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Bob's Peak - A destination of its own within Queenstown
Right in the heart of Queenstown is the Skyline Gondola, the gateway to an assortment of activities and adventure on Bob's Peak.
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It's a destination of its own really; you could spend a whole day exploring the various things to do at the top.
Getting to Bob's Peak
The easiest way is to step aboard the Skyline Gondola or a cable car as its better known in other places (not a mode of water transport in Venice!). The Queenstown Gondola is the steepest in the southern hemisphere and takes you 450 metres above Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu.
The hard way or more energetic way is to hike up the Tiki Trail; this walking track starts at the base of the Skyline Gondola winding its way up through the pine forests of Ben Lomond Reserve to the top of Bob's Peak. The hike is recommended for moderate fitness levels and will take approximately 45-60 minutes to complete.
Rewarded with panoramic views
When you get to the top of the Gondola you are rewarded with some of Queenstown's most spectacular views. From Bob's Peak you can see Coronet Peak to the north and the iconic Remarkables mountain range to the east, both of which are ski resorts in the winter. Across the deep blue waters of Lake Wakatipu to the southwest you see Cecil and Walter Peaks. It's truly awe-inspiring!
The Skyline Luge
This is a great affordable activity for all ages, from kids and families to adults alike. The Luge was invented in New Zealand and is a gravity fuelled ride where you sit in a purpose built Luge cart and ride down the tracks at your own pace. There are two tracks at Skyline Queenstown, the scenic track or the bends and bumps of the advanced track. It's great fun and is accessed by a chairlift so you can go back to the top and do it all over again.
Activities and Attractions
There are plenty of activities and attractions by day and night and for many people just spectating is part of the fun!
AJ Hackett Bungy operate The Ledge Bungy and Swing just beside the Gondola. There is a viewing deck where you can watch all the action if you aren't the adventurous type or you might want to brave it and take the leap! You can also fly high above Queenstown with G-Force paragliding tours, who will take you on a tandem paragliding flight for a bird's eye view of the region.
Skyline Queenstown has started operating a new stargazing tour which invites visitors to go beyond what the naked eye can see and look deep into our galaxy. Tours run nightly after dark and weather permitting of course. You can also choose to immerse yourself in Maori culture with nightly Kiwi Haka performances. The shows explore the mythical legends of the region and history of Maori culture through traditional song and dance.
Walking and Biking
There are over 12 world class mountain bike trails that you can access from Bob's Peak in the Queenstown Bike Park. You can even buy lift tickets to put your bike on the Gondola, so that you can ride the bike tracks all day long without having to peddle uphill!
Bob's Peak is home to lots of walking and hiking tracks, most of which start from the top of the Gondola. From easy & moderate fitness level short walks to more difficult day hikes, including the Ben Lomond Track a popular hike to the Ben Lomond summit.
Café, Bar and Restaurant
Relax in the Skyline Café or out on one of the various outdoor terraces for a casual dining experience at the top. You could even walk up to the Luge tracks and have a picnic on one of the tables overlooking the whole area. The café serves a lunch menu and freshly baked treats from the cabinet, plus fabulous coffee.
Possibly the best restaurant with a view in the world, the buffet restaurant serves a four course lunch and six course dinner menu, inspired by the taste of New Zealand. Make sure you go here hungry because you will want to try everything!


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This is a visionary text written in 2001 before Web 2.0, Youtube, Facebook and blogging. It predates much of the current debate around the Semantic Web (Web 3.0) and is in line with the 'fuzzy' as opposed to 'neat' view of the emerging Web's structure. I circulated it amongst friends and even sent a copy to the Shuttleworth Foundation. My comments looking back from 2010 are in red. DRL
Coleridge, an Open Source Xanadu
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Clearly, new forms of visual representation and spatial organisation of the web (the ordering of it's growing content) will be the next, big wave, and as the net inflates, the visual mapping of information and the creation of new forms of data landscape or hypermedia will become increasingly important. Imagine a giant library filled with books of all description.
If it weren't for John Dewey who invented the Dewey system of classification, one would never find the same book twice.
The mechanical nature of the web has meant that information is seemingly ordered and open to enquiry, however, precisely because there is no standard means of ordering information, no one particular catalogue of the web, this appearance is misleading. Intelligent agents and context sensitive searches / search engines are one way of traversing. Labelling. Meta-tags are another, but what we all really need is a better visual interface, some form of graphical organisation that overcomes the difficulty faced by a system in which subject, title, author and content do not necessarily correspond in convenient and accessible categories.
When Ted Nelson envisaged the Xanadu Project in 1960, he foresaw the possibility that the links between things (objects and information) would become more important than the things themselves. In fact, we would all end up publishing our links, some of which would actually be sold. published or licensed, enabling a form of income to accrue from the royalties gained by the sale of hypermedia.
While this was a bad idea in terms of its commercial appeal, and the Xanadu Project was (and still is) the biggest vapourware project in history, its success in marketing the concept of hypertext places it near Internet ground zero, at very least, it is the basis for the thinking surrounding hypermedia and the world wide web.
The question then, is Xanadu relevent today? Can we make the links and connections to things seem important again? [This question refers to the as yet unnamed, Semantic Web]. Is there a missing Third Dimension to the Web of Information?
The answer to this question came as a result of a short journey of discovery (one Saturday afternoon in 2001), in which I traversed the same problems encountered by both, Dewey and Nelson. The result was astonishing, because it became clear that we were doing something patently wrong by web browsing, and that there was an essential ingredient missing between web-site, and web-browser, in other words, a system of mapping and visualising links which does not treat the web as some form of encyclopaedia or a giant book, but rather as a relatively open space, perhaps a stellerium in an open library, prone to dusty nooks and crannies in which one may witness both the decay of the old and the marvel of the new.

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Lots Happening at Citrix Synergy, San Francisco
There's lots of activity at Cisco right now leading up to Citrix Synergy in San Francisco next week. Our theme for the event is the ongoing collaboration with Citrix on Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI)
Both companies have been busy since last September, when we launched our first desktop virtualization solution with Citrix resulting in high levels of interest from both customers and mutual partners. This Cisco UCS solution delivers one of the most scalable XenDesktop platforms on the market as verified in a recent report published by Principled Technologies and has been chosen as a Citrix Ready Partner Solution of the Year Finalist .
In January we published another Cisco Validated Design (CVD) for XenDesktop and XenApp on Microsoft Hyper-V to add to the existing designs with VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer.
More recently we began shipping our first VXC zero clients with Citrix ICA support. And for the growing number of mobile users that need their desktop and collaboration services with them wherever they go – there is the Cisco Cius business tablet with Citrix Receiver support.
Perhaps most interesting and valuable from a big picture perspective is the considerable engineering and validation work we are doing together with Citrix, VMware, EMC, NetApp and many other partners to build out the Cisco VXI system and solutions roadmap. For a perspective check out the excellent "Wow to How" blog on VXI by partner MTM's Richard Brumpton.
More specifically, based on design and testing work with Citrix, we published the latest end-to-end system level CVD for Cisco VXI with Citrix XenDesktop, supporting XD 5.0 and XenApp 6. This CVD goes a long way to easing the deployment of XenDesktop virtual desktops, together with Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration services, taking into account key aspects of such a deployment. For example how do you ensure end-to-end availability, harden for security, increase data center efficiency and of course optimize for user experience.
So look us up next week at Citrix Synergy in San Francisco. Try out the VXI technologies in our booth (# 306) and at the "Transformation Lab", attend the Cisco panel and sessions and ask your account manager to set up a private VXI briefing or show and tell session. Finally, relax with your colleagues at the Cisco and Citrix Synergy Shindig Party on Wednesday evening where you could find yourself walking home with a Cisco Umi Home Telepresence System. See you there…..
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If there are limits to speed, the human race has yet to find them.
Ever-increasing top speeds are one thing, but what really throws our backs into the seat is vicious acceleration. The standard measure of how quickly a car accelerates, of course, is the time it takes to scoot from a stop to 60 miles per hour. Zero-to-60 times of under 5 or 6 seconds are considered pretty quick. Under 4 is hypercar territory. Under 3 belongs to the Bugatti Veyron, Porsche 911 Turbo S and Nissan GT-R, with special mentions for the Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren MP4-12C and Ferrari 458 Italia. Maybe.
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Before You Watch
To begin this workshop session, you will tap your prior knowledge and experience and then read current research on how specific writing concepts and strategies can be applied to presentational tasks.
Reflect on Your ExperienceConsider the types of written and oral presentational tasks that you have designed for students, then answer the following questions. You may want to save your answers in order to reflect on them again at the end of the session.
Examine the ResearchRead the article listed below, then answer the following questions.
Article"Teaching Foreign Language Writing"
Part 1 (PDF, 639 K) Part 2 (PDF, 629 K) Part 3 (PDF, 528 K)
This article talks about the importance of teaching foreign language writing at all levels of language study.
Scott, Virginia Mitchell. "Teaching Foreign Language Writing." In Rethinking Foreign Language Writing, 140-170. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1996.
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You may elect to read the following article for a deeper understanding of the effects of error correction on students' writing progress.
"Effects of the Red Pen" (PDF, 589 K)
This article details a study that suggests student achievement is enhanced by free-writing exercises, and that teacher corrections do not significantly improve writing skills.
Semke, H. "Effects of the Red Pen." Foreign Language Annals 17 (1984): 195-202.
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I just finished watching Mary Poppins with my young'uns. It never ceases to amaze me the misplaced priorities represented in Disney's movies. However, I had not noticed before in the older movies.
It struck me that in Mary Poppins, the one person who was not expected to spend time with the children was their own mother, Mrs. Winnifred Banks. Feminism at work again. Subtle. But present. After all, she was busy with important work: the liberation of women from the dominion of men!
My children actually identified this before I did by remarking "She's not a very good mommy, is she?"
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See also Iran Live Coverage: Seizing the Children of the Detained Opposition Leaders
2019 GMT: Nuclear Watch. State outlet Press TV, without giving details, proclaims that Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agnecy "have reached basic agreement to work out a structured framework to resolve the outstanding issues" on inspection and supervision of the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme.
Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said that the "remaining differences" would be discussed in the next Iran-IAEA meeting.
2011 GMT: Sanctions Watch. After a week of combat with President Ahmadinejad, head of judiciary Sadegh Larijani turned today to support of the regime's All-Is-Well line on the economy and sanctions, telling judiciary officials:
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Philanthropist Thomas A. Saunders III has delivered two speeches in the past year. Though quite different—one was about genetics, the other about the financial crisis—they both ended with Saunders talking about the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima. An important battle of the Pacific theater, it is also a battle in which Mary Jordan Saunders's father, Maj. General Matthew C. Horner, participated as a corporal with the Fourth Marines. But the reason Tom Saunders keeps returning to Iwo Jima is that he was awestruck by a speech he heard Hershel "Woody" Williams of the Third Marines give in March of 2007 at a dinner honoring recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.Outlined on a hotel notepad, Williams's speech about Iwo Jima made a refrain of all that the United States did not know prior to invasion: that it would take 75,000 Marines to gain control of the island; that the Japanese had recourse to miles of underground tunnels and would fight to the last; that the battle would take not days but weeks.
In bullet points Williams's brief account concludes with things he himself could not have foreseen: "I didn't know that two Marines would give their lives protecting mine. I didn't know my life would be changed forever because my commanding officer and four Marines thought I was worthy of the Medal of Honor. I am the caretaker of it."
After hearing the speech Tom Saunders told Williams he'd found it riveting. Williams gave him the notepad on which it was drafted, a gift Tom cherishes because this modest object and the bare-bones story it tells capture how the Saunderses feel about the sacrifices of earlier generations and what the present owes to the past. "To know who we are," explains Tom, "we have to know who we were."
Caretaking is serious business in the Saunders household. In addition to contributing tens of millions of dollars to institutions of culture and higher education, they have donated great quantities of time, leadership, and panache to their adopted causes.
Tom Saunders, a former partner at Morgan Stanley, who among other feats did the underwriting for Margaret Thatcher's telecom privatization, has given the University of Virginia some $17 million over the past twenty-five years. As a board member, he led the Darden School of Business at UVA to forgo public funding in return for greater autonomy and established matching challenges for the university's schools of education, nursing, and architecture to help these less-well-funded programs get in the practice of attracting major donations. At the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, he has helped fund the digitization of Jefferson's retirement papers and called on the nonprofit to use the Internet to export Jefferson's wisdom all over the world.
Dan Jordan, president emeritus of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, says Tom's philanthropy "springs largely from patriotism and loyalty." He is, says Mr. Jordan, "a proud and grateful American."
Jordan Horner Saunders has been saluted with military revues and an F-16 flyover for her commitments to the Marine Corps University (where the Saunderses have endowed the Matthew C. Horner chair in military theory) and the Virginia Military Institute. Jordan has also been credited with the staging of several major fundraising events. Attendees still recall the 1995 Dinner on the Lawn at UVA, which Tom and Jordan chaired, to kick off a billion-dollar capital campaign: the dramatic sight of elegant white tents on Mister Jefferson's lawn, the music selected for the event (students singing "Shenandoah," now used routinely in campus ceremonies), the democratic seating chart, and the great sense of occasion.
In 2007 the Saunders hosted the annual gala for the New-York Historical Society and raised three times as much money as the previously most successful gala. The event took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Uptown Manhattan. Beforehand, Tom wondered if they shouldn't hang a flag over a wall that had been damaged in a fire. Jordan arranged for a thirty-foot by sixty-foot stars and stripes to be draped vertically, and luminously, over the gala as a great visual symbol.
Asked how she and her husband came to be such active champions of American education and history, Jordan says their Southern upbringing instilled in them a reverence for the past, as did their ancestral connections in Virginia, which, in both cases, date back to the seventeenth century. Living in New York City, as the Saunders have since the 1960s, has also provided them with examples of how private individuals can take a stand for the public good. Jordan is an admirer of the privately run Central Park Conservancy, which was founded in 1980 to reverse the moral and physical decay that had taken over the park during the financially strapped seventies. "It became clear to me that if you didn't participate in preserving something you cared about, it could go away. Can you imagine New York without Central Park?"
It's a bracing and fitting thought for those in a position to become caretakers, which is to say everyone. As the Saunderses are always quick to emphasize, it is not just with the contents of their wallets that people can contribute to the greater good, but with their energy, their ideas, and their determination.
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Cardinal Burke has issued a bit of advice to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: Don't take communion.
His reason: Her "public support for abortion is grave sin."
My guess is that there will be a flurry of blog posts and angry comments in com boxes about this advice, while Congresswoman Pelosi continues to take communion and her bishop says nothing. Then, everyone will go on to the next new thing.
Ta da.
Frankly, I think it's time our leaders in the Church (the bishops) got their heads together and came up with some sort of consistent way of dealing with situations like this. The paradigm the Church is using is that Congresswoman Pelosi is under the spiritual guidance of her personal religious leader, which would be her pastor, who is acting through her bishop. They are supposed to make decisions such as whether or not she may take communion, I would guess because they are the ones who know her and understand her spiritual situation.
I would guess that things are done this way because the Church is a pastoral rather than a political institution. The purpose of excommunication is not to bash someone over the head and punish them. It is to save their souls by bringing them face to face with the gravity of their sins and giving them a shove to repent and change their ways.
Public admonishments to not take communion such as the one directed at Congresswoman Pelosi are rare, and they should be. I think it's appropriate only when the person in question is doing what Congresswoman Pelosi is doing: Committing grave sin in a public manner that encourages other people to also commit this grave sin. This is called scandal, and it should be taken seriously.
There will always be temptations, but woe to those who do the tempting, Jesus said. Some translations use the phrase stumbling blocks. What it means is that there will always be people who lead others astray, who lead them away from following Christ, but that those people who do this are in even bigger trouble with God than those they lead.
Public figures of today have a mind-boggling arrogance about the way they tempt others away from following Christ. They assert that their sins are not sins. They proclaim themselves faithful followers of Christ even as they trample all over His teachings and commit the most vile sins in front of everyone. They even twist their sins around and proclaim publicly that these sins are righteousness and that those who disagree with this are the ones who are committing sin.
Whole denominations have thrown in the towel and forsaken the Gospels in their official teachings. They have themselves become tempters to sin.
The Catholic Church has refused to do this. But powerful members of its laity, as well as many of its priests, have joined the other side in the culture wars against the Church, while maintaining that they are, in fact, faithful Catholics. The Church has taken a wink-wink attitude toward this for decades, and now we are all paying the price.
This is not just individual sin. It is a vast cultural rebellion against the Church led by Catholics who occupy positions of power in our society. I agree with Cardinal Burke. Congresswoman Pelosi should not take communion. However, I think that singling out one member of Congress and aiming the discussion at her alone flies in the face of the reality of the situation.
Catholics in public positions, including the clergy leaders of some of our Catholic Universities, are teaching an alternate form of the Gospels that conforms absolutely to the shifting paradigms of our deconstructing society and defies the teachings of the Church with equal absoluteness. This is not just one person, however prominent. It is a widespread, almost universal, defiance of the Church by those of her sons and daughters who sit in the seats of secular power.
These people refuse to humble themselves and follow Christ. They insist that Christ should follow them. They don't leave the Church. They demand that the Church change its definition of sin to suit them. They admonish the Church with all the arrogance of self-made gods that it should change 2,000 years of consistent Christian teaching to conform to them and their newfound personally created gospels of self-worshipping narcissism.
They teach this to the whole society through their powerful positions in politics, media, education and science. They are as deadly for the soul of the Church as a basket of snakes.
The old paradigm of individual bishops dealing with individual sins does not address this new reality. The fact that every single one of these self-made gods has found a bishop who will support them in what they are doing is an indication of how seriously deficient the Church's response has been.
We need consistent patterns of reaction from our bishops concerning this mass apostasy in the pews from prominent and powerful Catholics. They need to get together on this.
At the same time, they need to follow their own rules themselves. Catholic institutions should inspire us to follow the Church's teachings by their faithfulness to those teachings. I have had it with hearing about Catholic organizations that pay for contraception in their insurance, Catholic hospitals that do abortions, Catholic universities that ban the Knights of Columbus, or yet another priest who was making passes at boys and it was overlooked.
We are entering tough times. The only way we are going to come through these times is if we begin by facing reality on reality's terms. We need leadership in this from our bishops.


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How do you do a fighting game on the 3DS? You do it the Super Street Fighter IV way or this Dead or Alive way. Pretty similar. Touch-screen is optional but helpful for those who are fighting-game-challenged (like me).
Note that Dead or Alive Dimensions, a "launch window" game for the Nintendo 3DS, will also answer many of the unanswered questions in the Dead or Alive series. That's what the press guy from the game's publisher Tecmo told me. He seemed dead serious, so I guess there really are unanswered questions?
What I can't show you in this video is how good the 3D depth effect was in Dimensions. With the system's 3D slider turned up, the top-screen combat appeared as if taking place in a roomy, deep environment extending inches beyond the system screen. It was surprisingly cool and some of the better (and subtler) 3D I've seen on the 3DS system.
The game's Metroid: Other M fighting arena wasn't shown in the version of the game I saw. So you'll have to look elsewhere to see it.
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Kat's father made it home to Long Island last night, having walked about fifty blocks uptown before managing to get off the island. One of Kat's college friends was also very near the WTC when it was hit, and made it out physically unharmed. So far, despite Kat's strong NYC ties, we've been lucky: so far as we're aware, nobody she knows was injured or killed. We're safe, everyone we know is safe; I don't know about you, but for me, Thanksgiving has started a little early this year, even as I mourn the loss we've suffered as a people.


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Shawn Hickman, 47, of Lafayette was behind the wheel of a 2002 Kia traveling north on Highway 10 South, when his back wheel dropped off the shoulder of the road. "When he overcorrected he shot across the highway and careened down an embankment near the edge of Goose Creek," stated Trooper Carter.
Macon and Trousdale County Rescue squads were dispatched to the scene to get the three individuals out of the wrecked vehicle.
Hickman wife, Layna, was on the front passengers side and Frederick Paul Patterson, was unrestrained in the back seat.
Mrs. Hickman was loaded into a waiting ambulance and carried to Macon County General Hospital and Life Flight flew Patterson to a Nashville hospital. Mr. Hickman, who was deeply upset about the condition of his wife and passenger, refused medical treatment.
First responders were: Macon County Sheriffs Department, Macon County EMS, Macon & Trousdale County Rescue squads, Trousdale County Sheriffs Deputy, Tennessee Highway Patrol, and the Macon County Chronicle.
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President Aquino is wrong to think that the fundamental nature of news has changed. But he is entirely in the right when he calls journalists to account according to journalism's own standards. Unless, of course, journalists think those standards are only meant to be paid lip service.
"Negativity" in the news—the word the President used in his remarks at BusinessWorld's 25th anniversary rites last Friday—has become the shorthand defining what an ABS-CBN story online would later call his "scolding spree" against the media, even though the real controversy erupted only after the President directly criticized ABS-CBN anchor Noli de Castro at the 25th anniversary party of the iconic "TV Patrol" newscast, later that same Friday. Continue reading


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Monster Beverage is hitting back at a lawsuit alleging its energy drinks were responsible for the death of a 14-year-old Maryland girl, saying that no blood test was performed to confirm that the girl died of "caffeine toxicity."
The disclosures come amid intensifying scrutiny of energy drinks and their caffeine levels. A lawsuit filed last year by the family of Anais Fournier said the girl went into cardiac arrest after drinking two, 24-ounce cans of Monster drinks in a 24-hour period. The Food and Drug Administration has also said it is investigating reports of deaths linked to energy drinks, including five that cite Monster beverages. The agency notes that the reports don't prove the drinks caused the deaths.
In an interview, Monster's lawyer Daniel Callahan said the company hired a team of physicians to review the medical records in the case, which he said suggest Anais Fournier died of natural causes brought on by her pre-existing heart conditions. The team found no medical evidence for an autopsy report that said "caffeine toxicity" was a factor, he said.
Callahan said that declaration on the autopsy report was made based on interviews with Anais Fournier's mother, who told the medical examiner's office the girl had consumed energy drinks before her death.
A spokesman for Maryland's chief medical examiner could not immediately confirm whether a blood test had been performed to check for caffeine levels and said that the office does not comment on cases in litigation. He noted the cause of death was "cardiac arrhythmia due to caffeine toxicity complicating mitral valve regurgitation in the setting of Ehler's-Danlos syndrome," which is a heart condition.
Kevin Goldberg, a Maryland attorney for Fournier's family, said in a statement that the family is looking forward to a jury determining Monster's accountability in the case.
"In America, a jury of our peers determines justice. Not doctors paid by billion-dollar corporations to attend press conferences," he wrote.
Labeling on Monster's cans say the drinks are not for children or pregnant women. But Goldberg said the reference to children is "ambiguous and intentionally misleading" because Monster's marketing is geared toward teenagers and young adults. Monster says its target market is 18 to 34 years old but that its drinks are nevertheless safe for children as well.
The company also said that evidence obtained as part of the lawsuit's discovery process shows Anais Fournier regularly had energy drinks and frequented Starbucks without incident. Monster made the findings public during a press conference in Chicago, which is holding a hearing on a ban on energy drinks Tuesday.
Callahan also noted that none of the other incidents the FDA is investigating has resulted in a lawsuit against Monster.
Before the spate of bad publicity that dragged down its stock price in recent months, Monster had been enjoying enormous growth because of the surging popularity of energy drinks. In 2011, sales volume for energy drink overall rose 17 percent, according to the industry tracker Beverage Digest, with the three biggest players — Monster, Red Bull and Rockstar — all logging double-digit gains.
But the success has also brought greater scrutiny. This summer, the New York state attorney general's office subpoenaed Monster as part of an investigation into how energy drinks are made and marketed. Subpoenas were also sent to Living Essentials, which makes 5-Hour Energy shots, and PepsiCo Inc., which makes AMP.
Lawmakers have also called on the FDA to investigate the use of ingredients such as taurine in energy drinks and whether the caffeine levels are safe for children.
Monster has stood by the safety of its drinks, which it says contain 240 milligrams of caffeine for a 24-ounce can, compared with 330 milligrams in a 16-ounce cup of Starbucks coffee. Monster, based in Corona, Calif., has recently said it will begin disclosing the caffeine levels in its drink labels.


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The 50th anniversary marked by Grand Valley State University provides a recollection of cows grazing in the pastures behind the first buildings sited in Allendale, and the group of Grand Rapids area businessmen who stood with shovels and dared to dig in.
The progress of the institution is as remarkable as that early image, and certainly due not only to the extraordinary leadership of a then nationally recognized young leader, but also former President Don Lubbers' ability to keep and create business partnerships that provided for its success. Its current leader, Thomas Haas, continues that vision and is paving new ground for the next 50 years.
This community and the higher education community provide varied accolades for the university, but its highest praise is that of continued donor beneficence, at far greater levels. Students may not see how unique such contributions are, nor the benefit as it translates to contained tuition rates by university board guidance.
Such beneficence from the start was in large part also the gift of vision by one of GVSU's founders, L. William Seidman, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and MSNBC commentator until his death in 2009. The recently announced $40 million building plan for the Seidman College of Business at the downtown campus is named for his father, Frank Edward Seidman, who founded Grand Rapids-based accounting firm BDO/Seidman. The project was given its start with a substantial donation from Rich and Helen DeVos.
In a community strongly associated with financial value, GVSU's "accountability report" issued late last month provides the balance sheet and return on the investments made. The university has been named by Institutional Research and Evaluation as one of America's 100 Best College Buys for the last 15 years. The designation is measured by the high school GPA and/or SAT scores equal to or above the national average for entering college freshmen, and by holding tuition rates below the national average (or not exceeding the national average by 10 percent). Ninety-one percent of 2009 graduates have jobs or are pursuing additional education; 88 percent of those with jobs are working in Michigan.
Indeed, GVSU is a poster child for Governor-elect Rick Snyder's proposal to fund state colleges and universities based on accountability outcomes. Haas shows leadership in anticipating this as a growing national trend, even telling the Business Journal, "That's imperative, we must embrace it." Haas has overseen some of the largest sums of national resources coming to the university such as the $1.1 million in National Science Foundation grants supporting a new master's program in biomedical engineering and research in biology, mathematics and fossils. He is adamant about creating new revenue streams via commercialization of university research efforts.
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Topic: SW Fandom: A Societal Subculture?
I was talkin to my girl yesterday and I kept bringing up my involvement in the BFFC. She cant exactly relate cuz it's not her thing. That got me to thinking about fandom in general and how few we are as a grouping. Im defined by a lot of different subcultures, metalhead, skater, goth, whatever floats my boat. But SW is a huge part of my identity too...
Does that make us a subculture of sorts?
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Jean Baptiste Pillement
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Idyllic Landscape, c. 1760
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27.1 x 42.3 cm Image: 26.8 x 42 cm
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Along with artists such as François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean Baptiste Pillement was a major contributor to the development of the decorative landscape in French Rococo painting. His landscapes can be identified by their decorative flourishes and graceful details, mirroring eighteenth-century French taste for rustic charm and refined naturalism. In the WAG drawing, Pillement shows a charming country scene in which three boys are resting on a bridge. The presence of a few sheep on the left bank of the river suggest that one of the boys is a shepherd, perhaps seeking directions. The presentation of costumed figures in rustic dress, elaborate foliage and tree formations, and architectural elements are characteristic of the Rococo style. Also present are references to chinoiserie, an artistic trend popular in France and England in the eighteenth century, whereby artists appropriated images and decorative elements from Chinese art for their designs.
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Semi-structured data has been increasingly taking over the role of a universal container for data exchange. JSON, XML and other formats are dominating the area that once used to belong to fixed-format text files and CSV files. However, while CSV file import and export is a no-brainer and a standard part of any data integration tool, JSON/XML could pose a huge problem. As the structure of a JSON/XML document is dynamic and sometimes quite complex, traditional approaches for data transformation used by ETL tools for structured data often fail here.
XDTL takes a different approach. As always, instead of trying to provide means to handle any conceivable semi-structured data of arbitrary complexity with extremely sophisticated toolset XDTL focuses on a handful of most important and most frequent scenarios with simple and lightweight tools. Three different scenarios are considered:
1. The documents are small but with complex structure. The structure is known beforehand and is more or less static. This scenario mostly applies to a feed from a JSON/XML API that are popular in today's web environment and is applicable for creation of a connector (adapter) to a specific web application.
2. XML data is medium/large but with simple hierarchical structure, usually no more than 2-3 levels deep. The structure could be known beforehand or not. This scenario fits for medium size XML files where XML is used in place of more traditional text (CSV) format.
3. Very big document, probably with complex structure that never changes. This scenario would most probably require an XDTL extension (a library task written in XDTL). XDTL provides means for creation of such an extension that could take advantage of a variety of different facilities, eg. XSLT transformations, database platform-specific bulk load utilities and additional scripting, encapsulating and hiding all the complexity from a user.
To handle the first scenario, xdtl:decode command is introduced. xdtl:decode takes an URI (referencing a data feed) or a document name as the source and decodes it into internal Java structures (Array, HashMap) that then could be easily shredded with for loops and .get('<name>') methods and either converted into INSERT statements or a series of flat files following the structure of data.
Here's a simple code fragment of decoding JSON:
<xdtl:decode source="https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_viewed?alt=json" target="root" type="JSON"/><xdtl:log msg="${root.get('feed').get('title').get('$t')}"/><xdtl:log msg="${root.get('feed').get('updated').get('$t')}"/><xdtl:for item="entry" rowset="${root.get('feed').get('entry')}"> <xdtl:log msg="${entry.get('id').get('$t')}"/> <xdtl:log msg="${entry.get('title').get('$t')}"/></xdtl:for>
That'll do it. One xdtl:decode command and a couple of nested loops will scrape the relevant data fields. The rest is up to the designer. There's no need to create XPath patterns or XSLT transformations. The same example could be elaborated to decode XML data:
<xdtl:decode source="https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_viewed" target="feed" type="XML"/><xdtl:log msg="${feed.get('title').get('textvalue')}"/><xdtl:log msg="${feed.get('updated')}"/><xdtl:for item="entry" rowset="${feed.get('entry')}"> <xdtl:log msg="${entry.get('id')}"/> <xdtl:log msg="${entry.get('title').get('textvalue')}"/></xdtl:for>
Internally, XML is represented as Java Array and HashMap objects. XML element values are converted to "textvalue" properties.
Finally, here's a more complete example shredding the same YouTube feed into INSERT statements. Four tables (FEED, LINK, ENTRY and CATEGORY) are being filled with data, complete with parent-child relationships foreign keys.
<xdtl:decode source="https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_viewed" target="feed" type="XML"/>
<xdtl:query source="INSERT INTO FEED VALUES ('${feed.get('id')}', '${feed.get('updated')}', '${feed.get('title').get('textvalue')}', '${feed.get('author').get('name')}');"/>
<xdtl:for item="link" rowset="${feed.get('link')}">
<xdtl:query source="INSERT INTO LINK VALUES ('${feed.get('id')}', '${link.get('type')}', '${link.get('href')}');"/>
<xdtl:for item="entry" rowset="${feed.get('entry')}">
<xdtl:query source="INSERT INTO ENTRY VALUES ('${feed.get('id')}', '${entry.get('id')}', '${entry.get('published')}', '${entry.get('title').get('textvalue')}');"/>
<xdtl:for item="category" rowset="${entry.get('category')}">
<xdtl:query source="INSERT INTO CATEGORY ('${entry.get('id')}', '${category.get('scheme')}', '${category.get('term')}');"/>
Actually there's nothing to stop the script from shredding every single data field out of the XML feed with this method, and it only takes a couple of more xdtl:for loops. And last but definitely not least, the contents of the data could serve as sources for successive calls to other APIs with xdtl:decode within a loop, enabling recursive traversal of several related APIs.
In the last part of data materialization series, we take a look at building an automated process for materialization of all (or part) of metadata stored in MMX.
The proposed automated process in a cycle over object types that utilizes results from steps 2, 3 and 4.
But definition, in MMX only instances of non-abstract classes can exist, so, when looking for objects types to create views for we should exclude those.
abstract_ind = 0
Additionally, we would like to exclude from materialization process all enumeration type object type. Identifying an enumeration object type is trickier so let's agree on the following definition of enumeration: enumeration object type does not have properties nor relations types and descends directly from Metamodel types class and it does not have any child class types, i.e.
AND object_type_cd NOT IN (
MD_OBJECT_TYPE thisType
MD_OBJECT_TYPE parentType
ON parentType.object_type_cd = thisType.parent_object_type_cd
AND parentType.parent_object_type_cd = mmxmd.object_type_code('MMXFramework', 'Metamodel')
count(property_type_cd) prop_count
GROUP BY object_type_cd) propTypes
ON propTypes.object_type_cd = thisType.object_type_cd
AND propTypes.prop_count = 0
count(relation_type_cd) rel_count
GROUP BY object_type_cd) fromRelTypes
ON fromRelTypes.object_type_cd = thisType.object_type_cd
AND fromRelTypes.rel_count = 0
related_object_type_cd object_type_cd,
count(relation_type_cd) rel_count
GROUP BY related_object_type_cd) toRelTypes
ON toRelTypes.object_type_cd = thisType.object_type_cd
AND toRelTypes.rel_count = 0
parent_object_type_cd object_type_cd,
count(object_type_cd) child_count
GROUP BY parent_object_type_cd) childTypes
ON childTypes.object_type_cd = thisType.object_type_cd
AND childTypes.child_count = 0
propTypes.object_type_cd IS NULL
AND fromRelTypes.object_type_cd IS NULL
AND toRelTypes.object_type_cd IS NULL
AND childTypes.object_type_cd IS NULL)
Complete list of articles in the materialization series:
Part 1: Materialization choices Part 2: Materializing objects and properties Part 3: Materializing objects and properties: what was left behind Part 4: Materializing many-to-many relations Part 5: Builing an automated materialization engine
One of the main usage for xdtl:for is looping thought a rowset that came from xdtl:fetch. Observe
<xdtl:fetch source="SELECT object_id, object_nm FROM MD_OBJECT WHERE object_type_cd = 1" rowset="metamodels" connection="$cn" />
<xdtl:for item="metamodel" rowset="metamodels">
<xdtl:log msg="Found metamodel named ${metamodel[1]} with id ${metamodel[0]}" />
Before we get to the point, one little thing. Check if returned rowset is not empty:
<xdtl:if expr="${metamodel.isEmpty()">
<xdtl:error msg="No metamodels found" />
Often the rowset may be defined in a input parameter as a coma-separated list. In that case you still can loop through it by using Java split function. Observe, that you have to convert the splited array into list of arrays:
<xdtl:send source="Metamodel1,Metamodel2,Metamodel3" target="metamodel_list" overwrite="1" />
<xdtl:for rowset="${java.util.Arrays.asList(metamodel_list.split(/,/))}">
<xdtl:log msg="Found metamodel named ${metamodel[0]}" />
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Pablo Picasso's 1950 bronze sculpture "The Goat," which is part of a traveling exhibition of essential works by Picasso at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va. "Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris" includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and etchings by the artist and serves as a retrospective covering each notable artistic period of his eight-decade career. AP Photo/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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presents a landmark exhibition in honor of its 75th anniversary, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. VMFA is the only East Coast venue for the exhibitions seven-city international tour. The exhibition, which will be on view from February 19 through May 15, 2011, is co-organized by the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Drawn from the collection of the Musée National Picasso in Paris, the largest and most significant repository of the artists work in the world, this exhibition represents works produced during every major artistic period of Pablo Picassos eight-decade career. It includes 176 works from Picassos personal collection art that he kept for himself with the purpose of shaping his own legacy. Altria is the presenting sponsor for the exhibition.
By bringing this major international exhibition to the Commonwealth, Governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell said, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is celebrating its 75th anniversary year in a significant way by presenting a remarkable gift to all Virginians and Americans. I encourage all our citizens and those outside the Commonwealth to come visit Virginia's museum and enjoy the Picasso exhibition. Virginia is a wonderful destination for so many experiences, including world-class art.
VMFA Director Alex Nyerges said, This exhibition is without a doubt a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the American public. An exhibition this monumental is extremely rare, especially one that spans the entire career of a figure who many consider the most influential, innovative and creative artist of the 20th century.
In addition to showcasing some of Picassos most outstanding works, the exhibition tells a compelling story about the development of the artists career, his artistic inspirations, and his profound impact on modern art.
The unique opportunity to exhibit Picassos work at this time is possible because the Musée Picasso National in Paris is closed for renovations until 2012, allowing for a global tour of this full-scale survey to travel for the first and possibly only time.
We are extremely proud to be partnering with VMFA to bring such a significant art exhibition to our Richmond headquarters community, said Marty Barrington, vice chairman of Altria and VMFA trustee. With the Picasso exhibition, VMFA continues to realize its vision of world-class quality that will make Richmond a leading destination for fine art in the United States. Altria is pleased to support this exhibition, which will enrich our Richmond community in many ways.
Renowned worldwide, the collection from the Musée National Picasso, Paris is unique because it represents the pieces that Picasso set aside for his own personal collection. Acting almost as a curator for his art, Picasso kept some of his most iconic pieces from each phase of his work, including the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubism, the return to Classicism, Surrealism, and his later work.
The exhibition will showcase moments and art that defined Picassos early career, including a deathbed portrait of the artists close friend Carlos Casagemas. His friends suicide partially influenced Picassos famed Blue Period, defined by somber paintings in shades of blue and green. Celéstina (The Woman with One-Eye) (1904), a masterpiece from the Blue Period, will be featured in the exhibition.
Friends, lovers, and artists who influenced Picasso play a seminal role in the exhibition. Portraits of his mistresses, such as Reading (1932) and Portrait of Dora Maar (1937), feature his muses in various emotional states ranging from regal composure to inconsolable despair. Works ranging from studies for his early groundbreaking Les Demoiselles dAvignon (1907), to some of the last works of his career show his connection to, and often competition with, other notable artists from his past and present such as Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, and Diego Velázquez. The exhibition includes examples of almost every medium in which Picasso worked oil on canvas and panel, cast bronze, carved wood, assemblages of found materials, watercolors, drawings in pastel, charcoal, pencil, and ink; various printmaking techniques, and illustrated books.
While Picasso contributed to and even inspired countless movements, he and Braques co-invented an entirely new movement: Cubism. Focused on fragmentation, shifting planes, and skewed perspectives, Cubism revolved around the deconstruction and reconstruction of figures and objects on two-dimensional surfaces or in space with new materials. The exhibition includes classical examples of Analytic Cubism, such as the famous Parisian landmark Le Sacré-Coeur (1909-1910), and several paintings of figures with musical instruments where the subjects are torqued and faceted almost beyond recognition.
Born in the southern Spanish city of Málaga in 1881, Pablo Picassos towering reputation spanned a long and productive career that began at a young age. After studying art in Barcelonawhere he entered the School of Fine Arts at age thirteenand Madrid, he first traveled to Paris in 1900, the city whose art and culture would greatly influence him and where he would first make his mark. By the time of his death in 1973 he had created an astounding 50,000 works in many different artistic mediums.
Picasso frequently shifted from one stylistic mode to another, moving through various forms of expression to match his protean vision and resist being constrained by any single style or movement. His exploration of different theories and techniques led to art that was inspired by Classicism, Surrealism, and African art, among other sources.
Involved in almost every artistic movement during his lifetime, he is recognized as one of the most powerful and creative forces of the 20th century. Never one to rest on his laurels, Picasso was constantly reinventing himself and searching for new sources of inspiration, both from the modern age and from the work of past artists and artworks. This exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to understand the depth and breadth of Picassos genius. His revolutionary artistic achievements brought him universal praise and fame, and his art continues to inspire viewers as well as artists in a range of creative fields.
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