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|Walnut Wind Farm Commissioned
|by NAW Staff on Wednesday February 18 2009
|Escondido, Calif.-based enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles company, and MidAmerican Energy Co. (MEC) say the Walnut Wind Farm in Pottawattamie County, Iowa has been commissioned. [read more]
|MAM Completes Electrical Work For N.H. Wind Project
|by NAW Staff on Wednesday February 18 2009
|MAM Utility Services Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Maine & Maritimes Corp., has completed construction of an electrical collector system for the Lempster Wind [read more]
|First Phase Of Sunray Wind Farm Complete
|by NAW Staff on Tuesday February 17 2009
|Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Signal Wind Energy LLC says the first phase of the Sunray Wind Farm in Moore County, Texas, has been completed. When fully complete, [read more]
|Canadian Hydro Updates Wolfe Island Wind Project
|by NAW Staff on Monday February 16 2009
|Canadian Hydro Developers Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Canadian Renewable Energy Corp., says that its 197.8 MW Wolfe Island Wind Project is expected to [read more]
|Signal Wind Completes First Phase Of Wind Project
|by NAW Staff on Tuesday February 10 2009
|Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Signal Wind Energy LLC has completed the first phase of the Great Plains Wind Park in Hansford County, Texas. This is the company's [read more]
|Company Revises Layout For Wind Development
|by NAW Staff on Monday February 09 2009
|enXco, an EdF Energies Nouvelles company, has revised the layout for its Desert Claim wind farm in order to provide more distance between the wind [read more]
|Port Of Vancouver Signs Contract With Vestas
|by NAW Staff on Friday February 06 2009
|The Port of Vancouver USA has signed a three-year contract with Vestas Wind Systems that includes options for extending the contract for the handling of [read more]
|Elbow Creek Wind Farm Achieves Commercial Operation
|by NAW Staff on Friday February 06 2009
|Princeton, N.J.-based NRG Energy Inc. has completed construction on its second wind farm, the 122 MW Elbow Creek Wind Project in Howard County, Texas. The [read more]
|Martifer To Build Wind Tower Factory In Texas
|by NAW Staff on Thursday February 05 2009
|Martifer Energy Systems, a subsidiary of Martifer Group - a Portuguese company involved with metal construction, energy systems, agriculture and biofuel - will construct a [read more]
|NACEL Plans Fourth Wind Project In Texas Panhandle
|by NAW Staff on Monday February 02 2009
|Denver-based NACEL Energy Corp. has entered into two long-term wind development rights agreements covering an aggregate of 636 acres in Donley County, Texas. Hedley Pointe [read more]
|Greengate Receives Municipal Approval For Wind Project
|by NAW Staff on Friday January 30 2009
|Calgary, Alberta-based Greengate Power Corp. has received municipal approval from Wheatland County for the construction of its 150 MW Wintering Hills Wind Project in central [read more]
|UpWind Signs Agreement With Enel
|by NAW Staff on Friday January 30 2009
|Medford, Ore.-based UpWind Solutions Inc. has signed a multiyear operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement with Enel North America for the Smoky Hills II project in [read more]
|PSE, RES File CUP For Washington Wind Project
|by NAW Staff on Wednesday January 28 2009
|Puget Sound Energy and Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. (RES Americas) have filed a conditional use permit (CUP) application in Garfield County, Wash. The permit [read more]
|National Grid, Beacon Power To Evaluate Flywheel Technology For Grid Applications
|by NAW Staff on Tuesday January 27 2009
|Tyngsboro, Mass.-based Beacon Power Corp., a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support efficient electricity grid operation, has executed an information [read more]
|OPA Awards Contracts For Six Wind Projects
|by NAW Staff on Monday January 26 2009
|The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has awarded long-term contracts for six green energy projects. These projects will help create about 2,200 jobs. The six new [read more]


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Editor: "God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it." (Genesis 1:27-28).
God in his infinite knowledge, wisdom and power created male and female to begin the human race. Adam and Eve were our first parents. And their off springs multiplied for thousand of years, but then they sinned and became evil and corrupt and very violent and God was sorry that he ever created man (Genesis 6:6). He planned to send a flood to destroy all mankind. (Genesis 6:12-22)
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (Genesis 6:8) and God commanded him to build an ark to save himself and his family from the flood. Noah and his family and all of the animals, male and female, that God caused to enter the ark, survived. After the flood, Noah and his wife and their three sons and their wives began to have children to fill the earth again.
Educators with doctor's degrees say the Bible is only a religious book and contains no science. However, the miraculous existence of Noah's ark on a 6,000 foot plateau between Greater and Lesser Ararat is scientific and archeological evidence that validates the Holy Bible's authenticity.
This fact proves there was a flood or how would the ark be setting on a mountain? This is one of the best kept secrets to shelter Darwin's theory of evolution from being exposed for what it really is; Satan's evil attempt to destroy the truth of God's creation.
Only Noah's family survived the flood to continue the human race and bring honor and glory to Almighty God.
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About 3,000 struggling third-grade readers would be invited to attend reading camps next summer if state legislators approve a Senate budget proposal.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192545380462506435.post6061071279713290619..comments2014-01-27T13:27:29.626-08:00Comments on Ernie's Journeys: Games we played when I was a boyErnie Margheimhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192545380462506435.post-43078669463415709512008-11-29T21:30:00.000-08:002008-11-29T21:30:00.000-08:00Ernie,Good to see you blogging about your memories...Ernie,

Good to see you blogging about your memories. I sure wish my mom and dad had done something like this!

My wife cut her finger the only time she tried playing mumbledy peg. I never had a pocket knife, being a bit younger than you.

We played marbles in the 12950's too, but all of the marbles were well formed and hard like agates, we caleld them catseyes here in San Diego.

Enjoy blogging - and keep Becky on her toes, too, will you? You're al ucky guy, and she's a lucky girl to have you around.

Cheers -- RandyRandy Seaverhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192545380462506435.post-37992669930186686292008-11-29T14:53:00.000-08:002008-11-29T14:53:00.000-08:00My mother played some marble games but she never m...My mother played some marble games but she never mentioned digging holes. She's also talked about mumble peg but her brother and his friends never let her play. You don't mention jax or tidily winks which were two of her favorites.Applehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Dragon Nest SEA Registration, Finally Fixed
Finally, new players can now sign-up for a new account in Dragon Nest SEA. It took them a couple of days to fix it but what's important is that it's finally working again.
These couple of days, even more, registering or signing up for a new Dragon Nest SEA account via CherryCredits was impossible because of an unknown system error. Hundreds, if not thousands, of new players who were looking forward to play this very popular game failed to play it because of this one particular error. Before it was fixed, the registration page would always display this error, "Oops, we are currently experiencing some system error. Please try again later".
This particular error was preventing a lot of new players from signing-up for a new Dragon Nest SEA account. It is quite obvious that the publisher of Dragon Nest SEA is losing a lot of new players in the process and because of that they were losing money as well. Unfortunately, they were not able to fix it immediately. It took them a couple of days to finally fix the registration error encountered by many players.
Today, I tried to create a new account just to test if the registration process is fixed and I'm glad to report that it is now finally working. I was able to register a couple of new accounts without encountering any kind of system errors. So, if you had problems registering before then I suggest that you try registering now before a new error appears. A popular MMO or game like Dragon Nest will never be free any kind of errors because of the number of people or players accessing it.
Dragon Nest is an action oriented MMORPG and it is published in the SEA region by CherryCredits. Players from around the Southeast Asian region should play in the servers provided by CherryCredits. By the way, Dragon Nest SEA is in English.
So, if you would like to play Dragon Nest SEA then simply visit the official Dragon Nest SEA website and register for a new account. Go ahead and register, it should be working now. Click here to go to Dragon Nest SEA website.
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Rough Justice
The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer by Peter Elkind Portfolio, 320 pp., $26.95
It all seems so familiar: New York, once the Empire State, beset by a dysfunctional government and a dying upstate economy; a wildly popular, crusading attorney general seemingly on his way to a landslide gubernatorial victory by promising to revive the state's flagging fortunes. Four years ago, Eliot Spitzer was the man riding in on the AG's white horse; this year it's Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo has no doubt carefully read Peter Elkind's Rough Justice, if only to see how his own role in the former governor's political demise is depicted. The "rough justice" in the title refers to the methods used by Spitzer as attorney general when he went after Wall Street executives, and also by Cuomo when, as Spitzer's successor, he went after Governor Spitzer's use of state troopers to subvert a rival. The method: Go after a guilty bigwig who has a lot to lose, try him in the press, squeeze him, and then force to him to quickly acknowledge his wrongdoing. The technique can be brutally effective. There's no need for subtleties or convictions, just a big PR victory. Cuomo used the same methods to discomfit Governor Spitzer that Attorney General Spitzer had used to make himself governor.
Elkind's book is primarily the story of Spitzer's descent into the world of "high class" call girls. But there are two, more substantial but less developed, stories folded into the book's melodramatic format. The first is the story of why New York's government works best for the people employed by government. The second involves the danger of electing candidates who are merely intelligent while lacking character, experience, and integrity.
There are a number of strands in Elkind's melodrama, none of which is plausible or well developed. In one, Spitzer is done in by his evil twin, Irwin. "Irwin" was the name staffers gave to Spitzer when he flew into one of his rages. But this theory of a split personality is so thin as to be a mere throw-in. The second, only hinted at, is that Spitzer was done in by sinister Wall Street bad guys such as Hank Greenberg, the man he had deposed as head of AIG, and Ken Langone of Home Depot, who had been sued by Spitzer for his role on the New York Stock Exchange's compensation committee. Charges were eventually dropped against both men. But this is a barely developed argument by inferential suggestion. The third, and least plausible, theme is that Spitzer was done in by nefarious pols such as his arch-Albany enemy Joe Bruno, the dapper and corrupt Republican president of the state senate. This is the strand that should most interest Cuomo since it speaks directly to the problems he'll face should he be elected.
After 12 years of the increasingly lethargic and ethically challenged administration of Republican governor George Pataki, who entered the statehouse in 1995 a man of modest means and left a millionaire in 2006, New York, burdened by a famously dysfunctional legislature, was ready for a new departure. Disgust with Albany, which had been hit by a series of legislative scandals, had reached new levels. The number of lobbyists had doubled during the Pataki years, property taxes were 70 percent above the national average, and the business climate was rated the worst, or next to worst, in the nation. Upstate New York, and particularly western New York, was dying. Spitzer shocked downstate when, campaigning for governor in 2006, he described part of New York as "Appalachian" in its poverty, but he wasn't far off the mark. Spitzer, who was already being mentioned as a future president, ran on two Obama-like slogans: "total change" and "on day one everything changes."
In his January 2007 inaugural speech, Spitzer decried, "The burdensome property taxes and the health care we can't afford . . . the jobs that have disappeared from our upstate cities and the schools that keep failing our children. . . . Like Rip Van Winkle," he went on, "New York has slept through much of the past decade." Spitzer proposed a billion-dollar development fund for upstate New York, more support for the State University of New York, which he saw as a potential economic engine, lower property taxes, and more school aid. But to pay for all that he had to slow the growth of health care spending, which was crowding out every other item in the budget. New York was spending more on Medicaid than Florida and Texas combined, and getting only mediocre care in return.
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Runoff becomes big problem in Alle-Kiski Valley, leading to pricey fixes
Although large amounts of water from state-owned roads inundate local sewer systems, it is still up to local communities to suck it up, literally, and foot the bills for multi-million dollar sewage projects.
The Kiski Water Pollution Control Authority is in the process of building a new $28 million treatment plant.
The extra capacity is needed to deal with old, leaky sewer systems owned by some of the 13 communities it serves.
A high volume of stormwater is one of culprits for sewage treatment problems, along with water draining from state roads, making the problem worse for a number of communities, according to authority officials.
PennDOT isn't helping as its sister agency, the state Department of Environmental Protection, forces these small towns to complete costly sewage projects.
"We addressed this with PennDOT — they basically said, 'Too bad,' " said David Heffernan, president of council in Apollo, which is finishing a $7.45 million sewage project.
The excess water that drains from Route 56, locally known as First Street, will go into the town's stormwater lines directly to the Kiski River.
Before the project, that water entered the borough's old combined sanitary and stormwater lines, contributing to partially treated sewage overflows to the Kiski River.
Same story with Vandergrift.
"We're very concerned about the quantity of water that flows into our system," said Larry Loperfito, solicitor of Vandergrift, which is preparing for the second phase of a $10 million sewer project.
Stormwater draining at the Route 56 Bypass and Hancock Avenue accounted for 50 percent of the total flow of stormwater through the borough's combined sanitary and stormwater lines during storms, according to 2009 flow-monitor study by the authority.
The borough engineer estimates that water from the Route 56 drainage system contributes about 20 percent of the town's sewage overflows.
"At this point, the borough would like to get (a) contribution from PennDOT," Loperfito said.
Not the state's problem
There has been no help from the state because DEP and PennDOT have absolved themselves of any responsibility for the problem.
The DEP has said before that stormwater from roads entering local sewage systems is a legacy problem.
When these state roads were built decades ago, there was scant attention paid to the connection to local sewage systems.
In the case of Vandergrift — and, likely, other communities — the sewer line belongs to Vandergrift, according to John Poister, the DEP spokesman in Pittsburgh.
"And because the PennDOT connection is adding additional run-off into the system — there is nothing standing in the way of Vandergrift approaching PennDOT directly," Poister said.
DEP is the regulatory agency enforcing the federal Clean Water Act and other state laws that limit the amount of sewage that spews into local waterways.
"We can't speak for PennDOT," Poister said.
It appears that the decision to connect the Route 56 bypass drainage to Vandergrift's sewage system was made long ago, he added.
PennDOT met with Vandergrift in April 2010 to discuss this issue, according to Erin Waters-Trasatt, deputy press secretary for the agency in Harrisburg.
"Because PennDOT does not maintain sewage systems, it was decided that we could not, and would not, participate financially in the project," she said.
"Under state law, PennDOT will not address capacity issues caused by increased runoff from roadside development," Waters-Trasatt said.
Future prospects
In the end, the households of Vandergrift and the rest of the authority's 14,000 customers will have to take on the costs associated with replacing the old lines and the extra drainage from state roads.
Some households are paying double: for their own town's sewage project and the expansion of the Kiski Valley Water Pollution Control Authority's plant in Allegheny Township.
Had all of the towns started the work for their own systems in the 1990s, when Authority Manager Bob Kossak first asked, the authority wouldn't need the expansion it is building today, he said.
"Because of the combined sewer overflow problems, we were required to do long-range plans, which showed that we didn't have the capacity at the plant," Kossak said.
"Now, it's a non-issue because we were under the gun by the state," he said. "We bought some time."
The excess stormwater was "driving quite a bit of the issues," Kossak said.
"The road surface of Pennsylvania roads is tremendous," he said. "Nobody has determined what percentage, but I bet it's a significant part of the problem."
And boroughs are saddled with this problem, according to Ed Knittel, senior director for education and sustainability at the Pennsylvania Association of Boroughs.
"It's a no-win situation for our membership," he said.
His organization has taken up the problem of stormwater issues from state roads and drainage systems for more than 10 years.
"The boroughs are stuck with it," he said. "Anything below the surface of the road, which includes catch basins, is the borough's responsibility."
"I don't see anyone at the state level willing to make a change, and (the) borough will continue to do what they have to have to do to keep the roads usable for the public."
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Volunteers carry flags for placement at the Healing Field at Patriot Park in Cathedral City on Sunday morning. The Healing Field, presented by the Rotary Club of Cathedral City, is open 24 hours a day until closing ceremonies on Nov. 17.
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Sponsored by the Cathedral City Rotary Club, the field is a way to recognize and pay tribute to all military personnel who have been killed since the war in Iraq started in March 2003, many of them in their late teens or early 20s.
"When I walked through for the first time ... I couldn't get over how young some of these vets are who lost their lives," Rotary Club President Jeff ...


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Sept. 21, 2010 – In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine has once again teamed up with CBS Radio St. Louis to "Light the Town Pink" with pink light bulbs. The bulbs can be placed in home porch lights or at businesses to show support for breast cancer patients and breast cancer screening.
The light bulbs can be purchased through Oct. 31, while supplies last, at all three Siteman locations, CBS Radio offices and many other locations in the community. The cost is $3 each.
All proceeds from light bulb sales will benefit Siteman's Young Women's Breast Cancer Program (YWBCP) and screening mammography services. Since 2001, the YWBCP has provided support and educational opportunities to young women diagnosed with breast cancer and young survivors. The program also conducts research to identify genetic factors important in the development of breast cancer in young women.
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Ella Henderson blows away X Factor competition
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Tetney's Ella Henderson showed she is in a league of her own when she took to the stage for the first of the X Factor's live shows.
Singing Take That's Rule The World, the 16-year-old was the last of Tulisa's girls to sing and was described as "stunning" by Gary Barlow, who said he "hates it" when people sing his songs better than he does!
The other judges were equally blown away, with Tulisa, Gary and Nicole giving her the first standing ovation of the night.
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Ether Saga Odyssey: Future's End is Now Live!
By RayPWE @ August 18, 2011 at 12:45pm
Future's End is now live! Make sure you're on top of all the new features:
New Area: Future's End
Witness Future's End as you join forces to face new horrors and struggle to survive in this forsaken land. To enter this new area, you must be level 106 or above and speak to Queen Zonis of Amaz to teleport to Future's End. This area will feature high level monsters that give a ton of EXP and valuable drops!
Dragon Lord, Genesis, and Glyph System
The new Dragon Lord and Genesis equipment will be the strongest and most sought after equipment in ESO. The current True Dragon equipment can be upgraded to Dragon Lord equipment. Also, the new Genesis equipment can be acquired from the Risen Phoenix at Future's End.
What makes these Dragon Lord and Genesis equipment even more powerful than anything we released is due to the new Glyph system. The Glyph system is used exclusively to enchant the Dragon Lord and Genesis equipment to further increase their power. The Glyphs can be etched on both weapons and armor.
When a set of equipment has been etched with a valid combination of Glyphs of the same type, a Mantra may be active. Once a character has a valid combination of Glyphs, users can enable Mantras and receive various attribute bonuses.
A variety of different Glyphs are available, with each Glyph giving random bonuses within a set range based upon its type. Glyphs can also be broken down into basic components that can be combined to create a more powerful Glyph.
World Bosses
Risen Phoenix
The Risen Phoenix spawns in Future's End every Friday at 7PM on Realm 8. It has a chance to drop Genesis weapons, Glyphs, and imbue items!
Astral Overlord
The Astral Overlord spawns in ESO's main city: Pokari City. The boss spawns every Saturday at 7PM on Realm 5. It has a chance to drop Glyphs and imbue items. After it is defeated, all players will have 10 minutes to receive a quest that gives Event Tokens (which gives experience). A NPC will also spawn during those 10 minutes that will imbue a piece of equipment from +5 to +6 at a 100% success rate.
Twisted Moon
Twisted Moon is a new adventure consisting of three different versions from Dispatcher Chun: one for players level 45-100, a second version for players level 101-120, and a third version for players level 101-120 (requires a key from the previous adventure). Players will fight off waves of different monsters and can unlock additional waves for even more experience by using keys.
Sacred Hunt
The Sacred Hunt adventure is for players level 110 and above. Enter the adventure by obtaining a Sacred Hunt Map from Mapkeeper Ming (once per day). Players must defeat a series of boss monsters for rewards. These bosses, in order fought, include the: Blight Wyvern, Bloodthirsty Gator, Captain of the Altar, Netherfire Drake, and the Moloch Warlord.
Mogui Signets and Skills
Mogui classes can now use the powerful Signets to bolster their skills and adjust their attributes.
Ancient Roar is a new Hellion skill that creates an area of effect that does damage based upon Hellion's STR. It also makes the target's movement speed slower, induces stun, and lowers the defense and resistance.
The new Maven skill is Death Seed, which is an area curse that does damage over time based upon the Maven's INT. It also makes the target's movement speed slower, prevents the use of consumable items, and induces fear.
Mobile Forge
Now you can use the Ancestral Forge, on the go! You can access the new Mobile Forge anywhere you want. The Pocket Forge consumes one Angelic Bell and allows you to forge anywhere you want!
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Dr. John Francis Krob, DVM, 83, of Tipton, died Friday, February 1, 2013 in University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City. Visitation will be Sunday, February 3, 2013 from 2-5 pm at Fry Funeral Home, Tipton. Funeral services will be held on Monday February 4, 2013 at 11:00 am at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Tipton with Father Ed Dunn and Father David Hitch officiating. Burial will be in the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery at a later date. On-line condolences may be left at www.fryfuneralhome.com.
Dr. John Francis Krob, was born September 23, 1929, in Johnson County, Iowa. He was the son of Milo Joseph and Mayme Elizabeth Murphy Krob. He served his country in the United States Air Force and received his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Iowa State University. On August 21, 1951, John was united in marriage to Carolyn Jean Rourke in Oxford, Iowa. He practiced veterinary medicine at the Tipton Veterinary Clinic for 38 years. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Tipton Lion's, IVMA, Moose Lodge, Tipton Golf & Country Club, past president of IVMA District 21 and a member of Delta Tau Delta.
John is loved and survived by his wife Carolyn Krob of Tipton, IA; daughters, Cherrie (Robert) Schmidt of Clarence, IA, Mollie (Kevin) Fisher of Mechanicsville, IA, Jonie (Philip) Hook of Vermillion, SD; sons, Maury (Jan) Krob, Larry Krob, Douglas (Teresa) Krob all of Tipton, IA; 12 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, and sister, Marilyn (Morrie) Pitlick of Oxford, IA. He was preceded in death by his parents, and brother, Gene Krob. A memorial fund has been established in memory of John.


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Sugarloaf/USA And Sunday River Purchase 100% Wind Energy
NAW Staff, Monday 20 November 2006 - 10:01:52
Carrabassett Valley, Maine-headquartered Sugarloaf/USA and Newry, Maine-based Sunday River ski resorts have chosen to offset 100% of their electricity usage jointly with energy generated from wind.
The two resorts are purchasing 30 million kWh of renewable energy certificates (RECs) from Constellation NewEnergy, a Baltimore-headquartered subsidiary of Constellation Energy, to achieve this goal. According to the resorts, this purchase will keep more than 41 million pounds of carbon dioxide from releasing into the atmosphere.
"I am pleased that the two largest ski areas in the state are taking a key role in supporting the use of renewable energy and, by doing so, benefiting all Maine people," says Governor John Baldacci.
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Overtone Music Network
a common space & database for harmonic overtones
This workshop explores the use of sound in our inner landscape as well as working with the ancient landscape of Glastonbury.
The workshop will be held at the wonderful Wells Museum, which houses ancient artifacts and nestles in the shadow of the Wells Cathedral.
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To appear in Markup Languages: Theory and Practice, Volume 1 (1999), MIT Press
Converted to HTML from the original SGML 1999-07-30
Businesses and organizations are increasingly finding that HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) offers no help whatsoever in managing the information on their web sites. SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) provides the flexibility and reuse lacking in HTML. However, SGML alone does not address the problems involved in maintaining on-line document repositories. Although traditional database management systems are clumsy at managing hyperlinked documents, a system combining SGML, database technology, and the protocols of the Web can provide a reasonably robust environment for developing and maintaining a web site. Two possible site designs employing SGML are discussed and evaluated with respect to a set of design objectives and choices. The likely impact of the emerging XML (eXtensible Markup Language) standard on web site design is also discussed.
Businesses and organizations are increasingly turning to the World Wide Web as a means of sharing information. They are finding that, while the Web provides a convenient platform-independent and geography-independent way for individuals to communicate with one another and to interact with software applications, the language of the Web — HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) [HTML] — offers no help whatsoever in managing information. Although HTML is a good electronic delivery medium for many texts, it is often a poor choice for representing source documents. HTML provides no standard means for reusing the same text in multiple documents. Also, HTML limits content providers to a fixed set of tags.
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)[SGML2][SGML1] provides the flexibility and reuse lacking in HTML. By using an application-specific DTD (Document Type Definition) to represent a web site's contents, site developers can take advantage of the structure defined in the DTD when building data access interfaces and document management tools. Even if the site's contents are represented using one of the standard HTML DTDs, developers can still take advantage of SGML features such as entities and marked sections to promote data reuse. However, SGML alone does not address the problems involved in maintaining on-line document repositories. Although traditional database management systems are clumsy at managing hyperlinked documents, a system combining SGML, database technology, and the protocols of the Web can provide a reasonably robust environment for developing web sites. In this paper, I discuss and evaluate two possible site designs employing SGML, with respect to a set of design objectives and choices. I then discuss how the emerging XML (eXtensible Markup Language)[XML] standard is likely to influence web site design.
This discussion addresses several web site design objectives. Each objective's relative importance depends on a site's application-specific characteristics: the kinds of documents being accessed, the volume of information being managed, and who is providing the content. These objectives are not meant to be an exhaustive list. In particular, they do not address HTML's shortcomings with respect to hyperlink navigation, nor do they consider formatting issues.
It should be easy for content providers to create and modify documents. HTML does a fairly good job meeting this goal. HTML has a simple tag set and, with the help of a high quality HTML editing software package, it is not hard for good writers to learn enough HTML to create nice looking, easy to read documents. Editing SGML documents, on the other hand, can be cumbersome when the DTD is complex.
Numerous search engines with publicly accessible HTML user interfaces are available for locating resources on the Web. These search engines rely on "web spider" programs [ROBOT] that traverse the Web to build their search indexes. Therefore, in order for a web site's documents to be searchable using these web search engines, the documents need to be in the form of static HTML (or plain text) files. Document authors have the option of providing cues to a search engine through HTML's "META" tag, which can be used to specify name/value pairs describing arbitrary characteristics of the document. However, different search engines may use different "META" syntax, since HTML does not dictate any particular set of properties.
If context-sensitive searching is required, then the data should be structured in an application-specific manner, i.e. according to an SGML DTD. HTML alone provides only very limited structuring (titles, headings, paragraphs, etc.) and fails to represent application-specific relationships. Therefore, this objective conflicts with the accessibility objective. The RDF (Resource Description Framework) [RDF] standard specifies an infrastructure using XML syntax that enables content providers as well as digital librarians to specify metadata about a web document. If RDF-based metadata formats are implemented in web browsers, then web site designers will no longer be forced to choose between the accessibility objective and the sensitivity objective.
Once the total size of all static HTML documents in a web site grows beyond a few hundred kilobytes, it becomes necessary to spend a lot of effort keeping the site's contents from becoming stale. This requires checking for dead hyperlinks, making sure information is up to date, and maintaining consistency between the documents. HTML provides no support for any of these tasks. In particular, HTML lacks a mechanism for reuse, requiring document authors to specify the same content over and over again, inviting inconsistencies.
One of the reasons for the Web's growing popularity is the ability of a web user to quickly surf from one web site to another with a simple click of the mouse on a hot spot. The degree to which a web site provides hyperlinks to documents on other web sites is referred to as the site's luminosity [BRAY]. Although luminosity is generally a good thing, off-site hyperlinks should be used with discretion since too many of them can be distracting to the web surfer.
A web site designer using SGML has several decisions to make. Which choices are best depends on the relative importance of five objectives given the application. In particular, the designer must address the following issues:
The designer must decide whether to represent the source documents as HTML conforming to an HTML DTD or to use a DTD specifically tailored to the Internet's requirements. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages. It is usually easier for content providers to author documents in HTML than to use an application-specific DTD. On the other hand, documents conforming to an application-specific DTD can be searched using an SGML search engine according to the structures in that DTD. Thus, using SGML-conforming HTML to represent source documents favors the creation objective, and using an application-specific DTD favors the sensitivity objective.
Until most web browsers support the display of XML documents, the majority of SGML-based web sites will need to display their SGML source documents as "browser-ready" HTML. Even if the source document is SGML-conforming HTML, all entity references and marked sections must be normalized. Therefore, an SGML-based site design needs to include an SGML-to-HTML translator to render the SGML source as browser-ready HTML. While the implementation of a translator is straightforward, the designer needs to decide whether the translation should be done on demand whenever a web browser requests access to a document or whether the translation should be done a single time after a document is created or modified. Figures 1 and 2 illustrate high-level SGML-based site designs using dynamically generated HTML and static HTML respectively.
Each alternative has its advantages and disadvantages. Generating the browser-ready HTML dynamically simplifies the web site's design because it eliminates the need to keep statically generated HTML documents in sync with the SGML source. On the other hand, dynamically-generated documents are not accessible to external search engines. Also, dynamic generation of HTML requires the use of CGI (Common Gateway Interface)[HTML][1], a standard for interfacing applications with web servers. CGI adds overhead to the server, in addition to the processing required to generate an HTML document. Thus, frequent requests to generate HTML from SGML on demand can degrade web server performance. To summarize, dynamically generated HTML works best when the maintainability objective is more important than the accessibility objective and when the generated HTML is in response to a request not likely to be repeated frequently (such as a database query).
Serving static HTML documents enables the use of external search engines and eliminates the need for the web server to translate SGML to HTML and to incur CGI overhead every time a document is requested. Also, because translation from SGML to HTML is done independently of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) [HTTP] requests from web browsers, the SGML document repository can exist on a server other than the web server. However, keeping the SGML source and the HTML consistent requires an infrastructure for configuration management. The larger the number of documents in the web site, the more sophisticated the data management needs to be. A very large site requires a high powered relational or object database management system to keep track of the associations between the SGML source and the browser-ready HTML. Thus, serving static HTML works best in situations where either of the following conditions hold:
The more hyperlinks to off-site documents a web site has, the more luminous it is. On the other hand, pointers to external resources need to be checked regularly for staleness since off-site documents can disappear or undergo modification at any given time. Thus, a site design promoting references to external documents favors the luminosity objective over the maintainability objective while restricting external references favors the maintainability objective over the luminosity objective.
I am currently implementing two web site designs. The sites being developed use very different approaches with respect to the issues previously discussed and emphasize different design objectives. The first site [ASME97][SGML96], being used as part of an environment for developing and deploying standards, uses application-specific DTDs, an SGML search engine installed on the web server, and makes extensive use of CGI. The second site, containing a mix of project information, home pages, and documentation, relies on SGML-conforming HTML to represent the data and serves static browser-ready HTML in response to requests for URL (Universal Resource Locator)s. Although these two web sites are interesting to compare with one another, they by no means represent the only design choices available. For example, a web site designer can combine an application-specific DTD with generation of static browser-ready HTML documents as Norman Walsh has done for his web site at http://nwalsh.com. Walsh represents the source data for his entire site as a single SGML document instance conforming to the DocBook DTD [DOCBOOK] and has built an SGML-to-HTML translator that creates multiple hyperlinked HTML documents from the source. Walsh's approach enables him to rely on an SGML-validating parser to ensure that all cross references internal to the web site are consistent although another means must be used to check for stale links to external documents.
This web site design is centered around a repository of SGML documents that are indexed for fast structure-based retrieval using an SGML search engine. The DTD used was created specifically to represent documents comprising STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data) (ISO 10303)[STEP], a family of standards that attempt to define an ontology for the exchange of product data throughout a product's life cycle. Therefore, the DTD supports queries that are highly application-specific. A set of CGI scripts generate HTML in response to queries composed from information entered onto HTML forms. The CGI scripts use a library of access functions which provides an interface to the repository's search engine. If the result of a query is a block of tagged text, then a translation module converts the raw SGML data to HTML. Because all HTML is created on the fly, this web site design closely resembles the one shown in Figure 1.
Figure 3 shows an example of the CGI application's output. The HTML shown is a response to a query for a UoF (Unit of Functionality) from a particular STEP standard. UoFs are collections of concepts (known among developers of STEP standards as application objects) that are complete and unambiguous. UoFs serve as a mechanism for modularizing STEP. STEP developers normally study UoFs, application objects, and their interrelationships by reading either paper copies of the standards or on-line versions in word processor formats. The interface provided by Site 1 is a potentially far more useful way to disseminate this information, not only because the interface provides fast access, but also because the use of SGML makes it possible to view data associations not explicitly stated in the standards documents themselves.
For example, the SGML representing the actual definition from the standard for the UoF shown in Figure 3 is as follows:
<uof name="faceted_csg_representation"> <uof.def> The faceted_csg_representation UoF consists of CSG primitive elements that are bounded by planar surfaces. The primitives are used to represent the complete shapes and component shapes of building elements; they can be combined using boolean operations. </uof.def> <appobj.ref.list> <appobj.ref.list.item appobj.name.linkend="Block"> <appobj.ref.list.item appobj.name.linkend="Truncated_pyramid"> </appobj.ref.list> </uof>This SGML data specifies only the name of the UoF, its definition, and the application objects it uses. It does not explicitly specify the other UoFs that use this UoF's application objects, although this information is provided in the right hand column of the table in Figure 3. The contents of the right hand column are obtained by searching all the other UoFs in Site 1's repository and, for each of these UoFs, comparing application objects used to those of the faceted_csg_representation UoF.
Site 1 succeeds well at the sensitivity objective because it permits queries with search criteria tailored to the semantics of the documents in the repository. It does so, however, at the expense of the creation objective in that the complexity of the DTD makes it difficult to author new standards in SGML as well as convert existing standards created in word processor formats. Although Site 1 does not meet the accessibility objective, the accessibility objective's importance is diminished because the ability to perform context-sensitive searches lessens the need to use the Web's general purpose search engines. Site 1 meets the maintainability objective to the extent that a validating SGML parser can detect inconsistent ID references and entity references. Because Site 1's DTD does not support HyTime (Hyper-media Time-based Structuring Language) [HYTIME], XML linking [XLINK][XPOINTER], or some other means for representing hyperlinks from one document to another, the luminosity objective is not met. However, this is more a limitation of the DTD than of the framework of the design itself. If support for hyperlinks between documents and off-site were added to the DTD, then Site 1's library of access functions and CGI scripts could be augmented to achieve the luminosity objective.
Site 1 is best suited for applications where data is highly structured, modification of documents is tightly controlled, and (unless the DTD used supports hyperlinks to other documents) data is fairly self-contained. Site 1 is also a good choice when the volume of data is large, and it would be impractical to maintain it as static HTML. The area of application in which Site 1 is being deployed meets the above criteria. STEP standards are highly structured, and a lengthy approval process is required to change their contents. They also tend to be large - some of them are thousands of pages long.
This web site design, which resembles the one shown in Figure 2, specifies a collection of SGML documents conforming to the HTML 4.0 DTD. Each SGML-conforming HTML document is stored in a file. These documents may contain SGML constructs not understood by today's web browsers such as references to general entities defined specifically for the web site and marked sections. In particular, all HTML links (i.e. anchors containing HREF attributes) pointing to external documents are defined as general entities. Whenever a document is created or its source modified, browser-ready HTML is created by running a script that uses the spam[2][3] SGML normalizer, resolving entity references and instantiating any marked sections (see http://www.jclark.com/sp) [KIMBER].
As an example, consider the following SGML-conforming HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [ <!ENTITY % myents PUBLIC "-//NIST//ENTITIES General Entities for Web Pages//EN"> %myents; ]>  &basicstylesheet; <title>Manufacturing Standards Methodology Group</title>
Manufacturing Standards Methodology Group
 What We Do | Staff | Related Activities | &msid; home pageThe normalizer converts this to the following browser-ready HTML, expanding the entity references to basicstylesheet and msid:
  <link title="Basic Style Sheet" href="http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/subject/apde/basic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <title>Manufacturing Standards Methodology Group</title>
Manufacturing Standards Methodology Group
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In order to prevent the hyperlinks from getting stale and to manage the generation of web-browser-ready HTML, a database is needed to keep track of entity use. The database's data model, shown in Figure 4, contains objects representing authors, web documents, and entities. Each author object contains identification information for the author as well as pointers to all the documents for which the author is responsible. Document objects contain a pointer to the author responsible for maintaining the document, the location of the SGML source file, the URL for the corresponding browser-ready HTML file, and a list of all entity references specified in the document. Each entity object contains the entity's name, the entity's value, and pointers to all the documents referencing it.
Whenever a content provider creates a new document or modifies an existing one, a "check-in" procedure performs the following steps:
Whenever an entity is added or modified, the following steps are performed:
A link-checking program is needed to ensure that there are no dead or stale hyperlinks in the entities in the database. Any problems uncovered by the link-checking program should be brought to the attention of the web master by email. The server should be configured to run this program automatically on a regular schedule, perhaps daily, so that the web master does not have to remember to do it.
Site 2 meets all design objectives except the sensitivity objective. Document creation and modification is simple provided that the authors have access to software that creates SGML-conforming HTML and supports referencing of non-HTML-defined entities. Because the web-browser-ready HTML is generated only once after document modification rather than dynamically in response to queries, the web-browser-ready HTML documents can be accessed using the Web's general purpose search engines. Context-sensitive searching is not supported because HTML's tag set is not application-specific. Ease of maintenance is achieved, although it requires a complex and possibly expensive infrastructure. The only limitations on luminosity are those self-imposed by the content providers.
Site 2 is best suited for loosely structured web sites with multiple content providers where the content providers are free to provide hyperlinks to wherever they please. Many of today's web sites fit this description. Site 2 also makes sense for web masters whose Internet service provider does not provide them with support for CGI scripting as part of their site hosting package. Depending on the size of the web site, implementing Site 2 may be possible using a low-powered database implementation, or it may require a full featured SQL (Structured Query Language) or object-oriented database engine [ULLMAN].
XML is likely to increasingly impact web site design as the standards continue to mature and as support from software vendors increases. As metadata formats based on RDF gain acceptance, we can expect to see more and more web sites use application-specific metadata tags and an increasing number of search engines on the Web supporting queries based on those tags. Metadata support is likely to be among the earliest benefits of XML realized because only minimal modifications to existing HTML documents are needed. Also, metadata support does not depend on the newer, less-stable XML standards such as the linking and pointer languages[XLINK][XPOINTER] (XLink and XPointer), which are in draft status at the date of this writing.
XML is likely to eventually eliminate the need for SGML applications to down-translate their data to HTML for display on the Web. Many existing SGML DTDs already conform to XML or can easily be made to do so. Even if a DTD is not XML compliant, documents conforming to the DTD can in most cases easily be converted into equivalent XML documents using a tool such as sx[3]. As standards for XML style sheets emerge, and as web browser vendors implement support for these style sheet standards, it will become possible to display XML without having to translate it to another format first. This will simplify the design of web sites like Site 1 by eliminating the need for an SGML-to-HTML translation step. Documents in web sites like Site 2 will be able to be both written and displayed as XML, eliminating the need to manage the normalization of entity references and marked sections. Finally, support for XML style sheets in web browsers will remove the formatting limitations imposed by HTML's fixed tag set, making it easier to display documents requiring specialized formatting instructions.
XLink and XPointer, if the major Internet browsers eventually support them, will expand the possibilities for hyperlinking beyond what HTML currently allows. In particular, they will make transclusion, the "dynamic inclusion of data from one document in another"[TRANSCLUSION], feasible on the Web. Thus it will become possible for document authors to reference specific portions of other documents on the Web (using XPointers) and specify how the referenced data should be presented to the web surfer (using XLink's actuate and show attributes), enabling authors to tailor the referenced data's presentation to the referencing context. For example, data could be referenced in one context using a hot button to be clicked on, while in another context the same data could be seamlessly embedded into the web page currently being displayed.
Figure 5 shows the design for a web site of the future patterned after Site 2. Hyperlinked documents are written using XML with XLink and XPointer and displayed using XML style sheets. The hyperlinks may point either to objects in other XML documents or to objects in arbitrary non-XML documents. Depending on the size of the site, it might be desirable to store the XML documents and/or the non-XML documents in databases in order to speed access to the objects referenced by the hyperlinks.
Yet another potential benefit of XML to web site developers is improved integration between web server and client. Support for XML in web browsers will provide sites with the ability to include applets embedding capabilities supporting the manipulation of XML data structures in web clients[BOSAK]. This will reduce the burden on the server and, more importantly, will open a new world of possibilities for interaction between SGML/XML repositories and other databases and applications. If future versions of mainstream desktop applications are able to import XML, new possibilities for mining the content of a site will become available to web surfers. For example, a surfer might query an on-line database, import the results into a spreadsheet application, and create a bar chart or pie chart from the results.
Sites 1 and 2 are both under development, and the portions of them that have already been implemented are experiencing use. Site 1's underlying framework - the data access interface to its SGML search engine - is fully implemented. Although the UoF example discussed in the sub-section "Site 1: HTML Dynamically Generated From SGML Database Queries" covers only a tiny subset of STEP, a much wider variety of queries are possible given the application-specificity of the STEP DTD. Current efforts are focusing on making improvements to the DTD in order to increase its modularity and make it easier for authors to use. Future efforts may involve developing a document architecture for STEP and related standards using architectural forms[HYTIME] and creating additional DTDs using this architecture.
Development of Site 2 is in its early stages. The translator for converting SGML-conforming HTML documents to browser-ready HTML and a catalog of entities currently exist. I maintain a variety of web pages with source written in SGML and using the entity catalog. Since the document management database discussed in the previous section has not yet been implemented, I check my documents manually using a third party HTML link validator. Once implementation of the document management database is complete, this web site will be expanded to include more documents and to support content providers other than myself.
Sites 1 and 2 illustrate a dilemma faced by today's web site developers who wish to take advantage of the benefits of SGML. On the one hand, they can rely heavily on SGML's ability to represent data in an application-specific, structured manner and on CGI to dynamically generate browser-ready web output in response to SGML database queries. While such a site design enables users to quickly find information through application-specific queries and is easier to maintain than a collection of HTML documents, it requires extra effort on the part of content providers, additional server overhead, and the implementation of hyperlinking if links to off-site web pages are desired. On the other hand, web site developers may choose to minimize the burden on content providers and to maximize server performance, interoperability with web search engines, and linkage with other web sites. In this case, they must sacrifice application-specific structured query capability and implement tools for managing entities and maintaining hyperlinks.
The emerging XML standards promise to provide web site developers with the best of both worlds, allowing them to enjoy most of the benefits of SGML while not sacrificing the convenience of HTML and interoperability with the rest of the Web. If XML is ultimately successful, not only will it be easier for web site developers to use SGML, but also they will be able to take advantage of newly available capabilities to make their content easier for users to read and easier for web clients and other desktop applications to interpret.
More information about the work discussed in this paper is available on the Internet at http://www.nist.gov/apde.
[1] The CGI specification is on-line at http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/.
[2] Third party software tools are identified in this paper to foster understanding. Such identification does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor does it imply that the products identified are necessarily the best available for the purpose.
[3] This software tool is part of James Clark's sp package, available at http://www.jclark.com/sp.


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11.13.14 BHIC Fillmore Reunion Ticket Request Period Starts Now!
We are offering a limited number of tickets to the upcoming Fillmore shows via ticket request. Starting now you can request up to two tickets per night of the Fillmore run. We will accept ticket requests until Tuesday November 18th at 11:59PM PT. On Wednesday November 19th orders will be randomly selected to receive tickets and if you are selected your credit card will be charged at that time.
In an effort to keep scalpers out of this:
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- Only the person whose name is on the order may pick up the tickets and no will call name changes will be allowed. Bring the card you used to purchase tickets and your photo ID. Tickets are non-transferable.
- You may only submit one request. Additional requests or multiple requests with the same credit card may be rejected.
We may not be able to fulfill every request that we receive. If you request tickets to multiple shows and are selected for tickets, it is possible that you will only receive tickets for one of the shows on your request.
The general on sale is scheduled for Friday, November 21st at 10am PT. Additional details forthcoming.
10.30.14 Ben & Ellen Harper: A House Is A Home on Palladia Nov 2
DVR ALERT! This Sunday, November 2 at 9pm ET, Palladia will air "A House Is A Home", a touching and heartfelt documentary about the making of Childhood Home, Ben Harper's 2014 acoustic album he recorded with his mother, Ellen Harper. Directed by Danny Clinch, this insightful piece provides a rare glimpse at Ben Harper's early years, and the special bond he and his mother share to this day.
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Strong Women-Healthy Hearts Program: To improve women's health in Lincoln County, NMSU Extension will be offering Strong Women-Healthy Hearts classes, beginning Feb. 4. The team at Tufts University in Boston, has developed an exercise and nutrition program designed to help women improve their heart health. The StrongWomen–Healthy Hearts Program is a fun, hands-on way to make positive changes to help you eat better, move more, and improve your general health and well-being. Classes focus on nutrition and exercise and include topics such as menu planning and portion control. Class will take place at Ruidoso Community Center (former Ruidoso Senior Center) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 1 p.m. Each of the 12-week classes will include aerobic activity, nutrition information and hands on activities. For further information on the StrongWomen – Healthy Hearts Program, and to register for the class, contact Marsha Palmer, home economist, NMSU Lincoln County Cooperative Extension, 575-648-2311 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Defensible Space, FIREWISE and How to Protect Your Home: ENMU-Ruidoso Campus, 709 Mechem Drive, Room 103; 5:30 p.m.; free, registration required. Dick Cooke, director of Forestry for the village of Ruidoso, and Leroy Cockrell, with the Little Bear Forest Reform Coalition, will speak on defensible space with concrete steps as to how to best protect one's home in the case of wildfire. There are no fool-proof solutions or any guarantees, but there are tips that have been developed based on the science of how houses ignite coupled with landscaping techniques that can make a house and neighborhood safer. The Firewise Program also offers homeowners tools on how to work together to prevent their properties from being fuel for a wildfire. Refreshments and registration for door prizes will be available starting at 5:30 p.m. in the lobby. Call 575-257-3012 or go online to www.ruidoso.enmu.edu, click on "Community" and then go to Forest Health Series to register.
From Idea to Business: Pre-Business workshop; Small Business Development Center at NMSU-A, 2400 N. Scenic Drive, Technical Ed/SBDC Building, Room 103, Alamogordo; 9 to 11 a.m. Admission: free. Workshop designed to offer the tools one needs to start a business legally and profitably. Explores how an idea comes to fruition, why some businesses succeed and some fail, and how planning helps lead to business success. Examine personal business ownership potential, area facts and figures, and pre-business decisions as well as basic marketing and financial planning. Learn about the assistance and resources available at the local Small Business Development Center. For more information call 575-439-3660.
The Kiwanis Club of Ruidoso: meets every Tuesday at noon at Casa Blanca.
Rotary Club of Ruidoso: meets every Tuesday at Cree Meadows Country Club, 301 Country Club Drive, at noon. First Tuesday of the month at TeePee Lounge, Ruidoso High School.
The Ruidoso Planning and Zoning Commission: meets at 2 p.m., the first Tuesday of the month and may call a session for the third Tuesday, in council chambers at village hall, 313 Cree Meadows Drive.
Ruidoso Evening Lions Club: meets each Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Lions Club Hut located at 106 South Overlook, behind Chef Lupe's Restaurant on Sudderth Drive.
Lincoln County Zia Centers menus: chicken cutlet, green beans, sweet potatoes and margarine, wheat roll and margarine, mixed fruit; those 60 and older pay $2 for lunch; centers are located at 406 Central Ave., Carrizozo, 575-648-2121; 115 Tiger Drive, Capitan, 575-354-2640; 451 Main, Corona, 575-849-5111; 393 Highway 70, Ruidoso Downs, 575-378-4659; 10686 Highway 380, Hondo, 575-653-4405.
The National Weather Service is forecasting a slight chance of snow showers before 11 a.m, then a slight chance of rain showers; mostly sunny skies, with a high near 41; west wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph; Chance of precipitation is 10 percent; tonight, partly cloudy, with a low around 22; west wind 5 to 15 mph becoming south after midnight.
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Bake Sale for FMSC: There will be a bake sale Wednesday, Feb. 5, and Friday Feb. 7, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Funds will go to FMSC (Feed My Starving Children) to do the Mobile Food Pack Event in May in Ruidoso. The bake sale is sponsored by Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in Ruidoso and the Southeast New Mexico Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
Anatomy of Horse and Human: Dr. Gina Langley will be teaching an ENMU-Ruidoso Community Education class Wednesdays through Feb. 26 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Cope Center in the Hubbard Museum of the American West. Langley, an ENMU-Ruidoso science instructor, brings her knowledge of anatomy and love of horses to life in this class aimed at anyone with an interest in body design and movement of horses and humans. Through looking, sketching and analyzing underlying structures, students will discover how people and those magnificent animals are put together and how to improve our own wellness, artwork, riding skills and interaction with nature. Students will also have access to myriad resources of the museum and its association with the Smithsonian Institute, all while being surrounded by the atmosphere and artifacts of the American West. The fee for the six classes is $65.00. To register, please call ENMU-Ruidoso Community Education at 257-3012.
Lincoln County Day in Santa Fe: There will be a Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce-hosted reception with legislators at 5 p.m. at The Inn & Spa at Loretto, 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe. Business leaders from Lincoln County, Ruidoso, Ruidoso Downs, and Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso will be in attendance to address specific issues affecting local commerce and business and to initiate dialogue with respective legislators. The chamber's top priority is to represent the chamber's membership by making its members' voices heard and to be certain the legislators recognize the needs of the village and county. Becky Brooks at the Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce, (575) 257-7395.
Ruidoso Optimist Club: meets at noon on Wednesdays at K-Bobs Restaurant on Highway 70.
The Military 365 Committee: meets at 1 p.m., the first Wednesday of each month in village hall.
The Ruidoso Public Library Board: meets at noon the first Wednesday of September, November, January, March and May in the library conference room.
The National Weather Service is forecasting A 10 percent chance of snow showers, mostly cloudy, with a high near 37, southeast wind around 10 mph; Wednesday night, a 20 percent chance of snow showers, cloudy, with a low around 16, east wind 5 to 10 mph.


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Next Steps: NonCommercial and NoDerivatives Discussion
In the last few months there has been quite a bit of discussion about what CC should do with the non-free licenses. Some have called for Creative Commons to retire or otherwise change the way we offer licenses containing the NonCommercial and NoDerivatives conditions because those licenses do not create a true commons of open content that everyone is free to use, redistribute, remix, and repurpose. These suggestions have been made by the Students for Free Culture, QuestionCopyright.org, the Open Knowledge Foundation, and others.
Creative Commons offers 6 licenses. The BY and BY-SA licenses are considered "Free" because they grant to users a set of freedoms including:
- the freedom to use the work and enjoy the benefits of using it
- the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it
- the freedom to make and redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of the information or expression
- the freedom to make changes and improvements, and to distribute derivative works
There are four CC licenses that are considered "non-free" because they do not provide for all of the freedoms listed above. The CC licenses that contain the NonCommercial and/or NoDerivatives terms are considered non-free. These licenses are BY-NC, BY-ND, BY-NC-SA, BY-NC-ND.
Back in August we wrote a blog post about the ongoing discussion around NonCommercial and NoDerivatives and promised to keep the conversation going. We noted that these issues have surfaced frequently over the years, and we reminded readers that CC studied the NonCommercial issue and has worked to try to clearly mark and otherwise communicate the differences between the Free and non-free licenses. For example, CC has placed a "Definition of Free Cultural Works" seal on the BY and BY-SA license deeds. We also included it in the most recent upgrade of our license chooser.
We're taking a close look at the arguments and recommendations from the various individuals and groups and have generated a few TO-DO items to attempt to address the issues raised. We have aggregated these proposed actions on the CC wiki. We'd appreciate any feedback you have–you can do this over at the CC-Community email list or the wiki Talk page.
Some of the draft actions include the following (you can read more about them on the wiki page):
- Improve information about which CC licenses align with definitions of "Free licenses"
- Revive the color-coded "license spectrum" graphic
- Provide descriptive examples of adoptions of Free and non-free licenses
- Gather feedback about changing the name of "NonCommercial" to "Commercial Rights Reserved"
This last point warrants a specific mention here, as it would be a big (and potentially sensitive) change to the branding of the Creative Commons NonCommercial licenses. This proposal is for a simple renaming of the "NonCommercial" license element to "Commercial Rights Reserved," without any change in the definition of what it covers. Renaming it to something that more accurately reflects the operation of the license may ensure that it is not unintentionally used by licensors who intend something different. For more information about the idea and rationale behind this proposal, please see the CC wiki page on the topic.
Again, if you have feedback on the proposed actions or other ideas that haven't been captured here, please contribute to the CC-community list, the wiki Talk page, or in the comments below. We appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.18 Comments »
Ongoing discussions: NonCommercial and NoDerivatives
A few days ago the Students for Free Culture (SFC) published a provocative blog post called "Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0." The article urged Creative Commons to deprecate (meaning "retire" or similar), or otherwise change the way Creative Commons offers licenses containing the NonCommercial and NoDerivatives terms, because they "do not actually contribute to a shared commons."
The SFC blog post raises important questions about the opportunities and challenges presented by the NC and ND licenses. The NC and ND licenses currently make up four of the six licenses in the CC license suite:
These issues have surfaced frequently over the years, in varied forums and by a variety of stakeholders. CC studied the NC issue from 2008 to 2009, investigating how online populations understand noncommercial use in the context of the NC licenses. The previous year, CC acknowledged the differences between the NC and ND licenses on the one hand, and BY and BY-SA on the other, by announcing placement of the free cultural works seal on the BY and BY-SA deeds as part of an "effort to distinguish among the range of Creative Commons licenses".
At the same time, CC celebrates successful adoption of the NC and ND licenses, in part because those licenses signal a desire to be more open than the alternative of "all rights reserved." Moreover, those adopters may eventually migrate to more open licenses once exposed to the benefits that accompany sharing. But this duality opens CC to criticism (if not also confusion) about our identity and mission.
CC committed to addressing this issue most recently with the launch of the 4.0 license process following consultation with the CC affiliates at the 2011 Global Summit in Warsaw. We fully intend to engage in a manner that is inclusive of a wide range of voices and interests. In this way, CC will be best positioned to make informed, thoughtful decisions with the input of our community (defined in the broadest sense), our affiliates, and our adopters (both would-be and existing).
While the specific challenges to NC and ND are not tied to the 4.0 versioning process per se, they've been raised in the context of the 4.0 NonCommercial dialogue. The decision not to change the definition of NonCommercial itself in 4.0 now gives way to the broader policy discussion of the role that the NC (and ND) licenses serve, and CC's stewardship of and communications around those licenses.
As license steward, we are accountable to our stakeholders and global community, and must be transparent about decisions and how we act (or not) on the proposals that have been put on the table. These proposals span a wide range and include more clearly differentiating the licenses aligned with the Definition of Free Cultural Works from those that are not, to providing more education to licensors about the consequences of license choice, to disassociating Creative Commons from the NC and ND licenses altogether, among others.
Here's what you can expect from CC:
- Please continue to use the CC-Community list (as opposed to the CC license development list) as the venue for discussions about the various options, proposals, and considerations for NC and ND.
- CC will collect, analyze and synthesize ideas and proposals, identify possible policy changes, and communicate potential implications of each. CC will look to these various proposals with the recognition that any policy change cuts across the entire community and organization, including education, data and science, legal, technical, etc. CC will share this information publicly in an easy to understand fashion that includes the relevant historical and contextual framing.
- CC will hold stakeholder consultations that include adopters, CC affiliates, funders, and the broader community. These might take the form of email discussions, community phone calls or IRC chats, etc.
Other suggestions for actions are most welcome.22 Comments »
U of Oregon Library faculty research to become more open
Steps towards openness were taken yesterday by the University of Oregon Library, as its faculty unanimously passed a resolution requiring all library faculty-authored scholarly articles to be licensed CC BY-NC-ND (thanks to Peter Suber of Open Access News). Although NC-ND does not allow derivations (which may include translations and other adaptations) of the articles, library faculty also have the option of licensing their works under one of the more open licenses, including CC BY-SA and CC BY.
We highly encourage library faculty (and libraries in general) everywhere to consider adopting these more open CC licenses for their content (especially CC BY). If you remember from last October, the University of Michigan Library adopted CC BY-NC for all of its works, including those to which the University of Michigan held copyrights. Stripping away the ND term enables collaboration across institutions, as you are granted more than the simple right to access, but to also adapt, translate, and improve the work.
However, adopting CC BY-NC-ND is a step in the right direction. From the announcement,
"We largely followed the leads of Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and most recently Oregon State (our friends and rivals). One area where we differ is in explicitly mandating a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Choosing that license was very conscious. We believe that it is vital that the community standardize on a small number of licenses to move beyond the present mess where every publisher and practically every author has their own unique terms. The license we chose is a good candidate for standardization. … Authors who wish to can of course also license their works under a more liberal license such as CC-BY-SA."
For more information on our Open Access work, visit the Scholar's Copyright Project page.1 Comment »


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Blind Brook probably doesn't like sharing, at least when it comes to league championships.
After returning most of last year's undefeated league-championship squad, the Trojans (15-1) are in position to retain sole possession of their crown following Saturday's 25-10, 20-25, 25-11, 25-14 win over Fox Lane.
Lindsey Kim had a match-high 19 kills to go with 19 digs for the Trojans, who avenged an early-season loss to the Foxes. ...


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Utah County defense attorney Shelden Carter dies from cancer
Shelden Carter always aggressively defended his clients in the courtroom.
But he always made sure he didn't offend his opposing counsel or any court officer.
The respect his colleagues and his former opponents had for the man became clear Monday as his friends at the Utah County Public Defenders Office fielded calls from people expressing condolences after Carter died Sunday. He was 61.
The man who represented thousands of people during more than 30 years as an attorney died after a more than two-year battle with Stage 4 gall bladder cancer.
"He was passionate about practicing law," said Debbie Hill, assistant director of the Utah County Public Defender Association, who has known Carter for 13 years. "He was passionate about representing people and protecting their constitutional rights."
Carter started out as a public defender when there was only one other public defender in Utah County. The office has grown to a staff of 15, Hill said. He was in private practice for decades.
Carter was diagnosed with gall bladder cancer on Nov. 12, 2009, and went through years of semi-monthly chemotherapy.
He is survived by his ex-wife, Shelly Carter who cared for him throughout his illness his three sons, Shawn, Brandt and Brannon, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 11 a.m at the LDS Church at 3500 N. 1270 West in Pleasant Grove. A viewing will be held the night before at Warenski Funeral Home at 1776 N. 900 East in American Fork. His body will be interred at Provo Cemetery.
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Firefighters and hazmat personnel responded to the crash at 1:15 p.m. and found the two trucks in the rear of the store's lot at 2215 Old Trail Road, near its propane tanks.
The cab was parked - its driver asleep inside - when the tractor-trailer driver misjudged the distance to it while backing up his rig, Newberry Township Fire Department Chief Gary Hatterer said.
Emergency workers found that one of the saddle tanks on the cab had been ruptured in the crash, causing fuel to spill out, Hatterer said.
Also, it was initially thought that a propane tank that supplied the store had been ruptured, which led Hatterer to call for the shutdown of the southbound lanes of Interstate 83 Wednesday.
He was about to close the entire interstate down when firefighters discovered it was only a hose that had ruptured, and not the tank itself, Hatterer said.
He also had planned on evacuating the store and any other stores or residences around it, he said.
"It had potential," Hatterer said of the crash, but added he was relieved it was resolved quickly and without injury.
Had there been an explosion, shrapnel could have been propelled as far away as the opposite side of the interstate, he said.
Firefighters engineered a quick-fix for the ruptured propane line, then used absorbent sand to sop up the diesel fuel spill.
About 1:40 p.m., the tractor-trailer was pulled forward, detaching it from the cab. There were no injuries in the crash, Hatterer said.


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No idea about what to wear in the heat? We did a selection of the most trendy summer looks seen in London, Florence and Berlin during the fashion show season in June and July.
The first part of our style report is about casual wear: inspirations for your spare time and weekend outfit!
Shirts with short sleeves: present on many catwalks, it stands for a new trend this season that makes the men more informal and relaxed… Goodbye ties or socks!
Another example of a short sleeved shirt, but here Christoph combines it with another big trend this season: the camouflage print.
The monochromatic look was also seen around. It can come in pale tonalities, like above, or in bright colors – giving continuity to a trend from previous season.
As we were already talking about this before: it is the right moment to invest into a Hawaiian shirt. Marco chose a vintage version.
Actually all the prints that look tropical are in – as seen on the bermudas above. The jeans shirt, worn by Andrea, continues to be a favorite too.
What about the hairstyles and accessories? Giancarlo shows "the" haircut of the season combined with a ginger beard and the classic Clubmaster sunglasses.
This gentleman for example went for all: the jeans shirt, camouflage bermuda plus a handkerchief tied in the neck. The scarves are coming back and will – if not replace – then at least compete against ties.
On the streets of London one would always find unusual looks like this one. This gentleman shows the latest object of desire amongst the fashionistas: the male version of the clutch bag – ideal to carry an i-Pad.
In Florence, on the other hand, the gentlemen preserve their macho soul with an interesting cult for grooming. This young Italian, for example, combines a traditional Howie Moustache, sideburns and the Haircut.
Berlin might not have many gentlemen in tailored clothes nor overly groomed ones. Berliners usually stand for comfortable clothes and avoid status symbols. The mates rather refer to the cap of skaters and cyclists.
Don't miss the second part of the street style story: click here to read it!
Text and photos: Hermano Silva © 2012


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For the next three months, homeowners who install extra insulation to their attics, crawl spaces and walls can earn a big check from City Utilities while also cutting their heating bill.
CU announced Tuesday that residential electric or natural gas customers who upgrade the insulation in their homes may qualify for an increased rebate.
The rebate, which is being offered through the end of 2013, offers 50 percent of the cost of the insulation upgrades, with a maximum rebate of $500. ...


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Paula Alexa:
November 15, 2012 at 8:54 pm
I want to know what's with the homicidal purple unicorns with wings and horns. Sounds more interesting than the autocorrect itself.
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November 13, 2012 at 8:39 pm
If you forgot that, you shouldn't care that it's during an exam day. Off to the hospital you go, now! :)
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Sam Fisher's adventures in Splinter Cell: Conviction left fans of the franchise divided. Some welcomed the more action orientated approach whilst others cursed the heavens above. Now Sam Fisher is back to save the world and win the hearts of gamers once more.
The story is one that has been told many times before. A small group of operatives are given carte blanche by the U.S. president to stop the bad guys and save the day. The writers have tried to work in some humour and plot twists which we will not discuss here to avoid spoilers, and overall the story serves its purpose of giving the player enough areas to sneak through.
The game features a central hub, the Paladin plane, where you can select missions, talk to other members of the team for upgrades and side missions and collect artwork of the missions and maps you play through. Whilst exploring the Paladin I could not help but think of Mass Effect. From the way
Shepard Fisher moves aboard the plane, to the look and feel of the interior, I continuously expected a Reaper attack. Luckily, this feeling quickly went away as I went through the missions.
While playing through the missions the level design makes it clear that Ubisoft has tried to cater to fans of more explosive action and those who wish to remain hidden. The maps provide enough cover and vertical possibilities to quickly switch between a frontal assault and stealthy take-downs. The only downside to some of the maps is that they can feel somewhat restricted with invisible walls, turning some missions into very linear adventures.
The linearity of some missions is balanced through the variety of environments and it does seem the developers have put in enough effort to prevent recyling environments. The best example of this are the Middle Eastern missions where the environments share plenty of similarities but still feel fresh. The option to pick the order in which you complete missions definitely helps in this regard as, for example, it is possible to handle a mission in Iraq and immediately follow that up with a mission in rainy London.
Another aspect the developers have clearly devoted time and effort to are the controls. Fans of the PC version will not be left frustrated with a console optimized lay-out. Most actions are performed using the Q, E, ALT, CTRL and spacebar keys and aiming with the mouse does not feel like trying to steer the International Space Station through a needle.
The actual gameplay itself revolves around three styles: Ghost, Panther and Assault. The Ghost style is for those players who want to sneak around without disturbing any enemies, Panther mixes action with stealth and Assault negates all stealth aspects of the game in favor of all-out warfare.
After each mission your monetary reward is based on the style you used during the mission with Ghost offering the highest rewards and the highest difficulty level. Sadly, the money you receive holds little value. Within the first 2 hours I had already unlocked most upgrades to the plane and completely customized Fisher. A slightly disappointing result of this is the fact that completely upgrading your goggles makes the game significantly easier with the addition of sonar and footstep tracing.
Although the majority of missions accommodate each style, there are missions that force players to not disturb any enemies or to eliminate all enemies and even some missions that require you to fight off waves of enemies. Although there are only few of these missions, they did feel rather unnecessary. Especially fighting off waves of enemies, which felt tiresome after the third wave.
The missions involving the main storyline are entertaining, but ultimately I found the side missions to be much more enjoyable. All missions can be completed with a co-op partner, though the side missions felt much more dynamic and really showed the game's strengths with new paths and tactics every time you replay the mission. With games these days tacking on multiplayer and co-op options as an afterthought it was refreshing to see the developers have taken their time to implement it in a way that expands the game.
Graphically the game gets the job done. Running on a heavily modified version of the Unreal Engine, dubbed Lead Engine by Ubisoft, the lighting effects and shadows are great. On the other hand, explosions, reflections and other effects are not exactly on par with current industry standards. The same goes for physics, courtesy of the Havok Engine, leading to some erratic enemy behaviour such as bodies bouncing and enemies getting stuck on objects. Although not game breaking, these moments did break immersion for me.
At the end of the day, Splinter Cell: Blacklist is fantastic. Fisher has returned to his roots but also remains accessible to players who prefer more fast-paced action. Any odd A.I. behaviour and glitches are more than made up for by the excellent implementation of co-op and the level design is top notch overall. The only real issue we have with the game is the relative insignificance of money earned, which severely lowers the difficulty level at an early stage.
We ran into some issues with the Splinter Cell: Blacklist servers so sadly we were unable to fully experience Spies vs Mercs. Given the excellent co-op mode we do intend to follow up on this once the servers allow us to play it smoothly.


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An Emmy Award-winning news anchor and a bank president will accompany more than 1,400 students who will bid farewell to Marist College during two commencement ceremonies on May 24 and 25.
Lisa Marie Cathie, a 2003 graduate and president and CEO of Ulster Savings Banks, will address the adult graduation May 24. She will be bestowed with the Distinguished Alumna Medal.
Ernie Anastos, a New York City broadcaster for 40 years, will be the featured speaker at the college's undergraduate commencement May 25 and be awarded with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
Marist President Dennis Murray will confer 1,404 degrees to undergraduates and adult students. Both ceremonies will take place on the campus green.


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The Château d'Oex mountain of adventures also offers sweeping views over Pays d'Enhaut, which is part of the nature park sharing the same name. From the village the cable car first crosses the Saane Valley, followed by switch of transport and a chairlift that takes you to the foot of the Rocher du Midi.
A 250 meter-long flying fox by the mountain station, valley descents on grass scooters and challenging mountain-bike routes add to adventure and unforgettable excursions in this special spot.
Altitude: 1625m
Train from Montreux or Spiez/Zweisimmen/Gstaad to Château d'Oex, cable car over the valley to La Montagnette (Praz Perron) and chairlift to the La Braye mountain station
View: Over the Pays d'Enhaut direction Saanenland/Gstaad, and over the valley as far as the Freiburg Alps
Attractions: Mike Horn family adventure park, ant trail
Culinary aspects: Restaurant La Braye: Specialities spiced with herbs
Overnight stays: 50 beds in several rooms/dormitories.
Groups: Hall fro groups
Winter: Winter sports region Château d'Oex
Special comments: Tariffs in part in combination with Gstaad


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Good morning, all! Yes, I have one more succulent project. Can you tell that I really like succulents? Plus, I had some tiny bits left over from my framed gravy boat succulent planter, and wanted to do something fun with them.
Have you ever seen those adorable succulent planter magnets that are made with wine corks? I've wanted to make those for quite some time now, but since I don't drink wine, I just never have corks around my house. Plus, those require drilling, which requires a power tool, which means I have to drag the extension cord outside…
You get the picture. It's just a bit too much for me when I'm feeling lazy. 😀
So I had these unfinished wood candle cups (which you can find at just about any craft store), and figured that they could be used in a similar way.
This project is pretty self-explanatory, but I'll show you the details anyway. It makes me feel useful and needed. 😀
First I used a bamboo skewer to plug the hole in the bottom of the cup. I just shoved it in there, and then broke it off. You could also cut it first, and then use needle nose pliers to shove it in the hole.
Then I stained the cups, but of course, you could also paint them in any color you want. I didn't stain the entire inside of the cup, but I did stain about the top 1/8″ just in case it showed.
And when the stain was dry, I planted some tiny little succulents in them. I put a few tiny little pebbles in the bottom, then placed the succulent in, and then used the bamboo skewer to pack the dirt all around the succulent.
Then I added a 1/2″ neodymium magnet on the back of each of them with hot glue. I prefer neodymium magnets to the regular black craft magnets because they're much stronger, and will actually hold the weight of the little planter securely, plus any piece of paper I want to secure to the fridge with the magnet.
And that's it! A super simple and very quick project.
I've found that the best way to water these is with a medicine dropper. Works perfectly!


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Cooperative Research
Many people, institutions, and agencies are researching the history of El Camino Real de los Tejas. Through the Challenge Cost Share Program, the National Park Service forms partnerships with many different groups to encourage research activities along the trail. Our collective goal is to to protect, preserve, and commemorate the history and properties associated with El Camino Real de los Tejas.
A broad range of research topics are eligible for cost share funding. They could include: documenting a structure's history and architectural fabric and design in anticipation of stabilization or preservation actions; studies of trail sites that may be eligible for certification or nomination to the National Register of Historic Places; general research into the trail's history in a particular area that will contribute to an interpretive program there; and many others.
As part of research that contributed to the draft Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP) for El Camino de los Tejas National Historic Trail (published in July 2010), NPS staff prepared a bibliography on the history of the trail for the states of Louisiana and Texas. They were assisted by historian George Avery and archeologist Deidre Morgan-Remley. The following link shows this unedited historical bibliography: El Camino Real de los Tejas Bibliography, July 2008 (116 KB Excel)
The most readily available sources are found at the following bibliography February 18, 2011.