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Brew a Better Cup of Coffee Coffee is 98 percent water. Often overlooked, the quality of the water is as important as the quality ...of the coffee. A good rule of thumb is that if your water doesnt taste good from the tap, it wont taste any better in your coffee. Thats why Cuisinart suggests adding a water filter to the coffeemaker. This Cuisinart charcoal water filter (model DCC-RWF) removes chlorine, calcium, bad tastes and odors for the purest cup of coffee every time. Cuisinart Replacement Coffeemaker Water Filters -- Set of 2: Charcoal filter For use with Cuisinart models DCC-1000BK, DCC-1200, DGB-600, DCC-2000 and DCC-2200 Removes chlorine, calcium, bad tastes and odors Dimensions: Measures 1-1/2 in. x 2-4/5 in. x 5 in. A Closer Look: The filters work prior to the brewing cycle, leaving each steaming cup of goodness free from metallic flavor and unpleasant aftertaste. Take Care: These efficient filters only need replacing every 60 days or after 60 uses and their streamlined designs offer simple installation and replacement -- which means every cup of coffee can taste as delicious as the first. About the Brand When the food processor was introduced in 1973, it wasnt known as a food processor; it was commonly referred to as a Cuisinart. The rest is culinary history. Savor the good life with Cuisinart. read more
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Blessed John Speed
Also known as
- John Spence
- one of the Martyrs of England and Wales
- one of the Durham Martyrs
Layman. Martyred for befriending and protecting Catholic priests, including Saint John Boste, during the persecutions of Elizabeth I.
- 4 February 1594 at Durham, England
- 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)
- if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed John, contact
Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales
39 Eccleston Square
London SW1V 1BX, UNITED KINGDOM
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia, by John B Wainewright
- Hagiography Circle
- Heiligen 3s
- Katherine Rabenstein
- Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
MLA Citation
- "Blessed John Speed". Saints.SQPN.com. 3 February 2013. Web. 18 December 2013. <>

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Jeffery was in a serious accident back in December, sustaining serious brain injuries. Dozens from the community came out to donate money and food while participating in a live and silent auction.
GREEN CITY, MO. -- A benefit was held in Green City to help raise money for Jeffery Sayre's family.
Melissa Bennett, the organizer for the benefit tells us the entire community pulled together to help the family.
"He was in a really bad automobile accident December 4th and has spend several weeks in the Des Moines hospital," Bennett said. "He was air lifted over there. within the first two weeks of being there he had already go a bill of over $200,000. He had no insurance, he just got a new job and hadn't quite gotten his 90 days yet. so we're just trying to help out the family, do the best for our own community."
Bennett tells us the family is trying to take it one day at a time, as Jeffery continues to go through therapy
If you would like to donate to help Jeffery's family contact Melissa Bennett 660.342.3402


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Orient Express Furniture
Based out of Rancho Santa Margarita, California, the Orient Express Furniture Company prides themselves on progressive creations with global success. Their neo-modern dining seating has rich, dark wood tables and a variety of seating options from classic upholstered pieces to modern colored leather designs. With appeal for the global market, their Moroccan-styled wicker furniture sets them apart from others. For occasional furniture, ottomans and chairs of all shapes, styles, and upholstery give the collections a tailored modern feel. The color options available give the occasional furniture world wide appeal. The Dover collection provides additional furniture such as sideboard tables and coffee tables. The hand scraped wood lends a custom, classic feel that emanates warmth and coziness for the home. Orient Express furniture products include dining chairs, bar stools, benches, sofas, club chairs and ottomans, beds and bedroom sets, wicker chairs, wicker bar stools and wicker occasional seating. Browse below to visit the Orient Express Furniture catalog, or to get more information on prices, buying online, specials, sale items, coupons and delivery.
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Help Mr. Pencil and his friends save the town of Doodleburg! Learn how to write letters and numbers and draw lines, shapes and objects. Create your own art using cool tools, colors, filters, stamps and special effects. Then animate your masterpieces and create your own flip books!
Teaches: letter writing, number writing, shapes and art and drawing.
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Ann Summers 'Bow Boudoir' Cami Suspender
With a gorgeous balconette cup this Ann Summer 'Bow Boudoir' cami suspender gives you a beautiful shape that's sensual and seductive. This cami is packed with stunning detail for a femme fatale piece that's fierce but feminine.
With contrast fabric panels this cami suspender features a range of textures that inspire the senses. The tuxedo style is accentuated with bow detail to the bust. Detachable suspender ends make this a sultry addition to your lingerie wardrobe.
Wear this Ann Summer cami with suspender and your tallest heels. Add plenty of attitude for instant bedroom appeal.
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- Cami suspender by Ann Summers
- Contrast lace and smooth panels
- Tuxedo style cami with bow detail
- Frilled to the hem; suspender ends
Ann Summers 'Bow Boudoir' Bra
This Ann Summers plunge bra gives you a stunning cleavage that's sultry, seductive and super sexy.
This plunge bra features removable pads for added shape when you need it. The lace detailing gives this plunge bra a boudoir inspired style and we love the bow finish to the front for a nod to a classic tuxedo style. This plunge bra is an Ann Summers favourite and the contrast of black and ivory is striking.
Wear this Ann Summers plunge bra with matching a matching 'Bow Boudoir' waspie, suspenders and a pair of killer heels.
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- Contrast of black and ivory fabrics
- Bow finish to the center front
- Removable pads for added shape
Ann Summers 'Bow Boudoir' Thong
Add a decadent dose of boudoir to your lingerie look with this Ann Summers 'Bow Boudoir' thong.
This Ann Summers thong features a stunning lace centre front will a frilled edge for a flirty finish. This thong has a wide waistband for a flattering fit and the gorgeous ivory satin gives it an opulent feel. This thong is perfect for a special evening and is a gorgeous finish to your lingerie look.
Pair this Ann Summers 'Bow Boudoir' thong with a matching waspie and plunge bra.
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Ann Summers 'Bow Boudoir' Waspie
Show off your waist with this sultry 'Bow Boudoir' waspie by Ann Summers. In black and ivory this waspie is a striking piece inspired by a tuxedo style.
This Ann Summers waspie features bow detail to the front. The sheer panel detail to the sides makes this a super sexy piece of ladies lingerie. The frill finish is playful and the waist-cinching design gives you a gorgeous silhouette.
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Title: AREA 2: Using "Next Generation" CO2-EOR Technologies to Optimize the Residual Oil Zone CO2 Flood at Goldsmith Landreth Unit, Ector County, Texas
PI: Dr. Robert Trentham, Director of CEED, Geology
Awarding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Awarded Amount: $1,198,546
Period: 10/1/10-9/30/12
Summary: Objectives of this R&D project is to target "next generation" technologies at the residual oil zone (ROZ), use detailed reservoir characterization, laboratory and bench-scale testing, full-scale reservoir modeling and state-of-the-art diagnostics to optimize the design of the CO2 flood in the ROZ at the Goldsmith (San Andres) oil field in the Permian Basin.
Title: Recovery Act: Develop a Modular Curriculum for Training University Students in Industry Standard C02 Sequestration & Enhanced Oil Recovery Methodologies
Co-PI's & Title: Dr. Robert Trentham, Director of CEED, Geology & Dr. Emily Stoudt, Assistant Professor, Geology
Awarding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Awarded Amount: $298,756
Period: 12/1/09-11/30/12
Summary: This project will create training modules for senior level undergraduates and graduate students that will prepare them to be contributing participants in future industry-level CO2 injection projects. The modules will be available to students in geosciences, engineering and land management and will expose students to professional personnel as well as related data.
Title: Commercial Exploitation and the Origin of Residual Oil Zones: Developing a Case History in the Permian Basin of New Mexico and West Texas
PI & Title: Dr. Robert Trentham, Director of CEED, Geology
Co PI: L. Stephen Melzer, Melzer Consulting
Awarding Agency: Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA)
Awarded Amount: $631,000
Period: 4/1/09-3/31/11
Summary: Research includes a team who will develop working theories describing the evidence of the presence of Residual Oil Zones (ROZs) and the origins of their development in the Permian Basin.
Title: UTPB Robert Noyce Scholars
PI & Title: Dr. Roy Hurst, Professor, Science Education
Co PI: Dr. Doug Hale, Professor and Chair, Mathematics and Computer Science
Awarding Agency: National Science Foundation/47.076
Awarded Amount: $750,000
Period: 9/15/08-8/31/12
Summary: This four year project will provide financial incentives to boost the number of science and math majors obtaining certification to teach. UTPB Noyce Scholars at the undergraduate level will receive $10,000 annual scholarships for up to two years, in exchange for agreeing to teach in a high-need school for two years for each year of scholarship support.
Title: Project SAGE: Preparing Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers to Serve Students with Disabilities in the Content Area
PI & Title: Dr. Karen Smith, Professor
Awarding Agency: U.S. Department of Education/84.325T
Awarded Amount: $499,954
Period: 9/1/08-8/31/13
Summary: Funds from this grant will be used to restructure and improve the special education teacher preparation program. The new program will be designed to provide dual certification in academic content areas and will involve a collaborative effort of the School of Education and Arts and Sciences faculty.
Title: Autism & Developmental Disabilities in Early Childhood
PI & Title: Dr. Karen Smith, Ph.D.; Amanda Louder, Ed.D; Kathy Siepak, Ph.D.; Jan Murdock, Ed.D
Awarding Agency: U.S. Department of Education/84.325K
Awarded Amount: $1,065,000
Period: 1/1/2011-12/30/2015
Summary: The goal of this online project is to increase the number of highly educated teachers knowledgeable and skilled in autism and developmental disabilities who will work in early intervention or early childhood programs serving infants, toddlers and young children with disabilities.
Title: Permian Basin Mathematics and Science Teacher Academy (PBMSTA)
PI & Title: Dr. Juli Ratheal, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Assistant Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research
Co PI: Dr. Christopher Hiatt, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Awarding Agency: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Awarded Amount: $700,000
Period: April 2010-August 2015
Summary: UTPB will implement a MST academy offering opportunities to students/teachers to participate in various programs. The goals are to 1) increase the number of teachers with advance degrees by 44; 2) increase the number of teachers with degrees and/or initial certification by 6; 3) 10% increase in grades 7-11 TAKS scores for target populations of participants' students in partner districts; 4) develop a MST online Community of Practice (CoP) to facilitate project sustainability and collaboration; and 5) develop a Teacher Career Awareness Outreach Program for Middle and High School Students. Participating high needs districts are Ector County, Midland, Balmorhea, Monahans-Wickett-Pyote, Richard Milburn Academies, and Forsan.
Title: West Texas Middle School Mathematics Partnership
PI & Title: Dr. Juli Ratheal, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Assistant Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research
Co PI: Dr. Doug Hale, Professor and Chair, Mathematics and Computer Science
Co PI: Dr. Warren Kepp, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Mathematics Education
Awarding Agency: National Science Foundation/Collaboration with Texas Tech University
Awarded Amount: $1,016,804
Period: 2008-2113
Summary: The primary goal is to improve the mathematics performance and appreciation of students in a large geographic region heavily populated by Hispanics and economically disadvantaged students. West Texas Partnerships with Angelo State University, Sul Ross State University, Lubbock Independent School District, and Texas Education Service Center Region 15,17, and 18.
Title: Mathematics Communities of Practice (MCoP)
PI & Title: Dr. Juli Ratheal, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Assistant Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research
Co PI: Dr. Christopher Hiatt, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Co PI: Dr. Warren Kepp, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Mathematics Education
Co PI: Dr. Yolanda Salgado, Assistant Professor, Bilingual Education
Awarding Agency: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Program Title: Teacher Quality Grants Program
Awarded Amount: $617,000
Period: 5/1/09-5/31/11, NEW: 6/1/11-5/31/12
Summary: MCoP will offer 30 middle school mathematics and special education teachers training in mathematics content and pedagogy. The teachers will receive $3,600-$4,000 in stipends and a laptop computer during the two-year funding period for participating in the initiative. Participants will also receive classroom materials to use with their students. MCoP is a collaborative initiative between UTPB, Odessa College, and Ector County I.S.D.
NEW. Funding for professional development workshops for 20 middle school and 20 high school mathematics teachers during the 2011-2012 calendar year. Odessa College, Ector County I.S.D. and Midland I.S.D. will partner with UTPB.
Title: Training Educators, Assessment and Mentoring for English Language Learning Students (TEAMS-4-ELLS)
PI & Title: Dr. Susan Lara,
Co PI: Dr. Yolanda Salgado, Assistant Professor
Awarding Agency: U.S. Department of Education / 84.195N
Program Title: Bilingual Education - Professional Development
Awarded Amount: $1,977,660
Period: May 2012-April 2017
Summary: A five year grant from the US Department of Education entitled BEST 4 ELLS has been funded for $1,977,660 to train 24 pre-service teachers, 20 master in-service teachers and 150 in-service teachers through a program of teacher development with the ultimate goal of improving the education of English learners in the Permian Basin region of Texas. BEST 4 ELLS is a collaborative project, consisting of a consortia of local education agencies (school districts), including the Ector County ISD, The Midland ISD, The McCamey ISD, the Crane ISD, Monahans-Wickett-Pyote ISD, Seminole ISD, Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD, Midland Academy Public Charter School and one institution of higher education, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin. The goals of the project include improvingthe performance and learning of area bilingual and ESL elementary children, especially in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines on multiple measures of school achievement.Pursuant to these goals, curriculum will be revised and a new major in bilingual studies, which will include a stronger STEM foundation will be proposed. This will strengthen the new teachers and will offer an improved program for teacher education in the future at UTPB. School districts in the region will provide referrals from their pools of paraprofessionals, while at the same time providing mentoring and field based placements for the pre-service teachers. The district consortia are fully committed to placements for student teaching, for assisting with hiring and placement of the candidates and for providing administrators to provide information on professional development. .
Title: UT System LSAMP Phase IV
PI & Title: Benjamin Flores, UTEP/ Cooperative Agreement with UTPB-Dr. Tracie Gibson
Awarding Agency: National Science Foundation/47.076
Awarded Amount: $364,025
Period: 5/31/07-4/30/12
Summary: UT System Alliance is now in its fourth and final phase of NSF Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program. The Alliance's activities for this phase are to continue support for current NSF LSAMP undergraduate researchers; provide research support for new undergraduates and faculty members in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
Title: Chemistry Department Research Grant
PI & Title: Dr. J. Michael Robinson, Ellen and Bill Noel Distinguished Professor for Energy Research
Awarding Agency: The Welch Foundation
Awarded Amount: $20,000
Period: 6/1/11-5/31/12
Summary: Supports chemical research for faculty members of the Chemistry Department and also provides an opportunity for students to study chemistry in a less structured way.
Title: Bacterial heme transport and hemoglobin expression
PI & Title: Dr. Douglas P. Henderson, Associate Professor, Biology
Awarding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Awarded Amount: $211,155
Period: 7/15/09-6/30/12
Summary: The goal of this research is to produce recombinant human hemoglobin in Escherichia coli so the protein can be used therapeutically for blood transfusions when human blood is not available. This grants involves research conducted in participation with graduate and undergraduate students.
Title: NEEd
PI & Title: Dr. James Wright, Project Director, HT3R
Awarding Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission CFDA: 77.006
Awarded Amount: $105,000
Summary: Grant funds will provide support to the current NEEd project.
PI & Title: Dr. Kathryn J. Siepak, Assistant Professor, Education
Awarding Agency: State of Texas: Health and Human Services Commission
Awarded Amount: $1,191,560
Period: May 2012-September 2013
Title: Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
Awarding Agency: U.S. Small Business Administration/ NW Texas Small Business Development Center
Awarded Amount: $114,750
Period: Annual Contract with Texas Tech University
Summary: UTPB subcenter will operate in conjunction with the Northwest Texas Small Business Development Center Regional office. UTPB SBDC is responsible for furnishing services to small business in 16 counties.


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Sixty-five airport firefighters transferred from their government jobs May 1 to the Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority in a move to improve service and avoid more airport-closing strikes. "I feel confident this new management will give us more opportunities," firefighter Michael Taylor said at a May 1 press conference announcing the changes. "This completes the proposal which unfortunately saw an industrial dispute over the weekend of March 10-12," said government CEO Patrick Boyle. "I very much regret the communications breakdown that occurred at that time between ourselves, the firefighters and their advisors. This is the right move at the right time. "The firefighters will enjoy continuity of service and see significant investment in their abilities and competencies. Governments don't know how to run specialist services like this — but the aviation experts at the TCIAA certainly do." The firefighters got full-time, permanent jobs with the same salary, pension and annual leave, plus 30 days of vacation leave pay when they officially left government. The difference is that the authority is not unionised, and its directly employed staff cannot strike. One reason for the strike was to call attention to needs of the airport fire service. Government agreed and responded with $600,000 to pay for new protective fire gear, uniforms, radios, first aid training, firefighting foam, vehicle maintenance, and upgrade and completion of training rigs. "This is a sensible deal for everyone involved," said Susan Malcolm, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Home Affairs. "It was an anomaly that the government provided aerodrome fire services, when the TCIAA as a statutory body exists for this very purpose." "We very much welcome the transfer of these firefighters," said TCIAA Chief Executive John T. Smith. "It makes sense in so many ways — we can better integrate the firefighters with every aspect of our operations under a single management structure which is dedicated to the provision of excellent — and safe — airport services." In addition to employing the firefighters, the TCIAA will also get control of all firefighting lands for nominal rents to government. The authority also will provide a community firefighting service on the islands of Grand Turk, Salt Cay, South Caicos, North Caicos and Middle Caicos. Costs will be reimbursed by government. Smith said the changes will not increase the cost of air travel in any way, as the cost is just shifting from one area to another.
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Knowledge and Righteousness
In the film "White Oleander," a girl who has been exposed to Christian preachings asks a boy who is into science, "Does knowing things tell you what is right and wrong?" As a matter of fact, knowing things does a lot to help know what is right and what is wrong.
Knowing the world enough allows one to know the full range of the consequences of one's actions. This makes it possible to decide with more clarity as to which actions have good consequences and which actions have bad consequences. And that makes it possible to decide, in an informed manner, what is right and what is wrong.
Whereas going by faith alone often leads to disaster. One doesn't understand the consequences of one's actions, so one is unable to decide in an informed manner what's right and what's wrong. So then people start thinking that it's right to drive SUVs, or to poison the planet, or to invade other countries, or to bloat the debt, or to waste huge amounts of taxpayer money to put away into prison people who are into drugs or prostitution. And in all cases wrong choices are made that have terrible consequences.
So yes, knowing things can do a lot to help people in making rightful decisions. And the more people understand such things and are willing to learn, the better the lump sum of decisions made.


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The Aesthetics of Abandonment
Thursday, August 20. 2009
Detroit Book Depository
Michigan Central Station
City Hall Subway
Toronto Subway
A couple of great recent galleries on ruins and abandoned buildings. The first, from Web Urbanist is a general look at the increase in ruins and our appreciation of them; the second, from the Infrastructurist site, is a look primarily at abandoned stations and their strong allure.


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Director Jim Armstrong, athletics coordinator Steve Masters and Human Resources and Accounting coordinator Pam Pearson will be paid an annual rate of $62,000, $38,500 and $32,000, respectively, effective with the fiscal year starting Oct. 1.
The raises reflect increases of $5,200, $8,000 and $4,900 for the three positions. Other full-time Parks and Recreation employees will receive 3 percent raises.
Board president Daren Holland and members Karen Elston and Pam Landers voted in favor of the raises. Ray Holmes voted against. Board members Joe Hogan, Fran Vincent and Scott Roberson were not present at the meeting.
The raises were initially discussed and approved during an executive session at an Aug. 13 meeting where the board stated it would be discussing the good name and character of an individual. However, while it did address the job performance of an employee, Holland said the board also discussed and voted on the raises.
Holmes was the only board member not present for that meeting.
According to the Open Meetings Act, employee salaries, compensation and benefits cannot be discussed in an executive session and no votes can be taken in private.
When asked at Monday's meeting if the vote was taken during the executive session, Holland asked for a motion for a public vote.
Holmes, the only board member to vote against the raises, said he did so because he felt some of them were excessive.
"I thought they should have been looked at individually as opposed to a whole group," he said.
Holmes also expressed concern about a phone call he received from Holland about two weeks prior to the board's August meeting in which he felt he was being asked to vote on the raises. Elston said each board member did receive a call, but was never asked for a vote.
"He asked each member what we thought about it," Elston said. "He was asking for an opinion, not a vote, and he said we would make a final decision at the next board meeting."
Holland said it has been four years since any Parks and Recreation employee received a raise, and their pay rates were much lower than other cities of comparable size.
"We were well below average," Holland said. "We're still nowhere near the highest, but now we're not at the bottom either. We are on track financially, and Jim has continued to manage the budget while operating on a shoestring staff, so we felt it was well deserved."
Landers said the raises were necessary to stay competitive with other cities.
"We didn't want to lose our athletic coordinator to another area, and our Human Resources coordinator has earned a degree since she started here," Landers said. "We decided this is something we could handle in our current budget."
Armstrong said the department recently freed up $1,500 a month that was being used to pay off four Ford work trucks over the last four years. That money will now be used to afford the raises.
Also at the meeting, the board:
• Announced that Parks and Recreation will be removing the BMX bike track at Noble Park within the next few weeks and will use the dirt from the track to fill holes at various sports fields.
• Approved revenues, payrolls and expenses for August.
• Announced it will have a flu shot seminar Sept. 20, flu shots on Oct. 11 and a Pinhoti Trailhead dedication ceremony Sept. 28.
For more information, contact Parks and Recreation at 256-249-8561.
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I am pleased to join millions of our older citizens as they celebrate Older Americans Month. The theme of this year's celebration, "Never Too Old To Play!" puts a spotlight on the important role older adults play in sharing their experience, wisdom, and understanding, and passing on that knowledge to other generations in a variety of significant ways. International travel is increasingly one of the more popular ways that older Americans "play" as they visit new places and learn about new cultures. The experiences older Americans share with their families and friends upon return further enrich all generations in our communities.
One of the primary responsibilities of the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs is to ensure the safety and welfare of our fellow citizens overseas. An estimated 6.3 million Americans live overseas and another 65 million travel abroad annually, and these numbers continue to increase. This includes a growing community of older Americans who are retiring to another country, cruising the world's oceans, or taking an educational excursion abroad as part of a lifelong learning tour. From Washington, we help prepare you to travel by providing important information about every country in the world and warning you of the international financial scams that may target you as you travel. When you travel or live overseas, consular personnel at U.S. embassies, consulates, and consular agencies will advise and help you with important tasks such as replacing a passport or obtaining federal benefits, and will provide guidance and support during a crisis.
As we celebrate Older Americans Month, we encourage our fellow Americans in this growing part of our community to prepare well for their travel abroad. We want your trips or overseas retirement to be as enjoyable as you wish them to be. With that in mind, we hope you will find the travel information links below useful. We wish all older Americans, as well as all those who love and support them, a happy Older Americans Month and safe and enjoyable travels.
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Jargon Free Linked Data Video
This video is a 20-minute "jargon free" introduction to Linked Data, originally presented at Health Datapalooza IV on the 4th of June, 2013, in Washington, DC.
Active PURLs for Clinical Study Aggregation
A challenge common among many pharmaceutical companies is to relate the detailed outcomes of external clinical trials to their own research. This is made difficult by both the distributed nature of global organizations and the distributed nature of clinical trial information.
Callimachus has played a key role in aggregating clinical study information for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. Dr. David Wood, CTO of 3 Round Stones, and Dr. Tom Plasterer, a bioinformaticist at AstraZeneca, describe the solution in a poster at two upcoming conferences:
- CSHALS, Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Boston, MA, 27 Feb – 1 March 2013. The poster is available online.
- FDA/PhUSE Computational Science Symposium, Silver Spring, MD, 18-19 March 2013.
3 Round Stones and AstraZeneca created a system to allow coordinated views of distributed clinical trial information. AstraZeneca can view coordinated clinical trial information across internal and external sources and is moving it toward production use. We demonstrated that a Linked Data approach to distributed information retrieval works for clinical trial information highlighting the benefits of cooperation without coordination for typical biomedical informatics challenges.
Linked Data Book Highlighted at NYC SemWeb Meetup
David Wood will present the new book Linked Data at the New York City Semantic Web Meetup on Thursday, 21 February 2013 at Bloomberg. The book is now available in part via the Manning Early Access Program at http://www.manning.com/dwood/.
David's slides are available via Slideshare.
Linked Data Book Highlighted at DC SemWeb Meetup
David Wood will present the new book Linked Data at the DC Semantic Web Meetup on Tuesday, 29 January 2013 at the American Psychological Association (APA). The book is now available in part via the Manning Early Access Program at http://www.manning.com/dwood/.
David's slides are available via Slideshare.
Linked Data Book Highlighted at Cambridge SemWeb Meetup
David Wood will present the new book Linked Data at the Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup on Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at MIT. The book is now available in part via the Manning Early Access Program at http://www.manning.com/dwood/.
David's slides are available via Slideshare.
New Book: "Linked Data"
Our new book is entitled simply Linked Data. The book will teach Web developers how to create, manage and publish Linked Data. We are pleased to announce that the first third of the book is now available via the Manning Early Access Program from Manning Publications.
The book is currently available in an "early access edition". That means that you can start reading it now (and hopefully give us valuable feedback) while we write it. About one third of the book is currently available in PDF. Additional chapters will become available as we complete them. Early subscribers can chat with us to help us make a better book and also get the content early!
The print version should be available by the summer of 2013.
Linked Data is authored by David Wood, Marsha Zaidman, Luke Ruth and Michael Hausenblas.
TPAC 2012: 4 days of Open Web Standards & Nouvelle Cuisine
(Published 8-Nov-2012, Bernadette Hyland)
The following write up describes how one W3C co-chair interested in Open Government activities spent four days at TPAC 2012. I was grateful to have made it to Lyon France due to the massive interruption to East Coast travel at the end of October. I was scheduled to speak on a panel Monday 29-October led by NASA JPL CTO, Tom Soderstrom, called "Making Big Data Real", however, due to Hurricane Sandy, the Virginia leadership conference was cancelled. I quickly drove Washington DC to catch one of the last flights to Europe. Over fifteen thousand flights were cancelled out of East Coast airports due to the anticipated arrival of Hurricane Sandy and I suspect a few reading this post may have been affected too.
Day #1 – Monday 29-Oct-2012
Relieved to have safely arrived in Lyon during a time of chaos in the New York/New Jersey area, I reviewed the detailed TPAC 2012 schedule which included 16 parallel working group sessions and a Developer Meetup scheduled for Monday evening. TPAC is an action packed week of technical meetings, seredipitous conversations over coffee breaks, constructive break out sessions, and importantly, very focused, intense work sessions to get work completed F2F. The event is heavy on technical doers and standards bearers from research organizations, governments, non-profits, and small and large companies from all over the world.
After connecting with several colleagues over lunch, I sat in and observed the RDF Working Group, facilitated by co-chairs Guus Schreiber, (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and David Wood, (3 Round Stones). About fifteen very bright researchers and developers tackled complex and nuanced issues, discussing matters in a productive, contributory manner. The RDF Working Group is nearing completion on its two year charter. They are in Last Call for the RDF Turtle serialization, and have working drafts in review for RDF 1.1 Concepts & Abstract Syntax, as well as, JSON-LD Syntax 1.0 and JSON-LD API 1.0 in First Public Working Draft.
After the afternoon coffee break, I headed over to the WebID, ReadWriteWeb & Social Web Community Groups, facilitated by Henry Story. The Interest Group enjoyed broad international participation from about 30 people with seven people actively discussing WebID. An IG naturally has a different atmosphere than a W3C Working Group — more of a grassroots, startup feel. If there is sufficient interest and momentum, an IG may evolve into a formally chartered working group or have its deliverables "adopted" by an existing working group, such as the JSON-LD effort which was incorporated into the RDF Working Group in 2012.
The highlight of my first day was the Open Source Developers Meetup at the Lyon City Hall. After passing through the coat check, we ascended the palacial marble stairway and mingled with over 300 developers standing in the Lyon City Hall's somptuous "Grand Salon Justin Godart". During the Second Empire, this 325m2 room was used as a ballroom. This beautiful 19th Century building replete with exquisite crystal chandelliers and French artwork on the bright guilded walls. The salon is named after Justin Godart, mayor of Lyon from 1944 to 1945. I learned that Lyon France was the birthplace of the French Resistence during World War II.
The Meetup featured welcoming remarks from the Lyon Mayor's office, followed by a number of lightening talks and demos on newly announced open source and standards initiatives. The evening included demos from clever researchers and entreprenuers including Benjamin Habegger (109Lab), Rudy Rigot (CleverAge), Eric Daspet on Reading on the Web using a Web browser as an EPUB read, Robin Berjon (W3C) on HTML5 in action, Chris Mills (Opera), Mounir Lamouri and Jonas Sicking (Mozilla). Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C) gave a demo on hyperdevices, augmented reality, and a 3D explorer. Simon Sapin (Kozea) shared a demo of WeasyPrint, bringing the Web to PDF and paper.
If the future of the Web didn't excite you enough, W3C staff closed the evening with talks by Marie-Claire Forgue (W3C) on W3C online training courses for Web developers, Doug Schepers (W3C) on Web Platform Docs, and Ian Jacobs (W3C) on the rise of Community Groups. Videos and slides for the W3C developer meetup. Kudos to Marie-Claire Forgue (W3C) and her team for organizing a truly memorable event to kick off a great TPAC!
I could not help but marvel at the juxtaposition of this somptuous European hall filled with international Web developers and entrepreneurs. The energetic grassroots meetup included W3C members, University of Lyon researchers and the greater international development community. Midway through the demos, Tim Berners-Lee quietly slipped into the room after chatting with the Mayor of Lyon. Cool.
As I sat and listened, a creative dance unfolded between "atoms" and "bits" in this fabulous French civic center. Two centuries before, European artists were commissioned by the aristocracy to produce works of art for the civic center. Today, Web developers are defining open standards and creating software that has allowed information to race around the world at the speed of light. We're doing it on an Open Web Platform and we're doing it fast! The pace of change is sometimes hard to appreciate when inside the vortex of the dynamic Web ecosystem.
I felt privileged to spend the evening with many people who are driving the science and technology of our ever flatter world. They work at places like Adobe, AT&T, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Yahoo! and Yandex, as well as, at innovative small companies that will be tomorrow's household names.
Monday evening really drove home how far we've come in two decades. My first experience developing on a Web browser was in 1993 with the graphical Web browser developed by a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There were 12 HTML tags if I recall correctly. I learned about the Web from Dave Wood in under two hours because it was simple back then, really simple yet really profound. During a deep geek dinner with Pierre-Antoine Champin (Associate Professor in CS at the University of Lyon), David Wood (CTO, 3 Round Stones) and Tim Berners-Lee, TimBL shared that Andreessen's graphic browser was in fact the forth such browser. TimBL has a unique vantage point to remember these fine points as he invented HTTP, HTML and the first Web browser in 1990 and by 1991 posted a summary on the World Wide Web, the project aimed to allow all links to be made to any information anywhere.
That evening during dinner I accessed the deep memory banks recalling that in 1993 I coded my first Web app for the financial service industry on the Mosaic Web browser running X Windows. It ran on an early Mosaic Web browser on Sun workstations with 64MB of RAM that cost $30k. Today, the Web is used by billions of people on relatively inexpensive mobile devices without regard to socio-economic status. Whether a villager or world leader (or werewolf , you're likely to have used a mobile device in 2012. Africa enjoys some of the best connectivity and doctors are remotely diagnosing and treating patients in Africa.
The committment to standards has empowered the global developer community to do extraordinary things. Together, we're fostering, building and extending the ubiquitous platform that is the Web. No one person can master all the technology that underpins today's Web. So while there is more to do, including improving performance, capabilities, interoperability and to reach new markets, we've come a very, very long way in just two decades.
As the the W3C prepares to celebrate its 20th birthday in 2013, the Web is the most robust technology platform known to humankind. Importantly, it is the world's database too. The creative inspiration and determination I experienced in the Lyon City Hall on Monday night was truly awe-inspiring … then I realized this was just the first day of the TPAC event!
Day #2 – Tuesday 30-Oct-2012
After a great French buffet breakfast at the conference hotel, I joined a small, very professionally conducted market focus group. I represented a semantic technology startup that has been around the W3C for awhile. Other members of the focus group included AC representatives from international telecommunications and software firms who have been long time W3C members.
The market strategy & research project was facilitated by Elaine Solloway (Salloway & Associates) who walked the group through questions related to W3C competitors, products and services, perceived benefits of membership. The most interesting part of any market research effort are the questions involving terms, concepts and animals that describe the product or service.
When asked what animal I associated with the W3C, I replied, "kangaroo". I didn't go into all of this, but here is the explanation of why I associate the W3C with a kangaroo. Having lived in Australia for many years I grew to really appreciate this large marsupial, adapted for for leaping as fast as 20-25 km/h (13-16 mph), and the ability to sprint up to 70 km/h (44 mph) when necessary. A kangaroo is a very cool because its young emerge after a brief gestation period of about 31 days when it's only the size of a jelly bean. It climbs into its mum's pouch where it stays for about nine months, attaching to a teat for nourishment. From 9-18 months, it hops in and out of mum's pouch exploring the world with the rest of the kangaroo "mob". Call me odd, but this reminded me of W3C working groups. Male kangaroos playfully "box" amongst one another for dominance — depending on the working group, we're getting warmer. But most of all, the kangaroo in unique because it can only go forward, never backwards. That is much like the W3C, moving forwards, successfully adapting to variable conditions, able to travel long distances at moderately high speeds on a level, open landscape.
In the afternoon I attend a series of Advisory Committee meetings. Jeff Jaffe kicked off the meeting with a keynote titled "Embracing the Early Majority: Open Web Platform Progress Report". Dr. Jaffe shared his vision for the Open Web Platform and the current work of the W3C. HTML5 is seen as the cornerstone of the Web, showing tremendous potential. Dr. Jaffe emphasized that while HTML5 is fast becoming the defacto standard for Web innovation, this interoperable environment will require cooperation among many constituents working to define an HTML5 standard by 2014. He cited industry analysts to support his balanced report on the potential of many initiatives facilitated by W3C staff and members. The AC meeting enjoyed attendance by 150 of the W3C's 380+ members and TPAC 2012 overall drew a slightly larger attendance than last year's TPAC in Silicon Valley which is remarkable.
Day #3 – Wednesday 31 Oct 2012
Wednesday was the Technical Plenary Day, breakout sessions and member reception in the evening. The Plenary was open to all participants in good standing in a W3C Group including Working Groups, Interest Groups, Business and Community Groups, Advisory Committee reps, the TAG, Advisory Board and W3C Staff.
Dr. Jaffe kicked off the plenary outling the top 2013 technology trends:
#1 Mobile devices battles
#2 Mobile Applications & HTML5
#3 Personal Cloud
He outlined the steps that the collective global standards community must address including:
1) Closing the gap with native – improve performance, capability, packaging, payment discovery;
2) Improving interoperability; and
3) Reaching new markets meaning bringing more people in to improve mobility & social
Trends also include new entrants to the browser market including Chinese browsers, Yandex the widely known Russian search engine, Espial a leading Asian Communications Technology firm, and Dolphin Browser, a mobile Web browser. New HTML5 hybrid applications are coming out in the publishing industry.
Dr. Jaffe said, even though we're in the "early majority" phase, we're not there yet. Two additional components required:
1) Strengthening the core & reaching new markets. We have some idea what the specs look like. We have workshops planned for 2013.
2) We have to understand where there are problems & we have to fix them, these things are not done. Web technologies are having broader and broader impacts. As it becomes a more exciting platform for development, we have to understand how they'll use it in Automative, Publishing, Mobile, TV, etc.
TPAC Breakout Sessions:
Close to 40 breakout sessions spontaneously were organized. Members were invited to outline/prepare for breakouts in advance however sign ups and attendance were very much a spontaneous, organic process. Rooms were allocated by the W3C but other than that, it was very 'self-organizing' with rather remarkable results.
Breakout Session: Digital Publishing and the Web
I attended a great session facilitated by Ivan Herman (W3C) on emerging W3C work focused on the 2nd largest industry using Web Platform, the publishing industry.
Current W3C Plans:
* W3C Workshops focusing on eBooks, workflows are the first two in 2013
* Depending on outcomes, new activities may be initiated
* Does not want to replace other organizations (e.g, IDPF, IPTC) but wants to find areas of coorperation.
11-12 Feb 2012, New York, Hosted by O'Reilly, co-located with Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2013 (#TOC)
IDPF for ePub books – Int'l Digital Publishing Forum, non-profit trade & standards organization, 400 members from digital publishing ecosystem. Focus is ePub format as the open format for digi books. Started with Sony, Adobe, et al. Latest publication ie ePub3, published in 2011.
DRM management is the issue, brings burden to consumers, etc. Packaging is an issue for discussion
Deadline to submit position paper for eBooks conference by 10-Dec-2012. Visit Call for Participation page or contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Breakout Session: Government Linked Data
Since the Government Linked Data Working Group wasn't able to hold a F2F session at TPAC, I facilitated a breakout session titled "Linked Data: Helping Public Sector to Publish High Quality Data"
The session included a discussion of what can be done to better articulate the value proposition of Linked Data in a manner that resonates with public & private sector managers with budget authority. Here are my slides to kick off the discussion. We discussed approaches to resolve the "Four Challenges of Open Data" as described by Jeni Tennison who attended the session. The session was attended by more than 6 W3C staff members dedicated to Web Accessibility, eGov and Semantic Activity, marketing and communications. We also had attendees involved with open government, linked data and semantic Web projects in Australia, Russia, France, Taiwan and the UK, as well as a range of corporate participants from international IT companies.
I began with a brief intro on how citizens and civil servants are making real difference in people's lives through publication of open government data. I cited Todd Park, the US Federal CTO who passionately describes how liberating data in machine readable format is providing data interoperability and enabling developers to create life saving apps and services that people really care about in relation to better health, education, public safety and improved energy outcomes. Policy makers can make more effective decisions, especially in the face of natural and economic disasters. Because governments are uniquely are able to collect, curate and publish high quality authoritative data, the work of the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group, (GLD WG) and related eGov and standards groups is critical. The GLD WG is tasked with publishing peer reviewed and vetted vocabularies, best practices and supporting collateral to assist government open data champions.
I believe we're at a tipping point in 2012-2014 where there is genuine enthusiasm for innovation by governments as presidents and prime ministers, CIOs and CTOs, have publicly committed to transparency initiatives and adapting to the rapidly changing mobile landscape, as it grows from 1B in 2011 to 5B globally in 2016. Many have prioritized social media/community engagement, cloud, Web standards and open source platforms to reduce costs. US senior executives including Todd Park are speaking openly about the public good and economic value created by open-standards, open data and open source platforms. I regularly hear executives in 2012 describing the importance of "machine and human readable open data", APIs and open source platforms to level the playing field — these are of course the foundational open-standards and Open Web Platform the W3C community has been thoughtfully building over the last decade. In the GLD WG, we're producing peer-reviewed, vetted standards that clarify and stabilize what early adopters of semantic technologies and Linked Data have put into action in the private and public sector.
Helping people to achieve better living through an open Web platform for knowledge sharing, rapid application development and collaboration is paramount. We must not take openness and a level playing for granted. W3C serves as the world's steward of a royalty-free IP clearinghouse. This is critical to the keeping the WWW a write once, run anywhere platform. It is world's interest to have the Web remain the place you want to be.
Within the W3C GLD WG, we're focused on open government data published and consumed as 4 & 5 star linked data. This includes a best practices guide aimed at government, contractors, vendors and the public to:
- Improving search, access & re-use of government content using Web standards;
- The value proposition of Linked Open Data;
- How LOD compares with existing approaches & where it differs;
- Best practices on vocabulary selection, URI construction, data modeling, transformation & annotation of datasets,
- A Linked Data glossary, and Linked Data Cookbook
Our working group was charted in June 2011 for two years, so we're about 16 months into our deliverables. We have 3 vocabulary documents in FPWD; one in LC; Best Practices for Government Linked Data in FPWD; a functioning Community Directory that requires improved UX/UI & automation; a cookbook and glossary.
We recognize this is a 10+ year process and that we're in early years of publishing 4 & 5 star data. Practically, only data sets that have some potential for re-use will be selected for this type of publication because of course there are costs associated with modeling, publishing and maintaining LOD. In the US, organizations like the National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine are publishing authoritative content that is leveling the playing field and beginning to reduce healthcare costs through innovate private sector products and services. Their contributions on open data are producing measurable outcomes that people really care about in relation to public services for better health, education and safety.
Themes emerging from Gov't LD breakout:
- Everyone wants ROI stories for publication & consumption of Linked Data.
- It costs money to track, analyze and write up ROI stories. If you're selling products, you'll do that. If you're government, you are measuring public good which is measured differently with qualitative attributes.
- Use cases & success stories are useful even not fully quanitified ROI case studies.
- Emphasize flexibility & agility. Data interoperability is 20% technology and 80% about organization dynamics — politics and emotions (credit: Bart)
- Jeni encouraged people to talk about URIs and opening data without mentioning Linked Data.
- Jeni further emphasized government agencies may do small projects but there must be guaranteed supply, along with an 'Memorandum of Understanding' from the government that they'll keep up the timely supply of information, specify a license, and other relevant information for data use.
- Lower the barriers for entry but not sacrificing quality, in fact, increase the quality but make it easier to use;
- Work on integration, not just production, consumption and manipulation;
- Government are often reluctant to put data on the Web, "open can be scarey".
- Emphasize data sharing internally by government agencies who need to share, e.g., first responders. Recognize they all have slightly different meanings of the word "victim", which is fine. They still need to share their data.
- We need Government Open Data Best Practices, guidelines for publishing data, vocabularly selection, URI naming conventions. I noted this is a deliverable of the Government Linked Data Working Group.
- Compelling applications using Linked Data are critical, beef up SWEO concept & bring it up to date for LD deployments in the wild. This will help Gartner too.
- Common problem is overwhelming government officials with tech speak. Consider having a template from which internal champions can pull language:
- Financial benefits
- Social responsibility benefits
- Legal & regulatory benefits
- Technical benefits
We emerged with a concrete, actionable list of next steps. Many are being developed by the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group. Some are new deliverables that may form the basis of an Interest Group or subsequent Working Group.
Later in the afternoon, Hadley Beeman, a UK based Open Data advocate, social networking specialist for the UK Public Sector and advisor on technology policy lead a breakout on open government data.
Open government advocates and practioners from Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, UK and US attended this Open Government breakout session facilitated by Hadley. Themes of making data accessible to the public, engaging the public in cleaning "dirty data" and thereby having a state in it, and the benefits of RDF as an interoperable data model were discussed. Hadley facilitated the breakout with open ended questions like, "In 20 years when we have massive amounts of government data being published, will RDF still be useful? Will we progress beyond Linked Data?"
The presumption is that we're at a tipping point where data is flooding the Web, however, once we find data the question becomes "how do we readily use it? What is the context of the data? What is the license for re-use? Right now, government agencies do not exchange data in multiple data models. To be relevant, you must be able to publish your data on the Web in a way that people can both access it and use it.
We discussed patterns for data workflows, ensuring context (metadata) travels with the data itself. Ralph (W3C) concluded that we'd like to have this problem of too much Linked Data. He is confident that when we have this 'problem', we'll find a way to deal with it because unlike CSV files where you have to guess what it means, Linked Data has context that describes what the data represents.
Day #3 wrapped up with dinner with members of the RDF and Linked Data Working Groups at a lovely Lyonnaise style restaurant. As I love French cuisine, I was in Nirvana.
. The desserts were creative and delicious. You might think we just ate and ate in Lyon, you'd be correct!Day #4 – 1 Nov 2012
Thursday included yet more Working Group meeting including the newly launched Linked Data Platform Working Group, co-chairs Arnaud Le Hors, (IBM) and Erik Wilde, (EMC). Arnaud facilitated Thursday roundtable discussion with many big brains. It was W3C Working Group process at its best! I was reminded of just how small and distributed the Web community is when Arnaud and I realized we attended the 1993 X Windows Developer Conference in San Jose but just met one another F2F at TPAC 2012 two decades later. It is a global village, indeed.
I later headed over to hear an update from Ian Jacobs, head of W3C Communications, on Community and Business Groups. These have been very, very popular based on participation of members and the public. Doug Schepers, Developer Relations Lead, gave a great overview of the Web Platform Docs initiative that was announced 8-October 2012. By midday we heard from several new W3C members including British Sky Broadcasting, Irdeto, Panasonic and Yandex. The important Tracking Protection Working Group has continued the hard work of driving to consensus on "Do Not Track" policies. Finally, Ralph Swick, COO (W3C) ended the session with updates to the W3C's Markup Validation Service that checks the markup validity of Web documents in an effort to provide a better Web experience.
I concluded my TPAC meetings with an enjoyable meeting with Secretary Delfino Natal de Souza of the Ministry of Planning and two Brazil office staff who participate in the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group. We discussed the progress the Brazilian Government has made on open government initiatives and further explored how the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group or other activities can further support their efforts.
I left my first TPAC with a heightened sense of the importance of the W3C as the global standards organization dedicated to communicating the vision of the world's Open Web Platform. The benefits to humanity in having the W3C as an international standards organization with well-defined processes, a culture of transparency, balance and openness cannot be overstated.
A thousand thanks (mille grazie) to the hundreds of very bright thought leaders, researchers and developers who have meet on weekly telecons, driven towards consensus, documented standards and best practices over the last two decades. Your collective wisdom has had a huge impact on humanity, innovation and competition around the world.
Since 2004, I've been a co-founder or on the management team of three W3C member companies — What took me so many years to attend a W3C TPAC meeting?? Well, it was a bit of a mystery what happened at TPAC. I hope this summary of experiences encourages you to attend if you've never been to a TPAC meeting before, and if you're a regular delegate, I hope I see you next year!
If you're organization is not a W3C member, considering joining and becoming part of the worldwide community addressing the prescient issues of the 21st Century from the ground up. If you are a W3C member, don't wait 8 years to attend a TPAC conference!
Appreciating the Lyon and Beaujolais Region
On a personal note, I love French nouvelle cuisine and the 2 hour lunch experience. The French have the importance of fresh ingredients, beautiful cheeses, great Beaujolais and portion control defined to a fine art ~ That is why French people aren't fat!
I found time to take a day long tour of the Beaujolais Region with a guide named Sébastien Girard of "Lyon is Yours" who came from five generations of wine makers. The Beaujolais region has one of the highest vine density ratio of any major, worldwide wine region with anywhere from 9000 to 13,000 vines per hectare. Each vinyard is about 11 hectares in size, is run by a few skilled wine growers who do a huge amount of manual labor themselves. Their "vines are their children" and lovingly tended and maintained for multiple generations. We visited Vaux en Beaujolais, famous under the name of "Clochemerle", and visited the golden stone region, culminating in a medieval village called "Oingt". Our extraordinary tour guide, Sébastien Girard shared how Beaujoais is the 'ordinary, everyday wine' shared with friends and family. He gave me a new appreciation of wine masters and the central role of Beaujolais in French lifestyle.
So as Beaujolais is central to French people, the Web is the fabric of my day to day life, shared with my friends and family. Bonjour ne!
TPAC 2012: Liberté and the Open Web Platform
(Published 8-Nov-2012, Bernadette Hyland)
Summary of W3C TPAC 29-Oct to 1-Nov-2012
This summary of the W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee Conference was written for fellow open data colleagues who may have been unable to attend TPAC 2012 due to government austerity measures and travel restrictions. It's my hope that it reflects the special experience that was TPAC 2012. Together, we'll continue the important open-standards, open Web platform conversation that continues to transform the world.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, French for "Liberty, equality, fraternity (brotherhood)" is the national motto of France. Other nations have adopted the French slogan as an ideal as well. I found it fitting that the technical plenary and advisory committee meetings for the Web's global standards organization was held in Lyon France. The Web has had a relatively brief yet profound history of innovation and continues to benefit to humanity in ways too numerous to comprehend. The really cool part is, no vendor or government controls it. Rather, thousands of dedicated individuals, the vast majority of whom are volunteers, build pieces of the Web platform. Voilà! it all hangs together and works as the world's most robust information technology system. Yes, yes there is much to be done to improve capabilities and interoperability but look over your should and see how far we've come in two decades.
The W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting (TPAC 2012) wrapped up in Lyon France on 1-November 2012. Surpassing attendance at last year's TPAC in Silicon Valley, 480 attendees, TPAC 2012 was held at the Cité Centre de Congrès de Lyon in France. Attendees included 150 Advisory Committee (AC) representatives from the W3C's over 380 members according to Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO.
Advisory Committee representatives represent their respective member organization.
Interestingly, whether you are a five person startup, a multinational corporate member or a federal government agency, there is a single Advisory Committee Representative within the W3C. This helps to keep the playing field level so no one organization can dominate the Web's standards organization. For those new to the W3C, it is the worldwide Web's standards organization. The W3C pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure the long term growth of the Web. Most recently, W3C Standards provide developers the foundation to build rich interactive applications powered by vast data stores, delivered on any device.
Early in the week we heard from Dr. Jaffe who works with Director Tim Berners-Lee, staff, members and the public to evolve and communicate the W3C's vision. Jeff delivered an excellent business focused, balanced keynote titled "Embracing the Early Majority: Open Web Platform Progress Report". Dr. Jaffe cited industry analysts that suggest adoption of the Open Web Platform is in the "early majority". Mobile Applications and HTML5 are cited in Gartner's "Top 10 Tech Trends for 2013″. Forrester Research states that "with consumer adoption of HTML5-capabile desktop browsers widespread and the Web developer community understanding of the technology rapidly maturing, HTML5 is fast becoming the de facto standard for Web experience across touch points" (Forrester Research August 2012). We need only look at social and traditional media organizations including YouTube, LinkedIn, NY Times, and The Economist have all launched new Web apps in the last year highlighting the importance of HTML5 on hybrid or mobile-Web browsers.
As the global demand for use rises, developer and industry expectations for improved capabilities, performance and interoperability also increases. The W3C plays a unique and critically important role in responding to the needs of its 380 members and the public. Support from members as well as participation in events like TPAC, as well as the numerous working groups, community and interest groups are critical to address the rising expectations for an Open Web Platform.
Following the keynote, W3C management delivered a progress report on the Open Web Platform, financials, HTML 2014 plan, W3C Process, and W3C Brand Research. Later presentations on new initiatives including the Web Platform Documents effort lead by Doug Schepers, (Developer Relations Lead), new member introductions by Alan Bird, (Bus Dev Lead), and the W3C Validator Service Ralph Swick, (COO).
It is worth noting that each TPAC delegate's experience is unique. There were many activities happening in parallel including AC representative meetings, the Technical Plenary, 30 working group and interest group discussions, 39 breakout sessions, breakfasts and dinners, and a Developer Meetup sponsored by the W3C and Universite de Lyon.
Throughout TPAC, there was a major theme around Web accessibility. The W3C believes the Web must be designed to work for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, culture, location, or physical or mental ability. When the Web meets this goal, it is accessible to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, and cognitive ability, according to the W3C's Accessibility statement. On a personal note, I deeply admired how capably the conference delegates with movement and sight impairments navigated the conference venue, often assisted by other delegates eager to lend an arm.
TPAC 2012 reaffirmed in my commitment to the world's open-standards bearer for an Open Web Platform. This keeps the Web a level playing field for participation by all globally. It is through the work of literally thousands of bright volunteers who are passionate about transparency, scalability, interoperability and information sharing that we have today's World Wide Web. The Web is many things including the world's database and a programming environment for rich, interactive, cross-platform applications.
The Open Web Platform allows us to address humanity's most pressing issues, in addition to being the most robust IT platform ever conceived. TPAC 2012 was an extraordinary experience. I departed the conference with a heightened sense of the importance of the W3C as the global standards organization dedicated to communicating the vision of the world's Open Web Platform. The benefits to humanity in having the W3C as an international standards organization with well-defined processes, a culture of transparency, balance and openness cannot be overstated.
Grand merci (big thanks) to the extraordinary community of thought leaders, researchers and developers who meet on telecons month after month, year after year, working through tough issues. Our collective efforts to drive towards consensus, document standards and best practices over the last two decades has truly changed the world. Just watching the US elections unfold this week, I'm once again reminded of the huge impact the Web has on humanity, innovation, competition and politics around the world.
If your agency or organization is not a W3C member, considering joining and becoming part of the worldwide community addressing the prescient issues of the 21st Century from the ground up.
The following day by day trip report outlines four days at TPAC 2012. It is by no means comprehensive, rather, a summary of how I spent four very full days.
Detail of Days 1-4 – meetings, breakout sessions and more!
Days #1-#4 at TPAC 2012.
A Real-World Linked Open Data Story
We have been talking about the US Environmental Protection Agency's forays into Linked Open Data for a while. Naturally, it takes a while for a government agency to adopt both a new technology and a new way of engaging with the public. We are getting closer to an official launch.
In the meantime, I spoke with several old semantic friends while at the Semantic Technology & Business Conference in New York City last week and showed them some interesting things we can do with EPA Linked Data. Specifically, I would ask them for a ZIP code and then show them facilities of potential interest to the EPA within that location. Roughly 1% of those facilities provide detailed reports of pollution annually. The EPA Linked Data contains information about the facilities, the reports and the chemical substances.
Elisa Kendall had the most interesting ZIP code and a specific request. She lives near a particular cement plant and has long suspected that it released mercury into the air. She wondered what information we might have on it. I searched for ZIP code 95014 on our prototype search form and then sorted the "Pollution Data?" column twice (the first time sorted descending, the second ascending) to bring the facilities with pollution reports to the top of the list. The entry for Hanson Permanente Cement appeared near the top of the list and Elisa confirmed that was the one she was looking for.
Within a few clicks, we could see that Hanson does in fact release mercury into the air stack. The levels seem to be significant to me, but I am neither an ecologist nor a biologist, so I'll leave that to others to say. We were also able to see that the facility has released several other kinds of chemicals, including lead compounds, chromium compounds, dioxin compounds, nickel compounds, manganese compounds and hydrochloric acid.
The EPA is quick to point out that the companies that report pollution may be the "good guys". The anecdotally suggest that they can only afford to track something like one one-thousandth of the pollution occurring in the United States. The system by which the companies provide information is voluntary and self-reported. However, that shouldn't stop the public from making use of this information as it sees fit.
Another aspect to this is that the EPA has provided the raw data for the Toxics Release Inventory program for many years. Raw CSV files may be downloaded from the EPA and discovered via data.gov. The Linked Open Data versions of the data provides at least two advantages: The data is structured for reuse and tools like Callimachus make it easy to build applications on top of it.
Elisa ask me to plot the reported pollution levels over time, which I was quickly able to do. The SPARQL query looks like this:
PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
PREFIX tri: <http://usepa.3roundstones.net/id/us/fed/agency/epa/tri/schema/>
PREFIX : <#>SELECT DISTINCT ?year ?pounds
?tri_facility owl:sameAs <http://usepa.3roundstones.net/facilities/110000484039>
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?location tri:amount_in_pounds ?pounds
; tri:environmental_medium <http://usepa.3roundstones.net/id/us/fed/agency/epa/tri/environmental_medium/AIR_STACK> .} order by ?year
You might note the use of a non-standard construct in the query: "$chemical". This query was saved as a Callimachus "named query" and the use of a variable within a quote (or a URI) allows the query to be called with parameters. In this case, the name of a chemical is appended to the query's URL to get the results. The query definition is available here. Calling it like this allows it to return information about Lead compounds formatted in the JSON required for Google Charts:
This page shows the plots over time of all the reported pollution that particular facility put into the air stack over the reporting years. We currently have data through 2010. The chart for mercury looks like this:
What will Elisa do with this information? I don't know. That's the beauty of it. She had a pre-existing concern about a particular facility and a suspicion that they were putting mercury into the air. Now she has access to specific data about what they are really producing and how that has changed over time. She is closer to the truth. Perhaps she will be appalled at the results and seek changes in her community. Alternatively, she might research the acceptable levels of pollution and the science of exposure and determine that her concerns may be best applied elsewhere. I can't judge at this time. Whichever way she proceeds she will do so with better knowledge of actual facts and less on rumor and suspicion. That must be a good thing.
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David's cousin, Sue Lake, said she knew the teen had been bullied for several years.
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She described incidents where students would steal David's gym clothes or send him mean messages on Valentine's Day.
"I know kids would follow him home and call him names," Lake said. "I told him 'You just have to ignore it'."
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"It was like pretty much every day he got teased for something you shouldn't even be teased for," McKenzi Bridge, a student, said.
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"He was like loving and happy," she said. "It breaks my heart to know that people can hurt somebody so bad."
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April 11, 2010, Greencastle, Ind. — Elliott Ross and T.J. Witham combined for a four-hit shutout as DePauw blanked Sewanee, 14-0, and swept the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference series. The host Tigers improved to 19-13 overall and 7-5 in SCAC play, while Sewanee dropped to 6-23 overall and 1-11 in conference play.
Taylor Hoffman scored from third on a wild pitch in the first with DePauw's first run before Jon Newman led off the second with a homer to left center. Later in the second, Alex Jacques drove in Alex Wright in the second with a sacrifice fly and Ben Gardner plated Sam Linette with a single to make it 4-0. The Tigers added four more in the fourth and six in the sixth for the win.
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