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Theme: Changing the Way We Eat
New York, NY, United States
March 1st, 2014
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TEDxManhattan "Changing the Way We Eat" took place on Saturday, March 1, 2014, at The TimesCenter in New York City. The one-day TEDx event explored the food system and what we are doing to shift to a more sustainable way of eating and farming.
Confirmed Speakers
Peggy Neu
Peggy Neu is President of The Monday Campaigns, a public health initiative that encourages organizations and individuals to use Monday as the day to start and sustain healthy behaviors. Meatless Monday, the first campaign launched in 2003 with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Schools of Public Health, has become a global movement through viral dissemination by committed advocates and the participation of key influencers and organizations like Oprah, Mario Batali, Sodexo and a growing number of schools, companies, restaurants and whole communities. In the US, awareness of the campaign has reached 43% without any paid media, with 36% of those aware saying that Meatless Monday influenced their decision to cut back on meat. Around the world Meatless Monday can be found in 24 countries, reflecting a shared commitment to address the health and environmental consequences of a meat-centric diet. The Monday Campaigns now has campaigns that address a range of health behaviors including nutrition, physical activity, tobacco cessation, preventive screenings and overall wellness that are being implemented in a variety of settings. Prior to the Monday Campaigns, Peggy was an Executive Vice President with Grey Worldwide, one of the world's largest communications companies, working with clients such as Procter and Gamble, Sprint, Aetna, Kaiser Permanente and the Department of Health and Human Services. She serves on the board of the Nalanda Institute of Contemplative Studies, a non-profit organization working to build a sustainable future by infusing ancient contemplative science into contemporary culture and ways of life.
Michael Rozyne
Michael Rozyne is Executive Director of Red Tomato, a non-profit produce 'food hub' based in Plainville, MA. He's been marketing small farm products for three decades, including work on conventional and organic farms in Maine, and as Purchaser/Marketer for a regional food distributor in the Northeast. In 1986, he co-founded fair trade coffee company Equal Exchange, now a leading US fair trade company. Rozyne started Red Tomato in 1996, to bring global fair trade principles to farmers in the US. His current obsession is finding a way to make local produce available in a grocery store near you.
Megan Miller
Megan Miller is founder of Bitty, a San Francisco-based food startup that uses high-protein cricket flour as the basis for a line of energy bars and gluten-free baked goods. Bitty seeks to remove cultural taboos around eating insects and popularize them as a delicious, sustainable ingredient that may help alleviate global food scarcity. Megan's passions for food, sustainability and innovation led her circuitously to the creation of Bitty. In her early twenties, she studied anthropology and agriculture at the University of Maryland with a focus on human-food relationships, worked for the USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program, apprenticed on an organic farm and cooked in the pastry kitchen of a fine-dining restaurant. She also backpacked around Mexico and Thailand, where she first sampled edible insects from street-food vendors. After earning her MA in philosophy at St. John's College, she moved to New York City, where she worked in editorial and digital roles at National Geographic Adventure, New York magazine and Popular Science. Megan became regarded as an expert in digital media innovation, appearing frequently as a TV talking head and speaker at events like CES and SXSW Interactive. In 2010, she relocated to San Francisco to head the U.S. R&D team for a global media company. Business travel took her around the world, including visits back to Latin America and Asia, where she developed the idea of introducing edible insects to Western culture. Surrounded by the Bay Area's food and entrepreneurship communities, she launched Bitty to make that dream a reality.
Andrew Gunther
Andrew Gunther is Program Director of Animal Welfare Approved. Since 2008, Andrew has spearheaded the program's unprecedented growth. AWA farms are now recognized as being at the vanguard of high welfare, environmentally positive, and socially responsible agriculture. Combining an expert understanding of the supply chain beyond the farm gate with hands-on experience and knowledge of farm production—and its consequences—Andrew brings a unique perspective to the arena. He has been the driving force behind some seminal works on the impacts of pasture-based production on the environment, and linking animal-social justice and the environment in a way that is beneficial to each component. An outspoken critic of industrial farming systems, Andrew routinely exposes the negative impact of industrial agriculture on farm animals, the environment, and society as a regular contributor to Huffington Post. He also works closely with restaurants groups and retailers to increase the availability of Animal Welfare Approved meat, dairy and eggs in traditional retail settings. Previously, Andrew was the senior global animal compassionate product procurement and development specialist for Whole Foods Market, leading the team that designed and launched the company's five-step welfare program in the United Kingdom. From a truly agricultural background, Andrew, with his wife and children, pioneered the world's first organic poultry hatchery for chickens. The Gunther family also managed the production and procurement for the largest independent organic chicken producer in the United Kingdom.
Lance Price
Lance Price is a public health researcher who works at the interface between science and policy to address the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance. In the laboratory, Dr. Price uses cutting-edge DNA sequencing to trace the origins of new antibiotic-resistant pathogens. By analyzing the genomes of bacteria found in humans, food, and livestock, Dr. Price and his colleagues have traced the origins of new superbugs to industrial livestock production. Dr. Price and his colleagues have also begun to broaden the scope of foodborne disease to include urinary tract infections caused by foodborne E. coli. In the policy arena, Dr. Price works with grassroots organizations, NGOs, and policymakers to develop science-based policies to curb antibiotic abuse in food-animal production and stem the emergence of new superbugs. Dr. Price's work was selected by Discover Magazine as one of the top 100 science stories of 2012. His research has also been covered by top-tier media around the world, including the BBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Scientific American, Men's Journal, and Fitness Magazine, among others.
David Binkle
Born in Ontario, Canada, David Binkle has served as Director of Food Services at Los Angeles Unified School District since July 2012. He oversees a program that provides over 650,000 meals daily by a team of 4,000 employees. Prior to joining the District, Binkle was Director of Dining Services at California State University, Fresno. Binkle holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from California State University, Northridge Tseng College and a Bachelor's of Science degree in health from Oklahoma Panhandle State University. As a Certified Executive Chef (CEC), Certified Executive Pastry Chef (CEPC) and Certified Culinary Administrator (CCA), Binkle brings over 30 years of industry experience from fine dining, hotels, country clubs and institutional food service. A Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow and longtime member of the American Culinary Federation (ACF), Binkle was awarded the 2011 Los Angeles Chef of the Year and was a 2010 recipient of the ACF Presidents Award National Medallion of Honor and 2013 Presidential Coin. Binkle has been featured on CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report and Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. He featured in a documentary Our Food Chain to be released in the fall of 2013. He will also appear in the critically acclaimed series Food Forward, a 13-episode PBS series on people who are changing the way Americans eat.
Sam Van Aken
Sam Van Aken's art combines sophisticated technology with traditional modes of art-making. Van Aken's projects cross boundaries between artistic genres, including performance, installation, video, photography, and sculpture. With each body of work, he selects practices and new perspectives that provide a kinesthetic perception of objects and a visceral charge. Born in Reading Pennsylvania, Sam Van Aken received his undergraduate education in Communication Theory and Art. Immediately following his studies he lived and worked in Poland under the auspices of the Andy Warhol Foundation and the United States Information Agency. Returning after several years in Europe, Van Aken received his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001. Since this time his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally receiving numerous honors including a Joan Mitchell Award, Association of International Curator's of Art Award and a 2009 Creative Capital Grant. Sam Van Aken is currently an Associate Professor in the Art Department at Syracuse University.
Matthew Moore
Matthew Moore is a fourth generation family farmer, working artist and food activist. Moore farms outside of Phoenix, Arizona, and exhibits his video and installation artwork internationally. Through these practices, he addresses issues of ecological, cultural, and economical sustainability and the potential loss of small independent farms. Moore lectures on art and agriculture at conferences and universities across the country from San Francisco to New York. His work has been exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, the Walker Art Center, MassMoCA, and the Confederation Centre and Nuit Blanche in Canada. He has been featured in publications including Metropolis Magazine, Dwell, and Architecture magazine, as well as Mark Magazine and Dazed and Confused of Europe.
Regina Bernard-Carreno
Dr. Regina Bernard-Carreno was born and raised in Hells Kitchen, NYC. She is a graduating pioneer of the African American Studies Master's Degree Program at Columbia University. She completed her M.Phil and Ph.D. Degrees in Urban Education at CUNY's Graduate Center. Having taught in graduate programs at various colleges, she is now an assistant professor of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College, CUNY, where her courses are particularly focused on race, class, and food activism. She is the author of Black and Brown Waves: The Cultural Politics of Young Women of Color and Feminism (2009), and Nuyorganics: Organic Intellectualism, the Search for Racial Identity, and Nuyorican Thought (2010). Her third book, Say it Loud: Black Power, Black Studies and Collegiate Culture will be published in late 2013. She has also authored pieces for a wide variety of books, collected editions, and in the Journal of Pan African Studies. Dr. Bernard-Carreno has been actively researching and writing about the cultural performance of food, food access and food racism in low income neighborhoods in New York City and abroad. Along with researching and writing, Dr. Bernard-Carreno has been designing scholarly projects and community products based on food access in poor NYC areas.
Sunny Young
Sunny Young is the winner of this year's TEDxManhattan Challenge. She is the director of Edufood Consulting LLC, a school food reform consulting firm, and program manager of Good Food for Oxford Schools (GFOS) in Oxford, MS, a project that combines farm to school initiatives, school gardens, and nutrition education. Her passion for good, clean, and fair food arose during a semester working on a fair trade vanilla farm in Madagascar. A transformative experience, Young left the farm knowing that she wanted to dedicate her career to food justice. After graduating college, Young moved to Boulder, CO, where she worked with Chef Ann Cooper, also known as the "Renegade Lunch Lady," on her mission to change the way kids eat. Alongside Cooper, Young became a Jill-of-all-trades, working with the Boulder Valley School District's School Food Project and coordinating Cooper's Food Family Farming Foundation (F3). Through her work with F3, Young managed The Lunch Box website, which provides free tools and resources to communities interested in improving school food, as well as the Healthy Breakfast 4 Kids and Lets Move Salad Bars to Schools grants. In 2012, Young moved to the great state of Mississippi where she runs the Oxford school district's GFOS initiative, the first school food reform program of its kind in the state. Additionally, Young serves as the National Farm to School Networks liaison for the state, a role that allows her to work toward creating widespread change by bringing lessons learned from Oxford's programs to all of Mississippi.
Virginia Clarke
Virginia Clarke is the executive director of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF), an international network of Grantmakers. SAFSF offers opportunities for shared learning and information exchange, collaboration, and seeks to increase philanthropic awareness of the issues as well as funding needs. She came to SAFSF in January 2003 from the University of California's systemwide office for the Education Abroad Program where she served as a Senior Analyst and Regional Director Assistant for Asia and Africa, coordinating university-level student exchanges. Previously, Virginia spent five years as a program director with the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria where she led programs for emerging world leaders on a wide array of issues including food security, sustainable agriculture, international non-governmental organizations, leadership, and various legal themes. She also coordinated the Seminar's outreach to Latin America. Other learning/employment opportunities over the last thirty years have included a stint at the World Bank; a management reorganization for a private clothing manufacturer in Bolivia; assisting immigrants in their efforts to secure legal residency in the U.S.; and multiple positions within the broad food service and hospitality industry. Fluent in Spanish, she has a Masters in International Administration from the School for International Training. In addition to her years in Austria, Virginia has lived and worked in Spain, Bolivia, Mexico, and seven states in the U.S. She lives in Santa Barbara, California with her youngest daughter, and daydreams of the Northern Lights and visiting her eldest daughter in Alaska.
Alison Cayne
Alison Cayne is owner of Haven's Kitchen, a recreational cooking school, specialty food shop and event space in Manhattan. Recognizing that improving our food system starts with showing people how to source and utilize sustainable ingredients, Alison conceptualized a school for the home cook that is both educational and comfortable. Alison believes that supporting local growers will ultimately make sustainable food available and accessible to everyone. Before founding Haven's Kitchen, Alison began working towards her Masters in NYU's Food Studies program. This led to a growing passion for creating a more sustainable food system and educating people about the connection between eating and agriculture. Alison worked with GrowNYC, educating school groups and visitors about the importance of regional ingredients and farming practices. In addition to working at Haven's Kitchen, and studying at NYU, Alison is on the boards of Just Food and Edible Schoolyard NYC, and a contributing editor at Domino Magazine.
Nikki Silvestri
Nikki Silvestri is the Executive Director of Green For All. She was previously Executive Director of People's Grocery in Oakland, CA, a non-profit organization working to improve the health and economy of the West Oakland community through a local food system. While at People's Grocery, Nikki raised the profile of an already successful organization, developing an innovative leadership development program for food entrepreneurs, strengthening a body of racial justice programming, and developing new partnerships that doubled the financial impact of People's Grocery's initiatives. An experienced public speaker, Nikki also provides thought leadership on the history and future of the food movement in venues such as Bioneers, the Environmental Grantmakers Association Annual Conference, Slow Food International's Terra Madre and the United Nations.Nikki began her work in social justice through the foster care system in Southern California, developing her passion for youth leadership development through mentoring, tutoring, and directing Foster Youth Empowerment Workshops. She later shifted into sustainability, developing course curriculum for the University of California system and working closely with Van Jones and Phaedra Ellis Lamkins at Green for All. In 2010, Nikki was featured in ELLE Magazine as one of five Gold Awardees. She has a Master's Degree in African American Studies from UCLA, and is originally from Los Angeles, CA.
Myra Goodman
Myra Goodman, and her husband Drew, founded Earthbound Farm on a 2 1/2 acre backyard garden in Carmel Valley, CA, in 1984. Both were recent college graduates, "city kids" from Manhattan, who became self-taught farmers who intuitively resisted handling agricultural chemicals. Earthbound Farm has grown from humble beginnings to become the largest grower of organic produce in North America, with more than 200 farmers cultivating 53,000 organic crop acres. Their products are available in 75% of supermarkets across the country, and their farming practices avoid the use of more than 19 million pounds of agricultural chemicals every year. Earthbound Farm was the first company to successfully package pre-washed salads for retail sale in 1986, and the first to pack their salads in 100% post consumer recycled plastic containers. Myra has authored three cookbooks that share her passion for delicious food and a healthy planet: Food to Live By – The Earthbound Farm Organic Cookbook; The Earthbound Cook – 250 Recipes for Delicious Food and a Healthy Planet; and Straight from the Earth – 100 Irresistible Vegan Recipes for Everyone (due out March, 2014). As a passionate advocate for organic food and farming, she has appeared on dozens of televisions shows, including Oprah, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Good Morning America Health, and has been featured in many publications, including More, People, and Bon Appetit. Drew and Myra still live on their original farm in Carmel Valley. They have two children, Marea and Jeffrey.
Saru Jayaraman
Saru Jayaraman the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley and Co-Founder of the consumer engagement campaign, The Welcome Table. She authored Behind the Kitchen Door, a groundbreaking exploration of the political, economic, and moral implications of dining out (Cornell University Press, 2013). After 9/11, with displaced World Trade Center restaurant workers, she co-founded ROC in New York, which organizes restaurant workers to win workplace justice campaigns, conducts research and policy work, partners with responsible employers, and launched cooperatively-owned restaurants. Now a national organization, ROC United has 10,000 members across 26 cities and local offices in NYC, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington DC, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, and Oakland. The founding of ROC has been chronicled in the book The Accidental American. Ms. Jayaraman is a frequent presenter on the low-wage workforce, specifically on the restaurant industry and raising the tipped minimum wage from the federal standard of $2.13 per hour. She has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, and PBS, among others. Saru is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She co-edited The New Urban Immigrant Workforce, (ME Sharpe, 2005). She was profiled in the New York Times "Public Lives" section in 2005, and was named one of Crain's "40 Under 40" in 2008 and one of New York Magazine's "Influentials" of New York City.
Clint Smith
Educator and poet Clint Smith teaches English at Parkdale High School in Prince George's County, MD. In the classroom, Mr. Smith combines his passion for poetry and justice to teach students the importance of their own stories as catalysts for meaningful social action. Outside of the classroom, he serves as the school's slam poetry coach and is the founder of Parkdale Students for Social Justice, which empowers and trains students to become community organizers. In 2013, Mr. Smith was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. He has been featured in the Washington Post and is profiled in the book, "American Teacher: Heroes in the Classroom" (Welcome Books, 2013) as one of the top 50 educators in the nation. In addition to teaching, Mr. Smith is an Individual World Poetry Slam finalist and was a member of Washington D.C.'s 2012 & 2013 National Slam Poetry Teams. His poetry has been featured on TVOne's Verses & Flow and at the International AIDS Conference, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and Teach For America's annual alumni conference. In 2012, Mr. Smith served as a cultural ambassador to Swaziland on behalf of the U.S. State Department where he conducted poetry workshops on HIV/AIDS prevention, cross-cultural understanding, and youth empowerment. He is an alumnus of Davidson College and New Orleans' public school system.
Chellie Pingree
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree moved to Maine in the 1970s, and after graduating from College of the Atlantic she started a small farm on the island of North Haven. A knitting business she started in the early 80s soon grew to ten year round employees producing knitting kits and books that were sold in hundreds of stores across the country. After serving on the local school board, and as the town's tax assessor, Chellie was elected to the Maine Senate in 1992 and after serving four terms—two as Senate Majority Leader—went on to become the national President of Common Cause. In 2008 Chellie was elected to Congress to serve Maine's 1st District. Not only was she the first women from this District to ever be elected to Congress, her election marked the first time in American history that women have made up a majority of a state's Congressional Delegation. In Congress, Chellie has introduced the Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act—a comprehensive package of reforms to agriculture policy that will expand opportunities for local and regional farmers and make it easier for consumers to have access to healthy foods. Chellie is still a small business owner today, owning and operating the Nebo Inn and Restaurant on North Haven, which features locally grown food.
Kenneth Cook
Ken Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group (EWG), is widely recognized as one of the most prominent and effective independent analysts of U.S. farm policy. Cook is a principal architect of landmark conservation laws that have shifted U.S. agriculture policy toward preservation of land, water, wetlands and wildlife. EWG's farm subsidy database details nearly $250 billion in subsidy payments and has generated 254 million searches since 2004. A New York Times profile of Cook said that the unique database "not only caught the attention of lawmakers, it also helped transform the farm bill into a question about equity and whether the country's wealthiest farmers should be paid to grow commodity crops while many smaller family farms receive nothing and are going out of business."
Tom Colicchio
Tom Colicchio spent his childhood immersed in food. At age 17, he made his kitchen debut in his native town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, at Evelyn's Seafood Restaurant. Colicchio then cooked at prominent New York restaurants such as The Quilted Giraffe, Gotham Bar & Grill, Rakel, and Mondrian. In July 1994, Colicchio and his business partner Danny Meyer opened Gramercy Tavern. Colicchio's cooking at Gramercy Tavern won consistent recognition, garnering three stars from The New York Times and earning him The James Beard Foundation's 2000 "Best Chef-New York" Award. In 2001, Colicchio opened Craft one block south of Gramercy Tavern. Soon after, The New York Times awarded Craft with three stars. With Craft and its casual sibling, Craftbar, established in New York City, Colicchio set out to expand his simple, elegant brand of cooking. He has since opened Craftsteak at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (2002), Craft and Craftbar in Los Angeles (2007; 2009) and Craftsteak at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods (2008). In summer 2013, he opened Tom Colicchio's Heritage Steak at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Colicchio opened his first 'wichcraft – a sandwich shop rooted in the same food and hospitality philosophies as Craft – in New York City in 2003. Today 'wichcraft has 14 New York City locations, as well as locations at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and the Westfield Center in San Francisco. In January 2010, he opened Colicchio & Sons in New York. Later that year, Colicchio opened Riverpark in New York with chef and partner Sisha Ortuzar. In 2012, he opened the restaurant at Topping Rose House, a new inn he is operating in Bridgehampton, New York. In May 2010, Colicchio was awarded The James Beard Foundation's coveted "Outstanding Chef" award, the culmination of his 30 years of hard work in the restaurant industry. Colicchio has published three cookbooks. The first, Think Like a Chef (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2000), won The James Beard Foundation "KitchenAid" Cookbook Award in May 2001. Tom's second cookbook, Craft of Cooking, was released by Clarkson Potter/Publishers in 2003. A sandwich book inspired by 'wichcraft, was released by Clarkson Potter/Publishers in 2009. Since 2006, Tom has been applying his experience and expertise to cable television as the head judge on Bravo's hit reality cooking series "Top Chef." The Emmy-winning show is filming its 11th season. Tom appears in and served as executive producer on A Place at the Table, Participant Media's documentary about food insecurity in America, produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson and Colicchio's wife, Lori Silverbush, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Magnolia Pictures released the film March 1.
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The Problem Is Not JSON Or XML, It Is About Data Context
There is an interesting discussion occurring regarding data transfer in web applications. The discussion has centered on the differences between JSON and XML in the JavaScript heavy sites. It started with Norm Walsh commenting on Twitter and Foursquare removing support for XML in their APIs. The basic idea of his post was that if you are using JavaScript, and you are only passing around atomic values or lists and hashes of atomic values, then JSON makes complete sense. He then talks about the difficulty of JSON when you need more context or you have mixed content. Overall, it was a very sensible post. The discussion gained steam because of Norm's "Meh" reaction, and because talking about "which is the better technology" tends to get people all riled up.
A few days after Norm's post, two other posts appeared refuting his stance even though in many comments it is considered a non-debate. First, Manu Sporny talked about the move to JSON being more of a paradigm shift to simpler markup. The complaints about SOAP and XML Schemas are obvious, but he complicates the argument by introducing JSON-LD into the conversation. JSON-LD introduces syntax for JSON to denote LinkedData, and there is notation very similar to XML Namespaces, to which Norm replies "Wow. By the time you start doing that, you're sure you wouldn't be better with a richer markup vocabulary?" Lastly, James Clark throws his opinion into the mix. His commentary is more about the fact that XML is losing web developers which could be a bad thing.
Now that you have the background story, I wanted to state that people are missing Norm Walsh's original point. This problem is about context and it is not really being treated that way. People are using JSON for web development because there is almost zero learning curve. It is used because of the increasing trend of JavaScript heavy sites to drive interactivity and some of the mashup creativity. Because Twitter's is readily available, people have created widgets to display their tweets on a web page. For many web developers that means grabbing a JSON representation of some tweets and converting it to HTML. This process barely takes longer than trying to find the correct API documentation.
However, what if you are using PHP or Java on the server? PHP has plenty of XML handling libraries, with SimplePie being a hugely popular RSS feed processing library. If you can make the Twitter API call from your Java server code, there are plenty of libraries for handling XML there as well. So, in that context XML may be a better option.
If you look at the type of problem, this could also change the data format. In the Twitter API example, if you have a simple widget that just displays tweets, then a solution based on JavaScript and JSON makes a lot of sense. What if that widget needed to be more dynamic? For example, let's say that someone registered on your site will see those tweets displayed differently and there are additional links in the tweet for replying or retweeting. You could write some JavaScript code to just check for registered users and generate different HTML, but this gets unwieldy if the number of different displays grows beyond 2 or 3. If the data is in XML, then you can write different XSLT scripts for each display which remains separate from the main widget code. You just need to select the appropriate XSLT based on the user interacting with the site. At this point people are likely going to complain about the use of SOAP for web services and its complexity. Let's ignore that option as REST has won, and SOAP is overly complex, can we agree on that and move on?
As with any programming problem, different requirements and different contexts may call for different technologies. If you get stuck on saying that JSON is better than XML (or the other way around), you lose another tool in your toolbox.
The other context that people are missing is why Twitter and Foursquare chose to support JSON only. This is likely a question of application complexity and analytics. Like any good API provider, Twitter is probably tracking all calls to the API and this includes the data format requested. It is very possible that the demand for XML was fairly low and it did not warrant separate support. In addition to this, there are plenty of JSON processing libraries available for mainstream languages like Java, so there was little risk in dropping support for XML. If there is no support for XML, then their API becomes simpler to support. That means less code to maintain, simpler maintenance of code because there are not multiple representations of one set of data, and fewer questions about the different formats.
So, quit whining about whose data format is better. Each one is better in a different context, otherwise it is highly unlikely that they would have become so popular. The important thing is to learn both formats, and other popular ones that appear, that way you can make an educated decision on which format to use in your situation.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 10:22am
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 10:52am in response to: Robert Csala
Robert Csala replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 11:02am in response to: Greg Brown
Stan Dyck replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 12:45pm
Here's the thing you're missing though. HTML *is* XML. If twitter provides me with nice, semantically marked up, well formed html, I don't need to covert or parse anything. I can just jam the output directly into a page as is and style it however I want with a css file. That's the easiest option of all.
Robert Diana replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 12:53pm in response to: Greg Brown
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 12:59pm in response to: Stan Dyck
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 1:01pm in response to: Robert Diana
Robert Diana replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 1:04pm in response to: Stan Dyck
Robert Diana replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 1:08pm in response to: Greg Brown
Robert Diana replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 1:10pm in response to: Greg Brown
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 1:13pm in response to: Robert Diana
Stan Dyck replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 2:05pm in response to: Greg Brown
It is true that the rules for html are more lax, but if I'm an api provider I am free to produce html that is well formed xml and to guarantee that it is so. Call it xhtml if you wish. Nothing prevents me from presenting the same html differently from the way you do, either via css or more sophisticated javascript means.
How is using jquery (say) to manipulate html more difficult? Remember, my requirement is semantically marked up, well formed html. If a company like twitter is interested in having people use their api, they will make it as easy to use as possible. What I'm saying is that this is the easiest way.
My main point is that (svg and pdf formatting aside) the stuff I get from twitter or whomever is problably going to end up as html. Why not send it to me as html instead of making me convert it from some xml or json format *into* html.
p.s. Your statement that html isn't designed for data transfer is pretty funny considering that (I would guess) the majority of the world's data gets transferred as html every minute of every day.
Stan Dyck replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 2:12pm in response to: Robert Diana
Nothing prevents you (meaning the API provider) from:
- serving up well formed (in the xml spec sense) html
- marking it up semantically (without caring about the presentation aspects)
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 2:31pm in response to: Stan Dyck
Your statement that html isn't designed for data transfer is pretty funny considering that (I would guess) the majority of the world's data gets transferred as html every minute of every day.You are describing the presentation of data. Most of the actual data is stored in a UI-independent manner in a back end system somewhere (e.g. in a relational database or...yup, you guessed it - XML or JSON, or some other format). I'm honestly shocked that there is a single developer who would actually argue in favor of combining data and presentation! But to each his/her own, I guess. Fortunately, I believe you are in the minority here.
Attila Király replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 2:32pm in response to: Greg Brown
"Only XHTML is truly XML, and, though that was a W3C recommendation for HTML 4.0, it has been dropped for HTML 5."
This is not accurate. The HTML5 standard supports two serialization formats: HTML and XHTML. Both syntax are part of the spec. So you can use xml syntax for HTML5. And I think xhtml will rise in the future because after long years IE with version 9 is finally supporting application/xhtml+xml content type too.
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 2:40pm in response to: Stan Dyck
My main point is that (svg and pdf formatting aside) the stuff I get from twitter or whomever is problably going to end up as html. Why not send it to me as html instead of making me convert it from some xml or json format *into* html.Because I don't want to have to work around or worry about your formatting, or deal with it when you decide to change that formatting. This isn't an issue for XML or JSON, since they are data formats (whereas, again, HTML is not). Also, not all consumers of data feeds are simple web pages that want to regurgitate HTML. They could be (and often are) back end systems that want to perform more detailed transformation or analyses on content. Sourcing that content as HTML requires the developers of these systems to jump through way more hoops than they would otherwise have to, since HTML processing is typically fairly difficult in a headless environment. So I can't follow your argument that HTML is the best choice for sharing data. I'm almost convinced that you're actually making a joke, trying to convince people that you are serious! :-)
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 2:42pm in response to: Attila Király
Stan Dyck replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 3:02pm in response to: Greg Brown
You already have to worry about my (when I say "my" here I mean an API provider) formatting and deal with my changes in the JSON or proprietary XML cases. I can change those just as easily as I can change the html that I produce. The difference is that if I always produce html, and you don't modify it, you can at least be sure that *something* will render. If I change my xml or json format under your nose, your use of my api will probably break.
If you don't like my html you don't have to send it to your clients' browsers. You can manipulate it how you want. But then you have to do that with XML or JSON too. In fact you are required to since you can't display them as XML or JSON.
I can't say I'm not crazy, but I'm not really joking, nor do I think I am alone. My guess is that you may not understand what I mean by semantic html. Wikipedia can explain that better than I.
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 3:10pm in response to: Stan Dyck
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 3:27pm in response to: Stan Dyck
Stan Dyck replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 4:01pm in response to: Greg Brown
No, you were describing the design of html. The fact is data *is* transferred as html. When you refresh this page, the data stored in some db somewhere will be converted and transferred to your browser as html. Multiply that by a few billion clicks across the Internet. See what I'm saying?
Perhaps an example (bear with me...or not...either way). Say I want to produce an application/website/whatever that displays articles from this site but one that removes silly commentary by people named "Stan". Can't imagine why, but hey, the client is always right.
I don't have this site's database or their nice object model with its awesome separation of presentation. (I don't even have their permission but we'll let that slide). All I've got to work with is the html that is spit out when I go to urls on their site. Under those circumstances, the best I can hope for is
- The site's html is clean (i.e it can be parsed with an xml parser)
- It's marked up semantically (lots of class and id attributes with span and div tags around important stuff).
Perhaps each comment is contained in a div with a "comment" class. Each comment has a span tag around the comment's author with "authorname" class attribute (bye bye, Stan!). The article itself might be inside a div tag with an "article" class and a unique id in an id attribute so I can strip out all the ads and non-article clutter around it. Stuff like that.
With that kind of thing in place, I can do wondorous things with the html because IT HAS BEEN RENDERED AS DATA!!! The nice thing too is that it's not really much of a burden for the people producing the html to make these changes (look at the source of this page. They are already most of the way there). They probably should be doing it anyway, especially if they want to do things like publish an API but don't want to take the time to translate their object model to some arbitrary textual format. HTML is a text format. It's expressive. Lots of things know how to deal with it. We should use it!
If you read this far, you are awesome. I hope you had fun. Thanks.
Stan Dyck replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 4:19pm in response to: Greg Brown
Stan Dyck replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 4:28pm in response to: Greg Brown
Greg Brown replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 4:38pm in response to: Stan Dyck
Stan Dyck replied on Fri, 2010/12/03 - 5:04pm in response to: Greg Brown
Fair enough, application specific then, but you obviously took my meaning. You say, "I would still need to write logic...". I say in the semantic html case "I might not need to write logic..." and in the application-specific xml or json case "I am required to write logic...". The difference between "might not need to" and "am required to" can be huge and is certainly reason to use semantic html as opposed to xml assuming I want to maximize the usefulness of my API.
As for your example, the answer is easy. I would use the hCard microformat. Take a look at how they model your exact example in html. One advantage that accrues magically is that other people know about hCard and can do things with it without any prior knowledge of your API. For example Firefox extensions like Operator. It costs a site developer very little to mark up contact data this way.
Greg Brown replied on Sat, 2010/12/04 - 10:48am in response to: Stan Dyck
Nicolas Frankel replied on Sun, 2010/12/05 - 3:27pm
Simple and to the point. You read my mind (or my article): it's not only true for XML vs Jason but you can generalize for TechX vs TechY.
When you hold a hammer, everything looks like a nail!


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Sea level rise is a possible feature of climate change. Sea levels do change. During the last ice age, part of Canada and the Great Lakes area were covered by glaciers. Water in the oceans evaporated and fell as snow and compressed into ice in the northern latitudes. The ice forming the Canadian glaciers was stacked about two miles high, and ocean levels were about 300 feet lower than they are today.
In 1942, during the buildup for war, the United States sent military aircraft to England to help England survive until the U.S. could launch an invasion. In July 1942, a flight of P-38 fighters and B-17 bombers took off from Maine en route to England. Because of bad weather and navigation problems, they were forced to land on the Greenland ice cap. The crews were rescued, but the airplanes were abandoned. Fifty years later, a team from Middlesboro, Ky., recovered one of the P-38s. When the P-38 was recovered in 1992, it was buried under 268 feet of ice.
In 1942 when the pilots made emergency landings on the Greenland ice cap, there were about two billion people living on this planet. Today, the number is seven billion, and population is increasing at a rate of 70 million people each year. For most of human existence, it didn't matter how many trees were cut or how much carbon fuel was burned because there weren't enough people to influence the climate. That has changed. Human population has increased 250 percent in 70 years.
A tree produces a growth ring in its trunk each year of its life, and the thickness of the ring indicates the growing conditions for that year. Tree rings are a historical record of local weather conditions. Ice and continental shelf sediments also offer a historical record.
Roman slaves operated silver mines and smelters in Spain about 2,500 years ago. Scientists
can tell the years that the smelters operated from core samples drilled into the Greenland ice cap because smoke residues from the smelters fell in Greenland and remained frozen in the ice layers.
Scientists are acquiring an understanding of our changing climate by analyzing core samples from sediments, by measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by observing the northward migration of plant and animal species, by recording the surface temperature of the oceans, and by measuring the acid concentration in ocean waters. Carbon dioxide increases ocean acid level.
Scientists from various fields of study who collaborate to study climate believe that our climate is changing, that most of the change is human-induced (anthropogenic), and that countermeasures should be taken. Possible consequences of a changed climate include mass migrations of desperate people escaping flooding coastal areas, crop failures, animal and plant species extinctions, violent storms, and cost-prohibitive insurance for real estate.
Life in American society depends on automobile transportation and truck logistics. We have to drive to survive. We cannot walk to the places we need to go, and we cannot use public transit, because, in most places, public transit doesn't exist. People in the developing world want the same energy consuming luxuries the developed world enjoys, and corporations that pollute the atmosphere don't want their profits diminished.
As long as profit can be made by activities that pollute the environment, it will be difficult to stop the polluting.
As long as individual sacrifice is required to moderate climate change, it will be difficult to achieve.
And getting seven billion people to agree on policies and sacrifices is no small task.
According to biblical literature, Joshua commanded the sun to stand still so that his army would have sufficient daylight hours to defeat an enemy. Interpreted as a futile gesture, it is analogous to our current attempts to address climate change. Interpreted as an irrefutable truth, it is the kind of miracle that humanity may need to successfully address climate change.
(Stevenson is a writer from Houston, Texas. He served two years in Vietnam as an infantry officer, retired from military service, and worked three years as a U.S. Civil Service employee, as well as working in Egypt as an employee of the former Radio Corporation of America. As a retiree, he reads history, follows issues important to Americans, and writes commentary.)


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Pug wrote:Dunkettle now going to an oral hearing, the decision date was revised from July to 20 October but the oral hearing is down for 24th-27th Nov in Rochestown Park Hotel
Pug wrote:thanks for the info - i'm sure all parties will be even more thrilled with the delay
Pug wrote:well, it was part of the reason you're right, there was a few other things in there. I take your point though, there is no joined up thinking, you have the council trying to do something with the road, the NRA jump in (instead of both of them sitting down together to sort it, which would actually fulfill the purpose of both the council and the NRA which is the usually forgotten and ignored reason of benefiting public transport ). In the meantime the council dont have the funds and nor do the developers so the land will remain static until the oral hearing result. Even if that produces a decision, the lands may remain static as the developer may not have the funds, which means the council cant get the contributions from them and thats under the assumption the NRA have agreed to anything at all. Meanwhile the traffic at Dunkettle grows and grows. Classic Ireland in a nutshell
corkblow-in wrote:I just find it amazing that a rail based park & ride which could potentially take a lot of the cars coming from the north and east is refused on the basis that the interchange may be upgraded in the future - apparently the NRA just weren't sure if they would need part of the proposed car park - just in case they do. Sustainable mass transit options should override road based.
Its likely that the park & ride would remove at least some of the traffic and give some breathing space for the roads into the city centre, at least in the short/medium term...... but I guess that would mean planning beyond the next election......
Chris_533976 wrote:I know this is an old post but anyway.
We have looked at amateurish ways of upgrading the junction and it is almost completely impossible to upgrade without using that patch of land. The junction of the Cork - Waterford, Cork - Dublin and Cork South Ring (and eventually North Ring) junctions has to take priority over a sustainable transport solution in this case.
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With time quickly winding down until the 2013 National Scout Jamboree opens its doors, the Boy Scouts of America recently held a public meeting in Mount Hope to give residents an overview of the event and its potential impacts on local communities.
"I hope this has pulled back the curtain a little bit, as they said in 'The Wizard of Oz,'" said Mike Patrick, operations director for the Boy Scouts of America.
"We want to help you understand what to expect as Scouts begin to arrive in the area. We think we've done a good job of managing that so that it's not going to spill over into the communities," said Patrick.
About 35 locals showed up to the meeting at the former Mount Hope High School. Patrick hopes for a better turnout at the next such meeting at 6 p.m. June 27, also at the high school.
"I just wanted to know how all the pieces of this great big huge puzzle all fit together," said meeting attendee Linda Brown of Mount Hope. "We know more now, and as it happens, we'll all learn from it."
The Jamboree kicks off with the arrival of more than 35,000 Scouts on July 15 — a "magical day," according to Summit Director Larry Pritchard.
"It's incredible to watch what happens at arrival day," he said, referring to the coordination involved in registering and transporting hundreds of busloads of troops in the span of several hours.
Transportation Management Services has been contracted to manage the traffic at the Jamboree and limit its impact on the immediate area. Tom Rickheim of TMS compares it to putting on a "miniature Olympics."
Before they ever enter the Summit, Scouts and visitors will all converge at a parking lot on U.S. 19 behind the Sunoco gas station in Bradley, where an estimated 225 buses and 6,000 cars will be parked during the event.
They will then be shuttled to the Summit via W.Va. 16 and W.Va. 61.
The West Virginia State Police will be directing traffic at 13 key intersections.
Heaviest traffic is predicted on troop arrival and departure days (July 15 and 24) and on the night of a stadium show (July 20), between 10 p.m. and midnight.
The main pressure point will be on U.S. 19 at the Sunoco, where people will turn into the parking lot.
Once they unload from buses, Scouts will spend much of Monday setting up their camp sites.
Tuesday features dedication ceremonies and an opening show, to which President Barack Obama is invited.
The first full day of Jamboree is Wednesday, July 17, which is also the first day visitors are permitted on site.
That day, 20 percent of the Scouts will be fanned out across nine counties in southern West Virginia completing service projects. Another 20 percent will be taking a long hike to the highest point on the Summit property. The remainder will be participating in the many adventure activities planned for them both on site and off site.
Saturday, July 20, features a stadium show from 7 to 9 p.m.
"I can't tell you who the entertainment will be, because that will break our contract," said Pritchard. "I can tell you it's someone the Scouts will absolutely love."
Sunday is largely set aside for worship services.
Closing activities will begin Tuesday, as buses begin staging for departure day Wednesday, July 24.
The Jamboree will be open to visitors from July 17 to July 23 during specific hours. A complete schedule can be found at visitjambo.org.
"We want you all to come," Pritchard told attendees.
Tickets can be purchased at visitjambo.org. They will also be available day-of at the visitor parking lot.
Adult day passes cost $30. Prices are cheaper for children and multi-day passes.
Visitors will have access to activities at the Summit Center, the hub of the Jamboree. There, they can sample mountain bike trails, canopy tours, archery, shooting sports, rock climbing, a skateboard plaza, and other exhibits.
"I'm going to get a hold of my family members and tell them they can come here instead of Hershey Park this summer," said meeting attendee Kathleen Scott, also a member of Mount Hope's town council.
Many local merchants are wondering whether and how the event will impact their bottom line.
"You're not going to see a super huge spike," said Patrick. "There will be a percentage increase in volume. ... It's going to be more spread out."
Scouts and leaders will remain at the Summit for the duration of the Jamboree, though it's possible they could arrive a day early and have some impact in that way.
The real impact will likely be from visitors to the event, who could grab a meal or a hotel room locally. Between 4,000 and 5,000 have signed up so far, according to Pritchard.
The maximum capacity would be around 20,000 visitors per day, but Pritchard said he'd be surprised if that many showed up.
Additionally, about a thousand exhibitors and sponsors will be staying in local hotels and eating at local restaurants during the event.
Tourism-related businesses, auto repair, and general merchandisers are among those who will likely see the greatest impact, according to members of the business community near Fort A.P. Hill, where Jamborees were held in the past.
Attendees also heard about safety and security during the event.
Shane Wheeler, Summit health and safety manager and Mount Hope's fire chief, assured his neighbors that no shortcuts had been made in the area of safety.
"Every decision made on the Jamboree, the question has been asked — 'How will this impact the community?' ... As hard as we have tried, I'm sure there's going to be some inconveniences," he said.
One of those won't be the ability to get an ambulance or a fire truck in case of local emergency, said Fayette County Office of Emergency Services director Shawn Wolford.
"We don't anticipate a decrease in service for locals," he said.
He urged the public to sign up for free text alerts of any emergencies at nixle.com.
Security will be "robust," said Gary Hartley of the BSA. Visitors should expect to pass through several security checkpoints. Only day packs and water bottles will be permitted inside — no food, backpacks, picnic baskets, or coolers allowed.
Patrick said at the end of the day, he hopes the 35,000-plus Scouts who visit Fayette County this summer will go away with a great memory and a desire to someday return.
The Boy Scouts of America has an office at the Crossroads Mall in Beckley, where the public can get additional information about the Summit and the Jamboree.
"We're easily accessible. Come by and see us," said Hartley.
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"It was a semi-good day to run today," quipped St. John's boys coach Dr. Jay DeWitt. "Overall, this spring has not been good. Today wasn't too bad but even then, it was windy. I've coached for 10 years and this has been the worst spring. Because of the lack of quality practice time outdoors, we are treating every meet like a glorified practice. We try to do both: compete and work on things we really haven't been able to in practice. It's frustrating but the kids have worked hard and done their best."
Lady Jay coach Dave Desenberg echoed that assessment.
"All you can ask of your people is to give 100 percent and get better. We did that today and that's a positive; plus, at this time of year, it's about coming out of every meet relatively healthy, which we are," he explained. "I have coached in this sport for 35 years and I can only remember one or two years that were like this. The girls are doing everything we ask and that's all you can do."
Lady Green head coach Vaughn Horstman is in an even more interesting predicament.
"We had the long run in girls basketball, so basically we are three weeks behind: we had the extra two weeks to begin with and I give the girls the mandatory week off between seasons," he explained. "For me, the weather doesn't really affect how we train but we have had to adjust how we do it this year; we're just behind everyone right now. However, we are showing signs of catching up. We don't have the numbers this year, which hurts us in the meets, but I'm hoping that will be taken care if in the next couple of years."
His Ottoville counterpart, Ryan Horstman, doesn't quite have the answers he'd like.
"That's a good question; we really don't know where we stand at this point overall," he explained. "We do have a couple of answers in a couple of events. Colin Bendele has done well in the throws and likely will end up in the 400. Our senior pole-vaulters have also done well despite the weather: Anthony Eickholt has jumped 12-0 this year and Dylan Klima and Logan Kortokrax have gone 11-0. Logan also high-jumped 5-8 today." Fort Jennings coach Kevin Horstman takes it all in stride.


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Osteopenia (cont.)
Medical Author:
Catherine Burt Driver, MD
Catherine Burt Driver, MD
Catherine Burt Driver, MD, is board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Driver is a member of the American College of Rheumatology. She currently is in active practice in the field of rheumatology in Mission Viejo, Calif., where she is a partner in Mission Internal Medical Group.
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William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
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How widespread is osteopenia?
Osteopenia affects an estimated 34 million people in the United States. Approximately 80% of those affected are women. Nevertheless, men also can be affected by osteopenia and osteoporosis and should also be evaluated for these bone conditions when they are considered to be at risk.
Why is osteopenia important?
Osteopenia is important because it can cause bone fractures. People with osteopenia are not as likely to fracture a bone as those with osteoporosis; however, because there are many more people with osteopenia than osteoporosis, patients with osteopenia account for a large number of patients who fracture a bone. In other words, while osteoporosis indicates bone that is more prone to fracture and people with osteoporosis have a higher percentage risk of fracture than osteopenia, because of the much larger number of people with osteopenia there is a greater total number of fractures in these people.
Approximately 50% of Caucasian women will fracture a bone in their lifetime. Bone fractures due to osteopenia and osteoporosis are important because they can be very painful, although some spinal (vertebral) fractures are painless.
In addition to the pain, hip fractures are a serious problem because they require surgical repair. Also, up to 30% of patients require long-term nursing-home care after a hip fracture. Fractures, especially in the elderly, are associated with an increase in overall mortality (death rate). Approximately 20% of people die in the year following hip fracture, due to complications including blood clots related to immobility, pneumonia, and many other reasons.
The total cost to the U.S. health system for bone fractures due to osteopenia and osteoporosis is estimated at over $15 billion. Due to the aging population, the number of hip fractures, and the related costs, could double or triple by 2040.
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