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Syracuse, NY -- If your moment in time screams "1950s diner," pull up a stool and check out the checkerboard, square.
In Oneida, Gary Heffron's side-by-side businesses are turning people's basements, kitchens, sheds, spare bedrooms and even mobile homes into themed attractions.
A big theme is, well, 1950s diners.
"And we have elaborate, 1950s retro products that are seeing sales really skyrocketing through the roof," said Heffron, owner of Heffron's General Contracting Inc. and his newer design shop, A Moment in Time Retro Design. "We're being pushed to the limit with business from as far away as Germany, the UK. We're getting business daily from throughout the States, and a lot from Canada."
What's the deal?
Through his products and labor, Heffron's team converts rooms and sheds into themed play areas. Besides the '50s diner look, the Adirondack diner theme is also hot, said Heffron (prices for design and build-out vary by room size and amenities, including laminates, banding, booths, stools and more).
"We don't want to pigeonhole ourselves to the 1950s," said Heffron. "So we are going to be doing the Adirondack theme, logs on the side of a shed, for example, a log bar, wood floor, maybe some wood booths, like what you would see in Old Forge."
The diners Heffron evokes for the '50s theme have a decidedly Syracuse look, said Heffron, noting Stella's and The Gem as examples.
Next, they're going the rental route: Heffron's team is outfitting a mobile home to evoke a 1950s diner. It will be a rental unit, for graduations, parties and office events, said Heffron.
Heffron stumbled into this growing side business a couple of years ago. He said he was restoring a ranch house built in the 1950s to its circa-'50s, 1960s look. Other customers caught a glimpse of what he was doing.
"I did not realize there was this large demand," said Heffron. "We've grown quite a bit in the retro aspect, to the point of helping even our suppliers grow."
Heffron said he thinks he's on to something — and may even franchise A Moment in Time.
"It's a neat thing seeing tiki bars around pools, but nobody has anything like this," said Heffron. "New York (state) is always accused of being behind the times with the West Coast. Well, this is unique. The West Coast doesn't have this. As far as I can see, this look of the B'ville Diner, Little Gem and Stella's, we seem to be the only people around who got into and it and are selling and marketing it."
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- You're looking for opening dates for the new Clark's Ale House in Armory Square. So are we! The flux date is a real beef we roast here at The P-S. It's definitely scheduled, for later this year, in Armory Square. As you know, Clark's was displaced by the Landmark Theatre renovations, but it's reopening a pint away on Clinton Street.
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Another beautiful morning on the hill. No wind, a crisp chill and just a few people making turns on fresh corduroy. We made our way down Heavenly Daze, gave our legs a breather across Jess' Cut Off and then stopped into the terrain park for some rails.
I'll admit that riding rails, skiing backward across boxes and whatever else the kids do in the terrain park is totally foreign to me. My son and most of the kids in town seem to have figured it out. After a few laps through the park, we headed down Vogue. Skier's right was smooth, so we linked tight turns till we made it to Stampede, where we opened them up some.
A few more laps from the gondi and then two on Christie Peak Express and our legs were feeling good. The sun will be out today and tomorrow bringing soft snow under blue skies. The forecast is calling for colder temps and snow in the beginning of the week. Do a little snow dance so the terrain park will be bigger and the snow will be deeper.
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When it comes to Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. there are a few certainties on which you can rely. You'll get a timeless hook lodged within every song and lyrics that tell a story without a single throwaway line, but most importantly, you'll find the man behind GCWCF, Sam Duckworth, is one of the most infectiously enthusiastic characters in today's music scene.
A lot has happened since way back 2006 when he toured the country in a beat up car with a laptop, guitar and the brace of catchy, heartrending tunes. Firstly, the Southend-born singer has released four albums, including The Mannequin, a stripped collection brought out under his own name. He's travelled to Nigeria and the Congo as part of Damon Albarn's Africa Express and organised the London Astoria's last hurrah – the Demolition Ball – before it was torn down in 2009.
Sam has remained active in his support of Fair Trade and Love Music Hate Racism and in the immediate aftermath of the London riots he was instrumental in helping to galvanize the public to clean up the streets via twitter with @riotcleanup.
In the past few months Duckworth has also been heavily involved in the Occupy movement with big plans afoot for Occupation Records, set to roll out later this year. And let's not forget that this is the guy who organises The Windmill's annual post-Christmas, pre-New Year's Eve gig get together, which in the past has seen him dress up as and cover everyone from Wham! to Madonna to the Beastie Boys.
Back with his fifth LP, 'Maps', the album's genesis marked a moment of realisation. "It's happier than my other records," he says. "I got really into the idea of making music that wasn't clinical. I got bored of hearing indie rock records that didn't sound like they were made by a bunch of people having fun. I felt a lot more comfortable when I was making it. I'm 26 and I'm having a laugh!
With the effervescent Jason Perry of A at the production helm, 'Maps' is largely streamlined to guitars, bass and drums and a whole heap of energy. It's full of big ideas couched in rambunctious sing-a-longs and shouty punk refrains, the shift in mood and melodic tone instantly apparent from the opening track, 'The Real McCoy'. Where before Sam's love of post-hardcore was evident in his emotive pitch, this record's musical touchstones are his Britpop heroes Blur, The Streets, Super Furry Animals and Gomez.
"Lots of my favourite records came out between 1994 and 2003, the ones that I hold close to my heart and some of the ones that changed my life," he says. "It's where my influences grew from, it's the time when I fell in love with music."
Central to the album is the remarkable 'Offline Maps'. Beginning softly before optimism takes flight in an epic chorus, it finds Sam taking stock of a distinctly modern condition: being plugged in 24/7, yet never really connecting. It encourages the listener to shrug off apathy and view your surroundings with fresh eyes; perspective is key. In fact the song and the album title was sparked by an experience last year.
"We got lost on the way to Glastonbury – six years in a row and we still can't find our way!" laughs Sam. "We pulled over and I wanted to get something out of the boot and there was a map. The sat nav had taken us the wrong way and I said to Chris who was driving, 'You know there's a map in the boot right?' And he goes, 'Sam, I'm sick of using these offline maps.' And I thought, that's the stupidest and most brilliant thing I've ever heard. Is that what's happened now? Is he serious? Is this what we're calling them? It was an odd moment, but life is full of odd moments and that is what I tried to capture on this album"
This overreliance on technology, the consuming lust for the latest model, the impatience that comes with instant gratification and the increase in snipey comment culture as people hide behind their screens, are all themes that bleed into the record. But these undertones are not instantly apparent and that's the skill of his craft – you're blithely shouting along, before it hits you that Sam's words really resonate. This is particularly distinct on 'Easy (Complicated)', or the piano and string-assisted 'The Joy of Stress', which musically, is perhaps most closely reminiscent of GCWCF's back catalogue. Elsewhere 'Call of Duty' takes the true story of an argument over a deleted computer game, and the subsequent fallout, as a chance to explore new sonic territory. "That was more influenced by garage than any previous tracks," says Sam. "It was the space that got me, the kick, the snare, the room."
Where previous albums have seen him collaborate with Nitin Sawnhey, Kate Nash, Shy FX and Baba Maal, the Blockheads-meets-Blur stomp of 'The Long and Short of It All' came out of a three hour chat with emcee Jehst. "He's is the best wordsmith in this country," enthuses Sam. "His track 'England' is the best commentary of modern England that's around. Especially since Mike Skinner stopped making Streets records, I think we need someone that tells it how it is in a way that is meaningful and understanding. Picking Jehst's brain and seeing how he works was a real honour."
Album closer 'London's Burning' offers up a baggy house piano line and a gospel chorus directly inspired by working in his studio off Hoxton Square, a space once dubbed "Amazing Grace" because Jason Pierce of Spiritualized used to write there. Bristling with energy and verve, the message is simple: "London is awful when it's raining and then the sun comes out in this city and it's awesome; it's the best place in the world. Sometimes the simplest things tell the biggest story."
As the world becomes increasingly fractitious, Sam's musical vision is coming into sharper focus. He's not offering glib solutions, but he is provoking engagement. And sometimes he's not even doing that. Sometimes Sam's just having fun. "It's not that I've become less political, I think that I've become more political as I go on, I just don't know if it's the only thing that I am. I want make a music video with wrestlers in. People say, 'Why did you do that?' Because I like wrestling!"
He continues: "I've watched clips from the Wilco documentary 'Ashes of American Flags' pretty much every day so far this year. I'm completely obsessed with their work ethic and their identity. They're just six dudes in their mid-40s in an amazing band, hanging out, talking about life and getting on with stuff. There's one part where Jeff Tweedy is talking poetically about the link between representational art and music, but the thing he says at the end is what sticks with me. He goes, 'You know what, it's an attempt, and what's wrong with that?' Nothing, and that's inspirational.
"I love making records and I love playing them, its easy to get caught up in the analysis of music, sometimes it just happens and that is something that Jason restored in me. It doesn't have to be complicated'"
Which seems like the perfect place to stop, but Sam never seems to press pause. As well as GCWCF, he's currently collaborating with Justin Sane from Anti-Flag as the band Italia 90, working with Dutch dance duo Kraak & Smaak on an as-of-yet unnamed group, and dabbling in the studio, producing a selection of projects. All of which goes to prove that just when you think you've got him all worked out, Sam Duckworth continues to surprise.


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The HP Pavilion dv3-2155mx is a laptop from Hewlett-Packard that adds a bit of external flair with internal substance. A younger demographic will enjoy its design complete with tattoo-like shapes that cover much of its exterior. The HP Pavilion dv3-2155mx is ideal for movie buffs and is HD-friendly, as its display's 16:9 aspect ratio comes in handy when you want to pop in a DVD and get the optimal viewing experience. Add in an excellent battery life that won't leave you out in the cold while in class or on the road, and the HP Pavilion dv3-2155mx is a device that deserves a hard look when shopping for your next laptop.
Unfortunately, the HP Pavilion dv3-2155mx is a fixed configuration laptop, unlike many Dell models, so what you see is what you get. The HP Pavilion dv3-2155mx is currently available at a retail price of $729. It comes with a standard one year parts and labor warranty that includes 24/7 support via telephone or online chat.
The dv3-2155mx comes installed with the Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit operating system. The dv3-2155mx's speed and performance is satisfactory when compared to other laptops in its class thanks to its 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 processor and 4 GB of DDR2 SDRAM for multitasking power. It also comes with a 500GB SATA 5400 RPM hard drive, which offers more than enough storage for most people's needs unless you have your own black market DVD and CD factory at home.
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Author: Velichko Georgiev
After the First World War social and political struggles in Bulgaria intensified. The bourgeoisie, which was one of the main perpetrators of the disastrous outcome of the sustained efforts for solving the Bulgarian national question, was losing its political positions. On the other hand, there grew the democratic peasants' movement, with the Bulgarian Agrarian Union and the revolutionary communist movement at the head. For some time, the Bulgarian Agrarian Popular Union became a ruling factor and pursued a policy of anti-bourgeois orientation.
Under the circumstances the bourgeoisie exerted all its strength and sought opportunities to defend its interests. To this end it worked along several lines. The bourgeois party front was activated and reorganized: the United Popular Progressive Party and the National Liberal Party were established; in July 1922 the "pro-Antente" parties — the Democratic, the United Popular Progressive, and the Radical Party — formed a political group called the Constitutional Bloc whose goal was to replace the agrarian government with their own by constitutional means. At the same time, the officers and the intellectuals who were under bourgeois influence, stirred up. A whole system of organizations emerged whose purpose was to struggle against the agrarian rule and the communist movement. Attempts were made at improving the professional organization of bourgeois business. Some organizations of bourgeois non-partisan character such as the Great Freemason's Lodge, joined the struggle for defending the interests of the bourgeoisie and worked for the unification of the entire bourgeois camp.
In this process there emerged some organizations of strong nationalistic character which were influenced by fascism quickly developing in Italy. Those were the Bulgarian Popular Union "Kubrat", the Bulgarian Nationalistic Bloc, and the Union of Soldiers. However, they failed to spread their influence among the supporters of the bourgeois system.
Representatives of big business (Bulgarian and foreign) also joined in the efforts for the consolidation of the disunited forces of the bourgeoisie. They acted through the United Popular Progressive Party and through sections of the Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party. On the 21st October 1921, they set up a political formation which they called the "Popular Alliance". They gave it their financial and every other support and assigned it the mission of popularizing the idea of the establishment of a united bourgeois political front with active anti-agrarian and anti-communist purpose.
The Popular Alliance developed as a non-numerous elite political organization of a section of city bourgeoisie and the intelligentsia (military and civil) connected with it. It set up its branches in most of the district centers throughout the country. The program and ideology of the Popular Alliance represent a mixture of principles typical of the arsenal of traditional bourgeois parties, the stress being on the concepts widely spread in the world at that time of the necessity of consolidating the bourgeois state machine, of active policy of state interference in the economic life, of flexible social policy, of creating national and social unity under the bourgeois banner.
The Popular Alliance worked hard to popularize the idea of establishing a united bourgeois front. To a certain degree it contributed to the creation of the Constitutional Bloc and exerted efforts for coordinating the oppositional and anti-communist activity of all bourgeois forces. It encouraged the anti-governmental activity of some national liberation organizations and first of all of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. The Popular Alliance actively participated in the preparation and the staging of the military take-over on the 9th June 1923 and became a mandatory of the Military Union in the forming of the Ninth-of-June Government. In this way, with the help of all champions of the bourgeois system, it turned into a ruling factor.
In the six-party coalition government the Popular Alliance took a central place and, with the support of many bourgeois factors and mainly of the Military Union, it was striving for an independent political role in the bourgeois camp, for becoming a leader and designer of the new political regime in Bulgaria. Several were the characteristic features of the regime which was taking shape: a trend towards strengthening of the state machine and of its repressive bodies in particular; a consistent and active anti-communist and anti-agrarian stand; a trend towards narrowing of traditional bourgeois liberalism, and encouragement of intense nationalism. The Popular Alliance was well-disposed to the advent of fascism especially in Italy.
In order to be able to realize its intentions after the coup, the Popular Alliance tried to broaden its organizational structure by establishing branches in almost all district and most of the regional towns. However, it could not spread in the villages. With the aid of the Military Union and of other factors, the Popular Alliance tried hard to create a socio-political basis of the regime through the coalescence of all bourgeois parties, it taking the lead. In this respect it was actively supported by the United Popular Progressive Party which, to avoid losing control over the Popular Alliance, even joined in its ranks in July 1923.
The struggle of the Popular Alliance to impose on all bourgeois parties a coalescence in a big bourgeois formation was simultaneous with the struggle of the Bulgarian Communist Party to create a united front of all democratic forces in Bulgaria with the goal of overthrowing the Ninth-of-June Government and establishing a workers' and peasants' government. At the end of August 1923, the Bulgarian Communist Party succeeded in laying the foundations of the united front together with the then-forming left wing of the Bulgarian Agrarian Union. At the same time the Popular Alliance, using the advantages of power, enforced the formation of a united bourgeois political front by proclaiming the establishment of the Democratic Alliance on the 10th August 1923. This was preceded by the formal merger of the United Popular Progressive Party and the Popular Alliance and the merger of the Democratic Party and the Radical Party in a Union of Democracy (on 2nd August 1923). Due to the opposition of the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party and of the Radical Party, the National Liberal Party dropped out of the ruling Ninth-of-June Coalition. That is why, despite the will of the greater part of its members, it remained outside the Democratic Alliance.
The process of consolidation of the bourgeois political front under the auspices of the Popular Alliance ran parallel with the beginning of a process of polarization of its partners in rule and in forming new parties. This process reached its climax at the end of 1923 and developed even further in 1924.
In August and September 1923 an orchestrated process of building up the Democratic Alliance as a party coalition began, where the Popular Alliance became one of the constituent fractions which aimed at performing a uniting and leading role. The Popular Alliance played an important part in the drawing up of provisional statutes of the Democratic Alliance in which the views of the constituent parties on the organizational issues were predominant.
Some party functionaries who had their political baptism in the Popular Alliance, subsequently became the founders of such formations as the Bulgarian Popular Union "Kubrat", the Union of Bulgarian National Legions, the "Zveno" Political Circle, the National Society for Political Revival (Fascists), the National Social Movement, etc., which promoted the spread of fascism in Bulgaria.
Interwar Years
In September 1918, Tsar Ferdinand abdicated in favour of his son Boris III in order to divert anti-monarchic revolutionary tendencies. Under the Treaty of Neuilly (November 1919) Bulgaria ceded its Aegean coastline to Greece, recognized the existence of Yugoslavia, ceded nearly all of its Macedonian territory to that new state, and had to give Dobrudja back to Romania. The country had to reduce its army to no more than 22,000 men, and to pay reparations exceeding $400 million. Bulgarians generally refer to the results of the treaty as the "Second National Catastrophe".
Elections in March 1920 gave the Agrarians a large majority, and Aleksandar Stamboliyski formed Bulgaria's first peasant government. He faced huge social problems, but succeeded in carrying out many reforms, although opposition from the middle and upper classes, the landlords and the officers of the army remained powerful. In March 1923, Stamboliyski signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia recognizing the new border and agreeing to suppress Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), which favoured a war to regain Macedonia from Bulgaria. This triggered a nationalist reaction, and the Bulgarian coup d'état of 9 June 1923 eventually resulted in Stamboliykski's assassination. A right-wing government under Aleksandar Tsankov took power, backed by the army and the VMRO, which waged a White terror against the Agrarians and the Communists. In 1926, the Tsar persuaded Tsankov to resign, a more moderate government under Andrey Lyapchev took office and an amnesty was proclaimed, although the Communists remained banned. A popular union including the reorganized Agrarians won elections in 1931 under the name "Popular Bloc".
In May 1934 another coup took place, removing the Popular Bloc from power and establishing an authoritarian military regime headed by Kimon Georgiev. A year later, Tsar Boris managed to remove the military regime from power, restoring a form of parliamentary rule (without the re-establishment of the political parties) and under his own strict control. The Tsar's regime proclaimed neutrality, but gradually Bulgaria gravitated into alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Alexander Tsankov
Aleksander Tsolov Tsankov (29 June 1879 - 27 July 1959) was a leading Bulgarian right wing politician between the two World Wars.
Professor of Political Economy at Sofia University from 1910 onwards, he took a leading role in the overthrow of the government of Aleksander Stamboliyski in 1923 and was chosen to head the coalition that succeeded the deposed Premier. The coup was able to succeed as the Bulgarian Communist Party took a neutral attitude towards the Agrarians rather than supporting Stamboliyski. He became Prime Minister of Bulgaria on 9 June that same year and continued in the role until 4 January 1926. His Premiership was marked by deep internal struggles with the Bulgarian Communist Party, which Tsankov repressed mercilessly, declaring Martial law and outlawing the Communists in 1925 following an attempt on Tsar Boris's life and a bomb attack on the St Nedelya Cathedral. His actions led to Comintern denouncing the government as a "vicious Bulgarian fascist clique", whilst he later turned his attentions on the Agrarian Peoples Union, who were also suppressed, albeit less ferociously. A brief invasion by Greek troops followed and, although they did not stay long following condemnation by the League of Nations, the country was left crippled by debt and Tsankov was removed from office after failing to secure a loan for the country. By this point any support for Tsankov had dwindled as the people tired of his reign of terror.
After being removed from the political mainstream, Tsankov began to develop an admiration for Fascism and soon became a supporter of Adolf Hitler. In 1932 he set up his own National Social Movement largely in imitation of the Nazi Party. The movement proved fairly unimportant (although it did represent a further fragmentation of the governing coalition), lacking the support of "Zveno" and failing to secure Nazi approval, which was largely reserved for the Union of Bulgarian National Legions. Nonetheless, Tsankov was appointed by the Nazis in 1944 as Prime Minister of the Bulgarian Government in Exile set up in Germany in response to Kimon Georgiev's Fatherland Front government.
After the Second World War, Alexander Tsankov fled to Argentina and died in Belgrano (Buenos Aires) in 1959.
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(i). The second national catastrophe in 1918 lead to a crisis in the party and political system of the country. The public influence of Socialists and Agrarians rose sharply at the expense of the traditional parties. Meanwhile, totalitarian trends emerged in this country. They found their expression in the establishing of the Popular Alliance (1922), where members became non-party bankers and intellectuals, people from IMRO and the army circles, united in the Military League. Prof. Alexander Tsankov headed the Alliance.
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A group of four girls ages 14-15 demonstrated their urine-powered generator at the recent Maker Faire Africa in Lagos. The girls' project also generated a lot of excitement and interest on the web over this last week. Although it won't be able to compete with the energy output of coal or gasoline, this technique puts forward the possibility that urine could be tapped as one of many (cough) um, clean energy sources. There is probably a stinky pee smell, but clean in this case means it doesn't give off CO2 emissions or other pollutants.
Let's take a look at their process—
The Maker Faire Africa blog listed their method as such:
- Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.
- The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.
- The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
- This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.
Along the whole way there are one-way valves for security, but let's be honest that this is something of an explosive device…
The generated electricity powers a light bulb which is mostly hidden by the middle girl's knee in the picture above.
The girls designed their system based on this paper by scientists from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio University. Here is a more reader-friendly article on the paper that you might want to check out before you decide to explore the scientific paper.
There is also a good deal of scientific debate and skepticism over whether this is a useful or effective electricity generator. The comment thread below that blog post is a good sampling of the discussion.
Good science means hashing out the truth and not taking claims at face value. The only way to know for sure if this process works is to replicate the girls' setup. With appropriate mentoring and safety precautions, it would be great to see other kids working to recreate this idea. If it turns out that this works…awesome! Then young scientists can work to make improvements to the technique.
We look forward to the day we can feature the work of the first group of teens that powers a cell phone from this kind of pee-powered system. Game on.


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Dashboard Design Software for 2017
With the increasing need for business intelligence, there has been an explosion in the number of dashboard design software titles available. What used to be the domain of Excel spreadsheet jockies or other experts is now in the hands of amateurs with the right software. This is a good thing in general, but while the software has gotten easier, it doesn't replace fundamental knowledge in the purpose of dashboards and how to execute them properly. To give you a sense of the available options out there, here is a selection of the top dashboard design software titles for 2017.
If you are just getting started with dashboards, check out our How To Create a Dashboard series first.
Dundas BI
This is a very popular system that is browser based so there is no need to install software on your computer. You can access the Dundas BI dashboard from anywhere however it should be noted that you may need a more server RAM for processing. It's quite powerful and really can push the limits of what you can do without programing. Dundas BI has all the basic a dashboard server should have and more but what really sets it apart from its competitors is their customer service. It feels as if they are committed to your success. Do you ever get the feeling when you are using a companies software that they just "get it"? Well that is Dundas BI.
Sage Live
Sage Live is another browser based dashboard service but it seems to have more of a financial component than others. It supports multiple currencies, bank integration, and online access for your accountant. It has all the core accounting modules like billing, invoicing, work orders, and some neat forecasting options. It is also built on the Salesforce platform if you are already familiar with that. There have been reports of their regional support team being difficult to work with.
IBM Cognos Analytics
Despite it's reputation for being a big enterprise level application, Cognos Analytics is surprisingly user-friendly once it's set up. The security setup is known to be a bit tricky right out of the box. Modelling, forecasts, budgets and are the basics are in there but advanced features like Dynamic Cubes can be very hardware intensive and slow downs have been reported when multiple users are in the system. It's a powerful piece of software with a powerful price tag that may be out of reach of most SMBs. The overall design isn't as sharp or modern as others in the space.
InetSoft Style Intelligence
With it's unique data mashup engine and Data Block technology, this software certainly has intelligence. It does lack a fair bit of style though. It's one of the most flexible and adaptable dashboard design suites on the market and its multi-dimensional ability can really wring the insights from your data. The drag and drop functionality is easy enough and for the more complicated operations you can often find a YouTube video that will walk you through it. Graphically it's fairly no-frills but their top notch customer service more than makes up for it. It's also a fair bit cheaper than IBM Cognos Analytics if you are an SMB and are looking for an enterprise level tool.
With more personality than other dashboard design software, BOARD is a pleasure to use a bit of fresh air in the visualization space. BOARD can handle just about every data source you throw at it and it's fairly easy to set up. One issue is the lack of online documentation or tutorials, though I should mention the BOARD staff are very prompt with answers to questions. There is bound to be a fair amount of trial and error so if your users or managers don't have the patience for that, you might want to look elsewhere. While BOARD does accept any source of data, the quality of the data is important as it doesn't play well with null values.


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Gene Gotimer
Speaker Bio:
Gene Gotimer is a senior architect at Coveros, Inc., a software company that uses agile methods to accelerate the delivery of secure, reliable software. As a consultant, Gene works with his customers to build software better, faster, and more securely by introducing agile development and DevOps practices such as continuous integration, repeatable builds, unit testing, automated functional testing, analysis tools, security scanning, and automated deploys. He has successfully brought these techniques to commercial and government clients, including the Department of Defense. Gene feels strongly that repeatability, quality, and security are all strongly intertwined; each of them is dependent on the other two, which just makes agile and DevOps that much more crucial to software development.


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'Crimes against the state': Cuba jails man over communications equipment
In Washington, Judy Gross stood outside Cuba's diplomatic mission to the United States on Monday, microphone in hand, leading a demonstration to protest her husband's imprisonment in Cuba.
In March, Maryland resident Alan Gross was sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison for "crimes against the state."
Around 2009, Mr. Gross, 62, made several trips to Cuba, taking cellphones, laptop computers and satellite communications equipment. The international development veteran was working with a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, on a U.S. government program aimed at improving Internet access for ordinary Cubans, according to The Baltimore Sun.
(The communist nation currently censors Internet access for civilians, a consistent policy of most repressive states.)
President Barack Obama has called for Mr. Gross' release, and former President Jimmy Carter and others have appealed directly to Cuban officials during visits to the island.
Because the efforts of U.S. officials so far have failed, family and friends now are taking Mr. Gross' case to the public.
On the eve of the second anniversary of his arrest, Mrs. Gross, his wife of 41 years, is giving interviews. Washington-area Jewish leaders have launched a weekly vigil outside the Cuban mission. Rep. Chris Van Hollen and Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin are circulating letters in Congress.
Observers have speculated Mr. Gross is being used as a bargaining chip by Cuba, which wants the United States to release a handful of jailed Cuban operatives.
That may be, but Alan Gross is not the only prisoner of conscience rotting away in a Cuban cell. Many Cuban natives have been locked away for years or decades for making political statements no more radical than those that are coin of the realm on the typical American talk radio show.
Meantime, let's not lose sight of the ball: "Normalizing" relations with such repressive regimes should have the goal of restoring the liberties of their citizens and visitors alike. Under no circumstances should such slave states be granted the benefit of commerce and restored esteem from the free world, while still operating political gulags for people who commit such "crimes" as freely accessing the Internet.


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Police say 22 people died and scores were injured when a man is believed to have detonated an explosive device at the Manchester Arena at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.
Political campaigning across the area has been suspended, leading to the cancellation of hustings events, while flags outside civic buildings are flying at half-mast.
Arun District Council leader Gill Brown said: "The terrorist attack in Manchester last night is deplorable.
"On behalf of residents and councillors of Arun district we would like to extend our deepest sympathy to all those affected by this atrocity, in particular the loved ones of those that have died. We urge people to come together and stand united against an act that was intended to terrorize and destroy."
Labour's parliamentary candidate Alan Butcher said 'thoughts are with families and friends of those who have died and been injured'.
He added: "We would like to pay tribute to the emergency services for their bravery and professionalism in dealing with last night's appalling events.
"We also send our best wishes to the people of Manchester: they have been through this before, and we know their magnificent community spirit and resilience will be a source of strength for all those directly affected. We stand shoulder to shoulder with Manchester, and Mancunians wherever they may be today."
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Having just completed my first semester of Standards Based Grading (SBG), I have been doing a great deal of reflecting about what worked and didn't work and also just thinking about the whole process of grading in general. I have come up with more questions than answers. But that is how we learn, right? So I am going to write down my questions and my reflections and invite feedback from my wonderful colleagues out there in the MBToS. After a brain wave I got while lying in bed this morning (I love sleeping in!) I decided to frame my thoughts using the traditional Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How questions.
Who is most responsible for the grade that is earned, the student or the teacher? (You may be surprised. Or not.)
What criteria should be used to determine the student's grade? (A big debate is always raging about this one.)
When should grades be given? (Another very interesting question.)
Where does grading take place? (For me, preferably in my comfy chair at home with a cup of hot tea and maybe a familiar movie playing in the background to keep me awake. Smile. . . . Actually, there may be more to this question. Stay tuned.)
Why do we give students grades? (O0-00, this should be a good one.)
How do I implement what I consider to be best practices in grading? (Ay, there's the rub.)
This post (and hopefully I will have time to go through all of these) will concentrate on Who. Who is responsible for the grade that is earned?
All teachers with any sense realize that both the student and the teacher contribute to the grade, but we like to think, especially as math teachers, that our grading system is a reasonably objective reflection of what students actually know–their mastery of the standards of our class. Ideally, if a student is willing to put in the time and effort, he should be able to master the standards and earn a good grade. I switched to SBG this year in part because my previous system of grading was flawed in this area and I wanted something better. However, who sets the standards? The teacher (OK, the state and the district and the school, too, but certainly not the student). Who is responsible for creating or procuring lessons, resources, and practice activities to help students master the standards? The teacher. Who decides how to measure the mastery of those standards? The teacher. What I choose to measure and how and when I choose to measure it, along with how well I teach, has a huge effect on student grades.
And how objective am I in my assessments? I have trouble being totally consistent from student to student on a single quiz, so how consistent am I from unit to unit or from year to year? I know that I cover fewer topics and different topics than I did 10 years ago or even 5 years ago and I wonder if I am grading more strictly or more leniently from year to year. Does an A in my class vary from year to year? Do I sometimes give the benefit of the doubt to my good students but not to my poor students when deciding between two grades? I will not answer those questions because I know the answer. Guilty as charged.
We all know those extremists in the teaching profession:
- The teachers who never give A's and who delight in failing everybody, nobly clinging to their "high standards" while their colleagues "slide down the slippery slopes of academic mediocrity". Any failure on the student's part is solely blamed on the student, of course.
- The teachers who ensure the "success" of their students by giving generous test curves and copious amounts of extra credit, giving high grades for learning almost nothing. (There are various reasons for this behavior: Feeling sorry for the students, lack of time or effort to fix the real problem, compensating or covering up for inept teaching or grading practices, and/or bowing to administrative or parental pressure to bring up grades are the ones that occur to me.)
Although I am not either of these, I have sometimes leaned one way and sometimes the other in my grading mentality, even compensating for one by doing the other. (Am I the only one? I think not.)
The point I am trying to make in all of this rambling reflection is that not matter how hard we try to be objective, assigning grades is very subjective. I wish–oh, do I wish–that I could just teach without giving grades. (Am I the only one? I think not.)
What brought on all of this agonizing self-reflection, you ask? My final exam. After a semester of SBG quizzes with multiple chances to retake, I gave a cumulative, mostly multiple-choice final exam with no retake, worth 20% of the semester grade. My reasons for giving a one shot cumulative final: College-bound juniors and seniors need to learn how to take these types of tests, students review and relearn material they would otherwise completely forget while studying for the final, part of mastery is retaining material and being able to recall more than a few isolated skills at a time. I stand by these reasons for giving the test. I even had several students finally figure out some concepts for the first time while reviewing for the final. My reason for the 20%? I wanted it to affect their grade. An A student who couldn't get at least a B- on the final was not an A student in my mind. Yet 20% allowed a student to get even a low F without lowering their grade more than one letter grade, so it wouldn't destroy all of their hard work over the semester. I have always had a wide spread of grades on the final, from perfect scores all the way down to the 30% range. But I didn't expect the grades I got this year. After a semester of SBG, with multiple retakes, I anticipated a higher level of mastery than previous years. Instead, I got 6 A's, 19 B's, 3 C's, 4 D's, and 22 F's. I believe that my test and my grading of it was comparable to previous years. I have always had more low grades on the final than on other tests, but the number of F's and the huge gap between the A's and B's (about half my students) and the C's , D's, and F's was more pronounced. I know that some of the F's were due lack of study and effort. I also anticipated F's from some students who had struggled all year long. But it doesn't seem that allowing multiple retakes on concepts all year really helped my lower students retain concepts any better than they did before SBG. However, the almost total absence of C's indicates that my average students did seem to benefit and achieve higher mastery then previously (I think).
I know that grading policies are only part of teaching, but how did my grading policies affect student learning? I'm not sure. I was definitely hoping for better results. Everybody ended up passing the class (without any tweaking on my part) and I only had a few D's, but 14 of my 54 students had lower grades (1/2 to 1 letter grade lower) as a result of failing the exam. It seems a fair assessment of their mastery (retaining concepts), but perhaps is also an indictment of my teaching and grading methods. I'd love to know what you think.


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Viewing and Editing Project Properties
Running Projects in the Emulator
Searching the WURFL Device Database
Finding Files in the Multiple User Environment
CLDC Emulation on a Windows Mobile Device
Installing CLDC Emulation on a Windows Mobile Emulator (Windows Only)
JSR 82: Bluetooth and OBEX Support
JSR 135: Mobile Media API Support
JSR 177: Smart Card Security (SATSA)
Content for Mobile 3D Graphics
JSR 205: Wireless Messaging API (WMA) Support
JSR 211: Content Handler API (CHAPI)
JSR 226: Scalable 2D Vector Graphics
JSR 238: Mobile Internationalization API (MIA)
JSR 256: Mobile Sensor API Support
Applications are free to use whichever approach is most appropriate or to use a combination of the retained mode and immediate mode APIs.
JSR 184 provides a standard API for CLDC/MIDP devices, enabling a new generation of 3D applications. The immediate mode API, in turn, is compatible with OpenGL ES, a standard lightweight API for 3D graphics. See http://khronos.org/ for more information on OpenGL ES.
Immediate mode is appropriate for applications that generate 3D graphics content algorithmically, such as scientific visualizations or statistical graphs. The application creates 3D objects and manipulates them directly.
For an example of immediate mode, see the Life3D MIDlet in the Demo3D example application.
Most applications, particularly games, use the retained mode or scene graph API. In this approach, a graphic designer or artist uses 3D modeling software to create a scene graph. The scene graph is saved in the JSR 184 file format. The scene graph file is bundled with the application. At runtime, the application uses the scene graph API to load and display the file.
Applications can manipulate parts of a loaded scene graph to animate characters or create other effects. The basic strategy is to do as much work as possible in the modeling software. At runtime, the application can grab and manipulate parts of the scene graph, which can also include paths for animation or other effects.
For an example of retained mode, see the retainedmode MIDlet in the Demo3D example application.


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Hotly contested UK wildlife award for CLC resort in Cornwall
Club La Costa World's Trenython Manor resort is on course for gold, silver or bronze when the first 'Wildlife Friendly' awards are decided at the 2012 Cornwall Tourism Awards.
This fiercely contested category, introduced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cornwall Wildlife Trust, had the highest number of entries for this year's awards. Resort manager Nick Waddington, who takes a strong personal as well as business interest in all green issues and wildlife related activities, is absolutely delighted to be one of three finalists.
A distinguished and historic country house hotel, Trenython Manor has 24 acres of parkland. Among green initiatives introduced to conserve and promote native flora and fauna are the installation of bird and bat boxes, bee logs and a butterfly garden. Recently the Blue Butterfly seal for a positive attitude towards sustainability was added to the resort's blossoming awards shelf.
The aim of 'Wildlife Friendly' is to highlight how important the natural environment is to Cornwall and to the county's tourism. To select winners, the judging panel looks at all elements of a business to be excellent with some outstanding. Finalists will feature in the next VisitCornwall guide and go forward to the South West and potentially the VisitEngland awards.
Waddington will be at the awards gala dinner, hosted by TV naturalist Nick Baker on November 8th, to receive the Wildlife Friendly honour for the resort.
He says: "It's great news for us and these awards highlight the importance for businesses to involve in sustainability and taking care of the privileged environment in which we are fortunate enough to operate. That way the wildlife we enjoy today can also be enjoyed by future generations and be a continuing part of the wonderful holiday appeal of Cornwall."
For more about Trenython Manor's green commitments visit
http://www.clcleisure.com/trenython/green-commitments where you can also download the resort's wildlife brochure.


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By Alisa Fleming, www.GoDairyFree.org – This is my first Jo Stepaniak book … I know, perish the thought! It is true, I have not yet laid eyes on the Uncheese Cookbook, Vegan Vittles, or any of her other popular cookbooks. Though I must admit, after this small taste of Jo's talents in the Food Allergy Survival Guide, I may have to get my hands on some more of her recipes.
The layout and title of this book gives the strong impression of a guidebook, yet quite a cast of recipes lies within. In fact, the latter half of the book is all cookbook, with over 100 recipes. I was elated to find that the recipes were not specifically labeled for which allergen they were "free-from." Why? Quite simply, each recipe was free of dairy, eggs, fish, gluten, peanuts, shellfish, soy, tree nuts, wheat, and yeast. How refreshing to find a book that actually lives up to its title, or subtitle as the case may be. It was so nice to not have to sort through which recipes were "safe" and which weren't, the whole book was a go!
As for the first half of the cookbook, it seems to be a culmination of food allergy knowledge from among the three well known authors, Vesanto Melina (MS, RD), Dina Aronson (MS, RD), and Jo Stepaniak (MSEd). I have read and perused more than a few food allergy books, and this is certainly one of the best. The authors touch on the required material, such as explaining food allergies / sensitivities and food allergy testing, but they then move on to cover new ground that is seldom discussed in the surface world of food allergies. The following are just a few of the chapters that captured my attention:
- Ch. 2: Creating and Maintaining a Healthy Intestinal Boundary
- Ch. 7: Living with Food Sensitivities: Feelings, Safety, and Exercise
- Ch. 8: Nutrition Planning for Adults and Children
Obviously there are chapters before, in between, and following these, which cover other important topics in detail, but these seemed to possess quite a bit of unique material. Honestly, it would take me hours to touch upon the many resources and kernels of information organized within this dense book. From peanut allergies to Celiac disease … I can say that the authors have ensured that the contents live up to the title.
I only have one request for their next edition. Though the book reads fairly well, some sections do get bogged down in biology and other details. I agree that this is essential information, but some may find certain sections irrelevant to their own needs and interests, and a bit cumbersome to scan through. In this respect, it would be great if they included sub-chapters in the beginning of the book or each chapter, so that you could easily jump to topics of most interest and use this guide for a fast reference resource. Each chapter is truly dense with information, and per standard, the index is a bit too muddled with keywords to serve as a quick and easy guide.
Back again to the latter half of the book, the fun part in my opinion, I had to give a few of the recipes a trial before completing this review. Thus far, I have prepared the Chickpea Pizza, a Mediterranean style flat bread, the Beannaise, a soy-free, dairy-free mayonnaise alternative, and the Hot Fudge Sauce (pretty self explanatory don't you think).
The Chickpea Pizza was tasty, and an easy to prepare lunch at that. Though it was more like a pancake than a pizza or bread, it was full of flavor and it did have a somewhat cheesy taste.
The Beannaise was also a piece of cake (not literally obviously), and it kept quite well in the refrigerator. I used a bit less oil than called for in their recipe, as the condiment was getting a bit too thin. It worked excellent though. Over the next week I spread each of our sandwiches with a generous slathering of Beannaise to both my husband and my delight. When tasted straight, the Beannaise did have a slight texture of pureed bean, but as a spread it went unnoticed.
I had some trouble getting the Hot Fudge Sauce to thicken, but it tasted awesome, so I will be giving that recipe another try. After I master the fudge sauce, the Wheat-Free (and gluten-free) Mini Pancakes and the Tunisian New Potato Salad are next on my food allergen-free menu. I have been very pleased with the ease of the recipes (as if the whole food-allergy slant weren't enough), spending less than 30 minutes on each, even when preparing them for the first time! Not to mention, aside from an inexpensive bag of chickpea flour (easier to find than I thought), I haven't had to purchase any out of the ordinary ingredients. It should be noted that all of the recipes are also vegetarian / vegan.
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Written by Chris Pendleton
Trailing 14-0 with the ball on their own 19 yard-line and 9:23 remaining in the third period, the Knights showed tremendous resolve stringing together their longest scoring drive of the season and completely changing the game's momentum in the process. Southern Virginia traveled 81 yards on 15 plays over the next 7:27 capped by a 5-yard touchdown run from Jamal Coates (Conover, N.C.)—the sophomore's first score of the season. From that point on, Southern Virginia outscored Apprentice 20-0 on route to the comeback win.
After Southern Virginia's offense put together its longest scoring drive of the season during Friday's third quarter, the Knights' defense came through with a huge blocked punt on the Shipbuilders ensuing possession. Freshman linebacker Oran Kobobel (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) shot through the Shipbuilder's line and blocked the first punt of his career, which Southern Virginia recovered on the Apprentice 10-yard line. Two-plays later, junior quarterback Mitch Stevenson (Muskogee, Okla.) found Frank Taitano (Washington, D.C.) in the end zone for a 10-yard touchdown strike evening the score at 14-14 only four seconds into the fourth quarter. Prior to Kobobel's block, Southern Virginia had already blocked seven kicks on the season setting a new single-season program record.
The Knights had a 50 percent fourth-down conversion rate (2-for-4) against Apprentice—Southern Virginia's highest fourth-down efficiency rating of the season—with both conversions coming during their game-changing third-quarter drive. Meanwhile, Southern Virginia's defense stopped the Shipbuilders on fourth down twice in the final seven minutes of play as Apprentice went 1-for-3 on fourth-down attempts for the afternoon.
In addition to its key fourth-down stops during Friday's final period, Southern Virginia's defense allowed a season-low 181 yards of total offense against Apprentice, while holding the Shipbuilders to only one offensive touchdown—also a season-low for the Knights.
Robert Robbins (Glendale, Ariz.) earned USCAA Defensive Player of the Week honors for his performance against Apprentice as the sophomore linebacker finished with 12 total tackles—6 solo and 6 assists—including 1.5 tackles for loss. Junior linebacker Dakoda Winsor (Richland, Wash.) also finished with 12 total tackles against the Shipbuilders—2 solo and 10 assists.
Stevenson had another solid outing for the Knights at the quarterback position completing 15 of his 28 attempts for 139 passing yards to go along with a touchdown and an interception. Stevenson's favorite targets against Apprentice were senior receivers Dewayne Beamon (Eastern Wayne, N.C.) and Cameron Williams (Sacramento, N.C.), who caught 5 passes apiece for 48 and 41 yards respectively. Taitano was Southern Virginia's leading rusher with 42 yards on 17 attempts, while Tod Workman (Springerville, Ariz.) had 34 yards on only two carries, including a 25-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter that proved to be the game-winning score for the Knights.
Steven Andreasen (Bruley, Idaho) played a key role in Friday's field position game fielding all three punts sent his way while tallying 26 total return yards on Salem Stadium's bouncy field turf. Taitano also had a solid day return day for the Knights bringing back three kickoffs for 77 yards.
Head Coach DeLane Fitzgerald
General thoughts:
"We came out of the locker room slow to start the game, something we've done all year that we're trying to correct this week—getting off to a faster start offensively. Our defense played extremely well and kept us in the game and our offense did enough in the second half to get us the win."
On second-half adjustments:
"The difference in Friday's game was that our coaching staff got together at halftime and made adjustments. We knew what was working and what wasn't working and we fixed the things that weren't working and emphasized what was working. Then at the end of halftime, our leaders got together and decided we were going to win the football game."
Quarterback Mitch Stevenson
On second-half comeback:
"We knew we had a lot of time left, so we put everything behind us and got ourselves going. We know we can score a lot of points quickly and that's what we did by taking advantage of the momentum created by our special teams. Our long drive in the third quarter really sparked us as well. That was our best drive of the year, by far."
On his individual performance:
"A lot of credit to our offensive line. The offensive line played great and our receivers made a lot of plays for me."
Linebacker Robert Robbins
General thoughts:
"The difference this week was that everyone on defense was playing their assignments. When we stick with our assignments we always do well as a defensive unit. Our coaches emphasized that this week and we all read our keys like we were supposed to. That's what separates good linebackers from great ones."
On beating Apprentice:
"It was a really good feeling to beat Apprentice. We've struggled against Apprentice in the past and I feel like Friday's win could be a key turning point in our season and program as a whole."
On returning from his mission and playing for the Knights:
"It's been wonderful. The atmosphere, the players, the coaches...it's been one of the greatest experiences that I could hope for and it's something I'm grateful for every day."
Linebacker Oran Kobobel
On his first career blocked punt:
"We've had success blocking kicks all season and the coaches kept motivating me to get in there and block one. Finally I saw an opportunity—they had a new formation and I had a new guy blocking me. I figured I could shoot the gap and get the block. As soon as I broke free, I knew it was going down."
Running back Tod Workman
On his 25-yard game-winning touchdown run:
"We'll honestly, I didn't have to do much. I just had to run. It was the five guys in front of me that got the job done. There was a huge hole and I just ran through it and kept running."
Punt Returner Steven Andreasen
On his punt-return mentality:
"My mentality comes from what Coach Hiatt tells me every time I go to field a punt, "Be aggressive." I try to see the ball come off the punter's foot and read it like a centerfielder would in baseball and I try to catch everything I can without letting the ball touch the ground."
On special team successes this season:
"Some people don't realize that special teams are one-third of a football game. We know that if we win two of the three phases of a game, then we'll probably get a victory. So we take special teams very seriously and our coaches emphasize special teams play every day so we can have an extra advantage on the field. We always want to control the field-position battle."


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Okay, those alpha releases were somewhat tricky to get going and were so buggy that they were probably not worth it. However, now that Mozilla Firefox 4 has reached the pre-beta stages of its development, things start to look a whole lot better.
If you are eager to have a taste of the latest reincarnation of the world's second most popular browser, all you need to do is follow the link and find the appropriate installer for you system. The Minefield logo is still there so DO expect a few glitches here and there but having played with it for a few hours I didn't see anything bad enough to ruin the whole experience.
Anyone brave enough to take it out for a spin, please share your experience in the comment section below.


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Pro Squash is a Battle of Wills
Published: 06 Apr 2011 - 11:03 by raystrach
Updated: 06 Apr 2011 - 11:03
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I have taken great delight in watching some of the great matches of the pro Squash tour, not the least of whcih is the constant mental battle which is going on in every match.
Perhaps it is because my game is at a complete low point in so far as my mental strength is currently virtually non existant when it comes to playing tough opponents. It is interesting, to say the least, watching the mental battles play out over the course of a match and a tournament.
An interesting case in point is the progress of Peter Barker in the recent Canary Wharf Classic.
Peter has been a steady performer over the past couple of years, firmly ensconced in the top ten and capable of providing stiff opposition to evey player.
However, it has to be said that in recent times, he has found it difficult to actually beat players ranked above him, especially in the top 5.
During this event he beat fellow countryman James Wilstrop for the very first time ever (including many matches as juniors) and you could see his confidence both as he finished that match and when he started the match against Nick Matthew in the final.
If you happened to start watching the final and you did not know who was who, it would have been Barker who you would have picked out as being the world number 1.
He was dominating proceedings, making few errors and generally playing a much stronger game. You certainly could not have described his skill level as being lower than Matthew's.
However, it takes more than a swallow to make a summer, and Nick Matthew showed exactly why he is ranked at 1.
He shrugged off the disappointment of being outplayed in the first, and set about turning the tables completely from the start of the second.
Although it was pretty easy to see the results of this turnaround, it is harder to pinpoint exactly how or why this occurred. As much as Barker dominated the first, Matthew was even more dominant in the remaining games.
Barker did not reduce his effort, but as the match porgressed it was evident that Matthew really believed that he was going to win, or more accurately, there was virtually nothing that Barker could do to hurt him.
This was never more evident than in the fourth game where each players mood was in contrast to the other. Matthew was totally confident and playing with complete freedom - he knew he could counter anything that Barker threw at him.
By contrast, Barker felt that whatever he did, he was playing a wall - every shot came back; he was contantly under pressure. Although he fought it out to the very end, never reducing the level of competitiveness, none of this seemed to affect Nick Matthew.
He seemed impervious to pressure.
The mental strength shown by Matthew is a common trait in players from all sports who are number one in their field.
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By: Jon Krois
18th November 2011
Space tourism is an industry of today, not just tomorrow. This industry is set to take off in the coming years and decades as dozens of companies and thousands of people race to experience space for themselves. The world continues to step into space even as the rise of a commercial space industry threatens our own planet's climate. In a study released in October 2010, climate scientists concluded that as few as 1,000 rocket launches per year would cause worldwide climate change.[1] This revelation presents both a problem and an opportunity. The threat is significant, and Part I of this Field Report will explain the new research and its implications. Part II will survey the current legal terrain applicable to the environmental impacts of space tourism, including space law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Clean Air Act (CAA). It concludes that while NEPA and the CAA partially address the licensing of commercial spaceflights by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), neither space law nor current environmental law respond sufficiently to the environmental threat posed by this industry. This leaves the United States with the opportunity to problem-solve at an industry's birth, before damage is done. Part III will attempt a modest start at that opportunity by proposing potential solutions.
I. The Problem: Black Carbon and Ozone Depletion
A large increase in the number of rocket launches per year would greatly alter temperatures at both the tropics and at the poles, causing significant sea ice loss. This is the conclusion drawn by a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, the first study of the effects of mass rocket usage on global temperatures.[2] The atmosphere is sensitive to rocket emissions generally, and is particularly sensitive to black carbon emitted by the industry's hybrid rockets, as black carbon can remain trapped in the stratosphere for years.[3] The researchers predict that 1,000 rocket launches per year would reduce ozone by 1.7% in tropical areas while increasing it five to seven percent in the polar regions. This would lower tropical temperatures by 0.4 °C and raise polar temperatures by as much as 1 °C, reducing polar sea ice by five to fifteen percent in thirty years.[4] A suborbital rocket fleet launched 1,000 times per year would influence global climate about as much as the entire world's fleet of subsonic aircraft, leading the researchers to conclude that "rocket emissions on this scale clearly cross a threshold to be considered a human-influenced climate impact of global importance."[5]
The "thousand rockets problem" is not a fanciful estimate. Ross, et al., drew the number from their examination of detailed plans for space tourism and science flights using suborbital hybrid rockets.[6] Indeed, evidence from the industry supports the probability of a coming explosion in space tourism and commercial space activity generally. As early as 1998, Space Adventures, Ltd., was booking spaceflights for private citizens; today it is doing the same with potential private expeditions to the moon. The world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito, joined a Russian Soyuz craft in 2001; by 2004, SpaceShipOne-the world's first privately funded and operated space launch vehicle-flew successfully. Today, the European Aeronautic and Defense Company is designing an orbiting hotel, while Virgin Galactic has signed up over 300 people for SpaceShipTwo to begin flights in 2013.[7] The industry estimates that 13,000 people will have been space tourists by 2021, generating nearly $700 million in revenue.[8]
These years mark the birth of space tourism, and the industry will only continue to grow. It is possible that 1,000 rocket launches per year is a conservative estimate; XCOR Aerospace plans to offer four flights a day.[9] If it is successful, one company alone will launch 1,460 annual rocket flights. The climate warning of Ross, et al., may be conservative.
II. The Field: Current Law and its Insufficiency
Neither space law nor current environmental law is sufficient to address the environmental problems presented by this growing industry. Current space law is a patchwork of international treaties,[10] federal law,[11] and state laws.[12] Very broadly, the international agreements demonstrate that even during the Cold War, the focus of space law has been on assigning responsibility and mitigating harm. The Outer Space Treaty, for example, makes each state party internationally liable for damages caused by objects launched.[13] However, none of these regimes directly address environmental issues posed by space activity. "Traditional" space law is basically silent on climate change.
Federal environmental law, on the other hand, is not entirely silent on commercial spaceflight and space tourism. The Department of Transportation's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST)[14] is responsible for regulating private sector launches and licensing private spacecraft.[15] It is responsible for complying with NEPA per FAA internal regulations, which consider AST's exercise of authority a "major Federal action subject to NEPA requirements."[16] According to AST, NEPA encourages it to "integrate environmental values into its decision-making process." It "considers the environmental impacts of proposed actions and reasonable alternatives . . . [taking] actions that protect, restore, and enhance the environment."[17] In practice, this means that AST prepares Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs).[18]
The EISs prepared by AST do consider air pollution and climate change concerns, but those concerns appear to have had little effect on AST's licensing decisions. For example, in 2005, AST prepared an EIS for the licensing of horizontal launch vehicles and reentry vehicles, as well as necessary support facilities.[19] In the EIS, AST was obligated, among other things, to consider the effect of these vehicles on air pollution and global warming. The EIS admitted that the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) air quality standards for PM, CO, CO2, SO2, and Pb could theoretically require conformity analysis for vehicles launching or reentering over a nonattainment area. However, even assuming that all the proposed launches and reentries were in the same region, the EIS concluded that the emissions would still be "far below" the de minimis levels specified and therefore exempt.[20] The EIS also admitted that these vehicles emit greenhouse gases-including CO, CO2, NOX, and H2O-but concluded that this was of little concern because in comparison to emissions by all American sources, these emissions would have "a negligible impact on global warming."[21] Finally, the report addressed ozone depletion from launch emissions, which it claimed was "a temporary and limited phenomenon."[22]
Another AST EIS released in 2009 demonstrated the same pattern. AST filed an EIS for the issuance of experimental permits for the launch of reusable suborbital rockets.[23] In it, AST was again obligated to examine air quality, climate change, and ozone depletion. The EIS found that the activity would "likely have a cumulative impact on climate change."[24] Alhough the EIS noted that these vehicles would emit "ozone-depleting substances and greenhouse gasses," it stated that these emissions would be negligible compared to emissions worldwide.[25] AST concluded that these issues were, in the parlance of EISs, "Unavoidable Adverse Impact[s]."[26] The underlying project was approved as the environmentally preferred alternative.[27]
In both cases, NEPA functioned as designed-the agency examined the evidence and considered the environmental risks posed. However, NEPA did little to motivate AST to actively address the threat to the world's climate posed by private space tourism. AST has asserted, correctly, that the launches it is considering licensing are a minute fraction of the nation's and world's climate problems. This approach squanders the opportunity to comprehensively address a likely problem, at least until that problem is comparable in scope to other climate problems. At this stage, AST has classified many climate change issues as "Unavoidable Adverse Impact[s]," and its suggestions for mitigating the potential damage are lackluster.[28] As an information-forcing regime NEPA requirements have their uses, but as a potential solution to the environmental threat posed by space tourism, they have not encouraged sufficient proactivity.
The CAA's method for accounting for dangerous gases similarly makes the law unsuitable to tackle the threat of worldwide climate change caused by space tourism. According to AST's interpretation, EPA's air quality guidelines only apply to space tourism launches and reentries in nonattainment regions, and there is no reason to assume the activity in those areas would meet the de minimis levels EPA specifies before it regulates.[29] As with NEPA, proactivity is a concern. However, the air quality guidelines are also insufficient to curb threatened worldwide climate change from space tourism because climate change is not a regional issue but a global one. The areas that need protection, according to Ross, et al., are the stratosphere, the tropics, and the polar regions.[30] The CAA's goal of reducing emissions in domestic nonattainment areas is simply too narrow.
Neither are the mobile source protections in the CAA currently sufficient to tackle the threat presented. Title II, Part B of the Act provides for the regulation of aircraft emissions standards.[31] Congress defined "aircraft" as "any contrivance invented, used, or designed to navigate, or fly in, the air," and the EPA Administrator is empowered to regulate emissions of aircraft, which it does.[32] However, this section of the CAA has not been interpreted to permit the regulation of rocket emissions, and the Administrator does not do so.[33]
Current space and environmental law only tangentially relate to the problem of climate change caused by space tourism. What environmental laws are applicable, including NEPA and EPA's air quality guidelines, are neither proactive enough to get out in front of this new threat, nor broad enough in scope to handle the threat if and when it arrives. New solutions are needed to handle space tourism and commercial space flight.
III. The Future: Potential Solutions
One solution would be to draft a new international treaty on space exploitation in the post-Cold War world that includes provisions for addressing climate change from private space-bound craft. International space law remains "anchored down by Cold War philosophies."[34] It makes states responsible for all space-bound activity within their borders and provides for relief of injuries caused by others in space exploration,[35] but it lacks a comprehensive plan to commercially exploit space or to address the externalities involved in exploitation. Given the growing potential-if not national necessity[36]-of private spaceflight, a new international space treaty could be in order. Such a treaty could promote the development of cleaner, more environmentally-friendly private spacecraft, could set up an international cap-and-trade permitting program for private space launches, or could even establish a body to recommend emissions standards for private launch vehicles. However, this would not be an easy path as the international community often has difficulty reaching consensus on environmental regulation.
Many of these solutions could also be enacted through federal law by creating a comprehensive regulatory scheme for commercial space launch emissions regulation. In fact, Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty may potentially obligate the federal government to step in.[37] Considering that significant elements of United States space law are already the de facto standard for other nations,[38] these actions could still have the desired worldwide effect. A desirable national solution should also include close consultation with the private spaceflight entities themselves. However, unlike an international solution, a national regime presents the danger of impeding or snuffing out the nascent industry by making it unable to compete with private spaceflight companies from other nations. Although potentially easier to enact than a new international regime, a national solution that has the potential to damage American competitiveness in this new field is a weakness.
A third solution would be to unify air and space law into one, overarching, aerospace law, and place space tourism under the jurisdiction of EPA and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). ICAO has long been an international forum capable of providing technical management, and has the potential to create traffic safety, security, and environmental rules for launch vehicles.[39] Similarly, EPA already monitors and regulates aircraft emissions.[40] Air law and space law share common values: the recognized desire to develop these arenas for the benefit of all humanity, as well as a belief in state equality and sovereignty.[41] Adding space tourism to ICAO's aegis would most likely help. ICAO is already engaged in studying and promoting ways to reduce aircraft emissions.[42] In fighting climate change, ICAO has agreed to a global two percent annual improvement in fuel efficiency until 2050, and to work towards carbon-neutral growth.[43] This technical focus and long-term vision could help address and mitigate climate change caused by space tourism in a proactive, effective way.
Finally, there are long-term potential technological solutions to rocket emissions, which should not be dismissed out-of-hand. Although still science-fiction today, space elevators[44] and mass drivers[45] have the potential to minimize or even eliminate rocket emissions while maintaining the ability to deliver things into orbit. Any proper solution to the threat of climate change from space launches should promote the development of technology that can ease the need for rocket launches generally.
IV. Conclusion
Space tourism is coming in force, and bringing with it the specter of hastening climate change. The most recent research suggests that even a conservative estimate of the number of rocket launches possible in the coming years and decades will drastically affect the earth's climate. Current space law is silent on climate change, and current United States environmental law centered on the FAA AST's licensing of private launch vehicles is insufficient to address the problem in a serious, proactive way. However, there are solutions, including new federal law, a new space treaty, or folding space tourism into the jurisdiction of ICAO. Although the United States should promote the nascent industry, an awareness of the ecological danger the industry poses presents the United States with the opportunity to find the right balance between our planet and our space-bound future. The United States should seize that opportunity.
* Jon Krois is a student at Columbia Law School.
[1].Adam Mann, Space Tourism to Accelerate Climate Change, Nature News (Oct. 22, 2010), http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101022/full/news.2010.558.html.
[2].Martin Ross, Michael Mills, & Darin Toohey, Potential Climate Impact of Black Carbon Emitted by Rockets 1 (2010) available at http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/files/tourisme-spatial-et-climat.pdf.
[3].Id. at 1-2. A "hybrid rocket" is a jet propulsion system consisting of one solid propellant and one liquid propellant. Hybrid rockets are considered cheaper and safer than the alternatives. See, e.g., Hybrid Rocket Propulsion Overview, Space Propulsion Group, Inc., http://www.spg-corp.com/space-propulsion-group-resources.html (last visited Nov. 11, 2011). "Black carbon" is a climate change agent consisting of "soot, charcoal and/or possible light-absorbing refractory organic material." Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis 942 (S. Solomon et al. eds., 2007) available at http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-annexes.pdf.
[5].Ross, Mills, & Toohey, supra note 2, at 9.
[7].Thomas Brannen, Private Commercial Space Transportation's Dependence on Space Tourism and NASA's Responsibility to Both, 75 J. Air L. & Com. 639, 653 (2010); Timothy M. Ravich, 2010: Space Law in the Sunshine State, Fla. B.J., Oct. 2010, at 24, 29-30; Andy Pasztor, Virgin Galactic's Flights Seen Delayed Yet Again, Wall St. J. (Oct. 26, 2011), http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204777904576653690338241146.html.
[8].Futron Corp., Suborbital Space Tourism Demand Revisited 4 (2006), available at http://www.futron.com/upload/wysiwyg/Resources/Whitepapers/Suborbital_Space_Tourism_Revisited_0806.pdf.
[9].Brannen, supra note 7, at 655.
[10].Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, Jan. 14, 1975, 28 U.S.T. 695, 1023 U.N.T.S. 15; Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects, Mar. 29, 1972, 24 U.S.T. 2389, 961 U.N.T.S. 187; Rescue Agreement, Apr. 26, 1968, 19 U.S.T. 7570, 672 U.N.T.S. 119 (providing for the mutual rescue of stranded astronauts); Outer Space Treaty, Jan. 27, 1967, 18 U.S.T. 2410, 610 U.N.T.S. 205.
[11].Commercial Space Launch Amendments, Pub. L. No. 108-492, 118 Stat. 3974 (2004) (expressly promoting the commercial human space flight industry); Commercial Space Launch Act, Pub. L. No. 98-575, 98 Stat. 3055 (1984) (allowing the development and launching of commercial launch vehicles and vesting permitting authority with the Secretary of Transportation); National Aeronautics and Space Act, Pub. L. No. 85-568, 72 Stat. 426 (1958) (creating NASA and dedicating the United States' space endeavors to peaceful purposes in "benefit of mankind").
[12].See, e.g., Space Florida Act, Fla. Stat. §§ 331.301-331.370 (2010) (creating a spaceport, "Space Florida," and ordering it to work towards the growth of aerospace); Florida Informed Consent for Spaceflight Act, Fla. Stat. § 331.501 (2010) (shielding private space tourism entities from liability to their passengers). See also Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, One Half Century and Counting: The Evolution of U.S. National Space Law and Three Long-Term Emerging Issues, 4 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 405, 421 (2010).
[13].Outer Space Treaty, supra note 10, at art. VII.
[14].AST is an abbreviation of Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation.
[15].Office of Commercial Space Transportation, FAA, http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/ (last visited Oct. 7, 2011); Ravich, supra note 7, at 28.
[16].Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures § 214f, FAA, Order No. 1050.1E, (Mar. 20, 2006), available at http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/order/energy_orders/1050-1E.pdf.
[17].Environmental Program, FAA, Office of Commercial Space Transp., (May 24, 2011, 3:03 PM), http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/environmental/.
[18].See 42 U.S.C. § 4332(C) (2006).
[19].FAA, Office of Commercial Space Transp., Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Horizontal Launch and Reentry of Reentry Vehicles 2-1 (2005), available at http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/licenses_permits/media/Final_FAA_PEIS_Dec_05.pdf.
[23].FAA, Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Streamlining the Processing of Experimental Permit Applications ES-1 (2009), available at http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/20090803_eppeis.pdf.
[27].See FAA, Record of Decision for Streamlining the Processing of Experimental Permit Applications 5 (2009), available at http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/20091015%20eppeisrod%20signed.pdf.
[28].FAA, supra note 23, at 5-1 (proposing no site-specific mitigation measures beyond continuing to monitor the situation).
[29].See FAA, supra note 19, at 4-8-10.
[32].49 U.S.C. § 40102(a)(6) (2006); 42 U.S.C. § 7571(a) (2006); Nonroad Engines, Equipment, and Vehicles: Aircraft, EPA (Feb. 7, 2011), http://epa.gov/otaq/aviation.htm.
[34].Ravich, supra note 7, at 26.
[35].Outer Space Treaty, supra note 10, at Art. VI, Art. VII.
[36].NASA, Summary Report of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee 7 (2009), available at http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/384767main_SUMMARY%20REPORT%20-%20FINAL.pdf (recommending NASA learn to "rely" on private launch vehicles, especially during the 7-year gap between the cancellation of the Shuttle program and the Constellation program's completion).
[37].See Gabrynowicz, supra note 12, at 421 (noting that Art VI makes the federal government responsible for continually supervising all nongovernmental U.S. space actors).
[39].Ruwantissa Abeyratne, ICAO's Involvement in Outer Space Affairs-A Need for Closer Scrutiny?, 30 J. Space L. 185, 186 (2004).
[41].Abeyratne, supra note 39, at 188-90.
[42].Environment Branch: Aircraft Engine Emissions, Int'l Civil Aviation Org., http://www.icao.int/icao/en/Env2010/Aee.htm (last visited Nov. 11, 2011)
[43].Environment Branch: Climate Change, Int'l Civil Aviation Org., http://www.icao.int/icao/en/Env2010/ClimateChange.htm (last visited Nov. 11, 2011).
[44].See, e.g., David Shiga, 'Space Elevator' wins $900,000 NASA prize, NewScientist Space (Nov. 6, 2009, 11:37 PM), http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18122-space-elevator-wins-900000-nasa-prize.html.
[45].See, e.g., David Shiga, Huge 'launch ring' to fling satellites into orbit, NewScientist Space (Oct. 3, 2006, 4:00 PM), http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10180.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Measure the length of the notepad and desk in millimeters and centimeters and their mass in kilograms and grams. Notice how the precision and accuracy differ for each measuring device.
Explore parallax which causes each of your eyes to produce slightly different images. Then imagine yourself an alien and try to predict which images each of your four eyes see.
Observe robins and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
Examine how elements of teaching for understanding are incorporated in a lesson. Enter your examples of how the element is used in the lesson, and then compare your answers to other teachers' answers.
Read the project description for students creating a children's storybook. Analyze the text based on five elements (describe task, achieve authenticity, establish criteria, clarify strategies, communicate rubric).
Read descriptions of two different classrooms. Identify which of the guidelines for creating a positive writing environment are best represented in each example and compare your answers to samples answers provided.
Area models offer a visual representation of mathematical operations. Here you will use area models to multiply and reduce fractions.
Use area models to find either the greatest common factor or the least common multiple of two numbers.
Measure your arm span and height. See how your measurements compare to others when your data is added to a data table and corresponding scatter plot.
Assess two drafts of students' letters using criteria presented as a four-point-scale rubric.
Use your intuition about balance to keep a scale balanced.
Create a line plot [with dots] to represent stacks of coins. Then rearrange the dots to form different line plots and watch what happens to the mean.
Track bald eagle migration. Report your sightings and observations to the bald eagle tracking map.
Use blocks to build a design from a written description. Try various descriptions to achieve the correct design. View non-Flash version.
Classify the different types of numbers we use, and learn how numbers and operations relate to one another. Start with counting numbers and then add integers, rationals, algebraic, and, finally, real numbers to the line.
Play an animation that incorporates most types of energy transfers and conversions into a chain reaction. Then rerun the animation and answer questions to test your understanding of how energy can travel and change.
Find out how many different combinations of four-legged chairs and three-legged stools you can have after covering each leg with one of 30 tennis balls to silence the chairs whenever they're moved.
Learn about the different types of characters in Cinderella, and determine which traits belong to the hero and villain.
Learn about climax and identify the event that signals the climax in the story Cinderella.
Manipulate dual shadows and learn why different types of shadows are cast.
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