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Certain Degrees Now Cost More at Universities
Should an undergraduate studying business pay more than one studying psychology? Should a journalism degree cost more than one in literature? More and more public universities, confronting rising costs and lagging state support, have decided that the answers may be yes and yes.
Starting this fall, juniors and seniors pursuing an undergraduate major in the business school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will pay $500 more each semester than classmates. The University of Nebraska last year began charging engineering students a $40 premium for each hour of class credit.
And Arizona State University this fall will phase in for upperclassmen in the journalism school a $250 per semester charge above the basic $2,411 tuition for in-state students.
Such moves are being driven by the high salaries commanded by professors in certain fields, the expense of specialized equipment and the difficulties of getting state legislatures to approve general tuition increases, university officials say.
"It is something of a trend," said Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
Even as they embrace such pricing, many officials acknowledge they are queasy about a practice that appears to value one discipline over another or that could result in lower-income students clustering in less expensive fields.
"This is not the preferred way to do this," said Patrick V. Farrell, provost at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "If we were able to raise resources uniformly across the campus, that would be a preferred move. But with our current situation, it doesn't seem to us that that's possible."
At the University of Kansas, which started charging different prices in the early 1990s, there are signs that the higher cost of majoring in certain subjects is affecting the choices of poorer students.
"We are seeing at this point purely anecdotal evidence," said Richard W. Lariviere, provost and executive vice chancellor at the university. "The price sensitivity of poor students is causing them to forgo majoring, for example, in business or engineering, and rather sticking with something like history."
Private universities do not face the same tuition constraints and for the most part are avoiding the practice, educators say, holding to the traditional idea that college students should be encouraged to get a well-rounded education.
Richard Fass, vice president for planning at Pomona, a private liberal arts college in California, said educators there considered it fundamental for students to feel part of the larger college, not segmented by differential costs. "The entire curriculum is by design available to all students," he said.
Some public university officials say they worry that students who are charged more for their major will stick to the courses in their field to feel that they are getting their money's worth.
"I want students in the College of Engineering at Iowa State to take courses in the humanities and to take courses in the social sciences," said Mark J. Kushner, the dean of that college. To address problems like climate change, Mr. Kushner said, graduates will need to understand much more than technology. "That's sociology, that's economics, that's politics, that's public policy."
Undergraduate juniors and seniors in the engineering school at Iowa State last year began paying about $500 more annually, he said, and the size of that additional payment is scheduled to rise by $500 a year for at least the next two years.
Mr. Kushner said he thought society was no longer looking at higher education as a common good but rather as a way for individuals to increase their earning power.
"There was a time, not that long ago, 10 to 15 years ago, that the vast majority of the cost of education at public universities was borne by the state, and that was why tuition was so low," he said. "That was based on the premise that the education of an individual is a public good, that individuals go out and become schoolteachers and businessmen and doctors and lawyers, that makes society better. That's no longer the perception."
Neither the State University of New York nor the Connecticut State University System use differential pricing, officials say. New Jersey, however, has done so for years, according to a spokesman, Greg Trevor. In the new school year, in-state undergraduates in the general program will pay tuition of $8,541, but engineering and pharmacy students will pay $9,484.80 and business students will pay $8,716.
Various universities have adopted different versions of differential pricing to try to fight the unintended consequences it may create. Colleges that charge higher tuition for a major like business, engineering or journalism generally allow students outside the field to take some courses in the subject without paying more.
"We do try to encourage crossing disciplines, to get a feel for the world," said Randy Kangas, assistant vice president for planning and budgeting at the University of Illinois, where students studying business, chemistry and the life sciences pay higher tuition.
Most universities with differential tuition use some of the money — 20 to 25 percent — for additional financial aid to offset some of the impact.
Officials at universities that have recently implemented higher tuition for specific majors say students have supported the move.
Students in the business school at the University of Wisconsin, for example, got behind the program because they believed that it would support things like a top-notch faculty. "It's very important to all the students in the business school to sustain our reputation," said Jesse C. Siegelman, 21, who expects to graduate in December 2008.
Mr. Siegelman said representatives of 26 of 28 student groups that belong to the school's Undergraduate Student Leadership Council, of which he was president last year, voted to support the tuition proposal.
In engineering programs, the additional money often goes toward costly laboratory equipment, because students and the companies that will employ them expect graduates to be able to go to work immediately using state of the art tools, said Mr. Lariviere of the University of Kansas.
"In many instances," he said, "industry itself is demanding this."
And in business schools, professors' salaries have risen, with some schools paying starting professors $130,000 or more, said G. Dan Parker III, associate executive vice president of Texas A&M, which he said was considering whether to charge higher tuition to undergraduate students studying business.
"The salaries we pay for entering assistant professors on average is probably larger than the average salary for full professors at the university," Mr. Parker said of business professors. "That's how far the pendulum has swung at the business schools, and I sure wish they'd fix it."
While several university officials said students in majors that carried higher costs could bear the burden because they would be better paid after graduation, Mr. Lariviere said he was skeptical of that rationale. He pointed out that many people change jobs several times over a career and that a major is a poor predictor of lifetime income.
"Where we have gone astray culturally," he said, "is that we have focused almost exclusively on starting salary as an indicator of life earnings and also of the value of the particular major."


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Everything you hated about Twilight — the bad dialogue, the sappy scenarios and drippy characters, the eye-rolling politics — is made right in Beautiful Creatures. This flick is a supernatural high school romance full of teenagers who talk like real human beings and make decisions that aren't entirely stupid. And yet it's still a terrific, fun flight of fancy about witches, ghosts of the Civil War, and a small southern town where church ladies fight librarians for the souls of the young. This is the movie you never expected to like — but you probably will.
The comparisons between Beautiful Creatures and Twilight are inevitable — not least because the books they're based on were written after the authors' teenage kids challenged them to write a cool supernatural book about high school that didn't include stupid sparkly vampires. It turned out that they could. Under the critical guidance of several teenagers, they produced a series about a young man, Ethan, whose entire life changes when the angry witch Lena comes to his tiny southern town and matriculates into high school.
Beautiful Creatures begins with Ethan's point of view, and as the camera floats through his town, he tells us in voiceover how lame the place is and how all he wants to do is leave. The movie theater never gets current movies and there is no place for teenagers to hang out, but there are a dozen churches and people are always banning books. Ethan has made it his special project to read those banned books. When we first meet Ethan, his nose is buried in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and he's musing about how cool it would be to come "unstuck in time" like the novel's hero. He's also obsessing about a beautiful young woman he's been seeing in his dreams, and drawing her, Sandman-style, in his notebook. This young woman is, of course, Lena.
When Lena shows up mysteriously in Ethan's class on his first day of junior year, with her goth-black hair and her alt.country sweater, she's immediately victimized by the scrubbed Christian girls in Ethan's class. In between suggesting that Lena is Satanic, these girls tell their English teacher that they won't read To Kill a Mockingbird because their mothers say it isn't Christian. One of the not-so-subtle messages of Beautiful Creatures is that southern conservatism is basically more evil than bad witches could ever be. Though the message is a little clunky and simplistic, it's hard not to enjoy the hijinks when Emma Thompson arrives to chew the scenery as Mrs. Lincoln, the town's most bigoted church lady.
There's a lot of broad humor as Mrs. Lincoln takes on Lena's rich uncle (Jeremy Irons), a hermit who has welcomed Lena to his home because he wants to protect her in the day leading up to her witchy coming of age on her sixteenth birthday. Lena and her uncle, like all people of their kind, prefer to be called "casters" — and they are basically the town minority group. Though the casters aren't out to the townspeople about their powers, it doesn't take much for Mrs. Lincoln and Co. to figure out that there's something a little supernatural about the lightning strikes and random glass explosions that happen when Lena is around.
It also doesn't take much for Ethan to figure it out, either. He knows there's something weird going on with her, but he's drawn to her anyway — partly because he's intrigued by the books she's reading. When he asks whether Charles Bukowski is a "good" poet, Lena replies snarkily, "Define good." And that exchange becomes the kind of philosophical heart of this movie. We discover quickly that Lena's family are all casters, and that young women in the family must be "claimed" for good or evil on their sixteenth birthdays. Lena's cousin, a siren named Ridley, has already been claimed for evil — and Lena fears that she will be, too. Given how powerful she is, this could mean a seriously terrifying future for humanity.
When Ethan and Lena fall in love, things get especially complicated. Lena's family doesn't approve of her consorting with humans, partly out of prejudice, but partly because there's a curse that haunts the family that's connected to the "claiming." And it turns out that Ethan could be part of this curse, due his town's history during the Civil War. There's a delicious but not terribly complicated mystery here about southern history, but there are also just the ordinary tribulations of two smart, imaginative teenagers falling in love for the first time. Unlike their Twilight foils, Bella and Edward, this teenage couple actually tries to think about the consequences of their relationship. They even help each other get through tough times instead of tormenting each other (though there is a little bit of tragic yearning of course). And they deal with the real-world limitations on their relationship instead of looking forward to eternal, magical happiness.
Ultimately, Beautiful Creatures isn't just about magical smackdowns (though there are those) and cartoonish southern stereotypes. It's about young adults asking themselves what it would mean to be a good person. There are various models of good in Ethan's town, ranging from Mrs. Lincoln's religious conservatism to Lena's uncle's arch elitism. But none of them are appealing. Lena and Ethan are going to have to figure out for themselves what it would mean to "define good," and this movie is brave enough to suggest that there is no easy answer. It helps that Alice Englert as Lena delivers a subtle, moody performance, and Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan provides her with a charming, sunny counterpart.
Though Beautiful Creatures is occasionally simplistic, and definitely goofy, it's also a genuinely compassionate story of what it's like to make your first adult decisions in a world where nothing is black or white. Don't be fooled into thinking this is just another adolescent magic fantasy. It's a lot more than that, and it's fun to watch a supernatural high school story done right for once.

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Waterjet dissection of low-grade glioma adjacent to eloquent cortex: experience with 21 cases
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Objective: In neurosurgery, the number of surgeons having experience with the waterjet device for tissue dissection is increasing. Theoretically, it could allow a reduction of blood loss and surgical trauma as well as enable an increased accuracy of tumor resection within or adjacent to eloquent brain structures.
Methods: Twenty-one low-grade glioma patients (2 pts. WHO grade I, 19 pts. WHO grade II; 10 male, 11 female; mean age 45 yrs, range 12–63 yrs) were operated on with the waterjet between June 1996 and September 2008. Intraoperatively, the general aspects of handling of the device, the extent of its application, and the quality and helpfulness for dissection and tumor aspiration as well as vessel preservation were monitored.
Results: In all cases, the waterjet enabled precise dissection of the tumor from the brain without complications. The mean operation time scored 137 min (range 105–205 min), the mean estimated intradural blood loss 59 cc (range 10–320 cc). Vessels were preserved, and – in 16 of 18 cases intended – radical tumor resection was achieved based on postoperative MRI studies within neurological complications. Tumor aspiration was possible in all but one case. Precise tumor dissection from the adjacent brain parenchyma was possible in all cases – even if the tumor tissue was hardly discernible.
Conclusions: In all, the waterjet can safely be applied in low-grade gliomas – even within or adjacent to eloquent cortex. The device is particularly suitable for precise glioma-parenchyma dissection and might alleviate complete tumor resection and a reduction of blood loss.


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I thought it was time for another list of Websites Of The Year. This series of "The Best of…" posts will be continuing off-and-on until I run out of useful topics.
This time I'll be listing what I think are The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers. In the future, though, I'll be doing one focusing on Intermediate and Advanced Readers. Next week I will also develop a list of the best sites that are particularly appropriate for older English Language Learners, since most of these sites are designed for younger people. I have to say, though, that both my high school students and their parents are pretty unanimous in saying they like the sites on this list, too.
The sites on this list can be helpful to Beginning and Early Intermediate English Language Learners, as well as to younger native-English speakers.
Many of you probably won't find many surprises on this list — most are well-known. But one or two might be new-to-you, and it might be helpful to just have them all in one place, too.
I believe the best way for people to learn to read is to provide them with accessible and high-interest text. All these sites (except for one) have "talking stories" that show images and provide audio support to the shown text. The images and audio provide a high-degree of accessibility.
These sites fit the "high-interest" criteria by the large quantity of stories they provide. I estimate that there are well over five hundred high-quality stories, including fiction and nonfiction, contained in these eleven sites (of course, if you'd like more, you can find several thousand more throughout my website). They also provide countless supplemental online reading activities.
Here are my picks for the Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers:
Raz-Kids : For $100 per year a whole class can gain access to very high-quality fiction and nonfiction "talking stories" with follow-up online exercises. Families in our home computer Family Literacy Project used this program and love it. It works well for us, too, since we can track people's reading progress online. You can access five free samples to try it out. Older students might find this site particularly engaging.
Story Place is from the Public Library in Charlotte, North Carolina. It has a number of excellent interactive and animated talking stories and follow-up activities.
Literactive. It has hundreds of talking stories and other interactive activities. It's free, though you have to register (it only takes a minute to do so). My students really enjoy this site. A word of caution, however: sometimes the site doesn't work very well when you try to register.
– Starfall. Starfall has been helping people learn to read for years, and it's still the best. Its scaffolding is great, and its stories — both fiction and nonfiction — are engaging. I'd particularly recommend its I'm Reading section for older students.
(I've added Tar Heel Reader to this list. You can read my post about it here)
Another site I want to write about is an "oldie" — Storyline Online. This site has been around for quite awhile, and has had celebrities also reading stories. I never used the site, or wrote about it, or even added it to my website for student self-access because, as nice of a service as it was, it didn't have closed-captions. That absence really limited its use for English Language Learners. However, I recently check it out again and, much to my surprise, though, I discovered that Storyline now offers closed-captioning with all its stories. I have no idea when they began that feature, but it now definitely makes it a worth addition to "The Best…" list.
ABC Fast Phonics is a pretty darn impressive site for beginning readers to reinforce their understanding of phonics. I'm not a big fan of explicit phonics instruction being a huge part of a curriculum, but I do make it a part of the curriculum I use with Beginning English Language Learners. I teach it in an inductive way, though, which I describe more thoroughly in my upcoming book, English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work. Sites like ABC Fast Phonics, though, do offer engaging ways students can practice.
ABRACADABRA is an online reading program created by researchers in Montreal. It has quite a few very accessible stories (with audio support for the test) and reading games. You can read more about the site at an article in the Montreal Gazette headlined "Cultivating the magic of reading."
About a year ago I posted about a new site for beginning readers created by a North Carolina-based organization called GCF Learn Free. They also are responsible for Everyday Life, an extraordinary interactive site for ELL's sponsored by a North Carolina-based organization called GCF Learn Free. It's on several of my "The Best…" lists. I had concerns then about the confusing navigation on the site. However, it appears they have made it considerably clearer. It's still very unusual — different from just about any other similar application out there. But that "unusualness" might very well make it attractive to beginning English Language Learners. You can find it at this link, and then click on "Reading."
Reading Bear is a new free interactive site for teaching beginning readers through the use of phonics in a relatively engaging way. It doesn't appear that registration is necessary, and they say it will remain free. It's from Watch Know Learn, the well-respected and well-known educational video site.
Oxford Owl is designed as a support site for parents to use with their children and help with reading and math. It's great activities, though, would make it a nice addition to work during the school day, too. It has tons of online ebooks that provide audio support for the text, along with interactive follow-up exercises. It has plenty of math games and even math ebooks.
Turtle Diary is designed for very young children, and its fifteen talking stories would be very accessible to Beginning English Language Learners. It has a number of other tools on the site, but the stories really stand-out. They seem to be free, though it appears you have pay to access other premium content.
Literably Is An Excellent Reading Site — If Used With Caution
Thanks to a tweet from Barbara Sakamoto, I learned about site called Unite For Literacy. It has over one-hundred simple books in English that the reader can choose to have narrated in English or their choice of many other languages.
6 great online reading resources for ESL learners from Adam on Vimeo.
New "Open eBooks" App Unveiled By White House Looks Like A HUGE Benefit To Students & Schools
Scholastic has quite a few Listen and Read books.
Thanks to Aaron Douglas on Twitter, I learned about a nice collection of online stories (including audio support) for Beginning English Language Learners. They're from Bow Valley College.
Making learning to read accessible and fun with Bolo is from Google, and talks about an app for Android to help beginning readers.
Global Storybooks Portal has multilingual storybooks.
Kids can learn at home with Read Along by Google is from Google.
"Simbi" Looks Like An Excellent Reading & Speaking Platform For ELLs & Others
Loving2Read has over one-thousand books that appear to have been written specifically for the site. They are very accessible. They don't have audio yet, but the site says that's in the works.
Footsteps 2 Brilliance offers a number of bilingual (English/Spanish) "talking books" for early readers (and ELLs). Students just have to go to the site and click on one of the book covers.
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Originally, the new episodes of Arrested Development were conceived as something of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" series for fans: Creator Mitch Hurwitz said we'd be able to watch the new episodes on Netflix any which way we pleased and in any order. Then, last week, after he wrapped the final mix on all fifteen new episodes, he said, scratch that, never mind, please watch sequentially! And, before the shows go live Sunday at 12:01 a.m., PST, he's intent on making sure everyone knows he has redacted his earlier strategy. "I'm really doing everything I can to put out that misconception that it can be watched in any order," Hurwitz told Vulture during an interview Tuesday. "Although I really did have that ambition at one point."
"Not only will the episodes be available at the same time on Netflix, but they also cover the same period of time in the characters' lives. So it seemed like, yeah, you should be able to jump in in any order and see George Michael's episode and then maybe Buster's episode, if you want, and see what each of them is doing," Hurwitz explained. But he found out in post-production that the plan wouldn't work, specifically because the many jokes and sight gags that span multiple episodes would not pay off in the right way, or even at all, if viewed out of order. "Our brains like to make stories out of things and that requires order. I pretty quickly realized everything here is about the order of telling the stories, that there will be shows where you find out a little bit of information and then later shows where you revisit the scene and you find out more information — and that's not fun in reverse. To get more information first and then less information isn't as interesting. I thought, okay, this may not be up for debate."
"In good storytelling, you're surprised by the information. You find out that people aren't as one-dimensional as they originally appeared to be, or that there's more to something than meets the eye. Because of the way we made it and because of the fact that it's kind of an anthology story, that happens a lot for these characters. We'll see Gob in a scene in George Sr.'s story, but we won't really know much about him because we're following George Sr. So later, when you get to see that scene again and you get to see Gob in that new context, you realize, 'Oh, he had more of an agenda than I realized.' That's the fun of it, I think. It's really just a different way at getting depth of character."
Also, he has a suggestion — and it's just a suggestion — for those planning to get a feeding tube and a bedpan and not leave the couch until they've binge-watched the entire seven-and-a-half-hour season straight through: Take it easy, because comedy get less amusing after a few hours. "You'll get tired!" says Hurwitz. "One of the producers came by when I was in post-production recently, and he said, 'Can I see some of them?' and I said, 'Yeah, we've got seven episodes.' 'Great.' And I heard him in the other room laughing and laughing, and then I heard him laughing a little less, and then a little less, and then later I saw him getting a drink of water and I said, 'What do you think?' He goes, 'I'm just getting a little tired. I love it, it's great, but you can't really laugh the whole time. You have to take a break. There's so much material.'"
Plus, Hurwitz adds, "You can't take it all in at once. It's like the selective-attention test. The whole show is like the selective-attention test. No one sees the gorilla! I'll give you an example: When I was at the last sound mix with our editors and there was one of our bigger sight gags in the background of one of our more absurd conversations, nobody saw the sight gag, including me. And all we were doing is staring at the screen! What I like about the show is not that gimmick but that it gives fans something to pore over if that's fun for them. If they want to go right back and check out the Gob episode and see how that was set up, they can."
In conclusion: "Don't feel obligated to watch it all at once. It's a comedy! It's not like Lord of the Rings. Comedy takes a lot out of you." Sound advice. That said, we're still considering all our options.


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Donnie McClurkin is a busy man. Recently, he was awarded the "Man of Valor" award for his courage and boldness along with his years of community service. Well his commitment to living and delivering the gospel without watering down the message is continuing with his signing of Andrea McClurkin-Mellini (his sister) & Nancey Jackson-Johnson!
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Nancey Jackson Johnson's passion for God and ministering to people infuses her CD, The Heart of Nancey Jackson Johnson, with an undeniable presence of praise and worship. Timing is everything and Nancey's new single, "A Little Longer" is making great strides at radio. Andrea McClurkin-Mellini is making the transition from the background is a new role the singer has been preparing for all her life. Born into a family of musically talented siblings, McClurkin-Mellini sang background for years for her gospel award-winning brother, Donnie McClurkin, as well as recording with her siblings, The McClurkin Singers."God Can," the new single from Higher is firing up the music charts and is already a "most-requested" song by listeners. "The song simply says that God can do the impossible…He can do whatever you need Him to do," says McClurkin-Mellini.
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In case you needed evidence that this generation of youth, with their touchpads and vidjagames, are completely out of touch with reality, one New Jersey teen is suing her parents so she can continue going to private school and college on their dime (via The Daily Record).
In a move that manages to be sort of similar to the 1984 Drew Barrymore movie Irreconcilable Differences and yet somehow dumber, 18-year-old Rachel Canning moved out of her parents' house because she didn't want to live by their rules. Her parents gave her the option to leave after she wouldn't do her chores, show them respect, or come home at a decent hour, all while dating a boy they didn't like. At the time, they were footing the bill for her private school education at nearby Morris Catholic and had a college fund set aside for her, but revoked it when she moved out.
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Canning now lives with the parents of a family friend, with the friend's father representing her in court. They're demanding that even though Canning left of her own accord, her parents should pay for her high school bill, college, and all other expenses (read: everything). New Jersey law has previously ruled that just being 18 years old isn't automatic grounds for a child's emancipation, which could help Canning's case, but Canning's parents say that she is getting a lot of support from people who are "well-intentioned but misinformed." They still have the money set aside for her education, which is hers if she decides to come home and live by their rules.
Hey, Rachel, just in case you don't win this court case (you won't), here are a few things you can do to get through this:
1. Go to a public school.
2. Take out student loans.
3. Stop being such a lame diva. Life gets a lot harder.
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An hCalendar 1.0 issue.
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- http://ufs.cc/w/dtendi
Authors typically publish the end date of a multi-day event as the last day the event occurs. This is called an inclusive end date.
Unfortunately the iCalendar RFC 2445 standard requires publishing the day *after* the the last day of a multi-day event. This is called an exclusive end date.
As a result of this (the dtend) issue, hCalendar now supports the more user/author-friendly inclusive end dates / dtend property values, and hCalendar to iCalendar converters MUST automatically convert such inclusive hCalendar end date (dtend) property values to the equivalent exclusive iCalendar DTEND property values.
E.g. this dtend inside an hCalendar event:
2010-03-16
is treated inclusively as people expect the content to mean, that is the event *includes* and ends on March 16th, and it MUST be translated by hCal-to-iCal converters to the following in iCalendar:
original issue summary
The original (old) hCalendar 1.0 draft required that end *dates* be marked up as occuring a whole day after what people typically consider the end date of an event.
E.g. if a conference starts on 2010 March 12th and ends 2010 March 16th, then the dtend was marked up with the value of "2010-03-17" - seemingly a whole day after the end of the conference. hCalendar suggested obscuring this disparity between the human visible end date and the machine specified date using the
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a conference
starts on 2010-03-12, and
ends on 2010-03-16.
This is due to hCalendar's dtend property being originally specified with the same semantics as iCalendar's DTEND property, which places that requirement on the DTEND property of the VEVENT object.
Unfortunately this turned out to be very problematic:
- in practice authors have published inclusive dtend values
- the use of
abbrrequired a particularly bad form of DRY violation.
- the use of
abbrto present two seemingly different values appeared to be a bug upon casual review and was often (then errantly) "fixed" to be consistent, or simply replaced with a
spanwith a single inline text value.
Thus this issue was raised, discussed, and resolved accordingly.
hCalendar has an inclusive dtend property for whole days.
iCalendar has an exclusive DTEND property for whole days.
The burden of handling this difference is place upon hCalendar-to-iCalendar converters, rather than content authors and publishers, per the principles of humans (authors) first, parsers (machines) second.
This is problematic for several reasons:
- Appears inconsistent. It is odd that the value specified for machine consumption is different than the value specified for human consumption - regardless of format/syntax - and appears inconsistent to anyone who sees the tooltip, or views and copy/pastes the source. It looks like a bug or mistake, and in fact has been errantly "corrected" as such (e.g. even in the hCalendar spec itself).
- Unintuitive for authoring. When authors are writing up the end date for an event, they write up what a human expects to see - the last day of the event. It is an unintuitive leap to think to specify +1 day for machine consumption, and an additional cognitive load (in order to get it right).
- Semantic abuse of abbr. An abbr's title attribute provides an expansion for the inner text. In no way is a +1 date an expansion of a date, it appears more like a completely different value.
- Required DRY violation. While the
dtstartin the above example is specified only once, readable to both humans and machines, the dtend must be specified twice, once for humans, and once for machines, thus requiring a particularly bad DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) violation, that of requiring data be specified twice, but slightly different in one instance than another, thus increasing the chances of duplication based errors even more (since verifiability is more difficult).
- Prevents use of simple markup As a result of the forced DRY violation, it is not possible to use simple markup like
2010-03-16because while a human reads that as an event that ends on the 16th, an hCalendar 1.0 processor will read that as an event that ended the day before, on the 15th.
- Prevents use of simple markup As a result of the forced DRY violation, it is not possible to use simple markup like
possible solutions
As noted in the issue description on the hCalendar issues page, there are at least a couple of possible solutions.
dtend inclusive whole dates
resolved issue
- redefine hCalendar 1.0.1 dtend to be inclusive for whole dates.
- Advantage: Zero impact on vocabulary.
- Advantage: No increase to hCalendar authoring complexity.
- Advantage: Will reflect dominant use of dtend in examples in the wild (more research and citations needed to back this up!). In other words, authors have ALREADY been using dtend assuming it works this way (inclusive end dates), and will actually be surprised to find out that it doesn't. Making this change to DTEND semantics may actually reflect hCalendar publishing reality more than keeping the precise iCalendar DTEND semantic. Examples of inclusive dtend usage in the wild:
- http://barcamp.org/ - BarCamp wiki, dates for BarCamps
- microformats.org/wiki/events/ - several multi-day event listings, as recently as Glenn Jones (who himself is a very knowledgable and prolific microformats developer) event page for SXSW 2010 use inclusive DTENDs (notably, using a span element that does NOT duplicate content).
- draft of Emily Lewis' book Microformats Made Simple, uses dtend for inclusive end dates.
- microformats.org co-founder and expert Dan Cederholm's SimpleBits home page has an events calendar that uses inclusive dtend dates.
- http://upcoming.org (apparently - according to Michael Kaply)
- ... more instances of existing use of DTEND for *inclusive* end dates.
- Advantage: Some number of implementations treat DTEND dates as *inclusive* (technically these are violating the current hCalendar spec, but they may be doing so deliberately to reflect actual hCalendar publishing practices). Implementations
- Google's Rich Snippet validator. The Rich Snippet validator on microformats.org/wiki/events shows the SXSW event as ending on 2010-03-16, consistent with the published intent.
- ... more implementations that treat hCalendar dtend dates as inclusive
- ... any other advantages?
- Disadvantage: Redefines DTEND to be *slightly* different from how it is defined in iCalendar. This may lead to errors on the part of developers.
- Mitigation: it may be possible to mitigate this disadvantage by providing both very precise hCalendar to iCalendar processor conformance requirements, and sufficient test cases for hCalendar to iCalendar processors for them to get this correct in their code.
- Disadvantage: breaking some amount of existing hCalendar content on the web (research needed to determine the extent of the problem)
- Workarounds: Based on aforementioned research, workarounds may be possible, e.g. heuristics for when abbr is used similar to the example at the top of the page, to detect "off by one" cases and accommodate accordingly). Make it an explicit error for the human visible date to be different than the machine parsed date, and state specific error handling rules for hCalendar processors that "repair" this problem.
- ... any other disadvantages?
- Opinions:
- +1 Based on the fact that this problem just hasn't gone away, and that people (smart knowledgable people!) continue to treat "dtend" end dates *inclusively*, I now think it makes more sense (and is more practical) to change the spec to be consistent with the dominant expectation of web authors, rather than continue attempting to change the expectations of web authors to be consistent with the spec. I think this is the simplest, most effective, and least risky option. Tantek
- +1 This appears logical and intuitive. We are effectively saying that end dates such as
DTENDshould parse to
YYYY-MM-DDT24:00:00, and not
YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00. Seems simple, and entirely logical from a publishing stand —BenWard 08:18, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
- +1 The spec should reflect the intuitive publishing behaviour (inclusive end dates). Humans first. —Jeremy Keith
- +1 Though I'm worried about tools catching up to this change. Ted
- +1 The natural human way to think about dates is inclusively; if the dtend date and dtstart date are equal, that clearly doesn't imply zero duration. The microformats principle of making things easier for authors rather than parser writers wins here Kevin Marks
- +1 It is much easier to migrate the limited number of tools and authors who already grok hCalendar 1.0 than to migrate publisher intuition. MatthewLevine
- +1 I agree with MatthewLevine. Those who follow hCalendar development are likely to make the change to inclusive dates, and those who don't are likely using inclusive dates already. Chris Cressman
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inclusive dtend test cases
Test case(s) that check for the implementation of this issue resolution:
new end dates property
- new hCalendar 1.0.1 property for end dates. As noted in the first resolution of the issue, we could introduce a new property, dtlast (described more in hCalendar brainstorming:) which authors would use to specify the last day of an event, instead of dtend.
- Advantage: Maintains iCalendar conceptual compatibility for DTEND values.
- Advantage: Compatibility with existing hCalendar 1.0 content that just happened to get the end date +1 distinction right.
- ... any other advantages?
- Disadvantage: Increased vocabulary. dtlast is a new term, even if it is not new functionality. Essentially this puts additional burden on authors.
- Disadvantage: Increased complexity/confusion. When to use dtend vs. dtlast? hCalendar authors would now have to remember, use dtend for end *times* and dtlast for end *dates*. More explanation of the additional burden on authors.
- ... any other disadvantages?
- Opinions:
- -1 despite originally proposing this solution, I now think an additional term, and rule for when to use the new term vs. the old term will actually make this problem worse and more confusing to web authors. Tantek
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- ... other possible solutions?
This issue was raised to me (Tantek) in person pretty much since the first time I gave such an example back in 2004, was something I had to explicitly cover and point out in nearly every microformats presentations I gave, was eventually pointed out on the microformats discuss mailing list (citation needed), and eventually explicitly documented as an issue on the wiki hCalendar issues page by Andy Mabbett on 2007-01-20.
additional examples
Add to Google Calendar link
Google Calendar's special URL syntax for adding an event re-uses the iCalendar RFC dtend semantics which causes confusion for those authoring such URLs:
- https://support.google.com/calendar/forum/AAAAd3GaXpEeBIPRtDf3Tg/?hl=en&gpf=d/topic/calendar/eBIPRtDf3Tg
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It's been over a month since we had a big Detroit station wagon in this series (the '77 Olds Custom Cruiser), and that's just too long! So here's a nice original '68 Plymouth Belvedere wagon I spotted parked just a block from my house. I'm a few years too young to have had a childhood filled start-to-finish with 60s wagons, and anyway my family had a van instead, but it's impossible for me not to love these things. Damned wagon-killing minivans and SUVs!
The Belvedere nameplate entered the 60s affixed to full-sized Plymouths, but by '68 it was used on the midsized B-body line. Naturally, this means you can build a Road Runner station wagon without too much trouble.
Even though Chrysler offered bigger wagons, this one clearly has plenty of room for a whole bunch of un-safety-belted kids in the back.
The interior is a bit worn, but it looks nicely original. It wouldn't take much to get it back to showroom condition, if that's how you swing.
Now that's a good-looking grille design! If Plymouth hadn't been 86'd by those mean old German bean counters, we might have seen a retro-ized version of this grille by now. Well, probably not.
For some reason, dogdish hubcaps look best on old Mopars. Why is that?
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With American joblessness at a historic high, foreclosures up 25 percent, and an E.U.-wide recession, Pres. George Bush addressed fellow world leaders at the Manhattan Institute.
"While reforms in the financial sector are essential, the long-term solution to today's problems is sustained economic growth," he told an audience in New York. "And the surest path to that growth is free markets and free people."
"History has shown that the greater threat to economic prosperity is not too little government involvement in the market," he added, "but too much."
The address came on the same day the Labor Department reported that jobless claims last week increased by 32,000 to the a seasonally adjusted 516,000. The last time there were that many unemployed was in the wake of 9/11, when 517,000 jobless claims were reported seven years ago, and it's only the second time since 1992 that claims have topped 500,000.
Thursday's report likely "reflects a genuine acceleration in the pace of layoffs," Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist for consulting firm High Frequency Economics, wrote in a note to clients.
Earlier in the day, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development announced that the world's developed economies have slid into recession and that 2009 promises to be even worse.
The OECD, which monitors 30 democracies with market economies, aid the U.S. economy would contract by 0.9 percent, Japan's by 0.1 percent and the Euro area by 0.5 percent.
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Sadly, the $700 billion bailout approved by Congress last month has performed no magic. After forcing some of the nation's largest banks to take taxpayer dollars in an effort to loosen up the credit markets, the Treasury Department is facing the sad reality that the plan isn't working.
The plan now is to seed a new loan facility with $50 billion to help companies that issue credit cards, student loans and automobile financing, reported the New York Times.
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On Friday night I went to Amnesty's London HQ to hear Ben White publicise his updated book Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide. The event was chaired by journalist David Hearst, former chief foreign leader writer of The Guardian.
Hearst refused to allow me the opportunity to put a question to White during the Q&A instead preferring to announce in front of everyone there:
"I know exactly what you're up to. And who you are. And who you write for."
I sent Hearst the blog I wrote about all this. CifWatch crossposted it over at their site. Here is Hearst's response together with my reply:
What does Hearst mean by "the folk"?
There was an apparent attempt by the Israeli Embassy in London to have the Amnesty event called off. White has his own version of that supposed attempt. We don't know the Israeli Embassy's side yet.
I had nothing to do with any alleged attempt. Neither did CifWatch. I don't work for the Israeli Embassy. Hearst knows this.
Hearst may have meant generally "the Israel lobby". Peter Oborne describes "the Israel lobby" as supporters of a foreign power who influence British policy. It's a nice idea that I can influence British policy, but my solitary vote at the ballot box apart I just can't.
Hearst hasn't replied to my request for clarification of what he meant by "the folk". One wouldn't wish to come to a conclusion without his explanation.
Debate and full disclosure are to be encouraged unlike what, sadly, passes for "debate" at Amnesty.
Unless I hear from Hearst his use of "the folk" will remain a complete mystery.
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Around one in eight Americans seeks treatment at a Catholic hospital, whether they realize it or not. In the Northwest, the percentage of Catholic hospitals is 44 percent and growing. The Stranger has a great piece on Catholics who are taking over and potentially imposing their faith on your health care. Here's a real-life nearly-worst-case scenario from a woman who got scarily close to being the next Savita Halappanavar:
"I was past 24 weeks when doctors at Swedish told me I was miscarrying," explains the woman sitting across from me at the coffee shop. We'll call her Mary. She's asked to remain anonymous to maintain her privacy, but like Halappanavar, Mary is a thirtysomething professional who was eager to start a family with her husband. So they got pregnant the old-fashioned, church- approved way: missionary style, after marriage. Life was swell, and the ultrasounds looked good. And then Mary awoke in pain last year; there was blood. She was checked into Swedish Medical Center, Seattle's largest nonprofit health-care provider. But unbeknownst to Mary, last year the hospital formed an alliance with Providence, a Washington-based Catholic institution that operates 32 hospitals in Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
Per their new relationship, Swedish agreed to stop performing abortions except in emergency situations-you know, like when a woman's life is at risk. Its website now advertises OB "speed dating" events to new mothers: Choose the OB who will deliver your baby! But for expectant mothers whose pregnancies don't make it that far, and whose health hasn't yet deteriorated to "emergency" status, a grim set of entirely different choices await.
During Mary's Swedish visit last year, "They said that they couldn't save the fetus but it still had a heartbeat, so there was nothing they could do. They had to wait for the heartbeat to stop." Mary says she demanded an abortion but was basically told her options were to "wait for nature to take its course" or unhook herself, crawl out of bed, and find another hospital. "It was a nightmare," she says. "It still is."
Chris Charbonneau, CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, said the case could've been a training error. "We heard of a case like that at Swedish. We heard that it was a training problem." Charbonneau explains, "In the wake of the hospital alliance, there was a lot of confusion and fear among staff about what was permissible and what wasn't." Either way, the article raises way more questions than explanations: "Should patients trust that physicians, in good conscience and faith, are working for their best interests at Catholic hospitals? Should women? Should the LGBT community? Should terminally ill patients?" Those aren't the types of musings you want to have when you're in a hospital bed.


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Walsingham, Sir Francis
Walsingham, Sir Francis wôl´sĭng-əm [key], 1532?–1590, English statesman. A zealous Protestant, he went abroad during the reign of Queen Mary I but returned on the accession (1558) of Elizabeth I. He entered Parliament (1559) and soon was employed by William Cecil, Baron Burghley, in obtaining intelligence from abroad. Joint secretary of state after 1573, he built up an elaborate and effective spy system, which later implicated the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots in a conspiracy against Elizabeth (1586) and led to her execution. His system in 1587 also provided England with minute details of the impending attack of the Spanish Armada. Walsingham, as a Protestant, favored an alliance of England, France, and the Netherlands against Spain. But, although he was employed on numerous missions and knighted in 1577, he was never able to persuade Elizabeth to adopt his policies of militant Protestantism. The responsibility for the debts he assumed (1586) at the death of his son-in-law, Sir Philip Sidney, put him in financial difficulties, and he died in debt.
See C. Read, Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth (3 vol., 1925, repr. 1967).
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$1.2m extra to expand Fruit in SchoolsHealth
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says the Fruit in Schools programme will be expanded to include an extra 77 schools, benefiting an additional 13,000 students.
"Healthy eating helps fuel the body and the brain, that's why the Fruit in Schools programme is so beneficial to students," says Dr Coleman.
"Following the Ministry of Education's decile funding changes, I have decided to retain the schools in the programme who moved above decile 2. As a result, a total of 557 schools will benefit from the programme next year, covering over 110,000 students.
"The Government currently invests over $6.6 million a year in Fruit in Schools. With the additional schools participating next year, around $7.8 million a year will now be invested in the programme.
"Fruit in Schools complements the Childhood Obesity Plan. New Zealand is one of the first OECD countries to have a target and a comprehensive plan to tackle childhood obesity."
Schools receive high quality seasonal fruit and vegetables, and they sample up to 33 different types of fruit or vegetable during the year.
Almost 20 million pieces of fruit and veggies were served up this year. 480 decile 1 and 2 primary and intermediate schools, covering over 97,000 students, currently take part in the programme.
It is anticipated that the new schools will start receiving fruit from the beginning of the second term of 2016.
An external evaluation of the programme undertaken on behalf of 5+ A Day Charitable Trust shows good results. Schools reported improved dental outcomes, a reduction in general sores, an increase in overall healthy eating behaviours and an increase in student concentration.
For more information on the Fruit in Schools programme visit: www.health.govt.nz.
List of schools offered to participate in Fruit in Schools is attached.