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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">   <title>XML resources publication guidelines</title>
XML resources publication guidelines

The goal of this document is to provide a set of guidelines and tips helping the publication and deployment of XML resources for the GNOME project. However it is not tied to GNOME and might be helpful more generally. I welcome feedback on this document.

The intended audience is the software developers who started using XML for some of the resources of their project, as a storage format, for data exchange, checking or transformations. There have been an increasing number of new XML formats defined, but not all steps have been taken, possibly because of lack of documentation, to truly gain all the benefits of the use of XML. These guidelines hope to improve the matter and provide a better overview of the overall XML processing and associated steps needed to deploy it successfully:

Table of contents:

Design guidelines

Canonical URL

Catalog setup

Package integration

Design guidelines

This part intends to focus on the format itself of XML. It may arrive a bit too late since the structure of the document may already be cast in existing and deployed code. Still, here are a few rules which might be helpful when designing a new XML vocabulary or making the revision of an existing format:

Reuse existing formats:

This may sounds a bit simplistic, but before designing your own format, try to lookup existing XML vocabularies on similar data. Ideally this allows you to reuse them, in which case a lot of the existing tools like DTD, schemas and stylesheets may already be available. If you are looking at a documentation format, DocBook should handle your needs. If reuse is not possible because some semantic or use case aspects are too different this will be helpful avoiding design errors like targeting the vocabulary to the wrong abstraction level. In this format design phase try to be synthetic and be sure to express the real content of your data and use the XML structure to express the semantic and context of those data.

DTD rules:

Building a DTD (Document Type Definition) or a Schema describing the structure allowed by instances is the core of the design process of the vocabulary. Here are a few tips:

use significant words for the element and attributes names.

do not use attributes for general textual content, attributes will be modified by the parser before reaching the application, spaces and line informations will be modified.

use single elements for every string that might be subject to localization. The canonical way to localize XML content is to use siblings element carrying different xml:lang attributes like in the following:
<welcome> <msg xml:lang="en">hello</msg> <msg xml:lang="fr">bonjour</msg> </welcome>

use attributes to refine the content of an element but avoid them for more complex tasks, attribute parsing is not cheaper than an element and it is far easier to make an element content more complex while attribute will have to remain very simple.

Versioning:

As part of the design, make sure the structure you define will be usable for future extension that you may not consider for the current version. There are two parts to this:

Make sure the instance contains a version number which will allow to make backward compatibility easy. Something as simple as having a version="1.0" on the root document of the instance is sufficient.

While designing the code doing the analysis of the data provided by the XML parser, make sure you can work with unknown versions, generate a UI warning and process only the tags recognized by your version but keep in mind that you should not break on unknown elements if the version attribute was not in the recognized set.

Other design parts:

While defining you vocabulary, try to think in term of other usage of your data, for example how using XSLT stylesheets could be used to make an HTML view of your data, or to convert it into a different format. Checking XML Schemas and looking at defining an XML Schema with a more complete validation and datatyping of your data structures is important, this helps avoiding some mistakes in the design phase.

Namespace:

If you expect your XML vocabulary to be used or recognized outside of your application (for example binding a specific processing from a graphic shell like Nautilus to an instance of your data) then you should really define an XML namespace for your vocabulary. A namespace name is an URL (absolute URI more precisely). It is generally recommended to anchor it as an HTTP resource to a server associated with the software project. See the next section about this. In practice this will mean that XML parsers will not handle your element names as-is but as a couple based on the namespace name and the element name. This allows it to recognize and disambiguate processing. Unicity of the namespace name can be for the most part guaranteed by the use of the DNS registry. Namespace can also be used to carry versioning information like:

"http://www.gnome.org/project/projectname/1.0/"

An easy way to use them is to make them the default namespace on the root element of the XML instance like:

<structure xmlns="http://www.gnome.org/project/projectname/1.0/"> <data> ... </data> </structure>

In that document, structure and all descendant elements like data are in the given namespace.

Canonical URL

As seen in the previous namespace section, while XML processing is not tied to the Web there is a natural synergy between both. XML was designed to be available on the Web, and keeping the infrastructure that way helps deploying the XML resources. The core of this issue is the notion of "Canonical URL" of an XML resource. The resource can be an XML document, a DTD, a stylesheet, a schema, or even non-XML data associated with an XML resource, the canonical URL is the URL where the "master" copy of that resource is expected to be present on the Web. Usually when processing XML a copy of the resource will be present on the local disk, maybe in /usr/share/xml or /usr/share/sgml maybe in /opt or even on C:\projectname\ (horror !). The key point is that the way to name that resource should be independent of the actual place where it resides on disk if it is available, and the fact that the processing will still work if there is no local copy (and that the machine where the processing is connected to the Internet).

What this really means is that one should never use the local name of a resource to reference it but always use the canonical URL. For example in a DocBook instance the following should not be used:

<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
 "/usr/share/xml/docbook/4.2/docbookx.dtd">

But always reference the canonical URL for the DTD:

<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">

Similarly, the document instance may reference the XSLT stylesheets needed to process it to generate HTML, and the canonical URL should be used:

<?xml-stylesheet href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/docbook.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>

Defining the canonical URL for the resources needed should obey a few simple rules similar to those used to design namespace names:

use a DNS name you know is associated to the project and will be available on the long term

within that server space, reserve the right to the subtree where you intend to keep those data

version the URL so that multiple concurrent versions of the resources can be hosted simultaneously

Catalog setup

How catalogs work:

The catalogs are the technical mechanism which allow the XML processing tools to use a local copy of the resources if it is available even if the instance document references the canonical URL. XML Catalogs are anchored in the root catalog (usually /etc/xml/catalog or defined by the user). They are a tree of XML documents defining the mappings between the canonical naming space and the local installed ones, this can be seen as a static cache structure.

When the XML processor is asked to process a resource it will automatically test for a locally available version in the catalog, starting from the root catalog, and possibly fetching sub-catalog resources until it finds that the catalog has that resource or not. If not the default processing of fetching the resource from the Web is done, allowing in most case to recover from a catalog miss. The key point is that the document instances are totally independent of the availability of a catalog or from the actual place where the local resource they reference may be installed. This greatly improves the management of the documents in the long run, making them independent of the platform or toolchain used to process them. The figure below tries to express that mechanism:

Usual catalog setup:

Usually catalogs for a project are setup as a 2 level hierarchical cache, the root catalog containing only "delegates" indicating a separate subcatalog dedicated to the project. The goal is to keep the root catalog clean and simplify the maintenance of the catalog by using separate catalogs per project. For example when creating a catalog for the XHTML1 DTDs, only 3 items are added to the root catalog:

 <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0" catalog="file:///usr/share/sgml/xhtml1/xmlcatalog"/> <delegateSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD" catalog="file:///usr/share/sgml/xhtml1/xmlcatalog"/> <delegateURI uriStartString="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD" catalog="file:///usr/share/sgml/xhtml1/xmlcatalog"/>

They are all "delegates" meaning that if the catalog system is asked to resolve a reference corresponding to them, it has to lookup a sub catalog. Here the subcatalog was installed as /usr/share/sgml/xhtml1/xmlcatalog in the local tree. That decision is left to the sysadmin or the packager for that system and may obey different rules, but the actual place on the filesystem (or on a resource cache on the local network) will not influence the processing as long as it is available. The first rule indicate that if the reference uses a PUBLIC identifier beginning with the

"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0"

substring, then the catalog lookup should be limited to the specific given lookup catalog. Similarly the second and third entries indicate those delegation rules for SYSTEM, DOCTYPE or normal URI references when the URL starts with the "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD" substring which indicates the location on the W3C server where the XHTML1 resources are stored. Those are the beginning of all Canonical URLs for XHTML1 resources. Those three rules are sufficient in practice to capture all references to XHTML1 resources and direct the processing tools to the right subcatalog.

A subcatalog example:

Here is the complete subcatalog used for XHTML1:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd"> <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> <public publicId="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" uri="xhtml1-20020801/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"/> <public publicId="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" uri="xhtml1-20020801/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/> <public publicId="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" uri="xhtml1-20020801/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd"/> <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD" rewritePrefix="xhtml1-20020801/DTD"/> <rewriteURI uriStartString="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD" rewritePrefix="xhtml1-20020801/DTD"/> </catalog>

There are a few things to notice:

this is an XML resource, it points to the DTD using Canonical URLs, the root element defines a namespace (but based on an URN not an HTTP URL).

it contains 5 rules, the 3 first ones are direct mapping for the 3 PUBLIC identifiers defined by the XHTML1 specification and associating them with the local resource containing the DTD, the 2 last ones are rewrite rules allowing to build the local filename for any URL based on "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD", the local cache simplifies the rules by keeping the same structure as the on-line server at the Canonical URL

the local resources are designated using URI references (the uri or rewritePrefix attributes), the base being the containing sub-catalog URL, which means that in practice the copy of the XHTML1 strict DTD is stored locally in /usr/share/sgml/xhtml1/xmlcatalog/xhtml1-20020801/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd

Those 5 rules are sufficient to cover all references to the resources held at the Canonical URL for the XHTML1 DTDs.

Package integration

Creating and removing catalogs should be handled as part of the process of (un)installing the local copy of the resources. The catalog files being XML resources should be processed with XML based tools to avoid problems with the generated files, the xmlcatalog command coming with libxml2 allows you to create catalogs, and add or remove rules at that time. Here is a complete example coming from the RPM for the XHTML1 DTDs post install script. While this example is platform and packaging specific, this can be useful as a an example in other contexts:

%post CATALOG=/usr/share/sgml/xhtml1/xmlcatalog # # Register it in the super catalog with the appropriate delegates # ROOTCATALOG=/etc/xml/catalog if [ ! -r $ROOTCATALOG ] then /usr/bin/xmlcatalog --noout --create $ROOTCATALOG fi if [ -w $ROOTCATALOG ] then /usr/bin/xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegatePublic" \ "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0" \ "file://$CATALOG" $ROOTCATALOG /usr/bin/xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateSystem" \ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD" \ "file://$CATALOG" $ROOTCATALOG /usr/bin/xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateURI" \ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD" \ "file://$CATALOG" $ROOTCATALOG fi

The XHTML1 subcatalog is not created on-the-fly in that case, it is installed as part of the files of the packages. So the only work needed is to make sure the root catalog exists and register the delegate rules.

Similarly, the script for the post-uninstall just remove the rules from the catalog:

%postun # # On removal, unregister the xmlcatalog from the supercatalog # if [ "$1" = 0 ]; then CATALOG=/usr/share/sgml/xhtml1/xmlcatalog ROOTCATALOG=/etc/xml/catalog if [ -w $ROOTCATALOG ] then /usr/bin/xmlcatalog --noout --del \ "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0" $ROOTCATALOG /usr/bin/xmlcatalog --noout --del \ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD" $ROOTCATALOG /usr/bin/xmlcatalog --noout --del \ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD" $ROOTCATALOG fi fi

Note the test against $1, this is needed to not remove the delegate rules in case of upgrade of the package.

Following the set of guidelines and tips provided in this document should help deploy the XML resources in the GNOME framework without much pain and ensure a smooth evolution of the resource and instances.

Daniel Veillard

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College can't come soon enough.
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Syracuse, NY -- The 7th Annual Empire State Brewing & Music Festival hits Clinton Square on Friday, July 10. Organizer David Katleski has invited all 60 New York state breweries, plus other craft brewers and beverage companies, with the hopes of once again having 100 breweries represented.
The fest -- 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. -- will feature both a Belgian beer tent and a cask-conditioned ale tent, along with other beer stations, food vendors and music.
The event is co-sponsored by the New York State Brewers Association. Once again, the brewfest is the leadoff event for the "brews and blues weekend," with the New York State Blues Festival taking the square Saturday, July 11 and Sunday, July 12.
For a list of music performers at the Friday brew fest, check out my colleague Mark Bialczak's Listen Up blog.
Tickets: $35 advance tickets for the Empire State Brewing and Music Festival are available at www.empirebrewfest.com from May 1 through June 11. The price increases to $40 after June 11 on-line and at a select number of beer retailers in Central New York. A limited amount of tickets may be available at the gate for $50. Music lover tickets (does not allow for beer sampling) are available at the gate for $20. No one under the age of 21 will be admitted.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the New York State Brewers Association, Project Children and the American Red Cross.


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Wok Talk - It's All About the Seasoning
I will admit to being a bit of a skeptic. In my experience many (but not all) things are nowhere near as good as the claims made for them. I have been known to once in a while be dead wrong. If you've been reading my Big Green Egg blog entries this year you will know that to be the case. I knew it was a good grill, but I simply didn't believe the claims made for it. I was shocked when I got one myself and found out what an incredible grilling tool it was. My next surprise was the joys of cooking on a properly seasoned wok.
In doing my research to try to get up and running stir frying on my Big Green Egg, I did lots of reading about woks and stir frying. Most of the pieces covered properly seasoning your wok and the benefits of cooking on a properly seasoning a wok. They almost seemed to cover it too much in some cases. Now to the skeptic in me, some of the claims for the benefits realized seemed like they were exaggerated because they seemed to me to be just too good to be true. I figured the benefits were being stressed to get you to go through the seasoning process which probably wasn't as easy as claimed. All of this was being done by someone totally ignorant to the process and the end results. You see I've never owned or cooked on a wok until about a month ago.
Well let me tell you other than the first session, seasoning a wok involves little more than cooking on it. Yes you heard me: just season it correctly before first use and then just use it often and you will quickly have a pan that is as non-stick as any pan i've ever owned. It is so non-stick it reminds me of those "magic" non-stick pans that are "As Seen on TV" or in infomercials. Now I've covered seasoning the Wok in two different blog entries: BIG GREEN EGG - PT. 18 - FIRST STIR FRY and WOK TALK - HITTING A COMFORT ZONE, so I am not going to go through it again here. There is a little bit of time involved seasoning your wok for the first time. There are several methods that can be used and none of them are particularly difficult. It is important you take the time to do one of them and do it correctly. The claims that all you have to do after that to complete the seasoning process is to cook on your wok is absolutely, totally true.
This is what the wok looked like after it came out of the oven & after it had cooked up a batch of Chinese chives.(left). This picture was taken one month later after I'd used the wok two dozen times. It is now a deep black color and has all of the good properties of a non-stick pan. (right).
I seasoned my wok using the combination of browning it in the oven with a light coating of oil on it and then stir-frying some Chinese chive on it. The oven seasoning gave it a deep golden brown color. After cooking the Chinese chive on it there were areas, particularly at the very bottom that had started to turn a very dark brown bordering on black. After my first wok cook the black areas had spread nicely. I did have to keep the food moving almost constantly or it would stick. But all in all things were going nicely. My second wok cook was a bit of a set back though in terms of the seasoning. I used a higher temperature and the wok cook almost got away from me. Some food did stick to the wok in several places and some of the seasoning came off as I was moving the wok spatula around the wok. The resident wok eggspert on the Big Green Egg forums expressed his surprise at how good the seasoning on my wok was looking. This was based on the pictures I posted on the Big Green Egg Egghead forum of my second cook. He said both me and the wok looked like we had been doing this for a long time.
I was almost embarrassed to post my question about what to do about the areas where the seasoning had come off and other areas where some food had stuck on and wouldn't come off. The answer I got seemed to good to be true and was my first inkling that these ease of use claims for the wok might actually be true. The answer was just keep cooking on the wok. Sure enough after the third cook the missing seasoning was healing nicely and the spots were about 75 percent as dark as the finish on the rest of the wok. The areas of stuck on food from the previous cook had reduced in size and visibility as well. I was very pleasantly surprised to say the least. I mean the concept of not having to do anything special to correct two problems seemed to good to be true. This is when I began to realize these other claims about the ease of use for a wok might not be too good to be true either.
I now have about two dozen cooks on my wok and I noticed 5 or 6 cooks ago that the surface of the wok had become truly non-stick. I realized this when I was pouring the finished stir-fry out of the wok into the serving bowl. Just like a pancake slides out of a non-stick pan as a single unit, so was my finished stir-fry. Prior to this, the finished stir-fries would do a combination of sliding out and rolling out. Some of the food slide and in places some of it might stick a little bit. The other foods momentum would cause it to roll over the stuck food. So as I said the food would come out of the wok with a combination of a sliding and rolling motion. Suddenly the food was behaving differently. I would tilt the wok and all of the food would start moving and all of it slid out of the wok in one fluid motion. There was no sticking whatsoever and it looked like one of those miracle non-stick pans As seen on TV. I also noticed around this time that the food was moving around the wok freely and easily while I was cooking. It rarely, if ever, stuck to the wok any more and was easier to move around. One of the improvements I had made to my cooking technique was to swirl in any liquids high up on the walls of the wok. This serves to deglaze the wok as well as lubricate it better for the cooking to come.
The last benefit to a properly seasoned wok was ease of cleanup. Normally I simply swish some hot (non-soapy) water around it with a 3M sponge made with a sponge surface on one side and a plastic brillo-like surface on the other. This is now usually enough to clean out the wok. My last stir-fry presented a bit more of a problem. I usually clean out the wok as soon as I finished eating. This last time the wok sat around about an hour before I got to it. I simply let the wok soak for about 5 minutes filled with hot water while I went out to finish cleaning up around the Egg. When I came back inside I simply poured off the water I was soaking it with and rinsed the wok off with more hot water. Most of the remaining food rinsed off and the rest came off with a couple swipes of the sponge, just like my non-stick pans.
So if you are just getting into stir-frying like me and are getting a new wok, be sure to read up on properly seasoning your wok and take the time to do it right. Use your wok often and do your cleanup with non-soapy water. Your reward will be a pan that is as good as any other non-stick pan I have ever used. This is a case where all of the to good to be true claims really are true.
SOME RELATED LINKSHere are some links to blog entries where I talked a little bit about seasoning my wok.


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PROS / Hewlett-Packard provides fantastic customer support.
CONS / This printer can only produce a 13 x 19" print. It is also very difficult to use.
VERDICT / The HP Officejet Pro K8600 is difficult to use, but high-quality customer support will make it easier on you.
Hewlett-Packard's entrance into the wide-format inkjet printer market has been lackluster at best. Their HP Officejet Pro K8600 received unfavorable reviews from most customers, lacks many of the features we've come to expect in these large printers, will not print documents larger than 13 x 19" and is painfully difficult to use. Despite its flaws, it is still a respectably functional wide-format inkjet printer. Its print quality is high and it is backed by the most thorough and courteous customer support in the industry. This device will serve you well, but not as well as some of our top rated printers.
Printing Features
The optimized DPI for the HP Officejet Pro K8600 is 4800 x 1200, which is the lowest available on our lineup. This is still quite a bit ahead of comparable laser printers and comparable with photo-quality printers, however. The advertised print speed of this model is 13 pages per minute (ppm) though several users have reported a much slower run speed after brief use.
The HP line of wide-format inkjet printers is the only type we were able to find that offered interfacing options beyond the standard USB cable. This model is able to connect to a computer or network via an Ethernet cable in addition to its USB capabilities. It does not, however, offer additional features like CD and DVD printing, and it does not accept paper sizes larger than 13 x 19". Some users have even reported that this size is not compatible without extensive configuration of the printer.
Ease of Use
The largest complaint of users who have purchased this large printer is its stunning lack of usability. While it produces high-quality prints and is relatively economical when it comes to ink usage, it will occasionally "get lost" when it begins a print job and cease printing at random intervals. It will sometimes grab several sheets of paper for a single print job or the print head will fail before you've even used up the first batch of ink cartridges. The laundry list of difficulties with this printer is extensive and many users claim that the print quality is not worth the difficulties experienced when operating the device.
Help & Support
The shining high point of this printer is the exceptional customer service that backs it. HP's website is full of helpful tools to aid you in your quest to set up this exceptionally temperamental printer. You can download the necessary drivers via a link displayed at the top of the product description page, you can view user reviews of the product and see its overall rating, you can view their online knowledgebase and FAQs section and you can even sign up for an extended warranty from the accessories page.
If you need additional help answering a question, HP's customer support representatives are available via phone, email or live chat. If you allow your browser to rest on the website for a short time, a window will pop up inquiring if you'd like to chat with a representative. This proactive approach to customer service impressed us.
The HP Officejet Pro K8600 is decidedly below-average in its usability, but it still provides a decent set of features and an impressive display of customer service. However, even with its few redeeming characteristics, it still cannot compete with our top ranked wide-format inkjet printers, which offer more features, a higher print quality and vastly superior ease of use.


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BADDECK — Parks Canada took a significant step this week toward having the Silver Dart replica permanently displayed at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in time for the museum's Victoria Day opening.
Silver Dart replica pilot Bjarni Tryggvason takes to the air for the first time four years ago on the frozen Baddeck Bay, Baddeck, N.S. Steve Wadden - Cape Breton Post
Conceptual designs will see the airplane hang in the water hall giving visitors a view into the cockpit where replica pilot Bjarni Tryggvason sat as he flew over Baddeck Bay in 2009 on the 100th anniversary of the original flight of the Silver Dart.
"I walk up there now and kind of mentally picture myself sitting in the seat and wondering what that flight would have been like," said David Hebert, superintendent for Parks Canada.
"It's going to be a great addition to the museum and the island. It will be pretty breathtaking when you walk up that ramp and you are kind of there."
The Aerial Experiment Association 2005 Inc., of Niagara, Ont., gifted the replica of Alexander Graham Bell's historic airplane to the Silver Dart Centennial Association during the centennial celebrations in 2009 that recreated the historic flight over Bell Bay in 1909.
The replica is now in storage in Baddeck awaiting its permanent display spot.
Parks Canada, the Experiment Association and the Centennial Association looked over the replica this week prior to discussing its new home at the Bell museum. Though the replica needs some minor repairs, everyone is happy with how well it travelled from Ontario to Baddeck, he said.
"Right now the plan is to put it on stands so there's a ramp that goes up to the water hall and you'll see it as you start to come up the ramp but when you arrive at the top of the ramp you will be sort of eye to eye with where the pilot would have sat."
The HD-4 hydrofoil will sit below the Silver Dart and its 50 foot wingspan, which Hebert said will provide a nice water and air contrast for visitors.
"We have to account for things like making sure it is supported for the long term and that the wings don't droop and it doesn't shake and that we take care of it essentially. We have an engineer working on that."
Plans will also include telling the full story of the original flight of the Silver Dart in 1909 as well as its recreation 100 years later and how the replica came to be.
"The interesting thing about the Silver Dart is that it had an incredible legacy for aviation as a whole. It was the first plane to land on tricycle landing gear and look at planes today we still land on tricycle landing gear. I think if we can better tell that story that's another reason to draw people here."
With plans now set, Hebert expects their implementation to really start to move in early May when Aviation Association representatives return to Baddeck to reassemble the Silver Dart.


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PORT HAWKESBURY — The Port Hawkesbury RCMP detachment is seeking the public's help regarding a suspicious vehicle on Crandall Road in Sugarcamp, Inverness County.
On Monday, the RCMP Port Hawkesbury detachment received a report of a vehicle with two males inside acting suspiciously on a private property on Crandall Road.
A witness described the vehicle as a black pickup, similar to a Chevrolet S-10, with a red pin stripe with flames near the tail end.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the RCMP Port Hawkesbury detachment or Cape Breton Crime Stoppers.


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Finding out that your home is still standing means the world when you're an evacuee.
The phone rang and we heard a recorded voice telling us to leave home immediately, and bring only what we could carry. It was the dreaded call that hundreds of thousands of families like ours have gotten since the mass evacuations of San Diego County began on Sunday.
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Even with the radio and TV broadcasts we can receive, we were soon frustrated by the lack of specific information on our plight. Local stations focus only on the biggest fires ravaging our area, and have no time or personnel to report on our tiny blaze, which has consumed only 7,500 acres, 200 homes, and evacuated a mere city of 40,000. Public agencies are too busy fighting fires and saving lives to update their telephone information lines. While our
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Speckled-trout anglers along some sections of the Louisiana coast are enduring a challenging summer. Robert Campo, owner of Campo's Marina in Shell Beach, feels for them, but he can't relate.
"It's been wide open," he said. "We're so busy around here, we don't know which way to turn. It's just been incredible."
That's because the speckled-trout bite has turned on big time, with anglers catching fish throughout Breton Sound and areas closer in. Hotspots include Five Wells, the Dope Boat, the long rocks of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, Deadman's Island, Comfort Island, Lake Eloi and Lawson Bay. Breton Island has also gotten good in the last two weeks.
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The 850-seat theatre was known as Steinway Hall for the company which built the building, but by 1900 was known as the Ziegfeld Hall. Not long after, it was renamed again, first as the Kelly and Leon Opera House, and by 1910 as the Whitney Opera House. By 1915, it was called the Central Music Hall, renamed again the Central Theatre in 1923, with variations on that name over the next several years depending on who was running it (Minturn's Central Theatre, Barrett's Central Theatre, Shubert's Central Theatre).
In 1930 it was remodeled by architect Eugene Fuhrer, it became a movie house for the first time, as the Punch & Judy Theatre. In about a year, it returned to the Central Theatre name and live theatre, but in 1934 was renamed yet again, as the Sonotone Theatre. It would remain a movie house from 1934 onward. Later renamed Studio Theatre, the Ziegfeld Theatre, and finally the Capri Cinema in 1958, which it remained for the rest of its life, finally running adult films to end the once-illustrious theatre's career.
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Although this was before my time, I understand that the Sonotone theater back in the 1935-1940 period specialized in Soviet films or at least it screened a number of them. That was the period of the coming of World War II when the Soviets were also anti-Hitler, so showing Soviet films didn't black-list you then. I've heard you could even buy copies of the Soviet constitution in the lobby. But it sounds like that all changed in 1940. If anybody has information on the politics of the theater back then, I'd be interested.
To EMueller: you're right, the Sonotone theatre did screen at least a few Soviet films in the late 30s. From the Chicago Tribune movie directory on Sunday, July 3,1938: SONOTONE "It's Always Cool and Comfortable" 66 E. VAN BUREN .35 to 2 p.m.—–.40 to 5:30 The Furiously Exciting Soviet Naval Drama "MEN OF THE SEA" Made with the Cooperation of the Soviet Navy and the Men of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. And… from the Chicago Tribune movie listings on Saturday April 1, 1939: SONOTONE Late Feature at 11:15 P.M. Starts Today SERGEI EISENSTEIN'S Supreme Film Achievement "ALEXANDER NEVSKY". Also, at the Princess (another downtown theatre) one could have seen "FRONTIER" another Soviet film, on Friday June 12, 1936.
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Thanks for the interesting information. By the way, I've been corrected: it was not in the lobby but on the Mezzanine in the Sonotone where the Soviet constitution and possibly other brochures were sold.
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CHICAGO-The newest Yiddish production of G.L. Motion Picture Corp., "Overture to Glory", starring Moishe Oysher, is having its world premiere at the Sonotone. Irving Franklin is handling the picture in the Chicago territory.
Would you have a higher res copy of this image? I need an image of Steinway Hall for a doc about the architects in this building and Dwight Perkins. Thank you.
I have no idea what the original interior of this late 19th century theater looked like, but whatever style it was, the transformation of the auditorium with a severely streamlined design by architect Eugene Fuhrer in 1930 must have been a shock to anyone familiar with the house. Here is a photo illustrating an ad for the American Seating Company in the November 1, 1930, issue of Motion Picture News.
It's in the Photos section…
A two page article about the Punch and Judy Theatre, complete with floor plans, followed by four pages of photos, appeared in the October 25, 1930, issue of Exhibitors Herald-World. It can be seen online at the Internet Archive (click on the + sign in the tool bar at the bottom to enlarge pages.)
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In Checkmate Tactics by Garry Kasparov, the author pretty much states that chess is 99% tacitcs, which is a well known phrase that originated from German chess master Richard Teichmann. Whether you believe that chess is 99% tactics or not, I found Kasparov's notion that a player can have a world ranking in the top 1000 without any great understanding of strategy to be astounding. You gotta be kidding me!
"When social players play, something approaching 100% of all games are decided tactically. At a decent club level standard, I would suggest that at least 90-95% of games are decided primarily for tactical reasons. You need to get up to strong county or even international standard before players can really outplay each other in a strategic sense."
What do you think about this statement below regarding the top 1000 and strategy?
"Some players become very strong indeed and can achieve ratings that place them in the top 1,000 in the world without any great understanding of the strategic niceties of the game. How is this possible? They are very good indeed at tactics. On the other hand, players who have an excellent strategic understanding but poor tactical skills will never achieve anywhere near this standard. Grand strategic vision counts for very little if you keep losing your pieces."
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talented performers often do not make great teachers. ppl with talent (assuming for argument that talent exists, altho' many hv argued otherwise here) often cannot explain their talent or gut-feel or intuition or whatever u call it. often it takes an external observer to try to make a model out of that person and then teach others by applying that model (missing many details in the process but still doing a great job overall).
ok i just got lost wat i was trying to say ...
People who argue otherwise are idiots.
yes but talented idiots ...
Talented at being idiots.
You're one of the talents I mentioned. Follow Prawn.
Look at how good computers fare without positional consideration. I don't know if they'd make top 1000, but they would most likely beat most players here. There are probably engines available to play online that play without positional consideration and deep tactics.
Of course, bear in mind who's saying this. Doubtful if Karpov or Petrosian would ever try to make that point...
To be a player in the Top 1000 in the world, one needs a FIDE rating of about 2495, i.e. about base grandmaster strength.
Can someone achieve this level with very powerful tactical play and not such deep strategy? If the player has excellent opening preparation, I would say that this is possible.
Perhaps it's not a fair comparison, but Houdini has reached a level of 3300 without any deep strategical understanding, only really tactics.
The reason I say this is because 'strategy' isn't something which exists in an objective sense in chess - theoretically the game could be solved brute-force by a computer with infinite processing power. Rather, 'strategy' is a subjective concept invoked by humans, to help our human-like minds find better moves. In other words, it's a means to an end. So if you can achieve the same end (playing good moves) by some other means, then all well and good.
Houdini has reached a level of 3300 without any deep strategical understanding, only really tactics.
Interesting topic, thanks Musikamole
I think deep positional understanding is necessary when we speak about SOME GMs games. Because even when two GMs are battling on the board, many games are won/lost thanks to/because of a tactical idea. Besides, many, too many games, are won when a player makes NORMAL, but CORRECT moves, and transforms his positional advantage (development/space control) into a tactical one. Because you won't win a game by simply placing your pieces in good squares, you need to REACT and to ATTACK. I am not really an expert, but this is what I think about the whole subject.
I didn't say no positional knowledge. I said no real strategical understanding. There's a difference. The latter is a human characteristic.
I don't know of strong tactical amateur players who don't have the basics of strategy at the same time. I mean, you won't find many people just calculating on every move without some guiding strategical principles at least helping them with the candidate moves selection process.
Now, do you make the difference more easily on tactical skills than on strategical skills, certainly the former. But strategical skills help you get positions where your tactical skills can express themselves.
And make no mistake, nobody plays like a computer (even a weak one) at amateur level.
To people thinking tactics is everything in chess, I recommend looking at games played between professional and amateurs in open tournaments (say +2400 vs. -2200). Sure, you'll see some tactical shots, but most of the time, you'll see someone building a very strong position and crunching from here on.
A player with a 2000 rating can make a move they see is tactical, but to my 1600 rating brain it looks strategic. If I make a move I think is tactical, a 1200 may view it as strategic. The difference sometimes is just how deeply a player can calculate.
My experience has been my greatest gains come after focusing on solving puzzles and studying tactics.
This is all well and good, but please, what is the meaning of strategic position? I'm dying to know this.
I wait to your answer.
Disagree. I don't think the main difference between 1600 and 2000 (or 2000 and 2400) is calculation depth. I know 1600s who calculate at least as well as me. The main difference is understanding of the game.
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Sony and Taco Bell have just announced a partnership to hype the US release of the PS Vita. Taco Bell will run three separate but connected contests which will give lucky winners a chance to win the handheld system (as part of a prize pack detailed below) before it debuts in US stores.
The contest hypes a winner every fifteen minutes, and runs from January 26th through March 11th. Contestants can win a PS Vita Prize Pack in one of three ways:
- UNLOCK THE BOX: Beginning January 26th, Taco Bell's specially marked $5 Buck Box – which includes a Cheesy Gordita Crunch, Crunchy Taco, Burrito Supreme and medium fountain drink – will also provide a code that can be entered online for an instant chance to "unlock" and win a PS Vita.
- BATTLE: Download Taco Bell's new mobile app to check out the exclusively designed Reality Fighters Dojo game where you can "battle" your friends to win a PS Vita.
- BOAST: Taco Bell's online contest will encourage you to submit a photo or video "boasting" about what you're willing to do for a PS Vita. Submissions will then go into an online gallery where you and your peers can vote for the winners – it could be you!
What exactly does the Prize Pack include? We thought you'd never ask. Regardless of which entry method you select, each pack will include the following:
- PS Vita 3G/Wi-Fi system
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It's easy to think of one company that's currently "be-Tween" a proverbial rock and a hard place. And while nobody can forecast how it will affect the company or its management, youth retailer Tween Brands (NYSE: TWB ) is suddenly the target of a flood of lawsuits by disgruntled shareholders.
In August, the retailer that operates Limited*Too and Justice stores, released the results of its second quarter. Let's just say the numbers didn't quite live up to management's expectations. Sure, management can't always be right. After all, no one is perfect. But what makes this time a little bit sketchy is that between the time guidance was issued and the earnings release, CEO Michael Rayden was selling off $6.1 million worth of shares.
May projections of "conservative" per-share earnings were between $0.13 and $0.16, but actual earnings clocked in at $0.07 per share. The results sent the stock tumbling over 28% and shareholders running to the nearest lawyer.
Rayden's explanation for the sizable miss was that later back-to-school start dates and altered timing for state-tax holidays in Texas and Florida had trimmed results. But other retailers like Gap (NYSE: GPS ) and Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF ) are struggling from similar issues, yet neither company came close to missing estimates like Tween Brands. Both companies actually exceeded analyst estimates for that past quarter. Doesn't the company realize it's obvious that it was fully aware that consumer demand had fallen and costs were rising, since the CEO sold off such a large stake?
But now, headlines for Tween include a string of press releases by attorneys who have filed class action suits, claiming that Rayden "violated federal securities laws by issuing various materially false and misleading statements that had the effect of artificially inflating the market price of the company's securities ..." The attorney's releases essentially invite aggrieved Tween shareholders to join in their class action suits in order to fight for the company to pay for damages on behalf of investors who bought Tween Brands between June 8 and Aug. 21.
I suppose the ultimate effect of these unfolding events is anyone's guess, but the lesson Fools can take away from this is: You can't always have faith in management, and performing due diligence is always a necessity. Fellow Fool Tim Otte recently questioned American Eagle's (NYSE: AEO ) guidance, so it's a common issue that analysts must keep a close eye on. Any investor who had been on the lookout for inside trading would have caught the fact that the CEO was unloading so many shares, which would have put up a red flag for shareholders.
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You may feel motivated to complete all of your work today, which may make you feel diligent. While hard work is essential for success, you might want to consider taking short breaks during the day to assess your progress and whether your work fits your overall goals. Seeing your work as a progression of interrelated tasks could make it easier for you to align the fruits of your labor with the calling of your spirit. Perhaps every hour or so today you could take five minutes and reflect on what you have just completed. You might turn your focus inward and ask your inner self if it feels fulfilled by the tasks you have done. Working in this way may not only keep you motivated but also help you maintain an awareness of what you are doing and how it fits into your life as a whole.
Gauging our work progress is a powerful way to see if the tasks we occupy ourselves with during the day match our life goals. For many of us doing things simply for the sake of being busy is easy; we might feel that our hard work alone gives us internal satisfaction. Understanding the relationship between our tasks and our goals, however, allows us to see that our work is so much more than just a series of unrelated tasks. By recognizing that everything you do will contribute to your greater purpose today, you will sustain your interest in your work as well as work to fulfill the need of your higher self.
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A lot can happen in a little over three years. Unfortunately, not a lot happened here on this site, but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. In fact, these last three years and change have been the busiest of my career: a move to Austin, working at not one, but two startups (and seeing one to IPO), the shift from working on websites to web applications, finally speaking at SXSWi on the topic of my last blog post three years ago- Building a Better UX resume'… In many ways the last three years have been the culmination of everything I worked towards during the ten years leading up to them. Several times I considered writing about these experiences here on this blog, but I was frankly, too busy experiencing them to actually write. I could write about them now, but at this point I feel a much more urgent need to face forward.
That said, this will be my last blog post here at foolishstudios.com, at least for the foreseeable future. I won't be taking the site down or anything, it will remain as a place to check out some of my work and previous writings. It is time to stop fooling myself into thinking I'll contribute anything here in a timely or consistent fashion.
Don't take this admission of failure and subsequent shuttering of this blog as an indication that I don't have anything more to say, however. When I turned this site into a blog I kept things pretty loose and open, with the intention of allowing myself to talk about anything and everything. This was a mistake, I need more focus than that. The result is clear- three years of inertia and zero posting about anything.
Two things happened after I spoke at SXSWi this year:
Press Start To Begin is a new site I'm ramping up that will serve as a repository for my explorations of UX in video games. My intent is not only to write about my own ideas, but to gather concepts and findings from others exploring the space as well. For years I've felt more than a little split between my two professional callings as a UX practitioner and a Games Journalist, and suddenly this year I realized that the two needn't be mutually exclusive. Here's my new mission statement:
My goal with this site is to look at the usability and interaction design of video games and the various gaming platforms. It is my hope that bringing more attention to the user experience of games will bring a BETTER experience to games, and a deeper appreciation and understanding of UX to those who make them.
I'll also be posting games and UX related articles on the gaming news site I work for, gamingtrend.com, to further integrate my two worlds. I honestly haven't been this excited about a personal project of mine in a long time, and I feel that there is a ton of material to cover. My hope is to get other UX practitioners and game designers involved along the way, and that looking at games through the lens of UX can help push both disciplines in directions neither considered before.
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The bride, a daughter of Marianne and Ronald Andrew Barbieri of Willowbrook, was given in marriage by her father. She selected her sisters, Krystle Barbieri and Stephanie Barbieri, as the maids of honor. The bridesmaids were Lauren Arne, Laura Barbieri, Pamela Cali, Nicole Alemany, Jackie Vaiana, Dana Christiansen and Margaret Trabuscio. The junior bridesmaid was Katie Barbieri.
The bridegroom is a son of Christine and Gary Trabuscio Sr. of Freehold, N.J.
Johnathan Trabuscio was the best man for his brother. The ushers were Ronald M. Barbieri, Joey Lombardo, Paul Caserta, Dom Gioino, Cliff Blake, Brian Cassiliano and Israel Mahadeo. The ringbearer was Anthony Caserta.
Mrs. Trabuscio is a graduate of Moore Catholic High School, Graniteville. She earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary education, with a concentration in English, from St. John's University, Grymes Hill, where she joined Lambda Chi Sorority, and a master of science degree in literacy from Touro College, Brooklyn. She is a teacher at PS 3 in Pleasant Plains.
Mr. Trabuscio is a graduate of New Dorp High School and received an associate's degree in criminal justice from Ashworth University, an online college based in Norcross, Ga. He is a city police officer and a sergeant in the New York Army National Guard, Freeport, L.I.
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FAIRMONT - "This hotel is a human institution to serve people" is a phrase from "The Stranger Within Our Gates" travelers prayer that made an impression on Jason Subbert from the first time he read it.
Throughout his management tenure at 58 hotels in nine states, the Fairmont native has held on to that philosophy.
Subbert, the general manager for Torgerson Properties Hotels in Fairmont, recently was recognized by his peers in the Minnesota Lodging Association as the General Manager of the Year. The annual award will be presented Dec. 12 in Minneapolis.
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"You have to be involved at the local and state level," said Subbert, who has served on the lodging association's board since its inception and was president in 2011.
Among the highlights of his career is the financial growth Torgerson Properties experienced in recent years, despite the Great Recession.
"The key is to really understand what people want," Subbert said.
And that means more than finding out what size bed a guest wants. The little details can make a big difference, like knowing that senior citizens prefer first-floor rooms, with a lounge chair and ottoman to prop up their feet.
"What we do is an art; it's not a science," Subbert said.
And it's not a one-person job. Asked how he manages all his responsibilities, Subbert laughed, and said frankly, "My staff will tell you: I don't. They do. And they're right."
"We've got a great group of people who do a fantastic job," he said.
Not to be forgotten in the mix is his wife of 20 years, Lois Subbert.
"I couldn't do this job without her," he said. "I take that for granted so often. ... There are a lot of personal interruptions, since we're open 24/7, and she and the kids and everybody has always been so understanding."
As Subbert has aged and matured, he has developed a different understanding of success than what he had as a younger man: "The greatest compliment you can get is when you see people you've been privileged to work with succeed."
Growing up in Fairmont, Subbert got his start in the hospitality industry at a young age, working as a busboy in 1985 at the Redwood Supper Club. It was a great job for a teenager - in fact, hospitality provides more entry-level jobs than any other industry. It was fun, but it was also meaningful.
"When I started as a busboy years and years ago, I figured out quickly that people liked being there and they liked spending their money there," Subbert said.
After high school, he attended a program for hotel and restaurant management at Alexandria Technical College, graduating in 1991. He returned to his hometown, to work as night property supervisor at the Holiday Inn, working his way up to front desk manager, then director of sales/catering, and then general manager of the Holiday Inn, Comfort Inn and Super 8 in 1995.
Subbert would remain with Torgerson Properties in Fairmont until 1999, when he left to become director of operations for seven Preferred Management Company hotels. He continued to work his way up the industry ladder when he accepted a position as a regional manager for Northcott Hospitality's.
But after eight years with Northcott, Subbert decided the time had come to return home. He wanted to be near family, and he missed his roots. Subbert resumed his role as general manager of Torgerson Properties Hotels in Fairmont, with the addition of the Hampton Inn.
"Fairmont has a lot to be grateful for. When you're from Fairmont and you don't really travel a lot, you don't necessarily realize how much businesses in Fairmont are committed to being in Fairmont and helping Fairmont," he said.
It didn't take long for Subbert to get involved in his community after his return. He serves as the chairman for Fairmont Convention & Visitors Bureau and sits on the marketing committee. He is a board member and treasurer for Fairmont Opera House, serves on Fairmont's CER advisory committee, the Fairmont Area Top 20 committee, and Fairmont Area Community Calendar task force.
Subbert also has coached basketball for his three children and is currently a junior high track coach. At Grace Lutheran Church, he is president of the church council.
When he isn't working or volunteering on a local board or committee, Subbert enjoys spending time with family and friends, boating, hiking, watching his kids' activities, working at the family race shop, and dirt track stock racing.


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Who else is ready to have their mock drafts go down the tubes? This is usually this case come draft day. Our beloved "pet cats" go to other teams or our bitter rivals, which can send some into a depressed, cranky mood once the picks are announced. Don't sweat it though, even the NFL Draft pundits get the mock drafts wrong. Hopefully by now, no one ever takes the draftnik's words as gospel. I came across this article that breaks down their accuracy or rather, the inaccuracy of the top three guys: Mike Mayock; Mel Kiper; and Todd McShay.
Overall, Mike Mayock holds a slight edge over the other two, and tonight you'll get to see Mayock's annual Mock Draft on NFL Network at 9PM (EST)
For me, it's been fun doing all the Cowboys Mock Drafts here, but now I want to delve into some bold draft day predictions, some may be logical and some may just be plain absurd, but then again each draft class has had its share of both. So, let's get right into it…
1. The Houston Texans will draft Khalil Mack, OLB, Buffalo and it'll be with the 1st overall or in a trade down.
2. There will be 8 Offensive Lineman selected in the 1st round
3. The first QB selected in the 1st round will be Blake Bortles, QB, UCF
4. Teddy Bridgewater, QB, Louisville will be drafted in the 3rd round
5. The Cowboys will trade down twice in the 1st round
6. Zack Martin will get drafted ahead of Taylor Lewan
7. Marqise Lee, WR, USC will fall to the 3rd round
8. Someone will trade and draft Jimmy Garoppolo, QB, Eastern Illinois at the bottom of the 1st round
9. Only one defensive tackle will be drafted in the 1st round – Aaron Donald
10. The Cowboys will trade a pick in next years draft to get someone this year
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Eddie Bernice Johnson
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Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 30th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House.
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- Total Raised:
- $613,624 #481 of 713 House candidates
- Total Spent:
- $572,968 #492 of 713 House candidates
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- $170,887 #203 of 713 House candidates
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