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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- An appellate court says Okaloosa County has not abandoned its courthouse annex property in Shalimar by building a replacement in nearby Fort Walton Beach.
A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected arguments the land should revert to successors of a bank and business that donated it in 1973.
The decision affirmed a trial court ruling that the county can keep the land if it maintains at least a minimal judicial presence.
County officials plan to renovate the building for other governmental uses but sought the opinion because they were unsure if they had to include court facilities.
Now-U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who drafted the deed for the donors, testified there was no intent to dictate how big the judicial presence had to be.
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Maximizing Enrollment in New York
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While national health reform continues to be debated in Washington, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program is helping states continue to move forward in helping families fully utilize existing federal programs that provide health coverage to children and youth.
The set of reports released by the Maximizing Enrollment for Kids program, administered by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), describe and assess Medicaid and CHIP enrollment systems in eight grantee states (Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin) . The eight reports plus a summary synthesis provide a roadmap to increasing children's enrollment in these programs and others nationwide. The diagnostic assessments were conducted to provide a foundation for these states' work over the next three years to improve enrollment of eligible children.


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End of Term Concert - Saturday 7th July 2012 - With Added 'Fnugg'
On Saturday 7th July there will be a free concert at the Huntingdonshire Regional College starting at 19:30 given by some of the ensembles at the music school.
We also have a new feature - a spot for staff to strut their stuff. Taking the first spotlight is Robin Norman who teaches brass and directs the Senior Concert Band and the Senior Orchestra. Not being a wallflower - they don't tend to suit tubas - Robin is playing 'Fnug' which demonstrates some of the many sounds a tuba is capable of including harmonics and beat-boxing. There is more information on this piece on YouTube.
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- In the Hall of the Mountain King (Edvard Grieg arr. John Wasson)
- West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein arr. Michael Sweeney)
- A Tribute to Michael Jackson (arr. Michael Story)
Junior String Group
- My Heart Will Go On from Titanic
Junior and Senior strings groups
- Hickory Dickory Dock (Roger Stimson)
Senior String Group
- Palladio: movement one (Karl Jenkins)
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- Black and White Rag (Joplin)
- Promenade (Mussorsky
- Playing with Fire (Perrin
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- Satin Doll - Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Ellington/Strayhorn - arr. Jon Halton)
- Just The Way You Are - Cant Take My Eyes Off You (Joel/Crewe & Gaudio – arr. Jon Halton)
Teacher Guest Spot - Robin Norman Tuba solo
- Fnugg (Oystein Baadsvik)
Guitar Ensemble
Folk set
- Now is the Month of Maying. (Morley arr. Gavell)
- The Jolly Miller (Trad. – arr. Hasted)
- The Lass of Richmond Hill. (Trad. – arr. Hasted)
- What if a Day (arr Hasted)
- Greenholm Jig (Trad. arr. Cracknell)
- Rickerty Jig (Cracknell)
- Suite for Guitar - Prelude and Allemande (Biberian)
- Israelian Air (Van De Staak)
- Minuet and Trio (De call)
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Surprising changes in the political atmosphere were visible the past week when it was the opposition that was full of praise for President Jakaya Kikwete in relation to the modality of the constitutional review bill.
At the same time the doctors' strike was coming to an end with a marginal promise of increased pay and allowances, while setting out March 3 as a final date of reaching proper accord or satisfaction on those initiatives. Hardly any political group claimed dividends from the strike or its cessation, temporarily.
While at the beginning of the doctors' strike it appeared that the remaining confidence in the presidency was waning, at it continued it seemed the tables were being reversed, and those who sought to win capital from it reeled back. Not even the doctors themselves had as much spirit left in them, as they were being condemned left, right and centre by many religious leaders. Only a few devotees were on the demonstration frontline seeking to put the blame for not resolving the crisis on the government's door, less the public as such.
In that case the suspension from work of the two top civil executives, the permanent secretary and the chief medical officer at the ministry appeared to be sufficient for the doctors to return to work.
In strict terms that measure by the government, targeting top level officials with whom they clashed at the start of the interns' removal problem would not constitute a sufficient measure if the issue was their salary and allowance demands. It seemed to be more of a pretext to return to work, as they were feeling the strain already.
A slightly different scenario was being played out inside the chambers of Parliament when the government tabled a bill to amend in variousareas a recently passed act for the formation of a constitutional review commission. The irony was that the government bill was little short of a directive by the president to incorporate opposition proposals on the act into the new bill so that it is acceptable to a wider range of the population, something that earlier seemed to verge on the blasphemous. But isn't politics the art of the possible?
While the constitutional review bill was passing through the chambers of Parliament, another parliamentary act or initiative was stuck in mud in the Speaker's Office, namely the consensus to raise allowances of MPs (one type daily allowances) from 70,000/- to 300,000/-.
At some point it was clear that the total raise, having generated considerable resentment in society, had met with unfavorable State House reaction, despite apparent consensus between the Speaker and the Prime Minister on the matter. By the time the doctors' strike broke out, chances of a compromise at 200,000/- allowance also failed.
Despite that no claim was heard to that effect, the collapse of the MPs' allowances hike or its postponement 'sine die' seemed to have contributed to calming the spirits of the doctors, to accept some marginal start-up review of their emoluments.
For despite that there are salary inequalities between the civil services and executive agencies of the government, where the doctors wanted to be paid on the latter framework and not the former as is presently the case, their real anger was at MPs. If they change their incomes to compare with parliamentarians in Kenya or elsewhere, doctors should also be so paid.
In that case the government as well as MPs needs to learn one lesson, that the Jairo mode of fiscal management of incomes is at a dead end, and no more provocations should come from executive branch members, so as not to risk outright civic revolt.
The attempt by MPs to massively hike one category of their allowances was preceded by the Jairo energy estimates contributions eyesore, in which case it was what the ancients called 'adding salt to a wound,' or 'adding insult to injury,' and a section of professionals revolted. Were it that MPs bid for time, and knowing the president is chained, rush for hikes, chaos ensues.
The president is chained because Parliament detains the right to bring to the floor this or that motion in which the president's position is weak, namely Dowans (with or without the court-cleared payments), Kagoda, EPA, Twin Towers, Jairo and a few others (some declared closed like Meremeta, etc).
If MPs start using (or in stricter terms abusing) their privileges of raising motions to destabilize the president so as to bring him to sign on the dotted line for them to hike allowances, they now know there is a sea change. All these initiatives on their part relied on presumption of a placid public opinion; now that is gone.
At the same time, the very surfacing of plans to massively hike MPs allowances has in large measure dented earlier impressions on the part of a somewhat naïve public opinion that all this pursuit or sniffing of scandals is solely in the public interest.
Having been shocked by MPs' pay demands, the public will be far less inclined to believe them the moment they start breathing fire again on those semi-closed files, because the president has won this round of contest with them. It was a reversal of tables as MPs had totally won, once the president lost a NEC debate on cabinet clearance of Dowans contract, etc.
In that case the MPs' confidence about their unassailable position, encapsulated in their demand for far higher allowances, stemmed from having trapped the presidency, in which case neither the Speaker nor the PM or indeed the Treasury could do anything about it.
In that case the doctors' strike was nature's way of intervening to restore the stability of the state, as it weakened the position of MPs in the public eye, not in relation to their greed but how to resolve the crisis. The doctors became the president's ready made weapon which he however didn't create, nor did he wield, as it destroyed his parliamentary foes.
In both instances of massive pay hike demands, what the president appeared to be doing was to bid for time, to see how the proposals could be included in the next budget, as it were. Still the Treasury knows that the next budget is being assailed left, right and centre as the state has been accumulating debts from commercial banks far above accepted levels with observer missions of the IMF in particular. When such a situation is allowed to continue it reaches a state of non-payable debts and painful structural adjustment, etc.
That means the stability of the state has been restored by placing a moratorium on the two leading social strata that could harm the state by their individual or group action. MPs can harm the state by votes of no confidence in a minister, the prime minister or the president, while doctors are the single group in society that can shake the government.
Any other category would have been quashed by government order and its leaders arrested – while in the doctors' case it is religious leaders who were complaining about a certain Dr. Ulimboka Stephen. They raised issues about his qualifications and title; conversely, the government kept quiet, knowing they would win no public acclaim for any such action.
Examining the scenario a bit closely, it emerges that the government and the president (by which is meant the prime minister as government) could only act on things which emanated from the government.
They finally took a measure of placating the anger of the doctors by removing from office two top officials, and because the doctors were already feeling the strain of their betraying the people, they went back to work, and newspapers said they were in high morale. Since their demands were salary-based, and not per se any disciplinarian measures in the ministry, nothing had been concretely achieved by that act.
This sequence of events, despite that dangers still hung in the air over whether doctors would engage in a crossing of swords with the government early March if the changes to their income are too marginal, lifted the president above Parliament and political parties.
He successfully avoided the MPs' demand for massive allowance hike while not meeting the doctors' demands either, letting each side crush itself against the wall of disapproval by the breadth of the public.
At the end, it prepared the way for compromise and smooth passage of the constitutional review commission bill, with both camps of MPs exhausted.
The scenario produced over the past month brings to memory the sort of complicated outline of the character of the state that Karl Marx sketched out in 'The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,' in 1852, which saw Louis Bonaparte, known as Emperor Bonaparte III take over the state in a coup d'Etat. Marx said all the classes were exhausted and left one person take over absolute power, which reflects on the character of 'the absolute state' in the final stages of European feudalism.
Depending on the context of expression, either as a long term balance of class struggles (as in party supremacy, where workers, bureaucrats and peasants are all dictated upon by the state, the 'dear leader,') so does it come up in democracy.
It brings up temporary cessation of the thrust of class demands, until basic conditions of those demands are altered, giving marginal advantage to some contending classes – which thus means, they dictate or influence the president more convincingly.


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Can Basketball Fans Score During NBA Lockout?
After the strife-torn NBA cancelled the first two weeks of the basketball season, we wondered: Would this mean any financial relief for fans? Somewhere in the war between the wealthy players and owners, are there savings to be found for the ordinary people who spend money on NBA tickets and gear?


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Friday, December 9, 2011
Floral Suit, Leopard Print Bag
I'm inspired by a very wide range of style, from the most chic to the most eccentric. This stylish lady was impeccably dressed for an afternoon stroll down Madison Ave. I love the combination of her conservative floral suit with a more attention grabbing leopard print bag. The Advanced Style ladies have taught me that sometimes all it takes is one great accessory to complete a look.
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- Victoria said...
Lovely, and so provocative with her Mona Lisa smile.
- December 9, 2011 at 12:02 PM
- sacramento said...
Fantastic clash of pratterns
- December 9, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- Esmeralda said...
She's so adorable!!!
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- Lauren said...
She is wonderful!
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Raleigh, NC -- A new career is eye-opening, but the early years could be decisive for promising young North Carolina teachers.
As many as half of new teachers leave the classroom within five years, costing states hundreds of millions of dollars to replace them.
Eric Hale had a frustrating first year in North Carolina's second-largest school district that includes Charlotte. Now he's leaving the country to teach in Asia while he's single. He says he still loves teaching and plans to be back, but he says he didn't ask enough questions about whether he and his first school would be a good match.


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The Power of Independent Thinking
Markets Can Heal U.S. Healthcare
Recorded: Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice, appears on the Wall Street Journals Opinion Live program to discuss how free markets can solve many issues with Obamacare and Americas healthcare system. Goodman talks about which provisions of Obamacare should be changed and which ones should be left alone. Free market principles would level the playing field and give patients the power of choice.
Experts: John C. GoodmanType: TelevisionIssues: Free Market Economics, Health Care, Regulation and Deregulation, Welfare
John R. Graham: Shouldn't Healthcare Be Fair?
Recorded: Monday, November 3, 2014
Independent Institute Senior Fellow John R. Graham proposes a major change to Obamacare that would allow a level playing field for everyone.
To purchase copies of John C. Goodman's book "Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis," click here or call Toll Free 1-800-297-8733.
Experts: John R. GrahamType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Free Market Economics, Government Power, Government Waste/Pork, Health Care, History (U.S), Labor and Employment, Regulation and Deregulation
Ivan Eland on Ranking US Presidents
Recorded: Sunday, October 26, 2014
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, appears on Fox & Friends to discuss his updated version of "Recarving Rushmore."
To order copies of "Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty," click here.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Government Waste/Pork, History (U.S), Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Regulation and Deregulation, Terrorism and National Crises, Trade
The Explosion of Patent Litigation
Recorded: Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., author of Patent Trolls, appeared on the Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV. Watkins talks about patent trolls, who are costing billions to the US economy by filing lawsuits against innovators. The result of these lawsuits slows the process of new technology and stifles innovation.
Experts: William J. Watkins Jr.Type: TelevisionIssues: Business, Free Market Economics, Litigation, Regulation and Deregulation, Science, Technology
Robert Nelson on BookTalks debates Christian Felber on Economics as Religion
Recorded: Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Economist Tomás Sedláček hosts a BookTalks debate with Institute Senior Fellow and economist Robert Nelson and guests from fields of theology, philosophy and economics.
Nelson is author of The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America.
Experts: Robert H. NelsonType: TelevisionIssues: Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Economists, Free Market Economics, Religion
Benjamin Powell: Are Sweatshops Good?
Recorded: Monday, April 21, 2014
Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell discusses sweatshops and the global economy on the Fox Business Network "The Independents."
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: TelevisionIssues: Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Corporate Welfare, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (International), Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation, Trade
Robert Higgs Discusses Crisis and Leviathan
Recorded: Friday, March 28, 2014
Robert Higgs discusses his book 'Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government' at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Government Waste/Pork, History (U.S), Political Ideology and Philosophy
Ivan Eland on Arise TV
Recorded: Thursday, March 20, 2014
Ivan Eland, Director of the Independent Institute Center on Peace and Liberty, discusses new US sanctions on Russia in response to the ongoing Crimea situation.
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I'm often contacted by lawyers for advice about going solo. In the legal world, going solo is the equivalent of quitting your day job and launching your startup full-time. So I'm dedicating this blog post to provide some background about how I launched my startup law firm. I know many of you aren't lawyers but hopefully some of the advice might be helpful.
I launched my startup 2 years ago. I refer to my law firm as a startup because I run it like one, except for the fact I can't raise capital. The concept of bootstrapping and working in a startup wasn't new to me–I had just left a startup company. (Long story for another day)
How did you choose your law firm's location?
I selected my law firm's location based on what I've dubbed the "Cheesecake Factory Principle." Growing up in California, I noticed that the Cheesecake Factory always opened their restaurants in thriving business areas. Thus, I decided to open my law firm in Southlake, Texas, a suburb of Dallas and also home to a new Cheesecake Factory. I figured I would just borrow the Cheesecake Factory's R&D on Southlake and move on to other decisions. The point is–don't pay for or waste time on finding answers to questions that have already been answered for you by others.
What type of office do you have?
I started out in a mid-range executive suite and have since moved to one with a better location and conference room. I have intentionally avoided signing any type of long term lease (12+ months) because I feel flexibility is key in your first 2-3 years as solo. You might need 3 offices next year, or what you thought was a great location might not be that great 6 months later.
How do you market your law firm?
Before I started out, I was warned by an older attorney that I wouldn't be able to go out on my own because I couldn't afford the overhead expenses like yellow page advertising. Yellow pages? The last time I saw one of those books it was being torn in half by The Power Team in my high school's auditorium. Forget about large marketing expenses and bootstrap your law firm's marketing. If you are going to spend, do it on your business cards and website (and when I say "website" I mean blog used as a website)
How important is technology?
Use technology to your advantage. Afraid of technology? Then rethink going solo. Technology is that critical to a solo's success. If you know how to do 2/3 of the phrases in Daft Punk's "Technologic" you are tech savvy enough to go solo.
As lawyers, we are about 6 years behind the tech curve and that may be generous. For example, law firms are not currently interested in search engine optimization (SEO) and you can level the marketing playing field via blogs and practice area websites. For example, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a fantastic law firm with a killer venture capital practice states on its website:
We have more experienced attorneys focused on representing start-up companies seeking venture capital financing than any other law firm
Well Google doesn't think so. I googled "venture capital lawyers" and stopped looking for a Wilson Sonsini URL after the 10th page.
How did I select practice areas?
I'm a big believer in focusing in on one or two (if both are related) areas of law. If your practice areas look like a laundry list of legal areas, you run the risk of becoming a jack of all trades, master of none. While difficult, resist the urge to cast a wide net for potential clients. The more I have reduced my areas of practice, the better the practice has done in terms of both revenue and clientele.
What would I do different?
React quicker. I saw a t-shirt at the mall recently that said "Procrastinators Unite Tomorrow." I felt like buying one just to tack to my wall. As a solo, you can change every part of your law firm quicker than any larger firm. Use this to your advantage.
2010 Update: I realize having a web presence is vital to launching a law practice. But don't get suckered into (over)paying Lexis, Westlaw, or Findlaw for a bad template website and/or blog. Find a web developer/designer who actually understands web design and social media. I used Dave Onkels for this site and proudly recommend him.


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Bad News Sends Gas Prices Racing Downward
Just as fast as gas prices rose, they're now in retreat. Monday's AAA Fuel Report Gage puts the national average of regular at $3.703, down from $3.970 a month ago. Several factors could push gas below $3.50 over the next several weeks, and almost none of them were part of the economic landscape a quarter ago.


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A recall of defective air bags is spreading to more manufacturers.
BMW, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Mazda, Nissan and Toyota will all recall cars at the U.S. government's request because their air bag inflators could rupture. If that happens, the air bags might not work properly in a crash, and shards from the ruptured system could fly out and cause injury.
In each case, the air bags are made by Japanese supplier Takata.
The government opened an investigation this month after getting six reports of air bags rupturing. It estimates 1.1 million vehicles in the U.S. could be affected.
The recalls are limited to states and territories that have hot, humid weather for long periods of time. The government says data suggests vehicles in those areas are most at risk.
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A conversation with Roxanne Quimby, who wants to donate 70,000 acres of land for the creation of a new national park in Maine. Hear what she has to say about the controversy surrounding the idea. Plus, the former Winter Harbor naval station on Acadia's Schoodic Peninsula has been converted into the brand new Schoodic Research and Education Center, which aims to expand science research and learning opportunities on the coast of Maine.
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If We Could Talk to the Animals [DVD]
Starring the Kidsongs Kids™
Wouldn't it be wonderful to talk to the animals? Well, the Kidsongs Kids do in this sing along adventure featuring Elvis's "Hound Dog", "Farmer in the Dell" and "5 Little Monkeys".
Yankee Doodle Dandy [DVD]
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Share a little of America's proud history with your children. This video, hosted by Uncle Sam, takes the Kidsong Kids on a trip back in time. Includes "Home on the Range", "Yankee Doodle Boy" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad".
Very Silly Songs [DVD]
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The Kidsongs Kids bring the silliest songs to life in this elaborate production. Includes "Down By The Bay" (with a llama in pajamas!), "Purple People Eater" and "Michael Finnegan".
A Day With the Animals [DVD]
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Bingo the dog kicks off this DVD full of animals. You'll enjoy singing chimps, dancing dolphins and dozens of animals. Includes "Do Your Ears Hang Low", "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Hickory Dickory Dock".
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Come and join in the fun and games at Camp Kidsongs. You can visit all the camp's animals, too! Includes "The Hokey Pokey", "Little Bunny Foo Foo" and "The Saints Go Marchin In".
A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm [DVD]
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Join the Kidsongs Kids on a sing-along field trip to Old MacDonald's Farm. Meet the MacDonalds and all their barnyard friends. Includes "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", "This Old Man" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb".


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While waiting for Clay to return from his work, and after training, Ash and co. got a surprise visit from Cilan's brother Chili from Striaton City, who's apparently on a journey of his own and training since he came all this way to get here. Turns out he wants to be better than his connoisseur brother after always losing so many challenges. So he decides to put his skills against Cilan by having a battle as Chili use Pansear while Cilan use Pansage. Who will win this sibling rivalry? And can Cress be a good Gym Leader by himself in Striaton City without Chili? No, due to the fact that he was worried about Chili when he "actually" ran away from home because he's not learning about the best offense is the best defense.
- There was a moment from when Chili's Pansear was training and after that he runs up some stairs, though that moment has been done before in the movie "Rocky" and various cartoons that had training montages like Animaniacs, The Proud Family and Two Stupid Dogs.
- Some similarities to the Rocky training montage comes when Pansear, runs, does one-armed push-ups, sit-ups on a bench, and punches a fruit in the tree
- The dubbed title originated from Pennsylvania, known as the State of Brotherly Love, which was the setting of the Rocky movie that took place in Philadelphia which is located in Pennsylvania.
- This is the very first time that Ash was a referee when the brothers battle.
- This is the second time Cilan mentions the best offense is the best defense since BW031: Oshawott's Lost Scalchop! when Ash's Oshawott battles Stephan's Zebstrika as a Blitzle without its Scalchop in an Offense Mode.
- This is the second time Ash's Oshawott got defeated by a Fire-type Pokemon that overcame type disadvantage since BW051: Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader! when he got beaten by Bianca's father's Darmanitan, and now Oshawott's defeated by Chili's Pansear.
- At first, Cilan's Pansage's SolarBeam was deflected by Oshawott's Scalchop once in BW006: Dreams by the Yard Full! but now Chili's Pansear fires that move long range when he tried to dodge without deflecting it.
- Professor Oak's Live Caster: Movie 15
- Who's That Pokémon?: Pansear (US).
- When Chili was eating donuts to relieve his stress this might be a reference to girls on classic television shows getting upset and eating desserts.
- When Chili got a red and glowing face in Cress' flashback this might be a reference to Ash's anger in The Bicker the Better.
- When a still picture of Chili hugging his Pansear while his laughing and Pansear gleefully squeeling can be heard, this might be a reference to Sweet Baby James when there was still picture of James hugging Chimecho followed by James' laughing and Chimecho's "chiming" during the song Best Friends.
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I think any three-dimensional work of creativity in a public space, such as monuments, should be considered public domain. Also, when you take pictures of them, your choice of angle, exposure, background, focal length, etc, makes it an entirely unique transformative work of art very different from the original. It is not possible to confuse with the original: who can hold this postage stamp in their hand and think that they are actually holding the monument itself? They do not take the livelihood away from the original artist. if someone wants a sculpture done, they ask a sculptor, not someone who have taken a picture of one. Also, you'd not settle for just a photo or drawing of a sculpture instead and place that in the middle of the park.
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A tale of a fateful trip,
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Aboard this tiny ship."
Millions of boomers watched the SS Minnow pull out of the harbor for that fateful three-hour tour each week. Most don't know that "tropic port" is actually in California's Newport Beach in Orange County, a location better known today as the OC.
Orange County boasts of being the "heart" of Southern California. Here visitors find the world-famous Disneyland Resort, Knott's Berry Farm, and 40 miles of coastline. In Newport Beach, whale-watching cruises offer glimpses of the giant blue whale, dolphin and other fascinating marine life. Orange County contains several notable shopping malls, including South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, the largest mall in California.
Orange County is the third most populous county in California, while at the same time is the smallest area-wise. The OC is known for its affluence and political conservatism, ranked in an academic study among America's 25 most conservative counties.
Many Fortune 500 companies are headquartered here, including Ingram Micro, First American Corporation and Pacific Life. Regional headquarters for international businesses in Orange County include Mazda, Mitsubishi and Hyundai. Food service companies such as Del Taco, Taco Bell and Marie Callender's have headquarters in the City of Irvine, as well. Tourism also remains a vital aspect of Orange County's economy; Disneyland is the second-most visited theme park in the entire world.
The county's proximity to Los Angeles entices many film and media celebrities to have homes here. John Wayne lived in Newport Beach; so did Richard Nixon and the Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. Steve Martin, Will Ferrell, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diane Keaton, Bonnie Raitt and Gwen Stefani also call Orange County home.
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The Grammy Nominees Have Been Announced . . . and Kanye West, Jay-Z, Fun, Frank Ocean and The Black Keys Got a Lot of 'Em
The nominees for the "55th Grammy Awards" were announced last night . . . and Kanye West, Jay-Z, Fun, Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, and Frank Ocean led the way, with six nominations apiece. The Grammys air live on February 10th on CBS.
--Following with five were: Miguel, jazz pianist Chick Corea, and Patrick Carney of The Black Keys. (--He had one fewer than Dan Auerbach, because Dan picked up a solo Producer of the Year nomination.)
--Some of the nominees were announced in "The Grammy Nominations Concert Live" special. It was mostly uneventful . . . but one of the few highlights came when TAYLOR SWIFT beat-boxed during a duet with LL COOL J.
--The Grammys air live on February 10th on CBS.
Here are the big categories:
Album of the Year:
--"El Camino", The Black Keys
--"Some Nights", Fun
--"Babel", Mumford & Sons
--"Channel Orange", Frank Ocean
--"Blunderbuss", Jack White
Record of the Year:
--"Lonely Boy", The Black Keys
--"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)", Kelly Clarkson
--"We Are Young", Fun featuring Janelle Monae
--"Somebody That I Used to Know", Gotye featuring Kimbra
--"Thinkin Bout You", Frank Ocean
--"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", Taylor Swift
Song of the Year:
--"The A Team", Ed Sheeran
--"Adorn", Miguel
--"Call Me Maybe", Carly Rae Jepsen
Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman Are Trying to Work Things Out
It may not be over for DANNY DEVITO and RHEA PERLMAN.
--"Extra" asked Danny if he's adjusting to being single, and he said, quote, "It's not something you adjust to . . . Rhea and I are really close. Actually, still together, just separate, but together."
--Then "Extra" asked him if there's a chance they'll get back together. He said, quote, "We're working on it."
Rihanna Is Doing a "Fashion Competition Reality Series" with the Style Network
RIHANNA is the executive producer on an upcoming "fashion competition reality series." It's called "Styled to Rock", and it will air on the Style Network sometime next year.
--Rihanna will "handpick" 12 amateur designers to be on the show, along with three mentors, who will guide them each week. She's also expected to make appearances, but she won't be on it regularly as a judge or host.
Will Kristen Wiig Join the Cast of "Anchorman: The Legend Continues"?
KRISTEN WIIG is reportedly in negotiations to join the cast of "Anchorman: The Legend Continues" . . . as a love interest forSTEVE CARELL'S character Brick Tamland.
(--Sadly, that's all we know at this point.)
Captain America's Brother Was Arrested for Trying to Buy Drugs from an Undercover Cop
SCOTT EVANS . . . the younger brother of "Captain America" stud CHRIS EVANS . . . was arrested Tuesday night for trying to buy drugs from an undercover cop. There's no word what he was trying to buy.
--Scott played Officer Oliver Fish on "One Life to Live" from 2008 to 2010. Yesterday, he Tweeted, quote, "Most ridiculous night of my life in LA so far. At least I made it a year before getting arrested." (--Scott is 29 . . . Chris is 31.)
Sheryl Crow Hopes Her New Country Album Gets Played on the Radio
SHERYL CROW has recorded her first-ever country album, which she's planning to release next fall. Sheryl says she chose country because it matches up with her desire to tell a great story.
--She told "Country Weekly", quote, "I think [country] is the best format if you like songs as a forum. Songs that are melodic and lyric-driven.
--"That's what I've always loved. There isn't a home for that outside of country consistently."
--Sheryl's only concern is that her new stuff won't get any airplay. She adds,quote, "My record is probably more country than a lot of country that is getting played on the radio, so I hope I get played."


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This was the first person to be hospitalized this season for the flu in Pueblo.
Health officials say the flu season is starting about four weeks earlier than normal. More than 100 people have been hospitalized across the state with flu symptoms.
"We know the virus is here and it's serious," said Dr. Christine Nevin-Woods with the Pueblo County Health Department. "It's not too late to get a flu vaccine."
The woman who died was middle-aged. A doctor tells 11 News that she did have an underlying health issue, but wouldn't say what.
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Slash TV is a side mission in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. The side mission can be activated in the hull of the ship in Portland Docks where Vincenzo Cilli was killed in during the mission The Portland Chainsaw Masquerade. The mission can be triggered by pressing the R3 button (PS2) or up button (PSP) inside the hull of the ship whilst wearing the Overalls Outfit between the times of 18:00pm-5:00am.
Slash TV takes the same premise as the The Portland Chainsaw Masquerade mission, with Toni having to kill people wielding chainsaws, with each level having more people attacking Toni. The first time Toni has to beat the mission, he has to defeat homeless people with chainsaws, whilst on the second time the mission is triggered it has people in chicken suits. SlashTV needs to be completed twice to unlock the Cox Mascot Outfit, and each time the mission is triggered five levels are available.
Various items can be collected whilst playing SlashTV. Enemies will drop money, as well as chainsaws, Micro SMGs, health and armor. A randomly selected bonus weapon also appears after completing each level.
The monetary reward for completing SlashTV increases with each level. The first level has a reward of $100, the second $300, the third $500, the fourth $700 and the fifth $1,500. The Cox Mascot Outfit is also unlocked after completing this side mission twice.
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With Bellator Fighting Championships set to return to action in April, the organization today announced its latest addition.
Strikeforce, WEC, Affliction, Shooto and King of the Cage veteran Bao Quach (17-9-1) will compete in Bellator's season two featherweight tournament.
Quach joins Patricio "Pitbull" Freire (12-0), Georgi "Insane" Karakhanyan (12-1-1) and William Romero (5-0) as confirmed participants in the promotion's second-ever 145-pound tournament.
Quach enters the tournament with a streak of 11 wins in his past 12 bouts. The lone loss during that span came via unanimous decision in an exciting matchup with L.C. Davis at the January 2009 event "Affliction: Day of Reckoning."
"During the last three years, Bao has established himself as a fighter with devastating world-class striking abilities," Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney stated in the official release. "The level of his striking and kickboxing is at the highest level in MMA.
"With Bao, Georgi, 'Pitbull' and Will, 145 should be a spectacular tournament."
Quach, whose parents were born in Vietnam and who now lives in California, opened his career at just 6-8-1 before going on his current impressive run. Despite the less-than-spectacular start, Quach gained valuable experience while facing such proven fighters as Rich Crunkilton, Jeff Curran, Cole Escovedo, Wagnney Fabiano, Hatsu Hioki and Rumina Sato.
"In some ways, Bao's career path reminds me of Toby Imada's" Rebney stated. "Once he really started to take the sport seriously, the results began to speak for themselves. If he maintains this level of focus, he could be very hard to beat at 145."
Bellator's lucrative tournaments can earn each division's winner nearly $200,000 over three fights and three months. If he wins the tourney, Quach earns the right to fight season-one winner and current Bellator featherweight champion Joe Soto.
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around the tiny spooky halloween town!
Friday, October 8, 2010
* Halloween Sensory Box
The girls have been having lots of fun playing in our latest Halloween Sensory Box.
We filled it with dried Black-Eyed Peas...
They have a creepy crawly kinds of somebody's watching you quality about them.
It would also be cool with black and orange rice
or dried black beans (like we used in our Halloween Eye-Spy Bottle!)
The foam fence, tombstones, and ghosts were left over from a Halloween Kit
that we stole a Spooky foam tree out of for our homemade Wizard of Oz play set.
The spiders, spider rings, and mini skeletons came from Dollar Tree.
The little pumpkin house was made
by my dad last year for the girls and their Fairy village.
The rubber rat, orange glass "gems" and centipedes were from our playroom stash.
I tossed in a couple of mini plastic pumpkins
and some pumpkin scoops
for scooping and pouring.
Our polly pockets have been having fun riding mini witch brooms
around the tiny spooky halloween town!
around the tiny spooky halloween town!
Happy Haunting!
pink and green mama
Posted by pink and green mama MaryLea
5 comments:
- Sippy Cup Central Mom said...
Very spooky and cute! Karen
Sippy Cup Central Mom
- October 8, 2010 at 8:50 AM
- Tia Verinha said...
Fantástico! Eu adoro Halloween.
Beijinhos e milsorrisos coloridos
- October 8, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- Nina said...
this is very cool. we are traveling cross country but will check this out and do when we arrive at our new home. I like your site, I posted about it on mine - http://parentplanet.info/?p=1599
- October 8, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- RootsAndWingsCo said...
This is fantastic! LOVE it! I keep a sensory box, too. This is definitely going to be made in mine today! I am also tweeting this!
- October 8, 2010 at 10:14 AM
- Vallimasoos said...
Love it! i may have to make another sensory box as my kids are fighting over the one we have. I DO love the creepiness of the dried black eye peas!
- October 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Source: Global Crop Diversity Trust.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, or the Doomsday Vault as the media have nicknamed it, was officially opened on February 26, 2008, to serve as the ultimate safety net for one of the world's most important natural resources.
Deep inside a snow covered mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It is a fail-safe, state-of-the-art seed storage facility, built to stand the test of time – and of natural or manmade disasters.
Permanent protection for the world's food crops
The purpose of the Vault is to store duplicates ('back ups') of all seed samples from the world's crop collections. Permafrost and thick rock ensure that, even in the case of a power outage, the seed samples will remain frozen. The Vault can therefore be considered the ultimate insurance policy for the world's food supply. It will secure for centuries, or longer, millions of seeds representing every important crop variety available in the world today.
The world's seed collections are vulnerable to a wide range of threats - civil strife, war, natural catastrophes, and, more routinely but no less damagingly, poor management, lack of adequate funding, and equipment failures. Unique varieties of our most important crops are lost whenever any such disaster strikes: securing duplicates of all collections in a global facility provides an insurance policy for the world's food supply.
The Seed Vault is an answer to a call from the international community to provide the best possible assurance of safety for the world's crop diversity, and in fact the idea for such a facility dates back to the 1980s. However, it was only with the coming into force of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and with it an agreed international legal framework for conserving and accessing crop diversity, that the Vault became a practical possibility.
The Vault is dug into a mountainside near the village of Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Svalbard is a group of islands nearly a thousand kilometres north of mainland Norway. Remote by any standards, Svalbard's airport is in fact the northernmost point in the world to be serviced by scheduled flights – usually one lands a day. For nearly four months a year the islands are enveloped in total darkness. Permafrost and thick rock ensure that, even without electricity, the samples remain frozen.
The Vault's construction was funded by the Norwegian government as a service to the world, and Norway also contributes an annual sum towards its operation. The Vault is managed in partnership between the Trust, Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen) and the Government of Norway. The Trust considers the Vault an essential component of a rational and secure global system for conserving the diversity of all our crops. The Trust is therefore committed to supporting ongoing operational costs, and is assisting developing countries with preparing, packaging and transporting samples of unique accessions from their genebanks to the Arctic.
The Trust is currently supporting more than 100 institutes worldwide to regenerate unique accessions and deposit a safety duplicate sample in the Vault. The project is also financing the deposit of samples from the international collections of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). To date 390,052 total seed samples have been deposited with Trust support.
Today the Vault holds over 500,000 samples. Information on the seeds held in the Vault, and how deposits can be made, is available at the vault website
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has attracted the interest of the media worldwide. This has largely been extremely positive - the issue of crop diversity has been ignored for too long, despite its overwhelming importance to human well-being. Inevitably, however, given the extent of public interest, inaccuracies have also circulated, and it is useful to provide the facts here. Please also see our FAQ for more detail.
Regarding the funding of the Seed Vault, the Norwegian government funded the construction of the Vault in its entirety (this cost $9 million), and will continue to fund the maintenance of the facility, for an annual cost of circa $150,000. The Global Crop Diversity Trust funds the operation and management of the Seed Vault, as well as the transport of unique seeds from the international collections managed by the CGIAR and from collections in developing countries to the Arctic. This second component - the transport - is possible through our work with the United Nations Foundation, a partnership which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The complete list of all the Trust's funders can be seen International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources. In other words, there are no seeds stored at the Seed Vault which would not be easily accessible simply by directly contacting the genebank which sent them.
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At the age of 43, Paul Karason looked as normal as normal can be. However, he suffered from various negative health conditions, such as sinus problems, dermatitis, acid reflux, and so on. Did he go to the doctor for help though? Hell no that would be too easy. Paul Karason started brewing his own tonic made of colloidal silver, distilled water, and salt. But he didn't drink this tonic once or twice per day. He drank gallons of this stuff per week for years.
After 14 years of constantly drinking his special tonic, along with rubbing a silver salve on his skin, Paul Karason's skin complexion had gone through an intensely gradual change. Paul said the change was so slow that neither him or his friends noticed it. I would love to try and explain what happened give scientific information and details and all that jazz but it's easier to just show you. So here's Karason as he looks now:
I know what you're thinking: Nope, not true. That's a photoshopped photo, or he's wearing Halloween makeup, or something. But it's not true. Well, Naysayers, I thought the exact same thing, so I dug deeper. Here's a CNN report on Karason's self-inflicted condition:
So what!? One video doesn't prove anything. The media lies all the time! Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down, Naysayers. There isn't just one video and a creepy photo. Here's a followup video of Paul Karason on MSNBC's TODAY:
When Matt Lauer asked whether or not Paul is still drinking the colloidal silver tonic, Paul says very, very seldomly. (Seldomly is not a word, but I wouldn't argue with a blue man.) If you want to see a side-by-side comparison of Paul before his use of colloidal silver and after, skip the video to 4:50.


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Hello. I just joined here after looking around as a guest for awhile. Just like all of you guys and gals on here I love to shoot and learn about guns. I have a few handguns along with some long guns. I have 2 Springfields, a 4'' xd in .40 and a 3.8" xdm in 9mm. 2 1911's. A Taurus and a kimber ultra carry 2 then the ruger sp 101 in 357 also have a Sig mosquito. Then the long guns I have a 10/22 , bushy m4 and a marlin 336 in 30-30 so that's my collection. I belong to Guthsville rod and gun club if any of you are familiar.
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The FBI is seeking a man who resembles a male character on the 1970s sitcom "The Brady Bunch" who is suspected of six bank robberies in the Denver area.
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force on Friday described "The Brady Bunch Bandit" as between 25 to 35 years old and about 6 feet tall. Investigators did not immediately say which of the male characters the suspect resembles.
The suspect enters the bank and presents a demand note and leaves.
The task force also is investigating 11 bank robberies believed to have been committed by someone it has nicknamed "The Clearinghouse Bandit." That suspect is described as a black male, 25 to 40 years old, about 6 feet tall to 6-feet-5-inches, with a heavy build.
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Best Practices Discussion Summary
- 1 Status
- 2 Best Practices Task Force
- 3 Overview
- 4 Purpose of Best Practices Recommendation(s)
- 5 Organized by the Charter
- 5.1 2.2.1 Best Practices for Procurement
- 5.2 2.2.2 Best Practices for Vocabulary Selection
- 5.3 2.2.3 URI Construction
- 5.4 2.2.4 Versioning
- 5.5 2.2.5 Stability
- 5.6 2.2.6 Legacy Data
- 5.7 2.2.7 Linked Data Cookbook
- 5.8 Website Organization
- 5.9 Possible Technologies to Use in the Site
2011 Dec - Best Practices draft available on wiki.
29-30 June, 2011 - Preliminary discussion took place at the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group First F2F.
Best Practices Task Force
Note: The group will produce one or more Recommendations which address the following issues:
Editors of Draft: Michael Hausenblas, Bernadette Hyland, Boris Villazón-Terrazas
- Procurement
- George Thomas (Health & Human Services, US)
- Mike Pendleton (Environmental Protection Agency, US)
- John Sheridan (OPSI, UK)
- Vocabulary Selection
- George Thomas (Health & Human Services, US)
- Michael Hausenblas (DERI)
- Ghislain (INSTITUT TELECOM)
- Boris Villazón-Terrazas(UPM)
- John Erickson (RPI)
- Biplav Srivastava (IBM)
- URI Construction
- Ghislain (INSTITUT TELECOM)
- Boris Villazón-Terrazas(UPM)
- Daniel Vila (UPM)
- John Erickson (RPI)
- Martin Alvarez (CTIC)
- Cory Casanove (OMG)
- Linked Data Cookbook
- Bernadette Hyland (3 Round Stones)
- Sarven Capadisli (DERI)
- Legacy Data
- Biplav Srivastava (IBM)
- Versioning
- John Erickson (RPI)
- Ghislain (INSTITUT TELECOM)
- Hadley Beeman, (versioning as related to Data "Cube")
- Cory Casanove (OMG)
- Stability
- Anne Washington (GMU)
- Ron Reck
- Provenance Liaison
- John Erickson (RPI)
Linked Data approaches address key requirements of open government by providing a family of international standards for the publication, dissemination and reuse of structured data. Further, Linked Data, unlike previous data formatting and publication approaches, provides a simple mechanism for combining data from multiple sources across the Web.
In an era of reduced local, state and federal budgets, there is strong economic motivation to reduce waste and duplication in data management and integration. Linked Open Data is a viable approach to publishing governmental data to the public, but only if it adheres to some basic principles.
Purpose of Best Practices Recommendation(s)
The following are some motivations for the need for publishing Recommendation(s) and Working Notes, identified in the GLD WG Charter.
- The overarching objective is to provide best practices and guidance to create of high quality, re-usable Linked Open Data (LOD).
More specifically, best practices are aimed at assisting government departments/agencies/bureaus, and their contractors, vendors and researchers, to publish high quality, consistent data sets using W3C Standards to increase interoperability.
Best practices are intended to be a methodical approach for the creation, publication and dissemination of governmental Linked Data. Best practices from the GLD WG shall include:
- Description of the full life cycle of a Government Linked Data project, starting with identification of suitable data sets, procurement, modeling, vocabulary selection, through publication and ongoing maintenance.
- Definition of known, proven steps to create and maintain government data sets using Linked Data principles.
- Guidance in explaining the value proposition for LOD to stakeholders, managers and executives.
- Assist the Working Group in later stages of the Standards Process, in order to solicit feedback, use cases, etc.
Organized by the Charter
From section 2.2 of the GLD Charter.
The Working Group, facilitated by the Best Practices Task Force, will produce Recommendation(s), (a Working Group Note / website, where noted), for the following:
- Procurement.
- Vocabulary Selection.
- URI Construction.
- Versioning.
- Stability.
- Legacy Data.
- Cookbook. (Working Group Note or website rather than Recommendation).
2.2.1 Best Practices for Procurement
Procurement. Specific products and services involved in governments publishing linked data will be defined, suitable for use during government procurement. Just as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines allow governments to easily specify what they mean when they contract for an accessible Website, these definitions will simplify contracting for data sites and applications.
Update as of 21-Dec-2011 - Mike and George reaching out to John Sheridan to discuss over the last two weeks of December. Possible that John has already taken leave for the holidays. Needs to get jump started asap.
Draft as of 9-Jan-2012
Procurement Overview and Glossary
Linked Open Data (LOD) offers novel approaches for publishing and consuming data on the Web. This procurement overview and companion glossary is intended to help contract officers and their technical representatives understand LOD activities, and their associated products and services. It is hoped that this will aid government officials in procuring LOD related products and services.
Recent Open Government initiatives call for more and better access to government data. To meet expanding consumer needs, many governments are now looking to go beyond traditional provisioning formats (e.g. CSV, XML), and are beginning to provision data using Linked Open Data (LOD) approaches.
In contrast to provisioning data on the Web, LOD provisions data into the Web so it can be interlinked with other linked data, making it easier to discover, and more useful and reusable. LOD leverages World Wide Web standards such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Resource Description Framework (RDF), and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), which make data self-describing so that it is both human and machine readable. Self-describing data is important because most government data comes from relational data systems that do not fully describe the source data schema needed for application development by third parties.
While LOD is a relatively new approach to data provisioning, growth has been exponential. LOD has been adopted by other national governments including the UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, New Zealand and Australia.
Development and maintenance of linked data is supported by the Semantic Web/Semantic Technologies industry. Useful information about industry vendors/contractors, and their associated products and services, is available from the World Wide Web Consortium's Government Linked Data (W3C/GLD) workgroup Community Directory.
The following categorizes activities associated with LOD development and maintenance, and identifies products and services and associated with these activities:
1. LOD Preparation
Services: Services that support modeling relational or other data sources using URIs, developing scripts used to generate/create linked open data. Overlap exists between LOD preparation and publishing.
2. LOD Publishing
Products: RDF database (a.k.a. triple store) enables hosting of linked data
Services: These are services that support creation, interlinking and deployment of linked data (see also linked data preparation). Hosting data via a triple store is a key aspect of publishing. LD publishing may include implementing a PURL strategy. During preparation for publishing linked data, data and publishing infrastructure may be tested and debugged to ensure it adheres to linked data principles and best practices. (Source: Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space, Heath and Bizer, Morgan and Claypool, 2011, Section 5.4, p. 53)
3. LOD Discovery and Consumption
Products: Linked Data Browsers allow users to navigate between data sources by following RDF links; Linked Data Search Engines crawl linked data by following RDF links, and provide query capabilities over aggregated data.
Services: These are services that support describing, finding and using linked data on the Web. Publication of linked data contributes to a global data space often referred to as the Linked Open Data Cloud or 'Web of Data.' These are services that support the development of applications that use (i.e. consume) this 'Web of Data.'
4. Management Consulting and Strategic Planning
Products: Not applicable
Services: There are a broad range of management related services; examples include briefings intended for decisions makers to provide a general understanding of the technology, business case, ROI; strategic planning support (e.g. enterprise linked data, implementation of PURLs, etc.)
5. Formal Education and Training
Services: Various private companies and universities offer training related to linked open data. These offerings vary widely. Trainings vary from high-level informational trainings intended to provide managers/decision makers with general understanding, to in-depth, hands-on instruction for the tech savvy on how to prepare, publish and consume linked data.
Linked Open Data: A pattern for hyper-linking machine-readable data sets to each other using Semantic Web techniques, especially via the use of RDF and URIs. Enables distributed SPAQL queries of the data sets and a "browsing" or "discovery" approach to finding information (as compared to a search strategy. (Source: Linking Enterprise Data, David Wood, Springer, 2010, p. 286)
Linked Open Data Cloud: Linked Open Data that has been published is depicted in a LOD cloud diagram. The diagram shows connections between linked data sets and color codes them based on data type (e.g., government, media, life sciences, etc.). The diagram can be viewed at: http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
RDF (Resource Description Framework): A language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. RDF is based on the idea of identifying things using Web identifiers (called Uniform Resource Identifiers, or URIs), and describing resources in terms of simple properties and property values. This enables RDF to represent simple statements about resources as a graph of nodes and arcs representing the resources, and their properties and values. (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/)
Semantic Technologies: The broad set of technologies that related to the extraction, representation, storage, retrieval and analysis of machine-readable information. The Semantic Web standards are a subset of semantic technologies and techniques. (Source: Linking Enterprise Data, David Wood, Springer, 2010, p. 286) Semantic Web: An evolution or part of the World Wide Web that consists of machine-readable data in RDF and an ability to query that information in standard ways (e.g. via SPARQL)
Semantic Web Standards: Standards of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) relating to the Semantic Web, including RDF, RDFa, SKOS and OWL. (Source: Linking Enterprise Data, David Wood, Springer, 2010, p. 287)
SPARQL: Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) defines a standard query language and data access protocol for use with the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa303673.aspx) Just as SQL is used to query relational data, SPARQL is used to query graph, or linked, data.
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs): URI's play a key role in enabling linked data. To publish data on the Web, the items in a domain of interest must first be identified. These are the things whose properties and relationships will be described in the data, and may include Web documents as well as real-world entities and abstract concepts. As Linked Data builds directly on Web architecture [67], the Web architecture term resource is used to refer to these things of interest, which are, in turn, identified by HTTP URIs. Wide Web Consortium's Government Linked Data (W3C/GLD) workgroup: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/charter
2.2.2 Best Practices for Vocabulary Selection
The group will provide advice on how governments should select RDF vocabulary terms (URIs), including advice as to when they should mint their own. This advice will take into account issues of stability, security, and long-term maintenance commitment, as well as other factors that may arise during the group's work.
One of the most challenging task when publishing data set is to have metadata describing the model used to capture it. The model or the ontology gives the semantic of each term used within the data set or in the LOD cloud when published. The importance of selecting the appropriate vocabulary is threefold:
- Ease the interoperability with existing vocabularies
- Facilitate integration with other data source from others publishers
- Speed-up the time of creating new vocabularies, since it is not created from scratch, but based on existing ones.
Publishers should take time to see what is the domain application of their data set: finance, statistics, geograpraphy, weather, administration divisions, organisation, etc. Based on the relevant concepts presented in the Data set, one of these two options could be performed:
- Searching vocabularies using Semantic Web Engines: The five most used SWEs are Swoogle, Watson (Ontology-oriented web engines); SWSE, Sindice (Triples-oriented Web engines); and Falcons (an hybrid-oriented Web engine)
One of the difficult task sometimes in the reuse ontology process is to decide which Semantic Search engine to use for obtaining an efficient results in the search of ontologies. There are five well-known and typically used SWSEs in the literature. What are the criteria to choose one Semantic search engine in a particular domain.
In the literature, there are no guidelines helping ontology developers to decide between one SWSEs. Guidelines proposed here could potentially help ontology designers in taking such a decision. However , we can divide SW search engines in 3 groups:
*Those that are "Ontology-oriented" Web engines such as Swoogle and Watson. *The ones "Triple-oriented" Web engines or RDF-oriented like SWSE and Sindice. *and finally those which are "Hybrid-oriented" Web engine as the case of Falcons.
Also, a rapid observation while experimenting the use of the abovementioned engines is that there is not a clear separation between ontologies and RDF data coming from blogs and other sources like DBPedia.
Using the search engines consist in practice querying them using the set of relevant concepts of the domain (e.g., tourism, point of interest, organization, etc). The output of this exercise is a list of candidate ontologies to be assessed for reusing purpose.
- Searching vocabularies using the datahub the Data Hub
The datahub (previous CKAN) maintains the list of data sets shared and can be accessed by an API or a full JSON dump. The approach here could be to look for data sets or the similar domain of interest, and analyzed the metadata describing that data to find out the vocabularies reused. Another "data market" place worth mentioning could be Kasabi
- Searching vocabularies using LOV LOV.
The Linked Open Vocabularies (a.k.a LOV) is a set of data expressed in RDF, that inventories vocabularies for describing data sets but also the semantic relations between the vocabularies. Although it is in its preliminary state, it contains more than 100 vocabularies already identified. It came out that there are some vocabularies "commonly" used like SKOS, FOAF, Dublin Core, Geo and Event.
- Composition of the three methods above-mentioned: It consists of combining the search process making use of the existing searching engines and some data sets catalogue.
- Assessment and criteria for vocabularies selection
We need to determine the vocabulary to be used for modelling the domain of the government data sources. The most important recommendation in this context is to reuse as much as possible available vocabularies. This reuse-based approach speeds up the vocabulary development, and therefore, governments will save time, effort and resources. This activity consists of the following tasks:
- Search for suitable vocabularies to reuse. Currently there are some useful repositories to find available vocabularies, such as, SchemaWeb, SchemaCache, Swoogle, and LOV Linked Open Vocabularies.
- In case that we did not find any vocabulary that is suitable for our purposes, we should create them, trying to reuse as much as possible existing resources, e.g., government catalogues, vocabularies available at sites like [1], etc.
- Finally, if we did not find available vocabularies nor resources for building the vocabulary, we have to create the vocabulary from scratch.
2.2.3 URI Construction
The group will specify how to create good URIs for use in government linked data. Inputs include Cool URIs for the Semantic Web, Designing URI Sets for the UK Public Sector (PDF), and Creating URIs (data.gov.uk). Guidance will be produced not only for minting URIs for governmental entities, such as schools or agencies, but also for vocabularies, concepts, and datasets.
- URIs aims at identifying any data, concept or object to be published and be de-referenceable. URIs must have a pattern to follow within the public sector publishing data.
- Decisions about the patterns for to use should also take into account some basic criteria like: simplicity, stability and manageability.
- At first, one base URI structure should be identified, something looking like http://{sector}.yourdomain/ or http://data.{sector}.{yourdomain}/.
- Separate in the URIs schemes decisions the vocabulary and the data. Many decisions could be taken, and even with a special care for spatial data Designing URI Sets for the UK Public Sector
- Two options for the vocabulary URIs schemes:
1- Using of the same base URI
- 1.1- Having the path /ontology after your domain name, appending the concept local name of local ID. e.g: http://{baseURI}/ontology/{ontoName}/{Aclass} (for a Concept) and http://{baseURI}/ontology/{ontoName}/{aProperty} (for a property)
- 1.2- In this same direction, the URIs for the instances can be formed by adding /resource/{Aresource}/{individualResource} to the base URI.
2- Using a different scheme for instances.
- 2.1- If having a base URI of the type http://data.{sector}.{yourdomain}/, you may consider having the following pattern http://data.{sector}.{yourdomain}/def/{ontoDomain}}}. Note the keyword *def* for the vocabulary, {ontoDomain} can be the scope of the ontology, (geo, stat, service, transport, etc..)
- 2.2- Using this solution, instances are formed using the following scheme: http://id.{sector}.{yourdomain}/{ontoDomain}. Note the presence of the keyword *id* (individuals) at the beginning of the URI pattern
TODO : More specific examples ? @@ EXPAND MORE @@
Boris / Dani
It is necessary to identify a resource on the Internet, and precisely URIs are thought for that. According to [2] URIs should be designed with simplicity, stability and manageability in mind, thinking about them as identifiers rather than as names for Web resources.
There are some existing guidelines for URI design, for example (1) Cool URIs for the Semantic Web W3C Interest Group Note, which introduces a useful guidance on how to use URIs to describe things that are not Web documents; (2) Designing URI Sets for the UK Public Sector, a document from the UK Cabinet offices that defines the design considerations on how to URIs can be used to publish public sector reference data; and (3) Sytle Guidelines for Naming and Labelling Ontologies in the Multilingual Web, which proposes guidelines for desigin URIs in a multilingual scenario.
Based on the aforementioned guidelines and on our experience we propose the following design decisions regarding the assignment of URIs to the elements of the dataset:
TO DO ... propose the guidelines (Dani)
John Erickson(RPI)
TWC RPI drafted a set of URI Design Principles with an eye toward re-hostablity --- that is, we propose a syntactic design that can be modeled and demonstrated on one host (TWC's Instance Hub but can be easily re-hosted on another, such as a government agency responsible for the named entities.
TWC RPI's URI Design goals
- Able to easily be re-hosted (eg from demonstrator portal to agency host)
- Concise URIs with as little cruft as possible
- URIs that span many domains including:
- National identifiers (e.g. govermental agencies, states, zip codes)
- State-level identifiers (e.g. counties, congressional districts)
- Agency-level identifiers (e.g. EPA facilities)
TWC RPI's URI Template
'http://' BASE '/' 'id' '/' ORG '/' CATEGORY ( '/' TOKEN )+
In TWC RPI's case, BASE will be logd.tw.rpi.edu
Notes on the RPI Design
- id
- This is required, to avoid "polluting" the top namespace of BASE with identifiers.
- Prefer id over other alternatives to keep token as short as possible. The id token doesn't add any semantics, it is just a syntactic way of distinguishing these URIs from others.
- Also, consistency with data.gov.uk URIs here is a good thing.
- This is a short token representing the agency, government, or organization that controls the identfier space.
- For US identifiers, this token will start with 'us/', and be followed by a designation of either federal or state-level (e.g. 'us/fed', 'us/ny', 'us/ca').
- Identifiers relating to data.gov will all fall under the federal 'us/fed' space.
- For identifiers that aren't directly governmental, the ORG token should be suitably unique; for example, we use "usps-com" below for USPS controlled zip code URIs.
- CATEGORY and TOKEN
- These are ORG-specific values that identify the specific instance.
- Use as many TOKENs as necessary to distinguish the instance.
Examples of TWC RPI URI Design
The URI Design Principles page provides examples of applying this template to:
- US Government agencies:
- States and Territories:
- Counties:
- US Postal Codes (Zip Codes):
- Congressional Districts:
- EPA Facilities:
2.2.4 Versioning
The group will specify how to publish data which has multiple versions, including variations such as:
- data covering different time periods
- corrected data about the same time period
- the same data published using different vocabularies, formats, and presentation styles
- retracting published data
John Erickson(RPI)
The Digital Library community has faced the problem of versions in digital repositories for more than a decade+. One useful summary of thinking in this space can be found at the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project site. See especially:
- Essential Versioning Information
- Embedding Versioning Information in an Object
- Recommendations for Repository Developers
The Resourcing IDentifier Interoperability for Repositories (RIDIR) project (2007-2008) considered in depth the relationship between identifiers and finding versions of objects. See RIDIR Final Report. In their words, RIDIR set out to investigate how the appropriate use of identifiers for digital objects might aid interoperability between repositories and to build a self-contained software demonstrator that would illustrate the findings. A number of related projects are listed at JISC's RIDIR information page.
In addition, at TWC we have adopted an ad hoc approach to denoting versions of published linked data:
- The URI for the "abstract" dataset has no version information, e.g. http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/source/data-gov/dataset/1017
- The URI for a particular version appends this, e.g. http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/source/data-gov/dataset/1017/version/1st-anniversary
- The version indicator (e.g. "1st-anniversary") is arbitrary; a date code may be used. We sometimes use NON-ISO 8601 (e.g. "12-Jan-2012" to make it clear this is (in our case) not necessarily machine produced.
2.2.5 Stability
The group will specify how to publish data so that others can rely on it being available in perpetuity, persistently archived if necessary.
A definition describes this element of best practices.
- Stability
- persistent, predictable machine accessible data at stable externally visible locations.
- Persistent = machine accessible for long periods of time
- Predictable = names follow a logical format
- Stable location = externally visible locations are consistent.
- Other things that impact stability
- legacy = earlier naming schemes, formats, data storage devices
- steward = people who are committed to consistently maintain specific datasets, either individuals or roles in organizations
- provenance = the sources that establish a context for the production and/or use of an artifact. see W3C Provenance working group
These goals influence the value of the data. We believe that preservation of content is the main goal for stability, however there are others
The length of time information is available is inherently connected to the value placed upon it. Value is determined based on a cost-benefit relationship; The benefit derived from information is reduced by the cost(s) associated with using it.
Increasing stability requires adopting a strategy to allocate limited resources for achieving a goal. Adhere to a selection criteria of what best to be preserved. There are three possible goals;
- Preservation of content - It might be important to have raw data available for analysis ad infinitum. This means the overall objective is to preserve only the scientific content.
- Preservation of access - It might be important to have information available immediately at all times.
- Conservation - From a historical perspective one could seek to preserve all information in the format and modality in which it was originally conveyed. The most demanding is conservation of the full look and feel of the publication.
Mark metadata based on its intended audience
- Internal-audience : management of the process
- External-audience : final state, or no-update needed.
These examples are to generate discussion and comment. The intent is to have a few representative samples that will encourage additional suggestions. These examples were discussed on the public-gld email listserv
Technical examples What existing examples can we point to? (Need international ones...)
- PURLs (Persistent Uniform Resource Locators) purl.oclc.org
- Handle System http://www.handle.net/ and its commercial cousin Digital Object Identifier [3]
- Internet Archive (http:www.archive.org)
Institutional examples Who has the incentive to provide stable persistent data? Some real possibilities and some metaphors for discussion.
- Archives
- Third party entities that document provenance and provide access
- Estate Lawyer
- Someone responsible for tracking down heirs for an inheritance
- Private Foundation
- A philanthropic entity who is interested in the value proposition of stability and acts as archive
- Government
- A government organization which has the funds to steward others' data
- An internet organization
- A global open organization like W3C or Icann
Anne Washington 04:21, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Stable data may share similar technical characteristics. others?
- scalable = data formats can handle increase in size over time. Names need to expand to accommodate.
- i.e. W3C policy on dates in URLS to accommodate name changes that occur over time.
- granularity
- compressed in ZIP or GZIP format
- Data archives should be nested in least a single directory
- Stable data may avoid similar technical characteristics. Others?
- Data file names should not contain non-printable characters
- Data archives should be kept to a manageable size.
- Number of directories deep ?
- Without internal stability from the data stewards, external technology stability is a challenge. These are some organization characteristics for stable data.
- Consistent human skills
- Consistent infrastructure
- data related to organizational values or business needs
- internal champion or consistent business process
- internal politics on variation names do not impact external locations
-Ron Reck and Anne Washington 20:01, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Possible new page to transclude?: Best_Practices_Discussion_Stability
2.2.6 Legacy Data
The group will produce specific advice concerning how to expose legacy data, data which is being maintained in pre-existing (non-linked-data) systems. Subject: Roadmap for cities to adopt open data
Biplav: use-case
- Suppose a city is considering opening up its data. It has certain concerns:
- Business and legal level
- What are the privacy considerations in publishing data? On one hand, city will like to respect the privacy of citizens and businesses, and on the other, it will like the data to be valuable enough to lead to positive change.
- How to pay for the cost of opening up data? Cities may or may not have legal obligations to open up data. Accordingly, they will look for guidance on how to account for the costs. Further, can they levy a license fee if they are not obligated to open data
- Which data should be opened and when? Should it be by phases? What data should not be shared?
- What policies / laws are needed from the city so that businesses can collaborate on open data, while preserving their IP?
- Technical level
- What should be architecture to share large-scale public data? How do we ensure performance and security?
- What visualization should be supported for different types of data?
- Can we provide a template implementation for the reference architecture?
- We need to provide a roadmap to address them
2.2.7 Linked Data Cookbook
The group will produce a collection of advice on smaller, more specific issues, where known solutions exist to problems collected for the Community Directory. This document is to be published as a Working Group Note, or website, rather than a Recommendation. It may, instead, become part of the Community Directory site. The Cookbook for Open Government Linked Data.
Website Organization
Basic features
Best Practices may leverage the SWEO Semantic Web Case Studies and Use Cases approach.
Design Goals
- Must be relevant for government (local, state, federal, international)
- Self-maintaining over time
- Data published in a W3C RDF serialization (or submitted W3C Standard)
Possible Technologies to Use in the Site
- Website technologies options suggested:
- Callimachus-driven form-based site?
- wiki (Mediawiki or otherwise)
- Others? Please suggest others.


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