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Last month, Nielsen/NetRatings
had Google
hitting the 50 percent mark of percentage of searches handled in the United
States (when rounded up from 49.8%). This month, Google slips back down very
slightly to 49 percent. I've
warned before
that you should be wary of month-to-month changes. That said, here's the
rundown, which gives Yahoo a percentage gain to Google's loss:
|Search Engine
|April 2006
|May 2006
More from the full release at the end of this post. Meanwhile, we already
had May 2006
stats from Hitwise, so how do the two compare?
|May 2006
comScore's May 2006 search query stats haven't yet been publicly released.
Watch for them in a future post. Past NetRatings and comScore figures are here:
Yes, I'm working on getting the most recent stats added to those pages.
Here's the full NetRatings release:
Nielsen//NetRatings today released May 2006 U.S. MegaView Search findings,
including top search providers, ranked by total searches. Searches represent
the total number of queries conducted at the Provider.
Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for May 2006, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
Please view in a fixed-width font such as Courier.+-----------------------+-----------+------------+-------------------+ | Provider | Searches | YOY Growth | Share of Searches | | | (000) | | | +-----------------------+-----------+------------+-------------------+ | Google Search | 2,783,169 | 32% | 49.1% | | Yahoo! Search | 1,298,915 | 34% | 22.9% | | MSN Search | 600,820 | 42% | 10.6% | | AOL Search | 363,431 | N/A | 6.4% | | Ask.com Search | 146,585 | 69% | 2.6% | | My Way Search | 129,270 | 67% | 2.3% | | iWon Search | 32,257 | 53% | 0.6% | | Dogpile.com Search | 29,416 | -25% | 0.5% | | EarthLink Search | 27,488 | -1% | 0.5% | | SBC Yellow Pages | 24,513 | -21% | 0.4% | +-----------------------+-----------+------------+-------------------+
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, June 2006
Note: Due to a methodology change, year-over-year growth for AOL Search is
Example: An estimated 2.8 billion search queries were conducted at Google
Search, representing 49 percent of all search queries conducted during the
given time period.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — If Walt Monegan ever writes an autobiography, the fallout from being fired as Alaska's public safety commissioner by former Gov. Sarah Palin would be reduced to one short, stormy chapter about the controversy that became known nationally as Troopergate.
Monegan has since moved on to sunnier chapters. He is enjoying his new job heading the nonprofit organization that serves as a bridge between Alaska Natives and the state's judicial system.
"I'm still doing the things that I loved doing before, but in a different capacity," he told The Associated Press in a recent interview, in which he recalled his sudden termination by the potential presidential candidate.
Monegan, who turned 60 on Monday, was ousted as safety commissioner in July 2008 after, he claims, he refused to fire Palin's former brother-in-law, a state trooper who had gone through a contentious divorce with her sister. Soon after Monegan lost his job, Palin burst into prominence as the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.
"I think there for a while I was probably the most famous fired guy," he said, laughing, in his office at the Anchorage-based Alaska Native Justice Center, where Monegan, who is part Native, serves as president and CEO.
Palin's attorney, John Tiemessen, declined to comment.
To this day, Monegan maintains he felt pressured by Palin, her husband Todd and members of the Palin administration to fire trooper Mike Wooten starting soon after Palin took office in December 2006. But, he acknowledged, they never directly asked for that.
The Palins said Wooten had driven drunk, hunted illegally and committed child abuse, among other accusations. Todd Palin has said the family was concerned about the governor's safety.
Monegan said he told Todd Palin he would review the allegations. But he concluded the matter was properly resolved with a 2005 internal trooper investigation that led to Wooten being disciplined for illegally killing a moose and using a Taser stun gun on an 11-year-old family member. Wooten still works as a trooper.
Sarah Palin initially said no one in her administration put any pressure on Monegan, that she simply wanted the department to head in a new direction. She then she cited budgetary disagreements. She also said Monegan wasn't doing enough about alcohol abuse in rural Alaska, even though Monegan, at his firing, was offered the directorship of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he declined.
Palin later said she had learned that at least two dozen calls were made from her staff members questioning Wooten's employment, but added none was done at her direction. A month after Monegan's dismissal, Palin released a recorded copy of a phone conversation between a trooper official and Palin staffer Frank Bailey, who is heard saying, "Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads, 'Why on earth hasn't this, why is this guy still representing the department?'"
Bailey, who at the time said he acted alone, has since co-authored a book critical of the ex-governor. The book, "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin," was released Tuesday.
Just before Palin was named as John McCain's running mate, state lawmakers moved to launch an investigation into Monegan's firing that ultimately concluded the governor broke an ethics law prohibiting public officials from using their office for personal gain. The firing itself was considered lawful since Monegan was an employee who could be dismissed at will.
Palin initially said she would cooperate with the Legislature's probe. But after joining the GOP ticket, she said the investigation had become too political and initiated a separate investigation by the state personnel board. The day before the presidential election, that investigation concluded Palin violated no ethics laws.
As Palin stumped across the country to adoring crowds, Monegan tried to shake off the shock and confusion of being terminated "out of the blue," he said.
"It was a time that I desperately wanted to close that chapter," he said. "It was a very uncomfortable time."
Strangers were a great source of comfort for Monegan and his wife, he said.
"We'd be in a mall, a store, walking down a sidewalk and we'd get contacted by individuals who'd just walk up, extend their hand and say, 'You know, we believe you,'" he said.
Less than a year later, Palin also was out of her state job, abruptly resigning in July 2009 with 17 months left in her first term. At the time, Palin partly blamed the toll of multiple ethics complaints she called frivolous. She has since published two bestselling books, been a regular commentator on FOX News, starred in an eight-part documentary series, amassed more than 3 million Facebook followers and is embarking on a campaign-style bus tour along the East Coast. She remains hugely popular with tea party conservatives, and is making a weekend bus tour up the East Coast that many see as a testing of the waters for a potential 2012 presidential run.
In his post-Troopergate career, Monegan first worked as a substitute elementary school teacher, then as a cultural awareness specialist with the Anchorage School District before taking the helm of the Alaska Native Justice Center in January.
He exhibits no bitterness over Troopergate, and said he would sit down for coffee with Palin. A year ago, he was attending a seafood festival in Anchorage when he heard someone call out his name. It was Palin's father, Chuck Heath.
"He shook my hand and gave me a hug," Monegan said. "He says, 'It's all politics, but I still count you as a friend.'"


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In that green Istria there are restaurants, taverns, rural estates, wine cellars, oil mills, dairies, in other words everything that is needed for a hedonistic vacation of a true gourmet who can spend days in cruising along wine roads and visiting olive oil tasting places, enjoying the abundance of gastronomy specialties of fish and seafood and also meat delicacies, especially ones made of game meat. A special category includes season food such as asparagus and of course the king of mushrooms - truffle, along with indigenous Istrian pasta, fritaja (omelette) and maneštra (thick soup).
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: Porek. Arrival to a small family hotel (3*/4*). Accommodation in double rooms on bed and breakfast basis. Overnight. Includes: (D).
Day 2: Porek. Breakfast at the hotel. Going to the culinary showroom for a 3-hour cooking class led by a renowned Istrian chef. The emphasis is on the season ingredients and recipes. Lunch is scheduled for 12:30, and people eat what they have prepared under chef's supervision. Wine is included in the meal. The afternoon is reserved for the tour of Porek, and early evening features a wine cellar visiting and tasting 4 excellent wines of Istria. Overnight. Includes: (B), (L), (D).
Day 3: Porek. Early breakfast at the hotel. Going to the city market and fish market with the chef. Return to the showroom for a 3-hour class. Ingredients bought at the market and the fish market are used. Group lunch and wine at the showroom around 1 pm. Afternoon programme offers going to the forest with a truffle finder and their dog, and truffle tasting (duration: around 3 hours). Overnight. Includes: (B), (L), (D).
Day 4: Porek. Breakfast at the hotel. Going to the showroom for a 3-hour class. Group lunch around 12:30 with wine selected by the chef. Afternoon program offers the tour of Motovun - an Istrian small town with citadel, and olive oil tasting. Departure to Zagreb in late afternoon.
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I've written before about the importance of building teachers skills to both analyze student performance data and to adjust instruction accordingly.
But there's a parallel issue at play: Even if teachers enter the classroom with a baseline understanding of how to use data to improve student learning, they still need a school leader to create a culture of collaboration around the use of data. And they need support to continue to build their capacity to use the data they gather to affect student learning.
So the question must be asked: Do principal training programs prepare our future school leaders to operate in a data-rich environment? Not surprisingly, there's little evidence to suggest that they do. There's little recent research on the subject, but a 2005 report by Rick Hess and Andrew Kelly that evaluated the course content of a sample of principal preparation programs found that:
- Just two percent of 2,424 course weeks addressed accountability in the context of school management or school improvement.
- Less than five percent included instruction on managing school improvement via data, technology, or empirical research.
Even if teachers enter the classroom with a baseline understanding of how to use data to improve student learning, they still need a school leader to create a culture of collaboration around the use of data.
The role of school leaders in promoting sound data practice is enormous. On the flip side, the failure to train principals in the critical role that data can play in school turnarounds will inevitably dull the impact of data-savvy teachers. With school reform on the tip of almost every political tongue nationwide, it's unconscionable that we still lack coherent plans to equip school leaders to use data tools to better support teachers and students in the classroom. Principal preparation programs ought to heed the advice of visionary leaders like Paul Bambrick Santoyo of Uncommon Schools, and build upon and improve training delivered by New Leaders for New Schools. They should create a "School Leaders Toolkit for Building a Data Driven Culture," similar to TNTP's School Leaders Toolbox for human capital management. The data is there. We need a national educational culture that knows how to use it, and it can't happen without the right leadership.


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A Ten Commandments monument at the courthouse in Dixie County, Fla. will remain in place for now after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals today sent an ACLU lawsuit back to a lower court, according to court records.
The lawsuit filed by the ACLU, on behalf of a part-time resident of a neighboring county, asks that the five-foot tall statue of the Ten Commandments be removed.
The monument was donated and put up in 2006 by a resident with the approval of the Dixie County Board of Commissioners.
Alabama had its own battle over a 10 Commandments monument, when then-Chief Justice Roy Moore placed a washing machine-size monument in the rotunda in the state's judicial building. A lawsuit was filed by group of Alabama attorneys to remove the monument and Moore fought the removal efforts.
The 11th Circuit upheld lower court decisions ordering the monument removed and Moore was later removed from office.
In March, Moore won the Republican primary in the race for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and is the front-runner to reclaim the seat in November.
In the Florida case, a lower court in Florida sided with the ACLU granting summary judgment for its removal, but the commission appealed saying the plaintiff in the case did not have standing.
The man seeking to have the monument removed has a summer home in nearby Levy County. He and his wife were considering buying property in Dixie County and he went to the courthouse to review property records. He came across the monument and said later in an affidavit, he was " "deeply disturbed that the county openly embraced religious doctrine."
In sending the case back, the 11th Circuit, whose jurisdiction includes Florida, Alabama and Georgia, said more information was needed and that the district court needed to evaluate the credibility of live witnesses.


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Here are some pics of my new car. I hope to collect it tomorrow:
Simply Stunning. hope you enjoy driving it. x
Looks very nice cant beat a red car just make sure you keep it nice and clean and polished and enjoy the ownership
Very nice mate.
Thanks! Yeah I will be keeping it spotless and polished all the time. My missus is going to hate me! lol
Looks good!
Nice mate, i've put a pic of mine up in the B8 pic thread now.
Looks lush. My last 3 new cars have been in VW Audi flame red. 5 years later they still look just as good.
Red really does make it easier to look after a car than black or dark colours.
Nice looking car BTW
do a hard refresh on your comp not showing on mine.
I recommend
Zymol in a blue bottle available form halfords
ill let the results speak for them selves
Wow! That looks GREAT!!!! I will definately be giving that a go!
Looks mint mate so you went for Misano in the end good choice,i spend hours cleaning mine my Mrs goes mental!i have really got into detailing in the last 3years,if your shopping in halfrauds i would recomend autoglym SRP or Meguiars ultimate compound as a polish and topped off with Autoglym HD wax,i have used this combo in the past with great success HD wax is very durable too and gives a great finish,i now have a garage full of products im currently using Dodo juice sipernatural hybrid as my wax and i have to say it is awesome.
If you are looking for car valeting stuff try AMDetails in Elgn. I have used most of his products and would would say that his wax is better than Dodojuice!!!! He will also gove you loads of advice and tips as to how to apply the products when to use them and which are best for your car. All available online too. AMDetails – Detailing | Valeting | Car Care | Elgin
Isnt he a dodo juice authorised detailer??
Its a minefield for products at the end of the day its what suits each person i have spent hundreds maybe even thousands on products (chem guys,werkstat,swissvax,autobrite ect ect) i have had to become really good at stealth smuggling them in the house so the wife doesnt see them!have a look on detailing world at products,ijust thought as the car is the same colour as mine i would offer a little advice,anyway scotish S3 njoy ur purchase she looks a lovely motor i wish i had NAV in mine but my tomtom does the trick on the odd ocassion i use it even if it does look dog shat stuck on windscreen!
CRacking A4 by the way. When can i see it???? I can show you some of the stuff i got from Alan for valeting. He does a cracking paint seal. Only needs done about once every 6 to 8 months. The water beading is superb. I am still waiting for my caliper paint then its time to annoy the missus by taking the wheels off again. Congrats on the new motor catch up sometime when i get back from offshore.
He is but he has started his own brand too. In IMHO having used many different products over the years I must say his is one of the better ones if not the best. Very easy to apply and buff off. No residual left and it smells fantastic. He has a full range of stuff and his prices are pretty good. I pop in every now and again for advice on valeting things. I had sever iron fallout (long story) and the car looked like it was rusing to death!!!!! A couple of days in his hands and its all gone and the car looks just superb. The engine bay is so good it needs to be seen to be believed.
I'll let you know when Im back mate. Got the mammoth drive from Portsmouth to Elgin to look forward to this weekend!
That detailing place sounds good. I will defiantely have to go there. I like to spend alot of time and effort detialing my cars.
Well just to let everybody know, I picked the car up yesterday and its like new!!! The condition is absolutely superb! I'm so chuffed with it. I will post more pics up soon.
Get some AM Seal onto the paint asap. Good hard protection and the water beads off like you wouldnt believe. When it comes to detailing remember that Audi paint is very hard. Alan will help you with any questions he is really good. His place is past the bowling alley turn right (not the one turning by the recycling but the next one) then left into Tyock Spur. He is in one of the units there.
Cheers mate. I know where the bowling alley is so should find it ok. I plan to clay bar it first then get it sealed then. How much is the sealing?
Alan does a full protection detail which includes sealing etc. Check his site or pop by him. Cant remember off top of my head but it was about the 200 mark and worth every penny. I see in your pics that the foglight surround was missing at the dealers by the way. Get them to replace it!!!!!
why should they replace it? its a visable fault and he has bought the car like that
Good grief jump on the downer band wagon why dont you!!!! If you bought say for example a box of cornflakes with no flakes in it would you say...Oops my fault i should have noticed. Or if for example you bought a New A 6 S line and when you went to change a wheel following a puncture you find the spare /repair kit missing would you not ask for one or would you shrug and accept it as all your fault for not noticing. DO you check EVERY single thing on a car when you buy it???? My car had a missing ipod lead and sat nav DVD. I asked they supplied.
No such thing as sold as seen.
It doesnt harm just to ask does it? They may well say yes of course valued customer who has just spent thousands of pounds on a shiny new car we will get it fixed but they may say no. As i say what harm is there in asking.
He spent lots of money on the car and customer care would suggest they may very well assist.
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Very nice. Loving the red.
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text: I hacked together a version that I'm pretty happy with today. Started off trying an algorithm with channels and forking, then realized that in Haskell thanks to referential transparency we can get parallelism almost for free, and redid it all in Control.Parallel (below). Unfortunately, I don't have a multicore processor so I can't put this through any special paces. However, its compactness and expressively match or beat the simple Ruby, etc. scripts while it gets (theoretically) most of the parallel benefits of the enormous and unwieldy Erlang and JOcaml ones. --S module Main where import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as LB import Data.List (foldl', unfoldr, insertBy) import qualified Data.Map as M import System.Environment (getArgs) import Control.Parallel (par) import Control.Parallel.Strategies (parMap, rwhnf) count :: M.Map LB.ByteString Int -> LB.ByteString -> M.Map LB.ByteString Int count m line = if LB.pack "/ongoing/When" `LB.isPrefixOf` myLn then M.insertWith' (+) (LB.drop 14 myLn) 1 m else m where myLn = (LB.takeWhile (/=' ') . LB.dropWhile (/='/') . LB.dropWhile (/='\"')) line mapUnionPar :: (Ord k, Num a) => [M.Map k a] -> M.Map k a mapUnionPar m = head $ until (null . tail) mapUnionPar' m where a |:| b = par a . par b $ a : b mapUnionPar' (x:x':xs) = (M.unionWith (+) x x' |:| mapUnionPar' xs) mapUnionPar' x = x newPar :: FilePath -> IO (M.Map LB.ByteString Int) newPar = ((mapUnionPar . parMap rwhnf (foldl' count M.empty) . chunkify . LB.lines) `fmap`) . LB.readFile where chunkify = unfoldr (\x -> if null x then Nothing else Just (splitAt 512 x)) main = mapM_ ((print . fst . foldl' takeTop ([],[]) . M.toList =<<) . newPar) =<< getArgs where takeTop ac@(bs,low) a = if null low || (snd . head) low < snd a then (splitAt 10 . insertBy ((. snd) . flip compare . snd) a) bs else ac On Nov 7, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Bayley, Alistair wrote: >> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org >> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of manu >> >> Haskell is conspicuously absent from the languages used to tackle Tim > >> Bray's Wide Finder problem >> > (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/30/WF-Results? > updated). >> So far we have Ocaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, etc... > > Tim Bray mentions that GHC won't build on Solaris, so presumably that > problem would need to be solved before Haskell appears in his table. I > see that there are Solaris binary packages: > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_661.html#sparcsolaris > > so perhaps he just needs to be pointed to them? > > Alistair > ***************************************************************** > Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, > and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. It is intended solely for the person(s) or entity to > which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, > or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by > persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is > prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the > sender and delete the material from any computer. > ***************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe


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Toll-takers at the Golden Gate Bridge could be on their way out as soon as December.
That's when the bridge plans to go to a "soft launch" of it all-electronic tolling plan, with all toll-takers likely off the span by February 2013.
"It's where the industry is heading," said bridge spokeswoman Mary Currie.
Earlier this week the district's finance committee approved changes to a contract to allow for all-electronic tolling.
The bridge district's Board of Directors has already voted to eliminate the 35 toll-takers and move to electronic tolls on the span. Golden Gate Bridge officials are eliminating toll-takers, among other steps, to help bail the district out of an $87 million budget shortfall over the next five years.
By phasing out the toll collectors, part of the fabric of the bridge since it opened in 1937, the district will save roughly $16 million over 10 years in salaries and benefits. A toll-taker's base annual salary starts at $48,672 and tops out at $54,080.
Elsewhere in the United States and overseas, cashless tolling systems use video cameras like those already installed on the Golden Gate to capture the license plates of toll violators. Under the planned new system, Fastrak will remain, but those without transponders will be mailed a bill for the toll. People will also be able to set up accounts — similar to Fastrak — to have tolls deducted from a credit or debit card. But those users will not be afforded a $1 discount Fastrak users enjoy, and will pay a $6 toll.
There also will be retail outlets where bridge users can pay their toll in cash by providing their license plate numbers. Payments also will be accepted on the telephone and online.
For those who do not have Fastrak, all toll payments are due in 21 days. After that time has elapsed they will be handled as toll violators and will be required to pay the toll and a $25 penalty. There will be no mechanism to accept cash payments at the bridge.
"There are still some things to figure out, but this is moving ahead," Currie said.
Bridge district officials said their deficit has been caused by the economic recession that has resulted in fewer drivers and tolls and state funding cuts to its transit system as well as the $75 million cost it incurred when it agreed to help with the $1 billion Doyle Drive rebuild.
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When conveyor belts are misaligned and wobble from side to side, maintenance staff may need to intervene and even shut down the belt until the problem is fixed. Richwood's new ON-Track Return Belt tracking idler tries to solve the problem of misaligned conveyors before it even starts. The new idler curves along the inside of the returning belt, applies pressure evenly and keeps the belt aligned. This design avoids some of the issues presented by conventional training idlers. "We are controlling the track of the belt, not trying to train it after it misaligns," said Kevin Maloy, Richwood's COO. Training idlers often try to correct a misaligned belt's path using edge guide rollers, which can wear on the belt. Richwood's design does not use edge guide rollers, and has also eliminated moving pivots or swivels common to training idlers. With less stress on belts from edge guide rollers and with fewer moving parts to maintain, belts can be kept aligned and companies can limit downtime and long-term maintenance costs. "The belting will last much longer, and you don't have people working around the conveyor unnecessarily trying to get it to track to centre," Maloy said.
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"The most important thing for a job site is to load many trucks and quickly exchange those trucks," said Arthur Milkowski, platform manager for Caterpillar's new 6015B hydraulic shovel, at an Arizona press event in November. That is why the new 6015B shovel – based on CAT's 5110B structure – includes several features geared towards reducing cycle time. The shovel is equipped with a CAT C27 ACERT engine, delivering 606 kilowatts of rated power and allowing for faster digging cycles. It also comes with an 8.1-cubicmetre standard bucket and a payload capacity of 14.6 tonnes, which enables the shovel to fill a CAT 773 truck in four passes, a 775 in five passes and a 777 in seven passes. CAT tested the shovels for roughly a year in semitropical and subarctic conditions, as well as the continental U.S. prior to releasing them. "Doing the full validations is why we're confident about this machine," Milkowski said.
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A 4-year-old boy from Atlantic City whose mother reported him as being left behind on a school bus was picked up at the Pleasantville police station an hour later.
Atlantic City police received a call at about 5:25 p.m. Thursday from the 1800 block of Marmora Avenue, Sgt. Monica McMenamin said. A woman said that her son was not dropped off by the bus from the Head Start Program at his regular time.
The boy, who was not identified, was reunited with his mother in Pleasantville at 6:30 p.m., while a representative from the Division of Youth and Family Services observed.
"It's a classic kid-fell-asleep-on-the-bus moment," McMenamin said, adding the bus driver did not know the child was on the bus the bus was parked it in the lot.
She said the child woke up and started honking the bus horn. A passer-by heard the horn and alerted Pleasantville police immediately.
A 2007 state law requires school-bus drivers to visually inspect a bus at the end of a route to determine that no students have been left behind.
McMenamin said the unidentified driver did not check the bus.
Violations could lead to a six-month suspension for the bus driver on a first offense and a permanent revoking of certification for a second offense.
A similar incident happened in January in Lower Township, when 4-year-old Josslynn Cox fell asleep on a school bus and woke up alone while the bus was parked at another school. The driver of that bus was suspended without pay.
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The Facebook App for iOS has just received an update that enables the same Internet calling feature currently found in the Facebook Messenger app. This feature, which made its way into Messenger in the middle of January, places a "Free Call" button inside a user's information page, and is accessible by tapping the "i" button in a message conversation window.
The user you're trying to call will presumably need to have the newly-updated Facebook app, or the Messenger app, in order to receive your call, or you'll find the Free Call button is grayed out and disabled.
You'll also find that the update adds newer, larger buttons for the Like, Comment and Share actions on posts. The buttons for these actions now rest in boxes beneath the post, and are much larger than those found in previous versions of the app. The new buttons should do more to encourage commenting and sharing through the app, and will be easier to tap than before. I know that I had a few missed taps in previous Facebook for iOS versions, which caused me to accidentally like a post I was trying to comment on. The new buttons are a welcome addition in my book.
Facebook's inclusion of the free calling feature in this update is an interesting one. In the recent past, the Facebook Messenger app has become a sort of "testing ground" of sorts for new communications features. The new contact list look was first introduced in Messenger, as was the swipe gesture to open the contact list. Both of those features graduated into the main Facebook app, just as the VoIP calling feature has done here. It's a safe bet to assume that any future additions to the Facebook app that are related to messaging or calling will end up in Messenger first before being included in the main app.
It's hard not to see the big picture in terms of the impact the free calling feature might have. Facebook's messaging feature is fairly popular, and since most smartphone owners have the Facebook or Facebook Messenger apps installed on their devices, Facebook messages have become an easy way to contact someone without needing a phone number. When Facebook's calling feature makes its way to Android devices, you'll be able to call (or be called by) almost all of your Facebook friends without needing their digits. There are pros and cons to offering every single Facebook friend this kind of accessibility, of course, and that's something that we'll all have to keep an eye on.
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Danny Wilson, the Hearts captain, said Jamie Hamill has apologised to his team-mates for his embarrassing dismissal against Ross County and insists the fiery midfielder still commands the respect of the dressing room.
In remarkable scenes at Tynecastle on Saturday, Hamill scored the opening goal in the 2-0 win from the penalty spot before shoulder-charging the County manager Derek Adams, who had been complaining that the player's celebration involved running away with the ball.
Hamill, who was wearing the captain's armband in Wilson's absence, was swiftly shown a second yellow card and will now miss Sunday's visit to Easter Road to face Hibernian.
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"Jamie has said he was sorry to the boys, but we're fortunate that we went on to win the game and it never really cost us," said Wilson. "It is not something we have spoken at length about; we will move on and it has been dealt with. It is one of those things and Hamill has the respect of everyone in the dressing room, so we don't feel the need to go on about it.
"It has been dealt with internally and by the SFA. I'm sure whoever comes in will do a good job and Jamie will learn from that."
It was believed that because referee Willie Collum dealt with the incident at the time, that the SFA could not take any further action beyond banning the former Scotland Under-21 cap from the derby match. However, the governing body's rules do allow for the compliance officer Vincent Lunny to intervene in cases of 'excessive misconduct' but it is not yet clear whether the governing body will increase the sanction.
Wilson acknowledges that Hamill's absence is "not ideal" for the derby, with Hearts' squad thin on the ground. However, recent meetings between the sides, as well as the clubs' contrasting current form, suggest the encounter will hold no fear for Hearts. Hibs are on a run of nine matches without a win, have lost their last five and have not scored in their last four outings, and are now within three points of a relegation play-off pace. Hearts have also won three of the four Edinburgh derbies this season.
"There have been a lot of times we have not done too well this season, but in the derbies we have turned up and put a performance on for the fans. That is something we are looking to do once more. Four derby wins will be a remarkable achievement. We have played well in these games."
Wilson is acutely aware that, having endured relegation for the first time since the 1980/81 campaign, Hearts fans would love nothing more than to see their city rivals dragged in to the Championship as well. But the defender is adamant he will not give the Hibs manager Terry Butcher any inflammatory headlines to pin up on the dressing room wall.
"We will just do our job as professionally as possible and we can only do that by going there and winning. Yes, that will pull them further down but that is not our priority. It's not for me to say something to fuel their fire Whatever happens in the rest of the season with them is their issue."


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Robert Diefenbach took his annual vacation two months ago in Albuquerque. While there, the Newport, Oregon, resident picked up a copy of the alt-weekly Albuquerque Alibi. He read Ask a Mexican!, the column in which yours truly answers readers' questions about Mexicans and which the Alibi also publishes. The questions that week concerned the Mexican love affair with chickens and similarities between Mexicans and the Irish.
Diefenbach had never heard of Ask a Mexican! but thought it was "wonderful." Upon returning to work as a handyman at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital, the 62-year-old printed a copy of the chicken/Irish installment for a Mexican-American co-worker. The two discussed the Nov. 16 column's reference to the San Patricios Brigade, the battalion of Irish-American soldiers who defected and fought for Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
The following day, Diefenbach's supervisors called him into a meeting. They reportedly told Diefenbach he would be suspended for five days without pay, effective immediately. His offense: using a computer on company time, racial discrimination and sexual harassment for showing Ask a Mexican! to his coworker. Diefenbach wasn't allowed to appeal or respond to the charges.
"It felt like a hit in the stomach where the air gets knocked out of you," says a still-shaken Diefenbach. "There's an indignation when you're accused of something that's totally untrue. I felt sick."
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Diefenbach's union didn't buy his argument that Ask a Mexican! was satirical, that its reference to Mexicans and the Irish as "drunk, degenerate, fornicating Catholics" and use of a fat, gold-toothed Mexican for a logo was tongue-in-cheek. So Diefenbach hired private attorney Kerry Smith to see if he could sue Samaritan for wrongful suspension.
Smith thought the Ask a Mexican! in question—which also called Mexicans and the Irish "brothers in depravity" and claimed Mexican men treat chickens "as they treat their women: as purveyors of breasts, eggs and little else"—"was really funny. I'm Irish and call myself a feminist. In that particular column, I found it absolutely funny and understood the point right away."
But Smith told Diefenbach she didn't think any arbitrator in the state of Oregon would agree and advised him to drop the case.
"I've never come across anything like this before," she says. "I see both sides. Looking at this column at face value, arbitrators could see it as offensive. However, I think that in the context in that it was presented, the hospital acted in a reactionary way."
Diefenbach's disciplinary report doesn't say much about the incident—it only mentions that Diefenbach showed a coworker a column that "depicts people of Mexican origin, women, Irish, and the Catholic religion in a discriminatory and derogatory way" and included a copy of the offending Ask a Mexican! The report also mentions that Diefenbach "has a record of saying dumb things" but mentions only one other incident: last April, Diefenbach received a written warning for saying "something that was out of place and could be construed as a sexual remark."
Diefenbach's offense: he was eating lunch with Samaritan's engineering staff when a woman asked them why she wasn't invited. "This is the boys' club," Diefenbach joked.
Before that, the only other time Diefenbach received disciplinary action in his 22 years at Samaritan was when he visited a garage sale on company time.
Diefenbach says he isn't allowed to speak to his coworkers about the incident. "If I try to approach the subject at all, I have no idea what might happen," he sighs.
"I'm going to look over my shoulder for a while," Diefenbach adds. "Hopefully, I can keep my nose clean. But I'm having a hard time with it. I love telling jokes. I love people. I love interacting with people. Now, I have to weigh everything I say. It takes the joy out of it."
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Rising Farmland Values: An Indicator of Regional Economic Performance or a Speculative Bubble?
The 2012 Journal of the ASFMRA has been published online and can be viewed and/or downloaded this link. This year's Journal features a range of diverse topics such as:
- Rising Farmland Values: An Indicator of Regional Economic Performance or a Speculative Bubble?
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ASFMRA Nominations – 2012-2013
This is official notification for the following Executive Council Positions for the 2012-13 year.
The following two individuals will automatically advance to their new Council positions as President and President-Elect:
President: Paul Joerger, AFM
President-Elect: S. James Rickert, AFM, ARA
The following four individuals have been nominated for positions on the ASFMRA Executive Council:
First Vice President: Fred Hepler, AFM, AAC
Academic Vice President: LeeAnn Moss, Ph.D., ARA
District V Vice President:
Edward (Eddie or Ed) E. Lumpee, ARA
A.E. "Butch" Nelson, Jr., ARA
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Growing Our Future: Young Professionals Network
Kick your SEW experience off by joining us at 3:00 pm on Sunday, July 15th. The Young Professional Network (YPN) will bring together the next generation of ASFMRA leaders in an open forum. This is THE opportunity for newer industry professionals to come together, network and bring a fresh perspective to the Executive Council and Committees, The future of the Society will be molded by your opinions AND your future success will be shaped by networks you create today. Our goal is to create a great networking event and an opportunity to YPN members to give input on the direction of the ASFMRA. Be sure to tell all your colleagues to come!
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Going Concern Value and Intangible Assets
The student more aware of the intangible assets in agricultural properties. Offer an understanding of the components of intangible assets associated with agricultural real estate. Also to provide the student with tools to allocate value to the components that comprise a going concern value.
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This seminar will include the following topics: Market Outlook, Weather, Land Values, Crop Insurance, a Farm Bill Update and Using Technology in collection of yield info for Crop insurance. Get more information or register: http://portal.asfmra.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/events/7940.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=7940
Time to Sort Through Your Mental Rolodex
Take advantage of the opportunity to nominate a fellow member and/or co-worker for the 2012 ASFMRA Membership Awards. All ASFMRA members are invited to submit names of individuals who are standouts in the profession. This is your Society and no one knows better than you who deserves special recognition for what they bring to both the organization and to the profession. Who are the leaders? Who stands out as the go-to person? Which of your fellow members are outstanding in their community, their profession, and their chapter?
We would like to ask everyone to take advantage of the opportunity to nominate a fellow member or members for the 2012 ASFMRA Membership Awards. This is your Society and no one knows better than you who deserves special recognition for what they bring to both the organization and to the profession.
Nominations may be made on-line at http://www.asfmra.org/agronomics-2012/awards-nominations/. You may also download the nomination forms at www.agro-nomics.org/Awards.htm. Take a few minutes to view the various award descriptions, and sort through your mental rolodex for deserving nominees. ASFMRA members may be nominated for
• Appraisal Professional of the Year
• D. Howard Doane
• Carl F. Hertz Distinguished Service
• Early Career
• Meritorious Service in Communications
The deadline for all ASFMRA nominations is July 31, 2012. All awards will be presented at a special ceremony during the society's 83rd Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN this October.
The Great Partnership: Chapters and Universities
What is the role of the Academic Member? How is your Chapter and Universities working together to serve the ASMFRA Member? Join us Monday Morning, July 16th at SEW for a great discussion on the relationship that the Society has with the Academic Members. Ideas from this meeting are designed to result in a plan of action that the Society, Chapters and Academic Members will use to guide efforts to improve services and better utilize the unique resources Academic members bring to the organization. Get more information or register for Summer Ed Week.
Presenters Needed for Rapid Fire Session at Annual Meeting
Rapid Fire Case Studies – a growing Session at the ASFMRA Annual Meeting – has become increasingly popular the last three years. We are excited to be offering it on the program for 2012 in Indianapolis. The purpose behind the session is for appraisers to share unique experiences or appraisal assignments that they have encountered in business. We can all learn from one another and what better way than by sharing real life experiences. The more diverse the better! But this can only happen with your help!
This year's Rapid Fire Session is scheduled for Wednesday, October 31st from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Presentations will range from 30 to 60 minutes in length and continuing education hours will be awarded for the session. We see this as a great opportunity to share knowledge with your peers and gain exposure for a unique project that you've encountered. As you will see in this session, Rapid Fire makes learning interesting and fun!
If you have a project that you think might be a fit for Rapid Fire, please contact Dave GaNun, ARA at email@example.com. Remember, what may seem the 'norm' to you, may truly be interesting and unusual to an appraiser from another part of the country. What's in your portfolio?
The Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) has issued the following document:
First Exposure Draft of proposed changes for the 2014-15 edition of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice
Written comments requested by July 6, 2012
Send Comments to email@example.com
Complete info at: https://appraisalfoundation.sharefile.com/d/s06679aeff2d40dab
Minutes from the Spring BOT Meeting of TAF
Please feel free to download the minutes from the Board of Trustees Spring meetingwhich was held on May 19, 2012 in San Antonio, TX.
The Un-Comfort Zone by Robert Evans Wilson, Jr.
Who is the Puppet Master of Your Story?
I discovered something interesting when I first started writing fiction. The more I developed a character, the more he would develop a mind of his own about what he would do or not do. Many times a direction I initially imagined the character would take was no longer possible based on the character's values. If I tried to force it, it would seem contrived, and, the reader would no longer find my character believable.
Read the entire article: http://www.jumpstartyourmeeting.com/articles/TUZ/56-Puppet_Master_Your_Story.shtml
Update Your Calendars with the Latest Meetings and Education Schedule
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7/16-20 ASFMRA Summer Education Week – Des Moines, IA
9/9-13 Leadership Institute – Washington, DC
10/28-11/2 ASFMRA 83rd Annual Convention & Trade Show (Agronomics) – Indianapolis, IN
6/TBA North Dakota Chapter Summer Meeting & Education – Fargo, ND
6/21 Ohio Chapter Summer Meeting – Lancaster, OH
6/21-22 Minnesota Chapter Summer Tour & Education – LuVerne, MN
6/21-22 Mid-South Chapter Annual Meeting & Education – Greenwood, MS
6/21-22 Best Practices for Rural Property Appraisals – Greenwood, MS
6/25-28 A304 Integrated Approaches to Value – Denver, CO
7/TBA Nebraska Chapter Summer Meeting in Conjunction with Syngenta – York, NE
7/TBA Kentucky Chapter Summer Meeting – TBA
7/13 Appraisal Standards Board Meeting – Denver, CO
7/16 Introduction to Vineyard & Winery Valuation – Des Moines, IA
7/16 Succession and Estate Planning – Des Moines, IA
7/16-18 Ag Land Management 1 – Des Moines, IA
7/16-18 Ag Land Management 2 – Des Moines, IA
7/16-18 Ag Land Management 3 – Des Moines, IA
7/16-19 A303 Income Approach for General Appraisers Part 1 – Des Moines, IA
7/17 Going Concern Value and Intangible Assets – Des Moines, IA
7/17 Risk Management, Market Outlook and Insurance – Des Moines, IA
7/18 Appraising Natural Resources – Des Moines, IA
7/18 Emerging Technologies and Issues – Des Moines, IA
7/19 ASFMRA Best in Business Ethics Class – Des Moines, IA
7/20 Preparing for DODD-Frank: Appraisal, Management, & Review – Des Moines, IA
7/25-27 Kansas Chapter Summer Meeting & Education – Seneca, KS
8/1 Sales Comparison Approach – Perry, GA
8/2 Appraisals Through the Eyes of the Reviewer – Perry, GA
8/2 Georgia Chapter Meeting – Perry, GA
8/7-8 Valuation of Intangible and Non Financial Assets – Austin, TX (FCB)
8/16-17 Illinois Chapter Summer Tour – Champaign, IL


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When faced with my second assignment, I had just enough confidence to try something slightly more challenging than the "slap the meat on the grill" technique appropriate for burgers. After seeking advice from Associate Food Editor Elaine Johnson, I decided that I would tackle cooking with indirect heat and prepare Grilled Ratatouille.
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Thank you
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for your replies!
I will trim around the beginning of April (trying to going for the moon phase method) so maybe it'll sort it out.
I don't know if the hairs are straight from root to end, it's never happened before, so I'm surprised! The straighter ones have the full - real - length of my hair, so I guess there's no curl at all in them so no shrinkage to pull them up.
The shorter ones, have a bit of curl, that's why they don't look long but they stick out, they don't clump up.
Maybe, as well as the trim, I should also change leave-in for a while. I'm using Boots curling creme right now (gift from my boyfriend who's in the UK!
) - which I looooooooove - but maybe my hair needs something softer, like the Pantene I normally use.
I'll keep you posted on any changes! I'm also thinking of mixing my regular gel with a little bit of aloe vera gel...wonder if it'll help...
"I know sometimes I might seem so ugly, and maybe I really am. I know that I'm not that easy to ignore when I'm really mad..."
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Alicia please keep a lookout for an email from me. I'm requesting your info and will be sending out a magazine subscription to the Food Network for you. This foodie magazine is perfect for new recipes, checking out the cool fun gadgets, and the inside scoop on many of the Food Network stars and tv shows. You're going to love it!
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If you are a published print book author or anthology editor who is interested in being a part of this award-winning publication, then welcome! Perceptive Travel is designed to plug a hole, to fill a niche, to serve an unserved need for quality writing aimed at independent travelers.
For all you ADD types that routinely send e-mails to editors before fully reading the guidelines, here's the condensed version:
1) Articles from printed book authors or anthology editors only.
2) Your book needs to be in print and widely available, not published in Wales only 15 years ago or only as a $2 Kindle edition.
3) If your story idea would work in a newspaper or mainstream travel magazine, it's probably not for us.
As a book author with something to say, you can probably count on one hand the travel magazines you respect. Many of those that offered a place for perceptive writers to really let loose have fallen by the wayside. Independent travelers don't have a whole lot to choose from on the magazine rack. On the web there are a zillion choices, but only a few online magazines are focused on quality material from top-tier writers.
In general, the travel magazine press is collectively infatuated with luxury, simplistic "best of" lists, and consumerism. The "special advertising sections" take up almost as much space as the real editorial. In the U.S. at least, most newspaper travel sections now consist of uninspiring wire service stories that run in Des Moines and Dallas on the same day---if the paper even still has a travel section.
Frustrated yet?
In my own small way, maybe with your help, I am doing something about the problem instead of just whining. Perceptive Travel will not change the publishing industry. It only makes a modest profit. But it does give some of the most talented vagabond authors a home for their homeless articles. And here's the novel part—it will pay you actual money, within two weeks of publication, and treat you like a professional on top of it. Payment is $50 $60 $75 $85 $100 per article. No great sum, I'll admit, but we pay out roughly half our revenue to writers and editors, which you certainly won't find at Hearst, Gannett, or Condé Nast. (And most of our authors sell a few books in the process, so even better.) Our writers tend to win awards and get listed in "best travel writing" anthologies on a consistent basis, so the prestige factor is not too shabby either.
This web magazine is published monthly, with three feature articles per issue, plus travel-related book reviews and world music reviews. All of the categories are open to contributing authors, though the book and music reviews are generally handled by rotating regulars.
It may sound snobbish, but only articles from authors with book(s) in print will be accepted. This is partly a "who has a following already" filter and partly a submission management filter. The main reason, however, is that this requirement differentiates Perceptive Travel from the infinite number of other travel sites out there and allows cross-promotion that is of mutual benefit. The article you write will prominently feature your latest book(s) and will provide a link to your website in the bio. Because of your platform and following you draw visitors to our site. Everybody wins.
Sponsored trips are allowed, provided you can find a unique angle. Or a funny one. Or a very odd one.
Editing will be done with a light touch. I am not trying to appeal to bridal mag bimbos or babe-scoring lads here. Nobody will cut your free-flowing prose down to "breezy and light" pun-filled copy that a third-grader could understand. I only ask that you keep the word count somewhere around 1,200 to 2,000 words unless there's a compelling reason to go a bit higher. This is the web, after all. Preference is given to original material that has never appeared elsewhere, though I'll occasionally make an exception if you're a big name or you've got a compelling book excerpt that stands well on its own.
Supply a range of good digital photos (after the story is accepted), or risk me having to find something that fits the story, which is a pain. Photos should be beautiful, strange, or striking—or all of the above. No, you don't get paid extra (sorry), but you retain the rights. While we're on the subject, story rights revert to you after 60 days, so don't hold back your best stuff thinking you can't use it later. All this will be spelled out in a contract—imagine that.
What is the perfect story for Perceptive Travel? For a start, something that is a square peg for all the round holes out there. Think Travelers' Tales, not Travel & Leisure. Adbusters, not Arizona Highways. We're not interested in guidebook-type destination rundowns or stories that are very wide in scope. Think small and focused. Tell us a good story or immerse us in a place we haven't already read about a hundred times. Have a point, a clear angle. Be yourself, follow your instincts, tell us the real deal. Make us want to read past the first two paragraphs. There's no set tone you have to follow: write like Hemingway or write like Rushdie—as long as it's really you that's talking and you have something unique to say.
Here's the advice you've heard a hundred times but few seem to follow: read what's already been published here to get an idea of what works.
Beyond that, I'm not big on rules. So send me a query, send me a completed story, or send me a wacky idea and a phone or Skype number to discuss it. But send a link to a portfolio site or info about your book(s) so I know what you've accomplished. (Okay, that one is a rule, actually. Your book info is mandatory.) If you know me already, fire off a note to whatever e-mail address you've got. Otherwise, use editor (at) perceptivetravel.com. I'll respond one way or the other as soon as I read your note. If you have followed these guidelines and haven't heard back in two weeks, it's okay to bug me again. No pocket vetoes here.
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Cisco has said it remains committed to set-top boxes following reports yesterday (Monday) that a sale was being planned for the former Scientific-Atlanta division.
In a blog post the company said that rumour or speculative comment on the future of the division appeared every few months, pointing to comments made by CEO John Chambers during as part of the Q2 2012 earnings report on February 8.
"In terms of set top boxes, we are very much committed to this marketplace. Our SP customers asked us to partner with them as they move from traditional set top boxes to IP set top boxes to the cloud, our Videoscape solution. Receptivity so far has been very, very good in terms of our strategy," Chambers said at the time.
According to the New York Post, Cisco has become disenchanted with the market which has changed dramatically since the $7 billion purchase in 2006.
Cisco says that its commitment to the set-top is just a part of its Videoscape solution that takes video from the cloud to the end device.
The company dismissed what it described as "unsourced reports".


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In a recent comment Chris Rusbridge asks:
April 29th, 2008 at 4:47 pm e
I've been thinking about a blog post related to your hamburger rants. But the more I try to think it through, the murkier it gets. Is the problem that PDF cannot store the semantic information? I'm not sure, but I'm beginning to suspect maybe not, ie PDF can. Is the problem that the tools that build the PDFs don't encode the semantic information? Probably. Is the semantic information available in the publisher's file from which the PDF is built? Possibly to probably, depending on the publisher and their DTD/schema. Is the semantic information available in the author's file? Probably not to possibly, depending on author tools (I'm not sure what chemists use to write these days; Word would presumably be dire in this respect unless there is a chemistry plug-in; LaTeX can get great results in math and CS, but I'm not sure how semantic, as opposed to display-oriented, the markup is). And even if this were to all happen, does chemistry have the agreed vocabulary, cf the Gene Ontology in bio-sciences, to make the information truly "semantic"? And…
PMR: Thank you Chris. It's a good time to revisit this. There are several aspects.
(From Wikipedia) The PDF combines three technologies:
- A sub-set of the PostScript page description programming language, for generating the layout and graphics.
- A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents.
- A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any associated content into a single file, with data compression where appropriate.
- and...
One of the major problems with PDF accessibility is that PDF documents have three distinct views, which, depending on the document's creation, can be inconsistent with each other. The three views are (i) the physical view, (ii) the tags view, and (iii) the content view. The physical view is displayed and printed (what most people consider a PDF document). The tags view is what screen readers read (useful for people with poor eyesight). The content view is displayed when the document is re-flowed to Acrobat (useful for people with mobility disability). For a PDF document to be accessible, the three views must be consistent with each other.
... so why is this a problem?
First let me dispose of the "PDF is only bad if it's authored with tools from a Moscow sweat-shop. Good PDF is fit for any purpose". PDF is concerned with positioning objects on the page for sighted humans to read. Yes, there are the two other views but they are often inconsistent or impenetrable. Because most of us are sighted the problem does not grate, but for those others it can be very difficult. Let's assume I have the text string "PDF". In a normal ASCII document (including HTML and Word) the "P" comes first, then the "D" then the "F". In PDF it's allowable (and we have found it!) to have the following instructions in the following order
- position the "F" at coordinate (100,200)
- position the "D" at coordinate (90.3, 200)
- position the "P" at coordinate (81.2, 200)
When drawn out on screen the F would come first, then the D then the P. The final result would read naturally, but a speech synthesizer would hear the order "F", "D", "P". I believe that the US government was sufficiently concerned about accessibility that they required Adobe to make alterations to the PDF software so that the characters would be read aloud in the right order. This is the Eric Morecambe syndrome (in response to Andre Preview telling him he is "playing all the wrong notes":
I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
Eric Morecambe
This spills over into all common syntactic constructs. Run-of-the-mill PDF has no concept of a paragraph, a line end or other common constructs. This gets worse with technical documents - you cannot tell where the diagrams or tables are or even if they are diagrams and tables. HTML got it 90% right - it has concepts such as "img", "table", "p". PDF generally does not.
To retiterate PDF is a cheap and reliable way of transporting a printed page from one site to another and a cheap and inexpensive way of storing pages without paper. Beyond that it gets much less valuable very rapidly.
There's a general problem with semantic information. If I write "the casus belli is very important" the emphasis (italics) tells me that the words carry semantic information. It doesn't tell me what this information is. You have to guess. We often cannot guess or even guess wrong. This type of semantics is very fragile - if the phrase is cut-n-pasted you'll probably lose the italics in most systems. If, however, you use HTML and write 'class="latin" and 'class="authorEmphasis" you immediately see that the semantics are preserved. So HTML can, with care, carry semantics. PDF generally cannot.
To answer your other points rapidly (I will come back to them in more detail). I use to think Word was dire. Word2007 has changed that. It can be used as an XML authoring tool. Not always easily but it preserves basic semantics. And as for a chemical plugin to Word...
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MP3 Mini Mixing Deck
- DJ anywhere with this portable MP3 Mini Mixing Deck
- Connect up to 2 MP3 players to it and start mixing
- Features a cross fader for seamless transitions
- Includes A/B buttons to allow you to listen to a track which is cued
- Great starter kit for aspiring DJ's. Includes 4xAAA batteries
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Become the Fatboy Slim of your living room without having to fork out thousands on fancy DJ equipment with this portable MP3 Mini Mixing Deck, which uses the music collection from your portable device to play tracks from. You won't need to be schooled by Grandmaster Flash or have 30 years experience to master this mixer, as it is so easy to use. It has an inbuilt fader for you the switch between the tracks with and two volume controls for you to fade in and out of tracks with. Plug in two MP3 players to fade between tracks like a pro - you could even do back to back sets with your mates or have a DJ battle to test who really holds the skills on the wheels of steel!
There is an an audio-out function for you to plug the device into your powerful home speakers which is perfect for parties and there is also an internal speaker if you just want to jam with your friends. This mixer fits any MP3 player with a 3.5mm jack and is the perfect accessory for any house party, as you won't have to sit in silence when someone is choosing a song, you can play a track from one device and cue up another on a separate device.
This mixer is the ultimate piece of starter kit for any budding DJ's out there whether you enjoy House, R&B, Hip Hop, Trance or even Speed Metal - yes we said Speed Metal ! Requires 4xAAA batteries (included).


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Readers vote on the best Endpoint Security products in 2012: Business-grade desktop and server antimalware and endpoint protection suites that include antivirus and antispyware, using signature-, behavior- and anomaly-based detection, whitelisting, host-based intrusion prevention and client firewalls.
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Gold: ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition, ESET
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition offers protection from malware, email and Internet traffic scanning, and proactive threat detection. ESET differentiates itself with software that runs fast while consuming fewer system resources than other antimalware/endpoint products. Readers backed this up with comments such as "bloat free and easy on system resources," "small footprint," and "runs invisibly."
Readers also pointed out that the software runs well on Macs. According to ESET, the Mac OS X edition of ESET NOD32 is the only anti-malware solution ICSA Labs certified for both Mac and Windows. The software provides protection for cross-platform threats to help prevent Macs from carrying malware that could be passed to other OSes.
Expert's market reflection: "The endpoint protection market is in transition. Signature-based protection mechanisms alone no longer offer sufficient protection. Organizations want converged platforms that offer multiple styles of protection within a single policy management framework, including firewalls, antimalware and encryption as well as application control and device control." -- Neil MacDonald, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner
Silver: Kaspersky Open Space Security, Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Open Space Security garnered the silver, winning high scores from readers for its effectiveness in detecting, blocking and cleaning up malware. Readers also rated the product highly for ease of installation, configruaion and administration and feel they're getting their money's worth. Kaspersky Open Space Security provides anti-malware protection in a single, integrated suite of applications designed to work seamlessly across all platforms. The product provides a combination of signature-based, proactive and cloud-based protection technologies.
Bronze: Sophos Endpoint Protection, Sophos
Readers awarded the bronze to Sophos Endpoint Protection, giving the product high scores for ease of installation, configuration and administration. They also praised the product's reporting and alerting capabilities and the frequency and speed of its signature updates. Sophos Endpoint Protection provides integrated antivirus, Web security, full-disk encryption, client firewall, application control, device control, and other features. The security functions are managed via one console.


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The Australian sharemarket suffered its worst one-day fall since March, dropping 2 per cent on Thursday on the back of data showing manufacturing conditions in China plunging to a seven-month low. Investor sentiment also took a heavy hit after comments by US Federal Reserve chairman
Every sector on the market was down except for information technology. The bourse dropped to its lowest level since February 21, with the S&P/ASX 200 closing down 102.9 points to end the day at 5062.4.
Telecommunications and financials were hit hardest, falling 3.84 per cent and 2.70 per cent respectively. Utilities were down 2.53 per cent. Information technology was the only sector to rise, gaining 1.79 per cent.
Downside risk to fragile growth recovery
CommSec said the data showed China was going through teething problems as it adjusted to the structural imbalances in its domestic economy.
"There is no doubt that our largest trading partner has achieved a soft landing but the concern for investors and analysts is what happens to Chinese activity from here," CommSec's Investor Snapshot said. Domestically, it said the recent spate of rate cuts had initially supported an improvement in consumer confidence, which had since retreated into negative territory.
"The non-mining sector has yet to pick up the slack from the pullback in mining investment, essentially ensuring that the RBA can afford to maintain an easing bias over the rest of the year," CommSec said.
"There has been a shakeout of cyclical stocks, and valuations have been tested particularly in mining services, contracting and anything related to infrastructure servicing," he said.
"The widespread downgrades have been large and have impacted on investor sentiment and share prices."
The big four banks all fell heavily.
A few bright spots
There were a few bright spots in the market on Thursday, with Australia's biggest insurer,
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White Collar star Tiffani Thiessen shared an adorable photo of 2-year-old Harper on her Instagram account on Thursday (November 8).
The caption reads: "What am I going to do today????"
On November 5 the actress wrote "silly face" along with a picture of Harper smushing her face against the car window.
In an interview with Glamour – Thiessen mentioned what shows she would like her daughter to watch.
She said, "I'm obsessed with her watching, sooner than let's say, 60 Minutes [laughs], would be the Great Food Truck Race on the Food Network. I love that show! [laughs] I love food! And I love Top Chef too."


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Average rating: 5 starsKa 8/13/17 LA
The shoes are soo comfy and so cute. Love them!
Keeping the spirit of adventure alive. The Scout brings the comfort with a breathable mesh upper, a fully-lined interior, an elastic heel support, an STI Foam Lite Level 1 insole, and an exposed STI Evolution Foam midsole and outsole with rubber pods for durability and traction.
The shoes are soo comfy and so cute. Love them!
Love these shoes! Super light and comfortable.
Exactly as shown in the photograph, really comfortable shoes - so much so I'm contemplating buying another exact pair for work. Really fast delivery, really pleased!
This is my second pair of shoes from the Scout collection. They are so comfortable!


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Friends and Colleagues
The honor guard sets the scene and mood….perfect touch…thanks to Cheryl's Friends/colleagues for doing what they do best.
Wedding Post Coming Up
In the mean while here are a few pics that highlight our wedding adventure from August 14th 2013….
Family are arriving
Family have arrived for our wedding. Mom and dad via RV from New York and sisters and families via plane
Wedding Check List
It won't be long until Cheryl and I take the next step after living Common Law for 16 years into the world of Legal MARRIAGE. After all the fuss being made over in Russia about the anti gay movement I thought it would be a perfect post in honor of our right to be with […]
Pre Wedding Shower
Had a great time with a bunch of colleagues that we also call friends at our home for our pre wedding shower. Traditionally the wedding couple do not host the shower but I insisted we have it here and all our friends brought the food and goodies to us. Beautiful day on our deck we […]
Million Dollar View
One of the views at the Westcoast Wilderness Lodge our wedding venue! Here for the night.
A Modern Day Wedding Registry
When you have been together for 16 years and wedding guests ask what do you want? Hard to say anything to be honest but there is the feeling we had to register for something. Modern Day Weddings for those who really have it "all" can turn to FLIGHT Centre…how cool is this…people search by the […]
2 months, 3 Weeks & 4 Days
Not too much longer until the day we get hitched. I mean why not? We have only been together almost 16 years….;-) Here is our post from our scouting out the venue ride last year SUNSHINE COAST onward to the venue POST here and here is a video showing you WHY we picked the WESTCOAST […]
After 15 years……
There are few things in my life that surprise me or shock me at this point. Yesterday, March 23, 2012 at about 1800 hrs Cheryl came home from work and we had this conversation….. ME = Cheryl 😉