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RSPB Scotland has today (15 July 2013) condemned a Court of Session ruling which has cleared Scottish Coal and Aardvark of their legal duties to control pollution from opencast mines and restore the land after mining.
Since the coal companies went into administration, the former sites have been left as open voids, scarring the landscape, which includes an internationally important wildlife site, on a massive scale
The Court's decision means that liquidators KPMG have avoided the transfer of responsibilities that should have been passed to them, leaving the wildlife and communities in Scotland's coalfield areas severely disadvantaged.
Despite this, applications for new opencast mines are even now being considered, including one at an environmentally sensitive peatland site in East Ayrshire.
With lessons still to be learnt from the current planning failure, RSPB Scotland believes this is not the time to allow further damage to proceed.
The nature charity has called for a Public Inquiry into the failure of the regulatory system and wants new consents halted until this happens.
Anne McCall, RSPB Scotland Regional Director for South and West Scotland said: "This is a dreadful decision for Scotland's environment and communities. It is unthinkable that private companies can cause such damage and then walk away when finances get tight. We simply cannot wipe the slate clean when such a terrible legacy has been left by Scottish Coal and Aardvark.
"The Local Planning Authorities had a duty to ensure that bonds and legal agreements were in place to guarantee this could never happen. Their failure to do this has not only created a significant environmental problem but also raises very serious concerns about the risks involved in consenting further decisions for opencasting or other developments.
"Questions now need to be asked about how European obligations to restore this designated wildlife site will be met – if necessary, the Scottish Government or other regulatory authorities will need to intervene to ensure this happens."


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The Summer School will explore cultural interactions in the Czech Lands in the late 19th and 20th centuries, using it as a case study of Jewish-Christian relations. The programme will examine the influence of religion and nationality on the formation of Czech society. It will study the interaction between Judaism and Christianity, and between Jewish, Czech and German ethnic groups. It will look at the impact of these interactions on the formation of social traditions in the Czech Republic, and will examine their influence on the Czech position in European political and cultural integration today.
The subjects covered in the summer school programme will include the Czech Reformation, Masaryk's legacy and 20th century civil society thinkers, lessons for Jewish-Christian relations and for the civil society project taught by the tragic experiences of the 1940s and 1950s (there will also be lectures and talks covering the Holocaust directly), the experience of dissidents and the overthrow of Communism, religion and dialogue in Czech society today, the meaning of the New Europe for Czech civil society and religious thinkers, and the role of the media in shaping civil society since 1989. Lecturers will include leading Czech religious thinkers, writers and former dissidents, as well as academic specialists in the areas covered.
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I am positive I will be in the vast minority here(if not alone) in this one however I listen to 2 types mostly. Classical and instramental jazz guitar.
First I appreciate the complexity in this music and enjoy listening too it. Second classical music also calms me and helps me focus and relax. When I listen to classical music before or while doing something complex I seem to preform better because for some reason I feel as I have a more even flow and rhythm. The rock and roll is good sometimes to get your Heart pumping but for the most part whatever I am doing I prefer to feel cool calm collective in control and focused and I get that from classical music.
It's strange and a little scary too given the people that listen to classical. My dad has a friend who lived with an ex special forces guy that retired and got into the mercenary type of work (let's say his name is Jim. He has said "I always knew someone was going to die soon when "Jim" was listening to classical music" supposedly it helped him stay calm and focused.
Anyone else listen to classical music and what ar your thoughts on it?
Some classical music is excellent. I don't listen to it often but I certainly prefer it over certain other types of music.
And, got to admit, I love a bit of Jazz. Especially the really bass driven stuff like Lawrence Cottle etc.
You're not a minority. I listen to all genre's and I can tell you straight off the bat no other genres of music (especially modern music) is as talented in terms of transitioning, rhythm, complexities of the melody, rotation, etc as classical. Modern mainstream music only cares about good beats now, not even caring if the rapper or singer is good or bad. Jazz is amazing. I feel like everyone should love Jazz. It's easy listening and very chill to listen to.
Big fan of classical music, especially Beethoven's piano concertos and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I generally like to actually listen to my music actively (in contrast to having music support other activities like dancing, working out or playing games etc) so there aren't many genres lively enough to not bore me while listening. Both classical and jazz belong to my favorite genres for that very reason. Not only are they interesting to listen to but they're exceptionally hard to play which makes it even more interesting for me as a guitarist.
I absolutely love classical music, and find it's great to workout too, put me in a very calm place and allowed me to be relaxed when I worked out and could actually do a lot more in the gym. I also really enjoy ambient music and music from movie soundtracks. I love anything by Hans Zimmer and Clint Mansell, I'd advise checking them out. The music Hans did on The Gladiator soundtrack is so great.
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This inviting first floor space with plump mattresses and layers of spreads, duvets, and pillows give it an eclectic feel. The graceful chandeliers, soft drapery window treatments, and roomy suede loveseats create a light and airy feel. The blending of plaid and floral and how it picks up the colors from the garden accents throughout mix the best of the past and the present.We do have special hospital rates.
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Modern themed room that we're sure you will enjoy! This room for two has a plump queen bed with soft bedding, variable lighted aquarium, and a bluetooth alarm clock with USB charger and free WiFi for the modern guest. The Gamma Green has a private full sized bathroom, large flat screen TV equip with free cable and more.
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The moment you walk into this room you feel like nothing less than royalty. The upholstered European size bed provides lavish textures with ornate pillows and elegant coverings. Marble top tables, gilded furniture, the bow window, and pecan wood European furniture exudes privileged seventeenth century aristocratic France.
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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries took the British officer to exotic ports of call. The relaxed formality of this room brings the distant colonies of The South Seas, India, and Africa to you. Bed The classic Queen Anne four-poster bed and pineapple lamps coupled with the rich and exotic influences of the Indonesian wall unit and Asian-inspired pictures, mirror and tea set embody this eclectic style. The unusual complement of textures found in the window treatments with silk panels against animal printed curtains give this suite an intriguing sense of journey. The bedding and art completes the captivating, loosened-up take on the British classic with an original twist.
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Pretty, romantic and full of old-world style, the Portebello Road suite is all about infusing function with a sense of history. It is a mix of the old – antique marble tables and an empire chest and romantic touches like silk and satin comforters and pillows and original art. This look mixes the rough metal fleur de lis California King bed with the light lacy curtains, sun inspired walls and cream silk linens on the two twin beds of the second room. The stone grey and brown color palette of the en-suite bath creates the feeling of cobblestone streets and old buildings laid in a European bistro style pattern. Those colors mixed with the gold, plum, and mauve creates a sense of centuries-old royalty.
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In our Asian Flair suite you will find both highly ornamented and carved surfaces (the intricate headboard and polished bureau) and bold color (embodied in the linens, pillows, and window treatments), and very simple lines (tiled bath one style 5 sizes), with soothing neutral tones (nature inspired wall colors). Asian styles, which encompass the Far East, is not confined to one country or culture, and spans centuries. Our Asian inspired furniture draws on Japanese, Chinese and Korean influences. One of the most dramatic characteristics of Asian decor is the use of color. This suite has red peppered throughout in the linens because in Chinese interiors, bold red is a dominant color as it represents good luck. This suite is attuned to nature and the environment expressed in the leaf patterned rug and three large windows that bring in the natural light and a view of the sky. These touches add to the serenity of the surroundings, soothe the senses, and emanate a sense of peace and harmony.


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Moringrow Bounty Investments (Moringrow) is a legally registered Kenyan agricultural production business that produces high quality Moringa Oleifea leaf powder. In terms of food substitutes, 25g of dry moringa leaf powder contains the combined protein, calcium, iron, vitamin C and vitamin A of:
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Moringrow's goal is to be the first company to successfully scale the use of Moringa as a natural fortification agent for staple foods.
Moringrow operates a 6-acre moringa farm complete with drying facilities and milling plant in Mikinduri, Eastern province Kenya.
Morigrow's three founders are not currently located in Kenya, and as such are in need of a resident business manager or management team to implement business systems, run day to day operations at the milling plant and scale sales and operations within Kenya. The incumbent(s) will be in charge of working with the management team to oversee and implement business activities needed to develop the business inside Kenya. This will include implementing best agricultural production practices, working with local farmers to increase supply, securing sales contracts with Kenyan food manufacturers, ensuring adherence to government rules and regulations, and various other duties as needed to ensure the smooth operation of the business.
By working as a member of the management team, the incumbent(s) will gain an understanding of how to develop a business in a developing country and firsthand experience working in agriculture and development. In addition, travel, a living stipend and health insurance will be provided.
The founders expect that the successful student applicant would arrive in Kenya as soon as possible (at the latest in May 31, 2013) and stay for the duration of the summer or longer for graduating students. In the interim the successful applicant will be trained and brought up to speed by the founders in a series of weekly telephone meetings.
Depending upon performance, the successful applicant will be offered an equity stake in the company and a permanent position as Director of Kenyan Operations.
The sooner a suitable candidate can be found the better. Moringrow management can take on and brief the new field team during the upcoming semester as needed.
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Fire in clothing factory in southern China kills 14
BEIJING — A fire in a clothing factory apparently caused by arson killed 14 people in southern China on Tuesday, officials and state media said.
The 14 were killed and one other person was seriously injured in the fire, which broke out at 3:30 p.m. in Shantou city in Guangdong province and was put out in half an hour, the provincial emergency department said on its microblog.
The Nanfang Daily said 84 firefighters battled the blaze.
The Southern Metropolis Daily said in an online report that the victims were all women aged 18-20.
It said the cause of the fire was arson, according to an initial police and fire investigation.
A photo accompanying its report showed a four-story building, lined with windows on each floor, its front completely blackened. The fire had not spread to an adjacent building.
Senior provincial officials set up a team to investigate the cause of the fire and step up safety measures to avoid similar fatal fires, Guangdong's emergency department said.


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The former 'sick man of Europe' is being held up as an example of how even the bleakest of economies can return to growth
A little more than a year ago, Ireland was widely viewed as the sick man of Europe, with many commentators predicting that it would take more than a decade for the Celtic Tiger to find its feet. However, while it is true that it has a long way to go, the mood has changed and now the country is being held up as an example of how even the sickliest of economies can return to growth.
Only last week, figures revealed that, despite severe austerity measures and anaemic consumer spending, Ireland's economy grew by 1.6 per cent in the second


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The $100M Revenue Club: Cortina Systems, Powered By Intel
(Editor's note: This story is part of a VentureWire series of profiles that examines venture-backed companies with at least $100 million in revenue, an oft-mentioned threshold used by investment bankers to determine whether a company is IPO ready. Check out our previous posts on Acronis, Art.com, Bravo Health, Cellfish Media, ExactTarget, Freightquote.com, HomeAway.com, LiveOps, mBlox, Oak Investment Partners, Parallels, Senior Health, ServiceSource and 2Wire.)
When Intel Corp. contacts you about buying one of its subsidiaries, you listen.
Still no one would likely have blamed Cortina Systems Inc. CEO Amir Nayyerhabibi if he had walked away from the chance to acquire Intel's optical networks components unit.
After all, Cortina, a start-up chip maker, was generating less than $10 million in annual revenue, while the Intel unit had more than $100 million in annual sales. More importantly to do the deal, Cortina would need to raise $132 million in outside financing, and then figure out to integrate the unit's people and products. In fact, the Intel unit employed some 200 people, had over 300 products and 1,800 customers around the globe.
Nayyerhabibi, however, was undeterred, mainly because he saw the acquisition as a "transformation" for Cortina.
Today, nearly four years after the deal was completed, it's hard to argue with the decision. While declining to get specific on Cortina's revenue figures, Nayyerhabibi indicated the company had revenue in the neighborhood of $150 million in 2009. Equally important, the company, he said, has been profitable for the past 12 quarters. The recession did delay Cortina's growth by roughly a year, but both Nayyerhabibi and Cortina board member Norm Fogelsong, a general partner with IVP, suggest that the company is on track to go public, perhaps within the next year or two.
Nayyerhabibi co-founded the company with Zino Chair, who is Cortina's vice president of marketing and business development, and Hojjat Salemi, who is the company's vice president of engineering and CTO. All three had impressive backgrounds.
Nayyerhabibi held executive positions at Silicon Graphics, MIPS Computer Systems and Intel before becoming a serial entrepreneur. Among the companies he helped create was StratumOne, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999. Chair also was at StratumOne, having co-founded the company. After Cisco's acquisition, he ran Cisco's metro Ethernet marketing team. Chair also spent time at Nortel and AT&T Bell Labs. Salemi, meanwhile, worked at Nortel as well before joining Mitel and then Ottawa, Canada-based Skystone, which was Cisco's first acquisition outside of the U.S.
In creating Cortina, the trio's main goal was to create the next great fabless semiconductor company. More specifically, they wanted to remove the infrastructure bottlenecks and deliver efficient bandwidth across the network.
They also felt that as consolidation swept across industries there would inevitably be consolidation within the chip industry. There was, they believed, a need for chip companies that could provide end-to-end solutions and have products for an array of sectors.
Between its founding in the fall of 2001 and August 2005, Cortina raised nearly $86 million to develop its products and also to seek out acquisitions. Among the venture investors lining up behind Cortina during that period included Canaan Partners, El Dorado Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.
Cortina's first acquisition came in 2004 when it purchased Azanda Network Devices, a highly touted fabless semiconductor company in the traffic management sector. Azanda had raised $53 million from a group of investors that included Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Highland Capital Partners and Newbury Ventures.
That, however, was only a warm-up act for the Intel deal. The unit that Cortina ultimately acquired had been put together through a series of acquisitions, but it was a sector that Intel was pulling back from. Despite generating over $100 million in revenue, the unit was reportedly losing money.
Intel shopped around the unit to a number of buyers before coming to Cortina, which it had worked with in designing several chips. IVP's Fogelsong still is not sure exactly why Intel was willing to sell it to Cortina, but speculates that the chip giant might have felt better with the unit in the hands of a non-competitor.
There were, however, a series of obstacles to pulling it off, the biggest being finding investors who felt comfortable backing such a deal. Fogelsong said he first heard about it from Cortina board member Gary Little while the two were attending a performance of the San Francisco Ballet with their wives.
IVP had not invested in the company up to that point, but was familiar with Nayyerhabibi, having seen him work at two other companies in which IVP was an investor. "We knew he was very smart, but we hadn't seen as a CEO," said Fogelsong.
There also was the matter of the fact of a small company acquiring a big division from Intel. "That's a tall order," he said. "Could this work?"
To figure that out, IVP and other would-be investors embarked on an extensive due diligence process, specifically looking at the comfort level that Intel customers would have in having their needs serviced by a start-up. Overall, customers seemed OK with the deal. One thing that may have helped is that Intel ended up retaining a nearly 15% interest in the company at the time of the acquisition.
The company's existing investors signed on to the deal as did IVP and such other investors as Alloy Ventures, Bridgescale Partners, DCM, and Sofinnova Ventures.
Once the deal was completed, Cortina and Nayyerhabibi faced an equally important issue: What to do with the 200 employees within the Intel unit. It was, said Fogelsong, as if Cortina was the proverbial fisherman who had caught a whale and needed to figure out what to do next.
What Nayyerhabibi decided to do was to pick 50 employees out of the Intel unit and add them to Cortina's 70 employees. (The remaining 140 were reassigned within Intel). "We couldn't afford 300 people so we picked the best and the brightest," Nayyerhabibi said.
One reason why the integration worked, says Nayyerhabibi, was because many of the employees that joined Cortina were themselves with start-ups before being acquired with Intel. In other words, it wasn't a big leap for many of them.
The company was able to handle the integration and servicing of customers on its own, other than bringing in consultants to help it move to a financial system from Oracle.
Cortina has done two additional deals since, acquiring Immenstar, a Santa Clara, Calif., provider of passive optical networking system-on-chip technology, and Storm Semiconductor, a Mountain View, Calif. provider of semiconductor solutions for distributing digital multimedia content in wired and wireless networks.
With the acquisitions and its own innovation (the company has more than 25 patents), Cortina has become a supplier of communication hardware for the core, metro, access, digital home and enterprise network management segments.
And while Cortina may never do another deal like the Intel deal, it remains on the prowl for acquisitions, said Nayyerhabibi.
"That's its DNA," he said.


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Our governor has declared this "School Choice Week."
Here's my choice: Let's have the state stop building schools.
I think I speak for every taxpayer in New Jersey when I say that — not to mention every investor on Wall Street.
The Street is in a tizzy these days about bonds issued by state and municipal governments. Blame Newt Gingrich. When he proposed recently that Congress permit states to go bankrupt, bondholders freaked out. Interest rates soared.
The investors have got plenty to freak out about, especially when it comes to New Jersey bonds. The great bulk of New Jersey's debt, more than $30 billion worth, falls into the category known as "subject to appropriation." The Legislature doesn't need Newt's permission to write off that debt. If the state stopped appropriating the money to pay the debt service tomorrow, the lenders would have no recourse.
That's why Wall Street is worried. If our pension funds start going broke in a few years, tens of thousands of voters will be screaming for priority when it comes to state revenues. Only a handful of investors will be asking for bonds to be paid off first.
And that's why the Christie administration should have second thoughts about that plan to sell $3 billion more in bonds over the next three years to build schools in the 31 school districts formerly known as Abbott.
The plan to borrow billions to build those schools was a product of the Christie Whitman administration, but it immediately came under criticism by the man who succeeded Whitman as the GOP gubernatorial nominee.
His name is mud today — at least as far as Chris Christie is concerned — but back then, it was Bret Schundler. Though Schundler lost that 2001 election to Jim McGreevey, in 2010 he was appointed education commissioner by Christie, presumably because of the innovative ideas he stressed when he was a candidate.
Schundler was later fired over an unrelated matter, but his campaign position when the state was flush offers useful insight into the current era, when New Jersey makes every top five list of states in trouble.
In 2001, Schundler proposed a school-choice plan that presaged the proposal Christie is highlighting this week. The former Jersey City mayor called for school vouchers that could help rescue nonpublic schools in the cities. He also called for a vast expansion of charter schools in the cities.
That would eliminate the need to build new public schools, he said, since charter schools are obliged to pay the cost of infrastructure out of the state aid they receive. As for borrowing without voter approval, Schundler added, "It's your debt and you have the right to vote on it."
The former Wall Streeter was right for both moral and fiscal reasons. When bonds are approved by the voters, they are backed by the full faith and credit of the state. The state can't get out of paying them back, even in Gingrich's wildest dreams. Since these bonds are more secure, they qualify for a lower interest rate.
Schundler's old insistence on voting on debt gets high marks from the current Wall Streeters I talk with. There's little chance investors will stop buying unsecured public debt such as the school bonds, they say. They'll just raise interest rates to make up for the risk.
Meanwhile, when it comes to voter-approved debt, New Jersey has just a small amount, about $3 billion. If the voters were to approve more school funding in a referendum, those bonds would be an easy sell on the Street.
As for the wording of the referendum, Christie would have tremendous leeway. Any plan approved by the voters would become part of the Constitution and, therefore, would not be subject to review by the state Supreme Court.
Christie could get creative. He might start by asking why we're building old-fashioned brick-and-mortar schools at all in the internet era. Some politician will be pioneering the idea of getting away from the 19th-century model of education now that we're in the 21st century. It might as well be the current governor.
As for Schundler, he may have moved from the Statehouse to the doghouse. But if I were the current Republican governor, I'd spend "School Choice Week" choosing to read some of the old speeches of the guy who introduced the idea of choice to New Jersey.


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NOTE: The GED program has changed for 2014. Not all states are on board with the new changes at this point. Some are offering other options, some are not changing from the old test, and many haven't committed one way or the other. Updates will be made to this article in the next several months as decisions are finalized by many states.
For many homeschoolers, a GED may not be the most preferred option; however, the path toward obtaining your General Educational Development (GED) is hitting the highroad. A promising new GED is in the works right now. The new release date is scheduled for 2014…more about that later.
More than 18 million people have received a GED credential since the program began. One in every seven Americans with high school credentials received the GED test credential, as well as one in 20 college students.
The GED examination consists of five divided skill areas:
These five tests measure a student's knowledge and skills that should have been acquired after four years in high school. One plus to the test is that the student does not have to memorize facts, details, dates, or exact definitions because most of that is contained in the questions. The student is responsible for being able to read and understand the material that is presented and then to answer questions about it. All of the questions on the test are multiple choice with the exception of the Writing Skills test. The student is given a brief statement, short passage, map, table, or diagram, and then answers one or more multiple-choice questions about this material.
Students must pass each section with a score of 410 or higher, and the combined total score must be 2250 or higher to earn the GED diploma. Most students find the writing, math and science sections the most challenging.
The chart below outlines the test sections, time allowed, number of test items, and a percentage description.
Time Allowed
Number of Test Items
Test 1
Language Arts, Writing Part I
75 minutes
|Organization 15%
Structure 30%
Usage 30%
Mechanics 25%
Language Arts, Writing Part II
45 minutes
1 essay
|Essay on given topic
approximately 250 words
Test 2
The Social Studies Test
80 minutes
|World History (25%)
U.S. History (25%)
Civics and Government (25%)
Economics (20%)
Geography (15%)
Test 3
The Science Test
80 minutes
|Life Science (45%)
Earth & Space Science (20%)
Physical Science (35%)
Test 4
Language Arts, Reading
65 minutes
|Literary Text (75%)
Nonfiction Prose (25%)
Test 5
The Mathematics
90 minutes
|Number Operations and
Number Sense 20-30%
Measurement and
Geometry 20-30%
Data Analysis, Statistics
and Probability (20-30%)
Algebra, Functions,
and Patterns (20-30%)
Many people are under the assumption that the GED is not highly regarded by employers or colleges. The American Council on Education (ACE) reports that nearly all employers throughout the nation are prepared to offer the same benefits, wages, and opportunities for advancement to GED graduates, as they are to standard high school graduates. This is one reason the GED is referred to as a "high school equivalency" test.
There are many who adamantly disagree with this notion, but do admit that a GED does open pathways to postsecondary schooling and training opportunities. Naysayers base their feelings on the fact that only "dropouts" take the GED. Domenick J. Maglio, Ph.D. Neo-Traditionalist, says a student who receives a high school diploma has satisfied the expectations of numerous teachers, peers, and other authority figures. As if that alone makes one fit for a diploma. He goes on to say that student has demonstrated the ability to meet minimum academic standards on many tests, but can also conduct himself in a reasonable manner in many different circumstances. Mr. Maglio states that employers know passing a test does not correct poor attitude, attendance, work ethic, interpersonal skills, and perseverance. Mr. Maglio is clearly out of touch with reality. A homeschooler, who is clearly not a dropout, does attend school regularly, takes many standardized tests, and usually has a higher work ethic and excellent attitude, as well as advanced interpersonal skills.
Mr. Maglio is mentioned only to point out what you might face at some point, and to reassure the homeschooler that a GED is a valid and good option for many different reasons. Regardless of how someone else feels about the road taken to obtain a diploma, what matters most is how the student feels.
The "Language Arts: Writing" test portion is divided into two parts, of which the first covers sentence structure, organization, usage, and mechanics. Students read text from business, informational, and instructional publications and then correct, revise, or improve the text according to Edited American English standards (or equivalent standards in Spanish and French versions).
This part of the "Language Arts: Writing" test requires the student to write an essay on an assigned topic in 45 minutes. Persons who finish Part I early may apply the remaining time to their essays. A passing essay must have well-focused main points, clear organization, and specific development of ideas, and demonstrate the writer's control of sentence structure, punctuation, grammar, word choice, and spelling. There is no minimum word count. The essay should be long enough to develop the topic adequately. Assigned topics are always an opinion or perspective that does not require special knowledge.
This test covers American history, world history, civics and government, economics, and geography.
Students read short passages and answer multiple-choice questions. Some passages come from such documents as the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Many questions use graphs, charts, and other images, such as editorial cartoons, along with or instead of written passages.
Questions involving economics as well as civics and government rely heavily on practical documents, such as tax forms, voter-registration forms, and workplace and personal budgets. Topics such as global warming and environmental law also are covered.
Questions cover life science, earth science, space science, and physical science. The student's skills in understanding, interpreting, and applying science concepts to visual and written text from academic and workplace contexts is measured. The test focuses on what a scientifically literate person must know, understand, and be able to do. Questions address the National Science Education Content Standards and focus on environmental and health topics (recycling, heredity, and pollution, for example) and science's relevance to everyday life. Students should expect to see tables, graphs, charts, and diagrams, as well as complete sentences.
Most questions on the "Science" test involve a graphic, such as a map, graph, chart, or diagram. Subjects covered include photosynthesis, weather and climate, geology, magnetism, energy, and cell division.
This test focuses on the student's ability to read and understand texts similar to those encountered in high-school English classrooms. The test has five fiction and two nonfiction passages, each about 300–400 words long. The fiction passages include portions of a play, a poem, and three pieces of prose. The nonfiction passages may come from letters, biographies, newspaper and magazine articles, or such "practical" texts as manuals and forms. Each passage is followed by questions that assess reading comprehension, as well as the student's ability to analyze the text, apply the information given to other situations, and synthesize new ideas from those provided.
Questions do not require the student to be familiar with the larger piece of literature from which the excerpt is taken, the author's other works, literary history, or discipline-specific terms and conventions.
This test has two equally weighted parts, the first of which allows students to use calculators, while the second forbids their use. Students must use the calculators issued at the testing center.
Forty of the 50 questions are multiple-choice; the other 10 use an alternate format, requiring the student to record answers on either a numerical or coordinate-plane grid. Both portions of the test have questions of both types. The test booklet offers a page of common formulas as well as directions for completing the alternate-format items and using the calculator.
The test focuses on four main mathematical areas:
Successful GED students use every piece of information they find to study and pass the exam. Numerous study guides, flash cards, and charts are available at stores such as Books-A-Million and Barnes and Noble as well as online sources like Amazon. Libraries should also have several resources, but you may want your own copy.
When looking for a study guide it is best to pull several choices from the racks, head to the Starbucks section of the bookstore, and get ready to spend quite a bit of time analyzing the different formats. Not all resources are created equal as far as the way they present the material. Some guides have a "teaching" section followed up by practice questions. Some guides go straight to questions only. Some guides have small print while others have larger print and a better layout. The student must carefully examine all choices in order to pick the study guide that meets his needs. Many guides come with a CD of pretests and posttests in addition to the ones in the guidebook.
Guidebooks are not the only way to prepare. There are lots of free practice tests and guides available online. Here are a few sources:
What about a student having a disability that might affect his ability to take the GED in its standard format? You can apply for accommodations, which may include any of the following:
There are forms for you and your doctor to fill out since any disability must be documented. Make sure you submit your completed forms at least 60 days prior to the test. Keep in mind that just because you have a disability does not mean you will be granted an accommodation. GED Testing Service considers each request for accommodations on an individual basis. Here is a link to their site. http://www.gedtestingservice.com/accommodations
The cost of the GED for students varies depending on the state. The most reliable and up-to-date information regarding any given area's current testing costs and policies may be found by contacting the local testing center.
Some areas do not charge for the test. Arkansas does not charge students who pass a practice test. In Connecticut, veterans and students under age 21 take the test free; depending on their local GED board. Students can also take preparation courses free and/or receive a free copy of the official preparation textbook. Students in Georgia who receive Medicaid can take the test free (paid by Medicaid).
In other states, the test-taker must pay for the cost of the test. There may be a fee for registering for the exam, and then a separate fee for rewriting any failed section. The student may retake a section until the expiration date of the exam, generally the last day of that year, or the next year.
Contact your local testing center for more specific answers.
In 2014, GED Testing Service will release a new assessment that will not only measure high school equivalency, but will also provide information about a student's readiness for careers and college.
There will be two levels of GED testing. One will be for students interested in high school equivalency and job readiness. The other will be for students who want to go to college. The hope is that students who pass the higher level test will then be able to pass college entrance exams at a level sufficient to avoid having to take any non-college credit, developmental (a.k.a. "remedial") courses.
ACE recognizes a GED student must remain competitive with students who complete their high school requirements in the traditional manner. They go on to say evidence suggests that test-takers who demonstrate fluency with the skills measured in the new assessment will be better prepared for what they plan to do with their lives. One can assume that the new test will also put an end to "some" naysayers.
If your reason for taking the GED is to go to college, you are not alone. More than 60% of GED students say they intend to further their education. Ninety-eight percent of U.S. colleges and universities recognize the GED credential.
You may be required to take additional tests, such as the ACT or SAT, to qualify for admittance to a college or university. Some may even ask you to undergo further counseling and testing as part of their admissions process. You should contact the school's admissions office to find out what requirements they have.
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Hey, I'm 16 and live in SC. I want to get my GED but all the research I've done shows that if I'm under 19 I need an official highschool withdrawal form. The issue is that I was pulled out of public school in elementary school. Is there a way to get the homeschool equivalent?
Hi Courtney, from what I understand depending on the state you live in... you will need to get eligibility status from your local school's GED coordinator. I would just pay them a visit and go from there...
I have been homeschooling for a long time now and its gotten so complicated I decided to get my GED. I researched and I now know that for my age all I need is the superintendents approval. The problem is I don't know if I call k12 (my homeschooling program) for the approval or the school district I live in. Any help with this?
I am guessing that this number is the "code." I don't have any experience with the GED. However, other standardized tests always require a highschool "code." Which is simply the number assigned to that highschool by the test board. It allows the machine that scores the test to admit this information. I did google it for the GED, but found no results. I would try to call someone from the GED testing center and ask for their help.
We home schooled our daughter and she will be taking the GED. They tell me we need a "Home School Number" for the application. Do you know what they are talking about?
[...] Homeschooler's Guide to Getting a GED [...]
Incredibly interesting article that answered many of my ged questions. I think I'll link to it!
Related to this question is a NPR radio program about an economics professor named Heckman who studied GEDs and standard diplomas.


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The word "phablet" has always been a bit of an awkward word. It was created because there is an indistinct grey area between the acceptable size for a smartphone, and the acceptable size for a small tablet. Not everyone is a fan of the word, and Nokia wants to find out what your feelings are on the term. It seems Nokia isn't sure if people like the word, or even know it...
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1. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
I'm a bigger fan of Tablone. Or Smablet. Or Smabletone.
2. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Anything above 5 inch to 6.3 is classed as Phablet™
3. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Or Phoblet. Or Smartlet Tabone. Or Phart Tone.
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I hate the name Phablet. but don't care as long screen size are 5" or higher.
10. Mrmark (Posts: 277; Member since: 26 Jan 2013)
I would say 5.3 - 6.4 is phablet if and only if it has phone capabilities!
14. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Then the Xperia Ultra is a tablet with it's 6.44" screen then.
15. flynfree (Posts: 374; Member since: 09 Jun 2013)
Mini tablet.
37. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
I think the entire idea of the word "phablet" is ridiculous. The original Galaxy Note at 5.3" is a phablet, but the LG G2 at 5.2" is not? There's a .1" difference! What about the original phablet, the Dell Streak? That was 5". Personally, I think they're all just phones.
49. Trololol (Posts: 33; Member since: 12 Sep 2013)
They just getting bigger and bigger, maybe smartphones will be 5.5" or 6" and tablet will be 14" - 20" in the next year
26. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2275; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
Sooo,, i should consider my genitals, a "phablet XXL"?? LoL jp, and yea i agree
45. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
Phablet is the best name for device screen is between 5 to 6.5. And smartphones is between 3 to 5.
48. Trololol (Posts: 33; Member since: 12 Sep 2013)
how about LG G2? it has 5.2"
51. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
or Phablet is between 5.5 to 6.5 and smartphone is 3 to 5.5
4. Jeradiah3 (Posts: 1033; Member since: 11 Feb 2010)
I like what Nokia is doing because they want the public's opinion on a proper definition of their first 5+ inch phone. I like "phablet" myself
5. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
I'd be a fan of "notepad" if the word hadn't already basically been hijacked by Samsung.
7. Jeradiah3 (Posts: 1033; Member since: 11 Feb 2010)
I can see that lol
24. TechBizJP08 (Posts: 495; Member since: 25 Mar 2013)
Padphone would be nice. But asus have it.
30. SingDaFire (Posts: 74; Member since: 21 Jun 2013)
Tabphone will be great or how bout Tabby , eg. Carla - hi honey can you pass me my tabby please or hi honey can you pass me my tabphone please. I think its easier
31. SingDaFire (Posts: 74; Member since: 21 Jun 2013)
Phablet don't sound too good , eg. Hi James can you pass me my phablet please?.. James - Wat?.. Your tablet?..
Phae and thae sounds similar so u get confused if you don't hear it properly
6. skuld (Posts: 44; Member since: 10 Jan 2013)
what's more important is how the device is going to perform. call it whatever.
11. DaHarder (Posts: 177; Member since: 10 Oct 2009)
As someone who uses iOS, Android and WP8 on a daily basis, WP8 is the least likely of the three to suffer from any 'performance' issues in my experience.
Be it scrolling/transition 'smoothness' or battery life, whatever optimization Nokia/Microsoft is doing, They're Doing It Right.
16. criticism (Posts: 46; Member since: 12 Sep 2013)
I think if the name of Apple company was Cucumber then it would not become as popular az now!
8. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
I'm kinda partial to the word... PHONE!
13. Birds (Posts: 1157; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
Phonble or go home...-__-...LOL JK!
17. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Phonble, Birds??? Lol! +1
9. gust3r3u (Posts: 84; Member since: 11 Apr 2013)
tiny phone < phone < big a$$ phone < "dude why are you talking to a plate" or "bro you got something on your face "
28. Zeus.k (unregistered)
Lol. +1
50. Trololol (Posts: 33; Member since: 12 Sep 2013)
LOL u made my day bro +1
12. Topcat488 (Posts: 1396; Member since: 29 Sep 2012)
"NOKORSOFT" or Nokia/Microsoft is always late to the "Party".
It took Microsoft "ages" to come into the smartphone (OEM) side of the business. Now that they have acquired Nokia, They want to ask what the "hottest" category should be called...
GET with the TIMES Nokrosoft!!! That category has been named... It's called...
And your new company is called: Nokrosoft
33. JunkCreek (Posts: 407; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
Nickrosoftia, everyone?
18. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2275; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
Just call it the "Nokia Lumia 1520"
19. androiphone20 (Posts: 1654; Member since: 10 Jul 2013)
phablophone, I'm sorry but how I'd Ballmer going to see my suggestion?
20. zennacko (Posts: 236; Member since: 16 Jun 2013)
Tabphone or even Fone(Phone)Pad [if it wasn't trademarked by Asus already] sounds better than phablet. whenever I see "phablet" it reminds me of Perry the Platypus (the word itself is as ugly and as mixed up as a platypus)
21. justsayit (Posts: 256; Member since: 09 May 2013)
phablet : the phone u cannot to use with one hand.
25. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2275; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
Wrong... i use my LG G pro, with one hand, ,..im not sure will i be able, to do the same on this :-)
22. DFranch (Posts: 206; Member since: 20 Apr 2012)
There is no need to refer to it as a phablet, at least not in their advertising. I haven't seen and other companies doing so in their advertising. The media has dubed it a phablet, so it's an ok term to use when presenting to the media, but the majority of prople probably haven't even heard the term before (people who don't frequent sites like phone arena).
23. LighteningMacKing (Posts: 1; Member since: 14 Sep 2013)
How about:
1. Smart X-Device (As in X=Cross)
2. Smart Utility Device
3. Utility Smartphone
4. Utility X-Smartphone
5. Utility Phone
Sounds better than phablet!
27. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2275; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
??????? Um no.....
46. pookiewood (Posts: 631; Member since: 05 Mar 2012)
I was actually thinking Smart Device as well.
29. flynfree (Posts: 374; Member since: 09 Jun 2013)
Nokia tabphone (Ballmer's phone).
Whatever it is, just bring it on!!!
But don't forget to add stylus, flash player, and dual speakers, ( mono or stereo ) you can decide, you are the producer.
32. JunkCreek (Posts: 407; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
Lumia Mini Tab
34. papss (unregistered)
They ( Nokia) gave me a 10.00 code to use on amazon for taking the first survey. I see they have sent me another.
35. Fernandezxc (Posts: 42; Member since: 12 Mar 2012)
They should call it Pocket Pc and make it run an optimized windows 8 instead of windows phone
36. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
I'd say go the Star Wars route and call it "datapad".
38. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Or bring back the "Communicator" nomenclature. Lumia.Communicator? Ohhh yeah. Legendary.
39. kimnurseboi (Posts: 2; Member since: 14 Sep 2013)
Phablet for me means smartphone + tablet functionality in one device...
It doesnt matter whether its 6 inch its sizes.. for as long as its a smartphone with tablet in one device...when we speak of smartphone windows phone 8 is an example..tablet like windows 8..
If its just another lumia windows phone 8 with upgraded version os then its just a plain smartphone in a large size....
The most important is honesty to gain back the trust of the people....you cant use the word phablet if theres no tablet experience at all...because the reason why we buy gadgets is that we want to experience something thats revolutionary out of the box and with classy taste on it...nokia
Is lossing the reputation and wish to comeback..but just concerned of the market..put all the highest specs plus a os like android..youll gain back the throne you once had....and lumia designs are almost alike and nothing much interesting just plain with large bezels...sigh
42. papss (unregistered)
I was with you until the last part... Looks are subjective not facts.. You could have four different people each say the same thing about SS, HTC, Nokia etc... Personally I love the lumia design with bezel.
40. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Call it Sur(face)ablet
41. R-vjn (Posts: 178; Member since: 07 Jan 2013)
Why care about the name if its used as a phone. From my point of view its just a big phone, and even if its called a 'PHABLET' i don't really care.
But I would also like to say, anything bigger than 5.4'' - 6.5'' is sensible to be called a 'PHABLET', simply because its too large to be called a normal phone and too small to be called a tablet.
43. papss (unregistered)
In the survey I just took I said I didn't care the name as long as it functions.
44. wheelz78 (Posts: 5; Member since: 25 Mar 2013)
I'd stick with phablet. The larger-than-most-people-with-smaller-hands-cannot-use-with-one-hand screen & the stylus may be a key factors in the name but then again not all tablets have stylii.
47. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1546; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
Nokia should name it The "Super Phone-1" This may be the last Nokia branded smart phone to come out. I have not read any Web based reports that any other Nokia smart phones are coming out.Nokia according to the agreement they made with Microsoft NOKIA can come out with a smart phone in 2015 if they want to return to that business. I have Always felt Nokia should have made Android smart phones and Windows 8 smart phones Like Samsung, HTC, and LG did. but they did not. in the End there are reports Elop had them Testing Android OS on Nokia Lumia smart phone bodies. I think if Microsoft did not buy them out Nokia would have sold Windows 8 smart phones and Android smart phones starting in 2014. Wow what a difference that would have made in the smart phone world, Windows smart phones toke a hurt in the eyes if many people because they abandoned Windows phone 7 for Windows Phone 8 which is only about 14 months old a younger OS than what Apple iphones and Android smart phones have. it's coming Windows "Blue updates will give it many new features to help it compete with the other OS's
53. akishakoi (Posts: 65; Member since: 06 Dec 2011)
Simple! Regardless of what size, if it can make calls and send SMS, then let's call it a phone/smartphone. If it don't have phone capabilities, then it's a tablet.
54. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
I completely agree.


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HONOLULU (AP) - A federal three-judge panel has ruled in favor of the reapportionment plan Hawaii used during the most recent general election.
The state attorney general's office said Thursday that a U.S. District Court panel ruled that Hawaii's reapportionment commission legally left out nonresident military and students from its population calculations when determining state legislative districts. The court ruled that this didn't violate equal protection under the U.S. Constitution.
Voters challenging the reapportionment plan said it wrongfully excluded more than 108,000 military members, their families and university students.
Attorney General David Louie said in a statement that the ruling validates and supports the work of the Reapportionment Commission.
The court also approved the commission's decision to avoid "canoe" districts that span more than one island with the exception of districts encompassing Maui, Lanai and Molokai.


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Woodinville student wins scholarship
NW News Staff
Eighteen-year-old Mary Swain of Woodinville High School has won one of seven cardiovascular research scholarships awarded annually through the American Heart Association's Introduction to Cardiovascular Research Program.
Swain and six other talented young science students in Washington State will receive a $3,000 grant from the American Heart Association making it possible for them to work under the supervision of an experienced laboratory research "mentor" this summer.
The American Heart Association's Research Committee selected Swain from a group of more than 85 student applicants. The committee judged students based on academic record, letters of recommendation and a statement of interest.
The scholarship program was created by the American Heart Association to attract students to a career in biomedical science by giving them the opportunity to become acquainted with cardiovascular research.


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CHARLESTON - The West Virginia Legislature wants to clarify who can't run for elected office.
The Senate passed a bill Monday that would clarify that anyone convicted of certain felonies like treason or bribery cannot run for state or local office unless the conviction was expunged, pardoned or overturned.
The bill would also require a current office holder to step down once convicted and all appeals are complete.
Sen. Corey Palumbo says a 1933 state Supreme Court decision found the existing law vague, and the bill would address that.
The Kanawha County Democrat argues that the law already bars convicted felons from holding public office and he believes a modern court would uphold the existing statute.
The bill now goes to the House of Delegates for consideration.
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One-Size-Fits-All Policy Is A Misfit
Today, Forbes.com ran my Op/Ed on ISS' recent decision to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to recommendations on shareholder proposals with respect to political spending disclosures.
Today, Forbes.com ran my Op/Ed on ISS' recent decision to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to recommendations on shareholder proposals with respect to political spending disclosures.
Thanks to Kevin LaCroix's The D&O Diary, I was alerted to a recent article by Boris Feldman, a member of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., in Palo Alto, California discussing developments in class action and other shareholder litigation. Among other things, Boris notes that litigation under Delaware's stockholder inspection statute, Section 220, has "caught fire"
I frequently come across corporations with the wrong number of authorized directors. California, unlike other states, has some very precise rules and these frequently seem to be missed. The Bylaws of many California corporations establish a minimum and maximum number of directors and permit the board to fix the exact number within that range. For
The California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 forbids the offer and sale in this state of any security in an issuer transaction unless the sale has been qualified or the security or transaction is exempt or not subject to qualification. Cal. Corp. Code Section 25110. This important principle is the same whether it is the
The fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Com'n, 130 S. Ct. 876 (2010) continues. Earlier this week, California State Senator Noreen Evans introduced a bill, SB 982, to require corporations to issue a report on planned political spending as well as expenditures for the previous fiscal year. The
What's So Different About Section 800? California Corporations Code Section 800 governs derivative lawsuits. Yesterday, I wrote about the fact that the California legislature has made Section 800 expressly applicable to foreign corporations (as defined in Section 171). Is this an academic point or can it matter? One key difference may be that Section 800(c)
The California Corporations Code carefully defines the the terms "corporation" (Section 162), "domestic corporation" (Section 167), "foreign corporation" (Section 171); and "foreign association" (Section 170). For example, when the legislature provided in Section 1500 that "[e]ach corporation shall keep adequate and correct books and records . . . ", the legislature imposed a mandatory obligation
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261, has been attracting a lot of attention lately. However, here in California, we've been living under the SOPA for better than half a century. The California SOPA is the Securities Owners Protection Act (or Law) which can be found at Corporations Code Section 27000 et seq. The law is generally intended to
Last November, I joined Professor Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA Law School) and James Copland (Director, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute) in submitting this comment letter opposing ISS' proposal to change its case-by-case approach to stockholder proposals with respect to disclosure of corporate political spending. Much like Captain Louis Renault, I was "shocked, shocked" when ISS ignored our
The American Bar Association's Committee on State Regulation of Securities publishes The Blue Sky Bugle, a newsletter for lawyers who deal with the state regulation of securities. In a column for the December issue, Alan Parness of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP wrote about the enforcement report issued last October by the North American Securities


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XML is all the rage among publishers these days and it seems like everyone wants to move into an XML workflow. But what is XML? Why would you want to use it? XML is all about separating content from the form of that content. So where something like HTML is all about telling a web browser what the text and graphics should look like, XML says I don't care what it looks like. Let me just tell you what it is. Now that's important because these days we don't know where our content is going to end up. It could be a newspaper one day and a cell phone the next. If you are doing one little ad for the local grocer, you may never need to worry about XML.
But if you are creating that ad every week, and the content is changing and you have to produce in four different sizes, well then XML maybe the answer to your dreams. I will be showing you a quick overview of how XML works in InDesign in this movie and then I will be going into more depth in the later movies in this chapter. But before I start, there are four things I need to tell you about XML. First of all, XML is a huge topic, there is just so much that could be said about it. So I am only going to be covering a quick version of it. This is sort of just an introduction to XML in InDesign. If you need more information about XML, definitely check out the XML Essential Training here at the lynda.com Online Training Library. Also, Olav Kvern and I wrote a book called Real World InDesign CS4 and you can get much more information about XML in that book.
There is another book that you should definitely check out if you want to know more about XML. It's called A Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML, by Jim Maivald with Cathy Palmer and that book has lots of information about XML and InDesign along with lots of good exercises for learning XML. So those are good resources to look for after you get this basic introduction to XML. The second thing I want to tell you is that XML is so complex that it really takes a village. You want to get a team of people working together including XML consultants and trainers, everybody working together in order to make an XML workflow work for you. There are a lot of companies that just say, oh, we are going to start doing XML, we will just make it work. Hey Joe, you do XML and it doesn't work that way. You got to get everybody on board in order for an XML workflow to work. It's very complex.
The third thing you need to know is that XML requires a nearly obsessive attention to details. You have to find that person in the office; every office has one person who is just like a style-fascist. Someone who just winces whenever you use local formatting and you want to find that person and make them in-charge of XML. You got to find the person who just loves paragraph styles and character styles and that's the perfect person for XML, because if you are not like that, you are going to really get yourself in trouble with XML. You got to be careful with every aspect of your templates and your styles and everything.
Finally and I can't emphasize this enough, XML is all about structure. You have to find the structure inside of your documents. A lot of people make InDesign documents all over the place, there is no structure at all, just like an illustration. That's not for XML. XML is really for structured documents and then I am not talking about only large 4,000 page technical documents, even one or two page documents as we will see in a minute can have structure. But you need to identify that structure or else there is no way that you will use XML for it.
All right, I want to show you XML in action here in InDesign. I have a basic template. I have got some graphic frames and some text frames. I want to put some headers up here and all kinds of information through here. I also have some aspects of this template that are going to be the same on every page, the logo, this Nutrition Facts and so on, and I would like to populate this with information. But that information is currently living in an XML file. Let me show you. This is the XML file and I don't want to get into the details of how XML is written and what applications you should use and so on, but I just want to point out that XML is just text, plain old text. For example, you can see the text for the header right here, Chocolate Ganache. That is inside some XML tag that's called Header.
I have some other paragraphs in here inside tags called bodytext, images down here that I am going to be importing, a caption that I am going to be importing and so on, and all of that data needs to go into a template in exactly the right place with exactly the right styling. So I will switch back to InDesign and in order to import this, I need to show something called the Structure pane. So I will go to View > Structure > Show Structure and I am going to click on the Root of this. I am going to get into the details of this in later movies in this chapter. For right now, I will just follow along and I will show you how it works. I am going to choose Root, go to File and choose Import XML and I am going to pick that XML file that I was just looking at.
Now I will click Open and it will give me all kinds of XML Import Options. I don't want to get into the details of all of these right now, but I am going to turn on a few of these checkboxes and then I will just click OK. In one second, all of that data gets imported and placed in the template. Everything is styled and it's ready to go. I love that. But part of the power of XML is not just that you can format one of these, it's that you can format a lot of them. So let's go and grab that Root element again. Go back to File, choose Import XML and I am going to pick a different XML file. It's structured exactly the same way, but has different data in it and because there is different data, when I click Open and then click OK, I get all that new data in the same template. It literally threw away the old stuff and put the new stuff in, in exactly the right place.
Now if the whole point of XML is to separate content and form, then I should be able to take the same content and put it into a different form, right? Well, we can do that. Let's go open the ChocolateSheet2 document from the Exercise Files and I am going to put the same content into a completely different form. This is a 640 x 480 thing that I am going to be exporting up to SWF or a PDF or I don't know something, but I want to drop that same data into here. So I will choose Root, I will go to Import XML, grab one of these, it doesn't matter which and I will click Open, let's go ahead and turn these on, click OK and the same data came in here but in a completely different format. In fact, some of the data didn't come in at all. You don't have to use all the data in an XML file when you are importing it.
So in this case, I left out this longer story and just took the heading, the image and the subhead and I dropped it in here. Again, this all works because we have content that is completely separated from its form. So now we could take that same content and flow it into a web page or a page suitable for a cell phone or insert it into a database. In the next few movies, I am going to be deconstructing these files showing how you can assign tags in your documents, import XML and even export your InDesign content to XML.
- Automating with Data Merge and XML
- Optimizing page layouts
- Using advanced effects
- Creating interactive documents
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WAILUKU - Nearly 100 Maui residents crowded the Cameron Center auditorium Wednesday night to discuss the feral cat and chicken populations that have been growing for years.
"For a long time now, we've been having issues with both feral cats and the proliferation of chickens in our community," Mayor Alan Arakawa said at the start of the meeting. "People's tempers are getting short, and something needs to be done to address these problems in a practical manner."
The public meeting Wednesday was called to "come up with workable solutions," Arakawa said. Representatives from the county, the Maui Humane Society, the Feline Foundation of Maui and the Humane Society of the United States spoke on the existing issue and addressed questions about possible long-term solutions. trap, neuter and release programs, individual trapping efforts and a birth control for birds are just some of the possible long-term solutions that were discussed.
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An attentive audience packed shoulder to shoulder listens Wednesday evening to John Hadidian, senior wildlife scientist with the Humane Society of the United States, in the Cameron Center auditorium in Wailuku. The event drew nearly 100 residents for a discussion of Maui's growing problem with feral cat and chicken populations.
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Jocelyn Bouchard, chief executive officer of Maui Humane Society, speaks Wednesday.
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Inga Gibson, Hawaii director of the Humane Society, outlines concerns about feral cats and chickens on Maui, Hawaii and globally.
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"No solutions will be reached tonight," Jocelyn Bouchard, chief executive officer of the Maui Humane Society, said at the meeting. "This is a community issue, and it's going to need community solutions. No one person or one group or one organization is going to solve this. It's going to take all of us."
In terms of the roaming feline population, Bouchard and most other panelists advocated for more resources dedicated to the humane method of trapping, neutering, releasing and managing cat populations.
About 90 percent of owned cats are sterilized, but less than 39 percent of stray cats are spayed or neutered, according to a statewide survey done by the Humane Society.
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Help solve the problem
* Spay or neuter your cat.
* Do not feed feral cats or chickens.
* Do not leave food out in your backyard or leave trash uncovered.
* Keep domestic cats indoors.
* If you come across a hen's nest, remove the eggs or replace with fake eggs.
* Do not allow chickens to roost in your backyard.
* There are fences or nontoxic chemical deterrents that may be purchased at hardware stores to exclude unwanted chickens.
One of the leading reasons for not spaying or neutering a cat was the cost of the operation, experts said.
The Maui Humane Society charges $45 to spay a female cat and $40 to neuter a male cat, although the society often provides the service at a greatly discounted price or even free if the owner lacks the means to pay the bill, Bouchard said.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Maui and 9th Life Hawaii also provide the service.
Other groups like the Feline Foundation of Maui and community volunteer caregivers have dedicated their time, effort and often money out-of-pocket to manage cat colonies around the island.
"TNRM (trap, neuter, return, management) is a very effective method when implemented properly," Feline Foundation President Jennifer Drout said. "We don't create colonies. We go into an existing problem, and we try to make an existing problem better. We don't bring cats in to places where there weren't cats before."
"We can manage these cats with properly run TNR programs, but we need more clinics, more food, more people involved," said resident Pam Wolf, who volunteers with the Save an Animal group. "Most of the TNR now is done by a handful of people using their own money, but this is a community issue and needs to be handled as one."
Most of those who attended Wednesday night's event vetted their frustrations with roaming chickens that were eating their fruit, crowing at all hours and keeping them up at night.
"I'm one of those who gets woken up at 4 in the morning from the crowing chickens," Wailuku resident Jamie DeBrunner said. "I don't know who to call. . . . There's not a lot of information online as to what to do."
She eventually opted to hire a man to set traps in her backyard, and in two weeks, she said he had caught more than 40 chickens.
Bouchard recommended bringing caged chickens to the Maui Humane Society to ensure the animal is humanely euthanized. The shelter does not have the resources to go out and pick up the chickens, but it will accept them if they are brought to the Puunene facility, she said. The society does pick up stray cats, though.
"Trapping is a good short-term solution, but all of this takes money." DeBrunner said. "What can we do to help get funding from our leaders who control the purses?"
Maui County Environmental Coordinator Rob Parsons said residents should lobby County Council members to pass legislation or appropriate funding to address the issue.
"Be as persistent as the chickens who are keeping you up at night," Parsons said. "Let County Council members know that this is a widespread issue."
A good opportunity for public input would be at one of the Mayor's budget hearings happening around the county in the upcoming weeks. The next budget meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Monday at the Lahaina Civic Center, followed by one in Hana on Tuesday at Helene Social Hall. The full schedule public of budget meetings may be found on the county's website www.co.maui.hi.us/index.aspx?nid=1680.
All panelists agreed that more research needed to be done on both feline and fowl populations to better understand breeding patterns, population size and areas of concentration.
"People can call and ask me to come and get the chickens out of their yard, but you need to find out why those chickens were there in the first place," said Inga Gibson, Hawaii director of the Humane Society. "Otherwise, they're going to be back."
She added that a new avian birth control called OvoControl may inhibit chicken eggs from hatching without harming the chickens themselves, but it has not yet been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The International Marketplace in Honolulu began testing the contraceptive on pigeons last year and has since seen a 60 percent reduction in the population. The bait is safe for mammals to eat, but there are concerns regarding its potential effect on native Hawaiian bird species, many of which are already threatened or endangered.
* Eileen Chao can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.