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From the official website comes the news that the London show this Sunday, June 27th, will be simulcast on youtube, and it will also be archived for a month there to view as well. Start time is 8:30 U.K time, which translates to 3:30 EST here in New York State.
I'm hoping it's the full nearly three hour, three dozen song set...and not the slightly truncated version that had to be played at the Isle Of Wight fest, due to time constraints...
First the link:
And here's the text:
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are proud to announce that Paul is throwing his support behind the BORN HIV FREE campaign. His forthcoming show this weekend in London's Hyde Park will be broadcast exclusively through the BORN HIV FREE channel on YouTube.
Paul will headline this summer's "Hard Rock Calling" weekend, the concert series sponsored by The Hard Rock Café, which takes place in London's Hyde Park from 25 to 27 June 2010. Paul's concert on the Sunday 27th will be filmed and streamed live exclusively through the dedicated YouTube BORN HIV FREE channel at http://www.youtube.com/BornHIVFree . This will be the first time a European concert is broadcast live on YouTube. The concert will remain available for viewing by web users worldwide for a full month after the concert date. Viewers will also be able to find more about Born HIV Free and sign up to show their support for the campaign.
Paul has appeared in Hyde Park only twice before - the first time was when he opened and closed 2005's Live 8 concert and the second when he came on stage as a surprise guest last summer at Neil Young's show to perform The Beatles' anthem 'A Day In The Life'.
This concert is part of Paul's all new 'Up and Coming Tour', which started in the US earlier this year. The Hyde Park performance will mark the end of a successful run of shows in the UK and Ireland which saw Paul headline the Isle Of Wight Festival and perform his first ever UK standalone stadium show at Scotland's legendary Hampden Park Stadium.
In keeping with his headline-making special concerts over the last few years, this all new tour has already broken ticket selling records around the world and has seen the iconic star and his band play unique venues, places and locations; new cities he's never played and familiar markets he's not visited for a while.
The Hyde Park show will feature a typically diverse set list, drawing on two hours plus worth of selections spanning the catalogues of The Beatles, Wings and Paul's solo career - including tracks from The Fireman's 2008 album 'Electric Arguments'.
The BORN HIV FREE campaign was created to mobilize public support for the work of The Global Fund and for a world where no child is born with HIV by 2015. The campaign has a contemporary aesthetic, bringing together well known artists to create a bold and innovative body of work that is both upbeat and optimistic in tone. The call for action to virtually eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother to child by 2015, [originally called for by UNAIDS and supported by TGF & all its parners] is entirely realizable. The campaign's main message is that "We can put a stop to this in the next five years. A world where all children are BORN HIV FREE is now possible".
With the announcement of her Ambassadorship for the Global Fund for the Protection of Women and Children Against AIDS in December 2008, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy declared that one of the ways she wanted to act as an ambassador was to engage the world of art, culture, fashion and entertainment for the cause of ensuring that virtually all children are BORN HIV FREE. The campaign grew out of this commitment and has expanded to involve world renowned artists including Amy Winehouse, U2, Jean-Paul Gaultier and several others throughout these creative fields.
Paul's concert and support will help The Global Fund increase public awareness about the BORN HIV FREE campaign, encourage citizens to sign-up and enable donor countries to continue increased investments in The Global Fund so that an HIV-free generation can become a reality by the campaign year goal of 2015.
YouTube, the video-sharing website, has vastly extended the reach of the BORN HIV FREE campaign by providing an easily accessible platform allowing millions of people to see the concert.
http://www.bornhivfree.org - http://www.youtube.com/bornhivfree


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The Asia-Pacific is home to half the world's population, more than half the world's GDP and nearly half of its trade. It is home to key allies and emerging powers. It is also home to booming middle classes and growing economic opportunities and is a region experiencing reductions in poverty without parallel in human history.
I recently traveled to the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, where I saw firsthand how, in the words of Secretary Clinton, "It's becoming increasingly clear that in the 21st century, the world's strategic and economic center of gravity will be the Asia-Pacific."
While this region is experiencing many gains, there are also many challenges, including arms proliferation, piracy, trafficking and smuggling, natural disasters and regional tensions between powerful countries. A top priority for our Bureau's engagement with partners across the Asia-Pacific is expanding security cooperation throughout the region. The United States is pursuing a three-pronged approach to our engagement, in order to follow through on this renewed focus.
• First, we are broadening and deepening our cooperation with our treaty allies like Japan, Republic of Korea, Australia, Thailand, and the Philippines;
• Second, we are enhancing our new partnerships with emerging players like China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia; and
• Third, we are playing an active role in regional multilateral institutions like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ASEAN Regional Forum, the East Asia Summit, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). We have strengthened our engagement with ASEAN, including establishing a U.S. Mission in Jakarta with a resident Ambassador.
I started my recent trip in the Philippines, where I met with senior civilian and military officials in Manila, to see how best we could broaden and enhance defense and security cooperation and do it in a way that would be benefit both countries. This was a good follow-up to consultations from the recent U.S.-Philippines Bilateral Security Dialogue in Washington. The Philippines has been an effective and reliable partner in both counter-terrorism and counter-piracy operations where our military to military cooperation has been greatly enhanced.
In Jakarta, Indonesia, I attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the new U.S. funded barracks at Sentul Peacekeeping Training Center. This facility will help to meet the growing global demand for specialized military and civilian personnel to serve in peacekeeping missions. I also met with senior officials to discuss furthering bilateral political and military cooperation, including Indonesia's recent decision to upgrade its air force with the acquisition from the United States of 24 F-16 aircraft.
In Singapore, I attended the Singapore Air Show 2012 as well as met with senior government officials and industry representatives to discuss defense trade and political-military issues. Afterward, I traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia has contributed a forty-person medical team that deployed to Bamiyan province in Afghanistan to assist in the transition underway there. Malaysia has also increased its participation in military exercises with the United States, including the Rim of the Pacific biennial naval exercises in 2010 and is expanding its participation this year. The Malaysians are also participating in counter-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden.
President Obama and Secretary Clinton have stated that the United States is a Pacific power. To that end, the Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, as the main liaison with the Department of Defense, will continue to expand and strengthen our defense and security cooperation across the Asia-Pacific region to promote the values that we all share in a peaceful and prosperous future.
Mari writes:
It seems to me that the US is carrying out a needlessly provocative policy toward China, whom you list among the countries with whom we are "enhancing our new partnerships."
Dave McKeeby in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs writes:
@ Mari: Thanks for your comment. Secretary Clinton recently gave a great speech about this topic at the US Naval Academy. You can watch the video and read the whole speech at the link below, but here are a few quotes I'd like to share with you:
-- "We stepped up our engagement with countries and institutions in what I call forward deployed diplomacy."
-- "So just as we are not losing old friends, we are not seeking new enemies. Today's China is not the Soviet Union. We are not on the brink of a new Cold War in Asia. Just look at the ever expanding trade between our economies, the connections between our peoples, the ongoing consultations between our governments."
-- "In less than 35 years, we've gone from being two nations with hardly any ties to speak of to being thoroughly, inescapably interdependent. That requires adjustments in thinking and approaches on both sides."
-- "Geopolitics today cannot afford to be a zero-sum game. A thriving China is good for America and a thriving America is good for China, so long as we both thrive in a way that contributes to the regional and global good."
-- "Let me go one step further. We will only succeed in building a peaceful, prosperous Asia Pacific if we succeed in building an effective U.S.-China relationship."
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Dave McKeeby,
Thanks for posting your reply. For a long while now I've wondered why folks in the Dept of State didn't seem to take more of an interest in engaging directly with the public commenting on their own official blog as you have here.
In fact if I'm not mistaken, your's is the first of it's kind posted by any official in well over a year or more in reply to a member of the public's feedback to any topic on this blog.
Thank you for taking the time to honor the basic premis of this blog's existance, as stated;
"This blog offers the opportunity for participants to discuss important foreign policy issues with senior Department officials."
My question to the entire Dept of State, if you'd care to pass it onward and upward through channels, is;
"What's it going to take to turn this blog into the greatest Public/private think-tank in the world, discussing in considered debate all the grave and pressing issues Humanity faces?"
How else can Dipnote achieve it's potential unless folks @ State are willing and step up to the plate as you have done?
Monico F. in the Philippines writes:
I am content with the americans for 400 years the spain ruled philippines they sell us to the americans now if china conquered philippines by suprise attack well I have to learn again new language right.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Japan's Prime Minister will be visit the United States. Japanese Prime Minister's visit to the United States wishes to be dealt with.
... However, in Japan exist.
Rieko H. in Japan writes:
I have read the Joint Statement of the Security Consultative Committee which was released on April 27, 2012 with my special attention on section II.
I am very pleased that both governments have focused on "New Initiatives to Promote Regional Peace, Stability, and Prosperityâ€. Also our attention is drawn to a phrase from this section.
"In this context, the U.S. Government plans to continue to help allies and partners in the region to build their capacity with training and exercises. The Government of Japan, for its part, plans to take various measures to promote safety in the region, including strategic use of official development assistance, for example through providing coastal states with patrol boats.â€
I believe that "coastal states†include Pacific Island countries where Australia has provided 22 Pacific Patrol Boats over the last 30 years as well as Royal Australian Navy officers for each Pacific Island Nations.
Also, since 2008, the Nippon Foundation and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation- Japanese NGOs has been working for enhancing the sea surveillance capacity of three Micronesian countries - United State's Free Association States – including providing patrol boats.
I would like to make two comments on this section.
First, this Joint Statement is exactly in the same direction of the Australian government and two NGOs in Japan. In this sense Japan and the US need to collaborate with Australia who has the experience, and now examine a new approach for maritime security in this region, including expanding the law enforcement capacity.
Secondly, I would like to assert that moving the focus of the US-Japan alliance from Okinawa to the Pacific Ocean would change the direction of this alliance. The US military presence in Okinawa is the result of War. After 70 years, Japan now needs to take responsibility for global security under a US-Japan alliance. After UNCLOS came into force in 1994 small islands states possessed huge EEZ's, and this is where all the transnational illegal activities are now induced, such as IUU, human trafficking, and the smuggling of drugs.
I believe that the US, Japan and Australia need to work on these issues for "Regional Peace, Stability, and Prosperityâ€.
Ultimately, I believe that this will also lead to solve the Okinawan problem.
Dr. Eileen N. in California writes:
Mr Shapiro please look further south to the Western Pacific's small island nations many of whom have been classified as "fragile states" by World Bank criteria. I encourage you to include the many issues these developing countries face including global health issues in your visits fact finding and reports.

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Deputy signs up for County Commission race
An Alachua County sheriff's deputy is the latest candidate to enter the 2012 County Commission race. Deputy Bryan C. "Buck" Buchanan filed the required paperwork to begin campaigning for the District 5 seat. Buchanan has worked for the agency since January 2000 and is currently assigned to the courthouse security division. Currently a registered Democrat, Buchanan has signed up to run as a no party affiliation candidate. That means he would not face a primary and will advance directly to the general election. Buchanan… Read More »


text: Embser-Herbert Appointed CTL DirectorProfessor Melissa S. Embser-Herbert has been appointed director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, beginning July 2012. Embser-Herbert joined the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts in 1995. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Embser-Herbert served as assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Embser-Herbert teaches courses that focus primarily on issues of inequality and social justice. She taught her first hybrid course in the late 1990s and is highly proficient in all aspects of teaching and learning pedagogy, as well as learning outcomes, assessment, Quality Matters, Blackboard, and several social media tools. The Center for Teaching and Learning is excited to have Embser-Herbert leading the center.


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|Version 25 (modified by falkb, 5 years ago) (diff)
Trac jsGantt plugin
A plugin which allows Trac ticket data to be displayed in a jsGantt chart in a wiki page. Tasks and milestones are links to the corresponding ticket or milestone.
Configurable field names allow integration with other plugins such as MasterTicketsPlugin (for dependencies), SubticketsPlugin (for parent/child relationships) and TimingAndEstimationPlugin (for estimated and total hours).
[[TracJSGanttChart(sample=1)]] displays the sample project from jsgantt.com. [[TracJSGanttChart(milestone=Test)]] displays all the tickets in the Test milestone.
The chart display can be controlled with a number of macro arguments:
|What to display in the format control. A pipe-separated list of minute, hour, day, week, month, and quarter (though minute may not be very useful).
|Initial display format, one of those listed in formats
|First format
|Display sample tasks (1) or not (0)
|Show resource column (1) or not (0)
|Show duration colunn (1) or not (0)
|Show percent complete column (1) or not (0)
|Caption to place to right of tasks: None, Caption, Resource, Duration, %Complete
|Show start date column (1) or not (0)
|Show end date column (1) or not (0)
|Date display format: 'mm/dd/yyyy', 'dd/mm/yyyy', or 'yyyy-mm-dd'
|Number of levels of tasks to show. 1 = only top level task.
|Show children of closed tickets (1) or collapse the subtree (0).
|Field to use to choose task colors. Each unique value of the field will have a different color task. Other likely useful values are owner and milestone but any field can be used.
|When using something like Subtickets plugin to maintain a tree of tickets and subtickets, you may create a Gantt showing a ticket and all of its descendants with root=<ticket#>. The macro uses the configured parent field to find all descendant tasks and build an id= argument for Trac's native query handler.
Multiple roots may be provided like root=1|12|32.
When used in a ticket description or comment, root=self will display the current ticket's descendants.
|When using something like MasterTickets plugin to maintain ticket dependencies, you may create a Gantt showing a ticket and all of its predecessors with goal=<ticket#>. The macro uses the configured succ field to find all predecessor tasks and build an id= argument for Trac's native query handler.
Multiple goals may be provided like goal=1|12|32.
When used in a ticket description or comment, goal=self will display the current ticket's predecessors.
|The width, in pixels, of the table of task names, etc. on the left of the Gantt.
|Show dependencies (1) or not (0)
|Map user IDs to full names (1) or not (0).
|Show milestones for displayed tickets (0) or only those specified by milestone= (1)
Site-wide defaults for macro arguments may be set in trac.ini. option.<opt> overrides the built-in default for <opt> from the table above.
All other macro arguments are treated as TracQuery specification (e.g., milestone=MS1|MS2) to control which tickets are displayed.
- Install globally with:
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/tracjsganttplugin/0.11/
- Enable the plugin by updating TracIni file (..../trac.ini) as follows:
[components] tracjsgantt.* = enabled
- Configure custom fields for the start date and finish date:
[ticket-custom] userfinish = text userfinish.label = Planned Finish userstart = text userstart.label = Planned StartAdditional custom fields will be necessary (or may be provided by the associated plugins) if you wish to use additional features such as parent/child and predecessor/successor ticket relationships, and work estimates. Look here for the necessary plugins. See also TracTicketsCustomFields for more details.
- Configure the plugin at its own configuration section, placed into 'trac.ini' file as follows:
[trac-jsgantt] # To work with Timing and Estimation for percent complete fields.estimate = estimatedhours fields.worked = totalhours # Each unit in estimate is 1/8 of a day days_per_estimate = 0.125 # To work with Master Tickets for dependencies fields.pred = blockedby fields.succ = blocking # To work with Subtickets for parent/child relationships fields.parent = parents # # To work with ChildTickets plugin # parent_format = #%s # # Custom fields for start and due dates fields.start = userstart fields.finish = userfinish # date_format = %Y-%m-%d milestone_type = milestone
- See configuration details below for explanations and more options.
- Restart web server on command line:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Configuration details
TracJsGanttPlugin is intended to be flexible enough to get data from various plugins by configuring the field names for those plugins in trac.ini. It is known to work with TimingAndEstimationPlugin (for estimated and total hours), MasterTicketsPlugin (for FS dependencies), and SubticketsPlugin for parent/child relationships. Custom fields for start and finish date are also supported.
Tasks are colored based on ticket attributes. When colored by priority colors are consistent with the colors used in Trac reports. Other coloring choices (e.g., by milestone or owner) use arbitrary, unique colors.
All of the fields.* items name custom fields which may contain data for the Gantt.
When estimate and worked are both configured, the plugin attempts to display (100 * worked/estimate) as the percent complete. The example works with TimingAndEstimationPlugin. Alternatively, if percent is configured, the plugin attempts to display it as the percent complete (it should be a number from 0 to 100). If none of those are configured, all tasks will be marked as 0% complete.
When pred and succ are configured the plugin uses them to determine the task dependencies. The example works with MasterTicketsPlugin. If these fields are not configured, no dependencies are shown.
When parent is configured, it is the field which holds the parent ticket number. The example works with Subtickets. If this field is not configured, no parent/child relationship will be displayed. If it is configured, the Gantt can be collapsed by the user to show or hide subtasks. (parent_format determines the format of the content of the parent field. Use "%s" (default) for SubticketsPlugin, "#%s" for ChildTicketsPlugin.)
When start and finish are configured, the plugin uses them to set task start and finish dates. The date_format field is a Python strptime() format specifier which describes the contents of start and finish. If these fields are not configured, all tasks end today and have a 1-day duration.
When estimate and finish are both configured (and start is not configured or not on the ticket), the plugin attempts to determine the start of the task from finish and estimate as start = finish - estimate with consideration for weekends and hours per day.
The milestone_type may be used to have a custom ticket type show up as milestones on the chart. If this field is not specified, only Trac milestones are displayed as milestones.
Bugs/Feature Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for TracJsGanttPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Known issues
- Only one chart can be displayed per page.
Planned enhancements
- Allow configuration of default task duration.
- Display a legend of task colors and their meaning (e.g., which milestone or owner they represent).
- Allow some tasks to be open or closed by default.
- Figure out finish date if start and estimate are provided.
- Display critical path
- Display slack time
Source & Download
You can check out TracJsGanttPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
Download the zipped source from [download:tracjsganttplugin here].
Recent Changes
- 14208 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:39:23
Fix a typo. Refs #9648.
- 14207 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:18:33
Use Trac 1.0 DB API to find active tickets. Refs #9648.
- 14206 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:18:28
Use Trac 1.0 DB API to find tickets by owner. Refs #9648.
- 14205 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:18:23
Use Trac 1.0 DB API to find owners. Refs #9648.
- 14204 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:18:17
Use Trc 1.0 DB API to build enum map. Refs #9648.
- 14203 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:18:12
Use Trac 1.0 DB API to follow relations. Refs #9648.
- 14202 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:18:05
Use Trac 1.0 DB API to find ticket dates. Refs #9648.
- 14201 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:18:00
Use Trac 1.0 DB API to find milestones. Refs #9648.
- 14200 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:17:55
Use Trac 1.0 DB API for finding scheduled tickets. Refs #9648.
- 14199 by ChrisNelson on 2014-10-14 19:17:48
Use Trac 1.0 DB API to follow links. Refs #9648.
Author: ChrisNelson
Maintainer: ChrisNelson
Contributors: rjollos, bof, Matt Sable
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Jordan Morris sits with FC's Taylor Twellman to discuss the firing of Jurgen Klinsmann and USMNT life under Bruce Arena.
Call from Arena gave Kljestan confidence
Sacha Kljestan explains how Bruce Arena motivated him for camp, and why he feels comfortable playing with Michael Bradley.
Broos: Cameroon should've won
Cameroon coach Hugo Broos praised his side despite their draw with Zimbabwe ahead of the African Cup of Nations Tournament.
Pasuwa: Zimbabwe problems put aside
Zimbabwe coach Callisto Pasuwa believes that any problems have been put aside for his side ahead of the African Cup of Nations.
Brazil, Argentina to lock horns at the Melbourne Cricket Ground - report
The MCG will reportedly host Brazil and Argentina in June next year, while the Socceroos may also take on one of the South American giants.


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N.Y. Power Authority Presents
Checks Totaling $8 Million to Niagara Power Coalition
Michael Saltzman
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December 20,
LEWISTON—Local governments and schools districts in
the immediate vicinity of the New York Power Authority's (NYPA) Niagara
Power Project received ceremonial checks Tuesday totaling $8 million,
signifying payment of the up-front portion of an agreement with the
Niagara Power Coalition for the relicensing of the 2,400,000-kilowatt,
hydroelectric project.
"These initial payments reflect the partnership
we've formed with the host communities for the Niagara Project's
relicensing," said Frederick E. Chase, executive director, Hydro
Relicensing, NYPA. "The relicensing agreement with the Niagara Power
Coalition reflects the Power Authority's continuing commitment to give
back to the neighboring communities as part of our responsible
stewardship of this major generating project whose low-cost power is
integral to Western New York's economy."
Tuesday's ceremonial event, at the Niagara Power
Project Visitors Center, the Power Vista, coincided with the actual
electronic transfer of the up-front payments to the seven members of the
Niagara Power Coalition. The members and the payments are as follows:
Niagara Falls City School District; $1,120,000; the City of Niagara
Falls, $1,360,000; the Lewiston-Porter Central School District,
$1,120,000; the Town of Lewiston, $1,360,000; the Niagara Wheatfield
Central School District, $960,000; the Town of Niagara, $1,040,000; and
Niagara County, $1,040,000.
NYPA's agreement with the Niagara Power Coalition
also includes $5 million in annual payments to the host communities,
commencing after the Niagara Project is issued a new 50-year operating
license. The current license expires in August 2007.
Last August, the Power Authority submitted an
application for a new project license to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, along with an Applicant-Prepared Environmental Assessment of
the project. Both reflected comments by interested parties who have
partnered with NYPA in an alternative licensing approach providing for
substantial input of various stakeholders. In addition to area
municipalities, they included federal and state resource agencies,
environmental organizations and customers.
The Niagara Project provides low-cost power for
more than 100 businesses and industries on the Niagara Frontier,
supporting more than 43,000 jobs, not to mention thousands more at
Western New York businesses that have commerce with the companies
receiving allocations. The project's electricity is among the lowest
cost in New York State.
About NYPA:
■The New York Power Authority uses no tax money
or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds
and earns revenue from proceeds of its operations, which stems largely
from the sale of electricity. ■ NYPA is the nation's largest state-owned
electric utility, with 17 generating plants in various parts of the
state and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■ NYPA is
a leader in promoting energy-efficiency, new energy technologies and
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Karen S. Hartmann
SINCLAIRVILLE – Karen S. Hartmann, 63, of Sinclairville, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at home.
She was born March 4, 1949, in Westfield, the daughter of Raymond Turck of Summerdale, and Bettie Dulmus Pinder of Stewart, Fla.
Karen was employed for 12 years as a quality con-trol supervisor for Basic Micro Electronics in Riviera Beach, Fla.
She enjoyed crafts, especially crocheting, sewing doll clothes and macrame, and made and donated Christmas ornaments to the Second Chance program of the Chautauqua County Human Society for their fundraiser. Karen loved adopting rescued dogs.
Wife of 41 years to David L. Hartmann, whom she married July 31, 1971; mother of Joseph M. (Roberta) Hartmann of Jamestown, and Dana (Eric) Baker of Westfield; grandmother of Marlana Hartmann and Stacy and Danny Baker; great-grandmother of Gracelynn Chadwick- Hartmann and Macie Bruce; sister of Barbara Green of Summerdale, and Darlene Weber of Dunkirk. She is also survived by nieces and nephews.
The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in Jordan Funeral Home, Sinclairville. Visitation will be 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Sinclairville.
Memorials may be made to the Northern Chautau-qua Canine Rescue.


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PVC piping keeps all your air compressor tools
Frustrated with his compressor�s self-coiling air hose getting tangled or behaving like a Slinky when it was stored, Club member Scott Dunt of Normal, Illinois, came up with the idea of storing the hose inside an 18-in.-long section of 4-in.-dia. PVC pipe. He strapped the pipe to the compressor tank with long nylon cable ties. The pipe is just the right diameter for the coiled hose to move easily in and out. He also drilled 1/2-in. holes on one end to store a blow gun and a tire chuck, then cut a 3/4-in.-wide slot on the other end for the coupler (see photo).
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"You're only an entrepreneur if you almost didn't make payroll. "
Does flying privately make financial sense?
Is flying privately an economically sound idea or is it just a wonderful way to travel?
The answer depends a lot on your circumstances, but consider the following cost comparisons for two hypothetical trips by car, airliner and private aircraft. The numbers explain why, even in a down economy, the opportunities offered by business aviation remain attractive.
Trip #1: An Aviation Consultant's Perspective
René Banglesdorf, CEO of Georgetown, Texas-based Charlie Bravo Aviation, calculated costs for six people to travel 1,000 miles in two cars from Dallas to a client's facility in Fort Stockton, Texas; a meeting in San Antonio; and back to Dallas. Banglesdorf–who conservatively valued the passengers' time at $100 per hour–assumed the business aircraft would be a chartered Pilatus PC-12 and that the trip would take one day by private aircraft, two by car or airliner. She also assumed that the passengers would be able to work aboard the business aircraft (hence no lost productivity) and that airline passengers would require a rental car for the San Antonio meeting but that the business aircraft passengers wouldn't need a car, because they could meet at an airport FBO. (Both this trip and Trip #2 assume $1 per mile for car expenses, based on data obtained from the Edmunds.com True Cost to Own calculator.)
The results in the table below speak for themselves. "Doing the math is a compelling enough exercise," Banglesdorf said. "But then you factor in the talent companies attract when they communicate that their sales, technical and management [personnel's] time and quality of life are that valuable, and it's a whole new ballgame."
Trip #2: The NBAA's Calculation
For this trip, we asked the National Business Aviation Association to perform the calculations, using its Travel$ense software. The program can crunch a large number of variables, which can be helpful when you're trying to decide the most efficient way to spend travel dollars. Variables include aircraft type and cost, car cost per mile, start and end location (not just airports), meeting locations and duration and annual compensation for each passenger.
BJT asked for an evaluation of a roundtrip by three top executives via car, airliner and Bombardier Challenger 300 business jet. The departure point was the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles and the destination was Wynn Las Vegas hotel in Las Vegas, where a three-hour meeting was scheduled.
In valuing the executives' time, the program assumed that their annual salaries and bonuses totaled $10 million, $5 million and $2 million, respectively; that benefits equaled 25 percent of these figures; and that the executives would achieve 50 percent of their normal productivity levels while away from the office, regardless of travel mode.
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This old buggy was the most unusual item I saw for sale on the 100-Mile Yard Sale.
I had occasion to travel the length and breadth of MO State Highway 25 from Cape Girardeau to Dexter last week during the 100-Mile Yard Sale. Every day I watched the sale grow into larger proportions, as folks dragged out every conceivable item they thought would sell.
On the vacant stretch of highway between Aquilla and Advance, we even saw a lonely fella with his blanket stretched out on the grass, trying to sell a few tools. We imagined a conversation with him: "Hey, how much for this tire iron? Oops, sorry--that's a snake!"
Most of the action was focused around the "large" population centers of Arbor, Delta, Advance, Hill Top, Aquilla and Bloomfield. I wanted to find some stands at Toppertown and Zaddock, so I could include those names, but, unfortunately, those areas were deader'n a door nail...
The most unusual item we saw was an ancient buggy on a flatbed trailer at Aquilla. I'll post that picture later, since I can do only one at a time.
The most interesting people we met were a couple from Park Hills, MO., driving a truck with a very nice storage trailer labeled "Junk Yard Junkies"! We stopped behind them in Bloomfield and learned that their trailer is even equipped with a porta-potty! I have a picture of them, too, of course. It'll probably make the NSC this week.
The weather was gorgeous for this annual event, and if you TAKE YOUR TIME, you might not kill anyone or get yourself rear-ended. I hear that the sale is going to last through tomorrow.
I just hope that the yard sale mania holds on long enough for the sellers to CLEAN UP what's left of their priceless treasures that didn't sell!
From the still green hills of downtown Tillman, MO., this is your mobile reporter, Madeline, just trying to keep cool...
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I sincerely hope this route can remain accident free all weekend. Lots of folks were enjoying the weather,items for sale, and seeing old friends. I personally found a solid glass candy dish my wife would been proud of me for 5 cents. Oh the joy of finding a real bargain.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Sun, May 27, 2012, at 4:21 PM
I boldly travelled up 25 on Friday on my way to Cape. I usually bypass the mob and go up the Interstate ("Ben Stone") but I had a wild hair about me and away I went. I must admit I was looking for something...a recent episode of Pioneer Woman cooking show inspired me to get a Dutch oven, but I refuse to pay $60 at Wal-Mart. Surely someone has quit cooking and decided to forfeit their Dutch oven! No luck, but I enjoyed looking at the venues from the road, especially that area you all probably know as "the white house on the left hand side with the huge columns on the front." That whole area looked like something off a postcard. It was fun.
-- Posted by lovebooks on Tue, May 29, 2012, at 8:24 AM
Lovebooks, I would have expected you to find a Dutch oven at that Arbor location! I'll bet someone beat you to it!
I found some lovely glass candy dishes that I'm using for jewelry. I love that heavy glass, even though I don't know anything about what's valuable and what's not.
-- Posted by goat lady on Tue, May 29, 2012, at 5:36 PM
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The Joy of Chemistry — A Unit in Photos
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Back in high school, "chem" was a four-letter word to me — this Eve had no desire to hang out with that Atom! I never would have imagined that over fifteen years later, molecular chemistry would be one of my favorite units to teach. See how our exploratory unit unfolded with my photo essay from the lessons.
Chemistry in 3rd Grade? Why, Why, Why?!
I did not begin our science unit with the intention of tackling ionic and covalent bonding or electron configurations. I began with the standards-based plan to cover the states of matter, phase changes, and reactions. However, as we worked through the regular sequence of lessons, my students' questions became a powerful force. Why exactly does salt change the freezing point of water? Why does ice expand as it freezes? Why do water molecules stay together? Why do different liquids have different boiling points?
As my students' questions piled up, I realized that this was my chance to take on a student-interest-driven unit of study. Never before were all of my students so demandingly curious about an academic subject. There was a powerful spirit of chemical curiosity in the air, and I felt compelled to respond to their questions. I got the green light from my wonderfully flexible principal to take an academic detour, picked up some middle school chemistry books to brush up on the subject, and we were off on our exploration of Why!
Exploration 1: What's Inside an Atom?
In order to understand why atoms behave the way they do, my students needed to learn about the three main subatomic particles: electrons, neutrons, and protons.
My students spontaneously adopted "The Atoms Family" song as our class anthem. I would hear them singing it at recess and as they headed to the bus each day. You can download the song lyrics at the The Science Spot. (Tip: Click on any photo in this post to enlarge the image.)
Next my students made edible models of atoms. We used mini marshmallows for the protons and neutrons, and raisins for the electrons. (To dye half of the marshmallows, we dipped them in a solution of food coloring and water and let them drip dry on wax paper.) We wrapped the nucleus with plastic baggies, and then punctured the bags with toothpicks to hold the electrons in place. Above is a fluorine atom with nine raisin electrons, nine blue marshmallow protons, and nine white marshmallow neutrons.
We also watched this Study Jams! video about subatomic particles.
Exploration 2: Meeting the Periodic Table of Elements
Once my students understood the basic parts of an atom, they were ready to explore the different atoms that make up elements. My students quickly noticed that it's difficult to keep track of all of the elements without an organized system. Several students started making their own charts and tables to keep track. They were quite happy to see that the work was already done for them when I introduced the Periodic Table of Elements.
My students color-coded their periodic tables in their notebooks as they explored groups and periods. My students also enjoyed exploring the Periodic Table of Videos by the University of Nottingham. They post videos of experiments and explanations for each element.
My students personified their favorite elements to create Periodic Table playing cards. We used Basher Books' The Periodic Table: Elements With Style for inspiration. (Their Web site is also a fun resource.)
Exploration 3: The Mighty Mini Electrons
Sprightly little electrons are so important for understanding how atoms behave around one another, so we spent several lessons learning about various models for picturing electron energy levels.
Exploration 4: Ionic Bonding With Salt
Sodium chloride (table salt) provided a relatable context for learning about ionic bonding. My students were surprised when they observed that all of their salt grains were actually tiny cubes. They explored why salt takes this shape, and they realized it has to do with the bonding pattern between sodium and chloride.
Here you can see the supplies for our salt exploration. My students began with cups of coarse salt, a hand lens, and black paper squares. When they were ready to begin building their sodium chloride "molecules," each table received a bowl with gumdrops and toothpicks.
I used this lesson plan from the American Chemical Society to guide my students through an exploration of the ionic bonding that occurs between sodium and chloride molecules. I adapted their student worksheet to create a single foldable page for my students' science notebooks. After my students understood the mechanics of ionic bonding, they used small and large gumdrops to build models of sodium chloride crystals. (The larger gumdrops represent negative chlorine ions, and the smaller gumdrops represent positive sodium ions.)
Exploration 5: Building Covalent Molecules
We first explored covalent bonding on the computer with an interactive molecule-building applet. Then my students worked in pairs to build interesting molecules using candy.
Two students show off their finished caffeine molecule.
We used gumdrops, marshmallows, and toothpicks to build molecular models. (We used marshmallows for the smaller hydrogen atoms.) The students chose their molecules from a set of molecule cards that I printed from MakeItMolecular.com.
The students labeled their models and created "Key Cards" explaining how they color coded their molecules. The student on the right shows off his ethanol molecule. The other photo shows the card for his molecule.
We hung the students' molecular models from the hallway ceiling.
Exploration 6: Polymer Slime Time!
Polymers are fun molecules to explore with kids. From the playground tire swing to silly putty, children have plenty of experiences with polymers. "Exploring the properties of a cross-linked polymer" (i.e., playing with slime!) was an enjoyable way to end our molecular chemistry unit.
It was so exciting to watch how my students applied their understanding of molecules and molecular interactions to understand the mechanics of cross-linking polyvinyl alcohol!
To save time and have reliable results, I bought a slime-making kit from Steve Spangler Science. There are plenty of recipes for making your own polymer goop, however. The Science Bob recipe uses white glue and Borax, and the Steve Spangler recipe uses PVA and Borax. I modeled the cross-linking action between the PVA polymer strands with long chains of paper clips. This really helped my visual learners understand the reaction.
Taking a detour through the world of chemistry was well worth the time and effort. I've never seen my students quite so motivated and passionate about a subject. Many of them have continued with independent research projects on chemistry topics that are particularly interesting to them. I am thrilled that I was able to help build the background knowledge that my students needed to pursue their independent research. Exploring everything from greenhouse gases to nuclear fusion, my young chemists are off to a great start with their own research!
One student's independent research projects.
Additional Resources
In taking this detour, I drew on a number of excellent resources. I hope some of them are helpful as you plan your own chemistry activities.
- My unit would not have been possible without the incredible resources that science teacher Liz LaRosa created and shared on her Web site and blog. I used both her student notebook pages and her PowerPoint presentations with many of my lessons.
- Mr. Enns, another science teacher, also has some very helpful PowerPoint presentations on his Web site. I particularly liked his presentation on atoms, elements, and the periodic table.
- BrainPOP has over a dozen relevant animations explaining molecular chemistry for visual learners.
- The Science Spot has even more ideas for chemistry unit projects. I used their Adopt an Element project idea with a small group of students as an extension.
- Micron puts out STEM lesson plans on a wide range of topics. I found their lesson about atoms and molecules particularly helpful.
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The poster is actually nuclear fission not fusion...
These ideas are absolutely brilliant and engaging. Perfect for STEM!
Desiree, thanks for the compliment! I hope the ideas work for your students. Best, Alycia
Thanks for sharing your ideas! I really like how you made the Molecule Museum. It is a great way to show off what the students made! These ideas are really hands on, and I am sure that the students had a good time doing them!
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Nail salons are breeding grounds for nasty germs and infections. Does your salon pass the test?
In most cases, nail salons offer a blissful retreat where you can sit back, relax and leave with fabulous-looking nails. In rare cases, however, you might also leave with some unwanted health consequences. �You can wind up with some really gross infections in nail salons,� says Leslie Roste, RN, an expert in health care and infection control and the National Director of Education and Market Development for Barbicide�, the global leader in salon sanitation and disinfection. Most nail salons see a steady stream of customers every day, making them rampant breeding grounds for gnarly germs. Infections and diseases can be lurking in a number of places�on dirty nail files, in the footbath water or even on your technician�s body. Visit a salon with lax sanitation or safety practices, and you risk exposing yourself to a number of hidden health hazards, including skin conditions such as fungal infections, warts, athlete�s foot and more. On the more extreme end of the spectrum, there is a rare but serious possibility of contracting diseases such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus)�the virulent, drug-resistant staph infection�or hepatitis B. There have even been a number of deaths over the past few years traced back to dirty nail salons, Roste says. RELATED: Is Your Salon Treatment Safe?� For this reason, she urges customers to speak up if they notice questionable sanitation practices. �Ask those questions,� Roste says. �We often blindly assume that the technician providing the service is taking the proper precautions, but this isn�t always the case. I want people to be more wary consumers.� Nail salons can harbor some dirty secrets, but you shouldn�t let disgusting infections or diseases cramp your style. The next time you go in for some nail-TLC, use this checklist for spotting a dirty nail salon. Is the salon licensed? Salon licenses should be prominently displayed. Each nail technician or manicurist is also required to possess a state-issued license, which should be clearly visible. Does the salon make a good overall first impression? Take a look around and size up your surroundings for a general air of cleanliness. Does the floor appear swept, or are there piles of dust and debris lying around? Is there sufficient ventilation, or is the room stuffy and full of pungent fumes? If the salon doesn�t look and feel clean, it probably isn�t. Does the salon use foot scrapers or callus razors? These implements are illegal in most states, so it should be a red flag if your technician tries to use one on you. �If you see these devices being used, I would pack up and leave,� Roste says. �It�s an indication that the salon isn�t adhering to the sanitation laws and rules that they should be.� Is your tub properly scrubbed down before you use it? Foot spas or pedicure baths must be washed and disinfected between clients. However, this rarely happens, Roste says. �If there is a quick turnaround between clients, it typically indicates that they aren�t taking the time to properly clean the bowl,� she says. Most state laws mandate that the foot spa be drained, cleaned with soap, disinfected with an EPA-registered disinfectant and rinsed with warm water. Both the water and filters can harbor dangerous bacteria if not properly cleaned and disinfected. Is the technician only using brand-new nail files? Single-use nail implements (such as nail files, toe separators or buffing blocks) should be used on only one customer and then properly disposed of. �Nine times out of 10, they are probably reusing these tools, even though they shouldn�t be,� Roste says. �You can usually easily tell if the tool has been used before because you�ll see a wear pattern.� If you suspect that the tool has been previously used�if you catch your technician pulling it out of their pocket, for example�don�t hesitate to voice your concerns and insist they use a new one. Is the salon properly disinfecting and sterilizing reusable tools and instruments? Non-disposable items such as nail clippers should be promptly cleaned, disinfected and stored in a closed container with EPA-approved solution between uses (such as Barbicide�). The instruments should be fully immersed in the solution, handle included, in a tightly-sealed container. If towels or linens are used, are they freshly laundered and clean? If you see nail clippings or suspicious residue on the towel, request a clean one. Roste also outlines some general tips and precautions for nail salon safety: 1) Refrain from shaving 24 hours before or after your appointment. �When you shave, you open up tiny microscopic tears in the skin. The openings are big enough for bacteria to get into your skin and take hold on the lower part of your leg,� Roste says. �You can wind up with some pretty nasty bacterial infections if you shave too soon before or after a pedicure.� 2) Forgo an appointment if you have open cuts, blisters or broken skin, or if you have contagious conditions like warts or fungal infections, which can be passed on to others. 3) More expensive does not equal more clean. Some consumers are under the false impression that expensive spas are immune to infections and diseases, but high-end salons can be just as unsanitary as lower-priced salons. �Price is not a good determination of cleanliness,� Roste says. �We�ve visited some of the top-rated U.S. spas and they�ve been filthy.� 4) Schedule an appointment first thing in the morning, when footbaths and manicure workstations are generally at their cleanest. �Pedicure bowls are nothing to play around with. Those drains trap all that dead skin,� Roste says. �If you go late in the day after many clients have been before you, that�s a lot of dead skin and bacteria sitting in the bowl.� 5) In general, immunocompromised individuals should avoid receiving nail treatments. Immunocompromised individuals are more susceptible to fungal and other opportunistic infections, Roste notes. In normal, healthy individuals, a nick or cut won�t do too much damage. But in an individual with a weakened immune system, that cut could escalate into a nasty infection. 6) �Women who have had a lumpectomy or mastectomy for breast cancer should also exercise caution when receiving a manicure or pedicure. �These women risk getting lymphedema,� Roste says. A condition in which excess fluid accumulates in an arm or leg, lymphedema is a common side effect of breast cancer treatments and can occur if somebody is nicked with a dirty or contaminated nail tool. 7) Never assume the premises are clean. Most consumers falsely assume that nail salons are regularly inspected for cleanliness, but this is not the case. �In most states, salons are only inspected if there�s a complaint,� Roste explains. �So don�t think that there are all of these rules in place to protect you, because they�re not enforced.� 8) Don�t be afraid to speak up. �When you�re paying money for a one-on-one service where they�ll be touching you, you should feel empowered to ask those crucial questions,� Roste says. Feel comfortable voicing your concerns if you see something questionable. Brought to you by: Spry Living


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Report: Existing Home Sales Soar
There's good news in the southern Oregon real estate picture. Existing home sales jumped 21.5 percent in the most recent rolling quarterly report from the Rogue Valley Association of Realtors. 599 homes sold in the county between June 1 and August 31, compared 493 the year before.
The median sales price also rose from $155,000 to $169,000. Homes are also spending less time on the market, comparing the two sales periods year over year. Homes for sales spent an average of 58 days on the market during the period in 2012, compared to 103 the year prior.
Normal transactions made up 56.6 percent of existing homes sales, 27.2 percent were banked-owned homes, and the remaining 15.7 percent were short sales. Inventory has also decreased by 25.1 percent.


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anyone up for helping to organise a seed swap? i have lots of seeds from last still as well.
as we have no place just yet i was thinking of having it at ace unless anyone has a suggestion.
date... a weekend in a few weeks. do you think a saturday or sunday best?
ideas of who else could be invited to join in?
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Find out if laminate flooring is right for your home
Designing your home and selecting materials are complicated tasks. With so many options and materials from which to choose, it could make your head spin. Laminate flooring is a recent star in the building materials line-up. Discover the answer to, �What is laminate flooring?�, and decide if the material is right for your home.
What is laminate? Laminate refers to layers of materials that are fused together. In the case of laminate flooring, there are several layers that make up one single floor. Each layer serves a unique purpose and they�re fused together in a traffic-, dirt- and water-resistant manner.
What are the layers in laminate flooring? There are at least four basic layers in a laminate floor, according to the North American Laminate Floor Association:
The first layer is an underlayment of soft cushiony pad. This gives the floor a comfortable feel, creates a smooth base for the flooring, offers moisture protection and also eliminates the harsh echo that could occur with a hard durable surface.
The second layer is made of a plastic or melamine resin for strength, stability and additional moisture resistance.
The core is usually an engineered wood product like high-density fiberboard. This material gives additional stability and durability as well as impact resistance.
The fourth layer from the bottom is the bang for the buck. This layer contains the decorative image that can range from stone to wood to concrete. The quality of the image depends upon the company and the cost. Today, the laminates available are very realistic and natural looking.
The topmost protective wear layer is crucial. This is the layer that serves as an armor and shield for the rest of the layers. A quality laminate will be very resistant to dragged chairs, pointy high heels and the family pets.
Versatile value. Laminate flooring is an excellent option for flooring. The product is long lasting, durable and attractive. Laminate flooring can be used in any room of the house, thanks to the water-resistant nature of the material. Additionally, laminate flooring comes in so many styles and colors that it is bound to suit anyone�s design preference.
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Of the easiest care, likes a hot dry spot. Deadheading (removing spent blossoms) extends blooming, so pick a few for cut flowers while you are in the garden. Leave new fall growth at the base for overwintering. Benefits from division every 2-3 years in spring.
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About XML Applications
XML applications refer to those programs and software that are used to manipulate and process data with the use of various technologies of XML, such as XQuery, XPath, Web Services, and others. There are tools that are provided for these technologies.
Behaviour is one example of an application of XML. By the concept of XML, behaviours can be linked to any of the elements of a web page. Thus, these elements can then be manipulated. Behaviours are widely used in the Web for applications like Internet Explorer and allow adding of scripting elements.
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Also, XML has a standard method for information to be accessed, and thus, several devices and applications of different kinds have been made easier and faster for storage, usage, transmission and display of the data.
XML even standardizes the exchange of data of the applications and make it storage-independent. There are several other markup language applications in the government, academe, and industries. All these have made what was only man's fantasy before, and now have given wide options and possibilities borne out of man's genius.
XML for Business and E-Commerce
XML has played a vital role in contributing to the success and growth of several businesses and electronic commerce, or E-commerce, in terms of their operations. The Extensible Markup Language helps and speeds up data exchange. This technology is often used by companies to further make more efficient and flexible the exchange of information.
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Moreover, XML is becoming increasingly popular and favoured because it provides ways and strategies to solve economical and business problems, with its flexibility and inexpensive economical cost. XML has become the trend for business-to-business commerce, and a lot of companies and industries in the global market have already developed this for their own utilizations.
Aside from these several reasons, XML is highly advantageous in the fields of business and commerce because the implementations of this language are considered to improve the availability and accessibility of EDI, or electronic data interchange, for information interchange, transactions between and among businesses, and transactions between the business and the consumer. XML also provides accuracy, which is highly important, in the data, and thus making data secured, safe and correct. XML also allows integration of data to further solve problems.
With all these reasons, among others, XML can surely meet and adapt to every need of organizations and companies. The language provides a very simple yet a very perfect solution to very complicated and difficult problems being faced on data and information, and that's why businesses are already beginning to depend on this technology. The environment can be centralized, simple and with a low cost. Businesses should really focus on seeing the benefits of this language to appreciate its existence and creation.
XML-based Programs and Software for Business Communications
The XML technology has been widely adapted in several ways in different applications and infrastructures. XML-based programs and software are common for business-to-business communication. Because of being the primary technology for information interchange, XML is able to answer and provide solutions to the various needs and demands of data representation.
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With this in mind, communications among businesses have been made easier, faster and more efficient. Data is being represented through XML in times like business-to-business communications.
Communication through XML shows to have increased security and reliability. It is even made more convenient because XML can even be easily read by people who may not have much knowledge about the language yet.
Now, there are several XML-based infrastructures, applications and libraries, and the list can only go on and the number can only increase, testament and proof to how helpful and influential XML has been to every communication need of man.
XML and Computers
The limitations of some tools like HTML (hypertext mark-up language) and the HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) have paved way for the birth and introduction of XML. With XML, there are a lot more possibilities and benefits that are not available anywhere else.
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XML is also widely used in computers especially in the field of programming. XML programming allows streaming that show to be useful in handling documents of big file sizes.
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Domain-specific applications and the implementation of new generic tools are some of the things that call for the necessity of general purpose XML programming. This programming domain of XML includes the manipulation of XML trees, navigation through XML trees, parsing of XML documents into XML trees, and the serialization of XML trees as XML documents.
XML as a programming language also provides both a general data structure and a specific data structure for XML trees, with JDOM and JAXB, respectively.
Professional XML Consultants
Any person, an expert on XML or Extensible Markup Language, whom other people seek for information and advice about XML-related products and/or services, refers to an XML consultant. It is of paramount importance that XML consultants should be aware and well-informed with the latest developments in XSLT / XML programming. These professionals are responsible in customizing different applications or building new applications based on the various requirements of the clients. Some of the improvements covered by XML consultants include enabling data transfer between different systems, applications, and even organizations; writing data once and using in the generation of documents in a wide range of languages, which include HTML, WML, and XML; and reducing load on server and database and allowing a wide range of dynamic effects.
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In addition, XML consultants offer services to XML vendors like integration and customization. The experience and expertise of XML consultants in interface design, DTD configuration, and other XML authoring and management tools enable them to provide quality XML-related services.
Syntax and Forms
Since XML is a general syntax, it doesn't have a built-in notion of forms. In fact, XML forms should have a kind of difference in terms of operation with that of HTML forms. Furthermore, form recognition defines the syntax used in assertion of form existence and to describes in the documents the form characteristics—a mechanism with similar style to that used by the XML Linking Language. In addition, an XML language is not defined but rather the syntax which can be used in conjunction with a variety of languages.
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Meanwhile, XML data sets are also form values–XML encoded sets of name-value pairs. The introduction of the notion of form sheets entails the construction of the value of a form upon submission's specifications. Further, the accessibility of the form sheet to the document and form state, or current value, and the control of the construction of the corresponding form value might allow the use of multiple form sheet languages.
Internet and Technologies Presented by XML
The technology presented by XML allows a wide avenue for the Internet's benefit. Unlike HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), which are much more limited application tools, XML documents can be simply edited through common text editors such as Notepad or TextEdit. It is purposely designed that way to make up for the limitations of other mark up languages. As such, it is expected to be widely used in the Internet since it was not intended to be a programming language for stand-alone systems. Hence, writing XML is made relatively easier and faster especially, because its nature as an extensible language lets you define your own tags and attributes. Plus, this helps you to be more efficient in making your custom tags and attributes better with every XML schema.
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Certainly, the XML application is one of modern man's very useful invention especially for Internet applications and platforms.
About Namespaces
As mentioned above, one leverage of the Extensible Markup Language is that it can be understood by non-programmers, having no need of binary and ASCII codes. An example of such is the option to define your own namespaces, which provide unique elements and attributes in an XML document. As dret.net/glossary puts it, 'XML Namespaces are used to qualify unique names in XML documents which use schemas from different sources.' They are actually used as identifiers that give a hint about ownership of an XML document. Since XML does not require a special editor or tool for its syntax, namespaces can be easily defined as long as it adheres to XML standards and specifications. As a programmer, you only create a particular namespace, if you own the domain. Repetition of a certain identifier should not be done to identify things that are not the same. Another valuable thing to remember is that, a namespace URI cannot accommodate XML namespaces as associated to resources such as schemas or documentations.
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XML Vendors
There are number of services and products offered or supplied by different XML vendors or XML enabled networking vendors. As a general purpose specification in the creation of markup languages, XML or Extensible Markup Language, the users are allowed in defining their own elements. As such, different XML-related needs arise and the number of XML vendors also increased in number to address these needs.
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These vendors offer extensive selection of products and services to provide ease of use of the XML. Some of the services offered by these vendors include: data analyzing, DTDs developing, XML conversion and XML proofing. Other than that, Application servers are also offered to be able to use XML with non-XML databases. Plus, storing of XML data without the data conversion to another format is made possible through database and content server vendors.
These reliable vendors are committed in giving professional services and solution products for the greater advantage of XML users.
About XSL and Its Uses
To properly define what XSL is all about, you should have a little lesson about XML. We all know that XML and is designed to transport data. The biggest advantage about XML is the flexibility, and the rules for displaying the contents have no bounds. Simply put, it is content oriented. XML does not contain any presentation data. This is where XSL enters into the scene. Breaking the documents content and the style on how it is to be displayed to be used in various media, which also gives user the choice to view the data according to their liking by simply manipulating the style sheets.
XSL was typically designed to be solely used in XML, providing formatting solutions needs for the particular XML source document that require extensive formatting. In order for the document to be transformed, XSL has three additional essential parts to be used to describe how the XML documents should be presentation. These parts are XSLT, XPath, and XSL-FO. XSL is responsible for expressing the style sheet to display of a given type.
About Validation
Forgetting a tag or adding unnecessary tags are unavoidable things to happen when working with complex XML file. Thus, it is important to check the document to avoid messing up your page.
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Validation is the process of checking the eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) document if it is well-formed and conforms to the rules established for the structure of the document. It is to make sure that exact pieces of information are entered and to avoid extra tags. To sum up, it is to ensure that the data entered are valid.
Luckily, solutions to the problem are now offered in the market. There are number of validation products from different manufacturers, all designed to check namespaces correctness, to specify form, syntax and structure of your XML files. Internet is the best place to hunt for free web-based XML validator. Accordingly, it is the ideal place to look for validation packages at discounted prices without sacrificing quality and efficiency.
Development of Tools
The popular use of XML for communication and data transfer on the World Wide Web lead to the development of varying XML tools to have a well constructed XML data. There are different XML tools offered in the market for editing, for converting, validating, for modelling and debugging XML documents or data.
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XML editor is one type of XML tool for writing a well-formed XML document. The increasing popularity of XML lead to the development of XML editors from different brand names. XML editors in general are designed with editor schema designer, debuggers, file converters and code generator. There are four types of XML editors: code view XML editors, "WYSIWYG" XML editors, text editors and word-processors. In addition, XML mapping tools are developed to reduce development time and/or improve performance of database applications. Likewise it allows developers to access and transform other databases accurately in less time.
Development of Style Sheets
The development of style sheets helped in the quality of web browsing. Since its first development until today, style sheets are beneficial in number of ways especially to XML documents. According to about.com, "XML is not a language of display." thus, it needs style sheet to be viewed in a browser.
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Style sheet is used to classify every feature of the mark-up language such as font size and colour, background, etc. Today, more and more web designers are using style sheets to enhance the way their website looks. Cascading Style Sheets or CSS and Extensible Style Sheet Language for Transformations or XSLT are both style sheets but operate different purposes. For CSS, they were designed to adjust the font size and colour, modify the image and background and build a new look on the web pages. However, CSS cannot add content to the document. On the other hand, XSLT was designed to transform one document to another from XML format to SQL or other formats. Whatever your choices are, it is important for you to see the benefits your choice of style sheet can give you.
What is RSS?
What is RSS?
Do you know what your doing?
Why use RSS?
The syndication language is popular because it . . .
Allows easy and automatic syndication of web content Eliminates the time consuming and tedious process (copy and paste) of manual content syndication RSS data can easily be used with other services like personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cellular phones, and Made sharing of headlines and stories from other website easy.
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XML is the most efficient way to create a web-based program. Many web developers and programmers are adopting the tool in their work for it is easy to read and understand, it is a W3C standard, and most of all, it has no fixed set of tags.
My Resources for a Better Programming Language
Being new or not well-oriented to XML programming is not problem for those who are really interested to learn and be an expert with the language. In fact, learning and programming with XML is easy, especially if you own a good set of XML programming books, or have an access to excellent resources on-line. When you surf the net, you can find a number of sites offering invaluable information and articles about XML and related topics. Many of these sites also offer free tutorials on XML, as well as some programming languages and other mark-up languages. If you are having a hard time looking for these resources on-line, we suggest that you visit 'XML resources' page, which features a list of excellent resource for the language.
Top Recommended Books by XML Experts
For those new in XML, learning the language is easy, provided that one has the necessary reference materials, such as books and other tutorial materials. However, with a number of XML books and reference materials you can find in the market today, finding a good set of references for XML is a challenging task. In this regard, we provide you here a list of some of the top XML books recommended by XML experts, along with an insight about their coverage and contents.
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XML in a Nutshell, by Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means is not a book for beginners; however, it is highly recommended, invaluable reference for XML programmers. It provides a clear, concise and useful guide and covers many specific XML topics, as well as generic XML concepts.
Learning XML, by Erik T. Ray. Finally is a must read for beginners because it covers in-depth the key XML elements and concepts in a concise and readable manner. The topics covered in the book include XPointer, XLink, XML Schemas, and Document Type Definitions (DTDs).
XML Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools, by Michael Fitzgerald is not your average XML reference. The book offers practical tips and guides for web developers, programmers, and system administrators. It uses real-world projects to illustrate how to define, read, create and manipulate XML documents.
An Insight on XML Programming
An insight on XML programming
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Since the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released a recommendation for XML in 1998, the application of XML in computer programming has gone mainstream. Everyday, the number of web developers and programmers incorporating the extensible language increases because of its programming advantages. One of these advantages is XML's extensibility, which means that programmers can write their own mark-up language and define their own set of tags.
Who Should USE XML?
Who should use XML?
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Publishers – In today's ever competitive publishing world, publishers are faced with the challenge to use the Internet as medium to reach wider audience and to be able to compete head-to-head with rival publishers. And the best way for the sector maximise the net and gain competitive advantage in on-line publishing is by using XML. With the tool, the publication process is streamlined and automised, thereby allowing great cost-saving in composition cost, while maximising profit.
News and Media
In every industry, it is always an advantage to be able to share one or more of your own thoughts to others who belong to the same plane as you. So, if you are looking for a theory to apply or you want a cause for an open-source project, we are more than willing to share our knowledge on markup technology with this site. Subsequently, the XML application brings forth a lot of benefits in the news and media sector. Thus, we have included this category to facilitate mark-up users that implement it for the news and media industries.
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Since XML is a certified W3C standard, big names in the software industry has no problem endorsing it. This goes true to the media sector, where rapid adoption of the XML standard is spreading. This mark-up language only needs to be compatible with the specifications of Standard Generalized Markup Language or SGML where it is based.
Henceforth, we at ISUG, aims to assist the development of any type of media, groups or organization willing to support other user groups and network for XML programmers, markup users and implementers.
XML Linking Language (XLL)
The XML-related standards and specifications, utilizes the capacity of databases for linking. The XML Linking Language (XLL) for instance, has three W3C specifications namely: Xpath which is the language for addressing a document; Xpointer which provides advance addressing into the XML document structure; and Xlink which is the ability to link something whatever you find interesting. All of these features are designed to aid in defining how links are to be written. What's better, XML linking allows multi-directional links while HTML only provides one-way links to whole documents or specific places of a document. When using HTML, you need to press the "back" button on the browser to go back to the previous link. XML's multi-directional links on the other hand, lets you return to the original location through a corresponding link that will automatically redirect the user.
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Moreover, to facilitate markup users and implementers further, XLL provide advanced linking constructs that are scalable and maintainable. It has its own working group at World Wide Web Consortium or W3C which recommended it on June 2007. Thus, mark-up users surely enjoy the flexibility XLL provides.
Interactive Forums and Chats
The XML or Extensible Markup Language, as a popular custom markup language has generated both positive and negative response from the programming sector. What's more interesting about XML, is that it allows its own users to use their own elements thereby adding questions on how to apply it best.
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Henceforth, this category is purposely created to provide XML users an avenue to share down their own ideas and opinion on various XML topics. This is where knowledge of markup technologies are shown and how the development of related standards are influencing the applications industry. Moreover, you can chat directly to any member you might want to interact with and discuss various innovation and trends of XML.
International SGML Users' Group (ISUG) aims to help all those who aspire to further develop their knowledge of the XML standards. Thus, for all those presently using XML and those who are planning to, this interactive category is for you. After all, ISUG is all about being able to share information with co-members, through our give-and-take interactive forums and chats.
XML Schema Languages
There are several SGML and XML schema languages–an XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically, expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type–and the DTD or Document Type Definition is one of these. Primarily, a DTD is used to express a schema through a set of declarations that conform to particular mark-up syntax where class, or type, of document, is described. Furthermore, constructs that are not always required to establish document structure, but that may affect the interpretation of some documents can be declared by a DTD.
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Furthermore, a subset of DTD which imposes various restrictions on the structure of the document describes XML documents. This is required per the XML standard since XML is in itself an application of SGML optimized for automated parsing. It is important for documents to adhere to the general rules of XML since the general syntax of XML schema languages is rigid. This will ensure the readability and understanding the arrangement of all XML-aware software. Lastly, a valid XML document complies with a particular schema/DTD, in addition to being well-formed.
XML Encoding – Basic Concepts
The begin/end elements nest the information encoded by the Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), and these elements serve as the basis where the name or value pair is attributed. Meanwhile, the Meta Data Services supports exporting and importing of meta data through the Meta Data Coalition (MDC) Open Information Model (OIM) XML Encoding format, thus certain rules for generating XML elements that map to information model elements are defined by XML Encoding format. This format is published by the MDC and implemented in Meta Data Services to support the exchange of Meta data. In addition, a dual interface supports the export as well as the import using XML.
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In accordance with the rule on XML encoding format, XML offers several basic concepts in encoding information. The Character Set and Data Types describes the character set and data types for encoding used in an XML rule. Further, Top-Level Element describes the element that encapsulates all transfer information in an XML document while the Elements and Attributes describes the begin/end tag pairs and the content encapsulated between them. Topics, such as Namespaces and Nested Lists, show the basic structure of the Open Information Model (OIM) namespace hierarchy to ensure unique elements in an XML document. Those also show the ordered or unordered sets of elements that can be used to represent hierarchies of elements respectively. Meanwhile, connections between elements to represent network structures of elements are described by Element References while extended vendor-specific Meta data types are described by Extensibility.
Addressing and Querying
PCMag.com offers an apt definition of XML: 'an open standard for describing data from the W3C', or the World Wide Web Consortium. One concept of XML that is really favourable to humans is the XML Addressing and Querying.
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To query XML proves to be highly advantageous. Queries on XML documents make the relational data generalized in an organized and straightforward way.
Through querying of XML documents, XML is able to generalize relational databases, and thus, these databases are in turn being made to support XML. Querying is done in XML through XQuery, a very powerful tool. Through XQuery, any XML document can be faithfully represented.
XML is made more useful through querying, as it provides solutions to some basic database problems, such as data extraction, conversation, transformation, integration, and others. Additionally, querying in XML is much favoured because of its simplicity and ability to support both possible views, ordered and unordered, on an XML document.


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Stocks Pare Losses, End Flat for the Day
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks made up losses late in the day Friday, ending mostly flat, as investors watched signs of gridlock in talks on the so-called fiscal cliff.
Consumer spending fell as incomes were little changed, prompting a decline in equities earlier in the day.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 3 points, or 0.02%, at 13,025. The blue-chip index was up by 6.5% in 2012 before the session began, and gained 0.12% for this week.
Losers outnumbered gainers 16 to 13. Big decliners included Microsoft (MSFT) , Caterpillar (CAT) , DuPont (DD) and Merck (MRK) .
Wal-Mart (WMT) , Home Depot (HD) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) edged higher.
The S&P 500 ticked up 0.23 points, or 0.02%, at 1,416. The index added 0.5% for the week. The Nasdaq fell 2 points, or 0.06%, at 3,010, and jumped 1.46% over the past five sessions.
The stronger sectors in the broad market were utilities, energy and consumer non-cyclicals. The weaker sectors included consumer-cyclicals, transportation, technology, health care and basic materials. Volume was a mere 3.71 billion shares on the Big Board and 2.04 billion shares on the Nasdaq.
"I think we do ultimately get kind of a deal on the fiscal cliff," said Joanna Shatney, head of research and portfolio manager at Schroders' U.S. large-cap equity team. "It becomes more of a gentle slope rather than a cliff."
"The president and Democrats publicly commented in the last few days they're trying to incorporate fiscal spending cuts and tax increases all in one plan," she said. "I think there are probably two scenarios: One is that we come to some sort of near-term compromise and then come together to negotiate again sometime in '13. That's probably most likely.
"We're assuming for next year for the fiscal cliff or the slope, as I'm calling it now, is that government spending ends up being between a 2 and 3 percentage point drag on GDP, but we've been dealing with government spending drags on the GDP for a couple of years now. So I think it'll be a scenario where GDP growth is modest and definitely below potential, but that still fits in with a modest growth picture for next year."
President Barack Obama used his speech on Friday at a K'nex toy factory in Hatfield, Pa., to get a leg up on House Republicans and others who have resisted his calls for tax increases on the wealthiest 2% of income earners and capital gains and dividend taxes to raise revenue in a new budget.
House Speaker John Boehner, meanwhile, said Friday that there has been a stalemate in the talks with the White House, emphasizing that increasing tax rates is the wrong approach that draws money away from the U.S. economy and is something that small business owners can't afford.


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Beautiful Swimmer. Did you know that jellyfish are the oldest multi-organ animal on the planet? Our mesmerizing Baby Jellyfish Paperweight should last many human lifetimes. Simultaneously handmade by two glassblowers skillfully working with molten recycled glass, this coral medusa shows off its species' bioluminescence by glowing blue in the dark. Item is made entirely of glass. 4"h. x 3"dia.
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Fantazzle Fantasy Sports and Fatty's Poker have teamed up to bring the poker and fantasy sports communities into one with the WSOP free fantasy poker game. This free fantasy sports game offers some of the largest prizes ever offered for a free game, as the winner receives a $10,000 entry into the 2011 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas. Second and third place winner will also receive entries into 2011 WSOP events. You could be playing along side the greatest poker players in the world.
Playing the free fantasy poker game is similar to all the other fantasy sports games at Fantazzle. It's simple! You will select 10 poker players from 10 pre-determined groups. The most important are the Fatty's Five and Fatty's All-Stars. Your Fatty players will earn double the fantasy points compared to the other 8 poker pros on your fantasy poker team.
The cash your poker pros earn is the amount of cash you receive for your fantasy points. From Day 1 – Day 4, you earn cash based on if your player survives through the day. For Day 1 you earn $5,000, Day 2 $10,000 and so on. Day 5 starts the "In the Money". Your player will earn you fantasy cash when they cash out. If they come in 500th place and earn $30,000, you get $30,000 into your fantasy cash account. The further your poker pro advances, the better chance you have at winning the free fantasy poker prize.Be sure to get all the fantasy poker scoring details at Fantazzle before you play.
The WSOP Fantasy Poker Game starts July 5th when the first day of the 13-day WSOP Main Event starts.


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Selectorized Weight Stack Machines - Fitness equipment with weight stacks such as chest presses, lat pulldowns, ab crunches and leg extension machines, use weight stacks to provide resistance to muscles being targeted by the user. Depending on the type of selectorized weight training machine and the muscle being worked, these weight stacks will range from 150 lbs. to as heavy as 400 lbs. in 10-20 lb. increments and are adjusted via a magnetic selector pin. The selectorized weight stacks are driven by a cable or belt and pulley system that provides smooth and precise movement. The steel tubing used to construct the frames are oval, rectangular or square in shape and are coated with an electrostatically charged powder coating that is baked on in an oven to provide a durable finish. Thick marine grade naugahydes are used to cover dense padding on seats, benches and arm pads. Selectorized gym equipment brands include York Barbell, Yukon Fitness, Bomb Proof, Body Solid, Legend Fitness, Torque Fitness, TuffStuff Fitness, SportsArt and Cal Gym.
What advantages does selectorized strength equipment have over free weight equipment? Selectorized exercise machines are often used as an alternative to free weight equipment such as dumbbells and barbells. They isolate muscles in the upper and lower body and provide resistance in a fixed plane of motion. This controlled and predictable movement can be beneficial for beginners that are learning to exercise and gauge the strength of their own bodies. Because of this controlled movement and the ability to target specific muscles, weight stack machines are a safe form of rehabilitation. Make no mistake, these machines can also be very effective in building muscle and strength too.
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Date: March 27th 2011 – Orlando, Florida Time: 11am – 4:30pm Location: 6996 Piazza Grande Avenue – Orlando, Fl 32835 I'll be out there shooting coverage for V2lab & HellaFlush (looking for Features (for HF)! So come with your A-Game!) More vendors & information as they develop! Supporting List: V2lab,


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I started down my tea path in 2009. I stumbled upon Shiuwen's 2008 Taiwan Wuyi when it was on clearance. It was wonderful, so I bought three pounds of the stuff. It has been ever present since (several hundred pots of tea), and numerous people have been turned onto tea by its charms.
Today I am savoring the very last pot of this tea. Fare thee well, my friend.


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chris wrote:An observation...after the original impression of how different this album is...how unlike Paul...there lies...underneath...a very familiar Paul sound to each and every song. Maybe what seemed so different isn't really that different at all. These are just other branches to the Paul tree that have been growing all along.
Spot on Chris this is pure Macca.