I'm going to take a stand here, and set aside pretty pictures for a second in favor of something heavier and more serious.
I want to encourage all of you, everyone who reads this, to get educated about Proposition 8 if you live in California. If you know someone who lives in California, talk to them about it.
I find this idea atrocious. While I understand that marriage is a complicated issue that involves the State, religion, and family structures, I think it is unbelievable that our state could potentially limit a person's access to a legitimate social contract because of their sexual orientation. The Proposition is downright unconstitutional and discriminatory. We live in a time where most people would balk at this kind of legislature on the grounds of gender, race, or socio-economic class; why then is it acceptable when it comes to sexual orientation?
Any governing body should not be discriminatory against a class of people. Plain and simple. And I'll argue from an emotional point, too: this Proposition would deny one of my best friends, as well as a close family member, the option to marry the person they love and are committed to. The inability to decide to enter into a marriage brings with it a loss of legal rights and legitimacy. I can't believe we live in a time where this is acceptable.
Google's providing a little light for me right now, in taking a stand against this Proposition.
Please. Please. If you live in California (or another state where a similar Prop is on the ballot), make sure you can vote and vote against discrimination. Talk to family and friends about resisting those who function out of fear and hatred. Vote for love — love for everyone.
ETA: Looks like Levi's and PG&E are also getting in on the act! I'm so glad to see major companies taking a stand out of the understanding that this is an equality, not a morality, issue.
I've been wanting to put this idea into stitches ever since I bought Sublime Stitching's Forest Friends pattern. Two hedgehogs. In love. A reference to me and my boy: I love purple and he loves blue (and was once Sonic for Halloween). I'm not sure it gets cuter or mushier than that.
Taking the time to make this has also been an act of home-making, in the most complete sense of the word, for me: settling down and deciding I live here, making a new space my own.
Speaking of making things for the home, some pictures of my Log Cabin blanket (a Mason Dixon must-knit).
This blanket began very much as a comfort item for me. I was living in an unfamiliar place, with few friends and a lot of time to feel lonely. I started knitting a log cabin blanket on a whim, out of all the cool- and neutral-colored Cascade 220 I could muster. It's become a long-term project that I've carried with me through all my moves.
The blanket's a good lap size right now, and I'd like to make it big enough for two people to snuggle under. The rows keep getting longer and longer… and yet I still enjoy knitting it.
That's the funny thing about knitting. What can seem really tedious when you're looking forward to part of a garment will seem soothing in another piece. For instance: right now I'm working on a February Lady Sweater, and I'm so happy to have moved past the garter yoke. Yet every time I pick up my log cabin blanket to knit, I'm ready for nothing but garter stitch.
I think the explanation lies in the comfort of coming back to something familiar, letting a piece of knitting provide a sense of home for me when I'm not quite sure where I'm going next (and have had at least five spaces I called home over the past year). It's this feeling of "I'm here and I'm going to make something pretty happen" as I knit knit knit away. The repetitive motion of just knitting, stitch after stitch, allows me to breathe and relax, reminding me that I really can take things only one step at a time… whether or not I know what my next step will be.
I guess it's all about creating a home wherever you land: making your mark with something handmade, curling up with someone you love, coming back to what's familiar, noticing the beauty of simple details.
In the vein of talking about tomatoes a LOT, I offer you a new and innovative way to enjoy tomatoes!
After a few weeks of making soup out of tomatoes, eating tomatoes on bagels, making pie out of tomatoes, putting tomatoes on pasta, drying tomatoes (more later), I'm still not over them. Although I'm investing a lot of energy in preserving the Early Girls for the off season, I want to savor some of them as unadulterated as possible. I'm not yet part of the camp that eats tomatoes like apples, probably because I'm still recovering from eating many a mediocre tomato in my day. That having been said, these tomatoes are GOOD, and I want to really taste them.
So! A simple recipe for using up some tomatoes. Y'all should know that I feel more masterful in the kitchen when working without a recipe — responding to the ingredients that I have rather than blindly throwing "three tomatoes" into a bowl. The recipes that I put out there end up being a reflection of that. Check out what you have, inspect your feelings on correct tomato-to-lettuce ratio, and go from there.
And, of course, the better ingredients you can obtain — organic, locally farmed — the better this will taste.
One slice of bread, toasted — I used Russian Rye, which yielded great results.
Lettuce — I used baby greens because I don't like ribs. Choose something green, not iceberg.
1. While toasting the bread, cut tomatoes into quarters or eighths. Leave seeds and squishy stuff in.
2. Tomatoes, lettuce, onion (cut into thin rounds, amount per your onion preference) all go into a bowl.
3. Take toasty bread and cut into pieces roughly 1″ square. Add to salad mixture.
4. Add dollop or two of mayo — maybe 2 tbsp, depending on how much you like or are grossed out by mayo.
5. Add splash of balsamic and drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper to taste.
6. Toss and let sit for a few minutes. The bread will get a little squishy and really really tasty.
Basil would go well in this salad, also. I'd recommend against adding other veggies, in the interest of highlighting the simple tomato + tangy flavors.
This recipe inspired by a recipe in my UCSC CSA cookbook.
P.S. Yes that IS Animal Vegetable Miracle that I'm reading, and I'm on the tomato chapter! Talk about good timing. I highly recommend the book to, well, anyone, and will talk more about it when I'm finished.
My mission for this past week has been to embroider some tea towels. More specifically, my mission was to embroider tomatoes onto a tea towel.
Success. I took the towel with me this weekend and we used it, instead of paper towels, to wipe off our cutting board. The towel was a little stained by the end of the day, so it did its job well! Last week we had a bunch of semi-used paper towels in our trash; this week, just tomatoes too squished to sell.
The tomato design is from Sublime Stitching. If you haven't checked out this site, please do so. They offer a lot of really cute designs, from cowgirls to hedgehogs, at reasonable prices; when you purchase a pattern, you get a bunch of iron-on designs that can be used multiple times on whatever your little stitching heart desires. Plus, their site has a bunch of tutorials that can get even the most needle-clueless stitching away. If you'll notice, all of my stitches are split stitch, which is explained on the site. Easy peasy!
This will be the first of many embroidered tea towels I'll be making. I've realized how quickly I jump for paper towels if there's a spill in the kitchen, or to dry off veggies I've washed. Embroidering tea towels to use for cleaning up and drying off is functional, but it's also economical. I know in the past I bought paper towels as regularly as I would buy toilet paper, and feel the same sense of panic if I ran out of either. With reusable towels, I'm saving money over the long haul – a set of three tea towels cost a little under $9 from a local kitchen supply store – and I'll save myself the time of running to buy more paper towels.
Added bonus of embroidered kitchen paraphernalia? Way cuter than paper towels. If there aren't designs out there you like, you can draw your own design on to the towel with pencil. Alternately (or even additionally), you could just add a fun border to the towel, if you're more of a minimalist in the kitchen. Check out Purl Bee's great stitch tutorial.
Give it a shot! Embroidering your own tea towels takes almost no time, costs almost nothing, and is a real way you can take steps towards reducing your consumption. Get your green on. Make your kitchen cuter in the process. Game, set, match.


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Indigenous peoples from north and central Luzon picket Nolcom
Nordis Staff October 16, 2016 Cagayan Valley, Cordillera, indigenous
By RONALD GUSTILO
TARLAC CITY — Around 200 indigenous peoples and peasants from Cordillera, Cagayan Valley and Central Luzon provinces staged a protest action at the front gates of Camp Servillano Aquino, the headquarters of the Northern Luzon command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, in Tarlac City last October 12.
DEFEND THE NORTH. From the plunder of the nation's natural resources declares human rights defenders and pro environment activists in northern Luzon as they pass by significant addresses in their protest journey to the national seat of government. Photo by Rendilyn Cuyop
Human Rights group Cordillera Human Rights Alliance Secretary-General Imelda Tabiando criticized the command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for allowing their soldiers encamp inside the civilian communities.
Several incidents of military encampments in the community were reported in the Cordillera Region such as in Sallapdan, Abra and in Tanglag and Uma in Kalinga. However, recently the soldiers encamped in Tanglag were already driven out by the community elders.
"You are not allowed to encamp inside the community, much more inside the civilian houses. Your enemies are not in the communities," said Tabiando.
Tabiando also blasted the AFP troops for claiming that the ceasefire and the peace talks has already ended to justify their presence in the communities. She said that wherever community soldiers encamped, cases of human rights vioations follow. "To the soldiers, never use the state's resources to kill your fellow Filipinos!" she added.
Ben Cardenas from Isabela, meanwhile, said that several government agencies in Cagayan Valley are still engaged in corrupt activities. According to Cardenas, several officials from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources are conniving with landlords to maintain their monopoly of agricultural lands. Worse, troops from the AFP are providing security to the landlords. "DAR and DENR are actually the biggest recruiters of rebels here in Isabela," said Cardenas.
Cardenas also said the peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) should continue. He said that the talks should address the roots of the armed conflict towards the realization of just peace in the country.
Sonny Serrano of Central Luzon Aeta Association also lamented that soldiers are protecting landlords at the expense of farmers and indigenous Peoples. Soldiers are being deployed to guard Lands which are being contested by the landlords and the peasants.
Reminiscient of the famous Nora Aunor movie, the Aetas said that they are also demanding for the end of the Balikatan games and the ouster of the United States military from the bases in the country as they are being used as live targets by US troops.
The groups demanded that the soldiers immediately pull-out from the communities and the erring units be immediately prosecuted as the communities are still demanding justice for the victims of human rights violations. # nordis.net
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Carbon Leaf's brand of rootsy, Celtic-influenced rock originated in the same Richmond, VA, scene that nurtured Dave Matthews Band, Agents of Good Roots, and Pat McGee Band. Guitarist Terry Clark, vocalist Barry Privett, bassist Jordan Medas, guitarist Carter Gravatt, and drummer Scott Milstead built up a considerable following and were soon releasing albums through their own label. Meander appeared in 1996, with Shadows in the Banquet Hall and Ether-Electrified Porch Music following in quick succession. In 2001, Carbon Leaf debuted a more mature sound with the album Echo Echo and won a Coca-Cola-sponsored unsigned band contest that landed them a performance on the American Music Awards. By this point, Carbon Leaf was also regularly opening shows for adult alternative-friendly acts like DMB, John Mayer, Guster, and David Gray, and the band documented their frequent and vibrant live shows with the 2002 double live set 5 Alive! Indian Summer appeared in 2004. Issued through Vanguard, it was Carbon Leaf's first recording for any label other than their own, and the strongest example yet of their polite, astute, and engaging sound. It was followed in 2006 by Love Loss Hope Repeat.


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From the landscape analysis report
Preliminary Recommendations
Actively formulating and implementing solutions to these problems is complex but critically important, and something SPARC intends to work closely with the community on. It is worthwhile to recap of some of the options for action.
The goal of this document is to describe the current landscape of publishers moving into core activities of universities. Actively formulating and implementing solutions to these problems is complex but critically important, and something SPARC intends to work closely with the community on. However, we think it is worthwhile to conclude this document with a recap of some of the options for action currently available to the academic community.
In general, we think that solutions must be tailored to individual colleges or universities, although some of them would likely require a significant number of institutions to work together. For any institutional context, the key drivers will be a mix of cultural elements (how centralized or decentralized are decisions? What is the appetite for establishing deep ties to commercial vendors?) and financial considerations (what are the spending priorities? What magnitude of savings does leadership hope to get from the deployment of data analytics? Would targeting significant revenues from IP represent an acceptable decision? What kind of companies are off-limits to partnerships because of their activities?) We aim to offer a menu of choices and illustrations of best practices, rather than prescribing a single course of action. That said, we think that there are two different sets of solutions.
We think of the first set as risk mitigation solutions. These are actions aimed at protecting colleges and universities from the unintended consequences of deploying a rising number of data analytic tools and collecting larger and more intrusive amounts and categories of data.
These actions could include establishing detailed data policies and mechanisms for ensuring compliance. These policies could demand that institutions maintain the ownership of data, that terms and conditions of contracts with commercial vendors are not covered by non-disclosure agreements (i.e. open procurement), that algorithms used by vendors are made fully transparent, that results from their usage are portable (i.e. that institutions maintain the right to historic output series, in order to facilitate switching to other vendors), that data is not re-sold to third parties (or at least is not resold without the explicit consent of the institution), and that data sets that are deemed particularly sensitive are not turned over to government agencies without first resorting to the appropriate court, etc.
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We also think that risk mitigation requires appropriate organizational decisions. Some institutions may opt for coordination group or task forces, while others may decide that presidents or provosts may want to identify individuals tasked with both issuing data policies, monitoring execution, and helping individual offices negotiate with vendors and adjudicate possible conflicts of interest across different parts of the institution. Over time, we think that the latter solution will prevail in most complex institutions, but each one will have to determine its own transition pace.
Weighing Trade-Offs
A second set of solutions will require individual institutions to decide among the many trade-offs. For example, using data analytics to drive the admissions process is less expensive than hiring a large staff, and institutions may choose different levels of human intervention to balance their budgets and oversight priorities. Similarly, research institutions must balance an aggressive policy of commercial exploitation of intellectual property to supplement funding with faculty demands for independence and funding of basic research and disciplines with limited commercial upside. Some institutions will support community solutions to some of these issues, while others will be skeptical. Our goal is to offer a broad array of detailed solutions and to help, when needed, individual institutions think through the issues.
In conclusion, we believe there is still time for the academic community to act, and now is the time to do it. By taking stock of the situation, asking the right questions, and choosing the right course of action, the academic community can prevent itself from winding up in a position where it is obliged to follow a path out of its control and harmful to its future.
Claudio Aspesi
A respected market analyst with over a decade of experience covering the academic publishing market, and leadership roles at Sanford C. Bernstein, and McKinsey.
Aspesi, C. & SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). (2019, March 29). Preliminary Recommendations. Landscape analysis , https://test.infrastructure.sparcopen.org/landscape-analysis/preliminary-recommendations
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Los Angeles Fire Department personnel extinguish spot fires on The Old Road at the Newhall Pass Sunday. January 03, 2021. Bobby Block / The Signal.
Firefighters worked to extinguish two spot fires on The Old Road near Interstate 5 Sunday afternoon.
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel first responded to reports of a vegetation fire around 2:45 p.m. at the Newhall Pass, according to Supervisor Cheryl Sims.
"(They reported they) can handle (the fires) with three engines, a patrol and battalion chief," Sims said, adding that units on the scene did not specify how large each spot was.
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel extinguish spot fires on The Old Road at the Newhall Pass Sunday. January 03, 2021. Bobby Block / The Signal.
The first spot, reportedly at The Old Road underneath the Highway 14 and Interstate 5 connector, was knocked down at a 1/4 acre, while the second, just south at San Fernando and The Old roads, was smaller, according to Supervisor Bernard Peters.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
Emily Alvarenga covers features and business for The Signal. She's been at the paper for nearly three years now and has spent that time getting to know the Santa Clarita Valley, its residents and their unique stories. Have a story to share? Reach out to Emily at [email protected]


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Shoals Marine Laboratory is a seasonal field station operated by the University of New Hampshire and Cornell Univeristy. Headquartered in Durham, New Hampshire, SML's main facility is located on beautiful 100-ac Appledore Island, Maine off the coast Portsmouth, NH. In operations for over 50 years, SML is the largest marine laboratory in the country focused on undergraduate education. The SML mission is to provide outstanding experiential, place-based education and to support innovative research programs focused on understanding and sustaining the marine environment. We are looking for a highly qualified team-oriented person to join us as our champion for community and development relationships.
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Wyoming is known as Cowboy Country and believes its state lays claim to the moniker, Cowboy State. While there are many states who beg to differ or disagree (Texas, Colorado and Idaho, to name a few,) there is undeniably a very earth-oriented and real feel to this state that bares its tourism pride on its vest.
Just try to tell a Casper local that their city isn't cowboy country. With costumed actors creating a living history panorama, and country western singers such as Merle Haggard featured, you'll look like a fool to say that Casper, Wyoming doesn't know its country roots. Located along a trail that brought gold-seekers, Mormans, and settlers through the area, Casper wears its history in the Old West like a badge of honor. And, artifacts such as bones dating to 10,000 years show that bison were captured by the fearless natives who used their furs for clothes in the winter, and meat for food to feed their tribes and families.
Travelers find some of the last open public lands in the nation luring among the streams, lakes, mountains and wild acreage of undeveloped property available to explore. For mountain bikers, anglers, river rafters and rock hounds, there are an estimated 10,500 wild acres to explore in places such as Rock Springs.


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On Sunday, February 21st, the TopperBots participated in the FIRST Stronghold Scrimmage at Itasca Community College. The day was jam-packed full of practice rounds and strategy modifications. We had some mechanical difficulties that we now know exist and are more prepared than ever for the competition this weekend. We'd like to thank the judges of the scrimmage for awarding us the 'Most Growth' Team Award. Our team has been growing in size year by year, and this season we are attending a second regional competition for the first time ever. It's an honor to be recognized for our accomplishments this year, and we're very excited to begin competition tomorrow.


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Natural Gas Pipeline Development
By Andrew Mina, Mark Sundback & Bill Rappolt on July 23, 2020
Posted in Energy
Pipeline development continues to be highly contested in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) certificate proceedings and before trial and appellate courts. Please see our discussion of six key topics for pipeline developers to be aware of.
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FERC Reaffirms Controversial Energy Capacity Decisions: Insights and Analysis
By Andrew Mina, Mark Sundback & Bill Rappolt on April 23, 2020
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or "Commission") issued on April 16, 2020 two orders[1] largely denying requests for rehearing of its prior decisions that, among other things, subjected to minimum offer price thresholds energy resources participating in PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.'s ("PJM") capacity market which receive so-called "State Subsidies".[2] FERC reaffirmed that a resource within broadly-defined categories (e.g., renewable resources) receiving State Subsidies must offer capacity in PJM's forward capacity market at or above an administratively-established price floor (i.e., the minimum offer price rule, or "MOPR"), regardless of such a resource's actual incremental costs. Potential and likely ramifications of the Commission's actions, arguments opponents of the April 16 Orders are likely to raise and potential paths forward for industry market participants are set forth below. Additionally, the most promising arguments that could be used to invalidate the April 16 Orders, some of which are discussed below, have not been raised before or addressed by FERC.
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Walking the Path of Utilities' Ownership of Wind and Solar
By Andrew Mina, Benjamin Huffman, Bill Rappolt & Amit Kalra on April 10, 2020
Members of the Sheppard Mullin Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance Team wrote an article published in the March 16, 2020 edition of Tax Notes Federal regarding the practical impacts on tax equity financing for renewable energy projects of a private letter ruling ("PLR") published by the IRS in late 2019. The PLR addressed normalization and loss disallowance rules applicable to public utilities. These rules have posed significant challenges to public utilities that want to own renewable energy generation facilities, make efficient use of the tax benefits they provide (via the tax equity market) and recover their costs from ratepayers.
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FERC Orders, Notices, and Other Guidance Regarding the Novel Coronavirus
By Andrew Mina, Mark Sundback, Bill Rappolt & Daniel Knudsen on April 8, 2020
Posted in Coronavirus, Energy
Last week the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") continued to issue orders, notices, and guidance related to the current novel coronavirus pandemic, the health and safety of FERC and energy industry employees, and the continued reliability of the U.S. energy sector. A summary of FERC's relevant actions are provided below, including information regarding FERC's operating status, extensions for filing deadlines and efforts to ease regulatory burdens during this crisis.
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FERC Continues to Squeeze Renewable Resources Participating in Wholesale Electric Capacity Markets
By Mark Sundback, Bill Rappolt & Andrew Mina on March 6, 2020
On February 20, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("Commission" or "FERC") issued several orders narrowing New York Independent System Operator, Inc.'s ("NYISO") buyer-side market power mitigation rules in its mitigated capacity zones,[1] including NYISO's proposal to exempt up to 1,000 megawatts ("MW") of renewable resources from NYISO's buyer-side market mitigation rules in a capacity auction year ("NYISO Renewable Exemption Order"). The Commission's actions will significantly impact renewable resources in NYISO, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. ("PJM"), and potentially other organized markets. Rejection of the proposed MW exemption will hinder renewable resources' participation in NYISO's capacity auction by: (i) requiring them to bid no lower than an established price floor, regardless of their actual incremental costs; and (ii) tightening currently-available mitigation exemptions. …
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FERC Proposes Major Changes to PURPA Regulations Impacting Qualifying Facility Rates and Requirements; Throwing Roadblocks in the Path of Renewable Energy Development
By Alexander Robinson, Andrew Mina, Kenneth Wiseman, Mark Sundback & Bill Rappolt on September 26, 2019
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") requested comments on a proposed rulemaking to revise its regulations under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ("PURPA"). The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NOPR"), among other things, would diminish benefits that have been afforded to Qualifying Facilities ("QFs"), including the availability and value of the "PURPA-put." The proposed changes also could potentially block certain wind and solar projects that previously would have qualified as small power production facilities from receiving that designation. The NOPR presents uncertainty for renewable developers, as well as other non-utility generators. Adoption of the proposed changes may hinder the development of some renewable energy projects. Comments on the proposed rulemaking are due within 60 days of its publication in the Federal Register.
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FERC Holds the Line on One-Year Limit for State Review of Clean Water Act Certifications for Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines
By Andrew Mina & Olivier Theard on May 2, 2019
Posted in Energy, Environmental
On April 2, 2019, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or "Commission") determined that the one-year statutory limit on state review of interstate natural gas pipeline company applications for water quality certification was a bright-line deadline that could not be extended by private agreement.[1] FERC found that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's ("NYDEC") failure to act within one year of receipt of a water quality certification application submitted by National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation and Empire Pipeline, Inc. (together, "National Fuel") constituted waiver of the State's authority under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act[2] to make a final determination on the application. Section 401 limits such review to one year or less from the date of receipt of the application. The Commission rejected contentions by the NYDEC and Sierra Club that the NYDEC could extend the date by which it could act on a water quality certification application. The Commission's Order will arguably restrict states' ability to review water quality certification applications associated with interstate natural gas pipeline projects, may actually lead to uncertainty for entities proposing to construct such pipeline facilities, and will test the Commission's interpretations of Section 401 and related case law.
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The NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite, co-authored by Inera Inc., Mulberry Technologies, and NCBI, has been the de facto standard full-text DTD for scholarly publishing since its release in 2003. In April 2006, it was adopted as the archiving standard for electronic content by the British Library and the Library of Congress. The latest versions of the DTD are called JATS (for journal content) and BITS (for book content); JATS has been adopted as a NISO standard.
The Journal Publishing Tag Library provides interactive documentation on the latest JATS tag set. You can use this as a reference to look up XML tags and how to use them. Tag Libraries are also available for BITS 1.0 and BITS 2.0.
While the NLM DTDs and Tag Library provide useful information on what you can do within the rules of JATS and BITS, JATS 4 Reuse (JATS4R) helps you determine what you should do by providing recommendations and best practice guidelines. The mission of JATS4R is to establish the recommendations for good JATS XML so that organizations who follow the recommendations produce predictable and reusable XML, making your content more accessible. Check out the JATS4R website for more information and to see whether your organization would like to participate in this initiative!
For a more general overview of XML publishing workflows, the Chicago Manual of Style includes a helpful Appendix on Production and Digital Technology. See Figure A.5 for a useful overview of XML publishing workflows.
In October 2017, NISO published the NISO Standards Tag Set (STS), ANSI/NISO Z39.102-2017, a specific tag set designed for standards publishing. The ISOSTS DTD, a JATS-based tag set developed by the International Standards Organization, formed the basis for this new standards DTD.
This site hosts the non-normative materials for the STS standard, including enhanced documentation and the actual schema files.
This site has the slide presentations from a one-day symposium that NISO hosted in April 2017 about XML for standards publishers. Almost 100 people attended this event at the Library of Congress. A second symposium was held in October 2017 in Geneva.
The Crossref XML Schema was developed for deposit of metadata for journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, working papers, standards, and databases.
ORCID is "an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers" (http://about.orcid.org/ ). Many partners in the scholarly research endeavor have been quick to show support for the initiative, including individual researchers, research organizations, research funders, professional and learned societies, publishers, and abstracting and indexing organizations.
With the launch of JATS 1.0, the latest version of what was previously the NLM DTD, there is now support for contributor IDs in a widely adopted and supported XML format.
ORCIDs are typically collected from authors in online submission systems and made available to publishers or their suppliers in XML transmittal files. However, publishers rely on the author list in the submitted manuscript (usually a Word file) as the authoritative author list. At some point in the workflow, the authors' names and ORCIDs must be synchronized between the transmittal and the Word manuscript so they can be accurately included in the final XML file. The eXtyles ORCID Integration Suite automatically and accurately synchronizes and merges author names and ORCIDs from transmittal and Word files into the final XML as part of the eXtyles workflow.
Click here to read an overview of the current opportunities and challenges ORCID presents for publishers of scholarly content.


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Our October meeting was a very well attended affair with many new models on display, as well as some current favourites.
Firstly, we would like to welcome new members Ian Jeeves and Kevin Harris. We hope they found the day enjoyable.
The following write up is in no particular order, and I hope no-one has been left out!
Philip Bond displayed a smart looking car - less body - with a working chain driven cooling fan, operational Ackermann steering, and rear wheel drive with working differential. This was all elegantly assembled and mounted on stands. It is one of the classic Meccano chassis models - possibly a Bentley.
He also brought a red and green flatbed lorry made in the early style using the original plastic 2.5 inch wheels, which gave it real authenticity.
Richard Smith wowed us with a spectacular scale model of the 'Duchess of Devonshire' complete with two carriages. Furthermore, each carriage was finished in two different liveries – one on each side. The hall side is the British Rail 'blood and custard', the other side is the pre-war 'London Midland and Scottish Rail' crimson and gold. The carriage roofs are hinged to expose fully representative interiors, complete with one passenger going about his business (or avoiding the ticket collector?). The entire model could run to and fro on a track, via radio control, and even the control box is Meccano!
To Show what could be done with younger builders' plastic Meccano, Greg Worwood displayed some entertaining animated models of a caged pirate, a windmill, a sailboat and a mean looking pirate galleon. A video of these can be seen YouTube. The caged pirate even vocalised his disapproval of being incarcerated!
Sam Medworth brought his elegant tower crane, watched over by Wallace's Gromit at its base. The crane was controlled by joystick using AC input and diodes to achieve forward and reverse to 3 motors via 3 wires and a common return. This model nicely demonstrates how such slender structures can perform.
David Northcott showed his original design ERA (English Racing Automobile) car. This has working steering and rear wheel drive, though not demonstrated on the day.
The Gama Goat by Neil Bedford was manned by three battle-hardened figures. The two in the front could be seen looking side to side, and one of them moved the machine gun side to side too! This is a fully functioning vehicle and was demonstrated moving around the floor later in the day.
A video of the people moving within the car can be seen on YouTube.
By far the tallest structure was Chis Bates' dockside crane, based on the actual one outside the Mshed in Bristol docks. It was accompanied by the 'Henbury' loco, and a barge full of timber. Thanks to the existence of this splendid model, Chris can now boast of actually operating the real thing in Bristol docks!
Recent member Barry Winslow displayed some pristine looking vintage sets. These comprised a No. 3 Burgundy storage box housing a very clean looking blue and gold set, a No. 6 red/green and a No. 5 nickel both from the 1930's, and a complete 1950's No. 9 outfit in beautiful condition. Also being shown were a Dealership box, and a shop display ferris wheel, both from the 1970's.
A video can be seen on YouTube.
Still in dry dock under construction was Steve Briancourt's USS Missouri, now with a realistically painted hull along most of one side. The stern section cladding is still to be finished, but the section joins are barely visible, giving an unbroken flow to the ship's hull lines. Some of the earlier mechanical niggles have been sorted, so the guns and other functions operated without failure. He hopes to have the model complete with a full hull by April, but it has been mentioned what a shame it will be to hide all the internal magic.
Pete Evans displayed his Herschell Carousel, which is a very fine example of Meccano fairground modelling. Previous problems must have been resolved as it ran beautifully. A video of this can be seen on YouTube.
Andrew Jefferis brought a range of vehicles from different eras. The two rear left are from 1919, the two front left from 1913 and 1922. The three larger trucks from the left are from 1928, 1955 and 1966. All of the models were built from set plans of the day, and showed evolving complexity in the level of build.
Michael Edwards showed his single decker Denis Dart bus – mostly upturned – which gave visibility of the complex drive system all of original design. It features a three speed auto box with synchromesh. More of this can be seen on his page here. He also brought along a bagatelle game.
Two clocks were on display by members. Alan Perry is currently building a clock in red/green. He found too late that one of the large gears had been bored out, such that the fit on the shaft was very wobbly. I'm sure many of us have frustratingly found 'modified' parts amongst our good stock. Additionally, Alan showed a very nice example of an E20R electric motor, still boxed with packaging.
John Day brought a beautiful looking clock which not only kept time, but rotated on its base. This is no less than the Sinclair Harding version of the famous award-winning Harrison Chronometer. Watch it in motion on YouTube . John also brought a partially constructed 'ping-pong' ball machine. When finished it will raise a ball in one tower, transport it to another, and allow the ball to bounce freely between the two to be caught in the hopper of the first tower. Very ingenious.
Rob Curling and his wife attended displaying a set of four coloured cubes. These are actually an inscrutable game challenge of old, with very simple rules. This is a good example of a very different kind of Meccano model; simple yet engaging.
Also under construction is a lorry in yellow and zinc. The cab was demonstrated to autonomously run in a circle (see video on YouTube), though the shiny floor did cause some wheel slippage occasionally.
Hugh Barr demonstrated a functioning steam engine built from plans, driven by a Meccano 6 speed motor. A video of this can be seen on YouTube.
Mark Bridle brought a model of a Stiff Leg Derrick Crane.
Philip Drew demonstrated his computer controlled gantry crane. This will locate and pick up a load by electro-magnet, then move it to a pre-selected location and place the load on the ground. The clever use of small potentiometers ensures each motion is finitely controlled. A video of this can be seen on YouTube.
David Miller brought along a model railway overhead gantry made from Meccano. It is a passenger footbridge designed to connect one platform to another on his O-gauge railway. It was put into context by showing a picture of where it lives, normally spanning two tracks of the O gauge layout. This must certainly dominate a large attic space judging by the accompanying photo. He also included a plea for anyone who might want to join him in his attic hobby.
Everyone was very grateful to Lynn and Dianne who prepared a wonderful spread of sandwiches and cakes for all, and kept the tea and coffee flowing throughout the day.
The latter part of the meeting was reserved for the AGM. The minutes of this will be made available separately.


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Henry Shield, a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has said he will petition the General Overseer of the Church, Pastor E.A Adeboye, for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to be removed as a pastor in the church.
I have been a member of @rccghq for close to 20yrs so I will call out @ProfOsinbajo for the embarasment he has become to the Body of Christ. Watching as Christians get killed daily. If it hurts you, tell him to resign as a pastor so I can face him as the politician he has become.
So, I will officially be sending in a petition to the Daddy G.O. of the @rccghq about Pastor @ProfOsinbajo and getting signatures from around the world on the need for the Church to de-robe him as a Pastor so he doesn't further ridicule the Church.
The ONLY reason @ProfOsinbajo is VP today is because he's a Christian. Tinubu could as well have taken the slot if there wasn't need for it to be a Muslim/Christian ticket so, as far as he remains in asorock on that ticket, he must speak and defend the Faith. It's non-negotiable.
In 2015, the APC used @ProfOsinbajo to secure many Christian votes. After that, he was abandoned in the Villa to read papers. It's another election year and they've released him to start going about again BUT WE WON'T LET HIM UNTIL HE SPEAKS AGAINST THE KILLING OF CHRISTIANS.


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L'Ordine di Trujillo è stato un ordine cavalleresco dominicano.

Storia
L'Ordine è stato fondato il 13 giugno 1938 dal presidente Rafael Leónidas Trujillo ed abolito il 6 dicembre 1961 dal presidente Joaquín Balaguer.

Classi
L'Ordine disponeva delle seguenti classi di benemerenza:
 collare: presidente della Repubblica Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
 gran croce con stella d'oro: capi di stato stranieri, ex presidenti e vice presidenti
 gran croce con stella d'argento: membri della corte suprema, ministri di stato, ambasciatori e arcivescovi metropoliti
 grand'ufficiale: alti funzionari di governo e chiesa
 commendatore: governatori di provincia, direttori di accademie, rettori di università e autori
 ufficiale: presidi di scuola, colonnelli e civili di grado equiparabile
 cavaliere

Insegne
 Il  nastro era bianco con sottili bordi verdi.

Ordini cavallereschi dominicani
Onorificenze dominicane


on top of the world !!!
"Day 5, night: reached the Pole at 5 o'clock"
Woke up 27 km from the pole.
Okey visibility but no sun, and drifting snow in the air.
Small leads all over today.
We pitched tent only 9km away from the pole.
We rest now before we go on the final stretch !
Day 4, and 32km left to the Pole. Today has been a cold and windy day. We crossed several small leads, nothing serious. Bad visibility in the start of the day, improved later on.
Already halfway! We had good drift last night, that helped.... Today has been cold, but with sunny spells.
The wind has calmed down and we are feeling like happy campers today !
"Day 2: We have our camp site 76 km away from the pole. Found nice ice today, and had lots of wind from the back. Visibility was bad. The drifting is taking us towards the pole. All together it has been a long day with good progress..."
Drifting sideways, and a bit to the pole.
Team took off from Longyearbyen around 17:00 Norway time. Now they are at Barneo base.
Hi, we are at Barneo now, came in late and will fly out to 89 tomorrow.
Sleds are packed and all are good!
Team is on stand-by, all equipment packed, prepared and on board the plane and just waiting for the go ahead !
Last info we has says that they will be taking of at 16:00.
Will keep you updated !
Adventure up North is about to start !
As life goes on for most of us our small team of intrepid adventurers lead by Bengt Rotmo is about to tackle on the North Pole, one of the most inhospitable places on Earth... (or should we say on water ?).
Travelling through Norway, the Arctic territories of Svalbard, the "floating" Barneo base on the drifting Ice, and then up to 89 degrees of Latitude where they will star their skiing journey!
On this blog we will try to post as many news as the team can possibly share with us along the way.
Wishing them the best of luck and an exciting journey !


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[D]esperate profiling plays to people's desire to believe we should be able to spot terrorists. But while rent-a-gobs flail around naming and shaming Kent and drunk teenagers, it is telling how rarely one feature common to many "lone wolf" attackers is called out: a history of domestic abuse.
The problem isn't Islam, or a perverted interpretation of Islam, but rather a perversion of frustrated masculinity. After all, 98% of mass killings are perpetrated by men, and many of the attackers discuss women in proprietorial terms.
And yet this is almost never discussed, because there is no political capital to be gained by suggesting warped masculinity might be more to blame than Muslims. After all, domestic violence is a problem that spans cultures, and if President Trump were to try to ban men accused of domestic violence from entering America instead of Muslims, he would lose some major figures in his own White House.