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Google spoke to reporters today and warned that if broadband service providers abuse a possible right given by the government,
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. The issue boils down to net neutrality, which has been large ongoing issue between broadband service providers, companies, schools and the government. Google says that it hopes that legislators will support net neutrality, which will prevent large telcos and cable companies from creating tiered networks, charging more for a certain type of use than another, even though the data travels on the same network.
Google said that it will not hesitate to file anti-trust complaints against any company that abuses their control over network bandwidth and prices. However, this control has not been handed over from the government just yet. Although the US Senate Commerce Committee approved a communications reform last week that allows telephone companies to offer subscription based television services to customers.
Vint Cerf, a Google vice president told reporters that "if the legislators insist on neutrality, we will be happy. If they do not put it in, we will be less happy but then we will have to wait and see whether or not there actually is any abuse." Google, like many other content-driven companies -- including Microsoft -- support net neutrality. "My company, along with many others believes that the Internet should stay open and accessible to everyone equally."
Several communications and network companies including Cisco, oppose net neutrality simply because their business is based on network control and bandwidth. Last week,
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. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the New Yorkers for Fair Use both offered their own proposals on how net neutrality should be handled. Both of the groups offered similar views, saying that US legislators should distinguish the Internet from other types of networks. Tiered networks would be okay as long as the Internet itself remained neutral, said both groups.
Although several major telcos have said that the government and companies like Google are concerned over nothing, many companies supporting net neutrality say that given the chance, large telcos would create tiered networks in a heart beat. Without a neutrality bill protecting equal Internet access, Google fears that fair competition would be stifled and prices would soar.
"We are worried that some of the broadband service providers will interfere with that principle and will attempt to use their control over broadband transport facilities to interfere with services of competitors," said Cert.
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WATERLOO The Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (LCMC) and the Wise Voices for Music project will host a public summit Feb. 1 to explore the role music plays in our community and publicly launch Laurier's Master of Arts in Community Music. Craig Norris, host of CBC KWs Morning Edition, and Luisa DAmato, columnist for The Waterloo Region Record, will be joined by local cultural leaders and experts in the arts to help develop a strategic plan for community music.
There is a great deal of excitement mounting about this summit, said Lee Willingham, Laurier associate professor and director of the LCMC. People from a wide variety of backgrounds and ages want to share their love for music and the power it brings to their daily lives."
Among the facilitators of the summit are Stephen Preece, Laurier associate professor and president of the Grand River Jazz Society; Shelley Adams, director: strategic planning and community integration at Creative Enterprise Initiatives and Elaine Wetherup, field experience officer and principal: additional qualifications in Lauriers Faculty of Education.
Keynote speaker Lee Higgins, an associate professor of music education at Boston Universitys College of Fine Arts, will open the summit at 1 p.m. with his address, Community Music as Cultural Capital: Non-formal Music Experiences and Young People, and will later wrap up the event with his perspectives on the summit.
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In just a couple of days, it will be over.
The campaign rhetoric. The attack ads. The TV pundits spinning the facts to support the candidate they favor.
We'll have elected the next president of the United States. A new Congress. And in Illinois, a new General Assembly.
It's been a long, painful campaign season. But we're almost there.
Regardless whether your candidate wins or loses, come Wednesday, we have to get back to fixing the very serious fiscal problems our country and state face.
In an election year, sadly, nothing seems to get done. Incumbents don't want to make tough decisions for fear of alienating some voting bloc or another. They also spend so much time campaigning and bashing the other side, there's little time or energy left to do the job we elected them to do.
And we all know there's plenty of job to do.
Our national debt is more than $16 trillion. That's the number "16" followed by 12 zeroes. Try writing it down on a piece of paper to see what it looks like. It ain't pretty. And because of budget deficits totaling more than $1 trillion annually, our debt continues to grow at a frightening pace.
Far too many Americans remain out of work and reliant on taxpayer-funded subsidies.
Illinois also faces a massive budget deficit. The state owes its creditors $9 billion for work already completed. Its public pension systems are underfunded by almost $90 billion.
Yes, there's plenty to do.
Come Wednesday, it's time to get back to work.
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Not so independent: When is an independent candidate for office not so independent? When her campaign is funded by the most powerful political figure in the state, that's when.
Dee Beaubien is running as an independent candidate in Illinois' 52nd state representative district. She's trying to claim the seat once held by her late husband, Mark, who died in 2011.
Under redistricting, the 52nd District covers southeastern McHenry County, including Cary and Fox River Grove, eastern parts of Algonquin, Lake in the Hills and Crystal Lake, and parts of Lake, Cook and Kane counties.
Dee Beaubien didn't run in the primary as her opponent, Republican David McSweeney, did. McSweeney defeated two other candidates in the March GOP primary, including Kent Gaffney, who was appointed by Republican leaders to finish Mark Beaubien's term.
Instead, Dee Beaubien entered the race after the primary election, gathering enough signatures to get on Tuesday's ballot.
As I was stuck in traffic on my way to work the other day, a Beaubien campaign billboard caught my attention. It read:
"Had enough of partisan gridlock? Dee Beaubien for state representative. An independent voice. A better choice."
What the ad doesn't say is that it and most of Beaubien's campaign has been paid for by Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan and his minions. Madigan and the state Democratic Party have poured more than $400,000 into Beaubien's campaign.
In her interview with the Northwest Herald's Editorial Board, Dee Beaubien acknowledged receiving help from Madigan but said that didn't mean she would be beholden to him. She wouldn't commit to not voting for him for speaker, though.
"Would I vote for Michael Madigan? I'm not elected yet so I have no idea," she said. "The fact that Michael Madigan's party has helped my campaign has nothing to do with my position on Michael Madigan. I accepted help from the Democratic Party because it is impossible to run as an independent in this state without getting some help from someone."
Do you think the most powerful politician in Illinois would give so much money to an "independent" candidate without expecting anything in return? I don't either.
So the decision comes down to this: If you think Madigan is doing a fine job as speaker, vote for Dee Beaubien. If not, McSweeney is the choice.
• • •
Voting help: Video of Beaubien's remarks on Madigan, as well as tons of other video of candidates in contested races discussing issues with our Editorial Board, can be viewed on our website's Election Central page at NWHerald.com/election. There also are candidate responses to our questionnaires online.
Before you vote Tuesday, make sure you're prepared.
Also, join us at Election Central Tuesday night for constant updates as results come in. You can join the conversation on our Twitter feed there by tweeting to #nwhec. That's #nwhec as in, Northwest Herald Election Central.
• • •
Inspiring story: Tom Doepker of Bull Valley emailed me last week as Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the East Coast.
Slugged "In the Midst of Mayhem – Duty!", the email included a short story from Yahoo News about the U.S. servicemen and women who guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, or Tomb of the Unknowns, is a monument built to honor U.S. servicemen and women who died without ever being identified. It is protected around the clock by guards known as sentinels, an elite position in the military.
As most everyone took shelter during the superstorm, the sentinels remained on post throughout the worst of it.
"With the great difficulty being experienced all along the East Coast, seeing moments of individual hardship and or bravery in the face of the elements, will repeat over and over again ..." Doepker wrote. "Long ago, unknown soldiers, in faraway places, died horrible deaths to secure our freedoms, even to invite and sustain in this time of difficulty, and yet, as Americans, we proudly and bravely strive to meet the continuous promise of an 'eternal vigil' in their honor. Knowing that our servicemen maintain and sustain, even in this natural disaster, is a source of strength for all of us as we meet the ravages of Hurricane Sandy."
I couldn't agree more, and thank you to Tom for sending it along.
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The Rev. Jim Swarthout of McHenry has been appointed to a statewide task force studying mental health services in Illinois.
Swarthout's résumé of community service is lengthy. Among many other things, he is the founder of the St. Paul Diaper Bank Partnership and a founding member of the board of directors of the National Diaper Bank Network. He is a former member of the Youth Service Bureau Board of Directors before YSB's merger with Pioneer Center for Human Services, and a former member of the McHenry County Mental Health Board. He currently serves as community clergy coordinator for Rosecrance Health Systems.
Swarthout will co-chair the task force's Children and Adolescent Committee, which is being asked to develop a five-year plan to improve access to and quality of mental health care for Illinois' younger population.
"It's an honor to serve," Swarthout said. "The people's passion and professionalism with this group is amazing."
Given the state's fiscal problems and cutbacks in funding to human services, the work of this task force will be vital to ensuring Illinois' most at-risk residents don't fall through the cracks. I wish him and other task force members the best.
• • •
Did I mention?: Don't forget to vote. It's our duty as American citizens.
• Dan McCaleb is senior editor of the Northwest Herald. He can be reached at 815-526-4603, or by email at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @NWHeditor.


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Small Business Division Breakfast May 19, 2016Washington, DCGeneral Norton "Norty" Schwartz, USAF (Ret)
12th National Small Business Conference"Leveraging New Legislation for Growth"September 24, 2015Springfield, VAPresentations
11th National Small Business Conference"Small Business & Leveling the Competitive Field for Government Contracts"September 9-10, 2014Springfield, VAPresentations
10th National Small Business Conference"Small Business: Opportunity is Knocking"September 25, 2013Springfield, VAPresentations
9th National Small Business Conference"Accelerate Your Growth in Today's Contracting Climate"June 20-21, 2012Rosemont, ILPresentations
8th National Small Business Conference"Back To The Future: Gearing Up For The Journey"Event 1140June 8-9, 2011San Deigo, CA Presentations
Small Business Breakfast"Data Rights Considerations for a DoD Small Business Innovation Research Software Repository" Event 114CApril 6, 2011NDIA Headquarters Dr. Alison Brown (PDF) Mr. Nickolas Guertin (PDF) Mr. Tom Sanders (PDF) Additional Briefing (PDF)
Small Business Breakfast "Mentor-Protege Programs - Lessons Learned!"Event 114BFebruary 16, 2011NDIA Headquarters Mr. Paul Simpkins (PDF)Mr. Tizoc Loza (PDF)Mr. Ken Rush (PDF)
Small Business Breakfast"Mergers & Acquisitions"Event 114ADecember 8, 2010NDIA HeadquartersMr. William J. Mutryn
Small Business Breakfast"International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) – How does this apply to Small Businesses"Event #014DSeptember 29, 2010NDIA HeadquartersMr. Robert Evers, Senior Partner, Robert Allen Evers Law Offices (PDF)Mr. Bruce Lipton Ceng, President, AeroResearch Consulting LLC (ARC) (PDF)
Small Business Breakfast"Maximizing Return on SeaPort-e"Event # 014aOctober 7, 2009NDIA HeadquartersPark, Program Manager, SAIC SeaPort-e Program Management Office (PDF)Lasswell, President, INDUS Technology Inc. (PDF)
Small Business Division Networking Breakfast and RoundtableTopic: "Improving Intellectual Property Protection"Event 914BJanuary 15, 2009NDIA Headquarters, Suite 400Arlington, VA 222017:30 am - 9:00 amBrown, NAVSYS Corporation (PDF)Kurtz, Office of Government Contracting, SBA (PDF)Moran, Holland & Knight (PDF)
Small Business Division Networking Breakfast and RoundtableTopic: "Size Standard Protests"October 30, 2008NDIA Headquarters, Suite 400Arlington, VA 222017:30 am - 9:00 amPerlman, Holland & Knight (PDF)Mazza, PilieroMazza (PDF)Kidalov, CENTECH Group (PDF)B-400403, Delex Systems, Inc., October 8, 2008 (PDF)
Kick-Off Meeting for NDIA Subcommittee on Improving IP Protection for Small BusinessThe NDIA Small Business Division Subcommittee on IP protection kick-off meeting was scheduled on Tuesday, September 2nd, 10:00 am - 12 noon PDT (1pm - 3pm EDT) in Salons 9 -11 of The Desert Ballroom prior to the start of the Beyond Phase II Conference General Session at 2:00 pm (http://www.beyondphaseii.com).
TRIAD Spring MeetingApril 21, 2008Sheraton NationalArlington, VAPresentations
How to File a Contract Claim and Keep Your Federal Agency CustomerOctober 3rd, 2007NDIA HQArlington, VA
Doing Business with the Defense Logistics AgencyFeaturing Peg MeehanJuly 19, 20071700 K Street, NWWashington, DC
NDIA 4th Annual National Small Business Conference"Critical Infrastructure Opportunities"May 15-17, 2007Houston, TX
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Business Solutions: Buying and Selling a Government ContractorOctober 11, 2005Army and Navy ClubWashington, DC
National Small Business Conference, 2005June 1-2, 2005Marriott Los Angeles AirportLos Angeles, CA
National Small Business Conference19-22 July 2004Hyatt Regency IslandiaSan Diego, CACVN 21-CARTECH- Small Business Opportunities BreakfastThe Army & Navy Club on Farragut SquareWashington, D.C.June 22, 2004
U.S. Army CERT (ACERT) & NG/TASC - Small Business Opportunities BreakfastThe Army & Navy Club on Farragut SquareWashington, D.C.December 17, 2003
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Chicken with 5 or Fewer
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of Simple & Delicious
Creating Roasted Veggies
Roasting brings out a sweeter, richer flavor in foods. Whether you want to roast veggies in your oven or in a disposable foil pan on the grill, you'll enjoy the delicious roasted recipes shared here.
If you'd like some additional tips on roasting peppers, check out this video from www.tasteofhome.com.
Roasted Veggie Pasta Salad (shown at right) from our Test Kitchen features oven-roasted vegetables mixed with pasta and salad dressing. It makes a tasty meatless entree that will be a welcome addition to your dinner table.
"This combination of colorful vegetables in Roasted Veggie Platter is so good when baked in the oven," assures Margaret Allen of Abingdon, Virginia. "They make a lovely presentation when threaded on skewers before roasting, too."
Once you start eating this delicious Roasted Carrot Dip, it's difficult to stop. "The smooth texture and sweet carrot flavor go great with the crisp pita wedges," says Alana Rowley from Calgary, Alberta.
These nicely seasoned potatoes pair especially well with grilled pork chops or ribs. This recipe comes from Tamra Duncan of Centerton, Arkansas. You can substitute russet potatoes for red potatoes in Roasted Cajun Potatoes if you prefer.
A flavorful garlic and basil pesto sauce makes an awesome change of pace from traditional tomato-based pizza sauce in Roasted Veggie Pizza. The roasted vegetables make a fantastic topping. "Whenever I serve it alongside a standard meat pizza, this one's always the first to go!" says Cindy Elsbernd from Des Moines, Iowa.
To prepare her colorful meal, Margaret Pache "shops" in her Mesa, Arizona backyard. She finds the fresh garden vegetables and oranges (she has her own tree!) that spark the ham's hearty flavor in Sliced Ham with Roasted Vegetables. "It's my family's favorite main dish," she says.
"A friend gave me this recipe, and Roasted Red Pepper Lasagna quickly became a family favorite," says Deborah Johnson of Cody, Wyoming. "It's rich and creamy, and the roasted red peppers give it such wonderful flavor."


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As 2003 approaches,the point at which wireless Web users are expected to outnumber wireline users, there's little talk of the challenge to build wireless applications for them, applications to reach reach all of these users (as opposed to segments of these users whose devices support proprietary protocols).
Open source tools, apps, and projects are expected to consume the proprietary, wireless Internet, just as they consumed the wireline Internet with implementations of TCP/IP and HTTP. Further, the combination of open Internet standards and open implementations of these standards will fuel the convergence of the wireless and wireline Internet.
There are two major wireless Internet technologies in broad deployment today,WAP and i-mode, with a third, Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), being adopted by PDA and handset manufacturers. The analyst group Eurotechnology reported in November 2000 that the global adoption rate of these technologies was about 60% for i-mode and 39% for WAP. 81% of these wireless Internet devices are in use in Japan today, with the rest scattered throughout Korea, the European Community, and a very tiny percentage in the United States.
By "proprietary", the author means that there is no mechanism that exists for a corporation, non-commercial entity, or individual developer to contribute, implement, or extend these technologies without licensing or payment. Thus, proprietary is contrasted by "open", which implies that such a mechanism exists.
A handset or PDA manufacturer that intends to implement any of these technologies must obtain licenses from Sun, the WAP Forum, or NTT DoCoMo. In the case of WAP, developers are further threatened by patent litigation by Geoworks, which claims to have a patent on WML, and is pursuing patent license royalties from all companies that implement the language.
Each of these wireless technologies today is proprietary and offers dramatically different implementations. Clearly, this presents a daunting challenge to any entity hoping to provide either content (news, sports, stocks, etc.) or applications (games, entertainment, corporate field force automation, etc.) to a global audience. i-mode, which has 21 million subscribers as of this writing, uses Compact HTML (cHTML) for its presentation technology. WAP devices use the Wireless Markup Language (WML) for their presentation technology. The J2ME presentation technology is not a mark up language like cHTML or WML but, rather, Java code. In each of these cases, the technologies are copyrighted and licensed to device manufacturers (both handset and PDA vendors), and there are no open specifications or implementations of them.
The global wireline Internet, however, is built around non-proprietary standards and open implementations. History demonstrates that the underlying data transfer protocol (TCP/IP), the presentation and file transfer protocols (HTTP, FTP), and even the presentation technologies themselves (HTML 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and its successor XHTML 1.0) were successful precisely because they were open standards, which any vendor, non-commercial entity, or developer could implement.
Today's nascent wireless world reminds one of the Internet's early days: instead of conflicting implementations by Netscape and Microsoft of HTML and associated scripting facilities, we have WML/WAP, and cHTML/i-mode for Web phones and handhelds, and SMS for pagers . Like the early days of the wireline internet, wireless internet developers struggle to test their code on as many phones and devices as possible. The implementations of proprietary technologies are so inconsistent as to force a "write once, test everywhere" strategy. Indeed, an entirely new industry has sprung up, as a result of these conflicting implementations, which promises to test and then certify that content or applications that one develops will actually run on implementations of the intended protocols and devices. (See http://www.anywhereyougo.com/, a firm offering to certify that content and applications written to the WAP specification actually function on devices that claim to implement the WAP specification.)
As in the wireline Internet, however, proprietary and conflicting implementations are unsustainable. To succeed, the wireless Internet will move to open standards, and this migration has begun already.
The goal of this paper is not to harangue the existing wireless Internet implementations. The early presentation technologies and protocols substantially improved the wireless landscape by demonstrating to the world technologies and business models that were valuable and, in some cases, valueless.
Lessons from WAP
WAP is something of a contradiction in its technology, implementation, and intent. WAP is nearly open in its intent, with a strong leaning toward heterogeneous carrier networks and handsets. WAP is carrier and handset independent, meaning that any carrier can implement the specification and any handset manufacturer can implement the presentation technology inside a WAP browser. The size of WAP Forum, more than 500 members, demonstrates the compelling benefits of an open handset and carrier approach. However, this openness is clouded by a closed WAP Forum which only gives rights to its paying members, and which hose a technology implementation that worked with no existing tools and no existing development paradigm. I list below some of the compelling technology advantages, most of which were re-implementations of existing wireline Internet standards, as well as the technical and business flaws.
WAP Benefits:
WML is an XML language, which provides an outstanding mechanism to ensure that a document is well-formed, valid, and portable. Dominant Internet technologies such as Java and corresponding .NET technologies from Microsoft completely embrace an XML approach to application development.
WAP provides a lightweight scripting language, which is fairly easy to learn scripting language, inheriting from its Internet cousins JavaScript, VBScript, and ECMAScript.
WAP, as demonstrated by the chart above, has strong adoption among carriers and handset manufacturers, and holds second place in terms of handset units deployed.
WAP Problems:
It has high carrier and developer Costs, requiring a gateway to transcode Internet content and protocols into WAP content and protocols. These gateways are costly, inconsistently implemented, and offer no compatibility test suite to ensure that applications and content are predictably transcoded by the competing vendors who implement the gateways, which leads to high deployment and debugging costs.
Application and Content developers must acquire new, or upgrade existing, tools in order to author WML pages, as traditional web development tools are generally incapable of properly authoring and checking the syntax of WML documents. They must learn new application development concepts (cards, decks, etc.) that are non-trivial.
Due to the necessity of the WAP gateway to transcode content and protocols, there are security concerns about data being decoded and re-encrypted between the server of origin, hosting the application, and the WAP gateway as it transforms HTTPS to WAP/WTLS.
Lessons from i-mode
In the i-mode implementation by NTT DoCoMo, carriers and businesses around the world have witnessed the first viable wireless Internet business model for developers of wireless content and applications. Not surprisingly, NTT learned most of these lessons NTT by observing the wireline Internet.
Under the i-mode network, content and applications developers are able to sell their content for a monthly fee. All three elements of the network are satisfied: the end user receives the content they require; the developer is compensated for creating the content; and the carrier derives income from a commission drawn from the developers' fees, as well as per-packet network revenues.
Further, i-mode has taught carriers and businesses the technical benefits of a nearly open wireless implementation. Specifically, the i-mode network's use of cHTML has resulted in three key business technology benefits:
Rapid Application and Content Development -- because existing HTML developer tools easily author cHTML pages, existing skilled employees can rapidly create i-mode content and applications.
Reduced Costs of Implementation -- because no gateways are required to transcode content or applications in order for that content to reach end users' devices, carriers need not purchase gateways, nor absorb the costs of testing an application to determine its compatibility with different gateways.
i-mode also taught a rather significant lesson, the impact of which is only now being realized:
Note, NTT DoCoMo has purchased a 16% interest in AT&T Wireless. The i-mode protocol will be brought to the United States and rest of world via the AT&T network as well.
Renegade Implementation -- a proprietary network protocol like cHTML/PDC-P is not easily shared by other carriers, and thus even a handset capable of viewing cHTML cannot access cHTML content if the end user is a SprintPCS, Nextel, or KDDI subscriber. NTT DoCoMo has exclusive control of the protocol, the presentation technology, and the billing mechanisms. Thus, for all the benefits listed above, these benefits can only be realized on the NTT network; developers who want to contribute to, implement, or modify the specifications cannot.
Surprisingly, for a company that learned so many lessons from the wireline Internet, i-mode does not implement any scripting language. The end user experience is limited by the static nature of the pages.
Finally, although NTT DoCoMo was the first to implement Java on the i-mode network, the implementation is a proprietary derivation of the Java 2 Micro Edition specification and not compliant with the tests that Sun provides to ensure application portability between handsets and carriers.
Lessons Learned from Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition
Sun, with its "the network is the computer" approach, handles wireless development in a way that demonstrates its background in enterprise application development and deployment platforms. Sun's historical strength within the telecommunications marketplace was not lost on the Java team, and all of the expertise of Sun has been brought to J2ME. Indeed, with J2ME, Sun has completed the evolution of the Java 2 Platform. Java, first implemented as a client technology, then embraced as a portable server technology, has come full circle to find a place on wireless Internet client devices in the form of J2ME.
Benefits of the J2ME platform include the following.
J2ME applications persist on the client -- the single greatest asset to the J2ME approach to wireless applications is the fact that J2ME applications reside on the client and can function on the client device even when the device cannot connect to the network. Network dropouts are inconsequential when the application can persist on the device, capable of caching newly entered data until a new connection is established.
J2ME applications are secure -- the J2ME application developer has full access to HTTPS for end-to-end application security.
J2ME applications are cost effective to carriers -- like i-mode, J2ME requires neither transcoding nor gateways, thus lowering infrastructure costs and simplifying testing.
J2ME applications are pervasive -- nearly every handset, PDA, and carrier has adopted the J2ME specification.
Applications are far more graphically rich, with far higher control of the end user experience (full-motion graphics, business logic executing on the client, etc.)
Constraints of the J2ME platform are as follows.
J2ME in not yet pervasive -- while every manufacturer has licensed the technology, there are precious few devices on the market today (approximately 1 million). New cellular phone adoption has been extremely rapid, however, although with current market conditions this is unknown.
J2ME designers are not HTML/WMP/cHTML designers -- J2ME requires that a content or application developer re-author their application to target J2ME devices (a problem shared with WAP and i-mode). However, a designer can purchase an upgraded tool to author WML and learn these skills. In contrast, a designer is unlikely to take a crash course in Java programming to learn to design presentations in Java, thus forcing the designer to work with Java developers in order to implement their application.
J2ME applications may have installation overhead -- in the USA, carriers have commented that J2ME/MIDlet applications must be installed on the device via a process of connecting to a PC (not unlike how Palm Pilots are synchronized with their PC hosts). This overhead will be costly for large organizations. Note, this is a choice of the carriers, however, as the J2ME applications rolling out in Japan install dynamically over the network.
A proprietary wireless Internet is no more viable than the failed attempt by vendors to keep the wireline Internet proprietary. It is not in the interest of the consumer, nor the carrier, to have any barriers to adoption of new content and applications. If content and applications are not accessible, then there are precious few business models that are viable. Application and content developers are compensated for their applications, and they require the widest audience of end users in order to maximize their financial gains from their investment in. Carriers themselves generate annuity revenue via the provisioning of packets and airtime minutes, and if applications are inaccessible, airtime and packet revenue is lost.
Detailing the apparent absence of annuity revenue for device manufacturers is beyond the scope of this article, but certainly a compelling question to ask, since application developers, as shown by i-mode, receive annuity streams monthly from their visitors and carriers receive month annuity streams from their subscribers.
Thus, the proprietary implementations of WAP and i-mode were not viable from the outset, and with the release of the new WAP 2.0 and i-mode 3.0 specifications, dramatic steps have been taken by both organizations to better follow the successful path of the wireline Internet. Specifically, both WAP 2.0 and i-mode 3.0 have adopted the XHTML 1.0 standard as the foundation of their upgraded platforms (targeted for release in the third quarter of 2001).
This migration to XHTML is both a realization of the inevitable as well as a technologically brilliant choice. XHTML is an XML re-implementation of HTML. Since it's an XML language, it's easy for developers to extend, to program to, and for tools vendors to support and automate. As the successor to HTML 4.0, which all PC browsers support today, XHTML is or will be the de facto presentation technology for all new PC applications. Thus one standard presentation technology will provide comprehensive support for every network, for every carrier, for every developer. In the very near future, only the form factor (the size of the mobile device's screen) will determine the difference in the presentation delivered to phones, PDAs, and PCs.
See http://www.jdom.org, http://zeus.enhydra.org, http://kxml.enhydra.org for details. Sun is incorporating JDOM as part of Merlin, the Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.4, and redistributes the kXML parser on their Sun Wireless CD.
But where does this leave Java and devices? Since Java presentation isn't a markup language, but rather Java code, Java devices cannot make use of the XHTML standard for their presentation capabilities. However, the evolution of Java/XML binding specifications, currently driven via open source projects such as JDOM, Zeus, and kXML, provide a clear and easy mechanism for Java client devices to request the exact same XHTML stream that a PC browser requests, and parse it locally on the device for presentation to the J2ME client (frequently called a MIDlet).
Just as the specifications for wireline and wireless presentation technologies have converged on open source standards, so too in parallel have open source infrastructure projects evolved to implement these standards. Thus, while the W3C has provided a home for XHTML and other XML standards like VoiceXML, so too have open source implementation projects at Apache.org and Enhydra.org begun to implement these standards for developers to employ.
The infrastructure of a wireless or wireline implementation is generally made up of 5 components:
It is currently unlikely that the first of these will be offered freely to the world, although it is clearly the strategy of companies like Intel and AMD to commoditize the hardware platforms and force their way into datacenters and enterprises.
However, next on the hardware stack required for Internet applications is a multi-threaded operating system. With Linux 2.4, Windows NT 2000, and the family of UNIX operating systems, developers are free to choose among operating systems. At this level open source offers a compelling alternative to commercial operating systems, and even Sun has begun to open source some of the Solaris operating system in response to the growth and adoption of Linux. And with 60% of all web servers now running Apache, open source is the dominant solution for this tier of the stack. Indeed, IBM has adopted Apache as its software product and resells it under its own brand to customers.
The database tier is a place where open source is struggling to demonstrate its viability. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt about performance, stability, and maturity of open source database implementations have hampered their widespread adoption within enterprise applications. Increasingly, PostgreSQL is emerging as a viable departmental SQL database, although its portability to operating systems other than Linux remains to be seen.
Finally, at the application server level, developers have one of two architectures to consider: the proprietary Microsoft .NET implementation, currently still in development, and the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Currently, J2EE is the dominant platform for enterprise applications and is the foundation of all ERP solutions from Oracle and PeopleSoft, as well as many other enterprise application companies. Due to the open nature of J2EE, and the ability of any firm to implement it, open source projects implementing the J2EE abound, with early market leadership going to the Enhydra project.
Lutris Technologies, with support from developers in more than 50 countries, contributes to the open source Enhydra application server. Primary project sponsors include France Telecom and BullSoft/Evidian. Lutris brings a very practical business approach to the implementation and development process. Many wireless projects employ Enhydra for multi-device, multi-protocol application development, including an open source XML engine called Enhydra XMLC.
Enhydra XMLC was first launched in the open source community in April 1999 with the goal of reducing programmer-designer interdependency. Its features reflect two waves of evolution. Initially, XMLC was designed as an alternative to JSP to allow nontechnical designers and Java developers to work independently in optimizing user interfaces for PC browsers, freeing designers to use their preferred tools such as Macromedia. Then, Enhydra XMLC was improved by input from the Enhydra development community and the open source process. During that phase, David Li of DigitalSesame in Taiwan and others worked with Lutris developers to expand XMLC's support for page development from HTML to its current support of all wireless markup languages (WML, cHTML, and XHTML). Lutris has also worked with Sun to enhance Enhydra XMLC support for VoiceXML and J2ME. A new subproject in the Enhydra community focuses on XML parsers for the J2ME platform, called kXML. Concurrent with this innovation in the open source community, Motorola iDEN recently announced that Enhydra, XMLC, and kXML would be the development platform for their new J2ME phones, demonstrating that the premier USA provider of handset technology understands the value of open source implementations and the open source development methodology.
Enhydra XMLC is a Java technology that eliminates the need to include Java code in web pages (regardless of whether those pages are HTML, cHTML, WML, XHTML, VoiceXML or arbitrary XML for J2ME and Flash clients). It uses a W3C standard, cascading style sheet ID attributes, to identify areas of dynamically delivered content, and to associate each area with the Java method that will deliver its content.
The XMLC compiler reads HTML, WML, or *ML template files to generate two types of output. The first is a Document Object Model tree (DOM) using one of the included XML parsers, like the Apache Xerces XML parser. The DOM tree is a Java class, representing the XML page as a hierarchical data structure. A programmer can now introduce code into his or her application that uses the Java DOM library to manipulate the tree. When the tree manipulation is complete, the DOM is converted back to HTML and streamed to the client by the writeDOM method. Enhydra XMLC recently added lazy DOM support to enhance performance and reduce the DOM memory footprint.
Secondly, Enhydra XMLC generates convenient setter and getter methods that are created as the compiler detects ID attributes. These methods relieve the developer of the need to add logic for traversing the generated DOM to find the node in question. The name associated with the ID is used to create the method name.
Designers can leave mocked-up data, such as "John Doe," in the HTML page. That's a huge benefit for designers because they can use the same document for both the mocked-up storyboards of a web presentation and the production development environment. The XMLC engine can be instructed to remove mocked-up data by referencing the class name.
As XHTML becomes the dominant presentation technology for all devices, the design community and the developer community have an easy means of targeting all mark up languages. Additionally, as mentioned above, J2ME client developers benefit from XHTML and XMLC to easily send XML data down to the Java device, which then parses the stream using the kXML parser.
As a pure Java implementation, developers can use Apache, PostgreSQL, Enhydra, Enhydra XMLC, kXML, and XHTML with any standard Java application server, including BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere, and indeed even with non-Java application servers, such as ones written in Python or Perl. In this manner, open source implementations and open standards actually bring to the wireless Internet the exact commodity nature of the wireline Internet that's made it so ubiquitous.
As of this writing, Nokia just launched an XHTML initiative for their new handsets, Motorola just launched their new J2ME handsets, and RIM and Palm have just provided developers with Beta SDKs for their J2ME implementations. Ironically, the only application server available today with full support for J2ME and XHTML is from the open source community. Open source and open standards continue to tear down the proprietary walls that inhibit the adoption of a wireless Internet.
Keith Bigelow is an expert Java and XML developer, trainer and lecturer focused on wireless issues and applications.
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The Filibuster
So what are you guys looking forward to the most this season?
Tim H.
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I don't know what to do with 2011. First off, it's a prime number. Ok, I'm not completely sure on that and I don't really feel like doing the math to check but I feel pretty safe in saying that it's prime. Prime numbers just generally give me the creeps so I'm feeling a little unsettled.
In other arenas, 2011 is shaping up to be kind of blah. Sure, Jeter will probably get his 3,000th hit and that's pretty impressive. But, the best case scenario only moves him up into the top 20 all time, which, although an exemplary accomplishment, still leaves him well south of Pete Rose.
As far as overall baseball records go, Mariano Rivera could surpass Trevor Hoffman's still warm saves record but if I can be perfectly blunt, who cares? Again, yes, it's impressive but when you trot out of the bullpen two or three times a week to get a couple outs, you're not exactly the heart and soul of the team. Closers are like field-goal kickers. People know who you are and you have an important role on the team but no one really cares until you blow one.
So what does that leave? There are no meaningful elections this year so that's not an option. Strasburg is going to miss the season so the game's newest and greatest draw isn't even going to be on the field. Sure, I'm hoping the Tigers will make a good run this season but that's just one team. So what is there to look forward to?
I guess I'm looking forward to baseball without the bulls–t. Sure, stories will come up and issues will be invented as the season moves on but at this point, it's just 30 teams trying to make it to and win the World Series. Ok, 29 because I'm pretty sure we can go ahead and count out the Pirates. But the fact remains, at this point, a few days before the season begins, everyone has the same record and no one knows who might be this year's 2006 Tigers, 2007 Rockies or 2010 Rangers. Who knows, they might even push it a step further and actually win the thing like the 2010 Giants.
So that's what I'm looking forward to. No labor issues, no steroid scandals, no imperfectly-called perfect games. Just baseball. Throw in a little sunshine and some beer and I think we got ourselves a winner.
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I'm looking forward to sunshine, cold beer, Star Wars night, and my 3-yr-olds first Whitecaps game. All the joys of summer.
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Nice analogy comparing closers to field goal kickers. They're not exactly the heart of the team but still thrilling. I know Carlos Marmol is fun to watch.
—Mark Gauthier
Have to disagree about closers in general and Mo in particular. He is the heart and soul of the Yankees and I look forward to watching him pitch every season. Beyond that, I agree about the imperfectly called games. Maybe the umpiring will be better this year. On second thought, where's the fun in that? No arguing calls? Nah.
Being pretty "old school" re: the issue of closers, I have to say I agree. I mean, sure it was fun back in the middle of the last decade when we had 3 pretty strong closers playing within 100 miles of each other out here–Hoffy, Gagne and Percival–and everyone arguing about them. Of course as the other poster mentioned Mo is great to watch and a solid professional. But if that's the biggest factor in your team's games, it's not too exciting. You'd better have something else going the other 8 innings. Hell, I'd so much rather see pitchers throwing complete games and closers not EVER being needed. Maybe that has something to do with it being the 30th anniversary of Fernandomania this year. I don't know. Like I said, I'm pretty old school and I'd rather see the SP go 9.
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The Stetson volleyball team was dominant from start to finish Friday with a pair of 3-0 victories in the first day of the Stetson Westin Classic at the Edmunds Center.
The Hatters (3-3) defeated Savannah State (0-4) 25-16, 25-12, 25-11 in the afternoon before claiming a 25-16, 25-10, 25-13 triumph over Bethune-Cookman (0-4) in the nightcap.
"I was really pleased with our performances in both matches," Stetson head coach Tim Loesch said. "What I liked about our offense today was not just that we got a lot of kills, but we managed out of system balls and troubled plays to where we weren't making errors and still putting pressure on the other team."
Senior Kaley Melville led the Hatters with 23 kills on the day, including 14 kills and a career-best .462 attack pct. vs. Savannah State. She added nine kills and three blocks vs. Bethune-Cookman
"That last game was a perfect example of how Stetson volleyball is played," Melville said. "We ran our offense, each player had several kills, and Kayla (Weller) did a great job. We ran a fast pace and it was very fun to play."
Kayla Weller continued her hot start to the season, dishing out 26 assists vs. Savannah State and 22 more against the Wildcats.
"All of our hitters were executing the plays, and I could rely on any single hitter I was going set," Weller said. "We were all playing together really well It was good to see everyone making those big kills. That gives everyone a spirit of energy to keep going."
Stetson played nearly error-free against Bethune-Cookman, posting a team attack pct. of .352 (38-6-91). Cailyn Prewitt (4-0-7), Tiffany Creamer (7-0-10) and Ellen Hawks (8-0-14) did not commit an attack error during the match. In fact, Hawks posted 13 kills combined without registering a hitting error the entire day. The senior middle added five blocks, four against B-CU.
"Our offense was led by Kaley Melville and Ellen Hawks," Loesch said. "Our two seniors had a very good day offensively. They had a lot of help too so the other team was not able to key just on them. I'd also like to point out Kayla Weller, who ran the offense and distributed the ball well, and made good choices and good sets."
Against Savannah State, Madison Akins tallied five kills, six digs, and four aces, while Michelle Kastner picked up a match-high 14 digs.
In the other game on Friday, Providence defeated Savannah State 3-0.
The tournament concludes with four matches on Saturday. The Hatters will face Providence at 11 a.m. and Savannah State at 3 p.m.


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J-Halloween Prep 2014: JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRL CROSSPLAY
Halloween is Coming!
Panasonic is going to release an electric steam mask for the face called Booster Mask EH-XM10 on November 28 from the Panasonic Beauty Premium series.
The price will be 40,000 yen.
Are 2-in-1 tablet PCs in fashion for this season? NEC's new LaVie U is already the 3rd 2-in-1 product that we've reported about within a month.
NEC announced the release of new Android tablet series - LaVie Tab S.
They will start selling the non-SIM-locked LET/3G model LaVie Tab S TS708/T1W for about 39,800 yen in late December and the Wi-Fi/non-LET model LaVie Tab S TS508/T1W for about 32,800 yen sometime between late November and early December.
Green House is going to release a camera strap bag called "INSTRAP" for 2,500 yen in late October.
INSTRAP is a shoulder strap for a DSLR or mirrorless camera, which comes with a pouch to store camera accessories such as a lens cap and memory card.
There are 2 sizes available.
Fujitsu is going to release the 10.1-inch, 2-in-1 ARROWS Tab QH55/S for about ¥123,984 (~$1,240) yen in mid-December.
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Actor Johnny Depp, who is portraying Tonto in The Lone Ranger, coming to theaters in 2013, made an unannounced appearance on Saturday at the Comanche Nation Fair in Lawton, Oklahoma. In May, Depp was adopted into the Comanche Nation by LaDonna Harris, president and founder of Americans for Indian Opportunity, who sat next to Depp in the back of a convertible that cruised the parade route. Gil Birmingham, Comanche, who also appears in The Lone Ranger, was on hand as well. According to a report at TMZ, Depp served as grand marshal of the parade. Several attendees took photos and video; below are some pictures posted to Fanpop.com and videos from YouTube.
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Style and Technique(Comprehensive Guide to Short Stories, Critical Edition)
The fiction of London, in tandem with the work of Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Hamlin Garland, helped to shape an American naturalism, a particular strain of scientific realism that was influenced by European writers of the later nineteenth century, particularly the French writer Emile Zola, who described the role of the novelist as that of "a scientist, an analyst, an anatomist" who interprets reality through the application of scientific determinism. In "To Build a Fire," London places his protagonist in a harsh natural setting that tests to the limits his ability to survive in the wilderness.
The style of this particular brand of realistic fiction depends on the cold, objective presentation of detail that respects the force and power of nature and reduces the individual to a position of relative insignificance. The central character of London's story is a vain creature, supremely and ironically confident of his ability to survive.
The story is carefully structured around the building of several fires. The first two fires the tenderfoot builds are merely matters of convenience, when he stops on his journey to rest and eat. In both instances, the dog is reluctant to leave the safety of the fire. The third fire is built to stave off an emergency because the man has gotten his lower body wet. This fire is foolishly built, however, because the tenderfoot has no foresight or common sense.
The fourth and final fire the tenderfoot attempts to build is crucial to his survival, but he is too far gone to accomplish this task. His hands are by then too frozen to manipulate his matches, and his mind is so far gone that he cannot fully understand the seriousness of his peril. All he can do is believe in the possibility of his survival. The story provides an interesting study in the psychology of an unhinged mind.
London's story depends for its effect on situational irony. An ironic strain that runs throughout the story is the tenderfoot's sense of superiority and contempt for the old trapper on Sulphur Creek. The irony is dramatic in that the reader soon realizes that the old man was right, a realization that escapes the tenderfoot until the very end of the story.
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- The galaxy population hosting gamma-ray bursts
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- Savaglio, S.; Glazebrook, Karl; Le Borgne, D.
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- We present the most extensive and complete study of the properties for the largest sample (46 objects) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies. The redshift interval and the mean redshift of the sample are 0 < z < 6.3 and z = 0.96 (look-back time: 7.2 Gyr), respectively; 89% of the hosts are at z ≤ 1.6. Optical-near-IR (NIR) photometry and spectroscopy are used to derive stellar masses, star formation rates (SFRs), dust extinctions, and metallicities. The average stellar mass is 109.3 M sun, with a 1σ dispersion of 0.8 dex. The average metallicity for a subsample of 17 hosts is about 1/6 solar and the dust extinction in the visual band (for a subsample of 10 hosts) is AV = 0.5. We obtain new relations to derive SFR from [O II] or UV fluxes, when Balmer emission lines are not available. SFRs, corrected for dust extinction, aperture-slit loss, and stellar Balmer absorption are in the range 0.01-36 M sun yr–1. The median SFR per unit stellar mass (specific SFR) is 0.8 Gyr–1. Equivalently the inverse quantity, the median formation timescale, is 1.3 Gyr. Most GRBs are associated with the death of young massive stars, more common in star-forming galaxies. Therefore, GRBs are an effective tool to detect star-forming galaxies in the universe. Star-forming galaxies at z < 1.6 are a faint and low-mass population, hard to detect by conventional optical-NIR surveys, unless a GRB event occurs. There is no compelling evidence that GRB hosts are peculiar galaxies. More data on the subclass of short GRB are necessary to establish the nature of their hosts.
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- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 691, no. 1 (Jan 2009), pp. 182-211
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- 2009
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- Abundances; Core-collapse supernovae; Cosmology; Deep deep survey; Digital sky survey; Evolution; Fundamental parameters; Galaxies; Goods-north field; H-II; High-redshift galaxies; Hubble-space telescope; Mass-metallicity relation; Observations; Regions; Star-forming galaxies; Stellar masses
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Restraint Laws for Children
Vehicle Code Section 27360, 27360.5
The driver transporting young children in a passenger vehicle, motor truck or truck tractor is required Child in car seatto provide and properly use a child restraint system (safety seat, booster, or other certified product) that meets federal safety standards. If the parent is in the car, he or she is cited instead of the driver. Children must be properly secured in a child restraint system (safety seat, booster, or other certified product) until they are at least 6 years old or 60 pounds. Children who are at least 6 years old or weigh at least 60 pounds and are under age 16 must be properly secured in either a child restraint system or a properly fitted safety belt. Consequences: Violators receive one point on the driving record. The fine is $100 but more than $300 when penalty assessments are included, for not properly securing a child under age sixteen. The fine is $250 but more than $700 when penalty assessments are included, for the second or subsequent offense. At least 60% of the fines are allocated to local city or county health departments for car seat education and distribution programs. Exceptions: In an emergency vehicle or in case of a life-threatening emergency, if there is no safety seat available, the child is to be secured with a vehicle safety belt. Physical unfitness, medical condition, or size may be cause for exemption. Car rental agencies are required to post a sign and to provide safety seats for rent by customers on request. The seats must be in good, safe condition, with no missing parts, and less than five years old. Retailers/Distributors may not sell car seats that do not conform to federal safety standards at the time of sale. Clinics, alternative birth centers, and health facilities must have a written policy specifying that safety education will be provided to parents of young children, including a summary of the law, a list of car seat distribution programs in the city or county, and information about the risk of death or injury to children who are not properly restrained. Day care centers must post signs with specified information at their entrances.
Laws Prohibiting Unattended Children in Vehicles
Vehicle Code Section 15620 No person may leave a child age six or younger in a vehicle if the health or safety of the child is at risk, the engine is running, or the keys are in the ignition. The child must be supervised by a person at least age 12. The fine is $100.
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The driver of a passenger vehicle, motor truck or truck tractor is required to wear safety belts properly and to have passengers 16 and older properly restrained by safety belts. Seat Belt: It Not Only Protects You, It Protects Your WalletPassengers 16 and older are required to wear safety belts; they may be cited as well as the driver. Owners of private passenger vehicles and taxicabs must maintain safety belts in good working order. Consequences: The first offense is a $22 fine (including penalty assessments) and $55 for subsequent offenses. Exceptions: Passengers in vehicles designed for more than ten occupants, including school buses; passengers at least age 16 in rear seats of taxis, limos, or emergency vehicles; taxi drivers transporting fare-paying passengers on city streets; newspaper delivery persons; rural postal carriers; drivers operating garbage trucks; truck passengers in sleeper berths; occupants with a certified disability or medical condition which prevents appropriate restraint. Farm labor vehicles are not exempt.
Pickup TrucksVehicle Code Section 23116 Drivers are prohibited from transporting any person in or on the back of a pickup or flatbed motor truck; any person riding in or on the back of the truck can also be cited. Consequences: A $135 fine (including penalty assessments) and one point on the driving record. Exceptions: This section does not apply if the person is secured with a restraint system that meets federal safety standards (no federal safety standard exists for anchorage of belts in cargo areas) or in an emergency response situation by a public agency. There is no exemption for passengers riding within an enclosed camper or camper shell.
Animals in Pickup Trucks
Vehicle Code Section 23117
Animals must ride in an enclosed area or be restrained to prevent their ejection from the back of a truck. Exceptions: Livestock and dogs used for ranching or farming.
School Buses
Vehicle Code Section 27316
All Type 2 school buses manufactured on or after July 1, 2004, and type 1 school buses manufactured on or after July 2, 2005, and purchased or leased for use in California shall be equipped at all designated seating positions with a combination pelvic and upper torso passenger restraint system.
Three-Wheeled Vehicles
Vehicle Code Section 27368
Child restraint and safety belt use are required in a fully enclosed three-wheeled motor vehicle that is at least seven feet long and four feet wide with an unladen weight of 900 pounds or more.
Motorcycle Helmets
Vehicle Code Section 27803
All motorcycle riders must wear properly fitted safety helmets that conform to federal safety standards and are so labeled. Driver and passenger may be cited.
Helmets for Children
Vehicle Code Section 21212, 21204
Children under age 18 who are skating or riding on a bicycle, scooter, or skateboard must wear a properly fitted and fastened helmet that meets specified safety standards when they ride or skate on a street, bikeway, or public bicycle path or trail. Helmets sold in California must conform to applicable standards and be so labeled. Bicycle operators are prohibited from carrying passengers without a separate seat. For children who are either under four years old or under 40 pounds, the seat must include a restraint system and protection from moving parts of the bicycle, and a properly fitted safety helmet must be used. Consequences: The maximum fine is $25 and the case may be dismissed on a first offense. The money collected will be used for education and to assist low-income families to obtain helmets.
Used Child Restraints
Vehicle Code Section 27362.1
No person may sell a child restraint that was in use by a child during a crash. Auto insurers are required to ask whether a child restraint was in use by a child in a covered crash and, if so, replace the child restraint or reimburse for its replacement (Section 11580.011 of the Insurance Code).
Used Air Bags
Vehicle Code Section 27317
To knowingly sell or install a previously deployed air bag is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $500 and/or one year in county jail.
Shoulder Belt Positioning Devices
Vehicle Code Section 27302
No person shall sell or offer for sale a seat belt or attachments thereto for use in a vehicle unless it complies with requirements established by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Kathy Venter is a celebrated ceramic artist internationally recognized for her life-size figurative sculptures. The artist's dialogues with time, with femininity, with community, and with intercultural understanding capture the continuity of the human condition. Kathy Venter – LIFE addresses our place in the broader universe with equanimity, humility and dignity, and rewards visitors with a sense of open, dynamic serenity. Curated by Montreal author and critic John K. Grande, the exhibition will run from May 30 to September 15, 2013.
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Kathy Venter is internationally recognized for her life-size figurative sculptures that speak to the continuity of the human condition. The South African artist has been active in Canada for more than twenty years, creating monumental sculptures in clay using members of her own community as her models. Her art bridges her experience of living under Apartheid in South Africa with the freedom she found in Canada, and engages with a vast array of historical sources including the terracotta warriors of Ancient China, the Tanagra figures of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egyptian sculpture, the Amakweta tribal initiation rites, and the art of Marino Marini and Viola Frey.
The exhibition features a large installation of Venter's sculptures which the artist produced in series, including One, Ostraca, Immersion, Coup d'Oeil and the never seen before MetaNarrative. Most of her figures are presented full scale – standing, sitting, reclining or suspended by cables in space – while others are limited to heads and torsos. Each work is direct and engaging; life-size and nude, they are a measure of our humanity. Their strong presence derives from the artist's intimate engagement with her models – most of which are women – who posed over long hours in her studio. Venter describes each work as "a slow construction" by which she "applied the clay, piece upon piece, within a silent dialogue between the model and myself, comfortable with my medium and tradition, accepting of their constraints." The forms are built from the feet up using the traditional coiling and pinching techniques, without the use of life cast molds or internal armatures. They are made about 15% larger than life to account for the shrinkage of the clay during the drying and firing process. The sculptures' surface treatment is inspired by the Tanagra figures of the Mycenaean period, encrusted and worn from centuries of burial.
Kathy Venter – LIFE presents an artist who has developed her own language and conception parallel to the contemporary art of our times. Her dialogues are with time, with her own femininity, with community, with intercultural understanding. The exhibition will reward viewers and audiences for the open, dynamic serenity of her sculptures. They address our place in a broader universe with equanimity, humility and dignity.
The exhibition is curated by Montreal author and critic John K. Grande. Grande has written numerous catalogue essays on selected artists and has taught art history at Bishop's University, Quebec. His reviews and articles have been published in Artforum, Vice Versa, Sculpture, Art Papers, British Journal of Photography, Espace, Public Art Review, Vie des Arts, Art on Paper, Circa and Canadian Forum.
Kathy Venter was born in South Africa and received her MFA in sculpture from Port Elizabeth School of Art and Design, South Africa. Her work can be found in public and private collections throughout Canada, the US and abroad, including the South African National Gallery, Pretoria, Ceramics Museum Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic, and the Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA.
She exhibits in leading contemporary fine art galleries in San Francisco, Sonoma, Palm Desert, Seattle, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. She lives in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
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RHS troupe performs There Be Treasure' on a grueling scheduleBy Josh OGorman
STAFF WRITER | July 26,2013Anthony Edwards / Staff Photo
Members of Rutland High Schools Summer Encore Theatre perform There Be Treasure Buried Here at the Wallingford Town Hall on Wednesday evening.All ahoy! Area youth are invited to climb aboard and dig into a local treasure when Rutland High Schools Summer Encore Theatre presents an original play Saturday.
With its production intended for children ages 5 through 12 the long-running theater group is both exploring familiar territory and sailing uncharted waters with its show, There Be Treasure Buried Here, said director Cathy Archer.
This show is unique in that we had no story, said Archer, who just three weeks ago supplied her 20-strong acting troupe with the title and asked them to go from there. We thought about doing something historically based, but we quickly tossed out that idea. We ended up with something where the pirates are the good guys, which is an interesting twist.
Archer discussed the show Wednesday afternoon as she sewed a ripped costume seam, just before a performance in the Wallingford Town Hall. It would be the third performance that day for the actors, with a fourth show that evening in Proctor.
The actors created a very loose framework of a plot, involving a pair of villainous pawn shop owners who acquire a map and charter a pirate ship to take them to a desert island in search of buried treasure.
The loose structure puts the casts improvisational skills to the test, because at various times during the show, the action will freeze and a pair of storytellers will give audience members the opportunity to decide what happens next.
The show, much like the touring production, must be light on its feet. The crew painted backdrops and found props that can fit on a school bus as the troupe traveled the state this past week, playing venues from Colchester to Wilmington.
We play in all kinds of venues, Archer said. We play outside, in libraries, town halls and churches, and we need to have sets that can fit on the bus and that we can fit and adapt for any kind of space.
Within minutes of arriving at Wallingford, the theater troupe had unloaded and erected their backdrops and set their props. The actors then prepared for the show, with some filling more than one part. Katelyn Gurney, 14, plays Jack, a knife-wielding ships cook, as well as a fairy.
The storyline is basically the same, but sometimes things happen that you didnt expect, Gurney said.
The schedule 20 shows in nine days is a bit grueling, said Kaleigh Gilbert, 15, who plays a treasure hunter named Cara.
Its very tiring, Gilbert said. Yesterday (Tuesday), we had to leave at 5:30 in the morning and didnt get back until 10:30 at night.
While challenging, multiple performances in such a short period of time have yielded positive results, Archer said.
The show continues to develop and change, Archer said. Its amazing seeing the actors develop their characters in the moment. The characters become deeper and deeper with each show.
The show will drop anchor twice Saturday at the high school, with performances at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Admission is $4, with a $12 admission fee for a family of four.
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August 17, 2012
We've Got Flying Neon Toothpicks in Our PondI admit it! I totally stole the title of this week's blog from my Facebook friend John Acorn, aka The Nature Nut. To be specific, I gleaned this gem of a title from one of his books, Damselflies of Alberta: Flying Neon Toothpicks in the Grass.
Today, instead of taking lunch like a normal person, I went out to the pond with Kimball Garrett to survey for adult Odonates. Odo-what? I mean dragonflies and damselflies (the flying neon toothpicks), the jeweled predators of the sky.
Among other things, Kimball and I found damselflies for the first time. Yay! Here are some pictures of what we found:
The first ever damselfly to be found in the pond!
Pacific Forktail, Ischnura cervula
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