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July 07, 2006
New landing page quality score could affect click aribtrage publishers
The official AdWords blog just updated to include new information about their landing page quality scoring system, where advertisers whose ads lead to a "poor user experience" on the landing page could see their minimum bid prices hiked up in the coming days. The goal is to provide a better user experience for those who click the ads, with Google saying there will only be a "small number" of advertisers who will be affected.
Who will be the small number affected? I suspect the first to be targeted will be those whose landing pages consist of nothing but ads (or very little other than the ads), whether they are running Yahoo Content Match, YPN, or AdSense. These pages - also known as "Made for AdSense" or "MFA"s, even though AdSense is not the only advertising network used by these types of sites - have long been discussed as providing a poor user experience when a visitor ends up on the landing page. As well, these advertisers often bid minimum bids for their ads, as well as advertising on the Content Network, leading other quality publishers to complain about these poor quality advertisers.
From the AdWords blog:
As you may recall, we began incorporating advertiser landing page quality into the Quality Score back in December 2005. Following that change, advertisers who are not providing useful landing pages to our users will have lower Quality Scores that in turn result in higher minimum bid requirements for their keywords. We realize that some minimum bids may be too high to be cost-effective -- indeed, these high minimum bids are our way of motivating advertisers to either improve their landing pages or to simply stop using AdWords for those pages, while still giving some control over which keywords to advertise on. Although it is counter-intuitive to some who hear it, we'd rather show one less ad than to show an ad which leads to a poor user experience -- since long-term user trust in AdWords is of overarching importance.
From time-to-time, we improve our algorithms for evaluating landing page quality (often based on feedback from our end-users), and next week we're launching another such improvement. Thus, over the coming days a small number of advertisers who are providing a low quality user experience on their landing pages will see increases in their minimum bids. It is important to note, however, that the vast majority of advertisers will not be affected at all by this change, as they link to quality landing pages.
If you do see an increase in minimum bids and you feel that your landing page is providing a great user experience, please contact AdWords support and we'll take a look. Also, for useful guidelines which will help to define what users look for in a high quality site, we hope you'll take a look at the landing page and site quality guidelines, from the AdWords Help Center.
So, if you are a quality publisher, how will this affect you? Well, if you tend to see an abundance of "Made for AdSense" sites appearing in your ad units, you just might start earning more money for those clicks. And if you have amassed a collection of 200 URLs in your filter list, you might want to consider removing some of them you added because they were MFAs, if many publishers report a rise in EPC.
On the flip side, however, many of those low quality advertisers might pull their ad campaigns completely, if the new minimum bid price for each keyword phrase does not make it profitable to continue advertising based upon the ROI of their own landing pages. And then they could start using more Yahoo or Microsoft for their ads, meaning YPN publishers could see an influx of these types of ads, and it could plague Microsoft ContentAds when it launches their publisher program.
What about publishers who are using AdWords for click arbitrage to their AdSense landing pages? Well, many of these publishers who had AdSense on their landing pages had to deal with the impact smart pricing was suspected to have on their EPC. Now, a raised minimum bid price on each clickthrough to their site could also result in lower profits, and might make it completely unprofitable for some arbitragers, depending how just how high that minimum bid could be raised from where it currently is for those in this market area. And some could see their entire marketing plan go out the window if a significant portion of their profits are tied to Google through click arbitrage.
As these minimum bids start to rise, it will be interesting to learn just how much they will be rising for those with lower quality landing pages. And depending on where you sit on the issue, this decision could be the best thing AdWords could have done, or the worst thing they could have done to your profits.
Posted by Jenstar at July 7, 2006 07:25 PM
How do I know if an ad is an MFA? I can't click on them or else I'd incur a penatly (like getting kicked out of Adsense).
Posted by: Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer at July 7, 2006 09:21 PM
There are a few ways. The easiest is to download the AdSense Preview Tool and set it to your geolocation. Then right click the page where you see the ad, select the preview tool, and it will list the ads on the page. Then you can click within the preview tool to go to the landing page of any ad, without worrying about clicking on your own ads.
You can also right click and extract the URL from the string, but be careful you don't accidentily click, or use the entire Google link to visit the page.
You can also just use the visible URL you see in the ad unit for the ad, but not all ad unit sizes allow you to see the URL, and you might not see the exact landing page, as the visible URL might be example.com but the actual URL is example.com/product/landingpage.html
Posted by: Jenstar at July 7, 2006 10:33 PM
Jen, when are you going to finally come clean and admit that you are a Google employee?
Why keep up the charade any longer?
Posted by: admin at July 8, 2006 09:06 AM
It seems this is good news for publishers. It will increase the ammount of money we make. No more penny clicks. I hope.
Posted by: ogletree at July 8, 2006 10:49 AM
Dear Jen,
I tried downloading last two audio files but both the files are stopped after downloading 99%. Is there any problem on the site?
Posted by: chikung at July 8, 2006 04:48 PM
You can use http://www.adsblacklist.com
They work well for me, but you need to update them regularly, probably once every two weeks.
Posted by: Cheat Google AdSense at July 9, 2006 10:06 AM
Google got me on this one, not sure why. I was offering a free service monetized with ads. Moving on with MAC, and YSM.
Posted by: Jeff at July 12, 2006 01:35 PM
Does arbitage still work anyway?
Posted by: New York Traveller at July 12, 2006 04:46 PM
Running off customers is never a good business strategy for any company and I'm sure yahoo search marketing execs are high fiving each other right now and picking out villas in the Greek Isles. I didn't want to say anything, but that emperor is butt naked. While I was put off by this (I am a shameless internet oppourtunist, after all) I have devised a strategy that may turn this into the best thing ever for my online profiteering, although a serious set back for a very sucessfull set of campaigns that I had hoped would last a little longer. I wonder if Google realizes what they are doing? All I have to do is change my perspective a little bit and I can still use adwords to aid my own filthy, low brow affilate cash stacking , this time with less competition, and they will have less money overall. Maybe I'm wrong and they will double thier revenue and their shareholders will be rejoicing and naming thier newborn sons after their deaf-mute cofounder (ever see that guy in an interview? Whats-his-name, the one who won't talk?) but the likelyhood of this being great for Google's earnings, are not so good. CTR after all is an objective way to determine "qauilty" but some super secret algo make Google look pontificating, removing all doubt about thier rumored self righteousness. What were they thinking?
Posted by: steve at July 12, 2006 04:56 PM
I was one of those "small number" of advertisers that was hit big time by this. I do not run Adsense anywhere on my web site and I have less than 10 affiliate ads scattered throughout my site.
I'm not sure why I was hit by this, I contacted G and they were of little help, only saying that one of my landing pages had little content (true because it is mostly a coded search form).
What is a reputable site operator to do?
Posted by: chip at July 13, 2006 02:06 AM


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Titan Leads the Way in Laser–Matter Science
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EVER since the development of the
first optical laser in 1960, researchers have engineered ways to manipulate laser pulses. Today, with the Titan laser, scientists are investigating matter under extreme conditions in support of the Laboratory's mission within the fields of astrophysics, materials science, and plasma physics. Results from Titan laser experiments will expand the current understanding of different states of matter from stellar conditions to nuclear weapons. Fundamental questions surrounding the possibility of inertial fusion energy, including fast ignition, are being answered, with the ultimate demonstrations planned for the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
In 1996, Livermore researchers developed a revolutionary new laser called the Petawatt, which delivered a record-setting 1.25 petawatts (1.25 quadrillion watts) of power. (See S&TR, December 1996, Crossing the Petawatt Threshold.) The Petawatt laser was developed to test Livermore's fast-ignition concept for achieving inertial confinement fusion (ICF). (See the box below.) The experiments demonstrated that when tremendous amounts of energy are concentrated onto an area less than 100 micrometers in diameter, electrons could be accelerated to relativistic speeds, generating x and gamma rays. The discovery opened new opportunities for using lasers to study high-energy-density (HED) science.
However, generating tremendous amounts of laser energy is only part of what is necessary to conduct HED research. Once researchers generate the laser pulse, they must be able to observe the dynamic changes that occur over a time frame of billionths of a second after a laser beam strikes its target. A key scientific focus is to advance understanding of the temperature–pressure relationship, or equation of state (EOS), for material subjected to these extreme conditions.
One method researchers use to experimentally determine a material's EOS is shock compression. Gas guns are useful for creating high-pressure shock waves of about 500 gigapascals (5 million atmospheres of pressure). However, for some of the research to be performed at NIF, scientists need EOS data for materials subjected to pressures of 10 terapascals (100 million atmospheres) or more. High-performance lasers are the only instruments available to researchers that have the potential to obtain EOS data for materials at those pressures. NIF and Titan will be used in complementary experiments to obtain the required EOS data.
Lasers are designed to deliver a specific range of pulse energy and duration. This range dictates the phenomena that can be studied. For example, long pulses lasting nanoseconds are effective at compressing a material, whereas short pulses lasting pico- or femtoseconds are better for probing a material. In the past, high-energy lasers have been built to deliver either long or short pulses into an experimental area, but not both.
ignition was conceived in 1990 by a team led by Max
Tabak, a scientist in Livermore's Inertial Confinement
Fusion (ICF) Program. In both fast-ignitor and conventional
ICF, laser or x-ray pulses rapidly heat the surface
of a fusion target capsule, enveloping it in plasma.
The fusion process is started in conventional ICF when
a sequence of spherically converging shocks of increasing
amplitude is carefully timed to stagnate simultaneously
at the center of the fuel capsule and generate a hot
spark, while minimizing shock heating of the fuel.
conventional ICF, the plasma must remain
highly symmetrical and spherical during
implosion. This level of symmetry requires
enormous energy and precision from the
laser system. Tabak and colleagues proposed
separating the two processes of compression
and heating. For fast ignition, a
laser is used to provide the hot spark. Electrons accelerated
to megaelectronvolt energies slow down in the compressed
material, thereby heating the material on a timescale
so short that the compressed matter does not have time
to disassemble. In theory, fast ignition reduces both
the laser energy and precision requirements for achieving
ignition. However, fast ignition presents its own challenges.
The spot to be heated must be large enough to ignite
all the fuel, but not so large as to waste energy.
Electrons must be driven far enough to penetrate the
plasma and heat the ions on the surface of the dense
core, but not any farther. Scientists engaged in fast-ignition
research are conducting a variety of experiments to
determine the best approach.
beginning his career by brilliantly applying the new
quantum mechanics to the physics of atoms and molecules,
Edward Teller began to show keen interest in high-energy-density
(HED) physics—the science of matter and energy
above 1 million atmospheres in pressure. Two major
HED physics discoveries in the late 1930s engaged his
imagination. First, his friend and colleague Hans Bethe
proposed the basic explanation that stars are powered
by thermonuclear reactions among light ions. Second
was the discovery of uranium fission, which quickly
led to the idea that a chain reaction could liberate
nuclear energy. Thermonuclear reactions could be studied
and exploited, and fission could be developed to make
explosives and power reactors.
emigrating to the U.S., Teller worked
at George Washington University with
George Gamow and others on a variety
of physics topics, including HED. With
Gamow, Teller wrote one of the earliest
papers estimating the rates of key thermonuclear
reactions and applying them to red giant
stars. Bethe and a student of Teller's,
Charles Critchfield, applied the new
idea of Gamow–Teller nuclear beta
decays to discover that the fusion of
two protons powers the Sun. Later at
the University of Chicago, Teller collaborated
with Maria Mayer in papers theorizing
the synthesis of heavy elements in astrophysical
of our key ideas describing the flow of radiation and
energy in the HED regime date back to Teller's
papers. With collaborators, he proposed the main ideas
for the behaviors of ions in dense plasmas and their
spectral radiation characteristics, and he worked out
the rules for shock waves in magnetized plasmas. In
his efforts to understand the laws governing the equations
of state of HED plasmas for both basic science and
applications, Teller drove important developments such
as the famous Metropolis Method, which is essential
for making statistical mechanics calculations computationally
feasible. This work was done with his former student
Marshall Rosenbluth, their wives Mici Teller and Arianna
Rosenbluth, and Nicolas Metropolis. Teller, Metropolis,
Richard Feynman, and others are responsible for developing
widely used models for hot dense matter.
Livermore, Teller was a tireless champion
of innovative HED research, knowing that
this important field entwined basic science
and major applications. He encouraged
developments that showed promise for
new ways to control and exploit HED matter
and plasmas, thereby leading to much
of Livermore's research on inertial
fusion and lasers.
Two Beams Pack a Punch
2003, the Laboratory Science and Technology Office funded a collaboration
between the Physics and Advanced Technologies (PAT), NIF Programs,
Engineering, and Chemistry, Materials, and Life Sciences (CMLS)
directorates to build Titan, the only laser in the world that couples
a high-energy, petawatt short-pulse (subpicosecond) beam with a
kilojoule long-pulse (nanosecond) beam. This unique capability
is being used to explore a range of phenomena, including the acceleration
of charged particles, hydrodynamics, and radiation emission and
absorption in hot dense plasmas, all of which are fundamental to
understanding HED materials. The research also helps to determine
the physics requirements for experiments at NIF.
joins the Janus, COMET, Europa, and Callisto lasers in PAT's Jupiter Laser Facility, which supports Laboratory research and collaborations with other institutions and universities. Andrew Ng of PAT, the facility's scientific director, says, "Every laser laboratory in the world would like to have a high-energy laser with long- and short-pulse capability. It allows researchers to study phenomena that occur in a material at different timescales, providing a more complete picture of material evolution. For example, structural changes to a material tend to occur on approximately the picosecond timescale, while electronic changes happen much faster, on approximately the femtosecond timescale." (See S&TR,
July/August 2006, A New Realm of Materials Science.)
very short pulses can overheat a laser system's glass amplifiers and thus damage them, Titan's short-pulse beam has an optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier that temporarily stretches the pulse, reducing the beam intensity in the amplifier system. This stretched pulse is then compressed to its original duration using a pair of gratings in a vacuum, and a petawatt pulse of 400 joules in 400 femtoseconds is delivered to the target.
of the major breakthroughs enabling petawatt capability was the
development of multilayer dielectric optical gratings by CMLS scientist
Jerry Britten in 1986 for the Laboratory's Nova laser. Previously, ultrashort-pulse lasers using gold optical gratings to compress pulses were limited in how much energy they could generate because of the optical damage threshold of the gold layer. The multilayer dielectric gratings provide up to five times improvement in damage threshold over gold. Titan uses two gratings, each measuring 80 by 40 centimeters wide, in its vacuum compressor.
two Titan beams, which originate from the Janus laser, can operate independently or together. At full energy, the pulses can be produced once every 30 minutes. The short-pulse beam is directed through a dedicated port into Titan's 2.5-meter-diameter target chamber. It is focused onto a spot less than 10 micrometers
in diameter (full width at half maximum). The long-pulse beam can
be directed into the target chamber through different ports using
an articulated beam transport. Inside the target chamber, researchers
mount diagnostic equipment tailored for each experiment. Physicist
Pravesh Patel of PAT designed the target chamber and worked with
the Titan laser team to help ensure the new facility would meet
all of the requirements for experiments. The Titan facility is
also equipped with an array of other instruments, including radiation
detectors, particle detectors, x-ray imagers and spectrometers,
and charge-coupled-device and streak cameras for measuring and
recording results.
February 2006, Titan delivered short pulses of 150 joules in 500
femtoseconds onto an 8-micrometer-diameter spot. Titan's combined short- and long-pulse beams were commissioned for experiments in July 2006.
Focusing Electrons and Protons
PAT and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program are funding Patel to conduct experiments that will further understanding of HED plasmas, which are relevant to the Laboratory's stockpile stewardship research. Plasmas are extremely hot states of matter that are difficult to probe when created by a laser because the plasma is always in transition from hydrodynamic expansion. A decade ago, Livermore researchers using the Petawatt laser unexpectedly discovered that when they fired a short pulse at a thin solid foil, the resulting relativistic electrons could interact with impurities in the foil to create a proton beam. (See S&TR, December 2003, Using Proton Beams to Create and Probe Plamas.) A few years later, Patel and his colleagues used a proton beam generated with the 100-terawatt Callisto laser to isochorically heat a plasma. During isochoric heating, a material's volume stays at a constant value. The proton beam heats the target to millions of degrees in a few picoseconds, which is too quick for significant hydrodynamic expansion to occur.
Patel and Andrew Mackinnon of the NIF Programs Directorate are studying the optimization of electron and proton transport for fast ignition. The Department of Energy Office of Science's (DOE/OS's) Fusion Energy Sciences Program and LDRD are funding the team. The team collaborates with John Pasley and Farhat Beg from the University of California (UC) at San Diego, Rich Stephens from General Atomics, and Rick Freeman and Linn Van Woerkom from Ohio State University, who are all supported by DOE/OS's Fast Ignition Advanced Concept Exploration grant, Livermore's Institute for Laser Science and Applications (ILSA), and DOE's Fusion Science Center at the University of Rochester. An important challenge for the viability of the fast-ignition approach to ICF energy is the transport of the ignition pulse energy to the target with high efficiency.
In one possible design for fast ignition, a gold cone is inserted radially into the fusion-fuel capsule, with the tip of the cone penetrating almost to the center of the capsule. Long-pulse laser beams 1 to 10 nanoseconds in duration compress the fuel capsule to a dense plasma core. A 10- to 100-picosecond petawatt laser pulse is then focused into the gold cone to generate energetic electrons at the top of the cone and ignite the fuel's plasma core. Mackinnon says, "We are using Titan to study materials at a density of 1 gram per cubic centimeter and a temperature of 25 electronvolts, but NIF will be used to study materials 300 times that density and temperatures between 100 and 200 electronvolts. Titan experiments test the physics requirements on a small scale and produce data needed to prepare for future experiments on NIF."
A common method researchers use to examine electron transport in short-pulse laser–matter interactions is K-alpha x-ray emission. When a short pulse with intensity greater than 1019 watts per square centimeter strikes a target, electrons with energies up to 3 megaelectronvolts are created. These energetic electrons interact with bound electrons in an atom. In K-alpha emission, an incident electron ejects an electron from an atom's innermost shell (called a K-shell electron). Then an outer-shell electron drops in to fill the vacancy, emitting a photon in the process. By studying K-alpha emission from the electron interactions, researchers can obtain information about the properties of electrons in a high-density plasma environment.
In one study, the team examined electron transport using a 20-micrometer-diameter copper-wire target covered with titanium. The team focused 100 joules of energy for 1 picosecond on a 10-micrometer spot at the end of the wire and measured the spatial distribution of the K-alpha emission for both copper and titanium. X-ray images showed the electrons' depth of penetration along the length of the wire. The images showed good agreement with simulations produced by the team using hybrid fluid-particle codes.
University of
California at San Diego researchers John Pasley and Farhat
Beg participate in the Laboratory's Institute for Laser
Science Applications. Pasley and Beg are collaborating on
a team studying fast ignition for inertial confinement fusion
Paving the Way to Fast Ignition
The advantage of using an electron beam for fast ignition is that electrons have a conversion efficiency of 30 to 50 percent (conversion of energy in laser pulse to energy in electron beam). However, electron transport is uncertain. "Electrons have a tendency to spray in a large angle," says Mackinnon. "For fast ignition to work, electrons must be concentrated on a small spot in the center of the plasma."
While the team is mainly concentrating on electron transport for fast ignition, it is also exploring the use of a proton beam. The earlier discovery that impurities in gold could generate a proton beam prompted studies for exploiting the phenomenon for fast ignition. Mackinnon explains, "Ultrashort laser pulses produce electrons and protons, either of which could potentially be used to ignite fusion fuel."
Protons offer attractive features. With a mass about 1,800 times the mass of electrons, protons are deflected less often than electrons and can be focused with curved targets as they travel through a plasma. However, the conversion efficiency for creating protons is only about 10 percent. The team is determining whether the conversion efficiency could be increased with the use of thin, hydrogen-rich layers on the rear target surface.
Some proton-focusing experiments have been conducted using an aluminum hemispherical shell target and a copper mesh. The Titan short-pulse beam was fired onto the aluminum target, producing a focused proton beam that simultaneously heated and radiographed the copper mesh. By measuring magnification (grid size) of the mesh projected onto a proton detector, researchers can determine the location of the focal spot of the proton beam generated from the spherical shell. These experiments showed that protons could be focused to an area less than 50 micrometers in diameter, creating solid-density plasmas with temperatures between 100 and 200 electronvolts.
These techniques will be applied at the University of Rochester's OMEGA EP (extended performance) laser facility, where the collaborative team may be able to isochorically heat plasmas to much higher temperatures and pressures. The 60-kilojoule OMEGA EP laser, which is scheduled to begin operation in 2007, is participating in the National Nuclear Security Administration's HED program. One of the facility's goals is to provide a staging ground for fast-ignition concepts that could be applied to NIF.
The Livermore results are also helping Pasley, Beg, Freeman, Stephens, and Van Woerkom with studies being conducted at UC San Diego and Ohio State University. Last year, academic collaborations at the Jupiter Laser Facility included more than 25 students and postdoctoral researchers. The students also collaborate on many other Livermore projects. Don Correll, director of Livermore's Institute for Laser Science Applications, says, "Engaging graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in HED science experiments on the Titan laser is a cornerstone of the institute's mission to strengthen collaborations between faculty and Laboratory researchers. The scientific breakthroughs benefit both the Livermore and academic HED science communities. The collaborations are also ideal for attracting the next generation of researchers to the Lab's scientific missions."
An image taken
in the extreme-ultraviolet band shows plasma emission
from a 250-micrometer-diameter aluminum hemispherical
shell and a copper mesh. The Titan short-pulse laser irradiates
the outer surface of the aluminum shell, creating a proton
beam from the inner surface, which then heats the copper
Measuring at the Extremes
Many of the shock wave techniques for obtaining EOS data were developed originally in gas-gun experiments, in which pressures are typically less than 100 gigapascals. One method, called impedance matching, relies on driving a shock wave through a reference material whose EOS is known into a test sample in contact with it. Because the materials share a common interface, the shock pressure and particle velocity will be the same in both materials. Using the measured shock velocities in each material and the known EOS of the reference material, researchers can determine the shock pressure and density of the sample. A major goal of Livermore researchers is to obtain experimental data up to very high pressures, densities, and temperatures. However, HED regimes place extreme demands on the conventional impedance?]matching technique.
Physicist Damien Hicks of PAT is conducting studies to improve Livermore's EOS database. Hicks says, "Impedance matching works well at low pressures. The compressions are much higher at pressures of hundreds of gigapascals, so highly precise velocity measurements are needed. Small errors in velocity measurements become large errors in density measurements." Problems also arise from using reference materials whose EOSs have been tested only at lower pressures. For example, the shock data on aluminum is patchy above 500 gigapascals. Even with additional data from theoretical models or extrapolations, uncertainties increase at these higher pressures.
Hicks's team is developing a technique that eliminates these uncertainties by directly measuring the density of materials that are highly compressed by a shock wave. The team has conducted experiments in collaboration with researchers at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. It focused a nanosecond-long pulse from the OMEGA laser onto a 500-micrometer-diameter spot to generate a spherical shock wave in a polystyrene sample. Radiographic imaging using long-pulse-driven 5-kiloelectronvolt x rays produced a snapshot of the expanding shock wave. This two-dimensional (2D) image was then tomographically inverted, providing the density profile behind the shock front. By simultaneously measuring the shock velocity with a velocity interferometer, the team obtained absolute EOS data.
Last year, the team began experiments using Titan's long- and short-pulse beams to study silicon dioxide. They fired the long pulse to generate a shock wave, then the short pulse to produce higher energy and deeper penetrating x rays from a molybdenum foil adjacent to the silicon dioxide. The molybdenum x rays produced a radiograph of the shocked region. "The 2D picture of the symmetric, expanding shock wave enabled us to infer its density from the intensity of the transmitted x rays," says Hicks. The team estimates that the method accurately measures density to within 5 to 10 percent. The pressure in the shock wave is determined by measuring the shock velocity with an interferometer. "We bounce a probe laser pulse off the shock wave and measure the Doppler shift in the reflected light," says Hicks. "Combined with the density measurement, this measurement tells us the pressure of the sample."
Unlike the conventional impedance- matching technique, where density is inferred from shock and particle velocities, the new direct density measurement does not demand increased precision at higher compressions. Therefore, the method readily scales to ultrahigh-pressure measurements. The team plans to conduct experiments using 40-kiloelectronvolt and above x rays for studies on high-opacity (high-Z) materials. The researchers also want to extend the EOS data for materials used as references. Hicks says, "Because so much information is known about aluminum at lower pressures, it makes sense to extend aluminum's EOS data to 1 terapascal and above so that the element can serve as a reliable reference at higher pressures."
This schematic
shows a technique designed to directly measure the density
in a shock wave. A long laser pulse drives a spherically
expanding shock wave into silicon dioxide. Several nanoseconds
later, a short laser pulse generates a burst of 17.5-kiloelectronvolt
x rays from a molybdenum backlighter. The x rays project
a snapshot of the spherical shock wave onto an image plate
detector. A velocity interferometer measures the
shock speed in the sample; shock speed and density provide
data to determine the shock pressure.
Shedding Light on the Matter
With funding from the Defense and Nuclear Technologies (DNT) Directorate and LDRD, physicist Hye-Sook Park of the NIF Programs Directorate is developing a high-energy backlighting technique to produce radiographs for x-ray energies up to 100 kiloelectronvolts. As NIF approaches completion, physicists will be conducting experiments that involve larger and denser targets than previously studied. NIF will need suitable diagnostics to ensure the dense materials are probed to specification. High-energy x-ray backlighting will be used in many HED experiments such as material strength, mid- to high-Z capsule implosions, and high-Z EOS studies. "NIF will fire single shots that are just several nanoseconds long," says Park. "The backlight needs to be bright enough to capture events occurring during that short time. We also need to differentiate small features at the surface of a material or within a thick and dense substrate, both of which require a high-energy x-ray backlighter with a spatial resolution less than 10 micrometers."
Traditional laser backlighters have energies less than 9 kiloelectronvolts. Park's team has developed 1D and 2D radiography methods with greater than 17?]kiloelectronvolt x rays and a spatial resolution less than 20 micrometers. To produce 1D radiography of a 35?]micrometer-thick sample of tantalum, researchers irradiated a 5-micrometer-thick samarium foil with a short-pulse laser, creating 40-kiloelectronvolt x rays. Edge-on views of the foils showed the technique could resolve features down to 10 micrometers.
The team is also testing microwire and microdot targets buried in different geometric shapes to create a small point source for 2D radiography. "Two?]dimensional radiography is more difficult, because the K-alpha photon production in microwire volumes is not well understood," says Park. So far, they have tested the K-alpha emission from microdot samples of molybdenum and silver as well as x?]ray emissions from various microwire targets made of molybdenum, silver, and samarium. A radiographed test grid using silver resolved 2D features clearly to 20 micrometers. Park says the technique could be scaled by using different materials for the type of energy required.
Park's team is also using high-energy backlighting techniques to study material strength. The NIF Programs and DNT directorates are funding research to examine material strength under high pressure and high strain rate. The experiments rely on the properties of instabilities in materials at HED conditions. "Perturbations always exist at the interface of two joining materials," says Park. "By studying the differences of the perturbation growth rate in various materials, we can measure the strength of the materials." The team has studied aluminum and vanadium and is conducting experiments on tantalum.
Each experiment using lasers requires specific laser parameters (wavelength, energy, and pulse duration) and configuration (illumination geometry). Titan and the other lasers in the Jupiter Laser Facility allow scientists to tailor experiments to obtain optimal results. "The parameters and configuration depend on the information we are trying to gather," says Ng. "Titan provides a cutting-edge environment to conduct a wide range of studies. It also facilitates collaborations with other scientists in HED research."
For scientists working on NIF, Titan experiments will help advance their understanding of issues facing fast ignition. The importance of Titan laser research will continue to grow as NIF begins full operation. Many Titan experiments will explore new concepts and serve as a test bed for more complex tests using NIF. Titan will also help train the cadre of young scientists who will use NIF over the next few decades.
pulses fired onto a 5-micrometer-thick sample of samarium
provide a backlight for this one-dimensional radiograph of
a 35-micrometer-thick tantalum grid. In this image, spatial
resolution is clear at 10 micrometers.
—Gabriele Rennie
Key Words: backlighter, electron transport, equation of state (EOS), fast ignition, high-energy-density (HED) science, impedance matching, inertial confinement fusion (ICF), Janus laser, Jupiter Laser Facility, multilayer dielectric grating, Petawatt laser, proton transport, Titan laser.
For further information contact Andrew Ng (925) 423-4429 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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The MXQ Pro TV Box is a quite capable Android media player, somewhat similar to the more expensive T95 media player we reviewed yesterday.
The MXQ Pro hardware is being branded and marketed by different re-sellers… yes, mainly from China.
You can check availability and check the plurality of brands that carry the MXQ Pro hardware, by clicking on the left picture.
Based on the S905 "System On Chip" or SOC including a Cortex-A53 quad-core processor running at 2 Ghz and a Mali 450 graphics coprocessor, this TV box is 4k video capable.
This TV Box includes just 1Gb of RAM, which may arguably be on the lacking side. But, truth to be said, in real everyday media playing, 1 Gb of RAM proves to be more than enough.
Yet, that low memory count may be of concern to geeky guys (like me, I did chose the T95 media player just because it has 2Gb of RAM -and an LCD clock display-).
Because of the smaller RAM amount, along with other caveats that we will review on the connectivity section, we gave the MXQ Pro Media player the following score:
The MXQ Pro media player runs Android 5.1 which is quite OK, including several apps, like Netflix , Youtube and Kodi preinstalled. It is pretty much a "plug and play" solution that accommodates a broad users spectrum, ranging from the tech savvy all the way down to the computer illiterate.
MXQ pro connectivity
The MxQ Pro TV BOX includes four USB type A ports, an SD card socket, ethernet port, HDMI 1.4b port, an analog video out port, and even an SPDIF digital audio port.
It is to be noted that apparently there is no USB OTG, and the SDCARD socket accepts the big SDcard format, it is not a microSD card (which is no biggie, you can use a microSD to SDcard adapter).
On the wireless side of things, the MXQ Pro as a built in WIFI adapter, as expected, but NO BLUETOOTH. This may be a strong negative point for some of us: You will not be able to pair and use any bluetooth remote control, gamepad, speakers or headphones.
MXQ Pro TV box interface and apps
The MXQ Pro comes with the Google Play Store app preinstalled, so you can access virtually millions of apps, available for the Android Operative System.
There is a simplified interface presenting the most used apps categories, as MXQ Pro mainscreen. The remote control is somewhat un-cluttered, which is a nice thing.
On media playing capabilities, the MXQ Pro TV Box excels thanks to Kodi, a superb media player, arguably the best one out there. If you learn to cope with installing and using online available plugins, fun and media sources will prove to be endless.
Wrapping it up, the MXQ Pro TV box is an nice buy, provided that you don't need bluetooth connectivity and either you have a strong WIFI signal or an ethernet cable near your TV.


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Side of three-headed figure, representing Brahma, Shiva & Vishnu. Cave of Elephanta
Photographer: Unknown
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1875
Photograph of the Trimurti of Shiva in the cave temple of Elephanta in Maharashtra from the 'Lee-Warner Collection: 'Bombay Presidency. William Lee Warner C.S.' taken by an unknown phototgrapher in the 1870s. The temple on the small island of Elephanta, off the coast of Bombay, is celebrated as one of the greatest achievements in rock-cut architecture in India. The temple is dedicated to Shiva, dates to the sixth century and consists of a series of chambers cut from the rock. There are five caves in total, but only the great cave can still be visited. The temple stands at 250 feet above sea level and measures 130 feet square, 17 feet high. At the centre of the cave is a hypostyle hall of 20 pillars in which stands the linga shrine, flanked by two excavated courts to the east and west of the shrine. The north entrance of the temple leads to the Trimurti of Shiva. The central face is calm and detached, the left profile expresses the feminine and the peaceful and the right profile reveals the fierce and masculine. The three faces symbolise the nature of the Divine, which combines and trascends all opposites.


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September 29, 1997
Family charges Mexican
police involved in kidnap
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ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) September 29, 1997 - Relatives of a man kidnapped
a month ago have filed a criminal complaint charging that Guerrero state
police carried out the crime.
Adalberto Barragan Serrato filed the complaint Sunday with the Morelos
state attorney general's office in Cuernavaca, near where his brother
Jose Guadalupe Barragan was kidnapped on Aug. 27.
"We know that they have my brother in their power and the director of
that agency, Francisco Vargas Najera, knows that perfectly well," said
Amalia Barragan, the victim's sister, according to the Mexico City daily
The complaint alleges that three commanders and an agent of Guerrero
state's Ministerial Investigating Police were named as the kidnappers by
people riding in the car from which Barragan was seized.
The family said the kidnappers have demanded 1 million pesos - about
$128,000 - in ransom.
Reforma said Morelos state police had received a letter from Vargas
Najera asking them to permit the operations of the four Guerrero
policemen within their state for an operation the letter did not
The letter said the men would be armed with AK-47 rifles, an Uzi
machine-pistol and other weaponry.
Amalia Barragan told reporters that her brother earlier this year filed
a criminal complaint against another Guerrero police commander accusing
him of extortion.
In other Guerrero-related kidnap attempts, 53-year-old rancher David
Estrada Roman was shot to death on Friday while resisting attempts to
kidnap him in the township of Cuetzala del Progreso, according to the
district attorney's office in nearby Iguala.
The same day, heavily armed men seized Nicomedes Roman Roman, wife of a
local hardware store owner, in the town of Iguala. Officials at the
state attorney general's office said they have asked 3 million pesos
($385,000) for her return.
On Saturday, state police arrested two men accused of kidnapping
14-year-old Martin Carbajal Radilla on Sept. 22 in the township of
Tecpan de Galeana. The youth remains missing.
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ANGELS support PBT students
who need a little extra attention
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By ROSIE FLORES
Staff Writer
PECOS, September 29, 1997 - More "angels" are needed to guide students
throughout the new school year, according to Pecos-Barstow-Toyah school
district Guidance and Counseling Director Ana Hernandez.
"With the new school year underway, we're in need of more volunteers to
join our ANGELS program," said Hernandez.
ANGELS (Assisting the Next Generation with Encouraging Love and Support)
is a mentoring program which aims to pair caring adults of our community
with students needing increased self-esteem, motivation and
self-confidence for the purpose of improving learning.
"These are children that the counselors feel need a little extra
attention," said Hernandez. "Some kids just have to have an adult role
model," she said.
Teachers are usually the ones that can pinpoint which children need that
extra attention and refer them to the school counselor, according to
"The counselors then try to match the child with an adult that can most
help them, motivate them and provide the caring atmosphere the child
needs," said Hernandez.
One interested adult can provide a positive influence in a young
person's life to offset the overwhelming number of negative pressures,
according to Hernandez.
"There is no greater calling for an individual than to dedicate a small
but meaningful part of one's time and energy to helping another," said
Extending a helping hand through mentoring can provide hope and guidance
to a beleaguered youngster, according to Hernandez.
Through the guidance, counsel and role modeling of a thoughtful adult,
the young person receives selective attention and inspiration.
"They can spend as little as 15 minutes, or as much as an hour or
however much they want to spend with the little ones," said Hernandez.
Volunteers can work with the teachers and help with homework assignments
such as, reading or learning to write in cursive.
"They can contact the teacher and help everyday or once a week, or
however much time they have to spare," said Hernandez.
Although mentors are not asked to tutor, student achievement is fostered
and recognized, according to Hernandez. Mentors meet three times per
year for a seminar to gain insight into the mentoring process and share
materials and information.
Mentor "angels" meet with their student at least once per week at the
student's school. The mentor becomes a special friend to the student,
sharing school breakfast, lunch or recess and providing encouragement.
Instruction time is not interrupted, rather it is supported through the
caring relationship, according to Hernandez.
Each of the following campuses have adopted the ANGELS program: Austin
Elementary, Pecos Elementary, Barstow Elementary and Lamar Middle School.
"Jim Adams who was at Bessie Haynes last year, is at the high school
this year, and has been very helpful in steering students toward this
program that will help the younger students," said Hernandez.
Pecos High School students can volunteer for the program and provide a
role model from a younger viewpoint, according to Hernandez.
For more information or to volunteer as an ANGELS mentor, call any
principal or counselor of participating schools or Hernandez at 447-7282.
Children get hands-on view of camping
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By ROSIE FLORES
Staff Writer
PECOS, September 29, 1997 - If you are sleeping in your sleeping bag and
a rattlesnake crawls up to the place where you are, will it bother you?
This is just one of the many questions youngsters asked Saturday morning
at Chuckwagon Day held across the street from the West of the Pecos
Museum, beside the chuckwagon donated by Tom Linebery.
A campfire was set up for the little ones to enjoy and campsite
activities such as singing and storytelling were a part of the morning's
About 30 children ages four and up participated in the free activity
sponsored by the museum.
Other animals that concerned the youngsters were lions, bears and
tigers, none of which are common in Pecos, according to museum employee
Mary Barfield, who answered most of the questions for the young campers.
Doug Fernandes also answered many questions and was on hand for most of
the activities.
Fernandes also provided a small saddle for the children to look at.
Other activities included games and cooking outdoors. Each child received their own bandana.
Balmorhea Homecoming Queen chosen
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By MAC McKINNON
Enterprise Editor
BALMORHEA, September 29, 1997 - Balmorhea High School Senior Naomi
Madrid was crowned 1997 Homecoming Queen Friday night, during halftime
ceremonies of the Bears' 66-38 victory over the Marathon Mustangs. BHS
Principal Elizabeth Cook is pictured above placing the royal robe on
The big crowd on hand also saw Nelda Mondragon named High School
Sweetheart and Debiasie Mendoza, Beau. For Balmorhea Junior High, Isiah
Rodriguez was Beau while Veronica Mendoza was Sweetheart. Other
homecoming queen nominees were Amanda Lozano, junior; Erica Apodaca,
sophomore, and Celina Rodriguez, freshman.
For the Homecoming Parade earlier in the day, winners were:
ELEMENTARY FLOATS - Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten, first; third
grade, second, and first grade, third.
BIKES - Cheerleaders, first; Football players, second and seventh
graders, third.
HIGH SCHOOL FLOATS - Seniors, first; Football players, second and the
junior class, third.
HORSES - Jimmy Barragan, first, Logan Humphries, second and Liberty Wofford, third.
Hot radiactive gas containers
surprise Pantex handlers
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AMARILLO, Texas (AP) September 29, 1997 - Containers of radioactive gas
that can become too hot to handle have prompted Pantex Plant
administrators to change how workers treat them.
The gas is tritium, the radioactive hydrogen isotope that gives hydrogen
bombs their thermonuclear punch.
Risk management officials at the nuclear weapons plant have found that
the containers can heat up enough to burn workers' hands, increasing the
chance that a worker could drop one and accidentally release the gas.
The containers often feel warm because the tritium inside radioactively
decays over time. But the reservoirs can become hot if they are stored
too close together, said Kerry Campbell, a spokeswoman for Pantex
contractor Mason & Hanger Corp.
The carriers used to move the gas containers have been changed and
workers now are limited to moving one container at a time, plant
officials said.
The issue arose earlier this year when a worker removed a tritium
reservoir from a suitcase-like storage container and found the foam
insulation inside compacted and melted, according to a government
"Conservative calculations performed by risk management division
personnel indicated that it was possible for reservoirs to reach high
enough temperatures to burn the hand of someone picking them up," an
Energy Department report said. "This was expected to increase the
possibility of dropping a reservoir onto the floor."
The problem came as a surprise. A U.S. Department of Energy report noted
that temperature tests of tritium reservoirs over the past three years
found no evidence that any heated up.
The Pantex Plant is responsible for disassembling nuclear weapons.
Technicians remove the gas reservoirs from weapons and ship them back to
the Savannah River Site in South Carolina for recycling.
In May 1989, a tritium gas reservoir discharged during a disassembly
accident, contaminating five workers.
One worker received a radiation dose of 1.2 REM, but other workers in
the assembly cell received minute doses, Campbell said. At the time, the
Energy Department annual limit was 5 REM and the company's annual
exposure limit was 2 REM, Energy Department spokesman Tom Walton said.
Radiation exposure is measured in REM, which stands for roentgen
equivalent man.
Copyright 1997 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Self-made engineer has
turned his hand to ranching
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By GREG HARMAN
Staff Writer
BARSTOW, September 29, 1997 - Take a drive down old Highway 80 into
Barstow, turn down FM 516 toward the Interstate and your bound to see
him. Turning soil, leveling ground, or tinkering outside of his
19,000-square-foot-plus barn on one of his massive machines.
John Forrester loves his machines. Whether working on a back hoe,
trencher, motor grader, or loader, Forrester feels he "can't keep 'em
(the machines) busy enough" working the old Dunnigan ranch which he
purchased last year.
"I need to be about three persons," he said.
His neighbors don't mind the heavy machinery either. Recently, he has
had to drive down twice to Kiowa and pull sunken trucks out of the pits
of gas well drilling sites.
Born in Borden Springs, Alabama, Forrester moved to California after his
stint in the U.S. Navy and got married. He ran several businesses,
including a used car lot and a maintenance shop, before opening
Distinctive Industries in March of 1969. Distinctive Industries provides
after-market leather interiors, sunroofs and wood trim for automobiles.
"We started with three employees. Today the company employs over 1200. .
.and operates in 40-45 locations across the country." The Texas
locations are: Grand Prairie, Houston, San Antonio and Austin.
John Romero, Vice-President of Operations at Distinctive Industries'
manufacturing plant in Commerce City, Calif., said the company that
started out with nothing is now worth about $35 million. Romero, who
came on with the company in 1980, called Forrester a self-made engineer.
"If he doesn't know how an engine works he just takes it apart and
figures it out," said Romero.
Forrester moved to Texas in 1991. In 1993, he turned the company over to
his son Dwight.
"I got tired of spending all my time in the office," he said, "and
everyone always wants to run a ranch."
Forrester began to pursue his ranching dreams about 20 years ago when he
became part owner of a 7,000 acre ranch east of Barstow.
All of Forrester's farm and earth-moving equipment lend him an ability
which he makes full use of, namely moving mountains. This trait carries
over into his personal life.
Pushing himself early in his career with 16-hour work days, Forrester
now enjoys the fruits of his labor. But money doesn't all stay at home
for his own satisfaction, Forrester provides for several evangelist
outreaches, a television ministry and an abortion-alternative single
mother home.
Forrester declines to take credit for his business success, saying
simply that "if God hasn't given the ability then you wouldn't be able
to do it . . .There's no monopoly on brains, but there is a monopoly on
According to Forrester, "Man's first responsibility is to respect and
treat God right, then to treat our fellow man right."
Although Forrester has seen his share of snakes in the business world,
he said that whether other people treat us right or not is "neither here nor there."|
Insurance commissioner weighs
discount for hail resistant roofs
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By JUAN B. ELIZONDO Jr.
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN (AP) September 29, 1997 - Texas homeowners who invest in
hail-resistant roofing material could see a sizeable cut in their
insurance premiums under a proposal Insurance Commissioner Elton Bomer
is considering.
The discount program would divide the state into eight regions and
establish four grades of roof coverings. Based on a home's location and
the grade of its roof covering, homeowner's insurance premiums could be
cut by up to 35 percent.
Regulated insurance companies would have to honor the discount if Bomer
approves it.
"If this rule is adopted, it would be the first time homeowners anywhere
will have the opportunity to shop for impact-resistant roofs and save
money on their property insurance rates," Bomer said.
The commissioner will hold a public hearing on the matter Dec. 3.
The discount program also would apply to roof coverings on dwelling and
extended coverage policies. The state would be divided into six regions
to determine the premium cuts for those types of policies.
Jerry Johns, president of Southwestern Insurance Information Service,
said industry officials generally support the idea.
"Hundreds of millions of dollars are paid-out each year by insurers to
replace or repair roofs damaged by hail," he said. "The relevance of
these discounts will vary from one region of Texas to the other."
Earlier this year, Bomer raised a key factor in determining how much
Texas homeowners pay for insurance by more than 14 percent. That takes
effect next year.
The statewide benchmark is an average of benchmarks set in 23 insurance
rating territories across the state. Insurance companies can set their
rates from 30 percent below to 30 percent above the benchmark in the
areas they cover.
At the time of the benchmark increase, Johns blamed continued severe
weather patterns.
"Computer models indicate that rapid growth in home construction across
Texas makes the potential for weather-related losses greater ... each
year," he said.
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Former Cowboy fasts to raise funds
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AUSTIN (AP) September 29, 1997 - Former Cowboys linebacker Thomas
"Hollywood" Henderson is fasting in a effort to raise funds for a
running track in low-income East Austin.
"I challenge people who are skeptical to come, look and see what I have
done already. Look and see that I'm doing the right thing," Henderson
Henderson played for the Cowboys in the 1970s. He is a graduate of the
old Anderson High School in East Austin.
The high school, which graduated its last class in 1971, was torn down
to build a parking lot. Henderson bought it and used community
contributions to convert the parking lot into a football field.
Since last Thursday, Henderson has gone without food to raise $200,000
to build an eight-lane track around the field. By Sunday, he had raised
"I think this is great what he's doing," said Melvin White, a referee
for the East Austin Football League. "I have respect for him because he
remembers where he came from."
(Contributions, which are tax-deductible, can be mailed to East Side
Youth Services and Street Outreach at ESYSSO, 512 E. 11th St., Suite
201, Austin, Texas 78701.
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Gospel hour still tuned to traditional harmonies
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By ROY BRAGG
San Antonio Express-News
PLEASANTON, September 29, 1997 - The half-dozen people gathered in a
tiny, wood-paneled downtown radio studio aren't the best singers in the
world. The songs they're playing will never, ever hit any radio stations
near you.
But there's something undeniably decent, touching and reaffirming about
the "Old Time Gospel Hour," a live performance of traditional spirituals
and country preaching that transcends anyone's skepticism, cynicism or
perceived sophistication.
In a world of ebbs, flows, fads and fashion, this show has been rock
solid, airing at 9 a.m. every Sunday morning - except once - for the
last 41 years on station KBOP, 1380 AM.
The only time the show didn't air live was when Rev. Albert Riley, the
show's originator, took a week off for vacation. That week, a tape of a
previous show was played.
This music doesn't sound anything like the slick gospel sounds of Kirk
Franklin or Amy Grant or the new breed of business-savvy,
image-conscious acts who've taken over the spiritual music business.
Folks, this is about as plain and real and heartfelt as it gets. We're
talking church hymns, old-style pulpit preaching and lots of "Praise
Gods" and "Amens."
The burly Rev. Jimmy Riley - who, in the tradition of his father, is
host of the show and pastor at the Full Gospel Church of nearby
Jourdanton - plays guitar and sings every week. His mother, Clara Riley,
sits against the back wall, singing, clapping or waving her hands over
her head as she would in church.
Jimmy Riley took over the show three years ago when his father became
too ill to continue. Mrs. Riley has been at every broadcast since the
original in June 1956.
Joining them for Sunday's broadcast were church members Janice Walker
and Margaret Vardeman, each of whom gets to sing lead occasionally. Joe
Waller of Houston, who came to South Texas to preach at a revival, sat
in and played guitar and harmonica.
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Beer battle brings problems
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KINGSVILLE, (AP) September 29, 1997 - A proposal to open a beer-serving
barbecue restaurant in this community's Western-themed downtown has led
to a showdown among merchants.
About 500 people have signed a petition opposing the Wild Horse Desert
Saloon, saying selling beer downtown would endanger children, increase
crime and litter, and create traffic and parking problems.
Would-be restaurateur Glenda Webb disagrees.
"I thought beer and barbecue, they go together," said Ms. Webb, who
wants to open the restaurant on Kleberg Avenue, the town's main street.
But the proposal has several downtown merchants brewing.
Wesley Goetsch, who owns a music store across the street from Webb's
planned restaurant, said selling beer on main street would be disastrous
for business and for the town's image.
"I think it will ruin the character of downtown," he said.
Goetsch started the petition drive and hopes to convince city officials
to declare Kleberg Avenue dry to stop beer-selling businesses from
"It's not that those of us who oppose it are teetotalers," Goetsch told
the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. "A bar does not fit our shopping
district, and we do not want to have one here. Alcohol brings other
undesirable businesses once it is approved."
Bobbie Nix, who helps plan Christmas activities in the downtown area,
said she would consider moving the events if Ms. Webb's license to sell
beer is approved.
"We have parades and a Christmas tree forest, and lots of the events are
aimed at children," she said. "I just don't think the two mix."
Investigators with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission are looking
into Ms. Webb's request and may recommend a hearing so that both sides
can voice their opinions, said TABC Sgt. Robert Gonzalez.
Ms. Webb, who oversees a city beautification program and owns a gift
shop next door to her planned restaurant, said she shares her fellow
merchants' concerns about litter, safety and the image of downtown.
However, she said her restaurant would not mar that image.
"It will be classy," she said.
Some merchants support her idea.
"The restaurant is going to be done in good taste," said Josiebelle
Manheimer, who owns a store next to Webb's. "There aren't going to be
drunks breaking in windows and vomiting in the streets just because
there is a restaurant serving beer."
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Community Council announces meal policy
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PECOS, September 29, 1997 - The Community Council of Reeves County
announced its policy for free and reduced-price meals served under the
Child and Adult Care Food Program last week.
Copies of the policy are available for review in their administrative
office at 902 E. 10th St., as well as at Family Services - Pecos Center,
Saragosa Center, Monahans Center, Balmorhea Center, and Kermit Center,
plus at the Pecos Children's Day Nursery, Pecos Head Start, Monahans
Head Start, Saragosa Head Start and Elderly Meals/Medical
Household size and income criteria are used to determine one's
eligibility for the program. Children from households whose income is at
or below certain levels are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Some foster children are eligible for the meals program.
To apply for the meals, households must fill out an application.
Information that households provide is confidential and will be used
only to determine eligibility and verify data. Applications have already
been given to parents who have children enrolled in one of the daycare
or head start programs.
While this program is different from a similar program in the schools
and will not lower costs to families with children in one of the
programs, it is a way for families to help the program their child is
enrolled in by reducing costs to them.
For further information, go to one of the locations listed above, or call the administrative office at 445-3538.
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2006/11/02-agenda.html
-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2006/10/26-minutes.html
No regrets given.
A-13-01: continued
A-41-01: completed
A-41-02: completed
A-41-03: completed
A-41-04: continued
Review of the 27 Oct draft
-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/docs/ED-xproc-20061027/
Henry: It needs to be possible to specify if parameters are required or optional.
<scribe> ACTION: Norm to address optional/required parameters in the next draft. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/11/02-xproc-minutes.html#action01]
Richard: I certainly want to be
able to stream, but I'm not convinced that we have to restrict
to match patterns because you've got to do some analysis
anyway. It doesn't seem to be more difficult one way or the
... You've got to be able to not stream in general anyway.
... An implementation is bound to have to do most of this work anyway.
Henry: I don't have as much of a
concern about that as I do about the interpretation of bare
... I find it odd to write //foo when I want the foo's. I'd have expected "foo" to do that.
Richard: I agree that that's odd, OTOH, there are things that are hard to write as match patterns.
Norm: I think we should use select on input and therefore select everywhere.
Richard: That argument seems much
less appealing in the viewport case.
... It's very much like an XSLT identity transform with a single pattern.
Henry: I agree, but I also agree that the consistency argument is a good one.
Richard: We have to do something
special in the viewport case anyway, because we can only
process the top most match.
... We could do something different there.
Michael: Is the use of match
patterns an unquestioned win or only an illusory win for
... Some people seemed convinced that mattered for streaming, others didn't agree.
Richard: I agree you have to do a
fair amount of analysis to be as efficient, but I think you're
going to have to do that anyway.
... Something I keep meaning to do is write some code to split a general XPath expression into streamable and non-streamable parts.
... It's just an example of locality of reference.
Alex: One of the things I'm
thinking about here that the conservative thing to do is say
that it's match patterns.
... I'm concerned that people will push a lot of things into expressions on inputs that are maybe the wrong way to do things in a pipeline.
Richard: I'm not quite sure I see
this. Even if we have select expressions, we can only have
select expressions that return node sets and probably only
... The only difference in practice that I can see is that there are some things that are difficult to express with match.
... Those are annoying, but maybe they aren't common enough to matter.
Henry: Example?
Richard: How would you write the last chapter?
Michael: //chapter[last()]
Richard: That works if they are all siblings of the same book
Michael: Ok then I need ... (scribe missed)
Richard: To do it as a match
... That's legal but unbelievably expensive in most implementations
... There's a reasonably efficient expression for it, but not as a match pattern.
<richard> (//chapter)[last()]
Richard: I raise this case
because someone really wanted to do that here recently
... It was in a program that only used match patterns.
Alex: I like match better and I still think it's the conservative thing to do.
Murray: I think that what I've
heard is that some want to do select and others want to do
... The issue is that we can't do both because it's too much of a burden on implementations.
Richard: No, if you could do select then you don't need match.
Norm expresses concern that giving users both ways of doing it makes everything harder and more confusing.
<MSM> [MSM silently agrees with Norm: choose one, don't make the user choose.]
Straw poll: for input and for-each, and leaving aside viewport for a moment, do you prefer select semantics or match semantics.
Results: 7 for select, 3 for match, one for allowing users to choose either at their discretion
Norm: Is there anyone who objects to accepting select semantics as the consensus view.
None heard.
What about viewport?
Alex: If we have select semantics, I still think that match is the right semantic for viewport.
Norm: Viewport is special because we only want the outer-most subtree.
Alex: I think the match semantics work really well here.
Richard: I agree.
Norm: I suppose I could live with
viewport being different, but it's not my first choice.
... I still prefer to say that it's select with a special rule.
Alex: But that special rule is
really hard to figure out.
... Well, I suppose if the ancestor is in the results....
Richard: I've written numerous
programs to do this and it always seems natural to have a match
pattern and not recurse after you match.
... Some programs have had to recurse, but that's not always a clear option. But for viewport, it's just impossible.
... Sometimes what you want in that case is to recurse on the output of the viewport.
... I suppose it could work the other way around, do the inner ones first and the move outward.
Norm: Let's not do that one.
Richard: Right, that's my point. Once you start to consider recursion, there are just too many options.
Henry: I think the core is, how is a bare name interpreted.
Straw poll: for viewport, do you prefer select semantics or match semantics.
Results: 4 select, 5 for match; Henry asserts Micheal would have voted match if he was still here.
Paul: If we're going to go with select on some things and match on others, they better be different attribute names.
Norm: anyone object to accepting as consensus that viewport will have match semantics.
None heard.
<scribe> ACTION: Norm to update the draft to reflect the chosen semantics for selection on input, for-each, and viewport. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/11/02-xproc-minutes.html#action02]
Henry: The interpretation is slightly different in the case of an input port on a parameter. Certain things are legal there that aren't legal elsewhere and the interpretation is different.
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Norm: When do we publish another public draft?
Norm proposes December
Alex/Henry: Let's do it next Friday
Some discussion of when the publishing blackout period for the AC meeting begins
Proposal: new public working draft on 17 November
Norm wants to answer the declare-* or not question before 17 November, expects to devote next meeting to that.
No objections to a new public WD on 17 November.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – On a day in which quality scoring chances were minimal for both teams Sacramento State and Northern Colorado played 110 minutes of scoreless soccer to record a 0-0 draw.
"I think we played very strong in the back and we had just an overall strong game," Sacramento State head coach Randy Dedini said. "I thought we looked a little tired in the second half but in the overtime we got some energy and were pushing the action a lot, but we just couldn't find the final pass to get a goal. I give our girls a lot of credit; Northern Colorado is always well organized and well coached and they did a good job of eliminating any great chances."
Each team managed just six shots on goal for the contest and both had few high quality chances. Sacramento State (5-4-2, 1-0-1 Big Sky) had a 13-7 overall shot advantage and a 4-3 edge in corner kicks. Northern Colorado (4-4-3, 0-1-1 Big Sky) did not attempt a shot in either overtime period but was able to escape with the tie.
The respective goalies were tested early, with Northern Colorado senior Natalie D'Adamio making two stops in the first 16 minutes and Sacramento State senior Kimberly Mata making three saves in the first 23 minutes. Those would be their only saves of the half, as there would not be another shot on goal over the final 22 minutes and 38 seconds of the opening period.
The second half started quicker as Mata had to make a fine stop just 45 seconds in. The Hornets first try on net of the second half didn't come until the 66th minute while Mata made two more routine saves to send the match to overtime.
Sacramento State had consecutive corner kick attempts in the 95th and 96th minutes but could not convert either corner into a shot. Neither team had a shot in the first OT, but one minute into the second overtime Hornet sophomore Alyssa Anderson had a good chance in front of the goal denied by D'Adamio. The Hornets totaled three shots in the second extra period but D'Adamio made two saves to earn the tie.
Mata recorded her second consecutive shutout and her fourth clean sheet of the season as she totaled nine saves without allowing a goal in two matches over the weekend. Anderson led all players with three shots and was the only Hornet to put multiple tries on frame. The match was the second time in the last three seasons that Sacramento State and Northern Colorado had a scoreless draw on Hornet Field.
With three points in two matches the Hornets are tied for third place in the Big Sky after the opening weekend of conference play. Sacramento State is on the road next week with matches Friday at Montana and Sunday at Eastern Washington.


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In this guest post, music & brands expert Mike Tunnicliffe explains how the two sectors are finally getting their act together…
Those of you that have stumbled across my regular columns in Advertising Age, Ad Week and other trade publications , which are all captured here on my blog will know that I've been almost evangelical about the coming together of brands and music for a couple of years now and each year have made a prediction that this will be the year that this whole area comes of age.
Well, from the comments that we are seeing on this blog and the look of the conference agenda a number of other high profile folks are putting their money on this area too, perhaps illustrated by Panos Panay from SonicBids' excellent case in his recent blog posting on why independent music and artists are more appealing to brands; or David Jones, Global CEO at leading Advertising agency Group Euro RSCG, talking this coming Sunday about how his agency's acquisition of record label and publishing company The Hours has helped his clients build increasingly important collaborations with music and artists to help overcome the growing ineffectiveness of traditional advertising.
One thing that comes through loud and clear from these experts and many more besides is that there is a growing need for artists that partner with brands to be able to deliver real tangible benefits and that these partnerships need to be based on a higher level of strategic thinking to ensure a good brand fit, relevance and benefit for the brands & the fans/consumers. If we get this right, these types of partnerships could become a longer term – more consistent play for the brands and a revenue generator for the brands and artists, rather than a glorified form of sponsorship or endorsement.
I'll be discussing this point of view in the MIDEM+ 'meet the experts' session on Tuesday January 26 but in advance of that wanted to give artists / management teams a heads up on what I believe are the key win-win factors for brand and artist partnerships going forwards.
1. Make it relevant – Relevance wins through, whether its brand fit, product fit or a simple compelling idea that's natural and 'organic'.
2. Harness interactivity – 'Engaging' fans is a real winner and works best when the partnerships allow the consumer (fan) to interact with the brand in a relevant and fun way in conjunction with the artists / entertainment property (i.e participation in person, with friends or through user generated content)and when social media can be used as a key part of the consumer interaction.
3. Use multiple channels to communicate – Success seems to come when the partnerships have multiple communication channels and strands that are tied together in an 'integrated' fashion (this might sound obvious but this quite often gets overlooked).
4. Provide value – Finally, and most crucially, these partnerships really work best when there's some real benefit in it for the consumer/ fans.
I have just posted on my blog a detailed overview complete with case studies that show how these lessons were applied by the Rock Band franchise to produce some great win-win partnerships. Please read as a lot of lessons can be learned.
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Rodney Coronado, 39, of Tucson, a convicted arsonist and leader in the radical Earth Liberation Front, was indicted Wednesday for allegedly giving a speech urging people to commit arson and telling them how to build an incendiary device.
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