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Home Food and Drink Vegan dining in Hackney is taking root
Vegan dining in Hackney is taking root
Hackney has begun to be referred to as London's "vegan quarter".
With Hackney Vegan Market – based at Hackney Downs Studios – expanding to two days a weekend and new vegan-centric businesses popping up left, right and centre, it's certainly the place to be plant-based.
One of Hackney's best-loved eateries, the Sutton and Sons fish and chip shop has recently reopened Graham Road branch with a vegan-only menu, following the overwhelming popularity of a vegan menu that was introduced in the other branches earlier this year.
So why are the vegans gathering in East London? We spoke to some of our favourite vegan venues to understand how Hackney has embraced the plant-based lifestyle.
Of course, veganism itself is not new. The term was coined in 1944 by Donald Watson, founder of the Vegan Society. But since 2016 the number of vegans in the UK is said to have increased by over 500%. This uptake has been accredited partially to the rise of social media, and the ability to share ideas and inspiration that make the concept of excluding animal products less daunting. As part of this, chefs, restaurants and cafes began experimenting with vegan dishes.
Valentina Fois, who runs Lele's cafe on Lower Clapton Road tells us, "Instagram influence, magazines, it all helps. For some people it is inevitably a trend. When I started my cafe two years ago, I was vegetarian, so when I went vegan myself I then didn't want to serve non-vegan food so I took a gamble, which has paid off. If people get to explore vegan food a bit because it's trendy, that's good. Maybe they'll love it, maybe they won't, but it's an opportunity."
Valentina Fois
Vegan cafes like Lele's have been popular in the borough for some years, with many chefs pointing to the Black Cat cafe, which host pop-ups and events that allow vegan cooks to try out their craft, as an inspiration. And vegan 'junk food' has found a new home too, showing that veganism isn't 'holier than thou', as plant-based fried 'chicken' shop Temple of Seitan is a testament to.
JACK FRUIT BURGER
Experimentation is key to finding an audience. Christa Bloom, co-founder of Biff's Jack Shack, which serves jackfruit-based burgers and 'filthy vegan food' at their Broadway Market stall on Saturdays, says "I've been vegan for almost ten years, and my co-founder Biff for two. Before starting the Shack we spent months trialling out recipes and hosting vegan dinner parties for our friends."
Spread Eagle Owners Luke & Meriel
The mania for pop-ups in London has helped the trend spread, but many vegan businesses settled in Hackney after enough success to open 'bricks and mortar' locations. Early in 2018, the Spread Eagle, London's first vegan pub – 100% plant-based from the food to the furniture – opened. Its kitchen is run by Club Mexicana, the vegan creatives who built success at street food markets and pop-up kitchens.
Meriel Armitage founder of Club Mexicana and co-founder of the Spread Eagle says "People in Hackney are inherently curious. There's a desire to know what's new and exciting and be a part of it. All the restaurants in Hackney are exciting: they don't fit with the normal mould, and that's the same for vegan food, so the two match well.
Leles
"We've found a thriving home in Hackney because of this, coupled with the fact more people are going vegan or reducing the amount of meat and dairy they're eating."
Danny Sutton, owner of Sutton and Sons, agrees that Hackney's varied food scene is an ideal breeding ground for a generation of vegan foodies: "Hackney has always been a hub for diverse food with cuisine from all around the world. It is a place for all restaurant types, so I'm not surprised that we are seeing more vegan restaurants. Offering people choice is important and that is something that Hackney will always be good at."
Spread Eagle Pub
And business is booming for the plant-based. Biff's Jack Shack opened a new Boxpark Shoreditch location in October; new restaurants like Stokey Veg Vegan on Stoke Newington High Street are opening all the time; and well-established favourites are adding vegan menu options, like Sutton and Sons' new branch.
What's more, non-vegans are making up a significant percentage of the plant-based restaurants' customer bases. While the vegan audience has traditionally been strict, these businesses are taking an open-minded approach to those trying to reduce their meat and dairy consumption.
Sutton & Sons Vegan Fish and Chips
"We're about inclusivity. Everyone should be free to do what they want; forcing people to go in a direction never works. At Lele's, we offer the opportunity to try some tasty food that happens to be vegan. It's really dangerous to close yourself off," says Valentina Fois.
Meriel Armitage continues: "We won't change perceptions if we're not letting non-vegan people in. There's nothing better than hearing a carnivore tell us that they've had one of their best meals at the Spread Eagle. It feels like we're really changing mindsets, and not just being part of a special club."
The future's looking green in Hackney.
BEST VEGAN SPOTS
The Spread Eagle, 224 Homerton High Street, London E9 6AS, thespreadeaglelondon.co.uk
Sutton and Sons, 218 Graham Road, London E8 1BP, suttonandsons.co.uk
Stokey Veg Vegan, 215 Stoke Newington High Street, London N16 0LH, facebook.com/stokeyvegvegan
Biff's Jack Shack, Broadway Market, London E8 4QJ/ Boxpark, Shoreditch E1 6GY, biffsjackshack.com
Black Cat Cafe, 76A Clarence Road, London E5 8HB, blackcatcafe.co.uk
Lele's, 50 Lower Clapton Road, London E5 0RN, leleslondon.com
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More VH talk from Eddie Trunk
Thread: More VH talk from Eddie Trunk
Original lineup? Stadium package tour? Yankee Stadium, as DLR hinted in one of the recent interviews?
ROTH ARMY MODERATOR
I'm not buying into this whole thing just yet, but it would be good news if true. If previous experience is any indication, both the 2007 reunion news and the 2012 album news moved from "rumors" to "confirmed reality" over the Holiday season. So if anything really IS going to happen in 2019, I would expect news soon, and from somebody more reliable than Eddie Trunk.
Should I ask if MelodiCrock is reporting on it yet?
Maybe a tour to commemorate VHII. Ah yeah, beautiful girls!
Opening acts: Chickenshit. Extreme. Great White (now featuring that Mitch Malloy guy who was in VH for 5 minutes in 1996).
Just bullshitting, obviously. But that would be a three ring circus.
Trunk is just mirroring what Dave vaguely eluded to in the recent interview... something original and Yankee stadium. More than we had last week in music news...
Possibly, but I would be interested in knowing who the (shall remain) nameless "industry insider" he alludes too is. Sammy? I haven't paid much attention to Trunk but thought he and Sam were slap-and-tickle buddies...
I also wondered who is source is. Someone in Azoff's camp? One of the techs?
A fart out of his ass?
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I cuntsidered not posting the video, because I really don't like Trunk but I figured someone else would have posted it anyway.
ROTH ARMY SUPREME
09-11-2019 @ 07:40 AM
Edwards, as well as, Van Halen's facebook pages are active tonight...which, could mean nothing...or it could mean something...��*♂
The more I think about this it sounds like Trunk is just latching onto anything and throwing shit on the wall and seeing if it sticks. I'm sure he'll say "I told you so" even if Mike ain't invited...
Perhaps Trunk has found out something tangible about Van Halen's activities in 2019 a few months in advance of the rest of us.
Would sort of stand to reason after two decades or whatever as a radio/tv show host specializing in hard rock and heavy metal, with all the people in the industry he has met, that Trunk would be in a position to know such information...okay. So?
Originally Posted by Carmine
I guess it could mean something, although for me yet another tour with the same Van Halen lineup that has been performing since 2007 isn't particularly newsworthy, but more of the same.
Meh reliable sources aren't reliable with Van Halen.
The biggest indicator is Dave's hints as they are not usually as vague when he is just trying to not say anything.
It means Janie is earning her keep!
Terry (12-24-2018),ZahZoo (12-24-2018)
I did not know Bassplayer's tech, Kevin Dugan, grew up just outside of Cleveland. Checked his FB page and he hasn't posted in a while.
If it is a package tour, with VH and Wolfgang's band, who else is on the bill? Tremonti? No way VH has someone on the bill that could potentially blow them off the stage. See KWS, the Marley kid, and Kool and the Gang.
Originally Posted by Nickdfresh
He's repeated stuff verbatim that was posted at VHLinks... I'd venture he doesn't know any more than we do on the fan boards...
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perrin29
Head Fluffer
I could take Trunk or leave him even though he has stated quite strongly that not much comes close to those original VH records with Dave. If there is a tour with Mike I will be there.
Dave riffing on a possible stadium date with a multi bill including Metallica and Foo Fighters, or Guns and Roses...Van Halen with Wolfgang simply doesn't have the current drawing power those bands do. In point of fact, if such a quadruple bill were to take place, if anything I'd assume Van Wolfgang would be closer to the bottom of the bill than the top.
Simply put, Van Wolfgang 2019 isn't selling out 50,000 seat venues in the US on the strength of the Van Halen name alone. I'd have doubts that even CVH 2019 would be packing stadiums on the strength of THAT name alone without a fairly popular name band on the bill with them. 15 to 20,000 seat amphitheater and arenas wouldn't be too hard for Van Halen to sell out, but stadiums? Only if it was the CVH lineup and only if it was announced as a farewell tour. If it's just another Wolfgang Greatest Hits tour, I don't see stadium-sized capacities selling out.
Originally Posted by perrin29
Yeah, but Trunk has also said - more than once - that while he agrees that the CVH 6-pack records were the best material the band has come up with, [Trunk] still prefers the band with Sammy Hagar in that he thinks the band improved when Roth left. A bizarre rationale that makes no sense.
Because Sammy kisses his ass and talks to him and Roth pretty much doesn't...
About the only reason that makes any sense.
ZahZoo (12-24-2018)
Van Wolfgang couldn't sell out 25,000 seaters the last time out, even with Groupon's help!
Monsters Of Rock II? Would Metallica accept a mid-lineup spot? I can't find a link to Azoff's roster, other than something about the creation of Full Stop Management and that he manages the Eagles, Journey, Bon Jovi, and Steely Dan along with newer acts Travis Scott and the One Direction kid. They'll have to go outside Full Stop to fill the bill.
Wolfgang opens so he's got time to re-fill Ed's vape pen during the VH set...
Van Halen was doing 12 to 15,000 seaters in 2015. The venues were reasonably filled, although I did notice that ticket prices - in my area, anyway - were quite a bit lower than they had been in 2008 and 2012.
Were I Metallica, Guns And Roses or Foo Fighters, I wouldn't accept a lower billing than Van Halen. Guns And Roses was filling 60,000 + venues without the aid of a package tour lineup last time out. I'd have to imagine Metallica and Foos could still pack such venues on the strength of their names alone. Van Halen can't.
Even back in the CVH days, the band wasn't headlining stadiums in the US. They played some stadium gigs opening up for the Stones, and headlined Heavy Metal Day at the US Fest, and opened up...what was it...the California Jam in 1978. There's a difference in playing stadium gigs under those circumstances vs. filling them on the strength of their name alone. Even Van Hagar headlining with the Monsters Of Rock stadium tour did so with several name bands on the bill, and even THEN those shows had attendance problems.
I agree that any "big" tour with 20K+ butts in seats for Van Halen is going to have to be a multi-artist tour. Van Halen in any format with current, past or new band members just won't have the draw for anything in large venues on their own...
Stand-alone headliners... their best bet would be Casinos and county fair circuit gigs at this phase...
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N.America
A double bill with Van Halen opening for AC\DC or even Aerosmith would be great...That will never happen because AC\DC doesn`t need VH to attract a stadium crowd...still one can dream.
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Isn't Aerosmith doing their farewell tour?
I wouldn't want to sit through an Aerosmith set to get to VH.
I wouldn't either, although were that hypothetical an Aerosmith Farewell tour with Van Wolfgang for a business as usual jaunt, I 'spect Van Halen would be opening for Aerosmith.
I dunno if Van Halen - the current Van Halen w/ Roth - is QUITE at the small theater / state expo level just yet, though they don't have too long to go.
Yeah, I think it's getting closer to the smaller end for them. They could probably do well in large cities (NY, LA, Chicago, Vegas) but outside of that I think they'd struggle to fill good sized arenas on their own.
Well, that would depend on if AC/DC even tours, or what they're calling a band if and when that happens. Suposedly the long running "Back in Black" lineup of the band is back together in the studio, assembling an album from tracks that Angus & Malcolm recorded several years back before Malcolm's brain stopped working correctly. But Brian Johnson singng in the studio is different from him singing live, as far as his medical issues goes. And Cliff WIlliams supposedly retired, so he might not want to tour again. Angus had the previous tour booked before he lost half the band, so if he had to book another tour with some other psuedo-band like AxlDc was he might not be able to get a stadium deal himself.
As far as Aerosmith goes..... I'm only interested in seeing them if they don't play anything they recorded after 1985 or so.
VH will need to open for a bigger act if they want to do any stadium...at this point in their career they could open for Taylor Swift lol, other than this I cannot even see them filling the arenas as in 2007 and 2012 by themselves. It will take a marketing genius to have them on a bigger scale than a 2015 like summer tour.
I think part of the problem is that Van Halen is now bumping up against what KISS eventually encountered after multiple reunion tours, in that after 3 of them in the last decade, most people who have wanted to see Van Halen with Roth have done so: the idea of Roth with Van Halen is no longer special or unique.
The other part of the problem, sad to say, is that - at least as far as the media coverage goes - from 2012 onward Dave's declining abilities have been commented on with increasing frequency.
I could see the current version doing venues around 10,000 seats next year with the current lineup without much of a problem. Any ambitions beyond that, short of a package tour it will be the CVH lineup that makes the next tour special.
KISS wasn't even stupid enough to think they could fill stadiums on their farewell tour.
I see the KISS shows are starting at 7:30 pm but haven't seen word of openers.
Surely Aerosmith are waaaay bigger than Van Halen at this point?
I dunno. When was Aerosmith's last collection of originals? Say what you want about ADKOT but at least VH didn't hire flavor of the month to co-write.
I doubt Aerosmith could fill a stadium on their own at this point.
I'd tend to think Aerosmith couldn't fill a stadium on the sole draw of their band name, either. Even if they announced a farewell tour.
I've never really thought of Aerosmith as a stadium act, anyway: I know they've played stadium gigs, but - again - it's one thing for Aerosmith to headline the Texas Jam going on at the end of the day after a half dozen other name bands have played.
chuckjitsu
Sweet! Another trip to the "Van Halen is doing something!!!" rumor mill! This seems appropriate at this juncture-
And yet, here I am offering my (unsolicited) opinion on the matter! As has been said, I don't see them doing stadium gigs by themselves. I don't think they could have pulled that one off even in the peak of the original Roth era let alone now. And if it is part of some multi band deal, I can't really think of any bands that I have any interest in seeing, either because I don't care to see them or I've seen them before. I don't think even a CVH reunion would be enough to pull me in to some sort of multi band stadium monstrosity.
I always figured if they did anything again, with or without Mike, they'd do a summer shed/amphitheater circuit with Wolf opening the shows. If they brought Mike back and I was convinced that Dave could get what's left of his vocal cords in to some semblance of '07-'08 shape, I'd probably be willing to drag my ass to the nearest shed to see the show.
Guess I better start planning now as Van Halen rumors always end up being true!
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I agree that even in the blazing trail (that ultimately hit the wall) of 1984, Van Halen couldn't fill a stadium on their own. I think two more big albums with Roth, then maybe...
Hmmm appears the consensus is that none of the major bands from the CVH era can support a stadium tour on their own... Sad affair... but Rock just hasn't had the draw that pop and country can pull in.
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"Baptist Women on Mission" met Tuesday, May 8th at noon to honor four members at our end of the church year luncheon.
Mary Cason had two daughters, Sheila Meador and Shara Wright, with her. Loreene Escoubas had three daughters, Sherry Cradduck, Sue Timmons and Melba Escoubas, with her. Mabel Edmondson was surrounded by friends, Janis Bull and Betty Wilson. Martha Roe Terry was not able to come that day.
Front Row (left to right): Nayeli Aguirre, Emaleigh Mack, Leah Hooper, Dynasty Saldivar, Megan Sanchez, Tristin Reynolds. 2nd Row (left to right): Juanita Ramirez, Paige Sloan, Abby Barrick, Jasmin Rocha, Analyn Bohensky, Raney Wilson. 3rd Row (left to right): Matthew Burkhart, Julian Zapata, Matthew Flores, Christopher Thornsberry, Damon Ramos, Ernesto Aguirre, Juan Cano. 4th Row (left to right): Cole Tupin, Kirby McDuff, Mack Wright, Joshua Lambert, Triston McGehee, Read Saint. Back Row (left to right): John Montemurro, Wayne Tucker, Austin Cisneroz, Eduardo Vega.
At the encouragement of the Keep San Saba Beautiful (KSSB) Commission, the 2018 San Saba Elementary 4th grade class has taken part in Keep Texas Beautiful's "Waste in Place" curriculum for several days in May through lessons taught by their teachers in the school setting.
The mission of KSSB is to educate and engage citizens to take responsibility for improving their community environment. It's fun to begin this learning experience with our local school children!
A note on the courthouse restoration financing: the county's finance manager, Mr. Vince Vialle, requested bids from 46 banks. The winning bid, at a very competitive interest rate of 2.450%, was from The Bank & Trust in Sonora, TX, whose president happens to be our own Brady Johnson.
In recent communications with me, Brady has referred to himself as both: "An Old Armadillo" and "Eleanor and Jerry's oldest and smartest child." He did add a "lol" (laugh out loud) at the end of that.
Student recognition included honoring the 5th grade winners from the Keep San Saba Beautiful Art Contest. Four students represented the six winners at the board meeting. The students recognized were: Esperanza Baez- Garcia, Quiara Rosales, Gracen Shahan, Valeria Macias and Evelyn Davila. These students were also recognized at the San Saba City Council meeting the night before.
April 14th completed another successful city-wide annual cleanup for Keep San Saba Beautiful (KSSB) and their "Don't Mess With Texas" and Keep America Beautiful "Great American Cleanup" partners. Cleanup week started off with the Cub Scout cleanup of Risien Park on Monday. Then Oscar the Grouch (Patty Shaw and Gale Ivy) visited San Saba Elementary and Middle School students on Thursday and Friday. Saturday ended the week with the help of 40 volunteers who braved the wind and cold temperature.
Nine truck and six trailer loads of trash and debris were collected during the 3 hour cleanup. Volunteers picked up approximately 50 bags of litter along the highways entering town, along city streets and in the parks. The remainder of trash collected was picked up at homes by City employees and brought out to the transfer site by County residents who took advantage of the FREE cleanup day drop-off.
May Day, Tuesday, May 1st, was the last official San Saba Garden Club meeting for the 2017-2018 year, but not the last activity for the current year. Hostesses, Becky Whitley, Beth Griess, Leanne Pollock, Gail Bruner, Nancy Van Etten and President Dianna Furlan welcomed members and club guests to hear Marlene Gillman of Killeen, Texas, and the Temple Garden Club present interesting information on "Pollinators and Welcoming them into Our Gardens."
Ms. Gillman explained that the three most popular, beautiful, and needed pollinators are hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. All three are always welcome but can be threatened as in the case of butterflies and bees.
Fellowship of Christian Women's Luncheon celebrated their 40th anniversary at the monthly luncheon held Thursday, April 26th. The above ladies have served on San Saba's Fellowship steering committees in the past and present. Left to right: Sharon Hayes, Nell Forman, Suzana Hernandez, Louise Hyman, Barbara Riggs, Carol Littlefield and Mary Behrens. It was reported that over the years there have been about 480 luncheons and over 500 speakers and groups to sing, discuss many subjects, share testimonies and hear from missionaries. Ladies of the county are invited to come and enjoy the fellowshipping the 4th Thursday of every month at 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in San Saba County churches.
San Saba Community Volunteers + Donated Food = Blessings!
Unloading and setting up food boxes from the truck, Pastor John Saint (Site Leader), First United Methodist Church in San Saba, stops briefly to confer with site volunteers to ensure a smooth start-to-finish distribution. Approximately 25 volunteers assisted that day.


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Q: R lmerTest step() function returns significant random effect without equivalent significant fixed effect I do have a 2 level data set with 3 observations nested in one person. I am fitting a mixed model including 71 predictors and 28 random slopes in the following manner:
model = lmer(var1 ~ a + b + c + (1|PersID) + (0+a|PersID) + (0+b|PersID) + (0+c|PersID)

I am using the step() function of the lmerTest package to do backwards elimination of random and fixed effects of the model and get the following model:
Linear mixed model fit by REML
t-tests use  Satterthwaite approximations to degrees of freedom ['merModLmerTest']
Formula: Fufaksc1 ~ MusZ + HauZ + ArbZ + SpoZ + AusZ + TraZ + AAYYZ +
AMYZ + AMSZ + TNAZ + AuZ + MusM + HauM + EmoM + SpoM + TraM +
AMNM + WSM + AuM + SAE + Ex + RE + So + UC + (1 | PersID) +
(0 + HauZ | PersID) + (0 + SpoZ | PersID) + (0 + VaZ | PersID) + (0 + AuZ | PersID) Data: Sitsort2

REML criterion at convergence: 2703.1

Scaled residuals:
Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max
-3.6274 -0.4721  0.0070  0.4884  4.1122

Random effects:
 Groups   Name        Variance Std.Dev.
 PersID   (Intercept) 0.259072 0.50899
 PersID.1 HauZ        0.088366 0.29726
 PersID.2 SpoZ        0.285073 0.53392
 PersID.3 VaZ         0.008581 0.09263
 PersID.4 AuZ         0.008177 0.09043
 Residual             0.209756 0.45799
Number of obs: 1300, groups:  PersID, 555

Fixed effects:
             Estimate Std. Error        df t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept)  -1.00698    0.19540 515.50000  -5.154 3.65e-07 ***
MusZ          0.55662    0.07930 627.30000   7.019 5.80e-12 ***
HauZ         -0.26976    0.06780 456.30000  -3.979 8.06e-05 ***
ArbZ          0.30543    0.07223 704.20000   4.229 2.66e-05 ***
SpoZ         -0.45474    0.09816 130.70000  -4.633 8.62e-06 ***
AusZ          0.17835    0.08102 653.20000   2.201 0.028067 *
TraZ         -0.10944    0.05563 648.90000  -1.967 0.049574 *
AAYYZ        -0.20878    0.05301 769.00000  -3.939 8.93e-05 ***
AMYZ          0.10063    0.04699 767.70000   2.141 0.032550 *
AMSZ          0.80907    0.16299 501.90000   4.964 9.49e-07 ***
TNAZ         -0.09069    0.04457 719.90000  -2.035 0.042261 *
AuZ           0.06479    0.01266 455.80000   5.118 4.57e-07 ***
MusM          0.49393    0.18577 522.40000   2.659 0.008082 **
HauM         -0.47557    0.14806 517.50000  -3.212 0.001401 **
EmoM         -0.63551    0.30854 490.60000  -2.060 0.039950 *
SpoM         -0.88607    0.20915 519.20000  -4.236 2.69e-05 ***
TraM         -0.35308    0.14697 513.00000  -2.402 0.016645 *
AMNM         -0.41692    0.20316 530.50000  -2.052 0.040644 *
WSM           0.04994    0.01685 530.80000   2.964 0.003172 **
AuM           0.09425    0.02577 527.50000   3.657 0.000281 ***
SAE           0.15065    0.02430 515.10000   6.198 1.17e-09 ***
Ex           -0.05206    0.02576 519.20000  -2.021 0.043836 *
RE            0.07022    0.02686 514.70000   2.614 0.009201 **
So            0.09297    0.02611 523.20000   3.561 0.000404 ***
UC           -0.11635    0.02710 510.80000  -4.293 2.11e-05 ***
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Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

The model contains 5 significant random effects including the intercept. The only thing I do not understand is why there is a significant random effect for VaZ but no significant fixed effect for VaZ included in the model. As far as I understand this it would only make sense if the fixed effect would be exact 0 (which is realisticly impossible). From my point of view it does not make sense to include a random effect without an equivalent fixed effect. Can anyone explain this to me or is it a bug in the step() function?
Thanks in advance!

A: There is no reason, in theory, why you can't have a positive random effect and a 0 fixed effect. It would mean that the average slope was 0 (flat line) and the slopes for each person vary around this. It might make no physical sense in your use case, but that's another matter.
Furthermore, the non-significance of the test does not mean that the fixed effect is 0 -- only that you can't prove that it's not with this method and these data.
Your fixed effect might also not be significant because it is highly correlated with another fixed effect. You're basically trying to do model selection using Wald statistics, and that's a method known to produce ambiguous results.
I'm sure there isn't a bug in lmerTest, but it might not be the right tool for the job. It's an approximate test whose results, I feel, would be hard to interpret with a model as complex as this one.
If it were me, I would first get the children off the street. Average the response over each person and do a fixed-effects only model on those variables that are applied at the person level. I would then attempt to get rid of variables that had no impact -- possibly using a lasso, or a best subsets. Then I would model a random effects model that included the within-person variables and the between person variables that I had selected in the previous step. This approach is not guaranteed to produce the best model, but you're going to have to simplify something here if you don't want to get lost in all the variables.
Another problem here is that lmerTest basically relies on classical likelihood theory to work its magic. But if you read the fine print, you can see that this theory assumes the maximum is at an interior point of the parameter space. This assumption fails when you are testing whether a random effect is zero ... because if it is, the true solution is on a boundary of the parameter space. So you want to be sure in advance that the random effects included in the model are actually greater than zero.

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Ward 14 is where we provide care for patients that need to stay with us overnight, and for extended spells.
We mainly care for patients with cancer diagnoses, but also for patients with other conditions such as rheumatological conditions. The ward is staffed by our dedicated nursing team and led by ward manager Beverley Rodgers.
In 2013 Ward 14 was awarded The Nightingale Award after receiving nominations from a patient's relative and our senior nurse. The Nightingale Awards recognise the important contribution nursing and midwifery makes to patients and their families on a day-to-day basis. The theme was "caring with compassion and dignity".
The ward was also awarded the MacMillan Environmental Quality Mark in January 2014 which recognises suitability and quality of environment for care provision in patients with cancer diagnoses. We are very proud of our unit and the facilities we are able to provide for our patients, many of which are described below.
Each day a registered nurse and health care assistant will be responsible for your care. They will introduce themselves at the start of their shift. Their names will be displayed at the entrance to your room.
We pride ourselves on our standards of infection control and on reducing healthcare associated infections. A great deal of work has already taken place in reducing infection rates and we have a detailed action plan which addresses hand hygiene, uniform policy, screening and training. If you have any questions relating to this please do not hesitate to ask a member of staff.
What do I need to bring into hospital with me?
Please ensure that all medicines and tablets that you are taking are brought into the ward. This is very important as the doctor will need to see them. If you hold a special card giving details of any current treatment such as steroids, warfarin etc then please show this to the doctor. When you bring your medications into hospital with you the ward will continue to use your supply so it is important that they are in the original containers and not just a strip of tablets. Please remember any inhalers, creams, eye drops etc should also be brought in. We will use your own medication whilst you are on the ward and ensure that you receive an adequate supply on discharge. If you routinely take any complementary medicines or medicines purchased directly from the chemist it is important that you let the doctor know.
Well-fitting and supportive slippers to reduce the number of falls due to inadequate footwear.
We would advise you to leave any valuable at home and bring in a small amount of money for newspapers etc. If you bring in large amounts of valuables or money you are entirely responsible for their safety. If this is unavoidable there is a locked cupboard at each bedside which can be set with a code of your choice. Please ask a member of staff how to do this.
If you are receiving chemotherapy please bring your chemotherapy record.
If you wish to bring a hair dryer/electic shaver please let a member of staff know upon arrival and we will arrange for a hospital engineer to check it before use for health and safety purposes.
Please use the alcohol gel when entering and leaving the ward. This is located at the ward entrance.
The trust has implemented the National Patient Safety Agency 5 moments for hand hygiene which encourages staff to clean their hands at the point of care. If you are not sure if a member of staff has washed their hands please ask them (they will not be offended).
If visitors have symptoms of an infection such as diarrhoea and vomiting we would ask that where possible they do not visit until signs of the infection have passed.
The ward has its own charitable fund as part of the South Tees Hospitals Charity.
The Ward 14 Cancer Care Fund is used to provide additional extras for our patients that goes over and above standard NHS funding. We use the fund to provide bedside TV, snacks, and holistic therapies for our patients, and have used kind donations to enhance the patient environment and experience in building the family suite to provide better facilities for patient families. All donations are warmly received – please contact the ward if you want to find out more about the fund.


Concern about climate change and damage to the natural world was what inspired the Garth garden at its inception. Here is NASA scientist James Hansen, the Grandfather of climate change speaking on the subject of climate justice and the realities of what we are faced with. This is the science, not the politics and he argues strongly for a carbon tax to help drive down emissions. The implications of this are significant and requires us all to think again about our relationship with energy and fossil fuels.
Hansen talks about getting Co2 levels back to 350 to be able to achieve energy balance again, on a planetary scale. This he states is the only way to stop a warming planet. The implications are enormous, and any soil scientist will tell you the best place to store carbon is in the soils. Organic gardens and local farms are net sequestrators of carbon and will have a big role to play in our future responses to both food security and carbon reduction priorities.


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63—(1) In this Part "serious intervention" means an intervention in connection with the care, treatment or personal welfare of P which (or any part of which)—
(a)consists of or involves major surgery;
(b)causes P serious pain, serious distress, or serious side-effects;
(c)affects seriously the options that will be available to P in the future, or has a serious impact on P's day-to-day life; or
(d)in any other way has serious consequences for P, whether physical or non-physical.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), and to avoid any doubt, each of the following is a serious intervention for the purposes of this Part—
(a)any deprivation of liberty;
(b)the imposition of a requirement mentioned in section 28(1)(a) (requirements to attend at particular times or intervals for certain treatment);
(c)the imposition of a community residence requirement (see section 31).
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(b)at the time the act is done D reasonably believes that the risk that the intervention will turn out to be a serious intervention is negligible,
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Home » News & Announcements » UOG ROTC cadets earn trip to Oregon for Ranger Challenge
UOG ROTC cadets earn trip to Oregon for Ranger Challenge
The University of Guam Army ROTC team displays the Guam flag at the 8th Brigade ROTC Ranger Challenge competition from Oct. 23–24 at Camp Rilea in Oregon.
The University of Guam ROTC team treats a simulated combat wound at the 8th Brigade ROTC Ranger Challenge competition, held from Oct. 23–24 at Camp Rilea in Oregon.
The University of Guam ROTC team puts their map reading and land navigation skills to the test at the 8th Brigade ROTC Ranger Challenge competition, held from Oct. 23–24 at Camp Rilea in Oregon.
Eleven cadets from the University of Guam Army ROTC program earned a spot to test their skills at the 8th Brigade ROTC Ranger Challenge Competition from Oct. 23–24 in Oregon. Hosted at the Oregon National Guard's Camp Rilea along the state's Northern coast, the cadets experienced a different view of the Pacific than usual while measuring their skills in rifle marksmanship, land navigation, map reading, physical fitness, and teamwork against other schools.
The UOG cadets defeated ROTC teams from larger universities, including the University of Washington, University of Alaska, and University of Seattle, earning a seventh place finish in the military skills and physical fitness competition.
Coached by Major Thomas Vu, the 11 cadets competed in different fitness and endurance challenges over the course of the semester to earn a spot representing UOG at the competition.
"It was a very rewarding experience," said Noel-Brandon Degracia, team captain for UOG ROTC and a 2018 graduate of Simon Sanchez High School. "My role was understanding what everyone's strengths and weaknesses were and being able to capitalize on that based on the events or tasks. The obstacle course was a challenge for us since UOG doesn't have an obstacle course like other schools. Our team cohesion was a big positive, though, and we were able to communicate without even talking at times because our connection was so strong from our training at UOG, like the litter carries up Marine Lab hill and the ruck marches."
Fellow UOG competitor Louis Randall said the experience was beneficial in multiple ways.
"Ranger Challenge was a bigger team-building exercise than I thought it would be, and it brought out … mostly the best in all of us," he said with a smile. "It was great to be able to compare where we stand against the best of the best from other ROTC schools. Ranger Challenge was an extremely unique experience that you won't get outside of Army ROTC."
Deja Whitt, a UOG ROTC cadet working toward her Master of Public Administration, said it was one of the most memorable experiences she's had.
"I've been on a lot of sports teams," she said, "but I've never seen this sense of camaraderie and trust from my teammates. It was a great experience, and I encourage everyone to try out for Ranger Challenge. Meeting the other teams was really cool — to be able to make new friends from other universities. I definitely want to come back next year and try out for my final year in ROTC before I graduate."
The members of the UOG ROTC Ranger Challenge team who competed at Camp Rilea include Noel-Brandon Degracia, Louis Randall, Deja Whitt, Gavin Whitt, Dan Ryan Tumaquip, Remoh Nel Sanchez, Brandon Salas, Jeffrey Seo, Brandon Flores, Talia Meno, and Enriquo Nedlic.


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Carl von Holten (eg. Karl Georg Heinrich von Holten) (* 26. Juli 1899 in Hamburg; † 29. Juni 1991) in Schweden, war ein deutscher Diplomat.

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Nach dem Abitur an der Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg studierte er Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Heidelberg und der Universität Hamburg. Von Holten trat nach dem Bestehen der beiden juristischen Staatsexamen und der Promotion zum Dr. iur. 1925 in den Diplomatischen Dienst ein.

Nach Verwendungen in der Zentrale des Auswärtigen Amtes in Berlin sowie bei der Gesandtschaft in der Schweiz war er zwischen 1927 und 1937 Mitarbeiter beim Generalkonsulat in Kattowitz. 1937 siedelte er nach Schweden über und wurde zunächst in den Wartestand und 1942 in den Ruhestand versetzt.

Nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges war er zwischen 1945 und 1950 Mitarbeiter des Büros für deutsche Angelegenheiten im Außenministerium in Schweden. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Deutschland trat er 1950 wieder in den Diplomatischen Dienst ein und fand zunächst bis 1955 Verwendung an der Botschaft in Dänemark. Anschließend war er zwischen 1955 und 1959 Generalkonsul in Amsterdam.

Zuletzt wurde er im September 1959 als Nachfolger von Kurt Oppler zum Botschafter in Norwegen ernannt. Dieses Amt übergab er nach seinem Eintritt in den Ruhestand 1964 an Heinrich Böx.

Am 5. November 2021 wurde vor dem ehemaligen deutschen Außenministerium, Berlin-Mitte, Wilhelmstraße 92, ein Stolperstein für ihn verlegt.

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Sandmann Family Hires Attorney L. Lin Wood, Known For Aggressive Libel, Slander Suits Against Media
Chris Menahan January 26, 2019
It's happening.
From WCPO:
The family of 16-year-old Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann […] on Thursday hired a Georgia attorney known for aggressive libel and slander suits against media organizations.
L. Lin Wood, nicknamed "attorney for the damned" by former CBS anchor Dan Rather, visited the Sandmann family earlier in the day, according to a news release from Sandmann family attorney Todd McMurtry.
"He is committed to bringing justice to 16-year-old Nick Sandmann and his family," McMurtry wrote.
Wood "often (seeks) eye-popping damages for those he believes have been libeled or slandered in the press," according to a 2011 Washington Post article about his defense of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. (Cain had been facing accusations of sexual harassment that derailed his campaign.)
Other notable clients include the family of JonBenet Ramsey, who were suspects in the child pageant queen's murder, and Richard Jewell, a Centennial Olympic Park guard misidentified as having bombed his workplace in 1996.
"Attorney for the Damned."
I like the sound of that.
Here's some of the cases he's been involved in according to his website:
– lead civil attorney for the late Richard Jewell in matters arising out of reporting about Mr. Jewell in connection with the 1996 bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta
– lead civil attorney for Jeff Greene in libel litigation against The St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald related to Mr. Greene's 2010 campaign for the Democratic Nomination for the U.S. Senate from Florida
– lead civil attorney for Sheldon Adelson in New York libel litigation against the National Jewish Democratic Council
– attorney for Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain in defense of false accusation
– attorney for Dr. Phil McGraw in connection with false and defamatory articles published by Newsweek, the Daily Beast and the National Enquirer
– lead civil attorney for Howard K. Stern in the prosecution and defense of defamation claims arising out of the death of Anna Nicole Smith
– lead attorney for John and the late Patsy Ramsey and their son in matters relating to the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado, and present lead attorney for Burke Ramsey in defamation matters against CBS and Dr. Werner Spitz.
– attorney for Beth Holloway in matters relating to the media coverage of the May 2005 disappearance of her daughter, Natalee Holloway, in Aruba and in a pending civil action against the National Enquirer in federal court in Alabama
– attorney for Sharon Rocha in matters relating to the media coverage of the December 2002 murder of her daughter, Laci Peterson
– attorney for former U.S. Congressman Gary Condit in defamation matters relating to the May 2001 abduction and murder of Chandra Levy in Washington
– lead counsel for AirTran Airlines, Inc. in defamation litigation against the Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, The Plain Dealer
This is a very serious individual.
Along with their attorney Todd McMurtry @FitLwyr, I met with Nick Sandmann & his family today in Cincinnati. I have agreed to assist Todd in pursuing full legal accountability for the injustices inflicted upon this fine young man. A statement on the case will be issued tomorrow.
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) January 25, 2019
Wood appeared on Fox News on October 7th, 2018 and talked about how Judge Brett Kavanaugh should sue the media:
As we saw with the Gawker case, there's no question the American people are sick and tired of the fake news media destroying innocent people's lives.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if Wood drags any of these propagandists before a jury in Kentucky they'll be eager to find them guilty.


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People who love cameras and the art of photography are likely more than familiar with the "Leica" brand and the inherent cost of owning one, but a new advanced compact could find that middle ground and still keep the quality in just as high regard.
Over the course of your life, it's likely that you'll own quite a few devices. For instance, these days you'll probably upgrade a phone every year or two, sometimes sooner. You might change headphones every few months, or every few years.
With cameras, it's a little different. You upgrade, but usually far less, keeping elements of the original purchase, like the lens.
In fact, once you buy into a system, you're there until you decide to make the jump to something else, and that's because you're not just buying a camera for one lens, but for many lenses — plural — with the more to come later on as you stick with the lens system. Canon, Nikon, Sony, Samsung; you buy the body and a lens, and later on you buy more lenses to make the camera better and more capable for various situations.
The same is true of Leica, a camera company that celebrated 100 years in 2014 and certainly picks up attention when you mention the company's name. This is a camera company steeped in heritage and history, producing cameras for people who like photography, and who demand quality.
Checking out the price of Leica cameras throughout the year, it's easy to see that you need to love cameras and have no problem spending money to invest in a Leica camera, with the Leica M (Typ 240) fetching around $8300 for the body alone — no lens — and another $5300 for a 28mm lens. Yes, that's $13600 on photographic equipment.
Not all of us have that sort of change to spend on cameras. This journalist doesn't, and so Leica has been working on something else.
Last year we saw that in the Leica T, an unusual full-metal bodied aluminium camera that looked like Micro Four-Thirds but wasn't, and required its own specialised lenses. That was interesting, but it didn't elicit the feel of an old Leica, not like the M series pushes out.
Leica M cameras tend to look like the film cameras from yesteryear, and these days come packing 18 and 24 megapixel sensors, enabling you to take digital images on a body that not only looks the part, but is built to survive, rocking a similarly strong full metal body.
But they're expensive, as we've just noted, so what do you do?
You make something a little smaller, and slightly more cost effective for everyone else.
Just recently, Leica introduced the "Q", a new camera that takes the style and design synonymous with Leica's M series of cameras and applies a full-frame 35mm sensor and a lens that you cannot take off, making what we would regard as an advanced compact with a 28mm F/1.7 lens.
That style of lens is fairly wide and should offer a lot of light coming in, meaning some versatility in low light, but just in case F/1.7 isn't enough, the ISO sensitivity support goes up to ISO 50,000, which should provide a reasonable hit in noise, but will also mean working in some very dark situations.


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The South African December holiday season is here and many of you will probably be dusting off your digital cameras and getting ready to take lots of photos to document it. In this day and age the art of photobombs has been perfected by some individuals and even by some pets.
The Urban Dictionary website defines a photobomb as "to drop in a photo unexpectedly…to hop in a picture right before it is taken", "an otherwise normal photo that has been ruined or spoiled by someone who was not supposed to be in the photograph" and "any time the background of a picture hijacks the original focus" . Photobombs can really be a case of any three of these scenarios.
It doesn't matter if you're going camping, going to the beach, spending a day around the pool or just enjoying a lazy day this holiday season, the chance exists that there will be at least one individual or pet out there who photobombs one of your photos. Today I'm showcasing 12 examples of funny holiday photobombs to enhance your holiday season mood, check them out below.
Which one of these photobombs is your favorite? Leave a comment and let the readers of the Junk Mail blog know. Feedback is appreciated and welcome here.
If you've enjoyed this post, feel free to share it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Remember: Sharing is Caring.
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Watch this space for regular updates in the Fun Corner category on the Junk Mail blog.


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Lisa Berkley - Chair
Lisa A. Berkley, PhD is the director and founder of the Institute of Inner Economy. She consults in the governmental, nonprofit, and private sectors and is internationally recognized as a visionary leader and innovative problem solver. Dr. Berkley serves as a Councilmember for the City of Marina, is the founder for Compassionate Marina and Co-Founder of Compassionate Monterey County. She serves on a number of boards and organizations including Women In International Security's U.S. West Coast Chapter (WIISWest), Charter for Compassion's Peace Sector, AMBAG, CalCOG, and Community Human Services. Her unique background as a peace facilitator and activist stems from more than 25 years of experience in wholistic health and education, Stress Management, Mediation, and Interpersonal Conflict Resolution. Dedicated to furthering peace and security in the world, she integrates psychological understanding, emotional, spiritual, somatic, cultural, and creative intelligences into the public, private and not-for-profit sectors of society. Dr. Berkley is a strong advocate for housing—it is her conviction that housing and safe shelter is a human right. She is honored to serve on HRC's Board.
Kathy Anderson - Vice-Chair
Kathy Anderson is an Assistant Vice President of Sales and Special Projects at Chicago Title. She is a native resident of the Monterey Peninsula and has been in the title industry for over forty years. She is well known for cultivating long lasting client relationships. Her dedication and focus on the commercial growth and development of all local municipalities is recognized by all members of the title community. She is an active committee member of WCR (Women's Council of Realtors), and Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, (Governmental Affairs). A board member and past president of MCOPA (Monterey Commercial Property Owners Association). With addition to serving many years on the board of HRC (Housing Resource). Dating back when it was names MoCHA. Kathy has a passion for our County to do well with smart growth and providing adequate housing for our homeless. With so many years of interacting in our community, she has earned respect from many collages.
Monica Tran Kim - Secretary
With strong local roots she is well known for cultivating long lasting community relationships throughout the Monterey County. She is one of the founding board members with the Monterey County Housing Alliance and is actively involved with; Monterey Commercial Property Owners Association, Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, Monterey County Association of Realtors-Local Governmental Affairs Committee, and the Women's Council of Realtors, Monterey Network. She is currently the Chicago Title Assistant Vice President, Sales/Special Projects. Giving back to our community is very important to her.
Joe Servi - Treasurer
Joe Servi has worked in the field of Banking since 1986. He is the Senior Vice President at Pacific Valley Bank. He is a Senior Business Banker and Commercial Loan Officer specializing in Business Lending and Commercial Real Estate Lending including Multi-Family Properties. In his spare time, he has volunteered as a both a baseball and softball coach and served on a number of Boards including the Friends of California School of the Deaf in Riverside, CA and Friends of the Corona Public Library. He currently serves on the Parks and Youth Committee in Del Rey Oaks, the Monterey Commercial Property Owners Association and the Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) Foundation.
Board at large
Jess Gutierrez - HRC Executive Director
Jess has supported non-profit organizations as a senior executive, Chairman of the Board, and non-board member advisor. He obtained a Master's Degree from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor's of Science in Commerce from Santa Clara University. His work with non-profit organizations during the last twenty five years includes supporting foundations, research institutions, land trusts, and children's support agencies. He works with management teams and Boards on the development of financial reporting systems, policies and procedures, strategic planning, forecasts and budgets, and recruiting and training personnel.
Kelley Ann Foy
Homelessness can happen to almost anyone and here in Monterey County homelessness is an extensive problem. For Kelley Ann Foy it seemed a natural extension of her career to become an active board member of the Housing Resource Center of Monterey County. Being part of the community strategy to enable access to affordable housing solutions for our neighbors throughout thr county just seemed to be the right thing to do. As a Veteran of the United States Navy, she dedicated 12 years of service to the United States as a Cryptologic Technician ending her career as a Chief Petty Officer. Kelley is also actively involved with the Women's Council of Realtors, Monterey Network, and the Monterey County Associate of Realtors, Local Government Committee. Currently Kelley Ann works as a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Carmel. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland University College with a Bachelor of Science in Technology and Management.
Anna Velazquez
Anna is a city council member of the city of Soledad and serves as a District Director to Senator Anna Caballero. She has over 20 years of experience working in the community and for local government. Anna is well versed in the areas of economic development, affordable housing, administration and implementation of federal grants, project management and community organizing. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminology from California State University, Fresno. She was previously employed with the City of Salinas where she held a position as Community Development Analyst. During her 17 year, professional career at the City of Salinas she also held the position as Neighborhood Services Coordinator where she served as a resource and liaison for neighborhoods by facilitating and building civic partnerships. Anna and her husband Felipe Melchor are very excited to be raising their children in Soledad, in the town they were both raised.
Esther Malkin
In an effort to prevent adding to the existing homelessness crisis in the region, Esther Malkin founded, and currently directs, Monterey Peninsula Renters United—MPRU—a group created to advocate for both the aggressive addition of affordable housing and for the rights of renters. She is often asked to advise & support a variety of housing issues. Examples of this are supporting the construction of affordable housing projects, encouraging cities to create 100% affordable housing projects by analyzing their own underused properties for conversion, creating city renter protection guidelines & most recently consulting with a number of local cities on the creation & implementation of COVID Emergency Renter Assistance Programs. She holds a BA in business & marketing from Florida State University & has directed her lifelong career in corporate sales, marketing, training & public relations to shine a spotlight on social issues that are important to her. Esther is open minded, is constantly learning from those around her and approaches challenges with creativity and passion. HRC is a representation of Esther's advocacy mission and her values which is why she humbly sits on their board of directors.
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Public Review for OASIS Web Services Quality Factors Version 1.0
Last Call: An Architecture for Network Management using NETCONF and YANG
Oracle Identity Management 11g Advances Application Security
Lily: Cloud-Scalable NoSQL-Based Content Store And Search Repository
IETF Recharters Common Authentication Technology Next Generation WG
Google Gets Semantic with Metaweb Acquisition
International Workshop on Cloud Privacy, Security, Risk, and Trust
From Indiana University: XML Metadata Concept Catalog (XMC Cat)
SMIL 3: Open Source Tools and Techniques for Synchronized Multimedia
Eunju Kim, Yongkon Lee, Yeongho Kim (et al, eds), OASIS PRD
Members of the OASIS Web Services Quality Model Technical Committee have approved Committee Draft 02 of the specification Web Services Quality Factors Version 1.0 for public review through September 20, 2010. This OASIS TC is developing specifications about quality of web services such as Web Services Quality Model (WSQM), Web Services Quality Factors (WSQF), and Web Services Quality Description Language (WS-QDL). WSQM is an overall model of quality of web services, and WSQF specifies quality factors. WS-QDL describes the WSQM in the type of XML schema.
The purpose of this document is to provide the standard for quality factors of web services in their development, usage and management. Web services usually have distinguished characteristics. They are service-oriented, network-based, variously bind-able, loosely-coupled, platform independent, and standard-protocol based. As a result, a web service system requires its own quality factors unlike installation-based software. For instance, as the quality of web services can be altered in real-time according to the change of the service provider, considering real-time property of web services is very meaningful in describing the web services quality.
This document presents the quality factors of web services with definition, classification, and sub-factors case by case. For each quality factor, related specifications annexed with a brief explanation. This specification can be generally extended to the definition of quality of SOA and provide the foundation for quality in the SOA system...
Web services have distinguished characteristics different from installation-based software because of their service-oriented nature. The provider and consumer of services could belong to different ownership domains so that there are many cases that a service cannot meet the consumer's service requirements in respect of service quality and content... the client and the server cannot guarantee for proper operating performance. They may be operated platform-independently, so it requires more efforts for guaranteeing interoperability between them. Even though web services are based on standard protocols of communication, misconception of the protocols can produce critical results in non-interoperable services... Therefore, it is required to induce quality items in alignment with consideration of these characteristics of web service quality during overall web service lifecycle..."
See also: the announcement
Phil Shafer (ed), IETF Internet Draft
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) has received a request from the IETF NETCONF Data Modeling Language Working Group (NETMOD) to consider An Architecture for Network Management using NETCONF and YANG as an IETF Informational RFC. The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action; please send substantive comments to the IETF by 2010-08-05.
The IETF Network Configuration (NETCONF) Working Group was chartered "to produce a protocol suitable for network configuration suitable for operators in today's highly interoperable networks. Operators from large to small have developed their own mechanisms or used vendor specific mechanisms to transfer configuration data to and from a device, and for examining device state information which may impact the configuration. Each of these mechanisms may be different in various aspects, such as session establishment, user authentication, configuration data exchange, and error responses... The NETCONF protocol is using XML for data encoding purposes, because XML is a widely deployed standard which is supported by a large number of applications. The NETCONF protocol should be independent of the data definition language and data models used to describe configuration and state data..."
Document abstract: "NETCONF gives access to native capabilities of the devices within a network, defining methods for manipulating configuration databases, retrieving operational data, and invoking specific operations. YANG provides the means to define the content carried via NETCONF, both data and operations. Using both technologies, standard modules can be defined to give interoperability and commonality to devices, while still allowing devices to express their unique capabilities. This document describes how NETCONF and YANG help build network management applications that meet the needs of network operators...
YANG is a data modeling language for NETCONF. It allows the description of hierarchies of data nodes ('nodes') and the constraints that exist among them. YANG defines data models and how to manipulate those models via NETCONF protocol operations. Each YANG module defines a data model, uniquely identified by a namespace URI. These data models are extensible in a manner that allows tight integration of standard data models and proprietary data models. Models are built from organizational containers, lists of data nodes and data node forming leafs of the data tree... Since NETCONF content is encoded in XML, it is natural to use XML schema languages for their validation. To facilitate this, YANG offers a standardized mapping of YANG modules into Document Schema Description Languages. DSDL is considered to be the best choice for the given purpose because it addresses not only grammar and datatypes of XML documents but also semantic constraints and rules for modifying information set of the document..." [Note: the HTML version of this specification was produced from the IETF's "xml2rfc" single-source production tool that lets one convert an XML source file into a text, HTML, nroff, expanded XML, etc.]
See also: the HTML format generated by xml2rfc v1.35
Staff, Oracle Announcement
Oracle has announced the release of Oracle announced Oracle Identity Management 11g, providing "a complete, integrated and open set of best-of-breed components built on a common platform and engineered to deliver unparalleled integration both within and across the suite through a series of common components. As the industry's first Service-Oriented Security architecture, Oracle Identity Management 11g provides developers with shared services for identity administration and password management, strong authentication and authorization, workflow and auditing, thus radically simplifying application security. This services based architecture is also designed to naturally extend to cloud computing environments, providing a single point of control for on-premise and off-premise applications and systems.
The entire Oracle Identity Management 11g product line is optimized to support the evolving needs of modern enterprises, such as cloud computing, with a unified, secure, easy-to-deploy set of identity management functions. In addition to delivering services-based architecture, tighter integration and dynamic new user interfaces throughout the Suite, key enhancements include Oracle Identity Manager Version 11g, a full-featured identity administration and provisioning with integrated user and role administration, as well as Universal Delegated Administration based on fine grained authorization policies and self service request and approval models based on open, flexible BPEL workflows.
Oracle Access Manager 11g supports Single Sign-On (SSO) for enterprise web applications, now providing in-memory session management based on Oracle Coherence. Additionally, SSO Security Zones support secure application boundaries. Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 11g supports enterprise fraud prevention with One Time Password Anywhere, which delivers one-time password support through short message service (SMS), Interactive Voice Response, email and instant messaging.
Oracle Identity Analytics 11g now supports enterprise Compliance and Governance combining business intelligence and security, while running on a rich Identity Warehouse; features include Cert360—an intelligent 360 degree view of an organization's security and compliance health. The Oracle OpenSSO Fedlet and OpenSSO STS 11g provides for full integration and certification of Sun's Fedlet for rapid on-boarding of federation partners, as well as the Secure Token Service (STS) functionality of Sun Open SSO STS for identity propagation. The Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Management Pack for Identity Management 11g offers advanced monitoring, diagnostics and performance management for all Oracle Identity Management 11g components..."
See also: the Oracle Identity Management web site
Steven Noels, Blog
Developers of the open source Lily Project have announced a Proof of Architecture Release. Lily fuses Apache HBase, the Google BigTable-inspired NoSQL column-oriented database, and SOLR, the industry-standard search engine running on top of Apache Lucene, and provides infinitely scalable storage and search for large content collections. The Lily content repository offers a rich and flexible content model, with strong versioning support, and a queue system that keeps SOLR indexes up to date with repository updates. The Lily content model has been academically validated and accommodates data mapped from various domains, such as rich hypermedia, HTML5, NewsML, MXF, CMIS, RDF and many more.
The Lily Proof of Architecture release is made specifically for the audience Lily has been designed for: content technologists, developers of content applications such as WCMS, CMS, DAM, DMS and RM, which are being confronted with the lack of scale and reliability a relational DBMS back-end often exhibits when data and usage volumes explode. Lily has been specifically architected to be fully distributable, allowing it to run on large server farms or in the cloud, making use of such large-scale infrastructure to provide room for growth.
The Lily low-level, generic content repository will be accessible through industry-standard APIs such as CMIS, according to the FAQ document: 'academic validation taught us that we offer the primitives to provide backing for a CMIS-inspired model. However, the Lily repository model supports more than that, which means CMIS support will likely be an add-on requiring specific mapping of your Lily schema to the CMIS model. Ideally, we want to develop CMIS support together with technology partners in order to make it useful and practical'...
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Digg and other vested web properties didn't turn to classic enterprise technology (such as RDBMs) to address their non-classical challenges of availability and scalability. Instead, they turned towards the core of the problem, and invented novel theories, concepts and solutions to cope with their enormous growth and subsequent demand... After careful consideration we made a selection (Apache HBase) that will serve as the base foundation of Lily. Most importantly, the tool we selected will address scalability and availability at the core of our product design, while still allowing us to deliver a product that can be installed on customer infrastructure. With this new underlying technology, scale will no longer be a challenge, but become a welcomed product opportunity..."
See also: the Lily FAQ document
Staff, IESG Secretary
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) Secretary has announced rechartering of the IETF 'Common Authentication Technology Next Generation (KITTEN) Working Group' in the Security Area of the IETF. Members of the Working Group plan to transition proposed SASL mechanisms as GSS-API mechanisms, including A SASL Mechanism for SAML and A SASL & GSS-API Mechanism for OpenID .
The Generic Security Services (GSS) API and Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) provide various applications with a security framework for secure network communication. The purpose of the Common Authentication Technology Next Generation (Kitten) working group (WG) is to develop extensions/improvements to the GSS-API, shepherd specific GSS-API security mechanisms, and provide guidance for any new SASL-related submissions.
The KITTEN Working Group is chartered to specify the following extensions and improvements to the GSS-API: (1) Providing new interfaces for credential management, which include initializing credentials, iterating credentials, and exporting/importing credentials; (2) Specifying interface for asynchronous calls; (3) Defining interfaces for better error message reporting; (4) Providing a more programmer friendly GSS-API for application developers; this could include reducing the number of interface parameters, for example, by eliminating parameters which are commonly used with the default values...
The transition from SASL to GSS-API mechanisms will allow a greater set of applications to utilize said mechanisms with SASL implementations that support the use of GSS-API mechanisms in SASL. This WG should review proposals for new SASL and GSS-API mechanisms, but may take on work on such mechanisms only through a revision of this charter. The WG should also review non-mechanism proposals related to SASL and the GSS-API..." [Note 2010-07-26: A SASL Mechanism for OAuth ]
See also: A SASL Mechanism for SAML
Jim Rapoza, InformationWeek
"While most emerging technologies tend to happen quickly, one that has been 'emerging' for a really long time is the Semantic Web. However, Google's recent acquisition of Metaweb may be the signal that the Semantic Web has finally arrived... Most of the key standards such as RDF for tagging, OWL for setting ontologies and Sparql for handling queries, are now in place. In recent years, Metaweb's Freebase has emerged as an example of the power of semantic technologies. Freebase creates structured data out of concepts from sites around the web, such as Wikipedia, and makes it very simple to query and use that data.
In spirit, Freebase is definitely a Semantic Web project, since it is concerned with the semantics of content on the web. However, it isn't a pure semantic web project, since, while it does use standards such as RDF and OWL, it does not natively use Sparql as a query engine. In comparison, the similar DBPedia project does use Sparql and most semantic web standards. But outside of these issues, Metaweb's Freebase is definitely semantic, and the fact that Google has acquired the company could signal an increased focus on the Semantic Web within Google..."
According to the Google blog article: "Today, we've acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains an open database of things in the world. Working together we want to improve search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone... With efforts like rich snippets and the search answers feature, we're just beginning to apply our understanding of the web to make search better... In addition to our ideas for search, we're also excited about the possibilities for Freebase, Metaweb's free and open database of over 12 million things, including movies, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, companies and more.
Google and Metaweb plan to maintain Freebase as a free and open database for the world. Better yet, we plan to contribute to and further develop Freebase and would be delighted if other web companies use and contribute to the data. We believe that by improving Freebase, it will be a tremendous resource to make the web richer for everyone. And to the extent the web becomes a better place, this is good for webmasters and good for users..."
See also: Jack Menzel's blog article
Staff, Indiana University Workshop Announcement
"CPSRT 2010 (nternational Workshop on Cloud Privacy, Security, Risk, and Trust) will bring together a diverse group of academics and industry practitioners in an integrated state-of-the-art analysis of privacy, security, risk, and trust in the cloud. The workshop will address cloud issues specifically related to access control, trust, policy management, secure distributed storage and privacy-aware map-reduce frameworks. CPSRT 2010 will be held in conjunction with the Second IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010), November 30 - December 3, 2010, at Indiana University, USA.
Cloud computing has emerged to address an explosive growth of web-connected devices, and handle massive amounts of data. It is defined and characterized by massive scalability and new Internet-driven economics. Yet, privacy, security, and trust for cloud computing applications are lacking in many instances and risks need to be better understood.
Privacy in cloud computing may appear straightforward, since one may conclude that as long as personal information is protected, it shouldn't matter whether the processing is in a cloud or not. However, there may be hidden obstacles such as conflicting privacy laws between the location of processing and the location of data origin. Cloud computing can exacerbate the problem of reconciling these locations if needed, since the geographic location of processing can be extremely difficult to find out, due to cloud computing's dynamic nature. Another issue is user-centric control, which can be a legal requirement and also something consumers want. However, in cloud computing, the consumers' data is processed in the cloud, on machines they don't own or control, and there is a threat of theft, misuse or unauthorized resale. Thus, it may even be necessary in some cases to provide adequate trust for consumers to switch to cloud services.
In the case of security, some cloud computing applications simply lack adequate security protection such as fine-grained access control and user authentication (e.g. Hadoop). Since enterprises are attracted to cloud computing due to potential savings in IT outlay and management, it is necessary to understand the business risks involved. If cloud computing is to be successful, it is essential that it is trusted by its users. Therefore, we also need studies on cloud-related trust topics, such as what are the components of such trust and how can trust be achieved, for security as well as for privacy..."
See also: the CloudCom 2010 web site
Staff, Pervasive Technology Institute Announcement
The Indiana University Data to Insight Center (D2I) recently announced the release of XMC Cat as a a new software tool to help today's scientists face is sorting and making sense of the massive amounts of data produced by advanced scientific instruments and supercomputers. D2I undertakes research to harness the vast stores of digital data being produced by modern computational resources, allowing scientists and companies to make better use of these data and find the important meaning that lies within them...
XMC Cat is a web service toolkit for capturing and storing metadata during the execution of scientific workflows to enable data discovery and reuse. Its advantages include adaptability to domain schemata through configuration instead of code changes, support for automatic capture of metadata through curation plugins, and search and browse capabilities through a web-based GUI that dynamically adjusts to the domain schema. This allows XMC Cat to be deployed in different scientific domains without requiring new code to be written. It is currently in use in the LEAD Science Gateway.
The LEAD project uses the Lead Metadata Schema (LMS) which is a profile of the FGDC standard for spatial metadata. To store metadata in XMC Cat based on the LMS, the schema is partitioned into concepts and these definitions are loaded into concept and element definition tables in XMC Cat. By partitioning the LMS into concepts and storing the definitions of those concepts as data, XMC Cat is loosely coupled to the LMS and can instead be easily adapted to different scientific schemas.
The LEAD project found that much of the metadata of greatest value to domain scientists during the data discovery process is domain-specific and not directly defined in the LMS. Instead, the FGDC standard that the LMS extends contains an Entity and Attribute section that allows for the description of domain-specific entities contained in the data. The documentation for the FGDC describes spatial entities such as roads, which in turn have certain attributes used to describe them..."
See also: the XMC Cat news item
Colin Beckingham, IBM developerWorks
"Synchronized multimedia plays an important role in modern communications strategies. In broad strokes, the coordinated and ordered presentation of video, audio, still images, text, and other elements offers a dynamic, alternative, and editable approach in a world where the competition for an audience is intense. In addition, the presentation of elements in parallel can appeal to several different audiences at the same time.
In complex situations, a comprehensive development package is needed. Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is a W3C specification that expresses the required instructions for this kind of presentation in XML format which allows for great complexity and sophistication: starting, stopping, overlapping, and interleaving components as required. The SMIL specification was expanded to Version 3, adding even more interesting techniques and flexibility to enable multimedia producers to compete more effectively in grabbing the attention of all those eyeballs and ears.
Right now, in the context of SMIL 3, you can use a plain-text editor for editing and Ambulant as a player, or you can use your own preferred tools... Ambulant is an open source player that is quite close to a complete SMIL 3 implementation. The program is open source and available on the three major platforms: Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. Ambulant comes in two formats: stand-alone and browser plug-in. A developer should choose the stand-alone version. Even though browser plug-ins can end up as the user engine of choice, the stand-alone version has much better reporting and debug capabilities...
SMIL 3 is an effort to add useful functionality and modularize the engine for use on a wide variety of platforms in preparation for a world of many devices with different sizes, types, and capabilities. In a production environment, developers need complete and reliable tools, but in the meantime, Ambulant is good as a learning aid for SMIL 3.
See also: the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0) specification
ISIS Papyrus http://www.isis-papyrus.com