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Stowe Opening Day
So I've been very excited to go to Stowe, even more so when I noticed that their projected opening date is next Saturday, the 19th. Their website says that they're planning on opening with top-to-bottom skiing but with only 9 days to go, I don't see how they'll be able to make that much snow in such little time. I've been watching their website and webcams and there is not an inch of snow anywhere on that mountain.
Do you guys think they'll be able to open by then, or should I forget about it and wait until next month to go?
Why would you wait another month to go when you could go now. That's like starving to death and not eating a loaf of bread for another month. Unless you don't have the opportunity, there is no reason to not go snowboarding.
Anything is possible, check the weather forecast.... is it a natural hill or do they use snowmakers? That's plenty of time to make a snow run if they have those running.
Just thought I'd ask haha. Not sure if anyone is familiar with their previous opening dates and how they've done it in the past
Hmm, just checked the Stowe site again this morning and they started making snow today. The webcam looks good, they're planning to open next saturday as planned. Looks like I'll be buying my tickets and going with a few friends!
Has anyone ever been on opening day in past years? How was it?
Just as I thought, expected openings pushed back.
Mt Snow-around Thanksgiving and Stowe is now the 23rd. I think even that may be pushing our luck.
If the NE could just get a little colder we would be getting pounded right now.
Yup, got an e-mail from Stowe today about the push-backs. A little disappointed but I was kind of expecting it. I wish it would just get cold already
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North Idaho College has selected Eric Murray, the current dean of student affairs at the University of Montana-Western, as its new vice president for student services.
"Eric has an impressive breadth of experience in student services, both at the University of Montana-Western and at UCLA," said NIC President Michael Burke. "He will be a strong advocate for students and he will enrich the leadership team here. I look forward to working with him."
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FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Mission and Installation Contracting Command officials stand ready for the Oct. 1 transfer of administrative control for directorate of logistics contract requirements from the Army's Installation Management Command to the Sustainment Command.
Centralization of contract administration is part of the service's Enhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise, or EAGLE, program aimed at standardizing installation maintenance, supply and transportation services across the Army materiel enterprise while reducing costs. The MICC will become responsible for overseeing the contract administration of most DOL services in the United States.
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I issued a short sell alert on a uranium stock Cameco (NYSE:CCJ) on Friday March 11,2011 during the market hours when the stock was at $37.85, well before the first explosion at a nuclear plant in Japan as described here.
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Hey! You're reading an outdated Free First Class Next Month series. Check out the latest version published in April of 2015 here.
This is the twenty-second post in a monthlong series that started here. Each post will take about two minutes to read and may include an action item that takes the reader another two minutes to complete. I am writing this for an audience of people who know nothing about frequent flier miles, and my goal is that by the end, you know enough to fly for free anywhere you want to go. Previously Searching BA.com to Redeem American Airlines Miles.
Using qantas.com for award searches can help you get maximum value from your American Airlines miles. American partners with the oneworld alliance and several non-oneworld partners. Unfortunately oneworld award space searching is fragmented, and I use aa.com, ba.com, and qantas.com.
I've described how to use aa.com and ba.com for award searches:
- Free First Class Next Month: Searching aa.com to Redeem American Airlines Miles
- Free First Class Next Month: Searching ba.com to Redeem American Airlines Miles
Now I'll explain how to use qantas.com.
Qantas shows award availability for airberlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, and LAN. It also shows Qantas availability, but not the same availability that AA has access to, so I use aa.com to search Qantas availability.
To search Qantas, sign up for an account or sign into yours on qantas.com.au.
Once signed in, an award search box is on the next screen. Make sure to select the award search tab.
Leave the default option "Qantas and Partner Classic Award" selected. Type in your cities and choose Return or Oneway. I like to select "Flexible with dates." The calendar it brings up is quite handy:
Red seats mean there is economy space. Purple means business class space. If you want to change what classes of service are displayed, manipulate the check boxes above the calendar.
If you're planning on using American miles, you shouldn't check Premium Economy because that option is not available with American miles.
If you hold your cursor over a specific date, a yellow box will pop up telling the shortest award available that day, listing its duration and number of stops. That's a handy way to sort by nonstop or other specific routings.
If you want to see the exact options on a specific date, select that date and click the Select Flight button. For instance, here are the flights available from Los Angeles to Hong Kong on December 24.
Ignore the part at the bottom that say it would cost 104k points for this flight. If you are using American miles, you should use qantas.com.au for searches, but you should determine the price from the AA partner award chart, which prices LAX-HKG in business at 55k miles each way.
Occasionally an itinerary has an exclamation point above where you select the cabin.
Holding your cursor over the exclamation point tells you which flights are serviced by a cabin worse than the one listed. In the example above, Buenos Aires to New York is first class, but New York to Los Angeles is only business class.
What I like about searching at qantas.com is that it has great coverage of oneworld, has an easy-to-navigate calendar, and shows logical connections. But there are some drawbacks.
1. Qantas.com doesn't show all oneworld members. Amman isn't a city on the dropdown menu of "From" cities, so good luck finding Royal Jordanian space.
ba.com does show Royal Jordanian flights.
Qantas also doesn't list S7′s hub of Moscow-DME–qantas.com shows Moscow-SVO–so you should search S7 space on ba.com too.
I also couldn't find JAL space on qantas.com.au, but JAL space does display on ba.com.
Qantas hasn't yet added Malaysia Airlines to its search engine either as ba.com has.
2. The dropdown menu for the "From" city doesn't list all options. For instance, Tampa is not listed on the dropdown menu.
So if you want to search from an unlisted city, like Tampa to Hong Kong roundtrip, you would have two options.
The first option would be to search Miami, Chicago, Dallas, and New York to Hong Kong since AA has flights from Tampa to those cities according to wikipedia.
Then you could go to aa.com and look for domestic space.
The second option is probably a little quicker. You can search Hong Kong to Tampa oneway to find the return. And you can search Hong Kong to Tampa roundtrip to find the outbound by narrowing in on the "return" results for your backward search.
Although you can't search TPA-HKG, you can search HKG-TPA roundtrip, which obviously includes TPA-HKG as one direction.
3. Qantas releases more Qantas award space to its own program. That means Qantas results you see are unreliable. Luckily this problem is moot now since aa.com displays Qantas space in award searches. Search Qantas space on aa.com if you are using AA miles.
4. Qantas.com times out so quickly between searches.
What to do when you find the space
Note the dates, times, flight numbers, and cabins, and call AA at 800-882-8880 if the space is for airlines not bookable at aa.com.
When to Search aa.com, ba.com, and qantas.com.
I search for awards on aa.com if I can. aa.com displays: American, Alaska, Hawaiian, British, Qantas, Finnair, and airberlin.
If I can't, I search on qantas.com for Iberia, Cathay Pacific, and LAN.
If I want to search JAL, Malaysia, Royal Jordanian, or S7, I use ba.com.
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Very useful post! My interest is flying from the US to India (Mumbai specifically). Used all 3 engines. While I agree with your take on aa.com and it not displaying RJ and IB. But contrary to what you said about Qantas, I did find availability on RJ from JFK-AMM-BOM in Business.
If you have an HTML editing plugin on your browser, you can trick the website by editing the menu to insert the airport code that you need. At one point SCL wasn't on there (might still not be there) but I got it to work.
It was amusing. We were planning a trip SFO-NYC (American) NYC-Tokyo (American) and Tokyo – Shanghai (JAL) and then back to NY from Shanghai with a colleague the other day. We had to use all three search engines, but we planned it all for 70k miles 🙂 So everyone was happy in the end.
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Keller Blames Gay Community For Jamie Hubley's Suicide
On Saturday, openly gay teenager Jamie Hubley, who chronicled his experiences with depression and anti-gay bullying on his blog, committed suicide at the age of fifteen. Bill Keller of LivePrayer.com knows just who to blame for Hubley's suicide: "the homosexual community and media who promote this lifestyle to society," including "Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Ellen DeGeneres" and pastors who don't condemn homosexuality. "Homosexuality is a bondage like alcohol, drugs, gambling, or anything else people get addicted to," Keller writes in his chilling statement on Hubley's death. "The fact is, suicide is exponentially higher amongst those who choose the homosexual lifestyle, and while those in the media want to blame people like myself who take a Biblical stand on this issue, the fact is, they are the ones most responsible."
Keller writes that Hubley's sexual orientation was "destructive," calls openly gay people "brainwashed," and claims that it is those who "glorify this deviant, unnatural, and unhealthy choice of sexual activity, who are most responsible for Hubley's death":
Bill Keller, the world's leading Internet Evangelist and the founder of LivePrayer.com, with over 2.4 million subscribers worldwide reading the daily devotional he has written every morning for 12 years on the issues of the day from a Biblcial [sic] worldview, is calling out Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Ellen DeGeneres, the media, and gutless pastors for the suicide of a Canadian teen who claimed to be "gay."
Last Friday, a 15-year-old Ottawa boy Jamie Hubley, committed suicide after documenting his hardships of being "gay." Liveprayer's Bill Keller said that while the media wants to demonize anyone who dares call this CHOICE of sexual activity what God calls it in the Bible, a sin, it is those in the media who glamorize and promote this choice as normal and acceptable, along with gutless pastors too afraid to speak out against this sin, along with faux churches that glorify this deviant, unnatural, and unhealthy choice of sexual activity, who are most responsible for Hubley's death.
Keller stated, "Sadly we deal with the loved ones of those who commit suicide every day. Suicide is a desperate and selfish act that is ultimately the sole responsibility of the person who made the choice to end their life. Everyone who commits suicide has reasons that led them to make such a horrible decision. The fact is, suicide is exponentially higher amongst those who choose the homosexual lifestyle, and while those in the media want to blame people like myself who take a Biblical stand on this issue, the fact is, they are the ones most responsible!"
Keller goes on, "A 15-year-old has no real understanding of sexuality, and most are still trying to figure out life and how they fit in. It is the homosexual community and media who promote this lifestyle to society, forcing it to validate legally and ethically this choice of sexual behavior and relationships to our children as normal, even desirable behavior!" He adds, "The Bible says in the last days the truth will become a lie, and the lie the truth."
Over the past 20 years, Liveprayer has helped thousands of men and women make the choice to turn from the sin of homosexuality. Keller says, "Homosexuality is a bondage like alcohol, drugs, gambling, or anything else people get addicted to. The great lie the homosexual community has successfully sold is that people are 'born gay.' There is absolutely ZERO legitimate studies to support this claim. People are born with black skin or white skin, with blue eyes or green eyes, taking off your pants to have sex is a CHOICE!"
Keller concluded, "It is the God in the Bible, not Bill Keller, that calls homosexuality a sin. It is sad to see children, those who don't even know what sex is, being brainwashed by our modern society that engaging in sex with a person of the same sex is a wonderful thing. God created sex between a man and a woman in the bonds of marriage. All sex outside of God's plan is not only a sin, but destructive. We are fortunate to see God's grace daily working in the lives of men and women who have been in bondage to the lie of homosexuality, as they find freedom, true joy, and true peace, living as God created us."
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The gang unit for the Oklahoma City police have begun patrolling during the day to stop gang activities in the city.Video Transcript
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Getting started
Before you begin, ensure that you have the current version of Apache Abdera installed. The source is available in the Apache Subversion repository at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/abdera/java/trunk. To retrieve the source, first ensure you have the subversion client and issue the command:
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Once you download the source image, you can build Abdera using Ant version 1.6.5 or higher.
> cd trunk > ant -f build/build.xml dist
After the build completes, the compiled jars and dependencies are located in a newly created dist directory. To run the examples, you need to have the following jars in your classpath:
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|Dependencies (dist/lib)
In accordance with the charter of the IETF's Atom Publishing Format and Protocol Working Group, the Atom Publishing Protocol is designed for the primary use case of publishing and management of weblog entries. It should come as no surprise, then, that many blogging software providers such as Google, SixApart, and Roller have already started to roll out preliminary support for the protocol.
Google's Blogger Beta
In early August of 2006, Google announced a long-awaited update to its hosted weblogging service. Among a number of other features, the service now supports the use of the Atom Publishing Protocol to create and edit posts.
Creating a post is rather straightforward. The first thing you need to know is the URL of the Atom collection to which new entries will be sent. For Blogger, the Atom feed used to syndicate the content of blogs to feed readers and aggregators doubles as the Atom Publishing Protocol collection. To find the collection URI then, one needs only look at the alternate link in the header of their weblogs home page.
Listing 1. The header of my Blogger home page
  <title>testing</title> <meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'/> <meta content='true' name='MSSmartTagsPreventParsing'/> <meta content='blogger' name='generator'/> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="testing - Atom" href="http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/7352231422284704069/posts/full" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="testing - RSS" href="http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/7352231422284704069/posts/full?alt=rss" /> <link rel="service.post" type="application/atom+xml" title="testing - Atom" href="http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/7352231422284704069/posts/full" /> ...
Once you know the address of the Atom feed, you can start to post entries to the blog. Listing 2 illustrates the sample post you are going to send:
Listing 2. A sample Blogger post
POST /feeds/7352231422284704069/posts/full HTTP/1.1 Host: beta.blogger.com Content-Type: application/atom+xml Content-Length: 349 Authorization: GoogleLogin auth={auth token} <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <id>urn:uuid:1332534422684714363</id> <title>Posting to Blogger</title> <author><name>James</name></author> <updated>2006-09-02T12:12:12Z</updated> <content type="xhtml">

This is an example post to the new blogger beta

 </content> </entry>
In Listing 2, note several important things about the request. The first, and most important, is the Authorization header. Google's Atom Publishing Protocol-enabled services require the use of a proprietary authentication scheme that is, thankfully, not that difficult to implement. Second, Google's implementation requires that requests contain the Content-Length header. While seemingly insignificant, the fact that Content-Length is required carries the potentially significant side effect of requiring clients that send entries to the server also calculate the size of the posted request prior to sending it, making requests less efficient than they could be. Finally, the posted entry contains ID, author, and updated element values that Blogger completely ignores.
Step 1. Authenticating
The first step to posting to Blogger is to authenticate using the GoogleLogin authentication scheme. To do this, create a GoogleLogin utility class. This utility takes as input the user ID and password you use to access your Google account and the name of the service being accessed. In this case, the service name is "blogger."
Listing 3. The GoogleLogin scheme requires sending a simple HTTP POST to their authentication server
public final class GoogleLogin { ... public static String getAuth( Client client, String service, String id, String pwd) { try { StringRequestEntity stringreq = new StringRequestEntity(getRequest(id,pwd,service)); RequestOptions options = client.getDefaultRequestOptions(); options.setContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); ClientResponse response = client.post(URI, stringreq, options); String auth = read(response.getInputStream()); response.release(); return auth.split("\n")[2].replaceAll("Auth=", "auth="); } catch (Exception e) {} return null; } ... }
Calling the GoogleLogin.getAuth(...) method with appropriate credentials yields an authorization token that you can use to authenticate requests to post or edit Blogger entries.
Step 2. Building the entry
The second step to posting to Blogger is to construct the Atom entry that you will post using Apache Abdera's Feed Object Model API:
Listing 4. Building the Blogger entry
Abdera abdera = new Abdera(); Factory factory = abdera.getFactory(); Entry entry = factory.newEntry(); entry.setId(FOMHelper.generateUuid()); entry.setUpdated(new java.util.Date()); entry.addAuthor("James"); entry.setTitle("Posting to Blogger"); entry.setContentAsXhtml( "
This is an example post to the new blogger beta
");
Step 3. Posting the entry
The final step is to send the entry off to the Blogger server:
Listing 5. Posting the entry to Blogger
Client client = new CommonsClient(abdera); String auth = GoogleLogin.getAuth( client, "blogger", "email@example.com", "your.password"); RequestOptions options = client.getDefaultRequestOptions(); options.setAuthorization("GoogleLogin " + auth); BaseRequestEntity bre = new BaseRequestEntity(entry, false); Response response = client.post( "http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/7352231422284704069/posts/full", bre, options); if (response.getStatus() == 201) System.out.println("Success!"); else System.out.println("Failed!");
In Listing 5 you can see all of the elements coming together. First, the authentication token is retrieved and set in as a request option. Then, you use Abdera's BaseRequestEntity utility class as a wrapper for the entry to be posted to ensure that the required Content-Length header is properly calculated. And last, you post the entry to the URL of the Atom feed identified in the header of the Blogger home page. If the post was successful, the server should respond with a 201 HTTP status code.
Figure 1. Viewing the successful post in Blogger
Editing and deleting Entries
With the Atom Publishing Protocol, you can also edit and delete existing entries:
Listing 6. Updating an existing entry
String location = // get the URI of the entry to edit Document<Entry> entry_doc = client.get(location).getDocument(); entry = (Entry) entry_doc.getRoot().clone(); entry.setTitle("This is the changed title"); response = client.put( location, new BaseRequestEntity(entry,false), options);
Listing 7. Deleting an entry
String location = // get the URI of the entry to delete response = client.delete(location, options);
Roller Weblogger
Google is not the only blogging provider with plans to support the Atom Publishing Protocol, however. The popular open source Roller Weblogger package, used as the back end to several large corporate blogging networks such as Sun's http://blogs.sun.com site and IBM's internal Intranet blogging service, is currently in the process of being updated to support APP. With a couple of notable exceptions, the process of posting to Roller is the same as posting to Blogger:
Listing 8. An example Roller post
POST /app/myblog/entries HTTP/1.1 Host: example.org Content-Type: application/atom+xml Authorization: Basic {user:password} <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <id>urn:uuid:4BA4E6A3334F88813011571535258641</id> <title type="text">Posting to Roller</title> <updated>2006-09-01T23:32:05.880Z</updated> <author><name>James</name></author> <content type="html">
This is an example post to Roller
 </content> </entry>
The key differences between the Roller Atom interface and Blogger's include the fact that Roller provides an APP Service Document for discovering available collections (as opposed to using alternate links in the blog home page) and that it uses the standardized Basic authentication scheme:
Listing 9. Posting to Roller
String start = "http://roller.example.org/app"; Abdera abdera = new Abdera(); Factory factory = abdera.getFactory(); Entry entry = factory.newEntry(); entry.setId(FOMHelper.generateUuid()); entry.setUpdated(new java.util.Date()); entry.addAuthor("James"); entry.setTitle("Posting to Roller"); entry.setContentAsHtml("
This is an example post to Roller
"); Client client = new CommonsClient(abdera); client.addCredentials( start, null, null, new UsernamePasswordCredentials( "username", "password")); // Get the collection URI from the service document Document<Service> service_doc = client.get(start).getDocument(); Service service = service_doc.getRoot(); Collection collection = service.getWorkspaces().get(0) .getCollections().get(0); String uri = collection.getHref().toString(); Response response = client.post(uri, entry); if (response.getStatus() == 201) System.out.println("Success!"); else System.out.println("Failed!");
Posting media resources
Another important feature of Roller's Atom Publishing implementation is support for uploading arbitrary media resources. For instance, to upload a podcast to your server, you simply replace the entry in the previous post with a request entity representing the MP3 to be uploaded:
Listing 10. Posting audio resources to a Roller Weblog
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream( "mypodcast.mp3"); InputStreamRequestEntity re = new InputStreamRequestEntity(fis, "audio/mp3"); Client client = // init the client String uri = // get the collection uri RequestOptions options = client.getDefaultRequestOptions(); options.setHeader("Title", "mypodcast.mp3"); Response response = client.post(uri, re, options); if (response.getStatus() == 201) System.out.println("Success!"); else System.out.println("Failed!");
You can also use the Atom Publishing Protocol operations to update, delete, and list all of the resources that were uploaded to the server.
Calendar management
An important goal for the Atom Publishing Working Group has been to design a protocol that, while targeted primarily at the publishing of content to Weblogs, Wikis, and similar applications, can be used for a broad range of applications. Today Atom Publishing support is being explored for many applications that do not fit within the realm of blogging. One such example is Google's Calendar application.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a hosted calendar management service that provides users with the ability to manage public and private calendars with either a browser-based interface or the Atom Publishing Protocol:
Listing 11. A sample Atom post to Google Calendar
POST /calendar/feeds/default/private/full HTTP/1.1 Host: www.google.com Authorization: GoogleLogin auth={auth} Content-Length: 834 Content-Type: application/atom+xml <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" > <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event" /> <id>urn:uuid:421D94DE83D298A91211571550147641</id> <title type="text">Tennis with Beth</title> <content type="text">Meet for a quick lesson</content> <updated>2006-09-01T23:56:54.772Z</updated> <author><name>James</name></author> <gd:transparency value="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event.opaque" /> <gd:eventStatus value="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event.confirmed" /> <gd:where valueString="Rolling Lawn Courts" /> <gd:when startTime="2006-09-01T23:56:54.932Z" endTime="2006-09-01T23:56:54.932Z" /></entry>
It is important to note that Google Calendar is based on the same back-end Atom Publishing Protocol infrastructure as the new Blogger Beta. As with the Blogger example shown previously, Calendar uses the proprietary GoogleLogin authentication scheme and requires the Content-Length header. Also required are a number of extension elements in the Atom entry:
Listing 12. Building the Calendar Entry
Abdera abdera = new Abdera(); Factory factory = abdera.getFactory(); Entry entry = factory.newEntry(); entry.setId(FOMHelper.generateUuid()); entry.setUpdated(new java.util.Date()); entry.addAuthor("James"); entry.setTitle("New Calendar Event"); entry.setContentAsXhtml("
A new calendar event
"); entry.addExtension(TRANSPARENCY).setAttributeValue( "value", "http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event.opaque"); entry.addExtension(EVENTSTATUS).setAttributeValue( "value", "http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event.confirmed"); entry.addExtension(WHERE).setAttributeValue( "valueString", "Rolling Lawn Courts"); Element el = entry.addExtension(WHEN); el.setAttributeValue("startTime", AtomDate.valueOf(new Date()).toString()); el.setAttributeValue("endTime", AtomDate.valueOf(new Date()).toString());
Once you build the entry, the rest is virtually identical to posting to Blogger:
Listing 13. Posting to Google Calendar
Client client = new CommonsClient(abdera); String auth = GoogleLogin.getAuth(client, "cl", "username", "password"); RequestOptions options = client.getDefaultRequestOptions(); options.setAuthorization("GoogleLogin " + auth); BaseRequestEntity bre = new BaseRequestEntity(entry, false); String uri = "http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/private/full"; Response response = client.post(uri, bre, options); // calendar may return a 302 with a new URI to post to if (response.getStatus() == 302) { uri = response.getLocation().toString(); response = client.post(uri, bre, options); } if (response.getStatus() == 201) System.out.println("Success!"); else System.out.println("Failed!");
An alternative approach
One of the challenges with Google's approach to calendar management with Atom is the fact that vendor-specific extensions to the entry are required. An alternative approach proposed by researchers at IBM® Lotus® is to use Atom's support for arbitrary media types to work with existing standardized calendar formats such as iCal and xCal:
Listing 14. Posting an xCalendar event to an Atom collection
POST /calendar HTTP/1.1 Host: example.org Content-Type: application/calendar+xml Content-Length: nnnn <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <vcalendar version="2.0" prodid="-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML 1.0//EN"> <vevent> <uid>email@example.com</uid> <dtstamp>20060901T130000Z</dtstamp> <dtstart>20060901T163000Z</dtstart> <dtend>20060901T164000Z</dtend> Tennis with Beth <class>PUBLIC</class> </vevent> </vcalendar>
Once posted to the collection, the server creates an Atom Entry representing the posted event:
Listing 15. A calendar entry created by the Atom server
HTTP/1.1 201 Created Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:17:11 GMT Content-Length: nnn Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Location: http://example.org/calendar/1.atom Location: http://example.org/calendar/1.atom <?xml version="1.0"?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title>Tennis with Beth</title> <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id> <updated>2006-09-01T18:30:02Z</updated> <author><name>James</name></author> Tennis with Beth <link rel="alternate" type="text/calendar" href="http://example.org/calendar/1.ics" /> <content type="application/calendar+xml" src=http://example.org/calendar/1.xml/> <link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://example.org/calendar/1.atom" /> <link rel="edit-media" type="application/calendar+xml" href="http://example.org/calendar/1.xml" /> </entry>
Note that with this approach, no extensions to the Atom format are required and implementations can continue to work with existing calendaring formats.
Storing data
The Atom Publishing Protocol is also being explored as a general purpose front end API to a variety of data storage services. These include such things as document and content management services, software repositories, database servers, workflow and situational applications, and so on.
For example, Google recently announced a new beta version of their Google Base service designed to store arbitrary data for a broad range of application services:
Listing 16. An example post to Google Base
POST /base/feeds/items HTTP/1.1 Host: www.google.com Authorization: GoogleLogin auth={auth} X-Google-Key: key={key} Content-Type: application/atom+xml Content-Length: 632 <?xml version='1.0'?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0"> <id>urn:uuid:1215d395-cfb1-4faa-b1cd-12da123e3a7a</id> <category scheme="http://base.google.com/categories/itemtypes" term="products"/> <title type='text'>Acme 2000 series laptop</title> <content type='xhtml'>
 The fastest Acme Laptop yet...
 </content> <link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.provider-host.com/123456789'/> <g:label>Computer</g:label> <g:label>Laptop</g:label> <g:label>fastest laptop</g:label> <g:item_type>products</g:item_type> </entry>
Because of its flexible design and support for arbitrary media resources, the Atom Publishing Protocol holds significant promise as a general purpose data management API for the Web.
Looking ahead
This article presented a number of real-world Atom publishing implementations that are already deployed and in use by thousands of users. To support the examples provided, this article demonstrated the use of the open source Apache Abdera project to interact with various blogging, calendar, and data management services. The next installment of this series provides a detailed overview of the Apache Abdera project, including a walk-through of the Feed Object Model API and a range of features including XPath, XSLT transforms, content filtering, and XML Digital Signature support.
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Today's blended wines worth a try
In a barber shop quartet, a tenor sings the melody, a countertenor sings above and a baritone and bass sing below.
Wine blends create harmonies in similar ways.
Wines blended from two or more grapes are among the world's best, most expensive.
They range from traditional ones with centuries-old formulas to freewheeling blends that mix almost anything, occasionally even white grapes among the reds.
At the traditional end, France's red Bordeaux, arguably the standard for the world's red wines, are blends of at least two of the following five grapes: cabernet sauvignon for structure and rich berry flavors; merlot for smoothness; cabernet franc for aromas of flowers and earth; malbec for inky violet hue and petit verdot for spice.
In old days, blending was done in hopes the strengths of one grape would cover the shortcomings of another.
If the late-ripening cabernet sauvignon didn't get fully mature, merlot would smooth it out with sweet fruit and soft tannins. And so on.
Now that science has advanced, growers can make excellent unblended wines most years from most grape varieties. California's Echelon Vineyards 2010 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is 100 percent from that grape.
Still, winemakers often blend in other grapes simply to make the best wine they can. Or, one suspects, just for fun.
And because Bordeaux's red wines, with their five-grape recipe, are the world standard, a group of American vintners in 1988 formed the Meritage Association to make wines here to that formula.
Today, the Meritagealliance.com website lists 283 winery members in 22 states from California to Idaho to West Virginia.
Its goal is to create "an American expression of excellence for wines blended in the Bordeaux tradition."
Some of America's top wines are Meritages. California's Rodney Strong Vineyards 2009 "Symmetry" Red Meritage from Alexander Valley is made up of cabernet sauvignon, malbec, merlot and cabernet franc.
Continuum Estate's 2009 red wine, made by some of Robert Mondavi's children, has cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, petit verdot and merlot.
Outside the Bordeaux/Meritage formula, American winemakers are experimenting with ever-more audacious blends including dozens of grapes.


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What the heck was going on last night? With the top five contestants -- Jason Castro, David Cook, Brooke White, David Archuleta and Syesha Mercado -- each singing two Neil Diamond tunes, Tuesday's altered American Idol format must have thrown Paula Abdul for a loop!
After the contestants sang their first song, the judges had a chance to quickly give their first impressions before the contestants sang a second selection. At this point, a rushed and confused Paula started reading her notes and told Jason, "The second song, I felt like your usual charm was missing for me. It kind of left me a little empty and the two songs made me feel like you're not fighting hard enough to get into the top four." The only problem: Jason had only performed once! The crowd began to snicker while Ryan Seacrest and the contestants looked a little stunned. Awkward!
Finally, Randy Jackson corrected Paula and she said, "Oh my God, I thought you sang twice ... You know what? This is hard!"
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Thirty days to thinner thighs, 30 minutes to clean underwear. And don't worry when the folks at Clean & Lean say "make it burn," they're talking about your quadriceps, not your camisoles: All Clean & Lean aerobics classes have a five-minute slow-down period during which you can remove delicate fabrics from the dryer. Timing, after all, is everything at the world's only chain of laundromat/fitness centers.
It all started 30 years ago, says Greg Trabert, the chain's 36-year-old CEO. His mother, Lois, "used to hate how much time she had to waste down at a dirty, uncomfortable laundromat," he recalls. Every week she would "come home grumbling, wondering why she couldn't at least bicycle through the spin cycle. The idea for Clean & Lean really took root then and there."
For years Lois Trabert promoted her idea at family gatherings, but Greg, busy with a lucrative home-building business, wasn't interested, until a knee injury that wouldn't heal finally convinced him in 1987 that he "couldn't take the strain of the building game anymore." Hanging around health clubs to strengthen his leg, he remembered his mother's dream. A family council was called, and all eight of the Traberts decided to invest in Clean & Lean.
The first facility opened, at a cost of $160,000, two years ago in a shopping mall near San Diego. "We did a lot of homework first," Trabert says. "What kind of washing machines were best? What exercise schedule would allow time for clients to switch the wet wash into the dryer?" Now the place is hopping (and churning) from 6:30 A.M. until 10 P.M. every day, with half of the clients coming for both a workout and a wash, and the other half divided evenly between the laundromat and the gym. Greg's wife Dee, 34, and daughters Kristin, 6, and Jennifer, 4, help out in the gift shop, which sells athletic gear and vitamins.
The Traberts have received franchising inquiries from Europe, Japan and Australia as well as all 50 states, but they are proceeding with caution. New franchises, at $185,000 apiece, will be targeted to college areas.
There's just one fly in the liniment: Lois Trabert's idea is so simple and unpatentable that it could easily be co-opted. Other chains have already tried serving up beer or fast food with their laundry machines. Only Clean & Lean, though, runs a full cycle—the customers who leave with clean laundry have already sweated up next week's wash.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. – It took a fluke goal in overtime, but the Devils were thankful they did not have to go to a shootout Wednesday night against the Ducks.
After all, they have lost all four shootouts this season and have failed to score on all 14 of their shots.
"We always talk about it: 'Let's end this in overtime if we can.' We all know we haven't been scoring in shootouts," said Travis Zajac, who was credited with the winning overtime goal in the 4-3 victory at Honda Center even though it was a Ducks own-goal that ended it.
"I think if we can make some plays and try to get some good opportunities in overtime and really give ourselves a chance to score some goals, we'll go for it."
In fact, the Devils went for it late in regulation time when coach Pete DeBoer pulled goalie Martin Brodeur with his club trailing, 2-1, and the Ducks on the verge of raising their home record to 9-0-0.
Zajac managed to keep the puck in the offensive zone and Patrik Elias ultimately centered it from behind the net for Jaromir Jagr's eighth goal of the season. It came with 1:01 left in the third period.
"We had the puck under control behind the net. I was just waiting in front of the net," Jagr said. "Sometimes the puck doesn't come. This time it just came. I had an open net there."
DeBoer's strategy paid off.
"You never know. I liked how we were playing in the third period. We carried the play," DeBoer said. "But did I predict we'd score with the goalie out? Those things are always a crap shoot. We'll take it. We've had enough of them go the other way against us this year."
If he considered that a fortunate break, the game-winner in OT was even luckier.
Zajac couldn't handle a pass from Dainius Zubrus cleanly, so he kicked at it. Goalie Jonas Hiller made the stop, but the rebound came out in front. Ducks defenseman Ben Lovejoy tried to clear it, but the puck deflected off teammate Corey Perry and into the net at 1:58 of overtime.
"It's even tougher to swallow because we're on a losing streak right now," Lovejoy said. "Up, 3-2, with very little time left and they get a late goal. We were still trying to win that game. They came back on an odd-man rush, Jonas made the save and I tried to clear it into the corner but fired it off Corey's shin pad."
Game over. Zajac, who last touched the puck, was credited with his third goal.
"I'll take them any way. That was one of the luckiest goals I've ever scored, but I'll take those any day of the week," Zajac said.
"I saw Zubie carrying the puck wide. I knew I might be able to get up in a 2-on-1. I was really tired but I was able to get myself a little open. The pass kind of bobbled and went in my skates. I just tried to kick it on net and it looked like they tried to clear it went off their guy. Pretty lucky."
He joked about the kick, which was okay because Hiller stopped it.
"They can't take it back now, can they?" Zajac asked with a smile.
No, they cannot.
"We'll take it. We had a bunch of those go against us in the first 10 games of the season," DeBoer said. "I think all those kind of breaks kind of even themselves out. I think we knew that when we were going through the tough period and we got a couple tonight."
There was, according to Brodeur, yet another bit of luck.
He stopped a shot from Ducks defenseman Hampus Lindholm 1:05 into overtime, but the rebound came to Mathieu Perreault at the right post. With an open net, Perreault could have ended the game.
"I got a little lucky there," Brodeur suggested. "We turned the puck over. I kind of saw the play coming. I made a good save on the first shot and I saw the puck trickle back across.
"Perreault was a little jammed up against the post. He had to go through his legs to try and tap it in. I dove back and it went in my glove. I threw my glove at him and he shot it right into my glove."
That save, along with 21 others, helped extend Brodeur's personal winning streak to five in a row.
"There were two (key) saves he made, especially the one in overtime with the glove. That was huge," Jagr said.
"The last month he's probably the best goalie in the league. He might go to the Olympics. I don't think he wants to, but…"
Jagr laughed.
But the Devils might not have been laughing had they been forced into another shootout.
"I was ready. I'm doing so well in them," Brodeur said sarcastically.