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'How an E‐Verify Requirement Can Help'
I know little about a House Judiciary Committee hearing tomorrow on E‐Verify, but the title of it has a peculiar odor: "Document Fraud in Employment Authorization: How an E‐Verify Requirement Can Help."
You see, the immigration policies Congress has set are the source of the problem. Document fraud is made more likely by employment authorization requirements meant to enforce them, which are also—let's remember—intrusive and costly business regulation.
In my Cato Policy Analysis "Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification: Franz Kafka's Solution to Illegal Immigration," I wrote about restrictive immigration policies and the intrusive "internal enforcement" programs they have spawned. In a section titled "Counterattacks and Complications," I examined how workers and employers will collude to avoid and frustrate worker verification. Mandatory E‐Verify will increase identity and document fraud because it makes these frauds profitable. Trying to solve this problem, the government will naturally gravitate toward more powerful identity systems, including biometric identity cards and tracking.
Sure enough, House Judiciary Committee chairman Lamar Smith's bill, the "Legal Workforce Act," has a "pilot program" for a biometric national identity card.
When committing fraud is the pathway to productive employment, you know something is out of whack. Among the things out of whack are: too‐restrictive immigration policy, internal enforcement, and E‐Verify. This is supposed to be a free country where willingness and ability are the keys to employment.


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United Egg Producers and The Humane Society of the United States will keep pushing this year for federal standards for the welfare of egg-laying hens despite their inability to get the measure passed in the last two years.
An agreement to work together expired at the end of 2013, but both organizations will continue to honor it, their presidents told Capital Press.
"I'm not overly optimistic our egg bill will pass in Congress, but that's not to say it couldn't six months from now," said Chad Gregory, president and CEO of UEP.
"The situation in California at the end of the year will be very chaotic and potentially catastrophic as to the supply of eggs and that may make passing a federal egg bill look like a simple solution," Gregory said.
California's Proposition 2, which voters passed in 2008, takes effect Jan. 1, 2015, and will put California egg producers at a competitive disadvantage with those in other states, he said. It could put a lot of producers out of business and create an egg shortage, he said.
Of immediate concern to HSUS is an amendment by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, to the Farm Bill, which is still pending in a Senate-House conference committee. The amendment is aimed at overturning Proposition 2. But it would also adversely affect other state animal protection laws, said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of HSUS.
The King amendment would wipe out state laws that impose standards or conditions on agricultural products sold in interstate commerce, including Proposition 2 and laws in Oregon and elsewhere phasing in larger, enriched-colony cages, Pacelle said. The larger cages are a goal of the HSUS-UEP egg bill, which would also supersede state laws regulating egg production.
Proposition 2 requires that egg-laying hens have enough room to turn around and stretch their wings, but doesn't specify how much space.
Pacelle said he doesn't think the King amendment will make it out of the conference committee. HSUS and UEP will continue to build support, he said, for passage of the Egg Products Inspection Act they first introduced in 2012 and reintroduced in 2013.
Its passage has been prevented by opposition from the American Farm Bureau Federation and pork, beef and other livestock commodity groups that fear setting a precedent for federal control of how livestock is raised, Pacelle said. He noted the Federal Meat Inspection Act already sets federal slaughter standards.
Some opponents, however, say the egg bill delves too far into livestock management. Other opponents, including some animal rights groups, say it does not go far enough because it does not ban cages.
"It's the right policy," Pacelle said. "It's good for animals, egg producers, consumers and the entire country. Enriched-colony cages are essentially the same feed costs but enhanced productivity."
The industry standard with traditional battery cages is 67 square inches of space per white hen and 78 square inches for brown hens, Pacelle said. About 10 to 20 percent of the industry falls below that, at 48 to 52 square inches, he said. The egg bill would phase in 124 square inches per hen over 15 years. UEP has estimated the cost of upgrading cages at $4 billion.
Gregory said 85 percent of the U.S. egg industry meets UEP certified conventional or cage-free standards. He said UEP will work this year to add enriched-colony standards.
Voluntary movement toward enriched-colony cages is good but it doesn't pre-empt state laws like Proposition 2, he said.
Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., has been a prime sponsor of the House proposals. There have been 151 co-sponsors in the House and 19 in the Senate since 2012.
The bills are based on an agreement between HSUS and UEP reached in 2011 that ended years of battle between the two groups and ended HSUS initiative efforts in Washington and Oregon that would have required cage-free facilities.

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While catching up on a favorite D.C. blog, Pandahead, I saw this incredible short film that made my heart aflutter. The film is by Spike Jonze and Olympia Le-Tan and the animation is done by Leonard Cohen, so you know this baby is solid.
This short is so good and eerily romantic, but also a bit risque` so not for the under-age crowd. Click to watch it: http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/10/17/1640/spike-jonze-mourir-aupres-de-toi
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News Media in Africa: The Big Boys on Facebook
8 February 2017
Today, we released Facebook Index Africa, which ranks Africa-based news media according to how much of the local Facebook markets they control.
Big Boys on the Block
The African Facebook market is highly concentrated. Unlike other continents, Africa has a fair amount of dominant news outlets. More than 100 news outlets in our Facebook Index reach at least ten readers in their national market. The continent also boasts ten news media platforms with a score of over 50, meaning a reach of over half of the Facebook population in the markets they're targeting.


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Nearly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers can now sue Apple, Google and other tech companies for colluding to keep salaries low by agreeing not to poach each other's workers, a federal appeals court ruled.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday to let an earlier decision stand to let workers sue the companies as a group. Damages could total more than $9 billion, Reuters reported.
Other companies, Intel and Adobe Systems, were mentioned in the original case in 2011 which accused the companies of conspiring to keep the employees' pay low by not recruiting each other's employees. That would mean violating the Sherman and Clayton acts "by conspiring to eliminate competition for labor, depriving workers of job mobility and hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation," according to Reuters.
The class-action lawsuit could force the companies to settle rather than fight in court.
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To reduce or remove one's worry, anxiety, dread, fear, etc. I know you're anxious to hear how your father is doing after the surgery, so let me put your mind at ease—he's going to make a full recovery. That bonus really put my mind at ease about these debts.


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Yale just announced a new program for studying anti-Semitism, just weeks after it shut an earlier version that called attention to manifestations of Muslim Jew-hatred. The program will let Yale claim that it considers the subject important.
Alas, the replacement might only make a bad situation worse. And it won't be just Jews who pay the price.
Yale's approach reflects much of America's: Tread carefully before criticizing Muslims. Alas, that makes an honest study of contemporary Jew-hatred a bit difficult.
"When you talk about the most dangerous and virulent anti-Semitism today, you have to focus primarily on the Muslim world," says Neil Kressel, a professor tied to the now-shuttered Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism.
Kressel, who's writing a book on the subject (and who, full disclosure, happens to be my brother-in-law), says many varieties of Jew-hatred exist — but if you're going to study current anti-Semitism honestly, there's no way to avoid emphasizing Muslim and Arab strains.
"Hamas's founding charter is chock-full of classic Jew-hatred. Iran's Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust-denier. Top government officials in many Muslim-majority countries are full-fledged anti-Semites. Saudi Arabia exports anti-Jewish curricula around the world. Ultra-nationalists and Islamist media in Turkey are obsessed with Jews. Even moderates and liberals in many Muslim-majority countries are not free of Jew-hatred," he says.
Yet Yale — as The Post's Abby Wisse Schachter explained when she broke the story last month — shut down YIISA largely because some of its researchers dared call attention to Muslim anti-Semitism. Facing cries of "Islamophobia," Yale pulled the plug.
Alas, Yale then had a new problem: It was accused of cynically sacrificing honest academic inquiry and bowing to anti-Semitism's defenders. Just as it may have feared the loss of Arab/Muslim funding in deciding to close YIISA, it may have likewise fretted about a donation drain if it didn't open a replacement.
Thus was born the new Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism. That may let the school have it both ways.
Its director, Maurice Samuels, insists the program will "examine both contemporary and historical forms of anti-Semitism" and that Yale has placed no restrictions on it. But Samuels comes from Yale's French department. And he seems to go out of his way to play down Muslim animosity toward Jews.
When I asked him, for instance, if he thought Islamic sources are an important part of contemporary Jew-hatred — as Kressel and experts like Tarek Fatah and Bassam Tibi assert — Samuels said only that "anti-Semitism can be found in many countries and cultures, including some Muslim ones."
Hopelessly naive? PC? Fearful of heat from anti-Semites?
He decried the "upsurge in violence against Jews around the world." But asked to describe that violence, he cited attacks "all over the world, from Paris to Buenos Aires," including the murder of Ilan Halimi in France in 2006.
Hmm. Did he miss the fact that Halimi's murder was fueled, in part, by Muslim anti-Semitism and that the two most violent attacks against Jews in Buenos Aires, in 1992 and 1994, were the handiwork of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
On the other hand, he did say his own book project "is about the intersection of anti-Semitism and philo-Semitism in France, from the French Revolution to the present." Great.
No, nothing wrong with that. But if his program pulls punches when it comes to modern-day Muslim hostility toward Jews, it will leave a gaping hole in the world's understanding — not only of anti-Semitism, but also of Muslims.
Kressel, in his upcoming book, argues that academics have studiously avoided focusing on Islamic Jew-hatred; it's safer, career-wise, to deal with long-dead anti-Semites and those on academia's approved-enemies list. YIISA's closing proves him right; it was, after all, the only such program of its kind in America.
With a neutered program, Yale would be promoting ignorance about a hatred hardly limited to Jews. As most folks know, the world's greatest terrorist threat today comes from Islamists; Jews may be at the top of their target list, but, as the last decade showed, all nonbelievers are at risk.
Meanwhile, a program at prestigious Yale that soft-pedals all-too-common Muslim hatreds will leave a dangerously wrong impression that all's well. Far from shedding light on a hugely important problem, a great university will have instead helped shield it from scrutiny.
What a contribution to scholarship.


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New Zealand's largest broadband provider Telecom has announced that the sign-up period for the $75 Home Phone and Broadband Package (with 30GB of data to end of 2013 and everyday local calling) has been extended to the end of March.
Customers who sign-up to the promotion will receive a 30GB data allowance until the end of 2013. From 2014, the plan will then revert to a monthly data allowance of 15GB.
Data use for Telecom customers is steadily increasing in-line with the year-on-year growth seen globally. On average, almost 10GB more data per customer was consumed in the month of December 2012, compared to the same month during the previous year.
Chris Thompson, Telecom Retail - Home notes that the promotion has been a great opportunity to better understand how broadband users consume their data allowance each month, and helped the company settle on a suitable plan to empower customers for all that they need moving forward.
"We were interested to see how Kiwis' demands for data have increased, especially with the explosion of 'content rich' media hosted online – such as on-demand TV. This plan offers customers the freedom to explore online products and services in ways their previous standardised plans had not given them scope to," says Mr Thompson.
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Happenstance: Out of the rain, into excitement
Civil War Re-enactors, Corndawg, Ground Monkeys, and Adam Taber
at the Pudhouse
Wednesday, July 2
Not surprisingly, thunderheads materialized again this past Wednesday night, and the downpour soaked nearly all those headed for the Pudhouse. In the building, the humidity clocked a full 100 percent. I watched a young man repeatedly wipe his glasses in a battle he could not win– against the fog of 50-odd pairs of steaming socks and armpits.
Desensitized to the effects of this monsoon season, the locals turned their attention to the rock at hand. I arrived as the Civil War Re-enactors started up the evening entertainment. Mike Johnson drummed each number with characteristic swiftness and metronomic precision, while frontman Jeff Melkerson bounded back and forth on Flubber soles, inciting the front row to move in a complementary fashion. The struck-string chords Melkerson picked rang with bittersweetness, a nice contrast to his vocals, which never slowed into sap.
Johnny Fritz, aka Corndawg, followed with a few standards; his Southern-drawled narratives quickly turned into crowd sing-alongs. I'm never quite sure whether his performance persona is an extension of his own boisterous energy, or a fun Andy Kaufman-esque fabrication. But he plays the guitar with red-blooded American spirit and sings with the possessed energy of a young Jerry Lee. If you prefer raw pine over varnished cherry, or ground beef over baby greens, Corndawg's the man for you.
The Ground Monkeys' Boston-brand noiserock pelted my ears in a painful free-for-all. After a couple of minutes, they seemed to be jamming without much variation, so I took a breather.
The main attraction of the evening was Adam Taber, a beloved former Pud, and his two-piece Buddyship. Taber rammed the rhythms in a flurry of pumping biceps; like many, I moved closer, incredulous, to watch him pound microbeats off the set. Over the explosive percussion, the guitar amp blasted sounds that jumped between what can best be described as 1) braking freight train, 2) jackhammer groove, and 3) ecstatic peace.
Emmet Boaz, amateur musicologist and unemployed guru, once told me, "Music should be a part of our lives, rather than something we have to seek out. Chancing into a musical experience has a thrill of its own."
This excitement thrives at the Pudhouse; thanks to its existence, I've seen many groups I would never have known how to begin to search for. Wednesday night proved once again that smaller scales don't necessarily mean diminished expectations. Simple line-ups served Noah well during his flood. I wasn't disappointed this time around, either.


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The smear campaign against the newly-departed continues in earnest, as state and university officials confirm he never held an in-state driver's license. Throw away the key!
We're on day 10 of Kiffygate, and the self-appointed Howie Spiras of Knoxville are going to find every traffic violation, every late library book, every time Layla forgot to pick up after the dog. Todays outrage: Kiffin failed to change his California license to a Tennessee one, even though new residents must apply within 30 days of moving. Horrors.
A search for the name Kiffin fails to turn up a single driving record statewide, said Mike Browning, spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Safety.
"Lane Kiffin does not have a current valid driver license in Tennessee," Browning said.
State law classifies failure to change over a license as a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $50 and court costs.
A UT spokesperson chalks it up to a simple misunderstanding, but I smell a conspiracy afoot. Kiffin moves from Oakland but hangs on to his California license...and then moves back to Los Angeles a year later? It's almost as if he knew he'd flee Knoxville, and didn't want to spend the $40 bucks on getting his license changed twice. Lane Kiffin is a criminal mastermind.
Kiffin never had Tennessee driver's license [Knoxville News Sentinel]


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INSIDE STORY of the RODEOS (Jun, 1935)
INSIDE STORY of the RODEOS
by ANDREW JAUREGUI
FOR thirteen years I have been doing "setting-up" exercises —attempting, more or less successfully, to remain in leather on a plunging broncho or Brahma steer or to rope and tie elusive, wriggling bundles of calf meat. I am a rodeo performer and, with other cowboys, move from rodeo to rodeo each season, risking sound bones and excellent health for the roar of the crowds and the reward of gold.
Everywhere we hear these three questions: Isn't it dangerous to ride wild horses ? How do you stay in the saddle ? What are the tricks of rodeo riding?
There is danger and, of course, there are tricks. Some have learned the fine points that enable them to ride to a championship in at least one division. Most of us specialize in one subject. Mine is roping. Some choose to ride bare-back on Brahma steers, others prefer bucking bronchos, minus bridle, or wild horses, without benefit of saddle or bridle. We take every precaution, but danger from the unforeseen stalks us always.
Although we use strong saddles with fourteen-inch swells directly in front of the legs to help us hang on during the plunging, these are of little help under some circumstances, such as fighting a horse in the chute. When I ride this kind, I slip into the saddle quickly and draw the bucking rein, a heavy rope leading to one side of the halter, back short. This pulls the pony's chin in close to his chest and keeps him from rearing up. .
There's a very smart trick in riding these untamed animals—swaying with the horse while keeping balance by leaning back against the rope. Oddly, the worst buckers are bronchos of several years' rodeo experience.
No matter how mean the horse or how tough the going, we must observe a few rules to the very letter. We must wave one hand in the air—to touch leather with this one is to be disqualified. We must continue scratching with our spurs. Our only safety lies in keeping a steady and tight hand on the bucking rein, keeping our balance in the saddle if possible, or pulling ourselves back as we start to fly through space. For ten long seconds during what seem like a thousand bucks skyward and back again, we must stay aboard these heaving mountains, then slide out of the saddle as best we can. Some bronchos continue bucking after the final gun barks, while others heed the signals and calm down. Since we draw mounts by lot shortly before each event, unless we get a broncho we know by rep- utation, we must be prepared for anything!
But riding a wild horse! There's excitement. Imagine straddling a bundle of mixed thunder and lightning bareback, with no bridle, and hanging onto a rope passed around its middle as it plunges, bucks, races, storms and kicks. Thanks to the Rodeo Association of America, the organization that rules these events, we don't have to change our spurring position on the barebacks. So every rider who is wise sets his feet out ahead and scratches along the shoulders and doesn't change that position. Meantime, he must keep a hand free to wave his sombrero, he must not change hands on the loose rope and he must maintain a pleased expression for the benefit of the customers.
Dangerous as are the wild bronchos, riding them is less hazardous than boarding, riding and departing from the rolling back of a cantankerous Brahma. They are a cross between India's sacred cow and the Texas Longhorn. Their flesh rolls, their horns are sharp and they take keen delight in goring a rider once he is thrown. They give more action and are smarter in some respects than the bronchos. Although they look smaller, they are really heavier than horses. And they're quick as the wind. Tex Palmer was tossed from a Brahma at Oxnard, Calif. Hardly had he hit the ground before the steer attacked. When the battle ceased, the Brahma had shoved Palmer all around the arena, leaving him bruised and, of all things, with two black eyes.
The only protection the boys have is provided by tipping the horns on the worst animals with round, brass knobs. These may cause considerable pain, but they're not apt to plunge through the body.
I like roping for real scientific precision and action. In team roping, we work in pairs, one rider taking the head, the other the heels. Each of us sits beside the chute, until the steer crosses the "dead line," thirty feet distant. Then we give chase on horses trained to follow the animal.
If I'm playing head man, I toss the first rope. As the loop settles over the steer's head, my horse comes to a dead stop. Quick as a flash, the heeler ropes the steer by the heels, then we move in opposite directions and force him to fall. Then I dismount and tie his heels with a three -foot pigging string, one end tucked in my belt and the other in my mouth.
All we need for roping is a good horse, a sturdy roping saddle and a twenty-five-foot length of seven-sixteenths-inch Manila rope. The pony must be sturdy, very fast and schooled not only to stop from a gallop on a dime, but to back up and keep the rope taut while you tie up the steer. The roping saddle has a low cantle board, which enables the roper to get off quickly and which will stand hard jerks of the lasso which is tied to the pommel.
Bull-dogging has lost favor in some states, while roping has gained. In bull-dogging, the rider leaps from the saddle at a gallop, falls on the steer's head and twists him down by pulling the nose into the air as the cowboy walks backward. Some consider this a cruel practice. In its place, "decorating" is practiced. This is the same, except that the "decorator" slips an elastic band over the animal's nose.
The stars of the rodeo game must keep in fit condition the year round. They train as faithfully as any other athletes, for theirs is a hard lot, and some may appear in thirty rodeos in a year.


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LONDON - Carrie Underwood is all about the music, not politics.
Yet the 29-year-old country music star has found herself in a media storm after voicing support for gay marriage.
In an interview with British newspaper The Independent, Underwood, who is married, was quoted as saying she believes everyone should have the right to love. She also noted that her church was gay-friendly and it wasn't her job to judge people.
Underwood's comments created a backlash online from those angry with her stance.
Speaking in London, Underwood was uncomfortable revisiting the subject and said she was staying away from reading the reactions.
"I was asked a difficult question in the last five minutes of an interview and I answered it the best way I knew how, and after that I do what I do and I love making music and I generally try to stay out of any kind of controversy," she told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.
That said, Underwood is a former "American Idol" and Grammy winner who knows what she says will be heard.
"The role-model word is really scary to me, because no matter what happens in your life, something you do, wear, say, sing, whatever - somebody somewhere is probably not going to like it too well," she said. "I just really try hard to do what I do and try to be nice to people and make great music and if people think they can look up to that, that's wonderful. If not, that's OK too."
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The multifarious incoherence of the various forms of Western culture gives them a kind of vitality and indeterminate direction of development which makes Eastern culture seem a little monotonous, a little lifeless in comparison. The truth is that the East knows how to live, but does not do it; the West does not know. As D. H. Lawrence said,
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(Lawrence, St. Mawr)
We may reach the same conclusion from the other end of the scale. In so far as a tomato exists, God exists. When a tomato rots, God rots.
Moments of vision come when least expected, unbidden, and in most men, pass into oblivion, unnoticed and unremembered.
.........Ah, grief and sadness!
The fishing-line trembles
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This seeing into the life of things may come from the slightest of physical causes, for example, a mere touch, a faint sensation of warmth and resilience:
She paused, as if thinking, while her hand rested on the horse's arched neck. Dimly, in her weary, young-woman's soul, an ancient understanding seemed to flood in.
(Lawrence, St. Mawr)
.........The old man
Hoeing the field,
.........Has his hat on crooked.
It comes from some primitive realm of sound, that calls us back to something we have lost, some recollections that have intimations of immortality in them:
When he reared his head and neighed from his deep chest, like deep wind-bells resounding, she seemed to hear the echoes of another, darker, more spacious, more dangerous, more splendid world than ours, that was beyond her, and there she wanted to go.
(Lawrence, St. Mawr)
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And sleep in the villages;
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U. S. Rep. John Conyers, Jr.,(D-Mich.), known as the dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, has served in the U. S. Congress since 1965. This article - the fourth of a 20-part series - is written in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The Lawyers' Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar's leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity - work that continues to be vital today. For more information, please visit www.lawyerscommittee.org.


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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:32 am
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Garlic bread can be a great addition to you dinner. These days, it seems easiest to just go to the local supermarket and pick up a loaf of garlic bread. However, the last time I checked out the ingredient list of my local supermarket chain's garlic bread, one of the primary ingredients was partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Why eat the supermarket stuff when it's so easy to convert a plain loaf of bread into garlicky goodness?
This recipe works on a 16 oz. loaf of bread (the most common size sold in stores in my area). I find that a thin baguette (or ficelle) is too narrow for the garlic bread to be really satisfying. Using a typical artisan baguette or a batard works best.
This recipe goes pretty quick, so before assembling the ingredients you may want to start preheating the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Gather up a loaf of French bread, 1/2 cup (55 g) grated mozzarella cheese, 1/4 cup (25 g) grated parmesan cheese, 2 cloves garlic, and 2 Tbs. butter.
Either press the garlic cloves through a garlic press and then finely mince unto a pulp or grate the garlic cloves with a Microplane zester. For a milder garlic flavor, microwave the garlic for thirty seconds or more. Mash the garlic into the butter. If the butter is too cold to mash easily, microwave the butter for ten seconds and try again. Mix the garlic and butter together well.
Slice the bread in half along its length.
Spread the butter and garlic mixture onto both cut sides of the bread. There should be just enough of the garlic butter to form a thin layer.
Place the two loaves on a sheet pan. Sprinkle the parmesan cheese evenly over both halves of the loaf. Sprinkle the mozzarella over the parmesan.
Slice the pan into the oven and bake for 20 minutes. The cheese should have melted and just begun to brown lightly.
Remove from the oven and let rest for a few minutes before cutting. Cut each half into about a dozen pieces.
For a variation, dried herbs can be added to the bread before baking. Or try it without cheese for a lighter taste.
Parmesan Garlic Bread
(serves 4)
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C)
1 loaf french bread
cut in half lengthwise
spread evenly
sprinkle evenly
sprinkle evenly
bake 350°F (175°C) 20 min.
2 cloves garlic
grate or press into pulp
microwave (optional)
2 Tbs. (30 g) butter
1/4 cup (25 g) grated parmesan cheese
1/2 cup (55 g) grated mozarella cheese
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:34 am
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I usually rub the bread with the whole garlic clove cut in half when its warmed up for a nice but not too strong garlic taste or if you prefer more garlic make some small cuts on the surface your going to rub on the bread, then butter it or drizzle with olive oil. Its very nice on ciabatta aswell.
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:04 pm
Post subject: Garlic Bread
I would use usalted butter. If you want salt add it yourself after you taste your first experiment.
Side-bar I have had garlic bread made from a multi-grain loaf and it tastes great. Not traditional, but great. I favor hardy flavorful breads that some may feel fight the taste of the garlic and butter. It is worth a try.
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:00 pm
Post subject: garlic bread
dill (fresh or dried) makes a nice addition to this recipe
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:11 pm
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I like to add a teaspoon of lemon juice to my garlic and butter mix.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:43 am
Post subject: garlic bread
my father was rather inept when it came to the kitchen, but there was one day that he decided to usurp my mothers authority by sneeking some blue cheese dressing on the garlic bread... we rarely had it without after
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:39 am
Post subject: Tripple Toasted
Just thought I would share a variation that I use.
After cutting the bread, I toast it very lightly. After adding the garlic butter, I toast it. And finally, after adding the cheese, I toast one last time.
It's a lot of in and out of the oven, but I find that with these extra toastings I get a garlic bread that is more crispy, and definitely not soggy. =)
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:19 pm
Post subject: Roasted garlic
I like to roast a whole head of garlic and cream the roasted garlic (all of it, it really won't be too strong!) with butter. Then I spread the garlic butter on the bread and toast it. Sometimes I put cheese on it, sometimes I don't. Depends on what I have in the fridge. Sometimes I mix a bit of parsley in with the garlic butter.
Do try roasted garlic for garlic bread. I think the flavor is much better.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:39 am
Post subject: uber-garlic bread
There's a food stand in Camden Town, London that does "garlic bread" with whole roasted garlic cloves, sun-dried tomatoes, kalamata olives, and huge chunks of feta cheese. Truly the best (if unorthodox) garlic bread I've ever had.
Another neat twist on garlic bread is to make little bite-sized balls of pizza dough, bake them, and then toss them in a wok with hot garlic oil, tons of crushed garlic, and some oregano.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:39 pm
Post subject: Garlic butter recipe variation
When making the garlic butter, the addition of some fresh parsley and a bit (just a few drops or to taste) of lemon juice or white wine (or both) will make a world of difference.
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:17 am
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this recipe makes GARLIC bread with a capital "G" and a capital "ARLIC"
disclaimer: i am a total garlic junkie.
i use a loaf of italian bread, (same stuff) a stick of butter, a head of garlic.
slice the bread into top and bottom halves.
peel, then mince the garlic with a very sharp knife. lay the knife on top of it and press hard with other hand.
slice the butter thinly and lay on the bread. use it all.
distribute the garlic on top of the butter and bread. use it all.
sprinkle some oregano on it if you want to. i love oregano too.
bake at 350° until edges are browned and crispy.
slice each loaf half into 8-12 slices.
if making it for a group, make sure you grap a piece as you bring it out, or there won't be any left!
a little romano cheese sprinkled on is great too!
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:49 pm
Post subject: garlic bread south african style
Our traditional way with garlic bread differs slightly technically: Instead of slicing the baguette in half, we cut +/- 2.5cm slices 3/4 of the way through (so the bottom stays intact), and then smear a (un)healthy amount of well-flavoured garlic butter (butter, salt, pepper, crushed garlic, drops of lemon juice) between each slice.
(Grated cheese and some finely shopped spring onions added would also not go amiss - but not really traditional nor needed).
Then the bread is wrapped tightly in tinfoil (alluminum foil?) and put into a preheated oven (180 C) until totally heated through. The foil is then opened at the top and bread left in hot oven for a bit longer so that the top can get crispy.
Alternatively, the wrapped bread can be put on the braai (barbeque).
You can then slice through the bottom for individual servings (usually 3 - 4 slices- at least!), or do as we mostly do, which is to just tear off pieces by hand, as fast as you can.
I hope some of you will try this, it is really very good (although the other recipes above also sound great).
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All this sounds good! I am so hungry now. I normally buy it at the store, but I occasionally get some garlic and olive oil together. I toast my bread and then add minced garlic and back to toasting and then I add Italian spices and olive oil.
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:17 pm
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Ultimate garlic shortcut: in the herb section of the produce department they have a tube full of minced garlic. I keep it in the freezer so it'll last a long time if I don't use it often, and just squeeze out the amount I need each time. Also, instead of butter, you can try a light layer of olive oil.
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:02 am
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it tastes soo good.
i kind of made mine using english muffins
and i added a bit of fried bacon,
to make it taste nicer...
i also used the microwave instead.
it still came out nice though...
it came out great, just divine
my whole family loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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America's Geisha.
The City holds me within art deco palms
And fucks me.
I shudder ferociously and scream
San Francisco howls.
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Yamaha YSP-1 Digital Sound Projector
In a time when housing prices are rising at an exponential rate, making affordable square footage scarce, one of the major challenges to having a home theater system is space. The home-theater-in-a-box phenomenon has attacked this problem by packaging smaller, matched speakers together with a receiver, but there's still the issue of finding space for proper speaker placement and the messy wiring that follows. Yamaha offers the YSP-1 Digital Sound Projector to alleviate this problem.
The YSP-1 is a single speaker cabinet that reflects sound beams off the walls to create the aural illusion of a five-speaker setup. It uses two 4.375-inch woofers and an array of 40 1.375-inch tweeters to accomplish the feat. With the push of a button, you can set these imaginary speakers to emulate four different surround setups: stereo, three beam (LCR), five beam, and stereo plus three (more on these modes later). But, before you can listen to these different modes, you have to set up the speaker.
Where Did All the Wires Go?
When you set up traditional speakers, you must consider different parameters to optimize the listening experience: separation of the speakers; bipole, dipole, standard-firing surrounds; where to put the surrounds; and how to run those pesky wires. You must weigh all of these options when you set up a 5.1 system. While these concerns disappear with the YSP-1 (along with those wires under the rug), a whole new set of problems surfaces. Because the Yamaha reflects sound off of the walls to simulate separate speakers, any wall hangings will wreak havoc with the sound beams. Also, you should mount the speaker high enough to clear the couch and allow the surround sounds to reach your ears. I set up three distinct theater settings in which to test the speaker, two at the Home Theater studio with a projector and screen and one at my home with a direct-view CRT. All three yielded slightly different results.
For the first scenario, I placed the YSP-1 against the front wall of the HT listening room. After I completed the easy setup, which involves answering just three questions about your listening environment, I popped in the "Battle of the Pelennor Fields" chapter from the Return of the King extended-edition DVD. Immediately, I could see that I would need to explore the manual setup. The soundfield across the screen was surprisingly large, although it lacked focus, and the surrounds seemed to be located in front of me rather than beside or behind me. I was also concerned that Howard Shore's score was getting buried by everything else, losing its intensity. Perhaps more fine-tuning was required, so off to the manual-setup menu I went.
What struck me initially about the manual setup was how detailed it was, including options for room dimensions, specific speaker-placement locations, horizontal and vertical adjustments for each sound beam, and even the ability to change the audio delay between 0 and 160 milliseconds. The manual setup time was a little lengthy, at just over an hour, although I spent some of that time listening to sound fly around the room as I scrolled between extremes on the horizontal and vertical placement. This definitely increases the coolness factor. Going back to the LOTR disc, I was pleased to find that I hadn't spent all of my time in vain. Still, I hadn't completely cleared up all of the problems. The front soundstage was incredibly sharp now. But I had trouble getting the surround sound to fully immerse me, and the music was still getting swallowed. Perhaps the problem was with the room itself.
In order to lessen reverberation and create a neutral listening atmosphere, the HT listening room has acoustical treatments hanging from its walls. This is great for listening to most speakers, but not the YSP-1. For my second listening setup, I removed all of the acoustical treatments from the walls to closer emulate a more traditional living-room environment.
With just bare walls, I was hoping to achieve a full five-speaker experience, and the Yamaha came exceedingly close. When I adjusted the surrounds a little more, they moved closer to a side position, but not quite as far back as I wanted them. I deferred to "Pelennor Fields" again and was relieved. The music regained its presence and helped to pull me into the movie. The Omaha Beach scene from Saving Private Ryan put the surrounds to the test, and they survived, but not unscathed. The response was far better than before, but the sound was slightly muddled. The sounds of bullets whizzing near my head never seemed to pass behind me and lost their vibrancy.
Hey, Hey, What Can It Do?
Where the speaker really shines is with its stereo-plus-three beam mode, which Yamaha suggests for live-concert-DVD listening. It sends out a stereo signal to the listening position, as well as the left, center, and right beams. The three beams aimed directly at the listener (stereo plus center) handle the majority of the sound, while the left and right deal with sound reflections from the venue itself. For example, I watched footage of the Led Zeppelin shows at Madison Square Garden in 1973. Jimmy Page's guitar work fills the room, and Robert Plant's soaring vocals sail above. This leads to an engrossing concert experience for those of us (such as myself) who were unable to attend the original.
I was disappointed to find that, at home, where my television is set in a corner, only the stereo and stereo-plus-three modes worked. I could not use the five- or three-beam modes, which rendered the speaker most useful in my home for music. It's a good thing the stereo-plus-three mode sounds as good as it does. There are also DVD and CD racks along my wall, which bounced the sound beams in interesting directions. It made the setup frustrating unless I moved the racks out of the way. The front soundstage, which was impressive in size and matched well with the 87-inch screen at the studio, was a little oversized for my television at home. I was able to scale it down, but the sound was always a little wider than my screen.
Overall, the YSP-1 was missing a substantial amount of low end. While you have the option of running the YSP-1 full-range, the heart-thumping feeling of a sub is missing. Luckily, there is a subwoofer output, and Yamaha even suggests connecting a sub for full enjoyment, as do I.
The concept behind the YSP-1 Digital Sound Projector is absolutely fascinating for audio enthusiasts, and Yamaha deserves credit for their execution. What the speaker does well it excels in, specifically the beam modes designed for music enjoyment. If your walls are bare, the five-beam mode does an adequate job of replicating a five-speaker setup.
In order for technology to move forward and fresh ideas to come to light, products must push the boundaries of possibilities. The YSP-1 faces those boundaries head-on and succeeds in stretching the limits. If you have space constraints and are tired of tripping over speaker wires, the Yamaha YSP-1 would make an attractive addition to your home theater.
• No more wires running all over the living room
• One speaker cabinet replaces five
• Playing with the sound-beam steering makes for an afternoon of wonderment


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Actor Jamie Foxx is attempting to reconcile with his biological parents who abandoned him more than four decades ago.
Foxx, born Eric Marlon Bishop, was left in the care of his mother's foster parents when he was seven months old and struggled to understand why his parents did not make contact with him as he grew up.
The "Django Unchained" star is now trying to build bridges with his parents and has even moved his mother, Louise, into his home in an effort to forge a relationship with her.
He tells Britain's The Sunday Times Magazine, "We're trying to learn (about) each other. The one thing I think is great is she's in the same house, because you realize certain things that you missed when you were growing up, like, 'Oh, I do that because of that,' or, 'Oh, I do this because of that.' It's profound."
Attempts to reconcile with his father, who has since converted to Islam, are a little more strained, but Foxx remains hopeful.
He says, "Fingers crossed, it will become a real thing. But the door is open. That's one thing I've learnt: always keep the door and your heart open. … I don't hold a lot of grudges. … But it's tough, you know? Because there are questions, like, 'What happened? Where were you? Were you stricken with something? Could you not make it?' Growing up, I would always go, man… I'm a good dude. I wasn't the kid getting in trouble. I was quarterback on the high school football team. And he only lived 28 miles away! So I always said to myself, you know, I'm gonna grade him a little harder for that, because he could have tried."


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First Watch: Julianna Barwick, 'Offing'
In a way, singer Julianna Barwick's ethereal voice and seemingly shapeless songs are a form of abstract art: colorful and curious, with lines that drift and flow in unexpected but beautiful directions. For her latest video, and a new song called "Offing," Barwick finds commonality in architect Philip Johnson's Glass House and a strange sculpture from artist Ken Price. Barwick performs alongside the sculpture for a live audience, filling the Glass House with layers of her sublime voice.
"Offing" is the opening track to Barwick's next full-length record, due out sometime in late summer.
Barwick was the first in an ongoing series of artists to perform at the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., alongside other sculptures, pairing music with other art in the architectural landmark. The video of her performance was directed by Derrick Belcham.


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The findings could help researchers develop effective vaccines against the infection, which causes symptoms similar to dengue fever, followed by a prolonged disease that affects the joints and causes severe arthritis. In recent outbreaks, some cases progressed to fatal encephalitis.
The researchers studied "virus-like particles," or non-infectious forms of the virus. They also obtained near atomic-scale resolution of the virus attached to four separate antibodies.
"We knew these antibodies neutralize the real virus, so we wanted to know how they do it," said Michael Rossmann, Purdue University's Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences.
Findings are detailed in a research paper appearing Tuesday (April 2) in the journal eLife.
The scientists used a technique called cryoelectron microscopy to uncover critical structural details about the virus-like particles bound to the antibodies. The particles are made of 180 "heterodimers," molecules made of two proteins: envelope protein 1, or E1, and envelope protein 2, or E2.
The findings show the precise structure of the virus-like particle bound to a key part of the antibodies, called the antigen binding fragment, or Fab, which attaches to the heterodimers making up the virus's outer shell. The analyses showed that the antibodies stabilize the viral surface, hindering fusion to the host cell and likely neutralizing infection.
Chikungunya is an alphavirus, a family of viruses that includes eastern equine encephalitis.
"This is the first time the structure of an alphavirus has been examined in this detail," Rossmann said.
The research is aimed at learning precisely how viruses infect humans and other hosts, knowledge that may lead to better vaccines and antiviral drugs, Rossmann said.
Chikungunya in 2005 caused an epidemic on Réunion Island. A mutation in the E1 protein has allowed the virus to replicate more efficiently, which is considered the primary reason for its recent extensive spread, infecting millions of people in Africa and Asia.
The paper was co-authored by Purdue researchers Siyang Sun and Ye Xiang, Akahata Wataru of the National Institutes of Health, Heather Holdaway of Purdue, Pankaj Pal of the Washington University School of Medicine, Xinzheng Zhang of Purdue, Michael S. Diamond of the Washington University School of Medicine, Gary J. Nabel of the NIH, and Rossmann.
The research team conducted experiments to record the structure of the virus in different orientations and obtained a three-dimensional structure with a resolution of 5.3 Ångstroms, or 5.3 ten-billionths of a meter.
The research, funded by the NIH, is ongoing and involves one graduate student and five postdoctoral students. One goal is to learn how the virus is modified when the antibodies bind to the virus and to obtain higher-resolution images.
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Structural Analyses at Pseudo Atomic Resolution of Chikungunya Virus and Antibodies Show Mechanisms of Neutralization
Siyang Sun1,4, Ye Xiang1,4, Akahata Wataru2, Heather Holdaway1,5, Pankaj Pal3, Xinzheng Zhang1, Michael S. Diamond3, Gary J. Nabel2, Michael G Rossmann1,* (1 Dept of Biological Sciences, Purdue University; 2 Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; 3 Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine; 4 These authors contributed equally to this work)
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A 5.3 Å resolution, cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) map of Chikungunya virus-like particles (VLPs) has been interpreted using the previously published crystal structure of the Chikungunya E1-E2 glycoprotein heterodimer. The heterodimer structure was divided into domains to obtain a good fit to the cryoEM density. Differences in the T=4 quasi equivalent heterodimer components show their adaptation to different environments. The spikes on the icosahedral 3-fold axes and those in general positions are significantly different to each other, possibly representing different phases during initial generation of fusogenic E1 trimers. CryoEM maps of neutralizing Fab fragments complexed with VLPs have been interpreted using the crystal structures of the Fab fragments and the VLP structure. Based on these analyses the CHK-152 antibody was shown to stabilize the viral surface, hindering the exposure of the fusion-loop, likely neutralizing infection by blocking fusion. The CHK-9, m10 and m242 antibodies surround the receptor-attachment site, probably inhibiting infection by blocking cell attachment.


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This month, I'm starting a series of articles addressing Google's GData APIs — the system that your web application (service) uses to access a customer's Google Web application data (for example, their Calendar events, Documents, etc.). The APIs are pretty consistent across the various Google apps, so I'll focus on Calendar as characteristic. Everywhere you read "Calendar" in this article, you can substitute the GData API of your choice. I'm going to start with a general dicussion of the APIs and how they work. Next month, we'll get into actual code.
Google's work on the APIs is uneven. I'm a huge fan of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), for example. It has made my life vastly easier and my code more robust (and testable) than it would be were I working directly in raw JavaScript or one of the JavaScript libraries. And it lets me use a consistent object model and development environment across the entire application. I might quibble with a design decision here and there (I wish there were more interfaces in places), but I understand why the Google engineers made the decisions they did, even when I disagree with them.
At the other extreme, we have the GData APIs, which you use to access Google services like Calendar and Documents. These APIs are universally miserable. In fact, the Java wrappers that you use to access the underlying HTTP-level protocols are some of the worst work I've seen in many years of programming. Amateurish, low-quality student work, the Java layer violates many of the principles of good architecture, and the programmers seemed unaware of OO design concepts as basic as data abstraction. The Java layer is buggy, overcomplicated, badly documented, and essentially unusable. I'll explain these comments in a moment.
The quality issues not withstanding, I do have to interface with GData to get work done, so I've written my own Java abstraction layer to make that possible. I don't abandon existing libraries lightly, even when they're suboptimal, because you generally save time by using them. After wasting too many days getting nowhere, though, I'd had enough. Given how easy it was to write replacements for Google's code, I probably waited way too long before bailing.
I plan to open-source my GData wrappers once I get them into good-enough shape, and will publish some of them in Dr. Dobb's over the next couple months.
The Anatomy of a GData Call: REST APIs
Google's GData APIs are a two-level system. The top-level is made up of high-level-language (Python, Java) wrappers around lower-level text-over-HTTP remote procedure calls. The low level follows the "REST" philosophy: To make a call, you issue an HTTP POST or GET request with what you want to do (and any arguments required to make things specific) either encoded in the URL or specified in the body of the POST. Google returns the result in XML or JSON. REST is effectively a very simple RPC mechanism that leverages the HTTP server for data transport.
Before leaping in to the mechanics of the call, some documentation might be helpful. The main page for the Calendar API documentation is here. The various REST calls and return values for the Calendar APIs are described adequately in two documents: The Data API Developer's Guide: The Protocol and the Data API Atom Reference The former contains copious examples of the GET/POST formatting and also both the Atom and JSON return values. Find links to other web-service APIs in the Site Directory.
If a Calendar is public, you can just make an HTTP request and get a result back. If the Calender is private, you'll need to get permission to access the data via the OAuth process, which I discussed in an earlier series of articles here and here. (Google has provisions for authentication mechanisms other than OAuth, but they're discouraging their use, so I won't cover them.) The OAuth "dance" is the process that your app owners use to grant permission to access their data. The original OAuth articles talk about how to create a public-key/private-key pair and register it with Google. The dance uses those keys to digitally sign requests, and the dance terminates when google gives you an "authorized request token," which you store in your database and pass back to Google with every GData request for a given customer. The authorized request token doesn't expire, though your customer (who granted access to you in the first place) can revoke it. You'll also have to digitally sign every GData request using the same private key that you used in the original OAuth dance.
The examples I'll give you next month assume that you've gotten an OAuth authorized request token from Google, either by working with the code from the earlier articles or cutting and pasting from Google's OAuth Playground. If you do the latter, my code uses RSA-SHA1 as the "Signature Method."
A basic request that uses OAuth for authentication takes the following a form:
GET https:<i>//www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/owncalendars/full</i> &oauth_consumer_key=example.com &oauth_nonce=38863f48...28dd9fd2c &oauth_signature_method=RSA-SHA1 &oauth_timestamp=1249972977 &oauth_token=1%2Fz1...LMzNBrKhElA &oauth_version=1.0
I've broken the string up onto multiple lines so that you can see the arguments, but normally everything would be concatenated into a single line, and then you'll URL-encode the line, yielding something like this:
GET&http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fcalendar%2Ffeeds%2Fdefault... etc.
Google calls this URL-encoded request a base string.
The query-string parameters are:
oauth_consumer_key: This parameter is typically the name of your web site. It's registered with Google when you register your public-key certificate (see my previous OAuth article), and is passed to Google as part of the initial OAuth registration process.
oauth_nonce: This parameter is a random number that Google uses to make sure that a hacker isn't capturing a request and then reusing it at a later date. On a given day (as defined by the
parameter), this nonce can be used only once by your service. That is, the timestamp-nonce duple must be unique.
oauth_timestamp=: Today. This is an old-style UNIX data: seconds since 00:00:00 on Jan 1, 1970, GMT. In Java, you can get that number from the
oauth_token: This parameter is the "authorized request token" returned to you from Google when your user granted permission for your service to access their data via OAuth. Google maps the token to a particular user, so you don't need the Google user name or equivalent.
oauth_version=1.0: (Optional)
oauth_signature_method: The encryption algorithm you're using for the digital signing.
Once you've assembled and URL-encoded the base string, you digitally sign it using the private key I mentioned earlier. (I'll show you the code that does that next month.) Then, you append one more argument to the end of the query:
where the argument is the URL-encoded digital-signature value.
Then, you send the request off to Google as a standard HTTP GET or POST. (I'll show you how to do that next month, too.)
Getting the Result
Up to this point, everything is pretty straightforward and reasonable. Now things get ugly.
The results of your request (a list of Calendar entries, for example), come back either as an XML Atom feed or in JSON format.(You specify which one in the request).
Using Atom is the first odd, and I'd argue incorrect, design decision that Google made. The whole point of XML is to tag data semantically. For example, proper XML for a Calendar might look something like this:
<calendarList> <calendar> <event startTime="xxx", endTime="xxx", description="..."> <repeat> ... </repeat> </event> <!-- ... --> </calendar> <!-- ... --> <calendarList>
Sub-elements should be used when there's some sort of natural containment
relationship and there are an unknown (or recursive) number of sub-elements.
(There are an unknown number of Calendars in a Calendar list.)
Use element attributes (x=y pairs) if there's a one-to-one
mapping with the element. An event, for example, has only one start date,
so the start date should be an attribute, not a sub-element.
Google doesn't use semantically reasonable XML, though. In fact, they've perverted the nature of XML by pressing an entirely unrelated (at least to calendaring) XML scheme — Atom — into service to represent not only Calendars, but all other GData objects (like address-book entries and documents).
Atom, however, is an XML scheme that was built to represent blog entries. Its elements and attributes are designed solely for that purpose. A Calendar is, fundamentally, not a blog entry (a "feed"), it's a calendar. Using Atom to represent Calendars is akin to using your XML scheme for customer data or inventory control to represent calendars. Yeah, an inventory item might have date and description fields somewhere inside it, but that doesn't mean that an inventory item is a reasonable container for an "appointment." The notion that Atom is a "general purpose" XML scheme that you can use to represent anything is nonsensical; it indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of what XML is.
There are two significant consequences to Google's choice of Atom:
- There's a lot of unnecessary complexity.
You have to deal with the semantics of Atom, even when those semantics have no
application to things like calendars. That unnecessary complexity translates
to unnecessary work in writing the code,
unnecessary work at run time, and an unnecessary waste of bandwidth when transmitting the data.
For example, here is a (simplified) example of the XML that Google returns to represent a single calendar option.
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:gCal="http://schemas.google.com/gCal/2005" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" gd:etag="W/"Ck8FQ3Y4cCp7I2A9WxVVEkU.""> <id>http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/settings</id> <updated>2009-03-05T10:46:25.244Z</updated> <title type="text">Coach's's personal settings</title> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/render"/> <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/settings"/> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/settings"/> <author> <name>Coach</name> <email>[email protected]</email> </author> <generator version="1.0" uri="http://www.google.com/calendar">Google Calendar</generator> <openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex> <!-- ... --> <entry> <id>http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/settings/displayAllTimezones</id> <updated>2009-03-05T10:46:25.245Z</updated> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/settings/displayAllTimezones"/> <gCal:settingsProperty name="displayAllTimezones" value="false"/> </entry> <!-- ... --> </feed>
Most of this junk is required by Atom, and is noise in the context of Calendar options. If we fix the XML to represent only that information that's relevant, the foregoing XML could be replaced by the following XML:
<globalCalendarSettings displayAllTimeZones="false" />
Multiply the actual XML by 100 and you begin to understand the scope of the problem.
- Because you lose the semantic tagging, the real data is lost in the cloud of unnecessary mark up, and is difficult to both parse and use. Without those semantics you can't use XQuery to extract information from a long GData return value, for example.