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"My New Year hasn't started, it hasn't been a happy New Year," said his sister, who does not want to be identified.
Patrick Balbastro and Cindy Burnett were killed only a couple of hours into the New Year and on Thursday, Patrick's family got to see the face of the man police say ran them both over with a car.
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Too often, it becomes painfully obvious that we Americans burden the legacies of the men who founded our Nation with powers of knowledge and reason unattainable as a result of the forever-present fickleness of the human condition.
In arguments of modern political and social import, we harken back to the simply worded — and, therefore, easily victimized by agenda-driven interpretation — Bill of Rights. We argue over whether the Nation's Constitution is one of concrete command or an always-beating heart, swayable by the demands of modernity. And we rely on interpretation of the country's supreme law by a group of noble judges who are granted full-faith public trust — even if their decisions are still subject to disagreement.
This is a system that, by the wisdom of the Founders, has kept this great Nation unified — if only by a thread at times — through innumerable disagreements of public sensibility.
A battle being waged between the majority population and an outsider-aided minority group in the modest town of Cullman, Ala., seated in the Nation's Bible Belt, exemplifies the very type of disagreement that — despite endless debate, historical study and emotional outburst — will never be publicly settled. It involves that pesky tendency of Americans, for faith or due to the lack thereof, to argue over the properness of interchanging the prepositions "of" and "from" in using abbreviated language to narrate the portion of the Nation's 1st Amendment regarding matters of religion.
This happens despite the fact that the portion of the Amendment addressing religious matters reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…" And it really should leave no room for the irreverence of truncation that allows us to quarrel over the fair use of "freedom of" or "freedom from" religion. But it seems that public disagreement is a characteristic of the American condition more ingrained than even faith and freedom, and no one ever seems to attempt to argue in favor of substituting "from" for "of" in the phrase "freedom of speech." So on goes the debate.
In Cullman, Billy Coleman, the elected superintendent of the county's school system, recently posted announcements to a system-controlled Facebook account and calendar announcing a Saturday event giving students, faculty and the community to opportunity to voluntarily gather on county school campuses for prayer to kick off the school year.
Because Coleman was obviously acting in his official capacity as a school official in posting the event (otherwise he would have not had access to the system), it's easily arguable that he violated Department of Education guidelines that resulted from Supreme Court rulings and that prohibit school officials from promoting prayer.
That Cullman is a heavily religious community and that participation in the event is voluntary and scheduled to take place outside of regular school hours were of no consequence to the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). Despite being headquartered hundreds of miles away in Wisconsin, the organization caught wind of Coleman's actions and promptly sent him a cease and desist letter demanding that he cancel the event it labeled an "especially egregious violation" of the separation of church and state.
But Coleman was certainly not interested in backing down, even facing a lawsuit from the group.
"We're not going to cancel it. We're not praying for our schools to make a point. We're praying for our schools because we want to thank God for the blessings he gives us, and pray for our students and communities," he told The Cullman Times. "I think the problem is they assume our school system is sponsoring it, and it is not. It's called the Cullman County Schools Prayer Caravan because it goes to all the county schools. We just want to give folks the voluntary opportunity to come out and pray on a Saturday."
In a bid to appease the group, the superintendent promptly removed the announcements posted online; and the local board of education issued a resolution officially denying any system involvement in its organization.
But the Freedom From Religion Foundation remained unsatisfied. In an interview with Personal Liberty, FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel explained why.
"Coleman was acting as a school official when he posted the announcements of the prayer meeting," Seidel claimed. "And simply removing the announcements isn't enough to fix the problem; canceling the event in his official capacity is the only way to cure it."
Seidel explained that his group's mission is to act as an advocate for Americans who consider themselves non-theists or secularists and to uphold the Constitutional separation of church and state. The attorney said that FFRC didn't go looking for a fight with the Cullman County system, but was contacted by members of the local community who complained of the event and other — unverifiable by nature — religious intrusions in that public school system.
"We've had reports of prayers over intercom in schools in the district, religious speeches and other complaints," Seidel said.
When asked for a specific number of complaints, the attorney said more than 10.
Seidel went on to explain that while those who complain about religious activity in schools may be a minority in Cullman, his organization doesn't consider majority opinion a justification for abuses of the Constitution. What's worse, he said, is that those people in the minority are sometimes subjected to death threats and attacks from angry religious believers. He backed his assertion citing the story of Jessica Ahlquist, a 16-year-old Rhode Island student who led a charge — and eventually successfully sued — to have a prayer banner removed from her public school auditorium. She was eventually subjected to such abuse from her peers and other community members, Seidel said, that she required a police escort at school.
Despite its protest, Seidel said his organization is under no illusion that Coleman will back down. And FFRC is prepared to sue the school system, confident that legal precedent is on its side.
Asked whether it seemed at all irrational to fight an uphill battle in the name of secularism in a very religious community, Seidel said simply, "They may have God on their side, but we have the Constitution on ours."
Coleman and his legal advisers have made numerous statements to local media regarding the issue, and they appear comfortably certain that they have taken the correct steps to remedy any Constitutional or legal issues stemming from the event.
Taking a day of leave to speak freely, the superintendent delivered an impassioned speech this week, complete with an attempt to answer the question of where our Nation's Founders would fall on the issue.
The conclusion of Coleman's speech was recorded by The Cullman Times as follows:
There has been a lot of debate on what was inside the heads of our founding fathers when this country was established. Why did they write what they wrote? What was the meaning of the First Amendment and public free exercise of religious belief? There is a host of documentation as to their original intent, including that found in the 1789 Northwest Ordinance, adopted after the First Amendment was ratified: 'Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.' Thus, we know that the first public schools were established to teach children how to read the Bible and the New England Primer, which was one of the first textbooks in America and certainly made reference to the Bible. Now we have come to this, an activist organization located halfway across the country attempting to eliminate private expressions of faith and worship by public school officials and employees acting on their private time and in their private capacity as citizens of Cullman County. We strongly feel this goes well beyond what even modern Supreme Court decisions require, regarding the scope of the First Amendment.
In conclusion, I want to thank all those who have offered so much support for our Prayer Caravan and for the citizens of Cullman County's decision to take a stand. I would like to finally close with the first and last lines of the first prayer given at the Continental Congress on September 7, 1774.
'O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings,
and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the
dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and
uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee form the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee…
All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior. Amen'
God bless you all, and God bless America.
Of course, it's no surprise that Seidel interprets the Founders' proposed relationship between religion and public institutions in the United States a little differently.
He prefers quotes attributed to James Madison, such as that which was written in a letter to Edward Livingston: "Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
And Seidel described Thomas Jefferson's infamous taking of a razor to the Bible to remove supernatural anecdotes from its moral message as a wonderful and telling act that gives insight to the Founder's religious mindset.
While we probably shouldn't expect Seidel and Coleman to sit down over a cup of coffee and come to an agreement about the threshold of separation of church and state violations anytime soon, they certainly offer a valuable lesson to the rest of us. We'll never know exactly how the men who founded the Nation expected its modern citizens to exercise the freedoms they sought to guarantee, nor will we know exactly where they sought to limit the power of government in every scenario.
But it seems pretty plausible that if Jefferson and Madison were here today and they suffered the opportunity to read an account of the argument Coleman and Seidel are having, they'd shake their heads in disapproval, knowing that this is how some Americans now spend the spare time not constrained by the sort of hardships the founding generations faced.


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MONTPELIER – The two Orleans/Essex County district senate seats are safe for the moment, according to Sen. Vince Illuzzi (R-Orleans/Essex), one of the members of the special senate committee charged with coming up with a recommendation for reapportioning Vermont senate districts. The draft plan has yet to be adopted by both chambers and requires the governor's signature to become law.
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NEWPORT, VT - Two North Country Union High School graduates who are making names for themselves in the film world are hosting a double feature at the Waterfront Cinemas in Newport on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. The award winning films being shown are "Soul Keeper" and "Tin Can."
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This is the last post from our series about MongoDB. We have shown you the features, the drawbacks and now we will show you how it handles Java.
As mentioned before, MongoDB supports a number of drivers for different platforms; however, since it's mostly designed to operate in the Web's distributed environment, it comes naturally along Java technology. But enough words said, instead let's jump straight to code and see what it really looks like from the inside. To make it even more exciting, we put in some competition flavor by comparing MongoDB on Java with something very common and widely used, something like MySQL. So, we are about to assemble some kind of roughly made comparative performance test for MongoDB and MySQL with bulk inserts, selects and updates. Before we move on, I beg you not to take this performance test too seriously, since it's in no way a complete, redundant or ultimate performance test, and it's not intended to say some heavy 'yes' or 'no' toward a specific solution. It's merely an applied example to make your journey with MongoDB interesting and useful.
There is plenty of detailed documentation for both MySQL's and MongoDB's installation setup processes. They both are available as a binary distribution. If you are a Linux user, I encourage you to use repository distributions. Let's assume we have our environment set up and running, and we ready to start coding.
We need some generic testing and reporting suite and service running our insert/select/update routines for available database providers. You can download complete code to look into and play with it using this link:
Let's take a closer look at MongoDB's database service, MongoDbOpService.java:
public class MongoDbOpService implements DatabaseOpService, InitializingBean { ... @Override public void cleanUp() { col.remove(BasicDBObjectBuilder.start().get()); col.ensureIndex(BasicDBObjectBuilder.start().add("field1", 1).get()); } @Override public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception { Mongo mongo = new Mongo(host, port); col = mongo.getDB("test").getCollection("test"); cleanUp(); } @Override public void select(int numOfOps) throws DatabaseOperationException { for (int i = 0; i < numOfOps; i++){ col.find(BasicDBObjectBuilder.start() .add("field1", new BasicDBObject("$gt", i)).get()); } } @Override public void update(int numOfOps) throws DatabaseOperationException { for (int i = 0; i < numOfOps; i++) { col.update(new BasicDBObject("field1", new BasicDBObject("$gt", i)), new BasicDBObject("$set", new BasicDBObject("field2", 1)), false, true); } } @Override public void insert(int numOfOps) throws DatabaseOperationException { for (int i = 0; i < numOfOps; i++) { BasicDBObjectBuilder builder = new BasicDBObjectBuilder(); builder .add("field1", (int) (Math.random() * numOfOps)) .add("field2", (int) (Math.random() * numOfOps)) .add("field3", (int) (Math.random() * numOfOps)); col.save(builder.get()); } } ... }
We start by just creating Mongo instance, with its constructor accepting the host address as a parameter. Then we want to create a test database and collect in it. The trick is that we don't have to worry about whether the database with the given name exists. getDB() will return existing names or create a new one for us, and the same applies to getCollection(). Since we are going to run through our routines several times, we want to ensure we have a clean collection for each pass, and we can do it by calling the cleanUp() service method. It will remove all documents from the collection in case this is not the first run and ensure (create) index on the field ('field1') that we are going to query later on. If you did the same thing from a JavaScript console, it would look something like this:
> db.test.remove({}) > db.test.ensureIndex({"field1":1})
Where 'test' is the name of the collection, remove is given an empty JSON object as a filter argument, and ensureIndex is given an object with only one name as an index target field, while '1' indicates ascending indexing order. Worth mentioning is that almost everything inside MongoDB uses json extensively for filtering, querying, update operations, etc. Also note that there is nothing like data schema for the created MongoDB collection.
The next point of interest is the insert(int N) call that will insert N simple objects into our test collection, which in json will look like this:
{ "field1" : random_int, "field2" : random_int, "field3" : random_int }
Now, when we have N documents in our collection, we can start playing and selecting them. The select(int N) call will make N queries to test the collection, trying to fetch all documents that have their field2 value greater than some integer (0,N]. Note that such query returns the cursor, so it's usually a good idea to consider paging and result limiting in your live application, especially on large data results. Otherwise you will definitely hit a cursor timeout issue or some other nasty distributed environment issues. The very same query in JS console would look like this:
> db.test.find({"field1":{$gt:i}})
Note how we use the filter operator keyword '$gt' (greater than). There are two things to note here. First, there are plenty of such keywords in mongodb query syntax used for filtering, updating and some other cool stuff. You can find all the details in manuals. What is more important to note is that we actually use json object as a value for "field1." So your documents can contain any number of nested documents in field values, as well as arrays and functions. This can lead to very interesting applications, including stored procedures. Just take a look at this example object:
{ _id : ObjectID("4e0a078e69fea677c91d3742"), name: "John", address:{ city:"Moscow", street:{ name: "Lenin", type: "Square" }, zip: 12345 }, sayHi : function(){print('Hello from function!');}, some_list:[1245968390, 2859408375, 8756203941], some_object_list:[ {field1:"something1",field2:1}, {field1:"something2",field2:-1} ] }
Even though it can look confusing, it turns out to be a very convenient way of making things work. Also, since this is actually an object, you can use "dot notation" to access any nested field. So if we match the object from the last example, we can do the following:
> a = db.test.findOne({name:"John"}) > a.address.street.type Square > a.sayHi() Hello from function!
> a.some_list[0] 1245968390
Finally, update(int N) call makes N update operations, trying to find objects with the same query select() does, but this time we want to change 'field2' value of matched objects. Note that we are using the '$set' atomic modifier here, so that this update won't lock the object being changed, only the field value is to be updated.
Here are the results I've got on my local machine. I have to mention that even the simple and quick-made test we used shows how ridiculously slow bulk operation can be with the traditional relational approach. I basically stopped on the 10k set because it takes way too much time with little difference in results. In the meantime, using MongoDB, I've had times when I generated millions of documents for the demo collection, and it took a matter of minutes.
Test: MongoDB vs MySQL quick performance test (insert/select/update) Environment: Ubuntu 11.04 Linux x86_64 2.6.38, i5-2400, RAM 8Gb
Figure 2 - Average select time, ms/record
Figure 2 - Average select time, ms/record
Figure 3 - Average update time, ms/record
Figure 3 - Average update time, ms/record
After having a brief look at MongoDB's features and trade offs, one can ask oneself, is this piece of technology production ready, and could I use it in my project? Well, it's up to you, but my word is that you should give it a try. The test we were using as an example cannot be taken to prove either MongoDB or MySQL is better. It just shows how these two systems can handle one specific test. What is absolutely exciting about MongoDB is that it's really easy to start working with. It's just a matter of an hour to layout some basic configuration and client code. There are huge advantages and yet a price to pay.
In our previous posts we introduced you to MongoDB as well as it's features. In this part we will be talking about the
Finally, it's payback time. Of course, we are not expecting to get a scalable and high-performance database with little to no cost. Current MongoDB drawbacks should be divided into two groups. The first group is caused by fundamental differences in approach and the price we have to pay – consistency. This means that, as soon as MongoDB is your weapon of choice, your application logic has to provide workarounds for concurrency issues and consistency checks. It's good to know that MongoDB has two options to tackle the last problem – write with concern (WriteConcern) allows you to go around the "save now write later" issue, and it can be a powerful tool in skilled hands, while the slaveOk setting allows you to force "read from primary only" behavior, so you are no longer trapped with replication sync issues. And of course, versions and atomic updates help with concurrency.
I should name the second group "age-related problems." These are the drawbacks that we are facing now, but they are more or less likely to go away in the future. Some of these drawback fixes are harder to implement and/or have a lower priority. To name a few:
As mentioned before, queries in MongoDB work perfectly when the corresponding index is there. But if your query filter has some not-indexed fields, you will end up with a very long query time. There is a way to hint or force MongoDB to use the existing query without that field, but you have to understand indexing mechanics and use this feature carefully. Another thing is that MongoDB keeps all indexes in memory, and even though memory size is usually quite large for servers, it's still limited, and you have to keep that in mind and make sure you are not creating too many indexes.
Also when querying, you have to keep in mind that not all query types currently support or use indexes; therefore, using something like MapReduce, where clause or some regular expressions, you could end up with a long query time. Due to JavaScript engine limitations, MapReduce queries are processed in a single thread and can lock down the whole database instance. Eventually, indexes could be very productive for heavy-read applications and could show up as counterproductive in applications with lots of writes.
MongoDB is supposed to be operated from a secured/trusted environments and only has basic authentication implemented. You have only two alternatives for user access rights: it's either a read-only user or an admin user with all write/read privileges. The user gets access database-wide, and it's not possible to set up different access per collection. Also, the basic auth mechanism currently doesn't work for sharded configurations.
Not a big deal, usually, but still a limitation of single document size. As for version 1.8, it's 8Mb and assumed to increase in later releases.
MongoDB returns the cursor as a query result. There is such a thing as a cursor timeout. So, especially when operating in distributed configuration (shard + replicaset), you should consider paging queries in a smaller chunks.
Last but not least, even though there are a number of MongoDB drivers for all platforms, they perform differently. Whether it's a platform or a driver implementation, it's always a good idea to try and test-driver performance in your environment before making a final decision.
Stay tuned for our last posts where we will be talking about how MongoDB and Java
By Ivan, a Java Developer at Murano software's team.
In our previous post we have introduced you to MongoDB which has been getting quite the attention lately. We are continuing our series about Mongo, and more precisely with..
MongoDB Features
MongoDB distribution includes a JavaScript interactive shell that can be used to access, query, update, configure and administer databases on local and remote hosts. Having that JavaScript is the language of choice. All MongoDB shell operations are JS calls, and JSON is the common way to define objects here.
MongoDB is fast, I mean really fast, when it comes to search and update operations, as long as you have the corresponding index. It uses B-tree based indexes. Each collection can have more than one index, and each can include as many fields as you want (compound indexes supported).
MongoDB doesn't support transactions as most of the ACID-compliant relational databases do, but it has its own way to tackle the concurrency problem – atomic update operations on the document level. This basically means you can update some of the document's fields without affecting the rest of them. There is a kind of convention, called "update-if-current," to make sure you're not saving an outdated document using versions, or a filtering clause for the update operation. MongoDB also supports the findAndModify operation that updates the value and immediately returns to the previous or current value. This can be useful in many cases, like queues or sequencers.
When it comes to aggregating queries, MongoDB has MapReduce support. This distributed computation technique is another gift from Google to humanity. It can look confusing to a common SQL-minded person at first glance, but a patient user should have no problems mastering it quickly. Some people like it to the extent they develop something like CoachDB, which is almost completely based on MapReduce and definitely is a worthy piece of technology.
MongoDB was born with scalability in mind, so it implements replication and sharding naturally. Replicas are organized into so-called ReplicaSets that consist of one primary host (used for writes) and secondaries (currently up to 7). This is a perfect choice for failover and redundancy. If the primary host goes down, the new one will be "elected" automatically from the working secondaries.
MongoDB provides horizontal scalability with the sharding implementation. MongoDB sharding configuration works on the collection level, evenly distributing chunks of collection data among available cluster shards using the shard key. The shard key can be one or more of the existing document fields or sometimes a specifically generated field to ensure shallower load distribution among shards. Sharded and unsharded collections feel exactly the same for the client application.
These two scaling techniques can and should be used simultaneously, as when each shard for the sharded collection consists of a ReplicaSet.
Look forward to Part 3 of our Hands on MongoDB series!
By Ivan, a Java developer at Murano Software's team
«Why is it you're always too small or too tall?», The Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland
Indeed, there is no such thing as an ultimate solution. Every time we face a problem, even if we are lucky enough to have a precooked solution at our fingertips, we still have to tweak, adjust and adapt it to a specific case's demands. Sometimes, the "adjustment" part can take a while, and therefore putting the right tool in the right place has a great impact on the overall project development efficiency.
From the day the Web was born, it never stopped growing in both size and quality. Whether you are developing an online shop, developing a news portal or trying to get to your customer with a company site, databases are always going to be a major building block for your solution. In terms of maturity and functional completeness, nothing can compare to relational databases. Of course, there are plenty of RDBMS, each with its own advantages and flaws, but they have proved that their strict rules and functionality can give a rock-solid basis for any web project.
However, in some cases, the relational approach can be too "tall." Schema limitations and weak scalability support can be a decisive factor leading you to look for another solution. And object-oriented databases are among the alternatives here. So, without further delay, let's get our hands on MongoDB – an object-oriented database that's gaining popularity recently.
MongoDB is an open (GNU AGPL 3.0 license), schema-less, non-SQL, document-oriented database management system developed by a 10gen. It has been developed since 2007 with the first public release in 2009. It's available for download from http://www.mongodb.org. MongoDB has a variety of drivers to work with both officially supported (Java, C#, CPP, Python, PHP, Ruby, Scala, Erlang, Perl and others) and community developed. And, of course, MongoDB is available for all Mac, Solaris, Windows and Linux users, with sources available so you basically could try building it yourself for any platform.
So what is "schema-less" all about? The deal is that MongoDB does not have any schema or any other kind of user-defined restrictions for data storage. When using a relational database, you have plenty of work to do in order to prepare your domain entities for storage in tables and rows. You define each field type, add restrictions, sometimes even put some logic in triggers and stored procedures.
This is not the case with MongoDB. What once was a record in a relational table (usually more than one table) now becomes a document. Each document can have an unlimited number of fields. A field is a pair of key (unique string identifier) and value. A value can be of any supported type as well as an object (document) or array itself. You can use dot notation to access values at any field level. Documents are stored in collections. But since you don't have any schema, every document in a single collection can have any set of different fields. Of course, it's a good practice to put different objects in separate collections.
Obviously, this kind of unrestrained storage is hardly compatible with SQL, and there is no such thing as "joint" operations in object-oriented databases. So, let's see what MongoDB has to offer instead.
While most, if not all, relational databases offer their prayers to ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability), this evil god demands sacrifices. According to Eric Brewer's CAP theorem, there are at most two of three properties a shared data system can have: Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance. And while RDBMS strive hard for Consistency and tolerance, Availability is left behind.
An object-oriented database's logic instead declares that, in the cases where this is applicable, consistency can be given up in favor of high availability and scalability. This is sometimes referred to as a BASE acronym, which stands for Basically Available, Soft state, Eventually available. It means it's okay to go on without locks and transactions. It's okay to have data in a soft state (we can consider write operation as complete before the data is actually written to disk).The data will eventually become consistent, and in most cases, there are plenty of other ways to work around concurrency.
Now we will make a small break. Have we piqued your interest? Look out for Part 2, where we will be introducing the Features of MongoDB
In one of our previous posts, we already described the technical details of Multidraw, our rich cloud application that showed how Windows Azure cloud computing works. The solution was generalized into an open source framework, which has been released to the Microsoft Developer Network. This significant event highlights how Murano Software is a leading expert in Windows Azure on the global arena. To see Multidraw in action and learn more about Murano's expertise in Azure, check out our new video:
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One of the new, pleasant features of Silverlight 4 RC is comprehensive printing support, enabling hardcopy reports and documents, as well as a virtual print view, independent of screen content. We used this feature while updating RCA POC project phase 2, and we want to give a little overview of how to use this feature.
Printing API
The PrintDocument class provides printing capabilities from a Silverlight application. A developer can handle three events of this class: StartPrint, EndPrint and PrintPage. The StartPrint event is used for special handling or setting up before printing begins. The EndPrint event is used for clean up or other operations after printing is complete. Use the PrintPage event to generate page content for printing by setting the PrintPageEventArgs argument.
The PrintPageEventArgs class contains three main properties: PageVisual, HasMorePages and PrintableArea. The PageVisual property sets the element for printing. It can be the layout root of Silverlight content or the name of UIElement. The PrintableArea gets the size of the printable area. You can use the HasMorePages property for printing multiple pages. If HasMorePages = true, then the PrintPage event is called again to print the next page.
private void PrintAll_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
PrintDocument docToPrint = new PrintDocument();
// prepare to print
docToPrint.BeginPrint += (s, args) =>
// do something
// set UIElement
docToPrint.PrintPage += (s, args) =>
args.PageVisual = this.StackOfStuff;
args.HasMorePages = true;
// ending prepare to print
docToPrint.EndPrint += (s, args) =>
// do something
// start print
docToPrint.Print("Entire Screen Sample";);
Print Preview
We reviewed the main features of Printing API. Now let's look at how to implement a preview of the printed content. It's easy. You have to create a User control where your printable data will be showed in the way you need. Then you set this control to the PageVisual property of the PrintPageEventArgs and print it.
The following code example shows a PrintPage event handler in RCA POC project, where stPage is a grid in the PrintPreviewBox control and the document is an instance of the PrintDocument class:
document.PrintPage += (sender1, args) =>
((Grid)stPage.Children[pagesPrinted]).Width = args.PrintableArea.Width;
((Grid)stPage.Children[pagesPrinted]).Height = args.PrintableArea.Height;
args.PageVisual = stPage.Children[pagesPrinted];
args.HasMorePages = stPage.Children.Count > pagesPrinted;
Then we invoke the method Print() of document object. This will show a print dialog, where we can select a printer. After that, Silverlight will generate the document and send it to the printer. You can see a preview page from RCA POC project on figure below.
As you can see, Silverlight 4 RC allows a developer to print documents with any content, whether photos, charts or text.
By Denis, a .NET Developer on Murano Software's team
One of the updates in the RCA phase 2 was a porting our database from Azure storage to Azure SQL. Minimal changes we needed to make were on the server (Azure web/web role) and Azure SQL. We also changed some scripts on the client to increase performance. Let's look at the changes in the main two steps:
Changes in the Azure SQL
The main differences between Azure storage and Azure SQL are:
We also want to note that Azure SQL has some limitations as compared to traditional RDBMS. We couldn't make a connection to Azure SQL from Visual studio before version 2010 RC, and we had to create copy of the Azure SQL database on the local SQL Server, make a model and change the connection string to the database in Azure SQL. But this problem was resolved in VS 2010 RC, and we can work with Azure SQL directly.
Thus, we removed PartitionKey and RowKey, as well as TimeStamp, from the structure of each table because these keys can't be used as primary keys in relational database. Then we formed primary keys and relations between tables. We didn't find any tool to migrate the database from Azure storage to Azure SQL. So we implemented sql-script to create our database structure by hand.
We want to note that you can work with Azure SQL, as well as the traditional SQL Server, using SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio CTP. One of the most pleasant features of this tool is the script generator that can generate script from an existing database. A generated script is adapted to Azure SQL and can create a database in Azure SQL. So you can create a database in the local SQL Server and use it in your Rich Internet Application before releasing and generating the database in Azure SQL only for the production version.
Changes on the server (Web role / Azure Web)
We used the data access layer described in this blog (Porting Silverlight RIA to Windows Azure) to work with Azure storage. The next step was to decide what kind of technology we would use to work with Azure SQL. We chose the LINQ to SQL technology. So we changed the previous model to a model generated by the DBML Code Generator. Our new model has to be inherited from the IUpdatable interface, so we implemented a partial class of our model that inherits from the IUpdatable interface. A generic implementation of the IUpdatable interface for LINQ to SQL is provided under MS-PL license. You can find it here and use it in the partial class of your model.
These are all minimal changes you need to make to port your Azure storage to Azure SQL. Good luck.
By Stanislav, a Senior .NET Developer on Murano Software's team
The latest version of Silverlight delivers hundreds of features, such as a full set of form controls, enhanced data-binding support, printing API, UDP, webcam and microphone support, full trust in out-of-browser, and so on. But it doesn't have an out-of-box solution to stream video or audio captured from a microphone and Web camera via a network. Current API allows you to capture video/audio data from media devices, and it has a way to play back media information using MediaStreamSource and MediaElement control. Also, API has the UdpAnySourceMulticastClient class, which is a client receiver for multicast traffic from any source, also known as Any Source Multicast (ASM) or Internet Standard Multicast (ISM).
Silverlight 4 gets support for microphones and webcams. It allows us to have access to the raw streams. The added support opens a lot of opportunities for new types of applications.
During our work on http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/rca (source code is available under the MS-PL license), we created an application that allows users to communicate over the local network and to establish video/audio conferencing.
The classes that expose this functionality live in the System.Windows.Media namespace.
There are two classes that give us access to audio and video (AudioSink, VideoSink).
To obtain video information from a video input device in Silverlight, you have to derive a custom video sink from VideoSink, which exposes several virtual callbacks:
When you derive from VideoSink, you must provide overrides for the callbacks in order to compile.
protected override void OnSamples(long sampleTime, long frameDuration, byte[] sampleData)
// Some code here...
The idea was to split data related to the particular frame into a set of packets, renumber them, add additional information and send them over the network.
On the client side, the application receives the mentioned packets, orders them, recovers the frame structure and passes frames to MediaElement, using MediaStreamSource.
The sources can be downloaded here. All logic related to the media chat is located in the PSO.Client.UDPMediaChat project (see Figure 1). It contains the following classes:
Table 1. The description of the most important classes.
Figure 1. Solution explorer
Sequence diagrams show how the application processes media samples before sending them over a network.
We streamed raw data without any compression. Unfortunately, Silverlight doesn't supply codecs yet, but we suppose that it's possible to compress media streams using COM Object Access in Trusted Applications.
Figure 2 shows that we have two media data sources (VideoSink and AudioSink). They pass media data to the corresponding media packet channel, which is responsible for the media frames' (samples') processing and further transmission. We want to note that these sinks work separately in different threads. Also, the media channel contains frames splitting logic into a pile of packets. Each packet is sent over the network separately.
Figure 2. Sequence diagram shows simplified algorithm of raw media streaming.
When you use a multicast client, the first thing you have to do is to join the group, using the known multicast IP address (ex: 126.96.36.199 - The All Hosts multicast group that contains all systems on the same network segment) and the port (ex: 9999). The address block 184.108.40.206/24 (188.8.131.52 to 184.108.40.206) is designated for multicasting on the local subnetwork only. When the connection has been made, you can start send and/or receive from the group.
There are several security restrictions on connecting to multicast groups in Silverlight.
The security policy checks included in the Silverlight runtime are designed to prevent networking threats like DoS attacks, DNS rebinding, reverse tunnel attack, etc. Currently, it's not possible to connect to remote ports less then 1024. Before a multicast client is allowed to join a group, the Silverlight runtime implements a protocol check to verify that the client has been granted permission to join the group and receive datagrams.
Sink produces raw media data by the callback:
These data are packed in a media frame and passed to the corresponding media channel. The channel splits the media frame into a set of packets because UdpAnySourceMulticastClient restricts the amount of data that can be sent at once. So the application cuts huge media frames that contain raw media data into small pieces and sends them over the network.
Figure 3. Sequence diagram shows simplified playback algorithm of the raw media stream.
On the client side, UdpAnySourceMulticastClient receives raw bytes. It passes them to NetPacketTransmitter. The transmitter verifies the destination address and "unpacks" the packet.
Then the transmitter notifies the media channels that the packet with media data has been received.
Each channel verifies the ability to process the incoming packet. The logic of the channels could vary drastically, depending on the nature of the received data. For instance, VideoChannel uses a special mechanism for the video frames recovery from a set of packets. When the media channel decides that a subsequent frame is received completely, it passes it to the MediaFrameSource.
This class manages media frame queues for both audio and video frames. Each received frame is added to the particular queue. The frames from the queues are pulled by the MediaStreamSource.
If the queue is empty, the thread that serves MediaStreamSource is suspended until the queue receives at least one frame.
Figure 5. Audio chat window
A user can perform a call to other user by clicking on the phone icon at the left-side of the main window. The other participant has to confirm the call. If the call is confirmed, the special media control will be displayed (see Figure 5). By default PSO establishes an audio conference. If you want to perform a video call you have to press the film icon. In this case your application instance will start a video transmission and the other participant will be able to see you. The video chat window is displayed on figure 6.
Figure 6. Video chat window
We successfully realized a proof of concept that shows the possibility of video conference software development on the Silverlight 4 technology. Also, we built a universal extensible framework that allows users to transmit data in the local network.
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BBC Radio Cymru has been forced to change its playlists after losing the rights to thousands of Welsh-language songs in a dispute over royalty payments.
The BBC reports that 300 Welsh language artists were involved in the matter via collecting society body EOS, which called for a "fair price for Welsh music".
After EOS turned down an offer from the BBC, the station lost the ability to play 30,000 Welsh language songs from January 1.
Gwilym Morus, Eos chair, said: "It's a shame that the BBC have chosen to damage the national radio service because they are unwilling to pay a fair price for Welsh music.
"Regretfully I believe the BBC in London is showing a lack of respect towards their own staff in Wales and towards Welsh culture."
Playlist changes include a two-hour reduction in daily output with a later start of 6.30am and earlier finish at 11pm. Evening programmes showcasing new Welsh music have also been cut to an hour. Time will be filled with broadcasts of English language songs.
Sian Gwynedd, head of Welsh language programmes and services at BBC Cymru Wales, said: "While Welsh language music will continue to be the bedrock of our output, the current dispute will prevent us from playing most of our usual repertoire.
"This will clearly have a noticeable impact on the service we can deliver, but I would like to emphasise to our listeners that we are doing everything possible to protect the quality of our programming despite the difficult circumstances."
Following changes by PRS for Music in 2007 which affected their royalty payments, last year Welsh composers and artists set up EOS to deal with their licensing. The new agency acquired the rights for 331 Welsh acts from the PRS yesterday (January 1).
BBC National Trustee for Wales, Elan Closs Stephens said: "I understand the financial pressure on Welsh musicians but there are also huge financial pressures on the BBC, too, like all public bodies. Nobody wins from this action, least of all the Radio Cymru audience. I would urge you to continue in your efforts to ensure that this matter can be brought to a satisfactory conclusion."


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Laura Frank is the vice president for news at Rocky Mountain PBS and founder of the I-News division. Laura is a Denver native who spent 20 years at newspapers, radio and public television around the country, specializing in in-depth reporting that requires data analysis and deep public records research.
She has trained hundreds of journalists for more than a dozen media organizations, including the nation's largest newspaper company (Gannett). Her work has been recognized in both broadcast and print, including a regional Emmy for documentary production in 1990 and as a top-10 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 at the Rocky Mountain News.
Laura started her first business at age 16 and began syndicating reports to radio and newspapers that same year. She is a Knight Fellow at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the USC Marshall School of Business, and serves on the board of directors of the national Investigative News Network.
Cynthia Hessin is host and executive producer of the Colorado State of Mind, the weekly news discussion series on Rocky Mountain PBS, where I-News' original reporting appears regularly. She wrote and narrated the recent Rocky Mountain PBS I-News documentary, "Losing Ground: The Cliff Effect," about a little-known trap in Colorado public assistance law which ensnares many single parents.
Hessin is a Denver area native and previously worked as a reporter in two other local television newsrooms, KCNC and KMGH. Her honors include induction into the prestigious Silver Circle at the 2013 Heartland Emmy Gala.
This honor is awarded to broadcast professionals who have worked in the industry for 25 years or more and have made substantial contributions to both their craft and their community.
She has earned regional and national recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Association for Women in Communications, and the Colorado Broadcasters Association, as well as six regional EMMY awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for writing, producing and performance. She has been active in related professional organizations, including a term as the first female president of the Denver Press Club from 1996 to 1997.
Jim Trotter is highly regarded in Colorado journalism and beyond. He was the senior editor for investigative and enterprise journalism at the Rocky Mountain News when it closed in 2009. Since then, he has been with the Associated Press, responsible for enterprise journalism in 13 western states.
Jim has edited Pulitzer Prize-winning articles and an Emmy-winning documentary. He has been a columnist at a major metropolitan newspaper and been editorial director for the public affairs show of a major metropolitan television station. He was winner of the Dart Society's 2010 Mimi Award, recognizing both his compassion and leadership.
He is uniquely qualified to help I-News work with print, broadcast and digital news media across Colorado to produce important public-service journalism. Jim's hiring is made possible through a generous grant from The Colorado Health Foundation.
Burt Hubbard is the editorial director of Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Burt is well-known in the journalism world for his data analysis skills. His numerous awards include two prestigious Best of The West awards, a national education award for investigative reporting, and Reporter of the Year in Colorado.
He also was a top-10 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for the Rocky Mountain News and is enshrined in the Scripps Howard Journalism Hall of Fame. Burt has taught computer-assisted reporting and internet research to graduate students for 11 years at the University of Colorado School of Journalism and Mass Communication. For the past three years he has led research symposiums for journalists and citizens throughout Colorado on behalf of the university. Burt recently left the Denver Post to join I-News.
Joe Mahoney is a staff photojournalist with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Mahoney was a staff photographer and then Assistant Director of Multimedia for the Rocky Mountain News from 1999 until the paper closed in 2009.
He was part of photo teams that won two Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography covering the Columbine school shootings in 2001 and wildfires in Colorado in 2003. Mahoney won an Emmy in 2010 in the Topical Documentary category for his work as associate producer on "Final Edition."
He also teaches photojournalism, multimedia and social documentary courses at Metropolitan State University in Denver and has been a frequent coach at the National Press Photographers Association's "Multimedia Immersion" and the "NewsVideo" workshops. Mahoney began his career and spent nine years with The Associated Press.
Katie Kuntz is an award-winning investigative reporter with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Katie's skills as a multimedia journalist stem from her background in radio, television, documentary filmmaking and newspaper reporting.
Katie was the University of Iowa Kappa Tau Alpha Top Scholar – an award reserved for the graduating senior with the highest grade point average in the class. She also studied economics and was the news director of the college radio station, KRUI 89.7 FM. Katie created, wrote, shot, produced and edited a 30-minute investigative documentary called "Breaking the Cycle: Meth Addiction in the Heartland" as part of her work with The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism and IowaWatch.org. Her work has been recognized with a regional Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch started in journalism through a love of sound-rich radio stories and found her way into the world of data journalism. She is a reporter with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News.
She learned the craft of radio reporting and production at The United Nations Radio News Service, The Takeaway, Radiolab and in the newsrooms of WNYC and WBAI in New York City. Anna produced features for national and international programs and networks such as This American Life, Morning Edition, Marketplace, Voice of America, Studio 360, and Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
She wanted to increase the impact of her stories, and went back to school and worked at the Data Library of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
In 2013, Anna completed her master's degree in journalism at the University of Missouri with a focus on investigative reporting. As a graduate student, she covered local news for the Seattle Times and Columbia Missourian newspapers.
Ann Carnahan Espinola wrote more than 2,000 bylined stories during her two decades at the Pittsburgh Press and Rocky Mountain News. Her many awards include the National Education Writers Association award for distinguished reporting and the Shining Star Award, presented by the Colorado Press Association for the most consistently excellent reporter.
She was part of a News team whose coverage of a fatal wildfire was named as a top-three finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ann was the first reporter in the history of the Rocky Mountain News to be inducted into the Scripps Howard Hall of Fame.
At the News, she was named best reporter by her co-workers and won the editor-in-chief's award for outstanding worker. Her beats included city hall, police, and civil and criminal courts. She also wrote an investigative column as well as a series of stories updating the lives of newsmakers after they faded from the limelight.
Ann is originally from Pennsylvania, but has called Denver home for more than 25 years.
Kristin Jones joined Rocky Mountain PBS I-News as health reporter in September 2013 and was part of the team until 2015. Kristin's investigative reporting on health and justice has won national awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Award for public service journalism and the Dart Center Award for reporting on trauma. Before joining I-News, Kristin covered business for the real-time news desk of The Wall Street Journal.


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Shandricka "Tori" Davis is a Fashion major at Berkeley College planning to graduate in December 2012. This year, Tori had the unique opportunity to represent Berkeley College as a Global Learning Student Ambassador and travel to the Universidade de Guarulhos (UnG) in São Paulo, Brazil.
Interview by Corina Slackman, Communications Manager
September 2012
Attending Berkeley College has been a wonderful experience. The opportunities available at Berkeley have been amazing and so much more than I ever expected. I thought I wanted to attend a big college, but when I visited a number of these universities, it was intimidating. Then I heard about Berkeley, and I knew I would get one-on-one attention in a smaller classroom environment.
The professors at Berkeley College have high expectations for their students. They expect students to take their studies seriously and act professionally in and out of the classroom. The faculty at Berkeley College help their students gain the skills necessary to be prepared for a career.
During my time at Berkeley College, I've been a student, I've worked part-time, and I have been very involved in student activities. I was chosen to visit and tour the New York Stock Exchange and represented Berkeley College in various community events such as the 2012 CPC Walkathon and 2012 Dragon Boat Festival. Additionally, I was the Fashion Show Coordinator for the Women's Council of Realtors in 2010, 2011, and 2012; a Resident Hall President for two years; and the Fashion Club Treasurer for one year. I was honored to have been chosen to walk with the President's Party at the 2011 Commencement and received Berkeley College Westchester's Scholar Leadership Award.
This year, I was given the special opportunity to represent Berkeley College as the Alliance for Global Learning Student Ambassador to the Universidade de Guarulhos (UnG) in São Paulo, Brazil. I am thankful for this opportunity, as it has opened my eyes to a different culture and prepared me for a global career.
Traveling to Brazil has totally changed my perspective and outlook. A global experience is not something one can gain by just sitting in a classroom; it is something that should be experienced. I was only in Brazil for 25 days but I learned so much, even taking Portuguese classes, which I continue to take online with my professor today.
I went to Brazil thinking that my hosts would receive me as a visiting student. They didn't! They welcomed me as a member of their own family. I learned so much during my trip, but the little things are what have stayed with me. For example, the Brazilian people appreciate food and mealtime conversations. Sharing meals with them made me realize that we (Americans) often rush through life and don't take the time to connect with family and friends.
During my trip I met with business leaders, was interviewed by newspapers and magazines, and even filmed a TV spot on Berkeley College and the Alliance for Global Learning.
My favorite part of the ambassadorship to UnG was meeting and getting to know other students who, like me, want to experience another culture and learn another language.
Do it! Having a global experience gives you a competitive advantage and prepares you for careers that require an international perspective. It opens so many more professional opportunities, as companies look for candidates who have traveled abroad and speak a second or third language.
I plan to get my Master's degree, most likely in Europe. My goal is to create and manage my own global fashion brand.
My experience made me change the way I think about the world. It opened up my eyes to many opportunities, and I can now honestly say, "I have a global mind."


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Well, I was thinking hard whether I shall blog on that or not. But then a friend of mine brought up a valid point: I am always claiming that a lot of issues on the Internet are missing a public debate yet, what is more important - and this might well be one of those.
I do not want to take a position here and I am clear, looking at the map of my visitors, that the debate would be pretty one-sided:
However, it is an interesting project: http://psiphon.civisec.org/ and if you want to know the details: http://psiphon.civisec.org/samples/psiphon_guide.pdf
To quote from their website:
psiphon is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind firewalls of states that censor.
Living in a European country it is normal for me to have the freedom of speech and it is interesting and encouraging to see that the debates on what people want on the web as well is going to happen
Hi Roger,
Interesting post. My opinion is exactly opposite to your one. I think if any particular website is blocked by government - it must be blocked for a reason/s. As a good citizen which abide by the law.
I am not sure but it might be a legal issue that user is visiting a website which is not allowed by actual government of the country.
It will be interesting to see other people views on it.
While reading through some posts on here I came across this one and felt I would give my thoughts on the subject. I dislike being censored and told what I can or can not look at. I like my freedoms and not being able to exercise them would send me into a frenzy. Through some research (which I was freely allowed to do without my government censoring me), I found other countries with very restrictive governments that do not allow citizens to use things like Wikipedia or Google. I use a proxy server to protect myself and my information while online so I am not the victim of ID theft....in some of these other countries people need to use proxy servers to blog or search for news article through a proxy server because they face harsh punishments (in some cases including death). This recent
press release I found outlines some privacy/censorship issues and some newer features related to proxy servers.
Back in March I blogged on a Technology to Circumvent Censorship . I actually expected some dialogue


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The new year is coming faster than Usain Bolt with a rocket strapped to his back. Before you know it, 2012 will be over and it will be time to plan for 2013.
So what have you done with the year? Have you spent all your time learning how to Gangnam Style? What about planking? Tebowing? Wearing horseheads?
Instead of wasting time coming up with your next fake Twitter account, why don't you do something productive with your time and check out my list of the 50 hottest WAGs of 2012. I know I will be.