing social objects. Although it is a young standard, Activity Streams is fast becoming the de facto method for syndicating activity between web applications. For example, MySpace, Facebook, and TypePad all now produce Activity Streams XML feeds. But this technology isn't just for the consumer web environment. As corporate intranets and internal software become more social, solid business reasons support implementing Activity Streams as a feature. This article describes Activity Streams in detail, considers its potential uses in enterprise environments, and provides some examples for interpreting Activity Streams feeds using PHP.
Origin of Activity Streams
Activity Streams emerged from the DiSo Project (see Resources), an open source effort to build a decentralized social web using plug-ins developed for the WordPress blogging platform as a starting point. In the DiSo model, each user's profile is a separate WordPress blog that can be hosted on any Internet-connected infrastructure. Social actions then occur across the Internet among these WordPress sites.
A syndication format is an important part of this approach. In contrast with a site like Facebook, which houses hundreds of millions of members under one digital roof, DiSo assumes that there's only one user per WordPress site. Therefore, the only way to get an at-a-glance look at what your friends are doing is to subscribe to their feeds, parse the feeds into internal data structures, and view them in an aggregated interface.
XML is the perfect technology for implementing this approach, because it is cross-platform, easy to publish and parse, and doesn't require any specialist technology. The DiSo Project went one step further and conceived of the Activity Streams standard as an extension of the Atom feed format.
Atom was devised as an alternative to RSS that can be:
- 100 percent vendor-neutral
- Implemented by anybody
- Freely extensible by anybody
- Cleanly and thoroughly specified
Vendor neutrality, extensibility, and clean specifications are all essential to a future-proof standard. For the Activity Streams standard to be a viable linchpin of the decentralized social web, it must also adhere to these principles. And, thanks to Atom's extensibility, Activity Streams can leverage existing application logic and existing parsers. Theoretically, if you already have code to handle Atom (or use one of the many existing libraries), you need to develop only a little extra code.
In March 2009, MySpace became the first major social media provider to publish feeds in the Activity Streams format. Since then, many more have followed, including Facebook, Hulu, TypePad, and Opera. But the scope for Activity Streams isn't limited to sites like Facebook. Intranets, for example, can be greatly enhanced by knowledge of social activity within a company, or between companies. The Activity Streams format also creates possibilities for aggregating multiple streams to track a company's interactions and quantify progress towards goals across commercial social media sites. Whether seen from a management, analytical, algorithmic, or user perspective, the ability to track social usage presents many opportunities for new kinds of software applications.
Anatomy of an activity stream
Activity Streams extends Atom with a few new schema elements based on the
http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/ XML namespace.
An Atom feed consists of a single main
feed element, which
includes some initial metadata (for example, the title of the feed, any authors, its URL,
and the URL of the overall content it refers to). Within this main element sit any
number of
entry elements, which define items of content
within the feed. Listing 1 shows a sample Atom feed with a single
entry element, derived from my own web site:
Listing 1. A sample Atom feed from the author's website
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://benwerd.com/wp-atom.php" > <title type="text">Ben Werdmuller von Elgg</title> <subtitle type="text"></subtitle> <updated>2010-05-01T13:13:04Z</updated> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://benwerd.com" /> <id>http://benwerd.com/feed/atom/</id> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://benwerd.com /feed/atom/" /> <entry> <author> <name>Ben Werdmuller von Elgg</name> <uri>http://benwerd.com/</uri> </author> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sample article title]]></title> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://benwerd.com/2010/05 /sample-article-title/" /> <id>http://benwerd.com/2010/05/sample-article-title/</id> <published>2010-05-01T13:06:22Z</published> <content type="html" > ... </content> </entry> </feed>
Activity Streams extends the Atom model by inserting data about social objects within each
entry element. The existing possibilities for child elements of the
entry element aren't affected. For example, you can include a title and human-readable description of the action within
title and
content child elements, or include social metadata within a standard Atom-formatted
content element.
An Activity Streams
entry element always contains three main elements that indicate:
- The actor: the person performing the action (example:
John Doe)
- The verb: the type of action being performed (example:
- The object: the item being acted upon (example:
Ben's photo)
In some circumstances, an
entry element can also contain the target, a container object that the action was performed or placed in (for example:
John's photo gallery in the action
John Doe added Ben's photo to John's photo gallery).
The following elements are used within the
entry element to define verbs, objects, actors, and targets:
- The
Activity:verbelement contains an Atom URI defining the verb being used.
- The
Activity:objectelement contains a number of
activity:object-typeelements (described in the next paragraph), as well as other elements required to describe the action's object.
- Actors are defined by the existing
atom:authorelement, as shown in Listing 1.
- The
Activity:targetelement is similar to the
activity:objectelement but specifically defines the target where it exists.
activity:target, and
atom:author elements
are one or more
Activity:object-type elements that contain an Atom URI defining the parent object.
Each type of verb and object has an Atom URI, which defines the properties it can hold. For example, Listing 2 shows some Atom URIs from the base Activity Streams specification that define a person, the verb to share, and a blog post:
Listing 2. Base Activity Streams URIs for people, sharing, and blog posts
http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/share http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article
These URIs correspond to human-readable entries in the Activity Streams specification.
In Listing 3, I converted the
entry element from the example Atom feed in Listing 1 into an Activity Streams representation of Ben Werdmuller posting a blog entry:
Listing 3. A social version of Listing 1 in Activity Streams format
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://benwerd.com/wp-atom.php" > <title type="text">Ben Werdmuller von Elgg</title> <subtitle type="text"></subtitle> <updated>2010-05-01T13:13:04Z</updated> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://benwerd.com" /> <id>http://benwerd.com/feed/atom/</id> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://benwerd.com /feed/atom/" /> <entry> <id>http://benwerd.com/2010/05/sample-article-title/#actionID</id> <title type="text">Ben posted a blog entry.</title> <published>2010-05-01T13:06:22Z</published> <author> <name>Ben Werdmuller von Elgg</name> <uri>http://benwerd.com/</uri> <activity:object-type> http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person </activity:object-type> </author> <activity:verb> http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post </activity:verb> <activity:object> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sample article title]]> </title> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://benwerd.com/2010/05/sample-article-title/" /> <id>http://benwerd.com/2010/05/sample-article-title/</id> <published>2010-05-01T13:06:22Z</published> <content type="html" > ... </content> <activity:object-type> http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article </activity:object-type> </activity> </entry> </feed>
Note here that:
- The
xmlns:activity=http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/namespace declaration has been added to the top of the feed in order to define the Activity Streams vocabulary.
- The id of the overall Atom
entryelement and its contained
activity:objectelement cannot be the same.
- Details about the blog post—the ones in standard
entryelement in Listing 1—are now in the
activity:objectelement, along with the required
- The standard
atom:contentelements have been retained for use with parsers that do not support Activity Streams feeds.
Although this action has only a single object, it is valid to embed multiple objects in
an Activity Streams entry—for example, to modify Listing 3
to represent the action
Ben posted two blog entries. The
blog as a whole can be added as an
activity:target element to represent the semantically slightly different action
Ben added two entries to his blog.
I deliberately used basic content types in the feed example in Listing 3. However, the Activity Streams specification allows for specialization of verbs and objects.
For example, a collaborative project management application might indicate when users
complete tasks. The software might define a specialized verb for complete, and a
specialized object for task, each with its own custom Atom URI. However, many
Activity Streams-compatible tools might not have any knowledge of these terms, which
can cause problems during aggregation. To reduce the probability that this will occur,
entries in Activity Streams feeds can include more than one verb that describe the
same activity. In these cases, it is a good idea to include the entire set of
ancestors for a particular verb or object.
Complete might
simply be a specialization of the base verb
update, and
Task might be a specialization of the base object
note. The resulting Activity Streams entry might look like Listing 4:
Listing 4. A hypothetical completed task in an Activity Streams feed
<entry> <id>http://samplecompany.com/tasks/activity/23432/3242345/</id> <title type="text">Roger Taylor completed a task.</title> <published>2010-05-01T13:06:22Z</published> <author> <name>Roger Taylor</name> <uri>http://samplecompany.com/people/Roger+Taylor/</uri> <activity:object-type> http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person </activity:object-type> </author> <activity:verb> http://samplecompany.com/activity/schema/1.0/complete </activity:verb> <activity:verb> http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/update </activity:verb> <activity:object> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sample task]]></title> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://samplecompany.com /tasks/23432/" /> <id>http://samplecompany.com/tasks/23432/</id> <published>2010-05-01T13:06:22Z</published> <content type="html" > ... </content> <activity:object-type> http://samplecompany.com/activity/schema/1.0/task </activity:object-type> <activity:object-type> http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/note </activity:object-type> </activity> </entry>
Note here that:
- Each object type URI gets its own
- Each verb URI gets its own
- Specialized object and verb types must have their own specialized URIs.
At the time I'm writing this article, the Activity Streams wiki documentation lists 21 verbs and 25 object types, with 11 base verbs and 19 base object types defined in the formal specification document. An Activity Streams parser should recognize each of these base verbs and objects, and handle them appropriately.
Building an Activity Streams encoder
The simplicity of the Activity Streams standard makes it easy to build an encoder. Here
you'll create a basic PHP encoder object that represents an Activity Streams feed when
you convert it to a string (for example, by using the PHP
echo statement with it). See Download for the full source code.
First, you create the stub class,
ActivityStreamEncoder, and
define its constructor method to take an id, title, and description for the entry. You also define a private array,
$entries, to hold your Activity Streams entries. Listing 5 shows the class and constructor:
Listing 5. Base
ActivityStreamEncoder class with constructor
class ActivityStreamsEncoder { private $id = ""; private $title = ""; private $link = ""; private $entries = array(); function __construct($id, $title = '', $description = '') { $this->id = $id; $this->title = $title; $this->description = $description; } }
Next, you add some base classes for entries, objects, and authors. Because verbs simply
consist of URIs, you reference them as strings throughout. Entries and objects will
set their published date to the current date (using the PHP
time() function) by default. Listing 6 shows the base class for entries:
Listing 6. Base
ActivityStreamEntry class
class ActivityStreamsEntry { public $id = ""; public $title = ""; public $author; public $objects = array(); public $verbs = array(); public $published; function __construct() { $this->published = time(); } function addObject(ActivityStreamsObject $object) { $this->objects[] = $object; } function addVerb(string $verb) { $this->verbs[] = $verb; } function setAuthor(ActivityStreamsAuthor $author) { $this->author = $author; } }
ActivityStreamsEntry class also includes simple helper
methods for adding an author, objects, and verbs to the entry, ensuring the proper variable type of these values.
Because the child elements of an
activity:object element are
variable, you dynamically get and set the properties of
ActivityStreamsObject —your object class—using custom
getProperty() and
setProperty() methods, respectively. This is defined in Listing 7, which shows the
ActivityStreamsObject and the author class, which is a child class of
Listing 7. The Activity Streams object and author encoder classes
class ActivityStreamsObject { public $properties = array(); function getProperty($property_name) { if (isset($this->properties[$property_name])) return $this->properties[$property_name]; } function setProperty($property_name, $property_value) { $this->properties[$property_name] = $property_value; } function __construct() { $this->published = time(); } function addObjectType($object_type) { if (!isset($this->properties['object-type'])) $this->properties ['object-type'] = array(); $this->properties['object-type'][] = (string) $object_type; } function __toString() { $string = ''; $string .= "\n<activity:object>"; foreach($this->properties as $property => $value) { if (!is_array($value)) $value = array($value); switch($property) { case 'title': $attr = 'type="html"'; break; case 'link': $attr = 'rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="'.$value[0].'"'; $value = array(''); break; default: $attr = ''; break; } if (sizeof($value)) foreach($value as $val) { if (empty($val)) $string .= "\n\t<{$property} {$attr} />"; else if ($property == 'content' || $property == 'title') $string .= "\n\t<{$property} {$attr}><![CDATA[{$val}]]></{$property}>"; else $string .= "\n\t<{$property} {$attr}> {$val}</{$property}>"; } } $string .= "\n</activity:object>"; return $string; } } class ActivityStreamsAuthor extends ActivityStreamsObject { function __construct() { $this->addObjectType("http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person"); } function __toString() { $string = parent::__toString(); $string = str_replace('activity:object>','author>',$string); return $string; } }
Here, your classes represent a structured version of the
activity:object and
atom:author elements,
respectively. When you try to convert them to a string (for example, by echoing them
to the browser), structured XML is automatically returned. By ensuring that the
equivalent PHP class for each Activity Streams element is responsible for its own XML representation, you can create a clean set of Activity Streams handler objects.
In Listing 8, you add a similar class to represent the overall
entry element:
Listing 8. PHP class representing an Activity Streams
entry element
class ActivityStreamsEntry { public $id = ""; public $title = ""; public $author; public $objects = array(); public $verbs = array(); public $published; function __construct() { $this->published = time(); } function addObject(ActivityStreamsObject $object) { $this->objects[] = $object; } function addVerb($verb) { $this->verbs[] = $verb; } function setAuthor(ActivityStreamsAuthor $author) { $this->author = $author; } function __toString() { $string = ''; $string .= "\n<entry>"; $published = date('c',$this->published); $string .= <<< END <id>{$this->id}</id> <title type="text"><![CDATA[{$this->title}]]></title> <published>{$published}</published> END; if ($this->author instanceof ActivityStreamsAuthor) $string .= $this->author; if (sizeof($this->verbs)) foreach($this->verbs as $verb) $string .= "\n<activity:verb>{$verb}</activity:verb>"; if (sizeof($this->objects)) foreach($this->objects as $object) if ($object instanceof ActivityStreamsObject) $string .= $object; $string .= "\n</entry>"; return $string; } }
In Listing 8, the code also includes
addObject(), and
setAuthor() methods to handle the Activity Streams
activity:object, and
atom:author elements within the
entry element.
Finally, you can modify your overall
class to contain a corresponding
addEntry() method (to add
ActivityStreamsEntry objects from Listing 8 to the stream) and a
__toString() magic method to echo the entire Activity Streams feed.
__toString() method includes the XML header and
namespace declarations required for correct use of the Activity Streams vocabulary. Listing 9 shows the
addEntry() and
__toString() methods:
Listing 9.
addEntry() and
__toString() methods for the
ActivityStreamsEncoder class in Listing 5
function addEntry(ActivityStreamsEntry $entry) { $this->entries[] = $entry; } function __toString() { // Display header $string = ''; $updated_time = date('c',time()); $string .= <<<END <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xml:lang="en" > <title type="text">{$this->title}</title> <updated>{$updated_time}</updated> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="{$this->link}" /> <id>{$this->id}</id> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="{$this->id}" /> END; if (sizeof($this->entries)) foreach($this->entries as $entry) if ($entry instanceof ActivityStreamsEntry) $string .= (string) $entry; $string .= <<<END </feed> END; return $string; }
And that's it! Now, to put together a structured Activity Streams feed, you connect a series of these objects and echo them to the browser, as in Listing 10:
Listing 10. Rendering the Activity Streams feed from Listing 4 using the PHP code from Listings 5 through 9
// Create a new Activity Stream $stream = new ActivityStreamsEncoder('http://samplecompany.com/tasks/activity/', 'Task activities at Sample Company'); // Define the action's object $object = new ActivityStreamsObject(); $object->setProperty('id','http://samplecompany.com/tasks/23432/'); $object->setProperty('title','Sample task.'); $object->setProperty('content','...'); $object->addObjectType('http://samplecompany.com/activity/schema/1.0/task'); $object->addObjectType('http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/note'); $object->setProperty('link','http://samplecompany.com/tasks/23432/'); // Define the action's author $author = new ActivityStreamsAuthor(); $author->setProperty('name','Roger Taylor'); $author->setProperty('uri','http://samplecompany.com/people/Roger+Taylor/'); // Define the overall entry, adding the object, verbs and author $entry = new ActivityStreamsEntry(); $entry->addVerb("http://samplecompany.com/activity/schema/1.0/complete"); $entry->addVerb("http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/update"); $entry->title = "Roger Taylor completed a task."; $entry->id = 'http://samplecompany.com/tasks/activity/23432/3242345/'; $entry->addObject($object); $entry->setAuthor($author); // Add the entry to the stream $stream->addEntry($entry); // Echo the stream header('Content type: text/xml'); echo $stream;
The code in Listing 10 maintains a structured version of the activity stream, which you can query using standard object-oriented PHP method and property calls. Once
echo is called to display the feed, each object's internal
__toString() magic method is called, rendering it as XML. A
Content type: text/xml header is sent first to advertise to the browser that you'll be displaying an XML file.
Parsing an Activity Streams feed
PHP makes it extremely simple to parse any kind of XML feed. Simply load the structure with the built-in SimpleXML functions:
Simplexml_load_file($filename)loads structured XML from a file.
Simplexml_load_string($filename)loads structured XML from a string.
A number of obvious modifications for your
classes suggest themselves. One is to unify each of your child classes into a single
ActivityStreamsElement class, which inherits
the built-in PHP class
SimpleXMLElement. You can then simply call SimpleXML to process a feed from XML back into these handler objects:
$activityStream = simplexml_load_string($xmlFeed, "ActivityStreamsElement");
But handling a stream as a structured series of
SimpleXMLElements, which is the default value returned by the
SimpleXML parsing functions, is as easy as looping through the elements in an array,
as shown in Listing 11. You must take care, however, to reference both the
Atom and
ActivityStreams namespaces.
Listing 11. Looping through elements in a SimpleXML Atom feed
$activityStream = simplexml_load_string($stream); $activityStream = $activityStream->children('http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'); if (is_array(!$activityStream->entry) && sizeof($activityStream->entry)) { foreach($activityStream->entry as $entry) { // Handle entry } }
You can develop recursive functions to handle entries, objects within entries, authors, and so on. Activity Streams feeds, like their parent Atom feeds, are simple XML files that can be parsed quickly and used for many purposes.
The Activity Streams format is emerging as the social web application's answer to RSS: simple and easy to develop for, but powerful in a wide range of contexts. In enterprise settings, numerous possibilities exist for extending Activity Streams to provide greater security and more elaborate functionality. In addition to creating specialized object and verb types to handle business activities, you can sign streams using a technology such as OAuth to create custom, permissions-based views of company activity. And the proposed Atom Media extension allows media items such as photographs, video and audio files, and business presentations to be embedded within an Activity Streams feed.
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It's usually funnier to jump on them with the Mako and kill them that way.
It's usually funnier to jump on them with the Mako and kill them that way.
Geth Stalkers don't like Kaidan's "Push" and "Lift" power. Once you know that, the Colossus is the only real pain in the ass. Mainly because by the time you fight it, both of your squadmates are taking a nap at the center of a crater.
During that fight as soon as the cutscene is over, move all the way to your left and out of line of sight of the geth tank.
Then have your companions aimbot the Geth stalkers as they jump into view... ^^
Then have your companions aimbot the Geth stalkers as they jump into view... ^^
And here I thought I was the only one!
OH MY GOD I HAD THIS PROBLEM!!!!!! Those damn jumpy bastards
It's my first playthrough and I'm currently stuck at this part. I feel better now that I know I'm not the only one having a hard time here. And yeah, WHY NO SKIP BUTTON?!
Maybe I should stop reading this comic here until I get further ahead so I will appreciate the upcoming jokes more.
Maybe I should stop reading this comic here until I get further ahead so I will appreciate the upcoming jokes more.
Holy shit was this part hell for Engineers...
It's easy to get the Mako through the rocks...just jiggle it a little it'll work.
You're using Kaiden, there's your problem right there XD
"Push" and "Lift" are *extremely* effective against Geth stalkers, so unless your Shepard is biotic, having Kaidan in your squad on Therum is actually an excellent idea !
nah. the armature was pie. I think it ever only managed to hit me like... I think once, in all my playthroughs.
it was the jumpers that drove me up a wall. no matter where you hid they always had some magical headshot device that just Could NOT MISS!!!!
This was my reaction aswell XD So true
Oh my gosh I hated having to see that cut scene over and over!
OMG, so glad I wasn't the only one... Is it awful that I look EXACTLY like the player? Glasses, slightly-be-mulletted head nad all?
i got to the point i saved after every seen i could... cuz of the critical mission failures
Man, that was the WORST combat in the ENTIRE trilogy!
LOL. I drove my Mako all the way into the fight. Never had the trouble. xD
that fuckin armature gave me so much trouble
I feel ya...
I can freaking relate!
Ya, went through the same thing as well -_-
I was able to squeeze the Mako through, after having to push forward at max speed, then reverse a little, then jump, and repeat. Didn't really use it much though. I got up to the cutscene and immediately dodged behind a crate and attempted to kill a few of the geth. When Tali and Kaiden went down, I turned around and ran towards where I parked the Mako. Pulling up the mission computer screen, I realized that I could save at that distance, so I did. No more cutscene for me~ Once I was able to get Tali and Kaiden to my position once they revived to heal, I ran back to the crates and killed off the rest, including the Armature, then saved again. XD
Oh my goodness! I am laughing so hard at this page I am crying. This was TOTALLY me.
The same reaction as yours in the last panel. God, how much I dislike it. So near to kill it off than kabooo! and the same stuff again.
Oh I'm sooo with you on this one. I lost count on how many times I died during that part and I kept having to go through the friggin cut scene (which was longer than my stint after it)
Why couldn't they make the auto save point AFTER the damn cut scenes?!
This is a problem all the way through the series.
This is a problem all the way through the series.
me too, me too.
hmm once again, i just tended to drive through anything that got in my way, ignored the rest.
I feel your pain...this happened to me too !
THIS HAPPENED TO ME. SO MANY TIMES. Especially as a vanguard, with useless biotic powers; you're screwed. x"D
so, so true. [adds to favorites]
On the Xbox version (not sure if still possible in PC), you can wedge the Mako through the hole where it's supposed to stop you. I did it on accident my very first playthrough and now I do it every time.
Just had this earlier today...
One efficient way to punish us who failed at that point of the game, more than once...
Oh my gosh I just laughed out loud. This is exactly what happened to me Although if there's one plus it's that I had plenty of chances to get good screenshots during that cutscene...
OMIGOD I HATED that cutscene
It isn't the first if you do Feros or Noveria first. That also happens to me when I decide to recruit Liara first (basically every time except for my "Renegade playthrough").
Thanks for reminding me of this particular fight. Damn unskippable cutscene.
I totally hated this.... and the fight with Benezia (On my 2nd Playthrough)
Skip button? Why would you ever want to skip any of the thousands of cut scenes they put into their games. ESPECIALLY all those great, unskippable, scenes of docking or leaving a space station....I'LL KILL EM ALL!
LOL, I was exactly like this at that scene I wanted to punch the guy who thought non-skipable cut-scenes are a good idea.
I had no trouble in open battles, the ones indoors killed me over and over.
I hated Noveria
I hated Noveria
That cutscene, god. It made me decide ME wasn't for me and give up on it altogether for a couple of months. Ah, returning to it, having completely forgotten the plot and controls, I had no idea, who the hell was that blue chick in the nearest dungeon. Fun times.