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Twenty One Pilots Announce Dates For U.S. Leg of Their "Banditø Tour"
Written by Jason Price on July 11, 2019
Twenty One Pilots have announced a new U.S. leg of their global headline "Banditø Tour" due to overwhelming demand. The new Live Nation-produced tour dates, which follow this summer's sold-out arena run, are set to kickoff October 9th at Tampa, FL's Amalie Arena and will continue through a performance at Tulsa, OK's BOK Center on November 9th. To ensure tickets get in to the hands of fans and not scalpers or bots, the tour has partnered with Ticketmaster's Verified Fan platform. Fans can register now through July 14th at 10:00PM PT at www.twentyonepilots.com/banditotour. Registered fans who receive a code will have access to purchase tickets before the general public starting on July 16that 10:00AM local time through July 18th at 10:00PM local time. All remaining tickets for the new U.S. dates will be released to the public at 10:00AM local time on Friday, July 19th. For complete details and ticket availability on Twenty One Pilots' "Banditø Tour," visit www.twentyonepilots.com/banditotour.
Furthermore, Twenty One Pilots have shared "Cut My Lip (40.6782°N, 73.9442° W)," the second stripped back performance from the band's new "Løcatiøn Sessiøns." Recorded by Tyler Joseph, "Cut My Lip
(40.6782°N, 73.9442° W)" follows the series' debut session "Chlorine (19.4326° N, 99.1332° W)," and is accompanied by an official visualizer streaming now on the band's official YouTube channel.
Twenty One Pilots "Banditø Tour" Dates:
17 – Gurtenfestival 2019 – Bern, Switzerland*
19 – Festival de Nimes – Nimes, France*
20 – Lollapalooza Paris – Paris, France*
23 – Paleo Festival 2019 – Nyon, Switzerland*
03 – Lollapalooza US – Chicago, IL*
09 – San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival 2019*
13 – Sziget Festival – Budapest, Hungary*
15 – Pukkelpop 2019 – Kiewit-Hasselt, Belgium*
16 – Lowlands Festival 2019 – Biddinghuizen, Netherlands*
22 – Caberet Vert 2019 – Charleville-Mezieres, France*
24 – Reading Festival – Reading, United Kingdom*
25 – Leeds Festival – Wetherby, United Kingdom*
07 – Lollapalooza Berlin – Berlin, Germany*
09 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena
11 – Greenville, SC – Bon Secours Wellness Arena
12 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
15 – Baltimore, MD – Royal Farms Arena
17 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
18 – University Park, PA – Bryce Jordan Center
20 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
22 – Cincinnati, OH – U.S. Bank Arena
24 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
25 – Des Moines, IA – Wells Fargo Arena
27 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center^
30 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena
01 – Los Angeles, CA – STAPLES Center
02 – Anaheim, CA – Honda Center
03 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center^
05 – San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena San Diego
08 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
09 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center
^not a Live Nation date
Earlier this year, the Twenty One Pilots shared an official music video for "Chlorine," which is directed by longtime collaborator Reel Bear Media and streaming now on the band's YouTube channel. "Chlorine" is featured on Twenty One Pilots' acclaimed LP TRENCH, which made a stunning global impact upon release this past October. The RIAA gold certified collection earned the GRAMMY® Award winning duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun their biggest sales week ever in the U.S., with 175,000 units sold in its first week. An extraordinary achievement for the Columbus, OH band who moved 135,000 copies of TRENCH in pure album sales without the aid of a ticket / album bundle for their worldwide headline "Banditø Tour." TRENCH — with over 52 Million on-demand audio streams its first week — also marked the largest streaming week (debut or otherwise) in the U.S. for a rock album. A true global phenomenon amassing 110 Million streams worldwide in its first week, TRENCH earned Twenty One Pilots Top 5 chart debuts around the globe including the U.S., U.K., Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, and Sweden, with #1 debuts in Australia, New Zealand, and The Netherlands. TRENCH is available worldwide at all DSPs and www.twentyonepilots.com.
TRENCH is highlighted by the #1 Alternative smash "Jumpsuit," which became the decade's fastest rising song to reach #1 on Billboard's "Alternative Songs" chart, and also earned the duo their fourth GRAMMY® nomination (Best Rock Song). TRENCH also features album standouts "Nico And The Niners," "Levitate," and "My Blood," which is accompanied by a Tim Mattia directed music videos streaming now on the band's official YouTube channel and all other providers.
Twenty One Pilots' TRENCH follows the Twenty One Pilots' global breakout BLURRYFACE, which made a stunning chart debut upon its initial release, entering the SoundScan/Billboard 200 at #1. The album also achieved a milestone unrivaled in the digital era, becoming the first album in which every individual song on the album certified Gold, Platinum or multi-Platinum by the RIAA.
BLURRYFACE spawned a series of hit singles, beginning with the 2x RIAA platinum certified "Tear In My Heart" and followed by the #1 sensations, "Ride" (5x platinum certified) and the 7x platinum certified, GRAMMY® Award-winning "Stressed Out." The latter track – which reached #2 on Billboard's "Hot 100" – spent three months at #1 at Modern Rock while also topping the charts at CHR/Top 40 and Hot AC. "Stressed Out" was a worldwide breakthrough for Twenty One Pilots, earning gold, platinum, and multi-platinum certifications in countries spanning Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The "Stressed Out" companion video was an equivalent success, now boasting over 1.8 billion views at YouTube alone.
BLURRYFACE was then followed by still another world-conquering hit single, "Heathens," featured on Atlantic Records' blockbuster SUICIDE SQUAD: THE ALBUM. The 6x RIAA platinum certified single – which received three GRAMMY® Award nominations including "Best Rock Performance" (Tyler Joseph, songwriter) – spent four consecutive weeks at #2 on the "Hot 100" while also topping Billboard's "Hot Rock Songs" for a record-shattering 28 consecutive weeks and counting. The unprecedented one-two punch of "Ride" and "Heathens" made Billboard history, establishing Twenty One Pilots as only the third rock act with simultaneous top 5 "Hot 100" singles in the chart's 58-year history, following only the Beatles and Elvis Presley. In addition, the "Heathens" companion video received the 2016 MTV Video Music Award for "Best Rock Video" and has now earned more than 1.2 billion individual views via YouTube alone.


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HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed that as of 12 a.m., Nov. 30, there was a two-day total of 9,797 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the state-wide total to 361,464.
According to the department, Clearfield County has had 1,693 total cases since March and 12 deaths while 12,381 patients have tested negative for the virus. Of those cases, 1,352 are confirmed and 341 are probable.
There are 4,405 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 in Pennsylvania, state health officials say, and of that number, 918 patients are in the intensive care unit.
Most of the patients hospitalized are ages 65 or older, and most of the deaths have occurred in patients 65 or older. More data is available here.
The trend in the 14-day moving average of number of hospitalized patients per day has reportedly increased by nearly 3,000 since the end of September.
Statewide percent positivity for the week of Nov. 20 – Nov. 26 stood at 11.7 percent. The most accurate daily data is available on the Web site, with archived data also available.
The number of tests administered within the last seven days, between Nov. 23 and Nov. 29, is 392,547 with 47,557 positive cases.
There were 47,836 test results reported to the department through 10 p.m., Nov. 28 and 33,486 test results reported to the department through 10 p.m., Nov. 29.
As of 11:59 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 28, there were 75 new deaths and as of 11:59 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 29, there were 32 new deaths reported for a total of 10,383 Pennsylvania deaths attributed to COVID-19.
County-specific information and a state-wide map are available on the COVID-19 Data Dashboard.
There are 16,951 individuals who have a positive viral antigen test and are considered probable cases and 639 individuals who have a positive serology test and either COVID-19 symptoms or a high-risk exposure.
There are 2,828,049 individuals who have tested negative state-wide to date. Of those who have tested positive, the age breakdown is as follows:
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Updated: Wed 7:42 PM, Aug 14, 2019
STARK COUNTY, N.D. - Just like teachers, school resource officers are gearing up for the new school year that begins next week.
In Stark County, there's a new SRO, and she's excited to step into her role.
SRO Megan Wenisch is excited to get started.
She says the sheriff's office already has an SRO, but she will be in the police academy for the first portion of the school year.
Wenisch is filling in for now but the hopes is budget pending that she'll be the second school resource officer for the department.
Doors opening for new opportunities at the Stark County Sheriff's Office.
"We've really picked up our presence at schools," said Corey Lee, Stark County sheriff.
Lee says being present during the school year at rural schools is important.
"We require our staff to be in the school zones before and after schools as much as we can in each location. And then make appearances during the day," said Lee.
Wenisch is taking over for the first half of the year as the current SRO goes to the academy.
"I'm really looking forward to working at the schools and getting to know the students and I'm really excited," said Wenisch.
The hopes is that she will become the second SRO for the department.
But county funding wasn't enough to add the position in the 2020 budget.
"We're gonna look at some cop grants, and things like that. So hopefully 2021 we can have two SROs. 2020 we're gonna have to maintain our 1 SRO and keep our presence," said Lee.
Lee hopes the school resource officer program will continue to grow.
Wenisch says resource officers are important to build relationships and trust with the students.
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Florida principal touts school prayer event, irking secularists
By Richard Fausset
Oct. 21, 2011 8:19 AM PT
Did a Jacksonville, Fla., public school principal cross the line into state sponsorship of religion when he promoted a weekly on campus school prayer session, and assert that the '1st Amendment was for Christianity, not other religions'?
That question is at the heart of a constitutional controversy at Clay Hill Elementary School, where principal Larry Davis touted the prayer meetings in a newsletter to his staff last month., the Florida Times-Union reports.
In the newsletter, Davis noted that the weekly prayer sessions around the flagpole were sponsored by 'area Pastors.' He also quoted a pastor named Steven Andrew, who has called for bringing back 'the Holy Bible and Christian prayer at schools.'
'Our prayer around the flagpole gatherings are permissible because they are community led and take place outside class time,' Davis wrote.
The newsletter alarmed the Freedom from Religion Foundation -- the Wisconsin-based national organization of 'atheists, agnostics and skeptics of any pedigree' -- who have called the memo item an 'unusually egregious violation of state/church separation.'
In general, federal courts have allowed prayer in school as long as it is not sponsored by the state -- an attempt to balance the 1st Amendment's 'establishment' and 'free exercise' clauses.
In a statement, Stephanie Schmitt, an attorney for the Freedom from Religion group, argued that the principal had veered into promotion, using the word 'our' to describe the event, and giving it an 'unabashed' shout-out in a school newsletter.
The group has sent a letter to the school district calling for an end to the prayer sessions, the Times-Union reported.
Davis, the principal, told the paper that he didn't actually believe that the 1st Amendment only applies to non-Christians. (He appears to argue that he was quoting from the pastor, although it is not abundantly clear from his punctuation where his quoting begins and ends; see the original here).
The superintendent of schools issued a 'no comment' on the matter to Times-Union reporter Topher Sanders.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation has made a splash in the Bible Belt recently with billboards promoting a religion-free lifestyle, with messages like 'Praise Darwin -- Evolve Beyond Religion,' and the holiday-themed 'Heathen's Greetings.'
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Former Mexico City correspondent Richard Fausset left the Los Angeles Times in 2014. He has been a community news reporter on the Westside and in South Los Angeles, a Metro section reporter covering crime, politics and features, and a national correspondent based in Atlanta. Before joining The Times in 1999, he was editor of Flagpole, the weekly newspaper in Athens, Ga. Fausset holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.


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October 20, 2021, 12:30 PM ·2 min read
The shares of Devon Energy Corp (NYSE:DVN) are up 0.2% at $40.36 this afternoon. The equity has been cooling off since hitting its Oct. 18, three-year high of $40.30, though it still has the support of the 20-day moving average, while boasting a jaw-dropping 363.2% year-over-year lead. The even better news is that the security could soon surge even higher, given it is now flashing a historically bullish signal that has preceded major rallies on the charts.
More specifically, Devon Energy stock's latest peak comes amid low implied volatility (IV), which has been a bullish combination for the shares in the past. According to data from Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White, there were at least two times in the last five years when the security was trading within 2% of its 52-week high, while its Schaeffer's Volatility Index (SVI) sat in the 20th percentile of its annual range or lower. This is currently the case with DVN's SVI of 48%, which ranks in the 3rd percentile of its 12-month range.
White's data shows that one month after these signals, the equity was higher, averaging a 14.5% return for that period. From its current perch, a similar move would place DVN above the $46 mark for the first time since early 2017.
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The brokerage bunch is already firmly bullish towards Devon Energy stock. Of the 16 analysts in coverage, 14 call it a "strong buy," while only two carry a tepid "hold' rating. Meanwhile, the 12-month consensus target price of $42.03 is a slim 4.2% premium to current levels, indicating the shares could benefit from a round of price-target hikes.
It is also worth noting the security has exceeded options traders' volatility expectations in the past year, per DVN's Schaeffer's Volatility Scorecard (SVS), which sits at 92 out of a possible 100.
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Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present "Altered States," an exhibition focusing on Ben Charles Weiner's mixed media drawings.
Illuminating a lesser-known aspect of the artist's practice, "Altered States" presents new drawings, along with earlier works that serve as precedents. In these works, Weiner engages with household products at a physical and chemical level. The drawings use principles from gelatin sliver printing to record an imprint of the chemical reactions between inks and drugs (both legal and illegal), expanding upon Weiner's practice of synthesizing process painting and photorealism.
Weiner begins his drawings by coating a sheet of Chromatography paper in a single color of ink. This heavy-cotton lab paper is used in forensics and art conservation to determine the identities of chemical substances. Weiner mixes a solution of a respective drug into a pan of water, using substances such as Aspirin, Codeine, Molly, Marijuana, 5-hour Energy and Vodka. He then soaks the ink-coated paper in this solution, letting the drug break the ink down into a surprising array of prismatic patterns to create, in Weiner's words, "a material embodiment of altered perception." Weiner soaks and re-soaks the paper as many times as necessary to arrive at an image he finds compelling, resulting in works that meld painterly action with chemical reaction.
Weiner anchors his investigation with formal allusions to historical movements including Monochrome and Colorfield painting, and in doing so sheds new light on these movements. His drawings begin as literal Monochromes, and it could be said that once soaked in drugs, they remain Monochromes, albeit seen through the lens of their respective drug. Where Monochrome painters such as Yves Klein isolated pure color as an experience unto itself, Weiner's drawings position perception itself as a medium, to be manipulated through drug use.
Indeed, the luminous, hazy fields of chemical color in Weiner's drawings beg the question of whether altered experience is inherently abstract. In "The Doors of Perception," Aldous Huxley postulates that drugs break down filters that organize, and give form to, an otherwise overwhelming flood of abstract visual information absorbed by our senses. Mark Rothko's paintings could easily support this, given his well known appetite for anti-depressants and alcohol.
However, Weiner draws no distinction between legal and illegal drugs in his choice of substances. Thus, he positions drug-use not an escape from reality, but as a behavior integrated into our daily routines. In this sense, the drawings reflect his conceptual interest in the relationship between consumerism and mortality within daily consumption routines, and our daily struggle to resist the entropic forces that pull at our mortal selves.
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980, Burlington, VT) received his BA from Wesleyan University (CT). He also studied under Mexican muralist José Lazcarro at Universidad de las Americas (Mexico) and has worked closely with artists Jeff Koons, Kim Sooja and Amy Yoes as an assistant. He has exhibited his work widely across the United States and in Mexico with solo shows in Los Angeles, New York and Puebla, and group exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Miami, New Haven, Ridgefield, Los Angeles and Riverside. His paintings can be found in the Sammlung/Collection (Germany), the Progressive Collection (OH), The Microsoft Collection (WA), and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection (CA). The artist lives and works in New York City.
A raw, visceral force at work in sculptor Meghan Smythe's first solo show, at Mark Moore Gallery "Coupling" is the eye of the storm that is Meghan Smythe's remarkable first solo show, at Mark Moore.
The friction between generation and decay, elegance and entropy, is what makes Smythe's work so alive and also so tough to digest. It doesn't go down easy, or at all. Stubborn, sensual, visceral — it sticks.
I am delighted to announce that the work pictured above has been included in the current exhibition at The Blanton Museum, University of Texas.
The work, The View from Oklahoma (Kim's Valley North of Amarillo), is on view on the second floor in a gallery devoted to contemporary art called "Incomplete Sentences," alongside works by Glenn Ligon, Gene Beery, Ed Ruscha, May Stevens, and Gregory Blackstock.
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Asociación de Empresas de Energía Eléctrica (aelēc; anteriormente, UNESA) es la organización que agrupa las grandes empresas eléctricas de España, una organización que tiene como objetivo la representación, promoción, gestión y defensa de los intereses generales y comunes de sus miembros y del sector eléctrico. Sus asociados son las cinco grandes empresas eléctricas de España: Endesa, Iberdrola, Naturgy, Repsol y EDP (anteriormente Viesgo).

Historia
UNESA se constituyó como sociedad anónima en 1944 bajo la denominación de Unidad Eléctrica, S.A y se transformó en asociación empresarial en 1999.

El objetivo que se planteó con su creación era "coordinar el conjunto del sistema eléctrico nacional a nivel suprarregional y supraempresarial, de modo que las instalaciones de cada empresa se pusieran al servicio del abastecimiento integral de la demanda del país, y se pudieran, asimismo, efectuar los intercambios de energía eléctrica necesarios, consiguiendo que los excedentes de las zonas regionales en las que hubiera en un momento dado exceso de producción cubrieran el déficit de oferta existente en otras". Uno de sus impulsores y primer presidente fue José María Oriol y Urquijo. Presidente de UNESA. La presidenta actual es Marina Serrano.

Las sociedades accionistas fundadoras de UNESA fueron las siguientes:
 Hidroeléctrica Española.
 Sociedad General Gallega de Electricidad.
 Saltos del Duero.
 Hidroeléctrica Ibérica.
 Electra de Viesgo.
 Mengemor.
 Sociedad Minera y Metalúrgica de Peñarroya.
 Energía Eléctrica de Cataluña.
 Compañía de Riegos y Fuerzas del Ebro.
 Compañía Sevillana de Electricidad.
 Compañía de Fluido Eléctrico.
 Eléctricas Reunidas de Zaragoza.
 Energía e Industrias Aragonesas.
 Compañía Eléctrica de Langreo.
 Unión Eléctrica Madrileña.
 Saltos del Alberche.
 Hidroeléctrica del Chorro.

Bibliografía

 2018 Apuesta de futuro, Asociación de Empresas de Energía Eléctrica (AELEC). Marina Serrano, Cuadernos de energía, ISSN: 1698-3009, Nº. 57, págs. 95-100

Referencias

Empresas de energía de España
Electricidad en España
Organizaciones patronales de España

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The second best jukebox in Manchester (yes, even better than those digital jobbies that never have what you want anyway and take ages to key anything in cos the keypad's all weird and the touch screen's all sticky, I mean sticky like buggy… never mind). Downstairs and off the street it can be dead noisy especially on Friday after work.
Many a good breakfast has been enjoyed in Kro on a hungover Sunday morning. Equally as good for tea and coffee making facilities as it is for beer. If I was a billionaire I would make it my house.
If you like real ales and real people this is the place for you too, Marble beers have won so many awards they don't even care anymore and have started calling the beers stuff like 'Pint' and 'Dobber' (!?). Authentic.
This pub looked after me when I first arrived in Manchester. Friends were made and drinks were often free or incredibly strong (for some reason last orders never applied to me). Yes, it's an old underground toilet and about the size of a shoe box and a wee bit smelly, but all the good characters were to be found in The Temple. The best jukebox in Manchester… maybe even THE WORLD!


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Hertfordshire estate agency chain appoint new manager to St Albans branch
Jane Howdle
Published: 12:13 PM October 3, 2018 Updated: 3:05 PM November 1, 2020
Allan Harrison, branch manager at Putterills, St Albans - Credit: Archant
The Putterills branch in St Albans has appointed a new manager.
The St Albans branch of Putterills is based on Holywell Hill - Credit: Putterills
Allan Harrison joined the company on Monday from Satchells in Hitchin, where he was also branch manager.
"This is a great opportunity," says Allan, who has accrued 14 years of estate agency experience at various firms across Hertfordshire.
Originally from Harpenden and in the process of relocating to St Albans, Allan previously worked in the city for five years, including as a valuer for Frost's.
He says it's good to be back in the area he knows best, adding: "I've worked down here before and I wanted to work here again. I've worked in Harpenden and a lot of the villages as well, so I really know the area."
Allan, who has two children aged 10 and six, says he hopes that Putterills will continue to appeal to the family market under his leadership.
"I've got lots of experience with residential properties," he says. "The plan now is to increase market share. It's just about getting out there and approaching more people."
He adds: "People prefer to deal with a proper estate agent who can offer a personal touch.
"The market is a bit tougher at the moment but people are still buying. A lot of agents are telling people that all the buyers have disappeared which is not entirely true. We've just got to work a bit harder and a bit smarter."


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The Way of the Wind é um filme em produção, escrito e dirigido por Terrence Malick.

Elenco
 Géza Röhrig como Jesus Cristo
 Mark Rylance como Satanás
 Matthias Schoenaerts como São Pedro
 Ben Kingsley
 Joseph Fiennes
 Lorenzo Gioielli
 Tawfeek Barhom
 Douglas Booth
 Martin McCann
Bjorn Thors
 Aidan Turner como Santo André
 Joseph Mawle
 Selva Rasalingam

Filmes dirigidos por Terrence Malick
Filmes em língua inglesa


Hasselhoff Wants You to be A True Survivor — and Take You Back to the 80's!
Breakout your Aqua Nets and your uber distressed denims as nostalgia hits hard — with a vengeance— in this genius promotional video for the wacky #ultimatethrowback to the 80's-inspired action-comedy movie KUNG FURY. And who better to embody this hard-hitting musical track than the Knight Rider himself, Mr. David Hasselhoff!
ACTION! BURNING PASSION! TRUE SURVIVOR!
Did that riff just cause face to be melted-off ,' cause mine did — HARD! To those who don't know, Kung Fury is an upcoming Swedish martial arts comedy film written and directed by, and starring David Sandberg. It is an amazing homage to 1980s martial arts and police action films. Think of all the 80's action cliche you could ever imagine — all of it — and roll it in one bizarre action-comedy movie. Whatever it is you're thinking off, it's not enough, I promise.
Viking babes in Nazi Germany?!
And whatever this thing is?!!!!!!!!! OMG! YES, PLEASE!
This independent project was crowd-funded through kickstarter for more than $600,000 USD which, of course, is a measly amount to produce the material. Currently, the release date has been pushed (from sometime in October 2014 to now around May of 2015).
I do hope they give more opportunities to those who may still want to help out because I'd seriously want to lend my support to this awesomeness! Here's the full trailer if you want more 80's madness!


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If Reagan Tolerated GOP Moderates, Why Can't Today's Conservatives?
By Rick Moran May 04, 2009 11:13 AM ET
Two recent events have served to highlight some of the problems facing the Republican Party as it gropes its way forward toward an uncertain future.
The defection of Arlen Specter and the death of Jack Kemp both highlight in their own way the biggest question that will face the GOP for the foreseeable future: whether to build a majority party based on an ever-narrowing definition of who can join and receive support from the Republican Party or accept that there are different kinds of Republicans in different areas of the country who should have a say in party affairs.
Arlen Specter's defection says little about the GOP and much more about Specter himself, whom liberal Jonathan Chait referred to as an "unprincipled hack." Nevertheless, Specter's move across the aisle has intensified the conversation over ideological purity in the Republican Party and set off a bitter debate among conservatives and moderates over tactics and strategy.
Also, the death of former Congressman and 1996 vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp has reminded some conservatives that the GOP used to be a party that featured a much bigger tent, welcoming politicians like Kemp into the fold despite large disagreements on fundamental issues. During his political career, Kemp broke with the conservative base on "red-lining" by banks (discriminating against minorities in their lending practices), poverty programs, and, most notably, immigration reform. He was proud of his association with more moderate Republicans like Pete Dupont and counted many Democrats among his friends.
To say that Kemp would have been drummed out of the conservative movement today for his support for illegal alien amnesty is self-evident. But here was a politician who helped turn Ronald Reagan's ideas into policy, someone who probably agreed with the conservative base 90% of the time. How can any party or movement that seeks majority status so blithely dismiss conservatives like Kemp and refuse them a seat at the table?
The fact that there are many in the party who actually think it a good idea to shrink the GOP by subtracting less conservative, less ideological, more moderate members is incomprehensible. In the minority already, draining the Republican Party of anyone who fails to demonstrate what many conservative activists determine as sufficient enthusiasm for their agenda strikes me as madness.
It's not that the activists don't have a point. Tossing aside conservative principles and running candidates who offer little in the way of contrast to the Democrats would be useless. But at the same time, there has got to be some recognition that the party must expand beyond the 30% or so of the electorate who identify themselves as "conservative." Otherwise, you condemn the GOP to permanent minority status — a regional, monochromatic grouping that would exist largely in the south and pockets of the Midwest and Mountain West.
To clarify, if the reason one holds to conservative principles is something beyond idly exercising one's brain, it should be obvious that one of the purposes of conservatism is that it be realized as a governing philosophy. For that to happen, conservatives need a political vessel to translate thought into actions. This is where the Republican Party comes into play and why looking for reasons to include people rather than inventing reasons to exclude those with whom they disagree must be the number one goal for both activists and party regulars.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele is trying. But his comments at a recent party conclave in Wisconsin point up the difficulty in translating that idea into any kind of practical program:
"All you moderates out there, y'all come. I mean, that's the message," Steele said at a news conference. "The message of this party is this is a big table for everyone to have a seat. I have a place setting with your name on the front.
"Understand that when you come into someone's house, you're not looking to change it. You come in because that's the place you want to be."
Eh … OK. Everyone can come in and sit down for the feast but if you are pro-choice, or pro-gay marriage, or pro-amnesty, kindly realize that no one is going to listen to you so you might as well keep your mouth shut. Meanwhile, your cousins and other relations can publicly chastise you for your different opinions, actively seek to undermine your re-election by running a primary challenger against you, deny you party support, and will stay at home on election day so a Democrat will probably defeat you anyway.
An exaggeration? Not by much if you listen to many conservatives on talk radio and the internet. For these activists, war has been declared on those they consider "establishment" Republicans or "elitists." Just what makes these animals dangerous is never articulated to a satisfactory degree. Sometimes, the transgression is as small as praising President Obama for something he's done. More serious violations include working with Democrats in Congress to solve problems, being pro-choice, or daring to say that the party has become too ideological and even too conservative to win in many states and districts around the country.
Activists and ideologues will tell you that they want candidates to adhere to "first principles" and that anyone who strays from their narrow interpretation of those principles should be shown the door. But is our understanding of these principles an intellectual monolith that brooks no deviation and no independent thought about what they actually mean? Can Republicans from differing parts of the country define these principles in different ways and still be thought of as party members?
Herein lies the difference between "the movement" and what constitutes a political party, as Noemie Emery makes clear in a Weekly Standard column:
After the 2008 election was over, an election which saw Republican numbers grow ever more minuscule, activists on all sides began vigorous efforts to make the party still smaller by purging from it everyone who failed to act, think, and talk as they did themselves. On op-ed pages, in magazines, on websites and cable and radio, a wide range of Republicans and right-wingers announced themselves shocked, appalled, mortified, and repelled to the point of nausea to find themselves in the same party with the likes of David Brooks, David Frum, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Meghan McCain, Karl Rove, and a collection of other politicos, pundits, and personalities whose presence they seemed to find intolerable. A passion for coalition-destruction seemed to rage on all sides.
What lies behind this is (a) the feeling that oneself and one's friends make up a majority; and (b) a failure to realize that a party and movement are not the same thing. A movement exists to express and promote a coherent set of principles in the world of ideas and of values. A party — especially in a two-party system — is something quite different: a gathering of diverse political forces around a large and loosely held set of interests and values, that exists to give all of its factions access to power in the practical world of events. A movement gives a party a spine and a platform; the party assembles a coalition around them that is large enough to win and hold power, and turn some of the movement's ideas into law.
Emery makes the point that the "urge to purge" is not confined to merely conservatives wishing to banish the less conservative but also to the less ideological wishing social conservatives would just go away and leave the party alone. The latter is something akin to cutting off the head and tail of the animal and wanting to ride it to victory — a bad idea that is as ridiculous as it appears in the mind's eye.
The difference is that there are a heck of a lot more of the former who are sharpening their long knives than the latter. But in the end, it all adds up to trying to build a party by subtraction rather than addition.
A dialogue among the factions is currently a non-starter. There is no common language spoken by conservatives and moderates at the moment. Conservatives feel that moderates and "elitists" dominate the party in Washington and don't understand those of us who live in flyover country. Moderates simply feel besieged — and threatened by those they feel are dragging the party to the edge of an ideological cliff.
Moderate Olympia Snowe (R-ME) wrote a widely circulated op-ed in the New York Times, in which she expressed bafflement at the schism and wondered why "big tent" Republicanism was dead:
There is no plausible scenario under which Republicans can grow into a majority while shrinking our ideological confines and continuing to retract into a regional party. Ideological purity is not the ticket back to the promised land of governing majorities — indeed, it was when we began to emphasize social issues to the detriment of some of our basic tenets as a party that we encountered an electoral backlash.
It is for this reason that we should heed the words of President Ronald Reagan, who urged, "We should emphasize the things that unite us and make these the only 'litmus test' of what constitutes a Republican: our belief in restraining government spending, pro-growth policies, tax reduction, sound national defense, and maximum individual liberty." He continued, "As to the other issues that draw on the deep springs of morality and emotion, let us decide that we can disagree among ourselves as Republicans and tolerate the disagreement."
Snowe, who believes in "restraining government spending, pro-growth policies, tax reduction, sound national defense, and maximum individual liberty," doesn't understand why her adherence to those broad principles isn't good enough for the ideologues. They could inform her that it is her interpretation of those concepts that is at issue and that because she takes a less ideological, more pragmatic approach to her job, she simply doesn't pass the "test" of being a true conservative Republican.
The idea has been advanced that if the Republicans had a dominant personality to rally around, many of these problems would disappear. But world historical figures like Ronald Reagan come along once in a great while and it is not likely that such a happy event will occur anytime soon. Meanwhile, the search continues for someone who can unite the factions. But conservative leaders have no desire to make nice with the moderates, while the pragmatists don't have anyone that the conservatives would give the time of day.
Nor does it do the party any good to keep trying to resurrect the Gipper's ghost and stroke his memory like a magic talisman, hoping that by recycling the Reagan agenda, electoral lightening will strike. Conservative darling Jeb Bush said as much recently:
"So our ideas need to be forward looking and relevant. I felt like there was a lot of nostalgia and the good old days in the [Republican] messaging. I mean, it's great, but it doesn't draw people toward your cause," Mr. Bush said.
And I beat that horse in December of 2007:
Reagan stands a silent sentinel over the modern GOP, still evoking powerful emotions and loyalty among conservatives. Perhaps it is time to carefully place his legacy and memory in our national treasure chest, taking them out on occasion to examine them for the lessons we can learn rather than pushing that legacy front and center in a futile attempt to recapture the power and the glory of days long gone and a time that will never come again.
Ultimately, perhaps the greatest lesson we can take away from the Reagan legacy was his expansive view of conservatism and how it should be as loosely defined as is consistent with the broad principles he espoused his entire life.
After all, if moderates in the Republican Party was good enough for Reagan, why shouldn't they be good enough for his ideological descendants?
Rick Moran has been writing for PJ Media for 13 years. His work has appeared in dozens of media outlets including the Washington Times and ABC News. He was an editor at American Thinker for 14 years. His own blog is Right Wing Nut House. For media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
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Annual Conference of the Computer-Assisted Reporting will be starting on 08 Mar and finishing on 11 Mar 2018.
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This is an activity for beginning physics students relating to force interactions, inertia in motion, and inelastic collision. In this scenario, students take the role of an insurance investigator who must determine fault in a T-bone collision involving a moving car and a stationary truck. With limited facts given in the initial case information, students must do additional fact-gathering, then use physics to determine the car's velocity at the time of impact. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is an instructional method designed to strengthen student competency in reasoning and problem-solving. The activities mirror real scenarios encountered by practicing scientists and engineers. A key component is that some information is made readily available to the learner, but some must be uncovered through diligent searching.


Some veteran's benefits requests are oftentimes rejected on the first application submission resulting in the applicant concluding that they are not eligible to receive any VA assistance.
The Department of Veterans Affairs provides benefits for veterans that have a service-related disability as well as benefits to family members of those who have died while serving as an active member of the armed forces.
In an effort to streamline and categorize the number of different types of benefits available to servicemembers, the Department of Veterans Affairs has divided VA benefits into five primary groups.
Each of these areas has been created to help address the needs of those that have served and are applicable to almost all veterans provided that the criteria for each benefit type are met.
In order for a veteran to be eligible for VA benefits, an individual must have served as an active member in the United States Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, or Merchant Marines (during WWII) and was separated under any condition other than dishonorable.
Members of the National Guard and Reserves may also be eligible for VA benefits if they were called to active duty on a Federal Executive Order. Reserves or National Guard members with active duty only for training purposes are not eligible, however.
Due to the changing nature of modern warfare, soldiers are returning from active duty with a more diverse range of injuries and ailments that in years past.
These often life-changing injuries are not only devastating for the injured veteran but also for their families and any other dependents that may rely on that veteran for financial and/or emotional support.
The VA has recently been issuing requests that some veteran's benefits can only be applicable to those that have served during a wartime period.
The VA has also started to recognize additional wartime periods that may not have been added to the eligibility list previously.


Clinker grinding uses a lot of energy and the cement becomes hot this can result in the gypsum becoming dehydrated, with potentially undesirable results see the link at the bottom of this However, reading an article or two is perhaps not the best way to get a clear picture of a complex process like cement production.
The consumption of energy by the cement grinding operation amounts to one third of the total electrical energy used for the production of cement. mill and the resulting modifiions such as regrading the grinding media or moving the diaphragm are labor elements that can be handled by the plant's maintenance crew.
Feb 21, 2014 Simulation of clinker grinding circuits of cement plant based on process models calibrated using GA search method for air separators and diaphragms between the two compartments of tube ball mills, performance of the circuits was simulated for given throughputs and feed particle size distribution.
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Friday - Saturday - Sunday
0845-0930 Registration
Declarative Applications with XForms
Steven Pemberton (CWI Amsterdam)
1100-1130 Break
XProc 3.0 from Scratch
Achim Berndzen (<xml-project />) and Norman Walsh (MarkLogic)
1300-1400 Lunch
XProc 3.0 from Scratch (cont'd)
Introduction to CSS for Paged Media
Tony Graham (Antenna House)
CSS can be used for making pages as well as for styling websites. Many people are familiar with CSS in the browser: some are very familiar, but others, not so much. Fewer people, however, are as familiar with using CSS for paged media.
This session takes an eat-your-own-dog-food approach to showing how to use CSS for paged media. Starting with the HTML text of a tutorial on using CSS with paged media, the session will progressively add and explain the CSS styles that are used to format the finished text. By the end of the session, the fairly undifferentiated mass of text will be formatted with running headers and footers, page numbers and page number cross-references, bleeds, CMYK colours, footnotes, top- and bottom-floats, and other features that appear in paged media but not in a browser. The session will also describe accessibility features of PDF.
Because of the comparatively short duration of the session, there is only time to cover the CSS features specific to paged media. There will also not be time for everyone to install AH Formatter at the start of the session. If you want to perform the steps using your own laptop, it is necessary to have AH Formatter installed before you come. Evaluation versions of AH Formatter for Windows (and Windows GUI), MacOS, and Linux are available from https://www.antennahouse.com/formatter/.
Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)*
We are overwhelmed by competing standards, technologies, and approaches to solving problems we may or may not understand and may or may not have anticipated. Each of us individually, and we as a community, have limited resources and want to concentrate our energies where they are most likely to be successful. Selection from among the cornucopia of options is often made more difficult by our preconceived notions of the shape, source, and promulgator of appropriate technologies. In many cases we seek, and occasionally we find, a powerful tool that seems to address all of our problems. The quest for such tools has led many of us to become standards junkies or technology evangelists. The belief that we have created or identified such a tool leads some of us to become missionaries promoting the use of a standard, a paradigm, or even a tool. In the children's book "Everyone Knows what a Dragon Looks Like", illustrated by Mercer Mayer, Jay Williams raises questions about the recognition and appropriate use of powerful tools. From it, we can learn to be little more skeptical of our ability to know the tools we need when we see them.
Beyond the brick, for the past in the future, you find the archive!
Karin Bredenberg (The Swedish National Archives)*; Jaime Kaminski (University of Brighton)
The statement that XML is dead is as wrong as celebrating Christmas on midsummer night's eve! Imagine making an archival soup based on international standards using XML, with one municipal archive, two regional archives, five national archives and the European Commission's eArchiving Building block thrown into the mix. This is what we are going to attempt.
Software we have lost — the mortar that held the bricks together
Peter Flynn (Silmaril Consultants)*
Since the first days of SGML, there has been a variety of software to parse, validate, analyse, format, store, search, and extract the information. Some of this was what we now call Open Source, particularly the utilities, but the majority of applications were normal commercial offerings.
In the course of time, many of these have become unavailable, for assorted reasons, with the result is that some very useful systems have been lost, and replacements are not as effective.
This research attempts to catalogue and analyse a collection of XML and SGML software that is either off the market, or only available within a different product, and thus not accessible to users. The objective is to see if there are still ways to "shorten the distance between the bricks" that are not otherwise provided for.
xprocedit, A Browser-Based Open-Source XProc Editor
Marco Geue (Hochschule Merseburg); Gerrit Imsieke (le-tex publishing services GmbH)*
A visual XProc editor can serve at least two purposes: Communicating the process flow to non-programmers and easing the notoriously steep learning curve for programmers.
An implementation using the Javascript framework joint.js and the in-browser XSLT 3 processor Saxon-JS is demonstrated, along with the challenges of supporting XProc's peculiarities in a generic graph editing framework.
Generating documents from XQuery annotations
Andy Bunce (Quodatum Ltd)*
The paper describes an implementation of an xqDoc.org documentation generator. A focus of this implementation is XQuery annotation support. In 2014 the xqDoc schema was updated to include markup to capture XQuery annotations, however existing renderers have often not been updated to make use of this.
A major driver for annotation support is documenting XQuery web applications built using the RESTXQ standard. RESTXQ defines a standard set of XQuery annotations that can be used to define RESTful Web Services from XQuery. Annotations are also being used to define frameworks for unit testing, user permissioning and web socket interfaces. Annotations are code markup that the runtime environment may choose to use to wire-in additional external functionality to XQuery applications.
The xqdoc implementation is open source. It is largely written in XQuery and runs with recent versions of BaseX. It generates static, stand alone HTML5 and XML output. The included XQuery library modules can also be used to assist in the generation other related documentation artefacts. In the case of RESTXQ these could be the generation of openAPI(swagger) and WADL documents.
XQuery for Data Workers
Alain Couthures (agenceXML)*
A data worker is a running program which manipulates data. It can get data from various sources then transform it and save, or send, the resulting data. A common usage for data workers is interfaces between applications.
XQuery is a data-oriented language which is not bound to databases and which is able to format data conveniently as text or XML. Many implementations have added function libraries to access file system, send HTTP requests, and so on... XQuery is a high-level programming language because repetitive operations such as loading a document from anywhere just requires the minimal information to be provided.
Considered requirements for a new open source XQuery implementation have been no platform limitation, light deployment, extensibility, asynchronous processing, no big pressure on performance: Javascript+NodeJS has been chosen (with possible, but limited, run within browsers).
This implementation is named "Fleur". It supports XQuery/XQuery Update Facility 3.1 (not full conformance yet) upon its own DOM Level 3 (and browsers DOM). XQuery source is compiled into XQueryX structure which is stored in a Javascript array of arrays.
Fleur can process non-XML documents as XML documents with extensions at DOM level. Internally, Fleur manipulates everything as nodes, computed values been always stored into orphan atomic nodes.
Parsing/serializing non-XML sources is then implemented just at DOM level according to media-type. Experimentally, CSV files and Excel files are directly loaded into 2-dimension sequences.
Fleur CLI includes the possibility of launching an HTTP server. This server executes .xqy pages. XForms, with XSLTForms, can be used to both submit parameters as data to the Worker and render data returned by the Worker.
Fleur has already been used in various situations (XLSForm to XForms, dashboards, OFX conversion). Fleur will be integrated in XSLTForms for XForms 2.0 compliance. XForms actions could then be developed with XQuery Update Facility syntax.
Subcheck — a validation framework
Andreas Tai (IRT - Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik GmbH)*; Michael Seiferle (BaseX GmbH)
This paper will introduce an operational perspective: how a research question and master thesis ended up in practice and turned into a product. We want to show which requirements led to the solutions, how they were implemented, and which problems still remain to be solved.
One of the main application areas of XML is the exchange of data between business partners. The data is in an agreed structured form that will usually be checked at the receiver's end. It needs to be "validated" such that syntax and values of the data respects rules made in the agreement. But not only the receiver needs to check the data. To avoid rejection by the receiving business partner, the sender might want to verify that the data does not break any of these rules. Often such document data is made not only for one purpose and receiver, different business partners may have overlapping but slightly different rule sets and use-cases.
This is especially true with publishing-houses or media companies, where players share lot of the same grammar and constraints on data, yet each format has been enriched with some "house- rules" and recommendations that vary slightly. For instance media subtitles encoded in TTML might be perfectly valid according to a given schema, but still in violation of guidelines, business rules and recommendations.
An improved diff3 format for changes and conflicts in tree structures
Robin La Fontaine (DeltaXML Ltd)*; Nigel A Whitaker (DeltaXML Ltd)
There are some pieces of software, and some formats, that are de-facto standards and have been around for decades. One of these is the diff3 format for representing changes and conflicts in text documents. Diff3 works well for unstructured text documents that are divided into lines. It works surprisingly well for pretty-printed source code and similar documents. But it has frustrating limitations when used for XML or JSON or similar tree-based data formats.
Can we improve on diff3 without making it too complicated? Can the existing representation of changes and conflicts be extended to handle tree-based data? This paper seeks to answer these questions and to describe how further benefits can be enjoyed by using XML or JSON as the basis for showing conflicts and changes.
<Angle-brackets/> on the Branch Line - (model) railway engineering with XML technologies
John Lumley (jwLResearch)*
As a retirement 'hobby', somewhat removed from the computing milieu, the author has started building a model railway in his garden. Surveying the extant tools for designing such layouts and finding them not quite right, he started building a design tool himself, using the familiar technologies of XSLT3 and SVG executing in a browser, employing Saxon-JS as the processing platform. The results of this were demonstrated, with some success, at Markup UK in 2018. This paper describes the design of this tool in some detail, as well as developments since that demonstration.
1800-2100 Drinks, Dinner, and DemoJam!
Taking Schematron QuickFix to the Next Level
Octavian Nadolu (Syncro Soft)*
The Schematron QuickFix (SQF) language can be used to improve efficiency and quality when editing XML documents. You can define actions that will add complex XML structure in your documents, or make modifications in multiple places, or actions that will convert an XML structure into another. These changes are made by keeping the document structure valid and conforming to your project specification, and will help the content writer add content more easily and without making mistakes.
To build complex actions, you can mix Schematron QuickFix language with ISO Schematron, or with different versions of XSLT and XPath, or you can define your own extensions using programming languages such as Java. This means that you can perform modifications in multiple external documents, or display dialog boxes to get input from your users, or use complex algorithms for processing the content of the documents.
The Schematron QuickFix is a modular language. Even though it is simple (it only has four types of operations that can be performed: add, delete, replace, and string replace), new types of operations can be created (such as wrap, unwrap, rename, or join). This can be implemented by using abstract quick fixes and by creating libraries of quick fixes that can be reused for various different XML vocabularies (such as DITA, DocBook. TEI). By using a library of quick fixes, it will help the Schematron QuickFix developers to create the actions more easily and reuse the quick fixes created by others.
This presentation will focus on some interesting use-cases and Schematron QuickFix examples that can be easily adapted to your projects. The examples will include both abstract quick fixes and complex quick fixes that use XSLT and Java.
Accessibility matters
Tony Graham (Antenna House)*
XML, by itself, does not have any support for accessibility. XML is extremely flexible, but it needs to flex in the right directions if it is going to support the information necessary to make a document accessible. This session is a guided tour of some of the features of the HTML, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) standards. It concentrates on file formats rather than User Agent behaviour, since the information needed to make accessible HTML or PDF usually needs to be included in, or able to be inferred from, the source XML.
However, it's rarely the raw XML that is presented to users. The session will also stray into some aspects of styling the content to make it more accessible.
Scrap the App, Keep the Data
Barnabas Davoti (Ovitas AS)*
Whether by reacting swiftly to shifting market conditions and disruptive technologies or by growing through mergers and acquisitions, the ability to adapt is critical to success in the digital age.
As business processes and workflows evolve, new technologies and systems are constantly introduced to support them. Over time, IT estates become fragmented, and the number of legacy systems increases year by year. Valuable data ends up in isolated silos, only accessible via unnecessary applications that are expensive to maintain and license or are approaching the end of life.
This paper suggests a generic approach to transform arbitrary relational data into aggregated, hierarchical form and build a thin application to provide read access to end users.
In my presentation, I would like to point out why the relational model falls short when it comes to data aggregation.
XML can easily model both relational and hierarchical data. It's an excellent choice for data re-modeling and also for building a thin, data access application.
The approach I want to share with the audience is based on experience from multiple projects.
XML "bricks" used in the solution:
processing pipeline configuration as XML (Apache Ant)
XQuery
XML Database
Documenting XML Structures
Erik Siegel (Xatapult)*
There are lots of XML structures that need some kind of end-user documentation to be able to use them effectively. Its not easy to come up with a format that is both easy to understand and easy to create and maintain. Existing software for this is not always helpful. This talk will explore the this subject and look at from various angles.
XMLPaper: XML-based Conference Paper Workflow
Cristian Talau (Syncro Soft)*
Popular conference management systems are monolithic solutions that are used across many fields and by very diverse audiences. As a result, these systems have rigid technology choices for paper format: PDF, TeX or Word which have limitations compared to a structured format such as XML. In addition, they do not cover all the steps in the paper submission lifecycle such as: collaboration between authors.
We propose a new solution for conference paper submission management that tries to improve the user experience in several areas: authors tooling setup, collaboration between authors, multi-step review processes, multi-format proceedings publishing.This paper will present a typical conference paper submission workflow and identify its steps, the stakeholders and the tools and technologies used. We will then present how our solution improves user experience of each of the stakeholders.
In this solution, the documents are authored in the an XML format, that supports publishing both as PDF and web portal. The output format is customizable and clearly communicated to authors so that they can preview how the paper will be published. Authors have a very intuitive user interface to draft the paper and to collaborate in cases where a paper has multiple authors. Reviewers can choose to review either the published PDF or directly on the source. In case of multi-round reviews, they can see the changes made between different revisions, thus being able to focus on the last updates.
From a technical point of view, the solution is composed from off-the-shelf Web services with a thin layer of orchestration. It may to be used together with a regular Conference Management System, replacing parts of its functionality.
To conclude the paper, we analyze how this solution is similar with other workflows related to content creation in a company, such as creating release notes or datasheets for a product.
Dispelling Myths About Markup Formats
Liam R E Quin (Delightful Computing)*
Misunderstandings about the goals and strengths of different document and data interchange formats can lead to suboptimal decisions. Such misunderstandings appear widespread. The purpose of this paper is to suggest areas in which each format has strengths, and to provide clear explanations that people can use to place XML in the context of other current markup systems.
Misconceptions about XML include statements such as "XML was designed for Web services and therefore unsuitable for documents;" "XML was designed to replace HTML and has failed;" "XML cannot transmit semantics of any kind;" "XML is dead." In fact, XML is alive and well.
Validating @selector: a regular expression adventure
Syd Bauman (Northeastern University Digital Scholarship Group)*
I needed a way to validate that the value of tei:rendition/@selector was a proper CSS3 selector. So I wrote a regular expression to do so. An 18,385 character long regular expression. And it seems to work.
XSpec in the Cloud with Diamonds
Sandro Cirulli (XSpec)*
Running XSpec tests in a development team is usually performed via a CI server/service. However, this comes with limitations related to the use of private repositories and to the cost and burden of administering CI servers.
This paper describes an alternative approach for running XSpec tests from private repositories using a serverless architecture built on AWS Lambda. It describes the technical configuration and discusses the benefits, cost optimization, and constraints of a serverless architecture for running XSpec tests.
Closing Keynote and thanks from the organisers
Jirka Kosek (University of Economics, Prague)
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Why a True Pakistani Loves Pakistan?
If you are a Pakistani Parent, a Pakistani Teacher or Professor or anyone else who has a responsibility to guide the future generations of Pakistan, then i beg you to transmit the message of this video to our younger generations as much as you can. There is a need to convey the importance and the value of this great gift of Pakistan which is given to us by our elders after crossing an ocean of Fire and sword. Nobody had given us this Pakistan on a plate, our forefathers had snatched the blessings of liberty from the jaws of slavery for us.
Today it looks very easy to sit in an Air conditioned room and point out the problems of Pakistan one by one without doing an effort to solve them out. In my opinion just taking birth in Pakistan is not good enough reason to entitle yourself as a Pakistani. This is not just a nationality, this is the name of a title, honor and respect which could only be achieved after deserving it.
Our elders left their everything to call themselves a Pakistani, what we have done till now???? Think please !!!
62 years ago the Life magazine did a cover story on the then 5 month old Pakistan. There are some interesting photographs and the text speaks for itself. The struggle then was not so surreal as it is now.


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