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Zachary Peterson is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, CA.  He is also a research associate of the Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC) at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Security and Privacy Applied Research Lab (SPAR) at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute.

His general academic interests are in building solutions to compelling interdisciplinary problems, particularly those at the confluence of secure storage systems, applied cryptography, law, and policy.

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Past research includes data placement for a copy-on-write file system, file system security, and data placement and scheduling for MEMS-based storage devices.

Zachary holds a PhD in Computer Science earned at The Johns Hopkins University in 2006, where he worked with his advisor, Prof. Randal Burns, and as a member of the Hopkins Storage Systems Lab.  He formerly served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School, an Assistant Research Scientist in the Computer Science Department at The Johns Hopkins University and as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at McDaniel College.

Before his academic career, Zachary worked as a Senior Security Analyst and Director of the Technology Research and Intellectual Property Services (TRIPS) division at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a boutique computer security consulting firm in Baltimore, MD. There, he was often engaged as an expert witness and consultant in technology and intellectual property litigation, including patent and copyright infringement litigation, anti-piracy cases and DMCA violations.

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Pittsburgh Penguins - 5 @ Carolina Hurricanes - 3
San Jose Sharks - 0 @ Columbus Blue Jackets - 4
Washington Capitals - 3 @ Montréal Canadiens - 2
Ottawa Senators - 2 @ Tampa Bay Lightning - 3
Buffalo Sabres - 1 @ Winnipeg Jets - 4
St. Louis Blues - 1 @ Nashville Predators - 0
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The teams finishing second and third in each division will meet in the First Round within the bracket headed by their respective division winners. First-round winners within each bracket play one another in the Second Round to determine the four participants in the Conference Finals.

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Z - Clinched Conference
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  • The greater number of games won, excluding games won in the Shootout. This figure is reflected in the ROW column.
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By Tiffani Mugurussa on September 11, 2012
  • Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

What is soft and colorful and can squish through your fingers? The answer is play dough. The invention of play dough dates back to the 1930s. Originally it was invented to be wallpaper cleaner. However, after a classroom of children began using it as a modeling compound, it was reformulated and introduced to the Cincinnati schools in the mid-1950s as play dough. Today play dough can be found in almost every preschool and kindergarten classroom. Bringing play dough into a learning center offers a variety of educational opportunities. It is a great, inexpensive educational tool that can be used to foster creativity, literacy, and math skills.

And most importantly of all, kids love play dough. There is something magical about rolling, patting, and squishing the brightly colored dough with your fingers. Play dough isn’t just for playing with, however . . .

  • It can strengthen and improve fine and bilateral motor skills. The muscles we use to hold a pencil are the same muscles used when playing with play dough.
  • It can help release stress. Give a ball of play dough to a student who is angry or stressed and watch them squish and mash those feelings out of their system.
  • It is a great tool for igniting conversation and imagination in young minds. Have you ever listened to your students at the play dough center? Often you will hear them talking about their creations.
  • Play dough also makes a great learning center manipulative for teaching literacy and math concepts. This colorful ball of salt and flour has so many possibilities!

Before your students can begin to smash and roll this large ball of fun, you will need a fabulous recipe for play dough.  If you are fortunate enough to have the ability to cook in your classroom, making the play dough with your class can be a lesson in and of itself. Below you'll find a recipe I have used for almost 20 years.  As long as it is stored in an airtight container, it can last the entire school year.

Play Dough Recipe

play dough ingredients

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup salt
  • 2 tsp. cream of tartar
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tsp. vegetable oil
  • Food coloring

1. Mix the flour, salt, and cream of tartar in a large pot.

2. Mix water, a few drops of food coloring, and oil together in a bowl, then add to the dry ingredients.

3.  Cook the mixture for 3–5 minutes on low/medium heat while stirring constantly. Make sure you scrape the sides and bottom of the pot as you stir. Add more food coloring if needed.

cooking play dough

4.  The dough will start to pull away from the sides of the pot and form a ball.

 cooking play dough

5. Take it out of the pot when it begins to have a VERY faint brown skin. Place it on a counter or cutting board.

play dough

6. Knead the dough until it becomes soft and smooth.

7. When the dough is cool, store it in an airtight bag or container. I like to use frosting containers with color-coded labels.

Play Dough Rules

When I introduce play dough to my class,  I make sure they know my three simple Play Dough Rules:

Rule #1.  Keep play dough on the mats. We discuss why it needs to stay on the play dough mats.  When play dough is on the floor, it gets dirty and it can be tracked throughout the room. To make play dough mats, I laminate 12‛ x 18‛ sheets of colored construction paper, but you can use plastic place mats, too. I explain to the students that the mats help to keep our tables clean.

Rule #2. Don’t mix the colors. We discuss why mixing colors isn’t a good idea. At the beginning of the year, I usually just offer one color choice. As the year progresses, I add additional colors.

Rule #3. Only use play dough tools. I have a variety of tools that are only to be used for play dough. We discuss that classroom pencils, crayons, and scissors are not play dough tools.

rolling play dough

Beginning of the Year Play Dough Activities

The very first time I introduce play dough to my class, I let them just play with it on the mats. The first time they use play dough, there are no tools to be used. I want them to just use their imagination and play with it.

The next time we use play dough, I add basic tools like rollers. Again, they are just experimenting and playing with it. I feel it is important for my students to have the opportunity to play with it before we begin to use it as a learning tool. For many of my students, this may be their first experience with play dough. I will often sit back and observe how they are using the dough, look at what they are creating, and listen to the conversations they are having. All of these observations can help me learn about and have a better understanding of my students. rolling play dough

After a few times of just playing with the play dough, I demonstrate three ways to roll the dough. I show the students how to roll the play dough between the palms of their hands into long, snakelike pieces. Next, I show them how to roll it out on the table using their hands. Finally, I show them how to roll the dough into small balls using the palms of their hands. All of these rolling activities are good for improving small motor and bilateral coordination skills.

rolling play doughplay dough snakes

After they’ve learned to roll their balls of dough into snakes, I introduce the instructional learning mats. We practice shaping the snakes into the shapes that are printed on our mats. These mats are basically large alphabet letters, numbers, or shapes that I have printed on my computer using a very large font size. The ones in the picture below were created using a font size of 500. I printed the letters and numbers onto colored cardstock then laminated them for durability. You can also use sheet protectors if you don’t have access to a laminator.

7 Simple Learning Mats

These learning mats can easily be made using your computer and printer:

As time goes on, introduce other play dough tools, such as:

  • Alphabet and numeral cookie cutters
  • Play dough stampers
  • Play dough cutters or plastic knives
  • Play dough scissors

play dough matsplay dough stamps

All of these tools can be easily integrated into a learning center to build literacy and math skills. For example, the alphabet cutters and stampers can be used to spell out sight words, and the number cutters and stampers can be used to create math problems.

Simply put, play dough is fun; it strengthens hands and fingers; and it builds imagination, communication skills, and cooperative play.  I’d love to know what is in your play dough center and what activities your students participate in.

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I am a first grade inclusion teacher. Earlier this week my coteacher had her first observation by our new principal. We were both working with our little guys in small group reading activities. One of our centers for the other children is Word Work. They were manipulating play dough to build our current word list. Our new principal said she was "horrified" to see children "playing" with play dough for the whole 20 minute rotation. She has never taught elementary school. My coteacher and I want to present her with research that shows that this is a valuable use of their time. Please share- if anyone knows of any resources we could use to sight such evidence.

I use playdough before writing sessions with 7-8 year olds. We make shapes with it in our hands, use different fingers to press it flat and roll it between thumb and different fingers. I put on dance music and we have fun exercising our hand, wrist and finger muscles.

Terrific blog post with tips and practical ideas for using Play Dough in the classroom. Loved all the photos and the step-by-step directions! Thanks Tiffani!
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What wonderful ideas Tiffani! Great post!

This is great. It really looks like the kids are enjoying themselves while still learning.
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Ben Dolgoff BSBA’08 and Mike Fruzzetti BSBA’06 - You would think that it would be easy to sell something that is free. But even free isn't always attractive enough for busy small business owners.

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"There are a lot of people doing this but they're not taking the time to educate the business owners," he said.

The pair was able to convince enough companies that they could launch the service. They now have about 75 signed up and they're hitting the streets looking for more.

They're also working on partnerships to let others provide their coupons over their apps. And while they do that, they've added looking for angel investors to the list.

For now, the company is self funded, but the founders have big plans for expanding outside of Boston. The Boston Herald, June 20, 2010

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Abstract Chronic opioid preconditioning confers a pronounced and prolonged cardioprotective phenotype, existing at least 24 hours beyond opioid drug withdrawal. This study aims to delineate both the trigger and mediation phase of this cardioprotective state. To this end, we employed an isolated, perfused murine heart model of ischemia reperfusion. Following 25 min ischemia and 45 min reperfusion, placebo-treated hearts exhibited a pronounced degree of contractile dysfunction (EDP, 32 ± 3 mmHg; RPP, 40 ± 4% baseline). In stark contrast, chronic morphine-treated (CMP) hearts (75 mg pellet, 5 days) displayed a significant recovery of RPP (83 ± 3%) and an almost complete return of EDP. As expected, co-administration of opioid antagonist, naloxone, via osmotic minipump for 5 days prevented the initiation (“trigger” phase), and thus, protection of CMP (RPP, 46 ± 2%). Moreover, 5 day infusion of the primary morphine metabolites, morphine-3-glucuronide and morphine-6-glucuronide, failed to induced any form of cardioprotection, suggesting that neither the mu-opioid receptor nor metabolites are involved. Concurrent infusion of the PKA inhibitor, PKI, during the activation phase failed to abolish the CMP-mediated protection (69 ± 5% RPP). Interestingly, naloxone, administered pre-and post-ischemia (the “mediation” phase), following 5 days of morphine exposure, failed to modify the CMP-induced phenotype, while PKI completely abolished CMP protection, with no effect on placebo-treated hearts. These data offer an insight into the genesis of CMP in the murine heart, whereby the trigger phase is opioid receptor-dependent and PKA-independent, whereas the mediation phase is independent of opioid receptor activation and is PKA-dependent.
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State Petroleum Association objects to settlement

Salt Lake City, UT – The Petroleum Association of Wyoming complains a Department of Interior move will restrict the state's oil and gas industry.

The Interior is halting fast-track approvals for drilling across the Rocky Mountains in a legal settlement reached in Salt Lake City.

Conservationist groups challenged the Bush administration's interpretation of a law that allows federal land managers in some cases to issue fast-track drilling permits without a full environmental review.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management office in Pinedale, Wyo. issued more than 1,200 such permits over the past three years.

Cheryl Sorenson of the Petroleum Association says the quicker permitting expedited what otherwise can be a "painfully slow" process.

One conservation group involved in the suit says the decision means a "thoughtful approach to development."


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Anonymous vs Google: the Origin and Culture of Anonymous

you know how today there's the Anonymous group? the group who hacked FBI sites and governments sites, MasterCard site, PayPal site, Scientology, etc. The supporter of #wikileaks, people's freedom, anti-censorship, anti big corporations. It's, like, a Vigilante group loved by people, especially us who live on the internet.

what is Anonymous? It's chaos, fuckup. It's like in war time, there's no order, everyone is fucked, and all things goes. That's really the cultural backdrop of Anonymous. The associated word for such chaos, fuckup, is: revolution.

for many of the American Left bleeding-hearts of wishful-thinking i-help-transsexuals PETA-animal i-am-Forrest-Gump types, Anonymous is like the people's hero, the modern Robin Hood. This Goody-two-shoes group, often support Anonymous in a implicit way. Like, following #anonymous on twitter, tweet their causes, stories, #occupy, anti-censorship, pro-wikileaks, etc, all over the net.

but on the other hand, if you show the roots of Anonymous to these people, they distance themselves from it with a ten-hundred-foot pole.

what is the roots of Anonymous? let me show you:

there, you see the nature of Anonymous. It isn't some justice group from academia. It isn't some political party wishing to change the world for the better. It is, mostly, a helpless, angry, chaotic, group of young males of modern society (in particular in USA), living on the net and fucking around.

(it's interesting to note, with respect to online culture of past decade, they can be compared to being the opposite of Google. Google is the body that cultivated a culture of positive internet, with the mantra of “Don't Be Evil”, by always using pleasing and positive words, building positive communities. While, the Anonymous, goes: “We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”. Ain't it LOL?)

best of times, worst of times, such interesting times, from A Tale of Two Internet Groups!

By the way, to verify facts yourself, you could check Wikipedia to begin with. Here's a convenient link: Anonymous (group).

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STAFF REVIEW of Marvel Avengers: Battle For Earth (Xbox 360)

Monday, December 3, 2012.
by Adam Dileva

Marvel Avengers: Battle For Earth Box art I was always taught to not judge a book by its cover. I may have unfairly done that with Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth when it arrived, so I went in with low expectations. Luckily, every now and then you get surprised and things are better than you were hoping. That was the case here with Battle for Earth, as the Kinect controls worked flawlessly for the most part and you get to pull off some of your favorite super heroes powers on the battlefield.

Don’t go in expecting Battle for Earth to resemble the blockbuster movie that recently released; instead, the plot is almost a retelling of a popular storyline from the comic series Secret Invasion crossover. The general plot is that shapeshifting alien Skrulls are impersonating Earth’s greatest heroes, infiltrating the ranks with a nefarious plot. While you’ll easily notice that the fake heroes glow green, apparently no one else does, and with that being said, the story really held no interest for me in any way.

The plot is never really expanded in depth as you progress; actually, aside from a brief explanation of why you’re fighting in a specific location aside from the Skrulls wanting to destroy it, there’s no real storytelling here at all. But take it for what it is, Battle for Earth is a fighting game, and even though the comics could have provided a more interesting story, there’s not much here in terms of plot to push you forward. Unless you’re a hardcore comic book guy, the story won’t matter much to you, but if you already are that type you already know this storyline. The main reason I wanted to keep playing is to see how each of the super heroes performed in battle and what moves they had to fight with. You’ll have all the mainstays of the universe such as Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man but you’ll even come across Wolverine, Magneto, Spider-Man, Venom, and more.

If you played Ubisoft’s PowerUp Heroes, you’ll know exactly what to expect with this Avengers title. Battle for Earth is essentially a fighting game with Kinect controls done with a wonderfully comic book art style. You’ll be punching, kneeing, jumping, and mimicking your favorite comic heroes’ moves to battle against the Skrulls. The fighting engine is clearly based on the one PowerUp Heroes used but has been expanded and improved with its gesture recognition.

You’ll see cue cards on screen showing you how to perform moves available to you based on what super hero you’re using and mimicking them with your arms will perform them. As much as following diagrams might seem very basic, there’s a surprising amount of depth for a basic Kinect fighting game. You can perform dodges, counters, ultra moves, and regular attacks with an overlying rock-paper-scissors-like mechanic where one type of move is always the counter to another. As we all know, proper recognition of Kinect games can vary from being flawless all the way to completely broken; I honestly though that this would be another game with shoddy motion recognition but I was pleasantly surprised when all of my movements were performed flawlessly.

Depending on who you’re fighting as, each hero will have three unique Super Attacks, each one being a two part movement to perform that usually has you holding your arms out in one direction and then making a specific motion to launch the attack. If you manage to chain together Super Attacks you’ll get a combo, with the ability to switch characters at any time during battle (every match is two versus two) by simply holding your left arm up, you can chain together some interesting and deadly combos against your enemy Skrull. As you land offensive moves or even get hit yourself, your Special Gauge will slowly fill up during the match. When it’s half full you can use a Breaker if you find yourself stuck in the enemy’s combo, but if you wait till the meter is completely full you can then use your special Ultra Attack. Using your ultra will start a quick cinematic of your hero hitting the enemy up in the air and will then prompt you to shout a specific line they would say in the comics as well. Once in the air, the faster you punch the enemy, the more hits you’ll land on your enemy. It seems a little gimmicky at first, but it’s a game based on comic book heroes, and aimed at younger audiences, so it gets a pass.

Every match is two versus two and being able to swap characters on the fly will become an important strategy later on in the more difficult stages. Every stage in the campaign has predetermined characters, so you never get to pick your favorite team in the story mode, just in the other modes. The only issue I had with this is that you’ll clearly find characters you are better with and some that either isn’t as fun or you’re just not as effective with. There were times where my two favorite characters were grouped together, but there were also a few matches where my two worst were paired up as well. This also was a little confusing to have to remember all characters Special Attacks motions, especially mid-combo and switching characters quickly. The other strategy that comes into play with two characters is the health bar system that allows the non-active hero to recover a percentage of their lost health, so taggin out regularly becomes a necessity in the later matches.

As you progress you’ll unlock new characters and certainly find some new favorites the further you get into the game. You’ll be playing as Spider-Man, Thor, Venom, Wolverine, Magneto, Doctor Doom, Loki, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and more. While you’ll only get to use some of the characters a few times in the campaign, once unlocked they can be used in the other modes with your custom teams. Sadly there are only a few levels that provide nothing more than a backdrop for the fighting and you’ll have to fight in them each about a dozen times to finish the campaign which isn’t all that exciting. There’s also an online multiplayer to face off against other players, but given that the biggest games of the year have recently been released, I was unable to find a single match the few times I tried and just let it sit and search.

I was surprised with how Battle for Earth looked; sure I was expecting a comic book art style, and I did get it, but the cel-shading suites the game quite well and the characters look like they were taken straight out of the comics. Characters moved and acted like I expected them to and the backgrounds of the levels were vibrant in color and had a lot of small details if you take the time to notice. It was a shame that the story is pushed on you in comic stills rather than cutscenes and being animated. It made it difficult to really care about the story when you’re simply given a few comic panels with a voice over attempting to make you care about why you’re fighting. That being said, all the voice work was pretty insignificant aside from the odd catch phrase being thrown out there and I couldn’t even remember much about the soundtrack by the time I started writing this.

Pretending to be Iron Man and use your light beams to fight off a Skrull is satisfying, as is being Spider-Man and shooting your webs. Emulating your favorite heroes will surely put a smile on your face, especially the first few times you shout their catch phrase for an Ultra move. Unfortunately it does become a bit old quickly, as all you’re doing is these two on two battles over and over in the same arenas which makes for a shallow experience. Sure it’s fun in spurts, but I did beat it in one sitting…er, standing which makes it a little difficult to recommend. Yes the game is fun (in the short term) and Kinect tracks your movements flawlessly, but you will complete the game very quickly, so pick it up if you want a decent game for your Kinect, just wait till it drops to your price range first.

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Fedora Commons Awarded $4.9M Grant to Develop Open-Source Software
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Fedora Commons has announced the award of a four year, $4.9M grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop the organizational and technical frameworks necessary to effect revolutionary change in how scientists, scholars, museums, libraries, and educators collaborate to produce, share, and preserve their digital intellectual creations. In 2005, the Fedora Project successfully integrated a first stage of semantic web technologies into its repository service by introducing support for RDF descriptions of digital objects, RDF relationships and graph-based indexing of Fedora repositories. This provided a more powerful and generalizable mechanism for expressing the relationships among digital objects. The existing Fedora software has been adopted by hundreds of institutions for an array of innovative applications in education, open-access publishing, scholarly communication, and e-science. Among its notable installations are the Topaz/PLoS ONE open access journal system, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), the Max Planck Society's e-scholarship system, the Chicago Historical Society's multimedia encyclopedia, the University of Virginia's digital collections, the Australian national institutional repository initiative (ARROW), Oxford University's digital archive, the Perseus humanities computing project, and numerous applications in national libraries, companies, universities, and cultural institutions. The 'Resource Index' is the Fedora module that provides the infrastructure for indexing relationships among objects and their components. Examples of relationships between digital objects include well-known management relationships such as the part-whole links between individual chapters and a book, and semantic relationships useful in digital library organization such as those expressed within the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). The query interface to the Resource Index currently supports three RDF query languages: RDQL (Kowari-only), iTQL (Kowari-only), and SPO (Kowari and MPTStore).

See also: the 2005-03-18 news story

Public Review for OASIS Election Markup Language (EML) Version 5.0
John Borras (ed), OASIS Committee Draft Approved for Public Review

OASIS announced that the Election and Voter Services Technical Committee has approved an EML Committee Draft specification for public review: Election Markup Language (EML) Version 5.0 includes a Process and Data Requirements document, Schema Descriptions, EML Data Dictionary, and Schema Package. OASIS formed the Election and Voter Services Technical Committee to standardize election and voter services information using XML. The committee is focused on delivering a reliable, accurate and trusted XML specification (Election Markup Language (EML)) for the structured interchange of data among hardware, software and service vendors who provide election systems and services. EML provides a set of data and message definitions described as a set of XML schemas and covering a wide range of transactions that occur during an election. The committee decided that it required a common terminology and definition of election processes that could be understood internationally. The committee therefore started by defining the generic election process models described here. These processes are illustrative, covering the vast majority of election types and forming a basis for defining the Election Markup Language itself. EML has been designed such that elections that do not follow this process model should still be able to use EML as a basis for the exchange of election-related messages. At present EML includes specifications for: Candidate Nomination, Response to Nomination and Approved Candidate Lists; Referendum Options Nomination, Response to Nomination and Approved Options Lists; Voter Registration information, including eligible voter lists; Various communications between voters and election officials, such as polling information, election notices, etc; Ballot information—races, contests, candidates, etc; Voter Authentication; Vote Casting and Vote Confirmation; Election counts and results; Audit information pertinent to some of the other defined data and interfaces.

See also: 'The Case for EML'

The Semantic Web Goes to Work
Nicholas Carlson,

If anyone is capable of explaining how the Semantic Web is going to work it's Eric Miller. Not long ago, Miller led the Semantic Web Initiative for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT. There, Eric's responsibilities included the architectural and technical leadership in the design and evolution of the Semantic Web. But like the Semantic Web, Miller has shifted his focus toward business. Now he's president of Zepheira, which provides solutions to "effectively integrate, navigate and manage information across boundaries of person, group and enterprise," according to its Web site. Miller will also deliver the keynote address at this October's Semantic Web Strategies conference in San Jose. Miller described the Semantic Web as a system that takes individual points of data on a network, such as documents or digital media, and allows users to describe the connections between these points in a way that makes those points of data more accessible and useful. Miller said the pharmaceutical industry is already making good use of semantic technology by allowing researchers working on different projects to share information in new ways. SchemaLogic CEO Jeff Dirks said his company's business semantics management technology could also help pharmaceutical companies organize their research and data with user tags: "Already, SchemaLogic is providing a similar service for the Associated Press, digital images provider Corbis, Reed Business Services, and the International Press and Communications Counsel." For these companies, SchemaLogic developed simple ways for content producers to tag their own data, such as news stories and photographs, at the "point of creation" before uploading it the company network. It's the kind of semantic service consumer-oriented sites, such as Flickr and Facebook, and vertical search engines, such as, already offer, but enterprises are only now beginning to understand.

See also: W3C Semantic Web

Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) Ontology Specification
Staff, W3C Member Submission

W3C has acknowledged receipt of a "Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)" Member Submission from DERI, Fundacion CTIC, Asemantics, OpenLink Software, Opera Software, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and DFKI. SIOC is an attempt to link online community sites, to use Semantic Web technologies to describe the information that communities have about their structure and contents, and to find related information and new connections between content items and other community objects. SIOC is based around the use of machine-readable information provided by these sites. To achieve these goals SIOC defines a series of OWL ontologies. By providing these common vocabularies it becomes possible to exchange data among different online communities, link conversations for the purpose of a common project, extend personal information (like, for example, FOAF data) with roles the person may play in a specific community (e.g., contributor, administrator, etc). The vocabularies define terms such as topics of items (blogs, news items), authors, previous and next items (e.g., to describe threads of conversations), etc. This subject area (blogs, wikis, etc) makes SIOC potentially very important to Semantic Web applications in the context of various 'social', Web 2.0 sites. SIOC has the potential to become one of the foundational vocabularies that make Semantic Web applications useful, alongside DOAP, FOAF, Dublin Core, etc. SIOC itself links to those vocabularies whenever possible. For example, some of its terms are subproperties or subclasses of terms defined elsewhere (in FOAF, Dublin Core, RSS1.0); some other terms makes explicit reference to vocabularies such as SKOS, DOAP, W3C's ical using, e.g., the 'rdfs:seeAlso' property. By doing so, the SIOC vocabulary is defined very much in the spirit of the Semantic Web, i.e., by sharing, linking, and reusing vocabularies and ontologies.

See also: W3C Team Comment on the SIOC Ontology Submission

Atom and CAP: Publish Critical Public Warnings on the Web
James Snell, IBM developerWorks

The recently completed Atom Publishing Protocol provides a simple, HTTP-based mechanism for publishing and managing content on the Web. When used with the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard, Atom publishing can provide a powerful and flexible way to distribute critical, life-saving information. CAP is a simple, standardized XML data format used by the United States Department of Homeland Security, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Government of Canada, and many other organizations to exchange information about a broad range of warnings and emergencies. The CAP standard defines a type of document called an alert, which is used to exchange information about geological, meteorological, public health and safety, rescue, law-enforcement, environmental, transportation, infrastructure, and terrorist warnings and events. Such alerts can be generated either manually by incident responders or automatically by monitoring and sensing equipment, and they can be distributed using a variety of means. Syndication formats such as Atom and RSS comprise one distribution channel for CAP alerts that's growing in popularity. The Atom Publishing Protocol, sometimes known as the Atompub protocol, is a mechanism to publish and manage collections of resources using the basic HTTP GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE operations. While originally designed as a way to post new entries to weblog software, the Atompub protocol is well suited as a way to manage nearly any kind of Web-based content. In this article, the author presents an example Java Web application that uses the Atom Publishing Protocol to publish and distribute CAP alerts. One key goal that drives the development of the Common Alerting Protocol is the need for a comprehensive and standardized means to distribute critical information about life-threatening events of any kind. Use of the Atom Publishing Protocol to publish and manage collections of CAP alerts helps to advance that goal.

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Java Internationalization: An XML-based Utility for Handling Localized Strings
Melih Çetin, JavaWorld Magazine

Properties files are used to store and maintain the localized strings at the heart of most internationalized Java applications. It's too bad maintaining several properties files can be such a headache. In this article Melih Çetin introduces the Properties Pre-Processor, an XML-based utility that enables UTF-8 encoding and lets you maintain localized strings for all of your supported locales in a single XML file, as well as easily sharing them across multiple applications. Like any other commodity, a good percentage of Java applications are marketed and sold internationally. Java Web applications especially must be written with the global marketplace in mind, regardless of whether they originate from the United States, Germany or China. You cannot easily internationalize your software after it has been built (although some tools facilitate this process), or decide midway through the development process to add localization support to your Java applications. The earlier you start thinking about the steps involved in internationalizing your Java applications, the better. This article briefly introduces the common concerns associated with internationalizing Java applications, as well as the classes that support internationalization on the Java platform. The author then introduces a simple tool that supports the internationalization of Java applications by making it easier to create and maintain localized strings for UI elements and add new ones as your application is extended for new languages.

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This subproject addresses the conformance testing of XML processors, according to the XML 1.0 (2nd edition) specification. Here you will find test results (click on the links at left) as well as information about generating such reports yourself, using some of the related components.

Project Components

See this section of the first XML.com conformance article for background on this XML testing. Key components involved in that testing are:

  1. A categorized database of test cases, which are each XML documents to produce specific behaviors from XML processors. We use bugfixed versions of the NIST/OASIS XML conformance test suite, which has received a significant level of industry review.
  2. An XML processor to be tested, and implementing some API that supports such testing. For Java processors, SAX is the API used. For COM based processors, the IE5 XML processor is a de facto API standard that is partly based on DOM Level 1. Other APIs may of course be testable.
  3. A test harness, or driver, used to generate reports about how correctly the processor reacts to each test case. One is required for each API supported. The SAX-based driver needs Java; and the COM-based harness uses JavaScript.

These rely on unofficial revisions to the NIST/OASIS XML conformance test cases (2nd edition). The suite of test cases needs updates to address XML specification errata, as well as problems in the version provided by the NIST/OASIS team (evidently someone mangled a lot of test cases by misusing ZIP). Also, there are some additional tests contributed by the SourceForge project. W3C finally got involved. See their new XML Conformance Test Suites page, which builds on the tests accumulated by OASIS.

An interesting thing about that categorized database: it's in XML. The test harnesses rely on a bootstrap XML parser (which can of course be conformance tested, as a sanity and regression test) and XML tools can be provided to massage the database.

Namespaces: NYET

There aren't yet any testcases addressing namespace support as such. XML 1.0 processors by definition do not conform to the XML namespaces specification, since they accept colons in places that the namespaces specification disallows them. Properly categorized test cases must address such issues; there are both syntactic issues to test, and structural ones requiring definitions of referenced prefixes.

Similarly, the test harnesses don't yet address namespace support. For SAX2 parsers, namespace support should be tested as part of the XML processor API. For DOM/COM based processor APIs, this requires DOM Level 2 support.

Helping Out

Associated with this SourceForge project is a forum and a developer's mailing list. Check out the SourceForge control panel for the project to see the latest.

You can run tests, and submit them, for parsers; ideally, project teams with parsers would do this when they publish new releases. Test results should be identified according to the developer who reported them.

If you have a database of test cases you use (say, things that previously broke your parser, but don't do so any longer!), please drop a line.


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Review: Kelis and Robyn's All Hearts tour

Robyn in DC, August 2. Photo via WaPo blog by Kyle Gustafson/FTWP

I was a lucky bitch to get into the Robyn and Kelis All Hearts Tour. These two women are hitting their apex in music this summer! Vinny Vero and I danced our way through one of the best shows of the year. So. 10 thoughts...

1 Dan Black,
whose debut album Un is a sort of secret gem, was great. Super spastic and funny, with really strong vocals and a kind of guerrilla pop/modern rap/rock hybrid sensibility.

2 Kelis. Mile-long legs and a silver wig. Her performance was presented as a continuous-play DJ set, so it included a lot of segues and unexpected mash-ups (eg Milkshake with Madonna's Holiday) The covers were weird because she was often singing along with the artist of the original song, like karaoke.

3 Her set shined most when she played tracks from her near perfect album, Flesh Tone. It's an album I liken to Diana Ross' diana and it proved to be anthemic and storming in a concert hall. Big crowd pleasers were Home - the audience doing the oh-oh-oh -ohhhhhh parts - Fourth of July and Brave. Her "band" (one inaudible drummer and two deejays) did not provide the heft she needed. The songs rarely boomed as they needed to. Her voice and energy made up for it, but she needs a stronger backing in the future.

4 AND THEN CAME ROBYN. Simple staging - no set, just simple lighting from above. Loved the intro which was very techie, especially with the band in white lab coats - which, by the way, the cuter drummer shed, so he was bare-chested for much of the night.

5 Robyn is a firecracker. Incredible energy with a low center of gravity, so she pogos along in this very kinetic way. Like James Brown's tiny secret daughter (he had quite a few - it's possible). She launched like a rocket with Fembots (watch it) and never let up.

6 Dancing On My Own (watch) was played early and she did the arm waving choreography from the video, AS DID I (in my own head). The song sounded harder and fuller live - though sometimes her vocals were kind of deep in the mix - and has a fierce ending that extends the song beyond the recorded version. The chiming bits were more pronounced live as well.

7 Dream On. Another "chills" epic. What an amazing song to hear in a room packed the gills. It's about community and inclusiveness and all the things Robyn represents.

8 Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do was played, though she did no live vocals for it - in fact, she did not even mime. SHE ATE A BANANA. I might have preferred Hang With Me, but it was a brilliant rock moment.

9 She also performed The Girl And The Robot, Konichiwa Bitches, and an amazing version of Be Mine that sounded like this. The only track I did not warm to? Who's That Girl.

10 The closer was, naturally, With Every Heartbeat. This song is literally the ultimate tears-on-the-dancefloor anthem. At the end, Robyn held up her hands in a heart symbol. She seemed delighted by the crowd response throughout the show and even Shirtless Drummer bear-hugged the other drummer - ohhh the mingling sweat - as they left the stage. Watch the NYC performance.

Robyn and Kelis are not to be missed. The energy and fire of Robyn's live show came as a complete surprise (I'd been alerted, but was skeptical)

Paul said...

SHE ATE A BANANA. Robyn's latest musical endeavours are really winning me over and I wish i'd made the effort to see her live now. And the Kelis album, I do keep returning to. I never seem to want to listen to it, but then sometimes i'm just drawn to it's power. That's a good thing, though i'm not sure makes any sense.

James Derek Dwyer said...

I'm obsessed with Markus - her ginger keyboard player

xolondon said...

with the long hair? I noticed him during set up and thought "Oh to have hair like that."

Ege said...

I was at this show as well. Unfortunately I had to leave right after "Don't Fucking Tell..." to catch the metro. Car-less summer intern in DC, bah!

I was surprised how good of a voice Kelis had, I always thought she would be weak live. The energy of her set also surprised me, didn't expect that.

Nothing to say about Royn, she's as good as I thought she was gonna be and more.

I'm happy that I was able to catc this show.

xolondon said...

I need to find the setlist to see what came after that. At least you got Dancing On My Own.

Feel like Kelis needs one hit single in order to get the $$ to do it right.


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Launch of "Upper Canada Land Board"

Library and Archives Canada has announced the launch of a new online database, "Upper Canada Land Board (1765–1804)." Through this online database, researchers can access more than 16,000 references to documents of the Upper Canada Land Board between 1765 and 1804. The Land Boards were created in 1789 to oversee land matters and facilitate settlement in the districts of Hesse, Luneburg, Mecklenburg and Nassau. This territory is now part of the province of Ontario

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Link up to others...AKA Google Friends Connect is going away soon

Surely by now you have heard that Google Friends Connect is going to say goodbye to all of us on Blogger soon. That really stinks to think that we will lose all our Google Connect friends.

Having said that, I saw another blogger who was having a link up and I thought I might have one here too. The big difference is, I am allowing you to link up any other social network you want or need followers on. eg; Networked Blogs, Bloglovin', Linky Followers, Tumbler even Pinterest

It will be open for 30 days. So, you have plenty of time to link up but the sooner the better.

 NOTE: Do not link up Facebook or Twitter.

1. Please make sure to link separately each link you want followed.
2. Follow Me (courtesy here folks)
3. Follow at least the two people in front of you and anyone else you wish
4. Post the button to your blog to tell others about this link up and follow

  1. Thanks for the linky Girlfriend. Cool idea, but if you want choices to me made shouldn't you have more than one link up like one for linky followers & one for twitter, etc.? Just sayin. Or I guess just this way & people can enter in as many as they want to just put what for. I dunno.. just ramblin' here. ooooooo give-aways. Bye for now I have to go browse... Any one wanna follow me? hehehehe
    You go girl look at all these give-aways you have... got to browse now bye

  2. They've been saying GFC is going bye bye for years.